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London, England, 1846-02-05 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4.

The following Petitions for Railway Bills were referred to the
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills :
Axholme, Gainsborough, Goole, and York and North Midland Junc-
tion Railway.
Mount=Hick Junction Railway.
Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland—Cork Extension).
York and Carlisle Railway.
Londonderry and Enniskillen Extension Railway.
Cornwall Railway. •
Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway.
Lincoln, Walnfleet, Haven, and Boston Railway.
Shropshire Union Railways and Canal, Shrewsbury and Stafford

Railway.
Newmarket and Chcsterford Railway.
London and Croydon Railway (Thames Junction Branch).
Mitcham and Soeth-Western Railway.
Hull and Selby Railway Purchase.
Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway.
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway (Peat Forest
and Macclesfield Canal Purchases),
Shropshire Union Railways and Canal (Newtown to Crewe with

Branches).
Shropshire Union Railways and Canal (Chester and Wolverhampton

Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway.
London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway.
Monkland and Kirkintillock Railway (Chapel-Hall Branch).
Killarney Junction Railway.
Ballockney Railway (Shott's Branch).
Manchester and Lincoln Union Railway and Chesterfield and Gains-

borough Canal.
South Staffordshire Junction Railway with Branches (No. 1),

Direct Northern Railway.
Chelmsford and Bury Railway.
South Devon Railway (Tavistock and other Branches—No. 1.)
Welsh Midland Railway.
Bridgewater and 31inehead Railway and Pier.
Caruwath and West Linton Railway.
Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction Railway and rier.
South Staffordshire Junction Railway (No. 2—Bilston and Priest-

field Branch).
South Staffordshire Junction Railway (No. 3—Showhill and Porto-
hello Branch).
South Staffordshire Junction Railway (No. 4—Willenhall and Blox-
wich Branch).

Limerick, Enris, and 11111 aloe Railway.
Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4.

Great Western and Wycombe Railway—Committee on Petition,
Thursday, Feb. 12.
Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway—Committee on Petition,
Thursday, Feb. 12.
Rugby and Huntingdon Railway—Committee on Petition, Thurs-
day, Feb. 12.
Eastern Union and Iladleigh Junction Railway—Committee on
Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12.
Somersctshire Midland Railway—Committcee on Petition, Thurs-
day, Feb. 12.
Midland Railways (Syston to Peterborough Railway Deviation and
Branches)—Committee on Petition, Thursday, Fab. 12.
Grand Union Railway—Committee on Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12.
Tenby, gaundersfoot, and South Wales Railway—Committee on
Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12.
Boston, Newark, and ShelUeld Railway—Committee on Petition,
Thursday, Feb. 12.
Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midland unction Railway—Commit-
tee on Vetition, Thursday, Feb. 12.
Great North of England Railway Purchase—Committee on Peti-
tion, Thursday, Feb. 12.
York and North Midland East Riding Branches Railway (No. 2)—
Committee on Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12.
Leeds and Bradford (Guiseley Branch) Railway—Committee on
Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12.
Great North of England and liedale Branch Railway—Committee
on Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12.
Leeds and Bradford (Junction Line at Bradford) Railway—Com-
mittee on Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12.
Great North of England and Boroughbridge Branch Railway—
Committee on Petition, Thursday, Feb. 12.
Great County Down Railway.—Committee on Petition, Tuesday,
Feb. 17.
Eastern Union and Harwich Railway And Pier—Committee on
Petition, postponed from Friday 6 till Monday, Feb. 9.
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock4 and Ayr Railway Brandies (No. 6)
—Committee on Petition, postponed from Friday 6 till Monday, Feb. 9.
Belfast and Holywood Atmospheric Railway—Committee on Peti-
tion, Tuesday, Fob. 17.
Clonmel and Thuries Railway—Committee on Petition, Tuesday,
Feb. 17.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4.
IRISH GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Motion made, and Question proposed, " That it be an instruction
to the Committee on the Petition for the Irish Great Western Rail-
way Bill, to entertain the petitions of the Midland Great Western
Railway Company of Ireland and James Malley; Daniel Desmond
and James Malley; John Gaynor; and James Malley, notwith-
standing the same were not presented three clear days before the day
appointed for the first meeting of the Committee :"—Amendment
proposed, at the end of the Question to add the words, " provided it
appear to the said Committee that the said petitions were in the pos-
session of some Parliamentary agent on Friday morning, and that he
was prepared to place them in the hands of a Member on the same
day for presentation to. the House, if the House had not been ad-
journed over that day :"—Question put, " That those words bo there
added." The House divided :
MINORITY—AYES, 6.
Escott, Bickham Pechell, Captain
Ficlden, William Somerset, Lord G.
Patten, J. W. Strickland, Sir G.

TELLERS.
Christie, W. D.
Baldwin, C. 11.

MAJORITY—NOES, 39.
Acland, T. D. Etwall, Ralph O'Conor, Don
Beithe, William Ferguson, Sir R. Pendarves, E. W.
Barron, Sir 11. W. Forster, Matthew Philpotts, John
Brotherton, Joseph Gisborne, Thomas Rawdon, Colonel
Buller, Edward Graham, Sir James Ross, David R.
Clerk Sir George Greene, Thomas Wpo mer, Wehard
Collett, W. It. Hudson, George Sutton, H. M.
Crawford, W. S. Hutt, William Wood, Colonel
Denison, E. B. Jermyn, Earl Wyndham, Colonel
Duncan, George Lemon, Sir Charles Yorke, Henry B.
Duncannon, Lord Maitland, Thomas Young, John
Duncembe, 0. O'Brien, A. S. TEr,LEltti.
Easthopc, Sir John O'Brien, J. French, F.
Esmonde, Sir T. O'Connell, Daniel Hodgson, Richard

THE PREMIER'S MEASURE.—A meeting of the No
tingham Town Council was held yesterday, at which a peti-
tion to Parliament in favour of Sir Robert Peel's free-trade
schemes was agreed upon, the Mayor being at the same time
requested to give the document the importance of the corpo-
ration seal. The petition was to be intrusted to Sir John
Hobhouse and Mr. Gisborne for presentation.
The New lock Evening Express thus speaks of the
untimely death of Miss Julia Hamilton Knight, only
daughter of Mrs. Edward Knight, formerly Miss Povey,
many years a favourite at Drury:lane Theatre, who married
the son of the celebrated comic actor of that name :
" DEATH LOVES A SHINING MARK !"—We are reminded
most forcibly of this line of the poet, upon looking at our
obituary list, and seeing there the announcement of the death
of Miss Julia Hamilton Knight, aged 18 ; a young lady whose
promise as a musical genius was such as is rarely held out by
one so young; a promise, too, which the lapse of every day
was rapidly realising. Most thoroughly grounded in the
elements of that divinest of the arts, imbued, as with a prin-
ciple, with love of it from a child, she knew its philosophy as
well as its practice, its theory as well as its mechanism.
Taught by the best masters, she borrowed nothing from
them which her own surpassing genius did not enhance
in the execution of it, and her performances upon the
piano were the wonder, as well as the delight, of all who
listened to them. And what made them all the more charm-
ing was the utter freedom from everything like overweening
conceit, or personal vanity, or undue pride in her great at-
tainments. To the development of so much genius the rare
spectacle was in her exhibited of gentle modesty, and an en-
tire absence of everything like pretension. This lovely young
person was the only child of her mother, the talented Mrs.
mnight, for so long a time a favourite with the lovers o
music and the drama nthis city as well as in. London
Julia was brought up here, and here were developed her ex-
traordinary powers. She has left a circle of strongly attached
friends and admirers, and a doting mother and uncle, to
mourn her early loss; while art has lost, in her premature
death, one of her loveliest and most promising daughters.
BAD DIGESTION.--WONDERFUL CURE BY HOLLCP.
WAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT.—T. Gardiner, Esq., of 9,
Grosvenor-square, declares that he had been under the most
eminent physicians, besides five of the greatest surgeons in
London. He suffered from a distended stomach, bad digestion,
settled pains in the chest, was very nervous, and greatly debi-
litated, and scarcely able to walk a hundred yards. Not de-
riving the least relief from the faculty, he set about rubbing
large quantities of Holloway's Ointment into his chest, and
took Holloway's Pills night and morning, which effectually
restored him to perfect health and vigour in the short space of
three wcoks.—Sold at Professor Holloway's Establishments
244, Strand, and by all respectable raeCliCil" Yencl°"'

TO THE FRIEN DS OF NATIVE
INDUSTRY IN Gllgi AT BRITAIN AND
IRELAND.

(From the 'I orning Post.)

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misery, the prosperity or th, adversity, of our country ;
and I therefore think it ra; y nuty to address you on the
protection of native indu sty 7, which is most interesting
and important to all class( s of the community, and which
cannot be secured without your energetic and united ex-
ertions I feel the more t stated to address you as I be-
long to no political party, . i I wish for nothing that any
Minister could bestow, as.l : :have no motives of personal
ambition, and as I am an in sated by an ardent zeal for
the public Welfare.
Full and effectual probers .ion to our native: industry
may most justly be claim,/ d by all those who are en-
gaged in any of its various: branches, and especially in
agriculture, on account of the exclusive burdens which it
bears, and of the portentous t importance of proviiing
food for the population wifl out being dependent upon
foreign supplies. Under 11 3 protection which was
given to agriculture, the p ro duce of the soil has been
very much increased by , ecsending and improving its
cultivation, and the mannfas eturers have flourished ; for
the home market is still to teem the most valuable, as
well as the most secure. TY pre are still in these islands
several millions of acres of waste land, which, if agri-
culture were sufficiently pr, nested, might be cultivated
with advantage, and give mu( b additional employment to
labourers, but which must otl terwise remain unproductive
and unprofitable.
If protection should be wi .thwrawn from agriculture,
this country would depend : !or the chief necessaries of
life on the supplies which foi ign nations might be able
or willing to furnish ; the cuTi ivation of the land would
be discouraged ; the marked would be scantily pro-
vided with its produce ; and, in the event of unfavour-
able seasons, we might be ext osed to all the horrors of
actual famine. There is at pert event no reason whatever
to apprehend even a scarcity,, for, although there is in
some districts a deficiency in, the crop of potatoes, it is
well known, and it has been proved by exact inquiries,
that there exists an abundance of food in these islands,
perhaps a greater abundance an is now to be found in
some foreign countries. If, Ito ;never, this country ex-
perienced a scarcity of corn, the prices would rise, and
the duties on its importation would fall till they were
reduced to I s. per quarter.
The arguments (if such, in, feed, they can be called)
which are used in favour of a I. et e trade in corn, would
apply also to every other article of general consumption,
to. the produce of pastures as we U as of arable land, and
to manufactured goods, whet her they are made by
machinery or by manual labour, ars' the industry of our
own countrymen, in whatever me Kle it is employed, would
be much depressed, and, in many , :as es, utterly destroyed,
while that of foreign nations wallet be encouraged.
Great indignation would very justly be excited, if
foreign labourers or artisans wetze to be brought to
this country, because they might -work for lower wages,
and it is obvious that they would deprive of employment
an equal number of our own countrymen. The sane in-
jury would be inflicted on our own labourers and artisans
by the adoption of free trade, and the foreigners by whom
we should be supplied contribute nothing to the taxes
which we pay upon so many articles of consumption.
The effects of free trade, as far as it has hitherto been
extended, have already been found to be most melan-
choly, by the impoverishment of so n zany of our artisans,
whose skill and industry have beco me unprofitable to
them, as they are now undersold b:, foreigners in our
own markets, and have thus been deprived of employ-
ment and of the means of subsistence. The adoption of
free trade in its full extent would bring ruin on all the
industrious classes, many of whom might be driven from
Their native soil, while others might 'see confined in union
workhouses. Property of every del ;cription would be
insecure, destitution would produce d espair, disaffection
might become universal, and the inevitable result would
be anarchy and revolution.
It is your duty to consider whether you will allow this
country to be exposed to such awful calamities and con-
vulsions,
or whether you :sill avert them by protecting
the rights and promoting the inter( sts of all those who
are engaged in native industry—w: tether you will tole-
rate the new-fangled and mischievous doctrines of free
trade, or whether you will insist upon restoring the po-
licy
of our ancestors, which gave rtu ch prosperity and
power to the British empire. If Visit; country is to be
governed upon the principles of free: trade, they must
be applied in their fullest extent, for any exceptions from
them would be an intolerable injusti se, and they cannot
be thus applied without reducing our taxation and our
prices to the level of even the poore st nations. The ne-
cessary effect of a free competition vith foreigners in the
home market would be to impoverish all classes of the
community, and to lower the wages of labour as well as
the profits of trade.
If, on the contrary, you are determined to discharge
your duty by demanding full and' effectual protection
to all the industrious classes—if you will show any por-
tion of that patriotism and public spirit which were dis-
played in former periods of our history, you will, upon
this occasion, act without any referenee to past politics,
for you are aware that in both politic al parties there are
to be found friends of native industry.. You should not,
however, :be 'satisfied with vague 't end general 'profes-
sions, and you should not bestow your confidence on
any individual who will not give thos a distinct and posi-
tive ply dges which you have an undo übted right to ask,
and which no honest man ought to ht 'sitate in granting.
You should confide only in those petrsons on whose in-
tegrity you can entirely rely, ann. you should, without
regard to rank, or wealth, or local inituence, employ in
your service those persons whose talents enable them
to defend your rights, from whatever quarter
they may be assailed. Act, as it is y our bounden duty
to do, 'with energy and union, with the courage and
constancy which are worthy of the cause, and your
triumph is secure, for
.you will be supported by immense
and overwhelming majorities in all the industrial classes,
all of whore have a common interest in opposing the
progress of free trade. lam firmly convinced that on
this question the greatest possible unanimity prevails
amongst all the labouring classes, who are not only the
most numerous, but also the most valuable to the state,
and they ought to be fully represented in the House of
Commons.
That von may have the happiness and honour of avert-
ing from our country the ruin and revolution which would
be the results of free trade, and that your zealous exer-
tions in the cause of native industry may be crowned
with complete success, is the fervent prayer of your
very faithful friend, STANHOPE.

THE MANUFACTURES OF THE
STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES.
(From the Staffordshire Mercury.)
An important and highly influential meeting of the
manufacturers of this district, engaged in the American
trade, took place at Trentham Inn, on Monday last.
Most of the principal manufacturers were present, or re-
presented at the meeting, which was called for the pur-
pose of taking into consideration the propriety of re-
vising prices, and reducing the extravagant discounts ;
such proceeding was rendered necessary by the scarcity
of coal and its consequent advance in price ; also the
advance in price of clays, flint, and other materials ; the
expected advance of 3s. to 4s. per ton for freight, other
causes also operating to render our staple manufactures
far from adequately remunerative. In the production of
the darker patterns of printed ware, indeed, it is calcu-
lated that the additional cost to the manufacturer will be
sid. per dozen. John Ridgway, Esq., was called to the
chair.
After the fullest discussion of the various points, a
series of resolutions were agreed to by all present, and
the concurrence of others who were absent has been
subsequently very generally obtained, the greatest una-
nimity indeed prevailing on the subject. The principal
points of the resolutions are—
" That the earthenware trade, in common with others,
ought to advance its prices, or lower its discounts, with
the increase of demand and expenses, and should not
form an exception to the general rule.
" That the increased costly qual;.ty of all fine goods
the large proportion of a common. description, the extra-
vagantly large sizes,. and expensive shapes, together with
the greatly increased thickness or weight of articles now
made for the American market, render it absolutely ne-
cessary that prices should fully cover the cost of produe-
don, and fairly remunerate the manufacturer.
" That the time has nPlir hech is the in-
creased and increasing pn:ce of coalarrived w s
and n such
slack, flint,
lead, freights, and the various advances of workmen's
wages, that there must either be an immediate advance
on the selling prices or goods be made at a positive loss.
"That the list of 1814, as enlarged Dec. 1, 1843, and
as revised Jan. 26, 1846 (this day), Shall be the govern-
ing prices of the American trade.
" That all orders taken in England on and after the
4th of Februay, 1846, and in America subsequent to the
arrival of the steamer leaving Liverpool that day, be on
the revised list of prices, and new rates of discount.
" On all common goods £35 per cent.
On all figured ware
On all light blue printed pink, brown,
green, and purple
On all dark blue printed
On all flowing blue 25 f,
On all pearl white ware 45 ~
" That a circular be prepared, embracing the requisite
part of these resolutions, and that the same be forwarded
per steamer on the 4th of February, from Liverpool, to
all principals, agents, and country dealers, advising them
that no orders will be taken after the arrival thereof,
except on the revised list of prices and new rates of
discount.
" That it be specially recommended to all manufac-
turers going ont to the United States, and to agents re-
siding there, immediately to meet on the receipt of these
notices, in order, first, to carry out the advance, with
the revised new 1814 list, forthwith; and, secondly, to
establish such a mode of communication together as
shall secure their honourable observance."
A circular has been addressed to the manufacturers
generally, recommending the limitation of work to three
dap .a week, in order that the supply should not exceed
the domand. We do not hear, however, that this re-
commendation is likely to be adopted.

THE LATE. EXPLOSION AF LAMBETH.—On Wednes-
day morning death terminated the sufferings of another of 1
the unfortunate sufferers at the late explosion at a fire-work
manufactory in King-street, Lambeth-wall. The deceased
is the poor child, Alfred Ainger, aged two years, who was
nephew to Mr. K,myon, the proprietor of the house, and at
the time of the explosion was on a visit to the family. The
female who is lying at Lambeth workhouse, under the care of
Mr. Oliver Duke, the parochial surgeon, is still in a very pre-
carious state, and but faint hopes are entertained of her
recovery.,
onTTICATioNS OF LTvEnPoOL.—The new batteries
which are about to be erected at the northern extremity of
the docks will be so situated as to cross their file with that
of the fort on the Rock Perch, and to command both the
narrow channels by which alone Liverpool is accessible to a
hostile face.-.Liverpool Times.

MR. WILSON PATTEN AND HIS
CONSTITUENTS.