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LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1844.

In the House of Lords, in the absence of the
Duke of RICHMOND, Lord BROUGHAM moved the
second reading of a Bill, with the following long
title :—" The Actions for Penalties on Gaming Dis-
continuance Bill." The object of the Bill is to put a
stop to a number of qui tarn actions, brought by
ruined gamblers, or persons who will not pay their
bets, against several gentlemen on the turf, the pe-
nalties for which, if enforced, would amount to
300,0001. The law has been obsolete for the last
fifty years, and the Duke of RICHMOND proposes,
not the repeal of the old Act, but some of its
enactments, and also an application to the Judges in
Chambers, to stop the pending actions, on payment of
costs out of the pockets of the parties bringing the
actions, and to add a clause, on the third reading,
suspending future actions. Lord CAMPBELL concurred
in the provisions of the Bill. The Bishop of LONDON
and the Bishop of EXETER made brief speech& on the
occasion, but we cannot discover their object. The
first Bishop could not see anything bad in betting,
provided a man had plenty of money, but he would
allow no betting among the poor, because he
wished to protect them. Is his Lordship not aware
that more rich men than poor men have been
ruined by betting, and that the poor have as much
right as the rich to do what they like with their own?
The Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
read a third time this day. This was the only busi-
ness of the evening, and the House adjourned at an
early hour.
In the Commons, after the presentation of peti-
tions, Sir H. HARDINGE gave notice that he would
bring forward the Army Estimates on Friday, the
16th of February. _ _

Mr. LABOUCHERE gave notice that, on the 22d
of the same month, he would bring forward a motion
respecting the relations between this country and the
Brazils.

Mr. WALLACE, on the same evening, will move
for a Select Committee on the criminal law of
Scotland.

Lord PALMEESTON postponed his motion on the
slave trade for a fortnight.
Lord ASHLEY then brought forward his motion
for an address to the Crown, praying that her MA-
JESTY will take into her consideration the situation
and treatment of the Ameers of Sinde, and direct
their immediate restoration to liberty and the en-
joyment of their estates. It would be difficult to
give an outline of his Lordship's speech. He
described the Ameers as almost perfect beings,
anxious to co-operate with the British Government,
affording a free transit to the British troops on their
march to Caubul, and in every respect fulfilling
their engagements. Any one acquainted with the
history of that country, for the last five years,
knows that his Lordship has not read history care-
fully, or that he has been imposed upon by interested
parties, as Mr. ROEBUCK afterwards told him. Could
tiny man '.s ho knew anything of the question before
the House say, as Lord ASHLEY did, that detach-
ments of our army were marched through their
country, not only without opposition, but with their
free concurrence and cordial co-operation ? All
writers agree in stating that the Ameers did nothing
except on compulsion, and that every obstacle was

thrown in the way of the British troops.
Mr. ROEBUCK followed ; and, according to his
notion of motion, imputed all the blame, which
Lord ASHLEY would throw on Lord ELLEN-
BOROUGH, to Lord AUCKLAND. His remarks about
the " old friends" of Sir HENRY POTTINOER, and the
manner in which Sir HENRY treated his friends when
he was among them, formed a strong contrast to the
lamentations of Lord ASHLEY. Mr. EMERSON TEN-
VENT followed, and demolished all the castles built in
the air by Lord ASHLEY. He treated the letter said

to have been written by Sir H. POTTINGER as a for-
gery, and could prove it from Sir H. POTTTNGER'S
own words, who had described his " old friends" as
a vicious and wicked race, and predicted their pre-
sent destiny.
After speeches from Sir C. NAPIER, Sir R. PEEL,
and Lord J. RUSSELL, the House divided, when the
motion was negatived by a majority of 134.
Mr. DIVETT then made his motion for an address
to her Majesty to dismiss Mr. BONHAM from his
situation in the Ordnance-office, but not being se-
conded, it fell to the ground.
The House adjourned at Five Minutes to Two.

The last charge in the warfare has commenced,
and the Solicitor-General for Ireland has begun his
reply to the speeches for the defendants, and his ge-
neral summary of the whole case. It will require all
the talent which he possesses—and that is well-known
to be not a little—to bring the minds of the jury back
to anything like a favourable state for the prosecu-
tors. Conviction, or acquittal, or no verdict at all,
fortunately signifies not one single iota, for the public
has decided upon the case long ago, and no finding of
the jury will alter the decision of the country. But
the opinion to be entertained of Irish juries, of their
subserviency to official purposes, or freedom from
party bias, will be greatly influenced by the result of
this trial. And if the Solicitor-General succeeds in
averting a verdict of direct acquittal, or in compass-
ing the finding of no verdict at all, he will do great
things for his employers. Should he succeed so far as to
give any plausible pretext for a verdict of guilty,
and, should the jury avail themselves of such a pre-
text to carry out the purpose for which they were
put into the box, great will be the laudation be-
stowed upon the Solicitor-General. He will not, in
his attempts, use the weapon of offence, nor follow
the example of his Learned Leader by producing his
fire-arms in Court ; but he will aim, by slow, in-
sidious poison, to gain his ends, and to compass the
destruction of O'CONNELL and his fellow-defendants.
Thus the pliability of an Irish jury, and the talent
or jesuitry of an Irish Solicitor-General, are, in
truth, the only issues about to be decided by the
State prosecution of the Government of Sir R. PEEL.
Did any Government, in times past—did any Ad-
ministration upon record, ever put itself into the
position that the present Government has as-
sumed on this occasion ? Legal preparation un-
equalled, in more senses than one—unequalled
in extent, unequalled in absurdity : trickery
and artifice unknown in legal annals ; employed in
the suppression of jury lists, and in the fraudulent
packing of a jury : intolerance and bigotry, in
making a religious test the ground, for exclusion from
the panel chosen out of the mutilated list. And yet
after all this preparation, this trickery, this intoler-
ance, all that the Government has been able to do, is
to put themselves on their trial, and to place their
own conduct, their own misdoings for adjudication,
whilst those of whom they sought to make criminals,
are comparatively free from all care as to what the
final ending of these trials may be.
So will it always be, when Governments suffer
themselves to be dragged from the beaten road of
justice into the tortuous paths which petty malignity
and private malice prefer to tread. To gratify the
dogged pertinacity of a WELLINGTON, the demoniac
hatred of a STANLEY, and the paltry pettifogging
acerbity of a GRAHAM, the Government of Sir R.
PEEL has been led into this maze of persecution, and
has perilled its very existence upon the putting down
of O'CONNELL. The cause of Repeal has been ad-
vanced more by the proceedings of the Government
than by any thing that years of agitation could have
effected. Sir R. PEEL has nobody but himself to thank
if he should find, no matter what the verdict of this
fraudulently-selected, unfairly packed, and infamously
concocted jury may be (a selection, a packing, and a
concoction, in which the jury are no sharers, and
from which, perchance, they may yet gloriously vin-
dicate themselves), that the cause of Repeal has gained
a strength, and acquired a force, which, but for these
prosecutions, it could never have attained.
Repeal of the union is the child of Tory parents—
it has been fostered by them, and nursed until it has
gained its present stature, by their care and superin-
tendence ;—and if ever a repeal of the union, which
we sincerely deprecate, should be found unavoidable,
to Tory misgovernment, obstinacy, and imbecility
alone will such an event be attributed.

The English Catholics have resented the gross
insult lately offered to their Irish brethren in a manly
and becoming spirit. At a public meeting held on
Wednesday, at the Freemason's Tavern, the following,
among other equally significant resolutions, was pro-
posed and carried unanimously, amid loud cheers :
" That the officers of the Crown, in striking off every
Catholic from the panel, in the trial pending in the
Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, have raised in
the Court of Justice itself a well-grounded suspicion
of the violation of the Emancipation Act, and have
thereby insulted our religion and endangered our
rights, by an implied imputation upon our fidelity to
our oaths." In bringing forward this resolution, the
Hon. C. LANGDALE remarked that it was not the
Crown Solicitor who was to be charged with such a de-
liberate insult, nor even the Attorney-General; it was
the Government which was the offending party : and
in this opinion we are strongly disposed to concide
with the Hon. Gentleman. The insult wears a
genuine Tory complexion, and is, therefore, just
such a one as was most likely to proceed from the
present official occupants of Downing-street. But
was there ever a more ill-timed, suicidal blunder
committed by a set of men taking credit to them-
selves for the possession and exercise of common
sense and liberality ? At the very time when one
would have supposed that it was more than ever ne-
cessary that they should conciliate the Catholics of
Ireland, and detach as many of them as possible
from the repeal banner—at this very time Govern-
ment have thought fit to disgust and alienate them,
by casting a slur on their honesty, and putting
it publicly on record that they are not to
be trusted on their oaths ! Yes, despite the Eman-
cipation Act, whose avowed object, as pompously
proclaimed by its author, was to put the Catholics on
an equality in every respect with the Protestants, a
Tory Ministry still regards them with distrust and
contempt—still takes special care that the brand of
their inferiority shall remain broadly stamped on
their foreheads. What is the legal disqualification
for sitting on a jury ? That a man is a convicted
felon. Is not the inference then, inevitable, that, in
the estimation of our sapient, tolerant, and equitable
Government, the Irish Catholics are no better than
so many convicted felons, and are therefore legally
disqualified from acting as jurymen ? Well may
these cruelly maligned gentlemen resent such a
gross imputation on their character—and this in
the strongest terms that the English language
can supply 1 They would be deserving of the sove-
reign contempt of every honest man were they to
submit in silence to such a deliberate insult; but
greatly shall we be mistaken in our estimate of their
sense of honour, if they do not promptly bestir them-
selves to such effect, in England as well as Ireland, as
shall extort from Government, on its knees, a con-
fession of its illiberal conduct, and a distinct, positive
pledge that such conduct shall never be repeated. Minis-
ters would not dare to treat the Dissenters in this con-
tumelious manner. And why? Because they know and
feel that they are a bold,'determined, wealthy, and in-
fluential body, who will not submit to injustice, and
are impatient of even the semblance of insult ? But
the Catholics are a different sort of men ; they, it is i
taken for granted, are comparatively powerless in
England, and even in Ireland are only numerically
powerful ; consequently they may be insulted with
impunity. Well, it is high time that this delusion
should be dispelled, and Government be taught that
the Catholic party can be as prompt to resent a slight
or an injury as the Dissenters ; and that they are re-
solved to stand on no other footing than that of per-
fect equality with the rest of their fellow-country-
men
eanwhhas already,ilethis as
egregious blunder on the part
Ministersof
antici-
pated, recoiled on their own iheads.ight hlatve behasen
destroyed
much of the moral influence which it was the object
of the State prosecutions to exercise on the minds of
thinking people in Ireland; has added greatly to the
number and strength of the Repealers ; and fur-
nished Mr. O'Coromm. with one of the most
cogent arguments he could possibly urge in
favour of that revolutionary measure. Truly
Sir ROBERT PEEL and his congenial colleagues have
displayed ineffable wisdom in their administration of
affairs in the sister-country! They found it tranquil,

they have convulsed it from one extremity to the
other—they found it willing to trust to English jus-
tice for redress of wrongs, they have filled it with
distrust and despair—they found Repeal a dwarf,
they have elevated it to the dimensions of a giant—they
found a large portion of the Catholics desirous to become
their allies, they have converted them all, with scarcely
one exception, into bitter and inveterate enemies !
And yet when he next discusses the question of his
Irish policy, Sir ROBERT PEEL, if we may judge
from the past, will have the insufferable effrontery to
get up in the House of Commons, and, with that
matchless, impenetrable, seven-fold face of his, pro-
fess his great regard for the interests of the sister-
country, and take credit to himself for having treated
it with such uniform impartiality !

Madrid Journals of the 31st ult. have been re-
ceived. The death of Donna CARLOTTA had caused
a great sensation, and its probable consequences
formed topics of general discussion. " Yesterday,"
says the Herald, " the body of her Royal Highness
was exposed in state. It is placed in a magnifi-
cent coffin in one of the rooms of the mansion which
the Princess inhabited. The room is decorated with
rich tapestry. The body of the Princess is covered
with a fine white dress of lace and gold embroidery.
On her forehead and neck thousands of diamonds or
costly jewels sparkle. Two chasseurs of Espinosa
and four halberdiers are stationed at the bed's head,
and form the internal guard." A daughter of the
deceased Princess had been attacked with measles, but
was considered out of danger. Several parties had
left Madrid to receive Queen CHRISTINA on her en-
tering Spain. The funds continued firm ; the Three
per Cents. having closed at 30 and 291 for cash, and
291 at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 20A at
60 days.

The Paris papers are much occupied with the ques-
tion of railroads, and the affair of M. SALVANDY. On
Monday a Council of Ministers was held, under the
presidency of Marshal SOULT. The Ministers of Fo-
reign Affairs, the Interior, and Commerce, who were
engaged at the bureaux of the Chamber, left them to
attend the Council. It was stated in the evening
that the question under consideration was the Rail-
roads, but that no decision had been come to. On
Tuesday, however, a belief prevailed that Ministers
had made up their minds on the subject, and the
funds rose considerably, the Three per Cents. closing
at 81f. 95c., and the Fives at 125 f. sc. A very ge-
neral feeling prevails against the supposed plan for exe-
cuting all the new lines under the agency of the State.
Even the Globe, a Ministerial paper, is strongly opposed
to such a scheme, and justly remarks, " ought the State
to become proprietors of houses in Paris, or manu-
facturers at Sedan, or merchants at Havre, or agricul-
turists at Beauce ? It is absurd to suppose so ; and
yet this is the very thing which those persons require,
who urge the State to execute, exclusively, the rail-
roads, on account of the profits which are to accrue
from the undertaking. With such a system the State
would, in the end, monopolise in its hands all the un-
dertakings of the nation. Take, then, the English,
the Belgians, the capitalists of every country of
Europe, and let them have an interest, by their
concurrence in the execution of our railroads, in the
prosperity and riches of France. Can it be supposed
that peace and order in Europe will not be consoli-
dated by such a community of interests ? Allow
English, German, and Belgian interests to touch
each other, and the nations themselves will touch
also ; and that future will be prepared towards which
all parties aim, or pretend they aim—namely, the
close union of European nations, on the common
ground of peace and labour."
The Chamber of Deputies have not had a public
sitting for several days, as the Members are engaged
in Committees on the different items of the Budget.
It was said, however, that there would be a public
meeting on Wednesday, when M. SALVANDY would
make some explanations relative to the late misunder-
standing between him and the Court. Some of the
Opposition papers express a firm conviction
that the GUIZOT Ministry cannot last. The Courrier
Francais, however, takes a different view,
and says, before the Cabinet presented the Secret
Money Bill, they wished to ascertain the dispositions
of the Members of the majority. Several meetings
have taken place, on the proposal of the Deputies
most devoted to the Ministry, and it is affirmed that
the majority has proved as numerous and as una-
nimous as previous to the late Parliamentary storms.
The Cabinet is content, and its friends still predict it
a long life.

THE BOURSE-TUESDAY, FEB. 6.

First

Highest Lowest Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. • • 124 85 .. 124 90 124 85 • • 124 90
Four per Cents. • • 106 35 106 35 • • 106 35 106 35
Three per Cents 81 85 • • 81 95 .. 81 90 • • 81 95
Bank of France. 3280 3285 ..3280 3285
Laffitte Bank, I,ooof. Shareslll2 50 ..1112 50 ..1112 50 .. 1112 50
Belgian Bank .. • • • • • • • • • • • • 670 • • 675 • • 670 • • 675
Belgian Fives, 1840 ...••.•. 109 .. 1091 .. 109 .. 1091
1842
Spanish Active ........311 • . 32 .. 311 .. 32
Passive .••.• • • ..... 51 • • a .. 51 • • 51
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 481 • • 49 • • 481 .. 49
Neapolitan lO6 85 .. 106 85 .. 106 85 .. 106 85
Roman lO6l .. 1061 • • 1061 .. 1061

RAILWAY SHARES.
Versa Mes, R. 8... . • . • • • • . • • 357 50 • • 357 50 . • 357 50 .. 357 50
L. 8.. • •• • • .. .. .. 187 50 • . 190 • • 186 25 .. 186 25
Rouen • . • . . • •• • • .. .. .. .. .. 840 • • 845 • • 840 .. 845

Rouen to Havre.. • ..... 695 • • 712 50 .. 695 • . 707 50
Orleans •,•• • • ..• • . 860 • • 860 • • 860 • • 860

Strasburg:to Bale•• •• •• ...• 242 50 .. 243 75 .. 242 50 .. 242 50
Montpellier toCette•• •• •• •• 500 •• 515 500 .. 512 50
Avignon to Marseilles.• •• •• 785 .• 787 50 .. 782 50 .. 782 50
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
Versailles.R.B.....•• •• •• .. 355 356 25 .. 355 .. 356 25
L. 8.•. l9O .• 190 •• 186 25 .. 186 25
Rouen •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •—• 840 .. 847 50 840 - 847 50

Rouen to Havre.. 7OO •• 712 50 .• 700 .. 701 25
Orleans

Strasbur to Bale•• .. .. • . • . 242 50 • • 245 .. 242
4 5O .• 243 75
Avignon to Marseilles- • • 785 •. 787 50 .• 775 .. 775

AMERICAN NEWS.
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EVENLNG.

The Yorkshire on her first voyage across the Atlantic
arrived here this morning, in the charge of .Captain Bailey,
who has previously commanded some of the swiftest and
most popular of the American liners. The new vessel is a
beautiful specimen of maritime architecture ; and although
in every fresh vessel which is added to the splendid line of
packets between this port and New York, perfection appears
to have been attained, still improvements and new beauties
are discernable in each, gratifying to the eye, and compli-
mentary to the taste and skill of the heads which planned
and the hands which executed such elegant workmanship.
The Yorkshire, which sailed on the 18th ult., has made her
first passage in nineteen days.
A Bill, consisting of some forty clauses, had been intro-
duced into the House of Representatives by a Member, named
Hughes, the purport of which is to take possession of the
Oregon territory. Whether the Bill pass or not is of little
moment; the object of the introducer was, doubtless, to di-
rect attention to his movements on this side of the Atlantic.
The Cotton Market had sustained a sudden reversion in
consequence of what was deemed the unfavourable news
from England, and prices had receded a good deal. The
feeling was also, increased by a belief that the new cotton
crop would prove more productive than the previous accounts
had represented it.
In all probability, however, when the accounts arrive out
with the details of the astounding doings in this market last
-Tret4trand recently, another fillip will be given to that taste
for speculation which had been arrested when the packet
sailed.

The news from Canada give an account of various changes
on the tapir in the Cabinet and on the Bench. Mr. Wake-
field was on the point, it is said, of returning to England ;
and Mr. Lafontaine, to conciliate the French portion of the
people, is to be raised to the Montreal bench, in the place of
an old judge of French extraction, who retires because of the
infirmities of age. But these rumours, although positively
affirmed, appear to be by no means certain.
Congress had been opened in Texas by a message from the
Piesident, which alludes, in handsome terms, to the inter-
vention of Great Britain, in order to settle the existing diffe
rences between that country and Mexico—to the fact of
France being about to establish a line of steam communica-
tion with the " Young Republic"—and to the friendly feel-
ing which has always existed between Texas and the United
States, until it was inadvertently interrupted by an infrac-
tion of the revenue laws of the former country. It is also
stated that a Bill had been introduced into the Texian Con-
gress, recommending the annexation of the country to the
territory of the United States.
From Havannah, the details of an insurrection, by the
black population, have come to hand; it is said that no less
than 500 slaves were killed in the emeute.

The remittances by the present packet are heavy. When
she sailed the rate of Exchange on England was 1081.

BRIGHTON, FEB. 7.—The Duke of Rutland is
expected in the course of the day at the Norfolk Hotel. We
are sorry to learn that his Grace is in an infirm state of
health. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are expected
in the course of the day at No. 8, Eastern-terrace. The
Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh, after staying a few days
with the Dowager Duchess of Roxburgh, at the Norfolk
Hotel, left this morning for London, with the intention of
proceeding on Friday to Scotland. Viscount Combermere
has arrived in Cannon-place. A Bude light has been put on
the Old Steine, opposite the statue of George the Fourth.
It was used last night for the first time, and shed a brilliant
light around. The novelty attracted a large concourse of
persons.

We understand that the distinguished author of
" Tremaine" and " De Vere" is about to usher before the
public, under the sanction of his editorship, a new work of
fiction, which is likely to excite considerable attention in the
higher circles. The title of the work, which is " Chats-
worth," will certainly lead every one to expect a production
of a peculiarly piquant character.