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TOE STIN,LONDON, :WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 6, 1844.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, March 5.
ROYAL ASSENT.
Their Lordships met to—tiy at Four o'Clock, for the purpose
of giving the Royal Assent to several Bills :---The Commis-
sioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buceleugh, and
the Earl of Slniftesbury.
The following are the gillswhich received the Royal As-
sent, the Horse Racing Bill. the Officers at Sea Bill, the Me-
tropolitan Improvtment Bill, and Sang's Naturalization Bill.
Their Lordships then adjourned during pleasure.
Their Lordships re-assembled at Five o'clock.
•
THE ,CASE OF SAMUEL GRAY.
The LORD CHANCELLOR preented a petition from a
person of the name of Samuel Gray, who stated that he had
been tried four times for the offence of shooting at persons in
Ireland, and that. on the last occasion ln••was convicted. An
objection had been raised, he said, to the peremptory chal-
lenge which he had claimed. 'I hat question came on for dis-
cu,sion before tie Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, and the
decision was against him. Pe wished very much to appeal to
their Lordships House against that. decision. He was, how-
ever, destiny e of funds necessary for the purpose, and prayed
their Lordships to provide him with funds. He (the Lord
Chancellor) feared that their Lordships had no means of
doing that.

CORN-LAWS.
The Earl of YARBOROU presented petitions from
Lincolnshire against any alteration in the corn-laws.
Lord BROWNLOW presented 52 petitions from places in
Yorkshire to the same Affect..
The Earl of DE VON presented several petitions to the
same effect, but the designations of the petitioners were not
heard in the gallery.
PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGES.
The Marquis of NORMANBY wished to put a question to
his Noble Friend on the NI oolsack asth respect to Presbyterian
marriages. He wished to ask his Noble and Learned Friend
whether it was intended to re-appoint the Committee of last
session on this subject?
Lord LYNDHURST said that the law Lords in that House
were divided in opinion upon a case which had come before the
House. As soon as they had come to a decision, he would move
for the re-appointincrit of the CoMmittee.
WISH. LAND TENURE COMMISSION.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE wished to put some
questions to his Noble Friend opj osite at the head of the Irish
Land Tenure Commission, which he did not think would re-
quire that he should make any motion on the subject. There
was already prevalent in Ireland, and to a great extent in Eng-
land also, an opinion that the sufferings of the Irish were owing to
the exorbitant rents exacted by the landlords. The appoint-
ment of the Commission was calculated to aggravate the error;
for the Commissioners stated that although they had no power
to adjudicate between landlords and tenants yet they would
receive any information with respect to particular cases which
could illustrate the whole subject. Ile believed that most
pernicious notions lied been encouraged by the appointment of
the Commission, and by the conduct of the Commissioners so
far. Every man of sense must know that if the land-
lords were to give up all claim to rent,
and the tenants in possession were to have the
land in fee, there would be no diminution of the general
misery, and no increase of the national wealth. The Com-
mission had nu power to alter the law of real property, and it
was, therefore, a mockery and delusion of the people. It had
kept up and propagated the notion that the landlords exacted
exorbitant rents, and gave rise to innumerable newspaper para-
graphs of a most pernicious tendency. For instance, a para-
graph went round the papers that a Noble Friend of his had
lowered his rents ten per cent ; but, a fortnight afterwards the
papers said that they were sorry to learn that the statement
was untrue. Why were they sorry? They ought rather to be
glad that there was no occasion to lower the rents.—( Hear. )
The cry about fixity of tenure had been the cause, or was
supposed to be the cause, of the appointment of the Commission.
The greatest objection he had to the Landlord and Tenant
Commission was that it was pleaded in bar of all other measures
for the improvement of Ireland. There never was a better
opportunity than the present for the Imperial Parliament to
torn its attention to Ireland with the view of affording employ-
rient to the great' mass of the population. Never was there
a reszient at which the Government could raise money with more
advantage than at the present time. The questions he had to
put were firstly, whether the Commission contempleted an
alteration of the law which would affect leases and covenants
entered into previous to the, issuing of the Commission ;
secondly, whether they had prepared any report as to the
proportion di-era:to the value of land. And thirdly, whether
they proposed to report the whole evidence taken before the
Commission.
The Earl of DEVON said their Lordships would see that it
would be impossible for him to give an answer to the first two
questions of the Noble Marquis. After stating the course
the Commission had taken with respect to their inquiry, the
Noble Earl said it was their intention to report the
whole of the evidence taken before the Commission.
He could only answer that the whole of the cases inquired into
would be reported.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said that it was some-
what satisfactory to know that the cases upon which the re-
port would be founded would be reported also. An inquiry
into the tenure of land in Ireland, was really an inquiry into the
condition of the peasants; for there were very few labourers
who were not paid in part by the letting of land on a principle
analogous to that of the allotment system in this country. He
again asked was it intended to make any alteration in existing
covenants between landlords and tenants?
The Earl of DEVON-1 must decline to answer so delicate
a. question.
MAGISTRATES IN IRELAND.
The Marquis of NORM AN BY moved for a return of the
number and the riames:of the Stipendiary Magistrates appointed
in Ireland since'the Ist of January, 18-11.—Ordered.
Their Lordships adjourned at a Quarter-past Six o'Clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 5.
The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'Clock.
ROYAL ASSENT.
Mr. Pulman, the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod, appeared a\
the table, and summoned the Commons to the House of Lords,
to hear the royal assent given 'coramission to several Bills
which ha,l been agreed to by both Houses of Parliament, for
which see Lords' report.
The Yarmouth and Norwich Railway Bill was read a second
time, and ordered to be committed.
The second'readlng of the Epsom and South Western Rail-
way Bill was postponed.
COLCHESTER AND IPSWICH RAILWAY.
Sir WM. It EAT lICOT E, in presenting a petition from an.
Robert Harland with respect to the course pursued by the
Committee on the Standing Orders in regard to this Bill, wished
to have the opinion of the House as to the course that he
had pursued with reference to this measure,'as Chairman of the
Committee. in that character he had refusedd to hear the soli-
citor for some of the parties, on the ground ahe was not a
Parliamentary agent.
Sir GEORGE GREY thought that the decision that had
been come to by the Committee was a correct one, but, at the
same time, he considered that it would be better that the peti-
tion should lie on the table, in order that it might be ascertained
what the practice was.
Lord G. SOMERSET considered that the only party that
should be excluded was a paid barrister, but that any other
agent, whether Parliamentary or not, was included in the
Standing Order.
Mr. STRUTT thought if the Committee had power to ex-
clude counsel they had power also to exclude solicitors. He
was, however, willing that the matter should be adjourned to
consider the subject thoroughly. For his own part he thought
that the word " agent" meant " Parliamentary agent.
Mr. GREENE consilered that Parliamentary agents could
only be heard before the Standing Orders' Committee.
Mr. AGLION BY said that when he sat on Committees on
private Bills, they always considered that the word " agent"
signified " Parliamentary agent."
Mr. STRUTT said that he had been referred to as having
allowed a solicitor, not a Parliamentary agent, to appear for
parties in the Committee .on the Lancaster and Carlisle Rail-
way Bill. •Be could only say, that if such was the fact, it had
occurred without his knowledge.
The SPEAKER said he agreed with the opinion expressed
by the Hon. Member for Derby. When he (the Speaker)
held the office of Chairman of the Standing Orders' Committee,
persons not being Parliamentary agents were not allowed to
tppear before Committees of that House for other parties. He
eat decidedly of opinion that Parliamentary agents were the
only persone ad nitted by the Standing Orders to appear before
Committees of that House.
ESTCOURT fully concurred in the opinion expressed
by the Speaker.
After a few words from Lord G. SOMERSET,
The SPEAKER said that the agents were responsible to
the House for the fees ; under those circumstances no person
ought to be before the House, except through a Parliamentary
agent.

SECOND READINGS.
The Leeds and Bradford Railway, the Guildford Junction
Railway, and the Furness Railway Bills were read a second
time.

ATHLONE, ELECTION.
The following Gentlemen were Emorn as Members for try-
ing the petition agPinst the return for the Borough of Ath-
lone :—The Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, Hon. W. 0. Stan-
ley, Mr. H. Beckett, Mr. Wm. Lockhart, Mr. W. Grippe,
Mr. H. G. Ward, and Mr. J.
WS. Pakington.
RAILAYS.
Mr. •MUNTZ presented a petition from Birmingham, in
favour of a fair competition in the conveyance of goods on
railways.

PETITIONS.
Dr. BOWRING presented a petition agreed on at a public
meeting in Liverpool, which the Hon. Member stated, but for
the desire of having it speedily presented, would have been
signed by '20,000 persons. It stated the petitioners' satisfac-
tion at the intention expressed by her Majesty, to redress the
grievances of the people, and they hoped the House
would respond to her gracious intention. They com-
plained of the imperfect state of the representation
of the country, ant of the powers assumed by that
House in taxing the people, notwithstanding that im-
perfect condition of the representation. They requested the
House not to put military power into the hands of the Go-
vernment, to maintain a state of things in Ireland that would
be intolerable in England. They complained of the manner in
which money was voted away in that House, and of the in-
tolerable wrong that such a multitude should be obliged to
pay such sums, while they were not concerned, directly or
indirectly, with the representation ; and they prayed that no
more public money should be granted until their grevances
were redressed.
Mr. WILSON PATTEN presented a petition from Preston
against the monopoly in the conveyance of goods on railways.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition from Kettering,
signed by 597 of its inhabitants, complaining that taxation took
away from the working man a large portion of his weekly
earnings. They alleged that taxation without representation
was tyranny, and they prayed that before voting away the
public money the House would proceed to redress the people's
grievances ; also a petition from the wood-sawyers and masons
of Aberdeen to the same effect.
SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE METROPOLIS.
Mr. EWART presented a petition from the inhabitants
of Lambeth, complaining of the conduct of the Lambeth
Waterworks Company in not supplying pure water, and praying
for inquiry.
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN SCOTLAND.
Mr. WALLACE presented a petition from an individual
named Black, complaining of the manner in which justice was
administered in the Small Debts Court of the county of
Stirling. We understood the Hon. Gentleman to say that it
was his intention on some future occasion to call the attention
of the Houst to the subject of theAW petition.

The Hos. GENTLEMAN then presented a petition praying
for an alteration in e corn laws
T the corn laws
TOBACCO DUTIES.
Mr. T. DUNCOM RE presented eighteen petitions from
the borough of Finsti.ury praying for an alteration in the duties
on tobacco.

NEW POOR-LAW.
The Harr. MEMBER then presented petitions from Man-
chester and from Gravesend? praying that those places might
be exempted from the operation of the new poor.law.
Mr. MILNER GIBSON presented a petition from Man-
chester, in favour of Lord Ashley's motion for a Select Com-
mittee to consider the subject of medical relief for the poor.
RAILWAY COMMITTEE.
Mr. GLADSTONE moved the nomination of the Select
Conintittee en -.Classification of Railway Bills, in conformity
with the fifth ttegiiitiOn on Railways ;,--Mr.-Bingbarn Daring,

Sir Charles Lemon, Mr. Rice, Mr: Aelind,-"and Sir -John
Walsh.

NOTICES OF MOTION.
Mr. MILNER GIBSON, in the absence of Mr. Ricardo,
postponed the motion of which that Non. Gentleman had given
notice for to-night, on the subject of commercial treaties, till
this day fortnight.
Mr. HUTT postponed for a fortnight the motion of which
he had given notice, on the subject of colonial corn.
Mr. ESCOTT gave notice that, on Thursday next, he
should call the attention of the House to the subject of the fees
which were still demanded in criminal courts of justice.
POOR-LAWS (IRELAND).
Sir D. NORREYS postponed his motion respecting the
operation of the poor-laws in Ireland till after Easter.
ESTABLISHED CHURCH OF IRELAND.
Mr. WARD gave notice that on as early a day as possible
after Easter he would move for a Committee of the whole
House to inquire into the present state of the temporalities of
the Irish Church.—( Hear. )
INTRODUCTION
HE OF
WASIATIC LABOURERS INTO
T INDIES.
Sir A. L. HAY gave notice that he would, on Thursday,
put a question to the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Co-
lonies to know whether it was the intention of her Majesty's
Government to afford greater facilities for the introduction of
Chinese and other Asiatic labourers into the West Indies ?
DUTIES ON MANUFACTURES.
Mr. EWART gave notice that on Thursday week he would
move for a repeal of the duties which press upon manufactures ;
and also those which tend to encourage smuggling.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
Mr. WILLIAMS rose to move, " That no motion, if op-
posed, shall be brought on and discussed in this House after
midnight." The Hon. Member said it was not his intention
to interfere with those long party discussions which so often
occupied the time of the House to a very late and unseasonable
hour. He wished to confine his metier, simply to the practical
business of the House, and he thought it must beevident to
every Hon. Alernber who had been in the habit of paying at-
tention to that subject, that the bringing forward of impor-
tant questions at a very late hour of the night was not only
most inconvenient, but highly detrimental to public in-
terest.—( Hear, hear.) The general system of
acting public business was in many respects most
objectionable, and important alterations ought to be made
—and, in fact, must be made, before the business could
be conducted in a manner beneficial to the country. On re-
ferring to the proceedings of last session, he found that the
House had sat 119 nights. During those 119 nights the House
sat 1051 hours after midnight, being nearly one hour after mid-
night for each sitting. He had often seen, for want of some
regulation of this kind, business of the greatest possible im-
portance forced upon the consideration of the House at one or
two o'clock in the morning, sometimes even later ; he had seen,
in defiance of every remonstrance, measures brought forward at
those hours which affected most materially the rights, the liber-
ties, the lives, and the property of the people of this country.
He had also seen, in defiance of all remonstrance, millions of
the public money voted away without any consideration what-
ever, as to the existence of any necessity for such amounts to
the public interest of the country. At these unseasonable
hours he had seen gentlemen coming in to vote on important
questions affecting the lives, properties and liberties of the
people, from their balls, their theatres, their operas, and their
parties, and voting without any knowledge whatever as to whe-
ther those measures were good or bad, with regard to the interests
of the country. Such a state of things ought to be corrected,
and there was no other means of doing so than limiting the
hours of business to something like reasonableness. He had
no objection to the debates between the two great parties in
that House—one anxious to obtain power, and the other
anxious to keep it—being continued, as he had often witnessed,
till twilight peeped through the windows of the House, and
Members returned home, from What they call their
duties, by the light of the rising sun. But he did
object to public business being carried on at these hours.
Nature intended that Hon. Members, instead of wasting their
strength in that House, should refresh themselves by sleep.
The Right Hon. Baronet opposite smiled.—(Lairghter. ) He
was quite ready to bear his testimony to the Right Hon.
Baronet's attendance in that House, as well as that of the
Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government. They
were to be found in their places at the earliest and latest hours,
and they certainly displayed an amount of physical strength that
often astonished him —( Hear, and laughter.) But he thought
a little more attention to their health and comfort, would be an
advantage. They might, at present, be able to attend to their
duties, but a time might come when their strength would fail
them ; and when these late hours would tell on their strength,
and the duration of their lives. If the good of the country were
consulted in these late hours, they might be tolerated, but the
reverse was the fact. Laws were passed when Hon. Members
were fast asleep, or in such a state of drowsiness
that they hardly knew what they were about. The intention
of the Reform Bill was, that instead of Hon. Members coming
down at midnight, they should come there in a state of perfect
sobriety. When he saw the time of the House consumed in
passing Acts to explain and amend other Acts of Parliament,
which if Hon. Members had not enacted at those unseasonable
hours, such a state of things would never have taken
place, he must say that it was discreditable to the
House. By keeping those unseasonable hours, when
they ought to be asleep, they passed laws which
were neither understood by Hon. Members themselves,
nor by the judges who were to administer them. There was
no country in Europe which adopted such an unreasonable course
of proceeding ; and yet, notwithstanding their late hours, many
of the grievances of the country were not redressed. Let
them look at the state of matters which Ireland presented.
Now what were the complaints and what were the grievances
of the people of Ireland ? The Hon. Member for Cork, the re-
presentative of all Ireland, had often stated in that Pouse that
one of the great grievances of Ireland was, that the same law
was not applied to that country which was applied to England;
he thought the laws for Ireland and England ought to be pre-
cisely the same.—(Hear, hear.) If they consulted in that
House the wants and wishes of the people, one-third of the
time of the House would be saved.—(Hear, hear.) He had
no doubt that during the present session, one-fourth of
the time of that House would be consumed upon two
questions—the grievances of Ireland, and the corn-laws.
It must be apparent to every one that the grievances of Ire-
land must be redressed, or that country woul become a curse
instead of a blessing to England.—( Hear, hear.) It was evi •
dent, also, that the corn-laws must be put an end to. Why,
then, he would ask, were not some measures adopted
in order to settle those two questions? The people
called upon them loudly to do so ; and if they
resisted that appeal, the worst results might be expected. He
believed that if these two questions were settled that one-fourth
of the time of the House would be saved. He' advised Minis-
ters also to ..spaaures they intended to proceed
with at an early period of the session' anu ,te‘d
them to discontinue the practice of bringing on Bills
which were never • intended to be proceeded with.
It must be apparent to every member that much of the time of
the House had been consumed by discussing Bills that never
were intended to be passed into a law. Since he had had a seat
in:that House, from four to five months of the session had been
wasted upon all manner of ille debates—(Load cheers from the
Ministerial side of the House)—upon questions in which the
public took no interest. In the session of 1840, gentlemen on
the other side of the House consumed nearly the whole of that
session in the most idle, and, as regarded the public interest, the
most worthless motions—not worthless to them, because their
object was to get hold of place, power, and pelf.
No doubt the gentlemen who sat behind the Treasury Bench
had, as well as those who sat or, that Bench, derived consi-
derable advantage from the change, but that change
had produced no advantage to the people of this coun-
try. How had the time of the House been consumed dur-
ing the last session? Parliament had met on the 3d of Fe-
bruary, and during the months of February, Marcmonth h, Aprilof
and May they had passed 26 Bills ;
during the
June they had passed 10 Bills; and during the month of July
20 Bills, while in the three first weeks of the month of August,
during which alone the House had sat, forty-four Bills had
been sent up to the other House. Was that a proper mode of
conducting basiness ? No one could defend that system. The
House of Lords would, while the present party was in power,
pass any Bills which they might think proper to send up, but
under the late Government a certain legal Lord had thrown
bundles upon bundles of Bills under the table, upon the plea that
they had been sent up at too late a period of the session to have
proper consideration given to them. He hoped that the state-
ment which be had made would satisfy the majority of
con-
e
th
House—( A laugh)—that it would be greatly
ducive to the health of the Members, and to the interests of
the country, that they should legislate for the people
during hours when their mental faculties were in a proper state
of activity and clearness, and not when they were muddled.—
( A laugh.) The lion. Member concluded by proposing the
motion of which he had given notice.
Mr. BROTHERTON seconded the motion.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could hardly
persuade himself that the Honourable Gentleman was
in earnest in making such a proposition to the House.
He gave the Hon. Gentleman every credit for his anxiety with
regard to the health of the Members of the House, but it was
not so much the discussing of matters at a late hour of the
night which was prejudicial to their health, but the being
obliged to hear long speeches at early and late hours.—
(Cheers.) When Hon. Gentlemen got up upon all subjects
and treated them with dissertations on the corn-laws and
Ireland, it produced a degree of lassitude which was
most injurious.—(Loud cheers and laughter.) When
the earlier portion of the night was occupied in
discussing useless subjects, it rendered it necessary
for them to sit up late to forward the public busi-
ness. Unless they sat up late for the purpose, they would
have no opportunity of doing any business at all. The
Hon. Gentleman complained of the inattention and haste with
which they discussed public measures, and he said that
while they passed twenty-six Bills only in the first part
of the session, they passed a considerable number of Bills at the
end. But Hon. Gentlemen who took up the time of the House
in discussing useless subjects were that cause of this. The dis-
cussion of many Bills was frequently put off at the request of Hon.
Gentlemen themselves, who wishedto consult their constituents.
It would be found that those debates, which occupied the time
of the House after twelve o'clock, were those which were begun
before that hour. There might be occasions where
great public interests required that public measures should
be introduced and discussed at any hour, how-
ever late, and be thought that the House would act in
the manner most conducive to the public interests, by not con-
senting to a specific resolution of this kind. He had no fear of
their health being injured so long as they had the Hon. Gen-
tleman opposite amongst them (Mr. Brotherton), who watched
over the early hours of the House with so much amenity and
consideration.--(Cheers.) So long as he might remain a
Member of this House he was sure they would not waste their
time or their constitutions in the way so dreaded by the Hon.
Member for Coventry.—( Hear, hear. )
Mr. BROTHERTON rose, and there was general cheering
from all sides if the House. The Hon. Gentleman said he
should trouble the House only with a word or two. The
Hon. Member for Coventry had seen the very poor success
which had attended his (Mr. Brotherton s) efforts on
this subject, and had kindly come forward with his
powerful aid, and he trusted that he would have a
larger minority to support him than he had hitherto been able
to command. He did think that if the proposal of his
Honourable Friend were carried it would be found
exceedingly useful, and that if they adjourned re-
gularly at early hours they would materially facili-
tate the business of the House, and do no injury to the
public interests. The remarks which had fallen from the
Right Honourable Gentleman the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, brought to his mind an anecdote of Queen Eliza-
beth. That good Queen had, on one occasion, sent
down a message to her faithful Commons, admonishing them
not to consume so much time in long speeches and useless mo-
tions.—(Loud cheers and laughter.) If the right good Queen
of the present day were to send down a similar message to
that House—(Loud cheers)—no one would deny its appro-
priateness, and, for his own part, he sheuld be the first to join
in a vote of thanks to her Majesty for her most gracious
communication.—(Loud cheers.) He was sure there
were many speeches delivered in that House that might be
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eighty Members were present. Whilst he threw out this sug-
gestion, he considered it perfectly',aseless to attterupt to carry it
out as the House was then constituted. He would therefore only
support the resolution of his Hon. Friend (Mr. Williams),
though of course he knew too well from past experience that,
excellent as the proposition would be in practice, the House
would not sanction it.
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the motion ....
Against it .....
Majority against the motion ..... —l3O
METROPOLITAN POLICE.

Mr. TUFNELL rose to move for a Select Committee to in-
quire into the cost of the Metropolitan Police Force, and the
manner in which the sums levied as police rates are assessed on
the different parishes within the Metropolitan Police District.
In moving for this Committee , he thought it right to state that
he had no intention of calling for an inquiry into the conduct of
the New Police. The House knew that accusations of neglect
had gone forth against the body, and at its first establishment
the force did not give satisfaction. The Right Honourable
Baronet, when introducing the Police Bill, had said that little
or no increase of [expense would arise t o each district from the
formation of the police force, but that life and property would
receive additional security from it. 11.0 would show, in many
places, there had been no additional security to life and pro-
perty, while the rate had been eioubled. He thought he was
justified in saying that the new yolice had given no security to
property.—( Hear, hear.) When a change was made from a
local to a central one, the House was bound to protect local rights.
The Bill had been passed undsrr the pretence that no addi-
tional burdens would be imposed upon the parishes. The Right
Hon. Baronet had stated so, the P.M had been proposed oil
that condition, and on that condition opposition had been
avoided, and yet year after year these burdens had been in-
creased. The parishioners did complain of the adoption of the
central system • but the complaint was that the express stipula-
tion upon which the Bill had been passed had been violated,
and that the rates had been nearly doubled. The rates pressed
most heavily not upon the rich, lout upon the poorer class of
rate-payers. He held in his hand a report of Mr. Harvey,
the Commissioner of City polio s, who stated that while the
City police cost only 761. per head, the Marylebone police cost
120/. per head. This was a state. of things which required a
remedy. Before he concluded, he would refer to the in-
equality of the assessments of thu .different parishes. By the
Act of 1836, the poor-rate had been assessed at the net value,
but this was rendered useless, because it was not made com-
pulsory to adopt that mode of valitation. If the Right Hon.
Gentleman read the report, he would soon perceive what gross
inequalities existed with regard to the assessraents.
He found in many parishes that the burdens were most severe.
He thought, therefore, there was ground for the motion which
he made. He had no intention of finding fault with the Com-
missioners of Police. What he desired co see was, the stipu-
lations of the Police Bill, when it was carried, brought into
effect. On that occasion the author of the Bill (Sir R.
Peel) said that ultimately no ii acreased burden would be
thrown upon the parishes. He I (Mr. Tufnell) thought the
Government ought to be able to maintain an efficient police-
force without such heavy expenses, and without danger either
to the peace of the country, or the liberty of the subject.
Mr. MANNERS SU f TON said it would not be his duty
to trouble the House at any, lengt h with his reasons for op-
posing this motion. Before, ha wever, he followed the
Hon. Gentleman through the remarks he had made, he wished
to express the satisfaction he felt, that he did not, by his
motion, mean to cast any imputation upon the efficiency or the
conduct of the police: force itself. "With regard, then, to the
motion of the Hon. Gentleman. The first part of it
referred to the cost of the police force. He (Mr. Sutton)
was sure he must be perfectly aware that an annual return
of the expenses of the police force was printed and laid
upon the table of that House, and which contained
the whole of the information he professed 'co seek. He could
not therefore ground his motion on the ignorance of the House
upon this portion of his subject ; and he did not attempt to
support it by any charge or accusation against the police. But
had he done so he (Mr. Sutton) should have been perfectly
prepared to meet him, and to prove any such charges to be
without foundation. For this purpose he should have found
great aid in the Report of the Committee which sat in 1834, on
the Metropolitan Force, and which reported in the most fa-
vourable terms of it. They stated that subsequently to the
passing of that Act the cost of watching the borough was
doubled. But the Hon. Member must remember that the
whole principle of the Police Act was based on this, that the
borough was watched beyond the mere limits of it. The
number of policemen might and would be increased
at any moment on application to the Commissioners.
The Hon. Gentleman had stated that the metropolitan police,
before the passing of the Police Act, were an efficient body.
He admitted that that was the case, but he utterly denied that
they would be so now if the present system was not adopted.
With regard to the question of assessment, that subject had not
escaped the attention of the Committees, and he believed it
formed no ground for acceding nto the motion. He submitted
to the House that there was, i fact, no gpund whatever
assenting to the motion.
Mr. BROTHERTON thought it very hard that thicountry
should be taxed for the support of the metropolitan police.
After a few words from. Mr. TUFNELL, the motion was
negatived, without a division.
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The LORD ADVOCATE obtained leofavpeoptuoloulasripnagrisihnesa,
Lord ASHLEY said be rejoiced to state that her Majesty's
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Government had expressed to him their intention of not op-
posing his motion, which stood on the paper, and he should
now, therefore, content himself merely by moving for a Select
Committee "to inquire into the mode of administering
medical relief to the sick poor."—Agreed to.
Mr. S. O'BRIEN moved for " a return of the number of
unions in England and Wales in which no chaplains had been
appointed on the Ist day of January last, and the number of
inmates in such unions at thatPPLY. period."—Ordered.
SU
Sir G. CLERK brought up the report:of the Committee of
Supply, which was received.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at Seven o'Clock.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MARcit 5.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold levees, at
St. James's Palace, oa the following days, at two o'clock :
Wednesday, 13th instant ; Wednesday, 20th instant.
REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE
QUEEN'S LEVEES, AT ST. JAMES'S PALACE.
The noblemen and gentlemen who propose to attend her
Majesty's levees, at St. James's Palace, are requested to bring
with them two cards, with their names thereon written, one to
be lett wicn Q,een's Pare in etteuth....o tho rreseuce-
chamber, and the other to be delivered to the Lord in Waiting,
who will announce the name to her Majesty.
Those gentlemen who are to be presented are hereby in-
formed, it is absolutely necessary that their names, with the
name of the nobleman or gentleman who is to present them
(not the Lord in Waiting), should be sent to the Lord Cham-
berlain's-office before twelve o'clock, on the Monday previous
to each Levee, in order that they may be submitted for the
Queen's approbation ; it being her Majesty's command that no
presentation shall hereafter be made at the Levees, but in
conformity with the above regulations ; and further, that no
person shall be admitted, on any pretence whatever, who has
not been so presented.
It is particularly requested that gentlemen who are to be
presented at the levees will have their names 'dtstinetly.written
upon the card to be delivered to the Lord in Waiting, in order
that there may be no mistake in announcing them to the
Queen.
The State apartments will not be open for the reception of
company coming to Court, until half-past one o'clock.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MAncie 5.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a Draw-
ing-room, at St. James's Palace, on Monday, the 25th instant,
at two o'clock.
N.B.—The Knights of the several Orders are to appear in
their Collars, it being a Collar-day.
REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE QUEEN'S DRAW-

ING-ROOM]
The ladies, who purpose attending her Majesty's Drawing-
rooms, are requested to briug with them two cards, with their
names legibly written thereon, one to be left with the Queen's
Page in attendance in the Presence-chamber and the other to
be delivered to the Lord in Waiting, who will announce the
nametoher
ladies Majesty.
And those
who are to be presented are hereby in-
formed, it is absolutely necessary that their names, together
with the names of the ladies who are to present them, should
be sent in to the Lord Chamberlain's-office before twelve
o'clock on Friday, the 22d instant, in order that they may be
submitted for the Queen's approbation; it being her Majesty's
command that no presentation shall take place unless the name
of the lady presenting, together with that of the lady to be
presented, shall appear on the card to be delivered, correspond-
ing with the names sent in to the Lord Chamberlain's-office.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 5.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Henry
Robert Plaw, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Dantzic, to be
her Majesty's Consul-General in Prussia, to reside at Dantzic.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Francis Coleman Macgregor, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul
in the city and district of Canton, in the province of Kvrangtung.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
George Balfour, Esq. to be her Majesty's Consul in the city
and district of Shanghai, in the province of Keangsoo.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Robert Thom, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul in the city and
district of Ningpo, in the province of Che-ke arig.
The Queen has also been graciously ple:ased to appoint
Henry George Cuper, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul in
Denmark, and for the Oresound, to reside in Elsinore.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul
at Bagdad.

WHITEHALL, MARCH 2.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. William
Milligan, M.A., to the church and parish of Cameron, in the
presbytery of St. Andrew, and County of Fife, vacant by the
deith of the Rev. Andrew Brown, late minister thereof.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire.
John Dalrymple, Esq., jun., to be Deputy Lieutenant.
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
HENRY SOUTHGATE, auctioneer, Fleet-street, City.
WILLIAM LAW WOOD, export ironmonger, Bishops-
gate-street Within, City.
A
BNKRUPTS.
NATHAN BLAKE, linen-draper, Edgeware-road, to sur-
render, March 18, at two, and April 19, at half-past one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-
lane, Cornhill ' • Pain and Hatherly, Great Marlborough-street.
CHARLES MOORE MOTTRAM, warehouseman, Fri-
day-street, Cheapside, March 18, and April 19, at half-past
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official as-
signee, Basinghall-street ; Sale and Worthington, Manchester;
Reed and Shaw, Friday-street, Cheapside.
WILLIAM CHEESMAN, JOHN HODSON, and WIL-
LIAM OLIVER, CHEESMAN, Brighton, chinamen, March
18, and April 19, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill ;
Cattlin, Ely-place, Holborn.
WILLIAM ROBERT HAWKES, brewer, Brighton,
March 12, at twelve, and April 12, at two, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Rickards and Wal-
ker, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
EDMUND TUCK, silversmith, Haymarket, March 19 and
April 18, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry Chambers ;
New Bridge-street.
JOHN HUGGINS, poulterer, Vernon-place, Bagnigge-
wells-road, March 19 and April 16, at half-past eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-
lane, Lombard-street ; Lovell, South-square, Gray's Inn.
JAMES I ARVER, ironmonger, Daventry, Northampton-
shire, March 21, at one, and April 16, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place,
Old Jewry ; Addis and Guy, Great Queen-street, Westminster.
CHARLES JOSEPH RIDDEY, innkeeper, Little Crea,
ton, Northamptonshire, March 13, at half-past two, and April
17, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson official
assignee, Basinghall.street; Weller, King'sJroad, Bedford-
row ; Fell, Northampton.
CHARLES COVCHMAN, builder, Edward-square, Ken-
sington, March 14, at twelve, and April 16, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Basinghall.
street ; Atkinson, Carey-street.
JAMES JOSEPH, clerk, Peter's-hill, Paul's-wharf, City,
March 12, at half-past eleven, and April 17, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankrupt3y. Lackington, official assignee, Coleman-
street-buildings; street-buildings ; Lane, Argyll-street, Regent-street.
HENRY TAYLOR, victualler, Bilston, Staffordshire,

March 12, and April 12, at one, at the Birmingham District
Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Manby and
Hawkesford, Wolverhampton.
JOHN CHUMP, corn-dealer, Stanway, Gloucestershire,
March 19, and April 16, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Dix, Bristol ; Bell,
Bedford-row, ',cation.

NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY.
G. Smith, Newton-heath, Lancashire.
E. Gregory, plumber, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire.
P. Lucas, commission agent, Congleton, Cheshire.
H. Hosker, beer retailer, Liverpool.
B. Griffiths, coach trimmer, Brewer-street, Pimlico.
J. Edwards, Liscard, Cheshire.
J. C. Bennett, Mansfield-street, Shoreditch.

H. Pimm, plumber, Barking Church. yard, City.
J. Urne, tailor, Union-street, Middlesex-hospital.
T. March, china warehouseman, Derby-street, King's-cross.
W. Colbeck, clothier, Batley, Yorkshire.
W. Pyrah, stone mason, Bradford, Yorkshire.
W. Chapman, baker, Bedford.
J. E. Oliver, organist, Queen's-row, Bayswater.
T. Tillotson, stone mason, Bradford, Yorkshire.
C. Manning, tailor, Southmolton, Devonshire.
J. Quarrel], clerk, Napier-street, New North-road, Hoxton.
E. M. Shaw, Salford, Lancashire.
.1. Drake, green grocer, Star-street, Paddington.
J. Gerard, tallow chandler, Frome Selwood, Somersetahire.
S. Story, Arundel-street, Haymarket.
J. Harrison, farmer, Feliskirk, Yorkshire.
T. Bryan, cooper, Liverpool.
W. Watson, professor of music, Dean-street, Soho.
W. Hole, Maida-hill West, Paddington.
P. Potter, Leominster, Herefordshire.
J. Gear, professor of music, Howland-street, Fitzroy-square.
E. W. FeFrar, boarding-house keeper, Mare-street, Hackney.
J. M'Larty, beer retailer, Ratcliffe-highway.
J. Gaunt, auctioneer, Pudsey, Yorkshire.
R. Roffey, bricklayer, Deptford, Kent.
J. C. S. Kelly, livery-stable-keeper, Wardrobe-place, City.
R. Aylen, baker, Landport, Southampton.
H. Smith, carpenter, Farlington, Southampton.
E. J. Bradshaw, miniature painter, Wolverhampton.
J. Whipps, sen., coal merchant, Haggerstone, Shoreditch.
W. Eggleston, flour dealer, Manchester.
J. Shaw, fancy manufacturer, Highburton, Yorkshire.
T. Johnston, draper, Hadley, Shropshire.
N. B. Smith, carpenter, New Millman-street, Gray's Inn-lane.
B. Kaye, woollen draper, Halifax.
J. Young, blacksmith, Calverley, Yorkshire.
J. Shepherd, boot and shoemaker, Huddersfield.
W. Dobson, flour dealer, Leeds.
J. Scott, labourer, Halifax.
W. Ratcliffe, police-officer, Birkenhead, Cheshire.
J. Addey, oiner, Selby, Yorkshire.
L. W. Williams, eating-house-keeper, Brydges-street, Covent-

garden.
A. Liddelow, butcher, Seymour-place, Camden-town.
R. Spensley, innkeeper, Barningham, Yorkshire.
I. Price, undertaker, Stepney-green, Stepney.
W. Walker, basket maker, Oldham, Yorkshire.
J. Bendall, tailor, Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square.
J. Fryer, tobacconist, Cock-hill, Ratcliff.
T. Minehew, carpenter, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.
T. Scott, carpenter, Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire.
J. Slade, carpenter, Bexley-heath, Kent.
J. Seel, joiner, Walton, Lancashire.
H. G. Huxtord, gas fitter Broadway, Ludgate-hill.
W. Richardson, builder, Liverpool.
W. Dickenson, baker, Nottingham.
J. Ahrenfeld, commission agent, Well-street, Cripplegate.
R. Tennant, beerseiler, Ward-street, Lambeth-walk.
H. Haslip, cutler, High Holborn.
J. Bowling, plumber, Beaumont-street, St. Marylebone.
T. Cheshire, cabinet maker, Dunstable, Bedfordshire.
W. Marriott, jun., hat manufacturer, St. Andrew's-road, New
Kent-road.
J. L. Blanchard, commission agent, Great Trinity-lane, City.
G. Beesley, gardener, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
W. Roberts, farmer, Wickwar, Gloucestershire.
T. Hughes, farmer, Newland, Gloucestershire.
W. Andley, carter, Liverpool.
W Charlton, carpenter, Dorchester-place, New North-road.
J. Roebuck, farmer, Kirkburton, Yorkshire.
G. Hewitt, cowkeeper, Sheffield.
J. Axe, boatman, Mexborough, Yorkshire.
J. Haywood, clothier, Shepley, Yorkshire.
E. Weatherstone, plumber, Cheltenham.
W. Griffiths, grocer, Saithaelwyd, Flintshire.
J. Stammers, licensed victualler, Totnea, Devonshire.
D. Pollitt, dyer, Pendleton, Lancashire.
T. Bate, land agent, Neath, Glamorganshire.
R. Wigg, plumber, Redenhall, Norfolk.
M. Carter, doctor in medicine, Reading, Berkshire.
A. Bonser, victualler, Rempstone, Nottinghamshire.
J. Scales, land steward, Battle, Sussex.
J. 0. Webb, accountant, Greenwich.
J. Slark, Cowley Peachey, Middlesex.
R. Smith, clerk, Seckford-street, Clerkenwell.
H. Knight, Maidstone, Kent.
T. Ives, blacksmith, Wokingham, Wiltshire.
G. Eastwood, coin dealer, Fore-street, Cripplegate.
J. Brown, tailor, Clifton-street, Finsbury.
D. Robinson, wharfinger, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire.
T. Chatwin, brazier, Aston, Warwickshire.
T. Cooper, piano-forte key maker, Chapman-st., Islington.
E. Brown, Paradise-street, Lambeth.
T. Clinch, beer retailer, Albert's-place, City-road.
W. Collender, painter, Edward-street, Limehouse.
J. M'Larty, effilatcretilbeßr , ea *highway.
.e. Rusher, coffee-house keeper, Leather-lane, Holborn.
T. F. Church, plumber. Rochester, Kent.
J. Jones, dairyman, Devonshire-street, Queen-square.
J. Young, Panton-square, Haymarket.
J. Stuchfield, harness maker, John-street North, Marylebone
J. Butt, farmer, Harescombe, Gloucestershire.
T. Hollis, master mariner, West Cowes, Isle of Wight.
G. Pacey, plumber, Kettering, Northamptonshire.
T. Hitchman, licensed victualler, Kidlington, Oxfordshire.
W. Cooper, boot maker, Camden-passage, Islington.
W. Chadwick, worsted spinner, Bradford, Yorkshire.
SECOND NOTICES.
R. Henson, dealer in fancy ornaments, Bedford-street,
Strand, March 11, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tur-
quand, official assignee.
C. Coltson, wine-merchant, Grosvenor-place, Kennington,
March 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham,
official assignee.
W. N. B. Harman, Windsor-terrace, Dover-road, March
11, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham,
official assignee.
H. Marklew, Oxford-street, March 31, at half-past twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee.
Z. Radcliffe, wheelwright, Bramley, Yorkshire, March 9,
at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official
assignee.
J. Sellers, wire maker, Horton, Yorkshire, March 9, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee.
J. Elston, music seller, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire,
March 18, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Bittlestone, official assignee.
B. Naylor, Manchester, March 9, at the Manchester Dis-
trict Court. Fraser, official'assignee:
J. Hargreaves, shoemaker, Blackburn, Lancashire, March
11, at the Manchester District Court. Stanway, official as-

signee.
W. H. Jones, master mariner, Tranmere, Chester, March 9,
at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official
assignee.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
F. B. Courtenay, bookseller, Great Marlborough-stree'
March 26, at half-past one—J. Andrew, licensed victualler,
Guildford-street East, Wilmington-square, March 26, at half-
past twelve—P. Altmann and J. G. Christ, foreign merchants,
Mark-lace, City, March 26, at half-past eleven—W. Read,
engraver, King-street, Covent-garden, March 26, at twelve
—T. Maggs, upholsterer, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire; March 28,
at eleven—W. Keep, tailor, Northumberland-street:Strand,
March 28, at eleven—C. Sharpe and W. D. Clarke, uphol-
sterers, Berner's-street, Marylebone, March 28, at twelve—E.
Mackintosh, army accoutrement maker, Haymarket, March 28,
at twelve—J. G. West, grocer, Wandsworth, March-27, at two
—J. Willis, ale merchant, Osborne-street, Whitechapel,
March 27, at one—R7 Kennett, upholsterer, New Bond-
street, March 27, at half-past two.
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Newcastle-
upon-Tyne District Court—H. Featherstonhaugh, coal fitter,
Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, March 26, at eleven, at the
Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—C. B. Buchanan and
W. Cunningham, merchants, Liverpool, March 27, at twelve,
at the Liverpool District Court—T. Bomford, hay dealer,
Cheltenham, March 26, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court
—P. James, coal merchant, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire,
March 27, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court—R. Beas-
ley, worsted spinner, Gaddesby, Leicestershire, March 29, at
one, at the Birmingham District Court—M. Hadley, chemist,
Walsall, Staffordshire, March 29, at one, at the Birmingham
District Court—H. Fullford, draper, Birmingham, March 27,
at one, at the Birmingham District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the
contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
C. Killick and J. Sadd, paper stainers, Blackman-street,
Borough, March 26—T. W. Vine, carpenter, Peerless-row,
City-road, March 28—F. B. Courtenay, bookseller, Great
Marlborough-street, March 28—A. Westmore, joiner, West
Derby, Lancashire, March 28—E. Charles, brick maker,
Radipole, Dorsetshire, March 27—G. W. Hyde, dyer, Not-
tingham, March 28—W. Read, engraver, King-street, Co-
vent-garden, March 26—R. Greenhow, iron master, Wrex-
ham, Denbighshire, March 26—J. Sewell, victualler, Charles-
street, Paddington, March 26—H. Congreve, patent medicine
dealer, Peckham, March 26—J. Lawrence, spirit merchant,
Birmingham, March 26—J. Pierce, licensed victualler, Dean-
street, Soho, March 26—J. Smalley, corn miller, Chorley,
Lancashire, March 26—J. Why, laceman, Holborn-hill, March
26— IL Lay bourn, ship broker, Hartlepool, Durham, March
26—E. Munn, corn chandler, Stanhope-terrace, Hyde-park,
March 26—C. Duffield, grocer, Bath, March 26—W. Kearse,
tailor, Belgrave-place, Walworth-road, March 26.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. G. Blarsetti and G. Jones, preserved provision agents—
R. Saunders and W. Benning, law booksellers, Fleet-street—
J. Esterford and .1. Nunn, boot makers, Greenwich—T.
Goodill and J. B. Stain, farmers, Clipstone-lodge, North-
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Northumberland—S. Matthews and R. Noblet, cork manufac-
turers, Liverpool—H. Fox and J. Grice, ship brokers, Liver-
pool—W. Shnttleworth, J. Ingham, J. Fielden, and W. Verity,
manufacturers, Bradford, Yorkshire (so far as regards J.
Ingham)—T. De La Rue C. Button, and W. De La Rue,
wholesale stationers, Bunhill-row (so far as regards C. Button)
—R. H. Taylor and R. Sergeant, linen drapers, Birmingham
—W. Harris and R. Jennison, linen daapers, Mull—J. Brown
and C. Sears, sheep dealers, Roydon, Essex-11.1. Buckpitt and
aWndiltDsh.ire—jMorr'isC, ghraopcmersan,
Barker, coal merchants, Preston, Lan-
cashire—J. Smith and H. R. Lumley, advertising agents,
Southampton-street, Strand—J. Hunt, H. Hunt, and D.
Hunt, coal merchants, Bristol (so far as regards J. Hunt)—
' T. S. Richards and W. L. Wood, export ironmongers, Bi-
shopsgate-street Within—H. West and A. Rawbon, lace ma-
nufacturers, Bristol—J. and L. Bland, farmers, Sulley, Gla-
morganshire—J. Mills, E. Braley, and T. Longman, gimp ma-
nufacturers, Castle Donington, Leicestershire.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.

PETER SINCL AIR, auctioneer, Edinburgh, March 9, at
twelve, and March 30, at two, at the Royal Exchange Coffee-
house, Edinburgh.

THE LATE LORD WALLACE.—We learn from good
authority that his late Lordship left, by his will, all his
property to the Hon. Colonel James Hope, of the Cold-
stream Guards, and his son; with the remainder to the
Hon. Charles Hope. M.P., one of the Commissioners of
Greenwich Hospital. The above honourable gentlemen
are sons of the late, and brothers of the present Earl of
Hopetoun, and nephews of the late Lady Wallace.—New-
castle Chronicle.

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ARISTOCRATIC MORALITY
- (From the-Cork Southern-lleporter.)_.
From the rather unenviable notoriety which all the
parties in a case- tried in the Court of Common Pleas,
London, on Tuesday last have obtained, the report of it
which we have transferred to our columns, will doubt-
less be read by many who have heard the statements
which for some time past have been put forward on one
side with stern pertinacity, and met on the other with
indignant denial. And before we advert more parti-
cularly to the object with which we make this reference,
it is right that we should express our full and entire
concurrence in the arguments of the Learned Counsel
for the defence, in the verdict which was returned, and
in the approbation with which it was received by a
crowded Court.
Since the occasion when the noble defendant, then
Lord Brudenell, in command of the 15th hussars m this
garrison, brought Captain Wathen to a Court Martial,
on charges of alleged breaches of military discipline,
which he was afterwards unable to substantiate, and
which recoiled upon himself with no very satisfactory
conclusions, he has been anything but a public favourite.
Subsequent to that occurrence the command of the 15th
was given to Lieutenant-Colonel Badcock, and his Lord-
ship was transferred to the 11th Hussars, which he at
present commands, and which we must also do him the
justice of admitting is considered to be at present
in as effective and creditable a state as any other
cavalry regiment in the service. In his new
command the Earl of Cardigan had serious misunder-
standings with the officers of his regiment, and the cir-
cumstances having been brought under public notice,
their details tended still further to confirm the opi-
nion which prevailed as to his public conduct
while in a high and responsible position, and
to excite, to say the least of it, a very strong prejudice
against him in the public mind. Of this his Lordship's
Counsel seemed quite aware, and the Learned Solicitor-
General took occasion to refer to it in his argument, and
to urge upon the jury that the "unpopularity" of the
noble defendant was in some measure relied upon at the
other side to create a prejudice against him in this case.
With this matter we have, however, nothieg to do ; the
jury acted, as it appears to us, with correct discrimina-
tion, and in accordance with the evidence before them.
But it is in reference to the morale of the transaction that
we purpose offering some observations. What a picture
does it not present of the shameless profligacy which
prevails among that order to which the title " higher
classes" is supposed exclusively to belong ? It is
only from such revelations as those which have just
taken place that we obtain an insight into the
" social system," which rules and regulates the aris-
tocratic world. But we almost forget that we speak
of our rulers—those hereditary legislators who be-
long to that class which forms the second estate of
the Constitution—the Supreme Legislative Council of
the Empire. On the faults and follies of such personages
we must not look with too censorious an eye. They are
sheltered by that dignity within which the ken of a
" vile democracy" must not presume to penetrate ; and
among their own circle they lose no caste by the notoriety
of their vices.

DUELLING.
Mr. Turner having asked whether Ministers intended
to introduce any measure for the prevention of duelling,
Sir Robert Peel stated his reasons for thinking that
alterations of the law would not correct the evil, but
that her Majesty's Government had, during the recess,
availed themselves of an opportunity of exercising their
influence and authority in discouraging the, practice as
for as they could. He then referred to the 'case of the

late Colonel Fawcett—
The officer who lost his life was a man of grea
military reputation, and had distinguished himself in the
service of his country; he was unfortunately killed in a
duel; and when his widow applied for that pension to
which she would have been entitled had he lost his life
in any other way than by the hand of his adversary, her
Majesty's Government felt themselves compelled to
refuse to grant the pension. With respect to the sur-
vivor, as that officer did not come forward after a lapse
, of time sufficient to allow public feeling to subside, and
meet the charge upon a fair trial, he was superseded.
The widow of the deceased officer having been refused
the pension, and the survivor superseded, he thought her
Majesty's Government had sufficiently evinced their
willingness to exercise their legitimate power and in-
fluence against the practice of duelling."
We see in this instance the eminent prudence of Sir
Robert Peel, and how in the safest way he avails him-
self of an opportunity of exercising the influence and au-
thority of the Government for the discouragement of
duelling, by Butting off a widow's pension.
If the punishment may seem in this case not to fall
exactly on the right person, yet it is to be remarked that
it falls on one who is unable to complain, or to be trou-
blesome, which is a great point in these matters.
Who so good to begin with as a sufferer for duelling
as a widow ? She had lost her husband by tho bad
practice, and let her lose her bread too, adds Sir Robert
Peel.
Fill up the cup of her affliction, so short of its
measure, and add pecuniary distress to the sorrows of
the bereaved.
And the Prime Minister proclaims with pride that he
had, during the recess, at his leisure, seized this
opportunity of exercising the influence and autho-
rity of Government in discouraging duelling ? Why,
more cold-blooded, more barbarous than the practice
itself, is this punishment of it in the person of the suf-
ferer the most to be pitied.
And who imposes this cruel penalty? Sir Robert
Peel, who has, we believe, fough? ,a duel, and who, we
all know, has shown great eagerness to fight when-
ever occasion has offered, and who has sent several
challenges.
At the head of the military administration, too, is the
Duke of Wellington, who went out with Lord Winchil-
sea, and who must have agreed in the resolution of the
taking away Mrs. Fawcett's pension.
Another member of the Government, Sir H. Har-
dinge, is always ready to have recourse to the pistol ;
and there was the Irish Attorney-General the other
day, with his soul in arms and eager for the fray, whose
explanation of the provocation which caused him to send
a challenge was received with loud cheers by the men
who cut off the widow's pension because her unfortunate
husband had obeyed the same impulses.
Lord Cardigan wounded a brother officer in a duel ;
he was tried for it in the House of Lords, acquitted of
the notorious facts upon a quibble, complimented by the
Chief Justice acting as Lord Steward, and cheered by
the House of Legislators.
But yet it is excellent to take away the pension of a
widow whose husband has fallen in a duel. Had he re-
fused the challenge, he would have been disgraced in
the service, and deprived of his commission; having been
killed, according to the so-called lawsy honour, his
widow is to be deprived of her pittance.,t
Suppose that such men as Lord Cardigan and the
Irish Attorney-General had been removed from their
respective appointments for the offence of sending
challenges, -would not this have been a more effective
and just mode of exercising the influence and authority
of the Government for the represssion of duelling, than
taking away the widow's pension ? But these gentle-
men would not be quiet sufferers, and the widow was a
safer victim—so unresisting, indeed, that, her punish-
ment would not have been known but for the boast of
the great man who inflicted it, and who prided himself on
having exercised his influence and authority so rigo-
rously on this bruised reed.
For our own parts, we cannot but think that punish-
ment should fall rather, on the parties in this offence
than on the greatest sufferers by it ; and we do not agree
with Sir Robert Peel that the powers of the law could
not be brought to bear on the practice. The law aims
too high ; the criminal penalty will not be enforced ; but
one of a more moderate nature would carry public feel-
ing with it.
In France there is a civil remedy. A widow, a son,
or daughter, may proceed for damages against the
duellist who has deprived them of their supporter ; and
this has been found to check duelling very materially
amongst the people who were most addicted to it.
A life insurance is veid by death in a duel •, but if
there were the remedy of damages for killing the prop
of a family, the aim of a duellist would be very consi-
berably influenced by the consideration that, in levelling
his pistol at his antagonist's head or heart, he was also
making a sad hole in his own pocket.
If a man, before he sent a challenge, had to consider
the cost of killing his adversary, it would be a wonder-
ful cooler to the animosities;' and of all the bonds of
peace devisable for angry men Ike- most practically
effective would be binding up 'the pocket of one in a
common interest with the body of 'the other, for folks
who have no hearts in their breasts have one in their
pockets, and many who would make up their minds to
bloodshed would shudder at the thought of bleeding for
it in their own purses.
The law, as it is, gives damages to a man who has
suffered bodily injury from another ; but, if the injury
ends in death, the family, who have lost their supporter,
have no redress but the barren one of vengeance in a
criminal process ; and what is required for the discou-
ragement of duelling is to extend the remedy of a civil
proceeding for damages to the sufferers by the death of
a husband or kinsman in a dueL—Examiner.

REGIMEN:" Long habits, either of practice or
pursuit, are never suddenly changed with safety ; and after
the atas vergens especially, the hitinan body does not freely
admit of changes. Sudden repletions and depletions are
equally injurious. Those who have been long accustomed to
a generous diet of flesh-meats and wine, will not bear a sud:
den change to a low diet; and, on the other hand, those who
have lived long on water and, vegetable.% very soon suffer
from one more nutritious.. Still, where the original fault lies
in . the too great indulgence of the former of these extremes,
we cannot reasonably hope to remove its consequences but
by amending it—keeping in mind at the same time, what
will not bend must not be broken.—Dr. Hume Weatherhecid
'oh Met: .

MAPLE WOOD.—It having been the practice in
taking the dimensions of maple-wood, for the purpose of
charging the duty thereon, to admeasure the same singlY,
notwithstanding the planks or slabs may be under twenty-
one feet in length, on account of the- unusually large inter-
stices which would be occasioned-by the irregular forms of
the plank, provided the same were piled for ad measurement
in bulk; under the provisions of the 29th section of the Act
sth and 6th Victoria, cap. 47, and -the Board of Customs
being of opinion that maple-wood, in common with all other
woods charged with duty, ,by ;measurement, should, with re-
ference to the Act above adverted to, be measured in bulk,
have ordered that the.proper officers
,dO govern themselves
accordingly. .
TUE Loss OT THE .rALBERFELDT.—A petition to
the Corporation of London hai been trepred by the Captain
and Ur. Bush, the civil engineer, who were on board the
Elberfeldt just before she went dOwn, on 'rlilirsday, the 22d
of February, about 50 miles east of the North Foreland light-
house, praying that the Court of Common ' Council will
bestow some remuneration upon Captain Mays, commander
of the Charlotte; of Antwerp, and, his crew, by whom the
greater part of the crew of the former vessel were saved. The
captain and crew of the Charlotte bebaved with extraordi-
nary spirit and skill upon, the occasion, and it is,belleved that
the Corporation will testify their adinirstion of such conduct
in a manner the roost ellbAtAntiai

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