The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-20 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the Toles and Proceedings of the house of Commons.)
TUESDAY, MARCH 18.
WINDOW DUTIES.

Motion made, and Question put, " Thatka -Stied Committee be ap-
pointed, to inquire into the present mode of, assessing. levying, and
collecting the Window Duties In Great 13 ritain, and to report their
opinion thereupon to the House." TheOlouse divided :

MINORITY—AYES, 47.
Agllonby, H. A. Craig. W. G. Pattison, James
Ainsworth, Peter D'Eyncourt, C. T. Plumridg e, Captain
Aldarn, William Duncan, George Pulsford,*Robert
Bannerman, A. Duncombe, Thomas Rous, Captain
Barnard, E. G. Ewart, William Shell, It. L.
Berkeley, H. F. Forster, Matthew Stewart, P. M.
Blewitt, R. J. Hawes, Benjamin Strutt,l:dward
Bouverie, E. P. Hindley, Charles Tancred, H. W.
Bowriug, Dr. Borman, Edward Thornely, Thomas
Brotherton, Joseph Hume, Joseph - Villiers, Charles
Browne, W. Ilutt,.William Wakley,- Thomas
Buller, Charles Mangles, It. D. Williams, William
Busfeild, William Marslaad, Henry Yorke, H. R.
Butler, Colonel Mitchell, T. at.
Cobden, Richard Morris, David TELLERS.
Colebrooke, Sir' . Napier, Sir C. Duncan, Viscount
Cowper, W. b'. Paget, Colonel Peeli ell, Captain

MAJORITY—NOES, 93..
Acland, T. D. East, J. ]l. ' Manners, Lord C. S.
Allis, J. P. Eastnor, Viscount Marshall), Viscount
Arbuthnott, 11. Escott, Bickham Martin, C. W.
Arkwright, Gcorgo Fitzroy, Henry Masterman, John
Baird, William Forbes, William Milnes, R. M.
Baldwin, Barry Forman T. 'S. Neville, Ralph
Baring, F. T. Fuller, A. E. 'Nicholl, John
Baring, W. B. Gaskell, J. M. O'Brien, A..S.
Barrington, Viscount Gladstone, W. E. Patten, J. W.
Bentinek, Lord G. Gordon,Captain Peel, Sir Robert
p
Boldero, 11. G. Gore, Montague Peel, 'Jonathan
Borthwiek, Peter Goulburn, Henry Freed, W..11`.
Bottield, Beriah Graham, ;Sir J. Pringle, Alexander
Bowes, John Greene, Thomas Round, John
Bowles, Admiral Grimsditch,.T. Russell, Lord J.
Braniston, T. W. Hamilton, W. J. Shaw, Frederick
Bruce, C. L. C. Harcourt, G. G. Sheppard, Thomas
Bruges, W. H. Hepburn, Sir T. Smith, T: B. C.
Burrell, Sir C. Hinds, John H. Smollett, A.
Cardwell, Edward Hope, Charles Somerset, Lord G.
Carnegie, Captain Hope, G. W. Somes, Joseph
Clerk, Sir G. Hussey, Thomas Spooner, Richard
Clifton, John T. Ingestrie, Viscount Stewart, John
Clive, R. H. Jermyn, Earl Stuart, Henry
Cockburn, Sir G. Jocelyn, Viscount Sutton, Henry
Coote, Sir C. 11. Lennox, Lord A. Thesiger, Sir F.
Copeland, Alderman Lincoln, Earl Towline, George
Crippe, William Lockhart, William Trevor, G. R.
Darby, George Lowther, Sir J. Wyndham, Colonel
Deedes, William Mackinnon, W. J. TELLUSI.
Denison, E. B. M`NeW, Duncan Young, John
Dickinson, F. H. Mahon, Viscount Baring, Henry

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
TUESDAY, 141micii 18.
Standing Orders Committee,—Resolutions reported ;
1. " That, in the case of the Nottingham Waterworks peti-
tion for additional provision, the Standing Orders ought to
be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to intro-
duce such additional provision."

2. " That, in the Case of the Royal Naval School petition,
the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the
parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill."
3. " That, in the case of the Manchester Improvement pe-
tition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with :
That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill."
4. " That, in the case of the Manchester, Leeds, and Hull
Associated Railway Companies petition, the Standing Orders
ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted
to proceed with their Bill."
5. " That, in the case of the Whittle Dean Waterworks
petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with :
That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill on
forthwith amending their plan as required by Order 38, and
by supplying the omission on the section of the spare pipe
near the proposed reservoir at Newburn."
6. " That, in the case of the Yarmouth and Norwich Rail-
way petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed
with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their
Bill on forthwith depositing the plan, section, and book of re-
ference, relating to the proposed extension of the Railway to
Yarmouth, with the clerk of the peace for the city and county
of the city of Norwich."
7. " That, in the case of the Hungerford and Lambeth
Suspension Foot Bridge petition, the Standing Orders ought
to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to pro-
ceed with their Bill on omitting clause 5, which gives them
power to alter and enlarge the dimensions of the bridge." '
8. " That, in the case of the South Wales Railway petition,
the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the
parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill on correcting
the errors.on the plan and section."
" That the Committees on this and the three preceding
Bills do examine, in the first place, how far such orders have
been complied with, and do report the same to the House on
the report of the Bills."—Resolutions agreed to.

The North Woolwich Railway Bill was presented and read
a first time.
The following Bills were presented and read a second time,
and committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection :
York and North Midland Railway (fiarrogate Branch).
York and North Midland Railway (Doncaster Extension).

The following Bills were referred to the Select Committee
on Petitions for Private Bills:
Direct London and Portsmouth Railway.
Ely and Huntingdon Railway.
Bristol and Exeter Railway.
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction Railway.

Dunstable and London and Birmingham Railway,_peti-
tion for Bill reported ; report referred to the Select Coin-
inittee on Standing Orders.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway,—Peti-
tion for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by
Viscount Ingestre, Colonel Anson, and Mr. Barneby.
Rye and Tenterden Railway,—Petition for Bill reported,
and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Curteis, and Mr.
Darby.
Wear Valley Railway,—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill
ordered to be brought in by Mr. Bowes, and Lord Harry
Vane.

Middlesbro' and Redear Railway,—Petition for Bill re-
ported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Lord Harry Vane,
and Mr. Octavius Duncombe.

Taw Vale Railway and Dock,—Petition for Bill reported,
and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Frederick Hodgson,
and Mr. Montague Gore.
Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Railway,—Petition for
Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Lock-
hart, and Mr. Hope Johnstone.
North Union and Ribble Navigation Branch Railway,—
Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in
by Mr. Wilson Patten, and Mr. Clifton.
Dundee and Perth Railway,—Petition for Bill reported,
and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Duncan, and Lord
Gordon liallyburton.
Southport and Buxton Junction Railway,—Petition for Bill
reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Wilson
Patten, Mr. Entwisle, Mr. Clifton, and Mr. Ainsworth.
Yarmouth and Norwich Railway,—Report from Select
Committee on Standing Orders read ; Bill ordered to be
brought in by Mr. Wilshere, and Mr. Wodehouse.
South Wales Railway,—Report frem.Select Committee on
Standing Orders read ; Bill ordered to be brought in by Vis-
count Emlyn, Colonel Rice Trevor,-and Sir John Guest.
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Associated Railway Com-
panies,—Report from Select Committee oil Standing Orders

read; Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Broadley, and
Mr. Entwisle.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE,
Edinburgh and Northern Railway,—Committee on peti-
tion, postponed from Thursday, March 20, till Friday, April 4,
Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway,—Committee on peti-
tion, adjourned till Friday, April 4.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
Sub-Committee No. 1 assembled at twelve o'clock.
GRAND JUNCTION AND SHREWSBURY
RAILWAY.

This case was adjourned to the 4th April. No other
case came before the Committee.
Sub-Committee No. 4 re-assembled at one o'clock,
and proceeded with
THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND NORTH KENT

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The " organised hypocaisy" has a way of
proceeding amongst its organisers, which is not devoid of
a certain sort of poetical justice. Gentlemen, it seems to
say to them, you helped us to pull down our predecessors
on grounds more or less hollow—so far as addressed to
our rabble of supporters. We proceeded, in common, on
the great truth stated by Lord Bacon, and quoted by
Lord Mahon, that it does not signify whether opinions
are true or false, so far as regards their immediate
effects on action ; and that any cry, which is but be-
lieved, will serve its political turn. Abundance of such
' cries were raised with your assistance, and our (at least)
connivance; and, buoyed up within reach of power by
these instruments of inflation, Sir It. Peel grandly de-
clared he would sooner be the leader of the gentlemen of
England, than possess the confidence of Sovereigns.
We don't hear much—it is sadly recalled to mind—
of the gentlemen of England now. They have made
' a ministry ; and their part in the hive is henceforth—
to be got rid of; like the drones. At a certain epoch
the services of these latter are indispensable ; but
afterwards the operative partners treat them as Peel
does his country gentlemen, or as Jonathan Wild
the Great treated his constituency, when they waxed
troublesome on his hands. If the gentlemen at the
back of the gentlemen now at the helm of affairs had
wished to make their terms about county rates, cart-
grease, or other interesting items, they should have
seized that stage of negotiation, which Brass did in bar-
gaining with Dick Anilet. It is too late for the be-
trayed, when the traitor has secured his rich wife, and
his stolen rank. Accusations of faithlessness to principles,
which were pretexts, have no effect on a Minister who has
once got a firm seat in the saddle. The repetition of those
pretexts only exposes their utterers to hear truths from
the lips of the very statesmen who have risen by ac-
crediting class-delusions. At every attempt above-
ground, they give unequivocal indications of springing
some mine below; at every reminiscence of their old
Opposition watchwords, they open one finger of the
whole handful of truths, which they have borrowed
from their opponents in krroreni of their supporters.
Thus Sir James Graham replied to Mr. Miles, and
his paupers' plea for relief from burthens, that the
agriculturists really had no excessive burthens, from
which to be relieved. Well might the unfortunate Mr.
Newdegate " whine" ft,rth, " One might think that the
Hon. Member for Stockport (Mr. Cobden) was the high-
priest of free trade, and that the occupants of the
treasury bench were chanting responses to the service."
By the way, we are here reminded of an ancestral
honour of the Newdegate family. If we remember
right, it was Sir R. Newdegate, that some time pillar
of landed pre eminence, and perennial patron of Oxford
prize poetry, who, under the last unintelligible Ministry
of Lord Chatham, surprised the House of Commons
into taking one shilling off the land-tax. That shilling
off the land-tax was the proximate cause of the quarrel
with America. The ministerial leaders had not virtue
or courage to call on the House to retract its landed
vote. The then Chancellor of the Exchequer was forced
on expedients to bring up the revenue ; and, under this
dunderhead-duress, he recurred to the project of taxing
the Americans, which had been wisely abandoned in its
first resisted shape of the Grenville Stamp Act.
STANDARD.—.Long and earnest as were the de-
bates in the House of Commons last night, they can
scarcely be expected to have any very lively interest
save for the few, though highly respectable, persons
connected with the New Zealand Colony ; the very fact
of the alleged too great favour shown to the rights of
the natives, by her Majesty's Ministers, takes away
the wider interest by which patriots and philan-
thropists might otherwise be affected in such
a case. As respects the charge of duplicity
insinuated, if nut directly made, against the Colonial
Secretary, we imagine that it does not give much con-
cern to the Noble Lord or his friends. Were there any
possible gain of profit or honour to be obtained by
double dealing, Lord Stanley's noble character would
be a sufficient defence against the charge of du-
plicity ; but in a case where the most rapacious,
or the most ambitious and least scrupulous man
that ever lived, could find no conceivable mo-
tive for deviating from the straight path, it is
surely the most absurd thing in the world to charge
such a man as Lord Stanley with resorting to crooked
ways. We are persuaded that the very men who make
the charge do not believe one word of it, though they,
not very fairly, make the pretence in order to furnish
matter for a debate to get up a grievance, or to carry a
job by the help of Parliament. As far as we un-
derstand the charge it amounts to this, that Lord
Stanley having come to some agreement with the
New Zealand Company, he wrote a letter, marked con-
fidential, to the Governor of the colony, iu which letter
were contained, as the advocates of the Company say,
some instructions militating against either the terms or
the spirit of the agreement. As much weight has
been attached to the circumstance that the instruc-
tions to Captain Fitzroy were marked "Confidential,"
it may be worth while to say a word upon
the point. We believe that all communica-
tions of the kind, not intended to be published,
instanter as state papers, are usually so marked ; at
least looking through the Parliamentary reports of cor-
respondence, from all the colonies from which the
correspondence of governors, &c., has been published, we
find confidential communications similar to that of Cap-
tain Fitzroy; and from this it is plain, that the term con-
fidential imposes no obligation of perpetual secrecy, for
every public functionary knows that all his correspond-
ence is subject to the inspection of Parliament,
but simply a present reserve from publication. We our-
selves, in our own small way, frequently receive commu-
nications marked confidential, which, nevertheless, the
writers would he very sorry not to see printed in a few
hours, should the condition that renders their
publication desirable arise. The letter that was
confidential yesterday may be properly placarded
on the walls to-day or to-morrow. There
is, therefore, no ground a hatever for supposing that a
Minister meditates deceit, or even protracted secrecy, in
every case in which he marks as confidential his com-
munication to a subordinate Minister. The inconsis-
tency of Lord Stanley's instructions to Captain Fitzroy
with his Lordship's agreement with the Company, is
a matter upon which no rational man
iedfwill
him the instructions and agreeieemreentberseers pronouncebesides,
referred
dt o
namely,
in
a judgment until he shall have, in specie, before
the charge ; and something
the representations upon which the agreement was
obtained. The necessity of seeing the documents
said to conflict before admitting their inconsistency
must be apparent to all, but we must farther re-
member that ministers, as well as kings, may be
misled by too sanguine and confident representa-
tion even of parties who meditate ne imposture. These
errors have been so common, as to introduce a title
" inconsult) reye" into our old law books. Before con-
demning Lord Stanley, therefore,,of so serious a crime
as wilful duplicity, we must ascertain—First, That his
Lordship's instructions to Capt. Fitzroy are really incon-
sistent with his agreement with the New Zealand Com-
pany. Secondly, That the inconsistency is so unequivocal
and apparent, as to render it certain that the Colonial
Secretary must be aware of it. Thirdly, That the
agreement was obtained upon a strictly fair and un-
coloured representation of all the circumstances of
the case. Here are three questions, at least.
to be all affirmatively established, before the
slightest shadow of blame can attach to Lord
Stanley's conduct in the transaction ; and, granting the
first, namely, that there is an inconsistency between the
instructions and the agreement, a concession which we
make merely for the argument, the company will, we
suspect, find somere
re difficultyen
t
appearsin
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establishingavebe d
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of he
company,a'i mageand if they drew it up without intending to
tohtheers.
take more by it than.ethfierymwlyishbeedlietvhee;Gthoe veryvern m efinrtstt
osee,
san-
guine
aton
adventurers
cetheyare'li
who ever manifested so much virtue,
self-denial, and skill. Not less singular must they be
in vitue, self-denial, and skill, if their representations
of the state and prospects of the colonies were rigidly
exact, and they must be not only more virtuous, de-
nying, andui
wiser whoe ever went before them,
butmuch
honestest man may
cheat others by expectations by which he has first
cheated himself, and here!we believe we arrive at the
.than all
all
who
secret of this dispute, and at the secret of all colonial
failures, as many as theta have been. More than
two centuries ago, Bacon, who saw and foresaw
everything, told that colonies and plantations are
not for present gain ; and that, therefore, such
heroical works are rather for immortal states than for
mortal individuals. We do not pretend to give the exact
words of the great philosopher, but the truth of his ob-
servation is manifest. Commercial men, and indeed
wen generally, look to quick returns of profit, however
small, rather than distant returns, though never so rich.
Miller, the gardener, proves very clearly that
an acre planted with chesnuts would be worth
one way or another more than 1,0001 at a century's
end •, but though Miller wrote a century ago, and his
book has been a popular book ever since, how few acres
of chesnuts have been planted in the interval. It is just
the same with colonisation ; adventurers seek the quick
return, and deceive themselves into the belief that such
quick return is possible without ruining the colony,
which it certainly is not.

MONEY IVIAWKET and CITY NEWS.

for standard CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
I:IMES•—The premium on gold at Paris is 161 per mile,
'
which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. per ounce
exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 71, it follows
gold, gives an exchange of 25 56 ; and the
that gold is 0.84 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
The course of exchange at New York on London is 110}
per cent. ; and the par of exchange between England and
America
being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the ex-
change is 0.68 per cent. in favour of England ; but the quoted
exchange at New -York being for bills at sixty days' sight,
the interest must be added to the above difference.
T B.

_HE Astior or ELY.—We are sorry we cannot
atldeaton of
yireporte chestthfuvotir having,ablyo fhyisestorrddaysh,ipb's
:cohtenaelth
—Cambridge Advertiser.
STATE or TuADE.—Owing to the continuance of
severe frosts, and the consequent closing of the canals
handas
bneaevni gvaelirlya
quietrivers,
duringa
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Spinners
, worse.t
marketand
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manufacturers, however, are generally under contract
for some time to come, and consequently not at all
inclined to press sales. Prices, therefore, continue steady.
a
_TILE ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY,
MARCII 17.—The flannel market is much the same as it
has been for the last two or three weeks; the demand
very limited, and prices extremely low. The wool mar-
ket has been very quiet •, few purchases have been made
at last week's prices.—lllanchester Guardian.
SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT.—Messrs. Ainscow and
Tomlinson, machine-makers of this town, have, in corn-
plbince with the request of their workmen, granted them
half an hour in each day as tea time, for five clays in the
week—a privilege of which they were deprived during the
late depression. On the announcement of the above to the
men, a vote of thanks was unanimously passed to their em-
ployers, for their kindness and aorality.—Preston Guardian.

THE SUN, LONDON,= TAU'RSDAY IWORNING, MARCH 20, 1845.

out in the garden towards the privy, which was situated
near the kitchen door. She remained a very short time,
and then returned, but without her apron. Witness now
observed that prisoner's hands were bloody, and she asked
witness to net some warm water to wash her hands, which
she did. %% itness did not hear at any time the cry of a child.
After the prisoner returned from the privy she said she was
better. About half an hour afterwards she again complained
that she felt worse, and must go to bed, which witness de-
sired her to do. She afterwards made her some tea, and
took up to her.
Mr. West, a surgeon, proved that he was sent for. He
went to the privy, from which he saw the constable, who
was also present, take the body of a new born infant. On
examining it he found that the head had been nearly severed
from the body, and was only hanging by some of the muscles.
The throat had been cut so as to divide the trachea, the
carotid arteries, the oesophagus, and the spinal marrow. He
went to the prisoner, whom he found on the bed, and inquired
of her if she had had a child. She at first denied that such
was the case, but afterwards admitted it. She was asked
whether she had cut the throat of the child before or after its
death. She said it was afterwards. She was then asked with
what she had done it, and she produced a knife, which another
witness stated she had always carried about her. On exa-
mining this knife its blade was found to be covered with
blood. The surgeon would not undertake to say whether the
throat of the child had been cut before or after death. In
his judgment the child had been born alive, but the wounds
inflicted might have been inflicted after death.
Evidence was also given that in an outhouse adjoining the
privy the prisoner's gown, which she had first put on in the
morning, and the apron which she had carried through the
kitchen, were found bundled up together, and saturated with
blood.

Mr. Justice ERLE, having summed up the case in a very
able manner, the jury, after some consultation, acquitted the
prisoner of the murder, and found her guilty of concealing
the birth.

The Learned JUDGE, after an impressive address, sentenced
her to two years' imprisonment.
Mary Ann Warr was then placed in the dock. She was
indicted for the murder of her child, by administering to her
a quantity of poison, called white arsenic.
Mr. Stock conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was
defended by Mr. Edwards.
After hearing the evidence of Mrs. Oastler, with whom the
prisoner lodged, and the surgeon who examined the body of
the child, the jury almost immediately returned a verdict of
Not Guilty.
The whole of the business for this county has 13.2 en got
through. To effect this, Mr. Justice Erie has again sat the
whole of the day trying prisoners in the Nisi Prius Court.
Mr. Crowder has also been engaged in trying cases in the
grand jury-room. The Learned Commissioner did not finish
his labour till after twelve o'clock at night.