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London, England, 1845-03-19 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1845.

There was a Commission at Four o'clock, and the
Royal Assent was given to various Bills.
The House of Lords re-assembled at Five o'clock.
The Duke of WELLINGTON promisod the Marquis of
LONDONDERRY that the reports of the Commissioners
appointed to inquire into the best means for preventing
explosions in mines should be laid before Parliament.
A conversation then took place on the subject of Irish
and Scotch Banking, but it led to no result.

The report on the Property-tax Bill was brought up,
and the 4th of April fixed for the third reading.
The report on the Companies Clauses Bill was

brought up.
Ti,e Comnr:tt=?e on Scotch Schoolmasters was ap-
pointed, and the II :use adjourned to the 3d of April.
The House of Commons met at Four.
On the motion of Mr. STRUTT, it was ordered—" That
in the case of every petition for a private Bill, on which
the Committee on Petitions shall not have reported
previously to the adjournment of the House for the
taster recess, the time for reading such private Bill
the first time be extended till Friday, the 11th day of
April next."
After the transaction of private business,
Lord DUNCAN rose to bring fore and the motion of
which he had given notice, on the subject of the window-

tax. The Noble Lord went into a great number of sta-
tistical details, for the purpose of showing the injustice of
the tax and detrimental effects which it produced on the
public health, and concluded by moving for a Select
Committee to inquire into the present mode of assess-
ing, levying, and collecting the window-duties in Great
Britain, and to report 'their opinion thereupon to the
House.

not by the people, but by the men in power, corrupt
alcaldes, political chiefs, military officers, and smugglers.
ESPARTZEO had too much honesty to bribe and inti-
midate, and on that account he failed. NARVAEZ was
less scrupulous—he left nothing untried, dared every
outrage, and succeeded in moulding a Cortes to his will.
The Bill was introduced on the 11 th by the Minister
of the Interior. The country is to be divided
into 306 districts, each to return a Member
The qualification for electors is to be reduced to 400
reals of rent, and of Deputies to 12,000 reels of rent
(1200. No changes are to be made in the electoral
lists, or in the districts. Precautions are to be taken
against frauds at elections. Captains-general of pro-
vinces, the Commanders-in-Chief of the navy, the
Procureurs-general of the tribunals, political chiefs, and
intendents of the national debt, are to be excluded from
the Chamber. It is stated in one of the Madrid
papers, that the public prosecutor had demanded that
capital punishment should be inflicted on seven officers
implicated in the conspiracy at Vittoria. The provincial
deputation, the municipality, and the clergy, were pre-
paring a petition to the QUEEN to spare the lives of these
seven officers.

Captain Rous seconded the motion, which was op-
posed by the CHANCELLOR of the Excunctirzn. In the
discussion which followed Captain PECHELL, Sir C.
NAPIER, Mr. E. ELLICE, Mr. HUME, Mr. BARING, Mr.
WARLEY, and Sir R. PEEL, took part, and on a division
the motion was negatived by a majority of 46.
Mr. G. W. HOPE, in moving for certain papers re-
lating to New Zealand, took the opportunity of vin-
dicating the conduct which Lord STANLEY had pur-
sued in his negotiations with the New Zealand Com-
pany. He was replied to by Mr. CHARLES BULLER,
who concluded an admirable address by moving, as an
amendment—" For the production of all correspondence
that had taken place between Lord STANLEY and the
New Zealand Company."
After an angry debate, the motion was agreed to, and
the House adjourned at a Quarter to Two o'clock.

MADRID BOURSE, MARCH 11.—Three per Cents. 35
at 60 days, 114 millions done ; Five per Cents. 26* at 6
days, 80 millions done;; Passive ,Debt 6 at 60 days
Vales Reales 10 cash.

It ought to be a great consolation to very poor
men who cannot conjure a crown-piece into either
pocket, " charm they never so wisely," that there are
other mortals who are reduced to a fearful condition
of perplexity and distress by the very converse of
their own condition. A poet of antiquity has sung
" that a good man struggling with the storms of fate"
is a spectacle fit for the contemplation of the immortal
gods. He would have added, had he lived to our
times, that the study of a First Lord of the Treasury
" bother'd"—(there is no other phrase of force or
significancy equal to our meaning)—with a
surplus revenue of about 3,000,0001. is a luxury
to be enjoyed, in all its intensity, only
by a pauper. Pleasant to him who, having little
money enough, Heaven knows, to spare for his own
and his family's purposes, is compelled to part with a
portion of it to a grasping Government, which is
hampered in its movements by the fortunate dilemma
of having " money in both pockets." The Premier
is like a successful gamester, who, having broken the
other players and swept the board, is set upon, before
he can move off with his booty, by twenty different
claimants on his " kind consideration " and relief,
They become importunate in the proportion of his
success ; and the imperiousness and decision of their
demands in the ratio of their numbers and influence.
Sir R. PEEL had a task of no slight difficulty, either
on his original proposition of the income• tax or on
his recent application for its three years' renewal—
to win the consent of the *House of Commons to his
plan. He played boldly, however, and, as we have
stated, he succeeded. In return, the House was to be
put in good humour with his scheme for appropriat-
ing the surplus of public income over expenditure
which he had realised on the financial year ending in
January last. Every man who voted for the Pre-
mier's property and income-tax must have assumed
that there was something to be obtained in return, by
way of fiscal concessions, in which his constituents
or himself would find themselves more or less inte-
rested. Not the least successful part of the character
which he so well sustained, pending the discussions
on the nature of the exigencies that were to
justify his demand and the vote of the
Home, was, the ability with which he managed, up
to the very closing scene of his performance on this
occasion, to induce all classes of his supporters to
imagine that be was acting up to the wishes and hopes
of each, to the exclusion of those of all others. The
drama being over, the serious interlude ensues of the
" Surplus and its Disposal."
In this the new principal appeals to the favour of
the Legislature are sustained on behalf of the remis-
sion or modification of the tea duties, the total re-
moval of the window-tax, the extinction of the soap
duty, a large diminution of the duty en malt, or a
still larger reduction of the tobacco duties. When a
great nation can be persuaded, in a period of profound
peace, whilst in the enjoyment of a very high degree
of national prosperity, and of a still increasing com-
merce of unexampled extent and almost incalculable
value, to submit to the imposition of a war-tax, for
the sole purpose of bringing up the aggregate of the
public income to the sum of its expenditure—the
nation has a clear right to the "greater:proportion of
whatever benefit, direct or indirect, may accrue on the
result of such an experiment. The constant tax-
payer has an equitable claim to this indulgence rather
than the lar).,er tax-payer. This consideration is
strengthened by the fact that the new impost, in virtue

The Paris papers contain accounts of the grand ban-
quet given to Marshal BUGEAUD, on Sunday, in the
Salle de Bourse. About four hundred persons sat
down to dinner. M. GouIN was in the chair, and
among those present were, the Duke of NEMOURS, the
Prince DE JOINVILLE, and their two yeunger brothers,
the Dukes of AUMALE and MONTPENSIER. The first
toast was " the KING," and the next the " Royal
Princes," who bad honoured them with their company.
The Duke of NEMOURS returned thanks. The dinner
altogether was conducted in the English style—speeches
were made, toast followed toast, and the bill of fare
rivalled that of the Lord Mayor's feast on the 9th of
November. One of the papers states that upwards of
400 waiters were employed. Marshal BUGEAUD, in
returning thanks for the high honour conferred
on him by the commercial men of Paris, made
some remarks on the definitive system to be
adopted in carrying on the war, and in colonising the
country. He pointed out the immense advantages which
will be insured to the trade of France by the security of
her African possessions ; and, after reminding the com•
pany that the commercial movement between France
and Algeria last year amounted to eighty millions of
francs, he declared his conviction that in ten or twelve
years Algeria will be able to do without assistance from
the mother-country. At the conclusion, he an-
nounce 1 that he would set out for Algiers in
two days. We regret to find that the report
respecting a dreadful explosion at that place is confirmed
in these papers. It is said that upwards of 200 per-
sons had lost their lives by the accident, the particulars
of which are given below. In the Chamber of Deputies
on Monday the Minister of Public Works presented a
Bill for putting up to public tender contracts for the
railroad from Paris to Lyons, and from Lyons to Avig-
non. The motion of M. DUVERGIER D'HAURANNE, for
abolishing vote by ballot in the Chamber, was
under discussion. The Journal des Debuts states
that a treaty of amity, commerce and navigation,
was signed on the 17th of November, at Zanzibar, be-
tween France and the Imaum of Muscat. Several of the
Opposition journals have been loud in their praises of
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S policy, not because they love PEEL,
but because they hate GulzoT more, and delighted to
draw the contrast between a Minister, with a majority
of 90, and one who rarely can muster nine. The
Journal des Debuts says the fault is not with the French
Minister but the French Conservatives in the Chamber,
who have not the patriotism, like the English Tories, to
sacrifice private differences to higher and more general
considerations. The following is an extract from the

article::—
" There is really something amusing in the fit of admira-
tion with which the Opposition of every shade, from the left
to the dissentients of the centres, has been all at once seized
for the English Ministry, and particularly for Sir R. Peel. If
the illustrious Premier of England was not a prophet in his
own country, he would at least have the consolation of being
so in ours. We expect some of these days to see statues raised
to him by subscriptions opened in committees of the Opposi-
tion, or by the journals most affected by Anglo-phobia. In
truth, there is cause to render the English jealous or Sir R.
Peel suspected. The French tribune and press have no longer
eyes or ears but for this fortunate Minister. M. Billault, who
would like well enough to get a compliment in return, calls
him a great man; Peers and Deputies offer him incense; the
journals join in this concert of praise; in fact, Sir Robert
Peel is the political lion of the moment. That does not
shock us. Let the Opposition be at rest—we are not going to
accuse it of treason, or to reproach it with sacrificing to per-
fidious Albion the honour and interests of France ! We shall
not call it the foreign party, or the Pritchard party, or even
the Peel party. We also have the highest esteem for the
Prime Minister of England; we believe, in fact, that the
Opposition has sometimes reproached us with expressing it
too often. But, in fine, there is a measure in everything, and
even the best things ought not to be abused. As to us, if we
are ready on all occasions to admit how much boldness, as well
as spirit of government, there is in the important reforms ac-
complished in England by Sir R. Peel, we do not do se, it
may be believed, to lessen the men who govern us, and to
deprecate their acts. It would be perfectly absurd to turn
against the French Ministers the praises which every one
justly accords to those of England, seeing that the political
practices and habits of the two countries render all compa-
rison in this respect inapplicable. We shall even declare
that if a comparison of this kind could be made, and if it
could be disadvantageous to us, the fault would net be in
our government, but in our Chambers, and in the manner in
which the practice of Parliamentary institutions appears to
be comprehended in our country. Thus we behold every day
the English Ministry coming victoriously out of all debates
with majorities of ninety or 100, and thereupon the great
politicians of the Opposition fall into ecstacies, and exclaim
with an air of admiration and envy, ‘Ah ! there's a Ministry.
That's what can be called aGoverament.' It appears to us
that it would be quite as natural and much more just to cry
out, There's a House of Commons ! that's what may be
called a party !"
We subjoin, from the Akhbar, of Algiers, an abridged
account of the dreadful explosion which took place there
on the Bth instant:—

of which the excess of revenue arises, is an extraor-
dinary one. Now, since it is the inevitable condition
of trade to fluctuate in extent and value, the product
of custom and excise duty must he liable to similar
variation. New tariffs, moreover, and the philosophy
of free-trade principles, occur now and then
to relieve trade from many and grievous burdens.
But there is no phenomenon in the history of Go-
vernment measures so rare, as a tariff of reduced
assessed taxes. The great bulk of assessed tax-
payers are a perpetualitargetjor Ministerial finance

practice. They stand to be shot at. There they

have stood so long, and have been fired at so success-
fully, that Ministers, without ,them, would retain
neither the eye nor: the' aim needful to carry on the
operations of their Government. In short, the as-
sessed taxes, since the close of the war in 1814-15,
have had so little remission or indulgence that it

"About a quarter past ten at night, on the Bth, a loud
explosion was heard, in the direction of the marine establish-
ment of Algiers ; this was followed by another loud explosion
and by successive detonations, like the tiring of a broadside
from a ship of war. The inhabitatants of Algiers rushed in
alarm to the spot, where they found the light of the light-
house extinguished, and a scene of ruin and desolation. A
portion of the casemated rampart between the old Spanish
town called Pignon and the post and the houses built against
this rampart were only a heap of ruins, from which mutilated
persons, covered with blood and dust, were extricating
themselves. The pavilion, inhabited by Commandant
Palard, sub-director of the artillery, and the buildings in-
habited by companies of artillery workmen and pontonniers,
had been carried away. The explosions which caused these
disasters had taken place in the two magazines, separated
from each other by the ditch at the foot of the old Spanish
town upon which the lighthouse stands. Considerable in-
jury was done in the port, and especially on the Bouberak,
by numerous stones, thrown to a distance of 200 metres. In
the buildings there are killed 43 artillery workmen, 10 artil-
lerymen, 31 pontonniers, and 2 workmen of the second com-
pany ; there were, besides, 30 wounded. Sergeant-Major
Denot, his wife, ho was pregnant, and a child, perished.
The Controuleur d'Armes, Piron, died after under-
going amputation of the leg. Five other non-commis-
sioned officers were crushed to death on the ruins.
The Commandant of Artillery, Palard, was killed under the
ruins of his kouse, which was almost levelled to the ground
by the violence of the explosion. Close to the pavilion oc-
cupied by M. Palard was the house of M. Segretier, Director
of the Port, who had at the time about twenty persons in his
drawing room. Mme. Segretier, hearing her child cry, left
her guests to go into the room where the child was, and, as
she was returning to the salle-a-manger to give directions for
tea, the explosion took place, and she was buried in the ruins
of the house, only one room of which was spared—viz., that
which she had quitted, and in which the company was as-
sembled. In that room only one person, Madame Sylvestre,
the wife of the Admiral's secretary, was injured, and that
slightly. When. the spectators of this horrible scene had re-
covered from their first shock, they heard the last words of
the unhappy mother—they were Save my child.' "
THE BOURSE—MONDAY, MARCH 17.

does seem high time to give they the honours of at
least a partial dismissal and retirement. They ought
to be superseded.
On the principles we have stated, it seems clear to

us that of all the proposed remission of taxes, this
class of imposts has the preferable claim on the
Premier. And of this class we are strongly dis-
posed to concur with those who consider that the
window-tax ought to have stood foremost on the list
of the " boons," as they have been called, or re-
missions in favour of the tax-paying community.
Its principle was odious, vicious, and oppressive, from
the first day that it received the sanction of the
Legislature. Its operation, like that of almost
every other tax in this country, has been espe-
_

cially severe upon the poor. It has a ne-
cessary tendency, by rendering chargeable one
of the first common bounties of Providence, to
mar the beauty of nature ; to sap the health of the
community; to discourage all those conditions of
the atmosphere within and without the dwellings of
man, which are most essential to the vigour, conve-

nience, and enjoyment of his existence. A tax upon
the light of heaven—that blessed element of all social
vitality and beauty—is a premium en disease, a de-

stroyer of industry, a scourge of the human consti-
tution, an incentive to crime, and a cloak for guilt;
and the mother of the most sordid progeny, that be-

speak their connexion:with idleness, squalor, misery,

and shame. Remove this tax, and give to the hum-
bler classes well-lighted, and therefore well-aired

_
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents.; •• • • 117 90 114 •• 117 85 .. 118
Fours ••••
Three per Cents.— .• 85 15 .. 85 20 .. 85 15 .. 85 20
New Loan 86 5 .• 86 5 .. 86 5 .. 86 5
Belgian Bank.... • • •• •• 652 50 .. 652 50 .. 652 80 .. 652 50
Belgian Fives, 1040 ••.. .. 1054 • • 1054 .. 105 .. 105
107 •• 107 .• 107 107
Four- and-a •Ilalf .• • 1031 103 i .. 103% • • 1033,E
Two-and-U lialf.• • . 62 85 .. 62 35 .. 62 35 .. 62 35
Spanish Active • •••• • • • • 30 x • • 39 • • 38% • • 391
Threes .. 41.!4 4143 .. 411/
Passive... ••••• • • • • 634 • • 6% • • 6 -Pe • • 64
Portuguese Five prr Cents.• 67;4, •• 67y, .. 67X, • • 673<i
Reican •. 106 .. 106 .. 106 .. 106

tenements, and you surround them at once
with an ameliorated physical atmosphere, which
will have for its _ sure concomitants a moral

cheerfulness, an alacrity of spirit, a suscep-
tibility to the improving influences of natural
scenery, or civil associations, in the town and in the
country, which will work a reform and an improve-
ment in their condition far more practical and exten-

ten projQctors
sive than any of which nine out of of
utilitarian schemes and normal schools have, we sus-

•
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. •• • • ....1170 -.1170 ..1170 ..1170
Versailles, • • ...... 670 670 .. 650 650
400 .. 400 .. 400 .. 400
Rouen ..... ...1175 ..1180 ..1175 —llBO
Rouen. to Havre.—• 985 .. 967 50 .. 965 .. 985
Orleau • 1332 50 —1335 —1332 50 —1335
Strs.zburg to 340 .. 345 .. 340 .. 342 .50
Avizrion to Ma'_•settles• • —ll4O ..1160 ..1140 —ll6O
Lordeatix to Terde ........ 230 .. 232 50 .. 230 .. 231 25
Paris to 5ceaux......... •• • • 700 • • 750 • • 700 • • 700

pect, any Lotion.
On these grounds we are most anxious for the re-
mission of this window duty ; postponing only (but
far from undervaluing, even comparatively) the re-
..

mission of the various other duties to which we have

alluded in the commencement of this article. We

have not forgotten with how much severity certain
Whig leaders, after accepting office, were visited by
their constituents for their violation of the pledges they
had given to procure the repeal of the window duties.
If anything connected with the ingrained " luck" of
the present Government could astonish us, we should

RAILIVAN SHARES FOR SETTLING, 31Anen 17.
St. Germain •••—••• •• •...1175 ..1175 ..1170 ..1175
Versailles, R.R...... ...... . 647 1,0 .. 640 .. 647 50 ..

. ,
L.B 393 75 . 401 25 .. 398 75 .. 398 75
Rouen •• . 1182 50 ..1172 50 ..1182 50
Rouen to „Myr*.

Orleans •• •• -7.••• ••• • • —.1325

..1340

Strasburg to 8a1e... ••
Avignon to 3Llraa'lleE•. •...1140

.. 245
-1155

marvel at the facility with which the vast proportion
of their supporters, equally opposed to this obnoxious
tax, have permitted it hitherto to remain unchal-

t'nged at the hands of her MAJESTY'S Ministers. The

division of last night has settled the question for the
session, but hopes are held out by the Premier that he
will take the subject into serious consideration, and
remove the tax as soon as the state of the finances will
admit.

We have received Madrid journals of the 11th inst.,
which contain' an outline of the Bill for reforming the
representative system in Spain, and perhaps in no
country where a national assembly exists is reform more
wanted. The return of Members hitherto has been made

..1320

..1340

.. 340
.4140

.. 345
. 1167 50

TAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, APRIL 3.
St. Germain • . •.. • •• • • 1675 —ll9O —1175 —llOO
Versailles, .• • • .••• 647 50 .. 655 .. 647 50 .. 647 50
L.8.--........................402 50 •• 402 50 .. 4^o .. 400
1180 ..1190 ..1177 50 ..1185
Rouen to Havre,- ••• • • ..... 985 .. 990 .. 985 .. 950
Orleans; • • • • •• •• -••• • •1320 ..1345 ..1320 ..1342 50
Strasburg to BARI• . 340 347 50 .. 340 • 345
Avignon to Msrse 11es. • —.1140 ..1167 50 ..1140 ..1167 50

THE WEia HER.—The severity of the frost has much
abated wither the last two days, and except during the
night a more genial temperature prevails. A partial thaw
commenced :yesterday, and the effect of the sun, which
should now' .be felt, on the 19th of March, has, we hope,
put an en'. to skating for the season. In the parks
and Kensington Gardens but few persons wet e seen on
the ice, an d the amusement was very indifferent. We
have now 1 icpcl a winter of nearly five months—one of

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 19 1845.

the longest on record. The market gardeners, who have
nothing to bring to market, and absolutely nothing to
do, say that all vegetable productions will be fully a
month later than usual.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
royal infants, and attended by the royal suite, left town
shortly before three o'clock this afternoon, for Windsor
Castle, to spend the Easter recess.

Summonses were issued last evening by Sir James
Graham, to the members of the Cabinet, to attend a
Cabinet Council, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

EAST INDIA HOUSE.-THIS DAY.
A Special Court of the Proprietors was held at the East
India House on general business.
The chair was taken by Captain Sheppard, and the mi-
nutes of the last Court were read.
THE EX RAJA OF SATFARA..
Mr. THOMPSON then resumed the discussion, and was left
speaking.—The facts are already fully known.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor did not sit to-day in Lincoln's Inn
Hall. His Lordship will not sit again till the 7th of next
month, when it is understood he will continue his sitting till
the 15th, the first day of Easter term.

ROLLS COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
The Master of the Rolls took petitions and causes to-day.
His Lordship will sit to-morrow to hear a part-heard motion,
after which the Court will adjourn to the 7th of next
month.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The VICE-CHANCELLOR of ExciwrD was occupied the
whole morning with motions and causes of no general inte-
rest. This is the last day of his Honour's sitting till the
7th of April, when his Honour will sit again in Lincoln's Inn,
and continue his sittings till the first day of term.
(Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
to-day, and will sit to-morrow to
hear Ex parte Young in the case of
Noble." The Court will then adjourn to the 7th of next
His
sthe HONOUR
bankruptto took k
petition causes
month, when his Honour takes motions. On the 9th and
the 14th the Court will hear bankrupt petitions; and on
the first day of term, the 15th, it is generally understood his
Honour will sit in the new temporary Court erected for him
in Old Palace-yard.
(Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.)
This is the last day of his Honour's sitting till the 7th of
April. The Court took causes of no general interest. His
Honour will sit in his new Court at Westminster on the
first day of Easter term.

SURREY SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. PUCKLE, and a full bench.. of Magistrates.)
James Dellaway and Thomas Lu were indicted for
burglariously breaking into, and stealing a quantity of hol-
lends from, the house of Elizabeth Cheesman, situated at
Witley, in this county, between the hours of nine o'clock in
the evening of the 6th, and six o'clock in the morning of the
7th March.

The evidence against them was of the most conclusive
nature, but

Mr. LocKE, who appeared for them, on looking at the
indictment, found that it charged them with having stolen
the articles upon the 7th of March, in the eighth year of the
reign of her present Majesty, whereas, in point of fact, it
should have been in the seventh year of her reign.
The Comtr held the abjection to be good, and directed the
jury to return a verdict of acquittal, after which the Learned
Chairman, addressing the prosecutrix, said she might give
the prisoners again into charge upon leaving the dock.
Two policemen accordingly stationed themselves at the
gate of the dock, and upon the gaoler turning them out of
the dock, they were immediately taken into custody and re-
moved to Southwark Police-court, when a new and more
formal indictment, to be tried at the next sessions, will be

William Strahan, Esq., of Ashurst, the late High Sheriff
for the County of Surrey, took the usual oath prescribed as a
magistrate for the county.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
RAILWAY CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION BILL.
On the question being put for the third reading of this
Bill,
Sir R. H. INGLIS took the last opportunity of call-
ing the attention of the House to a subject connected
with railways of great importance. He alluded to the
practice of large railway companies taking great
bodies of people from places where they had been accus-
tomed to receive ample religious and moral instruction,
and conveying them for the purposes of the railway to
some portion of the line where no provision whatever
was made for their future spiritual werfare. He im-
plored all those who were connected with railway com-
panies to take this subject into their most solemn and
serious consideration. It was a duty incumbent upon them
not to form new towns without giving those persons whom
they collected in them such means of education for their
children, and religious instruction for themselves, as
they received in the county from which they came. He
would take the same opportunity of expressing an honest
hope that some measures would be adopted for preventing
railway companies from carrying large bodies of people
to places where they were likely to create a breach of the
peace. It had been stated in that House, that in a late
instance a special train was employed by a railway com-
pany to convey a large body of people, in order to en-
able them to commit a breach of the peace. He would
not have mentioned the circumstance, were it not for the
purpose of giving it a public contradiction. He would
not mention the railway company of whom this slander
had been circulated, but he could assure the House that
he had their own authority for declaring that the slander
was absolutely without foundation in truth.
Mr. HAWES said that he always listened with very
great respect to whatever fell from the Right Hon.
Baronet (Sir R. Inglis), and he, on the present occasion,
was quite aware of the great importance of the matter
which he had brought before the House; but he thought
that it would be better to leave the provision of the spiritual
wants of the people assembled through their instrumen-
tality to the spontaneous liberality of the company. He
(Mr. Hawes) could bear testimony to the great liberality
with which the railway companies had acted; and he
thought, from the evidence which they had given of a
disposition to provide for the spiritual necessities of
those dependent upon them, that the object of the Hon.
Baronet would be better served by the mode he sug-
gested than by any compulsory regulation. He might
give an instance in the conduct of the Great Western
Railway, who, at one of their stations, Swindon,
had not only erected a church, and provided
for its ministration, but had also endowed a
school for instructing the children who were brought
together. The whole arrangement, indeed, was a model
which might well be imitated by every railway company
in England. On the Birmingham line, also, there was
an establishment of a similar character, at Wolver-
ton. And not only had the companies been careful
to make this provision for the spiritual wants of the
people when their works %ere finished ; but, whenever
there was a necessity for bringing a number of people
together for the execution of works requiring any con-

MARLBOROUGH-STREET
(THIS DAY.)

siderable time for their completion, they had made a
temporary provision for the spiritual necessities of their
dependents and those who were brought together through
their means. He thought, therefore, that the better plan
would be to leave the provision which the Hon. Baronet
so earnestly desired to the spontaneoua liberality of the
companies, rather than introduce any compulsory clauses
into the Bill.

Lord G. SOMERSET said, that he also thought that
it was better to leave it to the goodwill of the com-
panies, than to introduce any such clause. The railway
directors had always subscribed with great liberality to
any work which had for its object the spiritual welfare
of their people.
The Bill was then read the third time, and a clause

introduced which provided that it should be competent
for persons interested in any property likely to be
affected by the formation of any railway, to take
copies of, or make extracts from, the copy of the Bill
deposited with the clerk of the peace. The Bill was
then read a third time.
On the motion that the Bill do pass,
A clause was introduced, on the motion of Lord G.
SOMERSET, providing that railway companies should
not alter any branch or main gas or water pipes until
they had substituted other pipes, and providing also
that all such new pipes should be laid at least eighteen
inches from the surface of the road; and also that cul-
verts, or other protection, should be provided which
would enable the company to make any repairs that
might be necessary.
Mr. HAWES wished to know whether the Noble
Lord would have any objection to frame a standing order
requiring companies to give notice to the Admiralty of
any works which they intended to construct affecting the
navigation of rivers. As the Bill before the House
was then about to pass, he had one remark to make. It
was, that he hoped they would never have these twelve
o'clock sittings again at the commencement of the
session.—(" Hear, hear," from Colonel Sibthorp.)
Those who had attended the sittings upon that Bill
must have seen that the public business was not satis-
factorily attended to.—(Hear, hear.) He trusted that
after Easter no morning sittings would take place ; if
they did, it would be impossible that the Bills could re-
ceive proper attention. At the end of the session the
same objection did not apply ; because the business
transacted was, in fact, the completion of measures the
general principle of which had already received the
sanction of the House ; but he entertained a strong
objection both to the continuance of the morning sit-
tings after Easter, and to the repetition of them at a
still earlier period of the session.—(Hear, hear.)
Col. SIBTHORP expressed his full concurrence in
what had fallen from the lion. Member (Mr. Hawes) on
the subject of morning sittings. He did hope that they
would never have a repetition of such scenes as had re-
cently been exhibited, when ten, fifteen, or twenty Mem-
bers were all who were engaged in passing the most im-
portant measures.

CHARGE OF PERJURY.—Dr. henry Arnold Green, of No.
3, Curzon•street, May-fair, was brought up in custody of
Sergeant Wall, of the C division, having been apprehended
by him last night, in Holles-street, Cavendish-square, on a
judge's warrant issued against him, on an indictment pre-
ferred and found at the Central Criminal Court, in January
sessions last, for wilful and corrupt pedury, in two affidavits
relative to proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas.
Mr. MALTBY directed that the prisoner should be taken
before a judge at Chambers, that being the usual course in
such cases.

The Court was crowded by respectable tradesmen resid-
ing at the west-end, who are interested in the present pro-
ceedings.
Sergeant Wall has been incessantly engaged in endea-
vouring to apprehend the prisoner from the period of the
indictment being found against him.

DARTMOUTH ELECTION COM

MITTEE.--(THIS DAY.)

The Committee sat this day at Twelve o'clock, and imme.
diately after had the room cleared, and remained in con•
sultation until half-past two, when the public were re•
admitted, and

The CUArnmAN said he had to announce that the Com-
mittee had, after having maturely considered all the facts of
this case, which was one of great difficulty and em-
barrassment, and given their best attention to all
the facts and the law, as well as the legal arguments used
on both sides—after having taken all those matters into
their most anxious consideration, the Committee had come
to the following resolution :—" That at the last election for
the borough of Dartmouth, Joseph Somes, Esq., was not dis-
qualified as a candidate by reason of his having been engaged
in any contracts, within the meaning of the Act of Geo. 111.,
cap. 43 ; and that Mr. Somes had been duly elected."
Mr. Sergeant WItANGIIAM then rose and said, that after
that announcement lie begged to say that it was not the
intention of the petitioner to prosecute any of the other
allegations contained in the petition. He also begged
to say that in thus withdrawing all further opposition, his
client was under the impression that the whole of this in-
quiry had been conducted in a fair and temperate manner.
Mr. TALBOT begged to assure the petitioner, and those
who acted with him, that not the slightest particle of ill-
feeling existed towards them on the mind of Mr. Somes.
The Committee then broke up.

Mr. LABOUCHER E said the question which had
been mooted by his Hon. Friend near him was a very
important one. That question was whether it was ex-
pedient or not for the House to sit at such an early hour
during the former part of the session. He confessed that
on the whole he was inclined to agree with his Hon.
Friend ; but at the same time he must say that in some
cases both the Government and the House had to make a
choice of evils.—(Hear, hear.) Whatever inconveni-
enbe there might have been in taking these Bills
in the early sittings, it must be acknowledged
that it would have formed a great obstruction
to the public business if they had been taken in
the evening. Still, though he did not blame the
Government for the course they had now pur-
sued, he thought the practice was objectionable. He did
believe that, in the long run, they would not get through
more business by attending these morning sittings, than
if they sat at the usual hour in the evening.
Lord G. SOMERSET said, he admitted that the
various considerations advanced of the inconvenience of
attending the morning sittings were entitled to the
utmost attention, and he much regretted the necessity
that existed for having had recourse to such
a procedure. There were peculiar circumstances
which rendered such a course absolutely necessary. He
could not deny that the subjects before them were of pa-
ramount importance, and well deserved the considera-
tion of the House. It was quite notorious that the
whole strength of the House would be required on Com-
mittees on private Bills after Easter, and it was, there-
fore, tiesirable that these measures should be disposed of
before Easter. He did not think it would be necessary,
under all the circumstances, to continue the morning
sittings after that period. With regard to the proposition
made by the Hon. Member for Lambeth (Mr. Hawes),
he fully concurred in the expediency of it, and it was
very probable that after Easter he should introduce it as
a standing order.
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
LAND CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION BILL.
Lord G. SOMERSET brought up several new clauses,
which were severally read a first. and second time, and
committed.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(THis DAY.)
LONDON, MAncrl :19.—N.W., fresh breeze and hazy,
but fine.
DEAL, MAncir 18.—Wind N.W., to N.N.E.—SId. Pearl,
Montreal ; John May, Newfoundland ; Charlotte, Wylie,
Montreal; John and Mary, Newfoundland; Edward Thorne,
St. John's, N. B.,aid the rest of the outward bound.
RAMSOATE. ARCII 18.—Wind, N.N.W.---Arrd. Hekla,
List, Porto Cabello for Hamburgh.
FArmounr, MARCH 18.—Wind E., fresh breezes.—Off,
Harriet, Brews, Havannah, and sld. for Antwerp.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 18.—Wind N.W., light.—Arrd. Ann
Emily, Porter, Sierra Leone. Sld. Bosidan, Rio ; Franconia,
Apalachicola; Zanoni, New York; Mahaica, Montreal.
CLYDE, MARCH 17.—S1d. Wandsworth, St. John's, N.B.
Y, Llanelly, dismasted.
from the working of the sand under the bilge.
—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd.
17.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. William Gales,
Lnapcniißl,6oE.
n—y2oA,
rrdlsiridaA:
IRSvcujitpi:ll2.
mI nasCßog,c°l;SlAilall ily'Eedl,lld(l
AeAsAia,
Ak
tyc, Y, Guernsey; both with da-
mage
Venus, Mauritius, for London ; Arabia, Skelton, Ceylon,
for ditto; Mountain Maid, Wighton, Ichaboe, for Dundee ;
Duke of Wellington, Cowell, St. John's,N.B. for London.
WATERFORD, MARCH 17.—Wind E. to 9N.N.E.—Arrd.
Tecumseh, Shaw, Ichaboe.
LONDONDERRY' MARCH 10.—Sid. Elgin, St. Andrews;
15. North Bend, Philadelphia.
SHEERNESS, MARCH 18.—The vessels reported ashore here
have all got off—the schooner Sally, from Sunderland, on
the Maplin ; the brig Acistera, from Whitby, on the Knock ;
and the brig Samuel and Sarah, from Shields to London,
which was on the Jenkin Sand.
HALIFAX, MARCH 3.—The Acadia, from St. Thomas's to
this port, has put back to the former port, with damage, and
been condemned, after being 300 miles from this port.
BOSTON, MARcfr I.—The hull of a vessel of about 130 tons,
dismasted, waterlogged, painted bronze, with a white streak,
and a billet head either gilt or painted yellow, was passed
10th ult., lat. 36, ion. 6.

The House having again resumed, the report was
brought up by Mr. GREENE, and agreed to.
On the motion that the Bill be read a third time being
put,
Colonel SIBTHORP said that he observed in one of
the Noble Lord's amended clauses a reference made to
canals, and other public undertakings. He wished to
know whether barracks or public warehouses were to be
considered as public undertakings ; and whether the
public would have access to see the plans relating to
them ?

Lord G. SOMERSET said, where public works were
intended to be built, every opportunity would be given
for public inspection.
The Bill was then read a third time, and passed.
RAILWAY CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION (SCOT-

LAND) BILL.

The report on this Bill was brought up and received.
The third reading was fixed for to-morrow at four.
LANDS CLAUSES CONziOLIDATION (SCOT-
LAND) BILL.
The third reading of this Bill was postponed till
to-morrow.

The House then adjourned at Half past One to Five.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)
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, CHATHIL A
AM, ND NORTH KENT
RAWAY.
Mr. BURKE proceeded with his allegations against the
plans of the promoters. There were a great number of
these allegations, which were purely of a technical cha-
racter. Many were abandoned, and few sustained.

COUNTY MEETING.—We understand that a county
meeting will shortly be held, to take into consideration Sir
James Graham's Settlement Bill.—Cambridge Advertiser.
THE PAISLEY DESECRATORS.—It seems we were
within the mark last Saturk!ay in stating the number of the
Paisley Agnew desecrators on the previous Sunday at
one hundred and fifty. There were three hundred of
them trotting and galloping to Glasgow on the Sabbath-day,
in carts, gigs, omnibuses, and waggons, to hear the free oracle.
We would have said nothing about this, but for the pre-emi-
nent professing sanctity of these " free " people, or rather
their hypocritical jargon against the railway; and if Mr,
John M'Nanghtan does not forthwith excommunicate his
own adherents—these " desecrators," as he calls others, how
can he hold up his own face at the next meeting of the rail-
way Directors, which he has promised to attend, in company
with the good Sir Andrew ?—Scotch Reformer's Gazette.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were only 1,200
to 1,500 bales, and American was %d. per lb. lower. The
business consisted of 300 bales Surat, at 23%d. to 3%d. ; and
the rest American, at 334 d. to 51/2d.-all to the trade.
Cotton was freely offered for sale. A good business
continued to be done in Shares, at steady prices. Aber-
deen, 2% ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, ;
Blackburn, Darwen and Bolton, 41. Is. 6d. ; Blackburn and
Preston, 1514 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junc-
tion, 9% 1014; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 9 914 ; Bristol
and Gloucester, 58 ; Caledonian, 10 10% ; Cambridge and
Lincoln, 6% ; Chester and Birkenhead, ex div., 45% %;
Ditto, New Shares, at 33 discount, 371,4 38 ; Chester and
Preston Brook, 5 ; Chumet Valley, 7% 7 ; Direct Northern,
4% % ; Dublin and Belfast, 6% ; Dublin and
Cashel, ex new, 12 ; Ditto, Extension, 71. 16s. 3d.
Dundalk and Enniskillen, 2%; Eastern Counties, 22% 76 ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter Shares, 15% ex div. ; Ely
and Bedford, 21,4 ; Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 1/. is.
1/. 2s. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 17 ; Ditto, Half
Shares, 8% % ; Grand Junction, 226 226%, ex div. ; Ditto,
Eighths, 19% ; Great North of England, 301. Shares, 20 2ro ;
Lancaster and Carlisle, 35% ; Leeds and Thirsk, 4% 4 8 ;
Leeds and West Riding, 6% ; Limerick and Wate ord,
; Liverpool and Mane ester, ex div., 207 ; Ditto,
New Shares, 38%; Liverpool, Ormakirk, and Preston, 3/. 6s.
3/. 17s. 6d.; London and Birmingham, ex div., 231% ;
Ditto, Half Shares, ex div., 43% ; London and South
Western, ex div., 79 ; London and York, 3% ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, ex div., 65%; Ditto, New Shares,
5% 514 prem. ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, ex div., 165 ;
Manchester and Leeds, ex. div., 145 146 ; Ditto, Half Shares,
ex div., 64%; Midland Stock, ex div., 140 139%; Ditto,
401. Shares, ex div., 13% % ; Ditto, Birmingham and
Derby, ex div., 108% ; North Wales Mineral, ex
new, 13; Oxford, Worcester, and Rugby, 31. 18s. 9d.,
3/. 17s. 6d. ; Preston and Wyre, 13% ; Scottish
Central, 4% 51,x; Sheffield and Lincoln, 1/. 45., 1/. ss. ;
Sheffield and Manchester, ex int., 109 111; Ditto, Quarter
Shares, ex int., 1314 ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction,
7 ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 3% 14 ;
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 5% 4374 ;
South-Eastern, ex new, 43% 44 ; Ditto, New Shares, at
18 discount, ex new 19 17%; Ditto, New Shares, at 16 2-3
discount, 11% 12%; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3,9% %;
Trent Valley, 163%, ex new; West Yorkshire, 31.55. 3L 6s ;
Boulogne and Amiens (English), 11% 12 ; Consolidated
Central of France, 1734 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux (Eng-
lish), 10% 3s. 9d. ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 21. Ils. ;
Paris aid Rouen, ex div., 44% 4414; Paris and St. Quin-
tin, 2/. 6s. 214; Toulouse and Bordeaux, 2%; Toulouse,
Bordeaux, and Cette, 2%; Verona and Ancona, 1%.
Accounts from Arica, via New York, state that proposals
had been made to the Bolivian Government, for the exclu-
sive privilege of exporting bark by some British merchants,
and which it was believed would be granted, and continued
whatever change of Government might occur.
There has been a meeting to-day at the East India
House relative to the oft-debated matter of the Raja of
Sattara, but the subject excites very little general interest,
however important to the individual immediately concerned.
Stocks are very quiet, and a little fiat. Consols realise
99% % for Money, and 100 for Account. Exchequer-bills
have declined to 655. and 625. premium. India Stock, for
Money, has been done at 284 ; and Bank Stock, for Account,
at 215%.
There is also very little doing in the Foreign Market.
Spanish Actives bring 3014 9‘,7, being rather lower. Portu-
guese Converted are 6814 to rs Mexican Stock is 36% to
36%. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 63%.
The Railway Shares are very well supported, with a
moderate business doing at the quotations below given.

CLOSING
PRICES.
99
98%
284

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Consols
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726.. .....
India Stock
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under 1,000/.
Bank Stock for Account... .....
Consols for Account... lOO
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 11,0.... 65 64 pm. 60
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small ... 62 65 pm. 65
Ditto Advertised pm.

ONE
O'CLOCK.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.... • •••...
Columbian:Bonds, ex 'Venezuela.
' Mexican 5 per Cent. 1837
Ditto. Account ......... 36%3/4
Ditto, Deferred 171%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted 6BM%
Ditto, Account
Russian Bonds ll7

CLOSING
PRICES.
924
102
14%

Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. -
Ditto, Account 30%3/1% 3014
Ditto, Coupons 29
Ditto, Passive
Belgian Bonds, 4% per Cent —1011 A
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 99%,a
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAY SHARES PRICES.
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% 1%.. l%
Birming. and Gloucesterloo 134 135 133 ... 135
Ditto % Shares
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hast. 10
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New , 2
Calotlonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%...... 634%
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Churnet Valley ......... 2
Cornwall
Diss, Becclei, Yarmouth 11/2
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast Junc. 2% 6
Dublin and Galway..... 2% 3 2%
Eastern Counties 25 ... . 22
Eastern Union lO .. ..
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto New 4 Shares... 2% —
Great Grimsby and Shef-
field
Great South. and West.

6%
221 A

73/4

(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..loo
Ditto New 2
Great Western BO . . ..180 ....
Ditto % Shares
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 21,4 ... .. 5
Harwich
Hull and Selby 5O —
Do. Half Shares
Kentish Coast l% l% 2
Lancaster and Carlisle... 15
Lincoln, York, and Leeds 1% ll/4
London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...234 233
Do. New Thirds
Do. Quarters 2 - ...... •••••••••
London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d 75/8%
London and Brighton... 50
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 183/4%
Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent.
4
London and S. Western 41/6a 10d 791 A 80
Do. New
Do. New
London and York 2% ..
314%
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Leeds... 73 145
Do. % Shares
Midland... 100 139% . 1404
Do. New
Mi dland, Birm., Derby...loo 106
Newark and Sheffield ... 11,4......
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 24 ...... 47%... 4714
Do. New Brandling
North British ..... ..... 10
Do. New
Northern and Eastern... 45
North Wales
Preston and Wyre
Richmond and West End
Junction
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 -
Scottish Midland l% —.. 3%
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%..... 33/4 41/4 ..... ..
South Devon... lO .. 18 181,E
SoutlA Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 431143/4..
Do., No. 1 8
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
South Wales
Trent Valley 2 ...... 17 ..
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... •••
West Cornwall
York and North Midland 50 102% lOl
Do. Selby 2O
Do. Extension 1 m 13% . ....
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
_ _

_ .. _ .....,.
Boulogne and Amiens... 4
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette
Great North. of France.. 4 • 6l/8
Lyons and Avignon 2
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ......
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2
Paris and Lyons, Gan-

21%
181
100

40%
51/4
"A
96

1%
36
1%
233
44
31%

51/4
147

4%
19

12%
81A
61
170_
3A

-
144

113 A

18%
4%

52
4514

neron's,
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
Rouen and Havre
Tours and Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's 2 .........
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
British North American 50 ..
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 17.—The sales
are :—Dublin and Drogheda, 82% ex div. ; Eastern Counties,
22% % ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter Shares, 15% ;
London and South-Western, 79 ex div. ; Manchester and
Birmingham, 57 14 ex new and ex div. ; Ditto, Quarter
Shares, 91h %ex new and ex div. ; Ditto, New Quarters, 5
prem. ; Midland Railway Consols, 40/. Shares, 13% ; North
British, Now Shares, 4% •, Preston and Wyre, 3014 Sheffield
and Manchester, 109 112; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 13 1-16;
South-Eastern, 44%; Ditto, No. 2, 12% % ; Ditto, No. 3,
9 ; Barnsley Junction, 6% • Birkenhead, Manchester, and
Cheshire Junction, 9 34 ; Ilaciburn, Burnley, and Accrington,
6 1,4 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4 1-16; Caledonian,
9% 10; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6% % ; Churnet Valley,
6% 7 ; Direct Northern, 4%; Erewash Valley, 134 ; Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 3% 3/4 ; Huddersfield and
Manchester Railway and Canal, i ; Leeds and West Riding
Junction, 6 13.16 3/4 •, Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston,
3 5-16 % ; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 4% ;
London and York, 31,E ,• Scottish Central, 43/4 5 ; Scottish
Midland, 21h % ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 255. ;
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., 51/ ; South-
port and Euxton, ; Trent Valley, 17 16% ex new ;
West Yorkshire, 3 3-16; Paris and Lyons (English), 4%.

TIM NEW DEPUTY CORONER FOR WESTMINSTER.

--The Lord-Chancellor having signified his approval of Mr.
Bedford, of the firm of Bedford and Vincent, of Dartmouth-
street, Westminster, the newly-appointed deputy coroner for
the city and liberties of Westminster, in the place of Mr
Higgs, who has held the effice upwards of a quarter of a
century, has appointed to morrow (Wednesday) for swearing
him in. On that day, Mr. Higgs ceases to act, and Mr. Bedford
enters upon the functions of his office.
THE GENERAL POST- OFFlCE.—Cunsiderable altera-

tions are about to be made in the establishment of the
General Post-office, in St. Martin's-le- Grand, by the erection
of side galleries and other conveniences in the newspaper and
letter-sorting offices, in order to expedite both the morning
and evening duties.