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ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS,' Morning Noon, and Night, th:rehy insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE.

QTANISII DEFU,RED, DEBT.—:The
1,-7 SPANISH COMMISSIONERS beg to announce to the
HOLDERS of the above STOCK that the following arc the NUM-
BERS 'of thei BONDS which were DRAWN at MADRID on the Ist
of May last.

Orders have been given to prepare the new Active Stock, and the
exchange of the Bonds will be made by Messrs. Ardoin and Co. at
Faris, and Messrs•. J. arid S. Ricardo and Co. in London.
SEVENTH DRAWING OF THE DEFERRED DELVE AT MADRID, MAT 1, 1844.
Bonds Azionnt of each Total
Series. drawn. Numbers. in Dollars, Dollars. ' .
A 751 2,254 t , 3,004 200 150,200
B 1,083 9,752 to 10,834 400 433,200
C 417 2,086 to 2,502 800 . 333,600
1) 333 1,670, to 2,002 1,200 399,600
E 58.1 585 to 1,168 2,400 1,401,600
F 514 3,085 to 3,598 ' 4,800 2,467,200

3,682

5,185,400

Messrs. J. and S. RICARDO, and CO. beg to apprise the Holders of
the Numbers of the DEFERItED BONDS which have been drawn
as above mentioned, that they will be ready to exchange them on
and after the 19th instant. Lists in numerical order, together with
the Bonds, must be left for examination at least a week previously.
Printed forms may be had at their Office.
Angel Court, Throgmorton-street, July 8, 1844.

GUARANTEE SOCIETY.
Established by Act of Parliament.
SECURITY GIVEN for the FIDELITY of PERSONS in
SITUATIONS of TRUST.

Particulars may be obtained daily, at the Society's Office, No. 2t,
Poultry, between the hours of Nine and Five o'clock.
AGENTS.
Mr. Nathaniel Lea • • • • • • •• • • • • • • •Birmingham.
Messrs. G. Edwards and Son • • • • • • ..Bristel.
Mr. H. Callender •. • • • • • • . • • • • ....Edinburgh.
Messrs. Alsop and Son ...Hull.
Messrs. a. H. and G. Ridsdale . • • ...Leeds.
Messrs. Hughes and Ronald ..... Liverpool.
Mr. Samuel Taylor . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •Manchester.
F. W. Bulman, Esq. •••••. • • • • • • —Newcastle•on-Tyne.
By order, THOMAS HODGSON, Secretary.

IMPERIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
Sun-court, Cornhlll, and No. 16, Pall-mall, London. .

Notice is hereby given, that the ANNUAL DIVIDEND on the
Shares in the Subscription Capital of this Company will be paid to
the Proprietors at the Office In Sun-court, Cornhill, on awl after
WEDNESDAY, the 10th of July next, between the hours of EleYen and
Three o'Clock: By order of the Directors,
June 17, 1844.• - -SAMUEL INOALL, Actuary.
•

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASS-U-R-
-ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The steady success and increasing prosperity of the Society has
enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a
second Bonus, averaging GO per cent. on the amounts invested on each
Policy effected ou the Profit scale. -

The division of profits is animal, and the next will be made in De-
cember of the present year.
This institution offers many important and substantial advan-
tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of his interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances
for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
F. FERGUSON CABIROUX, Sec.

DISEASED AND HEALTHY LIVES ASSURED. •
MEDICAL, INVALID, AND GENERAL
1T L LIFE OFFICE.

25, PALL-MALTS, LONDON.
Capital, £500,000.

Thl Office is provided with very accurately constructed Tables, by
which it can ASSURE DISEASED LIVES on Equitable Terms.
The Extra Premium discontinued on restoration of the Assured to
permanent health. '
INCREASED ANNUITIES granted on unsoand Lives, the amount
varying with the particular disease.
Members of CONSUMPTIVE FAMILIES assured at Equitable
Rates.

HEALTHY LIVES are Assured at Lower Rates than at most
other offices. _ _ _ _

Policies of twelvemonths' standing aro not affected by Suicides,
Duelling; Soc. ; and Assigned Policies are valid ttom the date of the
Policy should death ensue Item any of these causes.
F. G. P. NEISON, Actuary.

ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY.
92, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON.
ESTABLISHED, MOB.
macros&
Sir THOMAS TT.YRTON, Bart., Chairman.
JOHN OLIVER HANSON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Sir William Baynes, Bart. Moses Mocatta, Esq.
The Hon. Sir Courtenay Boyle James William Ogle, Esq.
Thomas Chvpman, Esq. ' Emanuel Pacifico„_ M.D.
William Laforest, Esq. William George Prescott, Esq.
Donald Maclean, Esq. John Peter Rasch, Esq.
Aunrroas—Francis Bligh Hookey, Esq. and Joseph Pulley, Esq.
AcTuAav —Charles Ansell, Esq., I.R.S.
SOLICITOR—J. B. De Mole, Esq.
SURVEYOR—Thomas HOI per, ESQ.
ASSISTANT-SURVEYOR—Thomas Lloyd, Esq.
FIRE DEPARTMENT. •
RETURNS.—The Directors request reference to the fact, that
Twerrry PER CENT, was returned by this Company on the amount
of P.emitui s paid for the Five Years up to Christmas, 1841, on all
Policies for £3OO and upwards, which had been in force for one
year at that time.
The next periodical Accounts for Returns will be made up to
Christmas, 1846.
RENT.—this Office (independent of the Returns and the late Re-
duction in the Rates of Premium) offers to persons effecting As-
surances, the further advantage of an allowance for the loss of Rent
un Buildings rendered untenantable by fire.
RENEWALS.—PoIicies due on Midsummer-day should be
renewed wits in fifteen days thereaß er.
LIP E DEPARTMENT.
The attention of the public has, in the Advertisements and Pro-
posals of this Company of I. te years, been called to a Table of Addl_
Hors applic bie to and expect•nt on Policies of particular dates and
ages; the Directors now beg to refer to a statement (which may be
obtained on application at the Office in Cheapsi le, or to any of the
agents in the country) of sums actually paid, showing the sums res-
pectively assured and the bonuses the. eon.
Persons assured for the whole term of Life in Great Britain or
Ireland respectively, w.ll have an ADDITION made to their Policies
every seventh year, or an equivalent REDUCTION in the future
psymen a of premium, at the option of the assured.
The FOURTH SEPTENNIAL VALUATION will be made up
to Christmas
ASSURANCES FOR SHORT PERIODS may now be effbcted
in this Office at considerably reduced rates of premium.
The Company's Rates and Proposals may be had at the Office In
London, or of any of the agents in the country, who are authorised
• to report on the appearance of Lives proposed for Assurance.
HENRY DESBOROUGH, Secretary.
92, Cheapside.

ROYAL ACADEMY Or. ARTS, TRAFAL-
GAR-SQUARE.
•
The EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY is now OPEN.
Admission (from Eight o Clock till Seven) One Shilling. Catalogue

One Shilling.
HENRY HOWARD, R.A., Sec.

SOCIETY 'OF PAINTERS IN WATER

• The FORTIETH ANNUAL EXHIBITION at their GALLERY,
5, PALL-MALL EAST, open Daily Nom Nine till Dusk, WILL
CLOSE on SATURDAY'NEXT, July 13. .
Admittance, One Shilling—Catalogue, Sixpence. •
J. W. WRIGHT, Secrets y:
:Vice the late R. HILLS. •

fIOItTICULTURAL SOCIETY of LONDO3.
EXHIBITIONS at the ,GARDEN.—The Third Meeting
will take place on SATURDAY, the 13th of July, on which occasion
his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, the hesident of the Society, has
kindly directed the doors of his gardens and pleasure-grounds to bo
opened for the reception of all persons who shall have been admitted
Into the Society's garden by tickets. Subjects for Exhibition must be
at this office on Friday the 12th ; or at the Garden before half-past
past eight o'clock, a.m., on the day ofExhibition.
N.B. No Tickets will be issued' in Regent-street on the day of
Exhibition.
21, Regent-street. .•

pOTAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION,
LONGBOTTOM'S PHYSIOSCOPE exhibits the human face
nit its varied expressions, on a gigantic scale, curiously
,contrasted
with the living man. The OI'AQUE MICROSCOPE magnifies ef-
fectively a succession of WORKS of the FINE ARTS; also casts of
INSCRIPTIONS, taken by •Miss Wilson from •the WALLS of the
TOWER of LONDON, cut by Lord Guilford Dudley and other State
Prisoners. Arrangements have been made for Dr. RYAN to deliver
VARIED LECTURES on the evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday; and Professor BACHHOFFNER on Tuesday and Thursday
evenings. Tlfe-se Lectures, as well its the Morning Lectures, will
Abound ,In interesting expeilittents. ARMSTRONG'S HYDRO-
ELECTRIC MACHINE. DIVING BELL and DIVER. • NEW
DISSOLVING VIEWS, &c. &c. The Music is conducted by T.
Wallls, Mus, Dec.
Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price_

•
TAIPERIAL AUSTRIAN LOAN of 30,000,000
_l_ FLORINS, authorised by his Majesty the EMPEROR of
AUSTRIA.
On the 2d -of SEPTEMBER, 1844, there will take place at
VIENNA, the DISTRIBUTION of 700 GAINS, amounting to
70,1701. sterling: There being only 700 Bonds in all, each Bond must
obtain one of the above 700 Gains, the highest of which are 23,000/,
5,0007.; 1,5d0t, 1,0007., &c. &c., and the lowest 501. each.
A few Bonds can be had for 1257. each, or with the deduction of
the 50/., which they must at least obtain, for 751. Halves and fifths
in proportion, being 'a considerable reduction from the former price.
LOAN of the GRAND, DUKE of BADEN of 5,000,000 FLORINS,
NEGOTIATED in the YEAR 1841.

The SEVENTH DISTRIBUTION will take place at Carlsruhe,
publicly and irrevocably on the Ist. of AUGUST, 1844, when. 400
Gains will be obtained. One Gain of 35,000 florins, 10,000, 5,003,
3,000, Re. The lowest Gains being
.65 florins each; and 12 florins
are equal to 1/. sterling. • •
Price of a share, 10s. ; Eleven for U. ; Twenty-three for 10!., &c.

For full particulars and Bonds of the above loans apply to Messrs.
J. A. Schwarzschild, Bankers, Frankfort-on-Maine, or, to save
postage,• all applications by letter can be addreSSed, Mr. A Sehwarzs-
child, Plough-court, Lombard-street, London.

17, CORNUILL, FEB. I, 1844
TO SCHOOLS.

RELFE and FLETCHER'S HAIR-LINE
POINTED PENS.

R. and F. beg respectfully to direct the attention of the Scholastic
Profession to their recently-invented HAIR-LINE POINTED PENS.
These Pens, in the manufacture of which great • care has been
bestowed, are produced under the superintendence of Messrs. R. and
F., and are presumed to surpass any Steel. Pen yet offered to the
public. The points are 00 line, that the up-stroke is hardly per-
ceptible, while the metal is of that flexible nature, and the whole
finish so perfect, that a clear down-stroke is insured. The Hair-
line Pointed Pens are divided into three classes, Broad, Medium, and
Fino Points, and in ordering Ahem care will be necessary that they
are distinctly nanied. They are sold in Boxes of a Gross each at 55.,
or One Dozen, mounted on a Card with a neat holder, at ls.

DENTAL SURGERY.—EXTRACTION SUPERSEDED.
ft/FESSRS. MOSELEY, Surgeon-Dentists (by
LTA. appointment to his Majesty the King of Hanover), 32, Hay-
maymarket, St. James's, in announcing that they nay be consulted
daily, as usual, beg to invite attention to their method (peculiar to
their own practice) of filling decayed Teeth. Teeth, however badly
decayed, or however large the cavity, filled with Gold, enabling the
patient to masticate with perfect ease, and rendering extraction un-
necessary.
Their TERREOUS ARTIFICIAL TEETH fixed without
Wires of any kind, or extraction of stumps, are not only quite Inde-
structible and unchangeable in colour, but being of every shade na-
tural to the original, may be worn ftom one to a set, without the
slightest difference in shape or colour. Loose Teeth fastened without
ligatures and rendered perfectly firm.—Observe, 32, Haymarket,

AGRICULI ORE, Co IdMERCE, NAVIGATION, THE
CHURCH.
AB. SAVORY and SONS, Goldsmiths, 14, • Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank, have fiaished a few
splendid Pieces of PLATE, suitable for rresentation to Gentlemen
connected with either of the above pursuits or professions, to which
hey invite the attention of CommiVees who are in search of valuable
testimonials for s, ,ch occasions. •

PUBLICATIONS.

PROLAPSUS, PILES, FISTULA, &c.

Just published, bound in cloth, price 55., ; by post Is: Gd. extra.
ON the CURE of the DISEASES of the
RECTUM and ANUS • particularly Prolapsus, Piles, Fistula,
. .

llmorrhoidal Tumours, Excrescences, Ulcers, and Strictures,
WITHOUT CUTTING or CONFINEMENT ; illustrating the origin
and progress of these diseases, and the success of the Author's mode
of treatment in numerous cases, The whole embellished with Plates
from Nature. By Dr. SILVER, Physician . Accoucheur, No. 70,
Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury-square, London.
Sold by Sherwood and Co., 137, Strand ; J. 011ivier, 59, Pall-mall ;
3laclachlan, Stewart, and Co., Edinburgh; Fannin and Co., Dublin;
and also by the Author at his residence.

THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE PASSIONS.
" How to live happiest, how avoid the pains,
The diappointments, and disgust of those
Who would in pleasure all their hours employ."

Elegant pocket edition (20 engravings) price ls., by post Is. 6d.
N CIIASTITY—its Abuses and Diseases—On
X., Marriage—On Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions— On Ma-
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By R. J. CULVERWELL, M.D., Member of the Royal College o

• ' Sargeons.
" Not in vain such labours have we tried,
If ought this book, the fickle health confirm.
To you, ye Delicate ! I write for you,
I tame my youth to philosophic clues,
And grew still paler by the midnight lamps."
or Health

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REMOVED FROM BIRMINGHAM TO LONDON.

Just published, price 2s. 64.' and free by post (in a sealed envelope)
Price 3s. 6d.,
THE SILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work on
Physical Decay, its causes, and the baneful eflt.cts of exces-
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The CO DI AL BALM of SY RI ACU M is exclusively directed
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Eleven till Two, and Five till Eight, and on Sund tys from Ten til
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LA MEBT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, ANI4 ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c
" He who in pleasure's downy arms
Ne'er lost his health or y euthfu I charms,
A hero lives, and justly can
Exclaim, in me behold a man !"
Just'publlshed (in a sealed envelope), Tenth Edition, price 28. 6d.,
or sent by post, free, to any address, 3s. 6d.,
SELF-PRESERVATION: a Popular Essay on
those concealed disorders, originating in youthful excesses,
and terminating in Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional
Weakness, and all those Sinkings, Anxieties, and Tremors, which
afflict the Weak, the Sedentary, and the Delicate. With Practical
Observations on Marriage, and on the Anatomy, Physiology, and
Diseases ,f the Reproductive Organs, with plain Directions for
their perfect Restoration.
By SAMUEL LA MERT, Consulting Surgeon,
9, BEDFORD-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Bleclical Society, Licentiate of
- .

Apothecary's Hall, London,&e.
`• The various positions of Lover, Husband, and Parent, the in-
herent privileges of mankind, are frequently marred and prevented
through the follies and frailties of early indiscretions. To such,
among others, this Essay addresses itself; and by its perusal many
questions may be satisfactorily adjusted that admit of ne appeal even
to the most confidential friend."—Stafford Gazette.
"The design of this work will be tolerably obvious from its title,
aid we cordially recommend the author and his hook to all who are
suffering from nervous debility and general weakness."—Wakefield
Journal.

Published by the Author, and sold in London by S. Gilbert, 51 and
52, Paternoster-row; Starie, 23, Tiehbo►ne.street, Quadrant, Regent
street; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; Noble, 114, Chancery-
lane; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ;*.ansi by all .11ooksellars.
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PUBLICATIONS.

PAR COURRIER EXTRAORDINAIRE.
LA SUITE DU "JUIF ERRANT."
LE COURRIER DE L'EUROPE (Bohain's
French Newspaper) will publish, every Saturday, two
chapteis more than any other London journal of the WANDERING
JEW, by the Author of " Le Mysteries de Paris."
-Le Conflict' de l'EuroPe, during five years, has presented to the
English reader a complete resume of the news of the week, and
lextually alfthe best articles on politic.% and literature, romance, and
punts, &c., puhlished in the Parisian newspapers.
Subscriptions, 6s. 6d. per quarter, received at. the office, 10, Wel•
lington. street ; by Joseph Thomas, 1, Finch-lane, Cornhill ; and all
newsmen. Single Numbers, 6d. each. Those containing the com-
mencement of " Le Julf Errant" may still be obtained as above.

Just publiSlictl, price One Shilling,
'ms HE LACON of LIBERTY : a Text-Book for
all Classes -of Reformers ; containing QuotationS, selected
from nearly a -Thousand Authorities, in behalf of the great Prin-
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arranged, and accompanied by a Copious Biographical Index.
• Effingham Wilson, 'IS, Bishopsgate-street.

This day is published, in one vol. limo., neatly hound In cloth,
price Is. 6d.,
A FORMULARY of DEVOTION for the
US.4. of SCHOOLS, after the manner of the Book of Common
Privet, composed chiefly in the language of Scripture, and arranged
for each day of the week.
By the Rev. J. T. DOBNET.
• • Relfe and Fletcher, 17, Cornhill.

This day is published, hi one voLISmo.,. price 35., neatly bound in
cloth, and illustrated by 150 -diagrams, neatly engraved on Wood,
Tll
HE- OF- LAND SURVEYING.. Ex-
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By JOIIX-QUESTED, Sutveyor.
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This day is published, in one vol., neatly bound in cloth, price 25.,
FIRST GREEK' LESSONS. Being a Course
of Study so arranged as to require no previous acquaintance
withthe Grammar.
By CHARLES WHITE, M.A., of Peter House, Cambridge.
Relfe and Fletcher, 17, COrnhill.

Just published,
rinus BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW,
JL No. XXXIV. CONTENTS :-
1. The Italian Drama.—Altleri.
2. L. C. Suite's Revolution in Rome.
S. The Protestant Reformation in England.
4. Sclavonic History and Literature.—Micklewlcz,
5. State and Prospects of British Husbandry.
6. Modern English Dramatists.
- • 7. Prince'de JOlllOl6 on the French Navy.
8. The Sugar Trade and Dutics.—French Slave Colonies.
Robespierre.
10. Lard Ellenborough's Indian Government. •
11. Recent German Literature.
London: R. and J.-E. Taylor, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street ; and
all Booksellers.

. THE OPERA. -
Now ready, Part 111., imperial Bvo., price 2s. 61.
Tit EAUTIES OF THE• OPERA. Engraved
' under' the 'Superintendence 'of: Mr.- CHARLES HEATH, from
Drawings by the first Artists.
• • • - Part 111. contains
NORMA,
.with portrait of CARLOTTA GRIST, the illudtrations by

• CoanottLD and WARUENI
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DISEASES OF TILE LUNGS AND. HEART.
Just out, price ss. Gd:, with beantifullY coloured plates,
A POPULAR TREATISE •on a SAFE and
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square. Simpkin and Marshall, Publishers.
" A truly valuable work which ought to be read by everybody con-
cerned in the treatment of diseases of the chest, either for themselves
or their frieiuls."—Era.

" This production proves the author to be a man of first-rate
talent and of great practical exp?rience."—Sentinel.
lull of consoling and important facts."—Gazette.
persons in humble circumstances
any morning
m ol beipnrgesacnridesvgrenaiiitugit,oanusdly for
when
necessary,.
visits them at their
own house.

Just published in cloth, with fine Portrait, price 4s. 6d.,
CHRIST THE ALPHA AND OMEGA; or
the Fragments gathered up in Several Sermons, by that emi-
nent and faithflil Preacher of God's Word, the Rev. W. WATTS
WILKIN.SON, A. 8., of St. Bartholomew's, by the Bank of England ;
with a Copious Memoir of the Author, who died Dec. 10,. 1840,
aged 86:: •
- ". Fragments worth gathering indeed, Christ was the object and
subject of the late Venerable IVilkinson. Poor empty sinners and a
full Christ his constant theme ; ..these sermons are like a voice from
the dead ; they come forth with freshness and power, forcibly re-
minding us of the Preacher. We cannot do otherwise than recom-
mend them ; and we doubt not but in proportion as they arc made
known through-the medium' of the Press, they will be rapidly sold
and duly appreciated."—Gospel 'Magazine, May 1, 1844.
Plymouth ; Published by John Bennett, No. 3, Ebrington-place ;
and may also be had at NO: 53, Paternoster-row, London ; through
',le medium of all Booksellers.
Also a few Copies of the following,

I.—On the ORIGINAL ELECTION,' FALL, aria RECOVERY of
,he CHURCH of CHRIST. By CHRISTOPHER SAVERY, Esq.,
Price 34.

" The scope of this work is to show forth the sovereignty of Je-
hovah in'the, ehoice of his people from everlasting, and is well calcu-
lated through the teaching of the Holy. Ghost, to confirm and refresh
the believer; whilst passing through. the wilderness of this worlel to
his Heavenly home."—Gospel Magazine.
H.—PORTRAIT AND MONUMENT OF THE LATE DR.
HAWKER, from a Drawing by..M15.9.301-UNf,.of the Monument-
by the celebrated.Legce, erected hi Charlarliureb., Plymouth. Size
12 inches by 10. Phu ss.
lII:=PORTRAIT OF THE REV. SEPTIMUS COURTNEY,
do. Same size, 3s. 6d.

IV.—MONUMENT OF TIIE REV. SEPTIMUS COURTNEY,
do. 3s. 6d.

V.—PORTRAIT OF THE REV. JOHN HAWKER, do. Proofe,
Ss. India do, 7s. Gd. Coloured do. 12s. Gd.

N.B.—All the above Portraits are Engraved on Steel, In the first
style of the art.

LAST, on Saturday, the 6th inst., on the London
and Cambridge-road (supposed at the entrance, 'or within a
feirmiles of Cambridge), a BROWN PAPER PARCEL, containing
Building Plans (useless to any one but the owner).
Any person forwarding the same to the Hoop Hotel, Cambridge, or
to the Owner in London, whose name and address is marked on each
of the plans, will be rewarded for their trouble.

COFFEE.,
ALL who prize a delicious Cup of really fine
COFFEE aro invited to purchase from the Establishment of
SIDNEY and HALL, No. 8, Ludgate-hill.
The New Duties came into operation On Saturday, Bth of June,
from which day we have reduced TWOPENCE to FOURPENCR
per POUND.
Black Tea of splendid quality at Three Shillings and Tenpeliee per
pound.

The Tea Market, No. 8, Ludgate-hill.
SIDNEY AND HALL.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 8.
ALGIERS.
(Continued from our Third Edition of last night.)
Mr. C. WOOD said the question of his Hon. and Gallant
Friend ( Sir C. Napier) was not whether it was the intention
of the Government to increase the naval force in the Mediter-
ranean, but whether it was the intention of the Government to
increase the naval force of the country ? It was the constant
practice of the present Government when in opposition, to up-
braid her Majesty's Government with the paltry amount of the
naval force—with the weakness shown upon the seas in corn,
parison with other Powers, and with the defenceless conditiol
of our coast. But never had the Whigs left the shores of Eng-
land—the interests of England—so utterly at the mercy of the
foreigner as they were now left by the '1 ory Government, by
the crippled state-in which they allowed the British navy to re-
main. He asked the Government, then, if it was their inten-
tion to put the naval force of the country in such a condition as
to command confidence at home and respect abroad?
Sir R. PEEL said he would not give any answer to the
question. Her Majesty's Government were responsible for
the safety of the country for the honour of the country ; and
whenever one or the other were endangered, they would have
no have no hesitation whatever in instantly coming down to
Parliament, and asking for the amplest means of repelling pro-
vocation.-(Hear, hear.) He had been used unfairly, for the
notice given to him by the Gallant Officer was simply whether
it was the intention of the Government to increase the naval
force in the Mediterranean;
Lord PALMERSTON said there was no ground at all for
complaint on the part of the Government, especially when
their attacks of the year 1838 were remembered. In his
opinion, a Government ought always to be ready to state the
amount and distribution of the forces of the country, and
whether increase was intended or not. The amount
of the naval force of England was less now than
ever it was, and it was the duty—the absolute duty
—of the Government—to satisfy Parliament that it would
ho no iitronethened and increased .• to be prepared for any
emergency that might arise.—( Cheers.)
Sir R. PEEL said, the proceeding altogether was a most
unfair one. Why, even if he had had notice of a question,
whether or not he was going to increase the naval estimates,
he would not have answered that question. Every question
that he had had notice of, and it was proper to answer, he had
answered. But beyond that he would simply repeat what he
had before salt;, that her Majesty's Government was respon-
sible for the honour of the country, and were not likely to
shrink from the obligations which office imposed upon them.
Lord HOWICK utterly denied the unfairness complained of,
and it was absolutely ridiculous, coming from a quarter where
so little of punctiliousness had been shown in former days.
RAILWAYS BILL.
Mr. GISBORNE said he rose not to continue the discu'-
sion which, perhaps, had gone far enough at that moment, but
to offer some observations before the Speaker left the chair,
upon the Bill for the regulation of railways, which they were
that night called upon to read for a second time. The Right
Hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade could
not have failed to observe that, from the moment his Bill had
been brought forward, opposition had sprung up against it, and
that opposition had so increased and strengthened as to justify
him (Mr. Gisborne) in saying that the whole railway world
was in decided array against it. He was far from saying that
the present laws regulating railways were perfect, but better
far have their imperfections than sech regulations as the Bill
then before the House would impose. He might certainly
carry the measure, backed as he was by the power of Govern-
ment, but no measure passed hostilely would ever work well,
or tend to the good conduct of railways. He therefore hoped
the Right Hon. Gentleman would withdraw the Bill for the
present session, and save him from the necessity of dividing
the House upon it. If the Right Hon. Gentleman could not,
or would not, do this, he should move that the Bill be read a
second time that day six months.
Mr. C. RUSSELL said he would vote for the adjournment.
Railway companies fe:t that they had not been fully and fairly
beard before the House, and he was of that opinion too. Every
advantage had been withheld from them, and every obstruction
thrown in their way. Every advantage was taken by the
Government in the examination of witnesses, and railway
companies were excluded from the investigation contrary to
custom and to precedent, Not withstanding all the pains which
the Government had taken to force their scheme, their case had
completely broken down, eveh according to the testimony of
their own witnesses. The whole proceedings were based on a
principle of reciprocal interest, which was necessary in order
to obtain support. The President of the Board of Trade ad-
milted that his scheme had failed, and up to a few (lays before
the Committee had closed its labours, the Hight Hun. Gent e-
man had not determined upon any particular plan of operation.
On behalf of the railway companies, who were perfectly unani-
mous in opposing this bill, he offered his most decided opposi-
tion to it. Universal alarm had been felt regarding
the scheme proposed by the Government, and a deputation,

consisting of some of the largest railway proprietors
in England waited upon the Right Hon. Baronet at the head
of the Government, but their proposal was rejected. On be-
half of all the railways in the kingdom—on behalf of one hun-
dred millions of property—he begged of the House to give them
time to consider this important measure before Parliament. The
evidence, which was so voluminous, had not been on the table
longer than since the middle of June, and had not been perused
even by the Ministers themselves. Was the House prepared
even to discuss the propriety of so important a change in rail-
way speculation ? They asked for time till the early part of
next session to consider this Bill, and he hoped the House would
not refuse the prayer.—( Hear, hear. )
Mr. GLADSTONE said he did not think the Non. Member
for Nottingham had well considered his motion ; for the effect of
it would be a refusal to entertain or even consider the measure.
The Bill must be first explained to the House and to those out
of doors who had petitioned the House in such numbers. The
Bill proposed to the House had the sanction of the -Govern-
ment and of the Railway Committee, and was, in fact, grounded
upon the reports of Railway Committees. He felt that it would
be necessary to explain the objects and nature of the Bill.
Mr. HAVES said he did not think it had been reasonable to
promise an opinion upon the Bill when the body of evidence
that had been laid on the table of the House had not been
perused. Since the evidence had been laid upon the -table,
various most important measures had been under the considera-
tion of the House. They had been discussing a Joint-Stock
Company'S - Bill,
.a Bank Charter Bill, and other most im-
portant subjects. Besides, he did not think the Right Hon.
Baronet at the head of the Government had acted fairly by
them, for on a previous occasion he said the House should be
very cautious how they interfered with existing railway com-
panies. He thought the Vice-President of the Board of
Trade had failed to make out a case to resist the motion of the
Hon. Member for Nottingham.
Mr. COLQUHOUN said he thought it would be wrong to
refuse to enter into the discussion at present ; however,
he must say, that they had not as yet sufficiently pe-
rused the report of the, Committee. He considered the
present' step a most dangerous one, and one unprecedented in
the history of British Legislature, transferring almost all the
power from private capitalists t.o Government, and yet that
same Government had refused to interfere with factory labour
on the very same principle on which they now attempted to act.
The idea of passing such a Bill at such a period of the session
was absurd, and the provisions of the Bill were most unfair,
injurious, and of an unprecedented nature. -
Mr. WALLACE said he believed the railway interest had
come doin to that 'House 'for the purpose of stopping the pro-
gress of this Bill upon the ground that the Legislature at=
tempted to interfere between railway companies and the public.
The Railway Committee upon which the report on the table
was founded was composed, or a great part of railway capitalists,
and a great number of witnesses were examined on behalf of
the railway interest. He protested against those Hon. Mem-
bers who were directly interested in railway speculations
voting on this Bill. He would support the second reading.
Mr. GISBORNE 'was averse to discussing the Bill at so
late a period of the session; and before Hon. Members had time
to peruse the evidence.
Mr. H. HINDE denied, in the most positive manner, that
the railway interest had, in any way, attempted to obstruct the
Bill of the Government, but due time had not been given for
the consideration of the evidence. If the Right Hon. Gentle-
man would postpone the decision on the measure till next ses-
sion, he would offer no opposition to a full discussion, and a
second reading of. it during this session. At the same time,
even if the Government persevered, he would offer it no unfair
opposition.
Mr. LABOUCHERE said the question now before the
House was not whether it should affirm the principle of the Bill,
but whether there was anything in its nature to prevent its
discussion in the. present session. He thought they should dis-
cuss the measure fully during the present session. The mea-
sure was as mu-h the offspring of the Committee as
of the. Government, and he would vote for its second
reading. It had been said that the evidence on the
table had not been fully known or promulgated,
but according to the statements of railway companies them-
selves they seemed fully acquainted with the evidence, and
with every principle the Bill introduced, and they gave it their
unqualified condemnation. He did not think 'the interests of
the companies and those of the public were distinct and sepa-
rate, but were altogether identical. He thought the Bill be-
fore the House would be eminently beneficial to both. He
hoped they would now proceed to discuss the Bill in the usual
way, and trusted the Hon. Gentleman would not press his
motion to a divisitim.

Sir R. PEEL said he thought there was a growing opinion
among the publie that railway companies were becoming mo-
nopolies. The Hon. Member was still worse than the Athe-
nian, for the Athenian said " Strike, but hear," but the Hon.
Member would strike but refuse to hear. Must there not be
something very erroneous in the system when the Hon. Mem-
ber for Nottingham moved that the Order of the Day be read,
merely becatve his Right Hon. Friend, the Vice-President of
the Board of Trade, had attempted to explain the principles of
the measure to the House? The object of the Government
was to prevent undue exaction and to make these great public
concerns as beneficial both to the capitalists and to the public as
possible. It had been said that the present period of the ses-
sion was too late to introduce any measure on the sub-
ject of railways, but they had had sixty new
applications for railways during the present session,
and they would in all probability have sixty more.
He could never believe that the House of Commons would so
far protect and shelter monopoly, as to prevent his Right Hon.
Friend, the representative.of the Government, from explaining
the objects and nature of the Bill. The Government, he re-
peated, had and could have no other object in view but the pub-
lic good. They offended a large and influential body of capi-
talists, many of their strenuous supporters, so that they must,
at all events, get credit for perfect disinterestedness. Again,
the Government only adopted the suggestions and recommenda-
tions of the Committee ; they were, in short, only carrying out
their recommendations, and acting in accordance with the evi-
dence brought before them. Until the four tellers declared at
the table of that House that the motion of the Hon. Member
opposite was successful, he never could believe that the power of
monopoly was so strong in the House of Commons, as to refuse,
not only to pass a useful measure, but to deprive the Govern-
ment of the power of explaining its principles, nature, and ob-
jects. All the Government wished was a full, fair, and impar-
tial discussion ; they would be ready to hear suggestions from any
Hon. Member, and give them their best consideration. The
sort of strategy which had been resorted to by railway
directors was rather of an unusual description. The Right
Hon. Gentleman read a circular from the railway directors
which had been received by a grocer at Deptford, requesting
of him, as an elector, to request of his representative to give
the Government Railways Bill all the opposition in, his power,
but the grocer replied that if he had a vote himself he would
give it in favour of the Government measure, so that the rail-
way directors did not further impress on this individual the
necessity of communicating his opinions to his representative.
(A laugh.) No ; let the measure be judged upon its merits
and utility, and by that test the Government was prepared to
abide.— ( Cheers.
Mr. R. YORKE recommended the Hon. Member for Not-
tingham to withdraw his motion.
Mr. GISBORNE then withdrew his motion.

Several petitions against the Railways Bill were presented
from various railway companies.
Alr. GLADSTONE then rose to move the second reading
of the Bill. He said that this was not a question of party, on
which the Government could appeal to the sympathy of their
supporters. Everything that could be done to throw
opposition in the way of this Bill had been adopted on the
part of. many of the railway companies in the country.
The statements, however, upon which that opposition was
founded were all at variance with facts. No. Bill that had
ever come before Parliament had ever met with greater mis-
representation. So anxious were the Government to secure
to railway companies a full and fair representation in the Com-
mittee, that four gentlemen were appointed on that Commit-
tee who were themselves railway directors. This was con-
sidered by many Hon. Members as an undue leaning towards
railway companies, and the consequence was, that two of those
gentlemen were withdrawn. The list of that Committee in-
cluded gentlemen who were known to be conversant with rail-
way matters. He would, first of all, address himself to the
charge which had been brought against this Committee of
partiality. He could not conceive how the gentlemen who
had framed the petitions which had been presented against this
pill could descend to the assertion than the evidence which
had been taken was ev parte evidence. They would deprive
words of all meaning if they were to sanction such words as
these to be applied to this Bill. Why, the witnesses exa-
mined were persons themselves connected with railways.
Twelve witnesses were examined, and two of them were per-
sons connected with the Board of Trade. The whole of the
other witnesses were railway directors. There was Mr. Glynn,
the Chairman of the Birmingham Railway ; Mr. Hudson, the
Chairman of half-a-dozen railways in the north ; Mr. Baxen-
dale, one of the largest railway proprietors in the kingdom ;
Mr. Swift, the Agent of the Grand Junction Railway ; Air.
Saunders, the Secretary to the Great Western Company ;
Captain Lawes ; the floss. Member for Clitheroe (Mr. Card-
well) ; Mr. Wilkinson, Chairman of the London and Croydon
Railway; Mr. Rowland Hill, who was known in connection
with another question, and Mr. Harding, the Secretary to the
Glasgow and Greenock Railway. These were called cx parte
witnesses. How, he would ask, could such words be applied
to such a subject? His Hon. Friend the Member for Read-
ing, in the Committee, said, that railway companies ought to be
allowed to call witnesses. Why his Hon. Friend himself was
on the Committee as the representative of railway companies.
Mr. C. RUSSELL intimated dissent. _ _

Mr. GLADSTONE did not say that his Hon. Friend had
been chosen by the railway companies, but he was an active
supporter of the views of those who entertained opinions of
non-intervention with respect to railways. Why did
not his Honourable Friend the Member for Reading
in Committee, complain of the es parte evidence ?
In entering into tne consideration of the subject which was
submitted to them,
.of course one of the first questions upon
which they deliberated was the question of accommodation
for third class pasengers. The Committee felt that on this
question they were justified in introducing a clause into the Bill,
which to a certain extent might be called interference. It
would be recollected, that those parties whose avocations led
them to different parts of the country, who were compelled to
travel in third class carriages, were persons ill calculated to
bear exposure to the weather, and a clause to protect them
had been framed and introduced into the Bill.—(llear, hear. )
There were two clauses in the Bill relating to the conveyamee
of the military and the mails. There were three clauses re-
lating to the prosecution of railway companies who exceeled
the powers which had- been conferred upon them by Parlia-
ment, and there were two clauses relating to loan notes. The
remaining portions of the Bill were relating to the general sub-
ject of railway reform. They were about now to discuss the
great question of option on the part of the Government with
respect to the general management of railways. And now he
had to complain of the gross misstatements which had been
dulged in with respect to this Bill. Those statements were,
that this Bill had been brought forward to enable the Execu-
tive to purchaie or revise future railways, upon certain terms, if
they thought fit to do so. Plow this was a perversion of the
real objects of the Bill. The Bill gave the Government cer-
tain powers with respect to future railways, but the policy of
using these powers was entirely vested in the'Parliament it:elf.
The express object of the Bill was to place the whole matter ab
the discretion of Parliament. The ground taken by the Com-
mittee was this, that even if it were politic to
purchase or revise, were they now in a condition, with
reference to existing railways, to entertain the question ?
The two questions they had to consider was, the policy of the
step, and whether the maintenance of public faith would
permit them to make the. pd'rchaAes or revisions. The Com-
mittee had scrupulously adhered to the -maintenance of public

' faith, and had adopted no measures which might be deemed
unwa:rantable with respect to existing railways. With re--
gard to future railways they had reserved certain powers, and
having done so, they reserved the question of policy with
respect to carrying those powers out for the deliberation of
Parliament. There were some gentlemen who recommended
the purchase of all railways by the State. The Committee
were not prepared to adopt this recommendat on and opinion.
He (Mr. Gladstone) would certainly oppose such a proposition.
He did not think that in the present state of the railway
system, there were grounds sufficient to warrant the adoption
of such a measure. This Bill left the question of policy en-
tirely open. To purchase any railway, the Government
would have to come to Parliament for the means, and then
the question of the expediency of the plan would be fully en-
tered into. It was not too much to expect, that in a very
few years as much as 15,000,0001. sterling annually would be
spent by the people of this country in the shape of fares to
railway companies; and therefore it was important that the
Government should have the powers which this Bill
conferred, if by that means a saving to the public
could be effected. Under the present system of railways
the experiment which the Government proposed never could
be made, They might have it tried between London and
Greenwich, or between Glasgow and Greenock, but not on a
large and general scale in the country. Now he did say, for
those reasons, that it was politic and wise in them as states-
men, to retain in their hands a power to be used at an after
period-for the good of the public,' if they found it politic to do
so ; er not• to be used if circumstances did not require it. He
had alecististrong objection to any measure that might incline
the scale either .one Way or another; but that before them only
called on Parliament to maintain its own free agency.' It was
perfectly impossible for the Executive to alter or revise, with-
out first resorting to Parliament. It had been said that it was
the object of the Government to keep that a close question.
He denied that such was the desire of the Government. They
rather wished to open a question that was now closed, and to
put Parliament in such a condition that they might decide upon
and settle it. It might be wise to try the working of this mea-
sure, or it might not ; he was not going to say how Parliament
ought ultimately to to proceed ; but, in the meantime, Parlia-
ment only enacted that, at some future time, it might be law-
ful for Government to purchase railways. But the opponents
of this measure may say, " Tell us, first, when you mean to pur-
chase them, and on what terms." It would .be impossible for
Government to make any reservation in that case, and they
had thought they were bound to reserve a certain power, in order
to show those who might be afterwards disposed to invest capital
in improvements calculated to do much good to the country,
what would be the terms on which Government should take
those railways under their own protection. It was a very
singular matter, and the question was an amusing one. How
happened it that this Bill, which affected only the prospective
railways, had been unopposed by those having Bills at present
before Parliament ?—( Hear, hear.) How came it, he asked,
that the opposition arose altogether from the old companies, and
whose rights the Government had paid every attention to?
He wanted much to know on what possible grounds of reasoning
they founded their opposition to the measure ? One reason
he believed they alleged was this; that they would
ultimately be driven under the operation of the
Bill. The very language used was, that Government
would force them into it, however ruinous and oppressive
they might find it. But how could Government force them
into it ? He (Mr. G.) had already shown that Government
could do nothing towards forcing them into it; and could it
believe that they would be drawn into any such ruinous and op-
pressive course ? Surely they mistrusted themselves too much.
—(Laughter.) They might surely have exhibited a little
more confidence.—( Laughter.) This he would say, that if
any course could tend to weaken those companies, it was the
course they were then pursuing. He was addressing a ma-
jority of railway proprietors in that House.--t Hear, hear, and
laughter.) He'was himself a railway proprietor; his family
were most extensively connected with railway companies ;
and he repeated that nothing could weaken rail-
way companies like an undue use of their present
great power.—( Hear, hear.) Had Parliament shown any
wish or inclination to oppress and thwart public companies ?
Had it evinced a disposition to second the clamour raised out
of doors against the management of railway companies? Yet
those railway companies whose power was so strong, stronger
perhaps than any other in commanding the votes of Members
—(Cries of " No, no")—he imputed no' motives to Hon.
Members, but it seemed odd, with respect to their opposition to
this Bill, how, if they had no confidence in a future Parliament,
they could place any confidence in the present one. They
objected that Government might at a future period buy up
some poor railway, and so make use of its resources to injure a
rich one. His answer to that was, that Government could
not do that without first coming to Parliament for the
ratans ; and he thought they would be able to combat
then and to defeat the unworthy Government, which would
enter the commercial lists with a stronger purse for the pur-
pose of ruining other parties. If Government were inclined
to pursue this unworthy policy then, what was to prevent them
from doing so now ? Why this, that Parliament would listen
to no such proposition. He thought those were the two
objections on which this Bill had been opposed, first, that
Government might buy, and secondly, that sufficient time had
not been given to the House and to the country to consider its
provisions. With respect to the irst, he hail already stated
his opinion upon it, and with regard to the second he
would briefly say a few words upon it. And first, he at
once admitted that if the House were called on to affirm
the policy of the Government purchasing railways, this
objection would be a strong one; but that objection did not
apply to a measure of definite legislation. That Bill ought
to have been denominated a Bill for reserving the discretion of
Parliament—he repeated reserving its discretion, and lie had
no hesitation in saying that, if those notes of the Committee
had been lost, he would not have scrupled to recommend the
Bill to the consideration of Parliament. But he asked,
how stood the objection with respect to the ques-
tion of time ? Oa the 30th of March, the Corn.
mittee recommended, and on the 3d of April the report
was on the table of the House. More than three months had,
therefore, elapsed since the recommendation had been intro-
duced to the notice of Members. Why they (the Government)
were the persons who were taken by surprise in the matter.
The report and the Bill were published on the 3d of April, and,
therefore, when Hon. Gentlemen spoke of being taken by
surprise, he imagined that himself and his colleagues had the
most right to complain. They might say, probably, that no
one thought of the report ; but he said that fewer
documents had been the object of greater attention
either in that House or throughout the country. It was ad-
verted to, and printed in all the London newspapers, and in the
majority of the Irish press. The principal railway newspapers
had also referred, and extracted from it, and they had praised
the moderation and cautious tone of the report; and all that was
done three months ago; and nothing then but the utmost con-
cord was expressed for the measure; and until other matters
came on, to which he would not then advert, that report main-
tained its interest with the public. lie complained that they
(the Government) were misrepresented, and that, too, in the
petition from the Directors of the London and Birmingham
Railway. They stated that the report was not laid
on the table of the House till the 24th of May,
and that most voluminous papers were not pro-
duced till a fortnight afterwards. He complained of this as
a misrepresentation. What were the facts ? The Bill was
founded upon the report which had been laid before the
House on the 3d of April. The Hon. Gentleman then read
the answers given to the Committee by the Chairman of the
London and Birmingham Railway, in which that gentleman
expressed his opinion that the present Bill should be intro-
duced without delay. He deprecated the consequences of de-
lay. By the beginning of next session, they would have one
or two hundred Railway Bills before the House, and it
would be July before they could get at the second
reading of this Hear, hear.) The opposition to this
Bill was composed of different elements, but he
apprehended that the real opposition was that set on foot by
parliamentary agents and solicitors. It hadbeen stated, that
the competition between rival lines of railway would preserve
the interests of the public without the necessity for this mea-
sure. They would perhaps allow him to introduce something
by way of episode. The I.ondon and Birmingham and the
Grand Junction Railways quarrelled some time ago, and the
rival companies proposed new lines of railway for the
purpose of opposing others, and so lowering the rates of transit
to the public. Like lovers' quarrels, however, they became
friends again, and the public were no longer thought of, and so
it would be, if this measure was not carried, in future and similar
cases. He ( Mr. Gladstone) seeing the way in which the opposition
to this Bill was going on, had written to the parties whose
petition had, a night or two ago, been presented, to know it
they were authorised by the different railway companies to do
so. The fact was that the movement against the hill was ori-
ginated and solely carried on by those who lived and thrived
upon the abominably lavish expenses which attended every
Railway Bill on its transit through the House. It was
those parties who thronged the lobby, persecuting Members
for their votes—the agents for the Bills—the men who lived oil
making expenses out of them—these were the real parties who,
for their owu selfish, anti sordid interests, now got up the oppo-
sition to this Bill.—(Cheers.) No men were happier at draw-
ing up petitions and other documents, just steering clear of
absolute falsehood, but misrepresenting everything which, as it.
appeared to them, militated against their own interests.
—( Loud cheers.) But he would come to his last
topic. 'The Bill he was thew recommending had
been represented as an attack upon railway property. Why,
since the Committee had been sitting, since the reports had
been made—yes, since that very Bill had been brought in, rail-
way property had been rising in value.—(Cheers.) The shares
of the Great Western Railway had risen Si. The railway
market had never been more buoyant ; and at the present mo-
ment there were no less than fifteen new railway schemes
coming to Parliament, whose united capital would not
be less than 20,000,0001.—( Hear.) But he would argue the
question no further. Neither the Committee nor the Govern-
ment had done anything, or contemplated anything, to the in-
jury of existing railway property, or to shake public confidence
in it. All they wanted was, to legislate for the remote future.
After the statements he had made—the facts he had cited—
the motives he had laid Mire—he was sure that House was not
to be deluded, and that nothing would induce it to defer this
Bill to next session. He knew the power of railway compa-
nies, and had ever felt satisfied that with justice on their
side they were irresistible. But knowing that justice was on
the side of Government, and lea's.' it was its duty to interfere
now rather than later, or when obstacles would be increased,
he (lid not shrink from the encounter. And he approached his
task with the better heart because he knew the object of the
Government was to secure and to strengthen property, and not
to loosen or undermine it,; and also because, whatever noise or
boast might be. trade by certain interested parties, lio was
satisfied that railway power had not yet risen so high, and that
Parliamentary authority had not sunk so low, Is to endanger the
success-ot,a Bill which looked only to the great, and general,
and pefma'nent interests of the country at large.—( Cheers. )
Mr. ENTWISLE said he felt the great disadvantage of
following such a speaker as the Right Hon. President of th..
Board of Trade,
especially after the very able and comprehee-
sive speech which he had just delivered.:—( Hear, hear.) He
felt it his duty, however, in this early stage of the proceeding,
to protest against any measure which might have the effect of
ultimately bringing the Government into the market as
competitors with the railway companies. The Bill, too, gave
a complete power as to future railways, and he. doubted the
propriety of giving so extensive an authority to any Govern-
ment. By and bye, the country would be one complete net-
work of railway, and to grant the Government the powers
now sought by the Government would be to increase its
patronage and influence to an 'almost fearful extent. It should
be recollected, too, that most of the railway proprietors were
interested in several lines, and to his knowledge it frequently
happened that the most successful of the railways only rt-
tatuted to those proprietors:sufficient to pay a very moderate