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asked for was fair play. They asked for a fair price,
and he conceived they were entitled to it, from the dis-
advantages in which they were placed.
Mr, C. WOOD said that he believed the Government
intend d to carry out their sl stem of classified duties
with the fairest spirit, but he believed it was improbable,
if not impossible, to carry them out. If they slid carry
them out, the Right Honourable Baronet would lose
at least 200,0001. more than he anticipated from
the imposition of his differential duties. He therefore
thought it would be better if the Right Hon. Baronet
would accede to the proposition of postponing the reso-
lutions until after Wednesday, that the Government
might then come down to the House unfettered by any
resolutions, and enter upon a full reconsideration of the
whole subject.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER saw no
objection to the course proposed by his Hon. Friend
opposite; but he trusted in assenting to the postpone-
ment it would be understood that he was not giving any
pledge as to the postponement of the resolutions; on the
other hand, he hoped it was the general understanding
of the House, that after the discussion of the
resolutiOns no delay should take
.place to pre-
vent the Bill itself from passing. If that
were the proper interpretation of the wish of
the House, he was willing to consent to the
postponement of the resolutions. Several suggestions
had been thrown out, but there were considerable prac-
tical difficulties in the way of their adoption. He would,
however, consider them between this and Friday, on
which day he should again move the resolutions.
Sir W. CLAY hoped that some intimation would be
given to the House, previous to Friday, of the modifica-
tions Government proposed to introduce.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was un-
derstood to say, that if it were in his power he would do
so, but it was not to be inferred from this that he gave
any pledge.
Laid J. RUSSELL thought that the House would be
in a position to eliscuss and deliberate upon the resolu-
tions on Friday. He hoped, however, that the Right
Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer would
give some previous intimations of the intei.tion of the
Government ; and he thought it was not ti o much to
ask for two days' notice.
After a few words from an Host. MEMBER,
Mr. HUME said he hoped, in the meantime, the Go-
vernment would consider the propriety of allowing a
drawback on stock on hand. The measure would press
extremely hard upon the trade if something of this kind
were not done, and he hoped the Government would
ultimately agree to allow a drawback. He would take
that opportunity of stating that so long as they con-
tinued differential duties they ought to extend them to
the East Indies. where there was an ample field for the
production of sugar. Ile believed that large capital
would be devoted to this purpose, if it were not for the
uncertainty of the Government. If the Government
would only meke up their mind to extend the same diffr-
rential duties to the Ea-t IndieQ, as they applied to the
West Indies, they might depend upon it capitalists
would be prepared to advance capital to carry on the
undertaking. It would be attended with very little
injury to the public interests, and he hoped the Govern-
ment would see the necessity of giving the subject their
best attention.
Sir J. R. REID must say that he had never heard a
better speech from the Hon. Member opposite, and he
trusted the Hon. Member would conticue to foster the
principles he had just advocated.
Mr. THORNELY truste 1 the House of Commons, as
the representatives of the people, would not agree to any
further duty, whether it ware imposed upon the British
or foreign possession,. He was surpri,ed to hear his
flon. Friend the Member f,r Montrose advocating the
interests of particular individuals. The Hon. Member
seemed to f..rget that they were sent there to represent
the interests of the people.
Mr. HUME was quite surprised to hear his H. n.
Friend objecting to a temporary duty. He (Mr. Hume)
was certainly no advocate of a permanent duty, but he
made his proposal, believing that it would benefit the
consumer. At the present moment, the cultivation of
sugar in some pat is of the East Indies was negl.cted,
wher,a., it a temporary duty were given to insure a
market, there would be a field for• the employment of
the unoccupied capital and labour of this country.
Mr. B. W ILLIAMS trusted the Goverrment would be
disposed to allow a return upon stock in hand. Already
a considerable reduttlin had taken place in the prices of
sugar, in cots, quence of the announcement of Govern-
ment ; and it was, therefore, their duty to make the laws
as light as possible. If they would only extend the
time to the sth of April, it might enable the present
holders to get rid of their stock,,, but, at all events, if the
Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer
would not consent to this proposal, he should feel it to
be his duty to take every opportunity of opposing the
Bill.

Mr. BROTHERTON thought the proposal of his
❑on. Friend the Member for Montrose was a fair
one. It was only to establish a duty for a short time,
to increase the extent of the lab ,ur• market.

Dr. BOWRING reminded the House that they had
forgotten the great interests of the community, and were
discussing the interests of individuals. Until effect
were given to the principle of the Right Hon. Baronet
opposite, that they should purchase in the cheapest, and
sell in the dearest market, the question would never be
satisfactorily set at rest.
After a few words from Messrs. P. Borthwick, C.
Wood, and Foster,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER with-
drew his resolutions, and
The CHAIRMAN was ordered to report progress.
The House then Y esumed, when
The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and obtained leave
to sit again on Friday.
THE BASTARDY BILL. _ _

Sir J. GRAIIAIIIWoPOsed the second reading oi
the Bastardy Bill, till Friday.
PROPERTY-TAX BILL.

On the order of the day, fur going into Committee on
this Bill being read.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose
and said, he would be glad if Hon. Members would
postpone their amendments, and take the discussion on
the Bill on the bringing up of the report.
Mr. DARBY wished to ask the Right lion. the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it would not be
convenient to take the discussion of his Hon. Friend
(Mr. Miles) the Member for Soinersetshire, upon the
question of going into Committee ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, it
was his intention to take the Committee the first thing
on Wednesday, and the amendment alluded to was first
on the paper.
After a few words from Mr. C. WOOD, who was
totally inaudible in the gallery,
The House went into Committee upon the Bill, and
the Committee immediately adjourned to Wednesday.
The SPEAKER resumed the Chair, and the House ad-
journed at a quarter- pat Eight o'Clock.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES.
I {Sub-Committee No. 4 assembled yes!ezday in Com-
mittee-room No. 7.

The Committee consisted of Sir William Heathcote, Mr.
Evans, and Mr. Childers. _ .

The Committee took unopposed petitions.
The first was the Ulster Railway. The necessary proofs of
notices having been gone through, tha Committee decided
that the standing orders had been complied with.
The Committee decided that the Standing Order had been
complied with in the case of the Oxford and Rugby (Broad
Guage) Line, and the Trent Valley Railway. Both Bills
were unopposed.

The COMMISSIONERS of SEWERS
of the CITY of LONDON.
On Saturday last a deputation from the Commis-
sioners of Sewers for the City of London waited upon
the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house, and presented
his Lordship, on his retirement from the chair of that
Commission, a hands 'me silver ink tand, with the fol-
lowing inscription
" At a public meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers
of the City of London, and liberties thereof, in the
Guildhall of the said City, on Thursday, Feb. 25, 1845,
Walter Anderson Peacock, Esq., Deputy, in the Chair,
Resolved unanimously, that the thanks of this Court are
due, and are hereby presented, to the Right Hon.
Michael Gibbs, Lord Mayor, for the great and valuable
services rendered to the public and this Commission, as
their chairman for the last eight years, for the extra
ordinary business habits, regularity and dispatch with
with which he has conducted the many important mat-
ters subject to the control of this Court, whereby he
has mater:olly assisted in carrying out works unprece-
dented in extent, and calculated to insure to his ftllow-
citizens, as well as to the inhabitantti of the surrounding
disvietat advantages hitherto unknown, and for which
this Court.present to his Lordship this mark of their
respect, with a hope that whether in public or in private
life he may realise every cmifort he can enjoy."

SLAVE• GROWN SUGAR.—We learn on the very best
authority, that a parcel of Louisiana sugar has been recently
purchased at New Orleans, for shipment to Liverpool, with
the view of trying whether it can be profitably sold m the
English market. Of course it will be entitled to entry at the
same duty as free labour sugar, pursuant to the terms of the
commercial treaty between the tee countries.—lllanchestcr
Guardian.

DISCOVERY OF THE BODY OF A CIIILD IN A
PICKLE JAR.—On Friday afternoon, while some dredgemen
were engaged in cleansing. the West India Export dock,
they brought up a good-sized pickling jar, the bung well
secured, and evidently containing
opening it to share the spsil,
when, on removing the bung, they were greatly astounded
in beholding the body of a large sized infant apparently pre-
served in spirit, devoid of any clothing. It appeared to have
been a six or eight months' child, and on the forehead was
a cut, as if from a blow by some sharp instrument. Mr.
Bain, a surgeon of Poplar, examined the wound, and did not
think that it had caused death ; the skull was not fractured.
A coroner's inquest was held on Saturday, and a verdict of
":Found dead" returned.
HORRIBLE DiscovEßY.—On Saturday much ex-
citement prevailed at Kensington, in consequence of the
bodies of two newly-born infants having been found 'within
100 yards of each other, and one of them in the common
sewer. It appears that for some days past the drain in Sad-
broke- place, Notting-hill, having been stopped up. inforMa-
tion of the fact was conveyed on Friday to the parochial
authorities, who gave orders for the discovery and removal
of the cause. Accordingly some labourers repaired thither,
and after digging to the sewer, were horrified at finding the
impediment to be the dead body of a female child, with only
one arm, the missing one having evidently been gnawed
away by rats, which vermin had also frightfully disfigured
other parts of the body. The deceased infant was imme-
diately taken to the workhouse, and shortly afterwards, as a
labouring man, residing at Notting-hill, was passing through
a street leading to Ladbroke-square, he saw something
wrapped up in a white rag, lying in the middle of the road.
In hopes he had found a prize, he took it up, when, on open-
ing the wrapper, he saw the body of a male infant, quite
dead. That was also carried to the workhouse, where both
await an inquest, before which takingplace, no doubt, it will
be ascertained whether or not either was born alive.

FIRST REPORT from the SELECT
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAY BILLS.
MIRTH! 110 DIE I,IIIIUAIIII, 1645.
Ordered,—That a Select Committee be appointed to insittire into
the best mode of constituting Committees on railway Bills Vas the
present session of Parliament, and of the most expedient ro anner
in which Railway Bills, having relation to similar objects, 'may be
brought under the consideration of the same Committee.
And a Committee was appointed of—
Lord Granville Somerset Mr. Greene
Sir George Grey Mr. Ewart
Mr. Gladstone Mr. Colquhoun
Mr. Wallace Mr. Shaw
Mr. Strutt Mr. Hodgson fluids
Viscount Howick Mr. Pakington
Lord Harry Vane The O'Conor Don,.
Mr. Estcourt
Ordered,—That the Committee have power to send Aar persons,
papers, and records.
Ordered,.—That five be the quorum of the Committee.
lIENERIS, 28° DIE FEAUARII, 1845.
Ordered,—That the Committee have power to report theft
opinion from time to time to the House.
REPORT.
The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the best mode of
constituting Committees on Railway Bills in the present see.
sion of Parliament, and of the most expedient manner in
which railway Bills, having relation to similar objects may be
brought under the consideration of the same Committee ; and
who were empowered to report from time to dine to the House,
have considered the matters to them referred, and have agreed
to the f: •Bowing resolutions :
I. That a Committee of five Members be appointed, to be called
the Classification Committee of Railway Bills, and that three be
the quorum of such Committee.
2. That copies of all railway Bills presented to the House, and
a list of all projected railways, of which plans and sections have
been deposited in the Private Bill-office, be laid before the said
Committee, together with all reports and minutes of the Board of
Trade upon such projected railways, which shall have been laid,
or which shall from time to time be laid,before the House.
3. That the Committee of Classification shall form into groups
all railway Bills or projects which, in their opinion, It would be ex-
pedient to submit to the same Committee.
4. That Committees on railway Bills during the present session
of Parliament shall be composed of a Chairman and four Mem.
hers, to be appointed by the Committee of Selection.
5. That each Member of a Committee on a railway Bill or Bills
shall, before he be entitled to attend and vote on such Committee,
sign a declaration that his constituents have no local interest, and
that he himself has no personal interest for or against any Bill or
project referred to him ; and no such Committee shall proceed to
business until the whole of the Members thereof shall have signed
such declaration.
6. That the promoters of a railway Bill shall be prepared to go
into the Committee on the Bill on such a day as the Committee of
Selection shall, subject to the order that there be seven clear dap;
between the second reading of every private Bill and the sitting of
the Committee thereupon, think proper to appoint, provided that
the Classification Committee shall have reported on such Bill.
7. '1 hat the Committee of Selection shall not appoint an earlier
day for the first meeting of the Committee on any group of Bills
than the twenty-sixth day after the presentation to the House of
the reports of the Board of Trade ma all railway projects included
in such group, unless all the petitions for Bills relating to such
projects shall have been sooner presented.
O. That the Committee of Selection shall give each Member not
less than fourteen days' notice of the week in which it wilt be ne-
cessary for him to be in attendance for the purpose of serving. it
required, on a Railway Bill Committee.
9. That the Committee of Selection shall nice each Member a
sufficient notice of his appointment as a Member of a Committee on
a railway Bill, and shall transmit to him a copy of the fifth resole-
Lien, and a blank form of the declarati n therein required, with a
request that he will forthwith return it to them properly filled up
and signed. •
10. That if' the Committee of Selection shall not within due time
receive from each such Member the aforesaid declaration, or an
excuse which they shall deem sufficient, they shall report to the
House the name of such defaulting Member.
11. That the Committee of Selection shall have the power of
substituting, at any tiate before the first meeting of a Committee,
another Member for a Member whom they shall deem it proper to
accuse from serving on that Committee.
12. That power be given to the Corranittee of Selection to send
for persons, papers, and records, in the execution of the duties im.
posed on them by the foregoing resolutions.
13. That no Member of a Committee shall absent himself from
his duties on such Committee, unless in the case of sickness, or by
leave of the House.
14. That if the Chairman shall be absent from the Committee
the Member next in rotation on the list (who shall be present) shal
act as Chairman.
15. That Committees shall be allowed to proceed so long as
three Members shall be present, but not with a less number, unless
by special leave of the House.
18. That if on any day within one hour after the time ap-
pointed for the meeting of a Committee three Members shall not be
present, the Committee shall be adjourned to the same hour on
the next day on which the House shall sit which had been fixed
for that day.
17. That in the case of a Member not being present within one
hour after the time appointed for the meeting of the Committee, or
of any Member absenting himself from the duties on such Com-
mittee, such Member shall be reported in the House at its next
sitting.
18. That each Committee shall be appointed to meet on each
day at its sitting, not later than twelve o'clock, unless by the re-
gular vote of the Committee.
10. That parties promoting railway projects which have been
grouped together by the Classification Cemsnittee, shall be per-
mitted to appear before the Committee on a railway Bill belong.
ing to such group, and to offer evidence either against the Bill im-
mediately under the consideration of the Committee, or in sup.
port of their own projects.
20. That in Committees en a Bill or Bills, when such evidence
has been given, it shall be within the competency of a C numittee
to adjourn their proceedings until the Bill or Bills for such other
projects shall be before them, care being taken by the Committee
of Selection that in All such cases the Bills for the so opposing pro..
jests shall be referred to the Committee by which the first Bill of
Bills had been considered.
21. That as soon as the Committee of Classification shall have
determined what railway Bills or projects are to be grouped toge-
ther, they shall report the same to the House, and all petitions
against any of the said Bills or projects shall be presented to the
House three clear days before the meting of the Committee
thereon.
22. that the Committee on a group of railway Bills or projects
shall hear, so far as may be necessary, parties appearing in support
of such petitions, so as to receive without interruption the whole
of the evidence on the general merits of the Bills or projects be lore
them, and also on the details of the Bill or project, or Bills or
projects, which they shall be of opinion ought to be adopted, in
order that if the Committee should consider that a Bill or Bills
not yet read a second time at the time of the inquiry ought to be
preferred, they may be enabled, when that Bill or Bills shall be
formally committed, to dispense with receiving any further evidence,
clauses as their previous investigation may have shown to be no..
and to confine their proceeding, to making such amendments in the

cessary.
February 28, 1845.

slii ITZERLAND.

Th
infoi
cl followings
tdyi s pi
na t cshwfirtozme r
lan Lord,d Ai
ab egridveemni t
bo
yMtrh.
eM ocr,
Envoy Extraordinary and Ministlleriipotentiary of her
ou-
stitutionnel:— "Foreign-office, Feb. 11.
" Sir,—Your dispatches respecting the events which have
lately occurred in Switzerland, and which depict the agitated
situation of certain cantons, have attracted the serious atten-
tion of her Majesty's Government. Although the contents of
these dispatches have deeply grieved her Majesty's Govern-
ment, it does not, however, think itself called on to pro-
nounce a judgment on the causes that may have brought
about such a state of things. Its respect for the inde-
pendent sovereignty of the cantonal Governments would,
t believed that it had any desire to
in fact, at all times, prevent her Majesty's Government
or opinion that might per-
mitfr m offering ff etroi n gbe an
interfere in the domestic affairs of Switzerland. At the
same time, her Majesty's Government cannot but feel appre-
hensive that a prolongation of the present agitation may
eventually be the cause of consequences to the Confederation,
the possibility of which is regarded by her Majesty's Go-
vernment with so much the greater solicitude, that they ap-
pear to have escaped attention, or to have been treated as of
little importance by the parties engaged in the unfortunate
dissensions which at present appear to threaten thesdistolu-
tion of the federal band. The consequences to which I
allude are those which might affect the international rela-
tions between Switzerland and the rest of Europe, such as
they are defined by general decrees and by the treaties
which have guaranteed to the Swiss confederation, consti-
tuted by the existing federal compact, the advantages of
perpetual neutrality, and of territorial independence. It is
evident that the destruction of this compact, no matter by
what means, or by the fault of what party in Switzerland,
it might be effected, would sooner or later generate the ne-
cessity of re-constituting the Helvetic body under some
other form, which, in order to obtain a legal position in the
general political system in Europe, would require the formal
assent of the Powers which took part in the act of the 20th
of November, 1815, by which it was declared that the neu-
trality and inviolability of Switzerland, and her independence
from all foreign influence, are for the true interests of the policy
of the whole of Europe. So difficult a result as that of the re-
cognition by the rest of Europe of a new Switzerland could
not be obtained but through complications probably preju-
dicial to the dearest interest of the cantons, and which would
necessarily invo've the intervention of the foreign Powers.
Her Majesty's Government is not ignorant with what aversion
sigh an intervention would be viewed by the Swiss of all par-
ties, and it entirely appreciates the patriotic sentiment with
which this manner of regarding the matter inspires them. It
is on this account, and looking at the eventuality of such re-
sults for Switzerland, that her Majesty's Government feels
most anxious that the cantonal Governments, in the examina-
tion of the questions which are at present agitated in their
country, should lay aside all considerations foreign from the
general interests, permanent well-being, and tranquillity of
the confederation, said that, bearing in mind their duty towards
their common country, their federal obligations, and the
grave responsibility which weighs on each of them towards its
respective population, they should. by means of mutual good
will and concession, aid the federal Directory in obtaining a
solution of these questions, in the legal forms prescribed by
the compact, and not by the employment of violent or anar-
chical means. Her Majesty's Government recognises the re-
spect which is due to the free decisions of a sovereign state in
matters regarding exclusively its own well-being and domes •
the policy; but, whatever advantages it may be hoped to
gather from certain measures, they could scarcely counter-
balance the acknowledged inconveniences of civil com motion s
and dissensions, and of a foreign intervention, which would
be the necessary consequence. The sincere and friendly
interest which the Britannic Government has always taken in
the welfare of Switzerland, and the relations which result
from the position of Great Britain with regard to the con-
federation, as one of the parties that took part in the act
which guaranteed the independence of Switzerland, at the
same time that they justify the solicitude with which her
Majesty's Government awaits the end of the present agita-
tion, impose on it the duty to endeavour to call the serious
attention of the Swiss, of all parties and all opinions, to the
too probable consequences of a further continuance of such a
state of things. You are, in conseqnence, authorised to com-
municate this dispatch to the President of the federal
Directory, and to give a copy of it,
if you think fit, to his
Excellency. It is also permitted to you to make known the
views of her Majesty's Government wherever you suppose
that the expression of them can be advantageous to the
interests of Switzerland. "ABERDEEN."

RESIGNATION OF MR. HIGGS, DEPUTY -CORONFR
FOR WEsrmisgrEn.—ln the course of an inquiry that took
place on Saturday, which was of no public importance, Mr.
Higgs stated that, after fulfilling the duties of Deputy-Co
roner for the city and liberties of Westminster for a period
of twenty-eight years, his health now compelled him tore-
sign that office ; and, although he should still continue to
hold the Crown coronersbip for the Duchy of Lancaster, the
inquisitions for 'Westminster would, in future, be taken by
Mr. Bedford, of the firm of Vincent and Bedford, whom Mr.
Gill had selected to succeed him.
A chimney-sweep, eight years old, was suffocated
at Bridgenortb, on Friday last, whilst ascending a chimney.
He had not got up more than two yards before he com-
plained and wanted to come down, but had not the power.
A young man, named John Piper, who accompanied the
bey and sent him up the chimney, has been Committed by
the coroner fer mandau4httre