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London, England, 1845-02-21 00:00:00

BANKING DE.

Proprietors' capita 114,553,000
Rest
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings-
banks, -Commis-
sionersofNational
Debt, and divi-

dead accounts) 4 t13C,247
Other deposits 9,944,408
Seven clsiy and other
bills

1,031,922

£33,461,713

M. MA
Dated the 20th day of Febrm

THE LONDON GAZETTE
(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 18, 1845.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Samson
Cabhymn as Consul in London !or his Royal Highness the
Grand Duke of SaKe-Weimar7Eisenach.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire.
Reval North Regiment of Lincolnshire Militia—J. Tom-
line, Esq., to be Captain, Feb. 15.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire.
Denbighshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet T. Edgeworth
to be Lieutenant; 'l'. Humphreys, Gent., to be Cornet, vice
Edgeworth, promoted.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
Bth Victoria-20th February, 1845.
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This Court will, on Saturday the Ist day of March next
at ten o'clock, A.M., hull a sitting, and will deliverjudgment
in cases that have been argued. BY THE COURT.

WHITI,jIALL, FEB 12,

The Eight lion. Sir NicolasConyngham Tindal, Knt.,
Lord Chief Justiev of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas,
has appointed Francis Soames, of Wm kingham, in the county
of Berks, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners
for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by
married women, under the Act passed for the abolition of
fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple
modes of assurance, in and for the county of Berks, and
also in and for the counties of Wilts, Surrey, Hants, and
Oxford.

WHITEHALL, FEB. 17.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed James Blake, of Croy.
don, in the county of Surrey, Gent., to be a Master Extraor•
dinary in the High Court of Chancery.
winTEHALL, FEB. 18.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed henry Yorke, of
Oundle, in the comity of Northampton, Gent., to be a Master
Extraordinary iu the High Court of Chancery.

BXNKI:UPTS.

William Dale, shoemaker, London-wall.
Lawrens!e Daniel Dolbell, dyer, Lower Mitcham.
James Crabb,. bricklayer, Great Tey, Essex.
Charles Ranstord, grocer, South Tottenham.
Alfred Wyatt, victualler, Ilighworth, Wiltshire.
Lewis George, shawl warehouseman, Regent-street.
William Behnes, stone merchant, Osnaburgh-street, New
road.

Francis Cranswick, innkeeper, Bridlington, Yorkshire.
Gerard Samson, corn dealer, Weymouth and Melcombe
Regis, I) rs. tshire.
Thomas Ferris, grocer, Wooton Bassett, Wiltshire.
James Wells, common carried, Winchcomb, Gloucestershire.
Charles Thornton, stationer, Huddersfield.
William Reeves, coach builder, Walcot, Somersetshire.
Thomas Langston, share broker, Manchester.
Thomas Taylor, farmer, Higher Walton, Cheshire.
John Danks, whariinger, Birmingham.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)
The Committee, after hearing formal evidence, decided that
) t.Star.ding Orders had been complied with in the following
:
The Monkland and Mil-HetiHoch Railway.
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway.
lludderstield and Manchester Railway and Canal.
Manchester,South Junction and Altrincham Railway.
In the case of the EdiLihurgh and Glasgow Railway,
opposition was offered, 0:: the part of the Duke of Montrose,
by Mr. Deans, on the gr0.,:,1 that the description of the line
was not accurate. Yu witnesses, however, were forthcoming
in support of this allegation, and it, conaequently, fell to the
ground..
Mr. DFAxs then took an objection to the petition, in con-
sequence of an omission in the plan of a description of the
radius of a curve. The Committee referred to the plan in
question, and the omissiim appearing, the question was
referred to the Select Committee onstanding orders.
SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
As it was stated that there would be great opposition to
this petition, the Committee postponed it till Monday.
The Committee then adjourned.

DEATII OP SIR T. F. I3uXTON, BART.—We regret
to state that letters have been received in town this morn-
ing, announcing the death of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton,
Bart., on the 19th inst., at his seat, Northrepps, Norfolk,
after a lingering illness, which for the last fortnight bad con-
fined him to his bed. This distinguished man first became
known to his country by his exertions to diminish the suf-
ferings of those at home, whether confined in gaols or strug-
gling iu deepest poverty, :IA the Spitaltields manufacturers a
quarter ofa century ag • . IThtering Parliament, he commenced
that career of enlarged comprehensive usefulness which
will always associate his name with the abolition of slavery
in the West Indies, and with the most active endeavours to
confirm and improve the measures for the abolition of the
slave-trade; and not less with the admirable, though not
equally successful, efforts for the benefit of the African race
in their own vast continent. The comparative failure of the
Niger expeditton preyed, Oleic was reason to fear, on his
spirits and on his health ; though he never ceased in feel, that
every, measure which wisdom and zeal, combined in the Go-
vernment which directed that expedition, could effect to in-
sure its success, had been faithfully employed ; but it pleased
God otherwise.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
(Tills DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
(TIIIS EVENING)

The.Loen CUANCELLOR took his scat on the Woolsack
shortly after Five o'clock.
MEDICAL PROFESSION.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from a medical
gentleman named Burn, living at St. George's-in-the-East,
Praying an amendment in the laws regarding Coroners. The
petitioner stated that many inquisitions had been taken in
ths cavesw
where parties had been dying for 13 or 14 days. Now
surely was unneee,sary, and he wished to call the attention
cf the Secretary of State fur the Home Department to it.
Lord CAMPBELL would give notice of his intention on
Monday to lay on the table of the House a Bill for abolishing
deodanda.
Lord STANLEY
presented a petition from Ulverstone
praying that the Apothecaries' Art be repealed.
SGA DUTIES,
NION TEA GU R. E moved for an account of the equali-
z :Bon of the duties on su • il,. 1836, she produce of the East
Hethought thtr cri:l at had been produced by the equi-
lization of the duties e o
on suxart
be produetiveoflittle good
if an alteration was to be madew:ounutlhie sugar duties with respect
because
produced. The subject did
to the nature of the trial ty of
ust etthad been referred to
naoct
Tanesnit riiinteaenoyf olhrpeiniworhioolfe
owhich his Noble Friend
otrf the duty had pro-
oppos'Ae was the Chairman. The equoanliestaoti
y-.four shillings.
dueed an alteration f from twenty onto
had in-
Since that alteration the increase in consumption had more
than repaid the reduction of duties. The co
creased tenfold, and when he re'erred to the evidence
fore that Committee by a gentleman intimate with toegiinsviueobnjet,
and of the highest relwetabiiity, and to whose
House night attach the utmost importance, he found thanttee
had laid down the plineiphi that an equalization of the duties
front our colonial possessions was of paramount import-
ance to the best interests of the country, and in
the report proposed by the Chairman of that Com-
mittee an equalization of the duties on sugar was laid down as
a part of the commercial policy of the country. After this de-
claration he wa: of opioion that any attempt to introduce a
discriminating duty between sugars from our different colonies
would be an anwisc prilicy on the tart of Go-arnment. and
prove most injurious to iitiz foreign pos4ssions. He would,

therefore, move for a return of the amount of sugar im-
ported from the East and West Indies within the last three
years, las also for; the duties paid on them within the same
period.
Lord STANLEY said that, so far as the mere papers
called for by the Noble Lord were concerned, he had no hesi-
tation in promising that the fullest information would be
given by her Majesty's Government. The Noble Lord
seemed to him (Lord Stanley) to infer that her Majesty's
Government intended to recede from the principle of perfect
equality which had hitherto guided them. Now, he could
assure the Noble Lord that her Majesty's Government would
adhere to the principle that there should be an entire equality
between the productions of all parts of their foreign possessions.
The Government in their scale of duties had endeavoured to
encourage the sugar interest of the British possessions in con-
tradistinction to the produce of the slave grown sugar countries.
Her Majesty's Government did:propose to make a large reduction
in the duties of sugar from the East and West Indies. The higher
duties would be charged on the finer kinds of sugar, and the
greater reduction would be made in the coarser kinds, thus
giving the lower class of consumers the benefit of the reduc-
tion. There was no intention of imposing any additional duty
on sugar imported from the East Indies, but if the Noble
Lord would postpone his inquiry until after the measures
of her Majesty's Government were brought before the
other House, all the information sought for would
be fully given. He apologised for having troubled their Lord-
ship on this subject.
Lord MONTEAGLE was obliged to the Noble Lord for
the trouble he had taken, and as far as the inforrroation of
the principle on which her Majesty's Government intended to
proceed—the equalization, he meant, of the sugar duties—it
was quite satisfactory.
ROMAN CATHOLIC STUDENTS IN TRINITY

COLLEGE, DUBLIN.
Viscount STRANGFORD moved for a return of the
Roman Catholic students who had been entered at Trinity
College, Dublia, since the year IB39.—Agreed to.
THE TRANSMISSION OF NEWSPAPERS
THROUGH THE POST-OFFICE.
Lord CAMPBELL was glad to see the Noble Lord the
Postmaster-General in his place, and he would therefore move
at once, for the return of which he had given notice yester-
day. The subject was one on which there was great anxiety,
and on which there had been many complaints. Indeed he
had understood that the Prima Minister himself had com-
plained that his newspapers had not been regularly trans-
mitted to him. He knew that the transmission of news-
papers through the Post-office must occasion a great
deal of inconvenience to the Postmasier-General,
and that the Post-office derived no direct advantage from that
transmis?ion. But still it must be recollected thet newspapers
paid a stamp duty. which he believed was considered as an
equivalent for the payment of postage. At all events a re-
venue of two or three hundred thousand a-year was
derived from it.—( Hear, hear.) He believed that his
Noble Friend at the head of the Post-office was
willing to afford every information in his power, and he should
therefore move for a return of the number of complaints which
had heen made at the Post-office of the non-transmission of
newspapers, within the last twelvemonths.
The Earl of LONSDALE had no objection to make to the
"notion of his Noble and Learned Friend; but he thought
it right to state that the Post-office authorities
aught not to bear the blame of the whole of the complaints
which had been made of the loss of newspapers at the Post-
office. He believed that there were no set of official men who
exercised more vigilance, or endeavoured to do their duty
more completely, than the authorities of the Post-office.
And in justice to them he should wish to move an addition
to the motion of his Noble and Learned Friend, for the purpose
of bringing the whole subject clearly before the House. Very
many of these newspapers come folded in envelopes in the most
careless and slovenly manner. Several hundred bags of news-
papers were brought to the Post-office every evening, and al-
though each of these newspapers were inclosed in envelopes,
yet when they were turned out of the bags many of them were
separated from 'their envelopes. Of course, these envelopes
could not be transmitted, and the Post-office bore the blame of
the loss. Heshould therefore move, as an addition, for a re-
turn of the newspapers which had been returned to
the dead letter office as having been found without
directions. Their number would be found to be not much.
less than 3,000 a-week. He should be most happy to see the
Noble Lord any evening at the Post-office, at the time of the
arrival of newspapers, and to afford him an opportunity of
seeing the manner in which that branch of the Post-office was
conducted. The Noble Earl concluded by moving his amend-
ment.
Lord CAMPBELL was glad the explanation was given, and
so satisfactory was it to him that he would at once agree to
the amendment.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH wished parties would
put themselves in possession of proof that these newspapers
were posted before they complained against the authorities.
He was sure many who made these complaints had no ev.dence
to show that those newspapers were put into the post-offie at
the time they alleged they were.
The Earl of LONSDALE concurred in what had fallen
from the Noble Lord who had just resumed his seat. He was
aware of an instance where a complaint had been made of the
Lon-delivery of a newspaper, and it was afterwards discovered
that the paper was not posted till the day following the com-
plaint--( Hear, hear. )
Lord CAMPBELL was of opinion that a prima facie case
had been made out of the detention, if not of the non-delivery,
of newspapers.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said parties were in the
habit of writing to newspaper agents directing newspapers to
be sent to them, and these agents were in many instances the
parties who ought really to be blamed, for they never troubled
themselves to see that the papers were properly directed.
The amendment was then agreed to.
NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

Lord WH A RNCLIFFE, in reply to a question which had
been put to him yesterday evening, said there was every reason
for believing that their Lordships would be able to get into
the new Houses of Parliament next session.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMON,'.

TIIE RAILWAY CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION BILL,

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Sir GEORGE CLERK said the object of the clause was
to prevent companies dividing large dividends out of the
capital. The Committee was aware that there were bubble
companies, who had paid dividends at the time when they
were making no profit, and the consequence had been that the
public was led to place confidence in the undertaking at a time
when it was really in a state of insolvency.
Mr. HAWES admitted the force of the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet's remark, but cautioned him against condemning a bona
.fide company for the acts of a bubble speculation. What
was capital stock could not by any possibility be defined.
Did they mean the paid-up capital, or the nominal capital, of
a company? Now if they meant the first, he would remind
the Committee that the paid-up capital often included profits
as well as the reserved funds of a company. Then again
they gave some companies power to convert surplus shares
into capital stock, now how were they to divide one
from the other? The fact was, the capital stock of a com-
pany was always fluctuating, and it would be highly inju-
dicious to disturb the present custom.
Mr. HAYTER admitted that interest and dividends were
often paid out of the capital stock of a company, but it was a
custom which had long exLtad, and the question to be con-
sidered was, whether the practice was an evil or not? Cer-
tainly a similar clause had been introduced into some of the
ea, ly railway Bilis, but had the companies acted up to it?
If they had, he could only say it must have been a great in-
convenience. The construction of a railway occupied a
very considerable time, and towards the end of this period
the shareholders naturally became anxious to see a dividend.
In instances like this, portions of the surplus capital had been
applied to a dividend, and, as this course was generally
adopted, he hoped some modification would be introduced
into the clause, so as to meet the case of a bubble company.
Mr. GRAINGEEI said it would be extremely hard, if, after
portions of the profits of one year had been added to the ca-
pital stock, the company were to be precluded from applying
it to a dividend at some subsequent period.
Mr. AGLIONBY would suppose a Company with a capital
stock of 100,000/. to have purchased 100,000 acres of land at
IL each, and afterwards to have disposed of a portion of it at
a large premium. Now he wanted to know, why the company
should be precluded from dividing the profit amongst the
shareholders, and carrying the balance to the capital stock
account. Wherever the capital stock would in any degree be
reduced that would bo precluded. He entirely agreed with
the Noble Lord as to the object of the clause, and he only
wished to caution the Committee against giving greater power
than they intended.—(Hear.)
Mr. GLADSTONE did not see any difficulty in the case.
He apprehended that if the Company possessed a quan-
tity of land of the value of 5,0001, and that the Direc-
tors had an opportunity of selling it for 10,000/.,
there was nothing to preclude them from doing so,
and (as we understood) a portion of the sum realised might
be applicable to the payment of dividends upon calls, and so
of other profies. The accounts of all railway companies were
so arranged as to distinguish between the capital stock, re-
served fund, and profits, and no inconvenience had hitherto
arisen from the practice sanctioned by the clause. Although
there were prima facie objections to the practice, yet he did
not think it was in itself illegitimate, and, instead of being
inconvenient, it had been found very convenient to the
Shareholders, so that it had been universal.—(Hear.)
Mr. HAYTER suggested that there should lie a proviso
to the effect that dividends should be made out of calls ex-
cept under certain circumstances.
Lord G. SOMERSET said that between this time and the
bringing up of the report he would look more accurately
into the subject of the clause, and would consider attentively
the various suggestions which had been made in the course of
the conversation.
After a few words from Mr. Godson, Mr. Granger, and Mr.
Hawes, in which the last gentleman said that he did not see
why a modification might not be applied to this Act as was
usual with any private Act, so as to measure the restriction
it provided, the clause was agreed to.
Clauses 124 to 140, with numerous unimportant verbal
amendments, were then severally passed.
The 141st clause having been read,
Mr. HAWES said that, by this clause, it was left to two
justices to ascertain the amount to be assessed in case of
wilful damage, and he conceived that some difficulty would
arise from the decisions of such a jurisdiction.
Mr. GODSON said that, from experience in such matters,
he did not think that any unusual difficulty would ensue.
The clause was then agreed to, as well as the 142 d, 143 d,
and 144th clauses.
On the 145th clause being read,
Mr. HENLEY said that the inconsistency which he had
previously pointed out was here evident. The interpretation
of the clause was rendered obscure by the introduction of
the word " any " before two justices. Some question must
naturally arise as to how many or what parties this jurisdic-
tion should be given to. If the word " any" were struck out,
and the clause left with the words " two justices," it would be
definite and clear, and the difficulty, he apprehended, would
be obviated
Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET said. that it certainly
might tend to render all these Acts conformable with each
other if the word " any" were struck out, and would save the
difficulty which the Hon. Gentleman had pointed out.
On the question being put by the Chairman, the word
" any " was struck out without a division.
After a few words from Mr. GRANGER, suggesting that
all informations for offences •against the Act should be in
writing, clauses 145 to 155 were agreed to.
'the remaining clauses of the Bill were then agreed to.
Lord G. SOMERSET moved an additional clause for
enabling companies more easily to recover calls from share-
holders residing in Scotland.—fhe clause was agreed to.
The House resumed, and the Chairman reported progress.
The report of the Bill, as amended, was received, and the Bill
itself ordered to be printed. .
Lord G. SOMERSET would mlve the Orders of the Day
for going into Committee on the other. Bills of a similar na-
ture, for the purpose of postponing them till Tuesday next,
when he proposed the House should again sit at twelve
o'clock.

After a short conversation as to the order in which those
Bills should be taken, to suit the convenience of several Hon.
Members, Tuesday next was appointed for the day sitting.
The House then adjournett till Five o'clock.

The House resumed at Five o'clock.
Alessengers from the Bank of England brought up certain
accounts.

LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.
Mr. B. DENISON brought in the London and York
Railway Bill, which was read a first time.