The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-05 00:00:00

THE SUN', LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1842.

tended to modify the existing law. Those recommenda-
tions were so much matter of detail, that he was convinced
the House would not wish he should go at that
moment minutely into the subject. He hoped, however,
the proposals he had to offer would meet with theimme-
diate approbation of the House, because, as the season.for
emigration ended by the end o March,they vvould otherwise
be useless for some time. lie proposed to lay before the
House the Report of the Land and Emigration Com-
mission 'before he proceeded to consider the Bill in
Committee, and Honourable Gentlemen would thus have
an opportunity of discussing more conveniently its
different details. He would propose new regulations
respecting the space required for each passenger, and the
• amount of provisions and of water, which would be es-
timated according to the nature of the voyage to be under-
aken. The same regulations would not, of course, apply to
different climates, and to vopages of different lengths.
He also poposed that the Act should extend not only
to voyages from the United Kingdom, but also to
voyages undertaken from our colonial possessions.
As he had given notice of two Bills, he would take the
opportunity, while on his legs, of stating the views with
which he proposed to introduce those Bills, and asking
leave to submit them to the consideration of the House,
particularly the one for the sale of land in the Austra-
lian colonies.—(Hear, hear.) He alluded to this
Bill for this reason, that her Majesty's Government'
had a greater command over the legislation of the co •
lony and the application of the land fund than over that
of their North American colonies, where the whole of
the land was subject to separate legislation and autho-
rity; and which could not be dealt with in the
same manner as in the Australian colonies.
With regard to their West Indian possessions
it was unnecessary, and at all events improper, to legis-
late for them in the present circumstances, because no
great amount of emigration had set in towards them, in
consequence of the climate being so different from their
own, and so uncongenial to European constitutions, and
which rendered it the more necessary to support that class
of colonists in Australia. This colony required their pe-
culiar attention, because it. had attracted the greatest
tide of immigration from this country. That immi-
gration was continually increasing, and the land fund
had been proportionally increasing also. The returns
from the colony had also . increased, and were
of the most satisfactory description. He thought
it would be gratifying to read to the Hon*
a statement of a few figurevwi.th regard to the impOrts
and exports from the Australian colonies within the last
few years. The exports from New South Wales in 1835
amounted to 682,000/., and in 1840 they had increased
from 682,0001. to 1,251,0004 -:?(Hear' hear.) The im-
ports in the colony, two-thirds of which were of British
manufacture, amounted in the year 1835 to 727,0001.
and had increased in 1840 to 2,600,0001.—(Hear, hear.)
In 1830 the exports from New South Wales in the arti-
cle of wool amounted to 900,000 pounds weight, and the
year 1836 that article of export from that colony, and
of import to this country, had risen from 900,000 pounds
weight to 3,611,000 pounds weight—(Hear, hear,
hear)—and in 1840 to 7,668,000 pounds weight.—
(Hear, hear.) He had trespassed for some time op
the patience of 'the House, in order to point out did'
great importance of those colonies, and to slipsfirthat in
their legislation they should proceed on sound data in a
matter relating not only to the comfort of the colonies,
but which was of the greatest importance, to, the in-
terests of the mother country itself.—(Hear, hear.)
The system under which land bad been granted in the
Australian Colonies had varied almost from year to year,
and this had occasioned great'd;.sappointment to persons
emigrating to the colony, who had gone out under one
set of regailations, and had on their arrival there found
a different set of regulations in force. This circumstance
had not only occasioned great disappointment, but had led
to disputed titles, and had occasioned great litigation ; it had
tended to check emigration, and prevent the influx of capital
into the Colonies, for large as had been the increase in
the number of emigrants of late years, he firmly believed
that that increase would have been still greatkr had it
not been for the tendency of these constantly changing
schemes to check it. He would take the case of New
South Wales. In the year 1827 a set of re-
gulations had been promulgated, relative to the grant-
ing of land, laying down certain conditions, a compliance
with which would entitle the emigrant to a grant. These
regulations had not, he believed, been promulgated-from
authority ; but many persons had gone out; expecting,
on their arrival in the colony, to find those regulations
in force. In 1828 those regulations were chanqed, and
grants of land were made, upon a principle different to
that which had been acted on in 1827. In 1831, his Noble
Friend Lord Ripon, with the assistance of another Noble
Friend of his (Lord Howick), who was not then present,
had much 'to their own credit, and to the advantage of
the colony, introduced a principle substituting the prin-
ciple of the sale of lands for the grant of them. That
principle had at first been objected to by the inhabitants
of the colony, but the result of that plan had been, that
whereas; in the year 1830, the amount arising from the
sale of lands did not exceed 896/. It had successively
risen in different years to 3,1004, 8,900 i, 108,0004,
114,0004, 127,0004, 160,0004, until, in 1840, it had
risen to 339,7131.—(Hear, hear, hear.)—He thought"
it right to state, that in consequence of various circum-
stances, that amount had during the past year been con-
siderably diminiShed, and in 1841 he did not expect that
the sum realized would much exceed 160,0001. In the
year 1831 the principle of the sale of lands had been first
introduced. In 1838 the price of land had been altered,
having been raised from ss. to 12s. an acre. In October,
1840, a new method of disposing of land had been
introduced into New South Wales. Instead of making the
sales by auction, and naming a minimum price, a fixed,
price •of I/. per acre had been made, and this mode of
disposing of lands had been scarcely a year in existence
When another change was made ; and in August, 1841,
the Colonial-office had gone back to the system
which had been abandoned in the previous year.
He. did not say that those alterations had not
been made without good and valid reason, but
he could not see why any Secretary of State should
have it in his power to make those changes, almost with-
out the authority of Parliament; and he thought it was
not right that any Secretary of State should possess the
power of making these changes without autho-
rity, and without taking those means to give them
publicity, without which it was impossible to ob-
tain the confidence of the . public mind.—(Hear.)
What he meant to propose was, to divest the Secretary
of State of that responsibility, and that undue power.
He (Lord Stanley) proposed •to -introduce a Bill which
would regulate the principles and the provisions by
which land was sold in Australia. He had great objec-.
tion to having the principle and the system different in
the various colonies.—(Hear.) He saw no reason that
the principle of sale by auction should exist in
one colony, and a fixed price in another. He saw
no reason why Port Philip should have one system, and
Sydney another—why Western Australia should differ
in that respect from South Australia and from New Zea-
land. Ile proposed to apply the same system by Act of
Parliament to all the colonies. He would state as
shortly as possible the system he proposed to lay
before them, because, whether the details of his- plan
on this subject should be legislated upon by the House
or not, they would not be supposed to refuse per-
mission to • introduce a Bill upon the subject. The
system he meant to introduce to their attention, was
neither absolute sale by auction, nor by fixed price,
but it was a system founded on a principle recom-
mended by a Committee, which investigated last year
the affairs of Australia, according to which the
coasts of the several colonies, being surveyed accord-
ing to districts, certain portions of hind would be
conduit:ol3' brought into the market, and there should
be a fixed upset price below which no land should be
sold—that the lands should lie divided into three classes,
viz., those reserved for the sites of towns; those which,
from the peculiarity of their situation in the immediate
neighbourhood of towns, had acquired an artificial value;
and the third class comprehended country lots.
_With regard to - the ordinary , country lots they
were put to 9.uction, at certain intervals, say six
months. Ins system should go to effect that there should
be always a supply of land without waiting for
those periodical sales, and to prevent practices
which, arising from those periodical sales, had an
injurious effect on the price and value of land.
He propdsed, therefore, that an upset price should be
fixed- on the land ; that it should be subject to periii7
clical Sales, and that the land not purchased at
those periodical sales should remain capable of
being purchased at the upset price, in the interval
between the sales, by any person desirous of purchasing.
The consequence of this would be, that the more valu-
able land would sell at the- larger price, hnd the inferior
land would sell at the minimum price • and those persons
who were content to take inferior lands, rather than
wait for the periodical sales, would have the chanCe
of taking inferior lands, and settling themselves upon it,
without the delay of waiting` for the periodical sales.
He would not weary the House by entering into all
the details of the measure. The Bill was applica-
ble to the whole of the_ Australian colonies, and
it embodied, with some exceptions, the recom-
mendations of the Australian Committee of last year.
Itiheixaese:
tint
rghosieale proposedtin:6l:t.iiiiocotrenihinereor
sanctioned
soolgitaluhii
nslgendecy:t a,
.la, pntond:ith,seicerurreet
proposedot
to
discretionary
nhtaei
time
Queen
ptthe
ievgeiprvi
price
eel
eono
flit
hxneecai
Go-
vernor
certain
btooy.
iln;craenads,edaftperir
eteh,eno Queen in Council
authority I S 3
than that of the House of Commons would be able
to diminish' it.. With respect to the
`who contended that they should be entirely of the sales, he knew that there were man gentlemen.
. . .
the purposes of emigration. Ile was not prepared to Yo
'that length. He was quite satisfied that in many cases
it would be very inconvenient if a positive rule were
laid down that the whole of the proceeds of the'
land sale should •be applied to the purposes of
emigration. Emigration, important a:S it Was, was not the
only purpOse to whiCh the land funds might be legiti-
mately applied. It should be recollected that they were
-not dealing with an abstract, uninhabited country,and that
the aborigines had claims upon their justice and humanity.
For the purpose of affording them relief' part of the sales
should be applied. The internal improvement Of the colo-
nies was another object which would not be lost sight of.
He proposed, with the consent of the Crown, to
enact that one-half of the land sales shOuld
be applicable to the purpose of emigration,
and as much more in each case as the authorities may
think fit, after deductions for the purpose to which be
had alluded. Ile believed it would be necessary to limit
the duration of the Act to the life of her present Majesty.
He proposed this limitation because he thought her Ma-
jesty had no right beyond her own life to dispose of
those lands which formed her hereditary revenue. At
. all events, there being doubts on this question—and in-
deed there were more than doubts—there could be no
objection to the provision which ho proposed, limiting
the duration of the Act to the life of the Sovereign.
With these observations, and thanking the House for, the
attention they had given him on the dry details of
this subject, he now moved for leave to bring in
a Bill to regulate the laws relating to the carriage of
passengers in _mercantile. vessels ; and also a Bill to
regulate ihe sale of lands in the Australian Colonies,

Mr. HINDLEY-asked whether this Bill would control
the money derived froth the sale of those lands ?
Lord STANLEY—The Bill will apply to the money
that is to be realised ; but certainly not to that which
has been already spent.—(Laughter, and "Hear, hear.")
Lord JOHN RUSSELL had listened with great in-
terest to the statement of his Noble Friend. At present
he (Lord John Russell) did not think it necessary to
enter into the details of the measure; but he was very
happy to say that in all its general principles he per-
fectly concurred. With respect to the first question on
which his Noble Friend addressed the House—that was,
the policy of not attempting any great systematic plan
of emigration on -the part of the Government, he (Lord
John Russell) also fully concurred. Indeed, voluntary
emigration was already conducted with vigour enough,
without any interference from the Government being nee
cessary. The printed returns showed that during three
quarters of , the last year there had not been less than
106,000 voluntary emigrants. This statement he
thought went to show , that Government should
not merely hesitate, but positively refuse to
adopt a forced system of emigration. But with
respect to the mode of emigration now carried
on, he (Lord John Russell) must admit that there
were many abuses, in spite of the present regula-
tions sanctioned by that House. Frequently cases hap-
pened in which poor Irish emigrants embarked
with scarcely food enough for the wants of the shortest
voyage—and who, in case of any delay in port, or of a
tedious passage through tempeStuous weather, accident,
or any other cause, hrd to suffer the most dreadful pri-
vations.—(Hear, hear.) lie had found this to be
too often the case while he had the honour to occupy
the office now held by his Noble Friend. With
respect to the other Bills he had proposed to in-
troduce, the Noble Lord had stated correctly the va-
rious modes by which the regulations had been made
from time to time—first, for granting ; and, secondly,
for sale of the land. The great alteration- in this
subject was the alteration made by Lord Ripon
and Lord Howick ; the principle then laid down
that all was to be done by the authority of the Crown,
was the principle now proposed by the Noble Lord. He
(Lord J. Russell) conceived that it was far more ad-
visable that any alteration in the regulation with respect
to the subject in 1831, should be made by the Crown,
hefore any measure on the subject was bronght
forward in Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) He thought,
however, that the time had now arrived
when, after the trial of many of those regulatimas,
and when several changes had taken place, 4hat
some permanent system ought to be established, and
receive the sanction of Parliament. With respect to the
particular mode in which the Noble _Lord proposed to
Introduce those regulations, het thought the time for
making observations upon them would more properly be
when the Bill was introduced, and when he should have
been able to have seeesthe various regulations. He could
not see why New Zealand should be treated in the same
way as New South Wales and Australia, but he would
not trouble the House on that subject further.
lie` ' concurred with the Noble Lord in the principles
he had laid down, that all the mils laid out in the sales
of land should not be devoted to the purpose of emigration.
He believed, if he understood the Noble Lord right, that
some of those funds were to be devoted for that purpose,
and the others were to be the subject of further
consideration. He considered that that would be the
best mod& of settling the question. He concurred in
the mode by which the Noble Lord proposed to intro-
duce the Bill ; but he was anxious to see the
details of the Noble Lord's plan, and when he
had done so, he should be happy to co-ope-
rate with him by giving his vote in favour
of those Bills which he thought_ were needed,
and which lie was most happy to find it to be the in-
tention of the Government to introduce.
Mr. WARD having so long taken an interest in
this . subject, . felt bound to express to the
Noble Lord his cordial concurrence in the prin-
ciples he had laid down, and gave him his best
thanks for having, on the part of her Majesty's Go-
vernment, proposed to introduce such a measure—a
measure which, he believed, would be productive of
the greatest good in those parts of the world to
which it was intended to apply.—(Hear, hear.)
It was most beneficial that the power of dispos-
ing of land in the colonies should be vested in the
Government, and he for one thanked the Noble
Lord for bringing forward a measure at . such an
early moment for systematizing the mode
of disposing of land, and introducing regu-
lations so highly beneficial to the Colonies.
Upon matters of detail there may be differenees,
but there never could be a question among per-
sons acquainted with the subject thil4drt of the money
paid for land, whatever that amount 'might be, should
be devoted to the purposes , mentioned by the Noble
Lord, and- that the mode of using those funds, as
they had- been formerly used, for purely. colonial
purposes, shbuld be altered. A great concession had been
made-on this subject, and one highly beneficial to the
country and the colonies, and he should be glad to
assist tly.i. Noble -Lord' in the object he had in view.
'There was' a :qtrestion which seemed to belong
'to this subject; ----though, perhaps, not exactly.
coming under if.; yet, as it was not likely that
another opportunity would offer, he should now-Mention
it. - In the Gazette of Friday last . there was
an Order in Council, . proposing to permit,
under certain regulations therein specified, the -emigra-
tion of Hill Coolies -to the Mauritius. In-1840, his
Noble Friend proposed a measure of this kind, but the
House decided against, it. He should wish to know
if any further info' mation on this subject had reached
the Government,. and if they were prepared to lay that
information before the House ?
Mr, ROEBUCK objected to the principle of the
Bill of the Noble Lord, who seemed to con-
sider that it - was the privilege -of the Crown
to dispose of the lands in the colonies,.which he did not
agree to. Emigrants go to encounter extraordinary diffi-
culties, and they ought to derive from the land they enter
all . the benefit they could derive from it. They
go to meet difficulties-- much greater than those
of other people, - mid let Mem, then, in . God's
name- get all the benefit they, can derie from
the soil they go to tenant.-(Hear.) He .believed
that a really well constituted 'system of colonization
must commence by -ctefining the limits of the colony;
make them small in. extent ; and when each calmly fias
-arrived et a
~,certain number of inhabitants, let the
government sbe vested in the- - &lolly itself, and
then give up all' 'overlooking.:` on the part of the
mother country.—(Hear.) He- objected to the theory
lately broached, that all the proceeds of the colonial
lands ought to be appropriated to emigration. This,
however disguised, was but an additional clause to the
New Poor-law Bill. The Noble Lord, the late Secretary
for the Colonies, had had ample opportunities of knowing
the evils arising from these circumstances, and he
had himself proposed to the people of Canada
a tax on immigration into that colony, as the
best plan of discouraging the influx of a poor
class of persons .to the colony. lie spoke with
accuracy on this point, as he read the Noble Lord's de-
spatch, which recommended the tax which ho alluded
to. This was one of the circumstances which' created
an ill feeling between, the people of this country and the
Canadians, but they were obliged to do it in self defence, in
order to prevent being overrun by the poor of the country.
Let the Colonies have their own land to be applied to'
the purposes of their own Government, and not as a
premium on emigration to that country.—(Hear,
hear.) He was decidedly of opinion that the
Colonies ought to, have their government in them
selves,. and be limited in their territorial extern

, .
Let the Colonies be limited by some preconceived rule in
their territory and extent. Let them be confined in their li-
mit to the extentof possession no more than equal to their
means of cultivation and their wants. But at this early
stage he would put in earnestly his protest against any Bill
by which the proceeds of the Colonies should be made
pplieAle to English purposes. He defied any lawyer
to prove that the land of the Colonies in any way be-
lunged to the CroWn: They belonged to the Sovereign
no more than the highways of Great Britain ;
they were- only part of the Sovereign's dominions,
amt were not the property of the Crown, but
the people. If the people of England sent nut
colonists, they would be best provided for, and the evils
which the Noble Lord endeavoured to provide against,
would be best prevented, by enabling the colonists to pro-
tect themselves.

Sir GEORGE GREY having been on the Committee
last year, in which the condition of the colonies was con-

sidered, wished to express his satisfaction at the course
which the Noble Lord-had taken in forming his measures
upon the recommendation of that Committee. He hoped
however, that the Noble Lord considered -the 'question
of the minimum which had the effect of keeping down the
iirlitcheeolfa.ll:tnrdestp:etng
thati level. He wished also to ask the
Noble Lord whether he intended to make any alteration
the emigration of. Hill coolies ?
Mr. S. O'BRIEN said it was 'certainly a subject of
congratulation to him to find that the Government had
taken up the present question ; and his only regret was
that they had not introduced a more comprehensive mea-
sure. The proposal of the Noble Lord (lid not, unfortu-
nately, go far -enough ; and for his (Mr. O'Brien's) part
he felt that no measure of the kind would be completely
satisfactory which did not give our surplus population
an. opportunity of transferring their labour to other
parts of the - empire, in which it would he adequately
rewarded. He also regretted that the Bill was not to
extend to the Cape of Good Hope and the colony of New
Brunswick. •
tneLpoir:poSsTerokfNeY said that he had to state in answer
'to the question put by the Hon. M(mber for Limerick,
of the Cape, and tgh
that the Governor of the Cape did not think the Cape
fit for the introduction of a large number of emigrants,
nor, was there any land fund capable of being applied for
of emigration could be ex,
rea
smallt io n Thuptcircumstancesland
df thee o oil
comparedy
with the mountain districts, rendered it impossible
that so effective a system
tended- to it as.to the colony of South Austral;a. With
regard to the Order in Council which appeared in the
Gazette, it was true that her Majesty's Government
were of opinion that it was expedient to prohibit the
emigration from New South Wales to the Mauritius.
Mr. FITZROY said, in regard to what had fallen
from the lion. Member for Bath, he was extremely sur-
prised to hear from him such statements with regard
to the limitation of the colonies.—(Hear, hear.)
Ile thought the Hon. Member for Bath should make
himself -acquainted with the circumstances of the dif-
ferent colonies, before the objected to what had been pro-
posed for their benefit.
Leave was then given -to bring in the Bill.
THE STANDING ORDERS.
Sir G. CLERK then moved the Standing Orders,
which were agreed to.
APPROPRIATION AMENDMENT ACT BILL.
Sir G. CLERK brought in this Bill, which was read a
first time.

On the motion of Lord ELIOT, certain returns
were ordered relating to the Poor-law in Ireland.
The House adjourned, at Half-past Six, to Twelve
o'clock to-morrow.

SHERIFFS FOR 1842.
(From the Gazette of last night.)
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 2d day of
February—present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
in Connell, the following Sheriffs were appointed for the
year 142.:

Bedfordshire—Robt. Lindsell, of Fairfield House, Esq.
Berkshire—H. Mill Bunbury, of Marlston House, Esq.
Buckinghamshire,—John Palmer, of Dorney Court, Esq.
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire—John Linton, of
Stirtloe, Esq.
Cumberland—F. L. B. Dykes, of Dovenby Hall, Esq.
Cheshire—Edward D. Davenport, of Capesthorne,, Esq.
Derbyshire—James Sutton, of Shardlow, Esq.
Devonshire—Emanuel Lousada, of Peak House, Esq.
Dorsetshire—Henry Ker Seymer,. of Hanford, Esq.
Durham—R. E. D. Shaft°, of Whitworth Park, Esq.
Essei—John Faithful Fortescue, of Writtle-lodge, Esq.
Gloucestershire—Thos. H. Kingscote, of Kingscote, Esq.
Herefordshire—J. L.Scudamore, of Kentchurch Pk., Esq.
Hertfordshire—Geo.G.Morgan, of Brickendonbury, Esq.
Kent—Henry Hoare, of taplehurst, Esq.
Leicestershire—John B. Story, of Lockington, Esq.
Lincolnshire—Sir John Nelthorpe, of Scawby, Bart.
Monmouthshire—J. E. W. Rolls, of the Hendre, Esq.
Norfolk—Wm. Howe Windham, of Fellbrig, Esq.
Northamptonshire—Hon. P. S. Pierrepont, of Evenley
Hall.
Northumberland—E. Riddell, of Cheeseburn Grange, Esq.
Nottinghamshire—Francis Wright, of Lenton-Hall, Esq.
'Oxfordshire—J. S. Phillips, of,Culham House, Esq.
Rutlandshire—R. W. Baker, of Cotlesmore, Esq.
Shropshire—Henry Justice, of Hinstock, Esq.
Somersetshire—R. C. Tudway, of the City of Wells, Esq.
Staffordshire--J. Edwds. Piercy, of Waverley Hall, Esq.
County of Southampton—George Henry Ward, of
Northwood Park, Isle of Wight, Esq.
Suffolk—Edward Bridgman, of Coney Weston, Esq.
Surrey—Charles Barclay, of Bury-hill, Esq.
Sussex—George Wyndham, of Petworth, Esq.
Warwickshire—John Little, of Newbold Pacey, Esq,
Wiltshire—F. Wm. Rooke, of. Lackham-house, Esq.
Worcestershire Edward Rolland, of Lenchwick, Esq.
Yorkshire—Wm. St. Quintin, of Scampston-hall, Esq.
WALES..
Anglesey—John Sanderson, of Aberbraint, Esq.
Brecknockshire—Rowel Jones Williams, of Coity Mawr,
Esq,
Carnarvonshire—John Griffith Watkins, of Plas Llan-
fair, Esq.

Carmarthenshire—William Phillips, of Wayngron, Esq.
Cardiganshire—Francis D. Saunders, of Tymawr, Esq.
Denbighshire—T. M. Williams, of Penbedw Hall, Esq.
Flintshire—E. Dymock, of Penley Hall, Ellesmere, Esq.
Glamorganshire—Henry Lucas, of Uplands, Esq.
Merionethshire—The Hon. T. Pryce Lloyd, of Mochras.
Montgomeryshire—Sir John Roger Kynaston, of Hard-
wick Hall, Bart.
Pembrokeshire—Robert F. Gower, of Glandofan, Esq.
Radnorshire—David Oliver, of Rhydoldog, Esq.

FROM . LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 2, 1842.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Alastair Mackenzie,
Esq., to be Deputy Sheriff of the District of Port Philip, in
the Colony of New South Wales.
DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 3.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas Shirley
Warner, Esq., to be Provost Marshal General of the Island of
Dominica.
CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 2.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT.
City of Dublin-William Henry Gregory, Esq., in the room
of John Beatty West, Esq., deceased.
WHITEHALL, FEB. I.
The Lord Chancellor 'has appointed Henry_ Stubbs, of the
town of Nottingham, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in
the High Court of Chancery.
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 2d day of February.,
1842, present, the Queen's most excellent Majesty in Council.
-Whereas in the Act of Uniformity, which establishes
the Liturgy of the Church of England, provision is made
for such alterations in the Prayers for the Royal Family as,
from time to time, shall become necessary ; it is, therefore,
"this day ordered by her Majesty in Council that, in the
Morning and Evening Prayers, in the Litany, and in all other
parts of the Public Service, as well in the occasional offices
as in the Book of Common Prayer, where the Royal Family is
appointed to be particularly prayed for, the following form and
order shall be observed, viz.:-Adelaide the Queen Dowager,
the Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, and all the
Royal Family. And her Majesty doth strictly charge
and command, that no edition of the Common Prayer
be henceforth printed, but in the form aforementioned ;
and that, in the meantime, and until copies of such- edition
may be.-had, all Parsons, Vicars, and Curates, within this realm
do (for the preventing of mistakes), with the pen, correct and
amend all such Prayers in their Church books, according to
the foregoing direction : and, for the better notice hereof, that
this order be forthwith printed and published, and sent to the
several parishes; and that the Right Reverend the Bishops 'do
take care that obedience be paid to the same accordin,gly.
WM. L. BATHITRST.
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 2d day of Febru-
ary, 1842, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council.-This day the Most Noble Walter Francis Duke of
Buccleuch and Queensberry was, by her Majesty's command,
sworn other Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took
his place at the Board accordingly. Her Majesty having been
pleased to deliver the custody of the Privy Seal to the Most Noble
Walter Francis Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, the
Oath of Keeper of the Privy Seal was this day admipistered to
him, and his Grace took his place at the Board accordingly.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Most Noble
James Brownlow William Marquis of Salisbury to be Lord
Lieutenant of the county of Middlesex, and the'Most Noble
Brownlow Marquis of Exeter to be Lord Lieutenant of the
county of Northampton, their Lordships this day took the Oaths
appointed to be taken thereupon, instead of the Oaths of Al-
legiance and Supremacy.
PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the Returns made in the Week ending Feb. 1, 1842, is
'3Bs. 101 d. per Cwt., exclosive of the Duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain.
DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
WILLIAM THOMPSON, hat manufacturer, Spitalfields.
BANKRUPTS.
JOSEPH CHARLES CLARK E, merchant, Water-lane,
Great Tower-street, to surrender, Fels. Mat eleven, and March
18, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official
assignee ; Donne, New Broad-street.
'1 HOMAS SEDDON and GEORGE SEDDON, uphol-
sterers, Calthorpe-place, Gray's-Inn-road, Feb. 11, at half-
past ten, and March 18, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Graham, Basinghall-street; official assignee ; Lawrence and
illenkarne, Bucklersbury.
EDWARD MALLAN, dentist, Great Russell-street,
Bloomsbury, Feb. 16, at one, and March 18, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, Coleman-street-buildings,
official assignee ; Whittington, Dean-street, Finsbury-square.
RICHARD IRWIN and JOHN GOULD IRWIN, dra-
pers, Manchester, Feb. 19 and March 18, at two, at the Corn-
missioners'-rooms, Manchester. Slater and Heelis, Manches-
ter ; Milne, Parry, and Morris, Temple, London.
DAVID DAVIES, sen , and DAVID DAVIES, jun.,
flannel manufacturers, Glanelywedog, Montgomeryshire, Feb.
23 and March 18, at eleven, at the Oak Inn, Welshpool. Drew
and Wonsman, Newton, Montgomeryshire; Weeks, Cook's-
court, Lincoln's Inn, London.
JOHN HAYWARD, miller, Milverton, Warwickshire,
Feb. 14 and March IS, at twelve, at the Lansdown Hotel, Lea-
mington Priors. Rushworth, Staple Inn, London ; Forder,
Leamington.
WILLIAM HEAP, JOHN ROBERTS. and WILLI:V.II
ROBERTS, cotton spinners, Padiham, Lancashire, Feb. 22,
at two, and March 18, at twelve, at the Court House, Burnley.
Crags and Jeyes, Harpur-street, Red Lion-square, London;
Alcock and Dixon, Burnley.
JONATHAN' NASH and ROBERT LUCAS NASH,
brewers, Bristol, March 1, at one, and March 18, at two, at the
Commercial-rooms, Bristol. Goldrey and Fellow es, Chippen-
ham, Wiltshire ; Hillier, Lewis, and Hillier, Raymond-build-
ings, Gray's Inn, London.
THOMAS CHESHIRE, miller, Smethewick, Stafford-
shire, Feb. 11 and March 18, at twelve, at the Waterloo-
rooms, Birmingham. Tooke and Son, Bedford-row, London ;
Unett and Solis, Birmingham.
JAMES BUCKETT, sheep-dealer, Great Bourton, Oxford,
Feb. 21 and March 18, at eleven, at the White Lion Inn, Ban-
bury. Cox and Will anis, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Wal-
ford and Beesley, Banbury.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
J. Robei t,liaw and J. Rutherford, hosiers, Oxford-street,
Feb. '25, at twelve-T. Gamauf, wholesale furrier, Fetter-lane,
Feb. 25, at one-J. A. Smith and W. Monteath, linen drapers,
Oxford-street, Feb. 25, at twelve-T. Marris and R. Nichol-
son, bankers, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, Feb. 23, at
eleven. In the Country.
J. Heap, jun., merchant, Manchester, Feb. 26, at two, at
the Commissioners -rooms, Manchester- T. Welch and J.
Sells, cotton spinners, New Islington, Lancashire, Feb. 28, at
ten, atthe Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester-H. Medley and
W. Backhouse, oil merchants, Leeds, March I, at eleven, at
the Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds-J. Wrigglesworth, cheese
factor, Leeds, Feb. 25, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms,
Leeds-W. Caton, ironmonger, Preston, Lancashire, March
1, at one, at the Town-hall, Preston-T. Burnard, merchant,
Bideford, Devonshire, March 3, at three, at the New Inn,
Bideford-T. and W. H. Carr, woollen manufacturers, Dews-
bury-moor, Yorkshire, March 26, at two, at the Commis-
sioners'-rooms, Leeds-G. Andrews, wools:apler, Hurminster
Marshall, Dor.tetshire, March 1, at two, at the Greyhound Inn,
Blandford Forum-It. Lucas, ironmonger, Bristol, March 4, at
one, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol-S. Chadwick, Js.
Chain irk, and .1. Chadwick, cotton spinners, Heywood, Lan-
ca•iiire, Feb. 26, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Man-
chester-W. F. Reuss, merchant, Liverpool, Feb. 28, at one,
at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool-S. and W. Mead, iron
merchants, Liverpool, Feb. 26, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms
Liverpool-J. T. Traugmar, tea dealer, Brighton, March 14,
at twelve, at the Town-hall, Brighton.
CERTIFICATES-FEB. 25.
J. Lunn, ship broker, Newcastle-upon. GI ifithe
milliner, Quadrant, Regent-street-R. Powell, linen draper,
Brighton -L. Schwabacher, wine merchant, Minories-Jn.
Buckley, Jh. Buckley, and H. Buckley, cotton manufacturers,
Manchester-R. Stockdale, nierchant„Crosby-square, City-
E. Tapp, licensed victualler, Great White Lion-street, Seven-
dials-E. Botham, innholder, Speenhamland; Berkshire.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. •
T. and S. Manlove, lace manufacturers-J. Farren and J.
Till, brewers, London-P. and D. Walther Angel-curt,
Throgmorton-street-J. Lewis and F. Lloyd, vinegar mer-
chants, Gloucester- Jn. and Js. Hague, dentists, St. Martin's-
lane-W. Huffman, M. Nourse, and J.-T. Woodbury, men's
mercers, Manchester-W. Robinson and W. Robinson, jun.,
tailors, Halesworth, Suffolk-T. and J. M. Goodyear, straw
hat manufacturers, Aldersgate-street-C. Fryer and G. Ken-
dray, wine merchants, Chancery-lane-J. J. Arnold and H.
R. Burn, attorneys-J. Burgin and J. Broadhead, scissors ma-
nufacturers, Sheffield-C. Shaw and W. H. Phillips, attor-
neys, Fish-street-hill-Hy. and He. Ellis, millers, Fetcham,
Surrey-W. Jackson, S. S. Jackson, Jh. Jackson, and Jn.
Jackson, tobacco manufacturers, Leeds (so far as regards .1.
Jackson)-J. Mnspratt, R. Daglish, jun., J. Speakman, and
W. Bromilow, coal proprietors, Parr, Lancashire (so far as re-
gards J. Speakman and W. Bromilow)-C. and H. Matchitt,
cotton dealers, Manchester-J. F. and J. Parkin, engravers,
Sheffield-P. Kitching, S. Kitching, and -G. Holdeinesse,
straining cloth manufacturers, Manchester-T. Bornforth and
W. Taylor, ship builders, Fast Stockwith, Lincolnshire-H.
Percy, jun. and J. W. Fletcher, wine merchants, Nottingham
-I. and W. Green, saddlers' ironmongers, Loadon-nall-J-
Heseltine and E. Elgin, wholesale druggists, York-J. H..
Fuller and C. P. Allen, fustian manufacturers, Manchester-J.
E. Puddick and T. Coleman, wine merchants, Adelphi Cham-
bers, Strand-T. Clive and S. Cardall, malleable ironfounders,
Birmingham-W. H. Fisher and W. Armour, commission
agents, Freeman's-court, Cornhill.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
GEORGE LAW, farmer, Morton, Edinburgh, Feb. 8 and
28, at one, at the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh.
WILLIAM M'QUEEN, shipwright, Tnverkeithing, Feb, 8
arid March 1, at twelve, at Mrs. Hutton's Inn, Dunfermline.
ANDREW MO WAT, wholesale tea dealer, Glasgow, Feb.
10 god March 3, at twelve, at the Moe of R. Hall, Glasgow.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.

The following ara the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the week ending Jan. 29, 1842." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General

Weekly
Average
1838-940-1.
CAUSES OF DEATH. Total.
Four Four
Winters I Year,
Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 159 199 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 176 160 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
Diseases of the Hea-t and Blood-vessels
Diseases of .the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidn,..ys, &c
Childbcd, Diseases of the Uterus, *ice lO 11 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 0 7 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c 1 1 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat 142 115 104
01,d Age, or Natural Decay lO9 90 69
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intern-

perance
Causes not specified
Deaths from all causes .
1116 ---
Average Weekly Deaths
Population Average Deaths
enu- Weekly in
merated Deaths the
1641. 18.1.-I'-4`—l. Week.
West—Kensington, St. George r. --1
(Hanover-square),Westmin- Four I Four
ster, St. Martin in the Fields,
,

DISTRICTS.

St. James
North—St. Mary-le-bone, St
Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 182 198
Central—Saint Giles and Saint
George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon-
don, West London, City of
London —373,806 188 213 257
East—Shoreditch,Whitechapel,
Bethnal Green, St. George
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392,49 i 206 228 240
South--St Saviour, St. Olave,
St. George( Southw ark ),Ber-
mondbey, Newington, Lam-
beth, Camberwell, Bother-
Vreenwich .............438,060 221 243 243

-- - -
Total 1,870,727 912 1017 1116
It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon-
don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality—.
and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
Fulham, Hammersmith( Chapelry), St. Luke (Ch elsea), Pad-
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (13rom
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890; and in June 1841, was
1,870,727. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, 184,0, and
1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by
208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.
TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
Jan. 22. Jan. 29.
43° 45°
29 27
35 37
8, 1842.

Highest
Lowest
Daily Mean . •••
General Register Wise, Feb.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Feb. 4.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins. )
• BURROUGHS AND ANOTHER V. LEWIS.
The plaintiffs were coal-merchants, and brought this action for
goods delivered. The defendant, a medical man, proved that
he received the coals as from a coal-merchant named Pennider,
who had formerly a connexion with the plaintiffs, and was in-
debted to the defendant. The latter had in several instances
refused to take in the coals from the servants of Burroughs
until he received a written assurance from Pennider that they
came from him and were to be set-off against his account. It
seemed, however, that the plaintiffs throughout looked to de-.
fendant for payment.

His Lor6hip (Mr. Justice COLTMAN) summed up, and
The Jury found for the defendant. •
(Sittings in Banco.)
FTUART V. STELE.
- _ _

The Court also sat in Banco—the Lord Chief Justice, Mr.
Justice Erskine, and Mr. Justice Cresswell—in the Vice-Chan-
cery Court. They were occupied the whole day in hearing
Mr. Richards move for a new trial in the case of Stuart v.
Steele, on a policy of insurance, the trial of which occupied
three days, when a verdict was given for the plaintiff, with
points reserved. The present argument will also occupy some
days, and the material points will be best understood from the
report of their Lordships' judgment.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
George Jones, aged 31, was indicted with stealing two sil-
ver candlesticks, value 71., and various other articles, amount.
ing altogether in value to about 101., the property of Mr. Barker.
From the evidence adduced, it appeared that on the Bth of
January last, the prisoner was employed at the house of the
prosecutor to repair some locks. The articles in question were
safe that morning, but were missed immediately after the pri-
soner left. Part of the stolen property was pledged by the
prisoner, and was identified by the servant of the prosecutor.
The case was clearly made out against the prisoner.
Mr. PAYNE addressed the Jury on his behalf, and, while he
admitted that the case was clear against him, he contended that
it had been committed while under the influence of intoxica-
tion, in which he had been indulging during the Christmas
holidays. The prisoner had previously borne an irreproach-
able character, and had served one master for upwards of fif-
teen }Tars.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but
Mr. Baron GURNEY deferred 'passing sentence, in order to
give the prisoner an opportunity of producing witnesses to
his pre /ious character.
RETURNING FROM TRANSPORTVION. --John Atkinson
alias Smith, was indicted with feloniously returning froin trans-
portation before the term of his punishment had expired. One
of the police identified the prisoner as a person who had been
convicted in 1828, at the Kingston Sessions, of housebreak-
ing, and sentenced to death, but that punishment had been
commuted to transportation for life.
Mr. CLARKSON, on behalf of the prisoner, submitted that
the, indictment was defei:tive, inasmuch as it stated that the
prisoner had been transported for life, whereas the fact was
that sentence of death was ordered to be recorded.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS overruled the objection.
Several other witnesses identified the prisoner.
Mr. CLARKSON addressed the Jury for the prisoner, and
The Jury, without the slightest hesitation, found him Guilty.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS immediately sentenced him to six
months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correc-
tion, and at the termination of that imprisonment to transporta-
tion for life.
It was rumoured in Court that the information on which the
prisoner was taken into custody had beers given by his own
brother.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF PLATE.--John Biggs was in-
dicted with stealing on the 11th of January last 16 spoons,
value 91., and several other articles of plate, to the value of 20/.,
the property of Mrs. Charlotte Wilkinson, of Upper Montagu-
street. Mr. Clarkson conducted the prosecution and Mr. Doan.defended the prisoner.
Mr. CLARKSON then addressed the Court for the prosecu-
tion and called the following witnesses:—
Richard Williams—Was footman to Mrs. Wilkinson, of
Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square. Knew the pri-
soner at the bar Employed him on the 11th of January with-
out his mistress's knowledge, to clean some plate, as his mis-
tress was about to have a party the next day. . Among the
plate there were spoons, forks, butter-knives, and other things.
Witness had occasion to leave the pantry. where they were
cleaning the plate for a short time, and when he returned he
found the prisoner gone. Witness missed the plate the next
morning. Called his fellow-servants in, and afterwards went
to the prisoner's mother, and told her what he had lost. The
prisoner was not there. Witness went to a public-house,
but could not find the prisoner. Afterwards went to
several brothels, which he knew the prisoner frequented, but
he did not find him. Witness had seen the prisoner on the
day before the robbery, when he bought a knife from him for
6d., and he also gave the prisoner 3d. to help him on his way,
as he said he was going to his brother's at Brentford. The
nephew of Mrs. Wilkinson, who resided with her, offered a
reward of Si. for the discovery of the thief, and witness added
51. of his own.
Wm. Allen, an engineer, was in a brothel in Carlisle-street,
Lisson Grove on the night of the robbery. The prisoner came
there at half-past one in the morning and showed witness a pair of
sugar-tongs and offered to sell them to witness for 1/. Wit-
ness declined purchasing the article. Witness had the tongs
in his hand and observed a crest upon them, a fox's head with
the wing of a bird in his mouth. The prisoner then pUlled
out, of his pocket a number of spoons marked in the same
manner. He was drunk at the time. Not finding the girl he
asked for her, he left the house. )n the Sunday follow-
ing witness was told by Emma Lewis the girl in whose com-
pany he had been on the night of the 11th of January, that a
robbery of plate had been committed, and he gave information
of it immediately to the police.
Emma Lewis and Caroline Somers, both of whom were girls
of ill fame, and were with the last witness on the night of the
11 th of January, when the prisoner came there, corroborated
his testimony.
James White, a hackney coachman, drove the prisoner on
Wednesday the 12th of January, from Paddington to the Gar-
riek's Head Tavern, in Bow-street ; he was accompanied by
two men and a female. The prisoner paid the fare, a, d ;las°
for some reficAments which the party had. He seemed at that
time to have plenty of money, perhaps 61. or 71
Policeman 77 apprehended the prisoner in a brothel in
Steven-street, Lisson-grove, on Friday, the 14th of January.
Ile was then in the company of two females: Witness took
one of the girls to the station-house, and upon his doing so the
prisoner exclaimed " Strike me blind if that girl knows any
thing about it." This witness produced a spoon and fork he
had obtained from Mrs. Wilkinson.
Allen identified the crest as the same he had seen on the
sugar tongs in the prisoner's possession. None of the plate
.had been found.
This closed the case for the prosecution.
Mr. DOANE addressed the Jury for the prisoner.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS summed up, and the jury found the
prisoner guilty.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS sentenced him to 18 months' imps
sonment and hard labour in the House of Correction.