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they were at present placed. His own opinion decidedly was,
and he thought the House would concur with him, that the
advantages they had found to result from funds of this nature
entrusted to those Commissioners was one which it would not
be wi ein Parliament to dispense with. He proposed that a
1311 l should be introduced for a limited period, in order
that the public might have the means of judging
at the end of a certain thee whether the sys-
tem had answered or not. He ought also to say, that
the only alteration he should think it necessary to make with
respect to the mode in which these funds had been distributed
was, that public works in England, Ireland, and Scotland
should have an equal claim upon the funds, provided they were
equally enabled to (give the security which the Commissioners
might think sufficient. He thought that such an arrangement
would be but fair to the other portions of the United Kingdom.
It was particularly necessary upon the present occasion, because
it apprared from a paper which he had laid upon the table of the
House, that the sums already granted out of these funds
frr the erection of workhouses in Ireland had not

seen adequate to the csmplete performance of the object in-
tended. A sum of 100,0001. was now stated to be indispensiMe,
to he raised upon similar security to that already taken
for completing the different workhouses in that country.
Therefore out of that fund the Commissioners of Public Works
in Ireland would have the power of making advances for the
completion of the workhouses in that country. This was a
measure of great value, and on- in which he felt the
House was in general disposed to concur. The measure had
hitherto been attended with the most happy results, and he felt
that those results were principally owing to the admirable man-
ner in which those Gentlemen who had hitherto
had the administration of that department had
conduled their duties. The public was already aware of the
energy and zeal which those Commissioners had exhibited in
the discharge of their duties, but the public ought also to know
they had discharged those duties gratuitously, that persons to
whom time was of the greatest value had bestowed their time
in investigating the claims which had been made for advances
of public money, and so closely had they investigated the cir-
cumstances of each case, that they had rarely been deceived.
There was one gentleman in particular to whom, above all,
' the thanks of the public were due—he meant Mr. Harrison.
(Chi ers. ) He had devoted the greater parr of his
time to the public service, and had exhibited the
greatest ability in the discharge of his duty, and
it was owing to the zeal and assiduity with which he and his
brother Commissioners had discharged their lluties for the last
twenty-five years, that the beneficial working of the plan was
owing.—( Cheers.) He would not trespass any further on the
attention of the House, but he would give any explanation that
might be required during the progress of the Bill. He should
conclude by moving the resolution.
Mr. P. 1. BABING was rejoiced to find that the Right
Hon. Gentleman felt as he ( Mr. Baring) had done on
the subject of those advances. He entirely concurs d in what
had fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman, and begged to bear
testimony to the great merits of Mr. Harrison, in the tribute to
whose merits he entirely concurred: He was rejoiced to hear
what the Right Hon. Gentleman said regarding Mr. Harrison,
to whom the public were under the greatest obligation, and who
was entitled to their best thanks for his zealous and gratuitous
services.

Mr. HARDY hoped no advances would be made upon any
works which were not likely to repay the sums advanced upon
them by private individuals, as well as the money advanced by
the Crown.

The resolution was then agreed to, and the House resumed
QUEEN'S PRISON BILL.

On the motion of Sir JAMES GRAHAM, the House re-
solved itself into Committee on the Queen's Prison Bill.
The several clauses were agreed to without amendment, the
House resumed, and the Report was ordered to be received on
Monday.
The other Orders of the Day were then agreed to, and the
Hoese adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'Clock.

ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST WEST
INDIA MAIL STEAM-BOAT.

FALMOUTH, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FOUR O'CLOCK.

We have extreme pleasure in being enabled to an-
nounce the arrival of the naval mail steam-ship Thames,
under the able command of Captain Hast, RN., being
the fint return voyage of the great national line of
steamers between this country and the mighty southern
territories on the other side of the Atlantic.

Notwithstanding she has been delayed for a week or
more in leaving her port of departure, yet she has not
now brought the Jamaica mails, which arc certainly to
be regarded as the most important. These should
have been supplied her by the steamer, Czar ; but this
vet,sel not arriving, the commander of the Thames, at
the request of the mail officer, resolved on sailing with-
out them.

The Thames sailed from Havannah on the 11th of
February at eight o'clock, P. M. She arrived at Nassau
on the 17th, sailed from thence on the 19th, reached Ber-
muda an the 23d., and sailed from Bermuda the same
day at three o'clock, P.M. On the sth, at seven, A.M.,
she reached Fayal, and sailed from thence for Falmouth
at ten o'clock.

The steamers Solway and Forth were both at Havan-
nab, and the Tay was just leaving for Turks Island, to
deliver the mails in due order. The various other
steamers were all occupied in their respective services.

We learn that Adniiral Sir Charles Adam left Ber-
muda in the Illustrious on the 13th. The Pique and the
Volage sailed on the 23d during a gale of wind. The
Thames left her Majesty's shipßacer at Nassau.
The steamer Tay, which sailed on the 6th for
Wallis (Honduras), got aground near the Morro
Castle about half-past seven in the morning, and
although all efforts were made, she could not be got
off on account of its being low tide, but about half-past
one, the tide having risen, she got off, and sailed for her
destination, without having suffered in the least degree.
Rumours are afloat, at Havanna'', of some disorders
in the easterly part of this island. Troops have been
ordered to the interior, and the men of war on the sta-

tion have orders to be ready to sail at a moment's warning.
It seems that Government is detertniued to take serious
steps with repeet to the runaway negroes on the south-
ern coast ; but the affair has been conducted in such a
manner that as yet nothing has transpired worthy of
notice.

mons the outward and visible signs of a wholesome re-
morse, rose when strangers were ordered to withdraw,
and rushed out of the 'louse.
STAN DARD.—The Opposition Journals are now
filled with some rather inconsistent complaints against
the Irish Government. On one side, they make it
ground of accusation that the persons accused of the
murder of a poor man named APArdle, at liathfriland,
have not been convicted ; on the other, that in various
parts of the country, persons are proved to have
committed perjuries in prosecuting accused par-
ties. What has the Irish Government to do with
these things ? APArdle was murdered foully
murdered. Ve have read the trial of the case
arising upon his murder with attention, and can
have no doubt it is one of a very black number, but
betwe:n concluding that A has been murdered, and
concluding that C, 1), and E have murdered him, there
is a wide difference ; and upon the best attention we
have been able to give to the trial, we are not satisfied
that the accused arc even probably the guilty parties :
we are quite sure that a London jury would acquit
them upon such evidence as was produced. Un-
happily, however, Irish juries have more reason
to be cautious in such matters than English juries.
The case of Archibald Sly, accused by a conspiracy of
witnesses to hare murdered a man where no murder was
committed, is probably in the recollection of most
readers. Now, if the deceased in that case, who died by
a fall from his horse, had been, in fact, murdered, though
not by Sly, there is almost a certainty that Sly must
have perished as a murderer, though an innocent man.
There is also the case of a priest (Burke, we
think), at Cork, suborning a perjured prosecution
for murder, and fifty other like eases that must be
fresh in the recollection of Irish jurors, to make them
extremely cautious in matters of blood, particularly in
cases where sectarian influence may be supposed to
operate. Thin is unfortunate, and it cannot fail frequently
to obstruct justice ; but jurors are on their oaths, and
charged with an awful responsibility. Even the possibility
of consigning an innocent man to the gibbet is a frightful
imagination. The other ground of complaint, the proo,
that many persons have committed perjury for rewards
is another unhappy indication of the difficulty of
administering justice in Ireland. Without rewards you
will have no witnesses to aid in the punishment of
crimes ; but the offer of rewards must always operate
more or less as a bait to perjury, and, therefore,, wit-
nesses are again distrusted. Between the inflammation
of sectarian feeling on one side corrupting witnesses,
and the danger of rewards corrupting them on the other,
juries scarcely know how to act ; and thus justice must
be imperfectly administered, because justice can no
where Lind that certain truth without which she can-
not act.

The following are the latest rates of exchange at the
Havannah—viz., for 60 days' sight—London, 12. pm.,
12-1 asked. New York, I,i to 2 pm. Boston, 1- to
New Orleans, 3to 5 discount., no takers. Spain.
4to 6 p.m. Paris, par to 2 discount. Spanish Dollars,
3 pm. nominal. Mexic/th 1 pm. Doubloons, Mexican,
to 1 per cent. pin. Export duty on Gold 11, and on
Silver 21 per cent.. Par—With England 444 dolls. per
100/. With France 5 francs per dollar.
We are quite overwhehncd with the warm congratula-
tions of our friends in every part of South America, who
seem to be rivalling each ether in their expressions of de-
light and satisfaction at the establishment of this regular
and wonderfully rapid communicationwith our country,and
they appear to hail it as a being of the utmost importance
to the common interests which should unite us togc•
titer, inasmuch as it must prove of inestimable
value in giving cordiality and confidence to
eT cry party interested, whether home, colonial, or
foreign, All the various branches which existence
has hitherto placed almost beyond our reach, will
now be closely united to the mother country,
and the various republics of South America by
being brought in immediate connection, not only with
us, but also with those of our colonies abroad, which, be-
fore the establishment of these, steamers were nearly inac-
cessible to the, must be benefited to an inconceivable
extent, and derive the utmost advantage from being in-
cluded within the belt of the operations of this line.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE
The Gazette of this evening contains a list of 16 Addresses
of Congratulation, transmitted for presentation to his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, on the occasion of the birth of his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and presented to his Royal
Highness by the Right Hon. the Marquis of Exeter.
At the Court at 13uckingam Palace, the 11th day of March,
1842, present the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Her Majesty in Council was this (lay pleased to appoint
Llewelyn Lloyd, of Pontriffith, Esq., to be Sheriff of the county
of Flint, in the room of Edward Dyraock, of Penley Hall, Elks •
mere, Esq. ; and her Majesty was pleased to make the follow-
ing amendment on the Roll:
Monmouthshire—Welsh, made Welch.
Carmarthenshire—Wayngron, made Wauniago.
FOREIGN OFFICE, Ma Reit 10, 1842.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. James Shaw
as Consul, at Belfast, for the United States of America.
WAR OFFICE, MARCH 11.
4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant G. H. Eliot,
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Place, who retires; Cornet
R. Forster to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Eliot; M.
Blake, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Forger, March 11.
Ist Regiment of Foot—A. W. Gordon, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Lloyd, who retires, March 11.
14th Foot—W. C. Trevor, Gent., to be Ensign, without pm,
chase, vice Bruce, appointed to the Rifle Brigade, March 11.
16th Foot—E. Flood, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
v'ee Semple, who retires, March 11.
33d Foot—Ensign J. E. Collings to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Plunkett, deceased ; R. Lacy, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Collings, March 11.
40th Foot—Captain J. Stopford to be Major, by purchase,
vice Boscawen, who retires ; Lieutenant John Martin Bladen
Neill to be Captain, by purchase, vice Stopford ;
Ensign J. A. Macgowan to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Neill ; F. Nelson, Gent. to be Ensign, ,by purchase, vice Mac-
gowan ; Lieut. T. L. K. Nelson to be Adjutant, vice Neill, pro-
moted, March 11.
60th Foot—Lieut. F. R. Palmer, to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vise Baget, promoted; Second Lieut. A. Mosley to be
First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Palmer ; H. L. Bruyeres,
Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mosley,
March 11.
67th Foot—R. 11. Wood, Gent., to be Ensign , by purchase,
vice Tuthill, who retires, March 11.
77th Foot—R. Edwards, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Warrington, who retires, March 11.
Rifle Brigade—Ensign H. S. 13. Bruce, from 14th Feos, to
be Second Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Elrington, pro-
moted, March 11.
2d West India Regiment—Cornet W. Hamilton, from half-
pay Bth Dragoons, to be ensign (repaying the difference), vice
Hill, promoted; C. C. Hooke!, Gent., to, be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Williamson, who retires, March 11.
St. Helena Regiment—Ensign D. D. Wemyss, from 78th
Foot, to be Lieutenant without purchase ; Lieutenant W. F.
Macbean, to be Adjutant, March 11.
UNATTACHED.-- Brevet Major E. Bagot, from the 60th
Foot, to be Major, by purchase, March 11.
floserra 1. STAFF.—Assistant-Surgeon J. W. Moffatt, from
11th Light Dragoons, to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class,
March 11. To be Assistant-Surgeons to the Forces—T. Guy,
M.D., Jan. 28; R. M`Wharrie, M. D ; W. A. Tongue, Gent.,
March 11.
BREVET.—Major F. Farrant, Captain 3d Regiment of Bom-
bay Light Cavalry, to have the local rank of Lieutenant-Co-
lonel, on a particular service in Persia, March 11.
E ItA Nnu al.—Major James William Henry Walch, half-
pay Unattached, has been allowed to retire from the Array,
with the sale of his commission, he being about to become a
settler in Van Diemen's;Land, March 11, 184'2.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Manco S.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Captain and Brevet
Lieut.-Cal. G. C. Du Plat to be Captain; Second Captain I'.
Budg( n to be Captain, vice Walpole, deceased ; First Lieute-
nant E. T. Lloyd to be Second Captain, vice Bugden, Feb 23.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall.
W. Rashleigh, jun., Esq., M. P., to be Deputy Lieutenant ;
C. 13. G. Sawle, Esq., to be ditto, March 3.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Berwick.
Berwickshire, Linlithgowshire, HaddingtOnshire, and
Peeblesshire Militia—W. Hay, Esq., to be Colonel, vice the
Right Hon. the Earl of Home, deceased, Feb. 7.
DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
JOHN SEABP.OOK, licensed victualler, Stanmore, Mid-
dleex.
WILLIAM DARLINGTON, wine merchant, Liverpool.
BANKRUPTS.
FREDERICK PRAT, miller, Stoke-upon-Trent, March
21, at twelve, at the Swann Inn, Stafford, and April 22, at
twelve, at the Castle Hotel, Newcastle. Stevenson, Stoke-
upon-Trent ; ilson, Furnival's Inn, London.
EDWARD SHIRLEY WEBSTER, draper, Bull-street,
Birmingham, March 31, and April 22, at one, at the Waterloo-
rooms, Birmingham. Reed and Shaw, Friday-street, Cheapside,
London.
WILLIAM BURY, corn dealer, Blackburn, March 24, at
one, and April 22, at eleven, at the Town-hall, rreston.
Cuvelje, Skilbeck,and Hall, Southampton-buildings,Chancery-
lane, London ; Lodge and Harrises, Presto
JOSEPH HOENCAST LE, seed merchant, Glamford
Briggs, Lincolnshire, March 21, and April 22, at eleven, at
the Lion Hotel, Glamford Briggs, Lincolnshire. Nicholson
and Ilea, Brigg, Lincolnshire; Dynely, Coverdale, and Lee,
Tedford-row London.
JOSEPH EMERY, surgeon, Wells, Somersetshire, April
6, and 22, at eleven, at the Somerset hotel, Wells. Jay, Ser-
geants' Inn, Fleet-street, London.
SAMUEL JACKSON and THOMAS FREDERICK
JACKSON, woolstaplers, Bermorelsey-street, Surrey, March
22, at eleven, and April 22, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Watts, Ber-
mondsey-street.
JAMES COUNTY, oil and colourman, Winchcomb-street,
Cheltenham, March 29, and April 22, at one, at the Royal
Hotel, Cheltenham. Miller and Carr, Eastcheap, London.
ISAAC NEWTON WIGNEY and CLEMENT WIG-
NEY, bankers, Brighton, March 28, and April 22, at ten, at
the Town-hall, Brighton. Palmer, France, and Palmer, Bed-
ford-row, London.
PHILIP WOODROW HART, coach manufacturer, Nor-
wich, March 17, and April 22, at ten, at the offices of Mews.
Beckwith, Dye, and Kitton, Norwich. Clark and Medcalf,
Lincoln's Inn-fields; Beckwith, Dye, and Kitton, Norwich.
GEORGE S FANWAY, grocer, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staf-
fordshire, March 24, and April 22, at twelve, at the George
Inn, Burslem, Staffordshire. George Smith, Chancery-lane,
London ; Henry Harding, Stoke- upon Trent, Staffordshire.
JOHN PERRY CLARKE and OSMTJND LEWIS,
newspaper agents, Crown-court, Threadneedle-street, March
IS, at eleven, and April 22, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ;' Cltake,. George-street.
Mansion-house.
WILLIAM ROBINSON, glass manufacturer, Irulme, Lan-
cashire, March 22, and April '22, at twelve, at the Commission-
ers'-rooms, Manchester. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris,
Temple. London ; Slater and Heelis, and Bagshaw and Ste-
venson, Manchester.
EMILY ANN BIRCH, lodging-house-keeper, Bedford-
pril 22, at
oAflarßcahnkliBr4tacty.twoGibasnod A
Gibson, Basinghall-
pt aeclev,e, Rautssteillle- sqcuoaurer
street, official assigr.ee; Lloyd, Cheapside.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
T. Pilbeam, smith, Parker-street, Drury-lane, April 2, at
eleven—L. Munn, paper manufacturer, Soleshridge, Hertford-
A. shire, April 2, at two—R. Mitchell, merchant, Lime-street,
A. Smitn and W Mo t th nea ,
Aprpilrill,la,taotntevr-4.—Ralc.kett,. lock.smith, Bell-yard, Carey
sCt teyet A,
Dun-
can, boarding-house keef er, Oxford-terrace, Hyde-park, April
elastic 4, at half-past ten—A. Hemming, surgical instru-
ment maker, Chiswell-street, Finsbury,. April 4, at two—E.
linen drapers, Oxford-street, April 1, at twelve--ii.
—A.Ben Lassiatw, wriienread j
mner c.hLanotc,kL, Lime-osrttreerest,ofCfiotyre,
iAgnprgiloold,sa, Wood-
street, twelve
street, City, April 4, at one—T. Marris and It. Nicholson,
hbaalnfklearssi Bteanr.ton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, March 24, at
In the Country.
G. I larriot, beer brewer, Ormskirk, Lancashire, April 4, at
one., al
ot
stsb, the
mCalrabrleen
masons,don-roomNttingbam, April 4, at one, at thes Liverpool—J. Stephenson and
G
George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham—S. Peasnall, plumber,
Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, April 4. at one, at the
Lansdowne Hotel, Leamington Priors—T. Barlow, shoe
dealer, Manchester, April 2i, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-
rooms, Manchester—W. I3orton, banker, Kirbymisperton,
Yorkshire, April 11, at six, at the Angel Inn, 'Whitby—J. H.
Heron, J. S. Heron, J. K. Heron, and A. Heron, cotton spin-
ners, Manchester, April '2, at eleven, at the Commissioners'.
rooms, Manchester—it. M‘Lacblan, licensed victualler, Liver-
pool, April 11, at one.
whole-
J. and G. Laing, cork manufacturers, Eastcheap,
11. Beeston, coach builder, Manchester—J. Griffin, uphol-
sterer, Dudley, ‘CvEorßeeTstleFrlillCiAreT APRIL 1.
_ES
H.
Goode, P. Busk, machine maker,
Hunslet, Leeds—E. Petch, wine merchant, Atherstone, War-
bswauilcielkdgsehrroisre,ee—rN. Bev,.
Birmingham—A..eßaesrteil.lu,pmoenr_eThya Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Hr. Jackson,
t ,poo L iv, n.
erspeo olnHd A. Spoor, jun.,
money scri-
vener, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

- -
A. Howden and P. Ainsley, ship agenta, Leadenhall-street
—W. Williams and A. Paine, woollen drapers, Tichborne-
street, Regent's-circus—G. W. Dunsford and B. B. Turner,
merchants, London—E. J. Cook, J. Rhodes, and J. Lickorish,
silk warehousemen, Bread-street, Cheapside—E. Prichard and
J. Harvey, wine merchants, Bristol-3. Askew and W. Stans-
field, cotton-yarn doublers, Manchester—H. and N. Briant,
atehiteets, Reading, Berkahire—M, Glover, W. Hill; and H.

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Hill (formerly H. Glover), oil sloth manufacturers, Manches-
ter—W. Sofle and W. Winckworth, print sellers, Strand—T.
C. Engelback and J. Head, glass benders, Thravrl-street,
Spitalielsis—T. R. Andrews and H. Bowen, mercers, Bridg-
north, Shropshire—R. Pickersgill, jun., J. Pickersgill, and I'.
Blackburn' carriers, Leeds—J. and W. Jones, working
jewellers, Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell—R. Insoll and G.
Lenny, coach makers, Lewes, Sussex—J. Bailey, C. Bailey, W.
Morgan, T. Gratrex, and W. Williams, bankers, Monmouth (so
far as regards W. Morgan).
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
ALEXANDER GRANT GILKISON and HUGH
BROWN, merchants, Glasgow, March 16 and April 13, at
twelve, at the Office of C. and R. Baird, Glasgow.
JOHN BLACK, manufacturer, Glasgow, March 17 and
April 7, at two, at Comrie's Royal Hotel, Glasgow.
JAMES DICK, mason, Glasgow, March 17 and April 7, at
twelve, at the Writing-office of J. Finlayson, Glasgow.
WILLIAM HILL, ROBERT HILL, and GEORGE
HILL, grocers, Edinburgh, March 18 and April 13, at twelve,
at. the Old Signet Hall, Edinburgh.
WILLIAM M'ALPINE and DAVID ROBERTSON,
merchants, Glasgow, March 18 and April 8, at one, at J.
Gourlay's, accountant, Glasgow.