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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 1842.

he brought out of the canal in a state of insensibility. She was
conveyed thence to a house contiguous to tir3 spot, where the
usual remedies for producing resuscitation being resorted to,
she was in a short period of time sufficiently recovered to be
enabled to be sent home. •

In answer to Mr. Trail!, as to the cause which induced her to
commit such an act, her reply was, that she "had been for
sometime past living under the protection of a man who latterly
treated her with great cruelty, and kept her and her infant
starving, while he was out drinking.
Mr. TRAILL said that he must have security that she would
not repeat the attempt, upon which her mother stepped for-
ward, and said that some difficulty would be encountered in
getting bail, and that if the Alagtstrate would permit her to
be discharged, she would not make such an attempt again.
Although the defendant now carried an infant in her arms, vet
it was necessary to state, that she placed it on the banks of the
canal previously to throwing herself into the water.
Mr. MAUL said he should commit the defendant in de-
fault of possessing the requisite sureties ; and that her impri-
sonment would, at all events, give her an opportunity of
breaking off all connection with a man whom she admitted had
driven her to the dreadful alternative of attempting to commit
self-destruction.—The defendant wa; then committed.
GREENWICH POLICE.
Yesterday Mrs. Mary Hewitt, wife cf a master waterman,
residing in Greenwich, appeared to a warrant, obtained against
her by her husband. The defendant appeared with her head
bound with a handkerchief, spotted with blood, and was ac-
commodated with a seat in front of the bar.

Mr. J. Hewitt, the complainant, said the conduct of his
wife was so outrageous that he could no longer endure it.
She had repeatedly threatened to destroy him, by throwing
vitriol over kim ; and several times had flourished razors (one
in earls hand) over his head, vowing she would • take his life.
Their matrimonial differences had been often brought under
the notice of the County Magistrates, and at their suggestion,
a deed of separation was drawn up, and he was relieved of her
company, en allowing her Bs. per week. On Sunday morning
he was awoke whilst in bed, by a noise of glass breaking, and
on getting up he found the defendant had broken six panes of
hi, hed-room window. He got up and found she had obtained
access into the house, where she vowed she would remain,
threatening if he touched her to bury a razor in his heart.
It was stated by Harris, the officer, who served the war-
rnnt, that on taking her into custody, she went into a fit, and
afterwards, on the road to the station, she fell down and cut
her forehead. Whilst in the cell she attemtte,l to commit
suicide by cutting her throat in two places, with a penknife,
and ultimately she went off in a strong tit that lasted two hour's,
and required six men to hold her. A more violent woman he
had never seen in his life.

Mr. May, solicitor, who appeared for the husband, advised
hint again to separate from her, and the complainant offered
her Bs. a week, together with a room of furniture, for that
purpose.
Mr. May had just inquired of her if that would suffice, and
the defendant (who evidently had a desperate struggle to re-
strain her feeling:), had just replied " If 1 don't have better
health, it won't," when she fell, as if struck with a shot, from
her seat to the floor. ,

The officers of the Court immediately raised her, and con-
veyed her in an inanimate state to the outer office, when nearly
half an hour elapsed before she returned to consciousness.
The Alag;strate ultimately allowed a private arrangement.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

The Gazette of last evening contains a list of 83 addresses
of congratulation to the Queen, on the occasion of the birth of
hl3 Ito) al Highness the Prince of Wales, presented to her Ma-
jesty by the Hight llon. Sir James Graham, Bart., Secretary of
State for the Home Department.

WHITEUALL, JAW. 27, 1842.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Joseph Wise, of
Ashborne, Derbyshire, Gent., and Edward Cheney, of Bir-
mingham, Warwickshire, Gent., to be Masters Extraordinary
in the High Court of Chancery.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Somerset.
2d Somerset Regiment of Militia—T. J. Thackeray, Esq.,
to be Captain, Jan. 22.
DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.

JOHN SAMUEL LENNARD, victualler; Norfolk Arms,
Half Moon-crefcent, White Conduit-fields.

JAMES HUN NYBUN, ironmonger, Cambridge.
BANKRUPTS.

HENRY ADOLPidUS BUBER, maltster, Lindfield,
Sussex, to surrender Feb. 18, at one, and March 15, at twelve,
at the Town-hall, Brighton. Verral and Lewis, Lewis ; Mil-
lard and Adams, Cordwainers'-hall, London.
JOHN SFANTON, cheesemonger, Bermondsey-street,
Surrey, Feb. 8, at half-past one, and March 15, at twelve, ;at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Alderman-
bury ; Cattiin. Ely-place.
JOHN DEANE WELLS, commission-agent, George-
street, Mansion-house, Feb. 17, at half-past twelve, and March
15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official
assignee, Wirchin-lane; Heald, Austin-friars.
SAMUEL OWEN, innkeeper, Conway, Carna,rvonshire,
Feb. 15 and March 15, at twelve, at the Castle Inn, Carnar-
con. Abbott, Jenkins, and Abbott, New Inn, Wych-street,
Strand, London.

JAMES JOLLEY, builder, Saint Alban's-place, Hay-
market, Feb. 8, and March 15, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Gibson, official assignee, 13asinghall-street ; Allen and
Nicoh, Cheapside, London.
JOHN WATES, victualler, Old Kent-road, Surrey, Feb.
8, at half-past twelve, and March 15, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanburf
Lucas and Parkinson, Argyle-street, Middlesex.
EDWARD STRATTON, corn-dealer,
sAngcnt, Berks,
Feb. 18, at twelve, at the Red Lion
and 11Iarch 15, at
eleven, at the Bear Inn, \Vantage..
Barnes, Chipping Lam-
borne, Berks.
CHARLES NICHP:L.-.,
flannel-merchant, Shrewsbury,
Feb. 12, and Marc..%
.
Shrews 15. at eleven, at the Guildhall, Shrews.
bury. P- ("vr......tt and Crow, Staple Inn, London ; Cooper,
•
t. ,
p'dr )
_ ...sCHARD HAZELL, corn-dealer, Ramsbury, Wiltshire,
eeb. 11, at eleven, at the Red Lion Inn, Lambourn, and
March 15, at one, at the Bear Inn, \Vantage. Edwards, Aid-
bourn, Wiltshire; Norton and Son, New-street, Bishopsgate,
London.

JOHN HOLT, grocer, Livesey, Lancashire, Feb. 17, and
March 15, at eleven, at the Town Hall, Preston. Milne,
Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London ; Neville, Ains-
worth, and Beardsworth,

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
J. Hawkes, silk mercer, Pall-mall, Feb. 24, at eleven—J.
liammon, plumber, Great Portland-street, Oxford-street,
Feb. 24, at half-past eleven—J. C. Gummer, wino merchant,
Hart-street, Mark-lane, Feb. 24, at twelve—G. H. Garnett,
chemist, Queen Ann street, Marylebone, Feb. 24, at one—T.
and J. L. Keasley, tanners, Long-lane, Bermondsey, Feb. 24,
at half-past one—C. Dannit, jun , hop merchant, Talbot Inn..
yard, Southwark, Feb. 24, at two—C. Hall, upholsterer, Pic-
cadilly, Feb. 22, at oruN—G. W. Bromfield, brush manufac-
turer, Blackfriars-road, Feb. 24, at twelve—G. Dorrington,
printer, Percival-street, Feb. 24, at eleven—J. Saunders, J.
Fanner, and T. H. Saunders, woollen manufacturers, Basing-
hall-street, Feb. 26, at one—G. Walton, timber merchant,
Kingsland-road, Feb. 26, at twelve=-J. Green, merchant,
Great Winchester-street, Feb. 26, of eleven.
In the Country.
T. Lamplugh, grocer, Great Driffield, Yorkshire, April 16,
at twelve, at the George Inn, Kingston-upon”Hull—A.
Dyson, plater on steel, Sheffield, Feb. 24, at one, at the Town-
hail, Sheffield—E. Clarke, builder, Leamington Priors, War-
wickshire, March 3, at one, at the Lansdowne Hotel, Lea-
mington Priors—G. Johnson, fruiterer, Leeds, Feb.' 23, at
eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds—R. Coad, grocer,
Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Feb. 24, at eleven, at the George
Hotel, Huddersfield—W. Butler and R. Parkes, wine mer-
chants, Birmingham, Feb. 23, at half-past eleven, at the Wa-
terloo-rooms, Birmingham—J. Baldwin, wire drawer, Edg-
baston, Warwickshire, Feb. 23, at two, at the Waterloo-rooms,
Birmingham—J. and B. Whalley, wool merchants, Leeds,
Feb. 22, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds—J.
North, fancy-cloth manufacturer, Mold-green, Yorkshire, Feb.
25, at three, at the George Inn, Huddersfield—H. Shaw,
scrivener, Ulverston, Lancashire, March 1, at one, at the
King's Arms Inn, Lancaster.

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. ,

The Berntime states that the brig Ceres has been sunk,
by striking on a rock at .St. Nisaire She was laden
with sugar, part of which was save, but the loss is esti-
mated at 600,000 f. A. sailor who was asleep in his
cabin was drowned. _ _

Of sixty-vino fires in the department of the Aisne, in
1841 (says the Quotidienne)) forty-seven are said to have
been the work of incendiaries, but only seven persons
have been brought to trial on a charge of arson, of whom
six were condemned, and one acquitted.
M. Duval, an inhabitant of Gancourt, in the Seine-
Inferieure, a few days ago committed suicide, after hav-
ing murdered his wife. He was nearly sixty years of age,
enjoyed a fortune sufficient to place him at his ease, was
without children, and was believed to live happily with
his wife, who was about fifty. His friends are lost in
conjecture as to the cause of the catastrophe.
The captain of a merchant vessel, recently arrived at
Havre froui.Port au Prince, reports that he fell in with
three schooners, believed to be pirates, off St. Domingo,
on the .15th ult. They sailed round his ship, and ap-
peared inclined to stop her, but ultimately they made WT.
The Toulonna is states that, from the Ist of the next
raanth, there will be a mail for Algeria six times per
ironth, viz. the 10th, 20th, and 30th of each month from
Toulon, and the sth, 15th, and 25th from Marseilles.
There will also be six arrivals monthly, but the days of
departure from Algeria are not stated.
One of those perambulating dealers who infest the
public places with their stalls, selling trinkets of base
metal and false stones, which they pretend are gold and
jewels, and on which they put an imitation of the Go-
vernment stamp, was arrested two days ago at his
lodgings in the Rue No:re Dame de Nazareth, and a con-
siderable quantity of these articles, with the tools and
materials for manufacturing them, Were seized.
A few days ago a person named Chamblin, who re-
sided at Corbel], and who was formerly a sergeant in the
GOth regiment of the line, was fount murdered in hi 6
house, with a carving knife, which had been used by the
murderer, lying by the side of the body. It appears
that the neighbours had been disturbed by a noi.-;e in the
house of Chamblin, at about one o'clock in the morning.
and from the appearance of the place, a severe struggle
had taken place between the murderer and his victim,
who was generally supposed to be in possession of a con-
siderable sum of money. Suspicion has fallen upon a
person who had been seen to call on Chamblin, but whci
was a stranger to the place.
The ordinary tranquillity of the -Faubourg St. Ger-
main was disturbed three days ago by a violent conflict
between two classes of journeymen carpenters, called
Compagnons and Gavots, who, after beginning their
quarrel at the Barriere de Mont Parnasse, catae to
blows in the Rues de Vaugirard and Notre Dame des
Champs. They mustered about 60 combatants, and
could not be separated until a party of 20 soldiers and a
squadron of Municipal Guards came and seized the ring-
leaders and dispersed the rest. There were many
wounded, but all except two were carried off by their
friends.

Yesterday morning, a family at La Villette dismissed
their female servant Air getting drunk and being inso-
lent ; and., in order that they might be immediately quit
of her, paid a week's wages in advance. The woman,
however, declared that she would remain in the house
twenty-four hours more in spite of every body, and went
up stairs. After remaining two hours, some of the fa-
mily went up to urge her departure, and found her
deal, having hung herself in a garret.
The lotdependant of Brussels says that the owner of
the Hotel des Bains, pit Ostend, has had the uncOilscion-
able impudence to charge the King of Prussia, for stop-
ping one night, and breakfasting, with his suite of
twenty persons, in that house, five thousand francs. It
adds, that the ing could not, 'Of course, stoop to har-
(rain about the matter, and theterore submitted to
the extortion,

Two men, the evening before last, quarrelled over
their liquor in a wine-shop, near the Place des Vieteires,
and went out into the Piece to light, The Co:nbat was
extremely ferocious, end the by-'slanders endeavoured in
vain to separate them. At length the 'W'ettiCeSt OE' tile
two, finding he was likely tti be • tiVercorue, took a pistol
from his pocket, Aiiti fired it at his adversary. Fortu-
nately the hall only grazed his clothes ; but after pass-
ing through the apron of a grocer's man, Odd of the gpee.
tator's, it wounded a third person beyond him the
hand. The report attracted the men cirt sit theguard-house of the Bank, who 04Mil f3II tiok both the
antagonists into custod,y%
A murder, attetided with atrocious circumstances, was
committed a short t;--e ago at Ajaccio. in Corsica; A
violent nad for some time etlitert diet the
Virg-..',.t and Canacei Datilics, of which latter one of its
members had been brought before the Court of Assize,,
on a charge of having been eeneereed iti the nittrder of
the Abbe Vignali, ehaplain of Napoleon at St. Helena,
but acquitted% All open hostility between the two fami-
lies had ceased ; but one evening as the Canacci family
were quietly seated near the fire, two of the Vignahs
entered, and fired at them. The Canttecis attempted to
defend themselves, and a desperate struggle took place
with poniards on both sides, which ended in the expul-
sion of the assailants, one of whom WitS severely wounded.
Before they were expelled, however, the daughter of the
chief of the Canacci family, had been killed by, a musket-
bell, and two of her brothers were much wounded. The
murderers had fled, but the police were in active search
for them.

" A vessel from Madagasettr" satin tht °lobe, this
brought intelligtowee of the loss of the brig of war. Ar-
tilleur. The crew had been saved."

The Semaphore of MarscilleS states that a telegraphic
despatch was sent off by Marshal Soult early on the
18th inst., ordering General Levasseur to embark in-
stantly for Oran, with the view of preventing the duel
between him and M. Arrighi, but that the weather was
so bad that the order did not reach Marseilles for three
days, and after the fatal rencontre had taken place.
The Brest journals mention that the English collier
Harvests, Captain Wilkins, bound for that port, was
wrecked in the night of the 23d inst. on the Black Rocks,
three miles from St. Mathieu. The Captain and crew of
nine men took to their boats, and reached Brest in safety.
The Phare the Leman, a Swiss paper, mentions a re-
port that an attack had been lately made by 14 brigands
on the Hospice of the Grand St. Bernard during the night.
The brethren of the Hospice defended themselves with
courage, let loose their dogs, and killed five of their as-
sailants, but lost their Prior, three servants, and several
dogs. The journal we quote does not guarantee the
truth of the rumour.

In the remote districts of the Canton of Soleure, says
a Swiss Journal, there still exist persons who believe in
magic, read the planets, and deal with an elderly gentle.
man not to be named to ears polite, with the hope, or
rather, perhaps, under the pretence, of finding hidden
treasures. At Appenzell, the very seat of ignorance,
dwells a physiciant who gave a dyer, some time ago, 20
florins for a pitcher of pure blood mixed with copper-
filings, and a bond for 200 florins more on this precious
compound being converted into gold, as he was assured
it would be in a few years. The alchymist lately died
insolvent, and the physician's bond was found. among his
papers. The representative of the deceased has sued the
physician on his bond, but it rem sins to be seen whether
the condition has been performed by the tonversiOn of
the blood and copper into gold.
The Conrricr thz Pet sit Valais states that the woods
of the southern pat of the department, and particularly
Pas and Bertincourt, are overrun with wolves, who have
entered the folds, and committed great ravitgest At
Hehuterne some children were playing, at the skirts of
the village, when one of those animals came suddenly
nasong them; and seising a little girl, between nine and
ten years old, tore her in a shocking manner, and then
carried her off to the woods, followed by some of the in-
habitants, who were alarmed by the cries of the terrified
children. On the way one of the shoes of the poor child
was picked up, and in the wood her dead body was found
horribly mutilated,
The Marquis do Clausonette, the Quotidienne states,
who had been imprisoned for a month at Nimes, by emsn
tence of the tribunal, for having resisted the (+gouts of
the Government on the occasion of the census, was set at
liberty a few days ago, and iveturned to his residence at
I32aucaire. On his arrival, he found the streets lined
with the'populace, who had erected a triumphal arch for
him to pass under, and who received him with loud ac-
clanaations. In the evening he was serenaded, arid the
air of Vice Henry IV. was sung by the populace in
chorus.

Two or three days ago, as two labourers of the port
of Bercy, were oil their way to Paris early in the morn-
ing, they perceived on the bank of the Seine, near the
Pont d'Austerlitz, the cloak and muff of a female,
w hich, not being covered with snow, had evidently lain
a search,
male, leiTddirlsee(ysys
dnlry
eda scored‘isv ftovoae a
nto(hi
one
tlorined y of a young fe-
there only a short time. Suspecting a suicide they made
two boats.' ut,
aNfvtealt.ez.trbdestea,eeeryn
possible attempt was made by a medical man to restore
animation, but in vain. Just as the, budy was about to
he taken to the Morgue, it was recognised and claimed
by the family of the deceased, who, it appears, although
only 22 years of age, had for some time been in a state
of melancholy madness.
The National de l'Ouest, of Nantes, of Wednesday,
gates that one of the steam-boats of the Upper tone was
by
blown up that morning, while stoping at Aneenis, on its
passage from Nantes to Angcf6',
the bursting of its
boiler. The precise particulars of this sad accident were
not known, but it appeared that the whole of the fore-
of tht vessel either killed or seriously injured. Of theses
deck was torn up, and twenty-cafour
edpett•osotnhs in
that
e hospital part
a4rtt
fifteen are said to have been
de Paix of L':,uroux Beconnai-S is named oi.non& the Ancenis in a derbrable condition. M. Lernaitre,
suf-
ferers,

On Mouths last hi nine in the morning, a robbery
was co-m*l4Q in the Hotel de Bath, Rue de Rivelis of
sev,erak articles of plate. The opportunity witt
when the servants belonging to the .were va-
riously engaged, and it appars that the thief had been
disturbed in the midst of his proceedings by the ringing
of a bell, as there Wdli n, portion of plate remaining in the
drawers, which he had left wide open, as well as the
doors conducting to the staircase.
A student, in pharmacy. was two days ago arrested
and carried before a Commissary of Police on a charge of
theft. While about to be examined he secretly got a
small phial from his pocket, swallowed the contents, and
dropped down in violent convulsions. A physician was
called in, who immediately found that the young man
had taken a strong dose of prussic acid. Antidotes
were administered, and he was so far recovered as to be
able to bear removal to the infirmary of the prison of
La Force, where he lies in a precarious state, but not
without hopes of being saved.
A trait of honesty was shown a few days since by a
soldier of the 4th Regiment of the Line. He was going
to Asmeres by the St. Germain Railroad, when he was
requested by an individual unknown to him to take care
1,:,, , ;
iliiividuai never made his itpip-;,,n-ance and the
soldier hastened to deposit the money in the, hands of the
treasurer of his regiment.

SLAVERY.

TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS-SECOND
SESSION.
ROUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JAN. 7.

Mr. Stokeley, of Ohio, presented a petition for the re-
cognition of Hayti ; and one for the repeal of all laws
wl :ii compelled the people of the free States to support
slavery.
Mr. Geddings next presented a petition in the terms
of petitions presented previously, for a law to prevent
the transpo;tion of §lav co twice, in vessels of the
United States.

Mr. W.. C. Johnson said the question involved the
broad question of dlavety, and he was understood to say,
that he could not consent to its reception 18111101:kt debate.
Mr. Wise and Mr. Adams rose and . addresied the.
Speaker simultaneously.
Mr. Wise, whose voice Was heard above some half
dozen others who we-re addressing the Chair, .inquired
whether the petition could lie over, unless it were received.
The Speaker's reply was not heard ; but it may be
inferred from the answer of
Mr. "Wise, who said he rose then to a question affect-
ing the reception of the petition, to which he. called the
attention of the _House. It not only prayed for the re-
peal of all laws regulating or sanctioning the transport-
ing of slaves in vesselS of the United States—which in-
volved the commercial as well as the naval marine—but
of all laws regulating or sanctioning the " holding" of
slaves—that is, that the property in slaves shall be can-
celled. And not only this, but it prayed that laws may
be passed, protecting the rights of all persons claimed or
held as slaves, who may be constitutionally entitled to
their freedom, by going, with the consent of their mas-
ters, beyond the jurisdiction of the State in which they
are legally deemed to be slaves. Here was a new aspect
of Abolition. A slave passing three leagues to sea, no
matter in what vessel, was out.of any " State, territory,
or district," and therefbre a petition, praying for the
abolition of such slave, did not come within the rule.
Was then a slave, passing three leagues from Virginia,
ipso jhcto, free ? If this was not abolition, in its worst
form, he knew not what was. He asked whether the
decks of ail our vessels, whether in the commercial or
naval marine, were not part of the territory or the United
States, though such vessel might be in the Mediterranean?
Mr. Geddings claimed the privilege, with the consent
of the Speaker of the House, to reply to the remarks of
the gentleman from Virginia. The petition which. he
had presented, notwithstanding the construction which
had been given to it, would speak fur itself ; it prayed for
the repeal of all laws regulating or sanctioning the hold-
ing of transporting of persons as slaves in vessels of the
United States, sailing coastwise from one State to
another. It could not by any forced construction be said
to pr z,y fer the abolition of slavery in the slave States.
Mr. Wise—Look at the latter clause.

Mr. Geddings' reply was not distinctly heard, but he
was understood to say, in conclusion, that never since the
establishment of this Government had the transportation
of slaves from Africa been sanctioned, and who ever did
it, did so at his own peril.
Mr. Wise again called upon the gentleman from Ohio
to read the latter clause of the petition.
Mr. Geddings replied that the gentleman from Virgi-
nia could got the floor when no other man upon it would
think of asking for it; now he (Mr. Geddings) asked that
gentleman to permit him to make his remarks, and when
he had done the gentleman from Virginia could take the
floor, and reply it' he thought proper. He (Mr. Ged-
dings) asked permission to speak to the question of or-
der, and to that he would confine hiS remarks. This
pctitioii, then, he assorted, asked for no interference,
but that the petitioners might be permitted to withdraw
from all interference with slavery—it asked not that sla-
very should be abolished,. but that they might withdraw
their protection from all lawS which sanctioned the trans-
portatioti glaveg coastwise. That was the very ques-
tion which was at issue, and he wished it to be under-
stood that the North did not wish to interfere with
slavery.
The speaker then decided that the petitiOn came within
the prohibition, and could not be received.
Mis. Gedditighat, not so much as pray for pro-
tection for those who are constitutionally entitled to their
freed en ? I move that that petition be referred to the
Committee on Commerce. .

J. Campbell—l move to lay it on the table. ,
M. Geddings—And I call for the ayes and noes on
that meitimi:

hoped his friend from South Carolina
(Mr. Campbell), would change his motion to one on the
question of reception.
Mr. Campbell assented, and the ayes and noes were
Of Adfed,
Mr. Gordon-1 would ask if the latter clause is not
already received ?
Sift d. Johnson replied that when the petition was
first presented he objeetod reception, and when
the Speaker decided that part was not receivable, the
gentleman from Ohio desired that the remaining part
should be received, on which the gentleman front Bouth
Catolina, MoVeti to lay the question of reception on
table.--(Cries of " Question, question.")
The Speaker directed the Clerk to call the names on
the questim of rem:ninth
The Clerk (Beginning alphabetically) " John
Quincy Adams."
Mr. Adams (in much excitement) cried at the top of
his voice—Mr. Speaker, I will not answer as it now
stands, for I believe there is a trick in it.—(Confusion.)
The Speaker then announced the vote to be—ayes
104, noes 86 ; so that the motion to lay the question of
reception on the table was carried.
Mr. Geldings then said he had a petition to present,
which differed from the one just disposed of ; it was a
petition
.from a number of respectable electors of the
state of Ohio, praying that proper steps may betaken
to repent till laws, and the alteration of all constitutional
provisions by which the people of the free States, the
Federal Government, and this nation, are in any way
bound to countenance, protect, or aid in any manner, in
supporting and continuing the institution of slavery, or
keeping human beings in bondage. . . .

Mr. Wise asked if that did not come within the rule.
Mr. Geddings replied that the Speaker would per-
ceive it only asked that the people of the free States
should be exempted from protecting slavery. If the gen-
tleman from Virginia admitted that they were bound,
and could not be exempt, he would of course admit the
constitutionality of the free States to abolish. It was a
question, whether the people of the free States were to
be bound to support slavery.
Mr. Wise—l object to Its reception, and I move to lay
the question of reception on the table.
Mr. Geddings appealed to the gentleman from Virgi-
nia to withdraw his motion that it :night lie over for dis-
cussion. He made the request as a favour to the House
and to the nation, but especially so to the constituents of
the gentleman from Virginia.
Mr, Wise—l cannot extend courtesy to the gentleman
so far as to indulge him, in playing the incendiary, to cut
the throats of my constituents.

Mr. Geddingi—l desire to say one word.—(Great
confusion.)
The Bpealter (linpatiently)—Gentlenaen will please to
tike tiwiP QefLts,

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n C dc dtn mefely wigli is say =('' Question.")
The Speaker The question is on laying the question
of reception on the table. The ayes and noes were de-
manded and ordered.

The Ayes and Noes were then taken and resulted as
follow i..;-ikyos. 105, Noes 86, so the question of reception
ti=de laid on tilt table,
Mr. Geddings, having presented a number of petitions
of no public interest, then said he had one signed by 33
citizens of Pennsylvania, praying Congress not to admit
any new tat into the "Union whose Constitution tole-
rates sleety.
Mr. Wise—l object to the reception of that petition.
Mr. James—And I call for the ayes and nom
The Ayes and Noes gave the following result:—Ayes
102, Noes 111
Mr, aedditigs said he WiettOd 10 jtialify himself to
those getitionletl who had intrusted to him their peti-
tion, and he held the petitions of. 100000 freemen, most
of them resident in Ohio, where they ranked amongst
the most respectable—praying to he rtilievod the
necessity of aiding to hold human beings inbondage;
but after what had pased) he sil:Mid feel, justified in
withdrawing Mehl trOnt rho Iltitiscl and fetufilliig them
ttt tie petitioners, and submit to the people the question
how far they would submit to such legislative indignity.
Mr. Sherlock J. Andrews offered a petition on the
subject of the 21st rule, and remonstrating against the
stigmatising abolition petitions, or treating them in a
different manner froin other petitions.
Mr. Adams called for the ayes and noes thereon, and
asked, with some vehemence, if it was intended to drive
the people into a state of rebellion.
The question of reception was laid upon the table--
Ayes, 99; Noes,•B9.
Mr.. Andrews then attempted to offer another petition
on the subject of slavery.
Mr. Campbell made the motion as before on its re-
ception. '
Mr. Andrews said he had fifteen petitions on the 803.
ject of slavery, which he supposed would be excluded, if
he imight judge the•action of the House this morning,
and he should nosy there,i'erey present them: •
Mr. Weller presented a petition for the recognition
of Hayti. .
Mr. Cowen had several petitions on the subject of
slavery, but he was unwilling to occupy the time of the
House by calling for the ayes and noes, believing that
the- same course would be followed,' Ile) howevet, felt
bound to, present thent, and the ktouSe could dispOs6 iif
thkri hj it thought proper. He presented several, and
the question of reception was in each case laid on the table.
Mr. Stolooley presented several?
fate.

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REMOVAL OF THE LANCASHIRE ASSIZES.
—Petitions to the Queen in Council for the removal of
the Assizes, so far as regards the civil and criminal
business of the Salford Hundred, from Liverpool to
Manchester, have been adopted by the towns of Salford,
Hyde, Ashton, Oldham, Bury, and Rochdale, while from
BoIto:1 there are forwarded,' and ti,.'., front Man-
clietor. Tie Earl of WiL:ali 3,!,1 1.,,,rd I'. Egerion dovo
both engaged to further the object by all means in their
power.—Liverpool Times.