The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-15 00:00:00

TILE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 15 1845.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
CHUB NET VALLEY RAILWAY.
The Committee postponed their decision on this allegation, and
then proceeded to hear the allegations in reference to Lord Vernon,
which were to the effect that the line ran through his Lordship's
estates, and that he had not been served with notice.
The promoters of the Bill admitted that his Lordship had not
been served, for he could not, being abroad, but his trustees had.
The petitioners denied that the property was in trust at all.
Mr. White, Lord Vernon's solicitor, denied that the parties
named as trustees were such. He then described the nature of his
Lordship's title, which was, that he was a tenant for life, and
that Sir Edward Stacy was trustee for certain purposes only.
The room was then cleared, and in about half an hour the
Committee announced that they were of opinion that the Standing
Orders had not been complied with.
The Committee then adjourned.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S
STATE OF HEALTH.
It is with real regret' that we re-state, on authority which
merits confidence, that there is no substantial improvement
in the health of Sir William Follett.
We would fain hope that a life rendered valuable to his con-
nexions by the personal virtues which adorn his character, and
to his country by the talents he is known to possess, by the
frequent proofs he has supplied in his political and professional
course, will yet be spared. This, however, will depend
on his total abstinence from business, and his removal from a
sphere in which the fevered state of the constitution, drying
up the springs of life, is stimulated by a natural wish to be
present at, and to take part in the strife of parties, and to
assume the active duties of his post as first law officer of the
Crown.
Within these few days the reports of the changes
which would be rendered necessary in the retirement
of Sir William Follett as Attorney-General have been
revived ; it is even stated that the arrangements are
fixed, subject, of course, to that event. The Solicitor-
General would become Attorney-General. The claims
of Mr. Fitzroy Kelly to the thus vacated Solicitor-
Generalship, on the grounds of party services and of high
professional reputation, are very strong. Still many
well- informed persons doubt whet her Mr. Kelly would
be the new Solicitor-General. Sir Robert Peel, it is
believed, has no special wish to introduce Mr. Kelly to
office; though he would have no objection to shelve him
as a puisne judge, and thus relieve himself from the ad-
mitted claims which Mr. Kelly has upon him, as Prime
Minister. Mr. Turner, of the Chancery Bar, is men-
tioned as a very likely man for the Solicitor- General-
ship. If the state of Sir William Follett's health
would have permitted him to take the seals, there
is reason to believe Lord Lyndhurst would have re-
linquished them, to enable him to do so, and would have
been introduced to a less laborious post in the Cabinet. The
circumstances to which we have alluded, preclude, however,
the possibility of such an arrangement ; and things will,
probably, remain in the Chancery Court as they now are,
until the course of public events, which are manifestly tend-
ing to an early break-up of the Peel Government, produces a
complete change in all the offices of State.--Erening paper.

THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE AND
THE MAYNOOTII GRANT.
Clumber, Sunday Evening, April 13, 1845.
My dear fellow. countrymen,—ln the sincerity of my
heart, and under an anxiety which overwhelms me,
may I address to you a few hurried lines which are
intended to exhort you to adopt the most decisive
measures, ere the fit time for action be passed. It is now
late in the afternoon, and I have only just looked cursorily
over the contents of this day's post : my observations must
therefore be very brief indeed. I would have addressed
you at an earlier period, had I not wished to see
what course Mr. Gladstone would take. I still hoped
that he might be found true to the great cause of Protes-
tantism, and that in him might be supplied another among
the too few and able champions of the neglected and almost
persecuted Established Church ofEogland. Alas ! you have
only to choose between submitting to be trampled upon, or
making a loud demand by your public voice.
You must rouse yourselves as one man. Those who are
attached to the Protestant faith—those who wish to
preserve the predominance of the English Established
Church as the protection and safeguard of these realms—
those who will not submit to the imposition of the
Income-tax, by which means a surplus is extracted
from your pockets, that is, to pay a sinful endowment
of a rebellious Popish seminary, Maynooth in Ireland, and
this, too, when the smallest portion of a pound is denied to
your own pure and truly Christian Church—look well into
this perfidious proceeding: see with your own eyes—judgewith
your own good understandings—act from the stoutness of your
own noble British hearts. But be quick! Lose not an in-
stant ! Call county meetings—require your representatives to
represent you in reality, and call upon Ulm to support
your petitions. You are betrayed; you are sacrificed in
more instances than one—you are the victims of some deep
scheme which is not yet suffic►ently developed ; but be
beforehand with the schemers, although they may think
themselves safe in their Parliamentary potency. Ifyou hate
and disapprove of this awful beginning of future awful in-
tentions, speak out and act determinedly—insist on attention
being paid to your national feelings, to your love of God, and
love of country.
Petition! Petition! Petition I Do this with zeal, peace-
fulness, and order, but with perseverance and determination
that nothing shall overcome. Do this, if it accords with
your religious feelings and national sentiments; if you do it
you may save our cherished land frcm the wrath of God and
perfidy of man ; pause even, and the same rule which will
revolutionise your Church will doom your fields to lie uncul-
tivated, your whole agricultural system to a ruthless destruc-
tion and starving desolation.
I pray you, my dear fellow-countrymen, to receive this
brief and crude address, written on the instant, as a proof of
my deep interest in our national welfare. I make this call
on your attention that you may be forewarned of what may
happen, not by a factious demagogue, but by an unfiiehing
Conservative of all our most loved and valued institutions of
Church and. State.
Allow me to sign myself,
Your ever faithful Friend,
NEWCASTLE

COURSE OF EXCH.
Amsterdam CF. 12 81
Ditto, at sight l2 6i
Rotterdam 2U. 12 9
Antwerp 26 15
Hamburgh M.B. 14 0
Alton —
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 90
Ditto, 3 months 26 10
Marseilles 26 10
Bourdeaux 26 15
Frankfort on Maine 123

A.NGE--(THIS DAY)
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Genoa 26 10
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Palermo, oz llB
Lisbon s2i
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Porte a: Odd Coin 3 17 5
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New DC4IIIIB 0 4 9
Silver iu bars 0 4 10i

Petersburgh, .3 Us
Berlin —
Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M lO 2
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36
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Barcelona
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CITE LONDON GAZETTE'
(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 15, 1845.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Sir James
Turing, Bart., British Vice-Consul at Rotterdam, to be her
Mkjesty's Consul at Rotterdam.

The -Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Francis Waring, Esq., British Vice-Consul at Alicante, to be
her Mojesty's Consul at Norfolk, in the United States.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of

Yorkshire,

The Earl of Effiingham to be Deputy Lieutenant ; E. Bea
mont, Esq , to be ditto, Feb. 17, 1845.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire.

Royal Wilts Yeoinanry Cavalry—D. Bennet, Gent., to be
Cornet, vice Goddard, promoted, April 5.

BANKRUPTS.

K. F. A. Hampson, gas litter, Walnut Tree walk, Lam •
beth, to surrender, April 25, at half-past eleven, and May 20,
at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official
assignee; Smith, Wilmington-square.
W. Jones, commission agent, Stamford-street, April 25, at
eleven, and May 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Belcher, official assignee ; Crouch, Southainton-buildings,
Chancery-lane.
William Hodgkinson, slater, Weston-street, Pentonville,
April 24, at half•past eleven, and May 27, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Nash,
Goawell-road.

Joseph Jarvis and_ James Jarvis, wine-merchants, Bush

lane, C.annon-street, London, April 24, and June 6, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Alder-
manbury ; Gale, Basinghall-street.
Job Bradshaw, tailor, St. Alban's, April 25. at one, and
May 27, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official
assignee, Abchurch -lane, Lombard-street ; Walker, Furni-
val's Inn.

John Morgan Leader, coaclimaker, Oxford-street, Apri
25, and May 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy
Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street ; Bailey and Shaw
Berners-street, Oxford street.

John Woollarns, builder, Charles-street, Manchester-square,
April 25, at twelve, and May 29, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry:-cham-
bers; Kernot, Welbeck• street.

Preston Barker, publican Shelton, Staffordshire, April 26,
at one, and May 27, at twelve, at the Birmingham District
Pinchbeck,oiolglpee asieltß assignee,it r
emn Lincolnshire, Birminghaminagt ntahme . ; Challinor,
Birmingham
Birmingham April 26 ,at
DtCl:lianjseutlori;ieec.nYi ; andMa Jones,°l
Court.PttYl e rya li°
butcher,
Christie, 7l
and:
riasltt iKaeh,ns
Bonner and Son, Spalding; Motteram and Knowles, Bir-
mingham.
William Birchall Pattinson, currier, Liverpool, April 25
and May 23, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
Liverpool.
Thomas Stewerd Dodd, innkeeper, Liverpool, April 28 and
May 26, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Bridger and Blake, London-wall,
London ;official assignee, Liverpool ; Vincent and Co., Temple,Jones,
London ; Dodge, Liverpool.
William Whitaker Spence, woollen-draper, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, April 23 and May 28, at two, at the Newcastle-
, • A Beckett, Son, and Simpson, Golden-
upon-Tyne District
square, London.
Court. Wakley, official assignee, New-
Joseph Jobling Ayton, linen draper, South Shield, April
29, at twelve, and June 3, at two, at the Newcastle-upon-
, April 25
and may 2
Tvne District Court. Baker, offieal essignee, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne; Wilson, South Shields; Hodgson, Broad-street-
buildings, London.
Williamo7ialstbetwreelßveen, na,tmtehrechLanist,e,rpLoiovlervisrict Liverpool
Court.l
Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Gregory, Faulkner, and
Company, Bedford-row, London ; Frodsham, Liverpool.
Balmah Overend, card maker, Popplewell in Sh I
c o es,
Yorkshire, April 28, and May 19, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court. Fearne, official assignee, Leeds ; wisics.
worth and Co., Gray's-Inn, London ; Cronhelm, Leeds.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current of April 15.)
g the merchants
SUGAR'—T0-day the market presented a healthy appear-
ance for West India Sugar. 800 hhds and tierces were
disposed of by private treaty; the rates were fully sustained
for brown, grey, and yellow, and the market closed firmly.
iTshneotqusoanitairtgyeolsbirot
ww a
sn ; antchleiniolroarteysVaouwsinand grey on sale
to keep their Sugar from the market. A public sale of 150
hhds of Barbadoes, this afternoon, went ofr quietly at rather
lower rates, and a part only sold; tine yellow went at 54s to
565, good 51s to 535 Gd, good mid 50s, middling 47a to 49s Gd,
low 44s 6d to 46s 6d, and one lot of very low 40s per cwt.
REFLNED.—To-day the home trade purchased Refined
Sugar with avidity, and at the close of the market there was
scarcely any undisposed of; .Brown lumps'fetched 65s to 665;
and standard lamps 66s 6d to 67s per cwt. Bonded C:ushed

Bengal Rice, the quantity submitted to competition amount
ing to 12,275 bags ; at one sale of 6,4.39 bags, the whole was
taken in 6d per cwt above the value, that is to say—good
white at 12s 6d, good mid 12s, mid lls to 1 is 6d, low lOs 6d,
but a few lots of damaged sold at lOs to I Is.
!INDIGO.—The quarterly sales of East India commenced to-
day; during the progress of the sale 155 chests were with-
&awn, and 941 chests have passed. Ordinary to good con.
sinning qualities, par., middling and defective shipping
sorts par to 3d discount, good ditto par to 3d advance; Kur-
pahs and Madras in good demand, the former averaging the
last sales valuations, the latter, occasionally a shade lower.
Pgoprietors have bought in 126 chests.

SALTPETRE.—TO-day the market was better supplied
with Rough, and 3,700 bags of Calcutta at public sale were
offered at a reduction on former rates of 6d per cwt. were dis-
posed of.

Orr S.—There has been a brisk demand for Cod Oil, sales
hiving been made at 30/ 5s to 30/ lOs per tun. Southern
met with increased attention, several parcell have been sold
privately, and at auction 70 tuns brought 29/ lOs to 30/ for
line, 271t0 28/53 for middling to good, and 26/ 15s per tun for
low quality. In Seal little veriation has taken place. Pale at
301 103 to 31/, yellow and straw 27/ 103 to 29/10s, and
Brown 26/ lOs to 271; 7 tuns Labrador Seal Foots at
auction fetched 12/ to 134 and two ton Dog Seal 25/5s per
tun. Sperm is much in request, but the market is sparingly
supglied ;!prices are firm, 85/ to 861 per tun. Linseed Oil
264 3d to 26s 6d per cwt on the spot. Rape Oil 38s to 38s Gd
for,pale, and 37a to 37s Gd per cwt for brown. Olive Oil ad •
vanced from 42/ to 43/ for Gallipoli, 40/ lOs to 411 lOs for
Sicily, and Spanish 39! lOs to 401 per tun for Barbary, at
which large transactions have taken place.
f ITALLow.—In Russian on the spot prices are still drooping,
although 37s 9d to 388 3d have been accepted for P.Y.C. of
first quality. The business transacted for forward delivery
has been extremely limited, although there are sellers at a
further decline in prices; 38s per cwt is the rate taken for
the last three months of the year. Town Tallow has been
selling at 38s to 38s 6d per cwt nett cash. Other kinds are
rather cheaper, and the supply is large.

MPERIAL PARLIAMENT

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

-
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack at Five o'clock, but immediately retired, and tl►e
Mutiny Bill and the Marine Mutiny Bill went through
Committee.

MAYNOOTH
Lord CAMPBELL said that it was his painful duty
to present a petition against the grant to Maynooth,
from the provost, magistrates, and inhabitants of
Cupar, in the county of Fife. As this was his native
place he had hoped that they would have Leen more
enlightened there.
Petitions were also presented against the grant, and in
favour of laws for enforcing temperance, by the Earl of
Enniskillen and the Bishops of Down and Winchester

BANK-NOTES-IN SCOTLAND.
The Earl of JERSEY moved for a return of the num
ber of bank-notes in circulation in Scotland during the
ten years, from 1834- to 1844.

RA lblEgigVeAdYtoS.
Lord BE 0 LTG HAhf
call the attention of
their Lordships to the motion for an addition to the
standing orders in railwaq, of which he had given
notice yesterday. lie thought that it was requisite to
bring this subject before their Lordships, in order to
show the extent of mischief which had been occa-
sioned by the immense mass of private legis-
lation on the subject of railways. It was necessary,
because such had been the extent of that legis-
lation, that it interfered not only with the enjoy-
ment, but even with the possession of property, and
at last the speculation had come to what he must call a
gambling frenzy, not unprecedented certainly in the
experience of this country some twenty years ago, nor
unknown in the economical history of a neighbouring
nation. Perhaps it would be better to introduce this sub-
ject by presenting the petition of avertain Noble Lady,
Lady Cieily Fane, the daughter of the late Earl of
Westmoreland, who had come into the possession of a '
family estate by inheritance. The petition was writ-
ten by herself, and not by a man of business,
and therefore he trusted their Lordships would
excuse whatever informality it might contain.
The petitioner went on to say that the agent of the
company called upon her on the 26th of January, and
showed her the plans and specifications, from which, lie
said, no deviation could he made. She expressed
a great dislike to the vicinity of the railroad, and ex-
pressed a hope that the line would be removed to a
greater distance from her estate, but no promise was
given to her; and all the consolation she could get was,
that the company would remunerate her for the loss
when they got their Bill.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

lea took the
eviN moved that lw()lnNi!u•tes before
the markets in the
Mr. BARRY BALD WIN
the the order made
USE OFChCaiOr
alVlfllv
Waterworks Bill be read ; that the said order be dis-
FfoorTurhthee'SciPs'lcHEecAkeOl:nd reading of Totnes Markets and
ina BofiliTfootrueims,pirnovtihneg county of D
that the order made for read-
Mr. dis-
charged ; that the
and for better supplying
of the
which,
for the Bei..
Bill be wiiiitehdbroarwonua;hanwditth:tisi,caatveor.b:
g boroughiy e
Agreedn to
t bring
o. and town .
Improvement Bill be
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iwseitihmdprarowvnin;gttlhiaet
report . upon the 10th
mthoendso
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was made in the Select Com-
mittee on Petitions for tls be read ; that
leave be given to bring in a Bill, for more effectually
parish
of St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, in the
Improvement Bill
y • and that Mr. Kemble and Mr. An-
county of Stare ,
trobus do prepare it and bring
Mr. TINNELL moved that the order made for the
paving, cleansing, lighting,
second reading of the Westminster Improvement Bill be
read ; that the said order he discharged ; that the Bill
be withdrawn ; and that leave be given to bring in a
Bill for improving parts of th,., city of Westminster.
HEMEL HEMPSTEA D
LL bALL TENEMENTS I lI
On the motion that the Hemel Hempstead Small Te-
nements Bill be read a second time.
Mr. W. COWPER moved as an amendment, that the
Bill be read that day six months.
Lord GRIMSTONE supported the amendment.
After a few words from Mr. HA WEs,
Mr. 138/GHT said that nineteen out of twenty per-
sons, in the parish of Hemel Hempstead, were opposed
to this Bill. No consultation of the parishioners had
taken plece relative to it ; and one objection, that
seemed to him (Mr. Bright) most conclusive, was this
—that the non resident proprietors were obliged to pay
the rates, while the occupiers were exempted. A great
evil resulting from this was, that the occupiers being
exempted from the paying of the rates, felt, no interest
in the affairs of the parish. If this Bill were to pass it
would si rionsly injure a .majority of the proprietors
there. lle should therefore vote against
the second
reading.

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is greatly wanted ; but there is little to be had for:present
or future delivery,'and 35s 6d to 36s are the rates asked for
first quality.
Mannerros.-This afternoon Mauritius Sugar suet with
attention, and 7,467 bags 39 casks at public sale were mostly
sold, but in most cases rather under former rates, fine yellow
50s to 55s 6d., good mid and good 45s to 495, mid 41s to .44s 6d,
low 39s to 40s 6d, good and fine brown 3's Gd to 395, mid
35s to 358 6d, grey 39s to 425, and better quality 43s to 498
per cwt.
FOREIGN.-To-day 210 hhds 1 tierce of Porto Rico, 265
hhds 1 barrel of Cuba Muscovadoe, and 679 boxes of yellow
Havannah were offered at public sale, but the whole was
taken in at stiff rates : viz. Porto Rico good yellow at 235, good
middling 21s to 225, middling 20$ to 90s Gd, low 19s to 19s 6d, low
dingy grey 19$ to 19s Gd. Cuba Muscovado, good yellow
23s to 23s Gel, good middling 923 to 22s 6d, middling 21s to
21s 6d, low 20s 6d, fine brown 20s; yellow Havannab, fine
255, middling 22s to 235, and low 20s 6d to 21s Gd per cwt,
There were buyers of the various sorts at fair market rates.
By private treaty 400 chests of yellow Havannali were sold
at 245, and 1,000 bags of Manilla at 21s per cwt.
EAST INDIA.-This afternoon there was a good demand for
all kinds of Bengal Sugar, and 5,609 bags 44 boxes at public
sale were principally disposed of, but at a decline of 6d per
cwt for white sorts. Yellow kinds sustained their former
value ; low white 45s to 46s 6d, middling 47s Gd to 48s 6(1,
good middling 495, good 51s to 525, tine 52s 6d, damp and
washed 44s Gd to 51s Gd, good and fine yellow, Mauritius
kind, 46s to 495, dam 42s Gd to 46s Gd. ilally lasi, strong
damp yellow 50s to 58s, inferior 40s to 44s Gd, low 35s Gd to
39s 6d, brown 31s to 355, very low 28s per cwt. 42 tons
Potato Flour from Cherbourg sold at 15s per cwt.
Mor.ssses.-This afternoon 71 barrels of Bengal Treacle,
duty paid, were offered at public sale; the quality was equal
to the patent Treacle made here. The whole was taken in at
;17s per cwt. being rather above the value.
COFFEE.-ThiS afternoon there was a limited demand for
Plantation Ceylon, and of 820 bags at public sale a small
part only found purchasers at barely the former value.
Cocos.-West India held with firmness, the business
transacted privately has been on a more extended sca'e at
40s to 46s for Trinidad, and superior quality at 47s to 49s per
cwt. Bahia brought 38s per cwt.
TEA.--In the common descriptions of Congou there was a
good business transacted by the home trade, but merchants
have been compelled to take low prices; low common has
been selling at 8d to BD, fair common esid to 9d, and good
downwards.common 9li
;1 to
ulcohdo ngper
h labs bee cash,
but in the better kinds little
done, and prices little better than a nominal, with a tendency
8d is the value of low to good
quality.purc ha.e d slsnpTa rwi nagnlkya,
severalyanil 4d tto
purchases have been made, at Is 2d flu fair useful, and Is to
Is Id for low quality. Hyson sold at rather lower rates,
common and mid selling at 2s 5(1 to 2s Bd, and superior 2s 9d
to 4s. Imperial and Gunpowder dull of sale, and could only
be disposed of upon lower terms.
Srices.- -This afternoon a good desire was manifested to
buy Cassia 'Agnes, and 365 chests at public sale were sold at
an advance of Is to 2s per cwt; good thin quill fetched
63s 6d to 643, good middling 635, middling 60s to
62s 6d, low middling coarse 58s to 58s 6d, good ordinary
55s 6d to 575, low ordinary 545, broken ends 52s to 553 Gd,
Mouldy 54s to 575, broken 51s to 525, loose and broken 50s;
of Malabar Pepper 60 bags were taken in at 3id for fair
brownish, and 80 bags of Barbadoes at 44s for middling qua-
lity. For Cinnamon former rates are asked, but not much
business transacted.
RUM, BRANDY AND HOLLANDS.-Jamaica Rum has been
Purchased with caution, arid the rates are rather lower; 240
puns have been sold principally at 33 to 3s Gd for ordinary
and fair quality 28 to 36 per cent. overproof, and the re-
mainder at 3s 6d to 3s 8d for middling and good middling,
3s 9d to 4s for good, and at 4s 2d to 5s per gallon for fine.
The inferior sorts of Demerara are heavy of sale, but strong
kinds have met with attention, and the purchases amount to
100 puns at 2s 9d to 2s 10(1 paid for 35 to 37 per cent over
proof. Leewards Island Ruin Is 10d proof. Calcutta at
IS 8d proof. The operations in Brandy have been trifling,
and prices as follows :-Cognac, best brands of the
vintage of 1838, hhds 45 Bd, puns 48 6(1; ditto
18.39, !Olds 4s sd, puns 4s 3d; ditto 1840, hhds
49 4d, puns 4s 2d ; ditto 1841, hints 4s 4(1, puns 4s 24 ;
ditto 1842, hhds 4s Id, puns 3s Ild ; ditto 1843, lids 3s 11(1,
puns 3s 9d ; ditto 1844, hhds 3s 9d, puns 3s 7d ; iniddliug and
good middling of the various vintages 2s 8d to 3s 7d, low
2i 6d to 2s Bd, and Bordeaux 2s 64 to 2s 7d per gallon.
GL)neva not much wanted, and is 9d to Is 10(1 is the value o:
common export sort; fine for home use is 2s 4d to 2s 10d per
gallon. English Corn Spirits in demand at late rates.
'RICE.-To-day the market was abundantly supplied w 7

MAYNOOTH.
Petitions against the Maynooth grant were preiented
by Mr. Broadley, Mr. B. Baldwin, Mr. Staunton, Colonel
Powell, and by Mr. Muntz from Wesleyan congregations
near Birmingham.
Colonel ACTON presented a petition from the county
of Wicklow' against the grant.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented a similar petition
from Stockport.
Similar petitions were presented by Mr. Busfeild (from
Bradford), Mr. Acland, Mr. F. French, Mr. Thornely
(from Wolverhampton and other places), Mr. Bailey
(from Inverness and other places), Mr. buncombe,
Mr. Duncan, and Mr. Humphery.
Mr. IL BERKELEY presented twenty petitions
against the Maynooth grant.
Lord LIS I'OWEL presented petitions against the
grant to Maynooth from Shropshire.
Mr. COLQUHOUN said that he had various petitions
against the Bill, but he had a remarkable petition to
which he wished to call the particular attention of the
House' a petition which emanated from a meeting which
was held last night in Covent-garden Theatre, and which
he understood was attended by 5,000 persons. The pe-
tition was signed, on their behalf, by the Chair-
man, Mr. Bevan, and the substance of it was, that,
this proposal of her Majesty's Government to endow
the College of Maynooth at the expense of the universal
kingdom, was a measure which the petitioners felt
constrained to oppose by all the means which .the
laws and the constitution of the realm permitted.
Lord ASIILEY presented a number of petitions
against the grant to Maynooth.
Mr. PLUMPTRE presented 59 petitions to the same
effect.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.
Dr. BOWRING postponed his resolution for improv-
ing the public accounts to this day fortnight.
Mr. FERRAND gave notice that to-morrow he
would put the following question to the Right Hon.
Gentleman the:Secretary for Ireland:—Whether at the
late election of a temporal Peer one or more Peers did
not decline to vote, en account of their conviction that
the Bequests Act was a contravention of the oath of
supremacy and a violation ofthe constitution of the country,
and whether their reasons for so declining to vote had
not been laid before the Crown lawyers for their advice
upon the subject ? He would also ask whether there
would be any objection to bring that opinion before the
House.
Mr. 11. BERKELEY postponed his motion fur a
Select Committee to inquire into the effects produced
upon debtors and creditors by the operation of the In-
solvency Act of last session.
Mr. WARD also postponed his motion for a Select
Committee to inquire into the burthens peculiarly affect-
ing the agricultural interest.
Lord J. MANNERS gave notice that he should, on
that day fortnight, introduce a measure to alter and
amend the law of mortmain.
The Earl of LINCOLN postponed his Bill relating
to the inclosure of common and waste lands in England
and Wales and to their better drainage.
Colonel SIBTHORP gave notice that to-morrow
he should move that all the petitions for and against the
grant to the College of Maynooth be printed.
Mr. BROTHERTON moved for a return of the
number of insolvencies, bankruptcies, and sequestra-
tions in Scotland, in each year since 1815 to the present
time. Also, the number of banks of issue in Scotland
from the year 1815 to the present time ; stating the
name or firm of each bank ; when commenced ; the
amount of capital actually subscribed ; the annual
average market fprice of the shares of each ; and the
annual dividends paid by each bank to the shareholders.
—Agreed to.
Mr. F. FRENCH intended to ask ene or two questions
of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary for Ireland ;
first, whether a malignant fever had broken out in the
Cavan workhouse, and whether that was to be imputed
to improper drainage ; secondly, he wished to know if
it were true that the poor-rates in Ballinasloe had been
obliged to be levied with the aid of a military force ;
hinny, if the poor-law guardians in the unions of Lis.
vol had applied for an armed force, stating that
Id be impossible for them to collect the rates witlit.

and fourthly, if it were true that the poor-ra'e collector
for the county of Roscommon had been lately murdered?
Ho believed he might also ask whether the Right Hon.
Baronet would hold out any hope that the Irish Pcor-
law would be in any degree amended during ibis session?
Sir T. FREMANTLE said that he believed it was
correctly stated that some persons in the Cavan
workhouse had died of fever, but that he believed was
not to be in any degree ascribed to any defect of sewer-
age in the workhouse. With regard to the employ-
ment of military force in the collection of' pcor-
rates, it was quite true that a military force had
been employed to protect those persons who were
employed in the levying distresses for those
rates. The remaining question he was unable to answer,
and he could hold out no expectation that the Irish
Poor-law would be in any degree altered. It had
worked well hitherto; and they were determined to give
it a fair trial.
CLERK OF THE PEACE BILL
Mr. DICKENSON.begged to give notice that upon
the second rearing of this Bill he would take the sense
of the Committee on the clauses regulating the amount of
the salaries of the clerk of the peace's clerks.
. Mr. WAKLEY begged to call the attention of the
House to the petitions from members. of the Royal Col-
lege of Surgeons of England, complaming of the unjust
distinctions which have been created by the charter of
1843 ; and, to move for the appointment of a. Select
Committee, to inquire into the operation of that charter,
and into theaystem ofgovernment pursued by the Council.
He did hope that the Right Hon. Baronet, the Secretary
of State for the Home Department, would not object to
tile appointment of this Committee,
as the subject was
one to which nct only the profession it affected, but the
public in general looked forward too with great anxiety.
Sir J. GRAHAM hoped the Hon. Member would nut
persevere with his motion, for he could not see of n hat
utility the appointment of such a Committee would be,
Colonel T. WOOD hoped the Right Hon. Baronet the
Home Secretary would nut object to the appointment of
the Committee, for if he did he could not see how
the Bill would become law.—(Hear, and a laugh.)
Lord JOHN RUSSELL hoped that, under all the
circumstances, the Hon. Baronet would state, on the
second reading of the Bill, the alterations he pi ()posed
to make.
Sir J. GRAHAM said he would have no objection
to state the nature of the alterations he had to make at
that time ; but he thought the most convenient course
would be to allow the second reading of the Bill to go
forward without interruption, and state the proposed
alterations in Committee.
Mr. WAKLEY said ho was surprised how the Right
Hon. Baronet could object to this motion. Petitions
had been pouring in from every direction complaining of
the effects of the charter, and praying for inquiry.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM said he would fix the second
reading of the Bill for Monday next.
Mr. WAKLEY would then give notice of his motion
for Tuesday.
IMPEACHMENT IR R. PEEL.
Mr. FERRAND moved Ghats he petition which he
had presented the other evening, from the Operative
Protestant Association of Dublin, be printed with the
votes. He did not know any reason why ottjec-
tioiis should be raised to this petition being printed,
as it was most respectfully worded. It contained certain
allegations against the First Lord of the Treasury, which
allegations it was his (Mr. Ferranti's) intention to bring
ender the notice of the House on the third reading of
he College of Maynooth Bill, if it should ever arrive at
)at stage. He therefore hoped that no Hon. Member
' think it necessary to oppose the printing of this

Mr. 'LINDLEY seconded the motion.
Colonel RAWDON said he had been in hopes that
the lion. Member for Knaresborough would not have
made this ttotion—that he would not have singled out
that petition to be circulated amongst the Mem-
bers of that llouse. What would be the
consequence of making that motion ? Why, that
on the following morning every Member of that House
would have on his breakfast table this petition.—(Great
laughter.) He begged the House to recollect that in
1829 Roman Catholic Members were admitted into that
House, and that Roman Catholic Members would read
that petition. What did that petition contain ? It con-
tained these words, "That the petitioners have learned
that laws areabout to be introduced into the House by the
head of the Government having for their object the
inculcation in public seminaries of Popish principles—
such principles being notoriously, demonstrably, and,
according to law, anti-Christian." Anti-Christian !
Where was that feeling wnich ought to predominate
amongst Christians ? He was not objecting to
the introduction of this petition, but he begged
shortly to call the attention of the Ilouse
to same circumstances with reference to it. It
might be in the recollection of the House, that the
greatest authority in that House, after the Speaker,
in matters of form, the Member fur Montgo-
meryshire, expressed doubts as to the proper ad-
mission of this petition, and as to its right to be
laid on the table of the House. That Honourable
Gentleman did nct act upon these doubts in con-
sequence of the interposition of the Right Hon. Gentle-
man, against whom the shaft had been levelled.
It was not a matter of necessity that the petition pre-
sented by the Hon. Member Knaresborough be printed—
if he wished to bring the Prime Minister to condign
punishment as the petitioner's prayed—if he wished to
imitate Mr. Burke in a measure of impeachment, he
(Colonel Rawdon) expected the printing of this petition
was not a necessary preliminary. The petition could be
referred to a Committee up stairs, according
to the custom of the House, and if the Committee
dttoercceorn.;
adored there was matter of import they might
to be printed. He relied on the good tense andl
generous feeling of the House—he thought this was not
a party question, and he felt convinced that no man of
lit4tis or out of
charitable feeling in that
it, eould sanction the words
and anti-Christian," as applied t false, idolatrous,
of more than half of their fell( the religion
subjects._
(Hear, hear.) Had Honourable Mem.heowselein the litter
relating to the petition, sined by the Horsn ember for
Knaresborough, he would not insult the House of Com-
mons by mentioning its language, but he felt convinced

The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading 69
Against it
Majority in favour of it — 30
The Bill %VP S then read a second time,• and ordered to
be committed.
Mr. Alderman HLIMPIIERY presented a petition
from the London and Brighton Railway Company,
praying for leave to bring in a Bill.
The Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction
Railway Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed.

SECOND READINGS.
The Waterman's Company Poor Endowment Fund
Bill, the Liverpool Docks Bill, the Clifton Bridge Bill,
and the Bristol Parochial Rates Bill were read a second
time.