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ction to the lightning
vir

e plan of 11

lition to the value of the in-
as between £l,OOO and £2,000 out of

nt of the Government

thought the plan should be at once

adopted in every s
Admiral Sir C ADAM a
of protection was that which oug
reference to econcn
the most perfect
the course of being tried
much cheaper than Mr. Harris's, b
tained if they could, with equal convenience, be adapted to
the ships, and whether they were likely to sustain damage at
sea. The Admiralty had not objected to give compensaton
to Mr. Harris, but he had claimed £7,000 as compensation
for loss of money and loss of profes.sional time, and the
Board of Admiralty thought his invention not worth that
sum.

p in her Ma,

that the most perfect system
t to be adopted, without
only by experiment that

system could

.scertaine

:rfect as conductors, and

it remained to be ascer-

the cou

Lord ELIOT asked if the noble lord would stab what sum
the Board of Admiralty would consider to be a fair remunera-
tion.

This question was not answer,
put by the Speaker, was agred to
Mr. PAKINGTON obtained leave to bring in a bill to alter
the mode of electing coroners. The principal alterations he
proposed were to shorten the period for taking the votes,
and to have the right of voting the same as that which con-
ferred the

, and the motion, on being

'anchise for parliamentary elections.
second reading of the bill for conferring a pen-

Upon the
sion on Lord ixeanc

Lord SZYMOUR, in a reply to a ques
said there was no objection to lay upoi
the services of Lord Keane.

ition from Mr. Hume,
in the table a record of

The other orders of the d

ere then disposed of, and

the house adjourne

HOUSE OF LORDS,--FRIDAY.
On the motion that the trial of the Earl of Cardigan be
printed, Lord ELDON drew the attention of their lordships
to an expression of satisfaction in the address of the Attor-
ney-General at the absence of " moral delinquency" in the
case. He was ready to make all allowance for the feelings
of individuals, but as the house had expressed no opinion on
the subject, and as the trial had gone off on a question wholly
irrelevant, he wished the subject to be notices, lest it should
be thought that their lordships concurred in the sentiments
to which he referred.

The Bishop of LONDON thought that there had not been
in the matter before their lordships any thing which called
for the expression of such an opinion on the part of the At-
torney- General. He trusted that the recent unfortunate oc-

currence, together with other and late cases, would induce
the legislature to adopt some course for the abolition of a
practice which was a shame and a scandal to the age, and
which, originating in the time of barbarism, was utterly in-
consistent with the manners and customs of the present day.
Lord MOUNTCASHEL, after noticing a duel which had
taken place only on the previous day, remarked on the im-
perfection of the- law, which, according to- the customs of
society, compelled persons in a respectable station to resort
to the duel as the only redress for many injuries of which the
law took no cognizance, or at best afforded very inadequate
reparation. He would ask if her Majesty's government in-
tended to introduce any measure for the more effectual pre-
vention of duelling ?
Lord MELBOURNE replied in the negative, and thought
that the law, as it already stood, was not deficient in force.
Lord GLENELG moved for certain papers addressed to the
assistant poor law commissioners of Ireland, respecting the
valuations of unions, and desiring them to give every infor-
mation which would assist in comparing the number of rate-
payers with those entitled to the parliamentary franchise.
Lord NORMANBY made no objection to the production of
the correspondence, and after some conversation, their lord-
ships adjourned till Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY.
Col. CLZMENTS took his seat for Cavan.
Several petitions were presented against the poor law bill.
Sir F. POLLOCK presented a petition from the Royal Col-
lege of Physicians, London, signed by Sir H. Halford, the
president, and by Dr. J. Bright, Dr. B. G. Babington, Dr.
G. Burrows, and Dr. R. B. Todd, censors, against the bill
for the alteration of the laws relative to the medical profession
in Great Britain. The petitioners stated that they have been
for some time engaged, in concert with the other medical
corporations, in the preparation of a proposed Treasure of re-
form in their own body, which would shortly be submitted to
the legislature.

In a-conversation as to the day for discussing the medical
profession bill, Mr. HAWES said it was his intention to strike
out all that part of the bill relatingto chymists and druggists.

Mr. WAiLEY said, as that part of the wa
out, he entreated that his hon. friend would si
other portion of the bill also.

is to be struck
trike out the

proprietors

Ultimately Mr. HAWES said he would withdraw his bill,
and ask leave to bring in an amended measure.
Mr. AINSWORTH gave notice, that in committee on the
poor law amendment bill he should move a clause exempting
the Bolton union from the operation of the bill.
Mr. EWART gave notice for the 4th March, of a bill to
appoint a public prosecutor.
On the motion for the second reading of the English Re-
gistration Bill, Sir EDWARD Suoncx advanced several ob-
jections tothat measure. , In lieu of the
would present revising bar-
risters, it constitute 15 judges, who would have no
other professional business, and who would therefore soon
lose their legal aptitude. He knew of no complaint against
the present revising barristers, except the youth of some of
them. He objected to a nomination by the Speaker of the
15 original judges, and still more, of the judges of appeal.
Such nominatians, however uprightly made, wood always be
suspected of political partiality. Speaker Lenthall had told
Charles I. that the Speaker was the servant of the house ;
but this measure would make him their master. He censured
also the proposal for constituting two classes of voters—the
questionable class, and the established. It would establish
the rich, and leave the poor questionable ; and it would open
the way to much collusion in getting voters into the esta-
blished class. As to thp business to be done by the proposed
Court of Appeal, he believed there would not be enough to
occupy ten days, perhaps not seven, in each year. So much
for what this bill contained : a few words more for what it
omitted. It omitted the necessity for payment of taxes, and
it omitted all attempt at that which the bill of a former year
bad proposed—a definition of the franchise. How was it
that this definition. which Government said was indispensa-
ble to a registration bill for Ireland, had been wholly omitted
in this Registration Bill for England ? He would not resist
the second reading, but would reserve his further opposition
for the committee,

their et

T. GISBORNE, in

in 1842

of inconsistent decisions ti

one side of a passage admitting the votes which
judge on the other side of the passage was rejecting.
might be objections to some of the details of the presen
measure, but it would, on the whole, be a beneficial one.
Mr. WARBURTON considered it to have been a point ad
witted so long since as 1838, that the institution of revisir
barristers was a bad one. He saw no fore_
that the proposed judges would be confined to this on,
branch of business. The Commissioners of Bankrupts hr
but one class of law to administer, yet no failure was all,
in their department. He:would not enter into de,
would be more conveniently discussed in committee.
Mr. HUME said there was a simple way of terminating al
difficulties—by giving in this bill, as in the Irish bill, a defi•
nition of the franchise. He did not see wby the two coup•
tries should be differently dealt with in this particular. (Thi:
homely remark, coming from such a quarter, was mud
cheered.) _

There

in the objectio

ails, whit;

holders

Colonel SinTxoßP wished to know what salaries would b
proposed?

- Lord JOHN RUSSELL answered that this would he states
in the cummittee. At present he would say only, that then
would be a saving on the whole of £15,000 or £16,000 a-year
He had omitted the taxes, which he thought it inconvenien
to insist upon in the franchise' but he had continued to
quire the rates, which he thought a sufficient --
to the definition of the franchise, thv•
separate bill. The case was not
tration, for there almost all the difix
from the state of the county franchise

afeguard
„,ht be don(
ke that of the Irish

Les of re
Geutlem

had been very emphatic in cheering Mr. Hume's pr0p0...,
for uniformity between England and Ireland : did they wish
to abolish the franchise of the 40s. freeholders in England,
or to bestow that 40s. franchise upon Ireland ?

The bill w

On the order of the day for the committee of supply, Lord
PALUERSToN, in answer to a question from Sir R. PEEL
respecting the boundary question, stated that commissioners
for obtaining local information had been sent out respectively
by England and by the United States, but without concert.
It was intended that a joint commission should be constitut-
ed, but the details were still under discussion.
Sir R. PEEL asked whether the American government had
actually agreed that there should be a joint commission?
Lord PALMERSTOIV said that both governments had agreed
to that principle, with a proviso for an arbitration in case of
difference.
In answer to Mr. II Awrs, Lord J. RUSSELL said that it
was utended to introduce into the other house a measure for
t reform of the ecclesiastical courts, and particularly as re-
garded 1.7 xs
eoh_ur_eh,rates.
Keane motion for a return of the services of Lord
" 111144 to, and the house adjourned.

rose from circumstances common to all railway undertak-
ags' as well as to those circumstances peculiarly connected
with a company who came so late into the market. In that
litigation the company was successful, and, in addition to our
liberation from the meshes of the law, the advantages attain-
able by the improved state of the money market, and the
clearing away of the clouds that hung over the affairs of the
company, now offer a hope that; for the future, we shall have
nose now in I much greater ease in collecting resources, and making zreater

progress in carrying on the works than hitherto. You are al-
ready so well acquainted with the history of railways—this
town being almost the centre and parent of all the railways in
,try-th..

their respective expenditur
what I asserted generally.

in order to prove specifically
I am amply borne out in what 1

staLea Wit/1 respect to expenditure by the reports of the
Grand Junction Railway, the North Midland Railway, the
Manchester and Leeds Railway, &c. &c. &c., in all of which
the expenditure has considerably exceeded heir estimates ;
whereas in this railway, so far as we have gone, the expendi-
ture has not exceeded the estimate. Since our last meeting
the directory have turned their serious attention to the ques-
tion of the prcbable traffic. They were not satisfied with
the original estimate on which the application to parliament
was founded, but employed some gentlemen conversant with
that mode of business to make re-investigations of the pro-
bable traffic, and the result of their labours will be laid before
you in the report—which report, I am happy to say, is highly
satisfactory so far as we are able to give an opinion. The
report will hold out a strong expectation (on these matters it
should be recollected that we can never speak with certainty)
of seven or eight miles of the line being opened in the autumn
of the present year. It is exceedingly desirable that, circum-
stances permitting, it should be carried on with as little delay
as possible ; for it we can only open seven or eight miles of
the line, the undertaking, instead of being one only in pos-
silility, and futurity, will assume a settle and established
character. and the public wilt feel greater confidence in it.
The probable profits arising from these seven or eight miles,
which will constitute the whole line to Glossop, will, when
laid before you, prove very satisfactory. lam anticipating
the effect of this report, but I thought it my duty, on taking
the chair, to state the circumstances under which we meet
you. I do so, as the opinion of the direction is considefed
worth having. If the proprietary support the direction, and
place the necessary resources at their command to carry on
the affairs of the company, there will be no ground for
despondency, and the position of the company will soon be
very different from what it as at present. The chairman
having fixed the company's seal to the registry of their pro-

ceedings,
Mr. Charles Thomson, the secretary, read the report and
statement of the accounts, for which see our advertising
columns.

Mr. JAMES BERNARD moved that the report of the resi-
dent engineer, certified by the engineer-in-chief, be printed
and circulated. It was not for the meeting, who were not,
engineers, to enter into the minutiw of the report, but they
might safely rely on the known character of Mr. Locke,
whom he (Mr. B.) was glad to see present; He hoped Mr.
L. would persevere in the work with all due consideration
of the expenses, and add another leaf to his well-earned
reputation by completing the work at a moderate cost. lie
(Mr. B.) was sure the work would satisfy the shareholders
as fully, by the return of their capital, as any magnificent
work of art, which, no doubt, was commendable and beau-
tiful to see, but which did not always yield the return
expected.

The resolution was seconded by yr. LEES, and agreed tc
- - ---

Mr. WADDINGTON believed it was pretty well known that
the directors were extremely anxious to carry on the works,
and that from time to time heavy calls were made on theta.
They were purging the share-list and endeavouring to keep
it pure from those parties who could render no assistance.
In a short time they hoped to be able to re-issue forfeited
shares to solvent shareholders. They would then have a
healthy responsible body, able to answer the calls made on
them, but the directors would not make these calls if they
could avoid doing so. But for the purpose of avoiding it
he would propose to the meeting to give the directors power
to borrow money when it was required ; that if their means
were found to be insufficient for completing the railway, the
directors might borrow the sum of £230,000, to be taken up
at interest on the credit of the railway undertaking; and
that the company's directors be authorised and empowered
to mortgage and assign the property of the undertaking,
rights, titles, '&c. arising, or to arise, by virtue of the act,
with interest of the same, to such person or persons as shall
advance the same.

Mr. CHAPMAN seconded the motion, and it passed.
A vote of thanks having been passed to the directors,
Mr. WADDINGTON, at the request of the chairman, with
great pleasure returned thanks on behalf of the directors. He
felt confident they would endeavour to deserve the thanksof the
by carrying out the objects of the company, in
reference to the railway between Manchester and Sheffield,
so as to return them a handsome dividend on their out-
lay. The chairman alluded to the state of the money mar-
ket as being unfavourable to the company's operations, but
much more evil had resulted from evil reports, which had
been most industriously circulated by parties carrying out
railway speculations of their own. These parties had calum-
niated this railway undertaking, and represented it as imprac-
ticable, and not likely to yield a remuneration. The board
of directors were carrying on the work with the utmost pos-
sible dispatch, and making as small a draw aspossible on the
pockets of the shareholders. The undertaking was a valuable
one, and if proper exertions were made to forward the work
without unnecessary delay, it would be second to none in the
kingdom. On the part of the board he thanked the propri-
etors for the renewed mark of their confidence afforded by
confirming the grant of £1,600, and he was sure the directors
would prove themselves worthy of the trust reposed in
them.
The meeting was then declared to be dissolved.

The work is divided into five contracts. The Ardwick
contract commences at the junction near Blind-lane, and
ends at the Trail dogs, Messrs. Buxton and Clarke are the
contractors. The Newton contract begins at the Trail dogs,
and ends at Newton-green ; the contractors are Messrs. Sar-
gent and Denton. Mr. ThoThas Brassey is the contractor
for that part of the line from Newton-green to Broadbottom
—this is called the Hattersly contract. The Gamesley con-
tract is undertaken by Messrs. Miller and Blackey, who
carry on the line to its terminus at Glossop, with the excep-
tion of a bridge over the Etherow, '74.e understand, is
a separate contract.

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—The noiseless but
teady and active manner in which this company are pursu-
;ect of completing the line leaves no doubt of its
'4-Pwaterby the Ist of June, and to Taun-

ready t,

has been paid up, to give the proprietors a little respite by
taking up £500,000. on loan • no new calls will be made for
a year and a half to come. With this loan the works will be
completed considerably beyond Taunton, so that the share-
holders will be in the receipt of a good income, while the
bondholders will be secure of their interest the moment the
line reaches Bridgewater, not out of the capital but out of
the annual rental secured by the lease to the Great Western
Company, and leave a considerable surplus to the sharehold-
ers besides. If it be true, as we understand it is, that
£1,500,000., with the loan of £500,000., will complete the
line to Exeter, and the rent and toll will pay 6 per cent. on
the total outlay, and 5 per cent. be paid for the loan, the
shareholders will receive at the rate of 61 per cent. for their
capital; making a good thing for those who have bought
shares at a large discount. The forfeited shares, we are in-
formed, are all taken up by the large and substantial share-

MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAT.—This important
link of the railway communication across the kingdom from
Liverpool to Hull, will be completed and opened throughout
on the Ist of March. A few months will now tell what may
be expected of this and its kindred lines, but the full traffic
will probably not be developed for a year or two.
NORTHERN AND EASPERN RAILWAY.—The meeting
was held on Thursday. The directors in their report express
.-csult of the opening of the line,
r.VJpects of traffic. It appears that they have
arrangemen4s for laying a double line to 13roxbourne,
dud also for opening to Harlow-road, seven miles further, in
July.

their satisfaction with the
and of the

THE EARL OF CARDIGAN,—(From
)ondent.)—Such was the doubtful character of the
ae of the late trial in the House of Lords, entertained by
he Earl of Cardigan and his legal advisers, that his lordship,
in the event of being found guilty of felony, and to prevent,
in that case, the whole of his property being forfeited to the
Crown executed, some time before, a deed of gift, assigning
over the whole of his valuable possessions to Viscount Cur-
zon, the eldest son of Earl Howe, the latter nobleman having
married a sister of Lord Cardigan. It is stated, that the
legal expenses of this transfer of property, arising from fines
upon copyholds, and the enormous stamp duties, amounted
to upwards 014:10,000. As the deed is stated to have been
enrolled in due form, the same expences will now have to be
again incurred to effect a re-transfer of the property from
Viscount Curzon to his lordship. Should the statement of
our informant regarding the stamp duties payable to govern-
ment be correct, they will not only most amply defray all the
expellees incurred by the country in fitting up the House of
Lords, &c., but leave a very handsome surplus.—Times.

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