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Sat there had not been
matter. before their lordships any thing which called
expression of such an opinion on the part of the At-

The Bishop of LONDON thougi

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 seUridal..ter the Age: "awl
which, originating in the time of barbarism, was utterly in-
ms of the present day.
a duel which had

Lord -MousTcAsHEL

taken place only on the previous day, remarked on the im-
perfection of the law, which, according to the customs of

compelled persons in a respectable station to resort
ael as the only redress for many injuries of which the

or at best afforded very inadequate

eminent in-

tended to introduce

measure for the

ore effectual pre-

ventioo of duelling

NE replied in the negative, and thought
that the law, as it already stood, was not deficient in force.

Lord MEL.BOi

G moved for certain papers addressed to the
,ioners of Ireland, respecting the
aluations 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.

Lord GLEN
assistant poor law commis

HOUn OF COMMONS-FRIDAY

Col. CLEmENTs took his seat for Cavan

Several petitions were presented against the poor law bill.
Sir F. POLLOCIt 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 measure 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 anddruggists.
Mr. WAKLEY said, as that part of the bill was to be struck
out, he entreated that his hon. friend would strike out the
other portion of the bill also.
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 SU GDEN advanced several ob-
jections to that measure. In lieu of the•present revising bar-
risters, it would 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 nominations, however uprightly made, woud 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 the 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, it'd
it omitted all attempt at that which the bill of a former year
had 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.

Mr. GISBORNE, in support of the bill, referred to instances
of inconsistent decisions by revising barristers ; the judge on
one side of a passage admitting the votes which his brother
judge on the other side of the passage was rejecting. There
might be objections to some of the details of the present
measure, but it would, on the whole, be a beneficial one.
Mr. WARBURTON considered it to have been a point ad-
mitted so long since as 1838, that the institution of revising
barristers was a bad one. He saw no force in the objection
that the proposed judges would be confined to this one
The Comm6sioners of Bankrupts had
to administer, yet no failure was alleged
He would not enter into details, which
itly discussed in committee.

branch of busir.

but one class of 1

! was a simple way of terminating all
a this bill, as in the Irish bill, a defi-

I SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, AND MAN-
CHESTER RAILWAY COMPANY.

The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held
at the Albion Hotel, Manchester, on Wednesday, at twelve
o'clock at noon.

On the motion of Mr. Waddington, seconded by Mr.
3utcher, John Parker, Esq., M.P. for Sheffield, was called

Lie meeting as

's the duty of the directors to lay befog

•ou a stat

ment of the accounts and proceedings of the company, we
have assembled here to-day for the purpose of meeting the
•

proprietary, and laying before them a.report, which we hope
they will consider a satisfactory exposition of the state of the

I may state that ever since I had the

honour of holding the situation which at present, by your fa.
your and confidence, I hold as a director of the affairs of this
company, I have seen nothing at all which could
_lead the

3 to the result of their undertaking. No doubt the
rly depressed state of the money market has hitherto

sadvant

that it was formed

Who certainly were not

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-qffice, Eleven o'clock

HOUSE OF COMMONS,LAST NIGHT,

Lse not to

anction the revolutionary bill brought in by Lord Morpeth.
Hear.) The noble lord said the signatures were all obtained

in five days

(Hear.)

PARLIAMENTARY VOTERS (IRELAND) BILL

Lord"MoRPETH moved the second reading of this bill

Lord STANJEY said, if it had not been for the extra-
ordinary conduct pursued by the noble lord in introducing

reading, but been content with debating its objectionable

•ed such a

course was now impossible, and he felt bound to oppose it at

Df difference

between him and the noble lord were not many, but they were
of the greatest possible importance. (Hear, hear.) The
noble lord, after commenting on some of the details of the
measure, said emphatically, " This bill is brought forward
under false colours." (Tremendous cheers from the oppo-

sition bend

s.) The hon. member proceeded to call th

serious attention of mtmbers to the subject, and was speak-

The attendance of members was very full

DECISION IN FAVOUR OF THE MANCHESTER

CHARTER

The Judges sat in the Court of Exchequer Chamber yester-
day morning to give judgment in the case of the rival coroners
of-Manchester, Messrs. Rutter and Chapman. The majority
of the judges, namely, Lord Chief Justice Tindal, and
Judges Bosanquet, Pattison,:and Coltman, gave judgment in
favour of ,the charter, whilst Lord Denman, Mr. Justice
Williams, and Coleridge,lgave their opinion against it. The
majority of the judges tieing in favour of the charter, its va-
lidity was of course est-blished.

DREADFUL FIRE AT WYNYARD PARK, TIM
SEAT OF THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY.'

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE,
(Prom a Correspondent of last night's London Standard.)

Nov. 20,

I regret to have to report to you that intelligence was
received here this day, at noon, that a most- destructive
fire broke out last night at the princely mansion. of the
Marquis of Londonderry, at Wynyard Park, near Stockton.
With the details we are at present wholly unacquainted,'
though rumour says the loss will be littte short of £lOO,OOO,
I venture to think,however, there May be some exaggeration
in so large an amount.

The property is said to be very slightly, if at all covered by
insurance. An overheated flue is reported to have been the
cause of this sad calamity.

(From the Sun of last night.)

We have learned this morning with great regret the de-
struction of the noble edifice, of which the subjoined letters
give melancholy accounts. It appears from these that the
building is almost totally destroyed, and that the loss of pro-
perty is enormous. This celebrated mansion is distant about
four miles and a half north by west from Stockton. It was
erected on the site of the old mansion, by Sir Harry Vane
Tempest, father of the Marchioness of Londonderry, from a
beautiful design by P. W. Wyatt, Esq., and the park within
a few years has been greatly enlarged. It is difficult to say
which is most worthy of admiration—the dignified simplicity
exhibited in the exterior of the building, or the judicious ar-
rangements in the interior, which combine the majesty of a
palace with the comforts and conveniences of a domestic
dwelling. The walks and pleasure-grounds in the vicinage
of the edifice harmonize well with the chaste design of the
architect; artificial decoration, superb ornament, give place
So the softer features of nature. A small rivulet, forming a
beautiful canal, margined with wood and shady walks,
meanders with easy curvatures through the park, and gives
a delightful finish to the scene.
The property of Wynyard has been held by a long succes-
sion of distinguished families. The inheritance was conveyed
in marriage with Lady Frances, daughter of Sir Henry Vane
Tempest, to the Marquis of Londonderry in Ireland, who,
in 1823, was created Earl Vane, of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN,

Stockton-upon-Tees, Saturday Evening, Feb. 20.

SIR,—I beg to make your journal the medium of commu-
nicating a most appalling catastrophe which has happened in
this vicinity—the destruction by fire of the magnificent and
beautiful mansion at Wynyard, the seat of the Most Noble
the Marquis of Londonderry. The writer of this letter has-
tened to the scene of the fire, and arrived there about half-
past one o'clock this morning. The conservatory, and a large
portion of elegant structure, were then in flames. He en-
deavoured to ascertain on the spot, as well as he could in the
confusion which naturally occurred, how the accident had
happened ; but all that he could learn was that the house-
keeper, Mrs. Edgar, and two female servants, in the absence
of the family. resided in the house ; that one of his lordship's
game-watchers was out about half-past ten o'clock last night,
and at that time nothing had occurred to attract his atten-
tion, but that on proceeding to join another watcher, at a
little past eleven o'clock, he observed the flames issuing, as
he thought, from the chapel, which had not been finished, but
in which some carpenters had been recently employed. The
chapel is close to the conservatory, and is heated by means
of flues, from the overheating of which it is supposed the
accident has arisen. The sad intelligence was immediately
made known to the villagers of Wolveston, about a mile and
a half from the noble mansion, and with all possible despatch
at Stockton, when many individuals hastened with three fire-
engines to the spot, and did all that human aid could do in
arresting the destructive element. It was, however, a most
heart-rending scene to observe the rapid destruction of this
pride and glory of the North, and containing some of the most
costly and rarest articles of furniture, and many of them the
gifts of crowned heads. There is no one, whatever his feelings
may be towards the Marquis, either politically or otherwise, but
must deeply sympathise with his lordship, the marchioness,
and their family, on this sad event. That part of the building
which comprises the Kitchens, and some portion of her lady-
ship's apartments, including the boudoir, though greatly da-
maged, have been preserved ; and by the spirited exertions
of several individuals, particularly of two from Stockton, who
might be named, nearly the whole of his lordship's paintings,
and a great portion of the most valuable furniture, books,
and fittings up of the several apartments, though injured, of
Course, have been secured. The plate was altogether saved.
The amount of loss sustained by this melancholy event cannot
well be estimated, but I should venture to say that property
of the value of three or four hundred thousand pounds was
destroyed in a few hour. It is not known whether the pro-
perty was insured. His lordshiplis still abroad. It is to be
regretted that suitable fire-engines were not kept on the
premises, and there wanted some persons of judgment and
importance to direct the proceedings during the awful period.
The fire is still burning, but the engines will no doubt be
used until all appearance of danger is removed
I am, sir, your obedient servant,