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      " - - — — - "nnrVWVAAAI ^ AMMAIVWVVV ^ AA / VVt'VVVWvuv-- HOUSE OF LORDS , Hosdat , Feb . 24 . ¦ 'Lord Cahpbeli , introduced a bill , of which hehad given notice last session , for the abolition of deodands , a species of exaction which he characterised as most absurd , capn-CKms , xnd Insufficient . - The Iord CHAscaios h ? no means disputed tne justice of these epithets as app lied to the svstem of dw-« :. nds , lrat suggested that , as they formed a part _ of the c * s = d revenue of the cro <™ , it ^ s ^ je nt *¦* *» RoVala . sa . tshouldbeobtaincdheforetteh . UTras further , H ^* d « Uith . ThepritflcgcsoftheHouseorCemmons Une also in some measure affected , and it might be douitea wither those corpoiations to which deodands ^ ccraed ^ uld nothavea claim for corapensation . that the assent would

      ¦ " I « ra Camtbeii . aamitted Rojal be necessarv , but denied the force of the two other objections to liis bill , which was ultimately read a first time . IoidD- iLH .-: rsiE then presented the report of the Board ,, fT-.. j ,. , ij w ! i screralrailways , upon which a conversation euiT-id , « « liich Lord Fitzwilliam and Lord Campbell took part . TIkht Lurdslrips then adjourned . Teesdat , Feb . 25 . T : ¦ : Low ) CniKCEttoa gave notice tnat , on Fnuay . -. » » s would mOTe the second reading of the Bail in ' v / rd BBOUOHia gave notice that on Thursday weet he v « aia lay upon the table a bill to transfer the jurisdiction in divorce cases from their Lordships ' House to another ^ fpetitions were presented , after which the House adjourned . .

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      HOUSE OF C 03 M 0 NS , Fb » at , Feb . 21 . The order of the day for the adjourned debate on the tVSSSrJSSSLmim * ssrasisss « = « 3 ssss'iPff ^ pfss ^ tion si anv time : bat when the hour was late , and a spe ^ c of nimor ratepresentedhtasclf . ^ eatd ^ clmafiontoHearlninwasinanifestca . ™*™» & ?*"™** half hour to

      ££ a , P £ * to . 5 * speaker , giving an KLr of a motion , and a quarter of an hour to each speaker aflenrards . He shonldsu ^ rt Lofton of lie Hon . Member for Pmsburv . That gentleman had been exceea-ndyfll-nsed ; and the Douse owed it to him , to its o , vn character , and to the country , to grant the inquiry a = kca * or Mr . Buncombe was well known to be a bold , manly , ana independent man ; he was known all the world over as "honest Tom Buncombe ; " and he was at all events , entitled to feir play , at the hands of the House . He trasted the Hon . Gentleman would not rest satisfied nnta le did receive a full acquittal from the imputations

      thrown on him . t Hr . XEBBA 5 D had been inclined to have given a silent vote , had it not been possible that his doing : so in the manner he intended might be construed into a desire to bear hardlyontoeHome Secretary , with whem he himself had srather hard fight He should therefore explain the grounds on which he . voted . He disagreed with the existence of the odious power at alL It was not wanted for anj honest purpose hy any honest Government . The Statement made by Mr . Duncombe , was one which the House was bound to notice , and notice in a . satisfactorjr mannsr too , if it would ma ; "fn '" its-own honour and independence . Both were compromised in the alleged practices of the Government . The defenders of the unjust and un-English practice had pleaded the state of the country in 1 S * 2 as a justification for their suspicions

      and xractices towards Mr . Duncombe ; but let him ask whet&sr any other Hon . Members , who he thought ought to have been objects of suspicion much sooner than Mr . Donccmbe , had been subjected , to similar treatment ? He knew that it was reported at the time of which the Hon . Baronet at the head of the Government spoke so alarmingly , that a meeting of the Anti-Corn Law League had teen held in the Mechanics' Institute , Southamptonbnilfiings , presided over by Mr . Warburton , and attended by Hr . Yilliers and Dr . Bowring , at which a person uttered such undisguised instigations to revolt , that a spectator in the meeting called him to order , telling Mm that what he was saying was " physical force . " Had the letters of those Hon . Members been stopped , or read , or coined ? If not , he thought the odious power of the Home Office had not been exercised impartially . As far

      as he could judge , there was far more reason to " suspect " some of the League members than there was to " suspect" Hr . Dnncombe . But the power to open anybody's letters ought not to exist at alL It might possibly , in extreme cases , be of use in detecting offences ; but it might also 1 » most grosely abused , and used for the worst purposes against the liberties of the people . Mr . ? enand concluded by showing . how odious this power of opening letters might be made in forwarding the machinery of that system of centralisation to which tiie Home Secretary was so much attached ; and especially to the carrying out of the provisions of the New Poor Law . On these grounds more than on any other , he was desirous not only to take away this power from the Home Secretary , but also from every other Minister of the Crown .

      Mr . Struct , as a member of the secret committee , defended the decision it had come to , and said the Government had done everything in their power to assist the committee in its investigations . He considered the Bight Hon . Baronet , the Home Secretary , had been harshly dealt with , and as be thought neither the motion nor the amendment would lead to any practical good , be should deciine supporting them . He then entered into a . general defence of the Government , in as far as lettaropenbg was concerned , and laboured to show that the alarming state of the country in 1 S 42 sufficiently justified any exercise of the power that might have been employed at that time Mr , Colquhoun spoke at length against the motion and amendment , and defended the conduct of the Home

      Secre-Mr . Whxiahs challenged the Government to make out a case to justify the treatment the Hon . Member for Finsbmyiad received at the hands of the Home Secretary . He was much surprised that the Hon . Gentlemen on the Ministerial side of the House could for a moment entertain the idea that the Hon . Member for Finsbury could in any degree be connected with the employment of the hand grenades and infernal machines , to which allusion had been made . Such allusions , made in connection with that Hoe . Gentleman ' name , showed the necessity of a full Inquiry being made . The report of the secret committee was sost unsatisfactory to the public mind . This , however , could not excite surprise , seeing that Mr . Buncombe's - 'name was excluded from that committee—a proceeding nnpaialleled in the annals of this assembly . Hr . Baiuie Cochbake said it was a well-known fact that the system of espionage prevailed extensively in France , yet the people did not complain . It was necessaryjaat toa certain extent suchapower should be vested in the hands of ths Executive .

      Mr . Blewett , in a brief address , said he should have acted precisely as the Hon . Member for Finsbury had acted , had his letters been opened . He thought the Government had acted very improperly . lord C . HA 3 HLTOX defended the Government , and in the course of his observations , employed several very illnatured personal remarks towards Mr . Buncombe . Mr . Watson made a very able speech in favour of an inquiry into Mr . Buncombe ' s charge . The statute of Anne , and the subsequent Act of Victoria , made the opening of a letter , without a warrant from the Secretary of State , a misdemeanour . For his part , he held that in . a constitutional point of view , there could be no such power as that exercised by the Secretary of State . With respect to the discontent exhibited in the Jf orth in 1 W , he considered those disturbances to be no excuse fora tyrannical act He looked upon this power as calculated to revive every evil associated with the spy svstem . He

      called upon the Solicitor-General to state upon what principles of constitutional law he defended the practice of opening letters . He dared that officer to lay the warrant , by which Mr . Buncombe ' s letters had been delayed , online table of the House , or acknowledge it in any way -which would get the instrument into the courts . He held that the warrant of the Secretary of State to make such search could not be there maintained . A warrant could not issue without previous information on Oath ; and the Secretary of State could not administer such oath , and consequently could not receive an information . The warrant must also set forth the name of the party it implicated , and specify the offence . AH these conditionsvere necessary to make a warrant legal : and tie ventured ' to assert that were the warrant issued by the Secretary of State taken before the Judges , it would be coated out of court . He should like the Government to give an opportunity of trying the question . It was of vast importance to public liberty .

      The 8 olicituS-Gener . il , In a long and wordy harangue , travelled over the same ground taken by his colleagues in defence of the espionage , without at all improviag their position , He acknowledged that the power to open letters was not con / erred by any statute ; but was a power formerly a portion of the prerogative of the so-Tercijp , then had been exercised by the responsible advisers of the crown , and was recognised in the statutes of Anne and Victoria , He gave it as his opinion—an opinion expressed with a full recollection of the responsibility of his situation—that such a power did lawfully appertain ;•¦ the office of Secretary of State , and could by that func-• ' :: arj be lawfully exercised .

      i-orc John Epbhell held that the law had been esta iiliilied in the reign of Queen Anne ; it existed now ; and ¦ be Home Secretary was not to be heldblameable for the i ractice which had always been associated with his office , n there had been any improper exercise of that power , however , it ought to be inquired into ; and in order to learn -ads , and to do justice to all concerned , he was prepared Id Support Ae amendment of the Noble Memberfor Stmderland ( Lord Hoivick ) . He did this because inquiry was fcs to Mr . Buncombe , who stood before the House in inch z peculiar position ; a position which , without

      inquiry , irould . inflict gross injustice on that genfleman . He muet also condemn that new mode of exercising the power ^ hichhadbeen adopted by the Foreign Secretary , in stopping the letters of refugees , and communicating the substance of their contents to foreign Governments . The eterdseof Qua power in tiie instance that had come to IhearSnowIed ge had led to most deplorable results : for Jfcere could be no doubt but that the two Bandierashad . wen . eatrappea to tieir ruin . Por such an exercise of « S' ^ 1 iie Fordgn Secretary was blameable ; and he IWra 7 . Swell ) would agree in a vote of condemnation

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      S 5-S-BBSS—• - — = ^^ = 5 = S == of such principle , to prevent other Ministars from-following the most objectionable practice , and tarnishing the fair fame of England , the reputed refuge for the oppressed of the earth . Sir Robert Vezi rose and said that , as he had spoken before , he should not take advantage of his position to speak again to the general question . He would , however , avail himself of the opportunity to exp lain one or two points . In the first place he begged to assure-Mr . Duncombe that in his former remarks he had never dreamed of implying that he had been mixed up with the Chartist plots and rebellions of 1842 . Such an idea never entered his head . He was shocked when such an outrageous meaning had been put on his words . He must also remark on the extraordinary speech of Mr . D Israeli ,

      on the previous night If such a speech had come from one of the opposition , where he expectea to meet with generous foes , he should not have been surprised : but coming from a «/*»* " and , ^? a " candid friend , " too , he scarcely knew how to brook fc . He could deal with his foes , but he could not do with those w ho broke his head with *** , « .. He then set the House right as to a statement made by Mr . D'Israeli , affecting one of the Government officials . Such statement was without foundation . He then complained , and bitterly , of the conduct of the opposition , in joining in the demand for fresh inquiry . Such conduct was not generous ; it IRIS not just . The Government had T > een and

      tried once ; they had been acquitted ; why were they to be tried again ? He bid the Whigs beware . He had not so acted towards them , when hi opposition , and since he had been in power he had not used his influence in visiting on their heads the condemnation then- conduct-was held to have merited , though he had been solicited to do so . Heplainly told them that there had been no we made of the powernow so much complained of , forwhich the Whigs had not furnshed a precedent As to the continued existence of the power , he would not now offer an opinion . He would not purchase an acquittal for the Government at the expense of the power itself , by an offer to give it up , or any portion of it The question before the House should go on its own merits ; and if the Government were sent toa

      fresh trial , on the beads of those who sent them be the consequences . Mr . D'Isbaixi gladly embraced the opportunity of unreservedly , publicly , and sincerely apologising for the statement he had , without premeditation , made the night previous . He would not reply to Sir Bobert Peel's twentyfour hours' conned-over impromtu , but reserve himself for another occasion . Sir Johk Hanmee asserted the independence of Members on his side of the House . They were not to be tied up with the Ministry , just to do the Minister ' s bidding . Though they might act with them generally ; still on questions affecting then * own honour , and the independence of the House , they would exercise their own opinion , and register their votes as justice dictated . This was one of those questions : and hi it they should vote against the Government , because they held the conduct of Government to be utterly indefensible .

      Mr . Jehvts made a . smart speech , going over much of the old ground . He strongly supported the motion for inquiry : and he also bore out JMr . Watson's opinion as to the illegality of the warrants , in ' opposition to the Solicitor-General . ' .. Mr . Mpntz should vote for inquiry , and also for doing away with the power entirely . There being loud calls for a division , Mr . Dcncohbe said , he would not detain them long with a reply , considering that the debate had been so protracted . He denied that there was anything personal in his proceeding . He had no object in view , but to put an end to an odious system of espionage . Some

      gentlemen had suggested that he should bring his proofs to the bar of the House , for thus , as yet , he had produced no evidence of his letters having been opened : he begged to state that he should submit a motion for that purpose , and that he should bring his proofs to the bar . ( Loud cheers . ' ) He would make a motion to call to the bar the officers of the Post-office , who must have committed a breach of privilege if they had opened his letters without a warrant from the Home Secretary . As there appeared a strong feeling in the House in favour of the amendment , and as he thought it prudent to get a little inquiry sooner than none at all , | he should withdraw his motion hi order that the sense of the House might be taken on the amendment .

      The" House afterwards divided on Lord Howick ' s amendment , which now stood as a substantive resolution , when there

      appeared—For the motion 145 Against it 240 Majority against it 95 Mr . Dcncombe , on the numbers being announced , immediately gave notice that he should , on Tuesday next , move that the officers of the Post-offices the parties whom he charged with having opened his letters , be summoned to the bar of the House to answer for the breach of privilege they had committed . ( Loud cheers followed the announcement ) The House immediately afterwards adjourned . HOUSE OP COMMONS , Mokday , Feb . 24 . On the motion that the noose should resolve itself into a committee of ways and means in order to consider of the sugar duties .

      Mr . 3 tL GiBSojr moved as . an-amendment , " That no arrangement of the sugar duties will be satisfactory and permanent which does not involve an equalisation of duty on foreign and colonial sugar . " The Hon . Gentleman observed , that since the Act of last year the sugar trade had been in a most unsatisfactory state of suspense . It was true that the sugar duties were voted annually , but still parties purchased largely upon the implied understanding that the trade was not to be exposed to continual extensive fluctuations . The great question . Jhowever , was , whether the whole of the community was to be heavily taxed , not for the benefit of the revenue , but of the West India colonists . By the protection of 10 s . given to them , the British community was compelled to pay no less than

      £ 2 , 300 , 000 on the 230 , 000 tons of colonial sugar estimated t » be consumed in the ensuing year , and this for the promotion of private and not of public interests . This amount of protection actually exceeded all the value of the labour expended on the production of sugar in our West India colonies . He had no wish to do the slightest injury to the colonies , but he firmly believed they would prosper more under a system of free and open competition . Even if he were wrong in this belief , he would still stand upon the justice of his ease . He called upon the House to abandon a system of legislation so injurious , and to free themselves from the domination of the monopolist classes , to the lasting benefit of the country . Mr . Ewaet seconded the motion .

      Mr . Gibsons amendment was supported by Mr . Ricardo , Mr . Tilliers , Lord Howick , Mr . Cobden , and Mr . Bright ; and opposed by Mr . James , Sir G . Clerk , Mr . Miles , Mr . Gladstone , Mr . Labouchere , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Lord Sandon . The House divided , when Mr . Gibson's amendment was negatived by a majority of 211 to 84 .

      Tuesdat , Feb . 25 . Mr . Wallace moved for leave to bring in a bill to repeal so much of the Act 1 Win , IV ., c . 69 , as provides that there shall be thirteen judges in the Court of Session in Scotland ; and to extend the jurisdiction of the stipendiary county judges , called sheriffs , by giving them the power of awarding the punishment of transportation , in the event of the judges of the Court of Session being reduced below the number of thirteen . The motion was opposed by the Lord Advocate , and after some discussion 3 Ir . Wallace withdrew his motion .

      Sir R , Inohs moved for various papers relatiug to the new regulations for the negroes captured by our cruisers , and landed at Sierra Leone ; aud drew the attention of the House to the hardships which were inflicted by those regulations . . A proclamation was issued by the governor of that colony on the 12 th of last June , in pursuance of an order from the Colonial Secretary , for the purpose of encouraging emigration to the West Indies , and by that proclamation all those liberated Africans who declined to emigrate were deprived of all the allowances usually granted , and left in consequence without food , clothing , or implements of husbandry—in short , amongst strangers , and utterly unable to help themselves . The regulations fell so severely on the children that they were easily induced to emigrate , while the adults had no alternative between emigration and starvation . This was , indeed , conferring a boon on the West India planter , but a at terrible sacrifice to the negro . These regulations , he feared , would lead to the revival of the slave trade botween the coast of Africa and the Mauritius .

      Some discussion , followed , and the motion was agreed to . Dr . Bowsing moved for a copy of correspondence rela . five to the issue and withdrawal of an ordinance of the Governor of Hong-Kong , dated the 21 st of August last , for the registration of the population of that colony , and for establishing a poll tax on the inhabitants to cover the expenses of tiie said registration . Great dissatisfcction was excited amongst both the British and native residents by this attempted inquisition , and it was ultimately withdrawn . The motion was opposed by Mr . Hope on behalf of the Government , and after some ducussion was withdrawa .

      Sir James Gbaham moved for leave to bring in a bill for the better regulation of medical practice throughout the united kingdom . The first object of the bill would be , to have a central establishment of a council of health , which would have the superintendence of medical and surgical educat ion , and which would be accessible to the Government for consultation upon matters having refer , ence to the public health . The second object was , to secure for all medical practitioners equal facilities of practice , and to secure for the public general equality of attainment . The third object of the bill was , that these attainments having been ascertained by examination , there

      should be s'udi a registration as would give public notoriety that the ^ parties examined had come up to the required standards The Kight Hon . Baronet then entered into a statement oi \ ihe points in which his present bill differed from that of iast year , together with the reasons which induced him to adopt the alterations , amongst the principal of which were , that he did not propose to repeal the Apothecaries' Act , except so far as related to the parties who would he registered under his bill ; and he proposed that it should be a misdemeanour for any one to pretend to be a physician , surgeon , or other medical pract itioner , who was not duly qualified . Leave was given to bring in the bill .

      The Right Hon . Baronet then obtained leave to bring in a bill to enable her Majesty to grant new charters to certain Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons . Mr . BfiLUtw moved for copies of the correspondence which took place relative to the ^ dismissal of the Earl oi

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      —i—p ——i —i ——^^—i ——i Lucanfrom , and subsequeut restoration to , tlie magistracy ; and also for a copy of the commission appointing the said Earl of Lucau Lord Lieutenant of the county of Mayo . Motion agreed to . The remaining business on the paper was postponed , and the House adjourned . - Wednesday , Feb . 26 . Sir P . Egebton wished to draw the attention of the Bight Hon . Baronet the Secretary for the Home Department to a shocking circumstance which eatne out in evidence before a police magistrate . It appeared that , in some of the crowded churchyards of the metropolis ( one was instanced in the neighbourhood" of Glerkenwell ) , it was the custom to inter the bodies pro tempo / e , and shortly afterwards to burn them . He wished to know if the Bight Hon . Baronet intended to adopt any measures to prevent this desecration ?

      Sir J . Gbaham said he had only been aware of the facts stated through a newspaper of this morning . The case , if made clearly out , was one in which he should be inclined , certainly , to interfere —( loud cheering ); but , as the law stood , he apprehended there would he great difficulty found to stand in the way of an effectual interference upon the part of the executive . On the motion for the House resolving itself into a committee of ways and moans on the sugar duties , * Lord J . Russell contended , that at least one . half of the differential duties was appropriated by the planter ; and that it was impossible by artificial distinctions to keep out slave-grown produce , as was apparent from the amount of importation from A enezuela . He would admit that the principles of free trade could not be immediately applied to the West Indian colonies , owing to obstacles of

      a temporary nature arising from the Act by which the negroes were emancipated . One of these obstacles was a deficiency of labour , which was sought to be corrected by the introduction of free labourers from the coast of Africa . Now , a gradual introduction of labour would be beneficial , no doubt ; hut tho importation of large numbers of negroes from the coast of Africa , with the view of suddenly lowering the value of labour , might be attended with many disadvantages , and more particularly with the fearful one of creating a dangerous preponderance of the black over the white population . He could notperceive tho wisdom of the financial plan proposed by the Bight Hon . Baronet , which rendered it hopeless to get rid of the income tax at the end of three years . They were sacrificing revenue to- the extent of £ 2 , 300 , 000 which might have been applied to the reduction of the silk and spirit duties without any loss to the

      revenue , while commerce would have been , extensively benefited . He thought that they should gradually approach towards free trade principles by imposing for a limited period a moderate differential duty , until they should beat length in a position to abolish it entirely . The Noble Lord concluded by moving , « That it is the opinion of this House that the plan ' proposed by her Majesty ' s Government in reference to the Sugar Duties professes to keep up a distinction between foreign free-labour and foreign slave-labour sugar , whiehis impracticable and illusory ; and , without adequate benefit to the consumer , tends so greatly to impair the revenue as to render the removal of the income and propertytax at the end of three years extremely uncertain and improbable . " The motion was opposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr . Gladstone , Sir James Graham , and Sir R . Peel ; and supported by Mr . Labouchere , Mr . Macauley , Mr . C . Wood , Lord Palmerston , and Sir C . Napier .

      The gallery was then cleared for the division , when the motion of Lord John Russell was negatived bv a majority of 236 to 142 .

      TnunsDAT , Feb . 27 . The Speaker took the chair at five o ' clock . Lord Sasdon presented a petition from the sugar refiners of Liverpool , complaining of the hardship they would undergo if the Government plan for the reduction of the sugar duties should be carried into effect , in consequence of the large stock of sugar which they had on hand , and praying the House to give them relief . They also prayed that no duty might be imposed upon molasses , and that a high duty might be imposed upon foreign and colonial refined sugar . Mr . Miles presented a petition from Somerset against tlje poor-law clause in the law of settlement . Mr . B . Palmer presented a petition , signed by 150 farmers of Bucks , against the malt duty .

      POST-OFFICE ESPIONAGE . Mr . Waelet presented a petition from the inhabitants of Finsbury , agreed to at a public meeting . The petitioners stated—" That they learn with mortification and disgust that there exists at the General Post-office a secret spy system , under which letters are broken open , seals counterfeited , and post-marks falsely imposed , in order to , deceive the persons to whom such letters are directed , and to whom they are afterwards forwarded , while the information thus obtained has , in some cases , been used to promote the despotic interests of foreign Governments . They also state that they had read with indignation , the statement made by then- representative in his place in Parliament , that bis correspondence had been

      clandestinely intercepted and secretly opened , under Government authority , at the Post-office . That the only excuse for the excercise of such power towards Mr . Duncombe , would be that the Government had good reason to deem him capable of conduct which , if true , would , in their opinion , render him totally unfit to continue the representative of a free and independent constituency ; that they therefore feel it due to themselves , as well as to Mr . Duncombe , to demand from the House of Commons such an investigation into the proceedings toward him as should either justify the implied suspicions of the Government , or fully establish the innocence of a long-tried and faithful representative . " ( Hear , hear . ) In answer to a question from an Hon . Member , Sir E . Feel said , that"he wa $ in communication with several persons connected with banking hi Scotland , and he thought he could not be prepared to bring'in a Bill on the subject , or to state the intentions of the Government , until after Easter .

      GAME LAWS . Mr . Bright presented petitions , numerously signed by farmers and landholders in Horshara , Sussex , Almvick , in Northumberland , from the western side of the Severn , Gloucestershire , and Ruislip , in Middlesex , all praying for the abolition of the game-laws . The Hon . Member then said , the motion which he had given notico of Mug . ing on that evening , was a motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the operation of the game-laws ; and in bringing the motion before the House , he acknowledged that he was fully sensible of the importance and difficulty of this question . He regretted extremely that it could not have all the weight in the House from his advocacy which it might have had in other hands . But he was so convinced of the importance of the question , and of the necessity of some alteration in the laws

      respecting game , that he considered he should be neglecting his duty , if he had hesitated for a longer period to bring the question under the notice of the House . He had observed that for several years past , a considerable portion of the convictions which had taken place at petty sessions , more especially in the agricultural counties , were for offences against the Game Act—( hear , hear , ) and thousands of the poorest of the population had been fined and imprisoned for such offences . It frequently happened too that violent outrages , and ferocious encounters , took placebctweengamekeepersandpoachers . endingfrequently in the infliction of serious injuries , aiidnotunfrequentlyin death . He found also that the last sentence of the law had been frequently put into operation on unfortunate individuals whose calamities had been brought upon them through the laws for the preservation of game . It

      was because he had a deep sympathy for the poorest classes of the people , and because he had a deep reverence for the sacredness of human life , that ho asked the attention of the House to the motion which he was about to propose , and he felt certain that no considerable number of members would refuse to accede to such an inquiry . Looking back to former legislation on this subject , he felt justified in making this proposition , as tliere had been frequent instances of late years of the appointment of committees to consider the game laws . In the years 1816 and 1823 , Select Committees had been appointed to inquire into this subject ; and in 1828 , there had been a Select Committee of the House of Lords , appointed for the same purpose . The Committee of 1816 appeared to have been appointed for the immediate object of obtaining such evidence aa might induce the Legislature to abolish

      the qualification then existing , which was the possession of a considerable portion of landed property , and of throwing open the right of killing game to all persons who should purchase a Government certificate . In 182 S the object of the Committee was to obtain such evidence as should induce the Government to legalize the sale of game , and in 1828 the Select Committee of the House of Lords was appointed with the same object . Though the immediate objects of these Committees were such as he had stated , no one who had read the evid ence-adduced before them could fail to be convinced of the fact that the real cause of their appointment had been the prevalence of poaching , and the . frequent recurrence of those disastrous encounters between gamekeepers and poachers , which they had of late years so deeply to deplore . ( Hear . )

      Mr . Bright then gave a number of cases of hardship under the Game Laws , and referred especiall y to a case of a man detected with a snare ia his hand on the grounds of the Rev . Geo . Chetwode , who had been sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment for the same , during which his wife and children had suffered the greatest hardships . It wasawellknownfaet , that thekillingof game was held to be no disgrace in the rural districts . He was in possession of a number of facts that illustrated in a remarkable degree , this state of public opinion . There was a person near Aldborough , in the county of Suffolk , a most noted poacher , who carried on a large trade in that way , and employed from thirty to forty persons . ' The men , thus employed were all regular poachers while the head of the body , to keep up appearances , had a regular gome certificate , and had a connection with several noted sellers of

      game in London , to whom the supplies were regularly dispatch ul . The depredations of this party were principally Carried on upon the estates of Lord Rendlesham and tiie Earl of Hertford , and they had a regular protective association , and subscribed funds for the purpose of defending any of them that might happen t o be prosecuted for an infringement of the Game laws . The head of this party was considered a respectable person in the neighbourhood where he resided . There was another striking instance showing this state of the public mind . He had lately read in a Yorkshire newspaper , a Doncaster one he believed , in the obituary column , that a person had just died , who was described as a noted poacher , but in all other respects an upright and respectable man . So trustworthy was he considered , that on more than one occasion he was , on being convicted , sent to Wakefield with his own commitment in bis pocket ,

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      aid he never failed to . deliver himself into custody . [ Great laughter . ) Mr . Bright then proceedsd to discuss the " right of property" in game . He could not conceive how any wild animal ; could be considered property . No one could identify a hare or a pheasant , as he could a pig ov othtr domestic animal : yet , to claim property in any thing , it was " considered necessary that its owner should be able so to establish bis right . But if game was property , why had there existed a former law , denying the right of either buying or gelling game ? It was generally held that that which was considered property should be that which was recognised to be an object of batter . The Game Law of 1831 , prohibited the sale of dine * and the fact of such a law having existed

      was an admission that game was not " property . " But if game was property , then wild animals , he maintained , ought to be protected at the public expense , the same as were the wares of a shopkeeper ; and the public ought to be rated to support a police for that purpose . To show the effects which flowed from tho operation of the Game Laws , he would refer to a return which he had moved for last year , and also one furnished on another motion of an Hon . Friend . From these returns it ap . peared , that , during the year previous , there had been brought before the quarter session for poaching nearly 4 , 500 cases . Of those tried , 35 had been transported , and 112 imprisoned for various periods ; while the remainder were fined in various sums to an average of about £ 2 each ,

      punishments monstrous and cruel compared to the offences committed . It was further shown , that , from 1833 to 1843 , there had been no less than forty-two gamekeepers killed , some by accident ; but in twenty-five instances with deliberate wilfulness . This was a dreadful state of things and * one that ought to be put an end to . From returns furnished from the manufacturing districts respecting the number of deaths occasioned by machinery , it was shown that the annual deaths from this cause were , in Lancashire , one in every 30 , 000 employed ; while in proportion to the number of gentlemen who had game licenses , ( about 60 , 000 he believed ) , the number was four , or double the proportion . ( Hear , hear . ) Such were the results , which he was sure ha understated . It was one of these Members which had called his attention to the subject , that at Knowsley , where a gamekeeper had met a poacher and exchanged shots , in which the gamekeeper fell the victim . Of the five engaged in this

      transaction , one was hanged , and the other four were transported . It was this case that had led him ( Mr . B . ) to the consideration of the whole question of the Game Laws , and induced him to bring the subject before the House . The system of game-preserving was a system of terrorism , inimical to both farmers and labourers , and one which should t > e put an end to . The Hon . Gentleman then made a pointed reference to the member for Gloucestershire , Mr . Berkley , who had published a pamphlet in which he recommended poachers to be met with " punches on the head and blows before words ; " and expressing himself that he did not expect much opposition to his motion for inquiry unless it came from that quarter . After shewing up the battue system , in describing tvhxcli . he occasioned much merriment , the lion . Gentleman sat down by moving for a Committee to inquire into the operation of the Game Laws .

      Sie J . Gbahah , who spoke in a very low tone of voice , said he had listened with great pleasure to the speech just delivered by tho Hon . ^ Member for Durham . . He was pleased at its tone and temper . Ho was sure that it would be met in the same spirit by the House , and that the result would be a full and dispassionate enquiry . The fearful circumstances that had transpired during the last few years had convinced him ( Sir J . Graham ) that enquiry was necessary , an inquiry , which , he hoped , when gone into , would be conducted in an honest and impartial spirit . After referring to tho recent

      alterations in the . law , which he described as removing all the feudal restrictions that . had formerly existed in reference to the killing of game , conferring the right to destroy them upon every , person , without regard to their position in society , providing that they took out a license . He expressed himself that it was sot the intention of the Government to offer any opposition whatever to tho motion of the Hon . Member . He thought that if the motion did not lead to a change in the law , it would at least lead to a better understanding among all classes . '

      Mr . Vebnok Smith approved of the motion , and went on to show that the convictions under the' present Game Laws were nearly double to those under the law of 1881 . Mr . Darby said that Sir James Graham had done well in acceding to the motion of Mr . Bright , though he did not expect so much good from it as that gentleman might expect . Mr . F . H , G , Bek&elst said it was not his intention to oppose the appointment of the Committee ; though he did think that the agitation which had been occasioned since it was known that the present subject was to be brought forward , was not at all creditable . The landlords

      had been called "tyrants , " and the Hon . Gentleman who introduced the . motion pretended to be the "farmer ' s friend . " He . denied that the Game Laws tended to produce crime more than the other laws that existed relating to the protection of property .. He placed poaching on the same footing as Bmuggling , and thought the law might be improved in some respects , though he held it to be beneficial in the whole . The . laws were not more stringent here than in other countries ; as the United States of America for instance , where very severe laws existed , against killing wild animals under particular circumstances .

      Mr . Aoiionbt expected great good from a full inquiry into the subject ; and that the exaggerated statements which had gone , abroad with respect to the presevva tion of game would be set at rest . Coli Sistbobfe 3 aid , the speech of the Hon . Member for Durham seemed to encourage the depredations of the poachers ; but he supposed this was part of the system pursued by the Anti-Corn Law League , a class for whom , thank God ! he entertained no high opinion . Mr . Gbantlet Berkelev . maintained that the farmer always took his land with the knowledge that there was game upon it , and that allowance was made on that account . The poacher , generally speaking , was a man who was receiving good wages , and not , as had been represented in that House , a person borne down by distress . He read a statement to show that crime abounded more in those districts where game was not preserved , than in those were it was rigidly maintained . Mr . B . Escott thought the existing law severe , an >> that there ought to be an alteration .

      Messrs . Wakley , Cobden , and Newdegate having briefly addressed the House in favour of the committee , . Sir . Robest Peel said he was glad at the spirit which had been exhibited in the discussion ; and though he did not see the Game Laws could be very well interfered with , without touching upon the rights of property , still he thought good Would be produced by such an enquiry being goneinto . If it produced no ) other result than an improvement in the proceedings of landlords in relation to the preservation of game , it would indeed be something ; He thought the practice of game-preserving : was carried much too far . If gentlemen would abate in this respect , greater good would be produced than by any course that the House could pursue .

      Several other members having' spoken , the motion was put ' and unanimously agreed to . Tho House having disposed of the [ orders of the day shortly afterwards adjourned .

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      , QUEEN-SQUARE . , A Danoekods "Laek . "—A respectable looking person , whose name did not transpire , was charged by a Mr . Scott with picking the pocket of his sister-in-law of a purse containing 4 s . —The complainant said the defendant was a friend of his , and they had been drinking together in a public-house the night before . His ( the complainant ' sister-in-law was one of the company . During the evening 6 he fell sick , when she went out for the air ; and on coming into the room again she sat down in a corner , with the defendant along side of her . Shortly after he left the house , when she missed her purse . On inquiries being made , the landlord ' s son said he had seen the defendant with a , purse in his hand as he went out . Complainant then went in search of him , and after seeking in several public-houses , found him at last at home in bed . The purse was found at the bottom of the beU It was , however , complainant ' s belief that the purse was taken more for a "lark" than from a felonious intention , and hedld riot wish to press , the charge . The prisoner said he did not know what he was doing , he was too drunk . —Mr . Burrel , after cautioning the defendant of the great danger he had run in laying himself open to a charge of felony ! ordered his dismissal .

      GUILDHALL . Satobdat . — Debpebatb Robbert . — A lad named James Jones , a native of Frome , was charged by Mr . Christopher Wattpn , of 24 , Ludgate-street , with having stolen fire sovereigns . The complainant is a bullion and exchange broker , ' and exposes in his shop window bullion and coins of every description . On Tuesday . afternoon , the prisoner , " who was at the time in company with another lad , broke d-ttfe ' af the prosecutor ' s windows , and snatched at a bowl containing seventy-five sovereign !! . In the hurry the prisoner dropped the sovereigns on the ground- his

      companion picked three of them up and decamped , while the prisoner seized two others and swallowed them , He was , however , unable to get away , and on Thursday morning he was taken before Mr . Alderman Hughes , who sent the priaonef to the West London Union to be physicked . A strong dose of eastor-oll was accordingly given him , and on Friday morning the sovereigns were found concealed in the prisoner ' s bedi The prisoner now admitted the robbery , and said that he and his companion planned it on Monday evening . His companion he b lined , lived at Dartmouth . He was remanded till Wednesday next .

      MARYLEBONE . Satobdat . —The Gbeen-eved Monsteb . —Elizabeth Rooney . a fonnldaUc-looldng Irishwoman , was charged with assaulting Mary Wilkfcs , w j , 0 had 8 everal marks B having recently come off second-best in a " scrimmage . " From the evidence , itappeared that the two fair ones , who were neighbours , had been good friends till recently a fit of jealousy however , had taken possession of Mrs . Itooney , who laboured under the impression that the complainant had been enticing her husband astray . The prevwusmghtdefendanthaving takenaglass toomuch . paid avis . ttoMiBsWilkms . ana getto , in right good style , to give her a right good beating . This mda had led to the present summons . After hearing the case , in which it W ri- ^ "deswere to blame , the magistrate decided to bind over Mrs . Rooney to keep the peace for the ensuing s « months . The parties then ffjthdW .

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      BOW STREET . Saturday . —IUisino tut Wisd . —William Johnson was charged , by a police-constable of the H division , with improperly raising the wind without due regard to the ordinary rules of hone 6 ty . The charge originated with a landlord , with whom lie had succeeded in getting up a splendid dinner , but when the bill was presented , instead of paying it , he hurled defiance at both landlord and waiter . On his being taken to the station he assaulted the constable , and was otherwise very unruly . Evidence was given to show that the prisoner was a regular victimiser of publicans and coffee-house keepers ; and he was accordingly committed for a month to Bridewell .

      Wednesdat . Book Stealing . —John Pentland , alias Smith , alias Campbell , described as a medical student , from Edinburgh , who was fully committed for trial on a charge of stealing several books from the library of tho University College , in Gower-street , was again placed at the bar , charged with stealing several volumes of different medical works from the library of St . George ' s Hospital , the property of { he governors and directors of the institution , which books he had sold to a bookseller in Coventry-street . Mr . Henry William Fuller , a member of the council , and the librarian , identified several valuable books , the stamp being cut out , tbat had been taken since Christmas last from the library . The prisoner said nothing in his defence , and he was committed . —Serjeant Newman , E division , said , that since he apprehended the prisoner , lie had found a great many books that had been stolen from the * Middlesex and King ' s College Hospitals , respecting which witnesses would be in attendance on a future day to give evidence . The prisoner was accordingly ordered to be further remanded .

      SOUTHWARK . Penni Theatres . —Joseph Riddle , aged 14 , was charged with stealing 2 s . 6 d . from his employer , Mr . Wright , a coal dealer , carrying on business in Bermondsey . It appeared that on the preceding evening the complainant placed a half-crown piece on the mantel shelf of Ids back shop . Having missed it , and having seen the prisoner secreting something , he went into the shop ,- and found it in a coal sack , close to where the prisoner was seen , who denied all knowledge of it . The prisoner now admitted that he took the money , and said he intended to

      have spent it in confectionery . The lad ' s father , a respectable-looking elderly man , said his son had conducted himself with great propriety until lately , whensome other lads enticedliira to frequent " penny gaffs . " Mr . Wright said he believed the lads had induced him to take the money , he did not wish to press the charge , thinking that the imprisonment he had undergone would lead him to adopt an honest mode of life . Mr . Cottenham having lectured the lad , bade him fall on his knees and thank his employer for the leniency he had shown , and having complied with this request he was discharged .

      Monday . —A Wolf-hunter . — : Richard Cobley , who formerly carried on extensive business in Tottenhamcourt-road , was brought before Mr . Cottingham , charged with disturbing the congregation at a dissenting chapel in the Borough-road , called the " Surrey Tabernacle , " and abusing tlie minister during the service . It appeared that the defendant ascended to tho gallery during the perform , ance of the afternoon service . He stood up in the most prominent place , and soon rendered himself conspicuous by launching out into denunciations against the minister , bestowing the epithets "hypocrite" and "blasphemer "

      on him , and using other expressions of the most offensive description . The defendant said that the minister of the chapel was a " wolf in sheep ' s clothing , " and that he knew it . He proceeded to indulge in personal and other reflections which indicated an unsound state of inind j deelaring also , that while he lived he should persist in lifting up his voice against evil-doers . The magistrnti said that the defendant must be restrained by the strong arm of the law , otherwise ho would repeat the offence , He was then held to bail , himself in £ 100 , and two sureties of £ 50 each , and in default was committed .

      CLEEKENWELL . Tuesday .. —Metropolitan Srave-Yards . —Hobrid Abominations at the Spa-fields Burial-groond . —On Tuesday this court was crowded with rospectablejtradcsmen and other housekeepers residing in Exmouth-street and its vicinity , in consequence of its having become generally known tbat an application would be made to the magistrate relative to Spa-fields burial-ground . Reports of the most revolting and disgusting character have been circulated for some time back throughout the neighbourhood , and intense excitement has prevailed in consequence . — Mr . Watts , pawnbroker and silversmith , residing in Exmouth-street , stated that , as the representative of a large body of the ratepayers of Clerkenwell , many of whom were present , he came forward to beseech the interference

      of the court for the suppression of practices of a most abo . minable nature which prevailed in Spa-fields burialground . The burial-ground was not quite two acres in superficial extent . Such a space was commonly estimated as being capable of affording a decent interment to about 3000 human bodies : but what was the fact % It had been a burial-ground for the last fifty years , and the average yearly number of bodies interred , or brought into it , was 1500 . There had been thirty-sue burials in one day , but not a bone was seen on the surface . He could produce evidence which would leave no doubt , horrible as the thing wa 6 , that human bodies had been commonly burnt there . The stench proceeding from what was called the "bone-house , " in the graveyard , was so intolerable , that many of the residents in Exmouth-street , which abutted on the place , had been obliged to leave it altogether . One lady was present who had been obliged to leave from the stencil . The custom was to disinter the bodies after they have been three or four days buried , chop them up , and burn them in the bone-house . — Inspector Penny , of the G division , came forward and stated that a petition 6 igned by 100 of the inhabitants of Clerkenwell , having been presented to the magistrate of this court on the subject , his worship put the matter into his hands . He went there , and in this "bone-house " found a large quantity of coffins broken up , and some of thorn burning . The wood was perfectly sound , and some of it appeared to be quite fresh . Had been there several times since , and had seen parts of coffins burning ; the smell was shocking , intolerable . There were coffins of

      every size there , children ' s and men's . —Reuben Boom , who had been grave-digger in the burial-ground in question , but left about two years ago , in consequence of a dispute , stated that he had been there as grave-digger for six years . Had repeatedly dug up dead bodies interred but a short time , to make room for others . Had frequently dug up twenty corpses to make a grave of seven feet deep . Tho bodies that had been interred eight feet underground were a few days after rooted up , and just covered by the surface ; the stench was intolerable . —A lady , who lived in a house abutting on the graveyard , stated that she was obliged to leave , from the intolerable smell proceeding from the bone-house , They burnt the bones at night , and sometimes they began to . burn at

      eleven o ' clock at night , and continued at it all night . The smell was frightful . —Catherine Murphy : Lived in a house from the rear of which there was a view of the graveyard . Had goen the grave-diggers throw up parts of a human body , and then chop it up with their shovels . Saw one of them seize the upper part of a corpse by the hair of the headi On this occasion she could not refrain from crying out , " O , you villain , to treat the corpse so , " upon which he threw it into the grave again , and threw the clay on it . The smell was horrible . —Mr . Combe advised the parties to lay a full statement of the matter before the Board of Guardians , who would , he felt convinced , bring the parties under his jurisdiction . —The parties thanked the magistrate , and left the cour t .

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      Dreadful Shipwrecks . —The Risk , a brig belonging to Sun ( Ierlaud , \ vas lost on Monday week neavtlie Garbard Sand , near the northern entrance to the Dovrns . The crew had just time to launch their boat and get into it , when the vessel went down . The crew were shortly afterwards picked up by a passing vessel called the Horam , which landed them safely at the North Foreland . A laree Russian ship , named the Mercurius , is reported " to have been totally wrecked along the coast of Bilboa , and all hands ( excepting one man ) drowned . The vessel is a large handsome ship , and her loss is estimated at several thousand pounds . The American packet-ship , Pennsylvania , . Captain £ 0161 * 3011 . recently ashore on the

      coast of Bahia , eighty miles from Havanna . while on her passage from New Orleans to Liverpool , has since , become a total wreck . On Sunday night week a vessel was totally lost on the Kentish Rock , off Margate . She proved to be the Freedom , Capt . Robson , with a cargo of sulphur for Shields , from Scilly . The crew succeeded in getting her off , but in the course of a few minutes afterwards the vessel sunk , the crew escaping by their boat on to the Light-ship , moored near that , place , where they received every attention . The brig Flora , belonging to Cardiff , has been wrecked , while on her passage up the river , from Heligoland to Hamburgh . Crew saved . The Nelson , of Limerick , for Dumfries , has also been lost , and her crew ( four in number ) drowned . A deplorable accident happened to the crew of the schooner Hibernia , while getting out of Carnarvon Bay , on ?» iass

      euiujHuay . me vessel naa struck on the bar , and the whole of the crew , it is supposed , got into the boat to survey , the bar , when a heavy sea capsized it , and the whole of the unfortunate fellows were drowned . The vessel was subsequently got off the bar , and at present lies in Porthlerduiy harbour , for the owners . Reports have also been received , in the course of the week , respecting two vessels which were run down by others . One named Sir A . A . Ferguson , belonging to Glasgow , and the Diligent , of Liverpool . The former was run into b y the ship Hopewell , on the 11 th of last month , off the Tuskar Light : unfortunately two of the crew perished in the sinking vessel . A smack belonging to Lochilphead , coa laden , foundered during the night of the 17 th inst . oft \ Toward Point , having been in contact with an outward bound schooner .

      Nunsi Saiurs DROWNED .-Last Monday week , the collier brig Martin , of Dundee , from Newcastle , went on shore on the Gaa Sand while entering the river lor Dundee , and the whole o f her crew , nine in number , were drowned .

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      t JfVUr X ° ? lTA 1 B ^ r' ? jOrd . Brougliam is Preparing a Life of Voltoire . He is writing ft in Engliah and in French-and the work is to be brought out in the two , languages , simultaneously in London and in PaMU-Mr . . Macaulay it ia understood , intends devoting his leisure for the next two year * , to the comp letion of his History of the Revolution of 1688-and SB 5 ra& 1 BOTh ^ rf

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      At Bath Oil Monday night , PeWuarv 17 , Mt . J ' Iwite , m the sixty-fourth year of his age . U » mams were interred on Monday last , followed totw } grave by his bereaved widow his several sons ani daughters , and a numbei' of his political friends » admirers . Mr . Twite was a democrat of forty J « g standing , * and joined the Chartist ranks at tl « commencement of the agitation . He was for several years , and up to the time of his death , treasurer » the Bath Chartists . In private , as in public lite , •» was respected by all who knew him . and has depart ^

      this lite deeply lamented by a large circle of fnen « . « Death of the Rev . Stdkey Smith . — We reg «^ announce the death of the Rev . Sydney Smith , « Wi after an illness of some weeks ' duration , expire ^ his residence in Green-street , shortly before eleu tfolock on Saturday evening . Dr . Holland and \ W > Hibberts ( sons-in-law of the deceased ) were botu « attendance on their lamented relative at the tune w his death . Mr . Smith had attained his 7 « h year . At Ilolbeck , in the borough of Leeds , on the &j «« ., David Thomas , the youngest son of RwT ihomas , a firm and undeviating advocate ot ' rights of the many . -

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      SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE .

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      Supposed Murder at Resdiesmajc—Horridu Affair . —Information has just reached us , from what we have every reason to believe to be authentic sources , that a frightful murder was committed late on Saturday night week , on the estate of Lord Ren . dlcslmin , Suffolk . Report states , that his game keeper , who lives close to the hall , returned to his home late on the above named night , in a state of intoxication , and after a few minutes' time desired to leave again . His wife remonstrated against this , and

      shut tho door to prevent his getting out ; a quarrel then ensued , and the maddened gamekeeper at length snatched his gun , levelled it at his wife , and , report says , blew her head to atoms ! He was on Sunday committed to the Bridewell , at Woodbridge . lie declares that he did not intentionally murder her , but in the struggle , the gun went off by accident . He has a family of foui ^ children . _ Sucli are all the par . tlculars we feel justified in giving to the public—ire fe . ii" they are too correct . Rumour is busy , but wq decline trusting toojnuch to it , in an affair of so soul . harrowing and tragic a character . —Jpstvick Exprm

      Feb . 18 . Serious Coach Accident . —The Brighton lkr « U states , that as the Defiance , Portsmouth and Brighton four-horse coach was proceeding on its way on Thur * day week , the horses shied as they were about to enter Arundel , and' galloped through the narrow streets of that town at attemendous rate , ultimately dashing out of Farrant-street , fronting the Norfolk Arms , across the intervening road , clearing the stable gate with the fracture only of a splinter-bar , entering the yard at full speed , and not being able to stop themselves , ran into a shed at the other extremity of it , against the roof of which the coachman was earned with great force , and was immediately struck off by a How on the breast . Fortunately there was some little space

      between the beam and the roof of the coach , or he must have been crushed between them , and the progress of the coach was also arrested b y the pole stickliiglagainst the wall . Mr . Loveridge , draper , of Brighton , who was sitting by his side , stooped so as to avoid a concussion which must have been fatal to him , and escaped with a slight blow on the head , but his hat was crushed to pieces ; he clung to t-lic iron rails of the coach . His fellow-passenger , who was sitting behind , was thrown off by the concussion , and wag much injured . The two inside passengeivi escaped without injury . The coachman is less injured than

      was at hist supposed , and is pronounced , wit ol danger . It . appears that her Majesty and Prince Albert were exposed to great danger by the ahove occurrence . The Royal party ( says the same paper ) were on the way to Arundel at the time , and ka scarcely passed the Norfolk Arms—not by more than two or three minutes—when the coach came dashing at a tremendous rate across the road which had just been traversed by the Roval equipage . A minute or two earlier on the part of the coach , or later on the part of the Royal carriage , and a collision must have taken place , the consequences of which are too ap « palling for the mind calmly to picture to itself .

      The PoAcni . \ o Affair at Ohoome . —Worceskr , Mondajt : —Three more men , supposed to have been of the gang of poachers who attacked Lord'Coventry ' s keepers on the night oPDec . 19 , 111 the coui .-se of vt&fa affray one of the latter , named Staite , was so badly hurt that ho died a few days afterwards , have been ap . prehended , and two of them have been remanded for further examination . The disclosures which wre made by them , and the witnesses examined on that occasion ( Thursday week ) , hare led to the ap . prehension of five other men upon the charge of having been concerned in this shocking outrage . Their names are "William Bloomfield , George Brant , William Cosnett , Joseph Tandv , and

      Samuel Turvey . The last mentioned ( Turvey ) , it will be remembered was in custody some six weele ago . on the charge of poaching on the night of the 19 th of December last , but was set at liberty , for want of sufficient proof , which , it is thought , has now been supplied . Brant , Bloomfield , and Cosnett were apprehended by Superintendent Harris , of the Pershore division of the Worcestershire constabulary ; and Tandy and Turvey , by Petford . of the Upton ' division . Last , Saturday all five were taken before three magistrates , at the Worcester county gaol , when they were remanded for further examination on Tuesday . At the same time Cooke ( examined on Thursday ) was also remanded to Tuesday , and the proof of Wheeler ' s criminality being defective , he was discharged .

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      ¦ East Cobnwah , Election . —The election of a member for East Cornwall , in the room of Lord Eliot , took placo at Bodmin on Thursday week . J . II . Treniayne , Esq ., in an able speech , proposed Mr . W . II . 1 ' olcCavew as a fit and proper person to represent the division in Parliament . N . Kendall , Esq ., seconded the nomination . The High Sheriff then asked if there was any other candidate , and there being no other p posed , declared Mr . Wm . Henrr Pole Caiw m elected . Foreign Cattie . —A fatal cattle disease has just woken out at Laeken , a few miles from Brussels . Twenty head of cattle have already perished . W veterinary surgeons designate the disease typ hM

      charbmmeux . In connexion with this fact we may state-that the Commissioners of the Customs M e received a letter from Mr . Cardwdl , one of the secretaries of the Treasury , to the effect that he was commanded by their lordships to state to tho board , that information has been received from various quarters of the prevalence of an infectious disorder among cattle m several parts of the Continent , andtode * - that they would give directions to their officers carttully to examine any cattle imported into thiscounufi and m the event of their appearing to be infeetetf with any disorder , not to permit them to be lan dM without inspection and report as to their soundness uy some competent person , and to report the circumstances and their actual condition inimediiitely to < - board .

      NORTHERN CIRCUIT . Carlisle , Feb . 24 .-BuRCLART .-j 6 lin Gj fcW was charged with having , on the 10 th day o ? Vvs ® - ' ber last , committed a burglary in the house o \ W » and John Grindal , at Wigton , and having at «» time , committed such burglary , cut and wounde" Joseph Grindal . The jury returned" a verdict 01 Guilty , His lordship sentenced the prisoner to M transported for life . ^ ^

      Polite Ftttenfgence*

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      Deaths.

      DEATHS .

      Vuiw Aireet Iur Printed By Dottqal M'Gowatf, Of It, Great Wn** Street, Haymarket, In The City Of West Minsttr I »"

      vuiw aireet iur Printed by DOTTQAL M'GOWAtf , of IT , Great Wn ** street , Haymarket , in the City of West minsttr i »"

      m ihb same ana ransn , *•* - M prietor , FBARGUS O'CONNOR , Esq . ^ ndpu bfe ;^ yrtLuxu Hewitt , of No . 18 , Charl « s- street , Bra »« street , Walworth in the Parish of St . Mary , »•""* ton , in ths County of Surrey , at the Office , Ko . *| Strand , in the Parish of St . Mary-le-Strand & * City of Westminster Saturday , March 1 , IBM .

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      ABERDEEN . Co-operation . —A . general meetiug of the members of the Aberdeen Association of . Producers was held on the evening of Wednesday , the 19 th February « f eight o ' clock , in tlie Hall , No . 1 , Flour Mill-lane when a report from the directors , showing the rapid progress and flourishing condition of tho association was read to the members , together w Hi a balance 9 hcet , showing the actual state of their affairs . From the report it appeared that the weekly returns had increased from £ 14 to upwards of £ 32 * a week and that the average weekly return since the commence ment was £ 27 5 s ., and the total amount of sales £ 745 . The balance sheet shewed a clear surplus which , after laying aside five per cent , interest on their capital , enabled them to place to the credit «?

      members , three per cent , on the gross amount of all purchases made by them at the shop ; thu-: increas ing the value of . their shares in many cases from five to ten , and even of fifteen shilling ' s , in the shoit space of half a year . It was also shown that there was a considerable number who never paid anv money towards a share , but merel y purchased their goods , at the shop ; andjin all case ' s where such purchases had amounted to the sum of £ 8 the parties had been placed on the list of members . ' Tim report also shewed that the directors had opened a Savings' Bank in connectiou with the Association which it waa anticipated would be of great service f a

      all of the working class who wished to effect a weekly saving out of then * earnings , or to lay by for any given purpose , as any sum would be received * from sixpence to fifty pounds , and would be repaid at any time , on demand of the depositor . The conduct of ' the diree . tors was highly approved of by the members , who then proceeded to the election of a salesman for the next six months , when their present excellent and efficient salesman , Mr . Patrick Ironside , was unani . mously elected . Five new directors were then chosen in the places of those whose term of office had ex pired , and the meeting broke up highly satisfied with " the promising state of their affairs .

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      THE NORTHERN , STAR . M" ™ 1 , 1845 .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 1, 1845, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1304/page/8/