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      HOUSE OF LORDS , Moxdat , March 17 . A great many bills were forwarded a stage towards maturity , but with very little debate . Some sparing 1 « tween Lord Ellenborough and Lord Campbell alone diversified the routine , of which the occasion , course , ana termination were as follows : — On the motion of Lord Campbell , the House went into committee on the Deodands Abolition BilL The Earl of Elletbohofgh objected to certain words in thebill , which he thought unnecessary . Lord Campbell said tlie bill was very short , it consisted onlj of two clauses . Tke Lord CHAKCH , iiO « . —Bat the second clause is sufficient . "

      Lord Cakpbesl . —At any rate the objection does not « ome very wdl fromtne jr ° We Earl * who certainly had ¦ dealt in unnecessary words , if certain instruments that c « ne from India , and which were imputed to him , were actually of his composition ; but many persons in this ¦ country doubted whether they were not altogether an Imposition , find not from the Governor-General of India . / The Earl of Ellenbobough . —My Lords , I am glad -the Xoble and I-car-ied Lord has referred to my conduct in India . T am here to answer any man as to my conduct in that emmiry , and I now wish to hear said In my presence that which has been stated in my absence . ( Hear . ) Lord Campbell . —I beg to assure the Noble Lord that in the observations I made I had not the most distant idea of making any reflection upon him ( hear ) , but I will merely say , if the Noble Earl is contented with things a they remain , so am I .

      TheEarlofEUENBOBouGn . —I beg to give the Noble and . Learned Lord a piece of advice which I believe was once given by Lord Chatham , in the House of Commons , to some Hon . Member of that House who had chosen to arraign his conduct—that the next time he meant nothing , lie had better say nothing , ( hear . ) Lord BnonGHAM . —I hope this will go no further ( hear , hear ) , except that as my If oble Friend , who was -absent ou a former occasion , says , as I myself know , that nothing Trill ever give him more satisfaction than to hear himself o ] ien ! y attacked in his presence , for he is ready to defend himself . I must add this , that as often as anything was said in impeachment of his conduct in his absence he was zealously and fully , and anxiously defended { hear , hear )—he was successfully and ably defended by my Noble Friend the gallant Duke—and he was zealously though , God knows , not ably , but I believe successfully -defended by the individual who now addresses your Lordships , ( hear , hear . )

      The Enrl of Ellesbobocgh . —I know the whole debtof gratitude I owe to the Noble Duke upon this as upon oiher subjects , but I cannot venture to speak of the raliject . Tin- ciatter then dropped , and the bill passed through eommittee . This edifying example ended , their " Lordships" soon after adjourned . Teesday , March 18 .

      COAL HIKES . The Marquis of Jjojidondebbt was desirous of asking bis Noble Friend a question of considerable Importance , which was , whether he should now move , or on a future day , for the report of Messrs . Faraday and Lyell , who had been sent du » n to inquire into the explosions which had taken place recently in the north of England ? He verily believed that tlie report would be productive of very great benefit , and that it reflected great credit upon those who had compiled ii - The Duke of WrtHNCTojf replied , that her Majesty ' s Government had turned their attention to tlie dreadful occurrences which had taken place in the mines of the north of England , and had sent two gentlemen of great talent to make inquiry into those and all similar

      misfortunes , with directions to make a report upon the subject ; which report was communicated to the gentlemen interested hi flie coal mines in the north of England ; and they having considered the subject , and stated their opinions , and made suggestions founded upon their knowledge and experience which were highly interesting , the Government had cousideredit to be its duty to refer those opinions to the scientific gentlemen whom they had previously sent down to inquire . Her Majesty ' s Government -were waiting , and -were anxious to wait , to have tiie opinion of tlie scientific gcntlemeH upon the suggestions made by the coalowners before they proceeded

      to the publication of those documents . ( Hear . ) He agreed with lus Xoble Friend that it was desirable that those papers should come before the public , and that they should be eventually laid on the table of both Houses of Parliament Then- could be no objection whatever to the publication of these papers at the proper time ; but lie submitted to his Noble Friend , and lie thought their Lordships would be of the same opinion , that they should Be complete ; that the information contained in them should be rendered as perfect as possible before they were published 5 and , therefore , he would suggest to Ills Noble Friend to postpone his motion until those papers were complete , ( near . )

      The Uarquis of London-debut expressed his satisfaction at the coarse pursued by her Majesty ' s Government on this subject , and acquiesced in the suggestion of the Noble Duke to postpone his motion for the production of the report in question . He also took that opportunity of thanldng , onbeiiaitofthattradeofwhichhewasahuinble member , her Majesty ' s Government for removing the duty on the export of coals , a measure which would tend greatly to improve the condition of the pitmen , who for six or seven montlis past had suffered great misfortune and wretchedness , in consequence of Vie conduct they liad pur sued wider Vie hif . uenee of designing demagogues . They were a class of men usually respectful to their employers , Industrious , and peaceable 5 but he was sorry to say that they Lad been excited and upheld by persons from whom better things might have been expected .

      Some bills were then forwarded a stage , after which their " Lordships" adjourned until Thursday , the 3 rd of April .

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      HOUSE OF COMMONS , Monday , March It The Speaker took the chair shortly after twelve O ' clock . The House was occupied with the further consideration in committee of the Lands Clauses Consolidation ( Scotland ) Sill , and the Railway Clauses Consolidation ( Scotland ) BilL The report on both bills was received and agreed r « . The House then adjourned till five o ' clock . "When the House resumed , Sir C . Lemos brought in tlie Cornwall Railway BilL which was read a first time .

      The following railway bills were severally read a second time , and ordered to be committed : —The North BritishHailway Bill ; the South Devon ( Tavistock and other branches ) Railway Bill ; the Berks and Hants Railway Bill ; the Blackburn and Preston Railway Bill ; the Glasgow , Paisley , Kilniarnock , and Ayr Railway Bill ; the Launceston and Sonth Devon Railway Bill ; and Hie Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway BilL Mr . Serjeant Mubpht presented two petitions , one complaining of the opening of Mr . T . Buncombe ' s letters at the Post-office , the other praying for some modifications in the criminal code . A message from the Lords brought down a bill for relieving the Jews from municipal disabilities , to which they desired the concurrence of the House .

      Sir R . Isglis -wished to know on what day after Easter Ms Eight Hon . Friend at the head of the Government intended to take the second reading of the bill brought from the other House of Parliament for granting relief to the Jews ? ( Cheers from the Opposition benches . ) Sir R . Peel did not know that he could now state on what day he should move the second reading of the bill . They must take the estimates on an early day after the JSaeter recess ; but this he would promise his Hon . friend , — -he would not move the second reading on any day so early as would deprive him of due notice—say a week . Perhaps his Hon . Friend would not object to the first reading of the bill now ? ( Hear , hear , from the Opposition benches . )

      Sirfi . Inglis had no hesitation in stating , notwithstanding tlie friendly cheer with which his Right Hon . Friend ' s announcement had been greeted , that he might , -consistently with precedent , object to the first reading of the hill . He had himself objected to the first reading of such a " bill upon every occasion when it was introduced . In recent times at least the ordinary courtesy of that house had been to give a first reading to all bills sent down from the other House , although during the last thirty years there were three excepted cases . He should not object to the first reading . On the motion of Sir R . Feel , the bill was then read a first time . The second reading was fixed for Monday , the 7 th of ApriL

      POOS LAWS IN SC 0 T 1 AKD . Lord D almesi wished to ask a question of the Eight Hon . Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Department , with reference to the Poor Law in Scotland . No doubt the House would recollect that a short time ago lie had asked the Eight lion . Baronet whether it was the intention of the Government to propose this session to Parliament any legislative measure for the amendment -or alteration of the Poor Laws in Scotland ? To that question the Bight Hon . Baronet returned an answer couched in veiy courteous , hut not very definite terms . He now , therefore , wished to renew the question , and to ask -whether it was the intention of the Government to propose -this . session any legislative measure for the alteration or ramendment of the Poor Law in Scotland , and , if such tfvere their intention , at what period of the session they would lay then * measure on tlie table of the House ?

      Sir J . Ckahah . —Notwithstanding the amltiplicity of business which has pressed on the attention of myself and jny colleagues since the commencement of this session , I can assure the Noble Lord that the important subject to which Ms question refsrs has notheen overlooked hy her Majesty ' s Government , and I would take the liberty of suggesting t « i the Noble Lord and the House that the interval of the Easter recess may still be given to us before we return a definitive answer to his question . I will undertake on the first day after the Easter recess that either lor the Lord-Advocate of Scotland will announce definitively the course that will be taken by the Government , ( hear , hear . ) And now , seeing my Noble Friend the Member for Dorsetshire in his place , and observing that a very important bill stands for a second reading on Wednesday next , —namely , that introduced by the Noble Lord ¦ with reference to persons employed in calico print-works , 1-venture to ask whether my Noble Friend—considering ttat the bill was ordered to be printed on the 12 th inst ., and has been in the hands of members only three or four

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      davs recollecting also the great importance of the subject and the interests involved in the determination of the House—whether he has any objection to postpone the second reading till after Easter ! Lord A 8 HLET . —I was most anxious , both for the sake of those gentlemen who are concsrned in this business , and also of the persons engaged in it , that the question should be brought to an issue as soon as possible , lest hopes should be excited only to be afterwards disappointed . But having heard from the Right Hon . Baronet that the

      Government have not yet made up their minds , and that for considerations of public convenienceAVednesday should be given up to them , I shall not hesitate to postpone the bill till after Easter . I shall defer the second reading of the bill till Wednesday , the 2 nd of April ; but perhaps I may he allowed now to observe that 1 am astonished her Majesty ' s Government should hesitate to affirm the principle , and the principle only , of such a measure as that , which goes no further than to limit the labour of children under thirteen years of age below a period of sometimes thirty . six consecutive hours . ( Hear , hear . )

      SCOTCH BASKING SVSTEH . Mr . Duff asked whether the Right Hon . Baronet ( Suit . Peel ) was willing to give any intimation , before the holidays , of his plan for the rerisal of the system of banking in Scotland , as the idea of a charge on so important a matter had created considerable excitement in that country , and a full opportunity of considering it would he very desirable . Sir R . Peel felt bound , with respect to the measures connected with the banks in Scotland and Ireland , to defer the explanation of them until the period of introducing the bill . This should be done at as early a period as possible . He was quite aware of the importance of the question , but it was impossible to fix . a time until the financial measures had made further progress .

      THE WISH MEASUBES . Mr . Bellew inquired in what order the expected measures relating to Ireland would be brought forward ? Sir R . Peel . —The first two measures relating to Ireland to which the Government propose to call the attention of the House will be a bill relating to the College of Maynooth , and a bill for extending academical education in Ireland . I daro say that these , with the other measures that must be brought forward , will occupy some time ; but I will , after the recess , state in what order I propose to take the other bills .

      THE 1 BISH LANS COMMISSION . Captain Bebnal Osbobne a 3 ked whether the Government intended tofound any legislative measure this session upon the Landlord and Tenant Report ! Sir R . Peel replied , that her Majesty ' s Ministers had the subject unuer consideration at present , and were makinpr as much progress with it as they could ; but the evidence had not long been in their possession . He hoped to lay upon the table some measure connected with that report . Lord J . Russell inquired whether any such measure would be introduced by a member of the commission , or by the Government ? Sir R . Peel was not prepared to say ; but , of course , it was highly probable that , if a measure should be brought into the other House by the Noble Lord at the head of the commission , it would be with the entire sanction of the Government , though it was obvious that he could not pledge himself to this .

      ST . JAMES ' S PABE . Mr . "Waklet having received a communication from a gentleman of great respectability , referring to a transaction he witnessed hi St . James ' s-park , wished to ask whether the gate-keepers were instructed to prevent working people from going through in their working dress ? It was right to add , that the gate-keeper on that occasion produced written instructions to this effect . The Earl of Lincoln said that such instructions were at one time given to the gate-keepers , but two or three years ago he ( Lord Lincoln ) instructed them not to act upon them , except in cases where persons in their workins ; dresses were intoxicated , or otherwise unfit to be admitted , ( hear . )

      THE AGB 1 CCLTUBAL 1 NTEBEST . On the order of the day for the House going into committee on the Customs Act , Mr . Miles rose to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice : — " That it is the opiuion of this house that in the application of surplus revenue towards relieving the burdens of tlie country , by reduction or remission of taxation , due regard should be had to the necessity of affording relief to the agricultural interest . " He asserted that agricultural distress was not local , but general , and that it did not arise from any unfortunate vicissitudes of the seasons , but from the erroneous legislation of the present Parliament . He showed , that under the existing Corn Law , there had been an importation of foreign wheat during the last thirty-two months seven or

      eight times greater in amount than in the thirty-six months immediately subsequent to the introduction of the Corn Law of 1828 ; and argued that the British farmer had suffered great loss from this competition of foreign wheat with his own produce . During the same period , too , there had been a great decline in tlie price of every kind of meat in Leadenhall , Smithfield , and Newgate markets ; and the importation of foreign cattle , though it was small in comparison with what was or iginally expected , had increased , was increasing , and would increase still more considerably in a few years . He had supported the present . Corn Law when it was originally introduced ; but if he and the other friends of tlie agricultural interest had fancied at that time that the Corn Law would be followed up , first

      by tlie tariff , and afterwards by the Canada Corn Bill , he thought that they could have raised a resistance to it which no Minister would have found it possible to overcome . To these measures the farmers attributed their present distress , but they complained also of tlie amount of tlie poor ' s and county rates ; and insisted that in those two instances they were taxed more heavily than the rest of the community . He complained , too , of the Tent-charge under the Tithe Commutation Act : it had been calculated on an average of 54 s . a quarter , whereas they were now getting only 45 s . a quarter for their wheat . He then suggested several measures , which he conceived would either remove or alleviate the causes of those complaints ; but the principal was a measure for transferring from the county-rates to the

      Exchequer the whole expense of all trials before the Judges of the Assize , and of supporting and maintaining all persons committed to the county gaols for felony and misdemeanour , and of all persons committed on such charges ; and half the expense of all prosecutions at the quarter sessions , leaving the other half , as at present , to be paid out of the county-rates . He also proposed that half the expense of coroner ' s inquests , and that of printing every year the registry of county voters , should be transferred to the same public fund . On a former night he had stated that tlie total amount thus transferred would be £ 400 , 000 , but he had since seen reason to correct that statement , and he now believed that it would not be more than £ 300 , 000 . Now , as the landlords and tenantry contributed greatly to the property tax , by which the present surplus of revenue was obtained , he thought that he had a right to ask the

      Government to make to the agricultural interest this remission of taxation . He assured it that the agricultural body had no confidence in the measures which it proposed . They thought that anything would be better than their present position . They saw that the tariff which was passed three years ago , was now going to be revised again , and that the shield of protection which was then thrown over some of the productions of their industry , was about to be removed still further from them . Under such circumstances , they could not refrain from asking themselves what there was to prevent the Corn Laws from going next ? He concluded by stating that this motion was not made with the general assent of the agricultural interest ; but he had acted up to his own principles , that protection must be diffused not only over agriculture , but also over many other branches of native industry .

      The Earl of Mabch , in seconding the amendment , declared his entire concurrence in the sentiments just expressed by Mr . Miles . Sir James Geaham announced the intention of Government to resist this motion . The grounds which Mr . Miles hail laid down for its support were rather reasons for repealing the existing Corn Laws , and for reconsidering that portion of the tariff of 1842 which was not affected by the tariff which -would shortly be under the consideration of the house . Mr . Miles had accused the Government of doing tardy justice to the agriculturists . He defended the Government from that charge , and took an historical review of its financial measures , from its first entry into office down to the present day . He showed that in that time it bad remitted taxes to the amount of £ 6 , 304 , 000 ,

      -which it had supplied by the imposition of the income-tax , from which all persons whose income was less than £ 150 a-year t ^ ere ex empt ; and then went on to contend that from that large remission of taxation the agricultural interest had reaped great benefit , in common with all the rest of the community . He controverted Mr . Miles ' s position that the distress of the agricultural interest was not local but general throughout the United Kingdom . He asserted that in Ireland the last year had been a year of unexampled agricultural prosperity ; and he spoke from his own knowledge , when he said that in Scotland and in the north of England agriculture was not in distress , but prosperous and improving . He reminded Mr . Miles that the last three years , during which that importation of foreign wheat had taken place of which he complained ,

      were years Of defective production in these kingdoms , and asked him to consider in what state the country would have been supposing there had been no importation . So far from being sorry that a progressive increase of importation had occurred , he considered it eminently advantageous ; for with the rapid increase of our population many years would net pass away without the occurrence of some frightful convulsion , if they were to persist in refusing admission to foreign corn . He defended the tariff of 1842 and the Canada Corn Bill , which he considered as a most useful auxiliary to the present Corn Law . He showed that the decline in the price of meat in Newgate , Smithfield , and Leadenhall markets was not owing

      to the importation of foreign cattle into this country , but to the general depression of trade throughout the country , and to the low rate of wages in the manufacturing and metropolitan districts ; and argued that the landed interest had no right to claim relief from the burden of the poor-rates on account of causes connected with the general distress of the country . He showed that in 1813 , when the population was only ten millions and a half , the amount levied for poor and county rates was 16 s . 5 d . a head upon the whole population of England and Wales ; and that now , when the population was sixteen millions and a hah ; it was reduced to 85 , 3 d . ahead , He then turned to the remedies proposed by Mr . Miles , and said that he had an insuperable 0 I 3 : ction to the hon . Member ' s

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      . _ L . — main proposition , to transfer the whole cost of prosecutions at assizes from the county rates to the public purse . It was true that such a proposition had been made by a committee of that house iri 1834 , hut the Executive Government of that day had refused to carry it into effect , and had amended it hy proposing that only one half of that expense should be borne by the public . By such a measure persons having a local interest in the ^ saving of the county expenditure had the means of checking pvodlgality ofexpenditureininstitutitigandconductingcrimitial prosecutions . He thought that the present arrangement was at once just , prudent , and liberal , and thereforo he should not be a party to any departure from it . Mr . Miles had stated that his proposition was not a new one ; it cer tainly was an old acquaintance of is , and he ( Sir J . Graham ) had voted against it in 1834 and in 1830 , and should now , as before , give it his most decided opposition . The landed interest derived a certain protection on account of these burdens , and ho was of opinion that it ought not to attempt to throw them off .

      Mr . Newdigate rejoiced at the results which the Right Hon . Baronet described as having been produced by the income tax ; but he thought the Right Hon . Baronet had rather set aside than dealt with the facts of his Hon . Friend the Member for Somersetshire , that the agricultural interest had , beyond all doubt , suffered materially since 1842 . He thought each member was bound not to forget the interests of those whom he represented in Parliament , and that he ought not to be contented to hear his constituents told that they were to be indirectly benefitted by the measures of the Government , while positive boons were granted to other classes of the community . One might think that the Hon . Member for Stockport ( Mr . Cobden ) was the high priest of Free Trade , and that the

      occupants of the Treasury bench were chanting responses to tlie service . ( A laugh . ) The hon . Member proceeded to state that he did notagreo with the Noble Lord the Member for the City of London , that " protection was the bane of agriculture . " He wa 3 of opinion that ene of the causes of the existing distress was the monetary system of this country . He must express his firm conviction that the Right Hon . Baronet ( Sir J . Graham ) had not disproved the statements made by the Hon . Member for Somersetshire ; hut ho believed that the tono of the speech of the Right hon . Baronet and the fact of the Noble Lord the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests being engaged in considering a subject so deeply interesting to agriculture , would have a most beneficial effect . ( Hear . )

      Lord John Russem , observed , that if his expression that protection was the bane of agriculture required any justification , that justification was found in what had occurred that evening in the House . Mr . Miles had mentioned the various measures by which the system of protection had been broken down ; and had enumerated among them the Corn Law of 1842 , the tariff of the same , year , and the Canadian Corn Bill of 1843 ; and yet he had not proposed the repeal of any one of those laws , but had merely proposed that some £ 350 , 000 should be taken off the county-rates , and should be paid by the Exchequer . Mr . Nowdigate had then told them that the speech of Sir J . Graham would be highly consolatory to the agricultural interests . And why ? Because he proposed to adopt some additional protection ? No such thing , but

      because he was anxious to give progressive facilities for the importation of foreign commodities . Those two speeches showed that protection was the bane of agriculture ; and if any further proof of it was -wanted , it was supplied by the admirable and powerful speech of Mr . Cobden on a former evening . Tlie Noble Lord then entered into an- historical review of the Com Laws since 1815 , for the purpose of showing that eneh successive law diminished protection move than its predecessor , and that those for whose benefit they were enacted wore among the first to complain of the injury which was thus inflicted upon them . He showed that the very Ministers who had been brought into power to maintain agricultural protection , had felt it to be their duty to break it down ; and argued that it behoved the House , warned by the expei-ience of the past , to induce the farmer to look , not to the law for protection , but to his own energy , activity , and

      increased science for tlie means of meeting the difficulty of his position . He then quoted the opinion of Mr . Baring , now Lord Ashburton , for the purpose of showing that it is contrary to souud policy to advance any interest beyond its natural means , and still more so at the expense of others . He thought that the gentlemen who had voted for the Corn Law of 1 S 42 would have much reason to regret the support which they gave to that bill . He had voted himself against that measure , but it had been carried by tlie representatives for agricultural counties . They had , therefore , no right to say that they were ill-used , as they had assisted the Government to carry out its policy . The present state of things had a tendency to place the landed aristocracy of the country in an odious position . He therefore implored them to make such an arrangement of this question between all parties as would enable the people of England to see , that if the landed aristocracy was the most powerful , it was also the most generous portion of the community .

      Mr . B . Escott was sorry that Mr . Miles had intercepted by his motion the very important commercial resolutions which would otherwise have been submitted to the llouse that evening , Mr , Miles now asked for tlie repeal of the county-rate as the best means of relieving the distress of agriculture . Had Mr . Miles forgotten who it was that imposed the county-rates ? Why , it was Mr . Miles himself , and the very gentlemen who were now ready to vote with him . The real motive of this motion was the discontent of the farmers with their representatives in that House . He had heard reasons why the farmers should be discontented . He pointed out the inconsistency of Mr . Miles and his friends in issuing circulars calling on the farmers to unite their energies to repeal the Com Law and the tariff , and in calling , nevertheless , on members of that House to stick to thai : tariff and to that Corn Law , which they represented elsewhere as the sole cause of , distress . He then defended tlie budget of 1842 and 1845 , and declared his intention of voting against the motion .

      Lord AVokskv was of opinion that the agricultural distress had not just begun now , but two or three years ago . It was now , however , so severe that it compelled the farmers to speak out . He had not voted for the inquiry proposed by Mr . Cobden on a former night , because he conceived it calculated to delude the people , but he should vote for this motion , because its object was clear , and the people could understand it . Mr . IVIshaeli . —When I ineffectually attempted , Sir , to catch your eye , after the conclusion of the speech of the Noble Lord the Memberfor London , I would then have presumed to offer some considerations to the House on tha question respecting protection to native industry , which that Noble Lord mooted ; but such considerations I cannot presume to offer at the present hour of the night ;

      and therefore I am afraid I must restrict myself to that principle of discussion laid down by my Hon . Friend the Member for Winchester , a » d confine myself strictly to the motion before the House . But , watching , as we all must do , with great interest , the formation of the character of an individual so eminent as the Noble Lord , who has been , as he informed us to-night , thirty years in this House , but appears not yet to have arrived at a result on the great questions which now interest the country , I , who would not presume to place my opinions , formed on much more recent experience than those of the Noble Lord , against his , may yet be permitted to say that , after all , one truth , I think , is perhaps evident from these discussions , —that protection is not a principle , but an expedient . If it be the latter , it must depend on

      circumstances , and , if it depend on circumstances , tho matter cannot be settled by those quotations of abstract dogmas which have been cited by the Noble Lord . However , we shall all have ample opportunity to discuss this great question , which is now the question of the age and of the country . By our speeches or by our votes , either in this House or at the hustings , sooner or later , we must come to the test on this great question , " Will you have protection or will you have , not free trade , for that is not the alternative , but free imports 1 " ( Hear , hear , hear . ) I cannot forg-et the speech recently delivered by the Hon . Member for Stockport . That , indeed , is not easily to be forgotten by any one who listened to it . I will not , therefore , " say that there is much more to be said on both sides of this Question than

      we have yet been favoured with ; but I will say , with the greatest respect to those Hon . Gentlemen whom I see near me , that I do believe that there is much more to be said on one side of the question than has yet been offered to the Ilouse . ( Hear , hear . ) I shall not presume , however , to enter into the question at present . If , indeed , I held tlie position of some who at such an hour as this might rise , but who , however anxiously expected , yet do not favour us with their observation —( Hear , and a laugh ) , I might venture to enter a field so vast ; but I may be permitted to say , that before we come to settle this great question , we must grapple with that great point of war against hostile tariffs . We must ascertain how far free imports would affect wages and prices in

      this country ; how far these again would operate on tne distribution of tlie precious metals } and how far & new distribution of the precious metals , would affect your power of maintaining your standard of value . I am not offering these observations in a controversial tone to the House , but am . merely indicating that before we come to that question , which must be settled , there are great considerations which must be entered into in an unimpassioned , and , I trust , in a searching manner . ( Hear , hear . ) But I now come to the question before the IIousc —the question which the Hon . Member for Wiuchester , who advocated with such fervour and ability ( a laug h ) his opposition to this motion , wishes the present discussion to be narrowed to . I will meet him on the

      ground he has chosen . We have a motion , the terms of which are familiar to every gentleman present—it is , to take into consideration , in the distribution of the surplus revenue , the claims of the agricultural interest . This is not a new motion . It has been introduced to this Ilouse before , when Hon . Gentlemen now on this ( the Ministerial ) side of the House were in opposition . ( Hear , hear . ) Under identical circumstances a similar motion was then proposed . What took place undev those , circumstances ought to be some guide to us as to the result of the present motion . The motion brought forward at the time 1 am

      now referring to was the motion not of a triumphant but of a powerful Opposition—an Opposition distinguished by the quality of cohesion , ( Hear , hear , and a laugh . ) In 183 G a powerful Opposition , wishing to try a fall with , I will not say a feeble , but , at any rate , a not confidont Government , selected this motion as a point of battle on which contending parties might try their force . Tho motion was proposed by a Noble Friend of mine , who is now a Member of the other House , —the Noble Lord the then Memberfor Buckinghamshire ( hear , hear ) : and , af ter a discussion , not of very great length , a division took place , which did not shake the Government to the centre , but

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      ^^ ^^^ ^ wy—^ MWW>—MW *^—^ WWWU 1 lfc ' ' ' " ' " * ' ' ' made it trembla . ( Hear , hear . ) In 18 S 8 the majority was not much above thirty in favour of the Administration on a vital question . The motion was identical ; I believe the p hraseology of it was identical with the present motion ; and I should suppose , therefore , that the Hon . Member for Somersetshire must have reckoned , in bringing for ; wurd a motion which , on a previous occasion , had united together a great number of supporters , many with distinguished names , on a successful issue to his proposition to-night . ( Hear . ) I cannot doubt that the Hon . Member for Somersetshire , looking to the list embalmed in those records to which we all appeal , and reading the names of those who voted in 183 G with my Noble Friend , must not only have anticipated equal but even greater success , for this is a Conservative House of Commons ,

      and the other was a Whig House of Commens . ( Hear . ) The Hon , Member must have reckoned on receiving a commanding support in bringing forward this motion . There is the Right Hon . Gentleman the Secretary for Ireland ( Sir T . Fremantle)—he had voted under similar circumstances for an identical motion . ( Heav . ) I know the Right lion . Gentleman too well for a moment to doubt that he will vote the same way to-night . ( Great laughter . ) At the time to which I am alluding , 1336 , there was a budget , and there was a surplus , and the agricultural interest came forward and said , "Arc we not to be considered ? " The Right Hon . Gentleman the Secretary for Ireland thought that they ought to be considered , and I am not at all sufjtfised at it , as ho has always been a friend to agriculture . ( Cheers and

      laughter . ) I remember having had the honour of meeting the Bight Hon . Gentleman in the presence of his constituents . I cannot forget the occurrence , because the president of the meeting happened to be the noble individual who made the motion I have spoken of in 183 G ( "Hear , hear , " and a laugh ); and I remember the speech which the Right Hon . Gentleman then made . Those were "dreary moments "—days of opposition , when there was no chance of getting into power unless you were borne forward by an agricultural cry . ( Cheers and laughter . ) I know the feelings of the constituency of Buckingham . They were satisfied , and justly so , with so accomplished a representative ; they were satisfied with his sympathy in opposition ; and they knew when he got into power they would have a friend on whom they could count . ( Laughter . )

      I should like to know if the constituency of Buckingham had been told that a resolution would be brought forward , at a later period than 1836 , similar in its nature to the motion of 183 G , and that then their representative , being then a Minister , would be found to vote against it , they would have believed such a tale ? Of course they would not ; and of course the Right hon . Gentleman the Secretary for Ireland will not vote against this motion to-night . ( Great laughter . ) The noble individual ( the Buke of Buckingham ) who presided at the dinner to which I have referred , could not , I am sure , suppose for one moment that the Right hon . Gentleman would vote against the motion , for that noble individual , finding that the policy of the Government was contrary to that policy which he had advocated in Opposition , quitted office . ( Loud

      cheers . ) Therefore I think we may count on the Right hon . Gentleman the Secretary for Ireland supporting this motion to-night . ( Cheers and laughter . ) I do not think that we need despair of the support of the Vice-President of the Board of Trade ( laughter )—Sir O . Clerk , for he also supported a similar motion under similar circumstances . ( Cheers and laughter . ) In 1838 , there being a budget and a surplus , tho Right Hon . Gentleman the Member for Stamford conceived that the agricultural interest , of which he was the champion , had a right to he considered . No doubt he } too , will now vote in favour of the present motion ; ( Renewedlaughter . ) There is also a Noble Lord , the Member for a division of Nottinghamshire ( Lord Lincoln ) , no less a person , indeed , than a member of the Cabinet . He was also of opinion in

      Opposition , and at that time , that if there were a surplus the agricultural interest should be considered . If the Noble Lord was of tliat opinion when in Opposition , of course , now that he is a member of the Government—a Government brought into existence by the agricultural interestlie will divide in favour of the present motion . ( Cheers . ) I believe I might pick up a few Lords ^ of the Treasury , but I will let them pass ; I must not omitj however , tlie Gallant Officer the Clerk of tlie Ordnance ( Captain Boluero ) , the member for Chippenham , a district so distinguished for its agricultural feeling . All these gentlemen the Hon . Member for Somersetshire surely counted on when he entered the House to-night . ( Loud laughter . ) It is , however , but just to state ( and I am sure that all the agricultural constituencies from Buckingham to

      Chippenham will feel doubly grateful for it , when they read tlie division list to-morrow and find that their representatives were present )—it is , I repeat , but right to state that the Right Hon . Gentleman at the head of the Government was , on the occasion I have referred to , of a different opinion from those other Hon . Gentlemen whom I have mentioned . ( Hear , hear , ) He acted in a different manner with respect to that motion ; ou the division he went into the Whig lobby alone of all his party , whom he left united in favour of the motion . The Right Hon . Baronet did behave throughout in the most handsome manner . ( Laughter . ) He expressed no annoyance at the indiscreet effort of his party , which had almost made him a Minister ( great laughter ); lie did not give them a lecture ; he did not say , notwithstanding that they went into a different

      division-lobby from their leader , they had broken out into open rebellion . ( Cheers and laughter . ) The Right Hon . Baronet preserved his consistency , and kept ou the very best terms with his party . ( Cheers and laughter , ) That being the state of the case , I have no doubt the Right Hon . Gentleman will vote against . the motion to-night ; following the precedent of that time he will treat his immediate supporters with Hie same affability as he did before . ( Laughter . ) These are facts , ( near , hear . ) We way quote Hansard by the line to prove them . They are facts so notorious , and so fresh in the memory of evevy Gentleman , that it is unnecessary to repeat them . This is sticking to the question , as the Hon . Member for Winchester requires . ( Loud cheering and laughter . ) I entirely differ from my agricultural friends around me , though

      1 make these observations in their view o £ the conduct of the Right Hon . Gentleman ; nothing is more easy , when your constituents are dissatisfied , than yourselves to grumble against the Right Hon . Gentleman . I believe the Right Hon . Gentleman has done more for agriculture than any Minister or Government has done for a quarter of a century . That is my calm , deliberate opinion ; and , placed as I am in a momentary collision with the Treasury bench , I am bound to make this admission . ( Hear , hear . ) "Hear I hear ! " as the Hon . Member says ; I am sincerely prepared to maintain that cheer . Why , what has the Right Hon . Gentleman not done for agriculture ? Before the meeting of Parliament the Right Hon . Gentleman reconstructed his Cabinet , and left out the Minister of Trade . ( Loud cheers and laughter . ) There was a great compliment

      to agriculture ! ( Great laughter . ) The agriculturists , then , ought to be satisfied . They complain of the Right Hon . Gentleman . It is not that they want this tax taken off or this act to be done , but they complain of his conduct no doubt they have reason . It is the old story of the contrast between the hours of courtship anil the years of possession . ( Cheers and laughter . ) There is , they say , a difference in the conduct of the Right Hon . Gentleman , I remember him making his protection speeches . They were the best I ever heard . It was a great thing to see him rise and hear him say , that he would sooner be leader of the gentlemen of England than possess the confidence of sovereigns . That was a grand thing , ( Renewed cheers and repeated laughter . ) Wo don't hear much of the gentlemen of England now . ( Great cheering . ) What of that ? They have the pleasures of memory , the charms of reminiscence . ( Laughter . ) They were his first love , and though

      he may not kneel to them now as in the hour of passion , still they can recall the past ; and nothing is more useless and unwise than these scenes of crimination and reproach , for we know that in all these cases , when the beloved object has ceased to charm , it is in vain to appeal to the feelings . ( Great laughter . ) You know that this is true . Every man almost has gone through it . My Hon . Friends reproach the Right Hon . Gentleman . He tries to keep them quiet . They persist . He must take refuge in arrogant reserve and haughty frigidity . Will they go on ?—what happens ? What happens under all such circumstances ? The Right Hon . Gentleman interferes no more . He sends down his valet , who says in the genteelest manner , "We can have no whining here . " ( Cheers and laughter . ) Now , sir , that is the case of the great agricultural interest ( reuewed laughter ) , —that beauty whom every one wooed , and that one deluded , ( Continued laughter . ) We are now arrived at the catastrophe . Protention seems to be in about the same condition as

      Protestantism in 1828 . ( Cheers and laughter . ) The country may moralise on the result . For ray part , if we are to have free trade , I would sooner have the measures carried by a man of genius like the Member for Stockport , than by any person , however skilful in Parliamentary manoeuvres , and who has tampered with tlie generous feelings of a great party and a great nation . ( Loud cheering . ) I care not what may be the consequences . Dissolve , if you please , the Parliament you have betrayed , and appeal to the people , who , I believe , mistrust you . I shall publicly express my belief that a Conservative Government is an organised hypocrisy . ( The Hon . Gentleman resumed kis seat amid loud and prolonged cheering . )

      Mr . Dauby ( who spoke from a remote seat under the gallery , and was almost inaudible ) was understood to censure the conduct pursued by the Hon . Memberfor Shrewsbury , and to assure him that , however he might amuse the House by his personalities , he would not gain much respeet . " He accused the Hon . Member of inconsistency , and observed , that while he charged the Right Hon . Baronet with having caught the Whigs bathing and stealing their clothes , he had himself found not the Whi gs , but the Radicals bathing , and had taken up the profitless calling of hawking their old clothes . ( Laughter and cheers . ) He defended the present Administration , anal excused them for not doing more than they had done for the agricultual interest on the ground of the difficulties in which the country had been left by the Whig Government .

      Mr . Smy . the had not the remotest intention of intruding himself , especially at such , an hour , upon the House , had it not been for that severe , and crushing , and mas tcrly reply of the Hon . Gentleman the Memberfor Sussex —( laughter)—to the speech of his Hon . Friend tho Member for Shrewsbury—net delivered that evening , but delivered some fortni ght before —( hear , hear ); and remembering how Gentlemen had been taunted with preparation , even when they had no opportunity o £ speaking , he thought he was not without justification in rising to answer the speech of the Hon . and Learned Gentlemanthat effective and severe philippic against his Hon . Friends around him . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) Far be it from him ( Mr . Smythe ) to interfere in that schism which had manifested itself that evening on this great agricultural question , supported or opposed in

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      such various ways by the different agricultural members —far be it from him . to mingle in the debate which was begun on behalf of the agricultural interests in so spirited a speech by the Noble Lord-the Member for Sussex ,, and continued in so spiritless a speech by the Hon . Gentleman also the Member for Sussex—far be it from him to mingle in such vexed matters ; but he would toll the Hon . and Learned Gentleman this—that it was not by raking amongst hustings speeches—it was not by going back fifteen years , and telling his hon . Friend that he then entertained particular op inions—thoug h he suspected that if the ITon . and Learned Gentleman would take the trouble to look , he would not find that they were very different from the opinions his Hon . Friend entertained at that moment . ( Hear , hear . ) The hon . and Gallant Officer

      of the Ordnance had done him the honour to cheer that remark , —he would recall to the hon . and Gallant Officer his vote on the Irish Registration Bill , and should like to know how he would vote now if an Irish Registration Bill were brought forward by the Government ( hear , hear ) ; or how the vote he gave some time back would tally with the vote he would give on a subject that would shortly agitate the public mind—the further grant te tho College of Maynooth . ( Hear , hear . ) Ho should like to know how the hon . and Gallant Officer would vote then . ( Hear , hear . ) He would venture further to tell the hon . and Learned Gentleman that this national question , if not solved by that great agricultural mind to which the hon . Member for AYolvorhampton had made so ' happy an allU ' sion—if it were not solved by the attention they might

      give to tho subject , it would never be solved by the great parochial mind of England . ( Hear , hear . ) And now he would simply state this—that , differing as he might from his Hon . Friend in tlie vote to which he might come that evening—and differing as he did from the hon . Gentleman who brought forward the motion , he could not withhold his opinion that a speech , such as that of his Hon . Friend , would be far more likely to be productive of public good than the motion of thehon . Gentleman . That motion , at the best , went to this result , that it was a great thing to bring the state of the country before the House ( hear , hear ); but it would be a far greater thing , and one productive of far more real good at this momeut , and these times , to bring the state of tlie House before the country , ( Cheers , )

      Sir R . Peel explained the grounds on . which he was compelled to resist this motion . If its object were merely to transfer a sum of money from the county rates to the consolidated fund , then they would be deluding the agricultural interest by leading it to believe that such a transfer would be for its benefit . But if its object were to condemn the financial scheme of the Government , as he inferred that it was from a circular issued by the Central Protection Society , then he had additional reasons for opposing it . Whether , then , he looked at this motion upon the grounds laid down by Mr , Miles , or whelher ho looked at it upon the grounds put forth by the Protection

      Society , he could not acquiesce in it . He had never repented of tlie course pursued by Ministers since their accession to office . He described tho lamentable condition in which he found the country when he was appointed Prime Minister in 1841 , and compared it with its condition at the present moment . He took office , not with the intention of supporting any partial interests , but of taking a comprehensive view of the interests of all classes . He believed that in 18 i 2 it was for the interest of agriculture itself that something should be done to revive the then depressed condition of the manufacturing distvints . What had been thon done had been

      completely successful , and its effects were visible in the present improvement of the country . Referring to the speech of Mr D'lsraeli , he observed that he should oppose this motion in 1845 on the same grounds on which he opposed it in 1836 . He had then thought , and he thought still , that it held out hopes that must be delusive . He had differed in 1836 from the party with which he usually acted , and had told them that there was no tax bearing on agriculture , save the malt tax , which they could remove with advantage to that interest . That was his opinion then , and it was the same now . He would not enter into the question of agricultural protection , for it was not raised at present ; but it would be raised on the motion of Mr . Viller ' s on a future evening , and he would then say why he thought that the Corn Laws should not

      be abolished . He would not say that agricultural protection should not be reduced indirectly by the tariff , as , for instance , in such articles as lard , grease , &c . He believed the system of prohibition and extreme protection to be wrong , and he should pursue the courso which lie had hitherto done with respect to all such questions . Sir Robert Peel concluded his speech as follows : —Sir , we are now taunted by one side of the Ilouse with having seriously injured agriculture by the inconsiderate hastu with which the protection to agriculture has been reduced ; on the other side we are taunted with being mere instruments in the hands of tlie agricultural party , and we are told that we ought at once to proceedto tlie removal of all protection . Sir , it is our intention to pursue the course which we have hitherto pursued , and not to yield to the taunt either of one party or the other , ( Hear , hear , )

      We have attempted gradually to abolish prohibitory duties ; we have attempted gradually to " relax extreme protective duties ; in my opinion , we have done it with the best success . ( Hoar , hear . ) I look to the general result ; I look to tlie position of this country now , and compare it with that in which we found it ; and I say that we are amply justified in the course which we have pursued , and encouraged to persevere in it . ( Cheers . ) Sir , tiie Hon . Gentleman the Memberfor Shrewsbury ( Mr . D'lsraeli ) repeats an accusation which he has made upon former occasions , of our having purchased power by a forgetfulness and neglect of the pledges which we gave in Opposition . As I stated before , I shall not enter into personaiicontroversies . ( Cheers . ) When I proposed the tariff in 1842 , and when that charge which the Hon . Gentleman now makes was made at that period , I find an Hon . Gentleman getting upin his place , and stating "that ,

      with reference to tlie accusation made on the other side of the House , that the Right Hon . Baronet at the head of the Government had repudiated principles in Opposition which he had adopted when in office , that charge had been made without due examination of the facts of tlie case . " I find the same Hon . Gentleman also stating , "that the conduct pursued by the Right Hon . Baronet was in exact harmony , in perfect consistency , with the principles in reference to free trade , laid down by Mr . Pitt ; and his reason for saying thus much was to refute the accusations which were brought against the present Government , that in order to get into , and , being in , to keep office , they had changed their opinions on that subject . " Those sentiments are attributed to the Hon . Memberfor Shrewsbury . ( Cheers . ) It is of little importance to the House that I hold in the same estimation the panegyric and the attack ( cheers ) ; but I certainly am surprised , remembering that address of the Hon . Gentleman , that the accusation which he has made to-night should have proceeded from hiin . ( Renewed cheers . )

      Mr . Bankbs said , that the course which the Right Hon . Baronet thought tlie better one to pursue , was precisely the course which it was his own intention to adopt , namely , to resist a part of tlie Right Hon . Gentleman ' s financial proposition , and to propose , that instead of remitting one of the taxes he had proposed to remit , relief should be given to the agricultural interest . He ( Mr . Bankes ) was now informed that a part of the measure could not take place until after Easter ; and , therefore , until that time , he would postpone the observations he had to make . He then hoped to be able to convince his Right Hon . Friend that in remitting that particular tax to which the attention of the House had been directed , he would give relief to that class of persons whom the Consolidated Fund did not touch , and that , consequently , there was a mode of relieving the lower classes , with a just and due regard to the agricultural interest . ( Hear , hear . )

      After a few remarks from Captain Harris and Mr . Plumptre , the House divided , when there appeared for the motion— , Ayes 78 Noes 213 Majority against it •——135 . The Speaker then left the chair , and the House resolved itself into a Committee on the Customs Acts . Sir R . Peel moved that the duty on certain articles in the tariff , a list of which was prepared , should be abolished . The Chairman then proceeded to read through this list . On arriving at the article "bosket rods , "

      Mr . Milnes said , that willows were very extensively cultivated . in this country , and that a large capital was invested in their growth . Every gentleman who lived near the banks of any river knew that the osier cultivation was very largely carried on by small proprietors , and that four or five years were required to bring the growth to perfection . If " basket rods" were admitted free from duty , the osiers of Holland would entirely take away this cultivation . Sir R . Peel said , that the same objection might be made to almost every other article ; there was alum , for instance . He must object to any alteration oftheproposod remission of duty . Mr . Febband corroborated the statement of Mr Milnes . The Chairman then read the article "basket rods , " and proceeded down the list to " bones . "

      Captain Pechell hoped , that if additional facilities were given to the introduction of bones , they would not bo sent to the workhouses to be ground . After a few words on the importation c £ " furniture wood , " the list was proceeded with . On coming ib the article of "butter , " Mr . Ewart said , that he sheuld reserve the amendment he had given notice of respecting the duties on butter and eheese to a later stage . He was entirely hostile to imposing a duty on such articles as these . ¦ On the article " grease" being read , Mr . W . Mii . es said , he objected to the removal of this duty ; but he thought the better course would be to go through those articles to which there was no objection , and to postpone to a future day those on which any discussion might arise .

      Sir G . Clehk said this " grease" was butter which was unfit for human food , in consequence of being mixed with tar or other substances , and was only fit for feeding dogs . Mr . Bright was surprised that the Hon . Member for Somersetshire ( Mr . Miles ) , who was so staunch a supporter of the agricultural interest , did not object to the removal of the duty on chalk , which he believed formed a compotent part of London milk . ( A laugh . ) He ( Mr . Bright ) did not think the House was speciall y called upon to legislate for the food of dogs , while they paid so little regard to the food of millions of their fellow-men ( Oh ! oh !) The Chairman ( Mr . Greene ) proceeded to put the ques . tion , when

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      ( ta ™' LKS CXClaiUlCd ) " " »*« ' - * s *« . ' Mr . B Escott said , if his Hon . Friend the Member ft . Somersetshire wished to bring the princi ple of protection Sec ? ' COntemP ' " ' PUrSUinS aC 0 urse t 0 effcct " »< Mr . W Miles was not to be told in what manner he should discharge his duty . The Hon . Member " in Chester ( Mr . Escott ) took every possibl e opportuniK- ll actm S directly . ng .-,, nst tlie agricultural interest // laugh . ) He ( Mr . Miles ) did not know ^ ow t ZLit but if it was possible to throw out any ! ' '• Hni iui 'i'atioii of

      „ r » 1 IM < El . « n ,.. . t _ y "" P factiousness against those who supported the . . " V ° agriculture , the Hon . Member for ^ Sg person to cast obloquy upon those Hon . Gentlemen iw ever , he ( Mr . Miles ) was not to he deterred from , 1 his duty by the scoffs and sneers of any iron « 2 * ° ° ami he could tell thellon . Member i SSr ?' when he formed a determination , he would ot L ^' u from carrying it out . nC was determined that th k tar ^ should not pass entirely J ^ £ ^^ f made a proposuum , to which lie had not receiveda , , ° ^ z ; r ~^ ^;^ S ;

      Sir R . Peel was willine Hint » article which was objected to should "T ati ° " ° f an - he thought it most import . itTll J ^ " !^ « and commerce that thel ^ S ^^ After some conversation , it was agreed that am 3 " cles objected to should be noted by the chairm-i reserved for future discussion . ' l The remaining articles in the list were then a"re 1 those to which any objection was made being reserved t 0 > The Ilouse resumed , the Chairman reported pr I and obtained leave to sit again on ¦ Wednesday ***** '

      SUPPLY . The House then went into Committee of Sunplv the following votes were agreed to : — £ 000 , 000 , to defray half-pay for the uavv al , j n Marines . ' £ 400 , 000 , on account of military pensions and ttuOw ances . £ 100 , 000 , on account of the civil pensions and allow anccs for the year 1846 . £ 800 , 000 , on account of land forces afloat and abroad for 1816 , ' £ 100 , 000 , to defray half-pay and allowances for retiring military officers . ° £ 300 , 000 , to defray the expenses of Chelsea aud Kil mainham Hospitals . The House resumed , and the resolutions were re . ported .

      The other orders of the day were then disposed of and the House adjourned at a quarter past two o'clock ,

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      BANKRUPTS . ( FromFriday ' s Gazelle , HareUU . ) Frederic Lindsay Cole , Fenchurch-strcet , City , wine merchant — Mary Comvay Painter , Great 1 'eteV-street ' Westminster , grocer—John Green , Pall-mall , uine-nicr chant—Thomas Nelson Dcaton Howard , Fenehurdi-stnvt , City , merchant—William Henry Mills , Mark-lane , City , wine-merchant — George AVagner , Bloomsbtiry-squiire , draper—William Meek , Southampton , ironmonger—Julius Thompson , Wigtnore-street , Cavendish-square , choojcmonger—Samuel Kurd , lloehester , ehina-iloaloi —William Debney , Mistley , Essex , victualler—John Botcberbr , Darlimjton , Durham , coal-owner—James Kewley , Liverpool , tailor—Thomas t > ix , Liverpool , shoe-dciler—S . 'inmcl -Marshall , Kingston-upon-IIull , builder—Charles Douglas Hope , Manchester , British and foreign broker—John Strutlwiuk Kowe , Newcastle-undor-Lyne , Staffordshire , draper—Theophilus Lane , Hereford , coal-mei'clmnt—John SuiUli , Bugeley , Staffordshire , money-scrivener—John Lane , Bristol , licensed victualler .

      BASKRUPTS . ( "From . Tuesday ' s Gaxette , March ISth , 1845 . J AVilliam AVilliams , High-street , St . Giles , victualler—Henry Hester , Katcliffe-terrace , G-oswell-road , billow , chandler—Thomas Clegs , Doptford , coal-merchant—Frederick Sharnian , ' . West-square , Southwark , hoot and sliooniaker—George William Stocks , Norwich , linemlriipur—Charles Dougl . 'is Hope , CliorUon-upon-Modloek , Lancashire , British and foreign broker—William Daniel , -Man . Chester , cabinet-maker—AVilliam nulley , Bakewcll , Derhjshire , tailor—Thomas O'Rooke and William JJirfcs , Manchester , commission agents—Henry AVoodgate , Kinson , Dorsetshire , horse-dealer—William Ihbotsun , Sheffield , merchant—Richard Brown , Kingstou-upon-Hull , joiner—AVilliam Granger , Relly-mill , Durham , paper-manufacturer —John Price , Oaken Gates , Shropshire , draper .

      DECLAIUIIONS OP DIVIDENDS . T . Roberts , Blackman-strcct , Borough , lineiidraper , first dividend of 3 s lOd in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . AVhitmore , Basinghall-strcct . A . Lett , Commercial-road , Lambeth , timber-merchant , first dividend of 4 s lOd in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr . AVhitmore , Basinghall-street . J . T . Afilncr and C . Bedford , Kingston-upon-Hull , con . fectioners , final dividend ofi's 9 Jil in tiie pound , any Tuesday , at the office of Mr . Hope , Leeds . J . T . Slilner , Kingston-upon-iruli , confectioner , rirst ami final dividend of 2 fls in the pound , any Tuesday , at tho office of Mr . Hope , Leeds . C . Bedford , Kingston-upon-Hull , tailor , second uiviilvnd of 4 s in the pound , any Tuesday , at the office of Mr . IIuiig , Leeds . C . S . Masterman , Croydon , grocer , first dividend of 2 ? oil in the pound , Saturday next , aud two following Saturdays , at the office of Mr . Groom , Abchurch-lane , Citv .

      T . Fisher , Sclby , Yorkshire , linendraper , dividend 01 5 in the pound to those who have not received a former dividend , any AVednesday , at the office of Sir . Freeman , Leeds . G . Harriott , Ormskirk , Lancashire , beer brewer , secoiw dividend of Is "Jd in the pound , AVednesday , Martli it , and any subsequent AVednesday , at the office' of Mr . . Mor gan , Liverpool . R . Smith , AVorcester , attorney , third dividend of C < 1 '" the pound , any Thursday , at the office of Sir . Christie , Birmingham . AV . II , Bates , Birmingham , factor , second dividend of 6 d in the pound , any Thursday , at the office of Mr . Christie , Birmingham . S . Sedgley , Dudley , Staffordshire , grocer , first dividend of Is 10 d in the pound , on new proofs , any Thursday , at the office of Mr . Valpy , Birmingham .

      J . C . Lister , AVolverhamptou , Staffordshire , ivine-mer . J chant , first dividend of Is 6 d in the pound , on neivpruots , $ 8 any Thursday , at tho office of Mr . "Valpy , liirmiiighiiiii . . | a J . N \ Sargent , Nottingham , grocer , first dividend ot M 6 s 6 d in the pound , on new proofs , any Thursday , at tli « ; . 1 office of Mr . Valpy , Birmingham . . " % i . Glazebrook , Birmingham , carpenter , first dividend ot 6 d in the pound , any Thursday , at the office of Mr . |> JF , m Birmingham . ¦ ' si T . Dobson , sen ., J . Dobson , and T . Dobson . jun ., CiiJ- :- h road , carpet-manufacturers , first dividend of 3 s 4 d in the | S pound , on new proofs , second dividend of Sjd in tliepouivi , , > gp any Thursday , at tho oflieo of Mr . Valpy , Birmingham . * J . Goren , Orchard-street , Portman-square , scrivener , j & second dividend of 4 d in the pound , any Saturday , at tne , v > office of MrEdwardsFrcUerick ' s-laceOld Jewry . : ip # |

      . , p , yjXIAK / K V * - JJJ . X AJUtT UlUOi J- I kUVJ iv » u-j «»» vww- »» — — -.- ^ - - ~ -jv J . Peaten , Paddington-street , Marylebone , ironmonger , ; first dividend of Is Gd in the pound , any Saturdaj , at tlie . s ^ office of Mr . Edwards , Frederick ' s-place , Old Jewry . _ : ; f ; C . Newton and C . TVorssam , Kingslaml-basin , Kiiiip- ••!; : land-road , engineers , first dividend of 4 s Gd in the pound . ^ any Saturday , at the office of Mr . Edwards , Fredericks- : y place , Old Jewry . . ' SS T . Miller , Green-street , Leicester-square , baker , first ;«• _ - m vidend of Is 4 d in the pound , any Saturday , at the otlici ,. ;^ of Mr . Edwards , Frederick's-place , Old Jewry . ? S ' M

      DIYinEIfDa . ; V | April 15 , G . Francis and T . Francis , jun ., CamlirMg * =: | f corH-merchants—April 9 , G . E . AVhite , Reading , tailor- " . ¦} « April 8 , R . Marshall , Deptford , stonemason—April 7 , 1 . Ip Johnson , sen ., AV . Johnson , and C . Alarm , Romfovd . EssMi V S bankers-April 10 , 0 . B . Rudge , Gloucester-streDt , CuvtaiH' |§ road , japan leather-manufacturer—April 9 , F . Hu < wJi -- . g Rochford , Essex , builder—April 10 , J . Gale , sen ., and J- j Gale , jun ., Love-lane , Shadwell , rope-makers—April Vj ^ s Lorden and N . Iladley , Ilerno Bay , Kent , builders-Api m 10 , B . Fountain , Derby , wine-merchant—April 9 , T . Ki » r" - % ley aud T . AVatt , Runcorn , Cheshire , bone-mcrcliunts-- m April 10 , T . Darnell , Boulogne , copper-sinelter—April 11 . jj G Stanway , Stoke-upon-Trent , confectioner . . M Errmdm . —In last Tuesday ' s Gazette , dividend ot i > ¦ M AVithell , Padstow , Cornwall , for April 3 read April 4 . || Cehtificates to be granted , unless cause he shown to tM 7 M contrary on the day of meeting . , M Aprils , II . ATehnert , Leicester-square , tailor-AprilKij j ; Moutrie , Bristol , music-seller—April 8 , J . Argfl" ? $ Golden-lane , Barbican , victualler—April S , T . Cooi » . : ^ Aldgate High-street , Citv , coffee-house keeper—April 15 ; , ; T . R . AVithers , Rumbridge , Hampshire , mcrc hant-Ar * , - 15 , G . E , White , Reading , Berkshire , tailor-April «¦ ¦ ¦ .:. ; and D . Ilepworth , Raistrick , Yorkshire , cotton wan' . dyers-April 9 , J . Staples , Cottenham , Cambridgesluw , plumber—April 10 , "SV . Clarke , Sheffield , builder-Ar "' , -X il . Craven , Wakefield , Yorkshire , eora-nnllCl ' -AlNll' '; i : E . L . Robinson , Moulton , Lincolnslure , fellmonger-jMj' j 14 , M . Tomkinson , Kidderminster , AVorcestershire , Jine , i : > draper—April 8 , T . and J . Jones , Liverpool , tallow-cW is lers-April 8 , E . Scott , Hillborough , Norfolk , miller-Ap p 8 , . Richardson , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , gl « 9 s- »> jf ""; , ^ turer—April 8 , P . J . Meugens , Duuster-court , Mn " » ; . ? , ; lane , City , broker—April 8 , W . Jackson , Charlottc-stiw ; ^ Fitzroy-souare , paper-hanger—Apr il 8 , A . Seed , lJ «* K :: v : ;!; licensed victualler-April 8 , R . Blockley , Crew , Wf ® ; : ;; : ; linen-draper—April S , J . AVard , Manchester , cnp"le ; y # ;; April 8 , B . Creigh , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , cartwrigli" g ^ PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED . hi ^ IE H . AToollright and J . Pearson , Canterbury , line » ™ s . cl | —P . and J . Broal , Brighton , tallow . molters-T . E . < " > . ,: ? M ; how and R . E . Iluntley , Ncwcastle-upon-Tyne , shi }> " s , v « .: § —J . Hawkins , J . Cooper , and AV . Fieldhouse , Foley , ^ . ^ fordshire , china-manufacturers ; as far as regw ^ . sSi Cooper—G . Freeman and T . B . Beeslej , BirininglW ' . ' . ^ . ^ factors-G . and S . Reynolds , Salisbury-street , J- " ^| g grove , corn-dealers—AY . and R . Townley and A ^ ' !; jf . ; , ^| wright , Blaclcburn , Lancashire , cotton-spinners—J . ' j , fife W . Bray , and H . Edmonds , Bradford , AYiltehirc , c f *] W $ -J . L . Butler and W . Paton , Liverpool , coal-more l ^ , ;^ AY . II . Austin and G . AV . Tinkler , Harp- lane , ^ v : ^ Thames-street , Custom-house-agents—T . Sanderson j ,- . ¦¦ , H . J . Cook , Liverpool , coal-merchants—J . Dyer * % ;• '¦ > ¦ Culliford , Bamvell , Somersetshire , drapers—E . * ' „ « . - and A . 6 . Favenc , Lower Thames-street , wine-mew , —T . AV . Dean and E . Law , Nicholas-lane , Lombard- ' 5 . artists-G . and J . Bindley , Coventry , haberdashers- > . AVessel and F . Stapleton , Frith-street , Soho , n \ uS ' ,. > - , v lishers—AY . Reed and R . Taylor , Brunswick-parao " i i ^ 5 \ . ton , linendrapers—J . Cowing and A . Fencocs , -i ^ , £ . ; square , silkmen—J . Dobson and C . Nixon , Dent , ! or » - ^ ;| .. marble-dealers-C . C . Eyre and F . J . Burge , T _ T , ri . f ffl green , surgeons—A . Toft and J . Austin , Shelton > - \ tf . - : | S engravors-J . and B . A . Prichard andJ . RftM 0 !!;^ ft pool , timber-dealers ; as far as regards J . ''" ilrfof * ' 11 Darby , J . Higgs . andT . Pickering , Kingswinford , aw f . | P shire , coalmasters ; as far as regards T . I ' icke ri ^ b p . sui . Hanney and T . Hiuton , Bradford , Yorkshire , contra ^ * JS *^

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      The Lord Mayor and Holloway / s Pim ^ Ointment . —On the 14 th inst ., James Staalev a gentleman ' s servant , residing at Long Difcton , inAde an affidavit at the Mansion-house ( which Ids lonfeijm signed ) , to tlie effecfthat he , Stanley , had had 20 Jio ! Cj in one leg and 14 in the other , and that he had ( j ^ u so afflicted for two years and a half , and lately could only move by the use of crutches , and from this 3 tate he made oath he has been miraculousl y cured l ) y HolWay ' s Pills and ^ Ointment , after a host of sursurgeons and one hospital had failed to rive relief .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 22, 1845, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1307/page/6/