^ S I G R L L L T/ . I S PAPER circu'iiilis very extensively in every District of the County oj Cork ; also in the Counties Kerry, Limerick, Tipperarit, Waterford, 6' c< SRC,— ft is filed in London at the Public Club Houses, at Messrs. N MVTON Public Institutions, and. at Messrs. J. K. JOHNSTON & Go's. ( Newspaper Agents)— numerous Club Houses, fyc., England and Ireland, where the greatest publicity '*, ' Varwiett- S: junre, ana Messrs. IMUKF. R, 52 , Fleet- Street, ( Newspaper Agents) hi Duolin at the dttfi is given to Adoertisein nts. Articles of Intclli? encec.&: c. <>; r. front VOL. X X X . -- ) T U E S D A Y S , THURSDAYS. AND SATURDAYS C O R K . - - T U E S D A Y EVENING, F E B R U A R Y 13, 1833. ( T O THE COUNTRY PER ANN " 1 2 IFI 0 ? 1 T O THE TOWN PFU DITTO ( 2 10 0 V PRICE FIVE PENCR W I L L I AM QUIN'L AN EELS it a duty he owes to the Public, ( by who^ e patronage his house has attained a position not second to any in Cork) to CAUTION them against spurious articles nf WOOLLEN DRAPERY now being introduced into the Irish Markets. Those goods, the greater part of the composition of whirl) is Cotton, have been manufactured for the American trade, but the commercial embarrassments in the United States, and the unsettled slate of the British settlements, have obliged the makers to look for a home market. It is needless to observe, that articles under the denomination of Woollens into which collon has been introduced cannot wear well, nor is it possible for them to retain their colour. VV. Q. therefore pledges himself that no such goods shall be allowed to enter his concern; that none bul the best in their respective kinds shall he offered for sale, and that the. prices charged shail be as low, if not lower, than those of anv hoii. fi having any regard for character or respectability. His present Slock ( the greater portion of which has been recently purchased) comprises Superior and Refine CLOTHS in all co lours and prices, Vestings, Cassimeres, Kersys, Buckskins, Wool dved and Waterproof Pilot Cloth-;, Petershams, Harringtons Arctic Beavers, Hats, Manche Ur Goods. &; c. fyc. comprisin togetheer one of the largest aud most varied Stocks ever of-, fered for sale in this city. No. 11. Gt. George's- st. TO THE MKPICAL PROFESSION. f o ~ B E SOLD t'. stab- Apothe caries and Druggists, situate in the North Main- street, in the City of Cork, together with the Interest, consisting of a long term of years, in THE CAPACIOUS D W E L L I N G HOUSE, • SHOP and STORES in which said business is carried on, the Fixtures, Bottles and Implements, and ihe stock of Medicines, Instruments. & c„ therein. The business transacted bv this house for the last 40 years ( since i'S first establishment bv the late Mr. WM. GOSNELL) with Public Institutions, and in the Compounding and Visiting department; having heen the most extensive in tiie South of Ireland, . lie present is a most desirable opportunity for a respectable youugMedica! Man to acquire an extensive business and connexion. The several Patients and Customers of ihe Establishment are presectfully informer), that the business, under competent superinleiidance, will be carried 011 as u- ual, until the Establishment be disposed of, and that care will bo taken to part wilh it only to a gentleman duly qualified to discharge all its duties in future. For particulars apply to Mr. J O H N BENNETT, Solicitor, No. 9, Academy- slree', Cork. Jan. 30. THE MARKETS. n p R E Interest in the old and respeclable Es K lishment of Messrs. WM. GOSNELL & SON, Ap • CORN EXCHANGE, LONDON, FEE. 9. We have not had any return of Frost since Wednesday, but on the contrary a fine steady Thaw with rain ; in consequence the greater part of the iee has disappeared from the river, but the inland navigations are not yet open ; the arrivals since Monday are confined to a few Scotch arid some Cargoes of Irish Oats, and 11 small quantity of Wheat and Barley from Essex apd Kent; the Market has been thinly attended and very little business done, as buyers generally prefer waiting ' till Monday when con.- iderable arrivals are expected, and alt late impediments removed to a resumption of business in the usual way : there is not any variation in the value of any kind of Grain since last Monday. JOHN ASH LIN aud SONS, Corn Factors, 59. Mark lane. L I V E R P O O L C O R N E X C H A N G E - F E B . 9. Although we have had a partial change of wind, but which has veered again this morning into the east, the arrivals of Grain into this port from the 6tn to tile 8th instant inclusive, are rather light, whilst those of Flour and Oatmeal, by steamers, from Ireland couiinue to afford a tolerable supply, A rapid thaw since Tuesday promises shortly to clear the canals of ice, and by re- opening our channels of intercourse with the interior, to re- establish business in its regular course of procedure. Ill the meantime however, the millers and dealers, though generally very limited holder, appear determined to wait until the extent of the supplies into this and the inland markets be in some measure ascertained, except so far as the most needy are compelled to buy in order to serve tile ivilnts of the moment. Hence the corn trade altogether this morning bus continued to exhibit 11 similar degree pf diillless as that described in the earlv part of the week, and with a declining aspect, therefore, every article, without exception, appeared to be somewhat depressed in value, particularly Wheat, which may lie considered Id to 2d? p- 701b cheaper, and for most other articles, had . sales been feasible, a small nominal abatement must havebeen conceded. lu the bonded market also the transactions entered into since Tuesday have been too trivial to require the least notice. DUBLIN MARKETS. CORN- EXCHANGE, Fun. P.— The quantity of wheat offering is ex. tremely small, in consequence of which all descriptions mot a brisk sale at our quotations. Of oats, bere, barley, & o. there was but a trifling supply, yet all met 11 dull sale, and in some instances rather lower priees were acceded to. llape. vetches, & c. were without any material alteration- Both flour and oatmeal have been in very slow request during the week, but a slight improvement has taken place in the latter article without any in. crease in price. PROVISIONS— The supply of cool butter at market this week has been pretty go. d, for which there was a fair demand, both lor export and home consumption. Priees remain steady. There was a fair supply of bacon at Tuesday's market, in SpltalSeld's, for which there was a gooddc lnand, at last week's prices. Hams also sold Well. There was no other alteration of importance. BELFAST MARKETS— FRIIJAV, FEB. 9. GRAIN— We have hud, alternately, this week, frost, snow and rain — Yesterday, however, it changed to line tawing weather, which continues to- day, inlet has produced the only good delivery of grain we have had throughout the week. WHEAT— Fanners' parcels sell freely, at an advance of 2: 1 on the prices of last week, and parcels « : store also brine; mi advance of about 5s per tori. Both old and new sell at - i'l 1 ta ^' l 1 15s per ton. FLOUR— Sells at an advance of fid per cwt. BARLBV— Is in demand, at former prices, and some large parcels, ex ship, have been sold at d. 7 5s to JS1 lis per ton. Midi is dull, at 25s to 27s per barrel. OATS— Have realised an advance of Id to 2d per cWt, and are in demand Parcels ex ship would sell. OATHKAL— Sells freely, ut former prices. Red Wheat, 9s fi. l to lis lOd , White, 10s to 12s ; Malting Burley, 7s fid to 8s I Grinding, ( is 8d to 7s 3d : Potato Oats, 5s Sid to 6s 4d ; l'olands, 5s 4d to 6s 1 Oatmeal, 10s to lis : First Flour, IDs to 20s ; Seconds, or Bakers', 17s to 18s ( Thirds, 1,' is to 16s j Fourths, 9s to 12s per cwt. WHISKEV— Grain Whiskey, 2s 5d ; ilalt, lis 4d to 5s 6d per gallon, in bond. BUTTER— Prime Firsts, lftjd to lojd per lb. , Lots, 04s to 96s per cwt. PROVISIONS— Pigs, 40s to 42s Sd; Baeon, 43s to 4fis ; Dried Hams, 54s to 58 per cwt. ; Mess Pork. 65s to 67s 6d per barrel. FLAX— Sells ut former rates :— Hand- scutched, 26s to 40s ; low milled, 80s to 40s i middling, 42s to 47s ; good. 50s to OOs ; tine, 65s to 70s ; and very line, 75a to 80s per cwt. S T A T E O F T R A D E I N E N G L A N D. MANCHESTER COTTON TRADH . FRIDAY EVKXINO.)—' There have been very extensive inquiries this week for all descriptions of goods, but which has not led to much business Had the manufacturers been disposed to have given the least way many extensive sales might have been effected First quality of 27 inch power- loom printing cloths are in good demand, and for such sales have been made at an advance 011 lust week's prices.— IN twist but little doing, as the exporters cannot move a bundle for the north of Europe. MANCHESTER AND SALEORD CATTLE MARKETS ( WEDNESDAY, FEB 7^ — There was nothing shown at Smithfield, either cattle or sheep.— At Salford, however, there was the best show of beasts ever seen, the nnmber being 1374 head. Of sheep the show moderate. Beef in consequence ofthe large supply, was dull sale, and Jd perlb. cheaper ; but prime mutton maintained previous rates \ inferior rather lower. A good muny cattle unsold— 13/ 4 cut tie from 4 Id to Od ; 2710 sheep, from Sid to 7d : 30 calves, irom 0( 1 to 71d ; 50 pigs, from - Id to 5d. BRADFORD, [ Thursday]— Piece Market.— Our market continues in acurious and, we may arid, most anomalous state ; and though a considerable advance has taken- place on yarns andgoods, 11,1 branch of the trade can be said to be healthy except the wool department. This article has almost Insensibly, yet steadily, crept up for some months past, so as to leave both spinners und manufacturers in a worse state as to protit than when in point of business, but by uo means satisfactory us to prices. The manufacturers again vainly attempted a further advance. Yarns.— The spinners to day again succeeded in obtaining a further advance on all descrip. tionsof yarn with a fair bu. iness doing. Wools.— There has been nc change this week in prices of any kind of wool firm, having no great stocks on hand. • There has been no Staplers continue very CLONMEL FAIR. Wednesday was rather unfavourable lor our fair, owing to the wetness of the morning. The streets were covered nearly ancle- deep with mud, while a thick steam was- perpetuatly rising from the reeking bodies of the cattle and the great couts and cloaks of tile country people. There was a small show of stock, and in general high prices were sought for — Milch Com were m demand at to .<' 12, Fat cattle averaged from M to , . V P f ' S ™ b r o uKh t to and Yearling* sold at40s to 60s. Some lots of fat Sheep were disposed of from £ \ 10s to 2s > Hoggets i ' l 5s to 10s;' - Stores 20s to 30s per head. Prime Pigs were bought at 34s to 3.1s per cwt. Horses were numerous, hut none of a superior quality— Wty few changed owners; The fair passed off quietly,— Tipperary Free THE ARMY. E X C H A N G E S A N D P R O M O T I O N S , War Office. Feb 9- 9th Regiment of Light Dragoons— Cornet Francis Digby Willomrhbv tn he Lieutenant, by purchuse. vice Johnston, who retires. Gilbert" Thns Nicholson, Gent, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Willoughby 1st. Regiment of Foot- Lieutenant Anthony Alexander Macnicol to be Captain, by purchase, vice Carey, who retires. Knsign John Edward Sharp to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Macnicol. Edward Stanford Claremont, Gent, to be Ensign by purchase, vice Sharp. 5th Foot— Second Lieutenant Francis Richard Pyner to be First Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Connor, who retire.. William Henry Kebbel Gent, to be Second Lieutenant, bv purchase, vice Pyner ' 17th Foot- Lieutenant James Willington Kyffin, from the 22d Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Powell, who exchanges 22d Foot— Lieutenant Charles Thos. Powell, from the 17th Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vicc James Willington Kyffin, who exchanges 32d Foot- Ensign Wm. Case to be Lieutenant without purchase, vice Weir, deceased ; Ensign and Adjutant Thomas Daniel Kelly to hai'e the rank of Lieutenant, dated February 10, 1838 ; George Samuel Moore Gent, to be Ensign, vice Case. ' 34th Font Lieutenant Colonel William Charles Drummond, from the half pay Unattached, ta be Lieutenant- Colonel, vice Hon. Henry Suton Fane, who exchanses : Major Richard Airey to be Lieutenant Colonel* bv purchase, v- ce Drummourl, who retires, dated Feb. 10, 1838 ' 57th Foot— Ensign Elphingston Junor to be Lieutenant,' by purchase vice Furnell, who retires. ' ' 50th Foot— Captain John Leviek, from the Royal Malta Fencibie Rezi m £ \ t £ b e . C a . ' ? t a i n ' J l c e 0 ® w a ld Blackford, who retires upon half nay 94th Foot- Cape. Henry Nicliolls, from the hnlf- pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Charles Knox, who exchanges, dated Feb. 10, 1838 • Lieut Lewis Boiven, from Ihe lialf- puv of tiresOth Regiment of Foot, to lie Lieu' tenant, vice Nicholls, promoted ; Ensign John Wallace to be Lieutenant! by purchase, vice Bowen, who retires, dated Feb. 10,1833; James Stewart Meimes, gent., ta be h- usign, by purchase, vice Wallace, dated Feb, Io' * 83o- ' UNATTACHED Lieut. Henry Nicholls, fromitlie 91thRegiment of Foot to be Captain, without purchase. """ ( All the al) ove are dated Feb. ii, 1838; except otherwise stated.) I M P E R I A L PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—' THURSDAY, FEB. 8. BOARD OF CHARITABLE BEQUESTS I N IRELAND. Mr. BARRON, in pursuance of h: s notice, rose to submit to the house his motion respecting the Board of Charitable Bequests in Ireland. From the number of its members, the variety of their engagements, and their irresponsibility, the present board was quite incompetent to the discharge of its important duties. The board consisted of judges, archbishops, and bishops. What would be thought if the judges of England were expected to discharge such a duty ? The ecclesiastical dignitaries were equally incapacitated by their. other avocations, and some of them were necessarily absent from Ireland during a great part of the year. The consequence of all this was that the management, ofthe charities of Ireland wasmuch neglected. Another objection to the existing board was that it was of a religious character. It consisted exclusively of Protestants. It therefore did not possess the confidence of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, who, consequently, concealed from it the nature of their charities, consisting of nineteen out of twenty of the whole country. To so great an extent was this feeling carried, that the Catholics were accustomed during their life- time to hand over large sums of money to be distributed by individuals instead of giving them to charities or placing them in the hands of trustees. In the year 1809 a relation of his own had, for these reasons, handed over the sum of ten thousand pounds to four or five individuals, with merely verbal instructions as to its distribution; and at this distance of time it was impossible to know whether the sums of money so handed over had been properly applied. This was a great grievance. Another objection to the board was, that it was not responsible to the public. Nor had it any adequate power to inquire into the charities of Ireland, as it ought to have. The board was of opinion that the only power they had was to apply to a court of equity. The consequence was an enormous expenditure ; in consequence, of which, in the caseof smaller charities, the whole of the funds were actually swallowed up in endeavouring to get at the charity , and that which was intended for the benefit of the poor passed into the pockets ofthe rich. In support of his opinions on this subject he quoted the Third Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of the Poor in Ireland. Among other things, however, these commissioners recommended the transfer of the power of the Board of Charitable Bequests in Ireland to the poor- law commissioners, He would presently show that that was unadvisable. It was a strong confirmation of his ( Mr. Barron's) opinion, that the first name attached to the ! ment would take the matter into its bis own hand; Report of the Committee on the State of the Poor, condemning the Board of Charitable Bequests, WHS that o f t h e Archbishop of Dublin, a member of that board I When Lord Stanley, and afterwards Lord Hathevton, were chief secretaries for Ireland, they communicated with the board, requiring that means might be adopted for rendering it jnore effective, to which requisition the board showed every disposition to assent, He had moved for returns on the subject last session, but several of them had not yet been presented. No people were more adorned with the virtue of charity than the Irish. In Ireland there was an immense fund of charitable bequests, now perverted to improper uses. Twentyfive years ago a sum of £ 2 0 , 0 0 0 had been left by a Mr. Fanning to the poor of tbe city of Waterford, but as yet the poor of that city had not touched a shilling of the money. There were many other abuses which, if the commission were granted, would be discovered in the management of charitable property in Ireland. He now came to the proposition on the part of the commission to inquire into the state of the poor in Ireland, to place this matter under the control of the poor- law commissioners. It would be highly improper to place religious and educational bequests under the management of such an authority. Besides the poor- law commissioners would have enough to do without. He could assure the House that there was prima facie evidence of an enormous sum of money in Ireland applicable to charitable purposes, which, if properly applied, would nearly educate the people of that country, and would go a great way to diminish the expenses likely to arise from the new poor- law Act. There was at present under the control of the Board of Charitable bequests in Ireland, in the public funds, £ 1130,000 ; in Chancery and other courts of litigation about £ 100,000 and there were a great many houses in different cities and different parts of Ireland left for charitable purposes, valued by competent authorities, amounting to about £ 5 0 , 0 0 0 ; making a total of £ 2 8 0 , 0 0 0 under the control of the Board of Charitable Bequests. Mr. D'Alton, a man of great antiquarian research, and In whom he could place the greatest confidence, estimated the various charitable gifts in Ireland at £ 110,150 per annum. Mr. D'Alton was a man of most laborious character, who had dedicated a long life to the investigation of matters connected with charities in Ireland, with education, and with the antiquities of the country. He would read to the house Mr. D'Alton's estimate of the probable amount of charities in Ireland :— 1. In the funds, debentures, and other securities under the .. ^>. 1,( 1011 100,000 50,000 control of board, about 2. In Chancery, in litigation, and private security 3. Several houses and estates, value supposed about rf" 2SP, 000 TROPERTY NOT UNDER BOARD. Estimated by Mr, D'Alton at the annual value of.. Value In money, not under control Value as above, under control of board.. Amount of ascertained charities Amount of unascertained and concealed charities, at the lowest calculation Total.. .. . .. .€ 110,000 -£' 2,200,000 280,000 ^• 2,480,000 500,000 •£ 2,980,000 Calculated at 4 per cent., would yield per annum.. ^' 119,600 Parliamentary grants .. .. .. 44,000 Grand jury grunts .. .. .. .. 60,000 Privute subscriptions ., .. .. 32,000 Charity sermons .. .. .. .. 12,000 Grand total per annum of all charities in Ireland .. 4i' 267,600 Surely these things ought not to be left in the state in which they were, but ought to be placed in good hands. There was a precedent for the motion which he was about to submit to the house in the English commission, instituted several years ago, and now nearly closing its labours. He did not, however, mean to follow the appointment of that commission i. i all its details. He did not mean to say that in its original constitution it was or it was not effective and useful. But he proposed that, if a commission should issue, it should be limited, not only as to the time of its reporting to the house, but as to its expenses, thereby giving to the house and to the country some hope that the inquiry would not be protracted to anindefinite period, with commissioners at large salaries. If this were done, and honestly done, they would have speedy justice and a proper management of the charities in Ireland. If the time and the expenses were not to be limited he would not lend himself to tbe matter in any shape. He hoped her Majesty's government would take the subject into consideration, and not leave so important a question in the hands of any private member. The hon. member concluded by moving that an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she would be graciously pleased to appoint a commission to inquire into the constitution of the Board of Charitable Bequests in Ireland, and into the present charitable funds and property in that portion of the United Kingdom. Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN seconded the motion. Col. SIBTHORP was horrified at the idea of another commission. The present government had been a government of commissions. It had revelled and rioted in commissions— it had issued commissions for all purposes and for no purposes— it had relieved itself by commissions— it had enriched and fattened its lean and hungry friends by commissions— it had reduced the word " commission" to the same meaning as the word " job." He should object, therefore, to any motion like the present until such an inquiry had been made as should satisfy the house and the country of the policy of issuing any more commissions.— Most of those already issued had been entirely useless, wholly unsatisfactory, and, moreover, attended with a vast expense. Under these circumstances, if the government should accede to the motion of the honourable member for Waterford ( Mr. Barron), he ( Col. Sibthorp) should feel it his duty to take the sense of tbe house against it. Mr. WYSE defended the motion of his Hon. Colleague, and maintained that a commission was necessary to ascertain the truth of the allegations which had been made in that house with respect to the misapplication of the funds of charity in Ireland. He thought that there should not only be a board of commissioners to investigate and remedy existing abuses, but that there should also be a permanent board to exercise a constant and vigilant control from year to year over tlie administration of the charitable funds in Ireland. The misapplication of funds of this description had the very worst moral influence on the country ; it dulled the energy of benevolence, and prevented the application of funds to charitable purposes, because a conviction lurked in tbe minds of men that if they made charitable bequests there was no guarantee that the money would be applied in tbe way they designed. Visct. MORPETH, beingcalled upon to give an opinion upon the subject, was bound to admit that the hon. member for Waterford had made out a very strong case. He had shown that there involved in the motion ends for which it was intended, because itwes composed entirely of persons moving in a separate sphere of action, and having other heavy duties to perform— and he had moreover shown, without throwing any imputation upon the gentlemen composing the present board, that the circumstance of their being exclusively of one religion, had the effect, as society was now constituted in Ireland, of exciting considerable jealousy in the minds of the Roman Catholics. Without following tbe hon. gentleman into the details of his statement, he ( Lord Morpeth) would merely observe that there certainly were very strong ground s for suspecting that a large portion of these funds was frittered away in law expences— and he thought every one would agree with him t; hat if there were any property in the world which ought not tc be squandered and frittered away it was the patrimony of the poor. Under these circumstances the government would naturally have felt anxious and willing to take the subject into their own hands— but the more immediate pressure of many other important topics had hitherto prevented them from doing so. The government tn'glit also have been a little sensitive as to the imputations which had been cast upon them of being too partial to commissioners.. they might have too much the fear of the hon. and gallant member for Lincoln ( ColonelSibthorp) before their eyes. ( A laughJ He ( Lord Morpeth) was very willing that an inquiry should take place upon the subject — and whatever the nature ofthe tribunal ultimately to be established for tbe superintendence of charities might be, he thought it was agreed on all hands tbata previous inquiry was expedient. The only demur be should make to the motion of his hon. friend was this.. whether he had brought it forward in the best and roost convenient shape ? His hon. friend said that he wished to impose some limitation of time and expense. To secure that end, and at the same time to place tbe subject in the most satisfactory point of view before Parliament, he ( LordM.) thought that tbe wiser course would be to act upon tlie precedent of the English charities commission, aod bring the question forward in the shape of a bill, ( hear.) His hon. friend would also please to remember that a commission appointed by the Crown, and not by act of Parliament, would be materially cramped in some of its most important functions. For instance, it would not have the power of examining witnesses upon oath. Therefore, he would suggest to his hon. friend not to press his motion this evening ; but to bring in a bill upon the subject, limiting the time and the possible expenditure of the commission in the way be might think most proper. If his hon. friend would adopt that course, he might rely upon every assistance the government might have it in their power to afford him. Mr. SHAW thought it would be much better if tee govern- There was certainly room for improvement in tbe construction of the board. There would be no difficulty in the inquiry. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER felt, as the efforts he had some ye;?, rs since made to induce tbe local authorities in different parts of Ireland to superintend tbe administration of charities bad not met with the success he hoped, that some further steps were necessary. He. thought that, there should not only be every inquiry into existing abuses, but that some plan should be adopted to prevent tbe recurrence of abuses for the future. II3 entirely pgreed with bis noble friend that the best way of attaining the end would be to adopt the precedent of the English charities commission, and to proceed by a bill. After a few words from Colonel Conolly, Mr. Chapman, Mr. W. Roche, and Mr. Villiers Stuart, Mr. BARRON having expressed liis gratification at the tone the debate had taken, expressed his readiness to act upon the suggestion of his noble friend ( Lord Morpeth). He begged leave therefore to withdraw tbe present motion, and to give notice of a bill similar to that which was introduced for the regulation of charities in England. The motion was then withdrawn. MARINE INSURANCES— THE BALLOT— MUNICIPAL REFORM Mr. W. ROCHE presented a petition from the Chamber of Commerce Liverpool, for tile repeal of the duty on Marine. Insurances ; also one in favour ofthe Ballot, and one for Municipal Reform in Ireland, 111 the prayer of all three petitions he most cordially concurred. RATING OF SMALL TENEMENTS BILL. Mr. GRIMSDITCH presented a petition from Mucc| es: ield, against th Rating of Small Tenements Bill. IRISH POOR LAWS. Sir F. TRENCH presented a petition from i, he Lord Lieutenant ( we believe) of son-, e Irish Couni- y, the name of which ire could not catch, aga'nk't tihe Poor Law ( Ireland) Biil ; stating that if it passed into a law, from 20,000 to 30,0111) troops would be required to keep order in that eoufitly ; and prayimr the house to turn the bill out, and her Majesty's Miiiist;- i\ s aft.' jrit ij;. tighter.) The hon. member then moved that the petition be printed ; but The SPEAKER reminded him, that unless the hon. member hud a motion on the subject to bring forward upon a near day, the petition could not be printed out of the ordinary course. JUVENILE OFFENDERS. ! ( Sir E. W1LMOT gave notice, that on the 20th February, he would move for leave to introduce a bill for the Summary Conviction of Juvenile Offenders. Mr. FAZAKF. RLY brought up the Report of the Poor- Law Committee' EXCLUSION OF ROMAN CATHOLICS FROM PARLIAMENT. Mr. PLUMPTRE presented a petition from certain Protestants resident in London, agreed to at a late meeting at Exeter Hall, in which " the petitioners stated that they regarded the admission of Roman Catholics to legislative power as contrary to Christian duty and to the principles and character of the British Constitution.. ( hear, and laughter.) They stated, that by the Act was passed in 1829 for the admission of Roman Catholics into Parliament, it was provided toat they should wear to defend the of the country as settled by law ; and, moreover, to disavow, abjure, and solemnly disclaim any interference with the Esta. blished Church. The petitioners stated, thrt notwithstanding the security conveyed by this solemn oath, Roman Catholic Members had voted for the appropriation of Church property in Ireland, and tbe subtraction of Church- rates in England. They had, moreover, expressed their desire that all religious establishments be abolished, and that religion be left for support to the voluntary principle. The petitioners stated that as the security provided by the act of 1829 had been found to be inefficacious, they hoped the House would provide some other safeguaad forthe Established Church and the Constitution, and with this view that they would exclude from Parliament persons of the Roman Catliolie persuasion, and take such other steps as to them might appear necessary to effect tbis object. The Hon. Member said, that he was free to confess, that with respect to the prayer of this petition he had been always of one orinion, and nothing i. hat bad since occurred either inside or outside that house could induce him to alter it, namely, that it was highly impolitic and inexpedient to admit Roman Catholics to parliament. and he therefore concurred iu the sentiment of the Petition. Mr. WAKLEY said that a short time ago, in consequence of an intimation from the chair, and in consequence also of understanding that it was th?. sense of the house, he withdrew a petition wbich contained an expression deemed to be offensive to the other house of Parliament. He considered it his duty 011 that occasion to yield to the sense of the house. He thought on all occasions it was most unfortunate when petitions contained any expressions which might be deemed derogatory to the honour of either house of Parliament; ( hear, hear.).. but ill the case of the petition presented by the hon, member opposite, the petitioners as plainly as words could express, imputed perjury to a large body of the members of this House [ hear.~\ He was sure the hon. gentleman himself was to candid to deny that such imputation was cast upon a large bodyof Hon Members ; and the petition, moreover, prayed that between six and seven millions of our fellow- subjects should be disfranchised. It was impossible to object to the reception of the petition on the ground of its prayer; but when petitioners stated that a body of gentlemen inthis house.. members representing ar. immense number o f t h e British community— bad been guilty in the discharge of their duty of the heinous crime of perjury, it behoved the character of the House, if it had any feeling for the reputation or honour of the country, not to receive such a petition—( hear, hear.] Mr. PLUMPTRE could only say, in answer to what the Hon. Gent, opposite ( Mr. Wakley) had stated, that the petitioners considered that the security intended to be given by the Act of 1829 had not been a sufficient security. He thought they did not mean to reflect on the character of the Members of this House., ( hear)— and conceived there was nothing in the language or prayer of the petition to exclude it from being received by the House. Mr. HORSEMAN understood the petitioners to avow, that the conduct of Hon. Members was not consistent with the securities given. He might have misunderstood the Hon. Gent. opposite( Mr. PlumptreJ, but he understood such to be the averment of the petitioners, and that they distinctly impugned the conduct of certain Members of this House. The Hon. Gent, seemed to suppose that it- referred to the general question, andnot to the Members o f t h e House. The Hon. Member for Finsbury thought it did impugn the conduct of Members. If that was the case, the objection taken was in full force. Mr. PLUMPTRE said the better way would be to read the petition. There could be NO objection to that. The petition was then read at length by the Clerk to the house. Mr. WAKLEY observed that it was quiteclear thehon. member for Kent had properly interpreted the sentiments of the petition. A clearer imputation of perjury against any body of men had never been made in that house, and he should therefore move as an amendment, that the petition be rejected. Col. P. BUTLER seconded the motion. Sir R. INGLIS believed the present would be the first insented to that house, and it was not by the construction that any lion, member might put upon it that the petition was to be judged. It was needless for him to conceal the view which lie ( Sir R. I.) took upon the subject, but lie assured the house that he was not aware of what the petition contained, or from whom it emanated, until it had been read by the clerk at tbe table.— He would now contend ( bat the petitioners were strictly in order. They alleged certain facts, and left it to the bouse to adopt its own conclusions. Tbe petition stated that in tbe year 1829, a certain measure passed that house accompanied by certain securities, and it stated that these securities bad proved utterly inefficacious for tbe purpose and object. Did the hon. member for Finsbuiy deny that such securities were given ?— or would he deny, in the second place, that such securities bad proved utterly inefficacious ? Had they or had they not done any thing to alienate the property of the Church? If he denied that, then be ( Sir R. Iuglis) could understand him. The allegation in the petition was that they had been instrumental in alienating the Church property, and the petitioners staled that so long as such conduct was adopted, the security which had been given had proved inefficient, and they prayed that the house would adopt some measure to render it effective.—( hear.) In liis opinion nothing whatever was stated in the petition that could justify the House in refusing to receive it. Mr. WALLACE said, that it appeared to him that tbe petition stated that as a fact wbich really was not so. Nobody could doubt that the allegations in tbe petition went directly to verify what had been Stat ed by the, lion, member for Finsbury. ; In his opinion, no language could be stronger to convey the alle- I gation of perjury against the Roman Catholic Members than that which was used in the petition. The class of Members to which tbe petition adverted, instead of doing that which it was alleged, they had had done all that tbey could do in assisting thatside of the house to improve the condition of theChurch. He believed that all tbe statements in the petition were utterly futile and groundless. The Roman Catholic Members, together witb the other gentlemen on that side of the house, had done all in their power to remove from the Church of England al! the abuses which existed in it. This being his opinion, he should support the motion for the rejection of the petition. Lord EBR1NGTON agreed with his hon. friend who had spoken last, that the allegations of the petition were utterly false and groundless in all their charges, both as applying to the Roman Catholics and the other members on that side ot the house. Atthe same time he was one who had always been an advocate for extending tlie greatest possible latitude" to the receipt of petitions, and nothing except a strong feeling that the statements & charges in the petition were so wholly groundless and so plain, as to leave no possible doubts as t ) what their interpretation was, would induce him to vote for the rejection of a petition. He must, however, confess that the present petition appeared to him to go nearer to charge the Catholic members with perjury than any he bad ever yet seen— becauseit stated in I plain language that a certain body of the members of thathouse had taken an oath to preserve to the utmost of their power the church establishment, and yetthatin defiance of th: t oath they had voted for measures which had a direct teudencv to cripple the establishment. They stated certain facts, and til ': n they put their own interpretation upon them. Hefelt great doubt whether it would be to tbe advantage ofthe house to set the precedent of rejecting a petition of that sort. As there seemed to be considerable doubt upon the question he trusted the House would be favoured with the opinion of the Speaker upon it. The SPEAKER had no difficulty in stating the opinion he entertained upon the question. When there was any doubt he was always disposed to give it in favour of the reception of the petition. If no notice had been taken of tbe petition lie would not have considered it bis duty to have called the attention of the house to any thing ft contained. By a certain train of reasoning, the petition certainly implied that a certain class of Members in that house had violated an oath; but then the house ought to remember that it was a there matter cf opiniob, and rested entirely upon the view or interpretation which the different parties put updft the'otith. As his opinion had been cailed for, he would state that ttiere was one objection to the petition which had not been mdrttldned. It was tbe rule that no petition was received wja ® h complained or tooknoticeof any statements or proceeding whifeh had taken place within that house. The . petition before the house alluded to proceedings which had taken - place within that house, and. complainedof the conduct of certain Members. It then became a question whether by receiving it they would not tend to open the door for complaints being made of the manner in wbich membera performed tbei duty. Mr. BARRON hoped the hon memb. for Finsury would withdraw his opposition to the receptionof this petition. He was one of the parties against whom the vile slanders were made,& he des: pised them. They could afford tobeslandered; & he for his part was always anxious that discussion should be had 011 these subjects. He stood therein defence of his honesty, his opinion, and the construction of the oaths he had taken ; and he thought he was as capable of putting a construction on them as any man in or out of that house. He courted investigation, and defied the calumnies, the slanders, and falshoods put forth on this occasion. He could say that he had acted conscientiously, and as an honest man, in the votes he had given, and which were alluded to in the petition. He also believed that every man ori his side of the house could say, with similar fellings of indignation and of honesty, that he had acted from pure principles, and that he looked with the utmost scorn and contempt on* the calumnies of individuals who dared to impute to them base falsehoods, treachery to their constituents and their country, and forgetfullness of the oaths they had taken at the table of the house. He flnng back with indignation, in the teeth of the petitioners tlie base calumnies— they were totally groundless and totally unfounded— but at the same time he hoped the house would not reject the petition, because he was at all times anxious that the petitions of all classes of her Majesty's subjects, from the highest to the lowest— from tbe most instructed tothe most ignorant— from the most prejudiced and violent bigots to the most enlighten, should atall times be laid before the house. It was only by hearing opinions on all sides that the truth could be arrived at. If it caine to a division, he should vote for the reception of the petition. He interpreted tbe oath be had taken as it had been acted on bv the members of the Protestant Church— aye, and by the Dignitaries of the Church who had voled on questions relating to the church with him and who had adopted the same opinion of Protestant interest th t he had adopted. He conscientiously believed, and was morally convinced, that- in voling as he had voted 011 these questions he had voted with the real friends of the church of England, and hail consulted its Hue interests. In his ( Mr. Barron's) opinion, the gentlemen oil the opposite side of the house, who prided themselves on being the only friends of the church, showed themselves by tlieir actual conduct to be its greatest, enemies. Every thing they did for tbs purpose of se- ving the church was actually injurious to her real interest, and cale dated to bring upon her the hatred of the people. He repeated, that he should vole for the reception of the petition, and he was desirous tn have the fullest inquiry into every part of his conduct to which the slanders and calumnies ofthe petitioners applied. Mr. M'LEAN said that, on looking atthe petition, he could nol help calling the attention ofthe House to the Facts stated in i t — ( h e a r , ) Tlie hon. member was interrupted bv Mr. O'CONNELL, who said— Will the hon. member allow tr. eto say that my hon. friend ihe member for Finsbury has consented to withdraw his motion. The petition wastheu laid on the table. was a very large amount of property involved in the motion ; he - —• •. • , hadshown that the present Board ofCharitableBequestsinlreland s t l n c e o f a petition, couched m the respectful language ot that I was. from the nature ofitsconstruction, wholly inadequate for tha » wupon the table of the house, being rejected. He felt satis- * fisd that petitions of a similar nature had been frequently pre- FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9. TRADES' COMBINATIONS. Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from near 4,000 of the inhabitants of Dublin, signed by theMayor, the Sheriffs, agreed, if they gained the concurrence of the Mercer's Company, the joint- trustees of the Gresham estate, to rebuild the Royal Exchange out of the proceeds of the estate, of outrages and several murders. He was sorry neither of the Members for the University of Dublin (' Mr. Shaw and Dr. Lefroy) were present. He moved that the petition be printed, to meet the motion of his lion, friend ( Mr. Wakley.) Ordered to be printed. Mr. HUTTON said he had looked over the signatures of the petition, and they included the names of persons in every station—- of every religion profession, and political opinion.— No subject eould be of more importance than that to which the petition related. It had occupied the attention of the House many years ago, but no measures were taken to follow it up.— He hoped that the prayer of the petition wonld be complied with by the house, and that an enquiry would be granted on a basis suited to the importance and magnitude of the subject. The petition was ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed with the votes. OFFENCES ( IRELAND). Sergeant JACKSON begged to ask the noble lord, the secretary for Ireland, why it was that Returns which had been moved for by him ou the 20th day of December last had not yet been made. The one related to the re wards offered by the Lord Lieutenant for various offences, and the other was for an account which had been applied for and paid. Lord MORPETH was not a. vire of the circumstances which had occasioned the delays, but he would make the ttecessary enquiries. POOR LAWS ( IRELAND.) The Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into a Committee cf the whole House on the Poor Laws ( Ireland) Bill having been read, Mr. O'CONNELL rose to move as an amendment that the Bill be committed that day six months. When the Bill was before the House of Commons last year, on the 28th of April, he : had addressed the House at very considerable length 011 the measure. If there was any value in the arguments adduced by him tbey were then in opposition to the Bill, and to resist its second reading; and he had then avowed that he had not the moral courage to take the course ot direct opposition to the bill, although he was thoroughly convinced it was not a useful bill, and would be an injurious measure. He had grown older since then, and somewhat firmer, and be was now determined to lake tbe sense of the House upon the committal of the B i l l ; as he was thoroughly convinced that it could produce no benefit, and ; he was as equally convinced that it W3S calculated to do deep j inju'- y. He could not enter upon the present subject without Congratulating himself and the House upon the manner in wbich the Bill was discussed in the last Sussion, it was discussed in the total absence of all party feeling, and the effect of ' that discussion was such, that any stronger reading the debates upon the subject, such was the unanimity amongst all the Irish members, would not know what party any of the speakars belonged to. He hoped that the same course would be adopted on the present occasion. He fianVly avowed that his own opinions were averse to tbe introduction of any poor- laws for Ireland— at least he was opposed to it as far as it would affect able- bodied persons, or those capable of working for themselves. He did not think that a provision for the able- bodied poor in general could be introduced pi operly by law without the most deleterious effects being produced. The introduction of such a provision was calculated to diminish self- reliance— to diminish industry, and above all to extinguish kindly andgenerous feelings of nature towards parents, children, relatives, and friends. Those were the natural effects of ageneral poor- law, and in his opinion it was in vain to hope by legislative means to extinguish the best feelings ofhuman naiu'e. [ hear, hear.~\ He was therefore opposed to a general poor law— but supposing that he was wrong in that opinion, then he would take up this particular poor law bill, and object to it. As in making that objection he must necessarily go into a discussion of its general clauses, he might be met by stating that those clauses might be amended in committee, and that therefore he ought not to rely upon tbe details of the measure in objecting to its principle.— [ hear.'] His answer to that wouid be that it was not his intention to rely upon any of the clauses which might he altered in Committee. He would not rely upon the emigration clause.. he would not rely upon the clause making Magistrates Guardians.. be would leave them eligible to be elected, but he would not appoint them to these offices. He would not rely upon the clause preventing clergymen from filling the office of Guardian, because those clauses might be altered in Committee. He would take it that those clauses would be altered, but he certainly thought that no alteration could render them ofany service whatever. It was " a Bill for the more effectual provision of tbe destitute in Ireland." It seemed to bean odd kind of phrase.. " the ore effectual relief of the destitute." It seemed to assume as a fact, that there was an existing " effectual r e l i ef and that this was only an improvement, or perhaps it was a lsgislative blunder upon the comparative or positive degree. But relief of the destitute was all it purported to give.. relief of the destitute alone was the scope of the Bill. In his Report, on which was founded this Bill, Mr. Nich& l made this strange distinction between Englatidand Ireland.. in his Report he staved there was much more poverty In Ireland than in England, and, unfortunately, he told tbe truth ;.. but then Mr. Nicbol likewise said there was much less comparative destitution in Ireland than there was inEngland. lt was an odd kind of phrase to legislate upon, and yet a great deal of legislation was involved in that proposition— or distinction lather— between poverty and destitution. He was not now arguing there was n j t direct poverty in Ireland— be knew there was : he was not now arguing there was not great destitution in Ireland— alaf, .. be- knew i> too frell there was : and the question yjai, how rnuch; o£, this- destitution ( as none of the poverty was) was to be rel'evod by this bill. The first thing tbe repfli- t s i ^ s l e d .. snagitikfthe. B& uhonld take away one expense from the poor of Irehuid- r- tliat it should relieve the poor not by the diye'etbut by the indirect- operation o f t h e Bill, because it w? s siijges'; ed that at present the poor in Ireland were supported by the jippr classes themselves. It had been stated that tbe value of one million sterling was given away annually in Ireland, and principally, if not exclusively, hy the poorer classes, to those who were one degree poorer than themselves ; and there would be no doubt that very considerable relief was afforded. ( hear, hear.) And first he bad to remark on the total absence of all concomitant measures, 0n> . the part of the Government. Tbe noble lord contented himself in answering tbe Gallant Colonel opposite, with referring to the emigration clauses of that Bill. Lord J. RUSSELL— And to the measures already taken with regard to emigration. Mr. O'CONNELL was glad to be corrected. They would then have the Bill stripped of those clauses. It was a Bill purporting to afford relief to all classes of the poor and destitute in Ireland. It relates to the halt, the blind, the idle— in fact to all. It is a Bill which upon principle refuses to recognise any legal right to relief— all relief given under the Bill, was to he given under the direction of the Poor Law Commissioners— it was to be at the disposal of the Board of Guardians. It is a Bill which excludes all settlement, even if it gave the right to relief, it contained no settlement clause. It is a Bill which excludes any person receiving relief anywhere, except in the workhouse. That is the form of the Bill. Hitherto* they had known Poor- laws in Ireland only by name— that Bill was the first they had heard of in Ireland.. ( hear].. It was founded upon the English Bill, but it went even further than it, as it positively refused all relief, except in the workhouses. The Poor- laws in England had been long in existence, and when the Bill for their amendment was before the house, it was stated that they had raised up a new species of population— a pauper population— who preferred living in idleness upon the parish funds. The consequences ofthe system were great dissatisfaction — great injury to property and person— the breaking of machi. nery— the burning of farm- houses and farm- yards— all these things prevailed to a great extent in the South of England, where the system was in fu'l operation ; thus affording an illustration of how little a Poor- law tends to alleviate the condition of the poor, or to effect any good. The Bill then before the house professed to confine all relief to the destitute. It was said that a Poor Law would relieve the people of Ireland from the million peV anuum given away in charity, He ( Mr. O'C.) had no data upon which he could ascertain whether such an amount was given away in that country in this manner. But this he could state, that no persons in Ireland complained of the relief thus given away. On the contrary, they connected it with religious obligations, and considered that it was productive of kindly feelings in this world, and that it had a tendency to merit another and a better world elsewhere. Nobody complained of this giving of alms, and it was a mockery to say, that a poor- law would take away the necessity of this charity [ hear.] Upon this part of the case, he wished he could bring before the house the evidence which had been given psto the kindly disposition of the Irish people, the anxiety to afford each other relief, the care of parents over their the affection of children for their parents, brothers refusing to go abroad when tempted by high American wages, because the mother was alive, or the sisters unmarried; the great sacrafices made for the gratification of these, the purest and kindest emotions of the human heart, which elevated the character o f t h e Irish people above the population af any other country on the face of the earth, ( hear, hear.) The truth was, that in no country in the world was there a deficiency of benevolence to administer to the wants of the poor, if there was property enough in that country to enable that benevolence to effect its purposes. It was the want of property that caused destitution in Ireland, and it would be fruitless to attempt to remove that destitution by a Bill which should take money out of the pockets of those who earned it to put into the pockets of those who did not earn it, That was the scheme introduced for forced benevolence in Ireland. It was another feature of this Bill that this taxation was inflicted upon the occupiers of land in Ireland. That was another ingredient in the Bill which he was now opposing. The occupier of land in Ireland, who held it without any profit, paid one half the taxation ; the occupier of land, paying more than it was worth ( as in the case of Mr. Nichols on Donegal), by this this Bill was taxed one- half tbe entire rate because he was the occupier, ( hear.) The other half was apportioned thus. ( hear, hear.) Whenever the landlord received his rent out of tbe land, the tenent's profit over the rent was caculated ; and where could there be a more fruitful source of litigation *— The profit varied from year to year, according to the extent of the stock or the capital laid out. Here was a running litigation in Ireland— in a country in which hitherto at least, with rare in - stances, there had been one law for the rich and another for the poor. If it had been ameliorated, enough of it remained particular in the remote parishes to make it a constant source of agitation and violence, a perpetual wrangle between the tenant and his landlord, and if the tenaut refused to admit having a large r income than he really had, how many instances were there in which the landlord might make it exceedingly dange- ' rous to allege that he had not income that would mitigate the j landlord's tax. It had been said that the Poor- laws did not increase the property of the country, but merely altered its dis THE CORK SOUTHERN REPORTER. i IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT— CONTINUED. tribution. That had been taken up, and it was said though it did not affect other countries it would be beneficial to Ireland, because six- sevenths of the income collected there was spent elsewhere, and it contributed nothing to the poor; give Poor Laws to Ireland, and you will reach this income. This Bill prevented that income beingcome at. It charged the tenant with a proportion of the second half equal to bis profit. If the tenant paid a fine, and laid out that amount, instead of diminishing his taxation and increasing his profit, he increased his taxation, and diminished his landlord's taxation. A person residing in Ireland paid this tax in a double capacity, therefore it was a bonus to absenteeism. It was proposed by this bill to build 100 workhouses, and they were told that the cost of their erection would be £ 7 , 0 0 0 a piece. These houses were to contain 800 individuals. It would be impossible to erect houses capable of containing such numbers under £ 1 0 , 0 0 0 each, and thus they would in the first instance have a cost of one million to begin with. This million would be charged upon the country.. The opinions of Irish members on both sides of the house.. the opinions ofthe Archbishop of Dublin, and other eminent men, who had prepared the report he had alluded t o . . were not considered at all by the government; but they rested their measure on the sole ipse dixit of Mr. Nicholl. The 80,000 of this gentleman was come at in an odd way. He took Berkshire, and other counties in England where pauperism was most extensive, and having calculated the relief administered in the workhouses thereat one per cent., he concluded that one per cent, was the proportion of the most pauperised population, and, consequently, the proportion of Ireland. But he omitted to state that 4 per cent, of the population were relieved out of doors ; so that, instead of one, he should have said 5 per cent., and instead of £ 8 0 , 0 0 0 £ 4 0 , 0 0 0 . In his last report he admitted that be had made this mistake. Yet this was the Solomon upon whose data they were about to legislate. ( Cries o f " Hear, hear.'')— He had picked up a gentleman named Stanley in his last visit to Ireland, whose information he recommended to the Government, as coming from a man of great local knowledge and immense acquaintance with the statistics of Ireland. To show what reliance was to be placed on the information had from this gentleman he would read a few of his facts. He stated it as a remarkable fact that the poorer classes in Ireland were particularly averse to early marriages.. ( A laugh.) That while the unmarried male adults of that country were the one- fourth ofthe whole, in England they were the one- eighth, and in Scotland the one- sixteenth. ( A laugh.) This learned calculator had found a great mistake in Mr. Nicholl's numbers of the destitute; and summing them up to an unit, announced that the real amount was exactly 82,806. They had no evidence but that of ' Messrs. Nicholl and Stanley to guide them, and he would ask them could they expect to frame an efficient bill upon such a basis ? They should recollect that the Poor Law Commissioners reported 585,000 heads of families destitute in Ireland throughout the greater part of the year, and, calculating them by the usual average of numbers in Irish families, it would give 2,300,000 odd. Supposing them to be even one million, how were such a mass to be provided for by the Poor- laws ? In England there was produced 150 millions per year, while Ireland produced only fifty- six millions, and this in a soil of greater fertility. When that greater fcomparative fertility was taken into consideration, what did they propose to do to remedy the prevailing distress ? Why. their remedy was to impose a tax upon the agriculturists, altogether forgetting that every shilling paid in the shape of taxation was taken from the fund that would otherwise be expended in wages, thus annihilating the hope of any future advantage to be derived from the cultivation of the more fertile soil. The same disparity existed between Great Britain and Irelaud on the matter of taxation. By the accounts ending January, 1837, Great Britain had contributed £ 55,850,150 9s. 4fd. The gross revenue in Ireland amounted only to £ 4,870,402 Is 3d. Ireland, with its coasts indented by so many excellent harbours, by estuaries and rivers, which made coal to them as cheap as it was in a colliery town in England, was yet unable to profit by it, and possessing one and a balf the population contributed only one eleventh of the revenue. He did not wish to say anything of a polemical or litigious character, but he thought that before attending to the Poor- laws there were other sub jects which demanded attention. The Irish Municipal Bill would do more than the Poor- laws, by placing the people with respect to privileges on the same footing as the peoplo of England. He would put this point to the English Members which, if the report of Mr. Nicholl was correct, would save his entering into the details ofthe workhouse system. Was the Irish adult labourer ever known to beg ? No ; but he came over to this country. The Irish adult labourers flocked over here in troops, and England always supported them, The Hon. and LearnedMember then read two extracts from the report of Mr. Nicholl, confirmatory of his views, in the latter of which it was stated that, however poverty- stricken the tenant might be the landlord was always paid in full. He then wanted to know if such were the case, what remedy it would be to the poverty of the country to box the people up in workhouses ? The report of the commissioners presented a pleasing but melancholy contrast between the English and Irish peasantry. But putting them into poor boxes, and making them occupy prisons, was not the remedy to be applied to the Irish people. It could not be done ; and he would ask any Hon. Member whether such a people as the Irish were likely to submit to such a punishment, having committed no crime ? If it were attempted the same scenes would occur as had occurred in England— the same tem of agrarian outrage would be repeated.. and they would be sowing the serpent's teeth which would most assuredly spring up as armed men—( hear, hear.) On the motion being put from the chair, Lord J. RUSSELL thanked the hon. and learned gentleman for the temperate tone in wbich he had discussed the question then before the house. The hon. and learned gentleman had very fairly stated that bis opposition was to compulsory relief, and although that was not too large a question for him to enter into at present, he would remind the house of the condition of this country before the system of compulsory relief was introduced. In England, in Holland, and in the Canton of Berne, that system had been adopted, and no one who had travelled through those countries but would say that greater prosperity existed among them, where but for that system no such prosperity could have been. In England the abuses of the poor laws had been carried to a greater extent than in any of those countries ; but he would ask the farmers who pay the rates, or the poor themselves, whether the system of compulsory relief did not lead to a prevention of general mendicancy and robbery ? The system proposed gave encouragement to honest industry, and stimulated individuals to make exertions for advancing their interests. Another reason, and a very principal one, in favour of the establishment of a poor law was the improvements that would necessarily ensue. Let them compare differences between those who were employed by the occupiers of land and those who lived on charity, ( hear.) The hon. and learned gentleman had said that there were one million of persons in Ireland who subsisted on charity, and yet he laughed at the idea of £ 800,000 being applied to their relief ( hear). According to his view of the operation of the law, it would be a tax upon property, partly on the tenants who were occupiers, and partly on the landlords. This would of necessity affect all future engagements, but by which the proprietor residing and the proprietor who was an absentee must both benefit. He felt surprised that, after the speeches of the honourable and learned gentleman, and some 20 written letters, that he could not bring some better argument in opposition to the poor law. The distinction between real destitution and idle vagrancy wasjust and necessary, and even now, if it were to be done away with, the farmer would find himself in circumstances in which he would be almost compelled to give relief, ( hear.) There was another consideration which should be looked to, which was, thai the landlords, having the burthen of poor rates upon them, would take a greater and deeper interest in local concerns. The improvement of their own estates would meet with more attention, and even those who were most negligent would become more attentive to their interest, so that the labourer would be improved in his condition while improvement was going on in the land. The hon. and learned gentleman had denied that there was any distinction between poverty and destitution. Now he thought that the majority of the poorer population in Ireland were in a condition which might be said to be poor without being destitute— persons who were able to work, and surrounded by those who, if not in wealth, were able to assist them. The hon. and learned gentleman then complained that relief was to be coupled with the irksome eondition of an abode in the work- house, and that the plea of poverty was not of itself to be accepted ; and inquired what remedy could be afforded in such cases. He, in reply, said, as he had said before with respect to the English poor law, that, by means ofthe poor law, there would be a greater demand for labour, and the labourer, instead of receiving low wages, would receive high. That was the principle of the law, which the hon. and learned gentleman wished to sink, and he thought the house would do right to take care, when the bill went into committee, to hold in their own hands the power of enlarging it, but not to extend it at present. From the statement of the hon. and learned gent, itwould be suppose that the measure had emanated from the recommendations of Mr. Nichol or Mr. Stanley. Now. on the question of recommendation, one of the first passages ofthe report of the poor law commissioners was to the effect that, upon the best consideration, the commissisoners recommended legal provision to be made not only to those suffering from permanent bodily infirmity, butalso to tbose subject to casual destitution. ( The noble lord here read the extract from the report.) Any thing more comprehensive and explicit he had not chanced to meet witb, or comprehending more persons and classes, than what he had read. The question had been whether tbey could safely and benefically afford relief or otherwise, and the result of the inquiry had been that, it | should be afforded only under certain circumstances similar to those which regulated the relief under the English bill, and for [ the same reasons it was proposed in both cases. That was the [ case made on the report of the Irish poor law commissioners, J and he ( Lord J. Russell) thought, after the passage he had just read, that it could hardly be said those gentlemen were against the system of compulsory relief, or that the government neglected', their recommendations. The government surely felt that it was necessaryina case of such importance to take every opinion worth having, and consult every authority of any weight, both in England and in Ireland— to seek, in short, for every information possible, before they proceeded to found any system or plan on the subject. That information tbey had obtained. On it the house was called to act ; and if, with the facts which had been furnished before them, a decision adverse to compulsory relief were come to, then he should deem it an error in legislation, and an injury to the country they desired to benefit. That would be the result of the bon. and learned member's amendment. If, on the contrary, the house should agree upon rejecting that amendment, and if it should agree to go into the bill— examining well its details— weighing them in a just balance— considering the subject in all its bearings, without suffering themselves to be carried too far one way or the other— then it might safely be hoped that the consequence would be to make of it a measure in which all parties agreed, by a rare concurrence, to join in affecting some good for Ireland.. ( Hear.) Mr. SHAW agreed with the Noble Lord that the time was come when some mode of public relief must be afforded to the poor of Ireland. He was not one of those who entertained any very sanguine hopes of the present measure. He was quite aware that the great want of Ireland was some means of employing and relieving a redundant population, and he did not think that this measure could have that effect. He felt, too, that there was justice in many ofthe observations of the hon. and learned gentleman ( Mr. O'Connell) in reference to his objections to all compulsory provision for the destitute. He agreed that every impost upon property for the support of the indigent was more or less a tax upon the source of independent labour. But notwithstanding all these theoretical and political difficulties, he felt it was the duty of the House, as rational men, to consider whether they could not take some step towards the improvement of the poor and the destitute in Ireland. While on the one hand, however, he thought they ought not to form too sanguine an estimate of the benefit which this measure would confer on Ireland, on the other they ought not to be deterred from taking every practical step towards improving the condition of that country. Their great object ought to be not to raise expectations which they would afterwards be obliged to disappoint. Although he agreed with the Noble Lord in the principle which he had adopted, namely the making the workhouse a test of destitution, yet be thought that the noble lord had gone rather too far in carrying out the principle. He feared that in proposing to give relief to all the destitute, through the medium of the workhouse, he proposed to effect that which it was impossible for him to accomplish. He feared that the work house system would either be altogether useless as a means of relief to cases of able- bodied destitution, the system of restraint in the workhouses rendering those places so unpalatable to the able- bodied poor as altogether to deprive them of the benefit of this law ; or that those workhouses would be wholly inadequate to the wants of the destitute, if the various precautions to prevent the people from improperly applying to them should not produce that effect. He owned that he was apprehensire that the latter branch ofthe alternative would be the result. He feared that the workhouse would be found to be totally inadequate. It was very true that the Irish character was attached to liberty and impatient of restraint, but then distress and nakedness, and destitution, would break down the proudest spirit; and there was also this characteristic about the Irish people, that if once that difficulty of which he had spoken were overcome, they were peculiarly enduring and patient, and far more regardless of suffering than other people. He was therefore fearful that the restraints would not be sufficient to deter the able- bodied from going into the workhouse. His desire was to provide for the sick, the impotent, the aged, and the infirm, though he would not draw a very close line in that respect. Under all tbe circumstances, it occurred to him that the plan of giving relief to the aged, impotent, and infirm, within the workhouse or asylum aided, no doubt, as it was intended, by a well- considered system of emigration of the able- bodied, and by an increase of employment on public works, not undertaken merely to give temporary relief to thelabour market, but for the lasting improvement ofthe country,) would be found to be, if not sufficient, the least ob- i jectionable plan that could be introduced into Ireland. As to | the argument, that a compulsory provision would dry up the I sources of charity that now poured forth its streams to the relief of the indigent poor in Ireland, he entertained no appre- I hension that any consequence of that description could result ' from the present measure. He trusted, as well for the sake of the giver as well as the receiver, that they would always find the spirit of charity continuing amon gst them, sweetening, as it ever did, all the intercourses of social life, binding together the different classes of society, and promoting the best interests of all. ( Cheers.) Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN contended that the shopkeepers were anxious for a measure to suppress mendicancy. In the county in which he resided he knew the inhabitants were overrun with beggars from the county of Kerry. It appeared to him that the greatest defect in the bill was its dependency altogether upon the workhouse system. Even in England there was a strong feeling against the extension of the workhouse system, for five or six to one was the proportion of relief given without the workhouse doors. Mr. Nicholl calculated the number of destitute poor in Ireland, exclusive ofthe able- bodied, at 80,000 ; he thought the number requiring permanent relief would not be less than double that number; and to afford them accommodation it would require to have no less a sum of money than two millions for building workhouses. He strongly approved of the system of emigration, and thought Upper Canada afforded a fine field for carrying that object into effect. He was of opinion that the Noble Lord had done wisely in avoiding the law of settlement. With respect to the apportionment of the rates upon the landlord and the occupier, he had formerly introduced a bill that was most favourable to the small occupier. One shilling in the pound on the whole rental of Ireland would be amply sufficient for the purposes of that bill, and if two- thirds of that were thrown upon the landlord, the other third would be as nothing to the small occupier, compared with the saving in being relieved from supporting sboals of mendicants. Mr. LUCAS concurred in the principle, but not in all the details, of the bill. It was certainly highly desirable that the poorer classes in Ireland should be relieved from the burden of almsgiving to which they were at present subjected, and he would, if on that account alone, give his support to a poor- law bill. He would mention a circumstance to bear out that opinion. An excellent landlord, watchful of the comforts of his tenantry, and who was in the habit of having their cabins annually whitewashed, was thus addressed by one of them, after the interior of hishabitation bad undergone that operation—" For God's sake, Sir, don't let my house be whitewashed outside. It is a quarter of a mile from the road, and cannot now be seen by the begears as they pass along; but if it be whitewashed, 1 shall be ruined, and shall never be able to pay my rent." ( Laughter). The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had advanced topics unworthy of his talents, and made use of arguments which appeared to him ( Mr. Lucas) quite fallacious. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite treated the proposition of compulsory relief as worse than the Union, alleging that the tenant must pay tbe impost. In his ( Mr. Lucas's) opinion there could not be in the mind of any man a shadow of doubt that, eventually, the ! charge must fall upon the Landlords ; but in the present relation of landlord and tenant, it was evident that the measure might be said to take them unawares ; justice, therefore, required that, under the existing bargains between those two classes of the community, the burthen should be apportioned equally on both. With reference to the objections which he intended to make in committee, he should just observe, that in England the whole of the poor- rate was to be paid in the first instance by the occupying tenant; the necessary result was, that the class of the community watched over not only mendicancy itself, but over the administration of the funds intended for its relief. A payment in the first instance by the occupier could not be proposed with regard to Ireland ; if it were, the bill would never pass : but he thought in the measure then before the House there ought to be some substitute provided for the vigilance which the English practice superinduced. Another objection which he entertained against the present measure was, the great size of the unions proposed to be created under it. It was calculated that the whole number of farms in Ireland was 816,000. Now, ifHon. Members would only look at the number of unions, they must see that the rate- payers would constitute assemblies too unwieldy for either voting or discussion. Mr. Nichol was decidedly opposed to what he ( Mr. Lucas) called the vice of the bill ; he observed that the cordial co- operatiOn of all parties was, as regarded the working of a poor law, necessary to the well being of all. Bearing that opinion in their minds, he begged hon. members to look at this fact, that in Leinster the more numerous class of farms would be exempt from rates. The majority would then have no interest in watching the administration of the law, but rather have an interest opposed to its effective andjust application. The system of rating proposed by the bill was much too complicated, and would lead necessarily to the greatest inconvenience. Much as he objected to many details of the bill, and firmly as he believed, if passed in its present shape, it would prove altogether inoperative, he still cordially approved of its principle, and wished the measure every possible success. Mr. ORMSBY GORE was disposed to support the amendment of the bon. and learned gentleman. His objection to tbe motion were two- fold ; fiist, because, of the objectionable system of workhouses to be establisbed by the bill : secondly, because ofthe clauses encouraging emigration. He had a further ground of objection to the bill, which was that it aimed very improperly at centralization, and made it necessary that the whole system should be under the direction and control of a board, either at Dublin or in London, uncontrollable by any other authority. Mr. BARRON approved of the measure itself, and also of a vast majorityof its details. He hardly thought the bill was capable of much improvement in the committee. Mr. GIBSONdid not approve of the measure ; but if it should go into committee he should feel it his duty to render the details as little burtheusome as possible ( Cries of " divide, divide.") Sir F. TRENCH said, that notwithstanding the panegyric of the hon. member for Waterford, he hoped never to see tha day when 100,000 of his fellow- countrymen would be immured in those prisons called work- houses. The house then divided. The numbers were : FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SPAIN. POOR RELIEF BILL— IRELAND. SEVERE FIGHTING. ST. SEBASTIAN, JAN. 29— Yesterday evening, the centre of O'Donnell's position was attacked, reinforcements having arrived for that purpose. Our out piquets were driven in, witb the exception of one piquet posted in a house, which was most gallantly defended by a captain - with half a Company of the Ciudad Rodrigo regiment, wbo kept the whole of the enemy at bay.— Col. AVakefield, at the head of his Lancers, promptly forded the river, and made so rapid a movement that the factious gave way in the greatest disorder, as usual taking to tbe mountains, to the very summit of which they were followed by Col. Wakefield, where he was obliged to halt for tbe infantry, as well as to enable the horses to take breath. In this attack the enemy lost very considerably, as they were unable to carry off their wounded men. Of our troops four were killed, and one lieutenant of the Chapplegories and sixmen wounded. About two o'clock this day, the 29th. General Jochmus. with the Lancers, five companies of the'Ciudad Rodrigo Regiment, and two companies of the 2d Legiros, carried the heights of St. Esteban, overhanging Andoain. In this affair our Lancers, under Colonel Wakefield, particularly distinguised themselves. Colonel Wakefield, Captain Stutterhiam, andCaptainHograve, at the head of a few Lancers, not more than a dozen, advanced considerably in front ofthe infantry againstthe parapet and pine wood, and dashed on at the parapet in a gallop ; they had no sooner got from under cover of the rising ground than they were received by a volley from the parapet, by which Captain IIograve was severely but not dangerously wounded, and two horses slightly hit. Colonel Wakefield, however, continued to advance, and the whole of those left to defend both tbe parapet and wood retreated in the greatest confusion, flying as it were across a steep and difficult ravine to the summit of a stupendous hill upon the other side, and across which it was entirely impossible for cavalry to follow them. Our troops continued in possession of Urnietta till about nightfall, when they were ordered to fall back uppon Zurbietta. JANUARY 3 1 . . . On my arrival at the camp yesterday morning I found our forces making preparations for a retrograde movement, it having been ascertained that the enemy were strongly reinforced during the preceding night. General O'Donnell ordered the retreat to commence about twelve o, clock, and our troops retired in the most beautiful style imaginable. Col. Colquhoun, with the Royal and Marine Artillery, were at the Oriamendi- hill, to cover the retreat, if necessary ; as the Carlists did not attempt to press upon the rear, they were not therefore engaged. The moment the additional troops are withdrawn, that moment again O'Donnell again moves out, and possibly in another direction. The disarmed infantry regiment under Colonel Woolridge, quartered on the Passages road, were thrown into some confusion last night in consequence of two or three companies of the factious attacking the Ainetza and Alza forts. Lord John Hay has in consequence, ordered those men to Passages, under the protection of the Royal Marines. A few of them will be embarked to- morrow morning. G E R M A N Y . In tbe House of Commons on Friday night, Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the committal of this Bill, to which Mr. O'CONNELL moved as an amendment, that it be committed on that day six months— in effect that it should be rejected. The London Journals of Saturday, received at a very late hour this morning, have brought us the debate and the division upon it, which was as follows :— For the original motion 277 For the amendment 25 Majority 252 Mr. O'CONNELL prefaced the moving of his amendment by a speech of considerable length, the topics of which, from the many occasions on which he has entered into the discussion of the subject, are familiar to the Public. The Hon. and learned Member was replied to by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who said that Mr. O'CONNELL had very fairly stated that his opposition was to compulsory relief. The noble Lord reminded theHouse of the condition of England before the system of compulsory relief was introduced. The system had been adoptedin England, in Holland, and in the Canton of Berne, and no one wbo had travelled through those countries but would say that great prosperity existed among tbem, where, but for that system, no such prosperity could have been. Lord JOHN RUSSELL replied to Mr. O'CONNELL'S reasoning in detail, expressing his surprise that after the speeches of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, and some twenty written letters, he could not bring some better argument in opposition to the Poor Law. Mr. SHAW agreed with the Noble Lord that the time was come when some kind of compulsory relief was absolutely neceesary for the Irish Poor : he should, therefore, vote against the amendment. Relief to the aged, the impotent and infirm, within the Workhouses, aided by a well considered system of emigration for the able- bodied, and a comprehensive plan of employment in the country on public works, would be the best measure that could b e a d o p t e d . Mr. W . S. O ' B R I E N , M r . LUCAS, M r . REDINGTON and Col. CONOLLY spoke in favour of the Bill. Mr. ORMSBYGORE supported the amendment, being opposed to the workhouse principle, and also to Emigration. Mr. LITTON, M r . BARRON, M r . J . Y O U N G , and M r . GIBSON, s u p p o r t e d t he motion for going into Committee. Sir F. FRENCH was for the amendment, when the House divided, with the result already stated. The following Members composed the minority, of whom thirteen were Irish, besides the two Tellers. Attwood, Thomas ( Birmingham) Bodkin, John James ( Galway Co.) Kemble, Henry Lockhart, Alexander M. Macnamara. Major ( Clare) Maxwell, Henry ( Cavan) O'Connell, John ( Athlone) O'Connell, Morgan ( Meath) O'Neil, Hon. John B. R. Parker, Robert T. ( Preston) Pryme, George Scarlett, Hon. Robert ( Norwich) Verner, Colonel ( Armagh) Westenra, Hon. H. R.( Monaghan) From the Municipal Political Gazette. BERLIN, JAN. 29.. It is well known that soon after the removal ofthe Archbishop of Cologne, a deputation of the Rhenish and Westphalian Nobility came to this city, whose object was to obtain from his Majesty an alteration in the resolution that had been taken, in which, however, they so entirely failed, that tbe deputation did not even obtain an audience of the King or of one of the Princes. The King, however, was pleased to receive the address of the deputation of the Nobility, and to reply to it by a letter. In this letter, as we learn from good authority, the King expressed his surprise at the address presented to him which was entirely conttary to order and to the Constitution ; still more, however, was he surprised at the unfounded apprehensions expressed in it that the Catholic Church was attacked in its rights. " That they ought to remember tbe many benefits conferred by him on the Catholic Church, for which the Pope himself, in the Bull de salutate Animarum, had given him due praise; that the Western Provinces could not be favoured abo » e the Eastern; the King has duties to perform also to his Protestant subjects ; that from the rank and education of the Deputies and those who sent them, it was expected that they would have judged of the events that had taken place more correctly than they had done. But what excited the highest astonishment was the public display of their regret at them. The King calls their attention to their duty, to exert themselves that their fellow believers may have a favourable opinion of the measures o f t h e Government. Lastly, with respect tothe Archbishop himself, the documents would in due time prove that he had abused the forbearance of the King, who had at length been obliged to exert his authority, as the Archbishop would do nothing that was required of him:" We are assured that the letter which his Royal Highness the Crown Prince addressed to the Deputations was conceived in similar torms. " s PRICE OF IRISH STOCKS, FEBRUARY 10. 3 per Cent. Consols 91$ 3J per Cent. Stock 99J 9 34 ditto New ( 1830) 1) 111 3J per Cent. Debentures of ( 921. 6s. Sd.) 9148 PRICE OF SHARES. City of Dublin Steam Company 109454 City of Dublin Steam Company Stock 1836 37i ^ O U T I J E N T R E P O R T E R. C O R K , T U E S D A Y " , F E B R U A R Y 13, 1838. On Sunday and yesterday we received the London Journals of Thursday and Friday, and this morning those of Saturday. No arrival yet from Canada or the United States. The dela naturally encreases tbe anxiety.. great every where, but particularly at Liverpool and London, as will be seen from tbe extracts below. THE FUNDS, CITY, HALF- PAST ONE O'CLOCK, SATURDAY.— Up to t h e p r e s e n t time we do not hear of any arrivals from the United States. Numerous enquiries are continually made after the packet at the North American " offeehouse, both by merchants, speculators, and the public, who are all very anxious for her arrival, to ascertain the state of our affairs with the President of the United States, as well as in Can ada. The various funds, both British and Foreign, are in a stagnant state, the speculators fearing to operate before the arrival of the packet from New York. Consols were at one period in the morning at 91 § buyers for the Account, since which they are not quite so good, and may he quoted at 91^ {. THREE O'CLOCK.— Consols for t h e Account, 9125- 277 25 - For the original motion For Mr. O'Connell's amendment Majority The bouse then went into committee, and the bill passed through pro forma. EXPECTED NEWS. " An American packet, which probably sailed from New York onthe 16th ult., hasbeen telegraphed, we have heard, off Holyhead ; and though no papers or passengers were landed from her, it is announced that the intelligence she brings is all good.. London Sun of Saturday. The Information of the Sun was incorrect, as we infer from the following, which we copyfrom theLiverpoolMail ot Saturday. " Contrary to general expectation, we are yet without any intelligence of or from the New York packet Europe, whose day of sailing was the 16th ultimo. Various reports are afloat as to the cause of her delay. These conjectures amount to no more than the fact that sbe is due and has not arrived. The head winds which have prevailed of late furnish the best data on which to ground her non- arrival. The wind at Liverpool is nowN. N. E., anil at Holyhead, yesterday evening, was reported due E. While the wind remains thus, the coming in of the packet is scarcely to be expected. The greatest anxiety prevails relative to the characterof the news which may arrive by this packet. Ministers bave resolved to anticipate, if possible, the ordinary sources of intelligence, and have transmitted orders to Holyhead that, whenever any packet from New York is telegraphed, a steamer shall immediately be despatched to board her in the channel, and take the official despatches, that they maybe forwarded to the Colonial- office, with the least possible delay." Mr. SHEIL. " We have great satisfaction in being able to announce that Mr. Sheil has been appointed to the vacant office of Commissioner in Greenwich Hospital. This appointment will be highly gratifying to all Reformers, and to the friends of Ireland".. Courier of Saturday. TheHouse of Commons met for a short time on Saturday, when Mr. E. J. STANLEY moved for anew writ for the County Tipperary inthe room of Mr. SHEIL, appointed to the above office. The place does not disqualify the possessor from sitting in Parliament. THE CHURCH QUESTION. We apprehend that a very serious effort will be made to settle the Church question within a few weeks. The disastrous condition of the Clergy in most parts of the provinces of Leinster and Munster has been so forced upon public attention that even tbe House of Lords is described as likely to afford the question better entertainment than heretofore. At least this is the impression which has been communicated to us from quarters likely to be well informed. As to the exact modus, we should not be at all surprised if the income of the Clergy were made a charge upon the Consolidated Fund.— Dublin Mercantile Advertizer of yesterday. CATHOLIC CHURCH IN IRELAND. The following Prelates are at present in Dublin, for the purpose of holding the annual Ecclesiastical Conference ;... Most Rev. Dr. Crollv, Most Rev. Dr. Macrlale ; the Right Rev. Doctors Cantwell, Higgins, Blake, Browne ( Kilmore). Foran, Keating, Kinsela. Murphy, Burke, Kernan, Denvir, Kennedy Browne ( Galway), and the very Rev. Dr. Healv, Col. the Hon. R. Fitzgibbon, MP. was run down hy a cab, crossing tho street in London, a few days since, and rather seriously hurt; but the hon. member was convalescent. Tbe Dorset County Chronicle says that a gentleman of fortune has been detected in committing forgeries to an imtnensse amount in Dorchester and the neighbourhood. Brabazon, Sir William ( Mayo) Bridgeman, Hewitt ( Ennis) Chester, Henry, ( Louth) Duncombe, Hon. W. ( Yorkshire; Evans, George ( Dublin Co ) Fitzsimon, Nicholas ( King's Co.) Gore, Ormsby J. R.( Carnarvonshire) Gore, Ormsby W. ( Salop) Granby, Marquis of Hayes, Sir Edmund ( Donegal) Ingestre, Lord Viscount Tellers for the Noes— Mr. O'Connell and Mr. James Gibson. ELECTION COMMITTEES. The Campaign has commenced badly for the Tories. Already one decision has been made against them, inasmuch as Mr. BROTHERTON, the respectable Member for Salford, has been confirmed in his seat. The Carleton Club subscribed largely for the prosecution of this Petition, and made sure of winning it, as the sitting member had but a majority of one ; but the men of Manchester and Salford subscribed liberally, too, and went to the Committe with a good sase and ample funds. The Salford Committee consisted of WHIOS— 6. TORIES— 4. Lord Euston, Lord Charles Manners, Major Macnamara, Lord Maidstone, Mr, Fitzsimon, General O'Neill, Col. Salwey, Mr. J. R. Gore. Captain Etlice, DOUBTFUL— 1. Mr. Bewes, Mr. J. G. Heathcote. The petitioner was Mr. Garnett, Tory, against Mr. Brotherton, Liberal. The Committee met on Wednesday ; when Mr. Thessiger, for Mr. Garnett, objected to the vote " of John Oldham, against whose name, in the list of names objected to given by the petitioner to the sitting member, the number 2,063 was placed. Mr, Oldham had removed from the house for which he was registered, before the time of voting ; but Mr. Austen, for Mr. Brotherton, opposed the motion to strike off his vote, on the ground that neither in the registry nor the poll- books was tbe name of Oldham placed againstthe number 2,063 ; the law requiring that there should be no discrepancy between the poll- books and the interchanged lists of the objected votes. The Committee decided that Oldham's name should remain on Mr. Brothel- ton's list of voters. At the meetiugof the Committee on Thursday, Mr. Thessager admitted that this decision was fatal to his case, and that the petition must be withdrawn. The Committee then resolved that Mr. Brotherton was duly elected. On Tuesday, the Committee was chosen for the trial of petitions against the return for the county of Roxburgh, and the borough of Ipswich. The following were put on the Roxburgh Committee :— LIBERALS— 8. TORIES— 3. Lord Wm. Bentinck, Sir Charles Vere, Sir Charles Style, Mr. Packe, Mr. Hall, Mr. ~ Mr. Duff, Mr. Charles Walker, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Strntt, Mr. J. A. Murray, Lord Advocate Mr. Murray was elected chairman. The petition is from the Hon. Francis Scott, Tory, against the Hon. Mr. Elliott, Whig. The Ipswich Committee was composed o f— LIBERALS— 5. TORIES— 6. Mr. Winnington, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. J. C. Westenra, Mr. Hale, Mr. W. Evans, Mr. Broadley, Mr. Archbold, Mr. Damer, Sir Robert Heron, Mr. llramston, Mr. M. E. N. Parker. Mr. Jenkins was chosen chairman. There are two petitions, one from Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, Tory, against Mr. Tuffnell, Whig ; the other from Mr. Rigby Wason, Liberal, against Mr. Gibson, Tory. At the close on Saturday evening, the partieswere even, the Tories having had a majority of one on the preceding evening. On Thursday the Longford Committee was struck, and on it there are eight L i b e r a l s - Mr. E. S. Cayley. .. .. Yorkshire, N. Riding. Captain A. Ellice, .. .. Harwich. Sir J. Colquhoun, .. .. Dumbartonshire. Mr. W. Williams, .. .. Coventry. Lieut- Col. J . H. Seale, .. .. Dartmouth, Sir Robert Ferguson. .. .. Londonderry. Mr. A. Spiers. .. .. Richmond. Mr. Henry Marsland, .. .. Stockport. And three Conservatives— Mr. E. B. Fernham, .. Leicestershire, North. Lieut.- Col. Chaplin. .. .. Stamford. Colonel T. W. C. Master, .. .. Cirencester. On Saturday the Poll Book having been admitted, Counsel for the Petitioners proposed to strike off one from a particular class, on the ground of insufficient value at the time of registration. To this Mr. AUSTEN, Counsel lor the sitting members, objected, on the ground that the Committee had no power as to any thing which took place before the registration. The Committee adjourned before the point was decided. JOINT STOCK BANKS.. The bill which has been introduced into the House of Commons, by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, for the purpose of remedying the inconvenience resulting from the late decision in the Court of Exchequer in the ease of HALI. v. FRANKLIN, has a retrospective operation, extending not only to unlitigated cases, but also to those in which actions have been already commenced. But it is provided that in all such cases the plaintiffs shall pay the costs of the defendants, at such time, and on such terms, as shall be determined by a judge of the court in which the action shall be depending ; and in case of a refusal to pay such costs, the defendant may avail himself of any plea which he might have used before the passing of the act- The following are the material enactments of the bill, which, we understand, will be passed through parliament with all practical despatch :.. " That no contract heretofore entered into, or which before the end of next session of parliament shall he entered into, by any such association or copartnership, shall be deemed or taken to be illegal or void, by reason only of any such spiritual person as aforesaid being or having been amem. ber, partner, or shareholder, of or in the same; but all such contracts shall and may be enforced to all intents and purposes as if no such spiri-- tual person had been or was a member, partner, or shareholder, of or in such association or co- partnership. " That in all actions and suits which shall have been brought or instituted by or on behalf of aav such associations or copartnership before the passing of this act, it shall be lawful for the court in which the same shall be depending or any judge thereof, to make such order on the plaintiff for payment to the defendant or defendants, or any of them, of all or any part of the costs of such action or suit, at such time and on sucb terms as to such court or judge may seem meet; and in case default shall be made in payment thereof, then the defendant or defendants in any such action or suit shall he entitled to the same benefit of any plea or other defence to nnv such demand which he or they might have had if this act had not passed." THE WEATHER. — A frost, which had set in with considerable severity since last Friday night, was accompanied, last evening, by a heavy fall of snow, which continued, witb little intermission, during the night. In some pirts of the country the snow drifts arc several feet high, whilst from all directions the Coaches have heen impeded. The Dublin, by Cashel, Mail, due at 8, did not arrive ' till halt' past nine to- dav. There is not the least appearance oi a change in the weather. We bave much pleasure in announcing lhat the Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Limerick has kindly consented to advocate tbe claims oftheSouthCharitable Infirinary. onSunday the 4th of March at St. Peter's Church. We understand that a marriage is on the tapis between Mr. Stewart. only son of Lady Catherine Stewart, and cousin to the Earl of Galloway, and Miss Herbert, sisterto Mr. Herbert, who married the daughter of Mr. and Lady Eleanor Balfour at the end of last season... Morniiiy Post. On Thursday last, Mr. Geo. Woods, gamekeeper to Lord Jersey at . Middleton, in Oxfordshire, accidentally killed his own son while shooting at a rabbit. MEDICAL CHARITIES' BILL— IRELAND. We received this morning tbe Medical Charities Bill. It is. intitled " A Bill for the better regulation of Hospitals, Dispensaries, and other Medical Charities in Ireland," and was prepared and brought in by Mr. FRENCH and Mr. Sergeant BALLIts enactments a re in substance as follows :— 1. After a day to be named in the present year, for which, there is a blank in the Bill, Grand Juries shall have no power of presenting money for any Infirmary, Hospital. Lunatic Asylum or Dispensary in Ireland, unless under the provisions of this Act. 2.— The Lord Lieutenant is to nominate seven experienced Physicians or Surgeons, well acquainted with the regulation and management of Hospitals andDispensaries, to be a Board of Commissioners for the general control, superintendence and regulation of all Hospitals, Asylums, Dispensaries or other Medical Charities in Ireland, with power to remove them, and appoint others at pleasure, who are to perform, without salary, fee or reward, all the duties prescribed for the Commissioners of Medical Charities by this Act. 3. Five of the Commissioners will form a Board, and they are to have an office in Dublin to be called " The Medical Charity Office," and to employ Clerks and Officers with the approbation of the Lord Lieutenant. 4. The Commissioners are authorised and required to inquire into the management of every Hospital, Asylum, Infirmary, Dispensary or other Medical Charity in Ireland, supported solely or in part by public funds, or established on the bequests or donations of individuals, if intended for public purposes ; and to require from all persons whom it may concern, true accounts in writing of the property and funds, with allnecessary details ; and theCommissioners are authorized tomakeandissue orders for enforcing obedience to, and conformity with, theCharters, deeds of foundation and endowment; and also to make other laws and regulations, and appoint additional Governors& Directors, orCommittees for the government ofsuchCharities and the officers thereof, as the Commissioners may deem necessary for the prevention of any conflict between the objects and purposes of any such institution, and the objects and purposes of any act to be passed in tbis Session of Parliament, or in any future Session, for the relief of the poor in Ireland. 5. The Lord Lieutenant is to appoint Five Physicians or Surgeons, being Fellows, Members, Licentiates, or Medical Graduates of one of the Royal Colleges of Physicians; or Surgeons, or chartered Universities of Great Britain or Ireland, to be Inspectors of Hospitals, Infirmaries, Asylums, Dispensaries and other Medical Charities, to be removeable at pleasure. 6. Each of the Medical Inspectors to receive a salary not exceeding £ 6 0 0 a year, with an allowance for travelling expences, to be sanctioned by the Lords of the Treasury. Salary and allowance to be payable quarterly out of the Consolidated Fund. 7. Inspectors not to be attached to, or connected with, any Medical Charity, School of Medicine or other Medical Institution whatever, or with the sale of Drugs; shall have been in possession of a Diploma for at least seven years prior to appointment, and shall give satisfactory evidence of having been during that period engaged in active practice, or attached to some public recognized Medical Institution ; and that he shall not practice as a Physician, Surgeon or Apothecary, nor be an Inspector of Anatomy. 8. The Inspectors to meet and sit at the Medical Charity office, and may employ the Clerks and Officers in all matters which they may have to transact. 9. The Inspectors are to be Inspectors of all Lunatic Asylums in Ireland, withthe same powers now given by law to the Inspectors- General of Prisons, whose authority in that respect shall cease after the appointment of Inspectors under this act. 10. The Inspectors, or one of them, to visit the Medical Institutions and Charities in Ireland half- yearly. 11. Yearly accounts of the Funds and expenditure of every Medical Charity, with an estimate of expenses, to be laid before theCommissioners in Dublin before the 20th ofjan. in each year. 12. Half- yearly Returns of the state of disease and of the number of Patients in each Institution to be laid before Parliament annually. 13. The MedicalBoard is to have the same powers in requiring the production of accounts from each of the institutions, as is given to the Commissioners of Public Accounts by the 52 Geo. 3, c. 52. 14. 15. The Lords of theTreasury to direct money to be issued for the support of the establishment, to be applied under the authority of the Lord Lieutenant. 16. Qualifications of Surgeons and Physicians. " And be it enacted, that every person shall be capable of being elected or appointed Surgeon to any Infirmary, Hospital, Asylum, Dispensary or any other Medical Charity, in Ireland, who shall have previously obtained letters testimonial of his qualification to practise Surgery ; rom the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, or who shall have obtained the diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, or of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, or a degree or diploma in Surgerv from some other College or University in Great Britain or Ireland, duly authorised by Royal Charter or Statute to grant the same ; and shall produce such certificates or testimonials as shall be sufficient to prove and show to the sa tisfaclion ofthe Commissioners of Medical Charities that he had pursued his professional education andstudies in some Hospital or School of Medicine for Five Years ; and also that he has diligently attended the practice of an Hospital for Three Years at the least, and that he has been carefully examined by a Court or Board of Examiners of some of the Colleges or Universities aforesaid for Two Hours at the least, touching and concerning his knowledge of anatomy, surgery, practiceof medicine, pharmacy and midwifery ; and every person shall be capable of being elected Physician to any of the aforesaid Charitable Institutions who shall have obtained the license or letters testimonial of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland, or the diploma, licence or degree in medicine of some other College or University in Great Britain or Ireland, duly authorised by Royal Charter or Statute to grant the same; and shall also prove and show, to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Medical Charities that he has pursued his medical education for Four Years, aul that he has attended an Hospital for Two Years at the least." 17. No person shall be capable of being elected, appointed or employed as Surgeon or Physician to any Medical Charity, without having previously obtained a certificate under the hands of the Commissioners of Medical Charities that he is duly qualified as aforesaid. 18. Saves the rights of existing Surgeons and Physicians to Charitable Institutions. 19. 20. The Lord Lieutenant may order new Hospitals to be erected, and may change Fever Hospital and Dispensary Districts ; may appoint Governors and Directors thereof, and make rules and regulations for their management. 21. to 25. Sections authorizing the purchase and taking of land, and also empowering bodies corporate to grant land for Cemeteries, not exceeding 30 acres. 26. 27. Grand Juries are requested to present such money as may be advanced for the erecting or maintaining of any Medical Charitable Institution, and that " all houses and buildings situate within, or adjoining to, anv City or Town in Ireland shall be assessed for such presentments under the provisions of this Act, although such houses or buildings may not be customarily assessed under Grand Jury presentments ; and Judge of Assize may order money to be paid if Grand Jury neglect to present. 28.— When Poor Law rate in operation, the monies for the Medical Charities shall be paid out of sucb poor rate as the Lord Lieutenant may direct. 29.— Fines and penalties imposed by any Act now in force in Ireland, or fines or penalties imposed on any person by any Court of Justice in Ireland, to be appliedfor tbe benefit of the Hospital, Dispensary or Infirmary of the City, County or Town where the offence has been committed. 30. Act may be altered, amended or repealed in the present session. TITHES. Mr. LUCAS, member for Monaghan, has given notice of his intention to move for a return of the gross number of persons in Ireland wbo pay Tithe less in amount than five shillings ; and of those who are liable to Tithe exceeding that sum. The Hon. Gentleman has not stated his object in moving for this return, of which we are of course unaware, But if this notice be given with the view of laying grounds for the exemption from payment of those poor persons who are liable to the payment of less than five shillings, the object is a very meritorious one, and the motion highly creditable to Mr. LUCAS. How far such a purpose may be practicable or attainable will'flepend in a great measure on the proportion of the whole composition to which persons whose payments fall short of five shillings are liable.. If the entire amount of the liabilities of tbat class shall be ascertained by the return to be inconsiderable, means will probably be found to exempt tbem from future payment. It bas been our painful duty to refer to instances of proceedings in the Sessions Courts, where Civil Bills have been brought by Clergymen for sums not merely under five shilling! but less than one shilling, and in each of which cases five shillings costs were incurred. Six pence debt, five shillings costs 1 We shall not say that sucb proceedings were disgraceful to the Clergymen, but they were certainly highly discreditable to the Church, and were in no inconsiderable degree instrumentaljin exciting against it that feeling of hostility which is so generally prevalent amongst the poorer class of the rural population. If by the return moved for by Mr. LUCAS, it shall be made appear that these who are liable for less than five shillings do not constitute so large a proportion of the entire Tithe- payers but tbat they may be exempted, the Hon. Member will have rendered a material service to the Established Church in abating much of the odium to which it is subjected. The relief to the payers, small as the sum appears, will not be inconsiderable, for we believe these very low amounts of the tithe composition were never levied without the addition of the costs of Civil Bill pro - ceedings. Mr. LUCAS is the same Gentleman who lately introduced the equitable measure for the relief of another large class of poor persons— the Conacre Tenants. S P R I N G A S S I Z E S. MUNSTER CIRCUIT. County Clare, Ennis, Tuesday, 27th February, County Limerick, at Limerick, Monday, 5th March. City of Limerick, at Limerick, same day. County of Kerry, at Tralee, Tuesday, March 13th. County Cork, at Cork, 19th March.' City of Cork, at Cork, same day. Judges— The Hon. Judge Perrin and Mr. Sergeant Greene, BANDON SCHOOL At the late teim examination in Trinity College, the following Young Gentlemen, pupils of the Bandon School, obtained the honors annexad to their names Mr. Richard Longfleld... a SECOND honor in Classics. a CATECHETICAL Premium. Mr. Hewitt Poole V a FIRST honor in Science. J a FIRST honor in Classics. } a SECOND honor in Science, a SECOND honorin Classics. Mr. ( Jollock had previously obtained the CATECHETICAL Premium of his division, and a Premium in HEBREW. There were examined on this occasion only two other Pupils of the Bandon School, Mr. W. R. Conner, and Mr. Thomas Popham, they were both recommended for honors. Mr. Poole read his examinations at the School. Mr. James Gollock THE CORK SOUTHERN REPORTER. CITY TAXATION. MEETING O F T H E L OCAL RATE COMMITTEE. The weekly meeting of this Comrrittee, SAMUEL LANE, Esq. » President, in the Chair, took place yesterday in the City Grand Jury Room. The first subject introduced had reference to MR. WHERLAND'S PLAN. Mr. HAYES, in compliance with the request of the Chairman, reported briefly to the meeting, upon the part of the Sub- Com mittee of which he was a member, as to the proposition submitted on that day week by Mr. Wherland, in which it was proposed to reduce the local taxation of the City in the amount of 75 per Cent. At the desire ofthe meeting the Sub- Committee, Mr. Hayes stated, had had two meetings, and they found that the plan designed by its author to effect such extensive changes as those contemplated by him gave evidence of much intelligence and devotion, as well in regard to the acquirement of the data upon which it. was founded, as the consentrated manner in which it was produced. Mr. Wherland had evidently aimed at an equitable system of taxation upon all who ought to bo regarded as legitmate olij? ets of it, whilst he sought to exempt, those who ought not, from their circumstances, to be visited at all ; but, they ( the sub- Committee) regretted to say that, as a whole, they did not deem the plan to be of such a leasable and practicable nature as to war rant them in recommending it to the public, either for consideration or adoption. But, at the same time, after having given the proposition that consideration which the paramount importance of the sutject involved in it called for, that they did not feel themselves warranted in recommending it to the Public, it would be unfair to preclude the Public from a knowledge of it, if it were consonant with Mr. Wherland's feelings to give it publioity, in order, if the views of the Public should not concur with those of the Committee, expression might be given to them. Portions of the plan met with the approval of the Committee ; they were founded in judgment and experience, and, as isolated items, were excellent in themselves and susceptible of being rendered of practical utility ; but, taken in connection with others, the entire presented a project not, in the minds of the Committee, adapted for practical working. The Committee sought not to throw themselves between ' Mr. Wherland and the public. All they had done was, to resolve upon not recommending his plan as a Committee. The project had had their best attention ; it was not unworthy, when submitted by him. as an individual, of public attention ; and, as he understood, Mr. Wherland had resolved upon making it- public, there was no doubt it would be entertained with proper feelings by the local community of Cork. POLICE OFFICE— MONDAY. With these few observations he should conclude. Mr. WHERLAND addressed the Committee. When, on that day week, he had the honor to submit his plan for the relief j of his fellow- citizens to the amount of 75 per Cent, in their, local burthens, which would be lopping off £ 21,000 a year, he j produced data to the amount of £ 60,000 ; but stripping the matter of all excressances, he found that he would produce, feasably ! and practically, a great deal more money than the present enor- j mous load of rates amounted to. He assured the Committee, and Mr. Hayes particularly, that he was not displeased at their . decision. He was not so vain as to imagine for a moment that ! be possessed more sense than they did ; but, in justice to himself, he assured the meeting that, pending the investigation by the Committee of the plan, he had submitted a copy of it to se- i veral leading Rate- payers in the City, whose approval of it was so unequivocal, tliat he had determined to send it to the Public through the press; ( Hear,) Then it would be for his fellow- citizens to judge for themselves. He invited the utmost scrutiny and he yet hoped to see it well thrashed., Monday after Monday, by that Committee; in the meantime the public would judge. Mr. SAMUEL LANE said it was due to Mr. Wherland to state that, amongst the various suggestions contained in his plan were three, which, in his mind, were well worthy of discussion, l u s t , Gateage Tolls, which at present produced to the Corporation, in the gross, about £ 3.000 a year— secondly. as proposed by Mr. Wherland, a tax on all public vehicles passing through the city, and, thirdly, a Barrier tax. i. e. an impost to be levied on all descriptions of . vehicles, loaded and unloaded, coming into the c i t y ; and, certainly, if Mr. Wherland was correct in his data under this head, an immense revenue could be derived from it— sufficient, in short, to meet the present locai burthens of the city. Mr. W HER LAIS D said that he was perfectly competent, from the offices he tilled, to give his assurance of the correctness ofthe statement referred to by Mr. Lane. Mr. LANE observed that the total sum to be raised, half yearly, off the City'of Cork, under the head of local taxation was about £ 3 0 000. Mr. WHERLAND... Say, now, £ 28,000. Mr. LANE— Very well, say £ 28,000. The provisions of the Poor Law Bill will, in all likelihood, relieve us of £ 6,000 a year of that ; in other words, the Poor Law Bill would provide for all those objects at present appertaining to the House of Industry, the Lunatic Asylum, the Infirmaries, & c. Mr. CRAWFORD here rose, and said that he was desirous of engaging the attention of the Committee to the imDortant matter for the regulation of which they had been appointed by the public. ( Hear.) Mr. Wherland had" said that he yet hoped to see his plan u e\ V thrash edy Monday - ftc'r Monday, in the Committee. Now, he ( Mr. C. ) had strong hopes that very few more Mondays would terminate their labours, and that the important objects lor which they had been selected by the general public would be, aw far aslhose labours could contribute to the end. brought to a close. The three leading topics not yet entered upon by the Committee were, first, the system of Turnpikes, so largely and intelligibly adverted to Mr. Wherland in his plan— next, a treaty with the Pipe Water Company, with a view of vesting the control and manage- I ment of that establishment in the hands of the public, through their chosen Board ; and. thirdly, and lastly, the question as to the number of Boards in which should be vested the control and direction of the local interests of the City...( Hear, hear)... These topics he would reserve for future sittings of the Committee ; in the meantime, he thought if a sub Committee were appointed to confer with Sir Anthony Perrier on the subject of thp Pipe Water, much good might result; and he knew no more fitting person to take a leading part in the negociation than Mr. Hayes, his experience and knowledge of the subject, as well his superior intelligence, rendering him peculiarly suited. Mr. HAYES declined the office so kindly pointed out for him by Mr Crawford. With one of the gentlemen to be approached on the subject, he was not on terms of intimacy ; and he had every objection to make public grounds the medium of bringing round gentlemen to common sense, for it was nothing else. The subject here dropped, and the Committee took up the question of WATCH AND WARD. Mr. CRAWFORD said that in the resolution which he had, at a previous meeting of the Committee, road tor future discussion, and which he now introduced for adoption or rejection, as the gentlemen might think fit, it would be recollected that he recognized the plan of Watch and Ward, so.. frequently, from time to time, introduced to the consideration of the cit4zen8. Jn the Bill which he yet hoped to see in force for the local control of the C i t y , it would be most important that provisions would be made ! for the establishment of a wholesome and well digested system of Watch and Ward ; such an one as would render the present Police force superfluous, and save the Citizens from the expense and pain and annoyance and insult of a body of men which he would only liken to the Gens d" Arms of P^ iJis...( Applause.)— He proposed relieving the City of the expense ot the piesent force, and establishing, in their stead, when necessity arose, a forcc to be instituted on the pi esent English plan...( Hear, hear.) A desultory conversation ensued, during which there appeared to be an almost unanimous feeling of reprobation ofthe Police at present established in our City. The Committee regarded them in a measure as auxiliary to the operations of interested individuals in official station. mueh more than as a suitable force for the preservation of the public peace. The Police Office, it was said, exhibited, daily, evidence of the occupation assigned to our Green- coated Guardians. On the whole, it was resolved by the greater part of the committee to adopt Mr. Crawford's resolution, when Mr. ROQERS. seeing that it would include the Liberties in the charge of sustaining the proposed new establishment, said that he lived in a parish where there was neither magistrate or policeman, and the consequence was, that a more peaceable section of the county way no where to be found ( Hear, hear. ) Most certainly he opposed the extension of the support of the Police, or any other protecting force for the city, to the Liberties. , Finally, Mr. Crawford's resolution, with a slight modification was adopted. B O A R D O F H E X L T H. The next topic brought under, consideration was the establishment in the city, under the proposed bill, o f a permanent Board of Health. Mr. Crawford proposed thattheCity and Liberties should be apportioned into convenient districts, and that in all cases, whether of partial or general epidemic, the sums to be provided to , m, eet, the public exigency, should be raised off the City and Liberties as a whole— riot imposed, as hitherto, parochially: Mr. DALY anticipated that the Poor Law Bill and Medical Charities' Bill would, in their effect, trench upon the measure auggested by Mr. Crawford. A conversation arose as to the recent partial visitation of the Cholera, during which it came out. that a Committee of the citizens . had sat daily at the Cork Instit ution— that anintimition was received from the Government, offering any amount of advance which they, theCommittee, would ask for, and that, as stated by Mr. S. Lane, were the gentlemen not. experienced in such matters, the offer would have been availed nf, and the citizens be once more placed in debt under the head of Cholera, to the Government. Mr. HAYES— Yes, and once more would the Cogniac Brandy and the Beef Steaks have been in large requisition at the Hospitals. Mr. CRAWFORD'S resolution was ultimately adopted. HARBOUR BOARD AND CORN TRUSTEES. The Committee were engaged the remainder of the sitting in a discussion which arose rather inadvertantly, upon the respective merits ofthe Boards of Harbour Commissioners and the Trustees of Markets. Mr. CRAWFORD regarded both establishments as comprehending too much of the Mercantile and Agricultural interests of the City and surrounding districts, to warrant the Committee, independently of the opinion and feelings of the Bodies by which they were represented, to make any resolution, or come to a definitive decision, and proposed, in effect, that, before any provision affecting those interests, was resolved upon by the Committee, the respective Boards themselves would give expression to the views and feelings by which they were actuated. Although opposed to the manner of election to the Harbour board, yet he could not butacknowiedge that they had conferred benefits on the city. A conversation ensued, in which the merits of the Harbour board, mode of election thereto, and i he powers vested in it, were noticed. Messrs. DALY and HATES maintained, that the Board had sanctioned jobbing to a very great extent, and instanced, amongst other items in their list of charges, the extention of the Navigation Wall to the King's quay at Blaek- rock, which, for public improvement did not present the least claim. Messrs. J. Murphy and Spearin^ defended the Board, and denied the applicability of the imputations thrown out. Mr. Hayt- s was ready to prove an instance of a party, one of the paid officers of the Board, at a salary of £ 180 a year, retiring from the performance of his duties, and getting them done for 20Z. a year. Was'nt that jobbing ? Mr. Murphy requested that Mr. Hayes would privately communicate the names ofthe parties to him, which Mr. Hives expressed his readiness to do. Finally, Mr. Crawford's resolution, somewhat altered, was adopted, and the Committee rose. DRUNKARDS AND JINGLE DRIVERS. Alderman SAUNDERS, the Sitting Magistrate, was engaged the greater part of this day in the disposal of about 40 cases of Drunkenness— the Parties against whom the chavge was preferred having been brought up from Bridewell, where, for the greater part, they had spent the nights of Saturday and Sunday— some having been arrested on the latter day and night. They consisted, principally, of Tradesmen— Carpenters, Slaters, Painters, Bakers, and Shoemakers, & c., and were, with very few exceptions, lined or remanded. From the evidence of Sheriff VINCENT and the Police, by whom the accused were arrested, it appeared that several riots took place on Sunday night in Patrick- street and Drawbridge- street, and that upon both nights more of drunken turbulence and brawling was found throughout the City and Outlets than had been met with for many weeks. In one instance an unfortunate man sustained two serious fractures in one of his legs, and had to be sent to one of the Infirmaries, whilst cut heads and disfigured countenances were in prolific abundance. The Alderman expressed himself in very strong terms, and intimated his intention of representing to the Magistrates in Sessions certain Public Houses which were proved to be the scenes of much riot and confusion. As was stated before, the greater portion of the refractory parties were either fined, some 5s, others 2s 6d, or remanded. Sixteen or eighteen Jingle cases were then introduced, 12 of which were postponed until this day week. The charges were generally for nuisances created by the Drivers in the vicinity of their respective Stands, by mobs of them surrounding persons having occasion for a drive, and there annoying and insulting the parties: and for impertinence and, in two instances, assaults. In one case of assault the owner, who was also Driver of the Jingle, drove a respectable Lady, a few evening's since, to her house in Great Britain- street, for which he was paid the legal fare— fid. He demanded Is, and, not getting it, became boisterous in the house. A gentleman— Mr, WRIXON— happening to witness the conduct of the accused to the Lady, interfered, and was struck three or four times by him and threatened to be horswhipped ; the hall door was injured and other outrages committed. The Jingleman ( who did'nt attend) was fined 10s and the costs. MARRIED. Feb. 3. at Kilscoran Church, county Wexford, by the Rev. Mr. Hore. uncle to the bride. Philip Bagenal. of Bagenalsiown, county Carlow. Esq. to Georgiana Thomasine. eldest daughter of James Boyde, of Rosslare House, county Wexford, Esq. At Scarborough, William Haywood, to Elizabeth Skinner. Their united ages amount to 133 years, and they have each knelt at the altar of Hymen six times. On Saturday, the 10th inst. at Lislee Church, by the Rev. James Stewart, Mr. Robert Travers, of Courtmarsherry, to Dorah, eldest daughter of Mr. Jasper Travers, shipbuilder, of said place. On the 3lst ult., at Porthury Church, Bristol, by the Rev. E. Burgess, Francis, eldest son of Mr. James Adams, of Cork, to Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. A. Parnell, of the former place. DIED. At the Ovens, of consumption, on the morning of the 8th inst. aged 17 years, Mr. John O'Regan. This truly interesting youth had recently returned home from the Irish College in Paris, where, under the distinguished Presidency of Dr. M'Swiney, he gave promise, by his assiduous application to business,^ by a sincere but unostentatious piety, joined to a high order of talent, to be an ornament to that holy church of which he ambitioned it the highest happinass to become an humble Minister: His afflicted Parents are thus bereaved, by his premature Confinement to the grave, of one of the best and most dutiful of sons and the friends who knew him will long cherish his memory who endeared himself to all by a suavity of disposition rarely met with. On the 1st February, in the 72d year of his age, at his house in this county. John Kirby of Ballymacsimon. Esq. Sincerely regretted by a nu- ; merous circle of friends and relations. Seldom has the grave closed on a man of more sterling worth than the estimable character, whose demise ; has deprived a wife of the best of husbands, and a number of surviving , children of a kind- hearted and indulgent parent. i A few days since, at the Presentation Convent, Carrick- on- Suir, of a protracted illness, and at an advanced age, Mrs. Jane Power, foundress of the Convents of Waterford and Carrick- on- Suir. and one of the first of I those ladies, who, quitting the gay blandishments of society, joined that j excellent order, after its establishment in Ireland, by Miss Nagle of Cork, ; She was a female of excellent good sense.. well regulated mind, and of a most charitable disposition.. strict in the observance of the rigid rule she embraced, but kind and considerate in her demeanour to others. For a per'od of forty- three years was she in religion, devoted ardently to the sacred luties of her profession.. instructing and edifying the poor committed to her care, and fulfilling with advantage to all by her prudence and 1 circumspection, the responsible office of Abbess to which, during her long career, she was frequently elected by the unanimous voice of her sisterhood. Her remains, after the incnatation of a solemn High Mass. by the excellent Priest of the Parish, the Very Rev. Dr. Connolly, were conveyed through the convent garden to the cemetry of that institution, situated within its walls, and followed by the sorrowing Nuns, as well as by a large and respectable concourse of the clergy and laity who attended to pay the last tribute to exemplary, ' christian piety, zeal and worth.— Waterford Chronicle. On Sunday last, near Rathfarnham, the Right Hon. Somerset Richard, Earl of Carrick, of Mount Juliet, in the county Kilkenny. His lordship was in politics an ultra- Tory, but in the private relations of life was beloved and respected as an amiable man and an excellent landlord. He was born the 27th of September, 1779, and succeeded to the honors as third Earl, upon the demise of his father, on the 20th of July, 1813. He was married on the 1st September, 1811, to Anne, eldest daughter of Owen Wynne, of Haslewood, Esq. Of inflamation* on the 2nd. instant, in the eighth year of her age, in the house of her grandfather, Newbold Russell, Esq., Lower Bridge street, Dublin, Mary, only daughter of the Rey. Edmund Stevelly, Rector of Drinagh, ia the county of Cork. A U C T I O N S . A U C T I O N OF NEW AMERICAN DEALS, TIMBER, & c. & c. AT D E A V R S Brothers, Wholesale Lumber Yard, King- street, on MONDAY the 19th February, at One o'Clock, About 7000 Pieces, Qubec and St. John's Deals, Ends and Battens of various lengths and dimensions. 200 Tons Quebec Red and Yellow Pine Timber, 60 Tons Quebec Oak. Elm and Ash Timber. The above are all of excellent quality ; the Deals bright in colour, and the entire will be put up as ritual in Lots to accommodate both Town and Countiy Purchasers. Feb. 6. HALL, Broker. 1 P E R E M P T O R Y RK- SALE. OF UPWARDS OF 830 OUNCES OF SILVER PLATE,& c > Hbj above consists of 8 Side Dishes and Covers, Salvers, ButterTurreens. MustardPots, Muffineers, SaltCellars Fish Slice, Soup Ladle, WineStrainer, Wine Labels, Teapot.& c., purchased at a Sale of thel'roperty ofthe Officers Mess of the 22d Rest, at MARSH'S Rooms, 84, Smith Mall, on the 10thday of Jan. last, and not having been removed and paid for according to the conditions of Sale by the Purchaser thereof, will be peremptorily Resold by PUBLIC AUCTION . IT THE ABOVE ROOMS' on WEDNESDAY next, the 14th day of February instant, at the hour of One o'Clock, pursuant to the Notice served upon the said purchaser. WM. M A R S H , Auctioneer. A U C T I O N Of FURNITURE, Splendid Dinner Service of China. Large Pier Glass and Mirror. Tliree Pianos,& c., at M'DONNELL'S Great Rooms, City Mart, on Thursday next February 15th, Sale at 12 o'Clock. r r " H l S Collection of Furniture will be found well- A worthy the attention of Buyers, as the entire will be sold without reserve. The Furniture consists of Mahoganv Drawing room Chairs, Parlour do., Pillar and Claw Dinner Tables' Breakfast do., a Rosewood Centre Table, Fenders and Fire Irons, Deal and other Wardrobes, excellent Feather Beds, German Silver Spoons and Forks, Silver Plated Cruet and Liqueur Stands ; a Cabinet and two Table Piano Fortes : an excellenf Dinner Service of Worcester China ; Pier Glass, and Mirror ; three Clocks, a quantity of Kitchen Furniture and miscellaneous Articles, Side Board, Sofas and Loungers, Two Sets of Economy Tables, & c. Feb. 13. JOHN M'DONNELL, Auctioneer. S A L E S . MONEY E X C H A N G E OEEICE. JOHN BOURKE, E S P E C T F U L L Y informs his Friends and the Public, that having made arrangements in London and Dublin, & c., lie will act as Agent in the Purchase and Sale of Government Stock and Debentures, Rail- Roard, anil all other descriptions of Shares, and in all Negotiable Public Securities, & c. He continues to buy and sell, S H I P P I N G . Doubloons, Dollars, Pensioners Bills, Bills on London, All kinds of Foreign Gold ana Silver Coins, Waterloo Bills, Sec., & c. At any hour lie can give Bills and Orders on London and Dublin, &('.,& c , on as favorable Terms as any other House. I N o t e — H o p e and Phoenix Offices, 50. St. Patrirk' 3- street, Cork. Feb. 1, 1838. TOBACCO. T'WENTY HHD5. PRIME TOBACCO, just landed by O c e a n i a , and on Sale by JOHN COGAN, Fish- Street, Chandlery. Feb. 8. C A U T I O N . IN B A N K R U P T C Y, In the matter of " VjPHE Assigness will Sell CORNELIUS CCBTIN, ( 8 by P U B L I C AUCTION on a Bankrupt. £ Friday the 16th Day of February Instant and following Days a large assortment of Wines and Spirits in Timber andBottles belonging to the Bankrupts Estate, and also a quantity of Teas, Sugars and other Articles in the Grocery line, in the Bankrupts Warehouse, Daunt's Square, in the City of Cork. The Furniture in the house in Daunt's- square aforesaid, occupied by the Bankrupt, consisting of Mahogany hair- bottomed Chairs, dining and other Tables, Mahogany Sideboard, Mirrors, Window Curtains, Carpets, leather Beds and Bed- leads, Blankets, & c. An 8 day Clock, Silver . Teaont and Silver Sugar Dish and Tongs, silver Spoons, Earthen- ware, and an assortme nt of Kitchen Furniture. 120 Wine Bottles, a great number of Jars, and a quantity of Lumber articles, The Assignee will also on a future day sell the Furniture in the Bankrupt's House at Ballintsmple, of which due notice will be given. The Goods and Furniture may he viewed any day previous to the Sale, on application to THOS. FITZGIBBON, Esq.. No. 4, Morrisons Quay, or to . Messrs. ATKIN and CREAGH, 3 0 , South Mall. Solicitors to the Commission and Assignee. Sale to commence each dav at 12 o'Clock. Cork. Feb. 9. FRED. HALL, Auctioneer. * HE universal high reputation of the following Proprietary articles, induce many Shopkeepers to act so as be and dishonest as to try and foist " upon the public Imitations f eacb, composed of the most pernicious and tlirashy ingredients under the lure of bei< igcheap. , * Some call their trash the " GENUINE" and sign A. Rowland Son, omitting the (_&) To prevent such imposition, it is necessary to notice the following, ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL: Each bottle has their signature, in red, on the wrapper, thus— A, R O W L A N D & SON, 20, IIATTON GARDEN, Counter- signed ALEX. ROWLAND. The lowest price is 3s. 6d.... the next 7s.— 10s, 6d, and 21s. per bottle. ROWLANDS KALYDOR Has their s'gnature enaraved on the Government Stamp, which is pasted over the cork of each bottle, also written, in red, on the wrapper, thus— A. ROWLAND & SON, 20, HAT! ON GARDEN. Price 4s. 6d. and 8s. Gd. per bottle. ROWLAND'S ODONTO Has the Government Stamp pasted around each box, on which is their signature, as above. Price 2s. 9d per box, duty included. May be had of them, and of respectable Medicine Venders and Perfumers. FAIR OF BRUREE. This fair was held on the 6th inst., was one of the largest and be st Pig fairs ever remembered in this Country, 1,700 fat Pigs having exchanged owners. The number bought for the different Markets, were— for Cork, 517— for Limerick, 353— for Waterford, 230— for Carrig- on- Saer, 200— for Mallow, 120— for Tipperary, 105— for Yougbal, 75. The price of which varied from 31s. to 35s. per cwt. In the Black Cattle line the business was rather limited in consequence of the enormous prices de raanded by the holders ; 33 guineas was obtained for three- year old in- cai heifers; a great many more were sold at from stft) to 10 guineas each Stove cattle for fattening not much sought for. THE BRICKFIELD'S FISHERMEN. Amount acknowledged in our last, received at this"! Office. ... j Since when the following sums have been handed to us:— Mrs. Beamish, Beaumont £ 10 0 Henry Burke, Esq. 1 0 0 Eclmond Burke. E « q. 10 0 John Taylor, Esq. ( Bank) I 0 0 Alderman Saunders, 0 10 0 Mrs. O'Brien, Grattans Hill 0 10 0 £ 17 7 fi £ 22 17 6 Of which £ 14- were distributed up to last evening amongst the different families, in proportion to the numbers each contained. The particulars will be given in a future number. Dr Willcs, as Treasurer to the Society for the relief of Indigent Room- keepers, most thankfully owns the receipt of the following sums, in aid of the funds, viz. From the Dowager Lady Chatterton ... £ 1 0 0 Per the Lord Bishop of Cork, an English Gentleman and Irish Gentleman, each £ a 10 0 0 Col. Bainbrigge 3 0 0 Mrs, X. Y. Z I 10 0 A friend by R. Bowden, Esq. 0 10 0 Miss C. Allen. Lakeview 2 0 0 Mr. John Shaw, Jury fine 0 13 6 Lieut. Alleyn Evans, R. N., Castletown 1 0 0 Mrs. Richard Lane, Sidney Place 1 0 0 £ 20 13 6 E N G I N E E R I N G ES T A B U S H M E N T, IRON WORKS, BRASS FOUND RY & B O I L E R YARD J. LECKY, having engaged Workmen of the First abilities, is leady to undertake any Work in the above lines, with which he may be favored. Smitliv, at rere of St. George Steam Company's Office. Cork, 2d Month 6, 1838. R. THE COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC WORKSIRELAND. TO ROAD CONTRACTORS. TH E E N G I N E E R for the West Riding ofthe County Cork is ready to receive Sealed Tenders and Proposals from com petent persons, according to specifications to be seen at his Office^ for Repairing the undermentioned Post Roads, viz. : — 1st, 3,000 Perches of the Post Road from Cork to Bantry, be tween Drowmore and Bantry 2nd, 601 Do. do. from Bandon to Dunmanway, be tween Bandon and Lauragh. 3rd, 351 Do, do. from Bandon to Duntnanway, be tween Ballineen and Fort Robert stream. If ® " The last day for receiving Tenders, in tbe County En gineers Office, Countv Court House, will be Saturday the" 17th instant. Office/ County Court House, Cork, Feb. 8, 1838. E X C E L L E N T L O D G I N GS CO N S I S T I N G of Three Sitting- Rooms, Tiire Bed- Rooms, with Servants' Room, Kitchen, fit for the reception ofa respectable family ; Rent very moderate Apply at No, 55, South Main- street. Feb. 9. WANTED, AN ASSISTANT to the Woollen Drapery Business. Apply at No. 11, Great George's Street. Feb. 13. T p H K ST. G E O R G E Steam Packet Company O- intend despatching their splendid and powerful Steam Packets as under : F O R D U B L I N . The HERCULES, HUGH ROCHE, Commander, on Tomorrow, WEDNESDAY, at 5 o'Ciock in the Afternoon. FOR LIVERPOOL. The E A R L ROD EN, J. LITTLE, Commander, on F R I - DAY uext. 16th instant, at 7 o'Clock, in the Moraine. FOR BRISTOL. The C I T Y OF BRISTOL, JOHN HYDE, Commander, on FRIDAY next. 16th instant, at 7 o'Clock in the Morning. FOR PLYMOUTH kND LONDON " The JUNO, M. MORIARTY Commander, on SATURDAY next, 17th instant, at 8 o'Clock in the Morning. For Freight or Passage apnly at the Company's Office, Penrose's- Quav. LECKY & BEALE, Agents. Cork, February 13, 1837. CORK & L I V E R P O O L S T E A M E R S. THE N e w first Class and powerful SteamPackets " Margaret" Capt. Gosson, and " John M- Adam" Capt! Dain, sail regularly every Tuesday and Friday for Liverpool. Tbe Margaret, Capt. Gosson, on FRIDAY next, the 16th Inst. at 7 o'Clock in the Morning. The John M'Adam, Capt. Dane, on Tuesday, next, the 20th Inst., at 1 o'clock in the Afternoon. For Freight or Passage, ( having superior accommodations^ Apply to NICHOLAS CUMMINS, Agent. Lower Merchant's Quay. F O R I J K W ORLEANS" ' To Sail on the 16th of February " HE beautiful first class American Packet Ship POWHATTAN, burthen 900 Tons ; and on the 20th, For N EW YORK, a fine first class American Ship, burthen 1000 Tons. These fine Vessels are Coppered & Coppered fastened ; their accommodations for Cabin and Steerage Passengers are of a superior description For Terms apply to GREGORY O'NEIL, 15, Merchant's Quay. FORISTTTOTIN'S, N. B. * To sail about the lath February. HE Splendid Ship, AMERICA, of St. John's N. B., burthen per Register 590 Tons, T. B MACKEY, Commander, has superior accommodation for Cabin and Steerage passengers. For Freight or Passage, appiy to the Captain ou board at Passage West, to Messrs. JAS SCOTT, aQnuda v. C o., or to MAURICE D A L Y , Ship Agent, MFeerbch. an3t. ' s- N A T I O N A L LOAN F U N D L I F E ASSUR A N C E SOCIETY, No. 69, Corn- Ihll, London, And 36, WESTMORLAND- STREET. DUBLIN. Capital, £ 500,000 in 50,000 Shares, of 10!. each. PATRON. His Grace the Duke of Somerset, F. R. S. DIRECTORS. T. Lamie Murray, Esq., Chairman. Col. Sir Buries Camac, K. C. S. ' G~ eorge Lungley, Esq. Kenneth Mackenzie, Esq. John Rawscn, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. John Elliotson, M. D, F R. S. C- Farehro: her, Esq. Alderman H. Gordon, Esq. Robert Holland, Esq., M. P. PHYSICIAN... J. Elliotson, M. D., F. R. S. SURGEON... E. S. Svmes, Esq. ACTUARY... W. S. B.' Woolhouse, Esq., F. R. A. S. BANKERS... Messrs. Wright and Co. T!" HE new principle of social economy upon which Life Assurance is based in this Society, at the same time admits the assured, with increased convenience, to all the most valuable advantages of other social institutions that have contributed to human happiness, or marked the progress of civilization. Every Member to whom this Society secures a benefit, either by a Policy for ihe whole term of life, or a Deferred Annuity, will enjoy the privilege of borrowing two- thirds of the amount o, his payments, without forfeiture of his claim on the Societyf whenever his wants or exigencies may require it. Every member having secured one advantage in the Society, may, at his option, convert it into another of equivalent value, or receive its present value in cash from the Society. Two- thirds o f t h e payments, after the fifth year, of every Policy elapsed through negligence or inability will be ieturned to his representatives at death. Proof of age admitted on the Policy, and claims payable in three months. Policy not forfeited if tl. e assured die by duelling. Naval and Military men assured at moderate rates. No references required, if the party appear before the Board. Premiums may be paid half yearly, quarterly, or monthly. To lacilitate assurances a board is in daily attendance. ON SALE. i ^ T H E Brig « MARY" of Mirimachi, Bur- JssMgl, " then per Register, 180 Tons, new measurement— 190 old measurement. Colonial Built, only a few months old; a strong well- built Vessel and admirably adapted for the Trade of the Port. Now lying at Cove. Apply to JAMES, SCOTT & CO. TH E Friends of Dr. S P O L A S C O having met and deeply sympathised with him in his harrowing affliction of mind and body, also considered the great'ruin of property he has incurred, besides the loss of his Child— in consequence of the lamentable wreck of the Killarney Steamer, have resolved that his case should be submitted to the Public, and all delicacy waived in the appeal to their generosity. They beg to recommend his peculiar situation to the Public at large, and to state lhat he has lost property to the amount of £ 1 , 0 0 0 and upwards, which, from his present incapacity for professional exertions, it is altogether out of his power to repair, and which in his now depressed and physically enfeebled state is an overwhelming disaster. The friends of Baron SPOLASCO feel assured that this appeal will not have been made in vain, and confiding in the universal sympathy which must be feltfor him, fearlessly throw his case upon public consideration. RICHARD CALLAGHAN, of Lota House, Esq., will receive Subscriptions in aid of Baron Spolasco, and Lists will be open at the Offices of the Southern Repoeter and. Standard Newspapers for the purpose. Contributions may likewise be forwarded to Baron SPOLASCO'S residence, 4, King- street, Cork, where they will be most thankfully received and duly acknowledged. Dr. SPOLASCO'S Pamphlet relative to the loss of the K I L L A R - NEY, Steamer, containing many interesting details— a Lithographic Representation cf the Scene and Sufferers upon t} ie Rock, nd a Portrait of himself, is in the Press and Will appear in a f ew ays. : i - i i i n i S H I P N E W S .. Age 20. SPECIMEN OF ANNUAL PREMIUMS TO ASSURE ^ ' 1 0 0. I 13 7 Age 25. L. S. I). I 18 6 Age 30. Age 35. s. it. 10 11 Age 40. L. S. D. 2 18 8 Age 45. 3 9 S. D. 4 Age 50. 4 2 Age 20. SPECIMEN OF SINGLE PREMIUMS f O ASSURE ^ 1 0 0. L. S. D. 35 2 4 Age 25. L- S. D. 38 11 10 Age 30. Age 35. s. I). 4 10 Age 40. 50 7 1 Age 45. Age 5 ). L. s. 61 1 SPECIMEN OF DECREASING AND TERMINATING PREMIUMS TO ASSURE ^ ' 1 0 0 . GREAT AUCTION AT ALTAMIRA, ( Between Buttevant and Charleville,) ON WEDNESDAY, FEB., 21ST, AND FOLLOWING DAYS, r \ F S P L E N D I D F U R N I T U R E , S i l v e r Piate & Plated Goods, Magnifictnt Chimney and other Glasses, Drawing- Room and Dining- Room Lustres, excellent Carriage Horses, Phaeton and Harness, Four- wheeled Jaunting Car, & c. Sale at Tieelve o'Clock each day. Tnis very valuable collection of New and Fashionable Furniture consists of Drawing- room and Parlour Chairs, Dinner, Loo, Cird, and Sofa Tables, very handso i e Pier Table with White Marble Top, Sideboard Table, Loungers and Sofa, covered in Damask, and Spring Cushions, very handsome Drawing Room and Parlour Damask Window Curtains, beautifully finished with Silk Fringe, Gilt Poles and ornaments, Brussels and Kidderminster Carpels and Bug « , a very fine Chimney Glass 4^ feet by 6 feet, a magnificent painted Screen, with four folds nearly new, two handsome Ceiling Lustres, one wilh 8, the other with 4 Lights, Six Mahogany Hall Chairs- Silver Table Forks, Spoons, Ladles and Tea Service, Splendid Liqueur Frame, Cruet Stand, Best Sheffield Plated Candlesticks, Salveis, & c. 2 Four- post Bedsteads and Hangings, Mahogany Chests of Drawers, Wardrobes, Dressing Tables and Basin Stands, several very fine Feather Beds and Mattresses, Camp Bedsteads, Hangings and Palliasses, a variety of Kitchen Furniture, an excellent pair of Carriage Horses, a Phaeton, a Four- Wheeled Jaunting Car, together with a miscellaneous collection of » Property, all of which will be sold without any reserve. JOHN M'DONNELL, Auctioneer. CORK DISPENSARY AND HUMANE SOCIETY. T * ELECTION OF PHYSICIAN AND ANNUAL MEETING. H E Governors for Life and Subscribers at large are informed that the Annual General Meeting is fixed for THURSDAY, the 15th Instant, to receive the Medical Report and Statement of Accounis ; to Elect by Ballot the General Committee, Treasurer, Secretary, Accountant, and Physicians, for the eusuing year. The Chair to be taken at One o'clock. Doctor TANNER having sent in his resignation to the Secretary, in consequence of his appointment to the Douglas Dispensary, it was resolved that the election of his Successor do take place at the approaching Annual Meeting. Ballot to commence at ONE o'clock, and close at THREE. Candidates are requested to send in their Testimonials to tbe above meeting for the inspection ofthe Subscribers and others qualified to vote. By Order of the Committee, JOHN BAGNEL, Mayor, Chairman, J. W. TO PP, Secretary. Cork, Thursday, Feb. 8. NOTICE. A T U R N P I K E B O A R D for the Cork, Kinsale, and Skibbereen Road, will be held in BANDON, at 12 o'clock on T U E S D A Y tbe 20th Inst., to take into consideration a recent communication trom the Board of Works relative to said Road. WM. ST ARK I E , Secretary. F A S T - S A I L I N G Y A C H T FOR SALE. T O B E SOLD, THE Interest in the F A R M of L \ R A GH containing 315 Acres, situate within a mile and a half of he Town of Bandon, on the Road leading to Dunmanway. The Farm is exceedingly well circumstanced and in good conoition, and has upon it a capital Dwelling- house and Garden, a Threshing- mill with Water power, Barns, Stables, Coach- house, the Cow- houses, wilh every other office necessary for working and Farm on the most improved system of Agriculture. Proposals ( post paid) will be received by Mr. A. SWANSTON. Laiagh, Bandon. Laragh, Dec. 13, 1837, Age 20. Age 25. Age 30. Age 35. Age 40. Age 45. Age 50. L. S. D. 4 15 5 4- c* E<* x. L. S. D. 5 4 10 L. s. d. 5 10 / L. S. D. 5 17 6 L. s. d. l> 7 1 £ . S. D. 7 0 0 A D E S I R A B L E F A R M T O B E LET. From the 25th of March next, NI N E T Y - T W O ACRES, together, or in two Divisions, of 46 Acres each, of the Lands of CLOGHEEN, forsuch term as may be agreed on, situate near Doneraile. Proposals to A. HILL, Esq., Clogheen, Doneraile. ELIGIBLE RESIDENCE NEAR COVE. TO BE LET, from the 25th of March next, or the Interest sold, BALLYNOE HOUSE, with the Farm containingabout 33 acres, within a mile and a half of the town of Cove. The improved condition of the land, the beauty of the prospect, facility for bathing, and peculiar advantages of situation render this House a verv desirable residence. Ap. plication to be be made to Michael Cunningham on the premis . es. Feb. S, 1838. T H R E E ASSISTANTS, and two A P P R E N - TICES, with whom Fees will be required, Wanted in a respectable WOOLLEN and MANCHESTER WAREHOUSE. Address ( postpaid) W. D. PATTISON, Kilkenny. W A N T E D , FOR the Magdalen Asylum, Peacock- Lane, an experienced LAUNDRESS. Application to be made to Mrs. M'Swiney, King- Street, and to the Matron at the Asylum. Cork, Feb. 12. ' | HI E C o m m i t t e e of t h e M a g d a l e n A s y l u m , P e a - « • cock- Lane, will receive. Contracts for One Year, to commence on the 17th of March iVeit, for the supply of Provisions and other articles for the use of the Inmates. Potatos per weight, Soap and Candles. Milk, Shoes. Bread, Particulars can be known at the Asylum. Sealed proposals to be lodged with Mrs. M'Swiney, 9, King- street. I N T H E C O U R T F O R R E L I E F O F I N S O L V E NT D E B T O R S I N I R E L A N D . ln the Matter of CHARGES LANE, Age 20. Age 30. Age 40. First 10 years. Remaining lo years. First 10 years. Remaining 10 years. First 10 years. Remaining 10 years. L. S. D. 3 9 2 L. s. D. 1 3 1 L. S. D. 4 5 0 L. S. D. 1 8 4 L. s. D. 5 2 7 L. s. D. 1 14 6 SPECIMEN OF ANNUITIES GRANTED FOR EVERY ^ IOODEPO SITED. Prospectuses, detailing the objects of the Society at length, wilh every variety of Tables, may be had by application at the Office, or at any of the Agents. Communications on the formation of Branches and Agencies to be addressed to T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq. No. 69, Corn- hill. 115, Patrick- stree", Cork. I. W. COPPINGER, Agent. E A G L E L I F E A S S U R A N C E COMPANY, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London ; Clyde Street, Edinburgh and College Green, Dublin ; AND No. 58, SOUTH MALL, CORK, ESTABLISHED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT, 1 8 0 7. CAPITAL ONE MILLION. E R S O N S effecting Assurances with the Eagle LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY will enjoy the followwing very important advantages, which ar worthy of mature consideration. FIRST,— The Security of an ample Subscribed Capital. SECONDLY. — Lower Rates of Premium lhan any ofthe other established Companies on the Equitable System. THIRDLY,— Participation in four- fifths of the Profits at the end of every seven years ; which may ( at the option of the Assured, be either added to the Policy, or applied in the Reduction of future Annual Payments. FOURTHLY,— A punctual and satisfactory adjustment ot all claims. The Table of Premiums are separately arranged for Male and Female lives, and may be paid yearly, half yearly, or quarterly. The lives of persons residing abroad, or persons about to go in any part of the world, ( whether in Military or Civil Service), can be insured without any difficulty, and on very satisfactory terms. Medical Examiners having been appointed in all parts of the Kingdom and Colonies. Assurances on an ascending scale, and for a fixed number of years can be effected at very moderate Rates. TABLE Of the Payments required to Assure £ 1 0 0 on the Death of A MALE. V j T H E Schedule Creditors of C 6 the said Insolvent in this matter, late of Clovne, in the t are hereby required to meet the said In- County of Cork, 3 solvent's Assignee at my office, Com- An Insolvent. I mercial Buildings, Pembroke- st, Cork, J on WEDNESDAY, the 28th day of FEBRUARY, inst. atlhe hourof One o'clock, in the Afternoon, for the purpose of fixing the manner, time and place for a Sale by Public Auction, of all the Estate of said Insolvent, either in possession, reversion, or expectancy, in the lands of BA LLYBRONOUGH, the Commons of Cloyne, and the lands of Parkbeg, respectively situate near the town of Cloyne, in the County of Cork,— and in Three Dwelling Houses and a Store, situate in the said Town of Cloyne, and of all other the real Estate and property of the said Insolvent, whatsoever and wheresoever. either in possession reversion, remainder, or expectancy Dated this 8th day of Feb. 1838. JOHN J. TANGNEY. Attorney, for said Insolvents Assignee, Pembroke- Street. Cork. C H A N C E R Y . ' S P f l f i " D O L P H I N , " Cutter i acht, of 70 Tons, * now lying at Bellgrove, East Ferry, late the property of GEORGE COURTENAY, Esq., deceased. The qualities of the above- named fast- sailing Yacht are well known; her Stores are complete ; with Two Suits of Sails... one nearly new, only worn during the last Regatta at Cove, and made by SCHOVELL of Southampton, the other very good. The DOLPHIN is built only a few years; is of the best Materials, and the Winner of many Prizes at different Regattas. Application to be made by Letter to ROBT. COURTENAY, Esq, Ballyedmond, Midleton, or to Capt. SMITH, on Board, who will show the Vessel. Feb. 6. Richard O'Callaghan, Plaintiff, Philip Allen and others, Defendants. Administratrix Allen a Willtn. Allen and others. PU R S U A N T to the Decretal order 3 made in these causes, bearing date the 11th clay y of December 1837, I re- ; —) quire all Creditors of William Allen the elder, and all persons having charges upon the sum of £ 2 6 0 6 decreed to be paid to Christabella Allen, otherwise Deiany, or uoon the interest thereof, to come in before me at my Chambers on the Inns Quay, in tbe City of Dublin, on or before the 22d day of February next, and to prove their respective demands, otherwise they will be precluded from the benefit of said Decretal order. Dated this 22d day of January, 1838. J. S. TOWNSEND. Age For Whole Life. next For One Annually | birth Year. Fo Seven'Quarterly Half year. Yearly. Day. ears. 20 1 2 1 1 6 3 0 10 10 1 1 6 2 2 6 30 1 10 9 1 12 2 0 12 8 1 5 3 2 9 10 40 1 15 4 I 17 4 0 16 6 1 12 8 3 4 4 50 2 3 5 2 12 3 1 3 8 2 6 11 4 12 4 60 3 17 1 4 7 11 I 15 9 3 10 8 6 18 2 TABLE Of the Payments required to Assure £ 1 0 0 on the Death of A FEMALE. Age For Whole Life. next For One Annually Birth Year. For Seven Quarterly Half year Yeai ly. Day. Years. 20 1 1 0 1 5 0 0 8 11 0 17 9 1 15 1 30 1 7 0 1 8 9 O i l 0 . 1 1 10 2 3 J 40 1 13 1 1 13 9 O H O 1 7 10 2 15 0 50 1 15 11 1 17 3 0 19 2 1 18 0 3 15 2 60 2 15 2 3 7 0 1 9 6 2 18 4 5 14 0 C O V E O F C O F T K L ^ F E A 10... W| ND W . S / - Arrived— Diana, 83,! Dloydj Tralee,. parley for Baliinacurra. . ^ argajet^ steamer* L? , r hfrmw « » rf fmc: « d,.,,', c/ f Sailed— City of Bristol, steamer. Bride, Porter, Leith, Sugars. Aid, Atterige, Baltimore, ballast. New City of Cork, Johnson, Burbadoes, general cargo. Shannon Packet, Davis, Limerick, bricks. Robert Lawe, Harelock, Youghal, ballast. Wild Irish Girl, looker, Trieste; general cargo. FKB. 11— WIND N. W. Arrived— Angler, 116, Sinclair, Hamburgh, general cargo for St. Johns, lost Boats, Bulwarks, Stancheons, Sails, & c., out 65 days. Albion, Meredith, Dublin, ballast. Victorv and Hercules, Steamers. Sailed.. Swan, Errington, Jamaica. Gen. Cargo.' Ceres, Howell, Liverpool. Gen. Cargo. Geres, Meyler, Bristol, do. Elizia. Townsend, St. Ubes, Gen. Cargo. . Friends, Owens, Pill, Pigs. Emerald, to'Carthy.' Swansea, Gen. Cargo, Nonpareil, Mill3. London , do, Thomas, Hend, Liverpool, do. Doedalus, Hemmingway, do! do. Amn, Datfis, Youghal, Ballast Earl Roden, Sirius, and Margaret Steamers put . back and sailed again. Ray for Dublin, Sarah for Swansea. FEB. 12.— WIND N . W. Arrived— Brisk, 121, Ar'tis, Smyrna, Valonia. Ocean, steamer. • Off— Adelaide, Halifax. Oil for London, 30 days, lost sails, bulwarks,& c. Sailed— Henrietta, Morrisson, London, provisions. Sarah, Dart, Swansea, Copper Ore. THE TERPSICHORE FRENCH FRIdATE. COVE, SATURDAY, FEB. 10.— The Terphsichore, French Frigate, arrived off Port yesterday, in 28 days from Martinique. She experienced very severe Weather on the Passage, is leaky, and lost spars, sails, & c., and had " to throw 15 of her guns overboard, and cut both anchors from her bows.. A letter having been sent on shore, requiring the assistance o f a Steamer, the Air, Tug Boat, proceeded to her last evening, but was unable to take her in tow, the wind being too high at the time. She remained by her, and, at two o'clock this morning, succeeded in getting her between Carlisle and Camden, where she is now at anchor, and will be towed in by both Steamers next tide. The Governor of Martinique and family are on board.— [ The Frigate was subsequently towed up further, and is now moored off Mr. Smith Barry's Quay.] WATERFORD, MONDAY, FEB. 12.— A fleet- of abou. t^ ninety vessels sailed from this Harbour between four o'clock on Friday morning ai. d noon of the same day— the longest list ot sailings in one day on record here. They had been detained by the easterly winds Which have prevailedfor many weeks past, and they promptly availed themselves of a change that took place dunng Thursday night. A very large proportion of the windbound fleet were vessels destined for other ports, that had taken advantage of the friendly shelter of Waterford Harbour.— A few of them have put back, in consequence ofthe wind again becoming easterly!— Waterford Mirror. The Traveller, of Jersey, Pallot, and the Dundonald, of Troon, M'Curdie, which went ashore at Duncannon Strand, on Wednesday, as stated in our last, were got off on Friday. The Dundonald sustained little or no . damage, but the Traveller is brought up to this city in order to discharg ® her cargo and undergo a survey.— li- im. .• The Julia, from. Liverpool, and the Eliza, from Cork, both bound for Newfoundland, arrived back to Cork on Friday, the former after being out one hundred days, and the latter ninety- five days. The Eliza lost sails, rigging, & c., and became leaky. The ship, Jefferson, of New York, E. Mason, commander, from New Orleans, for Liverpool, with Cotton and Tobacco, out 40 days, sailed from Baltimore on Saturday last, having been wind bound'there 4 days. The barque, Nailor, of and for Liverpool, William Rowlett, commander, from Bona, in Africa, out 112 days, put into Baltimore on the 5th inst.. and sailed thence yesterday for Liverpool. Her present commander, who was supplied to her from her Majesty's ship, Dolphin, when off the coast of Africa, is the fourth she has had since her departure from Liverpool, three others having successively died of fever, CORK MARKETS, SATURDAY, FEB. 13. Barrels. THIS DAY. .00 White Wheat... OOs Od ( 3) OOs 81 Red Wheat 21s 000 Ditto 003 101 Barley 10s 000 Ditto .. OOs 0 Bere OOs OOci 0d 003 11} * * 0 d \ Od J Od 4 d \ 2 d j Od 33s Od Average. Od— 20 Stone Od— 20 do. l i s 9d- 00s M 9s 4d- Od - IS do 309 Oats 8s 4d - 14 do. 209 IVtto 9s 4d ( a) 10s 167 Pork 28s Od @ 34s 00 Ditto OOs Od @ OOs QUANTITY SOLD AT THE HIGHEST PRICES. 00 Barrels White Wheat, 003 0d... 7 Red, 27s 9d .. 29 Barley 13s Od... O Bere, OOs Od... 9 Oats, 10s 2d per barrel... 10 Pork 34s Od per cwt. Average. 00 j Od— 20 Stone 25s Od— 20 12s Od— 16 do. Barrels. YESTERDAY. 00 White Wheat.. OOs Od Ca) OOs Od 136 Red Wheat 6d 27s 3d OOs Od Jg OOs Od 9s Od a) 13s 4d 000 Ditto OOs Od eh OOs Od 10s 3d a) OOs Od 307 Oats 8s 6d aj 9s 3d 9s 3d a) 10s Od 9s 3 d - 1 4 do. If persons who may have occasion to effect Life Assurances will compare the above Rates with those of other Establishments they will find that, the same Annual Premium required in most other Offices for the Assurance of £ 1 0 0 0 , would be sufficient to i Insure the same life with the Eagle Assurance Company for , 11001., and in case of Female Life for 12001., independent of being entitled to a participation of four- fifths o f t h e Profits. Any further information— the particular rate? of Premium for Survivorships, Endowments, Joint Lives, and other Life Contingencies, Forms of Proposal, Declaration, Prospectus, ^- c. may be obtained by pergonal application at the Office of the Company, or by Letter, addressed to WILLIAM CONNELL, Agent. 58, South Mall, Cork. A Liberal Commission allowed to Solicitors and others pro- | curing Assurances for the Company. April 19. QUANTITY SOLI) AT HIGHEST PRICES. Barrels White Wheat, 09i 0 d . . . l2 Red, 27s 3d... 26 Barley, 4d... O Bere OOs Od... 7 Oats 10s Od per barrel. 1 FLOUR .. Fine Flour 42s 6d per Sack ; Second 38s 6d per o HIDES... Market Hides 23i to 28s per cwt. ; Salted do. 26s to 30s per do. ; Market Skins, 2Jd per lb. , Salted do. 2Jd to3Jd per do. B U T T E R . Butter in demand but not selling at MELLOHANT. COUNTRY. First Quality . .. 933 First Q u a l i t y - 84s Second do. . . 90s Second do. ... 81s Third do. ... 80i Third do. .... Fourth do. ... 703 Fourt do 61s Fifth do. ... 62s Fifth do 531 Sixth do, ... 52s Sixth do. ...' 42J THE CORK SOUTHERN REPORTER. BjHjflscsnwHmesiws^^ I M P E R I A L P A R L I A M E N T. H O U S E O F L O R D S — T H U R S D A Y , FEB. EDUCATION ( IRELAND). The Bishop of EXETER gave notice, that to- morrow evening he should ask several questions relating to the present state of education in Ireland. CANADA. Lord GLENELG moved that the Lower Canada government bill be read a third time. Lord ELLENBOROUGH stated several objections to the Bill, and said he entirely concurred in all that had been said against the bill by the Noble and Learned Lord ( Brougham). He deprecated the idea of suspending the meeting of the House of Assembly, and said that by doing this they were losing the most favourable opportunity for making an amicable settlement of the affairs of Canada. He believed the act would be extremely ill- received in Lower Canada. It was urgent at once to come to a settlement of the differences with the Canadians, for there was continual danger of collision with the United States.. ( Long continued cries of hear, hear).. That denger would be every day more imminent if tbey passed an act wbich was unjust to the French Canadians. He called on them to take care how they awoke the sympathies of the French people for the French Canadians. There again was another danger. Feeling that they were about to take a step— a step involving possible collission with the United States and with France— he was com pelled to say, not content to that bill. Lord GLENELG did not partake of the apprehensions of the Noble Lord, whose opinion on the subject was different from that of those with whom he generally acted. He believed that the mass of the French population themselves were of opinion, that if the British Parliament did not interpose, the province would be entirely ruined. It would be an unworthy proceeding to attempt to establish a constitution for the Canadians at the present moment, but waiting until they could appeal to the feelings and wishes of that people a permanent and satisfactory arrangement might be made. That was the feeling which actuat edthe Government. Lord ASHBURTON said the measure was necessary. The people were driven to revolt, partly by the opinion they entertained of the policy of the government. There had been in the measures adopted towards Canada a want ofdebision and firm ness, which had led to unfortunate results. The Earl of MANSEIELD did not rise to oppose this Bill, but he must say it was merely because the bill was founded upon necessity.. a necessity which he at once acknowledged, and wh'ch was founded on the conduct of the House of Assembly. It was however, with tbe greatest reluctance that he consented to take away any of the rights under a free Constitution enjoyed by anv portion of herMajesty's subjects, or depriving them of the repre sentation of a popular assembly. They were in an awkward predicament. They were engaaged in a contest wbich many of them would not live to see, and none of them could confidently pre, diet the issue. He had been very much struck by an observe tion of the noble and learned lord v'lord Brougham) as to the , right which parliament had given to the House of Assembly, and yet, on the first occasion of their exercising tbe right, pro posing tcrtake it away from them. Now he ( the Earl of Mansfield) could not conceive that the House of Assembly was justified in availing itself of an unfortunate omission of imposing conditions in the Act of 1831— an omission against which the noble duke near him ( the Duke of Wellington) and a noble earl now no more, but who had been at the head of the colonial department for many years remonstrated in vain. The Assemby therefore, in refusing supplies, might be said to have exercised a right. He would state the view he took of the Constitution ofthe country and of this. Tn tbe first place tbe different branches of the legislature hed different powers, the antagonist forces of which kept the Government in a proper state ; hut experience bad shown that when tbe rights of one branch were pressed so as to invade the rights of any other, the consequence had been of necessity a violent change. In this view apparently the House of Assembly of Lower Canrda had acted. Notonly did they endeavour to effect a redress of grievances by refusing the supplies, but tbey refused to go on with the regular business of the country ; so that when the House of Assembly was prorogued it was doubtful whether there had been a session or not. This was an important doubt; for, if there had been a session, certain Acts of Parliament had ceased to exist. This stoppage of the public business had been characterised even by the loudest advocates of liberal measures as factious. What could the Governor do ? Was he to call a new Assembly ? In the present temper of the colony he greatly doubted whether there would be any change in the House of Assembly, and more particularly when the colony was labouring under the excitement consequent upon a proclamation of martial law. It was, he considered, most important to know from her Majesty's Ministers whether they were determined upon maintaining the control'and dominion over those colonies; or whether they meant to anticipate the separation taking place at some time., if not at that very moment. He had no doubt he should be told that they were determined to resist separation. ( Hear, hear.) Then he might be allowed to say, that when they made the declaration of their being determined to maintain a control over the colony, they ought to evince the sincerity of their determination. The Noble Duke had stated that they were at war, and that it was impossible for this country to carry on a war upon a small scale—( hear, hear.) He wished to know, did her Majesty's Ministers adopt that maxim? ( hear, hear). It was a question wbich every one asked who was interested in the preservation of the colony, and to whi ch every one wished to receive an answer. The answer, no doubt, that would be given again by her Majesty's Ministers would be, " Certainly we mean to carry on war, and not war on a small scale." He certainly thought it was most important for them to know whether an additional force was to be sent to Canada by increasing the army, or by taking forces from this country. He had heard a report upon this subject which he considered to be his duty to mention. It was that the Noble Earl ( the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) had declared that he could spare a considerable force from that country.. ( Hear.) He did not know whether in making such an offer the Noble Lord had not over estimated the tranquillity of that country. He did not know whether the " Wax lniquleti turbldusAdrife." he who had the province of settling, as well as of raising, the waves of civil commotion, was so inclined tbat the troops could with safety be spared from Ireland. He did not know whether that same person might not consider the time of their removal a convenient time, not for the commutation, but for the total abolition of tithes, that which he had threatened their Lordships would be the consequence of their rejection of the former Bill; a threat, too, which had been reiterated in that House, or if not, distictly intimated as the inevitable consequence for which they should be prepared. He did not know that there would be either prudence or wisdom manifested in the withdrawal of that force from Ireland, even if recommended by the NobleLord, the Lord- Lieutenant oflreland. JIf theNobleLord recommended the removal ef tbe troops upon the ground ofthetranquility of the country, he could reply, that their lordships might see, by the Gazette, specimens ofthat tranquillity which it enjoyed. It was his opinion that Parliament would not consent to a reduction of force in that country. ( Hear.) He did not like to speak that which might appear to be imbued with party violence ; but he was then speaking his own opinions, and not those of others, and he felt bound to state, as he did with confidence, that to his own knowledge this was the feeling prevailing with regard to herMajesty's Ministers, that a great portion.. a very large portion of those of influence and of large landed property, felt and complained of the incapacity of herMajesty's Ministers, from which they wished to be liberated. He had frequently felt and stated, that, considering the great influence which the noble duke possessed in this country.. an influence which was never greater than at tbis moment, and considering the influence that a Right Hon. Gentleman possessed in another place, he had wished that they took a more active part in opposition to the present Government. He had said and felt this ; but then be was led to remember that those who incurred no responsibility ought not to be prompt to condemn ; wben there was apparent an infirmity of purpose.. when men declared tbey had a certain object to accomplish, and then showed vacillation in carrying it in to effect.. when they did that which had been done with respect toCanada and to this country.. then the only means of extricating the nation from difficulty was to determine either to bring in a measure of conciliation and proceed to a settlement of the dispute in the present Session, or, if war was to be continued, then, if not dictating to Ministers, t'ney ought to lay a respectful address at the foot of the Throne, declaring to her Majesty that if war should be continued, it ought to be continued on the extensive scale pointed out by tbe Noble Duke.. ( Hear.) The Noble Lord concluded by declaring tbat it was only by pursuing a course of firmness now that they could insure the respect of other nations and tbe gratitude of tbeir own. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE closed entirely with the opinion stated by the Noble Earl in the commencement of his speech ; it was on the ground t, f necessity that tbis Bill bad been recommended to their Lordships. He entirely concurred in tbe sentence pronounced respecting it, that it was destructive to Constitutional rights in Canada ; wbich Constitutional rights, had they been exercised in a way which was at all consistent, he would not say with the safety and honour of this country, but with the safety and prosperity of Canada itself, it would be imt an answer : it was this— whether it was the intention of ber I Majesty's government to preserve these colonies or not? Without hesitation he replied to the noble earl that it was the intention of her Majesty's government to preserve them. ( Hear, hear.) No one on that side of the house saw the period, no one possibly could designate the period, at which a withdrawal of tbe colonies from the mother country could with advantage take place. ( Hear.) They did not do that which would be inconsistent with their' duty— and in this they partook of the opinion of the Noble Baron and of the Noble Earl who had spoken former stage of the proceedings, that it would be most unwise to act upon the supposition that there was no possible state of things in which a separation might not take place, and that under new circumstances it might be desirable for the mother country, and for the colony itself, that the separation should ensoe, and might ensue, as it ensued with tlie United States of America, most beneficially for these states and the mother country from which they separated. The Noble Baron, in quoting from a work from which he was not surprised to find any advice taken, mixing as tbat work did the soundest, practical wisdom, drawn from experience, with the most just observation, tbe noble baron, borrowing an expression from the despatches of the no'ole duke which had been lately published, said that as in the Peninsula so ought they to do in Canada, that " it was most desirable to go out of it likea gentleman thro' the hall door." He did not think that the occasion existed in which the hall door was open for them through which they might honourably retreat [ Hear, hear.] He said that the condition ofCanada excluded tbem from making an honourable retreat ( Hear, hear.] He was not prepared to make it, and he would not alvise its being made ( Hear, hear, and cheers.) Lord BROUGHAM, when he reflected on his position in this house during the former stages of this' bill, and compared it with the altered position in which to- night he found himself, to observe the contrast between the. two was remarkably encouraging and pleasing to him. He no longer could be said to stand here alone to denounce this measure — but he had the gratification to know that he had l- ved to see truth making its way, and to find himself supported by some of the most respectable members of their Lordships' numbers in what he formerly should have reckoned in this place the most hopeless part of his whole views. And if to be supported in his views, if to find an advocate to back and stand up for constitutional privileges were grateful here to him to- night, bow much must his gratification be heightened when he found that, besides the respectability of those supporters in point of talents, experience and character in that house, who had lamented, as the one did, the unconstitutional and arbitrary nature of tbis measure, and another did, who actually announced his determination to vote against it for its injustice— those two were two of the greatest luminaries of the law. and wbo had left to their descendants prouder inheritance than tbe titles they won for themselves and bequeathed to them, viz. their own unextinguishable love of the liberties of their country ar. d adherence to its laws, and abhorrence of their violation—( hear.)— he might well feel pleased with that change in his present posit; on. He felt that he could no longer be denounced as a partisan, by argument an encourager of rebellion, and taking part in the revolt. He had even been designated by a pretty plain indication as something like Caitaline, for that he had rushed out of the house as that ancient senator had done.. ( a laugh)— for that he had rushed out of the house as that Roman senator did after he had delivered himself o f a long, and apparently, byitseffeets, a not unforeseen oration against the Lord Glenelg of tbat time. ( Laughter.) But they were now told that the delay which had marked more or less the whole of those proceedings, which began in March, 1336, which continued in April, which continued in May, which was seen still in the month of June, and which might further be traced through the whole of the remainder of the year— they were now told tbat this indecision and delay were not accidental, as some had presumed to imagine— no such thing ; it was all design— it was all virtue— it was all system— it was all the consequence of that natural but invincible repugnance wbich his Noble Friend had felt to enter upon any course that could be imagined to savour of strong measures. It might be s o ; there was nothing wonderful now- a- days. ( A laugh.) But really, if his noble friend had not given the sanction of his grave and high authority to tbat view o f t h e matter, he should have been disposed to say that it was utterly impossible for any person to credit it. But if such reluctance was shown by these constitutional men to adopt harsh proceedings, ought they not to have been reluctant to pass the resolutions of last year ? There was no reluctance then. The time, it appeared, for reluctance and delay was after all the mischief had been done. Of course this reluctance which tbey were told had been exhibited they must expect to continue. The reluctance which had been felt to bring in the present measure would show itself in s ending over so many thousand bayonets to carry it into execution. He had asked how it happened that if the sending a dictator over with a Bill in his hand to destroy the Constitution was necessary, on account of some parishes havingbeen guilty of irregular proceedings, how did it happen that, instead of going over immediately, tbe noble emissary delayed so long going, as if rebellion looked to tbe almanack—( a lavgh)— as if the assembling of parish committees, district committees, and central committees depended on certain times of tbe year, as in ancient days, when there was a regular suspension of arms on tbe approach of frost, and the campaign was not renewed till the second or third swallow came hovering round the camp, ( a laugh). That observance even in war having been long since dispensed with, he was at a loss to conceive why in these negotiations it was thought necessary to go by the weather. But if her Majesty's Ministers felt a strong repugnance to this measure— if they were afflicted with constitutional qualms ott tbis occasion how much stronger must be the qualms of bis NobleFriend, whose language bad always been so much more decided on the side of constitutional freedom even than theirs. It was as plain as a parish church that the reluctance in him was mueh greater than in those who framed the measure. He could not be persuaded to go till he had tarried so long as to satisfy the people of Canada of his extreme reluctance to undertake the mission, so that when he arrived there he should have made it manifest to all mankind in that province that his consent had been wrung from him like gouts of blood to administer an unconstitutional measure, and for a harsh and tyrannical purpose. Judging from what they had seen, they must conclude that the inevitable result of the measure would be non- settlement and delay. It was the inefficacy of the plan to accomplish its avowed object that lie had complained of from the first. To put an end to the present painful state of things, it was necessary to send a Governor with full powers not only to treat but to grant. They had provided the noble earl with no powers to treat or to grant; they had afforded him only the power to inquire. How long did they say Lord Durham was to be there for that inquiry ? Two years. Two years, therefore, was the time, according to the calculation of the framers of this measure, during which tbe inquiry was to last ; and till tbe end of the two years tbe legislature of the mother country was not to be considered competent to settlethe question. Lord GLENELG said, that is the maximum. Lord BROUGHAM continued.. His Noble Friend said that two years were the maximum ; but when his noble friend's dislike to rash proceedings were considered, every one would feel that themaximum and tbe minimum were likely to be coincident quantities. ( Laughter.) But what right in common justice, had they to punish the whole people for the offence or the errors of a part ? The Government wanted no new light ; they re quired no information that they did not already possess.— The Noble Lord then proceeded to notice the provisions of the bill, which, he contended, limited Lord Durham's power in matters respecting which it was essential that he ought to exercise his discretion on arriving in Canada. The Noble Lord next adverted to the question of the separation of the colonies from the mother country. This was a subject, he said, to which in early life he had paid very close attention, and it had always been his opinion tbat the system of colonising was highly favourable to commerce. He held tbe planting of colonies to be in the highest degree politic and wise in a commercial state, not merely in times when all other nations were doing tbe same thing, or adopting an exclusive system, and preventing you from commerce with their colonies, but at all times as an outlet for, a stimulant to, industry. Aud when, as in the course of things would always happen, the time arrived when the co lony became capable of standing by itself, became fit for the task of self- government, became as able to do without your help as you without them, then it was that themother country reaped the richest reward of its former pains antl anxiety in the possession of a natural ally, a natural market, in a people who want what you have for superfluities, while you want what they have in superfluities, the best definition of all others of a profitable market, a people having t : e same blood and origin, the same constitution and laws, tbe same language, and the same manners more or less. But the advantage to be derived from a separated colony mainly depended on the temper of mind, the tone of feeling in which you quitted partnership with them.— If that feeling were one of animosity— of resentment for wounds unhealed— of injuries unredressed— of insults unatoned for— then you could expect in them neither an ally nor a customer. Tbe Bill was then read a third time. Lord ELLENBOROUGH wished to propose an amendment, providing for a very possible case. He proposed a proviso to the effect tbat " If on the arrival o f t h e Act in the colony the Legislative Assembly should be found dissolved, and a new As- POKTRY, PALESTINE. BY J . G. WHIMTTA. [ From an American Periodical. 1 Blest land of Judea I thrice hallowed of song, Where the holiest of memories pilgrim- like throng ; In the shade of thy palms, by the shores of thy sea, On the hills of thy beauty, my heart is with thee I With the eyes of a spirit, I look on that shore Where pilgrim and prophet have lingered before ; With the glide of a spirit, I traverse the sod Made bright by the steps of the angels of God. Blue sea of the hills ! in my spirit, 1 hear Thy waters, Gennesuret, chime on my ear! Where the Lowly and Just with the people sat down, And the spray on the dust ofhis sandals was thrown. Beyond are Bethulia's mounu- ins of green, And the desolate hills of the wild Gardarene ; And I pause on the goat crags of Tabor to see The gleam of thy waters, O dark Galilee ! Hark, a sound in the valleys I where swollen and strong, Thy river, O Kishon ! is sweeping along; Wliere the Canaanite strove with Jehovr. h in vain, And thy torrent grew dark with the blood of the slain. There, down from his mountains stem Zebulon came, And Napthali's stag, with his eye- balls of flame, Andthe chariot's of Jabin rolled harmlessly on, For the arm ofthe Lord was Abinoam's son. There sleep the still rocks and the caverns which rang To the song which the beautiful prophetess sang, Wben the princes of Isaac- liar stood by her side, And the shout of a host in its triumph replied. Lo ! Bethlehem's hill- site before me is s; en, With the mountains around, and the valleys between ; There rested the shepherds of Judah, and there Tiie song ofthe angels rose sweet on the air. And Bethany's palm trees in beauty still throw Their sha lows at noon on the ru'ns below : But where are the sisters who hastened to greet The lotvly Xedeemer, and sit at his feet ? I tread where the twelve in their wayfaring trod : I stand where they stood with the Chosm of God! Where His blessing was heard, and His lessons were taught, Where the blind was restored, and the healing was wrought. Oh, here with his flock the sad Wanderer came; These hills He toiled over in grief are the same— The founts where He drank by the ivayside still flow, And the same airs are blowing which breathed on his brow. And throned on ller hills sits Jerusalem yet, Bat with dust on her forehead, and chains gh her feet; For the crown of her pride to the mocker hath gone, And the holy Shechinah is dark where it shone. But wherefore this dream of the earthly abode Of humanity Clothed in Ihe brightness of God ? Were my spirit but turned from the outward and dim, It could gaze, even now, onthe presence of Him I Not in clouds and in terrors, but gentle as when In love and in meekness He moved among men ; And the voice whieh breathed peace to the waves ofthe sea, In the hush of my spirit would whisper to me I And what if my feet may not tread where He stood, Nor my ears hear the dashing of Galilee's flood, Nor my eyes see the cross which He bowed Him to hear, Nor my knees press Gethsemane's garden of prayer; Yet Loved of the Father, Thy spirit is rear To the meek, and the lowly, and penitent here ; And the voice of Thy love is the same, even now, As at Bethany's tomb, or on Olivet's brow. Oh, the outward hath gone ! but in glory and power, TheSpirit survivetll the things of an hour ; Unchanged, undecaying, its Pentecost flame On the heart's secret altar is burning the same I principal rules show the happy spirit of charity upon which it is founded— 1, That gardening and other kinds of manual labour be considered an essential part ofthe employment and instruction of the children. 2. That all classes of christians be admitted without distinction. a That the Bible be not. used as a lesson book, and that such portions of it as may be selected for the master to read, and impress upon the minds of the children, he free of till suspicions of being chosen to favour the tenets of any sect or party. The object of this school points it out as a precedent for any f o be formed in this country— it is " to educate children destined " for farming pursuits in such a manner as to make tbem bet- '• ter workmen, and more intelligent than they now are." This is tbe professed end and aim of theCommissioners. To carry tbis into effect tbe people must acquire the habit of persevering in industry— learn the true estimate of labour, and know the intij mate connexion between it and property. As they acquire intel- S ligencc tbey will become acquainted with the duties of their sta- S tion, ant! discharge them with fidelity, and this thc education provided by the National Schools disposes them to. Thus we j shall have the old hydra of ignorance and stupidity completely eradicated, a wiser, a better, and a richer people scattered throughout the land, and to ensure the co- operation of all with the legislature, let us conclude by exclaiming in the words of him, whom I will call the founder of tbis system, De Fellenb e r g , . . " The fruitful source of sedition, of ciime, and all the " blood which Hows upon the scaffold, is owing to the erroneous " education of the people Landlords 1 it is here you must " seek tbe cause of all those obstacles which the idleness and " growing vices ofthe labouring classes oppose to, the increase " ofthe produce of your estates. By degrading the people we " dry up the richest source of power, of wealth, and of happi- " nsss, which a slate can possess." Your obedient servant. Fermoy, Feb. 10. J. RODERICK 0' FLANAGAN. V A R I E T I E S . NATIONAL EDUCATION. AGRICULTURAL MODEL SCHOOLS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SOUTHERN REPORTER. SIR,— As every subject, connected with the w elfare of our Country must be certain of proving interesting to your readers, and as the Education of the People is one of the greatest means of raising any Country in a moral, as well as intellectual point of view, 1 am induced to trouble you with some remarks upon the advantages which will attend the developement of a new feature in our National Education, namely, establishing Agricultural Model Schools. The fourth report of the Commissioners sufficiently explains their object—" Considering the very backward state of Agriculture in Ireland, and that it forms the only source of employment for a vast portion of the labouring poor, we think it particularly desirable that a better knowledge of it should be ' promoted, and that the Schools under us should tend, as far as is practicable, to bring forward an intelligent class of poor labourers." From tbis truly national project, which I trust may speedily be adopted, we may expect an important change for the better in the habits of the class of labourers at present employed in agricultural pursuits, and from this desire of instructing the people in what may be conducive to their future maintenance, we behold new proof of tbe beneficial results of that system, tbe denial of which so much contributed to retard the improvement of the peasantry of Ireland. Education for the lower classes is at length established upon a proper footing ; hitherto no school afforded instruction in auglit save literature — Reading, writing, and arithmetic, formed tlie entire of the routine, except where the classics were lau'jht; tbe knowledge connected with the probable pursuits of life was left unattended to; no arrangement was made for directing the pupils to habits of industry,; no instruction was imparled of any useful craft which, while it might afford recreation and amusement, might minister lo simply domestic wants, or increase thesmall stipend of a daily labourer ;— but now a new older of tilings is apparent. The blessing of Education is spread over our country. The Schoolmaster is abroad ; at his voice all c ars are open lo drink in the words ofinstuction, and knowledge is acquired where ignorance prevailed. The wantof information and stupidity of the peasantry throughout the country, was so well established a fact, as to render it painful for any wellwisher of the public to listen to the ' emarks of strangers ; but that this was not necessarily produced by any incapacity, or neglect on the part of the people to receive instruction, the mass of intelligence now diffused among tbem by the National Schools is ample proof. By those who were indeed acquainted with the characterof the peasantry, their capacity was never doubted.. their native wit and shrewdness, are well- known, but there are ( would that I might say now) many, who though aware of their thirst for knowledge denied them tbe draught, and whose spirit is stilt so rancorous against THE COTTON SPINNERS AT THE HULKS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,— The Delegates from the Glasgow Trades, at present in London, will feel much obliged if ycu can find room for the inclosed letter from the Cotton- spinners in the Hulks, addressed to a friend in Glasgow, and inserted in the Glasgow Post. Thursday, Feb. 8. Your obedient J. M'NISII. Hulk Justitia, Woolwich, Jan, 24, 1SS8. Dear Sir— We arrived here about!) o'clock on Saturday night — I must say that in the whole course of my life, I never suffered so much from cold as I did from the time I left you till tbat period— none of us have seen a fire since we left Edinburgh jail— from the state of the weather, and from our being for many years confined in an atmosphere of about 90 degrees, I leave you, sir, ( o suppose what nnist have been, and what still must be, our condition, while the weather remains as ithas been for the last few weeks— and what is still worse, according to the regulation of this prison, we weie stripped of our own clothes and dressed in a uniform suit much lighter than those we were accustomed to wear. The suit we now wear is composed of a jacket, a vest, a pair of knee- breeches, all of coarse grey cloth, and marl'd grey stockings, with three white strips around the lags— one of those strips is in the place where garters are usually worn. You are not to conclude from this that we have all become Knights of the Garter. I would give you a brief account of this prison, the grounds around it) together with the manner in which the prisoners are employed and fed, but time will not at present permit. Indeed, sir, my chief object in writing to you is to letyouand our otherfriends know that we are still in the land of the living, and in good health, and, all things considered, I cannot say that our spirits are below Zero. Now that you know where we are, and tbat we are shut out from society and from the world, from all that is near and dear to us, and are obliged to associate with all nations, colours, climes and tribes ; the perpetrators of every species of crime ever heard of ; in a word, this place is filled with such materials tbat nothing but rigid laws and strict discipline could possibly keep it in order. Thus situated, it will not be necessary to request you to write to us frequently to let us know what is going on, as well as to cheer us in our present unenviable situation. My lime is up— send a letter yourself, or a copy of this to the Trades' Committee in Glasgow, if possible, before Saturday night, that our relations may know that we are well. No letters will be received beve addressed to prisoners, unless they be post- paid. One sent to Wm. M'Lean was refused and returned yesterday. Each letter will cost us 2d although post- paid. We will write, each, to our relations in the course of next week. I am, dear Sir, yours truly, ( For the live Cotton Spinners), PETER RACKET. P. S. I forgot to mention that according to law and custom we have got each a chain with two rings rivetted around our right leg. This is done to all prisoners when tbey come here first. How long tbey are kept on I am not aware. We have been employed the last two days jobbing about the yards, and sometimes pumping water and drawing it by a water- butt fixed on a cart. I mention these things not by way of complaint, but merely to show, tbat all persons sentenced to transportation, no matter for what, are all subjected to the same regulations. You remember that Mr. Fisher told you that there would be a distinction made between us and common felons ; this is a mistake. LONDON POLICE. LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S HAT. At the Thames Officc, on Friday, a poor woman named Mary Ann Blay, who stated that she resided in Limehouse, applied to Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Broderip, the Magistrates, to request their interference under very odd circumstances. The applicant stated that about three or four monthsago she was on her way home from Poplar, where she had been purchasing some vegetables, when she saw something black lying on tbe ground opposite the house of Mr. Jardell, the butcher. She at first supposed it was a piece of coal, but on stooping to pick it up she discovered that it was a hat. She walked onwards with the hat in her right hand until she reached theCommercial- road, where she. was met by a policeman, who asked her where she „ ^ , , , - I had So t the hat. She informed him that she had picked Iheir fellow- countrymen, that they would rather see them pass it „ p , at t h e c o f n e r of the New- road, and the police rhoii* ! i\ r/=> c in lo- nnranpp nnr crnmrnrtr f h o n oftnivl - f- how » 4- Via I . _ . . _ _ _ . _ . 1 sembly called, or if after the arrival of the Act in the colony it possible for tbeir Lordships to listen to. He was ready to agree should be thought expedient by the Governor to dissolve the with the Noble Earl tbat whatever difference of opinion there might be entertained ns to the course to be pursued, the manner in which it was enunciated was a matter of trifling importance ; it was enunciated in tbe preamble of tbebill, in whicbcompliance with the suggestionof others, bad been withdrawn, or whether itlwas contained in instructionslaid on the table, orin amessage from the crown, or by the last antl most important mode of all, by a declaration of every man of every party in tbe house, including, he was glad to find, tbe declaration of the opinion of the noble Earl, that nothing but necessity was the foundation on which the measure rested [ H" a. r, hear.] Necessity caused the bill ; and it was fair to state that, when it was the object of the measure to destroy the constitutional government in Canada, it was also the object of the measure to provide for the re- establishment at tlie earliest possible period consistent with tbe admitted necessity of eliciting tbe opinions of tbe Canadians. The main question put by the noble earl to her Majesty's government was one to which he said he was most anxious to elicit Assembly and to call another, it should be lawful for him to do so, and that tbe proclamation of the Act should be postponed until it was the pleasure of the Governor to order it to be proclaimed." To him it appeared to be perfectly impossible so to alter the character of the several districts in Lower Canada as to prevent the Assembly from representing the French parly ; and he was persuaded that it would be quite as impossible two years hence as it was at the present moment. Lord GLENELG disclaimed all intention on the part of ber Majesty's Government to form a union of the two Provinces.— Their object" was only to endeavour to make such an alteration in the constitution of each Province as might enable each to be better governed. He must object to tbe Noble Lord's amendment. It was entirely contrary to the principle of the measure. It would counteract all that had been done, and would excite alarm and difficulty. The amendment was then negatived ; the Bill was passed i and, at a quarter past ten o'clock, their Lordships adjourned. their lives ignorance and stupidity than afford tbem the ' means of becoming rational beings. These are the men on whom the ignorance of the Irish ought to have been rightly charged. . wbo, aware that the people of Ireland are distinguished by an aptitude and great zeal for learning.. an admiration almost amounting to enthusiasm for talent and genius beyond what is to be met with in most countries, would withhold from them the facility of acquiring the instruction which they sought, at the same time condemning, nay vilifying them for wa.'. ting— keeping them in ignorance that tbey might prey upon them— and then preying upon them because they were so ignorant. But that this state of things exists no longer — that a class of men wbo, while they prevented all public benefit from accruing to the people, either in a moral or political sense, would ridicule them for not possessing it, no longer have tbe power to outrage the feelings, as well as common justice, with regard to those over whom they were placed, is food for congratulation to all who wish justice to Ireland, and now that we may expect to find practical benefit from tbe working of tbe present system, how those who have so strenuously opposed educating the Irish people must hang down their heads in shame. The Commissioners propose, when establishing each model school, to make such an arrangement as may enable them to connect it with a model farm of about 40 acres, to be distributed in small lots to the scholars for cultivation. Tbe instruction to be derived from thence, I much apprehend, will be found of very material benefit, not only to the public, but to the neighbourhood, who may see the working of the system, and thereby gain a knowledge ofthe value of labour, of the right of property.. of skill in mechanical art and gardening, and above all, learn the necessity of prudence in the management of tbeir capital.. gradually acquire more improved habits,.. leave oft old and mischievous customs which tbey have become reconciled to by usage ; and the slovenly, lazy practices anathemized by that intelligent friend to the people, Martin Doyle, being forsaken for better, great advantage ensue from the change. As we may be sure the Commissioners did not proceed without accurate information, and as many of your readers may be anxious to know how such schools have operated elsewhere, I have much pleasure in being able to satisfy them, having recently visited a country where the most extensive of this sort is established Hofwye, in Switzerland. This institution, which owes its origin and duration, to a most distinguished philanthrop i s t , M. De Fellenberg, has, for upwards of thirty six years, under his superintendence, been exercising the greatest benefit upon tbe peasants in theneighbourhood. Every fact and study, connected with husbandry, is taught, and besides a reason assigned for each process, regular lectures are given upon the various branches of agriculture. Practical experiments are made constantly— wben the sciences of mechanics, and chemistry, ill relation to the grand subject are taught tbe elder boys. A large room, containing all the natural products of the surrounding country, collected by the children themselves, bears ample and interesting testimony to their skill and information in botany and geology ; specimens of the different descriptions of wood are also neatly arranged, and a cabinet of the animals, birds, and reptiles of tbe Canton shews a considerable acquaintance with Natural History in all its branches. The habit of close observation— of accurate investigation— of pausing to enquire into the utility of every thing, and, if useful, adopting it, is strenuously enjoined by the founder of Hofwyl, and he has not only the gratification of having established a school for tbe labouring classes himself, quite equal to his sanguine and benevolent desires, but that of seeing his plan adopted in other parts of his Native Country.. The School of M. Vernot Pietat, near Geneva, is on the same foundation.. also tbe Institution of the Prince de Chimay, in France. To a friend who has taken a lively interest in the Model and Normal School for the Agricultural classes at Ealing, about five miles from London, I am indebted for a knowledge of the working of the system in the sister country, and have much gratification in stating. his account is such, as to bid the most sanguine hopes arise for the advantages attending the introduction of such establishments into this country. The following which are the man looked at it and saw the name of Lord John Rusself in the inside. He demanded tbe hat of her, and on her refusing to give it up to him he seized the hat and took ber into custody. She was locked up in the station house, and on the following morning was brought before the sitting Magistrate at that office.— The Justice, after hearing the policeman's statement, directed her to be discharged, and gave orders tbat the hat should be detained for a certain time in tbe station house, and if no owner was discovered, tbat it should be given up to her. She had since made repeated inquiries of the police respecting the bat, but could obtain lio information from them, nor any redress for the false imprisonment she had suffered. The woman said that there had been a white- bait dinner at Mr. Lovegrove'sWestlndiaDock Tavern, at Blackwall, on the night she found the bat, and Lord John Russell was on « of the party. Mr. BAI. I. ANTINE— Well, I don't understand how his Lordship could lose his hat at the corner of tbe New- road. The woman said it was supposed that Lord John Russell put bis head out of his carriage window, and looked back to see if bis friends were following him, wben his hat fell off his head, and as be was a Lord he would not stop until it was picked up again. ( Laughter). Mr. BAI. LANTINE— What do you want me to do in tbe matter ?— The applicant said she wanted to know to whom the bat belonged. Mr. BALI. ANTINE— Why, I should say it belonged to Lord John Russell. The woman said the hat. was worth a guinea, and that if she bad accepted 5s from tbe policeman and given it up to bim he would not have takeii her into custody. She thought it was very hard to be subject to such tyranny because she bad picked up Lord John Russell's hat, for she had done no harm to the owner of it. ( A laugh.) She supposed Lord John Russell was in liquor, or he would have ordered bis carriage to stop, and picked up his hat. ( Roars of laughter, in which the Magistrates could not help joining.) " You may laugh," said the woman, " but it's all true what I say, you may depend upon't. The Ministers don't eat white bait without drinking plenty of wine after it, you may be sure. ( Increased laughter.) I dont know why " the gentlemen laugh; I am sure I was locked up all night, away from my husband and children." Mr. BALLANTINE said it appeared from the minutes that she was brought before him on Tuesday, the 3d ofOctober last, on suspicion of stealing a hat, and that the policeman said tbat he stopped her at two o'clock in the morning with the hat in her possession. It also appeard that he had discharged her, but no mention was made of the hat belonging to Lord John Russell. If that fact had been mentioned to him he should have ordered the hat. to be restored to his Loidsliip immediately. The Applicant— I am sure it is his Lordship's hat. There is " Lord John Russell" inside of it quite plain : it's a new one. Mr. BALLANTINE.— Very well. An inquiry shall be raadej about the hat, and you can attend here to- morrow, and we wil let you know what has become of it. I think Lord John Russell has the best right to the hat if be has not already got it. THE Fox AND THE WIND. . There is one common error into wbich many persons who hunt fall, namely, that when a fox breaks cover, he consults the wind as to his course. I was unt deceived on tbis point very early in life— the first year that I hunted in Leicershire, indeed, which was that if 1802— by that renowned sportsman, the late Mr. Loraine Smith, the intimate friend of Mr. Meynell. ' We shall run to Enderby ( his seat) to- day,' said I to him, as the hounds were finding a fax inGlenn Gorse. ' What makes you think so,' was his reply. ' The wind sets that way,' I said. ' You are a young sportsman,' resumed he— 1 but when you have been at tbis work as long as I have, you will find that, a fox never consults the wind, ( unless it blows very strong indeed, when he will not face it at all, if be can help it,) until he is hard pressed, when he will turn with it. In fact, whilst he is fresh, he prefers running against tbe wind to running with it, because he does not hear the cry of the hounds so plain— which is evident from the fact, that the greater part of runs are up wind, or against a side wind— those o f t h e best description almost universally so .'— Nimrod. THE PLACE OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE.— Descending again to the ruined monastery, at tbe place where our Saviour, nio; e than 1,800 years ago, wept over the city, and predicted its eternal ruin,, I sat down on a rough stone to survey and muse over the favoured and fallen Jerusalem. The whole city lay extended before me like a map. I could see and distinguish the streets, and the whole interior to the inner side of the further wall ; and oh I how d'fferent from the city of our Saviour's love I Though even then but a mere appendage of imperial Rome, it retained the magnificent wonders of its Jewish kings, and, pre- eminent even amorg the splendid fanes of heathen worship, rose the proud temple of the great King Solomon. Solomon and all his glory have departed, centuries ago : the great temple which he built, the " glory of tbe whole eat th," was a heap of ruins ; ia the prophetic w e d s of our Saviour, not one stone was left upon another ; and, in tbe wanton spirit of triumph, a conquering genc- al drove his plough over its site. For years its very site lay buried in rums, till the Saracen came wiih his terrible warcry, " The Khoran or the sword ;" and the great mosque of Omar, the holy of holies in the eyes of all true believers, now rears its lo'ty dome upon the foundation of tbe temple of Solomon. From the place whe^ e I sat, tbe mosque of Omar was the ou'y object tbat relieved tbe general dulness ofthe city, and all the rest was dark, monotonous and gloomy ; no spire's rested tbeir tapering points to tbe skies, nor domes, nor minarets, the pride and ornament of otber Turkish cities. All was as still as death ; and theon'. y sign of life that I could see was the straggling figure of a Mussulman, with his slippers in his hand, stealing up the long court- yard to the threshold of the mosque. The mosque of Omar, like the great mosque at Mecca. the birthplace of the prophet, is regarded with far move veneration than even that of St. Sophia, or any other edifice of the Mahommedan worship ; and, to th's day, tbe Khoran or the sword is the doom of any bold intruder within its sacred precincts. At the northern extremity of the mosque is the Golden Gate, for many years closed and flanked with a tower, in wbich a Mussulman soldier is on guard; for tbe Turks believe that, by tbat gate, the Christians wiilone day enter & obta; o possession of the city— city of mystery and wonder, and still to be tbe scene of miracles 1 " It shall be trodden down by tbe Geniiles until the time of tbe Gentiles be fulfilled :" and tbe time shall come when the crescent shall no longer glitter over its battlements, nor tbe banner of the prophet wave over its walls.— Travels in the Ho'g Land. THE AMERICAN SENATE.. . The Americn Senate is a most imposing assemblage. Wben I first entered it, I thought I never saw a finer set of heads than tbe forty- six before my eyes : two only being absent, and tbe Union then consisting of twenty- four States. Mr. Calhoun's countenance first fixed my attention ; the splended eye, tbe straight forehead, surmounted by a load of stiff, upright, dark hair ; the s'ternbrow ; the inflexible mouth :— it is one of the most remarkable beads in the country. Next him sat his colleague, Mr. Preston, in singular contrast— stout in person, with round, ruddy, good- humoured face, large blue eyes, and wig, orange to- day, brown yesterday, and golden to- morrow. Near them sat Colonel Benton, a temporary people's man, remarkable cbiefly for his pomposity. He sat swelling amidst bis piles of papers and books, looking like a being designed by nature to be a good natured barber or inkeeper, but forced by fate to make himself into a mock heroic senator. Opposite sat the transcendent Webster, with bis square forehead and cavernous eyes; and behind him the homely Clay, with the face and figure of a farmer, but something the air of a divine, from his hair being combed straight hack from his temples. Near them sat Southard and Porter ; the former astute and rapid in countenance and gesture ; the latter strangely mingling a boyish fun and lightness of manner and glance, with the sobriety suitable to the Judge and the senator. Ilis keen eye takes in every thing that pssses ; hisexiraordinary mouth, wilh its overhanging upper lip, has but to enfold into a suiile, to win laughter from the sourest official or demagogue. Then there was the bright bon- hommie of Ewing and Ohio, the most primitive- looking of senators ; and tbe benign, religious gravity of Frelinghuysen ; toe gentlemanly air of Buchanan; the shrewedness of Poindexter ; the somewhat melancholy simplicity of Silsbec,— all these and many others were striking ; and for nothing more than their unlikeliness to each other. No English person who has travelled over half the world, can form any idea of such differences among men forming one assembly, for the same purposea, and speaking the Same language. Some were descen ded from Dutch farmers, some from French huguenots, some from Scotch Puritans, some from English cavaliers, some from Irish Chieftains. They were brought together out of law courts, sugar- fields, merchants' stores, mountain- farms, forests, and prairies. The stamp of originality was impressed on every one, and inspired a deep and voluntary respect. I have seen no assembly of chosen men. and no company of the high- born, invested with the antique dignities of an antique realm, half so imposing to the imagination, as this collection ofstout- souled, full grown, original men, brought together on the ground of their suppesed sufficiency to work out the will of their diverse constituencies. A SOLITARY HOUSE.— The citizen wbo lives in. a compact house in the centre of a great city, whose doors and windows are secured at night by bars, bolts, shutters, locks, and hinges, of tbe most approved and patented construction ; who, if h e look out of doors, looks upon splendid ro. is of lamps, upon human habitations all about bim ; whose bouse can only be assailed behind by climbing over the tops of other houses, or before, by eluding troops of passengers and watchmen, whom the slightest alarm would hurry to the spot : I say, if such a man could be suddenly set down in one of our many thousand country houses, what a feeling of unprotected solitude would fall upon him 1 To sit by tbe fire of many a farm house or cottage, and hear tbe unopposed wind come sighing and howling about it ; to hear the trees swaying and rustling in the gale, infusing a most forlorn sense of the absence of all neighbouring abodes ; to look on tbe simple casements, and the old- fashioned locks aud bolts, and to think what would their resistance be to the determined attack of bold thieves :— I imagine it would give many such worthy citizen a new and not very enviable feeling. But if we were to step out before the door of such a house, at nine or ten o'clock of a winter or autumnal mght, what a state of naked jeopardy il would seem to stand in ! Perhaps all solitary darkness ; nothing to be heard bat the sound of neighbouring woods, or the roar of distant waters, or the baying of the ban dogs at the scattered and far- off farmbouses ; the wind coining puffing upon liirn with a wild freshness, as from the face of vast and solitary moors ; or, perhaps, some gleam of moonlight, or the wild lurid light which hovers in the horizon of a winter- night sky, revealing to hiir. desolate wastes, or gloomy surrounding woods. In tru'h, there is many a sweet spot, that in summer weather, and by fair day light, do seem very paradises, of which we exclaim, in passing, " Ay ! there could I live and die, ancl never desire to leave it I" There arc thousands of such sweet places which, when night drops down, assume strange horrors, and make us wish for towers and towns, watchmen, walkers of streets, and gaslight. One seems to have no security in any thing.— W i l l i am Howitt's Rural Tife in England. DR. PRIESTLY.— Very strikng and beautiful are the following reflections on Priestley's character, by Miss Martineau, as she passes the tomb of the exiled philosopher on the shores of Ihe Su- quehannah :—" He made mistakes : they are transient evi s, for others have been sent to rectify tbem. He lelt certain of some things still dubious : this is a transient evil; for he is gene where he will obtain greater clearness; and men have arisen, and will arise, to enlighten us, and those wbo will follow us. He exploded errors ; this was a real, but second- rate good, which would have been achieved by another, if not by bim. He discovered new truths ; this is a real good, and as eternal as truth itself. He made an unusual progress towards moral perfection; this is the highest good of all, and neverending. His mistakes will be rectified; the prejudices against him on their account will die out ; the hands tbat injured him, the tongues that wounded him, are all, or nearly all, stilled in death ; tbe bitter tears which these occasioned have long since been all wept. These things are gone or going by ; they have reached, or are tending to, the extinction which awaits all sins and sorrows. What remains ? Whatever was real of the man and of the work given him to do. Whatsoever truth he discovered will propagate itself for ever, whether the honour of it be ascribed to him or not. There remain other things no less great, no real, no less eternal, to be reakoned among the spiritual treasures of the race ; things of which Priestley, the immortal, was composed, and in which he manifestly survives ; a love of truth which no danger could daunt, and no toil relax j a religious faith which no severity •(' probation could shake; a liberality proof against prejudice from within, and injury from without; a simplicity which no experience of life and men could corrupt— a charity which grew tenderer under persecution, and warmer in exile, a hope which flourished in disappointment, and triumphed in the grave. These are the things which remain, bearing no relation to country or time— as truly here as there— now as hereafter"— Retrospect ofWesternTravel. HINTS FOR PUNSTERS— If you can make a pun, you will pass for a wit. A few hints, therefore, on the art of punning may be acceptable. If a gentleman meets you, and in the course of conversation expresses his surprise how such a one gets his bread, say, you think be sometimes procures it at the baker's and sometimes at the chandler's shop. If the same gentleman observes, he did not exactly mean that, but was anxious to know how the otber lived, you can reply " much as usual— sometimes a joint, sometimes a pudding." These smart rejoinders will stamp you at once a wit of the first water ; but if any of your friends are so dull as not to comprehend tbe force and brilliancy of your jokes, laugh yourself— the " cacoethes ridendi" being contagious, you are sure to infect the most insensible. Never mind the bitter sarcasm of one Samuel Johnson, LL, D. He was very ignorant, altho' he did compile a dictionary. Introduce a pun whenever you see an opportunity. Should you be walking with a very short friend, tap him on the shoulder, and say, " B., you are a happy dog." He demands the reason. " Zounds, B. you never wear a great coat, or lie long in bed." You could not make a more brilliant reply. Take care that puns be well- timed, and always at the expense of the aged and helpless. For instance, if an elderly gentleman, travelling with you in the same stage, should express a desire to get out and stretch his legs when the coach changes horses, say, " For Heaven's sake, don't, Sir, your legs are long enough!"— The Guide, CORK— Printed and Published for the P R O I - R U T O R , No. 4, Patrick- Streat.