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tself was a a concession to a agi itation, and an acknowledgment in 
part of oad age of the repeal of ‘the Corn-laws. 
P 
The Hov vided, when ther peared—For Mr. Villiers’s 
motion, 90 ; spf it, 393; Mejority, 303 
riday CHRISTOPHER brought forward m fora 
higher scale of duties. He proposed that: the pee uty 
should be 5s. higher than the maximum duty proposed by the 
Government—namely, that at 50s., and under 5]s., uty 
should be S5s;; gradually decreasing until at 73s. th y should 
be Is. Hiso object was to show, that while conside ro 
posed scale of the Government a decided improvement on the 
present system, and however desirous he might be not to b 
> 
ITY. 
| Money Market, Friday.—Consols coated ir nr to 
$91 to 3 money, a and 892 to} for the new account (April 
* Thr ‘Re uced, 809; Thre e-and- 
0; New Three-and-a-Half 
per Ce ; - Stock, 169} to 703; India 
Stock, 245 to 6; Exchequer- bills, 22s. to 24s. premium. 
Metropolis anv | any {ts Vicinity. 
The Weather.— On Saturday morning until twelve 
o’clock, ge whole of Lo sina was enveloped in a dense 
thick a coecaneen that it was nee der geen 
to see po one s of the street m8 the o 
so thick about 
id not venture 
a am 
her anchor hice the 
Improve wnlenteae the House of Com- 
ursday, the Sheriffs of London presented a 
petition e te bar of the 
also appointment of a select 
ommittee, to take sts ania on ae a ns for was 
facie of the metropolis which they may dee 
orthy of consideratio and petitions ie 
sented to this house in the last parliament, for the pur 
chase of the interests of the proprietors of Waterloo, 
Southwark, and V: = Bridges, in order heir bein 
immediately opened to the use of the public free from res ; 
and to report their opni nas to the expedien ge of adopting 
improv 
§ to the best 
a ths debate in the Hou 
of some interest 
ir James m. Mr. Bo 
7 bre right hon, baronet the  Sacstiars for the Home De- 
steps were te » =A taken in gage to 
the lighting of the approaches to London. a very 
recent period these approsckag bad een lighted by means 
m collected as tolls. But during the present win- 
of the increase ore communication by 
much decreased, that the trustees 
artist aed 
estry-meeting of 
called, and that the propriety of 
levying a rate for the purpose tA lighting the roads should 
te * pas nad to them. _ The ~ eae te was sean 
parishes, a 6 gag to in- 
rfere in a m r of local tetalion er such a 3 
ose 
: —After the sajoaraed debate 
ting Co orn-laws on Monday, Sir J. G raham obtained leave 
ara 
which a con savin Id ected to t 
country, while a better discipline would be established 
as them; the size o een’s Ben as 
ample for the purpose in view ; it was proposed to 
HERO 
ag certain fagilations for its better government in 
Public Meetings—A pasting ot = hace panes of the late 
Mr. Sy dney Taylor was held on Sa in Exeter Hall, 
for the purpose of tslgieg a SO ccighins for paying some 
tribute of respect t emo ir J ode, 
Bart., M.P., presided. A_ letter, highly complimentary 
to the memory of the deceased, w d fr e Duke 
? B ckingham, and Mr. Thomas Clarkson also bore tri- 
ute to his zeal in the cause of opy. It was ulti- 
mately determined funds raised be appro- 
Setemen Mr, the 
tthwick inked 
priated to the erection of a monument to nc _memory, and 
to the dissemination of his works. A committee was ap- 
nit —Several 
n held for ees parpos of esta- 
a. for the destitute phe the Metro- 
e€ expen thei pulent countrymen. 
now w definitive or established, and a com- 
mittee of oy oe French inhabita - Lo nden has 
en for to manage the charity. "Orsay, to 
whom the credit of this gape establishment i is due, 
_ ved at t ing that it was esse — = hase . 
offer a pre 
to the sae on make Con 
; that England n poor 
to ee care of, and that at the present moment of distress 
it w ore b 
for foreigners 
which, | if solicited, would not be w 
a of indigent French, — for the 
—_ necessity ayn — — 
of the chari The m 
of the asylum a be confided to a eapaant director, 
aioe the baie ion of a commi of subscribers. If 
pid funds raised should admit of it, it is mendes’ to annex 
a gratuitous school for the children 
of in nai igent French in London. Count D’Orsay has been 
— president of the wena ihe oy Coun t St. Aulaire, 
mised it his support and 
na he ai General sy of the pr re we 
ors of "University Colles pla 
Mr. ote in ie chi air. 
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"The sais novelty 
roceedings was the motion of Col deena “Seahore 
for inervdaibeg religious wean 3 the f 
reat motives object prayer, ar 
to study according to the tonne of their re- 
spective pastors.’’ The resolution h —_ been seconded 
by Mr. Pitt, and warmly discussed, ee Apo she the vote, 
an thoes — eared for vit six, against 
ociety—At the last :taeing. # ir Jeb in Lab bock, 
he Royal sar od . the $e eet ¢ the 
oe Wa burton 
1052. Mr. Gui ward} and a similar sum from the 
late Sir g Rear Cues The dividends for the pre- 
sent ve ar thus available to scientific purposes amount to 
1402. 16s. 6d. 
Metropolitan Post.—The following is the er state- 
ment of the letters which have passed through the Lon- 
don office : _ 
H THE GENERAL POST. 
Four weeks nding: Feb. 19, 1842 5,459,385 
Corresponding period of 1 1841 * 4,955,579 
Ditto as nearly as can be —— n of | 1,557,880 
ncrease since 1841 on th @ four ooky? letters _ 503,806 
Di woos 3,901,505 
H THE DISTRICT post. 
Four toe ending Feb. a 1842 1,959,984 
Corresponding period of 1841 854,559 
Ditto as nearly as can =: om of 1239 1,106,4: 
Increase since 1841 on t — weeks’ letters 105,4 
ys oe cae 853,563 
dent.— ious Face? ob occurred at the foundry 
of se Sohn hess on Saturday. It appears that several 
men w <p ste | holding the rim of a pot, or ladle 
ried by a cra 5s Seis the 
a diving-bell, a =. the ignorance 
8 
mooi-mor a the premises was fire 
tal, oon extinguished. One of the workmen 
died i in oe ew on — following day. A 
eld to inquire into t rcumstances, it was pro’ 
men, the ladle beca Rig tin es and the whole of the 
metal was ng =a ran amongst the workmen, six of 
whom were_so seve burned that it was necessary to 
carry them leoitiediatelytp Hospital. A part of 
fired by the melted 
O 
upset. . The ju ay re returned 
Robher:, 
tn Saturday 
ee phe sate ged was po tery wi 
* — , cha 
ig wre ‘than & teen burglaries i « Mile End, the 
Beat ford-square, and other plac es at the 
pi part of the Metropolis. The prisoners were Geotge 
pose a fellowship porter, his two sons and sister, a 
yo n name nnett, Aby de Soiza, : Jewess. 
The two principals in these robberies appear to have been 
our mon » ani 
and other valu ables sto 
three weeks 
Elizabeth F 
oa ot Sena even 
perty, and communicated with the pawnbrokers.. On 
searching her rene in Bethnal- ee eg ame the 
elder Fern} ey» two sons, and the Jew Th 
iscovered a saline: t of hovsebreakin say 
the house, together with ‘obit 0 china 
chimney ornaments, a torto coal box, a 
pee Mable-oths, and other articles. 
— on i 
re fo aa, many of which 
numerous householders 
had heard, ani said an the a of the a = amd 
to be connected with the robberi e all tak 
hey 
out of t Neng thee 0 cine wats in aden | 
of stol roperty, and the fourth was found loitering 
out the houses which had been burglariously entered. 
The Jewess had also been disposing of stolen property, 
d was f the e house. Be » he was, 
doubt, the principal in the numerous burgla com- 
mitted, and h een d in n r of crime. 
should now fully commit all the prisoners for trial. 
ere then formally committed on different 
charges of burglary. were ten or twelve other 
cases of burglary ready to referred, but it w: sindiaan 
dered unne more e —On 
Tuesday, a Russ name wniski, was ‘neil % up 
before 5 magistrates at Clerkenwell, charged with steal- 
ing a gold watch chain and seals, valued a 
f Mr. 
trial. It was hat been 
writer of tipo Arter representing aggre! to bea Pole. 
—Another occurre' milar charact 
took place on Weds 
under-warehousem “the printing 
Bradbury and tee Whitefriaze, ‘who ha 
hended on a charge of ro nd 
cut his throat with a razor while the ‘office w 
him through the passage of the police He was at 
Sac as to Charing-cross Hospital, vith little hope 
is r 
M yee the Met tropolis.—The solicit ss is the 
ssc sp of oan » from all causes, registered during the 
eek ending Feb. Pps irae number 1,042—weekly 
average of 1841, 9 
tet “i is said beg the apres for oppos- 
ing as pro ings of the vicar, churchwardens, an 
church- ling committee ret St. Giles’s Comber ll, have 
succee in putting a stop for the present to o the | p 
rb to be prerico out. that the 
xchequer-bill loan commissioners, "hitog ta mn the 
opinion of t he law-ofcers of the Crown, have re to 
nt a loan of of Exchequer-bills, on the ground 
that the proceedings have not been in secoedaaia With fe 
Brentford. — turday afternoon considerable ex- 
citement was Sonsioks ed i in the Metropolis by the ci m4 
ig are parti 
The nace fi which the explosion occurred, are those be- 
in, srs. Curtis and Harvey. Aboarsdved A.Miy 
a Fin and Woolman, commen 
da 
thirteen or oa ha 
ing 100Ibs. weight in the m 
ill they were not seen by any 
obtained 
rge a quantity 
d shook the ite age oo 
miles round, to their v very ‘foandations, to the great ala 
of the inhabitants, numbers of whom rushed out of their 
apetingyy believing that it was an cichaieke: 
lo e remains we 
report 
of powder was 
g for nate it ers, when 
it was found t that, is in P addition to the | two men, who were 
ey were picked up quite dead, three prvi men, 
receiv 1 
er died. oi the 
n, the co unfort ohenet erat at every ee 
Satis eC secdents of sae nature, they nearer the 
—— as to the cause, and he felt if the oils pee his Be 
ould never a ntil b e had found it out. ith the 
dence befor m, they could come to no other strat 
ir sae ileus atta any one. 
their premiers in the opinion of the coroner, and re- 
aire erdict that the deceased died from injuries 
used by th e accidental explosion of gunpowder. It ee 
to recover. 
pe that the other two injured men are likely to 
rkcisiond Netos. 
