The Express. — London, England, 1847-02-18 00:00:00

~~~~_.~, Leafless Ereniv Paper, Price Three penes. THE EXPRESS C on tains, in addition to the news in the Morning p a pers, a SUMMARY of the HOME and FOREIGN DITELLIGENCE which may arrive on the day. THE EXPRESS has the benefit of the Foreign ureter* Correspondence, and other costly charac teristics of a Morning Journal. But the full and easefully prepared REPORTS of the MONEY, RAILWAY, PRODUCE, CORN, CATTLE, and ether MARKETS are tke marking feature. Evert respectable news-agent will transmit THE EXPRESS, on receiving a Post-office order at theme r(l9s. tki. per quarter; but should any difficulty arise, parsons are requested to remit a Post-office order for that amount, payable to Mr. HENRY WALLSRIDGE, 10, Bonveric-street, Fleet-street, London. for advertisements and communications Re. 10,Bouverie-atreet, Fleet-street, London. FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD. 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D.01T6 manufacture Ss guaranteed to him by three 'swab gagman rented in ifIJA, ISSN and 1544.-31, Strand; 33, COloperalisett mg St, Royal Exchange. DENre3 patent Dlpleido. seem Ar datersaleisg the true time to within a feconti, by &roving the poem al Ikea are star over the meridian. Price 21. Ze. each. Dl4: CI.TiVERWELLIS OUWE TO HEALTH AND LOO LIPP. Price Is. ma,- by post, In stain p% le. W. each, WHAT TO RAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. (With Dietvtablee for sit Complaints.) 2. 110 W TO BE SAPPY. "Jocund, Mmes." —(go. It is contended thdt nine-tentha dour ames and miseries are et oar own creation, such as by =vim feeding, table-indulgences, mental irosdbility, indolence, or other per meal Irregslarkint - awl that good health, sound disl.StiON dreamless nights, and contented days are at our command. By an observance at the advice contained in tbseerlltreoill the wont owes of hypnehoodri, atom, Demeanor, debility, and indigestion may be cared in ler than • secols. Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Moan, 39, Cornbill ; Baths, 3, New Ilmadwtrost; Oinglitcs 147, Wbritstrott; Nelms, 437, Wow litsond: or dbmt from the Author. 10, Argyll-I:4sec. Besentwtrost LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY. Four o'Ciock. Our foreign express arrived this morning. Parties in France are now involved in the dispute on the personal question which has arisen out of the correspondence lately published between the British Ambassador and Lord Palmerston. The opposition, striking at M. Guizot over the shoulders of Lords Palmerston and Normanby, take up the defence of the latter and echo the sentiments of the English press. The ministerial party, on the other hand, attack Lord Palmerston and Lord Normanby in the persons of their defenders NI. Thiers and the opposition press. Notwithstanding . the numerous columns occupied in the journals of Paris by this discussion on Tuesday, we cannot find a single argument or a single fact which has not been already a hundr,cl times repeated by both parties, and on both sides of the Channel. The public, and more especially the commerce of France, desire most anxiously that this unseemly personal dispute may be brought to an end and that those relations between the great states of England and France may be re established which are so necessary to their reciprocal advantage, and so desirable for the cause of progress and enlightenment throughout Europe. It was said in Paris that despatches had been received at the Foreign Ministry from Tunis, which gave great embarrassment to M, Ouizot. The Bey represents the difficulty in which he is placed by the proceedings of the Porte, countenanced by England, and supplicates France to make a firm declaration in its favour, as he had been led to expect she would on the occasion of his recent visit. Reports continued to circulate respikting the de parture of Lord Normanby, but nothing definite transpired. Some absurd reports have been circulated in Paris, respecting the ball for which invitations have been issued at the Em b assy for the 19th inst. All the cabinet ministers have been invited, and from the fact of this invitation having included M. Guizot, it has been inferred by some that a reconciliation has taken place,while, according to other journals, the invitation sent to M. Guizot was issued, among some hundreds of others, by the officials of the embassy, without the knowledge of Lord Normanby, and that this circum stance has been made known to M. Guizot, who, consequently, will not attend. As these trifles have been mentioned at all, the truth may as well be told. The speech of M. Outzot, which gave offence to Lord Normanby, and produced his despatch of the 6th instant to Lord Palmerston, was delivered in the Chamber of Deputies in the after noon of the 4th. It was on the evening of the 3rd that the invitations to the ball were issued, and that addressed to M. Guizot was received by him on the morning of the 4th. Thus it appears that all the in vitations to the cabinet ministers and others were de livered before the cause of offence was given. It is understood that M. Guizot will not accept the invitation, but it is not true that the ball has been postponed. The weather in Paris, which was so unfavourable on Sunday and Monday as to prevent the exhibition of the customary amusements on the Boulevards, cleared up on Tuesday, Mardi Gras, so as to permit the procession and masks. Poo, Tea. Is—Tres per • Cents.. 76: Flea ger Cent.. 11$ SO . Your ..."'HOI/OrCatt•,—. rear peer Cents., 102 30 . Belgian Pio per Cents 1543 Bonus Ulm ISIS , Baal glum, 3120.—Eschange 1. ' 46 . Si aIIYS: SY dab. 23. Poo. Bea 16.—Parla and Orleans, 1263: Paris and amen, 05 IS Omni vleoon, 673; Bardnas, 376: North. 410. The opposition of the Spanish sovereign to the proposed marriage of Don Enrique to a Spanish sub ject is now understood to be produced by the fact that a law of Charles HI. is still in force in Spain, by which the marriage of any member of the royal family with a person not of royal blood, whether in Spain or elsewhere, is forbidden, and the issue of such mar riage, should it be solemnised, are excluded from the Spanish throne. The Madrid mail of the 10th inst., with the corre spondence ani journals of that date, have been received. The political chief of Madrid had published I . declaration that the government disavowed and din s . pproved the expedition of General Flores. The of Marine was not yet appointed. Various reports were circulated respecting it, one of which ktAIiCE I W- 1 •I I M • 1111111•11_ ~~~ was, that M. Balhasano, who holds it ad interim, would detain it definitively. On the evening of the 9th, the brother of the Count de Castello, while escorting the Queen and king consort on horseback, was thrown from his horse and killed. M •n•, Pxa. 10.-71tree-per-Onta, . Poor-prx.rmt. , 1M: Ylve-per. Ce^. • 40 1 , Pa.... 4. Camper, IX , Baal of St. Penlliaaaxi, US. Lo 071, Letters from Lugano state that some divisions of Austrian troops bad arrived oa the Swiss frontier, bat that DO uneabiait4 was felt. Emertess or RUSSIA.—A letter from St. Peters burgh, of Feb. 4, states that the health of the empress is far from being satisfactory. It is supposed that her majesty will soon proceed to the Crimea, or to the chateau of Prince de Woronzow, near Odessa. MACRITIUB.—The latest advisee from Mauritius come down to the I lth of December. The quantity of sugar exported up to the 30th Nov. last year was 45,134,2801 b., against 35,056,9991 b. at the same date in 1846. An attempt was being made among the planters to get the remission of the Is. tax on the shipment of this staple production. The Immi gration Committee had published a short report on the labour question, in which they expires. their opinion "of the inexpediency of the indefinite duration of engagements." Treasury bills were quoted I to 11 per cent. premium; private bill., at six month., from 10 to 12 discount. Freight was about 41. per ton. The recent sales of piece goods had been more extensive. THE MAILB.—SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 17.—The Oriental Company's steam-ship Madrid, Captain Weekes, which was to have sailed this day with the Peninsular and Mediterranean mails, has been ordered by government to remain lure until further nntiee, to await any extra despatches they may have to send. The West India mails were des patched by the royal mail packet Clyde, Captain Symonds, at three p.m. She has 47 passengers. - - ECONOMICAL .kND NUTRITIOUS SOUPS.-M. Soyer, the cook of the Reform Club, has lately paid attention to the question how to produce, at the cheapest rate, nutritious soups Ibr the poor. Ile strongly recommends the two fol lowing receipts to the attention of the public. For Soup No. 1 Put one ounce of dripping into a saucepan holding two gallons of water, with a quarter of a pound of leg of beef without bones, cut into square pieces about nalf an inch, and two middling-el:ea onions, peeled and sliced. Set the saucepan over a fire, and stir the contents round for a few minutes, until fried lightly brown. Add the peeling of two losuips._ardas leaven or tops el inlay, and of we leeks. cut into small pieces. Then odd half a pound of to mon Hour, and half a pound of pearl barley, mixing all well toge ther. Add two gallon.; of water, three ounces of sale, and a quarter of an ounce of brown sugar, and allow all to simmer gently for three hours. The cost of the soup No, 1 will be ea follows : Quarter of a pound of lee of beef at Id. per lb. ld. Too ounce., of dripping fat, at HI pa lb. Tao 011106 P. and other rertablee .4 pound of dour, PetandA, at 14d. per IA —. Of Half a pound of pearl barker, et 3d. per lb . „. Three ounces of sidt, with half ea ears of hew rape et 4d. per lb. .... -•-•-• ..... Taro gallons of water For Soup No. 2, proceed as receipt No. 1 explains (air the fat, meat, onions, and the other vegetab.es), but aa a one id quart of water upon the whole, which you let boil twenty minutes, stirring now and then to prevent burning ; or else, if convenient, set it by the side of the fire, and add one pound of maize; mix well together, and H.l the stew-pan with six quarts of water ; 14:411011 as above, let it simmer one hour, skim lightly, and it is; then ready for use. One hundred gallons of this soup will cost under 11. REPAYMENT OF ADVANCES TO IRELAND BY INCOME-TAX. SIR,—By the Temporary Relief Bill, which will probably have become law before this reaches you, • large sum of money is to be advanced to bush boards of guar diens on the security of rates to be hereafter levied. It haft been candidly admitted by Irish members that, under existing circumstances, the rates in question cannot be collected. No person who knows anything of Ireland can outmode that they will ; and it is to be apprehended that this will tend, along with everything else, to make relief com mittees reckless as to the amount of their expenditure. Perhaps they may think, as the magistrates and ewe payersat the Extraordinary Presentment Sessions held some months ego appear to have thought, that the most likely way of having the whole debt, or a large portion of it, cancelled, was to make it so great that repayment would be impossible. Some Irish members have alleged that, whatever might be the ease with the tenant's portion of the rate, the landlord's portion would certainly be repaid. Unless, however, a change in the made of paying the rate be made by law, this statement is " a delusion, a mockery, and a snare." The landlord's share is in the first instance paid by the tenant ; the landlord is not lisble for it to the collector. The occu pier pays the whole rate in the first instance ; and it is only on his producing the collector's receipt fur the payment, that he is entitled to deduct the landlord's share from his rent. It would appear, then, that the landlord's share of the rate, which, according to the Irish members, can alone be collected, does not mean the half-rate which he pays on his gross rental, but only the rate which he pays en the property in his own occupation ; a mere drop in the bucket as compared with the entire rate. It is true that the law may be altered. The landlord may be made liable in the arse instance for his portion of the rate, and the payment of it may be enforced by a compulsory sale of his property, the only means by which many landlords can meet the enormous burden that will be imposed on them in a year, when all of them base had reduced incomes, from the inability of their tenants to pay their full rents, and when many of them have also sustained great losses by the failure of their own crops. The advances made by the English treasury may thus be repaid, by • process which comes very near to what has been called confiscation. But cannot they be repaid in an easier and • fairer way ? Why has England been asked to contribute to the relief of Ireland on the present occasion? Because the calamity has been a national one. If this be a fair principle as between England and Ireland, surely it is • fair principle as between one part a Ireland and another, and as between one portion of the Irish c mmunity and another. The west of Ireland has suffered far more than the east, and in both west and east some electoral divisions have suffered incomparably more than others. If it be a national calamity, as we say when we ap peal for help to England, and as everybody in England but the Times seems disposed to admit, why should the land lord, whose property lies in an electoral division which, has escaped distress, be called on to contribute nothing; while he, whose property lies in a distressed division, though, perhaps, it be not itself iistrem.d, is to be crashed with an overwhelming rate ? And again, if this be a national cala mity, why are the mortgagees, the annuitants, the fund holders, the professional men of all sorts, the salaried ser vants of the crown, the merchants and the manufacturers, to contribute nothing towards it, or at least nothing in pro- portion to their means ? Why is the whole burden to be laid on what is, perhaps, not above a tenth of the total in come of Ireland ? England has acted nobly towards her sister on this occasion, so far as contributing largely towards r the relief of the distress which she suffers ; but there remains one thing for her to do it will cost her nothing • and if she neglects to do it, the omission will cancel all the obligation which her pecuniary contribu tions may have created. She will be regarded as a tyrant ; and the cry for • repeal of the union will be heard in quarters where before it was never uttered. England must see that the portion of what is required to meet the extraordinary pressure occasioned by the failure of the potato crop, which she leaves to be paid be Ireland, shall be distributed fairly over all Ireland and among 01l classes of Irishmen. The mode of effecting this is as simple as the 4,m:ice of It is obvious. Let any electoral division in which a rate or rates have been levied since September, 1846, amounting to the average of the rates levied in the two preceding years be exempted from any further liability till after the audit in September, 1847. If rates to this amount have not been levied, let the deficiency be now levied, or as soon as it may be required • the lawilords and tithe-owners being made hable bylaw in the first instance for their respective shares. A proviso may be easily framed to meet the case where the poor-house has not been open during the two years specified, or where, through default of the guar dian.. a proper rate has not been struck. In such cases the maximum amount to be levied this year may be determined by the average of neighbouring unions The great principle for which I contend is, that the amount to be levied this year on the very limited class on whom the burden of the poor-rates rests by the present law, should not exceed tee average of past years; and that whatever is levied beyond this, whether under the Temporary Relief Act or under the erg ;her poor-law. should be charged on the Irish people at large. Now there seems an easy mode of effecting this. There is as yet no income-tax in Ireland. The difficulties in the way of collecting one have been exaggerated by interested persons : but they are very trifling, and can easily be sur mounted. In future years let the Irish pay an income tax equivalent to what is paid in England or Scotland, and ap plicable to the same purposes. In the present year, let a special income tax be Imposed to defray the extraordinary relief required for the poor. It may be made payable is two portions. The first must be laid on by estimation ; the amount of income taxable, and the amount to be levied. being calculated as well as possible. The first payment of the tax should make up, as nearly as possible, the half of the extraordinary relief required. The other payment could be accurately determined, so as to make up the remainder of what was expended in this relief. By this means, the speedy repayment of the advances made by the 2osernment would be scoured, without there being an over whelming pressure on any individuals; and, at the some time, the machinery for collecting an income tax, which after all is the fairest mode of taxation, would be brought into working order.—l remain, &c., ULTONIENBIII. COMMERCIAL MARKETS. MONEY MARKET & CITY INTELLIGENCE. Milf-past Two.—The stock market has lost some thing of the encouraging aspect which it presented yesterday, The fret is that the state and prospects of the corn market are always sufficiently uncheering to damp the fair spirit of .pec elation in money values and commodities generally which may not be connected with the primary and important yuestion of the supply of food. We have not much doing in the hauls to-day, and prices, which opened a fraction in ad vance of the improvement yesterday, have not been entirely supported. The market may be expected to remain in an uncertain Nate until the financial exposition of the Premier shall have been delivered, as promised, on Monday next. As that exposition must, or ought to, unfold the whole finun cial condition of the country, it is looked forward to with onnenensurate interest, and in its results may poseihly be e for some time of the tendencies of funded and money /Ze - 4 • ° °'.--..-..-A•ilr-•-z------. Tong N0.147.] LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEB.IB, 1847. [3d. values, on the Stock Exchange, so in the discount market out of doors, whether for the rise or the fall of prices. if not of the interest of money. The weekly hoard of the Bank was held to-day, but though the directors remained in consultation rather longer than usual of late, nothing was done in the way of altering or raising the rate of dime:int There are indeed no circumstances in evidence which should justify any movement in an upward direction at present, [w although money is not quite so easy, it cannot be called scarce, either among bankers and billhrokers or on the Stock Exchange. Consols opened this morning rat 91 to 1 for money, and 911 to 1 for time, but are not now Co good, the quotations being 91 to 1 for account; Reduced Threes, 91g to 1; Exchequer Bills par to 6s. premium. Bo neglected are foreign stocks, that up to one o'clock this morning but one bargain woe soaked in the official list. Prices remain, therefore, nominally almost as before. Mexican 214 to 21. Spanish Fives, 241 to 51 ; tke Threes, 361 to which are a further improvement in the prices of these seen. rities. Portuguese, 34 to 6. Dutch Two-and-a-Half pee Cents., 551 to 1; the Fours, 924 to 4. Bask /tact, 203 I 2 per C. 8.0., ill* per (*et. Consol., sl 3 per CLCoonis ter iso3. 31 le per Open, 33 Szelleguse par se is. .............. e ......... 5 per Ct. Auld. Mods, II I 1 per Cent. 01<oada Ada, 19 29 19 per Ct. 8e19191. Bonds, 43 3 Ormoda Deferred AC.., 99 9 24 per Cent. 1111.10, & per C 6 Belkon, 1964.211 79 3 per Cl Braslitian 310...94 7 I per C. Denarion Bdp, 34 49 Ditto New, n 1 I Potetutae9e Cony, Bd. , 34 & 4 per Ct. lioemeo Ayres BAP, 40 2 5 per Ct. Rpotiao lids , 111 13 Ditto Chills., 141 s . 93 IV Dili& 14.41•ilitt lids, 24# 11 Ditto C 01•11111, 1/ef. Aids.,—. 3 pee Ct. Itp.siati Bd. 01 a Col9mbian Eceadnr 111., 3 9 spaniadi DeCerred 1494.., 14 17 3 per Cl. DanlsA BBL, 67 9 1 Ppael.l. Parke Bd., 49 I )9 per Cl. Dateh lido., 2911 # 2 per Ct. I'ene oo eta be.. SI 9 4 p.m Cl. Orem Dutch. 929 1 Veneasela Defernal BY, II 29 RATLWATIL—m. - market is tolerably firm at yesterday's prices, though not quite so promising in appear ance as then. Reidirg and Ouildfords have improved slightly, and the dealings are rather active in them. SALES EFFECTED CP TO TWO THIS DAY IN LONDON. (Yesterday's pews will be found in last 4 lir. &Oxford In., 14) 1 Newark & 3 If Br., WoL, and Dudley, 1(4 i Norfolk, ISO Ikriles, Ftam., and Cir , 2 p North Bettisb, SS 11114itiptamshire, i p 14; Herm 161 Clii4leisa, 271 Do. Qrs , 4) Mod Northers Scrip, 21 Do. Externs, le I. Oisalka, SI i I Dm 7 11 11 11idlhe, De , Terp. 3 per Cent., No. S,l p Nortb _ Si A Da. York F-• 41 i 1 Reafarg. 0- '. k ZdaW, 4 i 1 -- . 16 's. 2.1 Eaten... Fit LlllCashim, IS h. Emit Linon'tnihire, 61 71 CR. N. or England, 212 Great Western. Halms, 721 Do. Fifths, IS 11 Rudders. and Man., 201 Do. Extenalon,4ll Leeds, Dews 3l ., and Man., Old Eat. (Orem Is. & B ) lack., New, No. 2,11 1 p Lon, Heigh- & S. Coast, 58 Do. Onmolidated Eifthe 54 Landon & N. Western, 1641 5 Do. Fifths. 1111 De. Hs. at 401.), M. & 8., 711 IdYoa & S. Western, 66 New, 2 sll TM. &alp, 54 IA m, 17 Buz, & Matlock, p r & Southampton, 11 1 9 11- MS De. New, 5; LIVERPOOL I The market was no better tl nets of as limited a nature as 1 Chester and Birkenhead, 461 Dublin and Drogheda, 111 1 d E. Lancashire (New Scrip), 11 9 Lon. & N. Western. 189 Do. New Qr5.,121 p Man. A: 6 4eds, S p Mao., Sher., & L/n. (201. sh.), 11 d Midland, 11l N. British New, jp Preston& Wove, 35 44 Do. Melees (11), 80. 9d. p MANCHESTER The market was again tole new feature, the prices genera Amber., Not., and Boa. E. J.. 1 P Bk., Lan. & liteshire, 4 p & 00. Jo., 91 I 1 1 Black, Clith., & N. W., 5-16 3-16 d E. Counties York Eaten., 1 p E. Inacitahlre, 2 p Do. New (se.), 111 p llodders. & Man. R. & C., 33 Do. dn. 44 Do. Thirds, 11 . p Guild., w Norton & Mitchum. 2 , secatigh found, 221 2 - Soottish Midland. 211 Shrews. & Sir., Cola , A. 41 S. E.& Dow.,New, (kn. ax 66.8 d.) No. 2,13 f Do. New (do. 131.), No. 4, Al South Wales, 7 11 South York., Doo., & Dank, 21 f Trent Val.. MM.& Gr. Jo., 1 p Wart Riding Union, 11 1 p York & Newcastle, 361 Do. New, 111 Do. .'rei., 81 1 York & N. Midland, 86 Do. Ex., 381 Do. Pref., 111 121 Do. E. & W. Itiding Ex., 211 1 lioulatrne and Amiens, 141 4 Great Weatern Benfud, 1 Northet n m Frame, 121 Orleans and Bordeaux, 71 Fe.. 17. on Tuesday, and the bug. Hutidendield R. & C., 4i p Do. Exten., 1 p Rims., Oat., Ches., 2 d Amirrgute, le. 3d. p Binning. and Oxford 'tux., p Fitt., Fred.,! W. R. 134.9 d. p Gt. Northern (let errirs), p Shrop. Union R. & d Went Riding Union, 33, 9d. p Man. 4! Southampton, 3e. Al. d 3AGES, Fn.. 11. rably brit, but there was no Ily being at last quotations. Mort, Pre., & W.A., 10.16 p Lan. & rms., Three-gm., 171 p Mnn.. Sher., & Llocoln.h., I d Man. &Southampton, 7-16 d North llritkh 'Mints 2, p Oldham Alliance, 4 p & Wyrr, naives (A), 41 p do. ( 0 ). 7 . 12 1 7 South York., Don., Oz., J p BIRMINGHAM SALES, Pao. H. There were armroms of improvement in the market, and prices were upon the whole firmer. N. Britian. Eaten., i p Shrews. & Rlr. (W., en ad. p Amber.. Not., and Boa., Is. Id. p Shropshire Union Reg., d Air.. Wit., & Dottier, sip S. SLOE Reg. (late Jo.), p Mir., Wol., & Stour Valley, II p Man. and Southampton, I d Shrews &Dir. (A), 14 p LEEDS Bat' There wail rather more bu market, but the improvement and pi i , es manifested a tenden Blackburn and Pm•ton, 21 p Lancashire, 2! p Do. Scrip, 265. p E. Counties (York Ex.), 14a. p Dewsbury Eaten. (pink), 21a.6d.p Do. Sew, 15s. d Leeds ac Thirst, 2) d De. Pref., 265. 28s. p Leeds, Wake., and 1111)1., 10s. E. and W. Yorkshire, 3s. 2s. Od. p Pee. 17. sines, transacted in the share noted yesterday had subsided, icy to &eine. Jn., II p Hodder. and Man., 13 p Dividers Acid & MK, 4 Man. and Leeds Ex. (32/. p ), 2i p N. British Thirds, 525. Gd. p Carlisle Ent,, 15s. 115.6 d. p N. Western, Its. 6d. Gs. p Ambergates, par N. Counties Lninn, 25.. d West Riding Union, 335. 335. 6cl.:p Pas. 17. II active, but prices remained Leicester Zs Redford, d iihnip. Union, d liciottisis Central, 22 Yk. & Newt., New, 111 %Et, Pre. 17. Font Lincolnshire, 24 p 8. York, Goole, & Don., b. p LEN Tux 17. N. B. Extension, 11. 17.. York and Newcastle Pref.. GI York and N. Mid., Pref., 11 4 LLES, FM 16. Wat.,Wex.. Wk. & Tin.. 5.). Gd. Is. Arm., We., and Port, as. BRIS7II, SAI The market was a shade less firm. miawnd h.), 3 Caledonius, New, d North British, Ys., p Man. & South., 1 d HULL BAI N. Tlaitlxh, 341 Da Ex., Scrip, 15p. p _ . TORN SAI North British, 15 Do. Thirds, 3 to. Q•uartcrs, 44. 7s. 9d. DUBLIN Ot. South. and Wed.. 211 Irish South I' r-trrn, cent St Waterton!, 3s. Sd. NW. Gt. West. Es. to Gal., 60. EDINRCRGII Ayr and Callow4y, 455. Celednainn, New, 45e. ed. Deeside Railway, Ns. Dir. Nor. Scrip, 51.. Dundee & Arbroath, 44 Dn. New, No. 2, 29 Do. New, No. 3, 5 Dundee & Perth, 31 321 Do. New, 1441 171 Fast of File, Go. 6d. 59, Leith, & Gran. Qrs., 19e. 16s. 3d. & Perth (New Co.), 49%. TALES. Yea. 16. Ellin. 6: Nor., 161 Do. Newport, 31 ! Do. do. New, daa. Bd. Gt. Nor., late Direct Nor., id% N. MU, Halves, 181 Do. Qrs., 86s. Do. New Qrs. Srrip, 275. 6d. 28s. Do. Thirds, 735. 4d.14. 6d. goottlah Central. 2 11 Scottish Grand Junction, 21s. 6d. &withal Midland, 271 Stirling and Dunfermline, 71s. Direct Bombay & Mad: as, 3e. 9d. OLAeOONV Ayr and Galoway, 41s. 48a. Caledonian, New, 41s. 44a. Caledonian & Dutnbar., 50s. Dundee & Perth, 81 11 East of Ede, &Oa. 89s. M. Fiat Lothian Central, 41s. ed. Edin. and Perth (New Co.), Ms. Do. New, 14s. Glas., Barr.. & Neliston Dir., 26 Dia/vow, KiL, and Ayr, 65 Do, naivety No. 2, 91. Is. OLaa, burn., and Car., 6i. ls. 6d. ILEft, Fri. 16. Glasgow, KB., and Ard., 61 Gt. North of Scothoul.e2s. Gt. North 11141* 7a Gd. 1(11., and Air Direct, 41s. Moo. and llontb., 3b. N. British, Tatrds, 745. Si. Di. New Qrs., Scrip, 117 P. W. Scottish Control, 21f Scotthh Grand Junction, 325. Gd. Wilson., Morn., & 0111., GO York &Newcastle Prat., BJ CORN.—Asnroan, FEB. 16.—The Wheat trade to-day was of an animated kind, a good part being token off for the London market at 3s. to 41. over the last day ; the same did not apply to Lent Corn, of which there was a large sup. ply, particularly of Oats, but they were not to be bought cheaper, white and black, for seed, fetching from 32.5. to I 37,., and Potato and Polands horn 355. to 425. Chevalier I Barley, for seed, 60s. to 68s. BALINOSTOI(E, FLA. 17.—A very animated market, Wheat gelling rapidly, at a further advance of from 151. to 204. per load, or from 3s. to 4s. per qr. ; even inferior samples were much in request, selling at an advance of nearly equal pro portion, very little left without an eager purchaser. Flour 34, 4d. par sack dearer. Bread 18d. to 19d. the 81b. loaf. Bar- ley for aced was fully 3s. per qr. dearer, in some instances even 4s. to ss. higher for peculiar ample*; malting also quite as high in advance ; light samples were oho soon taken rip at a rise of 2s. Beans and Peas were ls. to 2s. per qr. higher. Tares. 7s. per bushel. Rye scarce. Oats, the best for feed. ls. dearer; for seed, 2s. dearer; the top price 425., lowest 28s. per qr. Ryegrass, Clover, Cinque-foil, Plantain, end other small seeds rising rapidly. - - - - .°••• ••••••• . CILANTSTLOOK, Fan. I7.—A very good supply of Wheat, and 3s. to 4s. more was snide than the last day, but there was more o ff ering than coal 4 be sold , and holders were not disposed to sell but at their prices. White Wheat, 745. to 7Ss. ; red, 725. to 75.. The trade for Lent Cora was very slow, at prices as last stated. ' NEWCASTLE, Fze.l6.—The weather has again undergone a total change. On Sunday we experienced a thaw. w hilst yesterday a good deal of rain fell, which has caused the snow to disappear, we may therefore look for our fanners getting on to the land, and during the time they are thus occupied we may anticipate shorter supplies, which circum stance will tend to the maintenance of the present high rates for all grain. At our market this morning we had • large show of Wheat from the country and from the coast. the arrivals are also liberal, country corn being still offered comparatively cheaper than ship qualities. Our millers' attention was chiefly directed to it, and in conse quence we have again to raise our quotations in. to 2s. per qr. ; whilst in Norfolk and Suffolk, and other kinds, we can note little variation, the busiuese, upon the whole, being re stricted. As the week advances, however, we look for the demand increasing, as the stocks in the hands of the millers are by no means large. Flout without change, and 58e. may be considered a very extreme value for households. In Rye, or other artirlos, we have little change to note. Durttx, FEB. 16.—1 n the absence of expected advises from America, both buyers and sellers acted with caution in this day's raarket, and the business transacted his been on a limited scale. The tendency of prices was however upwares, and we advance our quotations for Wheat, Otte, and Bar ley, 65. per barrel, and fur Oatmeal, 6d. iH r ewt. Flour is a ready male at prt viola prices. The following was the general currency to the farmer. Wheat, per 280 lb., r. Ces. to 494.; white, 47.. to 51s. Oats, per 196 lb., 221. to 28,. Barley, per 224 lb., 275. to 335. Oatmeal, per cwt., 255. to 275. Flour, per cwt., firsts, 275. to 281.; seconds, 250. to 265. LEGHORN, Fan. o.—Towards the middle of last week there was considerable dulness in our market. in conse quence of a decline in France, but the last accounts from thence having brought advioes of renewed activity, at higher pricer, there is great firmness in the market to-day. Our stock of Wheat is very limited, not even 20,000 qrs., nor can we look for soy supp ies for a couple of month. yet. In the markets of the interior, prices of grain are rapidly ad vancing, and to-day he hear of the Neapolitan government Wising prohibited the exportation of Wheat, and the proba bility of the Roman government shortly permitting the im portation of foreign grain ; all there circumstances make a further rise not unlikely. PRODUCE.—MINCING-LANC, 114 f-past Two.— The public sales have been few and unimportant to-day, and markets, generally, have worn a quiet appearance. Sutter without alteration in prices. 11,000 bags Mau titius are advertised for tale to-morrow. A cargo of Isle Stu/ix, about 450 tons, has been sold afloat at 33e. in hood, duty 215., which is a high price, but the quality is fine.—Coffee steady.—Spices continue to go otf at fully previous rates —lndigo : The sale progresses very satiafactorily, at fall prices, with a larger proportion than usual sold.—Rice has been rather dull.—Rum : Qulet,—the demand very limited.— Cotton dull, and prices are with difficulty supported.— r f il e si a mi rotinues in fsir demand, and an advents bee taken upsurnsort ett Ow Amoy min; seemed Caper is now about V.sbove the tpoi PRICES C gooks, per C.n. WIT PAID. W. Dalia,B.P.lrern.a.4s d0..e.511 04 Yellow &Grey 5O 0..33 Fine 53 0...30 Mauritius, brown_ 39 0.. 47 Yellow 49 0...32 Fine. Bengal MMadras, b 36 0...46 Yellow 46 31 White 32 0...3.1 Foreign, brown 3B 0..47 Yellow 49 o_so Drey and white- 52 0..01 Reflood, Handiro' 7O 0...711 Lampe 65 0..67 Corm, la Bond. West India, 33 0... 40 040 0 Good. Pine 7O 0 ..123 Ceylon, good ordt nor, 42 0 42 r Me ordinary.- 45 0... 44 t, Fine 34 0 70 Yalu, good tolina 56 0... 83 0 1 Coots Mee, ordi nary to floc 36 0...56 0,1 Sumatra and Pa dang 24 0... 26 Tar, at per lb. Congou, common 9 0 ... 0 9i Rice, at per cut Bengal white-- 22 6... 24 0 Chrlio • Jam l6 0... 21 0 Mtn. 27 0.. 28 0 Carolina. 3O 0 . 39 0 Smarm. Rom at per gidL Leeward Island Proof. 11- 3 10 ... 4 0 Daturas, 26 to 36 per cent 4 9 ... 3 Jamaica, 30 to 36 per cent O.P. 3 2 ... 5 Favourite marka A 10 ... 8 Brandy, lit brands 5 3 6 British spiting, d.p. 9 6 ... 0 Scotch 0 0...0 Irish Mhz, per tee. Riga, P.T.S. E 47 0-34 St. Petersburg, 9 head 0 0 Dutch and Flembh 53 0..15 Friesland Hum, at per ton. StPetereborg,cleanE37 10...38 outshot ....... 34 13_35 lad clout 3l 0. 31 1 Rim Rhine ...... 33 0...39 outchot to Manilla Fast 'Pall Salm. Bombay IS 0...23 Jot. 7m, at per cwt. Basin 101 0-102 Straits Cam. In block. 96 0... 0 Loos, at per ton. Ban E 9 15 /10 Lt OF tiv; :URRENT. Pigs, No 1. ES 0. 5 15 lloops. 11 5...11 10 Cam s 13.. 9 Swedish Late, at per too. Pia, best l9 a .. 0 0 Milk.l, shoat 2. 0... 0 0 Barr l2 0... 0 0 Patent rhnt . 0.._0 0 ...... - reel au PPP ... 19 10...20 0 pelter • 2 10. 0 u Op, pa 252 hp pl. d.p. FP, 39,4 pule 37 0.. 31 0 ottralr 33 0. 31 0 brows & yellow 2ll 0.. 32 0 99 90 0 f u llattur 93 . 0. 0 0 c07:177 — .7 if li:::ii li souteife.: ls to 34) 10 OlIve,04111;6311,pron 33 0..34 0 Coon Nut 44 0...43 10 Sera. RaDe. Par per ton ST 0.. 0 6 Llassed 23 10...43 13 Ponrestoss, per mt. Batter—Cork, let ; .. Pt 0...94 0 Dublin, Ire 0 Or Lbaerlek, do BO 0 90 Carlow, lat 8: 0...99 Newry, lit ..... 0 0... 0 Waterbed BO 0. 88 Beef, India. per Prime Mem 0 0... 0 0 Park, prime mew BO 0 . 0 Bacon-Park.Lmrk In 0. . 00 0 Raema, Waterford, per ewt 64 0...66 0 Bethel Larl,l3elfeat,prfrk 4 0_,60 0 Waterford, do 6 Ditto Madder American Ilium, Ox and Cow, at per lb. R. A. and X. Video, a.O dlse.o al 3 l Balled 0 4 . .0 4 Brazil. dry 0 5 . 0 6 Ilryealtad 0 44 ..0 RIo, dry 0 41. 0 6 IJma & Valli. dry 0 5 ...0 6 We‘t India, dry 0 ..0 6 Salted 0 41 East India 0 0 101 Ktpa, B.Ayrea, dt7 0 ..0 8 Ittoria, dry 0 84...0 9 8. Ameriione, per hide 8 0...16 0 Roane, ditto 6 6..10 6 Ova Wane., at per km. Locrwoeddamalca.44 5... 4 10 Honduran 5 3. SIS Campeachy 6 10. 7 10 Tuatie, lcmairm 3 10... 6 0 Ntearagma, large and anklet 14 6...15 11 0-10 0 7/m. 10 0...13 0 ~ a con 10 0...17 10 17. d Sanders. 5 0. 310 Brant.. .......... 30 0...90 0 HOPS.—BOROUGH MARKET, Two o' Clock. Messrs. Pattenden and Smith, Hop Fact •ra, report that the market is firm. _ _ EISA Eon Kens. p.ent. IL 0 ot SI 10 I Tholles Luau.. p. sort. 11.0 toll . 0 Weald of Kenn . 4 0 tot • Testll,4 Suns.. 3 oto 4 0 Pones sl3to 4 10 lola Hops . . „ I oto 4 0 Fontons BASINGSTOKE, Fen. 17.—The prices for the best Farn ham., 71. to .7/. 10s. ; inferior, 161. to 16/. 10.. ; Altons, Crondells, Bentleys, Froyles, tic., from 5/. ss. to 6/. ; Snatex. from Si. to 51. 10s. ; Kents, middlintt, 61. to 61.1:».; Wtdd of Kent, 51. ss. to 51. 10.. Old Hops almost unsaleable; prices asked, 21. 108. to 31. per cwt.: retail prices from 16d. to 22d. per lb. Wonerwren, FEB. 17.—Our market for Hop. is steady, at the prices of lust week. Not much business doing. HAY.—SMITTIFIELD, and Davis, Hay and Straw very bad. Prime lIWow 111. is TOL I Sim MIL to 93.. o'clock.--Iktessre. Cooper omen, report that trade is ...—, lat Mer ditto liasTra SKINS.—BASINGSTOKE, FEB. 17.—The beet South Down Skins, 41. 6d. to Se. each ; not selected 4s. to 45. 64. The best Leicester, or Cottswold. from 45. 9,1. to Ss. 6d. each; unasserted, 44 6d. to 45. 0.1. Lamb Skins, 1351. the dozen. Large ox Hides, 3d. per lb. ; small and cow, 214. per Ih. Calf Skins, small, 414. per lb. ; large, about 1611 w. weight, 6s. each; dressed, 165. to 245. each. Horse tildes, raw, 7s. to 10s. each ; dressed, 134. to 14d. perlb. Butchers' Rough Fat, 3s. per Moue of Alba. CATTLE.—Sounram., FEB. 17.—We had a very little demand to-day, it being Ash Wednesday, and things were with difficulty got through, at somewhat lower prices. Beef, per stone of 81bs., sinking the offs], 2s. 6d. to 41. 2d. Mutton. 3s. 10d. to ss. Ve►l, 4s. Bd. to ss. 44. Pork, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. SHIPPING. MAIL@ ARRIVED: 3, Dublin; 3, Waterford; 1 Do naglidee ; 1. French; 1, Flan& iv. Losoox, Feb. 18.—Wind this day at noon, S. NC. by S., fresh pale and squally. DEAL, Feb. I7.—W. to S.W., strong and squally.— Arrived: Alfred, and Fenella, China; Stad Zieriekree, Batavia; Henry Woolly, Calcutta ;John Flemming, Madras; Ayrshire, Bombay; Falcon, and Lord Petre, Mauritius; C!eopatria, Demerara. Arrived from the river: Statira, and Elizabeth, Jamaica. The William and Sally, Swan sea to Hull, got on the Goodwin Sand this morning, but was assisted oft with damage, and leaky. Cowes. Feb. 17.—S.W.—Arrived : Vesta, Rio Janeiro; Susanne Christine, Batavia. . SOITNIMPTON, 'Feb. . Clyde (it.), Wegt Indleo . . FALMOVTH, Feb. 17 —W.S.W.—Arrived:Margaret Connel, Siam and Cape of Good Hope. CLYDE, Feb. 15.—Arrived Ann Harley, New York. Sailed: Constant, An: Cayes and St. Domingo ; Rembrandt, ditto; Packet, Barbadoes. Orr Doran, Feb. 17.—Hong Kong. Calcutta NEWHAVEN,—Arrived: Antonia, Callao. OFP THE WIGHT, Faa. 17.—Castor, Bahia, for lfamburg. JERSET, Feb. 13 —Sailed : Adolphus L Matanzas. SWANSEA, Feb. 17.—W.—Arrived: Deihl's, Valparaiso. NEWPORT, Feb. 16.—W. to S.W., strong.—Arrived : Joseph Cunard. St. John's. BIDEFORD, Feb. 16.—The Isabella, from Scilly, arrived here today, leaky and strained, and was run on the head. Mitrottn, Feb. 16.--The Mary Robert has been raised and taken into Doll Roads, a complete wreck. PETERHEAD, Feb. 14.—The Angelina, from Fraserburgh to London, has put in here in a sinking state, having struck on a rock, Buchanese Light. Hum., Feb. 17.—The George Lockwood, Hartlepool to Bordeaux, arrived here to-day, with damage to bows, baying been in contact with a loaded barque off Flamborough ID ad, 14th inst.. which lost foremast and bowsprit. Pr.ratorrit, Feb. 16.—A1 rived: Calcutta, Sierra Leone and Gore,. DUALIN, Feb. 15.—W.—Arrived: Atalanta, St. John's; Carrori, Demerara. KINGSTOWN, Feb. 13.—Arrived: R bert. Africa. Coax, Feb. 15.—N.W., strong.—Arrived: Mayflower, Callao; put bark, Malabar, for Mobile.--Sailed: Belvedere, New York. Limentex. Feb. I.s.—S.W.—Arrived: Peru, Demerara ; Gray, New York; Genera, ditto. ABERDEEN, Feb. 14.—S.W.—Anivod Mungo Park, Callao. HARTI.EPOOL.—SaiIed: Leamone, St. Thomas's; Lady Selford, BombaL PLYMOUTH, Feb. 17.—The June, Copenhagen to Galata, was abandoned in a sinking state yesterday, off the Eddy stone, and has since drawn on shore at Mirthicombe, bilged. RELATING TO THE RAWARDEN CASTLE, OF BELFAST.— A despatch has been received at Lloyd's. from the Admiralty, announcing that Captain Falcon, of H. M. mail steamer Pigmy, bad picked up, 13th inst., off the Sahees, the crew of the Hawarden Castle, of Beirut, bound for the United States, which had sunk about three boars previous, in con sequence of leaks. The boat and crew were landed at Belfast. For Yesterdays -ttarsets ate 4$ pays. IMPERIAL PARLIAM HOUSE. OF COMMONS, FEB. 17. The Bramuta took the chair at twelve o'clock. PRIVATE Besisess. SECOND READLNGS.—Exeter mad Exmouth Railway; Leeds and Think Railway (Leeds, Durham, and Newendie Extenakm, fre.); I Leads and Think Railway (Deviation of Male Line in Crimple Via ley. &c.) ; Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Knareaborough and Hirougia. bridge linuieb); Leeds and Th ink Railway (Eagleacliff and Stilling ton Extenaiwii ; Leeds and Thin* Railway (Harrogate and Pawky Branch, fre,); Leed. sod Think Railway (Brandt from Melmerby to Narthallertoe, Ore.); Midland Great Wedeln Railway of Ireland (Ex tension from Athlone to Galway) Bills. PUBLIC BUSINESS._ PrIITTONA.—By Mr. Anenroirrit from Bolton and from Hud dersfield ; Lord Geo. Barnacle, from Warrington; Mr. FrARAND, from Sliagsby, and from a working man in ester, Mr. Et moss, S 8 petitions loom various places; Mr. T. DVICCONIay. from Bradford, from United Trades' Aftnelltion —all hr favour of Tat Hours Bill. Lord Gen. Ilmsriscr, from Bradford, for alteration of Anatomy AM. Sir W. SOWEIWILLI6, from guardians of Drogheda, for immediate toi -1 aviation of groin. Mr. Eaoriesima foim Halifax, for reduction of duty no le+. DCNCAN from the Chamber or Commerce of Dun dee against Legis'Atire interferrmie with factory labour. BI TURN (MBE RED.—On the motion of Mr. B. 11. Casiocu, of the expenditure of union workhouses in England and alea, from 1b34 to 1846 inclusive, and the amount paid in web year for out-door .... IRISH WORKHOUSES. Lord DUNCAN entreated the attention of the house to a persklial matter connected with himself. It had been stated that he had acted with discourtesy. He trusted that he knew his dirty to that house too well to act with discour tesy towards any individual, either there or elsewhere. It bad been alleged that he had made charges against an indi vidual. He would recall to the recollection of the house, that when his hon. friend the member for Marylehone se ferred to statements which had been made with regard to certain workhouses in Ireland, he (Lnril Duncan) said he trusted that those statement, would be speedily denied. He disclaimed having made any charges. \Vhat he before said, and new repeat ed , was, that his constituent, would not be willing to pay poor-rates ualesa also levied in Ireland—(hear, hear)—and no observations made either in that house or elsewhere would prevent him from thus discharging what be felt to be his duty to those whom he represented. SUPPLY. On the motion of Mr. PAIULER, the house went into Cons • lune of supply, and a vote was taken on outstanding Exchequer Bills to the amount of 18.310,7001. FACTORIES BILL-ADJOURNED DEBATE. Oa the order of the day for sus mi• ff era adjoarraai des bate on the second reading, Sir A. L. HAY lose to address the house. He said he could not agree with the noble lord the member for the City of Landon [het the question before the house was now not one of principle, but only of degree. The interference which took place in 1333 was not a concession of the principle in volved. The factory commission found that the average number of Noun in the cotton factories of Great Britain was 12, though in come eases labour extended over 18 or 17 ; they then gave their opinion in favour of 12 ho•.rs being eauctioued by par liament ; and it appeared to hint that the adoption of that suggestion was merely an adjustment necessary to generalise the system. He would be told, perhaps, that the opinion of one eminent factory inspector, Mr. Leonard Homer, wan in favour of further alteration. For twelve years after Mr. Homer was made an inspector he was opposed to reducing the number of hours below 12, and be (Sir A. L. Hay) bad twelve years' experience at least to set against two. The experiment was one fraught with danger to the manu facturing interest, and indirectly to the agricultural. The feeli: gin Scotland was very strong upon this subject. The mill owners there were quite indignant nt this legisla tive temperieg with their rights, and one of therefrom whom he had heard that tn.-ening, declared that they had unani. mously resolved, if the bill were carried, to work their mills only eight hours a day, and pay wages at only one-third of the present scale. (conical cries of " Hear, bear.") As to foreien competition, the Americans could undersell us even now in the markets of China and India. And what a time had they rho-en for their experiment! Never was there a period when such experiments should be lees tried. On the part of the masters and workmen both he begged them, there fore, to resist this hill. Mr. BERNAL had always felt strongly on this subject, and had always consistently voted in favour of the principle. At the same time he had alwaysdieesraled from his mind the vulcar attacks which were constantly being made upon the master manufacturer* in connexion with this subject. The master manufacturer, ought to be supported. Their industry was indefatigable: their enemy was daring: their projects were insenificeet. But he did ask the master manufar•u con to divest themselves of prejudice upon this subject, and to regard as a certainty, that in a few year*, more or less, the prirciple of • ten hours bill must certainly be cerried. What slid this bill propose ? It proposed to limit the labour of young persons between the age of thirteen and eighteen, and of all females, to ten hours a day for five data in the week, and right hours on Satur day; or, in other words, to mike the week's labour 58 hours, instead of 89 hours, at at present. Now, in dinueing the adyantagss that would result from the proposed change, he would deal only with plain areuments and matters of feet, and discard all poetry•. He admitted at once that the arrangement would 010 limit the labour of adults in fac tories, He thought that was a feet which ought not to be concealed or evaded. (Hear, hear.) It was a very important fact; because it woo argued that if the hour' of adult Labour were diminished, the wages of their labour must be diminished in proportion. Now, on thin point, the house should bear in mind that the op- ratives had, over and over again, express: d themselves willing to take the measure and abide t •e issue. He recollected two years ago hieing a two houn' conversation with delegates from the manufactur'ng district', and when this considera tion was seegeated to them, their answer was, " We are content to encounter the risk. and abide the ehence of reduc tion." (Hear, bear.) But he did not concede the point that there would he a necessary r• diction of wages to the extent assumed by the opponents of she biil. Between 1813 and 1833 seven distinct statutes had been passed on the sub ject of factories, and for the reduction of the hours of labour. Had the operetion of those acts at all diminished the rate of wages? (Hear, hear.) What was the evidence upon thin point? In 1833, Mr. Holland Hoole, a large cotton spinner at Manchester, himself an opponent of this measure, gave evidence on this subject, which was embodied in one of their blue books up stairs. What did he tell there ? llc stated what were the wag.' of labour in cotton manufactories in Manchester in eight dif ferent years, and the result showed that whilst in 1813, be fore they commenced ',arming laws of this sort, the average earnings of young persons in Manchester were Bs. 41d. • week ; in 1833. when seven acts upon the subject had been passed, their average wages were Bs. 10d. a week. Now, not only was this an advance in money wages, but when they came to consider the prices of the principal articles of consumption, they would find that it was a great advance in relation to that standard by which alone wages could be measured. In 1813, for example, the price of oatmeal was 5.5 e, in 1833, 2.55. ; butcher's meat, in 1813, sd. ; is 1833, 31d. ; teem in 1813, Si., in 1833, eel ; candles, in 1813, 1 led., in 1833, 51d.; coal', in 1813, Bld., in 1813, 53.1. Salt, they were aware, was considerably reduced, and there had been a reduction generally in calicoes, artiales of dress, cheese, and potatoes, amounting neerly to ZO per cent., so that while the young women in 1833 got greater average eves than they did in 1813, they could supply them. selves with articles of food and clothine at 50 per cent. less. Now, if the house took the average weekly earnings in 1844 and 1845, they would find that the same facts w .re exhibited. In a speech of the hon. member for Durham, delivered last session, he entered at some length into tee question of wages as existing in his own and other factories in Lancashire and Yorkekire. The hon. member stated the number of his workets at 518, and their average earnings per week at 90. Id. ; he said that Mr. Ackroed employed 74.5 workers, at an average weekly wage of Is. 3d. ; while the worker, in Mears. Eccles' and esker manufactories, averaged 101. 7d. It was clear, then, that wages in 1844 and 1845 had not been reduced, although since the year 1833 they had passed two other enactments limiting the hours of labour in factories. (Hear, hear.) lie thought, therefore, that he bed a right to assume that a doubt might he cast on the assertion that a reduction of the dura tion of labour would be followed by a reduction of wages. But he now came to a part of the subject which was of equal, if not still greater, importance. At • period when the claims of the poor were peculiarly forced on their attention—when they were called to legislate with a view to the increased health of towns and large cornmeal ties, surely they could not discard from their consideration that these youthful artisan, were now worked 12 or 14 hours in • heated and unwholesome atmosphere; and that women (workenaho in factories) were torn from their domestic re lations, and interrupted in the midst of Ness maternal duties which nature had pointed out as imperative. He wished to draw the attention of the house to the facts elicited on these points by Mr. Fletcher, • most intelligent surgeon of Bury. Mr. Fletcher, writiug to the hon. member for Oldham, stated that he was startled at the statistical detail* set forth in various authotitire ; but after he bad himself tented their accuracy, he was obliged to acknowledge that in no single instance were they overcharged. He had not taken one town or district, but had compared one with the other throughout the textile manufacturing counties. Ile had, for instance, taken one district in the town of Bury, and com pared it with another district in which a different species of manufacture prevailed. First, in the tows district of Bury, which be hail examined, he found that the number of years which each worker was employed in the factories did not exceed, on an ace age, eight, while in some other kinds of factories the period exceeded fourteen. He found that the deaths of infants in the towns averaged sixty-one per cent , and in other districts thirty-two per rent. The hon. mem ber (Mr. Milner Gibson) seemed to doubt this, but the facts were accredited, and could be substantiated to the satiefac lion of rho house. In the district of Bury North, Mr. Fletcher found the mortality among infants as •54 per cent. compared to 33 per cent. in other districts. Now, what was the inference from this? Why, clearly, that the women could not give the proper and efficient stteneanct to their infants which t ey were called on by nature to afford, and that their energies were too severely taxed at a time when it was requisite that they should devote themselves to the nur ture of their young. (Hear, hear.) Much had been said both in that holes and elsewhere on what had been done by the master manufacturers by the construction of parks, and schools, and atheneum* for the working-classes. He should like to know, however, when were the working-classes to enjoy them ? (Hear, hear.) Of what use were mechanics' institutions, and parka, and atheneum., if the people for whom the atheneum' were built, and the parks planted, had neither time, sinews, nor spirits to make use of them ? How was • man working ten hours a day to fled time for recreation? They would say he might use these places on a Sunday ! Why, think what a Sunday was to • man who had been atandiag ten hours a day at a loom for the six previous days of the week ? It was his day literally of rest—(hear, hear)—it was his day for the performance of many little domestic duties he had pre vieusly been obliged to neglect, but it was a mockery to call it his day for enjoying their parks and atheneum,. (Hear, hear.) This was an hypocrisy which deserved to be ex posed. (Renewed cries of '• Hear, bear.") But he now came to another cundderation. It was truly said, that manufactures at the present moment were depressed. Now, what was the cause of it? Why, it could. be traced to the working of that megnilteent and demon mos cr. the Acorn engine. By the aid of its powers the mama...hirers of this country had mere:oo.ml sorry market iu the wc.rld. The shores of South America were white vri . .h their calicoes; the yellow plains of China were coloured with their prints. (A laugh.) What was the cure for all this over-production ? short time. And, as there must necessarily be diminished production in future, what harm was there in passing this bill? (Hear. herr.) Alr. DENNISTOIJN was understood toremark that over production was an increase of good ; it was not an evil. Mr. BERNAL.—Then if it was a good let theta hear no more grumbling from the manufacturing districts. (Hear, hear.) But he denied that it was a goad. Could they con sider an increateal number of bankruptcies a 1.1 mptotn of good ? Let them see how frightfully the pruduc in hail in creased ? One hicton inspector reported that iii Aim district alone, between Nov. 161.5 and Nov. 1846, fey new mills were added to the number previously existing, workine 3,315 ad ditional horse power, and employing 13.300 additionalwork people. (Hear, hear.) But he had hosed anmething said by the hon. and gallant member who had just spoken as to the Americans undenelliug us. Why, they have ken doing this for years. Yet, if they contrasted wages in America with wages in England they would find our rates loner than the Americans, whilst they w: uld also find that the American female spinners were much snore liberally triatml. I Hear, hear.) It was a fact, of which, perhaps, some members might not be aware, that in the aggregate there work women employed in American factories had much more time at their disposal than in this country. Generally, they were the daughters of respectable farmers, and during 2 or 3 months of the year they had a vacation from work, during which they retired to their catintry.homes, to renew their domestic ties and sympathies. (Hear, hear.) t them show him a penile case to this in Yorkshire or in Lancaahire. 'I here the work was uticeasiog—never ending. (Cheers.) Well, then, taking all these facts into their consideration, he put it to the master manutacturers, was it worth while to contend now against a principle which was so sure as this was of ulti mate adoption? Let them ask themselves, did not the ope ratives of Lancashire end Yorkshire des. eve something at their hands f Their agitation for this hill hail been a moral agitatian : they had nevi r threatened even a turn-out. And yet these men, be it remembered, had gond argument on their ride. If they looked around them they saw no her elaisses of operatives cumpell,l to work as they were. Not • smith, not a mason, not a carpenter, an engineer, Waif a joiner in Landow 'naked es long as they did ;—nay, the very mechanics in the mills at which th , y lab oirel never worked ten hours a day upon the average. These mi-n, then, had a right to say let us exerciie a fete will as well so our fellows, or if you work us extra hours pay us, as you pay our feltow workm n, not upon a wale of arithmeti cal proportion, but rather en a scale of geometrical pro gression. (Loud cheere.) Let them remember too, that these people were deprived of many of the advantaers open to their I. Bows. Th re was a chymistry in nature, nod though the agricultural peasant might labour as 11114( and might live in greater squalor and earelessusin than the factory workmen, yet lie hail the adeantare of free air and of the glorious sunshine. He attained a ripe old age, nn depressed in physical or mental energy. How different his condition from that of the occupant of the crowded, ill venti lated, badly lighted facture t. A spirit ofjustive and . airr.em dictated to the marten that to these men they owed some compensation for the blessings of which they were so much deprived; and with every respct, he warned them to yield in time, lest they might be made to ield hereafter under greater disadvantage, and left themselves open to the suspi cion of avaricious grasping after that which they could not I maintain, and which the dictates of msrality and Christian ity forbad them to hold. (Loud cheering.) Mr. S. CRAWFORD ,aid that he attends d a meeting of the working class. s, held in the Town-hall of Rochdale, convened for the purpose of expressing an opinion upon the subject of this bill, lie asked them what wire their wishes with respect to it, whether they desired him to sup port the measure in that house, and whether they were willing to stand the chance of any r.duction of wages w hick might arise from the paring of the measure. One part of the hall was appropriated to females, and lie asked the ladies their wishes (a laugh) and received a most enthusiastic response in favour of the measure. Al though the operatives of Rochdale did not coovti'ute the whole body of the electors of Roehd sle, still he felt it is duty to pay a due consideration to the wishes of that large body, and he considered that he max &nine in conformity with their opinions by giving his vote ni favour of this bill. Mr. DENNISTOUN confessed that his hem friend (Mr. Dental) had advanced one argument wit:eh, at the first blush, would seem to carry, If not convietinn, at the least great weight, and wire)+, if it were not tort, Arendt place the opponents to the hill in an awkward position. He alluded to the point made, that this would not be the first time that the sate has inter**. red in the hours of labour, and that such interference had hitherto been unattendi d with any diminu tion in wages. Now he (Mr. Dennistoun) dela. d the assump tion that there had been any real reduction in the hours of labour at all. The eduction mad. from fourteen to twelve hours was only a nominal reduction, and was toot general throughout the country, for twelve hours Fad been always the average : thin I clog the fact, the whole arguments of his hen. friend fell to the ground. (Hear.) The come quet,ce of thin bill would he to tor a I . mit on the power of means, the most absurd idea that could o nter into the he ad of man, What a time, too, had they selected few pr Toning it ! We were expos d at uremia to a great compenti at in our textile manulactures. The Americans had an advantage over an of 10 per cent. in freight and insurance alone, and of 10 per cent. added to that upon the cost of the raw material. Now, thin advantage, if applied to the whole cotton trade of Eng land, would amount to a million and a half per nom= upon our annual manufacture. (Hear, hear.) The effect of thin measure would be to limit the production of this country by one-seventh. Now, in 1843, we spun 401,000,0001 b. of cotton yarn, of wiieh we exported 312,(M0,000, leaving 58,000,000 for our home consumption. The result of this measure would, the refore, be to limit the production of as much as the whole home consumption of this country. (Cheers.) But now, en to the argu ment about wages. He would take the case of one mill et Glasgow. Its tett' consumption of yant was 312,0001 b, per annum. Deduct one-seventh, and the y would have the production of this mill decreased by 41,:t701h. per annum, or in money s due, by 2,228/. Now, from th:s 2,2281. they must take 8401. for the cost of the raw mato ial. The remainder, or 1,388/., represented the amount of which this bill would cause the loss. Now, upon whom was this loss to fall ? If it fell on the masters and operatives equally, each would lose 6741 , nod taking this as a fair estimate of the lons throughout the kingdom, he found Oat the ennrmous total of 877,5001. per annum would be paid less in wages if thin bill were passed into a law. Were they prepared then to take this step . If they were prepared to take it a ith respect to manufactures, were they prepared to take it will respect to other trades and articles? The kW of the potato crop in Ireland was now baffling all our statesmanship alai all our principles of political economy. Raiment was next in im portance to food. Food and clothing constituted in fact the wealth of the weed. Would they limit the production of food? It not, why limit the pro duction of clothing? To talk, in fart, of over-proluction in either, was a fallacy which could not be too op eddy exploded. There could be no such thing. (Hear, hear.) He now concluded by warn ing them that, if they passed this bill, the day was not far distant when they would have to retrace their stem. It was a measure which would never settle the question, whilst it would most amen illy unsettle every interest in this cone try. Mr. FERRAND, take adverting to the large number of petitions presented in favour of the bill, and the few agninst it, laid it was now 17 years since he find 11001111 C the firm advocate of a ten hours factory bill ; and at the large number of meetings which he had attended on the subject, he bad never yet witnessed one manufacturer who dared to raise his voice at any of tho.e meetings against them who had publicly Rumbled to advocate a ten hours bill. He had never heard one manufacturer who dared to meet his vrorkpeople and fairly argue the qucstion which was at issue. If there wan r.n instance of the kind lee should be glad to hear it. He saw the boa. gentleman the member for Sheffield (Mr. Ward) in his place. He believed it was not many weeks since the hon. member visited his consti tuents, and was obliged to admit that the people of this country were unanimous in favour of this bill. - • • • Mr. WARD denied that he had ever made such an amnion. ------• Mr. FERRAND said the hon. gentleman hsd admitted on the occasion referred to that the factory operatives were unanimously in favour of a ten hours bill. The working populace of Sheffield cutirely differed with the hon. member in his view of the question. The right hon. baronet the member for Tamworth had informed the house that be felt it his duty to vote against the bill, in consequence of his anxiety for the interests of the factory lsbourers. By the permission of the house he would read some details of the present state and suttee ings of those operatives. The extract to which he was about to refer was from the writings of a Lancashire cotton4pinner. Out of the mouths of those manufacturers who opposed this bill he would judge them in that house. lithe statement was true, and there way no doubt of it, he would ask if there was say hon. member who had the audacity to stand up and say that he was pre paredto perpetuate in a Christian and civilised a state of suffering and degradation such as that which he was about to read to the house. This great Lancashire cotton-spinner stated that, as individual manufacturers extensively engaged in trade, they should not be su.pected of wilful exagiteration of the evil. of this system when they made the follawin a statement. (The hen. mem ber then read several extracts, which stated that children of 10 and 12 years of age, after being employed for a short time in factory labour, lost the elastic step of youth, the blooming cheek, and the vivacity of intellect, under the severe employment and the prolonged confinement, often re sulting in permanent debility or premature death.) The gentleman who thus spoke of the factory system was no other than Mr. Greig, one of the largest cotton spinners in Lancathire, who, at the time he made al. se statement., was in favour of the relaxatton of the hours of labour ; but now his mind had changed, having been poisoned by the prin ciples of political economy, and he was associated with a small and decreasing band of cotton-spinners in Lan cashire, who deaied the factory operatives that .pro tection to . fully This gentleman of work, seven and atmosphere use of artificial highest wages particularly or in besotting t quantity or r was painful . this practice. they resorted large extent form of pills, anodyne, which ose when wages stimulant. The five in the which they were ea lußy entitled. 'this went on to state that from long hours and from its severe nature—rwelersd. more exhausting by As often beingpeeforresilin iftioss e—the workers found it nrezeiry to resat td ficial stimulants ; that manpokhent rewiring the • gee spent the greater portio IV their leiiiire.morir y on Saturday evenings smoldering the Sund_ays. Lig them/nisei with ale, ant'iirer, still gin. Tier gin drunk in this way win tones; X Ito see children, even giglg, sing inltlnted Into ce. Art:ent spirits were , tray stimulants rted to, as many of *bilged to 'As ent in opium, which -y took it( tri pills, sad in other forma, h \dist celled which was cheaper than gin. It 'much in wages were low, but now it would be an habitual The renorsl hones of work were from half-pest morning until half-past seven or eight at night, 4