The Express. — London, England, 1848-02-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1848. 136PY.ZIAL AVERAGES. hadJßasis7,4 Oats. I Kis. I lams. Pees. J.D. I ... ... 1 33 4 116.31 s 194319 7d2Ds Ild 39s 10d44s led '.., 3 ..• ... 33. 104,31 s 7,110 s Ild 31. adl4oa .446. Od 13 ... ... 33. M.)* 91.21 s 0699. 24 SOs Id 46s 4d 22 ... ... Us 1.930 s 4461, Id 30s 191994 94143 s 9d 19 ... ... 326 Od:10a Mins 3d 30s 34 Us 7.3630 3d FA. 3 ... ... Is 241 , 30 s 96304 7433. 6496 s 5662 s 9d 6 weeks' Ali. Aver. 34s d 1499 IIZI3Os ;91.394 9141 s 9d (Then ore n o d ies ca 'Mir , Orlin./ Pete.. llan. I. Jan. 6.. Jan. 15.1 Jan. 22. Jan. V. MM. 1. 5: ••• 5 10 ••• Annoys:a, Feb. 12.-Trade dull; best white ant red W neat sold at a reduction of s s. per loa d ; o ther samples 10e. lower, the best white went at 111. ' • red, 13f. to 131. 10s.; common dry Wheats, 121. 10s.; damp, 121. Barley in large oupply ; • considerable quantity sold, best at 335. to 3 1 s. per qr.; Lir samples at 31s. to 325. ; poor, 295. to 301. Some inquiries for good seed Oats, though the supply was rather scanty ; beet Poland and Potatoes made 261. to 275. per qr.; good foreign, 245. ; common, 22a.; farmers' feed, 20s. to 21s. In Beans, some inquiry for sound tick and pigeon for sowing, prices from 465. to 50s. per qr. Pees, the loest white at 1 made 483. per qr. ,grey. maple, 41s. Eye was bold 6s. els 173. per ack. Winter Tares, new, 7s. to 7s. 6d. per bushel ; old, 6s. to 6e. 6.1.; spring, 6s. to 7e. Avoratenv, Feb. 12.-No alteration upon the rates of last week, every description of grain realising lull prices. Wheat, per qr , 48.. to 545. can 38s. to 405. Peas, 40 1 . to 40. . Earley, 30s. to 335. Oats, 245. to 28a. Bs:proms, Feb. 12.-The market was extremely languid, and the value of eeery description of Corn was something lean than the previous week. Owing to tho inferi or descrip tions being pressed on the market, the price of Wheat was very uncertain. New Beans were front 1.. to 2s. lower, and the supply plentiful. Wheat, per load, 28s. to 32.. Barley, per qr., 295. to 325. Beans, per load of 6 bushels, 225. to 30s. Peas, 301. to 334. Oats, per qr., 20s. to 275. Boseoo, Feb. 12.-The weather since last market day he. been dry and fine for threshing. Wheat, to-day, was ie better condition, yet there was no improvement in the value o; it. Beans and Oats *old freely at full prices. Wheat, red, 10s. to 46.. fine, 40s. to white, 42i. to 48s. 62.. tu 64.. O a ts 16s. to 21s. Ikea., 38.. to 405., per qr. to the growers. CANTERBURY, Feb. 12.-We experienced considerable dulness in the trade to-day, but we do not call the price different to last week. White Wheat, 503. to 56e. ; brown, 40s. to 50s. Bayley, 28s. to 34.. Oats, 19s. to 245. Beans, 345. to 38s. Peas, 383. eateries's, Feb. 12.-We had an average supply of Wheat at our market this morning, which sold at a slight advance on last week's rates. Barley in limited supply, and taken at an advance of 61d. per bushel. Oats plentiful, but no change in prices. Wheat, white, 225. 6d. to 241. ; red. 21s. to 22. 6d. Barley, 10s. 6d. to 12s. Potato Oats, fts. 64. to Bs. 91.: common, Be. to 9s. Flour, 2a. 2d. to 2.. Gd. per stone. Oatmeal, la Ryemeal, Is. Gd. Barley, Is. 4d. CHELMSFORD, Feb.ll.-There wax a fair supply of Wheat at market this day; the few dry samples maintained the prices of last week ; the greater part was much out of con dition, and sold at lower prices. Barley nearly maintained the price of last week, but Beans and Oats were le. lower. Fine white Wheat, 565. to 58s. ; fine red, 50*. to 525. per quieter. COLL HESTER, Feb. 12.-The supply of Wheat this week at this and neighbouring markets has generally been mode rats, and in some instances arnall.-Millers have been the only buyers, and have supplied themselves at a reduction of Is. per qr. on the finer, and 2a. on the inferior kinds. The condition of the main bulk of the supply has undergone no improvement. Farmers manifest no anxiety to sell. Barley is in fair supply, and all but the finest qualities have declined in value ls. o' s. per qr. The hest malting qualities are to be had somewhat easier. Beans arc in small supply, and sell at the :ate rates ; the same may be said of Peas. Bot h articles are now looked after for seed. Clover and Trefoil seed ap pear slowly, and very few transactions have as yet occurred in these articles. The quality of the new seed, as a whole, is not equal to that of 1b46. Wheat, white, 52 5. to 56 e. ; r e d , • 48s. to sils. Barley, 28e. to 31s. Mazagan Beans, 325. to 35*. ; Ticks, 363. to 38s. GLOCCESTF.R, Feb. 12.-At our market this day tho at. indent.° of farmers was large; but few holders were will ing to sell English Wheat freely at the decline noted below. Foreign was offered at 1.. per quarter below last week's prices for fine, and Is. for secondary sorts. We make no change in the value of Barley. Beans go off to coosumers at Is. to 2s. per qr. below list week's rates. In Oats there is tittle passing. Holders would readily accept the decline noted below, if buyers appeared. Tiering the week the trade in English Wheat has been unusually dull, and must he noted Is. per qr. lower for all dry samples, which, from the damp state of the atmosphere, arc very scarce. Foreign Wheat is also slow of sole, at a similar reduction. Malting and grinding Barley in moderate supply, with a bteady de mand, at our quotations. Beans and Oats in good supply, and each le. per quarter chea;oer. Present prices of grain : Wheat, English, white, per imperial bushel, 6s. Sd. to 7s. ; •ed, 6s. 3d. to 61. 9d. ; Dantzic (low to higl mixed), per 490 lbs., 6s. 9d. to 7e. ; Polish, Pome. rar.iatin Stettin, 6s. to 6s. fed.; Odessa Marianopoli, soft, Gs. to 6s. 6d. ; Odessa Taganrog, hard, ss. 3d. to 5.. 6d. Barley, English, grinding, per 3921 N., 295. to 31s. •, malting, per imperial qr., 325. to 355.; Irish, grind ins', 295. to 31 ; malting, 32'. to 345. Gd.; foreign, grinding, 28s. to 31s. Beans. English, old, per imp. bushel,6s. Gd. to 75.; new, sa. 4d. to ss. 6d.; foreign, Egyptian, per 6.51 lbs., 4s. to 4s. 2d. ; French, Dutch, small Tick, ss. to ss. 6d.; Irish, as. to ss. 6d. Oats, per 312 lb., Lime rick, Wexford, and Enniicorthy, white, 225. 6.1. to 233.6 d. ; Cork. Waterford, and Youghall, 21s. 64. to 225.; Welsh, black, 21s. to 21s. 6d. •' Irish, per 3121b5., 21s. to 21s. 6d. Pus, breakers, per imp. bushel, English, 6s. to 7s. ; grey and grinders, per 6511b5., English, N. to ss. 3d. Tertian Cori, per 8•511 b., es. Gd. to 4s. 9d. Lentils, 4s. 4d. to 44. Gd. Flour, best seconds, English, 395. to 41a. Linseed Cake, French, nominal, 101. IN. to 111. Imports of the week ending Feb. 11 : Barley, 739 qrs. ; Oats, 1,363 ; Beans, 153. GUILDFORD, Feb. 12.-Our supply of Wheat was small, and but a very small proportion of fine quality ; such brought rather more money, the other sorts being without alte raion. Wheat, 465. to 61s. per qr. Barley, 28s. to 335. Oats, 20s. to 21s. Beans, 400. to 453. Peas, 40.. to 4.1.. KING4ToN, Feb. 12.-Wheat was dull of sale; the beat seareely . making last quoted prices ; common offered at 2s. Osec qr. :en money. Barley was Fold at from 284. to 345. per qr. Oats rather lower. Beans down Is. per qr.; best, 48s. ; second quality. 441. Peas as last week ; prices between 40s. and 441. per qr. MANCHESTER, Feb. 12.-The past week has been one of unsaried dulness, and prices have suffered further decline. The reports from Live. pool and Wakefield de nothing to assist to-day's market, which is slow for every article, at a reduction of fully 3d. per bushel on Wheat 2l. to 3d. per bushel on Oats; la. per load on Oatmeal and M alt ; Is, to 2s. per qr. on Indian Com, end Is. per barrel on Indian Corn Ideal ; Beans without alteration. The supply of Flour from Yorkohire and the East Coast has somewhat fallen off; and, though this article shares moot hilly in the general want of demand, we do not apprehend that there is any general disposition to submit to more that • trolling reduction upon lam. week's rates, which we do not alter. The following are the current prices : 'Wheat, per bushel of 701b0., English, white, 73. 9,1. to Ss. 31.; red, 73. 3(1. to 7s. 9d. frisk, white, 7s. 3d. to 74. 9d. • red, 7s. to 7s. 4d. Barley, per bush. of hOes, grinding, 3e. id. to 4e. Oats, per bushel of 46Ibs. English, Scotch, and fine Irish . 3s. to 3s. 24.; leads kiln-dried runs, 2s. 9d. to 2s. Ild. Beans , per qr. of 5011 N., English, small, 40s. to 4 ; Tick, 30s. to 41s. Peas, per 8 imperial bushels, white, boiler', 445. to 465. Flour, per sae; of 2801b4. English and Irish, flue, 385. to 395. ; super fine. 395. to 40. .; extra, 41s. to 42a. Oatmeal, per load of 210 . .1,5., English and Irish, 263. to 275. Oloianouovon, Feb. 12.-A large quantity of Wheat; the finest dry could not bo purchased cheaper, yet all other descriptions sold at a decline of 10r. per load. Barley was lower ; best, 11. ; other qualities, 2s. Oats sold also at a de dice of Is. per qr. Beaus were in considerable demand for among sowing, at from 445. to 48s. per qr. I'eu were also sougle after for the same purpose, at from 40s. to 445. Tara a old quite as dear as last. N EWCASTLE-ON-TYNE , Feb. 12.-The weather still con tinue, open. tip to Wednesday • good deal of rain tell, but since then the temperature has been much lower, with a tendency to frost. The trade during the week has been of a uniformly died tenor, and, to effect sales in any article, i t has been nece.eary suhmit to s omowhat easier terms. Our stock of Wheat in atanary ire lighter than has been known for many years, amounting only to 9.140 qrs., 6,100 qra. of which consist of old, chiefly of very ordinary quality, the rest comprising new, imported previously to the closing el the navigation from Hamburg and Rostock, and which aro hold very firmly by the uncle. At our market this nior, ;ng we had a moderate show of Wheat from the wrowers, mostly in rather bad condition, tied such belle the case with the coasting pappliee, which are liberal, the market ruled Nat, and only a moderate business was done at a trifle beneath Saturday's rates ; old was no lower, and in tolerable fair request. Being very largely supplied with Flour, sales could only be promoted by submitting to • decline of Is. per sack, and even at that reduction our dealers purchased sparingly. Rye without change. Malting Barley, being also in good supply', and some of our maltsters having imported (Erect from Norio& and Suffolk, this circumstance has LA the effect of rendering the trade duller than it would have been ; and, although a declension of fully Is. per qr. would have been conceded, our buyers generally have held aloof, and the business done has, consequently, been of an unusually restricted character. Malt dull, and le. to 2s. per qr. eiaraper. Beans and Peas much the same. The show of Oats from the gr wers being large, the market close?. rather easier than on this day se'nnight. Present prices: Wheat, British, Northumberland, old, white, 565. to 6Ss.; red, 525. to 543. ; new, white, 548. to 565. ; red, 50s. to 545. • Norfolk and Suffolk, old, white, 565. to .:As.; red, 645. to 565.; new, white, 540. to 58s. ; red, 523. to 54e. i Lincolnshire, o il, white, .540. to red, 50s. to As. ; new, white, 545. to 565. ; red, ...Ms. to 545. Rye. Norfolk and Suffolk, 328. to 36i. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk, 30s. to 325. Chevalier, 325. to 345.; Northumberland and Scotch, 260. to 203. • Chever, 30s. to 325. ; grinding and distilling, 255. to 28s. Molt, 50 ali s. to f 01..; Chevalier, 60s. to 565. • Oats, Northumberland and Scotch, potato, old, 245. to 283. ; new, 249. to 265. ; common and Angus, old, 2.25. to 25.. ; new, 225. to 241. Peas, white, boilers, 40t. to 465. ; grey and maple, 38s. to 40s. Beans, old, 46e. to 50s. • new. 365. to 40 s. Flour, per sack. fine, Stockton and Northumberland, us. to 409. ; Norfolk, white. 38s. to 405.; households, 365. to 38s. : seconds, 355.. to 37A. ; households, 324. to 355. ; thirds, 285, to lbs.; households, 265. to 30s. Wheat, foreign, Danteic and Konigsberg, white, 5Gs. to GU red, 60s. to and Ili some extentim sales have been made for Landon and the Cheated mete. NOM have advanced 6d. sines this day isidinsiffairst, notwithstanding the moderate quan tity hean has hsea messed to a rednetion, the best Galati 'swills bang narialeablti at anythiog over 20.. per barrel. Flour has been sold at very irregular prices ; the best breads still summand 39s per sack, while inferior marks are pressed at Me. to 38s. per sack. Coarse Flour with Oat and Indian Meal meet a moderate sale, at gradually r e ceding prices. TIN foll ow ing are the present prices :-Undried : Wheat, millers' per 20 stone, 2 6 a. to 26 5. 6 d.; shipping, 235. to 245. ; flashing per 16 stone, 141 . 9 d. to 16 e. ; gelding, 12s. to 12s. 911. Oats, white, per 14 it., 101. Oil. to Vs. ; black, 111. to I Is. 6d. Prepared: Wheat, millers', per 20 st., 275. Gd. to 28s. ; shipping, 25e. to 26e. 6d. Barley, malting, per 16 st., 16s. 9d.. to 16e; grinding, 13s. 3d. to 14s. 3d. Oats, white, per 14 at., 12s. 3.1. to 12s. (id.; black, I Is. fhl. to 12s. Flour, super., per sack, 3Vs. f,d. to 395. ; seconds, 3.51.t0 365.; thirds, 315, to 335.; fourths, 24.. to 235. Indian Corn, Danube, per 20 stone, 20.. to 2Us. 6d. American, yellow and red, 19s. to 201. ; Spanish and POTYUKUYIC, 17s, to 181., white, 17s. to 18e.; damaged, for cattle, 1.55. to 161. Indian Corn Meal, per cwt., Bs. to 9s. ; Oatmeal, per cwt., to Itye Meal, per cwt., 7s. to Bs. limn, per 6 stone, 3s. 6d. to 3.. Bd. KIRKCALDY, Feb. 12. -The rainy weather which we had the end of last week continued up to Wednesday this week, putting the ground in a state of excessive wetness Sinco then i! has been dry. At our country markets this week we had moderato supplies of all kinds of grsiu offering. Wheat and Oats were taken off for local consumption at list week's prices; Seeley was leas eagerly inquired after, and was obtainable at from Gd. to Is. per qr. under the extreme prices paying last week. Here to-day we had fair suppl ee of all kinds of grain. Sales of Wheat slow, and for such parcels as were out of condition • decline of 25. per qr. was submitted to; Barley and Oats sold readily-the former • at a reduction of Gd. to Is. per qr., while for the latter, lest market doy's rates were paid. tt'hea, 445. to 58a. per qr. Barley, 275. to 325. Oats, 21a. to 275. Ostahal, per bag of 2601b1., 365. 511 e. Silesian, white, 58e. to 60s. ; red, 535. to 55 e Mecklenburg and Pamerenlas, white, 565. to 60a.; red, 545. to 575. Hamburg, Narks, and Anhalt, white, 545. to 58e. ; red, 52a. to Me. Kiel and Holstein, white, 523. to 565. ; red, 60s. to 525. Petersburg and Arch angel, red, 40s. to 46e. Odessa, red, 465. to 4.9 e. Polish, red, 475. to 50s. Rye, R uss ian, 26e. to 30a. Barley, Seal, 30 s. to 325.; POCIIIIIIIMAR and Holstein, 26e. to 30e. Oats, Pome ranian, feed, 20a. to 22a.; Holstein and Hanith, 18s. to 20s.' Archangel and Riga, llts. to 21s. Peas, white, 425. to 45e. Flour, per barrel of 196 lb., United States and Canada, duty paid, 265. to 235. The arrivals this week are Wheat, coastwise, 3.874 qrs.; Rem. coastwise, 34 ; Barley, coastwise, 2,239, Mal, coratwiss, 747; Oata, coastwtse, 182 Peas, coastwise, 261; WARS, coastwise, 10 ; Flour, coast wise, 2314 sacks. Nacrour, Isee or WIGHT, Feb. 12.-Our market was well supplied with in to day. What sold at about last week's prices; Barley Is. per qr. lower. Wheat, 48.. to 52..; Beans, 42a. to 445.; Peas, 40s. ; Oats, Barley, 26a. to 30 s. ; 225. to 245. NORWICH, Feb. 12.- .At OUT market this dsy the farmers offered a fair quantity of Wheat ; the condition but mode rate. Merchants brought some large lots, in good condition, and prices receded la per quarter for inferior Wits, while the best runs realised about the OADDI U last week. Foreign also in slow request, and on atelier terms for the buyer. Flour met • slow sale, P. o. b., at 6d. per sack less money. Barley the turn cheaper for secondary sorts, and the best maintained late prices. Beans le. per (mutter reduction. Peas the same. Oats a slow sale at Is. per qr. less money. Wheat, white, 52a. to 57a. per qr.; red 475. to 615. i rley, malting, 275. to 315.; grinding, 26a. , t0 261. Outs, 245. to 275. Beaus, 40s. to 41s. Peas, 401. to 425. Fine h ou sehold Flour, f. o. b., 34 s tid. to per sack of 2801bs. Purchasers finding sacks sod claiming one month's discount; retail, 2s. per stone. Nurrteottest, Feb. 12.-The Co market here to-day has been full an average supply of most rn articles in the trade. Prices for Wheat ruled full to. per qr. on all sorts. Barley about the same. In other grain no alteration. Wheat, 525. to 56e. per 18 st. Barley, 325. to 31s. Oats, 225. to 275. Beans, 40r. to 50/. PETEHUOILOUOH, Feb. 12.-The supply of grain has been l arg er to-day than any week sinc e harvest. Dry Wheat is Is., and inferior sorts fully 23. to 3s. lower, and a dull sale, at the decline. Barley lc c heaper. Oats barely main tain: late rates. Beene in demand for reed, at full prices. Currency to the growers : -Wheat, new, 40e. to 414. ; tine, 601. to 525. ; old, 60s. W 525. ' • fine, 540. Barley, 295. to 30s. • fine, 33.. Oats, new, 20e. to 225. ; fine, 24.5.•, old, 28s. to 343.; fine, 325. Beans, ld, 50s. to 52e. ; new, 38a. to 42.. I'STWORTH, Feb. 12.-The trade in Wheat and Barley ruled dull here to-day, at about the rates of this day se'n night Peas in improved demand, sowing having partially commenced. In Oats and Beans no alteration. Wheat, white, per load, 121. 10s. to 131. 10s. ; red, 111. 10s. to 121. Barley, malting, 31s. to 335. per qr. ; grinding, 28s. to 30a. Oats, 21e. to 225. Beans, 425. to 45e. Peas, 423. to 445. SAFFRON WALDEN, Feb. 12.-Our Wheat market WU very dull, and somewhat cheaper. Barley fully Is. per IV, cheaper. Oats, Beans, and Peas, are also rather on the i decline. WARMINETER. Feb. 12.-White and red Wheat sold at from 545. to 665. per qr. ; moderate, 50s. to 525. ; inferior could be purchased at a decline of at least 2s. per er. Bar ley was plentiful ; the top price generally was 353. per qr. ; some sold at from 295. to 323. Oats were rather scarce; prices were no lower ; Poland., 265. per qr. ; best block, !4s. ; good feed, atm. to 225. Beans plentiful ; trade good at the late reduced terms ; top price, 525. per qr. ; lowest, 48s. Peas, a better demand for white. at 465. to 48s. per qr. ; grey 1 and maple, 425. to 455. Rye, 17s. per sack ; some inferior, 16s. Winter Tens, 6s. Gd. to 7s. 6d. per bushel ; spring, 6s. to 7s. WINCH EsTv.R., Feb.l2.-Of Wheat all best qualities were disposed of at the terms of last Saturday, while inferior qualities were with difficulty got rid of at a reduction of from ss. to 10e. per lead of 5 quarters. The boot white made 141.105. to 14!. 15s. per 10.1 , 1 ; red, IV. to 141. ; second qualities, from 121. to 121. 1.55. Flour was from 401. to 455. per bag. Breed, from 135. to 15d. the gallon loaf. Barley, the best, was sold at last week's figures. Beans plentiful ; the best mule 50s per qr.; good tick, 485.; coalmen, 45a. Peas, best white, 465. per qr. ; grey and inapt-, 421. to 44.. Oats were in good demand, at an advance of Is. per qr. for the best ; Poland and potat o, 275. to 2 230. per qr. Rye, for sowing, dearer Is. per Pack, some selling at 17s. 64. Winter Tares were asked for, yet hut few good ones on sale. Spring Tares sold at 6s. 6d. to 7s. 6d. per bushel. WISHECH, Feb. 12.-We continue to be moderately sup plied with grain at this market. On sec mat of its general hid condition, Wheat is extremely dull to-day, and Is. to 2.. per qr. cheaper for all but the best dry samples, upon which the decline is only Is. Oats and Beans nearly maintain former rates. Prices to the growers: Wheat, fine new white, 621bs. to 631b5., per qr. of 36 stone, 535. ; good runs, 61111. to 62115, 51s. ; fine new red, 621bs. to 631 h.., 50s. ; good runs, 61IM. to 621ba., 495.; fine person ed, 621bs. 631ba., 535. Oats, fine new meeting, e, ltd. ; good new, teed, 10.1. to 105 d. Beans, new, 365. to 38s. Woneverza, Feb. 12.-Wheat, red, per bag of Oat. 101 h., 19s. to 19e. 6d. ; white, 2615. to 21e. Barley, malting. per imp. bushel, Is. 3d. to 4.. 6d. Beans, old English, per bag of 10 score, 228. ; new, 17s. to 185 . ; Egyptian, 13s. Oats, English, per imp. bushel, 30. 6d. to 4s. ; Irish, per bushel of 39111., 3s. to 3s. 3d. Pees much varying l in price, according is different sorts wanted for planting. •'le. 6d. to RO. per bushel of 6511ba., fine dry samples of which, particularly white, were soon sold at the above quotations; but inferior and sampler out of condition were difficult to quit on any terms. YEOVIL, Feb. 11.-There was but a small attendance of farmers here to-day, and the amount of business; transacted WO consequently limited. Wheat sold at from 6.. 34. to Go. Od. per bushel. Barley, 30s. to 335. per qr. Beaus, ss. to ss. 3d. per biishel. YORK, Feb. 12.-We have a moderate show of Wheat at this day's market, which has met a steady sale, at Is. to 2s. below last week's rates. II ales , and Oats each la per or. lower. In other articles no alteration. The followingare the present prices : -Wheat, white, 50s. to 545. per imp. qr. • red, 445. to 50 5. Bliley, malting, 305. to 335. ; grinding, 26e. to 295. Beans, 38s. to 42.. Rye, 335.' to 35.. Malt, 625. to 645. Oats, 10d. to 114. per stone of 14165. Flour, 375. to 41s. per sack of 2/301bs. Demme, Feb. 11.-The frost and snow having entirely disappeared, our supplies this week have been more liberal than the last, and buyers acting on the reserve, lower prices have been generally submitted to. We reduce our quotations on the week Is. 6d. to is. for Wheat, Gd. and 9d. per barrel for Oats, Is. to 2s. per qr. for Indian Cora, and 6d. per cwt. each for Flour and Oatmeal. The following was rho general currency : Wheat, reel, 24.. to 275. 6d. ; white, per 2801 b., 26e. to 29e. Oats, per 1961b3., 90. 6d. to Ile. Barley, per 224115., 143. to 173. ; Oatmeal, per cwt. 10.. 6d. to Ils. rid. ; Seconds Flour, 15s. to lee, per cwt. ; Indian Cora, 265. to 335. per qr. of 4801 be. BELFAST, Feb. 10.-We have had fair supplies from the country during the past week, but the accounts from the other aide, bringing still lower prices, have had the effect of reducing every article in our market. We quote Wheat, 6d., Oats and Barley, 3d.. end Oatmeal, 6d. per cwt. lower than on this day week. In Indian Corn little passing, and the prise is further reduced ss. per ton. The weather ha 3 been very wet and stormy during the week, which prevented farmers getting on with spring labour. Prices ,-Indian Cora, white, 81. ss. to 81. 10s.; yellow, 71. 10s. to 81. per ton. Indian Corn Meal, white, 91. to 9/. ss. ; yellow, 81.55. to 81. 10s. per ton. American,l6s, 6d. per barrel. Rye meal, Russian, 7s. lid. to Bs. per cwt. Wheat, red, 9s. to 103. 3d. ; white, 9s. 6d. to 10s. Gd. per cwt. Flour. Prices at Inver Mills, superfine, 19s. ; bakers' let, 17e. 6d.; 2nd, 16e. ; 3rd, Its. 6d. ; 4th, 105. Bran, 6s. 6d. per cwt. ' • barrel, 265. to 300. per barrel. Oatmeal, 10s. 6 d. to Ils. 3d. per cwt. Oats, 6e. to 6s. 9d. per cwt. Barley, 6e. 6d. to 7s. 3d. Wheatenmeal, 13a. to 14s. per cwt. Guano, lambs*, 70. 6d. to Ss. per cwt. Coax, Feb. 11.-We have to report another week of ex cessively dull trade. Business seems almost at a standitill, and every description of trade appears in a state of almost utter prostration. The absence of employment amongst the labouring cloves of the community, and the consequent scarcity of money, re-act with fearful effect upon every branch of business, and the result is a paralization of cemracree, such es has seldom been experienced in these countries. Some arrivals of foreign grain have takes place during the week, and have contributed to the dulness of the trade. Our supplies of home grain also have been very ex the exceeding as they have tbe auticipations of all and the wishes of some. The trade in Wheat has been dull, at a decline of Is. to 2e. par brl., and the supply ha, for more than equalles: the demand. In prepared Wheat we have literally nothir.g . doing. Holders ask 275. to 2Ss. per barrel, but these pric,s are merely nominal, and no sales have teaks° place thereat. Braley also has come to hand more freely, and is 6d. to 9d. per barrel cheaper. 0a.., which are in very liberal supply, have receded to the extent of 9,1. to Is., sad even at the reduction the market is dull. Prepared Oats arc not inquired after. The nominal free-on-hoard price is 11e. 6d. per barrel ; hut the depression noticed in other branches of the trade is shared in be this, and few are inclined to make purchases. The trade in Flour is exceedingly dull. Prices have given way Gd. to Is. per cwt. ; and even fur the coarser descriptions, in which, till now, some briskness was observable, the demand is very trifling. Indian Corn has again declined in value,theprirnest Galati. being saleable only in retail quantities at 81. per ton, thus showing a decline of 2.5 s to 30s. from the highest point. In Indian Corn bleed, and all other descriptions of Ideal, trade and prices are alike nominal. LIMERICK, Feb. 12.-The weather during the week has been fine and clear, well adapted for spring tillage, and the farmers are busily engaged in preparing to put down their grain crop', and large quantities of potatoes. A liberal sup ply of Wheat at market to-day. the trade opened very dull, but, more buyers appearing, the quantity was cleared at firm prices sines Wednesday. Oats are in good eupply, and could be purchased on more easy terms, but for some millers, who like a good selection, and they pay full prices. In Indian Corn there is a good trade ; but the value has a tendency downward. Indian Meal rather dull in town. Wheat, red, 12d. to 130. ; white, 15d. to 16d. Oat., Std. to 816. Indian Corn, per ton, 81. to 81. 108. ; seconds, 6/. to 7/. ; Indian Meal, 91. to 91. Ss. per ton; 17s. to 1 7 s. Gd. per brl. Oatmeal, 131, per toe. bl Feb. 12.-Oat Bs. to 83. 65. r . Oatmeal, 10s. per COIL Indian M e al, Bs. 6d. to 9s. pe r cwt. Wheat, 16s. to 225. per bl. American Flour, 315. to 325. per barrel. WATERFORD, Feb. 12.-The depression that has co long characterised the trade is still felt in its full force in our grain market. Our supplies of Wheat haee been tederably good, and during the early part of the week, farmers suc ceeded in obtaining former prices; hut during the last day or two, buyers supplied themselves at a reduction of 62. to 94. per barrel. Deliveries of Barley continue scanty, but its value recedes. Oate come to hand less freely than of late, Sas. Saturday's Markets so* lase Pap. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. BUSINESS OF THE WEEK IN TILE LORDS. TUErIDAY, VIOL 15. NOTICE OF MOTlON.—Uoliosisinow.—Lord Mos..tq In none that the Select COMMlttee on Colonisation (or Ireland be re-ap pointed. THURSDAY. Tim 17. SECOND READING.--Diplonsatle Relations Court of Rome 11111. 6.890,0241. ram this total, however, must be deducted a vete of 161,696 1 . for packet eseviev, which is included, though n ot cavil, l ea ving a net total of 6,728,3261. The total re quired for the service of other trartme ng th e nto (including the packet servke vo te), 908,2841. ,• vie vend tota was : l re. nuked an shove mentioned. T to 1847.8 Naval effective, 6,366,9701. ; non-effective, 1,366.6931. ; for other department* (exclusive of the packet 'clerics censor,- htnried under naval, and amounting to 255,7460, 829,2131. Biting% NAVAL Ponce (Peavuoat).—On she let of January, 1817, the British naval force in the Portuguese waters coosieted of one first-rate, four aeoond.ratee. and one steamer; their guns amounted to 498, and their men to 3,940. On the 14 of September thole were in Portuguese waters four Vint-rates, two second-rates, one forth-rate tn , e i g ht steamers, and one brig. The guns were 754; u the M 6,686. On the lit of December there were la Portuguese waters four iirst.rates one second-rate, one lifth-rate, and four Meamem. guns were 694 ; nes 4,812. BUSINESS OF TILE WEEK IN TUB COMMONS. MONDAY, Fern. 14. ORDERS OF THE DAY.—Gloucester County (Wentern Invisible) Election. Great /lettere Itheitien. Consmiteces to be Amara at four o'clock. StroNo Itreureo.--Dietilling from Sugar Bill. Cem eit einee—New Zeeland Government Rill ; Committee of Supply. NOTICES morioN ON ORDERS OF THE DAY.—Mr. Os them, un the reading lathe Met order of the day, to being under the coneilleretion of the house the last return renting to the expenses ot the New Palace of Wesuninnter.--Mr. Citiosol.)l Ae our, un reading the order of the day for going into Committee of Supply, to more Address for Papers (except such documents fie have been already laid before this Memel relative to the Foreign Policy of Lord relmersteths INDEPENDENT Ie<YFICE4 OF MOTION.—Mr. Wa. le. return of all slope, picture", engravings, and works of art purchased by the court of detector* of the Font ladle Company, the sums paid for the mine, the pentane to whom paid, and the manlier in which the raid maps pictures, engraving., and works of tut have been dietrlbuted and di'peacd of, from the lot day of January, Ihl i. to the 3let day of December, 1 1 147, inclemive; also, fur the tame period, a return of all books and minteerlide mirth:bed by the court of directors, the slim+ paid fur each, the persons to whom paid. and the manner In whkh the mid Woke and tumwerifite have Wen elletributed and dimmed of. • —Mr. Rio N0t..., that the order made on the 7th day of February, for certain returns under the bead o( Dublin water, be discharged.— The ClitNratlaa of the Elelitueee, to vote outstintliag Exchequer Bills (in committee of supply).—Mr. tombsquestion of the Secretary to the Board of Control rela'be ti the deutes which have arisen regardin marriages r the validity, fur many important ifstrl7; un oC nietern deivenMg fro m tw the Mr. Git... , AN, returns, showing the names of the electoral division', in the mverul poor law unified in Ireland ; the net annual value of rateable property in each electoral division; the net ;meant of rate made in each hulf-year, and the amount per pound of each rate; the amount collected, the total expenditure for the reliet of the poor, on account of each electoral divieiou; the number of collective day's for which such relief wan given in moth electoral dive don and unlou; the balance in favour of each electoral Welton, and thelelance arkinet mach electoral division, in the half-years ending the 25th day of March, and the 29th day of September, 1046, and the 25th day ut Meech, and 29th day of eeptemlier, 1847, remectively ; ehowing the net amount of rate made in each mouth on can electoral division in Ireland, and the mmeent per pound of ouch rate ; the amount collected, the total expenditure fur the relief of the four on account of each eleateral divegeu ; the number of collective days for which such teller wet given in meit electoral division end union ; the balance in favour of each electoral division, ;met the balance against race electoral dirt. sine, in the menthe of October, November, and December, 1447, reepectiven, and in the month of January, 1844.—Mr. Walrua, nomination of *elect committee un medical legietration and riledieal law ansendment : —Mr. Watley. Sir James Graham, Mr. liutherfunt, Mr. George Hamilton, Lied Robert Grosvenor, Sir Henry Halford, Colonel )lure, Sir Robert Harry Ingle., Mr. Al Gregor, Mr. Welter, Mr. Enoch, Sir Thome. Birch, Mr. Osherno, Mr. W. S. Lam:ellen end Mr. Grogan ; oleo fur return 01 an account of all arm, and Reount. thin which have been entered at the cuetom•hotive for exportation to the t 'ape of Good Hope mom tEe Ist day of January, 1517, to the present time. TUESDAY, Leo. 13. NOTICE'; OF MOTIONS. —Mr. Ilene, to morn that the contents of the papers laid before parliament in the lad session. respecting the innocence of the late Purtauti Sheen, the deposed Rajah of eattera, taken in connexion with the information perilously preeented to the Home of Commons, render it expedient and neceseery to the further ance of the rode of justice, and for tee future good government of Indio. and the protection of the people and prince.; of that country, that the inquiry prayed for by the late rajah in his petition to parlia ment, presented on the 29th day of July, tell, ehoukt be granted, with • view of rescuing the character of the LAW Rajah, if innocent, from the opprobrium which certain charges Weight spent hire base east upon it, and of rinilicat leg the hewer of the British Amine:ration in India from the neyicie aid obloquy which the proceedings &goblet the late rajah have excited.—Dr. Rowe'.... copies or extracts of correspondence on the mbject f the commercial lempie in Halv.—Mr. E. olloesort, MU to extend to the NaLional Land (bmpany the provision, of the A c t 1 9 & 10 Vac., c. 27, mewled, " an Aet to amend the Laws relating to Friendly Societim."-- Mt. Ilene, select committee, to coneder whe ther in all eases of shipwreck and of collisions of merchant velvets, attended • ith love of life, an inquiry no speeddy after the accident and u near as partible to the place, Amulet not be appointed to examine into the attendant circumstances and cauwe of the thiparecis, and to report to the hour. in what manner that inquiry should be eon dueted.—Sir P. N vow, return of the mime of money paid by the Booed of torte fee arterial demnage in Ireland, from the Ist day of January, 1847, to the let day of January 13 to, under the Act 9 and 10 Vie.; distinguishing the sums paid for actual labour from those paid to the stuff of entre:nimbi and overmans; and elm. the sums allotted and actually paid to each par ticular work; diettuctly netting forth and stating the originai eetimate for the completion of each work, and the number of labourem daily employed then.n within that peried.—Mr. IliisLy, tabular returns of the rater charged by the Bank of England fur dieenniting bill+ of ex change hat lug two or three months to run (thstinguiebing the rate chewed upon each) tram January 1327 to the 4tii day of February 1415 : from the breach think of England at Maneheeter, from the time of its mt.blethenent to the 4th day of Feb., leis aid from the branch bank at Liverpool, from the time of its ektahlehment to the 4th day of lebt nary, 10414.—air W. Swarm , . bill to emend the law of landlord and tenant In Ireland.—Mr. Peony, bill for the improve ment of agrieultur a 1 tenant.right in klintlaud and Wake. WEDNESDAY, Fee. 16. ORDER OF TILE DAY.—nommittee Roman Catholic Relief Bill. NOTICE OF MOTION ON ORDER OF TIIE DAY.-11r. Law to move as an amendment that the Mime renulve itself into toeumiUee out the mid bill that day six months. INDEPENDENT NOTICES OF MOTION.—Mr. Revneene, MR to place the municipal corporations of Ireland pon iar d a ore equal footing, no to right. and privileges, with there of Lnand Scot land. Mr. W. re O'finitie in committee on the Roinen Catholic Relief Bill, to more a climes for repealing the dinthilitles by which Homan mimeo+ are &peddled from filling the office of Lord Chuncener of Ireland. 1 ITURBDAT, Pon. I% NOTICES OF MOTION.—Mr. Hal.eiv , , to move the following resolutions: —That, lookin ; to the elute in theress widely has for some time prevailed among the commercial clove., and to the general feeling of dietrunt and slam by which the embreasvments of crude have been en/muted, it is the opinion of this Lem that her Ma lljeety'e minietere were justified, during the recess of perliument, In recommending to the think of England, for the purpne of restoring I confidence, a course of proceeding at melanice with the restriction., Imposed by the act 7 ants Vic. c. 32. That this hour will rerolve I itself into a committee of the whole house upon tee void act. Revolution to be moved In committee !me it ea expedient that the limitations inspored by 32, upon the Berk p England, in relation to the Lem of note. payable on demand, be euspnded, subject to mob oonditiorm as min to provided by say act to be paned for that purpose.—Mr. Di keeeel, to call the attention of the Boone oar the care of the Itritieb cheplath at Madeira. —Mr. It, B.tincLET, that, at the election of mentlems to eerie in parliament, it oi expedient that the votes of the devisee betaken by way of lallot.-34r. J. teCommut, that, in order to promote and secure the maculae' intermits of the lam/dome of Great Britain and Ireland, ;mil to consolidate the otreogth, power, and re. 5011reeg of the empire, it is expedient that the legrelutle WllOO between the mid kingdom; Mall be repealid, and the ancient and contlitutlonal eye tem of venerate and a n inde pendent legiseatures be restored and re-c-tablielied in the same. Dr. Bnwrom. motion un the grievances of the inhabitant, or the Lek of Man; alo's letUrna, showing the number of vowels, with. the, I amount of tonnage, that have entered the ports of the Isle of Mate' during the years coding the sth day of January, 1347 and 1848, dile I tingumbing each port; of the /rectal quantithe of goods allowed to tennpornd into the lisle of Man under the quantities of such : end other goods whine to duty carried into the bleed, with the rate of duty churned thereon, and the revert emends received, and I amounts of revenue receivivi during the years ceding the sth de e of January, 1.04 r, 10 17, and 1010; df the several oniounta of public • moneys in the Lite-leek at the Rolle' hand- in the lele ad Stan on the 13th cline( Mil rch, 1147, with the names of each estate to which they belong, and showing where the said moneys were deposited on the said day; if in any bank or banters' han.l., in whet manner the interest on the mid money am uperopriated and by what authority of the member and names of the several: hith bailiffe, magistrates, judges, aid members of the Lime, wt Keyn, elm preside as judges in the civil or eocleeienticed eonroi of the Isle of Man, who ale praeteling attorneys in the a .1d bland, end showing the names of the several courts where they preside as fudge*, and the court. wherein they practise as advocaats or attorney-. FRIDAY, Fee. 15. ORDERS OF THE DAY.--Bxemen Rrunnon—Public Health ; Paskengere BMA Comairrenn—Jewish ; Adminietration of Justice (No. 1j ; Adminietratien of Justice -No. 3d; Comes of Special and Petty Sessions; Protection of .11e.tiCe, tram Vexatious Action.; Bills. NOTICES OF MOTlON.—Ftheeffel. Srerrineer be Lord J. Rut move the clause t Anil whereas no u ntetatioe of right can or ought to be made in any matter belonging to the doctrines or gis cipline of any religious communion, nave with the full and free con sent and concurrence of the proper eceleetastic al authority, and according to the Laws and usage s of such communion, be it therefore enacted, that, from and alter the pawing of thie act, it shall not be lawful for parliament to make any enactment ear changing or altering any matter belonging to the doctrine or discipline 04 the united Church of England and Ireland. or to the doctrine cr discipline of the church of Scotland, save with the full and free consent and concur rence of the said churches respectively, such consent and concurrence to be eigreitled in the cab of the sale united cherch of England and Ireland by vote of the convocation or convocations of the said united church, and en the case ef the aid church ot ecotiand by vote of the genteel assembly of the said church, and not ozher‘ise. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. HOUSE OF COMUONS„—NAVE ESTIMATES.—The grand total required for the service of the year 184a-9 is „730,6101.; the vote fur the financial }ear 1517.8 was 7.5Q,57G/. The 6111:11S required for the naval service are : E2ective, 5,307,9791.; non-etfective, 1,392,0161.; in all, savage catchup, the deer which his arrow strikes down, the fruit he gathers, the tree he fells, the land he reclaims from the waste, are his. The " braves" of his tribe may not always be very scrupu lous in respecting his rights if he is weak and timid, but the public opinion of his horde acknowledges their existence. But this right of property exists only in relation to objects wr ich he can take and permanently keep in actual occupation. Some tribes have gone a step beyond this. Two or three of them finding that the range of country that each requires for hunting or tithing, or for their desultory and intermitting mode of culture, is sometimes poached upon by the others, agree upon certain boundaries, within which the mem bers of one of them are to have the exclusive right of hunting, or fishing, or acquiring the possession of any piece of land by . cultivating or occupyin g t. This second right, which is vested in a whole tribe, is very different from the right of property which vests is individuals. It is, in fact, the first vague dawn of the idea of territorial dominion. And experience shows that rude tribes make a marked distinction between their personal property in fields or gardens, and their dominions appertaining to the tribe in common. A savage will sell you his lint, and the inclosure within which it stands; he may also, if you ask him, take the price you offer for a piece of uncultivated waste : but, if you close this latter bargain, the leaders of the tribe I will soon give you to understand that you have other eleimanta to satisfy, and must pay . over again. But when bargains are fairly made, it is uniformly found that the proprietor asks more for his cultivation than the heads of the tribe for waste. The former sells an actual property of more or less value; the latter merely impart, for a price, to a stranger the privilege which members of the tribe possess of appropriating part of the waste, and giving it a value by working on it. It is easy to discern in many transactions between European immigrants and rude aborigines, a percep tion more or lees distinct on the part of the latter of the difference here pointed out. That it is not always I very distinctly apprehended, nor always with the same degree of intelligence, is conceivable in uncivi lised men: how many, even in &civilised community, have taken the trouble to comprehend it tho roughly ? The dubiety hence arising is increased by the imperfect knowledge the European and savage have of each other's language; the dif ficulty they have of communicating their very different habitual modes of thought. In the uncertainty and misunderstandings hence arising is to be sought the origin of that phenomenon which has manifested itself in all European colonies; that even where the European has begun by purchasing land, and seeking to live in neighbourly amity with the savage, I.e has ended by acquiring all the lands, and driving the savage out. This is as true on Pennsyl vania as of any island in the Caribbean sea, where the aboriginal race has disappeared. The savages fancy ing that the European will only reclaim patches of ground as themselves do, confer the right to reclaim for a mere trifle. They do not understand that the whole of the wide boundary he traces is to become I his property ; they imagine that he merely defines the limits within which he wishes to acquire some patch or patches like their own. Quarrels arise when they are warned off. These quarrels are embittered when the savage sees the lands which he thought valueless fetching large prices. Hostilities commence; civilised discipline prevails; the savages seek peace and cede grounds to obtain it. New collisions soon tare place, and thus affairs go on till the aborigines desert the country, or sink into a landless, subject, and degraded race. The parties who first projected the regular coloni sation of New Zealand attempted to devise a remedy for this evil. They conceived the idea of inducing the natives to transfer the dominion of large tracts to the settlers, or to s Company, or to tl:e government. The actual occupations of the natives within these tracts were to be respected. The remaining soil was to be surveyed and marked out into sections. A certain proportion of these sections was to be sold to intending settlers; the rest were to he reserved for the natives. These reserves were to be managed and administered for the use ofthe natives, who were to be encouraged to take possession of sections and cultivate them like their European neighbours. The native reserves were not to be laid out in blocks ; but native sections were to be interspersed among sections for sale. The object was to accelerate the blending of the two races into one community. The working of this plan must, under any circumstances, have had its difficulties; but the whole history of New Zealand settlement shows that it was quite possible to have explained it to the natives and to have secured their hearty co-operation. Under all obstructions and delays, the wish, the intention to realise this plan has been adhered to by the New Zealand Company and the settlers ;sent out under their auspices. It has been approved by the committee of the House of Com mons of 1844: and government has resolved to carry it into effect as far as possible. It is the first earnest and practical attempt to save a whole uncivilised people from their own improvidence and the guile of unscrupulous Europeans. But the plan has been thwarted and misrepresented in every possible way. Before any attempt at the regular colonisation of New Zealand was made, Euro peans had begun to obtain landed property there. The church missionaries had persuaded the society in this country . which sent them out, to allow them to acquire lands for their own support and for the flotation of their children. Give some men an inch and they will take an ell. Unknown to the society, some missionaries had acquired enormous tracts of land: The resident missionary body had become under this sestem de plorably secularised, and it was obvious that their descendants in the second and third generation would lose :he impress of the missionary character altogether. TheWesleyans forbade their missionaries to adopt this system ; but many of them only waited till a good bar gain offered, then resigned their in , ssionary character, and stepped into large landed properties. Many lay settlers too were flowing in from the Australian colonies ; many seafaring adventurers were tempted permanently to settle in New Zealand. The old system under which uncivilised aborigines have uni formly been plundered, driven out, or enslaved, was in full operation in New Zealand when the first attempt was made to carry the new plan we have described into etfict. Dire was the jealousy of the land-sharks, lay and secular, at the prospect of competing settlers; direr still their wrath when they learned the nature of a scheme which threatened to put an end to their extortionate dealings with the natives. An outcry was raised by these in nocents that a plan which contemplated securing to the natives immediately their actual properties, ar.d ultimately a fair share in each successive division of the common soil, was a robbery of the natives. They, the real robbers, accused the parties who attempted to rescue the natives from them, of contemplated plunder. The missionary land-sharks lent their sacred character to sanction the lie, and their patrons in this country took it up, and echoed it in ignorant partieanship. The government of the day, vexed at the importunity of the regular colonisers, tient out a governor full of all sorts of absurd prepossessions against them, and a blockhead into the bargain. Ile landed among the land-sharks of the north, who took advantage of his ignorance in the first place to make him sanction their stories, and of his mental and bodily illness in the second to make him lend his name to their in- trignes. Thus was contracted the treaty of Waitangi, in which the right of property in private persons, and the right of dominion in tribes are wilfully con founded, in order to tie the hands of governmeut, to render the natives suspicious and unmanageable, and to promote the sinister selfish interests of the land sharks. This plain unvarnished statement of the position of the land question in New Zealand may serve to show how hollow is the clamour of those who affect to fear for the rights of the natives. Go vernment is pledged to protect the natives in 'Din New Zealand Government Bill has been read the full possession of their private proper & first and second time, and has gone into committee, ties ; to secure to them an adequate share in all divi where it sticks for the present, and not one word has gone of the common soil vested in the crown for the yet been said either by its promoters or its impugners behoof of the community ; and to respect the pro- on its merits or demerits as a legislative measure. visions of the treaty of Waitangi, with regard to all The bill proposes to suspend for five Nears the charter tribes whose chit fs have adhered to it, and not repu of government granted to the New Zealand colonists, dieted it subsequently. We have entered at this and whenever it has been brought forward, the House length into the controversy, in order to show its utter of Commons has been gabbling about the treaty of irrelevancy when a bill is under discussion which does Waitangi, and the metaphysics of the right of pro- not in the remotest degree he trenchintrod upon t on of he q an uestion, party in land. no t in provides that t elec- That a right of property exists and is recognised tive legislature into the colony or colonies of New even among uncivilised tribes is certain. It is Zealand shall be suspended for five years. We do more precarious—more difficult to maintain—than this with some fope that we may shame some among a civilised people under an organised go- members of Howe of Commons either into an vernment, but its existence is undoubted, and its attack upon the measure, or into the ignominious nature well understood. The fish which the confession that they approve of its despotic provi- sione, and the shabby skulking mann,:r in which they are sought to be made law. To th;.9 end we seek to disperse that cloud of "devil's dust' . which the friend.+ of the Bishop of NEW ZY.AL'iNn are beating out of the collective controversies about that luckless group of islands, and under the shelter of which the very parties once the most busy in raisin g recruits to emigrate to New Zealand hope to escape observation while they promote a measure fer de. Driving their dupes of tile constitutional privilege of I B,oglisamen—to have a voice in making the laws by which they are to be governed, and the taxes which they are to pay. The Paris journals of Saturday have rea hed us. The tumuliuou , conflict which had been maintained for several days in the French Chamber was brought to an equally tumultuous close on Friday evening, at a late hour. This contest has been in all respects the most memorable which has occurred since those which preceded the fall of the elder Bourbons, and its remit has seriously shaken the cabinet, which has now retained the reius of power for seven years. The majority by which it has been supported hi pre• ceding divisions dui ing the present session was din persed by the conflict of the last ten days, and reduced to less than half that number. The immediate question which has led to this si r . tual defeat of the Ouizot-Duchatel cabinet, turn e d upon certain expressions in the royal speech, repeated verbatim in the address, which were considered as directly inculpatory of all that section of the Chamber, consisting of not less than a hundred deputies who had taken an active part in or been present at the reform banquets. The parties so acting were qu a . lifted in the speech as obeying " blind and hoe. tile passions," and in the corresponding per. graph of the address the Chamber is m u d s to adopt the same terms in reference t o them. The right of the ministerial msjceity thus to stigmatise in the face of the country the minority was indignantly denied. A large Mather of those deputies who usually support the ministry associated themselves with the opposition this goes. Lion, and as we have already more than once report e d, th e proceedings of the chamber were marked by a spire of personal asperity, violence, and occasional tumult, ' which all the efforts of the President sad officials of the house were ineffectual to sup. press. The debate of Friday was opened by most moderate and conciliatory ep ech by M. Desmousseux de G ivre, a conservative, who has usually supported the government, and who proposed the mild form of amendment which consisted in the mere omission of the offensive terms, leaving the pa. ragraph of the address censuring the reform banquets otherwise unaltered. M. de Lamartine followed in a powerful speech, in the course of which he described the system of peaceful and constitutional agitatioa for parliamentary reform now prevailing in France, and which the present cabinet vainly thinks of putting down by brute force. The scene exhibited at the conclusion of his speech was sufficiently agitated, but it was tranquil compared with other intervals of the discussion. Alter speeches from MM. ltemusat, Dufaure, and Duchatel, at length at half-past seven in the evening the ques tion was calle 4 for. Amidst the most profound silence, the president said, " Je consulte la Chambre," and called on those who supported the amendment of M. de Cline to rise. Apparently half the Chamber instantly rose. M. Sauzet then called on these to sit down, and those who opposed the amendment to rise. Half the Chamber again rose from their seats. No description that can be given can convey an adequate notion of the tumult which fol lowed this. Seme shouted, the president among the number, for another division, by rising and sit ting, while others vociferated for a division. Others again screamed for a division by ballot. The chamber exhibited the utmost confusion. Deputies left their seats and collected in groups, some around M. Odillon Barrut, others around )IM. Guizot and Duchatel. A division was finally made, on which it appeared that there were—for the amendment 183 votes, and against it 228, giving a majority of 43 for the ministry. The original paragraph being put, the opposition withdrew in a body, declining to vote. On the occasion of the division the president of the chamber exercised his power of voting, and, of course, voted with the cabinet. This raised another storm of indignation among the opposition, which came to a spontaneous resolution never again to appear at the receptions of the president. A deputy of the opposition signified this resolution to M. Sauzet: approaching M. Sauzet, said, " You have closed your doors against a large section of the chamber, which will regard you henceforward, not as the president of the chamber, but as the president of a faction." It is stated in some of the opposition journals that the members of that party have resolved henceforward to abstsin from the receptions at the Tuileries. At Milan, oo the 6th, one of those silent though eloquent demonstrations which elude the power of the police took place. Thirty thousand persons as sembled at the latest mass in the cathedral to offer up their prayers for the libervors of Sicily who had fallen at Palermo during the bombardment of that city. The vast cathedral of the Dome , was insuffi cient to contain the multitude, and thousands filled the square in front, joining on their knees in the thanksgivings and supplications offered up within the sanctuary. Even the police of Austria did not dare to disturb this assembly. They separated without in terruption or disorder. Letters from Naples of the 2nd have been received. The King had followed up the proclamation of the constitution by the publication of a full and complete amnesty for all past political offences, without any reservation or exception whatever. This was, of course, the cause of a fresh outburst of popular joy. Gen. Garzia had been appointed Minister of War; the Chevalier Ciardulli, Director of the General Police; and M. Tofanno, Prefect of Police. Them appointments are reported to have been well re ceived. Since writing the above we have received further advice.. It appears that the King of Naples had fixed the 7th for the solemnity of inaugurating the new charter and taking the oaths of the constitution. The ceremony was to be conducted with the utmost military pomp in the Champ de Mars. The report that the Austrian ambassador had taken down the flag and arms float his hotel is contra dicted ; but it is true that he protested against the constitution as a measure that his government would regard with the highest displeasure. Commissioners were to have been sent on the 4th from Naples to negotiate with the provisional &peril ment at Palermo. These commissioners were l'il. Carlo Poerio and the advocate Borelli, both of whom were in prison under the late re'fll . 7lle, but who are now taken into the entire confidence of the govern ment. The 'Madrid mail of the 6th inst. has arrived ; its contents are without interest. We give below the letter of our correspondent. We have received by the Levant mail the corre spondence and journals of Constantinople to the 26th, and of Athens to the 29th ult. The envoy of the Pope was an objcet of the greatest attention on the part of the authorities of the Porte, r of the Sultan himself, and the entire corps diploma - I ague. The cholera had considerably abated. Some cases, however, were still announced in the villages of 1-toumelia, near Constantinople. M. 3lussurus was to have left for Athens on Feb. 1. ROME, Fey. 3. Lord Minto hurried off from the eternal city this morning at nine o'clock, en route for Naples, and is about this time in the Pontine marshes. People down there don't well know whether they stand on their heads or their heels, bombarding one day and granting a free constitutional charter the next. St. Januarms himself never eaw so eventful a month of January as last was for the Two Sicilies. After all, 1 there was no alternative for Ferdinand but to sign the magna charia or flit ; for beyond twenty mil magna es south of Parthenope the King's writ no longer ran. From Salerno to Avelino , in the whole province of Basilicata, through all Calabria and Apulia, down to Faro, the troops had been defeated or gone over to the people, and what available forces he had only . sailed for disgrce and discomfiture before Palermo. Naples itself was beginning, as of old, to take its doctrine from the Sehola Salernitana,when sheer fright caused the despot to rid himself of his confessor Code, and his head hangman, Del Carretto, and to call honest men to his councils. The accession of all Southern Italy to the Ll'yel Italian's, which non • reaches from Cape Lilibes to the margin of the I'o, is I , ~ 1 k I I ~i t 1, I' eli J ht • erprgOls• MAILS The West India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Nassau, lianmaN ii.d ur y. New °ensue, Vert Crua, Tampico, and Porto Rico, end including thou for Madeira, Jaanel, Csithagena, Santa Martha, (tapes, Panama, West Coat of South America, and St. Juan-de. Nlearstrua, will be made up en the morning of the 17th February. The wads for Vigo, Duero°, Idston, Madeira, Cadiz, and dithealtar will be made up OD the morning of the 17th February. The overland mails for Oibraltar, Malta„tireece, the lonian bans& Pay pt, Aden, Ceylon, Indis, Ilona- ROM, and Chios, via Southampton sill be made up ea the morning of the 20th Fehr . The mails for New South Waleg, Von Lbenten's , sad New Zealand will be made up on the evesing of the 24th February. The overland cloned malls, ma Marsedies, to the Mediterr o aneen, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Iteng Kong, &h., will be made up n the evening of the 24th February. The mails for British North eateries, Bermuda, and the Vailerl states. wilt be made up ou the evening of the 23th February. The nails for the Wost Coast of Africa =I Madeira will be made ap on the evening of the 29th February. The main for the Bralits, the River Plate, Monte made Video, boot Mattis Mathis Mddeire, and LUMP* Ayres, T w ill be up on the evening of the 4th Match. TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE number of S LAMPS issued to the DAILY NEWS by the authorities of the Stanip-oftlee, during the year 1847, v a & From Los. 1, to DEC. 31 , 3,447,009 This, we believe, is within eight per cent. of the number issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, and Morning Post, ALL PUT TOGETHEE. In adaition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS , MornXPRESSina Paper, there were issued for the Errning Edition, TEE E, From JAN. 1, to Dee. 31 778,714 Which was mop., we believe, than were issued either to the Globe or Standard, Evening Papen. - - - • bberrivbeets Imw4i M " The Larne... 14.404 Intsll.l paper. west be at lb& taw, lioneeleeeeeb, be Tee efelset ea a• am , of pubac•tion. WO W&IU AT LON UON Tan 149-11•9•499. VS wk. past 9 . Aftennos. 9119. pa. In. TO-f 4.lll,ll—lienistl MIS. P 10 s ifterseee. W 1.11. v•Il LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 14. THERE is a tide in political principles: they are never stationary. They are always on the flow or ebb, advancing or receding, and things and men who float upon the surface will always be borne one way or the other. In our days the public make and direct the current. The government and its officials float with it—anchoring at times, perhaps, or now and then taking advantage of a strong breeze to stem the tide, but, in the main, contented to guide their course in the direction and in the ideas which prevail. In nothing is this more fully exemplified than in the question of economy, and in the rival claims of expenditure or retrenchment. The efforts of Josern HUME some twenty years ago set the public clamorous and determined for retrenchment. The spirit soon became influential in parliament and on politicians. Tory vied with whig in the grand virtue of the day, retrenchment. A minister was willing to be judged by the taxes he repealed, and the expenses he cancelled. And the great work was done in many instanoes more theatrically than sincerely, more for momentary show than for permanence and use. At all events government and even its subordinates fell into the prevailing idea, and the result was seen in yearly diminishing expenditure. It is remarkable how this impetus lasted for years after the contrary principle of war expenditure and panic had set in to counteract it. Never were European politics more troubled or the prospects of peace more uncertain than in 1831 and 1832, and yet we find the diminution of military expenditure con tinue, till it reached its lowest point in 1833. From that epoch the twin ideas of reform and retrenchment began to wane in their influence. The radical partywhich had set both in motion began then to feel disappointed, and to relax in many of their efforts, and the national-rivalrvePirit has more or less prevailed since ; government and officials have of course fallen into it, and with or without increased cause of alarm, one year's estimate always exceeds the last, as if by a natural growth or progression. This might have been intelligible and pardonable in 1841; but really at the present day to find the military budgets of France contrasted with our own, and marked by a decrease, while ours is still on the increase, shows that it is for public opinion to declare itself and cor rect this tendency, which nothing else will stop. Tho feelers, however, put forth by the disclosures of the Duke of WELLINGTON'S letter, and Sir JOHN BURGOYNE'S anxieties, have awakened the slumber ing partisans of retrenchment, and, encouraged by the sentiment of every popular meeting called on the subject, liberal members of parliament have gathered to Nt'estminster with the determination to prevent Messrs. PIGOU and Co. from squeezing more thousands out of the budget. The views and purposes of these gentlemen ace moderate and tolerant. Instead of demanding instant re duction, they merely declare that the military expen diture of 1847 is fully as much, if not more, than the elative state of Europe and of England require, and that the maximum of 17,000,0001. shall not be ex ceeded. What, then, was the general astonishment to find that it had been already exceeded ; that the estimate of 1847 was surpassed by nearly two millions of unvoted expenditure ; and that army, navy, and ordnance had been stealing a march upon the country, and taking, the army nearly a million more, and the navy nearly half a million more, than was allotted to them or than they demanded? And, we believe, that the rece nt expenses at the Cape and at New Zealand are not included in this return. This aggravates much the enormous grievance of the growth of military expenditure. If, in a year in which the sole demands on our military and naval establishments were a few skirmishes with naked savages at the Cape of Good Hope and New Zealand, and the necessity of sending the squadron of evolution to anchor in the Tagus, instead of careering in the channel—if such efforts as these ate to cost the country two extra millions —if army and navy, instead of sufficing tor common perils and contingencies, require thousands extra for every move of a limb and exertion of a muscle, why, then, our military establish ments are really but pumps to drain money from the treasury, instead of being ready reservoirs of strength to obviate the expense of hurried and extemporised efforts. We have merely the navy estimates before us,l and therefore shall postpone remarks on the very serious subject of these extra millions. But the gradual increase of military expenditure since 1833, as sanctioned by legislative votes, is of itself a more serious subject of consideration ; all.i ndeed, proving that parliament has given the impulse, and that it has of course been acted upon with alacrity. The tabular statement of augmentation of military expenses for several years, which we pub lished on Saturday, is pregnant with suggestion. From 1833 to 1848 we have nearly doubled our ex penditure. For, it will be remembered, that during the increase of the later estimates, the non-effective service of the three departments has been diminish ing, and costs now one million and a half less than when Sir HENRY PARNELL wrote his book in 1830. This million and a half, instead of being saved, has been silently added to the cost of the effective service. an event of which the .1 patience. Piedmont 1 - of 140,000; being b 160,000 from the rest Field-Marshal ltadet blade which he tells (the veteran is SO -1 Florence I find the made for the octogen et I ra nadc! Fiuour u t i. II dragon ,t Gloirt 1 l't This evening, to :II then remaining obscumnt Per lamps have c three transparent col -t being the Italian ti:- Neapolitan atnbaski.o Vahan, Farnese, is t forming the side of , which your iteforni I such ~ •4 oflain onstehoicsritymoorptreecitrlst:, a w Athenrcam, 1 raveil r and has a proporUo le dilv out of that 0,1 and, strange to say, clopian structure. 1 • be no riotous behav , c are quite intoxicat , tl dithyrambic lines al , morning, a journal , •f 11 Iwo ~tia t. E tumid „ Itel ttarke.oal E Is cae,lo itl &moo -, Cbe ham, I,mtl e u,,to ai &matt. %Wens, PAL, min vatici fin eh t, Vattene r . attvi • ViTs proteti ("KA' k The great coach of town to the effect the to all Neapolitan refi visit their regener. to But you will have than I can give, a,- t distance our land Tie rence of domestic int Roman lawyers, ti e ceedings of the .ea gravely reported •n be taken for a tra , ,sl that the greate*• ministering angel 4 t almost total atoPt since the accession < held to consider t ing (to them) It system! An advoctte na ne court, on the 26th. fo foglio Maltese, and co or a tine of ss. ! 601., and the attend& wegian corvette Nord staid, as did also r im wind and weather ho direct from Mat : eill morning. The has only just artist: at 4 p.m. UNITED The Cambria, pool yesterday ma 29th ult., and Ka in specie. The Acadia hac fore the Cambria e The all-absorbi York were the II concluded term of General Soot:. which, indeed, w effect that lw been in secret ne Mexico for a tree tually come to au treaty—subject, governments.. 1 identical with Mexicans. The fact of 31u made known io In answer to a said, " Generr I t of the army in volves upon Butler. Gen .n the Court of I for the purpas which have ar well know m higher office' from his arc* The other or ing. The 7 a cussion, and is question. A curious dollars had b 4 ment. It had important Wu the treasury e secretary. A mcetini and house .13 convention e'u for the pang candidates 3.) There is r o scene of wa of Deeeml under:date 1) its power 10 date about ;. arrived, an I would not al amwhol e onis t o opposition Potosi and . known to la The presc it a troying t e ie t one, COMP' Despatcl.ei of the 31st of the British cl once deepa el nothing wr a formed at V forwarded r. steamer, A small x of Mexico ft on the road lecting I'..° Another i a. Mexico. 1 Mexico Ii had rapt CI worth of i s had chaive tired. The Eng New Orl. Accow t steam-lx .ti Scott, 10,,d to New I' l which h r NEW \ been made cattle anti . public. COtTER.— bttn toll loic.; 50 337 bag. to 6c. ca..., Corros. - without a•. a slight n to 0,050 rise Fuova.. ogling 114 after only for however,