The Express. — London, England, 1853-04-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING APRIL 23, 1853 ansaciel etheseelons, the Helen eliCemesess acted with suhject. Muth Itielm.) He ethei leis right boo. gentle respect to guarantees with ewe. eoution, end 50 with great an theretege net Ispreseeed with Mb question, but to give 'consomme« , el the respeulbiliii o f soc k y u d in j,,k, o p e , 'it more cue and sensideration. lie hoped that he would that they never exceeded/ years ; and in 1814, after the not force him to mho for the amindiment of his hon. sit (Mt financial 'aperient° which the epoch of the French j ',trued friend. What w as th a t amen d ment ? It w oe one d e - It.volution .d taught this country, and after all the ex- I elating that in all changes or conversions ef the public funds perience of Mr. Pitt, that term was not increased but was it was not wise, or expedient, nr politic., to increase the mime/ to hie years. (Cheers.) Thee. were important capital of the public debt. (Cheers.) If there WAS a divi. fact., which the committee should bear in mind, became Ma he mess vote foe that assertion of a principle so sound alth .ugh the guarantee might not appear to be of so much and so salutary; but at the same time be hoped to be pre row,,,ueee se the rite of interest, it would really be fund vented from taking that course by the government's u.temately to be the mom important element en ell these sr- adoption of the amendment. It would be no condescension reodego inve. (Hear, hear.) In 1830, there was • greet on their part to du so ; and it would allow them to give to r ,,,,,, e i0n etieeted ; the lint of tuose great operations this subject more time and more thought than it had whie'l would elwaye render the name of the right bon. apparently yet received. (Cheers.) gentlemen the member for the University of Cambridge Mr. GOULBURN sail the right hon. gentleman (Mr. (Mn. (lowborn) memorable in the financial history of the Disraeli) had statedthat there was • general opinion that r „.,,,iry. (lb ar.) That right lion. gentleman then dealt the government could deal with 600 millions of debt, and „,,h a capital of 1.i3,000,0001, and he effected a saving of effect • great reduction of interest thereon. It. would not of a year, the consideration Riven being • guarantee dispute whether that was so or not ; but whatever th- pub. o f ,„ eer ern:. tor ten yeah. In that instanee there was an lie opinion might be, whenever it was in error on subjects option allowed of • stock of 701. bearing • 61. per cent. in- of that kind, it was their duty, as representatives of the tenet —as arrangement very similar to the first alternative people, to bring the matter fairly before the public, that of tb,• present Chancellor of the Excheq uer ; and there was any error might be corrected by their suporker knowledge— thoe remittable circumstance, Lamely, that there waa (hear, hem)—and to afford to the people ' what they were sca rcely any aubecriptioo for that alternative . . He believed, always reedy to accept, information better than they in tact, that not more than half-a-million was subscribed could otherwise obtain as to our financial situtti.n. Mr. e u r. (Hear, hear.) 'fliers was a similar reduction in 1834, Disraeli had chosen to regard the operation as absolutely t, winch he would not advert except fur the purpose of no- completed, and after mho ing that the saving would be tiring that though the principle of the guarantee was ap- limited to 600,0001., he had triumphantly exclaimed, " See pi k ,il in that c tie it was only tor six years. In 1843 there what • paltry amount of savieg is to be effected by all these .1 ma t r. duction effected by the right hon. geutleman great changes." Ho must have forgotten the argument of (Mr. tioulburn). It dealt with a capital of 230,060,0001., Sir F. Kelly, who said that the great object should be to and there was an immediate saving of 621,0001., which obtains reduction of the capital of the national debt. (Hear.) would of courw be afterwards doable that amount. The If, therefore, Mr. Disraeli thought the 440 millions of debt consideration given was a guarantee of 31 per cent. fur 10 would be converted into stock et 82/. 10s., he should cor year., and of 3 per cent. for 20 years after then. Thus the tainly have stated what would be the amount of reduction whole guarantee upon that great and successful operation in the capital of the debt, a Raving which it might be sup. only reached 3 0 Teary- N'w, this was an arrangement posed he and his friends would be glad to encourage (Hest, which bon • mach nearer resemblance, to the present sr- hear.) But be was evidently anxious to depreciate the recommit than may of the others; but there were some re- value of the measure—(hear, hear)—and he sought more makable points of contrast. Consols then bore 31. Is. inter• effectually to depreciate it by contrasting it with similar res t, and Eschequer bells 21. 4.. 10d.; the balance in the measures, beginning with the administrating of Sir Robert Exchequer wars 4,100,0001, sod the floating debt about 19 Walpole. He trusted that the house would sanction the midway. Tag sum dealt with was then 2511,000,0001., and measure, and thus lay a foundation for such • future re there woe an i mmediate saving of 600,0001, with au ulti- duction of the national expenoiture and the debt as should mate saving of 1.2‘0,00t./. But new what was our present be highly advantageous and honourable to the country. parities'? Irate-al of Console being at 84, they were at par; (Loud cheers.) instead of Exchequer bills being at 21.45. ed., they were Sir J. PAKINOTON said be attached the greatest If Ids. sd. ; instead of the balance in the Eitch.quer bring weight t o anything that fell from Mr. Goulburn on financial 4,700,0001., it was nearly double that amount, and the matten ; but he thought he had misrepeesented Mr. Die. testier debt, though not to a very considerable client, null in reference to the reduction effected by Lord Bexley. was still actually lower. Yet the present Chancellor He referred to the speech made by Mr. Qoulburn in 1844, of the Eiikeluer dealing with 600,000,0001, un•lef so in proposing the reduction of the Three-anil-s-Half per much more favourable circumstances, only proposed Cents , and said that he had not then advocated the offor of making a iniv'mg of Goo,ooUi. • year, if the whole several alternatives to tho stockholders. He bad noticed affair was completed, and with a guseraidans which would such a proposal as was now mule fur the creation of a Two yr ttttt any further operations fur 40 years. (Cheers.) and-alien per Cent, stock by giving a larger amount of Anil now what were the circumstances of the country that capital, but rejected it, and said he reprobated the idea of should induce the committee to authorise an arrangement obtaining • present advantage by entailing future burdens which appeared on the surface to be so improvident and so on the country. (Hear, hear.) It was said this was limited in its results ? Was the rate of interest lower; o r merely an experiment ; and should it prove acceptable to was the country less prosperous than in 1834 ? (Cheers . ) the public, no doubt • further conversion would be pro- Whit be (Mr. Disraeli) objected to is the right hon. gentle. posed, and • consequent farther increase of the debt. sane proposition was. last of him*. had settled th e Nothing so strong h-.d been urged against the present t er ms upon which operations possib ly to so:great an client, measure as was urged by Mr. Ouulburn, in 1814, against seed which went to so great a period of time, should be car- the suggestion then made in some quarters of lowering the ra j on. (Hear, hear.) It was no doubt the duty of every rate of interest b T means of an increase of the pet. 11 la the inside& of the right hon. gentlemen who (Cries of " Divide.") oohed to effect such an object rather to throw upon the Sir F. KELLY, in reply. said he had certainly under piddle creditor the reeponsibility of offering the terma that stood the Chancellor of the Exchequer to calculate on a eat might be agreeable to him (the public creditor), than that • mg of 100,0001. from the op erations to be er u cted by this be himself (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) should come bill; and by the wing of one plan of conversion fur down sad say—" Then are the terms which I lay down, another, that &snug would be subject to a reduction of and the only terms that I can accept." Meer, lieu.) The 87,0001. , There was g 1 and pe h•pa well-founded roiht bon. gentleman said, " You may impugn and numb- belief in the mercantil e community that r :large reduction date my reasoning, and the position I hive advanced, bat a the rata of int erest must thartly take place. . The exia 7 tibia I have a sovereign ohnet to obtain. I want to @stab- - wen he thought qua of thi s ne sou proved by the calculations adopted lob a Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock." that the hen. member fur Lambeth wee right. Nothing by Chancel lo r of Exchequer himself in bringing for ward this measure. The great objection to this proposal could be more desirable, if it was the natural consequence Was that it held out the promise of an extravagant rate ▪ their financial position. Otherwise there was nothiag of interest, guaranteed fur an unreasonably long period. practice/at all shout • Two.and.wllalf per Cent. Stock. A Inasmuch as the right hon. gentleman still persevered in T•o-uclui-Half per Cent. Stock might he treated at soy the second branch of the clause—that part of it which pro ume, if they chose to pay for it. (Cheers.) If it wee posed to create • Two-end-a-Half per Cent. stock on a to he only • fictitious and artificial result, there was . capital of 1101 ., no d with • guaranteed interest fur forty minister, even in times of war, who eisehl not cress a ye ar, and inasmuch as this appeared to him—indepen- Twoned-a-lialf per Cent. Stock if he chose to do it. (Hear, .antl of the objection that it erstressed_ the unital of the btu) It wee, no doubt, tbe duty of • and t h e Finance e. Y idebt—appeared • nationsto him to be • bargain unjust anal to consider the interest of the debt; and the right hon. gentleman cmcccd much creditfur haying turned extravagant as against the state, and in favour of the public he would divide the committee upon it. his able and crashes mind to the subject ; but The eommittee then divided : he knew full well that there was no *teat originality in For Sir F. Kelly's ameadmon• 176 attempting to deal with the interest of the national debt. Against it The gnome was to deal with it at the right time, and in suck • manner as that they ssiOt be able to deal with it An 110 N. MEMBER gave notice that on the bringing when the prupf time arrived. gje (Mr. Disraeli's) opinion up of the report he would move an amendment in the was that the right lion. gentleman had been ingenious, but clause the object of which would be to provide that the premiere. (Hear, bear.) It was totally impossible by 30.000,0001. should not tell due in larger sums than any methination, however deter, or by any device., how- 6i000,0001. in one year. Meer.) ever somplieeted and inge•Mss, to make the publics take a Mr. T. BARING said that the minister of the day might lower ester of interest than the state of the mosey market be placed in a very embarrassing position if be should be would offer. (Hear, bear.) It was quite Impossible to all_lod an at the and of 1891 to find large • sum as suppose that they could succeed in digging pitfalls or da. ( wo , •••• making mares for the public creditor, for there was no man The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER agreed with crafty creature is existence than he. (Laughter.) They the boa. 'enflames. might give him all the etternadue that ingenuity could The clause was then agreed to. emeeive, bet the pubilessideller had • test of the vane of Clause up to 11 were agreed to. Ins money ; for be email ge end find out in- On clause 11, eerily what it was worth. (Hear, .) That brought him Mr. SPOONER said that the clause gave power to the to • point which the committee aught to coaaider Wage trustee to bind the rest/non trust, but supposing be held in they agreed to any of these ernapments. They might ninnies, and mei jun, did the clause give the trustee dipped upon that all indirect attempts to And with the power to dispose a the ito-k without the consent of the d.bt—be did not say they would always fail, bat they 'executor ? would always be difficult. Bat their arrangements as a rule The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER mid that aunt be simple. if the state of the money market the clause was drawn up in accordance with the provisions enabled them to deal with the rate of interest, of previous sus. He apprehended that the trustees would it wee manereary to act in as indirect manner; bat if, be bound by the general rule of law. toonaideriug thee artificial safeguards surrounding the debt, Is reply to Mr. BAIIIIIIO, they felt it resseemy to do so, he did not think there mu The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that say mare legitimate means, if they wanted to establish it OS bringing up the report he would move a clause for pro- Twoesed-e•Half per Cent. Steck, than to go fairly to the 'riding • &inking fund. public, and auk them whet was the guarantee, muidering The clause was then agreed to. the relent state of the market, they required ? Now, Clauses up to 16 were agreed to. that was a simple proposition, and one that the country Outlasts 13, wield asidentatid. It is very possible that they would sax Mr. I. BUTT asked why power was given to enable the a very Mag guarantee —possibly longer than the forty years executor or trustee to change the character of the stock. It which had been offered ; bet then they were in the clear left it open to him to increase or diminish the life interest or minion of being abbe to consider whether it was espedient, the reversion. (Hear, hear.) cli e ti o t i or wise to give that gement**. (Hear, hear.) That The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said be is t them the real point which wee to be considered would moulder the uggestioo. He would certainly not beam they decided es this meiseure—ossely, what were exclude trustees from the liberty of doing what would be their prospects with regard to the rate of interest in this moat advantageous to the parties they represented, but he essatry. (User, boor.) Now, he would not enter into any thought that the consent of the Court of Chummy should guards= es that subject, for it was one that had be given. =red Wier Mem net only in this country, but The dean was then agreed tat, as were clauses up to 27. the thought of the most Classes 27 to 31 wan severally agreed to. prethernr i petielsol end inquire,' into monetary On elimosa32. eiresmsteaces that had ever &s wished. But mine sesid Captain LAFFAN asked the Chancellor of the Esther ilssy that et the meow tier there nem sew phonemes& in quer whether he had any objection to insert in it words Medea to ibis tratallim no right hen. gestioniss (Mr. which would prevent the sahrof Exchequer Buds below Osalbeire) bad sever bees phoned it Emma* cireusweasess Par ? is libigh Say sAhme M the present day iehe hap- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, in all peed to be C the Ifinebettser would be pissed ; such cues, it was necessary to give a certain discretion to and if any propegges cry this kb* venial hale secs mode the government agent ; and his own opinion wu, that they hethat right MIL UMW stuns, eiromestuises, had better not blurt slab • emodition. At the sans time, he (Mr. Disreelki it woad Ims, We groat gum be thought that to Wee bends of this description consider time whether %bob/gem soul have sanitithed • guarantee ably below par, would be a very left-handed way of miming fist forty yew. (Clisoss.) The right hoe. geatimun, who the ;whin. (Hear.) was the mess espernseed, the most skilful, and the mast Mr. T. BARING remarked that the holding out to the eseensfal of ear time, and who hid dealt wi th public • peosibitt l oldie bonds being sold below par, would sum that in di muse have bees sureely lees than kern •pr j iffseti 600,1100,00114, had seta esstempleted • gusrudee for forty The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could mum years ; for his guarantee was first one for ten yeas, and • dm hes. ragman that be had no intention of holding woad for twenty yeses ; so that virtually it was no mum out 1 1.01illwattolliT te (Haul than me for twenty years. (Has,, hear.) The right boo. Mr. LET nght • thelseatiss that the bonds gentlemen had to iMsl with • queens" which only mislead would /sot he tossed " sowildasetA7 Ws. Far" wooded experiencesad jadisent--ne doubt valuable ; but strange front thi lips of • 011eMeller of the Exchequer. be knew what would be the ptsbehis quantity of the (Hear, hear.) In We ladliolont It MEMO be provided in maims 'Male is the world ; be bass what 6,4 bees the bill that mono of there aloud be Meld beim per. r e CV: a talltallittal bee a b i: g d prosperity to which de ldr em O L LlN ßa rl t w h att i, tho wle r .be y me i th s p: de le i r so lr . it i t also to amidst the imperithil mender of terminable to feeth to the Podia that thus WO e, • PosaMi •• •• 1004 ; t a k in =feileninemense eimmeesimme he is Nathequer Bemis pal. (ge ar, us ems bed s of tempo dureties hear.) He had a to main to the right bon ! gee than Monty gists ppm. New, what wen the thaws width be smoldered of same impertmee. Many eireamthatme tender ibM we were now plated? Was of tbs bonds might evestemilly get into the heads of diem anilhady whe pethead to calculate the 61111•11 et MEWS. and with sash perms it 'tepid be • great °Wee dMO athlith Or 14 say what it would be is tarty dem that they lad met that met et mew* which ought to tees& lit *Mg, he ,es ems tem Mem, heer.) attach e le trust property. Re would engem that it would Tbss tie quenies od onnidges bad been be admishis, that ia ems of • dathemd - frost trustees, the by am bememmthie patience sprat* tele bad gives is bonds Mash' he writhe both stock —a Pssedee which has mammies to the priest* puss, the sake of Chan- C u lls' 1007 sub la essatrier, and which be miler tithe liaaterpeer Into esdomides, ald et delegating would week wall hare. Ms patients a sithmilies of the Meths of Csuamme. That elt f• RIMY Ma power wer• given VIII he* athapiltheepthey to the ability right hes. to nelanant Iddiewraor ash y2l percent. stock, Itgatimmem opposite; sad certaiisly he Mr. Disraeli) would monZethiehme would well dmmitodwe vote ageism the rabseitstios el • y committee ORAMCILLOR of Ms EXCHEQUER said he hod he him. (Rear, hear.) Bat the psalms ef to-nimble beilf — bidewded M give the Twat thenhesed, not only to mashies bed --cues-' a very different ohmmeter since the flosithla Vat Withers- (Hoor. hear.) pelt amecik delsocoopme ; and it noodesbefei whether at Glum 32, and the remaining clause of the bill, wen t i f i rl= il int i r T e l laljg to dal with o(p til h e a n ce Wit :lows! Tb: tbsu W tan it manned, sad the chairmen obtained leave to The ben. gesdesma mid the Gunnery wield make n est sit GPM as Monday. eaublemos miss the plea of tamdsable 111111111itiet. Now CUSTOMS, Le., ACT. be (Mr. Diumali) thought the essetry was disposed to make Os this order of the day for receiving the lepert. so maw at all. (Chun) No thought the country was JONES stated that the reestaties bt imisaleg dispersal shear to watch the result of the changes whirl assal duty of Bd. on Irish spirits, posed es the wag rfrai is around them. (Hear, bur) He would not previous day without his Tritium of what was going for give say "globs 44 the setter, but he would ask the out- ward, and musoaseed his Intention to oppose the alteration Len M issember that they were in the midst of theme at a future aattyyoo.. greet Mak (Rear, hear.) They were in the midst of Tbe CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed pb•MIIIINS that were perplexing the profoundest thinkers, that the bee. gestleesan could carry out his intention either mad disk este aphasics the bouts sad suitieg the hopes es the woad reeding or in committee. ef thesennist esti mold the emasaittee under such sir- The meet was then received. semthesthe gummethee a este of interest fee 40 years merely The Taatag Officer Common Law Business (Ireland) Bill ▪ imselhat • itebems which if pet completely is was read a second time. welt aky oft the country about 600,0001. EDUCATION BILL. a 'aroma mat mewlss that which is • few mouths Os the motion of Lord J. RVUILL, the order of the day ahar would musks from the nodsi.g aaaaarliaa Ma" for the emend goading of this bill was postponed till Friday Matt hes favourable eiteumelemses sae Rpm • capital of ssnaight. ably halt the .meat / (Cheese.) MsthamM ealy be doing CALL OF THE HOUSE. ~_,_1 611117 _111 1 1, 0 1 m . hv anarthead tr ee p,_ Mr. DRUMMOND postponed lie motion for a tall of 'move Tag maarakwad these 4.1,01101.• They non had the hawses the 3rd of May, is consequence, as he stated, of three important champs is this meet Important user a discussion on a question of perusal character having been sem, which partly by as 'bank/ of temper, fi xe d f or t h at d a y, wry unusual es the pert of the setts lead, sad partly by a very noistintioa a t m i sta k e I mo aid I mo az pr o j oi d. . DOCKYARD APPOINTMENTS. r B. HALL proposed that the following members be at MI rusts quit e satisfactorily to Massif, obey had not Si been allowed to discus until to-night. Lady and fourthly, this select enmities un dockrd appointments :— Sir Bea th, lientstiin of 30,00,0001. bad been eta further limited Jams Lord Seymour, Lord Bothnia, Sir Henry Fer ia 2 1 ,000.0001. (lieu, beer.) Now be did net mean to ley gnus Davie, sad Mr. Beckett that all thee" &Iterations were sot wise, discreet, and proper Mr. NEWDEOATE protested against the re.opening of left; but he thought they shamed that the scheme bad not the matters involved in the proposed inquiry before em bus sullesently matured—(than)—and that there had mitt.' which could not 1111111ffila• witnesses on oath after not Well to it that considerstiou, that business like they bad been fully investigated by the select committee. devotion of Ulu and thought which became • gentian of He also complained of renewed attacks in the Tansea, when the mecum When a Minister of Finance and his colleagues the committee was on the eve of being nominated upon the dealt with se vast • theme as the public debt, end dealt character of the hon. member (Mr. &afford) who was the with it swerever sasseeworily— (sheen)—it was just -is party chiefly interested in the result. will that the Polandaaano.___ _which bay _ _ Pat before the hones Mr. STAFFORD said he had not been aware of his hon.' di▪ d""ww " 00 beiger. _• v immi l °‘ •f•U°D and care. friend's intesticin to introdue a dismission. For his own ila am *eat se law any petty 11"111WW upon such a part he thought the questions which would come before the Proposed committee were not concluded. (Hear, hear.) Far from regretting the appointment of the committee, he should be glad of it—(chrers)—and he should go into the inquiry perfectly satisfied with regard to the constitution of the tribunal. (Hear, hear.) The motion was then agreed to. THE WRIT FOR BARNSTAPLE. On the motion n;/11;.0:8; ''' '''' Ma writ for this borough was suspendtd for six weeks. The boys adjourned at a quarter-put 12. hr enireOls• TU t 'URIC ESPON DEN TS. 4 sPeltql Moira ef " The Ezpresi," eaatafaina , be same Enrolee' ntn!r,"b pnAllshed every Toreday sad Friday Wei, is riled for pot. ~egwenseetelatended In, " The Idepreas," Lamar Evening yew, .4414 t be rim /Rite. 10. P0ttn440.4414et, Tim o'clock tbe day a( pabileatioa. MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDOI. tn. Oat —Mendes, Ih. Ws .Afternoon. la. s7na. to-waaarw—llarniag. 2a. 16 jallaramos. 2a. Wm. L')NDOP, SATURDAY, APRIL 23. Lan night the House of Commons, after a sitting of several hours in committee on the Government scheme about the National Debt, got through all the clauses of the new Bill for that purpose. The dis cussion arose chiefly on the second clause, the first having passed without challenge. This fint clause enacts that the " Annuity on the Capital Stock of the South Sea Company and certain 3 per cent. Stocks—namely, the Old and New South Sea Annuitie., Bank Annuities of 1726, and Three per Cent Annuities, 1751." amounting together to ten millions sterling, shall be paid off. This point, then, may be regarded as settled, unless the improba'de occurrence of a defeat on the third reading should The second clause was challenged by Sir FITZROY KELLY, who placed before the notice of the House the objections first urged when Mr. GLADSTONE gave his scheme to the public. The three alter natives offered to the holders of stock to be commuted are said by their author to be equal the one to the other—but they are not so: and in the disparity one becomes more mis chievous than its brethren by the influence it will have in adding to the sum total of our huge National Debt. It is at once a great financial sin and a great political folly, to seek to sink us deeper in the mire of debt by any plan professing for its object the lightening of that Debt. In the present state of our money market in relation to the supply of gold, and to the bourses of the world, there can be little doubt that English Exchequer Bonds would float in large quantities at 2i per cent. —if not at less, and with so great and important a fact before us, it shows great folly to take more than is need ful, from a purse so well squeezed already u that of JOHN Bum. The proposal to increase the debt is, as we were the first to declare, a great blunder; but it is at the same time one capable of excision altogether from the scheme of which it is a portion, without any danger to that scheme itself. If a man having a commodity to sell, for which there was a great de mand, went into the market with three different prices, at which he was ready to dispose of his wares, the buyers would, of course, elect to plrehase at the one most favourable to themselves. Nobody would give the high price while they could deal at the low, and if the seller traded thus with his own wares, people would think him a simpleton—if with the wares of others, they might apply to him some harsher term. Yet Mr. GLADSTONE goes to market with the National Debt people are willing to buy at fair figures—whereupon three prices are named nominally alike, but one of them in reality calculated to lead the proprietor of the stock, Mr. BULL, still further on that fatal way where the sum total of debt is said to be "of no consequence." On this some sound financiers cry " Hat," and say, " Have Exchequer Bonds, have a Two-and-a-Half per Cent. stock, or, if a third alternative is impera tive, adopt some wise suggestion for Terminable An- I unities. But get rid of the offer of 1101. for 100/. Have no increase of the Debt under a scheme nominally for lessening it." Let all cleverness for conversion be kept strictly within the stern limits of national prudence and honour. " It'sonly just sign ing your name across this stamp —a mere form," says Mr. Rook, when coaxing Mr. Pigeon to accept his first accommodation bill. "The mere form," how ever, has a knack of maturing into copies of write, judgment debts, execution., and other little et cetera. that forerun repudiation and Insolvent Courts. And so with this part of the Financial Scheme. It may suit some politicians to say, " It's a mere form " to add a few millions to our great Incubus, but other financiers and politicians see such things happily in another light, and are prepared, when operating for the reduction of the Debt, to oppose all steps that may really add to it. Mr. Pigeon's accommo dation bill system is not one to be followed by a g reat and wealthy nation, with gold upheaping in its Bank cellars, and its trade in a state of prosperity almost unequalled in the history of the world. No. We can act upon the Debt, and let us do it properly. Let us adopt the two wisest of Mr. GLAthrrones schemes, putting the other in abeyance, at all events till the others have been tried. The Exchequer Bond pro puition is excellent, though it has no originality. Such securities hays answered well in America and elsewhere, and we may well try them in England. So also in our present state of credit may we venture on the establishment of a Two-and-a-Half per Cont. stock. And here for the present at all eventh let the experiment stop, unless we try the third plan wisely put forward by Mr. J. B. Sierra, a practical and suc cessful man of business, whose views on all such matters are at the least as well worth consideration as those of a theoretical politician like the present CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. In closing these few words on the measure in its present stage, we may repeat distinctly again that we commend the object the Government have in view, and two-thirds of their plan for working it out ; but being no 'tee, and supporting them, not (or their own bakes as a doubtful coalition. bat orily in so far es they offer to do the public work in a fair way, we take exception on that point where their schwas ad the national welfare seem likely to part codtpany. Our political motto is " 'rho com ma good," and hence our vote and voice go against adding to the National Debt. With the querulous patina tricks of the Ex-Protectionist member for Backs we have no sympathy whatever. Indeed it is clear enough that Mr. DissAm's meagre speech last night can do him no credit, and the Ministerial Scheme no harm; and when he impotently talked of upsetting the plan altogether because one mistaken element was found within it his hearers could only draw conclusions little compli mentary to the Er-Chancellor, as compared with his successor in Downing-street. The only division that took place last night showed the temper of the House on thispoint. Int Court. Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.-Col. F. H. Sey mour, inspected the Exhibition of the Society of Pain ters in Water Colours, in Pall-mall East, yesterday after. noon. The Prince of Weiss, the Princes Royal, Prises Alfred, end the Prim:ems Alice, Helena, and Louisa, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington. Colonel the Honourable Charles Grey, sad Mr. Gibbs, visited and inspected Mr. Burford's Panorama or Granada, and the Alhambra, Nineveh, and the Hem se Alps, in Leicester-square, yesterday morning. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Adelaide of Hoheelohe, and attended by Lady Anne Maria Dawson and Sir George Cooper, paid a visit to the Exhibition et Painters in Water Colours, in Pall-mall Kest, yesterday. Ommil Mendibunt, Peruvian Minister, D. Jose Antolin Iledelfo, Secretary of Legation, Doctor D. Julian Sando- val, and Captain D.-Mariano de is Puente, Attaches of the Legation, were preesat at the levee held by Prince Albert last Wednesday. The following members of the Houle of Commons : Mr. Milner Gibson, Sir J. %dimity, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Bright, Mr. Williams, Mr. Hadfield, Mr. Ewen, Mr. John Cheat ham, Mr. J. S. Smith, Sir John Shelley, and Mr. Wilkin son, had en interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. at his official residence in Dawning-street, on the subject of the taxes on advertisements and newspapers. A deputation from the directors of the West-end and Crystal Palace Railway Company had an interview with Sir William Molasworth yesterday, at the Offices of Works end ?ebbe Buildings, in Whitehall-place. The deputation consisted of Sir Joseph Fazton, Mr. Oeach, M.P , Mr. Fuller, with Mr. Farquhar, solicitor, and Mr. Fulton, the engineer. Despatches were sent to the Governor-General of Canada yeetesday from the Colonial-office. The Colonelcy of the 80th Regiment, now serving in Bureseb, has become vacant by the death of Lieut. Genital Henry Dattbesey. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EYRNING. The decree conceding the Grand Central Railway, which has been expected for three weeks, appears us the -Ifueseteur this morning. The concession is made, ss I believe youalready know, to the Count deMorny; Mr. Itlasterman, of Loudon ; Count Henri de Pour taldes-Gorgier; M. Uzielli, of London; M. Calvel- Itogniat, deputy ; Mr. Lang, M.P. ; the Marquis de Latuur-Maubourg, deputy; and Mr. Hutchinson, chairman of the Stuck Exchange. It appears by the report of the Minister of Public Works recom mending the concession, that it is definitive with regarelto those sections the execution of which is un dertaken by the company at its own risk, and conditional so far as respects the sections to be executed according to the provisions of the law of June 11, 1842, and tor which the sanction of the legislature will be required. The lines from (Ter mont to Lempdes (159 kilometres), from Montauban to the river Lot with a branch to Itlarcillac (153 kilo metres), and from Coutru to Perigueux (74 kilome tres) are at once definitively conceded. The section from Clermont-Ferrand to Montauban, comprised be tween Lempdes and the River Lot (156 kilometres), the two sections from Bordeaux to Lyons (248 kilo metres), compaised the one between fit. Etienne and the Clermont-Ferrand and Montauban Railway, and the other between the latter railway and Perigneux, and between the Limogesrailway and Agen (223ki105.) is expected to be definitively granted by the legisla ture within five years, daring which time the govern ment undertakes that the concession shall not be made to any other company. But it; at the expira tion of five }var., the definitive concession shall not be made, the contract is to be at an end. The com pany covenants to complete the three sections, 288 kilometres in tho whole, within four years. The capital is divided into shares and bonds. The shares are not negotiable until two-fifths of the amount shall have been paid up, and no bonds are to be issued except at periods settled by go►ernment. The nett profit of this part of the line is estimated at 31 per cent. 'l'he second part of the concession will be executed according to the condi tions of the law of June 11, 1842, that is to say, the state will buy the land, make the levels, cuttings, and embankments, and the company will find the ballast, rails, and carriages. The company in fulfil ment of this engagement is exiected to expend 50 millions of francs, upon which it is estimated 64 per cent. profit will be obtained. The cost to the state is valued at from 60 to 70 millions. The company, as to the second part of the undertaking, will not be authorised to issue either shares or bonds until the company shall be definitive. It is now officiully announced that the solution of the long-talked of transatlantic packet question is postponed. The doubtful character of much of the telegraphic news lately received has given occasion to the follow ing paragraph in the Moniteur : Tba government, in according to the public the faculty of making use of the electric telegraph, wu not arrested by the inconveniences which might result from a measure off:ring real advantages. But nis well to remark that the telegraphic news has no longer, as formerly, the official chat acter which the mouop .ly of the government ensured to it, and they warn the public against she abuse which might be made of this kind of communication. In fact, tele graphic despatches, unless when published by the govern ment, have no other authority titan that belonging to pri vate letters. The Pattie, in alluding to the accounts received from Vienna of a commotion having taken place at Constantinople, says: Letters which have been resolved to-day enable us to ex plain accounts to which an alarming character has been given. The steamers established at Constantinople for the navigation of the Bosphorus had caused great injury to the boatmen of the capital. From 2,000 to 3,000 boats, each having two or three persons on board, assembled at the Scheragam, before the Palace of the Sultan. The object of this assemblage of be itmen was to pray the Sultan to take their claims into consideration. Their petition was handed to Raoul Pada, and there the matter ended. Thus was nothing of a politioal character in the manifestatiort. Marshal St. Arnaud arrived in Paris at four o'clock yesterday a ft ernoon. He was received at the Lyons Railway station by his staff and a number of general officers. His health is now reported to be excellent. The market for Rental to-day has been generally firm, and very little change in prices has taken place from the quotations of yesterday ; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents., for cash, remaining unchanged, and the Three per Cents. having advanced only 60. In Bank shares no change has occurred. The following are the concluding prices : For cash, Three per Cents., 80f. 15c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 30c. Bank Stock, 2,730 f. In the railway share market, there has been an imp: ovement on the unfavourable report of yester day, aed prices were generally higher at the close of business. Paris and Strasbourg shares were quoted at an advance of 17f., and Orleans and Bor deaux and Cetto 7f. each ; whilst Paris and Rouen' and Western of France shares each declined 3f. Closing prices : Northerns, 912 f. ; Orleans,l,osof.; Paris and Strasbourg, 872 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 945 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,127 f.; Western of France, 777 f.: Bordeaux acid Cette, 650 f. LATE:I4 FOREIGN QuorsTtoris . .—Amsterdam, Friday : Integrals, Two-ond-a-lialf per Cents., 631 ; Spanish One per Cent., 23! ; Interior, 421. Vienna, Friday, New Loan, 941 ; Letter B, Five per Cent., 107/ ; Bank Shares, 1,410. Exchange on London, 10.50 ; Paris, 1.30. Antwerp, Friday, - Belgian Four and-a-Half per Cent., 981; Spanish One per Cent., 231 ; Interior, 921. HOLLAND. The session of the Dutch chambers wu closed on the 21st. CQXSTANTINOPLE. A telegraphic despatch is stated to have been re mired in Paris yesterday, announcing that Prince Menschikoff had declared to the Divan that he would not open negotiations relative to the Holy Places until the French fleet had withdrawn from the Greek waters. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. snmosmy of the following appeared in part of oar impression yesterday.] ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN. The Regal West India Mail packet Great Western, Captain .Tellieoe, from the West Indies, &c., arrived at Southampton, yesterday, at 12.50 o'clock p.m., and landed her mails under the charge of Lieutenant Enema., R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dares of sailing are as follows :—Chagm, March 26; Hon duras, 19; Carthagena, 28; Jamaica, 27; Demerara, 23; Trinidad, 28; Barbedoes, 27; Antigua, 28; Martinique, 28; Grenada, 28; Porto Rico, 30; St. Thomas, April 2; La Guam, March 25; Fayal, April 15. She brings 80 paesengers, among whom are Mr. and Mrs. Kelly and family, from Mazatlan; Mr. Verboke, Mrs. Bascoin,Dr. Hyde,69th, Dr. Matthews,67th Rwt, Mr. Osborn, RN., H.M.S. Calypso, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Mr. Burns, Mrs. Algae, Miss Afgee, Mr.. Peters, &a. The freight on board consists of 808,855 dollars from Chagres; 32 wrote of cochineal, 157 merlins of indigo, 48 minion:Pa, 2 casks copper ore, 59 Packages • - - .JAMAICA. At Jamaica a gait impulse for developing the mineral resources of' the island was in progress, and sanguine hopes were entertained as to the extensive existence of copper ore. Several of our passengers were conveying specimens to England. The islands were generally healthy. Another valuable copper mine has been discovered in Jamaica. It has been found -at Portland in that island, and close to where water carriage is available. The owner of the mine, a Mr. Anderson, has come to England in the Great Western. A vein of malachite runs through the copper. BRITISH GUIANA. The Roual Gazette, of March 24, in its review for home maims, says: At the date of our last packet summary we had to notice the dryness of the weather and the influence it might pos sibly have on the crop of the year. We have on this occa sion to record its unintermitted continuance, and to regret the yellow autumn-like tinge which is beginning to show even upon the moat favourable soils. Planters complain also, an unusual thing in dry weather, that the canes are not yielding as they ought to do. PANAMA. Oar correspondent furnishes us with the following ems of news:— MARCH 15.—Arrived the New York and San Francisco Steam-ship Company's steamer Winfield Scott, from Nan Franci.eo, with 58 passengers and 101,757 dollars in gold dust; also, the Pacific Mail Steam ship Company's steamer Oregon, with United States snails, 2,079,652 dole. 33c. in gold dust, and 193 passengers. The S. S. Lewis, one of Vanderbilt's line, took 1,100 p •sseugers on the lit March from San Francisco, bound via the Nicaragua route to the United States. The reason of the falling off in the general run of par senoras by the Panama ratite, and the c.,ns:quent increase by Vanderbilt'a, is the reported cholera and yellow fever raging on the isthmus; the fear of which was greatly in creased by the great mortality on board of the three steamers ; which left here for San Francisco about the end of last month, and which Mr. Vanderbilt's agent in San Francisco had posted in placards all over the city. It is said that the S. S. Lewis was not seaworthy on leaving said port. Match 20.—Arrived the Pacific Steam Navigation Com pany's steamer Santiago, one day behind her time, with her Majesty's mails, 17 pauengers, and 379,846 dole . 39c. in bullion, for England. The Santiago brings no news of importance from Valparaiso. There are 1,000 men stationed in the city of Pion. in Peru, a plan where seldom or ever a soldier was seen in former days. It is supposed to assist General Flores in his reported new expedition against the usurping government of Ecuador. Report says that this general will be assisted on a large scale by other governments. The latest dates from Guayaquil assert that the battalion of troops stationed at Quito the capital of the Ecuador) had pronunciado against the existing government. I ass happy to inform you that all traces of sickness have disappeared entirely from the isthmus, and we now enjoy fine dry weather—the heat lessened greatly by the strong northerly winds. Business is very dull indeed, and very little prospect of improvement. Vessels in Panama Bay, and at Tabogc—British : Lady Gough, Queen, Erin-go-bragh, Larne, North Wales, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Kate, undergoing repairs. The brig Alexander was told to defray disbursements a few days ago. Emu loading pearl shells at the jai olds. French : Manuel Frederick, discharging. I am sorry I cannot report great progress in the railway works on the Panama side of the Chagres river, and it is generally believed, and I think justly, that had the Panama Railroad Company carried on the line themselves the line would lave been some leagues on the Panama side of Ger gone. Should the contractor, Mr. Storey, coa'inue at the same pace as heretofore the road will not be through in 1860.—Panama, March 24. The fortunate arrival of the American corvette Cyane, 20, Captain Hollis, at Grey Town, on the 10th of March, was the means of preventing a disturbance which might have been attended with fearful results. On the 11th, the Mayor's proclamation (Untied a month previous, forbidding new buildings being erected by the American Steam Company on the island, on pain of expulsion and the destruction of all such houses) was to be put iuto execution, and the marshal with his followers were sent to carry out these instructions; but on Captain Hollis landing hie marines and crew, they immediately returned, and the authorities of the town hauled down the Musquito flag. sending word to Captain Hollis that as he bad interfered with their duty, the government of Grey Town was now placed in his hands. " I have nothing to do with your town," was his reply, " but will not suffer any property to be destroyed whilst I remain here." Mr. Foote, the vice-consul, arrived from Blue-fields the same day, and insisted on the na tional colours being re-hoisted; which was accord ingly done, and everything was quiet when we lett on the 18th. Captain Hollis issued a proclama tion on the 14th, threatening punishment to all offenders (as no law appeared to exist) who should maltreat an American or any other citizen, and also required all boats passing accroes the harbour to come within hail of his ship. Two American steamers were waiting for passengers, and a great number were on their way across, preferring this route to the Panama one, on aocouat of the many deaths which have recently occurred on the isthmus through fever. Her Majesty's steam-sloop Geyser, the only disposable man-of-war at Jamaica, left for Grey Town on the 23rd March. At Navy Bay they were very busy with the railroad, and filling up and em banking the front of their town, which must be in some danger of swamping in heavy weather. There was a probability of some difficulties arising re specting the R M.S. Packet Company's wharf, which they now wish the engineer to lower to the level of their new embankments. As the wharf is in &splen did situation, and is likely to be a very secure and profitable one, I have no doubt Jonathan would like to obtain it on the same terms as the shares which the R.M. Company. with very bad policy, sacrificed for a small profit, considering the vast interests they have given up in this great enterprise. CALIFORNIA. The Daily Alla California, in its fortnightly re port, dated Feb. 27, says : three the sailing of the last steamer, there has been a moderate activity in all departments of trade, and in some particulars a degree of animation conjoined with speculative tendencies. The fine weather which we then had the gratification to notice, as having prevailed during thb previous fortnight, has, with a few days exception, con tinued uninterrupted throughout the country, rendering nearly every point it -the interior accessible by land or water. Consequently the tonnage, both steam and sailing, have been actively employed in conveying goods and supplies to the upper towns. The boats upon the Sacra meet° route have been running in opposition to each other until within a few days past, and without doubt the low rates at which freight and passengers were carried, stimu lated shipments, and gave a greater appearance of life and animation to trade, than would have been otherwise ex- 1 hibited. Prices of freight and passengers are now, however, raised to the old standard. The arrivals are :-16 from Eastern Atlantic ports, 11 from European ports, 16 from coast domestic parte, 4 from Pseifie Islands, 16 from Pacific foreign ports, 4 from China —making in all 66. The arrivals from the Atlantic States are larger than those of the previous for night, but in other respects they do not materially differ. The importations have been hegvy, and in tome particulan have excited a depressing influence. The company of six men that left Mokelumne Hill about the 17th inst., in pursuit of Joaquia and his Rang of aasamins, returned after an absence of six idays. The weather in the vicinity of Gold Hill, Gold Flat and other dry diggings had the appearance of a coming storm. The prospects of rain encourage the mimes in these localities. Fish Ravine is the name of a rich ravine near Dia mond Springs, which is now worked with great ad vantage. Gold Flat, at the head of this place, is paying the miners handsomely. Yankee Slide, at Middle Fork, is yielding large quantities. At Maxon& Slide, twenty miles above Georgetown, claims have been sold **high al three thousand dol lars each. The claims at Big Canon have been retaken, and are now worked with profit. They have not been touched sines 1860 and 1851. New and rich diggings have been discovered at a place called Negro Hill, two miles east of Placerville. The gold is very fine. SANITARY DANGRRB.—A recent discovery with respect to the iodise in water, and its influences on the human organisation, is of toe gnat an interest to be peened over here, the more eo, as it may lead our sanitary philo sophers to some fresh considerations. The afflictions of goitre and cretinism, painfully familiar to all Alpine tra vellers, has always been attributed to the water drunk by the inhabitants of those districts which are the homes of these cretins. M. Chatin many years ago announced, es the result of his investigations, that the absence of iodine from the water war the predisposing maw - - 1 1 this of the disease. He has recent) y placed _— hipothesis & beyond a doubt. Fully and Sion, two villages oa the right bank of the Rhone, although almost touching each other, have long been remarkable: oae villaaggev, ally, being a notorious cradle of cretinirm,the other, Salon,being as notoriously fres from goitre or entiniw. Of late year', however, tkullon has in its turn become infected. And the reason, my the inhabitants, is none other than the sanitary measures recently taken to purify the water ! Formerly the water of the Salente, before reaching the village, was wont to min le with the streams of a hot spring, named loam de f.. To bring purer water into the village, they altered its sears*, and turned it away from the hot spring. Ob servers declared that the date of the appearance of goitre fis Saillon coincides pretty nearly with that of their being filmed with " pure water 1" M. Chitin investigated the Mater ; he analysed the water • f the Solent., the water of the hot spring, and the water where the two streams mingle the results confirmed his previous publications; be found the &lento water free from iodine, and the water of the hot spring sad of the two mingled strongly impregnated with it. The conclusion is irresistible: wherever the water in these districts is free from iodine, cretinism end goitre are observed among the inhabitants ; wherever it is impregnated with iodine them disuses are absent. To " purify water" not always to make it better adapted to our organism; mad there may be some physiological instinct in that para doxical lady's announcement, 1 like water with a dead eat-and-dog flavour in it."— Leader. ADMIRALTY, APRIL 22.—APPOnrillENT8.—Clerk G. F. Harris, to Batt:wen. Master's Assistants G. W. At kinson, to Arrogant ; and J. G. Frewin, to Dasher• IRELAND. Denim+, Aram 22. Symptoms are already making their appearance of an effort to get up an active agitation against the introduction of the income tax into Ireland. The case fur Ireland is put in a variety of shapes in news paper letters, and parish and other meetings, to protest against the measure, are spoken of. Yester day, the South Dahlia Board of Ouardians took the lead, by resolving that Ireland was " totally unpre pared fc‘ the infliction of so severe an impost," and it is probable that in moat of the other Irish Unions their example will be followed. I believe, however, that public opinion in its spontaneous state, and uninfluenced by factious agitation, is at present strongly in favour of the budget as a whole. ATHLONE ELECTION. ILICTRIC TELSOHAPH.) ATHLONE, FitIDAY. The poll at half-prat 11 was—Keogh, 79; Norton, 40. Norton has retired. HUDDERSFIELD ELECTION. The official declaration wee made yesterday. The number of votes polled were For Lord Goderieb 675 For Mr. Starkey din Majority B2 NEWSPAPER SUPPLEMENTS. The Resolution to be proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer under this head hos been the sub ject of much unnecessary remark, since in its pre sent shape it is entirely nugatory. The Resolution is as follows:—" That so much of any act u imposes any stamp-duty upon any sheet or piece of paper containing wholly advertisements, and which shull be published with and se a supple. ment to any newspaper chargeable with stamp-duty, shall be repealed." Now, as there is not any such Act, it is useless to trouble the House of Commons with the Resolution. There was such an act—but it was repealed 17 years ago. By the 6th George IV., a 119, supplements were allowed to be issued on payment of halt' the stamp charged on the newspaper, procided such supplements contained only advertisements. At that time there was not any restriction on the sirs of either the newspaper or the supplement. By the 6 & 7 Wm. IV., c. 76, the above act of the preceding reign was repealed. The stamp on news papers was reduced, and the size of a newspaper was limited. The following is a statement of the duties which were then imposed, and now exist : For every sheet or other piece of paper whereon any newspaper shall be printed, Id. And where such sheet sr piece of paper shall contain on one side thereof a superficiev, exclusive of the margin of the letter-press, exceeding one thousand five hundred and thirty inches, and not exceeding two thousand two hundred and ninety-five inches, the additional duty of id. And where the same shall contain on one vide thereof • superficies, eaeltasive of the margin of the letter-pres-, ex ceeding two thousand two hundred and ninety-tits inches, the additional duty of ld. Provided always, that any sheet or piece of paper con taining on one side thereof superfieies, exclusive of the margin of the letter-press, not exceeding seven hundred and sixty-five inches, which shall be published with and as • supplement to any newspaper chargeable with any or the duties aforesaid, shall be chargeable only with the duty of id. By the alteration of the law in 1836 a eapplement became quite unconnected with advertisements. It was merely another mode of extension. A stamp of a penny was imposed upon every sheet of paper not exceeding a certain size. A further stamp of a half penny was imposed upon any enlargement of the sheet to the extent of one halt; and of a penny if doubled ; or a separate sheet, as a supplement might...be used with a halfpenny stamp, if not exceeding half the size allowed by law for a newspaper liable to a penny stamp. Le gally speaking, there is no such thing as " a double supplement." A supplement of large size is taxable only as a separate sheet of newspaper paper, and therefore pays a penny; and there is no doubt but that, at intervals exceeding 26 days, the Times might issue, if it pleased, an advertising sheet without any stamp. The resolution is, therefore, as much at variance with the spirit of the Newspaper Act as it is inope rative as regards the letter of the law. The effect of the necessary withdrawal of this Resolution will be important, as the Chanosllor of the Exchequer will not only save the sum received from the present supplement stamp-40,0001. per annum which he intended to give up—but will gain a large increase of revenue by the additional supplement stamps issued consequent upon the increase of advertise ments. The result of reducing the advertisement duty to sixpence will then doubtless be an increase of public income. CRIM. CON.-DAMAGES £3,000. SHERIFFS COURT.-YESTERDAY. Barons lease Beacem:, iso., Umins•lbmany cc Mitunirms, Aim • !imam. Jest. ROSRIIIIIOOIOI O. BUOYS. This was a writ of inquiry to assess damagesi n an Retina brought in the Court of Ezahequer for trim. son Mr. Hawkins opened the pleadings. The plaintiff was FRobert Frederick Brownlee , Rundrooke, and the defend ' ant was George Nathaniel Broke. The declaration charged that the defendant debauched the wife of the plaintiff, whereby he sustained damage, ite. The damages were laid at 5,000/. Mr. Chambers then opened the case. It was his duty state to the jury the circumstances of this melancholy sad dilations( inquiry, and in doing so he should not indulge is any general observations, which is his judgment were useless in such caws ; for all persons of good souse and proper feeling mild come themselves to right conclusions when the facts were before them. The plaintiff was • • gestleman of family, at the present time in geod circus ' stances, sad the defeadant, Capt. George Nathaaisl Backe, was charged with having deprived hiss of the e society, and affection of his wife, whom be i= to elope with him, and thereby with breaking up sad de stroying his future prospects ea • married man. The pain- - tiff, Major Rushbrooke, was forinerly_scaptain is the Fami liar Guards—eon of the late Colonel Rust e of Ranh brooks Hall, Suffolk, and at the age of 28 he imams ac quainted with Miss Evans, a lady . who, besides pc those personal attractions, and ustellemual qualities general accomplishments, which would fix upon her the af. fection of a man of sense and feeling, had property of het own, and his proposals of marline were accepted by her. The marriage took place, it was purely and entirely one of affection—there were no mercenary considerations involved —each party being In independent circumstances, and it was undoubtedly • happy union. To show the sense of honour of the plaintiff, be might state that he bad the whole of his wife's property, which was then 6001. a year conveyed to trustees for her own absolute use, and • settled upon her a jointure of 6001. a year out of the Rushbrooke estates is the contingency of her survivieg him. At his father's death tie left the army end went to reside on the family estates in Suffolk—Rushbrooke Hell— which were, however, charged with a jointure settled on Lady Rushbrooke, and thereto's, although he succeeded his father, and occupied the family mansion, his circumstances were not 90 affluent as might have been expected, and its was not able to maintain that high rate of hospitality which he might have done bad the estates not been encumbered. Still he lived comfortably, perhaps handsomely ; his neigh bours enjoyed his hospitality, .and, unfortunately for hie domestic happiness, one of his guests was the defendant, Captain Broke, who had been an intimate friend, end who was the second brother of Sir Philip Broke, Bart. They had met in society, and he was invited to and visited Rosh brooks Hall, and repayed the hospitality of his host by estranging from him the affections of his wife, and inducing her to leave him altogether. On the 22nd July last year Mrs. Rushbrooke expressed a wish to go and visit her father at the Goodwood races, and aeeordisgly she went, leaving her husband in the expectation that this visit to her friends would not extend to more than ten days. During this time the plaintiff regularly wrote to her, _she left her father's house for the purpose , it was presumed, of returning to her hue band's mention, but return she did not. For some time it was impossible to trace her; at length, however, it was es eertained that she had gone abroad, and that at Marseilles she and Capt. Broke were living together as man and wife. The action was at once brought, end «main parties went over to Marseilles and provided themselves with evidence of the condition in which Captain Broke and Mrs. Reshbrooke were living. The defendant did not deny his guilt, he admitted having committed the wrongs oonaplained of by allowing judgment to go by default, end the question now left was to what amount of . pecuniary compensation wag Major itushbrooke entitled, in respect of the injury so In flicted upon him. In measuring the damages to be given, and under the circumstances of the case 5,0001. enul.l not be too much, the jury must look to the situation of the parties. The expectations of Capt. Broke were large lie had a ' considerable foitune now, and he was heir to his brother, Sir P. Broke, who was unmarried. With Mrs.Rushbrooke he had received an addition to his property ; he had not taken