The Express. — London, England, 1863-05-05 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORD& —MONDAY, MAY t Their lordship -et st four redo& ROYAL 00111113910141. The following billsreoeived the royal assent by conunis -11041 : —Post-office Savings Haab ; Gardens ut Tows. protection ; Office of Secretary at War Abolition ; Cam bridge, St. Johealarte, kr. ; Mid-Wales Railway (Capital); Barks sad Haab' Extension Railway ; Market Harboroug h sad Loughborough Road ; London and North-Western soil Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways Coropanire ; North Stancardshire Railway; Glasgow Gas; Leyland sad Faring ten ; Hereford, Hay, and Brecon Railway ; Caledonian Railway ; Bredesholm Deviation ; Scarborinigh Water; I Ueda Gas ; Swansea Municipal Oorporatioo ; Glasgow and South-Western Railway ; and Harrogate Gas. The Lords Commimitaters were the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Sydney. and the Earl of St. Germans. CASE OF MR. BISHOP. The Marquis of NORMANBY said be bad received a mote from the noble earl the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in which he said he ores oppressed with so severe a cold as to be entirely rumble to quit the house. If he were to do so, he said, mid some to London, he feat that he would not be able to speak eve words. Of course under these circumstances, he (the Marquis of Normanby) had no alternative but to postpone the motion he bad on the parr relative to the imprisonment of Mr. Bishop in Italy. He regretted this, because many of the friends of this gentle. man were anxiously awaiting the appeal ad miaerecordiam, that he was going to make on his - behalf. The noble earl (Russell) suggested that he should postpone the motion to Thursday, when he would move th►t it should have prece dence of the orders of the day. But as such a cold as that which the noble lord had described was not likely to leave bun in a couple of days he would ex Monday next for the motion. ALBERT BRIDGE BILL Lord CHELMSFORD moved that a bill for permitting the erection of a bridge between Chelsea and Battersea, called Albert-bridge, should be referred back to the com mittee which had rejected the preamble, stating u his ground for doing so that the committee declined to receive additional evidence which had been offered u unnecessary, and yet decided against the bill. Lord TAUNTON, the chairman of the committee, de fended the conduct of the committee, Mating that a clear cane was made out that the bill was not necessary to ark - blish a new proprietary bridge over the Thames with toll in perpetuity. A long discussion followed, which ended in a division, in which the motion was last by 40 to 29. HARE (IRELAND) BILL. This bill pseud through committee. VICE-ADMIRALTY COURTS BILL. Tani bill passed Waugh committee. INCLOSURE BILL _ This bill was read a third time, and passed. Their lordship adjourned at 10 minutes to 7 o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MorrnAy, MAy 4. The SPRAWL took tb. chair at 4 o'clock. ROYAL COMMISSIONS. 00i004 CLIFFORD, Yeomen Usher of the Black Rad, mr peered at the bar, mid sommoeed the Speaker to the Howe of Piss, to beer t►e royal wt given by commission to several bills, for which see Lenin' repast. .BTATB OF TURKEY AND HMB FIBANCII3. Zr. GUMMI pre notice that oe Friday, the 29th Latent, he world all the attentioo of the house to the internal coaditioa of ?May, and to the state of her liassen. (Hear, Mr.) GIUMATIFICH HOSPITAL. Hr. LIDDSLL raid that on Friday next on going into 0111Maittee of supply, he meld ask the noble lord the Ilesestary of the Admiralty, whether it was the intention of the 'warmest daring the prevent session to introduce any =mare to mead the law relating to Greenwich HospitaL or whether it was proposed to wake any regulations having ihr their object the reception into the hospital of the wins, widows, and orphans of semen, in aooordaoce with the re essainendotion of the royal OX110:146011 of 1860. THE SEA QUEEN HAIL BAGS.—DESPATCH TO MR. t3TUAftT„ Mr. PEACOCKS pv;sOtice that he would take the eadiest opportunity to Gall the attentiou of the house to tie eiretuneteaces ander which the Sea Queen was allowed to leave Falmouth for Mamoru without any mail bap cm lord ; that be would also call attention to the fact that • prima of a despatch mitts. by Earl Russell to Mr. Stuart ia October, 1802, had lima suppressed, and that be would move for the prodeaboa of the docameat in extent°. LOAN SOCIETIES ACT. Mr. NORTH sliced the Secretary to the Treasury whet OWN the garsratoeet intruded to pursue with refererde to ths act, which would ezpir• is August pest. Mr. PEEL said it was proposed to introduce a bill for tho purpose of main the present act perutaosat. THE AIISTILALLAN COLONIIM Mr. MARSH salted the Usder-fieorstary of State for the Colonist whether any, and if any what petitioos bad bees received within the last thus can at the Colonial-o ff ice, for presentation to her Majesty, hem different districts in Ana. truths, praying for separation hem the existing colonies and the tormationof new colonies. Mr. C. FORTESCUE said that in 1881 three petitioe• were received from certain districts in New South Wales (the Richmond sod New Seemed districts), praying for a sepa ration from New Swath Wales, and annexation to the colony of Queensland. Is 1862 a petition was received from certain inhabitants in the western portion of the colony of Victoria, praying for separation from that colony for the purpose of forming with portions of South Australia • new and distinct colony. Those were the only petitions which had bees received upon the subject. THE ISLAND OF SOMBRERO. Mr. MAOUIRE asked the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether the government had received any informa tion that Ousted Tatham, of her Majesty's ship Fatal, 50 guns. had, on the island of Sombrero, inled down the American flag. He wished to know whether there would be any objection to produce the corre=pondence. Mr. LAYARD said it was • mistake to say that the island of Sombrero was discovered ten years ago by an American. The island of Sombrero was well-knows, and bed long formed part of the British posseedoos in the Caribbean Sea. It was surveyed is 1810 by Captain Hayes, • British officer, and again in 1850 by another British offi cer. In 1856 Captain Johns, of the United States, dis covered some deposits of phosphate of lime, and since that time thi s m i ne had been w orked, sad people had settled on the island. When Captain Tatham visited the island a abort time ago he found the United Stets Ssg hoisted, and bciog a British *Close he was unwilling that that flag should be bolded while he remained there, as he considered it would be ac ksowledging the sovereignty of the United State. Captain Tatham therefore reqnseted it to be pulled down, and on refusal he caused it to be hauled down. There wu no cor respondence on the subject. INLAND REVENUE BELL. _ _ _ The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER announced that was his intestios to take the Inland Revenue Bill on Thursday next CITY POLICE AMALGAMATION BILL. Sir J. DUKE asked whether, after the decision of the esaminer, it was the intention of government to proceed with the Police Amalgamation Bill? Sir G. GREY said that be had already answered that question. The bill for the ELIDAIPIIIIIAOII of the Metro politan sad City police proposed to repeal a Qty set, which was termed a local set, and th erefore required to be seat to the examiner to report whether the standing orders bad been complied with. The atomiser's report was that they had not been complied with, and the matter had been subsequently referred to the standing orders com mittee. Until the report of that committee had bees received no further steps could be taken with the bill. THE "NO HOUSE . ON FRIDAY LAST. Lord R. MONTAGU roes to briu4 under the notice of the house what be believed to be a serious infraction of its rules and a violation of the pledges given by the government in 1962, when the orders were chaoged. He alluded to the count out on Friday last. On that occasion the right ho s. gentleman in the chair did not begin to count until the • latest moment. He gave the government the greatest lati tude, and reamed so very slowly that every number wooded , like a minute min or a signal of distress. It seemed also horn the right hon. gentleman's voice that he was distressed , and grieved at the prospect of a prompters adjournment. , (Laughter.) When last year it was agreed that the house I at its rising on Friday should adjourn until the following Monday it nasals" arranged that supply should be placed Ant on the paper in order that honourable members might have the opportuoity of spniking the same as on the question of adjournment. The noble lord here quoted the speeches of Laird Hothara and other members In the discussion of the previous year, in order to show that the understanding then use that government should make and keep &house on Fridays, in order that private members might have the opportunity of bringing forward their ques tions. He urged that her Majesty's ministers had com mitted a breach of faith with the house in not doing no on Friday last, ad concluded by moving an adjournment of the house. Mr. GRIFFITH, in seconding the motion, boned that no subterfuge would be resorted to by the government to justify their conduct. There were actually thirty-six members in the house on Friday last, and the Speaker made thirty-seven. If, therefore, the hoe. member for Lewes and bin two satellites had only attended, them would ham been sufficieot, There had, therefor% bees an evident is tention to evade some motion, for not only was the house not made, but it was prevented from being merle, as was very well known to numbers of members then present, Mr. B. COCHRANE said it was very desirable that the house should understood what was the real position of the governmeet with respect to these Friday sittings. He had been there on Friday last, and he could safely say that not a single member of the government was then present, whilst certain parties in the lobby employed themselves in pre 'eating members from coming in. (No, no.) He thought the house should know whether government was bound to links and keep a boom on Fridays. Vie:oast PALMERSTON said it would be an affectation is any member of the government to my, ea the occasion of a boom not being merle, that be was as much grieved sad distressed as the right boo. gentleman in the chair was repropasted to have bees as Friday lost tls laugh.) He could, however, ocarely say that be was sorry the house had d not bees made. for he felt that thew:imminent would havebeen strengthened by the conclusive answers they could have given to the motions on the pew. It was said that a promise had been made that on - Fridays the government should make and keep a howl., awl there was certainly an understanding that go ernment should do what was usual for that purpose. He could assure the house, however, that the adjournment of Friday teat was purely accidental. There was no prevention, and surely if there were 37 members present, and a great many more in the lobby, a house might easily have been made without any interference of the govern ment. He mat say that in his judgment there was a fellowship of duty in these matters, and whilst he admitted that government should con tribute its quota, be thought that members having motions should also do something. He was thankful for the admis sion that the remnants of Friday nights belonged to govern ment, for he remembered that on a late occasion a govern about motion was restated at half-past nine o'clock on the ground that the night belonged to private members. It was to be observed that this was the first instance dining Os session in which a house faded of being made, and there was only one instance in which it was broken up on the arithmetical question—that was when the hon. member for King's County being, which was very unusual for him, WOMB anxious to go to bed then to businem, moved that the house be counted at half-pest one in the morning. He could only assure the house and private members that Ihe was sorry they should have been put to any inconve nience. It was really no preconcerted scheme on the part of the government, and there was no action on the part of his hon. friend to prevent members coming in. It was simply an accident, but he could assure the noble lord the government would take measures to prevent its recur rence. (Cheers.) Mr. DISRAELI expressed his regret at the occurrence of Friday, as he thought it a violation of a compact with re gard to the conduct of the business of the house. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1863. In the latter case the tax takes away from a fluctuating income. Subscribers may drop away, and income may fall off, and therefore 1 say that if it be light to give money for the support of the etch poor, it is wrong to the great mass of the people that you should give it to richly-endowed institutions in the form of a blind exemption. Now sir, I believe that I have not stated any extreme opinions. I believe it might be said that what the government propose, does sot rise to such cases as Jervis's charity. I admit that, I admit that it is • very modest demand, for all I ask is that you should withdraw this public subvention. The applica tion of the death duties to these charities would be more consistent, but they would eat up the corpus of the charity. One word more. I most before I sit down call attention to the rapid growth of these charities. Strange to say, it ae pears to be the use that the property of these charities is growing more rapidly than the property of the community at large. The income of our charities between 1818 sad 18.37, as returned by the commissiou, was 1,209,0001. In 1862 it woe, as nearly as we could make it out, 3,000,0001. By oar remissions we can teem 2,609,0001., bat the lands deposed of raised the sum to above 3,000,0001., being • more rapid increase than that of the general pro perty of the coun try. How is that to be accounted for ? I believe it may be accounted for in this way—that the principal donors were citizens, and that the gifts were of lends in the immediate neighbourhood of towns. The consequence is that this very peculiar description of property has come in for a larger share of annual increase than the other property of the country. 1 am not going beck to Jervis's charity again, but there is Jones's Charity, at Monmouth, which supports one hundred boys. That charity his an estate of 3241 acres of land at Deptford, the value of which will, I am told, be in a few years enornuoualy increased. Then there is the Tunbridge School, in which 200 young gentlemen are maintained at an expense of about 4,000/. • year, but it is estimated that in no very long time their lands will be worth 80,0001. • year. (Hear, hear Again, there is Smith's charity at Kensing to n—a nd I am justified in including this class of charities, because I asked the magnificent assemblage which I received to-day whether they pleaded for the London hospital alone, or for the miscellaneous ohm :ties all over the country, and I received a loud and universal " Yes " from the whole deputation. They said Cosy were to be all held sacred from the contribution which I am obliged to wring from the whole of the rest of the commu nity. When the working man appeals to me on account of his wife and children, or his failing trade, I have no inns diction, 1 ourot pity him ; bat Smith dies, goes the way of all flesh, and bequea th s his property for all time to his poor relations. What is the cooseqrence I By bequeathing the money to his poor relations be offers an irduceirent to those who are not I poor to become so. Flourishing men, young nun who have the difficulties of life before them, are dis gusted with their work, bermes they know that if they are successful in their meer they will rot be eligible :or the be quest of their progenitor. If, on the con tr ary, they are pro fligate enough to become poor, they will then come in for a portion of Smith's charity. (Oh, oh.) It is true diesipation lead, to poverty, sod poverty is the condition of sharing in Smith's chanty. (Hear.) lam informed that when the Wessel this property fe'l in, which they will do at no distant date, its value will be iramend to 50,0001. it-year, and taking this with the increase of the other charities the exemption, which is now a quarter of • million, will amount to 500,C001. a year. (Hear, hear.) I have de layed the house loog, but I felt that 1 h ad to state the case to an adverse assembly, and it was my duty rot to shrink from the task. It was my duty on my own part, and on that of my camp* to show that we bad net made this propoial lightly, but were fully justified in the demand we made. I felt that we were opening up • gronod which was new and untrodden, and I am con Pieced that, how ever Articular motives or particular interests might produce a mower tory pre sure, this discasion could not remain without it fruits. I have stated that the charities of England are not at this nr.crent exempt. the exemption being exclusively confined to pea dealer in stitutions. I have stated that the growth of their wealth has base more rapid than that of the wealth of the rest of the country. I have stated that the uses of many of three charities have berm declared irdifferent, others bad, and fur ther that government in the case of the middle char:ties has remitted one half the taxation. I have shown that a smith portion of these charities have any claims for public wan* and that if they had, it would be monstrous to make such public grant by way of exemption, which selects for its objects those who do not want it, and leaves to their struggles those who do. Those are the pro positions upon which we stand. We propose this measure not as one o. financial necessity, but as a just measure. I shall not revert to the hard words which have been ap plied, hut of this I am sure, that no person would have given it • more cordial and conscientious support than the col league whom we all on this bench so deeply lament, and of whim it may be mid, as it was said of one of old : " Juatindrotu mina Qui fait i• Tenerie et eervantimeimus 113qui." We propose this as a just, as a politic measure. We do not presume u a government, by any means which a govern. meat might dream of, to prams it on an adverse house. The house is responsible ; we do not wish to show undue obsti easy ; we defer to its opinions ; but we reserve to ourselves the power of deciding upon the way in which this question is at a future time to be considered. We have proposed this measure to the house as consistent with every principle which has governed administration for the last 20 years ; as being just to the taxed community, and fair ti the labouring poor ; favourable to the great object of elevating their character, as well as of improi tog their condition. In proposing this measure we feel oonelves, impregnable and invulnerable to all rude reproaches, and we recommend it to the courage, the wisdom, and the justice of the House of Commons. (Loud cheery.) Sir B. NORTHCOTE argued that the effect of the pro posed plan would be to double the pressure of the income tax on numbers of persons connected with charities, and endowed schools especially. He objected to peas the clause in its present shape on the mere promise that hereafter ex. ceptienal cases of hardship would be dealt with. He de nied that the proposed plan would operate to correct theme abase, which bad been enumerated, and which be longed to the class of death-bed bequests ; the re forming process being that of laying an income tax upon them. There lay at the root of this proposi tion the principle of reducing the means of assist ance of the sick and poor to private charity and state greets, and abolishing that class of charities which under the name of endowments was peculiar to this country He hoped the clause would be rejected at once by the house. Mr. MA G IJI R E opposed the clause, illisstratinc its bad effect' by its operation in certain endowed schools in Cork. Lord H. VANE also stated himself to be unconvinced by the arguments of Mr, Gladstone, and be could not agree to his proposal. Mr. W. MARTIN claimed exemption for country hospitals. Lord R. CECIL said that the whole of the sophistical speech of Mr. Gladstone wu a long indictment against charities, against the benevolent, and against the poor. He deprecated the fierce attack which had been made on the dead founders of so many of our best charities ; but, what ever may have been the motives which influenced those bequests, the question now wu whether the succour and aid which bad been afforded to the poor should or should sot be still secured to them intact The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHRQUER--This de bate having been brought to a close, we have no further meam of ascertaining the opinion of the home. I stated in my previous address that it was not the intention of the government to press this merely official proposal upon the house unless it were disposed to receive it. Oar opinion upon it are fixed sod clear, but as the debate has come to • close without any independent member declaring himself in the same sense as the governmeet, the state of things has ' arisen which I am bound to say I contemplated as not im -1 possib'e ; sod it would not be oonsisteut with what I have I already said if I were to take the sense of the committee upon the clause. (Load opposition cheers.) Mr. DISIRAELI—The announcement which the right hon. gentleman has just made appears to we to be a very rational detelmiaatace. (Chcers and laughter.) At the same time I never heard an announcement for which I was lees prepared by the speech in which a proposition was in troduced by her Majesty's government. (Hear, hear.) I should net have risen to make any remarks after the last observation of the right boa gentleman bad it not been preceded by • speech which appears to me to have intro duced to the coesideration of the home, principles which were so dangerous—l might even say, so momtrous— that I thought it would hardly become the house to allow the debate to eke. in silence without attempting to obtain souse evidence that the opinion advanced by the right hon. gentleman was at least shared in by his colleeg ass—(opposition cheers)—and especially by the first minister of the crown. (Renewed thefts.) The speech of the right hon. gentleman was answered at the that by my hon. friend the member for Stamford, who displayed • thorough knowledge of the subject, and who dealt., as I think, with a master band, with those glittering fallacies which had been introducd with such confidence to the consideration Mittel:louse of Commons. The delete WOnt.n, but no one roes on the part of the government to answer the objections which had been made to the proposition. I think it was due to my hoe. friend, and due also to the house, and to the character of the government generally, that • reply should have been offered to objection s brought against • proposition made with so much confidence—l will Dot say so much dictation. (Hear, bear.) I should not nosier ordinary circumstances have risen on the withdrawal of • measure made with such parade, bad not occasion been taken to inculcate principles of policy to which the govern. meat might recur on future occasions as having received • met of sanction from the silence of the house. The opinions promulgated by the right hon. gentleman, therefore, ought sot to be allowed to pass without notice. The right hon. gentleman lathed • short time ago his general financial statement. When I listened to it I was extremely anxious that it should pass, considering its main features--should meet with no organised opposition. I contented myself with the reflection, that in the course of the diermaion the objection able parts of the scheme would disappear, or be withdrawn without being painfully obtruded upon the home. I was nations for that, for the honour of the Home of Cowman, because the budget introduced by the right hos, gentleman, la its main features, was the budget of the House of Com mons. (Hear, hear.) Last year the house was, called upon ~consider whether it was not expelisat to weasel the government that a large redectioe el public expenditure was essential, as by tbat means aloe* a reduetioa of taxation could be obtained. We were this tail that a redeetioa of expeoditare by limy ecoalderabi• 111110111% wee perfectly illusory, sad that no one said pa tare to leash the array and navy without being guilty of subservience and servility to France, We nevertheless In slated in a moderate toes on the wisdom, the policy, and the poesibility of such a course. This session has brought forward • very (Merest view of public affair.. Ecouomy in possible. It is not now subserviency or servility to France to obtain by most legitimate means a material reduc tion of the burdens of the people. For this great measure of reduction we are indebted to the Homo of Commons, and not to the government. It is the House of Commons which has reduced the tea duty and the income tax. (Cheers.) I regret to find that with these great features of the budget some remarkable ma stiff* of an eccentric character wan introduced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, apparently intended to display his financial originality, and to resew his claim upon the wonder •of en admiring parliament. (Laughter.) I was very much amused at the tax which was proposed to be levied upon carriera' carts. I knew that it would realise the utmost amount of ingenious vexation, but that proposi tion disappeared before the order of battle could be formed. Thee there was the proposition for taxing clubs. One hardly knows, such was the bewildering rhetoric of the right hon. gentleman, whether that has been defeated or not ; but if it is, it will be a consolation to the right hon. gentleman, defeated by charities, to know that he has at least conquered the clubs. I give him the benefit of that SUOMI, though it is possible that before oar labours termi nate that eccentricity also may disappear from the budget of the House of Commons. (Hear, hear.) To-night our attention is called to an invention of a much more serious character than those I have mentioned—another unneces sary novelty, in itself objectionable, but still more so from the manoerin which it has been introduced, and from the principles which in the discussion have been associated with it by the government. The Chancellor of the Exchequer called on us to tax the charities of this country. He was perfectly justified in that appeal if he could have established a ease that would have recommended it to our coneideiation. If he had done so, I am sure that no sentimental objection would have been offered to his proposal by the Howe of Com mons. But he laid down a principle which was the basis of the arguments with which he has treated us this evening. That principle is, thaVeremption from • tax is to be looked upon as • donative from the state. (Hear, bear.) That is the foundation of the right honourable gentleman's glittering oration of two home and • half, to which we listened with such great plemmre, but with more surprise. (Hear, hear.) Whatever his illustratioes or his arguments, they may all be traced to that one funda mental doctrine, which, I contend, is fallacious in its oon aequeccea, and utterly false in principle. (Cheers.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer sesames that exemption from taxation is the same as a contribution from the state. Is that so? (Cheers.) You may have exemptions that are injudicious or unjust, but an exemption founded upon jus tice is not • privilege, it is a right. (Cheers.) An hon. gen tleman says "Hear , hear , as if the onus pro handl were upon me to show that charities were justly exempted. But we have not gone so far as that. The argument of the Chancellor of the Exchequer is founded on the abstract principle that exemption is a dona tion from the state. Well, I deny that. We have aright to assume that the exemption is founded upon justice ; and there is nothing in the abstract nature of au exemption to justify the right hon. gentleman in making an attack upon the charities. It is for the house to decide whether the exemption is just or not, but that is entirely different from the principle land down by the right boo, gentleman ; and what we have to decide to-night is whether the exemption hitherto enjoyed by our chanties is one sound in print eor not. The Chancellor of the Exchequer set oat wit the assumption that the exemption of charities from the action of the income tea was in point of fact • privilege and a usurpation ; and than be proceeded with his wilt meet, or rather his invective, against the institutions themselves. A great portion of his speech was directed not against the intolerable state of affairs, which allowed poi .ions of property to be exempted from the incidence of tare:ion, but it was an invective against the very nature of this property, andagainst the condiUonsuuder which itexits, and against the principles, customs, habits, and traditions of an ancient wintry. The right hon. gentleman pro ceeded in his course, weakened and embarrassed by the false principle upon which he started ; and was compelled to mis. describe the character of the income-tax itself, arguing that it was • tax upon property, though nothing is more clear than that it is • tax upon persona. Being • tax upon persons, we are neoesaarily 'Naked, why are persons to be liable to the tax who ate not enjoytog that amount of income which you exempt under your general ulailone ? They are to be made liable because the Chancellor of the Exchequer chooses to entertain views of the endow ments of the country different from those which have always influenced parliament during the last century and a-half, end entirely opposed to the conv!ctiona and requirements of the country. (Hear, hear.) And what is the Chancellor of the Exchequer's remedy for all them's conduct of these charitable establishments, and for all the impolitic state of affairs which he denounces with so much power? Why his remedy for all the numerous evils of the old charities—for the petty charities which be has called out of their obscurity, and for those magnificent endow meets, whether hospitals or colleges, which have does so i much for the stability of the country—is to put them ' ander the income tax. (Laughter.) If her Majesty's go vernment thought it desirable to all attention to the state of these endowments, with a view to their reformation, I think it questionable whether the time is apt for that sort of inquiry. Within the last thirty years their midi ' tion has 'Amami the attention of her klajedy's govern merit and of parliament. A commiesion u well as several committee, hrve investigated them, and the results have been very advantageous. I there fore think it eery doubtful whether, under the cit.- ' cumstances, it was wise and expedient of the government to call public attention to these institutions with a view to any change in their character. But if the government is of opinion that the state of our public endowments is so per nicious—if they are really of opinion that the statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer is justified by facta—that this is a grave question which demands our instant attention—eoene adequate measure ought to be brought forward. It is totally inadequate to hold out that the income tax should be applied to these institutions. I think that every point which the Chaacellor of the Exche quer has raised. with all the exertions o: successful casuistry, bas entirely failed, and it has failed because, as I ventured to state when I rose, they all spring from one principle, the foundation of which is entirely illusory ; it is from the false assumption that exemption from taxation is essentially unjust. lam not surprised that the country and the house should have, in so short a space of time, risen in agitation against a proposition so monstrous. (Cheers.) It offends all the feelings and traditions which has been cherished in this country, all our local associatioes, all the veneration for the principle of inheritance which has been so long held in this country. We have heard arguments to-night which have been denunciations of endowments, and almost a plea for confiscation. (Hear, hear.) That they should have ever been . produced as a part of a financial scheme is indeed amazing ; that they should have been introduced with so slight a financial object is still more astonishing. But when it was in the power of the government, not of their own happy imaginings, bat following the strong sense of the country as represented in the House of Commons, to effect those reduce lions of taxation which oar advice and the public opinion had indicated, that they should have thought lit under those circumstances unnecessarily to introduce the discussion of principles which disturb almost the foundations of society, does appear to me to be • course of conduct which the meat brilliant rhetoric cannot justify, and which may load to consequences which the government may afterwards regret. I shall only hope that this remarkable proposition, introduced with so much pomp and withdrawn in • manner so unpretending—(cheers)—may be the last of the endea vours that will be made to attack the endowments of this country which the wisdom of the time iu which we live may improve by the application of the principles on which they are founded. Commissions and committees have already offered ample suggestions for that object, but the endow ments themselves are founded on • principle that has coo tributed to the greatness of this country, and which, I trust, this country will always cherish. (cheers.) Lord PALMEBSTON—I will venture to answer the question which I understand, for was absent at the mo ment, the right bon. gentleman asked when he rose to address you. lam told be asked whether the proposal made by my right boo. friend was his own proposal !simply, or whether it was a proposal which hie colleagues also con curred in. lam happy to be able to assure the right boo. gentleman—(cheers}—that the course pursued by my right hon. friend—the proposal by him—was entirely concurred in by all his colleagues—(cheer., and oppceition cries of "divide" and "order ")—and if none of his colleagues rose for some time to suppont him it was entirely from the con. viction that the admirable and most convincing speech of my right bon. friend was unanswered and unanswerable. (Cheers and counter obeeze.) Atoll event., for some period of the debate it required no support from any of his colleagues who sat near him. Now, sir, the right hon. gentleman opposite has reduced his objections to what he calls one single fundamental point. He says the whole foum datioo of my right hon. friend's argument was that exemp tion from taxation was equivalent to • grant from the coun try. I maintain that that is perfectly true. (Cheers.) So long as your expenditure is a fixed sum, it is demonstrable that to exempt a portion of the community from contribut ing their share by which the sum is to be realised, you do virtually grant them what is equivalent to a contribution. And therefore, when the right bon. gentleman talks of fallacies, I must say I never heard of such a fallacy IN that which be attempted to establish by saying that exemption from taxation is not equivalent to a grant from the public revenue. He says no, because exemption implies justice. That is begging the whole question. No doubt if a party is justly entitled to exemption, them when you concede a right you do not confer a boon. But we deny, and no man yet has proved, that these charities are justly entitled to exemption. My right hon. friend Las been secured of pouring forth invective against these charitable institutions. Why, the most severe things that fell from the lips of my right hon. friend were quotations from the commissioners who were employed to inquire into sad report upon these charities. It was their reports which cootained these denunciations which hon. gentlemen oppo. site have endeavoured to represent as the expressions of my right hon. friend. Well, sir, I say that we entirely concur in the proposal, and I think my right hon. friend has de monstrated that it was founded in justice sod good sense. (Cries of "Divide.") But the right hoe. gentleman oppo site has given the key to the whole secret. He has said that local associations are adverse to the proposal of my right hon. friend. Well, sir, that is really the fact. (Comer vative cheers.) That is the simple truth. and it was candid of the right hon. gentleman openly to bring it forward. But that is not only emotive for imlividual votes and opinions, bat it is also a ground on which the government are en titled and ought to take their lime, and If we end THE CITY POLICE BILL Colonel FRENCH ventured to remind the Home Secre tary that be had not given any answer to the hon. baronet, the member for the City of London, as to what was the ultimate decision with reference to the bill for the amalga mation of the Metropolitan and City police. He hoped the right hon. baronet world relieve all their minds by telling them that be did not intend to proceed with the bill. Sir G. GREY said the examiner had not as yet reported whether the bill was to be dealt with as a private medal e. He apprehended that any oar conversant with the forms of the house would allow that it was not in the condition of a m.vate bill, but dealt with two subjects—the private act of the City of London, and the public act under which the Metropolitan police existed. The most that could be said was that it was a hybi:d bill, and as such mud pain through a select com mittee, and afterwards through a committee of the whole house. All the examiner had reported was, that if it was a private act the standing orders were applicable to it, and it would have to go to the standing orders committee, and they would report whether the standing orders ought to be enforced or dispensed with. If the standing orders were to be enforced, then he behaved the bill could not proceed, the necessary notices not having been given ; but if they reported that the standing orders ought to be dispenvd with, then the bill might go on. He had, however, no power to exercise an option in the matter. • The motioo for the adjournment of the house waa then withdrawn. (At this dap hie Royal flightier the Priem of Wales en tered the home, and took a seat in the front gallery, appro priated to peers and foreign ministers.) CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE. Tits house then went into eonemiteete an Ibis MI. Clams Iwu w ood to. --- Oa the woad clause, re-enacting the providaws of former acts as regards the income tax, with certain map tioss, Sir J. FERGUSSON proposed an amendment to include in the exceptions a section of the act, 25th and 26th Vic tor* cap. 22, directing that no asseisom shall be appointed far duties under schedules A and B. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the amendment, which was negatived. On clause 3, by which it wee proposed to charge charitable Institution. with the tax, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed I that the question which he wished to raise was whether the law should be changed which gave an immuaity to all charitable bequest.. He confessed he could not see upon what grounds that special exemption was to be made, although he was quite prepared to modify the clause so as to prevent the tax falling upon (nods which were dis posed of in the shape of foamy. He wee prepared to say that 19-20ths of the charities which it was proposed to tax were derived from death-bed bequests. The income of the country, as gathered from the income-tax returns, was about 18C or 190 millions a year, of which about three millions belonged to charities. Those charities he divided into three classes—the small, the middling, and the great. With regard to the first mentioned, he bad no hesitation in saying that, so far from being valuable, they were positively pernicious, by tending to pauperise the people and destroy their serve of independence and self reliance. As an illustration he mentioned the case of Jar vies Charity, which consisted of 100.0001., left to the poor of three parishes is Herefordshire. This was to be doled out to the inhabitants, but under no circumstances was any por tion of the fund to be expended on buildings. The fund, how ever, accumulated so fast that the trustees were can. palled to come to parliament for an act to enable them to expend 30,000/. upon the construction of a boarding school for labourers' children, thereby doing the very thing which old Jarvis solemnly declared should not be done. Of the middle charities a favourable type was to be found in the Clergy Orphan School, which had an income of 5,000/. a year, and which it was proposed should be taxed at 1451. a year. The person who supplied clergy orphans were poor clergymen, and it was proposed by the present scheme of the government to remit taxation in favour of that class to the extent of 7,0001: a year. The insti tution called Christ's Hospital was an apt illustration of the great charities. It enjoyed public contributions to the extent of 6,0001. a year. and it had an income of at lout 70,0001. It was originally intended for "sick, sore, and destitute children ;" but such was not the class who were now admitted to its benefits. Oo the contrary, the present inmates were the children of persons with in comes from 2001. to 6001. a year, while the governors in m hos for a payment of 5001. received a vested interest in 1,600 presentations. It had been urged that if charities were taxed 500 in-patients would be deprived of the benefits of St. Bartholomew's Hospital aloes. The revenue of that institution wa s 36,0001. a year, and, . after deducting the income tax paid by the officers, the sum which the state would take from the hospital would be 8501. a year. This, however, was hut a partial return for the advantages which the income tax had conferred upon the hospital. The reduction of the wine I duties was equivalent so 238/. per annum in favour of the hospital, and the reduction of the duty on foreign drugs to ' 415/., whilst the remission of the duty on articles of food consumed was 1,2141. So that from these sources alone I the hospital was benefited to the extent of 1,867/. a year. If to this were added 1,4401. for the improved annual value of the property the institution had derived a substantial advantage equivalent to 3,307/. per annum. The right hoe. gentleman continued—Now I am bound to say it was not my wish to criticise the management of hospitals of this kind, upon which everyone must look with so much respect, but when I have it throat in my face that the numbers of patients moat be diminished in consequence of the pro posal of the government, I must give some attention to this part of the subject. Ido not believe that these patients will be dismissed, I do not see any evidence that such an extreme will be necessary. I know that when the free-trade measures were under discussion gentlemen said they would have to dismiss their workmen in consequence of the aboli tion of protection. Those gentlemen did not tell lies, they were merely not aware of what might be done by more eco nomical arrangements, but the result was that no workman was dismissed. One great objection to pensioning them great establiahmente az the public is, that you annul all motives for economical management. There is no public) opinion brought to bear ma them ; the press knows nothing of them, parliament knows nothing of them ; and it is too much, I say, to believe that these hospitals are admini stered by angels and archangels, who required no super vision. (Hear, bear.) We all require criticism, superri. sloe, and rebuke, and therefore I object that even St. Bartholomew's should have a blind exemption which removes • all motive for monoosied management. If you drive me to lit by saying that a tax of 1201. will came 500 patients to be dismissed, then I ask why is 2541. spent on a dinner? (Cheers.) If, when the public give 2,3504, a return of 850/. is objected to, it is fair to ask what do you , mean by eating in an hour 150 Fatigue& (Laughter.) Then there are Guy's and St. Thomas's. Will they have to die . miss a hundred patient.? Why, they are adding three or , four thousand a year on reproductive isverinte in lands. i nlay do not °Define themselves to deal with sick men, for my hon. G kind the member for Bath says that the trustees of St. Thomas's Hospital spend 15 per cent of their income on improvement.; in land. I say that this is a matter for the house to consider, and also whether the growth of these hospitals should be entirely re moved from the control of either prase or parliament while subventions are to be annually continued. I do not believe that one patient will be dismissed ; but if there were, private charity would supply the void. I am going, however, to make • larger 000CM10013, and to say that a pub , lie grant might be given for the purpose. Why not? It had never bees thought that the relief of the sick was a proper subject for grants from the Exchequer ; it may still be so thought, but what I venture to say with the utmost confi dence is, that a public grant for St. Bartholomew's would be ten times better than the exemption which is now • demanded. With a public grant we know what we are about. We let in the light of day ; the public become parties, and arbitrary will is dethroned. But there is alio , ther matter to consider of still greater importance. Are I there no ucendowed hospitals? Are there sot the Usdver sity Hospital, Rises College, Westminster, Chariaccroes, sad St. Orinree's ? (A Voice—" Si. George's se miaowed.") Yea, I believe it has a small endowment. (A Voice—" The Free Hospital.") Let it be granted sad conceded, which has never yet been conceded, if you will, that parliament ought to make aprovision of some thousands a-year ; towards the cure of the sick poor is Loudest. I want to know whether it is just, politic, or ratioaal, that sash grant should be confiDed to institutioes which have biomes of 25,0001., 30,0031., or 35,0001. a year. which are in so degree ieflormeed by opinion from without, or whether it would not be more rational to give it to young sad strug gling institutioos, some of which cannot keep their beds open, and acme el wheal have the bead& of this cuseglios. that the proposal, however just I. itself, and however de monstrably true, is opposed to local associations of the most estemive character—(hear,irm)—not only in this house but all over the country, we respect that prejudice— (cheers)—end bow to it, though we do not for a moment think it to be leer a prejudice. On that sosamt I think my right hon. (timid has exercise, a wise discretion in not prais ing on the house, as he stated in the outset he did not mesa to do, s proposal which on discussion appeared to be ad. vend to the general feeling of the house. We think that proposal wan right and founded on justice and good sense, sod we believe that when the argument' of my right boa. friend shall be read by the public out of doom, opinions will be very much altered, but bowing to the meant state of opinion and to local associations, I think my right bon. Mood has exercised a wise discretion in withdrawing the proposition. Mr. HENLEY said he did not wish to go into the (1111:4 - Con of whether the government had made a blunder. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had done him the honour to say he spoke in mild language, and he believed that what he alluded to was the expression of hie (Mr. Healey's) opinion that it was queer sort of justice to rob the poor. On that &vision it was said by • right hon. friend of his who sat very near him, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer wee the last man in the world who would do such a thing as that, oo account of the financial and commended legislation of which he had been a leader. Well, he (Mr. Henley) was one of those who in the ordinary way looked to the measure before the house, and he did not trouble his bead or care • halfpenny for the antecedents of the person who proposed it. It was enough to do to look at the measure and see whe ther it were good or bad. But the speech of the right hon. gentleman the member for the city of Oxford set one a-thinking. What had happened? No one was more ready to admit than he was that that class of legislation which the right bon. gentleman alluded to, and whieh had been earned on for the last 15 or 16 years, had been adopted with the best motives, with the purest motives he would even go the length of saying, by those who had carried it out, in the great hope, and it might be with the result, of increasing the material wealth of all classes of the community. What else bad been carrying on? Material wealth, hang it round with flowers as they would, deck it as they pleased, was money. Money was mammon. Well, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to secure these operations, to carry out farther the same principle, did what! He joined hand in hand with those who made an attack, noder the name of reforming them, oil the old endowments of the university which he represented. What was the main thing be did there! He destroyed the Christian character of the education. (Loud cries of "Oh, oh.") They might say "Oh, oh," but let them hear what was done, and then say " Oh, oh," if they pleased. He compelled the university to give her education, the honours of her education, to Jews, Christians, Turks, sod infidels. (Oh, ob.) They might say " Oh, oh, his, they could sot dozy the fact. The right hon. gentleman destroyed the Christian character of the university. Well, how was that followed? In 1861 an attempt was made to change the charac ter of the education of the lower classes of the people. The house rejected this reposition, and threw it back upon them. These *ebonies, setting up Mammon on the one band and the tree of knowledge on the other, could lead to no other conclusion than this : " Rem ferias ; rem Redd si possis ; si non, quocunque modo rem." (Hear, hear.) He was extremely glad the proposition was to be withdrawn, because it was founded on a very bad • Mr. J. LOCKE said this was not the first attempt to tax charities, for in 1858, the thea President of the Poor law Board, the right hoes. gentleman the member for North Wilts, proposed to rats charities a the poor and other pariah rates, and that proposal was supported by hon. gentlemen opposite. (Haar, bear.) Charities might, he I thought, be properly subject to the name tax, but there I was great di ffi culty in distinguishing between those which ought to pay it in full and those which should only be liable to a diminished rate, and as the Chancellor of the Exchequer's present proposition did not do that he was not disposed to support it. Clauses 3 and 4 were then negatived without a divisioe, amidst a few cheers from the opposition. Clause 4 was agreed to. Up= class 5 Mr. HUBBARD said as this woe the first time a graduated seals had been introduced, it required much ooesideratioo. . . Mr. HUNT did not nee upon what principle the Chan cellor of the Exchequer could refuse to c►ny up the deduc tion to lemma larger than 2001. Mr. PELCOCKE also considered that the exemption ought to be extended, and proposed an amendment to the effect that 1001. instead of 60/. ehould be deducted from incomes 42001. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said there wee a practical advantage in standing on tradition in these mitten, and 60& bad been fixed as the deduction, because that was the point to which Mr. Pitt proposed, in 1815, to extend total exemptions. The amendment was then negatived without a division, and the clause agreed to. The schedules were also agreed to, and the bill as amended passed through committee. STOCK CERTIFICATES TO BEARER BILL. On the order for the consideration of this bill as amended. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved some verbal amendments in clause 4. Mr. HUNT moved the adjournment of the debate. The bill, be said, had been delivered only • few hours before, and there had not been sufficient time to consider the effect of the alterations made, or whether further amendments were not necessary. . . After ► short ecinversation the motion was agreed to, and the debate was adjourned until Thursday. SAVINGS BANKS BILL After some eoarsnatien the above bill paned through committee, and the hone resumed. CONSOLIDATED FUND (20.000,0000 BILL. EXCHEQUER BONDS (1,000,000 L) BILL. Than bills were read a third time, and puled. NAVAL MEDICAL SUPPLEMENTAL FUND SOCIETY WINDING-UP ACT (1881). This bill was read a mood time. LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT (1868) AMENDMENT BILL: The Lords' 'mend:mate to this bill were considered and agreed to. COURTS OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND BILL. The LORD ADVOCATE said be had some objections to make to the details of this measure, but he would not resist the second reading. The bill was accordingly read a second time. WATCHMEN IN TOWNS (IRELAND) BILL. This Wilms reed wooed time. Sir IL PEEL thought it would be no:emery to oonaider the details of the bill in committee. According to one clause, if a publican oboes to entertain a watchman, he would be liable to be fined 20s. (laughter.) SALMON FISHERIES (IRELAND) RILL. After soros disonasioe. in the course of which Sir R. Peel said the bill would be brought in this week or next, the bill was postponed until Eendei next. MARRIAGES, &a (IRELAND), BILL This bill was mod a third terse sad coma. The house adjourned at 20 minutes past 1 o'clock. NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALTY, MAY 4.—Arrourrermarre.—Lieute pants F. G. Gambier, to the Archer ; G. D. Bathe, to the Ibittlimmake ; B. Pitman, to the Liverpool ; the Hon. H. B. Hamilton, to the Lauder; and H. C. A. Brand, to the Omuta. - Leistaot Paymaatets C. 0. Salmon, to Le moretary's clerk io the Revenge ;Ficl co. T. Fisos al, to the Datuttlees. Midshipman the Marquis of 15;:ensin;ry , 1 ., ; ". the Emerald. Clea; H. G. Stembridge, to the Orontes ; and A. N. Lanes, to the Plegard, as supernumerary. Naval Cadet Lord A. C. Lennox. to the Meaner. _ . Chief Engineer A. M•leoes, to the Geyser. Engineer J. ROM, to the Indus. Assistant Engineer' J. Wyllie and A. Moreton, to the Valorous. PORTSMOUTH, MAT 4. The Louisa, sailing transport, arrived„at Spithead this moroing from India. She brings military invalids, who were oonveyed to the Royal Hospital at :Motley. RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PARLIA is Lord Llanover's committee, the bill far the Newry and Greenery° Railway was pissed, and that for the competing lure of the Dundalk, Carliegford. and Gramme Railway thrown out. A committee, consisting of Earl Lucas (chairman), and Lords Amherst, Veruburi, Abing. don, and Congletoo, met to consider the bills of the West London Extension Railway, the West London Docks and Warehouses at Battersea, the Queen's-road, Battersea, the Abecyatwith and Welch Comet Railway, and the Stheehouse and Narlsworth Railway. The hen for the West London Warehouses and Docks was withdrawn, and that of the West London Extension Railway passed. In the Commons, the bill for the Bristol Railway Junction was withdrawn, and that of the Buckley Railway for further mosey powers, and for regulations as to the River Dee, passed. The nyp o . sition of the Great Northern to the Bradford, Wakefield, and Leeds was concluded, and the case of the Midland Railway for new lines in the Wert Riding opened. Mr. Merewether, Q.C„ opened the opposition to the Drayton Junction in that committee, sad the bill for the Taiga Valley Railway from Bowery Tracey to Doddiecombaleigh was passed. The case of the Fxlinburgb, Perth, sad Dundee was opened by Mr. Hope Scott, and opposed by Mr. Denison, Mr. Mandell, and Mr. Liddell. tlBllloP r ig WALTErittlitalLWAY.—A Wbarneliffe meeting of the shareholder in this coropeoy was held yes terday at the offices in Parliament-street, Mr. Stan in the choir, for the purpose of considering a bill now before par liament empowering the directors to raise eddltiosel capital to the amount of 2,6001., and also cattails* a clause empowering them to sell or lease the line to the South Western Railway Company. The hill having been red, a recolutcoa approving of the same was submitted to the share. holders and unanimously agreed to. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Hornitnana Pure Tee: eery choke at Ss. 4d. and es. " High Standard" at IR M. (formerly Is. )41.1. is the strongest and moat delicious Imported. Agents In every town supply It in pseketa.—(Advertiaententi THB HURLER AT LIVERPOOL. Yesterday, the Liverpool borough coroner re sumed the inquest on the body of the young woman, Elias Jones, who was murdered by a young man named Pawing. too. a nailer, who had been keeping company with the deceased for about four years. The fads of the ea" are these :—On Thursday erasing last the murderer, Peen' ton, went to the residence of deoeseed's mother, is Eari-etreet, off Great Horner-street, and after staying some time he, in company with his sweesh eat t , left for the purpose of going to a unite; saloon, in Willi am . umaquare, kept by a man named Goodburn. It ap that deceased and Pennington reached Goodbur n ' s at shun tan o'clock at night, and entered the singing odour, wh en Pennington had something to (birth. Whilstthere Peening. ton had occasion to go to the bar, and when there he nom . plained to Goodburn that "she (meaning the deceased) wee making it up with some other chap." The barkeeper Butes that Pennington appeared greatly excited at the time, and Goodburn swears that he saw • dagger knife—the one produced before the coroner—sticking in a belt underneath Pennington's coat. Immediately after the deceased and her murderer left the house, and about half an hour afterward, • report was raised that a woman had been murdered in St. Jolla's. bin, and that the police bad taken her to the Royal Lahr. mazy. Goodburo bearing of this want at once to the infir• wary, and there identified deceased as the woman who had been with Pennington at the singing house. The mother of the murdered girl stated that on Thursday evening last Pen. niegton came to her house and asked for Eliza. He stayed some time, and then left with her daughter for the purpo se of going to some place of amusement. On going out of th e house Pennington kissed witness, the deceased, and the children, saying, " Aint Eliza nice!' Witness knew that Pennington was very fond of the deceased ; they had been keeping com y for about four years, and were to hare been in a day or two. She knew th at Peeningt es was also very jealous 110 Eliza, and she (ids: nets) had heard him say to Eliza, "I will cut yo u throat if I find you speaking to anybody else." Her daughter was a good girl, and 27 years of age. John Weaver, a hairdresser, residing in Atholatteet, off Greet Howard-street, knew Pennington for thirteen years, an d on Friday night last he came to witness's shop, and aid. " Did you,hear an thing" He (witness) did sot reply, sad Peuniagtou walked round towards whom, making a motion with his hand as if to stab himself in the left breed, an d thee said, " I did it. lam sorry I did it ; but it was done in • bit of • lark." Witness said, " How is it?" He then said, " I was acting Macbeth, as I was drunk." He then added, " Did you know that little piece?' Witness said, " What little piece!" Pennington replied, "Joey Jour, sitar." Witness asked which of them, when Pennington mid, " Eliza, the eldest. I bought • knife ; they wanted • dollar for it ; but I gave them three 'billings." Pennington then left witness's shop. Several other witnesses having been examined the jury returned • verdict of "Wilful murder against John Pennington," and a warrant was at once issued for his ap. prehension. Sir George Grey, we understand, in about to grant a reward for the apprehension of the murderer. M4RKET& LONDON WEEKLY DOCK BUOAR—W. L bhds d trcs cos Mauritius bags 6,719 But ladle hap 291 81am beskele Mazda" lmp 2,11 N Sisson& boxes Cuba boxes For ni e z raropado maks 4,077 314 ' B Do Cosson—W.L .. 1,026 a Corr Do.. 911 baba top 1.679 Mocha pookaato 9 Other B. India package' 118 Hses Do. do. —CALM a Cooed Ilse 419 00009 bap 1,667 Fondp Cass Rox Do. NM LI 7,680 Want= NSISMO POMO 6BO RSTURNIL-21AT 2. irislivertLlPr. Steck Mt 2,875 13: 2 0 8.70 1,011 2345 OS 9,696 202 VA i.;s 17,961 116,1131 1241.57 1,0511 44911 "KG 19,4 n 213,*91 MTh WWI lkin 1/11,7114 fl. MIN 17" Ma U. t U. I 1.6•01 Sis 4l min was LIU r- VtO 14,1 a 4.118 Ilan 14,1112 SAO /4 - 71 T 93.1 a 14434 MOH TALLOW. -The excitemout which we reported in our Let circular letter having entirely subsided the price of tallow has declined to previous Trios, and today there has been continued flatases, with very little dispritrion to °Pe rste speculatively. Our quotations are ;-Spot, 42a. 9d. to 435. ; Juno, 425. 9d. ; July, 435. 6d. ; October to Decem ber, 458. 9d. to 465. 6d. Old Y.C., 425. 6d. to 424. 3d. ; Australian beet, fins 41s. to 40a. inferior ; South Americas, 425. 6d., lat pipes ; North Amerioaa. 42a to 425. 6d. fine to 41s. inferior. Town tallow, 41s. 6d. net cash. Coca out oil is quiet ; Cochin, 51s. to SL. 6d. ; Ceylon, 49a to 495. 3d. ; Sydney floe, 455. 6d. to 445. 6d. ; good, 435. le 42.64. ; inferior and mined, 40s. 6d. to 39.. Palm d steady, 375. fine Lagos. Palm out oil, 355. to 365. fise, 425. to 435. dark. Bores jamas. 3.5 a. ; rough fat, 2a. 20.- (From the circular of Messrs. Smith and Charles, datad Monday evening.) 001TON.-12vmmoot, NAY 4.—We have had an actin demand for ootton to-day, with an advance of d. ta sales par lb. upon Friday's micas. The les are 18,000 of which 8,000 are on speculation and for export KO American, 20d. to 200. ; 12,560 Surat, 13d. to 20 d. ; 1,200 Egyptian, 20d. to ; 80 Pensambooo, 201. to VAL ; 140 Bahia and MACSi4), 218. to 2004. ; 230 Yam ham, 211 d. to 22td. The week's import is 3,281 bales. CATTLE.—Livsarom., Mar sopply of stook larger than on Let Monday. A fair demand for beef, with out much change in pncee. Bleep very dull, and priom lower. 00A1.9,—Lornos, SILT 4.—Batas' Wost Hartley, 140 6d. ; Bowers Wass Hartley, 15..; BuddWs West Hartley, 15s. ; Cowpen Hartley, ; Hastings Hartley,lss. ; Nor.h. Felton Gas. 13s. ; Tantlald Moor Butes, 12s. 6& ; West Hartley, 15s. ; 15s. ; Walls End Byron, 14a 3d. Walla Eod Riddell. 14s. ; Walls Rod Wluirooliffe, Ib.; Edon Main, 15s. ; Walls End Braddylls Hatton, 15a. 6d.; Walla Eod Haswell, 17a. ; Walls Eod Hatton, 17a. ; Walls End Thastall, 14s. ; Walls End Clomp, 1.5 n 9d. ; Walla End Hartlepool, 16.. ; Walls End Heigh Hall, 15e. ; Walls End Rollos, 16s. ; Walla End Booth HarUspool. Lss. 3d. ; Walla god South Kenos, 15s. Gd. ; Walls End Trim. don Hartlepool, 16s. 9cl. ; Camay and Duffryn Malting, 19a. U.—Ships at market. 49 ; 26. TRAFFIC RETURNS. Mlles Pas- Mar. Tatra, Total, 'AMWAY& open wagers chandlie 1881 1642 Week ending April 11. a Grand Trunk °Manacle . 1090 6,013 8,876 14,1283 17,774 Week ending April 16. Detroit sad Milwaukee 166 Week ending April 17 Great Western of Canada 345 Week ending April 19 Ottoman Week ending April St & Anat. & Lombards-V en. iSouth Awe. 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