The Express. — London, England, 1867-04-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1867. I MPERIAL PAULI AM ENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. -T r; IRTL IN the Hou,s of LORDS, yesterday, the Marine Mutiny Bill was read a second time, and the stand ing orders having been suspended, was read a third time and passed. The Admiralty Courts Act Amendment Bill pawd through onninittue. oo the motion of the Duke of 11:t'KINOHAM the Canadian Railway Bill was read a third time. Thu Earl f SusrrEsstav called attention to the subject of agricultural gangs, which he condemned as oductive of great immorality, and destructive of all social tiei and relations; and he announced his intention to bring in a bill on the a'ii.ject. Their lonlshijo adjourned at half-past 7 o'clock. MOLISE OF COMMONE4.—Tsummay, Arum 11. IN the of COMMONS, the CHANcELLOR Of the EyimEor ea, in reply to a question front Mr. Reardon, stated that it was the intention of govern ment to introduce a reform bill for Ireland, and that Ito believed th , ?re was a general feeling in Ireland that it should contain a clause enablitiq, votes to be given by voting papers. LW STANLLV, in reply to a drietition front Mr. Osborne, stated that there were two questions pend inglietween the British government mud the govern meta of Spain. With regard to the Tornado, he Ind received a communication which he could not say was altogether of a satisfactory character. At the suite time he did not look upon it as necessarily final and conclusive. With regazd to the second ease, which was of a more pressing character, that of the Victoria. he was not in a position toeve any further information. Lord LI itosvrson said he understood there was a feeling on both sides of the house that it would be better that the further progress of the Reform measure ahould be postponed till after the Easter holidays. If they postponed it till after Easter they might arrive at some compromise. Colonel VATTEN supported, and Mr. AVRToN op posed this view. Mr. CLADAToNE described the proposition as well-intentioned, but ill-timed. The house would subj.3et itself to great misconstruction if they were to postpone the bill for three weeks. Mr. CLAY said there were disquieting rumours of a dissolution, and it would be a great calamity if a general election were to take place without the house having passed a stringent measure for the prevention of bribery and corrupti,.n. Mr. Hest EY doubted whether, if they occupied the whole of the night in a deb ate and then ad journed it, they would have made much progress. Mr. tbiamon; asked what liberal members owed to Lord Grosvenor, who last year threw out the bill of the late government, that they should follow his lead 1 The Chancellor of the Exchequer had announced that he would not accept any of the amendments from the opposition aide of the house. There was no chance of a compromise, and he hoped there would be none, but that the ques tion would be fought out, and then the true reformers would be winnowed from the false. Lord &elm said he opposed the bill of last year because it was not founded on sound principles. He was now anxious that the question should be settled this year without a change of government, and without a dissolution. He was in favour of a compromise, and was convinced if the question wore not brought forward to-night there would be a better chance of a settlement. Mr. BRIGHT asked who it was that was to make a compromise when the members were all gone to their homes. If there was to be a compromise it must be made aboveboard. Mr. WHITBREAD had hoped that this question would be settled this session, and without a change in the government, but the last shred of that hope would have departed if they acceded to this motion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said his awn opinion was that they should pmoeed with the discussion on the bill, but it was a matter for the house to decide. He repudiated the charge made against him by Mr. Osborne, whom he de signated as "the sincere reformer," that he would not consent to any amendments from the other aide of the house, but he regarded the amendments of which Mr. Gladstone had given notice as a au percession of the bill, and as propositions for a counter bill. Lord GROSVENOR then withdrew the motion, and the house went into committee on the bill. On clause 3, which gives the borough franchise to every man who has occupied a house for two years and personally paid the rates, Mr. Gt....Dawn' moved to insert, "whether he in person or his landlord be rated to the relief of the poor." He said : Mr. Dodson, Sir—Am my hon. friend the member for Westminster was good enough at an early period of the evening to state his willingness to waive the moving of his amendment until a Liter stage of the bill, I need not go through the formality of making a freh appeal to him. And before I state the purpose and object of the amendment I am about to move, I wish, en account of the mingled difficulty and dryness of the subject, to observe pointedly to hon. members that there are two very important quesitions connected with rating that are not in the slightest degree involved in the state ment I have to make. The question which we discussed teat year, and which became decisive of the fate of the then government, namely, whether the franchise should be measured by rateable value, or by clear annual value, is not now before us. Another question of very considerable importance is likewise wholly apart from the vote which I shall invite the committee to give—l mean the question of the payment of rates— the question whether the voter who is liable to the payment of rates personally shall have paid his rates before he is authorised to claim and to be put upon the register. The question whether the voter who pays hie rates through the medium of his rent to his landlord shall likewise have had those rates paid by the landlord, or, in default of the landlord, by himself, before be is entitled to be put upon the register, is a question of considerable moment, which I do not in the slightest degree intend to raise. My own personal opinion is that which was expressed in the bill of last year, but I own that the question of the payment of rates is a question upon which any member would incur a great responsibility if for the sake of it he rejected a reform bill which was in other respects satisfactory. (Hear, hear.) My amend ment upon the 3rd clause involves nothing touching that portion of the clause which refuses the payment of rates. This amendment, as has been said by the right honourable gentleman the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, is the first of a series, and they are intended to give effect to the views which I glanced at in the opening of the debate when the bill was presented to the house, and which I more fully explained upon the second reading of the bill. They are not, indeed. com plete even as they stand upon the votes, became any pro penal to relieve from liability the smaller occupiers is a matter in respect of which it would obviously have been impossible to dent with in the clause which relates to the franchise. It would require to have more than one clause, drawn with considerable care, and involving a considerable amount of collat-rel and subsidiary provisions; and I hope that my hon. and learned friend the member for Exeter (Mr. Coleridge) will fulfil his intention of presenting clauses with a view of giving effect to aplan of that nature. Sly amendments form a whole, and constitute a mode of proceeding I believe satisfactory to the feelings and corre sponding with the spirit of the widely spread and deeply en tertained convictions of this house. But in asking the com mittee to concur in any one of these amendments I cannot adopt the lofty language of the Chancellor of the Exche quer, who mays the first of the amendment. relate, to the vital question of residence, and if any one of them be adopted by the committee it will be quite impossible for the government to proceed with the bill. I have no authority to present those amendments in that shape. I may have my own opinion as to their con nection and coherence with the plan, but I have no power or iodination to hind any other to the measure which I propose to-night, and wracT l l think sufficiently important to stand upon its own merits taken in connection with other parts of the hill. So much h... been said on so many occasions as regards our position upon this subject that I will briefly state what I take it to be. What is the paramount object before us, and the secondary though still important ones? The paramount good ol.!ect is to peas a good reform bill. (Oppoaition cheers .) The secondary but still important objects are to pass a ' , form bill during the present year, and to peas it • we 1 can by the aid of the present government. (Hear, hear.) I am not prepared to sacrifice the paramount object to the secondary PPM (Mar, hear.) We should commit a fatal go isteke if manse we lagged i o former years we now hastily or with insufficient mare piece together the clauses of a re dorm hill, and wend forth to the country that which, while it professes to be • settlement, will only lead to the com mencement of a fierosr agitation. Subject to the sand iness of a reforest hill, there is no sacrifice of time, feeling, or opinion compatible will, the highest principles which we ought not to make in order to dispose permanently of the riestioe. As to the motion which I am shout to ni lie, I mar take leave to ohaerve that up to Saturday Let I had sot the slightest reason to suppose that eves Nis emotion I now make—much lees the toneeent little mopes al with retool to the two years' residence—would I have been resisted. (Oh. oh.) When I say little, although not large in itself it in lame in principle ; but up to Saturday last 1 ...ei no remora to suppose that this argument and con clusion would have been received as Rims been by her Majesty'a government. But what happened upon the second reading of the bill I Most certainly this objection to per. social rating wan not blinked. I incurred the responsibi lity of detaining the house long upon it, and my hon. and learned friend the member for Richmond (the late Attorney-General) followed me in a speech which was worthy —and Inn say no more—of his name, his character, and histalenta (Hear. hear.) He confined himself ex clusively to this subject. He presented it in the clearest form to the eye and to the mind of the government ; and did the Chancellor of the Exchequer on that evening give us the slightest intimation that he was .roing to use the high and imperious language which lie has since employed. His reply was in five words, "liet art of nisi penis "—Omar, hear)--and the right Lion. gentleman. by that method of proceeding, produced an impression that he was ready to deal with us, but not in the spirit of the vague terms he has used. The terms are of little value except when interpreted in a liberal spirit. but we did think the right hon. gentleman was ready to enter into the consideration of this most im portant portion of the subject. But if we are not to have the aid of the government in this matter of personal rating. I deeply regret it. (Hear, hear.) I think we have shown on this side of the house up to the present week that we are entitled to receis 'credit for sincerity in the coursewe have rearsuoL I deeply regret the loss of the aid of the government, and their unfortunately fastening themselves, if they ultimately do so. to a proposition and a scheme so unhappy in its whole conception as this personal rating. The withdrawal of this aid cannot alter the paramount duty of the house, for if we should send forth a bill with safeguards and limits, we are responsible for the sound ness of those safeguard's and limits, sad to pretend to settle thequestion with flimsy and untrustworthy materials is a proceeding unworthy of the House of Commons. Looking at the plan of the government with respect to the borough franchise. I end that these are its prominent cha ractenetice :—Extreme narrowness of its immediate en franchisement (hear, hear) and the setting up of certain barriers which we are invited to trust for the purpose of excluding the great mass of householders below the limit of 101. Let us look at the figures to make good what I have said. As the figures stand in the I returns prepared in the name of the Secretary of the Treasury, it would appear that the number of direct rate paying householders is 240,000 above 101., and I think according to the computation of the government 50 per cent. may be expected to get upon the register. I think that is not an undue deduction. Then as regards those nnder 101. there are 476,000 who may be expected to yield 238.000 voters. But these figures are not accurate—not by any fault of the government, or of those engaged in preparing them, because there are cem in them a very considerable number; in soine cases in cur large towns the persons who are not com pounders, and who are not under the Small Tenements Act, but who have their rates paid for them by arrange ments between the parochial authorities and the owners. In Liverpool last year the number of such persons amounted to 7,000 or 8.000, and from recent inquiries I have no doubt they are now much more. In Ashton this system extends greatly above the legal limit, and in many other towns that system obtains.. Consequently we must reduce this number of 12:1.000, who are stated to be rate paying householders. and we must add to it the 238010 who stand in the position of com pound householders. I speak of the net numbers. As these figures stand it would appear that about two thirds of the householders below the limit of 101. are, in the larger sense of the term, compound householders, and they do not pay their own rates, but pay them in the shape of rent to their landlords. With regard to the persons to be admitted immediately to the franchise 1 if you take the gross numbers at about 210,000, and which would place upon the register a few more than 100,000, I must confess I do not expect any plan which contem plates as its proper and normal result the enfranchise meta of only that number of persons as likely to give the slightest satisfaction to the country, or will he accepted by those earnestly and sincerely wishing for reform. But when I look beyond, I find the real gist of the question lies in the method in which we are asked to deal with the compound householders. This mode of in sufficient enfranchusement is the first objection I take to the government plan. It is absolutely necessary that we should find means of enlarging that enfranchisement, and here I would appeal to the right hon. gentleman the mem ber for Caine and ask himoui one of the stoutest opponents of reform, if it would be proper to deal with the question n a plan so minute as that proposed by the government, a. ad in which they confer a direct enfranchisement. I pre r ttne the right hon. gentleman would say that if the ques tm is to be dealt with st all it must be dealt with M a manner that would make what is done likely to last, sad not so that what was done would be an incentive to further agitation. The limiting principle of the govern ment is personal rating apart from the question of pay ntent of rates on the qualifying tenement. It is • question whether the payment of rates is to be laid on the man himself. We are told that personal rating is the principle of the bill so far as it relates to the borough franchise, and we are further told that this is the old constitutional principle. If it were, I should have to go beck to a vast number of unsgea which prevailed in former times, and which have been superseded by the superior machi nery of government. In former times there was no such thing as a legal system for the collection of rates from the owner as between him and the occupier. It was on).- in the scot and lot boroughs where this system pre vailed, and those borough. were only 48 in aural:ter ! out of a total of 214. There were other boroughs in which the burgesses hail what was called burgage tenure. They were undoubtedly ratepayers, but the foundation of the vote was not in the rate. In regard to the other boroughs, personal rating was not connected with the franchise- The freemen were not personal ratepayers, they were often non-resident, and as to one-half of the boroughs of the country it is nut the fact that ratepaying was origi nally known to us as the basis of the franchise. (Hear.) In many boroughs it is true it was. But is that • matter for rejecting all the light, and profits of experience—that ex perience which has developed a necessity for a change in the law. We have seen that in the last 0 years the force of circumstances has compelled a change in the law. So difficult was the collection of rates in small sums found to be that there sprang up, in the best and most English of all methods, spontaneously a demand for a change in the system, and hence that which enables the landlord to pay the rates. But a man who pays through his landlord as truly pays the rate as if he did it himself to the collec tor. (Hear, bear.) Let us not flinch from the trial of this principle. It is disputed by economists, I know, as to whether the incidents are upon the owner or the occupier. I will not enter into that, but whether they be upon the occupier or the owner the ultimate incidents are precisely the same. That I take to be an undeniable principle of political economy. The Small Tenements Act was passed for the collection of rates from persons from whom they could not previously be obtained, and this new method of collection brought about what were called the compound householders. That produced a great improvement in modern times, and was • great reform in the mode of collecting the rates. It comes out in this bill as something approaching to a vote of moral inferiority. (Hear, hear.) Was there ever such a paradox invented in parliament? (Cheers.) Will any man tell me that he can draw • moral distinction between the character of the population in those towns where the Small Tenements Act applies and where it does not—that in the one virtue prevails and duties are performed ; and in the other, where compound householders reside, vices are to be found and debts are not paid? Why, the com pound householders have no choice in the matter. They must go where occasions require them. Do you think the father of a family who has to perform his duty to his wife and children, if going to a town to reside, would inquire whether the system of compound house holders prevailed? What is the meaning of the doc trine of this inferiority of compound householders? If we could apply a vexatious test there may be some thing in it. But the individual man has nothing to do with it at all. Where the act is adopted it is adopted by the para mount influence of property and local authority ou the plurality acheme of voting in vestries. (Hear, hear.) The compound householders do not become so by their own act or choice. It is preposterous to use it as a criterion of character between men of the same class and condition. Well, how has this bill been received in the country ? It is one of the most remarkable things I know of. I on told that the Small Tenements Act has been adopted in 5,000 parishes in this country, and that upon the average 25 per cent, on the rates is al lowed to the owners for the payment of them, and the result of this compounding is that the small house holders bee their votes in the vestries. (Hear, hear.) I confess I do not think this is a sufficient reason for their being deprived of their votes under this bill, or why any impedimenta should be thrown in their way. The Small Tenements Act was passed only 15 or 16 years ago, and has had • most remarkable operation, having been adopted by 5,000 parishes, and I have heard of only • solitary parish or so where it has been abandoned after once adopted. It has been adopted upon the solid ground of convenience, and it has no connexion with the characterof the persons affected by it. Is it possible that you can say to 500,000 of your fellow countrymen—We will pass an act of parliament which will enfranchise 100,000 of your class and condition in life, of the same education and independence, and in refusing to give them a vote do you expect them to remain quiet and contented on the ground of their being compound householders? (Haar, hoar.) The Solicitor-General the other evening made no reply to these astonish ing figures, which I selected from the catalogue of towns, end not unfairly for the purposes for which I quoted them. I will not visit them upon the house again. as smile of them are pretty fresh in our noes riea, for the ham. member for Brighton, which has a population ef 100.000, says that only fourteen persons would become qualified to vote under the liberal and compre hensive measure of the government, and one large town would give a single unit. I was then speaking of the inequality of the different towns, but let us now look at the inequelity is the manse town, and let us see what strife, and dieturbrusee, sail ounftusion this principle of pommel rating is going to carry through t the boroughs of the country. When we find that cue-half of the boroughs are partly meter the Small Tenements Act and partly not, this question hna,nes a serious one. last us sea whet the OW at of thin bill will lie in some of these boroughs. Thia operation will he that it will take away the rotes of those who are made compounders, and that will be done IT the minority in the s Is this syatem to be defended! and i. this the w..y in which you seek to settle, on a permanent and solid basic, the question of reform! (Hear, he.ar.) In the city of Bristol the population is very much divided. One-half, or 76,000, live in open parishes with small tenements, the other half, or 76,000, are under the Small Tenements Act. The 76,000 who are under the Small Tenements Act will yield 5,943 voters, but the 76,000 who are not under the Smell Tenements Act give 10,431 ; so that one-half of the population of Bristol. as divided by parishes. is to be invested with an amount of electoral power double that of the other half. Is that the way to give contentment? Is there not something strange, I almost ludicrous, to call this legislation, passing an act preventing such inequalities, and then to expect that it will be accepted by the country as if it were surrounded by the venerable halo of ancient usage, and therefore to be accepted even iu spite of its anomalies. (Hear, hear.) In Grantham, the open parishes, out of apopulation of .L9.3i give 77.; voters, but the close parishes with nearly twice the population, or 7,191, give only 688, that is to say, one third of the population in the open parishes makes more than half the electors. In Leeds, the popula tion of the open parishes is 35,561, and will qualify 7 , 3.6 voters. The population under the Small fenements Act is 171,604, and they qualify 0n1y9,200 voters, that is to say one-sixth of the population of Leeds has four-ninths, or little short of one-half, the voting powers gur of the town. I ought to say that I take these by approximation, because the returns do not give the numbers of male inhabitants, and therefore I can only take the average. In Pontefract, how will its members like the new distribution! Its open parishes contain less than one-half the population, or 5,486 persons, giving 1,273 votes. The close parishes are 6,250 population, more than ,a moiety, and they give 447 votes, so that a moiety of the population has two-thirds of the voting powers, and that by means of something written on paper or parchment, which we choose to call a work of wise legislation. (Cheers.) And these inequalities ere to be the secu rities of the constitution; these are to be the gun retirees against democracy. These are the solid. well built, walls that are to drive back the tide of agitation—this strange concoction of some ingenious mind which looks as if it were prepared to be displayed I upon the stage, but which is alien to the British constitu tion and unprecedented in the annals of parliament. (Loud cheers.) In Shoreham the open parishes are 1:046 population, giving 2,244 voters ; and the close parishes 19,276 population, giving 1,4:15 voters. Perhaps the Solicitor-General may say, let those parishes cure the evil by throwing out the Small Tenements Act; but I denyjthat our legislation should interfere with the economic or social arrangements of the boroughs. But I have a still stronger objection, and that is, that by our legislation the making of constituencies will depend on the local authorities, assembled in vestries or corporations, and will not depend on the will of the imperial parliament. (Hear, hear.) I must own it appears to me that these are con siderations of very great importance. I wish it were in my power adequately to explain to the house the real social working of these checks. I may perhaps be allowed te think that there is a considerable amount of i.re- Mdice on this subject on the opposite side of the house. any gentlemen are familiar with the mode adopted over the country of levying the rate, and I am not prepared to deny that in country open parishes that readiness to pay the rate is the best test of the character and position of the voter; but in towns where the compound arrangements are general, to oome down and visit the voter with exclu &ion, and throw a barrier in his way which we can remove, is, in my opinion, founded neither on policy nor justice. I (Hear.) litany think that there is sometbingdegrading tothe workingman in becoming &compound householder. May I be allowed to point out the many good and solid reasons that exist for making men in that position of life wish to be a compound householder instead of • ratepayer, and more than that, to be a lodger. It is the object of the working man to simplify any transaction connected with his affair*. He receives his wages weekly, and what more convenient than that all his payments should become weekly also? (Hear, beer.) I think you (addressing the Chancellor of the Exchequer) have got another test of character in residence. Little you know the necessity to which the working man submits in following his work. (Hear, hear.) Little you know the hardship inflicted on the working man when he hasto walk two or three miles to and from his work. (Hear.) The working man wishes to be near his work, and what could be more inconvenient to him than to be perpetually perplexed with small questions of rating? (Hear, hear.) To him time is money, and time must be sacrificed in making such arrangements. These matters are light to us, coming in as they do in the solicitors' bills, but the frequent changes of residence make com pound rating convenient for the working man. Again, the working man may wish to become • lodger, and why ? IBecause in the metropolis he Inuit be either • lodger or a lodging-house keeper. The class of householders occupy ' ing the house exclusively with their *Area and families hardly exists in London. (Hear, hear.) If the working man take a house he must also undertake the business of a lodging-house keeper ; but the intelligent working man is reluctant to do this, and, therefore, he becomes a lodger. And here I beg to make an appeal to the right hon. gentleman. It is said that he has conceded the lodger franchise. I hope he has; but if he has conceded thi r t i ller franchise what becomes of the principle el rating ? (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") Pe na CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEWER —I never said I had conceded the lodger franchise. What I said was that I would consider any reasonable proposition in that direction. (Ironical cheers.) .—..---. Mr. GLADSTONE—The right hon. gentleman contra dicts me when there is no occasion. I did not say that he had conceded the lodger franchise, but I might have said that when he came to that subject he became heroic in his style, saying, " What ! speak to me as an opponent? why lam the father of the lodger franchise." I,l'e shall I soon see now how the right hon. gentleman is prepared to I treat his offspring. (Laughter.) The right boa gentle man has permitted the statement to be circulated. He must be perfectly aware that it has Irma abroad, and has acted very much to his disadvantage. (Hear, hear.) People have said, " Oh, don't talk of the lodger fran chiae, it is conceded .." and what I want to know is, is it I conceded or is it not ? (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") If it is conceded I rejoice, but I want to know if it be con ceded what becomes of the principle of personal rating. (Hear, hear.) Do you mean to say that in London parishes there shall be a valuation of every floor in a lodging house, and a proportionate division of the rate! (Hear, hear.) It cannot be ; and then what becomes of personal rating My right hon. friend the Secretary for India says, "We don't lower the franchise, all we do is to create certain special franchisee, some 030 , 0 and some below the line but as to lowering the franchise, rather than lower it I would consent to stand in a white sheet." (Laughter.) I do not wish to cover my right hon. friend with a garment which would no doubt become him, but if this bill lowers the franchise we know what must be the fate of the Secretary for India. (Laughter.) Let the right hon. member for Caine rejoice if he have not changed his opinion, for the Secretary for India is entirely with him entirely opposed to reform in the only sense in which the people understand it, and the only sense in which the people care a pin about it. (Hear, hear.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer has printed certain clauses, and from those clauses it appears pretty clearly to confirm: the statement of my hon. friend and myself in a former debate, that the effect of the bill would be to inflict on compound householders below 10/. a fine. The right hon. gentleman's clause somewhat mitigates the first in tention, because, as I understand, he now requires the compound householder in the first instance to make his application ; but that subsequently be becomes a rate paying householder, and that is the principle upon which he proposes to stand. Now I would say one word as to his answer to my honourable friend the member for Old ham. The Chancellor of the Exchequer cannot endure any portion of the amendments proposed by me. He says they will entail all those public calamities which have been so skilfully drawn in vague outline by the right hon. gentle. man and his satellites. (Mr. Gladstone here stopped for a I moment to examine some papers on the table, and resumed) —Where was I The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Satellites was the last word. (Loud laughter.) Mr. GLADSTONE—Oh, I have done with satellites for the present, and go back to my hon. friend the member for Oldham. The right hon. gentleman is ready to enter tain my hon. friend's proposition, bat is not ready to grant it. With that respectful sympathy of which be is so admirable a master he is ready to reproach my hon. friend in the most conciliatory spirit. Now, the member for Oldham's meaning cannot be mistaken. He means with regard to personal rating precisely as I mean, he wants to place the compound householder precisely on the same footing as the rate-paying householder. I under stand that to be his object. (" Hear, hear," from Ma HINK6RT.) He does not mean to let an arbitrary rule framed by parliament stand between a man and what parliament has declared to be his right. The right hon. gentleman has in fact a formidable enemy in the hon. member for Oldham, who is not a man who will easily be put off with fair words. He objects to this personal rating as a barrier in the way of the franchise, and his object is the same as mine, if that which the right hon. gentleman has declared—but I hope not irrevocably declared—to be in admissible. I object to the clauses of the right hon. gen tleman, although I admit he gets rid of some of the diffi culty; but in order to comply with the arrangements he proposes the man must cease to be a compound house holder. Is that the way we are to legislate —are we to crush the compound householder? Has the right hon. gentleman conaidered the feeling he will create by this class legislation, imposing kale of time and money on our humbler fellow subjects. I say that if parliament wants to limit the suffrage, let it limit it manfully and openly. (Hear, hear.) Don't let us send forth to the country a two-faced bill, with a face for the tones and a face for the democracy ; and inthe hope that one sect of believers may be induced to worship from one point of the com pass, and another from another. (Loud cheers.) Such • course is unworthy of government. I hope the right hon. gentleman will amend his proposition, but if he does not it is one which parliament cannot entertain. It is our duty in this eleventh hour of the reform question to deal candidly with the people of England. If it be inexpedient to limit the franchise, let it be intimated ; but if we think it expedient to limit it, let us do it candidly sad openly, and do not let us adopt provisiotis calculated to convert a boon into an offence. (Hear, hear.) By so doing we shall be inflicting a wrong on a portion of the community, which wrong will infallibly be avenged by the community at large in the shape of struggle, strife, controversy, and renewed agitation, to begin from the day when such a law takes its place in the statute book, and not to cease until the last vestige of such a piece of legislation has be come an idle remnant of the past. (Loud cheers.) The right hon. gentleman concluded by moving the words of his amendment. The Somerroa-GawaitAt denied that to require the personal payment of rates as a qualification for the vote was a new principle ; it was one of the principles of the Reform Bill of 1832. In fact it was the principle involved in the amendment that was new. Sir E. BULLER supported the amendment. He thought the house had great reason to complain of the government, who had announced that they were ready to bow to the decision of the house, and then said that if the house passed certain amend ments they would not proceed with the bill. The O'Dowoonus addressed the house at some length on the general question, contending that the tories were incompetent to deal with it. Mr. KENDALL opposed the amendment. Sir W. HEATECOTE said in his parliamentary ex perience he had never felt himself in a more un satisfactory position. He thought they ought to deal with this question this year. He did not desire to hold out in one hand what he appeared to give, and take it away with the other. He did not think they should make concessions, and accom pany them with irritating conditions which were charged with the seeds of their own destruction. He looked upon the bill with terror, because it was niggardly and because it was lavish, because it was timid and because it was rash. Mr. HIBBERT said the amendment put him and many other members in a great difficulty. It very much endangered the bill. He did not wish the government to recede from personal rating ; but he suggested that they should admit the compound householder on payment of the compound rate. The bill of the government was on a larger basis than Mr. Gladstone's proposition, accompanied, as it was to be, by a limit of a five pounds value. Colonel Bsitrrimor said the coruiervatives would give up everything but personal rating and resi dence. Compounding was an unjust system, and ought to be abolished. Mr. COLERIDGE said the liberal members sup ported this amendment with no desire to change the government; but because they were bound, if they could, to get what they believed to be a liberal measure, and to refuse to accept what they did not believe to be a liberal measure. With the amend ments of Mr. Gladstone the measure might be made satisfactory. It they excluded the corn pounders, the number enfranchised would be ludi crously small. If they took away the limitations of personal rating and residence, they came to household suffrage, of which he had no apprehen sion. The bill, with its restrictions, did not afford the elements of a settlement of the question, and he looked with alarm to the effect of passing it with these restrictions. Mr. HENLEY could not understand how members could argue with one side of their mouths that the working men were very desirous of the franchise, and on the other side that they would take no trouble, nor make any payment to get it. Mr. Gladstone had spoken of how many would get on the rate, and how many would not, but he said no thing about how many could get on. He did not think they could settle the question by fixing an arbitrary line ; the fair test of fitness and unfitness to exercise the rights of citizenship was to bear its burdens. Lord CRANBORNE said if the bill of last year had passed, the prospects of the British constitution would have been brighter than they were now. They had now before them a bill of a more democratic character. He should not argue now, as he did last year, on the danger of disturbing the balance of political power in particular classes. Me only reason for a reform bill was that it would quell agitation. If this bill passed they would transfer the agitation to the parishes against the Small Tenements Act. The operation of the bill would be that in quiet times these compounders would not be on the registers, but in times of excitement they would be placed on the register by rich men or rich associations. For these reasons he should support the amendments, taking them as a whole. He did not say he would have supported them last year, but they were pitted against a measure which would hay. the disadvantage, of democracy, and which gave a colour to corruption. On the motion of Mr. ROEBUCK, the debate was adjourned till this day, and Mr. B. Cochrane and Mr. Otway gave way on their motions respect ing Epain and the Alabama claims. The Fortifications (Provision for Expenses) Bill was read a third time and passed. The other orders of the day were disposed of, and the house adjourned at ten minutes past one o'clock. THE IRON TRADE. BIRMINGHAM, Apart. 11. The second quarterly meeting of the ironnutaters of this district was held in the Town-hall this after noon. There was a very large attendance, the trade in each of the other iron-producing districts being well re presented. It was not expected that the amount of busi ness done would be large ; the apprehensions entertained that there may arise unpleasant complications between France and Prussia, together with the doubtful aspect of political concerns at home, alike help to depress trade in its present peculiarly sensitive condition. These circum stances taker. into account, matters to-day looked more cheerful than was anticipated. The quantity of finished iron sold was under the average certainly, but there was a certain steady kind of trade doing, and producers seemed less anxious to press for orders than they did last quarter day. The " specifi cations " now *bout are comparatively small, but when given out they will be quite sufficient to keep the works going as fully as they have been of late. A change has also come over the circumstances of the trade in one respect ; consumers have got into the habit of buying for a month instead of entering into engagements for the quarter's consumption as was formerly the case ; this, of course, lessens materially the amount of business done at quarter-day. A demand for a large quantity of finished iron on account of the East Indies and Australia is said to be certain, and also contributed to the cheerful feeling( pre vailing at this meeting. The market for pig -iron is decidedly firmer; a considerable quantity of that class of iron was sold to-day at 3/. 10s. per ton for all mine, hot blast; c inder-pig was sold at 2!. 12s. 6d. per ton. We quote pig iron at Is. 3d. per ton above the price of last quarter day. In reference to the Shropshire iron trade. it was reported that the whole of the Lilleshall make had been sold. The attention of the trade was attracted to specimens of the dockyard pigs, better known as " Seeley's pigs," which were exhibited in the hall to-day. There were many samples ; when they were first discovered they were "mixed," that is, in a state known to the trade as " Kentledge," and only useful as ballast. Those shown to-day have been carefully sorted—in broken and manufactured forms. It was repre sented that the iron is all cold-blast, and that although the qualities differ the are all good, the iron being tit for use in making telegra wire, armour plates, mute, bolts, and other articles of t t class. Meagre. George Ryland and Co. have priced it at 41. to V. 10s. per ton. In re ference to the mixed quality of the iron much has been said ; as Is well known, iron, as it runs from the fur nace, comes, even from the same ore, in different qualities, which are called technically " numbers." (In the proper admixture of these depends the speciality of the manufactured iron. To wort this iron, therefore, into its proper " numbers " from its present mixed condition, in order to render its value appreciable to the trade is what Messrs. Ryland are now doing. Amongst the specimens shown was a peddled billet made from the grey iron by Mr. Joseph Mathew', at Messrs. Field and Sturgis's works, Oldbury ; the excel lence of its quality was admitted. The opinion as to it was that it would make a tool for turning rolls, after hardening, from the peddled billet itself. The opinion of the trade seemed to be favourable as to the quality of the iron ; but a doubt was expressed as to whether the price now asked would be obtained. Kirwan, the wounded Fenian, had not been re captured up to Wednesday night. Policeman Kelly, who guarded him, has been arrested, and charged on suspicion with wilfully, corruptly, and negligently allowing the prisoner to escape from Month Hospital. Kelly only left the room for a few minutes to get a draught for a cold, when Kirwan slipped out undressed, sad managed to peas the porter's lodge. Every exertion was made to retake him, but the plan formed for his escape seems to have been well matured. He pretended to be very weak. [Advertisement.] lIOLLOWAY'S PILLS. — The Greatest Wonder of Modern Times.—they correct biliousness, prevent flatulency, cleanse the liver, purify the system, renovate the debilitated, strengthen the stomach, increase the appetite, invigorate the nerves, and reinstate the weak. The demand for these Pills throughout the globe astonishes everybody, convinc ing them that there is no medicine equal to Holloway's Pills for removing the complaints which are incidental to the human race They ure indeed a blessing to the afflicted and a boon to those who suffer from any disease, internal or external. The purification of the blood, and the consequent removal of all noxious matter from the secretions, and their gentle action on the bowels, are the source of the curative powers of Holloway's CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (Before Baron Channell.) John George Conde, 40, labourer, and Mary Conde, 39, husband and wife, were charged upon an indictment, and also by the coroner's inquiaition, with the wilful murder of William Conde. Mr. Daly and Mr. Nicholson prosecuted ; the prisoners were defended by Mr. Begley and Mr. Straight. This case was one of a very painful and distressing cha racter, the offence imputed to the prisoners being that they had caused the death of a child twelve years of age, the sou of the male prisoner and stepson of the woman, by brutal treatment and starvation. The evidence went to show that the prisoners occupied one room in a house in the neighbourhood of Bromley, and they had three other children, the eldest of whom was • brother of the deceased child by the former marriage. It was proved that the deceased child, for some reason or other, was treated quite differently to the others, and that • 'tort of press was made in the corner of the room, in which the deceased was almost constantly kept and that he was com pelled to lie in this position wh , the prisoners and the other children were having their meals, that he begged for food from the other l od gers and that when bread was given to him be ate it ravenously. It also appeared that while the deceased child was in a very weak and emaciated condition, the female prisoner was seen to beat him. The child died on the 16th of February, and upon a post mortem examination being made, the body was found to be in a meet wretched condition, and, according to the medical evidence, the death was ocoasioued by starvation and want of proper nourishment, and some idea may be formed of the condi tion of the body from the fact that although he was twelve years of age, the body of the deceased when it was weighed after death was only 201 b a. 12oz. in weight. It was stated in the course of the inquiry that a very great amount of distress existed in the neighbourhood, and that the male prisoner had only been employed as a pauper at stone]) .ruking, for which he received very small pay, and it also appeared that he had received relief from the Man sion-house Distress Fund, and there appeared to be no doubt that he was in a very miserable condition as far as pecuniary means were concerned. At the close of the case for the prosecution, Mr. Daly, I who conducted it, complained that in truth he had only had to open the case on the inquisition returned by the coroner, and not on depositions taken before a magistrate. He felt, however, that now the evidence had been gone through, he could not think of sustaining the higher charge of murder, and must go to the jury for the lesser offence of manslaughter. The learned counsel also remarked that even for the lesser offence he could not seek the conviction of the male prisoner, who appeared to have given all his miserable earnings to his wife. Mr. Baron Channel), after • short discussion, in which Mr. Daly and Mr. Bosley (for the prisoner) took part, con curred in that view of the matter, and complimented Mr. Daly on the fairness and candour he had exhibited. Mr. Beale y (instructed by the Sheriffs) then addressed the jury on behalf of the female prisoner, contending that , unless they were satisfied the deceased died of starvation from her negligence she could not be convicted, and he urged that as he had elicited from the surgeon that in the body of the deceased he had discovered the seeds of pulmo nary disease or consumption, the death of the child was to be attributed to that disease, and not to starvation. Mr. Baron Channel' sumnieilup the whole of the case at considerable length, descanting upon the law applicable to the cue. The jury, after a brief consultation, returned • verdict of Guiity of manslaughter against the female prisoner, and Acquitting the male prisoner. Mr. Baron Channel' deferred passing sentence until this morning. (Before the Recorder.) George Jones Massa, a porter, was indicted for felo niously wounding Edward William Mason, with intent to kill and murder him. In a second count the intent was laid to do grievous bodily harm. Mr. Platt conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was not defended by counsel. The prosecutor and the prisoner stood in the relation ship of brothers, the latter having been discharged from the army about 15 months ago, and the fonner carrying on the business of a glasa cutter and lapidary in the vicinity of the Kingsland-road. It appeared that about 5 o'clock in the evening of the 6th ult. the prisoner came to the door of the prosecutor's workshop, and pressed him to come oat. The prosecutor refused, excusing himself on the ground that he had some work to finish. The prisoner followed him into the workshop, and drawing forth a knife of for midable dimensions stabbed the prosecutor in the breast, and afterwards inflicted four or five stabs in his back. He was secured by some of his brother's workmen and the knife was taken from him ; and on his being searched there were found in his possession another knife and a razor, which the prisoner called his tools, but added that he did not mean to harm anyone. In answer to the Recorder, the prosecutor said that the only reason he could assign for the extraordinary conduct of the prisoner was that he had found him drinking in a public-house with persons of whom he ddid not approve, and that in consequence he had refuse to also code with him. He had given his brother no other provocation. . . . It woe further proved that the prisoner, when appro. hended, stated to the officer that the reason be had done the act was that his brother was better off than himself, and had discarded him. It was also proved that the in juries were of a serious nature, and after being in the hospital three weeks the prosecutor was still an out patient. The jury found the prisoner Guilty of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The Recorder saki it was God's mercy that the life of the prosecutor had not been sacrificed by the prisioner,who was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Francis Adams a man of respectable exterior, surren dered in discharge of his bail to receive judgment on an indictment charging him with the publication (jointly with a person named Peck, who had absconded) of a false, scandalous, and malicious libel on a lady, whose name did not transpire. Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. F. H. Lewis attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Seijeant Robinson, with whom was Mr. Collins, appeared on behalf of the defendant, on whose part an affidavit in mitigation of sentence was put in, alleging that be bad been the dupe of Peck, and that he had made all the repentance in his power by pleading guilty, and by since writing an apology to the respectable lady who had been so slanderously libelled. The Recorder, in passing sentence, remarked that the defendant had pleaded guilty to the indictment, but not until the last moment, and the apology relied on had only been sent a few days before the commencement of the pre sent sessions. Under these circumstances the court could not but regard these latter proceedings as a mere attempt to obtain a mitigation of sentence, and were no evidence of the defendant's contrition. The circumstances appeared to be that the other party charged, and who had amended, had sought to obtain the lady libelled in marriage, and on her marrying another gentleman he and the defendant set about the publication in question, which was a song of • most filthy character. It seemed that the defendant had employed persons to sing the offensive effusion in front of the residence of the prosecutriz, and had sent copies of it to several of the lady s friends, with a view to injure her in their estimation. The sentence was that the defendant be imprisoned for the term of six calendar months. Theadore Came( Rafe, or Resift, 20, clerk, was indicted for stealing four bills of exchange, and also with forging the endorsement to one of them. Mr. Poland prosecuted, and the evidence disclosed that a gentleman named Garrett, residing at Heath-terrace, Lewisham, was in the habit of receiving by every mail re mittances in bills of exchange on the Hoag Kong and Shanghae Bank in London from his correspondent in Hong Kong. Br the mail due on the 11th February last Mr. Garrett received a remittance of two bills for 100/. each and a third for 50/., and by the next mail he expected to receive the second or counterparts of the three bills, together with another for the sum of 153/. 17s. 6d., but this remittance never reached him. In a few days after the arrival of the mail the prisoner called upon Mr. i;arrett and produced the three bills, stating that he had found them in a railway carriage whilst travelling from Lewisham to London-bridge station. On inspecting the bills, Mr. Garrett discovered that the 50/. bill was endorsed, and the signature "J. Garrett " being a forgery his suspicions were excited, and he gave the pri soner into custody. The forgery was proved to be in the prisoner's handwriting, and that he bad attempted to get the 50/. bill paid at the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank, where it was refused, on the ground that the first had already been paid. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and a former convic tion for forgery having been proved against him, The Recorder sentenced him to be kept in penal servi tude for the term of ten years. (Before the Common Serjesnt.) Mary Walker, '22, who, it may he remembered pleaded guilty to an indictment for embezzling the moneys of her I master and employer while in his service in male attire, and whose true sex was only discovered on her committal for trial, when she refused to undergo the ablutions of a bath in the male department, according to the prison re gulations. and upon whom the judgment of the court was respited for further inquiries, and also to enable the ladies' committee visiting Newgate to consider for her future provision, was brought up for judgment. The Common S.rjeant, without comment, sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour, the sentence to date from the day of the con viction. _ _ Thomas Hills, 37, cook, and Valentine Skeats, 38, fish• monger, were indicted. the first•named prisoner for stealing 1381bs. of dripping, 20Iba, of meat, and nine de canter., the property of Sampson Copestake and others his masters, and the last-named prisoner (Skates) with re ceiving the meat and dripping well knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Seeley prosecuted ; and Mr. F. H. Lewis and Mr. Straight defended Skesta, and Mr. Montagu Williams appeared for Hills. Though the case occupied some time the facts were shortly these. The prisoner Hills WM the principal cook In the well known mercantile establishment of Messrs. Oopestake, More, and Co., in Cheapside and Bow Church yard, an establishment in which no leas than 600 clerks and assistants had to be provided with their meals, and where the consumption of provisions was necessarily considerable. The prisoner Siceata carried on the business of • general dealer, in Lambeth-bill, City, and had been for same years the contractor for the dripping, fat, and bones which the cuisine of the prosecutors daily pro. duced. For some time pest it was suspected that the prosecutors chd not receive their proper retu rns from the contractor Skests, and accordingly the aid of d e . tective-officer Edward Hancock was called in. By the easiduity of that officer it was discovet ed that Hills, whose duty it was to deliver the kitchen-stuff to Skeet., acted in concert with him, and for a consideration fainted the see* ht delivered to Skeet' and his man every morning, leading to • robbery of not lege than $l. to 101. per week. The jury convicted both the prisoners, and a former conviction was moved against Skeet.. The Common rterjeant sentenced them to be severally kept in penal servitude for the term of seven years. THE CASE OF COLONEL NELSON AND LIEUTE NANT BRAND. Just before the risindof the court the grand jury at. tended before Baron ChanneU, and reported that they had concluded their labours, and at the same time made the fol. lowing presentment in reference to the case:—" The grand jury strongly recommend that martial law should be more clearly defined by legislative enactment." Baron Channel! said he would take care that the presentment was f o r. warded to the proper quarter, and the grand jury were then discharged. MARKETS. F" TALLOW. —lllCisbar Emunao.—The market was stead) to. day. Spet,_444. d.:6 Apra to June, 441. Sd. to 4aa ad (k. toper to December, Na 9d. to 464. COTTON.—LIMMeOOI.. Aran. 11.—Our market Is azain Ir regular, with prices Meowing buyers &Omitted sales to-day, 8,000 balm, including 1,000 speculation and export 5,003 American, lid, to 154: 300 Pennant, 4c., 13d. to 131 d. ; 300 iMaranhani, 131 d. ; 100 Mucci° and Solna, 12d. to 134 ; 800 Egyptian, I#ld. to 10d.. 100 Smyrna, 10;a1 to 11,1 , 1,800 Surat, 71d. to 111 d., Madras, 101 d. to lid.; Bengal, &node, At.. 7d. to 91d. ; 200 Peru, lid to 1201. Fair Di0 , 11, , r,h, 101 d. : fair Oomrawuttee, 101 d.: tair Broach, 10Id : tan Bengal, 7 1 0 .: fair Egyptian, 1514 Bak Perssua, ; middliag Booed', 124.; middling Orleans, Ind. WOOL AND WORSTED.— BRADFORD, APRIL 11.—The de. pression .hkb pervaded the market on Monday has conside rably decreased. The aspect of continental politica aeons, how ever, to be looked upon with some distrust. The preservation of peace seems as uncertain as before. Buyers of wool are de termined to pause in their operations. The business done to. day Is very trilling in 'mount Prices are not much changed. In worsted yarns, the spinners of lustre yarns still ening', busy, and are receiving smell orders. Some sort& of twofold& are also in request, especially for the home trade. Lower sots are not much inquired for. Prins are pretty steady. In pieces, German buyers, in fear of war, are holding aloof from pur chasing. The orders placed for America me small. The buyers who have been over to-day are only picking up odd tots for im mediate shipment. There is a fair MWness doing on home se count. Phan are not much changed. There is a great deal of machinery standing, and much short time working, and woe manufacture's have considerable stocks accumulated. With the near approach of clip, and the present position of the entire wonted trade, the depredation of w3Ol seems inevitable. All consequently observe the greatest caution in their operations. LACE AND HaSlEßY.—Narfutolf, oft, APRIL 11 —There is a rather better tone this week In both the staple trades of the district than for several weeks peat, though the still downward tendency in yarns materially checks the demand for the home markets. There Ls, however, a fair amount of business done with foreign parts, chiefly with the colonic* Employment in mod branches In pretty general—" Nottingham Journal." CORN.-13tanntoe an, Aran, ll.—At this day's market there was *short supply of English wheat, which realised 2s. per quarter over the eurerney of this day se might. Foreign up la to ta. per quarter. Barley quite udear. Oats held for 6d to la. more money. Beans sod peas dull. The millers advanced the retail price of dour 3a. 4d. per seek. BIIITOL, APturc 11. —At our market to-day there was an un usually small supply of English wheat, which sold freely, at fully Sla per qr. advance. Yor foreign a good Inquiry, at a similar improvement. Waiting barley quiet : a fair consumptive demand for secondary desaiptions, at rather over last weeks prices. Oats in moderate supply, and, with a quiet trade, last week's prices were fully maintained. Beans dull. Maize hold for an advance of Is. to 2a. per qr. Divizza, A ean,ll.—Wheat lihs to-day sprung up ilea • quarter, with a good demand at the advance, and every lot cred. The supply, however, was small. Of barley we had a good supply for the season only a slow trade was done at late rates —4is was the highest price we heard of. Oats. beans, peas, and vetches were all in small supply : and dull of sale at last week's rues Best white wheat, 32.1. dd. to Mo. M.: best red ditto, 3 to ; ditto new white, 31$. to Us.; other sorts, 24.. to Be ; 90e. to Ms. ; beans, Ils. to Us : peas, 18s. to 22a. : vetches, 61$. to 23a. ; rye, les. to 18a MI. ; doe dour, 611 to lb. ; beat seconds, 44*. to 30a MANCHESTICIL, APRIL 11 —Our market this morning was not numerously attended, but a strong feeling prevailed on the part of sellers. English wheat advanced Is. to 2s. per quarter. and Milian and California 6d. to Rd. per 1001 b., but the demand Man not active. Extra qualities of flour were held for Is. per sack over the rates of this day sen'oight, bat tbers%was no change In ordinary aorta, and scarcely anything doing in the nehde- Oata were Id. to 2d. per 45115, and oatmeal td. per load dearer. English beans were firm, and Egyptian Id. to Is. per quarter higher. India corn also brought is. ed. to Is. per quarter mote money. NEWARK. APRIL 10.—Wheat came to hand sparingly, and a fair =IOWA of liminess was done at a rine of IL per qr on recent rates. itbow of barley small, and the demand was quint There was a fair demand for oats, at a aniall advance. Beans tended upwards. NRWItRT. APRIL 11.—We had n short supply of wheat this day . line dry samples readily found purchasers at as &Bann* of 23, per qr. upon last weeks prices , for other sorts no Inquiry. Bark, plentiful, but rather dull trade, and In favour of the buyer. Oats are a steady sale at full prices. No change In beans. Entlranian, A►= —As compared with last week, wheat was id up on top, and Id. up on average Barley was I. down on top, and U. up on average. Oats were Is up un top, and 24. up on average. Beans were 3s. tip on top, and Is Al. 011 average. Wbeat, 62a 6d. to Bin (Id.; barley, 365. 6,1 to 441., oats, 255. to 375. ; brans, We to dim. C.\ TTLZ.—BritIMIGHII9, APILLL U. —We received a very mull camAy of beasts on offer this day, the trade was steady at a shads higher prices for prime qualities. There wa• an increase to the number of sheep on offer. Choirs ligbt weights were in her re quest . for hear; sheep there was little demand. Calves a fair supply, at shout late quotations. Fat pigs a moderate sup ply. Beef, 6d. to 71d. per lb.: mutton, In wool, &I. to 9ld. per lb.: ditto shorn, 6d. to old. per lb.: lamb, sus to 425. each : bacon pigs, M. to 9a per score ; porket, ditto, 8s- 31. to 9s. pa/recurs. NoTTINONAN, APNIL 10.—Our market was well supplied with beasts, bat the demand was rather slack at from Is. 6d. to per stone for supenor quality, and for sewed ditto (row es. to Ss. ad. per stone. There was also a good supply of sheep, indeed more than we have had for some time, and prices may be quoted at from Id. to lid. for those In the wont and fur shmn sheep did. to TN. Porket pigs realised from vs. to de. 341: per stone, and bacon pigs were sold at es. The show of calves was a good one, and they made from 70. to Sid. per lb. A tcw lambs sold at from Sos. to SU. each, Stuck at market Saturday—Beasts. SS: calves, SS. sheep, St; pigs, 41. aridity —Boasts, 109: calves, • ; sheep, 944 : pigs, /0. NKWARK, APRIL 9 —There was a good supply of sheep at our market to-day, and prices were rather lower. clipp.l sheep realised 544.t0 lid. per lb. Sheep In wool rid. to ed. per lb. The show of beasts was very small, and its. ed and in Per stone was obtained. ZDINIIVIIOII. APRIL 10. —The number of cattle this morning was 4d being gia head more than on this day se'utught. Prices much the same as these obtained last market. Top prate of the Wet beef, 85. 6d.: current, 7s. 9d. to bs. ; secooder7 and Inferior from 7s. 3d. to 7s. 64. per stone The supply of shecti was 3,546, being 152 less than on this day week. Good sheep fully maintained last week's prices, but the secondal'y were .Un dlinculty sold at barely lent week's prices Top price of the best mutton, 81d. current, gl. to Old., and downwards boas. ad. per lb. Fed plgs brought 54. dd. to U. 541. per stone: ut to right weeks obi do., 6s. to 9a. dd. a bead. Numbers market—Yet cattle, 463 : s o re do., 140; milk cows, 63; fat sheep, 3,546: store sheep, 350: pigs, 466. CH EESE.—katasatitr, APRIL 11. Our market to-lay wm. for the time of year, well supplied with all classes of ,hovse, and the attendance of Morns was moderately good Early in the morning trade ruled dull, but later In the day budness was brisk and a good clearance elected at about the rates of last marlia, which averaged as follows Its& to 94%. ; half -coward , . Slls. to 601.: nomenets, 625. to &Is. ; and Cheddars, to per cwt. ST. NAZAIRE, APRIL 11.—The Transatlantic Company's steamer La France has arrived Itcre snit 263 passengers and 2,000,000 francs inspecie. Her &des are Mexico 16th, Savannah 2Let, and Martinique 'llst March. _ _ HEALTH ItESTORY.D BY DU BARRY'S FOOD Tu THE' /Milani. nerves, lungs, and liver, curing dyspepsia tudiSo• tioo,, constipation, dasri hies, aridity. headache. neuralgia. feria, palidtation, sleeplessness. debility, wasting. asthma, fevers. consumption, low spirits, tio,ooo annual cored which had resisted all medicines, Including that of his Pollens the Pope —Tins, at in. lid.: 11b 2s 9d.; 121 b., 2h —Do Barry and Co., 77, Itinsant-street. London . also at Natalia. and Siaoiris and at 61. Cinicechurch-street . 4, rliesmole sit and MO. Oxford attest: and all recall and chemuts.--tid , ''' Casement.' BERTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. HORSCASTLE.—ApriI 9, the wife of C. I , liorneastie. Fat . of Gmarenor-rood. Highbary New-part of a aon MARSHALL.—ApriI V, at HolUngton-rilia, St. i/Vollarni on the Sea. the wife of J. II liarakull, Lay., ol a daughter . PABTRIDGE.— . AptiIIO, at the pmes, south Petite oak. the wife at W. J. P. die. Esq.. of a .on. PARSONS.—ApI 9, the wife of the Rev. A. 1 . 10,011 4 , .1 Jaoahter. -' Y. SARGRANT.—ApriI 10, at Homey Rise, the wife of J.'Mph Sergeant, Rag., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. SSIIBT—KENO.—ApriI it, at the church of St liotolpb, Ablate, by the Bev. J. M. Roberton. Martha Hannah Anne d.tughtcr cf Mr D. King. of Mitre-street. Ahlwate. to John Thouiaa Mr. J T. Ashby, of Elm-terrace, Hackney. CHARTRES - DK MOLEYNs—April 10, in London, by license. Archd. S.. son of the late R. Chartres. I.oq , of imbho. to Madeline. daughter of the late captain the lion. 1. Its Moleyna, of Dingle, county kern, Ireland . DEATHS. BUSBY.—April 10, Y. C. Husby, Esq., of Moreton-in-Marsh. Gloutiestershire. COLEMAN.—ApeII 10, at Hyde-park.square. Elizabeth stsflool. laughter of the late 11. Coleman, Fall., aged 73. HARRISON.—ApriI to, C. Harrison, of St. George stnuare, ge• gent'apark, aged .56. NICHOLS.—ApriI 0, at BlandfOrdagnare. gegent, park, J. W. Nichols. Fag., aged 29. THROBALD.—ApriI 1. after seven years intense antfcrina, ni 24. Greve-terrace. Ilighitatecoad, N. W., Robert TheelwhE merly of Patentoster.row, In his o:th year. Printed and Published by WILLIAM RING MALTZ, of No 00l iard-street, to the City of London. Pr i nter . at the Mix,lu Inm/aird Aimee, in the precinct of waitatriart•• Fat oar. Amu. It, lea. I :