The Express. — London, England, 1849-05-22 00:00:00

DRAWL= Or 71111 CAN= TROY ROCKINGHAM Poimm—Has Miaow y sad Priam Albert, Kew ptaitd by Ilko juke mambo n of B Pei i i thtu aa l WWI, as/ attoudod by a mamma was. let kes this morale', at Rye *meats Wonhe of is five of the revel ouriaps Mr the Moo B rm Madam of the South Waters Railway, Bab abeam the aqua may pr3modal by spinal train egogen, as some ho Onona, of Wain TM moan agmfres oh a Baughman at the 111 k Light Davao (Her A ) A EIZA P . :WOK& —TOOtirdly, 111 estramdinary Re' slam or the 0) nue 'ebb:Atlas boss the receady s zt i f VW NYS of Nora aisimel, awl to wadi ▪ OpeaMmes Noetteabrkws bee, is emscasesee, bees To Sims was exhibited at the Cosmorama licoms, Regent- si Street: It I *posed. et 13 het In Ismail, and boon a strik- Ms refashion., la fts petecipsi lestsres, to the flashes end SO doscriptieme hitherto Mien of the oust seam Sitelister. to lettlob the title of " ass serpent" his bees Won. Tito Olnumetrus has already been ..blhit.d is Nawsestle-on- so Tyne, where It wee immested by a Gnat member of persons sad there is little Mob' bat that tie speculation will b• sassily attrastim sod smensfal is this metsopolis. It CONCIIIT AT BIIITUANIA-BIUDO3.—On Friday tut a mama was held la sae ad the gigeatic tettos intended to M boa the Dritanste4widas, about se be enema over the seal. Camdlia phasedby couples he four slimming this pm mid two), shoat 600 a member, illuminated the some. Tbs made, mcal end ietramestal, was excellsat, sad Ira- versed the imam Meth sf tabling with scarcely dimi- too awed TAM& The lasi sleet, to the eye as well as the al sex, was mesa siesimg—the lialliaatlydiehted perspective 174 Reim at hest 167 yards Imp. The Meta of the row is 114 ,1 mart, 16 het, sad to height Oast 30 feet. Upwards of 600 j,1 4 of the aide of the mealaushesd seempied the front of the to Cadilliera, sad the other OM of the tubs was crowded with IS math. people. An appeared delighted with the pro- 60 33 MONET JILARKST. MONDAY E The intelligence from Paris, received this morning, regarding the elections, and the Russian ukase ✓especting the movement of troops to the assistance al Austria, had an injurious affect upon the English fonds, and the market opened at about 3 per cent. snider the closing prices of Saturday. The first price f,r Consols was 901 to 4, at which several money purchases were effected, and they sub sequently advanced to 90? to 1, which was the ruling quotation of the dsy. Later in the afternoon they rose to 91 to 4„ ►t which price they closed both for money and account. The Three per Cents. Itiducod wire done at 894 and 893, and the new Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. at 904, 904, and 904. Long Annuities were done at 9-16 and }. Is Bank stock there was one mark at 195, but in India stock there were no transactions tc- da i , chequer 11;11s and India Bonds were about le. lower, the former having been done at 445. to 475. prem., and the letter at 88s., 70a, and 71s. prem. I The members of the Stock Exc hange testified their loyalty to-day, on the occasion of the freeh attempt to shoot at the Queen, by joining together at one o'clock, and singing the national anthem. In the foreign stocks to-day there was a slight de pression in sympathy with Console, but it pa..aed off pretty generally, when they rallied, but the actual business we. very limited, and was comprised in the following transactions. Brazilian Bonds at 771 and 79 ; Buenos Ayres at 371 ; Chi Pan Six per Cents. at 91, 901, and 911 ; Chi li= Three per Cents. at 521 and 68. Equador at 31 and 31. Grenada Deferred at 3 4 . Mexican at 311 and 311 with coup?na ; and at 29, 291, 28j, and 29, ex coupons. Spanish Five per Cents., Active, at 1611 Passives at 31; the Three per Cents. at 32,1. French Fires at 83f.; exebangA, 251. 30e. And the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 49, 481, 491, and 481. It may be noticed, as a proof of the sadden chs teeter of the fluctuations in the French Snide, that they have fallen in Paris about 8 per cent. within the last week, and that the French Fives, which were done in this market on Friday Let at 90, were to day done at 83. _ American securities have increased very mach in demand w:thin the last few days; there is a scarcity of the Federal Six per Coat. Stock, as well as the better class of States securities. Pennsylvania was quoted to-day at 79 to 81; United States Six per Cent. Stock was done at 110; and New York Five per Cents. at 96. There are commercial letters in the City to-day from Amsterdam, dated 19th jest , Hambn-gh 18th inst., and Berlin 18th inst. The Amsterdam advises report a quiet market for sugar, and a limited amount of geseral business. The Hamburgh advice@ quote exchange on London rather higher, ma., three numthe' paper at 13.104, and at short, 13.111. From Ballo the accounts are more chest fel u to the prospects of business in Germany, as matters w.re looking a little quieter in most places The expectation that on the evening of the 18th a new constitution would be pro- pounded under the sanction of the authorities of Prussia, Bavaria, Hanover, and Saxony, and the report of a renewed armistice with Denmark to let January, 18.50, had given same cottidence. and in spired a hope of improvement in commercial circles. TUESDAY. Two o'cLorx. ii s i A tartar fell in the French funds has tended 6 to depress the English funds this morning. Cons3la s o opened at ,901 to 1, which is '- to i per cent. se lower than the ruling priess of yt;terday, but they is are now quoted 901 to 1 for money, and about 1 more for the account. The Three-per-Cent; reduced Ai aro quoted 89 t 3 1; atd the New Three-and- u *quarter-per -Cents. at 901 to 4. Bank Stock is ul quoted at 193 to .5 ; and Exchequer Bills at 445. to 14 475. premium. a la the foreign morket there is not much variation. 10 Brazilian 80..c1s are quoted 77 to 79. Milian, 90 to to 2. Buenos Ayres, 36 to 8. Equador, 31 to 1, Grenade, 161 to 171 Mexican, 281 to 91, ex cantons. to 2, portareec Converted, 28 to 9. Rosana, 163 to 6. at t=Bls FiTS In Cent, Active. at 1 6 1 to 1; the r, per Oats at 321 to 1. Venezuela at 24 to 27. is Datetawo-ied-e-Hat per Ceuta., at 48 to 49; and 13 1 the Four per Cate., at 78 to 77. 13 i =GLUM YUND6. $ll FrFeistor I 3ow Ct. Com.forkee. 901 15 111 r Cr. A 33.1011 13! pa Ct5..502 IS 01. Om 41.265.905 1 Lichcquir =2, 416 to Cs. ss 701321GN 'UNDO. le OLANsibbs Nor* Ipp C D ` w i T ti s s :3 rre Fr Iltrals.ivil Wanda DP. I 2$ Pi Ira r=ilers ii . 3 DIA •Mils..Tl 3 Oen IS 9 30 Sper Or. Sewn Al.i. 1516. 63 3 s i En. 7,1., r , 5 1 0 oCsllllsa No I. sea 50 ftlepoirrAD I 23 Alio& Ilevatar !Ma. 31 I ImID Diener Da s w 23 Ct. Arab 11er..66 6 16 pa Ct. Data sa..as II o ltor ll i ds.. . 14 -.c CI. DPP 0103..74 I lima )W.7 I 10 1 Mite ....ado. D. Osimatita Swim II Ct. Drib II per Ot. Dot& 4 pit CS. PRODUCE. Miactma Lula. X 2L—Tha pub& e t .' air sivorred to I arorrew froosisil. markt ol 'oar, arr. 11 Mok oil pirate to .I heir rust: Oa Waesaalay tiro wfil Ist b. s Odlo oar is Yee maid midst. r woraroX s A= Brood 23 =sr boss rid Ant kr a sow port by today. : About Miro ord.-Taw ils. OL ; tows. Sir. 6d.; et. n et e t i b. ; l4. Anirdortgl i o took....e a rogo be ltrood.. e.• 19 5 =boot yew woo LOU orlso.-Prors : raw. kir W boos my WWI t *milks err& ISL. 719-Varolgo Or iroloot boo to.. en orl drop& bid door wir raw son ffooroos tam woo rows st the earossolsort of Itio wk.-loses: Ort quiltiso said st Idly porous root; Winos eat of Are{ .. bens anity.-Oesviasai Wry mania allorstior : ad. *OIL ; "I 0 now. PSI.; rows mod yellow XL to AL ; sporso. 7M. .• bad. .. mar, 761. to Tn.; or. N i. to 261. 100. Oss* sm. lll. to = OK; rho Ortrolk. 411. 161. to 421.; Sonia ad May 101. to ." MM. ; pro. IX ; woos or. UL to WI. ; rod. •• o% stio, WM. ; . 3 !rasa. WI. 100. to OM 114. LL LONDOR 1/117ALT DOCK RSTIIRI-Mot 19, 20 Arms& Fr. Ste*. 11143 . 5 s.atili-- -I 2,112 f% 1 16 - 1 1 481 . 4 &Maria MOS ILL'? IWO i9e.n4 r e rants. - 4.710 LIM 14U04 11,0,11 Comm W.l M 1.797 3.139 * =O3O MI 9,1T 0 6.971 19 , bow 7. 770 3.446 101,315 90.131 ag 000011 I 8. 4 P. 6 w 106 =I 4.16 7,796 2,216 as * ges fit .s ti n Mon, w.L --arm 194 416 21.276 16,371 N UlloCiSce•Litios, Trio DAT, Ale Toro.- Tien Pub-' - li e nip of flow, iteweisting at 150 narbadoe; 4,000 boos Minulths, and 12,000 buts Manilla, are plod off freely, at the toll orlon , of last week. and occasionally at 6d. advance. Refined firro• low qualities scarce; poem lumps, 31.. 6d. to 53n W.-Ooffee : The sales are progrewing without any material alteration in price.- Aloe: The public elks, chiefly coustities of low qualities, went off brolly at a Auk decline.-Ruth. doll.-Plownto : 600 bags at tend, bat &MI? bought in at 30. per lb.-Cotten steady.-10 other artieles no mwerial sate, ation. There will not le a public eale of atria modals tl-morruw iaa customary), although the market Will be apes. TALLOW.—There is no alteration in the Tallow my %et, sad quotatiota axe the same am yesterday COTTON.—ISTTATO+ , L, MAT 21.—Ttto market to-day IMO Very La, end rims et Americium mity be mitt to be against the boric About LiAO Yaks lane Men sold. bnitftg 1" taken for wort and speeniatkin. MOPlL—MAtweeowz, May 22.—Durfage last few days the Bop been tow gremlin rust, though the Winn* are gene /ay tentward, and at leant a turtni g ht b e hind tt nal appegrance ad this period. Front several quarters we have well authenticated "Vt:of vermin, end a y Might would not much surpris e on . isCnirrgit, May Il 19. the tote Meanie fa eye is arm, a m i n g incd, and fine and goo! isimptm of last year's growth are rarely to be met with, holders being unwilling to sell at present rates. The best IC It's are in request, and are full 3a. per cwe higher than hat wool', The plod Is barkwuril, but generally very headily mad growlng.—Moidefone Juiorftal. HAY.--SNITILIFIELD ssn. Cooper end Davis aeon Ind. St tar• /thawing gonfalon.: tro. to a tto.am.. 80e. to 00e. throw.— 77e. to 306. ........ Ito to tC4o. I Qom .. OOL to Kr RAILWAYS. Two o'Clock.—The share market elntinnes very !wavy, and prices are folly as low as yesterday, and is some ins•atto.. lower, particularly in French . ! slew. Great Westerns are quoted 77 tr 79 ; York and North Midlands. 281 to 29h South Eastern., 201 to 1; Eastern Connie., 8 to f ; Northern of Ft sect, 41 to 1 dia.; Boulogne sad Amiss., 81 to 1. i ci t i berr lain Way at I to 1 esiook. IN. I BARU= laillralß 4i Aberdare, Prairoul Ambefists. WO*Om , Bag. & Oat Jam-. 6 Darks maw Extols; 174 to IN Ps• 5 yd - la. Western rum ft BinaWiliam lad 01 Joatisa, eallediqy 1 ie with iiptantatii 20 Do. withrt• rtlurte. I; 10 Um, oh., 0011 DUI eats duly paid, or 10 Do. witlrat ityrai 4 Boston, St=lied, sad 90 Orlaol and 374 Do. ThisOs 124 Do.l shun 10 Do. XlO Prolbromo SO Cboolor mod IS Do. Proknoon 371 Dubin awl Difost Joao . U Gst Amiga rL. ISE sod L D. _.., IS East ANllool IS PIN 8 D0.(27.104.)6 ler row 30 Eastern Cowden lv Do 770 w Oman 6 per 46. 61 Do. Tat, pr et., No.I 6; Do. do. X 30 Do. N. kZ. pa out. I& Do. l i sharso 11/ Eastern Um" elm (late 1.8 B. ol..) 21; Do. don C. dltto • 10 Do. Ilsrlp (floor. 6p. CL) 23 Gat 'Amain 11 D o. Nsw et. so as so Do. 40. J elms 61 Do. • putet.l2lo. sh -23 Emit Liflooladdro E 41000210 and 02•2. w.., 20 Da Off“ Factir, IrarriClt Dora.. 20 Oreat Sortbus If; Do.* ohms. A i Deferred 74 Do. 4 Yam It, • par at. 14 Do. Zzlissies ~_ IA Great lipaglii! sad Woe- °-- r337 gr - 7 - 1611.. — .. - : 103 i Urea: w 3.3 dagk034.... 3 Mo. New, Cf. . 30 Do. New, !DC ... 14 Do. New, .ilto 100 Great Welters -30 D 0 0. t shares to Do. Viltbs 13 Da New, f. SO nail loot Selby... ... .. 124 Do. .hire.... ... 60 Lincosift sod Clorlisle .. I a+s' SO SO 12 OL 24k 222 23 24 101 11 1 't r. Pm 32 * 30 2 ddb. 11 10 EY. 11 ir 20 si II 14pm db. il It 111 111 13 33 $1 Na 3 1 I 2 2 s 8 1 I pm. I Pm yet . )333. 3 33 13i 131 1 3 pi& li db. 16 Mi. 110 9L si db. I pea. 27 . 2.12. iii ii 4 i I db. 1 4di dlis. 1 li 44 I 1 4114 li 11 n. 341 lb p IS ID rmm.. TS SO 38 40 1 -- ti Os. 6_ .. AM. V? in }amt 141 10 pee. 50 It De. lb D 0.2111 1 ,40 - 10 Do.liew (pair.B par at.) 9 Do. Weft Badlag 23 De. Prestos sad Wpm 9 , Da. &area (41) SO . [weds wad Itradtcrd... 30 Leeds sad Mirk Ib Do. New Ito Laudon and Blackwell . 30 Loodun, Brighew,kll,3l3lll 9 Do. guaranteed 3 per al. late Croyd alhWs• 10 Do. I'ref. 5 per Cent._ JO De.Preferteas,Claavert. per cent., 1832 .. 3 Do. New C 3 gear.l4.ol. 111 Landon and Greestnek 10 Do. PreSeresee 2 dla par 28 28 die. 14 12 dl.. 71 7 dla. 4./ IA dla 24 db. 1 pa. dika s! i pm frt to it db. 4i 41 ISi 37 Si Si Si U 17 161 15i 11 fl U II n In In. Po -1 1 3 1 1 pa 3 pa. $4 38 18 14 dim. 14 13 di& ii I di. 1 li PQ• II $ di& 31 29 die. 12 11 tlia. 7 Pis. 15 14 dia. 15 14 dia. Si II dim. 07 C 9 ii ii dia. MR 24 1 S 4 ST 13 11 db. 1 7 1 1 1 1 1 4 64 6 114 1. la. 54 31 41 lirl a r: 23 2. 55 5 dis. 4 le 11 Sou 2 1 I ddb. 7 6 eh. 1 14 2 5 15 25 s di& ls, 12 15 .s - 4 WI. 20 2! .. ii ii die. 13 13 di. 19 91_ 6 4 e si i die. Se Ida. 4 4 pat. tee 20i 66 6 dia. 4 34 eg. 294 1/0i 54 i 414. pia I (.07;f.4-ATl.ii.r-iOrh i no. .as tie; Tsai; - rig - . . 11 Do. Mths . 1 De, SI a 0 ge..li..ardi.(ej 40 Loudon & SoutiON _ ___ 41, Do. :4•7l 4 iii .77 114 Do. New CO ... .. 11' Da "ii::: II. d iiif. leas 7p. . aa d positalk3 p.at. as al 4i Itasclaater, Baltic, a Kalb& . 100 Xaseheatar;oo4.ll4 a .. , is De. r un* No.. 1 .. 23 Do. slaws, No. 2 124 Do. Awes, No. .. 10 Do, ZlO Pref. .. 30 Da, Great Grimsby sad Sbellleltl . 17 NI Do. do. . 20 1./4. 6ti ue: 11 Do. Grimsby /Mei ... 41 Do. Ilancheiler Ine Lamle Union . MO Midland IS 1.m..C50 Mare"; 100 Do. Biroalogbook Derhl.too Do. ConsciklZd and Bliso., 0 pot 1 to Norfdh IS Do. Now . 120 ID Do. Guano. Spa sent. Do. Garraa.ll por coot. 114 Do. Lahaz Do. 17 North 50 Women's, WolnAhamptod ". IS Boodirds, Guildford, sad I S 4 R O 3 stet 13 So.Atiola Ornttal 1$ 'ADDIS' 11 Wood 11 • add _ _ Mir Ors T Do, Ors $ Do., New Daralosit— It Streirsbory sod Mutat gr. N. MI.) • 181 Do. Orwestry I Do. New... _ 10 D4= e sh, esi: riit. IS Dn. Preform; 71 th Maher:hire 21 Do. No. I _ 27 DX No. 2 ... ID Do. No. e 10 Do. No. 4 Registered .. 10 Do. Na 4 Mfg ... 38 South Mrs dour% Tahohtre, Dim; ilr sod Ogre ... IT Oil • PAL Riled - 10 Ihrellod ott 00 Wm ift• pr. rt. guar. 121 De. dr do. 3 Modesr. Udder Bouth widen ilmorr;M:l•Mg. • MO•01 le If IC.NOW Bi6la fib Do. Error* (York & Delmore) $ Do. G.N.E. Prober or Pro rem 60 Tart sod North Midland.. 10 Do. Preforms LI Do. East 110 West Ridieg Pommy Pommy Itors.woys. I (Me WWI sal Auldea .:. 20 odd 20 id home ( 7 11 ... ... 2 Wiwi Nobsodo ... 100 130. do. ... ... 7 4 ... ... ... 13 _7 41 1 61 7 xco q !now t 1 i me i — o di — IN .--- .T.: : . le amil lima ... .. 111 MID am& Storeas .. le Own aril lbws ... .. 11 sad Nantes ... ... 12 13 4 71 , 6i ptiL dis. de. pm. psi — dim. Mr. 31 7 3 1 6 7 3 dls. 4 4 d , s. 29 31 19 20 vi 6 91 4 dls. 3 4 9 7f di& LIVERPOOL. May 21. Is 4 9 81 9/ eroca-lizomixoz. TIN market was het 02 good, but pion slay be rid to have verealont maid,.—Boles t 4:ble doalea (pref. eh.), 114—Lase. aad Wain (B. ti.lll4.—Dttbs (fitth share), 44 th. EL d.—Dit'o ( fi fth eh., W.P.M.), L—ldeides end North Welters, 124—Ditto (Der I.eharas), Ha . Sj M. ad. p.—Midland, 674—DItto (libelee), MI 4.—Dide (emeidied E. * D.), 44i—South Erten mad Dover (No. 4, Iso.: m tda4 . lo.). 6 York, Newcastle, and Beni& (G. N. E. 8 per Rs. f d. MANCHESTER, May 21. BVoCi-ElCwirroz.—Thare we, very and odors were rattier lower. BIRMINGHAM, May 21. BTocx-Exclulow—The transaction to-day wore not numerous, but prices were pretty wen supported. Shrewsbury end Birmingdam Ws were done at M. 9d. die.; ditto Prolamin°e ticrip, at prem. ; and Shropshire Unions at nu Id. die. LEEDS, May 21. Srocz-Excluarez.—Tbs imam-dons fa shares won in sured fa aroma seretag; yet sot nook an as le 11; prism Great Illeethstns, ; Lleds a nd Zienekne, U. Se. HAW Loneublre, 151 : Tait and Nath ISOM Prohnirs, Ma BRISTOL, May 21. gromlicsaxou.—The market remained without much NM% sad did trewmetisna dosed witholdm Mon in Flow IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAT, MAY 21. The Loan CHANCELLOR took his seat at 5 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. SECOND READlNGS.—Trenchard's Estate; Tay Na vigation and P , rth Harbour Acts Amendment ; Kirksldy Harbour, Docks. Ferry, and Petty Customs; Sunderland Dock A c t and River Wear Commissioners' Acts Amend ment; Bills. PUBLIC BUSINESS. COMMlTTEES.—Apprehension of Deserters (Portugal); Bankrupt Law Consolidation ; Debts (Scotland) Act Amendment; Navigation ; Bills. PETITIONS PRESENTED. NAVIGATION BILL.—By the Duke of RICHMOND, from shipwrights engasted in the mercantile marine, and from varuumplaces : Earl TALBOT, from a place not heard; Lord STANLEY, from Great Yarmouth, Glasgow, Leith ; Earl of HARROWBY, from Liverpool, against the bill. By the Earl of ROSEI3ERY, from Leith, in favour of a repeal of the navigation laws; Marquis of LANSDOWNE, from shipowners and others of Liverpool; also from the Lteds Chamber of Commerce, in favour of the bill. AGRICULTURAL Dirrazat.—By the Earl of BEAU CHAMP, from the county of Worcester, complaining of agricultural distress. Naw ZIALAND.—By Earl TALBOT, from the New Zealand Company, four dsd on resolutions agreed to at • general meeting of the company, held 27th April last, against convict transportation to that colony. Pcuisitxmat or DEATH.—By Earl FITZLIARDINGE, from a plans in Olonceaterabire, in favour of the punishment of death. FIRING AT HER MAJESTY. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said he trusted their lordships would permit him, before proceeding to a subject on which he feared there would he some difference of opinion, to advert for a moment to a subject, on which there could be but one sentiment among their lordships—he meant an an ' fortunate circumstance which had taken place within the last 48 hours. There were offences so odious and disgusting, but at the same time so extraordinary and appalling, that it was impossible at once to speak of them with that scrioumeas which their malignity deserved, and the contempt which their purpose was calculated to excite in every bosom. (Hear, hear.) The inquiries which had taken place into an offence which had been directed against the person of her Majesty, on Saturday last, had not led to the disclosure of any eircumetances which justified a commitment for high treason. Had such a com mitment been made it would have been the instanta. aeons and unanimous wish of their lordships to go up to the throne with an address. (Hear, hear.) But this had not been the case, the life of her Majesty had not been en dangered, and the osamitment had been for a simple mis demeanour under an act of 1842, which appeared to be singularly adapted to deal both with the atrocious nature of the mime and the contempt which it had created. (Hear, hear.) He rose, therefore, for the purpose of stating that upon these grounds it was not his intention to propose that their lordships should adopt any address to her Majesty on the subject. (Hear, hear.) The contemptible author of the offence would meet with the punishment he so justly de served. (Hear, hear.) Lord STANLEY entirely concurred in the propriety and prudence of the course which had been adopted by the noble marquis. He rejoiced to hear that it ems not the intention of the gefilernment to give to this most contemptible and dis graceful outrage the consideration and importance which would attach to it, even in the mind of the wretched culpnt himself, by making it the subject of en address. (Hear, hear.) He was quite certain, that if her Majesty's life had been in the slightest degree endau t tered—if there had been any serious attempt of inflicting In j ury on her Majesty's per son, would not say dose that ere would have been an unanimous expression of loyalty and attachment on the part of that house, and thankfulness that such an attempt had been frustrated, but he would add that the same fee.ing would find an echo in the country—(hoar, hear)—from every class ; and he might almost venture to say from every individual of every class. (Cheers.) An another matter of congratulation, if they were to congratulate her Ma jesty, would be, that if it could be supposed for a moment p ssibie that any individual had meditated an attack on her Majesty's person, the result would call forth an ex pression oindignation and vengeance, from which the cul. prit in this case, he believed , had very narrowly escaped. (Hear, hear.) He agreed with the noble marquis, that it was better to treat such an offence with the contempt which it merited, and the individual with that degradation which was due to his crime, than to hold him up with notoriety to the public eye. (Hear, hear.) He would remain exposed to the contempt of all the world and with the feeling on the part of every human being that he had well deserved a dis graceful and degrading punishment. (Hear, hear.) Lord KENYON made some observations which were inaudible in the gallery, owing t the miss in ell parts of the home. Lord BROUGHAM would have joined ht any address or resolution, bat the offender before his trial ought not to be macienmed by an address or retolution, especially of their lordships, who might be called upon, is the last resort, to decide upon the guilt or innosenta of any individual. After a few words from the Marquis of LANIDOWNI the subject drerped. WORKS OF ART IN ROME. Lord BROUGHAM said that he had received a letter from Mansoni, who was in this country, and who would have petitioned their lordships if such a course would not have ben informal, solemnly stating, in the most positive and distinct tonna, that the reports in the French and English newspapers, as well as in plicate letters, that he tad brought away works of art from Rome, was entirely without foundation. He thought it due to M. Manion! to take the earliest opportunity of making this statement. NAVIGATION BILL. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in moving the order of the day for the hem, going into committee on the Naviga tion Bill, said that, a short time before coming down to the house, he had received an intimation from the chairman of committees (the Hurl of Shaftesbury) of his utter inability to take the chair, in consequence of indisposition. He there• fore begged leave to move that Lord Beaumont do take the chair. 4$ 43 Is 17 U 14 11 14 • a THE FXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1849. R&ILWAY BILLS IN PARLIAMENT. Gaon: 11.—East Lancashire Railway Aft. Ansemissent and Deviation (wasseting linos in Preston and Walton la Dale, As ). &desist Wranabam heard in reply. Onoor 13 —Taff Vale Rsilway (extension is Merthyr Tydfil). Promsten . ease closed. GROUP 17.—Rest Lothian Central Railway (abandon ment of the railway and dissolution of the company). Preamble proved; clauses agreed to.—Stirling and Dun fermline Railway (deviation of branch to Alba harbour, dimmokn of certain works, extension of time for completing lino and taking bud, and amendment of acta). Caw *Pawl. RAILWAY AOCOUNTII.-011 Friday night a petition of shareholders in the Waterford, Wearer& and Dublin Rail way, agreed to at publie meetings of the proprietors, was presented to the House of Lords, and referred to the select committee on railway accounts. It complains of the pro ceedings and tranracuons of the director—prays for an in vestigation—a better audit of railway accounts—more pro tection to shareholders—an amendment of the existing law, TII7 OPENING 07 TSB BiIIIOPSHIRII UNION Amp Elgajws BURT A3D Btauttronau is flied for the let of June. The ti4lof the Shropshire Union is from Stafford to Shrews. miles in length_, through a rich agricultural dieted, at a east of 500,000 1 . The opening of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham line, being Its first section, is from Shrewsbury to Oakeegate. BILITZI/1 UNION.—A special meeting is about to be held with reference to the general affairs of this company, and for the purpose of giving seek explanations as the proprietors easy desire. RAILWAY DEPRECIATION.—Frain evidence taken before the committee of the House of Lone, on the audit of railway account', it appears that, colloquia upon the disclosures that have recently taken pine, and from the confidence of the public being shaken, the market value of the York, New. autle, and Berwick Railway has diminished, within the lest two months, to the extent of 3,000,0001, or equal to one third of its share capital. CORN.—Arrnala at tite g ties Railway, for the week ending Malt 3690 n. West ll3 .. Earley Ode 176 irks, by tie Eutern tonn- Beans Peas Mbar 5476 seeks. lad CIIiNCISTEL May 21.—We are to-day well 'applied with grain. Wheat, of whirl the great bulk oondete, sold barely at the rates current m Monday lat. In other grata we note no alter& tlon, but sake on the whole very limited. Wheat, 101. to 124 hw per load. Barley, 21s. to We. per quarter. Oats, We. to 232. Beans, 34e. to Ws. - - BTITNIX6, Nay 21 ,— Then was a slender attendant.' at market. Wheat sold steadily, at former rates. But little demand for my ether pals. White Wheat, 111. to 111. • red, V. to la Barley, Us. to 33a Oats, 17s. to 18a . NAIRN S2a..to 345. Peas, We. to Sts. HahLszou, May 21.—We bad a fair supply of Wheat at market today, villa , was takes by the asigaboaring miners at late prices. Of siring mom the sapply was abort, and prices without altsestka. Linemen, May 19.—We bad some delightful showers daring Use week, which remised the young pleats, and assisted vezeta, so much retarded during the late dry weather. Wheat, Oats, and daisy, in gram eons, look well and healthy. No deliveries of grab . ham our ?inners. A good luny sales have been effected in =d Oats, at a small advance by fins qualktiss. The trade la Germ! has been melee, and the pries firm at car quotation. ; bat Indian CCM Mail I. rather do/1 of eels, except by retail. Flour In small demand, but prime needy. Wheat, red, Myer barrel; white, Vs. Oats, heavy, lb. 9d. to 13..; fad, lb. W. to lb. 9d. Barley, seed, 26v. to 294. ; Finotot, 15s. 6d. to 16s. Gant* Indian Corn, WAIL 6d. to 91. ; Duel and Tuscany, U. Its. Gd. to 01.15..; Maori =yellow, W. lib to U. lb. b.; white, el. 10s. to W. 13s. dd. Meal, W. to W. b. Gd. Oatmeal, 12f. Itte. to 121. 13s. Rye , U. to b. 2s. Ild. per ton. bilk Floor Nis. per bag; Arnett can, Mawr hand. DesTZIC, May 16.—The Dann have, in sight of our port, Forested two &WA schooners from entering. The fact of two British vessels, *agog to= Rostock after the blockade, having been mired by the Dame, has created much sensation here. Only 90 lasts of Wheat have changed hands la our market this week; good high mined, per 261b5., 415.; doe mixed, per 611br. to 621 be., 49e. 60 bats of Rye have been sold at les. L.a HORN, May 14.—You will have heard we have been fa • dreadful state. Liverything is, however, now quiet, but In bon ne= sothing at all is doing ; la the course of the week we hope the absentees will all return 7111 this be the ore no transactions of any consequence will take place; is yet way few have come back. Every thing le at present la great eon:tidos; but a few days we hope well sulllce to put all to rights. lobed, the town generally has suffered very little. Manato.t.as, May 17.—Tbo crop in the mouth impose in euellent coexists" although in this smith it is not pcesioic to form *nylon appreciation as to their future state. The weather has been Ire"y reniariusbly doe and warm. Cron deliverable has been scum the List few dare, and priors tolerably sustained. Polish Odessa, &lbs. to Ilbs., of grad quality, 365. 9d.; for delivery from July to August, Us. We ars completely bare of Meize. CATTLE, ite.—Total of Cattle received In London, by the Eastern Counties Railway, for the week ending May 20 2,246; Calves, 120; Sheep, 3,560; Pigs, 226. Coicazarsz, May 19 —There was swain as abun'ant show of stork at market, the mainity of which were of excellent quality. The Sheep , and Limb trade does not at all revive, but on the ether hand was -odds, downwards, the reports, from Smithfield market yes/edgy being of a discomiging character, fat stock having declined In value fell very 4d, per stone of albs. since that day selinight. Purchaser., consequently, could not be found, except a few butchers for immediate country onnsumption, and who bought as it were at their own prices. The same say be said with regard to fat Roots, which were plentiful figs also declined full 4d. per stem woo is t week's rates. Good ranch Cows continue in brisk denoted, at prices quite equal to those of fat week. Fresh and lean Bence were In good supply, and although offered at very considerable declining prices, very few found purchasers. The trade throughout was moot deeponding to the dealers. Simply: Sheep and La4be, 4,720 ; Beasts, 391 ; Pigs, 276; Calvet, 28; Hones, 45. - - • -- • - . . - LIVIMPOOL, MAY 21.—Then won 1,090 bouts, 6,928 Munn at market. The supply of beef and lamb was leas Max hat week ; of mutton, condi& raid? larger. The demand good for b.ef at Latter prices. Mutton and Lamb in dull at lower prim, for mutton ; lamb whboot change ; bead at 41d. to S ; mutton, Sd. to 6d.; lamb, 6d. to Id. The house having resolved itself into a committee, with Lord Beaumont in the chair. Lord STANLEY rose to move the amendments in the bill et which he had given notice, and proceeded to state, and to illustrate by statistical calculations, the objects almal at by those amendments. He thought recipe°- ,Ay ought to be preliminary to any advantage pro • to be conferred on foreign countries by this b3l. Het did not propose to make it obligatery on the government to have that reciprocity with every country, both e proposed to enable her majesty to enter into engagements with foreign powers, and by orders in council to admit them into any benefits they were ready to grant to British ships. The dis tinction between the proposition of the government and his amendment wag this—it was a distinction not so much in Principle as in the Maui itjserandi: the. "m -ined to reveal In the Sect inane ce, re-enacting a portion of the act in the next place, and proposing to re taliate on countries that did not grant reciprocity. He pro posed to retain the principle of the existing law, but to per mit her mejesty, on the principle of reciprocity, to enter into an engsgemert with foreign powers to enable them to pos.. seethe advantages from which the operstion of the nionp den laws would otherwise exclude them. The existing navi gation laws drew a distinction between articles the produce of Europe, and the produce of the three other quarters of the globe. He proposed to adhere, in his amendment, to that same mode of proceeding ; but both as regarded articles the produce of Europe and those which were the produce of Asia, Africa, and America, he proposed to introduce such modifications of the existing law as might be advantageous to our commerce. The reason of the distinction was obvious. It had been the object of all former legislatures to secure to this country, free from com petition, not only the communication between British ports and Br itish ports throughout the world, but also to obtain for this country the groat advantage of bringing (rem distant ports exclusively in British vessels, and vessels belonging to the country, articles of bulk, &a. The law as affe-ting Europe was less stringent than as to other countries of the globe. With regard to European goods, no goods the produce of Europe could be imp orted into this country—he meant no goods which were enume rated and act-forth--could be imported into this country ex. rcpt either in British ships or in ships of the country from which they were direc ly imparted. That was to say, although a Swedish vessel might import Russian goods into this country from Sweden, she could not import from Roads direct Russian goods in a Swedish yens& Russian goods could only be imported in a British or Russian vessel. The amendment be proposed to introduce with regard to goods the produce of Europe, was one of considerable import ance inasmuch as it opened the indirect trade a ith European countries. He did not propose to abrogate the navigation laws, and take the invidious course afterwards of retaliating by renewing a portion of them. He would take a more straightforward course. It should be competent for her Majesty to enter into reciprocal engagements with any countries of Europe, provided sho obtained from those coun tries an actual equivalent for our British shipping; and therefore the ameadmeut he proposed to introduce was not to abrogate the existing prohibitions, but to enable her Ma jesty in council to grant to those countries, from time to time, certain privileges as to the right of carrying an the indirect trade of which they were at present deprived. With reference to Asia, Africa, and America, what to suggested was to apply the principle which hitherto kid been applied to Europe with reference to enumerated articles, making an enumeration of those bulky and large articles upon which this re strictions 'Mould still be maintained, and upon which it was important still to uphold our exclusive rights. But, as to the other articles, making the same relaxation which now ex isted as to the European trade, allowing them to be im ported from Enema in British vessels, or vessels of the country . in which they ere produced, and further enabling her Majesty to allow their importation from other countries in which they were found, upon the principle of reciprocity. He wished to call the attention cf their lordships to a paper which had ken laid on the table that morning, being a list of vessels not coasters, belonging to all nations trading inward and outward in 1848, in the pit of Liverpool. Now, that exhibited. in the en tries into the port of Liverpool in 1849, 1,320,000 tons of shipping; and that was excluding steamers and vessels in ballast-1,320,000 tons of shipping, with carom, entered the nom of Liverpool in 1948. And what proportion did they think was British shipping alone? Of that proportion, nearly 5.00,000 tons were British shipping, the remaining 500,000 odd tons brine foreign shipping of all nations. But of the British shipping, no lees than 373,000 tons were the shipping engaged with our colonies—(hear, hear)—which we were about to surrender entirely—(hear)—and a large portion of the remainder was British shipping engaged so trade with those countries which had no shipping of their own; and, consequently, as cur navigation laws protected us against the ships of any other country (and which prate c. don we were now going to withdraw), we had as exclusive a protection with reference to those ships as we had in entrains colonies. (Hear, hear.) The return went on to show that from Sweden and Norway there were 2,000 tons of British shipping, but eat a single vessel of those countries; from Denmark, 2,451 tons British, and 6,000 tons Danish; from Prussia, 6,000 tors British, and 16,000 tons Prussian ; from Holland, 1,300 tons British, and 7,600 tone Dutch; front ' Belgium, 2 300 tons British. 6,799 tons Belgian. These were all the countries with which we had reciprocity treaties. They were about to extend the principle to the whole world which applied to the direct trade only. The importations from tho United States were very considerable • they amounted In past years to 209,000 tons; but as against that 209,000 tons, what was the American tonnage? It was 462,000 tons. The United States were our rivals, and we must be prepared to see them obtain a large portion of the trade of this kingdom. If they bad more than double the amount of trade between Liverpool and the United States, what security was there that in every quarter of the world, and in every ata,America would not be able to obtain the same preponderance. and would not be able to augment largely her own navy ? To the powerful rival which had defeated our trade we were about to throw open the trade with every other country in the world; with the East Indies, Chins, the Brazils, Cuba. the American colonies, and the Ent Indian colonies. He had now stated to their lordships the whole of the amendments which he intended to introduce ; he proposed on the one hand to maintain the great prim cities of the navieration laws, and those great principles he took to be, in the first place, the maintenance of our trade with the colonies and the mother country ; and in the next Place to maintain, as far es we could, the advantages of the long voyage an d the communication with those countries which, possessing no shipping of their own, were most avail able to British shipping. He proposed to maintain, as an object of permanent importance, the British register of ships British built, and that great interest the shipping interest of this country, to sacrifice which would only inflict a deep and irreparable injury on a most meritorious class of men ; and in time of danger considerably weaken the maritime power and naval defences of this country. He proposed, la some cases absolutely, in others permissively, to give her Magasig in Council power to permit relaxations to be made is tow elf countries willing to enter upon terms of recipe> oily with as for the mutual advantage of commerce. He against the principle of retaliating on other wan in the first place, it was exceedingly difficult to Wm/ the retaliation, and, in the next place, the bill did net make it imperative on the government to retaliate. No proeseding could be more offensive than granting a boon g=ly at first, and then saying to a particular count r y , you have not done so and so we will take hosti l e nowares against your commerce, as a measure of retaliation. The question which their lordships would have to decide was, would they at once commence by repealing the navigation laws, which had been so long the basis of our naval strength, to the maintenance of which the people of this country were firmly attached, or would they correct the practical inconve niences urged against their operation, by simply permitting her Majesty to exercise her powers in savour of countries which should be willing to confer similar advantages ea nos ? Earl GREY said that he was unable exactly to compre hend the nature of the amendment of the noble lord. Did he mesa, in the event of his amendment being adopted, to allow the fiat clause to continue in the bill, and the existing acts to be repealed ? In page 2of the amendment proposed by the noble lord there was a material blank. This clause might be the came as the bill, or might be nothing at all, peecrely according to the manner in which the blank was sued up. Lord STANLEY said that there was a separate notice of amendment to meet the repealing clauses of the second see don. He did not think that any article in the clause should be laid on the table before they came to the question, would they extend to Asia, Africa, and America the same principle which they extended to Europe as to certain enumerated articles? Earl GREY—Are tea, coffee, sugar, tobacco, included in those Srlici. I ? Lord STANLEY—Every ens of them. Barl GREY—The noble lord, on Friday evening, said that he was going to propose alterations which went to the very principle of the bill, but having had three days to consider, the noble lord informed us it was not a question of principle, but a question of degrees, that it was tee 'nodal operands which they had to consider. It appeared to him that the n oble lord's first view of his own amendment was right, that the question was a question of principle, and that at was • question of principle which their lordships would be called en to decide. The noble lord proposed to leave the existing navigation law in tome, and then submitted certain com plicated amendment,. Did he only mean is leave the mom in certain cases with thous regulations In favour of certalo. net ons which acted on the same principle with us ? lf they were to make the navigation laws depend on the course of legislation of foreign coun tries, the mode proposed by his noble friend on the moos bench was much better than the mode proposed by the noble lord. How would this work? In bringing corn from Dantsie it was the Prussian ship which was a most dangerous rival ; but It might so happen that there were not, at the particular moment when the exigencies of the trade required it, privileged ships to bring these particular goods to this country from a foreln port what happened? Either it was desirable to open this trade farther or it was not. If it was desirable, open it at once ; if it was not, restrict it. The nolge lord said that he meant substantially to maintain the law as it stood as to the restriction of importing the produce of Asia, Africa, and Ame rica from porta in Europe; and the reason he gave war, that he wished to retain the advantages we had in our great warehousing system ; that we brouelit sugar, tobacco, and coffee from Asia, Africa, and America, that they were placed in warehouses, and then, as they were wanted, were sent to all the great European markets. We knew we could carry these articles to Prussia or Ham burg ; but, if we maintained the law as it now stood, Russia had already passed a law by which, at the expiration of the treaty by which we were at present bound, those articles would no longer be sent to Russia. The same thing happened with the Haase Towns, with northern and southern Ger many; distinct notice had been given that those countries would impose similar restrictions upon us. (Hear, hear ) Therefore in 1853 the great advantages which we now had from our warehousing system would be entirely destroyed. Foreign nations, by simply applying to us the restrictions which we applied to them, would render • continuance of that system impracticable. That great system, which had converted all Europe into a single commercial market, as it were, would be entirely ruined, end we, as the most commer cial country, should be the greatest sufferers by such • chance. Did the noble lord remember the well-known fable of the dog and the shadow ? Let them beware that whilst greedily grasping at the shadow they did not lose the substance. (Cheers.) The noble lord told them that the effect of the general opening of the indirect trade would be to throw it open to our most dangerous of all rivals, the Amok:ace, and he referred to the trade between the Unites States and Liverpool to show to what a great extent we were under a disadvantage compared with the Americans. We could compete with American ships when we met them or perfectly equal terms ; but between our own country and America we could not compete with them on equal terms on account of the restrictions impoeed by our navigation laws. He now came to the colonial part of the question. The noble lord had admitted the other night that Canada had a strong case. Accordingly he was curious to see what pro pout the noble lord would have to make, and he confessed he was surprised at the amendment which the noble lord had livid upon the table. With regard to other colonies, the noble lord did nothing; and with regard to Canada, he mode a concession which he would venture to say would prove utterly futile. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord met the difficulty of Canada by allowing American ships to load outwards from Canada to this country— But how did the noble lord reconcile that with his dread of our " most dangerous rival ?" (Cheers) The noble lord was actually going to protect the American against all ether 'ideas with respect to the trade of the St. Lawrence ; and at the same time, he really did nothing whatever for Ca nada; because w hat Canada wanted was, that ships should be allowed to go there so cheaply with general articles, that they would be enabled also to return cheaply with the pro duce of that country. During the brief suspension of our navigation laws with regard to corn, no less than 22 ships arrived in the St Lawrence from Bremen, with emigrants from Germany. They were going to the United States; but when the Bremen ships could bring back flour to this country from Canada, the St. Lawrence was the cheapest route, and Canada thus gained doubly. In the same manner with regard to the ships of the United States. The noble lord would allow them to bring corn from Canada to this country, but he would not allow them to go to Canada in a manner which would make it worth their while to do so. lie repeated that they would do nothing substantial for Canada unless they at threw open the St. Lawrence that ships of all nation might freely resort to that river, and bring back, cheaply, cargoes from that country. He called' upon them to remember what was the principle at issue between the noble lord end himself. The noble lord told them that he prorated to maintain substantially the existing regulations, and to do nothing more than was absolutely necersary in re moving restrictions. Her Majesty's government, on the other hand, ropes d that they should begin by repealing restrictions, and then re-impose thaw which should be shown to be necessary. Let the noble bid show the necessity for them after ping through them in detail, and then they should re-impose any one of the restrictions for which even a lausible case could be made out. But he did contend that the outs probande rested with the noble lord. (Hear, hear.) The treble lord had asserted that the present measure would impose acme onerous restrictions upon the British ship' owner. Let I fan prove that to be the case, and no one would more readily yield than himself, opposed as he was to every sort of restriction. But he must say that their lordships ought not to begin by striking out those claus i a of the bill which removed all existing restriction, upon navigation, for if they did so they would very much compile eta the measure. As to the noble lord's assertion that the opinion of the country was against the repeal of the navigation laws, he would not enter into the argument again to prove that it was not so; but he should content himself with reiterating his opinion. He hoped, therefore, that their lordships, having already assented to the principle of the bill, would not retrace their steps by agreeing to the al mendm, nt. of this country, but he voted under the pressure of an absolute necessity which imposed at imperative duty. The defence of our institutions was to be preferred to wealth, and theft. fore he voted for those branches of the revenue and spirt the repeal of the Litigation laws. (Cheers.) Earl FITZ WILLIAM raid the noble and learned joa who had Nat sat down bad occupied much time in travelling them about over all portions of the globe, and had devoted' very brief space indeed to the consideration of the question before them. The noble and learned lord inquired who it was that called for these alteration, and asserted that every on wag satisfied with the present law. Why he( EirlFi:: ablitm) contended that molt of the great commercial bodies through out the country called for the repeal ofthese laws, and more than that, he asked did not foreign countries eel upon tir, unmistakeably, for a modification of our rya. temp (Cheers.) He called upon the In to look to the power which Denmark wee row exercieinn, and to buy is mind that the naval supremacy of England was not ascribable to the Navigation se He denied not that that act might have temporarily produced some effect, but be contended that it wee one of temoorety creation ; and he believed that the mom perfect confid ence might be entertained that its repeal would unshackle com merce and tend to the security of our mercantile marine. Lord ELLENBOROUGH begged to fecal the attention of the house to the propositions which had been submitted. As the second reading had been affirmed, and the bill son then in committee, noble lords on both aides were agreed that some alteration was to teke Mace in the naviganddi laws. Her Majesty's miuisten proposed that former ac's should be repealed, but they reserved to themselves the power of im posing prohibition and restriction in certain cases upon the vessels or articles of foreign come:Tin. The amendment of his noble friend (Lord Stanley) established a more con venient mode than that {,reposed by the bin of arriv ng at the object which they all had in view. All that Wn now asked was to establish a certain mode of proceeding, in order to enable them to gain equivalent ben( firs from foreign nations. He could hardly are how their lordships coed hesitate to adopt the mode propped by his noble friend 4 , 1 e° ol g4t 1 44 ‘ t',7 mu yagoe• inn anu 011 PS •••••..- the act, and be applicable without vasietion. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE denied altogether that the only difference between the bill and the amendments was as to the mode of arranging a system of reciprocity. If that were so, the bill would indeed be msignificant. (Hear, hear.) As pointed out by the noble lord on the cross benc. there was this great difference between them, that by the bill they removed all the restrivions they could, and retained the power only of imposing them, when forced by nem ssi'y to do so, while the noble lord (Stanley) retained Ell the restrictions he could, and relaxed only those which he wee driven to relax by the force of circumstances, and which he could not even by his own amendments resist. The noble earl who spoke last conceived that if this bill passed, it would be in the power of any other nation to hamper and restrict our commerce by new proh , bitory duties. Why the bill contained a clause to guard against such a possibility. (Hear, hear.) That clause stated that in cue it should be made to appear to her Majesty that British vessel' were sub- Iject in any foreign country to any prohibitions or rem:Tic:ions as to the voyages in which they might engage or as to the articles which they might import into or • sport from such country, it should be lawful for her Majesty, it she thought fit, by order in council to impose such prohibitions or restrictions upon the ships of such country, either se to the voyages or articles, and by the following clause power was given to her Majesty . to impose additional duties whenever British ships were either directly or indireefly subjected in any foreign countries to any duties or charges whatsoever from which the national vessels of such country were exempt. He would remind those noble lords who spoke contemptuously of reciprocity that there was a well-authenticated statement, drawn from sources of un doubted veracity, whereby it appeared test under ex isting reciprocity treaties, this country not only shared, but absolutely enjoyed, almost a monopoly of the carrying trade with some of the not them ports, and these 'Weans/Lees would certainly be lost to Englat.d if their lordships ,treed to the amendment, for the treaties were about to expire, and the effect of the amendment would be to prevent her Msjesty from renewing them. With respect to the commercial part of the question, be must say that if there was any part of the commercial progress of England which he regarded with unmixed satisfaction, it w..s the gradual growth and de velopment of the warehousing system. If the extension of that system was carefully examined and atalysed from its com mencement up to the present time, it would be found that every fresh advanco that had been made in the warehousing system had been attended with incensed preoperity to the 00112111M0 and the manufactures of the country. The perfection of the warehousing system would be in rendering England the entrepdt of Europe, and the retort of all strangers for the purchase of the com modities which, under that system, would pour into this island. Indeed the principal advantage which the bill was calculated to confer upon Great Britain was to e :tend to a very great degree the warehousing system. If their lord ships listened to the intent' s of commerce. they we uld, not as now, with a good grace, but as then, with a bad grace, be compelled to yield. (Cheers.) The committee then divided— For the amendment lO3 Against it On our readmission to the gallery, Lord STANLEY was on his legs, making a statement as to the couree he should pursue with ref:reuee so the eu'oe qoent clanY , s, the substance of which did not reach the gallery. The house then resumed, and it was arranged that the committee should sit again on Thunday. The house adjourned at a quarter to one o'clock. Lord WHARNCLIFFE said that the amendment of his noble frieed wa, quite opposed to the principle of the bill which their lordships had assented to, and therefore it would be highly inconsistent in the house to r dopt it. The Earl of HARROWBY did not believe that Great Britain would ever obtain an equivalent for what the gave away by this bill—sod therefore he hoped their lordships would adopt his noble friend's amendment, thereby main. taining the principle of the navigation laws, and yielding such concessions as were absolutely necessary. L,rd COLCHESTER supported the amendment. The Marquis of CLANItICARDE referred to the state ments of his noble friends who were opposed to the bill, that it was in opposition to the feelings and opinions of the people. The facts proved the reverse of such statements. lie was, however, surprised to find that the noble lord who HOUSE OF COMMONS—MONDAY, MAY 21. The SPEAKZEt took the chair at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. SECOND READING.—Leeds and Think Itiilway (power to guarantee interest on certain shares, REPORTS CONSIDERED.—East Anglian Ihilmays (Ely and Huntingdon Railway, extension of time) ; Taunton Town and Market Improvement; Bills. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETIT ONS PRESENTED. had Proposed the amendments had not addreeeed ARBITRATION TREATM UNCLAD or WAR.—By Mr. himself at all to a most important matter, and stove GRANTLEY BERKELEY, from places in Gloucester all others deserving of consideration, namely, the shire, in favour of internsttonal arbitration treaties. effect produced by the navigation laws upon our foreign SUPERANNUATION FUND Fon Poore LAW OPPICIALS.— treaties and our foreign relations generally. Fer het own By Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY, from master and part, he was at a loss to know how their treaties could con- matron of Stow in-the-Wold workhouse, in lavcur of come ttnue to be observed if those laws were to be much longer in pensation for poor law officers. existence. (Hear, hear.) It was the opinion he might FISHERY REGULATIONS, —By Mr. GRANTLEY almost say of every Intelligent man that a system BERKELEY, from fishermen of the Severn, on the subject of reciprocity was the right and best system and of there regulations. that restrictions were productive of the utmost disadvantages. SLAVS-GROWN SUGAIL—By Mr. GRANTLEY BERKE- By the adoption of a liberal principle of trade England would LEY, from Newenham and Little Dean (Forest of Dean), invite other nations to do likewise, and would give the best against the imeortation of alcove-grown sugar, and &legit)! proof that she believed it to be the wisest and most beneficial system. The very same objections now urgedby noble lords that large steamers, capable of carrying 2,e00 persons, were now employed in carrying slaves. opposite, bad been advanced many years ago, upon AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.—By General LYGON, from the opening of the West Indian trade, and experience Worcestershire, comp:tieing of agricultural distress. had since 'hewn whether they were sound objections. No one could entertain the least doubt that the measure was COUNTY FINANCIAL Reroam —By Mr. HEY WOOD, supported by the great weight of the intellect and property from a bo ard of guardians in Yorkshire, in favour of mum/ ot this country. The movement taken by the noble lord boards with this object. opposite to establish, B or, rather, to perpetuate restrictions, COURT OP CHANCERY ( IRELAND ): y Mr. SADLEIR, was, therefore, most mis taken, and altogether in the wrong from clerks of the Court of Chancery in Ireland, praying for direction. Whether our foreign relations generally or our compensation in the event of the Encumbered Estaes Bill colonies were considered, there was no doubt that the (citric- pasig into a law. tine system of commerce was not calculated to enable EXPLOSIONS IN COAL MINES.—By Mr. F. O'CONNOR, the British people to maintain, much lees improve or from 5,000 coal miners, praying for some legislative enact extend their trade. meat to ...cure safety in coal mines. &rangers were then ordered to withdraw, but, whilst in UNIVERSAL SUPPRAGIL—By Mr. S. CRAWFORD, from the act of doing so, Rochdale, in favour of universal suffrage. Lord BROUGHAM advanced to the table, and said be THE CATHOLIC OATH.—By Mr. S. CRAWFORD, from should not have discharged the residue of his duty, respect- a Roman catholic clergyman, praying for alteration in the ing that measure, with satisfaction to his own mind, if, in catholic oath. opposing the motion before their lordships, and Riving his support to the amendments of hie noble friend, he had not Duo CARTS.—By Lord MAHON, from Hertford, against stated his reasons for doing so. The noble and learned lord then proceeded to criticise Earl Gran- INCREASED WAOTA'rciOPERATITES.-•By H. SLANEY, sille's speech, in which he said that noble earl from a place in Yo rks hire, . nee praying th at means might be the use of dog carts. an lavawages to operatives. . . had commented upon statements he had neither heard takento secure declinedsupporting the prayer of the petteon.) or read ; for they happened not to have been reported. He hon. member of (The (Lord Brougham) would not say how long by the clock —( a laugh)—the noble earl bad addressed their lordships , for, NEW WRIT. whenever the noble earl spoke, one never thought how lone. the motion of Mr. TUFNELL, a new writ was ordered the office of Judge-Advocate-General. ' (Laughter.) They forgot how the time mesa unless they for C lutherl dshire, in the room of 'Sir D. Dundee who had moved to look at the clock. (Laughter.) But, if he could accepte d t judge by his own sensations, he should certainly say the IRISH POOR LAW. noble earl had been dilating for at least a half hour—(in- Sir It. Fzeoussox brought up the report of the come creased laughter)—by the clock, not upon the motion before mitts on the Irish poor law. the house—nor upon the amendments proposed by his noble ATTACK UPON HER MAJESTY. friend, but the noble earl's observations were altogether eon- Lord J. RUSSELL, previous to moving the postponement fined to the debate upon the second reading of the bill. of two orders which steed first on the paper, said—l think it The petitioners regarded this only as a small instalmeat of but right, and calculated to allay the public apprehension what they had a right te—vie., the absolute and entire re which must have been created by the statement of the news movel of all restrictions whatever. A very able and papers of Saturday evening, that a treasonable attempt had lamented friend of his had said in this very house, that the Cen made on the life of her Majesty, that I should inform man who talked of the absolute removal of all restrictiots wa the house that it is unfortunately true that a pistol was dis fitter for Bedlam than an assembly of lane men. There was re urn to Buckingham Palace •, yet it has been found that charged at th e Queen whist her Majesty was peeing on her hardly an exception to the unanimity of the opinion against this ill-fated bill. The noble marquis who spoke last called there is no reason to accuse the per. on who discharge 1 the pistol of any . treasonable attempt, and that the crime he het on the house to pass the bill out of respect to the lower house—he did not say increuing majorities, committed Is mere remarkable for baseness than atrocity. I but he ought to have said diminishing majori- I can only further state my conviction that if the attempt ties. Last year the majority was 117, and in spi t e of were of another kind, I should have the cordial assent— all the canvassing of the government, it had this year (the noble lord was interrupted by the most enthusi thisnled to 54, or less than a half, and the two majorities of ....., e cheering from all . part, of the ousei—of this house year did not make up the majority of last year. He "'" observed the extraordinary efforts made to pass this bill. to an address to her Majesty, to congratu late her Majesty on the eservation of so valuable a life. (Loud cheers.) The most unusual preparations bad been made; he saw pre- Her Maj esty, on this occasion, which might have been gni of cautions of the most unprecedented description used to pro the most serious importance, behaved with her usual nitre - cure a majority, as if the fate of the empire depended upon pidity and self-possession. (Loud and general cheering.) it ;as if the security of the state, the prosperity of England, The noble lord concluded by postponing the Ecelesiasticat saw a right rev. friend of his enter the house who had not depended upon pa . stan g this measure this very night. He Commission and the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bills to the 4th heard one word of the debate. Forth went the Mr. J. O'CONNELL hoped, as an Irish member, to be summons, and from a distance men hastened to be here to Mr. to ssy, that if anything could aggravate the mi. night. Some of these parties represented the country abroad, permitted his unfortunate country, it was the reflection that the but Europe was not in such a state as to justify these re- 'le, t charged with this outrage was an Irishman. morals. Europe, frees east to west, was in an agitated state —Europe was shaken to its foundation by revolutions . If (Cheers.) ° During Ebel th wildest t o excitemen of popular phrensy June next. . In that country he ieved that o ne harboured the he were to name a day in which, ever since he bad known France, by all kind of information and by all matter of aslil ev en now he believed that misfortunes would be lore idea of personal insult to the sovereign—(cheers)-- public notoriety, it was most perilous, he said that the posi- l tion of France at this moment was the most difficult, and no goat nin the general burst of congratulation at the fact that man could tell from hour to hour what the state of France oar bel oved sovereign had escaped this base attempt. (Loud would be. He would say the same of Frankfort and Vienna ; chee rs ' ) HEALTH OF TOWNS. therefore it was that he felt how important it was that our ex- In answer to a question from Sir W. CLAY, which was in tellent representatives should continue ia those countries, and in during the preseet session, brought bill for the metropolis audible in the galler therefore it was that he was more struck with astonishment , y , or rather awe, when he found that, the fate of the empire _Sir G. GREY said that there would be no public heelth depending upon the vote to-night, these temporary re- moves had been found necessary. There was something but measures were in progress, and would continue to bo more important than trade, more important than comm erce, taken, grounded on the first report of the somsiction. One of the fence of the country. He voted for the customs and he voted a nother t he s y, urve With regard to the final report more important even than wealth itself, and that was the de - was the consolidation of the cemmis,ionsof sewers, and for the excise, though they cruelly oppressed the good people sanitary commission, he could not say when it would be 38 7 dia. 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