The Express. — London, England, 1864-04-15 00:00:00

r. 4 IMPERIAL E 1101JSZ OF LORDB.—TarriaDAT, Aran. 14. T. Loan Cttaacauwa took kis seat as this woolsack sit it eclat& PICITTION. T. Earl of MERRY presented a petition from Rochester and several other places, praying for en amendment in the Highway dm THIRD READINGS. The following bills were reed • third time and pried : Mwswabury Bridges Bill. Liss ally Railway and Doak Cora psay (No. 1) (Capital) Bill, Newry and Greener* Railway Dill, Southwark Park Bill, Folkestone Water Bill, Matlock Bath Water BM, sad Mamie, New Mill. and flaygekl Junction Railway BM. SETTLED ESTATES ACT AMENDMENT BILL. The report of ameadmiats os this bill was agreed to. VESTRY CMS ABOLITION (IRELAND) BILL. The report of armodomats on this bill was also brought up sad agreed to. PUNISHMENT OF RAPE BILL Their lordships sties west istO cosmaltisTe ea this hill. Cos ohms 1, Lord WENSLBYDLLE proposed as amsadmeet making W revalues of the bill oompulsory instead of optioaaL 011ie clause was amended by omitting the word " mar," sad in tie place inserting the ward " shall." the effect of which would be to make the punishment of dogging ooni palmy ia all our whose the crime of rape should be semmitted. The dame, as amended, wee then agreed to, and the bill err ordered to be reported on Monday next. THE CHARITABLE ASSURANCES ENROLMENTS BILL. _ The report of saisodutest to this bill was brought up and *Mod to. CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS OF WAR. The Earl of HARDWICKE presented a petition from James Chalmers, an inventor of a new mode of constructing ships of wur, complaining that the Admiralty had not given the consideration to his plan which had been extended to ether plans submitted to them ; further stating that although the armour target furnished by bim bad been sub jected to a more severe teat than was applied to any other target, the result had been deemed by the preseand by all who had witnessed the trial to be extremely satisfactory the petitioner further oomplained that the government had pirated his invention and adopted it as their own. He therefore prayed that the matter should be taken into con. 'Adoration. The Duke of SOMERSET could assure his noble (dead that the Admiralty were always glad to avail themselves et any real improvements. In the present instance he did set think Mr. Chalmers bad any ground of complaint wheat u sed miralty. (Hear.) The sbthe, dropped. The house adjourned at tea minute; to 7. HOUSE OF COMMONS. —TetrEsDAY, Amu. 14. The Smuts took the chair at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Andover and Chilton Pond Read Bill, the Downs Books Bill, the Okehampten Railway Bill, the South York. slay Railway and River Dan Company's Bill, the Stirling Water Bill. the Stockport District Water Bill, and the Thormet Road Bill were severally read a third time and primed. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT FOR INDIA. Mr. BAZLEY asked the Secretary of State for Jodie bow many candidates for employment in the medical department tor India was presented, and how may were the weenies at the time of the competitive examination in January last, . and epic how army at the recent Sir C. WOOD said that so cur for titres yearn THE BYE•LAWS OF THE CITY OF LONDON. And taken place Yr. Alderman SALOMONS asked the Secretary of State far the Home Department if ha bad yet approved the pro- posed bye-lawe for the City of London; and especially if he intended to 'eaction by-laws No. 12 and Nu. 9, which vir tually proposed to withhold the oommou law right of way through the principal streets of the City from dealers in fruit, tab, sod vegetables. Sir G. GREY replied that the bye-laws bad sot yet been approved, and for this reseal:l, that a question arose as to whether some of them were not in excess of the act of par. Bement. The City authorities had taken the opinion of their own law °nicer., and the, reported that the bye laws were within the powers of the act. But as some doubt misted oo the subject, he had thought it right to refer the matter to the law °Moors of the crown, and the question was now before them. 006 T OF PROSECUTION& Sir J. C. JERVOISE asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention had been directed to the cli• of the chairman of the quarter sessions for Cumberland. showing the cat of peosseuhonest the sessions sad assizes to be ea average of rather more than 121. for each prosecution • while, under the Criminal Juetioes Act the average was r ather more than 11. 6.. per head. Whether his &treaties had been called to a CON tried at the last 'ires at Winchester, in which the prisoner had elected to be tried at the anises, where, after lying nearly two mouths in prison. at the coat of theoounty, he wee seateoced to fourteen days imprieonment, his companion in crime baring agreed to be tried at petty sessions, and baring been there sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment; and, whether it was in contemplation to propose any course tending to a more uniform mode of proceeding, sod to the intension of the act. Sir G. GREY said that he bad not seen the charge of the chairman of quarter missions until a copy bad been sent to bun by the Imo. baronet. He had no doubt that the state ment of the hon. gentleman was correct, that the expense of the prosecutioos at the sessions and amines wee v•ry much higher than under the Crintioal Justices Act. With regard to the caw tried at the Winchester Arises. he sup the learned judge in pawing the sentence of 14 day s' tweed zisonment only, took itto consideration the fact that the prisoner bad been already two months in gaol, which would account for the apparent disproportion between the sentence and that weed upon the prisoner's associate in stints. He had no doubt the Criminal Justices Act had been very beneficial in ita operation, but the government bad no intention at present to extend its previsions, DRILL INSTRUCTORS OF VOLUNTEER CORPS. —...— General BUCKLEY asked the Under Secretary of Stubs ter War whether it was in oomatemPletiou to Provide the drill instructors of volunteer corps clothing and accoutre• nest% is the same maim as it they were in a regiment of the line. The llawinis of HARTINGTON said the pay of 2.0. 7d. we 2a. 4d. which the drill instructors of the volunteers re. wised was regulated aimording to their being peotioiters or noa•pentioners. It was 2s. 7d. to non.pensionere ; being St Id., the tame as the pay of sergeants of the line, 4•1. for lodging money, and 2d. for oompensation for clothirg. If, therefore, in addition to the compensation for clothing, the geeeromeot were to andertake to clothe the drill tristroc lora, they would he plied in abetter position than aergiante of the line. There wow intention, therefore, of providing them with clothing. THE INCOME-TAX. . _ Mr. HUBBARD asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether proposed to remiact the income-tax as it stood at the close of 1863, or whither he proposed any, and, if any, what charge in its provinces. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that be had so intuition whatever of making any material dame io the provisions of the income -tar, but there wee see point under ososidsration last year in relation to remora employed. under railway companies which would require the Minium ot the legislature. He arse not aware of soy other point. THE CONFERENCE ON DANISH AFFAIRS. Mr. B. OSBORNS repeated the questions which he had pet on Tuesday, namely, whether the hoo. llnder•Secretary far Foreign Affairs would lay upon the table a copy of the breech despatch of Name 20th, and also the answers of the vanona powers to the invitation of our government to attend Um conference. Mr. LAY ARD replied that the French despatch, u be b 4 before stated, was not communicated by document to the governmeet, bat merely read to toe noble lo:d the Se. unitary for Foreign Affairs. With regard to the other question, there was no intention to lay aay further papers upon the table of the house. THE MALT DUTY. -••-- - • - - Upon the order of the day for going into committee of ways and means, Colonel BARTTELOT rose to move that the °antidote tioa of the duties upon sugar be postponed until the house shall have had the opportunity of considering the expe diency of the reduction of the duty upon malt. Looking at this matter aa a landlord'. question, be said that if by removing this Mx they enabled the mad to he letter cultivated, they indirectly beaefited the land. lard, but directly beirefitted the tenant, became be Gould dispose of his produce to tbs greatest advantage. He appealed to boo. members who farmed their owe land, whether is coonqueace of the malt tax they were not obliged to deviate from the ordinary rotation of crops, and grew wheat or oats when they ought to grow barley ? But the benefit to the labourer would be still greater, as he weld be stabled to drink in his own cottage or home that pare nod wholesome beverage which was the natural drink of every Englishman. (Cheers.) What would both. effect upon 1410 labouren whims services were required to get in the le where they were offered tea and sugar es one side aid beer on the other ? Would say gentleman noosed in getting in his harvest without giving the men bear! Certainly not. ( Hear, hear.) The bigher elms of men who bad good coppers to on brewed their owe beer now became they could not get a wholesome beverage at the public-how; and what would be the affect if the malt lax were Wee off ? He appealed to his boa friend the member for Derby whether in that ow a pod wholesome beer amid not be brewed at 4d. a gallon, and very superior to the stuff sold at public.houses (or 4d. • pot" He did not say that the repeal of the tax would prevent men going he the beerehop, but if they could get good beer wittiest vies there, they would be more likely te stay at beam, and a peat dale( crime and misery among the lower clears he pot a stop to. (Hoer, hear.) And what we. likely he be the result epos the revenue The duty out es m, brisk., soap, paper, and bops had bee %hes off, and the nuns. Ms more flourishing than ever, wed a. this tax pressed oe the agricultural interest, they ni gh] if wasasary, mrtail their expenditure is order to it. Kr. COBBITT said If anything could be done to bring back to the labouring man the habit of brewing his own beer be thoeght they would do more to regenerate the labouring clause than they could do by any other means. And with regard to wawa ta • hig he r coedtlion be thought they were isiilskon whi Xmas& that a nduntios of e peony in the poand to the biome tax wee a winter boa& than would be the repeal of the malt tax. H seconded the motion of kis boa. friend with • view to He the fins stop to the total repeal of the malt tax. From_Ause to time they bad • easplus of revenue. Recently a soiMlon and • quarter was &meted to the repeal of the duty on paper. It was sow proposed to devote a lame sum to the reduction of the sugar duties. He thought it desirable that the sur plus should from dine to time be devoted to the reduction of the duty on malt, and at the sod of four or five years the entire repeal of the tax might be effected. - - - - - Mr. BiTRIRES said, baying the hooour to represent a county which prodimed a Tut quantity of barley, he wee 1111110011 to give hie support to the motion. Mr. PEEL (Taniworth) mid he believed the farmers of Eel/land, as a body, utterly disclaimed any immunity for thew own dam, and all they deified wee that the same principle of free trade which had been ao happily adopted with regard to commerce should be extended to agricul ture. B. STANHOPE supported the amendment se a step towards the repeal of the duty, and becalms he be lieved that in Sikh* that mune he was doing what was best for the welfare of all classes of her Majesty's subjects. Sir E. DIMING thought it much to to regretted that a question of so much importance as the reduction of the duty oa malt should be presented to the hones in a shape which made it perfectly iroposeible that they could arrive at any satisfactory coo:lmam is respect t. it. The advocates for the repeal of the duty were placed in a very diaadvan. teems position in having to *neonate' the united opposi tioa of those who objected to the nieseur• on financial grounds, and also of the representatives of the great sugar sonsumers in the !country. (Hear, hear.) There were many who were favourable to the re peal of the malt duty, but with whom the sugar duty bad stronger claims, and be trusted that the country would not be led to the belief that those who went into the lobby with the hon. and gallant gentleman comprised all who desired the repeal of the duty. He wet much astoolahed to hear hon. members who were in favour of the repeal express an opinion as to the iaddity of abstract resolutions, because the experience of Um past few years is the caeca of the paper duty and the fire insurance duty had shown that no Chancellor of the Exchequer, however gifted, could loni contend against the recorded opinion of that house. If the people were only in earnest about the repeal .of this malt duty, and if the question were not takes up for perky purposes, to be allowed to drop an son as those purposes were accomplished, it was utterly lei. possible that minister, could long remain deaf to the demand of the country. He should vote with the hon. and gallant palliation (Colonel Barttelot), but he should hare gone into the lobby with much greater satisfaction if the hone had been raised upon the intrinsic ments of the question itself, instead of being mixed up in an antagoaistic way with the sugar duties. Mr. BEACH observed that unrestricted competition was the law of this country, and when the agriculturist was called upon to compete with every quarter of the globe in the production of corn, it was marvellous that any Judah:a fire should be needed for the repeal of an oppressive malt tax. _ _ _ Mr. ALCOCK said he remembered that in 1833 a prepo sitioa for the repeal of the malt tax was carried in the House of Commas by a majority of 10, end Lord Altborp told the house that if they persevered be should be com pelled to put an • property tax. Thereupon the House of Commons reversed their - decision ; but the government of that day, he thought, committed a breach of trust with the house, and every government had done so linos that bed mrictioued a property tax without taking off the malt duty. For his pert he would gladly resign to the Chancellor of the Exchequer the paltry penny on the income tax if this offensive duty were removed. But instead of doing this the Chancellor of the Exchequer made a ridiculous proposal. enabling farmers to malt barley for their cattle. He del not believe that the fernier' would think him for the measure. (Hear, bear.) On his part be (Mr. Aloock) should vote for the repeal of the tax whatever government were in office. Lord R. MONTAGU said he begged to dispute the statement of the hoe. umber for Oldham, that by the re peal of the malt tax the price of beer would be reduced one half. He bad read is the dcononiet, a news paper which was considered to be an authority in such matters, a statement that the whole amount of beer consumed in England and Wales amounted to 60,000,000/. Now, the malt tax produced about 6,000,0001., or about one-teeth of the price of the beer consumed. Now. the labourer paid about 3d. for his quart pot of beer ; and hence the amount of the tax be paid for the malt wee about • farthing. That caleulatioo Was even favourable to the hoe. member who made this motion ; for it could not be supposed that all the malt went to the beer—a great deal must go to the makiog of spirits ; hence the amount of tax in the price of a pot of beer was much len than a farthing. Now, supposing the tax reputed, did any boo. member believe that that amount of profit would go to the °Guntur? —(hear, hear)—would the labourer get even hie gallon of beer Id. cheaper ? (Hear, hear.) He main tained that it wan thinnest and ishonourable in hon. members to come forward and support the repeal of this tax when they knew it could not be repealed—thou, hear) — when they attempted to mislead instead of instructing their coostituents—(bear. bur)—and advocated the repeal of this tax, when they knew that the roped of the sugar duties would be far more bene6cial to them. (Hear, hear.) He support could sot the motion of the hon. member. Mr. POLL&B.D.URQUHART considered this to be a moat oppressive tax, and most injurious to the ioterene of agriculture ; but be could not support the repeal of the malt tax when the question came to be wandered as between that earl the remission of the eager duties. Colonel NORTH thought the noble lord the mealier for Huntingdoashire (Lord R. Montagu) was very much mis takes in the view he had taken of agricultural onestitase ana (Hear, hear.) He coosidered this was the prepsr moment for the agricultural interest to brieg its claims under the consideration of parliament, because it had seen almost every other interest taken in hand by that house. Mr. PUGH said that althou4b be could not support the motion of the bon. and gallant colonel, be felt the time mast shortly come when the repeal of the malt duty would present superior claims to the consideration of the home. Mr. ViTTERN was desirous that the malt tax should be repealed when the revenue would permit it, and be hoped that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be able to make in course of time still further reductions in our ex peditors, by which he would be enabled not ally to reduce the malt duty bat to repeal it altogether. He must oppose the motion of the hoc. and gallant colonel, beating he thought the reduction of the tax by one-fourth would not advance the interests of the agriculturists. Lad INGESTTEEsoupported the motion. He could as- sure the Chancellor of the Exchequer that to the barley growing districts this question was one of the greatest im portance. There could be no doubt that if the malt tax were taken off better beer would be drunk by the working classes, and good wholesome beer would prevent many fro n having recourse to ardent spirits, which were one of the great canon of crime. Sir B. BRIDGES said that the character givers by the noble lord (Lord R. Montagu) of the agricultural districts was quite new to him as a representative of anagricultural part of the country. With regard to the merits of the question, he thought the tax weighed wholly on • par- Menu class of agricultural produce, and that the inferior barley would be brought forward very much mon in malt * if the duty were lees. Sir F. CROSSLEY said he bad on a previous ooriasioo expremed the opinion that the malt tax was not injurious to the agricultural interest. It was a consumer's question and a consumer's question only. No doubt where wages were partly paid is money ►nd partly in beer the tax might press on the agricultural interest, but a great amount of the tax was miaed in the manufacturing district& (Hear, bear, from the oppositioo.) The argument that the tax doubled the price of beer was very eflooeous. A great deal had been said as to beer being a necessity of life, but he denied that it was. He bad himself for 12 years been • total abstainer—(a laugh)—and he knew that hundreds and thousands of working men is the country were total abstainers from all intoxicating liquors, and could stand as much or more work than those who took beer. No doubt beer was a pleasant thing when they were aceustomed to it, but to talk about its being a necessary of life was mere moomhise. He believed that if farm labourers drask tea or coffee they would be much better off and healthier, while the harvest operations would be conducted with quite as much expedition as at present. He would uedertake to say that for every ten men who were killed by taking too much beer there was only coo killed by taking too little, and be was weeniest' the working classes had made the dis covery that for healthy permute aU alcoholic drinks were not a necessary of life. Mr. PACKE was glad to see the hoe. hart. who had just spokes lookieg so well—(langhter)—but he echoed the sen timent of the hon. and learned member for Oldham when he said that it was impossible to get in the henget in hot weather, and when men were worked very hard, without a certain quantity of beer. (Hear, bear.) Doubtless, SCOW persons ►bstaind from malt liquor and thrived very well upon it, but the labouring man who worked from early in the morning till late at night, especially in harvest time, could not get on without the stimulus of such a drink. He thought the agricultural daises had a fair right to ask for • portion of the surplus revenue which the Chancellor of the P.zehrquer intended to apply to the lowering of the sugar duties, but soh there was to be • remission of tar atioe the farmers went to the wall, and the right hoe. gentleman dealt with some taxes in which they were in DO way conoerned. He should give his cordial support to the motion of the hon. and gallant member for West Sussex. Mr. DU CANE was glad that his hon. friend had put this Mese before the house. lt was of no nes holdieg county meetings and deputations waiting on the Cloaca Her of the Exchequer. If they wanted to produos any impres glop they most, as they wen going to do to-eight, submit their proposition fairly to the boons, and take the sense of the hones upon it. Mr. COBDEN admitted the ability with which the motion had been brought forward, but se an experienoed agitator he could my that the mover had sinned grievously in tactic by bringing the malt tax into coltish,* with another duty, and thus raising a comparison between their reepectivis claims to reduction . As a 000eumene q usetioo he should prefer the nye.' of the sugar duties to that of the malt tax. But if it could be shown t h at the operatima of the melt tax low land wick the prairies of husteadry, it had a ektis to THE EikREK FRIDAY EVENII4IO, APB 15; consideratios in the interests of the producer and the onesesser. He stated the grounds on which the serial twist reeds his disks for the remission of the duty, and admitted its validity. He also admitted, from the 000anniers' point of view, that the reduction of the duty would be a great relief to the poorest of the labouring chews. With reprd to the lissauthl part of the utiestica, he argued that if the malt tax was ultimately abolished no other tax could be substituted for it. hat it would be ex peeled that the revenue would pin by the consequent Increase in the consumption of other exoissable articles ; but the main hope of the eotoplete repeal of the duty must be based on • steady reduction of expenditure. He advised that the mottos should not be permed to a division, as he, in common with many others, though favourable to its object, could sot vote for it, as it inciedthe malt tax is an tagonism with the anger duties. This parliament (said the boo. gentleman) haa bees unpenalielol itsextraveganes. (Hear, hear.) There have been some parliaments which have bad names gives to those, such as the • Low Paths meet " and the " Uslearned Parliament,' and this parlia ment ought to be called the "Prodigal Parliament" ("Hear, hear." and laughter.) We have given up the principle of socroiny is our expenditure—(hear hear)—and we do not sufleilinUy look to tie natural growth of income front diminishing our taxes. (Hear, bear.) Now ell this leads me to believe that if hos. gentians. opposite are in eareest, they will bring this matter which they have taken in hand to a satisfactory esectiumicia. (Hear, hear.) But if the hon. and gallant member will take my advice he will cot take a vote to night upon his tootle' is. (Hear.) If he does, I shall be in the WOO predicament as many other hon. member,- that is, I shall be obliged to vote spinet his motion ; and, therefore, I will venture to gamest to him that he should withdraw hi motion, and be satis fi ed with the advantage which he has obtain ed in the discussion of the question, and which is all he an ex pect at this moment. One or two hon. gentlemen have spoken of the free trade in wen agitation. We were seven yeast endeavouring to remove the corn duties, but hoc. gentlemen have only just begun to agitate for • repeal of the malt duty. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) But if they will matinee to prom this question as one which affects the producers of barley, as well as *se which affects the consumers of bow and malt, and if they would prom it with the characteristie zeal and energy possemed by hoe. gentle men opposite, they will soon accomplish the object which they have in view, and no doubt to the satisfaction of all slimes of the community. ("Hear, hear," and cheers.) After sea Amenities from Mr. BARROW in favour of the repeal of the malt tax, Mr. M. GOWN said he did sot understand whether it was intended by the motion to raise a general view of the question or to obtain • deficits opinion as to what ought to be the immediate redaction in the duty on malt. He was not favourable to the malt tax, nor did he object to obtain the opinion of the bones on items of taxation by means of resolutions, but he did object to the passing by of • proposition to reduce a Sax, and to substitute for it • diminution of another. The proposed reduc tion in the sugar duties would absorb 1.310,0001. of the available surplus, while the Media of • quarter of the malt tax would require 1,800,0001., and he wanted to know where the means to meet that reduction were to come from. No appreciable advantage could be derived from • small reduction in the malt tax, either to the prod's= or consumer, sad it mild not be desirable to give up the po- sitive advantage to be derived from the degrease of the sugar duties for so questionable • remit as such • diminu tion of the malt tax as could sow be obtained. COMMON LAW PROCEDURE (IRELAND) ACT (1853) AILENDMANT BILL. This bill paned through oommittee. PARTNERSHIP LAW AMENDMENT. Mr. SCHOLEFIRLD moved for sad obtained LISTS to being fa a hill to mama Ow law of partaanhip. HIGH COURT OF BOMBAY. On the motion of Sir 0. Wool), Lava was gives to being in a 641 to warm the appointment of Hilary Peodock St. George Tooker as one of the judges of her Majesty's High Court at Bombay, sod to establish the validity of certain proceedings therein. The house adjourned at a quarter past 1. Mr. BASS urged that the house and the country bad accepted the budget, and it was therefore impossible now to deal with the melt tax, however previously he and others might have preferred a reduction of that tax. It wee not possible to accommodate the arrangements of trade to a leer redaction of the tax than onebalf. Mr. BENTINCH suggested prudence ia dealing with this question, and care lest the amount of revenue which would be lost by the repeal of the malt tax should be reimposed in a different acid worse @lieu—perhaps in that of direct tuatioa. Anything lees than the total repeal of the tax would produce no advantage to the agricultural interests, and that was an impossibility in our present financial con. ditioo, and without a complete revision of taxation. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER urged that in any Magna dealing with the malt tax its ourntion on the throe kingdoms must be taken into oonsl&ration. He pointed out that the motion, if adopted, would pledge the honest* a future reduction of a tax which it might never be in a financial position to redeem. A quarter of the tax we. all that could now be dealt with, it it was touched at all, and that would be one wholly ineffective and inoperative. This subject could not be dissevered from the consideration of the duties on spirits, tea, tobacco, and all other luxuries of the people. In outemplatiog the total repeal of the malt tax, the only mode in which it I could be Wide:lardy manipulated, it was seceseary to be with • substitute for five milliou of revenue. It could only be provided by means of a reduction of public expediters, an wooed& party which was practically repudiated by those very members of the opposition who were the most strenuous advocates of the repeal of the malt tax. As between the malt tax and the sugar duties, the house and the country had unequivocally decided in favour of the claim of the latter to reduction. Mr. DISRAELI declared himself to be unfavourable to the *akimbo* and hicideste of the malt tax, and he waa not surprised that those who felt themselves aggrieved by it should draw attention to it. When the cost of liquors used by the wealthier classes was observed, it was only natural that some effort should be made to lower the price of that beverage which was familiar to the less endowed part of the population. He was, however, always of opinion that the malt tax must be dealt with in a large and comprehensive spirit. No proposition had been made for it, total repeal; and in considering the sutstitntioe of even a partial repeal of this tax for the prowled reduction in the sugar duties, it would be neoemary to trench on the decrease in the income tax, which had bees adopted, and DO one bad ventured to advocate than, He was of opinion that it was entries to bring the question of the repeal of the malt tax into satagoniont with the proposd reduction in the sugar duties. He argued that the bones had glue • pledge to the country to remove the war taxes on income, tea, and sugar. That promise had been redeemed with regard to the two fist, and the third reduction being sow proposed, the question was not one of the malt tar, but whether the pledge by which the house was bound, and by which he personally was bound, to repeal the war tax on sugar should be redeemed. At any fair oppor. Unity be was prepared to give the repeal of the malt tax his best consideration ; his opinions es to the desirability of that repeal being precise, and of long studio'. Mr. momurr, who bad given Dodos of a motion for the repeal of the malt tax, said that although he objected to the await in which the question was brought forward, in coliseum he must vote for it. He should homelier take the sew of the how on an abstract propcnition with regard to the tax. On • divide= Colonel Barttelot's motion was lost by 347 to 99. WAYS AND MEANS. The booms then went into U;miTlitte";ll ways and mans. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved his amended rembitiose with regard to the sugar duties. Mr. CRAWFORD postponed until the bringing up of the report to-morrow his motion asking the house to adopt the equalisation of the dation on sugar. The resolution was then agreed to, as was also the resolu tion with rsepset to tea. Upon the resolution relating to corn, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said be in- Seeded to proceed with all the resolutions to which there was no objection that evening, and to postpone the other. In reply to Mr. T. HAMM, The Right HomOeutleman said that if the resolutions were reported to-morrow, the new sugar duties would come into operation on Saturday moruisg. Mr. AY RTON expressed a hope that the privileges of the City of Loudon with respect to the mileage of corn would be abolished, as they had hoes too long *mad upon the House of Common', The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER mid that within( of that nature could be inirodned in the bill ex cept by an arrangement between the parties. The resolution was agreed to. INCOME TAX. The rwolutioes respecting the modilleatioe of the Income tax were also arreed to, and three referring to the Are in. sumo, duty were postponed. TEA _LICENSES The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that the reduced tea lioness should be levied epos boons rated to the poor rate, at N. instead of 101., OA proposed in the bill. the object being to permit tea to be sold at the reduced hceneee in what are usually termed 101. houses. Sir W. JOLLIFFE urged os the Chancellor of the Exche quer the propriety of considering the claims of the shop. keepers within smell parliatuandary boroughs, and pointed out that great injustice would be done to small shopkeepers if a man living perhaps just outride the borough were charged the low rate when bas mighboure oe . tbe opposite side of the street were sot allowed the same ;syringe. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER admitted the Janke of the complaint, and said that if the present reso lution were posed he would node:take to propose some remedy before the bill paned through another stage. The resolution was then agreed to. On the resolution on stamp duties on letters of attorney and powers, Mr. HALMS suggested that dividend warrants should be sent from the Bank of England by post. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said be had no doubt that the s would be considered by the Bank of England, and if practicable adopted. After some observations from Mr. Frowica in reference to the proxy stamp of Id. the resolution was agreed to; es was the res.:duties in referee°, to the stamp duties on apprietmeabs to ecclesiastical benefices, dignities, and promotion. On the reeolatioe is reference to hawkers and pedlen, Mr. F. S. POWELL hoped that on a futon occasion this tax would be very camaidombly reduced, cc abolished The Ina agreed to, se wen those relating to 'tamp duties on settlements, sod to excise deities on ma mmal homage to refieshment-bonse keepers, wine retailers, beer retailers, and botanic &Men. The house then resumed, WAYS AND MEANS. The report of the committee of ways sad maw was brought op sad agreed to. NAVAL AGENCY AND DIRTRIBCTION BILL. This bill pared through committee. COUNTY COURTS (IRELAND) BILL. This bill pealed through sommuthee. BARNSTAPLE ELECTION COMMITTEE Al ter our report left yesterday, Mr. Uoyd was sworn. and said—l ern at present the sitting member for Barnstaple. The notion of my standing was suggested to me at Birmingham by Mr. Moore. I had known him some years before, but had lost sight of him natal I met him spin in the West of &Wand, and renewed my acquaistanee with him. He afterwards came to Sir mmgham, and asked me to go to Barnstaple, stating that Mr. Mackay could not go on account of some domestic affliction. I went down along with Mr. Matthews. • solicitor at Bir miogbam. I gave OW Instruction from the beginning and that was that I should not approve of a single shelling being spent in • manner is the slightest degree repeated that instruction snore than mos. Afer s t eiec non was over I stated that my return hed bees obtained without the expenditure of a shies shilling in either bri bery or treating, and that was my belief up to • fortnight ego. When I went to the borough I was informed that it was Mesetially • liberal borough, and that 300 votes would secure thelelection, that there were frem2sobo27o which were unquestionable, and that if them wee no bribea g ie the other aids there would be a great chaste of my the election. Throughout the election I neither y nor indirectly countenanced the expenditure of • single dulling in bribery. I mewed both written and verbal accounts stating that so roam had been impropelyezpeeded. About a fortnight ego I was told that some penes' had committed bribery, but that It was entirely on their own responsibility. Within the last two or three days 1 have been informed by Mr. Olaboo, my solicitor, who has been down to Bern , staple, that several mass of bribery am be proved. I have not the most remote suspicion *hare the mosey came from or who paid it. I have not the slightest naderstandieg of as honourable kind on the subject, and know nothing about it. I wander that I have bees treated in a most disgraceful and scandalous manner. Yr. Coleridge said he would now withdraw from the caw Mr. O'Malley then proposed to go on with the scrutiny for the porno*" of striking off 22 votes. The eommittee tbsa pared a resolution declaring that Mr. Lloyd was not duly sleeted. Several voters ware then celled, who admitted having reosived Si. each for their votes. hir.l;l;ard Yartio, as auctioeeer, was celled, and proved that a voter, named Charles Hancock, admitted that he had received 101. for his vote. At tM time of :,ii;;;;i six umr had been struck off. THE PROPOSED APPOINTMENT OF ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS TO THE COUNTY PRISONS. A ggeeneral meeting of the magistrates of the county of Middlesex was held yesterday at the Seisione Have, Clerkeowell-geese, for the transaction of the usual county brewer, Mr. H. PO WNLLL in the chair ; and the court was eery numerously attended by magistrates, draera together by the notice which stood ou the page for the appointment of Roman catholic clueless to the peeress of the ormaty. —• • - - - Ultimately If r. Sergeant PATIII moved the amendment of which be had gives notice, which was es follows :--" That it appears to this omit, that, by the laws new in force, all pri scoot+ who belong to Churches or persuasions differing from the church of England, in addition to the instruction they may be willies to receive from the chaplain of the wive, are entitled, at their own request, to be visited by a minister of the religious persuasion to which they belong, but DO primers are compelled to receive such visits against their will. That, comparatively, few cciecisirs of the va rlets' religious denominations have made such requests, and those who have have been duly visited. This court is therefore of opinion that the present arrangements for the moral Led religious instruction of the prisoners are sue. cient, and that any appointments by this court, or permis moo by the visiting justices for Roman catholic priests to attend at the prima on ellootemeue, whether their miuir trations are required or not, ;would be unnecessary and improper."o." Considerable discussion took place. The CHAIRMAN pat the motion, when there appeared— for the amendment, 70 ; against it, 24 ; mejaity, 46. The resole was received with loud and prolonged cheer ing ; and the rue of the business having been disposed of, the court adjoureed. IRONMASTEET QUARTERLY MEETING. The must important of the quarterly assemblies of the ironniesters of South Staffordshire wee held in the Town-hall, Birmingham, yesterday afternoon. There was • large attendanos, all the principal firms urged in the trade in this and ether districts being repnieeoted. From the commencement there were indicatioss that this was to be a fiat quarter-day ; oonsumers were deappototed at prices not going lower, and many of them held back from entering into fresh engagementa in consequence ; the result wes that the transactions scarcely came up to the average. But notwithstanding the slackness is this respect, the ironrcesters themselves expressed a 000llidest opinion that the present scale of prices will be maintained for a time, and none of the leading firms would take orders at lower rates; the wood-clue makers will in all probability be compelled to do so salsas the trade rallies speedily ; nothing in that line was, however, re ported at this meeting. But the present state of the trade affords • striking illustration of the ill effects molting from foreleg prices beyond their natural level ; had the last advance not bees imposed it is probable that the trsde would have been in • tolerably healthy state at this mo ment. As matters stand, the foreign demand is checked ; and amongst home consumers there is a want of coo- Menu in referees to the future of prices, the effect of which has been to bring about the launid tone mani fested at theuseeting yesterday. The real sou of this I. the attitude mourned by the mete ia the middle of last year in their persistent demand for advance in the wages wale ; these were conceded at the time, but in the cod this will operate unfavourably for them, probably on no distant day. The sales of pig iron were almost nominal. The quotation for best hot blast, all mine, is 44 10a. per too, but boyars would not go beyond 41. la 6d.—heeds the puncity of busi ness. Inferior pig was sot much ID demand ; sod as it will not suit the purpose of the pig masters to stack their make, it is most likely that furnaces will be blown out. , Indeed it was stated in the hall that that proceeding is in contemplation in several instances. For Shropshire iron there was the usual steady demand. This meetingpassed at cheerfully, considering the moderate amount of =isms due. At the close the members of the association dined at the Hen sail Chickens Hotel. PAILLIAMCNTLRI Rsroan.—At &numerous meet ing of the inhabitants of Leeds, held oa Wednesday night is the Victoria Hall, resolutions were adopted in favour of Mr. Baines's 61. Borough Pr•schise BilL A feeble opposi tion was offered by • few parsons friendly to the fancy franchises proposed by Mr. Ilisraali, but this only served to arouse the enthusiasm of the meeting, and show bow extremely limited in number were those who designed to throw discord into the proceedings. At • public meeting held at Barnsley, on Tuesday, resolutions were unanimously adopted in support of Mr. Baum'. biLL - - DI/U.411101M RAILWAY ACClDZllT.—Yesterday afternoon, about 3 o'clock, an alarming occurrence ='at the Surbiton station of the South-Western ,;" It that a horse-box, aoetaiaiag three valuable animals, one of which we. worth 260 guineas, was being traaiderred from one line to the other, when the station master and rotors OD dutz perceived a train rapidly approaching at all speed op • Iles. They had scarcely time to give an alarm end ran out of the way when the train come up, catching the boreiebom forging the greater part of it on the top of the engine, and killing instantaneously the three bones, but injuring no one ex cept the stoker, who was slightly scratched on the face. The carriages kept the rails, and were brought up about 200 yards from the scene of the mishap. Part of one of the homes, fearfully mangled, was found attached to the eosins. The covered part of the platform of the up-line was reduced to a wreck, and some of the brick work of the static,, was carried away. A body of men were instantly despatched from Waterloo oo receipt of the news, and io a few boars completely removed all traces of the accident. The train was returning from Woking Necropolia.* A telegram was received in Liverpool yesterday (Thursday), to the effect that the AlDerlolll ship Hiawatha, which left Cardiff 000111 weeks since for New York with a cam of opal and railroad iron, on the l&th of March, when in lat. 42 N. len. 35 W., sprang • link, and wag sinking feet, when • vessel hove in sight. The crew of the Hiawatha at ow lowered their boat, abandoned their ship, and pro- ceeded towards the strange vessel. On boarding her—to the intense dismay of all on board—they found the new comer to be a derelict brig, with ally the =impost sod mainyard standing, and on fire. After boarding the brig their only boat was stove alongside and loot. The brig was, of course, unmaisageable ; but eventually, and !anti oately for those oa baud, she drifted ashore ow 80. George's. The crew got safe to land, list what became of the original crew of the brig is s mystery. [Advertisement.}—Houpwav's Otimourr AND !Me. —Dangerous Chest Complaints—Ms swinteration of these diseases Is scarcely necessary, se onfortunatel a iL a ost Thilla in hmen must know to their cost. Whooping co croup, comcia colds, influenza, broach Ms, asthma, pleurisy, Hon of the lungs, sad even consumption in its earliest stages, are beet treated by rubbing Holloway's Ointment on the chest, and upon the back between the shoulders. It penetrates int. malty. checks the cold ahherings, relieves the over-gorged longs, gradually re moves the oppression from the chest, and ra stores the obstructed respiration hitherto r) distressingly dleagrerable and highly dangerous In treating this class o f diseases, Holloways Pills should always be taken while using the Ointment : they purify the Weed, promote perspiretheo, hod shay dmigeroma irriteefeha. LAW INTELLIGENCE. EQUITY COUSTS.—Aran. 14. (Bohn Vio►C6eooellor /Lindenley.) HAMM 11. wear. This was a molten to eoMit the defendant for breech of an order of the Meeter of the Boils for an injunction to restrain the selling, or offering, or advertising. for sale certain property at Blackheath. It appeared that the plaintiff was a builder and had bad traumatises with the defendant, end this bill wee ultimately filed on the lit of April, 1861, in respect of them transactions. A general demurrer was patio, and the VierChansellor allowed it on the technical ground that there wee not ta berm an offer to redeem. It appeared that thedefeedeat when erred with the order for the injunction bad instructed Mr. Clarke, of bloorgatretreet, his auetioneer, to advertise for sale, and he had done so in the Tiara end Daily News, and considered that having sent the advertisements they could not be withdrawn, it being then about eleven o'clock. It appeared, however, by an affidavit by a person employed at the Timm office that up to two o'clock an advertisement could be withdrawn. Subsequently an advertisement wee inserted, stating simply that the sale wee postponed. Mr. Baily and Mr. Herbert Smith appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Glam. and Mr. Harding far the defendant. His Honour wee of opinion that the artreme diligence required by the court in seek seam bad not been used, and as of course the court never sagely committed in such maim, the defendants must pay the ousts. It was a hard ewe for the , auctioneers. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Pigott) William Wyka, 45, a gentlemanly-looking man, described a wine merchant, 'unordered to take his trial upon an indictment which alleged that he, having in hie poessernon • bill of exchange for 700 f., unlawfully and feloniously forged an somprance to the mid bill with intent to defraud,. Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Hillard maw:tad the proesention ; ieryiaet &Moraine was apemally retained with Mr. F. H. Lewis and Mr. Montagu Williams to defied the prisoner. Mr. Sleigh, in opening the ors to the jury. said that it involved a question of very great importance to • commercial community, because he believed it would not be disputed that the aomptance to the bill in question was not genuine, but that an &tempt would be made to set up that the primmer bed some implied authority from the supposed acceptor to put his name to the instrument. He observed that it was unneosseary for him to make soy remarks upon the dan gerous consequences that were likely to ensue if the doctrine were to be lightly acted upon that became a man fancied he had the authority of another to put his news to an im portant commercial instrument, and issued it to the world as being genuine, he was sot to be criminally reeponeible. The jury would therefore have to my, upon the facts that would be laid before them, whether the pr isoner had any authority for putting the acceptance to the bill, and whether in point of fact the prisoner had not committed the crime of forgery that was imputed to him by the present indict. meet. — The ere for the prosecution was then gone into. It that the prisoner kept an account with the Eig e rs d bridge breech of the London and County Bank, and that they were in the habit of discounting bills for him, and his mortar, transactions appeared to have been of very extensive character. The prisoner always appeared to have acted in an honourable and straightforward rower. The trisection that appeared to have led to the present iequiry commenced in November, 1862, and it seemed that at this period the prisoner desired to have a loan of 1,2001., which the bank agreed to advance upon the security of two bills of exchange, or for 7001. and the other for 3001., both of which were drawn by the prisoner and accepted by Mr. W. Neste, a licensed victualler at Camberwell. Theme bills were at four months date, and it will be annermary to follow the details of the different transactions that took Ore when the instruments arrived at maturity, or to state more than that upon each occasion when they _became due a portion of the loan was paid off, and fresh bills given which also bore the accept ance of Mr. Nair. Is the month of November, 1863, the bills again became due, and primmer then paid off 1001., and gave a fresh bill for 7001. for the balance, which instrument sae the subject of the present isidictmeot. This bill, like the others, purported to be accepted by Mr. Near but it appeared that about the period this gentlemen's son was in partnership with him, and the acceptance purported to be that of W. Neat. and Sou, and instead of the bill being left for pepper at the Lades sad County Bank at Knightsbridge, it wee made payable at Messrs. Glyn's, who were the banker of Mr. Nearr. At this time it was admitted that a parr acceptance for 1001. of Mr. Near, with which he had sesommodated the prisoner, was in cir culation, and it became due on the same day r the 7001. bill, and instead of their brag kept et the beak at Knights bridge, as the other bills had been, it appeared that they were sent to the head office in the Cry, and were duly presented for payment at Mara Glyn's, but both were refused payment, a memorandum being made on the MC bill to the effect that the acceptance was a forgery. ft was urged as a strong fact spirt the prisoner that when this memoran d um was s h own t o the proper he di d sot . . attempt to allege that he had the auth;rity of Mr. Neste to pat his name to the bill, but merely mid that it was a mis take, and that the reams the bill was not paid was that Mr. Nests was not aware that he had a bill corning due on this day, and that there was some mistake as to the date. It should be stated that the prisoner had ample funds at hie own banker to pay this 7001. bill, so that no one was cistraudsd. the bill being debited to him. Mr. Nest., whose evidence was, of oourse, very material in the inquiry, was celled to prove, formally, that the aoceptame to the bill in question was not his sigoatare ; but, in answer to questions that were put to ban by the leened counsel for the prisouer, he admitted that he sod the pri mmer bad beeo on very intimate terms, sad that he enter tained the highest opinion of him ea a man of hoarier and integrity. He also stated that be sod the prisoner had formerly been io partnership, and that since this dmeription of ocionezion between than had ceased they had still been very friendly, and he had, cm a peat many ocioasious, put hie mane to billed exchange for the accommodation of the primmer, sad should have asoopted the bill in question for him if he had asked him to do so. In additeoo to this Mr. Nests stated that he thought it very likely, from the nature of the relations that existed between him sad the prisoner, the latter might have thought himself at liberty to make use of his MUM to a bill of earliange for his own assocamodation. number of hied respectable witnesses were called to speak to the ' character. Baron Pigott, in lamming up the cane to the jury, said that the male was undoubtedly one of • very important character, and it appeared to him that the pnecipil point they had to decide was whether the primer hated the ex. prim or implied authority of Mr. Neat& to put kis seam to the bill is queetioa. It was so answer to the charge that Mr. Nests would have accepted the bill if he had been sated to do so. and there was so doubt that, in law, any. ea* who put forth to the world an iastrument of this description with • forged signature to it must be taken as havieg an intuition to defraud, and that this was the necessary consequence of such an act. The whole of the facts, however, were for their oonsideratioa, sad upon those Gets they would say whether the primmer was guilty of the offence imputed to him or not. The jury almost immediately returned a verdict of Not Guilty. . . . . Than was an attempt at applause when the verdict wu delivered, but it was checked by the officers of the court, and the prisoner warn then ordered to be at cote discharged. THE POLICE COURTS. CLEBBAN WELL. George Rowe., who earns on banner as a eureerynnsi at 36, Rothertieldutatet, Wizens, wee charged before Mr. D'Eynonert with indecently anaultrag Edward Smith, a giirdener in the prisoner's employ. The fact of the primmer bele' apprehended on this charge caused great excitement in the neighbourhood in coos*. !mean of the prisoner being the owner of the nursery ground in which the remains of the murdered child, Betty Hunter, were found buried. _ _ _ Mr. Thomas Wakens", solicitor, 'Mauled for the de fendant; and Mr. IL Slim, from the Associate Institute for Improving and Enforcing the Laws for the Protootioa of Women, attended to watch the rase. The complaisant said—My name is Edward Smith, and I am nearly 18 years of age. I came up from Ipswich and entered the prisoner's employment, On Saturday sight I wont to bed with the prisoner, and either late that night, or early the following morning, the prisoner oommitted the assault of which I complain. I did sot speak to any the on the Sunday, but on the Monday I told one of the prdenare what had ornirred, and he said the prisoner had dorm the same to him. I went to the static* on the Monday night, and appointed to meet the polio, on the following monnog at this court. I have slept with the primmer ever since, became I did sot know where to go to, end had no mosey to get a lodging. I rams to this roost with the father of the murdered girl. Mr. Wakeling said the prisoner's defence was a maw denial of the charge. Mr. D'llyncourt said he did not think that a jury would convict ea such evidence ; and therefore he should sot seed the case for trial. No man of decent feeling would ham allowed such • thing to have bolo does without resenting it. It would be dangerous to convict on snob statements, and for that reason he dad not think it would be proper to send the ow for trial. _ _ — ThepriliOnirTine thou cliocharged, sod ea b• left the court was hired. TRAJTIC RITIIRNS. Milo 1.96. Mar- Tobit, T 0144 11AZLW•111. •°•` mom altia4las. 1614. 1062. Week widths Jan. 30. it a a 4 Great Southern of India 79 202 176 437 416 W•elt ending Aprll 10. Great Isamu OM 13,764 16,442 30.306 CAN Great N orlhass 363 12774 10.6611 32,110 2%546 Great Weettra 10144 26,906 811.148 033114 66.012 Laa.,C1911202. sod Dom 74 2.7141 OS 4,639 3,984 Loudon It 1104111Weatara1226t 43466 *316 96.581 89,390 L 05464 6 eratli Windom 16,688 6,003 ems u=tas Si. 44 los., , sod Dom 804411 Dews lt 2272 mes 3,837 3,586 BOSSIMAN'II TWA ia choice and Wong, moderate la peke, sad wholesome lo isem These advantages ham seseral toe QM lee • eseeml p MtvertleemeaLJ retenses. It le sold la packer by UM smeme• - MARKE'r& TALLOW.—TNITRODAT Emu:co.—The market emelt et today. Spot, 41c. ; June, 41e. 3d. to 41s. 6d. ; sly to Seplember, 412. ed. to 41e. ed. ; October to Dee. 4411. to 440. ed. ; November to December, 44e. 3,1. 44e. 6d. Detivery to lam *Teeing, 511 cute; artinl, le asks. °MON .—Liewoot., Aran. 14.—We ham bad a quiet market without clump in prices. Sales today 7,1% bake, loading 4,000 far speculation and ezpott. nit American, Zit& to 27td. ; 300 Perham, ke. , 24d. to 270. 150 It...ham nia. to 2nd. ; 500 FAYPtittl. Zsitt. to 3 4d . 300 Smyrna, 22d. to 2414. ; 3 , 45 0 bunt, 1 41 to 2.."1 WOOL AND WORSTED.—BILADFORD, Ann It— There is a fair business doing in moat classes of wool to day, and prices are exceedingly firm. New wool mess abM for current wants is now coming to market, and this tends in some measure to check the tendency to an ad• vanes in price, though the quotations are maintained with great Amines& With the prospect of a new and larger supply of wool In the market, buyers operate with great caution, sup. plying only their immediate wants. For wonted yarns tie chief demand is for home consumption. There is exceedinci e little doing for the continental markets. The oily sort f,s which there to active demand for foreign account is Ws. There is a brisk demand for Gesappe yarn. The pri ce h a . are generally higher than they were. The piece trade is exesedingly quiet, especially for the continent. The re i e steady busmen doing for house consumption. Some orders have been placed for Alll•rita. A fair bunnies has Also been done for China. Some orders have also been germ linos. Quotations are gradually advancing, sad some mak especially moreens, are decidedly higher in price. LACE AND BOBLEBY.—Nowisouaa, Arm 14._ The lace trade is still very quiet, the fine weather haying set in too recently to bar bad es yet any perceptible effect epos it. There is still a (Mr inquiry for milk mechlin, it is not anticipated that it will continue long. The crepe ; fabrics have been again unfavourably influenced by mother rifles* in the price of yarns, which it bad been geoerally thought had reitord their highest quotations. The 'mini Made manias quiet, in some branches depressed, partial. Early in the dossed for the home market*. Some bore speak of doing a little rare bursar with South America_ Nottingham. Journal. 0014N.—Bruarreatwe, Arum 14.—At this day's market there was • large supply of wheat, which sold slowly at a redacting, of la. per quarter on English sad Is. 6d. on foteign. Barley unaltered. Oats tending upwards ; English ls. per qr. &war. Beans sad peso firm. Beuercm, Aram 14.—Arrivals this week are exceedingly small ; the trade has remained quiet, there being no buyers of any snide, except for immediate retail consumption. Ths attesdanc• at our market to-day was lees than th e avenge. English wheat was in moderate supply, and hv which farmers relied last week's priors. In foreign scarcely anything passing. Fine malting barley stank Stocks of minding are undergoing reduction, and holler, were firm, but the demand was without activity. iur maize very little inquiry. Supplies of cols cestioniq shun. last we prima were firmly maintained, bat no advice was obtainable. Devine, gram 14.-We had a fair supply of wheat at our market today, and in much better condition than of late. The trade, however, was very slow, and where sale. were premed some little 00130611111100 had to be made; but Idlers were very indisposed to give way. The top prior of red wheat was 20s. 6d. The barley market was era °mediae, heavy, and good useful =him qualities could be weltered from 28e. to 344., the latter being the top price we heard of. NSW and peas ia lees supply, and a shade better in price. Oats about as lest week. Vetches easier to rzraßeet white wheat. We. to 215.; beat red ditto, 20s, .• inferior ecele, 17s. to 20a. ; best barley, Be. to 34e. ; seco ndary ditto, 25e. to 27a. ; inferior ditto, Be. to 24a.; eats, 18a. to 235. 6d.; beans, 16s. to 205.; peas, 16s. so 19e. ; spring vitae', 235. to 27a. ; dna floor, 30e. to 31a. 6d.; other flow, 255. to 28s. Ifelecglorrmt, Ann, 14.-At our market this morning the atteedaree wee very limited. English wheat sold &lowly, sad moat be quoted 6d. to is per quarter lower, while foreign was offered at 2d. to 3d. per rectal decline, without leadieg to Wieser The domed for flour was most Mac, mate, and we reduce our quotations 6d. per sack. Oats and oatmeal ware is limited request at late rater. English beans were 6d. per quarter higher, but Egyptian were mechanised. Ladies corn was the turn io favour of buyers. NrWARC, Aram 13.-We bad • pretty good show of wheat. Then was a heavy feeling in the trade, and prices were 6d. to la per qr. below late rates. Late rates were made for barley. Other sorts of grain sold at recent prime. NEWIRMT, Ann. 14.—N• still 0011a11110 to receive Very 'mall supplies of wheat, bat folly equal to the demaods of the trade, and which sold at about the prices of last week. The mine remarks may be literally applied to barley. Oat; beans, end pose einatieue as last week. trzsanws, Arm 14.—Trade is dull, and though wheat comes in good condition it is &Meals to sell and at rather lower prices, the best samples of white making 48a. per qr. In spring earn there is but little doing, the demand for seed being now over. EIMNIP1;14111, Aram 13.—As compared with last week, wheat was 2a. 6d. down Go the top, and L. 10,1. down os the average. Bralsty was 24. down as the top, and la Id. down on the avenge. Oats ware la. down on the top, and 6d. up on the average. Beans were 2s. down on the top, and 2d. up on the assn.*. Wheat, 255. to 441. ; barley, 265. to 38s. ; oats, 15e. to 265. ; been, 295. to 3t.a. CATTLE. Arart, 14. There was • reasonable supply of beasts oa offer this day, which came to hood it good condition. The trade was fair, at Tuesday's quotalicaa. Of sheep there was • good supply : coodition prime, late prase realised. Calves were • large supply. Prise light Wyss were in fair request ; isferior =arse calves • very heavy trader ; lower prices were submitted to. Fat pigs • moderate supply ; demand steady, at Turedai's rates. Beef, Bd. to 7d. per lb. •, matt... aborts, 6d. be .d. Per lb. ditto, is wool, 71d. to U. per lb. ; lambs, Ns. to MiL ea st; veal, 6d. to 7d. pas lb.; bases pip, Ba. to 9a. 3d. per score; porkse ditto, 9a. 6d. to IN. 3d. EDINBORGH, APRIL 11 —Than was • moderate show of fat male sad a large 'apply of sheep at market to-day. The former fetched Lot week's prime, sod • good elearsoca was effected ; but sheep were lower, and part were left unsold. Beef, 7a. to 81. per stare of 141 b. ; mutton, TN. to 84d. per lb. • NormanAn, Aria 13.—At the market to-day the supply of beef was small, but of first-clean quality. All sorts met with a slow demand at previous rates. Bost beef made Bs. 9d. per stow, ; inferior, 7s. 6d. to Bs. A large supply of mutton, which mot • good demand at higher rata Beet smell led. pee lb. ; large, 7d. A large num ber of salves was on offer, but met with little inquiry, the best sorts making 7d. per lb. ; inferior, 6d. to 60. Lambs sold at 28.. to 30s. each. Beet mall porket pigs, 6e. to 6s. 3d. Bacon, be. to 6‘.. 3d. per stone. CREESE.—Samanunr, Aram 14.—Onr market to-day was rather sparingly supplied with cheese, bat the quality generally was good. There was about the natal &Madames of buyers, sad the trade on the whole was good, twiny the whole of tbs supply having °hanged hands, and last mar ket's quotations were fully sustained ; prices averaged follows :—Skims. 295. to Ma. ; half-skims, 36e. to toe. ; W Makin doubles, 48e. to 565. ; Somerset', 565. to 60a. ; and llsedden, 68.. to 745. per est. V/AUL RUN DOWN 0/7 71111 START. The Jersey sobermer Dewar, Captain Hama., was ran down off the Start, at LSO SAM., on Tuesday morning by the Glaegow ship City of Park The Dapper was from Swansea, with coals for Peciamp, sod at the time of the madam was oa • wiad elms hauled standing ap Chasse'. The City of Paris was from Lando& le ballast for Olsegow, musics before the wind. db. striae the Dappar oa bar port bow, manes her down to the water's ad" sod the .chooser west dows in sir minutes after the zollisios. Her crew saved themselves by elimbing is over the bows of the ship. MONA THAN WIN AND 1117111 SEAN ILYNA.—This applies to the taw& and bast stock of spring sd rammer patterns ever submitted for public approval Ti. morld-famed 16s. trousers at Alfred Webb Hiles; the origthotoes may maw Viialimmt„ 73, Brookotreed, lismoveroquere. istablimbed 1751. -41.4.1.-rtisealant. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. Dll7lllll.—April H. at Taviateek-aquare, Mrs. H. Defiles, of a IL d re r 4BTONZ.—Aprll 13, at 46. CadulPwPiuce, the wife of Reward Ws/bones ilplitaatese, Ibp., of a daughter. 02.011TB11.—April 12, at Gagferd Reetellequare, the wife of W. P. OrUllth. lap., 7.&A., of a ter . 11000.—ill 13. Yrs. J. Hogg. Jautea'ustreet, Piccadilly. of a da ter. LAW ro .—April 13, at at. Axuss'a-hfil. Wandsworth, the wile of U. Lawlor* req., of a sou. lIPAZILL—ApriI 12, at Btockwell.place, 8., Ws. C. T. Spark; of a aoa._ _ 121WILB2ON.—Apri112, in Upper Grortenoratreet, G(011161101 , square, the WU. of Dr. reveneoa, of a daughter. WILLIAMS.—ApriI 12, at the Manor-house. Alston*, Chelten ham, the wife of John William, Nap., of a son, stillborn. Met RSIAOIid. COLLIE—COBBIL—ApriI 11. at Oltisuinford Chuck by the her. C. H. (hurter, W. B. Coills, /so of Wollaston H to Mien llnareme daughter of B. Cotter. Esq., of 8,101 Howe, near roarbrldge. I'AICS—WIZZLZIL—ApriI 12, at ht. Andrew's Direlet Church. Watford, byte Bev. Cm, incumbent, B. 6. Pelee, Lp.. of Oak Howe, Bushman Irk to Zlizebeth Punish, daughter of Y. Wheeler, ,et Carleton Cottage, Watfon t,rt flirts. TA YLIUB.—YIIIBIIIN. —April IL at Trial Ch urch, S outhport, by the in C. Beeketh, rotor of North Moor C. Trier. of Llnoolaa-inn, to Harp Jane, the daughter of the We J. Yreka; of Arndt, remeheater. MUTH& _ • BR/ALLY.—April IL atAlbtie-villa& Folkestone, Francis Marty, aged IL DOL p TON.—Apt it il IL at Here Wes de 'lsom C. H. Boston, FAN.. AZIBIUM. —April M Thabatreet, liaryieboos, Sarah WI& Mooed* idle of .1 Harbert, Isq. NOILTILLY.—ApriI IL at Wlllowerescent, Anna Illrabeth. widow of the late W. R. IL Northry. leo W YATT.—April IL at lallkotreet, LC., Slim the wife of Hr. I. Wyatt, eked st MEIN awl MEOW by Woman is. 11.1" at NW g. Losslowkares4 Is the OW Lowasa, Mier. el tie OSea. la lankbantalraell. OM raids* at Tamar. Ann 15. V C as ith .P. im so al sr WI ilb 412 .V .g a