The Express. — London, England, 1867-03-06 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—Ti 31% • 5. The eIIANCELLUIt to c hii Nv.it VI: w at 5 tit:luck. MAI:RIM:ES (OD} SA) BILL Thi, bill warn, ioaxin.l time. Tbeir lordships adjourned at a quarter jki,t o'clock. HOUAE OF COMMONS. -TUE , I.AV, M tit.':l 5. The Sri:AKER took the chair at x toy t., 4 o'cl..ck. At h tlf.p.ott t o'clock the henche, on hot:, a! the h 0..:,• %..re nearly anti a conAia-i.,h1.• itoother of peel saki in( lulling Earl I:rativille. Lord stauley of Alaerley. Lord Kinibrrley, Lord Mini,. aii.i the Earl of .thwtturle. . . . . ..... Genecil Peel tcok his seat rn th• - • 641 b..eli behind th • niinis.ters close to the g..ingway. Lord etinhorne again sat on the front bench below the gatign.,y on the ininkteri.•l side of the hour. THE St IPPLEM IiNTARY .% I ESTIM ATEA. Mr. BA I LLB.: gave notice that on going into c,naiiiittee of wspilly ott the eupplene otary estan .teri he should move fora select coiuniittee to inquire into :ix ,03 "g 0- meet :mil orkiankition of the W... NI R DER LAW A EN DM ENT BILL Air KWART gave notice that on the *cowl eading of Lill he should move, as an aniendne•nt, the insertion of word,' to the effect that it is inexpedient to inilict the puni,linieut of death for ler. STORM SIGNALS. Colonel SYKES gave notiee that on Thur.olay lie will Inove for eoviev of all memorial. , and correnemelenee with the hoard of Trade reftpvcting the tlincontinu..::,, of atone signal: I as heretofore pnteti,e4l. THE ARMY ESTIMATES. Mr. OTWAY gave notice that, as it seemed to he the general wish of the house that the Lite Secretary for War should bring in the army estimates next Thursday, be should postpone his motion until the following .lay. Mr. D. CICIFFITH, :A the rimiest of tietieral PEEL, also consented to postpone his motion on the une subject. THN ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVE.',. Mr. D. GRIFFITH asked the Secretary of State for Forci3O Affairs whether the British artisans wh., haul heel. or ..re about to be taken out by Colonel Merew,ther to Mass.,. ah were to be exchanged for the captives now de tained in Abyssinia, or were to be sent into that country after the latter were released ; and, if so, whether it would not require great care and attention to prevent the transac tion from simply resulting in the change of one set of jiri• Boners for another. Gird STANLEY—Strict orders have been given to Colonel lerewether that these artisans under no circum stancesare to go into the interior until all the prisoners now detained by the King of Abyssinia shall be released. They have gone by their own free choice, on their own respon sibility, and I took care before they went out that the position and the whole circumstances of the case should be carefully explained to them. As to the last part of the question that is rather a matter of argument than of fact. All I can say is that, as the house well knows, the whole question of the release of these captives is snnounded by alifficultiva and we believe that, although the course we have adopted sissy he open to some objection it is the one th it will on the whole be open to the least objection, and presents the best chance of success in the object we Lave in view. THE CREW OF THE TORNADO. Mr. LFSK asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if eight of the crew of the Tornado were still kept close prisoners by the Spanish authorities and, seeing that it was admitted in • despatch to Sir J. Crampton, dated Foreign-office, Feb. 5, lsorl, that all the crew of that ship hal been "arbitrarily detained. on one pretext or another, for many months,n and that "they have been subjected to hardships as unnecessary as they were cruel," if it was the intention of her Majesty's government to take any elle. to obtain redress for these unfortunate and ill tr.e.l British su b jects ! - . . . . . . . Lord STANLEY—I regret to say it is true that eight of the crew of the Tornado are still detained by the Spanish authorities. I cannot say they are all close pri soners, because the captain and one of the officers have been liberated on parole. Perhaps the best explanation I can give of the case will be found in a telegram which I will read to the house, and which I received yesterday from Sir John Crampton, in answer to a telegraphic inquiry which I addressed to him. Ile ears the present state of the case of the Tornado is, that there are two appeals pending against the prize courtof Cull:, instituted by the owners of the vessel on the ground of the court being illegally constituted, and incompetent to take cogni sance of the case, and until that question is decided the prize court takes no steps to continue the proceedings. nor the Spanish government to maintain or enforce the judgment. The detention of the crew is grounded on the requirement of the captors of their evidence as witnesses, either in case the prize court is declared competent, and the proceedings already commenced are alrried on, or also in CIAO the prize court is declared incom p etent, and the affair is entered upon de novo and tried by another tribunal. As to the question of redress, that cannot be well disposed of until the course taken by the Spanish authorities as to the prisoners shall be made known. I shall be ready in a short time to lay further papers before the house. THE EXTRADITION OF M. LAMIRANDE. Mr. WC. TORRENS asked the 1 1 nderSecretary of State for the Colonies when he would lay upon the table the correspondence between the Secretary of State and the Oovernor•General of Canada, av also with other pemons in the colony, regarding the extradition of M. Landrande. Mr. AD DEKLIfY replied that papers containing the colonial correspondence on the subject had been ready for some time, and there was no intention to delay their pro. duction ; but it was thought desirable that they should appear at the same time as the correspondence with the French government on the same subject. When the latter Via s ready the correspondence would be preumtml. Lord STANLEY said the Foreign-office correspondent* on this subject was being printed, and would be laid on the table of the house in a few daya. MINISTERIAL EXPLANATIONS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER donut-Ted to Mr. Gladstone's criticism the previous night on his phrase " recurring to the original policy," reminding him that he had stated on the 2.'itb ult. that the government had originally contemplated a measure different from that which he was then explaining. Neither was there any better foundation for the remark made in the House of Lords—that the government had neglected the subject for * long period, and had taken it up all of a sudden, for early in the autumn Lord Derby hail imparted to him his deliberate conviction that the question must be dealt with in no nigeani spirit, and hail re. nested him to give hie serious aeoution to it. The Cabinet had hoped to submit a measure conceived in this spirit with the full assent of all their colleaguei ; but, un happily and unexpectedly, in that hope they were disap pointed, aka the result wan that he was empowered to submit to the house the smaller scheme which he explained on the 27411, and which had before been considered by the Cabinet as an alternative. It was not the measure lie should have preferred. hit it was one he could honourably and cooeietentlydefeed as being based on a principle—that it would restore the labouring classes to the position in the electoral body from which they were excluded by the reform act; that it would have given them one quarter of the constituencies, while one quarter was given to the agricultural interest, and a half to the middle classes. But that bill did not give satis faction to the conservative party. The government had received numerous protests against it from persona of rank and influence among their own friends. and though they had reason to believe that it would be favourably received by many influential members of the libeml party, it was decisively condemned at Mr. Gladstoue's meeting, where there seemed to be a general preference for a 5/. franchise. (Here there were loud erica of " No" from the imposition.) It seemed then as if the question was fast relapsing into the unsatisfactory condition of last year, anal under these circumstances Lord Derby called his colleagues together again, and expressed his strung opinion that iu the policy he hail originally suggested lay the solution of the problem, and the iuloption of that policy by the majority of the Cabinet leaf to the resignation of Loot Caniarvon, Lord Crauborne. and General Peel. After expressing his regret at the leas the government hail sus. tained, Mr. Disraeli added, with much emphasis, that if hie own resignation could h...ve averted this secession it was at lard Derby's command, for, in or out of office, he had always expressed himself ready to consent to any personal ...orifice to maintain a united party and Cabinets But the case would not have been bettered by hi. resigna tion, and it would be his duty at the earlie-t moment to bring in A bill which would be free from evasion, epIiVOCII• tion, and vacillation, by which the govenucent would stand, and which, notwithstanding Mr. Gladstone's gra tuitous veticinations on Monday night, would net perplex parliament, and would be intelligible to the country. General PEEL (who was meeived with loud cheers) — Sir, I hold everybody responsible for the maintenance of his own honour, whether it be personal or political. I do not know whether he is at all tones himself the hest judge of what that honour may require of Lim, for there is a species of false honour which may sometimes induce him not to apologise. although be knows lie is wrong, and to persist in a course although he has begun to doubt whether that course is right. I hope and trust that I have not been influenced by this principle of false honour. On the contrary, when a person has changed his opinion, II honour him for expressing that change and acting upon it, Now, me, I confess to having altered my opinion with regard to the great questi as which we discussed last year. It is perfectly true, as state , ' by my noble friend, that when Ms government was formed no pledge was given on the tv art of any of its me m bers to bring in a reform bah If there had been such a pledge I certainly aboudd not have accepted office. Since that time, however, I here changed ley opinion. I changed it as to the indifference of the great mass of the people—(opposition cheers)—and I thought it was absolutely necessary that the government should bring in a reform bill, +mil that the question should be settled as soon as possible. Having come to that concha- Ilion, I was 'satisfied that it could only be carried into effect by everyone with extreme opinions on the me side or the other being prepared to sacrifice those extreme views. I wa.s, therefore, prepared to unite wish nay colleagues, if possible, in framing a reform bill • an , ' with that view I wax prepared for all the aacrifices i niightllV called upon to u nay rgo. I was perfect ly premiro I to lave pa asages con sta ntly qaoted against me from my speech of last year, and re caved with cheers from bon. members opposite. lam exceedingly sorry that by the course I have taken I am depriving any bon. gentleman of the speech which he may have been prepariug. (Laughter.) There are some ex pressions in that speech which I deeply regret. (Cheers.) There is one espeeially, with respect to the Thames flow ing with blood, which I have never ceased to regret. I was also prepared for another punishment, which the hon. member for !Lambeth very good natureilly acid was the only . one he wished to see inflicted upon me. that of walk iug into the lobby in support of a reform bill. I was fully prepared to undergo even that. (A laugh.) But when it came to the fifth resolution—that fatal fifth resolution— by which it was proposed to extend the franchise down to household suffrage, then I at once said I could not agree to that, and I then and there tendered my resignation. I objected to it on the ground, in the first place, that it could not be carried out in conformity ((with the fourth resolution, which said that no class ought to have a preponderance in the representation. I aLso objected to it, because I thought that in many cases it would entirely overwhelm and swamp the old constituencies, particularly 'in small boroughs. 1% - hen that subject was discussed in the cabinet I must say that the opinion of my colleagues was unanimous that it wags mere matter of figures, a mere question of compensation, although I must say with respect tocompeusation derivedfrompluralityof votes, that I have no very great faith either in securities or in pledges. (Loud cheer,.) My experience of forty years in this house has led me to the conclusion that a security as a security is of no use whatever. If it is right in itself it may be main tained, but as a security it is of no value. (Cheers.) It was, therefore, upon that ground that I objected to the extension of the franchise to household suffrage ; but when! was assured that it was a conservative measure — (a laugh)—l fully believed it, and I consented to become a party to bringing in the hill. It was not that I hail changed my opinion, but knowing that everybody mitt° some extent sacrifice his own opinions in carrying out a great measure like this, I consented to sacrifice my feel ings to what I believed to be the unanimous opinion of my colleagues. It was not until Monday morning week, or very late on Sunday night, that I heard fur the first time that two of my colleagues, in whom I had placed the greatest confidence, and with whom I hail acted with the greatest cordiality, had, without any communication with me, and without any reference to me, come to the same con clusion as I had done. On an analysis of the figures they had come to the conclusion that the effect of our measure would be, what I had always felt would be the case namely, that in sonic of the smaller boroughs it would entirely swamp the present constituencies. I therefore refused to take any share in the responsibility of the measure. The ground upon which I hail consented to it was entirely removed, and I could no longer take upon myself the responsibility of any share in bringing in that measure. (Cheers.) Viscount CRANBORNE (who was also received with cheerd—Since I gave that answer to the hon. member for Nottingham Yesterday, I have received the permission, through Lord Derby, which enables me to speak upon this subject. The details into which my right hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and, still more, the details into which my right hon. friend has just entered, impose upon me the necessity—although I dislike as much as any man the disagreeable egotism of these diecursions—the ne cessity of briefly stating what my own course has been, and what the circumstances were under which I felt myself bound, on Monday week, to tender my resignation. At that time, when the resolution—the fatal resolution, as my right hon. friend has called it—was laid on the table, as I understood it, no detailed or definite agreement hail been come to. A general view was entertained, but the actual figures were not arranged as to the mode in which it should be applied. (Hear, hear.) It was to be applied, as I then understood it, according to principles which I believed to be just, although I confess I did not at the time think the house would accept them. That, however, seemed to me to be a small matter. My only business in assenting to the proposition was to ask myself, " Is this just, or not?" It was arranged on a principle which seemed to be just, as it would give an opportunity of admitting to the representation a very large class of those who did not posses the franchiae. My right hoo. friend ob jected to that premise', as he has told you. I bad hoped that the figures might be so arranged that the desire of the great majority of my colleagues might be car ried out with perfect safety to the constitution, and in a manner to settle this moat vexed and very diffi cult question. I was one of those who urged him to re main with us ; but after the speech of my right hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the 11th of February, it became evident—at least it was the belief of many of my colleagues—that our original view of the ap plication of the fifth volution was untenable ; and pro posals which to me—l only say, to me—were new, were then entertained by the government. I wish to be particularly understood here. I don't for • moment wish to suggest that my colleagues acted in a hasty or precis pitate manner. Any one who knows the working of a cabinet, which is a verylarge body , knows that certain matters are considered in the first instance by a small number of its members, and that many of them, especially those who hold offices which have heavy departmental work—as mine had—are not in the first instance consulted as to the measures to be prepared by the cabinet. It was on Friday, the 15th of February, that I fist heard of the proposition, which, I believe, has now received the formal sanction of her Majesty'sgovernment. I statedat once that it was a proposition which to my mind was inadmissible. I believed at the time that it had been abandoned ; but on the following Tuesday, the 19th, I think, the proposition was revived, and revived with the statement of certain statistics. Now, the house will perhaps allow me to point out the special value of statistics in this matter. The idea of the fifth resolution was a great enfranchisement with a certain compensating and counterpoising arrangement. Of *own the whole value of any arrangement with a counter poise depends upon the accuracy of the calculation upon which that counterpoise is made. The figures on Tuesday, the 19th, were imperfect. After considerable discussion it was understood as agreed that the matter Rhombi be re sumed, with fuller information from the departments, on Saturday, the 2:3riL The statement of the =assure to be proposed was to be made on Monday, the rah. On Satunlay, the Zlrd,. the figures were produced. I Vial asked if I desired further discussion of them. I said that they seemed to me to be favourable ; but I am not aware that I gave any further assent to the proposition than was conveyed in those words. I say this on account of expressions in which I can hardly acquiesce that have been used elsewhere. On Saturday, the Zird, after we had separated, I naturally gave my self up to the investigation of the figures. The position was one of extreme difficulty. The materials that I bad were in my opinion, extremely scanty. The time I had for decision wan aft hours. On Sunday evening I came to the conclusion that although the figures en the whole had a fair seeming, and although it appeared that when stated en block the proposed reduction of the franchise might be safely adopted, it nevertheless appeared to me that with respect to a very large number of boroughs it would scarcely operate otherwise than as household suf frage pure and simple. (Cheers.) As soon as I hail come to that conclusion I consulted one or two of my colleagues who happened to be near at hand ; and then I wrote to Lord Derby, stating that with those figures before me it was utterly impossible for me to concur in the measure which he proposed. As my right hon. friend stated, on Monday morning we assembled somewhat hastily. I natu rally tenderol ray resignatiou, and implored my noble friend to accept it, because, as I urged upon him, a govern. ment in which there was dissension was not a government likely to satiiefy either the house orthe country. Lord Derby, actuated by a kindliness of feeling for which I certainly ought not to be ungrateful, but which I thought mis taken, rather preferred to put it, we and the others who were dlissatisfied, whether we would consent as a coinpro mise to that other less extensive measure which had been considered by the government, and which was ultimately brought forward by my right hon. friend on the 25th of February. In the course of last week Lord Derby again rune to the conclusion that what I had originally sug gested was correct, namely, that it was not expedient to goon with a divided cabinet. The result was that the pro position which he hail prariorisly urged was accepted, and I then and there tendered my resignation. I am very glad to have the opportunity of making this explana tion to the house, because from some worth, dropped inad vertently, both in this house and elsewhere, I :can afraid the impression may gain ground that we had acted ',reel. pinta,/ ; that we had consented to a measure prepared a long time, and then at the last moment we hail unfairly come forward with our objections. I hope the house will feel that under the circumstances it was im possible for me to act otherwise than I did. (Cheers.) I need not say to three who have undergone it, how painful a thing it is to part with friends with whom one has acted, and to appear in the position of even temporary antagonism towards those with whose convictions one in general thoroughly sympathises. (Cheers.) But I felt I never could consent to a measure which appeared to me to be introducing into all boroughs, uniformly and with out distinction, practically, household suffrage. In saying this, I do not wish to give an impression that I am insen sible to those considerations which have operated so deeply upon the n.ind of my right hon. friend. Lord Carnarvon expressed the sentiments which he entertained on this question in language which I would willingly adopt as my own. I shall be very glad if it should be possible, in spite of these unfortunate discussions, to pros during the present session a measure which shall give satisfaction to those who undoubtedly are not satisfied, and which shall remove from the arena of party politics a matter of much fierce and dangerous con troversy. (Cheers.) lam sure, however, that this measure never would be settled if any who entertained a sincere convictiou against the propositions that were made, allowed the suspicion to fall upon them that for any party or personal consideration they were supprosing those convictions and acting against them. (Loud cheers.) It is only by the most perfect sincerity—(opposition cheers)—and by earnestly striving as much as we can to remove this from the category of those which are subjects of party cries and party struggles, we can get rid of a difficulty which has become serious, and remove that which has become, in fact, a disgrace to the efficiency of the House of Commons. (Loud cheers.) Mr. D. GRIFFITH then row, and amid much laughter read a statement in the darning Ad rertiser to the effect that Mr. Gladstone and the Chancellor of the Exchequer had met in the retiring room behind the Speaker's chair, THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1867. and there agreed with him that no attempt should be made to turn out the government. .--.... Mr. GLADSTONE 'denied that there was any founda tion for the statement referred to. Then, referring to the ohaervations of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he said it was the first time he had heard it said in that house that to admit the working classes to the franchise to such an extent that they would form one-fourth of the consti tuency was establishing a principle. The measure of the teat session was opposed by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer on the ground that it contained no principle, and yet it would have admitted more of the working chimes to the franchise than the measure of the present govern ment. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said he expected that the W. rating franchise would be accepted on the op position side of the house ; but bow was he justified in that expectation when the late government, when it was proposed last session, stated that they could not accept it. Then the statement of the right hon. gentleman that at a meeting of the liberal members it was determined to support no franchise less than a 5/. rating, was also utterly groundless. lie feared that the constant iteration of these collateral discussions must tend to interpose, both on the mind of the government and on the:minds of the opposi tion, an obstacle to the attainment of that which they - fir. LOWE, speaking on behalf of the majority of last year, which had combined to resist a 71. rental franchiae (which Mr. Disraeli had now discovered to he based on a principle), because it was a step towards household suf frage, inveighed with great force and effect against the new alliance between Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Bright, whom he likened to the " °feat Twin Brethren" of Lord Macau lay e " Lay." The one approached household suffrage from above, the other from below ; but there was no practical distinction to be drawn between them—they were both travelling on the high road to democracy. The conflict of last year had now become a race which party could underbid the other. He suggested that Mr. Dis raeli should lay on the table the figures spoken !of by Lord Cranborne, that there might be no further delays for want of information. Mr. HOILMMAN also made some caustic observations on the position of the ministry, which he characterised as the weakest which had ever attempted to handle the greatest of questions. Though the liberals were anxious to assist the government in 'taming a bill, every speech of Mr. Dia. meh made it mote difficult, and that night had made it patent that a conservative government was about to launch a democratic reform bill. When the Duke of Wellington and Sir B. Peel abandoned the traditions of their party on Catholic Emancipation and the Corn Laws they were not only at the head of a majority, but they were sincere con verts, and would have struggled for those changes in opposition ; but when Lord Derby's government left power in IMO, they immediately became anti-reformers, and, having once more abandoned all their old opinions, if now unsuccessful, they would doubtless relapse into the same course. Lord STANLEY, who upon thing was received with loud cheers, said—l do not wish to engage the attention of the house for more than one or two minutes. The speeches of the right hon. gentleman who has just sat down and of the right hon. gentleman the member for Caine bays both been founded upon the same idea, which I will venture to say is an utter miaapprehension. They have both spoken as if they behoved that it was the inter!, tion of those who sit upon these benches to go farther in a democratic direction than those who sit opposite to them, and to bring in a bill framed and in tended in that spirit. Now I say plainly and distinctly that I cannot conceive any circumstances under which, in our position and with our opinions, that would be an ex pedient course to adopt ; and whether expedient or not, I am sure it would not be an honourable course. Neither I, nor as I believe any of those who sit on this bench, would be prepared to adopt it. I say that now, because I want to save, it may be, some members of this house from disap poiniment. If the member for Caine, or any of those who think with him, believes seriously that it LI the in tention of the government to bring in a bill in the sense of that policy which has always beeu very ably and very consistently advocated by the hon. member for Binningham, I can assure him that he is utterly mistaken. (Hear, hear, and murmurs.) I hope that hon. members will recollect that they are discussing a measure which is not. before the house—(hear, hear)—of which they have heard no statement whatever, of the general effect and purport of which it is impossible they can know anything, and of which they cannot form an accurate judgment merely from some fragmentary expressions which have been used relating to some portion of it by gentlemen who have spoken in this debate. We are quite ready to stand or fall by the judgment of the house upon the measure we shall bring in. We only ask for ordinary fair play, and that the house will know what that measure is before it proceeds to debate it. (Cheers.) Mr. BRIGHT—I shall not prolong the discussion more than two or three minutes, but I cannot help . saying that I think we have had a very instructive even ing. (Hear, hear.) I'robably, if hon. gentlemen opposite, and perhaps some right hon. gentlemen here could have seen in a vision a year ago what they see to-night, the results of our deliberations in the last session might have been very different. (Hear, hear.) The member for Caine admits that he is pretty much out of court, and ought not to be here at all—(laughter)—but he was tile greet adviser last year of certain weak-minded gentlemen and certain passionate and fierce politicians who now sit in a very meek spirit opposite me. I recollect his speeches from that bench ; the violent, and I will say, even after the laudation of his speeches, the illogical things which he said—the things he must regret to have said. [Mr. Lowe—" NO."I (Laughter.) Then the things which I regret that he said. The right hon. gentleman made those speeches, he fanned the f:iin,e of the discon tent of a number of gentlemen--somehow or other nearly all the leaders of that party who followed him had in former times been in office—he fanned the flame of a certain discontent, and combining that with your party spirit threw out a government which had offered to the country a measure of which the country distinctly ap proved. (Hear, hear.) When I say the country, understand me, I mean that if there were any who did not approve they did not signify their disapprobation ; but the multitudes at whose request and dementia your government now proposal to act, did, in many hundreds of public meetings, signify their approbation of that bill. Now, I ask hon. gentlemen opposite to dismiss for ever from their councils the right hon. gentleman the member for Caine. (Laughter.) He has once led you into a very great difficulty, and if you take his advice now he will greatly increase that difficulty. (Hear, hear.) Ho is against extending the franchise by any reduction of it to any portion of his countrymen. That is not an opinion, as I understand, and as ho admits, held by any other individ ual in this house. If that beim, clearly on this, which is our question of to-night and of this session, he is out of court as an adviser, and if he does not withhold his advice in future I recommend you at least not to follow it. (Hear, hear.) The right hon. gentleman the member for Stroud is very angry with the government. Nobody has so much reason that I know of to be angry with the government as I have, because I believe nobody grieved more over the con duct of parliament last session in causing the failure of the bill which I greatly wished to pass. But what did the right hon. gentleman expect when he combined with gentlemen opposite and drove out the government o f Loral Russell to put in the government of Lord Derby? Had he so little knowledge of the state of public opinion that be believed Lord Derby could hold office and refuse to deal with the question of reform? Why the Chancellor of the Exchequer knows, Lord Derby knows, every man in the house knows, perfectly well that if the government had met parliament this session and had declared that they had no measure of parliamentary re form to offer, and would resist any proposition for the extension of the franchise, the first week of the session would have been the week of their extermination as a government, and there would have been an end of them now and for ever. (" Hear," and a laugh.) But then the right hon. gentleman is very angry because the term household suffrage" has been used. It hasbeenrumoured on these benches that the right hon. gentleman had a household suffrage bill in his pocket. I came down to night iu the expectation that it was to be brought on. In =of fact, under the leadership of the members for and Stroud we scarcely know where we are or where we shall be. The right hon. gentleman has a bill for household suffrage, with certain limitations. I am not sure whether it has not been under examination by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord Derby. The right hon. gentleman ha. been hawking his bill about, first to St. James'a-square, and then, I believe, to Carlton house-terrace, and there being no market for the article— (loud laughter)—l am not in the least surprised that he should get up in this house and try to damage the wares which the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer is offering for male. Now let me say one or two words to gentlemen opposite. You know that what the right hon. gentleman the member for Caine has said is true ; that although I have always, so long as I have discussed this question, thought that household suffrage was in borough. the true basis of the franchise, I have been willing to sup port measures in that direction. I am willing now, if the house cannot agree upon that, to support a measure short of it ; but I believe that that is the just foundation of the borough franchise in this country. You have been &MN towed to have a dread of votes and numbers of votes. You have had a constituency so narrow and contracted, that you have some sort of idea that things which are safe in the hands of a million of electors would be unsafe in the hands of two millions ; as if the second million of your countrymen were not filled with very much the same ideas as the first million, and as if they had not precisely or almost altogether the same interests. There is no other country in the world in which the aristocracy, where there is one, or the wealthy class is afraid of votes. Whether you go to America or Australia, or to nearly any of the kingdoms of Europe, you never find discussions in any legislative body such as are held from night to night in this house. People in other countries have no dread of their countrymen, and no fear that giving them votes would be destructive of any order of society or of the constitution under which they live. Now I ask you whether last year the great body of the working people who met to express their opinion of the measure of Lord Russell's government were not mo derate and judicious—(bear, hear)—in the course they took with regard to that bill, and in the judgment they expressed upon it? I venture to say that they took a part that was much more patriotic in its results than that you were unfortunately advised to take by the right hon, gen tleman behind me (Mr. Lowe) ; and I will undertake fur ther to say that, such is their moderation and such is their comprehension of this question, that they will judge with great fairness any measure which the present govern went shall lay before the house, or, if they should fail, any that may be placed before us by the government which may succeed them. (Hear, hear.) But now I implore you—and you know I am not speaking in the interest of the right hon. gentleman the immix'. for South Lancashire, nor his friends, who may hereafter occupy those benches, nor in the special interest of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. with whom I have no poll. Heal connection—(a laugh)-1 speak In the interest of a great cause, and of the millions of people who day by day read every syllable that is uttered in this house, and I ask you to deal with them as one class or one party, or one section of a people should deal with every other section of that people, with a generous and liberal estimate of their character and that which is due to them. Don't try now—don't try by any tricks—Haughterl—to cheat them of that which they have a right to expect from the declarations you have ueule. If you cannot go as far as I could wish you to go try sonsethin_lexs, but let us have it Pimple and distinct —( hear , hear sothat they shall know that what you profess to give t hey will rosily re. mice. (Cheers.) I recollect in the demonstration, as it was called, which met here the other day the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Lowe) says: the great demonstrations have left no echo behind them. Lord Derby could tell a very different story. If I understand rightly the measure which the right lion. gentleman intends to introduce is rather the Derby of the brain of Lord Derby than of his own. Lord Derby himself, who is not supposed to be rash in h is pro irensity as en innovator upon the institutions of his country —Lord Derby is in favour of that wide extension of the suffrage to which it is hoped hon, gentlemen oppo site may by-and-bye consent. But in that demonstration there were flags carried along the streets, and upon one of them—that carried by the carpenters—there was the motto which, though it is not in the choicest English, will still be understood by many present, and I commend it to the attention of hon. gentlemen opposite and to the house, as conveying in it all the wisdom which I could possibly hope to put in any number of words I might utter. They said, " Deal with us on the square ; we have been chiselled long enough." (Loud laughter, and cheers.) Mr. SMOLLETT wondered why the great liberal party, seeing the unsatisfactory manner in which reform had been dealt with by the conservatives, did not themselves take the matter seriously in hand, and move a vote of want of confidence in the government. Surely their disinclination to assume office ought to be ex) lained, for rumour stated that there was a want of unanimity in the party, that the leaders were distrusted, and their followers had no conn ' dente in them. After a few remarks from Mr. B. STANHOPE, the mo- tion for adjournment was agreed to. (in the motion of Mr. WATKIN, after some discussion, and with the approval of th e government, a select cora -1 mittee was ordered to be appointed to inquire into the operation of the Limited Liability Act. Leave was given to Mr. WLAGAS to bring in a bill to amend the game laws in Scotland. The adjourned debate on the second reading of the Sale and Purchase of Shares Bill was resumed. In the course of the discussion Mr. Cave pronounced the measure to be of an exceptional and retrograde character ; but upon a division the amendment of Mr. Fildes, moved ou the 27th of February, that the bill be read a second time that day six months, was negatived by 136 to IL The bill was then read a second time, and Mr. CRAW roitn gave notice of his intentions to move that it be re ferred to a select committee. _ _ The remaining business on the paper having been dis posed of, the house adjourned at ten minutes to 12 o'clock until 2 this day. LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY. ( LIMITED.) The eighth annual general meeting of the share holders in this company was held yesterday, at the odic. a, No. 6, Finsbury -square• Mr. F. J. LAW, chairman of the board of directors, in th e chair. The report, an abstract of which has already been given, having been submitted and taken as read, The (:tialamax proceeded to move its adoption, congra tulating the meeting that the directors were still lIA a position to recommend a dividend at the rate of 7) per cent. per annum. It would be seen from the statement of assets and liabilities that there was a balance in favour of the company of 90,000/. ; nor was that balance a mere myth, as it consisted of 500001, in consols and 40,000/. in cash. (Hear, hear.) The liabilities, as com pared with last year, showed a reduction of 6,000/., and the assets an increase of 2,000/. Nor was that all the advantage derived within the year, because there was the purchase of the Richmond omnibuses and their goodwill, which had involved an expenditure of 5,000/., which might in the regular order of things have been charged to capital, but which had been borne by revenue. (Hear.) The revenue account did not quite conic up to that of the previous year. It showed a falling off of 15,000/., of which 10,000/. was due to a reduction of fares, and the remaining 5,000/. to the increase in the prase of provender, and the diminution of traffic occasioned by the bad weather of the past half-year. It might there fore be said that the company had surrendered something like 20,000/. a year to the public, and yet the public did not look upon this as • boon, as it was said the concession was due to the reduction of the mile age duty. The public, he was afraid, did not sufficiently appreciate the advantages which the company conferred upon it • but if the company were to cease to exist for a very sh ort time—nay, even for a day—its want, end the benefit it conferred, would be felt and admitted in an in stant. (Hear, hear.) Since their last meeting deathbed removed from amongst them Mr. 111'Namera, the manag ing director, and the board had appointed as his successor Mr. Church, the secretary, who now discharged in a most efficient manlier the duties of the joint of of secretary and general manager. (Hear, hear.) The interests of the company were not likely to suffer in that gentleman's hands ; indeed he had already effected many valuable changes and improvements, which must ultimately bring rime money in the shape of dividends to the pockets of the shareholders. (Hear, hear.) No doubt those whom he then had the honour to address had seen a letter or ad vertisement from Mr. J. E. Bradfield complaining that he had not been fairly treated by the directors. It was sufficient for him to state in reply that whereas Mr. Brad , field had received 1,236/. for expenses, although he had only been entitled to 25th. , by agreement he was en titled to 3,000/. in four yearly payments of 7504 each. and that of that ,inn he had received 1.000/., although at the present moment there was only au instalment of 750 f. due to him. (Hear, hear.) Mr. SPENCER HERAPATH seconded the motion, adding that no doubt the distress of the working classes ad pro duced some of the reduction in the receipts as well as the bad weather. He also suggested that steps should be shortly taken to diminish the number of French directors, whose /ores in quo prevented their giving that attention to the company which its interests demanded. At present there were five English and four French directors. Mr. Nunes, contrasting the accounts with those of 1861, insisted that there must be something wrong in the management, otherwise the dividend would be double what it was ; and he therefore interpoeed an amendment to the motion from the chair, to the effect that the divi dend of 7) per cent. per annum be accepted, but that a committee of investigation should be appointed to detect the causes of the supposed discrepancies of which he complained. Mr. LaicirroN seconded the amendment. Mr: KAMIER, adverting to the suggestion of Mr. Hera path, inquired s hat was the proportion of shares held in this country and in France? The CHAIRMAN said' 4,000 shares were held in England, and 54,000 in France. The number held in France was annual,' decreasing. He pointed out that Mr. Nudes was mistaken in his figures and calculations. . . Major COI IrriE . T asked whether some more efficacious plan could be devised to atop the peculation' of their omnibus conductors. TheCumuusw wile afraid not. If the losses from such dishonesty could be entirely prevented, their dividends might dm doubled. (Hear, hear.) Every check possible had been tried, but without success, so far as bringing all the fares received into the coffer* of the company. . . The amendment was then put and negat ived - by a large majority, only five bands being held up for it, and the original motion for the adoption of the report and accounts was carried. A dividend of 3a. per .hare, equal to 7i per cent. per annum, was then declared, payable, free of income tax, on and after the 12th instant. The retiring directors and auditors were re-elected, and a resolution of regret and condolence for the less of the late Mr. passed. A cordial vote of confidence in Mr. Church, the new manager, with which the chairman said he heartily con curred was then passed, and the proceedings concluded with the usual compliment of thanks to the chairman and directors. Kids interitstnce. HOUSE OF LORDS-M./Am 5. APPEALS. The noble and learned lords present were the Lord Chancellor and Lord Cranworth. THE WESTERN BANE OF SCOTLAND AND oTans r. ADM. (Bill of exceptions.) THE SANE r. BANE, ET 2 CONTRA. This was an appeal from the first division of the Court of Session in Scotland, and had an important bearing upon the numerous class of cases in which shareholders in joint stock companies have sought to be released from liability in consequence of alleged false and fraudulent represents. tions of directors. The Attorney-General, Sir Roundel' Palmer, Q.C., and Mr. Shand of the Scotch bar, were counsel for the Western Bank of Scotland, who are the appellants, and Mr. Giffarti, Q.C., Mr. Moncricff, and Mr. Balfour of the Scotch bar, appeared for Mr. Addle, the respondent. It appeared that the Western Bank of Scotland was established in 1102, and carried on business in Glasgow and elsewhere until November, 1857, when it stopped payment. The capital of the oompany, which had all been ' paid up, was fixed at 1,580,0001., and was divided into 30.000 shares of wt. each. In November and December, 1855, the respondent, Robert Addie,of View-park, Lanark shire, and coal and iron master at Glasgow, purchased two parcels of 71 and 64 shares in the bank, for which he paid a total sum of 10,313!. 10s. 2d. Two years after the stop page, viz., in November, 1856, he brought an action against the bank, which it may be mentioned was registered under the Joint Stock Banking Companies Act, 1857, to recover not only that sum, together with the amount of stamps and registration fees connected with the transference, with interest at the rate of 5 per oent. per annum, but two sums of 1,687!., and another sum of 13,4)01. which he had paid in the shape of calls in 1858, with interest at the rate of 5 per cent., but subject to the deduction of 1,1311. 17s. 9d., being the amount of divi dend he had received on his shares. In the alternative, he claimed 26,0001. damage.. The ground of his claim was that he had been induced to purchase the shares by the false and fraudulent representation of the bank as to the state of its affairs, and he relied chiefly on the half yearly report issued in June, 1855, ureviously to the pur chase, in which it was said that the net profits of the past year, after payment of all expenses, and providing for bad and doubtful debts, were Os. 44., out of which the directors proposed to pay a dividend of 8 per cent. per annum without deduc tion for income tax. That dividend, it was said, would require 120,0001., leaving a surplus of 13,892 f. Os. 4d. to be carried to the " rest," which at the last annual balance was 150,9481. 175., and would now stand at 184,840/. 1.. lid, The directors then expressed a hope that the shareholders would be pleased with this state ment, and with the satisfactory way in which the general business of the bank was going on. "In conclusion," 1 they added, " the welfare and prosperity of the bank de pend muchon the friendly co-operation of its customers and shareholders, and the directors, therefore, call upon them for their active influence and support." The trial took place before the Lord Pnisident, and the jury found a ver dict for Mr. Addle, the pursuer. On behalf of the bank, the defenders, a bill of exceptions was tendered to the Lord President's charge to the jury, and it came on for bearing before the lords of the first division. The part of the charge chiefly objected to was that in which the Lord President said that "if the case should occur of directors taking upon them to put forth in their report statements of importance in regard to the affairs of the bank false in themselves, and which they had no reasonable ground to believe to be true, that would be a misrepresentation and deceit, and in the esti-1 caution of the law would amount to a fraud." ' In June, 1865, the lords of the first division pronounced au interlocutor disallowing the exceptions, and it was from their judgment that the bank now appealed to this house. One element in the case which distinguished it from nearly all others which had been before the courts was, that previously to the purchase of the shares in 1855, Mr. Addle was the holder of 15 shares in the bank which he had held for about seven years, and on which he had received dividends. On behalf of the appellants it was con tended that whatever fraud there might be on the part of the manager or directors none could be alleged against the company, and that this fraud must be shown to be the immediate and proximate cause of the respondent buying the shares. It was further argued that having been a shareholder previous to the purchase in question, he must, if there wax fraud, be treated as a particepscriminis ; but that in any case he now sought relief against other shareholders, who were as innocent as himself. It also seemed that though the com pany stopped payment in 1857 he assented to the volun tary winding up, paid the calls, and conunenced no litiga tion until two years afterwards. . . . The Attorits4-General was heard at considerable length in support of the appeal, and Si Roundel' Puliner fol lowed on the same side. The argumenta had not concluded when their lordships rose. and the further hearing of the case was adjourned until Friday next. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before Mr. Bodkin, Assistant-Judge.) Thomas Staples, 34, blind-maker, was indicted for steal ing 1,500 yards of canvas, value 200/., the property of her Majesty the Queen. Mr. Orady (instructed by the Commiaidoners of Woods and Works) prosecuted ; the prisoner was undefended. Mr. Inspector Thompson, of the detective department, Scotland-yard, watched the cue on the part of the police. James Williams, blind-maker, at the Seymour-works, Jubilee-place, Chelsea, said he was a general contractor for the supply of blinds to the office of Works and Public Buildinga, and the prisoner had been in his employment on and off for three years up to the sth of November. He identified four of the blinds aa belonging to the State apartments. St. James's Palace, and four belonging to the Office of Works, Whitehall. A portion of the canvas belonged to the awning to the Houses of Parliament, and the rest to the public offices. The whole of the canvas had been cut from the frames. _ The prisoner had no defence to make, and the jury found him Guilty. Mr. I% illiams said he always considered the prisoner a person of integrity, and although he had discharged him for drunkenness, had be not committed this offence he would again have been inkisemp!oyment. Inspector Thom p son said that the prisoner had formerly been a moldier, and was present at the whole of the Indian mutiny, and took an active part with the troops employed in its suppression. After that was brought to an end, he volunteered to go to the Crimea, was present at the whole of the principal actions there, and returned with a good character, a medal, and three clasps. . ' • ' The Asiistant-Jtidge sentenced lam to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 12 months. John Brimovr, 18, and Gems , Watts, 21, were indicted fur stealing a leather bag containing wearing apparel, value 31., the property of Simnel Goddard. John bPeau4 of No. 7, Robert-stmt, Pimlico, said, as he was returning home on the night in question he saw the two prisoners running after a cab, and he saw one get up behind it, take a bag off that was on the top of it, and hand it to the other prisoner. They passed close by him, and they went into Warwick-street together. He followed them, and saw the two constables stop them. One ran away when the other was stopped, but he was pursued and caught. After they were taken he told the officers what he had seen, having followed them about 300 yards before he saw t h e constables. Samuel Goddard, of the Park-town Hotel, Wandsworth road, Battersea, liceniod victualler, identified the p as belonging to him, and mid it was on the top of trur er on the night in question. The jury found the prisoners Guilty. There was a previous conviction proved against Brimmer. The Assktant-Judge sentenced Briunner to be im prisoned and kept to hard labour for 12 months, and Watts for sic months. (Before Mr. Payne.) Charges 13oNdAt cabdriver, who was convicted the previous day of stealing a portmanteau containing property to a great amount, belonging to Mr. Filmer Phipps. a gentleman living at 7, Albemarle-street, was brought up to receive judgment. Mr. Pater (instructed by Mr. E. A. Froggat, of Aroll street, Itegent•street), prosecuted,and Mr.Muody defended. The prosecutor engaged the prisoner in Piccadilly, and put his pot tmantenia into the cab. He stopped at a shop and went inside, leaving his portmanteau in the cab. When he returned the prisoner had driven off with it, and neither he nor the property was seen until a week had elapsed. when he was taken into custody by Con stable Dawson, a detective, and charged with the robbery. The prosecutor said be had bad an interview with the prisoner that morning, and he had refused to give him any information as to what he had done with the property. Its value was more than had been stated in the information —it was .501. Mr. Payne, in passing sentence, said it was s very serious offence, and must be punished severely. The sentence, which would, no doubt, act as • warning to all cabmen. was that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years. The prisoner applied that some few shillings which were taken from him at the police station might be restored to him. The court expensed surprise at the impudence of the reque.t, inaunuch as he had refused to give any informa tion about property worth 501. which he had stolen. The application was at once refused. I r t 1 I TRAFFIC RETURNS. Miles oaa- Her- Total. Total. &Antral& open. aengers. ehandiatt ISO 7. lan& Feb. 1 to Feb. 10. Gnat Central of Belgium 1,871 5,622 7,:42 9,047 Week ending Melt 11. & Austrian lenuliarlyie. I. ;eouth Austrian Line! _lO9l 0,258 29,613 35,r.21 Upper Italy 'minding the Venetian Linea) —l4Ol 15,G.7 20,420 38,147 32, 25 9 Week aiding Mel. 14. Detroit and Milwaukee.— 182 5,000 4,548 Week ending Feb. 16. Great Western of 9uta4a . 349 13,776 11,582 Week ending Feb ?A. _ Brecon end Merthyr ....., al 239 901 1,010 1,139 Week ending March 2. Got and Bandon Glaagow d weaken 249 9,107 10,100 Week ending March 3. Cambrian Great Luxembourg l7! 1,165 3,049 5.113 5,3.12 Metropoli ndon l ltan North Lo 3,341 LB'S{ [Advertisement.]-11oLLowAY's OnrrmErr AND PDA.s. --Society's Safeiptards.—Wlustever the disease may he, wherever it may discover itself, whether external or internally, Its victims may enter on Professor Holloway's treatment with hearts toll of hope that every day .111 bring some amelioration of the infirmity. For the cure of ulcers, wounds, sores, abra• Eons, eruptions, abscesses. glandular swellings. and the genera- lity of throat and chest complaints, the Ointment used need only be used awarding to the instructions to insure a successful Issue to the Illness. and a desirable restoration of health and strength. In all disorders which have been of long duration, Holloway's Pills should be taken they powerfully stimulate the circulation, rouse the needful novena energy, and Induce reparative action. THE POLICE COURTS. BOW-STREET. William Wood, aged 15, who awl be resided at 10, White Hart-street, Drury-lane, was brought up before Mr. Flowers, charged with stealing a knife from the person of the complainant in Trafalgar-square. Charles Henry Ponton, a schoolboy, living is St. Martin's-lane, said that when he came out of school, at about half-past four, he was playing with some other boys, when the prisoner and five or six of his companions surrounded him with a Top, twitted it round his legs, and threw him down. Ono boy s:ole his pucket-knito and p.t t 4 it to the prisoner, who gave it ton th'r.l Prisoner was appretteuded, but. the ullivra gut away. Henry Lush said hu was playing with last witness wit. be WAS thrown down. Th e bo ys nearly succeeded e, getting off his coat, but he (Lush), alling loudly fat assistance, ultimately got his cost again. J. Knight stated that he witnessed all the transaction, and gave information about it, and was then obliged to run away on account of the boys threatening hint with thraabiug. They (the schoolboys) were all playing a pa,. called " Police and Prisoner," and then these roughs set upon them and robbed them. Mr. Flowers—Now you see what your game of prisoner has come to. Aaron Skinner, 557 A, said he saw the prisoner end the others throw the schoolboys down, and he inmie.hauly went after them. lie plainly saw the knife tam. wed handed to the prisoner, who ran up into the terrace with it. Witness ran after him, and the prisoner Lauded the knife to a boy who sold fumes, and who pat it iu his box. Both ran in the opposite direction. itnesi secured prisoner and took hint into custody. Mr. Flowers remanded the prisoner, to ascertain some. thing about the other boys. CLERICENWELL. Retems Foote, late an inmate of the St. nincras work house, was charged with stealing a large quantity of weal ing apparel, belonging to the directors of the poor of tie parish of St. Pancras. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and asked for mercy, us it was her first offence. Some of the things which she was accused of stealing had been given to her when she left the workhouse. Mr. Cooke said that this was a very bad roldiery, and what made the matter worse was that the prisoner hul taken the stolen property to her son's house. He then sentenced her to be impnsoned and kept to hurd taboo in the House of Correction for three calendar months. Mr. Cooper applied for a summons against one of the pawnbrokers, for taking in the 'parish property with the marks on it. Mr. Caoke granted the summons. WORSHIP-STREET. John If ilher alias P much, a lad, was charged with heiii; concerned in stealing a horse and cart containing goode for consignment to Messrs. Salter and White, silk msnufac. timers of Spill-square, Mown. Kent, silk manufacturers, of Spital-square, and others, the value of the whole pro. petty being above iKIOI. The identity of the silks end velvet, together with the broken boxes that had contained it, was fully proved. awl • working man named Lee deposed to having seen the railway cart from nine o'clock on the morning of the robbery until three o'clock standing near the Rising Sun public-house, Stepney, unattended, and with severs - II packages in it, from which it would seem that after taking the lighter goods named from the cart the thief or thieves hecammilarmed, or could not find opportunity of removing the others consequently they are in the hands of the Great Eastern Company again. The prisoner when in the hands of Sergeant Kenwood. H division, on this charge, remarked, " I'm sorry that I had anything to do with it, for the sake of my poor mother ;" he now when called on for his defence said, " I can prove that I was at home at the time of the obbery, and I was only the man's servant." Mr. Kingimill having complctedverytemthy;le Central cition the ',limner was fully committed for trial at h Criminal Court. MARKET& TALLOW. —TUISDAY EVILIMEO. —The market closed firmly lo• day. Spot, 4h ed. to 9d March, eti rid. to 9d. ; April to June. 425. ed to fel. ; October to December, DD. ed. Deliveries to last evening, 150 casks; snivels, none. corroN.—LITZILPOOL. MARCH 5. —ORPRoAtitet has been quiet to-day, at yesterday's Estimated sales to-day, 13,000 bales, including 3,000 n and export. 4,000 Any:ricer, 12d. to ltd ; 450 Peruse, dre., 14d. to 181 d. ; 20 Maranham, Isd 300 Egyptian. lbid. to ltd.: 50 Smyrna, 11d. to led. : 3,030 Surat, bid. to 12,d. : Madras, 1144. to 1144. ; Bengal, Sciode, de.. Yid. to 91d. : China, 1044. ; 100 Peru, 14N. to 150. fair Dhollerah, 111 d.; fair Umnrawnttee, 1144. ; fair Broach, Hid : fair Bengal, Bd. ; fair EgypUan, 161 d. fair Palllll2/, 14 middling Baweds, 130. middling (./Ins, 14d. COTTON GOODS. —lfAtteakvTge. MARCH s.—ln shipping yarns the market has been very quiet. There has leen but little disposition for business, and to make sales lower prices must be takes. In general spinners hold rather firmly to their t= "imi alrea:ly and ao are loras wil t t rinvtiv mA e l ire lora y o "we n prott o t n i„T Ihe market for home-trade yarns is slightly easier thau on Endo, and the tendency of prima is rather In the buyer's f av our. The tone of the cloth market since last Tuevlxy has been decidedly weaker, and the business doing has gradually decreased amount. All the oilers making have been at a very low scale of prices. Telegrams from India have been received of a nature to discourage operations here for that market, and tho result has been a rather gloomy feeling since their arrisaL Buyers to-day have been offering still further reduco nrkes, hut such offers have led but to very few transactions. Though the market must be quoted lower, the transactions at the reduction have been few, and limited to small quantities of goods The reduction in prices, as compared with quotations a month back, are aufficleatly marked. With middling New Orleans cotton reduced from 14d. to Ibid. per lb. -_l:•irich printers of 3 lb. weight are difficult of sale at 3d. per pie, ; b lb. 27.1nch ditto at &I. lower; 71b. 39-Inch shirting' at 11.1. borer and 8 lb. shirtings have given way billy as much. Most descriptions of cloth bare given way to some extent. WOOLLEN.—Lihne, MIAMI s.—The cloth halls this morning have been thinly attended, few buyers from a distance bellm present, and the bilinC4ll operations of a very reettieted character. In the coloured market the inquiries for twetNia have been upon • considerably less scale than we has,: recently had to report. A few small parcels of light-steel and blue-grey mixtures have changed hands, though only to a nomi nal amount tither departmentt have been equally quiet. The trader of e.mtlrm has also been limited, and the parcels which have been made have been entirely of a "sorting-up" descrip tion. There hes not been much cluing amonast the plain 0w1.% and the market throughout has miaowed a very quiet appear ant e. The inquiries for hair-lists have been moderately self sustained. A more animated appearance has been manifest, though the parcels which have been transferred have not been large, and are mostly confined to the medium and finer qualities. There has not been any appreciable alteration in prkera MANUFACTiItEst. M ACM S.—There have not been w. many buyers in the market to-day as then were last week, and Ingmar transactions have been more limited. Buyers evince no disposition to make large purchases, but coon tent themselves with small parcels, including as cum+ variety as possible. Their selections were made from better claw trouser- Inas and other new fancy goods, as well as In good black doe. skins, while the lower cLue of unions and fancy mixtures are more neglested. Wool.B.—HunneamMtn. ?lawn 6.—A small quanta) has arrived from present vales In Loodon ; but in Mee of so lame sale, manufacturers wily purchase what they maks Is. fame• dial. wants. CORN.—But.I., Ileum s.—At to-day's market a moderale supply of English wheat, which seUr rather more freely at folly last Tuesday's eurrenc7, hest runs of red making Ms. to ."..M r 50411.. to the grower. Foreign more looked after, and some few Wes mad.e to local millers at 00s. per bulb. for fair quality el/ lisuubni and Baltic. Barley of all description.' slow sale, at prime In favour of buyers. Beaus and peas neglected. "a" rather lower, execpt quulithe suitable fur seed. Foreign 'mists for the week : Wkat, 1,953: barley, 9,624: oats. 2.8 33 : bean'. ?,311: peas, 40: tares, 202 qrs. - - - - - - • IPSWIPIi, Ilsacit 5.—A very short supply of afoot here to• day, for which an a.lvsme of Is. per qr. was melds *Mutated. Barley in moderate supply, and again In favour of lauera. and peas firm. UMW. MARCH A —There is a mberable show of wheat to-day, and if our millers were large buyers it would 14 ilitlicult for them to get what they would require; the little busbies). doing In at an advance of Is per gamier front last Tuesday's rates. Barley and ether articles go off =lowly at farmer prieva. LTIIN. MARCO 5.—A small show of wheat at this 'toys market, which met a ready sale at Is. per qr. inure moue). spring corn prices firm. Per imperial quar to the taNneer Wheat. white. new, 611ba. 4 x14 . .114. per i ter mperial La, shel, nos to au.: ditto. real, nulled. to to lanky. toot Clieraller malttnx, 5311,.. to 55114., len to Sul . ditto. elms. rhevaller, ditto, 53114 to &Mir,. All. to lie . oat.. 3.1!., MIN.. Ns. to Pls.: beans, 6311 a. to 651 1 w, , Ca. to 465.. peas, maple, 63lbs. to 6411 a, 375. to 41s. 3IEaCAPPLEsOI.TY3 It. MARCH 5. —At our market this miirr.ng we hart a moderate chow of wheat from the mmwera as well a. from the coast, but from abroad the antis!' ale to • fair nabs-. Bark-lane proving rather dlesppinting, milers operated aWI lees freedom than on saturdaN . still, in the invilot-.4 'how. that day'. rates were sustained. Flour rid mon• readily, but '.ett. price. were not olitnlnahle. In other artl..le., we hive variation to tole. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. B 1 KTIIS. CLIFTON —)larch 4, the wile of L S. Clifton, Lot., street, of a daughter. 111:011Li —March 3, at Park-street, W., Mrs. Thomas lin :1.,. of a daughter. IiAZeLDINE —March 4, at ilaklawk, Godetone, the wife • . . tfazeldlae. of a MM. JONES —March 4 , at Twickenham. the rife of C. Jones, : • t a daughter. LAN-SW—March 1, at !7m-hour, I:alhain, Mrs. E. I. M r It *OD. WEBIt —March 3, at Notate:pi•abl.ey, Notts, the %If, of t• Webb, liaq., of arm. StARRIAGES. BARTON—WILLER.— ,httr..l. I ' ' • by the Rev. G. Keeling, R. K. Barton, of "WWI to Frederica, daughter of the late T. U. Will. • • •• GREEN —RICHARISSON.—Marish 2, at >faryirbm • the Re%. W. F. Mothersolo, Mr. .I iirvon, of `sort; John's-wad, to Sarah, dauglityr of the hate Mr. J. I: of Keswick. Cumberland. G.IRDON—JCIIINsToN —March 2. at St. Nith..la4 . Brighton, (lurks A. 8., son of A. Gordon, E.g., of I.!! Castle, Aberdeenshire, to Eatrglts f. Joi.n ston, Ray., of Eastern.torratie, Brighton. DEATHS. BONNER. —March 3. at Great Cumberland...dr...l, 11).1.. park, Major-4,411eral J. G I , It.. , aged 79 GILBI.—M are). 3, Catherine. aski.we of the late Mr. 1 • of lhe Crescent. Nurhiton. lined SI MAlNE:4.—March 3, at (Hutton rued, Holloway. Mr.. l Its tk'a. aged 44. IIAHRIS.—March 3, at Philip lane, Tottenham, Mr. A II or* aged :3. PlTT.—March 3, Prams. the wife .4 Mr .1. M Pitt. Or Noel dk. med. Walston. aged 37. WlignLY-11L—March 3. Henry, eon of i Wheeler, hw. wshw werth•cunim..n. aged 37. Printed and Published by WILLIAM KING HAW', 01 NG. S o Loulhardetreet, in the Ut; of Loudon, Printer. at a* Mice, in Lonsbard•street, in the Precuict whicatn.as.-. WND3NSDAT, L 567. i tL I. t I i ...... M.M. ,••M•M... !tit " is NIA% 111 I ' S i Good trete or to boas Ife R ham Lew 11/ fn iI of 'he u trilni 'I \uc Ewt and: Of 0 hoe Ps o &boy We bow 31t)i of Cif% curb cat ore i 40. the Low are wh. tie of Mn LW 11 04 azc the vrti Wi