The Sun. — London, England, 1862-02-18 00:00:00

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Coffee has fully maintained formcr prices, but in tea, fruit, and spices no change of importance can be reported in values. Saltpetre has been in steady demand ; while tallow has been dealt in to a moderate extent, chiefly, however. for forward delivery at slightly reduced quotations. The Fublic sales of Colonial wool, being the first series for the present year, are fixed to commence on the 27th inst., and the quantity already arrived amounts to about 31,500 bales, chiefly from the Cape of Good Hope. In the Liverpool cotton market yesterday there Was an active demand, and the sales reached 15,000 baler, 7,000 of which were for exportation and spe culation ; prices further slightly tended upwards. The traffic re'.:eipts on the Great Western hail way of Canada for the" week ending the 31st ult. were £2,462 larger than in the corresponding period last year. _ On the South-Eastern RfAilway the receipts during the past week amounted to £14,949 against £15,448 in the like period. of 1861, showing a de crease of £498. A further sum of £'14,000 in foreign gold coin was withdrawn fror .1 the Bank yesterday for ex portation. The Europa has, arrived from Boston with £1,959 in specie, There is a moderate demand for discount accom modation, and the rates continue very easy. The half -yearly meeting of the Blackwall Rail- Way Company has just been held, when the report, Which stated that the net profits for the six months to Oae 31st December last, including a balance of Z4(;9 lls. 2d. brought forward from the previous acer runt, amounted to £32,140 4s. 2d., from which a divi .lend at the rate of 31 per cent. per annum was rect tmmended, was adopted after some discussion. T 'he committee of the Stock Exchange have post por-ed the consideration of the application made for the :insertion of the Mi r es Turkish loan in the offi cial lists, until further information can be supplied. Thy t English Stock Market continues dull and rathe r heavy, Consols being 921 93 for money and the Ohl prox., being the same as they were at the , cl ose of business on the preceding afternoon. Speen label 1 is still repressed, and the dealings for transfer ar e too li m i ted to create animation. The New Thr e es and Reduced remain at 931 1; and Exche quer Bills, 11Iarch, are firm at 13s. to 16s. prem. ; India . 5 per Cent. St oc k i s 106;3 ; ditto 51 per Cent. flfaiced Paper, 1071 1 ; ditto Debentures, 100; and ditto Bonds, 275, prem. Foreign Securities to-day have not varied to any Izaterial extent, but in several instances less firm ness. been apparent. Turkish 6 per Cents. are ; ditto, 1858, 75 751 ; ditto £lOO Bonds have r eceded to 251 ; Italian 5 per Cents., to GB4-1 ; Im- P3erial Moorish. Loan Scrip, to 5 1 ; Mexican, to ; but Brazilian 4 2 ;- per Cents. are firm at 9l i at ditto p 92; Tilarlor, at 19 ; Portuguese, at 47 ; Russian, itt o 101, ; Sardinian, at 801 ; Spanish, at 531; ssive, has improved to 191 201 ; ditto Cer- Tt it t a ate , ,, to 74' ; and French 41 per Cents., to 100 f. e Turkish 6 per Cent. Loan, partially negotiated the by • Mires, ha s b e en 661, 67, but is now 661 4. .1a Share Market the dealings to u , ay we re im C Inciderately active, and a further slight pr ove "'writ took place in prices. Caledonians, sterna aunties, Great Northern A Stock, Lanca sshhi re a n i a Yo r k s hi re , N ort h W es t ern , Manchester, ;:" ffie' 'd, and Li nco l n , an d Midlands, have ad eed 55.; S ou th-W esterns, 10 3.; S ou th E as t erns , ja-1) 'eve r, have declined abo u t 10 s . t . Vae Foreign and C o l on i a l mar k e t s the opera tions have b een to an average extent. Great zrtrabourg have improved ss. Bahia and San Francisco, San Paulo, Grand Trunk of Canada, Grew Western of Canada, East Indian, and Great Indian Peninsula realise previous prices. Xeint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in moderato demand at steady prices. Bank of Au strati a have advanced 10s.; London Joint-Stock, 55.; Ca nada Land, £2 ; Berlin Water Works de clined. ss. ; and Crystal Palace Stock, ss. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bar i ir Stock 3 Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 N ew Cent. C onso l s A nnu i t i es ~ 3 per C en t. A nnu i t i es 934 i i Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto fStocko r3O yrs, expire sth April, 1885 154 9-16 India Ditto 5 Cent. Ditto En iy,r faced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto rJ4 per Cent lO7l / 7 Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 103 994 bitt , Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 991 4 Consols Bonds £l,OOO ‘'ons'ols for Account, March 6 93 March. 2. cla•equer Bills £l,OOO 2d.... 16 13 - Ditto Ditto £5OO - s ma l l 1 i, FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 'l'a Ditto ilia 11 41 5 per per Cent, 1855 1858 rh 41 per Cent, 1860 than 6 ner Cent 92 14 103 ~.quador New Co- i'd. t d uk o k .. Aso i a e I_9_ i 8' Itri ner • ~:.. • , 000000000000000000000000 4 Me t 6 ,114 .510 `Jrish Scrip ii.',. - , a n! P . , per Cent .., 1,,,0 /leo:ult I ' erupi a , i 994 100 p ort , 4 2 . per Cent It uti.itg,r4:4scec3o Account t r C . !nt . , 1853. — 47 D , 'n 0 per Cent. 1822, £ St .. 1014 a .Itto Account ` a rd Ditto 41 per C en t 931 ian 5 p er C ent. 8 Ditto A ccount Nnish 3 per Cent DiDitto per Cent 534 il tto passive Account ,Spia:ititsoh ACerot::!t Coup. not funded 74 i 8 Turkish 6 pet- Pent. — 841 I 4 Ditto Now Loan Ditto Acco 'nt 1,. IT-'-'itto £lOO 80nd5.... ••err e . zliela, 3 per Cent Ditto Account .. v Dividends on the above payable in London. x t r Tich Rentes- i , 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f..... 100 1 f. au an 5 NI. Cent., 1861 74 THREE O'CLOCK. Jun 3. l et.lßol , .;, Money • 92A 3 Account COURSE OF EXCHANGE,—Tuis DIY. Amsterdam ... Short. 11 16 11 161 .., Ditto Itotterdam — 11 181 11 181 Antwerp — 25 40 25 45 ?Brussels — 25 40 25 45 Ilamburgh — 1 3 7i 13 8 Paris Ditto Marseilles 118 k 119 Frankfort on Maine — 11 15 14 5 Vienna - Trieste Peter s b urg h Berlin ,_— Madrid' — 48 481 Cadiz Legt oru Isl!Aa n 'Genoa Naples- ---- 222.55540555821 0 2225554 4 5555751 Palermo .......... Messina Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro ........ Now York ... —-- - Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 2 Mexican Dollars 0 0 0 Silver in Bars (Standard) 0 0 0 South American Doubloons 0 0 0 THIS DAY'S MARKETS. HAY MARKETS. SMITTIFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 to £4 15s ; clover, £3 lOs to £5 lOs ; and straw, £ 1 8 s to £1 16s OdperaTi. Trade d u ll. £2 Os to £4 15 3; c l ove , CUMBERLAND.--Meftiow hay, do., f 3 lOs to £5 10s; and straw, £1 83 to £1 16s per load. A slow demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay , £2 03 to £4 15 4 j Clove Both h a y £3 lOs t o .-eb lOs ; an d straw. £l. 8 , to 51 16s per l oa d . , and straw sold heavily, at our quotations. COLONIAL. r r . 4 .--There has been very little business transacted, and Th v"ees have remained without material alteration. - fin s llG4R.—The market has been ra ther dull, but good and e s grocery descriptions have realiz ed p revious quota• ti or ,. n e°P PEE.—Only limited dealings have been entered into i s — t ,colonial descriptions, but late prices have, in most in- Ices, been well sustained. L as been the better descriptions of East India there 8 ueen a fair inquiry, and late prices are well supported. th ALT PETßE.—iilltitheSS lies been moderately active, but it ilo r t i ) c e e rai ions entered into have led to no material alteration TA LL ' • fo r ow. —The market has continued dull, and prices f orwardp . ,. delivery have shown symptoms of depression. de i Lu on the spot is quoted 46s 3d, and last three month s ' "Ver Y 478 9d to 48a per cwt. SHARE MARKET-(THIS DAY.) ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Faid'i Closing ' Business Price. done. 7i 8 64 7 96 07 1061 104 5 6 42 44 104 11 20 204 564 571 54 57 36 38 92 94 304 31 101 103 118 119 118 119 134 136 104 106 74 711 57 6 ) 1071 108 60 62 120 121 44 45 97 076 101 102 - 9 11 44} 44f 8 8. L 34 1331 14 )11) F 2 104 68 70 66 661 981 991 55 d 51' 871 88i 99 101 51 6 d 10i 11 94 06 126 128 45 47 101 103 46 48 37 39 84} 85 68 70 99 101 5t ri 38i 3gi Si 66 9 6 P 5 6 144 148 li 55i 864 1 24 34 it d ip 128 131 7 7i Share 13.14 Railways. , Bir., Vol., and Str. Val Blytli and Tyne Bost.,Slcat.,and Mid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall A gets no diV l Do. B Do A 116 p c p an.has l been paid to Bi Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June , East An g lian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A stock Do Bdo do DoNw A, late E U 3ds, East Suffolk Edinburgh & Glasgow ,Edin., Perth, & Dund ee and S. Western.l GreatNrtfin.of Scotland' Great Northern.. Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an W. of Ireland!. Great Western Do Str Val qua. stock Trish South Eastern • Lancashire & Yorkshirel , London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast' Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western L'derry & Coleraine L'derry & Enniskillen Man., Shef., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do # shares Metropolitan Midland Do New _ , DO Birming. & Derby %lid Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line Newcastle and Carlisle Newry, Warnpt, & itos Norfolk North British N or. Dev.lt ail&Dk. stock Do A stk ; A recs no d till 6 pc. has been pdß l Do B stock Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York North London Do new North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Not. Gran. Rl. & Canal Portsmouth Rh 3 mney acottish Central Scot. N. E., Aber. stock Do Sc rt. Mid. stock 1 Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union Sittingbourne & Sheer South Devon S. Durham & Lanc.Un South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok Stockton & Darlington 25 Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale. Do Pref. No. 1 ThamesllavenDk&Rall Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford c Kilkenny Waterford & Limerick I West Cornwall West London Do Ist class Do 2d class W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland Oxtord, Do Newpor Do Hereford 47 49 43 46 90 92 481 71 431 4t LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Closing Business Railways. Paid. Co. s Price. Done. Bedford and Bletchley all Ln.&N.W Birkenhead., Buckingli - rkg.nre lOO Do. .15 97 Chester & H )iyhead lOO Do 53 55 Do. 5?,. per cent 100 Do. Do. 5 „ 100 Do. Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 101 103 Colchester, Stour Val. 100 E.U.&F.O E. Lincolnsh. gApr c. 100 Gr. North. 136 138 E.lTnion,HarwichShs all B,Counts. 4 4i Do. Woodbridge.... 100 .. • • • • Gls.Barr.&Neils.Drct. 100 Caledon .. • • Do. new Gloster &Dean Forest all Gt. West. .. .. Hull and t•.'elby all Yk.N. Mid 109 111 Do. halves Do. quarters Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Ln.&N.W 199 204 Lon. and Chat. Ext. B 6 per cent Do. Bromley, 6 per c. all Do ..... ... .. .. London & Greenwich 100 S. Eastern 62 64 Do. I'referen , Lou „THU.& s, - ,- ,‘lend 100 Peto &Co Bl 63 Lowestoft gua. 4 p c.. 100 Norfolk Do n per cent lOO Do. Mnc.,Bxtn.,& Matlock all LNIV& 31 4 • 4 4 3i Mid. Bradford Prefer- Newm arkt, 13uryEx l Prefer ence stock 5. 10 5 0 6 M E Midland 96 98 gua. 5 per cent... 1 ' • ounts. p 4 p Northn.&El.stn. sp. c. all Do. Do. 6 per cent. .... all Do . Do. Fixed sp. c.... all Do. N. Eastn—Hartlepool PO N. E. Ber .. .. North Western Preston and Wyre. I all L&N. & L. yk. W 1 44 46 Do. , shares A all iDo. ••• • • • .. .. Roystn.Hitch.& Shep lOO 'G t.North. 133 115 Shrowsby & Hereford 100 Brassey 122 124 Do. Do. South Staffordshire Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. 92 94 Wimbledn V Croydon all L.&Brgtn Si 91i PREFERENCE SHARES. Share' Railways. Paul Closin g Business Prices. Done. 'Blythe and Tyne 10 p.c. pref. issued at £5 Bris. & Exet. 4 p. c. st Do. shares Ca!Mon. qr. shrs, No. 2 Cork & Bandon, 5i p. c. Cornwall. 5 per cent Dun. Perth, & Aber.Jun Do. Ist Class Pref E. Anzn. Class A 5 p. c K. Coun. Ex. 5 p.c. No. 1 - - 93 95 20 21 6 61 Do No. 2 Do. new 6 p. c. at Eastern Union, 4 p. c Do. 5 p. c. guar Edin.&Glas.s p.c. shares Do. 4 p. c. guar. S. & Furness, 5 per cent Glas.& S.West. gu. 5 p.c Great Northern, 5 p. c D 0.5 p.c.Redm.lop.c. pm Do. 43 p. c. do Do.sp.c.Redtr.atsp.c.pm Gt. Nh. of scot. Ist pref. Gt. Sn. & W. (Ireland) 4 per cent Great West. (Berks and Ilants Ext) 5 per cent Do. redeem. 43 p. ct Do. redeem. 4 p. ct Do. irredeem. 4 p. ct Do. 5 p. c. redeem. pref. Do. Birm. pref. shares Do. Chester 8 p.c. pf. shs Do. Chester 5 p.c. pf. shs Do. Birm. guar. stock Do. Chester guar. shares Do. do Do. do Lan. & Carl. 44 p.c. pref Lan. & York. 6 p.c. stock' Do.Barnsl.st£s 2s 10d ee Do. 6 p. c. (East Do. 44 p. c. (Blackb. pur. Lon.&Brig.sp.e.gu. No.l Do. 5 per c,eril do. No 2 Do. 6 per cent.'do Do. 5 per cent. do. No. 4 Do. 7 per cent pref. stk Do. 6 p.c. do(W.E.&C.P.) Do. 4p c. st.(div.def.llP6s Lon.Chat.&Dnv. sp.c.pf. Lon. & N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton, 5 per cent. Lon. & S.West. 7 p. cent. at., late 3d shares .... Do. 41 ner cent Do. (Prtsm. perpL anna of 2s 8d Londondy..ir Cole. shs London y. & Ennis. shs Man. Sh. & Lin. S per ct. Do. £6 Do. 31 per cent, Do. redeem. 6 percent llaryport t Carl. 4 pr. c Do. 41 per cent. liidland Con. 6 p. c. stk. Do.Con.Bris.ct Bir. 6p.c Do. 41 p.c. pref. st. rdem Do. 41 p.c. irredeomable Do. 41 per cent. . . Do.Leic. andflit.4per ct Norfik. 5 p. c. Ex. st. 1846 Do. 51 p. c. Pref. st. 1847 Do.sWay.ValEx.st.lBl7 Nort British, 5 per cent. Do. New ,Tua. 5 per cent Do. Bor. Un. g. prf. she. Do. do. do. N th .Dyn.Tl ail. &Dck. Co. N-East. Cons. pref. 4 p.c. Do. 41pr. ct. redeemable Do. G. N. E. 4 p. ct. pref . Do. Berwick 4 p. c. pref. Do. Leeds 6 p. c. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1848.. I Do. York, R. tt S. Purch. North Staffordshire.... Rhymney Guaranteed.. Scottish North-Eastern 31 p. c. pref. stock.... Do.Aberdeen,g - ua.6p.c Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock South Devon, Ann, 10s. Do. Fixed 41 per cent South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6) D. 4} per cent Do, Fixed 41 per cent South Wales, gUa. 4 p. c. Do. 41 per cent Do. do. 1859 p. S spwv too.a. Do. clltir Yorkshire, ,ef s Dddi. p pos:pe e o. t r iax. cen t . corflpi 4 ikA.csu p c 4;5 . c4 c f . 6. a g .lpees u B... t6.a. C. Do. 5 p. c. gua. Do. B6p.c Do. 2d do D o • Newport 5 p.c pf red. I ja• t'' I 1869 DOCKS. 6.4.0 19.16.1 12.10 [l2 111 90 92 28 100 98 100 89 91 90 02 [O2 104 oi 103 17 18 104 11 77 79 201 213 10, 101 15 16 35 137 102 101 [l2 114 [l2 114 135 140 112 114 150 155 116 129 74 76 95 97 lat 131 [24 126 69 71 [36 138 [O3 105 94 96 111 113 109 111 1 1 liPna all 100 100 100 100 18.13.4 GO 102 97 09 i dia par dis pt* 22 23 10. 6. 132 136 10 11 24; 25 101 103 101 103 ti 84 _ l l. 11 p 28 29 32 34 31 33 42 45 128 130 123 126 103 105 124 128 120 125 stock iCornmercial .. stock !East and Weßt lu e d* 'ln.l 100 stock I Do. 1 per Ck , ut:l"; . i. 1.7. .! 100 stock :London. ...... 'a •• 1 1 1 30 123 125 s o t t O , A C k k ', S v c: e u t t o h r a i ni a p . t?n.... .. ..... ..... ... ! 00 1 1 00 57 59 stock 'St. Katharine........... ' I 100 60 62 20 !DO New ~.....„.1% L'i 1 9 9 101 '''' 2 1 d p 61 64 51 i 2' 13i 20 100 2s 6d 106 f I 7 57 61 7 118 k I i 71 i i I i 1071 i 8 601 1201 & 97 1026 f 7i 7 1 44} 4 it X B l 133 1 1 11 55i 88 71 121 i smi 5 85 i 4 i i all all all WU 4i 100 • .~ .. •...~ rnE • 'LONDON, TUESOAX EVENING, !FEBRUARY 18, 1862. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. LONDON GAZETTE.—(This Evening). WHITEHALL, FEB. 17. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon ourable Lord Kinnaird, K.T.; the Honourable Fulke Egerton; Nicholas Kendall, Es . q.; Henry Austin Bruce, Esq : ; John St. Aubyn, Esq. ; John Davie Ferguson Davie, Esq. ; Edward Headlam Greenhow, Esq., M.D. ; and Philip Henry Holland, Esq., to be her Majesty's Com missioners to inquire into the condition of all Mines in Great Britain to which the provisions of the Act 23 and 24 Vict., c. 151, do not apply, with reference to the health and safety of persons employed in such mines. CROWN OFFICE, FEB. 15. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Great Grimsby.--John Chapman, of Hill End, Mottram, in the county of Chester, Esq., in the room of Charles Maude Worsley Anderson Pelham (commonly called Lord Worsley), now Earl of Yarborough, called to the House of Peers. FEBRUARY 18. Borough of Leicester.--Peter Alfred Taylor, of Aubrey House, Notting-hill, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., in the room of John Biggs, Esq., Nyho has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Manor of Hempholme. WAR OFFICE, FEB. 19. 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Gentleman Cadet Rich mond Griffin Nicholas from the Royal Military College, to be Comet, without purchase, vice Robert George Smith, decease& 6th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Augustus Alfred de Bourbel to be Captain, by purchase, vice Robert Scott Hunter, who retires ; C orne t J o h n F ryer to b e Li eutenant, by purchase, vice de tiourbel. Ist Dragoons—Lieutenant Carteret Houstoun Kempson, from the 7th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Harvey, who exchanges ; Charles Falkiner Morton, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice William Wemyss Frewen Hay, who retires. 7th Hussars—Gentleman Cadet William Langan Forsyth, from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, by pur chase, vice Metcalfe, promoted. 18th Hussars—Charles John Fletcher, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Whiteside, promoted. Royal Artillery—Surgeon Thomas Guy, M.D., having completed a period of 20 years' full pay service, to be Sur geon-Major under the Royal W arran t o f th e Ist October, 1858. Military Train—Staff-Surgeon O'Connor D'Arcey, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Surgeon William Braybrooke, re moved to the Staff. 7th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant George Lake Harvey, from the Ist Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Kempson, who exchanges. 15th Fcot—Lieut. Henry Jardine Hallowes to be Captain, by purchase, vice Silvester Calvert, who retires; Ensign Reginald Cartwright to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hallowes ; Ensign Edward Joseph Jekyll, from 73d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Cartwright ; Lieut. Joseph M'Murray to be Adjutant, vice Lieut. Hallowes, pro moted. 19th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Edward Spencer Mott, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur chase, vice George Albert Macdonnell, removed to 18th Foot. 20th Foot—Ensign John Lacey Morley, from 78th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Stourton, who exchanges. 21st Foot—Ensign Edward Walker, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John Popham Mainwaring, who retires ; Claude Durham Patterson, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Walker. 23d Foot—Ensign Charles Morgan, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wriothesley Augustus Fitz Roy, who re tires; George Bentinck Luxford, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Morgan. 29th Foot—Lieutenant Joseph Bourke, from the Ist West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Alfred Fawcett, who exchanges. 34th Foot—Ensign Gerald Brenan, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Charles Hamilton Webb, who retires; William Francis Trotter, Gent., to be Ensign, by par chase, vice Brenan. 41st Foot—Ensign Thomas P. A. Bracken, to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Isaac King, who retires ; Cor net Thomas H. Duncombe, from 6th Dragoon Guards, to be Ensign, vice John T. Johnson, appointed to the lal Bate, promoted, Commissariat Department; Gentleman-Cadet Edward Richardson, from the Royal Military College, to be En sign, by purchase, vice Bracken. 62d Foot—Captain Hugh P. Pearson, from the 84th Foot, to be Captain, vice Fraser, who exchange s . half -pay. by purchase, vice College,C h t a det Richard J. Airey, from the 68th Foot—Lieut. Benjamin 0. Johnson, from half-pay late 11th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Edmund Peel 73 1 t E d o t i h ; : ao t : 1 _t: l n iGl , placed Military rtyi ern a o n n Forbes Gatacre, without purchase, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without 77 Jekyll, th F00t..... removed va iceen tHenry e to m a t 3h Reginaldecl6a d t t F William v o B t i l . purchase, in the 13th Foot. 78th Foot—Ensign Arthur Joseph Stourton, from the 20th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Morley, who exchanges. 84th Foot—Captain George Cruden Fraser, from the 52d Foot, to be Captain, vice Pearson, who exchanges. 93d Foot—Lieutenant William Gordon Alexander to be Captain, by purchase, vice Charles Hugh Levinge, who retires ; Ensign Henry Thomas Butter to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Alexander; William Coplanl, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Butter. 9lth Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel James Dodington Car michael, C. 8., from half-pay 19th Foot, to be Lieutenant- Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Charles James Conway Mills, who retires on half-pay. 98th Foot—Ensign Richard Townley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice David J. Copeland Jones, who retires.; Allan Grrerne Raper, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Townley. .st West India Regiment—Lieutenant Alfred Fawcett, from the 29th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Joseph Bourke, who exchanges. DEPOT BATTALION.—Captain George Joy, 59th Foot, to he Instructor of Musketry, vice Captain Madden, 4th Foot, who has rejoined his depot at Chatham. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Surgeon William Braybrooke, from the Military Train, to be Staff-Surgeon, vice Henry Higgins Jones, ➢I.D., placed upon half-pay ; Staff-As sistant-Surgeon Joshua Henry Porter to be Staff-Surgeon, vice D'Arcey, appointed to the Military Train; Staff Assistant-Surgeon Patrick Charles Baxter, M. 8., from half-pay, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice Porter, pro moted. PURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT.—To be Deputy Purveyors to the Forces—Purveyor's Clerk Joseph Muskett ; Pur veyor's Clerk William Richard Taylor. ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE.—Captain and Brevet- Major Alfred Picton Bowlby, 64th Foot, to be Captain of a company of Gentlemen Cadets, vice William Thomas Exham Fosbery, who retires upon half-pay. BREVET. Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Charles William Dunbar Staveley, C. 8., 44th Foot, to have the temporary rank of Brigadier-General in China, while in command of the troops in that country. The undermentioned promotions to take place, consequent on the death of Lieutenant-General JeremiahTaylor,Colonel of the 59th Foot, on the Ist Feb., 1862: Major-General Arthur Richard, Duke of Wellington, K.G , Lieutenant-Colonel upon half-pay Unattached, to have the rank of Lieutenant-General, Major-General John Julius William Angerstein to be Lieutenant- General. Brevet-Colonel Edward Rowley Hill, from Lieutenant- Colonel half-pay 63d Foot, Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces in the Windward and Leeward Islands, to be Major-General. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Bingham, 60th Foot, to be Colonel. Major John Thomas Dalyell, 21st Foot, to be Lieute nant- Colonel. Captain Wm. John Dorehill, half-pay, late 43d Foot, Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Major. The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent on the death of Major-General Sir Thomas Harte Franks, K.C.8., on the sth Feb., 1862 : Brevet-Colonel George Wm. Key, from Lieut.-Colonel half-pay, 44th Foot, serving as a Brigadier-General on the Staff of the Army in Ireland, to be Major-General. Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Hamilton, C.B.,Major 78th Foot, to be Colonel. Major George Neeld Boldero, 21st Foot, to be Lieuten ant-Colouel. Captain William Francis Stehelin, 67th Foot, to be Major. BANKRUPTS. James Weston, miller, Flimwell, Sussex John Graham, clerk, Westmoreland-place, Camberwell Joseph S. Hemp, tailor, North-road, Highgate Charles Highfield, greengrocer, Caledonian-road Edmund Newman, salesman, Walworth Thomas J. Cleaver, Colbath square, Clerkenwell James Meaton, merchant, Fenchurch- street William Syer, builder, Chetsworth John T. Canning, miller, Grove-villas, Hounslow William Ealden, accountant, Gloucester-terraoe, Vaux hall bridge-road George Mesher, licensed victualler, Weybourne, Surrey James Berger, commission agent, King's-road, Chelsea Mark W. Kingsland, miller, Barham, Kent William Anderson, colourman, Marylebone Judah Barnett, furrier, Goswell-street, Middlesex Charles Upton, baker. Stepney Chas. Musto Fisher, carpenter, Hight-street, Peckham John Stubbs and Thos. Stubbs, manure dealers, Com mercial-road J. i :7 a i - gg, assi,tant bookbinder, Paternoster - row George H. Larking. grocer, Wapping Francis J. 'Preacher, chair maker, Chepping Wycombe, Buekinghamshi , a George T. Whittington, statist, New Broad street, city Thomas Woodham, painter, Itathbone-place, Oxford-st Peter Dempsey, calico printer, Mitcham Ernest Dawson, clerk in the Admiralty, Upper Norwood George Newton, carpenter, Upper Thames-street, City George Piper, glover, Uckfield, Surrey George Barnes, baker, Harringworlh, Nottinghamshire John Roffey, butcher, Caledonian-road Richard Chapman King, attorney, Great Coram-street Thomas William Sawyer, baker, Bethnal-green William Francis, leather merchant, Berm on d se y Adam Hunter Craig, india rubber manufacturer, London Thos. Moorwood, furniture dealer, Marylebone Robert Greedus, china dealer, Comton-street. Middlesex James Hooper, clerk, Bermondsey Wm T. Knightsbridge, Journeyman butcher, Mans field-street, Kingsland-road Robert de Neufville Lucas, attorney, Greenwich Hockley F. Wood, solicitor, London Thomas Dickinson, colonial agent, Mi nc i ng l ane Louis Stern, commission agent, Rotherhithe Peter C.Greig, greengrocer, Munster-street,Regent' s-park Ausehar Chauncy, artist, Wbitecross-street Prison Benjamin Spittle, horse dealer, Chelsea PEDESTRIANISM —DEERFOOT AND SMITH.-A six mile race between the above men took place yesterday, but in consequence of the disrepute these races have now acquired there were very few persons present. At the 18th lap Smith resigned the contest, and the Indian was left to finish the remainder of the distance. POPULATION, REVENUE, &C.—Under this title a curious little return, one of what may be called the fancy returns that occasionally make their appearance, has been presented to Parliament on the motion of Mr. Kinnaird. It shows that in the three years 1858-60 the amount of taxa tion paid by the three kingdoms under the head of Customs, Post-office, and Inload Revenue (omitting income-tax on public funds and public salaries) was as follows:—England £149,524,475, Scotland £ 22 ,451,980, Ireland £19,850,936; in all, £191,827,391. Scotland paid considerably more in land revenue than Ireland, and somewhat more customs' duties, but in letter -writing numbers count, and the postage paid was greater in Ireland. Then follows a calculation that popu l a ti o n and revenue for the three years are these : England of M.P.' s t o the mean of many, but Scotland 21 toe fe w. Which was to be prove d. the h relativeasls rep proportions resentatives too many, Ireland six too IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—YESTERDAY , The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. THE EDUCATION MINUTE. The Earl of DERBY presented several petitions against the new education minute. The noble earl said, seeing the noble earl, the President of the Council, in his place, he wished to ask a question, or rather oiler a suggestion, with respect to the course that was proposed to be taken with respect to the'discussion on the new education minute. When the new minute was first made public great apprehension and dislike was evinced. Subsequently her Majesty's Government made some alterations, and as far as they went they wore in the right direction, but there still remain many other points which would require the most serious consideration. There was, for instance, the new state and altered condition of pupil teachers; the examination of pupils in elementaryschools, and that relat ing to the remuneration to be paid under the new code, which was at variance with the report of the Royal Commission, upon which the code was formed. If the measure was . only an experimental one, and to come under consideration year after year, ho might feel 'disposed to allow the measure to be tried as an experiment, but he looked upon it as a permanent system, and therefore it was desirable that it should be considered most attentively by this and the other House of Parliauent in all its details. Instead of the course intended to be pursued, the subject could be best dealt with if the whole of the provisions were embodied in a series of resolutions, when the whole details could be most amply discussed in the same manner as that of an ordinary bill, clause by clause. If this course was not adopted resolutions could still be moved con demnatory of some provisions of the measure, if it was thought advisable to adopt that course. What he wished to ask was, whether the Government would have any ob jection to the embodying the main proposals in a series of resolutions which would enable Parliament to thoroughly discuss each part of the scheme. Earl GRANVILLE said he had to thank the noble earl for the candid manner in which he had spoken on the sub ject the other evening, when the revised code was under discussion. He must say, however, that with respect to the present suggestion of the noble earl, he did not see any reason for a departure from the usual course of pro ceeding as regarded the discussion of the new educational minute. He begged to assure the noble earl that there was no desire on the part of the Government to abridge discussion, neither war there any wish on the part of the Government to avail itself of any technicality. He re gretted he could not assent to the course proposed by the noble earl. _ _ IMPE MAL PARLIAM EN T HOUSE OF LORDS—Tms EVENING. THE EDUCATIONAL CODE. _ Lord BELPER presented petitions against the new educational code. ARRESTS OF BRITISH SUBJECTS IN AMERICA. The Earl of CARNARVON took the opportunity to correct a slight mistake he had made respecting the num ber of English subjects he had stated the other night had been arrested and confined in Fort Warren. He had stated that there were three persons, but he had since learned that one had taken the oath of allegiance to America, and therefore he had removed himself from the protection of the British Government. While he was addressing their lordships he would take the oppor tunity of asking a question of the noble earl the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, of which he had given him private notice. He then proceeded to allude to the arrest of Mr. Shaver, and asked whether any claim for compensation for indignity offered that gentleman in America had been de manded by the British Government ; and, also, whether there was any further correspondence, in addition to that already presented, in the hands of the Government. Earl RUSSELL said with reference to the case of Mr. Shaver, that gentleman had not claimed com pensation, and that being so, he (Earl Russell) had not claimed compensation for him from the American Government. The noble earl seemed to have overlooked that Mr. Shaver, it was said, was the medium of commu nication between the North and Southern parties, and that he had also conveyed revolvers to the Con federates. Mr. Shaver had not said the charge was unfounded, and before he asked for compensa tion . for that gentleman, he thought he ought to have satis factory evidence that the charge was at variance with the fact. If Mr. Shaver had acted in the manner described, and had given the Confederates aid, he had acted in direct contradiction of her Majesty's royal proclamation, and he had no right to ask fur any compensation for the inconvenience he had suffered. As he had said before, Mr. Shaver had not made any demand for compensation, and the assertion of the American Government remained uncontradicted. With respect to the other topics touched upon by the noble earl, no one could regret more than he did the lamentable position of affairs in America, and owing to that unhappy state of affairs the acts of the Government ought to be looked upon with great forbearance—acts which, under other circumstances, would call for remon strance and indignation from this country. Mr. Shaver had not yet demanded compensation, and therefore he did not think that he should be justified in directing Lord Lyons to take any steps in the matter, but in the event of a claim being made, satisfactory evidence would be required that he had not acted in the manner described. THE TAXING MASTERS IN DUBLIN. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE wished to ask whe ther it was intended to fill up the office of a third Taxing- Master in the Court of Chancery in Dublin; and also what progress had been made in collecting judicial statistics in Ireland ? Earl GRANVILLE'S answer was inaudible in the gallery. [LEFT SITTING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS—THIS EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. P. A. TAYLOR took the oaths and his seat as mem ber for Leicester. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a second time :—Aberdeen Police, Water, &c., Barnsley Coal Railway Extension, Hull and Hornsea Railway, Lostwithiel and Fowey Rail way, Merionethshire Railway, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway, North Devon Railway and lock, Suuth'Yorkshire Rail way (Hull Extension), Trent, Ancholme, and Grimsby Railway, and West Riding, Hull, and Grimsby Railway. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY (No. 2.) BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. J. BROWN moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months. He referred to the fact that whenever this bill came before the house it was defeated either in committee or in the second reading, and contended that it was monstrous that a company like the Great Northern should be permitted session after session to re introduce it. — Mr. G. H. PACK defended the bill, and said that there were only two or three landowners under the law who dis approved of it. He asserted also that the line would not interfere materially with the country through which it would pass, and that it would be a great advantage to the public. Lord GALWAY thought it was a vary bad return to make to the hon. member for Malton (Mr. J. Brown), after the manner in which he had previously acted in reference to the Great Northern, to intersect his land with this line, without any corresponding advantage to the public. He concluded by expressing a hope that the bill would be rejected. Mr ROEBUCK said that this house was not the proper tribunal to decide this question, and he thought it right that it should be referred to a committee up stairs. Mr. M. MTLNES opposed the bill, and called on the house, by its rejection of it, to show that they could not allow the interests of landowners to be overridden by a powerful company like the Great Northern. Mr M A SSEY considered that the house should read the bill a second time, and its details could be discussed fully before a select committee. (Hear, hear.) The Great orthern Company merely desired to make a loup line of five or six miles, in order to relieve the main line from the pressure'of its goods traffic. He thought, under all cir cumstances, that the bill should receive the sanction of the house, and that it would be of much use to the public. The amendment was agreed to without a division, and the bill was accordingly rejected. TOLL GATES IN THE METROPOLIS. Mr. WHITE gave notice that on Friday next he would ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he had received any information from the commissioner ap pointed to consider the subject, and whether any measure would be adopted for the removal of the toll-gate obstruc tion in the metropolis. PATENT LAWS. Mr. RICARDO gave notice that he would draw the at tention of the house to the propriety of an alteration in the patent laws. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE. Mr. COX asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether it was the intention of the Government to introduce this session a bill to amend the representation of the people in Parliament? (Laughter.) Lord PALMERS[ON—It is not the intention of Go vernment to introduce this session any bill to amend the representation of the people in Parliament. (Laughter.) TREATY WITH JAPAN. Mr. WHITE asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, why Nee e-gata, or some other convenient port on the west coast of Nipon, was not opened to the British trade on the Ist day of January, 1860, as was sti pulated by the third article of the treaty with Japan ; and whether British subjects will be allowed to reside in the city of Yedo, as was likewise stipulated in the same article of the above-named treaty ? Mr. LAYARD was understood to say that the Govern ment bad not come to ant determination on the subject. MURDER OF OFFICERS BY SOLDIERS. Mr. RICHARDSON asked the Secretary of State for War, what precautions had been taken to prevent the re petition of the numerous murders of their officers by sol diers in the British army ; and whether it was in contem plation to discontinue the practice of permitting soldiers to retain ball cartridge in their barrack rooms. Sir G. C. LE WIS said that the military authorities had been consulted on the subject of depriving soldiers of ball cartridge in their barrack-room, and it appeared th-t it would be impossible for any amount of vigilance to prevent soldiers getting possession of ball cartridge. However, he proposed to intro ince a bill to render the punishment of soldiers firing at their officers more speedy than it was at present. THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE. Lord R. CECIL asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how soon the papers which had been pro mised upon the subject of the American blockade were likely to be laid upon the table ? Mr. LAYARD said that papers wire being prepared on the subject with great dispatch, and he hoped to be able to lay them on the table at the end of the week. (Hear.) MARRIAGES OF AFFINITY BILL. Mr. BLACKBURN asked the hon. member for Ponte fract, whether, as his Marriages of Affinity Bill extends to Ireland and Scotland, it was his intention to proceed with the second reading on so early a day as to-morrow ? Mr. M. MILNES said he would be happy to oblige the hon. member by postponing his bill, but from the arrange ments he had already made he could not do so. OFFICERS IN INDIA. Colonel GILPIN asked the Secretary of State for India, whether, in consequence of the effects of amalgamation upon the prospects of a considerable number of officers in India, many of whom have rendered good service to the state, and who have already lost the money paid for their promotion on the faith of a GI (=oral Oide. ‘ , E the Court of Directors, dated May, 1858. and who are now receiving Indian pay and allowances for doing, comparatively, nothing, these officers, or any of them, will be allowed the option (in accordance with the recommendation of the commissioners) of retiring upon a moderate bonus. _ _ Sir C. WOOD was understood to say that offers of corn. pensation had been made, but in some cases they were no . accepted. LORD HENLEY. On the motion of Mx. BRAND a months' leave of absengp was given to Lord Henley, on the ground of domestic affliction. LAND DEBENTURES BILL. Mr. SCULLY, in moving for leave to introduce a bill for authorising transferable debentures to ho charged on land in Ireland, explained that the present measure resembled that which he brought before the house on a previous occa sion, only that it did not extend so far. He contended that the bill would be of great advantage to Ireland, and that it was popular amongst the landowners in that country. Mr. URQUAHART seconded the motion for leave to bring in the bill. He contended that the objections which had been made to these debentures as interfering with the currency applied with equal propriety to bills of Exchequer and bankers' cheques. _ Mr. H. HERBERT would not oppose the introduction of the bill, but he hoped it would receive the most careful consideration of the house. After a few words from Mr. GEORGE, to the effect that he would reserve his judgment on the moasure at present. Sir R. PEEL said the subject was one that did not excite much discussion in Ireland, and he though the dis cussion should be postponed. Mr. lIADFIELD considered that tho effect of the bill would be to multiply difficulties and increase expense. Mr. SCULLY replied. Leave was then given to bring in the bill. TRADE MARKS. Mr. ROEBUCK, in committee of the whole house, moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the law relating to trade marks. The manufacturers of this conntty, by dint of labour, skill, and industry, had acquired a great reputation, and were naturally anxious to preserve t 3 themselves all the advantages that resulted therefrom. His only object was to prevent forgery. [LEFT SPEAKING.] THE REPRESENTATION OF LEICESTER.—The nomination of a member to serve in Parliament in the room of Mr. John Biggs, resigned, took place yesterday on hust ings erected in front of the Exchange, Leicester. About 20,000 persons were present. Thera was no opposition to Mr. Peter Alfred Taylor, who was declared duly elected. Most of the leading Liberals of the town were present. --- ---- THE LATE COUNT CAVOUR AND THE EARL OF CLARENDON. Lord CLARENDON vindicated his conduct when Foreigh Secretary from certain charges in Count Cavour's recently published letters. He had never encouraged Count Cavour to make war with Austria. All he had said was that he regretted the foreign occupation of Italy, and should be glad to see it cease. He had always said that the policy of England would be strict neutrality and adherence to treaties. TRANSFER OF LAND. The LORD CHANCELLOR said—l rise to claim your lordships' indulgent hearing for a few observations I am desirous to submit, that your lordships may be enabled to follow with greater facility the provisions of a Bill on the transfer of land that I propose to lay before you. A mea sure more important to the landed interest has never been presented to Parliament, and therefore it is that I have been desirous it should originate in your lordships' house, not only because it is largely interested in the question, but because it includes so many competent to discuss it, to con sider and weigh it I wish the question to be accurately stated, and that the measure should be most deliberately considered ; and then, should it be thought worthy to receive your lordships' approbation, it will go down to the other house with greater authority and a greater claim to conside ration. The measure is one to give a certainty of title to land. The word title here is not intended to signify the possession or enjoyment of an estate; it is intended to indicate that evidence which it is incumbent on the owner of an estate to produce, according to law, when he makes that estate the subject of a sale, mortgage, or distribution. According to any system of natural law the possession and enjoyment would be a sufficient title, or evidence of the right of pos session; but the mere possession and enjoyment of a real estate are no evidence of a right to dispose of it. With any ordinary subject of property the actual possession, either by yourself, or by another from whom you have derived it, is accepted by the law ; but in the case of a real estate, to which you have been entitled for 10 or 12 years, or which was bought 10 or 12 years ago from a former owner, if you seek to sell it the question is, how did that former owner acquire it ? The answer is, perhaps by will, 10 or 12 years previously ; but the exigency of the law is not even then satisfied. It requires to know how that owner came into possession of the estate, and the inquir) goes back by requi sition on requisition until it has exhausted the whole period of 60 years, during which yourself, or those from whom you claim, must not only have had a beneficial enjoyment and possession, but must account for every transaction, and ex plain every disposition and act of ownership, and show that during this period nothing has occurred that can, by any possibility, interfere with the present title. _ Now, this is a great evil. I know not that anything similar exists under any other system of jurisprudence. It is a great hardship, and how has it been created ? It has been created by the infirmity and imperfection of the law ; it has been created because the law has provided no mode of giv.ing cer tainty to a title ; it is the result of having no system or institution by which the title to an estate can be recorded with certainty. Therefore, these obligations have been thrown on proprietors simply for the want of something that would more easily, more perfectly, and more economi cally demonstrate the right and title of the individual in pos session. When the particular limit of 60 years was first pro posed the rule was probably adopted, because that period is so long that, ordinarily speaking, all the transactions that may occur in two generations might be supposed to be in cluded. But nothing in the world can be more fallacious than this rule ; your lordships will perceive it by an ex ample. Suppose a title is produced in 1862, commencing by a purchase made in the year 1802. It may happen, and it may most easily happen, that the individual of whom the estate was purchased was a young man of 23 years of age, and who may live more than 60 years after the sale. On his death it may be discovered that in 1802 he was only a tenant for life of the estate under the will of his father; and on his death the purchaser may be surprised by finding that scme other person is entitled to the estate. Then, not withstanding these difficulties of satisfying all the requisi tions of the inquiry into the title, the purchaser would be turned out of his possession; on the death of the seller an other person is actually the legal possessor. Fifty other cases might be adduced for the purpose of conveying this conclusion,—that injurious and oppressive as the rule is it fails to accomplish its object and is capable of being easily eluded. But the great oppression thrown upon owners of real property in being obliged to make a title for 60 years might be more easily performed if the state of the law were easy and simple in itself. But lam sorry to say the origi nal simplicity of the common law has become very compli cated and intricate, entirely from the vast variety of interests called into existence, and which have now fastened them• selves on the land. Thus in proportion to the extent of the interests which have been created in the land is the diffi culty of deducing them down, and of explaining the manner in which they have ceased or have become vested in the per son under whom the vender claims. Now, in the original state of our law nothing could be more simple than the title to real estate. The transfer of real property took place in the most open manner—generally before the Earl's or the Sheriff's Court, when a feoffment—that is, a conveyance— was made, accompanied by a symbolical delivery of the pro perty in the presence of the assembled freeholders, who were witnesses of the transaction. Then, in truth, property and possession were seidom divided Ilona one another, because the commonlaw, generally speaking, admitted only of such modi fications of ownership as were indicated by tenancy for life with remainder to another. The tenant for life was the indivi dual in possession, and the remainderman was in possession in the eye of the law. Thus all transactions were carried on with great simplicity. But then a device was found out which introduced great complexity and difficulty. This device was torrowed from the civil law, and by it, in the language of lawyers, the use was severed from the possession—that is, one man might be the visible and common-law owner, another being the beneficiary ; one man was regarded as holding "to the use" of another, and thus the use, or the beneficial estate, became separated from the common-law ownership. Great difficulties resulted from this introduc tion of a secret system of uses, and accordingly Parlia ment came to the aid of the landed interest by a Statute passed in the reign of Henry VIII., and called the Statute of Uses. By this statute it was enacted that the possession and the use should always go together—in other words, that there should be no difference between the visible and the actual ownership, and that the one should always accompany the other. This was the step taken, after great considers:. tion, in order to redress the evil which had grown up, and it was supposed that the statute would annihilate this evil. I am sorry to say that the object which Parliament had in view was defeated hare, as in many other cases, by what I may be permitted to call the pedantry and narrow-minded interpretation of the judges of the land. You will find that in the English law nothing has been more fertile of results to be regretted than the attachment of our lawyers to the mediaeval doctrines—the pedantries and puerile metaphysical disqui sitions—which distinguished what was called the learning of the time. Accordingly, the judges held that, although the statute transferred the possession to the use, yet if the form of the deed created two successive uses—that is, if land was given to A, to the use of B, to the use of C—the statute executed only the first use and left the other un affected. This, of course, left the evil in all its integrity and opened the door to the entire evasion of the statute by the simple introduction of three words grafting a use upon a use. It is hardly possible to conceive a more puerile de vice for the purpose of preventing the beneficial operation of the statute. The result was that we had the legal seizin, then the use, and then a second use is grafted upon the first, which was held equivalent to a trust. Thus there arose a worse state of things than before, for, instead of annib'l". lating uses, the only effect of the statute was that they were thenceforward employed in a more formal and complicated manner. Nor did the evil rest there, for the courts of equity then intervened and enforced those trusts just as they had been previ• sly in the habit of enforcing them, the consequence being that we got an unfortunate distinc tion between the legal and the equitable estate, between the jurisdiction of courts of law and the jurisdiction of courts of equity. The result of the state of things which I have thus imperfectly described was to create two burdens upon the landowner, and to cast upon him two obligations, because he was forced thenceforward to trace the descent and transmission both of the legal and equitable estate ; and that which was introduced to relieve the landed inte rest became the cause and origin of a double burden. Moreover, the courts of equity, which undertook the duty of enforcing interest in real estates, held—not as they migh t have held, that the trust attached to the person of a trustee, • but—that the trust attached to the land itself ; and even where there was a trust, to divide the produce or to raise money for the portions of younger children, or for the benefit of other individuals, they held that the right to receive so much money was an equitable interest attaching to the land. Now;observe the consequences of that unfor tunate doctrine. The ownerof land, in travelling back over the 60 years which he has to cover by his evidence and dis closures, is compelled to trace every single case of a portion or a money charge directed to be paid and satisfied out of the land—to trace the individual entitled to it, to produce the release of it, and prove that the land is emancipated from the charge. Your lordships will easily understand the ope- ration of this doctrine that a trust attached to the land and not to the person. If you create a settlement ordisposition by a sum of money invested in Consols, which you invest in the name of trustees, the trust affects only the person of the trustee, and does not fasten upon the Consols. The difference is great indeed. The title to the stock is mani fested by the possession and by the entries in the boo of the Bank of England, and although the stock may beiaeld upon 100 trusts, the concurrence of no one of these beneficiaries is necessary for the transfer of the stock. N ow, in a trust of land the concurrence of all the benefi- ciaries is necessary for its effective transfer. A great burden is cast upon the owner of real property by this unfortunate course of procedure. It would seem as though the Legisla ture were deterred from any further attempt to remedy the evil, seeing their efforts had been baffled in the manner I have described. From that time the landed interest has crouched down and bent low under the burden which was cast upon it, and that is the position in which things stand at the present moment, The extent of the evil, however, does not rest there, because a landed proprietor being obliged to demonstrate his title for 60 years, if the law had benevo • lently provided any mode of doing this efficiently or of re cording the result of that investigation—if any machinery had been contrived to stamp his title when once ascertained with the sterling mark of being valid and good—the evil might then have been easily borne. But unfortunately no thing of the kind is known to our law, and, therefore, if a landed proprietor disposes of a farm, the title to which is thoroughly investigated and is accepted by the purchaser, and next day wishes to sell another farm which he holds under exactly the same title, he gains not one particle of benefit from the expense of the first investigation, but the same inquiries must be made by the second purchaser, and the same expense must be borne before the title to the second farm can be perfected. And so on ad infinitum, nothing bein g gained by the labour and expense to which you have been subjected, save only that you may have in the second case more ready means of repeating the process, and of com plying with the requisitions made than you had before. There is another grievance of which we have now to com plain, but which I hope from this day we may see some chance of removing. I can hardly denominate it by any other name than the tyranny of parchment deeds, The wonderful invention of printing rendered the extension of information a matter of great facility in every branch of knowledge but the law, and the lawyers repudiated it alto gether. If, when the art of printing was introduced, deeds had been permitted to be printed, as they might well have been, one effect would have been that we should have got rid of much perverse obscurity and constant repetitions with which parchment deeds are encumbered. Not only so, but all deeds would have been brought into a simple and readily accessible form. instead of requiring large and ex tensively constructed muniment rooms, all titles to estates might have been bound up in a few volumes, the liability to error that now exists would have been entirely avoided, and I may venture to add that a great part of the litigation which has been produced from the difficulties of discover ing the meaning and effect of deeds would have been pre vented. Not only so, but a great part of the expense attending an alienation of land would have been got rid of. For what is now the practice? When you sell an estate you are obliged to have all the parchments relating to it col lected together, first for your solicitor to examine, and then to prepare an abstract. That abstract is handed to the pur chaser, who, however, also must see the original parch ments, to ascertain whether the abstract contains a faithful and true account of all transactions. This is an expensive and tedious process, and I put it to your lordships whether much of these inconveniences would not have been avoided if title deeds to estates had been printed upon simple pieces of paper. There would have been no difficulty in perusing them or in ascertaining the meaning—it would have been the easiest, the simplest and the most economical proceeding as I think must be obvious to everyone. Deeds might be printed at one-half the expense at which they are engrossed. Not only might deeds be printed, but as I have ventured already to observe they would then be reduced one-half in size. There is nothing in my professional life to which I look back with so much pleasure as the eJorts I made, and sue cessfully,to introduce into the Court of Chancery the practice of printing bills and proceedings, but so great was the preju dice that when I ventured to propose it as a thing necessary to be done there was not a single one of my colleagues upon the commission who could give me the slightest hope that the thing could be done, or that it would produce any benefit, It was accepted, not from conviction, but out of considera tion towards myself and my position at the bar, I think, however, now I may venture to say that that change has been productive of the greatest possible benefit in the Court of Chancery, and I may refer to it as evidencing what I said just now concerning deeds, that it has got rid of the cum brous, prolix, and tautological repetitions in bills, and has reduced the size of those bills at least one-third, while the statements contained in them are couched in plain and in telligible language. I refer to this because you will find that one of the provisions by which I propose to work the measure which I shall have the honour of submitting is, that in future all deeds relating to estates shall be printed. The question, and it is a most important one, is, in what way shall we meet the evils which I have described . I n the first place they are to be met and removed, I think, without making any material change in the law. Ido not want to introduce any alteration in the system of legal rights of ownership. I want only to introduce alterationsin the modeof perfecting and manifesting titles, to facilitate the disposition of estates, and to bring them as near as possible into a condi tion of easy alienation, so that land may be dealt with with almost the same facility as ships or railway property, or shares in public companies, or the enormous amount of wealth invested in Government securities. I approach the subject with great confidence in the present day, because of air experience of that very great and beneficent measure that was passed some years ago for the sister country, and which has been attended by so great success. Your lord ships know that when the Encumbered Estates Court was instituted it was upon the principle that the Court should examine the titles of those who had recour:o to it for the sale of estates, should put up the lands for sale, and should give to the purchaser a clear title, writing the name of the owner upon a piece of paper, which was to start him anew, and give him a complete title—a statutory against all the world without the necessity of retrosp ective investigat i on. Well, now, the success that has attended the that court is so far a n assurance to us that the firstoperatasotenps o o f f f s e t e n s l ib re le m a a n in d s a of be r n r e o fi v e id m in l gpraon obtaining aTshteatgurtoearyt tdifficultyitleisa iPnestirti°nent that shall not only provide a statutory title, but shall also contain within itself the means of recording and preserving the evidence of the title, so that it may be rept o duced at any time whenever it may be required. The pur chaser from the Landed Estates Court takes, it is true, a statutory title, but when he proceeds to deal with the land it is in the same position as before, and in the course of a few years the title he has obtained becomes obscure from a great number of subsequent transactions, and thelaw has provided no mode of keeping up a record, preserving the proof of the title, and of the subsequent transactions, so that at any time the exact state of the title to the estate could be ascertained and reduced to a simple statement upon a piece of paper, which might be given to the owner, and thus enable him to dispose of the land. I want to construct a legal instrument that shall not only enable a man to obtain a stauttory title at the present time, but which should enable him to give from time to time entries of the results of all future trans actions and dealings with the land, so that the owner of the estate might at any time send to the registry, and if He wanted to sell might obtain a special certificate of title. and a could then go into the market with that certifloate, purchaser may cumbrous certi ficate obviating the necessity for the difficult an.ll s afely deal with the estate, the simpled negotiations that are now required. Year lo r dships will allow me to explain what is the form of the machinery of this bill, and in what manner the instrument may be expected to work, in order to accomplish these several objects—first, to ascertain whether there is a good statutory title ; second, to preserve the proof of all subsequent dealings with the land, so that the natu re of the r eal existing inter es t s on the estate may at any time be se certamed; and thirdly, t o pro vide a mode by wh ich all those dealings with land which the convenience or the necessities of mankind require may be most easily and readily transferred to the record of the court, and kept there for future reference. I propose in the bill to establish a registry, which is divided into two parts; ono is a registry of guaranteed titles—that is statutory, in defeasible titles; the other is a registry of titles not guaran teed, which are to be put upon the registry, with a view to become Parliamentary and indefeasible when in a course of long enjoyment they may become so entitled. Now, what is to be done by a proprietor to entitle himself to place his the t T it h le e , re bu m t us it t, w of eui co d ur b se o , a b n e ex a m am os i t na r ti igi en d e e xa nee mi f n e a r t a iln . l a nd upon the register, in order t o o bt a i n a P ar li amen t ar y l ati n ft'l s e te P ad of the process having to be gone through repeatedly of the investigation, it will be gone th roug h once for all. And it will b e done not in a manner th at w i ll divulge to al l the worl d t h e resu lt s but by officers of trust, sworn to their - duty, and performing it under a great sense of responsi bility. Therefore, precisely the same steps which you would have to take if you sold a farm cr a particular estate to a purchaser, you will have to take when you submit your title to the register with the view to having it recorded on the register. The registrar will, if requisite, have the aid of the Court of Chancery to enable him to examine the title ; and when I speak of the Court of Chancery your lordships will recollect that I don't mean that to obtain the assistance of that court it will be necessary to have recourse to a suit for that purpose. A great part of the business of that tribunal, by the improvements previously effected in its procedure, has been transacted by the judges of that collet sitting in chambers; and so, if any question of difficulty' arises in the investigation of a title, resort will be had at once not only to the public court but to a Chancery judge sitting in chambers. Well, supposing the registrar to arrive at the conclusion that the title is a marketable title and one fit to be placed upon the register, it will then be necessary to attend—and it is a most impotent duty—to the descrip tion of the estate which is to be put upon that record. And here I admit that there is a great difficulty and great nicety. (Hear.) The difficulty—and Ido not shrink from the statement of it—is this : —lf I describe on this sheet of paper an estate as belonging to a particular owner, and re present that his title to it is demonstrated, and therefore to be made statutory, it might so happen that in the descrip tion of that estate I might include part of his neighbour's property. I might, in fact, include in the description some thing that did not belong to him, Now, I beg your lord ships to remember that this same difficulty occurs in regard to all the proceedings in the Irish Encumbered Estates Court, and although that court has effectually sold and con veyed more, I believe, than cne-third of the whole area of Ireland, yet I have never heard a suggestion of any error of the kind we are now considering having been committed by that tribunal, except in one isolated instance. But I have sought to devise with the greatest care—and it will also be for your lordships, if you permit this bill to go into select committee to devise —proper safeguards against this danger. The description is to be given to the registrar, and if h e approves of the title he will advertise that descrip tion. Nay, more, I require that a copy of the description shall be served upon every one of the adjoining owners. Each adjoining proprietor, therefore, will have an interest in checking its accuracy. Attention will be drawn, by pub lic advertisement, to the fact of land described in a particu lar form being proposed to be put upon the register, and the safeguards that now exist in Ireland, and which have there been found effectual for their purpose, will be as nothing compared with the precautions which I believe this measure will introduce. Assuming. then, that the description has been settled, and that it is entered on the register, the pecu liarity of the bill which I now present lies, among other things, in this—that I do not require the estate so described to be entered in any particular name, or at all to be regis- , tered in the names of trustees. And this brings me to a dis' tinguishing feature of the measure, to which I solicit your lordships' attention, and which I will endeavour, as far as I can, to make clear to all who hear me. My lords, when the notion of a register of titles was originally broached it was thought to be necessary that the estates should be regis tered merely in the names of trustees ; in other words, we all at that day thought we could not do other than follow the analogy of stock in the public funds. If stock in the public funds be held upon the trusts of a marriage settlement it must be registered in the names of the trustees of the set tle went; but then the beneficial owners have no security for their property except by a practice which exists at the Bank of England of entering what is called a caveat—that is, a notice to the Bank not to permit a transfer of the stock with out giving information of the intention to effect such trans fer to the beneficial owners. Accordingly, down to the pro sent time, the only attempt at establishing a registryof titles has proceeded on the principle of entering the land upon the register in the name of trustees, and of then depending for the security of all the actual owners on a system of caveats or inhibitions, which were to be served upon the register, in order to prevent improper dealing with the property. When,, in 1846, your lordships appointed a select committee of your house to consider the burdens upon land, among the com mittee's recommendations was one for the improvement of the law of real property, by the simplification of titles and of the forms of conveyance, and by the establishment of some effective system for the registration of deeds. The only idea of registration entertained for a lengthened period after the date of that recommendation was the registration of assu rances—the registration of deeds, not of titles. In 1853 a bill for the registration of deeds passed your lordships' house. It came down from the other house, and 1 felt that individually I could not take any part in the support of that measure. The measure was referred to a select committee, and I had the honour of bringing before that committee the plan which I had formed for the registration of titles. But that plan consisted merely of this—the putting of certain names upon the registry as if they were the absolute owners of the fee simple of the estate, and making all persons who had partial interests in the property depend for their secu rity upon the system of caveats and checks. I have always felt that that was a very imperfect mode of proceeding, be cause, as your lordships will observe, a registry so con structed gives no proof whatever of any suitable interest, nor does it in the smallest degree facilitate the proof of title to any equitable estate. It converts all the legal ownerships. into trust estates, and compels you to deprive yourself of the actual legal ownership, in order to enter it in the name of trustees. It also provides no mode by which the register can give evidence of the actual state of the ownership, for if it were denied the parties registered as owners could sell the estate, the:registrar would be under the necessity of convening in court all the parties entitled to the equitable estate before he could give authority to the registered owner to dispose of the property at all. Therefore all the deal ings with the equitable estate would still remain a mass of documents, without any means of registering them or ascer taining their effect; and you would have, as often as you wanted to sell or mortgage any land, to go through the same process of making an examination of the whole of the subsequent transactions, and incurring the same expense and difficulty—in a modified degree certainly—as attended the original placing of the estate on the register. Recol lecting these great drawbacks to a registration of titles, I have endeavoured in the present bill to provide a mode of producing evidence of the actual state of the title from time to time, according as it may be affected by subsequent transactions. Let me illustrate the working of this by a familiar example. Suppose that the first investigation of a title brings you to the conclusion that the ownership of the land is vested in a tenant for life with remainder to trustees for a term of years in order to raise a jointure on the pro perty for the wife, with remainder to trustees for another tern] of years to raise portions for the daughters, with re mainder to the sons, &c. The registrar accordingly will place the description of the date in one registry—viz., the registry of estates. The number under which that is en tered will refer to a corresponding number in another book called the record of titles ; and in the book constituting the record of titles will be entered exactly the result of the limi tations and investigations which I have described. A change of ownership existing in fact can be most easily ascertained. It will be transferred to the record. But sup pose a difficulty arising in this way. Suppose the transmis sion of the interest on the estate is affected by a deed or by a will of difficult, ambiguous, or uncertain construction. The question may be asked, will you make the registrar the judge of the question ? Is he to determine the effect of the e will ? Undoubtedly not. I provide, my l ords, means of having any question ascertained and conditrn the for that purpose ? provide for that p de a t t e ti r e m e itneeldi.tigeStutet m ay be said, why nit Because, if a deed or wil l make an y alteration in the should you drive a also.rec erd neeern a deed or will which is of difficult con struction, and which the purchaser does not desire to have considered or determined, the registrar will make out the record in the very language of the will, and the only result will be to leave it unascertained. This, in point of fact, is a recommendation instead of an objection to the proposal. There will be a third registry, namely, a regis try of mortgages and encumbrances. I hope your lordships will follow me for a few moments while I describe the mode in which this part of the measure will operate. Suppose an estate is put on the registry, and that on the record of title an individual is described as tenant for life, another is described as tenant in remainder, and that on the registry of charges or encumbrances there is a mortgage of £5,000. The owner is desirous of selling the estate, the purc h aser agrees on the price, a conveyance is to be effected. ge e cm q v u e e y st a i n on remains The parties may co me, to the office of the registrar, either f made of that est ate with a Parliamentary title. The re gistrar says that a go od conve y arc e can which runs Tin there n es l prov ide a statutory f orm of co nveyance,e terms the l ty r themselves registrar o r to by say th whetherir attorneys. :-11;: we, A. B. a nd C. D., in consideration of £5,000 g rant to the purch aser and his heirs whatever lands and li number.ereditam ” enTtshde described in t i r n an th sf e err re e gi d, s a t n ry d ap al underidt he to a particular the transaction is closed, in the same way in which a transfer is made of £20,000 Consols. The transfer is effected precisely in the same manner without any more difficulty or imp e di men t an d without any greater lapse of time. But, supposing the parties don't wish to have the estate conveyed, the owner of the estate may have a certi ficate from the registrar—which certificate shall on one page contain the description of the estate, on another page the result of the recorded title—that is a simple and clear manifestation of the existing ownership, and on the third page a description of the charges and encumbrances affect ing the estate ; and together with the certificate of title the registrar sends this simple form of conveyance. I provide that after the certificate of title has been given there shall be no entry on the registry with regard to the estate with out delivering it up, in order to prevent the possibility of fraud, which is now very easy under the existing registries. In this way there will be perfect certainty that in the inter val no change has taken place which in the slightest degree affects the exact state of the ownership. I want to super sede the parchment titles to an estate ; but I should. be ex tremely sorry in the slightest degree to interfere with one of the easiest modes of raising money, in which a Proprie tor of an estate goes to his banker and saYro; 4‘ Take these me £lO,OOO on deeds into your possession and obtain; the fe deposit of title their security." That is a mortg age m s o e y s i l vacoreanindentthe modeac commodation security . to the lender. the parchment deeds, which deeds, or an equitable mortgage —s every of raising money. Notoriety is dis Pen afforded . Now I provide that in rtite of owners are rendered supertitic'net the e! bap of the estate may, in like anner, bedeposited With a banker, and liweuithof art in ts, in Sirs ion tho ion, elay ~ken FOR. is in , but was 3nk•- alse the ' the ;e of a on rut,. aght that tides ;rdict 5, for ether 'Mr. Sts hi d not L for a Lnted. zy.) . WITH Drt, a arged