The Sun. — London, England, 1862-02-22 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS -YESTERDAY. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. THE NEW EDUCATION CODE. The Bishop of WINCHESTER presented a petition against the new education code. The Earl of MALMESBITRY presented similar peti. lions. THE VOLUNTEERS. Lord TRURO said, in consequence of communications he had had with several commanding officers he should postpone putting the question, relative to the Volunteers, which stood in his name on the paper for Tuesday next, for the present. PRIVATE BUSINESS. On the motion of the Earl of HARDW ICKE, the fol lowing bills were read a second time :—Mersey, Weaser, lrwell, &c., Protection; Dundee Water, Wakefield Water, Pulteney Water, Ventnor Harbour, Rogerston Embank ment and Reclamation, Llynvie Valley Railway, and Strat ford Gas. THE REVIEW AT BRIGHTON. Lord TRURO rose to ask a question relative to the command at the review at Brighton. The noble lord took the opportunity of making a few remarks on the subject of the Volunteer movement. Ho said he had postponed putting the question till this time, in the hope that a noblelt,rd who had addressed a communication to the War-office would have received an answer to his inquiry. No sn , :n answer had been received, and therefore he availed himself of the notice ho had given. He could but regret that the Government was about to depart from the system of non-interference which they had hitherto wisely exer cised. It was well known that a rivalry existed between two noble lords, but then ho did not think there was any real animosity between the noblemen, and the only object of both was to add strength and permanency to the movement. There had last year been a review at Brighton, which had been organised by Lord Ranelagh, and he must say he thought the Government gave a very doubtful consent to the review, fearing it would turn out a failure, but the ;very reterse was the case, and the affair ended in great success, He regretted now that another review was to take place, the Volun teers were not to have the command. Of course there was none who would not feel it an honour to serve under Lord Clyde, who was the first commander of the day ; but then he could but regret that that noble lord should have lent himself as an instrument to the ilovemment on this occasion, in order to get them ovr..t a difficulty. He could not agree that it was undesirable that volunteer officers should be precluded from command ing large bodies of men, and he very much feared that the volunteers would imagine that if they were thought unfit to command they would soon have bri gadiers put over them. He could not but look upon the whole affair as a slight on Lord Ranelagh, who had done so much to further the volunteer movement. Earl RIPON said there was no intention to slight Lord Ranelagh in the steps the Government intended to take with respect to the Volunteer review on Easter Monday. The Government finding that some 20,000 volunteers were about to assemble, selected the best general they could to take the command, and Lord Clyde had been nominated. After a few words of explanation from Lord TRURO, Lord HARDINGE expressed his satisfaction at the course adopted by the Government. The subject then dropped. Lord LEITRIM asked various questions with regard to police expenditure in Leitrim, and was very briefly answered by Lord GRANVILLE, who stated that the expenses which had been incurred would be charged on the Con solidated Fund. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Middle Level and South Level Drainage :and Navi gation, &a., Bill, and the Brecon Markets and Fairs Bill were read a second time. PETITIONS. Petitions were presented praying for an situation in the Poor Law, for the Repeal of the Grant to Maynooth, against the Revised Code, for a reduction in the duty of Fire and Life Assurances, &c. NAVY SHIPS OF WAR. Oa the ❑cotion of Mr. CORRY, a return was ordered of the names of the ships of war of which it is intended to re duce the armament. METROPOLITAN TOLL GATES. Mr. WHITE asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he had any plan or proposition from the Metropolitan Road Commissioners, for the removal of toll gates in and round London; and, if not, whether the said commissioners had been called together for the special object of removing the existing obstructions. Sir G. GREY said that no such plan had been submitted to Government, but there had been a correspondence be tween the Home-office and the commissioners ou the sub ject. AUSTRALIAN COAL. Lord A. CHURCHILL asked the Secretary to the Admiralty, whether the Government had received any com munication with respect to Australian coal ; and, if so, whe ther her Majesty's ships in those waters would make trial of it; and if any slight alterations were requisite in the machinery, to adapt it better for the use of this coal, whe ther the Admiralty would direct these to be made in steam ships now on the Australian station. _ _ _ Lord C. PAGET said that the Admiralty had lately re ceived a report from the Colonial-office with respect to this subject. It appeared that the Australian coal would burn, but then it spoiled the flues of the vessels. There would be no objection to alter steam ships so as to enable them to consume Australian coal, but it must be borne in mind that if this alteration took place it would unfit these ships being used for service to any other colony than Australia. THE ECCLESIASIICAL COMMISSION. Mr. Alderman COPELAND asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if it was the intention of the Go vernment to appoint a select committee to inquire into the state of the Ecclesiastical Commission, and the manage ment of the estates now vested in the Commission. Sir G. GREY sa id th a t h e s t a t e d , i n rep l y to a question last session, that he considered this a fit subject for inquiry, and his hon. friend the member for Poole bad given notice for a committee which would deal with the question of the hon. member. THE ISLAND OF ST. JUAN. Mr. HALIBURTON asked the 'Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, upon what terms, if any, the Americans retained possession of a portion of the island of St. Juan ; whether there was any negotiation pending on the subject, and the nature thereof; and, whether there was any objection to produce the papers and correspondence referring thereto ? Lord PALMERSTON said that an arrangement was made in 1859 between General Scott and Governor Douglas, without prejudice to the claims of either country. That arrangement was, that each party in St. Juan should hold a provisional occupation of opposite parts of the island, and that neither should have more than 100 men in such occu pation. The respective subjects of those parties were to be under their control. Negotiations afterwards took place between the two countries, but were suspended in consequence of the civil war in America, and he thought that it would bo unadvisable to lay the papers in question on the table at present. (Hear, hear.) CAB AND PUBLIC CARRIAGE TRAFFIC IN THE METROPOLIS. Mr. HUME asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he had it in contemplation to intro duce a bill this session to amend the law relating to the traffic of cabs and public carriages through the streets of the metropolis ; and, if so, when it may be expected to be laid upon the table of the house. Sir G. GREY replied in the negative. THE POST-OFFICE EMPLOYES. Sir G. BOWYER asked the Chancellor of the Exche quer when the report of the committee on the Post-office would be laid on the table ? The c BANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had stated last session, in reply to the hon. baronet, the subject w as under the consideration of the Government. The report refereed to the claims mad e by some portion of the metro to u tar, vev:fficers employed in the Post-office, and these claim s examined by the Treasury and the heads of the Ito were the su bj ect, end under was some difference of opinion on thought it right t o mid% the circumstances Government Me atake the responsibility of dealing with the subject. thoughttable, the report in question ought tot to be laid on the the discipline of the public's: it would be unfavourable to DISTRESS i rv N ic ia,;-„, On the motion for g o i ng ie ` to IRELAND. Mr. MAGUIRE called he Co mmittee of Supply, to the serious distress Whi c h tention of the house Ireland. He trusted that he had existed in that the statements which he had mad :3/ able t o p rove of that distress, and the infor mation on as to the ex t en t wh execu tive acted was unfounded in fact. ne ic d h the I r i s h to say anything unfav ourable of the amiable nobleman not wish the Viceroy of Ireland, but he conte nded that the was too prone to view the state of Irel and through Claude Loraine medium , and to be too much inclined to a i gno re the real condition of Irelan d . The ho n. inemb er then entered into different statistics to show that f or some time past there had been a decrease in the live stock and cereal production in Ireland. He quoted a'so the report of Messrs. Sturge for the same purpose. He denied in tote that the number of poor is the workhouses in Ire land was a test of the condition of the people in that country, though it might perhaps be a delicate baro meter on the subject. The fact was that th=Te was the greatest repugnance to accepting parish relief, which in some cases extended even to death from starvation as a preferable alternative. He thought it reflected very little credit on the sagacity of Sir Robert Peel that he re lied on th e i n f orma ti on on w hi c h h e founded his opinion as to the state of Ireland andlen rid. his a ssuming a know ledge of the condition ' f the led the fact that he travelled 300; miles' through people from (Hear, hear, from hialrlough the country in three da y s. the subject of the members.) lie next reverted to disinclination of the Iriohpuor to receive j parochial relief, and read ektkota from different parties in support of his statement. One Of these rilel said that there had been Bor 10 deattt in ) which came under his own knelt-MO, and some of the letters stated that the greatest distress prevailed in Sligo. Sir R. PEEL said he believed the house Was alVvayts ready to listen to statements which magas• d its sympathy, but the alarm Suggested did net some iron the landed pro prietors of Ireland ) as in 1846, 1847, and 1848, nor from the tenant•fartners, nor from the Parliamentary represen tatives of popular constituencies, nor from the people them selves, nor from persons who had an opportunity of know ing the condition of Ireland; but it came from a few per sons in Ireland who had their representative in Mr. Maguire, whose knowledge of Ireland was of the most limited and subordinate character. The season in Ireland, ho admitted, had been most unfortunate; the quantity of rain had been unusually large, and there was a scarcity of fuel ; but from the earliest period, apprehending that there might be a considerable amount of distress, everything had been done by the Irish Government to meet any unusual pressure, so that the accusations against them were most unfounded. The cry raised and the representations made of great distress in Ireland he asserted to be not true ; on the contrary, the state of that country was sound and satis factory, as evinced by the diminished amount of crime, agrarian outrages, and evictions. He had had assurances from lieutenants of counties, ho said, entirely corroborating the statements he had made, and he indignantly denounced the attempt to conjure up imaginary grievances in Ireland, which was now happily changel, and where the pledges of prosperity were becoming daily more apparent. Mr. WHALLEY made some strong remarks upon the conduct of the Roman Catholic priests in Ireland. Mr. MAGUIRE withdrew his motion. THE REPORT OF THE IRON PLATE COM MIT rEE—THE PIER. AT HOLYHEAD. Sir F. SMITH asked the Secretary to the Admiralty when he expected to receive the report of the Iron Plate Committee, and whether he intended to lay it upon the table of the house. They were now building ships of war, iron cased to a great extent, and the time had arrived when the house ought to know whether they were being constructed upon a true principle or not. The committee was appointed early in the last session, and worked conjointly under the War-office and the Admiralty. The subject was one of vast importance, and therefore he would say, why had not the house the report laid on the table ? Col. DUNNE said, before the noble lord answered that question, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether the Government intended to complete the pier at Holyhead, which had been so long promised, and when It was three years since the question was first mooted, and up to this moment there was not a semblance of any com mencement of the works for the pier. Lord C. PAGET said he could not state at this moment when the report of the Committee on Iron Plates would be made, because there were three very great experiments to come off, and they were so important that the system of the plating of new iron ships wholly depended upon the result. He believed the experiments would come off next week. There were three great authorities who had pro posed plans, viz., Mr. W. Fairbairn, Mr. Scott Russell, and Mr. Samuda. Upon these experiments would depend their future proceedings in regard to iron-cased ships. The committee had not been at all dilatory, as surmised by his gallant friend, considering the vast number of ex periments with which they had had to deal. He hoped that in the course of a very short time the report would be made, but he could not state when it would be laid on the table of the house. In answer to other questions, the noble lord said that he felt nothing could be more unsatisfactory than the state of the pier at Holyhead—(hear, hear)—that question had been afloat for a good many years, as his gal lant friend had just stated. The Admiralty had had many plans brought before them. The first would have cost in construction half a million of money, and in regard to that the hydrographer had pronounced against it, as the packets would not be able to come alongside in rough weather. Another notion was that the present pier, than which nothing could be more uncomfortable for passengers,should be made to afford shelter to the packets as they came in, and that was under consideration. Another plan had been pro posed, viz., to construct a pier on the new system, as the pier at the Isle of Man, and if this plan succeeded, it would be much less costly than the original plan of Mr. Rennie. He was in hopes that in a month or so he should be able to answer the question of his gallant friend in a satisfactory manner. (Hear, hear.) THE REVISED CODE. Lord R. CECIL called the attention of the house td the case of Derby-road School, Nottingham, to which the pro visions of the revised code had been partially applied, not withstanding the announcement that those provisions would be suspended until they had been submitted to the judg ment of Parliament. The noble lord said he desired to knew whether the Government had kept faith with the house and the managers of the schools, because it was understood that nothing would be done until Parliament had decided in the matter. It appeared, however, that in some cases the pro mises made by the right hon. gentleman had not been ad hered to, as this case was an instance where the managers of the school had applied for a grant of books and maps, and had been refused by an answer sent is a printed form, which showed it was the one always returned ; it simply informed the applicants that the committee of the Privy Council had ceased to make grants of books and maps. He (Lord it. Cecil) thought this was a direct breach of faith— (hear)—with the house. The alarm throughout the country was that the supply of money would be suddenly cut off; now it appeared that that was so by the mere fiat of the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Lowe) issued in the recess, in the absence of Parliament, and before Parliament could be asked to express an opinion upon the subject. Without books and maps it would be quite impossible that a school could go on. It was the same as if the grant of £250,000 for pupil teachers had been cut off. It would seem that many pen sions had been refused already. Mr. LOWE said that with regard to the matter of pen sions the noble lord was mistaken, and if he bad given notice of the question he would have brought the papers and entered into all the details. Pensions were not given but in exceptional circumstances, and the time for allotting them would not come until after the period for the revised code to come into operation. There had, therefore, been no postponement of any claim, and indeed he had entertained many applications during the present year. As to the book grants, they were useful in the beginning of the educational system, but they had become burthensome and employed a great many clerks, and as the royal commission had re ported against them, the committee had, on their responsi bility, refaced to grant them. In fact, however, they em ploy ed agents—the Messrs. Longman—in this matter, and the arrangement with them was that they should have a long notice. That notice had been given, and part of the minute had done away with a part of the grant. It had been found impossible to pursue a different course in conse quenceboolsinotthoetihrehr an persons i h n is t m h a e t t te ra r d h e ad h u av o i t n h g ing so t m o e do of w t i h th e the revised code, and it was not an annual grant. If the house should decide that the grant Should bo continued, these managers of the Nottingham school would be entitled to the books. The Committee of the Privy Council had decided this point upon their own responsibility, but as to breaking faith with the house, or with any managers, it never was intended or done. The right hon. gentleman said, in answer to a question put by Mr. Lygon, that notice was given to Messrs. Longman in the spring of last year, he believed in the month of May. Mr. DISRAELI said the question was whether one minute or another was in force. The right hon. gentleman admitted that under the existing system this application for books would have been complied with, and then he de- fended himself by stating that some unsatisfactory arrange ment existed with the publishers. But the notice to the pub- lishers ought not to have anticipated that the revised code would be adopted by the house. The question might not be one of very great importance—not so great as many which were included in the revised code. But what was more re markable was the want of tact and the want of conciliation on the part of the right hon. gentleman in bringing these amendments before the public notice. As the right hon. gentleman was prepared to make considerable demands upon the forbearance of the public, it was desirable that the new orders of the council should be made clear to their un derstandings. So far as the law was concerned, the right hon. gentleman had not a leg to stand on. He had given no answer to the complaint of the noble lord, nor had he proved that there had not been a total want of discretion. The Privy Council was in a position in which the utmost discre tion was necessary, and they had shown a total want of it, as well as of conciliation. It was wrong that the public feel ing should be offended, and in offending it, the right hon. gentleman had shown a great want of administrative discre tion. THE KINGDOM OF ITALY. Mr. GRIFFITH rose to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the English minister at Turin had lately been directed to communicate to Baron Ricasoli any remonstrance on the part of the English Government against the late popular demonstration in Italy against the continuance of the temporal power of the Papacy, or whe ther, in point of fact, he had made any communication of that character to the Italian minister, either alone or in con junction with the French and Prussian ministers. He said that some remarkable correspondence had recently been published in the French Blue. book which had taken place between the French Foreign Minister and Cardinal Auto nelli. In a letter dated Jan. 18, from the latter, there were these remarkable expressions. After a compliment on the interest which France had always shown in the affairs o th f the Holy See—(a laugh)—the writer said, " It is not true Italy, there is a disagreement between the Holy Father and I T 4 ur 3;, although there may be with the Government of as eral e feeling aov of was z :' g P en As ' Soon as these expressions became known there explosion in Italy, The different cities, such and added that th Florence, Parma, and Milan, published strong denials, (Hear, hear.) Th e course of discouragi ng t e h rn e ment, Turin was the feeling of Italy, ded the prefects throughout however, took the prudent re th anifestations, and recommen quiet. They stated that tt theeGeountry .udovernment did not wish its to keep the people exertions to be impeded by Re. .B ei ed enthusiasm or clamo rousof Milan manifestation." The 1 2 recom mended the citizens to embody their feelings ofad in an address, of the Church, acknowledging the Sovereign Pontiff hut recognising victor Emmanuel as King memorial was adopted, but temperate as it was, the Italy, ( Government did not like it, and explanations passed nbel- • •:~`-~ ~=: -- ... F~ f, '..• i Trig strm LONDoN, Nieeit Thotti , tnTeri;cl Signor ifigra. He (Mr. Griffith) wished to know what had been the conduct of our Govern ment in the matter. It did not appear to him that, looking at the proceeding from one point of view, there was any thing reprehensible in the conduct of either the people or the Government of Italy. (Hear, hear.) He did not think that any assembly of Englishmen could disapprove of what had been done. (Hear.) The relations of France with the Holy See seemed to be very peculiar. The latter had recently published a requisition to the Roman Catholic bishops of Christendom to assemble at Rome on the Ist of May, to celebrate the canonisation of the martyrs of Japan. (A laugh.) But the French Government expressed its regret that this intimation should have been given, and in timated that no French bishop should receive passports for Rome except on urgent diocesan business. He was anxious to hear that the Government had not given any countenance to the belief that the expression of opinion by the Italian people had given umbrage in this country. (Hear, hear.) There was a society that p erva d e d a ll Italy, • . called the Italian Unity Society, and the Florence branch had only the other day proposed to Genoa that they should petition to have that part of the constitution abo lished which declared the Roman Catholic religion to be the religion of the State. (Hear.) He hoped that our Govern ment had not allowed itself to be mixed up with that of France, and he was anxious to hear so much from the First Lord of the Treasury. Lord PALMERSTON—It is quite true, as the hon. member states, that in almost every part of Italy there have been strong manifestations of the earnest desire of the people that Rome should be the central capital of the Italianking dom, and that the temporal power of the Pope should cease. (Cheers.) And nowhere, I believe, is the feeling so strongly exhibited as in the city of Rome itself. (Hear.) But her Majesty's Government had taken no part with regard to this feeling, nor have they given any instruction to Sir Jas. Hudson to make remonstrances to the Government of Turin. So far as we are aware, Sir J. Hudson has taken no such step on his own authority, and therefore we believe that there is no truth in the report that Sir Jas. Hudson went to Baron Ricasoli to remonstrate on the manifestations of feeling that had taken place. (Hear.) LEICESTER-SQUARE. Sir W. JOLLIFFE rose to ask the First Commissioner of Works whether there was any prospect of an early im • provement in Leicester-square. Some time since, he said, the centre was occupied with a large building, but recently the " crack of doom" had reached the edifice, and the square was filled with every kind of filth, rags, shavings, and other disgusting matters, so that when the foreigners come over to see our exhibition they would hardly believe that we had been doing much in the way of sanitary improvement. Such a state of things was a serious nuisanee, and he thought that some remedial measures should be taken. He wanted to know from the Chief Commissioner of Works whether it was the intention of Government to interfere. Mr. COWPER—I quite agree with the hon. baronet that the foreigners visiting London next summer would be shocked with the appearance of Leicester -square, which was at pre sent the stigma and opprobrium of the metropolis. The case was, however, rather mysterious, and he was afraid he could not give any satisfactory account of ii. It appeared that there was some doubt as to the legal estate in the soil, and all the parties concerned in the ownership of the square agreed to allow a building, which they were told would be temporary and ornamental— (a laugh)—to be erected. It had turned out, however, to be more permanent than they had expected. He should certainly be glad if anything could be done to remedy the present state of things. He could only say that if he saw his way to any means of making the square as ornamental as other squares of the metropolis, he would be very glad to adopt it. The last thing any one would wish to see with respect to any of the squares was that they should be built upen. It was very desirable that the example of the benchers of the Temple should be fol lowed, and greater facilities given to the public by the throwing open of the squares. (Hear.) SUPPLY. The house then went pro forma into committee of supply and immediately resumed. FAIRS AND MARKETS (IRELAND) BILL. Sir R. PEEL moved the second reading of the Fairs and Markets (Ireland) Bill. Mr. M'MAHON opposed the second reading principally on the ground that it made it compulsory on farmers to pay toll immediately on bringing their stock or farm produce to market. It often happened that stock would be brought to several markets before it was sold, and therefore the Irish farmer would labour under a grievance which he would constantly feel, and be placed in a different position from farmers in England, where the rule was that the buyer paid the tolls. Successive chief (secretaries had failed to carry similar bills, and he believed that the measure was not called for by the country. Lord NAAS said that the hon. gentleman was mistaken as to the feeling of the people of Ireland on this subject. When he (Lord Naas) had the honour of filling the office which the right hon. baronet now holds, the very great abuses which existed in fairs and markets were brought under the consideration of the Lord-Lieutenant and in the year 1852 a commission was issued to inquire into tho matter. The result of the investigation was to show that a system of fraud existed, and if the hon. member had read the report of the commissioners he would see that legislation on the subject was imperatively demanded. So far from there being indifference on the subject in Ireland, on the part of the general public there was a :cry from one end of the country to the other for Biome such measure, The present bill differed only in the machinery which it proposed from that which he had himself introduced. He believed it to be sound in principle, and there would be another and more fitting opportunity for considering its details. Lord DUNKELLIN said he could corroborate what his noble friend had said as to the grievances to which both buyers and sellers were subject under the old system. The principle of the bill was good, and whatever differences existed as to details might be settled in committee. Mr. LONGFIELD thought that while accommodation should be provided for the public the rights of the toll owners should be fairly dealt with. The bill as a whole would prove beneficial, and he hoped the right hon. gentle man would persevere with it. Mr. SCULLY was rejoiced to be able to give his full assent to the bill. The bill was an exact transcript of the results to which 14 Irish gentlemen had arrived in commit tee, and therefore it could not with any accuracy be called the bill of the present or proceeding Government. The principle of the bill was that those who took the tolls should provide accommodation, which seemed to be just. He hoped the bill would be read a second time. Mr. HASSARD supported the measure. Mr. BRADY objected to the clause which rendered it necessary that the corn or other commodity to be purchased in the markets of Ireland should be weighed at a publis weigh-house. 'lbis was not the state of the law of England. He considered this regulation to be highly oppressive. Major KNOX. supported the bill. Sir It, PEEL intimated his intention to persevere with the bill, notwithstanding the almost solitary opposition of the hon. member for Wexford. lle thought the provisions of the bill necessary to prevent oppression and extortion. It was quite a mistake to say that the bill had been taken out of a pigeon -hole in the Castle and thrown on the table of the house. That was quite a mistake; the details of the bill had been very carefully considered. He was sorry to hear from the noble lord that a lady was the owner of the fair at Donnybrook. Notwithstanding the apparent want of gallantry of the step, he must persist in preventing her from holding that fair. The bill was really so much wanted that the great object was to press it forward, (Hear.) The bill was then read a second time, and the committee ordered for the 20th March. POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) (No. 2) BILL. This bill was read a second time. QUALIFICATION FOR OFFICES ABOLITION BILL. Upon the order of the day for going into committee upon this bill, Mr. NEWDEGATE complained that great inconve nience arose from the practice of placing, at that early period of the session, the bills of private members upon the paper on Government nights. Mr. B. OSBORNE regarded the present as essentially a private members' session. He did not know how the session was to be got through unless they permitted the hon. member for Sheffield to bring in his little improve ments, because the Government were evidently intent upon what was called lying upon their oars. (Laughter.) They all knew that the session would be up on the Ist of June-- (a laugh)—and if the hon. member postponed his bill for another week he would have no chance of carrying it through. The Government intended to do nothing, and they were acting very wisely, for they could do nothing. (Laughter.) Under these circumstances ho appealed to the hon. member for North Warwickshire to let them have the puny bit of reform that they might say they had done some thing this session. (Laughter.) The house then went into committee. Mr. NEWDEGATE hoped that the next stage would be taken upon a Wednesday. The clauses having been agreed to, Mr. HADFIELD fixed Wednesday next for the third reading of the bill. KENSINGTON-GORE AND BAYSWATER-ROAD. The house having resolved itself into a committee, Mr. COWPER moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the London Coal and Wino Duties Continuance Act, 1861, and to authorise the formation of a road between Kensington-gore and Bayswater, and to apply the proceeds of the Metropolis Improvement Fund Account towards de fraying the cost of the construction of such road. Ile ex plained that the road proposed to be constructed with a view to improve the approach to the Exhibition would take the place of the pathway across Kensington-gardens from Manchester-gate to Rotten-row, and it was proposed, in order that no inconvenience or annoyance should arise from the carrying out of the plan, that the road should be a sub way, with avenues upon each side for foot passengers. The parishes which would be benefited by the new road had no power to tax themselves to meet the expense of its construc tion. The Commissioners for the Exhibition had no power to appropriate the funds in their hands for the purpose, and the Metropolitan Board of Works, after considering the question, determined that they would not recommend a rate for the purpose. The surplus funds from the London coal and wine duties were, however, available, and the amount, £34,494, amply sufficient. These funds were intended by the act of last year to be transferred to the Thames em- SATURDAY E'VE 1.1 NG, banirreiM and nietropOliian funds aeaonnt, bitt owing to some defect in that bill, or some artangement of the Bank of England, the money had never been paid over, and it was, therefore, still standing in the name of the Commis sioners of Works and Public Buildings. Ho now, therefore, proposed to introduce a bill simply to give power to the Commissioners of Works to sell their stock, ttnd hand it over to the Metropolitan Board of Works for the construc tion of these works. He thought the money could not be better employed than in making this road. (Hear.) It would, to all intents and purposes, be a public highway, and would be separated from the park and gardens by a fence. Sir M. PETO pledged his practical experience that the works in question could not be executed in time for the opening of the Exhibition. He suggested that they should use the existing road across the park, making a slight jtmc. tion at the back of the powder magazine. Lord PALMERSTON said there were two things which almost every body admitted. One was that a better access to the Exhibition, which was to be open at the beginning of May, should be made, and that a permanent communi cation should be made between the town on the north and the town on the south of the park. His right hon. friend proposed to bring in a bill for this purpose. His hon. friend (Sir M. Peto) said it could not be done within the time. Well, that was a question between the Metropolitan Board of Works and the contractor. If there was a contractor who was willing to complete the work by the Ist of May, or the Ist of June, which would probably be little time enough, they all knew the work could be accomplished in a mach less time than those who were not accustomed to works of this kind might expect. However, the question was that leave be given to bring in this bill, and he hoped that the house would agree to it, The matter was of importance, and ought to be discussed in a fuller house. He trusted the house would give leave to bring in the bill, reserving the future discussion. It was said, " Why not take advan tage of the present roads." But the present roads did not exist (laughter)—because what was wanted was a commu nication from north to south. He trusted that his right lion, friend would be permitted to bring in the bill, when it could be subsequently discussed in its details. Mr. OSBORNE would prefer taking the consolidated fund rather than the parochial view of this question. They had heard the hon. member for Finsbury, who had made the Balaklava-road, and knew something about earthworks, tell the skeleton of a house that the estimate was ridicu lous. Why, the road was to be two miles long. Mr. COWPER—Three-quarters of a mile. Mr. OSBORNE—The right hon. member undertook to make the road for £30,000, and in two months ; but would he bind himself to these terms ? Besides, what necessity was there for this road ? They had not any extra road for the last Exhibition, but the right hon. gentleman said that the one now proposed would be a street out from Australia. (Laughter.) He (Mr. Osborne) could not:explain the inte rest which the right hon. gentleman took in that distant colony, but his cry was, " What will the Australians say if this road is not made ?" (Laughter.) He believed the right hon. gentleman knew it would not be made in the time or for the money, and therefore the best way would be for the house to reject this great Government earthwork, which he supposed was to be the great thing of the session. He called upon that attenuated house, if they had any spirit, to throw out the bill at once, and let them have a temporary road for the exhibition. The committee divided, when there appeared, — For the resolution . • .........17 Against it Majority ............ . The division showing that, with the four tellers, not more than 33 members were present, Mr. MASSEY quitted the chair, and acquainted the Speaker with this result. The SPEAKER immediately counted the house again, and, finding that only 30 members were then present, de clared the house adjourned at 20 minutes past 12 o'clock. .RAILWAI INTELLIGENCE. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. The half-yearly meeting, of this company was held yesterday at the Euston Station—Mr. It. Moon in the chair. _ _ Mr. C. E. Stewart, the secretary, read the notice convening the meeting. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he regretted that they were unable to present them with a better dividend than 4-1 per cent. per annum for the past half -year. The items of maintenance of way and repairs of rolling stock had been largely increased in consequence of the very severe winter of last year. They had also to expend money in the renewal and repairs of the permanent way of the Lancaster and Carlisle and South Staffordshire Railways. Like most other lines, they had been worked down considerably, and they had, therefore, to work them up again to condition. The locomotive and other stock handed over to them with the Booth-Stafford shire and Birkenhead Railways had involved a sum of £lO,OOO or £12,000 for renewals and repairs. The traffic to the Mersey had increased, and out of an additional expenditure of £13,000 £4,000 was for additional lighterage on the Mersey. They had to expend a considerable sum for the purpose of developing the traffic. On the Ist of January last they took on their hands the working of the Camden-town and other goods stations in Lon don, and he hoped it would bring them into closer contact with their customers. With regard to losses for compensation in 1860 and 1861, they were acting in concert with other companies to bring about a modification of the law with regard to compensation for accidents. (Hear, hear.) They proposed that the liability should be limited in some way as that adopted in the Mer cantile shipping Act. They would perceive in the accounts that in the item of law expenses they had added this half-year a sum of £5,000 to the usual amount, and they thought it would completely clear off all arrears, and place them in an advantageous position in future. They had hoped, under the arrangements they bad made for having a lawyer and his staff on the spot, they would be enabled to attend to law matters more readily and advantage ously for the company. He then called attention to a number of bills that were before Parliament for various schemes more or less opposed to the London and North Western Railway. The extent of their proposed operation had to be ascertained, and that of course ir.volved considerable expense. There was one company that sought running powers over the Great Western, Chester and Holyhead, the North-Western and other lines between Wallasey Pool and Chester. He hoped the subject would attract the attention of the Legislature, and that it would be thrown out on the second reading. He trusted that some standing ordt r woutd be estab lished that would compel parties who attempted to injure the property of other companies, and failed in obtaining Parliamentary powers to do so, to pay the expenses of those companies who were com pelled to defend their property. There were some bills in Parliament of very serious character as re spected their railway. There were bills for the amalgamation of the North-Eastern and Newcastle and Carlisle, on the one part, and the Stockton and Darlington, Eden Valley, and South Durham, on the other part. There was an agreement between those companies to work together and embrace the whole district through which the lines of those com panies ramified. There was also a bill promoted by the Midland for extending the Rowsley and Buxton line to New Mills, and thence to join the Sheffield near Manchester. This was a duplicate line to Buxton, and to Stockport, Disley, and Whaleybridge, and of course they were opposed to that line. The Board had been endeavouring to work in amity with their neighbours, to cultivate and develope the traffic on their lines, and to reduce the work ing expenditure. They had entered into an agree ment with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, which, he trusted, would enable both companies to work their traffic at less expense than when they were in fierce competition. (Hear.) With respect to th e t ra ffi c i nvo lved in that agree ment, it am oun t e d t o b e t ween 500,000 and £1,000,000 per annum, and had at last been settled after long negotiation. ikir a very . G. i). B. WESTHEAD, M.P., deputy-chair man, seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. Mr. MICIIELL said, with regard to the dividend he thought the proprietors were prepared to take less than the directors now proposed to give them. The proprietors had no doubt been so well schooled a nd disciplined that they felt resigned to any divi dend that could be offered to them. While they had a loss of £3,560 in the receipts during the past half they thatvir e were actually ul d g 0 intoworse the their by p .E 0 pockets. He o e ,o as f ear ed they carried a l arge amoun t of traffic that was unremunerative. lie could see no reason fo r expending / 66 ,000 on stations, and £lOO, OOO f or c arrying stock. To make an increased outlay w ith t - a year, a failing traffic was not the way to increase a divi dend. Hr. WRIGLEY said he believed the directors . ' FEBRUARY 22, ' 1862. were as anxious .as the shareholders to earn and pity good dividends. They would be glad to do so if they knew how. He knew no other way of discovering the caiirle of the falling off in their dividends than by taking a retrospective view of their past proceedings. Up to December, 1856, they had expended £32,713,000 on capital account; and to December, 1861, £36,759,000. From December, 1856, to December, 1861, was a period of five years, in which they had expended £4,000,000, or, in other words, they had increased their capital 121 per Cent. It was not possible for them to increase their capital profitably, The traffic for the half-year ending December, 1856, amounted to £1,875,000, and ending December, 1861, to £2,455,300. NoW, during that time the capital had increased £4,000,000, or 121 per cent., the traffic had increased £580,000, or 30i per cent., so that the traffic had increased in a far greater ratio than the capital. The gross charges against revenue were for the half-year ending December, 1856, £1,197,000, and for the second half of 1861, £1,944,006. The increase of expenses, therefore, was £746,562, or 621 per cent. These figures showed that the capital had increased 121 per cent., the traffic 301 ; per cent., the expenses 621 per cent. It was not the want of traffic, for they had too much of that already. If they had less traffic and fewer branches they would be much better off. The traffic increased faster than the capital, but the ex penses went on fearfully. He felt very much dis satisfied with their proceedings. He knew there were directors at the board who would be glad to see a better return on the capital, and he believed that no man on the board was more desirous than the chairman to achieve a satisfactory result. (Hear.) He (Mr. Wrigley) hoped that a better state of things would soon be brought about. They had 1,200 miles of railway, and it was impossible for any one man to grasp the whole. Every year must be worse than the preceding until the present system was altered. He recommended the directors to divide the concern into workable sections, and have qualified persons accountable for the success of each section, Then let the result be reported to head-quarters, and the proper means be taken to discover the cause of the reduction in their dividends. Mr. HEALY, in an eloquent speech, comrlained of the great changes that were being made in the various departments, and suggested that a committee of consultation should be appointed to interpose their good offices between the directors and some of the officers of the company. Mr. NUNN and other proprietors contended that the shareholders had no right whatever to interfere between the directors and the officers of the company. After some observations with regard to working the passenger, goods, and mineral traffic by Mr. Blado, Mr. Rutland, Mr. Giesler, Mr. G. S heward, Mr. Rawlingson, Mr. Sealy, and Mr. Peyton, The CHAIRMAN replied to the various observa tions, and explained that the directors were doing every thing in their power to secure the property of the company, and to work the traffic as efficiently and as economically as possible. They had local boards at various important places on their lines, they had resident agents, and, in fact, they were doing all they could to improve the property. They were greatly indebted to Mr. Wrigley for assisting the negotiations between them and the Lancashire and Yorkshire ; but with regard to his system of managing their great company, he (the chairman) was sure that it would not answer. He then ex plained the necessity of expending capital to accom modate and develope the traffic on various parts of their line, and to make the outlay as remunerative as possible. Resolutions were passed adopting the report, de claring a dividend at the rate of £2 7s. 6d. per cent., authorising the outlay of £66,000 on station works, and £lOO,OOO on rolling stock, carrying £10,122 for permanent way materials to capital account, re electing the retiring directors and auditors. The meeting was then made special, and the di rectors were authorised to subscribe£3o,ooo towards the Oswestry and Whitchurch railway, and to gua rantee interest on £200,000 to be raised by the Chester and Holyhead Company. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thinks to the chairman. GREAT WESTERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the Paddington station, the Earl of Shelburne in the chair. The report and accounts, abstracts of which have appeared in The Sun, were taken as read. _ . The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report. In regard to the paragraph relating to the amalga mation of the West Midland Railway Company with this company, there was no doubt that the proprietors had looked forward to a profitable result. The directors certainly did regard it as a beneficial arrangement for both companies, and had hoped that before now the advantages would have been manifest. But he did not consider the dividend now proposed, under all the circumstances, to be an un satisfactory dividend. When two large companies united a certain time must elapse before the benefits of the union could be ascertained. There were some portions of the West Midland line that were quite new, and the traffic upon them undeveloped ; but those sources of apparent present loss would become in future years sources of certain profit. The Great Western Company had, of course, to bear a great part of the present loss, but when a profit came that company would obtain a proportionate amount of benefit. In making up the accounts of two such large companies there must always be items which told upon one side against the other. The accounts of the two companies had been blended, but had not yet been audited in their united shape, and there fore he could not further comment upon them. The companies being now united, there must occasionally be inequalities on one side or the other, but investigations directed solely to the discovery of those inequalities would only create antagonistic feelings, which would result in mutual dissatisfaction. The next point in the report to which he should refer was that relating to the Metropolitan Railway. He would observe, that the Great Western Railway Company had abstained for a long time from taking any direct share in that undertaking, not from any want of appreciation of the advantages of that scheme, but because they did not see any prospect of its being completely carried out ; but now it appeared in a tangible shape, and was expected to be opened for traffic in June next. The Great Western Rail way had long suffered in comparison with other lines from the want of a city terminus, especially in regard to suburban traffic. Recent experiments had shown that the transit through the tunnelled por tions of the Metropolitan Railway could be effected without any of those disagreeable accompaniments which were at one time believed to be inevitable. He, with some of his brother directors, had been along the Metropolitan line in an open truck, but in consequence of the complete condensation of the steam engine there was no unpleasant vapour what ever in the tunnels. He looked forward to the open ing of that linens an advantage to the Great Western proprietors as well as to the Metropolitan sharehol ders. An agreement had been come to, which would hereafter be submitted to the proprietors, which, while it would preserve the rights of each company, would, he believed, tend to the advantage of both. The next paragraph of the report which it was neces sary to notice was that referring to the East Glo cestershire Railway. Before entering on that sub ject, he would premise that if there was one thing which the board of directors had been anxious to avoid doing per se it was an extension of their lines and an enlargement of their territory. (Hear.) The departure from that principle in the present instance had not emanated from them, as had been errone ously supposed. The fact was that the landowners and other influential persons in the district lying between Cheltenham and Faringdon had repre sented to the board of directors that they were de termined to have a railway, and that, although they were very amicably disposed towards that com pany, as they had been before disappointed, they wished it to be understood that if the Great Western Company would not help them they should seek as sistance in other quarters. At that time this company had not united with the West Midland, and there were parties hostile to them who were willing to take up the line if this company had refused to adopt it. The question was therefore not so much whether or, not this company should support that line, but whe ther it should permit the line to be made by parties who had hostile interests. After the terms of agree ment had been come to the union with the West Midland was decided on, and then it was found that that company had been supporting a line from Bur ton-on-the-Waters to Cheltenham. The matter was fully considered, and the conclusion that had been come to was that it would be most economical and more advantageous if the two proposed undertakings were fused into one common line to Andoversford, a little distance this aide of Cheltenham, and thence to run two lines, one towards Faringdon, and the other towards Bourton-on-the-Waters, which would form an admirable outlet for traffic flowing from Cheltenham and the west to the midland counties of England. The united companies agreed to support such a scheme provided they could be certain that ,be expenses of the undertaking would be limited :o a certain amount, and an agreement to that effect had been entered into. The directors were not un mindful of the objections against further extensions and further outlay, but the relative advantages and disadvantages in this instance had been most care fully weighed. The total amount of railway to be constructed would be about 40 miles, and he believed it would not only pay its expenses, but be very re munerative. Between Andovereford and Faring don there would be a considerable amount of local traffic, and, although there might be a possible loss upon that line, yet it must be remembered that if they had not supported the line other persons would have made it, and would have substracted from the Great Western line six or seven times the amount of possible loss. (Hear, hear.) The formation of the proposed line would shorten the distance be tween Cheltenham and London 24 or 25 miles. He would next advert to the paragraph of the report which referred to an outlay for an extension from the Bristol station at Temple-mead to Clifton, and that scheme had also been pressed upon the direc tors by those locally interested. There was no doubt of the value of the undertaking if it were car ried out with the consent of all those who were interested in the commerce of Bristol. Upon this point he wished to correct some misrepresen tations that had been made. The Board had always been anxious to support such a scheme, because they thought it was a sound undertaking, but they had always been of opinion that it should be done in such a manner as would meet the views not only of the traders and merchants of Bristol, but also of the several railway companies having termini at that place. They had never sought to act singly, but had been desirous to co-operate with the other companies in carrying out a scheme which should be acceptable to all parties, and he thought from what he had heard that there was now a prospect of carrying out a scheme that would be mutually acceptable. In connexion with that paragraph of the report which referred to bills before Parliament affecting the interests of this company, he could not avoid alluding to the position of this company to wards the London and North-Western Company. The proprietors would join with the directors in regretting that their recent alliance with the West Midland Company should have formed a ground for the encouragement by the London and North Western Company of several schemes of a hostile character towards the Great Western Company. The alliance with the West Midland was a most natural one, and must have been long foreseen. The West Midland line was but the prolongation of the old Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Rail way, which was supported and fostered by the Great Western, and therefore it was surprising that the union between the two companies should be re garded as a ground of complaint on the part of the London and North-Western Company. The directors had always been anxious to preserve a good understanding with their neighbours, and therefore they regretted the course that had been adopted by the London and South-Western Company. Without entering upon a discussion of the questions between the two companies, he felt bound to defend himself and his brother directors from the charge of having declared war against the London and South Western Company. (Hear.) It was true that they had en tered into an agreement with the Andover and Red bridge Company,but that line had been sanctioned by Parliament as a broad gauge line, and was ob viously intended to connect itself at some time with the broad gauge system. The agreement with that company did not imply hostility towards the Lon don and South Western Company, but, even if it did so, the directors had offered the utmost modi fication in their power by suggesting to allow the South Western Company to make arrangements with the Andover and Redbridge Company, pro vided the intentions of Parliament were not frus trated, and that the traffic of the Great Western line to Southampton should be put upon a certain and secure footing. They also offered to submit all points of difference to arbitration, and therefore he thought the shareholders would be of opinion the directors had not neglected the means of preserving good relations with all neighbouring companies. In conclusion, the noble chairman said be hoped the statements he had made would be satisfactory, but if further explanations were required he should be quite ready to give them. Lord BARRINGTON seconded the adoption of the report. Mr. BRIDGES thought that, as two bills were be ing prosecuted by this company in direct antago• nism to the South Western Company, there was no reason to be surprised at the hostility of that com pany towards them. (Hear.) The Rev. Mr. NICHOLSON defended the adoption of the Andover and Redbridge line, and contended that it was right that if the South Western line went to Bristol this company should control it by obtaining an access to Southampton. Mr. ADAMS said, if one company went to South ampton they must not complain that the other went to Bristol. Mr. NORRIS, M.P., had come prepared to re monstrate against any further extension schemes, but the lucid explanation of the noble chairman had induced him to modify his opinion upon the present occasion. He felt bound to yield a reluc tant consent to the new lines now proposed, not on account of their intrinsic value, but as a matter of protection for their own interests. He assented to the extension at Bristol because it was needed by the increasing commerce of that port, and because it would be largely advantageous to the Great Western Company. After some observations from Mr. Malins, Mr. Giles, and Mr. Taylor, The motion for the adoption of the report was agreed to unanimously. The meeting was then made special, and resolu tions for converting the Chester and Birmingham preference shares into stock, for enabling the direc tors to contribute £lO,OOO to the Wenlock Railway. for making a working agreement with the Wycombe Railway Company for their extension lines to Ox ford and Aylesbury, and also approving the deed of arrangement and lease of the South Wales Rail way, were severally put and agreed to. Mr. BRIDGES and the Rev. Mr. NICHOLSON ex pressed their gratification at the conclusion of the negotiation with the South Wales Company for the satisfactory termination of which the share holders were much indebted to the exertions of the chairman and the secretary, Mr. Saunders. The proceedings closed with the usual compli ment to the noble chairman. DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN. — Ann Dunning, a widow, of Upper High-street, Taunton, has recently died at the patriarchal age of 105. Up to the time of her death the old lady was in full possession of her faculties, and was since, frequently accustomed, until within a short timeesy m ine take active bodily exercise, sometimes walking many in the course of a day.— Western Counties Herald. An old four-horse stage-coach will ere long b e l ess a novelty than premature grey hair, which is fast disappearing under the effects of Herring's Magneti c Brushes and Combs, which recent improvements have rendered almost infallible in restoring the colour to grey hair, and also in removing the agony of tic doloreux and nervous headache. N.B.—Coun terfeits are being made. Offices, 32, Basinghall-street,- London. LA D VERTISEMENT.i—HoIIoway's Ointment.--Bad Legs, Wounds, Ulcers, and all descriptions of sores are cured by thediligent use of thi s i nes ti ma bl e p re paration. 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FOREIGN OFFICE, FEB. 21e The Queen has been pleased to' Approve of Salvador Morhango as Consul-General in A ustralia for his Majesty the King of the Belgians. ROYAL MEWS, PIMLICO, FEB. 19. The Queen has been p leased to appoint; the Hon. Arthur Temple Lyttleton to be Pa g e of Honour to her Majesty, vice Lord Castle Cuffe. W HITEHALL, FEB. 21. The Queen has been pl eased to appoint Fren:lrick Lewis the Shire Maitland HeriA, Esq., Ad vocate, to be Sheriff o.° or Sheriffdom of Forfar, in the room of Alexandt r Stuart Logan, Esq., deceased. BOARD OF TRADE, WIIITEHALL, FIB. The Right Honourable the Lotds of the Committec of Privy Council for Trade give notice, that the lifoniteur of the 18th instant contains a French hoperial Decree opening the custom-house of Nice for the impori,ation of English and Belgian tissues charged with an ad vaiOrera duty. BOARD OF TRADE, 'WHITEHALL, Feb. 21. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade give notice that the M6 l Dec' of the 20th instant contains a French Imperiaree, admitting free of duty, under specified conditions, the following metallic articles intended for re-expor nd tation after being converted, in France, into iron ships a boats, machinery, apparatus or works in metal of any sort, or into articles of a more advanced state of manufacture than the material imported :—lron, purified, ca2led mime broken iron ; iron, crude , in lum p s ; bar and hoop iron, angle, T, and other iron of irregular shapes ; iron in plates ; steel in bars, in hoops and brown plates, hot rolled; and copper, rolled, pure or allied with other metals. Thee above must be imported, either by land, or if by sea wr the French flag, or under the flag of the country of production. WAR-OFFICE, PALL MALL, FEB. Woolwi 21. ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY (ch).e of The Queen has been graciousiT p l eas ed to approv the officers composing the Staff atti;ched to the Royal Mi litary Academy Woolwich, being granted commissions, and of the following appointments being made in accord ance therewith : TO BE GOVERNOR. General :his Royal Highness the Duke of aunbridge, K.G., &c., Commanding-in-Chief. TO BE LIEUTENANT- G OVERNOR- COMMAND ANT'. Major-General Henry Sandham, Royal Engineers. TO BE INSPECTOR OF STUDIES, SECOND COMMANDANT. Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Frederick Au gustus Yorke, Royal Engineers. TO BE ASSISTANT INSPECTOR OF STUES. Captain and Brevet-Major Charles Jan Dl Gibb, Royal Engineers. TO BE CAPTAINS OF COM PANIES OF GENTLE. MAN CADETS. C a ptain and Brevet-Major Henry Terrick Yitz-Hugh, Royal Artillery. Captain and Brevet-Major John Everett Thring, Royal Artillery. Second Captain Charles Hunter, Bengal Artillery. TO BE CHAPLAIN. The Rev. A. C. Fraser. TO BE PAYMASTER AND ADJUTANT. Paymaster (with the honorary rank of Major) Chariest South, from the Coast Brigade Royal Artillery. TO BE QITARTERMASTER.,, George Alexander Shepherd, Royal Artillery. TO BE SURGEON. James Somerville Litle, Surgeon-Major, Royal Ar tillery. WAR OFFICE, FEB. 21. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Paymaster Rowland Webs ter, from the 72d Foot, to be Pay master in tha Coast Bri gade, vice South, appointed Paymaster of the Royal Mili tary Academy, Woolwich. Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Sir Henry James, on the Supernumerary List, to be S u p ernu merary Colonel; Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet- Colonel William Robinson, on the Supernumerary List, to be Supernumerary Colonel ; Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Thomas Rawlings Mould to be Colonel, vice John Chaytor, deceased. BREVET. Captain Henry George Delafosse, Bengal Infantry, to be Major in the Army. The undermentioned Officers of the Royal Artillery, having completed 5 years' service in the rank of Lieute isionsnant- Colonel, to be Colonels in the Army, under the prov of the Royal Warrant of the 14th October, 1858 : Lieutenant-Colonel James Benjamin Dennis. Lieutenant-Colonel John Travers. BANKRUPTS. William Bennington, late of Clenchwi:rton, Norfolk. rff Elias Loader, greengrocer, 9, Kensington-place, Not ting-hill. William Pickford, builder, Old Kent-road Silas Paul, baker, Twickenham William Sinnock, baker, High-street, Peckham Thomas Wrighton, farmer, Syresham, Northampton John Edwards, watchmaker, Southampton John Sullivan, stevedore and rigger, Poplar Henry Lea, bookseller, Warwick-lane, City Robert Hamilton, draper, Dover Wm. F. Smith, lithographic printer, Aldersgate-street Esau Dodge, coachbroker, Blackfriars-road Felix F. Farr, draper, Baldock, Herts Mary Pinnel, Opera Stores Tap, Bow-street Emma Charlotte Bruce, late of Scotland William Harris, builder, West-hill, Wandsworth Wm. Aylott, carpenter, Leinster-street, Bayswater John Glasscock, corn dealer, Kennington-park Wm. West, publican, Royal Mint-street, Tower-hill Ann Pannell, spinster, Ripley Wm. Jones Williams, auctioneer, Harewell, Berks Charles Edward Symonds, paint manufacturer, Borough Robert Yellop, publican, Norwich Charles Edward Newnhun, farm agent, Sherborn-street Edward Pullinger, builder, Lewes Matthias Michaelis, clothier, St. George's-in-the - East Arthur Wellesley Austin, bootmaker, Whitechapel Thomas Gwilliw, broker, Old Bailey Charles Frederick Restell, clerk, Kennington-oval Algernon Philip Wiss, Caen-lodge, Twickenham James William Willis, Vauxhall-walk, Lambeth Thomas Bruin, licensed victualler, St. John-street, West Smithfield Charles J. Combes, shopman to a grocer, Golden-lane, Barbican Robert G. Butt, and Peter Macqueen, commission agents, Wood-street, City. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Hutchison and Co., merchants, Port Dundas Samuel Robinson, publisher, Cupar-Fife Wm. Manson, innkeeper, Isle of Slre Menzies and Hunter, drapers, Dundee AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending Feb. 18, 1862, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain :-- Per. cwt. From the British possessions in America 24s. 20. Mauritius East Indies 23s. 10t d. Average price of the three foregoing 2ss. bd• COUN7RI MARKL , l- LIVERPOOL—FEB. 21. We had a poor attendance of town and country buyers to-day, and wheat was in slow request at ld to 2d per coital below Tuesday's prices. Flour very sparingly dealt in, at late rates. Indian corn neglected, and little alteration in value. Oats and oatmeal were very dull. Beans is per qr lower. Peas not inquired for. Barley difficult to move. WAKEFIELD-FEB. 21 The show of wheat to-day was moderate, and businesS generally very dull ; where sales are pressed prices aro lover. Barley, fine qualities, unaltered in price; medium sorts difficult to quit. Bean in retail, at late prices. Oat s and shelling as before. Averages for the week : Wheat 2,135 qrs., at 6os 3d Oats lO . . 22s Gd Pea 8ar1ey......... 1,081 Odd Baas — Rye — Beans MELTON MOWBRAY—FEB. 19. There was a tolerable show of wheat to-day, and, with a moderate trade, prices very little changed. Barley was still a steady sale, at downward prices. White wheat, 59s Od to 66s Od; red, 55s Od to 62s per 36 stone; beans slow, at 44s to 50s for old ; new sorts, —s per 38 st. ; barley, 34s to 39s for malting, and 29s to 31s per qr. for grinding; oats, 22s to 32s Od per 24 stone. EXETER—FEB. 21. Wheat, white 7s 6d to 7s 9 d I 8ar1ey...... 3s 10d to 4 s 6d Ditto new .0s Od to Os Cd Oats .. ... 2s 9d to 3s 3d Flour, fine, 45s to 475:; seconds, 43s to —s per sack. CATTLE. The market today was moderately supplied with stock- Tiede dull. Fat beef,p score, 9 s - 6d to lOs Ewes, per lb .... Gd to 61d Pork carcases, 9s 6d to lOs Gd I Wethers, d 0...... 6d to 61c1 Lambs, per lb —d to —d. Fat calves, d 0... 7d to 7i' Rough fat, 34d per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR-FEB. 21. Our sugar market is very inanimate, owing to the sup plies being nearly exhausted. The sales have been con fined to a few small parcels of West India. Refined goods are now in good demand. Treacle slow in coming forward and dear. BIRTHS. BALFOUR.—On the 20th inst., at Newton Don, Kelso, th e Hon. Mrs. Balf our , o f a son and heir. liolLArlu.—On the 20th inst., at Petworth Rectory, th e wife of the R ev . Ch ar l es Holland, of a son. LOFTS. —On the 18th inst., at East Acton, Mrs. HWY Lofts, of a son. QUENNELL.—On the 20th inst., at Brentwood, the wife of John C. Quennell, Esq., of a son. MARRIAGES. ALTHAM—ADDAMS —On the 20th big., at Christ Church , St. Marylebone, Wm. Surtees Altham, late Major 83d Regt., to Arabella, the only surviving daughter of Jesse Addams, Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel. LANCE—MALLOCK.—On the 20th inst., at Torr Church , Torquay, James Dupre Lance, fourth son of the Rev. I. E. Lance, rector o. uckland St. Mary, Somerset, to Mary Ann Eliza daughter of Thomas Mallock, Esq ., R.N., of Axminster, Devon. DEATHS. CUTLER.—On the 13th inst., at Poole Hall, Chobirel Louisa Georgiana, third daughter of Sir Charles and Lady Cuyler. HERTSLET.—On the 20th inst., at Brighton, Jas. Hertslett Esq., of the Foreign .office. LEE.—On the 20th inst., at Charlton, John Lee, Escl.2 l6i. of Woolwich Dockyard, aged 70. PHILLIPS. —On the 20th inst., at 22, Blandford-squ aret Laurence Phillips, Esq., aged 76. TALBOT.—On the 17th inst., at The Glebe, Kilbeggan, Blanch, infant daughter of Major Talbot, R. A. YOUNG.—At Leamington, Henry Houghton young, °(l. ' aged 63. of L O NDON : Printed and Published by MURPO YOUNGd No. 112, Strand, Printer, at T HE SUN Oflice, No. 1 12,5 t r% in the erceinet of the Savoy In the County of Mid dle ° Saturday, February 22, 1662. 4 14,mi