The Sun. — London, England, 1859-03-29 00:00:00

• _ ______ _ _ _ _ _ , _._ ... ... , . . , . , THE SUN, CONDO .....- lORTHAMPTON RACES. SHARE MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) - BRITISH POSSESSIONS. ] .--.4-- , . Closing rrioe. Business (THIS DAY). ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS , Sharel Railways. (Paid, Done. • -----0.-. Closing Business -- -L----- Share Railways. ' Pall Price. . [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] lOO Atlantic &St Lawrence all 85 88 TRIAL STAKES. 12. i 0 Amberg Notting,. Bost. Leased at 6 per cent.. o 1 and Eastern Jun 10 861 18 Bom.,Baroda&Centlnd 131 1} d gu. 5 per cent ** 5O Belfast and Ballymena .. all - - i 2 13.14 Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. all 74 84 18 Do all - - Zee 3 Stock Birk., Lane., and Chesh. 18 Do. Addit. Capital A6i 1 „ d 1 f Junction lOO 62 64 18 Do. Do. 841 f 1 d / Twelve ran. 25 Blackburn all 11 111 201 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 61 7 c _ 25 Blyth and Tyne all 32 15 201 Do. New l6l -- d 0 Stock Bristol and Exeter .... 100 92 94/ 94 100 f Buffalo,Brant&Godrich / 100 85 90 LATEST BETTING. Stock Caledonian • • NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. Stock Chester and Holyhead , 100 - - 100 Do. do. 1 July, 1873 100 82 80 50 Cork and Bandon all • - 190 Do. do. 1 June, 1874 100 80 84 t sto 1 agst Little Agnes 20 Cork, Blkrock,&Passage all - - 20 Clcutta.&S.Eaatrn.Lim. 1. 3.0. par il' 7to 1 agst Newcastle 20 Cornwall all 5 5} 20 Cape,Eastn. Prov.(Lim.) 2s. - - Bto 1 agst Gladiolus 10 Do. A A 'wee. no div 20 Cape Town & Dock Sorip 2s. 1 1 all --__ -__ 20 Central Oude (Limited) 25.2 d• - -- t until6p.c.per an. 11 to 1 bar three . 10 Do. B hasbeep pd.toß. 20 Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c 171 Demerara - - 15 to 1 agst Blue Jacket . 50 Dublin andßelfast Juno. all - - 25 Du blin Abr.Junc. all 84 9 W 3 Eastern Bengal.gu.sp.c. 5 1 1 (1 1 41 e EARL SPENCER'S PLATE. Stock East Anglian lOO 16 16 1 Stook East Indian, gu. sp. c„, 100 102 103 1021 4 t i - Btol on the field.(offered) Stock Eastern Counties lOO 594 60/ 60 1 20 Do. C Shares all - - b 20 Do. E Shares Ext l5 1 / p 151 Stock Eastern Union A Stock 100 45 47 was scratched for the Northampton Stakes, lasi Stock Do. do. B Stock 100 30 32 20 Do. Jubbulpore - - h 25 Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U3ds) Si - 100 D 0.41 p.c. Bds. pay.'s9 all - - t 25 East Kent all 13 15 20 G eelong.k Mel.gua.s p. c. all 191 201 ED.-Queen of the May, Spinet, Cock-a - hooP/ Stock East Lancashire lOO 92 93 92 sto. (Geelong Corporation 6 lOO _ r _ Macbeth, Hesperithusa, Cripplegate, Rattlebone, 20 East Suffolk all - - t per cent. Bonds li Stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 35 37 3 54 6 10 Do - bachess, Earl of Essex, Horace, Lady Grosvenor/ Stock Edinburg and Glasgow 100 72 9 7 3 1 100 Do. 6 p.c. Deben.,pay.'m all 75 77 4 Oily, Agra, Broadlands, Fadladeen, Spiteful Dick, Stock Edin.,Perth, & Dundee. 100 27 27 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref lOO 93 94 93 t 20 GtlndiaPenin.gua.sp.c all 101 102 1011 10 Forth & Clyde Junction all -n q Arc, Fusee, Childrey, Yarra-yarra, Supple Jack, Stock Furness - 20 Do. New, gua.s per cent. 4 par it p 20 Do. do and Seclusion. Stock Glasgow & South West'. 103 93 94 n 10 Great North of Scotland all 10 101 20 f Gt.S.of Ind . 1 2s. - - j Stock Great Northern lOO 103 104 103 1 ( guaranteed 5 per cent. ) 1 2 00 1 Do. N Bo e n w ds pay. s.gy MARKET AND CITY NEWS. Stock Do. do. A Stock lOO 87 89 2gl Gt.W. of Canada Shares all 15 14 16 m '76,with Stock Do. do. B Stock lOO 132 134 132 1 l a 3 ll 103 31 105 44 1 1 4 4 d ..-_*--- Stock Gt. South.& Wstn.(lreld) 100 105 1 06 v CITY, Two o'CLocir Great Western 100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 103 105 ' S tock 'ock Do.Str.Vl.Rail Gua.Stk. 100 56 5 81 e Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets 12 Irish South Eastern.... all - - 100 Do. do. ''/3 without opt. all 103 105 ancaster and Carlisle. all 83 87 100 Do. 4p. c. do. '77 do the past few days have been exceedingly V I D o L -. Thirds 20 Do. do. 5 per cent. all 19 20 191 t 1613 4 Do. Yew ii t- 12 1 p Thirds 095 944 16 re, and the few transactions reported have in 20 Do. 41 p. c. Extension.. 15 18 1/4 18 ( st oc k L accas. hire & Yorkshire 100 20 Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.e. 10 1 d 1 instances shown a slight downward move- 16 Do. do. F £ l6 6l id 20 Do. Fourth do. 9 Do. do. ..." guar"- 7 - r Stook Melb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds 100 - - in prices. Tea has continued very dull, but 3 Do. West Wel' f Union 1 - - .1 ni Newßrunsvvick&Canda. '' t former rates. In sugar, the chief trans- 20 Do. Southport .... all - - 20 { Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.tpc 1 0 - _d r . Stock London and Blackwai. l - all 67 69 Class ACapitl.Share i, • I have been in the finer qualities for home - Do.Newiss.at 2510sp.sh. - -.. Do. do. Land do • • r reption, and late prices have been with di ffi - Stock Lon.. Brighton &S.Coast 10 20 Do. do. B. Capital do. 1 10 - --d 112 I gi 113 ,i 4 5 Stock London & North Westn 100 .. Do. do. Land do 1 S 1 1 1 0 NorthoflndiaTramroad 1 28. - ' tipported. In the Refined Market there has 121 Do. Eighths 7 a 92i g 3 021 1 20 I Stock London& South-Westn lOO Limited, Scrip s Very little activity, and prices remain unal- 25 L'derry & Coleraine ... all - - 20 Oude (Limited) - - a Coffee has been in fair,request, and good 25 L'derry & Enniskillen. all 3 - ; iss - i 20 Scinde .3 -4 1151 / p c Stock Man., Shef., & Lincoln.. 100 20 Do. ties of plantation being scarce, have realised 10 Metropolitan 100 101 1011 1014 1 20 Do. New F ! ..) 10 1 d 1 p N dues. Rice continues inactive • and in fruit, , Stock Midland' Stock Do. Birming. & Derby lOO 74 76 20 Do. Pun su b .. a c. , 5 1 lat a i 20 Do. Indus. St. Flo. 1 2,,, 10 d par and saltpetre, the transactions have been on 50 Mid. Gt. West. (Ireland) all - - 20 St. Andrews & Quebec A 18 - - t 25 Do. 1 Shares all - ' 10 ,Trinidad(Limited) Scrip 1 Icl par 1 ) r limited scale. Tallow has been moderately 100 Neastle and Carlisle all - 1 ' • . 25 New., Aber., & Herefd all 1 1 12 E in, but chiefly on speculative account, and 10 Newry & Armagh (def ) 9 - FOREIGN RAILWAYS. i i l show a downward tendency. P.Y.C. on 20 Newry Warpt., & Roe all - Stock Norfolk lOO 6 0 ,,, 6 2 . ] e 10 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 41 51 POt is now quoted 535. ; April to tune delivery, 50 'North. Counties Union 3l 6 4 gd „„ 1 Stock North British lOO 60 C O 5 u l- ' 4 20 Ardennes all -- p 13(1 . ; and last three months, 535. sa. per cwt. Stock Nor.Dev.Rail.&Dk. Stk. 100 - , 20 Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.c 3 4 idi e 5 Belgian East. Junction all f 1 1 fitters from Liverpool report that in the Cotton Stock Do. A Stk.- Arec.no div. until 6p.c.hasbeenpdß 100 - 20 Beziers to Graissessae. all --- ( i et, yesterday, a fair amount of business was Stock Do. B Stock lOO - 5 Carmeaux Mine & Rail. all 11 21 I stock North-Eastn.--Berwick 100 921 El 93 21 20 Dutch Rhenish ' l4 eted, and prices were very firm. The sales 'estimated at 10,000 bales. In the Railway te Stock Do. Leeds Stock Do. York Market a limited number of transactions Stock North London recorded, and quotations tended downwards. e arrivals of specie this morning include the 2° N° 100 47 47 1 St 2s k Do. do. G.N.E.Purchase 1.613 4 1 / 11 d 100 102 1 04 10 N. &S.Westn.,Hampstd 100 764 77 and City Junction £3 Is. - North Staffordshire l7l 20 North-Western all 14 14 4 ay from the United States; with £112,198 ; 10 No. & Sou. W. Junction all 7 8 D olphin, from Antwerp, with £367,000; and Castor, from Hambro', with £43,000. oa k O po xf rt o s r m d, o :o h r. & Wolyer lOO 331 341 10 Peebles ' all -- St ::: 10 Rhymney ey continues in active . request, and full Stock Scottish Central are still demanded in the general market. Stock Scoth. N.E., Aber. stock 00 1 19 7 5 d 10 11 i- l i- 2 100 261 27 Stock Do. Scottish Mid. Stock 100 8 4 85 100 46 48 d 6 Eastern of France ...... all 261 27 20 Euphrates galley 29. - - p 20 Great Central of France all - - 20 Gt. Luxem., Con. sha 10 Italian Junction .., 8 - - 20 Lake Constance & Bale all - - 20 Lierre and Turnhout all - - . . 20 Lombardo V ene ti an 8 14 lip St t 20 Lucca & Pistoja, 5 p.c.pf all - - 20 Lyons and Geneva - - 331 Maria Antonia 20 Do. do. New 20 Namur and Liege •20 Do. do. 6p. c. Prof. all - - all - - all 81 8 all 20 20 16 Northern of France 20 Do. New Shares - - p 10 Norwegian Trunk Pref. all 9 10 1 I 1 ] rations are now being made for the coni hropshire Union 10 Sittingbourne & Sheer all 31 24 0 .3tock S 1 41. bills due on the 4th proximo, and the set- Stoat South Devon lOO 39 40 39 100 7CI /01 20 Ottoman, gu a. 6 per cent 7 - - 20 Paris,Lyons, and Medit. all 331 34 331 20 Paris and Orleans ...... all 53 55 tits at the Stock Exchange Will also augment quiry. The supply of capital, however, is very abundant, and although the forthcoming 20 may produce an unfavourable effect, an Y return of stri e• tiered probable. roc: South-E astern o s 20 Do. do lOO 65 65 18 - - stain's, Wok., & Wok all 8 11 25 Do. do. 1 855 ssure is scarcely 25 Do. do. .185 8 n,ency or pre - p ere was a special meeting to-day of the pro nrs of the Eastern Bengal Railway Com p an y, ,• Leith, Esq., in the chair, for the purpose of into consideration the propriety of convert- Stock 20 SouthYorks.&Riv.Dun. all 60 70 25 StockWn & Dar li ngton. all 36 4 37 4 7 - Stockton & Hartlepool 1 4 4 -- -- Stock Taff Vale ...... _. .. . - - Stock Do. Preference, No. 1 . 100 - - 25 ThamesHavenDkAßial 22 - - Vale of Neath . . 100 65 70 Stock Waterford & Kilkenny 1 00 - 50 Waterford & Limerick all - - 20 West Cornwall 10 W-end Lou. & Cry. Pal all - into stock the shares of the company paid up in 5 Do.A.-Arecv.nodiv.till 7 p.c. has been pd. to B all 2 3 , The chairman stated that the opinion of the 5 Do. B all 6 6 4 k,t I tor-General.had been taken, and was adverse 20 West London 10 Do. Ist Class all - all - - 20 Recife& S. Fran. ( Fern .) 1 . gua. 7p. et. (Lim.) ... j 9 .1 1 d 20 Riga and Duisburg.... 4 - 10 Rome and Frascati .... all - - 20 Royal Danish 6 Royal Swedish - - all - - 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref. - - 20 Sambre and,Meuse. 10 Do. 4 per ce'nt. Pref. 20 Southern of France 8/ West Flanders all 5 3 1 6 10 Do. 51 p. c. Preference 20 W. & N.W. of France all 2 241 20 Western of Austria .. - - 20 Westei aof Switze•Aand all - - 6 Wiesbaden - - 6 Do 8 per cent. Pref all - - 20 Zealand. - - BRITISH MINES. raid. Closing Business ( ti le conversion till the whole capital was paid 20 Do. 2d Class l_4l____ _ -_.l_ 2 -- - 1---- --- -------IRt FEIr SHAltES,_____________ Share Mines. The meeting then adjourned. Price. Done. , I le market for the English Funds has been Share! Railways. Price. Easiness Done. Paid. Closing tt to-day, few real or speculative transactions ---1--------a-------- 25 Bly th e an Tyne 11 per - Alfred Consols (Philack) 2.11.10 4 71 64 20 pritish Iron 1 10 g taken plave. The operators seem disinclined c. pref. (issued at £5O ) all 49 51 - Condurrow (Camborne) 2O - - r ater • er into large engagements while political 1 Stk Bris. & Exet.4p.ct.Stock 100 95 97 20 Do. do. do. Shares - - 10 Devon G. Cons. ( Taunt .) 1 465 475 - East Bassett (Illogan). 30 230 210 sat home and abroad are in such an uncertain tock Caledon 210, 41 per cent 100 103 105 - Great South Tolp•,us.. 17s 12 14 12.10 Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. 7.10 - - - G.WhealAlfd.(Phillack-) 11.18.8 21 3/ tlion Consols are 954 I,- for money and the 7th Stock Chester & Holyhd, 51 pc 100 - -- -G. Wheal Vor(Helston) 91 4 I Stock Do. do. sp. ct. lOO - - - Lady Bertha - North Frances (Mogan) Clirno, and 954 96 for May. India Loan Deben- 61 Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. all - - 185 8 6d i 7 1 8 1 1 as are steady at 981 • and Exchequer Bills at of Dun. Perth,& Aber.Jun. all 54 6 4 - North Wheal Crofty 7.9.4 7 8 I . to 355. Fem. - ' Stock E.Angn. Class A 7 & spc 100 98 101 Stock Do. do. Class B 6 pc.... 100 112 116 1141 14 - N.Wh'l Basset (Mogan) nil. 910 - Par Consols (St. Blaxy) 11 14 15 --- Porkellis Unit. ON end.) 9 - - I' t k fair amount of business has been transacted in Stock Do. do. Class C 7 pc .... 100 108 112 Stock E. Conn. Ex. 5 pct. No.l 100 114 11 4 -- Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 6s . 4 Foreign Stock Market, but prices generally are it Stock Do. do N 0.2 100 112 11 Stock Do. New 6 per ct. Stock 100 129 131 - SouthCaradon (St.Cleer) 21 465 47 -• Korth C. Brea', Mogan). 2 21 3 der lower. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 921 to 93 Stock Eastern Union, 4 per ct. 100 82 84 82 4 - S Wheal Fran. (Illogan) 18.18.9 200 210 17°, New Loan, 781 to 791 ; and the 4 per Cents. '-itliT.T'aYeo.rl.PJecrnetlifthe la I - - 7- - Sto s ck .. 5 Tamar Silver and Lead Mining Co 4l 11 2 ;' marked. 1024 to 1034 ; Grenada Active, 20 ; Stock Edin.&Glas. spc shares 100 - - 10 Tin Croft 9 4 41 Stock Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 pc. 100 71 73 - UnitedMines(Gwennap) 40 --• - - 4Zezue 1 a n 5 per Cents. have receded to 421 ; Bra- Stock Furness, 5 per cent .... 100 - - - Vale of Towey (Caren, ; 12a ad '4 1 - West Basset (Mogan). 11 21 23 ,k h4l per Cents., to 944 ; Russian 5 per Cents., ~ : tock Glas. ALS West. cr a. spc. 100 no 112 oiock Great Northern, sp. ct. 100 118 120 - W. Caradon (Liskeard) 2O 75 80 - Wheal Basset (Mogan) 5l 190 200 ` l lO4 • Portuguese, to 454; Spanish Deferred, to Stock Do. spc Redm.,lop.c.pm 100 110 112 I, 0 Stoc,..k Do. 44 p. ado. do. - Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 130 140 , ; and the Certificates, to 5. The New Austrian 100 no.sp.c. Redm.,s pc. pm 6O 63 6.5 Wheal Edward (Gals.).. 51 21 :34 11 is 1 dis. to par. 10 Gt. ilh. of Scotld, let JA all 11 11/ - Wheal Kitty (U. Lelani 1.7.2 11 12 Gt. Sn.& W (Ireland ) 4 )4 I Do - Wh'l Ma7Ann (Mcnhe 8 47 49 111 the Railway Share Market the dealings have Ip. ct. pref. Stock - Wh'l Tre awney (Lick . 41 30 32 stock Great West. (Berke and 6 - - . On a rather • limited scale. Prices, however, Hants)Ext. 5 p.ct. some instances, have shown a slight improve- Stock Do.leetemmaabbre: 4 4 4 p . et lOO 96 98 p c t. 100 87 tit FOREIGN MINES t. Great Northern, Great Western, Brighton, stock Do.o 1.-redeemable, ao lOO 88 90 20 Australian a North British advanced ss. North Western, 8 Do. Birm, Prof. Shares all 91 104 Stock Do. sp, ot. Redeem. Pref. 100 100 102 1 Bon AccordCopper,Lim. 108 4 I P 35 Brazil. Imp. (is. at £5 p.) 27 1 Guth Western, and Midland declined ss. ; and 10 Gt s . h W ar e e s s t. ............. ... P . ..... ...... all 161 171 20 . Do.St.Johndelßey,Lim. 15 11 1 2 114 5 Do. Land and Mining Co. all 11 2 e tth Eastern (Berwick), 10s. 10 Do. do. sp• ct. pref• •• • • all . 1g lot 1 Clarendon Consols Min ' The Foreign lines are rather flat. Paris and tYons and Northern of France d eclined ss. L it om- . Stock Do Binning. guar. stOek I°9 7 ; 4 i l l 264 Do. Chester guar.share all - 4 .. 1 13-k Do. do. do 20 Do. do. do. 1J 14 IA ins Co. of Jamaica ... / -- d 40 Cobra Copper - Coplapo al l 36 38 16 10 12 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co all 4 i do-Venetian Old Shares are at 94 to 94, and the stool; Lan. & York 6 p.c. stock 100 140 142 2 Fortuna /g V I ? Shares at Bt,- to 81. Stock Lon.&Brig.spc. gu. No.l 100 - - 20 General all 23 25 3 Linares 1 Stock Do. pref., sp. C. ...No. 2 100 -- - all 91 101 a the Colonial Market Grand Trunk of Canada Stock Do. New gua., 6p. ct... 100 - - 5 Lusitaniau Stock Do. do. sp. c. No. 4 100 - - 1 Mariguita all 4 i Proved. 10s. ; ' Great W estern of Canada, ss. Stock Lon.&N.W.Cov.&igun eat Indian Peninsula declined 55., and Easts pet Stock L Ba ton, - • • on. &S. W, 7 p.ct. stock, 100 118 126 118 4 . 1 New Granada all - - 1 N.RhineCop.of S.Aus.L 10 4 t p 20 Pontgibaud Silver, Lead dian improved ss. late 3d shares lOO 160 165 Mining and Smelt.... all 4 5 121 Londondy & Cole, 1 she all - - 5 Port Philip Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are 12 Londondy.k Ennis i sh. all - - 30 Santiago de Cuba l6l 1 1 Stock Man.,Sh., & Lin., 6p. ct. 100 123 125 28.2.81 United Mexican all 24 21 , It about former quotations. Ottoman Bank declined 4 4 ii ii) i 'l • and Peninsula and Oriental Steam i mprov ed Stock Do. 31 per cent. . 6 Do. £6 100 70 72 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 1 / 4 1121 \ Maryport & Car., 4 p.c. all - - ,„, Do. 4 per cent .. - _ Share Securities. raid. Closing Business ---- To-morrow is the last day for applications for ' 44 Do. . ... . ..... .. .. . . 14 - - Prices. Done. _ Shares • et• 100 139 141 - ---- ares in the Whittington Estate and Colliery Stock Do.Con.Bris.&Bir.6p. . __ Stock Mid. ' con. 6 . p. c. Stock ' . 100 - - ' Stock Do. 41 . p. c. pref. stock lOO 101 103 - Can.Gov.6p.c.Ja. & July 100 115 116 1151 company. The quota tion is 1 4 p rem. 1 p - Do. 6 p.c.Fb . .&Aug. 100 113 11 5 6 Do. with option till 1860 3 4 Stock Do. Leis & Hitp ref. st. 100 94 96 - Do. 6 p.e.Mr & Sep. 100 113 115 10 1 Newport,Aber,&c.pret .s 1 all 9/ 10 - N.8.G0v.6 p.c. Ja. &JUly 100 1111 1121 -- Do. 6 p.c.An. & Oct. 100 - -- tit ITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. i _p. c. redeem, at 5 p.c.° m 10 Do, Perpet, 6p. c. with - N. S.W. Gov. 5 p., c. Deb. 100 103 104 ! Per Cent. Consols Annuities .. - NovaSco.ir Gov. c. St. option till 1866 44di , a Stock - S.Aus.Gt.6 pc.Jan&July 100 1111 1121 r .,llltto Debentures 9Bl sock Do. sp. c. Ext.Stock,lB46 100 - - - Vict-Gov.6p.c.Jan&July 100 - - 4naols for Account 954 4 st oo l- Do. 51 p. c. Pref. do. 1847 100 - - ________ _ JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Stock :10. Way.VM.Ex.Sk 1847 100 - - March. June. Ditto Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & ltd.. 35 2 i - Stock Noth British, 5 per cent 100 111 113 Stock Do. yew , au& 5 per cent 100 - - uitio Small, lid. - Stock Nth.Dc7.Rail.&DA.Co. 100 - - Stock N-East. in*ed. 4 p.c. Deb. 100 - - Sharei Joint-Stock Banks. Paid. , I Closin g I Business PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Stock Do. Berwick. 4p. c. Pref. 100 97 98 I Price. Done. 1 4razilian 5 per Cent. - 17 Do. do. do. 8.13A. 1 1 d ~. Ditto 1858, 41 per Cent. - - 100 Agra&UnitedServiceßk 50 68 70 ,_tirenada New Active, 34 per Cent. - - 40 Australasia all - . !lexical' 3 per Cent . 214 i 25 Po. York, H. &S. Punh. 10 1d p 25 Bank of E gyp t . rortuguese, 1853, 3 per Cent. - 20 North Sta ff ordshire . . all 24 231 Stock Ox.srr. & Wol.6pc. Ist 100 123 125 100 Bank of London 5O 45 47 40 Col. Bk. & LoanCo all - - Russian, 1822, £ St., 4 per Cent llO4 Stock Do. do. do., 2d gua lOO 118 120 50 B rits sh North American ) all -- 57 Elpanish 3 per Cent. ... - Stock D0.41p.c. Db.stkin perp 100 99 101 20 Chfcl. Bank of India, &c , 10 14 1 d Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 3ot 81 Scottish Central, new pi all - 100 City 5O 62 64 B panish Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded.. 5 Stock Scottish N.-Eastern deb 100 100 Colonial - - I.urkiah 6 per Cent. 93 24 Stock Do. 31 per c. pref. stock 100 ..„. - Stock Do.Aberdeen.gua. 6 pc. 100 - - 20.11 Com. Bark of Canada all - - 100 Commercial of London 2O - - Ditto New Loan - - 20 Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch. all 151 164 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. - Venezuelan 5 per cont. - - 20 Lon.Char.BkotAustral. all 231 24 231 Dividends on the above payable in London. 1.0.6. South Eastern (Reading 50 London and County ... 20 - - Ann., 1.0.6.) all 24 241 50 London Joint Stock ... 10 --•- TWO O'CLOCK. 103 102 101 100 London & Westminster. 20 - - Consols, Money 954 4 Stock Do .41 per cent Stock Do. Fixed 41 p.c. lstis lOO 102 104 100 Nat. Prof,. of England. 35 - - Consols for Account (April 7) .... 954 4 Stock Do. New do., 2cl issue. 100 - - , 20 Do. new • 10 - - -Ditto, May 951 6 Stock South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 - - 50 National Bank 25 - - Stock Do. 41 per cent lOO 20 New South Wales 20 S.-Yorkshire, 4 p.c. gua. all - - 25 Orient. Bk. Corporation all - - LAW , INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DA Y.) 251 Stockton and Dar. 5 p.e. all 284 29i 20 Ottoman Bank all 214 211 211 25 Do. 6 per cent all 321 331 Provincial of Ireland - --- . Stock Waterford & Kilkenny , 10 Do. New all - - 27 • • COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. 6 per cent. - 25 Do. New 25 25 U D n o i . on Ne o w f Australia R 1 2 1 7 0 14 7 2 :: .. . • IN RE THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK. LINES LEASED A FIXED RENTALS_ - - To-day was appointed for a private meeting under this ---------- T . bankruptcy. Mr. Commissioner Holroyd not having re- Paid. Leasing Closing Blllltheell 50 Union of Loudon lO RailWays.oo Unity Mutual 55 . - • - - - i C o . C's. Price. Done. 100 Western Bk of London 50 211„2040 ----------- ___. Closing Business --'------ Share Railways. 'Paid. Price. • 100 Atlantic &St Lawrence all 85 88 12.10 Amberg., Notting,. Bost. Leased at 6 per cent., and Eastern Jim:A-ion 10 8 6} 18 Bom.,Baroda&Cent.lnd 13. 1 1 d 50 Belfast and Ballymena., all - - 18 Do gu. all 5 per cent 13.14 Bir., Wol., and t2tr. Val. all n 4 - - Stock Birk., Lane., and Chesh. 18 Do. Addit. Capital A 6 i 1 „ d Junction lOO 62 64 18 Do. Do. 841 1 1 d 25 Blackburn all 11 111 201 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 61 7 25 Blyth and Tyne all 32 25 20 i Do. New l6l -- d 100 I Buffalo,Brant&Godrich / 1 00 85 00 Stock Bristol and Exeter .., , 100 92 1 0.4 93/ Stock Caledonian 100 Do. do. 1 July, 1873 100 82 86 Stock Chester and Holyhead . 100 - - 50 Cork and Bandon all • - 190 Do. do. 1 June, 1874 100 80 84 all - - 20 Clcutta.&S.Eastrn.Lim , 1 . 3 . 0 . p ar i p 20 Cork, Blkrock,&Passage 20 Cornwall all 5 51 20 Cape,Eastn. Prov.(Lim.) 2s. - - A roves. no div 2O Cape Town & Dock Sdrip 2s. 1 i 10 Do. A i all - - until6p.c.per an. a ll - 20 Central Oude (Limited) 2s. 6d. - -- 10 Do. B 20 Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c. 2 5 i P hasbeep pd.toß. 171 Demerara - - 50 Dublin andßelfast Juno. all - - 25 Dun.,Perth,& Abr.Junc. all 8i 9 20 Eastern Bengal.g,u.sp.c. 6 I Id l 41 Stock East Anglian lOO 16 161 Stock East Indian, gu. sp. e.. 100 102 103 1021 1 1 Stock Eastern Counties lOO 691 601 60 i 20 Do. C Shares all - - Stock Eastern Union A Stock 100 45 47 20 Do. E Shares Ext l5 5 / p 151 Stock Do. do. B Stock 10 0 3 ° 32 20 Do. Jubbulpore - - 25 Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U3ds) si - 100 D 0.41 p.c. Bds. pay.'s9 all - - 25 East Kent all 13 15 20 G eelong& Mel.gua.s p. e., all 191 20 Stock East Lancashire lOO 92 93 92 sto. c Geelong Corporation 6 i 100 _ - 20 East Suffolk all - - t per cent. Bonds 10 Do - Stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 35 37 35 i 6 93 94 93 100 Do. 6 p.c. Deben.,pay.'7B all Stock Edinburg and Glasgow 100 722 7 3 75 77 Stock Edin.,Perth, & Dundee. 100 27 27 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref lOO 20 Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c all 101 102 1011 10 Forth & Clyde Junction all - - - Stock Furness - 20 Do. New, gua.s per cent. 4 par it p 93 94 20 Do. do Stock Glasgow & South Westn. 100 all 10 101 20 c Gt.S.of Ind . Lim.-Scrip 1 2s. - - 10 Great North of Scotland Stock Great Northern lOO 103 104 103 1 ( guaranteed 5 per cent. Stock Do. do. A. Stock lOO 87 89 201 Gt.W. of Canada Shares all 15 lts/ 16 Stock Do. do. B Stock lOO 132 134 132 201 Do. New 100 Do. Bonds pay. '76,with 1 l a 3 ll 103 51 1 4 05 1 d 4 4 Stock GL South.& Wstn.(lreld) 100 105 1 06 Stock Great Western Si ock Do.Str.Vl.Rail Gua.Stk. 100 56 58 100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 103 105 100 Do. do. "a without opt all 103 106 1 2 Irish South Eastern.... all - 100 Do. 5/ p. c. do. '77 do Lancaster and Carlisle. all 83 87 iat Do; Thirds 50 1613 40. 'few Th i r ds l6 11P. 121 p 20 Do. do. 5 per cent. all 19 20 191 20 Do. 41 p. c. Extension.. 1 5 18 181 18 D Stock L acca ektre & Yorkshire 100 941 95 945 20 Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.e. 10 11 d 41 6 Do. do. F £ l6 6 id 20 Do. Fourth do. 1 9 5 1 # d Do. do. ..." shares- • 7 - - Stook Melb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds 100 --- 3 Do. West Ridin, Union 1 - Newßrunsvvick&Canda. 20 Do. Southport - •• i •all 67 69 20 { Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc 10 - -d Stock London and Blackwai. - Class ACapitl.Share.. - - --D o .Newiss.at 2510F.5h • - ,4,1 112 113 113 .. Do. do. Land d 0... • • Stock Lon.,Brighton &S. oast 16, 95 o.li , 5 ii i 5 20 Do. do. B. 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B al BRITISH MINES. l 6 l - 64 20 We a st London l - • 10 Do. Ist Class all - - ...... r.,. 4 - §.l Oleo. all __"l_::=-...-..-_-- .‘...-I Mill OA Paid. I Closing... I Be • T o -d a y w as appointed for a private meeting under this bankruptcy. Mr. Commissioner Holroyd not having re covered sufficiently to preside the meeting was adjourned. It was stated that the matter had reference to some mort gages, the arguments on which will bo of a merely technical character. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN RE MAYNE. This bankrupt was described as of Stevenage, corn and coal merchant, and to-day was appointed for his last exami nation. Mr. Cox appeared for the assignees, and Mr. Beard for the bankrupt. Messrs. Paul and Turner as accountants, and the case was adjourned for investigation of accounts as the bankrupt could come up on his own petition. THE GRAVESEND AND DARTFORD BANK. -IN RE HILLS. This bankrupt was described as of Dartford, miller, and coal and corn merchant, and was connected with the Hills, of Gravesend and Dartford, bankers. The accounts, by Messrs. Hart Brothers, show a large surplus on the Ist of January, 1857, but the liabilities amount to £18,138 — leaving a total amount to be answered of £21,390 13s. 2d. IN RE LE MMUS. A choice of assignees took place in the case of this bankrupt, described as of Cannon-street, City, merchant. Tho accounts prepared by Messrs. Hart Brothers, shows Dr., £2,309 ; secured, £3,700 ; property held at estimate at £4,300; good debts, £l6. It is said that, in the event of a dissolution, the friends of Sir John Young, the ex-Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, mean to rally round him once more, and return him as the representative for the county of Cavan. Mr. Mouchett, the storekeeper of Deptford Dock yard, after a long period of service, has been granted a retiring allowance of £653. We understand there are two other candidates for the vacant judgeship of the Sheriffs' Court—one being Mr. John Simon, of the Norfolk Circuit. Mr. Simon is of sixteen years' standing, and has had judicial experience as the deputy judge of the County Court of LiverpooL The other candidate is Mr. Charles Rann Kennedy. These names are in addition to those we published yesterday. Tff f Tr THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1859. LAMENT. OATHS ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This bill was read a third time aid passed. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER. took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. (Hear i f hear.) That realised the view which Lord Derby sha dowed forth in 1855 ; for a Government must be weak indeed - hich i could listen to such parental advice as that. It was a iof , f their imbecility. The noble lord put them in a sort of it aistcoat, not allowing them to move hand or limb, h( lding them up, dependent and helpless, to the derision the house and the country. (Hear, hear.) It had been gue by Mr. Wortley that the house would be guilty of ivi sres act to the Crown if it voted for this resolution, because ke c nsideration of reform had been recommended in the reee from the throne. But what was the difference in this ispe t between voting to reject the bill, and voting against by eans of an amendment ? (Hear.) Now, with regard o th • question of the franchise, there had bean two kinds d' suf rage in this country ever since constitutional memory ,ould trace back—one founded on property, a territorial sane rise—the other a borough franchise, determined by reside ace. Theresolution of the noble lord was aimed against that • 'art of the bill which would destroy the residential suffr; ge and substitute for it anon-residential suffrage. He admi ted that mere population should not be the basis of repro entation, and that interests should be coupled with it. But i large towns, with populations of 40,000 and 50,000, you ( iould not have population represented without having the r eanufacturing, commercial, and other interests of these towns represented. (Hear.) The very interests which it was deskle to represent were created by the aggregation and accumulation of people; and this was the old principle of the la; arough franchise, because the writs went down autho risinA • the boroughs to send members when population and trade increased. (Hear.) But the right hon gentleman gave :a most infelicitous illustration of an interest when he refer red to the borough of Arundel, as representing the in terest of 900,000 Roman Catholics in England. He regret ted that there were not more members of that persuasion repntsenting English constituencies, and that any feeling should exist which debarred men of the highest intellect and 'character from having seats in that house; but when the r ight hon. gentleman stated that 900,000 Roman Catho lics 1 Tere represented in Arundel, his illustration was not happy, and his statement was not accurate. He had the great est respect for the noble lord who now represented Arundel, but still no one could doubt for a moment that it was tittle better than a nomination borough. (Hear.) From 1826-to 1832 the 900,000 Roman Catholics were represented by a " citizen of credit and renown," named Alderman Atkfais, a rabid Tory, who thought he would be doing good service to the State if he could burn all the Roman Ca tholics of England, and who had a solemn fear that they would burn him. The Roman Catholics of England had votes in other boroughs and in counties, and therefore there was no pretence for considering them as a di s ti n ct and class interest. (Hear.) As well might it be said that Caine re presented the military interest. (Hear, and laughter.) It might just as well be said, when the gallant soldier who, fresh from the laurels he won at Kars, had been put into that borough by a noble marquis, that Caine represented the military interest, or that it represented the literary inte rest when Lord Macaulay sat for it, as that Arundel repre sented the Roman Catholic interest. (Hear, hear.) There was another part of the bill which had been referred to by many speakers, though merely as a matter of detail—he alluded to the system of voting papers. He was disposed to look upon that part of the bill as a matter of principle, and not as a matter of detail. The voting papers were an essen tial part of the scheme, if there was to be a large number of non-resident voters. (Hear, hear.) The introduction of the words lands or tenements in the bill was a cunning device to extend this class of voters. (Hear, hear.) It would not be necessary to have a house at all, for a piece of land with a cow-house or a pig-stye would come under the denomina tion tenement, and he believed it had been held that a piece ' of wall against which cattle rubbed themselves was a tene ment. (Laughter.) The voting papers were therefore an essential part of the scheme, and the measure, instead of being a sincere Reform Bill, was nothing but a bill of political retaliation. (Cheers.) It gave property more power, and if it passed, a vote factorywouldbeunmediatelyformecf for the manufacture of fictitious non-resident voters. He had been twitted by the observation that the bill would give Maryle bone 15,000 additional voters. He admitted that, and was thankful for it—(a laugh)—but while on the one hand it would increase the electors in large towns, on the other hand they still would only return two members, whilst the increase of suffrage would be counterpoised by the introduc tion of non-resident and fictitious voters. (Hear, hear.) He did not think that the right hon. and learned gentleman the Attorney-General for Ireland could have read the whole bill when he made his speech on Friday night, and must sup pose that he was occupied in framing the reform bill for Ire land. (Laughter.) The right hon. gentleman the Chan cellor of the Exchequer endeavoured to draw an analogy between the voting papers for poor-law guardians and the voting papers proposed by the bill, but there was no analogy between them. The voting for guardians was carried on locally. The voter got the paper six or seven days before the day of voting ; the police brought them to the house with the names of the candidates written on them ; but in an election for a member of Parliament the name of the can didate might not be known till the day of nomination, and the polling commenced the second day. (Hear.) He called on the right hon. gentleman the member for Cambridge University to show any machinery in the bill to meet this defect. These voting papers would become a mere machine for fraud, bribery, and intimidation. (Hear.) Why did he say for bribery ? For this reason—as every gentleman who i attended upon an election committee would readily under stand—that nothing would be easier than for a person to go to the voter who received a paper, and give him £5 for it. By this means he had the vote in his pocket. (Hear.) It would, in fact, make the system of bribery more complete than ever. (Hear, hear.) It would also lead to intimidation. He would ask the house to picture the position of a voter with one of these voting papers in his possession, and the landlord and agent standing beside him. That this would lead to intimidation was the opinion of the noble lord the Secretary for India, because in 1857, on the motion of the noble lord the member for Stamford, in favour of these vot ing papers, the noble lord (Stanley) said, " When I pass from this part of the question to the danger of intimidation, that danger would be infinitely exaggerated by carrying out the proposition of my noble friend. What would be easier than to send an agent of a landlord or employer to the voter, who would insist upon his signing the voting paper in his presence.: Even if he transmitted it through the post, it would not prevent this intimidation." (Hear, hear.) In the bill for the reform of the Municipal Corporation Act, the clause relating . to the voting papers was struck out with the assent of the right hon. gentleman the Home Secretary, yet he told his constituents in Wiltshire that he regarded them as an essential portion of this bill. (Cheers.) The fact that a largo number of the electors of Marylebone had not recorded their votes during the recent contest was made use of as an argument in favour of voting papers, and as a proof of the apathy of the electors. The hon. member for Leicekt .r -shire (Mr. Packe) referred to thisfact. The hon. gentleman, too, during the whole of his speech, called Marylebone " Marrowbone." (Laughter.) He did not object to that, though the other name would " sound as sweet." (Laugh ter) But the fact was that the industrial and trading class of Marylebone showed no apathy during the last election. They were not the drowsy electors of Marylebone who went to the poll, but the industrious class and small traders. But if retired tradesman would not go to the trouble of stepping out of his omnibus or cab to record his vote, was it likely he would go to the trouble of getting a voting paper, procuring two witnesses to sign it, and then send it through the Post-office ? (Hear, hear.) With regard to the lessening of the franchise, scarcely a member who took part in the debate had spoken in favour of it. Thd two right hen. gentlemen who retired from the cabinet were even in favour of an extension of the franchise. The right hon. gentleman the Secretary for the Colonies, however, did not think the people required it, or were fit for it, and he spoke of "im patient poverty, and uninstructed numbers." The right hon. gentleman forewarned them of the dangers of democracy, and quoted a passage from Mirabeau, which, with all respect for the historic knowledge of the right hon. gentleman, had very little bearing on the question. (Hear, hear.) The aris tocracy of France, had they remained, might have tempered the excesses of the revolution, but who destroyed the aris tocracy of France ? The aristocracy themselves. (Hear, hear.) That aristocracy had been guilty of unheard-of excesses, and when the people rose and a mighty revolution came upon them they fled, and left the crown unaided and exposed to the democracy. (Hear, hear.) But there was no parallel between the working classes of this country, po litically educated as they had been since 1832, and the emancipated serfs of France. (Hear.) But these remarks on the working classes came with a bad grace from the right hon. gentleman. (Hear.) Had they not seen dukes, and poets, and statesmen lecturing to the working classes on the truths of science and the importance of cultivating their taste and intelligence ? (Hear, hear.) Did the right hon. gentleman suppose that when these distinguished persons were instructing the working classes on these matters they were not also teaching them their political rights? No per son had added such lustre to the literature of the world of late years as the right hon. baronet himself, and a cheap edition of his works was circulated amongst the working classes, in which England and Englishmen were told that the safety of the country depended on their getting their political rights. (Cheers.) They were initiated in the mys teries of " Eugene Aram." (Laughter.) And after being educated in this way by the right hon. gentlemnn and others, did he suppose that the " uninstructed numbers" were not able to form an opinion what candidate they ought to vote for at an election ? (Hear, hear.) But, said the right hon. gentleman, who wanted reform ? Some persons whispered to him, he said, that a moderate Reform Bill only was re quired. Tho Government kept their words to those persons, though he could not say they had kept their word to the country. (Hear, hear.) The country, it was said, did not care about reform; it was apathetic; there were no petitions. If they had a political hurricane, as they had in 1831, it was said, Do not give way now, the people are in too ex cited a state to understand the reforms they require. If, on the other hand, they were peaceable and quiet, it was said, Look how apathetic they are. (Hear.) He would have the Government to be cautious that they did not mistake tran quillity for torpor, and patience for apathy. (Hear.) They were differently circumstanced now from what they were in 1831. The large towns were then unrepresented. The large towns were now represented, and their wishes were m fro a in de t k h n e o A wn linis th te ro ria uf b h en t e h h e e i s r .) rw e e u se , n s t; e t ain iv k es. g representatives whom they respected, th e y told the house that they did want reform. (Hea r, hear.) No one wanted through (li, ear ,hear, their a wild, reckless, and speculative reform, but such a reform as the two right hon. gentlemen who left the cabinet told them might be fairly granted. (Hear, hear.) He felt in rdeembtehstohtadhebehoeunselifsotrentehdetok,inadndahtteenshtioonnidwsitithdmo•wnhichwihiths one more observation. (Hear, hear.) It was admitted by the right hon. gentleman the Attorney-General for Ireland, with a co urage that did him honour, and speaking after that ironical, withering, and satirical lecture which had been read by the Government by the noble lord the member for Tiverton, that the Government would not accept the position which the noble lord wished to create for them. (Hear, hear.) They would be pusillanimous and weak in deed if they did. The noble lord, the member for King's Lynn, stated more explicitly that if the Government were defeated, political power would change hands. (Hear, hear, and " No, no.) Almost every speaker alluded to the Government which was to succeed the present one, and had some notion what it was to be. He (Mr. James) cared not who formed the future government. (A laugh.) He eared not who formed it, because he was convinced that no last ing government could be formed unless it was formed on a totally different basis than the governments which preceded it. (Hear, hear.) The noble lordthe member for the City bore a great name. He had never been present at a private or a public meeting in which he allowed the noble lord's name to be mentioned without veneration and respect. (Oh, oh, and laughter.) But he told the noble lord that if he was to forma governmen to succeed the present, he must not form it on exclusive principles. (Laughter.) To fol - low the metaphor of the noble lord the member or Tiver ton,ter.) The people would have no confidence in such a govern wha tthwehnigobwlaeslorerdiamteiditsot nsnoethtaakwehtligc.fsarrmilydsmtuotdhbeoro. k(Laanudgshee. principle ed of f o in t b ere e satis fied (Hear, m,it h Governmentaonudformedregard g ho to )( , the T hpe statesmanny debating, and habits of business. The noble lord bore a great p, powers of name and deserved veneration and- respect, but when in the govern ment kin dreden He thought the noble lord, or whoever formed the next Government he sometimes kept bad company. (Laughter.) tw a ni li st dht that. e a s t c . e n t , Go vernment might imitate the right hon. gentleman the Chan cellor of the Exchequer in this respect, for the present Go vernment was certainly formed on a wider basis than the Governments which preceded it. (Hear, hear.) It was not based on mere kindred and relationship. Re saw on. the row opposite (the ministerial benches) a great many hon. gentle men of the same profession as himself. (Loud laughter.) it would be presumptuous in him to offer any advice to the noble lord, but he might well take an example from the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who had made his way and achieved his present position through very great difficulties, and who was not ashamed to state in that house that of the people he was, from the people sprung, and that he regarded his connection with the press as his highest escutcheon. (Cheers, and Hear, hear.) The noble lord, therefore, must form his Government on a wider basis, and not confine himself to a narrow, exclusive circle. (Laughter.) Whigs ! pure Whigs ! (Laughter.) Your pure Whigs, like bustards in Norfolk, were a species of bird that was fastdying out. (Laughter.) There were gentlemen sitting around him (laughter) who represented great constituencies (laughter)—and who were hardly ever consulted on political matters. They were never called on till the flagellation before a division. If the noble lord would only rely on the people as he had done, the people, who were always generous, would place confidence in him. (Hear.) Let him place confidence in the people, and he might treat with contempt whatever accusations were brought against him, like those of the right hon. gentleman the member for Stroud. He might then rise superior to the petty intrigues of faction and the paltry cabals of party, but without that the noble lord would never regain the confidence which her Majesty's present Govern ment had forfeited, or stand for an hour at the helm which they were now compelled to abandon. (Cheers.) Mr. BEAUMONT said that he had had a seat for seven years in the house, and had never until this debate found himself in opposition to the noble lord the member for river ton. It was his intention on this occasion to go into the lobby with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Hear, hear.) The feeling of the people out of doors on this question had been alluded to ; but he contended that if the Secretary for the Colonies or the Prime Minister, or any others of equal eloquence, had convened meetings like the hon. member for Birmingham, they would have secured audiences quite. as large. (Hear.) This resolution was an ingenious ands well-worded trap—(hear, hear) —leaving altogether unee touched the merits of the question. (Hear, hear.) Ro e thought the measure a boon, inasmuch as it carried out r ue views of the hon. member for Surrey with respect to the county franchise. The objection to uniformity of fear w hi m , he feared, was rather an after-thought—(hear, lie3-o—but he confessed himself opposed to the disfranchiseme n t o f th e 40s. freeholders, and the proposal of an option ire • vo ti ng i n counties or boroughs he held to be bad. He considered that the principle of voting-papers could be apv,,lied to non resident voters; but he retained his hostility to the adop tion of the ballot. But he thought, gener_dly, that it was quite out of the question to attempt to di ;cuss a measure of reform on a resolution like this. (Hew_ hear.) For these reasons he could not vote for the ree'olsition, and he would give his support to the Government. (Ministerial cheers.) Lord ELCHO said that on so momentous a question he would not have risen to address the house had he not been so pointedly alluded to by the hon. anti:came d member for Marylebone, the future Solicitor- Gerteral—(a laugh)—who adverted to a letter which a noble earl had done him the honour to address to him. He itid not rise to defend that noble earl, who needed none of his defence, and who, with a name so illustrious in one political history, was entitled to be heard on a question like this. Surely it was not to be said that an English peer was the only person who was not on such an occasion to be suffered to express an opinion. Why, it was only the other day that a member of the house, the member for Edinburgh (Mr. A. Black), wrote a letter to the Times newspaper on a question upon which he was to have an opportunity of addressing the house. For his own part, he agreed with some hon. gen ' tlemen opposite that it was an error for a Conservative Government to have brought in a Reform Bill. They should not have accepted the Government with any such engagement; and he (Lord Eleho), if it had been left to his option, would rather have paid the forfeit. Indeed, it showed a poor knowledge of hqman nature to undertake the task, since they must have known, as sure as they laid the bill on the table, that the Liberals would throw it out. Notwithstanding what had been said by the hon. member for Birmingham, that no one dare stand forward and raise his voice against reform, he had no hesitation in saying that if reform meant organic change, or radical change, ho saw no necessity for that change. To justify it, either the legislative machine worked ill, or the unenfranchised wore so resolved on having the franchise, that it would be dan gerous to resist. Was it so ? The noble lord the member for London, when he resisted, in 1848, Mr. Hume's mo tion, then called the little charter, said he would let well alone. Ile (Lord Elcho) agreed with that, and thought it unwise to pull a good machine to .pieces, lest it might not be possible to reconstruct it. He warned them by the words of the old epitaph, which was quoted the other day in a pamphlet :—" I was well, wished to be better, and here I am." In place of the desire said to exist for the fran chise, he reminded the house that in 1854 the noble lord the member for London withdrew his Reform Bill because there was little feeling in favour of it. The same infer ence he drew from what was said by the hon. member for Birmingham satirically of the Bank and the Museum in April, 1848 ; for the people then showed in a time of danger that they were an industrious and peaceful people, and not discontented with their lot. He could speak from experience, having been a special constable on the occa sion ; for there he saw lords and dukes, and middle class men and artisans, combined for the preservation of the peace. If the honourable member for Birming ham were in his place he would ask whether he was satisfied with his winter campaign. He under stood that it was quitethe contrary, and that the hon. mem ber had been heard to say that he had been flogging a dead horse. He thought they ought to be very careful not to lower the character of that house, or to reduce it to the state of the vestry of St. Pancras. It was an assembly of free English gentlemen, and he hoped that it would always continue so, and that every member of itanight be proud of belonging to such an assembly. The present bill had been objected to on the principle of uniformity contained in it. The question of uniformity of franchise was just one of those which might be discussed in committee. The bill being one for the amendment of the representation of the people, was, he believed, based on the principle that representation should rest not on population alone —not on property alone—but on interests. There were many excellent points in the bill to which ho should be ready to give his assent. The noble lord had him self admitted on Friday that there were many excel lent points in the bill, and had disapproved of no part of it except the uniformity of the franchise, which he thought ought not in counties to be so low as £lO. It was said that the bill would not effect a settlement of the question. He should like the noble lord to say what would settle the ques tion. Did the bill of 1832, of which the noble lord was the author—liberal as that bill was—settle the question ? There had been no fewer than 3.5 motions in that house for a re form of the constitution since 1832. In the very next year after the passing of the Reform Bill there was a motion made in that house for the ballot, and another for shortening the duration of Parliaments. In 1837 no fewer than seven motions were made on the subject. Infect, whatever measure might be carried, there would always be persons calling themselves advanced Liberals—men who were in favour of progress—of progress they knew not what—who would ad vocate further change. On the subject of a dissolution he could add nothing to what had been said by the right hon. member for Cambridge University, and by the right hon. member for Bute. A dissolution could not be too strongly deprecated ; and if the Government decided on that step he knew not what power the house possessed to check them, but for himself he should be ready to support an address to her Majesty, praying her Majesty not to dis solve Parliament. (Hear, hear.) The other alternative-=re - signation—implied the formation of a new Government. What would be the nature of it ? Was it to be presided over by the noble lord the member for Tiverton? (Hear.) He had listened to the speech of the noble lord. He had always had the utmost confidence in the integrity and ability of the noble lord. He believed that the noble lord would act consistently in the spirit of his speech in any reform he might propose, and that the details of tho bill would be such as he had foreshadowed t 0 the house. He was confident the speech of the noble lord the member for Tiverton fell like a shell on the benches of the Opposition —(hear, hear)—and that there had been no such astonish ment like it since Balaam stood up in high places, and ended by blessing his enemies instead of cursing them. (Cheers.) The construction of a new Government might, however, fall to the lot of the noble lord the member for the City of London ; and he hoped that noble lord would not take it as anything personal to himself if he (Lord Elcho) declined to express the confidence in him which he was ready to extend to his noble friend (Lord Palmerston). He knew not whether the noble lord would be disposed to place the honourable member for Birmingham in his Cabinet, or appoint the honourable member for Finsbury (Mr. Cox) his vice-president of education, or whether he would have the right hon. gentleman the member for Wells (Mr. Hayter) and the hon. member for Walsall (Mr. For ster) as his colleagues; but he (Lord Elcho) should look upon a Reform Bill introduced by such a Government as laying the foundation of democracy in the British Senate. (Cheers.) He hoped, therefore, that all who had the interest of the British constitution at heart would join together for the purpose of rejecting the resolution of the noble lord, which, as had been well said, unsettled every thing and settled nothing. (Ministerial cheers.) But if hon. gentlemen, even on such an occasion as this, when the interests of England and the political inheritance of their children were at stake, could not lay aside party feeling, he would ask them to listen to the words which had been addressed to them last year by the hon. member for Birmingham. The hon. gentleman one evening made a short speech, in which, after stating that every man who went to our colonies repudiated our policy and our debt, and thanked Heaven that he had at last found a country where his industry wasunfettered, went on to say that, how ever many of our countrymen emigrated, the landed pro prietors of England must still remember that their acres re mained, and that by-and-by they would have a different tone assumed in the House of Commons after another reform in Parliament; that their succession duties would be over hauled, and it would not be got rid of so easily as at pre sent; their property tax would come back in increased pro portion, and they might rely upon it that the course they had pursued for some years had been foolish and wicked. By casting unfair burdens on the people they would create a spirit of discontent and disaffection, and when the people once had the power, which they would shortly have, to lay taxes on those who had the money, they might depend on it the poor would not always go to the wall, and the rich always escape. H e (the noble lord) wa s not about to answer this, although i t easil y admitted of one, for legisla tion had of late years been especially directed for the benefit of the poorer classes. (Cheers.) What he would say was, that the house ou g ht to take warning by the words of the hon. member for Birmingham, who spoke openly then, but he very much doubted whether the lion. gentleman spoke in the same open manner in the speech he made the other evening. (Cheers.) He was not in the house upon that occasion, but he had ,asked an hon. member what sort of a speech it was, and the description given was this, " It was milk and water, prepared to order." (Laughter.) He • asked the hon. gentlemen opposite to pause before they played a game which might lead to a coalition between the noble lord (Lord J. Russell) and the hon. member for Birmingham. (Hear.). He called upon them, while there was time, to resist this tide of deinociacy which was setting in, and to hand down that noble constitution which they had received fr om their ancestors, of which they had only a life interest, and of which Mr. Fox had. wisely said, " combined all the efficiency of a Monarchy with the liberty of a republic, without the despotism of the one or the lice n ti ousness o f the other." ,(Cheers.) Mr. E. ELLICE said that he quite acquitted the Govern ment of any want of consistency in bringing in a Reform Bill, however unfortunate it might be that a question of this magnitude should fall into the hands of a Ministry repre senting a minority in that house. The question of reform had been recommended to the Crown, and brought before the house in 1852 andlBs4. His noble friend at the head of the late Government had also produced a measure on the subject ; and he was therefore not Surprised when'the noble lord at the head of the present Government told the public ha would do his best to settle the question. (Hear; hear.) He agreed with his noble friend who had just sat down on one point, namely—that it was better, it they could agree upon a certain principle of reform, to proceed gradually with that work. (Hear, hear.) He did not think that great organic changes in the constitution of thathouse were to be ", IMPERI Bedford and Bletchley all \ Di& Buckinghamshire ... • • 100 Ln & N.W 98 100 MISCELLANEOUS. Silare Miscellaneous. Paid.l Closin g Ilinstness done ClydesdaleJunctlon... 100 Caledonia 102 104 Colchester, Stour Val. all E.U.&E C 17 18 Price. E.Lincolnshire,g.6p.e. 10 Gt.Nerth. 142 14 4 ___ . ---- E llnion,HarwichShs. all E.Counts. 44 44 Do. 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Scrip. all I 1 Stock Victoria ' 3 Al Do New ........ ...... 18 20 Tr.& Ln.Co.oi Upr. Can 5 100 ,Vall Diesoeu'e Land HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY). The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway; and Whitehaven Harbour and Town. Lord CAMPBEL I, presented a petition from Taunton in favour of an extension of the franchise, accompanied by the ballot. The noble and learned lord said although he prefered open voting, he did not think any of the dreadful consequences that had been predicted would follow the adoption of vote by ballot. Earl GREY presented a petition, praying that Parlia ment would take into its consideration the unjust restric tions upon British shipping. THE STATE OF EUROPE. The Earl of CLARENDON begged to ask the noble lord the Foreign Secretary whether it would be consistent with his duty to give the house, and through their lordships the country, any information with regard to the state of affairs in Europe, and the results that might have been arrived at by Lord , Cowley's mission to Vienna ? (Hear, hear.) He had not placed any notice of his intention to ask this ques tion on the paper, because he had determined to make no remarks on this important subject until he had reason to be lieve that to do so would not be at all embarrassing to the public service. He was sure his noble friend would not want telling that he (Lord Clarendon) was not impelled by any motive of mere curiosity, or that he did not wish him to make any communication to the house that might be pre judicial to the great cause of peace. (Cheers.) But his noble friend must be well aware of the deep and all-perva ding anxiety which existed in this country—an anxiety which he should be sorry to see increased by any remarks that he might make. For the space of eight months great loss and injury had been sustained in business transactions by the state of public affairs, insomuch that there were many people who would almost prefer to know the worst truth, than to continue in the present uncertainty. (Hear, hear.) Commercial men could not pursue their avocations while affairs remained so threatening ; whereas on the other hand, no one could bring himself to believe in the possibility of war. (Cheers.) c lt would be idle to suppose that war had not been seriously contemplated, and it would be still more idle to imagine that war, when once commenced, could be restricted within any particular country or within any pre scribed limits. (Cheers.) It would in fact be altogether vain to think that other nations would stand by, passive spectators of such a contest. (Hear, hear.) Against such a war, or rather he would say such an unprovoked European convulsion, public opinion had been expressed with a unanimity which be believed to be unprecedented, and which he hoped had not been without its effect. This country, the policy of which had been throughout to cultivate friendly relations with both- France and Austria, had been in a position to render a good service to both in this crisis ; and he believed that her Ma jesty's Government had turned the opportunity to account. He felt assured that Lord Cowley would never have been sent to Vienna, and that Lord Cowley would never have undertaken the mission, unless there had been a fair pro spect of a satisfactory result. He had also the utmost con fidence in the sagacity, tact, and judgment which would be displayed by that noble lord. (Hear s hear.) Like every body else, he (Lord Clarendon) had read the newspapers. The able and intelligent men who, in every place in the world where visitors of distinction arrived, or events of in terest were passing, were in correspondence with the Eng lish journals, were indefatigable in ascertaining facts; and they reported them with remarkable accuracy. From their reports he (Lord Clarendon) gathered that Lord Cow ley had not full powers—that he was not charged with any negotiation—but that he was to hold in Vienna precisely the same language as he had done in Paris—that he was to ascertain in effect what the differences between France and Austria really were, and to endeavour as far as possible to reconcile those differences, and to bring about a better understanding. If he (Lord Clarendon) was right in this conjecture, he should say that these instructions were judi cious, and that her Majesty's Government had acted wisely in not committing themselves to any distinct protocol. (Hear, hear.) At present, however, the public knew nothing about Lord Cowley's mission beyond what the Chancellor of the Exchequer had stated a short time ago in answer to Lord Palmerston. The friendly character of Lord Cowley's mission to Vienna appeared to be fully ad mitted, and he was believed to have brought back assurances which were both important and satisfactory. Those assurances were said to be to the following effect :—That the Emperor of Austria had expressed his earnest desire to come to a friendly understanding with France; that he had professed his willingness to withdraw the Austrian army from the Papal States at the same time as the French army, and to promise that it should not return; that he had declared that he did not intend and that he never had intended to invade Piedmont; and that he was prepared to make, in conjunction with the other powers, such representa tions at Rome as would lead to the establishment of a bet ter government. If Lord Cowley had really been enabled to make a communication to this effect to his noble friend, It would obviously be of great importance that the statement should be confirmed ; because it was impossible that such assurances could have been given by the Emperor of Austria without their having been met in the same spirit of concilia tion in Paris. (Hear, hear.) The reason and humanity of the Emperor, and his deference to the unmistakeable and unanimous feeling of France, would urge him to adopt that course. On the other band, if Austria was about to attend a congress, and was disposed to make some coneession to the public opinion of Europe—which, with her vast.military preparations, and her firm reliance on the fatth and loyalty of Germany, she undoubtedly might make without the slightest imputation on her honour, or the slightest danger to herself—then the peace of Europe would certainly not be disturbed, because any shadow of a pretext would have been removed. (Cheers.) He (Lord Clarendon) purposely re frained from any allusion to the topics which would be dis cussed at the congress, or to the cessation of military pre parations, and possible disarmament, which ought to form the preparation far that congress. Neither would he put his question in any precise form, because he felt that the noble lord would himself know best what information it would be prudent to give. (Hear.) The Earl of MALMESBURY—My lords, I will begin by thanking my treble friend for the discretion he has shown inthe speech which he has just delivered, and the manner in which he has put his inquiry for information which your lordships must no doubt be eager to obtain. lam perfectly ready to give as much information as I can without trench ing upon those questions which might, perhaps, better be avoided, or which it would be premature to enterupon. Your lordships will recollect that at the end of last month Lord Cowley went to Vienna. Before he left Paris, he obtained the entire assent and approbation of the French government to his mission, and he left Paris perfectly in possession of the ideas of the French government as to what is called the Italian question, and its various complications. He came to London, but he received no instructions whatever, and he left England for Vienna perfectly unfettered. The Earl of DERBY here made a remark to the noble lord. Lord MALMESBURY (resumin)—He received no in structions of an official character. He was only to ascer tain from the Austrian Government what were the points which they considered in the same light as the French, and in what way he might assist, by the good offices of this country, in restoring those relations between France and Austria which were unfortunately in so critical a position. He displayed at Vienna all that sagacity, tact, and judg ment which my noble friend has so -justly ascribed to him, and which he has never failed to exhibit in any public service in which he has been employed. (Hear, hear.) He was received by the Austrian Government with the utmost frankness and cordiality, and that frankness and cordiality pervaded all the interviews which he had with Count Buol. He ascertained that there were points upon which, with the assistance of England, the French and Austrian Governments might be induced to treat ; and that there were other points upon which Count Buol was ready to enter into communication with England and France, with a view to remove the danger which threatened Europe, and to restore peace. Having thus accomplished what I must describe as a very successful and promising mission, Lord Cowley returned to Paris. On his arrival in Paris, on the 16th inst., he found that during his absence the French and Russian Governments had entered into communication with each other ; and that with the consent and approbation of France, Russia intended recommending to the five great powers that a congress should sit and settle the matters in dispute. On the 18th of this month her Majesty's Govern ment received from the French ambassador an official inti mation that such was the intention of Russia;_ and her Majesty's Gove r nment communicated on the next day to the court of St. Petersburg their as llingness to accept such an offer, if it were made on certain conditions ,• and they th ere f or e anticipated the official offer which the Russian Government afterwards mado. On the 23d Baron Brunnow called on me, and announced officially not only that Russia made that proposition to this country as one of the five powers, but that Russia also accepted the conditions with which her Majesty's Government had offered to accept the proposal of a congress. Singe that time each of the great powers have assented to the congress ; but although they are all undoubtedly agreed upon the fact that there shall be a congress to discuss the affairs of Italy, and to accomplish the solution of the present complications, they are not yet agteed upon the subjects, details and composition of that congress. I have no doubt, however, that in a short time a conclusion will be come to on these points ; and I do not scruple to say that her Majesty's Government are of opinion that, considerin g the subjects about to be discussed at this co ngress are intimately connected with the political and social happiness of the Italian States, those States ought to have an opportunity given them in some way or other of e xpressin g their opinion on the subjects to be discussed. (Hear.) Our object will naturally be, if we speak of re forms, not to impose any conditions upon the Italian States, but to recommend to them what we consider to be for their own benefit andfor the safety of Europe. (Hear, hear.) In the meantime, it will be a source of satisfaction to your lordships to know that, although the disarmament which I should heartily wish to see immediately take place is not decided upon, both Austria and Piedmont have made a formal agreement that they will net attack one another, and that they will abstain from hostilities. (Hear, hear.) Unless therefore some untoward and almost impossible accident should occur, we may hope that the peace will not be broken; and that the congress (which will probably take place at the end of next month) will terminate in those results which lam sure we must all desire. (Cheers.) VEXATIOUS INDICTMENTS BILL. This bill passed through committee, an amendment in it being carried on the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, who ex plained that the object of the bill was to check the abuses that now existed in the grand jury system. At present it was no uncommon practice for persons to go behind the back of others and lay an indictment before a grand jury. The grand jury, in many cases, found the bill ; and then it turned out that there was no pretence for the charge, and that it had been made for the purpose of extortion. MANOR COURTS, &c. (IRELAND) BILL. After a short conversation this bill was read a third time and passed. EVIDENCE BY COMMISSION BILL. On the motion of Lord WODEHOU SE this bill passed through committee. RAILWAY TICKETS TRANSFER BILL, Lord REDESDALE, in moving the second reading of this bill, said that on the Brighton and other railways tickets had been transferred in a manner which caused se rious loss to railway companies. The Brighton Company wished to introduce a clause on the subject in a private bill, but he thought it better to introduce a separate bill, which would give summary jurisdiction in such cases, and he trusted it would put an end to the mischief. Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY considered the biil unnecessary, and believed that no additional powers were required. Lord DON OUGHMORE defended the bill, on the ground that protection was due to railway companies. The bill was then read a second time. THE COMPANIES ACT (1859) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. MEDICAL ACT (1858) AMENDMENT BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. The following bills were considered and ordered for third reading :—Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway; Glasgow Public Parks and Galleries of Art ; Kingstown Water ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Station. at Manchester) ; Poole and Bournemouth Water ; Travel lers and Marine Insurance and Accidental Death Insurance Companies Amalgamation (No. 2) ; and York Improvement. The Swansea Harbour Trust Bill and Tottenham and Edmonton Gas Bill were read a second time and ordered to be committed. On the motion of Mr. C. FORSTER, the order of the Bth day of February last, limiting the time of the second read ing of privatebillswassuspended in the case of the Swansea Harbour Trust; Bill. PETITIONS. Several petitions were presented in favour of the Local Rates Exemption Act ; from various dissenting bodies for the same benefits as those enjoyed by members of the Church of England in regard to endowed churches ; in favour of Parliamentary Reform ; for the exemption of hospitals from local rates ; against the Government Reform Bill ; in favour of the Superannuation Bill, &c. &c. THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. Sir J. GRAHAM presented a petition from the chancel lor and members of the congregation of the University of London praying that they might be representod in Par liament. The prayer of the petition stated that the graduates already amounted to 1,000, and were increasing at the rate of 100 annually, and that at the time of the foundation of the university it was stated by her Majesty's advisers that the institution would be placed on the same footing as the other universities of the country. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. VOTE OF CENSURE ON THE GOVERNMENT. Mr. W. 0. STANLEY said that in consequence of the very explicit statement of the Attorney-General forlreland, to the effect that an adverse vote on the Government bill would be considered by her. Majesty's Ministers as a vote of censure, he would withdraw his motion on the subject. BONDING WAREHOUSES. In reply to Mr. HADFIELD, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the subject of giving bonded warehouses to large manufacturing towns was under consideration, but they had not come to any resolution on the subject. THE REFORM BILL. Mr. GRIFFITH asked the Chancellor of the :Exchequer whether the plan of uniformity of franchise between coun ties and boroughs was considered by Government to form an essential principle of the proposed Representation of the People Bill, on which the fate of the bill was to depend ; or whether, on the contrary, it was only one of those details which, though forming part of the original suggestions of Government, was to be considered to be open to any alteration or omission in committee which that house, in its wisdom, might determine upon. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—In an swering the question of my hon. friend, I beg to call the attention of the house to the extremely inconvenientmanner in which this bill to amend the representation of the people is debated. (Hear, hear.) It is debated, if I may use the expression, wholesale and retail. (Cheers.) We have had it debated in a wholesale manner for four nights, in a debate which I think has really been sustained on both sides with unusual interest and unfaltering power; and I shall be per fectly ready, when the opportunity occurs to me in the wholesale debate, to vindicate our policy, and to explainthe course which the Goverement have thought fit to pursue pro' gra but (Hear, hear.) But I must say, in answer to the question of my hon. friend, as I said in answer to a question from a gentleman on the other side, that it is not within the scope of a fair answer to a question put at this time, to enter into this subject. (Hear.) Generally speaking, I will say that we place before the house a measure which expresses the policy which the Government would recommend. If there are any gentlemen who think that on the whole the dis advantages counterbalance or outweigh the advantages of the course that we recommend, it will be open to them to vote against the bill on the second reading ; that is the legitimate course. (Hear.) If, on the contrary, the bill should go into committee, I shall, on the part of the Go vernment, listen to any proposition that may be made in that spirit of candour which becomes me. (Hear.) And if the decision which the house arrives at on any definite proposition is contrary to the course which the Government has recommended, then it will be open to us to consider the decision at which the majority has arrived, and to act in that manner which we think our duty dictates. (Hear.) Mr. WHITESIDE explained, in reference to the debate of Tuesday night, that when Lord Palmerston said Lom bardy was to have been erected into a duchy dependent on Austria, he was made by the newspapers to acquiesce in the correctness of that statement, and to admit that he had been in error, which he entirely denied. THE ADJOURNED DEBATE. Mr. E. JAMES said he rose, shortly to offer his opinion in support of the resolution of the noble lord. (Hear, hear.) It was a remarkable feature in the debate on this bill that there was not an hon. member unconnected with the Trea sury bench who had not condemned the bill (to use the Chancellor of the Exchequer's phrase) wholesale and retail. (Cheers and No, no, from the Government side.) He maintained that there was hardly one member unconnected with the Treasury bench who had not found some fault with what he consideredthe vital and substantial principles of the bill. (Hear.) The resolution was directed against the three main and fatal objections to the bill. It asked the house to affirm that the enfranchisement contemplated by the bill was unsatisfactory and inadequate; that the disfranchise ment was unjust, and he thought a violation of the consti tutional franchises of this country; and that the non extension of the franchise doomed to disappointment a large and intelligent class of the community. How had the resolution been met ? It had not been debated merely on its merits ; but the Solicitor-General had thought it right to impute personal motives to the noble lord. (Hear, hoar.) Sir E. B. Lytton had said there was a fear of Americanising the House of Commons. It appeared to him that one of the most fatal modes of Americanising their debates was to introduce personal attacks such as that which had been ' made against the noble lord. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. James)certainly expected when the Solicitor-General rose on Friday, that he had done so to make some apology, or ex press some regret for an attack which every one who knew the position and character of thenoble lord would feel to be entirely unmerited. (Cheers.) If he might refer to what had taken place out of doors he found that a letter had been published by a noble earl (Grey), a proceeding against which he earnestly and sincerely protested. (Hear, hear.) There could be no more inconvenient course upon the eve of a great debate in that house than that a noble lord, not reserving himself for a proper time and opportunity to ex press his opinion—(hear, hear)—should think it right to address a letter to another noble lord (Lord Elcho), a mem ber of that house, not merely suggesting to him how to vote but telling him that the letter might be made public, for the purpose of inducing other members to resist the amend ment. (Hear, hear.) That was a practice highly incon venient. Had that letter been written to any voter pending an election it would have been an infraction of the resolu tion of the house in 1802, which declared that no peer should concern himself or interfere with the freedom of elections. (No, no, from the Government side.) The noble lord, the author of that letter, had written a pamphlet on the subject of parliamentary government; and while in his letter he suggested that the Government was the party to introduce a Reform Bill, he said in his pamphlet that the only Government which could introduce a measure of reform or any great constitutional measure, was a strong Go vernment, and not 'one existing merely on the sufferance of a majority of the house. What did Lord Derby say of the position of a Government existing upon a minority, existing -in fact from the want of cohesion among the Liberal party ? On the Bth February, 1852, he said : "My lords, I can conceive no object of higher or nobler ambition, none more worthy of the anxiety of a true patriot and lover of his country, than to stand in the high and hon ourable position of the chief minister of the Crown and leader of the councils of this great empire, assisted and sup ported by colleagues combined with him by unity of senti ment and mutual and personal respect, and with the know ledge that this and the other house of Parliament would give to such a minister the assurance that, except on most extra ordinary and unusual occasions, he would be enabled with lite and energy to carry out his plans, and to mature and ac complish his objects, and practically as well as nominally, control and govern the legislation and internal economy of this great country. On the other hand, to hold that high and responsible situation dependent for support from day to day upon precarious and uncertain majorities, compelled to cut down this measure, and to pare off that—to consider with regard to each measure not what was for the real welfare of the country, but what would conciliate some half dozen men here, or obviate the objections of some half-dozen there—to regard it as a great triumph of Parliamentary skill and minis terial strength to scramble through the session of Parlia ment, and to boast of having met with few insignificant de • feats—l say this is a state of things which cannot be satis factory to any minister, and which cannot be of advantage to the Crown, or to the people of this country. But, my lords, to enter on the duties of office, not with a precarious majo rity, but with a sure minority of the other house of Parlia ment—to be aware that from day to day you were liable to defeats at any moment by . the combination of .parties, amounting to a sure majority, and only waiting for the moment when it would be most convenient to introduce motions for the attainment of such an end ; to be a minister on sufferance ; to hold such a position without any security for enforcing your own views ; with the fear of exposing your own friends and the country—your friends to per petual mortification, and the country to constant dis appointment—to undertake the responsibilities and the duties of office under such circumstances, and in such a state of things, would be such an intolerable and gall ing servitude as no man of honour or character would voluntarily expose himself to, and such as no man willingly would submit to, except from motives of the purest patriot ism, and on proof of the absolute necessity of such self sacrifice." They had been told that onlya strong and united Government should undertake a great measure like that. As to the unity of sentiment, never was there anything so prophetic as the speech of Lord Derby ; it was a political photograph of the state of the Government now. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Henley and Mr. Walpole had left the Cabinet, and informed the country that not till within a few days of the production of this measure was there any unanimity whatever in the Cabinet. (Hear, hear.) Those gentlemen had left the Cabinet on account of its want of unanimity on this great question ; and Mr. Henley now sat like Marius looking down upon the ruins of the f or mer Cabinet, and won dering how in their death struggle they could seek to thrust this bill upon the house and the country. (Hear, hear.) The speech of Lord Palmerston on Friday had surprised him. The noble lord had stated that the Government would be de feated ignominiously upon this resolution, but that notwith standing, they must proceed with the bill; that they had taken the government with its "engagements," and that unless they followed them out they would be defaulters. The noble lord had further told the Government that they should not dissolve Parliament, for that if they attempted to do so they would be met constitutionally in reference to money bills ; and he had gone on to say that they should carry the bill, not upon any definite principle of their own, but as the co mmittee chose to alter it; that it should still bear their name and responsibility, though it might come out of the committee utterly at variance with the bill as introduced. II ...-,,, 1 N