The Sun. — London, England, 1862-02-07 00:00:00

ICI l' 111A1?KET A ND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The return from the Bank of England, completed to the sth inst., shows some rather unfavourable features. The Bullion, owing to the demand for the continent, has been rather largely diminished, and the Reserve of Notes has also been reduced to a considerable extent. The Other Securities show a large increase, while the Private Deposits are smaller by over half a million. The various items of the balance-sheet, and the changes they present, are shown in the subjoined table Active Circulation Increase .. Bullion .. £20,734,655 .. 263,470 .. 15,956,903 Decrease .. Rest .. 323,466 3,395,343 Increase .. • • .. 106,443 Public Deposits 5,788,441 Increase .. . • • • • • 35,378 Other Deposits.. .. 14,179,917 Decrease .. 571,569 Seven Day and other Bills .. 692,899 Decrease .. • . 19,292 Government Securities 11,301,802 Decrease • • • • • • • . 266,816 Other Securities .. . 17,435,560 Increase 404,712 • Note.; unemployed .. 9,030,42.5 Decrease . . • . . . 532,640 During the last few days the operations in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets have been of an extremely limited character. Tea, however, has maintained previous prices. Coffee, cocoa, and rice, have slightly declined, while sugars tiave sold slowly at reduced quotations. In fruit and spices the dealings have been extremely limited, without any change of importance to record in prices. Llt petre and tallow have been in very limited request, and for the latter article prices have shown a down ward tendency for both present and forward delivery. At the adjourned meeting of the creditors of Mr. P. Meyer, trading as Agleby and Co., oil mer chants, of Lambeth, it was unanimously resolved to permit Mr. Meyer, under a committee of inspection to realise a dividend of 12s, in the pound in March, a second instalment of 3s. in July, and a further sum of 2s. at a future day, making together 17s. in the pound. Business in the Liverpool Cotton Market yester day continued quiet, and prices remained steady. The sale's were estimated at 7,000 bales. Another small parcel of gold, viz., £7,000, was - withdrawn from the Bank of England yesterday. The Bank of France has reduced its rate of dis couvt from 41 to 4 per cent. At the half-yearly meeting of the Peel River Land and Mineral Company, held to-day, the direc tors' report, which has already been published, was unanimously adopted. The half-yearly meeting of the Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Company took place to•day. The directors regretted that they were not in a position to recommend a dividend on the original shares, but the usual one in the Preference Shares was de clared. The market for Public Securities opened this morning with a quiet appearance, and very little business has been transacted except in connection With the settlement ; Consols, however, have con tinued firm at 921 for transfer, and 92E 93 for the account. The New Threes and the Reduced have advanced to 921 f 93i ; Exchequer Bills, March, 12s. to 15s. prem. ; ditto, June, 13s. to 17s. prem. ; Bank Stock is 240 and 242; and India 5 per Cent., 1061 2 4. The transactions in the Foreign Market have. been rather more numerous, and prices show no important variation. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 841 8 5, ditto, 1858, 75 76; Mexican is firm at 34/ 35 ; Spanish DAerred are 43t ; ditto Passive, 191 y ; ditto Certificates, 91 ; Italian 5 per Cents. are 66i and 671, ; and Venezuelan 25; The Moorish Acrip is 5.7, prem. Business in the Railway Share Market has con tinued active, and prices have in most in stances shown increased buoyancy. Eastern Counties and North Eastern (Berwick) have im proved ss. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, Brighton, Midland, and North Western, 10s. ; South Wes- terns £1 ; and Great Northerns £2. The Foreign and Colonial lines have been less active. Bahia and San Francisco realise 154; Grand Trunk of Canada have improved to 241 and Great Western of Canada to 121 _a. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares sup port previous quotations. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Dank Stock • 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93 2k 31 3 per Cent. Consols •Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities 93 2/ 31 India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto 51 per Cent .. lO7l 61 Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 99/ 1 100 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 991 1 D . " Bonds £l,OOO Consols for Account, March 6... 92/ 314 India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent Excheque r Bill s, £l , OOO 2 d.... 12 March. 1 14 u 17 l3 Ditto £5OO Ditto Small l5 j FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Ditto Account Equador New Consolidated Imperial Moorish Scrip 5 / / Mexican, 3 per Cent Ditto Account Grenada Active Ditto Deferred Peruvian 41 per Cent .. Ditto Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 461 1 Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St .. 99 Si i Ditto Account .. i)itto 41 per , Cent, 1860 s'ardinian 5 per Cent. Ditto Account Spanish 3 per Cent Oitto Account Ditto New Deferred — Di , to ,N ccount Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded Ditto Acco nt .. 841 5 Ditto New Loan ... . Ditto £lOO Bonds Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 21 per Cent., Exchange 12 Guil. big- t, cortificittzs, 4 per Cent. .. 101 Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861 67 i 61 71 Consols, Money THREE O'CLOCK. Account 92i 3 93 k THE WEATHER. PROB BLE BEFORE MONDAY. North Britain N. to E., fresh ; with some snow Ireland Similar to the above Central .. N. to E., moderate to fresh ; fine East Coast .... N. to E.S.E., fresh; some snow South England. N.N.E. to E.S.E., fresh; snow in places METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. This Day, Letween tl audi B. E. M. D. F. C. I. 8. 0 a.m. Nairn 3 5.44 32 31 _ _ ...... E.NE 5 8 e „ 5 Abercleen...• • 30'42 l i3 3 E.N.E. . 1 N.N.E. 5 5 8 . • '' Leith. . . 3O 40 Berwick 30'33 35 33 E. 3 28. 442 41 N. E. t Ardrossian...• 30 42 36 34 E.S.E. 3 1 b. . Poi tr , sh I 30.37 39 38 N.E. 2 2 b. 1 Galway 1 30'32 33 32 E. Shields 30'30 36 35 N.E. 2 2 b. 1 5 6 8. 6 Scarborough 30'24 37 36 N.N.W. 1 8 a. 2 Liverpool 30'25 36 35 Queenstown 30'27 40 38 NE. 2 2 b. 1 N E. 1 1 f. 2 E, Valentia..• • E. 3 2 b. 2 E. 5 5 c. 5 Yarmouth—. 30'24 31 32 London Dover 33 E.N.E. 8 6 c. 4 ; 40 g E-N.E. 5 8 m. 3 E. 3 4 f. 2 l'ortsinouth 3 30 8. 1: 0 1 Portland •• • • 30'00 4/ 43 E'er e 9 0. 4 Plymouth . • • • 46 144 E.E. 2 9 0 . 1 Penzance • °.°7 .—___=____ —..._________ Ex PLANATION.--B. Barometer, co;rectereduced to 32 (leg at mean sea level ; each. 1.0 feet of vertical ri causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and e ac h 10 deg abOV'2. 32 deg causing nearly 3-100 ths increa se . E . zaposed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for evaporation sad dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true,— not magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud (1 to 9). I. Initials :—b , blue sky ; c., clouds (detached); c log ; h., hail; 1., lightning ; m. , misty (hazy) ; 0., over _ cast (dull) , r ., rain; s., snow; t.., thunder. S. Sea dis turiAnce (1 to 9). FOREIGN HAIL PACKET .LIST. DITE. Australia and Mauritius,MAlLS via Southampton. ...... Feb, 18 1 . via Marseilles ......... Feb. 3. trazil an d C ape V er d s, b y B r i t i s h packet........ March 6 China, of Good Hope, Ascension., and Sr. Helena. , Mar ch 3 —l ' ir ta) Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Feb. 18. via Marseilles ...Feb. 13. Falkland Islands G ibraltar via outhampton ... Feb. 10, Ind . ' ia (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Feb. 18. India (Bomba via Southampton .. Marseilles ....Feb. 13 . Bombay), Feb: 10. via NI, ,raei ties Feb. 4. Lisbon— tialta, Egypt, .... My Feb. 11. .n, via Southampton Feb. 10. SHARP; MARKET-(7711-3 DAY). ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Paid. Closing Business m Price. done. 7} 8 64 7 96 d 8 104 104 1011 5 6 42 44 10i 11 19 20 54i 55 51 53 31 35 92 93 3oa 31 102 104 11174 118 , 1117* 1181 131 138 101 108 69 69 67 6) 1071 107; 59 61 117 119 44 48 044 05 100 101 9 11 43 44 7 8 134 1321 '4 )iP 1(2 104 65 67 61 651 100,1 101 i d p 55} Sri 88i 89' 99 101 4 4 10} 11 1 d 92 D 4 125 127 44 46 100 102 46 48 37 39 814 82 67 69 98 100 51 381 3 ri 84 94 p l 54 64 g 144 148 55} 56.1 24 3i dap 92 95 274 1324 6i 7 47 49 4f 45 90 02 10, 20 55} 5 1 52 117} 18i 18 116¢ 17 181 18i eq 81 91 !? 71 _9_ 7 ; 61 dOff 118} 95 i 99 100 I 43} i 71 133! 21 321 lb Share Railways. 13.14 25 10 st st 50 20 6.4.0 Nor.Dev.Rall&Dk.atoelc l Do A stk ; A rees no dl till 6 pe. has been pdß Do B stock Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York North London Do new North Staffordshire 19.18.4 IN. and S. W. Junction. ;Not. Gran. Rl. & Canal , Portsmouth Rhy mney .cot tish Central Scot. N. E., Aber. stock Do Sc t. Mid. stock Shrews. and Virelchpool Shropshire Union Sittinghourne & Sheer South Devon S. Durham dc Lanc.Un South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Stain es,Wok ,and Wok. Stockton do Darlington Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale. Do Pref. No. 1 ThamesHavenDk&Rall UMer Do Do Vale of Neath IVictoria sta. and Pim 1 'Waterford do Kilkenny lWatcrtord & Limerick I West Cornwall West London Do ist class Do 2d class W. Hartlepool Har.&R. West Midland Oxford Do Nexvpor'! Do Hereford Bir., Wol., and Str. VaL IBlyth and Tyne Itost.,Sleaf.,andnidA2o (Bristol and Exeter 'Caledonian C , )rk and Bandon Cornwall gets no div IDo A Do. B j ti ; lBpc.pan.has been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June ;East Anglian ;Eastern Counties ; ;Eastern Union, A. stock Do Bdo do I DoNw A, late E U 3ds !East Suffolk Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin., Perth, & Dundee jGlasg. and S. Western. , GreatNrthn.of Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an W. of Ireland (Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock! Irish South Eastern Lancashire & Yorkshirej London and Blackwalll Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast' Lon., Chat., and Dover) Lon. & North Western' jLon. & South Western 'L'derry A. Coleraine .. L'derry & Enniskillen.! Man., Shef., & Lincoln. iMaryport and Carlisle. Do I shares Metropoli 'an Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid Gt. W. of Ireland Do. d shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line Newcastle and Carlisle Newry, IVarnpt, & Nos Norfolk North British 91 90} LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. p oli , I Leasing Closing Business Railways. m " . I Co. s Price. Done. __— Bedford andßletchley all Ln.&N.W Birkenhead., ' 100 Do.&G.W 84 86 Buckingh 1111.nre.... 100 Do. 95 97 Chester & liyhead.. 100 Do 534 544 Do. 54 per cent 100 Do. 124 126 Do. 5 „ 100 Do. Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 101 103 Colchester, Stour Val. 100 E.U.&E.O E. Lincolnsh. pr c. 100 G , .North. 136 138 E.Union,HarwichShs all E,Counts. 4 44 Do. Woodbridge.... 100 • • • • Gls.Barr.&Neils.Drct. 100 Caledon Do. new Gloster &Dean Forest all pt. West. Hull and Selby all , Yk.N. Mid 111 113 Do. halves Do. quarters Lancaster & Carlisle 100 n.&N.W 201 204 Lon. and Chat. Ext. B 6 per cent Do. Bromley, 6 per c all D 0........ • • • • Loudon & Greenwich 100 S. Eastern 62 64 Do. Preferen 3 Lon.,Tilb.& -''lend 100 P e t o &C o Bl 63 Lowestoft gua. p c.. 100 r - orfolk Do A pier cent lOO IDo. llinc.,Bxtn.,& Matlock all LNW& M . 31 . 44 Mid. Bradford Prefer ence stock Newmarkf, BuryE.x 5, 5. 6.,h: Counts. p gna. 5 per cent. .. Northn. &Flo tn. sp. c. all Do. li6 58 Do. 6 per cent..... all Do. Do. Fixed sp. c.... all IDo. N. Eastn—llartlepool U 0 N. E. Ber North Western Preston and Wyre. all L&N.W & Lyk. 44 46 Do. A shares A. all iDo. • • Roystn.Hitch.& Shep. 100 iGt.North. 136 138 Shrewsby & Hereford 100 T Brassey 121 123 Do. Do. South Staffordshire Wilts and Somerset lOOGt. West. 92 94 924 I Wimbledn Croydo all LABrgtn 81 96 PREFERENCE SHARES. Share( Railways. Paid.' Closing Business Prices. Done. Blythe and Tyne 10 p.c. pref. issued at £5 Bris. & Exet. 4 p. c. st Do. shares Caledon. qr. shrs, 'co. 2 Cork .t Bandon, 5a p. c. Cornwall. 5 percent Dun. Perth, & Aber.Jun Do. Ist Class Pref 92 94 20 21 6 6a E. Angn. Class A 5 p. c. E. Coun. Ex. 5 p.c. No. I Do No. 2 Do. new 6 p. c. at Eastern Union, 4 p. c Do. 5 p. c. guar Edit]. & Glas.s p.c. shares Do. 4 p. c. guar. S. & Furness, 5 per cent Glas.& S.West. gu. 5 p.c Great Northern, 5 p. c D 0.5 p.c.Redm.lop.c. pm Do. 44 p. c. do Do.sp.c.Redmatsp.c.pm Gt. Nh. of Scot. Ist pref. Gt. Sn. & W. (Ireland) 4 per cent Great West. (Berks and Hants Ext) 5 per cent Do. redeem. 44 p. ct Do. redeem. 4 p. ct Do. irredeem. 4 p. ct Do. 5 p. c. redeem. pref Do. Birm. pref. shares Do. Chesterß p.c. pf. abs Do. Chester 5 p.c. pf. shs l Do. firm. guar. stock Do. Chester guar. shares, Do. do Do. do 99 101 109 111 108 110 [25 127 81 83 112 114 90 92 116 118 113 115 101 106 [O3 110 97 99 98 100 89 91 90 92 [O2 104 9i 10i 17 18 10 11 76 78 20i 21 10 ni 15A 151 Lan. & Carl. 44 p.c. pref , Lan. & York. 6 p.c. 9tock, Do. Barnil.st£s 28 10d-e Do. 6 p. c. (Ease Lan.) 1 Do. 44 p. c. (Blackb. pur Lon.&Brig.sp.c.uu. No.l Do. 5 per cent, do. No 2 Do. 6 per cent, do Do. 5 per cent. do. No. 4, Do. 7 per cent pref. stk l Do. 6 p.c. do(W.E.&e. Do. 4p e st (diy.def.lll'6s' Lon.Chat.&Dny.sp.c.pf. Lon. & N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton, 5 per cent., Lon. & S.West. 7p. cent. et., late 3d shares ' Do. 44 ner cent - - 135 137 102 104 112 114 11! 114 135 140 112 114 150 155 126 129 74 76 95 97 112 114 Do. (Prtsm. perpl. anns 1 of 28 64 Londondy. & Cole. 3 shs '.ondony. & Ennis. 3 Os IMan. Sh. & Lin. .6 per ct. Do. £6 Do. 33 per cent. Do. redeem. 6percent Maryport & Carl. 4 pr. c Do. 43 per cent... Midland Con. 6 p c. stk. Do.Con.Bris.& Mr. 6 p.c. Do. 43 p.c. pref. Bt. rdem Do. 43 p.e. irredeomable Do. 4} per cent.. . Do. Leic. andHit.4per ct Norfik. 5 p. c. Ex. st. 1846 Do. 53 p. c. Pref. st. 1847 Do.sWay.ValEx.st.lBl7 Nort British. 5 per cent. Do. New Erna. 5 percent Do. Bor. Un. g. prf. shs. Do. do. do. N th.Dvn.R ail. &Dck.Co. N-East. Cons. pref. 4 p.c. Do. 43pr. ct. redeemable Do. G. N. E. 4 p. ct. pref Do. Berwick 4 p. c. pref. Do. Leeds 6 p. c. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1818.. Do. York, FL & S. Purch. North Staffordshire.... Rhymney_Guaranteed . Scottish North-Eastern 3 p. c. pref. stock.... Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.e Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock South Devon, Ann, 10s. Do. Fixed 43 per cent South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0 0) Do. 41 per cent Do, Fixed 43 per cent South Wales, gua. 4 p. c. Do. 43 per cent Do. do. 1859 Do. 5 per cent. S. Yorkshire, 4 p. c. d at & D K ar t . ik A ny s . p 6:p c ; ... c NlVtoc.atkri.D. o. sp. c. gua. Do. B6p. c o N °Do p - l° o r x t f s 2lC p ds t c odg u . t °l : f . a . e. stk.D. Do. Per ) p o e . t.6p. c. till 1866 tiii 1869 131 14 124 126 1 IPm' 69 71 fpm !KS. 135 137 103 105 03 95 111 113 109 111 1 1/pm 'lO2 104 98 100 dis par i die par 22 23 132 135 10 11 10s. 10 10. 6. 241 24/ 101 103 101 103 88 fD i 1 1 P 28 29 32 34 31 33 42 45 127 129 123 126 103 105 123 126 119 122 ... ....... 10 - 0 Eagt and West India ..; 100 123126 stocketock ICDnom.-InineerrTtein—t.Pret.Min. 100 stock 'London , . ... .....1 100 57 59 stook St., Katharine. ......... 100 60 62 stoek stock Southampton , 100 ..._ 100 2 1 4 p 9 8 100 a t i , 6o k ii, Vl Qlisi or e it w i .: ...... 26i 13k 20 100 286d 1 12i 112 i 101 loot 11 d 89 81 9i 82i } 1 47 f 118} 18 111 1:oo 4 100 100 100 all all THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, THIRD EDITION. BUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. REMOVAL OF THE PROHIBITION ON THE EXPORTATION OF ARMS, 4c. (From the Gazette of this evening.) At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the sth day . of February, 1862, present the Queen's most excellent Majesty in Council. It is this day ordered by her Ma jesty in Council that theprohibitions now subsisting, under her Majesty's Orders in Council of the 30th day of Nov. and the 4th of Dec., one thousand eight hundred and sixty one, cn the exportation or carrybeg coastwise from the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, and the Isle of Man, respectively, of gunpowder, saltpetre, nitrate of soda brimstone, arms, ammunition and military stores (including percussion caps and tubes), and lead, be, and the said several prohibitions are, hereby taken off. And the Lieutenant-Governors of her Majesty's Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, and the Isle of Man, respc c tively, for the time being, are to give the necessary direc tions herein as to them may appertain. ARTHUR. HELPS. At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the sth day of February, 1862, present, the Queen's Most Excel lent Majesty in Council.—lt is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council, that the prohibitions now subsist ing, under her Majesty's royal proclamations of the thirtieth day of November, and the fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty one, on the exportation out of the United King dom, or cirrying coastwise, of gunpowder, saltpetre, nit rate of soda, brimstone, arms, ammunition, and military stores (including percussion caps and tubes), and lead, be, and the said several prohibitions are, hereby taken off. .And the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of ber Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions therein accordingly. ARTHUR HELPS. FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB, 7. An address of condolence from British residents and visitors in Paris, on the occasion of the death of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, has been transmitted to Earl Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, by his Excellency the Earl Cowley, to be laid before the Queen. DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 6. The Queen has been pleased to reconstitute the Bishopric of Toronto, in the province or Canada, and to erect a por tion of the said Bishopric into a now See, to be called the Bishopric of Ontario; and her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint the Rev. John Travers Lewis, LL.D., to be the first Bishop of the new See. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS-THIS EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at the usual hour. THE THEA'r RES IN LENT. Viscount DUNGANNON gave notice that on Friday, the 14th, he should call attention to the licenses granted by the Lord Chamberlain, in which the clause prohibiting performances on Ash Wednesday had been excluded. CHURCH RATES, The Bishop of WORCESTER presented petitions from places in his diocese against the unconditional abolition of church rates. and diocese of Lincoln, the same being void by the death of the Rev. James Aspinall. The Queen has been FEBRUARY pleased to 7 present the Rev. John M'Calman to the church and parish of Inch, in the pres bytery of Stranraer, and shire of Wigton, vacant by the death of the Rev. James Ferguson. CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 5. The Queen has been pleased, by letters patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, to constitute and ap point William Matthewson Hindmarch, of Gray's Inn, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. ; George Boden, of the Inner Tempi-, London, Esq. ; and Thomas Weatherley Phipson, of Lincoln's Inn, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., to be her Majesty's counsel learned in the aw. FEBRUARY 6. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of New Shoreham—Sir Percy Burrell, of Knepp Castle, in the county of Sussex, Bart., in the room of Sir Charles Merrik Burrell, Bart., deceased. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Charles Chambe:s, builder, Hampstead David Wood, merchant, Bramley, Yorkshire BANKRUPTS. James Coultman Wilson, auctioneer, Notting-hill Henry Janson estate agent, Jewry-street, Aldgate Alrcande Ver m'er Dufour, schoolmaster, Lewes David Hill Bell, ship chandler, Crutched-friars "William Henry Smith, attorney, Lincoln's-inn-fields John Rut ety, umbrella maker, Birmingham nry Bailey, grocer, Stoke-upon-Trent George Hart, George-street, Euston-square Daniel de la Cherois Gourley, Queen's Prison Henry Whitfield, Harrow-road Buckwell, Phanix-wharf, East Greenwich William Eaton, cab proprietor, Clarence-place, Islington Edward Adams, coachmaker, Regent's Park Henry Apsley Pellatt, Weston-road, Bermondsey John WeAcock, horse dealer, Ashford, Kent Wan. Topps, merchant, Great Yarmouth Gardner B. Hiorns, sexton, Edmonton, Middlesex Richard Gale, hall porter at a music hall, Holloway E. W. Davenport, vendor of patent medicines, Charlotte street, Bedford -square Joseph Aguilar, commission agent, Cheapside Campion Napper, Milton-street, Dorset-square John White, builder, Victoria Dock-road Thomas Cleft, baker, Gillingham, Kent John Evans, warehouseman, City Luke Kilack Loft, gate-porter, Bank of England Mary Ann Hodges, trimming manufacturer, Brunswick square, Middlesex Edward Parsons, farmer, Tugford, Salop Charles Ilartrodt, commission agent, Birmingham Edward Hopwood, coach spring maker, Birmingham Heron Hudson, commercial traveller, Handsworth George Hall, house agent, Birmingham SCOTCH BANKRUPTS, John Whyte, grocer, Rothesay J hn and Samuel Brown, grocers, Newbigging Wm. Allan, merchant, Cumbernauld Mrs. Catherine Mitchell, widow, Port-Glasgow Robert Clark, miller, Aberdeenshire John Graham Galbraith, calenderer, Glasgow 1862, I AIPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—YESTERDAY. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsaek at five o'clock. VESTRY BILL. This bill was read a first time, on the motion of Ear: GRANVILLE. HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH—THE ADDRESS. The LORD CHANCELLOR then read the following most gracious Speech : MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, We are commanded by her Majesty tc assure you that her Majesty is persuaded that you will deeply participate in the affliction by which her Majesty has been overwhelmed by the calamitous, untimely, and irreparable loss of her beloved Consort, who has been her comfort and support. It has been, however, soothing to her Majesty, while suffering most acutely under this awful dis pensation of Providence, to receive from all classes of her subjects the most cordial assurances of their sympathy with her sorrow, as well as of their ap. predation of the noble character of him the great ness of whose loss to her Majesty and to the nation is so justly and so universally felt and lamented. We are commanded by her Majesty to assure you that she recurs with confidence to your assistance and advice. Her Majesty's relations with all the European Powers continue to be friendly and ' satisfactory ; and her Majesty trusts there is no reason to appre hend any disturbance of the Peace of Europe. • A question of great importance, and which might have led to very serious consequences, arose be tween her Majesty and the Government of the United States of North America, owing to the seizure and forcible removal of four passengers from on board a British mail-packet by the commander of a ship of war of the United States; but that question has been satisfactorily settled by the resto ration of the passengers to British protection, and by the disavowal by the United States Govern ment of the act of violence committed by their naval officer. The friendly relations between her Majesty and the President of the United States have therefore remained unimpaired. Her Majesty warmly appreciates the loyalty and patriotic spirit which have been manifested on this occasion by her North American subjects. The wrongs committed by various parties and by successive Governments in Mexico upon fo reigners resident within the Mexican territory, and for which no satisfactory redress could be obtained, have led to the conclusion of a Convention between her Majesty, the Emperor of the French, and the Queen of Spain, for the purpose of regulating a combined operation on the coast of Mexico, with a view to obtain that redress which has hitherto been withheld. That Convention, and papers relating to that subject, will be laid before you. The improvement which has taken place in the relations between her Majesty's Government and that of the Emperor of China, and the good faith with which the Chinese Government have cm iuued to fulfil the engagements of the Treaty of Tien tsin, have enabled her Majesty to withdraw her troops from the city of Canton, and to reduce the amount of her force on the coast and in the seas of China. Her Majesty, always anxious to exert her in• fluenee for the preservation of peace, has concluded a Convention with the Sultan of Morocco, by means of which the Sultan has been 'enabled to raise the amount necessary for the fulfilment of certain treaty engagements which he had contracted to wards Spain, and thus to avoid the risk of a renewal of hostilities with that Power. That Convention, and papers connected with it, will be laid before you. GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, Her Majesty commands us to inform you that she has directed the estimates for the ensuing year to be laid before you. They have been framed with a due regard to prudent economy and to the efficiency of the public service. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, Her Majesty commands us to inform you that measures for the improvement of the law will be laid before you, and among them will be a Bill for ren dering the title to land more simple, and its trans fer more easy. Other measures of public usefulness relating to Great Britain and to Ireland will be submitted for your consideration. Her Majesty regrets that in some parts of the United Kingdom, and in certain branches of in dustry, temporary causes have produced consider able pressure and privation; but her Majesty has reason to believe that the general condition of the country is sound and satisfactory. Her Majesty confidently commends the general interests of the nation to your wisd nu and your care; and she fervently prays that the blessing of Almighty God may attend your deliberations, and may guide them to the promotion of the welfare and happiness her people. Lord DUFFERIN, who wore the Windsor uniform, rose to move that an humble address be pi esented to her Majesty in answer to her most gracious Speech which had just been read. He said, on rising to perform this duty, he felt that no person had ever had to move an address under more painful and trying circumstances. For the first time since the commencement of her Majesty's most auspicious reign they met under great affliction, because a great and mournful event had occurred, which opened up a vista of unexampled calamity. He felt that this was not the proper place, nor he the proper person, to pass a panegyric upon the character of his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort, more esFecially as the whole nation had given most solemn expression to its feelings under the affliction. Monarchs, statesmen, and patriots, had passed from amongst them, but one had latterly quitted the scene who had endeared himself to the whole nation. Coming amongst us a stranger and an alien, he had by his conduct earned for himself the general esteem of the nation, an d the death of so eminent a personage tamed England into general mourning and grief. He was ever found fore most amongst those who, by their talent and ability, ad vanced the glory of this country. It was not for what he had done,but for what he was, that Prince Albert would be remem - bered. Politically speaking, the Prince Consort was ignored by the constitution, yet we all know how well the Queen's first subject had fulfilled his duty. (Hear, hear.) Until the present generation had passed away, it would be impossible for the people of this great and powerful country to estimate the obligations they were under to that good, wise, and accomplished Prince. Well had he fulfilled the expectations that were raised of him by the people of this country, when, 20 years ago, they confided to his keeping the happiness of the Queen of this land. He would not touch upon the grief such an affliction had occasioned to her Majesty, but this he knew—that the Queen of this land was now a stricken woman in a desolate home. He was sure their lordships would agree with him in hoping that as so much affliction had been cast on the Sovereign, the Father of the fatherless and the Comforter of the afflicted would give our disconsolate Queen patience to endure her trial, and to bow her head with re signation to the will of the Great Ruler of the universe. Such a wish as this could be conveyed in no nobler words than those furnished by the great poet of our day : " May all love, His love, unseen but felt, o'ershadow thee, The love of all thy sons encompass thee, The love of all thy daughters cherish thee, The love of all thy people comfort thee, Till God's love set thee at his side again." Since the time they had last met two other cele brated men bad passed from amongst them, one a mem ber of this branch of the Legislature, and the other a mem ber of the House of Commons and colleague of the late distinguished statesman, Sir R. Peel. The noble lord whose death they all regretted was always the steady and true friend of the British soldier. If anything could have deepened the gloom that had overspread this country it would have been to become involved in war with a nation speaking our own language, but by the most prompt exertions of Government this calamity has been spared us. The utmost miscalculation had been put upon our acts by the Northern States of America. Instead of being jealous of her prosperity we have always looked upon it as the most satisfactory security for our success. The good feeling that had existed between this country and America for years had lately stood in jeopardy through the acts of a blundering captain seeking for per sonal notoriety. Within eight and forty hours after it had been known that Messrs. Mason and Slidell had been taken from on board an English steam vessel coming from a neutral port, a feeling arose in this country which left no doubt as to the course the Government would pur sue. That step had been taken, and had been successful. In looking back upon the events which had occurred, they could not but reflect with satisfaction on the loyalty and attachment which the inhabitants of Canada had shown to the Crown of this country in the prospect of a war. When the signal to arm was given by the Governor, the people stood forward with a fervour and readiness that did thorn the highest honour. The Roman Catholic Bishop in Ca nada oft ed to give up his palace for barrack accommoda tion—(hear, hear)—and the Irish emigrants there, includ ing Mr. D'Arcy Magee, volunteered and formed themselves into a_ regiment, thus showing their attachment to the throne and reign of her Majesty. (Hear, hear.) All this re flected credit on her Majesty's Government, to whose zeal in the interests of the public service much credit was due. With respect to the occurrences in Mexico, he trusted the convention which England had entered into with France and Spain would lead to a satisfactory settlement of their differences with that state. He begged, in conclusion, to suggest to their lordships that they should endeavour, as much as possible, to mitigate the deplorable loss which her Majesty had sustained by the death of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. The noble lord here read the Address, which was in accordance with the sentiments expressed in the Speech from the throne. Lord SHELBURNE, in seconding the Address, said he trusted their lordships would permit Wm for a few moments so far to tread in the steps of his noble friend who had so eloquently addressed them, by recurring to the melancholy death of the Princa Consort. (Hear, hear.) It would be in vain for him to attempt on this occasion to add anything that could give force to what had been so elo quently expressed by his noble friend on the subject, and by other noble lords in other places. The melancholy event, he might however say, seemed more and mc re ev,ry day to be deeply felt by her Majesty's subjects. (Hear.) He could only say with reference to that most deplorable event, that in all parts of her Majesty's dominions where the melan choly intelligence became known the deepest sorrow was felt; and in circumstances of such deep affliction it must be most gratifying and soothing to her Majesty's mind to dwell on such testimonies of her people's attachment. Such ma nifestations could not fail to minister comfort to her Ma jesty's mind, indicating , as suc h expressions did, how deeply her Majesty reigned in the h earts of her people. (Hear, hear.) it was pleasing to know that her Majesty's sorrows were soothed by such genuine expressions of sym pathy on the part of her people for the death, of her Majesty's Consort. The Prince Consort was a foreigner, and the con stitutional manner in which he bore himself in rf lotion to the institutions of this country, had won the good opinion of all men ;he believed the truth IF-td been well expr esse d b y the late Earl of Aberdeen, when he said that his Royal Highness the Prince Consort never expressed, wrote, or ut?ered a word inimical to the Constitution of this cowl- I try. Having paid this well-deserved tribute to the memory of the Prince Consort, he would now, wi h their lordships permission, say a few words in reference to those recent occurrences between the Government of this country and that of the United States of North America. He was de lighted that the recent differences which at ono time seemed so alarming, were explained in a satisfactory man ner, and that the just reparation which was due to this country had been made by the Government at Washington. There had been a great manifestation of irritation among some classes of the people of the United States towards this country, but he was happy that those ebullitions—natural perhaps in same respects—had subsided, and that the people of the two Governments were now ieconciled to each other. He could say with confidence that the Government and people of this country had no desire to aggrandise them selves by the existing troubles between the people of the Northern and Southern States of America. He might here allude to the case of the Chesapeake in 1807, as somewhat analogous to that of the Trent; but in the case of the Chesapeake the spontaneous manner in which reparation had been made by the British Government must have been most gratifying to the Americans. He regretted that the American Government did not act in the same spirit in the case of the Trent. (Hear.) Her Majesty's Government had exercised the strictest neutrality uuder great provoca tion, and nothing therefore could justify the language of the American Secretary of State. It must be remembered that in 1849 the American Government authorised their agents to recognise the independence of Hungary, a prece dent which might have been followed by the Government of this country ; but so far from going that, they observed the strictest neutrality. He thought the conduct of the Emperor of the French in the matter was worthy of all praise, because, not contenting himself with keeping aloof, he avowed the expression of opinions which corresponded with those of this country, and thus brought to bear on the subject a weight of authority and influence of the highest character. There were many other topics to which he wished to call their attention, but as they would form the subject of future debates, he would no longer trespass on the time of their lordships. The Earl of DERBY—The presEnt is certainly an occa sion, if ever there was one, when it is most desirable not to mar the harmony or to interfere with the unanimity which all must wish to prevail when the main topic of the Address, jest moved and seconded, is to express our sympathy with her I',lajesty in That deep affliction in which it has pleased Providence to place her; and our sense of the irreparable loss which the country has sustained from the same hand by the decease of the late Prince Consort. (Hear, heir.) Of that Royal man it is much to say that, called suddenly and in early life to a situation most exalted and perilous, sur rounded by every temptation, having at command every luxury and pleasure which the human heart could wish for, he yet knew how to avoid both temptations and perils, and that for a period of 22 years ho blamelessly and most irreproachably discharged alt the duties attached to his posi tion. (Cheers.) He made his household a model of domes tic order and family affection, and, placed in a situation of extreme difficulty, so conducted himself that even the breath of calumny never ventured to insinuate against him the slightest abuse. (Hear.) With respect to that illustrious Prince, whose loss we all lament, and to whose merits and virtues so much justice has been done in eloquent terms by the noble lord who moved, and the noble earl who seconded the Address, it may be said that he was no ordinary man. He was illustrious in the truest sense of the word, and gene- ral terms of approbation in his case convey but feeble, ina quate, and almost negative praise. He has passed from usin the prime of life and in the full vigour of bodily activity, but he has not passed away without leaving a mark behind him. He never condescended to flatter—on the contrary; and on home occasions he went to the very verge of indis cretion in combating what seemed to him national preju dices. At the sme time he pursued steadily, silently, and most un , stentatiously that line which he had chalked out to himself, and succeeded in establishing an impress of himself, which will long remain, on the habits, feelings, and hearts of the people of the country in u hich he lived. (Hear, hear.) Comparatively few persona have had the opportunity to know how wide was the circle of his occupaticns, how rare and sparing were the hours ho employed even in the most innocent recreation ; how assi duonsly he exercised a mind of more than ordinary powers and of far more than ordinary cultivation; with how com prehensive a grasp he seized on the main and leading prin ciples of every question submitted to his consideration, and with what untiring industry he worked every question out. This is not the time for speaking of these things. Full justice will yet be done to the subject, and the country will have more amply means of estimating the invaluable service he for some time rendered to the cause of art and science. Nor is this the fitting place to speak of that en couragement and that stimulus he gave by his personal at tention and unremitting efforts to the promotion of every thing tending to increase the domestic comforts of the humbler classes, to expand the mind, to enlarge the sphere of reflection, and to elevate the social and moral condition of every class of her Majesty's subjects. (Hear.) The debt which is due from the country to him on these ac counts can hardly be estimated at present, and, I fear, will only be estimated by the experience of the loss of the advan tages we derived from him. (Hear.) But this is the place in which one word, at least, should be said on a different por tion of the subject— I mean on the part which the late and illustrious Prince took, and greatly to the benefit of the country, in regard to public affairs. I refer to this matter because, some years ago, I recollect it was a subject, not unnaturally, of constitutional jealousy that any interference in the affairs of the country should take place on the part of one who was altogether in an irresponsible situation. The persons who so argued, argued, I repeat, on a not unnatural feeling of constitutional jealousy ; but they demanded what was, iu point of fact, an impossibility. What they required amounted to this— hat two persons should be in the closest and most intimate relation, and that yet, in spite of the amplest confidence existing between husband and wife, one of them should be content wholly to abstain from the con sidera, ion of those topics which day by day formed the sub jects of care and fnxiety to the other. The very statement of the circumstance shows the impossibility of carrying out the views of the persons who so argued. T s houl f d or say, un doubtedly, 1 ,thatthiezeinwhotldhihgahve groundsobseiettn.eu db consti tutionalu ted jealousy Con sort had made h tr ims u e e l s f the and tool machinations ofpapar of the different ty,' the Prince or had supported i an y of the intrigues parties, but all who had the opportunity of judging know that it was impossible for any one to be more absolutely and entirely free from such an imputation than the late Prince Consort, and know also that the whole of his endea vours were directed, irrespective of party, to give to his So- ereign and his wife that counsel which he thought most befitting the interest of the State. But it it was im • possible that there should not have been that communica tion between the Prince Consort and the Queen on all questions connected with the public affairs, how much more desirable was it that his influence should be exercised with a full knowledge of all the circumstances attending every political question, of all the views, and their reasons, entertained by l the Ministers of the day, and of all the die cussions that had taken place, than that it should have been exercised in private and in secret, with only an im perfect knowledge of the gr. unds on which certain ques tions were submitted for her Majesty's approbation (Hear, hear.) I feel confident, my lords, that those who have had the opportunity and the honour of being admitted to that personal communication with the Sovereign which is the highest privilege of a Minister of the Crown will ac knowledge—l appeal to all who have filled thaqposition to say whether they were not always indebted to the Prince Consort for the cool, calm, and impartial judgment, for the great ability he applied, and the valuable and useful suggestions he made on every topic discussed. (Hear, hear.) My lords, in the Prince Consort the Queen has lest, not only the husband of her youth, the father of her children, him to whom her youthful affections were freely given, and for whom maturer years only augmented and intensified her conjugal love, but she has lost e w ve it r h her familiar friend, her an d tr t u o s w te i d mm co s un he se d ll i o d r failing adviser, to whom she could look up in every diffi culty of her thatcnity p a ro n u d d lo a o n k d u n p ehmuncrifleitnycYm'hich none butt a woman's heart can know. (Cheers.) From the surviving family her Majesty has derived allth e e t, h co e nsolation that withoutub l i c affection can give ; but in the discharge she must henceforth tread her lofty path alon r e p , sustaining hand of him wh3se counsel had never failed her. How deeply and with what profound emotion she felt con sciousseheofredseeaitlchneath the overwhelming weight of, and in the first she prmome nt oved o in f t h t h a e t of this aggravated responsibility a v g er o y uy, pr w e h se e n u c that crushing sorrow, resolving, under God's blessing, to do her duty to the country. And of this 1 am certain, that all who hear me • will pray that she may be strengthened to carry out that high resolve. (Cheers.) May He who has seen fit to inflict this heavy,blow—may He who has de prived her of her one earthly comfort and support, be Him self her comforter our and supporter I (Cheers.) My lords, the Address inadequately express what we feel , the words of AMERICA. Earl of DERBY said he was not in the habit of occupy ing the time of their lordships in matters personal to himself, but in the observations he had last night addressed to them he had been reported in the Times to say that which was exactly the reverse of what he did say. In that newspaper he had been made to say, with reference to the Southern States, that the time had now arrived when we should re • cognize the independence of those States. Now, what he did say was, that the time had not arrived for such recog•• nition. THE MEMORIAL TO THE PRINCE CONSORT. The noble Earl also said he would put a question to the noble lord which he could answer on Monday, it was, whether the Government as a Government intended to state how the subscriptions which were at present being raised for a memorial to his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort were to be appropriated. At pre sent the subscriptions amounted to nearly £27,000 ; and Is no instruction was given as to how those subscrip tions were to be appropriated, many persons had withheld them until it was known how the amount was to be appro priated. Earl GRANVILLE said he would give the noble earl an answer on Monday. THE EDUCATIONAL MINUTE. The Earl of DERBY wished to know whether there would be any objection to lay on the table, side by side, the educational minute which bad been issued and the altera- tion it was proposed to make in it. Earl GRANVILLE said ho would take an early oppor tunity of stating the intentions of the Government, and he had no objection to lay the paper referred to by the noble earl on the table of their lordships' house. THE IMPRISONMENT OF MR. SHEPPARD. The Earl of CARNARVON inquired of her Majesty's Government as to the truth of the arrest, imprisonment, and treatment-of a Canadian subject under order of Mr. Seward, and moved for copies of any correspondence which existed on the subject. Earl RUSSELL said the circumstances were nearly as already known. On the 29th of October, Mr. Sheppard wrote to Lord Lyons, complaining of the arrest. His lord ship immediately communicated with Mr. Seward, who stated that the oath of allegiance had been tendered to Mr. Sheppard, under the belief that he was an American subject, and his release was subsequently obtained on the condition that he should not go into the Southern States. The Fede ral Government claimed that in an extraordinary emer gency like the present, the President must be armed with extraordt narypowers extending to foreigners and Americans. Her Majesly's Government had entercd a strong remon strance to this, and there was no objection to produce the correspondence. The Earl of CARNARVON said he should most cer tainly move for the correspondence. He did, however, hope as the circumstances were so in accordance with the reports on the subject, that the Government would not be content with simple remonstrances, but that they would demand compensation tor the indignation. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Turs EVENING, The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Leave was given Lo introduce a number of private bills, and in several others the standing orders were declared not to have been complied with. The private business occu pied the greater portion of the early part of the evening, NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. BRAND a new writ was ordered to be issued for the election of a member for the borough of Great Grimsby, in the room of Lord WORSLEY. ACCIDENTS IN COAL MINES. Petitions were presented praying for the adoption of mea sures calculated to secure the better preservation of life in collieries. THE CURRAGH OF KILDARE. Col. DUNNE gave notice that on Friday next he would move for a return of the number of prosecutions of tres passers on the common known as the Curragh of Kildare, and the particulars connected therewith. ABOLITION OF CHURCH RATES. Sir J. TRELAWNEY gave notice that he would move for leave to introduce a bill for the abolition of Church rates. (Hear, hear.) CONSTANTINOPLE. Mr. FREELAND gavo notice that he would move for the production of the report of Lord Hubbard and Mr. FostQr on the subject of their mission to Constantinople. THE BLOCKADE OF THE AMERICAN PORTS. . On bringing up the report of the address in reply to the Royal Speech, Mr. GREGORY drew attention to the blockade of the American parts, a rubject which he contended was on the lips and in the minds of every one. During the recess he had written to Lord Russell on the subject and received a reply from his lordship to the effect that, with respect to whether the blockade, in the event of its not being efficietr, would be recognised by the Government, he had given no instructions to Lord Lyons. His lordship said, also, that he believed there would be no difficulty in the mat ter with the Government of the United States. He (Mr. Gregory) was convinced that the blockade was a mere paper blockade. He should take an early opportunity of bringing the whole question before the house, and if his figures were correct, it would be found that the blockade was not efficient. THE TRENT AFFAIR. Admiral WALCOTE spoke in terms of praise of the loyal spirit so recently exhibited by the inhabitants of Canada, and the conduct of the Government in the affair of the Trent. BENrINCK agreed with the hon. member for Galway (Mr. Gregory) in the necessity for bringing for ward the subject of the blockade, but he considered at pre sent that any interference by this country on the subject would bo a departure from the policy of neutrality. iv °ROCCO. Mr. D. GRIFFITHS drew attention to the affairs of Morocco. The Address was then agreed to. HIGHWAYS. Sir G. GREY moved for leave to bring in a bill for the better Management of Highways in England, and explained that the principal object of the bill was to establish. high way district boards. Mr. BARROW opposed the bill, as tending to deprive parishes of authority in local matters, and as being gene rally unpopular. The motion was then agreed to, and, later in the evening, Nt as read a first time. DECLARATION OF OFFICES BILL. Mr. HADFIELD moved for leave to bring in a Bill to render it unnecessary to make and subscribe certain de clarations as a qualification for offices and employments. After some discussion, the house went into committee, and leave was given to bring iu the bill. KITCHEN AND REFRESHMENT ROOMS (HOUSE OF COMMONS). Col. FRENCH moved the appointment of the following hon. members, as a standing committee, to control the arrangements of the kitchen and refreshment rooms, in the department of the Sergeant at Arms attending this house :—Colonel French, Mr. Hume, Mr. Dalglish, Mr. Moncktoa Milnes, Mr. Roupell, Viscount Bury, Colonel Dunne, Mr. Monson, Mr. Onslow, and Mr. FitzGerald— three to be the quorum. The motion was agreed to. WHIPPING. Mr. lIADFIELD obtained leave to bring in a bill to abolish punishment by whipping for offences committed by criminal prisoners, and to amend so much of an Act for the more speedy trial and punishment of juvenile offenders as relates to the whipping of offenders. PO , iR RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. HENNESSEY moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the relief of the poor in Ireland. Sir R. PEEL said that he had announced his intention of bringing in a bill on the subject. After a few words from Colonel FRENCH, and Mr. HEN NESSEY, the motion was agreed to. Some bills were read a first time. The house then adjourned at 25 minutes to 6 o'clock. LONDON GAZETTE.—(This Evening). WHITEHALL, FEB. G. Th e Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Ralph Charlton, M.A., to the rectory of Althorpe, in the county SHERIFFS FOR 1862. (From the London Gazette of this Evening.) At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the sth day of February, 1862—present, the Queen's Most Excel lent Majesty in Council. Sheriffs appointed by her Majesty in Council for the year 1862 : ENGLAND (excepting Cornwall and Lancashire). Bedford;hire:—Ciewe Alston, of Odell, Esq. Berkshire—Robert Campbell, of Buscot Park, near Lechlade, Esq. Bucks—William Pennington, of Fernacres, Esq. Ca mbri !geshire and Hunt i ngdonshire—John Richard son Fryer, of Chatteris, Esq. Cumberland—Samuel Lindow, of Cleator, Esq. Cheshire—Thomas Aldersey, of Aldersey Hall, Esq. Derbyshire—Haughton Charles Okeover, of Okeover Hall, Esq. Devonshire—Major-General Edward Studd, of Oxton. Dorsetshire—Joseph Grundy, of tha Hyde, Bridport, Durham—Henry George Surtees, of Dinsdale, Esq. Essex—Joseph Samuel Lescher, of Boyles Court, Brent wood, Esq. Gloucestershire—Sir George Samuel Jenkinson, of East wood, near Berkeley, Bart. Hcrefordshire—John Hungerford Arkwright, of Hamp ton-court, near Leominster, Esq. Hertfordshire—John Hodgson, of Gilston-park, Esq. Kent—Henry Bannerman, of Hunton-court, near Maid stone, Esq. Leicestershire—James Beaumont Wi ns t an l ey, o f Braun stone, Esq. Lincolnshire—Thomas John Dixon, of Holton-le-Moor, Esq. Monmouthshire—John John Norfolk—Robert Esq. Harvey Harvey, of Brundall, Northamptonshire—William Smyth, of Little Hough ton, Esq. Northumberland—John Cockson, of Meldon-Park, Esq. Nottinghamshire—Thomas Blackborne Thoroton Hild yard, of Flintham }louse, Esq. Oxfordshire—Edward Mackenzie, of Fawley Court, Esq. Rutland—The Honourable William Charles Evans Freke, of Bisbrocke. Shropshire—Sir Vincent Rowland Corbet, of Acton Reynold, Bart. Somersetshire—Ralph Neville Grenville, of Butleigh Court, Esq. Staffordshire—Henry Killick, of Walton Hall, Esq. County of Southampton—Sir Henry Bouverie Paulet St. John Mildmay, of Dogmersfield Park, Winchfield, Bart. Suffolk—Sir John Ralph Blois, of Cockfield Hall, Yox ford, Bart. Surrey—Joseph Godman, of Park Hatch, Godalming, Esq. Sussex—The Hon. John Jervis Carnegie, of Fair Oak, Rogate. Warwickshire—The Hon. Charles Lennoi Butler, of Coton House, Rugby. Westmoreland L- Lieutenant-Colonel Frederic Gandy, of Heaves, Milnthorpe. Wiltshire —John Elton Mervyn Prower, of Purton House, Swindon, Esq. Worcestershire—Sir Edmond Anthony Harley Lech mere, of The Rhyd, Worcester, Bart. Yorkshire—Godfrey Wentworth, of Wooley Park, near Wakefield, Esq. WALES.—NORTH AND SOUTH. Anglesey—Robert Davis, of Bwlchyfen, Esq. Breconshire—David W at ki ns Lloy d , o f Aberllech, Esq. Carnarvonshire—David Williams, of Castle Dedraeth, Esq. Carmartbensbire—Colonel John Stepney Cowell Step ney, of Llanelly House. Cardiganshire—Herbert Vaughan, of Brynog, Esq. Denbighshire—Sir Hugh Williams, of Bodelwyddam, Bart. Flintshire—Philip Pennant Pennant, of Bodfari, Esq. Glamorganahire—Sir Ivor Bertie Guest, of Sully House, Bart. Montgomeryshire—John Lomax, of Bodfach, Esq. Merionettshire—Samuel Holland, of Plae-yn-Penrhyn, E Pembrokeshire—James Bevan Bowen, of Llwyngwair, Newport, Esq. Radnorshire—Walter De Winton, of Maesllwch Castle, Esq. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tura DIY. Amsterdam ... Short. 11 15i 1 11 16 Ditto Rotterdam — 11 18 11 18} Antwerp — 25 40 25 42 Brussels - 25 40 25 42 Hamburgh — 13 a 13 a Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort on Maine ...... 1181 119 Vienna Trieste .. 14 10 14 20 Petersburgh Berlin 3211 Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples Palermo Messina 48} 48} 25 55 25 56 25 55 481 48f 25 60 25 60 25 60 40/ 1201 1201 62 621 Lisbon.. Oporto THIS DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. The supply of English wheat fresh up to this morning's market was very moderate. A few dry samples were taken off at the full prices of Monday last; otherwise the trade ruled heavy, at barely late rates, 'lho show of aamples of foreign wheat was somowhat ex tensive, are, all descriptions moved off slowly at about pre vious currencies. Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request, yet no quotable change took place in their value. Really fino samples of barley were firm in price; but all other kinds sold heavily at drooping rates. Malt was a dull inquiry, and prices were with d;ffioulty maintained. The demand for oats was in a sluggish state ; neverthe less, the quotations ruled tolerably firm. In beans and peas sales progressed slowly, at the late decline in their value. The inquiry for flour was somewhat restricted. Com pared with Monday, however, scarcely any altoration was of served in the quotations. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. 2,600 1 2,620 1 910 Backe. Barley. 2. Malt. Oats. Flour. Irish ..- .20 , ..._ ~ 730 . _ Foreign 5,840 1 210 sks. English 0 1 1 41,640 brie. BOROUGH HOP. Our market is still devoid of animation. The business doing is confined to actual wants; nevertheless, prices rule firm. ___ New Mid and East Kents 150 s to 206 s per cwt. New Weald of Kanto l4os 170 s II New Sussex l3ss 160 s COLONIAL. TEA.—The dealings have been to average extent, and prices generally are well supported for good and medium qualities, SUGAR.—Tho market has remained dull, and the few dealings recorded have been at slightly reduced prices. Refined descriptions, however, have been in moderate favour at steady rates. COFFER —Operations in colonial descriptions have been m oderately active, and good and fine qualities of plantation Ceylon realise fully l ate quotations. RicE.—There has b een a very limited amount of business recorded, and to effect sales h o ld ers have been compel l e d t o slightly reduce prices : SALTPETRE.—Businesw has been dull, and quotations remain nominally unaltered. TALLOW.--The market has continued dull, and the ope rations for both present and forward delivery have been on the most limited scale. P.Y.C. on t h e spo t i s quoted 478 64 to 48. per cwt. 56s to 56s 3d ; March delivery, 46 s ; an d l ast 3 months, but they will convey—though still inadequately —the ex pression of our devoted loyalty. And in the presence of this sacred sorrow I am satisfied it will be the desire of your lordships, the desire of all, on all sides of the house —not only of this but of the other House of Parliament—to con tribute all in their power to spare her Majesty one addi tional pang under the affliction that presses so heavily upon her. (Hear.) On my own part, and en the part of those with whom I hae e the honour of acting, such I am satisfied is the spirit in which we shall enter on the business of this session —(hear, hear.)—arid I earnestly trust—as from the tenonr of the Royal Speech I am induced h-pefully to believe—that her Majesty's Ministers are disposed to meet us in the same spirit—(hear, hear)—that they are disposed rather to initiate those useful and practical measures in which all can alike join harmoniously and cordially, and to abstain from bringing forward themselves, as well as to discourage others from broaching, those agitating topics and more violent controversies which by their pos sible result might add to the cares and anxieties of the So vereign. (Cheers.) I make this declaration with the snore satisfaction, because on the next important topic adverted to in her Majesty's Speech I am able not only to abstain from any objection, but am prepared to give the Govern ment a cordial approval and support in its policy in refer ence to the affairs of the United States. (Cheers.) I make that statement not only in reference to the course the Go vernment has pursued in respect to the events that have occurred in America, and from which it was at one time too probable we should be involved in a war in which, of all others, we have most interest in remaining neutral; I ap prove the neutrality the Government has pledged itself to maintain, in the unhappy struggle between the Northern and Southern States of America. If, indeed, there has been any deviation from that neutrality, it has been in favour of that portion of the States with which we still to continue to hold diplomatic relations. Except during the short period in which war was imminent, we have in no case laid any ob stacle in the way of the exportation of arms and ammuni tion. The exportation was sanctioned to both parties, but, practically, that sanction was most favourable to the Go vernment of the Northern States. Again, we have given to the Federal Government a greater advantage than it has claimed for itself, because we have adm tted what it has it self denied—that it is actually at war ; and as a bellige rent it can exercise rights which, except as a belligerent, it could not claim. We have given the Federal Government far more than it required; and by an act of which it has grievously complained it is in a far better position than it has stated itself to be. We have also submitted, and sub mitted without a murmur, to the interruption of our trade caused by this war. And this reflects the highest credit on the good sense and the patriotism of the working men of the manufacturing population of this country. Ido not speak so much of the master manufacturers, because a cessation of our cotton supply could not have occurred more op portunely for our manufacturing interest than at the present moment, when all the foreign markets are flooded with cotton goods. Had there been no cessation of the sup ply of cotton, an intermission of productive activity would have been practically necessary. But on the working men who, by this suspension, incur the loss of their daily earn ings, the interrwetion of trade has a melancholy effect ; and I give them the greatest possible credit for the manner in which they have submitted, without a murmur, to the con sequences of a blockade which the intervention of the Go vernment could immediately have removed. As I concur with the course her Majesty's Government has pursued, I do not ask them to deviate from it ; but I think the time is not yet come when the Government should recog nise the so far successful revolt of the seceded States. But while I think we should be prepared to recognise a Govern ment accepted by a whole country, we should be careful not prematurely to recognise what may be an independent Go vernment now, but may not hereafter have the power to maintain its independence. I should not, therefore, call on the Government to go further than it has done in treating both parties impartially as belligerents ; but I hope her Majesty's Government will be able to satisfy the country on one point—a point of great importance, and one on which they alone have authentic information. It is. how far the blockade we have recognised has been iollft _ride and effective. Ido not think, as long as the war lasts, a block , ade, hether continued or not, would have any material on the supply of cotton. And ultimately, as good often pro ceeds from evil, lam not sure but the continuance of the I American difficulty may place us in a mere advantageous position by enabling us to find a more constant supply front other sources, and rendering us less exclusively dependent on the cotton-growing States. But I think it is important we should have from her Majesty's Government the infor mation that can be furnished by the admiral on the station and the British consuls of how many vessels have broken the blockade, that we may be able to judge how far it ought to be recognised. While I give full credit to her Majesty's Government not only for the course they have pursued, but for the prompt ness with which, when war was imminent, they sent out the reinforcements that were absolutely necessary to resist ag gression in Canada, I rejoice to find that in the speech jus tice is done to the spirit and unanimity with which all classes of her Majesty's subjects in our Norte American provinces came forward and expressed their determination at all hazards—and the hazard of war, in the first instance, would have fallen upon themselves—to maintain their in dependence, and support the honour and dignity of the British Crown. (Cheers.) If there be one thing more than another which will tend to secure peaceful relations and a rood understanding between this country and the United States it is the knowledge which the Americans must now have acquired of the utter delusion into which those per sons fell who imagined that Canada and the other British provinces in North America were only eager for annexation to the United States, and that Great Britain would never venture upon a war with America because she would al ways fear the willing annexation of Canada. (Hear.) That delusion is, I hope, now dissipated for ever, and its dissipa tion will form an important element in our future relations with America, as tending to secure us against the dangers of war with that country. (Rear.) I cannot pass over this part of the subject without expressing my unaffected con currence with the testimony borne by my noble friend who seconded the Address to the honourable and loyal part which has been played upon this occasion by the French Government. (Hear.) I have not been slow upon other occasions, when I thought that the conduct of that Govern ment was not as straightforward and just towards us as we might have expected, to express my opinion to that effect, and I have the greater pleasure, therefore, in being able to state my conviction that nothing could be more frank, more loyal, or more kindly than the intervention which, at the instigation of the Emperor of the French, M. de Thouvenel undertook in the letter which he wrote upon this occasion. (Cheers.) I cannot say what icfluence that letter may have had upon the ultimate decision of the American Govern ment, but this I will say, it is a matter of the highest satis faction that that letter, followed by similar despatches from other Courts of Europe, showed to the world at large that in making our demands we were only requiring that which we could not have refrained from demanding without forfeiting our character as an independent Power and sacrificing the honour of the country. (Hear, hear.) When the English people first received the news of the capture of the Trent, a certain amount of indignation was displayed, but there was a calm and unanimous determination to await the decision byd it h i a d n b t e e e r n • whether l t a hi w s ; capture do w n a o s capture was borne out by international law, found that that t w h a e r r s e a d t o a s n a d y j t u l s a t t i fi if e or even by precedents taken from our own history—though Englishmen would have had a keen ense of the injury and the insult inSicted upon them—they would have bowed to the majesty of the law, and would have submitted to the seizure as a legitimate exercise of belligerent rights. But from the moment when it was clearly ascertained that no in ternatienal law sanctioned such an act, that no precedent could be discovered to sanction, or even to palliate, the con duct of the American commander—from that moment the country, equally as one man, determined that reparation and apology must he had. (Cheers.) They adopted that determination not in i )assion, not in anger, not in fierce excitement, rejoicing in the prospect of war, at which, indeed, they shuddered with abhorrence, but in the per formance of a grave, serious, imperative duty —one from which, however painfu l, the y could not shri nk, because, great as might be the horrors of war, greater still would lords, while I have thus feebly attempted to convey wishncesi c a o n u d ld b l y ook with be the ignominy of forfeiting the national honour. (Cheers.) My his Majesty the Em view of the conduct pursued by this country, by our peror of equal satisfac tion upon the course taken by the Federal Government. (Hear) I believe that the maxims which regulate private Nmyorth American themeriFcraennchP,rolvi society are not inapplicable among nations ; and speaking to an assembly of high-minded men, I am certain that there is not one of your lordships who, if it were made clear that you had offended or injured any person with whom you had been on intimate relations, would not feel that the most honourable course was to anticipate any possible require ment from the other side, and to tender on the instant a frank and manly apology; and the more ample, the more speedy, and the more frank was the apology the higher would he who made it stand in the estimation of all honour able men. (Cheers.) Applying the principle to nations, I cannot but express my deep regret that when the American Secretary of State was convinced, as he was long before the termination of these negotiations, that thecapture was illegal he should have kept the persons captured for a considerable time in all the rigours of a not very merciful imprison ment, and that he not only hesitated to grant the reparation which in honour and in justice was due—l am speaking, of course, of the American Government in general—but should have sanctioned language which was wholly unwarranted by facts, and permitted impressions to go abroad ca lculated to excite the most bitter animosity between the people of the two countries. (Hear, hear.) Lastly, I think it greatly to be regretted that, having made up his mind thatof State reparation and apology were necessary, the American Secretary should have waited until the formal demandtu waiting not to s was made not privately, but officially and formally, h consider how much reparation he s hould give but how smalla measure of reparation would ea, B tisfy the imperative d e - • ch de mands of Great Britain. (Cheers.) By the course which they pursued theFedera lGover nment have placed th emse l ves and an unworthy p os iti on , and their people in an un di gnified and have shown that they a p ologised not from a sense ofjus tice, but on a demand backed by force and that they only gave the reparation we asked for because they knew that this coun t r y wo u ld be satisfied with nothi ng less. My lords, I am no t about to enter upon any of those v exe d quest i ons o f inter., orth aable uth ; tzell, Cora- rend, ;hal; fi g ht oss et of n 000, 121 13 4$ i