The Sun. — London, England, 1862-03-18 00:00:00

MR- 3.lOl$'EY .31A_RKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocx. Bu , ine . ss in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days has continued moderately active. Tea, however, has shown no material change in values, while a fair demand has been experienced for sug a. and coffee at enhanced rates. Rice has been dull, while there has been an Increased inquiry for saltpetre, and prices have consequently shown an upward tendency. Tallow has been rather largely dealt in, particularly on speculative account, and prices, which at one time were rather depressed, have since recovered. P.Y.C., on the spot, being quoted 465., and last three months delivery, 48s. per cwt. In the Liverpool Cotton Market 'yesterday busi teas was moderately active, and prices were firm. The sales were 7,000 bales, About L 77,000 in gold was sent into the Bank yesterday. The Seine, from the West Indies, has brought £ 2 07,855 in specie. The Tagus, for Lisbon, has taken £17,788 in specie A remittance of £2,000 has been received to-day for the Ecuatorian dividends. The demand for money to-day is quiet, and the rates continue easy. The traffic receipts of the Great Western Rail 'way of Canada for the week ending the 28th ult. amounted to £9,802, against £9,056 last year. At the adjourned meeting to-day of the creditors of Messrs. Froom, Gregory, and Co., machine mer chants, of St Petersburg and Moscow, it appears that, according to the amended balance sheet, the liabilities of the firm are £68,134, and the assets 440,752, or about lls. 11-id. in the pound. An improvement of fully s per cent. has taken place in the market for Public Securities to-day. A purchase of £lOO,OOO stock was effected at an early hour, which promoted a buoyant feeling, and Consols advanced—via., to 931 for transfer, and to 931 94 for the 10th proximo. The New Threes and the Reduced are firmer at 921 Q ; Exchequer Bills remain at 19s. to 225. prem. ; Bank Stock is 2381 and 239 ; and India 5 per Cent. has improved to 1071 and 108 k. An average amount of business has taken place in oreign Market, and prices continue firm. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 861 4 ; ditto, 1858, 721 731 ; the £lOO Bonds are 751 ; Mexican are firm at 341 ; the Moorish Loan has improved to 51 prem. ; Italian to 67 ; and Buenos Ayres to 94 ; New Granada 2 per Cents. are 261. In the Railway Share Market business has been somewhat restricted, and the few bargains recorded Eire mostly at reduced rates. Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, South Westerns, and South Easterns have declined ss. ; Great Westerns and Midlands, I °s• ; and Caledonians, and London and Blackwall, £ l . South Wales, however, have improved 10s. ; the other lines dealt in remained at about previous prices, The Foreign and Colonial undertakings show little change of importance. Great Luxemburg tealise 111 12 ; Royal Danish,l44 ; Bahia and San Francisco, 171 ; San Paulo, 6t s ; Great Western of Canada, 1314; East Indian, 1024 2; and Great India ~ "eninsula, 1011. Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are flat. London Chartered of Australia declined 10s.; London and County 103.; and Union of London 6s • Ottoman Bank improved 5 5. , and Mad ras -Irrigati on realise 3.,1 ~, R BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 921 / 3 per Cent. Consols •Annuities tfevr 3 per Cent. Annuities New 2 per Cent. Annuities 77/ India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto 51 per Cent lO7l 8 71 !).r;,, ends £l,OOO 27 pm Bunk Stock for Account 240 C Jim's for Account, April 10 9S India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent' March. 1 June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... -- 19 Ditto £5OO bitto Small — 1 22 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, S per Cent., 1839 & 1859 lOO Ditto k per Cent, 1860 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Ditto Account 9l Chitian 6 per Cent Ditto 4 3 / 4 per Cent 8 7 3 /4 Equador New Consolidated Greek .......................... 81 Grenada Active Do. Ex over -due Coups. & Hectares loa Italian, 5 per Cent. (Maremmana H. Scrip) 11 Mexican, 3 per Cent Ditto Acco.lut Imperial Moorish Scrip 5 3 /4 New Grenada, 2 per Cent Veruvian 4 3 / 4 p er Cent • • Ditto Account Spanish 3 tP ' Per Cent Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded Turkish 6 per Cent — Ditto Account Ditto New Loan Ditto Account 73/ 2R 3 3 / 4 213 a 2 3 / 4 1 I Ditto £lOO 80nd 5.,., Ditto Guaratteed, 4 per Cent. Venezuela, 3 per Cent....... Ditto Account .................. ... , 241 Dividends on th e abov e payable in London. Dutch 21- per Cent., Exchange 12 Gu11... Ditto Account .. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1361 .... 67 THREE O'CLOCK. t Consols, Money 93/ 4 Ditto April Account SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—NoNDAy. _ _ Towards the close, 3 to 1 was taken about Pagoda for the Warwick Handicap ; Tolurno was the only other horse mentioned.—Hadji Stavros was much inquired after for the Chester Cup; the highest offer we heard was 100 to 6.-- For the Northamptonshire Stakes, 100 to 7 was taken about Schism; and the same price would have been taken about Rapparee, but 100 to 8 was refused. 20 to 1 was taken 4 g ainst Agag, when it could be o bt a i ne d ; b u t Prince Plausible is rather on the decline, 25 to 1 being laid.—Last Monday as much as 7 to 1 was laid against Old Calabar. Luring the last week he appeared to be returning to his old position. To-day, 400 to 100 was laid; and, judging from appearance, any one might have been accommodated With 900 to 200. Closing prices : WARWICK HANDICAP. 3to 1 agst Pagoda (taken) GREAT NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STARES. 100 to 8 agst Rapparee (offered) 100 to 7 agst Schism (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Dusk (taken) 20 to 1 agst Agag (taken) .500 to 20 agst Prince Plausible (taken) CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP. 100 to 6 agst Suburban (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 4to 1 agst Old Calabar (taken and offered) to 1 aget The Marquis (offered) 12 to 1 agst Hubert (offered) CHESTER CUP. 100 to 6 aget Hadji Stavros (taken) 20 to 1 agst Agag (taken) 30 to 1 agst Fairwater (taken) THE DERBY. 12 to 1 agst Old Calabar (offered) lb to 1 agst Ensign (taken) 30 to 1 agst Zetland (taken) 40 to 1 agst Cellarius (taken) COVENTRY RACES—YEsTERDAT. The Coventry Handicap Plate of 25 soya, added to a sweep• Stakes of 3 sovs each ; winners extra. One mile. 26 subs. Mr. Hunt's Jacob (late Boniface), 5 yrs, 7st (E. Thomas) 1 W. Bennett's Zingari 5 yrs, 7st 41b (H. Grimshaw) 2 Mr. T. Wright's Twinkle, 4 yrs, 7st 21b.... (H. Taylor) 3 1 , 1 r• Murphy's Leonora, 3 yrs, Est 41b (Williamson) 4 C aptain H. Rhys's Cambria, 6 yrs, 6st 61b.. (W. Jones) 5 The Coventry Handicap of 40 sovs, added to a sweepstakes of 10 soya each ; winners extra. One mile and a half. 21 subs. 14 '. S. Jacobs' The Don, 5 yrs, Oat 121 b .. (Roper) 1 Mr. Hawkesley's Arab, 3 yrs, 6st 41b (H. laylor) 2 Mr. E. Mills's Knutsford, 4 yrs, Bst 41b (H Grimshaw) 3 Mr. Hunt's Jacob. 5 yrs, 7st, 71b.......... (E. Thomas) 4 Mr. T. Stevens' Violet, 3 yrs, 6st ...... Mr. R. B uckley ' s Wynnstay, 4 y rs , Bst 101 b .. (Matley) 6 han dicap Hurdle Race of 40 sous, added to a sweepstakes of 5 sous each ; winners extra. Two miles, over 6 flights Of hurdles. 22 subs. Mr. Bennett's Butterfly, 6 yrs , lOst 101 b (G. Holman) 1 rr Mr. E. W. Taylor's Knuston, 4 yrs, 9st (Page) 2 Mr. Adams's Northam, 4 yrs, 9st 101 b .. (J. Holtman) 3 Mr. S. Ilaughton's Dora, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b (J. Nightingall) 4 Nightingale, Emily Harris, and Marchioness also ran. The Craven Steeplechase of 60 soya, added to a sweepstakes of 10 sous each ; winners extra. About four miles. 20 subs. B. Land's Ascot, aged. Ost 101 b (F. Martin) 1 uirr: L y n , udson' s P'ln e 'e aged, 105 t.... (Gr. Holman) 2 Ir. a Oma r Pach aPP 'cl,lOst 41b Nightingall) and Pitl-paff Harriett 3, aged, ran. Handicap Steeplechase of 40 sous, added to a sweepstakes of 5 goys each ; winners extra. Two miles. 13 subs. _ r lr. Nighting a l e ' s Catherine, 5 yrs, 9st 71b (Owner) 1 Nar: B. 4 0 b Lau erts ci o ,: ' Bri a s e,S Wilful, 5 yrs, 9st 71b (Whittenham) 2 yrs, 9sl 121 b .. (F. Martin) 0 SHARE 111-A.RKET-(THIS DAY.) ORDINARY, SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. V01.,8ir., and Str. Val ; Blyth and Tyne Bost.,Sleaf.,and dAJo !Bristol and Exeter .„ !Caledonian !C,,rk and Bandon !Cornwall Do .A c A ,t4ets no (By! Do. B till6p c.p an.hasl (been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast dune. Dun.,Pertli,&Ab. June East A nediaci Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A stock t ; Do Bdo do DoNw A, late ET33ds East Suffolk Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin., Perth, & Dundee GlasE. and S. Western. 'GreatNrthn.ol Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do t. S. an ; W. of Ireland - IGreat Western Do Str Val gua. stock Irish South Eastern .. Lancashire ,t Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat, and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western L'derry & Coleraine .. L'derry ,t Enniskillen. Ilan., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do shares Iretropoli tan Midland Do New Do Birming. 6a Derby Mid, Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent _ . l Do Cray Line Newcastle and Carlisle Newry, Warnpt, Norfolk North British N or.Dev.Rail ,tl3k. stock Do A stk ; A revs no d till 11 pc. has been pdß Do B stock Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York North London Do new North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Not. Gran. Rl. & Canal Portsmouth Rhs mney acottish Central Scot. N. E., Aber. stock Do Scat. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union Sittingbourne & Sheer South Devon S. Durham & Lane. Un South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok. Stockton & Darlington Do _ Do New, 1860 Taff Vale.. Do Pref. No. 1 Thames 11 avenDk&Rail Ulster Do Do Vale of heath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny Watertord tz Limerick West Cornwall West London Do Ist class Do 2d class W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland Oxtord Do Newport Do Hereford 48 49 44 46 89 91 181 894 81 9} LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railwa. Paid. Leasing Closing Business ys 1 Co. s Price. Done. - Bedford and Illetchley, all Ln.&N.W Birkenhead.. Buckingh -ro:hre. Chester & Holyhead.. 100 Do. 54 56 Do. siper cent 100 Do. Do. 5 „ 100 Do.- •.• 112 114 Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 1.02 104 Colchester, Stour Val. 100 E.U.&E.O E. Lincolnsh. pr c. 100 Gt. North. 138 140 E.TJnion,llarv7ichShs all E,Counts, 4 44 Do. Woodbridge.... 100 • • • • Gls.Barr.&Neils.Drct. 100 Caledon Do. new Gloster & Dean Forest all Gt. West. Hull and Selby all Yk.N. Mid 110 112 Do. halves Do. quarters Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Ln.&N.W 197 202 199 Lon. and Chat. Ext. B 6 per cent .... all Lon.&Cht 11 4 12 llf Do. Bromley, 6 1 per c. all Do . London & Greenwich 100 S. Eastern 62 64 Do. Preferen Lon.,Tilb.& ~`,lend 100 Peto &Co B3 85 Lowestoft gua. 4 p c.. 100 Norfolk Do fi per cent lOO Do.• Mnc.,Bxtn.,& Matlock all LNW& M 34 Mid. Bradford Prefer ence stock Newmarkt, BuryEx 1 5. 5.6. E Counts. p p,na. 5 per cent... Northn.&Eastn. sp. c. all Do. Do. 6 per cent. .... all IDo. Do. Fixed sp. c.... all Do. N. Eastn—Hartlepool 1( 0 N. E. Ber North Western Preston and Wyre. all L &N.W ] L. y k. 43 45 Do. 4 shares A. all ADo. ••• • .- • Roystn.Hitch.& Shep. 100 fGt.North. 135 137 Shrewsby & Hereford 100 •T Brassey 121 123 Do. Do. South Staffordshire Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. 93 95 Wimbledn t Croydon all L.&Brgtn 84 9i PREFERENCE SHARES. ( Closing Business Railways. Paid. Prices. Done. 21 Blythe and Tyne 10 p.c pref. issued at £5 all at Brie. & Exet. 4p.c. at 100 93 95 20 Do. shares st Cal ed on . dr. shrs, No. 2 100 6 1 'Cork & Bandon, 54 p. c. all 20 Cornwall, 5 percent all 20 21 64 Dun. Perth, & Aber Jun all 6 64 10 Do. Ist Class Pref. . - all at E. Angn. Class A. sp. c. 100 100 105 at h.. Coun. Ex. 5 p.c. No. 1 100 103 110 st Do No. 2 100 108 110 at Do. new 6p.c. at lOO 126 126 125 st Eastern Union, 4p. c— 100 82 88 st Do. sp. c. guar lOO st Edin.&Glas.s p.c. shares 100 110 112 at Do. 4p. c. guar. S. & U lOO 90 92 at Furness 5 per cent lOO st Glas.t g.West. gu. 5 p.c lOO at Great Northern, sp. c lOO 116 118 1164 17 at D 0.5 p.c.Redm.lop.c.pm lOO 112 114 113 at Do. 44 p. c. do lOO 104 106 at Do.sp.c.Redir.atsp.c.pm 100 107 109 10 Gt. Nh. of Scot. Ist pref. all st Gt. Sn. &W. (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO 97 99 50 Great West. (Berke and Hants Ext) 5 per cent 6 at Do. redeem. 44 p. ct.. _ 100 100 102 at Do. redeem. 4p. ct lOO 91 93 at Do. irredeem. 4p. ct lOO 91 93 at Do. sp. c. redeem. pref. 100 103 105 103 8 Do. Birm. pref. shares all 94 104 10 Do. ChesterB p.c. pl. shs all 174 184 10 Do. Chester 5 p.c. pf. she all 104 11 at Do. Birm. gear. stock lOO 75 77 264 Do. Chester guar. shares all 20 M 134 Do. do all 19 104 20 Do. do all 151 15 100 Lan. & Carl. 44 p.c. prel 80 at Lan. & Fork. 6 p.c. stock 100 138 140 st Do.Barnstst£s 2s 10d oe 100 at Do. 6p. c. (East Lan.) lOO st Do. 44 p. e. (Blackb. pur. 100 101 103 at Lon.&Brig.sp.r.".gu. No.l 100 114 116 at Do. 5 per centdo. No 2 100 114 116 at Do. 6 per cent. d 0... 100 135 140 et Do. 5 per cent. do. No. 4 100 114 116 st Do. 7 per cent pref. atk 100 152 156 at Do. 6 p.c. do(W.E.&C.P.) 100 129 133 at Do. 4 p c.st(div.detlil'6s 100 70 78 st Lon.Chat&Dov.sp.c.pf. 100 96 97 96 6 I at Lon. &N. W., Coy.. & Nuneaton, 5 per cent. 100 at Lon. & S.West. 7p. cent. at., late 3d shares 100 155 • at Do. 45 per cent , 100 2s 6d Do. (Prtsm. perpl. of 2s 6d 124 Londondy. & Cole. she all 124 f,ondony. & Ennis. she all 14 144 st Man. Sh. & Lin. 6 per ct. 100 125 127 6 Do. £6 at Do. 34 per cent. 10 Do. redeem. 6 per cent... 5 4 Ipm 124 Maryport & Carl. 4 pr. c. all .. 124 Do. 44 per cent. st Midland Con. 6p. o stk. 100 .. at Do.Con.Bris.& Bir. 6 p.c. 100 138 140 st Do. 44 p.c. pref. at. rdem tOO 1.019 104 102 at Do. 44 p.c. irredeemable 100 • 6 Do. 44 per cent. . all .. at Do.Leic. andHit4per ct 100 92 94 at Norflk. sp. c. Ex. at. 1840 100 _ a 5 Do. 54 p. c. Pref. at. 1847 100 .. at Do.sWay.ValEx.stlBl7 100 at Nort British, 5 per cent. 100 111 113 at Do. New gua. 5 per cent 100 109 111 10 Do. Bor. Un. g. prf. sha. 7 14 lipm 10 Do. do. do. all .. • • at Nth.Dvn.Rail.&Dck.Co. 100 .. • • at N-East. Cons. pref. 4 p.c. 100 .. . • at Do. 44pr. ct. redeemable 100 .. • • at Do. G. N. E. 4p. ct. pref 100 100 102 17 Do. Berwick 4p. c. pref. Q. 13.4 97 99 20 Do. Leeds 6p. c. No. 1 13 1 4 d 124 Do. do. Quarters, 1848.. 9 25 Do. York, H. A. S. Purch. 10 . 20 North Staffordshire.... all 1 dis par 10 Rhymney Guarantee.. all st Scottish North-Eastern 34 p. c. pref. stock.... 100 • • • • at Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.c 100 t at Do. 7p. c. pref. stock 100 .. . • 10e. South Devon, Ann, 10s. all 135 140 10 Do. Fixed 44 per cent all 10 11 10. 6. South Eastern(Reading • Ann., 1.0.6) at Do. 45 per cent 3 at Do, Fixed 44 per cent 100 101 103 at South Wales, gua. 4p. C. 100 .. • • 91 st Do. 44 per cent at Do. do. 1859 lOO • . at Do. 5 per cent I st S. Yorkshire, 4p. c. gua. 100 85 87 20 Do. sp . c. g . im. 17 I p 2 25 Stock. & Dar. Asp. c all 274 284 3 25 D 2. B 6 p. c all 32 34 4 2 8 5 t Witted Do. At Kilk C ny, 5 6 p. pc all 4 3 2 2 34 45 43 at W. Mid.-Oxf tat gua stk 100 126 130 Do. 2d do st 100 120 125 0 at Do. Newport 5 p.c. pf.red. 100 101 103 at Do. Perpet.6 p. c. pf. 1866 100 122 125 st Do. till 1869 100 119 123 1 2 DOCKS. 3 stock CT . 4Meerreocit ................... 100 100 126 128 . 38 stock IE D ast a n d West In dia . stock London. ......... ... 100 6 8 ao stock t.S Katharine........... 100 60 62 1 st,ok ...... 100 99 10 1 0 , stock t1 t 1: 0 1; j i 100 2 ; Lord of the Manor Ellerton Independanco Eleven ran. WILLOUGHBY HANDICAP. Warminster Loiterer Prince Imperial Five ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 20 SOVS. Livingstone Dirt Cheap Won by three lengths. FARMERS' PLATE. Grace Darling 1 Mite, gelding Five ran. STAND HANDICAP. Necromancer Rossmore Arab Four ran. LATEST BETTING. NORTHAMPTON STARES. 13 to 1 agst Dusk (taken) 100 to 6 agst Prince Plausible (taken) CITY" AND SUBURBAN. 20 to 1 agst Camerino (taken) IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—THis EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. THE REVISED CODE. Lord GAGE presented several petitions against the Revised Code. Lord CHELMSFORD presented petitions from Essex and other places against the Revised Code. The Bishop of ROCHESTER presented petitions from places in his diocese to the same effect. Lord REDESDALE presented several petitions from Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. The Bishop of CHICHESTER presented petitions against the revised code, The Marquis of BATH also presented similar petitions. Petitions against the revised code were also presented by Lord Cranworth, Lord Wynford, the Marquis of Nor manby, and several other peers. Lord ST. LEONARDS gave notice that on a future day he should call the attention of their lordships to the system of examination proposed under the Revised Code. Lord OVERSTONE after presenting petititions said he hoped their lordships would continue to discuss the provi sions of the revised code for the purpose of improving it, and so arrive at a result which would give general satis faction raid •I i Closing Business Price. done. 1 8 84 7 924 9?1 1104 111 111 loi f 51 6 23/ / 3 /8/ 8 1 41 43 10 11 23 23 57} 68i 59 51 3J 41 91 93 32 324 103 105 117 f 1184 116 117 132 131 103 105 744 74i 58 60 104 109 58 60 124 126 46 47 94i 95 101 102 9 11 44 45 Of of 12b 1291 1 Ilp 99 101 68 70 67i 67i On 991 f I d 56 L 64 88 88i 102 103 41 lad 10 ni 128 130 48 50 106 108 46 48 365 371. 8$ 851 68i 69* 100 102 51 37 38Ai 8 9 145 5i 150 di P 55i 564 2i 3} *dip 90 93 129 132 33 35 911 321- 4 4 1171 18 1161 16 i 74f ; 2 1081 i 9 8f 584 I 124 i 54 46 94; f 101 f 2 if 9 1 129 i i 69 67j i 991 12k 13 87& 1021 Share 13.14 26 10 st st 50 20 10 10 6.4.0 1(16.41 12.10 THIRD EDITION. ported to the Privy Council was about 35, and it was not expected from them that they should extend examination to the length which was mentioned by the hon. member. GRAND JURY LAWS (IRELAND). Mr. BLAKE asked the Chief Secretary of Ireland whether it was his intention to introduce a bill during the present session for the reform of the grand jury laws in Ireland ? _ WYCOMBE ELECTION. CLOSE OF POLL--. 5 P.M. Mills .. Cameron Camden IN RE A. W. RIDER. .TILE SUN, LONDON, MESE) AN EVENING, iVI A. Re II 18, 1862. 220 158 1 Majority for Mills 62 COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) LAW IIV TELLIGEKCE.—(77tis Day.) This bankrupt had carried on business in Bevis Marks, Aldgate, and this was an application under the 112th sec tion, for release from custody. SUN OFFICE, Sevon o'clock. WARWICK.. RArES—(7his Day). (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) TRIAL STAKES. Camerino 1 Aurelian Cosmopolite Five ran. RACING STAKES. Queen Elizabeth Southerly Wind .. . Penn 3 Eight ran. HANDICAP PLATE OF 50 SOVS. WRITS OF HABEAS CORPUS IN HER MA JESTY'S POSSESSIONS ABROAD. The Duke of NEWCASTLE moved the second reading of this bill which was the remedy for certain inconvenien ces that arose during the proceedings that took place in connection with the case of the fugitive slave Anderson. The bill proposed that in any of her Majesty's possessions where there was a court similar to that of the Court of Queen's Bench in England, writs of habeas corpus should not be issued in this country. After a few words from Lord CHELMSFORD and the LORD CHANCELLOR, the bill was read a second time. OFFICERS' COMMISSIONS BILL. Earl DE GREY and RIPON moved the second reading of this bill, which was to relieve her Majesty of a great deal of labour. The measure proposed to relieve her Majesty from the trouble of affixing the royal sign manual to all commissions of officers of the army, militia, and the volunteer force. The labour of sign ing these commissions had greatly increased of late ; and in order to relieve the Crown from the purely formal pro ceeding, it proposed that, under cell am regulations, all commissions in future should be signed by the Commander in-Chief and the Secretary of State for War. The Earl of DERBY thought the bill was one that should be looked at carefully before it passed the house. He was aware of the unnecessary labour which was n6w thrown on the Crown, and therefore he did not offer the slightest objection to the bill; but he would suggest to the noble earl that when the Secretary of State for War signed the commissions, he should state that he did so in pur suance of her Majesty's sign manual. Earl DE GREY said the suggestion of the noble earl should be attended to. The bill was then read a second time. CON SOLIDATED FUND (LI8,000,000) BILL. This bill was read a second time. THE INSOLVENT COURT. Lord CHELMSFORD rose to call the attention of the house to the case of the clerks and officers of the late Insolvent Court who had been transferred to the Court of Bankruptcy under the Act passed in the last session of Par liament for amending the law relating to Bankruptcy and Insolvency in England. [LEFT SPEAKING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS—THIS EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. _ _ _ The Deeside Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. The following bills were considered and ordered for third reading :—Bradford Corporation Water; Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Additional Powers); and Weston super Mare Pier. PETITIONS. Several petitions were presented against the Revised Code; for a Reduction on the Duty on Fire Insurance ,• for the Adoption of the System of Election of Members of the Metropolitan Board of Works by Ratepayers generally, in favour of Parochial Assessment, &c., &c. ORDNANCE SURVEY. On the motion of Mr. ELLICE returns in connection with the subject of the Ordnance Surveys in England, Scotland, and Ireland, were ordered HARTLEPOOL RAILWAYS AND HARBOUR COMPANY. Mr. ROEBUCK, in presenting a petition from a share holder in the above company, stated that the company was established in 1853, and was authorised by Act of Parlia ment to raise £600,000. According to the statement made by the petitioner they had raised money to the extent of £2,000,000, and they were now bankrupt. Other breaches of faith were alleged, and the petition prayed that the directors of the company should be prosecuted. Mr. M. GIBSON explained that the Board of Trade sent instructions to public companies to supply them with financial returns • when these were received they were tabulated and laid before the house. If there was any criminality or fraud in these returns, the parties who made them, and not the Board of Trade, were liable. Mr. ROEBUCK hoped that the petition might be sent round with the votes of the house as a preliminary to a mo tion which he intended to make on the subject. THE SLAVE TRADE PAPERS. In reply to Mr. W. FORSTER, Mr. LAYARD said that the slave trade papers were in the hands of the printer, and he hoped to be able to lay them on the table at the end of next week. TILE SIKKIM EXPEDITION. _ _ ... Capt. STACPOOLE asked the Secretary of State for India whether the despatches relative to the Sikkim expe dition in India in February, 1861, had been received by her Majesty's Government; and, if so, was there any objection to their being laid upon the table of the house. Sir C. WOOD said that he would have no objection to produce the tlocuments in question, but he had not received them. ADMISSION TO SANDHURST. Mr. COKTIKCIFIZDTasked the Secretary of State for War why admissions to Sandhurst were not placed on the same footing as those toWoolwich, namelhoompetitive exa mination ? Sir G. LEWIS said that it was necessary that there should be a higher scientific training for the artillery than for regiments of the line, which was tie cause of the diffe rence alluded to by the hon. member. EXPORTATION OF ENGLISU SALT TO TILE - - 6NE e T I NE k (1d 7 `fT• Mr. J. TOLLEMA2H the President of the Board of Trade what steps had been take; by the Govern ment to put an end to the virtual prohibition against the exportation of English salt intc France; and whether there was a prospect of the trade in that article being placed, at an early period, on a more fiptcurable footing,in conformity with the spirit of the French treaty; whether instructions had been given to . ; her Majesty's Minister at Brussels to exercise due vigilance in obtaining from the Belgian Go vernment the measure of j u stice of admitting British trade to a full participation in Avy advantages granted to the trade of any other country ; whether it is not the fact that English vessels are still excluded from the conveyance of salt to Belgian Ports, whilst France has acquired, under her late treaty with Belgium, the right to carry salt to Belgian Ports, in French vessels, and that:they also enjoy a discount of seven per cent. on the duty of 275 francs per ton, levied on French Marine Salt so imported into Belgium : and, whether the Government had instructed Mr. Mallet, of the Board of Trade, who is now at Berlin, to obtain per mission for the transit of salt through the territory of the Zollverein, with bonding facilities in the Zollverein Ports for salt, so as to enable this country to send that article up the large rivers into Poland and Russia, which countries are new, to a great extent, supplied with Austrian salt. Mr. M. GIBSON said that already there had been a hope on the part of Government that the duty on Eng lish salt introduced into France would be reduced, and he believed that the delay which had taken place arose from it being considered necessary by the French Government to make an inquiry into the duty on salt in France as a preliminary. With regard to Belgium, the Government of that State had not treated England in the same way that she had done other countries in reference to this article of import; but from remonstrances made by the Government of this country, it was expected that the favoured nation clause would be extended to England. No instructions had been given to Mr. Mallet on the subject. INSPECTORS OF SCHOOLS. Mr. STANHOP E asked the Vice-President of the Com mitteee of Council of Education, if he hau endeavoured to ascertain from those inspectors of schools who reported of the schools inspected in 1860 that the follow ing subjects were taught excellently, well, er fairly, —reading in 89 per cent., writing in 90 per cent., arithmetic in 83 per cent. ; whether they applied that test to the merits of the teachers or of the scholars; and whether if they applied it to the Scholars, they applied it to the whole of the school or only to the upper classes. Mr. LOWE said that the number of inspectors who re Sir R. PEEL said it was intended to introduce such a bill, but not until after Easter. EDUCATION, SCIENCE, AND ART. Lord HENRY LENNOX moved—" That this house was of opinion that, for th e pr e p ara tion of any estimates, and for the expenditure of any monies voted in aid of the British Museum, the National Gallery, and all other institu tions havin g for their object th e p romo ti on o f e d uca ti on , sc i enc e and art, one Minister of the Crown should be responsible to this house." He contended that this subject was one that should receive the careful consideration of the house, who were the keepers of the public purse. There had been a great increase in Ihe amount cf money voted for the ob jects to which his motion referred during the last few years, and in 1861-62 it was no less than £221,855. For the last 14 years the whole amount voted was £2,266,700, and a considerable portion of this amount was applied to purposes over which the house could exercise no control. He contended that it was essential to the public interest that such control should be vested in a body re sponsible to that house. He all u d e d t o th e B r itish Museum, which he described as being in a crumbling condition, the National Gallery, and other institutions, which displayed a most unsatisfactory s t a t e o f things, and showed the necessity for their supervision by a body who would be responsible for their acts. He went in detail through the different commissions that had reported on this subject, to show particularly that a reform in regard to the British Museum was necessary. He contended also that the British Museum was not conducted in conformity with the expressed wishes of the house on pre vious occasions. In support of this statement, he adverted to different debates which had taken place when the esti mates were under discussion. It had been said that they ought not to interfere with th e t rus t ees o f th e i ns tit u ti on , but it was the first time that Parliament had been squeamish about vested rights when public interest was concerned. He analysed the constitution of the board of trustees, ex officio and otherwise, to show that an alteration of a very sweep ing character should be introduced in order to render this board efficient. With respect to the family trustees, he said they were a most mysterious and anomalous body, for they were appoin , ed custodians of the property which the ancestors or relatives had sold to the country. (Laughter.) [LEFT SPEARING.] LONDON GAZETTE.—(This Even:fig). DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 17. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Horace Fitz G erald, Esq., to be Puisne Judge for the Island of Trinidad; Edward Laborde, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary and Re gistrar of Deeds for the Island of St. Vincent; and James Mayer Grant, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary for the Island of St. Lucia. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MARCH 18. 2d Regiment of Life Guards — William Samuel McMahon, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub . Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Alleyne, who retires. Lynch, Gent., to be cild, phraometed. rd Coote, from 29th 6th 4th Cornet, Dragoon Dragoon by purchase, Guards — John c e Guards — Captain Foote, to be Captain, vice B re vet - Major Charles Potts Rosser, who exchanges, rece i ving former difference be tween Cavalry and Infantry. 3d Hussars—Walter Henry St a rkey, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Webb, app oi nted to 45th Foot. sth Lancers—Edward Phil i pp e Mackenzie, Gent., to be iD ho Burgh Cornet, by purchase, vice Sadlier, promoted. 6th Dragoons—Captain John Evans, from 9th Lancers, to be Captain, vice John Hardy, who exchanges. 9th Lancers—Captain John Hardy, from 6th Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Johu Evans, who exchanges. 12th Lancers—Cornet Henry J. Russell Cruise has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his commission; John Edward Pearce Hooper, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Henry J. Russell Cruise, who has retired. 16th Lancers—Godfrey Clement Kynnersley Baldwin,:Gent., late Lieutenant South Cork Light Infantry Militia, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice John Frederick Jeeves, who retires. Royal Artillery—Lieutenant Wm. Macaulay Glasgow has been permitted to resign his conallitision. Royal Engineers—Lieutenant Wm. Simeon Boileau to be Second Captain, vice Charl es A. Rice, who retires upon removedhalf -pay ;from Lieutee k n ‘ rniy, j st Lieutenant her axles has been y having no further and LieutepnuanrethCahsea,rlveisceFlHuduygehr occasion for his services. Cap 9 retires; and Lieutenant, by ;byGeorge Charles Keppel Grenadier Guards—Ensign to JHoehn b nr e syt L oc i n e he u c: t n n e a eni n et t y. t n wo d hb C oe pur chase, vice Fludyer ; William Ulick O'Connor, Viscount Castle-Cuffe, Page of Honour to her Majesty, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, without purchase. Coldstream Guards —George Gordon Macpherson, Esq., Page of Honour to her Majesty, to be Ensign and Lieu tenant, without purchase. 3d Foot—Ensign Joseph James Boardman Haydock to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice George Edward Rundle, who retires; Charles Edward Reeves, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Haydock. 12th Foot—John Albert Little, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Boddam, appointed to the 73d Foot. 16th Foot—Edwardl William Carleton, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bridger, appointed to the 83d Foot. 29th Foot—Captain and Brevet-Major Charles Potts Rosser. from the 6th Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Richard Coote, who exchanges. 38th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Robert De Burgh Riordan to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice Henderson, who resigns. 39th Foot—Ensign Chauney Arthur Taylor to be Lieute ' nant, by purchase, vice William Henry Palmer, who retires; Francis Shortt Arnott, Gent , to be Ensign, by purchase, vice raylor. 63d•Foot—Lieutenant Samuel James Nicholls to be Adju tant, vice Lieutenant Pye, who resigns that appoint- merit. 64th Foot—Lieutenant Henry V. Brooke, from the 95th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Frederick Edward Wilson, who exchanges ; Ensign Edward Joseph Jekyll, from the 15th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Anderson, promoted. 71st Foot—John William Dickson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Henry Gleed Dods, who retires. 73d Foot—Lieutenant Thomas William Shore Miles to be Captain, by purchase, vice Richard James Hereford, who retires; Ensign Henry Synge to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Miles; Ensign John Whetham Boddam, from the 12th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Synge. it Ist Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Rob6rt Adams, M.D., to be Assistant. Surgeon, vice Corbett, appointed to the Staff. 83d Foot—Ensign Augustus Goring Bridger, from the 16th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Frederick Ford, who retires. 95th Foot—Lieutenant Frederick Edward Wilson, from the 64th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Henry V. Brooke, who exchanges. 100th Foot—Quartermaster "William Hume, from half-pay 72d Foot, Garrison Quartermaster at Gibraltar (with local rank of Lieutenant), to be Quartermasters, vice George Grant, placed on half-pay. UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant John Briggs, from the Mili tary Train, to be Captain, without purchase. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.--Assistant-Surgeon Exham Long Hiffernan, from 19th Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Sur geon, vice Jean Valletonde Boissiere, M.D., who resigns; Assistant-Surgeon William Henry Corbett, M.D., from 81st Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, Tice Riordan, appointed to 38th Foot ; Assistant • Surgeon Hampden Healy Maclean, from 75th Foot, to be Staff Assistant- Surgeon, vice Adams. appointed to 81st Foot. The appointment of Assistant-Surgeon John Henry N. Bracken as Staff Assistant-Surgeon, on 28th January, 1862, to be on augmentation of establishment, and not vice Turner as then stated. VETERINARY DEPARTMENT—John Luke Augustine Poett, Gent., to be Acting Veterinary-Surgeon. BREVET. The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent on the death of General Sir James Douglas, G.C.8., Colonel of the 42d Foot, on the 6th March, 1862. Lieutenant-General Sir John M'Donald, Colo nel of 92d Foot, to be General. Major-General Thomas Gerrard Ball, Colonel of Bth Foot, to be Lieutenant-General. Brevet .Colonel Arthur Shirley, from Lieutenant-Colonel, half-pay Unattached, to be Major-General. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Campbell M'lntyre, C. 8,, Major 78th Foot, to be Colonel. Major Henry Warter Meredith, 41st Foot, to be Lieute nant-Colonel. Captain Edward Bowen Cooke, 83d Foot, to be Major. MEMORANDUM.—Lieutenant O'Neil Segrave, half-pay 'Unattached, has been permitted to retire from the Service by the sale of his commission under the conditions of the Horse Guards Circular Memorandum of Feb. 15. BANKRUPTS. George Ryland, farmer, Weatbromwich Frederick Gee, draper, Coventry Job Franks, tailor, Wi'lenhall James Page, builder, Moseley Henry Semmens, grocer, Helston, Cornwall Benj. and J. Roberts, manufacturing chemists, Robert Town, Yorkshire Peter Hancock, innkeeper, Swinton, Yorkshire George llearnshaw, publican, Wadshelf, Derbyshire Hen y W. Ansdell, commission merchant, Liverpool John R. Handyside, bookseller, Todmorden Wm. Smith, publican, Northampton Henry A. Barker, Northampton Titus Higgin, cattle dealer, Stockton John Would, coal dealer, Tattershall Robert Staintou, shoemaker, Cleethorpe George Key, grocer, Grantham Thomas Jordan, corn dealer, Harefield, Middlesex Joseph Stammers, grocer, Great Braxstead, Essex The Rev. Antoine Theophilo Marizals, Bloomsbury William Henry Plummer, warehouseman, Islington John Harrison, builder, Old Kent-road, Surrey James Rolfe and Themas Rolfe, tailors, Slough, Bucks William Henry Symblett , shipowner, Great Yarmouth George Boughey, tea agent , Fenchureh-street Robert M. Claypole, cork maker, Barnes, Surrey Charles Arnold, plait dealer , Dunstable, Herts John Stapley, potato salesman, Brighton Frances E s A. A. Windsor-terrace, Harrow-road Harrow road George F. Hodson, sail maker, Bermond se y Henry Kyerday, baker, Erith, Kent g and licensed refresh- George Ongley, 'blacking manufactu rer, M anc h es t er r o t t a a DEaepl Bethel -place, Camberwell o e n , me E n d t- m h u au n a d e F k r e a ap n e c r is M Bl a a n n e d h y e , a b te c r ardin James Francis Allen, beerseller, Manchester mercantileho clerk, Hoxton Robert Winn, gilder on glass and china, Birmingham Thomas Martin Brenton , mercer, Cornwall E. Benjamin Taylor, cabinetmaker, Peterborough John Charles E N Blaarl -place, Camberwell Richard Edward G H. s ck . m it a i n v , es d , ealerin Simeon Lilley, fog signal manufacturer, Birmingham George Chune, farmer, Shrewsbury John Whittington, coal dealer, Birmingham George R. Pemberton, major - gen. of her Majesty's In rail li nt r , ° o k outfitter, ;fidr, , In dian forces, Chertsey,. Surrey Jas. F. Stevens, b ri ck dealer, Croyd on Ann Holland, beer shop keeper, Barnsbury-park Wm. S. Stearman and Ellen Terry, bootmakers, Brighton Wm. Brown, cheesemonger , aCommercial-road East Henry Follett, wine agent, Broxbourne, Herts Thomas Stutter, pr inter, Church- s t ., B et h na l- green SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Wm. Wlntosh, fanner, Powillirnent, Kirkcudbright Matthew Barr, toy merchant, Ayr Wm. Macdonald, M.D., Glasgow Robert Pollock, nurseryman, K.ilmarnock George Ross, draper, Hamilton Robert Edgar, grocer, Dunse John Nl`Minn, farmer, Traildeet, Dumfres-shire Mr. Sargood supported.—This was the third application. The bankrupt had been connected in business with his brother, Thomas George Rider, who has absconded and been declared bankrupt, and in the belief that the above bankrupt (A. W. Rider) was about to leave this country a writ of capias was issued, on which he was arrested and lodged in the Queen's Bench Prison. The first application was refused, as proper notices had not been served, and on the last occasion his Honour intimated that he would not grant a release unless the bankrupt gave security. Mr. Brandon, Essex-street, appeared for the assignees, and took objection that as the bankrupt was in custody under an order of the Court of Queen's Bench to give bail the Court had no jurisdiction. His Honour held that the objection was good, and said that the bankrupt must apply to the Court above. The bankrupt was thereupon taken back to the Quee n ' s Bench prison, until released by the court above, or obtains his discharge under the proceedings against him in bank ruptcy. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) BOW-STREET. Charlotte Marsh, an elderly woman, was charged with obtaining a situation by means of a false character. Mr. Jas. Russell Williams said— I am a lodging house keeper, and reside at 14, Arundel-street, Strand. On the 26th of February I answered an advertisement for a cook, being in want of a person in that capacity in my establish ment, and on the fallowing day the prisoner presented her self to me. I enquired of her where she had last been in service, and she said at No. 28,Stratford-place, Camden town, in the family of a gentleman named Saws. She said she had resided there about a year and nine months, and that she left in consequence of a quarrel she had with one of the four servants that were kept by Mr. Saws. I told her I should want a reference, and she said she would go and see her late master and get permission for me to call. The prisoner then left, and the following morning she came to my house and told me her master was away from borne, and, as her mistress was uncertain, the gentle man hal written her a letter, which she handed to me. It was dated 28, Stratford-place, and signed "Chas. Saws." The letter was here read; it stated that Charlotte Marsh was an industrious, sober, and honest person, and also that she was a good cook. In consequence of that letter I engaged with the prisoner to enter my ser vice at £l6 per annum ; but in about a fort night or so after I found that the consumption of articles increased to an enormous extent. I became sus picious of the prisoner, and I began to search the place, when I found large quantities of butter, pickles, jam, and other articles secreted about— Mr. Corrie—You had better confine yourself at present to the charge against the prisoner, and not go into that of larceny. Did you send to Stratford-place P Witness—Yes, your worship. James Jones, manager to the last witness, said—l went by my employer's direction to 28, Stratford-place, and found a lady re siding there named Saws. Mr. Corrie—ls she here ? Witness—No, your worship. The prisoner has admitted that she had never lived at Stratford-place. Mr. Corrie—l don't know that the letter you produce was not written by Mr. Saws. You must have the lady and gentleman here. Prisoner—l have a right to a character from Mrs. Saws. I lived in her mother's service, and also in her's for three days. The prisoner was remanded. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. AIMATILT ON A WlFE.—Lawrence Sullivan, a labouring man, was charged with assaulting his wife as follows : Tbe wife said her husband, whom she had not seen for eight weeks, he leaving her to take care of the children, came into her room, and, 'without saying a word, rushed at her and struck her on the forehead, which bled very much. She made her escape from the room, and had her head dressed. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the complainant said she could not say whether her husband had anything in his hand. She had been separated from him for six months. She believed if it had not been for her father she would have been killed. A constable said the complainant was bleeding on the forehead. The prisoner told • him he did not know that he had struck his wife at all, as he was drunk. Prisoner said he might have shoved his wife. Mr. Tyrwhitt fined him 405., or a month. John Hartnett, who has before been in custody, was charged by Drascovich, 197 C, with stealing a large piece of cheese from the shop of Mr. Wm. Webb, of 440, Oxford street. He was remanded, THAMES. A Pnacious CourLa.—John Sullivan, a dirty and rough•looking fellow, was brought before Mr. Woolyrch, charged :with violently assaulting a woman of the town, named Margaret Maloney. The complainant said that she and the prisoner came from the same town in Ireland, and were distantly re lated. They had lived together off and on for some time. There was not an ounce of her flesh that was not beaten black and blue. Last night he came home oat of temper, and said take that, and struck her a violent blow on the head and knocked 1 her down, and when she was down kicked her. He had repeatedly said he would take away her life, and that he did not mind going to prison. He also Carew her down stairs and bruised every bone in her body, and if it had not been for her crinoline she would have been killed. The witness, like all the frail sisterhood, wore a huge crinoline, which any lady of title or fashion in the West might have envied. The prisoner here pointed to a scar on his forehead, and said :—She cut my head open with a teacup. She says my half a crown a day for dock labour is not enough to keep her. The complainant—He abuses me for not bringing horn e money enough. Frederick Martin, a police constable, No. 135 H, said he was called in to the lodgings of Mr. Sullivan and Mrs. Maloney, in Lambeth-street, Whitechapel, last night. Everything in the room was brokan and smashed up, the complainant was bleeding from the nose and mouth, and the man's clothes were torn. They were continually quar relling and fighting. Mr. Woolrych—They are a most disgraceful couple— wosthy of each other. The prisoner has committed a most cowardly assault, and he is sentenced to one month's im prisonment, and hard labour. THE ROBBERIES IN THE LONDON DOGS.—John Healey and Thomas Ward, labourers in the employ of the London Dock Company, were brought before Mr. Woolrych charged with stealing tea. There have been numerous convictions of dock labourers and others for stealing tea. On Saturday, the Bth instant, Mr. Selfe sentenced a fellow named Watson to six months imprisonment and hard labour for stealing 191 b. of tea, which he had ingeniously contrived to secrete about his person, and on Monday, the 10th instant, a labourer named Haggerty was found guilty by a jury at Middlesex Sessions, and sentenced to four months imprisonment and hard labour for bringing 31b. of tea out of the dock. Three summary convictions for stealing tea took place at this cow t last week. The officers have been called upon to ex ercise unusual vigilance in detecting the tea thieves, and yesterday they captured the prisoners, both labourers, as they were leaving the dock. On Healey, an old man, six ounces of black and green tea were found concealed in his pockets and neckerchief. Ward had managed to secrete fourteen ounces of tea about his person ; it was slang in front of him, to his waistband. In answer to Mr. Woolryoh, the officer said the prisoners would never be employed in the dock again on any account whatever. There were now 17 tea ships discharging their cargoes in the London Dock. Mr. Woolrych said the prisoners had been guilty of a very gross breach of trust and betrayal of confidence, and ought to protect, not plunder, their employers. He sen tenced them each to ten days' imprisonment and hard labour. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.--THIS DAY. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 18f 11 18/ Antwerp — 25 47k 25 50 Brussels — 25 47} 25 50 Hamburgh — 13 8 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort on Maine — 1181 Vienna . 13 95 Trieste .. 13 95 Petersburgh — 321 Berlin — Madrid; — 481 Cadiz Leghorn — 25 55 Milan — 25 60 Genoa — 25 60 13 81 26 32# 25 52i 25 55 119 k 14 0 14 0 321 48; 481 25 60 25 65 25 56 Naples Palermo Messina Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro Now York - 40 - 120 - 120 - 52} -52 f - - 40 120 120 62 63 84& 6} fi 51 69 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-YESTERDAY. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. THE REVISED CODE. Lord BELPER presented petitions from Derbyshire against the Revised Code. The Marquis of NORMANBY presented similar peti lions from Birmingham. The Earl of DERBY presented petitions to a similar effect. Lord REDESDALE presented numerous petitions from Warwickshire and Gloucestershire. THE NEAPOLITAN PROCLAMATION. The Marquis of NOR MANBY rose to move an address for copies or extracts of any despatches from Sir James Hudson, her Majesty's Minister at Turin, relating to Go vernment prosecutions of the press during the last two years ; also copies or extracts of any despatches from Sir Jvnes Hudson, or from Mr. Bonham, her Majesty's Consul at Naples, reporting the issue of cer tain proclamations or orders from Generals Cialdini and Vorelli, from Commandants Galateri, Narbone, De Vergili, Faieno, and others, whereby the population of vsrious portions of the Neapolitan territory were last year subjected to arbitrary military execution without any form of process and without any previous declaration of a state of siege ; and also copies er extracts of any despatches from Sir J. Hudson, calling the attention of her Majesty's Go vernment to statements of fact as to the condition of Southern Italy made by Neapolitan deputies in the Parliament of Turin, and reported in the official records of that assembly. the noble lord said he must refer to the statement made by the noble earl when he (the Marquis of Normanby) a few evenings ago was compelled to postpone his motion. The noble earl on that occasion did not feel inclined to accept entirely that which he had stated with respect to the pro clamation, and had implied that the document had been fabricated in the Italian newspaper in which it first appeared. That statement of the noble lord had not been withdrawn, although it had been in some measure destroyed, and he considered that had the document appeared in an English newspaper, the noble earl he felt satisfied would not have made such a charge. The Italian newspaper in question was a most respectable one, and not at all likely to act as the noble earl had supposed. The noble earl had on other occasions stated that the King of Piedmont had never in stituted prosecutions against Conservative journals, but had allowed them every liberty to state their opinion with out the slightest importance, but from information that had come into his possession he found that the King or his Government had instituted no less than six press prosecutions, the punishment inflicted in each case being fine or imprisonment. He must also object to another statement of the noble earl, in which he said there was no civil war in Naples, but that it was confined entirely to the Papal frontier. Now the papers that were continually arriving in this country from Italy plainly showed that that was not the case. News had even arrived that very morning of the taking forcible possession of a town, while the national guard of which remained passive. The result of the policy pursued in Parma, Modena, Tus cany, Bologna, and the Neapolitan provinces had been famine and military murder, the taxes had been increased, desertion was frequent, and discontent universal. Italy would, he believed, be yet independent and prosperous, but that would not take place until the impostures of the last three years had been exposed. Earl RUSSELL said he was sorry to trouble their lord. ships again on this sutject of the proclamation issued by Fantoni, but the statements made by his noble friend re quired some further explanation. The noble marquis had taken a course not very convenient, of referring to reports made of a speech delivered by him (the noble earl) in that house, and of criticising those statements. With regard to that debate, it arose, as his noble friend stated, out of a question from the noble earl opposite (Derby), acting as deputy for the noble marquis, whose inquiry was not con fined to the genuine character of the proclamation, but who spoke in terms of indignation of the Government for sanc tioning the proclamation. His noble friend had said that his (Earl Russell's) motives in his reply were twofold. The Marquis of NORM A.NBY—That was the impression they were intended to create. Earl RUSSELL—Then the house knew the impressions he intended to create better than he did himself. His object was certainly not twofold. He simply endeavoured to ac count for the proclamation, of which he had not received information, by the supposition that it could not be genuine. His noble friend said that he had charged the proprietors or editors of newspapers with forgery, He did not know at this time what words he exactly used, - but he did not mean to charge those gentlemen with forgery ; but he supposed it was very possible that that proclamation had been taken by them as not a genuine one, and published as if it were. He still adhered to that view. The Italian gentleman, the friend of the Lord Privy Seal, to whom the noble marquis alluded, referred, not to this proclamation, because he left Turin before it was issued, but to some incidents of a similar character which had happened some weeks previ ously. Now it appeared that the Government of Turin knew nothing whatever of the proclamation, nor did the Commander-in-Chief at Naples ; and yet that Government was to be blamed and held up to Europe as unworthy of respect on account of sanctioning that proclamation. He had since received a despatch from her Majesty's consul at Naples, and he would read it. It was written by Mr. Bonham and not by the Minister, and therefore it might be the more readily received with confidence by noble lords opposite. Mr. Bonham said,—" Naples, March 6. My Lord —I have the honour to report to your lordship that having seen in the Times of the 26th February a report of a conver sation in the House of Lords relative to a proclamation issued in these provinces, of which I had not previously heard, I called on Gen. La Marmora to ask some informa tion about it. His Excellency told me that the first he heard of it was an inquiry by telegraph from Turin respecting a proclamation said to have been issued by a Gen. Fantoni, there being no general of that name in the service. He at once proceeded, however, to investigate the matter, and found that a Major Fantoni, commanding a battalion, had in effect drawn up such a proclamation, and had it printed in Lucera. Having then submitted it to the general com manding the district, that offieer at once disapproved and disavowed it. It was set aside, and not acted on in any way. Some person, however, having obtained a copy, sent it, it would appear, to the Journal Armenia at Turin, in which it was published. His Excellency added that he had com municated all this by telegraph to Turin some days ago, and doubtless your lordship has been already informed of the circumstance by her Majesty's envoy at Turin. I, how ever, write to state to your lordship that this proclamation was not published in the official or any other journal in these provinces until just now, that its publication in the Armenia having attracted attention in England, it has been copied into the journal called the Tapolo d' Italia." Now, that was the proclamation which the noble marquis stated was circulated in all the public journals in Italy, and was taken as a genuine act of the Government sitting at Turin. That was the proclamation on which a grave charge was founded against the Government of Italy. He (the noble earl) entirely acquitted the Armenia of having invented that document, and of having been imposed upon by some one who did ; but he asked their lordships whether, considering the circumstances,there did not appear just suspicion that the editors of the Armenia must have known something of the proclamation. Was it not probable that they were per fectly aware, from the persons who sent it them, that the act of a major commanding a battalion was not approved of by the general of the district, and had not received any , official sanction? So much for the history of this proclam a- 1 tion; and he thought the noble earl his predecessor in office must know that neither her Majesty's minister at Turin nor our consul at Naples was to blame for not transmitting this proclamation, or abstaining from asking for any instruc tion the subject. His noble friend had gone on to ask several questions about other statements of his (Earl Russell's) with respect the press. Now what he stated on that subject passed between Count Cavour and himself in a conversation when they met at Nice. He supposed that as prosecutions of the press had not taken place there might be greater laxity. His noble friend's question related to matters which took place two years subsequently, in 1859. He knew well that after the battle of Solferino, when there was a question of signing the treaty of Villafranca, Count Cavour retired from office, and was not responsible for what took place. He did not think that the English Government was responsible (hear, hear), but it was with the Italian Go vernment themselves, and with regard to that subject her Majesty's representative at Turin said most justly that as all the prosecutions of the press were conducted according to the judicial form, that as the judges at Turin were ap pointed for life or during good behaviour, and that as there was an appeal to a higher court in case of a conviction, he did not consider it his duty to report to her Majesty's Government all the prosecutions of the press or the judg ments or sentences recorded. In that opinion he (the noble earl) thought our minister was perfectly correct. But with regard to other subjects he was afraid that he and his noble friend were at variance. His noble friend spoke of the prosecutions of the press and of the harsh measures that had been resorted to, and speaking of Naples measures had been taken cam sel e l) eu m t u e s v t em e r ryd a a r y k . he said not only legal but illegal u T p h o a n t m th i a g t h o t h b a e er t v h a e ti cas ou e t , h b a u t ftrheesh pap e r l (Earl t s us This and the publication of the Arenonia and two or three more papers at Turin showed that a great change had taken place. He remembered perfectly well, and so must his noble friend, when it was impossible that any paper could be pro secuted, because no man was allowed in those days to say anything at all in blameofretmheemMbienriesd when of e t n he th d a a t y v o e r ry of m th o e . mo derate paper Government of the da y , even in the most si mple and harm less ear He Journal des Debats w as not allowed in the era manner. the(H dominion of the King of Sardinia for fear it might induce great liberty of thought. That was the main and broad dif ference between Italy of past days and the Italy of the pre sent. Formerly not a word that any lover of freedom spoke could be published, and no man could venture to print any opinion in any newspaper that tended to the improvement of the laws or to the establishment of a liberal constitution. The fact now was that while there was a great deal of vio lence no doubt GII the side of these who were in favour of what had taken place in Italy, there was at the same time great liberty, or he should rather say great license, on the part of those who entertained opinions upon the other side, and who were obviously working for the restoration of the ' old state of things in Italy. (Hear.) His noble friend said that, notwithstanding the withdrawal of this proclamation, four women had been put to death for having too much bread in their possession. He had inquired into the truth of statement, and the only answer he got from her Majesty's Minister at Turin was that he could not find that any mem ber of the Italian Government had heard anything about it. The noble lord said that he (Earl Russell) had denied that there was a civil war raging in the south of Italy. He cer tainly did deny it. He admitted that there were bands of 20, 30, cr 40 declaring their wish for the restoration cf the old dynasty; but these men acted as brigands, they did not assemble as an army, they held no great town, and they possessed no great fortress. They merely dis turbed and destroyed. (Hear, hear.) They did all they could to prevent regular government from being carried on, but they did it by the same means that the brigands of old times had employed to create disturbances in the country. ([Tear, hear.) Every one knew that the Government of Naples had been so bad—though it was an object of his noble friend's worship—(laughter)—had been so bad in for mer times that brigandage was at all times prevalent ; the administration of justice so defective that men escaped by bribes from just punishment; and all the country so demo ralised that it was difficult for any new Government to re store order in less than a generation. 'With respect to the present state of the southern province, he would refer to the following communicat on from Mr. Bonham, dated Naples, March 17, 1862: "My Lord,—l have the honour to inform your lordship that the vice-consul at Brindisi reports the reappearance of brigands in that neighbourhood. Bands of marauders are a l so spo k en of as h av i ng made their appear ance in other districts. I asked General La Marmora yes terday what truth there was in these reports. His excel lency stated that bands had appeared in some places, but in small numbers. He added, Brigandage in this country is an affair of old date, and it is useless to flatter ourselves that it can be suppressed all at once. Until we improve our internal communication by the constructing of railroads and of common roads, and have en efficient and properly organised force of carbineers in the country, we cannot hope wholly to eradicate it ; but these brigand s are mere marau ders,and not in any way formidable or important as to num bers.' His excellency also stated that there had been as yet no disembarkation of adventurers from abroad." That was the statement of Gen. La Marmora, a man whom everyone must respect, and who was known to many officers in her Majesty's serviee, for he commanded the Piedmontese con tingent in the Crimean war. He (Earl Russell) believed that his statement was perfectly correct, and he believed also that General La Marmara was a man incapable of autho rising unnecessary cruelty. (Hear, hear.) But their lord ships knew that of the army that entered Naples under Garibaldi many joined the service of the King of Italy who were not brought up to regular military employment ; they shared the passions prevailing in Southern Italy, and their lordships knew from what occurred in 1799 and 1810 how violent those passions were on both sides. The noble lord said that cruelties had been committed, and he was afraid there was too much truth in the re-enactment of the old story of cruelty on the one side as well as the other. They knew that when Murat, who had been acknowledged King of Naples by every power in Europe, landed on the coast of Naples, not 24 hours elapsed before he was shot for being in arms against the Government; and was it to be wondered at that these brigands, who were in arms against the existing Government, had been treated with as much severity asMurat suffered. But with respect to these things, and with respect to the treatment of the press, the Government of Great Britain was not the Government which was to answer for the irregular putting down of brigandage, or for the man ner in which general liberty was dispensed. (Hear.) It was obvious to all men that with regard to all those liber ties which we respected, with regard to religious liberty for instance, the former government of Italy neveralluwed any professions of opinion, or any form of public worship which was not in conformity with the State religion. The noble lord knew perfectly well that while the noble lord and he were together in Tuscany, the Italians were not allowed to meet for public worship in religions other than that of the State ; and that was the mildest form of government in Italy. He (Earl Russell) had been told by Italians ofeduca tion and information that, although they were not molested fur not going to mass, they were not allowed to meet for the purpose of worship according to their own forms. They all knew that whether at Tuscany, Florence, or else where, persons were now allowed to entertain their own re ligious convictions, and to meet with persons of the same convictions for the purpose of public worship. (Hear.) They all knew, with regard to the pres', that there was great liberty, and they knew also that there was Parliamentary representation and a constitutional Government. All these things in the gross were the broad lines of distinc tion between the former government of Italy and the present ; and here it was that he and his noble friend differed. His noble friend regretted all that had passed in the last three years, and sighed for the days when no reli gious liberty existed, when the press was oppressed, when there was no constitutional government, and no represents ion of the people. (Cries of " No, no," from the Conserve.. tive benches) If all that had happened in the last three tyears were to be done away with, and the kingdom of the Two Sieilies, which existed four or five years ago, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and the Duchy of Modena were to be restored—if those happy times were to come, did his noble friend indulge in the delusion that the restored governments would act upon the principle that the present King of Italy had proclaimed, that they would venture to call Parliament together, that they would allow people to speak as much against the Government as the Italians now did, or that they would allow such freedom of expression by the newspapers as the _Armenia was able now to adopt ? If the noble lord believed this would be the case he was very much deceived abed. It was very well known that the late King, who was a shrewd man in a worldly sense, always said, in answer to the remonstrances of the English and French represents. tives as to the system of government carried on in Naples, " Your notions of government are quite incompatible with my rule in Naples. I know how to govern my own country, let them leave me alone and I will maintain my thron• against all who assail it ; but I know that if I adopt your notions I shall not be able to maintain my throne." To the day of his death he maintained his authority unimpaired, and no doubt if restored to the throne of Naples, the sort would, with filial piety, imitate the example of his father. The question was as between whether Italy should have such a government as that which now existed, or such an one as existed five years ago. He was ready to admit there had been great disorders and great severities practised, and that the party in power had in certain cases behaved with great unfairness to those who were under them, but the great question was one of liberty on the one hand, and of tyranny and bigotry on the other. That was the distinction between the two Governments, and whatever his noble friend might say, and whatever autho rities he might bring forward, he (Earl Russell) should re tain his conviction, and should put up an opposition prayer to that of the noble lord, and hope that the old form of go vernment might never be restored. (Cheers.) With regard to the papers for which his noble friend asked, the Govern ment had no despatches from Sir J. Hudson with regard to Government prosecutions, nor had Sir J. Hudson or Mr. Bonham made any allusion to the statements of the noble earl. They had from time to time transmitted newspapers c•mtaining the debates in the Italian Parliament, and he (Earl Russell) had read some of the speeches, in whi c h mem bers declared, and no doubt with great truth, that during the first months of the new kingdom affairs had been very much mismanaged at Naples, and that many errors had been committed. Those members exercised the right of criticism ; they criticised, as men should do in a free Parliament, the conduct of the Government, and if many of their strictures were just he trusted that they would pro duce amendment. (Hear.) With regard to General La Marmora, he trusted that he might be able, with 60,000 men under his command, to reduce Naples to order. (Cheers.) The Earl of MALMESBURY observed that those who were upon the C onserva ti ve s id e o f the house stood in what he must ca ll a very un f a i r pos iti on , b eca use ever since the Italian struggle began, no pains had been spared by the party whi c h sup p or t e d th e c ause of the King of Italy in falsely accusing them of being the enemies of b ahan liberty. ( H ear. ) t I o to took had continuedbe enin vaintrouble,th a acting n h himself se withl f for t.h f s o four greatest or fiv e months anxiety under the Government and under . the instructions deplored as much as any of their lord shipsutet p si o d l e icy of fr t o h m e h th o a u t s e. which Tru a e t , las in t de, estfahteistnhOebyleotefhrrieteenoivdp,yotrsoeieffect a reorganisation of Italy, whose upon . they adopted a ob tained, but evendalffteth. is 11th hour, and after the great and. important events which had taken place had been accom plished, ho claimed some credit for the policy the Govern ment of the noble earl then adopted. (H ear. ) If they had been successful, they believed that the present state of Naples would not have been what it now was. If they had a n n a d t lea th e s t n w o o r u th ld ern hav p e ro b v e in en ce a s liv o e f ug been rhe osss s l o u e fp c E c t e tu s n s r f o t u ph l ee , a nilrogor, powers,oa 0 v O e s m , t e t s a h i n e h d w h the approbation of a co n - I v t e a r n l Italy would, wi he h e o f u e felt a in v g e o o b f ta a i d n r ed op c o o f n h a l t o i o tu d t . io cri na e l a g r o . ; But they failed; and Austria, whom they wished to sup port in her lawful occupation of those territories which she held by treaty, must alone blame herself for the failure of their policy. N othing could be more false than to charge him, as he had often been charged by almost the whole press of this country, with unfair Austrian partialities ; for he defied any one who took the trouble to read the book he laid upon their lordships' table two years ago, to find one single word in any one of the despatches contained therein that showed unfair par tiality upon the one side or the other. He had reaped the fruits of his impartiality, for he had been blamed both by Italy and Austria, as the noble earl opposite had been blamed for his impartiality in the conduct of American affairs both by the North and the South. (Hear, hear.) He did not, however, fi n d f au lt with what had been sa id out of doors, for he was accustomed to see misrepresen ta tions for party purposes ; but he e o d their and deeply regretted to see that feeling introduced lordships' house, because in that hou se there were men w h o knew exactly what had vas . rath d er ne s e lp i r n es t passed—who knew perfectly well what the policy Con servative Government had the_ been, and who could not, if they spoke their o wn con victions, state with anything like truth that that Go vernment had been opposed to constitutional liberty in Italy. 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