The Sun. — London, England, 1860-02-20 00:00:00

DEPUTATIONS TO FHB CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER AND THE ERBSIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE. THE - PAPER "DUTY. On Saturday a deputation waited on the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, consisting of the following gentlemen :—Mr. Puller, M.P., Mr. E. Baines, M.P., Viscount Holmesdale, M.P., Mr. M. T. 'Smith, M.P., Mr. Norris, M.P., Mr. Adam Black, M.P., Baron Rothschild, MY., Frank Crossley, M.P., Mr. Aspinall Turner, M.P., Messrs. J oyn son , Cowan, W. Spicer, Barlow, SaunderS, Hall, Wrig ley, Cnrtis, Longman, Evans, Hollingsworth, Bur bidge,'Smith, Magnay, Sze- , Thee object of the deputation may be gathered from the following memorial which was handed to the right hon. gentleman : - "That the:materials from which paper has hitherto been ins.nufactured are almost exclusively waste products, such as rags, and the refuse from the linen and cotton manufac tures ; ultholigh straw has also been employed for the com monest descriptions of paper. " That notwithstanding the long continued high price of ra gs, both in this country and in America, and the large reward offered for, the discovery of any substitute for them as a paper-making material, none has been discovered. "That the discovery of any material so cheap as rags, even at their present price, is in the highest degree impro bable, as any raw product sufficiently fibrous to be converted into printing sand writing paper, would also be applicable for spinning and weaving, and would command a higher price for such purposes. " That the paper manufacturer is an exceptional position as compared with all other manufacturers; the supply of his raw material not being drawn from a common source to which all nations have access, and not being, dependent on the demand, but on the extent of the population and the manufaCtures among which rags and refuse fibre can be col lected. _ _ "That in all the countries of Western Europe, Holland, Belgium,•France,• Spain, and Portugal, the export of rags and other paper-making materials is strictly prohibited, and an artificial cheapness thus produced ; so that in those countries rags - are not more than half the price they are in Britain, where the price is enhanced by the exportation to America, in addition to the home consumption • in other words, -a rag which in England coats 3 d. can be bought for lid. in France, making a difference of 30 par cent,, on the manufactured article. " That notwithstanding the import duty of Id. per pound beyond the Excise duty which is now levied on foreign paper, large quantities are being brought into this country, and keep down the price of paper, in the face of the late ad vance in the price of materials. " That the admission into this country, duty free, of paper manufactured in countries from which the export of rags is prohibited, will expose the British paper manufacturers to an unfair and ruinous competition, which can only result in the Complete extinction of a large portion of the manufac ture at home, at its transfer abroad, and, instead of the re peal of the paper duty giving an impulse to the manufao • turn, thousands of families will be thrown out of employ ment. " Your memorialists therefore respectively suggest, that her Majesty's Government will be pleased aot to persevere in proposing to the Legislature the reduction or abolitionof the present differential duty of one penny per pound on foreign .paper and card-boards, except in the case of coun triesfrom which the free export of rags is permitted." The CHawcELLou of the EXCHEQUER on enter ing the room said, he was well aware of the object the deputation had in view, but he thought there were two other departments of the Government to which they might have more appropriately pre sented-themselves. They wanted; as paper makers, to be placed on a level with their Continental rivals. This was a matter for negotiation with foreign go- . vernments—a function which, he need not tell. them, aid not belong to his department of the public service. He did not hesitate to say, however, that we were now in. a position highly favourable for making such representations to foreign Powers. Mr. PULLER said, then the paper-makers had to suggest to the right hen. gentleman (the Chancel lor of the Exchequer) that, supposing him to be at liberty, and not precluded by the treaty, he should exercise his discretion in their favour, and not admit foreign paper unless the foreigner took off the duty, or rather the prohibition, on the export of the raw material. (Cheers.) . They said that their profit did not exceed a farthing in the pound on the manufacture, and yet the cost of the raw material here was -just double what it was in France, (Hear, hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that was a proposal that we should take our stand ex actly on the same ground we occupiad 20 years ago, when all kinds of attempts were made to ne gotiate commercial treaties on that principle, every one of whiph attempts, without an exception, proved to be an egregious failure, and did nothing but give a great deal. of trouble and useless occu pation to various departments of the Government until the system broke down. He was not dis agreeing as to the end they had in view —(Hear, hear)--:-nor did he deny that the Government should use all the exertion in their power to attain it. He only wanted them to look at the mode of proceeding in order to attain that end. There were several countries besideS France, of which the com plaint bias made that they p ohibited the export of rags—namely, Belgium, Holland, Spain, and Por tugal. "The deputation would,' therefore, see the difficulty of, making that a matter of negotiation, with conditions. Suppose France made a conces sion or equivalent, other countries would get the benefit of it under their most favoured nation clause, without exception, having a right to the admission of their commodities on the terms of the most favoured nations, would he entitled, without any equivalent or condition whatever, to what we might be entitled to get only upon conditions. Spain considered herself entitled under treatiesL though-he would not give any opinion upon that — to any privilege with regard - to wines that was given by us to , France conditionally. He believed that most favoured nation clauses were totally incapable of being construed conditionally. They were like the obligations sometimes imposed upon railway companies, that they would charge -equal fares under equal circumstances. He, therefore, thought :that mode of proceeding would be attended -with hopeless difficulties, and he did not believe the Government would consent to put the matter upon such a foOtine , .- Mr. COWAN said, the Chancellor of the Exche quer had intimated that his was not the depart ment to: - which the deputation should have applied. As, however, the treaty was the act of the whole Government, the- deputation must look to the Go vernment to remedy any oversight that might have occurred in the stipulations as to -the paper duty. Ho might remind the right hon. gentleman that, when he:, - was at the Board of Trade in 1842, he did him (Mr. Cowan) the honour of granting him an interview on the occasion of the revision of the tariff. Previous to that time there was an import r duty on Tags from a b roa d of 265. pe cwt. B® the amended tariff of Si r R. Peel that duty w re duced to 53.. per cwt., whereas the duty- on woollen rags len rags was I.s. per cwt. He Co 4 liberty on that occasion t o comment upon took • ' ' 9:te' z u e p m o g n aetntt s l u e c m n and a g l ar i n g t inequality. The r i g h t ho (Mr. Gladstone) promised to:consider t the result, was that when the tariff ca me oenrialnh duty on woollen and linen rags .was assimilated, and a few years afterwards the duty was entirely repealed. That wa s done on the gr ea t principl' that all vaiu tble articles which entered into e‘ur domesticmanufactures should be obtained by the manufacturer on the best possible terms. (Hear, bear.) What they now complained of was, that if France and other countries continued to maintain an impediment against the export of theraw mate rial, whereby the supply to this country would be diminished—whether that impediment assumed the - Itape of 'an- absolute prohibition, or any . other irm—it : would be on all accounts most objec -a—(hear)--and the Government ought to tio everything in their power to provide against the continuance of such an injustice. - The paper makers in-this country had not only to compete among themselves, but kith all the rest of the world. The facilities- that now existed for the manufac ture in the colonies and foreign; countries were so great that he thought the manufacturers in this couutry ought to be put on a; favourable a footing as possible.. Adverting to the proposed a.bolition of the EL:eke duty -on -paper,he said they had to thank 1 the right - hon. gentleman for, the near prospect of being emancipated from the thraldom of his (Mr. Cowan's) friend, Mr. Pressley. (A laugh.) The CHANCELLOR of the ExotiEgaTEß. said, it - would afford him additional satisfaction if the Go vernment could obtain for the deputation the other change s which they desired to see established. COWAN said, anything more directly in the teeth of the freedom of intercourse, social and Coni mercial, between the different countries of . Europe. than the continuance lie co u ld not l of a prohibition of this -kind conceive lo , and great injustice would-be done to ou r domestic was suffered to exist, Government manufacture so long as it would do all (IIear hear.) lie hoped the country their power to put the manufacturers of this ryon something like an , equal footitN of other countrieu as re geried a command,oVe r the raz xr. material. The CHANCELLOR of th e u should be m Government happy if thellEquFit said. could be he able to. attain that end. Mr. JOYNSON, Chairman of the Paper-makers' Association , als o addressed the right lion. ge , maim!, but as he repeated the same. arguments a t subsequent interview with the President of the Board of Trade we give his statement below. The interview -then terminated, and the deplita. tion immediately afterwards proceeded to the office of the Board of Trade, where they had, by appoint :nent, a conference with Mr.-Milner Gibson, the President of that department. Mr. Hutt, the re cently appointed Vice-President, was also present on the occasion. Mr. PULLER, M.P., addressing the President, said the paper-makers found that . in the resolu tions laid on the table of the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer paper was not tionabl ~.—.----555..................5—.7—. . ..__ treated as an article included under the treaty. It was to be made duty free, but not under the treaty. The deputation did not object to the most complete free trade, provided they were to be :allowed to start fair in the race with their rivals ; but the price of the raw material in France and Belgium being only half the paice that it was in England, from the demand for rags being so much less than in this country, the manufacturers here were thereby incapacitated from competing on fair terms with those of the Continent and of the United States. Under those circumstances the de putation had, in the first instance, to press that the admission of foreign paper should not be allowed to take place free of duty so long as the prohibition on the export of rags was maintained in foreign countries ; but that, if the Government could not make that concession, they shoUld undertake to address an immediase application to the Govern ments of France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Russia to remove the prohibition. Mr. JOYNSON said the paper makers of this coun try, to whom he stood in the relation of chairman, gave employment to about 150,000 people, and a capital amounting to something like £3,000,000. (Hear, hear.) He himself had been now nearly 40 years in the trade, commencing first with one of those village mills which the Chancellor of the Exahequer in his financial statement had been pleased to eulogise, but afterwards, as his trade in creased, expending £140,000 iu machinery alone. That expenditure he had incurred for the benefit of his family. He could now produce a paper at Bs. 2d. a ream, a much better than what he made and sold ii 1823 when he commenced paper-making, at 235. (Hear.) He stated that to show the improve ments which had been made in the manufacture; and he would say he was capable of competing with . any manufacturer in the world, if he was allowed to do so on fair and equal terms. Last year he paid duty in respect of his own business amounting to more. than £27,000, and if the Government now took off the differential duty of ld. in the pound upon foreign paper, he would ;low annually £lB,OOO. Again, the increase in the price of coal, which would result from its exportation to France, and the maintenance of the City Coal ants, would in crease his loss by another £l,OOO at least. The taking off the paper duty would be a boon to the country. (Hear, hear.) They (the paper-makers) were all interested in that, but if they were not to be allowed free access to the raw material, and if, besides, paper from France and Belgium was to be permitted to come in without some prohibitive duty, they would be annihilated. He himself was a free-trader to the backbone, and free trade was all that the paper-makers in this country wanted. He had bought rags in France and Antwerp at £l4 per ton, of a quality which cost him in Eagland £2B per ton. (Hear, hear.) It was justly stated in the Times the other day that at present—except straw, which was of little or no use for the purpose,— paper could only be made of rags. Rags as a refuse product could only be made by population, and, as this country had increased in population, so the raw material for paper had augmented ; but the supply was unequal to the demand. The English paper-makers now made double the quantity of paper they made 20 years ago. They had invested in the aggregate £3,000,000 of capital in their works ; they gave employment to 150,000 people ; and he submitted they were a body of men whose position ought to be studied to some considerable extent. (Hear, hear.) Mr. EVANS said one way in which we could com pete with France would be by the production of some raw material which should answer as a sub stitute for rags, and he thought we had exhausted all the sources likely to be available as such substi tute. In France, where rags were plentiful, it would be simply ridiculous to make paper of straw. The case of the English manufacturer was further pre judiced by the exportation, which went on to a con siderable extent, of rags from this country to Ame rica; and the probable result of the movement on the part of the Government with respect to paper would be that all our rags would go to America; that the greater proportion of our paper would come from France; and that the paper mills in this country would fall into disuse. (Hear, hear.) Mr. COWAN hoped it was not yet too late for the Government to get the paper-makers here put on an equal footing with their brethren abroad. They had nothing to feat from the manufacturers of France or any other country if they were put upon a fair footing; and he reminded the right hon. gen tleman that successive statesmen, from Sir R. Peel downwards, had. been actuated by the desire to emancipate articles of raw material—a principle that was one of the most important that a Govern ment could set itself to maintain. (Hear, hear.) Mr. SAUNDERS said papar making was a large and important trade ; the manufacturers paid £1,500,000 annually to the revenue ; they asked for no protection against the foreigner ; there might be some shades of difference among them, but as a body they were thoroughly free traders; their great grie vance was the want of raw material, the exporta tion of which was prohibited . from abroad. They wished to have access to a common market with foreigners for the raw material; but at present they had to fight against . Belgium and France, which protected their own manufacturers. Mr. MILNER GIBSON said of course he entirely agreed with the deputation that it would be most desirable if foreign countries could be induced to repeal their export. duties on rags. He certainly thought it, was a fair thing to ask them to do. Just on the same principle that we were not going to prohibit the export of coal to France, so in France they ought not to prohibit the export of rags to this country. But still the allegation that there was a great want of the raw material for the manu facture of paper in this country was not quite con sistent with the fact of an exportation of that raw material. With all respect to the deputation, he thought they underrated their own powers in the competition. It was to be remembered that they . would be able to manufacture paper at less Cost when they manufactured it freely than, under an Excise regulation. He entirely agreed with them as to what they wanted—viz., that the export duty on foreign rags should be got rid - of ; and he assured them the Government would do all they could do to induce foreign countries to reduce or abolish it. He should have thought the quantity of rags in a country depended very much on the number of the population " and the extent of its - manufactures. We had a large' and well-clad population and extensive manufactures. He could not say he should be in favour of any protection to our domestic paper man ufacture—(" We don't want it") ;—but he thought it was quite right that the Government should do what they could to induce foreign coun tries to forego their export duties on the raw material. Mr. TURNER, M.P., said a great deal would depend on vigorous action on the part of the Government at this moment; and as we were going to con cede to the Emperor of the French a supply of coal and other materials which were valuable to iiim, if the Government were to hold out the most threat of putting an equivalent on the articles which he wanted so much, his Imperial Majesty might be induced to remove the prohibition on the raw material wlaich we wanted so much. (A laugh.) Some fur ther conversation ensued, in which the President of the Board of Trade, and Mr. Puller, Ntr. Evans, Mr. Joynson, and other gentlemen took part, but which was not of a nature to call for a report, and the interview terminated. ADMISSION OF FOREIGN SPIRITS AT A 6EIr DUTY. A deputatio n f rom the Irish and S . cotch distillers Nhviasiatetdte teohtahneceefflloerct which of the Exchequer, to draw the propcsed re duction:of duty on foreign siri ul s .d adMitted into this .country. for - consumption would interests of the British distillers haver he deputation upon the consisted. of Sir E. Grogan, M.P. M.P._; Mr. P. O'Brien, M.P.• Vance Bowyer, Mr. George, M.P. ; Captain .usinonde, i lre ; Mr. I.P. Bellew, M.r• ; Ellice, M.P. ; Colon e l 'Cole, M.P.; Mr, .12alglish, MP.; Mr. Redmond, M.P. Sir J. Power, Mr. Haig, Mr. Jamieson, B, :n . Sir E. GROGAN said he had the honour of intro ducing to the Chancellor of the Exchequer a deputation from the distillers of Ireland and Scot. land; in order that they might lay before him their views as to the effect which the admission of foreign spirits would have upon their interests. They had draWn up, in a memorial, the particular points which they wished to submit to his consideration. Mr. JAMIESON, one of the members of the depu tation, then handed to the right hon. gentleman the memorial,. whichwas to the effect that the proposed alteration of duties on foreign spirits exposed the Irish and• Scotch distillers to the competition of foreign distillers in the home market, giving them only a protection of ZIA. per gallon as an equivalent for the Excise restrictions. The memorial asked fora drawback for ex port of 31:d per gallon, as spirits imported by the . Excise restrictions were produced at an extra charge of 174 per cent., even though they paid no duty on the export. I* . . The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he was much obliged to the gentlemen for their con sideration, and begged to assure them that he would give the matter 'of the memorial his best attention. After alluding to the subject of a drawback, which be said he should Consider, he asked the deputa tion if they feared competition with the French brandy. \ s l T r. .AMIESON said they did ' no t. They had more a feareespirit. respect o the German spirit, which The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—The Dutch? Mr. HAIG--Nes ; We fear the introduction of the Dutch spirit. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had only to repeat the Government would give to their THE SUN, LONDON, m0mj,.401 inn4-3;eire, FEBRUARY 20, 1860. ` T A. J 7 It - ''tad Hong Kong, services, and the Commander-in-Chief is net likely to incur so grave 4 responsibility. Not long since we expressed our impartial opinion of the manner in which the Duke of Cambridge has exercised his patronage in this respect since his accession to the command of the army. Notwithstanding some three or four names that rather grate against one ideas of gallant service, we believe i t t o h a vp been on the whole fair; and we are sure that so great a blot : as the appointment of General Grey to a colonelcy—so utter a denial of claims arising from service in the field—will not be allowed to tarnish his Royal Highness's adminis tration of high °Mee. _ _ We announced some weeks since that the Minis ter of War, the Commander-in-Chief, and the Trea sury, were in communication respecting a plan for the reduction of cavalry commissions to infantry prices, and the abolition of the stoppages for forage now made from cavalry officers. The execution of the plan was delayed by various impediments ; but we believe we may state that it is now in a fair way of being carried out, and will very shortly be officially promulgated. Henceforward all cornets appointed to the cavalry of the line will receive two chargers for regimental purposes from the Govern ment, and these chargers will be maintained at the public expense. The rate of purchase of commis sions will be precisely the same as in the infantry. As regards officers now serving in the cavalry, they will be allowed the full prices paid for their commissions, and those who have not purchased will be entitled to the usual allowance for their service—at the rate of £lOO per annum—on selling out. We trust this step may be the means of re cruiting the commissioned ranks of our cavalry re giments, and inducing young gentlemen to select that once favourite but now disregarded branch of the army. We fear, however, that other causes tend to render the cavalry unpopular. _During the last few years they have got harder work, fewer honours, comparatively less remunerative pay than the rest of the service. The preliminary examina tion has a very deterrent effect upon the candidates; and the extravagant style of living in many regi ments upon their fathers. The expenses to be complained of aro not generally speaking what are called regimental expenses, but they arise very often from causes which are nevertheless within the power of a good commanding officer to remove ; and we trust, as it has been found impossible to induce rich men to enter dragoon regiments in sufficient numbers, that the less wealthy class of gentlemen to whom the door is now open will preserve the efficiency and military prestige of that splendid body, the British Cavalry. Under the newly-recognised rule, as regards the period of service on the Staff, a large number of vacancies will take place on the Ist of April next. Various rumours are afloat as to the successors of those who are about to resign, but the arrange ments are not yet in a condition to allow of our giving any authentic information respecting them. Lord Seaton has returned to Ireland to wind up the affairs of his office, and will leave on the Ist of April ; but his successor is not yet selected. The Adjutant-General Sir George Wetherall's period of service expired in December, but he will remain at the Horse Guards for some time longer, at least until some measures of military administration are settled, respecting which the want of his assistance would form a serious difficulty. The command of the Dublin aistrict will become vacant on the Ist of April by the promotion of Major-General Gascoigne to be Lieut.-General. The ircrease to the Royal Artillery will be made in the shape of two brigades, to be numbered the 15th and 16th respectively. The 15th Brigade will consist of 56 officers, 112 non-commissionedofficers, trumpeters, drummers, and 1,608 rank and file. The 16th Brigade will number 53 officers, 80 non commissioned officers, &c., and 864 rank and file. The :promotions consequent on this augmentation will, in all probability, promote the Lieut.-Colonels, down to Col. Kennedy, to be Colonels •, the Captains, down to Brevet-Major Longden, to be Lieut.-Colo nels ; the Second Captains, down to Brevet-Major Penn, to be First Captains ; and the Lieutenants, down to Lieut. Philip H. Sandilands, to be Second Captains. An Assistant-Inspector of Volunteers will be stationed at each of the following places, viz., York, Birmingham, Canterbury, Plymouth, Winchester, and Edinburgh. By the lamented death of General Sir William Napier, Lieut.-General Sir James Ferguson, Colo nel of the 43d Regiment, another of the gallant band forming the old Light Division, becomes a General ; Major-General Gascoigne, Colonel of the 69th Regiment, a Lieut.-General ; Colonel the Hon. A. Spencer, a Major-General ; Colonel C. E. Michell, 54th Regiment, a Colonel; and Major Bruce, Staff-Officer of Pensioners, a Lieut.-Colonel in the Army. The following regiments are to be increased by 100 men each, and fixed at a strength per regiment of 46 officers, 81 non-commissioned officers, and 1,050 rank and file, making a total of all ranks of 1,177, viz.-9th Ist bat, 10th Ist bat, 11th Ist bat, llth 2d bat, 12th 2d bat, 14th 2d bat, 15th Ist bat, 16th Ist bat, 16th 2d bat, 17th 2d bat, 18th 2d bat, 19th 2d bat, 20th 2d bat, 21st 2d bat, 22d Ist bat, 24th 2d hat, 25th 2d bat, 26th, 29th, 30th, 32d Light Infantry, 36th, 45th, 47th, 55th, 58th, 60th Rifles 4th bat, 76th, 78th, 84th, 86th, 96th, and Rifle Brigade lst bat. The other battalions now serving in India remain at 950 rank and file, with the same number of officers, with the exception of the 65th Regiment, which numbers 1,400 rank and file. representations and suggestions, as contained in their memorial, theirwbeet consideration. • - THE WHOLESALE TEA- AND SUGAR MERCHANTS. A deputation from this body of gentlemen waited on the Chancellor-of the Exchequer in reference to certain changes in the shape of stamps that were to be imposed upon tea and 'sugar, tobacco, &c., im ported into this country, and which was bonded upon its arrival here. The deputation consisted of Mr. Horsfall, M.P. , Mr. J. C. Ewart, M.P., Mr. Blackburn, M.P., r. Somes, M.P., Mr. Baxter, MP., Mr. Vance, M.P., Mr. Dunlop, M.P., Mr. Dawson, M.P., Mr. Dalgleish, M.P., Mr. Mil ler, M.P., Mr. Gore Langton, M.P., "Sir M. S. Stewart, M.P.,Sir Hugh Cairns, M.P., the Hon. F. H. arker, M.P., Sir E. Grogan, M.P., Colonel Sykes. M.P., Sir J. Ogilvie, M.P., Sir J. Ferguson, M.P., Mr. Redmond, M.P., and several of the wholesale tea and sugar merchants from Dublin, Liverpool, Hull, Edinburgh, Greenock, Leith, Glasgow, Belfast, Bristol, Cork, and other towns. - ' Mr. CLAY, M.P. for Hull, introduced the depu tation. Mr. STEINE, of Liverpool, said that he had at tended a large meeting of the tea trade in Liverpool, and with one exception the feeling of the meeting was favourable to the principle upon which the Budget was based. They only took exception to some details as set forth in the alteration proposed to be made upon transfeting tea in bond from one place to another. The alterations objected to were inserted in clauses 11, 12, and 13 of the resolutions laid upon the table in the Committee of Ways and Means. The objection, however, to the 11th clause. was got rid of by the right hon. gentleman's ex planation in his letter to Mr. Glyn, which had been published in the various journals. The 12th and 13th clauses were strongly objected to, on the ground that no tea or other goods that had been bonded could be transferred without extra payment for eaeh removal. All the tea.imported into this country is necessarily placed in bond, and there it is kept under the care of the Customs watch-dog. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—And who is to pay the watch-dog ? (A laugh.) Mr. STEINE then went on to object to the pro posed charges on the removal of tea out of bond, because these removals were frequent as regarded each package of tea. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Are the removals of one package of tea frequent ? Several Voices—Oh, very. Sometimes the one package is removed 20 times. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—What pro portion of tea imported into this country undergoes removal in bond Mr. S rIKINE—More than three-fourths. The CtrAsTcELLoR of the EXCHEQUER said he was afraid that they Could not go through the details of the question. He suggested that they should em body their objections in a memorial, laying down some plan by which the principle they main tained ought to be carried out. He felt sure that any suggestion coming in a proper spirit from them would receive every consideration from the Go vernment. Mr. STEINE said the trade which he represented would much rather that an additional ld. per lb. should be charged to the present ls. sd. duty on tea than that their trade should be crippled by these various complicated charges. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—What I propose will only create £15,000 or £20,000 per annum, while by your suggestion you propose to give me something like £350,000. Mr. STEINE said they had no wish to throw the burdens off their shoulders, for they knew that the Government must have a revenue, and ought to have a surplus ; but the revenues should not be raised in a manner that would hinder, harass, and fetter trade. In fact, the 12th and 15 th clauses would render the trade impracticable. Mr. GLADSTONE—Is that additional penny made to me as a suggestion from all the gentlemen pre sent ? (Cries of "No, no.") Mr. STEINE said he stated that this was the feeling of the trade which he represented. Mr. PATRICK O'BRIEN, M.P., on the part of the consumers, strongly protested against this pro posed increase of a penny additional duty on tea. (Hear, hear) Some conversation then ensued, in which it was shown that the same objections urged in respect to tea would apply to sugar, pepper, coffee, rice, soap, and tobacco. The CHANCELLOR of the . EXCHEQUER said that it was impossible for any memory to retain so many subjects, and again suggested that the several ob jections should be embodied in a memorial, to which he would pay every attention. The deputation, having thanked the right hon. gentleman, then withdrew. THE WHOLESALE STATIONERS. A deputation of wholesale stationers waited upon Mr. Gladstone to submit a statement as to the claims of the trade for full allowance of drawback on the abolition of the paper duty. Baron ROTHSCHILD, M.P., introduced the depu tation, and urged the claims of the deputation to a full allowance of drawback on the stock of paper in hand, which the wholesale stationers regarded not only as a question of justice, but also of expe dierey, as unless that was granted they would be great losers by the proposal of the Government. Mr. CRATER, a member of the deputation, said they anticipated a great fall in the price of paper after the first of July, should the duty cease on that day. Air. GLADSTONE remarked—Then your view of the matter differs very much from other parties in terested in the question. I have just received a deputation from the newspaper press, and from the statements made to me by those gentlemen, it seems that they entertain a confident belief that, so far from the repeal of the duty lowering the price of paper, it will increase it considerably. Mr. CHATER said whatever the effect might be, they asked for a remission of the duty upon the stocks in hand, and they hardly saw how that could be refused. In reply to a question it was stated that the duty upon stocks in hand would amount to between £200,000 and £250,000. It was further argued that large sums of money had been invested on the faith of the Excise label being returned, and that there was no possibility of defrauding the revenue if such drawback was allowed. Unless it took place the trade would be paralysed till the tax was re pealed. Several publishers had already declined to issue any works until the tax was repealed, and in one printing establishment 40 hands had been dis missed in one day. Mr. GLADSTOE said—l am sorry am unable to devote more attention to your represe:tations to-day. My time, as you may conceive, is much occupied at the present moment. I have another deputation in the next toom which I have pro mised to See, I have to be present at a Cabinet Council at two o'clock, and I have more than a hun dred unopened letters, all of which must receive attention at my hands. I can only say I shall be glad if pctsible to meet your views, and that the subject shall recoil e my best and earliest conside ration. The deputation then withdrew. [ADVILTISEMENT.j-,-Holloway' Ointment.—Cutaneous Eruptions in Infancy.—No affections of the skin are more fre quent or more annoying to children and nurses than the irri tating chafing with which fat children are constantly afflicted. So great is often the irritation that low fever sets in, the whole skin becomes inflamed, and the helpless little sufferer falls into convulSfona. 'HollowaY's Ointment should be in every nursery; its application cools and soothes the inflamed parts,, securing peace to the wearied nurse, and case to her cl morousicharge,:whicb worn out with crying, soundly sleeps. This preparation is equally effective in red gum, tooth-rash, cracked-ears, and all infantile diseases, whether general over the whole body, or confined to the head, nose, or cars, [A DVE Rl' I E3l EN T.] . —Notice.- : -In, consequence of Messrs. Lewes and Morton having just commenced 1860 with opposi tion similar to that which they previously advanced, and wish ing to do those gentlemen every justice, Mr. Thorley is induced to enlarge his coming pamphlet, making It 64 pages instead of 32- showing beyond doubt that their observations on the so - called " Concentrated Cattle Food," and so-called "feeding statistics," are without foundation ; that the. liothamated experiment was not made with his food, and consequently that this complete failure must either be through mismanage mentor from b u yi ng t h e C ondiment a t t h e wrong s h op. - Th e ready on i.ee e a i b p o t u o t t. t T h l e tr fi e r e s s t t d a a m y p o s t , 0 3 n T arc p h 1 , i a c n a t d first impression' of O ne H un d re d Th ousan d C o pies will b e ionmatoy j b o e s h e p a p ir o h s o t r f l r e e y e , the Inventor, and sole Pr • oprietor of !` Thorley's Food for Caine," 77, Newgate-street, London • 21, Broadway, New Ycrk, United States ; Mr. J. W. Thorley, Melbourne • Vic toria ; Mr. Alfred Burt, S y d ney, New South Wales ; and of all his agenti throughout the "(Int' ed Kingdom..LFeb. 2,1800. [ArivEnTisEm ENT.] — Among the numerous extraordi nary cures Without medicine e ff ec t e d b y Du Barry's deli cious h e alth-restoring . Revalenta A ra bi ca F ood of indiges tion (dyspepsia), flatulency, constipation, nervous, bilious and liver complaints, cough, asthma, consumption, and debility, the tollowing are not the least remarkable : Athel-streef. Perth, Ma. 2,lB42.—Thirt een years ' cough, indigestior, and general debility have been removed by bu Barry's excellent Revalenta-Arabica Food.—James Porter." No. 94,814, the Rev. Thomas Minster, cure of five years' nervousness, with spasms and daily vomitings. From the Venerable Archdeacon of Ross.—No, 32,836. "Three years' excessive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which rendered my life very miser a bl e, has been radically removed b y flu Barry health-Tstoring food.—:Alex. Stuart, Archdea con of Ross, s kiboereen." En tins, at ls. 6d.; 11b., 3s. ; 21b., ss. 9d.; bib., 125.; 121 b., 20s. The 101 b. and 121 b. tins carriage fre e, on recei p t of post 'Ace order. - Du Barry and Co., 77) 'Regent-street, Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 18 2 , Piccadilly ; London sbis, 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 150, Oxford street ; 330 and 451, Strand • 49 . and 60, Bisho_psgate street ; 85, Tottenham-courimroad. Also at Dublin. Bewley :and Draper ; at Edinburgh, Raimes and Co. ; at Liverpool, Nixon and Thew;. at Manchester, Sharp and Scott ; at York, ltainies,l Blanchard, and Co. ; at,,South ampton, handall and Bon, 21LE The au hjoined is froin a letter December 20 : Shang ias dir i on the lo 1 7 nes th lef i t ns i t n . the wh i t m h e a r lh ai m ship Ywious, on board which he will temporanti fly lif,s flag, had preceded him. "The remainder of the 3 d Buffs, from India, e C. , : j e o r si fF ‘ a ‘ n s have arrived in her Majesty's Indian navy steamer Coromandel and sailing ship Tasmania, the former having., the latter in tow until arriving in Chinese waters, where, in a gale of wind, they parted com pany. The troops have since gone up to Canton. " The seamen and officers of her Majesty's steamer Cambrian, who 'have garrisoned Macao Fort for many months, are to be superseded by ar tillery from the marine brigade at Canton and re turn to their ship. " CiLpt. Commerell, of her Majesty's ship Magi cienne., has been several days with her Majesty's gunboats Clown, Drake, Woodcock, and Leven, with tamed boats from her Majesty's ship Chesa peake:, Cambrian, and Magicienne, in search of pirates, who are again becoming numerous and bold iri the south of China. They had no fight ing, but captured and burnt many junks. " The vessels composing_ our Chinese squadron at] present stationed at . Hong Kong are :—The Chesapeake (flagship), the Cambrian,the High flyer, the Magicienne, the Nimrod, the lesper, and the Princess Charlotte ; gunboats, the Opossum, the Torester, the Kestrel, •the Leven, the Starling, the Clown, the Woodcpck, the Drake, and the Watchful. - " At Canton and Whampoa—The Fury, the As sistance,"theßittern ; gunboats, the Staunch, the Banterer, and the Firm. "At Shanghai--The Furious (flagship), the Sampson, the Camilla, and the Roebuck; gunboats, the Haughty,. the Janus, and the Bustard. " At Ningpo—The Algerine. " At Foochow—The Infletible. " At Amoy—The Acorn. " At Japan—The Cruiser. " Coast of Tartary.—The Actreon and the Dove. "At Singapore.—The Esk and the Saracen. "In India.—The Retribution, the Cyclops, and the Sparrowhawk." - Our Malta correspondent, in his letter dated Feb. 12, says : " The Valetta, Peninsular and Oriental Com pany's steamer, arrived here at 3 30 from Alexan dria, with the China and Calcutta mails, but will not get away until daylight to-morrow, having had a very boisterous passage, and sustained damage in her rudder, which is now being repaired. This was the only steamer out of some eight or 10 out ward bound which contrived to get to sea during the prevailing gale, as the pilots refused to take them out. The China and Himalaya steamers had both reaohed Alexandria in safety, bat up to the 7th of February no troops had reached Suez from India for embarkation ix the Himalaya. The Ornen, Norwegian* corvette, and the Nayaden, Swedish corvette, were lying at Alexandria, to leave about the middle of February, the former for Palermo, the latter for Malta, where the Lagerb jelk, Swedish corvette, is hourly looked for from the Piratus. Admiral Fanshawe, in the Marl borough, is looked for at Malta from Gibraltar, where he will be relieved by Rear-Admiral Mundy, in the Hannibal, from Corfu." The screw steamship Brunswick, 81, Captain Erasmus Ommanney, which arrived in Plymouth Sound on the 18th, as reported on Saturday even ing in The • Sun, left Lisbon January 30, and has experienced nothing but strong northerly and north-easterly winds on the passage home. Spoke. Feb. 5, in lat. 41-9 N., long. 18 25 W., the bark Portuna, from Liverpool, and Feb. 10, in lat. 45 26 N., long. ,11 30 W., the English ship Ger trude. The Brunswick has a few invalids. She was commissioned Jan.. 8, 1856, and will probably be inspected to. day in• the Sound, after which she will go up Hamoaze, where her crew will be paid off. • • The screw steamship Centurion, 80, Capt. Rod gers, C. 8., at Plymouth, received her powder on Saturday. Top-gOlant and royal yards were crossed and studding-sail gear rove on Saturday on board the screw steamship Aboukir, 90, Capt. Curry, in Ply mouth Sound, and she now waits orders from the Admiralty to sail for Portland. On her arrival there the Donegal will sail for Plymouth, where her crew will, be paid wages and obtain leave of ab• sence. The following hired transports have been char tered by Government to ship munitions of war from the Military Store Department at Woolwich—viz., the Stirlingshire, the Marianne, the Nugget, the Pioneer, the Mary Innes, and the Scotia. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—F. G. Barr, chief engineer, to the Asia, for service in the Immortalite ; George Weeks, chief engineel' to the Cumberland, for ser vice in the Severn; A. Whines, chief engineer, to the Virago; J. W. German, acting chief engineer, to the Cumberland, for service in the Charybdis; Wm. J. Brown, first class assist.. engineer, to the Victoria and Albert, for service in the Elfin; Alex. B. XPLuokie, acting third class assist.-engineer, to the Victoria and Albert; James Bell (b), acting third assist; -engineer, to the Cumberland, for ser vice in the Meeanee.; M. B.Kelly, third class assist.- engineer to the Cumberland, for temporary charge of the.machinery of the Wasp. THE ARMY. A number of 32 .pounder guns cast in the old Royal gun factory in Woolwich Arsenal, recently closed, were last week fired sit the proof butt, Woolwich, under the inspection of Colonel Tulloh, Superintendent of the Carriage Department, and were pronounced fit for 'service. On Friday eight 68-pounders (95 cwt. each) cast in the 'same foun dry, were loaded for a similar purpose with the original proof charge of powder and shot, and were fired in succession, when six of the number burst. Two of them stood the first charge well, but were struck by some of the fragments and ren dered useless. A new muzzle-loading rifled gun of peculiar con struction, the invention of Commander Scott, R.N., and which it is expected will yield some extraordi nary results, will be fired in a few days, under the authority of the War Department; in the long range at Shoebnryness. The Government, in accordance. with the recom mendations made,•have decided on carrying into effect several important alterations and improve ments -at Chatham garrison, which will involve a considerable outlay. In addition to the: sum of £17,000 which has been set apart for the purchase of the land for a new rifle range for the troops be longing to the garrison, a further sum of £7,000 will be required to be expended in levelling and pre paring the range, and erecting thereon huts and other buildings for the accommodation of the rifle instructors, and the officers and troops who will.be stationed there daring the period they are undergo ing instruction. The spot which has been selected by the War Department is a large extent of marsh land adjoining the Thames, and, being but a short distance from Chatham, will be easily accessible by the troops front the garrison. The land has already been purchased, and the levelling and preparation of the range will be effected by convict labour. Several important works are also to be carried into effect at Brornpton Barracks, including the erection of a new library for the officers of the Royal and Indian Engineers, together with an additional lec ture room, laboratory, and school room. A large and exceedingly commodious mess room for the offi cers attached to the Royal Engineer establishment has already been commenced by . the . Government contractor. The whole of the alterations and ina pt •ovements to be carried out at Brompton Barracks alone will involve an outlay of £lO,OOO, beside which various improvements-of a minor character are to be effected in other parts of the garrison. (From. the Army and Navy Gazette.) A generally well-informed contemporary an nounced last "evening that Sir J . .Peptiefather would be transferred from the 46th;Regiment to .the 22d, in succession to Sir .Wm. Napier, and that . Major- General the Hon. Charles Grey would be appointed to the vacant colonelcy of the 46th. The first portion of the statement is likely - to prole correct, for no officer could be made so appropriately colonel of the 22d as Sir John Pennefather, under whom the regi-• ment so nobly acquired its Indian honours. As re gards the appointment of General .Grey we have some reason to. know that our contemporary is misinformed. General Grey is Equerry to her Ma jesty. Though he commanded the 71st Light In fantry for some years, he was'not fortunate enough to see active service, and his employment has been for a very long tithe that of a courtier rather than a soldier. At the present moment, when pub lic attention is Wholesothely directed to military patronage, and when the office of Commander-in. Chief is under the consideration of a parliamentary committee, an appointment like that of General Grey would be a kind of death-warrant for the Horse Guards.. Personally Ice have not a word to 'say that is not in favour of the general,' but we are sure that when her Majesty desires to'reward an esteemed member of her household she will do it in some more appropriate way than one involving'the exclusion of old and gallant officers who have fought and bled for their country all over the world, and t u re t i o s w n. o h t o I m i k , e i l n y t t h o e p e o r r m d i i n t a m ry o ' r c e o t u h r a s e n oaf briefev e n e t no joy - _- ment of the honours and rewards they long since so richly .earned. The appointment , of General Grey would be the deliberate misapplication of lands granted by Parliament as rewards for distinguished FRANCE AND THE POPE. Struck by the immense duration and inexhaustible vitality of the Papacy, historians and philosophers have lavished upon it panegyrics which it by no means fully deserves. In contemplating the extra ordinary fortune which has carried aninstitution of purely human origin through such unexampled dangers and such unheard-of reverses, which has called in the New World to redress the balance of the Old, and invariably won back in one direction what has been lost in another, Lord Macaulay seems to forget the errors of the See of Rome in his ad miration for its unbending traditions, and its inex tinguishable influence over the human mind. With these• exalted views we confess we never could sympathise. Rome, according to our reading of history, has ever carried in her own bosom the pro lific seed of her own resources, and has to thank her own policy quite as much as the awakened reason and sense of mankind for the numerous reverses of her checkered and instructive history. She has frequently fallen into reverses because she has been immoderate and insatiable in prosperity. A strong constitution is tested by the diseases it is able to support, and the power of the Roman Catholic reli gion is never more manifest than in her ability to survive the most frightful misfortunes, brought upon her by her own intemperance. Any one who reads the history of the Papacy during the 13th century, will be astonished, not so much that Boniface VIII. lied in a transport of frenzy and despair from the treatment he received from the French soldiers, as that every Monarch in Christendom did not unite to put down the intolerable arrogance of the Papacy. Every one who reads the history of the thirty y eirs preceding the Reformation, from Alexander VI. to Leo X., will be astounded at the continuance of an elective monarchy stained with all the crimes of the Twelve Csesars • and any on e who considers the whole history of the First Napo leon and the Papacy may well marvel-how it could survive so rude a shock as it then sustained. It is the fashion to attribute these things to the effects of a profound policy, but policy is shown rather in avoiding than in emerging from calamities, and the very vitality of the Papacy shows how ill it must have been directed to fall perpetually with so much internal strength into such astonishing reverses. The truth is, the policy of Rome has been a stranger to prudence and moderation. If she has opened a rich mine of human credulity, she has ever worked it out with a reckless profuseness. Not content with laying the whole world under contribution, she raised a Reformation by the sale of Indul gences; and, not satisfied with the Inquisition and the sword, she shocked the conscience of man kind by the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. We may trace her present' misfortunes to the same cause—the inability to use with moderation the good things which Fortune seems never tired of showering upon her. The Pope beheld at his feet ten years ago two mighty Empires, rescued himself from the melancholy •confinement of Gaeta, and was courted as none of his predecessors had been for centuries before. Austria begged for his aid: to support her amid the ruins of her falling power, and the President of the French Republic courted him that he might sanctify by his blessing the crown which he already saw within his grasp. Rome accepted their homage, and, thinking herself sure of their interests, was at no pains to conciliate their affections. In retetrn for the support she lent to Adstria she executed a Concordat which has dis &raced the Emperor in the eyes of his subjects, and threatens his empire, with something little short of immediate dissolution. She sold her assistance to France at a price equally exorbitant. The French arcly NV a s employed to restore the Pope to his throne, and to tm4ntain him there; but, convinced that he had the interest of the Emperor on his side, the Pope thought it utterly unnecessary to lower himself by showing the slightest respect for his de liverer. For ten wears all the counsels of France have been rejected, and every abuse allowed to flourish more rankly than ever. Let those who believe in the profound policy of the Papacy mark the result as described by M. Thouvenel in his letter to the Duke de Gramont, the French Ambassador at Rome, which we translate else fllc per trality of the Pope was proclaiteed, and ' treating him as an independent self-subsisting Power, withdrew her troops from the Legations. The inhabitants, as M. Thouvenel says, " rather found themselves than made themselves masters." In vain the French Government counselled re forms. The. Papacy refused them with dogged obstinacy, and the last opportunity of saving the Legations was allowed to drift away, never to return. The Pope is reminded that he received a solemn warning from the Emperor on the 31st of December ; he answered it with bitterness and asperity, and the last hope of conciliating France was abandoned, like the last hope of conciliating the Romagna; and now is seen in its full grossness the folly of the politic and Machiavellian Court of Rome. Austria, is still friendly, but needs heiself the support wh;ch it was foolishly asenmed she would be able to give. The French Emperor is quite a different person from the Eldest Son of the Church, of whose merits we used to hear so much. His language has become harsh, and his conduct peremptory. There is an infinite difference between Count Walewski and M. Thouvenel, and just as great an one between the Napoleon 1859 and the Napoleon of 1860. He warns the Pope to give up his fixed resolution to ignore the present state of affairs, to lay his spiritual claims out of the ques tion, and to treat temporal matters in a temporal spirit, and, in return for these concessions, hopes are held out that the Emperor will lend his sup port to a moderate and conciliatory policy. We should be unwilling to conclude from this that if the Pope does not acquiesce in these terms he has neither moderation. nor conciliation to expert. Yet this is no unreasonable inference, and there are not wanting facts to give significance to the threat. The Univers is 7.,uppressed• by a single blow, and a journal ‘,sii the remote province of Brittany shares the same fate for having dared to make allusion to it. The Pope has to do with a man who thoroughly understands the war of words, but who is also willing and able to follow up words with blows. And this is the state to which Papal policy has contrived to reduce its interests in a country by far the noblest conquest that it still retains, and these are the sentiments which it has contrived to elicit from a Monarch who has given so many unquestionable proofs of his anxiety to call the crosier in to the assistance of the sword ! Truly, to those who view these matters with the eye of uninspired reason it would seem the Pope owes his calamities neither to the evil disposition of his own subjects, nor to the ambition of foreign countries, nor to the acumen of controversialists, nor to the ribaldry of satirists, but simply to his own obstinacy and folly, which have rendered him unable to believe that his subjects could be treated with too much negligence or his allies with too much arrogance.— Times. LAW INTELLIGENCE;—pub. 18. COURT OF, ERROR. (Before Lord Chief Baron Pollock, and Barons Bramwell and Channel!.) EARL OF SHREWSBURY AND TALBOT V. HOPE SCOTT AND OTHERS-JUDGMENT. This morning the Lord Chief Baron delivered judgment in this important case, which had come before this court upon appeal from the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas. His Lordship said that this was an appeal from the judgmenti of the Court of Common Pleas on certain points reserved on the trial of the case before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn. It was an action of ejectment, brought to recover the man sion of Alton Towers and certain lands belonging thereto, by the Earl of Shrewsbury. At the trial a verdict was directed for the plaintiff, subject to certain points of law arising upon the construction of various documents and Acts of Parliament. In Hilary Term, last year, a rule was obtained by Mr. Sergeant Shee to enter the verdict for the de fendants. Cause was shown against the rule in Trinity Term by Sir Fitzroy Kelly, then the Attorney-Goneral, and other learned gentlemen, and the rule - was supported by Mr. Sergeant Shee, Sir R. Bethell, the present Attorney-General, and other members of the bar. The cause occupied eight days, and the Court of Common Pleas by a unanimous judgment, delivered seriatim, discharged the rule. The present Attorney-General had been heard by this Court as counsel for the appellant during a portion of three days upon an appeal from that judgment. He had argued the points in favour of his client more elaborately, perhaps, than they were argued in the Court below, but nothing new had been elicited nor any points presented to their attention which were not before the Court of Common Pleas. While the argument was proceed ing their lordships had an opportunity of consider ing it from day to day, and at its:close they thought it unnecessary to hear counsel for the respondent, and upon the fullest consideration they were still of the same opinion, and he had now to deliver the unanimous judgment of that Court in favour of the plaintiff, agreeing as they did with the Court of Common Pleas that the rule obtained by the de fendant to enter the verdict for him should be dis charged. It was unnecessary to set out the facts at length as they were fully sot out in the recitals of the two private acts of 6th Geo. I. c. 29, and 6th and 7th Vict., c. 38. The learned Chief Baron then gave a brief re sume of the facts, which are already well known to the public, and said that their lordships were of opinion that the plaintiff below, as the issue male of the first Earl of Shrewsbury, to whom the title had descended, was under the express enactment of those statutes entitled to the property in question as tenant in tail, unless something could be shown to disentitle him, and that that had not been done, and that the disentitling deed of 1850 could not prevent his right from prevailing. They, therefore, thought with the Court of Common Pleas, that the rule should be discharged. His lordship added that though he had pronounced the unanimous opinion of the whole Court, who assembled to hear the ar gument, he alone was responsible for the manner in which the reasons for that judgment were pre sented. ;;' Judgment for the Earl of Shrewsbury, and against the appellants. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, in London, before Lord Chief Justice Erie and a Special Jury.) LAMING V. GOURLAY.-CLAIM FOR COMMISSION. The plaintiffs in this case are shipbrokers in Corn hill, and the defendant is a shipowner at Sunder land. The action was to recover commission upon charters for the Nile and another vessel, which was formerly called the Sampson. A good deal of evidence was laid before the jury, who found for the plaintiffs for £l7B 18s., being commission at 21 per cent. on £7,150. NORTH AND OTHERS V. TAYLOR.-BANKRUPTC Y. The plaintiffs are assignees of Messrs. Prior, the coal merchants, who became bankrnpt some tim e ago, and they claimed to recover two cargoes of coal. Messrs. Prior had supplied coals at the different stations on the railways in the south of En g land, but subsequently th e defendant undertook to supply the coal along the South-Western line. Messrs. Prior, however, still continued to purchase the coal of the colliery owners, and re-sold it to defendant at an advance of 6d. a ton. In some instances, how ever, the orders went directly from the defendant to the colliery owners, and it did so in reference to the coal now in question. The assignees contended, however, that the coal was sold to and belonged to Messrs. Prior. After some discussion it was arranged that the facts should be stated in a special case for the opi nion of the full Court. COURT FOR MATRIMONIAL CAUSES. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) MITCHELSON V. MITCLIELSON. Dr. Phillimore, Dr. Swabey, and Mr. Kelly ap peared for the different parties. This was a petition by the wife against her hus band for a separation on account of his cruelty to wards her. The respondent, who was a publican, married the petitioner in 1858, and it was pleaded that six months afterwards he commenced a system of ill-usage by twisting her arms behind her, and striking her on the head ; that he also con tinually addressed ter in filthy and abusive language, until she was forc e d to leave his house in September, 1558, and had not cohabited with him since. She alleged many acts of violence, all of which were, however, emphatically denied by the respondent, who, in the course of his exa mination declared it was his general habit to address her in terms of endearment, that he never abused or struck her in his life, and that the only difference between them took place on the 18th September, when she upset the table in a pas sion, and struck him a violent blow in the eye with a pint pot. A witness confirmed the statement of the petitioner in every respect. Evidence was after wards adduced on the part of the respondent to show th at h e had always lived on good terms with his wife, and they deposed that he seemed to treat her well, as far as they could see. The learned Judge said he felt no difficulty in dealing w i t h t hi s case, although there was a con flict of evidence. He would pronounce a sentence of judicial separation. ELLIOT V. ELLIOT. . _ Mr. Beaumont conducted the petitioner's case. - - - This was a case for a judicial separation, brought by the wife on the ground of her husband's deser tion. The respondent, who had been a cook in the establishment of Earl Fitzwilliarn, married the petitioner in March, 1845, and they cohabited to gether until the 3d of May, 1853, when the respon dent came up to London, and subsequently went b 7'o Mr 7. 71liot had receiTT:i 5240 from him n scurf; time aLer hi withdiawei, but with that ex ception she had heard nothing of him since the 3d of May. The petitioner deposed to the above facts. After some further evidence a decree was post poned until a further application should be made to the Court. SEATON V. SEATON. Dr. Phillimore, Q.C., and Mr. Russell appeared for the petitioner. The respondent had not put in any answer. This was a case by Mr. Henry Seaton, a surgeon, prac tising at Ulverstone, for a judicial separation on account of his wife's adultery. The parties were married on the 13th of September, 1849, at St. Pantras church, and they cohabited in London for one year, and then went d own to U lverstone, where they lived in perfect harmony down to 1858. In the Midsummer of that year a Mr. Gaultier came to reside at Ulverstune, as master of a proprietary school, and soon after his arrival Mrs. Seaton formed an attachment of an improper kind towards him. In May, 1859, Mr. Seaton was called to London on professional business, and during his absence his wife eloped with the schoolmaster, and after spending the night in the Spread Eagle. in Manchester, they went to Hull, where they em barked for Antwerp. It was alleged the parties had since been cohabiting together up to the pre sent time. After the examination of witnesses, Sir Cresswen Cresswell decreed a sentence in. accordane with the petitioner's prayer. COUIVTRY MARERTS. NORTHAMPTON—Fuis. 18. At this corn-market wheat was in middling supply, with a steady trade, at about 2s over the rates of this day se's.- night, prices ranging from 44s to 49s for old, and 43s to 47s for new. There was a slow business passing in barley, malting 36s to 435, grinding 26s to 29s per qr. Oats in limited show, with a languid sale, quoted at 255 to 28s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 47s to 50s ; new, 46s to 475. nye, —s to —s; malt, 66. to 68s ; flour, 31s to 34s per sack. STAMFORD-Fxß. 18. - --•--- The supply of all kinds of grain small, but the market ruled fair for wheat and barley. Oats dull, Beane were at extreme rates. Wheat 42s to 47a 1 Oats.. 2os to Us White do 458 to 50s 1 Beans 4os to 42s Barley 39s to 43s 1 Ditto, old ........46s to 48s LEICESTER—FEB. 18. There was a tolerable supply of wheat to-day, a fair attendance, and trade steady. White wheat, 47s to 52s —red, 42s to 48a per 36 stone; a very fair inquiry for fine barley, grinding, 30s to 33s ; malting, 38s to 44s per qr. ; oats, 28s to 34s per 24 stone. Beans--old, 62s to new 42s to 45s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 33s I Seconds, 31s I Thirds, 293 per 20 stone. NOTTINGHAM—Ns. 18. There was a tolerable supply of wheat on offer to-day, the condition of which was tolerably good. Tr a d e ru l e d firm, at full prices. White wheat, new, 468 to 54s Barley, grinding.. 293 to 81. Red do. 42s to 49s Oats, old, .. 27. to 30s Old white sos to 56s New do 211. to 28s Red do.. 44s to 50s Beans.. 494 to. 524 Barley, malting._ I 34s to 47s Beans, new 41. to 44. Super. flour, 35. to 39s ; flue, 31s to 33s per 20 stone. NORWICH-FEB. 18. At t.-day's market the supply of wheat was fair, and the condition of most of the samples being rather improved there was a little better demand. a flour little is doing, but prices firm. Prices were supported for barley. White wheat 46s to 49s I Red wheat 40s to 45s Malting barley....42s to 46s Chevalier barley 34s to 404 Distilling do.. ....25s t o 27 s I Oats.. 24s to 2116 Flour, 29s 6d to 30s per sack from the miller. CORK—F➢B. 17. The following were the quotations this morning :—Red wheat, 25s Od to 25s 61; white, 25s f'd to 26s Od; barley 16e Od to 19s Od ; oats, 12s Od to 14s Od. DUBLIN —Fu'. 17. At our market to-day there was a quiet inquiry for wheat, lb about late quotations. All other articles fully supported Tuesday's currencies. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 28 6 to 30 6 Do., red 27 0 to 28 6 Do., new 0 to ---- 0 Barley . 16 0 to 21 0 Oats Do., black ll 6 to 12 6 s. d. 1. 1. Do., new — 0 to • Bens Rapeseed Oatmeal ls 6 ts 11 • Bakers' flour Indian corn FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. In the following table II signifies that letters are despatched by evening mails irons London, and M by nosing mails. DESTINATIONS. D ot ev a aho s h . , De P . or p t at ol . Mar. 12, E Southamp. 'Fob. —, £ ITar. 5, Ilfil Liverpool 'Feb. 22.4 Liverpool liar. 5, ElDevosiport I 1 ,Feb. 20, MeSouthamp. (Feb. 27 F . Feb. 20, Southamp. 'Feb. , Southamp. Feb. 20, Southamp. Feb. 27, Feb. 27, 44 1 Southamp. Feb. .E 1 Mar. 9,11 Southamp. Feb. 27, M Southainp. 1 Feb. 20, M outhamp. Feb. —, E Southamp. Mar. 2,: E i i 4 Liverpool Feb. —, E iverpool Feb. t 2, E Southamp. Feb. 23 E Liverpool Mar. 2, Southamp. Next Mail due. Australia and Mauritius, vial Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and Havana via New York Canada, be. (by Canadn. pckt )! Cape of Good Hope, Ascen-f sion, and St. Helena i. China, Penang, and Singa pore, via Southampton , Ditto, via Marseilles Gibraltar, via Southampton , Honduras and Blewfields India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via South ampton Ditto, via Marseilles Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos Ayres, and P. Islands Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Mexico and Havana Newfoundland United States and British N America (by British paeket) Ditto (by U. S. packet) West Coast of Africa, Ma deira, and Teneriffe Vest India, California, Vene zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey town, New Granada, Am 'Mar.ll March 5 Mar. 11 Feb. $ IMarch 3 Feb. 18 Feb. 26 Feb. 18 Feb. Feb. 18 Feb. 16 Feb. 25 Feb. 19 Mar. 5 Feb. 21 Feb. 18 Feb 19 . 22 !Mar. 10 !Mar. I It is understood that consultations have already been held by the President of the India Council with the Governors of the Bank of England as to the best method. of furnishing the notes and other requirements for the Go vernment issue of £5,000,000 to be made in India, and which will be distributed in Bengal, Bombay, and Madras. THE COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH FRANCE.—A, public meeting of silk ribbon manufacturers, Weavers, tradesmen, and persons interested in the prosperity of Co ♦entry, was held in St. Mary's Hall last Wednesday even ing, and it was resolved that a petition should be presented against the treaty in relation to silks. A VERY ROMANTIC STORY.—A newspaper pub lished at Coloma, Mexico, on the 24th of October, tells the following frightful story, and calls upon the public to punish the criminals c—When General Pueblita entered the town of Ayo, in Septomber last, he exacted a forced loan from the people, and a share of it fell upon the curate of the place. The curate acted as though he would pay, but ho did not make his appearance at the point designated for payment, and General Pueblita ordered him to be arrested. A party of men went to his dwelling and knocked at the doer. There was no answer, and they broke in. They found no one in the house, and were about to leave it, when they heard a frightful voice proceeding from the ground, saying, " I am hungry !" The officer in command went back to General Pueblita, and told him about the voice. The General ap• pointed a commission to examine the house. This com mission went to the curate's dwelling, and, after a careful examination, they feund a movable stone in the floor, and under this was a staircase loading down to a vault, which was entirely dark, and had no connexion with the air, save the stairoase, and a small hole that served as a ventilator. In this vault they found some books, a few articles of furni ture, and a woman, who had be en shut up there for eighteen years. She was taken to General Pueblita's quarters. When brought into the light, where she saw a number of persons, she fainted. After she had returned to her senses a thou sand questions were asked her, to which she replied only that she had been buried in the vault for eighteen years, without going out for a moment ; that she had been married, and had children by her husband, but she knew nothing of their fate; that, while imprisoned in the vault, thn s g h e of had had what had childr en become b ofy t t h h e e se curate, ehild r b e u n t she k , and new noafter saying this much she became obstinately silent. While this was passing a sergeant of the Pueblita brigade then present discovered that this woman was his mother, and she re cognised him as her son and embraced him. The son then ran for his father, who came and recognised his wife. The husband 15 :years ago was imprisoned three years on the charge of having murdered his wife, this woman.—St. Louis Daily .Evening Nstes. BIRTHS. BLANC.—On the 16th inst., at 22, Fulham-pl a c e , Maids hill west, the wife of Assistant-Commissary -General Blanc, of a daughter. FIELDING.—On the 17th inst., at the Grange, Forest hill, Mrs. Fielding, of a son. JONES.—On the 18th inst., at 55, Connaught-terrace, Hyde park, the wife of Edward A. Jones, Esq., of a son. MARRIAGES. LAWRIE—HIBBUILD. — On the 16th inst., at Sunning-hill Church, Simon Somerville Lawrie, of Edinburgh, to Ca therine Ann, only daughter of the late Wm. Hibburd, of the Grand Stand, Ascot-heath, Berks. V.IUGHAN—WELD.—On the 15th inst , at Lulworth Cas tle, Dorsetshire, Lieutenant-Celonel Vaughan, of Court field, Monmouthshire, to Mary, only surviving daughter of Joseph Weld, Esq., Lulworth Castle. DEATHS. BOND.—On the 17th inst., at 39, idwardes-square, Ken sington, Charles Radcliffe Bond, Esq., aged 73. AUBREY.—On the 16th inst., at the Grove, Sutton, Surrey, Charles W. Aubrey, Esq., aged 85. EvANs.--On the 11th inst., at the Rectory, Pusey, Berke, the Rev. Wm. Evans, aged 57. MulutAY.—On the 16th inst., at 77, Chester square, the Right Rev. George Mw ray, Bishop of Rochester, aged 76. ROBINSON.--On the 16th inst.. at Bury St. Edmund's, in the county of Suffolk, Thomas Robinson, Esq., a magist trate fur the county, aged 91. WHARTON.—On the 18th inst., Mr. William Wharton, of Skinner-street, Snow-hill, aged 69. LONDON : Printed and Published by MUItDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middleaox, Monday, February 20, 1860.; r e 10? :A I 41 iB 7 In a N 7 T E supl: Teet p h Sel ttess sr 'Miens t] laetinj Dente itEM nett's .MO T° by Dr. W C • 9 -" Tit Nevieli fr4M d tlatuler Jo baye b ly, Plcld-3 than of Prefect the EE 47,121 : WOW Cure N werpool nervous eonsMp Dr. Slit tata A enlarge dure and da dtarrha coastal) rister. timber wigs, deafnes miter, The Do vone ire Virnlni cal ad Cure 1 atipatic eutrered Move Pleet- Itarry• N s I MD' Bul mop dpc sac and eon. 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