The Sun. — London, England, 1859-02-28 00:00:00

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Lino?ln, sister to Princess tworthy ) best of Han di- tho last hat the be sadly queO . - score of I think, animals ed their I opine, ►flowing 'though igst the mrty ill ?rounds in the -er The public =ping merely against Hugh to uld she rewer's .eing as Liver heavily he has L Land con- Hunts good a if he it. Of rs that can du t, how ugh to ent on cemay AN. s, Life catcher, Saba , season 21/ONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocic. The accounts from the manufacturing districts Mention that during the past week there has been little alteration to notice in the general position of trade, the unsatisfactory state of continental politics having in a great measure interfered with commercial affairs. At Leeds the market for cloths of all descriptions was less buoyant, buyers having limited their transactions to immediate require ments. Most of the mills in the neighbourhood, however, were well employed. The demand for goods at Manchester for India and China has not been quite so active, and the production has been lessened; prices, however, are exceedingly firm, with a tendency towards an improvement. At Bradford, worsted yarns for the home trade continued in good demand, and for piece goods a fair inquiry had been experienced. Less business has been done in worsted hosiery at Leicester, but the cotton glove and hosiery branch has been exceedingly active, and prices gene rally have exhibited an upward tendency. The iron trade of South Staffordshire is gradually improving : stocks generally are large, and the demand keeps pace with the production. At East railway carriage building for the -tast Indies is active, and in most branches of busi ness connected with the town a slight improvement is perceptible. At Sheffield and Wolverhampton very little change can be reported. The demand for the American markets has been less active, and the probability of native iron being used in the East Indies to a great - extent for the projected railways has thrown a gloom over the market. For home c onsumption there has been about an average inquiry. The Liverpool Cotton Market, on Saturday, closed with rather more animation, and prices, generally, exhibited an upward tendency. The sales amounted to 8,000 bales. In the Railway Share Market a moderate business was transacted, and quotations were steady. The money market still. remains without the slightest symptoms of a reactionary tendency. Seve ral years have elapsed since so great an abundance was experienced, and at present there is every prospect of continued easiness, the supply being ex cessive, and the demand limited. Although the Board of Trade returns show that the improvement in trade has made some progress, the extra accom modation required for commercial enterprise has been furnished without trenching upon the reserves of bankers and brokers to any appreciable extent. The terms range as low as 2 per cent., and at that quotation first-class paper is readily negotiable. It has been announced by the Danish Govern ment that on the Ist of September next they will redeem the whole of the outstanding balance, £697,200, of their 5 per cent. loan of £BOO,OOO Contracted in London in 1849. At the meeting of the East Kent Railway Company to-day, a report was presented, stating that the entire line would be opened by Ist Oct., , 1860 . The traffic in the part opened up to Dec. , 1858, amounted to £9,320 1 ls. 5d., leaving, after the expenditure, a balance in favour of the com pany of £1,458 19s. 7d. It was proposed to , c hange the name of the company to that of the iiondon, Chatham, and Dover Railway. The report was adopted. _ _ At the half-yearly meeting of the North and South. Western Junction Railway Company to-day, a dividend at the rate of 31 per cent. per annum for the half year was declared. It appeared that there had been an improvement in the traffic of the company since the last meeting. At the half-yearly meeting of the Mid-Kent Railway Company to-day, a dividend of 2s. 6d. per * hare was declared for the half-year. There has not been much animation in the Stock Exchange markets to- day, for although increased• confidence appears to prevail, the ope rators are anxious, before embarking in fresh enterprises to ascertain the course of values in the Paris Bourse. The Funds are still, i ll a great measure, under the influence of the telegrams from that establishment, and the partial reactionary movement in Consols, viz., from 96 to 95t 1, is attributable t o the want of buoyancy in the Rentes, which, after rising per Cent., again relapsed on Saturday afternoon into their former heavy and depreciated position. The latest price of Consols is 95a, the tendency of the market being downwards. The New Three per Cents. and Reduced are 961 ; India Debentures, 9 8,1- 99 ; and Exchequer Bills, 345. to 38s. prem. Bank Stock is 228 ; and India ditto, 221. Business in the Foreign Market is quiet, and prices exhibit a downward tendency. Turkish 6 Per Cents. are 90 to 901 ; ditto, New Loan, 80 to 80 1 ; ditto, 2d issue, 51 to 61 dis. ; and the 4 per Cents. have improved to 103, Brazilian 5 per Cents. to 1021, ditto 42 per Cents. to 931 941, Peruvian 4 1 per Cents. to 941, and Spanish 3 per Cents. to 44 1. Russian 41 per Cents. were steady at 991 1 0100. The New Austrian Loan is 11 to 1 discount. In the Railway Share Market prices in most instances have shown a downward tendency com pared with Saturday ; the average decline is about toy per cent. Most of the principal lines, how ever, are now quoted " ex dividend." Great North ern, Great Western, North-Western, Midland, and South-Eastern have declined 10s., and Caledonian , 15 s. The Foreign undertakings are also depressed, - Lombardo-Venetian having receded to 81 8t- fur the , 0111 , to 8 and 81 for the new shares. The East -Indian lines are steady, and Grand Trunk of Canada and Great Western of Canada show little variation:- Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are a Shade firmer. London and Westminster have im proved ss. ; London Joint Stock, ss. ; and Electric Telegraph, 10s. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. , /sank Stock 3per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9 61 1 Per Cent. Consols Annuities 11:, 011.c Y 3 per Cent. Annuities 9 61 1 •L• , Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860 1 3-16 Ditto 30 Years, expire 10th Oct., 1859 15.16 India Stock Ditto Debentures 9Bl 9 Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO Ditto under £l,OOO 18 Consols for Account March. Juno. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & lfd.. 34 37 i Ditto £5OO Ditto Small, lid 37 4 i Ditto Advertised Exchequer Bonds, 1859, 31 per Cent .... 1001 100 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent. Ditto 1853, 41 per Cent. 941 3! Peruvian 41 per Cent Ditto Account Russian, 1522, £ St., 5 per Cent — Ditto 41 per Cent. Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account .. 411 B Panish Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded.. 5i Turkish 6 per Cent 9l Ditto Account Ditto New Loan Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Dividends on the above payable in London. Ditch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent 6sk Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money 951 a Consols for Account PETITIONS FOR EXTENSION OF THE SUFFRAGE AND VOTE BY BALLOT.—The petitions which the Northern Reform Union have lately been collecting in the two coun ties of Durham and 'Northumberland will be presented to the house of Commons to-night (Monday, Feb. 28), by General Thompson. The total number of signatures attached to them is 34,456. MUNIFICENT REWARD OF HONESTY.—On Friday last Joseph Stubbs, a carriage cleaner at the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Station, Bradford, found in a second class carriage a pocket-book containing Bank of England notes and cheques to the value of £ 3BB le., belonging to a Greorge Atkins, of Halifax, who had taken a nap, and Was over-carried to the Pickle-bridge station. The honest railway servant was rewarded by the liberal owner with " I am much obliged to your— Wakefield Express. _ THE HUMAN HAIR.—A German savant has taken the pains to count the number of hairs existing in three headi of hair, of different colours. He found in a blonde 14 0,409 distinct hairs, in a br own 109,440, in a black 10 2,960, and in a red 88,740. The inferior number of red and black hairs may be compensated by their superior thickne ss , and it is probable that each of the different colours is about equal in weight. It is to the fineness and Multiplicity of the blonde tresses that they owe their silken softness.—Bullet EXTENSION OF THE OVERHOUSE TELEGRAPH SYSTEM.—Workmen have for some days been employed in erecting a series of lofty poles between the premises of her Majesty's printers and the Parliament Houses, Westmin ster; and on Saturday last the wires were successfully con veyed across the Thames at Westminster to the summit of one of the towers of the Royal palace. The work is con structed by the inventor of the system, Mr. Owen Rowland, and Mr. M. Allen, of the Overhouse Telegraph Works, Worship -street, Finsbury. ~!;`, SHARE MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) • ORDINARY SHA ES AND STOCKS. Share Railways. , Paid. Main \ Business Price. Done. 12.10 Amberg., Notting. Bost. and Eastern Junction 10 6 61 6 50 Belfast and Ballymena all 13.14 Bir., Rol., and Str. Val all 74 84 Stock Birk., Lane., and Chesh Junction lOO 02 64 25 Blackburn all 11 114 25 Blyth and Tyne all 31 33 Stock Bristol and Exeter Stock Caledonian Stock Chester and Holyhead 100 474 48 48 50 Cork and Bandon all 20 Cork, Blkrock,&Passage all 20 Cornwall all 44 51 10 Do. A A rcves. no div all 10 Do. B until6p.c.per an all hasbeen pd.toß 50 Dublin andßelfast June all 25 Dun.,Perth,& Abr.Junc all 9 4 9} .Stock East Anglian lOO 15 16 Stock Ealtern Counties lOO 584 591 594 Stock Eastern Union A Stock 100 44 46 Stock Do. do. B Stock 100 29 31 25 Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U3ds) 84 25 East Kent all 14 16 Stock East Lancashire lOO 92 94 20 East Suffolk all 10 Do Stock Edinburg and Glasgow 100 704 714 71 Stock Edin.,Perth, & Dundee. 100 27 28 10 Forth Sr Clyde Junction all Stock Furness Stock Glasgow & South Westn 1(X) 95 97 10 Great North of Scotland all 10 105 Stock Great Northern lOO 1011 1021 102 4 Stock Do. do. A Stock lOO 87 81 Stock Do. do. B Stock lOO 134 133 Stock Gt. South.& Wstn.(lreld) 100 103 104 Stock Great Western Stock Do.Str.Vl.Rail Gua.Stk lOO 54 56 12 Irish South Eastern all 50 Lancaster and Carlisle all 85 90 161 Do. Thirds 1613 4 Do. New Thirds l6 12 13 p Stock Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 934 04 03 4 16 Do. do. F 216 6 1 id_ 9 Do. do. £9 shares 7 3 Do. West Riding Union 4 20 Do. Southport 11.6.3 London and Blackwall all 6 4 6 1 04 11.6.3 Do.Newiss.at £slosp.sh 44 Stock Lon.,Brighton &S.Coast 100 109 110 1094 Stock London & North Westn 100 93 4 93 4 93 4 121 Do. Eighths Stock London& South-Westn lOO 92 4 92 1 92 1 25 L'derry & Coleraine all 25 L'derry & Enniskillen all Stock Man., Slief., & Lincoln lOO 374 38 37 4 1 10 Metropolitan 3 d Stock Midland lOO 102 1024 99 1 Stock Do. Birming. & Derby lOO 7 6 78 50 Mid. Gt. West. (Ireland) all 25 D0..5 Shares all 100 Nesftastle and Carlisle all 25 New., Aber., & Herefd all 114 12 10 Newry & Armagh (def ) 9 20 Newry, Warpt., & Roe all Stock Norfolk lOO 6 2 m 50 North. Counties Union 34 3 I d Stock North British lOO 581 59 58 4 98 4 Stock Nor.Dev.Rail.&Dk. Stk lOO Stock Do.A Stk.— Arno. no div until 6p.c.hasbeenpdß 100 Stock Do. B Stock lOO Stock North-Eastn.—Berwick 100 92 )3 91 4 25 Do. do. G.N.E.Purchase 1613 4 1 1 d Stock Do. Leeds lOO 17 18 47 Stock Do. York lOO 77 78 Stock North London lOO 101 103 100 1 10 N. &S.Westn., Hampstd and City Junction £3 is. 20 North Staffordshire 175 5 41 d 20 North-Western - 134 13i 10 No. & Sou. W. Junction all 7 8 Stock Oxford, Wor.,& Wolver lOO 29 31 304 10 Peebles all 20 Portsmouth l9 7 5 d 10 Rhymney lO Stock Scottish Central lOO 114 116 Stock Scoth. N.E., Aber. Stock 100 27 274 Stock Do. Scottish Mid. Stock 100 84 85 Stock Shropshire Union lOO 45 47 454 10 Sittingbourne & Sheer all 34 24 d Stock South Devon lOO 3 74 3 8/ Stock South-Eastern lOO 73 /35 71 Stock South Wales 20 SouthYorks.&Riv.Dun all 13 134 20 Do. do lB 20 Staines, Wok., & Wek all 8 11 25 Stockton & Darlington all 37 38 25 Do. do. 18.54 224 25 Do. do. 1855 7 Stockton & Hartlepool 164 Stock Taff Vale lOO Stock Do. Preference, No. 1 25 ThamesHavenDk&Rall 22 Stock Vale of Neath lOO 72 76 Stock Waterford & Kilkenny 100 50 Waterford & Limerick all 20 West Cornwall 10 W-end Lon. & Cry. Pal all 5 Do.A.—Armv.nodiv.till 7 p.c. has been pd. to B all 21 3 5 Do. B all 6 65 20 West London all 10 Do. let Class all 20 Do. 2d Class all -- PREFERENCE SHARES. Share' Railways. Paid. 25 Blythe and Tyne 1( per c. pref. (Issued at £5O) ( Stk Bris. & Exet.4p.ct.Stock 20 Do. do. do. Shares Stock Caledon £lO, 41 per cent 12.10 Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Stock Chester & Holyhd, si t pc Stock Do. do. 5 p. et. 6l k Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. 6 Dun. Perth,& Aber. Jun. stoe E.Angn. Class A 7 & spc Stock Do. do. Class B 6 pc Stock Do. do. Class C 7 pc Stock E. Coun. Ex. 5 pet. No.l Stock Do. do N 0.2 Stock Do. New 6 per ct. Stock Stock Eastern Union, 4 per et. Stock East Lanc. 6 per et 5 E.& W. York. Jcn. fifths Stock Edin.&Glas. spc shares Stock Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 pa. Stock Furpess, 5 per cent Stook Gifts. &S Wee t. a. spe Stock Great Northern, 5 p. ct Stock Do. 5 pc Redm.,lop.c.pm Stock Do. 41 p. c. do. do. 100 Do. - sp.c. R edm.,s pc. pm 10 Gt. Nh. of Scotld, Ist pf Stock Gt.SnAz W (Ireland) 4 p. at. pref. Stock 50 reat West. (Berke and Hants) Ext. 5 p.et. . Do. Redeemable, 41 p ct. Do. Redeemable, 4 p. ct. Do. Irredeemable, do. . Do. 5 p. ot. Redeem.Prel Do. Birm. Pref. Shares Gt. West. Ches. 8 p.c.pf shares Do. do. 5 p. ct. pref Do Birming. guar. stock Do. Chester guar. shares Do. do. do Do. do. do. Lan. & York 6 p.c. stock Lon. &Brig.spc. gu. No.l Do. pref., 5 p. c. ...No. 2 Do. New gua., 6 p. ct Do. do. 5 p. c. No. 4 Lon. & N. W. Cov. &Nun eaton, 5 p. et. Lon.&S. W, 7 Rot. stock, late 3d shares Londondy & Cole, 1 she Londondy.& Ennis 1 sh & Lin., 6 p. et Do. £6 Do. 34 per cent. Naryport & Car., 4 p.c. Do. 4 per cent Stock) Stock Stock Stock Stock 261 13 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stook Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stook Stock , Stock Stock Stock 1.0.6. Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 25 25 1 Stock all 1100 100 100 100 100 all Do. Mid. Con. 6 p. c. Stock . Do. Con. Bri s. &Bir.6 p.ct. Do. 45 p. c. pref. stock Do. with option till 1860 Do. Leic. & Hit.pref. rt. Newport,Aber,&c. pref. 5 p. c. redeem, at 5 p. c. pm Do. Perpet, 6 p. c. with option till 1866 Norfolk Deb. 4 p.c.shares Do. 5 p. c. Ext. Stock,lB46 Do. 55 p. c. Pref. do. 1847 Do. War. VIC Ex. Sk 1847 North British, 5 per cent Do. New, gua. 5 per cent Nth.Dev.Rail.& Dsk.Co. N-East. irred. 4 p.c. Deb. Do. Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref. Do. do. do. Do. Leeds, 6 p. c. No. 1. Do. do. Quarters, 1846 no. York, H. & S. Purch North Staffordshire Ox. Wr. & Wol. 6 pc. lsig Do. do. do., 2d gua Do. 45 p.c. Db. stk.in perp Scottish Central, new pi Scottish N.-Eastern deb Do. 35 per c. pref. stock Do. Aberdeen.gua.6 pc. Do. 7 p. c pref. stock. South Devon, Ann. 103. Do. Fixed 45 per cent. South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6.) Do .4 per cent Do. Fixed 45 p.c. Ist is Do. New do., 2d issue. South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. Do. 44 per cent S.-Yorkshire, 4 p.c. gua. Stockton and Dar. 5 p.e. Do. 6 per cent , I Waterford & Kilkenny, 6 per cent. Closing Price. 49 51 91 96 1103 103 125 127 116 118 6 61 99 102 110 116 108 112 115 117 114 116 132 134 81 83 74 76 113 115, 120 122 111 113 107 108 64 66 11 11i 93 95 85 E 7 86 88 99 101 10 104 164 1,74 10 101 73 75 19 20 94 10 141 144 1140 142 1120 122 1163 168 1122 124 1 11 68 70 1140 142 1103 104 t 98 31; 9f 10 111 12 9 10 1112 114 98 99 i dis p 23 p 234 120 122 1111 113 99 101 10 11 24 25 103 105 103 105 16 176 29 30 334 343 48 51 Business Dons. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. Paid. Leasing I Closing Business Co.'s. Price. Done. Bedford and Bletchley all i Ln & N.W Buckinghamshire lOO ILn & N.W 98 100 Clydesdale.Tunetlon 100 Caledonin 103 105 Colchester, Stour Val all E.U.&E C 17 18 E.Lincolnshire,g.op.c, 100 Gt.Nertb. 143 145 E Unlon,llarwichShs. all E.Counts. 4 44 Do. Woodbridge . 100 - • Gls.Barr.&Neils,Drct. 100 Caledonin Do. New lOO Do. Gloster& Dean Forest all Gt. West. Hartlpool.Dck.&ltail. all Yk.N.&Br Hull and Selby 1)o. 4 Shares all Do. Do. I Shares all Do. London&Greenwich . 100 S. East O5 674 Do. Preference Lon.,Tilby.&Soutend. 100 Peto &Co 9O 92 91 4 Do. Barking Shares.. all Do. Lowestoft, gua. 4p. et. 100 Norfolk Do. 6 per cent lOO Do. Mane., Ruxtu. & Matk all LN W&M 24 14 Midsh& Itedcr, g.6p.c all Stk.& Dar 31 id.BradfordPrf. Stk lOO Midland . 98 160 Newmarkt.,BuryEx 1 5. 5. 6. E.Counts. i i r pm guaranteed 5 p. c. j Northn.& Eastn. 5 p.c. all Do. Do. do. 6 per cent. ... all Do. — Do. Fixed 5 per c ent. all D o. o. — N W Pri2StOII and Wyre. 1 all & L.yk. 1 _ Do. 4 Shares A. all Do. — Roystn,Hitch.,& Shep 100 Gt. North. 142 144 1 Shf.ltoth.&Gol.g.sp.c. 1811 0 Lan.& Yk 6hrowsbry& Hereford all [ T Brassoy 91 1 South Staffordshire .. all 'M'Clean . 11 114 114 Wear Valley, g. Gp. c. all 'Stk.& Dar Do. do. Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. 9 0 92 Wimbledon& Croydn l , all IL.&Brgtni 8 9 _____ DOCKS. Share Docks. I p g idl Cl P O ri s c i e n . g II u p s o i o n c e !! S t ock ! 1 Commercial lOO Stork ! Do 4 per Cent .Pref. Mi n Stock' East and West India lOO Stock London lOO Stock St. Katharine....,,,,,, 100 -- Stock Southampton lOO Stock Victoria a Do New ! 18 Stock Stock' Stock Stock Stock' Stock Stock, Stock Stock 25 Stock Stock THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1859. THIS DA Y'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. There was no animation in the demand for wheat in the leading country markets held on Saturday. Fine dry samples were mostly disposed of at full prices ; but other kinds moved off slowly, at late rates. The barley trade was tolerably active, at full previous quotations. Oats, beans, and peas, as well as flour, commanded late currencies. In the Continental markets wheat has continued dull in sale, on former terms. Other produce has been in fair re quest. The grain trade in the United States has become much less active. _ The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week, were moderate. The total imports from abroad were rather limited„viz., 644 quarters of wheat, 2,912 barley, 12,287 oats, 2,130 rye, 5 beans, 50 peas, 475 tares, 6,329 linseed, 10 mustard, 100 sundry seeds, 3,793 sacks and 105 barrels of flour. The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to-day, coastwise and by land carriage, were on a very moderate scale, but we observed a slight improvement in the general condition of the samples. The attendance of both town and country millers was far from numerous, and the demond for all kinds of wheat of home produce was in a sluggish state, at last Monday's currency. Wo were tolerably well, but not to say heavily, supplied with foreign wheat. Fine dry samples sold at full quota tions, but so little was doing in other kinds that prices were almost nominal. Floating cargoes of grain, off Falmouth, were very dull. The show of barley was rather limited. For most de scriptions the demand was steady, at full prices. Malt changed hands freely, at full quotations. Thera was a fair show of oat samples, and the demand ruled inactive. In prices, however, no charge took place. We had rather more inquiry for beans, at full quotations. Peas ruled steady, but not dearer. The flour trade was in a sluggish state, at last Monday's quotations. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) The March session of the Central Criminal Court com menced this morning before the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, the Recorder, Aldermen Sir Chapman Marshall, Sir R. Carden, and the other civic authorities. The calendar contains the names of 78 persons for trial. =The grand jury having returned several true bills, the trial of prisoners was proceeded with.' future reformer shall have any pretext, at least of symmetry or uniformity, for descending. But, while preserving intact, as the basis of the borough franchise, the amount fixed by the first Reform Bill, the Ministerial Bill seeks, by measures some what similar to those adopted in the Reform Bill of 1854, to extend the franchise to persons who, from the possession of property in the shape of deposits in savings banks, of stock in the Funds, or of railway shares, may give satisfactory proof of their fitness to assist in imposing burdens upon the property of others. These are matters of detail ; but we shall wait with some curiosity to hear the means by which votes depending on such qualifica tions may be relieved from the obvious inconve niences by which they are attended—the want of notoriety in the possession, the facility of fraud, and the great difficulty of preventing the manu facture of faggot votes. It will be seen from the above outline, which we believe to be in the main correct, that the measure of the Government is one of very great simplicity, that the principles on which it is founded are clear and obvious, and that there is no attempt whatever, as has been sometimes not unreasonably apprehended, to neutralise or counteract the effect of those principles by any subtle or refined scheme of compromise. Those who are opposed to a considerable reduction of the franchise in the counties, and those who arc anxious for the admission of large classes of the poorer in habitants of the boroughs, those who wish for a sweeping disfranchisement of small constituencies and for the transfer of elective power to the more populous communities, will easily find objects for their disapprobation. Ono merit the measure un doubtedly possesses, and that is that it does not, seek, under the pretence of a theoretical improve ment, to transfer power from one part of the com munity to the other, and that, as far as we are able to judge, it holds the balance with a strict impar tiality between county and town, disdaining in this respect to follow the example set by Mr. Bright in his Reform Bill. This must be admitted to be no trifling recommendation. Public opinion must decide whether the contemplated change will be sufficiently sweeping. If we were to venture a conjecture, it would certainly be that the measure has more danger to anticipate from the supporters than from the antagonists of the Government, and that it is highly improbable that anything but the fear of obtaining worse terms hereafter will in duce the county members to consent to so con siderable an increase of their constituencies. If the members for counties can reconcile them selves to the change, we feel little doubt that the great mass of borough members will bear with con siderable philosophy the sentence which condemns them to represent henceforth pretty nearly the same bodies as heretofore. That the measure will be regarded with apprehension by a certain section of the Tory party may be inferred from the fact that the adoption of the scheme by the Cabinet has already deprived the Government of the co-opera tion of the Home Secretary and of the President of the Board of Trade, both of whom have resigned their offices. The proposed bill, indeed, is probably as strong as any Government would be able to carry in the present temper of the House of Commons and the public mind, and with these few remarks we commend it to the best consideration of the nation, whose most important interests it so nearly and vitally concerns. P. H. HOWARD, ESQ., OF CORBY, ON REFOR-11, At the soiree of the Great Corby Reading-room, last week, Mr. Howard, who presided, said he was sure that as it was a question akin to education, he might be permitted to say that in any revisal or reconstruction of the representative system the claims of education ought not to be forgotten, and should have the benefit of direct representation. There was the University of Edinburgh, where some of the most eminent men had received the whole or part of their education—Lord Brougham, Sir Walter Scott, Jeffrey, Lord John Russell, and many others had been there ; and he might name his brother, now ambassador to the Portu guese court, as having studied there. He might say that he trusted the London University also— founded principally by Lord Brougham, and fos tered by his (the chairman's) late and able friend, who had lately paid the debt of nature—that he trusted the London University. where men of all creeds can matriculate, would be admitted to the representation. He trusted that if this country should be involved in war, or should a war arise on the continent, at least we would maintain a strict and dignified neutrality. That was the only safe policy for England. But it required a resolute and forbearing course of policy, because it was easy under the pretext of giving advice to be driven into the conflict. He was glad to hear that our alliance with our neighbours continued unshaken. It was certainly , very desirable that there should be a clear and good understanding between the two countries, because that alliance should be placed upon a broader, and a commercial basis. That was the only basis upon which we could sec ure ly r ely on peace. Near neighbours are sure to be either good friends or the contrary. He would only add one word more, and that was, that now that India was about to be governed on more paternal principles, he trusted that some means would be devised to bring the cotton of India into more extensive use in England, and means would be devised for the better cleaning of the raw material, which he believed was the great drawback to its consumption. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new 36s to 45s Ditto, old Ditto, white, new 3Bs 508 Ditto, old —s -s Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s —s ' Ditto, new 368 448 Rye—Old 8 —s New Barley—Grinding...., 24s 26s Malting 368 37s Chevalier 3ss 428 Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk Brown Kingston and Ware s2s 64s Chevalier Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding l9B 24u Potato 26s 308. Youghal and Cork, black 2os 23s Cork, white , Scotch Feeding 2os 29s _ .... _... ~,, Beans —Tick Pigeons Peas—Grey. Maple White Boilers Flour—Town-made Suffolk Stockton and Norfolk METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The total imports of foreign stock into London last week were 1,829 head In the corresponding week in 1858 we received 617; in 1857, 884; in 18.56, 429; in 1855, 358; in 1854, 2,331; in 1853, 2,834; and in 1852, head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. From. Beasts. Rotterdam Sheep. 722 .. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 97 .. "-- • • Hamburgh .. 76 .. Harlingen Dordt Antwerp . . .. • • Ostend — • • 110 .. Oporto 350 .. - .. 39 .. - .. - •• 12 .. *-" • • "--' • • - •• 33 .. 34 .. "-- • • Total 542 1,111 176 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs .858 123 .. 132 .. .. 362 .. .857 154 .. 737 .. .. 93 .. .856 229 .. 130 .. .855 240 .. 118 .. [854 • 775 .. 1,333 223 .. ,853 475 .. 2,126 .. 227 .. 6 For the time of year there was a fair show of foreign short horns to-day, but its general quality was inferior. From our own grazing districts the arrivals of beasts fresh up this morning were slightly on the incroaso com pared with Monday last, but there was a deficiency in their general quality. The primest Soots, short horns, &c., sold without difficulty at last Monday's prices. Otherwise the beef trade ruled heavy, and in some instances prices gave way 2d. per 8 lbs. From 'Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 2,200 Scots, short horns, and crosses ; from other parts of England, 600 of various kinds ; and from Scotland, 300 Scots and crosses. We were again very scantily supplied with all breeds of sheep in middling condition. The mutton trade was de cidedly active, at an advance in the quotations realised on this day se'nnight of 4d per 81bs. The primest old Downs in the wool realised 5s 8d ; out of the wool, 5s per 81bs. About 3,000 shorn sheep were in the market. Calves, the supply of which was limited, were firm ; and the quotations had an upward tendency. We had a slow sale for pigs ; nevertheless prices were supported. Per Sibs. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. & inf. beasts 3 4 3 6 Second qualitydo. 3 8 4 2 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10 Crse. & inf. sheep 4 0 4 4 Second quality do. 4 6 4 10 Suckling calves, 19s to 22s 188 to 225. s. d. R. d. Prime crs-wool do. 5 0 5 4 Pme. S'thdown do. 5 6 5 8 Large crse. calves 4 0 4 10 Prime small do 5 0 5 8 Large hogs 3 0 3 6 Small porkers and quarter-old store pigs, FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts 470 Sheep Calves GB Pigs TOTAL SUPPLY. ---------------- Beasts 3,545 Sheep 16,450 Calves Pigs 420 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market, on Monday, March 1, 1858, and this day, Monday, Feb. 28, 1859. Per 81bs, to sink the offals. March 1, 1858. Feb. 28, 1859. s d. a. d. a. d.. s. d. Coarse and inferior beasts . . 3 4to 3 6 3 4to 3 6 Second quality ditto 3 8 310 3 8 4 2 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 2 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. . . . . Coarse and inferior sheep . 3 2 3 6 4 0 4 4 Second quality ditto . . . . 3 8 4 0 4 6 410 Prime coarse-woolled ditto . . 4 2 4 6 5 0 5 4 Prime Southdown ditto . . Lambs Large coarse calves . . . Prime small ditto Large hogs Neat small porkers . . . Beasts Sheep and lambs . . Calves Pigs SUPPLIES ON SALE, March 2, 1857.---Beasts, 2,942; sheep and lambs, 15,020; calves, 87; pigs, 260. March 3,lBs6.—Beasts, 4,133; sheep and lambs, 22,600; calves, 67 ; pigs, 280. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of meat on offer from Scotland and various parts of England are less extensive than of late'; and the show of London-killed is only moderate. The trade gene rally rules steady, at full prices. Per Blbs. by the Carcass. s. d. s. d. I Inferior Beef 3 oto 3 4 Infr. Mutton. Mid. d 0..... 3 6to 3 8 Mid. do Pm.largedo. 3 10 to 4 0 Prime do. Do. small do. 4 2to 4 6.1 Veal Large pork.. 3 oto 3 6 I Small pork s. d. s. d. 3 oto 3 6 3 Bto 4 2 4 4to 4 8 3 Bto 4 8 310 to 4 2 BOROUGH HOP. We continue to have a firm market for nearly all new hops, at very full prices. Fine yearlings are 'quite as dear as last week. Otherwise, the demand is heavy. Mid and East Kent pockets 7os to 120 s per cwt. Weald of Kent do s4s to 70s „ Sussex do s4s to 66s „ BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Full average time-of-year supplies of home-grown pota toes have come to hand during the past week. The imports have amounted to 64 tons from Calais, 20 do. from Boulogne, 5 from Hambro, 37 from Harlengin, 2 from Rot terdam, and 337 from Diukirk. We have to report a slow sale for all kinds as follows : York Regents, 80s to 105 s • Essex and Kont, 70s to 95s ; Lincoln, 708 to 90s ; Scotch, to 90s ; foreign, 45s to 655. WOOL MARKET. The eommencement of the wool sales has been• marked with some inactivity. In prices, however, when compared with the previous auctions, no change has taken place. Quotations have ruled as follow :—Cape : Clean sheep's, is 21(1 to 2s; scoured, is 21d to is 91d; handwashed, is 41d ; greasy, 101 d to is 4d. Port-Philip : Clean sheep's, Is 71d to 2s lid ; scoured, is lid to 2s 8d ; super snow white, 3s 2d; lambs', is 111 d ; do. scoured, 2s 31d to 2s 81d ; skin, is 6d to is 101 d. Sydney : Clean sheep's, is 10d to 2s 51d ; scoured, is lld to 2s 5d ; handwashed, is 10d; pieces, is 3d to is 7d; greasy, is Old to is Ifd German : Clean sheep's, is 2fd to is 9d ; scoured, is 10d to 2s ; skin, is Old to is 3fd per lb. Tho imports last week were only 131 bales from Antwerp, and 30 bags from Ham bro'. Privately, very little is doing, on former terms. Although the linseed marl; late rates have been fairly si mands extreme prices, but i sell. Cloverseed continues Cakes have changed hands prices. Turnip,White,p.bus.l2s to 14s Swede Mustard. Brown Ss 11s White, new 12s 15s Tares, Spring, new.. 0.46 d 12s Old —s —s Canary, per quarter 56s 66s Rye grass, new 22s 26s Clover, Red Eng., ct. 61s 80s White Foreign Red 62s 70s • White 70s 84s Trefoil, new. lBs 20s TAT, Since our last report very li the value of tallow. The ma steady. P.Y.C., on the spot town tallow, 52s nett cash ; ro ,EDS. :et has been somewhat inactive, ipported. Fine rapeseed coin nferior qualities are difficult to in request, at full quotations. to a fair extent, at last week's Carraway Coriander 9B 12s Ilempseed, per qr 30s 38s Linseed,Eng.sowing 72s 749 Crushing —B —9 Baltic —s —9 ' Odessa Linseed Cake, p. ton— English £lO os£lo 15s Foreign, p tonX9 5s Od 1015 s Rape Cakes,p. ton 5 Os 0 58 Rapeseed, p. qr OlB 688 ,ow. ittlo change has taken place in arket, however, may be called .t, is selling to-day at 52s 6d; .ough fat, 2s 10d. 1855. - 1856. I 1857. 1858. 1859. --- Stock this day.... 36.610 23,726 112 , 89 1 198 Od to 598 6d to 66 8 0 d t o 52s 9d to 52s 6d 19.277 20,720 50s Od —s Od —s Od — s Od —s Od D P r j e I ce i v e o r f y Y l . a e s ' t w " eek 1,417 1,353 397 1,938 1,432 Ditto from June 1 61,214 : 86,495 89,601 87,087 82,036 Arrivals last week 2,516 763 1,938 390 1,110 Ditto from June 1 6-113'24 63,679 85,512 93,252 91,180 Price Of TOWII .... 51sNd 53s Od 61s Od 65s Od 54s 3d FORGERY. Robert Ball Palmer, 41, watchmaker, was indicted for forging and uttering a bill for 145, and a warrant for the delivery of certain goods. The prisoner pleaded guilty. On behalf of the prisoner it was urged that the offence to which he had pleaded guilty was committed under pecu liarly painful circumstances. For some time he had carried on business in Bath, but from domestic affliction his re sources became exhausted, and he was utterly unable to maintain his family. ,After struggling for some time in a manful way against adversity, ho came to London, and then, after finding all things fail, he com mitted the offence with which he stood charged. The learned counsel said he had a memorial from Bath in favour of the prisoner's character, signed by several of the most in fluential persons resident there, and he trusted that under all the circumstances of the case his lordship would deal mercifully with the prisoner. The Recorder said there certainly was some difference in this case from those usually tried in that court, and he should therefore sentence the prisoner to only 18 months' imprisonment. SHOPLIFTING. Speridoni Luseg, an Italian, was indicted for stealing two pieces of silk, of the value of £B, the property of Mr Charles Candy, a warehouseman in Watling-street, City, and also with stealing 13 yards of silk, of tho value of £2 10s., the property of Mr. Thomas Perry. From the evidence it appeared that tho prisoner entered the warehouse and asked to look at some silk robes. The silks were shown, when it was observed that he had secreted a parcel under his coat, which afterwards turned out to be two lengths of silk. Mr. Ribton addressed the jury for the prisoner, in a very long speech, in which he contended that the witnesses were mistaken. The jury found the prisoner guilty. Two former convictions having been proved, the Re corder sentenced him to two years' imprisonment. THE NEW REFORM BILL. (Front the Times.) The most uncandid partisan must admit that the task which Government has undertaken this day to discharge is one of no ordinary difficulty and danger. For a Tory Ministry to propose a Reform Bill must always be an operation of a very delicate character, and in the present instance the failure of preceding Governments in the same career may naturally be supposed to aggravate the embarrass ment of the situation. On the other hand, the framers of the coming Reform Bill enjoy an advan tage which was not given to their predecessors. Mr. Bright's autumnal campaign has thoroughly ventilated the subject for them, and taught them very clearly what it is which the people do not want. In this respect it would be difficult to exaggerate the services which the member for Birmingham has rendered to the cause of peace, order, and good government throughout these. islands. By making propositions which everybody disapproved he has been, sorely against his will, a guide to the discovery of what it is which the intelligent and impartial public would approve. He has established beyord dispute that in this practical country there exists no taste for discus sions and no confidence in conclusions founded on doctrines of abstract right, and that the problem which Government has to solve is not how to satisfy certain theoretical maxims of equality, but how to provide in Parliament an instrument fitted for the discharge of those duties of which the constitution makes it the depository. Coming to their task with such advantages and such disadvantages, Government have doubtless carefully considered the causes which led to the almost immediate abandonment of the bills pro posed by the Governments of Lord John Russell and Lord Aberdeen. The most obvious cause was the practical difficulty of securing adequate support for passing those bills into law. The extension of boroughs in the first case, and their disfranchise ment in the second, necessarily gave a considerable number of members on either side of the house a very strong interest in the failure of the measure. This interest proved more powerful than oidluuty party tics, and held out to the reforming Govern ment the prospect of having to contend against the compact mass of the Opposition, strength ened and encouraged by very numerous deserters from their own ranks. A little calculation served to show that, in the presence of a large number of members of all parties acting together with perfect unanimity for one common object, and in the absence of any strong pressure to counteract those influences, it was vain to attempt to fight the battle of 1832 without the weapons which had then gained the victory, and that nothing was left but a prudent and immediate retreat. The public will therefore not be sur prised if in the construction of their bill Ministers have exactly inverted the process employed by Mr. Bright, and if, instead of disfranchising boroughs according to an arbitrary numerical standards, and embarrassing themselves with a vast number of vacated seats, for which in the absence of equal electoral districts it would have been extremely difficult to find constituents, they have begun by ascertaining what number of seats are wanted to supply acknowledged deficiences, and no more, by the process of disfranchisement. Any one conversant with these subjects will easily supply the names of the new constituencies which would thus be formed. In this part of the measure there would be but little novelty, and, indeed, novelty in such a case was scarcely possible. To supply this not very considerable number of seats they would not require either to have recourse to the extension of boronghs, as proposed by Lord J. Russell, !for yet to the plan of total disfranchise ment so largely adopted in the first Reform Bill. No borough, we believe, will be entirely disfran chised. The schedule to the act will, in fact, cor respond to schedule B of the original Reform Bill. From a certain number of the smaller boroughs, returning two members a single member will be withdrawn, and the seats thus obtained will be given to the new constituencies which it is intended to create. There are many, doubtless, who will hear with disappointment the announcement that it is proposed to confine the, work of enfranchise ment within such narrow limits, but it is only fair they should remember that it is a very, different thing to draw out abstract schemes of Reform ' in the closet, and to frame a measure which has a chance of being carried through the House of Commons in the face of a powerful and interested Opposition, with but a lukewarm and occasional support from the public out of doors. The public will nct be surprised if the Ministe rial measure adopts as a basis of the County Franchise a £lO occupation, which has already more than once received the approbation of the House of Commons, when embodied in the measure of Mr. Locke King. This is not the place for entering into a discussion of the merits of this proposal, which, doubtless, will be rather a start ling one to a certain number of our county mem bers. Its adoption by a Tory Government must be accepted as evidence of the growing liberality of the times in which we live, and must in all fairness be considered as a proof of the wish of Ministers to deal with the question, if not on very wide, at any rate on honest and intelligible principles, and to exhibit a suitable deference for the verdict which the House of Commons has pronounced on this subject. It will also, we believe, be proposed to facilitate the voting of constituencies so largely increased as those of the Counties will be by a sys tem of voting papers, which may relieve the elector from the necessity of travelling a long distance in order to record his vote at the nearest polling place. As regards the Borough Franchise, it has been considered that it would be ridiculous, after so considerably lowering the County Franchise in order to produce uniformity, to destroy that uni formity as soon as created by a further reduction of the amount. The Ministerial Bill will therefore, if we are not misinformed, propose that henceforth the franchise for boroughs and counties shall be uniform, resting on an occupation of £lO, and thus seeking to establish a limit below which no THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Feb. 28.—Wind this day at noon S.W. ; light, with very fine weather.—The Greek Slave, off and from West Hartlepool, while anchored in Barking Reach on Feb. 25, was run into and sunk in 24 feet water by the James, barge. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 27.—Wind N.W., blowing hard.— Arrived—Harriette, Bremen, for La Guayra ; Trinidad, from Hartlepool, for Cuba; Cuba Packet, Amsterdam, for Havana. COWES, Feb. 27.—Wind W., N.N.W., strong.—Arrived —Traveller, from London, for New Zealand; Fortunata, Pesaquat ; Matilda, Puerto Cabello. DARTMOUTH, Fob. 27.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Annie, Moulmein. Off—Amifera, London, for Cape of Good Hope. BRIDLINGTON, Feb. 28.—The Don, of and from Scalia for London, foundered off this place this morning, having sprung a leak ; crew saved. (EY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Wind calm. Arrived, Feb. 26.—General Havelock, from Cardiff; Port Madoc, Harriet, Lively, Clementina, Florida, and Anne, from Newport; Union, from Sunderland; L'Etoile, from Carentan ; La Poulo, from Cherbourg; Lady Eglinton, from Dublin. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. Wind N W; tide last hours' flood ; weather light and hazy . Arrived, Feb. 27.—Alphonso Jeane, from Nantes ; Spright, from Guernsey ; Lord of the Isles, from Shanghai. Arrived, Feb. 28.—Flora, from Oporto. DEAL, Monday Morning. Wind N.W., moderate. _ _ _ _ Passed.—Aria, from Calcutta; Joseph Fletcher, from China; Quoen of tho South, schooner, from St. Mitchaers ; and Kingston, schooner, from Westward—all for London ; City of Brussels, from Rouen, for Shields; Johanna and Olussa, from Shields, for Caldera. Sailed.—Maria Hay, Susan, Sultana, and Tyburn—for London. • The Pera will take out the first overland Austra lian mail under the now contract, on the 12th proximo. TREATMENT OF LUNATICS.—Two Government bills have been brought in upon the care and treatment of lunatics —a subject on which the public mind has recently received a most painful impression in consequence of recent disclosures of the practices pursued in private asylums. The first bill prohibits the grantinc , of licences (by justices) to houses for the reception of lunatics without a previous inspection, inquiry, and report on the part of the (Lunacy) Commissioners. The commissioners will annually appoint "medical examiners" of licensed houses within their im mediate jurisdiction, and the justices at Michaelmas Sessions will also appoint similar examiners. These gentle men will visit all lunatic patients immediately after their reception into licensed houses (the keepers of which must give due notice of the fact) and within seven days make a full report of the result to the commissioners. They will visit the patients a second time within three months, and again report on their state, &c. Caro is taken, by clause 15, to disqualify certain interested persons from signing certificates for the reception of patients. Defective certificates for the reception of patients will be come void if not amended within 14 days, and the patient will then be discharged from durance. Patients may be permitted to be absent on trial from hospitals and licensed houses. In every house licensed for 50 patients or more there must reside a legally qualified medical practitioner as superintendent or medical attend ant, and every licensed house licensed for more than 30 rri E vb v syy, e r a sya required ceegllili esaesed by persons commis sioner, aoiwn housess patients and less that 50 must (unless one be resident), be visited daily, and if licensed for less than 30 thrice a-week, by a regular medical r practitioner. th veatveoncesyhae t its hinTsiahouvnestienkrbeg,eecipnvlarsarsidgteilefitotihfaotenssinelte;e patients, must furnish information as to payment for patients. The second bill amends the law on lunatic asylums in counties, and provides for he maintenauce of pauper lunatics, THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. TATTERSALLS'-( THIS EVENING.) The members dispersed early, in order to catch the 5 p.m. train for Liverpool. The betting was marked by some briskness, but there were no new or important features. For the Liverpool Steeplechase renewed support was accorded to The Brewer, whose price at the close was 3to 1 with takers. Ghika returned to favour, and although 10 to 1 was offered against him, odds a point higher were taken with avidity. Little Charley, Jealousy, and Jean du Quesne receiNed a tolerable degree of support at the odds quoted. For the Spring Cup Aneurin was in " force," at 5 to 1; indeed, nearly every bookmaker at the close of business was "full against" Mr. Merry's colt. Ambush and Broadlands were, for the most part of the afternoon, neck and neck in the betting, but at last Ambush was the best favourite. But one or two investments were made on the Darby-20 to 1 was taken to a pony about Merryman, and Volcano was backed for £lOO at the price given below. Viking was once more in bad odour, as the " knocking out" prick quoted will testify. CLOSING PRICES. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 3to 1 agst The Brewer (taken) 9to 1 agst Jealousy (taken) 9to 1 agst Little Charley (taken) 10 to 1 apt Ghika (offered) 15 to 1 agst Jean du Quesne (taken) 15 to 1 agst Half-Caste (taken) 15 to 1 agst The Huntsman (taken) 25 to 1 agst Xanthus (taken) 25 to 1 agst Knight of the Shire (taken) 25 to 1 agst Border Chief (taken) Glautius is struck out. SPRING CUP. sto 1 agst Aneurin (taken) 7to 1 agst Ambush (taken) Bto 1 agst Broadlands (taken) Bto 1 agst Gladiolus (taken) 20 to 1 agst Cheval de Bronzo (taken) . , TWO THOUSAND GUINEA STAKES. 4to 1 agst Promised Land (taken and offered) DERBY. 22 to 1 agst Volcano (taken) 20 to 1 agst Merryman (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Viking (offered) ADDITIONAL ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL. Madrid, Ochiltree, Aneurin, The Greek, Jealousy, Mahratta, Diemont, Princess Royal, Ancient Briton, Gibraltar, Weatherwise, The Huntsman, Half-Caste, The Brewer, Westminster, Prince of Orange, Xanthus, Rattlecone, Drapery, Border Chief, Nosegay, Duchess of Sutherland, Weathercock, Stir Pudding, Magic, and Che val de Bronze. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(Tms EVENING). The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. MANNING THE NAVY. The Earl of HARDWICKE laid on the table the rea sons of Mr. Lindsay for not signing the report of the Com mission on Manning the Navy. THE PAPAL STATES. The Earl of CLARENDON begged to draw the atten tion of his noble friond the Secretary for Foreign Affairs to a discrepancy in a statement he had made in that house on one made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the other house of Parliament on Friday last. The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that the French and Austrian Govern ments were willing to evacuate the Papal States, and that the Papal Government was anxious that such a movement should be made. His noble friend on Friday stated that at no distant date the French and Austrian troops would be withdrawn at the request of the Papal Government. Ho thought that although both parties might wish to with draw their troops, they would be restrained from so doing by neither being aware of the exact wish of the other, nor of their line of conduct. He wished, therefore, to know the exact information in the possession of the Government, that no discrepancy might mar the effect of the discussion. Lord MALMESBURY said he was very glad to give all the information in his power, but the noble earl's observa tions with respect to what he termed discrepancy, seemed to assume a distinction without a differ ence. (Hear, hear.) His honourable friend and himself meant the same thing. The knowledge they both possessed was that the Papal Government requested, of its own accord,. the evacuation of its territory by the French and Austrian troops, and he could not seo any excuse for the French and Austrian troops remaining for a sin'le day after such an announcement. He had seen the French ambassador since the discussion on Friday, and he stated that his Government were quite willing to evacuate the Italian territory. Lord BROUGIIAM asked the noble earl if he could in form him as to the object of the immense warlike prepara tions which were being made by a neighbouring power, and which, as was well known to most of their lordships, was the real cause of the anxiety which was felt in Europe/ Ho did not suppose there was any just reason for alarm, since the noble earl and his colleagues, notwithstanding these war like preparations had found time for the preparation of a measure for Parliamentary Reform. The Earl of MALMEgBURY said the information he had received was to the euect tnat tnere was no real grounu for alarm on account of the warlike preparations alluded to by his noble and learned friend. The preparations were not being carried on to a greater extent than was actually necessary for the preservation of peace. Lord BROUGHAM said the answer was perfectly satis factory. DEBTOR AND CREDITOR BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second reading of this bill. Lord ST. LEONARDS objected to the bill on the ground that consolidation was not carried out so fully as it ought to be. He thought that the bill he had introduced last session was far better than the ono at present under consi deration. [LEFT SITTING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS—(Tins EVENING). The SPEAKER took tho chair at four o'clock. A short time previously a number of members assembled, and the house was nearly filled by the time the business commenced, in consequence of the anxiety felt to learn the details of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Bill on Par liamentary Reform. The strangers' gallery was also crowded, and the house presented a very animated appear ance. NEW MEMBER. Mr. EDWIN JAMES took the oaths and his seat for Mary lebone. PRIVATE BUSINESS, TRAVELLERS' AND MARINE INSURANCE AND ACCIDENTAL DEATH INSURANCE COM PANIES' AMALGAMATION (No. 2) BILL. This bill was read a second time and ordered to be com mitted. PETITIONS. Sir J. GRAHAM presented a petition in favour of the £lO county franchise. Gen. THOMPSON presented petitions in support of the adoption of manhood' suffrage, vote by ballot, &c. The hon. and gallant member said that his petitions were founded on the principle that " A man's a man for a' that." (Laughter.) Several petitions were also presented on behalf of the let ter carriers and others employed in the provincial post-offices, praying to be placed on the same footinr , as those con nected with the London, Dublin, and Edinburgh offices. ARMY ESTIMATES. In reply to Capt. VIVIAN, General PEEL said that ho proposed to bring forward the army estimates next Friday. TRANSIT OF BATTERIES TO INDIA Sir Do L. EVANS asked the Secretary of State for India whether it was the fact that 12 field batteries of ar tillery were ordered or intended to be sent to India ; and whether the transit of troops to India by way of Egypt was ordered to be totally discontinued ? Lord STANLEY said the batteries were ordered, but would not be sent out at present; and with regard to the second question, the practice would be discontinued. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM• The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in rising to move for leave to bring in a bill to amend the laws relating to the representation of the people of England and Wales, and to facili tate the registration and voting at elections, said—lt is now my duty to draw the attention of the house to a subject, than which a more important one has never been submitted to your deliberation. Those questions of peace and war which are now agitating the public mind are matters of imperial policy, and any errors with respect to them may be re t r aced, a nd any serious disasters may be averted by a free people ; but in bringing forward such a measure as that which I am about to present to you any wrong step may be attended with the greatest possible injury to the interests of the country for years to come. (Hear.) The difficulties with which I and my colleagues have to contend with in dealing with the subject arc much mitigated by the fact that we have not to contend with party spirit, and that we have the benefit of experience. (Hear, hear.) I believe the bill I will have to submit to you will be received with fairness by this house, and will obtain the approval of the country. It was not a matter of surprise that the Reform Bill which was passed in 1832, and which was necessarily of an experimental character, should in the course of 25 years have been found not all that was required—that it had omissions which were to be supplied, and deficiencies which were to be amended. (Hear, hear.) Since the time that measure was introduced, a great alteration has taken place. The population has increased in a ratio that was unparalleled , and capital has also increased to an extent of which no coun try, not even America, presents an instance. The intelligence of the people has increased in propor tion with that of population and capital, and the discoveries of science has effected the most extra ordinary changes in the country. For the last ten years Parliamentary Reform has occupied the LAW INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS-APPEAL. THE SCOTTISH NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY V SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND STEWA.RT, BART. This was an appeal from a decision of tho Court of Session in Scotland, finding the company liable to the respondent in £14,500 damages in terms of their agree ment; and, moreover, liable for all loss and damage which ho would have sustained if the company had carried out their branch line though the lands of Murthly from Perth to Dunkeld, as should be ascertained by decreet-arbitral of Mr. George Buchanan, one of the directors of the com pany, under the Act of Parliament. The line of rail way was abandoned, and the company denied their lia bility for any consequential damage which might have arisen if the branch line of railway had been made. Sir Richard Bethell, Q.C., opened the case for the appel [ant. Mr. James Anderson, Q.C., is on the same side. Mr. Rolt, Q.C., and Mr. R. Palmer, Q.C., represent the respondent. The healing of the cause is now going on. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood.) JUDGMENT.-IN RE HARRIS'S TRUST. His Honour the Vice-Chancellor stated—The contest in this suit raises the question, What is the effect of the appointment which the testator has made as to the money to be received frsin the sale of the bonuses arising on the policy of assurance in the Metropolitan Assurance Com pany, to be divided, according to the proportions mentioned in his settlement, amongst his children ? He directed one thousand pounds to be paid to each of his two daughters ; and then ho directed the remaining two thousand pounds, or the residue, to be divided equally a mongst his five sons, nominatum—and the ques tion was, did these bequests pass shares to' the younger children? his Honour, on referring to the dicta of Lord Hanlwicke, and reviewing the decision in the cases of Butler before Lord Cottenham, and Carter before Vice- Chancellor Shadwell, came to the conclusion that the resi due, or surplus portion, was devisable amongst the younger children, and declared that the children, on attaining the age of 21, shall have their portions paid to them, and the residue will be taken to a separate account. The parties will have their costs as between solicitor and client, and not as between party and party. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(TIIIS DAY.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. INDECENT BEHAVIOUR OF SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDREN * . —Cornelius Crowder, a machine ruler, of Market-row, Newport Market, was charged with indecent c onduct to five little girls, on the previous (Sunday) afternoon, in Soho-square. From the evidence of a little girl it appeared that she was on her way home from the Sunday school, on the previous afternoon, in Soho-square, when the prisoner behaved in a very indecent manner, and on their going away he followed them down Rose-street, and into a court, where he re peated his disgusting conduct, once being guilty of it be hind a hearse standing in the street. Tho evidence of another child confirmed her companion in every particular, and left no doubt of the pariseodneines avary dirty con duct. The girls, although ver y young, acted proper manner, looking for a constable, and as soon as one came in view, immediately acquainted him with what had happened, and the prisoner s tole o ff. Mr. Beadon asked the prisoner what he had to say t o th e charge ? The prisoner, in a roundabout way, denied the charge. Mr. Beadon said he had no doubt whatever of the pri soner's having been guilty of what the, girls had stated, and after animadverting in severe terms on his conduct, sentenced him to three months' hard labour., CRUELTY TO A PONY.—George liughes a beerhouss keeper, of the Latimer-road, Notting hill, was charged at the instance of Mr. Love, chief constable of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with cruellyu e defendan t sig a n pony. e d he had not paid for the poney yet. lie had bought a business and taken the poney with it. The magistrate said the proper means must bo taken, either by having it put out to grass for the remainder of its days, or having it killed to terminate its misery. If it was destroyed he would not have to pay for it ; for if an action was brought against him he could say ho had no service out of it. Ultimately the defendant consented to its being killed, and left the court with Rutherford for that purpose. attention of the house, and has become at last Ministerial question, and has been mentioned no less than three times in the Royal Speeches. It might have been possible for my noble colleague and the Cabinet to have, by evasion, delayed bring ing forward this subject; but I can assure the house that such a course would not be agreeable either to my noble colleague or myself, and we both felt that in introducing a measure on the subject of the representation we were only discharging a public duty. I deny that there is anything in the career of Lord Derby that rendered him an improper party to bring forward a Reform Bill, and I refer to the assistance which he rendered to the bill of 1832. It appears that there are at present two classes of reformers, the first of which would adapt the bill of 1832 to 1859, and would base and would construct their measure in accordance with the spirit and genius of the Constitution, and amongst them may be classed her Majesty's Ministers. (Hear, hear, and laughter,) The other class of Parliamentary Reformers base their views on the standard of population. Certainly some of these admit property with a murmur, and say that pro perty and population should go hand in hand to gether, but it was only in statistics that they are found hand in hand together. (Laughter.) But that principle is altogether fallacious, for members are not sent to this house to represent either population or property, but opinion. But taking this standard, so far as related to property and population, what was the ease ? li, Scotland and England the population was nearly equal but London alone was assessed at £44,000,000 to the income tax, while the whole of Scotland pays £33,000,000. Again, the City of London is more populous than 25 Welsh and English counties, who return less than 44 members, and is richer than Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham put to gether, and it is richer also than Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle, Stoke-upon-Trent, and other places which return 30 members. 1 contend that, looking at the country generally, instead of her isolated position, even if you go on the principle of population, you should in justice take away members from boroughs and distribute them amongst the county constituencies. (The right hon. gentleman having cited the cases of Durham, West Lancahire, and other counties, in support of his position) proceeded—There is one singular fea ture in the views of the new school of Re formers,- namely. that they will do away with the present system, but in reality they substitute no other; and the effect of their principle if reduced to practice will be that members will be selected only from a limited class. The result will be that this house will relapse into that ignominous state from which the energy and spirit of English gentlemen received it two centuries ago. In our measure we do not proceed on the ground of reducing or increasing the franchise, but of intrusting it to those who would use it for the best interests of the country. He thought the rating of the country was most unequal, and the adopting of a rating clause on property would lead to great injustice. The effect of adopting an £8 rating instead of a £lO value would work most objectionably. For in sSance, if they took Boston and adopted an £8 rating franchise, the effect would be to disfranchise about 400 electors. The same would be the effect if they took Dover or any other borough. With respect to the £lO borough franchise persons occupying houses of £4OO voted under the £lO franchise, and he admitted that many who did not live in a £lO house ought to have a vote. The Government proposed by this bill to give the franchise to all those who may have money in the funds or in Indian stock amounting to £lO should have a vote. Another qualification under the bill is that any person having £6O in a savings bank for a year should have a vote for the place in which he resides. We also propose to give the right to vote to all pensions, naval, military, and civil, to the amount of £2O per annum. (Hear, hear.) The dweller in a portion of a house whose rent amounted to £2O per annum, or Bs. a week, would be entitled to a vote. The privilege of vote should also be conferred upon graduates of all universities, upon ministers of religion, upon the members of legal professions in all its branches, and all medical gen tlemen reeistered under the late act, and to these have been included all schoolmasters holding a certificate from the Council. (Hear, hear.) [LEFT SPEAKING.) . 4 -__ 1224