The Sun. — London, England, 1837-04-06 00:00:00

3 shed. It could not be said of Sir R. Peel as of a monarch of h rious memory, "thee he never said a foolish thing, and never id a wise one," for be had indeed said a foolish thing in de -laming the Wesleyan. body, and he (Mr. Iliffe) was convinced that, when the pet:a ins were handed round to the Methodists, every local preacher,. steward, trustee, and leader, (with the single exception or one between a boy and man,) would eagerly sign them. Be had great pleasure in calling their attention to Mother: Church, (for so he supposed he might term her, though sirs had proved a very cruel step-mother to to many of them,) in the Hall where, but a few years ago—in the high and. palmy clays of Toryism—its staunch supporters, its choicest specimens, raised their voices for Church and King until they had not a leg to stand on, the height of their zeal, or tbe depth of their potations in the holy cause having quite overcome thean.—( Laughter.) Mr. Iliffe then proceeded to remark on the high ground hitherto assumed by the liberal Churchynen, saying that they were too often more familiar with the terms Atheist, S6einian, &c. &c. than with their own creed., and concluded his speech by remarking that, whenever they was an election for Members of Parliament, Town euncillors, or any other important office, there was no single rieass in the town who could bring forward a greater number of `honest, unbiased, independent, liberal voters than the Leices ter Wesleyan Methodists. Having seconded Mr. Hassall's Motion, it was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN here read the following letter Dear Sir e -ain consequence of being engaged in our quarterly meeting, I and most of our official members are de barred the privilege of being present at your meeting. How ever, please to accept of our hearty good wishes and deter mined concurrence in your opposition to that uuscriptural and odious impost, called " Church-rates." And permit us, as a younger section of Methodism, to petition Parliament with you as followers of the venerable Wesley; so shall Sir R. Peel and the Biehops be convinced that tens of thousands of Metho dists are not with them in their unhallowed crusade against Disseaters and religious liberty. In this town, we have about 400 Members in society ; and confident we are, that 309 of this number are decidedly opposed to Church-rates. In the united kingdom we are above 62,000 Members in society; and be as sured we are nearly to a man with you in this matter. " Your's, on behalf of the quarterly meeting of the Primi tive Methodist Societies in the Leicester Circuit, " THOMAS MORGAN. " George-street Chapel, Monday afternoon; half-past six o'clock." Mr- BAGGERLEY (local-preacher)—The body ought to be grateful to Sir R. Peel for affording them so good an oppor tunity of expressing their opinions, being assured that if the I 3 shops and the Tories could reckon on the support of the NVesleyans that they would, without hesitation, annihilate the Bill at once, they having had two opportunities of becoming acquainted with their great power, once as regarded the Bill to abolish village preaching (the petitions against which were so numerous as almost to paralize the Right Rev. Bench, and induced them to abandon it forthwith), and once when they stirred themselves in favour of the abolition of slavery. In the whole of his career, he had never met but one Wesleyan who was in favour of Church-rates, and that was a woman. He was totally opposed to the principle of Church -rates, Easter offerings, and all similarly unjust ex action% and he begged to say that, though repeatedle applied to and repeatedly threatened, he never had pall them and he never would.—(Loud cheers.) If they had remained quiet any longer, they would have laid themselves open to the charge of santioning a system which was infi nitely worse than highway robbery, for the ruffian who stopped a citizen on the highway had not only to run the chance of bein g knocked down, hut was also amenable to the law, while the law took from them the straightforward means of defending themselves against Church-rate rubbers. Ile had great pleasure in moving that the petition to the House of Commons be presented by Colonel Thompson, he beige the con of a local preacher.—(Cheers) Mr. LONG, (local-preacher), said that, though he could no', with the preceding speaker, say that he had never paid Church -rates, yet he could say that he he I never paid them willingly. Ile was much pleased at the manner in which the subject had been treated, and rejoiced that the time was come when the neseehere of their numerous and inflneatial body ha I publicly declared thet they would - submit to the despoiling their geeds nil the incarceration of their persons, rather than .:administer to Ole avarieioes desires of the parsoes of the Esta blishment. II icing apologised for his inability to treat the subject as its importance merited, saying that he ails only in Iticed to exert his feeble powers, from the consciousness that it was the duty of every one to biatir himself in his respective snhere, he concluded by secendhie the motion. Mr. 1LIFI:E having moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman, th..; incetiog separnied COURT CIRCULAR. WEDNESDAY.—The Princess Augusta visited the I)& (>f Sussex 3 ester clay, at his residence in Kensington Paine, A Cal)inot C:,uncil wad held at two o'clock yesterd.l afteracon, in the Foreign 0111 c-e. It IV:13 attended b Viscount Alelhout - it, the Marquis or Lanslowiv, Viscoun Dine Innen, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerstor Lord Gknel7, CiLineellor of the Exchequer, Sir Jo!:: 1 - lohhouq., Lorri Poukut Thorni,m, an. Viscount lioNick. Toe Council sat till hall past thrc Air. Ste.renson, the Anrirican 'Minister, and Mr. Wale: the Belgian Cn.trge X.\ ffiirez, transactA business yeste t o'.ll I\lr. Stow.at I.letzrolzie (Governor of Ceylon), a: 7 , .lessrs. Crane and Wdmot, front Now Di-unslvie'L, an interview vv:,th Lord Glenelg yesterday, at the Col. n al 0 !rit L,A-A,lvecite of Scotland had an interview w Vis,!o, l nt M;sitm:irne vestera3,-. ,rveth had an interview with the Chanc;Alor the Exe'wciner yesterday, in Dawning -street. _ _ _ trquis nog Al.trehioness of Linsdoxpe and 1..1, 1y Lou'sa e:ttne to town yesterdiy, from thei:. r 11,4;:ituon,1 ir 1 N S t\J:111, INlAjesty continues to tali.: ii:s earriaze drives every day, so►r.:aimes twice in the day. and fre.:erally in tie direction of the Great Park and the Fovvst. Ws Majesty took an airing . this afLernoon. The Goren is reet,vernig trans her cold. The King goes to town tc- morrow Inermt,g. Tor! ;',otint Roalanzotl, who is Grand Chancellor a t I‘;.Tipire, his SeerAary, and suite, left Miv,rt'g H etc. o 1 for 13. th. Ear: ani Countess of Sefton had a gran din xr par:y Tacsday eveaing, at the'r re ido.ice is Artiagton street. Tlte r arl a:1:1 C:)1111..e53 of Brecknock arrived o T.:evily in ArEn:von-itrect, from the Wiiderne3;, in /cont. E tri and Countess of Burlington lilve arrive in Bciarave-cinar,. Lord 1..n-esoa and the Hon Georg, Clvendish It.e also arrived ii town. The rent tins of the Marcriis of Bath were removed on Tuesday from Grosvenor-street, for Wilts. The cortege eon aiite.l of a hearse, drawn by six horns, two mourning- coaches a•el four, tollowvd by the private carriages attic. Duke of Bac clench, Dowager C oun t ess o f Cawclor,Lady Louisa Laseelles, Lady Caro Thymic, and Lads Edwa r d Thy nne. to Ken. sing-ton-gate. The interment is to iake place on Friday, the family vault at Longleat, nesr Warminster. Despatches were received on Tuesday at the Foreigo D.3partment from Lord Ponsoni , y, the British Ambassador a Constantinople. The Prince and Princess Polic,mac awl suite tool; their d.iparture from England on Tuesday, on board one of his Majesty's packets at Dover, for Ostend. By accounts from Munich of the 27th ultimo, we learn that Prince Poliguac purposes to take up his residence in that city, where he intends purchasing some estates. Major-General Lord Fitzroy Somerset, K. C. 8., as Military Secretary to General Lord Hill, Commanding in -Chief, saw Officers on Tuesday, at his Office Li the Horse- Gu trds. The Bon Sens says that the Marquis of London derry recently had a narrow escape from assassination at War saw, where he attended in the dress of an English General Officer at a grand review which took place in commemoration of the capture of that city by the Russians. A pistol was fired at him, but without eff.2ct. - , A paragraph having appeared in several papers, from which it might be inferred that the late Mrs. Fitzher bort was abandoned by her relatives and friends during her last moments, it is proper to state, that Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Darner had been residing for some time at Mrs. Fitzherbert's previous to her decease ; and that her niece, the Hon. Mrs. Jerning,bam, who was at Paris when the news reached her of Mrs. Fitzherbert's alarming illness, instantly left that town, but had the grief of learning at Dover that all was over. The Duke of Buckingham has announced for sale 800 noble oaks which adorn Avington-park, and between 40 ald 50 of its splendid elms. • A READY REC KONER.--A cockney wishi ng to sport his wit at the expense of a " Yorkshire yokel" accosted him with—" If one pound of cheese cost two pounds of butter, what will a cart load of paving stones come to ?"—" Two wag gon loads of cockneys," replied the yokel. . . Leicester is taking a most active part in tne system of passive resistance to Church-rates. Disgusted and sickened by the contemptible and absolutely loathsome conduct of the Churchwardens of St. Martin's parish, and blushing for the degradation with which the Vicar is covered by his associa tion with them, a great number of parishioners have recently refused to pay a tax to support the flagrant abominations of the Church. From 7,000 to 8,000 of persons from the town and county assembled on Thursday last, in the Market-place. to witness the sale of the stolen goods with which the de graded Churchwardens pledged themselves not to meddle. Popular indignation was at its height; and five minutes be fore the time fixed for the sale, a highly respectable Church man of the town privitely satisfied the entire demand of the Churchwardens from his own purse, on the express con dition that such proceedings should not again be adopted i n that parish against the present recusants . This circumstance was publicly notified by the auctioneer to the assembly, of whom, to do him justice, we must say, that he accepted the of fice with the greatest reluctance, and showed by his whole de meanour how heartily he wassehamed of it. Can Churchmen blush? Can anything, more thoroughly complete the disgrace of lazy mendicant pauperism under which the Church of Eng land lies than this fact? How truly may we adopt the language which we once heard from one of the. most distinguished men of the present day :—" Oh ! this infernal Church l this infer nal Church ! It stinks to Heaven and only pleases the nose of the Prince of the Air !"—Leicester Mercury. PRICES OF CANALS, ',DOCK STOCKS, 1 ASSURANCE COMPANIES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 4. Number Dirulend Price of per CANA LS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. Snare. 1,760 7 pet cent. Ashton and (Nth:stn....Average 97/. 18s. sh. 135 1,182 41. AiNby.de.k.Zesuctt .........Average 113/. sh. 6.5 1,260 R"singstote ..... ..... 1001. sh. 51 1,005 51. Ereekneocit am? Ahet gavenny 150 . sh. 100 8,000 1-16 sh. 91.95. Birmingham, 1-lf)n share 8 , - 4 1 . & 711. 2 18 4,000 ......... Ditto and Liverp 301Junct...1251 sh. 100 pd 31 600 BridgewateVand Taunton --lOW. sh. all pd 64 400 41. (tielmer rad Blrekwater 1001. sh. 102 500 451. Coventry .......... 100/. sh. 700 4,545 CroydOn --........ ...... Average 311.25. 108. sh. 3 2,11601 41. Os. Dudley ......-.. 1001. sh. 78 • 600 71. Decbv.......--. 100/. sh. 122 20,000 3,575; 3/. 'Ellesmere and Chester Average 1031. sh. SO 231 401. Erewash..-.....-- 1 001. sh. 600 1,297 281. Forth and Clyde Average ieCti .IC4. sh. 600 11,500 124. Grand Junctio:. lOO/. sh. 201 2,849/ 'it Grand Union ICU sh. 24 i 1.500 ......... Grand Surrey . 120,0001. 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan 1001. '7O 3,09 P, ( - trawl Western 10"!. sh. all pd bOO 131. 12s. 24. Glamorganshire, Average cost 1721. 13s. 4d. 230 749 10s. Grantham 150/. sh. 202 6,234 11. 15e fluddersfitld Average 571. 6s. 6d. sh. 35 • 100 Kensingtin 100 sh. all pd. 10 25,324 1/. 2s. Kennet a. id Avon, Average 391. 18s. 10d. sh. 22 2,8971 201. Leeds and Liverpool 1001. sh. 540 545; 121. Leicester l4Ol. sh. 195 1, 8 97 41. 10s. Leicester and Northampton... Aver t 3/. 10s. 77 2,400 101. Moure.outhsliire 100/ .sh. 200 50 161. Melton Mowbray 1001. sh. 200 500 25/. Mersey and Irwell lOW. sh. 560 3,000 I/. 10s. Macclesfield. 100/. sh. all pd. 54 247 17/. Neath. ...- 1,786 OW. Oxford...-. Itll'/. sh. 5841 2,400 51. Peak Forest Average about 731. sh. 104 21,418 121. Regent's (or London) Aver. 331. 16s. &I. sh. 1(3 5, 6 69 61. per cent. I.ochdale Average Bhl. sh. 1,9 500 Si. Shropshire...-. ri.s/. sh. 138 800 91. Itts. Somerset Coal 15N. sh. 143 3,6001. 41 per cent. Ditto I.ock Fund Stock l2l. 10s. sh. 111 700 401, Stafford and Worcester l4ll. sh. 720 500 94 Shrewsbury 1251. sh. 243 3 0 0 81, Stourbridge ......... 3,647 2/. i.s. Stratford-on. Avon ...Average 79/. 9s. fki. sh. 50 533 12/. Swansea 100/. sh. 220 3,762 1/. Is. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Ar. 351. sh. 191 2,6001 sn. nit. lOu. Trent amt Mersey, 1 share 1001. sh. 545 8,149 ....-..•. Thames sin.l Medway...Aver. 191.55. 3d. sh. 2 I'OO O9lL I 15/. Warwick and Birmingham lOOl. sh- 250 ,000 1s 960 h. 19... Warwick and Napton lOOl. eh. 140 6,000 4/. Os. Worcester and Birmingham...A v. 78/.Bv. sh 82 5,000 225. Wilts an .1 Berl,. .. Average 67/. 10s. Bd. sh 21 800 3/. Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 75 IEO 905 11. Wey and Arun llOl. sh. 22 1 DOCKS. 2 ' 61308r }3p. c. Commercial 1001. s h . 56 I,o(Vqsh 1J3.667g1. 6 per ct. East India Stock 114 3,23i,3101/. 50s. p. ct. I ,oneon Stock 54 Ditto Bonds 1,390,00 C/. Si. per ct. West India 2.c(r) 01. 19s. Bristol (74,30.1/. 5!. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ......... —..... 115 1.330,750 4 iy.r cent. St. Kathatiiie Stock 90 590,000 l; per cent. Ditto Bonds... ..... —... ........ . 200,000 4 her cent. Ditto Bonds tix 10 years lOO Shoreham 11,1bour 2.500 ......".. Deptford Pier "0/. sh. 31. BRIDGES. 1010 I^s. flarnmeron ti 5Ol. sh. 22j 7,231 Southwark, Oh! Av. (.31. 2s. SI. sh. 2 I,l'oo 1/. 15s. Ditto, New. of 74 per cent. 'ill. sh. 14 5,0tt0 ... ..... Waterloo 5,' , 00 1 . 95. tid. Ditto, Old A unulties of 24 .... mi. pd 1S 5,000 16s. 14. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 154 110,000/. 51: per cent. l'it , o Bowls IIS 6,000 rs vauxhall At ',age 701. 10,. 3d. bh. 10 .._ _ ___ AS'URANCP COMPANES. 2,000 3/ 11is Albion 500/. sh. 501 pd SO 5 0 ,000 { s .?';',. IS n s t l Alliance, B ritish & Foreign 100/. sh. 1 04!. pd 1 2 ; 50,000 I; per cent. Ditto 5/srine 1001. sh. 51. pd c 524,000 41 per sh. Atla c 501. sh. Si. pd 13,1 I,2ooish. Si. Birmingham I ire 03e1. sh. 55/ pd 105 20,009 41 per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 41 12,000 61. percent. Britsh Comm.:tend 5 0 !. sk. 5/. pd tiff 5,001) 51. percent. Clerical, Melt al,&e. Life, Irmo,. 1.21108 pd 31 • 4,000 21 lOs County lOO/. sh. 10!. pd 42 2'1,000 ss. , Eszle 200 {5 per fmt. anti au ~.1 Economic Lit • lOOO/. sh. 2501. pd 375 2,271 225. per cent. Eurei,ean Li • 'l , l, sh all pd - 2 . 2 40,000 2s. Ditto, New "01. sh. 2/. IA i 1,000,0001. 71. per ct. Glob stock 15: 20,000 51. Guardian I on] sh. 2741 pd :=:3j 40,000 es. I'd. Hope 2,100 5/. 7s. dd. Im.,,eriat 1. ir • 5 001 sh. 501. pd 111 7,500 Ps. Im perial Lite , 00/. sh. 10/. pd 10 1:1,13)5 1.2 a. per sh. lini , .•mnity NI a Inc 1 (V. A. 9!. p 4 10 2,01:0 31 iOs Ne , t Fire... 5Ol. sh. all pd 82 Si. I)itt4 Life . 11:110 16s. Lew Life.. 5 001 10s. Lona,n., Fir • '3! sit. IV. W.; pa 154 :3,900 10s. Lon:lca, - Shi t , 25!. sh. 1 1. 10s. pd 15; 30,0 i 0 5!. per cent. l'allaaium 11: • Sill. sh. 21. pd 2/ Ss 01 531,009Frot,i•tor F. i e 2ll/. sh. 2/. pd 1.-3.4 I'd ?,500 I/. Provi„lent Li, 100,000 5/. percent. Rock Lifr , 0/. sin :•/. pd 61 33`10,22n/ 51. I,e-t• cunt. !loyal 1-Ncli lre Sto lc- 220 11,000 5 per cent. Ulityt•r:ity t.:'. ilia sh. ::/. pd 5.,1 50,001 4 per cent. Uil;f,i Kin,. tom Life 2l. pd JOINT SI t•CK RAM'S _ ___ _ . _ 25 , 00 0 ......... Agric and: .anni. of Ireland 2 7 1. sh. 10 /. pd 14 5,1 - X J 0 -k ustrala ia 4'2. sh. 40/. pd 51 10,103 10 percent. Wan ''. of 111..1/lie:ham s' 1. sh. li.l. pd 1.1 I 0 M . ) 0 10 per cent. Blirnhrgham Wink ... 5O/. sh. rd. pd 14 3',(_a'o 5 per cent. 1 Ant on and Westminster-100/ sit. '2Ol. pd 2ii :OA 4 per ce';t. Lancaster 1 001. sh. 2./. pit 3 , 1 2.5,i it to live - . pool.. BM/ sh. 101. 101 '..!•.:i 50,0 0 0 f; per eent. 111a-vthesZer and Liverpnoli 1007. sh. ill ixi 20 DO:can:lt 2 ) ,1(10 71 percent. Alairches, , er ' sli. 251 pd `_Al 29,f,00 Prwincial Bank of Ireland...lool. sh. 25/ p , 4 30 2n, 10 National Iktni: of Ireland -.5 1. sh 1741. pd 11 10,000 5 per cent. National Pravilcial Eng. ...100i. sh. 2. - -1. rid 19 11,09:1 Gloneestei ;hi+ e 'io/. .h. le/. p.I ‘..1 6,000 lOper rent. itanipsditre 501. =!t 51. pct 9 GAS 'Awn . AN.; coKr. c_'OMP. , ..NIEs. 2,'00 Ii fa Oct Bath ?Of. sh. 10'1. pd 21 5,000 British ...... 4O/. sh. l3'. pd 21 :s! percent -1 • i1.,(XY.1 i,,,; d /3,. 5 .3 Ditto PCOVl:cial 2O/. sh. In pd 2.3 025 5! lOs Wrininghani riol sh. !it l i so - 21 N 116,:to , 1,590 3IN Brighton ..... .......... .......„ .......... TV. s h. 12 7:*o ni los Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 1,/. is: l• i 2,4:1 S per cent. Brigoton General • •5 0/ sh. all pd 17 I,oo‘l 41. CO:Ainentl . t'ansnlidaled lOO/. f2l!. pd 40 1.000 10/. City or Loadan 'en/. sh. .10 ~xi I 4..1 1,. 00 gh - 131 - to, N.•iv 1,000 it. 1 "s. Er;lutaid. , f'/,' 00 23 per cent. linprial ;id sh. 414 SI)) 5. Der cent. Isle , 1 'Vila .et 251. 6:I. '4ll. rd . ..0 2,350 SI. per cent. nilupeniletst 3Ol s'. a 1 pd 40 9, 0 "0 3/. ner cent. Phxri ,, ..... ,. /. en. 59/. pit I.Nli 1,001) 41. p. n• cent. nateliill..... 1(101 .::h. 10)!. pd 4,0 0 Smith ' ll, 4.o•lseltan 'i 1. sh. 1"/. pd I: '4,20d 57. per cent. United i:enar„l . ;0/. sh. VI. lid 29 20 5/, por cent. Warwi. k 4'51 AL per cent ttiak,iisdd ";1 , h. 2/4 1 , 2, , k 1 0 . J. West irins:sa Chair:reit .. .... 50: AL 411 6,"0' I2s. D:' to .sow ', /. sh. WI. pd 10 etc) ra-..,..th 41)1. sh. FL pd 9 WA'IFIt VIJItN.S. I ,qOO 9S. B, r ,i n gl,,m 9 1. f. sh. `.:.)/ pd 'NI t,lll ,:,,, Ens. 1.000.30 lOO/.311. 139 5,"•00 21 lOs (Sr ..,, -unet!on ....Average 1!! 13s. 4.1. sh. 50 2,1Nk1 .21. K ryt .... IOW. sh. 4:1 :172 101. Live , p ., 0 1 0.-sotle •-2tl/. sh. 3;.6 I,SOO 21 Ini N , ..• 11t , et 1 0.,.1en Bridge. Water .1 onnitiet ' 58 f;,343 11 154 Mr,,,llest,. »:a &aura - 00 1 per cent. r illth 1..0. I• . e MO/. Rh. 81 X.2...4 31. West N1..1.11,ex Aver.tee .•:;/. 11. s. 1%1. Rh. '7B 1.360 11 1!s Yell( ritlltlia, , co. Les, prep l 00!. sh. :35 litttv it.tll,'W.‘YS. 6,000 Binninp,h,ra sint Dcrhy ln/ pd 6 9,5 4 X1 Pirmingham and Gloucester Ii 1 pd 31 7j(if) Ili run ogha m , Bris , ol, and Th im-s Junction 13; 4 1 ... - 66, cmcutt, in,i sfm !lir . 7,100 ......„ Clicltenha, an.: G. Western .. 01 1 1.. h. 741 3,000 Clhrence lnns.. h. 100/ pi 12,000 6.000 Dublin and Killrenny. 1001. sh. 24 pd 0000 4 3 E:istern Counties 9 5, 1 sit. •21 p 1 .... .... lirs:•pi .tune; tun 191 V. sh. 501. p I I ',eal. North of England 7l. pd 25.C30 Great Western ton/ sh In!. p 1 7 .,0 al .....,... I brtlepool 11,111)1) Hull atlll . (My 5O/. sh. 51 pd 10,001 1.,- els and Mazchester lOW. sh. 51. pd 7.1110 ...... ... Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 1,:".01 ..-..... Leicester inti Swannington -.5 0 1. sh. all pd 5,103 I(. per cent. Liverr.iol alai Manchester-10C /. sh. 100/. NI Ditto Quieter Shares '-'5/. pd 10,600 London and Brighton .. ..... .. Mr/. sh 51 pd 15;40 Ditto ditto (Gilihs'! ....2.n/ sit 11 pd 16,.00 Ditto ditto (Rennie)...lo/. sh 3/. pd 6,0 0 Ditto ditto (Cuntly)...loo/. sh. 31. pd 12„ , TM London and Ina/Await 501 sh :1! pd .0,000 3 , Cr cent. London and Greenwi: it tsni, . 'AI till!. pd 25000 20,. 00 London and S4mthainidon _Xi/. sh. 35/. pd 7,000 12,000 London Grand Junction 5 1. sh. 3/. pd 10,04 North Midland.....-:-._........ !ON. sh. 1 1. pc! Northern and Eastern i 00/. sh. 31. pd 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 9/. pd 29,e00 South Eastern and Dover 7l. pd 1,001 IV. per cent. Stockton and Darlington 160/. sh. 14,000 ... ...... Tha res Haven .50/. sh. .4/. 10s. pd 1,400 ' Westminster :varl Greenwich 501. sh. 2/. pd 6,000 ... York and North Midland 5O . sh. 31. pd MINES. 8,009 ... Albion Copper 5l. sh. 341. pd 4,601) . I/. . .... Allen 15/. sh. 121. 108 pd 10,000 ... ..... Anglo Mexican, iss. Si. pm....10P/. O. all pd Ditto Subscription 9.5/. pd 2,000 10,000 11. iO3 Brazilian Imp iss. 5/. pm.......W. sh. 201. pd 6,0 0 11,000 10,900 Bolivar Copper Company 9 0/. sh. 20/. pd 10,000 ........., Ditto Scrip 10/. sh. n. pd 20,0110 British Iron .50/. sh. 50/ pd 6,000 British Copper Cata Branca sv, pd Candonga 7;l. pd 10,000 I/. Copiapo 2O/. sh 124! pd 1,500 2,650 31. English 121 Its. pd 20,000 6,155 Mexican Company 1001. sh 5441. pd 3,000 Polberon Consols 10/. sh 8/. pd 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd 20,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm ...AU sh. all pd Dam Scrip Ditto New Scrip 5/ rd West Cork 50/. sh. 50/. pd LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket ...... ...75gs. sh. 1,500 Lond at'University 100/. sh. all pd 700 King' College 1001. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 15s. Australian Agricultural....lool. sh WT. pd • 6,001 61. per cent. Brit,sh American Land Company 2l/. pd 10,000 01 per cent. Canada Comoany 1001. sh. 24/. pd 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent 15,000 1/. 6s. General Steam Navigation ...151. sh. 131. pd 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 11. London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. 751. sh. ... ...... Caoutchouc Company .........251 eh. 241. pd New Brunswick Land Comp a ny 431. pd 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...1001. sh. 100/. pd 2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 451. pd 4,00 0 10,000 2,000 8,000 1121 20 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. MARCH 29, 1837. BANKS. 1,500,000/. 61. p. ct. Ban% of Scotland - 83/. 6s. Sd. sh. all pd 1971. 2,000,0X1. 34 p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 1601, 500,010/. ap. ct. British Linen Company 100/.sh. nll pd 236/. 3,000,00 c/. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 174/. 5,000,9001. sp. et, National 2,000,0001. 51. p. ct. Glasgow Union 9 501. sh. 501. pd 671. 1,000,001. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 301. pd 36.1/ . INSURANCE COMPANIES. 251..0005h 61 p. ct. Scottish Union 2O/. sh. /.pd 25s - ,50 4 4 sp. ct. Hercules lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 141 10g, 106,000 sp. et. Insurance Co. of Scotland -.10/. sh. all pd 81, 50,00• 6p. ct. North British .200!. sh. 101. pd 131. 1,000 3 :1. et. Caledonlin Fire 100/. sh. 101. pd 1615 s 5,000 ft p. et. Edinburgh Life 100/. sh. 10/, pd 141 3 s 00,000 . West of Scotland lO/. pd 91 I;'..s MISCELLANEOUS 4,810 Edin. and Glas Un. Cana1...50/. sh. all pd 22/ .. Ditto Allocated 961. sh. all pd 65 /. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb...leint Stock Water 251. sh. all pd 3114 Carron Iron Company .•••••250 1 . sh. all pd 461. 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 504 sh 3./. pd 46! 10,000 3 per cent. FAinburgh & Leith Glass - 201. sh. 161. p 1 714 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251. sh. all pd 604 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 151. sh. all pd Gil 750 7. 4 1 per cent. Leith Coal (las .20/. eh. all pd 454 1,203 Edinburgh Pllti Dalkeith Railway...so/.sh. 55/, 8.000 5 per cent. Equitable Loan Company 251.6 h. 91, pd 104 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, APRIL 5. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY. Mr. GILLON presented two petitions against certain portions of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill. PRESTON AND WIRE RAILWAY. On the motion of Mr. HESKETH FLEETWOOD, the Preston and Wire Railway Bill was read a third time, and passed. PRESTON AND WIRE DOCKS. On the motion of the same HON. MEMBER, the Preston and Wire Docks Bill was read a third time, and passed. NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY. On the motion of Sir J. BECKETT, the North Mid land Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. Sir G. SINCLAIR moved the second reading of the Roxburgh Road Bill. He also presented several petitions against the Belfast Harbour Bill. Captain PECHELL presented a petition from the inha bitants of Brunswick-square, Brighton, against Stevenson's Line for a Brighton Railway. SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY. On the motion of Mr. ELPHINSTONE the above Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of Mr. EWART, the Liverpool Im provement Acts' Amendment Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. Mr. WILKS gave notice that to-morrow be would call the attention of the House to a petition which he had be fore presented, complaining of the conduct of certain par ties connected with the Southwark and Hammersmith Rail- way. MANCHESTER AND SHEFFIELD RAILWAY. On the motion of Mr. PARKER, this Bill was read a third time, and passed. On the motion of Lord STANLEY, the Manchester and Leeds Railway Bill was read a third time, and passed. Mr. HARCOURT moved the third reading of the Oxford and Great Western Union Railway Bill. Captain PECHELL wished to take that opportunity of correcting a statement that had been made by an Hon. Member. The Hon. Member for the city of Oxford had yesterday stated that the assents occupied 6 miles of land, and the dissents 4 miles ; but Sir G. Bowyer himself was a a proprietor to the extent of 3 miles. He (Captaiß Pechell), as he had stated at the outset, could prove that the report of the Committee was untrue. He had yesterday made some slight mistake in alluding to the Hon. Member for Oxfordshire (Mr. Harcourt) ; but he then held in his hand a list of the Provisional Committee, at the head of which were the names of G. G. Harcourt, Esq., M.P., and Lord Norreys, M.P., and among the names of the Committee were Mr. Greedy and Mr.Belcher— very nice names for Gentlemen to be associated with ! only alluded to the subject again in order to vindicate his own conduct, and for the sake of the poor unfortunate cottagers who had not the means of bringing their cause before the House of Commons. At the bottom of the precious document he held in his hand were these words— " Applications for shares must be addressed to the Committee ," therefore any person who wished to be come a shareholder, ►would naturally apply to the gentle men at the top of the list of the Committee. Before he sat down he should be able to show the House that the lion. Gentleman had either the views of the Com pany or his own private benefit at heart, for he had written to a person holding land under him (Captain Pechell), and asking him if he would buy the land which was to be taken from him ? He held in his hand the letter of Jonathan Peel to that effect, and that document would be proved on oath if necessary.—(Hear, hear.) He regretted being obliged to the present course, and he would not do so if he were not upon his last legs—(a laugh)—anti opposed by a Company that was almost omnipotent. He could also prove that another tenant of his, whose land would be in tersected by the Railway, had been offered a sum for the part that would become useless to him. Why did they not allow the R tilway to pass either to the right or the left, where there was no opposition, instead of persevering in their determination to sacrifice his property ? He hoped the House would not sanction such a proceeding. The Committee had reported that this Railway could be completed for 100,0001., and that is the face of two emi nent engineers, who stated that it could not be completed for 130,0001. It was a monstrous proposition altogether, and Hon. Members were deluded by the . specious pretext put forward by the Committee. The Committee laid great stress upon the quantity of coal, timber, &c., which was to he carried along this Railway with one pair of rails. Now were Hon. Members aware that the Thames, or Isis, as it was there called, washed the walls of Oxford, and also washed the walls of Abingdon? Was it not preposterous then to suppose that either coals or timber would be carried by the Railroad in preference to the Thames? It wa3 altogether humbug-, and be would oppose the progress of the Bill, not only in I that House, but wherever.he thought it would he effectual. He moved that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr. GORING seconded the amendment. Mr. H. HUGHES asserted that Sir George Bowyer's assent had not been withdrawn in a Parliamentary sense. He trusted :hat the House would not so far stultify the proceedings of yesterday as to throw out the B:11. Mr. G. HARCOURT defended the statements he bad made yesterday. There was a field of sixty acres belonging to the Hon. Member, through which the intended Railroad was to pass. The Company had proposed to purchase part of the field, but the .Hon. Member had stated if they wanted part t.►ey must take the whole, and he thought the Hon. Member had nothing whatever to complain of. - After a few words from Lord G. SOMERSET, Captaln PECHELL explsined. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, when the House divided, and there appeared— For the second reading For the amendment 23 Mijority _ Lard G. SOMERSET moved the third reading of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Bill.—Read a third time, and passed. On the motion of Mr. CLIVE, the Taff Vale Railway Bill was read a third time, a,id passed. Mr. SH A W LEI EVRE presented a petition from an individual against the Taunton Canal Bill. On the motion of the same HON. MEMBER, the South ampton Railway Amendment Bill was read a third time and passed. CARLOW ELECTION. Mr. ROCHE presented a petition from c ertain elec tors of Carlow, praying that they might be allowed to defend the seat of Mr. Vigors. OBSERVANCE OF TIIE SABBATH. Sir A. AGNEW presented petitions from various parts of the country for the better observance of the Lord's Day. The Hon. Member stated that though the prayer of the petitions varied in a slight degree. yet they were all pretty nearly to the same effect. The Hon. Baronet then gave notice that he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the better Observance of the Sab bath, but in so low a tone of voice, that we could not hear the day on which he stated he should make the motion. CHURCH-RATES. Mr. GILLON pref.entei a petition from the inhabitants of the town of Stratharon, praying that Church-rates might be abolished, and that funds requisite for the repairs of the Church might be taken out of the Consolidated Fund. HA ND-LOOM WEAVERS. Mr. MAXWELL gave notice that he should, on Tues day the 18th of April, make a motion relative to the pub; lication of the wages of hand-loom weavers. Mr. G IL LON presented a petition from Whitby, praying that some remedy might be adopted which would prevent the creation of fictitious votes. Referred to the Committee. POOR LAWS. Mr. MANGLES presented a petition from Guildford, praying that there mien be no alteration made in regard to the Poor Law Amendment Act.—Referred to the Com mittee. Mr. FLEETWOOD presented a petition from Preston which was of importance from the number of signatures which were attached to it.--(Hear, hear.) The Union of Preston contained about fifty thousand inhabitants. The Petition was signed by nearly '20,000, and the prayer of it was deserving of consideration, as it was worded re spectfully, and with a view to the furtherance of the measure so far as was consistent with the law of the land ; but they complained that the extension of the law to these districts at present is uncalled for. It might have been desirable that it should be extended to the agricultural districts in the South, but it was not wanted in the manufacturing districts of the North. The petitioners also complained of the regulations and orders of the C o mmissioners, and prayed that this House w ould take into its consideration both the law itself and the regulations referred to.--(Hear.) He would say that to press forward the law in these districts would be the cause of turbulence and confusion ; besides this, the friends of the measure would derive more be nefit for it by withholding it, as it was viewed there with so much dislike. He trusted, therefore, that it would not be passed into operation there, unless the inhabit ants petitioned for it.—Petition referred to the Committee. Captain BOLDERO presented a petition against the system of medical assistance afforded under the new Poor law Act. An HON. MEMBER presented a petition from the Union of Hertford, praying that the services of Assistant Com missioners should be dispensed with as to the formation of unions, as it would be productive of a saving of expense, CHURCH RATES. Mr. BARNARD presented a petition from the Dis senters of Church-street, Deptford, in favour of the total abolition of Church Rates. Mr. Goulburn, Sir James Graham, Mr. Lowther, Cap- tain Alsager, and Sir George Sinclair presented petitions in favour of Church-rates. Mr. WILKS presented several petitions in favour of the total abolition of Church-rates. Mr. GROTE presented a petition from the Church wardens, Overseers, and other inhabitants of the pa rish of St. Mary-le-Bow, praying for an equaliza tion of the land-tax. Also one from the chairman of a numerous meeting of operatives, held at Glasgow, pray ing for the Vote by Ballot, and a repeal of the Septen. nial Act. Mr. WALTER presented a petition, signed by 2,000 inhabitants of the county of Glamorgan, against the Poor Law Amendmeut Act. The Judges' Opinion Bill went through a Committee, without any amendment, on the motion of the SOLICITOR GENERAL. BANKRURPTS' ESTATE (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion of the LORD-ADVOCATE, the Bank- rupts' Estate (Scotland) Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. After a few words from Sir GEORGE SINCL AIR, on the motion of the same Learned Lord, the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed, as was also the Sheriffs' Courts (Scotland) Bill. On the motion of Mr. TOOKE, the Sheriffs' Fees Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS BILL. On the motion of Mr. TOOKE, the Attorneys' and Solicitors' Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed this day week. RECOVERY OF TENEMENTS' BILL. Mr. AGLIONBY, in moving the second reading of this Bill, said that, for the sake of tenants themselves, it was absolutely necessary there should be a summary mode of recovering possession of tenements. He regretted the Attorney-General had not thought pro per to take upon himself the management of a Bill of this nature, because he was convinced the law as it now stood required some alteration. The present Bill did not alter the law of landlord and tenant, because it only applied to cases where a system of swindling had been carried on, by persons who obtained possession of tenements in false charac ters. The principle of his Bill was that which had been recom mended by the Commissioners, who Lad investigated nar rowly the common law which made the distinction ; and he would not occupy the House longer than in stating that he did not believe that by this Bill the situation of the tenants would be rendered worse than at pre sent, but rather better by its provisions, as it would enable their landlords to afford them more indulgence, as they would not run the same risk of being defrauded by violence or bad faith.—( Hear, hear, hear.) There would be quite a sufficient time given before they went into Committee to offer any suggestions for the improvement of its provisions, and he would be glad to adopt any which he considered would be beneficial. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be com mitted this day fortnight. SALE OF BEER BILL. Mr. A. TREVOR said, that in rising to move the se cond reading of this measure, he would merely state that La would be ready to avail himself of any suggestions which might be offered previous to going into Committee ; but knowing- well the evils of the present law, he considered himself justified in now moving that the Bill be read a se cond time. Mr. ROEBUCK said, that in objecting to this mea sure, the shortest way would be to read over those parts of it to which he was opposed. In the first place, it was provided that no license should be given to any beer house, unless the parson of the parish gave his certificate that there ought to be such a house established where it was sought to have it. Now lie (Mr. R.) wanted to know, if there ever had been such a proceeding as that which would compel a clergyman of the Church of England to tell where beer and eider should he sold, and he would enquire if it was the peculiar privilege of their holy office to tell where travellers could obtain good beer?—(Hear, hear.) He would ask if the House was likely to pass a Bill which would render the clergymen inspectors-general of beer-shops ; for it was now sought to erect them into a new set of functionaries, who would not have this spiritual requisites of the parish ioners in view, but who would be made to tell at what par ticuler place travellers would get good beer. But it was not only the parsons who were to be put into requisition by this measure, but the constables also, so that he supposed the system would be under the regulation of the Per:sh Constable and Company.—( Hear.) But mark the difference which was to exist between these fune- sionaries ! The parson was not to be punished, although the constable was, if he did not undertake the office assigned to him ; but this he (Mr. R.) supposed was provided be cause the Hon. Gentleman was the Member for Durham. But that was not all. It further provided that any con stable ne g lecting to inspect a licensed beer-house was liable to fine and imprisonment. Mr. A. TREVOR—State upon what conditions ? Mr. ROEBUCK—The Hon. Gentleman should him self have explained what the provisions of the Bill were, instead of leaving that duty to others. There was another extraordinary provision which was that the Bill should'extend to England and Wales, except cities and boroughs. What was the meaning of that ? Why, that country gentlemen did not line beer-houses. The lion. Gentleman knew the Bill' would not be tolerated in these places—he dared not bring it into operation in cities and towns, but confined it to those places where the poor might he trampled upon with imnun'ty. It was further provided, that no licence should his granted for any house situated further than 500 yards from a turnpike road. The object was to prevent the poor labourers recreating themselves in by-roads and lanes, where they were in the habit of playing quoits anel cricket —to thrust them out upon the high-road—and, finally, to deprive the poor man, crossing the coentry, and who could not afford to ride in a post-chaise or on horseback, of the opportunity of slaking his thirst with a drink of beer. He could not help exelhiming against such a measure, when he found Hon. Gentlemen opposite, who were up in arms in defence of the rights of the poor, under pretence of taking care of their morals, attempting to foist such a Bill upon the House. Nothing wag, in his opinion, so pecu liarly contemptible as the pretence set up of taking care of the morals of the poor by Act of Parliament. It was not to be done in that form ; but if the Hon. Gentle men had the morals of the population at heart, why not enter at once into a crusade against the Gin Palaces ? Let him try, and he (Mr. R.) would be hound that he would find Hon. Gentlemen in that House, who were connected in the distilleries, standing up in their defence, and de tailing the injury it would inflict on country gentlemen, in the reduced consumption of malt, barley, oats, and rye. Anything they would countenance but an attack upon themselves, and under pretence of taking care of the morals of the poor they were grinding them down in every possible way. For these reasons he should move that the Bill be read this day six months. Sir R. FERGUSSON would say only a very few words upon this Bill, as he perfectly agreed in every word which had fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman who spoke last, and intended to vote along with him. There were already many grievances under which the sellers of beer laboured. By Act of Parliament they were obliged to shut up their places of business at much earlier hours than the licenced victuallers, while in many places they were equally respectable. He knew of six or seven beer-sellers in Nottingham who brewed their own beer, and who resided in much higher rated houses than many of the licensed victuallers. Mr. A. TREVOR would not detain the House for many minutes in reply to the Honourable and Learned Member for Bath. He could not do so if he were willing, because he was not possessed of sufficient talent to reply to the sarcastic speech of the Hon. Gentle man. He, however, would reply to a few of the charges thrown out against him by the Hon. Gentleman. First, then, the clergyman's interference was to extend merely to the granting of a certificate as to previous character. He was then taunted with not interfering with the towns. He had an easy answer to that—he had confined himself to the country parishes, because it was there the evil had been felt. Every county Magistrate in the country would say that the evils were so great that there was an absolute necessity for something being done. He was taunted also for not interfering with gin palaces. He considered them the receptacles for every species of vice —(Hear, hear) —but if he were to interfere with them at all, he would be told by the Hon. Member, or some of his friends, that he was interfering with the amusements of the people.—(Hear, hear.) The next charge was that he was favouring country gentlemen, by obliging all beer shops to be within a certain distance of the high road. The reason was, as country gentlemen knew, that many of those beer shops were on the borders of forests, and it was notorious that they were the haunts of poachers, sheep stealers, and persons guilty of every other species of crime.—( Hear, hear.) From the temper of the House he had no doubt the Bill wou ld be rejected ; but that did not damp him—he would continue to turn his atten tion to the subject until the evils were remedied. He could not but protest against the unfair conclusion which the Honourable Member for Bath had come to with respect to the Clergy of the Established Church. The Honourable Member had asked why the parish constable and not the clergyman had been subject to punishment ? He should like to know what person in a country parish was more capable of judging of the good conduct of the parishioners than the clergyman ? In his opinion, if the clergyman discharged his duty, he ought to be the referee. He wished, before another Session, if the present Bill happened to fail, that the Hon. Member for Bath would make inquiries upon a subject of which it was evident he was utterly ignorant at the pre sent moment. The Honourable Member called himself the champion of the public : if he were so, he (Mr. Trevor) thought the better thing for him to do would be to support the present Bill.—( Here Mr. Roebuck gave a very signi cant shrug.) He (Mr. Trevor) saw that the Honourable Member for Bath was horror-struck at the idea.—(Laugh ter.) Ile should, however, certainly feel it to be his duty to take the sense of the House upon this Bill, as he could not consent to withdraw it, however small the number might be who voted in its favour. Mr. 'F. DU NCO MBE thought if the Church had any reason to complain of any person, it was the Hon. Member for Durham, and not the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath. He (Mr. D.) ceuld name a place in the East Riding, of York, where actually the parsonage house had been let for the purposes of a beer-shop. He would leave the House to decide whether that was a proper pur pose to appropriate it to or not.—(Laughter.) As to the clergymen being allowed to give their veto as to whether a person was to have a licence or not, some of them might belong to what was called a Temperance Society, and being impressed with the opinions of such a Society, might refuse upon the slightest grounds possible. In his (Mr. D.'s) opinion, a more absurd, ridi culous, and arbitrary Bill never was brought before the attention of the House. Mr. C. W. W. WYNN hoped his Hon. Friend the Member for Durham would not press the House to a Mr. \VILKS would on the contrary advise the Hon. Member for Durham to go to a division, because he was persuaded that the opinion of the majority of the House of Commons would be so distinct as to prevent in future those who had invested very large property and capital in beer-houses from being Session after Session annoyed by experimental notices and measures. He was convinced the establishment of beer-shops had caused a great im provement throughout the country, because ardent spirits were not so much resorted to. _ . Mr. TREVOR would adopt the advice of his Right Hon. Friend below him (Mr. Wynn), and would not press the Bill to a second reading ; but at the same he must protest against the motives imputed to him, and equally protest against the doctrines of the Hon. Member for Boston. The amendment was carried without a division, and the Bill consequently lost. MILBANK PENITENTIARY BILL. The House then went into Committee on this Bill. On the first clause being put, Mr. FOX M AUL E, in answer to Mr. Hawes, said that at the present moment an improvement was being made in the cells of the Penitentiary, and that the Bill now in Committee provided the reduction to fixed periods of imprisonment, the punishment of such persons as had been commuted from transportation to imprisonment. The clause was then agreed to. All the other clauses in the Bill were also agreed to ; and the House resumed.—Report to-morrow. FACTORIES. On the Order of the Day for the House going into Committee of Supply being read, Lord ASHLEY begged to ask whether it was the in tention of his Majesty's Government, in case of the with drawal or rejection of his motion for to-morrow evening, to bring in a Bill for the regulation of the present Factory System , Mr. P. THOMSON had no hesitation in stating that it was the intention of the Noble Lord who had charge of that department to introduce a Bill for the regulation of la bour in factories. There were some provisions for the better enforcement of the present law which were required ; and he knew it was the intention of his Noble Friend to submit a proposition to Parliament on that subject ; but it was not intended to make any alteration in the part relative to the ages of children. Lord ASHLEY, under the circumstances, would with draw his motion for to-morrow, and would give notice of his intention to move that it be an instruction to the Com mittee, that in future no female between the ages of 13 and 18 shall labour in any factory more than ten hours a-day, or 58 a-week, in the United Kingdom. The question having been put that the Speaker do leave the Chair, Col. THOMPSON said he had a notice on the Books which seemed to be much misunderstood. He had not had an opportunity of explaining it, and from letters he had received it appeared that many persons thought he intended to more for an inquiry into the office of the Commander-in- Chief. (Hear, hear.) Now he had no such intention, any more than he had to move for an inquiry into the office of the Archbishop of Canterbury, if there was one. All he wanted was that the army should be placed under the controul of a Minister who was responsible to that House, so that it might, as it ought to do, feel a decision of that House by vote.—( Hear, hear.) — When the Mutiny Act said that the raising and keeping up an army. in the realm without the consent of Parliament was against law, did it mean against an Act of Parliament ?—(Hear, hear.) He believed that it never entered into the mind of any individual to say so. He believed that there was a law in this country to which even statutes made in that and the other House of Parliament were subservient.—(Hear.) To that law, therefore, he appealed. lie would ask whether the go vernment of the army had been kept in that tact in which it had been kept by their ancestors?—(Hear, hear.) \\T hen a Tory Administration came into power, was the Duke of Marlborough kept as Commander-in-Chief one hour longer than that Tory. Administration thought it necessary ; and when the - Whigs came back again into office, was not that Noble Duke again placed in that situation ? In his epinion, there ought to be a Constitu tional Administrator of the Army, as there was, if he might use the expression, of the King's name, and of the King's Courts. He contended that if they quietly, and without resistance, gave up that point, it would open the way to all mal-practices in the regulation of the army. The army, and er such a system, might be employed against the very persons who paid it, and the present time was pregnant with awful signs.—( Hear, hear.) He felt him self called upon to make allusion to Spain, and to ask whether Ministers would haste submitted .to the necessity of sending out to that country an undisciplined and badly appointed body of newly-raised men, exposing both them and the cause which they espoused to imminent danger, at the same time that a highly disciplined and expensive body of troops were kept inactive at home, if there was not a consciousness that this disciplined force was not in reality at the disposal of the Government—that, in fact, they could not move a corporal's guard ? The Government had a controul over the marines, over the navy and artillery, be: cause they were under other management. For what pur pose was an army to be kept up if not to be employed It was not impossible but the country might be engaged in. a war, or preparations for a war, with Russia. \Vas there no person in that country to tell that the government of the army was not under the controul of the Ministers of the Crown, or to hint that there might be a direct ion- ' power with respect to it behind the Throne ? It had been said on the other side of the House—it had been expressed as a hope—that the time would never come when the army should be under the controul of that House. If this was the expression of a mere per sonal feeling, he should say, nothing about it ; but if it were politically meant to express a hope that the direction of the army should be in the control of some irresponsible power, and that gentleman opposite should possess the do minion, he must protest against it. At the time of the Bristol riots the power of Government with respect to the control of the army had been superseded. If a similar case, on a larger scale, should present itself in Ireland, what might be the result ? What the consequences if the army were directed to act in a way which might not meet the approval of Government?- - -(Hear, hear.) Under these circumstances he would ask the House whether it would not be desirable to return to the ancient and consti tutional practice ? He would, therefore, move that the government of the army, as now conducted, is against law, and no man is held in obedience thereto, and that no supply be granted until a remedy is applied. Mr. SPEAKER wished to know whether any body se conded the motion ? No seconder appearing, the Speaker left the Chair, and the House went into Committee on the ARMY ESTIMATES. Lord Viscount HOW ICK said that, as the amount of the force proposed to he kept up was precisely the same as it was in the last and in the preceding years, of course it followed that there was no material alteration in the main features of the present estimate, which were precisely the same as those of last year. He had to observe that the aggregate charge coincided with that of last year, within the sum of 10,1751. The total amount required for the serrice of this year, was less than it was in .the preceding year. Thus there remained, after deducting an increase which had taken place in the effective force from a de crease of the charge on the non-effective service a sum of 10,3751.—(Hear.) In the effective service there was, upon the whole, an increased amount of 27,8751., and in the non-effective service there was a diminution of charge of 38,000/., leavinc , a balance, or decrease of charge of 60,375/. The principal heads under which the differences, as com pared with former estimates, appeared were these :—ln the first place there was last year the cost of a regiment for half a year, which had been detained in India by the Go vernment, and the expense of which came as an extra charge into this year of 13,700/. Another difference arose from the altered prices of provisions and forage, which were higher than they were last year, and this rendered it ne cessary to add a sum of 13,0001. under this head. The last and most important head was that which had arisen out of the operation of the new warrant for giving " good conduct pay." Every one who knew anything of the state of the army must be aware that every soldier in the ser vice, after the expiration of fourteen years, whether his conduct might have been good or bad, was entitled to his pay at the rate of twopence a day. This pension had never been formed by the principle of good conduct. If a soldier were disabled, the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital pensioned him according to the length of service, unless his conduct had been stamped as bad by the sentence of a Court-martial, by which be had incurred dismissal from the service, or had been committed to a gaol, and had lost a period of his service during his incarceration. But in all other cases the very best soldiers were entitled to only the same amount of pension. In the debate last year on the Mutiny Act, a very anxious wish was expressed that, in addition to those means which were provided by the Mutiny Bill, and in addition to the system of punishments, there should be added, with a view to obtain discipline with as little punishment as possible, some greater facilities to the giving rewards to well-conducted soldiers. He had, there fore, in the course of the last summer, in conc.rt with the Commander-in-Chief, drawn up a warrant, which subse quently received the sanction of his Majesty, and carne into force on the Ist of September last, by which it was provided that all soldiers after that date should have no claim to MI increased pay merely on account of length of service—that that fourteen years' 'service must be independent of good conduct, or he would not be entitled to claim any increased pay. But, on the other hand, it was provided that it/ the case of a man Ivlio served to the end of seven years, anti who, up to that period, bad not for two years preceding such claim being made been guilty of any offence, and had never during that time been punished for any offence, or had his name entered for misconduct in the regi mental defaulters' book, should be permitted to wear an honorary distinction of a ring of lace round the right arm, and should be entitled to claim an increase of pay of one penny per day. At the end of fourteen years' service a further reward of one penny a day, making twopence Addi tional pay, was awarded, with the increased honorary disc tinction of two rings ; and at the end of twenty-one years each soldier became entitled to a third mark of distinction, with threepence additional pay. It was a further part of the object of this warrant to provide that every soldier who had received the advantage of addition pay, should, when pensioned, carry with him part of this advantage. Thus, if a man should live for five years in the enjoyment of the increased pay, that increased pay would be added to , the pension, which, under former warrants, he would not have enjoyed. If he had served for a shorter period only, he would have a part of it added to his pension. For in stance, if a soldier, after twenty-one years' service, had been for five years in the possession of good-conduct pay, but had only been in possession of the higher rate for a period of not less than two years immediately preceding his discharge, he would be entitled, if discharged with two rings, to an ad ditional pay of three halfpence. This would be a very great boon to all well-conducted soldiers, and to accomplish this most desirable object he should have to call upon the House for a sum of 9,800/. to meet the probable expenses arising from this warrant ; and he felt the strongest confi dence that this vote would meet with the general approba tion of the House. He was sure it would be satifae , tory to the House to hear that there was already a very' large proportion (he confessed, a larger proportion than he had anticipated) of the soldiers of the army whose length of service qualified them to receive these rewards, and who had established their claim to receive them by their good conduct. The decrease of charge in the non-effective service amounted, as he had already stated, by the falling in of pensions and half-pay, to a sum of 38,182/., even after allowing for the augmented pay of officers, in consequence of the late brevet promotion, which amounted to 8,468/. This was the only statement which he thought it necessary to trouble the House with, and, therefore, he would conclude by moving the first item-- namely, that there be granted to his Majesty a sum of 3,101,652/. Is. 10d., to provide for the charges of his Ma jesty's land forces at borne and abroad, exclusive of India. After an observation from Mr. ROBINSON in favour of the vote, Mr. HUME (who had at that moment entered) rose, and said, that as there was so thin an attendance, he should move that the Chairman should rise and report progress. Lord HOWICK said that if the Hon. Member pet' severed in his determination, it would be very inconvenient to the public service. Sir S. WHALLEY thought the scanty attendance of Members was a proof of the confidence of the House in his Majesty's Government. Mr. HUME should persevere, unless it was determined when the report should be brought up. Lord HO WICK thought the report might be brought up to-morrow. Mr. HUME then consented to withdraw his motion, but still complained that the estimates should pass in a House of 15 or 20 Members. He thought the public money ought not to be voted in a House so thinly attended. As to the vote before the House, he considered it extrava gant, and the Tory Government whom he had badgered upon the same subject had . been more economical. He knew this observation was nuts to the Hon. Gentlemen opposite, but such was the case.—(A laugh.) He (Mr- Hume) complained of the manner in which the army es timates were brought forward by the Government. In plea of the Chancellor of the Exchequer stating at one time the whole income and expense of the country for the current year, the House was called to vote money by piecemeal for one service and for another. The Hon. Member con cluded by moving as an amendment that the sum of 3,101,652/. be reduced by 500,000/., being the equivalent of 10,000 men, in which should be included a proportion equal to 3,000 or 4,000 of the household troops and cavalp'. That suit, added to the reductions in the Commissariat and Ordnance Department equal to 120,000/. a year more, would make a sum equivalent to the whole amount 0f th e soap or land tax. Lord HO WICK said, in reply to the observation of the Hon. Member, that one cause of the present large a mount of military force was the vast extension of the colonial pos sessions of the country. He found, however, that in the old colonies the increase in the garrisons since 1792 was not any way material. For instance, in 1792 the amount of men in garrison and on duty in these colonies was 15,10 0, while in 1836 it was no more than 16,687. In the latter number, however, should be included 1,977 men at pre sent in New South Wales, a colony which, in 179.2, being, then, but a new settlement, had only 420. Extent 05 country in that colony, over which the desperate era' ratters sent out from these kingdoms were scattered, re' quired, far the absolute safety of the free settlers, a large amount of military force. Indeed only very recently se' rious alarm existed there for the want of a sufficient force , to keep them in awe. He did not, however, say but that a considerable diminution might be made in the force at present employed in the colonies in the course of time for instance, in the West Indies, when the beneficia l effects of the Act of Emancipation of 1833 should Ir" gin to be felt and appreciated by the white and colour ed population of these possessions. It had been alleg ed that the household troops had been considerably increatle°i since 1792, but that allegation was founded on an error —that of including the Dragoon Guards, who were sub ject to the same regulations as troops of the line, in the enumeration. He did not, however, mean to deny tat' gether that an increase in the household troops had taken place since that period ; but he believed it was no more than about 429 in the cavalry, and 800 in the infantry. In 1792 the Horse Guards and household troops of all kin ds amounted to 3,200 men ; in 1836 they were 4,176 in nu . ° l ' ber. When the enormous augmentation of the p o pulation of the metropolis since the former period was taken in account, and when it was also considered that the boti s t. e : hold troops were the principal protection of the capital , "- was satisfied that an increase of 1,000 men or th er caboal would not be deemed an undue proportion. It was s° l , that the proportion of officers to privates in the househ old troops was greater, or at least as great, now as in 1 792 ' That was not the fact. In 1792 the relative proportion ofot Itol2 ; in 1836 it was only cers to men was as as to 1 " It was alleged that the force nor" proposed was greater than in the reduction in 1822. That was not the case : for the force required at present was only 61,000 men, while t he :, which existed on the reduction of 1822 was 69,044. But (Lord Howick), notwithstanding all that had been said in four of the reduction of 1822, was still inclined to believe anything but a wise or an economical measure. Before concluded he wished to state a few facts connected with Lb , colonial military service. T o f urn i s h a ll th e ga rrisons in es „ occupation of the kin g d om , an d p er f orm a ll th e duties ne e r sary, there were requir e d 103 b a tt a li ons . Of that numbs full 82 were always employed abroad, leaving for home s b e at vice 21 battalions. Th e e ff ect o f th at necess ity was t ree regiments brought home a ft er a l ong serv i c e were sce nic allowed to remain four ye ars i n thi s coun t r y when it ce ase again to their turn to go abro a d. H e w ould take b tta in point. In the course of the present year seven. of lions would be required to go abroad on foreign service 3;3, these one had only returned in the September o f w e is ice, after a service of 20 years in India and New South f te n while, of the others, two had come from a s erviee e n years in India only in 1834. To remedy this ev il a • un e. rangement had been made by the War Office, in " I r . !, of tion with the Treasury, which would be produce ha d b a d much good to the service. He (Lord Howick)ai re caused a strict examination to be made of the ineu le io d of ports of all the regiments on fbeeign service fora P er e e ser -20 years past ; and he found by them that a prolong o u_ the vice anywhere between the tropics fell more severeY_,enre.. troops than service in any other situation. It was l a it ‘ ( ro t sent the rule that regiments should pass ten years _ j." ofee, in India ; the arra nge m en t p ro posed by the % that the y eer ie(' and acceded to by th e T reasur y, was, tbre of a regiment's absence should be divided ani°!: i b lig tea several climates. For instance, instead o f los!ula by whole years in India, regiments in future ivof their this arrangement, pass the earlier periods °f thence absence in the Mediterranean garrisons ; " l en d sub be transferred to the East or West Inchest,o sequently to Canada, before they returned rll,r.ce The whole service would be thus divided between climates ; and the period to be passed betw een t t l i . e '-e tr°P fi lle: would be shortened by about two-thirds of the ; f r ' opose d, Connected with this another arrangement via r THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAI, APRIL 6, 1837.