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ettrb Miaton SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. LATEST PRTACES OF SHARES. IN BANKS, AS -Sr...RANCE, AND OTHER COM 'ZANIES' STOCK. Fronttie 0 tfic:4l . List, "BLEU= AVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. VONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18. sorwr-srrocz BANKS. Amount of Share. Paid. 1 Frio. 4 1. d. 4Q 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 so 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 .1 25 0 0 50 0 0 d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 7 10 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 35 0 9 ; 10 0 0 25 0 0 1 10 0 0 11VIPALNIE9. Amount of Share. Paid. Divideud Name 'tf Company. per Annum. 3tralasia • . • . • . • • • • yh orth American f7ommercial of London Londn and Westrninstr London Joint-Stock Metropolitan Provincial of Ireland • Ditto, New.•- • • • • • • 'National of Traland • • Nat. Provnetal of Eng. Ditto, New. • • • • • • . Union of Australia•- • • Union cf London. • • IL7 S S' I Nile or Company. Alliance Brit. and For. Ditto Marine. • • Atlas. • British Commercial .. Clericl,Med. & Gen• Life County . Crown • • • • • • • • • • . • .. Eagle •. .• • Eng. & Scot. Law European Life .. Freemasons' . • • • • • • • . Globe • • ... .• .• • Guardian ..... Imperial Fire • Imperial Life Indemnity Marine—. • Law Life.. .. Legal and General Life 'London Fire •••• . • • • London Ship • • Marine . • • • ......... Med. Invlid & Gen. Life National Lean Fund.. National Life... . Palladium Life PhcenLs• . • ...... Protector Life• • .. Provident Life •. Rock Life ..... Royal Exchange Sun Fire. Ditto Life Universal Life 61. per cent. 51. per cent. M. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 81. per cent. al. per cent. st. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. St. per cent. .IWCE C, per Aiinum. 31. 10s. 6 per cent. Cd. per cent, I 3s. 6(.1. pr Sh. Ts. per share 51. per cent. :51. per cent. 5% per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 6/. and bonus 12s. U. sh. & bs. U. Ss. 10s. 10s. 5/. per cent. 441. per ct. Si. per cent. St per cent. 51. per cent. V. p. et. & be. 5/. per cent. 1/. 58. 46. 51. per cent. 61. 108. 1/. 6e. 10N /. pr cnt Z s. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 Stock. 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 1 50 0 0 100 0 £ s. 4. 50 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 2 W 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 b 0 0 2 0 0 All paid. 3 0 0 36 10 0I 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 1 10 0 0 2 0 0 18 10 0 ! 12 10 0 15 0 0 2 0 0 2 10 0 t 5 0 0 2 0 0 20 0 0 1 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0? 0 10 0 Stock. 6 15 0 CANALS. Names of V I ), Dividend A Companies. per n Annum. Names of Companies. Ashtn& Oldhi 97 51.55. pc, 70 Monmouthsh Ashby-d-la-Z' 113 4/. 70 Mntgomrysh Barnsley.• • • 160 121, 180 Macclesteld. Basingstoke.. , loo Neath ••• • • • Brknk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 Nottingham. Cromford..• • , 10r..) 141. 150 Peak Forest . Dndley 'lOO 4/. Regent's Derby .. •• • • 100 61. 73 Rochdale ..• • Ellsmre&Chs 133 4/. 55 Shropshire .• Eyewash -• • 100 321. 300 Somrset Coal Forth & Clyd 100 4/. Do.L kld St GrandJutnetn 100 71. 953 Stffrd &Won Grand Union 100 11. 10s. . Shrewsbury.. Glamorgnsh. 172 13%1. 210 Stourbridge.. Glstr&Brkly 1 00 ' Strtirdon Av Grantham .. 150 121. 100 (Severn andl Huddersfield. 57 , Wye Rail. 3 & Avu. 39 7s. 6d. I 91,', Trnt& Mr-1 Lancaster..., 47 . 11. 10e. sey, sh..) , Leeds&Livrp 100 341. 520 , Thams &Med , Leicester .... 140 10/. i 105 iWorcstr Bcl Leicstr &Nth 83 41. i 60 Birming. Loughborogh,l42 70/. 850 IWI its & Brks 100 l 100 1001 1150 Name of Company. Dividend! per ; Price. Annum. 81. 160 51. ; 98 - 38 I 171. 340 121. - W. 40 11. ss. 25 4/. 77 81. 7/.los. 1130 61. p. c. 11 28/. 295 151. 230 20/. 315 1/. 10s. Bs. j 32 301. 50 19 7J, 67 21. i 44 11. i 11 DOCKS. i Dividend Amount per of Annum. Share. Paid. Price. 4 s. d. £ s. d. , Commercial ••••• • .• • 3/. per cent. Stock. ; 80 East and West India... 61. pr cent. Stock. i 141 East Country Landon • St. Kathanue •.••• • • • , 5 per cent. Stock. lol3¢ Southampton •••• • • •• 4/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 2734 WATER-WORKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s. d. East London.. •••• • • • • Sl. 100 0 0 204 Grand Junction ••• • • • 31. 10s. 41 13 4 90 Kent.. .... •.•• • • • • 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 e 70 Vauxhall • ... .•.. • M. per cent. 100 0 0 57 West Middlesex LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. i Price Annum. Share. £ s. (1. 4 s. d Bank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 158 British Linen Company Si. par cent. 100 0 0 ; 224 Commercial Bank •• • • Cl. per cent. 100 0 0 ; 165 National Bank 6l. per cent. 10 0 0 1 14% Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. 50 0 0 1 92% Western Bank •••• • • • • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 ; 85 North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. I 5 0 0 Clydesdale Bank ..... • 61. per cent. 10 0 0 j 13 Eastern Bank.. ••. • . 51. per cent. , 10 0 0 11 Caledonian Bank Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cert. 50 0 1 7% City of Glasgow Bank . 51, per cent. 1 10 0 0 131. Se Scottish Union Ins. Co. Si. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1248. 9d Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 I 14% Maur. Co. of Scetlnd • • Si. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 93 North British Insur.— 5%1. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 28 Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. , 100 0 0 10 0 0 22 Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. , 100 0 0 12 10 0 18% Edin. 8c (Haag. Railway 1/.los. per c. 50 0 0 50 0 0 74% Ditto, % Shares 7s. 6d. p. n. 12 10 0 All paid. 15% Edin., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 17 IA 4 - 41asicw & Ayrebh• Rail. 71. percent. 50 0 0 All paid. 75 Glaagy, & Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 16% Gisg - w&Garnkirk Rail. Sl. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. I 40% Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 61. per cent. i 25 0 0 All paid. 37 Standard LifeAssamee.l 51. per cent. 50 0 0 210 0 I 9 LONDON AND BLACKWAI RAILWAY COMPANY.-(THIS DAY. The twentieth half-yearly general Meeting of the proprie tors of the London and Blackwell Railway was held this morning, at the London Tavern, in Bishopsgate-street ; Mr. I. N. Daniel, Chairman of the Board of Directors, in the chair. The Secretary (Mr. Cannel) having read the advertise ment convening the meeting, the common seal of the Corn. pany was affixed to the register of shareholders. The following report was then submitted to the meeting : "The directors have to report, for the information of the shareholders, that the available balance on the revenue account for the half-year ended 30th June last, is 5,0801. Ws. 2d., which enables them to recommend the declaration of a dividend of 2s. per share, clear of income-tax. "The following is a comparative statement of the pas senger traffic during the corresponding months of this and last year : 1843. Passengers. Amount. January 207,920 48.225 12 9 February .. March April 258,546 4,407 9 0 May 293,373 5 033 7 10 June 372,024 6,116 14 2 1424,077 £25,612 19 1 1846. 'Passengers. January ......, 179,039 February....,, 166,551 March ...... 198,710 April .... 247,832 May June.. 393,730 Amount. £2,914 10 6 2,688 10 7 3,120 18 11 3,683 14 8 5,040 19 11 6,283 0 9 1,496,180 £23,731 15 4 "It will be observed that there has been a diminution both in number& and receipts during the past half-year. This is attributable to various cause:. The Great Britain' steam-ship was a great object of attraction for some months during the early part of last year. The issue of annual and season tickets will also partially account for the diminution. The receipts from this source, which amount to 7984, have been taken credit for in the revenue account, but are not in cb tded in the above statement of traffic. " The returns from wharfage, both on passengers and goods, exhibit a favourable result, so that, irrespective of all adventitious sources of increase of traffic, the receipts from the regular traffic during the past half-year evince a pro gressive improvement. " The shareholders will remark, that though the ca pitalization of the debenture debt is only beginning to operate, there is a saving on the half•year's interest account of 473/. " The directors are glad to report, that the arrangements with the steam-packet companies in connexion with Grare end and Woolwich are satisfactory, their boats frequenting the wharf on terms common to all. "The directors strongly represented to the shareholders, on a former occasion, that the interests of this Com pany could not but be greatly advanced by the con struction of the proposed South Essex Railway bringing a large traffic upon the line; and they found it imperatively necessary to take active and earnest measures to prevent the traffic being diverted to the Eastern Counties Railway by the North Gravesend, which was the competing line with the South Essex ; and though the South Essex Company failed in their attempts to get a Bill, so also did the North. Gravesend. Every effort will he made to retain for the Blackwell proprietary the traffic of the left bank of the Thames, so legitimately their own. " The Bill for uniting the Birmingham Railway with the East and West India Docks is yet before Parliament. It has passed the House of Commons, and is now in the House of Lords. Such arrangements have been made with the pro moters' as it is believed will secure the interests of this com pany, should the Bill receive the a. action of the Legislature, and the work be carried into effect in the manner now proposed. "The negotiations with the Dock and ,Birmingham Junc tion Company led to the belie: . that it was prudent to delay for the moment the commencement of the works on the Ex tension line, left any modification of the plan should have been found desirable. The works have, however, been con tracted for, and will now be proceeded upon with all possible dispatch. - " The report of the Commissioners on Metropolitan Termini is strongly against the introduction or extension of railways within certain limits round the City. This restric tion, and the attainment of powers to widen the line, to give increased station accommodation, and for the use of loco -motives at the London terminus, have placed the London and Blackwall Railway in a much more advantageous posi tion than it ever held before. And the directors venture to express their confident belie f that this railwa y will, at no AtwCptffperialcl, become the London terminus for all the lines ' k - and east of the metropolis." f'. ...3 The Citipotas congratulated the shareholders upon the .. __ improved state of their affairs, an,l expressed his conviction 67—)E--rwrth, • that the termination of the rivalry between the Company Zt ... , and the Graveiend steam-boats would be the r poductivublicse both of r•, - ' ' AdTalltigo to themselves and benedt to whole, he thought their efforts in Parliament had been tolerably successful, and they came out of the contests they bad lately entered into with as much success as they had, under all circumstances, reason to expect. The Bill for enlarging the station had been carried, and it would no doubt tend to increase the accommodation of the public as well as their own traffic. The business of the Brunswick-wharf was daily improving. The rope had worked well ; and on the whole their prospects were highly gratifying. Indeed he had no doubt that eventually the line would fall into the hands of a powerful neighbour, and become the leading entrance into the City for all lines. After a short discussion, during which it was elicited that there was no favouritism evinced by the directors towards any of the steam-boat companies, and that it was intended at a future meeting to reduce the number of directors from ten to seven, the report was adopted, and resolutions in accord ance with its recommendations agreed to. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and directors, and the meeting terminated. ing lines must be looked at as to the saving of money to the poor man, and the great importance to the man of business in point f time. It would of course be a great advantage to shorten the distance. _ Otts.—For Southern Oil the demand has been active, and prices have risen for all descriptions. Seal has not risen in value, but the demand has been good. For Cod few buyers are to be met with. Importers of Sperm are unwilling to further reduce their prices. American Lard Oil has declined in value, and few buyers are to he met with. Olive has been in extensive demand, and prices are on the ad vanco. ' Rape Seed Oil has been in excellent request, and prices have advanced. Linseed Oil has attracted more attention, and prices have improved. For Palm the demund has fallen off, but lower prices are not accepted. Cocoa Nut is still in small supply, and there are several buyers. Hors.—The business transacted was extremely limited in all descriptions, and prices are looking down. The accounts from the plantations are highly satisfactory, and the duty for the kingdom is estimated as high as 170,0001. TAlLOW.—Prices have ruled firm for Russian on the spot, and a good demand has been experienced, fine Petersburg yellow Candle has brought 41s to 41s 6d ; at auction 50 casks went at these rates. For delivery many contracts have been entered into, and 41s to 41s 6d are the rates given for the last three months of the year. Australian is wt.nted, and prices are firmer, several par cels having been sold privately on the spot at 37s to 42s 6d of low to tine quality. Of Odessa 92 casks sold at 40. 9d to 41s 3d for ox, and 40s 6d to 41s for sheep tallow. The value of American is 33s to 425, but at present little is to be had. Home made has been in excellent request, and prices are firm at 40s 6d to 41s per cwt net cash. By Sergeant IVRANGITAK—Thought a lino very desirable which would obviate a break of gauge. Evidence was also given by Mr. Abingdon, carrying on an extensive business in the Potteries, and by Dr. Ghipney, of Cheltenham, in favour of the line, and the Committee ad journed until to-morrow. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Lords present were, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Campbell, and the Bishop of Oxford. RICHMOND RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) The half-yearly general meeting of this Company was held this day for the transaction of the ordinary business of the Company, in pursuance of the provisions of the Richmond Railway Act and of the other general Acts of Parliament re lating to railways. The chair was taken at one o'clock by W. Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Company. The SECRETARY having read the advertisement convening the meeting, proceeded to read the report, which stated that the Richmeed Railway was opened to the public on the 27th of July last, and the directors cordially congratulate their proprietors upon the favourable prospects which may be fairly anticipated ; that a sufficient time has not as yet elapsed since the opening to enable the directors to form an accurate judgment of the traffic to be expected. They are happy to report, however, that the result of the returns, te•far as they have been obtained, is most encouraging. The receipts for the first week to August 2d, amounted to 476/. ; for the second week, to August 9th, 5361.—making a total of 1,0121.: that the Bill for the construction of the Kew branch has been rejected for this session by the House of Lords; but the directors feel coufideot that the necessity of a speedy communication between the metropolis and the im portant towns of Brentford and Hounslow, and their neighbourhood, will induce the Legislature to afford some railway communication to this district, which can be procured in no other way so satisfactorily as by a branch line from some point on this railway. It is proposed to make a further call of 51. per share, which they feel as sured will be amply sufficient for the entire completion of the railway. It further stated that the directors have anxiously deliberated on the terms proposed by the South Western Railway Company for the purchase of this railway, and have communicated with the directors of that company upon the subject, in pursuance of the resolution of the last special meeting; and the South-Western Company has since consented to a modification of the former terms, whereby all the shareholders in this Company should be allowed the option of either taking the stock of the South- Western Company as before arranged, or the sum of 9/. as premium in money. The receipts of the line up to the pre sent time, although worked under great disadvantages, have far exceeded the expectations of the directors—they do not. therefore, feel justified in recommending the proprietors to concur in the sale of this railway on the terms now offered by the South-Western Railway Company; and that interest at 4 per cent. per annum will be paid on the sums contributed in respect of any shares in this Company, according to the provisions of the Act of Parliament, on and after the Ist of September next. The following summary of the balance-sheet of the Rich mond Railway Company was laid before the meeting PERII L PARLIAAIENT. (TinsDAy..) HOUSE OF LORDS, ROYAL COMMISSION. The Royal assent was given to-day by Commissivn to the following 34 public and private Bills Sugar Duties ( No. 3) Bill. Militia Pay Bill. Forms (Assessed Taxes) Bill. Court of Common Pleas Bill. Gauge of Railways Bill. Religious Opinions Relief Bill. New Zealand Company's Bill. Grand Jury Cess Bonds (Ireland) Bill. Prisons (Ireland) Bill. Books and Engravings Bill. Adverse Claims (Leland) Bill. Deodands Abolition (No. 2) Bill. Highway Rates Bill. Loan Societies Bill. Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill. Stock in Trade Bill. Copyhold Caledt.nian, Po:lt c, Govan, and Clydesdale Junction Railway Amalgamation Bill. H tidderst.eld and Manchester Railway and Canal (Oldham Branch) Bill. Liverpool, Dunkirk, and Preston Railway Bill. West Riding Union Railway (No. 2) Bill. Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal, and Manchester and Leeds Railway Amalgamation Bill. Salrhouse Embankment bill. Wolverhampton Stipendiary Justices Bill. Plymouth Great Western Docks Bill. Forth and Clyde Navigation and Bowling Bay Improvement Bill. Brighouse Sewering, Draining, and Lighting Bill. Wexford Harbour Improvement Bill. Norfolk Estuary Bill. All Souls College ( Oxford) Estate Bill. Duke of Cleveland's ( Hardwick, Hart, &c.) Estate Bill. Scott's Estate Bill. Clowe's Estate (Booth's Charity) Bill. Horne's (Ferguson's) Estate Bill. 'I he Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and the Earl of Mint°. When the Loan CHA NCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack, after the private business, Earl GREY presented a petition, numerously signed by the inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land, complaining of the evil of the transportation system. In presenting it he could only say, that the subject would receive the best attention of the Cl,,vernment. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. The Earl of CLARENDON laid on the table the report of the Commons Nou•e o. the state of this bridge. IRISH GUILDS AND COMPANIES. Lord CAMPBELL moved the second reading of this Bill for the abolition of the fraternities and guilds of Ireland. The oLjeet of the Bill was to assimilate the law of Ireland with that of England, where all this. exclusive privileges of these guilds bad been abolished, except in the city of London. A number of petitions had been presented against the Bill, but he trusted that they would not attach much importance totbem, and that as their Lordships had abolished these guilds in Eng land and Scotland, that they would do away with them in Ire land also. The Bill was then read a second time. Several Bills were brought up by messengers from the House of Commons. THE WASTE LANDS AUSTRALIA BILL. The report on this Bill was brought up and agreed to. CLONMEL LUNATIC ASYLUM. Earl FORTESCUE presented a petition from certain in habitants of Clonmel, praying for the assimilation of the Clonmel Lunatic Asylum, with respect to the superint.ndence of a resident physician. PATENT COMMISSION BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. DRAINAGE OF LANDS (IRELAND) BILL. Earl GREY moved the second reading of this 13111. Lord MON TEAGLE thought some further information was required, but Earl GREY said, notwithstanding the extensive alterations that had been made in this Bill in the other House, he hoped that the measure would benefit Ireland. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed ou Friday. THE NAVAL AND SUPPLEMENTAL FUND SOCIETY'S BILL. On the motion of the Earl of CLARENDON this Bill was read a third time and passed. COMMONS INCLOSURE BILL. This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be com mitted on Friday. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF' COMHONS. THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP OF BOMBAY. Lord GEORGE BENTIN CK (in continuation from our Afternoon Edition), raid—He thought he had stated suffi cient to entitle him to call for an investigation of the cir cumstances connected with that appointment ; and he thought be had a right to ask why so great an infraction of the constitution had taken place, as well as to ask for all the correspondence which related to the appointment of Mr. Pollock as Chief Justice of Bombay. And when that corre spondence was produced, he thought the country would be dis posed to agree with him in believing that her 111.jesty's late Ministers were not the only men its the country capable of ad ministering the affairs of government. He recollected that on the night which proved fatal to the existence of the late Admi • nistration it was observed by some that there were no other men in the country capable of carrying on the government—that they were the only men who could be trusted with the appoint ments to the bench. In reference to this he would observe that they had an opportunity of judging of this, from the un expected announcement which had been made by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer. He would now conclude by moving for the production of the correspondence relative to the late appointment of Mr. Pollock as Chief Justice of Bombay. Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE said, in answer to the appeal which had been made to him by the Noble Lard, the best thing he could do was to state the facts of the case, as far as he knew them. shortly after he entered upon the duties of President of the Board of Control he had his attention caled to the appointment of Mr. Pollock as Chief Justice of Bombay. On looking over the correspondence referring to that appointreen', he found that certain irregulari ties had taken place in connexion with it, which made it neces sary for him to consult the law officers of the Crown. It ap peared that Sir Henry Roper, the late Chief Justice, had in the early part of last year written to the Earl of Ripon, expressing a desire to retire trim his situation, but requesting that his retirement should not be accepted im mediately, but from the 2d November following, at which time he would be entitled to receive the pension for seven years' service, namely I Of 01., whereas, it he retired at the expira tion of five years, he would be only entitled to receive 700!. That letter arrived in England on the 27th March, and on the 4th of May following the Earl of Ripon, having taken her Majesty's pleasure on the subject, accepted his re signation from tie time requested, so as to entitle him to the seven years' pension. Lord Ripon wrote in consequence to Mr. Gladstone, the Secretary for the Colonies, to make out letters patent conferring the office on Mr. Poliock from the 2d Nov., which fact was at the same time communicated to the Board of Directors of the East India Company. Mr. Glad stone wrote to the Earl of Ripn, easing that the appointment could not be made i n th at t o m—that a judge could not be appointed in prospective. In reply to this the Earl of Ripon wrote back, desiring that letters patent should be made out, appointing Mr. Pollock Chief Justice forthwith; o f awctchonhbendi Chief eehp a fga c t.jut c oeeu o onns r ktte d i e i e p n ae ; ner y l f e eue mieb thisti en t tf e wl Igo r area the h p : es a st t t hi e rpa y at Hutt July, ywnl patent Hen l ry o e hdßfe m oasc a p d iievr e r l a clauseatueennt rdwr a yatc p hsrß p o mot i p n i went insertedr i ae n i g were si h un ih im oin suit legal, as he ceased to le Lord Chid Justice. For this state of things, by the advice of the Attorney-General, a Bill was brought in to legalise the proceedings, as an Act of Parlia ment was considered to be the only remedy, and a Bill for that purpose was now before the other House of Parliament. Illegal and irregular as these proceedings were, he was bound to state that they were not unusual, for a similar course had been fre quently ad, pted by former Governments. Having stated thus much, he did n , .,t consider it necessary to say more. When the Bill, which was before the other House of Parliament, came down there, the whole subject might be discussed, but at present he did nut consider it right to go further into the question ; and if his Noble Friend (Lord George Bentinck) wished for any additional information which he could give him, he would be most happy to de so. Sir J. W. HOGG was bound to say that the course adopted by the late Govvnment in reference to the appointment of the Chief Justice of Bombay, was not an unusual one, for a similar proceeding had taken place during the last 100 years. The reason of it was obvious, for if the Judges in India did not notify to the 1101710 Government their intention to resign, their successors could not be ap , pointed in time to carry on the administration of justice. If this were law, then every other appointment of Governors- General in India had been done on the same principle. Every commission that had been issued in regard to India was the same, and they were worded so P 9 only to take Effect on the arrival of the party appointed in India. The provision of law in India invariably was, that the old gover nor should administer the law till t h e new one arrived, and produced his letters patent or commission, as the case might be. It was right that the House should know exactly how these matters had been conducted in India, and they were such as he had described them to be. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the observations of the Hou. Baronet required that be should say . a few words. The Hon. Baronet had referred to the opiolon of the late Attorney-General;( Sir W. Follette but to that he would'answer, that the opinion he was about to give `doth he sanction of the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, late Attorney. General, the present Lord Chancellor, and he believed the late Lord Chancellor also. Now the law of the case was, whenar new letters patent was issued to revoke the old one . , under which a Governor-General or any other officer in Indiaone, acted. The patent under consideration was issued in the usual form of all such letters patent. It was worded in the customary way, declaring the appointment of Mr. David Pollock to the office of Chief Justice, and containing the usual clause revoking the previous patent appointing Sir Edward Roper. The whole matter was, therefore, perfectly regular, and accord ing to the usual form in which such appointments were made. Sir J. W. HOGG wished to know if it was lawful for the Queen to appoint the parties without the certificate of the East India Company? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL intimated that it was. Mr. S. WORTLEY was not prepared to say at that moment Viat it was illegal to issue a patent for giving effect to an ap. pointment on a future day, even though the office might be full at the time such issue was made. He trusted, therefore, the 'Noble Lord the Member for Linn, after what had tTrIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18, 1846. been stated, would be satisfied that in this re spect th- patent was issued in the usual way. He (Mr. S. Wortley), however, while speaking to this ques tion, w .uld not allow the opportunity to pass without bearing his testimony to the high character and qualification of Mr. David Pollock and Mr. Phillips. From all the opportunities he had had of acquiring a knowledge of those gentlemen, he must say that the charges of the Noble Lord against them for the mode in which they had obtained their ap pointments were most unwarran.able. The Noble Lord seemed to think that public men, in obtaining particular ofßueSs were always influenced by corrupt and improper motives. The Noble Lord, however, after what he had stated about the late Mr. Canning and other Members of that House, and the way in which these charges had failed, should take care how he made similar charges in future. After those affairs, he (Mr. S. Wortley) had hoped that he would not again have acted in such an objectionable manner. Mr. HUME thought the House had nothing to do with what the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn might have staled on previous occasions. What they had to do with was the present appointment, !which he thought looked very much like a job. Looking at the patent making the appoint ment, it appeared to him to contain a downright lie.—(Cries of " Order.") He repeated a lie, for it declared that Sir Henry Roper had intimated his resignation, whereas he had only in timated to the Government his intention to resign at some die s taut day. Lord LINCOLN said the wording of the patent was the same as in all similar documents. The Hon. Member might call it an error if he liked. Mr. HUME—Then he would say an error if it was not a lie, though he could not but look upon the whole affair as a most suspicious and objectionable pro ceeding, and ono which lie must condemn. He thought the course that had been pursued by the late Government with respect to this matter deserved the highest animadversian. He could not, for the life of him, see the justice of a competent judge being superseded by one who understood nothing of the laws he would be called upon to ad minister. He thought the House and the country were in debted to the Noble Lord for bringing this question forward. Mr. BERNAL thought that all feeling of irritation ought to be set aside on this subject. Sir G. GREY said that the appointment of Mr. Pollock as,Chief Justice of Bombay revoked the am ointment of Sir H. ReFer, and, therefore, it became necessary to have an Act of Parliament on the subject Mr. GOULBURN defended the course pursued by the late Government. If any party was to blame, it was Parliament itself. The course the present Government had pursued was the right one. He complained of the Noble Lord bringing the subject forward without notice, and that he should have made charges against a man as honourable as himself of nefarious practices.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HENLEY hoped that the House would not be led away from their decision by the legal hare which had been started by the Hon. Member the Chairman of the Board of Directors, or the personal matter introduced by the Hon. Member for Bute. Lord LINCOLN said, that a mere unfair misrepresentation never tell from the lips of any Hon. Member in that House than the speech of the Hon. Memleer, and he was the more surprised at it as that Hon. Member was babitu ally correct. The course taken by his Noble Friend ' the Earl of Ripon was to write to Mr. tiladstone to ask him to make out a reversionary appointment, to commence on the 2d of November. Mr. Gladstone wrote, in answer, that such a thing could not be done; and the Earl of Ripon then re quested that the appointment should at once be made out. He thought that they had reason to complain of the cotne , e take - n by the Noble Lord, for the notice was so worded as to induce the supposition that it was a mere ordinary question, and one upon which no discussion woulsi take place. Mr. DISRAELI slid that the late Ministers ought not to complain of being taken by surprise, for the notice was given that the question would be asked at a time when every Hon. Member in the House would be at liberty to express his opinion upon it, and of course such a course intimated that it was to be no ordinary matter. It was not usual to give any further intimation, unless it was intended to take a course adverse to the Government, and no such course was to be taken in the present instance. The detence as to there having been simlar appointments would be no justification, for he denied that the circumstances of those appointed were similar. Ile believed that Lord Lynd hurst was perfectly immaculate as to the appointment in guess tion, believieg, as ho did, that that Noble Lord was ale ays influenced in his appointments—lst, by what was due to his party ; 2d, by what was due to the public and to his friends. He believed that the whole transaction was to be set down to the account of the late President of the Board of Control. That Noble Lord commenced the transaction when the Government of which he was a member was in exiientis, and completed it when it was only the phantom el an Acmitiistration.—( Hear, hear. ) The members of the late Government evinced such extreme sensi tiveness with regard to imputations on their character, as to remind him of the nervous irritability of certain females who had lost their character. He could not help thinking that there was a close affinity in the feelings with which they were respectively influenced. The Hon. Gentleman, after repellieg the imputations of the Hon. Member for Bute, said that no answer had been given to the Noble Lord with reference to the appointment. The President of the Board of Control had fully confirmed the Noble statements; arid he was very much afraid that though Lord Ly ndhurst might come out clean of the disgraceful transaction, another noble, but not so learned, a Lord, would not be so fortunate. PATRICK V. KING. The arguments in this part-heard appeal were concluded to-day, and Their Loansuirs gave judgment, affirming the deck.ion of the Court of Session. It is the last appeal their Lordships will hear this session. COURSE OF EACH .N GE.--(THIS DAY). Amsterdam ......c.r 12 934 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .... 2 U l2 10 Antwerp .......... Hamburgh .... • • 31.8. 13 15% Faris, 3 days' sight .. • . 25 85 Ditto, 3 months 26 15 Marseilles • • .• • • • Bourdeaux. ...... 26 20 Frankfurt on Maine 12234 Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... • • Gibraltar • • .. Leghorn ... 30 70 Genoa • ...... , 26 20 Milan ........ Venice .. ..... Naples . ..... ••.... • . 3934 Palermo, per 0z........ 119 U Lisbon.... • ........... 52%, Oporto 52 e Rio Janeiro • • ........ 24 Bahia Buenos Ayres .. • • .. New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia .... • • OF BULLION, PLR CZ. Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin • . 3 17 5 New Doubloons . 0 0 0 New Dollars • • 0 4 9% Silver in bars ...... 0 4 11% Berlin •... ViClllla, effec.llo•• •• •• 10 15 •• .... 10 14 Madrid .... Cadiz •• ........ 36 Bilbao.. • • • ... •• .. .arcelon a • • . • ........ Seville.. THE LONDON GAZETTF. (THIS EVENING.) [The following article is substitnted for that which appeared in the Gazette of Friday, the 7th of August inst.] ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Atro..4. The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Earl of Listowel to be one of the Lords in Waiting in Ordinary to Her Majesty, in the room of Geerge Lord Rivers, resigned. FOREIGN OFFICE, AUG. 18. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the most Hon. Constantine Henry Marquis of Normanby to be her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the King of the French. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint the Rght Honourable John Viscount Ponsonby, G.C.B. to be her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plinopoten tiary to the Emperrr of Austria. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, AuG. 17. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Gentlemen Cadets to be Se cond Lieutenants—F. J. Soady, vice Waller, promoted ; M. Stewart, vice Freeth, promoted, May 1; (Second Lieutenant Soady to be placed above Second Lieutenant Dyneley, and Second Lieutenant Stewart between Second Lieutenants Margesson and Street); O'Bryen B. Woolsey, vice Grey, pro moted ; A. W. Drayson, vice Ommanney, promoted ; C. W. Elgee, vice Palmer, promoted; E. J. Carthew, vice Vansittart, promoted ; G. H. A. Forbes, vice Paget, promoted ; W. H. Blair, vice Phelips, promoted ; L. Martineau, vice Mercer, promoted; C. Hunter, vice Colelough, promoted; R. J. Hay, vice Milward, promoted; A. J. MacDougall, vice Chermside, promoted; J. Spurway, vice Blakeley, promoted; G. R. C. Young, vice Craufurd, promoted ; H. 'l'. Boultbee, vice Ord, promoted, Aug. 6. Corps of Royal Engineers—H. T. Siborne, vice Inglis, promoted; C. S. Akers, vice Martindale, promoted; B. A. Wilkinson, vice Hutchinson, promoted; L. Nicholson, vice Wray, promoted; G. E. L. Walker, vice Parley, promoted; J. T. Burke, vice Stokes, promoted ; F. E. Cox, vice Hickey, promoted, S. B. Farrell, vice Clarke, promoted, August - 6. ADMIRALTY, JULY 27, 1846. Notice is hereby given, that medals for the officers and men of her Majesty's Marilee Forces who were engaged in the war in China, belonging to the undermen tioned ship, have be en received at this office, viz.: Apollo, Alligator, Atgerine, Belleisle, Cornwallis, Cho, Childers, Dido, Jupiter, Plover, Pylades, Nimrod, Starling, Vixen, Blenheim, Blonde, Calliope, Columbine, Conway, Cruiser, Druid, Endymion, Hyacinth. Herald, Larne, Melville, Modeste, North Star, Semarang, Sulphur, Rattlesnake, Wellesley, Hazard, Wanderer, Sapphire, Harlequin, which will be delivered, on application, at the office of the Accountant-General of the Navy, Somerset House, and the parties applying for them are to produce their respective certificates. • By command of their Lordships, H. G. WARD. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Northumberland. Northumberland Militia—R. Falder, Gent. to be Assistant- Surgeon, July 21. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire. The Queen's Own Regiment of Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry.—Lieut. R. Temple to be Captain, vice Sir 0. P. Wakeman, Bart., resigned; Lieut. R. Hemming, to be Cap tain, vice Sir Francis L. H. Goodricke, Bart., re signed ; Cornet Walter Hemming to be Lieutenant, vice Richard Hemming, promoted ; Cornet Sir Wil liam Smith, Bart., to be Lieutenant, vice R. Tem ple, promoted; E. L. Campbell, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Sir W. Smith, Bart., promoted; Hon. and Rev. W. W. Talbot to be Chaplain ; T. W. Walsh, Gent., to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Sheward, resigned, Aug. 11. WHITEHALL, AUG. 15. The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Bowen, of Stafford, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. John Patterson, grocer, Tonbridge, to surrender, Aug. 27, at half- past eleven, and Oct. 2, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Towushend, solicitor, Howland-street. Thomas Evans Jones, linen-draper, Knightsbridge-terrace, Aug. 27, at half-past twelve, and Oct. 2, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Akager, official assignee, Birchin-lane; Lloyd, Milk-street. John Teasel, carpenter, Norwich, Sept. 2 and 26, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Bas,ng hall-street ; Jay, Bucklersbary ; Jay and Pilgrim, Norwich. William Norris, builder, Camden New-town, Sept. 2, and Oct. 1, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane ; Haynes, Camden-town. John Hartley Butterworth, hotel-keeper, King-street, Cheapside, Aug. 27, at eleven, and Oct. 1, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basing hall-street; Ashley, Shoreditch. Josiah Harris, grocer, Mevagissey, Cornwall, Sept I and 29, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Bristol ; Carlyon, St. Austel ; Bell and Co., Lincoln's Inn-fields, London; Moore, Exeter. Joseph Carne, aen., provision merchant, Truro, Corawall, September 1 and 29, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Messrs. Morgan, Old Jewry, London; Messrs. smith and Roberts, Truro; Turner, Exeter. Rufus Parkinson, currier, Ashton-under-Lyne, Aug. 28 and September 18, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court, Hobson, official assignee, Manchester ; Messrs. Clarke and Co, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London; Brooks, Ash ton-under-Lyne. Peter Bury, calico printer, Manchester, Sept. 1, and 23, at twelve, at tue Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Cunliffes, Charlewood, and Bury, Man chester; Keightley, Cunliffe and Beaumont, Ch ancer y-l ane . Edward Ward, corn dealer, Medbourn, Leicestershire, Sept. 10, and Oct. 8, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleson, official assignee, Birmingham; Rawlins, Market Harborough ; James, Birmingham. William Ballinger, maltster, Swansea, Glamorganshi:e, Sept. 3, at one, and Oct. 1, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol; David, Swansea; Bridges, Bristol. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of August 18.) SUGAR.—To-day importers of West India Muscovado Sugar evinced firmness, and the home trade were inclined to further increase their stock; all kinds were in excellent re quest for the scale and pan • the rates paid in several cares were even 6d per cwt above those of Friday. REFINED.—To. day Refined Goods were much in request by the home trade, and higher rates were paid ; brown lumps selling at 63s to 645, and standard lumps 64s 6d to 65s per cwt. Tne business transacted has been greater than for some time. Bonded Crushed Sugar is more w. , nted, and cannot be obtained under 34e per cwt. for first quality. Miusmus.—Thls afternoon Mauritius was in excellent request, and 1,640 bags 123 casks 244 tierces off red at public sale were sold at an advance on former rates of 6d to is per cwt. FOREIGN.—To-day slave-labour Sugar, imported by British ships, was much sought after by private treaty; but busi ness of moment was prevented by the stiff rates asked by holders. For Sugar received by foreign ships the market, however, has a tranquil appearance; but former prices are insisted upon. None of any kind was offered at public sale. MOLASSES.—AIthough all qualities of West India cAn be obtained upon lower terms, still there has been scarcely any business transacted: the supply is on the increase, and the value of low to fine quality is 19s to 2,5 s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the quantity of Madras Sugar submitted to public competition amounted to 7,251 bags, a fair part of which found buyers at prices exhibiting a rise on those previously current of 6d per cwt. Te:A.—The market has assumed a dull appearance for Tea, and by private contract few purchases have been made in black or green ; merchants do not show much firmness. At the public sale. held to-day, consisting of 30,000 packages, little desire was shown by the trade to operate in any rind, although there were sellers of nearly all sorts rather under the rates that previously existed. COFFEZ.—This afternoon Ceylon Coffee was in excellent demand, and 1,400 bags at auction were all sold at firm rates. 140 bags of Company's Java were sold at easier rates. 232 bags of East India went at low rates. COCOA.—Foreign is little wanted, and prices have slightly given way, although the quantity brought to market has been small. At auction 33 bags of Bahia were sold at 32s for fair red. In West India the business transacted has been extremely limited by private contract, and none has been submitted to public competition. CoatisEaL.—Holders have more confidence, and refrain from offering any at public sale; the demand is improving, and the parcels disposed of by private contract were at rather higher rates. • SPIOES.—To-day Ginger met with little attention, 837 bags of Malabar at auction were nearly all taken in at 20s for rough export sort; 103 cases of Calicut at 45s far brown home consuruption kind; 49 brls of Jamaica sold at easier rates, at 33s to 38s, middling 42s to 51s. Nutmegs were more in demand, and 7 chests ut Singapore sold at auction. FRUIT.-It having been ascertained that the stock of currants is considerably less than was calculated upon, with an increased consumption, has induced the grocers to purchase more freely at advanced quot , 2tions, and there being now on'y a very small portion in the importers' hands, they have advanced their price for l'atral to 50s. Of Valentias there are scarcely any remaiLing, and are much sought after. SALTrivraE.—To- day rough only was in limited demand, and 682 bags of Calcutta at auction were chiefly taken in at 27s for good strong white 2 1 / 2 ," per cent. refraction, being the full worth. _ Srturrs.—Jamaica Rum cannot be obtained upon lower terms, but little business has been transacted, and only smell parcels have been taken by exporters or the home trade, 30 or 38 per cent. over proof at 3s 8d to 4s 2d, fine 4e 3d to ss; high flavoured sorts would bring above the latter rate, but of such there is little in the market. Demerara is wanted, and prices rule firm. To -day there was but little desire evinced to operate in any kind of Rum, and holders experi enced difficulty in keeping up prices for East India or West India. INDIGo.—The accounts being very favourable from Bengal and Math as for the Indigo crop, cause the demand here to be extremely limited for all descriptions of East India,from ex porters arid the home trade, in some cases there are sellers rather under the rates of the last quarterly sale. Spanish ha* met with little attention, and pnvious quotations are not to be obtained. DEBTORS. ______ Land and compensation — £57,813 14 4 Construction of the way and works, and rails and chairs for the permanent way... 61,617 8 2 Engineering, surveying, and valuing, also Parliamentary, law, and arbitration ex penses Furniture for the office Remuneration to the directors and auditors 770 0 0 Salaries and allowance for services Rent and office charges 238 1 L 9 Advertising, printing, and stationery.... Postages, travelling and miscellaneous ex penses... Sundry persons on account of works in pro gress, land, &c.. .. 8,542 6 6 Deposits to await the settlement of claims land for . _ Shareholders for calls and interest Cash at the bankers 13,951 11 8 Cash in the hands of the Secretary - 28 12 5 £182,413 3 2 CREDITORS. Capital stock, being 10/. on each of 13,000 shares Interest on investments and calls 537 4 4 Transfer fees Sundry persons for land and compensation... 9,722 5 0 Sundry persons for rails and chairs, ser vices, &c 6,819 19 4 Loans and interest Total £182,413 3 2 Several formal resolutions having been put and carried neon. con., the meeting was then made special, for the pur pose of considering the expediency of leasing or selling the Richmond Railway to the London and South-Western Com pany, and if such lease or sale should be deemed expedient, then fur the purpose of considering and determining upon the terms and conditions of such lease or sale. _ _ The SECRETARY then read the terms of the agreement provisionally entered into with the London and South- Western Railway Company on the 20th of July, 1846, fir a sale of this railway and all its works and appurtenances, with all the lands, property, and other effects of this Com pany, and all its earnings from the time of the opening, and including also a further call of 51. per share (making alto gether 151. per share paid on 13,000 shares) to the London and South-Western Railway Company, in consideration of 195,0001. stock of that company, or 3,900 shares of 501. each fully paid up, to be placed in the bands of the directors of this Company for di-tribution amongst the shareholders, ac cording to their respective interests. The London and South- Western Railway Company taking up and providing for all the obligations of this Company, and the said stock or shares to be considered as the property of the Richmond Railway Company, from the Ist of July, 1846, for all purposes except dividend, which is not to accrue thereon, except from the Ist of January, 1847, the London and South-Western Railway Company admitting as an obligation of the Richmond Com pany, their liability to pay interest, at the rate of 41. per cent. per annum, from the time of the Richmond calls, being the paid-up capital to the Ist of July, 1846, and at the rate of 5/. per cent. per annum from the Ist of July, 1816, to the Ist of January, 1847. Also an agreement made on the 15th of August, 1846, by which the South-Western Railway have consented to modify the terms originally proposed, for the purchase of the Richmond Railway, as follows:-=that all shareholders in the Richmond Railway Company shall be allowed the option of either taking the stock of the London and South-Western Railway Company, in exchange for their shares, as set forth in the terms first proposed ; or the sum of 91. as premium upon each share, in money. The CHAIRMAN then proposed a resolution, "That in the opinion of this meeting it is not expedient to sell the Rich mond Railway upon the terms proposed by the South- Western Company." Mr. A. PELLATT quite concurred in the terms of that re solution, and thought that valuable extensions of the line might be made not only to Brentford and Hounslow, as stated in the report, but also to Staines and Windsor. Mr. TaTE wished to know of the directors what was their reason for so strongly refusing the terms offered by the South- Western Company ? Mr. SALOMONS said that he was sorry to differ from his brother directors on this subject; he thought the proposition a very fair one, and that as men of business, and having first opened the negotiation, he thought they were bound in ho- nour to accede to the proposition. His friend Mr. Boothby had, he believed, another proposition to make to the meeting, which he hoped would receive the sanction of the meeting. Mr. BOOTHBY then stated the terms of his proposition, which were, that the South-Western Company should take them into their Company at par, at 151. per share, and give them their stock at par, at 451., which would be at the rate of three shares in the Richmond Railway for one South- Western, with the alternative of taking 101. premium, if the parties chose to do so. Mr. SALOMONS was quite prepared to sanction that pro position. Mr. A. PELLATT said that he would oppose the resolution, and moved, as an amendment, " That this meeting do not consider that the time has arrived for the sale of the Rich mond Railway, and that the consideration of the question be adjourned sine die." A StiAitzmoLazit, whose name we could not learn, se conded the resolution. After a few words from Mr. Wilson (the chairman) and Mr. Salomons, the amendment of Mr. A. Pellat was with drawn. The original resolution was also withdrawn, in the place of which The CHAIRMAN proposed, " That, in the opinion of this meeting, it is not expedient to sell the Richmond Railway upon the terms proposed, but, in rejecting the present offer, are empowered to dispose of the Richmond Railway, upon receiving one South-Western share for three Richmoud shares upon which 15/. per share have been paid, or the option of receiving 101. in money, as a premium upon each share upon which 101. shall have been paid, provided these conditions shall be accepted before the 15th of September." Mr. D. W. I-LtavEv thought the proposed arrangement a very favourable one, it would giv . e the shareholders in the Richmond railway not only an interest in the success of their own line, but also of those extensions of the South Western Company to Waterloo and to London Bridge, and also in those gigantic extensions to the West of England, to Salis bury, Exeter, Cornwall, and other places, and without at all envying the receipts of either the Greenwich or Blackwall Railway, he could not doubt but that all those lovers of the country who had hitherto been used to exhibit their shapes not always in the most attractive forms upon the hills of Greenwich would be found quietly en joying themselves by the side o fa f r t p h r e efe r r iv a e b r le a to t Richmond, which ds, which was a part of the country lie hoped, therefore, that the resolution would be agreed to unanimously. The resolution of thankswassolution w thenas an proposedto th puetandcarried unani e mous).l. A Chairman, which was also agreed to. The meeting then broke up. RAILWAY COMMITTEES (THIS DAY.) HOUSE 01? LORDS. • Room A. IVIANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Sir W. Godon considered that a break of gauge was objec tionable, as delay would be occasioned in the transmission of troops, who were almost invariably attended with heavy baggage and women and children. A saving of 14 miles in distance would act two ways—viz., the raving of time and expense. If the conveyance of men was at the rate o f Id. per mile per man, ls. 21 would be saved on each man. There were a number of troops stationed in the manufactur ing districts, which this line would be useful in conveying backwards and forwards. He wished it to be distinctly un derstood that be did not come there to give evidence in favour or against any line,but simply to answer the questions their Lordships might think proper to put to him. In his opinion the best railways were those which were direct. Mr. Matthews, a farmer, between Cheltenham and Ciren cester, considered that the line would save to the owners of. land within a radius of 7 miles of Cirencester,in the carrying of their produce to Gloucester and Cheltenham, 10,000/. a year. Mr. Mildmay, M.P., of Southampton, had had frequent communications with his constituents on the subject of the proposed line, whose feeling appeared unanimously in favour of it. He had presented petitions from the corporations and other bodies of the town in favour of it. He advocated the line on public grounds. . Hy jUr ' Talwror—Cousidered that the proposed and exist- SMALL DEBTS BILL. On the motion of Sir GEORGE GREY, the House re solved itself into committe pro forma cn this Bill, that the amendments might be printed. After a short conversation the Bill was ordered to be re committed on Thursday next. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK hoped that those who were to be appointed judges under this Act would have time to get rid of their common-law practice. The bill was then ordered to be printed, and to be recom mitted on Thursday next. THE NAVY. On the order of the day for receiving the report of the Committt e of Supply being lead, rir. BERNAL wished to ask a question of the Honourable and Gallant Gentleman opposite (Captain Berkeley ), It was in reference to the naval supremacy of Great Britain. The question he wished to know from his Hon. and Gallant Friend was, how the personnel of the navy was hereafter to be maintained—bow, in fact, the ships of this country were to be supplied with efficient men in case of any emer gency? The best ~ cay for maintaining peace was to be prepared for war, and when they saw the exerti,ins of other countries to improve their navies, they ought to look well to this point. The present plan of dismis,ing men at the ena of three years' service was in.,st objectionable, ani be wished to know if it was to he maintained? . — Captain BERKELEY said, the subject came under his more especial consideration, and he could assure the Hon. Member that the subject was under the consideration of the Admiralty, and they were doing all they could to place the navy on the most efficient footing. The merchant navy at the present time contained some of the most efficient men in the world, and the object of those with whom he acted would be, to place the service in possession of such a reserve force from these, in case of any emergency, so as to turn out, in forty-eight hours, one of the most powerful and efficient naval forces in the world.—( Hear, hear.) After a few words from Mr. HUME, Admiral DUNDAS said, in additioa to what had fallen from his Hon. and Gallant Colleague, he would do his best to place the naval service on the best footing, so as to meet any possible emergency. Mr. WILLIAMS complained, that the system of three years' service had operated to drive great numbers of British seamen into the American navy. This matter ought to be remedied. He wished to know frum the tlon. and Gallant Admiral (Dundas) whether the iron steamers were realty fit for the service, as he bad learned that when one of them received a shot it completely incapacitated it for use. He should like to know if it were so. Admiral DUNDAS said there were much fewer seamen going into the American service than hitherto. and the service was genarally improving in this respect. With regard to the roe steamers, those referred to were constructed at the instance of the predecessors of the present Admiralty, and until the effi ciency of these steamers was better proved, it was not their in tention to construct anv more. Captain PECHELL hoped the present Admiralty would look w ell into all the matters connected with the navy that re quired improving, and bring forward a definite plan on the sub ject which the House could understand. Mr. COWPER defended the proceedings of the pre<ent Admiral y. He highly approved of the system of establish ing Sailors' Homes, and he hoped that every facility would soon be given for doing so. Mr. HUME wished that some general system, er plan, should be laid down upon the subject, so that it could be pro ceeded with early next session. A fter some further observations, The report was th"n brought up. Captain PECEIELL wished to know whether there was any power of altering the retiring pensions in the service without an Order in Council. Mr. COOPER said, that in ordinary cases there was, but such an order was sometimes required. The Report was then received. The Report of the Committee of Wars and Means was then brought up and received, as was also the Report on the Public Works (Ireland) Bill. The Report of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) Salaries and Compensation Bill was then brought up and received. The report on the Income Tax Deduction Bill were also brought up and received, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third tia e to-morrow. . . The Naval and Military Departments' Bill was read a third time and passed. The House then went into Committee on the New Zealand Loan Act Amendment Bilk: The Clauses having been agreed to, the House resumed and the Chairman having reported progress, the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. The House then went into Committee on the Court of Ex chequer (Ireland) Bill. The clauses having been agreed to, the House resumed. The Public Works (Ireland) Bill was then brought in and read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to morrow. The Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod here attended to summon the House before the bar of the House of Lords, to hear the Ro3 al assent given to several Bills.—[Fur which see our Lords' report. On the return of the SrEAKEst, Mr. HUME moved an humb:e address, that her Majesty will be pleased to request from the Prussian Government copies of any report, and of any regulations adopted thereon, by that Government, for educating, specially qualifying, examining, o r testing the qualifications of persons fur the pub lic service in civil and military offices previously to their appointment; and that her Majesty will be pleased to lay such information, or a translation thereof, before this House.—Agreed to. FLOGGING. Mr. HUME presented a number of petitions against the con tinuance of flogging in the army and navy. The Hon. Gen tleman also presented a petition against the Bible Mono p ol y . EJECTMENTS (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. RATEABLE PROPEREY (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill was also read a third time and passed. CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL. On the motion a the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER, the House tesolvded itself into Committee on this Bill. CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL (No. 2.) This Bill went through Committee, and the House having resumed, the repnrt was crdered to be brought up to-morrow. PUBLIC WORKS ( IRELAND), No. 4, BILL. The report on this Bill was brought up and agreed to. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT BILL. --- This Bill passed through Committee, and was ordered to be reported to-morrow. (LEFT SITTING.) CHARGE OF BRIBERY AT ST. ALB4teB.—RIOT. Mr. Manlove, Jun., who went up to town with Lord Listowel, in his carriage, immediately after the declaration of the poll, with the five sovereigns alleged by him to have been given him in Mr. Cabbell's committee-room for his vote, returned on Wednesday evening, when a mob of the very lowest description, connected with the Tory party, created an uproar. Mr. Manlove prudently took refuge in the police-station till the morning. On Thursday evening riotous pro ceedings were again commenced, by rough music, &c. ; but on a re presentation being made by some of the inhabitants to the Mayor, he, with great promptitude, issued orders to the police immediately to suppress the disturbance by their personal exertions, as well as pressing assistants. It is pres Lined that theSe rioters did not yoltintlen thstr gonitolo, 6 4 4. Ms paid tutor,-llerfitni orofir mg. THE BLIND FIDDLER The itinerant musician may be considered as the le gitimate successor of the old Scottish minstrel of tuneful memory, who perambulated the country to the infinite delight of the people. Although the fiddler of the later days was more accustomed to frequent the houses of the farmers and the peasantry than the lordly halls where the harps of his ancestors were strung, it was more in consequence of the progress of modern customs, which had begun among the hiher masses of society, than from any falling away in the profession. On the contrary the blind fiddler was a person in considerable note in the circle which he periodically visited. So regularly were those visits paid that the rural population could calculate the precise time of his coming, and prepare for the same. If those visits were in winter the blind fiddler was al ways =tare of a warm nook at the fire-side, as well as a numerous and liberal auditory—if in summer, the village green was soon enlivened with busy feet by the notes of the Orpheus ; while, between the dances, his budget of jokes and wonders, the fruits of his wide wanderings and the varied society in which he mingled, was opened to the delight and astonishment of gaping rustics. If he held them not, like the ancient mariner, with his glitter ing eye, he did so with his eloquent tongue. Nature, who, when she deprives an individual of the use of one faculty, generally makes up fel. the loss by giving addi tionel force to another, made this worthy a walking newspaper—a periodical of mirth, news, and music. Every house and family, for miles round, was as familiar to him as the tunes he played, and hence the aptitude of the well-known saying, applied to one well versed in local ebrobolegy, that he must have led a blind fiddler. Unenviable, indeed, must have been the post of leader, subjected to the never ceasing volubility of one who lived both in noise and by it, and with no opportunity of retaliation but what the trick of a false jump might afford. The blinl fiddler was the spirit cf all merry meetings and penny we:ldings througiiout the country. At all such festisals you were as sure to find him seated on a barrel-end as you are to find the Martello Tower in the Frith. With what swiftness his fiddle bow was plied—a very spirit was in his elbuw and fingers—he seemed to play agaiust time; a perfect sand-bacr,, too, was this old worthy, p,tions which were sufficient to make a stronger man stagger were drops in a bucket to him; the tankard came as readily to his lips between the dances es the rosin to his bow, and, in both cases, it improved the tone. We have scarcely a solitary specimen left of the original blind fiddler. Only one we yet hold delight ful intercourse with, and he i..eems to be, like 6 " bru therless hermit, the last of his race." That rare gift of live end tune for which he was distinguished is worn out, and, although the ancient power of music sunrAiices makes his lip quiver with emotion, when, with a plaintive grace, he plays " Auld Robin Gray," yet, not unfre quently, he will mix up the cadeticvs of " Satan among the Tailors" with a favourite quadrille. Polkas and Mazurkas are wholly unknown to him, and he would scorn the idea of prostituting his fiddle to the work of playing an overture or a modern gallopade,—that fiddle which has given itfe to " bab at the bowster," may never thrill forth the compositions of a Julien. The fiddlers now-a-days, are no more like those of old than an egg is like an oyster. They want the peculiar twist of the mouth, the merry bob of the he,d, and stamp of the foot. No grease brightens their p,,cket lids, no snuff bearims their visages, they are odiously clean—de generate sons of mighty Orpheus!—From " Old Scottish Characters" in the Leith Herald. Rossna.—The account of the gran mae.tro'g present doings are so contradictory as to deprive each other of all credit. According to some, the visit of the delegates from the Paris Italian Opera has re7ived his all but extinguished musical ardour, and having lung been without a piano, he goes every morning to a fiend's house, and thumps his instrument for several hoars a day, composing a naw and splendid work for the Parisians. Others say that a new opera will be all a humbug, a piece of patchwork made up of pieces from the Donna del Lago, and some of his forgotten operas, with nothing new but the title and the libretto, which is to be manufactured after the music has been put together. We are, moreover, told that arrange ments have been made for producing this new work (what ever it may be) at her Majesty's Theatre next season. We must wait pa; iently till time snail solve this great mystery. The Milan Gazette says that a new chorus has been com posed by Rossini, and sung with enthu iasin at Bologna, in colebratian of the political arnne.ty g anted by the new Pope; but another journal (the Pirata) asserts that this was merely a chorus from one of his old operas, to which he put new words. . . . 111;W SIGN OF DEATIL—The following. important discovery is calculated to be of great service in cases of suspected death. The communication was lately made to the Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris, by 31.111pault, who, in directing the attention of members to the discovery, observed, that it consisted in perfect flaccidity of the iris when the globe of the eye is compressed in two opposite directions. If the individual he living, the pupil retains its circular form, notwithstanding the compression ; if dead, the aper ture becomes irregular, and the circular fotin is lost. RAILWAY SI - 1 E MARKETS. BRISTOL, At'ousT 17. S'rocx EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-Caledonian, 157 -Ditto, New, 1/. 6s. 3d.-Great "Western, Quarter Shares, 24 1 A 3 -Manchcster and Leeds Extension, 3 p.-North British, 14 p.-Ditto, New, 5% p.- Ditto, Carlisle Extension, 4 1 ,x-South-Eastern and Dover, New (iss. at 15/.), -South Wales, 3%. MANULiEsTER, AUGUST 17. STOCK EXCEIANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Nottingham, fkc., 13-Ifl dis. -Blackburn, Charley, and Liverpool, I dis.-Blackburn and Preston, tO/ 2 p.-Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, I Is. dis. -('hurnet and Blythe, % dis.-Eastern counties, York Extension, 11316 p. -East Lancashire, ,;, 1 4 p.-East Lincomstire, dis.- Great County Down, .2l s. Gd. Ms.-Great Eastern and Western, 255. dis.-Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 1% dis.-Great Grimsby awl Dock Extension, 1%, dis.-Iluaaersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 2% p.--Ditto, Extension, % p.-Leeds and Thirst, 3'746 dis.-Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 5 p.-Leicester and Bed ford, 1 . 2 dis.-Liverpool, Orur..kirk, ,nd Preston, 3 c. p.-London, Manchester, and Birmingham, Quarter Share.; (A), 10% p.-London and York, 1 4 dis.-Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 1 iZ c.- Man- Chevter and 60tittiamplon, dis -North Eastern, 1 4 die.- Nottli Staffordshire, 3% p.-Oldliam, Birkenhead, &c., 225. c. dis.-Sher field, Leek, and Crewe, dis.- Sheffield and Lincolii,hire Junction, 3-16 dis. -Ditto, Extension, s 4 dis.-Sliellieid mid Manchester. Quarters, No I, 4 p.- Ditto, No. 3, c. p. hnrewshury and r.h.- c. p.•-Shro ,, shire Union, ids. dis.- South-LAstern and Dover, Mattes, No. 4, 13-16 p.--z-outh Junctions, 3-16 p.-Trent Valley Midland, &c., par-West itldlng Union, 3 3-16 p. LEEDS, Arcusr 17. • STocK EXCLIANGE.--lhe sides are -Blackburn and Preston, 8% p.-Eastern Counties, York Extension, 375. 6d. p. -East Lancashire, 9 p.-Great Grimsby and Sheffield, I% c. &field ata: Manchester, 23. E p. --Ditto, Extensions, 3s. p.-Leeds and Bra.lford, 43 p.-Leeds anti Dewsbury, 4% p.-Ditto, Brattches. 2 p.-Ditto, Extensions, Is. dis. -Leeds and Thlrsk, 314 dis. - Ditto, New, 314 die - Manchester and Leeds, Extensions, 2'. Die. p.-Newcastle and Darlington Junction, Extensions, 10/. Ss. 9d. p -North British, Car lisle Branch, 59e. p. -York and North Mit - land, East and \Vert Riding, 12 3 4 p.-Grand Union, 12s. Gd. dis.-Great Eastern and Western, 14, dis.-Laticasidre, Yorkshire, and North-Eastern, 27e. dis.- Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland. 17s. 61. dis. -Leicester and Bedford, 10i. dis.--Liverpool, Ornaskirk, and Preston, 3/. as. p.-'- London and York, Is. dis.-31alton and Dritlield diuiction, 10s. p. -Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 21s. s. p.--North Staffordshire, 3% p.-Nortl , Western. 6s. Gd. p.-Sheffirld and Lin coln, 3s. 6d. dis. -Shropshire Union, Iss. dis.-South Midland, 14s. p._,vest Itidine Union. 51. Is. lid. s.-York anti Carlisle, 41s. dia.-Yorkshire awl Glasgow Union, 38s. Gd. dis. SHEFFIE.I.I), AUGUST 17. STOCK EXCRANGt.-The sales are Grimsby* and Sheffield, 144 dis.-Ditto, Extension, % -Ditto, Quarter Shares, 9s. 6d. Ms. -Manchester and Lincoln Union and Canal, 19e. dis.-Slietrield and Lincolnshire, 2s. dis. Arcusr 17. STOCK Excxeisoe.—The sales are— Blackturn, Darwen, and 80l ton, 77 —Ditto, New, 1,4 (Hs— Boston, Stamford, and Birm ngham, 1 Is. —Cheltnstord and Bury, 12s.—Eastern Counties, York Exten sion, 214 —Glasgow and Dumfries, 31s —Great Eastern and 1% ester., 2 f 9. Hull and SelV, Halves, 39Y 2 —Leicester and Bedford, 10s. Gd. Leicester and T.ouwortit, 345. Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 314 p.—North British, Ilalves, 1114 cash .-Dit'o, Car;isli: Branch, 848. 62.--North Staffordshire, 3N p.--North Western, Ss. Gd. p.— Shrewshury and Birmingi,am, 31. 3s. 92.—South :111d1md, 15s. p.-- West Riding Union, 51. ss. Gd.—York and North Midland, Eat, and West Rim ng, 135g—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, lus. YORK, AUGUST 17. STOCK Excnama.—The sales are - Grand Union (Nottingham and Lynn), —Leicester and Bed6ird, 10s. Gd.--Leicester, Tam worth, &e., 11. 135.—London and York, 21. U.—Newcastle and Her wick, 23% —North British, Half Shares, 1454—Ditto, Carlisle, Ex - tensi.i.n, 41. 3s.—North Western, 11. !U.—South M,diand, 21. 13s. Gd. —West Riding Union, 51. 25.-- York and Carlisle, V, —York and North Midland (East and West Riding Extension), 13%. IMPERIAL PAH.LIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, August 17. GREAT BRITAIN AND THE SPANISH COLONIES. On the order of the day for going into a Committee of Supply, Lord G. BENTINCK rose, and said, he had to apologise to the Noble Lord for having returned from the country to trouble him on that occasion, and he sincerely sympathised with the Noble Lord toiling at that season of the year, and he waslsoiry to increase his labour. But he was sure he would be borne with by the Noble Lord, and the House, in calling the attention of her Majesty's Ministers to the trade between this country and the colonies—a motion of the greatest importance. It was a grievance of many years endurance, a matter on which the merchants of Liverpool had continually remonstrated for twelve years. In 1835, they applied on the subject in vain, and in vain complained to the Duke of Wellington, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. They made frequent remonstrances to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and after changing the Whig Government, from 184'2 down to the present time, it had been a matter of repeated and con tinut.l complaint with the merchants of this country that by the regulations of the Spanish Government—by the . nonte reciprocity of that Government t o th e free competition which they had admitted the ir shi p s into the ports_ _ part, of the carrying country, they had not lost hsttehtewweehnolteh,ja e ibt , t m v e e t r ry very m a n u d e h the p i a a r n g i s e h r mannerhad to apologise in hi which h o the h c ll o o lo o n se te_s. n.n H pe e r f ( e L et or a d a George always Il w e as ntin t e h k eh ) e occasion for t brought thesehme matnterresthbaentorne it—but sna-iiyitn p e e r m fe u e s t t apologiseaot,manner in o n n .h t i h e i h s he would have to todaaisldretshsatthehiHs ou t s n e t . evp l o t sn w in a n s only had within the last n requested by the merchants of Liverpool to endeavour, under the present circumstance, to make some new effort with her Majesty's Government to exert themselves under the Spanish Government, to see that justice was done to British interests. It would be with more than his usual imperfectness that he would address the House on this subject, because, in the short time since the request of the merchants of Liverpool, he had not been able to go through those returns connected with this subject, and which he should have preferred to have laid before the House. But he thought that, for the purp ose o f ca lli ng the attention of her Majesty's Ministers to this subject, it would be sufficient for him to lay before the House the infor mation which regarded former years, whilst he stated that there had been no change iu the circumstances connected with this carrying trade. He would begin then by stating to the House what the difference was in the charges on goods carried in British ships and those carried in Spanish ships, and having pointed out to the House the great difference in the amount of duty, and to the restriction of the British carrying traoe he would show to them what were the effects of that sys tem. He held in his hand a statement—it was one that was laid before his Grace the Duke of Wellington eleven years ago, but it remained good up to the present time—it was a statement of the amount of duties that would be charged upon the merchandise and cargo sent from the port of Liverpool, and the goods that were sent from the ports of Spain. The value of the goods exported from the port of London was 19,075/. It consisted of 1,000 bales, valued at 1501.; of 1,000 yards of cloth, valued, at that time, at 1001. ; of 1,000 yards of linen cloth, valued at that time at 1001. ; of 1,000 pieces of other fabric, valued at 800/.; and a quantity of other goods. Upon the vessel reaching the Havannah the distinc tive duties levied were 21i per cent. on goods imported in Spanish ships, and 30* per cent. ad valorum. upon goods landed from British ships. To make up wo of c l a o rLo 100 pieces of printed calico, valued at im e'f po l d 9 ed Th i l n . I T ii h ec e e d s tni o e f s l o e t v h ie e d r at fa t b h r e ic, tt goods ootal Spanish ships amounted to 5521. les. 5d.; but ifthey ha h v a e d . been imported in British ships the duties that would Havannah making u p a o n the h been f c e h v a e r n g e e e d n w o o l u e l s ci s havethan se e d . to od ts . 26 n / p . o O n s. th 6 e d. s ; s nt m e a g i onogdts if ported in a British instead of a Spanish ship. This discriming tivu in duties inYel red anothir discrimination in :Oh *oh ~~: were imposed at different ports of that country. The Por e dues at the Havannah were five ryles a ton on British vessels', 12 ryles upon foreign vessels ; six ry lee a da y for every 0 tons of Spanish shipping, and 10 toles a da y on every 1 s 0 of foreign shipping. The result of all these duties wee it rendered it so much the more advantageous to experts gds Spanish ships than in the ships of th is country d thatl whilst in 1833 no such thiog as a Spanish skip loaded es w e le! British goods was seen in the pert of Liverpool , at the pt: moment they were not unfrequeW. The differen ce of b. duties, as he said before, on the real value of B rie' 4 1. . exported from this country, amounted 1.2 this, 6d. per cent. when exported in the zieipi of Great De_e and 291. Sc. 6d, when exported in she *hips of e ars. 4 that it was 4,1c a 1? 0, This grievance had endured for more them t 1 3 1 ear 1: America felt the grievance as well as England--(. Far, Spain had endeavoured to run her " rigs" upais a nd cans, but they were keen enough to resent the attemp‘e ) of within two months they introduced and carried a meas uCe . restrictions equal to those placed by Spain en the ship ."7, .2 . America. But, while Spain carried out these unfair dutie'm upon English ships, England bad plsced no discrimina tive' duties whatever upon Spanish ships visiting her ports. It was true they paid a heavier pilotage, but upon their goods there - was no disitinction. In 1838 the following wa s the de-, Glared value of cargoes of various kinds, consisting le' earthenware, glass, hardware, iron, coal , and bs ' ee of unmanufactured goods of all kinds, coneurising cur plies from all the manufacturing branches of the vow try. In 1838 the total declared value of the goods exported to Cuba, was 462,927/. ; of. this tre.ffie the: was carried by the ships of Great Britain 61,487/., by As.ler jea s ships, 92,781 e, arid by the ships of Spain, 318,534. 183 at of the declared value of the exports to Cuba, the ships of C e el., Britain took 3 - 0171 ; American ships, 69,903/. ; and Sp am'W ships, 265,1061. In 1841, the next return he had obtainedf the declared value had risen to fett8,3991., of which 33,0 3 1 1 5 : was carried by ships belonging to Greet Britain , 49,446'. lu e _ • American ships, and 428,2641. by Spanishehipe ; so that , 33 ' fact, the ships of Spain carried 13 times the amoun t of tlt. ships belonging to Great Britain. This was the effect of ad"" muting the ships of foreign countries on the same footing ail" those belonging to Great Britain. He had obtained no return since 1841, but be knew what was going on at present at Liver pool. He learned that there were six Spanish ships loading f°, r the Havannah there, and hut one British ship.—( Hea r, hea d The British ship measured 176 tons; the six Spaniards tons. This was the state of British commerce at Liverpootet this moment, in consequence of the great advantages which tri Spaniards hail over the British trader. Now, he con sider ' ew this was the appropriate time to bring the subject under the e consideration of the Government, because they were on h: eve of making a great alteration in the sugar duties, whie would increase the payment of this country to Spain nearly ti million per annum. No doubt the greater part of the money wonld be paid in the goads of this country, and it was highl important that Government should take this m otter into th e ft serious consideration.—( Hear, hear.) He wouln t recorninte her Majesty's Ministers to follow the example of the UT','; States. There was a new doctrine propo.ed by the Bt. Hon. Baronet, the Member for Tamworth—that it spasdetsr neath the dignity of this country, or rather of the free-tesleTi to haggle in commercial policy. He said he disagreed wt that entirely, and thought that if it was vulgar, it was eseentt: to covenant with foreign countries for boons, before gifts live; offered by this. It might be stated, that we ought not W tempt to bully foreign countries into a system 1,. concurrence with our own views, but he thoughtlr. for one, that they ought to look to the interests e Great Britain solely—(Hear, hear) —as long as they were consistent with the principles of honesty and l es ' tire. His Noble Friend, above all men, would have the WI right to insist upon speedy justice, because his N o b le Friend, when in office in former times, never shrunk from insistingr upon the rights of England, however strongly , or howe.ee powerful the courts might be with which it had to deal. (Hear, hear.) He leant not France, end he (Lord G. Be% tinck) thought that the Noble Lord should have no delicacyof pressing . this matter upon the attention of the Gove rnment e , opain, and insist that forthwith Spain shall remove those o;sd criminating duties which were imposed upon the ships eng e g i o in the carrying tradieof the people of England toehe Set` colonies, and the practical effect of which would be to shut the slips of England from the carry log of Sugar froneCuba to the land. If things remained as they now were, he feared that sof effect would be that those ships which were throsen 'M t the West India bade, and also out of the trade of Maa el-ti n e s :oe rivalry in sugars brought from Spain and the Braxiii an ,"; a re nies, would find no employment to support their trace ' h o ar ying sugar from the Havannah arid Porto Rico to this' ekete try. He thought, therefore, that on this subject he had u 5 . ; el no more than his duty, and be hoped he would be pardon; bee the House for having trespassed upon its attention, whilst _l7. called that of her Majesty's Government to the great grieven._o;‘, under which the shipping interest of Great Britain was labouring. Mr. eIILNER GIBSON said, the Noble Lord need have • offered no apology to the House for calling its attention t 4 subject which he had now brought before their notice; emdde subject of more importance to the shipping interests o f of country could scarcely be brought under the considerate:i t. _ ro the House. The Noble Lord had correctly stated that beitt was a tariff prevailing at the present tin :16 _ 4 0i Cuba, and that it had existed there for years ; and that by favouring the Mauritius sh l Ps s etete had well nigh excluded the British ships from the caroreto tiade connected with that island, both with reference t re or importation of manufactures with Cuba, and aLo with t . _ r e• rence to the exportation of produce front Cuba. But . flit cent changes which had taken place in that tariff, and b e d'. had had effect since the Ist of March of the present Y ea g e bta is in some respects, made its operations more sinfav e d n e r g to eei" British interests, whilst in other respects it had te n ue „, there, fives its effects. With reference to tonnage ' 1 e ll p rove" had been a change, but that change experience had th an ' had worked more favourably to the interests of Ems .e to thee was anticirated, for the change was introduced prevroe',,weete r, gulation with respect to the compensating difference the tonnage as measured by the Spanish laws , by the laws of Great Britain ; arid the had the option given them whether date. 'A. 1 tonnage pay twenty-three per cent. a ddit ional S ant"' or submit to be measured in accordance with the P laws. Those who had submitted to the measurement by th e anSdphortiardwe .ora Spanish laws, had found that the tonnage dues had worke' favourably for British interests; and so, though norninslif there appeared a difference, there was nothing in reality be mitigation of duties. The statement was not true with spect to duties on goods imported in British and other Poop ships, but it was true with respect to the duties imposed W e e, wuarantine laws. In both these cases the dfferential du fin` ith respect to England and other foreign countries, ha e d p ee increased ; and in the case of the quarantine laws it " . . s . e at aish feeds true, as stated by the Noble Lord, that though aell sePreee ships paid the same sumo-ovine fee. British and 0' 1 " h e ar.) countries woe u reenred to pay twice as much.—( Ileare„o,outs [his Noble Lord c told not wonder that this apparent ale should have existed, on the part of Spain, to remove the _ e jt rennet duties on British ships and British goods, becatr,ori would be in the recollection of the House that, up ,very recent occasion, when there was an endeavour, on the P_,,,tit 4 • Spain, to plsce such a construction on the commercial u . she between this country and Spain, as would have entitle:, the goods of Spain to have bine brought into this country d to goods of any other foreign country, fihigland decnenes„est sanction such an interpretation of the duty, and, in th .l Toe distinct and emphstic manner, entoily repudiated 51 . _ or hat there existed anything to prevent reciproToryil,to • intercourse such as usually took place between nations sy , at amity with each other. --t . Hear. ) That he believ ed W e eoe' any rate, the construction placed by Parliament on en' with nexion with Spain, on the recent question that arcs' the respect to Spanish rates. Spain demanded that sug j a a.t !, the growth of her colonies, should be admitted into Eugle n ", n - s t e'r same rate as tee sugar of other to sign c tuntries. Eng',l-Per fused to admit this claim. Ile did not mean to say th at • e pref. land had conceded that claim, that Spain would have be s+ an d eluded from placing higher duties upon British ge °A osti n " upon British ships, then upon her own goods ; but h e - bef o safely sly, had a more liberal and larger c . on etruetiff e e tff p'aced upon these treaties, it would have gone far to P,"o,,rare' duced Spain to have acted in a more kindly s pirit British commerce, and reduced the differential flu des eent ie.. affected British ships and British goods going into the l•- joe er; It was not for him to state what course her MojestYt dir merit would take, but he took upon himself to say '"?, 1 ", Lot"' not think that it would be the one suggested by the namely, that of retaliation. After a few words from Mr. M. GORE, which We re hola impeetectly heard in the gallery, , e s.. Lord PALMERSTON said that his Noble friend cio glo bear in mind that the groutel which any Governmentdopeosi take, in remonstrating against a fact of this kind , must at entri g on the terms on which they were with respect to the sissies There was no reciprocal treaty between England and._:seele which would entitle the English to demand that thewfotiej in Spanish ports should be placed upon an equal ‘ je, with Spanish ones ; but her Majesty's Government ye s u e - ppe f : course, feel it their duty to take advani age of the oarfiess s r ob' tuuity of endeavouring to place English vessels on as fave e n a a footing as possible in Spanish ports. Ile obj scteol L-etlfrie principle of retaliation laid dohwliynnktbo lead ythtahtethtNoeocbol any g Noble n L tor o oy r d e: n th o e t r t e h w i n e k re t hgaotoidt grounds d d b s to e like t the retaliation was to take place would yield to it and g 0 in. 7 1 ; then the prospect of ultim a t e goo d m i g ht i n d u ce them , mit to a temporary evil. He was, however, very serl e a Witt that experience showed that such measures were atterw _pouch no good result, and he thought that the object w ould leg better effected by peaceable measures. Mr. DISRAELI thought that the principle of ,;e0 had not been well laid down by the Noble Lor • _ ation must depend on circumstances for its success.. Noble Lord had confounded—perhaps not unintent.lo9oo —retaliation, or a retaliatory duty on an articleT h n e r_ f ri e ri t s: ll: or , niercial exchange, with a retaliatory duty on an arricle .l u o gy merce with another country. There was no alstr e s th e similarity between the two instances. In order to 0.- ..n0 th success of the principle, he would refer to a return int er port of Havannah, dated July 18, 1846, from which e " Wee s peared that the number of American ships in that 1-' 3 „ 10 , 0 nearly five times that of the British ships. During s_,'"s e e toef twelve years the United States had been Pur.sti. a a res."; the Spanishpolicyw er w ere now withw ships the edy same teoxcSpain;advantages froma n d ae , ti ,would in the end who be infinitely convinced, that if the principle of the UnriteldngSttates *c ar- ' the sued in England, it r fa' t sihn l fiy. had ns a i d t eolbinfyfaebtiihn:i.t.gstieveist.ovp :. flay' commerce of this country. a ss Mr. HUME thought that theprinciple ref one which ought, if at all applied, be n applied very can:d,_..it This country did not take the sugars of the Ilavanna h 2LeisO r ' was not to be wondered that there should be more r• - vessels in that port than of English. IN THE . bet Mr. WILLIAMS FLOGGING moved for a return NAVY of the n tu ts ch ° ° in corporal punishments inflicted on the crews serving ear? her Majesty's ships of war in commission, in each of t" wbje? 1834 to 1845, both inclusive; also the number of Inel tote d 0 to corporal punishment, and the number of lash es in Who dr each ship in each year; also, the number of s eansett' . of We e r served from her Majesty's ships in commission in each an ts years; also, the amount of prize,money, or from ks_•_ .c hiett public money, received by each of the commando denary s esol captains, commanders, lieutenants, and able and ordl . a os men, who served in her Majesty's ships at Navarino, A o u ti l i d Dot in China. In the present state of the House, be w t with 11 press his motio nt a diision. He wou be contenet in the similar return to o that v granted upon the sa me labi e army. Admiral DUNDAS then la upon the table of the ose 110 some returns relative to the subject. TREATY OF CRACOW. Mr. HUME moved fir copies of any correspondence tween the Government of her Majesty and the Ge ye e r a ppoin fr Cracow, Russia, Prussia, or Austria, relative to ththe 1 merit of a British consular .agent at Cracow ration made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs in tw Wen' sines . Le pl cie sg; of Commons, in the year 1836, a his Crac nvi. tion of sending a consul to reside at _ ued w ith He regretted the course which this country had pu" to to reference to Cracow. He thought it discreditable_ for the Government of this country ; they were guarranteesheto liberties of the people of Cracow, and those pledg es t ' e p tak,e,, faithfully kept. He should be sorry to see a bet a real but , or d a which might endanger the peace of Europe, he cows s eitb thought the subject should be explained by the Noble the head of the Govetnment. He thougat t __ A , ness of this country had allowed those treaties while thew other countries to be broken; they bad stood by w wrongs were enacted, and instead of standitong.,(!iruserhdelles prevent these violations they . had shrunk_.ien A jober es seemingly half frightened to interfere. Then then went of eerne length into the treetie. unterect inW WI" hmeartd.• 20ti 43 1 ,4 2 , 1,4 16 lIN 14% Price 19% 5, 4 16W, 7 1 4 6 240 16 ti 6 1 A 14% 14% 10% 3 9 21. Os. 203 1/. 33. 4 19 210 ;