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e evlingq of the Court of Chancery. The Commission was _ ; I , _ , Mposed of m o st e x ce lten , Mt: l ie,torined their With great impartiality, calmness, ability, and firm ., e n•• He ought to add, that the Committees of their Lord . IP &Rouse were nut wi',,hout their share of merit in work 11g out this*refo rm . Thum were no doubt some differences 4 .' lr :opinion amongst the high authorities examined , but he gg haPpy to find that one of the 'Vi ce -Ch ance llors, who at nts was opposed to the removal of the Master's offices, had his doubt& satisfied upon this point. If they succeeded in t t isalng these measures through Parliament speed il y , there be an end to such abuses as he had described at the latter end of last session They would no longer have a repetition of a case in which 1,2001. expenses had been Incurred by a Noble Friend of his in endeavouring to obtain PnYment of a debt of 560/ ; nor of another in which there were 11 years of anxious litigation, and an expense of 2,8701. scarred in seeking for the distribution of a particular fund. 'a another case, and after suffering a delay of 10 years, a Party p aid 1,000/., where the matter in dispute was only Master's In anoth , r, a sum of 901 . was paid for orders in the office in respect of a sum of 10/., although it was a Matter subject to a ppeal in a superior court. — (Hear, hear, . and laughter.) Between 70,000/. and 80,0001. were paid as costs in a suit where the principal was 350,000/. ; and finally, he might mention that 8001. had been expended in ascertain "ls whether the Aaster would order a sum of 20/. to be paid In a case of scandal. 01 that 8001. perhaps 7501. would be Paid by the party against whom thadecision was given; but him unhappy winner, after paying his share of 50/. would find self 20/. poorer than when he commenced.—(Hear, hear, '' •and a laugh.) He (Lord Brougham) trusted that such ano runes would no longer, be permitted to remain to give pain tp parties, and bring the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery lato contempt—(Rear, hear)—and that his Noble and Learned Friend on the woolsack would have both leisure and inclination to introduce amendments into the present system. lie was also anxious to press upon the attention of the Noble Lord at the head of the Government and of the Lord Chan cellor the necessity of immediately re-appointing the crimi nal law commission, whose labours had hitherto been unpro ductive. The Commission had made a most able and valuable report, and a most admirable digest of the criminal law and procedure • and it was desirable that their recom- Mendations should ' form the basis of legislation. ( Hear.) The subject then dropped. -Tba Earl.of DERBY laid certaia papers on the, table, and their Lorfiships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 12. - The SPEAKER took the 'Ctusir shortly before Four " tiblock. ' NEW ME 11BERS. ...'"TheicilOwing Members took their oaths and seats for 'their respective places:—The Right Hon. Spencer Ho . ititio :Walpole, for the borough of Midhurst; Right Hon. john'Somerset Pakington, -Bart., for the borough of I) iatwich;'• the Right'Hon. John Charles Herries for the horOugh of Stamford; the Right Hon. Joseph War ... . 4 4 0 1' Henley for the county of Ozford; the Right Hon. IV.initina:Beresford, for the county of Essex (Northern ivision); Sir Frederick Thesiger (the Attorney-Gone : ral),tot•the borough of Abingdon; the Right Hon. Lord 4() b l :l' , James--Robert , Manners, for the borough of Cot ' s'eteri Francii Plunkett Dunne, Esq., for the borough °F i b oitarlington; the Marquis of Chai'los, for the bo . t c otrgh of Bookinonm ; • the Right Hon. Ge or g e Bankes, borough of Dorset; the Hon. Arthur Duncombe, s ' Or th e county of York (East Riding); the Hon. G., cow. Weld Foiester. for the la 'rough of Weuluck. NEW WRITS. Mr. F. , MACKENZIE moved that new writs be is tiled for the Southern Division of Shropshire, in the room at Viscount Newport; and for East Rettord, in the room Of Viscount Galway, who, since their election, have ac- N ) ted the offices of L.rtis in-Waiting to her Majesty. PRIVATE BILLS The following Bills were read a second time, tied orqereri to be committeth— Irby . Steven and Hawes Road. Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. 1 . , 4 , red Railway. - 11...eschester and Southport Railway. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (No. 1). "ellettester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (No. 2). - i7lreden, Gisbnme, and Long Preston Roads. N orfolk and Guisbrough Railway. prfolk Railway. • S hrewsbury and Birmingham, and Shrewsbury and Chester 6 . 4 ? . ompanies Railway Amalgamation. • o Psbire Union Railways and Canal ( Branch Railways, &c.) Vekton and Darlington Railway. I .LAVerhamon Junction Railway. BRITISH E LEC TRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S BILL. 'On.the.motion for the.second reading of this Bill, Mr. RICARDO rose to oppose the second reading. It t r °POieciTto, give. ,greater powers to that company than A r sbeeh g* ll:to the original Telegraph Company, and t4 i Pso..years unsuccessful competition with the origi h comparay, y i n which they had been . defeated he ply by the superiority of their o pp onents, • tre now. Roams ;to .Parlirrnent . • to ask for extra .""lt6ary-..lpoxvera;.- to aid them in this competi ;LW.) This-40 thought , was unjust, and all he wished was a fair competition without the interferen ce of itltiliaatetilv ho sh i ld therefore move 'that the - Bill be tia • gl• • • a secop... time this• ,4 -ay six months. Mr. J AMEN FARREB, thought that the reasons ;.' which th e klon. Genttenma had adduced were ouch as to. have been ~produce d before' Select- Com ', r bittee,and not ,on the , second reading. 'lf the powers ,': yr hieh were sought were too great, a Select Committee 11 ° 11 1d modify them. He thought the desire of the whole : ,•,,eOuntry was in favour of the present Bill, and he hoped t the Etouse *would follow the Mina cours e,iand allow , ro't o 6',te a' Committee U') stairs.' • YA• ir`l 3 X LACY-EVANS • thought the powers which , . , -;,..lnrsoliglitt i ,by.the Bill were most kir aordinery, espe ';vr-'44Y;.its this Was,ri Bill to amend a former Bill, and not ' • ' 1 :4 1 1 .11r-ought. in for , the- first time to establish a ""uPany',.i . Ur. MACGREGOR -Uptight that there was a great ~ .e el ing in the country that the presenteleoric , ,telegraph s rvice.' had not been satisfactorily performed, and tittle opinion Nvae;' certainly , in- favour of having the ,C 4 r ll sent to Select Committee. • I Cot on el-THOMPSON-agreed with the Hon. Member ,thilt the fe'eling of the country, at least • 15s;1 1 with which he was acquainted, was in . c • '"!LAISr . • • Mr, 41(,)WA,TT hoped.. Oat the House . would not rowroutthe.,Bill withoutnaaking itself acquainted with taus. , , . • Mr. G. C. GLYN opposed the Bill, because expe 'mot - Show 'him that the possession of the of. • operation by . two rival companies '. , fetid to a competition. advantagPous • • , t‘ e,phl4lie, but rather to a Mutual ccmhination adverse 7-1 4 - interests of the publie. He should, therefore, •.; , tkliPArt the amendment. • L' , 04..4,00vcit. supported the Bill, because it was cal ' ';7%ied , to - deetruy, -a monopoly .sbared between the pre . " e ra iEleeitric 'telegraph Company and certain railway .t l :epanies. It was a fact that the electric telegraph ten -times. more ,ircquently... and was ten times 7 1 se beneficial in America than in this, country, owing t ' tde complete' monopoly which existed here. • :i : , ,,:-.1.110 : House' then divided,'when there appea r e d.— .. ; Vex the second reading 21() 4.gainet it • ... -•• 60 ,• -150 4.13i1l was then read a second time. SUGAR DUTIES., • ~,„ • .• . WILSON ,gave ,notice that on Monday he Bh Tut- a (petition to the Secretary of the Colonies r•i•thi r trahjtet of his motion relative to the sugar duties. • -114AYNOOTH. 4ru--O.vANSTEY-gnve notice that next'• week he Should move for a return relative to Maynooth and other endoweeThts. FOREIGN REFUGEES. • 'l l S l r. M. MILNES gave notice that on an early day he Should call the attention of the House to a correspon menee which had taken place between this country and the Emperor of Austria, on the subject of foreign refugees. ... . . , SUPPLY. M.. HE cfl „ R.RIEs said , owing to the absence of the ' • ancel wrof the Exchequer, it would not be convenient to take the Navy Estimates tonight, and he should .7^oerelore move that the order of the day be read for e. the purpose of beime the same time he might, postp oned tl until Monday next. A An ter - ' of asking Mr.aps, be allowed this oppor tunity With his motion on Sead? if he intended to proceed the re l ative to the affairs of • India. He understood Honourable Gentleman's not i ce was for the appointment of a Commission to 'go over to India to make inquiries into its government; and a s the Boar d of co ~.., atrol intended to te Move the appoint ment of a Select ommietee to consider ee t .: the same subject, he hoped this motion would be post 's; Poned. i . Mr. ANSTEY consented to the proposed post- Ponement. Mr. HUME wishe d to know what course her n e e iesty' e Government intended to take ? Was it the in tention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, o r of an y t il es to make any state ment as to what their int e nt ions .. ' a lso ?• fie should h ave to ask various questions, and 8 0 if ,it was their intention to persist in an inquiry ' With • , - respect to the operati on of the income-tax , and a a l % • n ' ety of other matters ; an d he really wished to know, for the convenience of the House, what course .' t hey would take, and whether they would ask the House • to ~I, , . Vote the estimates without giv in g an y explanation of their .policy. Mr. WALPOLE (who was not distinctly i heard) 4, 4, to the Hon. Member that it wou ld be inconvenient to enter on the subject in the absence of the. C han ' . • .' roe of the Exchequ er. He had no doubt an explana ;: e l4ll would be made on the po ints the Hon. Member re .';'. luired when-the estimates were moved by the Chan 'Teller of the Exchequer. - ~,,/,: i CAPTAIN,PENNY. r 4,1 -„,tlr. ANSTEY wished to ask the Secretary to the ‘;;.1 ' tereiralty the following questions:—Have Captain n l 3 l and the other mercantile officers of the late ex ,^Klition in search of Sir John Franklin, received any 411 d what rew ards for their ackno wled g ed services in . . ; 41° h expedition? Have C a p tain Austin, R.N., ' - " n ti the naval officers of that e xpedition, received "g e 3' and what rewards for their -acknowledged services n the same occas ion? Is it true tha t Q ueen Victoria Channel . . : for and the northern and nort h-western passages, • the exploration of which Capt ain Austin's vessels e "te now fitting out tinder Sir Edward Belcher, R N., . . t e te Oiscovered by Captain Penny and the mercavaile ' • - - "ltriae under his cemmand, when employed on the late I, l Padititsti? Is there any intention to a c ce p t Captain 't l nY's offers of service, and to employ him and his two easels again for the purpose of such exploration or in s' ‘, Y other way c,,nnected w ith the new expedition? I t ho t, Why have his offers been thebned? And to move 1 ° 11 : ell correspondence on the above subjects not already fore Parliament.i,-- t . 1 14 1". A. STAFFORD replied, that he could answer h .° Hoe. Gentleman's question, hut he was not sure - e thy, statement would be santfectory. In , the first place, ,I ° e, he bad to state that Captain Penny, and the other :tucers of the mercantile marine, had not • received any re Ward. As far as Captain Austin was concerned, it would be remembered that that officf-r was in a command 1 previous to his appointment to the Arctic Expedition ; ahe had now been appoint S ed to the packet service et i rthampton:' With ri:ard to the 'third'question, as to t ° discovery of the nor th-western passage, in one sense THE • that passage had not been discovered at all, but wbat evidence, and yet it was the only borough in the kingdom cli cevetiea hue Penny heat Loser iie h . „H e e wet to he punished, s!thongh it had been instrumental s , eset et • in doing much public i ervice. f The next plea which he ventured marked upon the charts and maps. As to whether there was any intention on the part of the 'Admiralty to offer was, that n•enco e n t essienswere extracted t _ fromieri minals, under _h . promise tf indemnity' and upon neuerevea mg to accept Captain Penny's offer of setvice ;or the new the whole truth, it was not air mat to turn round and expedition, it had been decided by the late board, for *se the confessions thus obtained as the grounds on which reasons which had been considered sufficient by them. to convict. Now, the manner in which the Commissioners not to employ Captain Penny ; and the Admiralty had had been received in St. Albans, and the frank and candid resolved: not to reverse The decision. come to by their manner in which the y were urnished with information, predecessors in office. With regard to further cornea- contrasted very favourably with the reception which other pondence on• the subject not before Parliament, he "9 commissions, having a similar object in view, had received in another borough. The confessions which were made to . net aware that there were any such official peperi• the commiesioners d were made with a distinct and firm reli- Mr. ANSTEY said,. the papers to. which tie referred did not perhaps come strictly under the titlo of corre- a w n oU e l d u P b o e n a th 4ofa ni tion ta o i f th bo a t n h d if hoitr of Parliamenn t an t d ur i n t spondence, but consisted, he believed, of memorials and round and use those confessions Parliament t t w f e e r r e n u t7 Bh p i Lent. petitions to the Admiralty, praying that Captain Penny Be bad not in his hand a copy of as t a h ri e re n'O x l now - before the might be re• employed. . HoOse for the disfranchisement of St. Albans, but, if his me- Mr. STAFFORD replied, that it would be ver y de- m or y served him right, it distinctly stated thatl all persons sireble for th e Hon. m em b e r to specify what papers he who being cited should truly answer questions put to them really wished to be produced. , by the Commissioners should be indemnified from all' the Sr IL H. INGLIS f ea red that the late - Adtitiralty, pains, penalties, and disabilities which they might have and rte almost fe tr e e ' the present board, had 'foegotten incurred nt an,by the the ir illegal practices. This he apprehende d wa s he! d spirit of the Ac but he could not. co of once upon a time there existed such a man as Mr deive e • r hew i3 a man, after making a t, fu, and teh all e co h less e l e o n e e of Jam.:s Cook,. fur they. really seemed to fancy that her elejee ode Royal Navy had ei. right to monopolize all the his tinceitns of, rii a s s to be indemnified di•coveries .which ; might be made by private skill and prived t i 'of the privilege of . the franchise.--('Hear, hear. ) enterprise --(Hear, hear.) Eighty or ninety years ag.act! if at the same time he he _ven t s to b_ e i s zl i e; This - struck him as being unjust and at variance with the that was not the doctrine of the there Board of Admiralty, lettee of :the Act. • As he• had been • held up so much and the eoniequenchwite that they found such individuals to public animadversion as the. author of a system of as "lilr." Cook—as some of the officers of the Royal corniptibb, he would assume for argtimentsake, that there Navy now-a-days would have presumed to call him—the was some foundation for • the charges' made against him, master of a whaler, who rendered the name of England 'and upon that assumption, and upon the principle of " put dignified by the discoveries he had made. He did say th a t a thief to catch a thiet," he would, with 'the, permission of the treatment which Captain Peany had received from the House, state the present! mode of electing a Member of different individuals had not beau such as would tend to Parliament, with the viewof showing the inefficiency of the encourage in any, except in officers of her Majesty's Present thehlea%l'anrecbteaCtked w o a ff s e e n n c e e ofef three, eeTe ostensibleT The present till, navy, that seal for national discovery which was so ma- jest l. ' of which nifested in the middle of the last century.—(Hear, hear. was to put an end to bribery and corruption at ) Now, in his opinion, none of those Bills would But this was not only a question of national discovery, ans wer the object in view. The difficulty of getting evidence nor a question of science; it was a question of humanity. on which to convict for thee offence of bribery was so great, —(Hear, hear.) He believed that Captain Penny, who- that evenin thaborough of St. Albans, where it was supposed ther he made the special discovery of the north-western to be so rife , the re wards which were ffered at the election of _ passage' or not, had penetrated further than any other 1850, of 1,0001. and 6001. for proof to insure conviction, were man; and therefore, when it seemed to be thought not claimed—no person amid the constituency having been almost a merit in the present and the late Boards , of Ad- found to sell his evidence, although it was alleged that votes were sold in the borough for 5/. each. During the fifteen miralty that they had given Captain Penny no reward, months which he (Mr. Bell) had been in purgatory, in con they would, in his opinion, have done their duty as well, sequence of his election, he had inquired into the law and and have met the justice of the case far better, if they practice of elections, and his conclusion was that the ex 'had encouraged Captain Penny to continue those disco- trerne stringency of the law rendered it inoperative. The veries which he had commenced, and which he bad law was so strict that if an elector travelled 40 miles to vote prosecuted more satisfactorily than, or at least as for a candidate he durst ' not offer him a glass of beer, nor satisfactorily as any other persons employed could any persdn on his behalf offer a voter that refresh. in the expedition.—(Hear, hear.) He would Yen- ment which, under the circumstances, he would be entitled ture further, to express a hope that her Majesty's to as a matter of course. The penalties upon all persons present Board of . Admiralty would not lose a day in concerned in what was termed bribery were so absurdly stringent that an agent might be fined in a sum of 150,0001., preparing the expedition upon which their predecessors or committed to prison for 400 or 500 years, if he could live in office bad resolved.—(Bear.) It might not be neces- so long: . All experience with respect to' criminal punish vary that that expedition should sail on the 10th or the manta proved that the extreme stringency of the law led to 15th or April ; but he_ would say, that every day that its most glaring evasion. When sheep stealing was a hang it was delayed after the curliest time at which it could ing • ffence, how very few criminals were executed in pro-. be got ready would be a day lost, not to the cause of dis- portion te sheep stolen. Why, it was well known that the covery, ,but te the gift/lute:oleo onsuffering humauity ; and judges had a consultation where the offence became aggra he was sure the Eleute would readily support the board vated in any county, and it was agreed among them that a in urging forward that expedition.—(Cheers.) few sheep stealers should be hanged, by way of an extmple Mr. STAFFORD Laid that strenuous exertions were to the rest. The consequence of this mode of administering being made to bring the new expedition into a state of t e n the law was, that some fine morning a lot of fellows were ex ecuted who never expected to be hanged at all.—(Hear, and laughter) The election of a Member of Parliament was readiness. •- - - practice — o f t h of tgae an genes agent en t to therehav altogether. managed by In ' Mr. PARKER regretted that the talc First Lord of the Admiralty (Sir F. Baring) was not in his place that were several species. It :ras a % a committee-room, of the existence of which the candidate evening to take part in this, discos:. ion, end in his ab- sense he (Mr. Parker) did not know that he could give had no knowled ge whatever. In this room the agent me t at,y satisfactory enelattatitni on the subject now under the electors. The manner of bribing was effected 'some debate. This, however, he could assure the House, that what after this fashion :—The elector called upon the agent his Right Hon. Friend had exercised his best discretion to make inquiries. " How you do, Mr. Smith 2" says in the decision come to relative to the Arctic Expedi- the agent—holding up three of his fingers to denote thereby the number of sovereigns he was prepared to pay. "Oh, I et that t ? f , ?el at all d well to-day," rlies he elector. " How is !ions,. in order to attain that object which this House " I'm sorryresP otna hear s e t a h r e agent (holding' up his five fingers) and the country at ' large had so much in vies, if possible, of Sir John namely the recovery, ,you're unwell." " I'm better now, thank Franklin and his fellow -explorers, or, at any rate, you," says the elector, and he walks to the window to ' look the ascertaining whet had been their fate. The into the street. The agent then sports five sovereigns on the late First Lord had taken infinite pains in the matter, he table, and turns round to look out of the other window. In had left nothing uudope, for he felt that he would be the mean time the five sovereigns and the elector disappear secure of the support of the House and the approbation simultaneously, and both agent and elector positively swear of the people at large iii any expenditure. To find fault before a Select Committee of the House that the one did not in the absence of his Right Hoe. Friend with the course give, and the other did not take, a bribe.—(Hear, hear, and which he had taken did not seem to him to be quite fair. laug i hten) Now this was the mode in which the affairs of oy was e u very so t annin na g an w a er e e d .the agents, and The choice of officers for such an expedition involved a aanncf clerks eti employed, carried edh t on by the agents, spies, messengers, so; iis e e l , not . to so dexterously delicate discretion, and he doubted whether this House compromise the candidate, that, whatever was a fit place to discuss the merits of officers. He did not know whether his Right Hon. Friend, had he been may be, it was impossible for him to detect anything present, would have thought proper to enter into the illegal. He would, however, do those agents the justice lg reasons whi c h had i n duced the board to, decline ,to send to say, that although, like lawyers, they cared not out Captain Penny, and he (Mr. Parker). holding, as he on whose behalf 'their services were retained, they had done, but a subordinate position in the department, discharged their duty to their principals with the utmost could not be expected, to go into those reasons. fidelity. A great deal had been said about the corruption of spentaccount cacto ua nghtaoi the h i g ri t:, u is t e h l t e rye mosttt complicity b t a h r e e r f e a c o e fc d etn a h n i ed d r ihveal unblushingnceaadndtoidpetition,abt bribery, eloped e a r ne y nd , ! Captain SCOBELL caller the attention nf the Ad- St. Albans, but let it be remembered that there were numbers of Honourable Gentlemen in that House who had had - been miralcy to the propriety of scattering the ships em ployed in the next expedition more than done in the first. Some six or eight vessels appeared to have been almost within hail of each other, So that they yet these Honourable Gentlemen were ' o n(" f atlw. covered very little surface. Boat expeditions had, it was a Bill to disfranchise the borough of St. prAetihaarns. According e di f n or true, been made over the ice, but the result has been to the present system of electing a Member of Parliament g very far from satisfactory. As to Captain Penny, he had the candidate was obliged to be kept in ignorance of the man read with great minuteness everything that bad come ner in which he was elected, and as far as the electors were before Parliament on the question, and he did think that concerned, in the generality of instances they knew nothing the exertions—ho might say successful exertions of Cap- whatever about politics. They looked upon an election as a fain Penny had been nacre prominent or as prominent as his ristmas festivity. If an elector was asked what he was, those of any one employed throughout the whole expo- astheusueal reply was, " I votes with the Blues - or the Reds," dition. It was much to -- that gentleman's credit that he did hisr l ase might be. be. .If he were asked about the corn-laws, not go to seek promotion, but bad joined the expedition, and eP if y he wn were ' a i ( s ) k h e , d l d w o h n e ' t t h k e n r ow he no l t i h k ing about that ;" running the same risks as those who went out also from his reply would be, "In course I dose:- a l cheap loaf, ther very noble motives, but who hoped thereby to advance pay fourpence than sixpence. "—(Loud laughter.) He main themselves. The Hon. and Gallant Member concluded by tamed that bribery was a disease.—(Hear, hear.) It was asking for the production of a return which he bad moved extremely like small-pox.--(Laughter.) It was contagious tor in the beginning of the session, and which would be and communicable from one person to anothene-the person useful to the House when the naval estimates came on who suffered much by its attack was marked as long as he lived, and the contagion only operated where there was a for discussion. . , susceptibility towards it. Inorder Admiral BERKELEY was prepared to assume his to put an end to bribery, theprimary object share of the respousibtlity of not having appointed Cap- with P a repugnance e ef ou t g h h e t ef t t h be to imbue the public mind fain Penny to the Arctic Expedition. That conclusion person convicted of bribery should n lose to ast li n rog i de w that i. the l had not been come to without due deliberation; it had might be said that it was a Utopian s i e de n a to expect that all not been come to without, in the first place, the consul- classes in the community could be purged of this immoral ta , ion of every officer who bad visited those regions, and tendency, but he assured the House that, even in the be was of ( )Pinion that jt Captain &tine had been se nt much-abused St. Albans, there were two hund red electo rs , out with the present expedition.. it . would not have been in very humble positions of life, against whom no charge for the interest of the object in view. . . had ever been made of rece i v i ng a bribe.—(Hear, hear.) He would come now to the method of curing this 'l' , and evil The subject then droppeds .• . . . F. MACKENZIE moved that the House, at its were laws which now existed, and which Mr. so severe that they were never enforced. Remove the rising, should adjourn till Mendey.—Agreed to. penalty, as they had done in the St. case of Albans, against Tae dropped orders of the day and notices of motion all lawyers, agents, and • • were then re-appointed. surdity of their committees up stairs, where gentlemen, all of PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. whom were probably equally . _ guilty, sat upon each others' Oa the motion for reading the orde r ' of the day re- cases, and get intheir place a Commission composed of such e d he believed lating to the Parliamentary . E 'presentation Bill, meee'an_ . they could not get better—as sat upon Mr. flume Mr. Thimas Duncombe, and Sir Joshua the St. Albans case. He respected those Learned Gentle men as a ) child respected Welinsley presented petitions in favour of Parlieneentary the father that corrected him— Reform. , (Laughter —and he could assure the House that a mouse was not more helpless before three bull terriers than a wit- Lord JOHN RUSSELL then stated that as he could ness was in the hand not hope to pass the Bill eta a private Member he pro- missed him, the second was these three gentlemen. If the 'one sure to snap him up, and the to abandon it, but he should not preclude himself posed third to swallow him.—(Renewed laughter.) If every one from making a . motion on this subject in the course of suspected of bribery 'had the prospectof being sent before the eessron. 'He should, therefore, move that the order such a tribunal as that, the man who attempted either to of the day relutiiig •to this Bill, and the Corrupt Prac - bribe or to receive bribes would only be fit to spend the rest titles at Elections Bill be reed, for the purpose of being of his days in Hanwell.—(Hear, and laughter.) And it poe - potted for three meow__ (H ear, h ea r.) . should further be borne in mind that the Commissioners ught to be remun Mr. HUME expressed his regret at the announce- o t . ed . erated by the State, to prevent them being ment, but ho hoped .the Noble . Lord . would give r t e he tu e n am m it the interest of either party. While he attended 'an early notice of his intended motion. He V ' l6 5 tenious mmannertee on . his own case he was struck with the expe surein- if the motion was founded upon free an d r 6 tence he had ledthlenrewhich_ business i was done, and the liberal principles it would meet with the sanction of the such a mode to d' hm to see the fallacy of adopting mover bribery.. As long as a witness talked ettuntry.—(Hear, hear.), irrelevantly he was allowed to Bill was g o on as he pleased; but as Mr. W. WILLIAMS 'alto! r egretted that the soon as he appeared to be going to touch 'that to the upon anything to be abandoned, t int was rejoiced to hear that e would have been decisive he was stopped. If he had been a N:rine L4d had not altogether, given up the cause, of mem b er o f th e Committee, knowing nothing of the case but reform.—(Hear, hear.) , what transpired there, he would have voted for . unseating be Liberal party himself, because, Mr. S. DUNCOMBE celled., upon t him, he though there was no legal evidence against to proceed with this Bill in defiance of the Noble Lord, Tae h could smell what was bottled up.—(Laughter.) or insist upon his abandoning it at onus. He wanted to ii 0 beent gtitright to make these remarks, because he had know whether it ovas intended . to elet Parliamentary the most blackened froione end of the country to the other as reform stop where it was? And until be • obtained some was determined corrupt to do what Member of the House; and, therefore, he consent to thishe could, whether in the House answer to this question, he . could not . or not, to stop briberyand • corruption. Bat the Bill now inotiolO.--(hear, hear.) It appeared to him, now ' before the House would not effect that • obect it would ever, that there was little chance of any reform operate as the old punishment against sheep. stealing used to this year; but the NOble. Lord having pledged himself to operate; the enormity of the crime would be lost in disgust take the matter up, he ought to state diseinctly.wharethe at the punishment, and other boroughs equally corrupt would intended to do in • future' now.—(rear, hear.) He be allowed to escape. Besides, he could not see the propriety hoped for nothing from her.-MojestY's Q e nernment, and of first promising an indemnity for speaking the truth, and he might be prepared on Monday, •after• hearing then, when the truth was spoken, turning round and dis their - statement, to ' Rim - them the compliment franchising the borough. It was true the fine was remitted, of the session—(A' laughy—but 'delays upon retorm in but then capital punishment was inflicted,. which was much the past had proved dangerounee(Hear, hear.) He, w a o s r s s e e d t u han an an t Li t r.—(Laughter.) He had, perhaps, tres me of the House longer than he ought to therefore,' called upon the Noble Lord to lose no time, in passed done. ') It introducing a !hill oil The subject, ito ! '` 'that the House might • be death with him and the borough of St. Albans. St. Albans Cully discuss it before the if,(l3.eral election; which was Was in the mud, and he was in the mud, and unless he could told was not far O. ! , 1, drag. St. Albans out of the mud, he must stop. there himself. RICELEY the He would move, t herefore, After a few words from Mr. G. g . , con coction for theagreed to. postponemeut was . . and he would leave those Honourable Ge n tl emen who SUITORS IN CHANCERY RELIEF BILL. , tinued to persecute the borough to name any day for its ad- • that the order of the day relating to I journ The motion ment theleased. On the motion was not seconded. . this Bill be read, - • • Mr. HUME could not refrain from Sir W. P. WOOD hoped that the Bill would be taken .. . thanking her Majesty's Ministers for having taken charge of this Bill. He took it up by the present Gevernment , as an earnest, notwithstanding all that had passed that Mr. WALPOLE said no man was m or e competent the meant to reform all crying abuses, and after ' the long to reform e , manage a Bill fur . Chancery •than the Lord Y speech of the Honourable Member, who allowed that he hanee an llor, and he was glad to tell the Hou se that the in the House illega ll y , and that if he ha d sat hs •sat upon the Cora- NOble d i L • earned Lord was ready and willing to take mittee he would have disfranchised himself, he hoped her the subject 'this Bill up:—(Hean hear.) With regard to Majesty's Government would not allow this to be an isolated and another relatin ' to the court o. Bankruptcy. he case, but that they would go to the root of the evil by put would look into them and adopted ling an end to these small boroughs, where, according to the by the Gowernment. (ll "e if they conld be Mg an _ . witnesses theycould testimony of the most competent have, The order of the d — for ear ' hear') * all but universal. y the second rea 'ng was then , bribery was postponed for a week.. . - dI - I Sir DE LACY EVANS also tendered his acknowledg- The Parliamentary Re ree p , eiltation (Ireland) Bill, and !meats to the the Parliainentary-Re rmuch be regretted if this .._ p . esentatton (Scotland) Bill were I Bill. It would indeed have been to withdrawn. I Bill had been lost; but at the same time it would be equally PASSENGERSACT 'AMEN ' . . MlEN''' . BILL • hard if St. Albaas were to be, made tbe only black sheep, Sir J. PAKlNGirON'annotitieed the intention 'while other culprits, not less guilty, escaped; and he -would Government to take uphhisltill arid ention of the this, Rill,filed the second ! beg to suggest that a similar Commission should be issued in reading for Monday week next. I the case of Harwich. ST. ALB ANS DISFRANCHISEMEN T , BILL. The Bill was then read a second time, to be committed on Mn: WALPO LE moved the second - reading of t h e. Friday next. • ' ; • The Personal Estates of Intestates Bill went through Com- Bill. • Sir G. GREY saichthe Bill was brou ht in b th :mittee. Sir y e late Go- It n consequence o f the re p ort of a Ro y al Commis— Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from t he trustees vettunent, i ' 'red into the system of bribery and -1 of the British Parliamentary sion, who had inquired He hoped the Bill would be parse_ grant. ruption in the borough. . d 'thus much, he was prepared to I . Me. 11 . . oared in ; but 'having sal • f the Ri ht Hon• Gentl emen ' ) ! ask the' mE gave notice that on an early day he would leave the matter in the hands 0 g ' t ----- ' the Hone Secretar whether he intended to carry out home Department. - resol u ti on et the Secretary of State for the Committee which sat three years ago, that House, and was there should . be a Mr. BELL then rose to address the ~ a change • la ,the government of the British f " Hear, hear." The . Museum, but which ceived with laughter and cries o - tended to. recommendation had never yet been at- Honourable Gentleman said he rose with the view of . making . the Bill from passing. The Sir R. H. INGLIS then an expiring effort to prevent one in which he had bury, Ross, and towns in • presented petitions from Ban question of Parliamentary elections was and Essex. against grant; Yorkshire waver taken any heterest, and, in fact, he knew nothing _ the Maynooth villa ever'of such mutters until he found his name associated bus ,letlns, drawing attention to the meritsnt, also from Mr, Ju of his life-boats as the author of a sy s t em whi c h had existed long before he in connexion with the burning of the Amazon, was born; and which, he 'had no 'doubt, would exist long for a Parliamentary inquiry into the and praying improve after he had passed out of this swannery slake.— (Hear, Woes. p value of his hear.) To defend so detestable a practice as that of which Mr. S OONER presented several petitions f rom Church the borough of St. Alba ns . h a d b e en convicted was im- men and Dissenters in North Warwiekshi Alaynooth grant. ' re against the p os sible. No man had 'greater reason to detest that Mr. HUME resented system than he had, but he put it to the House whether, Me nooth; also P a petition from Arbroath again t under the present circumstances, •it was just and proper Y . . petitions from Suffolk against the mlt s ; Ito carry out the extreme sentence of the law on the unfor- also a petition from an individual praying for the a e t f am n - I tunate borough of St. Albans. He had . several pleas to chisement of copyholds belonging,to the church; also a n p ra -- offer, and upon them would rest his argument. The first ' tion from the island of Jersey against the tolls leviedetoin. of those ' pleas was that when a number of persons were in- ships of the ports of Dover and Ramsgate. dieted for a joint offence, the person who turned Queen's Captain HARRIS presented a petition from Christchurch evidence, and by - his testimony secured the conviction of his against the eost-horse duty accomplices, was invariably pardoned. The present Bill was Mr. MUNTZ presented a p e titi o n f r om Birmingh am , only one - out of three which had been f rame d . w ith t h e v i e w agains t the policy now pursued in South Africa. • of punishing electors who had been found gu ilty o f r e c eiving Lord A. HERVEY p res ented a petition from Brighton, bribes. The borough of St. Albaus had turned Queen's against the continuance of the grant to blaynooth, and • 1 SUN, .t e •F LONDON, Iyr 0 .1 T d r r EVENING, ! another in favour of the Bill f or regu l a ti ng the qualifications of chemists. The House then adjourned at 20 minutes past Seven o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons ) FRIDAY, MARCH 12. BRITISH ELECTRIC COMPANY BILL. Order for Second Reading read; Motion made and Ques tion proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time :" Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day six months :"—Question proposed, " That the word now' stand part of the Question." Debate arising; Motion made, and Question put, " That the Debate be now ad journed." The House divided : . . . • -- MAJORITY—AYES, 210. Acland, Sir T. Dkye Forbes, W, Mowatt, Francis Adderley, C. B. Forster, AL Mullings. J. R. Alcock, Thomas Fox, S. W. L . Mintz, G. F. Anderson, Arthur Fox, W. J. Newdegate, C. N. Anstey, Thomas C. _ Freshfleld, J. w. Norreys, Lord Archdall, Captain Fuller, A . E. O ' Connor, Feargus M, Arkwright, George Gaikell, J. . Ogle, S. C. Bailey, Joseph Gladst one , W. E. Ord, William Baillie, H. J. Godd ar d, A. L. Packe, C. W. Baines, M. T Gooch, E . S. Paget, Lord George Baird James Goulburn, Henry P a l me r, Robert Barrow, W. H.Graham, Sir Ja mes Patten , J. W. Beckett, William Greenell, G. Peel, Colonel Bell, Jacob , Greene, Joha Peel, Frederick Bellew, K. M. Greene, Thomas Pendarves, E. W. Benbow, John Grey, Ralph Wm, Perfect, R. Bennet, Philip Grogan, E. Berkeley, Admiral Grosvenor, E arl Pinney, William Berkeley, Henry V. Gwyn, Ho we l Prime, Richard Powlett, Lord W. Berkeley, Grantley Hale, R. E. Berkeley, C. L. G. Raiford, Sir H. Renton, John C. Bethel", Richard Hall, Si r E. Repton , G . W. Richards. Richard Blandford, Marquis Hallewell, E. G. Roebuck, JA. Boldero, H. G. Halsey, T. P. Booker, T. W. Raids, Captain Russell, F. C. Booth, Sir R. G. " Hastie, Alexander sai ßom we ill y y , , C C ol o o l n . el Bramston, T. W. Headlam,,T. E. Scobell, Captain Bridges, Sir B. lieneage, G. IL Broadwood, Henry Herbert, Sidney Scrope, G. I'. Seymour, Lord Brockman, E. D. Herries,f,J.:C. Brotherton, J. Hervey, Lord A. Sidney, Sibthorp , Colonel Alderman Brown, Humphrey Heywood, James Slaney, R. A. Brown, W. Hindley Charles Smith, R. V. • Hobhouse, T. B, • Bruce, Lord E.Smith, John B. Hope, Sir J. Buck, L. W.E , Smyth, John George Buller, Sir J. Y. Hope, Henry . T. Sotheron, T. Banbury, E. H.Horsman Spooner, Richard Hotham, Lord Burrell, Sir C.Stafford, Augastus Humphery, Aid. Cabbell, B. B. Campbell, Sir A. Stansfleld, W. R• Edward Jones , Ca p tain Staunton, Sir.G. Stanley, Edward Inglis, Sir R. H, Carew, W. P. King , P. J. Strickland, Sir G. Colonel Carter, J. B. Knox,Strutt, E. SW. S. Cayley, E. S. Knox, Stuart, Lord James Stuart, J. Christy, Samuel Legh, G. C. Start, H. G. Lindsay, Colonel Clerk, Sir G. Sutton, J. 11. Lockhart, A. E. Thompson,Ty, Cobbold, J. C. Tennent, R. J. Cobden, Richard Long, W. Chichester, Lord J. Lacy, H. C. Lopes, Sir Ralph Tennent, Sir J. Cocks, T. S. Thompson, Colonel Codrington, Colebrooke, Sir T. Lygon, General Thornely, T. Compton, H. C. Mackie,John Corry, Henry Mae' Sir Trelawny, J. S. Macnaghten, E. Davies, D. A.Tyler, Sir G. WC ullagh, W. Dawes, Edward ZYroll, Sir J. Meagher, Thomas Dawson, T. V. Sir W . L m u a s c hi k il e i n g z t o i e n , , w e .. F. Vane, Lord H. J G ohn eorge Dodd, tt. Mahon, Viscount Vivi en , J. E. Duke, Sir James Martin, John Waddington, H. S. Diuicain: George M a theson, Colonel wan, C. B. Duncombe, T. M au nsell, T. P. Walpole, S. H. Duncombe, A. M e lgund, Viscount Wal s h , Sir J. buncombe 0. Miles, P. W. S. Willcox, Brodie Duncombe, , W. E. Miles, William West, F. R . Dunne, Colonel Mill i ga n, Robert Willi ams. W. Edwards, Henry 3,lilnes, R. M. Wood, Sir Charles lesworth,Sir W. Wortley. S. Egerton, Sir P. Mo Moncreiff, James Y oung, Sir John Evelyn, W. J. Ewart, 'William Moody, C. A. Tartars, Fellewes, E. o Morgan, • Farrel, James Filmer, Sir E. Morris, David Bl`Gregor, John that the attempt to exalt one seettrian leader over the whole body of the Liberal party in England is to paralyze or to repel the alliance of other Members equally eminent and equally essential ? Times. THE LONDON GAZETTE, March 12. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE,,,Manca 2, 1852. Notice is hereby given that her Majesty will h o ld a levee at St. J ames ' s P a l ace on Wednesday, 24th March instant, at two o'clock. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S .OFFICE, MARCH 2. Notice is hereby given, that tier Majesty will hold a drawing-room, at St. James's Palace, 9H Thursday, the Ist of April' next, at two o'clock. OSBORNE, MARCH 11. • His Royal Highness Prince Albert has been pleased to appoint William Drogo Montagu (commonly called Viscount Mandeville) to be' Lord of toe Bedchamber to his Royal Highness, vice Viscount Clifden, resigned. . • CROWN-OFFICE, MARCH 12. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR LIAMENT. • College of the, Holy Trinity of Dublin—Joseph Na pier, Esq., LL.D., her Majesty's Attorney -General fur Ireland. . . . Borough of Portarlington—Lieutenan.t-Colon e l Fran cis l'ituaket Dun,e, of Brittas, in the Queen's County, Clerk of the Ordnance. County of Fork—East Riding —The Honourable Ar thur Duncombe,,of liiinwick Percy, one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. County of Dorset—The Right Hon. George Bankee; of Studland, in the said county of Dorset, her Majesty's Judge Advocate-General. County of Essex—Northern Division—The Right Hon. William Bere i sford, her Majesty's Secretary-at- War. County of • Oxford—The Right Honourable Joseph Warner Henley, President of the Committee of .Privy Council fur Trade and Plantations. Borough of Enniskillen—James Whiteside, Esq., her Majesty's Solicitor-General for Ireland. WAR OFFICE, MARCH 12. Royal Regiment of Horse Guardses-James Delaval Shaft°, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Massing bard, whose retirement was announced in the Gazette of January, March 12. 4th Dragoon Guards-Christopher M'Donnel, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Stillman, appointed to 6th Dragoon Guards, March 12 ; Charles Fleetwood Shawe, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Brigstocke, promoted, March 13. 9th Light Dragoons-Christopher Dealte Brickmann,i Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Young, promoted, March 12. . 10th Light Dragoons-Arthur Edward Benson, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Severna, promoted, March 12. I lth Light Dragoons-Alexander Roberts Duan, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, March 12. 17th Light Dragoons-Cornet John Chadwick to be Adjutant, vice Learmontb, who resigns the Adjutancy only, March 12. . 4th Foot-.-Acting Assistant-Surgeon William Boyd to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Gamble, promoted, March 12. , 10th Foot-St. Andrew Beauchamp St. John, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Thompson,' who retires, March 12. 12th Foot-Garnet Joseph Wolseley, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Tweedie, appointed to 80th Foot, March 12. 14th Foot-Henry Hope A'Court Inglefield, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bower, promoted, March 12. 20th Foot-Augustus Riversdale Warren, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Turner, who retires, March 12. 23d Foot-Reginald Heath. Paynter, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sir W. N. Young, Bare, promoted, March 12. 24th Foot-Surgeon Joseph Burke, from 40th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Smith, appointed to the Staff, March 12. 27th Foot-Francis Eastwood Murphy, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice George Reynell Gresson, pro moted, March 12; William Henry Gresson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice King, who retires, March 13. 31st Foot-Annesley Carey, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Eddington, appointed to 95th Foot, March 12. 36th Foot-Albert Seagrim, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Robbins, who retires , March 12 . 39th Foot-William Gammell, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Northeote, promoted, March 12. 40th Foot-Staff Surgeon Second Class - Adolphus Collings, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Burke, appointed to 24th Foot, March 12. - ' . 42d Foot-Staff Surgeon Second Class John Gillespie Wood, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice M`Gregor, promoted, March 12. h m a e s dl u at s e t l m y migrated at e 46th Foot - Captain Horace George Hayes, from the THE CHESHAM CLIQUE. 48:.11 Foot-Richard Gouge Bomford Bolton, Gent., We.never doubted that the uses of adversity would im- eCxecyhitionagßesi,flMe Regiment, aro 12. to be Captana, vice Steele, who to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Heathcote, promoted, of the Opposition • and our anticipations have not been March 12... displayed df r om thei n t h e en ches o condition fth e o f Treasuryth e party to th which ose , . disappointed. A fortnight out of office has already con- 59th Foot.-Robert Jefferson Spofforth, Gent., to be bafil it e t d h h ey l r. stayed, Halter's to verted the most reserved and exclusive of Ministers into a Ensign, by purchase, vice Dwyet, appointed to 14th ingenuitybidder fewnights ago, or men Foot, March 12. 77th Foot-Arthur Maurice Richards, Gent., to be vote against their friends, rally with admirable unanimity Etaign, by purchase, vice, Gilby, promoted, March 12. to the Council of War, though they deserted in the last 4 85th Foot-Edward Aurelius 13 . b is rowe, Geat., to be action. Whig seamanship is never so finely displayed as in Ensign, by purchase, vice R croft rometed March 12. sailing on a wind, rather close hauled. They advance by op -86 h F R Y 9P 9 t oot- obert John Wallace, Gent., to be position ; and to put forth all their strength they absolutely En require a handsome resistance. Lord John himself has sign, by purchase, vice Hamilton, appointed to the 10th threatened, w be already displayed more cordiality in twelve days of opposi- Foot, March 12. tion than he had expended in six years of power; and the 89th Foot-George Harmer Pering, Gent., to be En attractions he gains by ceasing to rule the State may almost sign, by purchase, vice Selby, promoted, March 12. compensate for what he had lost in the service of the Crown. 93d Foot-Robert Abercromby, Gent., to be Ensign, But, though this amenity and these efforts form an agree- by purchase, vice Clatke, promoted, March 12. able contrast to the Ministerial langour which lately op- 97th Foot-Acting Assistant-Surgeon Theodore Gor pressed the country with ill-humour and ennui, it is worth don Bone, M.D. to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Ewing, while to inquire rather more cl ose ly w hat was the true cha leg- promoted, March 12, ratter of the late meetin g i n ch es b a na-place. That 2d Wes t Ind' . Regiment-WilliamThompson, lndiaGent., gentlemen immediately connected with the late Adminis tration should assemble at the house of the late Premier, is to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Caldwell, who retires, not an event calculated to excite either exultation or surprise. March 12. The meeting included that fraction of the House of Com- Ceylon Rifle Regiment-Captain Henry Steele, from mons which may correctly be described as the Whig Party, 46th Foot, to be Captain, vice • Hayes, who exchanges, and to this fraction were added for the nonce some 25 or 30 March 12. Members of more Radical Opinions, who serve as an unet-_ Royal Malta Fencibles-Lieutenant Guiseppe Gender, tached corps under the same general command. But, con- to be Captain, with. local and temp orary rank, vice , sidering the extreme gravity and interest efthe occasion, and Brevet Major Alessi, who retires full Ensign the importance of arriving at s ome combined action on Ler __ n _, . upon pay; 1 ippo Ey aud to be Lieutenant, with local and tem the main question of the d a y, as tonis hment is far •Iu our more - excited by the smallnumeri calstrength of porary rank,. vice Gouder; Michael Portelli, Gent., to be Ensign, with this meeting and by ' its pur ely lWhig character. local and temporary rank, vice Eynaud, If our memory does not decei ve re us, there have March 12. been meetings in Downing-steset, even within the last few UNATTACHED.-Lientenant William Hardingo to be years, when 260 Members obeyed the summons of the Pre- Captain, without purchase, March 12. mier and received his commands. The value of the present BaEVET.-Captain Thomas William Blewett Moun demonstration would certainly have been materially increased steven, on half-pay of the 79th Foot, Staff Officer of Pen-. if Sir James Graham had thought fit to testify by his pre- sionors, to be Major in the Army, Nov. 9, 1846; Captain sense that he is henceforth to be considered. as a member of Edward Kayo of the Bengal Artillery, to have the rank the same party and a leader of the corps as Lord John .- . • ' et major in the East Indies, Jan. 2; Brevet Major Wil- Russell. But, though we unders tand same it was intimated . , that ham Jake Captain and Paymaster of the East India by Sir James Graham that he concu rred in the proposed • Y. policy of the opposition to Lord er y' s Cabinet, he stood Depot at Warley, to have the rank of Major in the East aloof from a more decided junc•i b For the same reason, Indies. March 12. we presume, Mr. Cardwell .tas en. absent, and, with the HOSPITAL STAFF.-Inspector-General of Hospitals with exception of Mr. F ' -•Peel, who had taken office local rank, James French, M.D., C. 8., to be Inspector under the late Ministry, no other member of Sir General of Hospitals; Deputy-Inspector-General of Hos- R. Peel's party is on the list. A still more striking pitals Walter Henry to be Inspector-General of Hospi gap in the distribution of parts for this new drama was tali with local rank, vice Frencti,•who retires upon halt caused by the absence of Lord Pal rston, supported no , pay; Staff-Surgeon of First Class John Dempster, M..D., to doubt, in his retirement by the tid r m o e f his squires, Colonel be Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, vice Henry, pro- Freestun and Mr. hlonckton Mil ner.e ity Equally significant, and in numerical forceseveo more - meted; Staff Surgeon of Second ClassJanaes Connell to be sence of a large portion of the Irish discoura ging, s ts of the Liberal Staff Surgeon of the First Class, vice Dempster, promoted; cause, whose hostility to the late Minte r e has been loudly Assistant Surgeon John Ewing, from the 97th Foot, to expressed, and likewise that of several independent Members, be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class, vice Connell, pro whose adherence to Free-trade . principles is unquestionable, moted; Inspsctor-General of Hospitals, with local rank, but who appear to have hesitated before they gave in, on Alexander Stewart, M.D., to be InspeWor-General of that ground, an unqualifi e d adherence to the author i ty as- Hospitals; Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals Wm. sumed by Lord John F usse l l. Yet it is the indifference or M unro to b e I nspector -G enera l o f Hospitals, with local support, the distrust or the confidence, of these independent vice Stewart, who retires upon halt-pay • Staff rank, and variable quantities which constitutes ' the difference be tween a majority and a ra,norit Surgeon of First Class William Bell, . ~ M D to b e ' De- Y, and will turn the scale in the distribution of power puty Inspector-General of Hospitals, vice Munro; In fact, if this meeting proves anything, it proves that Lord Surgeon James M'Gregor, from 42nd Foot to John Russell can command the suort of rather more than be Staff Surgeon of the First Class, vice Bell, one quarter of the present House of Commons, including in promoted ; Surgeon John Stewart Smith, M.D., that number a . sprinkling of 24th Foot to be Staff Surgeon of Second Radical Members, whose alle- from: glance is .conditional, intermitting, and dictated at this mo- Class, vice Collings, appointed to the 40th Foot; went by their fears of a Protectionist'Ministry.Probably Assistant Surgeon Richard Gamble, M.D., from the we should have given credit if to Lord John for a somewhat 4th to be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class, vice larger follow ing, we had speculated it beforehand. But Foot, F • A tent let us allow him to count 200 ad herents,on Wood, appointed to the 42d oot; Acting ssis only 168 though ell who re availed themselves of his in vitation -what is Surgeon to the Forces, vice F. M. Twegcl , that among so . Brien Gent., to many? What is that in a Rouse of 646 Members ? What tires upon half -pay; Edward Arthur , is that even in comparison :with the Protectionist compactbe Assistant Surgeon to the Forces, March 12. phalanx of 230? Yet beyond that number his influence can . ADMIRALTY, M.satcfr 8. that The following promotions have taken place this day not be said to extend ; nor is • it unquestioned wit hinamun consequent on the death, on the 6th instant, of Vice- Upon the evidence of this meeting we reco nize therefore Admiral of the Blue Sir William Augustus Montagu, in Lord John Russell the leader of this section of the Liberal C. 8., K.C.H.:- party. But as long as it • is a section it is a minority, and Rear-Admiral William Croft, on the Reserved List, to though it may find itself . in a casual majority by some com- be Vice-Admiral on the same List. . mon impulse of hostility Or fortuitous- coincid ence , - suc h Rear-Admiralof the Red William Bowles, C. 8., to be a section is not yet a party.for political combination contains but few of the a P m ur i poses, and suc h a Blue. of of the mated elements • lof the White John Pasco to be Rear-Ad of a broad and powerful Government. aga RearsAdmira blush has been sa i d since the dissolution of the late in et miral of the Red, . eof the importance of 'chope to be extending the structure of the next Government, and Rear-Admiral of the Blue Robert Watt ment, and we are amused to find that the sturdy remonstra n ces Rear-Admiral of the White. ' . ~ to Lord John Russell in March, 1851, and in we addressed Captain Donut Henchy O'Brien, nd in January 1852 when it was in his power to profit by th e , aptam ' . C • Edward Lloyd, K.H. , , are now adopted by his confidential supporters as the 'Died his - Captain Benedietus Marwood XellY.,. .( . conduct, if he has another chance. But pledge of future in this meeting no evidence of any such we can discover to be . . Rear-A d_ on the Reserved List. Admiral of tbe That part of the process of reconst 4t!5 lesion at all. Captain Armar Lowry Corry to be Rear to be effected. With a view to the organization has yet Bine. of a wer- .the Retired List have been ful Opposition, capable of succeeding eventuall po w The following Captains on . l on the terms tion of affairs, this meeting led to no practi yto the ree promoted .to be Retired Rear-Admira s September, as we shall be told that no such result a as c 1 result. Per propoeed in the London Gazette of the let September, w expected. Bat, as we stated yesterday, wumust be Permitted to look rather 1846, but without increase of pay :- beyond mere considerations of personal ambition and Captain Alexander Montgomerie. , , ... A intrigue. The interests, the tranquillity, po s • John William Montagu. si ~ ii sibly the safety of the country, peremptorily require that such a should Honourable George PfrYaa - ' 4ll3 P" a ' be formed with the greatest possible efficien cy and least Wilson Wilson leraddyll Bigland, KZ. be possible delay. And it is precisel y ey and the least cause Lord John Russell George Cornish Gambier. ge is essentially the leader of a section, identified throe • gh every John Gore (a). passage of his life with the dogmatism of his party creed, that he is not the chief representative of the dominant opi- 1 - joh!a Gedge. Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire. nions of the nation, based on the extinction of those mere ' Commission by the party passions and distinc tions that once arrayed men ag ainst t Francis Dnkinfield Pa lmer Maley, Esq., to be Deputy each other. To become , in troth, such a lead er o f aggreat Lieutenant, March 9. RUPTS. people, a man must first f hake off _the party badges which BANK Thome , ' Shoebridge,warehousemen Lord ohn Russell venerates, and must then exercise an in- 1 Daniel Keith an d _s M arch 24, dependence of judgment and of character__es which Lord John Wood-street, Chosen . de , City, to surreener, march 24 were th e twelv e. at the Court of Bank_ ' Russell proscribes. Those means which Sir 'at one, ;and April 2, at Robert Peel accomplished the great legislative by act that made ruptcy. Stansfield, official assignee; Reed , Langford, ndeared le eh d his name immortal, and e f En land.lm, beyond any living and Marsden, Friday-street, eapst e. statesman, to the people .(.) g .. Nor, if his great work Stephen Ludlow.; builder, Oxford, March 19, at half beom mat by a party c b ion now threatened of landlords and past eleven, and 'April 22, at twelve, et the C our t of ecurely defend Protectionists, can it be except by a Minis-pell, efficial assignee, Coleman -street ter resolutely 13makruptcy• ter who shall throwupon the nation,' e ,Moorgate-etreet; 'Lime and Co., New Inn, shades and and combine the lesser . . hues of opinion in the .buildings, public interest and public dui Strand. broad daylight ofp the day are the ingredients y. The 0 Morris, innkeeper, Derby, March 26, at twelve, P sections of of such a .Isaa c must be merged April 16, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham • party, for they . in it ; but they and Dm ult. Bittleston, official are at the same . time the chief obstacles to its ' trios Co assignee, N ottingham; even in contact, th e , 1 •t. Derby consolidation, since, affordyreiuse to mingle. Brolt,i, and pretensionsNoblet, post. h Nay, their differences . even now the 1 W ill ia m 1 m h 23and A horse keeper, Blackpool, Lan orary success, principal chance of temp of which the present cashiree arc , April 14, at eleven, at the Liver leader will , of the House of , Commons . , by manceuvring skil fully, 4 pool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liver- In detail the ma fully, avail himself. eve n be beaten, and, ! pool; Winstanley and Charnley, Pres t on; E vans and hesham-place , as tar as this meeting in C e goes, it holds out no Son, Liverpool. pledge of fusion or reinforcement. : that in order C an there be a stronger, ; • 'William Trost, silk th t m a 0 1 fi ld M arch rews er,i• c es e_. 9 - proot o f. one assertion, . • s.. to bring these severe 19, and April 22 din n Ise'(and not on the 27th as advertise parts and is intoento.n a h u a Wine, some common , head must be sought, not , in t eM but &nee them? audl l a st Tuesday's Gazette), at eleven, at the Manchester Smith, MINORITY —NOES, 60. John Abel Thompson, Alderman Armstrong, R. B. Harris, Richard Peto, gunnel M. Buxton, Sir E. Hastie, Archibald Pigot, Sir,Robert Chaplin, W. J. Hayter, W. G. Pigott, Francis Child, Smith lieneage, Edward Plowden, W. H. Ebrington, Viscount Clay, James Hildyard, R. C. Ricardo, () mum Collins, W. Holiond, Robert SellllY, Francis Cotton, W. H. Shelburne, Earl Jillia°n:rdks:onnd:, C l Cl V . illi W ain . Stephenson, Robert Douglas, Sir C. Duff, George S. Duff, JamesTufnell, H. Egerton, W . T . Langston, J. 11. Walrusley, sir J. Ellis, John Johnstone,KeatingßoSbirt,J. Thomp Lockhart, W. Watkins, Colonel Fergus, John Lowther, Colonel Williamson, si r H. Ferguson, Sir R. Lowther, Henry Wilson, James Fordyce, A. D. Mahon, O'Gorman Wynn, H. W. Fox, Richard M. mangles , B. D. Wynn, Sir W. Glyn, G. C. Marshall, W. Goold, Wnydh am m an ia, Fox =amts. Grace, 0. D. O'Connell , Maurice Hill, Lerd Marcu s Grenfell, Charles W. O'Connell, M. J• Ricardo, J. L. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) The undernamed Railway Bills were presented, read a first, and ordered to be read a second time : Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverha m p ton (No. 3). Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton (No. 4). Somersetshire Central. 'V or I! T. 1 , 4 SATURDAY 1 .. MARCH cif n 13, 1852. District Court. Lee, official assignee, Manchester; Fox and Son, Fi.isbary-circus ; Worthington and E4r1 , :7, Manchester. John Stark, grocer, West Rainton, Durham, Mach 19, and April 29, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon- Tyne District Court. Baker, official ass i gnee, New castle-upon-Tyne; Armstrong, Neticastle; Shield and Harwood, Clement's-lane, Lombard -street. John Rymer, paper manufacturer, Gateshead, Dar ham, March 19, at eleven, and April 29, at one, at th e Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Conn. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Hark, South:ampton buildings, Chancery-lane, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basing4ll-street: C. J. Powell, Kingston, draper, April 2, at-eleven—W. Lasslett, Houson, Sandwich, Kent, dealer in hay and corn, April 2, at hal.-past eleven—J. Ingram, Southampton, seedsman, April 2, at eleven—Mary Astle, J. T. Astle, G. Astle, and C. Astle, Coleman-street, bookbinders, April 2, at half-past twelve—E. Churton, Holles-street, Cavendish square, bookseller and publisher, April 2, at twelve—Sir G. Duckett, Bart., Sir F. B. Morland, BArt., and. T. T. Bernard. Pall-mall, bankers, April 5, at half-past one—W. Willis, Trowbridge, wool broker, April 8, at eleven—J. Mash. Col chester, draper, April at kwo—W. Marsh, 'J. li. Stracey, G. E. Graham, and H. Fauntleray, Berners-street., bankers, April 5, at eleven'—'iV. Taylor and J. Wylde, Wood-street and Lock's-fields, flock, wadding, and mop manufacturers, April 3, at eleven. • In the Country. G- Hopkinson, Liverpool, coach builder April 2, at eleven, at the Court, Li ver p oo l—J . Brotherton, Liverpool, merchant, April 2, at eleven, at the Court' Liverpool—J. Woodhouse, Ripon, draper, April 6, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—J. Dixon, Morley, Yorkshire, dyer, April 2, at eleven,, at the Court, Leeds —W. Cole, Apperley-bridge, Yorkshire, consult ing engineer, April 2, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—J. Napier, jun., Sheffield, oil, salt, and tillage merchant, April 3, at half-past twelve, at the Council-hall, Sheffield. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. R. Michael, Bury-street, St. Mary-axe, merchant, 2s. Oid. on Tuesday, March 16, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall chambers, Basinghall-street. J. S. Stopford, Austin-friars, merchant, 5d., on Tuesday, March 16, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, - Guildhall-chambers, Basin g hall-street. Ford and Reeves, Leadenhall-street, ship and insurance agents, Is. 3d., on Tuesday next, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guild hall-chambers, Basinghall-street. T. Capron, Lawrence-lane, Cheapside, merchant, 4id., on Tuesday next, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street. E. and H. Martyn, Aldgate High-street, woollen drapers, ls. 6d., on Tuesday next, or any subsequent Tuesday, be tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall chambers, Basinghalf-street. A. Jopp, Cornhill, ship and insurance broker, 3 1-3 d., on Tuesday next, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street. E. Ritherdon, Millwall, Poplar, ship builder, 35., on Satur day next, and three subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of M r . G room , Ab church-lane. S. G. Fryman, Rye, wine and spirit merchant, 2a. 3d., on Saturday next, and three subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abcharch-lane. C. Wheeler, St. Martin's-lane, woollen draper, 4s. Id., any Wednesday,• between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Basinghall-street. R. B. Wylde, Bradshaw and Clayton-mills, Lancashire, bleacher and calico printer, is. 8 3 % d., on Tuesday, March 16, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Pots, Manchester. __ J. Slater, Bradshaw and Clayton-mills, Lancashire, bleacher and calico printer 3d., on Tuesday, March 16, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Pott, Manchester. T. Fray, Wigan and Manchester, check manufacturer, Is. 6d., on Tuesday, March 23, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one at the office of Mr. Fraser, Man chester. J. Emery, Lichfield, Staffordshire, tailor, 6s. 4d., on Thursday, March 18, or on any subsequent Thursday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Birmingham. J. Lane, South Shields, Durham, excise officer, 16s. 6d., on Saturday, March 13, or on any subsequent Saturday, between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle upon-Tyne. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. P. Phillips, Crowland, Lincolnshire, common brewer, April 2, at eleven—J. Leach and E. Leach, Waterbeach, Cam bridgeshire, builders, April 2, at eleven—J. F. Cole, Hamp ton-court, victualler, April 6, at one—G. Flint, Lombard street, City, hosier, April 2, at eleven—M. Beart, Upwell Nor folk, brick maker, April 2, at one—J. Boren, Brighton, coach maker, April 2, at half-past eleven— G. Collier, Landport, Southamptonshire, draper. Ap r il 3, a t half past eleven—F. R. Hewlett, Leyton, Essex, cow-keeper, April 2, at eleven—W. E. Johnston, New Wharf, Little Abingdon-street, West minster, coal merchant, April 2, at half-past eleven. In e Count. E. Fowler, Bristol and Pontypool, Pontypool, ry Monmouthshire, draper and tailor, April 7, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—E. Waring,Liverpool, innkeeper, April 6, at eleven, at the Court, Llveryool —G. Pryde, D. Jones, and J. Cribb, Liverpool, sail makers, April 5, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—C. Bacon, Walton, Somersetshire, tailor and woollen draper, April 14, at the Court, Exeter —J. Copland, Barnstaple, tea dealer and draper, April 14, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter—T. Harris, Camborne, Cornwall, grocer, April 15, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter—F. Tandy, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, and Brierley-hill, Staffordshire, ironmonger, April 3, at half-past ten, at the Court, Birmingham —D. Shaw and A. Shaw, Al mondbury, Yorkshire, manufacturers, April 2, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—J. O'Donnell, Sheffield, grocer, April 3, at twelve, at the Council-hall, Sheffield. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. A. Prince, Lincoln's Inn•fields and Russell-square, zinco grapher and lithographer —T. Barnjum, Pall-mall East, and Willesden, Middlesex, wine merchant, certificate of the first class—A. Mouat, Creed-lane, City, wine and spirit mer chant, certificate of the second class —W. Holmes, Crober's cottages, Bedford-street, Poplar, builder, certificate of the second class —T. A. Young, WoolWich, licensed victualler, certificate of the second class—W. M. Whalley, South Mimms, Middlesex; licensed victualler, certificate of the third class—A. Dunbar, Halifax, Yorkshire, boot and shoe maker, certificate of the first class, one calendar month from March 9. • PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Marshall and E. Drewett, Devonshire-mews West, Portland- r place, cab proprietors-.W. Haworth and R. Haworth, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, manufactures of liquid blue--W. laherwhoc k d and S. Whitworth, Hurst Brook, Lan cashire, smallware dealers—S. Wilson and E. Dawson, Hartlepool, Durham, straw bonnet makers-E. Tew, W. H. Leatham, and E. 'A. Leathern, Wakefield add Pontefract, Yorkshire,bankers (so far as regards W. H. Leatham)—E. Dunant and H. Frommel, Liverpool, merchants—T. Jenkin son and H. Manley, Manchester, woollen drapers-.W. Hay wood and J. Haywood, Rood-lane, City, merchants—C. Gat liff and R. E. de Carteret, Coleman -street, City, solicitors J. S. Jarvis and W. Thompson, Union-place, Lambeth, con tractors—J. Carter, jun., and E. Carter, Basinghall-street. City, warehousemen —J. S. Russell, A. Robinson, and R. A. Robinson, Millwall, Poplar, engineers —G. Guanziroli, Hat ton-garden, barometer makers -R. Main and A. Nicol, Liverpool, coach makers—J. Brown and H. Donaldson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, surgical instrument makers -C. A. Welby and J. Wood, Nottingham, solicitors—H. H. Fox and J. Barrett, Leicester-square, and Adelphi, engineers—G. Hudson and G. Burgess, Woolwich, builders—C. Rowlands and W. B. Rowlands, Regent-street, goldsmiths—A. V. Broster and W. March. Paternoster row, City, pocket-book manufacturers—W. F. Wheeler and E. Perkins, Paternoster row, City, stationers—W. Johnson, E. Edwards, and W. Baker, Broughton Hall Iron Works, DenbighAiire, iron manufacturers (su far as regards W. Baker)—J. Grimshaw, J. S. Grimshaw, and J. Riley, Lancashire, manufacturing chemists—ll. Hesketh and T. Huxley, Chester, wine and spirit merchants. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. William G. Trery, Aylesbury, surveyor. Thomas R. Lucas. Birmingham, saddler. Alexander Dean, Birmingham, engineer. • Margaret Fisher, King's Lynn, wine and spirit dealer. Samuel Rhodes, King's Lynn, boot and shoemaker. John H. Bloom, Castle Acre, Norfolk, clerk. James C. Woods, King's Lynn, watchmaker. James Morton, Hilgay, Norfolk, blacksmith. John Stevenson, Ashton-under-Lyne, tailor. Richard Offoad, Fletwell, Norfolk, common carrier. Christopher Porter, Fletwell, Norfolk, common carrier. Joseph Childs, Bury St. Edmunds, whitesmith. James Brandle, Dickleburgh, Norfolk, dealer. Eliza Lowe, Hampton-in-Arden, Warwickshire, governess. George Marshall, Ashford, Kent, beer-shop keeper. Edward Bainbridge, Sowdham, Nottinghamshire, joiner. John Simmons, Newark-upon-Trent, boot and shoemaker. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. J. Drysdale, Edinburgh, merchant, to meet within Steven son's Rooms, Edinburgh, March 18 and April 8, at two. Ann Macdougald, Edinburgh, hosier, to meet within Dowell's Rooms, March 18 and April 15, at two. G. S. Turpie, Dundee, tea-merchant, to meet within the British Hotel, Dundee, March 18 and April 19, at one. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from returns made in the week ending March 9, 1852, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain : From the British possessions in America 20s. 4id. per cwt From the Mauritius ... ... 245. 6d. From the East Indies —. ... 18s. Oid. n Average price of the three foregoing de- )7 iscriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as above, and exclusive of duty 1 98.100. By authority of March 12. Parliame nt HENRY BICE.N EL Clerk of the Grocers'' Grocers'-hall, Company L, MARKET IN market Pr i ce Current, March 12.) TEL CE. (From the Londen New F r i SUGAR.—To-day th© closescls with a dull aspect, and pricfeoarcWomepstareldndwiaitShulgaaert y are 6d per cwt lower. Operations are 294, making for the week only 1,324 hhds and trcs. There is a plentiful supply of brown and inferior Sugar. REFINED.—To-dtention for home c on su mption , $ Refined brown lumps Sugar met with little at onsnmption, and rates are on the de cline;PS selling at 43s 6d to 448 per cwt. For Crushed S ugar there is rates are paid. ex port demand, a fair MAURITIus.—This afternoon Mauritius Sugar met with little notice, and rather lower rates were taken. At auction 4,898 b ags were dispose d o f ; fine yellow went at 343 to 35 5, good 32s to 338 6d, low to mid 298 6d to 31a 6d, mid to fine brown 25s to 295, common 23s 61 to 248 A 1 -L, and Refining kinds 27s to 34s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar was ope rated in with criution, and a small reduction took place. At auction 3,670 bags were only in part sold; 'cl aw at 21s to 225, tine white Benares 35s to :365, m id to good 1 32 64 to 34s 6d, dump an d washed 31a to 345 6d. i FOREIGN. —Today there was again a good business concluded in Foreign privately, cniefly.. for exportation, and former rates were supported, the market closing with a firm tone. None of any sort was offered at public sale. CocoA.---To-dsy the market for Cocoa is in a dull s t a te, and at auction 100 bags Trinidad were in part so ld a t 305 to 336 for grey; whilst 500 bags Brazil were taken in at 26s for Para; and at 24s for Bahia. COFFEE.—This afternoon several parcels of Native Ceylon Coffee were sold 'privately, and rates are firm at 39s to 39a 61 for good ord. For Plantation Ceylon the demand continues to get larger, and th e p arcels sold privately were at a small advance. At auction 50 casks , realized 48s to 49s for fine fine ord, 50s to 50s 6d for low mid, and triage 38s to 405. Costa Rica met with 1 1 greater attention, and realized a small advance. At I auction 860 bags Costa Rica were sold; low mid mid S LT . T4' ,i ~ went at 50a to 51s, and fine to fine fine ord 42s 6.1 /0;) -U-135,a, r' The market fur all sorts of Coffee chilies with thi ; 7 : 4 : 1- 1.1 o' . • 4 aspect. ' i -..".. _ 'C'- ' ,)' : i;;1-• - so l a t. ,_ "'"1:1 --- , ' y -... i - . - ' .. ... TEL—The demand for fine and Pekoe kinds ot ii- • ' ' -.. you is not brisker, and there are still free sell at a. from .lid to Is sd. In medium larger puchases ave 40 been made at 93 to lOid, and of low to good common many parcels have been disposed of at 8d to 81d; on the part of merchants there is more confidence. Oolong low to mid at 8d to 103, and good to fine lld to Is 3d. Souchong, good to fine being:obtainable at Ild to is 6d, and inferior 83 to 10d. Pouchong more inquired for at 4d to 6d. For Green the market has a dull appear-. ance. Hyson of low and mid quality can be obtained at is to Is 3d, good to fine is 4d to 2s, superior 2s 2d to 2s 8d; Young Hyson, common 10d to Is, mid to ,good is Id to is 63, fine Is 8d to 2s 2d, Imperial Canton 10d to I Id, Etymon kind, is to 2s. Gun• powder Canton 83 to is Hyson aorta, low to mid is Id to Is 63 , - good to fine Is 7.ki to 3s 3d, Caper 8d to la 3d, aui, Ilyson skin 7d to Is. Prices are not better for See°t " o ?aage Peklle. ThE' VOW! of common is 8d to 11,t, and mil to fine 1. to Is 7d; - Flowpry Pekoe attracts more altention. tineand - - I` 8d to 2s Bd, and low dupi-nor s to good Is to•ls 6;!. n RrcE.—To-day there was More ac4ivity in the East India Rice rr4a?:ktt,!arld en advance of 33. per cwt: took place: :. At public sale 2 ,156 - 44; &riga were bold; mid ritite at 10., 63, go o d lOs 63 to Ils, and fine Its to Ils 6d,. Privately several. parcels found buyers. , SPIRITS.—The demand has been better for Leeward Island Rum this week, and supply beirg scanty holders are enabled to obt a i n Is 5d to la 3d proof. In East India purchases have been to a fair extent at is 43. De merara is plentiful, but 2s to 28 3d having been accepted for 30 to, 40 ' ° " - i'i Proof , .Caused several parcels .to be . disposed of. . For - Jamaioa the market has a dull appearance, fine sorts sustain pre vious terms, but other kinds can be obtained at Id. to 23 reduction. The rates taken for choice marks 34 to 38 over proof are 3s 6d to 4s, fine 3s to 35 sd, good 'd ..mi. to goeil - 32 to 35 over 2 s 5 d to 2s 10d, /ilia 2s 23 to 2s 4d, and low 26 to 30 over 2s to 2s id per gallon. For Brandy there is a quiet market. .A slight reduction has taken place for young Brandy, but lower terms are rejected for old qualities. Quotations are as follow: Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1851 rule at 4s Id to 4s 3d; 1850 ditto, 4s 4d to 4s 6d; 1849 ditto, 45 9d to 4s Ild ; .1848 ditto, 5s 3d to 5s sd; older, 5s 6d to 6s 6d; low to mid, 2s 6d to 4s; and Bordeaux, is Ild to 2s 2d. British made Spirit 99 lld to lOs met cash, Gin 22 under 8s 6d, and 17 under proof 9s. Geneva, common, is 9d to Is - 10d - , - urrd fine - 2 , 3 to 2s - 4d per gallon. SPIcEs.—To-day 500 chests Cassia Lignea were offered for public sale; pile one sold at 121 s to 1235, being about the former value; bat pile two went cheaper, from 1103 to 119 s, and pile three at 108 s to 1099; mouldy realized 107 s, broken ends 1035, loose and broke 995, and sea damaged 101 s. Tepper realised full rates, viz., nd to 3kd for good fair greyish. Cochin, and damaged 3fd to 31d. INDIGO.--Operations in East India for shipping and home _comsumption have been even greater than last week; several parcels are again taken on speculation. On the part of merchants greater firmness exists, and the rates obtained are 23 to 3d per lb above last quarterly sale. Of the bought in lots only trifling parcels are now undisPesed of; for 'even low dry leaf Madras a brisker demand prevails. Spanish met with greater at tention, and realised an advance of 3d to 43 per lb. At auction 200 serous Guatemala were sold; low to good Cortes at 3s to 3 s 9d , an d goo d to fi ne S o b re s 4s to 4s 63. Cocursmax.,—At auction 100 bags Honduras were disposed of; common to fine Silvers at from 3s 53 to 3s 9d, mid to fine black 4s to 4s 10d; 5 bags Teneriffe 3s 11d; but 20 bags Mexican Silvers mostly takes in at 3s 43 to 3 , sd. The value of black is 3s 73 to 3s 10d. SALTPETRE.—The parcels sold privately were at full rates-25s 63 to 27s 6d for low to good mid, better kinds 28s to 325, Madras 14s to 25s 63. At auction 2,200 bgs Calcutta were mostly taken in rather above the value, from 25s to 26s 6d for 94- to 17 per cent re fraction. A good demand prevails for British Refined at 29.63 to 30s. Several parcels Nitrate of Soda sold at 14s. 4 ..I Ons.—To-day at public sale 30 tuns Seal Oil were in part sold, pale at 30/, coloured 281 103 to 291 10s; 59 casks Palm Oil mid to good 24s to 265; Cod Oil is 331 per tun. TALLOW.—This afternoon the public 'sales of Tallow went off at improved prices. Ot South American 200 pkgs were mostly sold at 33s to 35s 9d fur low to tine, 200 cks Australian 33s 6.: to 35a 6d for Beef. 100 as Soap Tallow 34s 6d per cwt. BANK OF ENGLAND‘ (From last night's Gazette.) • An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and sth of Victoria, cap. 32 for the Week ending on Saturday, the 6 th day of March, 1852. ISSIII DEPARTMENT Z. Notes issued.. 32,897,145 Government debt .. 11,015,100 Other securities 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 18,863,770 Silver bullion • • • • 33,375 £32,897,10 $32,897,145 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 11th day of March, 1852. BANKING DETAZTMEN T £. Proprietorecapital.. 14,553,000 11,st . ....• ...... 3,616,528 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt,Sav ings-banks, and Di vidend accounts).. 6,902,929 Other deposits ...... 12,124,056 Seven day and other Government smut- ties (including Dead Weight Annuity) • • 13,565 323 Other securities •• • • 11,602,383 Notes •• •• •• •• ••• • • • 12,659,825 Gold and silver coin 512,925 ~.... 1,143,943 £38,340,456 438,340,456 MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 1 I th day of March, li t..: PIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The British hustings, with all their rude gran deur, as the constituent assembly of the people, and the basis of our boasted Constitution, are seldom the scene of intel lectual display or political announcements. .Our readers, therefore, will not be disappointed to find that the new Chan cellor of the Exchequer has given his Buckinghamshire con stituents nothing more than the old thing slightly adapted to the present occasion. We have shaken and sifted his speech all sorts of ways in the hope that some novelty might catch the eye, and give a fresh turn to our remarks ; but if anything new is intended by Government, Mr. Disraeli has kept his counsel admirably. He only tells us that various branches of British industry, of which he speci fies three—agriculture, colonial sugar, and. the shipping in terest--have now to bear an unequal, an accumulated, and a ruinous pressure ; that this pressure was met by our protective system,which, says be, we have suddenly and inconsiderat e l y abolished that in his opinion a slight counter vailing duty would be the best way to meet the many burdens the first of these interests has to bear, but that if the country should finally decide against that expedient, he and his colleagues are prepared to relieve the agriculturist and his fellow-sufferers by any other means in their power. All this we have heard before so frequently that we are really con strained to allow the Right Hon. Gentleman some credit for reproducing his old matter in a readable form. Whether it be that we were lured on with the continual glimmer of some expected novelty, or that Mr. Disraeli has the art of per suading hi 4 readers that they are listening to something im portant, we cannot say, but certainly we have got throug ti the Aylesbury speech as easily as we should a chapter: in " Coningsby" or the" Political life of Lord George." But, after all, what is the speech, or rather, what is its object? Is it to defend an opinion, or to prepare for an announcement? Mr.: israeli so often asseverates that he is the same that he has always been in Parliament, and will continue the same in power as in opposition, that we might suppose him to be really enlightening the defeatr.m of Buckinghamshire as to the policy o f t h e On new the other hand, he takes ca re to assure Cabinet. them he is not p l e d g ing it to any particular measure. must be confessed that h e seems to Unfortunately, it is to do the duty of Protection; promise something that some equivalent; the thing itselfin soinething in its stead; It is true that he asks not protection a less invidious form. long, however, as he says he but compensation ; so could, but, seeing th at he would get a fixed d u ty if he cannot, he will t r y f or th e best possible substitute, h e i s bu prov o ki ng the oying up the hopes of the agri culturist,manufacturer, reviving the old quarrel, and bringing anunjust an d unnecessary odium on measures of reli e f that the interests he Mentions may possibly require. lii these daysevery class is advancing its claimsdtt other burden s remain to relief; immense burdens to have lately been remove , and e renioved or mitigated; 50 the public is quit e prepared for b the crowd of applicants that each year besieges an overflowing .•relief. Exchequer pressing for lt certainly is r a th er hard on the farmer, the s hi powner , or t h e W'r'est India pl anter that he cannot ta k e his place in th e throng, and state his own • grievances like the rest, without the i mputation of asking for favour. But, if he does not find himself exposed to this imputation, we must say he has to thank those injudicious friends who, if they no longer dare ask for protestion, ask for a bastard form of it under the name of conpensation. But does not Mr. Disraeli see by the light of his own speech that this claim for compensation is perfectly endless—endless not merely in time, but in the num ber of classes and interests that it must embrace? He enu merates three interests, now sinking under their burdens, but he gives them only as instances, intimating that British industry altogether requires a similar set-off against foreign competition. But, take those three interests alone, and see what a muddle we are in the moment we attempt to aid one by the taxation of the rest. We are, it seems; to tax the agricultural and the shipping interests for the sake of the West Indian interest; the shipping and West Indian interest for the sake of the agricultural; and the West Indian and agricultural for the sake of the s hipping; all but one for the sake of that one; and that one for the sake of all the rest. What a terrible pother, when it is so much simpler and cheaper to tax nobody for the sake of any body ! As for the peculiar burdens of the agricultural or any other interest, such as exist have already been taken into account in agricultural contracts, and by this time have been settles on the . shoulders best able to b ear th e m, viz', those of the landlord. The labourer and the farmer have their places even. tually in the market of labour and of farms, and can only experience a temporary inconvenience by laws which m a y happen to depress that market; but any permanent depres sion falls at last on the landowner, and there remains. The most, then, that Mr. Disrael i can make of hi s " peculiar ' burdens as far as they arise from unequal taxation, is that land is i m p r operly burdened to the extent of about two or or, on his own estimate, a shilling three millions a-year, 1" in But what a miserable little grievance this is the pound. wealthy interest to - ' for a great and bring in so- L • hernia form before the British egislature, to divide that Legislature upon it, to convulse the whole frame of society, to endanger the cause of good a nd peace, to stop all salutary order legislation, to found lasting a nd incurable grudges, t') make the name of a ' landowner odious, and at this particular • juncture actually to open our shores to invasion ! After all, too, for this shadow ' the agriculturist is throwing awayall I • hopes substantial his of , relief. It is in the nature of things - and ' certainly this country is no exception to the rule—thatall laws, institutions, and customs want continual amendment. ' All the interests of the ' country ta their turn N./ant the assistance of the Legislature for one purpose or another. MrDisraeli and his colleagues have plenty to do in this " humbler * and more useful" line for their agricultural c li ents • butwill certainly not do it if they ask for " Prot they ~ "Protection," or " compensation, or any. thing of that sort. THE ARMY AND • 1 - 1 ORDNANCE ESTIMATES. —We have reason to believ e t h at the army and or dnance estimates, as proposed by th e l ate Government, w ill b e proposed by the new Secretary-at-Vira r , Mr. Beresford, and the Clerk of the Ordnance, ceQlouel Dunue, without any Alterations.--Werald. - ~.