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Vbtrb 'Ebttion SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES. IN RANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM FAMES' STOCK. From tie Official List, PUBLISILED -ENTRY ITrESDAY AND FRIDAY EVEITIRG, LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 15. JOIST-STOCIC BANES. Dividend Amount Name 9f Company. er of Paid. Price Annum. Share. ".......-.................- ___-_, ,---.. X s. d. 4 s. d. Australasia - .... •• .- 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 27 BritahNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 44% Commercial of London 51. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 22} 4 Colonial Londn and Wostminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27 London Joint-Stock ... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14% Metropolitan - 25 0 0 710 0 Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per c en t. 100 0 0 25 0 0 49% Ditto, New.. -•• • • 1 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 19% National of Ireland •. 151. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 18 Nat. Provneial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 le 35% Ditto, Now... .• •• •• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia •• • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 26 I Union of London. - - Si. per cent. ,50 0 0 10 0 0 l'2 rarIiTTILANCII COMPABIT.ES. . - Dividend Amount .lame at Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. ------ Z s. d. £ s. d. 81.10 x. 500 0 0 50 0 0 74 100 0 0 11 0 0 19% Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. Ditto Marine... .... 61. per cent, 100 0 0 50 0 6% A.tlas ......... British Commercial • • 7s. per share 50 0 0 50 0 7% ClerieLMed.&Gen.Life 51. pel• L cent. 100 0 0 210 0 6 - li 100 0 0 10 0 0 105. 50 00 1 5 0 0 - 6s. ' Cagle • • • • . • • ******* .. Spero.,bs 50 0 0 i 0 0 5% ; Beonomic Life. [B, 30c./ 1000 0 0 250 0 0 Bug. & Scot. Law •• • • 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 2% Buropean Life •• •• •• 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20 y r . emuons • ..... •• .• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe •••••••• • •• • • • • 61. per cent. Stock. -. 138 Guardian . ... -•• • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 49 Imperial Piro •••• • • • • 61. and bonne 500 0 0 50 0 0 240 Imperial Life ........ 12 9. 100 0010 0 0 16% Indemnity Marine •• • • 11. sh. & be. 100 0 0 513 I 29 Law Llfe •• • • ........ U. 58. 100 0 0 10 0 0 52 Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 6% London Fire ........ 108. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15% LondowShip ........ 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15% Marine.. Med. Invild&Gen.Life 4341. per ct. 50 0 0 20 0 3 National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 23 4 National Life.. .. ..... 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 934 Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21. Os. Phi:cilia - - 205 Protector Life.... ... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 I/. 4s. Provident Life.. ...... 11. 55. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23 45. 5 0 0 010 0 4% Royal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. - 180 Sun Fire . - - 210 Ditto Life . • - • • • • • • • IL 65. - - 49 Univergal Life •• WILTER-WORIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per Share of Paid. Price. Annum. . X 5, d. east London. ..... ~,. 81. 100 0 0 - 216 Grand Junction ••• • - 31. 10s. 41 13 4 - 90 sent •••-••••• • • • • • • • 21. 10s. 100 0 0 - 70 Vauxhall - 57 West Middlesex •• .. - 130 DOCKS. Dividend Amount Name at Company. 1 per of Paid. i P r i ce . i Annum. Share. • - . -- ----- I £ s. d. # s. d. Commercial •• .• Rest and Met India ' 61. pr cent. Stock. 1 East Country •• •• •• • 1 I/. per sh. 100 0 0 Landon • • ..... 51. pr cent. Stock. i St. Katharine •• ••• 5 per cent. Stock. I Southampton • • ...• • • 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50f 0 0 11434 LIST OF SCOTTISH COIRP.ANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. I Price Annum. Share. ----. Z a. d. £ s. d Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 I 164 Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 ' 157 British Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 0 0 j 224 Commerdat Bank - 100 0 0 161 National Bank 6l. per cent. -• 10 0 0 15 Union Bank of Scotland 73!1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 92 Western Bank • ••••• • • 61. per cent. i - 50 0 0 82 North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 7 1 ,( Crydesdale Bank.• • - 10 0 0 1334 Eastern Bank.. ••• • • • 51. per cent. - 10 0 0 11 Caledonian Bank - 210 0 434 lidlnb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cert. i - 50 0 71.45. City of Glasgow Bank . 31. per cent. ; - 10 0 0 134 fileottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 120 0 0 1 0 0 24a. 6d Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Insur. Co. of Scellnd• • 51. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 9% North British Insur 5%1. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 28 Caledonian Fire Insur lOl. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22 Edinburgh Life Insur 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 I 18% Min. & Glasg. Railway 11.10 s. per c. 50 0 0 50 0 0 i 77 Ditto, 4 Shares 7s. 6d. p. a. 12 10 0 All paid. 18% &lin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 16 Glasaw & .Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 76 Glasgw&Greenckßail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 17 Glsgw &Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 403% Dundee& Arbroth Ball. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39 Sitandard LifeAssarnce.ls/. per cent. 150 0 0 1 210 0 i 9 CANALS. . Dividend? Names of g Dividend Names of ~ 1 Companies. , A per pri c e. Companies. 2, Annper"'"_. i Price. c Annum. z --I--• f X ; 1 I .i Ashtn & 014h1 97 31.55. p e 70 Sfonmonthshf 100 81. 160 Ashby-d-14-Z1 13 4/. 70 Mntgomrysh 1100 51. 98 Barnsley •. - 160 121. 180 Macclesfield .1100 - 38 Basingstoke.. 100 - - Nenth .. lloo' 17/. 1 340 lirknk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 Nottingham l5O 121. 1 - Cremibrd ..• • 100 141. 150 Peak Forest 7B 31. 68 Dudiey.• .... • 100 4/. - Regent's 33 11. ss. 23 Derby .• •• .. 'lOO, 61. 73 Rochdale B5 41. 77 Xllsznrs&Chs '133, 41. 55 Shropshire .• 125 8/. Enmesh •• • 1001 321. 300 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 130 Yorth & Clyd 100 41. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 61. p. c. 11 GranclJunctnlloo 71. 053 Stiffrd &Wore 140 281. 290 Grand Union' ' 100' 11. 10s. - Shrewsbury 125 151. 230 allamorgnsh . 172' 13%1. III 1 210 Stonrbridge 145 201. 315 Glen' & isrklyiloo , - - Strtfrd on Av 79 11. 10e. - Grantham • •,150' 121. 100 Severn and] 26 11. Ss. 32 Huddersfield; 57 - - Wye Rail. Kennt & Avul 39 1 7s. 6d. 10 Trnt & , Mr-1 , 301. _ Lancaster ... ,47 11. 10s. I - sey. 34 sh. j ""' Leeds& Livrp 100 , 341. 1520 Thams&Med 19 - - Leicester .... 140 101. 1105 Worcstr it] 78 21. 44 Leiostr &Nth, 83 4/. I 60 Binning. j.eughberegh! 142, 701. 1850 Wilts & Brks 67 1/. 11 BANK OF ENGLAND. - (From this Night's Gazette.) An lecoust, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. tub Week Eluding on Saturday, the 9th day of May, 1846. 1,98178 DEPARTMENT. Nayaa .. ' - nn. 27,244,995 32, for 27.144,996 Government debt' .. 11,915,100 Other securities .... 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 11,451,830 Silver bullion ...... 1,793,165 Dated dia 144 b day of May, IB4i .£27,244,995 ;. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Government securi ties (including Dead Weight Annuity).. 13,023,065 Other securities •• • • 17,734,025 Notes ••••••• • • • • • • • 6,836,405 Gold and silver coin.. 635,107 £38,228,602 • 3GUIBILLLL, Chief Cashier. SANXIMQ D 1 rreigietora' capital 14,553,000 Rest •• •••••• •• •• •• 3.406,264 Public thiposlt3 (in slnd lug Exchequer. Co t ',stoners of Nat al Debt, UT ings-banks, and Di vidend acoonnts) .• 3,031,375 Mbar deposits Seven day and other bills• •I r •• •• 981,417 £ 38,2'48,602 Dated Os Mit day of May, 1846, .COURSE OF EXCH. Arnett...darn ...... C.F. 12 10% Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 7% Rene: dart ...... 2 11. 12 11 Antwerp.......... .... 26 20 Ramburgh .... • •Mal. 13 15% Alton.. 25 8.5 26 10 26 15 ...... 26 15 /frankfort on Mains—. 123 retersburgh, BUG.. Paris, a days' sight .. • . Ditto, 3 inentia 3darseillas ...... Vienna, effee.llo le 11 ?rleste, ditto.... Madrid •• • • •• •• •• •• 36% Cadiz • • : 1311bs.:?• isreeloaa .. .. je - Y lllO- • ' kNGE.-(THIS DAY.) Gibra1tar.............. ato 75 Leghorn ........ • • • • Genoa .. •• • • .......... 26 15 Milan .. • • .. • • • • • • • • • • Venice .. .... ••••• • • • • • .„7 Naples .. .. •••• • • • • • "N Palermo, per oa .. /19 Lisbon.... ....... Oporto ................ 52% Rio Janeiro .... Bahia Buenos . Ayres .. .. •• • New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia .. ...... — ?welts ow morasom, PIE oz. Foreign Gold in bars.. $A 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 3 16 5 New Doubloons ... ... 9 0 0 New Dollars .... •• • • 0 4 9% Silver in bars ........ 0 4 11 RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. GROUP I. The Cemmitte• met this day at eleven o'clock; the Earl of Love hoe, chairman. LONDON AND TOILS. 'Ybe Noble CHAIRMAN commenced by saying, Mr. Sergeant King lake, I wish to intimate to you that it is the decision of the Com mittee that you should now confine your evidence as much as possible to the tra ffi c between Grantham and Bawtry ßeyond that point we do not wish much to go into the question of traffic. We got up to Grantham yesterday ; now confine your traffic evidence to between Grantham and Bawtry , because beyond Bawtry the aspect of the eauntry is almost identical. Mr. EDWARD DiNISON—:7o, my Lord, the lines do not go Over the same ground. The Noble CastsmAs—Very much so, as it appears to me. Mr. E. DirsisoN—l think not, my Lord. Mr. Sergeant KINGLaus Not beyond Bawtry, my Lord, I think. You see we take Doncaster, and then by means of Wakefield and Leeds we run into the very heart of the manufacturing districts. In the West Riding they have no such convenience. lam afraid our esse will be very complicated and intricate without that. The Marquis of CAMDEN—I should think that would be an engineering question. Mr. Sergeant KINULARS—I am afraid it is not distinctly under stood how important the question of traffic is in this case. The Noble CHAIRMAN—We shall be glad to have your evidence condensed as much as possible consistent with the interests of your 4324. After a few words the evidence was then proceeded with. Mr. It. Christopher, M.F. for the county of Lincoln, was the first Witness ea!leti. The llon. Member was of opinion that the London aid York line (if ltallway would be of very great advantage to the country through which it worati ;Int. Ile was satisfied of its neces sity, for the trattle was very great, anti present mode of transit was mast circuitous, and delays were very much t ,. - , , elained of. The witness was briefly c rosa - examined by Mr. Sergeant -79Nzs' Th e Mayor of Stamford, and several merchants on the other part. ,r the line. were called. The evidence was all of the most favour able cataract& for the London and York line, as being the better fur the accommodation of the country. The evidence in favour of the preamble of this Bill was proceeded with. After the examina ti o n of Mr . Evelyn Denison, who spoke most favourably or the scheme , the Committee called u p on the pro rooters to put in the traffic tables. Upon the traffic tables having been put in, a discussion arose as to the propriety of abridging the evidence, after which several wit mesees were ealled in support of the general traffic of the line. The 'witnesses were not subjected to anything like a tedious examination, not moth than a very few minutes having been devoted to cash, both In examination gad cross-examination. At fear o'clock the Committee were about to adjourn, when an application was made to have the neat sitting of the Committee on Monday instead of on Saturday (to-morrow) as wan agreed on yes -1,v911Y. _ _ . Mier some butt:hi:ion an the part of their Lordship 9, they Intl ineted that the aMottrameat b, Wldicoulay host. ROUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP XIII. CALEDONIAN AND BRA.NCEES. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) The Cllamira's intimated that the Committee had come to the conclusion that they would not defer their decision untie after the cases for the Caledonian Extension and the North British (Hawick and Carlisle) lines had been gone into and brought to a close. The Comanrrza then called on Mr. Cockburn, to reply to the evidence adduced by the promoter of the Nlthsdalde scheme. Before this was done, Mr. Miller, civil engineer, was called, and briefly examined, to the effect that the engineering peculiarities of the Caledonian branches were such, that they could not be worked with safety to the trains passing along the main line. Mr Coexist-ass then proceeded to gam up the ctse. He said the case was substantially the same as that brought before the Legislature last year. The question then decided was the comparative the merit of the two lines, and the decision was given in favour of he. Caledonian scheme, as presenting the beat features f or a g reat tional scheme. The Committee= o e f fboththeseHeocuseshem,es, whaillohrmadeticathree folly examined evidence in favour edeecveriareledelytrthecteeEtteoarmdthofeTrerpoadrte. with h or t eh ing d i th dl e nb s ur ou g th h , an th d e O c las aied go e w . opThfrinteheelpelßaeirdehdichgofehnTadtireaTbeeea:ontphreethnvieoruseqauldyestion. The quotations were in andsabs substance to o t rth o fire affect , that w t Caledo nian scheme was much preferable Ccarounllslece to llith Valley line. It was also stated that the traffic would not warrant any other through line ; that therefore the Dumfries and Glasgow line, on the one side, or the Howick and Carlisle line en the other, could not co-exist with such a through line as the Caledonian. The Dumfries line, it was admitted, could accommodate Ayrshire and part of Dumfriesshile in a better manner than the Caledonian line ; but as a through line to the more important and populous districts, it was not to be compared to the latter. The Caledonian would connect in the directest manner a population of 1,200,000, whereas the Dumfries scheme would not specially accom modate more than about 300,000. The Board of Trade, while they objected to the Howick and Carlisle Extension on the grounds of its being a competing line to the Caledonian, still admitted, that in order to accommodate local traffic, the Edinburgh and Howick Branch was advisable. Such were the views of the Board of Trade, declaring that the two schemes were incompatible with each other. It was quite evident that the Board of Trade weighed the local advantages of the one scheme against the great national advantages of the other, and the advan tages preponderating in favour of the latter, the decision was given in Its favour. The view of the Board of Trade, after the careful exami nation of about one hundred witnesses, was confirmed by Committees of both Houses. In both Houses it was held that these were rival and competing lines, and that two such lines, with the amount of traffic in the country could not co-exist ; therefore, it was, that the best line, the Caledonian, was selected and the other denied. That the view taken by the Board of Trade, and the Committees of last session, was a correct one, had been shown by the evidence of Mr. Locke, and the other witnesses who had been examined, in regard to working expenses and the expected traffic. On the faith of the decision of last session, the Caledonian Company had entered into extensive contracts, and it would be most prejudicial to its interests, if a rival line was now let loose upon them. If ever there was a time in which it behoved Committees to be wary it was the present time. It was evident that Sir Robert Peel's resolutions had not operated to check such specula tions in the way expected, and therefore was it that the utmost vigilance should be exercised by the Committee on such cases as that now submitted to its consideration. Last year when speculation was at its height the present scheme was denied as incompatible with the existence of the Caledonian line ; how then could the Committee decide now in its favour, when the public mind had become more sober, and when there was such necessity that capital should not be drained from trade or commerce, to be expended in rash and ruinous speculation. The Learned Gentleman then went over the evidence commenting on it, as he proceeded. It appeared that though the present scheme was shorter than last year's scheme by 15 miles, yet the receipts were actually represented to be, for local and Ayrshire iraffic, 30,0001. more than the year before. This he considered a fraudulent attempt to bolster up a case. A great number of their items of traffic had been shown to be much exaggerated, both as it regarded minerals and cattle, as well as road-side and steam-boat passengers. While the traffic of the Nottindale scheme had been thus exaggerated, it had been further shown that if this line were constructed, the competition for through traffic would be such, that the nett receipts on the Caledonian line would be reduced, as to be little above 60,0001., or a trifle beyond three per on the capial embarked. While the Caledonian line would be thus injuriously affected, he submitted, that with the traffic case of the Nithsdale Company, either as given by themselves or as corrected by his witnesses, there was not anything like satisfactory proof of re muneration to be obtained :for the 1,200,0001. that would have to be embarked in the latter. He submitted that the case of the Nithsdale line had not been made out, and that at least the view of Mr. Locke should be adopted—viz., before sanctioning such a line, to wait and see whether the traffic of the Caledonian scheme would be such as to fairly warrant the construction of a second line. The Learned Gentleman, after briefly glancing at the Caledonian branches, sub mitted that the preamble of the Nithsdale Company's Bill be rejected as not proved. In conclusion, he trusted that, whatever view the Committee should take of the Dumfries and Gretna branch of the Caledonian scheme, it would be conceded to them as a protection for their through traffic, which the Nithsdale Company professed they did not wish to interfere with. Mr. AUSTIN then addressed the Committee against the Caledonian, Dumfries, and Springfield branches, on behalf of the petitioning landlords, the Duke of Buccleugh and Lords Queensberry and Mans field. He would not go into the general case, beyond referring to the evidence of the Duke of lituccleugh, which his Learned Friend had carefully omitted reference to. His Grace had declared that nothing but a strong sense of the wants of the district between New Cum nock and Dumfries induced him to support the Niths dale ' line ; and in order that such a want should be filled up, his Grace also maintained that, to make this Dumfries and Cumnock portion of railway profitable, it was absolutely necessary that the more profitable portion between Dum fries and Carlisle should be placed in the same hands for censtruction. The evidence, backed by so many other respectable witnesses, was better than all the legerdemain that Mr. Hare had attempted on the traffic tables ; the value of which was shown to be very little in the cross-examination that ensued. He represented three great land lords, who substantially represented the whole agricultural and mi neral interests of the south of Scotland. The opinion of such pro prietors was entitled to great consideration by a Committee of either House. Now, what was the case of the Duke of Bacclench ? His Grace had twenty-two miles in the valley of the Nith, a rich agri cultural and mineral district which the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car lisle scheme traversed, but which no compensation whatever was given for by the Caledonian Company. Now, while the Caledonian scheme gave no accommodation to the Duke's property in the valley of the Nith, its Springfield branch cut through three miles of his land in another direction : therefore his Grace said, he could not sanction a scheme that thus invaded his property in one direction, while it left him entirely without accommodation through out the valley of the Nith on the other. The Learned Gentleman then reviewed the evidence bearing on these points, and on the Sanquhar coal-fields, which he represented to have satisfactorily proved the necessity for a valley line; and having also glanced at the damage which would be done to the property of the other pro prietors for whom he appeared if the Caledonian branches were formed, and the Nithsdale refused, called on the Committee to affirm the preamble of the Nlthsdale Bill, and to reject the branches of the other. The Committee then adjourned till Monday at twelve o'clock, when Mr. Andrews will be heard on behalf of the Netherdale line. GROUP XIV. NORTH RENT AND SOUTH EASTERN RAI LWAY. The Committee on these lines met to-day at twelve o'clock. The public were not admitted into the room, and the doors re mained closed until a quarter to four. At that time the public were admitted into the room, and .... .... . __ The CHAIRMAN asked Mr. Merewether if the South Eastern Company had received any communication from the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. Mr. MEREWETHIft replied that they had. The CHAIRMAN said perhaps he would have the goodness to hand _ . it over ro the North Kent Company, that they might have an opportunity of examining it, and also the engineer of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. He would take that opportunity of saying that he trusted that the exami nation would be short and that the Committee would be prepared to pronounce their decision on these lines on Monday, very shortly after the close of that part of the case. Their decision would be an nounced so soon after the close of the examination, that the Com mittee wished that the promoters of the Mid Kent line would be ready with their witnesses to proceed at once. Mr. Blocs asked if it was the intention of the Conamtitee to pro ceed with the clauses of the Bill, in whose favour their decision should be given, at once ? _ . The Cuaiamarr said that he thought they would. The Committee then adjourned until Monday. GROUP XVIII. This Committee assembled at the usual hour, Mr. E. Denison, chairman. EXETER, YEOVIL, AND DORCHESTER. The cross-examination of Mr. Divett, M.P. for Exeter, was re sumed this morning by Mr. AUSTIN, on behalf of the Great Western Railway. He stated that there had been enormous specula tion in Exeter in railway concerns. lie believed Mr. Toby was a native of Exeter he had not the pleasure of knowing him. He knew Mr. Woolmer very well. fie believed he was Chairman of this Company. He would be sorry to see the broad gauge taken up on that portion of the line between Bristol and Exeter, for several reasons. One of his reasons was, the incon venience of a change of gauge. Another reason was, that he did not think it probable that he would be able to make the journey from Exeter to London in so short a time by the narrow as by the broad gauge. He considered, however, that both gauges were a mistake, and that Mr. Brunel was wrong in dashing out at once as he did into a 7 feet gauge ; and, on the other hand, he felt convinced that the narrow gauge was too narrow for purposes of speed. In his opinion, Parliament had acted very unwisely in not insisting, at an earlier period of the railway history, upon an uniform gauge. Re-examined by Mr. Rows—ln his opinion a narrow gauge should not be intruded upon a broad gauge. He thought, however, that a direct competing line on the narrow gauge' from Exeter to London, would be of great benefit, and he thought it would more effectually compete with the existing line. He thought that if another rail was laid down on the Wilts and So merset Railway, which would effect a junction with the proposed line, there would then be a direct competing line on the narrow gauge from Bristol to the straits of Dever. In answer to a question from the CHAIRMAN—The Hon. Member stated that he should most certainly prefer tithing into consideration the existing lines, and also the line from Southampton to Dorches ter, a narrow gauge, direct from Exeter to Dover. Mr. Delargar was the next witness examined by Mr. Mem- WETHER—He had resided 45 years in Eater, and had filled the office of mayor of that city. The feeling in favour of the proposed line was very considerable in that city. The examination of this witness was interrupted by the Chairman and Committee as he was giving evidence in favour of the line from Exeter to Salisbury, and not as between Exeter and Yeovil. After a considerable discussion between the counsel on eac side, and the Committee, the room was cleared for a division. On our re-admission into the room, The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee had decided that they would take the whole of the evidence as regarded the whole line. The examination of the witness was then resumed, and gave fur ther evidence as to the benefit to be derived from the proposed line. Mr. Turner, a large agriculturist, of Bath, gave similar evidence in favour of the line. _ _ _ ._Mr. Ferd, carrier, proved that the carriage of goods on the South western was much superior to the Great Western, in point of Punctuality, safety, dispatch, and price. Thomas if,ingland, farmer and cider grower, stated the proposed line would be very convenient for him to send his cider and stock by. The Committee then rose at four o'clock, and adjourned till Monday. This Committee met tbia GROUP ZS. in the chair. morning at the U sua l h our, M r. S o th eron wierason, SILOITCIII. .A31111:11 AX141213 ATZKOEMEMEILIC. The case of the opposition having been opened yesterday by Mr. Warren, and the Rev. Mr. Hawtrey, head-master of Eton College, having been examined against the line, Mr. Sudrsos, civil engineer to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and Mr. Bachelor, registrar of Eton College, were examined this morning at great length. The principal point which occupied the consideration of the Committee was, whether a piece of land over which the railway was proposed to pass ws s the property of the Crown or not. Mr. PEMBERTON, solicitor to the Woods and Forests, said, that ne application had been made by the promoters to the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests respecting their assent. From a communi cation he had yesterday with:the chief Commissioner, he was autho rised to say that they were opposed to the line. After some discussion as to the order in which the examination should be continued, whether there should be an adjournment of the case till Monday, to hear further evidence on this point, or that the rest of the case should be proceeded with, it was eventually de cided that further proceedings should be postponed till twelve o'clock on Monday. The Committee then adjourned. GROUP XXII. This Committee met today at twelve o'clock—Sir George Grey in the chair. IPSWICH AND BURT ST. =marl:lnm (NOR CI EXTENSXON). The further consideration of this case was resumed. Mr. John Harding, grocer, of Norwich, deposed that the present railway connexion between London and Norwich was not approved of by the inhabitants of the latter city. The Norfolk Railway was very circuitous, whereas the present line would be a direct one, and would afford au excellent connexion with the south for the agricul tural preduce and fat cattle of Norfolk. Mr. Timothy Stewart, brewer of Norwich, and effect. The feel . Chairman of the Eastern Counties Bank, gave evidence to a similar ing of the inhabitants of Norwich was decidedly in favour of the pre sent scheme, as one that would give great acconunodation to the district. Mr. John Barber, of Norwich, gave similar eviden ce. r.: ,„zstd, of Norwich, deposed that the feeling of Norwich was unanimously in :f the present line. Ain Henry Chamberlaid, ,7:l:nchester warehouseman, of Norwich, testified to the same effect. Mr. Taylor, of Hiss, was examined to the effect that the proposed line would give ample accommodation to the district, and was one that was much required by the inhabitants. The traffic that was likely to pass along it he repre sented to be very considerable. Other evidence of a similar character was taken up till four o'clock, when the Committee adjourned. GROUP XXVII. This Committee met today at the usual hour, Sir c. Lemon to the chair. LEICESTER AND BEDFORD• The case of the South Midland (competing) line having closed yes terday, and Mr. Sergeant Wrarighain having opened the case of the Leicester and Bedford Railway, the Committee proceeded this mom ing to hear evidence as to the traffic to be anticipated on the latter line. Mr. Edward Weston, the mayor of Leicester ; Mr. Whetstone, a coal-owner and woolstapler, residing in the same town ; Mr. Man nerly, a general dealer; and Mr. Fielding, an alderman of Leices ter and a worsted spinner, were examined at great length. The main tendency of their evidence was to show the advantages which a direct and through communication to London would confer upon the towns of Leicester and Bedford in particular, and the inhabitants of that district generally. Mr. W. Stephenson, butcher and grazier ; Mr. Kidman, grazier, of Market Borough ; Mr. Billings, grazier and Smithfield salesman ; Mr. John Polkington, grazier, at,Bullerton,; and T. P. Mannsell, Esq., M.P. for Northamptonshire, corroborated the testimony of the last wit nesses, and deposed to the inconvenience and delay sustained by the practice of the London and Birmingham Railway Company in the carriage of beasts, and hence the necessity for an independent line. The Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock on Monday. GROUP XXXI. GLOUCESTER AND FOREST OF DEAN. The Committee met this morning at the usual hour, Mr. Round in the chair. Mr. Brunel was examined at great length with respect to the en gineering capabilities of the line, and the accommodation which it would afford to the districts which it was proposed to traverse. He regarded the line in a national point of view, inasmuch as it would complete the chain of communication from the important districts of South Wales to the metropolis, and afford the means of speedy transit to the immense quantity of minerals raised In the locality. Mr. Partridge was then examined with respect to the traffic. He considered that the proposed line was preferable to the existing means of communicatioa, and that it would be extensively pa tronised. GROUP XL. LEEDS AND YORK. The Committee on Group No. 40 resumed the consideration of this branch this morning, Mr. Stafford O'Brien in the chair, with the other members of the Committee present, when Mr. BAINES proceeded to address the Committee in reply, on the merits of the line, and contended chiefly that the improvements on Mr. Hudson's line had never been contemplated until this line was started. The Learned Counsel stated that the Earl of Mexborough, Lord 'Wenlock, Mr. Ingram, and all the chief landowners, were in favour of the line. He apprehended that these were just the persons to be entrusted: with the check which this line was likely to give to the monopoly now in existence. The traffic between the manufacturing districts and theisapital of the country had been, not wilfully, but certainly and most decidedly sacrificed to the peculiar interests of a certain set of individuals, who could not possibly do justice to the interests of the public. Mr. Hudson is now connected with railways in nearly half the counties in England, ex tending from Northumberland to the British Channel. So that surely he had enough to attend to. Then there was the consideration of the transport of troops. Now York is a great central military depot, and the advantages offered by this line are very great. The rival schemes offered no railway convenience whatever. While the pro moters of this were providing for this want, according to Mr. Hudson, who had too much fairness and manliness to deny anything that he had uttered, the traffic between Leeds and York and Scarborough had been so developed, that where there was formerly only one public conveyance, the amount last year had reached to 1,0001. a week. The population on each side of this line, within a distance of six miles, was upwards of 31,000, while on the other line it was not more than 25,000. It was therefore evident that the proposed line would connect very important places both in an agricultural and commercial point of view, and would give facilities of communication which were now most grievously required. Wetherby fair was one of the greatest fairs in the north, and although the disadvantages of communication are at the present time exceedingly great, yet such is the necessity for the farmers and graziers to resort there, that the market was uniformly well attended, and he would ask why should the parties in that part of the country be obliged to go all the way round by the North Midland Junction line? The Learned Counsel then proceeded at great length to discuss the respective merits of the different lines. Mr. Cubitt, whose high character as a man and an engineer, entitled every word of his to be received with respect, had stated, before going over the line from end to end, that this was decidedly the best line of the three, and that there were no engineering difficulties much worthy of consideration. According to the Bills which had already been passed, the Company, if they obtained their line, would be obliged at any future period to make any junction which might be required by the convenience of the public. The same might be said of the stations. The district south-west of Leeds was one of the most important in all England, and the sites for the stations had been selected with an express view to give every facility of communication between York and the manufacturing 1 districts. There was but one objectionable curve throughout the whole line, and that was in a place where such curves were uni versally allowed, viz., at the termination of the line. On the other side the lines were full, both of objectionable carves and gradients, and taking the total .of the mileage, the gradients were better on this line than on the other. The earthwork, therefore, could sot be otherwise than lighter. The estimate was, according to 31r. Cubitt, in every way ample, and in stating it at 585,0001., Mr. Bateman had taken the outside prices, while, on Mr. Birkenshaw's plan, the Wetherby line would cost 340,0001., with the necessity of another branch, costing 250,0001., which, with another 50,0001. for the anticipated contingencies, would make the cost of the whole line about 640,0001. According to Mr. Cope, who was allowed by Mr. Sergeant Wilkins to be a man of the greatest ability, the return would be 88,4641. a year. Mr. Cope had stated that all the traffic which he hadrestimated had been invariably doubled by experience, which sufficiently showed the moderation of that gen tleman's computation. There was no residential property whatever interfered with, and there was one universal feeling among the tenantry in favour of this line. With respect to petitions, the promoters were the only parties who had given any ana lysis of this petition, and on the most severe cress examination it turned out that this line was decidedly the beat, and most decidedly approved of by the people of Leeds. He had shown that this was the best line, that; the estimates were sufficient, that the traffic was likely to remunerate the shareholders, and that a great public benefit would arise from its construction. Mr. HILDYean, in reply, would not recapitulate all that had been stated. He wished to draw the attention of the Committee to the evidence of Mr. Swanning, an engineer of great eminence. The Learned Counsel then went through the evidence of that gentleman, showing that the Leeds and North Midlands Junction line, which goes through the valley of the Cop, is the natural outlet of the country, while the route of the Leeds and York line had been selected simply because it was only left after the best line had been taken. And further, this route had been formerly rejected. The North Midland junction was in direct com munication with the stations at York and Leeds. Mr. Hudson had expressly stated that although he proposed to shorten the communi cation, yet the bulk of the traffic would still go by the present line. That gentleman has stated that the traffic was a trifle under 21,0001. between Leeds and York ; and this was the fact, notwithstanding all the assertions of Mr. Cope. The Learned Gentleman then weut into the peculiarities of the other lines, and stated that the direct line would traverse five different railways with which it had no connexion whatever, and was con sequently an Imperfect line. The objection which had been made as to the crowding of the line was about to be obviated by the York and North Midland Company constructing a line to draw off the Hull traffic. There was really no opposition, and though he could not go into all the circumstances, he believed the Committee would be satisfied that the York end Worth Midland Junction was the best line. One thing he might say in their favour. It appeared on the returns to the Board of Trade that there had been fewer accidents on the line owned by this Company than on any other in the country. _ _ The room ;vas then cleared, and on the re-admission of parties, The CHAIRMAN declared that the preamble of the York, North Midland, Leeds Extension Bill was proved, and that the preambles of the York, and the Leeds, York, and Midland Junction, were not proved, GROUP XLIV. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEW- CASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUN CTION. It appeared that the arrangement made by the parties to the two projects, with respect to the Hawes branch, was, that it should be con structed by the Liverpool and Newcastle Company. YORK AND CARLISLE-YORXSZER,Z AND GLASGOW UNION. It will be remembered that these Bills, which were originally com peting with one another, and were amalgamated in the course of last week, were again called on as soon as the Liverpool and Newcastle was disposed of. The usual formality of adjusting the clauses was about to be proceeded with, when Mr. TALBOT raised] an objection to the amalgamation (a matter which had been generally considered as settled). He said he was obliged to "forbid the banns"—(A laugh)—of the couple who were about to enter into the holy state of matrimony. He had discovered that that " loving swain," the York and Glasgow, was not possessed of funds sufficient to defray the expenses that would be entailed by the union. In short, the York and Glasgow Company had only 5 per cent. on their required capital, with which sum they were to go before the House of Lords. Now the York and Carlisle Company had 10 per cent. OR their capital, and if the companies were amalga mated, this sum would be applicable to the purposes of the Yorkshire and Glasgow Railway, the unfairness of which was manifest. The lines must not, therefore, be united unless a clause were inserted securing the application of the York and Carlisle funds to the York and Carlisle Railway. A long discussion here took place, and ended in a resolution being proposed to the effect, that a clause should be inserted in the Bill, whereby both parties should be pledged to an equal contribution of funds, and an appropriate application of them. This resolution was adopted by the Committee, and the clause will be inserted in the Amalgamation Bill on Monday, till which day the further consideration of the case was postponed. It is to be hoped that the objection to the " banns," raised by Mr. Talbot, will not be fatal to the hopes of the " loving pair," and that the union, though delayed, will not be prevented. CLITHEROZ 317NCTION. This adjourned case was next proceeded with. Mr. Errington, the engineer (who in this case is In partnership with Mr. Cowley and Mr. Gooch) gave evidence in corroberation of the statements of those gentlemen, as far as they referred to the case of Mr. Taylor. He pointed oat the fact that the model (which was fully described in The Sun of Wednesday), being on a vertical scale double the horizontal, gave an exaggerated representation of the scene, which casts no imputation upon the parties, it being admitted that the misrepresentation was not intended to deceive. Mr. Thomas Greenwood gave evidence, with some statistical de tails, as to the amount of traffic that might be expected upon this line, and the relative merits of this and the Blackburn and Clitheroe (the competing) line. The passenger -traffic on this line would be treble that on the Blackburn and Clitheroe line. There would be 1,622 tons more coal per annum passing over this than over the Blackburn and Clitheroe line, and 9,953 more workmen employed. . . - Mr. BAINES, on the part of the Blackburn and Clitheroe, said he should wish to see the tables on which those calculations were founded before cross-examining the witness, Copies of the tables were handed to Mr. Baines, and, It being now fear o'clock, the Committee adjourned, Mr. Baines postponing his cross-examination till their next meeting. They adjourned till Monday at twelve o'clock. GROUP LV. The Committee met at one o'clock in No. 11 Committee-room ; Mr. Shaw, the Recorder of Dublin, in the chair. The following Bills are comprised in this Group : 1. Manchester and Hyde. 2. Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester (Whaley-bridge and Hayfield branches). 3. Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Potteries, and Crewe. 4. Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Junction. 5. Cengieton and Crewe. 6. Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction. 7. Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester (Dukentield and Glossop Branches and Sheffield Junction). After considerable discussion the Committee expressed their inten tion of first proceeding with TILE M.A.NCILESTILIC SE 4 AN THE CUIsT, LONDON FRIDAY EVENING, MAY Is, lea MIDLAND JUNCTION. The usual formal proofs having been given, saidmotera. lie the eeded to open line was proposed M anchester, through Pennistone, Ch es t er fi e ld, an d even to Sheffield, pro t p he e r toe o n run the fr o p m art th o e f the - town roof where it would form a junction with the Midland Railway. Sheffield, as they were aware, was a manufacturing town of con siderable importance. It contained a population of 120,000, accord ing to the last census ; and Chesterfield, which was also a line of considerable importance, possessed a population of 80,000. By the present circuitous route, persons going from Sheffield to Chesterfield had to go twenty-two miles, which this line would reduce to twelve miles, thus saving nine miles. In order to accomplish this important saving, the line was proposed to run almost perpendicularly from north to south, This would also reduce the distance to the same extent between ilieffield and Huddersfield, and, in fact, all the important towns if; that district ; and, besides, it would convey coals to these towns at a much cheaper rate than they could now be obtained. Altogether the line, with branches, would be 23 miles in length, and there would be eight tunnels altogether of an aggregate length of six miles. The ruling gradient was 1 in 150, and the worst 1 in 100. They, however, would enter the town of Sheffield by a viaduct, with a gradient of 1 in 84, but such a gradient in the improved state of locomotion, presented no difficulty. The estimate was 1,050,0001., and the traffic would realise 7 per cent, after the payment of all expenses. A great portion of the capital was sub scribed in the locality. They had to encounter the opposition of the Duke of Norfolk, but his opposition could only be expected when it was considered that he had an interest in the conveyance of coals from Sheffield. Several witnesses were then called, who gave evidence in favour of the line, and the Committee adjourned until Monday. STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEES. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Committee met to-day at three o'clock, a n d decided that in the case of the EDINBURGH AND PEEBLI S, the Bill should be allowed to p roceed on c ertain conditions. LONDON" A ND BIRMINGHAM EXTENSION (NORTHAMP TON, or de A rs NVEnoICtB THAMPTON AND BANBURY, not allowed to procee d. HESTER AND STOUR VALLEY, oORII' LEAMINGTON AND WARWICK), standing dispensed with, COLC allowed to proceed. The Committee then adjourned. QUEEN'S BENCII.--(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at trial Arius, at Guildhall, before Mr. Justice Wicarmoi, and Common Juries.) The greater part of the day was occupied in disposiug of undefended caeca. COMMON S.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi E Pri P us, L Gui A ldhall, before Mr. Justice ERLE and Common Juries.) NISS V. DAVIS. This was a case brought on for the purpose of trying and deciding a technical law point. The facts of the case were these :—The plaintiff was attorney in a case in which he obtained a judgment against a person named Carroll for a debt of 240 L, and for 'which he had been arrested and given in to the custody of the defendant, who is high sheriff of the county of Radnor ; that Carroll was brought up to London under a habeas in the month of February, 1846, in the custody of the sheriff's officer, and that while in London he was permitted to go about town and transact some business, and went to Hampstead on the Sunday, but was not at any time out of the custody of the officer. The allegation of the plaintiff was, that tbic; con stituted an escape in law from the custody of the sheriff, and the case was now brought before the Court merely for the purpose of having the point decided. The case was one in which there was a great deal of dry law argument, and had not terminated when our report left. TIIE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS DAY.) WAR OFFICE, MAY 15, 1846. Further list of non-commissioned officers and privates of the Queen's army, on the Sutlej, killed in action, or who have subsequently died of wounds, 3d Light Dragoons. Sergeants—Walter Eldridge, JaS.Baker, Patrick Franklin. Privates—George West, Richard Wright, William Wall, William Bell, Frederick Laymin, John Marshall, William Driver, Thomas Blake, William Thomas Coe, John William Alexander, Patrick Brian, Alexander Jason Hacsard, Daniel Fivermore, E.lward Mease, William Mease, William Bobson, Valentine Steel, Mark Reeves. 9th Lancers. Privates—Thomas Cock, Richard Bond, Samuel Day, and Thomas Stead. 9th Foot. — R W lard b Biem vs iakison, Charles :Grimes, Daniel I HO PSer ra ri g vg t a ae n at , ens—ic Edward Tiara, James Ruddy, William Rowbotham, W. Byrne, John Ransbury, R. Jones, J. Meath, G. Fowid, J. Naughton, Patrick Monaghan, H. Jackson, J. Hogartb, C. Middlehurst, P. Dawson, H. A. George, J. Watkins, Robert Williams, James Clarke, John Harley, E. Bishop, J. Kelly, H. Eyles, J. Ford, James Thomas, R. Shea, W. Campion, Thomas Masse-- Jllld ,sey. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAY 12. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Captain and Brevet-Major J. H. Feer to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Maclachlan, placed on the Seconded List; Second Captain G. Maclean to be Captain, vice Freer; First Lieutenant R. S. Allen to be Second Captain, vice G Maclean; Second Lieutenant H. T. Fitzliugh to be First Lieutenant, vice Allen, May 4. Commission by the Queen. Glamorganshire Regiment of Militia—Captain J. H. Arm strong, to be Adjutant, March 21. Cemmission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Lancaster. Second Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia —Captain T. M. Seel, to be Major, vice H. Ford, promoted, April 1. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Mid-Lothian. Edinburgh Regiment of Militia—G. Thomson, Esq., to be Captain, vice Foulis, resigned ; A. W. Shaw, Gant., to be Lieutenant, vice .4rieve, deceased; T. S. M‘Call, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Hunter, deceased ; C. W. Wright, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Sommerville, deceased ; J. W. Orr, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Stewart, promoted ; F. Kennedy, Gent., to be Ensign vice Reid, resigner', April 25. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire. Royal Wiltshire Regiment of Militia—The Hon. H. P. Methuen to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Vilett, deceased, May 6. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of the County of York, and of the County of the City of York. Ist West York Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Captain R. G. Lumley to be Major, vice Elmsall, promoted ; Lieut. T. Walker to be Captain, vice Lumley, promoted; the Hon. E. Monckton to be Captain, vice Sitwell, resigned ; Cornet S. A. Cooke to be Lieutenant, vice Walker, promoted ; Comet E. B. Frank to be Lieutenant, vice Sir J. Copley, resigned ; Cornet H. Boynton to be Lieutenant, vice Preston, promoted; W. Stanhope, Gent., Lieutenant, vice Cuttle, resign e d ; J. H ar t op , G en t, t o b e omed, vice Cham bers, resigned; J. F. Wright, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Elmsall, transferred to the Ist Dragoons; H, B. Square, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Cooke, promoted; J. Foster, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Chandler, resigned ; W. Bamforth, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Hellesley, resigned, May 11. WHITEHALL, MAY 12. The Lord Chancellor has appointed James Perrin, of Wot ton-under-Edge, in the county of Gloucester, Gent., to be a Mascer Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. William Bucknell Lemon, ironmonger, Croydon, to sur render, May 29, and June 26, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall -street ; Lepard, Williams, and Co., Cloak-lane. Luke Whitby, builder, Poultry, May 22, at one, and June 26, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, Ba ssnghall-street, official assignee; Burnell, Fenchurch-street. Robert Smith, cabinet-maker, Sussex-street, Tottenham. court-road, May 27, at eleven, and June 26, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Da vies and Son, Warwick -street, Regent-street. Thomas Showell, tailor, Ludgate-street,Ludgate-hill, May 28, at eleven, and June 26, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; Lindo, King's Arm's yard, Moergate-street. William Erick, baker, Hackney-road, May 25, and June 27, at twelve, at th e Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook -court, Basinghall-street ; Hillearys, Fenchurch-street. George Sex, job master, Stone Cutter-street, Farringdon • street, May 25, at half. past one, and June 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers ; Collins and Co. , Crescent-place, Blackfriars William Aburrow, druggist, Liverpool, May 26, and June. 19, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Gregory, Faulkner, Gregory, and Skirrow, Bedford-row. Richard Mills and George Puckle, corn factors, Mark-lane, June 2, at two, and June 26. at twelve, at the Court of Bank. ruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard street; Parnther and Fisher, F enc h urc h- s t ree t . Charles Murry II illiams, ironmonger, Bristol, June 4, at twelve, and June 26, at eleven, at th e B r i s t o l Di str i ct C ourt. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; White and Co., Bedford row, Londen ; Messrs. W. and C. Bevan, Bristol. Clark, Med ca lf , and Gray, Lincoln's Inn- Philip Vaughan, scrivener, Brecon, M ay 28 an d J une 25, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Clark, and Co., B r i sto l . Hutton, official lC b ; oiler maker, B o lt on- l e -Moors, Lancashire, assignee, lsd asn; use I B 7 r ii i r y s May 27, and June 22, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Johnson, Son, and Wetherell, Temple; Blair, Manchester. John Bridgwood, butcher, Forebridge, Staffordshire, May 25, and June 22, at one, at th e Bi rmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; Bennett and price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the Bowen, Stafford ; Smith, Gray's. i nn . PRICE OF SUGAR. British possessions in America, c o m put e d rn in the w ee k end i ng May 12, 1846, is hee s made fp:00 1'1 111d i ut e chee a v or e fe r t a iti g 365. 2:%d. per cwt. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of May 15.) SUGAR.—This afternoon the market was better supplied with West India Muscovadoe Sugar, still grocers and re finers were eager purchasers of all descriptions, and the parcels offered at public sale went briskly at full rates. REFINED.—There has been a cona'derable increase in the demand for Refined Sugar for home consumption this week ; all descriptions have been extensively dealt in, and in conse quence of the limited supply buyers have been compelled to pay an advance on former rates of is to 2s per cwt. NIAURITIVS—This afternoon Mauritius Sugar was in ex cellent request, and 7,906 bags 18 casks at auction were all sold at fully former rates, and in some cases even 6d per cwt advance. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar met with at tention, and 823 bags at public sale were sold at full rates. FORElGN—Although the arrivals of Foreign have been upon a more extended scale this week, still merchants have shown firmness and refrained from offering at any auction. The stock still shows a decrease in comparison with that of this time last year. Brown Brazil has been in extensive re quest and brought rather higher rates. MoLAssEs—All fresh descriptions of West India are much sought after, and rather higher rates have been paid. The supply is small of all descriptions, and the stock is con siderably less than it was last year atthis time,but prices are higher. Bengal Treacle has met with increased attention, and prices are going up. In low kinds of Honey large sales have been made, but the better sorts are at present little wanted. COFFEE.—This afternoon Mocha Coffee was only in limited request, and 123 bales at auction went at rather lower rates. Of Bahia 117 bags were taken in at 38s for fine ordinary dingy. 160 bags Java at 50s for good yellow Comuany's : 20 bales Malabar fine yellow at 45s ; 134 bags Plantation Ceylon, fine fine ordinary coloury 655, and 30 casks of Ber bice unclean, fine and fine fine ordinary 548 to 635, ordinary and good ordinary 45s to 50s, being all above the value. TEA.—Although the arrivals continue to be heavy, still merchants have cofidence, and refrain from offering an y a t public sale. There has been only a limited demand for Con gou, this week, but full rates are insisted upon. Pouchong has been disposed of to a fair extent at 4d to 10d. Hyson has been in excellent request. Of young Hyson several parcels have been disposed of upon former terms. There has been a good business transacted in Twankay at full rates. Holders of Imperial and Gunpowder having . been free se ll ers at late rates, caused several parcels to be disposed of. Fine scented Orange Pekoe has been taken more freely, but not at better prices, 2s per lb being taken. Rim—This afternoon the market was abundantly sup plied with Bengal Rice ; at public sale 6,040 bags were offered, but the whole sold, in consequence of merchants ac cepting rather lower rates for white, and 6d per cwt decline for yellow. SPICES.—This afternoon Pimento was purchased with Citation, and the sound of 231 bags at auction was nearly all withdrawn at 3 3 / i d for middling, B%d to 3%d for low mid dling, but the damaged sold at 3 1 , 4 dto 3%d. Of Mace 15 chests went at 2s 9d to 2s lld for middling Singapore, 2s 10d for Penang • 8 casks 48 bags Bourbon Cloves taken in at 9d to ls. FRUIT. —In Currants there has been a good deal done this week, Zante and Cephalonia at 465, Patras, 46s to 48s. The importers are evidently disposed to facilitate sales, to meet the present demand, expecting further arrivals. SPIRITS. —The market has assumed a quiet appearance for Jamaica Rum, the trade purchasing with much caution, and former rates are not obtainable, there being a larger quantity on show. In Leeward Island there has been very little business transacted, and prices are on the deline. Calcutta is dull of sale, and there are sellers of proof with certificate at ls. 9d. For. strong Demerara former rates are asked, but the demand has been only for small parcels Holders of Brandy are for the most part unwilling to further reduce their prices, but the parchapes have been limited. Geneva is little wanted for exportation, and prices are droop ing, is 10d to 2s being taken for common; tine for home consumption has been in less request, but 2s 6d to 3s are rates insisted upon. The market for Corn Spirits has still a dull appearance, but prices remain at lOs 6d for English nett cash ; lOs 4d to lOs ad for Irish and Scotch. CocumEAL.—There has been less demand, but holders generally are unwilling to take lower rates : of 151 bags of Honduras offered at auction, a part only found purchasers at about previous prices, SAL TPETIM—HoIders of Rough have shown more firmness this week, and refrained from offering any at auction ; there has been more desire shown to operate privately, and several parcels have been taken, but holders are unable to obtain higher prices. TunrE wrisuz.—Spirits are offered upon lower terms, still the demand has been limited at 42s to 435, and the stock is a large one. For rough more money is insisted upon; but only a limited business has been done. TaF is wanted, the supply at present is small, Ou.s.—This afternoon at public sale 47 tuns of Sperm Oil and Headmatter were offered, and went a little cheaper, viz. British at 791 to 8015 s, low and very low 63/ to 751, He as matter, good, 801. Foreign was taken in—Oil at 801 to 80/ 10s, and Hadmatter 811. 66 tuns of Southern went at 23/ 15s to 251 for mid to good. and at 23l to 23/ 5s for low, being cheaper. 18 hhds of Cey!on Cocoa Nut sold at 32s 3d to 32s 6d ; 35 hhds of Cochin at 335. TALLOW—This afternoon at public sale 230 pkgs of South American Tallow partly sold good and fine at 41s 3d to 41s 9d, middling 38s 6d to 395, low and soft 33s 9d to 36s 6d ; 129 casks of New South Wales all sold, good and fine 40s to 41s 9d, low and middling 35s 6d to 39s Gd ; 199 pkgs of North American melted part sold at 425, middling to good 38s 6d to 40s 6d ; 100 casks first sort Petersburgh yellow Candle were taken in at 41s to 41s 6d. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woolsack, at Five o'clock. CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. Lord KENYON presented a petition from the Marylebone vestry against the Charitable Trusts Bill ; also a petition to the same effect from the Methodists of Bradford. Lord COTTENHAM presented similar petitions from St. Olave's, Canterbury, and several other places. MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS. Messengers from the Commons brou g ht up certain Bills. CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. Earl BROWNLOW presented a petition from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Town Council of Boston in Lincolnshire, against the Charitable Trusts Bill. The Bishop of ST. DAVID'S presented similar petitions from Carmarthen. THE FREE CHURCH IN SCOTLAND. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from members of the Free Church in Edinburgh, complaining of the refu-al to grant sites for the erection of places of worship connected with the Free Church of Scotland. THE CORN-LAWS. Lord BEAUMONT, on the part of the Earl of Yarborough presented a great number of petitions from Lincolnshire against any remission in the protection duties on the importation o corn. The Marquis of NORMANBY said that he wished to pre sent a petition which had just been put into hig hands. It was from the congregations of nearly all the Methodist chapels in Kingston-upon-Hull against the Charitable Trusts Bill, stating that they viewed that measure with considerable alarm. The Noble Lord also gave notice that on Monday next he should move for a return of art the murders and attempts at murder which had taken place in Ireland since the Ist of January, and whether they were committed by day or night, together with other circumstances that might distinguish them. THE CLERKS OF THE CROWN. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE--In pursuance of the notice he had already given, he should move for a return of the Clerks of the Crown. He should not have made such a motion without a more distinct notice had he anticipated any opposition. He had many opportunities of observing the character of the present Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and he believed that he was calculated to be of consider able benefit to the country. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland was chosen in consequence of his ignorance and want of connexion with the country, as was also his secre• tary, and they were unacquainted with the people of Dublin Castle, and the duties that devolved on them. There was a gentleman named Pollock, by whose death no less than fifteen appointments as clerks to the Crown fell vacant. It had for a long time been under discussion, whether the office of clerk of the peace could be united with the office of clerk to the Crown. In consequence of the appointment of some gentlemen to serve in those offices by the custos rotulorum of the Queen's County, in opposition to the Crown, legal proceedings were commenced, and the question was tried at Dublin before all the Judges, only two of whom were against the Crown. The question was after wards tried by their Lordships, and the decision given by them was against the power of the Crown over these officers. It was contemplated that these officers should be united. What was recommended by the last commission of Lord Devon, and on which so much stress has been laid on different occasions by the Government ? He recollected that when that Com mission was issued, whenever Noble Lords urged the Government to take some steps in the ameliora tion of the law of Ireland, they were repeatedly refused until the labours of the Commission were finished, and their re port had been made. Well, new that it was so, it deserved the attention of that Government who had so highly valued it before. The Commission that was issued in 1836 recommended that the office of the Clerk of the Peace should be united with that of Clerk of the Crown. But he would go back to another Commission, which was formed of men intimately acquainted with the country—he meant the com mission appointed in 1836, to review the grand jury laws in Ireland—and their report ought surely to be attended to. They reported, that the duties of the clerk of the peace and, the clerk of the Crown should be performed by one officer, and that the duty ought not to be divided among two—the office of Clerk of the Peace ought to be re tained, the office of Clerk of the Crown should be abolished. When this subject was fully placed before the pub lic, the•- public expected the same arrangement would he made for the abolition of the office of clerk of the crown. He did not mean to say that, without any inquiry whatever, all persons who were clerks of the peace should be appointed indiscriminately to the office of Clerk of the Crown ; but what he would contend for was, that when these Clerks of the Peace were found to be fit and proper persons for the offices, a due regard should be had to the economy of the county, and the two offices should be merged in one. But that had not been done ; but the state of the fact was this, that in three weeks after the death of the person he had mentioned, a mass of applications had been sent in to the amount of several hundreds, and the gentleman had not been dead a week when it was well known who was to be his successor to at least ten of the situations he held as clerk of the Crown. It was a well-known fact that Mr. Kemmis had been deputy clerk of the Crown for four counties in Ireland and for the city of Kilkenny. This gentleman had acted in that capacity for a long time before, but in the year 1818 he positively received his appointment as deputy clerk of the Crown. On the death of Mr. Pollock he was, however, turned loose on the world without any compensation. Now, he would ask if that was right or just towards the Irish people ? He did not know what were the abilities of this gentleman tor the situation he had filled, but he was well aware that he had had three recommendations for similar situations from Kil kenny, three recommendations from Wexford, three from other counties, and two from the city of Kilkenny. But he dared to say that they would be informed that arrangements would be made by which the late appointments would not stand in the way of future appointments. They might be told so, but he begged their Lordships to remember that these were patent offices, and only held during good behaviour. He hoped that the Noble Earl would clearly inform them them on what understanding these arrangements were to be made, and if they were to be enforced. Now the public in Ireland had a right to be in formed in what these arrangements were to consist, and what the Government intended to do in respect to these officers. He wanted to know what were the arrangements under which the appointments to those offices were made. He apologized for having so long occupied the attention of their Lordships. He hoped that his Noble Friend would tell their Lordships what the arrangements to which he had alluded were, and give distinct answers to the questions which he had put. The Earl of ST. GERMAINS said, he at once agreed with the Noble Marquis opposite, that the Government was bound to pay respect to, and seriously consider all the re commendations contained in the report from which the Noble Marquis had quoted ; but he could not say that he admitted that the Government was bound to act in accordance with them. Now what were the recom mendations to which the Noble Marquis had called the atten tion of the House?—That the clerkship of the Crown should merge into the office of the clerkship of the peace. The com mission of which the Noble Lord (Devon) was the head, re commended, that in addition to the duties of the clerk of the peace, the same individual should perform the duties of clerk of the Crown, and become public prosecutor. Now, he (the Earl of St. Germans) appealed to any Noble Lord, conversant with the operations of the law, whether that would b- a convenient or even a constitutional course. The Noble Lord seemed to be well aware that the duties of the Clerk of the Crown and Assize were to prepare indictments, to keep record of challenges, and various other functions peculiar to such officers of the Court. And now he would ask their Lordships whether it would be prudent the same individual should perform the duties of Crown prosecutor. Unquestionably her Majesty's Govern ment were of opinion it was not. But then came the recommendation of the Committee of 1840 to inquire into the grand jury laws of Ireland, which re commended that the clerkship of the crown and the clerkship of the peace should be consolidated, on the ground of economy. They recommended that the clerk of the peace should, in addition to his present remuneration, receive a third more than his present salary for performing his duties of Clerk of the Crown. But then that would only realise a salary of 6,000/. for the whole of Ireland. The Clerk of the Crown would then be obliged to have a deputy equally skilled with himself to assist in the performance of his duties. (LIFT SPIAKIII. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. MANCHESTER AND SALFORD WATERWORKS BILL. Mr. WILSON PATTEN rnoved that the evidence taken before the Committee on the Manchester and Salford Water works Bill, in the last Session, be referred to the Committee on the Lancashire Waterworks Bill.—Agreed to. BOSTON, NEWARK, AND SHEFFIELD AND NOT TINGHAM AND GRANTHAM JUNCTION RAILWAY. _ Mr. GREENE moved that the order which, on the sth of February last, was made referring the petition for the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, and Nottingham and Grantham Junction Railway, to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills be read ; that the said order be discharged ; that the said peti tion be withdrawn; that the order made on the 25th day of March last, referring the Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway Bill to the Committee of Selection, be read ; that the said order be dischargee ; that the Bill be withdrawn.—Agreed to. WAVENEY VALLEY AND GREAT YARMOUTH RAILWAY. Mr. MACKINNON moved that the petition of Mr. Richard Mosse against the Waveney Valley and Great Yarmouth Rail way Bill, be referred to the Select Committee to which the said Bill is referred, notwithstanding the three days' notice having expired ; and that the Committee be directed to enter particularly into the merits of said petition, by calling for such returns as they may require, and to report specially to this House on the result of such investigation. After a few words from Lord G. SOMERSET, the motion was withdrawn. . . . RISTOL AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY (BATH LINE). Mr. HUDSON moved the second reading of this Bill, which was read, and:ordered to be committed. NEWCASTLE AND DARLINGTON JUNCTION RAILWAY (THIRSK AND MALTON BRANCH). This Bill was read a third time and passed. WESTON SUPER-MARE PIER. The Lords' amendments to this Bill were considered, and agreed to. BIRKENHEAD IMPROVEMENT COMMISSIONERS .... -- BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. REPORTS. The following reports were brought up, the amendments agreed to, and the Bills ordered to be engrossed:— Cambridge and Oxford Railway. Kendal Union Gas and Water. Caruwath and West Linton Railway. Dunblane, Doune, and Callander Railway. Perth and Inverness Railway. Great North of Scotland Railway. Warrington Waterworks (to be considered), Bury Waterworks (to be considered). Lincoln Waterworks (to be considered). CHELSEA BRIDGE AND THAMES EMBANKMENT BILL. Mr. YOUNG moved to refer the Chelsea Bride Thames Embankment Bill, and the Battersea Par k B i ll to and a select committee. Mr. Young, the Earl of Lincoln, Sir R. H. Inglis, Mrs Hawes, Sic William Clay Alderman Hum phery, Sir De Lacy Evans, Colonel Thomas Wood, Mr. Ao trodul, Lord R. Grosvenor, Viscount Chelsea, Mr. Trotter, and five to be added to the committee of selection.--The mo tion was agreed to. Several petitions fur and against different railway Bills were presented, among which was one from the Right Hon. Shaw Lefevre ( the Speaker), the announcement of which caused considerable laughter. A number of petitions were then presented aoainst the union of the sees of Asaph and Bangor, also against the erec tion of county lunatic asylums. WINIZFIELD UNION. Captain PECHELL presented a petition from the rate payers of the parish of Winkfield, in the county of Berks, in vestry assembled, complaining of the conduct of the Poor law Commissioners, and the proceedings of the board of guardians of the East Hampstead Union. The peti tion was adopted at a public meeting assembled in the vestry, and was signed by the clergyman of the parish the petitioners stated that they had been unfairly dealt with by the Poor-law Commissioners, and that in consequence of their not being fairly represented at the Board of Guardians the interest of the rate-payers had been completely swamped. The workhouse had been built at an extravagant expense, and away from the population, and although the whole sem of money bad been expended upon its erection, there was neither an infirmary for the sick, ror a board room for the guardians. to sit, and the gardians were obliged to assemble in a public house at a distance from the workhouse.—(Hear, hear.) The petitioners also stated, that the ground taken for the building, was set at an exorbitantly dear rate, and a much cheaper site could have been obtained much nearer to the town. The peti tioners had been refuied all redress, and prayed that they might be heard before the Committee then sitting on the Andover Union —(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman then gave no tice that he would draw the attention of the House to the facts stated in the petition on Tuesday next. ASSISTANT POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS. Mr. AINSWORTH presented a petition from the Assistant Poor Law Commissioners, praying that some provision might be made by a superannuation fund or otherwise, for such of them as should have faithfully performed their duties. MR. W. S. O'BRIEN. Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition, having appended to it 7,000 signatures, praying for the release of Mr. W. Smith O'Brien. BANGOR AND ST. ASAPH. Mr. BORROUGHS presented a petition against the union of the see.; of Bangor and St. Asaph. TEN HOURS LABOUR BILL. Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE presented two petitions, very nu merously and respectably signed, in favour of the restriction of labour to ten hours. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. Mr. PIERCE BUTLER gave notice that on Thursday next he should move for the appointment of a Select Com mittee to inquire into the right of the House to en force the attendance of its Members on Committees and, into its authority for inflicting the punishment of im prisonment for non-attendance. Further to inquire how far such practice was sanctioned by the law of the land, and how far the usage was in accordance therewith. POOR-LAW. Mr. P. SCROPE gave notice of his intention on a future day to move for leave to bring in a Bill to extend to Ireland the present poor-law of England. POOR LAW IMPROVEMENT BILL. Captain PECHELL wished to know it the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary for the Home Department had dropped his design of carrying on the Poor-law Improvement Bill? Sir JAMES GRAHAM had no such intention, bat the business of the House had rendered it necessary for the sake of public convenience, to postpone its consideration for the present. It was understood that after the Corn-law Bill had been read a third time the Factory Bill should be brought under discussion. He believed this was stated in the House last night, and that it was in accordance with the general feeling of the Members then present ; he hoped, therefore, that the Hon. and Gallant Officer would not press for the reading of the Bill of which he had spoken, but would accede to the arrangement which had been entered into on this business. After a few words from Mr. VER:i ON SMITH the sub ject dropped. RAILWAYS DISSOLUTION BILL. Mr. LABOUCHERE said there was another Bill which had been read a second time, and on which it had been ar ranged that the discussion on the motion for going into com mittee should take place—he meant the Railways Dissolution Bill. He trusted no time would be lost in allowing the House the opportunity of expressing its opinion on the measure. Sir R. PEEL said it was important that the sense of the House should be taken on the Bill at the earliest day, so that the measure might be proceeded with. He should do all he could to facilitate that object. EAST INDIA COMPANY.—ANNUITIES TO LORD HARDINGE AND LORD GOUGH. Mr. HOGG rose to ask leave to introduce two Bills to au thorise the East India Company to grant annuities of 5,0001. and 2,0001. per annum respectively to Lord Hardinge and Lord Gough, for their recent brilliant services in the East Indies. He hopes no obstable would be placed in the way of forwarding those measures. Sir ROBERT PEEL said that, so far from offering any ob stacle in the way of their progress, he would do everything in his power to hasten them forward. Mr. H UME wished to know when an opportunity would be given of discussing the merits of the Bills for granting Pensions to Lords Hardinge and Gough, because it might happen that those Bills might pass at a late period of the night, without an opportunity being afforded of discussing them at all. He wished to have an opportunity of making some remarks respecting them, because he had an ob jection to grant pensions to pers ,ns whose descendants were unable to maintain the dignity of the profession, and because the time had come when they ought to require her Majesty not to grant peerages which must be kept up at the expense of the country. With all due delerence to the House, he must .say that he thought this plan of granting peerages for two or three lives, and then leaving those upon whom the honour had descended destitute, was a reprehensible practice, and ought at once to be abrogated. In the case of Lord Hardinge, for instance, the honour con ferred upon him would not last longer than the ordinary dura tion of two lives, because he was aiivanced in yews. He urged the same arguments several years ago, in the case of Lord Keane, but he was opposed to the House, and was there fore unsuccessful. He repeated that he considered tne time had arrived when the Government ought to consider whether it was politic to grant titles when there was no property to maintain it, for wherever this was done they had the Peer and his family quartered upon the public—( Great laughter)—and there was no getting a head of him or his progeny for generations.—( Roars of laughter.) He did not wish to particularise individuals, but, if they created an aristocracy, it ought not to be main tained by the public purse —(Hear, hear.) It was true the customs of the country precluded them from following any avocation by which they could maintain themselves, but it did not preclude them from having families.--( Continued laughter.) He was willing to discuss the question during the present debate, but as the Bill had passed, it would be un necessary for him to do so ; but he thought it was really a question for the House to take up—whether, when future were conferred on individuals who had not the power of supporting them, and which would consequently have to be supported at the expense of the country, it would be politic to grant them. It was the system he complained of, and not the individuals. He hoped, however, that the House would have an opportunity of discussing the Bills in the daylight. Sir ROBERT PEEL spoke a few words in reply to what had fallen from the Hon. Member for Montrose, but in so low a tone of voice as to be quite inandable in the gallery. The Right Hon. Baronet, however, was understood that it was rather hard for the Hon. Member to predic' that the life of Lord Gough was not worth a nionthst purchase. It was net the fault of Government, that Bills of this nature had not been brought on till a late hour of the night.—( Hear, hear.) Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Mr. CARDWELL moved that the House, at its rising, do adjourn till Monday next.—Agreed to. Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE, seeing the Honourable Gentle man the Secretary for the Treasury, he wished to ask him a question with reference to the Post.office abuses he had lately brought under the consideration of the House. He had been given to understand that the speech he made on a recent occasion had leen placed in the hands of Mr. Pea cock, the Solicitor to the Post-office, to inquire into the charges which it contained, notwithstanding it had been stated that they were groundless. He wished to know, then, whether his information was correct or not. He under stood, also, that some of the letter-carriers were taken before Mr. Peacock to be examined touching those charges, but, upon asking for a pledge to be held harmless if they proved them, it was refused.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The inquiry was one which ought to be conducted in such a manner as to give satisfaction to the public. He wished, therefore, to know whether the Honourable Gentleman would have any objectiion to produce the evidence which was taken, and to inform the House of the result of that inquiry. Mr. CARDWELL would confine himself to an explanation of the course which had been pursued under the circumstances referred to by the Hon. Gentleman. The Postmaster-General, being desirous to have a full investigation into the whole ques tion connected with the sub-sorters, considered it judicious that the inquiry should be conducted by gentlemen who were not connected with the Pest-office department, and therefore he appointed the solicitor of the Post-office to con duct the investigation. At first the President of the Inland department, and the inspector of the lette-carriers were ap pointed conjointly with him, but in consequence of one of the witnesses objecting to be examined in the presence of these two gentlemen, the soliciter afterwards conducted the exami nation alone; it must be obvious, therefore, to the Hon. Gen tleman that he (Mr. Cardwell) could give ne further infor mation upon the subject until the report of the inquiry was made. Air. T. DUNCOMBE said that he would move that a copy of that report should be laid upon the table. Mr. CARD►WELL %ould have no objection. VALUATION OF IRELAND. _ _ Sir DENHAIII NORRIS asked the Noble Lord the Secre tary for Ireland. if the Government proposed to bring in a Bill this session relative to the valuation of land in Ireland ? Lord LINCOLN said that it was proposed to bring in a Bill on that subject, which would be the same in substance as that introt.uced last year; but in the present state of public busi ness he could not pledge himself at what period he would be enabled to introduce it. Sir D . NORREYS wished to know whether the Noble Lord was aware that all valuations which at present took place in Ireland were illegal. Lord LINCOLN said that he was aware of the fact, and a Bill would be introduced this session to remedy the evil. It was then agreed that the House at its rising do adjourn to Monday next. CORN BILL—ADJOURNED DEBATE. __,.. upon the Corn Bill was resumed by The adjourned debate the Houseupt this amidst subjectmoch He said that argument contusion. I was however fearful that the Bill He e addressed d NcobulsetomLosr.d tThhealltlecirnubees-r had been exhausted Mr. COLQUHOUN. w e -hoaddre asked the Right lion. Baronet a question with for Lynn had certain returns from 1 i t ie he would pass n otwithstanding.. n e h et ad to been answered by the Right Honourable Baronet. He thought that he might remind the Right Hun. Baronet that he had declared, in his opinion, the price of wheat would not exceed 355. per quarter. Sir ROBERT PEEL dissented from this declaration. Mr. COLHUHOUN (lid not wish to misinterpret the Right Hon. Baronet, but he certainly must remind him, that he had stated as one of his reasons for advoCating the chsnge in tl.e corn duties that the price of wheat, when ad m.tted at the lower duties, would not be reduced below 355. a quarter. He would refer also to the admission made to the Hon. Member for Leeds, by whom this declaration had been doubted. The declaration was mode in reference to the year 1835, when wheat was not more than from 395. to 40s. a quarter. Sir R. PEEL —I was asked by the Noble Lord the Mem ber for London what I believed would be the price of wheat if foreign corn were admitted duty free, and I stated that, with an unrestricted trade in corn, I did not think, judging from the experience of 1835, that the price of wheat would fall be- 1 low 355. a quarter.—( Hear, hear. ) Mr. COLQUHOUN—This did then in effect tally with what he had stated—that the price of wheat under a system of unrestricted import, would not fall below 355., an a l it would B now appear th a t t h e R ight Honourable "Baronet hoped t He was pe rsua d e d t h at that the p r i ce woul d net be less than 30s. a quarter. if this statement of th e prices that would ensue from the r ep ea l o f th e corn-laws wa.x correct, that . given, $9 all the manut ac• a. great shock $1,91414 be turing, commercial, and agricultural interests of the eountry.—( Hear, hear.) It had been by such repre sentations about the prices of corn under firs law, that the present state of the country had been created, but they were founded in hopes which, if realised, would lead to a general panic. They ought to be taught by what to( k place in 1835, what had been referred to by the Right Hon. Baronet, and the history of which had been given by Mc. Wils,, e , the Chairman of the Anti-Corn-law League. Mr. COBDEM was understood to say, that the Mr. son referred to, was not the Chairman of the League. Mr. COLQUHOUN—Then he was one who had some con nexion with that body, and who was to give an opinion on the sub ject. Mr. Wilson said that the effect of the proceedings of 1535 was to give a false direction to capital, and to increase manufacturing products in such a ratio as to glut the market, and to produce the disastrous state of things that follow( d. The prodeedings (.f 1835, and the years that imme• diately preceded and followed, were years of speculation and fic titious trailing, inevitably producing the general stagnation that took place in 1841. Th e Hi g h t H on. B aronet and the Right Hen. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade had stated that prices will not fall if this measure is carried, and the Right Honourable Baronet the Secretary for the Home Department said there will be no great fall in prices. He further said he expected that there would be great steadiness in it. He (Mr. Colquhoune) was satis fied, however, that if he could not convince the Right Hon. Gentlemen of the fallacy of this expectation. He would be able to satisfy the House that there was no hope whatever of the rate of prices being such as they expected. (LEFT SPEAKING.) LAW iN TELLIGEN CE, COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, May 14. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN acd Common Juries.) HOOPER V. ISI'DONALD. This action was brought by a newspaper agent to recover from the defendant the amount of a bill for advertisements inserted in the London papers fcr the announcement of a pro' ject which was called the Cape of Good Hope Western R. 41 1- way, which was brought forward in August last, and of which the defendant was a provisional committeeman. The amount of the bill as 450/., and it was made up of money paid by the plaintiff for the insertion of the advertisements, and of a demand for his personal trouble in procuring the insertion. Mr. KNowtEs (with whom was Mr. Francillon, stated the plaintiff's case to the jury in a short, but amusing ad dress. Colonel Lothian Dixon was then called and sworn— He said that he held an office under the Crown at the Cape, and that he was a director of the project in question. The wit ness, by the direction of the defendant himself, caused the defendant's name to be inserted in the list of the committee, which he attended upon one occasion. Cross-examined—Major M'Donald, upon having been ap pointed a provisional committeeman, declared himself dis satisfied, as he had expected to be made a director. This was, however, after his appointment as a provisional committee man had actually been made. _ _ Mr. OldershaNV, the attorney of the company, stated that all the insertions had been either directed or sanctioned by the witness and by the board. Another witness proved that the plaintiff had paid every farthing of the bill to the several newspapers in which the advertisements had been inserted. Mr. HAYWARD appeared upon the part of the defendant, and contended that the authority which the defendant had given Colonel Dixon to put his name upon the committee was coupled with the condition of his being made a director, and that, not having been so appointed, he took no further trouble upon the subject. In such circumstances the Learned Counsel contended that the evidence was not sufficient to establish the liability of the defendant. The jury, under the direction of the Learned Judge, found a verdict fur the plaintiff for the whole amount. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, May 14. (Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER and Mr. Commissioner POLLOCK.) IN RE THE REV. CHABLIS WETHERELL. The rule in this case for the rescinding of the vesting order was specially appointed for this day. The insolvent, whose name is unfortunately too notorious, obtained a rule nisi on the ground that the petitioning cre ditor, Mr. Thurmott, a coal-merchant, of Bedford-strest, Strand, had been induced to take that step by means of fraudulent representations on the part of other persons, and that he was new willing that the vesting order should be annulled. To-day Mr. Cooke appeared in support of the rule, and Mr. Nicholls and Mr. Dowse to show cause. Affidavits on the part of the respondents were read front several parties —one of whom, William Revell, a creditor of the insolvent's to th e ex t ent of 10.11., swore that ha had applied to Mr. Thurrnott to obtain the vesting order, that the insolvent' s es t ate m i g h t be preserved for the creditors. He also stated that he had seen Mr. Thur" motes attorney (Mr. Moseley) on the subject. The affi davit of John Mvnde Cooke stated that the insolvent was in custody at the suit of Mr. Langston for the sum of 14,4841., the amount of a judgment in an action of covenant on the post-nuptial settlement of deponent's wife and insol vent's daughter ; that the insolvent had named as trustee Lord Glenelg, without that nobleman's sanction, who refused to act; and, consequently, Mr. Langston, deponent's brother in-law, was the only trustee; that insolvent's daughter, on. obtaining her majority, had become ent i t l e d t o a tortilla() of about 21,000/., which had been expended by the insolvent in about two years; that 14,4801. is the amount admitted by the insolvent to be due to his daughter as part of the sum obtained from her, and it was settled that seques tration should issue against the insolvent's living at Byfield, Northamptonshire; that the insolvent had en deavoured to avail himself of an inaccuracy to the at estation of the warrant of attorney given as collateral secu rLy ; that insolvent had brought a writ of error against Mr. Langston, but deponent was advised and believed that there were no grounds for it, and that it had only been brought by the insolvent for the purpose of annoyance. Mr. NICHOLLS commenced his arguments against the rule by urging that the best evidence of the motives by which the creditor had been actuated in obtaining the vesting order, viz., his own, had not been prucluced. It was insinuated that King and Cooke had induced him by fraudulent representa tions to obtain the vesting order, and that he was now willing to its being annulled. The next best evidence, that of Mr. Moseley, the petitioning creditor's attorney, was not forth coming, and the whole case rested upon refined and subtle statements. The COURT intimated that the affidavits of the gentleman referred to were highly desirable. _ Mr. COOKE hoped the Court would permit him to put them in now. Mr. Commissioner POLLOCK said the insolvent knew what he had asserted, and should have been prepared to support his statement. The affidavit of Mr. Thurmott and Mr• Moseley could not be received now. The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER expressed his opinion that the absence of these affidavits was conclusive, and com pelled the Court to dismiss the rule. Mr. Commissioner Pot.LocE concurred. Mr. Nn - mou.s applied for costs from the estate. Mr. Commissioner PoLLocx said the Court could not forget that Mr. Thurmott had been set in metion by some persons, and that all the detaining creditors except Mr. Langston were willing that the vesting order should be rescinded. Rule discharged. Costs refused. THE: CROPS IN GEORGIA. —The Macon Advocate of the 20th instant says:—.We learn f rom a gentleman who has just returned f r o m a t our t h rough Baker, Lee, Sumter,Dooly and other counties in Sout-Western Georgia, that the crops of small grain, particularly wheat, were never more p r y. mining than at present. The corn looks well, but cotton, in consequence of the wet and cool weather experienced in that section for some time past, appeared rather backward, and in some places fears were entertained that it would die, and the land have to be re-planted. The weather having become clear and pleasant, however, with a prospect of continuing so, the plants may revive, and prove thriftyul the end. Mr. C. K. Murray had an interview with the Chancel lor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official regideucs in Downing -street. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF COMMONS, Mayl4. MR. SMITH O'BRIEN. Mr. O'CONNELL presented petitions from Dublin, Re several other places in Ireland, regretting the detention of 1 41- • Smith O'Brien in custody, and stating their belief that it was unjustifiable in a constitutional view. Mr. P. SCROPE presented a petition from the poor 0f Ballingarry, stating that they received sixpence a day with two. meals during the winter from the farmers in their district, aao that they received eightpence a day during the summer, makia# an average of sevenpence a day, and with what they receiv•id they were obliged to pay debts incurred during scarce seasotif and for the credit which they received then they were oblige ( ' to pay a most usurious interest. The petition was signed 1, 1 upwards of 300 persons. It appeared by this petition there were 600 families at the present moment in a state of star vation, whom it was the bounden duty of the Legislature to relieve. CORN-LAWS. Sir John Easthope, Lord George Bentinck, Mr. Esteourt, and Mr. Hawes presented petitions on the aorn-laws. MAYNOOTH. Mr. P. BORTHWIcK stated that he had postpon e d hi s motion the other nigt.t on the Poor - law Settlement Bill its consideration of the debate on the corn-law, and he should bring it on this day fortnight. preserveda which provided re peal Mr.o of I t ' h L e U B A t h and l E Victoria, 9thfor the the College of Maynooth out o f t he public fund s . ROMAN CATttOLIC RELIEF. a grant for Mr. B. ESTCOTT presented a pt tition from Richmond,' in Surrey, in favour of the Roman Catholic Disabilities Be lief Bill. THE RAILWAY MEETINGS. Si r JOHN EASTHOPE w i s h ed to ask the Right Iron- Baronet at the head of the Government, supposing of scripholders in a particular railway company to be held before the Bill passed through Committee, and the Bill after wards passed•the Committee, whether, if the Committee should h o lder§ materially alter the Bill, another meeting of the scrip would be necessary ? Sir ROBERT PEEL said that his answer to that que sti°3 was, that he did not think it requisite for any further m eeting of th e seripholders to be held in order to obtain a third read ing ing to the Bill. The resolutions of the Government did not, render it obligatory to hold a further meeting, and he did think such a course at all desirable. GAME-LAWS e-liort Mr. J. COLLETT postponed his motion on the gad' a meeting until Monday nest. Mr. DUNCOvenient f or the Government A C T h O e dR to kno toS BILLwh it would th b e e r c e o e n n . : ay sideration of the Factories Bill? Sir H. PEEL proposed to adhere to the plan which be ha d made some time since with respect to the progress of business. He intended, in the first place, to go on wit h t h e Corn Bill, and, immediately after that Bill was disposed of, should proceed with the tariff; and as several gentlemen expressed a desire to have a discussion on the Settlement Bill' it would be advisable to take the outline of that Bill before going into C omm i t t ee. H e s h ould take the tari ff i mm ediate l y alter the Corn Bill, and then proceed with the discussion oz : s the Settlement Bill. With respect to the Factory Bill , be pot willing to give the earliest day that he could which would;... interfere with th e p rogress of the more important publ ic ness. He could not name the exact da w hich he was wI l !". to set apart for th e F actor i es Bill , b ut it should be the earliest day possible after th e Bill s h e h a d men ti one d had been °' posed of. CASE OF MR. TOULMIN SMITH. Mr. SPOONER moved for a Select Committee to consider the petitions of Mr. Tod.rain Smith, and the papers presented to the House relative to the case stated in those petitions. Mr. WAKLEY thought it would be inconsistent for the Hon. Gentleman to press his motion at that period, wh en there was public business of so great importance before tht House. Air. SPOONER said, it would n o t b e ocn sistent, in his opinion, with public duty, if he did not proceed with the' motion of which he had given notice. The character of a 0143