The Sun. — London, England, 1852-05-07 00:00:00

Platt ambition SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Vice-Chancellor PARKER.) THE RIVAL OPERA HOUSES. LIINLEY V. WAGNER. Mr. BETHELL (in continuation from our Afternoon Edi tion) said—The Court had now to judge between these two stories, and he thought that the force of circum stances went substantially to show that the bill which had been filed gainst his clients was founded entirely on fiction. Now, with regard to the second part of the case, the money question, it was agreed on all hands that there was a precedent condition originally intended to guard against expenses which they might incur in leaving their own country, and against the contingency —which had often occurred to foreign artists—of not receiving any rerauneration after they had come to this country and rendered their services. Now the time for the original payment of this sum of 3001. was fixed on the 15th March, though when the commencement of Mdlle. Wagner's engagement was fixed, the time for the payment was also extended to the 2nd of April. Now he had to point out to the Court two misrepresentations —first, that Mr. Lumley had sworn in his affidavit that he had written to Madlle. Wagner on the 11th March — just four days before the time for payment—wheat in truth, it was not written until the 18th; and the second was the mistranslation of the French particle de, by which Mr. Lumley wished to make it appear that Herr Wagner had written to him to sand the money either to Berlin or Hamburgh after the and of April, instead of what it really meant, not later than the 2nd of April. The same word de had been used just before, when Herr Wagner had said that it was necessary, that his daughter had need of rest to learn the Italian words of her part before her debtit. Mr, Lumley professed him self a good French scholar, able to read and write French correctly, andiyet here they found him translating after the 2d of March, when, if he had been consistent in his knowledge he must also have translated that Madlle. Wagner must learn her Italian part after her debda. Now Mr. Lumley's story was that he had written to the Wagners to tell them that Dr. Becher had the money ready to pay them. Now he (Mr. Bethel') was sorry to say that he feared that Mr. Lumley had not had for some time such an abundance of money in his exchequer as to render it at all probable that be would have furnished Dr. Becher witu that sum so long before it was required. With great respect to both Mr. Lumley and Dr. Backer, he did not believe, nor did he think that his Honour's judicial mind would believe, one word of this story which they had brought forward. It had no elements of credibility or probabdity about it, and its own contradictions were sufficient to destroy it. Next come the account which Dr. Becher gave of the conduct of the parties at Hamburgh, when he saw them there after the contract with Mr. Gr.) had been entered into. That was equally absurd and full of improbabili ties. According to him, Madlle. Wagner had no sooner signed the engagement with Mr. Gyo than she repented of it, and only consoled herself with the idea, inspired as it were by prophetic divination, that she would go to England and leave the courts to settle who was to have her.—(Laughter.) Then Mr. Lumley appeared on the scene at Hamburgh, and ho would show that very soon after he sent to England for Mr. Mitchell, who joined him with a considerable sum of money in his pocket. How much money Mr. Lumley had in his pocket he could not say, bat it was certain that he had just before been arrested, that he was covered with debts and lia bilities, and was utterly unable to pay that which he owed. He thought that any rational man, looking at the circumstances end the conduct of these parties, and then considering the representations they had made, in which every part was irreconcileahle with the real truth, would feel convinced that the father and daughter ought to prevail, and that the truth was that neither the father nor the daughter had the least reason to be lieve that the travelling Doctor had the 3001. in his hands, or chat if he had he was ready to pay it. Now they had lately discovered that Dr. Becher had written to a gentleman connected with the musical world, in which he said he had received a bill of exchange, which, however, was dishonoured when presented at Hamburgh. Now that exactly coincided with an ex pression used by Mr. Lumley in one of his letters to the Wagners, that Dr, Becher had undertaken to transmit to them a bill of exchange for the 3001. Now, it was true that Dr. Becher had denied in an affidavit that he had ever written such a letter, but it was proved by aalaeits that Er. Becher had drawn a bill of exchange on At. Lumley, which was dishonoured on being presented. Now he would suggest, that sup posing this was true, that Mr. Lumley had given to Dr. Bacher an order for 3001., which, however, was dishonoured, they would be able to account for the statement that Dr. Becher had 3001, in his possession ready to pay to Madlle. Wagner without putting; it down as a complete fiction. True, Becher had 3004, but it was a hill'of exchange,: which, in truth, was good for nothing. By this theory, too, they could account for the friendship existing between the pair, Lumley and Becher, even after the rupture of the contract, which if Mr. Lumley's statement ware true, it were manifest was owing solely to Bacher's neglect in not payfng that sum; and also for the remarkable fact that Dr. Bacher had not been made an original deponent in this matter. He contended that this contract had been wisely and justly broken. It must be remembered that Herr Wagner, in hisiaffidavit filed yesterday, denied that Dr. Becher in his letter of the 10th March had mentioned anything about haring the sum of 300/. in his hands. That letter wee now at Berlin, and though a telegraphic message had been dis patched for it it bad not yet arrived. Then with regard to the prohibitory clause, it was represented by Dr. Becher that this was inserted in the engage ments of all prima donnas in England. That was not the fact. The engagements of Madame Sontag, Madame Griei, enl other eminent artists had been re ferred to, and .flats been found to contain no such clause. He contended that the clause had been obtained by mis representation, and on that account was utterly vitiat'd. He contended, too, that the misrepresentations which the bill contained in reference to the conduct of Mr. Gye were of themselves sufficient to defeat it. It ap peared that Mr. Gyo was the first to enter into negotia tions with Mademoiselle Wagner, which continued up to August, 1851. About this time the intimacy sprung up between the Wagners and Dr. Becher, and the course of misrepresentation) oa th© part of that gentleman began. The moment that the inclination of the Wagners towards an engagement with Mr. Lumley became apparent, Mr. Gye very properly abstained from any further comtnnnication with them on the sub ject of an engagement. When Mr. Lumley's failing circumstances became notorious, Mr. Gye then went to Hamburgh to renew the negotiation , and s o far from having had recourse to the misrepresentations which were aecribed to him, he certainly did tell them that Mr. Lumley had sherny before been arrested for 2,2751., a fact which was admitted by Mr. Lumley, in addition to an other feet of still werse appearaece, that he had teen obliged to assign to one of his creditors some of his boxes in the theatre in Paris and afterwards, by the pressure of further difficultiestosell these same boxes to other par ties. Madlle. Wagner ' in her affidavit, did not attribute the unfavour a b' e elan Mr. Lumley to the reprete.ritadon of Mr. Gye, but to the fact of the caution mention of it htoenTo been not having beau paid, nor any an d also from information , that made by Becher in his letter, tile from Madame Sontag and Madame Taglioni Nov, he Woold 'r last ear's salaries had not been paid. just contrast this with the affid a vit made b' Mr. Luetiej in reference to this par ticular.; e h Now the had n asked on the ground of fraudulent conduct on the part of Gye, both towards Lumley and the Wagners, a 8 s tatementwhich ' was con tradicted by the affidavits both Gye and the Wagners. The greatest part of this bill had been framed • h with the w i s h that even if he statement s , and failedthe obtaining ul timately in his object, that the publicet ion of these that even if he did not get her, even an injunction at would so tar daand unprofitable to mage the repu tation of gadlle. Wagne e r t ' d useless w ith regard to the fact of this b-• still she would be render Mr. Gye. Now, hard bargain, as it had been objected at _-Ing a e. vy agner bein he had . a had complained of its only to refer to the affidavit of Mr. Lumley,g and compare the Madlle. Sums w hi c h were to be paid ,_, Weer to the 20,000/. which be said h ot na e n ars Paid to M a _ dame Sontag for two and a half 1851" made With reference to the allegation which had been that the agreement of the oth of March, , wasa valid agreement according to the Prussian law, he held in his hand an opinion of a Prussian avocat, Dr. Ba c h, which went to show that co far from that agreement being valid it was of no value whatever in consequence of the neglect :of Mr. Lumley to pay the money, an d Mademoiselle Wagner could have recovered the da mages which she could show she had sustained by such a breach. He believed, too, that supposing Mdlle. Wagner had really broken this contract, the penelties fur such breach, according to th e P russian law, would not have been a personal interdict, but icderanification by way of damages; and he contended that the law of contracats was a species of lex loci, and that no such penalty hv ing been contemplated in the contract itself, it could not now be imported into it, and that, therefore, the only remedy which Mr. Lumley was entitled to, even supposing a breach could be proved, was indemnification by way of damages. Even if it were brought to a trial, be did no: think that a jury would be likely to return more than a shilling or a farthing damages, and he thought the Court would scarcely stretch its jurisdiction so far as to visit with all the heavy and severe conse quences, which must result from an injunction being granted for the breach of the letter of an engagement, which would only be visited by a jury by the very smallest amount of damages. He, therefore, thought that this was not a case in which the Court would think itself jostili , ,d in interfering by way of an injunction. being now twenty minutes past tour, the case was adjourned' until to-morrow taorniug. „__C(MiRSE OF EXCH __. ....,,stur-,.., .. Dit=t>.:llre.emo,..,,%*** 12 IN Bottereana .. -u. ..• 12 2 Antwerp ...... ..,• ”' '• 12 2% 8ru6ae15.....„„ .:".••• 25 65 BaTaburgb ...„ ..aiii. 25 . 65 A.ltona•• ••••••••••„,. la 11 % rsrl3, 3 ,I,.ys,,,,inht ....-.- r'4lertno • percA• Dltto, 3 months .... 25 Z 554 ' , Cassino ....., Marseilles •••• •• •••• •• '4 65 rm.- ••• • .. Bourdoaas.. •. - .... . __ ke .0 rt „,....... hanks 3fains.... 1221, ) .. 0 Ja.neir. ....._ Berlin •••••••••• •• •• •• -- ''' ; e lle . 2 . 34.yr:.3 ........ Vienna, effec. do •• •• • • 12 40 p ,7! lc ,6o days'sight 12 4a i+aneiphi a . Trieste, ditto. ••••- • • • • luess ~ •-"• • •• Petersburgh,il/.Rble.. 37 Forei gn G .,,, , arruon. PER 02 alLfarld •. •• •- -••• •• •• 49% Po, a ,T.lnbars.. £3 17 9 . Cadiz •• .., ~..• • • •••• 49 % APantabilj °l ' l Coin •• o 0 0 ()abloom. Barcelona .. • • ........ New Dal -•• 0 0 0 ars 1ievni5...........""" nba ::::- 0 4 10 .. 0 4 lix One of the convicts at Csrlible Fort, Q A Cork, made his' escape on Saturday last, li e e e ff e ustown, escape in the dress of one of the superintendents, ha vi ngted i.,110 IfiglialY broken open a boa and stolen 301. therefrom ''-' .N GE.-(THIS DAY.) I I,e,shorn 20 80 'Clan .• - • • • • • .0 .• • • • • • • • • • • • • --- ;tiaplei 40• X 122 53% 53% THE SUN, THE LONDON GAZETTE• (THIS EVENING.) LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 7. 1852, Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a Drawing-room, at St. James's Palace, on Thursday, 13th May next, at two o'clock, to celebrate her Majesty's birth-day. N.B. The Knights of the several orders are to appear in their collars. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 6. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Ro bert Munroe Harrison as Consul, at Kingston, Jamaica, for his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Henry Chapman as Consul at Montreal for his Majesty the King of Sardinia. WHITEHALL, MAY 6. Tne Queen has been pleased to appoint Alexander Redgrave, Esq., to be an Inspector of Factories, in the room of Robert John Saunders, Esq., deceased. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MAY s. The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the Earl of Sandwich, to appoint Captain Thomas Robert McCoy, late of the 65th Regiment of Foot, one of her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, vice Robert Bryce Haye, retired. The Gazette of this evening contains a notice that writs have been issued for the election of a Temporal Peer of Ireland, in the room of Randal Edward, Baron Dunsany, deceased. WAR-OFFICE, MAY 7. 16th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Fran cis Benjamin Hallowell Carew has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his commission, May 7. 6th Regiment of Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Egerton James Pratt, from the 62d Foot, to be surgeon, vice John Murtagh, M.D. who retires upon half-pay, May 7. 10th Foot—Acting Assistant-Surgeon Duncan Robert son Rennie to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Inglis, pro moted in the 64th Foot, May 7. 21st Foot—First Lieutenant George Neeld Boldero to be Captain, by purchase, vice Verner, who retires; Se cond Lieutenant Robert Wharton Wilkinson to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Boldero, May 7. 22d Foot—Captain Richard Butler Low, from half pay 53d Foot, to be Captain, vice Brennan, who ex changes; Lieutenant John Higgin Graham to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Low, who retiree, May 7. 39th Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James John Hamilton, Bart., from half-pay Unattached, to be Major, vice Bond, who exchanges; Captain William Munro to be Major, by purchase, vice Sir James John Hamilton, Bart., who retires; Lieutenant Charles Deni son Pedder to be Captain, by purchase, vice Munro; Ensign William Hacks Harding Warner to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Pedder, May 7. 62d Foot—Cornelius Clark Rutherford, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Pratt, promoted in the 6th Foot, May 7. 86th Foot—Ensign Frederick Gardner to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Wittaker, who retires, Moy 7. Royal Malta Fennible Regiment--Ensign and Ad jutant Loretto Ihnavita the have the local and tempo rary rank of Lieutenant, May 7. HOSPITAL STAFF.—Acting Assistant-Surgeon James Joseph Roofmalecocq to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, &ice Jameson, appointed to the 87 th Foot, May 7. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAY 4. Royal Regiment of Artillery—First Lieutenant Fre derick William Craven Ord to be Second Captain, vice Adye, promoted; Second Lieutenant Augustus Henry King to be First Lieutenant, vice Ord ; Second Lieute nant Robert James Cairns to be First Lieutenant, vice Walker, deceased, April 1. MEMORANDIT3I.—The date of the promotion of First Lieutenant J. K. Pickering has been altered to 25th March, 1852, Commissions by the Lord-Lieuten mit of Essex. George Montagu Warren Peacocke, Esq., to be De puty Lieutenant; Samuel Brise Raggles Brise, Esq„ to be Deputy Lieutenant, May 4. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire 2d Regiment of Royal Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry— John Bartholomew Parker, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Stone, resigned; Harvey Drummond, Gent., to be Cor net, vice White, resigned, April 12. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire. Ist Regiment of West Riding Yeomanry Cavalry— Benjamin Huntsman to be Cornet, May 3. MEMORANDUM.—The names of the .112sistant-Surgeon of this regiment, whose commission is dated 25th March, 1852, are Robert Thomas Cooke, not Cook, as heretofore Gazetted. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Oxford. I Queen's Own Regiment of Oxfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry—George Hall, Esq., to be Captain, vice Jones, resigned, May 1; Lieut. Henry Barnet t to be Captain, vice the Marquis of Blandford, M.P., re signed, May 3; Lieutenant Benjamin John Whippy to be Captain, vice the Honourable Henry George Spencer, deceased, May 4; Henry Elwes, Gent., to be Cornet, 'vice Wright, re signed; Charles Philip Duffield, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Barnett, promoted, May 6. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets. Queen's Own Regiment of Tower Hlimlets Militia— George Money, Gent., to be Lieutenant , vice Chalmers, deceased. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant; of Middlesex. Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—Francis Dalton, Gent., to be Surgeon, April aos Uxbricge Yeomanry Cavalry—Char bes Henry Mills, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Sleigh, resigned, April 30. BANKRUPTS. James Mandeno, oil and colour man, Shoreditch, to surrender May 18, at one, and June 22, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, ()Melia] assignee, Sam brook-court, Basinghall-street; Parker, Rooke, Parker, and Whitehouse, Bedford-row. John Thomas, builder, Little Stanho:?e-street, May fair, May 17, at half-past twelve, and June 15, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, , official assignee; Staniland, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street., ' John Burlingham, draper, Worcester, May 18, and June 16, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpv, official assignee, Birmingham; Wright, Birmingham. R. Harding, draper, Beckington, So m ersetshire, May 18, and June 8, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Cornish and Parnell, Bristol. Charles W. Woodworth, licensed vict slier, Liverpool, May 19 and Juno 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis trict Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Yates, jun., Liverpool. LONDON, TEA.—The speculative demand for Congou has abated this week; the better kinds sustain previous terms, but inferior can be obtained at a reduction. Sales of low quality are made at 8d to Bid, good ord sound 9id, rather blkish loaf to blkish leaf 9id to 101 d, strong and Pekoe kinds I Id to is 5.(1. In Souchong a good business has been done, at the same time prices have ceased to advance, common selling at 91 to 11d, mid to good Is to Is 3d,and fiao Is 4d to is Bd. Few transactions have taken place in Oolong, and more desire is evinced to sell, good to fine is Id to Is 6d, inferior 10d to is. Pouchong remains in good request, sound at from 6d to lid, and there is no increase of supply at previous terms holders of Green are de sirous to sell, and supply is more plentiful than last week; still large transactions have taken place; prices for common to mid Hyson rule at is id to is 4d, good to fine is 5d to 2s 2d, superior 2s 4d to 2s 10d; Young Hyson, common 10d to I Id, mid to good is to I s 6d, better sorts Is 8d to 2s 2d; Gunpowder, Canton 10d to Is; Hyson kind is Id to 2s, Hyson skin 7d to ls, Twankay 9d to Is, Caper 9d to lOid, and Scented lld to is 4. Flowery Pekoe continues to find a free sale; fine and superior at is 8d to 2s Bd, and other kinds is 3d to is 7d. There is a dull trade for inferior Orange Pekoe, with free sellers at 10d to is, but several transac tions have taken ulace in good to fine at is ld to is 8d per lb. RICE.—The demand for Java has been better for cleaning purposes, still moderate terms have been ac cepted. At auction 3,352 bags were sold at 10,E 6d to lls for good sound white, and 9s 6d to lOs 6d for damaged. For other East India sorts the market re mains dull, and previous terms aro barely sustained. Including small parcels at public sale, transactions for the week do not exceed 3,000 tierces. Prices for god to fine White Bengal rule at 9s 9d to 10s 6d, mid to good mid 9s to 9s 6d, broken 8s 6d to 8s 9d, cargo Bs, pinkey Madras is 9d to 8s 6d, Coringa grain 8s 6d to 9s, pearl barley and Arracan 8s 6d to 9s, and Moulmein 9s to 103 per cwt. Home and export de liveries are 300 tons greater than last year, and prices keep lower. Sago remains in good demand, and the previous value is well sustained, small pearl realising 15s to 18s, large and medium 21s to 245. Sago Flour is less wanted, and can be obtained at 14s. Farina has been dealt in with reluctance at 16s to 18s. Of Arrow root there is a decrease of supply, with several buyers; Bermuda is id, St. Vincent's 3d to 7d, Brazil and East India lid to 4f, and Tapioca Sid. The supply is less than last week of all sorts. _ _ _ SPIRITS.—There is more activity in the market for Demerara Rum, and several parcels have been sold at from Is lid to 2s 3d for 30 to 42 per cent over proof. For East India a good demrnd exists, and Is 4d is the lowest price proof. Several transactions have taken place in Leeward Island at is 5d to la 61 proof. Operations in Jamaica are much larger than they were in the preceding week, and the terms of that period are well sustained for all purposes. Sales of choice marks made at from 3s 4d to 4s for 35 to 38 over proof, fine 2s 10d to 3s 3d, good mid to good 30 to 34 over 2s 4d to 2s 9d, mid 2s to 2s 3d, and low 24 to 28 over is 10d to Is lld per gallon. A large demand pre vails for Brandy; holders have confidence, and obtain for Cognac best Brandy of the vintage f 1851 4s 2cl to 4s 4d, 1850 ditto 4s 51 to 4s 7d, 1849 ditto 4s 9d to 4s I Id, 1848 ditto 5s 3d to 5s sd, older 5s 7d to 63 6d, low to mid 2s 4d to 4s, and Bordeaux Is lld to 2s ld. Deliveries are again larger than last year, with every prospect of a continuance. Trade is not better for British made Spirit; there are selers at 93 8d to 9s 9d, net cash; Gin 22 under proof 8s 6d, and 17 ditto 9s. In Geneva several transactions have again taken place at is 9d to is 10d, and fine ditto 2s ld to 2s 4d per gallon. SPICES.—A greater demand existed for Pimento, and the previous value is well sustained, although supply is larger than for some time past. At auction 1,356 bgs were sold; good mid to good at 4id to sd, low mid to mid 4d to -lid, common 41-3 to , qd, and damaged 31-d to 'lid per lb. For Pepper stiff rates continue to be obtained, supply not being adequate for the demand. At auction 1,237 bags Batavia were sold at 3id to 3id for good clean light, one lot and one ditto at 39d for very dusty. Privately Penang and Sumatra realised from 3d to 5,- 7 ,d for clean, and Malabar 311 to 4d. White is wanted at 80 to lid; there is no increase of supply. Cayenne met with a slow sale at lid to is per lb. Pod is less in request, and is offered at from 38s to 54s per cwt. In Cloves little has been done, still rates remain at ;11d to is 2d for Penang, 7d to 8d for Am bayns, and 6d to aid for Zanzibar. Mace is wanted ; first sort at 2s ld to 2s 6d; other kinds Is 11d to 2s 2d. At the previous currency there are several buyers of Nut megs, and few parcels are at present on the market. Sales of fine brown made at 3s 2d to 3s 7d, good 2s 8d to 3s, low to mid 28 to 2s 7d, and limed from la 9d to 2s 4d. The market for Cassia Lignea has a dull aspect, and prices have generally given way 4s to 5s per cwt. At auction 25 cases sold at 110 s to 11 Is for pile one and two of ord quality, and mouldy 94s to 955. Cassia Vera is cheaper; a public sale of 114 bundles went at 435, and very thick at 35s to 365. Cassia Bads are wanted at high terms, but none can be obtained out of first hands. Tnero has been no public sale of Ginger; several tran sactions have taken place privately at prices rather above those existing previously; African realizing 25s to 265, Cochin 30s to 40s a good to fine 42s to 665, Jamaica 44s to 150 s, and superior 160 s to 2205. FPITIT.—A large business has been done in Valencia Raisins, but at the reduced rates of 25s to 27s for new. Sales of Denia have been made at 20 to 225. Currants have met with a free sale and the market has a firm tone; the rates paid for new are from 30s to 36s per cwt. SALTPETRE.—There is no decided decline this week for rough, yet large arrivals have taken place, whilst ex porters and home dealers have operated with reluctance privately. The value of flee Calcutta is 29s 6d to 30s 6d, good mid and good 27s to 295, other sorts 24s 6d to 26s 6d, and Madras 22s 63 to 265. At auction 1,275 bags Calcutta were taken in at 26a 6d for 131 to 12i per cent refraction. Deliveries of Saltpetre are nearly 1,000 tons more than in the former season. British Refined met with a slow sale at 29s 6d to 30s, and is likely to be cheaper. Although Nitrate of Soda is more plentiful, still rates remain at 14s 91 to 15s, there being a good demand. COCHINEAL.—This afternoon a public sale of 110 bags Honduras Cochineal went at easier rates, silvers at from 3s 8d to 3s I ld, ord to mid black 4s ld to 4s 3d, and garbling: at lid. INDIGO.—The quantity declared for the public sale of the 11th May is much smaller than it has been of late, being 6,171 in A and 1,185 in the B catalogues, total 7,356 chests, showing a fair assortment of middling and good qualities of Bengal fit for Russian market, a mo derate quantity of ordinary and consuming sorts, an unusually small proportion of dry leaf Madras (only 530 chests), and about 730 Kurpahs of middling to good quality, well suited for export. TALLOW.—This afternoon the public sales of Tallow went at full rates; 155 pkgs South American sold at 34s to 35s 9d for mid to good; 46 cks Grease 27s to 325; 300 cks Australian, mutton 35s 6d to 36s 9d, beef 34s to 355, 71 cks Italian 36s to 375. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS: Lord REDESDALE took his seat on the Woolsack at Five o'clock. PETITIONS. The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND presented a petition against the grant to Maynooth. The Earl of FEVERSHAM presented a petition from a place in Yorkshire to the same effect. The Earl of RODEN presented two petitions from places in Warwickshire to the same effect. The Earl of DERBY presented three petitions from the city of Ross against the endowment of the Catholic clergy. The Earl of RODEN presented petitions from the female inhabitants of Tyrone (3), Londonderry, and Donegal, praying for the establishment of inspectorship of nunneries. LAW OF EVIDENCE (SCOTLAND) BILL. The Earl of MINTO moved the second reading of thii Bill. .... - " — Lord LYNDHURST said he regretted that this Bill did not go far enough, and did not allow plaintiff and defendant to be admitted as witnesses, as was provided by the Bill which passed last session with regard to Eng land. The new system had worked most admirably, and he was happy to state this on the testimony of Learned Judges, who like himself had at first doubted of it. The verdicts of juries were mach more sa tisfactory under the new system than under the old. He thought that, with those good effects before them, they were additional arguments for assimilating the practice throughout the United Kingdom. He had already given notice of an amendment which ho meant to propose when they went into Com mittee, to extend the jurisdiction of the Bill, and he hoped that before they went into Committee the Noble Earl would consent to adopt these amendments. Lord CAMPBELL supported the second reading of the Bill with the greatest pleasure, although he regretted that it did not go further than it did, and he hoped that his Noble and Learned Friend would not abandon his intention to propose the amendments of which he had given notice. The Earl of MINTO said he should certainly not op pose the amendments which were proposed to be in serted by his Noble and Learned Friend opposite. The Bill was then read a second time. The Disabilities Repeal Bill was read a second time on the motion of Lord LYNDHURST. THIRD READINGS. The followine , Bills were read a third time and passed: The Linen. &e.7Manufactures. The Loau Societies. The Poor Relief Act Continuance. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Amendments to th© Droitwich Junction Canal Bill were considered and agreed to. The following Bills were read a third time and passed : Deeside Railway. Edinburgh aad Glasgow Railway. ..0. , Merthyr Tydfil Waterworks. The following Bills were considered and agreed to: — Cork Improvement. Macclesfield and Buxton Road. Tyne Improvement. Shillingford, Wallingford, and Reading Road, an d Shil- PETITIONS. Mr. HASTIE presented several petitions from vario us parts of Scotland ag a i nst the Maynoot h gra nt. Mr. W. MILNES presented a petition from the Wake field Mechanics' Institute, praying for the repeal of all taxes on knowleige. Mr. FREWEN presented a petition from Essex against the Maynooth grant. Mr. SPOONER presented a similar petition from Camberwell. Mr. THORNELY presented a petition from Nantwich, in Cheshire, praying the House to take steps to put an end to the practice of flogging juvenile offenders. Mr. MACGREGOR presented a petition from a place in Scotland, praying for repeal of the Tests Act; also a petition from a body of hand-loom weavers, praying the House to assist them to emigrate to New South Wales; also a petition from Chelsea and Kensington, against the Militia Bill. ___ _ Mr. W. J. FOX presented a petition from Finsbury ;o the saran effect. Mr. G. NOEL presented a petition against the May nooth grant. Mr. WHITESIDE presented a petition from Ennis killen in favour of tenant right. Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition against the Charitable Trusts Bill from Selby in Yorkshire. Mr. BROCKLEHURST presented a petition from the Macclesfield Institution, praying the House to direct that copies of all Parliamentary reports and other valuable public papers may be furnished to that and similar bodies. Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition against the Mi litia Bill. _ Mr. RICARDO presented a petition from ' the pub lisher and proprietor of the Household Narrative of Current Events, complaining of the conduct of the So merset House authorities, who had threatened to prosecute him for publishing an illegal paper, but yet hesitated to bring the matter in dispute to issue in a Court of Record. NISI PRIUS. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL gave notice that on Monday he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to make provision relative to the performance of the duties of clerks in Nisi Prins and Judges' Chambers. HOME-MADE SPIRITS. Mr. REYNOLDS wished to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if it be the intention of her Majesty's Go vernment, during the present session of Parliament, to introduce a Bill to place the manufacturers of and dealers in home-made spirits on a footing of equality (as regards allowance for leakage and evaporation) with the importers of and dealers in foreign and colonial spirits. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was not the intention of Government in the present Parliament to introduce any measure which could have the effect of altering the means or method of raising the revenue.—(Hear, hear.) In coming to that reso lution the Goverment thought they had arrived at a de termination in unison with the feelings of the majority of the House.—(Hear hear.) BRITISH MUSEUM. Mr. lIEYWOODwished Co — aslcSir Robert Harry Inglis, if the trustees of the British Museum had con sidered the over-crowded, ill-ventilated, half-lighted state of the reading room in that institution; and if the forma tion of a glass roof over the central court of the Museum would not afford increased accommodation. Sir IL INGLIS saiclwithTe - spcctioThe first question he begged to state that the trustees had repeatedly had under their consideration the state of the reading-room, and he admitted that its condition was such as required alteration, but it would depend upon the liberality of the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether or not that al teration was made. 'With regard to the second question, he was not in a position to give any answer. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Ddusco Musco va do Sugar, com puted from returns made in the week ending May 4, 1852, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain : From the British possessions in America 225. 4kd. per cwt From the Mauritius ... 235. „ From the East Indies ... 20s. 7id. Average price of the three foregoing de scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as above, and exclusive of duty ... 225. 'Ad. By authority of Parliament, HENRY BICKN ETA Clerk of the Grocers' Company Grocers'-hall, May 7. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From this night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32 for the Week ending on Saturday, the Ist day of May, 1852. 1881:1Z DEPART/LENT. X. Notes Issued .. :15,417,775 .e. Government debt .. 11,015,100 Other securities • • 2,984,900 Gold coin anolbullion 19,384,400 Silver bullion • • .. • • 33,375 433,417,77 5 33.117,775 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 6th day of May, 1852. BANICJItG DEPAILTXZN T. Proprietors'eapltal • . 14,553,000 Best ........... 3,105,037 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say ings -banks, and Di vidend accounis) • . 3,194,817 Other deposits • . • ... 14,365,920 Seven day and other Bills .... 1,213,821 Government securi ties (including Dead Weight Annuity) • • 13,338,022 Other securities •• .. 10,022,332 Notes .. •• • • .... 11,585,615 Gold and silver coin .. 483,025 5,36,429,595 £36,429,595 31. MAY:SHA..LL, Chief Cashier. Dated the Bth day of May, 1852, MARKET IN TEL LIG:EN CE. (Er:UG&R. taken then f London —To-day there was a falling off in the home tradee-raakndefor rr grocery New Price Current, Ma y 7 . ) S e not de Weoseter or lnd refining Sugar, yet lower rates W y sorts. At auction 51 hhds 3 ti mes 356 brls Barbadoes 5o 3 1s to 31 s 6d , or d ye ll ow 32s to 33s 6 d , mid 34s to 355 6d, and, good 36s to 38s. operate n emiru E nal v tele f s : si - o E ;nr : bare - - 0 - erfiw To er.dmld Sugar, E s s . y home Crushed Sug ar an dealers dthe m a r w k e e r t e c l anxious i t t h o MneadunfoTisinsa. u_riT u .h m i lumps sat 46s to 46s 6d per cwt. In brownnthere is a good deal doizig for shipping and the low to mid 32s to w bags, tai \i l ia Sugar at the publi...: sales of 6,600 afternoon former rates were sus tained sold ; fine yellow 36s to 37s 6d, 6d, low to mid 24 34 9, geod to fine brov r u, 28 s 6d to 31s s to 275 6d, 'and greyish from 30s to 56s per cwt. EAST INDIA.--- T isafternoon the market for Bengal Sugar was quiet, yet h the Told previous currency is generally s ustained. At auction 3,ooole2rbeasgast r 3 a 6 tl s i t e o r 3 m 8 0 5, r e m thanhalf 55 te sold, good to fine white ats t 2 0 5 3 5 0 t 5 0 , 2 a 6 n s d . forli h softaur 2 h 4 r so brown, 305: Madras t e l, Y O e O l O l n w bags rro bags sold at and at 263 6d to 275 6d fo . low to mi d y ellow, steady prices. Of Penang 2,000 yellow 27s to 30s; 294 soFftobarEiwGns:fTroom-da2y4sfotore2is6: 6d, full rates, yellow 233 6d to bags Bombay, ord and middlin soft Sugar was much sought 293 6d. ft and prices advanced 6d, and in some cases l o s r P , s p h e i rc P w ilig tprivate opera tions are to-day 600 cases of brown Bi6la shipping , last Frid ay. The in bond, at 18s to 19s; 1 , 400 chests yellow liavarma, h at 21s fur No, 12.1; and 1,500 chests ditto at 225 for No. 13. A puhlic sale of 300 ba g s Java went at 13s 6 d for low . soft yetlow. ' h MOLASSES.—To -day 100 puns Molassis found buyers; new Demerara at 133 6d, and Antigua 14s 6d. Ye"; COFFEE.—This afternoon the demand, was active for Native Ceylon, and at auction 600 bags sold at 435 for good ord; and privately 3,000 bugs at 43s to 43s 6d. There is a brisker sale for Plantation Ceylon, and an advance took place of ls. At auction 180 casks, and 56 b ags sold, good went 60s to 62s 6d, low mid to mid 555 to 57s 6d, fine to fine fine ord 51s to 345, triage 37s to 475. Of Costa Rica 4,500 bags taken in at 48s to 50s, for fine to fine fine ord unclean being above the value, but 100 bags sold at 45s to 45s 6d for good ord. Of Bahia 230 bags realised 41s to 42s 6cl for good ordinary washed; and 28 cases unclean Callcut 465. CocoA.—To-day at auction 694 bags Para hove been all been taken in at 25s per cwt. FRIDAY EVENING, NEWSPAPER STAMP. Mr. HUME wished toask — theAttorney-General, why the Dunfermline News, published at intervals of twenty-eight clays, and thus often appearing in the middle of the month, should bo liable to prosecution under the Act 60 George 111., c. 9, s. 4, whilst the Stoke -upon-Trent Monthly Narrative, coming out in the middle of the month, is tree from prosecution under the same Act? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it was ex tremely difficult to answer the question; :it seemed to him that the Hon. Member was seeking to obtain a legal opinion which would be chargeable if put in the regular way.—(Hear, and a laugh.) With regard to the question itself, no proceedings had been taken against the paper, nor could any be taken without the sanction of the authorities at Somerset-house, and as therefore the question was based upon an assumption of facts which did not exist, he of course would not answer it.—(Hear, hear.) THE FRANCHISE. Mr. GLADSTONE said the Right Hon. the Chan cellor of the Exchequer had . given notice of his intention to move on Monday for leave to bring in a Bill to dispose of the four seats vacated by the disfran chisement of Sudbury and St. Albans, and he should be glad to know if that was to be the first business taken on Monday, as it was his intention to make a motion to raise the preliminary question whether that subject ought to be introduced at all during the present Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was his intention to aek for leave to bring in such a Bill on Monday, and he should do so before the orders of the day were read. Sir GEORGE GREY asked what was to become of the Militia Bill then? Tha CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he should proceed with the Committee on the Militia Bill afterwards. THE SEWERS COMMISSION. In reply to Sir BENJAMIN HALL, - Lord J. MANNERS stated that it was his intention, in the course of a week, to bring in a Bill to continue the existing Sewers Commission for the limited period of twelve months. FINSBURY PARK. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE wished to pat a question to the Chancellor of the Exchequer with re gar d t o th e p a rk a t Finsbury. He wished to know whether the Right Hon. Gentleman could hold out any hope of assistance ou the part of the Government towards the formation of such a park ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said her Majesty's Government were ext reme l y anx i ous t o see a park formed in Finsbury, and the engineer who had made an estimate on the subject was now making what was called an amended estimate, and until he had that in his hard he was unable to speak with any certainty as to the ultimate decision of the Government ; but in case any Honourable Member would introduce a Bill it should receive the support of the Government upon the understanding that the whole subject should be referred to the decision of a Select Committee.—(Hear, hear.) CHATITABLE TRUSTS BILL. In reply to Mr. P. HOWARD, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated that it was his intention to proceed with the Charitable Trusts Bill on the first opportunity which presented itself. THE FRANCHISE. Mr. REYNOLDS wished to know whether the Chancellor of the Exclacver, in distributing the four vacant seats of Sudbury and St. Albans, would introduce into his Bill the name of any county or town in Ireland? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said was premature to make any statement now, but on Monday he should be ready t o g i ve the Hon. M em b er the fullest information on all points.—Hear, hear.) THE MAYNOOTH GRANT. In reply to Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL, Mr. ANSTEY stated that it was hie intention to per. severe with his amendment on Tuesday next, of which he had given notice, to the motion of the Hon. Member for Virarwickshro on the Maynooth Grant, as he was desirous of taking the sense of the House apon the pro endowments to any rel i gious i nstitutions priety of giving at all. TITHES. On the motion of Mr. C. LEWIS, returns were or dered of all agreements for the commutation of tithes which have been confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners in the several counties of England and Wales, from the Ist day of January, 1851, to the Ist day of January , 1852; specifying, in each case the amount of rent-charge agreed to be paid in lieu of tithes, and showing whether the same be payable to app ropr i ators, i mpro p r iators, or clerical incumbents; o f all awards for the com mutation of tithes which h ave b een con fi rm ed by the Tithe Commissioners in the several counties of Eng land and Wales, from the Ist day of January, 1851, to the Ist day of January, 1852; specifying also, in each case, the amount of rent-ch arge awar d e d t o be paidin lieu of tithes, and showin g w h ether the same be payable to appropriators, impropriator s , or clerical incumbents. And, of all apportionments of rent-cirrges which have been confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners, from the Ist day of January, 1 851, to the Ist day of January, 1852 (in continuation of Parliamenta of session 1851.) ry paper, No. 465, THE P ATAGONIAN MISSION. Mr. MONCKTON MILNES moved for a copy of the dispatch lately received at the Admiralty from the Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific, transmitting a re port made to him by Captain Moriihead, of her Ma jesty's ship Dido, respecting the death by starvation of Commander A. F . Gardiner , R.N., and the whole of the party sent oat by the Pataffonian Missionary Society in 1850 to Picton Isla n d, rica.—Agreed t o . the southern . e xtremity of Arne- PATENT LAW AMENDMENT. In reply to Mr. RICARDO, Mr. HENLEY said it was impossible to proceed with this Bill to-night. He thought that to refer it to a Se lect Committee in the present state of the session would be virtually to throw the subject over for another year. THE INCOME-TAX. On the question that the house cot its rising do ad journ until Monday next, Mr. HUME complained that the Income-tax Bill was read a second time last night at so late an hour as two o'clock. If he bad had the sUghtest idea that the second reading would have Dean proposed he should have sta7ed beyond twelv , s o'clock, though he had then been upwards of twelve hours within the walls of the House. He protest ad agaiast the Bill being further proceeded with unless the Government were prepared to carry out the aboliti.on of the remain ing imposts on articles of necessity.. Sir Robert Peel when he proposed the tax gavel a pledge that he would gradually reduce the duties on articles of general consumption, he thought this pledge ought to be fulfilled. Feee trade ought to be extended to the fullest limits, so that the agricultural and all other inte rests should be put oa the same footi ag. The Committee upstairs had declared the income-tax to be most unequal and unjust in operation. He did not advocate any party_ doctrine, b ecause relief from taxation b ene fitted all classes. It was their duty to the cc.uutry net to con tinue an on e r ous tax fez one purpc while it was ' levied fi r anot h er —viz., to enable a g enera l reductio n of taxation to take place. TT n• Member Mr. NEWDEGATE differed with the in his statement, that it was ineonsist,nt on the part of the Government to continue the inece3l3l -tax without re ducing took their con duciny, taxation. On the contrary, ledge that the self duct in this respect to be an earnest p , ld be ferings of the • It l interest 1v0?... b rought by agricu ura them under th e cons id era tion of t he future Parli ament . It was with d eep sat i s f ac tion ho h eard that the Govern ment eq ual adjustment o f tax ation. Ile complained that it intended to effect a mor e was irrelervant to the busi ness before the House to introduce questions about the Income-tax After a few words from Sir DE LACY EVANS, Mr. RICARDO agreed with the Hon. Member for Montrose that it was improper to bring forward a Bill of such great importance at two o'clock in the morning. The declaration made last night by the Chancellor of the Exchequer was entirely st variance with that con tained in his financial statement.—(Hear.) He had said that it was the intention of the Government to shift the burdens from the landlords, and to place them on the shoulders of the manufacturers, and before the Income tax Bill passed the people ought to be informed what the real object of the Government was. Mr. WAKLEY also concurred in the impropriety of moving the second reading at such an hour. The pro ceeding was unworthy of any administration. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's declaration, had produced out of doors, not only profound astonishment, but great indignation. He was bound to tell the House and the country not in any mysterious language, but in plain, bold, and intelligible expressions, what the Government really intended to do. Did they want to get a majority at the elections, and then to lay on protective duties? The eountry had a right to know the nature of their policy at once, so that a fair battle might take place on the hustings. If they declined to give the required information, they would be guilty of absolute dishonesty. He was positively disgusted with regard to the course taken by the late and present Government on the Militia Bili—they were both alike to blame, being tarred with the same brush. He had hoped that the wit and good sense of the present Go vernment would have induced them rat to take up so unpopular a measure, for it was evident it could not be passed without creating great annoyance and incon venience to the public. After a few observations of Mr. BAILLIE coca. RANE, Mr. BRIGHT thought this discussion would dispel two delusions which at present existed throughout the country, and were calculated to do a great deal of public injury. One had been originated by the Hon. Member for Warwickshire (Mr. Spooner), who had a motion on the paper for inquiry into the College of May nooth. The leader of the Government in the House of Commons was deeply responsible for not bringing such questions as Maynooth to an immediate crisis.—Hear, hear.) For instance, upon the ques tion of Protection, the follower of the Government were for one thing, while the speeches of their leader preached another, and their countenances were conti nually alternating between cloud and sunshine according to the tone of the Right Hon. Gentleman's addresses. The Right Hon. Gentleman, in fact, reminded him of a character which was to be found a few years ago in a party of Indians who were visiting this country. He advised them upon all their temporal and spiritual concerns, and was also their medical adviser.—(Hear, hear.) He was, in a word, the mystery man of the party—(A laugh)—and the Right Honourable Gentleman appeared to him to be the mystery man of the aboriginal party opposite.—(Laughter.) He urged upon the Right Hon. Gentleman. then, the propriety of postponing this question until the Parliament to be held in autumn or till the session of 1853. ~There was no necessity for a militia now, and, therefore, he insisted that the Bill ought to be postponed until after the general elections, when those who returned to Par liament would be able to j edge this question in a clear and impartial spirit.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. P. MILES rose to state on behalf of the followers of protection that they had the utmost confidence of her Majesty's Ministers, and whether in the next Parliament it was done in the shape of an import duty on corn, or by any other means, they were con vinced that the Government would make an effort to carry into practice those great principles which they had so long and ably advocated in Opposi tion.—(Cheers.) Mr. SPOONER said he was neither a dupe nor a de ceiver; bat, nevertheless, he should persevere with his motion on Monday next, though at the same time he thought that no motion, which was not absolutely neces sary, ought to be brought forward this session. —(Hear.) Sir B. HALL believed that the present Government came into office for the purpose of carrying out the principles of protection, and he was informed that immediately after Lord Derby was called to the head of affairs, a meeting of the acting committee of the National Association for the Pro tection :of Industry, a thanksgiving ilto Almighty goodness was offered up at the restoration of the Noble Lord to office.—(Laughter and Op position cheers.) If was absolutely impossible for the present followers of the Government to give up protection, that was if they wished to secure a charac ter for honesty and consistency.—(Opposition cheers.) (LEFT SPEAKING.) MAY 7, 1852. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. Loucinaao', MAY 6.—This market was well attended to day. Wheat Is lower ; barley ls higher ; oats and beans firm. DERBY SMITHFIELD MARKET, MAY 4.—The supply of fat beasts to-day was again large, the quality generally good, with a fair attendance of purchasers, without any quotable alteration in price. The show of sheep was also large (most of which were out of their wool) ; the demand was brisk, and a good clearance was effected. There were several lots of lambs penned, which were readily sold. Fat and store calves were again plentiful; fat pigs about the average. Beef, 41d to sd; mutton, 5d to 6d ; veal, 4d to 414 per lb ; pigs, 7s 3d to 7s 6d per score. Rough fat, 3s 6d per stone of 14Ibs. Hides, 11d to Od per lb; calf skins, 2d to 3d per lb. UPPINGHAM, AIAY s.—Wheat 38s to 41s; barley 25e to 27s Od ; oats 193 to 248; beans 30s to 33s per qr. Butter 7441 to 8d per lb ; eggs 26 for Is. Lount, MAY s.—Wheat 35s to 39s ; barley 25s to 28s; oats 16s to 19s; beans 26s to 30s per qr. NEWARK, MAY s.—Wheat, white 44s to 455, red 38s to 408; barley, malting 28s to 30s, grinding 23s to 24s ; oats, 245 t., 22s to 235. 225 t., 20s to 21s; beans, 328 Od to 335; I malt, 00s to 003; tares, 35s to 40s per qr. BOSTON, MAY s.— Wheat, red 34s to 39s Od, white 40s to 425, superfine 44s to 00s ' • barley OOs to COs ; oats , 17s to 21s ; beans 29a to 33s ; peas 25s to 276 per qr. LYNN, MAY 4.—Wheat 30s Od to 36s Od, fine 38s to 41s; barley 24s to 265, fine 28s to 30s; oats OOs to OOs; beans Os to Os, fine Os to Os per qr. MELTON MOWBRAY, MAY 4.--Wheat, 378 Od to 41s ; barley, 24s to, 235; oats, 18s to 225; eans, 26s to 33 1 per qr. Butter 8d to 9d per lb ; eggs 24 for ls. EDINBURGH GRAIN MARKET, MAT s.—We had in the market a good supply of grain to-day. Sales for wheat and oats ready, but barley and beans rather dull. The top of wheat was Is, and the average 3d down. Barley on the top 6d up, and the average rage 3 d as last week. Oats on the top same as last week and the average Id down. Beans en the top Is, and the average 7d down. Unsold, 127 qr s wheat, 53 qrs barley, 101 qrs oats, and 20 beans. 6541 b. 45s Od .„ Top of Wheat ••• ••• 550 b. 33s Od ~ Barley ... ..• 4441b.23 5 6d ~ Oats ... ••• ~ Beans ••• • • 66 lb. 35s Od or l e i t han lastAßicET' MAY s. —Th e num b er week. Top p r i ce, 6s 9d of E ca D tt i l l e ß w i Ts ° 7 llo2,C o A r to Os Od ; current , 6s 6d ; secondary and inferior, from 5s 6d T46TL m ore to 6s Od per Dutch stone. A clearance was effected. The number of sheep at market this morning was 2,028, being 629 less than last week. Best wedder mutton, top price, sid per lb; current, 54d to Od; ewes, 4d to 40. Lambs, top, 229 ; current. from 20s to 216 a head. At the close a clearance was not effected. CORK, MAY 5. Currency. B a rrels. 0 White whe atoos Od-20 s t one 9 Red wheat ••• 00s Od to 00$ Od 00s Od-20 d o 00$ 21a Od oi t t o o 00$ 003 Odod 0 Ditto Od to 001 Od 003 Od-00 d o Od t to o °° l 9B l Od (ld Od to 00$ Od O s Od 10 Od to 00$ Od 0 Ditto 0 ts 5 0 00 5 Ditto O O3 ............................... 0 1 D a itto . ......... los 6d to Ils 4d 00s Od to 00s Od 108 10d-...0 do 0 Ditto ... oos Od to 00s Od 10 Pigs 2Bs Od to 326 Od 00s Od per cwt Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:- 0 barrels white wheat; 0 red ; 25 barley; 0 ben; 2 oats; 5 pigs. Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week c_ Wheat, 80. Barley, 1582. Oats, 1264. Pigs, 11. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, MAY 6. STOCK EXCHANGE. —There was an improved feeling ex hibited in the share market to-day, and a good business has been done at improved prices. The sales reported were— Midlands, 70 %—Ditto, Six per Cents., 142 —London and North-Western, 123 , 4—South-Eastern and Dover, 21 3 / 8 — Taff Yale, Quarters, 34. LIVERPOOL, MAT 6, STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market opened well this morning, but soon became flat, and closed heavily. The transactions were as,follow : —Caledonian, 20- 5 / B —Eastern Counties, 9 , 3 c.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 73% —Ditto, 201. F Shares, 3 4 dis.—London and North-Western, 124 1 4 —Ditto, New Quarters, 5 1 / 2 p.—Ditto, Fifths, 4% p.— Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,34% —Midland, 70,4 —York and North Midland, 25 1 /,. MAN CHESTE tt, MAY 6. STOCK EXCHA.NGX.—There has been a fair amount of business transacted to-day, without material alteration in prices. —The sales reported were—Caledonian, 20%—East Anglian, 6 percent, 318—Eastern Counties, 91/4—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, New Preference, 7/8 p.—Shrews bury and Chester, Preference, 15%s—Midlands, 70% —South - Eastern and Dover, 21 11.16—Blackburn, Preferenrceew,s2nol/2 —East Lancashi re Fifth s (second issue), 5%-s it, nry and Birmingham (A ), 73/B—Leeds, 201., 34 dis.—Warrington rth and Al trincham, 1-16 dis.—London and No-I°stern, 123 3 4 v BIRMINGHAM, MAY 6 . reth f a o n usually buoyant to-day, and therer STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share goodmarkaet an d Birmingham shares. The Midland and Shrewsbury an was demand nmore mtraidnlsaancdti,on7sowyte_resahsrefwolslnoNnyry:—aLneed dßsiramindngßhraamdfo(rdA,)l,o7r: 2 : Ditto (B), 5 'A • IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 6. Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from the Catholics of Burnley against the Charitable Trusts Bill. MILITIA BILL. (Continued from our Fifth Edition,) On clanfio 3 being proposed, Mr. fiUME said that he had given notice of his in , tention to amend the preamble of the Bill by the inser tion of such words as shall recite ail the Acts of p ar lianEnt.inany way rel a ti ng to the militia, local or g eneral, or , disembodied ; an d t h at i t is expedient to repeal all tnose Acts, with the view of consolidating the law to be in force for the futuro regulation or govern ment of the militia in England. It was of the utmost importance that the present measure, if passed, should be recognised as the whole law of the land, and that every individual to be affected by it should be able to ascertain exactly wh a t hi s d ut i es were , w i t h ou t incurring the risk of the penalties to which he might bo s ubject. He held iu hi s h an d an i n d ex h e h a d procured from th library, in which th ere were th ree folio pages taken up by the titles of A c t s passed at different times subject of the militia. There were eig ht of cable to England alone. Now Burn's J u stice does not allude to more than five. Under these oubtupon the c i rcu mstances he submitted that they ought to h ave nod subject. In a law 60 imperative every thing ought to be uupon appli cable the those simple and intelligible to the most ignorant man in the . country. Upon this clause he would take the sense of the House in respect to his proposition. The Hon. Member concluded by moving the ouiLsion of certain words from the clause, with the view of carrying out his object. The CHAIRMAN having put the question, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said be believed that the Hon. Member for Montroso was not in the House when a question upon the subject was asked by the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Northampton. His Right Hon. Friend the Secretary for the Home Depart mentgave such an answer at the time as seemed to satisfy — the Right Hon. Member for Northampton. He (the Attorney-General) believed that some of those Acts to which the Hon. Member for Montrose reterred were passed prior to the 42d George 111., c. 90, and that the others related to Ireland and Scotland. Now if the Hon. Gentleman would take up the 42d George 111., he would find that the first section repealed all the prior Acts re lating to the militia, so far us they related to England; and, therefore, in point of fact, the 42d George 111. was the existing and prevailing law upon the subject at pre sent. With regard to the Acts passed subsequently, there really was little alteration made, and none of the slightest importance as regarded the present question. Ho was satisfiod that if the Honourable Gentleman would turn his attention to the particular statute to which ho referred he would find that there was no obligation whatever to revert to any other Act in the present Bill than the 42d George 111., which was intended by this Bill to be the governing law in respect to the militia. He agreed with the Hon Gen tleman that it was most desirable that the law on the subject should be rendered intelligible to those particu larly who were to administer it. He was, however, afraid that many of the class of persons to whom his Hon Friend referred could not read the law—and if they even could, they would not understand it. It was, however, most desirable that the law should be clear and definite. The Hon. Gentleman proposes to repeal all the Militia Acts in regard to England, Ireland, and Scotland. He said that he was desirous of consolidating them, and including them in the one Act. Well, inas much as the only Act which could apply was the 42d George 111., all that he could accomplish would be this —that he would take the 42d George 111. and repeat it clause by clause in the provisions of this Bill. Now, he asked, how could they make the matter more clear and intelligible by taking such a course? Everybody was presumed to know the law. Ho, however, confessed he did not believe that after this Bill passed into a law the people would be better acquainted with the state of the law than they were before. It appeared to him, then, that it would be perfectly unnecessary, and but a waste of time, for them to consider the provisions of the 42d George 111. He submitted that the course taken by the Government was the better one. There was no want of clearness and intelligibility in the measure before the House. Mr. HUME reminded the Hon. and Learned Gentle man that the late Sir R. Peel, when Prime Minister, had in one of his greatest and most important measures, consolidated seventy or eighty Acts connected with Cus toms, and he frequently took pains to lay it down as his principle that the old laws should be repealed, consoli dated, or brought into one Act. He did not think that the Hon. and Learued Gentleman had made out a case for departing from that principle on the present occa sion. Tho course he proposed might no doubt entail some trouble upon the Government; but he hoped it would not be considered offensive if he told them that they were well paid for their trouble. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that, in the case referred to by the Hon. Member, there were seventy or eighty Acts to be considered, but in the present there was virtually only one. Lord PALMERSTON said he perfectly agreed in prin ciple with the Hon. Member for Montrose, thinking it most desirable that the several Acts passed upon this sub ject should be consolidated into one. It was entirely in accordance with this view that he took the liberty of suggesting when the Bill was first brought in that it should consolidate all the previous Acts passed; they were, however, on the occasion referred to in the month of •February, when the House had ample time to act upon the suggestion which he threw out. He would re mind the Hon. Member, after the changes which had taken place, and under the peculiar position of Parlia ment at the present time, that it was deemed advisable and it was the general understanding that nothing would be done during this session but what was absolutely ne cessary. Now, although the proposal was a good one, he did not think it so necessary to occupy the time of the House in discussing so extensive a subject. It might be equally well done in the next year. All the main provisions of the law were to be found in the 42d George 111., c. 90. He hoped that the Hon. Gentleman would not consider that he was altering his opinion upon the principle of his amendment if he thought, in the present state of the session, it WAS not necessary to press it, as there was a general expectation that the business would be finished early, and that Parliament would be dissolved. Mr. V. SMITH regretted that the supporters of this amendment were not to have the assistance of his Noble Friend the Member for Tiverton. The law was on all sides admitted to be unpopular in its working. It was, therefore, the more desirable that it should be clearly known, and that there could be no mistake about it. He certainly did not under stand the Right Honourable Gentleman the Secretary for the Home Department to assent to the proposition when be urged it upon him on a previous evening ; but it would appear from the Hon. and Learned Attorney- General, that he must have assented to it, as he ( Mr. Smith) appeared at the time to be perfectly satisfied with his reply to his interrogatory. He, however, hoped that the House would support the amendment of his Hon. Friend, who had greatly the advantage of him (Mr. Smith), inasmuch as he was evidently in the con fidence of the Government.—(" No, no," from Mr. Hume.) Why the fact of the Hon. Member for Mon trose having that evening read a Ministerial paper which had not been produced on the table of the House, was tolerably good evidence that he was in the confidence of the Government.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Now he should like to inspect that paper that had passed be ween the Right Honourable Gentleman the Home Se cretary and the Hon. Member for Montrose. He be lieved that the supporters o f t h e present measure d id not wish that the obnoxious character of their Bill should be generally known to the public. He did not know whether his Hon. Friend the Member for Manchester (Mr. Bright) was aware that there were some stringent clauses in it which especially related to the order to which he belonged. If any member of that order was unable or unwilling to provide a substitute ho was sub ject to the penalty of a heavy fine, which it not paid left him subject to i m p r i sonme nt. —(Hear, hear.) He did not think that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman was acting respectfully to the House in the course he was taking. Mr. RICH objected that, as the Bill stood, if a man deserted—say from the Dorsetshire militia, and was found in Northumberland, he would then have to be handed over to the colonel of the Cumberland militia, and so from county to county, until ho arrived in the county from whose militia he had deserted. Such a provision as that, he granted, might have been very do. sipable when there were no railways in existence; but he put it to the Committee whether it was not alto gether inexpedient and unnecessary in the present state of locomotion in this country? By another clause it appeared that the 6/, bounty was to be paid to the militiaman free of all charges; but he did not under stand how that could be when 4d. a day was to be de ducted. Such provisions as these rendered it necessary, in his opinion, that the measure a hould bo considered and amended by the Government before they pressed it further through the Committee. Mr. WALPOLE said it was from no disrespect to the House that the Bill had been introduced in its present shape. The Government had con sidered the m atter maturely, and, seeing that it was in feta a Bill for carry ing out a volunt a ry en li s t men t, t h ey t b oug ht it would be much clearer and better understood ig it were passed h in that shape. At the same time, he agreed w ii i e t Mr. Hume that it was advisable, wherever it could c d a o t ne ii to consolidate laws, and if this Bill were passed, h would be extremely desirable, in another sessiofP Par liament, to consolidate the old Acts with this, that the whole body of militia law might be included in one measure. Mr. BRIGHT was astonished at the course which Ministers had taken. He could only account for it by the fact that they were a new Government,in difficulties, in a Parliament in extremis, and that therefore they were anxious to shuffle through the Bir e without sufficient consideration of the gravity and imp ortance of the 80- ject upon which they were legislating.—(oh, oh, and hoar.) As to the Noble Lord the Member for Tiverton (Lord Palmerston), he appeared to have fallen into lamentable inconsistency upon the q uestion. It was but recently that he expressed himself •most strongly in fa vour ot consolidation; but he seer ned to be so wedded to the idea of getting through some thing in the shape of a Militia Bill, and of introducing I:he thin end of the wedge this session, that he cared no t to sacrifice his con sistency upon that part of the ques lion. Let the Com mittee bear in mind that the Act of 1802 was passed at a period wholly different from th, a present, when the punishments, not only of the military, but the civil code, were brutal and sanguinary to a degree, which would not now be tolerated; and even civi ;1 rights were not for one moment h e ld i n the balance wh ere the necessities of the military service were concerned.. He contended then that it was an improper thing for the Parliament of 1852 hastily, and without any cause of ui.gency being shown, to re-enact and incorporate in this 33 ill a measure such as that. On that account he agi eed with his Hon . Friend (M r . H ume) that it would be batter to delay pro ceeding further with the measure in the present session. Sir G. GREY was surprised to hei tr that Governmentfterany had resolved upon the course theytow took, a deliberation upon the subject. The House would re member that an amendment was rooved by Lord Pa o fl raerston upon the motion of the lat e Government r leave to bring in their Bill, and th at part ot the Noble Viscount's amendment was to insert the word " consoli dated."—(Hear, hear.) The House adopted iowed—an thatd yet the amend ment—a change of Government t . ° 1 Right lion. Gentleman (the Home S ecretary) came down to the House, and without giving it the slightest reason to suppose the Government were not of the same opini on with the House that the militia-law& ought to be conso lidated, introduced a Bill which was merely to amend those lawn. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—It was quite true that the course takes t by her Majesty's Ministers with regard to the Militia Bill was the result of the deliberation due to so impor tant a subject; but deliberation was exercised, not merely as to that subject, but as to the circumstances und er w hi c h the quest i on had devolved upon them. They had before them two modes of consolidation—one was the / plan now proposed by his Hon. Friend the Member for Montrose; the other, by reference. And as it was their opini on that, if they adopted the former, they would not succeed in carrying a Militia Bill through the present Parliament, under the peculiar circumstances in which the -new Goverment came in, they resolved on adopting the other course of consolidating by reference. He did not mean to say that cinsollda.ii,n by reference was supnrinr, or even equal, to absolute consolidation; but to Lay that the word con solidation was used merely for the sake of form, and ti the Bill did not really consolidate, was a statement which no Hon. Gentleman was justified in making. Lord J. RUSSELL had heard the Right Hon. Gen tleman speak of consolidation by reference before, but it was quite impossible to gather a meaning from it. If they brought in a Bill that did not repeal the former laws, it was obvious that all the parts of those laws which were not inconsistent with the new Bill remained in full force ; but it was clear that that was not consoli dation. If, a!ter deliberation, the Government had de termined that it was not advisable to consolidate, their proper course would have been to discharge the order as it stood, have brought in another Bill simply to " amend" the militia laws, and then to have followed the course adopted by Sir Robert Peel i❑ 1842, and al lowed every Member of the House to have ts copy of the Act which they intended should remain in force. True, that would not have answered the purpose of consolidation, but it would have afforded an explana tion of the actual nature of their measure. Mr. WALPOLE believed that, in considering the measure now under discussion, Hon. Members had nothing further to do in order to understand its provi sions than to take the Act 42 George 111. as its basis, and the Bill itself as the basis of the voluntary principle. Mr. COBDEN said the question which had been raised on that side of the House was, why Hon. Msmbors had not the details of the laws they were going to re-enact laid before them. These Acts of Parliament were vir tually expired Acts.—(oh, oh, and no.) Why for 20 years they had been inoperative.—(No.) At all events they had been suspended during that period, and noir the proposition was to revive them. What he wanted, therefore, was, that the House should see the provisions which they were now called upon to re-enact. The Noble Lord the Member for Tiverton (Lord Palmerston) had certainly shown a degree of inconsistency upon this question, which he (Mr. Cobden) had scarcely ever seen exceeded in that House, and he had seen a great deal of it there; but the Noble Lord might rest assured that he should not be permitted to smuggle the provi" sions of the Act of 1802 through the House without discussion. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in allusion to Mr. Cohdon's statement that the Act 42d George 111. was inoperative, and therefore the same as if it did not exist, reminded the Hon. Member that from time to time Acts of Parliament had been passed suspending the bal lot under that Act, thus showing that it was an existing law, and that the very last Act which did this was the 14th and 15th of her Majesty's reign.—(Hear, hear.), He contended that this was a very inconvenient mode et raising the question submitted to the Committee, eat moreover that it was not the proper stage of the Bill upon which it ought to be raised. As to the statement made by the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) that this Woe not a consolidation Bill, he begged to say that long before it came to the second reading, which involved the question of principle, the House was fully informed with regard to the character and decription of the Bill. And he apprehended that, if it were the intention of the House to admit a Bill which did not consolidate, a god would be taken against the measure then. The ques tion now raised was virtually this, whether they wer e to have a militia Bill or not. The objections of the Noble Lord (J. Russell) were clearly intended to defeat the Bill, notwithstanding the pledge he had given on former night. He (the Attorney-General) doubted Yell Bill which could emanate from the present Govern ment woul satisfy the Noble Lord; indeed, if they bad taken up his own Bill, he questioned if the Noble Lor d's ingenuity would not have discovered some reason or other for opposing it.—(Hear.) He hoped the Col e " mittee would not adopt the amendment of the lion. Mee" her for Montrose. for it would virtually deprive them of Militia Bill, and leave the country without that defence which a majority both in this House and out of it deemed to be absolutely necessary,—(Cheers.) Sir W. P. WOOD could not sit silent whilst the atop' tion of the House was diverted, and purposely diverted, from the details of the Bill, which ought now to be the subject of their deliberations, to the consideration of the e , personal conduct of his Noble F r i en d l ate a t t he head of her Majesty's Government. That course was adopted first by the Noble Lord the Member for Tiverton (Lord Palmerston), who, upon the introduction of his Noble Frieed's Bill, and whilst professing to throw aside all considerations of party, directed the whole of his ad dress to prove that his Noble Friend had acted with inconsistency upon th e quest i on . The attack of toe Noble Viscount was then followed up by a Lord of th e Admiralty breaking, as he told the House, a twenty years' silence—for what? Not to discuss the Militia Bill, but, in his turn, to tell the Noble Lord again that he was inconsistent. And to-night the attack on the Noble Lord was continued by the Learned Attorney' General. His main objection to bringing forward this Bill at all was, that having waited now for two months since the resolution of the House on the subject was passed , they had come to a period of the session when in reality no practical results under the Bill could be obtained Pre" vious to their assembling again in the autumn. It, th en ' her Majesty's Government found they could not &lobe sufficient leisure to consolidate the laws relating t° r militia, let them permit the whole Bill to stand ; 3 1 0 e t , until they could undertake that necessary task. Ads2' s, independently of the consolid a ti on o f t h e other "- they ought not to re-enact, uno liatu, in the year all the provisions 18 of an Act (th e 42d o f George 90) which was passed in 1802. F or w h en t h e y were re' minded by the Noble Lord (Lord Palmerston) that t he ? had alterations by'steam in navigation, and itoPr ev e ; ments in other matters peculiar to modern 03 ' they should also remember that they bad had variuti improvements in the laws relating to soldiers. ed Lord PAL6dERSTON said that his Hon. and Learn Friend (Sir P. Wood) had made such pointed allusion t him that he must make one or two observations. e=t Hon. and Learned Friend complained that he bad nor: comprehended any argument which be (Lord Palmeet store) had used in favour of a militia force. He ha .dttt'e addressed himself to his Hon. and Learned Friend. A never preached to the converted; he took for gran ir e that his Hon. and Learned Friene, having supported t 7. Noble Lord at the head of her Majesty's late Gayer°, ment in bringing in a Militia Bill at tho beginning.hie the session, was fully and deeply impressed wi th te ," absolute necessity—(Loud cheers) — of the imtneol, organization of a militia force to provide for the qv fence of the kingdom, and therefore he was svhe' t out of his (Lord Palmerston's) view in any argum en t he had used for the purpose of showing the ne cessity o d such a measure. But when his Hon. and Learned Fiend found fault with him for having taxed with inconstr tency those who, like him, having supported a jr „- litia Bill in the beginning of the session, had, VI e .r, out of office, and when other parties a Bill similar to their own, turned round upon those. parties, opposed their measure—and when his lion , and Learned Friend found fault with him on account of his re': marks being insufficient and inadequate to convey h o l e . views, his only reply must be, humbly to refer his Ile_ bad brought in and Learned Friend to the Noble Lord the Chief Coma missioner of the Board of Works (Lord Seymour) the to the Right lion. Gentleman the late First Lord of tteth Admiralty (Sir F. T. Baring), as the one by his W e is e and the other by his vote had condemned the incelleo tency of his Hon. and Learned Friend; and be had .9 doubt that a private conference — (Laughter) — wit h th ine two Right Hon. Gentlemen would convey to his la those impressions which his (Lord Palmerston's) apse had failed to do.—(Cheers and laughter.) Sir P. WOOD did not complain of the Noble L°l n ot having converted him by his arguments on the 0" ' but what he complained of was, that notwithstan dia d the Noble Lord's (Lord John Russell) Bill was adrat,ite., to be almost identical with that brought in by her jesty's present Ministers, which the Noble Lord OP; latepo rt e Prime the Minister Nob e Lord ve n w t o o u b l d e not broughtallow i n t , h e B that it required a total alteration before it was li es° a on the gre l t o to obtain from it an efficient defence of the country, a r ia yet the Noble Lord now assured them that he reet meant nothing at all. Lord PALMERSTON had not said that the two Bill s were identical. But whether the Bills were identical °e Bill of tb a not, his conduct would not be identical with that of hick late Government—he should not throw over a Bill wkiv. he thought to be a necessary measure on account or " mere verbal difference. Mr. M'CULLAGH supported the amendment. Mr. E WAR r rose amidst impatient and long " tinned cries of "Divide, divide." htai n Mr. HUME rose, as his Hon. Friend could not o a hearing, and moved that the Chairman report Pregrear in order that he might appeal to the Speaker w hethe din not the business of the House could not be con ducted a manner more satisfactory to the country? , Th .,•de " ) Mr. EWART (amidst renewed cries of " op again rose to support his lion. Friend's motion, ° se rve pealed to the Chairman i f it was not possible to Pre joe order in the House. lion. Gentlemen who were sO o ld patient might apply to themselves the words of the ballad— " I see a hand thou can'st not see, Whioh beckons me away; I hear a voice thou can'st not hear, Which will not let me stay." —(oh, oh). n ort The CHAIRMAN put the question that b erer hut p r ogress, and the gallery was cleared for a division, "0 none took place. On ou r return to the " found Tie CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER aci„a/ieilail: jug the Committee. He hoped they would not w a s o " / impossible, was . sure the Hon. Gentleman must see that it i n a mpossible, at times, in a rigid discipline, or repress those indiscretions ef,„nor popular assembly to inainttabo moment of which occasionally broke forth when the te":.,r as the House was ruffled. He was sure the Hoes ^ go y ' always pleased to hear the sensible remarks of the : y, so Member for Dumfries (Mr. Ewart), from ich u lc a ;i 1 30 much information could be derived; and he '- doubt they would now hear the lion. Gentleman. . 00 ) Mr. HUME ( am id s t muc h noise sud interruptlbe said if there was wanting any further reason s t at e o f :should press his motion, in order to report the st,e o f the House to the Speaker, it was that the lea had the House (the Chancellor of the Exchequer),l"oo. ca ber 1 ). had no more attention paid to him than any Member. viz 50 0 The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQU' - A that was a very sigular observation of the Hon• re_ bs t man. It was difficult for one person to ascertao by degree of attention was paid to what was going of d another. He remembered •the Noble Lord ( I° ` 000 Russell) had been charged with being asleep lied Upon occasion, when he subsequently rose and rep lie . every point that had been raised during then time .. nc : `.; a been charged with being asleep. Some ireulgen mood of abstraction, and very often appeared inettFn,_"to when they were most attentive. Ile did nut WI!? ue speak of himself, but after what had been just satl. L'„ must say that he really did attend to what was said 17 . 7 k Hon. Gentlemen. A