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Irtirb MWtion ROYAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA. (THIS DAY.) Pa general meeting of the proprietors was held to• day in Vie board-room of the Company's premises, No. 2, Moorgate- Istreet, at twelve o'clock. John W. SUTHERLAND, Esq., having taken the chair, 'called on the secretary to read the advertisement and notice convening the meeting. The CHAIRMAN then said, it was matter of great gratifica ;ion to him and the directors to have such a statement of the Company's affairs as that for the past year to lay before the proprietors, as he wag sure it would give them satis faction. He felt it would be unnecessary for him to go through the details, as' hey would be fully . read to them by the Secretary. He reseft a most able and satisfactory letter from Mr. Benjamin Boyd, late Member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, and Chairman of the Pastoral Association, upon the general affairs and prospects of the tolony, addressed to J. W. Sutherland, Esq. It stated that stock was steadily advancing in price; sheep with stations in Port Phillip had changed hands at 16s. immediately after shearing, with the expectation that they would reach 20s. A large military and naval expedition to New Zealand had created a demand for slaughtered meat and live stock; cattle sold at from 121. to 151. sterling, and sheep at 20s. to 255. each ; besides which cattle were daily driven to South Australia for the use of the mines; and as it ap pee.red that the mineral resources of that colony were inex haustible, it was impossible to say to what extent the de mand might grow for draught and fat cattle. The colony had received nearly 40,0001. last year from India for horses. Foreign whalers and other shipping were rapidly increasing in the ports for the purpose of refurnishing. Such, the Chair man said, was a view of the state and prospects of the colony with which the interests of the Company were identified, and st • must be satisfactory to the proprietors. They were aware, he had no doubt, that steam naviga tion had been extended to India, and the Company were in hope that it would soon reach beyond Sin gapore to Australia, and give to the trade of this colony a new impetus. The Company would make every effort to induce the Government to this. A report on the subject was. drawn up, and would be laid before a public meeting previous to its being submitted to the Government. From the recent changes in the Colonial-office, they had good reason to hope that this desideratum would be attained. The recent appointment also „s•.kf,a new governor, whose conduct had given great satisfaaion in the West Indies, was also a source of expectation to the committee, who had waited on the governor prior to his going out, and found him every way inclined to make himself acquainted with, and to promote the commercial interests of, the colony. He concluded by calling on The SECRETARY, who read the report. It stated that there was a gross profit on the operations of the year of 36,6701. 133. 9d.; that the dividends, interest, and charges, for the corresponding period, amounted to 19,594/. Os. 7d., leaving 17,076/. 4s. 2d. to be added to the balance of profit in profit and lose account of last year, viz., 26,8731. 9s. Bd., thus in creasing it to the sum of 43,9491. 13s. 10d. From this, how ever, was to be deducted 1,0001., proposed to be now written off against preliminary expenses, and 24,100/. deposit notes already paid. That the forthcoming dividend would further reduce the amount by about 7,000/. That the affairs of the establishment, consequent upon the greatly improved position of the colony, coupled with the judicious and able superintendence of Messrs. B. Boyd and J. P. Robinson, fully justified an increase in the Company's dividend; and in anticipation of continued prosperity, the di rectors recommended the adoption of this measure to the share holders. That meanwhile, they considered it would be more satisfactory to form a reserve fund, than to add at this time more than one per cent. to the dividend hitherto paid. They there fore proposed that the half-yearly payment for the current year should be at the rate of six per cent per annum, free of income-tax. The CHAIRMAN, in answer to a questfon from a proprietor, stated that the accounts were made up is the colony to the 31st of January, and at home to the 30th of June. Mr. BRUCE moved that the report read be received, adopted, printed, and circulated among the proprietors. Mr. Raw seconded the motion, which was carried una nimously. Mr. S. PLINN moved that the following gentlemen, retiring from the board by rotation, should be re-elected directors for the ensuing year, viz., John W. Sutherland, Esq., Mark Boyd, Esq., and Joseph Phelps Robinson, Esq. Mr. TEESDALE seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. Mr. SUTHERLAND and Mr. BOYD being present, both ac knowledged the honour and the confidence which the proprie tors had been pleased anew to bestow on them, and assured them of their strict attention to the interests and the affairs of the Company. Mr. REID moved that the thanks of the proprietors should be given to the manager, J. H. Rae, Esq. Mr. PLINN seconded the motion, which was carried unani mously by the meeting, and acknowledged by Mr. RAE. Mr. REID moved that a letter should be sent, conveying the thanks of the proprietors to Benjamin Boyd, Esq., and J. P. Robinson, Esq., in Australia, for their exertions in the interests of the Company. A PEOFRIETOR seconded the motion, and the meeting passed it unanimously. A vote of thanks to the Chairman having been passed, the meeting was adjourned. UNITED MEXICAN MINING AS SOCIATION.—(THIS DAY.) A meeting of tbi, Association was held this day, at the London Tavern, but reporters were refused admission. DIRECT MANCHESTER AND LON DON RAILWAY COMPANY (RASTRICK'S LINE). ( IS DAY.) A. 'netting of the shareholders of this Company took place thia day in the London Tavern, under the provisions of an Act of Parliament entitled the Railways Dissolution Bill. 'Mr. J. Dillon took the chair. The CHAIRMAN said that their efforts to obtain a Bill bad failed, in consequence of the mere formal difficulties placed in their way by the standing orders of the House of Com mons. It was said that an amalgamation existed between them and the Remington line, but such was not the case. They held 400,0001., and they were attempted to be forced into an implied amalgamation with a company which did not possess more than 7,000/. They had returned 34 10s. a share, and they reserved a sum varying from 70,0001. to 80,0004 to preserve themselves against the risks to which they were exposed by threats held out against them of law proceedings—and they were now prepared to pay back the remainder of the money as soon as they were relieved from the danger of these proceedings. The Company was, therefore, dissolved before the Act under which they met that day came into operation and they accordingly were not af fected by it. He considered that the whole meeting was illegal; they had not even sufficient to constitute it, as the shareholders who had received the return on their shares bird retired from the Company, and no longer possessed any right to vote or be present at their meeting. Mr. Pococx said that he repeatedly applied for informa tion whether an amalgamation existed or not with Remington's line, but his applications, either by letter or personally, were equally disregarded; he was refused all information, and he considered that the conduct of the direc tors was most discreditable and disgraceful in withholding that information, and he should move the appointment of scrutineers. Mr. RICHARDSON said that if the expenses amounted to twenty-five shillings a share, after receiving 42000/. from Remington's line, he did not believe that the directors had acted as they ought to have done by the directors. An amendment was then put that the question be not now put, which was declared to be carried, and the original reso lution was then declared to have been lost. The meeting was then adjourned. RA ILWA Y COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Room C. SENT ATMOSPHERIC. - 'rho Committee re -assembled this morning, the Earl of Devon in the choir, when Mr. Clibitt was examined at very great length on the gradients, and the several features of the peculiar line of the Atmospheric Company. At present there were thirty-nine trains per day ever the Croydon line. Considerable stress was laid upon the fact of Mr. Cubitt having laid down a line from Croydon to Ashford, the object being to shorten the distance between Tunbridge and Ashford, by using a part of the Reigate line. There had been some agreement with I the South-Eastern Company, which had passed off, but the differences had lasted for some time, and it was in consequence of those differences that Mr. Cubitt was induced to leave the service of the South-Eastern Company. An examination ensued on this point, . . and on the means of getting to Dover without going to Ashford! After some farther details, ...„. The Committee was then addressed at some length by Mr. Arms in favour of the South. Eastern line, after which The room was cleared. On the re-admission of parties, The CHAIRMAN stated that the preamble of the South-Eastern line had not been proved, anti the fill is, consequently, loot. Room D. GLASGOW, DUMFRIES, AND CARLISLE. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) After an interval, both parties submitted clauses, in order to carry out the tatcntion of the Committee in the resolution they had come to. An argument took place on the clauses of the respective parties, Mr. Sergeant WRANGRAM contending that his clauses were in full accordance with the resolution of the Committee, while those sub mitted by the promoters of the Bill, if agreed to, would actually con travene its intention, which was to protect the through traffic of the Caledonian and would introduce a great deal of legislation that was foreign to the object sought to be accomplished. Sir T. Puittars replied in support of the clauses the promoters of the Bill had submitted. lie maintained that unless the provisions of these clauses were admitted the Glasgow and Ayr Company would be placed in an Injurious position, and would not be able to receive proper indemnity tor the giving up to the Caledonian Company the least expensive and most profitable portion of the line. After some further discussion en the clauses, the parties were ordered to withdraw. On our re-admission, - • • • The CHAIRMAN intimated that the Committee were of opinion that Mr. Sergeant Wrangliam's clauses did carry out the intention of the resolution come to by the Committee. The preamble of the Bill, as altered in agreement with the amend ments made by the Committee, and the new clauses admitted, was then Passed, and the several clauses of the Bill gone through and agreed to.- The Bill with the amendment 3 was then ordered to be reported to the 'louse. The Committee then seperated, having terminated their labours. Room H. THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW AND SCOTTISH CENTRAL 317NCTION. The Committee decided that the preamble of the 13111 had not been proved. The Committee then proceeded with the consideration of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal and Railway Rill, and were occupied hearing evidence in suppprt of it up to the hour of ad ,our intent. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP LXX. This Committee met again this morning at twelye o'clock, Sir George Clark in the chair. Thera were also present all the other members of the Committee, viz., Colonel Peel, lion. Captain Car negie, lion. Mr. Smythe, and Mr. Tower, DUBLIN 'IND SANDY MOUNT ILTIVLOS PIK ERIC. The case having been resumed, Mr. Sierra, after some discussion, stated that the opposition on the Part of the Grand Canal Company had been withdrawn, the pro moters having agreed to pay that company the sum of 1,5001. as compensation for the injuries which the construction of this line might inflict on their property. Mr. MALLET then said that there was no further opposition to the Bill, and the Committee ware now in a position to declare the pre amble of the Bill proved. The CHAIRMAN said that he did not think they were ; the objection which had been raised by Mr. Murphy as to this Bill , proposing to give land to this company which had already been granted this ses sion to the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, Company had not been rem Oved• Mr. MALLEY thought that that objection might be easily got over, as fliture legislation could of course repeal a previously made law. The CHAIRMAN was of opinion that the House could not, in the same session, repeal any part of a Bill that had received the royal assent. The CHAIRMAN then asked whether !li3 consent of the Xloaril of Alty Lo 440 141144 bC9I4 OW 144 THE SUN, LONDON, WtDNESDAYI EVENING, JUL' 29 1 _1846. Mr. WADDY, the Parliamentary agent, said that they would be prepared to produce the written consent of the Board before the Committee separated. Mr. Merszv :said that the difficulty as to the other point above, the land already given to the Dublin and Kingston Company, might be obviated by the insertion of a clause in this Bill compelling the promoters to carry their line over that of the other company at the point in question by means of a viaduct, which should afford no obstruction to the traffic on the Dublin and Kingstown Railway. After a lengthened discussion, the Committee adjourned (without having given any decision) till two o'clock to-morrow. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) ADVERSE CLAIMS (IRELAND) BILL. TAXATION OF COSTS—COMPENSATION FOR LAND (IRELAND) BILL. These Bills were read a third time and passed. DRAINAGE OF LANDS BILL. This Bill went through Committee p o forma, and the House having resumed, the report was received, and the Bill ordered to be re-committed on Friday next. SHANNON NAVIGATION BILL. On the question being put for the third reading of this Bil Colonel SIBTHORP said it was high time they bad sonic returns to set off against the millions of money being ex pended on this navigation by Government after Government. In his opinion it was a gross job, and ought to be put an end to. It was renewed by Government after Government, and for no other purFose than to place extensive patronage in their own hands. Was this to be the last vote, or were they to go on granting money year after year for the Shannon Commission 2 Mr. PIGOTT said the Bill was not for the purpose of voting money, but for carrying into useful operation funds which had already been voted by the House.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. F. FRENCH said the assessment of the ommissioners under their Acts was exceedingly disproportionate and un just. For instance, the city of Limerick was only rated at 6,0001., while the adjoining county of Roscommon was assessed at 76,000l.—(Hear, hear.) It was manifestly unjust, and some check ought to be put upon the power of the Commis sioners. —(Hear, hear.) The Bill was then read a third time and passed. WRECK AND SALVAGE BILL. The report on this Bill was brought up and received, and the Bill was recommitted, for the purpose of introducing cer tain amendments. STEAM NAVIGATION BILL. This Bill went through Committee, and was ordered to be read a third time on Monday next. SPIRIT LICENSES AND DUTIES BILL. This Bill was read a second time. THE CONSOLIDATED FUND (4,000,0001.) BILL. This Bill was also read a second time. BATHS AND WASHHOUSES (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill was read a second time and ordered to be com. mitted. NEWFOUNDLAND BILL. The report on this Bill was received and agreed to, and it was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. ' THE BURIAL SERVICE (No. 2) BILL. This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. MILITIA BALLOT SUSPENSION BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. EAST HEMPSTEAD UNION IN BERKS. Captain PECHELL called the attention of the House to the petition of the guardians of the East Hempstead Union in Perks, complaining of the conduct of the Poor•law Com missioners, and hoping that steps would be taken to inquire into and restrain the authority of the officials at Somerset House. He would content himself at present with moving for copies of all correspondence that had passed be tween the rate-payers of that union and the Poor-law Com missioners.—Agreed _ — EPISCOPAL REVENUES. Mr. FREWEN obtained leave to bring in a Bill to provide fur the better regulation of episcopal revenues and dioceses. The House then adjourned at Half-past Four o'clock. GOODWOOD RACES (THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.) Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, with 50 added. Mies Letty colt .... Tugnet Tho Stand Plato of 50 soys, &c. Miss Milner colt Blackbird The Orange Prize, added to a Sweepstakes, &c Mr. Greville's Alarm Lord Lonsdale's Jericho Lord Waterford's Wolfdog Six ran. A fine race. THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES BRITISII FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .. .. • . 209 209 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 96% 396% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 96% 957 96 New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 98% 97, 7 4 98 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 7-16 10 7-16 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 10 3-16 10 3-16 Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. .. 10 3-16 % 10% India Stock .. . .. 262 262 India Bonds, 1,0001. • .. Ditto, under 1,0001. .. 24 19 South Sea Stock Ditto, New Annuities Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 1,0001... 5001. -. Ditto, Small 947 9 12 - pm. 9 12 - pm. 9 12 - pm. ONE O'CLOCK. FOREIGN FUNDS. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Grenada, 1 per Cent Ditto, Deferred • • .. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. Portuguese Three per Cent • • .. 4636 Ditto, 4 per Cent .. • • .. • • 45% 44% Russian Bonds 112% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 26 Ditto, Passive Bonds 5g% Ditto, Three per Cent 36% Ditto, for the Account .. 36% Dividends on the above payable iniLonden. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 59% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 94% BUSINESS PAID. DONE AT PRICING CLOSINGPAID. ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSING PRICES. 89Y. PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES. Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. 2% •• • . 1 .. • • .... • • Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ••••• • • • • • Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 6 34 7........ Bristol and Exeter 75 ~ 85 .. • • .... . Ditto New .. . , 5 •• • • 9 ••••• • • • • • Buckinghamshire .. 425. % % di5..... Caledonian .- .. 20 .• 13 14 3¢ ••••• • • • Ditto. Half Shares .. ••• .. . Cornwall and Central Devon .. 1% is .. . . Derby and Crewe .. . • .. 2%.... 6%% • • .... Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2% .... % Direct Northern .. .• 2%.... 114 % •• Eastern Counties 141. 16e..... 24 1 A Ditto New .. .. 10/. 165..... 7 % p...... Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. 13s. 4d. % Ditto, ditto, .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. Ditto, York Extension .. 10s. .... 1% yi ........ East Lincolnshire 114.... 4 Exeter, Yeevll, and Dorchester .. 5 .. Goole, Doncast., and Sheffield, &c. 425. dis... Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1,6. Great North of England . ..100 .... Ditto, New . Great Western .......... .. .. .. .. 85 --lb! 153 ........ 4% 26U 45% 44% 112% 25% 9% % dis. 13% 1% 6jf, 1% 24 7 74 P 'X P P 3% A dis. 45, 153 Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 .... 85 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 10..223i 23% 22% 23% Guildford, Fareham, & Fortsmoth 5 .... Leeds and Bradford .. .. 26 .... 704 .. •• .. Leicester and Bedford .. 225. % di5..... • • Leicester, Tamworth, &c. 425. .......... Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. .......... London ant Birmingham . ..100 —.232% 231% 233 Ditto, Thirds .. .. 32 .... 73% ........ Ditto, Quarters . .. 2 .... 32% 32 ...... Ditto, Fifths ........2 .... 26 London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. 8 1 / 8 London and Brighton 50 • • . 65% .... •• .. London and Croydon • • • . 131. 153.9 d... 23% % Ditto; Otuirant. Fire per Cent. 9 .... 10% ••.. • London and Greenwich ' 'l2/. 15s. 4d. London and South-Western•• 41/. 6s. 10d.• • 77% 77 .... •• London and York .- • .. 2% .... 1% %.... London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .. .... 1 . Londonderry and.coleralne .. 10 .... 3% Lynn and Dereham '.. 15 .... 11‘A .... • ... Manchester and Leeds .. • • 82 ...,117 •• • . ...... Ditto, Half Shares .. • 38 .... 53 54% 54..... Ditto, Quarters .. 2 .... .......... Ditto, Fifths .. 3 .... 10% Ditto Extension .. .. 425. •• .......... Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 87 88 ........ Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) • • 4 .... 15% Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 •• • • 11% • Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. •• .. 18 p Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 1% 51idland .. • • • • • • • • ..100 —.149 Ditto, New •• • • • • •• 21 •• • • 39 % ••••• • • • • • Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 44% Ditto, New • • • • • •• 1 1034 11 Ditto, New, Brandling 25 •• .. 43 44% Newcastle and Berwick .. •• 13 •• .• 264 27% ...- Newark, Sheffield, and Boston • • IN .... .. N or f o lk •• .. 20 •• • • • Ditto, Half Shares • • .. 5 . .. ••.. • • North British.. .• .. • • 25 • • 37 36% • • Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1 1 4 .... ...... 3% North Kent and Direct Dover •• .. • • 13/ North Staffordshire .. • • • • 425. • ... 3%ty p.. p Northmpton,llanbury,&Chelthm. 2 .... •. • Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolverhmptn. 12% .... 8 .. • • •• S Preston and Wyro •• 25 355 • 35% Ditto, Half Shares .. • • .. .... 7% ••• • •• Richmond .. .. • • .. .. 10 .... 18% 18 Scottish Central . 19% . . l9 Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2 3 4 23 4 Shropshire Union .. .. 425..... ells dis. South Midland .. • • • • 42 5• ••• •• %P•• • • • • p South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33 .. • • 45%% Ditto, New (iss. at 321 .) No. 1. 20 ... Do., New (do, 33/. 68.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .. 16%. •••• • • • 16% New (do. 301.) 3. 15 .... 21 • • . Do., New (do. 151.) • • •No. 4. 2%,... 3%34 ....•• Vale of Neatii . • • • • • 1 t a Waterford and Kilkenny • • • • • West Riding Union • • • • • • 425. •• • x . % p.. ••• • . 23!, p • • 2 .• •• 3 % ••••• • •• • • .1% Wisbeach and St. Ives .. • • York and Carlisle .. • • .. .• 2•X •• • • %•••• • • • • • York itad North Midland .. • • 50 •• • • •• " Ditto. Extension .. 20 .... 40% Do. E. and W. Biding Exten. • • 1 •• •- 13% ••.• • • • • 1334 85 23% 5% 71 1 dl9. FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish .. 6 .... 64 % 514 6.. 6 East Indian . ss. .. 'A ••••• • • • • • Louvain ala Sambre .. • . .. 5 .. • • ••••• • • • • • I% Luxembourg .. 4 .... ••• • • •• • • Namur and Liege 6 .... •• • • 2% Northern of France Constituted.. 5 • ..... •• • • 13 !6 Orleans and Bordeaux .. 6 .... 814 8 1 4 Over Yssel 4L 3s. 4d.... 2% dis • • 2% dis Ptris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... 5s !4.. • • .. .5% T Airs and Nantes Constituted .. 5 .... 5 West Flanders . 6 .... 3 4 .•••• • • .. 3% JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Commercial of London • • .. 20 .. .. 23% .. MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered .. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Eurydice, 26, Captain Elliott, was towed out of harbour to Spithead this morning by the Echo tug. She saluted on passing out, and presented a very beautiful appearance. Much credit is duo to her master (Mr. Pascoe) for the very efficient trim in which the vessel now is, and tbr many advantageous improvements in her rig. We have no doubt but that the Eurydice will, thus well handled, achieve a victory over her competitors in the forthcoming trial of sailing. The Neptune, 120, advanced ship, was docked yesterday, to have her copper overhauled and cleaned. The Comet steam-vessel, Commander Pretyman, returned from Plymouth on Sunday evening with supernumeraries. The kique, 36, was taken out of dock yesterday, to be laid ICT the prank;, it Day43g tgea tlettuvaiamt t 9 lougthon her by Me bow 30 feet, for which purpose another docking will be necessary, but which cannot be given her until the ships now under process of refit are completed. All the men engaged in the block machinery department in this dockyard were regaled last evening at the King's head Point, at a sumptuous supper, given by Mr. Brewer, the inventor and patentee of the new block, to commemorate the adoption of that mode of manufacture by the Lords of the Admiralty for the use of the Royal Navy in future. The occasion afforded the patentee an opportunity of ex pressing his deep obligations to Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P. for Montrose, but for whose more than fatherly and rode• fatigable exertions in his applications to the Government, Mr. Brewer said, his mode of manufacture might never have been adopted in her Majesty's dockyards. The Hon. Mem ber's health was drunk with three times three and one cheer more. The Seallower cotter, Commander Roepel, arrived to-day from Jersey. The Agincourt, 72, Captain Johnstone, flag of Rear-Ad miral Sir Thomas Cochrane; the Iris, 26, Captain Mundy; and the Spiteful steam-sloop, Commander Maitland, were at Penang on the 4th of June. Mr. G. A. Stabb, late second master of the Volcano steam sloop in the Mediterranean, tried by a court-martial and dis missed his ship, on account of getting ashore with the Indian mail on board a few months since, has been appointed to the Trident steam-sloop at Chatham. Workmen from the establishment of Messrs. Cooke and Wheatstone, the inventors, commenced to-day to' lay down the wires across this harbour from the Clarence-yard to the Port-Admiral's office in this dockyard, necessary for the pur pose of establishing an uninterrupted electric telegraph com munication from London into the Admiralty-house at this port, for the use of the Government. WORCESTER, HEREFORD, ROSS, AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY. A meeting of the shareholders in this project was held yes terday at one o'clock, at the offices 449, West Strand, in terms of the Act 8 and 9 Vict., for the purpose of determining on a dissolution of the Company. Sir R. Price, having taken the chair, called on the Secre tary to read the advertisement convening the meeting. The following gentlemen were then elected scrutineers— Mr. Avery, of Gloucester; Mr. Stallard and Mr. Peterson, Temple . The CHAIRMAN read the committee's report, which stated that though the Company had failed on the standing orders, the committe were of opinion that the line would have fully realised all that had been held out in the prospectus; that there was a disposable sum of 61,8891. Bs., and that there would be a dividend of 11. 4s. per share immediately, and a final dividend when the accounts were made up. The CHAIRMAN afterwards intimated a wish that all pre sent who were interested in the line should wait after the meeting to see whether they might not retaic the ground, with a view of forming a company to make the line. Mr. ONEINIIAAI asked whether the scheme had not failed through a mistake of the engineer? If so, he thought his accounts ought not to be paid. Mr. BAKER said that the Company had pressed Mr. Brunel into their service at a time when there was a great push in business, and the mistake was not his, or one for which he was accountable. The mistake was made by a local sur veyor, who was willing to submit his accounts to the revision of any respectable engineer. A PROPRIETOR asked how many shares had been issued, and how many paid upon? The SECRETARY said 50,0 ca shares had been allotted, and 46,894 had been paid upon, which shares had returned 98,479 L Bs. Mr. HALL put several questions on the accounts, which were read to the meeting in full. After hearing that Mr. Brunel was the only engineer whose name had ever appeared in connexion with the scheme, he said it was his opinion that Mr. Brunel was responsible for the loss which the Com pany had sustained in consequence of the mistake, and that he was of opinion also that the Company, if the share holders would be secure, should be dissolved by bankruptcy. —'Hear, hear.) The shareholders would, he was sure, look to Mr. Brunel for a return of the money which had been lost in consequence of the gross mistake, a mistake nothing more or less than making the river Severn run up hill—(Laughter.) Mr. AVERY hoped, as the shareholders could not appoint a Committee of their own to examine into the, accounts, such instructions would be given to the gentlemen who had the winding up of the affairs as would impress them with the im perative necessity of looking narrowly into the accounts. Mr. BAKER felt assured that alltho: e on the committee were as much inclined as any in the room to cut down, as far as reasonable, all the accounts. He confessed he was startled at the amount of the law expenses, which were 15,2001. Mr. Rose wished to know if the committee would pledge themselves to go before the taxing master? Mr. BAKER said they were quite willing to go before the master. Mr. ELGIE, the solicitor, said he was known to many in the meeting, and as an honest man he was prepared, and even desirous, to have the accounts investigated before the taxing master. MiThonaNnam, (Hereford), adopted Mr. Elgie's language in reference to his own accounts. Mr. BAKER moved, and Mr. W. TAYLOR seconded, the resolution that the Company should be dissolved. The motion was put and carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN moved that this dissolution be without an act of: bankruptcy. This was put Co the meeting and carried also unanimously. Mr. RosE moved a vote of thanks to the chairman. Mr. CAMPBELL seconded the motion, which was passed with acclamation. Sir RGBERT PRICE returned his acknowledgment of the honour and the kindness, and then adjourned the meeting, which throughout was certainly not one of the quietest or most orderly. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 28. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY took his seat on the Woolsack at Five o'clock. Messengers from the Commons brought up several Bills, praying their Lordships' concurrence. CHELSEA BRIDGE AND EMBANKMENT BILL. On the motion of Lord CANNING, this Bill was read a third time and passed. The Earl of CLARENDON presented a petition from Mr. Crowder, a solicitor, praying that the Glamorganshire Land Bill be considered in the same position as if a certain non compliance with the standing orders had not been made. BATHS AND WASHHOUSES BILL. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Joshua and Thomas Watts, the proprietors of the swimming baths in the Peerless Pool, City-road, against the Baths and Washhouses Bill. Messengers from the Commons brought up several Bills, praying their Lordships' concurrence. The Earl of RADNOR said he thought that the Noble and Learned Lord should have inquired into the circumstances of the case on the bringing up of the Bill yesterday. Lord BROUGHAM explained. The Bishop of LONDON said he had proved, as far as it. could he proved, that there was a probability of the money on the lean being repaid. When his Noble and Learned Friend looked kin the Bill, though be might think this or that provi sion of the Bill might requirA modification, he would not throw the weight of his powerful talents into the scale against the Bill. After a few words from Lord BROUGHAM, The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said the Bill was not be fore the House, and when it was, they would avail them selves of any suggestions that might conduce towards the ob ject of this Bill. Earl GREY thought it was premature to discuss this ques tion at present. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Jufij 28. ' The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clo2k. LORDS' AM END :WEN TS. The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were agreed Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway. Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway. Caledonian Railway (Glasgow Termini and Branches). Gorbals Gravitation Waterworks. Liverpool and Bury Railway Extensions. London and Birmingham Railway (Coventry to Nuneaton ). London and Birmingham Railway (Weedon to Northampton). Manchester and Leeds Railway Extensions. Midland Railway (Leicester and Swennicgton Alterations and Branches). North Wales Railway. Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway. Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junc tion Railway (No. 1). • Strathtay and Breadalbane Railway. Trent Valley, Midlands. and Grand Junction Railway. Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway. lay before the House some particulars with respect to some es atcs in Jamaica. The amount of sugar produced in the estates on that island had greatly decreased during the last ter! years in consequence of the extreme drought, and the want of protection which had been denied to them by the Government. The estimate for the present year was not loss than 600 tons of sugar. Let them take another case, in which an estate, that before the emancipation of the negroes did not produce 100 hogsheads of sugar, now from the number of estates which that measure had thrown out of cultivation, and the consequent great supply of labour notwithstanding the abolition of slavery, produced 150 hogs heads per annum. Though the soil was of an inferior character, if they had an ampl e su pply o f l a b our it would be made three times as valuable as it was before the passing of the Act of Emancipation. Again, if they took the island of Barbados s. According to returns which had been placed before the House, it was stated that it had increased its crops since the abolition of slavery, and that wales had risen. The wages were the same as in Jamaica, with this differenee—that instead of "paying a fair day's wages for a fair day's work," the la boerers received for four hours' labour daily the same as was paid in Jamaica for seven or eight. There were ample reasons to show that if an adequate supply of labour was given, these estates would do sufficiently well. lie thought that this would justify him in stating that which had been said by a gentleman well ac qui:jilted with the West Indisn colonies, and had been quieted by the Noble Lord the Member for the city of London—that the \Vest India planters were in the hands of the negroes, instead of the negroes being in the lards of the planters.— (Hear, hear.) Such was the opinion of a disinterested man, and one who 1 ad the most extensive experience of the colonies ; and that opinion was corroborated by the governors of the different islands. lie thought he did not say too much, in affirming that the fault of the colonies riot being in so prosperous a condition as they might have been lay not with the planters but with the Government. Give them a supply of labour, and there would be no danger of their estates being uncultivated. He was sorry to hear the Noble Lord say that he would not allow any importation of labourers from Africa, unless they came from places at which the British flag was flying. He thought there ought to be full liberty for labourers to come from any part, under such guarantee as to personal liberty which the Government should think necessary. In Jamaica there was an estate on which there were thirty-two negroes, who filled the most important situations, and had risen to their present position by their energy and industry. They were declared to be an intelligent and active body of men, and they filled the most important situations for carrying on the various processes on the estate. It was only recently that they had obtained any labour, and what they desired was time to allow it to come into ope ration. Had not the West Indies suffered from a very severe drought, the crop would have increased in a greater proportion than in any former year, by reason of that labour. It was really a very hard ease, be cause they had been unfortunate this year, slave labour should be allowed to come into competition with them. But the benefits which the Noble Lord promised to them did not come up to their expectation. He has told us that molasses and sugar cannot be used in breweries, because the excise have an objection to it. If reforms are to be carried out on the principle of free trade, they ought to adapt the reforms to that principle, and not their reforms to the excise. He could see no reason why they should impose this tax upon the colonies— it was not consistent with a spirit of justice or equity. He thought that he could apply to the present state of the country the opinion of Lord Metcalfe, who said that the Go vernment were in the hands of the Excise, and riot the Ex cise in the hands of the Government. He slid not think that the Excise duties should be suffered to remain in their present condition. He thought the duties should be equalised and levied after the spirits were made, the distillers would then have a protection of 8(1. per gallon. He hoped that at a future time the Noble Lord at the head of the Government would turn his attention to the subject and place the duties upon an equality. It was his opinion that emancipation had fully borne out the expectations of the parties. He had visited Louisana and Cuba, and it was his deliberate opinion that free-labour could compete with slaveslabi.ur. His firm belief was that the present measure if passed, would have the effect of throwing estates out of cul tivation, and that it would also give a stimulus to the slave trade; arid if this country encouraged the growth of slave grown sugar, with what face could they request foreign nations to join with them in putting a stop to the odious traffic in slaves ? If the cultivation of sugar were to he increased by 50,000 tons, according to the estimate of the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, there must, of necessity, be an absolute increase in the amount of slavery, He remembered having heard, some short time ago, the Right Hob. Gentleman, the Member for Edinburgh, describing the misery which resulted from the existence of slavery in America, but he could assure the Right Hon. Gentleman that the horrors he had de picted feii far short of the misery attendant upon the African slave trade. He had mice seen a cargo of slaves the day after they were landed, and certainly no considerations of policy should ever induce him to encourage such an abominable system. They were told that the people of this cautery required cheap sugar, and he considered that their desire would be supplied if there was a considerable reduction this year in the price of free lalseur sugar—eenele a reduction he was ready to.agree to by supporting a reduction of the existing duties, and although he did not speak for the whole West Indian interest, he was sure they would also consent to a re duction ; and he believed the plantations of West India and of the colonies would yield this country an ample supply of free-labour sugar. The Chancellor of the Exche quer said, in his speech last night, that the Government wished to let in a quantity of sugar, and to derive a large re venue from the increased supply. NOW, he was surprised to hear the minister of a free' eou try like this, boast of the revenue which would be derived by encouraging the slave trade, for if the measure propounded by the Government was passed, slavery would be increased two-fold ; but of this he was certain, that if they wished to put a stop to the slave trade—if they wished to obtain a character for honour and humanity, they must show the world that free was cheaper than slave labour. If they did not do this • they would belie the free trade prin ciples which they had ennciated, and show that whilst thry boasted of free trade with all the world, they were propagat ing the slave trade. Upwards of 20 Members rose when the lion. Gentleman re sumed his seat, but they gave way to Mr. P. BORTHWICK, who spoke from the opposition benches, and close to Sir James Graham, said he now had to say one word with respect to the speech of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth, addressed to the House last night. In the course of this session he had felt it his duty to oppose that Right Hon. Baronet, and he rej eiced at t-at moment that that opposition had been successful ; but he did not think that any one in or out of that House considered that he could speak of that Right Hon. Baronet in any other terms than those of respect, and he trusted he should not, that night, use any language with reference to him which was inconsistent with the high 'position which he held in that House, and in the councils of her Majesty; but he trusted, notwithstanding his absence from his place at that moment, it might not be held irrelevent to the question before the House. lie never in his life listened to a speech—( Mere Sir Robert Peel entered the House.) He was glad the Right Hon. Baronet had come into the liouse—( Hears of laughter)—as he was sure lie would admit, although he had accused him of speaking . harshly of him in his absence, that he had said sweet things of him in his presence. He never, in the course of his life, did hear a speech which, if adopted in that House, and acted on by its individual Members, was so directly calculated to lower the House in the estimation of the country. The question before the Home was not one of finance, although it involved finance in its operations. The Right lion. Baronet the Member for Tamworth, looking at the question as one in rio small degree involving their rights, yet declared his intention to vote (however reluctantly) for the measure introduced by the Noble Lord at the head of the Government—and why? Be cause, six weeks had not yet elapsed since the formation of the Government.—( Hear, hear.) He should like to know what period must expire before an Hon. Member could dare to re cord his honest convictions, or to vote against the Gererne ment, in accordance with the dictates of his conscience ? The Right Hon. Baronet asked, who were to form the next Government ? Was that a fit matter for the House to ques tion ? They were net sent up to that House to resolve ques tions of expediency, but to represent those who returned them, in right and justice, on such questions as might be sub mitted by the Governmerit. He was sure that if that House were—in weighing matters so important as that which then occupied their consideration—to take into account what Ministry would follow the present, or whether the present Minister was to be confirmed in his power—if that House took such a course of conduct on any question, it would adopt a mode most fatal to the interests of the country. The puipose of the Right lion. Baronet's speech was transparent ; it was as clear as the noon-day. It was to throw difficulties in the way of the formation of any new Government; to throw diffi culties in the way of any man, who might encounter the slavery cry of this country ; and to which cry the Right Hon. Baronet had attempted to lend his name—a name than which none was higher in opposition to the principle some ten or fifteen years ago. He should have gone with him, and felt it his duty as an hum ble follower of his, whatever scruples he might have about the amount of protection which he asked, whatever difference ' of opinion in detail he might feel, he should have at once candidly given his vote in favour of the l‘oble Lord, because he held it to Le his duty to his party leader to sacrifice all questions of detail on which his party might agree. But this was no question of detail or finance. The Noble Lord's reso lution, which he had moved as an amendment to the motion of the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, involved two things. First, and of least importance, the commercial question; and secondly, and most important, the question of slavery. The House would admit that in the course taken by the Noble Lord, the Member for Lynn (Lord G. Bentinck) the most earliest and by far the most successful was that part part of his speech in which he represented to the House the horrors of the slaveetrade, in which he asserted that, as a British legislator, he could never consent to weigh gold against the blood of his fellow creature; and that the argument of the Noble Lord at the head of the Government was no better than that of the sheep-stealer who argued that, as he was to be hanged, he might as well be hanged far a sheep as a lamb. He (Mr. Borthwiek) asked the indulgence of the House whilst he entered for a few moments into the considera tion of this question, and an examination of the grounds on which it stood. He thought the House would agree with him that the lamb for which the Noble Lord was wiling to be hanged looked so very like a sheep that it would require all the ingenuity of the most constunmate debater to distinguish between them. Th e N o ble Lord had said that he could not bear to weigh gold against the blood of a fellow creature. That was the popular statement, and it was not more popular than it was just.—(Hear, hear.) He would not consent, therefore, with the Noble Lord to do precisely what he did with regard to measuring the value of the negroes' blood with a standard of gold. Tha Noble Lord had said, that as long as the duty was. at 21s. or 235. per cent. on free grown sugar, 'he was willing to barter the blood of a negro for the price of forty shillings. The Noble Lord had stated ti 'tat his ground of opposition to the measure was that it. proles) sod to remove the differential duties, and as long as they were preserved he had no objection to the continuance of slavery. 'The Noble Lord was distinctly and clearly hound, at all hazard 5, and against all odds to for bid, upon any terms whatsoeye r, the introduction into this country of any production o f slave labour. lie (Mr. Borthwiek) contended that it was impossible to conceive a po sition for a great country more • wretchedly humiliating than this—that it should assert that sort e particular practice, which was contrary to justice and the tit :hts of humanity, should not he put down ; and they would n ke no sacrafice for the pur pose of removing it ; and its abhorrence of slavery should consist in countenanr inn g a duty of 4W. per cwt. on the sugar introduced ate their tuarkets.—( Hear.) It appeared fram the speech of tl ee Noble Lord the Member fur Lynn, that what was a deadly sit sat 265. per cwt. was a cardinal virtue at 633. It reminded h ilia of a lady who went t o her confessor for absolution. She itenfessed to having erred three times, but her ghostly adviser sail he had no absolution for that number of offences, but that if r d to would commit the offence three times more, so as to makes x times, he could grant her absolution. On that principle we us -e they c ansider,ng the pre sent question. A grea t d ea l h a d i 'en said about raising sugar by the blood of the n e gro i n Bras ii and Cuba, but the Nob le Lord the Member for Lynn stated ,• they would be able to get a supply of 100,000 tons from the br ks of the Ganges. But he wished to know whether there • at ; one element in slavery in the Brazils that did not exist in f ; : s 5 East Indies? One great element of slavery was, a man g property in his fello w than, an extent on th e Man, and this he affirmed exist e d to a c bunks of the Ganges 11 4 i r S either the Brazils or Cubs. CORNWALL RAILWAY. Lord BROUGHAM thought thlt the evidence on this Bill should be printed and produced to the House. Viscount TORRINGTON said he had no objection to the production of the evidence in question. Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that on Thursday he would move that the evidence laid before the Cornwall Railway Com mittee be printed. BUILDERS OF DUBLIN. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from tho builders of Dublin complaing of the privileges of the guild of builders in the city of Dublin, and praying their Lordships to establish perfect freedom to all. METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS ACT. Lord LANSDOWNE, in answer to a question by Lord Portman, said he had seen the First Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, who had received the Acts yesterday, and had referred them immcdiate,y to the official referee. NEWCASTLE AND 'CARLISLE RAILWAY. Lord MONTEAGLE said, that this Company had come to Parliament for an extension of powers. He said, it had been represented to him that this Company had far exceeded its powers, and expenfled much more than the capital allowed by law ; that this additional capital had been raised not by the issue of bona file shares, but by an invention of the directors, which virtually made it a lean. This was a repre sentation which, if found true, would make that company by no means appear worthy of their Lordship? sanction. He moved that an account be ordered showing the state of that company from year to fear. Lor4 PORTMAN said, as Chairman of the Committee be fore which this company had been sent, he felt bound to say that he had heard nothing of it, although a private letter had been sent him hinting at something of the same kind with what their Lordships had heard. Lord KINNAIRD said, that by the Railway Consolidation Act the Beard of Trade should take care that gates and stations were provided when lines passed public roads on the level. CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. Lord COLCHlSlERPresented;peiitit; from the Cale donian Company, praying that, in consequence of the time which bad been lost in the Commons, the standing order of the House which fixed the third reading should be set aside, and that that Bill be permitted to pass. GAUGE COMMISSION BILL. The Earl of CLARENDON moved the second reading of the Gauge Commission Bill, in consonance with the resolutions to which their Lordships had unanimously come the other evening. Lord KINNAIRD had intended to oppose the second read ing of this Bill, but as there were to be certain amendments in troduced into it in the Committee, which might possibly obviate his objections, he should refrain from making those observa tions which he had intended to offer to their Lordships. The Earl of SCARBOROUGH begged to apologise to their Lordships for interfering in this debate, but it appeared from reports which he had received from engineers, that by enlarging the sleepers to sixteen inches, and taking out the chairs, the carriages on the narrow gauge might be very easily adapted for the broad gauge, not costing, in all probability, more than 30/. each. The bridges and tunnels might be al tered with almost proportionately equal facility. After going through the list of accidents whicb have occurred respectively on both the gauges, the Noble Lord said the danger on the narrow gauge was evidently greater, for if they put the centre of gravity ever so little out of its place in turning a corner, the sway, or the unavoidable oscillation, would easily throw a car riage off ita basis. The Noble Lord the Chairman of the Com mission had offered no objections to the adoption of the broad gauge. Lord BEAUMONT said that it was evident, from the evidence submitted to the Commissioners, that so far from the decision being in favour of the narrow gauge, it was quite the reverse. The Commissioners had evidently been of opinion that the broad gauge was the better of the two, but a batter than either would be one between the two. The Noble Earl (the Earl of Clarendon) was moving for nothing more nor less than that the very worst gauge should be adoped for all future railways, with a very few exceptions. He should not move any amendment, but if any Noble Lord would bring forward any motion for postponing this consideration, so that the Noble Earl's suggestions might be properly taken, he would support him. Lord REDESDALE wished to explain what he had said on the previous occasion, when these resolutions were adopted. It was hardly the fact that the narrow gauge was the very worst. On the contrary, he would .ay that it was only bad in the view of those who were advocates for very quick travelling. But there was another class, who looked to the economical working of railways as well as to the rapidity of transit. The Commissioners had not said what was the be t gauge, and in the present state of darkness he should be most unwilling that any definite plan sh(aild be adopted. He only wished that the great engineers should meet together and give their opinion on what was the best gauge, and he believed that their decision would be nearly unanimous on that point. He further wished that the Great Northern Company would have the courage to come forward and state that they were ready to alter their gauge to the six-feet gauge, which, as the medium, appeared to be the best. Having stated his opinion, he fully trusted that before Parliament met next year something would be done to settle the question finally. He would not oppose the present Bill, but he hoped an uniform gauge would be ultimately adopted. The Earl of CLARENDON did not see how they could get rid of their difficulties on this question. There were up. wards of 2,000 miles constructed on the narrow gauge, and, with the exception of rapidity of transit, he did not agree with the Noble Lord that it was the worst gauge. All the eminent commissioners abroad who had come to this country for the purpose of ascertaining what would be the best gauge for their respective countries; had adopted the narrow gauge, and there was a majority of upwards of forty of the most eminent engi neers of this country in favour of that principle. The Com mission also which had sat upon the question had given it as their opinion that, in the circumstances of the country, it was the best gauge that could be adopted. Lord KINNAIRI) said the Noble Lord asked how were they to deal with the matter, but they should recollect that the practicability of altering the gauge had never been inquired into. He would not detain their Lordships further than by alluding to what bad been said by the Gauge Commissioners, which was of great importance on the subject. By thie Bill parties, who were anxious to amalgamate with other companies would be prevented doing so, when the principle upon which such amalgamation would be effected would be nullified by this very Act. Lord PORTMAN thought that the adoption of the medium gauge, referred to by the Noble Lord, would necessitate an alteration in the engines, carriages, and rails of every railroad in existence in the country. As an inhabitant of the western portion of England, he was most decidedly in favour of the broad gauge line. Lord CAMOYS thought the alteration of the narrow to an intermediate was the most extensive and the most expensive alteration that could be made. Lord GREY considered that the present measure was the only one practicable at the present time, to prevent the further spread of the inconvenience of a b rea k of gauge, which every gentleman deprecated. He had heard that several companies in connexion with the narrow gauge had proposed to purchase the Great Western Extensions, and thus hermetrically seal up the Great Western Railway. Such a mischief as that would be remedied by the passing of the present measure, which would prevent the alteration of the gauge at present laid down upon the railway. He did not consider the present measure as at all to be considered as a permanent measure ; for his own part he would not be satisfied until the present inconvenience resulting from the break of gauge was entirely removed.— (Cheers.) He thought that the evidence given by Mr. Cubitt before the Commission had been treated too lightly ; so far as he was able to form an opinion, Le thought the proposition of an intermediate gauge attended with many advantages. He thought some other mode of settling the business than that of appointing a Commission to inquire into the subject should be adopted ; he thought they had had enough already of Com missions. Earl of I( INNAIRD said that after the expression of opinions just given by the Noble Earl, he would not oppose the further progress of the Bill. Earl of SCARBOROUGH made a few remarks which were inaudible in the gallery. The Bill was then read a second time. SMALL DEBTS BILL. The Lord CHANCELLOR presented several petitions from Halifax in favour of the Small Debts Bill. The Lord CHANCELLOR then moved the second reading of the Small Debts Bill. The proposed Bill was founded on the report of a Commission con , isting of the present Chief Baron, and Mr. Justice Wightman. In the year 1839 this measure had been introduced, but from the pressure of businers it was not proceeded with. In subsequent years it had been brought forward, but had not received the sanction of the Legislature. In the month of June in the present year, the Bill was again introduced by a member of the late Government. Finding that the Bill was in accordance with the recommendations of the Commission, he had brought the measure forward at the present stage of the session. In the ancient courts, established many years ago, the expense of recovering 40s. was six pounds ; it was not therefore to be wondered at that those courts in the present day must have fallen into considerable disuse. The present Bill sought to remove those grievances existing under the former Acts in the establishment of local courts, and to remove the jurisdiction from the courts of conscience or requests. He was not able at that time to state the numberof those courts now in existence, or the number of judges or c inamissioners who pre side over them. It was proposed to limit the present Act to sums not exceeding twenty pounds. The present law courts were totally inadequate to cases where small demands were sought to be recovered. The scheme proposed in the present Bill was to divide the country into districts, and to establish courts in these districts to meet the wants of the people. There would be a considerable number of these districts, and a large number of courts would be necessary. Ile was happy to say that there would not be so large a number of judges as of courts, be cause t h e courts would not require to sit every day; perhaps not more than once a week or a fortnight. He proposed to establish some judge over each district who would have the charge of all the cow is in that district. He did not think they would require more judges than were now in the hal it of presiding over the existing courts. The judges should be appointed by the Lord Chancellor or the Secretary of State for the time being. The mode of proceeding before the court would be the same as that contained in all local Bills passed since the report of the Com mission on the snbject. There were a considerable number of clauses in the Bill, which referred to the more minute de tails and working of the principle of the Bill. He thought the treasure calculated to do good, and he trusted the measure would receive the sanction of their Lordships. The Bill was then read a second time. THE BOOK AND ENGRAVINGS BILL, AND THE REDEMPTION OF TITHE BILL Were read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday next, Their ktonioluite tbra fifkiournal till Tburniqs fattrtt Eititton GOOD WOOD RACES. (THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.) (Continued from our Third Edition), The Cowdroy Stakes, Collingwood Jollity THE GOODWOOD STAKES. Mr. O'Brien's Jonathan Wild Mr. John Day's The Hero 21 ran.—Won by a neck. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, JULY 27. Her Royal Highness Princess Helena Augusta Victoria, third daughter of her Most Excellent Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, was baptised on Saturday last the 25th instant, in the Chapel, within Buckingham Palace; and detailed account of the ceremonial observed at this solemnity will appear in a Supplementary Gazette. MASTER OF THE HORSE'S-OFFICE, JULY 9. - The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Right Honourable Granville George Earl Granville to be Mastsr of her Majesty's Buck Hounds, in the room of the Right Honourable James Alexander Earl of Rosalyn, re signed. DOWNING-STREET, JULY 28. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Captain Charles Graham and Commander George James Hay, of the Royal Navy, to be Companions cf the most Honourable Military Order of the Bath. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex. Royal Westminster Regiment of Middlesex Militia—Cap tain R. Cannon to be Major, July 24. Uxbridge Yeomanry Cavalry—Hugh Hammersley, Gent., to be Cornet, July 24. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Durham. Durham Militia—R. H. S. Jackson, Esq., to be Captain, July 20. WHITEHALL, JULY 23. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Charles James Fox, of the city of Canterbury, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. Francis Barber Kettle, horse dealer, Brighton, to s urren d er Aug. 4, at twelve, and Sept. 4, at one, at the Court of Bank, ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Staniland and Long, Bouverie-street. Walter M'Dowall and Ralph Brown, printers, Pemberton row, Gough-square, City, Aug. 4, a t half. past twelve, and Sept. 4, at half past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.- Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Holme and Co., New Inn. Farquhar Macqueen, merchant, Leadenhall-street, Aug. 5 and Sept. 26, at eleven, at the Court of B an k ruptcy. Fol lett, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ; Ashurst, Cheapside. Charles Burrows and John Glidden, brewers, Plymouth, Aug 11 and Sept. 8, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter ; Little and Woolcombe, Devonport ; Stogdon, Exeter ; Makinson and Co., Temple. James Evans, silk mercer, Bristol, Aug. 11 and Sept. at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ; Savery, Clark, and Co., Bristol. John Carlisle, bulkier, West Derby, Aug. 7 and Sept. 4, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Rogerson, Lincoln's Inn-fields; Davies, Liverpool. John Smith Chadwick, calico printer, Manchester, .August 12 and September 2, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London, Blair, Manchester.. Edward James Inchley, corn dealer, Drayton, Leicester shire, August 15 and September 10, at twelve, at the Bir mingham District Court. Whitmore., official assignee, Birmingham ; Rawlings, Market Harborough, Jan tea, Bir mingham. William Inchley, coal dealer, Drayton, Leicestershire, Aug. 15 and Sept. 10, at twelve, at the Birminghana District Court. Bittleson, official assignee, Birmingham; Rawlins, Market Harborough ; James, Birmingham. James Coates, tailor, Leominster, Herefordshire, Aug. 8, at one, and Sept. 8, at twelve, at the Birmingham, District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; Wood house, Leominster; Bartlett, Birmingham. Alfred William John Mason, builder, Edgbaston, Warwick shire, Aug. 7, at half past ten, and Sept. 1, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Bir mingham; Ryland, Birmingham. Thomas Small Smith, carpenter, Wednesbury, Stafford shire, Aug. 7, and Sept. 1, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Walker, Wolverhampton. Thomas Charles Fletcher, glass dealer, Nottingham, Aug. 7, and Sept. 1, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Waterloo-street, Birmingham; Brown, Nottingham; Smith, Birmingham. It illiam George Wale Tayler, surgeon, Tywa'rdreath, Cornwall, Aug. 12 and Sept. 9, at eleven, at the Exeter Dis trict Court. Hirtzell, official assignee, Paul-street, Exeter ; Cuodes and Shilson, St. Austel, Cornwall) Stogdon, Exeter. [Dividends, &c., in our Next]. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the Landon New Price Current of July 28.) Sucea.—To-13 7 the market for all kinds of Colonial Eu fr P to muted a v ry cull ap 4 caranee, and further reduced rates W.] s accepted. KhFINED. T,-day, although Refined Sugar Was offered upon re duced terms, still the home trade operated with much caution. Matrarrlos.—Thera has been little business transacted by private contract In any description, although there are sellers upon fluthtr reduced terms. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Ilengal Sugar met with little atten tion ; at public sale 2,766 bags were offered, but a very small part only sold at rather lower rates. FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of sugar the prochox of slate labour, but privately more desire was shown to operate trt all kiss ; business of moment was however prevented by the stiff rates required. COFFEE.—This afternoon Ceylon coffee met with more attention by private contract, and good ordinary pale native was sold at 41s to 4ls .6d per cwt. Of La Guayra 354 bags were offered at auction, and went upon further reduced terms. Crmisatox.—There has been a much bAter demand for Ceylon of first quality, and the parcels offered at the quarterly sales were pur chased with eagerness ; the quantity brought forward not being large, merchants werg %lOW W Ohtittii AA Advinc,§ dill 44 41U POI rAttek VF BATHS AND WASHHOUSES. Mr. M'CAEITHY presented a petition from Cork, praying that the provisions of the Baths and Washhouses 13111 might be extended to Ireland. JURORS—(IRELAND.) Lord CLEAIENTS presented a petition from the jurors of the tounty of Leitrim, complaining of being so repeatedly called upon to perform the duty of jurors in consequence of the absentees, and praying for an amendment of the law with respect to jurors. THIRD READINGS. The Cambeltown Harbour, Waterworks, Paving, Lighting, and Watching Bill, and the Tramore Embankment Bill, were read a third time and paned. Colonel FOX presented a petition from Southwark, praying for the opening, free of toll, of Waterloo, Southwark, and Vauxhall Bridge!. The report on the Sligo and Shannon Railway was agreed to. THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK. Mr. HENLEY, seeing the Hon. Member for Finsbury (Mr. T. Duncomb e ) i n hi s p l ace, w i s h e d to k now w h et h er i t was hi s Intention to make the motion of which he had given notice fur to-night with respect to his Highness the Duke of Brunswick ? 11r. T. DUNCONIBE said that it had been his intention to bring forward the motion to-night, kit, in consequence of it being arranged that the debate on the Sugar Duties Bill should take precedence of notices of motion, he was afraid he should not be able to do so. He regretted this ex. tremely, as the subject was one of great importance, and he should be unable to bring it forward before this day fortnight, on which day he was afraid the House would be little inclined to appoint a Select Committee to inquire into the allegations con tained in the petition of his Highness the Duke of Brunswick; he had therefore no alternative but to postpone Isis motion to the earliest day he could bring it forward next session. OUTRAGE ON BRITISH SUBJECTS. Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from Thomas Brodigan, Esq., Pilton House, County Meath, a magistrate of that county, complaining of the outrage which took place at Jerusalem on Good Friday last, and of the personal danger to which he, in conjunction with other British subjects, was then exposed (fully detailed in the correspondence which appeared in the Second Edition of The Sun of the 3rl instant), and praying that effectual measures might be adopted by the Government here which will occasion the Sublime Porte to direct its attention to the repression of such outrages, and thus protect British travellers in the East. ARMY ESTIMATES. Captain LAYARD, seeing the Secretary at War in his place, was desirous of knowing when it was his intention to bring forward the army estimates? Air. FOX MAULE said if nothing unforseen occurred, it was his intention to bring them on next Monday. Mr. GEORGE BANKES gave notice that on the third reading of the Poor-law Removal Bill he should propose to add a clause. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN seeing the President of the Board of Trade in his place, wished to ask him whether he should continue to devote as much attention to agricultural statistics in office as he did out ?--( Hear, hear.) Mr. T. M. GIBSON said, in answer to the question of the Hon. Member behind him, he begged to say that he had reason to believe from papers he had seen at the Board of Trade that the subject of agriculture had undergone considerable attention in that department, and so far as himself was concerned he should be most happy to continue his attention to this subject. COLONIAL LAND SALES. Mr. DIVETT wished to ask the Urder Secretary for the Colonies whether it was or was not the intention of the Colonial Office to sanction the regulation made on the 3d day of March last, by the Governor of South Australia, respecting future land sales in that colony, which, according to the last report of the Colonisation Commissioners, would seem to have been drawn up under the direction of Lord Stanley, and in contravention of the decision of this House upon the Land Bill introduced by order of that Noble Lord ? Mr. HAWES was understood - to say that dispatches having reference to the subject had not yet arrived at the Colonial Office, and he could not inform ahe Honourable Gentle man what would be done until they arrived. Mr. HOPE said, he might be irregular, but he felt inclined to make one or two ob3ervations on the question which bad been asked; and first, on the terms in whicii the notice had been given. ` He found no f au lt w ith thee-first; part of that notice, but when it proceeded, " which, accor, ing to the last report of the Colonisation Comrcisioners, would seem o have been drawn up under the direction of Lord Stanley, and in contravention of the decision of this House upon the Land Bill introduced by that Noble Lord." Now this, he thought, was simply a speech put into the notices, and a speech with out an opportunity of answering. He submitted that this was a most improper exercise of the privilege of giving notice. But he had to find fault with the question in the substance of it, for it was not founded in fact. Mr. DIVETT begged merely to say that whether he had acted discreetly or not, the question, in fact, was founded strictly in fact. THE MILITIA. Mr. ACLIONBY wished to put a question to the Right Hon. the Secretary at War. He had not, indeed, given notice in the. usual way, but•as there was a.great deal of anxiety prevailing in the country. on the - subject, and as he knew that many Honourable Members in that House - were not aware that a Bill was on thi table of the House for the purpose of suspending the ballot for Militia till October, in the year 1847 ; he wished to ask that Right Hon. Gentleman it it were the intention ef the Government to proceed with that Bill? Mr. FOX MAULE sail that he found a proposition made by his predecessors with reference to this subject, but, consi dering the late period of the session, and the great importance of the question, the Government were of opinion that the preferable system would be to renew the Bill (as had been done for the last thirteen or fourteen years) for another year. FLOGGING IN THE ARMY. Mr. B. ESCOTT gave notice that, on Tuesday next, he would move for a return to be laid before the House of al: the floggings which had been inflicted in the army from the year 1840 to the present time; the place where the regiment in which such punishment took place was stationed ; the number of laths inflicted, and the consequences that followed; whether inflicted by farriers, drummers, or so forth; and also copies of the surgeons' minutes, and whether the trials had taken place with closed doors. SAVIVGS' BANKS—CONINIISSIONERS OF NATIONAL DEBT. Mr. HUME moved for an account of the number of indivi dual depositors and of charitable institutions and friendly so cieties depositing their funds in savings' banks, and of the sums deposited, divided into the usual classes, on the 20th day of November, 1845. Account of the amount of principal money received from, and of interest credited to, and of principal and interest money paid to the trustees of savings' banks, distin guishing Great Britain and Ireland, by the National Debt Commissioners, from the 6th day of August, 1817, to the 20th day of May, 1846 ; of the amount of money, prin cipal and interest, due to the trustees by the Commis sionerson the 20th day of May, 1846 ; of the securities held by the Commissioners on the 20th day of May, 1846, and of the value of those securities at the prices of that day ( stating such prices), to provide the amount due by the Commissioners to the trustees on that day, for principal and interest. Account of the aggregate amount of interest paid and credited to the trustees of savings' banks (distinguishing Great Britain and Ireland) by the Commissioners, and of the aggregate amount of interest or dividends received by and due to the Commis sioners on the stocks, funds, and Exchequer-bills held by them on account of the trustees, from the 6th day of August, 1817, to the f Oth day of May, 1846 inclusive ; and stating also the difference in amount be tweer the amounts so paid and credited and received up to May 20, 1846. Account, stating in detail, the changes which have been made in the Bank Annuities and Exchequer bills held by the National Debt Commissioners, on account of the trustees of savings banks, under the authority of the Acts 9 Geo . IV. c. 92, and 3 Wm. IV. c. 14; showing, in separate co lumns, the dates, description, and extent of each of such changes, and the rates at which the changes were effected, from May 20, 1844, to July 5, 1846 (all in continuation of Parlia mentary Paper, No. 453, of Session 1844). Mr. HORSMAN wished to give notice that on Friday next he would ask the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if it was his intention to call the attention of the Government to the report of a Lords' Com mittee on railways, and whether it was their intention to adopt the suggestion contained in that report ? THE ADJOURNED DEBATE , On the motion that the order of the day for resuming the adjourned debate be read, Mr. PHILIP MILES said that he could assure the House that when he moved the adjournment of the debate last night, it was not with a view of protracting the discussion of the question at this late period of the session. It was bnause he thought that under the circumstances a fair division could not be taken upon it, that he wished to adjourn it, and he knew that it was for the interest of all the parties that the adjourn ment should take place. He assured the Noble Lord that it was not his intention to offer any useless opposition to this Bill, because he did not think it right unnecessarily to protract the business of the 1101 M. He could not admit that this measure was to confer a great benefit upon the country, as the Noble Lord had stated, asd it was because he considered that this measure would do precisely the reverse ; because he considered that the measure would give great encouragement and stimulus to th e slave trade, notwithstanding all that had been said against it, that he was prepared to give Isis support to the resolutions moved by his Noble Friend the Member for King's Lynn. He confessed that he was astonished last night to hear the Noble Lord the Member for Liverpool—that Noble Lord who moved the celebrated resolution in 1841—now consenting to the pro• posals of her Majesty's Government. He must say that he was not prepared to hear him give the reasons for the vote which he was induced to give, after he had said that he protested str.mgly against the admission of foreign sugar. He certainly was not prepared to hear that Noble Lord come forward in support of the proposition of the Noble Lord the Slember for London.—( Hear, hear.) Neither was he pre pared to hear the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer, certainly in a speech of great aNlity, tell the House that he was rejoiced to be able from the source of the slave-grown sugar, to receive a large increase to the revenue of the country. The discussion last night turned upon the state of the West India colonies, and it was because he was particularly interested in them, and because he wished to express his opinions as to their condition, that he was unwilling that the House should go to a division on the question last night, before he laid before them what he knew concerning their condition, and what effect this measure would have upon them. From all that he could learn from practical people on this subject, from all that he knew himself on the question, he must say that he thought the effect of this measure would be to throw a vast number of estates out of cultivation.—( Hear, hear.) All those estates which were of a barren sail, and which had not all the advantages of shipping, would be thrown out of cultivation. He would take for an instance the Island of .Tamaica. In that island there were, he believed, about 400 estates now in cultivation ; and he was assured by a gentleman conversant with the subject, that of those 150 or 200 would be thrown out. of cultivation by this measure. Many of the estates in that island had been lately thrown out of cultivation, and it was a lamentable fact, hut it was nevertheless true, that in consequence of the want of pro tection which ought to have been shown to the proprietors of estates in that island, the people were in a most wretched con dition. The Noble Lord, the Member for London, in the opening speech which he made on this question, said that the system of protection was a vicious one, but his (Mr. Miles) answer to that question was that the condition of the West Indies was in a wretched state at this moment, and ' the reason that they were 80 was, because of the coaduct of the Executive Gevontoient, Ey Tasked to " Would they wse sugar which hid been cultivated with the _b a le of men who had been bought?—( A laugh from Sir James Graham.) He began to think he was a little dull of appr a ed i se. e ,.. sin in this matter, and that he VI SS not acquainted with w h e re: means of buying and selling. If the lion. Gentleman sorb sold all the men on the banks of the Ganges are not bought soli, he would at once assert that all the men in Java and Cuba were not bought and sold; so the argument was worth a laugh, and if it was a joke, it was so bad, tha te ,, c c i ° , e i o ld t not laugh at It. But if he had any other meanings he et wish to revctt to it, for they could not say who sold. He himself was not to be led by any party, nor cv idea l withold It's support from the Noble Lord. And he cotis e that the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel), when oo• re ported to support the Government, had made a speech heia ,. ) calculated to injure them than anything else.—(Hea r e esi ih e r India is steeped to the very lips in slavery, and Mr. ye ye ., was bouoguhidt he force had said that the dwelling - place and the home of sta was in India, and that for centuries before the West there. were discovered slavery had been cradled and nurturedti elavery formed part of tbe religion of India. He would ask_ Noble Lord the member for Lynn whether lie believed that these harrowing reports which he had read to the House . s e e r d not considerably exaggerated by the writer of those horrid_ __: l l e, revolting narratives? He did not vindicate the slave 0 4 b e God forbid that he should. He should deserve did; struck to death on the floor on which he stood if be ! rde, lea , but let them look to the !outlier , ' states of North Ato sod they would fi n d s l aver y equally as horrid an d ns ire , testable as that d enounc ed by the Noble Lord 0 PP:oot ( He then read f rom a b oo k published on the subject an ace vf of the cruelty to w hi c h no t only male but female slave s fed subjected, and that the grossest immorality was amougst them in order to propagate their race.) Th e e s ° e also contained an anecdote which he would relate to the e'ee ref t A gentleman at one of the watering-places became enalneulte of a young female slave, whom he married, and carried n ea him to the free states, where he educated her after the fash of an English gentlewoman. One morning an elderly „ ° ,l l- of eneouorae,nno waited upon him, and demanded the woman on the gr° ° " bet rs - her being his slave. He said she was worth a 1,000 dol' a i ' a ids that he should have her for 900 dollars, which the husbanu g e es He mentioned the circumstance to his wife, who said—" t o e s not only my master, but my father." This was the state ti 4 very which they were going to en c ou r a ge by a crieol ea b iea duty. He then referred to other nos ;ages of the book , : ° ,,btlf stated that the slaves were punished by being fastened l 'l t e to a stake, so that they could not move, and flogged wither instrument, which penetrated into the flesh, and eeir they in this position received hundreds of lashes on tatty naked backs. Now he (Mr. Borthwick) believed that In_a4 of these statements were exaggerated, but he belieeed4i„, that equal cruelty was inflicted in Cuba and Brazil as in i ,„f sissippi at d Alabama. It was elways, however, in the penveoio the ?eve to purchase his freedom as soon as he could 1,0 sufficient money to effect the purchase. The slave couldtee charge his master, and be removed, provided he were not , 4 fed, or prevented frosn going to church. That state of th l, existed in Cuba and Brazils, where there were from 2e bee 3,000 free negrocs. In Br a zil s no di s ti nc ti on w as made tween the men of colour, but in South America they not allowed to be near the whites, nor even to vornen God in the same pew as the white marn of the grounds he hail stated he must oppose the metre s et the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn. Unless he could e 7 , 01 the House that the statements he had made about Java ce „ Manilla, and the southern stater of North Arne r b i ee were false, he had no right whatever to ask eg o (Mr. Borthwick) to vote for the distinction leettv,bi, slave-grown and free-grown sugar. The people of yore country were not permitted to grow tobacco, but theY,,2oo forced, for financial purposes, to pay a duty of i . 'l" r ee per cent. on tobacco that was slave-grown.—(r i e 7l,o hear.) Their was scarcely a tropical product but or was prcduced by slaves driven by the whip and d t ee plied by the slave trade. lie was sorry the Noble Lor ys Member fur Lynn should have lent himself to such a erl for that now raised, which he believed was only got I to , ,eola busting? purposes against the ensuing general el e If they gave themselves the patience to examine they " t heif find that their arguments and their position were as false • e st) humanity was genuine and real. But it was painful t ee those practices played off upon the people of England, f" r j o y mere purpose or getting up a party cry. If they felt the cor y portance of setting the slave free, they were bound t°, the out that principle to th e f u ll es t ex t en t. Th e y must no 0- 5 1 er use slave grown tobacco, nor use any of the luxuries, l: se e; procuring or manuf a cturi ng of w hi c h s l ave -l a b ou r was, or they must forego the us., of slave-produced luxuries 'stile e e 1 00 they were mineral, vegetable, or animal. So much question of slavery, on \elk!) the Noble Lord seemed ;otrbesti his opposition. He (Mr. Borthwick) begged to tell hii ° , o ,itb while he trusted to the excitement of popular sympathY e 0 respect to the slavery in sugar—a most honourable coul l ` c eo doubt on the part of the Noble Lord—he was also bound tl t eer on the people of this country to make use no longer of the ", k ao articles of slave manufacture. Henceforth, on the print 4'o laid down by the Noble Lord, we must not use slav e- r cotton, tobacco, &c. We must no longer make use of the e i ! ja the diamonds, the rubies, or the other articles in time proef tole of which slaves were employed. He would no lunge`' ue rofo the House on the question of slavery. While he differed 2 .n . ,t i 0 0 with the Noble Lord the Me m b e r for Lynn upon the elt te ;, t iols of slavery, he agreed with him most cordially upon the el° es§ of protection. He, in conjunction with the Noble Inrll,oell of opinion that the East and West Indian colonies were :ion entitled to much more protection than they novr f be j sycd. He was of opinion that it was for 10 benefit of the producer and consumer of sugar food all parts that further protection should be exte' Id to our colonists.—(Hear, hear .) Whoever was respon sible r e the evils of slavery, he believed thet the Indian planters co ol r free from blame. When the local legislatures of th eir nies attempted to obtai n A c ts of P ar liament for the t lis e o t i he tenance and abolition of the slave trade, they were told I: 5 14 Ie Legislature of this country, that the slave-trade was p ro, of to the exchequer of this country, and that the questirt IPS humanity should be put back, and that the question 0 e. abolition of the slave-trade should be deferred. But , netwilb, 31 standing all that, the planters of Jamaica had sulese r r e e of 60,000/. in the course of twelve years for the emancieal,'°o". to 17,000 negroes. Notwithstandin g th e i r efforts to ane,ilk°,,t, of the ee feltcon Britishds u it r i em Legislature s t t i h hae e t uNsrleoa Noble i on to the moral and physical condition of the people l he e se' L i m nw r d ics w ohn o e s u s e l li d ' au b de e nneoet doing ob e et h. ne carried let; by • eaeourai eare d an importation of free labour—(Hear, hear) --and be try be that when he went into Committee on the resolutions m e in had prt:osed, he would not abide by the figures mentions them.—( Hear, he ar.) He trusted that a differential eetiV, of 9s. 3d. would be continued in favour of our West I nt % o a f colonists.' He trusted that the rent serv?e, Noble Lord would cons?. o, well before he consented to remove all protection from the 141 0 ducers of sugar. He was sure that free labour was in its e L et' much cheaper commodity than slave labour, and by en u r ;.‘t raging free labour they would undoubtedly lessen, if 1 100 degree, the present extent of slavery, and teach a ese Clef' of humanity to the world, an.! free themselves from th to cube which would otherwise attach to them. The Marquis of GRANBY said he was anxious t ° gt O nt b e the House the ground on which he should give his vs g present oecasion, and he would do so very shortly, hi ' eae ont"", believed that the House was prepared to go to a divi'sit e, question that night.—(Hear, h e a r .) At th e same could not but regret the late period of the session at to h i / e l-fea r ; great question had been br oug ht f orwar d f or di scuss i on s hear )—and he regretted that fact in a particular mane r f e e hearing the speech of the Right Hon. Baronet the Mee Tainworth on the p rev i ous even i ng —( Hear, hear) --be , e r at o l f thought it w as a speec h t h at certa i n l y was i n f aver e Nob amendment which his (the Marquis of Granby 's 'ejoe, e l° Friend bad moved. It was a speech against any °ppm . ;eeta,,'; the present Government ; hut the Right Hon, Gem stated, that in consequence of the present state of par' l e e co ' r",; was enabled to give effect to that speech, and vote In - a t tr,,, - ance with it. At the same time, he wished to 52 my g ive vote which he (the Marquis of Granby) was abm lot enter was not in consequence of any hostile feeling which he eoef e , tained towards the present Government, but rathe rin re quence of the dislike which he had to the present n rem e ', - ,0 0 ,`" ( Hear, hear.) He was obli ge d to vo t e aga i nst t h is rtio upon two grounds— upon the groun d o f protecti 00t'es'ef colonists, and also upon the ground that he this measure would increase the s l ave t ra d e .— i- --1 0 11 % " Hear, hear.") Ho would consider those two ftl' e ° l le'' together, because by so doing he thought he should om We tit be, of the time of the House—he should consider them tog; It b ci e , a see cause he thought that they were intimately connec; forgo , could not be well separated. Protection was necessams colonists in consequence of the legislation of that Hotreee• ft• b ° gislation which was directed against the continuance'' 101 slave trade—( Hear, hear.) He should like to know v 100 constituents of this country—whet the nations of the' 00 0 woulo think of their conduct, if they, who at the time' sr the interests of humanity and the interests of our colonise. 00 peered to be in opposition—they who said that in their ori h ers the interests of humanity must be considered Lefore all °t c oo' —( Hear, hear)—and that the interests esf the „ I f t 4 „, 11 sumers of this country were against that ine and that they must pay a tax of 0 0,00 , h - , , 11 to maintain the iuterests of humanity —(: Hear, se, —that the same parties should now e el no for - b eeP and propose that that very slavery, for the suppress °I. 'c r , - so much had been done, should now be encouraged m" . 1%; possible; for that would, in fact, be the resultofihe pe o r et- e tl ' of the Noble Lord at the head of her Majesty's Gov erntne e e t o (Hear, hear. ) Il e wou ld as k them whether th em conatitmeedie of this country and the nations of the world would not el l e.' their conduct to be riot merely inconsistent, but nue uniu s h olP (Hear, hear.) For, the purpose of making sugar , about a b i t e. penny a pound cheaper, they proposed that all the 1 a bout's'', l ee had been consumed for the extinction of slavery, as vvel l° , o eft 20,000,0001. tax, should be set at nought. The oul by erg" „ et) , which he had heard, and which he thong ht v' eo tea of time name, was that because we admitted slave • re? ee were 'pi coffee, slave-grown copper, and other articles, w fore bound in consistency to admit slave-grown au gar' tb o he did think that there was a vast difference- betw e- eoee production of those articles and the production of slavel sugar. But that he thought was well known to the Ho ns ;fe he would not trouble the House with dwelling 011 that y ment, but he would take the opportunity of referrE g t i. b o l. for the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman the 111 en'',lo th e Tamworth, delivered last year on the question of faire ere r h, manufacture of sugar.—(Hear.) Supposing it wer eti °f ee " :t ' slavery employed in the manufacture of cotton, &re., "„-- l' e in extent to that employed in the manufacture of au ge e 'Ll contended still that the argument, that because eve wrong in one instance we were to do wrong in tan ()W itt "' the; the most extraordinary argument th a t was ever mat le ;" o 01 .; House.—( Hear.) They had often h ear d t h at t h e fi rm o°l wrong direction was very bad, but he had new ' heard that because we had take n th at step we sl toineu„ -- e e d the whole flight.--( Hear, hea r .) S ure l y the Nc not prepared to maintain such an argument es tb a ;;eet l i t people of this country would, however, most certainkV, an t The argument of the Noble Lord as to a man ante : ' - eset honest neighbour he also held to be equally wreing; ez in ea riblA was the strangest argument which he (the Marquis of e ",„ 1,0 1 had ever heard. Was that the conduct which tht Non" 0 tb; at the head of the Government was prepared tab ael‘" 3 ,rse t ,, e most moral and philanthropic country on the earth" °Toe tr, Ile considered that the Noble Lord had failed to; ceov i ec eel House that they would not facilitate the slave-tratde by u rg e d ;been l ting slave-grown sugar.—(Hear, hear.) It had fail „' „, that all their endeavours to repress the slave-trade -Ree,eetiees and that they therefore ought to give up further . e bt tvit_a but such an argument he was convinced had no eresesoderr e on for any Member in that House.—(Hear, hear.) H e ,O ' t' her that after the statement of the Noble Lord the velee ee coa t Lynn, which set forth the increased supply which, t:neleet; obtain from the East and West Indies, by proper nee?. it became their duty to give a further trial to protedr e - el ire; Hon. Member for Evesham had insinuated that to in tee. actuated by a desire to get up a cry against slaveleasly country ; he was of opinion that a feeling did exist , t e te tes° l " the country against slavery, but he begged to re p u e ° th . he an intention which was most incorrectly o'B attributed to t o f t Mr. OSWALD considered that some s ettlena!n r i p o fl a g question was most earnestly desired, and, rename:e s erue ve protection had been withdrawn from agriculture, he tit opinion that they should be prepared to do a wa Y sup por t . !. o t tection of every kind ; and, therefore, he could not fiee me e m t , amendment of the Noble Lord.—( Hear, hear t 'Mons -° t the prepared, after the country had given twenty r _ we e si oe , , tinguish slavery, that they should further tax t e ller ent ieav a lc ie rate of two millions sterling annually in aus " WOl lO be l And it was quite a mistake to imagine that they by l o t ha the el e i 7h e eY to affect the fiscal arrangement of other countries ate meat of their own.—( Hear, hear.) They had done had not mitigated the evi ls of the Y loo k t of a most distinguished advocate of the slave, s s t t r o t : f li esn ve ra rY; and he was therefore of opinion t hat they ranee _hook other way to banish slavery' than those of the o°. wet ..,