The Sun. — London, England, 1848-07-11 00:00:00

TRIAL TRIP OF THE NEW IRON STEAMER CAMBIA. On Thursday a trial of the beautiful new iron steamer Cambria, constructed by Mr. John Laird, of Birkenhead, was made between this port and the Menai Strait, under the command of LiQut. Keane, RN. The Cambria is the property of the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company, and is intended, when the works at Holyhead are completed, to ply between that station and Kingstown, in con nexion with, or rather in extension of, the railway. She is an exceedingly beautiful vessel, of fine model, re markably neat appearance, and great strength. The utmost care and skill have been exercised in so con structing her that she may combine the best qualities of a seaboat with the highest amount of speed. The fol lowing are the particulars of her dimensions, &c.:— THE VESSEL. Length of water-line ... 193 ft. ... 27 ft. 9 ft. 3 in. ... 700 tons. Beam . Draft of water, about Tonnage, about 73 in. ... 5 ft. ... 28 ft. 6 in. ... 24 to 25. ... 370 horse. ENGINES. Diameter of cylinder Length of stroke Diameter of paddle-wheels ... Number of strokes per minute Power The result of the trial was in all respects highly satis factory. The speed of the vessel was, during the trip, ascertained to be full seventeen miles an hour, and on this rate there will, no doubt, be a considerable improvement when she comes under the manage- meut of her regular officers and crew, and when the engines have been worked into full facility of action. She had on board all the weight which she will have to carry on her station, so that the trial was a perfectly fair one in this as well as all other respects. She steers remarkably well, and, as she is altogether free from tremulous motion, she will be an exceedingly pleasant boat for passengers. The Cambria steamed from the Sloyne at eleven o'clock on Thursday morning, having on board a large party of ladies and gentlemen, who, as the day was calm and brilliant, were in the highest spirits, anticipating from their marine excursion a full measure of en joyment. The vessel had to ply against a strong tide throughout the whole distance, and, as it was feared there would net be water enough in the Rock Channel, she left the Mersey by the Victoria Channel, which took her considerably out of her direct course. Notwith standing these disadvantages, and that the speed was more than once slackened for the purpose of making observa tions on the working of the engines, &c., she made Beau maris in the short space of three hours and twenty mi nutes. The sea, during the whole passage, was as smooth as a millpond, and though the day was intensely hot, with scarcely a breath of air, the speed of the steamer produced a breeze for those on board that was deliciously refreshing. Under these circumstances the passengers, ladies as well as, gentlemen, enjoyed the voyage exceedingly. But, sweet and refreshing as was the air, the delighted voyagers were not left, like Hamlet, to feed on that "chameleon's dish." About half-past one o'clock Mr. Laird invited his friends to lunch in the cabin, where a substantial cold collation was set out, with good store of champagne and other wines, to which welcome repast the guests did ample justice, for though air, be it ever so pure, proves, according to Shakespere, but, sorry food for capons, it provides a most healthy sauce for those birds when they appear properly dished amongst the ether plenishments of a well-covered table. We forbear to write of the beauty of the ladies or the fashion of their garments, or the influence and rank of the gentlemen, for such topics arc exceedingly trite, threadbare as a beggar's garment, and, consequently, far from complimentary. It is more to the purpose and more gratifying to be able to say, that the company con sisted of most intelligent, well-informed, and cheerful individuals of both sexes, and it will be readily con ceived that, with such a party, the time passed most agreeably. The vessel lay to for a short time off Beaumaris, and then steamed up to the Suspension-bridge, where many of the party went on shore, some en the Anglesea and some oe the Bangor side of the strait. They amused them selves by inspecting the bridge, the iron tubes that are in course of construction for the Britannic-bridge, and other objects of interest. Shortly before six o'clock the vessel departed for Liverpool, taking back with her the majority of the party whom she had carried out ; several, however, remaining to return by the Holyhead Railway, from Bangor to Chester, and thence by the Cheshire Junction Railway to Liverpool. The steamer reached the Mersey about nine o'clock. Those who went by railway arrived in Liverpool a few minutes before midnight.—Liverpool SENTENCE ON ROBERT ROSS DIX.—On Friday the Recorder of Bristol proceeded to pass sentence on Mr. Dix. The Learned Judge said—" Robert Dix, you have been convicted on an indictment charging you with embezzling- the moneys of Mr. Christopher George. The indictment charged you with the embezzlement of three different sams:—ln November, of 201.; in February following of 531. and 1431. 9s. 9d. Your case has undergone the most minute investigation at the bands of a patient jury, and you have had also the bene fit of learned counsel, who brought forward every point in your favour, and after a long investigation, the jury re turned a verdict of guilty, in which I fully concur. The charge against you, a person of station and good education, is of a most serious description ; and, considering your situation of trust, one of great aggravation. You had been a partner, and when your partnership had expired, you assumed the subordinate situation of a clerk. In 1846 you continued in that situation, and it was then your duty to receive debts and im mediately to pay them over to Mr. George. In stead of so doing, on three occasions, and on how many others I know not, you appropriated moneys to your own use, in November and in February, all of which it was your duty to enter in a book and pay over. You then receive an intimation from Mr. Fletcher that you were dishonest, and you then take the step of absconding, and carrying away those books, the ab sence of which must cause inconvenience to the cre ditors. You are then captured, and escape, and are finally re-captured in April. I have pondered much over your case, and it is very difficult to decide whether you should not be transported; but there is one circumstance of some small degree of palliation, although it does not detract from vour dishonesty. I must, however, give you a very lengthened term of imprisonment. You had, it appears, been a partner up to 1846; after that time it was equally clear that Mr. George's accounts were in a very unsatisfactory state ; and you might possibly have thought that more was due to you than 5831. You might plead that you were kept in a state of ignorance; and having been a partner, you perhaps thought yourself in a diffe rent condition from an ordinary clerk, and to have imagined that you had a greater interest in the concern than you really possessed. This, however, cannot affect the dishonesty of the action. The sentence of the Court, therefore, is, that for this offence you be imprisoned in the gaol of this city for the term of eighteen calendar months."—Farley's Bristol Journal. MR. BEARD'S DAGUERREOTYPE PORTRAITS.— Daguerreotype portraiture is still a mystery and a marvel : the results of the action of light on surfaces chemically prepared are made more and more evident to our senses by the efforts of manipulators ; but, so far from bringing us'nearer to a clear understanding of the process, serve, in many cases, to contradict our previous views, without supplying new ones. None of the mys teries of religion at which sceptics laugh " because they are contrary to reason"—their reason—are so irre concilable with our ignorance, so apparently impossible, as results which are now every day before us. Just think of this fact, for example, that a ray of light of a violet colour, falling upon a common sewing-needle will convert it into a magnet! Who can understand it? We know little or nothing about light. The improve • ments which Mr. Beard has made in the process by which portraits are produced, at his establishments in King-William-street, City, and the Polytechnic Institu tion, result from an entirely different treatment of the plate - from what previous knowled ge wou ld h ave sug gested. The •effect, with which alone we are able to deal, is greatly improved ; white and its modifications are more perfectly produced than was formerly the case, and that, too, without lessening the force and depths of the blacks, which was all the difficulty; the colouring, too, is less superficia l, . more a part of the pl a t e t h an it was, rendering many of the recent specimens which we have had an opportunity of examining perfectly life-like and beautiful.—Builder. Fairlop fair was held on i'riday, and was attended by many thousands of holiday makers. Those amphi bious vehicles, the boats , m ounted on carria ges , with masts and rigging—the Union, belonging to the water men of Wapping, and the Maggot—were the principal attractions on the road. Each boat contained twenty-e ve persons and a band of musicians, and each was drawn by six horses, gaily caparisoned. The wives and families of the watermen and blockmakers followed in open landaus. A third boat was started for the first time on this occa sion. It was built by Mr. Everest, a waterman, at an expense of no 'less than 2301., for a Wapping club of water-side men. It was rigged out like a man- of war brig, and gaily decorated, and contained twenty nine passengers. Seven open landaus, each drawn by four horses, and containing well-dressed women and children, followed. This novel procession, as it proceeded along the Mile-end-road, was loudly cheered by the people assembled. The forest once reached, the parties alighted and roamed about, enjoying the beauties of the woodland scenery. There were a great many theatrical booths and shows on the forest, near the site of the Old Fairlop Oak, which, after standing for three or four centuries, was partially destroyed, about thirty years ago, through the carelessness of some visi tors, who lighted a fire within its trunk. The remains of this monarch of the forest were soon afterwards felled. Upwards of 5,000 persons came down to Ilford by the Eastern Railway. From there it was a pleasant walk along the green lanes to the fair. Numerous omnibuses, fl ys, cabs, vans, and other vehicles were also in requisi tion; and the Forest echoed with the cheers and shouts of . eountlees thousands. The boats were illuminated on their return to London in the evening, and an immense quantity of fireworks were discharged from them at various plates on their journey home. HOW POOR 'S RATES ARE INCREASED. -- Robert Blake, the man who cohabited with Hannah Parker until she murdered two of his children (tor which crime she was executed a short time ago at Newgate), was brought before the magistrates at the Birmingham police-office on Thursday, charged with having deserted his wife and child, who have at times been relieved by the parish authorities of that borough since January. 1843. It appeared from the evidence of a relieving officer that he apprehended Blake at Mr. Plummer's saw-mills, Golden lane, St. Luke's, on a warrant ordered by the guardians of the poor of the parish of Birmingham, and that his wife and children had received relief amounting to 1101. Os. 7d. Ile was convicted, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment in the House of Correction at Warwick, with hard labour. This man's criminality has been very expensive to the public. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY H, 1848 , btrZi SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Cloch. RAILWAY COAMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. GROUP No. 4.— MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE (Humber Ferries Improvement at Hull and New Holland).—Case and opposition further considered. GROUP No. S.—CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD (Power to Purchase Steam-boats).—The opposition of the City of Dublin and other steam-boat companies fur ther considered. It was proposed that the power con tained in the Bill should be conferred upon the company, so far as they related to the carrying of passengers; but that they should be restricted from enjoying the light goods traffic between this country and Ireland. Of course this proposal was rejected by the promoters, and the case was further considered on its merits. GROUP No. S.—GLASGOW, PAISLEY, KILMARNOCK, AND AYR (Revision of Maximum Tolls).—The object of this Bill is to enable the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Company to revise their existing tariff of charges. Case opened. ELECTION COMMITTEE. (THIS DAY.) DUBLIN. The scrutiny into the validity of Mr. Reynolds' ma jority was resumed, and in the course of the day the petitioners succeeded in striking off four additional votes COLONIAL BANKING COMPANY. (THIS DAY.) The general half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in this company was held to-day, at the London Tavern; A. Colville, Esq., chairman of the company, in the chair. The report, which was read by Mr. CALVERT, the secretary, deprecated generally the course of legislation for the West India Islands which the Government has adopted, and ascribed the inability of the directors to declare a dividend to the commercial adversity endured by the colonies in consequence. The debit side of the account showed a ,:irculation of 207,726/. 6s. Bd.; the deposit and liabilities are 773,968/. 95.; the amount of paid-up capital being 500,0001. On the other hand the assets are in specie, 198,0751. 10s.; bills discounted and purchased, 622,1331. 2s. 5d.; due to the bank in the colonies on cash credits and current ac counts, 174,930/. 18s. 9d.; due to the bank in London on bills remitted, cash at the bankers, &c., 483,5421. 98. 9d.; balance of bad and doubtful debts, 6,1751. ss. 4d.; the bank premises, and other property at home and in the colonies, being valued at something more than 18,000/. The CHAIRMAN having spoken particularly of the state of commercial depression in the colonies, and having gone through the other items of the report, stated that the profit on the bank's operations was 20,4581. 7s. 2d., which, though a sum amply sufficient to make a hand. some dividend, the directors considered advisable, in the present state of the West India interest, to carry to the general fund. They, therefore, declined proposing any dividend whatever. .... ... This course being approved of, thanks were voted to the chairman and directors, and the meeting was dis solved. PERUVIAN BONDHOLDERS. (THIS DAY.) A. meeting of the holders of Peruvian Bonds was held this afternoon at the London Tavern, to bear the state ment of a proposition which has been made to the com mittee of the South American Bondholders' Association by the Government of Peru. Mr. Robinson, chairman of the association, took the chair. The substance of the proposition was, that the pay ment of all principal and interest should be postponed till the year 1850—that the arrears of interest should be capitalised—that the whole should bear interest at the rate of three per cent. per annum, commencing from Nov. 30, 1849, such rate to be increased half per cent. per annum yearly, till it reached six per cent.—that the old bonds should be cancelled, and new bonds issued, which, in lieu of the present lien upon the Customs' duties, should be secured on one-third of the money received by the Peruvian Governments for the payment for guano. This proposition the chairman said had been maturely considered by the committee, and they had unanimously resolved to advise a rejection of it in toto, as it was neither more nor less than an attempt to evade all present responsibility with just as much uncertainty of payment in future to the bondholders as they now endured. Nevertheless, the: committee were not there to dictate, but to state the case as it stood, and to co-operate with the bondholders. Mr. SNEEPER hoped that a counter-proposition would be made to the Peruvian Government, agreeing to the capitalisation of the arrears of interest and the rate of dividend to the shareholders, but requiring the security proposed now in addition to that already held; but Mr. Alderson explained from the original do cument which contained the proposition, that such was altogether incompatible with its terms, and Mr. Poules denounced the proposition as being in the highest degree unjust, inasmuch as the arrears were to be alto gether cancelled, for 1001. on each 100/. stock, when, in tact they amounted to 1501., and in the time to come the bondholders, after the sacrifice, would be just as unsafe as at present. In reply to a proprietor, the CHAIRMAN stated that this proposition had been made before the arrival in Lima of Mr. Addams, who has been sent out as the agent of the British Government in Peru, that he had been told only last evening by Lord Palmerston that he had given that gentleman instructions to press for the liquidation of the bondholders' claims as forcibly as possible on the Peruvian Government, and the com mittee, therefore, conceived that it would be unwise to take any step which might interfere with Mr. Addams' proceedings. After some further conversation it was decided to take this course, and thanks having been voted to the chairman and committee, the meeting separated. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULT 8, 1848. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... 338 Diseases of Uncertain Seat 45 Turbercular Diseases... ... ... 216 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 94 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 28 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... .•• 76 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... .., 70 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ... 5 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 3 Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... 2 Malformations... ... ... 3 Premature Birth ... Atrophy ••• ••• ••• Old Ago ••• ••• ••• Sudden ... Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance Causes not specified ... ... 22 25 ... 13 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... Ponulation Ai erage weekly Deaths Enumerated, Deaths, 1843-7. In the 1841. Five Springs. Week. W r est Dist.',ots... 300,711 . . 143 ... 160 North D.,tricts.. 375,971 .. 182 ... 191 Central Distrl.)ts 373,653 171 ... 161 East P;., , t,icts ... 392,444 199 ... 220 Souti_ districts .. 501,190 ... 248 ... 238 Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... 943 ... Males Females ... ... ... 492 ... ... 478 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males ... Females ... Total ... ... 675 ... 607 -.1,282 COURSE OF EXCH . ) Amsterdam ...... •• • • 12 2 Ditto, at sight • • .... Rotterdam •••• • • 12 2 Antwerp 26 itamburgh ••11.8. 13 10% • • • " • • • l'aris, 3 days' sight .. • . 25 40 rilarsellles ••••••• • •• • • 25 95 Dourdcaux .... • • • • • Frankfort on Maine.... 120% Petersburgh, Sil. Itble • • Berlin .• • • .fi Vienna, effeco.. .... 11 25 Trieste, ditto ll 30 Barcelona LNG-E.-(THIS DAY.) Gll9re.Ltar...• .......... Leghorn ........ • • • • 31 50 26 Napl es 35U Pale;rmo, puroz . Lisboat.... • • .• • 51X Oporto .. ••.. • • 52 kf, Rio Janeiro .......... Iluei ig.s Ayres • • New `fork, 21 days' sight .... • • .... PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Fore lcnt Gold ia bars .. X 3 17 9 N Dollars •• ...• 0 4 9% Portwal Gold Coin 0 0 0 Spanis.b Doubloons 0 0 0 Silver in bars ........ 0 4 11% SPAIN.. Accounts from Madrid of the sth instant state that the QUEEN was to leave Lt midnight on the 6th for La Granja. General NARVAEZ was to follow on the 9th or 10th, and the Minister of the Interior on the 15th, after which period all the members of the Council will be united at La Granja. General Count MIRASOL took possession on the sth of the Captaincy- General of Madrid. The deficit in the Bank of San Fernando was calculated at at out 2 0,000,000 reels. The bank, however, was in a condition to meet all its engagements. The Fomento, Barcelona journal, of the sth inst., announces that CABRERA had positively entered Ca talonia, at the head of twenty horsemen, arid that he had been seen a few days be fore at Borreda. The Journal des Debats punishes the following letter, dated Catalonia, 4th inst.. : " It appears, from an official :report, that de three columns, commanded by Brigs direr Manzano, Colonel Zauch, and Lieut.-Colonel Bofill fe 11 in, on the 28th ult., at three o'clock P.M., with 500 Montemolinists, com manded by Cabrera, Boquica, Cast ell, and others. The engagement took place near Sarnalo3s, a village situate be tween Barcelona and Matano, wit'ai'n 30 kilometres of the former and 20 of the latter. Calsrera and his followers occupied two steep hills, easily defended, from which the Queen's troops dislodged th am at the point of the bayonet, after various movement s, which lasted upwards of six hours. Tho Montemoli nists lost twelve killed, whose bodies wero found ors the field of battle, I thirty wounded, and twenty prisoners ; they had besides five horses killed. The Queen's troops, consisting of detachments of the regiments of the King and Union and of the battalion of chasseurs of Alba de Tormas had but one soldier killed and 11 wounded—two of them were officers. Cabrera and his partisans assem bled again on the 30th on the heights of Monseny, within five myriametres of Barcelona. It is assured that a high personage, supposed to be the younger brother of Count de Montemolin, accompanies in cog. the celebrated chief. It is added that Cabrera, who wears a splendid uniform of a Spanish General and a white beret, never speaks to that person age without uncovering himself, and that everybody, the chaplains included, treats him with the greatest respect. Fears are entertained that before a month the insurrec tion will have assumed a formidable aspect. Several new bands have appeared on different points." SPORTING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The victory of Surplice on the Epsom Downs has not altogether decided the fate of the St. Leger. Springy Jack is quite as elastic as ever, and, if anything, in better condition now than he was on the Derby day; this added to the shape, size (about sixteen hands), strength, and splendid condition of the new arrival from the " gem of the sea," which, by the way, if his late owner is to be believed, will do that " Justice to Ireland" and to the Duke of Bedford at Doncaster which so delighted the Irish division in '44 and '45. The above three, in addition to Loadstone, Flatcatcher, and one or two obscures, are all that are likely to con tend for the northern championship. The Flying Dutchman's running during the past week proves him to be a flyer indeed, and at all times "over the fiat," will be found a most dangerous opponent; but on a close inspection I was inclined to think his staying qualities over a hilly course to be rather inferior than otherwise, and should consequently give the pas to his stable companion Elthiron for the Derby spin. Of the dark division engaged in the Derby of '49, I should select Uriel, Rebecca colt, Saucy Dick, Nunny kick, and John Bull, as the best to winter on. The Liverpool meeting this year is not by any means up to the mark, which may be attributed to various causes, among others the death of Mr. Etty, the late clerk of the course, whose indefatigable exertions of late years have so well seconded the plans of Lord G. Bentinck in rendering the Liverpool a first-rate meeting. The 200 Sovs. Produce Stakes has out of twenty nomi nations from Derby cracks, Honeycomb, The Flying Dutchman, the Rebecca colt, and Chantrey. Were they all to run, I should expect, to see them pass the post in the order placed, but I believe Honeycomb, the colt, and Chantrey will be absentees, thus leaving the Flyer alone in his glory. The Sefton Stakes to Miss Orbell. The Mersey Stakes to Strongbow or Elthiron with a start, in their absence to Mr. Green. The Derby Handicap to Christopher, Sagacity, or Betty Swipes. The Foal Stakes to the Crazy Lad. The Match between Uriel and Fitzpatrick to the former, in a canter. The Liverpool St. Leger to Flatcatcher. The Aintree Stakes V) Hard Shot, Strongbow, or Rowland, the last two for first and second places. The Liverpool Cup, with twenty-one acceptances, will have about fourteen starters, viz.:— st lbl st lb Chanticleer, 5 yrs 9 2 Pillage, 4 yrs Cawroush, 5 yrs Grimston, 5 yrs Montpensier, 4 yrs Jovial, 4 yrs 7 2 Otterburn, 3 yrs Executor, 4 yrs 6 9 Sylvan, 3 yrs Ulysses, 4 yrs The four first at the finish, ought to be Glen Saddel, All's Well, Cawrouch, and Ulysses; Glen Saddel or All's Well for victor ; the other two being close up. I am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Tuesday morning. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) WHITEHALL, JULY 8, 1848. The Queen has been pleased to grant unto John William Dupr6, Esq., the office and place of Procurator- General in the island of Jersey, in the room of Sir Thomas Le Breton, appointed Bailiff of the said island. The Queen has also been pleased to grant to John Hammond, Esq., the office and place of Advocate- General of the island of Jersey, in the room of John William Dupre, Esq., appointed Procurator-General of that island. CROWN-OFFICE, JULY 11. MENDERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Great Yarmouth—Joseph Sanders, the younger, of Taplew House, in the county of Bucking ham, Esq. ; Charles Edmund Rumbold, of Preston Candover, in the cuunty of Southampton, Esq.; the last election for the said borough having been declared void. Commission by the Lord• Lieutenant of Staffordshire. The Hon. Frederick Gough to be Deputy-Lieutenant, July 1, 1848. WHIITEIIALL, JUNE 17, 1848. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Austen Treffry Mills, of Redruth, in the county of Cornwall, to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. John Hancock, hosier, Earl Shilton, Leicestershire. BANKRUPTS. Robert Adkin, builder, Queen's-road, Notting-hill, Middlesex, to surrender July 18 and Aug. 25, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Yenning and Co., Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury. Isaac Freeman, grocer, Cambridge, July 21, and August 25, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane; Meredith and Co., New square, Lincoln's•inn; Barley and Co., Ely, Cambridge shire. Edward Orme, innkeeper, Knutsford, Cheshire, July 24 and Aug. 14, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ; Abbott, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Atkinson, Saunders, and Atkinson, Manchester. Thomas Hanson, farmer, Lenney Barn, Lancashire, July 27, and August 11, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Clarke, Gray, and Woodcock, Lincolu's Inn-fields, Lon don; Whitehead and Son, Rochdale. William Wylam and Joshua Greene, jun., merchants, Newcastle-upou-Tyne, July 20, and August 25, at one, at the Bankruptcy District Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle upon-Tyne ; T. and W . Chat( r, Newcastle-upcn-Tyne; Bell, Broderick, and Bell, Bow Church-yard, London. Charies Savage, sen., builder, Portsea. William Sargenat Denny, linen draper, Long Buckley, Northamptonshire. Clotheir, mason, Quickset-row, New-road. Thomas Kent, timber merchant, Great Brington, Northamptonshire._ Bayne; Barrow Higginson, merchant, Liverpool. Thomas Robson, agent, Manchester. John Rhodes and James Rhodes, cotton spinners, Rochdale. Jacob Forth, hatter, Nottingham. Richard Hawkins, farmer, Pennard, Glamorganshire, James Wynn, gas manufacturer, Falmouth. John Bridgeford, printer, Sheffield. William Drinkwater, draper, Liverpool. James Robson Duncan, woollen draper, Liverpool. William Hignett, tobacconist, Liverpool. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price CurrentoiLryll.) SUGAR.—Although the sugar-duties Bill has passed the House of Commons, and the usual propositions ad hered to, that is to say, colonial to be subject to a duty of 13s, clayed Foraign 204, and brown ditto 18s 6d per cwt, still there was no improvement in the home demand to-day for any kind of raw Sugisr, whilst the export orders completed were trifling. Prices are depressed for all sorts, and with colonial the market was well supplied. Of West India Muscovado the quantity sold was small, and amounted to only 280 hhds &c., including a public sale of 125 hhds Barbadoes at the 13s duty, which went off quietly, middling yellow at 38s 6d to 39s 6d, good 40s to 41s 6d, and fine 42s to 435. Prices of West India Sugar of all kinds are 6d per cwt lower than on Friday. REFINED.—To-day the dealings in Refined goods by the home trade were of a limited nature, still brown grocery lumps could not be obtained under 54s 6d, and to pass the standard 55s 6d per cwt. In Bonded Crushed Sugar a fair business was concluded, and prices are firm at 25s Gd to 27s per cwt. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon there was little disposi tion shown to do business in Mauritius Sugar, and 11,157 bags 323 trs were offered at public sale. The biddings were languid, and prices declined 6d to is for yellow, and 6d for brown and grey serfs, still the chief portion of the Sugar was sold. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Madras Sugar met with less demand, and 3,052 bags at public sale were only in part sold at 6d to is per cwt decline. Of Bengal I,OOG were sold, but upon rather lower terms. FOREIGN.—This afternoon little desire was shown to do business in Foreign Sugar by private treaty. At auction 80 bags of Pernambuco went at 35s for low dark brown. COFFEE.—This afternoon Plantation Ceylon met with attention, and 36 casks 892 bags at auction were all sold at firm rates. For Native there was less demand, and 1,151 bags were only partly sold, but full rates were ob tained. Of Madras, 146 bags were taken in at 26s to 27s for fine ordinary, and 250 bags St. Domingo at 28s. 57 casks 294 bags West India went at full terms. COCOA.— There are again heavy arrivals of West In dia, and sellers are disposed to make a further conces sion in the value; buyers on the other hand make sales with caution. Red Trinidad can be obtained at 38s to 425, and grey 35s to 3Ss. None at present has been offered at public sale. For Foreign there are few buyers, and holders are sellers at 32s to 34s per cwt. TEA.—To day a gond amount of business was tran sacted privately, chiefly in Congou, and at dull rates. It is difficult to obtain sound clean under 8d per lb. RICE.- To-day more inclination was shown to do business in East India Rice, and privately several par eg Bengalls 6 w d we f r o e wr s e orled sold.. middlingA t 2 p p, u oi cy bags s w al h e t I: 7 ,l s a o da bags sws l e6 , n O dt oO taot p o ss c ss k i e .ot t or s , damaged. These ra t es are all 6d per cwt h i g h er. SALTPE:TRET-To-day the re was littl e d es i re ev i nce d to do business in rough, and on the part of holders a de sire was shown to sell; the market was also well sup. p li e d. Of 1,785 bags Calcutta offered at public sale, a small part only sold at a reduction on former rates of is per cwt. Of Madras 547 bags were all bought in. For British Refined the market is dull. Nitrate of Soda is little wanted. SPIRITS.—There are sellers of all kinds of R um upon lower terms, as export orders are trifling, whilst home dealers operate with caution, and there i 3 an extensive stock. We quote proof Leewards at is 7d to is Bd, East India proof Is 4d to is 6d, Demerara 28 to 38 per cent over proof 2s 6d to 3s, Jamaica good and fine quality 33 to 37 per cent over proof 3s 9cl to 4s scl, middling and good middling 3s 5d to 3s Bd. INDIGo.—The market for East India is in an unfavour able position, especially as regards the better qualities. There is a great want of export orders, and the home trade are very cautious in their proceedings. The quarterly sale commenced this day, and the quantity declared amounted to 9,208 chests. of which 1,120 chests have passed the sale this day. The attendance of ex port and home buyers was very small, and the biddings were far from being animated. Importers have, gene rally, given strong support to their Marks by buying in a large proportion. COCHINEAL. This afternoon there was not much desire evinced to do business, and 200 bags of Mexican at public sale were only in part sold at 3s 5d to 3s 9d for silvers, which are about former rates, but blacks sold at 36 6d to 4s I d, which is ld lower. TALLow.—There rre sellers of Russian on the spot upon reduced terms, yet on the trade liltle desire has been manifested to do business, and 44s to 44s G(1 is the value of fine Petersburgh Yellow Candle ; a further reduction is expacted to take place. For delivery in the last three months of the year, sellers are willing to accept 435, but few buyers are to be met with. Of home made there is a good supply with only a limited demand, prices have fallen to 43s 6d to 44s 6d nett cash. There is no decrease in the supply of other kinds of Tallow, and lower rates are accepted, but the parcels offered at auction were nearly sold. Rough Fat is freely offered at 2s 6d per stone. OILS.—The imports of Fish Oils are upon an enlarged scale, whilst former rates are Rot supported, ex porters and home consumers not having shown much desire to do business since this day week. Southern is less required, and must be called rather cheaper, whilst few sales have been made in the private market. At auction 103 tuns were sold. Cod has been dealt in wtth caution. For Sperm the market has a dull aspect, and as there is a plentiful supply, prices continue to recede. The best British Oil cannot be quoted above 781. per tun. In the value of Linseed Oil we have little variation to make known, but the home demand has become limited, and few export orders have been completed. Rapeseed Oil has been dealt in with caution, and prices keep upon the decline. For Palm prices do not improve on ac count of heavy arrivals. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met at Five o'clock. PAYMENT OF DEBTS BILL. The Payment of Debts out of Real Estate Bill passed through Committee. SEDUCTION BILL. The Bishop of OXFORD moved the third reading o the Seduction of Females Bill. Lord BROUGHAM objected to the Bill as going much further than was intended—much further than the Bill which had been sent up from the House of Commons two sessions since. The Earl of MOUNTCASHEL supported the mea: sure. Lord DENMAN thought that the measure was not calculated to carry out the object intended, but would become merely a means of enabling persons to extort money. The law at present v.as sufficient to punish persons guilty of those crimes which this Bill sought to punish. _ _ _ Lord CAMPBELL despaired of their Lordships be. ing able to frame any Bill which would remedy the evil (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. ENCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Sir JOHN WALSH opposed the Bill, hflieving that the House or a Committee of it was not the proper tribunal for settling the question. Ile admitted it was desirable to facilitate the sale of encumbered estates — (Hear, hear)—but as this Bill would constitute a very serious invasion of the rights of individuals, and open a door for the admission of fraud, he felt it his duty to oppose it. After the stringent measures they had passed of late, with respect to land in Ireland, it was most unjust now to bring forward a measure which would have the effect of wresting property from the hands of many of the land lords of Ireland. It would have the effect of destroying the stability of investments in Ireland, and prevent the increase of that trade which they were so desirous to awaken. Mr. B.' OSBORNE said, the speech of the Ho nourable Gentleman was an able and excellent one if the interests of the mortgaged proprietors of Ireland were merely to be considered ; but if the vast interests of the commonwealth were to be weighed, his speech was one-sided in the highest degree. The Government had, he thought, acted most fairly and with the best motives in bringing in this measure. To show the necessity of such a measure, he might state that the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Sadlier) was the real owner of several estates in his (Mr. Osborne's) neighbourhood, though he had not the credit of being so. He complained that so much of the time of the House was occupied in the discussion of Irish measures, which ended, after all in nothing.— (Hear, hear.) For instance, this very Bill had been mentioned in three Queen's speeches, and yet it had been put off from time to time, and its principles had been materially altered from those in which it was in troduced: it was like a new Bill tacked upon the end of the old one, and he feared if it were passed in this House it would not receive the sanction of the House of Lords; yet he was glad to accept it as far as it went. He ob jected to the references named by the Bill to the Court of Chancery in Ireland. All who knew the chicanery and delay of that office, the vast amount of business that it had to discharge, must be dissatisfied with this principle.—(Hear, hear.) Therefore, however much they might object to the appointment of Commis sioners, he considered that the institution of such a body would tend much to facilitate the sale of en cumbered estates.—(Cries of "Hear.") Their great object should be to make land cheap. Nov he bad ob tained the opinion of two eminent lawyers on the Bill, and they agreed in stating that this Bill would not tend in that direction.—(Hear.) Unless they lessened the stamp duties necessary on the transfer of es tates, great reluctance would continue to exist on the part of many to try property. Great good would accrue if landlords were allowed to sell their estates in small portions. The landlords of Ireland were not worse than those of England, but their position prevented them from doing all they wished. The number of persons interested in property in that country were so numerous that no valuable improvements could be accom pli s hed.---(Hear, hear.) The state of Ireland was most unhealthy, and the condition of the land had more to do with the evil than anything else. Why it appeared that the money paid out of the Court of Chan cery in Ireland for improvements was only ss. 4d.per cent., whilst the residue was devoted to the support of minors, lunatics, and others, who devoted no attention to the land from which they derived it. And then the receivers were selected not so much from their knowledge of how to manage an estate as from their ability to drain the pockets of the tenants. He cited the case of " O'Sul livan v. O'Sullivan," to show that 600 tenants had died on an estate and been buried in a hill, in consequence of not being afforded the necessary releif out of the Court of Chancery. The estate in consequence fell into an unlucrative state. The proximate cause of the murder of Major Mahon and others arose out of estates then lying in the hands of the Court of Chancery. There should be a registration office in Ireland as in Belgium. Unless they placed the possession of the land in Ireland upon a better footing than at present, anarchy would be the result, and the property they possessed would be destroyed. He quoted the cases of Spain, Norway, and France to show that great advantage would accrue from the subdivision of the land into small farms, and the creation in consequence of a small class of farmers, no matter of what religion. The value of land in Ireland would be thus increased— (Hear)—and the crop also. Irish landlords owed a great debt of gratitude to the Solicitor-General for bringing in this Bill, which would receive his warm support.--(Hear.) Mr. HERBERT should support the Bill, as he be. lieved the fair and reasonable rights of the landlords of Ireland would be protected by it. If they did not take advantage of this Bill, he believed the time would come when they would have no rights to protect. Mr. F. O'CONNOR tendered his thanks to the Solici tor-General for the alterations ho had introduced into the Bill since it had been brought down from the House of Lords. It would be a happy thing for Ireland if there were not a solicitor in any part of that country. — (A laugh.) He condemned the Irish landowners for coining to that House for stringent measures, when those measures might have been rendered quite unnecessary by the proper discharge of their duties.—(Hear, hear.) He was glad, however, that during the present session one measure, at least, had been introduced which was calculated to ameliorate the condition of that country. Mr. S. CRAWFORD supported the motion for going into Committee. He approved of the principles of the Bill,:but he objected to some of the details. Sir GEORGE GREY said if the discussion came to a conclusion at tho present sitting, he should propose that the House should go into Committee on the Bill on Thursday next at twelve o'clock. Mr. CALLAGHAN opposed the Bill, which he said had created a great deal of surprise and dissatisfaction in Ireland. Colonel DUNNE opposed the Bill. It was per fectly void in principle, and bad not the approval of the highest legal authorities either in this country or in Ireland. It was a curious and singular circum stance that the Attorney-General had been absent during the whole of the discussion upon this Bill. That discussion had been of the utmost importance, for in the first place it had shown the imperfect state of the exist ing law, and in the next it had shown that the Bill, in stead of amending the law, was calculated to increase the difficulties which at present attended its operation. There was no country in Europe to which the Bill was less ap plicable than Ireland. If it were passed it would have to be administered and carried out by lawyers, and would thereefore neither facilitate the transfer of property nor cheapen the process by which that transfer could be effected. The amendment proposed by Bir Lucius O'Brien was then withdrawn, and the House went into Committee pro forma upon the Bill, Mr. Bernal in the chair. The preamble was postponed, the Chairman reported progress, and then obtained leave to sit again on Thursday. CORN MARKETS (IRELAND) BILL. The Corn Markets (Ireland) Bill then went through Committee. The House then adjourned till Half-past Five o'clock. The SFEAm , :tt reamed the Chair at llalf•pa.t Five. Lord D. STEWART presented a petition in favour of Parliamentary reform. Lord DUNCAN presented a petition from Aberdeen to the same effect, and also praying for a reduction in the national expenditure. Mr. O'BitIEN presented a petition from Middlesex in favour of vote by ballot. THE RAJA OF SATTARA. Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON then rose to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice with respect to the case of the late Raja of Sat tara, and to move for a Select Committee to inquire into the conduct of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Ovens (of the Bombay Army), while British Political Resident at the Court of Sattara; and into the pro ceedings of the Bombay Government, and the Court of Directors of the East India Company, in re lation to certain charges preferred against that officer. The Honourable Member observed, that he was anxious to merit the indulgence which he ventured earnestly and respectfully to solicit at the hands of the House, by proceeding at once, as briefly as possible, to state the reasons which induced him to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice. He (Mr. Thompson) wished, at the outset, to disclaim any personal ill-feeling towards the Gallant Officer whose conduct was the subject of the proposed inquiry. His private character was, as far as ho (Mr. Thompson) knew, unreproached, and free from suspicion. He had received no injury at his hands, nor did he (Mr. Thompson) believe that that gentleman had ever meditated any towards him. He had no one cause for individual resentment against that officer, nor was he conscious of cherishing any sentiment ap proaching to personal animosity. It was as a public man, and a servant of the State, that he had then to do with Colonel Ovens. It was on public grounds, and on public grounds solely, that he referred to him in the Parliament of Great Britain, and deemed it his duty to impeach certain of the acts done by that officer in his official and responsible cha racter. But it was not simply the conduct of Colonel Ovens that he (Mr. Thompson) was there to arraign; still less was it upon Colonel Ovens exclusively, or even as the principal offender, that he thought the censure of that House and of the country ought to fall, and would fall if the inquiry sought was granted. Through Colonel Ovens a higher and more important duty was then endeavoured to be discharged, namely, that of arraigning the conduct of those to whom that officer was, and still is, immediately amenable—whose commission h e h a d long held, by whose orders he was placed at Sattara, and by whom his conduct had been repeatedly sanctioned, approved, and rewarded. Nor was it merely to obtain an inquiry into the acts of those under whom Colonel Ovens had served, that the present motion was brought forward ; although the conduct of the East India Company, and her Majesty's Government, in the administration of the affairs of a vast empire like that of India, was, of necessity, a subject of the highest importance ; but it was because that conduct was inse parably linked in the present case with the melancholy fate of a distinguished Indian sovereign, with the observ e, ance or breach of a solemn treaty, and with the disposal at the present time of a throne without an occupant, a ' principality without a ruler, and a numerous people with outist prince; and, further, because that conduct was con nected with whatever is valuable to the British name and character in India, with the principles of national honour and good faith, and with the mainte nance of that opinion in the minds of the people and princes of the State, which could alone constitute a lasting foundation for British dominion in that distant part of the world. It was due, however, to his (Mr. Thompson's) own feelings that he should state that he had long cherished the hope of being relieved from the necessity of undertaking so painful a duty as that which he was then endeavouring to dis charge. That necessity be fondly trusted would have been removed, by a reconsideration, on the part of the Indian Government in this country, of the decision now fully admitted to have been prematurely arrived at, in the case of the late deposed Baja of Sattara. Iu common with many gentlemen, whose judgments were far more entitled to respect than his own, he had* always felt convinced that a reconsideration of the case of the Raja of Sattara—due weight being given to all the facts which had been disclosed subsequently to that Prince's deposal—would not fail to issue in the reversal of the heavy sentence carried into execution at ainst the accused. The hand of death having recently re moved both the Prince deposed in 1839 and the one subsequently exalted in his place, the hope to which he (Mr. Thompson) had referred, obtained fresh vigour, from the belief that as the Raja had left an adopted son who, besides the circumstance of his adop tion, stood next in succession to the vacant throne, as the nearest in lineal descent; and as no politi cal or other impediment existed to render it diffi cult or inexpedient to declare that person the Raja of Sattara, that therefore justice would be done, as far as the present state of the case admitted, by the acknowledgment of the rightful heir, the re storation of the deposed Raja's family to their native country, and the preservation of the territory of Sattara to the family of Sevajee, in accordance with the express terms of the treaty of 1819. That hope had, however, been considerably weakened by the in ability of the friends of the Raja's cause to obtain, either from the Court of Directors, during two meetings at the India House, or from her Majesty's Mi n i s t er a t the head of the Board of Control, any assurance of an intention to recognise the claim of the individual who, according to Hindoo law, stood towards the deposed. Raja in a relationship as near and as sacred as that of a child born of his own body ; and they had even failed to obtain so much as an intimation of the intention of those authorities to consider favourably the claims to which reference had been made. The treatment, too, which that Prince had received from the agent of the Governor-General at Benares, had, so far from furnishing any grounds of en couragement, been of a nature to induce his friends to believe that the supreme authority in India was not favourable to the recognition of the rights of the adopted son. And there it would be necessary that he (Mr. Thompson) should distinctly connect the inquiry which was sought by the present motion with the future fate of the surviving members of the de ceased's Raja's family, and the disposal of the titles and territory which that Prince for so many years pos sessed. Within the last few days it had been asserted, that the Raja being still held to be guilty of the acts charged against him, was, there fore, incompetent to bequeath any political right to his heir, and that consequently the adoption he had made was null and vaid, so far as constituting any ground for recognizing his heir. It became, therefore, necessary to revive the question of the guilt or inno cence of Purtaub Sheen, so that by placing that Prince in the position, as respects his character, which he occupied prior to the charges brought against him they might give validity to the Act by which he nominated as his successor on the throne the youth whom they were anxious to see taken into alliance with the British Government. The inquiry which he (Mr. Thompson) asked for, would, he believed, fully answer that end, and be resulting in the entire vin dication of the late Raja's character, remove every doubt respecting the right and title of his living son to succeed to the state and dominion of which his father was, as he (Mr. Thompson) firmly believed, unjustly deprived. (LEFT SPEAKING.) THE CHARTIST TRIALS CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Continued from our Third Edition of last night.) SENTENCES ON THE PRISONERS. During the interval of the adjournment, the Court became considerably crowded, and the utmost interest appeared to be manifested to hear the sentences to be passed on the prisoners. The Lord Chief Justice Wilde entered the court at five minutes before seven o'clock,• when the prisoners Jones, Fussell, Vernon, Williams, Sharpe, and Looney were placed at the bar, when The CHIEF JUSTICE, addressing them, said they had all been severally convicted of misdemeanour, some of them for sedition, others for attending an unlawful meet ing and sedition; and Williams had, in addition, been convicted of riot; but in that case, as the person who was tried with him for an offence arising out of the same transaction, and he was acquitted of the riot, which probably would have been the case with him if he had not pleaded guilty, the Attorney-General had requested that judgment might not be passed upon the count charging him with riot. The offences of the whole of them partook of one common character. Under pre tence of exercising the most valuable right that an Englishman could possess, that of public discussion, they had made it a pretext for uttering seditious and inflammatory speeches, for the purpose of exciting dis afection in the minds of their hearers, and stirring them up to oppose the authorities of. the country, and they would find upon referring to the circumstances of each particular meeting, that at no one of them was any real or supposed grievance pointed out, and the only object appeared to be to assail the Govern ment and the authorities of the country with violent and inflammatory epithets and abuse. They had by these proceedings put in jeopardy the valuable right and privilege of holding public meetings, for, if they were allowed to be made the means of exciting the people to revolution, it was quite evident that pub lic meetings must be done away with. It could not be borne that large numbers of people, many of whom were probably suffering distress and privation, should be brought together, and that they should be told by per sons like the defendants, that they were entitled to share in the wealth of the country, and that their interest would be advanced by overthrowing the Government of the country, for that was evidently the object and effect of all the addresses that had formed the subject of pro secution. They must all be well aware of the nature and tendeney of what they did ; and there could be no doubt that their object ryas to inspire terror and alarm. The meetings were, evidently, net convened for an honest purpose. They were continually im puting to the Government that it was the cause of all the misery in the country, and charging it with some abominable act, the nature of which was never stated, the object evidently being to excite and stir up the multitudes to overturn it, possibly with the expecta tion, entertained by some of them, that the power would be transferred to their own hands, and God only knew how they would have exercised that power. The Learned Judge then briefly alluded to some of the facts, and said that the circumstance of several thousand excited men be ing suddenly marched about the streets of the metropolis at midnight was calculated naturally to excite the utmost terror and alarm, and it was quite clear that such things could not be permitted. The public mischief that had been done was very great, but it might have been much greater, and it was highly important that the law had been supported, and that it wilt? now very w:Il under stood. He believed that they all know well that they were offending against the law. One of them had not scrupled to recommend the horrible expedient of private assassination.—(Fussell here exclaimed, " I deny it.")—lt was useless to deny it. The witnesses had deposed to the fact, and the jury had given their opinion. The speeches of some of the others were equally '.bad: one of them talked of using steel pens dipped in red ink, and another had deliberately recom mended the murder of the poliL e. They all appeared to be clever, shrewd men, and perfectly conscious of what they were doing; and there did not appear to be any ground for supposing that they were in distress, or that their circumstances had any share in inducing them to adopt these proceedings. They had all been defended most zealously and ably, and they must admit that their several cases had been fairly left to the jury; and after a very careful consideration, the jury had declared them guilty. He had himself referred to different authorities with a view to guide him as to the punishment that ought to be pronounced. Sedition had seldom risen to the height it had in their case, but it had al ways been punished very heavily ; and even in cases where only a single sentence had been proved, the sentence bad been very severe. He wished his duty would allow him to look at their cases in a favour able light; but he must confess that he saw no pallia tion for their offence. When he recollected the nature of that offence, its probable result, and that they were probably only deterred from exciting some desperate outbreak by the zeal and energy with which their pro ceedings were met by the Government and the respect able classes of the community, he felt that the public safety and a warning to others required him to pass a severe sentence. The Learned Judge then passed sen tence upon Fussell, whom he ordered to be imprisoned upon the charge of sedition for two years, and for the unlawful assembly for three months; and he was, in ad dition, ordered to enter into his own recognizance in 100 1 ., with two sureties in 501. each to keep the peace for five years. Fussell, before he was removed begged to be allowed to say a few words, and he then asserted in the most solemn manner, that he never made use of the expres sion attributed to him, recommending private assassina tion. He said he was an Englishman, and had the feelings of an Englishman, and should be ashamed of such a diabolical expedient. The Learned JUDCrE told him that such a denial would have no effect. The jury had beard the evidence, and had decided the question, and he was bound to act upon their verdict. Williams was the next sentenced. Before judgment was passed he addressed the Court, and said that he was a hard-working man, and was engaged for twenty hours out of the twenty-four for the wretched pittance of six teen shillings a week. He considered he had a right to endeavour to better his condition, and this was his only object. He then went on to deny that Fussell had made use of the recommendation to commit private assassina tion, and he said if he had heard him du so, be would hare thrown him out of the waggon. Chief Justice WILDS then addressed him, and said he had taken a very prominent part in the meeting, and had called on the pepple to fall inn, and he had marched them about the town, causing, no doubt, great terror and alarm. The sentence upon him was two years' impri sonment, on the first count, one week on the second, and that he also should find sureties in the same amount as Fussell to keep the peace for three years. Sharpe was then sentenced to two years for sedition, three months for the unlawful assembly, and find the same amount of sureties as the others to keep the peace for three years. Vernon was next called forward. Before he was sentenced he declared he had ❑othing to do with the meeting in Clerkenwell-green, and was merely there by accident, and he merely got into the van to escape the pressure of the crowd. He also said that he afterwards merely followed the crowd from curiosity, es it was on his road home. He admitted that he was a Chartist, and he said he was conscientiously of opinion that the Charter would benefit the labouring classes, and enable them to subsist by their labour. The Learned JUDGE told him that all these circum stances had been brought to the attention of the jury, and they had come to the conclusion that he was guilty, and he had now only to pass sentence, which was, that he be imprisoned for two years, and find the same sure ties as the others to keep the peace for three years. Vernon inquired in what prison they were to be con fined ? The CHIEF JUSTICE said, in the New House of Cor• rection for Middlesex. The defendant wished to know whether they were not to be treated like human beings. Since they had been in gaol they had been compelled to tear their meat to pieces with their teeth, and to endeavour to get the peel from the potatoes, covered with grease, in the same manner. The Learned JUDGE said, he had nothing to do with the regulations of the gaol, but th e y mu s t of co u rse abide by them, whatever they were. Looney was then called up. He also addressed the Court, and said they had called him an Irishman on Saturday. lie told them now that he was an Irishman, and, more than that, he would tell the Attorney-General that he was so pressed with the manner in which he and his Government treated his country, that they might do what they liked with him. lle was sentenced to two years' imprisonment upon the count for sedition, two months for the unlawful as sembly, and to find the same amount of sureties as the last defendant to keep the peace for two years. When the sentence was passed Looney laughed, and said, " Very well, that will do." Jones was then brought forward. He bad evidently made up his mind to give a political address, and be commenced by asking permission to make a few obser vations to the Court. The CHIEF JUSTIOE told him that, if he could direct his attention to any circumstances that might tend to in duce him to review the decision he had come to, he would willingly listen to him, but he must confine him self to that point. The defendant then pro cee d e d t o ma k e a l ong state ment of his politi ca l v i ews , d ec l ar i ng t h at he was a Chartist from conviction, that the Charter was the only thing that would save the country, and relieve the middle classes from the burdens under which they laboured. He was going on at great length, when he was stopped by The CHIEF JUSTICE, who said he did not sit there to discuss political questions with him. If he could suggest anything likely to induce him to re-consider his decision, he would willingly listen to him, but it was useless for him to enter into matters that were totally irrelevan t . The Learned Judge then sentenced him to be impri soned for two years, to find two sureties in 1501. each, and to enter into his own recognizance of 2004 to keep the peace for five years. When the sentence was pronounced, Jones addressed the Court, and said, "I w i s h y ou r Lordship good night, and may you sleep with the motto of the Charter round your neck and no surrender." This closed the business of the Session, and the Court then adjourned to Monday, August 21. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 10. SUGAR DUTIES. The House then went into Committee on the sugar duties. _ -- Mr. HUME repeated that it was the duty of the House not to make any alteration in the existing sugar duties, unless the House were satisfied that the change would improve the colonies. The West Indies had never had an opportunity of testing the experiment of using free labour, and he must, therefore, protest against this being a question of free trade. This was a question of justice to the colonies, and if they hoped ever to see the colo nies prospering again, they must allow the colonies to legislate for themselves, and not leave them under the management of the Colonial -office. The colonies were placed in their present deplorable condition through the misconduct of the Colonial -office, and the misconduct of the House, and the only reparation they could make was to place the colonies under such a free and fair system as would enable free labour to compete with slave labour. All he asked, therefore, of the House was to put the colonies in a condition to compete with slave labour. He was convinced that the Act of 1846, as proposed to be continued by the Noble Lord, would not have that effect. He thought it would be better to leave the Act as it was, or give to those interested i❑ the colonies suf ficient time to regain confidence. He was of opinion that if free labour was properly dealt with it would be able to compete with slave labour in any part of the world. The colonies, he considered, had been grievously used. He read a memorial of the Assembly of Jamaica, agreed to the 7th of June, complaining of the mismanagement of the Colonial-office, to show that this was so. The colonies would never prosper until they left them to con duct their own affairs, and to employ free instead of slave labour. Lord G. BENTINCK, who entered the House while the Hon. Member for Montrose was addressing the Com mittee, proceeded to observe that the question for con sideration then was, not whether they should afford ad ditional protection and some relief to the West India Colonies and the sugar-planting interest, but what would be the degree and amount of that relief. They were, in point of fact, to decide whether the Act of 1846 was to be abandoned or abided by. Only thirty Members of the House of Commons could be found last week to maintain that Act. The question for decision was which of all the propositions made to the Committee was most worthy of attention. With respect to the amendment of the Hon. Member for Leominster, he was bound to say it was a proposal that he very little appro ve d o f , b ut at the same time the question which he had t o deter mine wa s, whether in the main it was not better than the proposition of her Majesty's Government. He found that the sum total of protection offered by the Hon. Member for Leominster, if the period of six years be taken, amounted to 453., or ab out 7 s. 7 d . a year. He would, therefore, give a preference to the amend ment before the House, rather than take the Government measure as it . stood, consid er i ng t h at i t would afford a greater relief to the suffering parties. But, on giving his preference to the amendment, he felt it his duty, in justice to the West I n di a i nterests, to the interests of the Mauritius, and the other great interests it would affect, to state the reasons which induced him to do so. The Government measure would not give satisfaction to the West India, the East India, or the Mauritian interest, and it would be very far from giving satisfaction to the Members of th e C omm i ttee appo i nted b y that House to deliberate upon the West Indian question, and who had spent so much time and labour in doing so.—(Hear, hear.) It had not received the sanction of those great and influential interests who had assembled in London in May last; and in Liverpool in the month following; neither had it received the sanction of the East India Company. It certainly, therefore, militated much against the measure, that it had been condemned by all these interests, and even, although the reso lutions of the Committee did not go all the length 1 , of what the West Indian and Mauritian interests required, yet they would have received e, measure founded on them far preferable to that of the Govern ment. It might be said that the proposal of th, Com mittee had not the sanction of the interests of the Mau ritius or West Indies, bet while they, perhaps, has. not the direct sanction of those interests, yet the meeting of merchants held in Liverpool, the largest held there Or some years past—since 1841, he believed—had decided by a large majority in favour of a differential duty of 10s. —(Hear.) So favourable was that meeting to the plan of the Cornmittee,that notwithstanding all the discussion which had taken place, and the variety of opinions which existed on the subject—notwithstanding the efforts made by the tree-trade party, who sent down the Honourable Member for Wolver hampton (Mr. Villiers) to represent them and ad vocate their interests at that meeting, ao far as maintain ing the ..e.ct of 1846 was concerned—notwithstanding all these effects, the proposal of Sir Thomas Birch, which was one of a differential duty of 10e, the same as that of the Committee, was agreed to almost unanimously. only six hands being held up against it.—(Hear, hear.) That was the statement made in the public papers. Mr. THORNELY—That is a mis-statement. I know it to be so. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK—WeII, it was the one he found in the papers which reported the proceedings of the meeting.—(Hear, hear.) Then, again, the East India Company, at the meeting they held upon the subject, had decided, without one dissentient, in favour of a ten shilling differential duty. They had also got late—but better late than never —the opinion of Sir Charles Grey, the Governor of Jamaica, who said that he was of opinion, unless there was an additional duty of 2d. per lb. imposed upon foreign, and of ld. per lb. imposed upon colonial sugar, the colonists could not carry on their operations; while they had presented to the House the other night a memorial from the Mau ritius, where it was stated that the imposition of a duty of 9s. 4d. on colonial, and 20s. on foreign sugar, was the only measure of relief which would be of any use there. All these, then, coincided with the Committee, and, look, where he would, he found the same unanimity as to the plan the Committee had proposed, and he was surprised that any Government attempting to legislate on the affairs of Jamaica could reject such evidence, and pro pose a measure diametrically opposed to it. As regards the opinions entertained in Jamaica, the Noble Lord here referred to statements in the Jamaica Times of the 29th of May and the Ist of June last. In the first of these statements a suspicion was thrown out that a 10e differential duty would, if proposed by the Government, be indignantly rejected by the Colonies; but in the one of the Ist of June, three days after, some circumstances had conic to the knowledge of the conductors of that paper which had induced them to change their minds; and it was then stated that while the Bill of 1846 was the cause of all the ruin which had befallen the planters yet that from the rains which had of late fallen, and which would be a means of insuring an abundant crop, a differential duty of 10s., if adopted, would effect much good, and under it Jamaica might have a chance of re gaining some of its former prosperity.—(Hear.) So that they had not only the opinion of the Governor-General of Jamaica, but also of a paper which was said to repre sent the interests of the planters, that the Committee had fallen on the proper plan for the amelioration of that colony. Such being the case, it was with regret he had seen that Government had introduced such a mea sure as the present. It had been his intention to answer some of the arguments which had been adduced in the course of the discussion, and he should single out, in the first place, that of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Manchester (Mr. M. Gibson). That Right Hon. Gentlemen used the argument—certainly a novel one—that as the country had received but little benefit from the colonies, they were not bound to aid them other than they had done. He said that the produce. of the colonies brought to this country did not give so much profit to the trade of this country as would warrant a further advance, and that taking the average value Of that produce sent to this country from them at three millions a year, it was not equal, on a ten per cent. profit, to compensate for the sum givers to them of up' wards of fifteen millions sterling at five per cent. in' terest. In other words, that the five per cent. interest on that sum was more than all the sums received in this country of profit on these proceeds. Now, while he ad mitted that argument to be most ingenious, it was one which he thought would not he held good in that House, nor yet even by the Right Hon. Gentleman himself, for no one engaged in trade would be willing to admit that their property interested in it was not of more than ten per cent. value. If the Right Hon. Gentleman himself had property employed in a mill to the amount of from fifty to sixty thousand pounds, and considered the elc pense and the burdens of one kind or other attending it, he doubted much whether the Right Hon. Gentleman would consider an annual value of ten per cent. sufficient remuneration. But they must show what the capital employed in the West Indies was. Upon that subject several Committees had sat, and some of thew, he believed, had estimated it as high as 130,000,000 1 • sterling; but he should bo able to show, from documents he had in his possession, what the produce Of the West Indies actually were, and from that they would be able to find out the profits arising from there. The Noble Lord here referred to certain returns of Mr. Marshall, which be said were worthy of all credit, 0 that gentleman had been well rewarded for them by Go vernment.—(Hear, hear.) These referred to 1814, when the cost of the production of sugar was 161. per ton, and when the cost of the production of the quantity sent to this country would have amounted to 2.914,240/, and from these he s! - ., wed that the amount of profit realised from the sugar imported into this country in that year, would amount to 6,770,0001., which, at twenty years purchase, would represent a capital of 1 35,411,4304 ge might, however, be told that 1814 was a period of protect' tion; but so far from protection being the cause of that prosperity, it was the fact that so long as they did 1 10 $ meddle with Jamaica, so long as they allowed the coloniea to manage their own affairs, so long they flourished and even at that time they not only supplied this country with sugar, but they exported a considerable amount to foreign markets. The returns did not show the duty 00 foreign sugar in 1814, in which year the duty on colonial sugar was 595. 10d. In 1815 it was on colonial sugar 735. 4d., and on Havana sugars 89s. 6d. In 1816, on CO: lonial sugar it was 61s. 10d., and on Havana 745. 2J That, therefore, showed that at that time protection was a dead letter, and that it would still have continued 0 had the British West Indies been left to obtain slaves where they best could, and to treat with all other, States. He then referred t o t h e years 1827, 28, and 29, when the average price of colonial sugar Neal 30s. 2 4 d. per cwt., and that of Havana, 31s, 7 d, But , then, in 1830, they took from the British planter sit hours a day of labour, while the foreign grown sugar was not subjected t o th e same diminution, and, in such circumstances, how could the one compete with the other ? But, even after all that, the British planter weathered the storm ; and even up to 1833 the British planter successfully competed and defied the foreigner in the market. He also referred to those three years to show, that from the state of matters their a sum of 5,506,5311. could be realised from the produce of those islands, and which would represent a capital of 111,210,620/. Then, in 1830, the gross value of sugar imported into this country was four millions eight hundred and ninety thousand seven bun' dred and eighty-six pounds, and which, after the cos; of production, freight, insurance, and brokerage, would have left an annual profit of 2,270,0001., which, e t twenty years' purchas e , wou ld re p resent a capita l 0 f something better than forty millions sterling. He carne then to 1847. In that year the quantity of sugar ins' ported into this country was one hundred and fifty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty-seven tone. The coil of manufacture under free labour was raised to 211. 5t per ton, which would amount on the quantity imported to 3,390,068/., while the freight to England wag 638,2584, and, including the amount allowed for surance and brokerage, the whole cost of the mane' facture of this quantity was 4,506,935/. ; of that sugar 129,131 tons was sold for 3,144,3231. on the sth Jol; ary last ; the balance of 30,427 tons was sold for 2 2 ' 15s. per ton, and on the whole produce of the year there was a loss of 290,214/., without any c harge for interest upon the capital employed in the manufac" ture of the sugar, or any allowance for interest due to mortgagees.—(Hear, hear.) He thought that state' ment difficult to answer, and impossible to gainsay. ge could not understand how it could be maintained the; the British West Indies and the Mauritius had obtained anything like compensation, and yet it was the inten" tion of the British Parliament, that they were to obtaic compensation. That was in the very preamble of the Bill, in which it was stated there shall be a reasonable compensation to the owners of slaves, for being e e pred of their services. —(Hear, hear.) But the Hon. M e mber for Manchester contended, that the sixteen million° paid to them, and the protection of fifteen shillings ° cwt., which they had subsequently enjoyed for their sugar for 14 years, was an ample compensation. Bat the enhanced cost of producing sugar by free labour , amounting to 3,390,000/., in one year completely ab sorbed all the protection which had been granted by Par' liament. But he contended that it was an honourable ue: derstanding, that the British colonies should be allowed the enjoyment of the British market. Why, was iG possible for a man who remembered the debates in that House, or who recollected the feeling out of doors, t° doubt that fact? That was the very ground on which Lord Stanley, who brought the measure in, mainly da' fended it; and surely he was justified in taking the words of the representative of the Government of that day as the best interpretation of the views by which they were actuated in introducing it.—(Hear, hear) Then, again, Lord Glenelg, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, had, in a circular addressed to all the colonies, and dated the 12th of October, 1835, most indignantly repudiated the intention of withdrawing protection, and, in effect, insinuated that the man who made such a statement, or who doubted the good faith of the British Parliament, was only fit for a lunatic asylum.—(Hear, hear.) But, in despite of these state ments, changes bad been made injurious to the colonies immediately afterwards, and that, too, when it had beer' shown by the Hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr' Godson),that of the 20,000,0001. to be distributed a monf the various islands, there was still u p war d s o f 3,000, 000 owing to them. But the Hon. Member for Manchester (Mr. Bright) who, he regretted, was not in his placer had told the Committee that there was distress in other places than the West Indies, and his Right Hon, Col' league (Mr. M. Gibson) had added, that the loss of the cotton trade alone last year equalled the value of the whole of the produce of the West Indies, and that the manufacturers were as well entitled to compensation o °. the British colonists, though they did not come to the; House and ask it. Why, if Parliament had deprive d them of their machinery they would then have been et 3", titled to come to that House, but as m a tt ers stoo d, h e did not know on what ground they could now come to Par' liament and ask pecuniary comp ensat i on . H e regre tted the state of the manufacturing districts as much as ant one, and he was in a po s iti on to s h ow that i t was tb effect of the recoil from the injury inflicted by the Act , 1846 upon the trade of th e B r i t i s h West Indies.—(Hear') That Act was passed under the influence of humal3" I and said our of w de pri mach Bria facto It we of th MAUL say, If th they persc facto: B C:S p ll s a , tory, dispu flies