The Sun. — London, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

Would an ..., i , Yand°neuseelnens i mmens e He, for e l r i . e e ; stenhdurtdheant to o hee u - s w ? ould net be an would say that if such was to be the future p of the country, he would be no party to tax the p - e o ople . " Zlgland to maintain colonies, which Ministers by their to had ruined, destroyed, and rendered i Useless to them.-(Elear, hear.) To show that t atie.co. not Mere idle d eclamation, but that it was a f I ' reso- Which obtained to a great extent, he would read a . _ ittti en come to by the West India Association of e L ‘ i l v , e e . st - Pool, in which they said it was impossible for the and India colenies to continue the production of . sugar.. and coffee on terms of equal competition with foreie,nere u" 'eat there Was no course left for the West India interest . pikretsetnnt might a ti P tl Peal to the Crown to release them from their profitable allegiance, in order that they attach themselves to some other country thatl would s extend to them the protection of a parent 'sta. state. interest i felt tibelPtorthtttenyt, as showing that the West india might be driven to seek &em u „tates teat protection which was so cruelly tI 11 d e e n U i e n d i f e t o d - a - " ellt by England. He was anxious that the h p e e e ( f T e l e e t( o )f f :','neland should fairly understand whet re tirhlese measures as regarded the colonies u ? s li t e b l f u,e if then haveeY supported the 6G overnment in them they would hilt : themselves alone to blame. as to what must be the effect on our shipping He would sno.pwp.inng 'lnterest. The Might Hoe. Gentleman, when he broughtower °Nerd these resolutions, admitted that the power ice greatness of the country ' depended on the mainten * e ine ° of her conamer ial marine: it followed, therefore,. hatany Measure Which was calculated to weaken 4. 4 L of the United States, would be injurious le_ enelniercial marin e of England . . anti os t s o tr u e s n i g ri th th en e ilitte Proportion as it was advantageous to our rivals. N„- what . e .': weeld take that admission as granted.. the ' .F. '.11 ,Y of compcompromisedprof: to England for this injury? Would .) And they had been A t . old that thatreltd..udemtiii)tn not be less than one million annually. artlegu_tb_ert.co.rrectness of that estimate,. for the sak f e th o e f le e l ti Ze telt was because he believed the interest o het t he even at shipowner was the interest of the . whole people, , was. prepared to maintain that interest,B how Wa e - t e h s .t of a million a year.-(Hear, hear: II ""'3 advantage of reduced freight to hear.) ii .Y ilt th e employment of foreign ships.-(Hear, we be obtained? been 43 , we gave employment to foreign ships, ) eisnl ae , They ' e ,oul c i no r our own ships.-(Chiere. 'uritish shi ps em P l oy foreign ships without Take the case of the Briti sh out of employment. throwing the 0,,.. .West Indies. He was ready to admit that teeest,e'leation-laws acted unfairly to the . colonial , in lieeed'she(Stinieterial cheers)-but that injurye,arh)e-bhe,r !be eel e a l been much exaggerated-(l.lear, h bad e,enlsts, feeling how unfairiy they . w . h h those wee eelltallY enough exaggerated the evil w h le British treated, West imll.iled on them.-(Hear, hear.) The . 1 : 4 lee e'ltiles Were supplied with lumber . to the ,exte.„'l,..t. ,eOO • American shlPil!g. I:1 1 4 r t, tone a year by meanseof heel ( „tee present lewe those ships cou a l i d i cease -"`"goes of' sugar to British ports, and Indian not wer e t a kin e ports(llence often obliged to leave Migh t Ltil balladt. If close laws wer t e he repe r a o l d ed ee , e th t e o y r .I] riti 3 h 40 in cargoes of sugar or other... t p a i g n , should asp Ports at a reduced rate of freigh e. And, ye tt , 6 4 that 50,000 tons of American shipP way,e there tow' b ta ke in cargoes for British Would be ne doubt that 50,000 te P n o s rt o s f ir A nt But that Would so t thus thrown out of emploe me this itish shipping 4 4 0 ,7 (4 .be the only evil. These ve h sse ß ls . ri w ti o s rate et , tlt:i° obtain return cargoes from the e ey would take uhldpoernts frelitta' eri return empty, and . .. tha t rti Et, ta' ler rate than Britts a le s ships, be thrown out of ebaentee more English shippi.ng would , v ' t) .Yrae t Alwyn, in seat ro4 n • Mr. the stet( m hat ent he had it followed his firm, evei eh h eld to Members of the House, tiae ot "0 been for many years conneestgefddatisthcpthseferoolml teeoLenuld at any time charter American II If)s, j' at a Ports to ealeutte at 41. 10s. a ton, shi n ". turf less than he would have to ptaiyoalof 'foreign lepl.uge and he added that the competition ~o'rhicT,hritwisahs frephl,ll th ous Est India and China trade 0 0 0 u t ld ot lo e le p r io tt;e . to e ti ' t " nr. British ships and throw them out compete with ti,311. That American shipping would carrying teeleeeesefully in the China and doubt "'blob we now had in our couldhan E de a :ther tr e adeota b ly e , i to o *ll,Ol. There was one trade, aid one 25 years with the tr "e had beea competing fairl f ° favour had been , show ratted States, and in no been the result . she"l to either party ; and what had . which far as England tts t°tal di-struction of that trade . as United States. ell eoecerned, and the triumph o the f the South Sea w h a l e _ keertrade he alluded to was N, 3'.---a trade requiring- much capita t l o , Ike, ea teen, and a trade calculated vfobrlemant d h e ea b e e rs of what had been the eane (h , f or the navy_ England had all the advantages o espial lied sailors ready at hand-yetOn the Ist of PlO -t rt ? In 182 the number of American ships em 'l,atie: Ivas U nder 90, the seamen, 2,9 s : had increased to (17elti, 1 846, the number of s ships in the sane r ! '4°o o ' n 7e number of officers and seamen to upwards of Pe ' ri e". Wel l , the number of British ..i ee y was in 1821, 290, kild °- , engaged in the whale- S t O l (4 seamen 11,900, Thus had we been 4461, and the seamen 2, 6 whereas ft 3 in o l . lB4B the vessels were If he was right in as- ly driven out of this trade.. 413 11 kt as he did, that by e rtl rttish vessels would be put out el t of employment, and this measure a certain number kaPican vessels s ub f stituted om m m their place; if it would ;e it i ra t t e ie a ri d e e fc r e ercial marne, and the decease of those who proposed it would 4 illstly, incurred the iraliguation of . the people of this he:let:Y. whose interests would be sacrificed, without the 1c et .,..0f any adequate remuneration.-(Hear.) b "• WILSON considered that the utnendmen n t 'I " W as the proper one to bring the whole Et, °Z, the liou- question and that question he looked upon .. _ e t r - bather we ' e prepared to carry out the principle let , Il lttre " ',trade tow:hrip-ping. To the theory of Adam ::mitt •T oPposed the experience of the last twenty Nrelltt "darn Smith, in treating of the 'irt4ded, that if the shipping could be burst. manned, Gob s ou e e be the ley or eaper in other countries, it question, freelyttn d e t ‘is h i , ,tilis to maintain its defences. If that were the h'dro's'uould be prepared to assent to the doctrine of - ‘ 1 1t , <1" : naith, .behatour political defences must be main• I riority. But Adat'Ll'L4 preference to our commercia_ s.up.e a le i namely, itll,et eeteu'tlth had overlooked a great print, It jill road ra de not only introduced cheaper P eommoditi a es . ttrter2.e, e;11i,,, but a larger and cheaper production t k ir 'lkti eoil "g.%4 increased power of . competition w ith ti ea of mntries. Surely if the partial free-trade mica , 4,, vph, kr. lluskisson had had that effect we . had_e . n e e 40 ;eerie te Mr.Hus i eee a ' as go on in the same direction. The 1 4 0e 4 as ion reality °n© of facts. In 1823 . . )n -'a e ) 41 Ord„ P d dangers arising kits . opt Pt° °sct the amelioration of the navigati! ektieeey iside r , to avert t he:difficulties an ' had been the ti° e c'tett:ellt 31h.1141111gWthhaetn fi n e d ask,w si o u n c l e d ?For several years ljete18`1"; g et l o t , 1 823 it bad been in a declining state. elhatedooe otantilB23 the amount of tonnage 1 1 6 4 e1a f tibillY declined from 2,623,000 0f t0 t1 27506,000 d until in It h 1 t wrene, 8 , 2 a it had gradually i r rease he ' ar ) IC ki , .., it hape:, i s t han 3,817,000,- _Hear, :ter our se._ 'e .L and that .4ipm,,[l .ua.t ill our strongest state of hear.) I,itvprso teeCtehge_treee Was in . a declining state, a 'd e Per oo " was a rapid increase, until ia 1846, t libt the nt.iar, IN, e ebe. h er than in 1823, he saw no reason t, •s of th, +li b. . t d 0 ' the ship•builders arid the ship- L4:' 4,,,,,,,T e,oentry to compete with foreigners.- , Il etv 141 tee.' Let the House see the difference d 'ess; . ,, Ie 14-21 nunaber of ships built then an e ta i ettel °4 of up ,1e22, 1 823, the years preceding . the ; e 4 r , - !'l in be l aw 2 , Mr. Husleessen, the ships built Leeeebett%ie tb-e4ulltia.ge to 7 4,000, 78,000, and 86,000; a' a rl ?te lb " 'tree years 1844, 1845, 1846, they ; o ; ti , "4,000, 203 000 and 223.000 tona-(Hear, ' l N'' . ;hip e e -ilat observe ' sou, ' that these did not include the e er lx ,"vtit eh we ' distinct and separa • te These iih. oa, , pe ot , , re i ll-e .'e oe ere that there had been no decline in lie; tele th e e e• nor the ers . povvners to sail vessels, Itle ti k 1, Le build 4, l e, he l p d thena in competition w . ith the cone tte'ratle•-were told that the reciprocity Acts of v'hi thei " le ted th E 1 . h h ing. In order Oe bt t qi e e 'ng ts a, pp t kr t ' ,the i e t ,he thought they ought to take the ftllete4,lfeeesettTlog.,prior- to those Acts and for some 1 8 ,, el l) , er shot en 1820 the British ships entered e 16 . 1 1.- , %lty e one countries with which we had treaties to th,N i4,l:4:tioutited in tonnage to 6,026, which , t Ilerl NI eeeed' to 1 1 9 9 000 tons. If we referrea ro 4l th, t e of -4 ,- , ttu.' o ver there i lue whole world it would_ _ n be . tee; of 4er fb €e Data been a large and rapid i to "Ne e 1. . lee Net shippinee in 1824, the . fi . ret ,kt , eet 'l/41SSon's 1 441t,,,!1/4 sh r 'ed 0 aw' the • f 3 000,000, k t All 4 ippiti,. utwards was upwards o ' amount of British 4 ^ it, ie, was 1,325,000. In 1846 the , _ foreign tea e i es ~,p t th "kt'l bad b a kkres ed to 3 3 27,000 or more than 100 !bp,l o ` ll k ie 000-:0t000f Gr eat . Britain had increased . to latdee Pee eetv _ _, •---(Cheers.) In 1826 the foreign thi,, ,- q h , 4 l 'eg 40 per cent. of the whole shllelecereag . torypitld' the ,046, notwithstanding the demand o . a );lael e e, e,el, to be;Atisratission of foreign grain, foreign l :he t . 4:7 41 per cent. of the whole. Th . e . r e e . eieieete I,lNies of regard to those countries withe had as hii'all i ' l l i tiiu tt t": 'eciproeity, or otherwise, e . e t . foN i P•bliiht dart °r by the sunnosttion that I,N,eeleePoes. e„ e rs or owners Were unable oeuelle „ r ,!rtiej e `". It Rasa had been said on tee to nssject . ot elett'rte"ktlttee for a Popular opinion that our colonies kee, i . a l te, ti e l t f ect ee e the purpose of securing a market NTill ant 'lee, j ;' , and a large trade for our coin eit otlY feets.ut,that was a fallacy .which could be ,to et. kr 411 1 820 the quantity of shipping 8 0,14 r o , t 4 was 1 549 00 -Of tht 746,000 I, t tit r .1,4 11 1:41i„, , , 0 tons. e. 4 liit e nlo ti , , and 80 3,000 to neutrals ountries. e• ; , hi., .41 trad, chiefly of the East Indies .. and 9o e:l:eresetr,leil;mtill_elcreased from 7 46,000 to 1,2,6,0 t me et L,rc., te ti,7 trade to neutral countries had theehtllo p, z , u2 s 30 0 to 2721,000 tons, being an in-. 'NO q c ,N, ou r cen t on our colonial trade, but of 240 INiollterbille trttde to neutral countries.-(Hear.) ,t ‘ tl e th e trade ,of this country could remove the I,tob,:ta ta ~- w ßieh the , Vileb7 ha g -live, colonies !deemed, by en -8 theie Y lumber ships from North Awe-- Si t ° ht,,,e coriktr,oduce to this country, a great bene- Vtetete, c elela e theuPon them ; and it the autnufac ),,tl voyar:eer'q out their goods by those ships, on lApti,f,4ett-I%itir. 4' o ' ll ' l f ! 4 cheaper rate than at present, a n ret e t ' het el eu e red not merely on the British ‘4llNle,Periciellt 400 .all theindustrious classes, 11,%4144111.,141ed . g ' 4 ll w ho ?Pon his efforts.(Cheers ) The i.. bete, I T the fl' ad last addressed the House had ,:'t e4 ll er e eri te, e.ealaWleich. the.pr9posed alterations eki_ la bie _ rats, isTee__ t.lmita shipping tellllrtwtr"tilti sheulefl'd (Me, " ila") . apprehendedeeantage ots ivpit..t .114 Icon to oa eootf greater advantage by elik,ete tr d e . ble /' cotton d could P be an i Y mported and el tal,leee3,i-s(llet rnanufacture and eons - umption in elot Ntl to ne ear war" }Telles he thought the facts "eilleietiaosely, ,tea suflicieut to establish the position 'l`.4llle.Diett le hlee ttt e there Was nothing in the free eer '4 to Bead." 14nd yet b t s tied t h, „o bees extended to the . n . a . - , se e rs, or , .kip.b4ol4 use to doubt that the British tr, I to Ihduee ,Ter was able to compete with 6 ivh i ~_ ce e, ine belief that the shipping inte ' V ' l liee L e Ire - ' u ld be A,eat i t • -• trad e . n exception to other riat .. I N to • PrInCIA2S had been applied. ' 7 If ho ad eaith's that to the na u'd Waown that free trade had ati- A mulated the shipowner and the ship-builder, and that competition acted upon them as it acted upon every ether class—if he had proved that free trade: had tended not to the diminution but the increase ot British ship ping, then he had proved that the national defences were maintained and ready to be so. He found that in the year 1820, the whole of the British merchant ships employed 130,000 men, while in 1846 the number ern 'loved under the new principle of action amounted to 230,000 men. And surely this large number of men from which strength might be drawn rendered the royal navy safer from want of hands in time of need. 'I hut, ho thought these facts must remove any doubts which might exist as to the alteration in the navigation-laws endangering the national defences.—(Hear, hear.) But there was another consideration which bad been very much overlooked in the course of this debate, and that was that since Mr. Huskisson had introduced his policy —a policy which had been followed by successive Go vernment:, and lastly carried into execution by the Right Hon. Baronet, the Member for Tamworth, in many articles of increased demand and consumption in this country, he (Mr. Wilson) asked if an increase had not taken place in foreign shipping, how it would have been possible to have brought to this country the increased quantities of the raw materials for ma nufacture which had been imported within the last twenty years? During that period the whole object and intention of legislation (as especially during the last seven years) had been to increase the quantity of the imports and exports. If that was the object, then it would have been necessary to increase the amount of British shipping ; and he contended that it would not have been well to divert, by high protec tion, capital to the shipping trade when capital was scarce for other purposes to which it could be better directed. In 1823 the quantity of sheep's wool brought into this country was 19,000,00016 s.; last year it was 62,000,0001b5. Of cotton wool, in 1823, there had been imported 169,000,0001b5. ; in 1847 it amounted to 473,000,0001b5. Of sugar the imports in 1823 were 210,000 tone.; in 1847 it was 410,000 tons ; while of wheat the importation in 1823 reached 449,000 qrs., while last year it was: 2,950,000 qrs. This showed the necessity for foreign ships to brine these raw materials to this country. If, however, the shipping interest of Great Britain could compete successfully with that of foreign nations in some respects, there were neutral countries in the latter had greater success. Ho had a return from Rio Janeiro, showing the number of ships entered from that port in 1845. They were 571 in num ber, and of those 84 were British ships. And where did they go to ? Not home, but with cargoes to all the foreign countries in the world, in open competition with the ships of Trieste, Prussia, and other nations. Only 20 came to the port of Liverpool, and the rest went to foreign ports. He was however sorry to find from ac counts he had received during the past week, that com plaints had been made against the carrying trade of this country. This had been referred to iu the consular returns quoted by his Right Hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade. Hisßight Hon. Friend'; statement on a former evening had been corroborated by a letter he (Mr. Wilson) had received from a highly respectable house at Rio Janeiro, dated the let ot April last, and stating that while foreign ships were getting freightat 508., 555., and 60s. for coffee, and though there were 21 English ships of twelve years standing, they were unable to get chartered in consequence of the character of their cap tains for carelessness, and for the bad manner in which they discharged their cargoes.—(Hear, hear, and cries of " No, no.") This letter was corroborated by a do cument which had been stuck up one day last week at Lloyd's, but which had been taken down by a member of the committee of Lloyd's. However, there now re n:ained the great question as to shipping, in which a great variety of opinions were entertained by gentle men of very high authority. Many thought that the principles of reciprocity first adopt by Mr. Huskisson should be the principle now to be followed. He differed from that opinion. It free trade was good to this country, it was well to make other nations adopt it. The Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Oxford (Mr. Gladstone), had admitted that, in 1844 and 1845, the then Government had dune all in their power to induce foreign countries to join them in acts of reci procity; but their experience of that effort would pre vent them adopting again that course of policy, for after long negotiations the efforts had proved futile. He, therefore, thought it was quite right to urge the adoption of the principles of free trade, ler it was better to set an example to induce that adoption than to attempt to enter upon any treaties of reciprocity. On that ground he thought the plan proposed by his Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Labouchere) must be more successful than if his measures had rested upon reciprocity treaties.— (Hear, hear.) Honourable Gentlemen opposite had cheered when he (Mr. Wilson) had referred to the suc cess of free trade. It was quite true, and nobody could deny it, that at the present moment, the commercial in terests of this country were suffering under great pres sure and reduction of prices, and that there had been a cessation of the usual demands for British manufactures; but he would ask those Honourable Gentlemen who had cheered, what would have been the condition of this country if free-trade principles had not been adopted?— (Hear, hear.) Look at other countries, arid it was matter of the greatest wonder and surprise that England should have been able to pass through the ordeal of difficulty and distress to which she had recently been exposed.— (Hear, hear.) It was painful to refer to the condition of neighbouring states, in which monopoly and restric tion had been adhered to with the utmost tenacity, but he was confident that had it not been for the measures carried by the Right Honourable Baronet (Sir Robert Peel) during the last seven years, the sufferings of this country would have been greatly aggravated, and he, for one, entertained the strongest hopes that those measures, when fairly and fully developed, would be found to contain in them the germs of great and future prosperity.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. H. DRUNIMOND said he wished to state his opi nions on this question, though it was not his intention to embarrass the Government by giving a hostile vote on the present occasion. In the first place, he owned he was astonished that it should be proposed by the Go vernment by one fell swoop to carry off all the code of laws relating to navigation which had been passed from the reign of Richard 11. down to the:present time—laws not enacted at once, but developed age after age. It was said that this proposal was onlyanoiher development of the thing called free trade. Many Hon. Members might know what was meant by that conventional term, but he confessed he was at a loss to comprehend it. lie knew that Yorkshire had heaved on one side, and Lancashire on the other, and that something great was expected to be produced, for the Board of Trade lent its obstetric aid, and the Economist Club was ready to at tend the bantling.—(" Hear," and laughter.) He knew elso the dogma promulgated in that House, of buying in the cheapest and selling in the dearest market, and that it was contended that by such a test the national de fences, naval and military, were to be estimated. Ile knew also that the sages of ages had pronounced dogmas suck as " Know thyself," " Pleasure is the greatest good," " Virtue is the greatest good;" but the simple definition of the free-trade dogma was " Buy for a penny, sell for a pound."---(Hear, and laughter.) This was the prin ciple on which the Government had founded this mea sure, and the only ground furnished for it to-night was, that by its adoption cochineal could be got at a much cheaper rate. No doubt that this country was now in a different position to that in which she stood at the end of the war, not only as regarded herself, but also in respect of other continental nations, and it was wise in Mr. Huskisson, Mr. Wallace, and others, to inquire whether regulations which were good when the trade of England was in its infancy ought to be continued. It was felt, then, that the only possibility of preserving the colonies was to make them au integral part of the mother coun try; to give them every privilege she enjoyed; to make their traee as free between them as it was between the provinces of this island; to leave them to adopt what ever of English laws they pleased, for though they found laws some Dutch, some German, some Spacish, and some Portuguese, they would have amalgamated with the mother country. But instead of this they sent them out constitutions from the Colonial-office which were never adapted to their state of society.—(Hear.) They preferred sacrificing the colonies to the mainte nance of the manufacturing system—(Hear, hear)—and they were going on in the same direction now by conti nuing class legislation.—(Hear, hear.) They knew that no trade could be carried on unless it was beneficial to both parties, and yet they intended to give the benefit of their trade to the French and other foreigners, to the prejudice of their own brethren the colonists. They spoke of the abolition of the corn-laws, and boasted of giving the poor cheap bread. Did they think that the poor did nut see through them when they talked of cheapening the poor man's loaf and at the same time took away the poor man's employment?—(Loud cheers.) They were ungrateful, and they were said to be set against the manufacturers. There was no need of setting them against the manufacturers. He never spoke to an English artisan or labourer who did not say —not in the languago of Lord Bacon, which he was going to use, but in language which involved the same sentiment— "our ingratitude is only a keen insight into the motives of others."—(Loud cheering.) The Noble Lord said that he contemplated with the pride of an Englishman the greatness of their colonial empire, and that if ever the time came when it was necessary for their colonies to separate from them, it should not be his hand that would sign the deed. These sentiments did credit to him as an Englishman, and were worthy of his high reputation as a statesman.—(Hear.) But there was one in this country greater than he, and if it was a painful thing for him to contemplate the time when he might sign such a treaty, it must be doubly painful to the So vereign who must as such love all her children alike. The Noble Lord must recollect how painful it was to ' George 111. to be obliged to receive the ambassador of the United States. And it they continued to pursue the policy they were now pursuing they could not keep their colonies. They might be rich, but they would be also contemptible. The policy of their Edwards went long before that of their RichardS. They tried to make their country great, because they knew that to make it great was to make it rich.—(Hear, hear.) But the ob ject of your idolatry is wealth.—(Hear, hear.) Wealthy you may be, and your Sovereign may have an island like Corsica or Sicily, but the sovereign or empress of a great empire never can she be. of Mr. 1 . oeu SC e O O TT addre sse d t h e H ouse, b ut i n the m i dst noiseuouarrsetdo in gal lery.atlhmeossteuitnimaueduitbsleofinhitsheliou. Friend w h o h a d j ust spoken, but was so m He gong t tor that giv eloque n tly expressed. give as the his Committeeso surprised dof that House had not ma d e any e ought not to be c a ll e d on sohurprioerdtlon the s u bj ect, t h e y on so import a nt a question. The to give a d ec i s i on en croachments they had al rea dy ma d e i n the navigation which attended with th e resu l ts which should -laws were not proceed in the same li ne of policy. duce them to ad mitted that th ere was an i ncrease in Briti s h Although be ad solutely, y e t there wit , a great fairer off' shippi ng ab solutely, countries. Th e ev i dence which h relatively t o before the Lords' Committee silo ad ha d been gi ven , w— that the manning Rutland Abingdon Airlie Caledon Che3terfleld Courtoun Denbigh Guilford Leven Mayo and victualling of British vessels was more expensive than in foreign countries, and promotion was necessary in order that they might be able to compete successfully with other countries which possessed superior advan tages. A small reduction in the freightage was a small compensation for the loss which the abolition of the navi gation-laws w6uld entail upii them. Mr. MOFFATT moved that the debate be adjourned to Thursday next, which was agreed to. TOBAGO RELIEF BILL. On the order of the day for the House to go into Com mittee on this Bill being read, Sir H. WILLOUGHBY asked whether the sum of 5,0001. granted to relieve the auffe:ers from the hurri cane in Tobago had been paid out of the civil contin gencies fund? ___ The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that, although he might have been justified in so provid ing for the payment, he had not done it, but had pre ferred coming to Parliament for a distinct grant. The House then went into Committee on this Bill. On the clause proposing the loan to Guiana and Tri nidad for the purpose of immigration of labourers into those colonies being proposed, Sir H. WILLOUGHBY protested against the system of malting such loans to the colonies. The tlauses of the Bill being agreed to, the House resumes, and the report was ordered to be received this day. kr. V. HARCOURT, by permission of the House, delivered in his qualifications, and subscribed the Par liamentary roll, which he had neglected to do on taking the oaths and his seat as Member for Oxfordshire, the Hon. Gentleman when he took the oaths having been the eldest son and heir apparent of a Peer of Parliament, and as such exempt from that rule of the House which enjoins the observance of the formalities re ferred to. SHANNON NAVIGATION. Dr. BOWRING was about to draw attention to this subject, when An HON. MEMBER moved that the House be counted. There not being forty Members present, the House stood adjourned. LORDS' MAJORITY ON THE JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL. NON-CONTENTS ON THE SECOND READING. ARCHBISIIOPS. Canterbury Armagh DUXES. Athol Beaufort Buckingham Buccleach Montrose Manchester Newcastle Northumberland Richmond Wellington MARQIIISES. Camden Chohnondeley Exeter Downshirs Drogheda Salisbury Winchester EARLS. Abergavenny Aberdeen Eglinton Aylesford Brandon Bathurst Beauchamp Warwick Brownlow Cardigan Cadogari Cathcart Cawdor Charieville Devon Dartmouth Delawarr Desart Rigby Ellenborough Effingham Llandaff Erne London Falmouth Oxford Clare Ripon Limerick Rochester Glengall Salisbury Ilardwlcke Winchester llarrowby BARONS. Harewood Abinger Kinnoull Banning Jersey Bolton Lonsdalo Boston Egmont; Braybrooke Lucas Carew 31almesbary Castlemaine Mansfield Churchill Manvers Clinton Mountcashell Colchester Munster Crofton Nelson De Tabley Pomfret De Ros Powys Delamero Romney Farnham Galloway Faversham Selkirk Forester Sheffield Godolphin Vernlam Gray Wilton Hawarden Winchilsca Hill Waldegrave Howe viscouNrS. Kenyon • Combennere Lilford Hereford Middleton Maynard Polwarth Strangford Rayleigh Sidmouth Redesdale BISHOPS. Rollo Bangor Sydney Bath and Wells Skehnersdalo Carlisle Sondes Chichester Southampton Exeter Stanley Gloucester and Bristol Templemore Lichfield Tenterden Lincoln Wynford EARLS. PROXIES. Morton Onslow Orford Pembroke Somers Shannon Stanhope Bantry B kito ?TS. Carteret Colville De Lislo De Saumarez Grantley Northwiek Rodney Rivers Sal toun Sherborne Sinclair St. John VISCOUNTS. Beresford O'Neill Strathallan BARONE% Mayney PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons. ) MONDAY, MAY 29. STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. The following Resolutions were reported from the above Committee:— 1. That in the case of the Londonderry Improvement petition for additional Provision, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with. 2. That in the case of the Manchester, Buxton, Mat lock, and Midlands Junction Railway (Deviation and Branches) petition for additional Provision, the standin g orders ought to be dispens e d wi th : —Th at t h e parties be permitted to introduce their additional Provision, if the Committee on the Bill shall think fit, on proving before the said Committee the assent of all the owners, lessees, and occupiers of the lands on the proposed Branch be tween Baston and Bakewell. Second Resolution agreed to.—Report to lie on the :able. SUPPLEMENT TO THE “LONDON GAZETTE" OF FRIDAY. WHITEHALL, Max 29. On Saturday, the 27th day of May, her Royal High ness Princess Sophia, aunt to her most Gracious Majesty, departed this life, at Kensington Palace, to the great grief of her Majesty and of the Royal Family. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, MAY 29. Orders for the Court's going into mourning, on Thurs day next, the Ist of June, for her late Royal Highness the Princess Sophia, aunt to her Majesty, viz.:— The ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen, white gloves, necklaces, and ear-rings, black or white shoes, fans, and tippets. The gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, fringed or plain linen, black swords and buckles. The Court to change the mourning on Thursday, the sth of June next, viz.:— The ladies to wear black silk or velvet, coloured ribands, fans, or tippets, or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuffs, with black ribands. The gentlemen to wear black coats, and black or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waistcoats, full trimmed, coloured sword and buckles. And, on Thursday, the 22d of June next, the Court to go out of mourning. COLLEGE OF ARMS, MAY 29. _ _ _ THE EARL MARSHAL'S ORDER FOR A GENERAL MOURNING FOR HER LATE ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS SOPHIA. In pursuance of her Majesty's commands, these are to give public notice, that upon the melancholy occasion of the death of her late Royal Highness the Princess Sophia, her Majesty's aunt, it is expected that all per -30116 do put themselves into decent mourning for ten days, to commence from Thursday next, the Ist of June. NORFOLK, E. M. ADMIRALTY, MAY 29. Her Majesty does not require that the officers of the Fleet or Marines should wear any other mourning,- on the present melancholy occasion of the death of her Royal Highness Princess Sophia, than a black crape round the left arm, with their uniforms, H. G. WARD. BANK OF FRANCE. Tho following was the situation of the Bank on Thurs. day evening, May 25:- f. e. Cash and ingots . . 64,669,393 10 Cash at branch banks 56,799,929 00 Overdue bills 17,295,290 39 Bills becoming due in Paris, of which 30,639,699 f. 99c. are from the branch banks ••• ••• 147,243,105 69 Bills in the branch banks ... . . 94,685,163 14 Advances on coin and ingots ... 8,988,400 00 Ditto on public securities of France . • 29,059,982 90 Due from the branch banks on their notes in circulation ... ••• ... 100,990,550 00 Routes of the reserve fund ... 10,000,000 00 Rentes of disposable funds ... ... 11,660,197 89 Deposits of the new bran c h banks in public funds ... Hotel and furniture of the bank Interest in branch bank at Algiers Interest in National Discount Bank Bills protested ... Expenses of administration ... Sundries Advance to the State on Bons du Tresor of th•-: Republic ASSETS. ... 12,744,498 00 ... 4,000,000 00 ... 1,000,000 00 ••• 200,000 00 ••• 24,742,078 59 541,551 61 539,972 29 ~, 50,000,000 00 625,065,082 60 LIABILITIES. Capital ... Ditto of the new branch banks. Reserve fund ... . Reserve immobiliare Bills of branch banks Notes to bearer, in circulation ... Ditto of the branch bank Ditto to order (Post bills) Account current with Treasury Various accounts current Bills payable at sight . Re discounts of the last half-year Dividends unpaid ••• Discounts, interest, and expenses Branch Bank of Algiers, sum not yet employed in Treasury Bonds Branch Bank drafts to be paid Sundries ... . . ... 67,950,000 00 ... 23,350,000 00 ... 10,000,000 00 4,000,000 00 ... 2,980,650 14 302,113,750 00 ... 100,990,550 00 ••• 1,169,500 00 ... 26,561,565 51 ... 75,308,766 71 ••• 1,791,500 00 1 728,692 37 175,090 25 3,654,868 73 •.• 1,106,923 69 • 2,733,820 ••• 499,404 86 625,065,082 60 TIIE TEN HOURS BILL—The friends and sup porters of this measure have announced their intenti, n of holding a large tea party in the Free-trade Hall, Manchester, on Wednesday, the 7th of June next, to celebrate its becoming the law of the land. The Rev. D. Cecil Wray (one of the Canons of Manchester, and a consistent and long-tried friend of the factory operative) is appointed to take the chair; and the following noble men and gentlemen have consented to attend :—Lord Ashley, Lord Robert Grosvenor, the Hon. W. Coope , , Joseph Brotherton, Esq., M.P.; Charles Hindley, Esq., M.P.; John Fielden, Esq.; W. B..Ferrand, Esq.; Mr. Richard OM.; ha THE DUKE. 2dARQIIIB. EARLS. LONDON TUESDAY COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of Gloucester visited her Royal fligh tless the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's. Lord Portman had an interview with Sir George Grey hyesterday, at the Home. offico, and delivered to thelti..:ht on. Baronet loyal Addresses to the Queen from sixty four parishes in Sornersetsh ire. Mr. Mark Boyd and Mr. Samuel Browning had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, at the Board of Trade. The Duke of Ruxburghe had au interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing -street. Baron de Goldsmid, Mr. J. Bailey, and Mr. Maynard, had an interview yesterday with the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-place. Mr. Richard Henry Jones and Mr. John White Welch, the Chairman and Deputy -Chairman of the Pro vident Cl er k s ' Association, had an interview tvith the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, at the offic of the Board of Trade, yesterday. Sir William Herries, the Chairman of the Commis sioners for auditing the Public Accounts, had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing -street. Dispatch es were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from th e G overnors of Hong-Kong, Ceylon, Aus tralia, Ma ur i t i us, the lonian Islands, Malta, and Gib raltar. The Lords C omm i ttee of the Privy Council for Trade and Plantati ons, h ad a meeting on Saturday, at the office of the Board o f T rade. There were present the Right Hon. H. L a b ouc h ere, Earl Granville, Earl Grey, Lord Campbell, Sir James Stephen, and Sir Edward Ryan. THE COBDEN FUND. An account current of this fund has been published within the last few days, from which it appears that the subscriptions received amount to 76,7611.6.. 6d., and that there are subscription s yet outstanding to be col lected to the amount of 2,0001. The credit part of the account stands as follows . £ s. d, B • y cash, as per rece i pts of R. Cobden, Esq. ... •.• 58,488 0 7 By expenses on subscriptions received in Manchester, consisting of salaries, weekly wages, agents' travelling ex penses, postage, printing, stationery, stamps. advertising, rents, taxes, gas, coals, &c. 4,027 17 0 By balance in Messrs. Jones Loyd's Bank ... £2,206 11 1 By balance in the hands of the cashier By balance of ;petty cash 269 17 8 5 11 2 By amount paid R. Cobden, Esq., per London treasurers --- 2,481 19 ... 11,763 9 0 £76,761 6 6 The accounts have been audited and declared to be correct by Mr. Henry Ashworth, of Turton, near Bolton, and Mr. Salis Schwabe, of Manchester. The greatest portion of the fund was raised in the manu facturing districts of the north of England. Lancashire contributed 46,9441. 6s. ; Yorkshire, 3,8984 15s. 9d. ; Cheshire, 2,799/. ; Nottinghamshire, 525/. 7 s . ; an d Warwickshire, 1,284/. The other English counties subscribed comparatively small sums. Of the Scottish towns Glasgow was the largest contributor, the sum received from that place amounting to 4,206/. The London subscription amounted to 11,763/. The receipt of the entire subscription is acknowledged by Mr. Cobden in the following letter ; "TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE COBDEN TESTIMONIAL FUND. "My Friends,—The treasurers having placed at my disposal the amount of the Cobden Testimonial Fund, particulars of which are given in the accompanying pages, the ag reea bl e d uty now devolves upon me of offering you my grateful acknowledgments for your mu nificent contributions. "At the time of the dissolution of the Anti-Corn-law League, circumstances had determined me to withdraw from public life, and devote myself, for some time, to the exclusive care of my private affairs, when the proposal which was unexpectedly made to raise a fund for me by public subscription, and the generous response with hich it was met from all parts of the kingdom, induced me to abandon my determination. Since my return from the continent I have, by the advice of my friends, withdrawn altogether from the risks and anxieties of business. By this arrangement I have incurred some heavy sacrifices, but through your liberality I am left in possession of an ample competence. " Whilst acknowledging that it is by your bounty alone that I am placed in a position to be able to devote myself to public business, I think it fair to guard you from being held responsible for my futuro political ca reer. I accept the testimionial at your hands with the understanding that it commits the donors to an ap proval of my free-trade principles only, and that it leaves the at liberty to take an unfettered course on all other public questions. Having secured my inde pendence, you have a right to expect that in all other matters affecting the public interest I shall act up to the dictates of a conscientious conviction —that I shall not become the slave of a party, the parasite of the great, or the flatterer of the people; and in these expectations you shall not be disappointed. Happy indeed shall I be to find that my opinions generally have the sanction of your approbation. "I have entered upon this explanation solely to pre vent any attempt hereafter to place you in a false posi tion for want of a frank understanding upon our future political relationship. Let it not be thought for a mo ment that this candour is incompatible with the most profound and grateful sense of your generosity. I feel an inexpressible pride in owing toy fortune to the spon taneous contributions of my countrymen. To be thus exalted by you, as a successful labourer in the pieaceful cause of free trad e , i s a di stinction which I would not re linquish for all th e h onours or rewards which have ever be,e,nllbeitshtotwhee sincerest d good wi s h es f or your happiness,upon successful conquerors. "I remain, my friends, " Your obliged and faithful servant, ".RICHARD COBDEN. "London, May 23, 1848." CONFLAGRATION of the INDIAN STEA M - SHIP BENARES. DREADFUL LOSS OF LIFE. The fears entertained regarding the fate of this fine Indian steamer have, we regret to say, been confirmed by authenticated intelligence, announcing the almost complete destruction of that vessel by fire, attended with lamentable loss of human life. Tile steamer was nearly 400 tons burden, and at the period of her return ing from Calcutta, had upwards of ISO passengers and seamen on board. The catastrophe happened when the vessel was about four miles below Rsjrnahal, on the 20th of April, and is thus described by Lieutenant H. 0. Mayne, who was among the fortunate passengers who escaped from a horrible death:--- '' It was about half -past seven o'clock in the evening when the alarm was given, the fire havintr, kindled in the afterpart of the vessel, but from what cause it is impos sible to ascertain. The whole of that portion of the vessel in one minute became a raging blaze; and so in stantaneously did it spread, that those who were right m af a t s c te o r, uld et n o o n t c c e om ap e pr fo eh rwenadedthe forward. Captwaihe danger,n ol Tuwnsend the and called out to the man at the helm to run the vessel into shallow water, which, luckily, was nigh, and shegrounded close to the shore. " By this time the whole of the steamer abaft the en gine was enveloped in flames; the upper or awning deck had caught, as well as a number of carriages which were placed beneath it. The scene on board was most heart rending, and enough to appal the stoutest heart, Shortly before the vessel grounded the impression on every man's mind was, that she would blow up every instant; this was increased by the fear that directly the flames reached the boiler it would burst, and also the danger of some gunpowder on board igniting. " This made every one expect the worst, and one gentleman, thinking there was no hope, ran down to his cabin, divested himself of all but his shirt and trousers, and sprang overboard. He was never seen after. On the vessel foundering it was discovered that the people could stand in the the water up to their middles a few yards from the vessel, and this led to fearful loss of life. In spite of the entreaties of the captain, many got out at the bows, and were seen no more. Those who were handed over to a small rock, which was partly unco vered, imagining they were really on terra firma, got into deep water, and w ere qu i c kly swe pt away by t t a be current. Among them w ere M rs . Hartley, Captain Whistler, Miss N as h, C a pt a i n S ne yd, Mr. rose e Mr • Houlton (chief officer of the Benares), fir. ' lock, when it fire continued b urn i ng till e leven o'clock , s h b e h d a . n a h T a h n e , and souse twenty others. All of them after part of the ceased, after consuming the whole of th cargo g s o h ship, to a , se thehee heavy g losei n e•room. to The the owners, at nearly 20,000/. e t s beingt rdu t i o e n s t o m f a the SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY EVENING.—The adjourned coroner's inquest, to investigate in the deaths of Jane and Ell en H ug h es, was resume d a t th e Masons' Arms, Swathling, before the county coroner. F. Cooper, Esq., surgeon, of Southampton, was called, and said, both the deceased lived with hi m as servants, but left his service about three weeks since. He gave the oldest warning to leave, because she did not come home one night till impertinent. The t we l ve o ' c l ock, and was a f terwar d s The younger said she would not remain without her sister. Did not k now o f any i mmora lity in their con duct.—The uncle and cousin of the deceased were ex amined, who deposed to having seen them after they had left Mr. Cooper's service, on the day of Southampton fair. One of them complained of having been beaten by the man who lives with their mother, and showed the bruises on her arm and back. They were re spectably d ressed : one of them had a velvet bonnet, and the oth er a straw-plait bonnet, and the gowns which th ey wero found. They were fond of dress—Mr s . Hughes, the mot h er o f d ecease d , was re - ca ll e d. Sh e was a widow, b ut li ved with a man named Harry V-- , and she wou ld not light the fire, recollected hi s b eat i ng her daug h ter on S un d a y, b ecause and was impertinent. She was surp r i se d at seeing them in her garden one morning since the lair. They told her they came home at t en o'clock the night before, but did not like to call her, as 3 . 1 "' Was gone to b e d . Th ey sa id t h ey h a d got another ~Jtuation in South ampton, at M r . Li ntot t' s , a lawyer.— .This last statement proved to be untrue, as their cousin afterwards deposed to their having said to her " they hnd ad t told thei r mother a lie, as she was so queer to them, ahey would rather drown themselves than go hom e ." The coroner then summed up, and said, although there was strong reason to believe they had drowned them selves, yet t h ey had no proof of the fact, as it might have been an "'lieut.—The jury then returned a verdict of Found drowned." SYMPATHY WITH MR. _MITCHEL. For some titsio past meetings of Irishmen who are advocates for the Repeal of the Union, and also of the Chartists, have been held in various parts of the metro polis, and the resolutions carried have been to the effect that, in the event of any punishment being inflicted on Mr. John Mitchel, who has now been sentenced to 14 years' transportation, they would rise en masse to de mand his release from the Queen of England, and in the event of that request being refused, would resort to phy sical force to revenge the insult which they consider has been thrown upon the Irish people. As soon ea the news arrived in town, on Saturday, of Mr. Mitchel's conviction, the various clubs assembled at their respective places of meeting, and at many of them it was agreed that the members should arm themselves for a demonstration yesterday evening. In those cases wher e t h e poverty of the members would not admit of all revabeing pro v id ed with arms, but where a willingness piled to contribute to the purchase of arms for a portion of the club, rallies took place, so that muskets and pik es were given to the successful drawers; while those who were unsuccessful were obliged to content themselves with pitchforks and staves, or to rely upon their unassisted strength. It appears to have been unanimously agreed that a powerful demonstration should take place, but in what manner the proceedings were to be arranged, or how the object they had in view was to be ac com pli s h e d , most of the " Confederates" (such is the ti t l e t h ey have given ignorant, themselves) were entirely the whole arrange ments hari ng b een entrusted to some 10 or 12 men who have gained the honour of being the leaders of the move ment. One resolution, however, was publicly proclaimed, that a meeting should be 9convened on Clerkenwell green, and that a procession should be formed ;but whither it was to march was a profound secret. Seven o'clock was the hour appointed for the meeting, and about that time the leaders of the arty appeared and took their station in a van, there being froze 2,000 to 3,000 present. Mr. IVuefelus was called upon to preside. He com menced his add ress b y saying, " My friends, the bloody aristocracy has done its work at last," a remark which was received with unbounded applause. lie trested that while the meeting, was on that green it would en deavour to keep the peace and to obey the in- I junctions that would be given to them, for that course would be the best one for them to adopt. All the arrangements had been made. When he gave them a signal he wished them to fall into marching order, four abreast, and to follo w hi m where he woud lead them—no matter where; he would take them to a place where they would meet ten times as many people as were then assembled, and then they would be advised what to do—(Cheers)—until then let them be obedient to orders. He (Williams) was resolved—he had made up Isis mind—on a course of action, and he feared banish ment no more than that brave, noble, and patriotic man John Mitchel, who had been sacrificed by the Whig Government, and who had been murdered by those "base, bloody, and brutal" men, through the instru mentality of a packed jury and partizan judges. Mr. MACARTHV was the next speaker. He also was very severe on the "base, bloody, and brutal Whigs." If they allowed Mr. Mitchel to be taken from his native land many other brave men would fall victims to the diabolical gagging Bill, and it was now the time of all who valued liberty to strike the blow. Ireland would rise in arms. If that country had been quiet, it was only that it might recruit its strength, and make a bold effort to release herself from tyranny at the proper time. Mr. FUSSEI.L next addressed the meeting—A base Government had, by means of a packed jury and sub servient judges, succeeded in obtainins , the conviction of " honest " John Mitchel. John Mitchel had asserted that the Queen had forgotten her duty to her country, and be (Fussell) declared the same opinion. Govern ment, it had been said, had acted upon expediency; but that was a ridiculous plea for conduct so arbitrary and disgraceful. He (Fussell) wished to impress upon the meeting that there was one safe way of getting rid of rulers who forgot their duty to their country, and he would openly avow what he meant—he meant by pri vate assassination. That it was that made the Emperor of Austria fly, and that it was that should make other bad rulers fly also.—(Loud cheers.) He himself had five sons, and he would disown either one of them who refused to assassinate any parties who were instrumen tal in banishing him from his native country for such an offence as that for which Mr. Mitchel had been con victed. The CHAIRMAN then shouted forth to the meeting, " Now, my friends, fall to in marching order," an in junction which was instantly complied with, and with almost military exactness. Williams and the other leaders then descended from the van, and having taken their places at the head of the procession, moved along St. John-street, Goswell-street, down Old -street-road, and along the City. In the City road, on its way to Finsbury -square, the procession received a large accession of strength, and on reaching that point where the City -road and Finsbury -square unite, the procession consisted of at least 3,000 persons. Upon arriving at Finsbury-square they formed into ranks twelve abreast, and continued marching around the square fur about three-quarters of an hour, when they were joined by a large body from Stepney-green ; they then formed into marching order, and a pass- word, " To the west," being given, the immense concourse, which at this time could not have numbered less than 10,000 per sons, proceeded up Chiswell-street, Beech -street, and Barbican, into Smithfield. Here they were again joined by a large number who had arrived at Clerkenwell-green too late, and being informed of the route, had chosen this spot to join the procession. From Smithfield they proceeded down Skinner-street and along Holborn, at every street adding numbers to their ranks, at the same time causing the greatest alarm to the shop keepers, who expected a repetition of the window breaking scenes of February last, but nothing of the kind, up to this time, took place. Having reached the end of Holborn, the procession came to a stand-still, and the leaders having again communicated a pass-word, they proceeded to march at a very rapid pace through King-street, Long-acre, Cranbourne-street, into Leices ter-square, where they again halted. After leaving Lei cester-square, the Confederates proceeded up Princes.. street, Compton-street, into Dean-street, Soho, to the Chartists' Assembly Rooms, when they were addressed from the windows by several persons. From this point they proceeded down Crown-street, Whitcomb-street, into Trafalgar-square, where it was expected that some addresses would be delivered, and a general impression prevailed that it was their intention to go down to Buckingham Palace, but a strong body of police, which had been sent out under the command of Mr. Pearce, of Bow-street, refused to allow them to remain in the neighbourhood; so that the procession wended its way along the Strand, through Temple-bar, and down Fleet -street, and in as direct a line as possible to Fins bury, where they were addressed by the leaders, who intimated to them that having been disappointed in their expectations that night by circumstances which it would not then be prudent to explain, they had resolved on dispersing the assembly, requesting at the seine time that they would meet again on Wednesday evening, The whole affair was involved in mystery. No clue could be gained to the objects the leaders had in view ; if indeed they had any beyond merely parading the streets. Our reporter was informed that nearly every man carried weapons of some description, but many of them were concealed. By twelve o'clock the immense assemblag e was com aletely be in the s roken up,t reets only . a few stragglers re ma i n i ng here and ther It is computed that at the time when the assemblag was the largest there was not fewer than 12,000 person-es present. DETEC,TI6N OFCRIME. Yesterday, and a considerable porti on of Say, Aldermen Si r P . Laurie and Gibbs, and subsequ aturdently D. W. H arvey, Esq., the Commissioner of the City police, were occupied in investigating a complaint against some of the City po communisatio n ma d e b lice, in conseq uence o f a y Sir George Gre y the Lord Mayor, an d who requested the-inquiry to be to made, and reported to the Homo-office. The allegations made against the police were con tained in,a petition to Sir G. Grey for the commutation of a sentence of transportation which had been passed by the Recorder at the last sittings of the Central Cri minal Court, on a person of the name of Boxall, alias Barrett, who was apprehended under the following eir cninstances, and convicted for having stolen goods, and sentenced to be transported for ten years. In the month of February last Mr. Healey, the landlord of the King's Read, Old Change, lost nine billiard balls and three swords, when some of the detective police were employed. From circumstances which came to their knowledge they went to Boxall's shop in Shoe-lane, and there found the property. After some re-examinations, the prisoner was committed for trial by Mr. Alderman Finnis on four separate charges of receiving stolen goods, and, from certain communications made by the police, Mr. Alderman Finnis directed the police to take charge of the premises, and which was not objected to by the friends of the prisoner. The consequence was, that the officers remained in possession for thirteen days; and in examining the contents of the shop they were satis fied that a large portion of the property had been stolen; amongst which was a large quantity of type, one portion of which was identified. The police considered that by the business being carried on as usual it might lead to the detection of some of the parties. This opinion was confirmed by there being taken into custody, within the thirteen days, nine persons for feloniously being in posses sion of stolen goods. Out of this number seven were con victed and two discharged. As it was generally the latter part of the evening when the property was brought to the shop, the police, to prevent any suspicion, used the and in the memor i al to the Secretary of gas ; State, Boxall complains th at t h e police had been using the gas, which he w as compelled to pay for, and also that they had consumed his wine and spirits while in possession, and that they had also refused to give up the possession. In reply to the questions of Sir P. Laurie, the men stated that it was by the direction of Mr. Alderman Finnis that they went in, and that the gas was used only during the time the shop was kept open for business. Sir P. Laurie said, that with respect to the charge of using the wine, &e., that came more under the control of Mr. Harvey, but lie and Mr. Alderman Gibbs were so satisfied as to the character of Boxall, that they could not support the memorial for a commutation of the sen tence. O n t h e second charge of consuming the wines, Sze., t the m en most positively deny using them ; an while in the h ouse one of the prisoner ' s men _ d . his family h a d free ingress and egress into the place On thi s point Itlr. H arvey w i ll report to Sir a Grey. ----- BAR RISTERS-AT-LAW, MIDDLE TEMPLE, MAY 27. —The undermentioned gentlemen, called to the degree of the Utter Bar, on Friday last, were published in the Middle Temple -hall this day :—William Makepeace Thackera)., Esq., Edward Harrison, Esq., George John Strickland, Esq., J o h n B a l guy, j un., E sq., Sand Thomas Cursors liansArd, Esq. _EVENING, MAY 80, 1848. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERD AY . Pending the settling for the Derby and Oaks, there is very little inclination to touch upon'future accounts; we can, therefore, oiler only a brief quotation of prices, none of which, it should be added, have been obtained to any amount:— THE EMPEROR'S VASE. 5 to 4 agst Mr. J. B. Day's The Hero 2 to 1 agst Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle G to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Flatcatcher THE ASCOT STAKES. 10 to 1 agst Lord E,;linton's Plaudit 10 to 1 agst Sir R. Baliteley's Moraprnsier 10 to I agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady 'Midair 10 to 1 agst Mr. Drinkald's Mathematician 10 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Vampyre 10 to 1 agst any other. ST. LEGER. 400 to 200 agst Lord Clifden'g Surplice—taken ,000 to 100 agst War Eagle and Surplice winning the Emperor's Vase and St. Leger—taken 500 to 50 agst The Hero and Surplice for the same events Offers to take 12 to 1 about Justice to Ireland. DERBY. ,000 to 25 agst Mr. Macdonnell's Saucy Dick—taken ,000 to 15 agst Mr. Holmes's M on t ague — ta k en. 6 SALE OF BLOOD STOCK. The following yearlings, the property of Earl Spencer, were sold yesterday, by idessrs. Tattersall:— Guineas, Castanero, by Sir Hercules, out of Sequidilla 105 Aare., by Cotherstone, out of Allurnette Humphrey, by Cotherstone, out of Conscience 260 Brington. by Cotherstone, dam by _Glencoe 235 Filbert, by Nutwith, out of Agnes Judy, by Pan taloon, out of Maid of Fez Amusement, by Cotherstone, out of Recreation 31 Hood, by Cotherstone, out of Clock 2lO The Wren, by Cotherstone, out of Wryneck 92 . , AND THE CASE JOOHI; time sin ce pu bli shed the case of the above-named DA WILLIAM Is . ions, in March fortunat e men, w-:ho were tried at the sess Our re a d ers w ill no doubt remember th a t w ed 'e t a w s o h u o u r_t last, before Mr.. Montague Baker Bere, to seven years' t r , insportation, upon the single robbed by of the prosecutrix, who swore that she was men them of about 2:is., near Bideford, whereas the two were several mil e.s distant from the scene of the alleged.e and testimony sentenced fenced robbery at the ti rile spoken to by the witness. It will b further remembered that the sentence under which they were banished fboin their friends, was only the result which might mont reasonably have been calculated would be the reward c.f so hasty and unfavourable a trial as it was their lot to suffer, inasmuch as they were com mitted from Bideford on the Wednesday, and tried on the following day. without having had any, time to get up their witnesses,ciremploying a professional man to defend them. Having., however, availed themselves of the ser vices of M We her Friend, of this city, solicitor, we are pleased tor.nnouc his unremitting exertions in the case, have been the cr teens of fully establishing the innocence of the two men, :and the following letter received from the Home-office by that gentleman has been shown us:— Whitehall, May 20, 1848, Sir,—Secrets: Sir George Grey, having carefully considered your ;Application in behalf of William Davis and John Davis, ,I have the satisfaction to acquaint you that under all th e circumstances of the case, he has felt warranted in advising her Majesty to grant the prisoners a free pardon. - I, am, sir, Stour most obedient humble servant, H. WADDI Walter Friend„ Esq., 5, N ort h -street, ExetNer. GTON. A free pardon. for two men proved not to have com mitted au offene , a for which they have been sentenced to seven years' trai isportation, hereby incurring the stigm a of the highvvayn tan, and have been incarcerated upwards of two tnonths,, is indeed but a mean recompense for their sufferings, tend the grief of their relatives. Such a case therefore as this, fully exemplifies to our minds the great necessity l'or an appeal in criminal cases, as well upon the law as upon the facts, on which a conviction may be considerel contrary to justice.— Western 7 imes. MANSLAUGHTER. On Friday atiornoon the inhabitants cf the neigh bourhood of Zoxteth Park, Liverpool, were much alarmed by the: report that a deliberate murder had taken place in Simpson -street. The circumstances of the case are ,:bese :—The person charged with the shocking crime is a respectable butcher, named Uns worth, residing in Simpson-street. About noon on Fri day, a man nam ell Valiantly came to the shop, and some words took pla c(? between himself and the butcher. A man, named Jolt') Clarke, who knew Vallamy, was pass ing, and succeed et 1, with the assistance of two other per sons, in getting him away from the butcher's door. Clarke then, for ;some object or other which does not appear, was in the act of going towards the butcher's shop when the latter met him near the door, and, hav ing a large knife in his hand, deliberately plunged it into the unfortu nitte man's right side. The deadly wea pon entered the man's bowels, from the effect of which he died in a few minutes. The inquest on the body was held on Saturd.s:.7 afternoon last. Mr. Blair, barrister, appeared on behalf of the prisoner. The first wit ness examined was Michael Vallamy, who said that on Friday, between twelve and one o'clock in the after noon, he was going along Simpson-street, and saw the prisoner in his :shop. He bid him good morning, and said, " I did not expect that your wife would go up and prosecute those two lads who were fighting in the street last night." l'he prisoner said he could not help it. Whilst the conversation was going on the prisoner con tinued in his sh , al,, and he (the witness) outside. Just at that moment tic deceased, John Clarke, came up, and asked him what he was doing there. He answered no thing, only talking to the butcher a bit. The prisoner then said, " There is another Irish scoundrel now." Directly after using these words the prisoner lifted up his knife and c. :me outside the door. He went towards Clarke, and drove the knife into Clarke's bowels. Clarke cried out, "Gc xl have mercy, I'm done." The prisoner then went back into the shop. There was no altercation between the deceased and the prisoner at all. The pri soner, without way provocation, took up the knife, came out of the shop,, and stabbed the deceased in the way he had described. Several other witnesses were examined, and the jury, after some deli.beration, returned a verdict of man. slaughter against the prisoner. Principal contents of the Observer, May 28th Upwards of three folio columns of her Majesty's birth. day, drawing-r aom, and illuminations ; two columns and a half of the Great Free-labour Meeting at the Lonlos Tavern, on Saturday; Marylebone aad St. Pancras vestry meeting near two columns; Convocation of the Clergy, intend( .d Address on Monday to the Queen, near a column; a c , >innsn and a half of Births, Marriages, and Deaths; about one hundred useful advertisements; and twenty-five columns of Foreign and Domestic News. The extensive publication of the Observer corn mences at six o'clock on Sunday mornings. Monday's edition, best for the country and abroad, at four o'clock en Monday afternoon PENINSULAR- AIAILS.--SOVITIAMPTON, SUNDAY NICHT.—The Pe ainsular and Oriental Steam Navigation jCompany's ship , Iberia, C. F. Burney, Commander, has ust arrived from the Italian ports. Her dates are : Genoa, May 16 ; Leghorn, May 15 ; Civita Vecchia, May 14 ; an d G ibraltar, May 22. Tho Hiberia brings forty first and sixteen second-class passengers, and the following on fr sight-7 packages on specie, value 5,1001. sterling ; 78 packages of Italian works of art, 4 cases of alabaster, 1 case of asphaltum, 6 cases of corals, 2 cases of paste, 20 pipes, 10 jars, and 10 half-jars of oil, 19 bales of silk, 200 half-chest.; of oil, 20 cases of cheese, 2 casks of wine, 1; barrels of dates, 6 hogsheads of wax, 10 cases of leech es, and 36 packages of sundries. On the 3d of May or t the outward voyage, in lat. 40 40 N., and long. 10 14 W., the Iberia passed a wreck, a dis masted, appare n t ly a b arque with figure-head of wo man, sides painted blue, and two bow timber ports. On the 24th of May, at noon, in lat. 40.8 N., and long. 9.56 W., passed a steamer with two white funnels, supposed to be the Hi n d ustan , steering southward. From Cadiz we learn that a number of Spanish troops had been dis patched to Seville, to prevent further outbreaks. The Cadiz Comercios announces, th a t on the night of the 16th certain individuals attempted t o exc i te several groups of vagabonds collected on the old Alameda of Seville, but they failed, owing to their not being joined by any ra !spectable part of the pop ul ation. In the meanti me t h e D uke do hlontpensier again embarked on board a Spani eh war-steamer for protection but re lauded in th e mor ninfr,. Besid es the Captain-Ge nera l of Seville, General .Montero had likewise marched out of Huelva with a pre tty considerable force in pursuit of the insurgents, but ha d not succeeded in overtaking them. The rebels were supposed to be in much more consider able numbers than the Seville accounts represented; they consisted of nearly 1,000 men and 400 horses, and had marched past Huelva in excellent order, supposed to be on their way to the Estremadura. A Spanish war steamer, filled with troops, passed Gibraltar on the 18th instant, bound for Seville ; and the Teodsso steamer was employed in the conveyance of troops from Cadiz to Se ville. Commercial matters in Gibraltar were dull. Ex change on London, at 90 days' date, 471 ; on Paris, 51. 30c.; Marseill es , s f . 32c. ; Genoa, sf. 30c. ; at e i g ht days sight on Mad r id, 4 1 . di r.; Cadiz and Malaga, dis.; Seville an d B arcelona, dis. ; Alicante, 1i- dis. ; Bar - celona, l dis. ; Spanish pillared dollars, 2 to 24 per cent. pre m i um .. F re i ghts to London and outp a e n rcs , 10per Bra zil, and Ri ver Pl ate, 14 dolls. to 16 dolls per cent. per cent. ; Meats, Leghorn, and Genoa, 4 d d dolls. and 5 - CREMORNE GARDENS. - The season was com menced at this place of public resort last evening. The attractions of fine weather and of the almost intermi nable list of amusements brought together several thou sand visitors. The grounds have been enlarged and improved, and there are now, in addition to the walks and grass plots of last year, several acres of ground in closed and laid out in terraces and parterres, close to the river, affording a most commodious rendezvous for those who delight in aquatic exhibitions, boat races, and such things as are to be seen on the Thames. The orchestral arrangements are of the best class; the,perf ormers are almost all old favourites of the public, and many of are of the number of those who have been comThepgerlelaetd at traction go somewhat far u-field from the fact of t h e t h eatres at which they acquired their reputati on b e i ng converted, into exhibitions of foreign mountebanks. of the evening was th e ascent of Lieutenant Gale in his balloon. The ascent took n place a,vlaisttlaeccaofnater seven o'clock, and was a v er y fi ne one.panied by two ladies and th ree gentlemen.° Theobraivlleorona took a direction towards crossingGreenwiccho,nttiui n owing to h trees nd g th in sight for little below Batter sea -b r id ge, and e a vceonmi in. r a t T i v h e e l y i l l long u nai n a ti time, ng oowfge clearn ess o f t h e gardens were very b r illi ant and arranged inalekxscoelfletinet taste; the fire-works, &c., were on a scal e o f more t h an usual magnitude, an d some of the pyrotechnic devices were exoeedingly clever, A successor to the United Irishman, conducted under the auspices of some of the writers of the defunct organ, %sill, we understand, make its appearance next Satur day, under the attractive name of the Felon. Father Kenyon, it is said, will be a leading contributor to its columns. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. WooLwten, MAY 29.—The Earl of Auckland, G.C.8., First Lord of the Admiralty; Rear-Admiral J. W. Deans Dundas, C. 8., Captain Fitzhardinge Berkeley, C. 8., Captain Lord Jchn Hay, C. 8., Captain Alexander Milne, and the Honourable William Cowper, Lords of the Admiralty; Mr. H. G. Ward, secretary, accom panied by Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., Captain Ellice, comptroller of steam machinery; Mr. Lloyd, chief engineer; Mr. Hughes, assistant to the chief en gineer at the Admiralty; Mr. F. P. Smith, of the steam department and superintendent of fitting vessels with screw propellers; and Mr. Murray, chief eng i ne er a t Portsmouth Dockyard, arrived at Woolwich Dockyard at nine o'clock A.m., and were received by Commodore Sir Gordon Bremer, K.C.B. and KCAL, Mr. Lang, : 11 master b cyis at , s g h sut i oa p rr a ed rr .r i shipwright; store-receiver; l ovne M r . ; r.mJrf.eAnhketihnßesr,otyosantiomrcehkaireeifenpeeensrs;iunneMdeerrr.; the command of Captonu2rieohe Black Eagle, and Their Lordships embarked immediately tu on board the o tt , n elo o c ffi k e A ia al l remained Encounter left Deptford Encounter the down the river to witness steam-frigate. The proceededained Opposite Woolwich Dockyard after half-past seven signer of the vessel, A rr. P Ath g er e t t o, H cla u a g m h , e the adned until Mr. Lang, master shipwright' Captain foll o G wi i a n s g s eo, fficcoemrsinsatnuddeyri:gs myths, Douglas King proceeded down the ' r . came on board— and Derriman, when she making 75 revolutions of her screw propeller per mi l u v u e t r e Their Lordships started at the same time in the Black Eagle steam-vessel, and during the progress of the ves sels down the river the speed of the Black Eagle was as certained to be 11 knots per hour, and the Encounter kept up with her the whole of the way, showing that tho latter vessel had acquired a greater speed—nearly one knot more per hour—than she made on her preliminary trial. On this occasion, the Encounter had 576 tons on board, equivalent to the whole of her stores and arma ment, with an allowance of 300 tons of coals, and was immersed on the average about two inches below her calculated water line, drawing 13 feet 3 inches fore, and 14 feet 1 inch aft. 'The Earl of Auckland, and the naval Lords of the Admiralty, went on board the En counter, accompanied by Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, surveyor of the navy, and witnessed the ease with which the engines were set in motion and stopped, and highly approved of their simplicity and efficiency. On arriving at the Lower Hope below Gravesend their Lordships left the Encounter and went on board the Teaser steam vessel, fitted with engines of 60-horse power, and having two rudders. The speed of the Teaser was very credit able, and she appeared to answer well, but required nearly equal room to turn in as the Encounter, although the latter is so large a vessel. Their Lordships proceeded in the Teaser down the river, the Black Eagle accom panying them, and the Encounter returned to moorings opposite Woolwich Dockyard at half-past two o'clock under the charge of Lieutenant Robertson, with Mr. Lsen, acting m as t er - a t ten d ant at Woolwich Dockyard. The trial to-day was most satisfactory, and their Lord ships expressed themselves greatly pleased with the re sult. Mr. Penn accompanied their Lordships during the official visit to the Encounter and the Teaser, fitted with engines by his firm. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. VACANCY IN THE PUBLIC ORATORSHIP.—CAMBBIDGE, MAY 29.—The office of Public Orator in this university has become vacant by the acceptance of the living of Staplehurst, iu Kent, by the Rev. Thomas Crick, 8.D., of St. John's College, who was elected to succeed the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, April 27, 1836, Mr. Crick being at the period senior Fellow of his college. The names of three gentlemen have been put forward by their friends as candidates for the office, viz.:— The Rev. William Henry Bateson, B.A. (46th Se nior Optime and 3d Classic), 1536; M.A., 1839; 8.D., 1846; Fellow and Senior Bursar of St. John's College. The Rev. John Alexander Frere, B.A. (39th Wrangler and sth Classic), 1838; M.A., 1841; Fellow, Assistant Tutor, and Head Lecturer of Trinity College. The Rev. Rowland Williams, 8.A., 1841; M.A., 1844; Fellow and Tutor, and Classical Lecturer of King's Col lege, and Battie's University Scholar. HEBREW PROFESSORSHIP.-It is rumoured that the Rev. Samuel Lee has tendered bis resignation of the Regius Professorship of Hebrew, to which he was ap pointed in 1831. The following gentlemen have been mentioned as likely to become candidates for the suc- IS V N :::A 1: kir,N. ,t_--..,. .. ,,..,.. e 4., wi _ • to • ---• ,;:i, , ,__.; .7.--_---- IRELAND. , 4 = Dunni.s., MAY 28.—The overwhelminr created by the extraordinary scenes enacted Yesterday, unlike ordinary ebullitions of popular feeling, remains unabated ; and it would be but shirking the truth to conceal the fact that, beyond his own friends and parti sans, there prevails no small amount of sympathy for the fate of the misguided man whose own temerity and undisguised preachings of treason have led to expatria tionA om his native land, where, by a legitimate exercise of talents of no common order, he would doubtless have attained a position sufficiently elevated to satisfy the political aspirations of any man of less moderate preten sions than Mr. John Mitchel. He has, however, chosen his own course ; he ran his head into the lion's mouth played the game of his antagonists, and has been check mated. It is to be hoped— a rather illusory expectation —that his example will not be lost upon others who, it is said, are prepared, at every risk, to follow in his footsteps. It might be well for those ardent—it may be honest —young men to reflect before they commit them selves further in a desperate cause. They may depend upon it that the present state of feeling in favour of their leader is but transitory, and that in a few brief months his memory will fare no better than that of the many who have perilled their liberty under somewhat similar circumstances. '• The precautions taken yesterday to prevent any rash attempt at rescue on the way to the place of embarkation were most effective and judicious. There was, however, some rioting at Seville-place, on the North Strand, where the police were assailed by a mob, the chief leaders of whom were women. One amazon was con spicuous by her daring. She hurled stones and brick bats with unerring aim at the heads of the constabulary, cursing lustily the cowardice of the men of Dublin in leaving the fighting to the women. All the efforts of the police to effect her capture were useless, and she finally escaped in the crowd of combatants. One man had his head laid open by a stroke of a baton, and several of the ringleaders were taken prisoners. About four o'clock a body of police took possession of the office of the United Irishman, and carried off the types, &c., on a dray. Subsequently, however, it ap peared that Mr. Gavan Duffy had on the day previous purchased all the materials, and having intimated this circumstance to the authorities, orders were issued to restore the property, and at about six o'clock the types were brcught back to the office in Trinity -street. The premises are, however, still in the possession of the police. cession The Rev. Thomas Jarrett, of Catharine Hall, B.A. (34th Wrangler and 7th Classic), 1827 ; M.A., 1830 ; Tyrwhitt's Hebrew Scholar (first class), 1827; Professor of Arabic, 1831. Rev. Theodore Preston, A.B. (25th Wrangler), 1841; M.A., 1844; Fellow of Trinity College. The Vice-Chancellor has given notice that members of the University who wish to join in the presentation of the address to her Majesty the Queen will be admitted in their academical dress at Buckingham Palace on the 31st inst., on presenting their cards. The address will be received by her Majesty, at three o'clock. The Norrisian Professor of Divinity commences his Lectures for Michaelmas Term, 1848, on Tharsday, October 19th. VAUXHALL GARDENS. Yesterday evening this popular place of summer resort once more threw its doors open to the public, and if the number of votaries of pleasure who thronged the illumi nated walks or occupied the ver d ant b owers he any criterion by which to form an estimate, we should say the entertainments of the " royal property" are still held in much esteem. The gardens themselves have under gone no change or improvement, but the Square of St. Mark's, Venice, which last year was so prominent a feature in the grounds, has given place to a grand and extensive pictorial representation of the ancient city of Constantinople. Many additions have been made to the various departments that contribute to the amusements of the visitors. The entertainments commence with s concert supported by many well-known favourites, both e e t n e i f g hh circleit .8 vocal and instrumental, amongst whom are Mr. E. L. Dime, Mr. J. W. Sharpe, Miss Georgina Smithson, Mrs. Aveling Smith, Mr. Sinclair Jones, and several . others. Mr. Rime is a member of a musical family, held in great respect in Liverpool and Manchester,. and the admirable his etr epolu,. vocalisation .H o must taste and inevitably feeling extend d h ballad called "'Tway thy lov'd voice, little i piece, and being yw f lhoti sh t j ahne exqui site these gardens, it will no doubt and d ng t h a i n v e e vary o p n r e e , pretty was ex. p lencoredoi.ttos. b i e n l o ta n hs b l i e s f t a h m m e w t s o Ch n e to m The equestrian performances . are of a very superior cha , as it was and warmly agile racier, the corps consisting of both English and French become wowrint te compositions.n exp popular ressl y artists, and their daring are really most astonishing. The l entertai n ments are wound up with a magnifice n t display of fireworks, in which, as the bills state " there is introd uced feu d'ar4iice known in pyrote chn y.Altogether, then, P the Gardens still poss ess many pleasing and agreeabl e attractions, and if M r . Wardle the siattenti ve proprietor, and Mr. Ryan, th e no less polite manager, continue to evince the same anxiety to ' render their patrons com fortable that they did last • night, there will be no cause this season to complain o f want of support, whatever there might have been last. SYMPATHY WITH MITCHEL.—BIIIMINGHAM, MON• DAY.—A meeting of Irishmen resident in Birmingham was appointed to be held on a vacant space of ground in Lower Hurst -street, at half-past five o'clock this even ing, for the purpose of expressing their detestation of the " odious and tyrannical sentence" passed upon Mitchel in Dublin, and their sympathy with " the great Irish patriot;" but at the hour appointed for the chair to be taken not more than 50 persons were on the ground, and even this small congregation was for a time c om pl ete l y dispersed by a s h arp s h ower of rain. The royal mail steam-ship Acadia, Captain Stone, left the Mersey on Saturday, for Halifax and New York. The steam-ship Britannia, Captain Lang, which would leave Boston on the 17th and Halifax on the ;9th inst., may be expected to arrive in the river to-morrow.-- Liverpool Albion of yesterday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has received J/. for'' income• tax from a party who has not been as sessed." The amount will be paid to the Receiver-Ge• :. ti .... the lies up. a u u , of