The Sun. — London, England, 1848-06-20 00:00:00

Is ourtt Xlittion SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. No. I.—MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LLNCOLN SHIRE (Junction with the Mdland, via Barnsley, and Branches therefrom)—Case opened, and evidence taken in its favour. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP No. I.—NORTHERN COUNTIES UNION RAIL WAY AMENDMENT.—CIauses agreed to, and Bill ordered to be rep_orted. GROUP No. 3.—MsscuzsTEß, BUXTON, AND MID LAND DlTlATlON. — Opposition of Sheffield and Man chester Company further considered. GROUP No. 7.—ROYITON AND HITCHIN EXTENSIOX TO CAHBRlDE. — Preamble passed for part of the line; but the extension into Cambridge negatived. GROUP No. B.—LONDON AND SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY, EXETER AN) CREDITON, TAW VALE RAIL. WAY AND DOCK, AND BODMIN AND WADEBRIDGE RAIL WAY CO*ANIES ARRANGEMENTS.—Opposition of the Bristol and Exeter further considered. EXETER AND COWLEY BRIDGE JIINCTION.—Evidence in favour of promoters. GROUP No. 11.-11ormaND AND KIEXINTILLOCH, BALLOCHNEY, AND SLAMANNAN RAILWAYS (AMalga 'nation or Sale or Lease, and Amendment or Repeal of Aets).—Evidence taken in reference to the rating clauses. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (TIM DAY.) DUBLIN. Mr. MURPHY, on the part of the petitioners, stated that they now proposed to attack some of Mr. Rey nolds'voters, on the ground that they were defaulters in payment of the Dublin paving and cleansing rates. It was objected, however, on the part of the sitting Member that these rates could not be considered in the light of a municipal cess, and therefore the non-pay ment of the rate could not disqualify the ♦oter from exer cising the franchise. ._... The point gave rise to a good deal of discussion, but the Committee decided that the vote was a municipal eels, and directed one vote to be struck off on the ground of ita non-payment. SLIGO. The case of bribery and treating was proceeded with. Robert M'lver, of Sligo, proved that previous to the election several of Mr. Towneley's voters were treated with refreshments at the expense of one of the sitting Member's agents. The refreshments were distributed at the house of a voter named Buckhart, who was ar rested for debt after the election, but the same agent paid 31. for his liberation. Joseph Bell, son of a voter, proved that a person named Miller, who acted for the sitting Member before the election, paid .his father's expenses to Ballyshannon, to be out of the way when the poll took place. After the election his father returned to Sligo, when Miller presented him with a five pound note. James Doyle, a voter of Sligo, polled for Mr. Towneley. After the election a man named Conolly called upon him, and asked if he did not receive 5/. fur his vote. He re plied that he had not, whereupon Conolly told him that be was a tar. On cross-examination the witness denied that he had been promised 101. to prove bribery, but admitted that he and the other witnesses dined with Mr. Som ers at Greenwich last Sunday. M'lver was recalled, to prove that he offered to pay several voters 10/. if they would poll f or M r . Townelej• or 51. if they would abstain from v o ti ng f or e i ther party : —Ad j owned. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDLNG SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1548. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... 289 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ..• 42 urbercular Diseases... 191 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... 122 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 31 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... 97 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ... ••• Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ••• Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations... ... Premature Birth ... •• .•• Atrophy ••• ••• Old Age ••• ••• .•• ••• ••• Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance Causes not specified ... DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... 58 ... 12 ... 4 ... 5 ... 24 ... 32 ... 52 Population Average weekly Deaths Enumerated. Deaths. 1843-7. in the 1841. Five springs. Week. West Distr'icui... 300,711 . . 143 ... 163 North D—tricts.. 375,971 .. 182 ... 163 Central Distr..ns 373,653 ... 171 ... 169 East T".: t: ... 392,444 ... 199 ... 262 Sout_ _districts .. 501,190 ... 248 ... 252 T0ta15... ..... 1,948,30 Kahn ... ... Females ... ... 943 ... 1,009 II" •• • 542 ... ... 467 Males Females BIRTHS IN TILE WEEK. COURSE OF EXCH. Amsterdam ...... •• •• 12 2 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam •• •• 12 3}4 dntwerp.............. 26 20 kiamburgh ••••••it.2l. 13 12 Altona.. Parts, 3 days' sight 25 55 Ditto, ••• • Marseilles • • .... 26 Courdeada lerankfert ea Maine.... 122% Petersburgh, Sll. Rbla.. Vienna, elec. Ile-- Trieste, d1tt0.......... Madrid Cadiz .. ....... •• • ... 46 ..... • •• • • •• • • Barcelona •• •• • • • • • • •• &mills.. • • .... • • INGE.-(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar_ „ ,„ Leghorn ........ ••• • • • 31 60 Genoa • 26 5 Milan Venice.. .. •.•• . • • • Naples .. .......... 36 Palermo, wok.. .• • • Lisbon._ .......... 52 Oporto .... .... • • 52 Rio Janeiro • • • . Buentra Ayres — New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia .... • ..... PRICY! Or BWLLION, PBX OZ, Foreign Gold la bare ...£3 17 :jai► Dollars ••.. • . t, 4 'Portugal Gold Coln •• 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Silver In bars ...... • • 0 4 I ji BOHEMIA. The German Universal Gnzette, of the 16th instant, annouuces that the insurrection in Prague had con concluded on the 14th, by the triumph of the Ger mans over the Sclaves. The Congress of Sclaves is dissolved. and its partisans have been sent across the frontigrs. Sclave troops fought against their coun trymen. SERV lA. The Breslau Gazette of the 15th instant announces a serious insurrection in Servia. The insurgents had entered the Hungarian territory and had burned some steam-boats. A battalion of the garrison of Peterwaradin had marched agai ns t th em. I t i s added that the Greek rchbishop of Carlowitz has urged the Wallachians to revolt against the Hungarians. SWITZERLAND. Letters from Berme, of the 16th instant, ment i on the receipt of dispatches from the Government of Grisons of the Isth, announcing that an engage ment had taken place on the Stelvio, between the Austrian and Lombard troops, in which there were several killed and wounded on both sides. The Government of Grisons, fearing an invasion of the valley of Munster by the Austrians, had adopted precautionary measures, and demanded that the dis banding of the troops, ordered by the Diet be ad journed. The Directory had approved the conduct of the Grisons, and directed that those troops should remain under th e comman d o f C o l one l G erwer u ntil further orders. LOMBARDY. The Piedrnontese Gazette, of the 15th instant, states, that the blockade of the port of Trieste, by the combined Italian fleet, has been officially announced by the Italian Admirals to the Consuls of the different nations residing in that city. The communication is v‘igned Albini, Sardinian, de Cosa, Neapolitan, Buor, Venetian. The Piedmontese Gazette says, that, on the 14th, the Duke of GBROA occupied the important position of Corona, abandoned by the enemy after a short defence. The Kiss, after having transferred his head-qtucters to Valleggio, was preparing to march to Verona on the 15th. The Risorgimento states, that all the villages depending on Luniago wish to effect their imme diate unio❑ to the kingdom of Upper Italy. ROME. The last baccounts, received from Rome, to the 10th inst. thet Castor steam-boat, are of con siderable inst., importance. She has brought the de claration Chambers on ntieleiples announced to the Roman by which the dififirst day of their sitting, cult problem of the separa tion of the spiritual trotmort4he temporal power has been solved. The deputy UTE having asked whe ther the declaration read tO'it'l-Al Assembly was merely the expression of the Ministry, or whether it was the exPression of his Holiness to recognize the • sacred and impescriptible rights :r the people, Signor AIADAIANI, the Minister of the Interior, repl . ied as follows :—" The programme is thei the entire Ministry, of whom all the ntntreoduction of consequrnry pro bers have pal ticipated in its composition, I claim' loudly that the declaration is the approved animous expression of the Ministry, ratified and entirely by his Holiness." TRIESTE. A letter from Trieste, of June 9, says— " On Tuesday evening, the 6th instant, the Sardinian fleet weighed and stood in for the town, with a very light wind, keeping the English men-of-war between them and the batteries, until, at the request of the Trieste people, the British ships, accompanied by the AsmoLia (French frigate), weighed and stood over to a little bay to the ri;ht of the town. Shortly after they anchored out of gunshot. Just after sunset, a brig belonging to the Sardinians drifted in and was fired at by the batteries. Two steamers advanced to tow her out, and they came in for a share of the pepper ing also. They likewise, I suppose, in the excitement of excessive valour, contrived to run foul of each other, and in the morning both appeared without bowsprits, and one without figure-head or cutwater. The figure has been picked up, and now figures as a trophy in the centre of the Exchange here. " The promise given by the Sardinian Admiral that Lloyd's steamers should be permitted to run was broken on the first attempt. A packet started from Cortu on Tuesday, and was sent in again, the Admiral refusing to look at the certificates, and threatening to fire on her if she was not off with all speed. " On the evening of the 7th there was some firing between twelve and four. A Sardinian steamer re connoitered near the town; what doing no one knows. " A report existed yesterday that forty-eight hours' notice of bombardment had been given by the Admiral, but I cannot find there is any truth in it." The Neapolitan fleet has not separated from the Sardinian. Total ... .., 625 ... 643 1,009 ... 1,268 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, &UNE 20, MO, MARKET INTELLIGENCE. —— (From the London New Price Current of June 20.) StroAß.—To-day business in the raw Sugar market was much restricted, resulting from the proposal of Go vernment with respect to the duties, and the large parcels declared for public sale were all withdrawn ; but privately 220 hhds sold to-day. There is not the slightest disposition exhibited by holders to reduce their prices ; and on the other hand, the trade are equally disinclined to transact business. REFINED.—To-day the market for home trade goods had a quiet appearance, and sellers were willing to ac cept 54s for brown, and 55s per cwt for Standard Lumps. Bonded Crushed Sugar was dealt in with caution at 25s 6d to 26s 6d. Dutch and Belgian met with a good demand at 21e 6d to 24s 6d. MAURITIUS. —A large quantity has again been de livered, and the stock is much smaller than in the former year at this time. Holders are firm, and insist upon full rates, yet for all purposes only a limited de mand has been exp erienced b y private treaty. At pub lic sale 700 bags were sold—good yellow at 39s to 39s 6d, good brown 365, washed and syrupy 31s 6d to 39s per cwt. EAST INDlA.—Bengal is made unaltered in value, but the w sales he b i d y wit with firmness, privateromotreatynbeasg., yet only a li m it e d d eman d has have beens went at th e formerof liale o h rt. mo ment.ltadbre tauction l, is Madras experienced by p ri vate ivate treaty, and none h as been o ff ered at public sa le. Of Penang only small par cels have been sold, at from 27s to 365, according to quality ; the supply is, however, on the decrease, and l n i d t tl h e a n d d e FOREIGN. Ther e l n w s a e s co the stock is mostly s sire evinced to make purchases in any sort of foreign Sugar last week for exportation, and only small parcels were taken by pri vate treaty for home use or refining under bond. In prices here little variation took place as the market w a s but moder a t e l y supp lied. At public sales 2,553 boxes of Havannah were taken in, low to good yellow 183 to 20s, good an d fi ne b rown 17's to 17s 6d, washed 16s to 18s 6d. CocoA.---There is a further increase to notice in the stock of West India, and as the trade operate with cau tion, prices continue to decline. Red Trinidad is to be obtained at 37s to 42s for ordinary to fine, and grey 36s to 39s per cwt. The quantity to arrive is yet large. For Foreign the market is inactive, and the tendency of quotations is to decline. At public sale 1,000 bags of Guayaquil were taken in at 34a for good bold grey. A further increase is apparent in the stock. COFFEE.—This afternoon Ceylon met with increased attention, and 112 casks 896 bags at auction were sold upon full teems, middling realised 49s to 51s, low mid 45s 6d to 475, fine fine ordinary 40s to 42s 6d, fine oroi nary 35s to 38s 6d, good ordinary 335 to 33s 6d, good ordinary mixed brown 28s to 29s 6d, pea berry 47s to 595, brown do. 30s 6d to 31s 6d, damaged 25s to 48s 6d. Native in less demand by private treaty, and 209 bags at auction were taken in at 30s to 30s 6d for good ordi• nary, but Pea Berry sold at 335, and damaged 18s to 26d 6d. Of Jamaica, 12 casks and 35 barrels went at steady prices; middling 55s to 605, fine fine ordinary 38s to 44s 6d, ordinary, 30s. 308 bags of Madras, da maged 22s 6d to 24s 6d, but sound was taken in at 30s to 355; 200 bags of Laguyra at 60s to 70s for fine bold. TEA.—Holders of Black manifest firmness, and insist upon fully previous rates ; there has, however, been only a limited demand, and the supply is large of inferior kinds ; but there is only a small quantity pressing for sale of the ,better qualities. An improved demand is shortly anticipated. Congou may new be quoted at 64d 7id far ord and good !ord. There are sellers of Green upon lower terms; yet buyers purchase reluctantly of all sorts: the supply has become more extensive. SAGO.—This afternoon there was less demand for this article, and 400 chests at public sale were only in part sold at 193 to 19s 6d fur good large pearl; small was taken in at 25s per cwt, being above the value. RICE.—To-day East India Rice met with greater attention. The quantity of Bengal offered at public sale amounted to 4,093 bags 2,200 pockets, which sold at 6,1 per cwt advance, fine white pearly dusty rather went at 1 Is 6d to 12s, good lOs 6d to its, middling 9s 6d to 10s, low broken 8s 6d, and damaged 8s to lOs 6d; 40 bags of Egyptian were taken in at 15s for bold white. - RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDC.—The proposition of Government to reduce the duty on Rum from 8s 7d to 8s 2d per gallon cause holders of all kinds to insist upon advanced rates. Proof Leeward is held for is 9d to Is 10d. East India is 6d to Is 6d, Jamaica 28 to 36 per cent over proof 3s 10d to 4s 3d, fine 4s 4d to ss, and De merara 28 to 38 over 2s 10d to 3s 4d per gallon, but the large stock has caused home buyers to make sales with caution, and export orders are trifling, the deli veries also continue to be of an unsatisfactory nature. There is no further decline to notice in the value of Brandy; the market is dull, and as the stock is on the increase holders are willing to sell best brands of Cognac of the vintage of 1846 at 4s 7d to 4s 9d, and 1847 at 3s 7d to 3s 9d. British Corn Spirit is not cheaper, but the demand is less active. For Geneva the demand is limited, and ordinary export sort can be had at Is 9d per gallon. SPlcirs. To•day more demand existed for black Pepper, and 2,075 bags at public sale were sold at full rates—good clean black went at 2i to 24d, fair 21 to 2i, rather dusty 2d to lid. Three cases of Nutmegs sold at 2s 7d for middling, and 2s lld to 3s for good brown; 1 case of Mace—good ordinary is 10d per lb; 64 bags 490 pockets Bengal Ginger good export sort 20) to 21s per cwt. _ COCHINEAL—This afternoon there was no improve ment in the market for Cochineal. At public sale 140 bags of Mexican were only in part sold at 33 5d to 3s 8d for silvers, which are rather lower rates; 23 bags of black Honduras were withdrawn. SALTPETRIL—To-day the market was well supplied with rough, and three parcels of Calcutta, amounting to 2,565 bags were offered at auction. The demand was more active, and nearly the whole sold at id per cwt. advance. OlLS.—This afternoon Linseed Oil met with less atten tion, and prices declined to 22s 6d per cwt on the spot. Prices are further depressed for Palm, and 54 casks at public sale sold at 27s to 28s 9d par cwt. TALLOW.—Russian on the spot cannot be obtained at any further reduction; but the purchases made have been of little moment, and 44s Gd to 45s per cwt are the rates accepted for fine P. Y. Candle. The tendency of prices is to decline, on account of the limited consumption. For forward delivery there has, however, been a larger business concluded, and at firmer rates, 43s 6d per cwt having been paid for the last three months of the year. Home made has been only in limited request at 44s to 45s nett cash on the spot, and there is a plentiful supply. Other sorts of Tallow are unaltered in value, but the stock does not decrease. Rough Fat is selling at 23 6id per atone. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAXER took the Chair shortly before Four o'Clock. LORDS' AMENDMENT. The Lords' amendment to the Brentford Gas Light [ Acts Amendment Bill was considered and agreed to. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed:— Caledonian Railway (branches connecting the Clydes • dale Junction and Wishaw and Coltness Rail ways, &c.) Walsall Improvement and Cemetery. Wishaw and Coltness Railway (Deviation Connectin Branch and Improvement). g CALEDONIAN RAILWAY (BRANCH ACROSS THE CLYDE AND GLASGOW STATION). On the motion that the report on this Bill be en grossed, Mr. HUME said the Admiralty had for three suc cessive years refused to consent to any railway passing across the Clyde, and by one of the most extraordinary proceedings that he had ever known to occur in any public department, the Admiralty had withdrawn its veto, and sanctioned the project. In order, therefore, to give the trustees of the Clyde and the people of Glasgow an op portunity of showing the injury which such a bridge would cause to the navigation, he would move that the consideration of the Bill be postponed until next session. Mr. FOX MALLE said that the communication which the bridge would afford between the south and the north sides of the Clyde would confer great advan tages upon the people of Glasgow, and would not cause any obstruction to the navigation. Lord LINCOLN said he was of opinion that the Ad miralty were undoubtedly wrong in withdrawing their veto against the construction of the bridge, and consi dered that it would be more to the public interest to postpone the Bill until next year. Captain FIT ZROY said the Admiralty had made a very strict inquiry into the matter, and finding that they could not in their public capacity offer any further op positi,n, and as there was no opposition by any party to the project, they consented to withdraw their veto. The House then divided, when there appeared— For Mr. Hume's amendment l9 Against it............. 129 Majority —llo The report was then agreed to. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. On the question of the further consideration and adoption of the report on the Great Western Railway . Bill (to confer additional power on the company with reference to the purchase of the Birmingham and Ox ford Junction), Mr. LABOUCHERE presented a petition against the Bill, and praying that the House would Rot allow it to pass until the company had reduced' their fares to the sum prescribed by law. Mr. DENISON objected to the further progress of the Bill, because in his opinion it contravened the Act of Parliament with regard to the gauge of railways. The question involved in this Bill was a matter of such importance as to induce him to call upon his Right Hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade t o state his opinion on the subject of its provisions. Mr. LABOUCHERE would not go into the large question of the broad or narrow gauge. He would say, however, that he thought the question of gauge in a most unsatisfactory state. He was prepared to resist the provisions of the Bill now before the House so far as they went to provide a double line of ra il way; his intention: was to give notice upon the third read ing of his intention to move that the clause with respect to the double gauges should be struck out of the Bill. Mr. CHRISTOPHER thought the report of the Board of Trade most unsatisfactory. If the deci sions of the Committees of the House were abro gated in this way by the Board of Trade, Honourable Members would not feel incli ne d to d evote that a t ten tion to the duties which devolved upon them as Members of Committees as they now did. He hoped the House w ou ld, t h erefore, give that con sideration to the report of th e C omm i ttee w hi ch the care and attention the Committee had devoted upon it deserved. The Committee of which he was a member would he , unfairly dealt with if the House acceded to the proposition of the Right Hon. Gentleman. Sir EDMUND HAYES , the Chairman of the Com mittee, declared that he perfectly coincided in the ob servations of the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Christopher). Sir L. O'BRIEN supported the decision of the Com mittee. Mr. MUNTZ wished that Hon. Gentlemen, before they voted, could have an opportunity of witnessing the facility with which the carriages were changed from one gauge to the other in Gloucester. The plan had been in operation since October last, up wards of thirty trains had passed to and fro in the course of a day, and the process of changing the trains was effected without the slightest difficulty. He repre sented a large constituency who were most anxious to have the double gauge. The House had consented to the double gauge being carried to Wolverhampton, and he saw no reason why persons living in that locality should be enabled to get to London before the people of London, owing to having a more rapid meaus of transit by the broad gauge. The report was then agreed to. The following reports were then agreed to:— Edie burgh and Bathgate Railway (Extension and De viation). Great Western Railway (Branch from Slough to Windsor). Great Western Railway (Loop Line from the Birming ham and Oxford Junction Railway through Lea mington). Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junc tion Railway (abandonment of the railway and disso lution of the company). London and South-Western Railway Company and Southampton and Dorchester Railway Company Amalgamation. Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway (Extension or Deviation Line from Silecroft to Foxfield, &c.) CHURCH-RATES. Mr. OSBORNE gave notice that on an early day he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to abolish church-rates. COLONIAL EXPENDITURE. Sir WM. MOLESWORTH gave notice that o❑ Tuesday next he should move a resolution to the effect that it was the opinion of the House that the colonial expenditure was excessive and ought to be di minished, and with the view of accomplishing that object the colonies ought to be invested with larger powers for the local administration of their own affairs. EXCISE. Mr. FAGAN seeing the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he wished to ask him whether, in the event of the duty on West India rum being reduced from sd. to 4d., it was the intention of the Govern ment to give any countervailing advantage to the English and Irish spirit manufacturers by the removal of some of the Excise restrictions? • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, perhaps the Hon. Gentleman was not aware that a Bill had already been introduced for removing some of the grounds of complaint on the part of the distillers, and he was happy to inform him that other changes were under consideration. All restrictions would be removed, except those that were absolutely necessary for the purposes of the revenue. DECIMAL COINS. Dr. BOWRING wished to ask his Right Honourable Friend the Master of the Mint whether any progress kad been made with the decimal coins, and when they might expect the issue of the tenth of a pound piece? Mr. SHEIL said there was a Committee sitting upon the subject, and until that Committee had reported, it was not advisable to enter into any new agreement with the money-office. Besides, a contract now existed with the coining department, and until the provisions of that contract had been fulfilled no fresh ones could be entered ' into. EXPULSION OF ENGLISH WORKMEN FROM FRANCE. Mr. B. COCHRANE, seeing the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs in his place, wished to ask him a question of great national importance, and one which he wondered had not already been put to the Noble Lord. It was, whether those workmen who had been turned out of France pre vious to the meeting of the National Assembly had received any compensation for the money withheld from them by the savings banks? If they had not, he wished to know further, whether the Noble Lord had any objection to lay upon the table any correspondence that might have taken place upon the subject between himself and the British Ambassador at Paris; and if it was the intention of Government to demand of the French authorities compensation for the great injuries which had been done to British subjects ?—(Hear.) Lord PALMERSTON said some time ago a com munication passed between Lord Normanby and the French Government upon the subject, and the French Government proposed that the deposits should be re stored to the English depositors in full, although a different arrangement had been ordered in refer ence to French depositors. Since the Hon. Gentleman had given notice of his question he had inquired at the Foreign-office whether any report had been received as to the return of the deposits, and he found that no such report had been received. He had therefore directed that further inquiry should be made into the matter.—(Cries of "Hear, hear.") Sir DE LACY EVANS said. as a considerable num ber of those workmen were in great distress, he wished to know whether the Government could not make them some allowance, or grant them some moderate redress in anticipation of the realisation of their claims upon the French Government? Lord PALMERSTON was understood to say that the subject would be taken into his consideration and also that of his Noble Friend the Secretary for the Colonies. MAIL TO THE WEST INDIES. Lord INGESTRE inquired whether it was the intention of the Government to detain the West Indian mail-packet until the conclusion of the debate upon the distress now existiag in the colony, and if not, whether it was their intention to dispatch a man-of-war for the special purpose of conveying the intelligence to the West Indies on the result of the debate being known ? Lord J. RUSSELL said the Government did not in tend to delay the packet beyond to•morrow; but as to the other question he was unable to give the Noble Lord an answer. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.-MR. HUME'S MOTION. ___ The SPEAKER intimated to the House that it would be expedient for Hon. Members who had petitions in favour of the motion of the Hon. Member for Montrose to present them then. Several Hon. Members then presented a number of petitions in favour of the extension of the suffrage, vote by ballot, triennial Parliaments, and equal electoral districts. Lord DUDLEY STUART presented several petitions for an extension of the suffrage, and in support of Mr. Ilume's motion. The Noble Lord also presented peti tions from Ilarylebone and St. Pancra► in favour of the vote by ballot and the establishment of electoral districts. Mr. C. LUSHINGTON presented similar petitions from the Westminster Reform Society, and the inhabi tants of St. Paul's, Covent-garden. Mr. M. WILSON preseqted similar petitions from Truro. Mr. W. J. FOX presented 287 similar petitions. Mr. MO WATT presented petitions to the same effect from Falmouth, complaining of the outrageous expenditure of tha country, and stating as a proof of the House not representing the sentiments of the country, the evidence recently adduced before Committees appointed to determine returns petitioned against ; also against the interference of Peers in elec tions. Colonel THOMPSCN presented a number of peti tions from Manchester, Sunderland, Dundee, Wrexham, and other paces, in all signed by 3,000 persons, in favour of Mr. Hume's motion. Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from Birmingham, signed by 10,000 persons, stating, though the Reform Bill was a step in the right direction, and might have satisfied its framers, it did not satisfy the rest of the community ; that class legislation had in a great degree brought about the present state of things on the Conti nent, and praying for Parliamentary Reform. Mr. from presented a petition t o th e same effect from Southampton, signed by 300 persons ; also, from Bridport, in the Isle of Wight, to the same effect. Sir E. BUXTON presented petitions from places in Essex. Colonel TYNTE presented petitions from Bridgwater and Glasgow. Mr. OSBORNE from several places in Middlesex, which he stated were not got up by committees. Mr. RICE from Dover, Mr. ADAIR from Cambridge. Mr. PATTISON from a place the name of which did not reach the gallery. Mr. CLAY from Hull. The petitions to the same effect were presented by Mr. Hindley, Mr. Westhead, Mr. Fox Maule, Lord Lincoln, Mr. Sharman Crawford, Mr. E. Denison, Sir De Lacy Evans, Sir George Strickland, Mr. Fitzroy, Sir William Molesworth, Dr. Bowring, and Mr. George Thompson, Lord Duncan, Sir J. Hamner, Sir G. Clarke, Sir T. Egerton, Mr. Divett, and Mr. Grainger. Petitions to the same effect were then presented by Hon. Members from Monmouth, Cardiff, York (signed by 5,550 persons), Stamford, from the brush makers and bellows makers of Bristol, from Stoke-upon-Trent, Kelso, Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone, Seven • Oaks, and other places. Mr. COB1)EN presented a petition bigned by 2,000 eloetors also in favour of the Motion yr the 11 , 11. Men►uer for Montrose. The HON. MEMBER also presented similar petitions from Stalybridge, and nearly two hundred other places. Mr. AGLIONBY presented similar petitions from Coekermouth, Whitehaven, and several other places. Mr. C. PEARSON presented similar petitions from Lambeth. Mr. HENLEY presented similar petitions from Read ing. Mr. WAKLEY presented a great number of petitions from different parts of the borough of Finsbury, com plaining that the House as at present constituted did not represent fairly the population of the country, and pray ing the House to adopt the proposition of the Hon. Member for Montrose. Mr. C. P. VILLIEFS presented several petitions in favour of Mr. Hume's motion. Mr. J. B. SMITH presented similar petitions from various parts of Scotland. (LBFT SITTING.) THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 16, 1848.' Th e Queen bas been pleased to approve of Mr. Ilichard Jones Todd, as Consul at Cardiff for the Grand Duke of Oldenburgh. WHITEHALL, JUNE 17. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting unto Thomas William King, Esq., Rouge-Dragon Pursuivant of Arms, the office of York Herald, vacant by the promotion of Edward Howard Howard-Gibbon, Esq., to the office of Norroy King of Arms. g , WHITEHALL, JUNE 19, 1848. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters paten, to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting unto Edward Stephen Dendy, Gent., the office of Rouge Dragon, Pursuivant of Arms, ♦acant by the promotion of Thomas William King, Esq., to the office of York Herald. DOWNING•STREET, JUNE 19. The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Steuart, Esq., to be Master of the Supreme Court, and Daniel Jacob Cloete, to be High Sheriff, for the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk. . _ Charles Andrew - Lord Huntingfield (and not Hunting ford, as advertised in last Gazette) to be Deputy Lieu tenant, June 12. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Flintshire. Brooke Cunliffe, Esq., to be D e p u ty-Lieutendn June 15. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Sorry. Peter Page, Esq. (and not Captain Peter Page, RN., as stated in the Gazette of 14th March last), to be De puty Lieutenant, March 7. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Cromarty. Henry Dunning Macleod, Esq. to be Deputy Lieuten ant, June 8. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant Wil liam Cooper Cooper to be Captain, vice Stuart, resigned; William Stuart the younger, Gent., to be Lieutenant: vice Cooper, promoted, June 13. Commissions by the Vice-Lieutenant of Haddington. East Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry--Captain James Maitland Balfour to be Major-Commandnnt; Lieute nant William Sandilands to be Captain, vice Balfour, promoted. June 12; Jobn Campbell Renton, Esq., to be Capt., June 13; Cornet Henry Marshall Davidson to be Lieutenant, vice Sandilands, promoted, June 12; Alex ander Mitcbell Innes, Gent. to be Lieutenant, June 13; Archibald Broun, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Davidson, promoted, June 12 ; James Hall, Gent. to be Cornet, June 23. WHITEHALL, JUNE 17. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Robert Crossland, Gent., of Parson's-lane, Bury, in the county ralsp.tino of Lancaster, to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has also appointed Henry Hooman, of Spring-bank-♦illa, near Bewdley, in the county of Worcester, Gent. to be a Master Extraor dinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Mary Brunton, innkeeper, Leeds. BANKRUPTS. William Wheatley, wheelwright, hurted, to surrender June 30, at half-past one, and August 4, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane; F. and H. Palmer, Mitre court chambers, Temple. John Balaam, smith, June 30,. at eleven, and July 27, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Jones and Co, St. Swithing's lane. John Trevers, see., and John Trevers, jun., carpenters and builders, Apollo-buildings, East-lane, Walworth, June 27, at half-past twelve, and August 4, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Skinner, Liverpool street, Walworth-road. Francis Thomas Smith and Abraham Smith, seeds men, Cambridge-heath Nursery, Hackney, June 27 and July 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pen nell, official assignee; Russell, Martin's-lane, Cannon street. Frederick William Nicholls Crouch, music-seller Upper Charlotte—street, Fitzroy•square, June 30 and August 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abcburch-lane ; Ashley, Shoreditch. jraumlyal at eleven, John Conquest, money scrivener, Moorgato-street, to surrender, June 29, at twelve, and August 4, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Phillips, Size-lane. George Cannon, bricklayer, Prospect-place, Ball's pond, Islington, July 4, at half-past twelve, and Aug. S, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; Garry, Chancery-lane, Fleet -street. Hannah Ward, butcher, Newgate Market, June 29, at eleve, and July 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Johnson, assignee, Basinghall-street, Smith, Barnard's-inn. James Wright, seal -stone engraver, Birmingham, BB roktushreteotniß:yr j t‘ t a c o k i : e Districtw tl Y July 4 and Jul'. 25, at eleven, Dis trict Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; at the Birmingham Hodgson, Birmingham. Joseph Pritchard, innkeeper, Harewood, Hereford. shire, July 1 and 22, at half. past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birming ham; Hall and Minett, Ross; Reece, Birmingham. official I c V eile i e l lv li ae a sn m s,ig P ant l e u e m t,h l ße ey ri , Bs t P roi o ls u t;( l ) t ßi er ilg e ) r igsit ß rßi r cr i it s s t t o co l lo ,. u J r a t„ ly 11 A c a r i a id rA 2 lo s , , Thomas Hollyman, butcher, Clevedon, Somerset, July 3 and August 1, at eleven, at the Bristol District Maples and , o e ffi e c . i t a L l on a d ss o i n g . nee, Bristol; Salmon, and August 1, at twelve, licenced victualler, Pontypool, Mon mouthshire,BristOl ; Stretton, Southampton-buildings ; Messrs. Phillpots, Newport. Court. Hutton, official assignee, John Walker and William Walker, joiners, Birken head, Cheshire, July 4 and 25, at eleven, at the Liver pool Distriel Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Chester and Co., Staple-inn, London; Francis and Almond, Liverpool. Gasper Weiss, music -seller, Liverpool. John Heslop, wine and spirit merchant, Ripon. Robert Hughes, hosier. Liverpool. CENTRA L CRIMINAL COURT. COURT. THE CHARTISTS IN BONNER'S-FIELDS. The prisoners Coaling, Callaghan, Jones, Moston, Whitehead, Blackburn, Kingston, Page, Bingley, and Illman, who were convicted on Saturday of the offences of rioting and assaulting the police, were then brought j gm d o g m me o n m A. tISEncENT, addressing the prisoners, had been conv i cted, after a very l ong an d inquiry, occupyi ng more than n i ne h ours , o f t h e offence t theyo of riotously a ssem bli ng toget h er, an d assau lti ng the police in the execution of their duty. An attempt had been made to show that the police had exceeded their duty, but it had failed entirely, for the evidence clearly proved that they had used no more violence than was necessary for the preservation of the public peace. They might with perfect propriety have prevented the meetings in question from taking place on the Sunday, but they did not do so, and remained perfectly quiet, and com mitted no act of aggression until Shackell, the inspector, was attacked and severely injured. If men would commit these acts of violence they must take the consequences, and it was impossible to measure with nicety the amount of force that might be used to repel them. It was laid down by Lord Hale, that officers were justified at common law in resisting even to the last extremity for their own protection and the preservation of the public peace; and it seemed to him that in the present instance the police had done no more than their duty. He saw no mitigating circumstances in the case. The themselves up prisoners all appeared to be in w ork and to have ample means of subsistence, and th e y h a d no excuse for mixing with such lawless proceedings. If there was to be a Government, and if men were to live as heretofore in peace and quietness, such acts as these must be repressed, and, but for the recommendation to mercy of the jury, he should certainly have inflicted the full punishment fixed by the law for the offence of which they had been convicted. He had most carefully con sidered all the circumstances of the case, and the sen tence that ought to be passed, and the result was, that the Court adjudged Couling, Callaghan, Jones, Moston, Whitehead, Blackburn, and Page, to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour one year, and such of them as were of full age, in addition, to enter into a recognizance in 1001. to keep the peace for two years; and those who were not of age to do the same, upon pain of imprison ment. The prisoner Kingston was sentenced to six months' hard labour, Bingley to three, and Ewan, who, it will be recollected, struck one of the constables with an iron bar, was sentenced to two years' hard labour. These three prisoners were also ordered to enter into their own recogniza ices in 1001. to keep the peace for two years. The prisoners who had been convicted in the course of this morning were then brcsught up, and Mallandine was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour, Payne to one year, Strapps to nine months', and Connolly and Yatton to six months' hard labour, and, in addition, to enter into recognizances to keep the peace for two years. e ngaged in forging th e s i g . SYSTEMATIC FORGER Y. — We are requested to a st b a o t u e t t t h h a e t osiommoetrfyraauedtuivleenlytly disposed persons are go i ng natures of Dr. Gibson, and several other officers of t h e 17th Lancrrs, both to orders for goods and draughts for money. In several cases the se persons have not scrupled to assum e the uniform of the officers of that regiment. Ott BEACIIY HEAD, 17.—Hugo Grotius, Glazeuer, Java, for Rotterdam. MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. 1 X. s. d. X. s. d. Australian Agriculturl ICO 0 0 30 0 0 Anglo-Mexican Mint., 11. 48. 10 0 0 10 0 • Ditto, Half Shares.. 2 10 • Canada ... ••••• . •• . . 6/. per cent. 100 0 • 321• • Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. . -- City Bonds.. • • ...... 3%1. pr cent. 112 Comp. CpPr Mars Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 70 0 0 Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& be, 9/ 100 0 0 100 0 • Equitable Iteversionry 5/. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 95 Gea.Steam Navigation 11. Se. 15 0 0 14 0 0 London Institution ... _ 10 Peninslr & Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 52 Reversionary Int. Soc. 3%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 90 Royal Mail Steam.... 33 1. pr cent. 100 0 0 60 0 0 46 South Australian ..... 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 16 Van Dieman's Land., 100 0 0 23 0 0 Universal Salvage.... 25 0 0 5 0 0 PRICES OF SHARES. IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM PANIES' S rOCK. LONDON. TUESDAY, JUNE 20. /OINT-STOCK BANKS. Dividend per Name of Company. A=.ouat of Share. A3I.IIUM. Australasia • • • • • • • • • • Britsh/vorth American Ceylon .. • . •• •• • • • • •• 2omraercial of Loadea colonial .. .. • • ••••• •• Gloucestershire • • • • • • lonian •• •• •• • • Londe and Westminstr Ditto • . London Joint-Stock ... Provincial of Ireland.. Ditto, New.— • Rational of Ireland .. Nat. Provncial of Eng. South Australia ...... Union of Australia.... Union of London Union of Madrid INS' Name of Company. Albion • • • • • • .• Alliance Brit. and For. DittJ Marine. • • • • • • At'AA Britian Commercial .. Clericl,Med.& Gen.Llfe Caunty .. • • • • Crown •• • • • • Eng.& Scot. Law •• • • European Life ••• • • • Family Endowme t Soc. Freetnasons' . • • • • • • • • G:obe `4-uarclian • • • • Imperial Fire • •• •• Imperial Life •... • • • • Indemnity Marine • . • • Law Fire LAW L ife.......... •. Legal and General Life L,lmdcn Fire ........ London Ship • . •• • • Med. Invlid & Gen. Life rational Lean Fund.. National Life •.... Palladium Lite Pelican • • • • • .. • • rticenix Protector Life.... Provident Life • • •• • •• Rock Life.. Royal Exchange Sun Fire Ditto Life ..... Universal Life.... • • • Vidoria Life Name of Company. Charing-crow. • • . .. • • Southwrk, Nw Sub.Ay. Ditto Nw of 7ji p. c. Waterloo ...... • • .• • . Ditto Old Ann. of 81. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Vauxhall .... ... Av. Name of Company. C Anmercial ......... East and West India... East Country Landon ............ Ditto 80nd5.... it. Katharine ........ Ditto Bonds ........ Southampton • • ...... Name of Company. Birmingham. • • •• •• •• East London•.•• •• •• •• Grand Junction .• New Itivr Lndn Brdge Vauxhall •••• •••• •... West Middlesex . . . Price GAS-LIGHT Name of Company. British .. •..... • • • • .. Ditto Provincial.... Bristol .. •. •. •... •• •• Brighton .. •• .. •• .... City of London ...... Continental Conaolidat. Ditto, New ........ Equitable ..... ....... Imperial Independent ....... • • RateHS .. .. . .., .. ... - United General ... • • . Westminster Chartered Ditto, New .... -... *.IsT OF SCOT' Name of Company. Bank of Scotland British Linen Company Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow Bank Clydesdale Bank .• • • Commercial Bank • • • • Eastern Bank • • • • • • • • Edinb.& Glasgow Bank Exchange Bnk of Scot Isle of Man. Company National Bank ...... • • North of Scotland Bank North British Bank Royal Bank of Scotland Union Bank of Scotland Western Back • • • • • • • . Aber leen Fire and Life B. Accord. Life and Fire British Guarantee Ins. Caledonian Fire Incur. Church of England Ins. City of Glasgow Life Edinburgh Life limn East of Scotland Life Eng. & Scot, Law Life Hercules Insurance Co. incur. Co. of Scetlnd.. Life Assoc. of Scotland Mercantile Life National Fire and Life North British Incur North & West of Scot Scottish Life and ivar scot. M as. and Gen. Life Scottish Union Insrncs. Standard Life . United Dep. Assurance Si. per cent. 71. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. par cent. 151 per cent. 6/. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 81. per cent. 81. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. Si. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. hNC II C Dividend per Annum. 3/. 10s. 6 per cent. 6/. per cent, 138.6 d. pr sh. 7s. per share 51. per cent. 31. . 14s. 6s. 51. per cent. 5 per cent. 41. & bs. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 12 per cent. 128. 11. sh. & bs. It. 55. 4%/. per ct. 5L per cent. 81. per cent. 51. per cent. 31. p. sh. & bs. 51. per cent. 11. ss. 43. 5/. per cent. 61. 108. 11. 6s. 10% pr cut. BILIDG: Dividend per Annum. 355. per cent. 11. ss. 4d. 11. 2s. 2d. 11. 17s. DOC Dividend per Annum. 41. per cent. 61. pr cent. 255. per sh. 51. pr cent. 41. per cent. 4 per cent. 4y. pr cent. 21. per cent. WATER= Dividend per Annum. 21. 10s. 51. per cnt. 161.04. pr cnt. L s. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 100 I) 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 ILO 0 0 40 0 0 But that that elauee was riot a positive prohibition es * - 10 : epe,he wife or faintly; it WAS never the intention of et HOUSE OF LORDS, June 19. .Legislature that any pt rsinis should perish of hung Their Lordst t Five ' I lps met a.. Had the circular been a little more explicit the objecte,d The Earl of ELLENBOROUGII presented severele — t"--it-WOeild not have arisen. In Ireland the clauee p of etitions again=t any alteration in the navigation-laws. been construed as a positive prohibition. Cases The Earl of GALLOWAY presented a pelition from great hardship had arisen in consequence, and he :: e the issuing of the circular. lie hoped the 10°-° some place in Ireland against the Scottish Registration Bill. would be withdrawn, as its effect would , doubtless', be attained. 011 The Earl of ST. GERMANS was glad to bear thi e f amended order was about to be issued, authorieing, of in extreme cases without compelling a man to g iCS his land. of Lord BEAUMONT considered that the assistancetho Parliament was necessary to relieve those who ba d , t o administration of the law f ro m the difficulty in-w hic ' of law placed them, and carry out the original intention, of the Legislature to assimilate the law in Ireland to tb ° E nglaed. Lorci Lord STANLEY observed that the Noble .he (Monteagle) had assumed throu g hout bis statem ent Bo g the Poor-law Commissioners, first by their notice, ro, subsequently by their order, had taken upon there'yi I to Set aside the law, and act in direct defiance of theacted of Parliament, whereas it appeared that they ha : d „ s of according to the best interpretation the legal afifis,'ol.o the Crown had given of that Act. The Nob le ',ith resolution, therefore, would not be in accordance the tact. With regard to the interpretation of th .L officers of the Crown he was not competent to g i , l ' eg is• opinion, but with regard to the intention of t he . co uld lature, he did not see how it was possible that " be more clearly expressed than it was in the etc! , 1 0 111 But he looked with great alarm at the opinion giv'ers, Mr. Henn, and sanctioned by the AttorneY eG e en elei that the possession of land should not exclude tu e of destitution, but that the possessor might, 11°t° 6 iii standing, actually go before the board of guar dieno la d, claim relief. It was for the express purpose of ecco .- in such persons that the enactment was passed, 6 , 4 0 Mr. Ilenn's and the Attorney-General's interpree;soo, of the law be sound, that enactment was entirely al to t and superseded. If they did not adhere to the th e against the dictum of the Poor-law CommissioneM fl°odot would destroy the whole Bill, and let 9 ' pauperism, by enabling persons to hold land w,-Golfe was impossible they could cultivate, and thu s oee landlord and tenant, and the paupers themselv es, i nvo oe common ruin, and subject the country to one C , C) l . l — efeli state of destitution, misery, and death, from whi c Aee 0 the resources of this great empire would not all' rescue Ireland. reQ l /' Lord MONTEAGLE made a few remarks ,0 and concluded by withdrawing the motion. to Their Lordships (at Eight o'clock) e eljona leci Thursday next. iivIPERIAL P ittLIA MEN T. RAILWAY GAUGES. Lord REDESDALE asked whether it was the inten•. tion of the Railway Commissioners to oppose the intro duction into any private Bill of any provisions for alter ing the gauge of any railway, authorised to be con structed by any Act which had passed prior to the passing of the Gauge Act in 1846; whether they propose to bring in a Bill to alter and amend the Gauge Act ; whether any report has been prepared by them upon the subject ; or whether they intend to recommend that the consideration of the same, shall be postponed to the next session of Parliament. Earl GRANVILLE was understood to say that there were several Bills before Parliament containing clauses authorising the companies to alter the gauges, which clauses the Commissioners would feel bound to oppose. An experiment was now going on as to a mixed gauge, and the Railway Commissioners would not come to any determination on the subject until that experiment had been fairly tried. 'Under present circumstances, they were not disposed to introduce any Bill on the subject. In reply to a question from a NOBLE LORD, whose name we could not learn, Earl GRANVILLE said that the attention of the Railway Commissioners had been directed to the subject of the necessity of increasing the number of guards on passenger trains, in consequence of the late serious oc cident at Wolverton; and Mr. Simmons, one of the rail way inspectors, was now in communication with Mr. Hewett on the subject, The Commissioners had no power to enforce such regulations; but he must do the companies the justice to say that they had attended most readily to any suggestions which had been made to them by the Railway Board. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 1 9 . 100 The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly be:or e o'Clock. LORDS' AMENDMENTS. I , f ed Lords' amendments to the following B"' agreed to: — Battle-bridge and Holloway-road Act Repeal GO Liverpool Gas Light Company and Liverpool P e " and Coke Company Amalgamation Bill. Patent Galvanizd Iron Company Bill. , L fE: O DISMISSAL OF JUDGES IN VAN Dlgh--- IRELAND. 45 41 Os. 36% 154 162 Price, Price. Lord MONTEAGLE moved resolutions to the fol lowing effect:—That the circular letters of the Irish Poer-law Commissioners, dated the 23d of May, 1848, direct a change in practice at variance with the direct provisions of the Ist and 2d Vict., c. 56, sect. 53, 54, and the 10th Vict., c. 111, sect. 8, 10; that such a change in the administration of the law, if shown to be necessary and expedient, can only be carried into effect by the authority of the Legislature; that any orders issued, or authority claimed or exercised by any administrative department, to alter or set aside the law of the land, is of dangerous precedent, and demands the immediate at tention of the House, more especially when such orders are issued during the session, when the sense of Parlia ment might have been taken on the question." The quarter-acre clause introduced into the last poor-law was not a peculiar hardship on Ireland, for it was nothing more than what had been the practice in England for a long time past. Even the owner of a cottage in this country: was not entitled to relief. The quarter-acre clause, combined with that clause which prohibited relief to the families of per sons not entitled, completely prohibited relief to the families of persons holding more than a quarter of an acre of land. But the Commissioners, by their circular of the 23d of May, had absolutely done away with this restriction, thereby offering a bounty on the retention of land, and placing those who persisted in holding it in a better position than those who had given up their holdings. It was a direct inducement to the poor to neglect their natural duties and set the law at defiance. If the quarter-acre clause was wrong, let it be repealed, but not set aside by the authority of the Commissioners. There was the case of a man who held twelve acres of land, and who, nevertheless, sought parochial relief, and had been declared entitled to it by the Commissioners. While the relief works were going on, the strongest ground of complaint was that occupiers of land were so employed, and an order was made to strike such par ties off the lists. How was this principle to be re conciled with the recent acts of the Poor-law Com missioners ? It seemed their first circular had been construed as a general order applicable to all cases ; but in a second circular they explained that it referred only to particular cases ; and this was equally an in fraction of the principle of the law. If the circular was equally applicable to all unions it was in the character of a general order, and ought only to have been issued by the authority of the Irish Government, counter signed by the chief secretary. By assuming the power . of granting relief to persons holding any quantity of land the Commissioners had struck the most fatal blow at the administration of the poor-law in Ireland ; and the communications he had received from that country con firmed the worst anticipations that had been entertained as to the effect of this circular. In some unions the applications for relief had doubled. Lord Carew, Lord- Lieutenant of the county of Wexford—a county which was least burdened by poor-rate—in a letter which he had addressed to the Commissioners, expressed his be lief that all the abuses of the relief works would be re. introduced, and the occupiers of land might eontinue on their holdings, after sending their wives and familes to the workhouse. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said he was not at all surprised that this subject should have attracted the attention of his Noble Friend, and Irish landlords gene rally. Agreeing as he did in much that had fallen from the Noble Lord, and in the importance of the subject, he hoped to be able to induce the Noble Lord to with draw his motion. To adopt it would be for that House to pronounce an opinion that the Commissioners, who were acting under the direction of the law officers of the Ctown, had acted illegally. The only explanation he had to give of the circular, which had been hastily is sued, and applied generally instead of being made to apply to particular cases, was, that it was done on an emergency, and with the humane view of preventing a great amount of suffering, and perhaps loss of life. lie admitted, as fully as his Noble Friend, that no order of the Commissioners ought to contravene or set aside a principle of law; also that every occupier of land ought to be made responsible for the support of his family. It was the intention of the Commissioners to issue an other order, guarding against the possibility of the cir cular referred to being drawn into any kind of abuse, by limiting its application to the very extreme cases. Where a person holding land refused to give it up, and allowed his family to starve, he ought to be punished, and it was the duty of the Commissioners to see that he was pu nished; but all they were enabled to do by law was to take possession of any property he might have, either on the land or in his house. No time whatever would be lost in issuing a general order stating that relief was not to be given except in particular cases, the circumstances of which were to be speedily considered; and this being so, he hoped his Noble Friend would suspend his motion for the present. Lord BROUGHAM had not fully considered the effect of the law, but was inclined to think that the Irish law officers were borne out in the view they had taken. But whether a new law were required or not, something must be done to break through one of the most crying abuses that ever existed, sufficient almost to breakup the very framework of society—that of a man 12, or, it might be, 1,200 acres of land , releasing himself from the obligation to support his family by throwing them upon the parish.—(Hear , he ar. ) Even if he differed with the Irish law officers, he could not support the first resolution of his Noble Friend ; for any reso lution of that House, professing to declare what was the law, was absolutely worthless ; for the other House might pass a resolution (Erectly contrary. He wa s g l a d the attention of the House Lad been called to th e matter on account of the explanation it had elicited from the Price :cEs Prior. 163% 195 11 , 4 12!,", 152 13 1 ,1 4 25 130 ou Id makingbe the Noble Marquis. declaratory Act, i t bet ter to introduce . . The DukaaßalC:lhoMrto receipt of parochial relief by any member of the family person holding land tantamount to the forfeiture of ohfisaoccupation. Such persons could not be too severely punished. , Lord REDESDALE said if the principle was once ad relief to occ u pi ers of land, it was im possible mittedotfogsivngaiyto what it m i g h t lead. Lord CAMPBELL said that a person neglecting to m aintain his family was clearly punishable t whether in E n gland or Ireland; and t h e re f usal to give'up land was prima f acie evidence that a man was not de itute. The circ ular of the Co mm i ss i oners certainly led o the infer ence that relief m i g h t b e generally given i such cases, i and, in so far, Went t o set as id e t h e quarts -acre clause. i it Lord FARNHAM, in putting a question of which he had given notice, on the subject of the discontinuance of the drainage of certain works in the county of Cavan, and the dismissal by the Board of Works of the labourers employed thereon, said that 4,500 persons had been dis missed at a moment's notice, and this at a time of the year—between the sowing season and the hay harvest— when employment was very difficult to obtain. Since the 20th of December last no less than Bs. 4d. in the pound, by two rates, one of ss. and the other of 3s. 4d., had been levied on the parish, which was in a most im poverished district. Another rate, therefore, for the re lief of those unhappy people could not be made, and he did not see how it was possible that they could be sup ported. He had that day received a memorial from 600 of these poor men, accompanied by a certificate from the Archbishop of the diocese and the magistrates of the lo cality, setting forth their lamentable condition. And he might himself state, as a constant resident in the district, that during the whole of the time in which the men had been employed on the public works, not one of them had been charged with theft, and their conduct bad been most exemplary since their dismissal. He hoped, there fore, the Government would raise the money to continue the works. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE (who was all but inaudible in the gallery) was understood to say that the Government had received information of the stoppage of the drainage. The subject was most interesting to the Government, and not the less so on account of the good conduct of the men who had been dismissed. The works in question were not, however, carried on by the Government grants, but by the Board of Works on the application of particular individuals--either public bodies or private individuals; and there had been in this case, unfortunately, a default of payment on the part of those persons. Out of 52,0001., which the works were to cost, only 4,5001. had been raised by private loans, and, therefore, it had become necessary to stop the works. It was much to be regretted that they should have been stopped at this particular season; but the board could not have proceeded with these particular works without abstracting the funds from other works in other parts of the country.—(Hear.) Earl FITZ WILLIAM read the terms of the motion of which he had given notice for Friday next, expres sing the thanks of the House to the Executive in Ireland for past measures of relief, and calling on the Govern ment for further legislation for that country. Lord BROUGHAM doubted the propriety of a vote of panegyric before the Earl of Clarendon 's adminis tration had terminated; but he did not wish to be con sidered adverse to any such vote when it could with pro priety be brought on. IRISH POOR-LAW. LAND. In eply to r. C. ANSTEY Mr. r HAWES M stated that the , Colonial-office .•4 d ceived no further information on this subject. cu e Mr. ANSTEY gave notice that on the first night he should bring the whole subject under t ' h si deration ot the House . Yi 6 i ° Mr. HUME wished to know whether anif r :is had been made for the admini s t ra ti on of jOt le " colony ? et °' Mr. HAWES said he was not able to 613511 question. WEST INDIA QUESTION. t uot i) ; Mr. HAWES then proceeded to address the 1- fiebl the West India question. He understood that tue r cor Lord the Member for King's Lynn on Friday his Noble Friend the Secretary for the Colonies liclertea ing withheld from the West India Committe e a,„ w a t,P; dispatch, and he had taken the trouble to firing u' r r o ' original dispatch to show the Noble Lord the Igg u] t i e d 4 i i ; King's Lynn that he was mistaken. Now °I ) -1 :90; patch there was a memorandum in his Noble f a r o tr y handwriting, representing it to be his opini ol3 dispatch ought to be laid before the Cominit le tec il was not aware until Saturday that the "" 1 ,,C 0 ', 0 of his Noble Friend to forward the - dispatch t° mittee had been neglected. The omission, boyies, had ascertained occurred in the hurry of bu siv m er ie r s when the House considered the immense a- A ° o ' business carried on at the Coloni a l- o ffice, 11e „ ef ,0 0 , that the House would admit that the oinissi ° '3le o v o ; so highly reprehensible as the N o bl e Lord th l e F ys a l( for Kings' Lynn represented it t o be. t bitli P • the intention of his Nobl e F r iend o r N o A to withold any information of any i m portalle ° - House or the Committee. MR. HUME'S MOTION. bst llle t Mr. FREWEN said, as it had b een reporte d Ao l e t debate on the West India coloni es wo uld not — 00 ,, , 0 ,1 1 ' evening, he wished to know whether the 11°114 h ; (Mr. Hume) intended to press hi s m otion vg• -c ti ce o on the paper for to-morrow. int er' . Mr. HUME replied that it wa s certainly h 1 s ee to proceed with the motion of which he had p° s. ' and that nothing on his part would lead ponement. WEST INDIAN DISTRESS tbst r e On the motio n o f L or d JOHN RUSSE . ,,P . "', e re sol ( i Speaker do now l eave th e Ch a i r an d t he in °l/ ; f eich, ii s itself into a Committee upon the resoluti° l39 iS proposed on Friday l as t, w i t h respect to di‘tr e- West Indies, is ec Mr. E. ELLICE rose and sa id, th e deeelY, i/ I tt I , ll be interest with which the aff a i rs o f the "; ) 10 colonies was viewed throughout the country some apology for his opposing the motion of to ob lg y Friend, in order that they mi g ht endeavour elpioS4 from her Majesty's Governme n t some furth er ; to tion of the views they entertained with respec be present state of those colonies. )100 0 Sir J. PAKINGTON interrupted the -w on ' co d for the purpose of asking him whether or not e i c ar oe , give him permission, before he proceeded an %i c e., to move the amendment of which he had given n o pff . o Mr. ELLICE said his particular object wss eo , vent the Hon. Gentleman moving his emenclnifor, his (Mr. Ellice's) opinion the question now b e o irle r ; House had been too much narrowed, and he ° o ld ( v that there were graver and more serious o°,e Lions which must yet be brought under niseP,i, lie view before the question could be dig ° e 0( 1 ;y There could be no doubt of the ruinoq, co i Lion and distressed state of the West lo w of d i e' e nies at the present moment. An extentd ie e i ji r tress and ruin existed in them unparallele red history of any country. Now, what was the Ga fe r ,;;, proposed by the Noble Lord at the head of the icl fr o went? The Noble Lord's remedy was an eaP.%; o ei He proposed to lend 5 0 0, 0 001. to the co l on ies• poi would venture to say that 500,0001 was neve r to be lent for a more useless p urpose' o r on a 13/° oo h h e stable security.—(Hear, hear.) B ut what 11e •li 1 , them to regard was, the probable temper in rihic ,11" project of the Government would be receiveo,le 0"; West Indies. Wh a t feelings would it not excifillollcrf blishments in Jamai ca , in British Guiana, and el a, le iss e li could, of co u r se , no longer be maintained afte r arrived. Th e y wou ld be thrown up. The ow n h er ;r otli ; be engulph e d i n a common ruin. Under su e t prorof stances, let him ask w h at did the Governille rj e,ee dl to do? It such were t h e effect of these reso1 111 '" e lre,, ° e did his Noble Friend propose to do? As t hing ; 9 1 , v iet stood, what was the position of p u blic affail l- CoPY ttra? The Council there had appealed to W oe O r , Government for a reduction of 0 5 per cent. re s l d r ties of the officials of the colony, on the y e ,/ 0 0 1 ; 1 0 able plea that with reduced means they conk , ri peo s o tain their former expenditure. Earl Grey r9 „01 l eit listen to this appeal. What was the consennent;;;ol the colony had refused any further supPli es ois S o ° ol/ grievances were redressed.—(Hear, hear.) et e dV Friend might rely upon it that a similar ask' vo t very speedily be presented by all our other so tb e c or colonies.—(llear, hear.) For the last two Y e ke ts ° o e ) penses of Jamaica had come out of the r c ti fo r, c of: merchants, but this could no t continuee - ck The total expense of the government of da rl 6 3- 000P ar Y peered, was 300,00/. per annum, of which 3 in the collection of the reveaue alone—(F ie ' 4 2 3, o °,`;o ll 3 while 55,000/. was spent in civil salarie!a `,; 0 1f 1 judicial, and 30,000/. in ecclesiastical. 191 • eu re Friend imagine that this enormous eaPe ndi loalgt.3 be be much longer borne by the impoverished 1,0 0 ( (Hear, hear)—and if he did not suppose this , a jorP i e) ~e c ~ intend to keep up the establishments of 5 , , / ,,,r, 41.; did he intend to keep the colony at all?---(7.500F oo d He wholly objected to the proposed grant ° the 0 1 . , 1 even supposing the colonists would tak e eg erfrtli:j which he did not believe they would, he principle involved as altogether unsound' moment, numbers of the less favourshtir estates in our West India colonies ' re ..,:ef, o. l j abandoned, and the cultivation of a great tt i Q' was on the point of being given up. —( l9 del° of ,‘ just possible that by the application rvithen some judicious remedy, by the better adjus lll3 ,4o ( )O e ; demand and supply of labour, the estates n° a ll O ti , given up might yet be retained in cultivaneo; isoei coloured population be saved from involveywooCiq ruin which had fallen upon the white, but d° Or' er might, the present proprietors were alln °st e,rb il le A f e j s 4 ll. retrievably ruined.—(Hear, hear.) His * Jor r t'e iv f; in the course of his speech on Friday had, , r e theory prevalent at the Colonial-office, /v11:001001 pression seemed to be that the West India Pi.sot Of a reckless improvident race, who knew n 011 ' 1 ,100 ( 3 O f business, which the Colonial-office itself was y e leti ti e petent to conduct—(Hear, hear) —his Noble„d br a "' echoed the cry that the West India planters Tr i ed:or: ruin upon upon their own heads by their ell bole' The investigations of the recent Committeevic had at once shown that the nostrums of t".o 6l o le i office were wholly inapplicable, and that th f ieo diens, so far from being chargeable with reol ec oo e i ‘ fulness, had applied the utmost care , and, of 4 0 management to the attempted preservat l° _„eof e ` v o Of t property.— (Hear, hear.) Every new 113 ;feer ° d tl/S rs in cultivation, every new machine ha d heehooe I.t adopted, but to no effect, and the evidence 5 deepero, many of these unfortunate men, driven w a g, re el! our own colonies, had transferred their o en er P o t P i '' , skill, and their machines, to Cuba and I ",, e ct A co colonies, which held out to them some P e r r ° :rief o or o t n r existence.—(Hear, hear.) Already we poi ) .1 I" the proportion of the white to the coloured , so in our West India colonies had been reduce I ', l o ll cent., and this small number was becos 3 _ l r sol . , : o et , smaller, by the withdrawal, in utter despair:orue I , if t D o i families. Unless some very decided step be jzo the way of relief, there would, ere long, he arV, population at all left in the colonies—(Hear, re a r the whole of the little trade that ff.did n d to there, falling into ita natural ohlaulG i t 1/.°l' CANALS. Names of 1 5 Dividend Names of Dividend Price. Companies. per ""'"' Companies. 'a per W. Annum. Annum. £ £ Ashtn& Oldh 97 71. p e $0 Macclesfield. 100 - - 13arnsley •• • • 160 121. 180 Neath ••• • • • 100 181. '3rkiik&Abrg 150 51. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 201. 190 Birmingham 35 41. 80 Peak Forest. 76 - Coventry .. • • 100 251. - Regent's •• • • 33 11. is. 18 Derby ••• • • 100 61. 63 Rochdale .. • • 85 41. 54 EllsTre&Chs 133 41. 48 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 130 E:evt ash •• • 100 324 - Do.LkFdSt 12 61. p. c. - GrnmiJunctn 100 5/. 81 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 290 arandSurrey 100 - 40 Shrewsbury.. 125 151. - Urand Union 100 11. 103. 25 Stourbridge.. 143 201. 285 Jrrantham • • 150 121. - Severn andl Kenn: & Avn, 39, 71. 6d. 4% Wye Rail. 26 1/. 81. 26 Leeds& Livrplloo 341. 410 Warwick&l 1 00 Si. 65 Leicester ....11401 101. 75 Mirming. Leicstr &Nth! 83: 41. 36 Warwick/ 100' Lou,fhhorogh 142 701. - Napton.. 46 Monmouthsh '100! $l. - Werestr &} 78 21. 39 llntgemrysti , 100 51. - 'firming. IdeltnMwbry 100 101. - Wilts & lirks 67, 11. 11 RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JUNE 19. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been very flat to day, and scarcely any business has been doing ; indeed, the only transactions have been in Great Western Stock, of which the Quarter Shares were done at 29. LIVERPOOL, JINX 19. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There is very little business doing at this market. Prices are not lower. The sales are— Great Northern, 9% dis.—Great Western, Quarter Shares. 2% dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birmingham), Fifth Shares, 1% dis.—Lendon and North- Western, 122 c.—Ditto, New Quarters, % p.—Midland Stock, 100% c.—Ditto, New Halves, 6% c. dis.—Ditto (Birmingham and Derby, 75—North Staffordshire, 2% c. dis.—Shrewsbury and Hereford, 2/. le. 3d. dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 91. 12s. 3d. Shares, (B), 3 dis.—Southl Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, 2% c. dis.—York, New castle, and Berwick (N. and B. Extension), No. 2,1% p.— Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 1 1 4 p. MANCHESTER, JuNx 19. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lan cashire, and Cheshire Junction, dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire ( West Riding Union), 3 3 4 c. dis.—Ditto, Pref. 6 per cent., V s p.—London and North-Western, New Quar• ters, 7 / 8 p.—Ditto, M. and B. Quarters (A and B), 1 11-16 p. —Manchester, Sheffield, and Liacolnshire, Quarter Shares, No. 1,4% dis.—Ditto, Preference, par—Ditto (Grimsby), 201. Shares, 8 1 / 9 dis.—Ditto (Sheffieldand Lincolnshire), ! 3, 4 dis.—North British, Thirds, '2% c. dis.—North Staffordshire, 2 1 / 2 n. dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 2 1346 C. do. BIRMINGHAM. JUNE 19. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The only sales were—North Stafford shires, at 2 1 / 2 dis.--aad Shrewsbury and Birmingham B's, 41. 13s. 6d. dis. YORK, JuxE 17. STocK Examwoz.—The business transacted to-day was as follows : —Great Northern, 6—York, Newcastle, and Ber wick Extension, No. 1, 174—York and North Midland (East and West Riding Extension), 31%. Paid. Z s. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 13 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 22 10 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 22 10 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 IMPANIES. Amount of Share. s. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 4 0 0 20 0 0 Stock. 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 100 0 0 Amount et Share. X. s. d. 632 12 50 0 0 100 0 0 70 10 3 Amount of Share. X s. d. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 'ORXS Amount of Share. s. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 100 0 0 63 12 9 AND COKE CO; Dividend Amount per of Annum. Share. 11. Bs. 101. per cent. 51. per cent. 101. 925. pr share 851. pr share 455. pr share 61. per cent. Cl. per cent. 51. per cent. al. and bns. 4 1. pr cent. 12s. 4. s. d. 40 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 3 4 0 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 Z. I. d. 1$ 0 0 19 0 0 100 0 0 39 5 0 37 10 0 58 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 46 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 Paid. £ s. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 6 8 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 2 12 6 All paid. 4 0 0 3 0 0 36 10 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 1 2 10 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 15 0 0 2 0 0 2 10 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 8 10 0 4 0 0 Paid. X. s. d. 25 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 Paid. X is. d. 50 0 0 raid. X s. d. 5 0 0 ViNIES. 'ISH COMPANIES' PEI, Dividend per Annum. 11. per cent. 81. per cent. 7% per sent. 61. per cent. 6% per cent. 71. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 71. per cent. 6% per cent. 71. per cent. 61. per cent. 81. per cent. Si. per cent. 121. per cent. 10/. per cent. Cl. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 71. per cent. 41. per cent. 51. per cont. 5/. per cent. 5%1.pr cont. 51. per cent. 0,41. pr cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. Amount of Share. £ ~ d. 100 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 500 0 0 25 u 0 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 200 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 1 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 Price If Paid. Paid. 108 Od 21 21. 4s 17 114.0 d. U. 7s 6d. ! 20s. 11. Is o 4 os. od 9 1 4 135.0,1