The Sun. — London, England, 1848-03-21 00:00:00

NAPLES. it Vtirb Wtlition SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. This day has been the quietest we have passed here since the glorious days of February. With the exception of a procession of the chiffonniers, and another of the water-carriers, both of which important corporations went this morning to the Hotel de Ville to give their adhesion to the Republic, we have had nothing in the shape of ex citement in our streets. Every one is absorbed with the news of the revolution at Vienna, and the pride and delight with which the overthrow of Prince Metternich has been hailed may be conceived, when it is remembered that, as one of the principal authors of the treaties of Vienna, every Frenchman looks upon him as the greatest enemy of his country. The effect of the Austrian revolution on affairs here is considered rather favourable than otherwise. . . PARIS, MONDAY EVENING, FIVE O'CLOCK. _ _ TIME o'CLocK.—The intelligence from Vienna had the effect of rendering the French funds heavy to-day. Owink to the effect which the fall that must take place in the money market of the Austrian capital is expected to produce on many houses in Paris, the Five per Cents. closed at 72f.,. or 2f. 50c. lower than on Satur day. -Three per Cents. at 51f.. or 500. lower. Bank of France Shares show a decline of 50f., closing at 1,6751. Bons du Tr4sor were. quoted officially to-day at 30 per cent. loss; Rothschild's Receipts (Neapolitan) closed at 68f., or if. lower; Belgian Fives (1840), at 66f., or 3f. lower; those of 1842, at 69if., or 3f. higher; City of Paris Bonds at I,IOOE, or st. higher. Railway Shares present but little alteration in prices, with the excep tion of the Orleans, which, in consequence of the corn pally .not being able at present to pay their bonds, are 75f. lower, closing at 690 f.; Versailles (Right Bank), Rouen, Northern, and.Havre are all 2f. higher, closing respectively at 107 f. 50c., 415 f., 215 f., and 337 f. 50c.; - Bordeaex, Strasburg, and Lyons are unchanged, at 400 f., 338 f. 75c., and 391 f. 25c. Vierzon are 5E lower, at 215 f. The suspension of the bankiug-house of Delahante was mentioned to-day, but did not excite in terest, except on the ground that one of the firm is the Receiver-General of Lyons. A considerable number of failures were announced amongst the traders engaged in the Rouen trade, such as stockings, &c. According to the latest advices received via Paris, Vienna was tranquil. The following Imperial decree had been issued on the 14th : " Considering the present political circumstances, we have resolved to assemble around our throne the States of our German and Sclavonian kingdoms, as Well as the central congregations of our Lombardo- Venetian kingdom, by deputies, in order that they may give us counsel on legislative and administrative questions. It is on this account that we have given orders that that meeting shall take place on the 3d of July next, or later if it cannot take place then. " Vienna, March 14." " F.ERD 'NAND. A correspondent writing from Vienna, of the 14th, says :—" The Pi incess Metternich has taken her departure along with the prince, her husband. The prince has defended his political system to the last extremity. The States were not able to deliberate in consequence of the cries of A has Metternich,' which drowned the voices of the speakers. At nine o'clock a deputation of the States having gone to the palace to request of the Emperor to send away I'rince Metternich, the Prince himself came to them and said, ' I have this moment placed my resignation in the hands of his Majesty the Emperor.' Upon which the deputation answered We thank you, you, have saved the country."' 'The accounts from Prague and Graetz also speak of popular movements in these cities. The following is the official list of the new Ca binet appointed by the King of Sardinia : The Count de Cesare Balbo, President of the Council. The Marquis Laurent Pareto, Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Count Vincent Ricci, Interior. The Count Thaon de Revel, Finances. The Chevalier de Ambrois, Public Works. The Count Frederick Selopis, Justice. General Franaini, War and Marine. The Chevalier Charles Bon Compagni, Public In struction. A new Ministry has been formed at Rome, of which the following i 3 a list : Cardinal A ntonelli, President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Recchi de Ferrara, Interior. Monsignor Morichini, Finances. M. Minghetti, of Bologna, Public Worlis. Prince Aldobrandini, War. The Advocate Galletti, of Bologna, Police. Cardinal Mezzofanti, Public Instruction. Count Passolini of Ravenna, Commerce. The Advocate Sturbinetti, Justice. NAPLES, Marten B.—Thc.news of the proclaina tion of the Republic in France, which reached here on the 6th, has put our Government into a state of great agitation. The Ministry, to the great disap probation of the public, has been confirmed, with some alight exceptions. The only one changed is the Minister of War. Garcia has been replaced by Uherti. Salicetti has been appointed Minister of Justice. Bonanni, Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs. Cariati, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Sierra Civriola, President of the Council, without a portfolio. Savaressi, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce. Poerio, Minister of Public Instruction.—Chronicle. IRELAND. - . (From the Dublin Evening Mail of March 20.) The meeting appointed fur this day, fur the purpose of - fraternizing with the French Republicans, assembled in front of the North wall. The demopstration was neither imposing nor alarming to the public peace. The chair - 1 was taken by. R. O'Gorman, sen., Eq. Amongst the conspicuous leaders were W. S. O'Brien, Esq., M.P., Messrs. Meagher, Duffy, Mitchell, an d severa l ot h er members of the Irish Confederation. Mr. Hodges, the Government reporter, was present. The CHAIRMAN addressed the meeting briefly, observ ing that as many eloquent speaker s were to follow him, he did not feel justified in occupying their time. Mr. BARRY then rose and read the placard by which the meeting had been convened. Mr. MITCHELL rose amidst vehement cheering to move the congratulatory address to the French. He said they were met that day as strangers in their own country under the guns of a foreign , gar rison, and by the sufferance of a military Govern ment who .held their country for a foreign nation. After more in the same style, ho went on to say he would call those noble fellows who, in Paris, had done their work so gloriously, and contended that the fate of the late tyrannical stock-jobber of France ought to be regarded as a light for the guidance of oppressed nations in their onward course. Mr. O'BRIEN defied any power longer to deprive them of their rights, if they were but determined to enforce them. The only obstacle was disunion amongst them selves. Why did they talk of Young and Old Ireland? When the old faction names of Whig and Tory were • • beginning to die away, other faction epitaphs started up to mar them in their progress, He for one re pudiated all factions; and he did not care who worked for repeal, Chartists or Conservatives, Protestants or Catholics, from Conciliation Hall, or from the Con _ federation. He concluded by observing that " before the harvest moon grow pale, deliverance might be at • hand." • Mr. lI`GKEE said that nu Irish banner should be raised in defence of British institutions here. No man should enrol himself to defend any Government in 1re ;•,..401(*132 \l') that was not really Irish. MEAGHER said th a t on S t. P atr i ck ' s Day he was _ _ .r - mo better employed than in walking the desolate o'` afpeefs or Dublin. He was i n Manchester, and had )onour of being present at a meeting of fifteen IC>l tiboifsir d persons, and he w as proud t o stan d h ere c o/Interact, as far as lay in his power, what ho oeftitiered injustice to that portion of the Engliih NI a The Emperor has now too much to do at home to think of a crusade against French liberalism, and the movement at Vienna may, therefore, be con sidered-a guarantee that no attempt will be made by the Northern Powers to interfere in France. Some of the papers, in the enthusiasm of the mo ment, speak of the revolution of Vienna, as having at once had the effect of setting Lombardy at liberty, and they speak of the Lombardo Venetian Republic as if it were a matter already established. It is not likelyi - however, that the snore moderate members of the Government will readily allow themselves to be carr i e d awa y by such ideas. They are too well aware of the' . dangers of Propagandism to allow themselves to be lightly drawn. into such a course. Vtirb • SUN OFFI EXPRESS FRI PARIS, MONDAY Eva: This-day has been the quiet since the glorious days of exception of a procession of another of the water-carr • important corporations went Hotel de Ville to give t' Republic, we have had nothi citement in our streets. Eve the news of the revolution pride and delight with which I Metternich has been hailed ma is remembered that, as one o of the treaties of Vienna, e' upon him as the greatest el The effect of the Austrian re% is considered rather favourabl The Emperor has now too think of a crusade against I the movement at Vienna in sidered - a guarantee that no by the Northern Powers t( Some of the papers, in the e ment, speak of the revolution at once had the effect of settir ; and they speak of the Lombi as if it were a matter alreadLi likely; however, that the 'no. the Government will readily carried away by such ideas. ' of tile. dangers of Propagand to be lightly drawn. into such - BOURSE--PAR/s, Mo, TIME O'CLOCK.—The intell the effect of rendering the Frei Owing to the effect which the f in the money market of the An: to produce on many houses Cents. closed at 72f.,, or 2f. 501 day. Three per Cents. at 51f.. France Shares show a decline of Bons du TroSsor were. quoted oil cent. loss • Rothschild's Receipt: 68f., or lf. lower; Belgian Fivc lower; those of 1842, at 691tf., Paris Bonds at 1,100 f., or st. I present but little alteration in tion of the Orleans, which, in I pally .not being able at prese . are 75f. lower, closing at 64 Bank), Rouen, Northern, and,l3 closing respectively at 107 f. 50c 50c.; 'Bordeaux, Strasburg, and at 400 f., 338 f. 75c., and 391 f lower, at 215 f. The suspension • Delahante was mentioned to•da: terest, except on the ground Or Receiver- General of Lyons. A failures were announced among the Rouen trade, such as stocki VI EN According to the latest ads Vienna was tranquil. The following Imperial des the 14th : " Considering the present we have resolved to assemble States of our German and S• Well as the central eongregati Venetian kingdom, by deput may give us counsel on legisla questions. It is on this accou orders that that meeting shall July next, or later if it canno " Vienna, March 14." A correspondent writing fry, says :—" The Pc ineess Metl departure along with the prin prince has defended his poli! extremity. The States were in consequence of the cries c which drowned the voices of o'clock a deputation of the St; palace to request of the Empei Metternich, the Prince hitris( said, ' I have this moment p the hands of his Majesty the ..1! the deputation answered have saved the country.' " Prague and Graetz also speak in these cities. SARDLIS The following is the offici 4 hinet appointed by the King o The Count de Cesare Bal Council. The Marquis Laurent Pareti Affairs. The Count Vincent Ricci, In • The Count Thaon de Revel, I The Chevalier de Ambrois, The Count Frederick Selopis, General Francini, War and A. The Chevalier Charles Bon • atruction. ROM] A new Ministry has been which the following is a list :- Cardinal A ntonelli, Preside Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Reeehi de Ferrara, Intel Monsignor Morichini, Final M. Minghetti, of Bologna, I Prince Aldobrandini, War. The Advocate Galletti, of l Cardinal Mezzofanti, Public Count Passolini of Ravenna The Advocate Sturbinetti, .NAPLI NAPLES, Marten B.—The. tion of the Republic in Franc on the 6th, has put our GOvel great agitation. The Ministr probation of the public, has bet 4 slight exceptions. The onl Minister of War. Garcia has been replaced b 3 Salicetti has been appointed Bon anni, Minister of Ec c l es Cariati, Minister of Foreigr. Sierra Cepriola, President o 1) portfolio. Savaressi, Minister of Agri( Poerio, Minister of Public It IRELAI (From the Dublin Evening The meeting appointed fur thi fraternizing with the French Rt front of the North wall. The do imposing nor alarming to the i was taken by R. O'Gorman, s conspicuous leaders were W. i Messrs. Meagher, Duffy, Mite] members of the Irish Confeders Government reporter, was press The CHAIRMAN addressed the ing that as many eloquent spec he did not feel justified in oecuj Mr. BARRY then rose and Tel the meeting had been convened. Mr. MITCHELL rose amidst move the congratulatory addl.( said they were met that da: j own country under the gui rison, and by the sufferance ment who .held their countr, After more in the same say he would call those noble fe done their work so gloriously, fate of the late tyrannical stock. to be regarded as a light for th nations in their onward course. Mr. O'BRIEN defied any pore of their rights, if they were be them. The enly obstacle was selves. Why did they talk of When the old faction names of beginning to die away, other i up to mar them in their prep pudiated all factions; and he c for repeal, Chartists or Cense Catholics, from Conciliation li _ federation. He concluded by the harvest moon grow pale, c • • hand." Mr. M`GicLE said that nu raised in defence of British ins 0. idiould enrol hi mse lf to defend ;.,/Eryo.3l--lAPh,rlMthat was not really Irish. ;471. MEAGHER F aid t h at on F. better employed than if i,, ,.T . fri„ z a sz:4s of Du bl in. He was in • •p, )pnour o bei ng present c _,;* ).l :7.:: t li ol f sl nd persons, and he w as to &interact, as far as lay it •\ cetlaidered injustice to that tt:; ' BOURSE-PARIS, MONDAY, MARCH 20. VIENNA. SARDINIA. ROME. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARC II 21, 1846. people. They might rest assured that if an arm was stretched out to strike them in Ireland, another arm would be stretched out to revenge them in England. Several resolutions being passed, the meeting sepa rated. _ . . There is no account of any outrages havng been committed. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) AYLESBURY. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Mr. ALEXANDER replied; after which the room was cleared, and the Committee having consulted for a short while strangers were admitted, when The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee had come to the following resolutions: — That Lord Nugent was duly elected to serve in the present Parliament for the borough of Aylesbury. " That J. P. Deering, Esq., was not duly elected to serve in the present Parliament for the borough of Aylesbury. That the last election for the borough of Aylesbury was a void election, so far as it related to the said J. P. Deering, Esq. " That the said J. P. Deering, Esq., was, by his agents, guilty of treating the electors at the last elec tion, for the purpose of corruptly influencing them in their votes." This closed the labours of the Committee. DERBY. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Other freemen gave similar testimony, and their evi dence was put in to prove that on the Tuesday and *Wednesday following the election Mr. Barber, the soli citor of the sitting Member, drew the two cheques upon a Derby bank, one for 3001. in favour of Mr. Whittaker, the party who paid the money to the voters at the com mittee-rooms; and the other for 2001. in favour of Mr. Hawkridge, the other committeeman of Mr. Strutt. The Committee then adjourned till to•morrow. CROWN• OFFICE, MARCH 20. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT: City of Carlisle—William Nicholson Hodson, Esq. ; Philip Henry Howard, Esq., the last election for the said city having been declared sq void. Borough of Kinsale —Benjamin Hawes, E., of Queen's square, Westminster, the last election for the said borough having been declared void. City of Lincoln—Thomas Benjamin Hobhouse, Esq., the last election for the said city having been declared void. Commissions by_ the Lord-Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Lancashire. The Hon. Edward Henry Stanley to be Deputy- Lieutenant, March 17. . _ . Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Somersetshire. West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry— The Reverend John Somerville Broderip, Clerk, to be Chaplain, vice Parsons, resigned. March I__ _ BANKRUPTCY 'SUPERSEDED. William Evans, linendraper, Piccadilly. BANKRUPTS. Benjamin M'Cliesh Chrees and John Boyd, silk ma nufacturers, Bow Churchyard, to surrender March 31, at half- past two, and May 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Hudson, Bucklerabury. Andrew Baldwin, licensed victualler, Bulstrode-street, Saint Mary-le-bone, March 27, at two, and May 1, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Piercy and Co., Three Crown -court, Borough. Charles Corbett Wilson, scrivener, Daventry, North ampton, March 30, at one, and May 4, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman street-buildings; A'Beckett, Son, and Sympson, Golden square ; Pell, jun., Welford, Northampton. Charles Thomas Wood, licensed victualler, Drury-- lane, March 29, at one, and May 2, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Mar tineau' Raymond's-buildings. Gray's Inn. David Le Boutillier, draper, Northumberland-place, Commercial-road East, March 29, at half past one, and May 2, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stanafeld, official assignee; Ashurt and Son, Old Jewry. John Cole Gwillim, cattle-dealer, Bishop's Frome, Herefordshire, April 8, and May 2, at one, at the Bir mingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Gwillim. Hereford; Suckling, Birmingham. William Pickup, brick maker, Blackburn, April 4 and 25, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Sale and Co., Manchester; Wilkinson and Co., Blackburn; Wiglesworth and Co., Gray's Inn-square, London. James Smith, contractor, Macclesfield, April 3 and 25, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Sale and Co., Manchester; Cowdell and Co., Hinckley, Leicestershire; Lewis and Co., Ely-place, Holborn, London. John 'hatable, silversmith, Frome Selwood, Somer setshire, April 6 and May 5, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Miller, Frome. Joseph Isaac Isaacson, merchant, Liverpool, March 31 and April2o, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Vincent and Co., Temple, London; Littledale and Co., Liverpool. Edward Roberts, currier, Denbigh, April 4 and 28, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Few and Co. Henrietta street, London; Pears, Denbigh; Evans and Son, Liver pool. James Wallbank, currier, Stockport, Cheshire, April 3 and 25, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Toulmin and Chester, Staple Inn, London; Oldham, Stockport. Richard Smith and Milton Smith, calico printers, Baxenden, Lancashire, April 5 and 27, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Clarke, Gray, and Woodcock, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London; Whitehead, Bury. William Harding, ship-owner, Stobhouse, Durham, April 3, at eleven, and May 4, at twelve, at the New castle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Perkins, Regent-square, London; Wilson and Faber, Stockton on Tees; Griffith and Crighton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. William Anderson, draper, Clester-le-Street, Durham, March 30, at eleven, and May 2, at ono, at the New castle-upon-Tyne Dictrict Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Steavenson, Darling ton; Burn, Doctor's-commons, London, John Straker, brickmaker, Jarrow, Durham, March 30, at half-past ten, and May 4, at one, at the Newcastle upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, New castle-upon-Tyne ; Philipson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Meggison, Pringle, Stevenson, and Shutn, King's-road, Bedford-row, London. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'clock. ADMINISTRATION OATHS (CHANCERY) BILL. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR the Administration of Oaths (Chancery) Bill was read a second time. ENCUMBERED ESTATES BILL (IRELAND). The Encumbered Estates Bill (Ireland) passed through Committee, and the report was brought up. REPRESENTATIVE PEERS OF SCOTLAND. The Earl of EGLINTON, referring to the Act of last session, regulating . the Election of Representative Peers of Scotland, said that at the last election, Lord Colville: had claimed to vote, and his claim had been protested against by the greater number of Peers pre sent. He, therefore, moved that a copy of that pro test be laid before their Lordships, and that it be re ferred to a Select Committee of their Lordships' House oil Tuesday, 11th April next, and that Lord Colville be required to attend.—Agreed to. AUDIT OF RAILWAY ACCOUNTS BILL. On the: motion of Lord MONTEAGLE the House resolved itself into Committee on the Audit of Railway Accounts Bill. After a desultory conversation, in which the Earls of Malmesbury and Eglinton, and Lords Redesdale, Mont eagle, Stanley, Ashburton, and Granville took part, the clauses were agreed to with several verbal amendments. The Bill was then reported to the House, and their Lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock DUNDALK ELECTION. The Clerk of the Crown attended to amend the returns for the Borough of Dundalk. NEW MEMBERS. Mr. M'CLTLLAGII took the oaths and his seat for Dundalk. The Marquis of BLANDTOZD took the oaths and his seat for Woodstock. Mr. HOSHOUSE took the oaths and his seat for Lin coln. AYLESBURY ELECTION COMMITTEE. This Committee obtained leave to sit during the evening. SECOND READINGS. The following Railway Bills were read a second time and ordered to be committed. Bristol and Exeter (Branch from Bleadon to Wells, Glastonbury, and Street). Bristol and Exeter (Taunton and Castle Cary Branch). Clarence and Leeds and Thirsk Amalgamation. Exeter and Exmouth Railway Acts Amendment. Exeter, Yeovil. and Dorchester Railway and Branches. Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction (Burnley and Colliery Branches). - Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock (Amendment and Branches, &c). Great Northern (Isle of Axholme Extension). Great Western (Extension of the Berks and Hants Rail way from Hungerford to Westbury, with a Branch to Devizes). Leeds and Thirsk (Branch from Melmerby to North allerton and Junction with York and Newcastle Railway). Leeds and Thirsk (Harrogate and Pateley Branch). Leeds Central Railway Station. London and Blackwall Improvement and Branches to the St. Katharine's and London Docks. Londonderry and Coleraine (Deviation of Line and Amendment of Act). Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction. Deviation and Branches. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Crossing of Sheffield-street, in Manchester, &c.) Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Junction with the Midland Railway vie! Barnsley, and Branches therefrom). Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire (Sheffield Canal Purchase). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Station at Sheffield, and Branch to the Sheffield Canal). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire ,(Station Ap- proach in Manchester). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Ashton Canal Purchase). Midland (Gloucester and Stonehouse Junction). Northern Counties Union Amendment and Deviation. North-Western (Diversions at Skipton, Casterton, and Sedbergh). Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton (No. I—ln. crease of Capital). Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton (No. 2—De viation of Line, and Power to Shrewsbury and Bir mingham, and Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway Companies to contribute aed meke Arrangements). Paisley, Barrhead, and Hurlet. Salisbury and Yeovil. Scottish Midland Junction (Amendment and Branch to Laurencekirk). South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Amendment (Extension to Penistone and Alteration of Dodworth Branch). Strathtsy and Breadalbane Extension. Taw Vale Railway and Dock. Windsor, Staines, and South-Western Railway Act (No. 1), 1847 (Slough Extension and Deviations). York, Newcastle, and Berwick, late York and Newcastle (Main Line Improvement, &c.) EXETER AND COWLEY-BRIDGE JUNCTION • RAIL WAY. Mr. CHAPLIN moved the second reading of this Bill. It was but a mile and three-quarters in length, and what he asked those who intended to oppose the Bill was this, •to allow it to go with other schemes before a Com mittee up stairs. It would be on the narrow gauge, and as it would possibly open up again a conflict be tween the broad and narrow gauges, he thought the course he had pointed out was the most advisable to adopt. Sir T. ACKLAND moved that the Bill be read a second time this day six months, on the ground that the South-Western Company, by whom the Bill was ppromoted, were making their way, by "force of gold," into a territory west of Exeter, in which the Legislature had never consented tc the extension of the narrow gauge. The intention of Parliament was clearly that the Exeter and Creditor' Railway should remain a perfectly in dependent line. If the House should sanction the in troduction of the narrow gauge by means of this Bill, they would be sanctioning the continuation of a small piece of narrow gauge, at least sixty miles distant from any other portion of narrow gauge railway. No harm would result from refising the second reading of the Bill for this session at least, and he trusted that the House would not consent to allow the Bill to be read a second time. Sir J. Y. BULLER seconded the motion. Sir J. DUCKWORTH trusted that the House would not decide upon the merits of the Bill, upon its second reading, but adopt the same manner as was always adopted with respect to Bills of this nature, and send it to a Committee to decide upon the merits. The Com mittee appointed by de House in the last session of Parliament had decided upon sanctioning a narrow gauge line from Salisbury to Exeter, and the House had adopted that decision. It only rested now with the House of Lords to give a final decision upon the subject. Sir J. Y. BULLER trusted that the House would adopt the proposition of Hs Hon. Friend (Sir T. Acland), for he looked upon this question as a battle of tho gauges, and nothing else. Colonel SEYMER trusted that the House would allow the Bill to go to a Committee up-stairs, and be decided upon its merits. Mr. STRUTT thought that a patient inquiry ought to take place on the subject of this Bill before the House decided upon its merits. He thought the Bill ought to go before a Committee up stairs, and he trusted, there fore, the Hon. Baronet would withdraw his amendment. Sir R. INGLIS thought that his Hoe. Friend the Member for North Devon was justified in the course he had pursued, and he shuld, therefore, support his amendment. After some observation; from Mr. SCOTT, Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the second reading lOB Against it 56 Majority —s2 The Bill was then read a second timo and ordered to be committed. Lord PALMERSTON had not yet received the dis patch—when he did he would lay it on the table. THE CASE OF MR. RAYSON. Mr. M. MILNES then rose to bring under the consideration of the House the injuries alleged to have been suffered by Mr. Rayson, an English merchant, from the Austrian authorities at Constantinople, and was (LEFT SPEAKING.) COURSE OF EXCH. Amsterdam •• •• .• •• 12 5% Ditto, at eight •• 12 2 Battcrdam •..... 12 6 Antwerp • • .• .• • • •• .• ilAmburgh •• M.D. 13 t 4 kitona• • . ...... ....... Paris, 3 dayesight Ditto, •• •• •• Marseilles ••••••• • •• •• .. 29 Frankfort oa Maine.... 121% Peteraburgh, SU. Iterlin•• •• •• •••••• •• Vienna, effec. f 10...... Trieste, ditt0.......... Madrid • • • • •• •• •• Cadiz • • • •• •• •• •• •• •• 48 Bilbao •••• •• • •••• • . Barcelona •• .• •• •••• •• •• •••., LNGE.-(THIS DAY.) llbraltar.. •••••• • • • • • • Leghera ••.. • • Genoa ............ •... 26 80 .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Venice.. • • • • • • ***** • • • Naples ...... •••• • • • • Palermo, per oz .• ...• • • Lisbon.... • • .... • • • • .• Oporto • • .. • • .... • • .. • . Itio Jaaeire .. Bahia ................ Buenos Ayres .. • • New York, 21 dayesight Philadelphia .......... TRIM or BULLION, TSB OS. Foreign Gold lo baro...E3 :7 9 New Dollars .... •. 0 4 9% Tortuga], Gold Coin •• 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Aver in bars ......•• 0 4 11 SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 21.—The Lady de Sau marez, Captain Wrightson, with nearly 200 passengers, arrived here at eleven o'clock this morning, after a very rough passage, from Havre, which place she left last night at nine o'clock. She reports that affairs wore still more gloomy aspect than ever. At Havre, Rouen, and their neighbour hoods, the English workmen have met with shock ing treatment, being turned out of their houses, their furniture being destroyed, and in some cases they have been personally attacked and severely mal treated. A popular outbreak was feared last night at Havre. It is reported that at Rouen the mob waited on the authorities to ask permission to have two days' pillage, and were only restrained by the prompt inter ference of the National Guards. The Lady de Saumares brought passengers and despatches to the Washington, which left for New York at twelve o'clock, with about thirty-seven passengers, mail, and general cargo. The Royal West India mail-ship Dee, from the West Indies, is hourly expected. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Mach 20. Colonel SII3THORP presented a petition from Lincoln, complaining of the unlicensed sale of game, and .praying for a remedy. NAVY ESTIMATES. • Mr. WARD, in rising to bring under the consi deration of the Committee, the naval policy which he considered was the peculiar province of the Crown and Parliament to pursue, trusted he should have the indul gence of the Committee for a few minutes, while he de tailed the number of men that would be necessary for the service of 184$-49. He could not separate from this point the whole naval policy of the coun try, because in the question of the number of men to be voted for the year was involved the whole subject of the navy estimates. He hoped they would not grudge the means that were necessary to place the navy in an efficient state. What some Honourable Members called an extravagant expenditure, be called a necessary and just one, and before he concluded he should show that this was so. He admitted that much of the moneys voted might have been better spent, if those entrusted with its expenditure had had more time to consider how this might be done. If the service was reduced some thousands it could not fail to be impaired. The number of marines had been constantly varying; but so satisfied was the House of the necessity of keeping up the proper number, that no division of the House had taken place on the subject during the last 20 years.—(Hear, bear.) The number had been always varying, and yet, although Parliament and the country had always demurred to this increasing expenditure, yet there had been no division on the number. He found that the lowest vote ever taken was for 19,000 men, in 1817. In 1819 that number was raised to 20,000 ; and in 1823 to 25,000, without any apparent necessity for the increase, In 1824 it was 29,000 ; in 1825, 30,000; and from 1826 to 1830 it was 27,000. In 1835 it was 26,000; and in 1836.7, 33,000; in 1837-8, 34,000.; in 1840-1, 39,000; and in 1841.2, 43,000, the same as this year. He might perhaps be told there was always some political cause to be assigned for the increase being granted without a division ; such as the war in Syria or China, or that some disturbance of the peace of Europe was threatened, and that when peace was restored a re duction took place. In 1843-4 the force was 39,000 men, which in 1844-5 was reduced to 36,000 men. The force of 36,000 men was then taken as the standard of the proper peace establishment by the Right lion. Baronet (Sir J. Graham), although it exceeded by 10,000 men the standard of 1835. A single year's experience, however, was enough to prove the insuf ficiency ,of his vote, and in 1846-6, having reduced the force to 36,000 men, the Government increased it to 40,000 men in a time of' profound peace. In 1846 a further addition of 1,500 marines was made, which was followed by a further increase of 1,500 marines in the present estimates, making the number of sea men and marines included in the present vote. Why had there been this constant increase in the naval estimates as proposed by successive Governments ? There was no abstract love of taxation in the country, but there had been a feeling that the increase did not depend upon ourselves ; that one power could not stand still while others progressed. Of all posi tions the most perilous for a country like this was, that she should have the reputation abroad of being at once wealthy and weak, that her commerce should be spreading over every sea, that her ports should be the depots of the world's produce, and yet that she should have no military or internal organbiation for her defence. —(Hear.) He should perhaps be told how free trade would bind all the nations of the world together. That might be very well 100 years hence, but where was the country with which we had such relations at present as to justify the absence of all power of self defence ?—(lronical cheers from the Protectionist benches.) Where could the Hon. Member for the West Riding (Mr. Cobde n ) p o i n t t o a f ore i gn eoun try with which we were connected by such intimate c mw o eo m rcer m at e toi re expenditure eldia institutions again ties taoi as t itfnu tttihho iensys o justify e formo uunsttt a reduction in the naval rhyleo preservation r e ( t so H e r e vt a ah r te , o h s np e a r e r oa . h.) They ffe peace. But if they looked to the past they found that the most democratic states had been sometimes the most ambitious and the most warlike.--(Hear, hear.) The Republics of Carthage and Rome might vie with the most despotic Governments in the wars they had carried on, and if they looked to later times they would find the principle called " annexation " in full force.—(Hear, hear.) They were old enough to recollect the annexation of Texas ; and the war between the United States and Mexico did not inspire him with faith in the morality or peacefulness of the purest democracies.—(Cheers.) Man was man, in whatever country he was placed; and the only safety on which it was prudent for a nation to rely was upon her own resources for her self-defence, and not to trust to Utopian theories about the mutual dependence of na ti ons . —(H ea r, hear.) That principle of trusting to herself alone for her own defence had been the principle adopted by all the successive Governments of this country, and it was a good, wholesome, practical principle, worth a bushel of theories. Lord Hatherton, who was a member of the Finance Committee of 1811, wrote the other day to remind him that when Lord Castle reagh was examined before that Committee, and asked what had been the policy of this country with regard to the defences, he said that " our policy had been to keep up a navy equal to any two navies be.. longing to other powers that could be brought against us." The Finance Committee of 1817 reported upon this subject : "Esteeming the naval superiority of this country as the principle on which its external power, Internal safety, and general prosperity, in the highest degree depend, your Committee are of opinion that the sense which they entertain of the necessity for economy, cannot, with a due regard to the interest of the State, be allowed to in terfere with,the support of such a maritime force as may be deemed necessary in time of peace—(" Hear, hear," frq,m Mr. Hume)—nor with the preparations for its adequate augmentation in the event of war. And as naval expenditure) in time of peace is principally connected with the purchase and preparation of materials for future exigency, there is no part of the public service in which an ill-judged temporary economy might be ultimately productive of such considerable expense." That was wise and wholesome advice, but it had re ference to a state of the world totally different from what they saw now. The next great great t epoch e c w o h n e n n e c theted withitg R i ght e H n o a n v . a 1Bn expenditure (Sir was Robert in was in power, whose foreign policy inspired the Hon. Member for Montrose (Mr. Hume) with perfect r r lB e 4 e 4 l) , faith in the preservation of peace. He believed there never were two men more desirous of preserving the peace of the world than the Right Hon. Baronet and Lord Aberdeen. Their measures for securing that object were crowned with perfect success, yet they adopted as the basis of their policy a large increase in the means of national self-defence. The Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Ripon (Sir J. G ra h am), the great naval econom ist of 1834, concurred in all these measures, for which he was as much responsible as for the estimates of 1834, and the force of forty thousand men was established as the proper peace establishment of 1845. The Right sp in ua rsays passed d u f opurpnlpedrmee under a n t rh t a let r i y soann estimate eo cf of t et dh 1e withBLs , 0 0 r O dt 0 h: e . o , Hon. Baronet (Sir J ames G ra h am ) also concurred fs w t et h ha i em c h Tnr y t ae ' va a y- s for that year. The three individuals to whom he bad referred, men of great sagacity and public experience, had, in 1844, declared to be necessary every item of naval expenditure which Honourable Members behind him (Mr. Ward) now complained of. A large in crease of all the items of the naval expenditure took place during the administration of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth. The vote for men in 1834 was 958,7611.; in 1845 it was 1,328,0531. The vote for yard wages in 1834 was 348,0121.; in 1845 it was 649,1041. The vote fur stores in 1534 was 499,190/. ; in 1845 it was 1,273,7891., with a supplementary estimate of 185,0001., making nearly 1,500,0001. in all. In 1846-47 the vote was taken for nearly the same amount -1,694,1521. This expenditure was adopted by the Government from no thirst for war, no desire for in creased patronage; and it met with no opposition in that House. Was it not unjust, then, to attack the present Government for the amount of this expendi ture, just because it required a little moral courage on the part of lion. Members to tell the truth to their constituents?—(Hear, hear.) In 1884 there was a consumption of 11,551 loads of timber in the dock yards ; in 1845, 27,136 loads. In 1834 the con sumption of hemp was 3,898 tons ; in 1845 it was 6,063 tons. The consumption of copper was 601 tuns in 1834, and 1,158 tons in 1845 ; of iron, 864 tons in 1834, and 2,897 tons in 1845. An overruling necessity compelled the Government of that day to take these steps. The Hon. Baronet the Member for Southwark (Sir W. Molesworth) congratulated the Right lion. Baronet (Sir J. Graham) on the mode rate amount of his naval estimates of 1834; but he forgot that the last estimates of the Government of which the Right Hon. Baronet was a member, and for which he was just as much responsible as for those of 1834, were the largest that this country had ever known. The Right Hon. Baronet and the then Ad ministration saw steam navies growing up around them in France, Russia, and the United States. They saw a new element of warfare, with which sailing vessels were alone unfit to cope, and they saw that changes were indispensable. What others did, we must do also, and if we left our pace we must leave our superiority also.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Baronet (Sir W. Molesworth) said the increase was totally uncalled for. The United States' ships were meeting us in the Mediterranean, in China, and everywhere ; yet the United States were said to have a small navy, and one unable to cope with us. The Hon. Baronet forgot that Great Britain was a great colonial and commercial empire; and, although there might be " new lights" upon these points, yet the House appeared to adopt the views of his Noble Friend (Lord John Russell), and consider our colonies an important part of our commercial strength and national pre-eminence.—(Hear, hear.) The case was different with the United States, who had no such extended colonial empire. The extent of our colonial possessions was the cause of the mul tiplicity of our stations in different parts of the world, and was the reason why we were forced to keep up such an amount of naval strength as would enable us to come into contact with the fleets of other nations which we might meet there. In 1846 there was a dispute between this country and the United States; and, until it was settled, it was necessary to keep up the amount of our naval force. Another reason for the increase in the naval estimates was the false eco nomy w hich it was felt had been for a series of years adopted, of not obtaining a sufficient amount of stores to replace the consumption in the dockyards—of living upon their capital, in fact, and so drawing upon the stock of timber, hemp, and other important arti cles of naval stores, that if an aggressive attack had been made we should not have been in a position to resist it. What had been the reduction of some of the principal articles of expenditure when this great economy was practised? In 1832 there were 64,023 loads of shipbuilding timber in store in the dockyards, which, in 1839, was reduced to 46,295 loads. In 1832 there were 7,827 tons of hemp, which were reduced to 4,673 tons in 1139. In 1832 there were 36,041 bolls of canvass, and only 17,427 bolls in 1839. In 1832 there were 101 ' sets of fitted rigging, which were reduced to 36 sets in 1839. The stores of sails, yarn, cables and cordage, and lower masts were reduced in the same way, by not making purchases each year to the full extent of what had been used. The plan followed during those years had been rightly described as " a spurious and bastard economy," and could not be permanently adopted. It might do very well to eke out the estimates of a particu lar year; but no wiser act was done by the Administra tion of the Right Hon. Baronet than the immense addi tions to our naval stores made by the late Government. Was that system to be lightly altered ? The present Government might have claimed credit and sought popu larity by abusing the naval estimates of their predeces sors as extravagant. But such a course would have been as unwise as it was unworthy; it would have been attended with ruinous consequences, and the country would have been deprived of the benefit of all the very considerable outlay that had been made. There had been a large expenditure in all the principal dockyards at Woolwich, Chatham, and Portsmouth, and this money would have been thrown into the sea if the works had been stopped. The present Government determined to complete what their predecessors in office had begun, and to carry on those works with vigour for another year, when they expected to reap the legitimate fruits of that expenditure, so as to be able to make a reduction in the estimates of 1849-50. He would take the largest vote of this year, 686,600/. for new works. A part of this increase was apparent, and not real, as some items having been charged under this head heretofore in cluded under others , _ but it was, he admitted a large item. Now, he thought he could undertake to come to the 'House in 11649-50 for a vote of 473,0004, being a saving of 214,000/. in this item. When the Government pro posed an increase of the income-tax they intended to have pushed on these new works, the execution of which must now be spread over a larger number of years. He thought it would have been better economy to have finished the works at once, but the House had expressed its opinion against the increase of the income-tax, and to their opinion the Government must bow. The works at Woolwich and Chatham had been finished, and the works at Portsmouth, for which the Government took a large vote, would be completed next year. At Malta the Government had spread the expenditure over two years, instead of completing the works at once. But the item for new works would, he hoped, be reduced by 214,000/. next year, and afterwards by 60,0001. or 70,000/. until 1854, when the whole of the works begun by their pre decessors would bo completed, and the expenditure would be reduced to 120,0001. or 150,000/, the mere cost of superintendence. The next item was steam machinery, oae upon which there had been an im mense expenditure during the last ten years. The vote for the current year was 280,000/.; but he hoped that the vote which the Government would be able to propose for 1849 and 1850 would be only 100,000/. Not that the present amount was too large, for there were some contracts yet to be fulfilled, and machinery to be paid for; but the effect of this expenditure would be, that on the let of April, 1849, this country would have a steam navy of 45,000 horse power, and the naval force at the beginning of that year would be 450 ships of dif ferent rates and classes, including 121 steamers With out pretending positively to fix the relation which the number of sailing and steam-vessels ought to bear towards each other, or that the force he had named was the proper and efficient force for the country, under all circumstances, he was warranted in saying that there was a probability of a considerable reduction in the building establishments and stores after the programme for the ensuing year had been car ried out. The article of such machinery as saw-mills, :sc., was very costly, and the public had a right to expect a corresponding reduction of the manual labour ensployed, but the Government were anxious to make such reduction in a way that should not fall heavily on the men employed in the yards. The Govern ment did not desire to swell the amount of unemployed labour, and he wished to meet the necessity for some reduction by limiting the number of apprentices to be taken, and similar precautions, rather than by having recourse to dismissals. He had put together with great care the probable results which he could hold out for the estimates of 1849 and 1850, and he would state them to the Hoase; observing that he made the statement with the approbation of Lord Auckland and other mem bers of the Admiralty Board. In the new works (No. 11) there would be a saving of 214,643/. In the steam machinery (No. 10) a saving of 180,000/. ; in iron steamers, the contracts for which were complete, 25,0001. ; in ships building at Bombay, where the Government intended to discontinue the establish. ment, 25,000/. ; in steam guard ships, the contracts for which were complete, 8,5001. ; and in a schooner for Bermuda, built by contract, 3,7101. •, making altogether, 456,853/. If to that sum be added the reductions under Nos. 8 and 10 for labour and stores, amounting to 150,0001., it would give a total saving upon the naval estimates for 1849 and 1850 of 606,853/. In this anticipated saving, however, an ample margin was left for all the important heads of navel expendi ture ; for there would be 100,000/. for new steam ma chinery, 135,000/ for repairs and factory wages, 476,000/. for new works, and 1,747,0151. for dockyard wages and stores. With these reductions, it was thought possible to combine a navy in a most thoroughly efficient state, and, provided that object was secured, the country had a right to expect a return for its enormous outlay during the last six years. The outlay on steam ma chinery since 1835 had been 2,689,000/. ; fur iron steam-vessels, 503,798/. ; for stores, since, 1644, without steam machinery, 4,444,938/. ; and for works, also without steam machinery, 2,794,7421. ; making a total outlay of 10,432 ,478 / . upon those four items up to the close of the year.—(llear, hear.) , Surely, after !tech an expenditure as that, the time hail arrived when a return was to be . : looked for and he thought th e H ouse would be of opinion that, by persevering in the course he had stated, the Government had succeeded in placing .) those great establishments, upon which the security of the country so much de pended, in a most efficient and available condition. About the beginning of the year England would have a steam navy of nearly 50,000 horse-power, while in 1835 she had 4,153 horse-power. Those two great establishments at Portsmouth and Woolwich were in a perfectly effi cient state for undertaking all steam repairs. At Ports mouth, although it was not the intention of the present board to proceed with those larger plans which had been proposed by their predecessors, yet the whole space marked out had been surrounded by a sea wall, and was available ct any future time, should it be required. The great steams -tasin at Portsmouth was one of the most magnificent N. orks of modern times—(Hear, hear)—and it would open during the ensuing month. The works at Malta would be complete in the course of next year, and Bermuda, after twenty years of neglect, was now likely to become a station worthy of a great naval power. When these facts were taken into account, and when it was remembered that these works had been effected under a system begun in 1844, and perse vered in up to the present tune, it might be safely asserted that the naval establishments of the country had never been in a more efficient state, and that England was never in a better position to preserve peace in Europe, because she had never been in a position in which she would be mere formidable in war.—(Llear.) LONDONDERRY AND COLERAINE RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.) A. special general meeting of this company was held this afternoon at the Guildhall Coffeehouse, John Griffith Frith, Esq., in the chair, to take into conside ration a Bill now before Parliament, to authorise certain deviations in the line, to increase the number and reduce amount of the shares, to authorise the re-issue of cer tain shares, and to otherwise amend the Act relating to the railway. • The heads of the Bill having been read, after some discussion the Bill was sanctioned, and the directors authorised to promote in Parliament ; and a vote of thanks having been passed to the chairman, which was responded to, the meeting separated. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. tFrom the London New Price Current of March 21.) SUGAR—Today prices further declined for all sorts of raw Sugar, as supplies were plentiful, whilst there was not the least improvement in the export demand, and the home trade made purchase with caution. The decline to day was more apparent on the better sorts of Mauritius. West India was operated with much caution for all pur poses, whilst the rates taken were rather under those that existed on Friday, and there is a larger quantity of all sorts on offer. The sales privately are only 150 hhds and trcs. Mauritius is cheaper than any other sort of Sugar, RELINED.—Today there was less demand for Refined goods, and prices were not so firm; Standard Lumps selling at 53s to 53s 6d, and brown grocery at 52s 6d; there is also an increased quantity on offer. For Bonded Crushed Sugar the demand is only for small parcels at 28s to 29s per cwt. MAuarrzus.—This afternoon the quantity of Mau ritius Sugar offered at public sale was large, and con sisted of 4 parcels amounting to 12,150 bags, the prin cipal part comprised of middling and good yellow sorts. There is a desire on the part of holders to sell, but they submitting to prices is per cwt under these pre viously current for the better kinds of yellow, and 6d for other sorts, caused nearly the whole to find buyers. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal was only in limited demand, and the public sales of .3,957 bags went at a further decline of 6d per cwt. FOREIGN.—To-day there was little pasasing privately in any kind of Foreign Sugar, although there were sellers rather ander former rates. At public sale 12 bags and 6 barrels of Santa Martha were sold at 43s to 46i for yellow, and at 52s for white; 5 hhds of Havannah at 46s for very fine yellow. COFFEE.—To-day there was little inclination evinced to operate in Native Ceylon, and at public sale 1,348 bags were sold at barely the former ♦alue—real good ordinary sold at 32s 5d to 335, damaged 26s 6d to 31s, and pea bent) , 38s. Plantation is little wanted, and can be obtained on the private market at rather lower prices. Threelitres and brls of Jamaica at auction were sold at 29s 6d to 38s for low to fine ordinary. MoLAssEe.—Prices were lower for West India; and 217 puns at auction were taken in—ordinary St. Vin cents at 15s to 15s 6d, and middling 16s 6d to 17s per cwt. Privately there was scarcely any business con cluded. COCOA.-British Plantation is less required, and holders are inclined to make a slight concession in the value, notwithstanding the decreasing stock. At auction 820 bags of Trinidad were nearly all taken in, good dark rod at 47 Gd to 48v, middling 475, middling grey 454, and good 465. The niArket for Foreign is dull, prices are looking down, and rule at 325 to 341.3 per cwt. TEA.—This afternoon the sales made in all sorts of Teas were limited in the private market, and prices must be quoted rather lower for Black and Green. SPIRITS —Today East India Rum met with less de mand, and is Sid to Is 9d were the rates taken for proof. For Leeward Island the market is quiet, and proof of plain quality can be obtained at is 10d. Jamaica is held for full rates, but the demand has fallen oil fur 1311 RlCE —Today the sales made privately in East India mere of little moment, but holder. refused to submit to any further reduction: at auction 585 bags of Java sold at 5s 6d to 9s for sea damaged. SPICES.—To-day Pimento met with little attention, and 338 bags at auction were only in part sold at barely the former value ; ord 3id, good ord 41d, low mid, 44-d, and mid 4id. Black Pepper was dealt in with caution, and 658 bags 400 robins, were only in part sold at rather lower rates. Of Batavia Nutmegs 26 cases ware sold at 2s 6d to 2s 7d for good bold limed, which are lower rates. SALTFETRE.—To-day the demand for Rough was ac tive, and advanced rates were obtained ; there are seve ral buyers for arrival—Calcutta 12 to 9 per cent refrac tion is worth 32s Gd to 335, and 8 to 3 per cent 33s 6d to 355. At pablic sale 64 bags went at 35s for 4.} per cent refraction. INDIGO.—There are snllers of East India at a reduc tion on last sales rates of 3 1 to 4d, yet the sales made have been trivial in all kinds for every purpose. Of tine Bengal, the supply is. however, yet scanty, but it is little required. The dealings in Spanish have been trivial, although holders are inclined to make a slight couce.sion in the value for all sorts. Oms.--The market has be( n better supplied with all common Fish Oils, and the home trade evincing little inclination to make purchases, prices are depressed for all kinds. A further falling off is apparent in the deliveries, and arrivals are upon a more extended scale. In Seal the sales made privately aro limited. in all sorts, notwithstanding the decline in the value, and a part only of 54 tuns at auction found buyers. Cod is little required, and can be obtained at 241 lOs to 251; at auction G tuns went at 221 to 241 lOs. The market is in a quiet state for all sorts of Southern, and prices • are receding. Of 85 tuns from America at auction, a part only sold. For Sperm There is a good demand, and holders display firmness. At auction 35 tuns were all sold. There are few buyers of Cocoa Nut, and holders are willing to accept further reduced rates. At auction 30 tons from Sydney were taken in at 43s to 45s per cwt. The value of good and fine Ceylon is 50s to 525. Of Nut Oil 12 tons East India at public sale were taken in at 381 lOs to 39/ per ton. Olive is held for full rates, but buyers are cautious in their proceedings, the deliveries are yet exceeding the arrivals. TALLOW —Holders of Russian are asking higher rates on the spot, biit the town as well as country trade have operated with reluctance by reason of the diminished consumption. The value of fine P.Y. Candle is 50s 9d to 51s par cwt; these rates, however, are only obtainable for small parcels. A good demand exists for delivery in the last three months of the year, and the price is firm at 465. Town made is little required. Other sorts realised stiffer rates. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 18th day of March, 1848, by the Lords of her Majesty's most Ho nourable Privy Council.—lt is this day ordered by their Lordships, that his Grace the Archbishop of Canter bury do prepare a Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God for her Majesty's safe delivery of a Princess ; and that such form of prayer and thanks giving be used in all the churches and chapels in Eng land and Wales, and in the town of Berwick- upon- Tweed, upon Sunday the 26th of March instant, or the Sunday after the respective ministers of such churches and chapels shall receive the same. .And it is hereby further ordered, that her Majesty's Printer do forthwith print a competent number of copies of the said Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving, that the same may be forthwith sent round and read in the several churches and chapels of England and Wales, and of the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed. beth e Whitehall, h day March, 1848, by the Lords of her M a j esty ' s M ost Hon ourable Privy Council.—lt is this day o r d ere d b y t h e i r Lordships that every Minister and Preacher, as well of the Established Church in that part of Great Britain Galled Scotland, as those of the Epis copal Communion, protected and allowed by an Act passed in the tenth year of her Majesty Queen Anne, intituled "Au Act to prevent the disturbing those of the Episcopal Communion in that part of Great Britain called Scotland in the exercise of their religious worship, and in the use of the Liturgy of the Church of England ; and for repealing the Act, passed in the Parliament of Scotland, intituled " An Act against irregular baptisms and marriages," do, at some time during the exercise of Divine service in their churches, congregations, or assemblies, on Sunday the 26th day of March instant, or on the Sunday after the ministers or preachers of such congregations, or assem blies, respectively, shall be enabled to do so, put up Prayers and Thanksgivings to Almighty God for her Majesty's safe delivery of a Princess. •• .• • C. C. GREVILLE. HORSHAM ELECTION. The Members of the Horsham Election Committee were summoned to the table and sworn. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY DEVIATIONS. On the motion for the postponement of the second reading of this Bill, Lord GALWAY moved that the Bill be read a second time this day six months, contending that the proposed deviations had repeatedly been rejected by Parliament. and they were of no public utility. Mr. 0. DUNCOMBE opposed the amendment, and supported the motion for the postponement. Sir E. COLEBROOKE would support the amend meat, as he considered the decision of Committees of the House ought not to be put lightly aside. Mr. S. WORTLEY said he had only heard within the last quarter of an hour that any opposition was intended to the Bill, and he believed other Hon. Mem bers were in a similar position. He thought his Hon. Friend should not press his motion to a division. Mr. HOPE said he was a member of the Committee, that last year rejected a similar Bill, and that he should support the amendment. Mr. C. BRUCE saidihe was also a member of the Committee, and deprecated the time of Members being occupied in sitting on Committees to try the merits of Bills which had been rejected the preceding session. He should support the amendment. Mr. STRIN'T said that ro far as he understood the subject it appeared to him that the only question before the House was the delay of the Bill for two days, and he thought that the interests of the public and the credit of the House would be best supported if the House acceded to the delay. The Earl of LINCOLN said that he had been from the first period a warm supporter of this particular line of railway, but he certainly felt it to be his duty not to vote in favour of the adjournment of the Bill. The delay of two days would not put the House in any better position to decide upon the question; on the contrary, they would, no doubt, be called upon on Thursday next to ,decide the question after the parties had had the opportunity of bringing its powerful influence to bear upon individual Members of the House. He most earnestly trusted, therefore, that the House would de cide in favour of the amendment of his Noble Friend, that the Bill be read a second time this day six months. These deviation Bills ought to be looked upon by the House with the greatest jealousy.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. A. 0. DUNCOMBE made a few observations in explanation, after which strangers were ordered to with draw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the second reading 32 Against it Majority against the second reading —144 The Bill is consequently lost. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. HINDLET gave notice that on the 4th of April he should draw the attention of the House to the state of the industrious classes of this country. Mr. F. MACKENZIE gave notice that one day this week he should move that a new writ be issued for the borough yf Harwich. Mr: LIUME gave notice that on Monday next, on the second reading of the Income-tax Bill being moved, he should move that it be referred to a Select Com mittee up stairs. AYLESBURY ELECTION. Mr. R. PALMER brought up the report of the Aylesbury Election Committee, declaring Lord Nugent to have been duly elected, and Mr. J. P. Doering to have been unduly elected. NEW WRIT FOR BEWDLEY. Mr. F. M'KENZIE moved that a now writ be issued for the borough of Bewdley. Mr. TATTON EGERTON said he did not rise to object to the motion, but he wished to draw the attention of the House to the fact that the Committee to whom the Bewdley Election petition referred reported specially to the House, and he would ask the House whether under such circumstances it would not be better to postpone this motion?—(Hear, hear.) The circumstances under which the Committee reported specially were these, the Committee found that a vexatious system of carrying away voters, treating, and making them drunk, was carried on at :the last election, and at the previous election of 1841, and he put it to the House whether it would not be as well if this motion were postponed till some steps had been taken to pro tect the voters themselves in their exercise of the elective franchise? _ Mr. HUME proceeded to read several extracts from the report of the committee, showing that a system pre 'ailed in the Borough of Bewdley of keeping up nearly nearly all the public-houses during the time of elections. The motion was then withdrawn. Mr. P. SCROPE gave notice of his intention to ask a question to morrow on the subject of the forcible and cruel ejectment of a large number of persons from various estates in the county of Galway. DISMISSAL OF ENGLISH SERVANTS. In answer to a question put by Mr. B. COCHRANE, Lord PALMERSTON said that he had received no notificalion whatever tending to corroborate the state ments that the dismissal of English servants in Paris had taken place at the request of the Provisional Government. COMMISSIONERS ARLIAME OF THE NT. NEW HOUSES OF P In answer to a question put by Mr. DUNCAN, Lord MORPEREI said that the number of Commis sioners appointed by the Government to superintend the erection of the new Houses of Parliament was three, one of whom was Earl Grey, another Mr. Greene, and a third Sir John Burgoyne. RECEPTION OF THE ROYAL FAMILY OF FRANCE IN THIS COUNTRY. In answer to a question put by an Hort. MEMBER, Lord PALMERSTON stated that there was no foundation whatever for the statements which had ap peared in the newspaper, to the effect that the Marquis of Normanby had waited upon M. Lamartine to apologize to the Provisonal Government for the reception by this country of the Royal Family of France. No communication of any kind had taken place between her Majesty's Government and the Pro visional Government of France, through the - Marquis of Normanby or any other channel, on that subject. It was quite true that the Marquis e F Normanby had addressed to him (Lord Palmerston) a private letter, stating that misapprehension or feelings of jealousy might be ex cited in the Government of France with respect to the re ceoprgntioanntbhyatrlmeiguhest be ted g h iv im en , not to the Royal Family, but to the late Minist ers o f the F rench G overnment . H e had in a privat e l etter a dd resse d to t h e Marquis of N should arise, t o state that the in ense reception any givensuch ttoeethoses persons was, and would be,a reception which in this country was always given to men who, from any unfortunate cir cumstances, were obliged to seek refuge in this country the reception of hospitality suitable to the country, and that the French Government might rest assured, that in the dealings of this Government with France, they would act firmly, honourably, and quite ly, and that under such circumstances should o th p e e r n ebe the slightest ground given for imputing any thing like intriguing in any hostile manner against the interests of the French Government.—(Hear, hear.) In answer to a question from Lord DUDLEY STUART, Lord PALMERSTON stated that no communication whatever had been received by the Government of this country from the Provisional Government of France with respect to the discovery of any correspondence affecting the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier, and relating to very peculiar and extraordinary circumstances. No proposition or communication of any sort or kind had been submitted to them t and with respect to their departure, it was entirely the result of their own choice, and so far from its being in accord ance with any communication made by the Government, the House would at once perceive that there were many reasons why the Government should have desired that these personages should have stayed in this country in stead of going aw a y. STATE OF AUSTRIA. In anar►er to another question from the same Noble Lord Lord PALMERSTON stated that be had received a dispatch from Vienna, dated the 14th instant, inform ing him that Prince Metternich had ceased to be Prime Minister of Austria. Beyond that he had informationito give with reference to the state of Austria.—(Laughttr) BRAZIL. Lord PALMERSTON, in answer to a question from Lord George Bentinck, said that he could not hold out any hop e , f ro m the feelings that the Bra zilians entertained upon the subject, that any commer cial treaty could b e re t a ined with Brazil. SPANISH TARIFF. Mr. BANKS wished to know when the dispatch from the Court of Madrid with respect to the tariff would be laid on the *le of the Liam It now rested with the House of Commons to decide wht.ther they would be willing, upon the proposition of his lion. Friend behind him—whatever that proposition might be—to cripple the resources of the country, to undo all that had been done during the last ten year., and to break up a system which had been created and oa•ried out with so much labour and at so much expense; or whether they would sanction the continuance of that system, and ♦ote for the maintenance of these establish- ments in a state worthy of the country ? Some singular observations had been put forth lately as to the services of our naval officers on the different stations. An Hon. Gentleman appeared to imagine that the life of the English naval officer on a foreign station was a constant scene of pleasure and repose. Let the Hon. Gentle man, however, only look at the papers containing the account of our navy on those stations, and consider the plain truth of the case, and the facts would soon lose the colouring with which the poetical imagination of the Honourable Gentleman had invested it. He would soon find that there was some work for the servants of a great maritime power like this, and that they had a • little more to do than cultivating those passing en joyments to which he had referred. Let the Honourable Gentleman ask the inhabitants of Palermo, or of Mes sina, or any other of those ports on th e con ti nen t where British ships had lately been engaged in protecting their countrymen, whether they thought that a fleet in the Mediterranean was useless. If ever the naval power had been wisely, and economically, and usefully ad. ministered, it had been by Sir William Parker.— (Hear, hear.) The squadron in the Pacific, consist ing of 12 ships, and 3,495 men, had operated in the midst of the disturbances in Spanish America to the protection of British merchants there. In the midst of such scenes, when were the British officers and men to find time for those luxuries of which the Honourable Member spoke? Look at the East Indies. A fleet had been stationed there to protect our commerce; thus the whole of the East Indian Archipelago had been cleared from pirates, and a part of the same fleet had aided in the protection of our colonies in New Zealand. Thai squadron had been distinguished for acts of daring gal lantry, and it had discharged in a most exemplary man ner the arduous duties entrusted to it.—(Hear, hear.) As to the fleet in the Tagus, which had been made the subject of some pointed remarks by the Hon. Gentle man, he (Mr. Ward) would ♦enture to say that under Sir Charles Napier that squadron had been among the best naval schools that England had ever produced. —(bear, hear.) There had never been a commander• in-chief of more indefatigable spirit, who had exerted himself more to render those under his orders perfectly efficient in every branch of their calling, or who could place a finer and more able fleet before an enemy.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. Ward) was sensible that he had developed these matters to the Hours very imperfectly, but it would be for them now to decide whether they would give way to the economical sugges tions, and act without regard either to the past or the future, but with reference to the present hour alone. For his own part he believed that those very constituencies who had been loudest in demanding economy would be the first to reprehend their representatives for abandon ing that system under which the establishments had been raised to their present state of efficiency.—(Hear, hear.) He, for one, would sooner abandon his position than consent to forego these great results the moment they were obtained.—(Hear.) Now members, new to that House, and new to the subject of the outlay necessary for this great arm of our strength, might argue for re trenchment, but he confessed he had been astounded al the language held upon this subject from some Mem bers of older experience, and at the policy they ,bad commended.—(hear, hear.) It appeared to him it would be the height of impolicy to forego the results of the policy of the last ten years. England had now a posi tion which was the best, and only practical security for the peace of the world—the power to defend herself against aggression, let it come frota whatever quarter it might. He recommended Hon. Members, however reducing these economical views might be, to pause before they resolved upon ♦oting with the Hon. Member to cripple those resources which had lately been created. He relied upon their judgment with perfect confidence when the matter was fairly brought to the test, and he should fearlessly abide the result. The . CHAIINAN was about to put the question, " That a sum not exceeding 593,0001. be granted," when he was interrupted by Mr. HUME, who objected to the question being put. It had been understood that no money was to be ♦oted until the Committee had reported. He had no abjection to a vote being taken for the number of men, in order that the Government might bring in the Mutiny Bill, but he did object to voting money, as it would be, in fact, a breach of faith. Mr. WARD said that he did not propose to take more than that vote on account, but he did not know of any other way in which the number of men could be brought before the Committee than by voting a part of the BUM required. The number of men was a question of prerogative. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that in the case of the navy there was no distinct and separate vote for the number of men, while in the case of the army the first vote in the estimates was for the num ber, and the way proposed was the only ono that could be adopted. Mr. lIUME wanted to know, then, how he was to effect his objeet of reduction I' He did not care about the form. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER--Th• usual form was to move for a reduction in the amount of money. Mr: GLADSTONE said, that the lion. Gentleman had treated this as a question of prerogative, inferring that all that the House of Commons had to do was to vote the money, without reference to the number of men. But how did that apply in the case of the army, when, as the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer had said, the practice was to vote the number of men as well as the money ? He found in the journals of the last year, 1847, page 181, that Mr. Greene reported that the Committee of Supply had passed several resolutions, the first being that a sum not exceeding 185,0001. be granted to defray the expenses, &e.; and the second re solution being that 31,500 men be employed in the sea service for 13 lunar months, to the 81st day of March, 1848; and the third resolution being that a sum not exceeding 1,323,0001. be granted for wages of seamen. If this were a specimen of the practice of the House, it appeared that there had been a separate resolution for the number of men, and that it had been submitted to the House before the vote for the wages of those sea men. Some explanation should be given of this, for it appeared but reasonable that the House should have the opportunity of discussing the number of men as well AS the amount of money to be ♦oted. Sir J. GRAHAM. had not had time since the speech of the Hon. Gentleman to refer to the estimates of former years in the library, but, unless his memory failed, the practice had been that before the vote which the Chairman had been about to put with respect to the means of paying the officers and men, there had always been an enumeration of the number of seamen, boys, and marines to be voted, signed by the responsible ad visers of the Crown.-- (Hear, hear.) He was surprised when he saw that the usual form had been deviated from in the estimates for the present year, and that the number of men required had been only printed in ♦ery small letters. Mr. Bernal would, no doubt, be able to inform the Committee whether the estimates were not this year printed in a form different to that of preceding years. - Mr. HUME said he wanted to raise the question of she number of men, because the expenses of other departments depended upon it, and it was useless to inquire into those details if the Committee upstairs were precluded from entering upon the question of the number of men. He begged to suggest that the num ber of men be first taken, in conformity with all pre. ceding practice. After a few words frinn Mr. CORRY, Mr. WARD (who then handed a vote to the chairman with reference to the number of mei) said that the mis take had originated entirely in an error on his part. He had prepared the proper resolution, but, by an over sight, the wrong one had bees first proposed. The Earl of LINCOLN hoped the Secretary to the Admiralty and the Chancellor of the Exchequer wouli now withdraw the novel doctrine they had promulgated, that the rumber of men was determined by the preroga tive of the Crown.—(Laughter.) Mr. WARD—Oh yes, was quite wrong. Mr. DISRAELI—Then what became of the ingenious argement of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which, no doubt, had had such an effect upon the House?—(Renewed laughter.) Lord J. RUSSELL—His Right Hon. Friend was quite right in saying that there was a declaration every year in the Queen's Privy Council of the Crown having decreed a certain number of men for the navy. This was not the custom with the army estimates; and, in the case of the navy, of course a subsequent alteration might he made by the House. But, so far, the Crown possessed a prerogative, and, so far, the explanation of his Right Hon. Friend had been correct. Sir J. GRAHAM—The Queen in Council certainly did so decree; but, in consequence of that declaration, them had always been set forth, in the first vote of the House, under the name of the First Lord of the Admi ralty and of the Board ,of Admiralty, the responsible advisers of *Ne Crown, the precise number of men pro posed by the Government for the service; ar.d it was always then open to any Member of the House to suggest any reduction which might be thought ex pedient. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—It was quite true that the first vote put into the hands of the chairman related to the number of men, but this never appeared, as the Right Hon. Baronet seemed to suppose, in the estimates. The Right Hon. Baronet was under a misapprehension in supposing that any document bearing the signature of the First Lord of the Admiralty was ever laid on the table of the House gat- ing the number of men to be proposed. Sir J. GRAHAM—The first vote, he contended, was signed by the members of the Board of Admiralty; the vote now in the hands of the chairman was signed. The CtIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER--The vote was so signed, but there was no estimate of the number of men which was signed. Sir J. GRAHAM—Perhaps Mr. Bernal would tell the House what the vote now was. The CHAIRMAN —The vote was a substantive vote of 43,000 men, to be employed for the sea service, Mr. HUME observed that that was as it should be, for mistakes were made in the best regulated families. --(A laugh.) He felt it extremely difficult to grapple with his Hon. Friend the Secretary for the Admiralty, for he gloried in the expenditure for the past years, and said that the service required it. Now he knew of no state of things which demanded such an expenditure. Great events no doubt took place in France, and greater changes were taking place in Germany, but they would not affect them. All they cared for was the United States and France; but America, he believed, was net disposed for war, and as for France, a house, as they were, divided against itself, was not likely to become a dangerous foe. Now, what had occurred in France?