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Itth '- s E IS HEREBY GIVEN (in pursuance e Statute passed in the first year of the reign of her pre -3:, Queen Victoria, entitled, " An act for better enabling k no to confer certai n powers and immunities en t' ading and 4 kiii!!""), That application has been made to her M a j est y ter Supplemental Charter, extending the time li mited . it tz ;T . incorporating the above Company for establishing ti A i;l: e u , in the said Charter mentioned, and that such applica in _i referred by her Majesty to the Committee of Privy luj.Trade and Plantations. ' 44 9 th day of November, 1859. JOHN OWEN, Solicitor, 4, Princes-street, Bank, London. ttp s n, — 4- , „ POLISH BALL AND CONCERT , 4 4 r uILDHALL, on WEDNESDAY neat, 15th inst.— ,naneshrtutnts included), or a lady and gentlemen, 21 5.; for ' 161 .; fur a lady, 103f.6d. JAS. R. CARR, Hon. Sec. ` 4)00 1-street, City. 1 41 -ItINE and EUROPEAN TELE- 1 t GRAPH COMPANIES. .; lIEREBY GIVEN, that MESSAGES between !o f j I.. DOV ER are forwarded, through the above Companies, t ,,,‘17 - __‘ , ~ 1 . 0 . 30, Cornhill, London, and Clarence-place,. L i c iover 'vr she Continent are forwarded from the Oleo, o. 30 By order of the Board. G. L. PARROTT, Secretary. 1 , 17th November, 1852. tN t,,, ;4TIVIENTS.—GOOD and SAFE DIV I , 14* Pty to ,,' • ING MINES at present prices will give purchasers Per cent. per annum. The Subscribers have always I tli e t l 4l .tES in the best and safest Dividend Mines, also ix Wal soon pay Dividends, and with prospects of early o fte r e able improvement.—James Stevens Tripp and Co., 3 9 Lombard-street Chambers, 33, Clement's-lane, Lona- ft WEST MARIPOSA GOLD MINE COMPANY. ~)iTillittee of the West Mariposa Company have received n fr ° ,ll their Commissioner Mr. M'DOCGAL, dated San 3 0, announcing the completion of a treaty for a most I g pc l valuable property, situated in " the Grass Valley,' oD o r rY's ledge and Baer's ledge. qfk u gal had deferred the ratificatio , of this treaty until the t , r• Catherwoodfinding tbat that gentleman de klikm"e irnmedlate payment of a large sum in addition to the 6,4103` is London for a partnership in the Gold-hill property, N o gal at once considered himself at liberty to brea k off the 4, a nd gladly availed himself of the opportunity thereby I te e. , e Nnplting the purchase of the Grass Valley property, N 111 " 1 8 to the best of his judgment, offers superior advan7; 0,,,`"e contemplated connexion with the Gold-hill Company. ,a4;nlttee have the pleasure to add, that the whole of the ZA tt i ar ti,..ved in good health, and were proceeding to the before 'lmes to carry oa the operations there on behalf of the By order, dq C. TEWART, Secretary. seourt, London, Dec. 13, 1852. S LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO. 'ILL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, St. James's, 1. 14 4 4 ,,,,,,.' a r1e3 Emile Laurent, Onslow House, Brompton-road, ~ ° 41,,,- " " Pursuant to Act of Parliament, of 25th George 11. ti.a,;,,rY evening with Laurent's Celebrated Band. P rincipal 4414 n, M. Boulcour. Admission—ONE SHILLING. , ti lc "en at flair: past Eight o'clock. T)ancing to commence a \ t erminate at Half-past Eleven precisely. PATRON—II R. H. PRINCE ALBERT. it,,AL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION pe i III,RELY NEW EXHIBITION. —An OPTICAL and 6 ,44,, ILLUSTRATION of " A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S l'l‘Ve y : he Words from Shakspere. the Music byllorn, Stevens, Bishop, and Dr. Cooke, Daily at a Quarter -past Four, 4e 0 ; 110 , except Saturday, at Half-past Nine.—LECTURES by ,11,f e r , Esq., on AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, Daily, at j„loft n . ,. oll Tuesday and Thursday Evenings at Eight ; by Dr. ici on FRICTIONAL ELECTRICITY, illustrated by the kt vS p i ,,ECTRIC MACHINE ; by Mr. Cris pe, on BALLOONING PEcTS of AERIAL NAVIGATION, illustrated by a q °del of POITEVIN'S PARACHUTE, GREEN'S GUIDE 14,AGRAMS. &e.—DISSOLVING VIEWS, including Views ''rt CASTLE, WALMER CHURCH, Ike. Is. ; Schools and Children under ten years of age, 6d. each. tErIC'Y. IR, PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY COM lt,tttiNY.—Capital, 400,00 01 ., in 20,000 Shar e s of 201. each.— 01 4 4%; t l i 2 a. per Share. We approval and support of the following, amongst other Na Bh 7r B gentlemen interested in the counties of Surrey , PEarl of r e a nd Sussex. Winterton, Shillinglee Park, Sussex. , h t ' l ilt Mone k M.P., Portsmouth. 4 ka • Yor of Portsmouth. qt? 4"everen, Esq., Peubrook Park. viiii:nry John Leeke, West Leigh. 1,41 1 „J. Evelyn, Esq., M.P. for West Surrey. i 4 t 'tun G. 11. Jo ll iffe, Bart., M.P. ,11 4 ~a7or of Petersfield. /.nhana, Carter, Esq., M.P. ( tk..,waddington, Esq., Langrish. likt l rroiral Sir Phipps Homby, Little Green, &mei. t,NDr ' ,L I ' J. J. Carnegie, Fair Oak, Petersfleld. Hollybank. of llagimin, Nurstead. the Martineau, Esq., Basing Park. m ` .. 10,, ;% Williarn ' Legge. Bit4' Charles Wyndham, Rogate Lodge. A .arleil Taylor, Bart., Hollycomb. 4 10;;`, 01 1bald.Keppel Macdonald, Bart., Woolmer Lodge. —4B Butler, Esq., Downlands. )1 1 1.1t lea DIRECTORS. Oj or enry Blake, Esq., 15, Devonshire -place , 11l utler, Li hook Z. 4' 41 . Eldridge P ßutler, Esq., Le Court, near Peterslield. sham Carter, Esq., 6, Whitehall, and Peterstield. 'ltia. °ll . Thomas William Gage, Westbury, near Petersfle.d. E4q. Buriton. ) ;ot t ,l , acy, ' Esq. 'Petersileld, Banker. Mangles. ' Esq., M.P.. Woodbridge, Guildford. Car l 7. l a...Mew, Esq., Newport, Isle of Wight, brewer. zlowatt, Esq, Trotton House, Peterstleld ; and Decon -111 pla ce L don on. '4, -48 Ellis Owen, Esq., Dover Court, Southsea. 4 •ard 104 ,„ Joint Scott, Esq., Portsmouth. '"k. Stewart, Esq , Director of the London and Westminster 4411 6, Sir James Stirling, Belmont, Havant. ENGlNzies.—Messrs. Locke andEnington. BANIEIS. The London and Westminster Bank, London. Messrs. Grant, Gilman, and Long, Portsmouth. The London and County Bank, Peterstleld. The West Surrey Bank, Guildford and Godalming. SomaToas.—Messrs. Roy, London. 4 ehtraay.—Alexander E. Lloyd, Esq., pro tem. °Priem-37, Great George-street , West minster. , 111 4 1 ' PROSPECTUS. „ I ntended to construct a Railway between Godalming and ,71 . '. 32 miles in length, to afford a more direct and a cheaper ti7trii„, fli oation between London and Portsmouth, as well as Railway ' , lti,,Zodation generally to the large extent of unopened country which it will pass. h7 , e b'ePosit of plans and sections, and all o ther necessary steps, -, ,, , iti o `en taken with a view to an application for an Act of Incor during the present Session of Parliament. N° rn e will commence at the end of the Godalming Branch ofli l le t r ti "'Weste Railway, and will pass the towns of Go dalmin g , 1; 1) , and Peterstield, and generally following the route of the ortsmouth Railway as sanctioned by Parliament in 1846, to 1, 44 Y, :'At will there unite with the Coast Line of t he Bri g hton Corn o the Fareham Extension Line of the South - Wes tern Corn ritith';tll,l Proceed thence directly to the town and harbour of Ports- Od e lan r r ... -,. -olvners and others locally interested in the district have 1171) in promoting this measure, and have, to the extent of t hree-fourtbs of the length of the line, signed agreements for e Of their land at its mere agricultural value, and in several l t te ai have .nnexion wi agreed th the So to take uth-Eastern the company's shares in payment. ke Railway, near Godalming, h,,,,rre to the preed line the advantage of a second entrance exit from Lo p nd os on, the one to the west end, and the other 14''tt,, e4l t of the City, establishing by the same means also a k s e 4 l) 4 '_ , lnnunication, and with a great saving in distance, between th,:roPolis, Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, Reigate, and the 1 Thy ce ß ight , as well as with all the intervening country. 4m4lsrh"oe Will effect all the objects contemplated by the Direct olluth Act of 1846, but at the reduced cost of 400,0001. now, hL7 bee 1,500 also fl,oool. then required. ': l tt i.i irther greatly improved by a late survey made ail directions of Messrs. Locke and Errington, by which it }dope e n l3' be materially shortened, but three out of the four most ...;rely highly objectionable tunnels in the former plans have 'd ... r ely got rid of in the present, andithe fourth, near Peters -11,1'4 -, need to one-third its length. l ets 4 °. °l cl all risk and uncertainty, however, on these essential t r Ztr l ju‘e promoters have entered into a provisional contract with 17;4 alnaing,soo responsibto H avant, f, foorr t the extremely moderatehe completion of the enti sum of re line lir ,,,` ;tip\ or 12,0001. per mile, including the cost of land, rails, sta. hall all other necessaries, excepting only the locomotive plant; 11 R ,, ,Lie'', the same parties have come under a formal and binding t :lll 4 ";,_ent to take a lease, if required, of the line when completed, 1111T 11 7t Rye years, at a net minimum rental of 4 per cent. per I,,itrii:dth one-half of the profits beyond that amount. rj,7tl t o Tent having already , in 1846, aanctioned this line now be construct constructed, its promoters cannot believe that any se- N` ,4°lll 1 3 , it ma ective oppyosibe tion safely a sserted can be that the undertaking holds again offered to it. N:„ 1, ~, lages to subscribers and the public generally that have tlt 3 7 been offered by any other railway project, viz. I )) ,etrit i , afford the most direct. and by far the cheapest route be 04,1veni o . nd oll and Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, being the shorter hic l ,net,, -tw o miles than either of the two existing lines, and being % i nt e .,," for at 12,0001. a mile, in lien of about four times that a -1,011,-,Pended on the Brighton and South-Western lines,lt will have, 1.i1;0n.`,."e South-eastern, from Godalming, a double entrance into thclee' r otn which it follows, almost as a matter of course, that it 1p rn u "'ond the entire traffic of the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth. qtic k that, while highly remunerative to its proprietary, must ',O3Petition on the part of its tivals hopeless, if not impossi -110 u n , tr _ber, the whole cost of the entire works and materia; i has r t zi .crtak en by respectable contractors, for a specific and sed hk,, 41 d o "eeing the calculations and estimates enineer. 1. 't - onbt and uncertainty. And, finally, the Shareh old ers will o f power tt t h . rof accepting or not, at their option, the offer of a her line when completed, for nye years, at a mum rate t t )i t i ow ent. interest on their capital, with half the profits beyond. t o ,, a , r ,e given the particulars of the lengths of the different 'don t. '"ner with the existing population and traffic, referred to so p ortsmouth by Brighton Railway . • . 95 miles by South-Western . . by proposed Godalming and Ha. Cam „ vent line . . • . . 73 t at ex by South-Eastern via Godalming . 81 4 Pended on South Western Railway . . L 8,614.81 .. on Brighton and South Coast . . 7,200,000 to be expended on proposed single line from Godalming to Havant . • of Portsmouth . • Ti;ro Isle of Wight -ree s o _, ugh Tratile from those two exclusive of all Local Traffic £150,0 00 per annum 9eY snd4 ot_lbl e ts for the Company's Shares remaining undisposed of. 4,' l, en i b u te Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son, Stockbrokers, a t _ thb„,,rY, London ;to the Solicitors, Messrs. R. a non W. G. Roy, X t r,er sh n. and 37 Great George-street London .to Thomas th t i r e bell o , Godalming ;G. J. Parson, , Esq , Haslemere ; Messrs. Petersfield; C. J. Longcroft, Esq., Havant; kid rord a , , 11d estminster flank, London West Surrey Bank, th and °M cl aimi ng ; the London and County Rank, Peters "e fon rs. Grant, Gillman, and Long, Banke rs, Portsmouth ; owing form : jot' 0 0 '0 nec• 1 6 • • Oe c. 1 6 ptoP Dee. 0 L AO Doc. 16 ...• pee. ptovi 4" n 8 Stro o e t rY • 1,0 e r v i ef o r o te .113 0 °° API re o'l4' 0 111' rritA of di er 0 a t e 5 ecl• hed b • rth e i 4 • 60 0 4 I 4• 0° DO° f e be• g Pt le I° ol, • :r gw, )4 .10 11 1 f, ,:hoSectooo' 1 1 °' 'a '. tr to be expenue“ - Ps, , itorn Godalming to n.. -Aliation of Portsmouth - Lrlig T 1: Isle of Wight : .. : • 50,00 u —4rces rough Trafile from those two 11,4ppile,._"Y; fexclusive of all Local Trade £150,000 per annum• vottPl7-debilitated- ted na..— , 19 ,be „11,.1 _ toor the Company's Shares remaining undisposed of, 4 V-mithb„72 Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son, Stockbrokers, ld ; with tables and rules to, the young. besets the man ot p,._ bitters o age , _ Itt,i?thbury, London ; to the Solicitors, Messrs• R. and W. G. Roy, IN etsh, E' and 37, Great George-street, London ; or. to Thomas stlon of every-day life. 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On the wrapper of each bottle are the words, " ROWLAND'S MAC SSAR OIL,' in two lines. Sold by A. ROWLAND & SON 3, 20, Hatton Garden, London, and by all Chemists and Perfumers. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. that all the Kaffirs taken at Waterkloof were instantly hung, and, if so, whether that course was justified by the laws of war. (Hear, hear.) HOUSE OF LORDS—(Y4STERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool sack at five o'clock. On the motion of the Earl of DESART, the West India Colonies Loan Act Amendment Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of Lord COLCHESTER, the Com mons Inclosure Bill was read a third time and passed. Their Lordships then adjourned. THE BUDGET. The house then went into committee of ways and means, Mr. W. PATTEN in the chair. On the resolution for doubling the house tax being read, Mr. DAVIDSON said, as the representative of the large commercial town of Belfast, he was desirous not to give a silent vote on the question. Having viewed the financial statement as a whole, he asked himself whether it, was founded on the principles of justice, would pro mote the general interests of the community, was in harmony with the principle of unrestricted competition as lately adopted, and unloosed the fetters which bound the arm of the shipping interest ; and he rejoiced to be able to answer all these questions in the affirmative. He therefore, on behalf of himself and his constituents, tendered the warmest acknowledgments to the Chancel lor of the Exchequer for the Budget which he had sub mitted to the House. He had come to the conclusion that a man of genius might also be a man of figures. (Hear.) In fact, he thought that the discussion on the propositions of the right hon. gentleman had come to an end, and that they were generally approved of. (Hear.) Mr. COBDEN proceeded to say—lf the hon. gentle man who has just sat down had offered one word of ar gument in reply to the able speech which my right hon. friqnd the member for Halifax delivered on Friday last, I should have felt it my duty to recur to those topics ; but the hon. gentleman has not ventured to grapple with that speech—the statenfents and arguments in it remain unanswered, and relieve me from the necessity of touch ing on the principal parts of the Budget. The hon. gen tleman oppofilte says he represents Belfast. On a ques tion of taxes affecting the people of England, I think it would have been better if he had remained silent. (Hear, hear.) Certainly, • • Id not have made the remarks lam going to ma • i .6t for his obtrusive activity on this question, which oes not concern his constituents. (Hear, hear.) The honkentleman is an illustration of the value of having what is called one United Kingdom, where we have different modes of taxation. We are now discussing primarily the house tax, which the hon. mem ber cordially concurs in passing. That house tax is a tax for England and Scotland, Belfast having no interest whatever in the matter. (Hear, hear.) We are going to deal with the income tax. Now, the hon. gentleman has himself to thank for these remarks, which I should not have ventured to make but for his interfering in this matter. He is going to support the income tax, levied on the trades and professions of this country—(hear)— levied on my constituents in Yorkshire, on the manufac turers of Barnsley and Leeds. I will take the opportu nity of illustrating the evils and absurdities of this sys tem. There are in Belfast extensive manufacturing and spinning concerns for making linen yarn and linen cloth. Those establishments in Belfast are brought into imme diate competition with my constituents in Barnsley and Leeds. The labour in Belfast is cheaper than in York shire. Capital is quite as cheap. There is a slight dif ference in the price of coals. Yet my constituents in Yorkshire are compelled to pay to Government three per cent, on their profits ; and the hon. gentleman's con stituents engaged in the same trade are exempt from that tax. (Cheers.) Is it not evident that my con stituents labour under a disadvantage in competing with the constituents of the hon. gentleman ? And since we have entered upon this discussion, I want to put it to the honourable gentleman whether he will be ready by-and-by to agree to the proposal which is, I be lieve, threatened by the honourable baronet the member for Marylebone, to impose the same income tax in Ire land as in England ? (Hear. hear.) I leave that to the hon. gentleman's consideration. With reference to the question before the committee, some remarks were made on Friday evening by hon. members who spoke before my right hon. friend the member for Halifax, which seemed to imply that somebody on this side of the house objected to the budget because it contained additions to direct taxation. The hon. baronet the member for Hertfordshire (Sir E. B. Lytton) and the hon. member for Cambridge (Mr. Balll threw out something like taunts, that the Free-traders will be put to the test. It will be seen whether they are ready to carry out their principles now that we are all Free-traders. (Hear, hear, from the Ministerialists.) I am prepared to an swer that challenge. I say, on the part of the Free traders, we do not object to direct taxation, where you can show it is levied equally on all descriptions of pro perty ; and, in the next place, where the object in levying it is one beneficial to all the interests of the country. (Hear, hear.) But we do not recognise any grievance on the part of the hon. members opposite who sit for agricultural districts. (Cheers.) We do not re cognise any claim on the party called Free-traders to levy a tax upon some peculiar kind of property in towns in order to relieve certain kinds of property , in the country. (Hear, hear.) If that principle be adopted, it will be just that one-sided, partial, and unjust system which we have been struggling to get rid of for the last fourteen years in abolishing the corn laws. (Cheers.) It will be, in fact, adopting that odious principle—com pensation. (Hear, hear.) My first answer to those taunts is, we do not recognise on the part of members sitting for agricultural districts any grievance or loss which entitles them to ask us to submit to taxes which they do not pay themselves. (Hear.) The hon. baro net the member for Hertfordshire, said, "A great deal depends on the way in which you grant relief. Now, do it graciously ; even if you do not believe they are dis tressed, they think themselves distressed ; therefore, give them something in the shape of a reduction of the malt tax, which they will believe to be a relief, and will console them." This is a sentimental way of dealing with the question—(a laugh)—which Ido not under stand, because we are dealing with grave figures amount ing to millions. But I deny that the farmers are suffer ing that distress alleged by the right hon. baronet which entitles them to come to this house and ask for relief. I received a note the other day from one of the most enterprising and intelligent farmers in the East Lothians, which I will read to the house, and I believe it is not a bad explanation of the condition of the farming world in general. He says :—" The farmers of the Lothians of Scotland, essentially a wheat district, never were, as a body in a more flourishing condition, and the demand for land in consequence is beyond all parallel for the last thirty years. Every farm that is to let brings an advanced rent of from 10 to 30 per cent. I have four years of my lease to run, but have made a new arrangement at an increased rent of 15 per cent., which I begin to pay immediately, and I have always one fourth of my land in wheat. Two farms have been let in this parish within the last six months at a similar ad vance to my own, and an adjoining farm , belon g in g to the Marquis of Dalhousie, is at present to let, the factor being in London with the offers in his pocket to show to his lordship's commissioners ; and I know for a fact that first-rate tenants, men of capital and skill, have offered 30 per cent. increase on the rent at which the farm was let 19 years ago, when it was advertised for six months, and then let to the highest bidder. My brother took a farm last week adjoining the one on which he resides of 225 acres imperial, and for which he pays 20 per cent. increase of rent. Sheep farms have brought higher additional rents ; but I have said enough to show you that any talk of agricultural distress is sheer nonsense, and for myself, I have done and am doing as well as I could possibly desire. One of the principal reasons for this is, that where land is properly drained, by the liberal use of guano and other artificial manures, the crops have been increased one-half at least, and every acre is made to carry as much corn as can stand. It costs me up wards of 7001. per annum for artificial manures, on a farm of 650 imperial acres. I know several farmers whose outlay, in proportion, is greater ; but then, in ploroo or fray ouarters of wheat per acre, we have now six or seven quarters, anti 6 -raine Pro portion ; while root crops are also much heavie r, and their value per ton is as great or greater than ever, thanks to the numerous consumers of butcher's meat." I mention this at the outset because I observe in one of the papers to day a letter, written, if not by a Cabinet M inister, by the exponent of the opinions of the Ministry, in which he states to his constituent that, although the Government do not intend to propose protection, yet they do intend to propose compensation, and this budget is the first step towards compensation and the reduction of the malt tax, as a measure for the relief of the land. Such being the case, we are entering again upon the old controversy of town and country—(cheers)—and you compel us to go into this question in a spirit which I thought was never to be revived. (Hear, hear.) If honourable gentlemen opposite will carry out these principles, and reduce the duty on soap, metals, and other articles, I shall be quite ready to support them, provided they will substitute direct taxation applicable to all kinds of property. (Hear, hear.) I come n ow to my objection to the scheme of the budget. It is not intended to levy an equitable direct tax. (Hear.) I say this proposal of the house tax is a most unjust proposal. (Hear, hear.) For what do you propose to do? You have already levied a property tax of 3 per cent. on lands and houses. You then go to schedule A, and select houses for an additional 9d., being 31 per cent., and making 61 per cent. on houses against 3 per cent. on land. Then you want more money in order to carry out this scheme of compensation, which I call a scheme of spolia tion—(cheers)—and you put on another 9d. to the duty on houses, being another 31 per cent., and with the former 6/ per cent., making 101 per cent. on houses as against 3 per cent. levied on land. (Hear, hear.) But that is not all, because we all know in valuing real pro perty for assessment you take houses at a much fewer number of years' purchase than land. Whilst you assess land at thirty years' purchase, you assess houses at fifteen years' purchase ; yet you levy the same rate of taxa tion on both, and that is double the pressure on houses to that on land. If you invest 1,000/. in houses, and 1,0001. in land, you are paying twice the amount of tax on the capital invested in houses to that invested in land. (Hear, hear.) Taking, therefore, the actual tax on houses at 101 per cent., and that brings it to 21 per cent., which you propose to lay on houses, as against 3 per cent. which you lay on land—(hear, hear)—l call that an injustice which I think this house and tlds Go vernment will be exceedingly wrong to attempt ; because, HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at five minutes to four o'clock. STANDING ORDERS. T HE INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY, No. 72, Lombard-street, and 24, Connaught-terrace. Mr. W. 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Mr. TUFNELL presented a petition from Devonport against the extension of the home tax. MR. BOYD. Mr. M. MILNES wished to asc. the Under Secretary of is. State for Foreign Affairs, whetter any steps had been taken by the intervention of his lepartment with foreign governments to ascertain the fate of Mr. Benjaminßoyd, supposed to have been murdered or held in captivity, on landing at one of the Solomon islands in the latter part of the last year, and whether there would be any objection to lay such information as her Majesty's Government might have received on the table of the house. Lord STANLEY had no information to lay upon the table because no information had been received, but in reference to the first part of the question he might perhaps be allowed to state that in the month of June last a dispatch was written to our Minister at Washington, requesting him to make application to the American Government on the subject, and request them to assist this country in obtaining information. Mr. Webster, the then Secretary of State, promised to com ply with that request, and shortly afterwards a notice was published in the newspapers of the States, requesting any private individuals who might obtain information connected with the fate of Mr. Boyd, to communicate it to the American authorities. He was sorry, however, to say, that up to the present moment no information whatever had been received. INCOME TAX. SUNDAYB WEER DAYS. Time. o 4 Mr. HEADLAM wished to ask the right hon. gen tleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer a. question rela tive to the proposed reduction of the income tax. It was proposed to reduce the incomes liable to the tax in cases where the income was derived from fixed and certain soirees from 50/., and those derivable from industrial sources, to 1001. Now, sup posing a person to be in the receipt of 401. from realised property, and 1001. from professional resources, would he be exempted from payment of the tax, or would he have to pay it upon the whole 1201. ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was extremely inconvenient to enter into such questions then. It would be much better to leave it for the Mi nister to state his details when the proper time arrived for doing so. [PRICE 5D . 7/ , / /se,z,) • come tax, I think that this part of the subject reflects great credit on the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer. lam bound to say that it is remark able that aGovernment, representing territorial interests, should deal fairly with the income tax, at least in prin ciple, when applied to trades and professions. Most assuredly that proposition ought to have come from this side of the house. (Hear, hear.) I say, in spite of all that mathematicians or philosophers may say to the con trary, that you must either vary the tax on income, and make it less than the tax levied on property, or you' must capitalise income and treat it as capital. You must make a difference between the income derived from the midnight labours of the physician or the lawyer, and an income drawn from the funds. I give the Govern ment, therefore, full credit for this alteration, and, whe ther they are destined to carry it out or not, it must be carried out by some Government. But, see how strange it is, that in dealing with this question the old curse of the party has clung to them. (Hear, hear.) What a paltry thing it is to make such an alteration as this budget presents to conciliate the tenant farmers. You propose to assess the tenant farmer on one-third of his rental, instead of one-half as heretofore. In the time of Mr. Pitt he was assessed at three-fourths of his rental. Sir Robert Peel reduced the assessment to one-half, and now you propose to reduce it to one-third. Now, I will put it to the right ho n. g entleman, does he think that farming would be worth following as a trade if the tenant farmer made an income equal only to one-third of his rent, that income being derived from the application of his capital, directed by his own skill and industry ? Would it not be more fair to say that one rent goes to the tenant ? Then, again, with regard to the extension of the income tax. How does this act in the case of the tenant farmer ? You propose to extend the area of the income tax, so as to include income derived from real property from 501. upwards, and from 100 1 . upwa rds in trades and professions. As a principle, I have no ob jection to the extension of the area of direct taxation. If you carry out that principle as you do in local taxa tion, you must levy on every description of property, and on every amount, and the only thing that embarrasses us in carrying out direct taxation for general purposes is, that we have such an amount of indirect taxation pressing on the labouring classes that it gives them a claim to ex emption from direct taxation. There is no other objection to this system of taxation being universal. Well, you pro pose to extend the operation of the income tax to incomes of 501. a year derived from real property, and to incomes of 1001. a year arising out of trades and. professions. But see how the system works with regard to the tenant farmers. Here is a farmer with 250 acres of moderate land, for which he pays a rent of 2801. a year. By your act all rentals under 3001. a year are exempt from taxa tion altogether. If that man farms as he ought to do, and as he must do, in free-trade times, he must have froth 2,0001. to 3,0001. of capital ; in fact, 10/. an acre is not as much as he ought to have ; he would do better with 121. or 151. an acre. Here, however, is a man with 2,800/. of capital, and you assume that he is not worth 1001. a year. (Hear, hear.) Well, this farmer rides into the market town on a good horse, in good health and spirits, and as he is going to market he passes a law yer's clerk who has an income of 1001. a year. You tax the lawyer's clerk 51d. in the pound on every penny of his salary, while the farmer, who has 2,8001. capital, with a good farm house and steading, and who employs a great number of labourers, escapes the income tax al together. Do you think that that will last ? If the farmers are like the rest of their countrymen they will not thank you for putting them in such an invidious po sition. By your law you are widening the operation of the income tax, so as to embrace a great number of per sons who were not included in it before, but with respect to the tenant farmers you have taken care that you will not include any of that class whom the income tax did not affect formerly. You embrace a great number of small tradesmen who have hitherto been exempted from the operation of the tax, but not one tenant farmer who was not affected by it. Now, where can be the advantage of this ? Is it worthy of the territorial party, and do they seek to secure the tenant farmers in their interests by holding out such a boon. I would ask the farmers whether they have not had enough of this sort of thing, and what they have got for it ? What is the use of their being a different party from the rest of their countrymen, and being made political capital of ? Have they not been bamboozled enough already ? Sir, Ido hope that this part of the Budget will be modified, and that the tenant farmers will be placed on an equal footing with the rest of their fellow-subjects. You say that the far mers do not keep books, and that they do no t know what they make in the course of the year. Then here is a very good. occasion for compelling them to keep books. (Hear, hear.) You cannot do the farmers a greater service than by compelling them to keep books, and thus ascertain how much profit they get from their farms every year. I must say that I did not expect on this occasion to hear this old grievance revived. I thought that as the Chancellor of the Exchequerhad thrown over local burdens, we were going to get rid of this controversy altogether ; but it seems as if hon. gentlemen opposite do not even yet understand their own position or what free trade means. They have confounded two questions which are essentially distinct —namely, the question of protective duties and of direct taxation. Will they ex cuse me if, as an old professor, I show them a little of their ABC in this matter I I see the hon. member for Cambridgeshire there, who has not been accustomed to free trade speeches. The advocates of free trade have not necessarily been the advocates of direct taxation. We have opposed protective duties because we wished to have freedom of exchange with other countries, but we did not inquire what would be the effect on prices. We want as great a quantity of things as we can get, but I am sure that the hon. member for Cambridgeshire has shed tears—(a laugh)—on the supposition that we free traders want low prices. But what we really want is an abundance of everything. We do not say that free trade will decrease prices. It is possible that both the quantity and the price may be increased. The con dition of a country may be so prosperous, that, with an augmented quantity of articles produced, an increased price is obtained for them. That has been the case with some articles, such as wool and meat, and we do not know what will be the effect on corn itself. The Chan cellor of the Exchequer framed his budget, as it would seem, to compensate the industrious classes for the ef fects of unrestricted competition ; but what necessity was there for this step I I have always understood that the industrious classes have been prosperous since free trade was established. We say that it has already done them much good, and that it will confer upon them still greater benefits. But the Chancellor of the E uce xcheque reat r comes and tells us that he is going to introd g measures, and that he will cheapen the necessaries of life. He says, " I will reduce the price of beer, and I will do so by raising the price of lodging." (A laugh.) But is not lodging as great a necessary of life as beer ? If you are to compete with foreigners, I say that you are going the wrong way if you lower the price of beer and raise the price of lodgings. The people of this country are not coming to sue in forma pauperis for such a boon. Why, then, do you make such a proposal It is a thing of your own creating ; you have made pro mise that you never ought to have made, and that has placed you in a false position. But I want to prevent you from putting free trade in a false position. (Hear, hear.) We say that we have done everything with free trade, that we have greatly increased the comforts of the labouring population, and diminished pauperism, and then you come and give a new name to our princi ple, and call it "unrestricted competition." Lord Byron used to say that a man had a right to pronounce his own name as he pleased ; and in the same way, Ithpree sume, that a political party has a right to ver insulted you e ir ow n name to their own principle. Ine by calling you m onopolists when you called yourselves protectionists —(laughter)—and why should you come now and change our good Saxon words " free trade" into " unrestricted competition 1" How can we pos sibly call ourselves the "unrestricted competition party ? (Renewed laughter.) If you adopt our prin ciples, adopt our name and all. With regard to the tea duties, I think I should have done the same thing which the Chancellor of the Exchequer now proposes to do (with the trifling difference between us of a penny a pound) at least four or five years ago, and I do not be lieve that the revenue would have suffered at all by it. Looking, however, at the budget as a whole, I cannot persuade myself that this budget is the production of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I believe that at the last moment it was so pared down, and snipped, and squabbled about, that almost every .good thing, and every bold thing was cut out of it. It is not w orthy o d f a five hours' speech, and I humbly conceive that I could have done it in an hour and twenty-five minutes and cobbled, laugh.) Before I sit down I wish to add a serious a w t o teu. on a matter which must soon engage the er tion of every thinking man. Ido think st veryh te w s e oo h n a — ve begun a controversy which will not end The hon. member namely , who is to pay the taxes ? that I had declared for West Surrey said Gee ethei: day thatmen merits s h w e taouxldesnNovtoubledinnoaitnbtaeinpsetaildldi,, anNdvitthhatroeurdestatbo our but as to paying the establishments, people . of . Engs establishments, I think debts, though my opinion has land would pay their just taxes, I have al war thought goht t h a.t than they have d scrutinize expenditure more closely one, N ow, also been that with direct taxation they would however, that we arebeginning to have a controversy about who is to pay the taxes, we shall find. that our imperial expe n diture, including the cost of coll ec ti o n, is near ly 60,000,000/. This sum is very nearly as large as the a mount of real property which is assessed to the income tax. You may well imagine, therefore, that people will be crying out when they find themselves g alled by some particular tax. Since I have b this house I have seen a sheet ofpaper ' used for n an American newspaper, made out o f s t r aw, and printed dry. Now, the raw material of this kind of paper costs two guineas, but the duty upon it would be fourteen guineas. He says that but for this excise we could have this straw paper manufactured quite as well here as in America. Then there is the soap tax. If any agitation should. arise against it could it not be put in argument, and would it not shame any man of property into willing ness to pay a little extra, that he lived in a country where dirt was made a premium by act of Parliament ? (Hear.) Take also the insurance tax. As these be come discussed you will find more and more the neces sity of resorting to some other mode of taxat withion. foreign It is not merely that the compet ition is great countries, but the changed habits of business render a continuance of the present system impossible ; the greater velocity and the greater magnude of business render it impossible. Now, as regard t it he Customs' duties, you have two great blue-books or more on the inconveni ences of the present Custom-house regulations ; but any man that gets to the bottom of the question must know that you cannot get to the end of the difficulty except by abolishing custom-houses altogether. (Hear, hear.) Take Sir R. Peel's reductions. Sir R. Peel abolished the duties on hundreds of articles, and thought probably that in so doing he should lessen the Custom-house ex penses. But, no ; it is necessary to examine articles that come in free. Suppose you allowed your own cotton bales to come in from America without examination, how 11004 Wad they - be tobacco Well I Now, 106 k 4 if you succeed—l suppose you will carry it by a ma jority—do you think you will ever maintain it? (Loud cheers.) Do you think the intelligent people of the towns, those centres from which radiate the intelligence of this country. (Oh ! from the Government side.) Well ! I take, you derive your literature and science from towns. I have never heard of going into country hamlets to find them. (Cheers.) You cannot expect this will be submitted to. If you pass such a law it will be the worst thing that can happen to you, because it will revive this controversy between town and country, not in the old form, that you can say it is a contest be tween cotton lords and landlords, but as a contest in which every little market town will be taking sides against you. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Look also at the way in which your taxation will operate to the pre judice of house property as distinguished from property in land. I think it most likely that this, as well as every other tax, will ultimately be felt, more or less, by every body ; but you must bear in mind that, with respect to a great portion of house property, you are taxing the owners as well as the occupiers, because a large propor tion of the houses which are occupied, are dwelt in by their owners. See how this will work. You have spring ing up in all directions benefit building societies, which are especially formed by industrious artisans, who seek to have a house of their own, and who are likely to build 101. houses, because there exists among that class a laudable desire of improving their dwellings. What kind of justice is it that you will mete out to these men by your taxation, when you demand from them 21 per cent., and force them to compare their situation with that of the owners of large landed estates ? Take another case. There is in London a large amount of lauded property owned by noblemen who let out their vast landed estates on building leases. There is the Belgrave-square property, for instance. This property is let on a building lease for ninety-nine years, at a ground rent for each house of about 501. a year. A person puts bricks and mortar upon the land, or buys the lease,' and you come to the owner of this property, and call upon him to contribute to your house tax, but you do not touch the ground landlord, though he clears 20,000/. or 30,0001. a year from the estate. The owners of bricks and mortar you consider subjects for direct taxation, but not the owners of land. It must be borne in mind, besides, that the inhabitants of towns are sub jected to very heavy local charges, not only for the sup port of the poor, but for the police rate, the lighting rate, and other ocal liabilities, yet although house pro perty is of smaller value than property in land, you press upon the owner of house property with equal severity for local rates, so that he is rated much higher than the owner of landed property for local as well as general purposes. You must not expect, therefore, that such an unequal system of taxation as this can ever be carried out. And what is this unequal tax laid on for ? Why, to enable the Government to take off half the malt tax. The right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has stated, with his usual frank ness, what the object of the Government is in reducing that tax. He says that it is to be taken off for the bene fit of the land. The Chancellor of the Exchequer told us, however, that the moiety of the tax was to be taken off for the interest of the consumer. I think the Go vernment would do well to come to an understanding upon the principles of their budget, or, if they cannot agree, it would be well if one party or the other could be silent. (A laugh.) Now, my idea of the malt tax is very much that of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is a tax laid on the consumer, but there is no doubt that the producer is subjected' to inconvenience and to loss by it. The case of printed cottons, which was re ferred to by the right hon. gentleman, is precisely ana lagous. The duty fell upon the consumer, but it hamp ered the manufacturer in his business. I agree, there fore, that the producer of barldy, though to a very small extent comparatively, is affected by the malt tax. I have always understood that the great grievance of an excise tax is its interference with the necessary opera tions of trade. The malt tax does not interfere much with the farmers, yet still in a certain way it does. The only interest I ever took in the malt tax was owing to what I learned from a practical farmer and free trader, Mr. Lattimore, of Berkhampstead, in Hertfordshire, who is looked upon as a model farmer by his neighbours, and he persuaded me that the malt tax ought to be re pealed whenever it was practicable, because the repeal would enable the farmers to feed their cattle with malt. How far that may be the case I do not know myself, but I have confidence in Mr. Lattimore's judgment, and I have always felt that since the corn laws were abolished, the claim of the farmers to a repeal of the malt tax rested upon their right to malt their barley for the purpose of feeding their cattle. A case is made out, therefore, for the repeal of the malt tax whene ver y ou have a sufficient surplus. But I have always said that I would not be a party to imposing any substitute for that tax. I have always been opposed, on principle, to the taking off of half the malt tax, because I object to the taking off of half of any excise tax, and I further object to the way in which you are going to make up the deficiency. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has said that beer, like bread, is a necessary of life—that it must be drunk in order to keep up health and strength. There is, however, a very wide difference of opinion on this subject. I have always considered that one of the difficulties which you would have to deal with in repeal ing the malt tax was, that there is a large growing body of people in this country, and some of them very fana tical, too, who say that not only is beer not a necessary of life, but that it is highly pernicious. (Hear, hear.) T can cite the authority of a very large and influential and very useful class of persons who are of the same opinion, and I will read a declaration to this effect ; but I must request that hon. members opposite will suppress any manifestation of feeling until I have read to the end of the document : "An opinion handed down from rude and ignorant times, and imbibed by Englishmen from their youth, has become very general, that the habitual use of some portion of alcoholic drink, as of wine, beer, or spirit, is beneficial to health, and even necessary to those subjected to habitual labour. Anat om y , physi ology, and the experience of all ages and countries, when properly examined, must satisfy every mind 'well in formed in medical science that the above opinion is alto gether erroneous. Man, in ordinary health, like other animals, requires not any such stimulant, and cannot be benefited by the habitual employment of any quantity of them, large or small ; nor will their use during his life time increase the aggregate amount of his labour. In whatever quantity they are employed they will rather tend to diminish it." This declaration is signed by 70 of the most eminent medical men in this metropolis, in cluding Sir Benjamin Brodie, Dr. Chambers, Sir James Clark, Mr. Bransby Cooper, Mr. Travers, and others. Now I think that declaration may, at all events, have sufficient weight with this house to justify me in saying that it is at least an open question whether beer be a necessary of life or not. You ask, however, the profes sors of temperance to tax themselves in order to relieve the country from one-half of the malt tax. I have re ceived many letters from my constituents who are tee totallers on this subject. They say that they have abolished the use of alcoholic liquors among themselves, and that they believe the consumption of malt is perni cious to society ; and yet you ask them to submit to a house tax, in order that beer may be cheaper, and that, consequently, a greater consumption of beer may take place. (Hear.) The right hon. gentleman has put the matter in such a way as to make the reduction of the malt tax a grievance to all these persons. He has not put the restriction of the duty on scientific grounds, as a skilful political economist would have done, on the ground, namely, that the farmers had a right to malt their barley for the purpose of fattening their cattle. the right hon. gentleman had done so, the sympath!es which my constituents felt for free trade would have in duced them to acquiesce in the proposal at once, but the Government said that the object of the reduction was to cheapen beer to the consumer. My objection to the house tax, therefore, is twofold ; first, that it is a partial tax, and next, that a great number of people are indif ferent to a reduction of the malt tax, while thousands, and I believe even hundreds of thousands, are opposed on principle to the reduction of the duty on that article. That being the case, although I do not know what a majority of ilio house may do, I am sure that you will not be able to maintain the house boa., If YOU are able to lay it on. You have seen how long-lived a con test may be when the object is to get rid of an unpopu lar tax. Look at the window tax, for instance : and yet you are going to enter into a contest in which you are sure to be. beaten, and on a matter, too, which is really not worth fighting for. I have now a word or two to say about the proposed alteration in the hop duty. I have had much talk with the hop-growers of Sussex on this subject; and when they have told me that they wanted a total repeal of the duty, but that the hop growers of Kent were for taking off half the duty only, I have said, " After the great works of Sir Robert Peel, we shall never have a peddling Chancellor of the Ex chequer who will make two bites of a cherry and take " off half the hop duty. (Laughter and cheers.) Here you have a tax which is perfectly e xce p tional in its cha racter—a tax which is worthy of Turkey or Persia, but, which is ridiculous in Great Britain. In the spring of the year there are a number of unfortunate Pa pi r t g ° an ns a needy men, who come to members of Parliam say—" Will you recommend me to the Gove collector of the hop duties ?" Well, whepicked, the comes, and the hops are dry and ready t° army of Chancellor of the Exchequer disperses a they go and take n rn S n e e ;t n e t m as be a r these collectors over the country , make and an estimate of stock of the fields and gardens, the tax. bro lt u h s as al a i l d i - 0 Chancellor of the Ex citomhaersloay n2edovoe,rocoooml.e, 500,0001. s s t o o metiest o It is an uncertain tax, and n 300,0001. o S r om 40 e 0 t , in1 00(11 i . t ; the evils which a tax can av • Ex chequer knows how to calculate theltamisoucnutm. cos tly in collectio n, it is uncertain in amount, and it I pres sure on different parts bears with mo st unequal of the count r y . ( Cheers.) There are some districts where the hops are hardly worth half the amount of the tax, and, as the duty is levied by weight, it falls with the greatest pressure on the poorest soils. It is inconceivable, therefore, that any Chan cellor of the Exchequer, after the repeal of the corn laws and the abrogation of the navigation laws, should think of taking off half the duty on hops. I hope the house will mover condescend to such paltry trifling as this. If nobody else does so, I will myself move the total repeal of the hop duty ; and if I should be defeated on that motion, I will vote against the partial repeal, for an ex cise tax of this kind should be abolished altogether or not at all. With respect to the modifications of the in- ~~t _ CLERGY RESERVES. In reply to Mr. V. Smr ni , Sir JOHN PAKINGTON said, the returns con nected with the Clergy Reserves of Canada were nearly ready, and they would be laid on the table before Christ mas MANAGEMENT OF RAILWAYS. Mr. H. BROWN wished to ask the President of the Board of Trade, whether it was the intention of the Go vernment to propose any measure for more effectually enforcing the due and punctual observance of efficient regulations on railways to secure the public safety ? Mr. HENLEY said the whole subject of railwayshad been referred to a committee that was about to meet, and until that committee should have reported, it was not the intention of Government to make any interfer ence with the existing laws relating to the management of railways. Mr. IL BROWN begged leave, under those ciicum stances, to give notice, that he should lan an early day after Christmas, call the attention of the house to the lamentable loss of life incidental to railway traffic, re sulting from the absence of better regulations in its management, a nd the necessity f or som e more direct interference on the part of Government, for the purpose of correcting the irregularities incident to the manage ment nf railWaYs• ECCLESIAOTIOAL CIOTTI/VS- In reply to a question, Mr. Secretary WALPOLE stated that he had no ob jection to lay the report of the Ecclesiastical Commis sioners on the table. It was his own private opinion that local courts ought to be established for granting probates upon wills, So. SMITHFIELD MARKET. Mr. FORSTER wished to inquire of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was doing towards , the removal of Smithfield Market. Mr. Secretary WALPOLE said, the City of London had the power of constructing the new market, and they gave notice to the Home -office last summer of their in tention to do so. They had selected Copenhagen fields as the site of the new market, but the approbation of the Secretary of State had not yet been given to the plans ; Government had no power to inter fere until the expiration of the year. Sir J. DUKE did not know whether he should be in order in endeavouring give the house some informa tionto on this subject. (Cries of "Order, order.") Sir W. CLAY begged to ask the hon. baronet what proceedings the corporation had taken with reference to the removal of the market ? Sir J. DUKE hoped he was in order now. (No, no.) The SPEAKER said it was not competent for the hon. baronet to put a question to a private member unless it related to some bill in proceeding before the house. (Hear, hear.) Mr. T. DUNCOMBE did not wish to be so disorderly as the hon. baronet—(a laugh) —but he begged to ask the .right hon. gentleman the Secretary for the Home Department, where the site was that he had given his sanction to ? Mr. WALPOLE had already stated that it was in Copenhagen-fields, and he had every reason to believe that the City of London were taking active steps to carry out the sections and plans. (Hear, hear.) TEA DUTIES. In reply to a question from Mr. MOFFATT, The C HANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that it was his intention to reduce the duty on tea, in the first year from 2s. 21d. to is. 10d. clear of the 5 per cent. at present charged, but the 2s. 21d. included the 5 per cent. THE KAFFIR WAR. Mr. HINDLEY gave notice that to morrow he should put a question to the right hon. Bart., the Secre tary of State for the Colonies, relative to a s tatement I which had appeared in the Cape newspapere—namely, !rrace' Vier. 1 7% - [8 q - r 9 /4 - 'l 3 ',4 l 8 1 Direct Trains from the Boats marked t Omnibuses from Fenchurch-stroet Station to all parts of London. every Quarter of an hour. BRUNSWICK WriAla. BLACKWALL, on the arrivl of the following Trains from the Fenchurch•street Stiltaon. WEEK DAYS. iIINDATb • 4.a 1 1 4. V, • Time. tE. ig g E .0.•• 11 11 ———— *5 C~ _ ./ ~~ 11 11)bLESEX PRISONS. —To BAKERS, .„ 1 1 ,44, 4 -hers, Mealmen, Oilmen, Grocers, Brushmakers, Lea g "1 , Woollen-drapers, Soap-boilers, and Others. WANTED, tr4es of Correction, at Coldbath Fields and Westminster, House of Detention at Clerkenwell, SUPPLIES of the 117t h dolled ARTICLES, from the 25th of December instant to , t 4 , 41 1e next, viz. : About 19 cwt. of Bread dail y , in loaves of Nytehts ; good Ox Beef without bone, consisting of clods and 016; oa -heads, weighing on an average 231 bs. e ach ; Mutton, ef breasts, necks, and ribs; Molasses. Sugar, Rice, Pole - Wo kr% l l Barley, Oatmeal, Salt, Soap , Oils , L eather, Linen Dra k4 ~,' en Cloth, Bedding and Linen. Persons willing to COD , b".' e e patterns and samples, according to which the tenders made, and obtain the necessary forms of tender. upon p,": 1 at either of the said Houses of Correction. Sealed ten 4`", be delivered before half-past Ten o'Clock on Friday, the 1,.4 4 - 4 ,, at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell-green ; and tbe per- V' at Bering , or some authorised agent, must be in attendance te t „ - leven o'Clock precisely, with the names and addresses of k t 4 4l lsible sureties. The Visiting Justices do not bind them 4ti)„,,4ecept the lowest, or any of the tenders.—Dated this 7th 'ember, 1852. CHARLES WRIGHT, Clerks. CHARLES P. ALLEN, ;,'TS. I 1 1! _ 'I lIM