The Sun. — London, England, 1852-05-17 00:00:00

u birtif Xttitton, SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. TATTERSALL'S.--THIS EVENING Six O'CLOCK. DERBY. 6 to 1 agat Hobble Noble 8 to 1 agst Alcoran 9 to 1 agst Harbinger—taken 10 to 1 agst Little Harry—taken 10 to 1 agst Claverhouse 1,4 to 1 apt Alfred the Great 16 to 1 agst Kingston—taken 20 to 1 Opt A ng,ar 22 to 1 agst King of Trumps 38 to 1 agat Elcot 50 to 1 agst Nabob OARS. 6 to 1 agst Red Hind 7 to 1 agst Songstress 10 to 1 agst Gossamer 10 to 1 agst Attack SONEESETSHIRE STAKES. 5 to 2 agst Hugo 6 to 1 agst Grated Duchess to 1 agst Chief Justice Exeter is scratched. HAWKINS'S DIVORCE HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS DAY.) This Bill, the second reading of which was postponed sine die from the 3d of Aprila last, for the purpose of supplying additional evidence, was taken into farther consideration this day at half-past three. The Peers present were the Lord Chanc ellor, the Bishop of Nor wich, and Lord Redesdale. Evidence was offered of the paym ent of the d amages , amounting to 73 61 . 16 5 ., recovered in th e action of crim. con., brought by L ieutenant Hawkins against Lord Malden. ( Mr. Warren, captain of the barque the Earl of Durham, was called to prove the precise day on w hi c h Li eu t enan t Hawkins sgiled from England to Halifax (16th May, 1850) in charge of his detachment. Ellen Young, lady's - maid to Mrs. Hawkins, proved that she had been with her mistr e ss daring the whole of the period of Lieutenant Haskins's absence, and that during the whole of that time Mrs. Hawkins had not left England. She h ad been in the habit of undressing her mistress every night up to the time of the birth of the child, but she had never once suspected her of being in the family-way, The LORD C HANCELLOR , i n mov i ng th e secon d read ing of the Bill, said that an extraordinary fact in this case was that the state in which Mrs. Hawkins was at the time her husband returned to England had entirely escaped the notice of all the persons among whom she lived. Lieutenant Hawkins had left England on the 16th of May, 1850, and had not returned until the 23d of March, 1 851 , and it was quite impossible that he could have been the father of . the child born on the 2d of June, 1851 . That an act of adultery bad taken place in his absence was, under all the circumstances, without doubt; and taking into con sideration that the time of delivery so exactly coincided with the particular period when the supposed act of adultery had been alleged to have taken place, there was no doubt that it did take place in the early part of September, at the place which had been indicated in the evidence. The most singular circumstance, however, was that Lieutenant Hawkins himself should not have been aware of the state in which his wife was when he rejoined her in England, sad if this part of the case were not most completely proved, their Lordships would not give a second reading to this Bill without serious furthertonsideration. It appeared that Mrs. Hawkins had already had two children, and her husband had therefore cohabited with her during two pregnancies; and yet on his return to this country ho appeared to have renewed his relations with her in the ordinary way without evincing the slightest suspicion, and—it having been proved that there was but one bed in their room—had continued to sleep with her up to, he might say, a quarter of an hour before the birth of the child. It certainly did strike him as being moat extraordinary that, • although it had escaped the notice of everybody about her, yet Lieutenant Hawkins himself should have not, up to the actual birth of the child, have once suspected that his wife was in the family-way. What took place when Mrs. Hawkins was delivered seemed to him to be conclusive on this point. They found Mrs. Hawkins, after the event had happened, entreating the landlady of the hotel where it occurred not to break it too suddenly to Lieutenant Hawkins, as he was subject to a heart complaint, and it might kill him, and they found, too, that the effect of the blow on Lieutenant Hawkins was to leave him in a miserably wretched state, stunned by the terrible news which he had heard for the first time. He (the Lord Chancellor) had therefore come to the conclusion thatLient. Haskins was wholly un conscious of the fact that his wife was in the family-way, and he thought, therefore, that this was a case in which he could with confidence recommend their Lordships to give a second reading to this Bill, thereby giving Lieut. Hawkins the Irmedy to which he was entitled. The Bill was then read a second time. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS: The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sleek at Five o'clock. The Duke of ARGYLL presented a petition from Edinburgh in favour of the inspection of nunneries. COMMON LAW PROCEDURE. Ift reply to Lord LYNDHURST, Lord CAMPBELL said the Committee on the Com mon Law Procedure Bill, which he ecusidered would effect very great improvements in the administration of the law, would sit to-morrow and proceed with the con sideration of the Bill. THE CASE OF MR. MURRAY AT ROME. The Duke of ARGYLL said it appeared from the public prints that an English subject, named Murray, had been confined in prison, at Rome, for two or three years, for a criminal o ff ence, and had lately been found guilty and sentenced to death. He wished to ask the Esrl of Malmesbury whether any communication' had taken place on the subj Pct with our Consul at Rome? The Earl of MALMESBURY said about a week after he entered office, ho received a dispatch from Mr. Free born, our Consul at Rome, stating that a gentleman of the name of Murray, the son of a meritorious officer in her Majesty's service, had been confined for thirty months in the prison of Ancona, on a charge of murder, but that subsequently, in consequence of representations made to the Papal authorities, he was sent to Rome. Mr. Freeborn i m m e diately communicated with Cardinal Au tonelli, and in reply he was informed that all justice would be done to the prisoner. He (Lord Malmesbury) had - n our r in " received a dispatch from Mr. Freeborn at (Lord Al the arrival of Mr. Murray at II:me. He o cue .„ taesbury), therefore, wrote to Mr. Freeborn, e- 'q ; o n: to watch the proceedings against Mr. Mur were how with that he received fair play. Their Lordships relations with awareo of the very anomalous state of our ambassador there!". In conseq=nee of not having an in , the Government had to proceed in such matters . rather roundabo a pt and underhand Planner, which he trio like England. ught was unworthy a great country MESSRS. W INV,TE AND SMITH. In reply to the Duk e EsatlittGYLL, The Earl of MALM _ Y said tho correspondence expulsion of Riese with Austria respeFting the WAS not yet complete, tin ,i ra l nous:tough? it would be lea plaineentil a was. persons proper to lay it before the Lord CAMPBELL com plained of the nature f di p l oma tic relations_ with R ome, wh . o our very dis astrous results, 'eh had, in his opinion, led to After a short discussion the subject droppe& rLEFT srrrinn.) HOUSE OF COMMONs . The flit`EAKEli took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. NE W MEMBER. Mr. D. JCNEB took the oaths and his seat for Car , marthen. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The knowing Bills were read a third time and pained:— Belfast lia‘bour. Great Western Railway (No. 1)-1 (No. 2). London and N orth-Western Ra il waY the following Bilis were considered and agreed to:— Blackburn and Preston Road and Bi•iage• Bury and Little Bolton Road, Bramley and Ridgewick Road. Frome, Yeovil, and Weymouth Railway (No. 1). Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Liskeard Roads. North- Western Railway. North British Flax Company (Claussen's Patent). Rotherham and Pleasley Road. • Tramore Embankment. York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (Deviation of Bishop Auckland Branch, &c.) SECOND READINGS. The Sunk Island Roads Bill and the Watson's Hos pital (Edinburgh) Estate Bill were read a secon d t i m e, and ordered to be committed. PETITIONS. Mr. JOHN ELLIS presented a petition from Leicester against toe Maynooth grant. Mr. MUNDY prescnted a petition from Darby to the same effec% htr.I.BARING prescnte3 a petition from the inha bitants of Miuritius, praying that the downward action in the scale of dwi. , ?s en foreign sugars may be arrested, and that the general sugar duties, as now operating, may be maintained ; also a petition from the Legislative House a s of the Lind of S. Christopher, complaini ng o f Ming distress, and against the admission of sugar the m produce of slave litoour for consumption in the Unitcd Kingdo. Mr. WADDINGTO,-,04 presented a petition from Mal don against the Ildaynooth grant. P. HOWARD preiented several petitions from various places in the north against the Charitable Trusts Bill. Mr.: M‘C LILL A p resen ted several petitions against the Militia Bill. p e tition from the Mr. HOliglIAN presented a inha bitants of Frome, praying • or a . ch ange in th e la w o f c lergymen to patronage relating to the presentation of Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from hisnchester THE SUN, in favour of the reproductive system of poor-laws; also 23 petitions from the same place against the Militia Bill. Mr. COWAN presented a petition in favour of the Patent Law Amendment Bill. Mr. REYNOLDS presented two petitions : gainst the Charitable Trusts Bill. Mr. PETO presented a petition from Norwich against the enrolment of the militia. PARLIAMENTARY OATHS. Lord JOHN RUSSELL gave notice that it was not his intention to bring on his motion to-morrow relating to the oaths taken by Members of Parliament. METROPOLITAN INTERMENTS. Lord J. MANNERS gave notice that to morow he should ask to move for leave to bring in a Bill to alter and amend the law relating to the interment of the dead in the metropolis. DUBLIN FEVER HOSPITALS. Mr. REYNOLDS wished to ask the Noble Lord the Chief Secretary for Ireland, if any arrangements have been made to afford additional hospital accommodation to the w ho are now labouring und e r ma li gn ant fever poor, who Dublin; and if it be the intention of the Governtnentlo red ice the annual grants to the Cork street Fever Hospital net other charitable hospitals in the city of Dublin? Lord NAAS said, from papers he received to-day, he entertained great hopes that the fever in Dublin was decreasing, but should it become necessary the Poor-law guardians bad ample power to provide additional ac commodation for the poor suffering from fever. With regard to the second part of the question, it was intended to propose the same vote for the hospitals that was taken last year. Mr. REYNOLDS gave notice that to-morrow he should ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he was not prepared to place the Dublin Fever Hospitals in their former position. Lord EBRINGTON said,' as :prevention was better than cure he should be glad to know if any steps bad been taken to dbcure constant medical attention in the affected districts. Lord NAAS said that they wero constantly under the inspection of the medical poor-law Commissioners. LONDON, MONDAY The one is as much a pretence as the other. To repeal the Stamp and Advertisement Duties. supposing that on paper retained, would operate rather to increase than to diminish the revenue; and it the latter were reduced one half, while the two former imposts were abolished, it is pro bable that the increase would be very large indeed. There would simply be a repetition of the process which Mr. Disraeli so lucidly set forth in his budget, couched in so many striking figures, both of speech and arithmetic. The home market and the foreign market would be alike extended. But until we work our way into a better system, there is one thing which ChaneelloJs of the Exchequer will dread more than a deficit, and bishops more than infidelity, and that is popular knowledge. The divisions on Wednesday were divisions against knowledge. They were a protest against more light at present—they were a postponement of the dawn, until ambition, corruption, and bigotry have had their dream out. But the time will come; and if it be the glory of Sir Robert Peels memory, as he prayed it might be, that the peasant blesses his name every night when he eats his untaxed loaf, there is a similar, though not an equal fame in store for the statesman whom the mechanic shall remember with gratitude when, every morning, he receives his penny newspaper. P oBLICOLA METROPOLITAN POLICE. Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE wished to ask the Se cretary of State, by what authority a portion of the K division of the metropolitan police were ordered, on the sth and 12th instant, to attend divine service in St. Thomas's Church, Stepney, and in de fault of so doing were subjected to military drill.— (Hear.) In order that the House might understand the question he would state a few facts. On Wednes day, the 7th of April, an order was sent down requiring the police division he had referred, to attend divine service at a Protestant church, or to submit to an extra drill. About one hundred of the men, after Express'ag their surprise at the order, preferred going to church, but thirty-eight of them were Roman Catholics, and they elected to undergo the drill. On the following Wednesday a similar order came down, when thirty-eight preferred the drill to the church.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. WALPOLE said the facts were not correctly stated; no order had been given for a compulsory attendance at divine service, but as many of the men were unable to attend divine service on the Sunday, they were allowed time to do so on Wed nesday, which was their pay day. Some of the men accepted the offer, while others declined it, and in order that they might not be idling about during the half hour that they were required to be in attendance on a Wednesday, they had to go through a drill, which they would otherwise have to go through on another occdsion. BIRKENHEAD DOCKS. Mr. HEADLAM wished to ask the Secretary to the Treasury why the account from the trustees of the Bir kenhead Docks, pursuant to an Act of the Bth Vic., di rected by an order of this House, bearing date the 29th day of July, 1851, and again directed by another order of this House, bearing date the 26th day of April, 1h52, had not been laid before the House, and moved that it be made forthwith. Mr. HAMILTON said the Treasury had nothing to do with those docks, but he had been informed by the secretary, of the company that the reason why the ac counts had not been made up was that the books had been sent to London to undergo an investigation before a committee of inquiry. ANTIGUA LOAN. Mr. MACKINNON — wished to ask the Colonial Semidry what were the intentions of Government in reference to the loan advanced to the Antigua proprietors in 1842, in consequence of the earthquake there. Sir J. PAKINGTON said a memorial had been re ceived on the subject, which was now under the con sideration of the Government. EMIGRATION. Mr. HUME wished to know from the Right Hon. Baronet if he was prepared to state what steps Govern ment meant to take to assist emigration from Scotland? Sir JOHN PAKINGTON coulda add little more to what he had said on Friday, but he had since been in communication with parties who were anxious to pro mote emigration, by benevolent and charitable means, from the Isle of Skye and the western islands of Scot land, and some means would be taken to assist distressed persons to emigrate to Australia.—(Hear.) All he could add in addition to this was that the subject was under the consideration of the Emigration Commis sioners. —(Hear, hear.) CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. Mr. HE ADL AM wished to ask the Attorney-General whether he was prepared to introduce into the Cha ritable Trusts Bill a clause exempting Dissenting chapels from its operation. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he had received deputations on this subject from various Wesleyan bodies, but he must decline granting exemptions to any party. Mr. KEOGH put it to the Hon. and Learned Gentle man whether there was any chance of disposing of this Bill in the present state of public business, particularly as its principle had not yet been discussed.—(Hear.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it stood on the paper for to-night, but he should not bring it on after ten o'cleek.—(ilear.) The principle of the Bill had been recognised by both Houses Of Parliament, and he was most anxious for it to pass into law.—(Hear, hear.) He would, however, state en Friday what chance there was of his doing so this session.—(Hear, hear.) THE REV. MR. BENNETT. The C EIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said Perhaps be might be permitted to take that opportunity . of conveying to the House the result of their inquiries, which Government had instituted with reference to the insti tution of the Rev. Mr. Bennett. The law officers of the Crown had reported to Government that her Majesty had no means of making any efficient inquiry into the subject through the medium of a commission, inasmuch as tho commission would have no power to summon witnesses, or to compel the production of any necessary evidence that might be required. Besides, if such a commission were to issue, the Crown might be embark ing in a course of investigation which might assume a character of an ecclesiastical inquiry, which might be a direct infringement of the Bill of Rights. The Government had, therefore, acted in accordance with the legal opinion. But had they believed it possible, under the existing law, that a person in connexion with another Church would be instituted to a living in the Church of England, in defiance of its professed princi ples, they would not have hesitated, notwithstanding the peculiar aspect of the session, to brine; in a Bill to remedy so anomalous a state of things.—(Hear.) The law, however, it was thought would be sufficient to meet the case, and the Government had not deemed it prudent to give an advantage to the offending party by trying to vindicate the law in an illegal manner. He was satis fied that the coures which they had pursued would meet with the approval of the House.—(Hear, hear.) Her l'ilajeet.y . e Government bad been advised that the present, state of the law furnished a remedy. By the 3d and 4th of the Queen, cap. 86, commonly called the Church Discipline Act, it was open to any pariehicner of Frame to appeal either to the Bishop of the diocese—(lronical cheers from the Opposi tion)—in which the offence was alleged to have been committed, or to the Bishop in whose diocese the offender now held preferment, and might call upon either of those prelates to issue a commission of inquiry to investigate the circumstances. If there were proved before that commission a prima facie case against the offender, it was in the power not only of the prelates but also of the parishioners of Frome to call for - a judicial inquiry, and on the guilt of the offender being proved to punish him either by de priving him of the benefice he then held or suspending him from his sacred functions. So far as her Ma jesty's Government had been able to learn, no steps had been taken by any of the parishioners of Frome to make any such appeal, and despite the iro nical cheer which had been raised on the other aide of the House, her Majesty's Govrnmcnt had suffi cient faith in thel discretion and in the sense of cl iv lipt that they could not supposes that they ulOp p ose an y obstacle to the exercise of this legal tte,remedy. Her Majesty's Government had given great coeparo o uou consideration oiuiiou_ to i thisw hiewhich subject, he andtho thought t y bad the coma n House of that be er Commons would agree with them— , e any other step were taken those who complained of a redress whi c h the grievance ou g ht t o see k t h a t them. present state of the law afforded to Go vernment had Luken a wished to know whether the Go- Mr. GLAD STONE conduct of the Bishop ny i , s'epa to ascertain whether the the an y d oin W t e vi lls hic h h ad th t e ee ff n o i n n . alllploeinctsaacAcoxrediEnt t r.,eo R law, EXCHEQUER said he o the ß e l "h h. could scarcely understit,eltaodwi Gentleman w!shod to prefermenta'- could not see that Alr. LIORSNIAN sa i d ' h Honourable Gentle the remedy which the Ri h e man lisd referred to, as Obi t i D n Dly th t e o P th a e we c r ai n e. f The any offences in the diocese of ca: i s hionsr, was one which v eea ls Rev. Gentleman now held Continent, and 13 itb. and 'Yells, and part of the refer the that part. Mr. 13:31nett had taken place ea ue th e e e s charged aga i nst what cfict could the remedy relic Right Ilonour..blo Gentleav4n h ave d on by the As another illustration ho would the Catholic Directory, published monthly, i House to givea a list of pave rts to the Thrnan C' holm in which was 'holm Church, in which he ter. 1 the name of Mr. W. J p . - ' B. Bennett of St. , Paul's, KnigLt,b-ficlgo, t 5 convert o n j ni ' llte 1851, and at tie erAi of the announcement' D'h' •atius• No w , h e -- t h e thanksgiving, Dec gi • would ask what redress had the parishioners of F rn ' against this. The compo' 6 ition, too, of r h e e tribunal—composed of five clergymen nominated by the Bishop of Bath an d Wells —was not very satisfactory. It was now a month since he ha d brou g ht forw ard his motion; and he thought that, if the law officers had taken all that time to find out the existence of this tribunal, there had been a considerable time wasted. Ho gave notice that he should to-morrow move for a Committee of Inquiry into the truth of those foots which he had stated on a figmer accusivn. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought it would not be expedient to take any further steps until the present means of redress had been exhausted. Her Majesty's Government did not wish to mix them selves up with the circumstances of this ease, and they did not feel it their duty to counsel the Queen to insti tute an inquiry, which they were advised, and which they felt by their own experience would not result in any good effect. Mr. GLADSTONE said, that as the Government had not appeared to have taken any steps to inquire into tha conduct of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, which on the occasion of the former discussion had been stated to hove been entirely illegal, be wished to give notice that when the opportunity arose he should be ready to show that that Right Ray. Prelate had acted throughout in entire conformity with the letter and spirit of the law. The subject then dropped. THE MILITIA BILL. The House then went into Committee on this Bill, resuming at clause 14. (LEFT SITTING.) THE DIVISIONS AGAINST KNOWLEDGE. (From the Weekly Dispatch.) Mr. Editor,—The conduct of our representatives is not only closely watched just now, but they are fully aware that it is so, and are evidently led thereby to conduct themselves more carefully. Even short memories wili last till hustings time. Let the caitiff tremble who has reason to dread the poplar in'errogatory. Votes, now, will not pass " unwhipped of justice;" nor, it may be, unwhipped of prejudice either ; for the nonsense, the selfish interests, and the bigotries of constituencies are telling upon the House of Commons, as well as their good sense, their patriotism, and their justice. All those who have electors now think seriously of those electors. When the Speaker puts a question to the Members, he often puts many a Member to the question. Feeling, as your readers doubtless do, a strong interest in the repeal of the imposts popularly described as Taxes on Knowledge, I have looked curiously on their behalf to the debate and the several divisions of Wednesday last. There are some things in them which deserve to be noted and remembered. The movers of the agitation against these taxes have not gone to work in, nor been animated by, a trading spirit. They regarded rather an intellectual result than acommercial profit. The Paper Duties, however ob jectionable in themselves, only came into their view as connected with the diffusion of intelligence and litera ture. Those duties stood last in their list as to import ance, though first by far as to the question of revenue. The conjunction of this item with the Stamp and Advertisement Duties, the addition of a commercial and manufacturing grievance to a purely intel lectual one, and the co-operation obtained there by of influential parties connected with the paper making trade—all this has been effected in the political managt ment of the agitation. A few votes have been gained thereby; altogether, I fear, the cause has been damaged. The tone of the discussion has been lowered. Success has been postponed, rather than accelerated. Another lesson has been added to the many which teach us, that there are no tactics like simple and straightfor ward earnestness. Tho newspaper stamp establishes a practical censor= ship of the press. It puts the entire cheap periodical press under the arbitrary power of the Board of Inland Revenue. Mr. Timms is the autocrat of this species of litetalure. He tolerates, and he destroys. Some publi cations he indulges with whole columns of intelligence; nay, he patronizes them with a stamp, which frees of post-office charge so much of their issue as is destined for the country ; while in other publications he will not allow the shortest paragraph. Timms nods or winks no longer. Forth comes a missive from Somerset-house, and the reluctant editor, who never dreamed of offence in just mentioning, perhaps, a Reform meting which had been held, or which was about to be held, finds that he has only to make up his mouth for the muzzle, or he buried alive beneath a crushing pile of penalties. Thus has journal after journal been suppressed. And thus will it be, with our legal definitions of a newspaper, until the stamp be abolished. What literary man, what man of active thought upon topics of deep interest. can communicate freely with the public, unless by the grace of the large capitalists in whom the present system vests a monopoly of the media of communication? Talent is treated as marketable, and that tends to make it market able. Look at the large sales which are required to render a cheap publication profitable. How can its proprietor dare to confront a popular prejudice? If 20,000 or 30,000 would answer, he could afford to tell the many, in plain terms, when they were wrong. But if 70,000 or 80,000 bo necessary, he has no such margin; he is faithful at his peril, and the bull will gore him to death should he venture to take it by the horns. This is the gravamen of the charges against the Taxes on Know ledge, considered specifically as such, and not as con nected with merely trading considerations. Now, topics of this higher kind were very much swamped on Wednesday by the allies of the cause, to whom 1 have adverted. The protest against a degrad ing influence upon intellect was, to a large extent, merged in a protest against the exciseman. The paper of which we heard most was brown paper, for thft wrappage of parcels, or that of which little boxes are made to hold cotton threads. Had it been Disraeli's cue to speak, he would have had a fine field for sarcasm on this species of intellectual grievance. It was not from the study, but from the shop, that the csmplaint came. When Learning should have spoken for Edinburgh; and Genius for Dublin, wo heard little mora than a sordid grumbling of the exciseman's being troublesome in the North, and of Ireland not being suffi ciently favoured by only having to pay a shilling upon the advertisement and a halfpenny for the stamp. Accordingly Mr. Cowan, who opened the adjourned debate on behalf of the shopocracy, did not vote for the repeal of the Newspaper Stamp. Mr. John Best, after supporting the first, or trading motion, voted against both the remaining propositions. So did the Hon. H. Fi zroys Colonel Matheson, and Mr. J. Abel Smith. Sir E. Buxton, Mr. Monsell, Colonel Boyle, Sir D. J. Nor rays' Mr. Osborne, Sir G. Philips, absented themselves. And a negative was given upon the repeal of the News paper Stamp by Mr. M. Forster, Lord R. Gosvenor, and Mr. H. D. Seymour, So much for the heartiness or the sincerity of those parties as to taxes upon knowledge. For some reason or other—l will not inquire why—they want an Excise duty taken off. For that end, though the sum is a large one to abstract from the revenue, they are ready to turn the screw upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer. But a penny paper for the people is no part of their plan. When we get to cheap news for the multitude they fly off. They stir not to obliterate the brand from the journal, or to dethrone the censor at Somerset-house. The vote of Mr. John Walter was very significant. He voted for the retention of the Paper Duty and of the NewspapPr Stamp, and against the Tax on Advertise ments. Who cannot read monopoly against the public, and cheapness for the monopolist? Messr. Brotherton, Perfect, and Tenison, voted against the repeal of the Paper Duties, and for that of the Stamp. There were with them Headlam and Thornley, who did not vote on the first division. The following went for the repeal of the tax on ad vertisement?, having voted hostilely, on tho first divi sion :—Bailey (Monmouth), Brotherton, Castlereagh, Dalrymple, Freestun, Mostyn, Perfect, F. C. Russell, Walter. These may be added, who had not voted in that division; some, at least, from accident:—Sir W. Clay, Sir C. Douglas, Fordyce, French, Ilorsman, C. Lushington, The O'Gorman Mahon, Tenison, Tiaorn ley, and Tuffnell. p T e pn h og e rt th r e e rb a s knowledge wtehree oo second; tx r less d a i is bei division s a e l ( e vo r en a n ttmusthhea than stamp). m th e measure r their no rit Their minority S e u tr against the paper duty, and by 16 than that against the advertisement duty. On that 100 they may rely; at any rate within sight of an election. And they are now in a condition to judge of the wisdom of being mixed up into e L h fora million al shfmetcayilthoolemimgmo common-place the olneiinaeonn-dnrvpde.e revenue, e t cao i ne g At u a gene t dya voterwt t t h h ea e e rs csai d w atag e e i u s e : a e g h lrt ei r ran t evi i gn t ta o h s:g n t e e et s l f a. instead pwnb paper-makers.d p sT e a the r h " oderef degradedeo l e m d e k d sa e s i ntr than o h . nfa objection , osnr. taxis at t i c t h h p e r essasme e u p t i o m n e c , e t n a j i u n ro us s f e e t class, o r t t fa h o e u r gh m i i ;, 6i d e o n n b e t f l e a s s the community. But we see how it is that the House of Commons, even on what is called the Liberal side of it, looks at a question of this description. Few of them care whether the people have the means of free mental communica tion. The question is subordinated to the profits of a papermill. The book and the box are on the same level. Each is considered as a manufacture. More z2al is manifested to bar out the exciseman than to stop the censor. One cannot but wish, and almost expect, that Disraeli will turn round upon them some day, in one of his bold freaks, and show that he better under stands the intellectual wants and wishes of the people. The chief reason why he will not is, that he knows how feeble, in their logical support, are the dogmas of the party which he has to lead. The Division Lists furnish materials, which have never yet been fully used, for holding the representative body to a strict responsibility. The votes should be recorded and analyzed from week to week, from month to month, and from session to session, until the whole conduct of every individual Member, through out the duration of a P arliament, is before the public. It should appear bow far he is attentive or negligent, consistent or capricious. We shall have before us the statistics of slavery to party and of crotchetty individua lity. The majority have little reason to care about con stituents. They buy and bribe them, or in many cases do without them. For such, there is no responsibility, except that of publicity. Yet even they may be capable of feel ing soma shame when a strong and continuous light is thrown upon their doings. At any rate, the exposure will help ns ou towards Reform. The number of elec tors, and the popu:ation of the places represented, should always b appended to the division. Letjthe people see how often they are outvoted, and by whom. Resolve many a majority into its constituent elements, and it becomes a pitiful minotity. Were the stamp off, there might be publications appropriate to this purpose. Constituents might keep them as a parent keeps a character book for his child, with its good and bad marks. But Mr. Timms would call this nevi s, and indite a letter of warning to the editor. Really, this is the most hypocritical country upon the face of makeof theesapretehches inits .From one of it to the other we cant about education. O ur di v i nes preac h sermon s, and our states men praise. And then its progress is effeclually stopped by the religious difficulty at one point,aLd by th© fiscal difficulty at another. When children should be instructed, they are crammed and choked with theological dogma. When the self-taught would read, the bode or newspaper is taxed out of their reach. Church and State unite to press down the intellect. The arms of ignorance have for their supporters a Biabop and a Chancellor of the Exchequer. EVENING, FRAN CE. On Saturday a grand mass was celebrated in the church of St. Eustache, on the occasion of the blessing by the Aarchbishop of Paris of the busts of the Pre sident of the Republic, intended fur the central. markets. A considerable crowd already filled the church, when, at half-past 11 o'clock, the gates of the porch were opened, and the cortege en tered processionally, prece d e d b y th e b an d o f the Municipal Guard. Immediately after the band ad vanced the Forts dela Halle, carrying a bust of the Prince President, and followed by 100 young girls, dressed in white robes, with blue scarfs, and crowns of white roses on their heads. Then came another bust, placed on a richly-ornamented stand, which was to figure in the meat market, and a number of others, escorted by the members of the different corporations, to which they were des tined. After the busts walked the Prefect of Police, the Mayor and Deputy-Mayors of the ar rondissement, the other civil authorities, and the officers of the Municipal and National Guards. Mass was subsequently celebrated, after which the Arch bishop delivered a short address and blessed the busts. The cortege then left the church, installed the busts in the different markets, and, in the evening, the Dames de la Halle gave a ball in the Linen-hall. BANK OF FRANCE. The following is a monthly return of the situation o the Bank of France up to May 13 : LLiBILITIE V. Capital ... „. ... ... ... f. 91,250,000 0 Reserve fund ... ... 12,980,750 14 Reserve - immobiliere ... ... ... 4,000,000 0 Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 496,467,700 0 Ditto of the branch banks ... .., 139,835,025 0 Ditto to order (post-bills) ... ... 6,470,243 94 Bills payable at sight ... ..* ... 17,639,( , 34 0 Account -current with Treasury creditor 87,895,718 36 Various accounts current ... ... 140,056,623 59 Ditto in branches ... ... ~. 31,964,632 1 Dividends payable ... . . ... 300,776 25 Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 2,802,485 19 Re-discounts of the last six months ... ' 408,881 0 Interest on protested bills ... ... 536,677 21 Miscellaneous ... ... ... ... 1,725,162 24 f. 1,034,384,408 92 ASSETS. Cash in hand ... ..• Ditto in branch banks Bills past due ••• ••• ••• Bills discounted, but not yet due, of which 20,589,197 f. Oc. were received from the Branch Banks ••• ... 47,936,016 48 Bills in the branch banks ... 82,173,686 0 Advances on coins and ingots... ... 2,538,700 0 Ditto by the branch banks ... 2,706,976 0 Ditto on French public securities ... 64,840,236 10 Ditto by branch banks... ..• 5,504,673 0 Ditto on railway bhares and bonds ... 6,425,000 0 Ditto by branch banks ... 2,329,445 0 Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 0 fiat() to the State on the Treaty of 30th June, 1848 ... 75,000,000 0 Advanced to the City of Paris on the Previsional Loan of 50,000,0001. ... 20,000,000 0 Rentes of the reserve fund 10,000,000 0 Rentes, disposable funds ... 55,635,896 32 Hotel and furniture of the Bank ... 4,000,000 0 Real property of the branch banks ... 3,571,772 0 Interest in National Discount Bank ... 294,006 60 Expenses of administration of the Bank ... f. 490,963,226 60 ... 106,821 687 0 250,878 48 and Branches IlSCOllaneou2 932,384 41 2,459,814 93 E 1,031,384,408 92 Certified by the Governor of the Bank, VARGOI7T. It appears from the preceding account that the cash in hand has decreased by 3,500,000 f. Tho commer cial bills discounted has increased by 10,500,000 f., about 2,500,000 f. being for Paris, and 8,000,000 f. for the de partments. The cash advanced on deposit of French securities has decreased nearly 24,000,000 f., in Paris about 25,000,000 E, and increased in the branch banks 1,000,000 f. Advances on Railway Stock hare increased from 4,542,000 f. to 8,754,000. The Bank notes in cir culation have increased by 3,500,000 f. The balance to the credit of the Treasury has increased by 3,500,000 f. The sundry credits have decreased by 33,000,000 f in Paris, and increased nearly 6,000,000 f. in the depart ments. FRENCH RAILWAY TRAFFIC. The following . are . the last returns of the gross re -8,681f.; total, 544,026 f. ceipts of the principal French Railways : NORTHERN.—From April 29 to May 5 : Passengers, 144 f.; total, 190,063 f. May 2 to May 8: Passengers, total 75,186 f. ; 2 to May 8 : Passengers, 3, 2 2 6 1 , HARE.—Press 90 3 18u9 4 y:E 5 .R. f N: E . .; . g_g_ g oo o oFop o ddrr d sso : 72 , 49 2 23 , 7 , 3488ayf . ORLEANS. — From May 3 to May 9: Passengers, 118,3171. ; goods , 137 , 3 24 f.; total, 255,641 f. BouDEAux.—From April 27 to M ay 3: P assengers: 56,1411.; goods, 76,9041. ; t o t a l , 133,045 1 . VIERZON.—From Msy 3 to May 9: Passengers. April 19 29 9 0 t o M m a May y ; total, 105,825 f. 32,596€.; goods, 39,1261.; total, 71,722 f. 5 : Passengers, 49 8N ,7 T O AR 3 NA f T . s ;g uT o n o : d .i s r , oFm s r 6 o , A l ra 2 p 2 rA f i . ip 5: Passengers, 123,2611.; goods, 114,1 981.; total, 233,459 f. BALE.—FromApril 26 to May 2 : Passengers, 23, 9 431.; goods, 28,674 f.; total, 51,9171. MONTEREAIL—From April 29 to May 5: Passengers 9,029 f.; goods, 13,953 f.; total, 22,9821. LYONS. -- From May 2 to May 8 : Passengers, 194,962 f.; goods, 170,5021.; total, 365,4641. WESTERN.—From May 3 to May 9: Passengers, 66,385 f.; goods, 30,4581.; total, 96,843 g. THE COAL AREA OF THE KINGDOM. It is indeed remarkabl e that so small a country should furnish so mighty a supply of fuel. We have 12,000 square miles of coal area —nearly one-tenth of the entire urea of our entire island ; but still this bears but a small ratio to the total quantity in all countries. According to the estimates of Prufcssor Ansted and Mr. Taylor, the ascertained area of all the coal strata in the world is not less than 150,000 Square miles. And yet the an nual amount of coal worked and brought to light in the British islands is nearly double that of all other countries taken together, —so enormous are now our colliery operations. The number of coal fields in these islands, comprising districts de tached from all others, is about thirty; the num ber of distinct workable seams in these coal fields varies from ono to eighty-fo ur; th e thi c kest seams in any one field varies from thr ee t o f o rty feet; an d the aggregate thickness of all th e seams i n e ach field varies from three to two hundred f ee t. From these variou s coal fields there are n ow ex t rac t e d not less than 35,000,000 tons a year, t h e va l ue o f which, including transit to the place of consu m ption, is about 18,000,0 001. .. This estimate of about 10 i . p e r ton may seem amid?. to Londoners accustomed to a price so much . higher, but in all the coal-mi n i ng an d i ron - s melting distr i cts, th e average is far und e r th at h ere name d. Of the 18, 000,0001., it is supposed th a t a b out one-ha lf i s th e value at the pit's mouth, and the ot h er h al f the va l ue of the transit to the consumer. The fi xe d cap i ta l em ployed in the coal trade , including mining machinery and transit machinery, is roughly estimated at 10,00030 001.—Dodd's Curiosities oflndustry. --- It was rumoured in the House of Commons this evening that Portsmouth Dockyard is on fire. ANOTHER AGONISING SCENE AT A FIRE. On Friday morning, a t a few minu tes before three o'clock, a fi re broke out in the premises belonging to Mr. George Mewling, b oo t an d s hoe maker, situate at No. 34, Featherstone -street, City-road. When discovered by the police the fire was making such rapid progress that the in mates, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Mewling, Mr. Flower, and two children, were scarcely able to stand on the flooring on account of the intense heat, coupled with which the smoke was of such a character es to nearly stifle them. The neigh boursld were running to and fro end eavouring to procure a tiers, but bei ng unable the poor c reatures were expected every moment t o f a ll a pre y to the fury o f the fearful ele ment. The Loyal Society's tire-escape , how ever, cam e in sight, and was hailed with s h o uts of applause from the popu lace. The escap e was i ns t an tly placed in front of the burn ing property, when Elden, the conduct or, mounted the same, and br oug h t the whole five persons down•in safety from the . Pp of the h ouse , w hil st the flames were iss uin g fr om the lower part of th e prem i ses . When the conduct o r e ntered the smoke was so d ense that he could barely see the persons or keep f rom b e i ng suffocate d . The firemen were unable to get the flames extinguished until the p remises in which the y c ommenced were nearly d es t ro yed, and s ome damage done to those on either side, Nos. 33 and 35, occup ied res p ectivel y b y Mr S. Denton, 'coffeeh ouse keeper, and Mr. J. Slater, milliner. ---- FATAL ACCIDENT. On Saturday mornin g , at about nine o' c l oc k, Adelaide W oo l en ough, aged 87, a ser vant,was precipitated f rom th o third story w indow to the y a rd below, a h e i g h t o f upwar d s o f 50 feet. In the course of thes-inn-road, employed at No. 13, Sidmouth - s treet, Gray's-inn-road, fall she burst through a skylight. The fearful crash alarmed the inmates of the house, w hich is a reception or lodgi ng establishment for foreigners, several of whom rushed out, and found th e un f or t una t e woman bleeding profusely from her skull, and quite insensible. Taylor, 84 G, was call e d i n, and she w as conveye d t o the Royal Free Hos . pital, wh ere Dr. Lan e an d other med i ca l officers of the establishment ren dered every humane assistance. Her skull was fractured her ribs were broken, and the whole framewor k of her body ' was shattered in a m ost dreadful manner. She expired 490 - n alter %tering the hospital. M A Y 17, 1852. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MALTA, MAY 11.—The Spit^ful steam-sloop left lig I on Frioqy lettyr . ‘ for tho odu,irai c hicii wtis, by a6vioAs acm 'an t , Hp. lying at Tunis. Oe board the Spiteful his Lordship the:dishop of Gibraltar had taken passage, intending to visit parts of his diocess, then to proceed to Gibraltar, where he would, as is his custom, pass the heats of summer. A proclamation by his Excellency the Governor an nouncing that the Malta Militia Bill had received the approbation of the Queen in Council, was published on the sth inst., together with a Government notice con taining regulations for its organization. The training is to be confine;) to exercise suited fur defence, but But to extend to battalion movemeros. The town portions will consist of six companies of artillery; one of the Great Harbour, and one of the Quarantine, divided by the Strada Reale; a company of Floriana, Vittotiasa, Senglem, and Cospicua. The country portion will consist of infantry, formed into companies according to districts or easels, but at No tabile (Citta Vecchia) and Gozs, there will be a portion of artillery. Words of command to be in English. Books for en rolment are open in the police offices of Valetta and Cospicua, but scarcely 100 are entered. By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, Captain Christie, of the Royal Artillery, takes passage. A Board of Health has sat on this officer, and change of climate is strongly recemmended. General Perezal, who so much distinguished himself by his military services in the late Hungarian revolu tion, and who, with his wife and three children, has been resident in Malta for the last two months, also takes passage to England by the company's steamer. The general is the last of the refugees who was detained in Turkey. The French fleet has passed the island, bound, it is said, to ports on the coast of Africa, and under orders to reach Algiers early in June, but not before. It com prises, as is said, three line-ohbattle-ships three deckers, three line-of-battle-ships two-deckers, and a beautiful screw steamship, brig rigged. The Banshee carries on the mails received per Ripon, and destined to be sent through France from Marseilles. The Scourge has left Corfu for Athens and Constan tinople, and expects to return early in June to Corfu. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 16.---The Philomel, 10, Com mander G. T. Forbes, arrived at Spithead yesterday af ternoon from the West Coast of Africa station with mails and dispatches of considerable importance. She sailed from Sierra Leone on the Ist ult., at which date the Penelope, 16, Captain Lyster, carrying the broad pendant of Commodore Bruce, Commander-in-Chief ; the Dolphin, 3, Lieutenant Commander Temple ; the Seal ark, 8, Commander E. S. Sotheby ; and the French Commodore in a steam frigate, were there. Exchanges at that date was par on England. The Philomel put in at no intermediate port. Commander Forbes of the Philomel, and Mr. Ttedie, the purser, have lately re turned from a mission to Abomey, endeavouring to conclude a treaty with King Gezo for the suppression of the slave trade. The slave trade abolishment his Majesty signed, but the condition relative to missiona ries, residences, schools, and burial grounds he would not sign. Treaties have also been concluded with the chiefs of Great Popoe and Little Popoe, Aghway, Goom-a-Loota, Segors, Affls-hoo, Adeffi, Elmina Chien, and Blook-Noose, and the Philomel has brought home the dispatches relative thereto. She also brings the rather unexpected intelligence—after what we have heard of his previous apparent goodwill—of the celebrated King of Dahomey having ordered the British Vice-Consul out of his dominions. When the Philomel left the station his Dahomean Majesty's ports were being blockaded by the British in conse quence. The slaver-cruising squadron is very healthy, but they are somewhat dissatisfied with the dulness of the station, owing to no prizes being made. The Phi lomel has been remarkably healthy, not having lost any officer or man by fever during her service on the coast. She has brought home Commander Marshall (late Lieu tenant of the Penelope), on promotion, both cfficers having been engaged and wounded in the late affair at Lagos. She has also brought home Dr. Sloss,. Assistant Surgeon of the Alecto steam-sloop, and the witnesses for a trial to take place on Spencer, a stoker of the same vessel, on a charge of murder of an able seaman of the Alecto named Abel Potts. The Sampson steam-frigate, 6, Captain L. T. Jones, having taken on board a guiltily of tables, stools, and an extra galley for the use of tro o p s s h e i s t o embark for the Channel Islands and Queenstown, sailed last evening about nine o'clock for Dover, where she will embark the 54th Foot for Jersey. The following acting -mates and midshipmen passed in navigation for lieutenants at the Royal Naval College last week:--Messrs. A. J. Chatfield, H. M. Gillson, F. A. Maxac, J. B. Balfour, E. Squeri, W. A. Smyth, R. 0. Leach, C. C. Rebinson, C. Fitton, W. Vicary, R. R. Hartwell, Viscount J. Gifford, and H. Fluxhem. The following second masters, R.N., also passed at the same time for masters Messrs. C. M. Hughes, H. Bond, H. B. Boxer, and H. D. Sarratt. The following young gentlemen also qualified for entry into her Majesty's service as naval cadets, and have joined the Victory until appointed to seagoing ships:—Messrs. J. Hawkins, C. A. Watts, E. B. Piney, W. Bell, J. E. Erskine, L. J. Evans, and F. S. D. Broughton. The Basilisk steam-sloop arrived to-day from Ply mouth. The Centaur steam-frigate, Captain Cannon, flag of Rear-Admiral Henderson, C. 8., was at St. Catherine's, Brazil, on the tat ult., where she had been staying a few days on her way to Rio de Janeiro from the River Plate. She left Monte Video on the 21st of March, and unless unforeseen circumstances took her again to La Plata before the usual season, it was the intention of the Ad miral to pass the next five or six months at or in the neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro. All were well on board. She arrived at Rio on the 13th. ult, but finding fever still prevalent she was to sail that day week for Bahia, which was healthy. The Plumper, 11, Com mander Nolloth, is on her way home. It is reported that Captain Blackwood, late of the Victory, will take the command of the next expedition to Behring's Straits should one be sent to the relief of that of Captain Collinson and . Commander M'Clure; and that Comm a nder Englefield will be the second in com mand; also that Captain Gifford, and the officers and crew of the Dragon steam frigate, on arrival from Lis bon, will be turned over to the new steam frigate Tiger at this port. M PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY, AY 15.—Her Majesty's Captain Matson, left the Sound on steamship HightlYer, Thursday for Portsmouth. The Rodney, 92 , C a p tain C. Graham, continues is the Sound. The ship Calcutta, having been . unmasted, has been to being placed in dock. j e s isi ty A p y re l 4 v . i — ou r s i l t y he Dauntless, steam-frigate, warped to the DEVONPORT, Captain Halsted, sailed from Devonport, for Galway, disturbances amongst on Friday last, to su pp ress some the fishermen. The Rochester, lighter, sailed the same day for Chatham. Brisk put i n t o Ki ngstown Her Majesty's'steans-ship Harbour on Friday, for a supply of coal. She was 24 passage from Glasgo w to t h at port. hours making t he She is not not yet out of the hands of the riggers. The Crown, Dawson, master, bound from Liverpool t o riew York, put into Passage on W e d nes d ay last, with sails and spars much damaged. This vessel bore up from the longitude of 14 west, with 501 passengers on board; two of the m are si ck with the small pox, and one child died at sea. She sailed from Liverpool on the. 22d ult., and experienced very strong gales on the 9th and 10th inst., in which she lost her sails and spars. She i s 1,300 tons register, and carries a burden of 1,800 tons. S H EERNESS, MAY 16.—Her M a j esty ' s screw steam frigate Horatio, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, ar rived here yesterday morning on her return from her trial cruise, which we hear has been satisfactory. Her speed under canvas, with the wind on the quarter, avera ged 9 knots per hour, alth oug h her screw Ipro peller, being a slight degree under water, doubtless im peded her progress. When under steam, and working expansively, she made eight knots an hour nearly, her consumption of fuel being extremely small. For the purpose for which she was intended —that of a block ship—she is well calculated in every essential point of view. Her Majesty's steam tug vessel African, Second Master Gill, left port on Friday, at 1.15 Pon s for Greenhithe, for the purpose of assisting in towing to Chatham her Ma. jesty's ship Hercules. A gale of wind from the south-west set in here on Thursday night, and increased the following day to such an extent as to render it necessary for the Wa terloo, 120, London, 90, and Monarch,B4, to strike their topgallant masts and point their yards to the wind. Com munication with the ships lying here was with difficulty accomplished during the greater part of Friday. It moderated in the evening of that day, and on the follow ing morning the ships sent up their topgallant masts and squared yards. Her Majesty's ship Hercules, having discharged her stores, &c., at Greenhithe, arrived here yesterday at one P.ll ,in tow of the African and Monkey steamers, and anchored off Standgate Creek, She is to undergo a thorough refit at Chatham, where she was built, as far back as 1815, by the then surveyors of the navy, as a 72-gun ship, and has for a long time past been employed as a store-ship. She was lately navigated from Malta by a party of officers and men belonging to the Queen, who are to be sent to Portsmouth in a steamer specially placed at their disposal. Vice-Admiral the Hon. Joseeline Percy, Commander in-Chief at the Nore, returned from town yesterday at 3 P.M. The broad pendant of the Hon. Moutagu Stop. ford was forthwith struck at the main on board the Waterloo, 120, and the Admiral's flag (blue at the fore) hoisted. We hear that tile Lords of the Admiralty have it in contemplation to fit out an expe di t i on to Behring's Straits for the purpose of relieving the Enterprise, Cap. tain Collinson, and Investigator, Commander the command thereof to be conferred on Captain F. P. Blackwood and Commander Englefield. Her Majesty's ship Royal George, 120, when com plete in her r e p a i rs , i s to be placed here as an advanced ship. Her Majesty's sloop Wolverine, 12, Commander M. Falcon, was paid off on Thursday last. Ihr Majesty's sloop Barracouta, on her pas3age from Chatham, st eame d eight knots an hour against a floodtide. Second-Lieutenant John Frederick 'Hawkey, of the Chatham division of Royal Marines, lately embarked on board the London, 90, as senior subaltern, h.s boon pro moted to the rank of First-Lieutenant, vice Charles Wolrige, who resigned his commission while serving in the Calypso. The drill of the Royal Dockyard Battalion at Chatham is to com mence to-morrow - (Monday). The c emba rkingtlse and disembarking the men from boats is to b e d by crossing the river and landing the infantry under coyer of the Artillery. A report of the time occupied in forming ready for the advance is to be made to the 1 Admiralty. T 11.571 '; '4" 1? , ) don. 90, Captaia G. It ; M,,naren, 81, Cap,,in, C. Hope, guardship of ordinary; Horatio, 22, screw steara•frigate, Captain the Hon. S. T. Camegie; Am phion, Cyclops, Barracouta, Ltz - .lrd, Myrtle, and Wildfire steamers. I❑ th© Basin—Achille, 76; Ru3iell, 72; and Gossamer cutter. In Dock—Howe, 120; Ganges, 84; and Tribune surly steam-frigate, building. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, MAY 15. Master Robrfrt C. Allen (1841), to the Exc , l:ent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, for service in the Edinburgh, 58, steam screw guard ship at Portsmouth. Paymaster and Purser Charles Lyne (1819), to tho Buzzard steam-sloop at Devonport. The Lightning steam-vessel, Master Commander Henry W. Allen, left Woolwich to-day for Chatham, as tho Hercules troop-ship is to be takcn round from Greenhitho to that port, and the Lit , htning and Adder steam-vessels will take the officers and men of the Queen, at present serving in the Hercules, to Ports mouth to join their ship. LORD DERBY'S ADMINISTRATION. It must be coutessud that thew is a great diffieuhy in dealing with Lord Derby's Administration. As far as we are concerned, it is some comfort to know, in the first place, that we had no hand in creating the difficulty, and, in the second place, that it is universal. Lord John, his auxiliaries, his supporters, and his very colleagues, chose to quarrel amorg themselves, and, like a mutinous crow, surrender the ship to a foe of inferior Lumbers, metal, and weight. That was the disagreeable and un leeked-for incident to which the present Ministry owes its accession to power, and which is not very unlike the circumstances of Lord John Russell's own acces sion to power six years since. But the minority once admitted into offiee with due constitutional solemnity, how was it to be treated? From the first wo saw one thing which appeared to be gene rally overlooked, and which diminished the diffi culty, so far as it reduced the number of possible alternatives. We saw that Lord De: by and his friends were in, and could no longer be treated as out. So little was this fact realised that wo remember seeing in a clever contemporary in March an application of the well-known stanza on the comparative advantages of shutting the door against a lion, or letting him in and then turning him out. Our contemporary recommended without hesitation the former of these two courses, wholly forgetting that the opportunity had passed, and the latter alone was possible. What we have now to deal with is a lion in actual possession, the old British liun. Now, naturalists tell 1 , 3 that it is a popular error to suppose the lion the noblest and bravest of animals. He has not a spark of generosity in his nature. He is a ferocious, cowardly, sneaking brute, with all the vices of the whole feline family, but as much without either the desperate courage of the tigsr or the gentleness and docility of the smaller cat species. Such, then, being by hypothesis the animal in possession of our house, the question is, how are we to deal with him? We recommended fair play, for the obvious reason that fair play was the constitutional basis on which the Ministry rested. Parliament, having admitted it to power, could not with decency, or even self-respect, stultify itself by immediately reversing its own act. It remained, also, to be seen how the new Government would act, and what colours it would show. Here again, however, we were met by the cry that fair play did not apply to the like of these men. Fair play was for those for whom we had sympathies, and who could feel sympathies for us. It was insisted that we should treat them as vermin, pirates, and other hostes humani generir; that we ehould stop their supplies, starve them, poison them, or knock them on the head with the first stick or stone that came in our way. But unless we were to act from mere antipathy, the supposition of the new Ministers being vermin did not materially affect the practical difficulty. Suppose them to be vermin. li there is no such thing as a moral law with vermin, there is yet a law of expediency. It is true that we eo more thick of the sixth commandment when we order a battue of rats than we do of the eighth when we rob a hive of its honey; but it may be inexpe dient to destroy even rats without due consideration. For example, it we poison them, they will die in their holes, and leave ex ossibus ultor in the shape of an in tolerable stench. It is a question whether rooks, spar rows, and other destructive birds can be wholly destroyed without increasing some still more destructive insect tribes. The children of Israel, having received a general commission to Extirpate all the Canaanites, were, nevertheless, forbid to do so all at eve° lest the beasts of prey should multiply upon them, This club law, then, this argument a beicuto, did not really apply, for it might he expedient to give not only fair play, but a considerable degree of tether, or " a length of rope," it is sometimes called, to Lord Derby's Administration. We believed, and we still believe, it expedient to allow them every opportunity of clearing and declaring themselves, and of reaffirming or repu diating their errors. They had been on the waver for " a long time, and latterly had been shifting" their ground quite as fast as the intelligence or the forbear ance of their supporters would allow. It was no new thing, too, in the history of British politics that a party in power should repudiate or forget the extreme opi nions and the plausible intentions it had professed in Opposition. Indeed all parties do that, and it is sup posed to be one of the peculiar advantages of our con stitutional system, that it gives our legislators the alter nate opportunities of learning the abstract principles of political science on one side of the House, and their practical application on the other. But if there was no antipathy of nature, no moral vengeance to be immediately put in force ugainat these men, and if expediency suggested that we should wait, self-preservation requires tbat we should not allow our selves to fall into the power of those whom we have merely admitted on trial. It is very true that we shall never be really in the power either of Protectionists or of a Protectionist policy, for unquestionably the country at large would soon take that question out of the hands of any Parliament; but it is not the less improper to recommend a course eo dangerous as to involve the pos sibility of a violent remedy. It is clear that unless we have very good reason to trast her Majesty's present advisers, we cannot contemplate with pleasure the prospect of having them as our absolute masters. If Lord Derby should find .himself in a decided majority next session, with his supporters un fettered and obedient, and should he in the intoxication of power attempt the grand project of reversing our free -trade policy, that would be about as great a national calamity and as dangerous a crisis to cur institutions as the most disappointed Chartist could possibly desire. But the truth must be spoken. Wo cannot trust Lord Derby's disuse:ion not te make this attempt. We ought nor to trust any man, or put our selves in the power of any men. England ought not to be placed at the mercy of any dozen gentlemen what ever; but if any dozen gentlemen are to be trusted, it is too clear that these dozen gentlemen are not. They are at variance with one another, and with themselves; they confe,s wishes at variance with their intentions; they hare one language for the rational part of the house of Commons, and another for the irrational part of the constituency; they can hardly be made to feel that they are in a minority. Are such men to be trusted? Cer tainly not. The natural solution of the present difficulty, as it appears to us, is that every causzi:uency in the country, in which Free-tra - lers aro strong enough for the pur pose, should exact from candidates the mast explicit re nunciation of Protection, in any shape whatever, direct or indirect. That is the question to be decided by the country; that is the object of the dissolution; and that appears to us the proper mode of answering the appeal. Lord Derby's friends are sedulously preaching, on the one hand, that the question for the country is, whether it has confidence in his Government; Sir James Graham, on the othrx hand, is as anxious to persuade the country to put only this question, " Are you a sup porter of Lord Derby's Government?" This, how ever, is a question, not of men, but of measures. This grand constitutional relep , nce to the great court of the people is not for the purpose of deciding whether Lord Derby, or Lard John Russell, or Sir James Graham, or somebody else shall be First Lord of the Treasury for the three or four years to come, but to decide whether the food - and industry of a whole people are to be taxed for the special advantage of any one class. Let pledges be framed to meet that question, and let them be obtained from as many as possible of the 658 Members of the next Parliament. As to the particular men, or the particular measures that will prevail next year, no mortal can pretend to foretel them, and it is vain to think of fixing theta now; but such a course as o w f e p h r a o v t e e e i t n i d o n i c a o t e r d o sii a l n l y certainly Cabinet preclude a b l t e h t o .totsssirbeisl pityc ration.— Times. RAILWAY SIIARE MARKETS, LIVERPOOL MAY 15. STOCK EXCIIANGIE.—The business transacted in our share market to-day was very limited, at lower prices. The trans actions were—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junc tion, 10% 8 dis.— Ditto (late Chester and Birkenhead), 17 5 3 Caledonian, 19 1 / B —E astern Counties. 9 1-16 —Edinburgh and Glasgow, 31 % — Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North-Western, 123%—Ditto, New Quarters, 5% P. -- Midland, 695 / B —Ditto, New Preference, 4;1 2 per cent., par— North B r iti s h , 7—North Staff 6 11-1 ordshire, 72 3 / 4 —London 6 dis.—Sof tn- Eastern and Dover, 2U,v B —Yorkand North Alidland, 24 A. NI AN CH ESTE It, MAY 15, STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow :—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 11 dis.— Caledonian, 19 3-16—Eastern Counties, 9 n.—Edin burgh and Glasgow, 32—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction 1478. dis.—Lancashire and Yorksh ire, 72 % —London and ' North-Western, New Quarters, 5 3 / 8 p.— Manchester and Birmingham (C), Quarters, 2 1-16 p.— Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (101. Preference), 13 5 16—North Staffordshire, GI% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 215 A. BIEME4GEIADT, MAY 15. STocrK EXCHANGE.-- The share market has been firm to-day, but there was v er y little business doing. Th e on l y sale reported was-- Shrews bury and Birmingham (A), 7yB: A " FANCY" CANARY. —A g.uul isney bird m us t have a clean cap ; th at is, the crown of his head, defined by a horizontal line at the level of his eyes and bask, must be of a i clean yellow or white,-- in no reap. et broken or spatted with though it is right to acknowledge,Wtilina wings, and taile x must f ou l feathers. One s in g le fo ul feather renders hi m im perfect; Ipsuoribteyeiqsuraallryelfyremeefrtewmityh'e'llollwisorbli,evkh'ite feathers. To a his beauty remarkable, he shouldhte be finely mottl e d e back, and of a flue c l ear yellow all below the breast i make e au m kts e on These requirements are as essential ina hen as in the male bird. There are two twines given, to distinguish the colour by. The one are called." mealy ;" th e ot h ers Jonque birds. The f ormer have their crowns, and all below their breasts of a clean white or pal e y e ll ow ; th e l atter of a deep yellow. N o good breeder ever pairs two . mealy and two Jonque birds together. A skilful eye would imme diately detect any o ff sP thig Mll itin g fr 9lll 411 C 11 A union. --"I'l Own .42urno4 THE COUNTRY MARYCETS. LIVERPOOL. MAY 1K 1 kl A fi m feoling• is ,bn-Tri by hnblerg day, atly arti, I~IA N CHESTER, MAI 15. Throughout the week the trade has continued in a very lifeless state. Factors, however, have not shown any anxiety to press sales at materially lower rates; but in the limited business passing buyers have had the turn of prices in their favour on most articles. Coastwise and from Ireland the arrivals at Liverpool and Runcorn are scanty, but ffom abroad we have to notice a further large supply of flour from America, together with liberal quantities of wheat and Indian corn. Our market this morning was of a languid character, and on wheat and flour we note a reduc tion of Id per 701 b and 6.1 per sack respectively. Oats and beans, owing to the favourable change in the weather, moved off ilowly at barely last week's rates; whilst oa , meal, althougil in moderate demand, fully maintained its previous value. WORCESTER, MAy 15.--The market to-day has been hardly so good as of late,but best English w hite wheat was worth 16s 6,1 per bag, and red 15s to 15s 6d. Malting barley in slow demand at 3s 61 to 3s 8d per bushel ; other qualities, 3s 4d to 3s 61. English beans must be quoted at 4s 6d pee bushel, and foreign from 4s to 4s 3d. Old English oat!, 3s 6f to 3s 9d per 391 b ; and new, 3s to 3s 4d ; Irish, 2s 9d to 3s. Vetches, 4s 6d to 5s per bushel. Peas, from 3s 9d to 45 per bushel. At Stourbridge market on Friday the supply of all sorts of grain was limited, and a ready sale was obtained at last weel's rates. A trifling advance was realised for beans. At Stratford-on-Avon on Friday, there was a fair supply of wheat, which was offered at last week's currencies, but the millers pressed for a reduction. Farmers, however, would not submit, and the result was a flat market. Wheat averaged 2 1 per imperial quarter. Barley was worth 26s 6d to 27s 6d per quarter. The transactions in other grain at late rates. At Wolverhampton the supply of wheat was short, both from farmers and dealers, but there was enough for the de mand, anu in order to effect sales a reduction of Is per quarter had to b e su b m i tted to in the price of wheat. English white wheat was worth 5s 4d to 5s 6) per 621 b, and red 5s to bs 2d. The value of barley was fully maintained. Nlalting sold at 2Ss to , 293 pe r quarter. Beans were firm. Old fetched 13s 6d put 156,13, and new 12s 6d, with a fair business doing. o.as movoLl off slowly at th e currencies of the previous market-day. Eug " lish oats, 22s to 23s per 31216; Irish, 20s to 225. NOTTINGHAM, Niny 15.—At Derby market yesterday there was a small attendance of buyers and little was passing in any article, no alteration taking place in the value of way kind of grain. Wheat, red, 39s to 435; ditto, white, 46s to 48s per 36 stone ; barley, for malting, 28s to 3 9 s ; ditto, :For grinding, 28s to 30s p er 3 ) stone; oats, old, 21s to 24s pe r , stone ; beans, old, 32s to 35s per 38 stone ; flour, 293 to 31 s; super, 32s to 34s per 20 stone. To-day at our own corn marl ;et we have a very small supply of w h eat, with a good ma Pi buyers ; the prices of last week were well supported. OFr barley quotations are nominal. Oats supported their vain!, and beans were Is per quarter dearer. '1 he present prices of grain and flour in Nottingham are as follows :--Wheat, old white, 45s to 48s per 36 stone ; new ditto. 42s to 48s ; reds old, 38s to 425; new ditto, 3s to 425. Barley, for malting, 27s to 31s per quarter; for grinding, 26, to 27s per 3'.) atonic. Oats, 20s to 23. per 24 stone. Beans, old, 34s to 36s per 3 9 stone ; new ditto, 31s to 34s ; Egyptian, 30s to 31s. Flo aro superfine, 303 to 35s per 20 stone ; fine ditto, 283 to 295. On Thursday, at Sudbury, wheat was Is per quarter cheaper, but the farmers refused this rate, and a considerable quantity remained unsold. At Woodbridge the best wheat was is and secondary sa.m plesq2usaprteerrqdueaarreterr. cheaper. Beans and peas were both is per At Ipswich wheat was Is per quarter. :ower. Other articlies without atout At Bury the trade was dull at a reduction of 28 per quarter for wheat ; barley was a dull sale ; oats were sought after, and fetched rather more money. GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, MAY 13. At our market to-day the numbers were oxen, 772 ; sheep, 1,068; lambs: 188. The market was well supplied with good cattle, which caused sales to be slowly effeted. Best ox beef 435, curr ent 41e to 425, middling 36s to 40 s per cwt, - sinking the offal. At the close a clearance was not effected. Sheep much the same as last market. Best mutton 5 1 / 2 d, current sd, inferior 40 per lb, sinking the offal, mostly sold. Lambs from 143 to 23s each. ABERDEEN. MAY 14.—Grain—Oats 17s 9d to 18s 04 401bs per bushel ; barley, 25s 6d to 2 , 's Od. 521bs per bushel; bear, 26s 0.1 to 27s Od, 521bs per bushel; wheat, red 35s to 37 6 ; ditto, white 128 to 435, 62lbs per bushel; oatmeal, 14s Od to 15 6 per boll ; flour, 32s to 32s 6d per sack. Provisions—Beeh 4d to 6d per lb ; mutt on , ditto, 4d to 6d; veal, ditto, 4 ', to 6d ; pork, per ston e , 3 s 6d to 4s ; lamb, per lb., 5d to 7d;, tallow, per stone, 3, Od to 3s 6d ; potatoes, per PecZ 4d to 6d; salmon, p er Ib , I s 3d to Is od; hares, each, ‘" to Us Od ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, 8d to 91 ; eggs, per doz, bd t o 7d ; c h eese, per cwt, Os to Os Od hens, per pair, 2s 6d t o 3 s Od ; c hi c k ens, ditto, 2s ,- ;d to 2s Sd; ducks, ac 4 Is 6d to 2.30 d ; ducklin g s, ditto, O s t o U s Od ; tur k eys, per pair , 61 to 7s Cd; geese, ditto. s to 7s; butte r f or expor t a ti on (presett cure), per cwt, 54s to 56s ; eggs. whol:sale price, per dozen, 41 to 41d ; 41b loaf, Ed ; 21b loat, 3d ; pork, per stone of 141ba, Os (d to Os Od; pork fine, small, 5s 6d to Os Od ; pork, large 3s 6d to 4s 3d; ship pm !I per barrel of 204 lbs, Os W O Meal—Oatmeal, Is 5d to Is 6d; barley dust, 9d to 00. peasetneal, Os Cd to 2 s Od ; s id s , C d to 7d; b eremea l, is 4a to Is sd; flour, Is 9d to Os Od ; barley, per lb, lid to 2d; barley flour, Is 5d to Is 6,1. CORK, MAY 14. The arrivals from abroad have been few. The supply, of home grain is very small; the receipts for the week being only—Wheat, 32 barrels at 19s to 21s 9d per barrel; barleys 317 barrels at lls sd to 13s per barrel; oats, 843 barrels at 9s to lls 5d per barrel. Oats are a little dearer, but other descriptions of grain are unaltered in value. Except a sale to some extent, ex-ship, the business passing in foreign vlheat, l .,, e limited, prices remaining much as q uo t e d i ii our l as t. Bar l ey is uncharged in value, and in oats we have no sales of the least consequence to report. The business doing in Sue flour s ): confined to the supply of the more immediate - wants of 02 trade ; but coarse flours continue to be eagerly inquired for, and meet a f ree sa l e , supp l y b e i ng i nadequate to the d em ana• The trade in Indian corn is only moderate, and prices have given way t o th e extent of 2s 6d per ton, the value of prime Galatz now being 71 lOs per ton. k gnats. Curren. 0 White wheat 00 s Od to 00s Od 00s Od- 20cy stag e 0 Red wheat Od to OOs Od 0 Ditto ...... oos Od to 00s Od OOs Od-2 0 0 Ditto - oos Od to 00s t'd 8 Barley 12s 6d to 00s Od 0 Ditto .oos Od to 00s Odf 00s 03-.4 0 d e 0 Ditto oos Od to 00s Od 0 Bere OOs Od to 009 Od Os Od 64 Oats ...11s 2d to 11s 6d 0 Ditto oos Od to 00s Od lOs 10d-9 4 ° 0 Ditto OO9 Od to 00s Od 1 Pigs, _ 31, 6d to 00s Od 00 s Od per owl- - Quantity sold at the Highest Price;: 0 barrels white wheat; 0 red ; U barley; 0 bere; 4 ostsi 0 pigs. - Cfuantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week Wheat, 49. Barley, 711. Oats, 917. Pigs, 28. PRICES OF BUTTER. CANT. CIIRAINCY. First quality Second quality Third quality 67 s Thi r d qual i ty 591 Fourth quality Fifth quality Sixth quality Return of Cattle sold for week ending May 8. Pigs, 194. Sheep, 362. Cows, 76. CORK.—Flour —First 13$ Od to ON Od ; extra 14$ 612 . seconds, lis 6d t o 12 s Od ; households 10 9 to 11 s ; thirds, 78t ": per cwt. Oatm ea l lOs 9d to 11 s; Indian meal 7 s 3d t o 8 3 0 d; wue a ` .. meal, 946 d to 10s 644 percxvt. Indian corn 7159 to 7112 Cd pe , ton. Bran 87s 6d to 90s Od per ton. Hay—Farmers 18s to 28,31 average 265; dea/er s 30 s to 33s Od; average 00s per ton. Sta aw— Farr"— 14* Od to 23. Od ; aver age 008; dealers 323 pd to 00, average 003 Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf bid to Od; household loaf Sid to Od per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d t o 10d per lb. E ggs -3 3 4d to 33 6d per hundred. Coals".. Newport 153 Od ; Lydney lbs ' • Landore 00s ; Cule t s 12. 6d p er t on. Tallow 37s Od to 38s per Oct' Whis - ky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. Priest —Beef 40 to 7d; mutton 5d to 6id ; veal 53 to 7d ; pork 4d to 041 ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sausages bd per lb. MO 818 s to 91 Os per cwt. Bangor slates 2/ 17s 6d to 31 Os pe, ton. Bark, red 7/ to 8/ lOs per ton. Fleece wool 14s to 15s per stens. Hemp 291 to 34/ per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings 19, to ON; re d ditto, 243 to 008 per barrel ; Newfoundland, la' Os to 11/ per ton. Timber—Memel, 70a per ton ; red pine, 31 5s ; yellow ditto, 2/ 158 per ton; deals, 151 to 181 per 100. Hides—' Market is to 255; salted 203 to 266 per cwt ; calf skin. 3d to Od per lb. Potatoes, white 8d to 9d; Pin k l ° 10d to 12d. Guano—Peruvian, 101 105 to 111; Ichabes• to 91 is per ton. Tar—ArcLaneel, 19s per baireL Dispatches were received yes'erdayat the Colonial' office from th e G overhors of Hong-Kong and New Zea land. [ADVERTISE MENT.]—HoIIoway's Piils an Effec tual Remedy for Gout and Rheumatism.—Extract of a letter from Mr. W. Moon, at Messrs. Godwins', auctioneers, Winchester, dated April 8, 1852.—" To Professor Holloway. b e g to inform you that for years I was a sufferer from chronic rheumatism, and often laid up for weeks together, unable to move. I was attended by the roost eminent surg eons here, but, obtaini ng no relief, was induced to go i n t o our county hospital. The medical there, however; being of no avail, J . : commenced using your Pil's, which I am h appy t o say in short time effected a perfect cure, and enabled me to resume my employment.— Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. THE METROPOLITAN COMMISSIONERS OF SEIVFAS. —An account in abstract of the receipt and expenditure , during the year 1851, of the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, Las been printed by order of the House of Commons. It appears that the cash balances on the 31st of December , 1850, were 5,750'. 9s. I Id. The total receipts during the year were 102,5161. 95.; viz., 78,390/. 7s. 3d. from rates, 8,595/. 9s. led. from contributions, and 15,530/. 1 ls. l Id. from loans, &c. The total payments during the year amounted to 91,7811. 193. The general cash balance on the 6th of October, 1851, amounted to 9,484/. 19s. I Id. The expenditure by the Commissioners, between the 6th of Oc tober and the 31 st December, 1851, was 32,7131., and the receipts, 26,5 93 /. The general cash b a l ance on the 28th ff February, 18 52 , was 3,355/. 11s. 3d. T he total length o f b r i c k sewers executed at the cost o f pr i vate individua l s , u nder the superintendence of the Commibsioners, was 48,566 feet, or 9 miles 1 ,046 feet; pipe ditt o an d drains, 434, 373 feet, or 82 miles 1,413 feet. The number of houses drained was 8,581. The total approximate cost of those works was 77,768/. 17s. 9d. BIRTHS. OF A 20N. On the 12th inst., at Chepstow, Monmouth, Mrs. Thomas De la Garde Grissell. On the 11th inst., at Westbourne-eresesnt, Hyde-park, t ie wife of R. Johnston, Esq., of Shieldhall. OF A DAUGEITErf. On the 12th i ns t ., the wife of Robert Druitt, Esq., 394 ' Cutz ;n-street, Mayfair. On the 13th inst., at Springfield -lodge, Lower Sydenbanh Kent, the wife of Edwar Lutwyebe. ED. On the 11th i nst., i n the ARRI Cathedral of Derry, the Bev Charleton Maxwell, rector of Lower Badoney, son of the Rev. P. B. Maxwell, of Birdstown, county of Donegal, to Emily Augusta Grace Ponsonby, youngest daughter of the Um. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Derry and Rapliee• DIED On the 9th inst., the Rev. William Thomas, vicar of Lop pington, S dop, aged 69. On the 10t1h inst., at Iron-bridge, Frances Elizabeth, relict of the late I'. Haslehust, Esq , of the Lodge, Willey, SaloP*, On the 11th inst., whilst bathing, at Helstone, "Cornwall, the Rev. Henry Scudaniore Burr, of Exeter, aged 36. On the 13th inst., at Newdigate, Surrey, the Rev. John Young, LL D., for 18 years rector of that parish, aged 7 1 -. On the 13th inst., at the Ldge, Bedford, Nichulas /ltz pa:r!ck, Esq., M.D., late of Royal Artillery. 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