The Sun. — London, England, 1848-03-17 00:00:00

Vbtrt 92 tition SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. SERIOUS RIOTS HAMBU RGH AND LUB ECK The following has been received by Electric Telegraph, from Hull :—" The Marshall, Captain Tilers, from Hamburgh, arrived in the roads this morning. She left Hamburgh on Tuesday evening. The captain states that there was a great deal of fighting on Monday. "The people were driven back, and several were killed. The riot had been put down previous to his leaving, but further outbreak was fully expected. " There was a great disturbance also at Lubeck on Saturday and Sunday evenings." ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) DUNDALK. (Continual from our Afternoon Edition.) The objection was argued at great length on both sides, and the fact of the neglect having been proved, the room was cleared of strangers. The Committee de liberated for half an hour, and then dig parties were re-admitted, when The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee had unanimously come to the following resolution:— " Resolved—That the return of Charles Carroll M‘Tavish, Esq., for the borough of Dundalk is null and void, he having neglecte d to make a declaration of his qualification, according to the provisions of the Ist and 2d Victoria, chapter 8, vvithin, twenty-four hours after being duly requeste d to do so.' The rest of the day was occupied with the scrutiny case, in which •Mr. M'Cullagh, the defeated candidate, was the petitioner. Mr. MiTavish was returned by a majority of three only, but before the - rising of the Committee counsel for the petitioner had succeeded in cutting the majority down to two. The Committee adjourned a four o'clock till eleven o'clock to-morrow. AYLESBURY. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Some other witnesses were called to prove similar instances of treating, and the evidence for the petitioner closed. Mr. COOKE then summed up at great length, after which The Committee adjourned till to-morrow at 11 o'clock. BEWDLEY. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Mr. WORDSWORTH having replied on behalf of Mr. Ireland, the room was cleared ; but before the Com mittee had closed their conference the Speaker was an- nounced to be at prayers. Mr. Tatton Egerton, how ever, hastened to the House, and obtained leave for the Committee to continue its deliberations. At the close of the conference the partie s were called in, when The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee had unanimously come to the following resolution : " That Thomas J . Ireland, Esq., was not duly elected, that the election was void; that Sir T. Winnington, a candidate at the election, had been proved by his agents to have been guilty of extensive treating; that a voter named Price had been bribed with 151., and it hal been proved to the Committee that a practice had prevailed at the last election, as well as at the elec tion in 1841, of carrying away and treating voters ; that in consequence of that system large bodies of men were employed on both sides for the alleged protection of voters, and that every public-house and beer • shop in the borough was open during the week of the election, and drink given away to a large extent." This closed the labours of the Committee. SPANISH BONDHOLDERS' ASSO was to be done they moved only at a snail's pace. The 1 Government of Spain might rest assured that if they did not I attend to the claims of the bondholders, they would fol low the fate of Louis Philippe. He had had the pleasure of denouncing the conduct of that monarch at the last meeting of the shareholders, but now that he was in his present unfortunate position he would say nothing more upon the subject. He thought it of the utmost importance that the bondholders should assert their rights to redress from the Spanish Government. Mr. CAPEL said that the remaining members of the committee were determined to resign their position, feeling confident that they were utterly powerless in promoting the interests of the bondholders. Mr. HIiNDERSON, jun., entered into a statement of the line of conduct pursued by his father, as the representa tive of the bondholders at Madrid, showing that he had through five different Ministries unceasingly enforced their claime. He had received a few days since a letter from his father, informing him that he was still sanguine as to the success of the negotiations, and that he had waited upon Narvaes, and informed him that it would be absolutely impossible for him to raise the loan of 2,000,000/., which had been agreed to by the Cortes, un less some arrangements were made respecting the settle ment of the existing debts. . The Cliarnsiesi begged to correct a remark which had been made by his friend Mr. Capel, with respect to the late Chairman (Mr. Heming). He had said that " he was a ruined man ;" such was not, however, he was happy to state, the case. He had lost a large sum of money, but was still well connected, and would no doebt ultimately recover his former position, and be able honourable to meet all his engagements. Mr. CAPEL took occasion to bear witness to the valuable services rendered to the association by the late Chairman. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING) HOUSE OF LORDS. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, in the absence of the Lord Chancellor, took his seat on the Woolsack shortly after Fi PASSENGERS' BILL. _ _ Mr. Mocatta moved, and Mr. Capel seconded, a vote of thanks to the late Chairman for his valuable services, which was unanimously agreed to. Mr. MOCATTA regretted that the committee had come to the conclusion at this critical period of resigning their functions, and he earnestly trusted that they would con tinue in their position; and, if anything should occur requiring pecuniary assistance, they would, at all events, convene another public meeting, before which the whole matter could be laid. Mr. CAPEL said that if the meeting wished the com mittee to remain in office for a short time longer, it must be entirely on the understanding that a fresh committee should be reconstructed at the expiration of three months. Mr. MOCATTA then moved, and Mr. MestoN seconded, a resolution requesting Mr. C. Johnson, Mr. James Capel, Mr. C. W. Stokes, and Mr. Dumurgue, to con tinue their valuable services on the committee fur a fur ther period of three months. The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. BAXTER passed a high eulogium upon the cha racter and services rendered to the bondholders by the exertions of Mr. Henderson. The thanks of the meeting were then unanimously voted to the Chairman, and the meeting broke up. The Passengers' Bill was read a third time and passed. EXEMPTION OF PEERS FROM ARREST. The Earl of ST. GERMAN'S presented a petition from the corporation of Devonport, praying that the House would do away with the privilege of exemption from arrest for debt enjoyed by the Members of their Lordships' House. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. ODD FELLOWS. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition praying the House to adopt some measures for the protection of the funds of Odd Fellows' Societies. POOR LAWS (IRELAND). Mr. HAMILTON presented a petition from the clergy and deanery of the county of Meath complaining of the present unequal mode of raising the poor-rates in Ireland. PUBLIC HEALTH BILL. Mr. W. PATTEN presented a petition from Burnley, stating that they were in favour of sanitary measures, but objecting to the principle of centralization proposed in the Bill brought in by the Government. SOLICITORS' CERTIFICATE DUTY. Captain PECHELL presented a petition from soli citors of Brighton, praying the house to abolish the present annual duty upon their certificates. DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ROME. Mr. COWAN presented a petition from Peebles against the Bill for establishing diplomatic relations with the Court of Rome. EMIGRATION TO NEW SOUTH WALES. Mr. F. SCOTT presented a petition from New South Wales, praying the House to adopt some measure for the encouragement of emigration to that colony. LAMBETH WATER WORKS. Sir W. MOLESWORTH presented a petition from the borough of Southwark, against the Lambeth Water works Bill. MURDER OF BRITISH SUBJECTS IN CHINA . Mr. CARDWELL presented a petition from numer ous bankers, merchants, and others of the town of Liverpool, praying the House to adopt some inquiry into the circumstances attending the murder of the British subjects in China; and, if necessary, to adopt some measures for affording an increased amount of protection to British subjects in China. Mr. A. HASTIE presented a petition, signed by mer chants and others of the city of London, to the same effect. COURSE OF EXCII Amsterdam .......... 12 6 Ditt9, at sight • • Rotterdam .... ••.. • • 12 Antwerp • • ............ 25 70 Elatdburgh .... • • 31.8. 12 14 Paris, 3 days' sight 26 70 Ditto, • • • • . , • • Marseilles • • • • • . • Bourdeaus „ Frankfort oil Maine.... Petersburgh, Si!. Rble • • Borlin .• .. • • . Vienna, effec. n 0."... Trieste, ditto.... • • Madrid • • ...• .......„ Cadiz • • ...... ....... Bilbao .. • • • • , Barcelona •.. „ SavWs.• .... - THE LONI)O. (THIS EV --- • - - CIATION.—(THIS DAY.) A meeting of the Spanish bondholders was called for one o'elock to-day, at the London Tavern, by the Spa nish Bondholders' Association, to receive the resignation of the Chairman, and other members of the committee, and also to take such steps as they might think necessary under the circumstances in which they were placed. Mr. CHARLES JOHNSON was called to the chair. Mr. CAPEL (one of the committee), said at the last meeting, in November, the committee entertained a con fident opinion that they would be enabled to come to some - settlement of their affairs; but from a variety of circumstances: they had been unable to do so. He then read the following report:— " The Committee of the Spanish Bondholders' Associ ation, in making a report to their constituents, beg to recal to their recollection the last meeting held in November, 1847. It was then stated to the bondholders that, if the present committee could not bring about a settlement with the Spanish Government in three months, they would again place the matter under the control of the bondholders. '• It was deemed advisable that a deputation of the committee should have an interview with Lord Palmer ston, at which his Lordship's language was so encourag ing, that the committee resolved at once to send an agent to Madrid, and as the bondholders had not supplied the committee with funds to defray the expenses of an agent, at the request of the committee Mr. Homing, the chairman, undertook the mission; however, his depar ture was delayed until after the outbreak in France, and circumstances having now induced him not only to give up the mission, but also to resign the chairmanship, it leaves to the remaining active members of the committee no alternative but to place their resignation also in the hands of the bondholders." The committee originally consisted of nine members, two of whom, Sir Thomas Lethbridge and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, had never attended its meetings. The Hon. Baronet had sent in his resignation on account of old age and growing infirmities. Four of the Committee, two of whom were members of the Stock Exchange, had unfortunately become bankrupt. Mr. Homing, who to his knowledge brought 140,000/. from India, had been ruined, and had in consequence given up his mission. There were now virtually but four members of the committee. They had no funds. They had called upon the public to aid them with subscriptions; one gentleman, Mr. Tasker, had given 261., but the entire amount col lected only reached 391 ss. Their expenses and engage. ments amounted to 2291. 55.; but the deficit had been subscribed by members of the committee. About 151. remained unprovided for, but they did not look upon that as a matter of much consequence, as no doubt the neces sary funds would be subscribed. The committee must leave the matter in the hands of the bondholders. It was essential that they should have an agent at Madrid, but they had no funds out of which they could discharip the cost. Mr. CROOK regretted that they were about to lose the services of the amiable gentlemen who had composed the committee. He was sure they must have become disgusted at the conduct of Spain towards the bond holders.—(Hear.) He had heard it stated that arrange ments were in progress by which sufficient money would te raised, from the capitalization of the interest on the debt, to discharge all expenses. Mr. CAPRI. said, it' Mr. Hemin g had gone to Madrid no doubt arrangements would have been made which would have rendered a subscription unnecessary. The outbreak in France had also, in a great measure, pre vented this. Mr. CROOK had little faith in any promise the Spanish Government might make. If Spain could raise 2,000,0001. and 30,000 men, as she had recently done, she was surely in a condition to pay her just debts.—(Hear.) Let them bear in mind that their money ought to have been paid before any other claim, as it had placed the Queen on the throne, saved the property of the aristocracy, and the entire nation from falling into the hands of Don Carlos. —(Hear.) In return, instead of receiving gratitude, they had been mocked and tantalised year after year. At one time it was stated that 400,0001. would be placed to the credit of the bondholders; but they were deceived, as it was pilfered from them by the Queen, the ex-Queen, and the Ministers. Spain could well pay her debts, as her income had been doubled during the last few years.— (Hear.) But full retribution was at hand—let them be warned in time—the French Republic would soon knock at the door, and compel them to pay ; and if they re sisted, the army sad navy of the Republic would make soap meagre of the entire nation.—(Laughter.) No doubt the committee was surprised at the paucity of the attendance, but when they bore in mind that many of the bondholders and their families had been ruined, and were existing in penury, surprise would give place to compassio n .—(Hear, hear.) He hoped the Government of this country would be petitioned to decline to receive an Ambassador from Spain. Why, the English aristocracy would not receive at their tables a p ers on who had been unable to pay his turf debts, and would they receive the representative of a country which had openly robbed them?—(Hear, hear.) Spain was dart:lid of feeling, and they might depend upon it that they would never obtain ear,their rights until they a g it ate d to obtain them. — ( hear.) Spain prided h erse lf H upon the " Generals" of her army—why they were merely captains of banditti. The Cistatnnati said, perhaps there could be no differ ence of opinion with respect to the conduct of Spain ; but it would be advisable, he thought, to abstain from such observations, and proceed to the business for which the meeting had been called. Mr. CROOK simply hoped the committee would not resign. Mr. CLPEL said Lord George Bentinck had led them to believe that the Government intended to do that which the bondholders asked. Lord Paltneriton, when a deputation waited upon him, said he had high hopes. They asked him if he would eonsect to settle the matter by convention; but he said the Government were not prepared to do so— saying that the bonds arose out of commercial spoliation, and that the Government could not interfere. They then asked him if he would instruct Mr. Bulwer to act for them. He replied that he would instruct him to do what he could; he advised them to send an agent of their own. A memorial was prepared, and the Noble Lord sent it to Mr. Bulwer. The Government, though disposed to do all it could, would not' make it a Government ques tion. If they could send a person to Madrid, and enable him to keep a good table—for good cookery was ,a great thing in Spain—their cause would be mnch strengthened. A person of good address, and with a good table, could do them essential service. Mr. MAHON said that he had always been anxious to have the question settled as soon as possible, knowing as he did what changes were constantly occurring in the government of that country. They could move when they pleased at a railroad space,, but when justice , TI:!.E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENI__NG, MARCH 17, 1848. lieved that one-tenth of the poor-rates collected in the metropolis was expended on the Irish poor.— (Cheer&) It might be said that this was not exactly the time to bring forward this subject, he had no doubt that many Gentlemen who would follow him would say that his proposition was fair, but that this was not the proper time to bring it forward. Hethought before such an argument was urged they ought to look at what bad taken place in this country during the last year. The people of this country bad been in hopes of having some of their burthens lightened; but in consequence of the dis tressed state of Ireland, not a single petition had been presented praying for a remission of these burthens. But it was utterly impossible for him to proceed further in the discussion without noticing the manner in ' which the liberal conduct of the people of England towards Ireland had been appreciated by the Irish nation. He held in his hand an answer to an address presented to the Hon. and Learned Member for the city of Limerick, by the Roman Catholics of Ireland, in which the lion. and Learned Member denounced the English nation " for the cruel and tyrannous rapacity" they always evinced towards Ireland. Now that was the way in which the generous conduct of the people of England was treated by one who professed to be the leader of a great party in Ireland, but let him direct the attention of the House to the period when the attack was made by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. Why, would the House believe it, the Honourable and Learned Gentleman delivered his address at a time when scarcely twelve months had elapsed since a collection was made in every parish in England •for mitigating the sufferings of the people of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) He did not mean to say that England had done more than her duty. She did not require any thanks, however, for what she had done, and all that the people of this country asked was, that if they were to be abused, let the attack be made in that House, and not where the people nad no chance of being defended,—(Hear.) He would come now to the question he wished to propose. No doubt he should be told that, being an English Member, he threw nothing about the condition of Ireland, or ho would have known that an income-tax Bould not succeed there. Most likely, too, his bringing forward this motion, he would be urged as another reason why the Union should be repealed; but let him just inform the House that no later ago than last December, at an influential meeting held in Dublin, where most of the Irish Members were present, it was proposed by the Honourable Member for the county of Limerick, and seconded by the Hon. and Learned Member for the city of that name, that an income-tax ought to be applied to Ireland.—(llear, hear.) (LEFT SPEAKING.) William Robinson, publican, Tuxford, Nottingham. Isaac Lindo Mocatts, commission merchant, Liverpool . Robert Cubbins, builder, Tranmere, Bebbington, Cheshire. Jeremiah John Sullivan, ship owner, Winsford, Chester. Dividend Asnount Sane of Company. per of Paid. Prtc. Annum. Share. £ a. d. £ d. Australasia .......... 40 0 0 40 0 0 2eq; .3ritsh North American 51. per cent. 50 0 50 0 0 41 I Ceylon ••••..•• • • • • .• 61. par cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - ::omn iercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - colonial. M. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Glouc estershire •.• • • • 151 per cent. - - .......... • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Londe t and Westfrinstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 22% 13 0 0 - Londe n Joint-Stock 6l. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 l4}j Provincialof Ireland RI. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Dit to, New. - National of Ireland .• Si. per cent. 50 0 22 10 0 - Nat. lerovncial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 - Pinto, New..... 61. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - South Australia • 22 10 0 - Union of Australia 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto • . 2 10 0 - Cates. of London... .• 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Union. of Madrid =SIMLA/CCM COMPELNIES. 4 --- _ Dividend Amount Haim of Company. I per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. s. d. s. d. lbloin Alliar..ce Prit. and For. per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 17% Dit - to Marine. ••• • • • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 b 0 0 - Atlas . (trial it Commercial • • 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 57f, Cicri , ;l,3lcd.& Gen. Life Si. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20 Conn .. ••••.• • • • • • • 31. 100 0 0 18 0 0 - 135. b000;boe 11 itaglt ••• • • • ...... •• • • 6s. 50 001 b 0 0 b Eng...k Scot. Law •• • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 12 6 - Euroiseaa Life ••• • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 , All paid. - Family Endowmut Soc. 4/. & lea. 4 0 0 I 4 0 0 - Preen insons' .•••• • • • • bl. per cent. 20 0 0 I 3 0 0 ..... .......• • . 61. per cent. Stock. I - 119% Guan lian •••• • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0136 10 0 45 imperial Fire •••• •• . • 12 per cent. 500 0 0 i5O 0 0 220 (nye real Life •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Indet 51arine •• • • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 6 13 I - Law Fire .• ••••• • • • • • 100 0 0 2 10 0 LAW Life ••.•••• • • • .. 11. is. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45 LegaLl and General Life 50 6 • 2 0 0 - Lond en lire .. ••• • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 I*, London Ship •.•• • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 13% Keane .• •••••• • • • .. 100 0 0 15 0 0 - Med. Invlid& Gen. Life 4%/. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 254 National Loan Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 2 10 0 - Nativiai 81. per cent. 100 0 6 b 0 0 - Palladium Lite 51. per cent. 60 0 0 2 0 0 - - 33 ['nee t iix ••.......•.... 3/. p. ct. & bs. - 'iotvctor Life .• • • ... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 - rovident Life ••.• • • .. 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Rock Lila .• •-••• • . • • • 4s. 5 0 0 010 0 4% i 'Loyal Exchanire nun Fire. Ditto Life . •• • • ... 11. 6s. - Universal Life.... • ... 103(1. pr ent. 100 0 0 610 0 - Vittoria Life • 4 0 0 DOOMS. Dividend I Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. s. d. £ s. d. CAnrnercial 41. per cent. Stock. 70 East and West India ... 61. pr cent. Stock. 106 East Country a Lander. .•••••• • . • • • • W. pr cent. Stock. _ Ditto Bonds.. ••• . • . 4/. per cent. St. Katharine •••• .• .. 5 per cent. Stock. Ditto Bonds ........ 4 41. pr cent. - y Southampton ••..• . • • 21. per cent. 50 0 • 50 6 0 - LNGE.-(TIIIS DAY.) ltbraltar.. • • ........ • . Leghorn ........ 'Genoa .. Milan .. • • ............ Venice . ........ Naples Palermo, pare's—. . Lisbon • • Oport• Rio Janeiro Bahia Buenos Ayres — New York, 21 days' sight —• Philadelphia • • „. PRICES OF BULLION, rra oz. Foreign Gold la bars.. £3 i 7 9 New Dollars •... • . 0 4 9% Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doublosns .. 0 0 0 gaYer is bars ...... • • 0 4 11 N GAZETTE. r'ENING.) WAR-OFFICE, DlAncrr 17. 12th Light Dragoons—Frederick Arden, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Hollinshead, who retires, March 17. 14th Light Dragoons —Assistant Sargon Charles Hamilton Fasson, from 53d Foot, to be Assistant Sur geon, Vice Stone, promoted on the Staff, March 17. 15th Light Dragoons—Cornet Thomas Conolly Paltenbam, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jen nyns, who retires; Gentleman Cadet Thompson Dono van, from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Pakenham ; March 17. 14th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant John Lawrie, from half pay 63d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Spence, appointed Adjutant of a Resruiting District, March 17. 34th Foot—Captain Richard D. Kelly to be Major, by purchase, vice Mathews, who retires ; Lieutenant Henry Hugh Oxley to be Captain, by purchase, vice Kelly; Ensign Henry Townley Parker to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Oxley; David Stewart, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Parker, March 17. 44th Foot—Jenkin Humfray Llewelyn, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, March 17, 1848. 33d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Edward Baily Tuson, from 2d West India Regiment, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Fasson, appointed to the 14th Light Dragoons, March 17, 1848. 62d Foot—Captain Edward Henry Poyntz, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Donald George Angus Darroch, who exchanges; Lieutenant John Burton Forster to be Captain, by purchase, vice Poyntz, who retires; Ensign Bliss J. Hume to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Forster ; Ussher William Alcock, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice Hume, March 17. 63d Foot—John Jeken Cockburn, Gent., to be En sign, without purchase, vice Knight, promoted in the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, March 17. 73rd Foot—Assistant Staff Surgeon Thomas Wash ington Benjamin Buckler to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Hodgson, who resigns, March 17. 99th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Mends, from the 98th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Mair, promoted, March 17. Ist West India Regiment—Quartermaster-Sergeant Charles Stokely to be Quartermaster, vice Smith, ap pointed Paymaster, March 17. • 2d West India Regiment—Patrick Joseph Clarke, Gent. to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Tuson, appointed to 63d Foot, March 17. 3d West India Regiment—Anthony Dickson Home, Gent. to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Concannon, deceased, March 17. Ceylon Rifle Regiment Ensign Godfrey Lyon Knight, from 63d Foot, to be First Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Kelson, deceased, March 17. UNATTACHED.--Lieutenant William Mair, from 09th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, March 17. B R EVET.—Captain Charles Frederick Parkinson, on half-pay Unattached, Aide-de-Camp to Colonel Love, to be Major in the Army, Nov. 9, 1846. HOSPITAL STAFF — Staff Surgeon of Second Class William Linton, M.D., to be Staff Surgeon of the First Class, vice Grant, deceased ; Assistant Surgeon Edward William Stone, from 14th Light Dragoons, to bo Staff Surgeon of Second Class, vicelLintoa, promoted; James Lewis Holloway, Gent., to bo Assistant Surgeon, vice Buckler, appointed to the 78d Foot, March 17. Micarowinum.—The commission of Captain Eber hard de Brandis, upon half-pay of the s th Line Battalion of the King's German Legion, has been cancelled from 17th March, 1848, he having been permitted to receive a commuted allowance ih lieu of his half- pay. Commission by the Lord. Lieutenant of Worcestershire. Osman Ricardo, Esq., M.P., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Feb. 29. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Durham. Robert Duncombe Rialto, Esq., M.P., to be Deputy Lieutenant, March 14. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Denbigh. John Edward Madocks, Esq., to be Deputy Lieuten ant; John Price, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Tho mas Hughes, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Feb. 1. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire. 2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia —Thomas Lane, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Lennard, deceased, March 14. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire. South Herts Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Thomas Kemble, Gent., to be William Stratton, resigned, March 1. ADMIRALTY, MARCH 14, 1848. Corps of Royal Engineers—Osborne Frederic Charles Fraser, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant; William Henry Worthy Bennett, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant; George Leslie, Gent., to be Second Lieutenat; Charles Roberts, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. WHITEHALL, MARCH 11, 1848. The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wilde, lint., Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas at West minster, has appointed Charles Thomas Woosnam, of Newtown, in the county of Montgomery, Gent., to be ono of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknow ledgments of deeds to be executed by married warren, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and re coveries and for the subsiitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for the county of Montgomery, also in and for the counties of Radnor and Salop. WHITEHALL, MARCH 13. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Collis, of Cannock, in the county of Stafford, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. John Worsley, cotton-spinner, Preston, April 1 and 5, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester ; Abbott, Lincoln's-inn fields, London ; Atkinson, Saunders, and Atkinson, Manchester. Robert Webster, linendraper, Preston, March 31 and April 20, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Gregory, Faulk ner, Gregory and Skirrow, Bedford-row; Holland, Pres ton; Ascroft, Preston. Aaron Woolf, furniture broker, New-road, Brighton. Lenox Nuthall Phillips, victualler, Limehouse. Charles Walker, maltster, Birmingham. Samuel Asbury, tile manufacturer, Handford, Staf fordshire. John Emery, tailor, Lichfield. Joseph Henry Hurley, draper, West Bromwich, Staf fordshire. George Damsel], grocer, Lydbrook, Gloucestershire. Thomas, Lurway, licensed victualler, Clifton, Bristol. John Bowes, ale dealer, Liverpool. Charles Kent, draper, Ashton, Derbyshire. Thomas Butterworth, woollen manufacturer, Rochdale, Lancashire. Samuel Trencher, farmer, High Wycombe. y Jos e phdo w n. Philip Shaw, Dalton Martindale, warehou seman, Star-court, Bread street. Henry Prockter, licensed vic tualler, New-street, Hors -1 e u pholsterer, Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square. Edward Henry Browne, brickmaker, Peckham Rye. James Knights, licensed victualler, Quay-street, Ipswich. William Ker, cabinet maker, Tottenham-court-road. James Welch Braddick, brick and tile maker, Silver ton, Devon. James Taylor, clothier, King's-mills, Almondbury, York. George Alletson, jun., and John Wilkinson Tebbe, ()elder Dye-works, Wakefield,: C AIM ALS. .. . .• I Names of e Divideucl Names of i 'Dividend Companies. At 1 per I Price. Companies. i• per Price. 7, 1 Annum. c Annum. -- _ - X I X Ashtn& Oldh 97 1 71. p o 110 Macclesfield . 100 21. 10s. - Barnsley • • • • 160 J 121. 180 Reath ......100 201. - 4rknk&Abrg 150' 5/. lib Oxford.. • • • • 100 201. 200 Birmingham 351 41. 78% Peak Forest. 78 31. 10 s , _ Coventry .... 100 251. 271 Regent's • • • • 33 11. 4s. lliji I)erbv • • • .. 100', 61. 63 Rochdale.. • • 85 41. 64 Ells.rre&Chs 1331 41. 48 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10,. in Kre,f ash • •• 1001 32e. - Do.LkFd SS 18 BLp. ~._ OrandJunctn,lool 51. 50% Stfrd &Wore 140 281. 2 7 5 OrandSurreylloo - 30 Shrewsbury.. 125 161. - Urand Union,loo 1/. 10s. 21% Stourbridge.. 146 201. 285 Grantham • . '150; 121. - Severn and/ 'Count & Aral 35 1 7s. 6d, 5% Wye Rail. j 26 W. 85. 30 Leeds& Liyrplloo , 341. •,30 Warwick& 1 , Leioester ....1401 101. 76 'firming*. j ' OO Si. 65 Leicstr &Nthl 831 41. 36 Warwick/el 1 1 :,oughboroghll42! 701. 530 Napton.. - 46 Monmouthsh l loo l 81. - Wereistr &2 78 21. 35 hintgemrysh 100. 51. - 'firming. MeitnAiwbry,lo6 101. - Wilts & Brits 67 11. 11 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF LORDS, March 16. The Earl of DEVON presented a petition from Donegal, on the subject of electoral divisions in Ireland. _ _ The Noni.n EARL then moved for copies of I the memorials, documents, and letters re ferred to in the letter of Mr. Stanley, addressed to the clerk of the guardians of Newcastle anion, bear ing date the lsth of November, 1847, and laid before the House ; also copies of all memorials or applica tions from any proprietor in any other union desirous of having his property formed into an electoral division, with the answer thereto, and all correspondence relating to such applications ; also copies of an extract from the report of any Assistant-Commissioner, upon reference made to him respecting any such application ; and also a return of the electoral divisions (if any) which comprise the property of a single person, or of two proprietors only, showing the extent of the population thereof. Earl FITZWILLIAM said that it was a delusion _ _ to imagine that the poor-law in Ireland would be a relief to the rate-payers in England. Irish paupers ,would continue to flock to England until they were furnished with remunerative employment in their own country. Earl FORTESCUE presented a petition, praying that on houses of less value than 101. the poor- rate might be assessed to the owner instead of the occupier HEALTH OF TOWNS. Mr. CA RDWELl,presented a petition from the work ing classes of Liverpool, praying the House to pass some comprehensive and efficent Health of Towns Bill. The HeN. MEMBER also presented a petition against the Bill for establishing diplomatic relations between this country and the Court of Rome. PRIVATE BILLS. Sir W. HEATHCOTE moved that the standing order No. 157, requiring the breviate of all private Bills to be laid on the table three clear days before the second reading of such Bills, be not enforced with respect to all Railway Bills suspended in the session 1847. DERBY ELECTION COMMITTEE. The following Members, comprising the Committee appointed to try the merits of the petition against the return of the Right Hon. Edward Strutt for the borough of Derby, viz , Mr. Childers (chairman), Sir J. W. M'lsTaghten,lMr. P. Bennet, and Sir H. Ferguson Davie, were called to the table and took the oaths. THE TAXATION OF THE COUNTRY. Lord D. STUART presented a petition praying for a revision and reduction of the taxation of the country. WOODS AND FORESTS, &c. Lord DUNCAN gave notice that on Monday next he should move for a Select Committee to inquire into the expenditure and management of the Woods and Forests, and other property and revenues of the Crown, and to report to the House whether any alteration or improve ment can be made in that branch of the public expendi ture. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. On the motion of Mr. PARKER, the House, at its rising, was ordered to stand adjourned until Monday. SOLICITOR OF TITHES. Mr. E. DENISON, seeing the Right Hon. the Chan cellor of the Exchequer in his place, he wished to ask him a question with regard to the office of solicitor of tithes. The office was filled now by a gentleman, who was very much respected, at a salary of 3,0001. a year; and the question he wished to ask the Right Honourable Baronet was, whether any person, who might in future be appointed to the office, would be appointed upon the understanding that he would be subject to any reduction or regulation Parliament might make in the salary. The ICHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had not the least doubt that his Noble Friend at the head of the Government, by whom the appointment would be made, would take caro that the appointment should be subject to any regulation the proper autho rities might make upon the subject. JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES ACT. la. answer to a question, Mr. MILNER GIBSON stated that it was his inten tion to proceed with the Bill to-night, if ho bad an opportunity of doing so. EXPULSION OF ENGLISH WORKMEN FROM FRANCE. Lord DRUMLANRIG, seeing the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for the Home Department in his place, he wished to ask him if Government had or would make any representation to the Provisional Government of France upon the subject of the English workmen, who had or might be expelled from France, being allowed to withdraw any money they might have in the savings' banks of France ? Sir GEORGE GREY said no specific representation had been made by the Government to the Provisional Go vernment on the subject, but upon his receiving informa tion that a large number of workmen had been obliged to quit Rouen, many of them having deposits in the French savings' banks, the English Consul in France made a representation to the Foreign Minister of France upon the hardship of the decree which preclu ded them from withdrawing more than a certain amount. MURDER OF SLAVES ON THE COAST OF AFRICA. Mr. BAILEY wished to know whether the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs had received any dispatch from Captain Mansell, who was employed upon the coast of Africa, stating that a number of slaves had been brought down to the coasts by the chiefs from the interior, but that the chiefs, having been prevented from exporting them by the presence of the British vessels, had caused the whole of the slaves to be murdered? Lord PALMERSTON said that a dispatch to that effect had last year been received by the Government, and it would no doubt be published among the other slave-trade papers in the usual manner. DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ROME. Mr. HORSMAN wished to know whether it was the intention of the Noble Lord to proceed with the Bill for establishing diplomatic relations with the Court of Rome on Monday next ? Lord PALMERSTON said that his Right Hon. Friend the Chanoellor of the Exchequer was anxious to get int• Committee of Supply on Monday.: The Bill would, however, stand for that day, and if the business of the House permitted it, would be brought forward. ARMY AND NATT. Mr. HUNIE gave notice that he would, on Monday next, submit to the House a proposition to reduce the namber of the army and navy, and to assign such sufficient reasons to the House as would, he trusted, lead to the adoption of that principle. ABOLITION OF CHURCH RATES. Mr. OSBORNE gave notice that on Monday next he would move for leave to bring in a Bill for the total abolition of church-rates. WAYS AND MEANS. The order of the day for going into Committee of Ways and Means was then agreed to, and the House went into Committee. Mr. STAFFORD wished to know, whether, in point of order, it would be competent to move in Committee the amendment of which notice had been given by an Honourable Member respecting the proceeds of any taxes derived from profits, professions, trades, and offices in Ireland. Ho was sorry to see that his motion had caused so much excitement among those Hon. Members who represented various parts of Ireland in that House. He had belie informed that a considerable number of Irish Members had left that country for the purpose of opposing his motion. The proposition was one which, in his opinion, was perfectly plain and simple, and perfectly intelligible out of doors. Nay, more, every petition presented with respect to the income-tax in England, stated that if it was imposed in England it ought to be equally extended to Ireland.— (Hear.) He agreed with that opinion, because it was one based upon justice, and was, besides, in accordance with the opinions of some of the leading statesmen of the present day. Sir Robert Peel, speaking in 1833, said that Ireland ought to be exempted from the income-tax ; but, at that time, he ad mitted that to impose such a tax permanently upon England and Scotland, excluding Ireland, would be unjust. Twelve years after he said if the tax was to be made a permanent one that it ought to be extended to Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) And the Noble Lord at the head of the Government said, in introducing the Budget, " We have a right to impose the tax upon Ireland as well as upon England," which announce ment was received with cheers from all parts of the House, but ",though ke ,held the promise to the ear, he broke it to the hope, as he added that that was not the moment for its imposition which brought, according to the report, " bursts of laughter," and cries of " Oh, oh," from all parts of the House.—(Laughter.) He admitted the justice of extending the tax to Ireland, but he did not give his reasons for declining to do so.—(Hear, hear.) A few days after the Noble Lord came down to the House, and said the Government had incurred some obloquy, in consequence of the course they had adopted. He must not take credit for that, as his only hope of imposing the tax upon Ireland was by imposing it on the Irish Members, as well as on others who objected to it. Was there any reason because the landlords of Ireland had not been called upon to pay poor-rates for years, and were now called upon to do so, that they should be exempted from the payment of income-tax a The people of England had long been called upon to pay poor-rates and the income-tax also, and he did not see why the Irish proprietors should not be placed upon the same footing. The raising of the 2,000,000/. for the people of Ireland was, he believed, a complete fiction. He be- MARKET INTELLIGENCE. From th© London New Price Current of March 17.) SUGAIL—To - day there was no improvement in the demand for Raw Sugar for any purpose, and for most kinds prices ware further depressed. West India was operated in with caution by grocers and refiners, only 350 hhds and trcs being sold, and at easier rates, making the fall for the week 6(1 to is per cwt. At public sale 75 hogsheads 5 tiercrs 19 barrels West India'l were offered, and sold at prices in favour of the buyers; Demerara, good grainy 47s 6d to 48s 6d, middling 40s to 44s 6d, interior 37s 6d to 395; Berbice, good 47s 6d, middling 40s 6d to 44s 6d, ordinary 38s to 395, low soft brown 335 6d, good 35s to 38s 6d per cwt. The total sales for the week are 1340 hhds and trcs. _ _ REFINED.—To-day there was a good demand for re fined sugar from the home trade, and prices are firmer; brown grocery lumps selling at 53s to 53s 3d, and to pass the standard 545. Bonded Crushed is dull of sale at from 27s 6d to 29s per cwt. MAURITIUS —This afternoon there was little desire evinced to operate in Mauritius Sugar, end 2,1C8 bags, at auction, sold upon easier terms—very fine yellow went at 445, fine 395 6d, good 38s 6d to 398 6d, middling 36s 6d to 37s 6d, washed 355 to 36s 6d, syrupy 343 to 41s, and Brown ditto 31s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon five parcels of Bengal Sugar, amounting to 10,940 bags, were offered at public sale. The chief part sold, but at 6d under those previ ously current for white, soft yellow, and for the lower kinds of grainy, but the better sorts realised the ful worth. FOREIGN.—Thero is yet no decrease in the supply of Foreign Sugar brought to market, and as the quantity is far more than requisite for the demand, prices are again depressed, and merchants for the most part are anxious to sell. Although there are ready sellers by private treaty at prices 6d per cwt under those previously current, still the export orders concluded have been trifling, and are not worth enumerating. From the grocers and our re finers working under bond a fair demand has been ex perienced, but this would not have been the case had it not been for the low rates that were taken. MOLASSES.—The stock is nearly 6,000 'puns greater than last year, and the deliveries are 1,000 puns less, but prices are much under that time. There has been little passing in West India during the week, and holders are willing to accept 15s to 19s for low to fine quality. The tendency of prices is decidedly downwards. COFFEE.—This afternoon there was little desire evinced to do business in Ceylon, and 837 bags 11 casks Plantation at auction went at barely former rates, but the chief part sold, good middling fetched 54s to 578, middling 47s 6d to 525, low middling 4.3 s to 465, fine fine ordinary 40s to 425, fine ordinary 37s to 38s, good ordinary 32s to 34s 6d, ordinary 293 to 31s 6d, fine ordinary pale native kind 37s to 38s, ordinary 303 to 30s 6d, triage 27s 6d to 30s, low 15s 6d, pea berry 48s to 51s, damaged 30s to 465, low ditto 12s to 25s per cwt. Taw.—To-day the public sales were brought to a conclusion; the biddings were again inannimate for every sort, although merchants were willing sellers upon for mer reduced terms. Of 14,500, pks, psssed, only 3,500 sold. SPICES.—To-day at public sale 80 bags of White Pepper were taken in at 4id to 6,1 for middling to good; 28 barrels Jamaica Ginger at 40s to 78s for middling and good middling. Rim—The market is still in an inactive state for all descriptions of East India, export orders having nearly ceased, and the home trade operate with much caution. Prices again exhibit a slight reduction for every kind. At public sale on Tuesday of 2,132 bags of Bengal, not above half found buyers. Privately only small purchases have been made, Madras Cargo at 78 to Bs, pinky white 8s to 9s ad, Bengal, low to middling white, 9s to 103 6d, good middling to good lis to Its, and fine 12s Gd to 13s, Cargo 7s 6d to 8s Gd per cwt. There are further arrivals, and parcels are near at hand. Cleaned met with little attention. Seco is less in demand, and the parcels sold privately were at rather lower rates. At auction 100 bags were disposed of. Arrow Root is cheaper, and at auction 240 tins Jamaica realised 4id to 6d per lb. The value of Tapioca is 24d to 4d, few buyers are, howover, to be met with. _ _ SPIRITS.—There has been an extensive demand for Leeward Island Rum this week, and very full rates are obtained. The sales amount to 700 puns, proof of plain quality at is 10d to is li*, mid brown with colour is 100 to Is lld fine strong brown is lid to 2s. East India is wanted, and full rates are offered, but business of moment is prevented by the reluctance of holders to sell, and the sales are confined to 150 puns at Is 9d to Is said proof. Demerara met with more atten tion, and realised full rates, about 100 puns have been sold. Jamaica has not risen in value, but there is a much better demand, and the sales amount to 260 puns at former rates. The stock of Rum in first hands is re duced to a small ebb. There is firmness on the part of holders of Brandy, and at former rates a good business has been done. Geneva sells mre freely for exportation at 26 Id to 2s 2d, and fine for home use is in fair demand at 3s to 3s 6d. Fof British Corn Spirit the demand is active at lOs nett cash. INDloo.—Holders of East India manifest less firmness, arising from the deranged state of affairs on the Con tinent, and the reluctance on the part of the home trade to make purchases. There are sellers at a reduction on last sale's rates of 2d to 4d per lb, yet the purchases made have been trivial in all kinds, and for every pur pose. Of fine Bengal the supply is, however, yet scanty, but it is little required. The dealings in Spanish have been trivial. SALTPETRE.—To-day there was less desire evinced to make purchases in Rough, and the market was more li berally supplied. At public sale 2,654 bags of Calcutta went 6d per cwt cheaper, and a part only sold. OlLS.—This afternoon, at public sale, 30 tuns of Sperm Oil were sold, good and fine 821 lOs to 831 10s, low 711 10s; 80 tuns of Southern from New York, low 2.5/ 15s, middling 261 to 261 ss, good 261 lOs to 271 ss, fine 2 71 lOs to 571 15s; 30 tons of Seal, pale 271 103 to 281 ss. TALLow.—This afternoon the public sales of Tallow went off with fair spirit at full rates. Of East India 56 casks were offered and sold at 47s 6d to 49s 3d, inferior 46s to 46s 9d; 640 ditto of New South 'Wales, fine 49s to 50s 3d, low to good 44s to 48s 9d; 350 pkgs South American, good and fine 46 to 47s 3d, low and middling 43s to 458 6d; 97 ditto Galatz taken in 47s 3d to 47s 6d BANK OF ENGLAND. (From this night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, oap. 32, ter the Week ending •n Saturday, the 11th day of March, 1843. issue ➢YTARTYTNT. X. Notes lined—. .... 23,234,618 Government debt • • 11,015,100 Other eecurltlea •• • • 2,384,900 Gold coin and bullion 12,732,2457 Sliver bullloa •• •• . • 1,443,22 S 12%231,615 28,231,616 M. MARSHALL, clhielCaelder. 142. Datod the 16tk day of March, 18 AlilEtig DN'PARTICEN T. 4. Proprietors' capital 14,553,600 Nest • .. Public deposits (In olucling Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say ings-banks, and Di vidend accoants) • • 6,883,063 Other deposits •• • • Seven day and other 839,622 Government securi- ties (including Deal Weight Annuity)•. 11,574,921 Other securities .• • • 12,954,792 Notes ........ ••• • • 11,544,695 Gold and silver oohs.. 711,449 £33,785,767 t3A,7113,7GT M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. ,411. Dated tke 16th day of March. 1$ ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S MEETING FOR 1849.—There appears to be a fair prospect that this most dtstieguished gathering will be held at Bury St. Edmund's. Other places have vied for the honour, but we have reason to expect that, considering both its means of accommodation and its agricultural import ance, the committee will give this town the preference.— Bury and Suffolk .Herald. APPEAL IN CRIMINAL CASES. Lord CAMPBELL presented a Bill for establish ing a court of appeal in criminal cases, which was read a first time. PETITIONS. The Bishop of OXFORD presented a petition from Witney against the Bill for the removal of Jewish disabilities. Lord LYII7ELTON presented a petition, praying the House to adopt measures to prevent the circula tion of the bull In coenii Domini. Lord STANLEY presented a petition from a lodge of Odd Fellows, praying that their society might be placed upon the same footing as other benefit societies. PASSENGERS' BILL. Earl GREY moved that the House do resolve itself into Committee on the Passengers' Bill. Lord STANLEY complained of the emigrant tax which was levied in Canada upon emigrants, which in some cases amounted to 30s. a head upon each person imported into the colony ; whereas in New York the emigrant tax could not under any circum stances amount to more than a dollar and a half. The effect of this system would be to transfer the whole tide of emigration from Canada to the United States. Earl GREY thought it was necessary for the colonies to adopt some method of preventing the immigration of old and helpless pau pers, who would from the moment of their landing become burdens on the colony. In many instances, grandfathers, crippled and help • less, and totally incapable of earning their living, had been sent out from Ireland to Canada with their grand children, and had, from the moment of their landing, become burdens upon the colony, and it certainly was the duty of the Colonial Legislature to prevent the emigration of helpless paupers who were incapable of undertaking the labour necessary to maintain themselves. The Earl of HARDWICKE complained that the Bill placed the shipowner between two fires. He was to allow twelve feet space to each passenger it his ship carried a surgeon, which surgeon would be a great expense to him, but if he did not carry a surgeon, he was to allow fourteen feet space to each emigrant, which would prevent his carrying out as many passengers as his ship was capable of accommodating. After a short conversation, in which Earl Grey, Lord Stanley, Earl Fitzwilliam, and Lord Lyttelton, took part, the motion was agreed to, and the House resolved itself into Committee on the Bill. On the first clause being proposed, Lord STANLEY objected to the provision with respect to cooking on board emigrant ships, and moved an amendment to strike out the words in the clause relating to the subject. After a short conversation across the table, the amendment was withdrawn. The several clauses were agreed to, and the 13 reported without amendments.—Adjourned. ROUSE OF COMMONS, Mach 16. MEDICAL RELIEF. (Continued from our Third Edition of last night.) Mr. C. I3ULLER could not help complaining of the course the Noble Lord had pursued in placing upon the paper a series of resolutions impugning the whole system of medical relief as administered under the poor-law, and then, at the last moment, confining his attention and the attention of the House to one particular case in which the system was defective.— (Hear.) The Noble Lord had supported his motion by reference to the evidence taken in 1844, without taking any notice of what had been done by the Poor-law Commissioners in the interim, and the result would appear that it was the opinion of the Noble Lord, and, if the resolution were adopted, of the House too, that there was a neces sity for rectifying certain abuses which he would undertake to prove had long since been most efficiently rectified by the Poor-law Corn missioners.—(Hear, hear.) He felt great pain in being obliged to oppose the Noble Lord on the present occasion, because he knew that the Noble Lord had done much to alleviate the sufferings of the poor of the country, and was looked up to by them as their best friend, but he could assure the Noble Lord and the House that this subject had oc cupied his constant attention since ho had the honour of holding the office he now filled, and it appeared to him that the question was too intricate to be dealt with in the manner the Noble Lord proposed.—(Hear, hear.) It appeared to him that the principles and details of the questions were the most anomalous, the most important and the most difficult of any connected with the administration of the poor-law, and he should have been exceedingly happy had the result of his deliberations on the subject enabled him to prepare some plan for the administration of medical relief on a new and improved principle.—(Hear, hear.) He apprehended, however, that no new plan could be devised for the administration of medical relief through the medium of the poor-law ; and the result of all the consideration he had been enabled to give the subject was, that it was impossible to give medical relief through the poor-law upon any general system, that should prove better or more satisfactory than that already in existence.—(blear.) It was his opinion, that if they were to establish a more extended or complete system of medical relief, they must abandon the system of local agency and local rates, and administering the relief through the medium of the poor-law, and devise some system of centralization which would give from the funds of the country a system of medical relief adequate to the wants of the people. (Hear, hear.) His conviction was that medical relief could not be put upon a different footing to what it was at present. In stating this he did not mean to say that it might not be improved in its details, as his belief was that it was only by that improvement that it could be placed upon a proper footing. The expenditure for medical relief was considerably on "the increase, and it could not therefore be said that any economy that had taken place in the ad ministration of the poor - law had been accompanied with any want of attention to the sick poor. The Right Honourable Gentleman, in order to prove this assertion, read several returns with respect to the expenses for medical 5 ,3 - 1 -e, 4. .. -, •.' 1 " 1, it appeared that from 1838 to 1846 the expenses for medical relief had increased one-sixth upon the sum originally paid. Under the old system it was almost impossible to get a justice of the peace to give an order for nourishment. It was now a common thing to do so. It was a creation of the new system.—(Hear.) Large sums were annually expended under this head. There were cases in which the salaries of poor-law officers were too small—(Hear) —and others in which they were perhaps too large; but it was a difficult thing to ap portion salaries. Sir John 'Walsh said, in his evi dence in 1144, that the salaries in Norfolk and Suf folk were large, but they gave satisfaction. In Northumberland and Cumberland they were smaller, but there they also gave satisfaction. These counties, and Westmorland, Durham, and Cornwall, however, were less pauperised than the others. Without an exception, they possessed good medical relief. The House must be aware how difficult, nay, how almost impossible it was, to fix salaries by a general rule.— (Hear.) Some discretion must be left to the Com missioners, for they must render the amount paid palatable to the districts, and according to the amount of labour required. Those unions to which the medical officers devoted their whole time were those from which the least complaints were made. The salary of the Nottingham medical officer, for instance, was 1201., with hoard and lodging. Perhaps that would not satisfy some medical men. Again, in the Wayland Union there existed a mixed plan, which he believed worked as well as any, and which was to fix the payment of the medical officer partly by salary and partly by a payment for each case attended. There was also another plan, wholly different from the preceding, but which the Hon. Member for Finsbury (Mr. Wak ley) had told him in a conversation on the subject he thought might prove satisfactory. This was a plan adopted under the Earl of Stradbroke, in the Bly thing Union. There were no medical officers at all in that union, but the poor applied to any medical man they thought proper, and, at the end of the year, a sum voted by the guardians was divided amongst those so called in by the poor themselves. Some medical men held that this system was open to abuse, but he believed that in the 13lything Union it worked well. With these various plans, and though as a gener,.l pr:Lelpl,. 11, t1.„,,,1,. permanent salaries were the best, ho should be sorry to force oh the guardians of any distriot the ob- PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending March 14, 1848. is 225. 11 1 /,: i d. per cwt. LATEST PRICES OF SRAREN IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK From the Official List, EUBLISHED EVERT TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON. FRIDAY, ZOINT-STOCS MARCH 17. BAN3ILS. WATER-WORKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. X a. d. £ s. d. Birmingham .••• • - •• 18s. 25 8 0 28 0 41 - East London •••• • • • • 81. 100 0 0 - 175 Grand Junction ••• • .. 2/. 10s. 41 13 4 - 82 31. 100 0 0 - 84 Sew Rivr Lndn Brdgo ' 21. 10s. - - 88 trauxhall ........ • ..• 100 0 0 - 104 West Middlesex . . . 51.155. prcnt. 63 12 9 - 118 BRIDGES Dividend Amount Name of Compiny. per I af Paid. ; Fria. Annum. Share. - , X. a. d. L. r. d. Tlungerford - .• .. • .. - - - 45 Southwrk, Nw Sub. • Av. - 632 12 a - 2) s Ditto Nw of 7% p. o. 355. per cont. 60 0 0 - 16 Waterloo - 100 0 0 - ' 6 Ditto Old Ann. of 81. 11. ss. 4cl. - 111 0 0 27 Ditto Nw ditto of 7/. 11. 2s. 2d. - 40 41 0 25 Vauxhall - 26 GAS-LIGHT AND COPE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per •f Paid. Price. Annum. Share. -- - A. A. d. A. s. d. British ---..- .. - I/. 40 0 0 1$ 0 11 17 Ditto Provincial.• •• 11. 80. 20 11 0 19 0 0 22} Bristol .............. 101• per cont. 20 • 0 - - Brighton ........ • ... 51. per cent. 20 II • - I IS City of London . •• •• 101. 100 0 • 106 0 • 265 Continental Consolidat. 925. pr share, 41) 11 0 39 5 5 - Ditto, Now - ...... 6bm. pr share CO 0 0 37 10 0 - Equitable- ....... • ... 15s. pr share' 50 0 II 50 0 0 ; 30,, Imperial ...... ••• • • • 6/. per oent. 60 0 0 50 0 0 I 74 Independent ......... 61. per cent. 40 11 0 40 0 4 1 $4 London.. .... .. ••• • - 2%1. pr cont. IS I 0 AO 0 II 10 Ditt0...... 6/. per sent. 60 0 I 10 0 • 1 35 Phoenix . - .... • • .... 5/. per cent. 80 0 0 45 II II 31% Rate= . • .. United General ••.• • • 4%1. pr coat. 50 0 0 60 0 0 , 16 Westminster Chartered 31, 60 II 0 - 1 ioi Ditto, New . - - - 'CAST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES ' Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. i ---- --,_-_ X s. d. X s. d Bank of Scotland British Linen Company 81. par cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 196 Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 5 10 0 0 125 Clydesdale Bank ••• • • • 61. per cent. 20 0 II 10 0 I 1211 Commercial Beak •• • • 71. per cent. 500 0 I 100 0 6 164 Eastern Bank. Edinb.ic Glasgow Rank 61. per cent. 8 0 0 5 4 0 614$ Exchange Bnk of Scot 6l. per cent. 100 0 11 Al 0 0 46 Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 4 0 7 II 1 1 .4 National Bank 6l. per cent. 50 0 0 10 6 0 13S North of Scotland Bank 71. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0• 6 North British Bank - - 50 0 0 10 0 0 4 Royal Bank of Scotlaid 61. per cent. 100 0 11 100 II 0 143 Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 • 50 0 0 81 Tester's Bank .... -• . 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 71 Aberdeen Fire and Life 121. per cent. 12 10 0 2 0 0 801.0 d, B. Accord. Life and Firs - 20 0 0 5 11 0 95. Aritish Guarantee Ins. - 10 0 5 1 0 0 101. Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 11 10 0 I II Church of England Ins. - be 0 0 2 0 0 2 City of Glasgow Life 5l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 2/. 98 Edinburgh Life Incur Si. per cent. 100 • • 12 19 • 17 1 4 East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 015 I 11,.66. Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 8 2 k Elerculos Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 • • IS • 0 11% Insur. Co. of Scotlnd AI. per cent. 101 • • le 0 11 7 IMA Assoc. of Scotland 51. per cont. 10 0 • 1 0 0 11. 5. Mercantile Life - It) C, 0 •10 0 g. National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 • 0 1 • • 245. North British Insur. •• 5541. pr cent. 200 0 0 20 I 0 211 North & West of Soot. - 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. la Scottish Life and Guar. - 20 0 0 11 II 0 % Scot. Mas. and Gen. Life 61. per cent. 1 0 11 015 0 les. Od Scottish Union Insrnes. 6MI. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. Os Standard Lilts ...... • 51. per cent. 50 0 II 4 5 0 lIM United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 13s. MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of \ Paid. Price Annum. Share. I --- X. s. 4.. A. a. d. Australian Agriculturl - 100 0 • 30 0 0 - Anglo-Mexican Mint., 11. 45. 10 0 0 10 0 0 16 Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 2 10 0 Canada ... • • .... • ... 61. per cent. 108 0 5 32 10 0 31 Uppr Canada Bonds Si. per cent. - - - City 80nd5.......... 314/. pr cent. - - 1111 Comp. Cppr slarn Eng. 61. per cent. 100 • • 70 I 0 - Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 21 100 • • 100 0 0 - Equitable Reversienry 4%1. pr cent. 100 • 0 95 11 0 - Gea.Steam Navigation 11. Bs. 16 0 0 14 5 0 24% London Institution . • • - - - 11 Penlnslrdc Orient.Stm. 21. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 57 Reversionary Int. Soc. 3%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 11 95 -Royal Mail Steam.... 3%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 64 0 0 45 South Australian ..... 61. per cent. 25 0 5 25 0 0 - Van Dieman's Land., - 100 0 0 23 0 0 -,•• Universal Salvage.... - 25 0 0 5 0 0 - Tnx LuxGs.—On examination the lungs will be found full of innumerable little holes, like a sponge. These holes are the cells into which the air enters when we breathe. So great is their number that they have been calculated to amount to 174,000,000, forming alto gether a surface thirty times greater than that of the human body. Every ono of these cells is provided with a net-work of blood-vessels, by means of which the blood is brought into immediate contact with the air over every portion of their surface. When this great amount is taken into consideration, we shall feel at once how necessary it is to supply pure air to the lungs with every breath we draw.— health of Towns Gazette. IMPORTANT TO PARENTS.--By the new Registra tion Act, " the parents of every child may obtain for it the advantage of a legal registry of its birth without the payment of any fee, provided it be registered by the registrar of the district in which the child was born within six weeks after the birth. A birth may be regis tered at any time within six months after the birth, but after six weeks the expense of registering it will he 7s. 6d., and after six months it cannot be registered at ail." &void parties have recently suffered great in convenience in consequence of not being aware that the fine for registering wan limited. t servance of a practice contrary to that to svlaich they had been accustomed, and which they had ad opted and found beneficial in practice. The great object was to secure adequate medical services with fair r emuneration , and, as was his duty, he should endeavour so , tolappor tion the annual grant of 70,0001. as to attain it. There was another matter connected with medical relief which was of grave imp iftance ; he alluded to the present mode of supplying the poor with medicines. That mode he thought was unsatisfactory. He thought the throw' iug the charge of providing drugs upon the medi cal offi cer was open to abuse, but now he confessed his powers of remedying were inadequate to his powers of perceir. ing the evils of the system. However, in pros: ess of time he hoped, by the assistance of the residents in the various districts, by the union of private charities, by the aid of the inspectors, the clergy, and the guardians, some better plan of dispensing drugs than at present ex' isted might be devised and adopted. At present, how ever, he had no plan to suggest himself. He feared be was dealing with the House in a very crude form, but he hoped the House would excuse him. It was. s matter of great difficulty to form a sound judgment on these questions, and would require the experience of as many years as he had been months in his present office. g e threw himself upon the indulgence of the House; if b e had advanced crude opinions let him be shown them/ and it would be found his docility would be exemplary' —(Hear, hear.) Another complaint which had been meths was the mode in which the medical officers wer e , unduly fettered in respect to their administering r elief to the poor; but he thought this complaint arose from 6 reference to the cases which occurred in the first Yea r of the new poor-law. His opinion was, that i n the matters of medical relief very little ought to be left to the discretion of the relieving officer, who was to tal 's ' incompetent to pronounce an opinion whether or not 5 man was sick. His only duty was to decide the ques tion, " pauper or no pauper," and the medical officer 0 1 4 ought to be entrusted with the discretion of atten ding such persons as he held to be sick, such discretion b eing subject to the approval of the guardians at }their nest meeting. But in truth the complaints which hued reaches' him had not been against relieving officers far refusing to allow medical men to attend, but against medial officers for having neglected to attend. He 110 W CSTOO to make a few observations on the remaining resolution._ laid on the table by the Noble Lord the Member for Bath—resolutions by which the Noble Lord had, he thought, raised an unfair impression against the working of the poor-law, inasmuch as they put forth evils which had long since been remedied. He would take, in the e first place, the fifth resolution. The evils there sta te " had already been provided for by articles 161 and 109 of the consolidated orders issued by the Poor-law Commissioners ; the only difference between those orders and the resolution of t he Noble Lord being that the first are legal, whereas tie, latter was contrary to the existing law, inasmuch 1 / 5 would let in as medical officers in this country Irish sliu Scotch practitioners. With regard to the 6th resolution propounded by the Noble Lord, if he would turn to the 75th and 76th articles of the consolidated orders, lie would find that the Commissioners had not stinted m edl. cal relief as the Noble Lord's resolution proposed to Jo. Hence, in these two respects, the resolutions cast an ti n ' just slur upon the poor-law, while they would not It' vide for the evils so effectually as the orders issue d °? the Commissioners. The Noble Lord had confined his argument on the present occasion to his first resolution, which related to women claiming medical relief from tin parish in consequence of their being pregnant- -/ this respect he (Mr. Buller) had hoped the orders °I the Commissioners would have satisfied the 1” b Lord. The resolution of the Noble Lord inei te ,,,, not only every pregnant married woman, but e r !''„ pregnant unmarried woman, to claim relief at the t ica : of childbirth—(Hear, hear)—and this would a te' scandaleus injustice upon the poorer classes of r payers, who were already sufficiently crushed d° e ' ea l/ ' If this was yielded to, and if indiscriminate relief le to be given at the time of child-bearing, it would t• idle to keep up any safeguards to the ratepayers len e 'i ever. At present the 182 d article of the consolidates orders provided that every pregnant woman who ere e pauper, or who obtained an order from a person leg e , authorised, should be attended at childbirth by the Ine ; dioal officer—after birth, in case of difficulty or datig e. and that the medical officer should be paid for such a ' r : tendance and medicine not less than 10s. nor more ' hi ; 205.; and in case of difficult labour the medical officer ni,; attend without an order, subject to the future decis ie ; of the board of guardians as to whether the woroan, l l., a proper object for medical attendance. This he Vr t j, Buller) thought was as far as liberality could go due regard to the interests of the ratepayers. hi should not go further into the questions raised II t ah ". '- resolutions of the Noble Lord. He had stated'• general principles on which relief should be ad tered, and had given his reasons why he opponed g . O resolutions of the Noble Lord. Ile regretted, to on this the first occasion of his addressing the P.°`',"“ since he had been appointed to the office he held,,,, hu ` 0 was for the House to decide; and he hoped the il ea would decide against a resolution which he bel ief would be most dangerous and prejudicial to the connt ll „ . The Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman concluded we moving the previous question. a Mr. WAICLEY regretted that the Right Hon. Learned:Gentleman should have made so bad a cons. meneernelat as to oppose the change in favour of hunion l ,. t 4 which had been offered to the House by the Lord the Member for Bath. After the speech of Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman he (Mr. Wakie7,/„ was at a loss to know why the Hon. Member oprel' (Mr. C. Lewis) was out of office as a Poor-law Commi s sioner, for it seemed to him that the country was only t o a change of men, but not measures. It appeared te him that the Right lion. and Learned Gentleman tin absolutely got a sine cure appointment, for he eulogier A all that had been done by his predecessors, and premier', no change or modification of evils so long and so loall v complained of. He would tell the Right Hon. an d Learne d Gentleman that the medical practitioners were not on discontented but exasperated, and their treatment At 1 1 16 hands of the Commission operated injuriously to th e poor. The resolutions now under consideration merei went to make it compulsory that the poor woman sho ul have medical attendance at the hour of her greatest phi' sical suffering, and it would be easy to provide by 1, clause in a statute punishment for those gully off any fraud upon the guardians in this respect. It leµ. most important that women should be attends childbirth by competent medical men, or the re,'„ s l l , lt might be a ricketty, diseased, and crippled race. . lu. ' was the source of a vast amount of paurperism. d number of relieving officers was so small that they Co p t , not make an adequate number of visits to the recipie r "" of relief; but the medical officer, an important ra te payer, and who had an interest in reducing the peroc b '„ burdens, was not likely to give incorrect inforralltie'. As the law stood, guardians contracted with medical officers, who were thus overwhelmed with orders b ‘ l B their relieving officer. It generally happened that se m patients were in a state of ab s ol u te f.x halation fr°„ -- want of food; the medical officer accordingly gave order k for food; but where the relieving officer had to wan twenty miles in a week, as had often happened in 1 ; 0 - very county, there was not much chance of th i e , i orders being attended to, which must be confirmed the relieving officer before they could be acted on. xb the relieving officer was actually placed above ,', b ,"" e medical officer in matters of sickness and bee ps, If a medical officer was liberal in granting rtintsl orders for food, he fell into distavon v l " the guardians; but the orders en the medi c officer might be multiplied without end. How were n ut prisoners treated? The surgeons of the prisons andi li ; firmaries might order not only nourishing food, but lel, to any extent; and this without any check or reh u- , from the visiting magistrates, or from the Home Se cr ", tary, who was also a Poor-law Commissioner. It 1/- true the medical officers of unions had the power of doin i i this; but certain returns to be moved for shortly le°,, i ll o t show in how many cases that power was exercised. .7 0 a single argument bad been urged against the selop l l4 of this resolution, and the kigh t Hon. and Lv lo3 • Gentleman would never have resisted it, had be b e- i , n acquainted with the miseries of the poor creatures of whom it referred. They were frequently destitut e 4 the most common necessaries of food and clothing , b og the head of the family being in employ, they could, n bt be treated as paupers. He regretted that the l'o oo Hon. and Learned Gentleman appeared to be acting ~f the system of his predecessors, whereby the counts'' would be deprived of the benefit of his splendid tale tl ' as applied to this subject. le Mr. HUME, while desirous to afford every' pole t ioi s comfort to women in the state described, could not 11- fear that the adoption of the Noble Lord's resolu tion ling would make matters worse, by striking at the fee-, of independence whet, it, we, co important to and weakening the habits of thrift and foresighi.l (Hear, hear.) To establish a claim to medical site s " ance on the part of every poor woman, married or n° l l, for the resolution made no distinction—would be Ir i _„ ° "a dangerous step, ,as regarded the poor themselves--';„ would be ruinous to that class of poor women who?; . tamed a lirlihood by assisting others. Th e fi rs t obr i : tion was one which he had felt to the p oor -l aw geners''' and he was sorry to learn that in S co tl an d i t wes ee: rating in the way ho had feared, by destroying th e . 1 1; dustry and independenc e of th e p oor . H e had ke ° , 3 4 many instances of the injury resulting from ill -dirge' humanity. On these grounds ho should oppose the re solution. d Mr. C. BULLER, in referenee to something that b e a d fallen from the Hon. Member for Finsbury, said h e , the sent copies of the Noble Lord's resolutions to al l f en members of the late Poor-law Commission; and out of nine of those gentlemen objected merit untlul'ii. fiedly to the resolution before the House; and Sir e . Walsh objected to it, unless the class of females to r ceive the proposed relief was accurately defined. t i n Mr. HENLEY said that every one must applau d humane motives which had dictated this proposa l ' a r his union they had paid the medical officers 450/ Ar o , ar ander the old system; but a neighhouring union ori? paying 3001., with the sanction of the Commissional the medical officers of his union had consented to acog, a like SUM. When, however, the matter was b roug _ before the Commissioners, they refused to sanction 10°11.6 than a payment of 2951. a year, which had since croft f th e again to about 400/. lie had the highest opinion" medical officers, and believed they were under nortri.. don as to giving orders for food and nourishing 'Fp stances. He would not support the resolution, believing that sufficient facilities existed for obtaining relief ler the class referred to, if really destitute. gon. Sir W. CLAY, after complimenting the Bight and Learned Chief Commissioner, said he must never theless support the resolution, which went to remedy very serious evil—greater than any that could be pro duced by its adoption. Let the House remember that no form of eleemosynary assistance was so important to the pour, and so little liable to abuse, as medical assistance. While 5,000,000/ was applied to the relief of the poor, only about 2 per cent., or 175.00/., was expend ed in medical ref , F.---(Hear, hear.) Hence the inc.:case ess small a charge was not a matter to frighten the House , in 4 final point of view. He believed that the number