The Sun. — London, England, 1848-06-17 00:00:00

Ore Ysas soon as th e Noble Lord had moved for it it was )i" Lao the copyist's hands, and so far as ho (Mr. soe. es e ) knew no unnecessary delay had taken p lace eoh Tyliag it bef ore th e C om mittee. A question of dates kr , d hot be easily se ttl e d off hand. but this he would ''' in his place in Parliament, that there had been no Wit hhold' rah, ing of information, and that never had a Com ,, Lee been furnished with such a flood of information. es Could assure the House, upon his honour, that it ksoser was the intention to withhold dispatches for one t eee ni s e ut and therefore he thought be was entitled to ti ,_ s_with some degree of indignation the accusation of f aith Ible Lord.—(Hear, hear.) He should take care to in himself with the dates a future day, and tepacrit,l,cneantime content b la sthimsel(y ting in his place Parliament that there never had been the slightest kits il e t e 4uu of withholding information from the Cora- 4, 1 14r ' DISRAELI was of opinion that the Hon. Unde.r tlieeeturY had exhibited an unnecessary degree of n o,. _tion. Did he mean to say that the dispatch he d- 6lr e• Grey had been presented in good time to t u es t unlittee ? eat le to sem ' ee„ &YVES had not understood that the dispatch tes' a Ti a ,," ° ,ti was called for in the first instances. Subse- PateV the Noble Lord moved for a great many dis -I:rikrateeesba',Thttanndds.they were immediately placed in the Ise erp ; —eSRAELI did not think that the Hon. Under obsarY had bettered his position by his interlocutory its rv ation.—(llear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman d, fos t il l i i t ness before the Committee, been asked forkn re"°n which he, as a member of the Government, toe Care possessed. He evaded the question, and chose h eur t a ‘ It that it referred to a mere routine report.—(Hear, ant V s , Flo was asked whether he was in possession of lie e rrmation of importance, and he declined to men tois7,, dispatch which had been alluded to by the Noble t t .",:? . Member for King's Lynn. hew - nAWES—I stated that some dispatches had been d. k,te e ,_seISRAELI—Yes; but the Hon. Under Sesre eoe'es`u°nght the dispatch of Sir C. Grey of so little heoluelice as not to require especial mention.—(Hear, 14 r:' l'ho great question was whether the dispatch e ee sau i estion would or would not have influenced the cell °n of the Committee.—(Hear, hear.) If be . re teected right, the Right Hon. Member for Cambridge University had asked for the dispatch. IN; 11 _, AWES—The Right Hon. Gentleman was pre the il l ', would answer for himself. He had understood eall - gut Ron. Gentleman to ask for what was techni iteetcalled the blue book, and had, therefore, answered,' seuly, that it was not in his possession. tar s GOCLBURN said that the Hon. Under Secre te f l iZust have misunderstood the question he had put Ge r .l • --- (Hear, and laughter.) He had asked whether Q ey ' o r naient had received any information from the ;list /e , rn ° r, of Jamaica which would throw li g ht on the hear - ,en state of that colony.—(Loud cries of " Hear, He owned he had been surprised when subse be l saw the dispatch of Sir C. Grey.—(Hear.) Wh 4 i e r ; DISRAELI was quite satisfied with the answer C a the Right Hon. Member for the University of .6 had made to the appeal of the Honourable p es u oc e i r Secretary.—(Hear, hear.) But nobody had sup row' that a statesman of that Right Honourable Gentle fe. talent and experience would be so green as to ask h at ? blue book.—(A laugh.) The question was, as he kit been stated, whether an important document had ne t b e en withheld, and whether, if produced, it would th e c ure had an important influence on the decision of Wi t h i "ornittee.—(Hear, hear.) All that had been said tl4t 41 the previous few minutes went to confirm the e et linent which had been made by his Noble Friend, Pre " ( 11 1 r. Disraeli) would leave the question for the th t ent bet ween t h e H onou rable Under Secretary an d Co ' t ight Honourable Member for the University of Itt lihrl a dee • 413 I t was not his intention to p rolon g the dis -Bjr, th e non the general ques tion, but remembering t hat t he was to sail on the following day , he thou g ht tiet;l l l 11 expression of opinion should not be d eferred Monday. He protested against the cou rse of the of ° rernnaent. They might have adopted the suggestion h y Comnaittee, or they might have adhe red to the p i s e ! a 1846; but they had done neither. They had r ea T r ed in a double sense, and while unfaithful to poll (11,-,` economy, had been equally false to profection. — : i t -ciectionist cheers.) As the packet was about to sail w as but ri g ht that the colonists should kno w that .a to ll th at House were not equally un f a i t hf u l to their in a"ta--that some looked upon the p ro p osition of the a•Prhinent as devoid of every stat esmanlike quality, e as unlikely to lead to any result.--(hear, hear.) gh at was the question as between the English people a r t Wa the question as between the English people b the colonies? The English people, as represented th e P arliament and Government, had entered into a con ',act with the sugar growing colonies in 1834. They enolished slave-labour, and in return promised them an ahead supply of free labour and a market. To that teclatract there were four conditions, and three of them ( " ti u d e.._ b , een violated by the British Government.— haTbe Noble Lord had said that t ar hear.) great object of the Bill of 1846 was to secure Ch eap th p sugar tothe te rn --in principle, why . not relieve the people in o ther mat "a---in taxation, for ins tance? Why not sponge off the national debt, and thus relieve the people from a great Portion of their taxation? By following up a high tone of morality, a greater fiscal resu lt might be accomplished than the colonial catastrophe which was now being s ac e°in pl . I he d No one had told t he House why the con tract with our c olonies had not been fu lfilled. The Honourable Member for Manchester had spoken of re lief to his suffering constituents through the medium of 'heap sugar. No doubt they were suffering, but so were the colonists, and in both cases from t he le g islation of the Honourable Member and his schoo l . — ( Hear, bear.) There was one consideration which had been touched Upon by the Noble Lord the Member for King's Lynn, . i. aed which he (Mr. Disraeli) trusted would never omitted from the discussion of this question. The West India colonies must not be p ermitted t° perish altogether.—(Hear, hear.) They had ex alted f or som e centuries, had achieved a consi derable degree of civilisation , and had brought, t he land into a high state of cultivation. Therefore no twithstanding our political economy and perfidy, it was „ ° ,t Possible to suppose that they w ould or could come to ester desolation.—(Hear, hear.) But how were they to t r °sPer They must be supported by some metro rtitan authority. Dependencies they were, and must b es, remain so ; and depend upon it, that if forsaken y but a million of men would not perish without a struggle, ts tit would seek eneouragement and support from ran - 4 h tl antie powers.—(Hear.) But were they even securing the present poposal ? He remembered Il l s i tt ."e u g g s g ai l d r in y 1846 that the history of men was the e : e ° 7 of reaction, and that the Noble Lord replied in a e ll Z el l full of habeas corpus and the rights of man ; o b w u n t ee, - 1. 1 t wo years after, the Noble Lord himself came d "u retro t' e policy.—(Hear.) The fact was, that All „ -RC iv in favour time we had been establishing differential duties re - ,arour of Cuba and the Brazils—in fact, establishing a tir°Poly for the slave-growing countries. (Heber.) Right Hon. Member for Cambridge University had le a e i hed the moral blot of this case. If there had beeneno la i r iement, or more unfortunate still, no reporters, they . pupa have got cut of the scrape ,• but forty years of f or u ,lie meetings, forty years of platform oratory, and th "3' Years of ministers of state raised to office through tbiadvocacy of the abolition of slavery, were tra ditions , would not easily be forgotten by the p eo p le. Am ong other things, the distinguished part taken in that agitation by the Society of Friends would not be for ; and therefore when he saw in the Hon. Member s ' B lanchester the eloquent advocate of slave - g rown sugar, when ho heard him tell the people that all they t ho r ee to look to w a n th e c heapness of the article, he ught he was justified in saying that the present was an e._ of remarkable reaction.—Hear, hear.) Tho Go ,_rnrnent which h a d brought in the Bill of 1846 wer e w obliged t o come forward with a remedial policy.— ylear, hear.) What would the people of England think, 1;111,1 they found that the free-trade policy had so soon but ° h a down ?—(llear.) He had not the slightest doubt tbat t at when they had free-trade prices of corn, and Manchester agricultural distress which the Hon. Member for f;tenchester had described with so much unction, and on ! l e l e ..anticipation of which he had gloated with so much 111 1g —when they had cheap provisions consentaneous With commercial de • sression and colonial total want of business ruin, and a Would regret the polie s intothroughout the talked,country they and the false system ofy wb which they hatdorbeseonme .me pporters.—(Hear, been suhear.) theyHheadshoold give his ili t n s i o on on the Government pl a •o r.) osal at the proper time; far as his voice went, he wished to let the colonists *now that of he the Under-Secretary's lime entered a protest as indignant as that es _ er-s ecretary's against a measure brought for tblrset under ci rcumstances he believe d un p r ecedented in a erai rtrY , with reference to colonial legislation, mi ._ y feeble in conception, and leading, se he believed, Vloutter disappointment and unparalleled failure.—(The ta. Gentleman was loudly cheered by gentlemen on the rotectionist benches as he resumed his seat.) th e t °lll J• RUSSELL—In asking the House to adopt t P r oposition which I have laid be fore it, I ventured o b ee quest the House to follow si::courseeesdecl! has e lle n usual in this year, and to wait for another day e ' that •only after a two days' interval —before d is nss the merits of the proposition. But Honour able Gent Gentlemen have not taken that course, and, like _ Os s f li on. Friend the Member for the University of ° rd, and the Hon. Gentleman who has just sat /Z u, each has ma d e hi s comments in regard to the aer m e e lPie and general purport and effects of this in teae lien. must first take notice of the speech of . h he e Member who has just sat down, because I think er ,'as shown pretty clearly what is to be the nature t h o l'ue debate and discussion which is to come 'before tle 'louse on Monday next.—(Hear.) The Hon. Gen ar4ll, says that the reaction which he prophesied in as coming and he explained what he meant by e a t! reaction, because he went on to say that these 'ePaercial principles, which had received their com pletioners in 184 e, were now, in 1848, to have the predicted of their overthrow. He foresaw and y,reclicted that the corn-laws would be again remedied, th at there would be new duties imposed upon the admis ,i 1 1 1 , of foreign corn, and that all those commercial prin (Vs which have received the sanction of this House dee 'Sng the last seven years are to be overthrown by the Isi°ll of this House in this and future years. I think the °C o House may see from that what are the expectations th e tis 'lon. Gentleman, and in what v iew he will su p port L c ; P r opositions of the Committee, of which the Noble (W e " the Member for King's Lynn wa s the chairmFe— ar, hear.) I certainly had not understood, until the t • Gentleman s poke, or at least until the Right Hon. ent l e nian the Member for Stam ford s p oke, what that ies ° W k. Was. I had supposed that they me ant that there ti ts to be a d u t y o f 10s. per cwt. for six years , and that that d u t y was to ex pire, or gradually to b diminish e sth at until equal duties were to be established. If were the proposition, it would be one to which I certainly se— i,i should not much object on account of the e n it would impose, for it would not be ver y different ia t 4 a n to th e measure of 1846 — it would be looking an equalization of the duty. But t he Ri g ht Hon. g e ntleman has explained that his object is to restore protection altogether—(Hear, hear) —to prevent the introduction of any foreign sugars, only under such a differential duty as would render it difficult for the people of this country to obtain them—to give to the colonies, in fact, a permanent protection of a certain amount, and in that way only, we have been told, can the prosperity of the colonies be secired. —(Hear, hear.) I am not sorry to hear this, because at least it shows what is the measure which is to be discussed. Now what are the two propositions then between which the House will have to decide? They are, first, the propo sition of the Government modifying the Act of 1846 on the one hand, and the proposition on the other hand that there should be a permanent differential duty of 10s. per cwt., levying thereby a very considerable tax upon the people of this country. My Hon. Friend, the Membe for the University of O xford, expressed great indigne r tion that I had not touched upon the question of the slave-trade. I really thought that the whole of my speech was an attempt to s;mw that the measure which I had the honour of proposing would enable colonies of this country with their free labour to compete with the sugar of the slave colonies of other countries; and that if we did that, if we were successful in that object, we so far encouraged free-labour sugar and discouraged slave labour sugar. It is not for me now to say whether that measure will be efficient for that object; but I will repeat that the object I had in view was to encourage free labour sugar, and to discourage slave-grown sugar.— (Hear, hear.) No one could doubt either that your pro position, as I had before understood it, of continuing the 10s. duty for six years only, would, at least so I sup posed, have had a similar object in view. That would not have been a permanent protection ; but it would have had the same object of enabling our colonies by a sufficiency of free labour to supply free sugar cheaply, and to compete with advantage with slave holding colonies. But I must confess—and after all I have heard I almost feel humbled in confessing it—l must confess I thought there were two parties whose in terests I was to keep in view in framing any measure upon this subject—one was, the great mass of the la bouring population in our colonies, amounting to at least nine-tenths of the whole people, and the greater part of whom had formerly been our negro slaves ; while the other body, whose interests were concerned, and whose interests I oughtlo consult, were some 99-100ths of the people of this country, who were deeply interested in the price of an article for which they paid twelve millions sterling a year, and of which they consumed 300,000 tons or 6 , 000,000 cwt.—(Cheers.) I thought this question was a difficult one, and though I did not pretend to frame a measure which should please all parties, yet that I had not been altogether unsuc cessful as regarded those two interests.—(Hear, hear.) The labourers in the West Indies, it was acknowledged, have been in the best condition, the best fed, the best clothed of any peasantry in the world. There was a resolution in the Committee of 1842 that the measure of emancipation had completely succeeded so far as the welfare of the negro was concerned. I believe the Noble Lord the Member for King's Lynn moved a similar re solution. We have it amongst the evidence that at first after their emancipation the degree in which they car ried their luxury in dress was most vain and extra vagant. We have heard of a woman wearing a dress worth fifty pounds, and such like things, showing how well they were able to afford the luxuries in which they indulged. I believe, then, that even if this measure were to discourage the cultivation of sugar, if even the greater part of those persons were not to be employed in t he cultivation of sugar, yet that there are in the West Indies means now for their support, that the whole effect of the Act of 1834 would be, that from the wretched state of slavery which they suffered under the command and lash of their masters, they had been converted into an independent, happy, and comfortable peasantry.—(Hear, hear.) Well, then, I say, that in that respect, therefore,: there is no thing in my measure which militates against their welfare. With regard to the other part, I propose that sugar which now pays 14s. duty should have that duty diminished to 10s. per cwt., and that foreign labour sugar should also pay 10s., and that the whole tax upon the whole of the sugar that comes into this country should scarcely exceed ld. per pound. There is a pro vision for the welfare of that class. Now, it seems, from the course of this debate, that the welfare of 9-10ths of the population of the West Indies is not one for which we are to care; that the welfare of 99-100ths of the population of the United Kingdom is not one which we should take into any reasonable account; but that the owners of West Indian property, those who have inherited or purchased their pro perty five or six years ago, as many have done, that those are the persons for whose welfare this House is to show any concern.—(Hear.) Now, I con fess myself somewhat humbled by that discovery. Either I must be exceedingly wrong in having wished to pro vide for the welfare of the great mass of the people of this country, or else the greater portion of those who have taken part in this debate have an extremely mis taken view of the duty of this House to the millions for whom they legislate.—(Hear, hear.) But there is one great authority upon this subject—the Hon. Member for Leominster (Mr. Barkly), whom, I confess, I was much surprised to find arrayed against this measure. The proposal of the Committee was a duty of 103., to con tinue for six years. Many other persons who have ex pressed their opinion to me have wished for the 10s. duty for a much longer period. Now I have consulted the evidence of the Hon. Member for Leominster, and I find he said that any longer period of protection to the amount of 10s. would tend to injure both the labourers and the proprietors, and that if the protection of 10s. were continued for two years, it would be useful in re viving industry, but if continued long it would have the worst effect. Mr. BARKLY—I said 10s. for ten years. Lord J. RUSSELL—Yes; the Honourable Gentleman says—" With respect to the amount of protection which it would be desirable to reimpose, the opinion of my friends both at home and abroad is, that the sugar cultivation will not be maintained generally in the co lonies, unless at least a protection of 10s. a cwt., to continue for a period of something like ten years, were conceded. That is what they consider, both in London and in the colonies, as their minimum. That opinion of course has great weight with me, as coming from men who are more extensively connected with the West Indies than myself; but lam not quite sure that such an amount of protection, for so long a period, would be for the real advantage of the West Indies, if it were imposed with the view of bringing them into competition with slave labour at the end of that period. Ido not think that it would put us in a better position at the end of that time than we are in now." I know that some where the Honourable Gentleman says that if it were imposed for only two years, the competition for la bour would be less intense than if imposed for ten years. Then the Hon. Gentleman is asked—" The effect of giving 10s. protection would be to give you a better price for your sugar?—lt would raise the price of sugar 4s. a cwt. in this market." That is a very clear answer. The Hon. Gentleman admits very fairly that the effect of that protection would be to raise the price of sugar 4s. a cwt.; and of course the effect of giving that protection is just the same as having a 4s. tax, only that in the one case it is expended in the colony, and in the other it comes into the Imperial Exchequer. The next question he is as ked is—" The effect ot giving you a better price for you r sugar, you think, would be that the labourers in the colonies would demand an increase of wages up to that point?—Not only would they de mand it, but the planters themselves would be disposed to give it. The planters are not free agents exactly— to they are men with encumbrances, which they have provide the meats of diminishing if they can, therefore their great object is to make sugar at any cost, and that has been one of the great causes of the high wages. If all the proprietors had been on the spot, wages would not have been so high. But if the protection were to continue for a very limited period, I do not think that would have the effect of impeding a reduction of wages." The Honourable Gentleman hav ing given that evidence, I confess I did not think that the proposition which I have now made would have met with the reproach from him which ho has cast upon it. But then the question which the House will have to decide is with respect to this proposition of a 103. pro tective duty. A 10s. protective duty, as I con ceive, whilst it would be a very serious tax upon the people of this country, would lead, as the Honourable Gentleman says, to the giving of those very high and extravagant wages, and instead of putting the proprietors in a good position in the end, the whole of what should otherwise be their profits would be con sumed by that competition for labour which is the re sult of high wages. I believe, therefore, that a 10i. protective duty, while it would obviously be a very serious tax upon the people of this country, would con fer no real benefit upon the labourer—that it would be injurious to that very class for whose benefit it was proposed, and who were the only persons whom it was thought would benefit by that tax. The Honourable Gentleman the Member for Montrose has declared like wise against the proposition of the Government, and if I understand him, he is not content with suspending the protection which at present exists, but would propose a still higher rate of protection, for the purpose of saving the colonies. Now, I think amongst other objections to such a scheme, the evidence given by Mr. Jones, one of the gentlemen to whom I referred in my opening state ment, affords a conclusive reason against such a propo sition. Mr. Jones said he should be sorry to see pro tection re-enacted in this country, because the colonists would have no certainty that the law would not be changed in a year or two—there would be constantly struggles, and no security for capital laid out—there would be a continued strife to maintain, on the one hand, protection; and, on the other to overthrow it, and the effect of this would be most injurious. Now I think that the opinion of Mr. Jones is a most sen sible one, and I believe, if this House should agree to raise the protection on sugar, to make it 103. in stead of what we propose, that the effect would bo a renewed struggle—that there would not be that sue cessiUl reaction to which the Hon. Member for Bucking hamshire looks, but that all those who had supported a free trade in corn and the diminution of the import duties would struggle again for the diminution of that duty, would struggle again to free the people of this country from a tax which would be so onerous upon and so grievous to the people.—(Hear, hear.) The immense increase in the consumption of sugar, no less than 80,000 tons in three years, is owing to the dimi nution in the price alone; but if, on the contrary, you re-establish protection and make sugar dear, you would find that the consumption would immediately fall off. It is astonishing how sensitive the market is in this respect, and how much a small addition in price makes a considerable difference in the consumption of articles —not only ld. but even %d. and id. in the price of the article cause a difference. Sir, I have felt bound to make these remarks by reason of the length to which this debate has extended. I shall be ready on Monday to defend the plan which we have proposed, as a plan which I believe will give greater advantages to the West India proprietors than they at present possess, whilst at the same time it will not be injurious to the revenue. I am aware that measures of this description, not making any great or immediate difference, are liable to the imputation of being a paltry measure of no avail; but I am convinced that on questions of this kind it would not be wise either to go to the one extreme or the other.—(Hear, hear.) I think the immediate abolition of the present differential duties would he as unwise a measure us a great measure of protection. We propose that those differential duties shall altogether cease in six years, and we give in the mean time what we think to be reasonable an ample protection to the West Indian proprietor.—(Cheers.) My object was, that the great mass of the people, both in the West Indies and this country, might have justice done them. My object was, that free labour might be able to compete with slave labour; and, so believing, I shall, with confidence, submit these propositions to the House.—(Cheers ) The motion that the House on Monday next resolve itself into Committee on the sugar duties was then agreed to. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. On the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL it was ordered that the House at its rising do adjourn till Monday next. THE NAVIGATION-LAWS. The order of the day for going into Committee on this subject bavino• been read, Mr. berries, Mr. Newdegate, Lord G. Bentinek, and Mr. Henley protested against commencing the debate at so late an hour (half-past ten), when many gentlemen had left the House, not expecting it would come on. Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Hume, Mr. Aglionby, Lord R. Grosvenor, and Lord J. Russell were anxious that the discussion should proceed; and, after some conversation, the House divided on the question that the Speaker do leave the chair, when there appeared — For the motion Against it Majority .. —B7 The House then went into Committee, and The CHAIRMAN having read the first resolution, Mr. J. STUART cast blame upon the Government for forcing the House into a discussion upon so important a subject at half-past ten o'clock. Such a course was neither decent nor proper, and ho must, therefore, move that the Chairman report progress. Mr. LABOUCHEIIE said he must, in return, blame Hon. Gentlemen opposite for the courseithey were pur suing.—(Hear, hear.) He begged to remind the House of the observation lately made by a worthy Alderman, who said that, however opposed to the measures of the Government, the last thing he should consider himself justified in doing was to throw any obstacle in the way of the consideration of' those measures, it being most im portant to the great interests concerned that the deci sion of Parliament should be known as speedily as pos sible.—(Hear, hear.) It should be recollected, also, that these resolutions were only preliminary to a Bill. Alderman THOMPSON did not repudiate the ob servation attributed to. him, but a great many Hon. Gentlemen opposed to the resolutions having left the House—(Cries of " Oh, oh")—under the impression that they would not be brought forward that night, lie must support the motion for reporting progress.—(Oh.) Lord C. HAMILTON would also support that motion, as he recollected no case of similar importance being forced upon the House at so late an hour. Mr. HUME urged upon the House that the present stage of the question was only preliminary. Mr. BROTHERTON said that it had been agreed some time time since that these resolutions should be passed as a matter of course—(" Hear, hear," and cries of " No, no ")—and he could not denominate the present opposition as otherwise than factious. If such au oppo sition had been given to the Government of Sir R. Peel, there would have been a general outcry to the effect that they were stopping the business of the country.—(Hear, hear.) His belief was that Hon. Gentlemen opposite had determined that the Govern ment should not pass any measure this session, and then at the end of it ask in a tone of censure what had been done? The answer would be what the Speaker said to Queen Elizabeth when she asked him what her Commons had passed, namely, that they had passed six months and done nothing.—(A laugh.) He never knew a session so characterised by useless discussions as the present. Mr. ROBINSON said his answer to the Hon. Gentle man's rebuke was, that her Majesty's Government were responsible for bringing forward at so late a period of the session a question which had been particularly men tioned in the speech from the throne. He should offer every opposition in his power, even at the risk of its being called factious.—(lronical cheers.) Mr. HENLEY supported the motion for reporting progress. Mr. RICARDO considered it most important that the details of the measure should be before the public as soon as possible. This was most essential for the in terests of trade and all parties affected by the naviga tion-laws. Mr. HUDSON said be believed that the Hon. Mem ber for Stoke did not speak the sentiments of the ship. owners of England, who thought that delay would be of great value to them, as they conceived that the effect of the public knowing the intentions of the Govern ment would be to disabuse the public mind. He thought that the minority had a right to take that course which they thought most wise, provided they did not abuse the forms of the House.—(lronical cries of " Hear.") Considering the delay, for which the Government were responsible, in introducing the measure, they ought to be the last persons to complain of it now. He asked the Hon. Member for Salford, and the Hon. Mem ber for Montrose, whether they ever recollected a mea sure of this importance being introduced at so late a period of the session, with any prospect of its being passed ? He had hoped that the President of the Board of Trade would have announced that he meant to lay the Bill on the table, and take no further steps this ses sion. The Hon. Member proceeded, amidst repeated cries of " Question" and " Divide," to observe that he believed that the Government had had no serious or honest intention of bringing in the Bill, and would not have taken the matter up if it had not been for the impulse they received from the Right Hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Gladstone) and other Members on the Opposition side of the House. Ho should like the Pre sident of the Board of Trade now to say when the Bill would be introduced. Who asked for the measure ? The Honourable Member for the West Riding of York shire, who assumed to represent the whole of Yorkshire, though he did not, said that the whole people of England desired the measure. Where were the petitions in its favour? He appeared there in behalf of the shipwrights, the sail-makers, the rope-makers, and other mechanics of Sunderland, who would be thrown out of employment if the present measure passed.—(Cries of " Qitestion.") He wished the Noble Lord would keep his friends a little quieter.—(Laughter.) He was speaking closely to the question, and he could inform the House that he had been informed the other day that a large mass of these workmen were about to be discharged from their em ployment. He understood that the Hon. Member for the West Riding had called upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer and asked relief for the people of Brad ford in their distress, and was refused. If this -his not correct, perhaps the HOD. Member would contradict it; but, if it was true, he wished to know if he would apply for the people of Sunderland when they were thrown idle by this measure.—(Cries of "Divide.") It would throw 20,000 people out of employment; and yet he was met with cries of " Question" when he stood up to advocate the interests of those parties, and was accused of factious conduct. The truth was, he was advocating the rights of the poor.—(" Oh, oh !" and laughter.) Ho had given to the poor the means of getting employment to a greater extent than had fallen to the lot of many men ; and on this question he was actuated by the same principle that had guided him through life, and would not cease to contend against the measure, as vicious in its character and adverse to the interest of the poor, and also because her Majesty's Government had been goaded on to it.—(" n Oh, of h !" and " Divide.") It was, no doubt, part a parceof their free-trade principle; but he should yet to live to see a great revulsion of opinion on the question of free trade.—(" Oh, oh !") In conclusion he would repeat that it was his intention to give every possible opposition to this measure.—(" Divide ! divide !") Mr. SANDARS said an Hon. Gentleman had spoken of factious opposition, but he hoped the imputation was not meant to be cast upon him. He had voted in the majority the other night, but would vote in the mino rity now, because he thought it was too late to bring forward the question ; and he was anxious, as he knew other Gentlemen were, to express his views on the subject. Mr. HUME wished to enter his protest against a prac tice which was indulged in by certain Hon. Gentlemen of making constant personal allusions to other Members of the House.—(Hear.) After 30 years' experience he must say that he had never known any Hon. Member come down after dinner, night after night, flushed—he would not say with champagne--(Great laughter, and cries of "Order.") The Hon. Member opposite (Mr. Hudson) would excuse him for saying that the personal allusions he was accustomed to make were very unfair. Night after night the Hon. Member for the West Riding and himself were called upon by name as often as t w enty times in the course of a sp eech. Now, he did not think this was fair.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") It was breaking through the rules of the House, and ho would appeal to Honourable and Right lion. Mem bers opposite whether it had ever been the practice to act in such a manner.—(Cheers.) The question had been asked of him if ever he saw a measure of such im portance brought forward at so late a period. Now, he certainly should have liked to see the measure brought forward earlier; but he did not see that that was any good reason for not considering it now. The Hon. Member for Sunderland had asked where were the peti tions for this measure; but he had forgotten that a public petition was agreed to at Sunderland in its favour, and that the workmen carried a resolution for the repeal of these laws in his own borough.—(A laugh.) In these circumstances the Honourable Member ought not to speak of a want of petitions on the subject. What he had risen to say, however, was, that he wished the debate to go on without the use of personal allusions.—(Hear.) Mr. HUDSON wished to say a word in explanation. —(Cries of " Divide," and " Spoke.") Perhaps the Hon. Gentlemen who cried "Spoke" and "Question" thought the Hon. Member for Montrose was speaking to the question when he told them about the champagne that had been drunk.—(Great laughter.) He had not been 40 minutes away from the House the whole evening. —(Laughter.) The Hon. Member for Montrose, how ever, following the example of the Hon. Member for Salford, who valued character as little as any man could do, had thrown something like a reflection upon him ; and perhaps, considering the time of life that Hon. Gen tleman had reached, a young man like him (Mr. Hudson) might very well receive advice at his hands.—(More laughter.) The Hon. Member seemed to have drawn some inference from the dress in which he appeared (here the Hon. Gentleman, with a good-humoured smile, pointed, amid much laughter, to his white waistcoat), but the truth was, that he had gone home to accompany his family to another party.—(Roars of laughter.) Whether he worn a white waistcoat or a waistcoat of any other colour hai nothing to do with the present debate.— (" Question.") When Hon. Members called " Question," they ought to recollect that he (Mr. Hudson) had never attacked the Hon. Member for Montrose on account of his wearing a white waistcoat or attempting to look a little gay. Whenever he attacked the Hon. Member for Montrose —or, rather, when he attacked the speeches of that Hon. Gentleman—he did so upon public ground Pablic principles and public conduct were the objects of his attack. He never even referred to such things as the Greek loan, but, on the contrary, confined himself to more legitimate subjects. Captain ELLIOT rose to order. It appeared to him that the Hon. Member for Sunderland was addressing himself to the Hon. Member for Montrose in a manner too personal. He ought to address the chair. Mr. HUDSON resumed—He had all along been ad dressing the chair. He had been saying that whenever he made any observations upon the conduct of the Hon. Member for Montrose he had strictly confined himself to the public conduct of that Hon. Gentleman, and as to what he had said about a chairman or a deputy-chair man, he must be permitted to observe that he merely quoted what he had seen in the public papers. If the Member for Montrose would repudiate those statements that night, he (Mr. Hudson) would never say another word on the subject; and, at all events, he should never charge the Hon. Member for Montrose with having dined out, or with ever having given a dinner to a friend.—(" Hear, hear," and laughter.) The gallery was then cleared for a division, but none at that time took place; on the contrary, the debate was continued, and several Hon. Members spoke, amongst whom (as we understood) was the lion. Mem ber for the West Riding of Yorkshire. On our re-ad- mission, Mr. DISRAELI was saying that be heard the Hon. Member for the West Riding accused of stimulating as sassination, and that accusation was echoed with frensied applause.—(Hear, hear.) The person who made the ac cusation offered an humble apology to the Hon. Gentle man, and therefore he did not despair but the Hon. Gentleman might yet regret that he introduced too stern a spirit into the discussion, and perhaps make an humble apology to the Hon. Member for Sunderland. The House divided, when there appeared — For the motion Against it 144 Majority —96 Lord G. BENTINCK moved that the Chairman do leave the'chair. Mr. LABOUCHERE said that Hon. Gentlemen oppo site had certainly succeeded in their object of obstruct ing the Bill; but whether the time of the House could not be better employed, and whether the discussion which had taken place would redound to the credit of the House, he would leave the House itself to determine.— (Cheers.) At that hour he would not oppose the motion of the Noble Lord. Mr. DISRAELI denied that there had been any fac tious opposition to the Bill. Lord G. BENTINCK said that the discussion was caused by the Noble Lord the Member for Middlesex, who had some time since retired to bed. Lord J. RUSSELL said his Noble Friend would have remained if the discussion which had taken place was a discussion on the n avigation-laws. But seeing how the time of the House was wasted—(Loud cheers) —he thought his Noble Friend acted wisely in retiring. Sir W. JOLLIFFE thought that the blame of the de sultory discussion which had occupied the House lay with the Government itself. Lord G. Bentinck's amendment having been then with drawn, the Chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Lord J. RUSSELL postponed his motion for a Bill to repeal the ratepaying clauses of the Reform Bill until Friday next. The Prisons Bill was read a second time. The Appeals on Civil Bills (Ireland) Bill was re ported. The Commons Inclosure Bill was read a third time and passed. The Sunday Trading Bill was read a third time and passed. SPAIN. Viscount PALMERSTON laid on the table additional papers relative to the diplomatic relations of the British Government with Spain, which were ordered to be printed. The other orders of the day having been disposed of, the House adjourned at a Quarter past Twelve o'clock. NATIONAL LAND SCHEME. - • -- - - - The Committee appointed to inquire into this scheme re-assembled yesterday morning in Committee-room No. 21, House of Commons; Mr. W. Hayter in the chair. Mr. M'Grath, the financial secretary, was called for the purpose of being examined, when Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR rose, and said he wished to call the attention of the Committee to a violation of the rules which they bad laid down when they commenced their sittings, but he had no desire to complain of that violation. Mr. Henley had made a proposition, in the first instance, that the public should not be admitted, but it was afterwards agreed that they should, the Chairman being requested to place an injunction upon the reporters, so that no report of their proceedings should appear until the Committee had made their report to the House. He now wished to state, but, as be had already said, not to complain, that since the passing of that injunction (as must have been known to the Chairman, who virtually represented the Com mittee) garbled, scandalous, and fallacious reports had appeared in the Morning Chronicle, Daily 1V ews, The Sun, Manchester Examiner, and other papers, and no attempt had been made on the part of the Committee to remonstrate against such a system of reporting their proceedings. Now, there was a newspaper which cir culated much more largely than any of those papers among the parties who, were most interested in the in quiry before the Committee (The Hon. Gentleman was understood to allude to the Northern Star as giving the most correct account of the proceedings, but be was interrupted by the Committee, who intimated that it would be better to discuss the matter with closed doors). Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and upon being re-admitted, The CHAIRMAN said, on the 6th of June last a reso lution was passed that strangers should be admitted; that the Chairman should ask leave of the House to report from time to time to the House, and that the Chairman be requested to inform strangers that it was the desire of the Committee th a t no report of their proceedings should be published before they had reported to the House. It had been represented to the Committee that the injunction imposed by them had not been at tended to, and that the unfair, partial, and garbled statements, called reports of the proceedings before the Committee, had been published contrary to their express directions, and therefore the Committee were compelled to adopt the only alternative in consequence of that violation, and to order that the public should be ex cluded. The persons present then retired, and the examination of Mr. M'Grath was proceeded with with closed doors. COURT CIRCULAR. Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen yes terday, at Buckingham Palace. The Queen, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, and attended by the Countess of Desart, took an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four. Colonel Buckley, Equerry iu Waiting, attended on horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday afternoon at a Commission for promoting and encou raging the Fine Arts in the rebuilding the Palace of Westminster. His Royal Highness arrived at the New Palace at a quarter before three o'clock, attended by Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting. The Commissioners present were the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Lincoln, Viscount Canning, Lord Colborne, the Right Hon. the Speaker, Viscount Morpeth, Viscount Mahon, Sir Robert H. Inglis, Mr. Hallam, and Mr. Wyse. The secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was in attendance. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester and Prince George visited her M a j es ty yesterday. Prince Alfred - and the Princess Alice took walking and pony exercises yesterday. The Princess Helena and the Princess Louisa were taken airings yesterday in the royal pleasure grounds. The royal dinner party yesterday a t Buckingham Palace, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Duke and Duchess of Leinster, Baroness de Speth, and Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner. The band or the Scots Fusilier Guards Was in attend ance during dinner. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. Their Royal H A ug usta Cadogan, i g hnesses the Duke and Duchess of h o - Cambridge, attended by Lady noured Miss Coutts with their company at dinner yes terday evening. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Br . amley Moore and Mr. Edward Johnston, from the Brazilian Association of Liverpool, accompanied by Mr. C,ardwell, had an in terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Lord Belhaven had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. at deputation from the Great Western Rai Com pany, including Mr. Saunders and Mr. Hunt, ad an interview with the Co mmissioners of Railways, yester day, at their office in the Board of Ttlide. Di spa t c h e s were sent oli last ev from the Colo ening nial-office for the Gove rnors of Gibraltar and Malta. Mr. Borthwick had an inte r view yesterday with th e Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Right lion. H. Labo uchere, Earl Granville, Earl Grey, Lord Campbell , Sir James Stephen, and Sir Ed ward Ryan, attended a meeting yesterday respecting the case of Mr. Reddie, Chief ehall Justice of St. Lucia, in th e rrivir Council-office, it. an SUMMER, Visrroxs.--The portents of day more extraordi nary number of visitors to the Highlands during the summer and autumn months, become every apparent. The arrivals succeed each other in almost unprece d en ted rapidity. Patri cian vehicle s pass through the town to the sweet retreats afforded by strath and glen to the toil-worn man of business, or to those weary of the giddy sameness of the routs and fetes of town life, while the public coaches daily bring their quot a . O ur moors and streams , w e are happy to say, promise abun dant sport to all who may be bent on its enjoyment.— Inverness Journal. We all know upon how minute causes the temper and disposition of an individual may depend. A blight in the air, the east wind, rain, hunger, bad news, morti fications, the loss of fortune, or of those we love: these render us morose and sad, or fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. On the other hand, a genial climate, the advance of the spr in g , gratified love or successful am bition ; above all, health. These render us jocund, happy, and complying, probably virtuous and p i ous ; in short, fit for good works. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. OF FRIDAY. JUNE 14, 1848. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to he passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting unto James Put man, Esq., Norry King of Arms, the office of Gluon ceux King of Arms and Principal Herald of the South east and west parts of England, vacant by the decease of Francis Martin, Esq., late Clarenceux. WHITEHALL, JUNE 14. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting unto Edward Howard Howard Gibbon, Esq., York Herald, the office of Norroy King of Arms and Principal Herald of the north parts of England, vacant by the promotion of James Putman, Esq., to the office of Clarenceux King of Arms. DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 16. The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Smillie, Esq., to be Advocate-General and Crown-Soli citor for the province of South Australia. Her Maj es ty h as a l so b een please d to a pp o int James Scotland, Esq., jun., to be her Majesty's Solicitor-Gene ral for the isl an d o f Antigua. Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint William de Smith, Esq., to be Secretary to the Central Board of Commissioners for Public Roads; J. M. Hill, Esq., to be R es id ent Magistrate at Picketberg ; George Longmore, Esq., t o b e R es id ent Magistrate at M osse l Bay; James Barnes, Esq., to be Resident Magistrate at Rtversdale ; and Henry Piers, Esq., to be Resident Ma gistrate at Tulbagh, i n t h e settlement " of the Cape of Good Hope. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. TRINITY TERM.-11TH VICTORIA. Friday to J 16 This Court will, at the Sittings , be une holden ' ol lB4B the 23d, 24th, 26th, 27 t h, 28 t h, and 29th days of June g in addition to pr ocee di ng i n disposing of the business now pending in the P a p er o f N ew Trials, and in giving judgment in certain of th e matters that will then be standing over for the co ns id erat i on of the Court, proceed in disposing of any other business, as this Court in its discretion shall see fit. THOMAS WILDE. WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 16. Ist Dragoons—Ensign John Coltman Davenport, from 95th Foot, to be Cornet, by purchase, v i ce French,' whose appointment has been cancelled, June 16. 3d Light Dragoons—Robert Macneill, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Gough, promoted, June 16. 6th Dragoons—Cornet George Heblethwayte Lutton Boynton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bill, who retires; Miles Stringer, Gent., to bu Cornet, by pur chase, vice Boynton, June 16. 17th Light Dragoons—Cornet :and Adjutant Howard St. George to have the rank of Lieutenant, June 15; Cornet Alexander Campbell to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Codrington, who retires; John Pratt, Winter, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Campbell, June 16. 3d Foot—Gentleman Cadet Alexander Strange, from Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Gray, deceased, June 16. 4th Foot—Captain William Bellingham, from the 32d Foot, to be Captain, vice Bell, who exchanges, April 3. 10th Foot—Lieutenant Richard Taylor, from 63d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Evans, who exchanges, June 16. 32d Foot—Captain William Bell, from the 4th Foot, to be Captain, vice Bellingham, who exchanges, April 3; Lieutenant William Rudman, from 62d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Hedley, who exchanges, June 16. 34th Foot—Ensign Edmund Probyn to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fyfe, who retires; Dudley Perase, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Probyn, June 16. 35th Foot Gentleman Cadet William Glynne Massey, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Quill ,who resigns, June 16. 37th Foot—Paymaster Henry Piercy, from 75th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Clibborn, who exchanges, June 16. 42d Foot—Ensign Rowland A. Fraser to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Burrowes, who retires,June 16; William James Robertson, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Fraser, June 16. 52d Foot—Lieutenant John Henry Fraser Stewart to be Captain, by purchase, vice Fountaine, who retires; Ensign Thomas Henry Vyvyan to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Stewart; the Hon. Debonnaire John Monson to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Vyvyan, June 16. 53d Foot—Brevet Major William Amsinck, from half pay 18th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice William Follows, who exchanges; Lieutenant William Benjamin Bastard to be Captain, by purchase, vice Amsinck, who retires; Ensign James Wiusmore Corfield to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Bastard; Bendyshe Walton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Corfield, June 16. 62d Foot—Lieutenant Robert Hedley, from 32d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Rudman, who exchanges, June 16. 63d Foot—Lieutenant Henry Roe Evans, from the 10th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Taylor, who exchanges, June 16. 64th Foot—Lieutenant John Buchanan Burne, to be Adjutant, vice Carter, promoted, June 16. 75th Foot, Lieutenant Frederick Hankey, from half pay 63d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Tyler, appointed to the Royal Newfoundland Company ; Ensign Vincent John Watson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Han key, who retires; David William Martin, Gent., to be Ensign, by purcase, vice Watson; Paymaster William George Menzies Clibborn, from 37th Foot, to be Pay master, vice Piercy, who exchanges, June 16. 78th Foot—Lieutenant Hamilton Douglas Gordon to be Adjutant, vice Pattison, promoted in the Royal New foundland Companies, June 16. 88th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Christopher Macart ney, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Crosse, promoted on the Staff, June 16. 90th Foot—Captain E. S. Norman Campbell. from half-pay Portuguese Officers, to be Captain, vice Marcus Genie, who exchanges; Lieutenant William P. Purnell, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Campbell, who retires; Ensign James Perrin to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Purnell ; Harry:Denison, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Perrin, June 16. 95th Foot—Robert Graham Polhill, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Davenport, appointed to Ist Dragoons, June 16. 2d West India Regiment—Major-General Sir Robert John Harvey, C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant- General Effingham Lindsay, deceased, June 15. HOSPITAL STAFF.—Staff Surgeon of the First Class . William Ramsay White to be Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals; Assistant-Surgeon John Burton St. Croix Crosse, from 88th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon of Second Class, vice Wheeler, deceased; Assistant-Surgeon Francis Charles Annesley, from 21st Foot, to be Assistant-Sur geon to the Forces, vice Macartney, appointed to 88th Foot, June 16. BREVET.—Lieut.-Colonel George Henry MacKinnon, on half-pay Unattached, to have the local rank of Colonel in Kaffraria, Cape of Good Hope, June 16, 1848 ; Captain E. S. Norman Campbell, of 90 th Foot , to be Major in the Army, November 9, 1846. , Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Suffolk. Charles AndreW Lord Huntingford, to be Deputy Lieutenant; Frederic Barne, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieu• tenant, June 12. Commissiens by the Lord-Lieutenant of Edinburgh or Mid-Lothian. John Dick Lauder, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant; Andrew Rutherford, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant ; Hugh Horatio Brown, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieu tenant ; Richard Trotter, Esq., to be Deputy- Lieutenant ; James Dewar, Esq., to be Deputy- Lieutenant; Stewart Bayley Hare, Esq., to be Deputy- Lieutenant; William Mitchell Innes, Esq., to be Deputy- Lieutenant; William Hamner Dick Cunyngham, Esq., jun., to be Deputy-Lieutenant; Robert Dundas Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, June 2. BANKRUPTS. Joseph Colin Fletcher, coal merchant, Greenwich, to surrender June 23, at eleven, and July 28, at half past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane; Shaw and Co., Fish street-hill. Alfred William Hare, brush manufacturer, Bartlett's buildings, City, June 23, and July 28, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Wickings, Finsbury-terrace, City road. William Esenhigh Hammond, seed crusher, Uxbridge, June 24, at half-past one, and Aug . 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gr een , o fficial assignee, Alder manbury; Tyrrell, Guildhall, London. Henry Gibbs, grocer, Oxford, June 29, at eleven, and Aug. 7, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Simp son and Cobb, Moorgate-street, Lodon. George Geering, grocer, Arundel, June 27, at half- past eleven, and July 27, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street buildings; Linklater, Leadenhall-street. Thomas Phillips and John Ball Phillips, earthen ware manufacturers, Burslem, Staffordshire, uly 4 and August 1, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Harding, New castle-under-Lyme. James Jones, victualler, Penkridge, Staffordshire, Juno 29 and July 20, at half-past ten, at the Birming ham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birming ham ; Underhill, Wolverhampton. William Brook, manufacturing chemist, Birmingham, July 4 and August 1, at eleven, at the Birmingham Dis trict Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Reece, Birmingham. Edward Ellis, builder, June 29 and July 20, at half- past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Lowe, Birmingham. Charles James Henfroy, victualler, July 4 and Aug. 1, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Troughton and Lea, Coventry; Motteram, Knight, and Emmet, Birmingham. John Perry, cheesemonger, Exeter, June 27, at ten, and July 20, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter ; Force, Exeter ; Harris, Lincoln's Inn, London. Thomas Cairns, draper, Redruth, Cornwall, July 1 and 20, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Stogdon, Exeter ; Keddell, Baker, and Grant, Lime-street, London. Samuel Cooke, timber merchant, Manchester, June 28, and July 19, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Milne, Parry, Milne, an d Morris, Temple; Slater and Heelis, Manchester. Richard Penwarden, saddler, Launceston, Cornwall, July 5 and 25, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernamann, official assignee, Exeter ; Gurney and Cow lard, or Turner, Exeter ; Bell, Steward, and Lloyd, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. William Cole, consulting engineer, Apperley-bridge, Calverley, Yorkshire, July 6, and August 4, at ten, at the Leeds Di s t r i c t Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Clarke, Chancery-lane, London ; Terry and Co., Bradford ; Bond and Barwick, London. (Dividends. &c., in our next.) PRICE OF SUGAR. The average priceoilfrowu oaluacovado Sugar computed from the returns made in the week ending June 13, 1848, is 245. 0 , 4 d. per cwt. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The boats of the squadron at Spithead were got out this morning, and their crews exercised in general practice, firing, &c. The Medusa steam-packet, Lieutenant-Commander J. 0. Bathurst, was undocked yesterday, and the Fairy docked in her room, to be painted, gilded, and have a new coating of Hay's composition put upon ker bottom. The Trafalgar, 120, Captain Charles Hope, sailed yes terday for Sheerness, to be paid off. 700 men will thus become available for other ships. The Vindictive, 50, Captain Michael Seymour, was paid off and dismasted to-day. COMMISSIONED SHIPS IN PORT. Victory, Illustrious, Excelkut, Victoria and Albert, Hastings, Blenheim, Helena, and Frolic; Rolla and Fanny tenders, Portsmouth yacht; Sharpshooter, Mer lin, Medusa, Lightning, Fairy, Fire Queen, and Echo steamers. At Spithead—St. Vincent, Powerful, Prince Regent, and Amphion Stebenheath freight ship. Vessels in dock—Pembroke, Ajax, Orestes, Merlin, and Fairy. Vessels in the Basin—Growler, Malabar, Frolic, Cor morant, Fire Queen, and Medusa. In the Steam Basin—Jackal. Wind, S.W., moderate breezes, and cloudy weather. Her Majesty's frigate, Vindictive, 50 guns, Captain Michel Seymour, lately the flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Austin on the West India command, was out of commis sion on Friday at Portsmouth. A correspondent, speak ing of the dismantling of the Vindictive, observes : "It is a distressing sight to a contemplative mind to witness the destruction incidental to stripping a ship ; in this process wantonness and waste go hand in hand; any matter which appears to offer a small amount of trouble for the hands the hatchet quickly demolishes ; the waste and destruction in the rigging alone of a ship in dismantling to be paid off, would, if put before the eye in comprehensive terms, present one of the most important items in the catalogue of the national expen diture. I should say, the damage done to the fittings of the Vindictive amount to at least 10,0001., all which must be replaced substantially before the ship can again go to sea. Had the important matter narrated here been brought prominently under the eye, and made forcible to the ear of the Premier when he was Perambulati ngr the dockyard of Portsmo uth with the Lodsof the Admiralt y , and one or two of his Cabinet colleagues, on Tuesda, the rea t es t benefit might have arisen out o f that impromptu visitation; but such mat ters were k e pt away thefrom the vision o f the Prime Minister." The Tweed, 20 guns Commander Lord F. Rus sell, fitting out at Dev - al p se e is riggin g very expe ditiously, has entered half her crew , an d onpd Ati t t iously. The Pilot, 16 guns, Com mander Ly ons , they will rend ezvous at When out at Davenport, is being rigged very rapidl y, hen ready for sea, it is believed Spithead, with the Helena, 16 guns, Commander Smith, fitting at Portsmouth (has only entered 40 of her crew ) , mender Vansittart, mannedan and the Frolic, 16 guns, Com pot.. and fitting out at the latter CHATHAM, JUNE 16.—The Ranger, 6, Commander C. F. Newland, sails to-morrow, the 17th inst., when she will be inspected by the Port Admiral at the Nore, whence she will sail for Portsmouth, there to await the mail for the coast of Africa. The Nerbudda, 12, Commander Edward Peirse, is stripped and all ready for paying off. She is now wait ing for the pay books, which have been returned to be corrected. The Aid, Smallman, master, sailed on the 15th inst. with stores for Portsmouth. Mr. 0. W. Lang, assistant-master shipwright of this yard, is ordered to furnish the Admiralty with a design of a steam-vessel of 40-horse power, calculated to obtain the greatest speed. Arrived on the 13th inst, the ship Jane, Robert Bick ford, master, from Sierra Leone, with timber for the Dockyard. The Admiralty have ordered that none but men be longing to the establishment are to be enrolled in the Dockyard Brigade in future. THE FIREBRAND STEAM-FRIGATE.—The Firebrand, 6, steam-frigate, Captain Hope,:C.B., l will be paid off at Woolwich this day. The gallant Captain has taken good advantage of the recent Admiralty order in filling up his vacancies by rating the boys. We trust that the good crew of the Firebrand will not be lost to the ser vice, but that sufficient encouragement will be given to them to re-enter. Under their gallant Captain they have had superior training, and have shown the effects of it in their daring bravery against the enemy in the severe actions in the Parana ; and whilst they have by rigid discipline been rendered smart sailors, they have also by proper treatment been made good men, and thus the Firebrand has been a happy ship. It has been with the Firebrand as with the Racer sloop, when commanded by Captain Hope—his boys preferred their position as boys in his ship to supe rior ratings in other meu-of-war. Captain Hope, it will be remembered, won his C.B. for the affair at Obligado Point, in which action he, with his gig's crew, cut the . . . . chain which moored the enemy's ships in a line across the river, and then forced the passage. He led and directed many other gallant affairs in the Parana, which have never been reported, and have consequently never been rewarded. Captain Hope is the sou of the late Admiral Hope, one of the most gallant and thorough bred seamen and officers the British navy ever produced. It is a glorious satis►action to the old friends, shipmates, and admirers of the late Admiral to see his son emula ting his father's high character, and keeping up his good name in the service. EMIGRANT SHIPS. The Consul of the United States has transmitted to Lloyd's a copy of an Act of Congress, dated the 17th of May, regarding the ventilation and provisioning of emigrant ships. The first section of this Act maks it incumbent on all vessels carrying fifty passengers or under, in the between-decks,' to haws a house constructed on the combings of the hatchway. with two doors, so that one may at all times be open for the purpose of ventilation. Where more than fifty house pas sengers must furnishedbe constructed at th tope ith e with t each e deck, one te be end for foul air, and the other to be so constructed as ndofth er e e to admit fresh air. Cooking apparatus must also be furnished on deck. The section relating to provisions we publish entire: — "All persons employed as aforesaid shall have on board, for the use of such passengers, at the time of leaving the last port whence such vessel shall sail, well secured under deck, for each passenger, at least 151 b. of good navy bread, 101 b. of rice, 101 b, of oatmeal, 101 b. of wheat flour, 101 b. of peas and beans, 351 b. of potatoes, one pint of vinegar, 60 gallons of fresh water, 101 b. of salted pork free of bone, all to be of good quality, and a sufficient supply of fuel for cooking; but at places where either rice, oatmeal, wheat flour, or peas and beans cannot be procured, of good quality and on reasonable terms, the quantity of either or any of the other last named articles may be increased and substituted therefor; and in case potatoes cannot be procured on reasonable terms, 11b. of either of the said articles may be substituted in lieu of 51b. of potatoes; and the cap tains of such vessels shall deliver to each passenger at least one• tenth part of the aforesaid provisions weekly, commencing on the day of sailing; and daily. at least three quarts of water and sufficient fuel for cooking, and if the passengers on board of any such vessel, in which the provisions, fuel, and water herein required, shall not have been provided as aforesaid, shall at any time be put on short al lowance during any voyage, the master or owner of any such vessels shall pay to each and every passen ger, who shall have been put on short allowance, the sum of 3 dolls. for each and every day they may have been on such short allowance, to be recovered in the circuit or district court of the United States; provided, never theless, and nothing herein contained shall prevent any passenger, with the consent o f t h e captain, from fur nishing for himself the articles of food herein speci fied, and if put on board in goo d order it shall fully satisfy the provisions of this A ct as far as regards food; and provided further, that any passenger may also, with the consent of the captain, furnish for himself an equivalent for the arti c l es of food required in other and different articles; and if without waste or neglect on the part of the passen ger , or i nevitable acc i dent, they prove insufficient, and the captain shall furnish comfort able food to such pa ssengers during the residue of the voyage, this in regard to food shall also be a compliance with the terms of the Act." The captains of all emigrant ships are empowered to enforce strict discipline on board their vessels, and also to see that cl ean li ness is preserved. Where the provi sions of the Act are not complied with the captain or owner of such vessel shall forfeit 200 dolls. to the United States. Where the between-decks is of less height than six feet, each passeng er s h a ll b e ac commodated with 16 superficial feet on deck; if less than 5 feet, 22 feet on deck. If more passengers are carried than is allowed by this secti on t h e captain shall be held guilty of a :misde meanour. The Act comes into operation,. as is )gards European vessels, 60 days after the date of its approval. nTHE ..-RDNLNCE SURVEY OF THE METROPO The area intended to be comprised in the metropolitan survey is something above 200 square miles, or nearly 130,000 acres• and the map is to be constructed on the very large scale (for a district of such an extent') of 60 inches to a mile, or one inch to 88 feet, whict, when completed, will occupy about 900 sheets three feet by two feet, or about 5,400 square feet of paper or copper. The London survey will bo connected by its tri:t tngula don with the general survey of the country, and in its levelling with the one uniform datum plane to which the altitudes of the Ordnance six-inch maps are rt .ferred. By this means, when the map is complete, the relative level of any two points within the eight mile re dius of the metropolitan survey, or of any part of Lond< in, and any part of the north of England, may be set n at a glance by those who require and know how to b )ok for the information.— The Builder. SUPPLY OF STORES TO SHIPPING.—A yes gel has arrived from Rotterdam with a cargo, comprising ; every variety of provision and other requirements in the i shape of tackle, spare spars, &c., for the supply of a vessel about to proceed on a long voyage, which are ex pressly imported from Holland for the purpose of suppl ying Dutch East Indianian at present loading in the d ock for that quarter of the globe with her complete coma dement of stores of every description, and arrangement 3 have been made for the direct and immediate tranship! vent of the entire cargo from one vessel to the other for t he pur pose stated. We believe that the complete suer . 1 Y of a large ship of this character, and the build of a foreign country, with all the requirements for her o utward voyage from the foreign state to which she belt cgs, is very unusal and remarkable. No previous inst ance of the kind has come under our notice, although n( ) mate rial or actual objection to it can be made in a leg) lor re venue point of view, UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.- OXFORD, JUNE 16.—The following class List Literis Humanioribus " has just been publishtd afternoon, viz.:— CLASS I.—Fisher,_ Herbert _G., student of • C iis&: Church; Karslake, William H., commoner of Ba s liii+" - Y College; Ogle, Richard S., exhibitioner of LincOlErti, - ) College; PalM, Edward, scholar of St. John's College; Parry, Edward St. John, commoner of Balliol College; Stowe, William H., commoner of Wadham College; Stubbs, William, servitor of Christ Church. CLASS 2.—Backhouse, John H., scholar of Brasenose College; Collyrs, John M., student of Christ Church; Cox, Joseph, scholar of Lincoln College; Hall, Edward D., scholar of Pembroke College; Hunt, George W., student of Christ's Church; Irvine, Alexander C., commoner of Exeter College; Lawley, Hon. Francis C., commoner of Balliol College; Mackonochie, Alexander IL, commoner of Wadham College; Morris, William; commoner of Oriel College; Philpot, William 8., scholar of Worcester College; Powlter, Brownlow fellow of New College; Shuttleworth, Philip U., student of Christ Church; Stillingfleet, Henry J., commoner of Brasenose College; Winder, John S., commoner of Oriel College; Wood, Henry H., tabarder of Queen's College. CLASS 3.—Barker, Thomas, commoner of Queen's College ; Bayley, Henry E., exhibitioner of Corpus Christi College ; Blackett, Montague, commoner of Christ Church ; Capper, John L. scholar of Wadham College ; Coldwell, William E., commoner of Christ Church ; Fearon, Samuel, tabarder of Queen's College; Fox, Edward, fellow of New College; Gale, Isaac S., commoner of Wadham College; Guy, Frederick, exhi bitioner of Lincoln College ; Hillyar, William J., scholari of Brasenose College ; Hutton, Robert R., commoner of Trinity College ; Jones, David, commoner of Brasenose; College ;' Kendall, Walter, commoner of Oriel College; Knight, Valentine C., commoner of Uni versity College ; Langhorne, Thomas, commoner of St. John's College; Mason, Henry W., student of Christ Church; Norris, William F., scholar of Trinity College; Owen, Edward, scholar of Jesus College; Poole, Alfred, commoner of St. Edmund Hall; Poole, Samuel, com moner of Pembroke College; Powles, Henry C., com moner of Oriel College; Stanley, Edward J., gentleman commoner of Christ Church; Williams, Philip, fellow of New College; Wilson, Arthur C., student of Christ Church. Class 4.—Barrow, John S., commoner of Wadham College ; Blayds, Henry, scholar of Corpus Christi College ; De Putron, Peter, commoner of Pembroke College ; Egerton, Hon. A. F., commoner of Christ Church; Finch Hatton, Edward H., commoner of Christ Church ; Garnsey, Henry E., demy of Magdalen Col lege; Hill, Alexander S., commoner of Exeter College; Macray, Wm. D., Bible clerk of Magdalen College ; Papillon, Philip 0., commoner of University College ; Plumptre, Robert W., commoner of University College; Robins, Charles M., commoner of Oriel College ; To ting, Thomas, commoner of Lincoln College ; Uter marck, Charles, commoner of Exeter College. John Earnest Bode, Rowland Mackleston, James Timothy B. Landon, and Mark Pattison, examiners. Yesterday the Rev. William Andrew, M.A., scholar and tutor of Worcester College, was admitted an Actual Fellow of that Society ; and at the same time Mr. Thomas Samuel Fraser, commoner of Lincoln College, was elected a scholar of Worcester College. Mr. Richard Arthur Le Mesurier, 8.A., scholar of Corpus Christi College, was on Wednesday admitted a probationary Fellow of that Society. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 16. groac EXCHANGE.—The market continues extremely of England. The saleswithstanding re_L th a eredu an cti c o as n h o ir f e and Yorkshireinterestatthe Bank (late WManestechmes,teir2i 1211!, — Ditto, laen.dp.Zmoranth chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Docks, 11 1 4 dis.—Mid land Stock, New Halves, 6% dis.—North British, New Thirds, 2% c. dis.—North Staffordshire, 2% c. dis.— ..2 S 6s u r t do h ..ics - .KEti Union), e i o r n: d i Dover, MANCHESTER, JUNE 16. Yorkshire, EXCHANGE.—The sales , are—Lancashire and Riding;x rkshire, 32/. Shares (Extension), 6% dis.—Ditto (West E lV: c i mi teh iv a 3 : 6 E. en_ dis a: eF D su i arn tt l o ees , s Y sar, r l e ec len do ce, 6 per cent., 1 ,1 nP.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Sheffield an , 1.4 . Lincolnshire ). 314 dis. — South-Eastem and Dover, No. 4 , BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 16- i r s. th Staffordshire, 2 /fit dis.—Stour Valley, 2% dis. G, .iOVERNESSES' BEINEvor hwrITIITION. WO perceive that a fancy sale, for the building and endow ment fund of the Aged Asylum of the Governesses' Be nevolent Institution, is to be held on the 20th and 21st June, in the grounds of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, un der the patronage of her Majesty and the other members of the Royal Family. The übject is to procure funds for the erection of rooms for the general use of the asylum, and to provide apartments in the asylum for ten aged governesses. That the public will respond to the appeal thus made to them we cannot for a moment doubt, and we trust that the funds raised will be sufficient to enable the committee to at once carry out their benevolent object. MUNIFICENT BEQUEST.—The late Mrs. Matthew man of Harrogate, whose death was recently announced, has by her will directed the entire residue of her pro perty to be applied by her trustees in promoting within the borough of Leeds Divine worship according to the liturgy and usages of the Church of England. The fund is to be administered at the discretion of her trus tees, with the sanction of she Bishop of Ripon, and is expected to amount to about 25,0001. The trustees are Mr. William Beckett, M.P., and Mr. John Atkinson of Leeds. There is also a bequest in the same will of 1001. to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. The deceased lady was a native of Leeds. MORE CHARTIST ARRESTS AT BINGLEY.—ThrGe more of the Chartists, engaged in the late riot and rescue at Bingley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, were taken from their beds early on Thursday 'morning last, and committed to York Castle by Mr. W. B. Ferrand. One of the prisoners was liberated on bail, and the others were escorted by Mr. Ferrand, with six of hi s k ee p ers (armed with double-barrelled guns), and about 80 con stables, to the railway station, whence they were sent off to York Castle. Two more men were taken into cus tody the same morning on the char g e of th row i ng stones and using threatening language to Mr. Thacker, ma gistrates' la pr o ceedings magistrate firmness M. o a s n t d pa d t ec a i n sio e n nt o ir f e M s t r o . p F t o e r t r h a e n& gistrates' clerk, and one of th e Bi ng l e y consta bl es . T he of the Chartists in his locality. SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS.—The Rev. Ernest Hawkins, B.D secretary of this society, ha s j us t i ssue d a c i rcu l ar to t he members, with reference to its condition. During the last four years, it appears, the annual expenditure has been reduced from 80,0001. to little more th an 60 , 0001. This red uct i on has been effected without recalling or diminishing the salary of a single missionary. First, by the cessation of payments which had been guaranteed for a limited time ; second, by the discontinuance of grants towards the building of churches and schools ; third, by withdrawing from the support of schools and schoolmasters, more especially in the West Indies. CRICRET.—The match between the South London Club with Brockwell and Hinkly v. the Ashford Club with Martingell and Pilch, terminated yesterday at the Oval in favour of the South London, who won by four wickets.—The match between the Marylebone Club with two players v. the Surrey Club with two players, was brought to a conclusion yesterday evening, just as the clock was about to strike eight, by the Marylebone Club being declared the victors by 40 runs. SAFETY IN hAILwAY TRAVELLING.—We under stand, from good authority, that an attempt of rather an extensive character is being made to enforce a reduc tion of the wages of the engine-drivers employed upon the railways of this country. We deeply regret this, be cause it is upon the general good conduct and practical knowledge of this most responsible and intelligent class of men that the safety of the railway traveller in a great measure depends. The directors who seek to save a thousand per annum by the reduction of a shilling or sixpence per day per driver will, in the course of a few years, find a very heavy balance against them consequent upon the damage, and perhaps—as has often been the case—loss of life, occasioned by the employment of in efficient enginemen. We could, were it necessary, direct attention to accidents involving immense destruc tion of railway stock and loss of life caused either by over-worked or incompetent drivers, and we are quite satisfied, from a thorough knowledge of the " cheap" system, as applied to the management of railway traffic, that a reduction of the present, to say the least, very moderate wages paid to the engine-drivers of this country, will be most dangerous to the public, sad the very oppo site of economical to railway companies. We hope that we shall not have occasion to particularis e the painful details from which this our conviction is derived.— Herald. Mass HAT . .—Last week Miss Georgina Ilay, youngest daughter of Lord James Hay, of South-park, Aberdeenshire, took the veil at Paris, in the Convent of the Assumption, Rue Chaillot, Champs Elysees. The young novice, who is tall in stature, and bears a strong family resemblance to her cousin , the March i on ess of Douro, proceeded to the gates et th e convent in bridal attire, and demanded admittance. Having been received by the superior and the nuns of the order (the latter bearing • lighted tapers), she advanced through their ranks to the cross-bearer and knelt down. After a pause, spent in prayer, the community preceded her, at a solemn pace, into the chapel, chanting hymns. Each n un repaired to her stall, and the novice occupied a seat prepared for her at the foot of thef altar, when the usual ceremony took place. She retired to the parlour of the convent in the simple habit of a nun, crowned with a wreath of white flowers, and received visits of congratu lation. Amongst those present on the interesting occa sion were the Duchess do Montmorency, the Dukes de Fitzjames and Talleyrand, together with several digni taries of the Catholic Church and members of the National Assembly. THE Alooßs.—To use a sporting phrase, one of the great events of the season having come off success fully, sportsmen are enabled to calculate the chances of success on their first . fie al ld-da hatchin y on . the moors, the 12th of August. Thep rincipg of young grouse usually takes place in the last week of May ; and se ld o m have the little poults broken their shells under more favourable circumstances than those of t h e present year. With every assistance that genial weather could afford, the parent birds remained on their nests, undisturbed by gale or storm, save to stretch the still wings, and pick a hasty meal of heather. Conse quently, in most places, every egg has produced its bird; and we hear, on good authority, that in general the broods contain nine or ten-14 have been counted in one covey, but that is at least two brace beyond the average. N ot the slightest appearance of disease has been not ice d among the old grouse. The time is now past when it commonly breaks out, and all those who have traversed the hills speak to the fine healthy appearance of the birds—rich in their glossy brown plumage, with scarlet combs—as the old cocks show themselves strutting among the heather, to decoy man or bast from the nog, ts, or young broods.--inverness Courier.