The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-13 00:00:00

EVENING EDITIO)N he would ask if their actual annual loss had amount ad to any , thing like that surn?—; Hear, hear.) If any I ion. Merr be were prepared to maintain that position, he mu st do so in „Contradiction to. all the returns which had bee• laid be fore hat'House.—(Cheers.) What had been the c onduct c,f the West India interest? Had they endeavovouree. even to raise • productions by means of free labour, so as to enter into reompe , Aition with slave labour? They had dom.: no such. thing. ,They had always preferred lazily trusting to. party interests in that House to exerting themselves in their own islands. What had been the first thing they had done art er the emancipation ? `*.,Their first was to import the Hill Coolies from the East I n _ , dihs but they had managed that procr.,edinr.r, so badly as ' en re tard for many years the introduction of free lab•mn.rs into -those colonies. Great facilities mould be affor.ied for the emigration of labourers to the West Indies. Tho position in 'which they had placed those islands was a false one. The con dition of the labourer had been raised above that, of the mid * 'tiling classes in many countries. If they could rot be induced, he (Mr. V. Smith) would not compel them work; but he did contend that they ought to allow free t...ade in labour all over the world, and that rivalry wo , ild be most beneficial both 'to tho colonies and the mother country. It might be said en the other side, if the negroes were in such an excellent eon , dition, why alter that condition by the introduction of foreign sugar? His object was to put them in a fair condition. There was a state of thirv 3 s arising in the West Indies, Which, if not checked, would supersede the planters in their proprietary - rights. Tho labourers were now gradually acquiring t ,roperty themselves ; and, if they did not do something to in,p,ress upon diem the necessity of labour, they would see set all ownipancies and tenancies in all directions, and the most vicious state of property that ever existed. There was no set of men in the world who had displayed more apti ' tude and ing enuity than the negroes ; and in all their sufferings they had shiewn no disposition 'o revolt, but had borne, with patience, all their hardships. They had borne rthperity with out exultation. They had reason to expect from these people that they world see the dilemma in which they were placed, and would know that, if they did not consent to labour for the planters, they would be superseded by slave labour. And the . People of this country had a perfect right to call upon them to exert themselves in their behalf, as they had exerted them selves for their negro brethren.—( Hear, hear.) It had been frequently said, in the course of that debate, that the opening of fresh markets must increase the demand for slave-labour. They had to choose between two very great evils—the distressed condition of their own population, and the chance of creating some distress to the negro population.—( Hear, hear.) They had no direct power over the negro population of other countries, and he begged to ask Hon. Gentlemen opposite whether they Were more likely to gain the votesof the Brazilian Congress by exclusive dealing, or by free commercial intercourse ? That was their position. If they refused to have any traffic with them, they were throwing away the means of doing a great rod with much uncertainty as to whether they were doing any good at all. Niir could he agree with the statement made to the House, that exclusive dealing was the only mode of sup ressing the slave-trade. His Noble .Friend (Lord Howick) ad referred to the, successful exertions of Captain Denman With regard to this traffic, and every day brought information of a similar kind. He had recently received a communication from Captain Tucker, who was stationed on the coast of Africa, stating that by blockading the mouths of the rivers, he would soon be able to put an end to the slave-trade. The plan 'Which had been adopted for the civilisation of Africa, might tend greatly toproduce the same result. He had already stated that be should not enter into the larger question of free trade ; but he Must say that he was never more rejoiced than he had been at the introduction of these measures by his Right Hon. Friend, because he conceived that they were then starting upon great p r i nc ipl es , w hi c h must b e t h e su bj ect o f di scourse e many - years to come.—( Hear, hear, and cheers from the To ry bernehes.) He hoped that the House understood the meaning of the cheer, as he meant to elicit it by what he had stated. He was prepared to support any Ministry which Would bring forward measures similar to those that had been Propounded to the House by his Right Hon. Friend. On the question of the Corn-laws he would not now dwell, but he would merely say, in conclusion, that he was prepared to Support the resolution that had been proposed on the subject. Lord STANLEY then rose, among some cheering, and said, that although he was well aware at this period of the n ights and aft er so many n i g ht s ' di scuss i on, i t was li ttle l i kely that he, or any one, could a dd muc h t h at was i nte.est i ng. Yet, considering the prominent part he had taken upon this • q ues tions he felt bound to trouble the House with stating, as shortly as he could, the grounds upon which he gave his con currence, to the amendment of his Noble Friend, the Member for Liverpool, and would vote against the plan brought for- °Lard by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.—( Hear, hear.) L'ie used the words, " the plan of the Chancellor of the Excise ' quer," because his Hon. Friend, the Member for Halifax, last night had stated that the subject they had to discuss was same hew mode of carrying on the commercial concerns of the eoun • trY- The Hon. Member for Carlow, who had spoken in the early Part of the evening, had saidthat they, enthat side of the House, not, venturing to meet the proposition in front; they were Mooting it by what the lawyers would call ademurrer. Now, all due d e f erence to t h e H on. M em b er for Carlow, he t hought they could not have taken a more direct course. Her Majesty's latiniste rs p ro p oun d e d w h at t h ey ca ll e d a B udget to t he House —that Budget was to provide for the deficencies to the revenue, with the exception of a small sum of 700,0001., ,itui upon the question of going into Committee of the first ailancial part of the proposition, by which this amount was to ,be made up, hi s N o bl e F r i end the Member for Liverpool had told hint, in direct terms, that he would not go into Com- Mittee, and assigned his ground upon the resolution of what he intended to do. The Hon. Member for Halifax stated that the real question they had to discuss was how the commercial relations of this country could be best carried on. Now, with all due subnsission to the Horn Member, he would contend that that Was not the question for their decision that night. Tho ques tion for the decision of the House was, would, or would they. ' not, assent to the proposition of th e Ch ance ll or o f the Ex chequer, with the view of lowering the duties on foreign sugar, for the purpose of raising the 700,000/. which would be defi cient in the revenue. He (Lord Stanley) did not object to what had been stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that this was only part gf his plan, that he intended to include the timber duties, and the corn duties, and so on, and that they Must all hang or fall together ; but what he complained ~ of was, that the House had been kept in the dark as to 'whit the plan really was. He thought that the Government • 8 : 1 1 :.MI'l have gone one step further, and told the House what , I : l ee`e plan really was. The Hon. Gentleman the Member i k ? T lualifa tt • had told them that the principle was free trade. H uw, they ' had not heard a word either from that side of the P u 'e otehe other, except from the Hon. Member for the Citythat London, who advocated the principles of free trade on t e t subject. if he (Lord Stanley) understood those principles. , L e Y were, that you should buy at the cheapest market ; that 'ere should.be no restrictive duties, butthat when duties were ressary to be imposed, they should be as light as possible. charg e to assert the principle . more broadly, it would be to - w " nothing upon those articles of primary necessity and general consumption. Now, if these were the doctrines of free what approach, he would ask, was made to them in the Present proposition ear hear. )In free trade there was question betweenmonopoly on the one hand and restriction 41 st the other. A Noble Lord in that House, and a Noble Lord t "" the other, a Member of the Government, had stated that the ,object of th e G overnment was protection—protection and not 'refs tr ade- proteetion and not prohibition, was the principle ki which that side of the House was prepared to concur. °w, he would ask, could the Government stand forward as 'orates ate% of free trade, and brio forward these measures with 'Peet to timber, corn, and s g ugar ? The Noble Lord said he was :7:free trader in timber, but wh a t did h e d o , w h y h e k ept up t h e (Hfree duties between Canadian and Baltic timber.— ear, hear.) He admitted sacrificing free trade for the pur- Z"es cf revenue ; and such being the case how, he would ask, uht he clai m f or hi mse lf an d t h e Government that they ...ee the adv oca t es o f f ree tra d e ?—( H ear, h ear. ) ge would now take the article of sugar. The Noble Lord, W ith his p r i nc i p l es o f free trade, had stated that he was anxious _ abolish all the burdens that pressed upon the people, and to „largely the light es t d ut i es upon t h e art i c l es w hi c h entered most to effect into ge nera l consumpt i on. Th e N o b le L ord proposed `" effect a reduction of six-tenths of a farthing in the pound ; I n sugar, but he left on the whole of the duty on British and d d or , e ign sugar, and for.the purposes of revenue he imposes a uty of 100 per cent. beyond the value of the artiele.—( Hear, Pe e l • ) The Noble Lord m i g ht b e r i g ht, an d h e might be corn the circumstances by the circumstances in which the finances of the country were placed to do so; but when he taked of the prin ' ti Ples of free trade, and that his plans were to astonish all tneceeding times, as they eclipsed all former Governments, must say that the taxation which he did not reduce de- i tPrived him of the character of a friend to free trade.— ilear, hear.) His Right Hon. Friend, the President of the Gard of Trade, had stated that they were proceeding on the Principles of Mr. Huskisson. He (Lord Stanley) had for , !eine short time acted in confidential communication with the tat e Mr. Huskisson, and he looked to his authority with as ~',,.‘s ine ere respect as any G en tl eman on t h e ot h er s i de of the . House. But what were the doctrines of Mr. Huskisson? Were ° they the doctrines of free trade on the one hand, or of mono ,; Poly on the other ? They were neither the one nor the other . " - -they - were the doctrines of common sense—( Hear, and rhoers)—they were th e d oc t r i ne o f competition, checked, and l imited, and regulated by protection--( Hear, hear.) He was. happy to receive these cheers from the other side of thh House, because he was endeavouring to establish , : that what th ey were now to discuss was not some ',hens principle—that there was no b road line of de . nhireation which it was impossible to pass between Hon. Gentlemen on the one side and the other.—(Hear.) He re `.lltettted, that he adopted the principles of Mr. Huskisson to the landst . fttent—namely, that protection should be substituted 'toaohibition; and he was rea dy t o go further, and state, a s a reial maxim, that that protection sho u ld be limited to minimum amount vihieh, giving reasonable and fair eneou ragenient to their own producers, should admit the competition • of foreign parties, and be a check upon them.—( Hear, hear. ) Now then, as they were agreed upon the principle, but the di filculty was, to ascertain the point at which protection became Isiesibition. It was a matter of principle to ascertain the point "it which protection merged in prohibition on the one side, or 'dwindled away and became no protection on the other. It ap :,.Piared to him that that was no question to divide Gentlemen on" the one side from the other, because it was a I.ctstion' upon whi c h eac h case must stand upon ~:site Own basis, and upon all the circumstances which in this highly artificial state naturally and necessarily attended it-4 Hear, hear.) Now with regard to the protec tton be given to the manufacturer and the agriculturist. te thought it was manifest to th e H ouse, t h at the question must 'oe considered at all events with reference to the different .cir cumstanceslt in which th e y were p l aced. The manufacturer d the power of selecting his own locality, of applying his c aPital in that part of the count r y in which f rom var i ous eircum stahees his trade found itself most advantageously situated, and could be most economically worked. That manufacture lie could extend to an indefinite amount within the locality, limited !my by the power of productio n and thepower of co nsumpt i on; th e anth respect to articl es i n w hi c h mac hi nery entered into La? :manufacture more than human labour, he could t c i a l l ealate with great prec i s i on the prime cost of meet the and upon what terms he could the foreign manufacturer in the market: With the dsglienyural_ produc e th e case was much more complicated and „"neult. His labour was sprea d over the whole surface cf the t•tioifteiruttry, and w as su bj ect to the influence of various soils and cut degrees of fertility, which he could not forsake or _ al ter. He w as d ependent, or nearly altogether so, upon m anual labour, and after he had expended all his powers— after lie had applied his best skill and art—after he con sulted th e means of draining his lands, and devised the most e 9 tf tual rotation of his crops, made the best selection of his Z,,d . and cultivated his land with unremitting diligence, is was not in his own hands but that of a higher power than his.—(Hear, hear, hear.) The sun and the 'al " , the • andthe wind atmosphere, those temperatures which the mar' nfacture .7•41 the power of creating for hims e lf, and adapting to the pin culiar fabric which he intended to produce, and which was es ,aential_.to. its due production. These were not under the con trol • A tic ,__°l . he agriculturist, and thence a greater uncertainty and ito motion upon the prime cost of whatever skill, labou r , and ag . " ri g :trY he ap p li e d to t h e pro d uct i on ; and in applying to' th ult urist the same principles that w ere applied to the menu e li ttnrer s they must make an allowance for the alternation of 'afar the different circumstances under which he clled , t and, upon to compete with foreign r i valry, ' iuvrhich' they could only take an average of seasons, etaprisso\rtio,..ni.ng the protection to be afforded to him.— (Loud .04 ; isle question was a very complicated and abstruse d,,, tai Tßl he did not pretend to be deeply skilled in the practical h owev s e ?f the working of the system. He knew enough of it, 44aht r t° kno w that it,.was a complieated and difficult one, erabled when he reflected upon the circumspection necessary in app roac hi ng such a subject. Bet admit. ~, TEIE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1811. hug the f,eneral principles he had hid down, and on which there was no dispute between himself and Hon. Gentlemen on the other side, he contended that there were certain manufac tures which most be taken out of the range and form an exception to the general principle of commerce ; he said that at the present time and under xisting circumstances, as he should say with retrard to the infancy of any manufacture which they might deem it expedient to foster and encourage by a higher range' of protective duties. He contended, that on the ground of analogy, the sugar trade did, for t present, require to be taken out of the range of ordinary coffimercial rules, and that, for the present, they should substitute prohibition for the ge neral doctrine of protection. The Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer had recommended the measure to notice, because it would augment the revenue without injuring their colonial interests. The Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies said it would be an amazing boon, and a vast reduction to the poor consumer ; and in the next breath he told them, coming to figures and calculations, that the reduction would amount to Is. 6d. per cwt., or something less than half a far thing a pound. The Right Hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade said, that it would foster and en courage the trade with the Brazils, and give no en couragement to the slave trade. (Hear, hear, hear ) And when they were told that the commerce of Great Britain must he a great encouragement to the slave trade and slavery, the Right Hon. Gentleman said, " Well, but you do at present carry on the commerce with Brazil--you take their sugar and their exports, and do at present give encouragement to slavery and the slave trade." If this were so—if we did now, by taking their sugar, give encouragement to slavery and the slave trade, no more encouragement was to be given to it by the measures of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he (Lord Stan ley) should like to know where was the boon conferred on the country by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and by which he was to obtain a great revenue.—(Cheers.) He wished that thp Chancellor of the Exchequer hnd been more communicative, and had stated on what principle he calculated to obtain it. It must be on one of the two following principles, either by a large increase of consumption beyond the productive power of British or colonial industry, or, the consumption re maining the same, to obtain a surplus by the substitution of a higher duty for colonial sugar. The Hon. M em b er f or Hali- fax last night, suffering under the silence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, desired to give an explanation for him, and said that when sugar fell to 58s. or 595., if the consumption was in proportion to the population, as it was in 1830, there would be an increase of consumption of colonial sugar to the amount of 900,000 tong. But if they had it so it would not be by the budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. but by what his Right Hon Friend the Member for Cam bridge was taunted with last night for defending, namely, by trusting to the increase of colonial production for increasing the revenue.—( Hear, hear.) He did not know whether the Right Hon. Gentleman calculated on any vast increase of con sumption beyond the probable increase of the East and West Indies. Did the Right Hon. Gentleman calculate upon it? He made no sign.—(Laughter.) He (Lord Stanley) was therefore obliged to trouble the House with a small number of figures, because he was obliged to conjecture the mode by which the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed to raise his supplies. His Hon. Friend the Member for Halifax had told them that at 5Ss. or .595. the consumption ought to increase to 220,000 tons. He (Lord Stanley) had looked back to see what was the case in former years. The Noble Lord, the Secretary far the Colonies, had esti mated the probable price of the present year at 605., and at that price he presumed but little Brazilian sugar would be imported. At 595. 2(1. the average consumption for four years, commencing in 1821, was 158,000 tons ; in the four years succeeding - 1826, at a duty of 58s. Bd., the average consumption was 14,000,000 cwt., or 175,700 tons ; in the ' year succeeding 1831, when the duty was 575. 7d., the con sumption amounted to 183,374 tons. In the years 1807 and 1838, in which he concluded they did not estimate any mate rial increase in the population as bearing upon the consump tion, the duty was 58s. Id., and the average consumption for the two years was 196,611 tons. He would assume, then, that the price fell below what the Noble Lord had said. He would assume that it had fallen to 575. duty paid, and he asked the House whether they had not, from facts and figures, reason at that price to es timate 195,000 or 200,000 tons of sugar in the course of the present year ? Was there any ground to represent the pro duction of the British colonies as not likely to exceed that amount ? He had not heard that position disputed by any one except the Hon. Member for Carlow (Mr. Gisborne). The Hon. Member said they could not calculate on more than 26,700 tons as the produce of the Mauritius ; but he (Lord Stanley) had that day read a letter from that colony, dated January 13, 1841, from a gentleman well known to her Ma jesty's Government, Mr. Aiken, of Liverpool, and which stated that 20,000 tons were exported up to that day, and that it was expected there would be about the same quantity to export. This was written be fore any person knew of the present plan of the Government, even if the Government were aware of it themselves. The Hon. Member for Carlow even doubted if the West Indies could furnish more than 115,000 tons. Why, 110,000 tons came from the West Indies in the course of the last year.— ( Hear, hear.) That might be an incredible fact to the Hon. Member, but it was a fact, and there was every reason to believe that the present crop would exceed the very deficient crop of last year. The Hon. Member also said that we never had from the East Indies more than 26,000 tons, but it ad peared by Cook's Circular that they had shipped from Calcutta on the lst January 58,300 tons, that the crop was 60,000 tons, of which 50,000 tons had arrived. Here then was 50,000 tons received without dispute.---( Loud cheers. ) The Hon. Member for Athlone (Mr. J. O'Connell) said that 6,000 tons of sugar might be exported this year from China, and expatiated on the advantages that would accrue to oar merchants from a commercial intercousse with the people of that vast empire, which was so free and unshackled.— ( Loud laughter.) He (Lord Stanley) considered for a long• time what the Hon. Gentleman meant, but at last he supposed that the Hon. Gentleman had made a mistrake, and mentioned China instead of Cochin-China. It was true that from Co chin-China and from Manilla we would obtain a supply of sugar, as we always did. There were 115,000 tons of sugar imported from the West Indies, from the Mauritius 145,000, and from the East Indies from 60,000 to 70,000 tons ; and there were, besibes, 35,000 tons in bond. In all there were from 240,000 to 260,000 tons, whereas the annual consumption did not, in all probability eweeed 200,000 tons. But to return to the proposal of the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, ho could not expect much from the additional duties upon foreign sugar, over and above the supply of colonial sugar, which was inadequate to meet the demand in the market. By substituting for Bri tish free grown sugar foreign slave grown sugar, in the market, in order to make his (the Chancellor of the Exchequer's) estimate complete that Right Hon. Gentleman should admit 11,000 cwt. of foreign sugar into the British market, to the exclusion of that amount of British colonial sugar. The House and the country had a right to know upon which of those propositions it was that the Right Hon. Gentleman founded the financial calculations which he had stated to the House—( Opposition cheers)—or he was in this dilemma, either his financial projects would fail, and he would inflict no injury on the British producer, or if his projects succeeded, and he obtained his revenue, he inflicted a serious injury upon the colonial growers of free labour sugar, and conferred a large and extensive benefit on the pro ducers of slave-grown sugar.—( Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman might take which alternative he pleased, but both advantages he could not obtain. But, supposing the Chancellor of the Exchequer had made a miscalculation ?—and there were some ominous words which fell on last evening from the Judge-Advocate with regard to 60s. being the highest price. That Right Hon. Gentleman ( The Judge-Advocate) was of opinion that Brazil sugars might come down to 575. or 58s. Why, the calculation of those few shillings was of great conse quence as far as regarded the competition of foreign and colonial sugar in the market. The colonial sugar, at however unfavourable a price, must meet the foreign sugar in the market of this country, because here it would be brought into the market at a less loss than into any other market of Europe. He believed that the country was not prepared at the present moment, and under the present circum stances, to take a step of the nature proposed by her Majesty's Government. He said at the present time, and under the present circumstances, because they were the progress of a most important experiment—an experiment, on the success of which the lives and happiness of hundreds of millions were concerned—an experiment in which foreign nations were ready—perhaps not ready enough—to imitate their example if they succeeded, but ready to scorn their folly, and profit by their failure, if by their mismagement that great experiment should fail. —( Cheers. ) He said at this moment, and under the present circumstances, though however high and important he might view this question as connected with slavery and the slave trade, it could not place it so high as it had been placed by his Hon. Friend the Member for the University of Oxford (Sir Robert Inglis). He could not place it so high as it had been placed last year by the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin, whom he (Lord Stanley) heard intended, in the course of the present debate, to support the views of her Majesty's Government.—(Hear, hear.) He listened with some surprise when the Hon. and Learned Gentleman spoke of an amendment in Committee t o carr y i n t o e ff ec t that which he (Mr. O'Connell) must have known to be impracticable. The resolution of which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had given notice, was one for limiting the supply of foreign sugar to that which was exclusively free-grown, so as to keep out all slave-grown sugar. The Noble Lord here proceeded to read an extract from a speech of the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin, delivered in June last, on this subject, when a measure similar to that of her Majesty's Government was moved by the Hon. Member for Wigan, and which was opposed by the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin, and accused that Hon. and Learned Gentleman of great inconsistency in the course that he intended to adopt on the present occasion. What would the English people think of a man who could thus deliver a speech last year against a measure, and afterwards vote for the self -same measure when introduced by her Majesty's Government? He (Lord Stanley) did not quarrel with the Government for any change which had taken place in their minds on this subject. He could see no ground for such change except the difficulties and embarrassments in which they had plunged the financial affairs of the country, and from which they knew nut how to extricate themselves. He could see no ground but that on which they should take a different ground from what they held last year. The price of sugar was then 575. ; it was now but 375. When, however, the price was at its highest the British consumer did not wish to purchase a slight relaxation by giving addi tional facilities and encouragement to the slave trade ; but much less would the people of England, whatever the Govern ment might do, without any necessity and without pressure, now consent to sacrifice that great cause, which was emphatically not the cause of Lord Grey's or of any other Government, but the cause of the people of these united realms.—( Hear, hear. ) He would net pace the question of slavery so high as it had been placed by his Hon. Friend the Member for the Univer sity of Oxford or the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin ; and he would not say that we should not admit under any circumstances slave produce. Much indignation hal been expressed 'on the other side of the House. because h;s Noble Friend the Member for Liverpool had brought forward a resolution containing a plain, practical, common-sense view of the question, and because he had not embarrassed himself or those who supported him on the sub ject itself, by asserting extreme and absolute opinions which, as a man of sense, and an inhabitant of this country; he could not hope to see carried into effect. The accusation, however, appeared to him ( Lord Stanley) most unmerited. If they were never under any circumstances to purchase slave productions they should insulate themselves from the whole world, because there was not a single article of prime necessity and general consumption which did not in some way or other, directly or indirectly, connect itself with slavery. If they had laid down such a doctrine he could easily conceive that it would be very convenient for Hon. Gentlemen opposite to have the advantage of showing the absurdity of such a proposition, and under cover of that abstract principle to shrink from the discussion of the practical measure before them. But while he did not adopt such an abstract and impracticable principle, a principle which no man of sense could desire to carry into effect in this country, he might be permitted to express a strong opinion that he should view with extreme regret, and that the House ought to deprecate as a great misfortune, and avoid as a great national calamity, unnecessarily and without the pressure of a vital necessity overwhelming all considerations except those of national interest and national existence, withoutsucha neces sity he should view with extreme regret a determination taken by this country deliberately to follow the course re commended by the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, who told them that in the whole transaction, so far as they were concerned, they had nothing farther to do in the cause of the abolition of slavery —that we hid taken the guilt from our own shoulders, and that the matter on our parts was at an end• He repudiated altogether such a principle—they had performed their parts in a manner which could not be too highly valued; but they could not abandon the cause which they had undertaken. And least of all could he ( Lord Stanley) who had been the organ of Lord Grey's Government on the occasion, and had introduced that great measure of policy, of justice, and humanity, the Emancipation Act—least of all would it become him to con sent to a proposition which would render their experiment a lamentable failure in the eyes of the world, and which should rivet on the present slaves, and on generation& yet unborn, to be dragged into captivity, in consequence of their failure, the horrors of slavery in its most aggray.te,d and its most odious form.—( Cheers.) Hon. Gentlemen opposite had told them that they already gave an indirect encouragement to slavery in the Brazils, by permitting slave-grown sugar to be refined in this country ; but it should be remembered that they, by the proposed measure, would greatly add to that encouragement, which he, for one, would not consent to do for the purpose of patching up the Budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. But besides, by allowing slave sugar to be refined in this country, and afterwards sold in other markets, they did not really. give any encourage ment to slave labour which it would not otherwise receive ; for if it were not refined here, it would he refined in Hol land and elsewhere. And, in addition, by permitting its sale in England they would offer it a new and most valuable market, and would give a further stimulus by its production. It was said, however, that they now imported slave-grown coffee and slave-grown cotton into this country; but let him tell them, that if they encouraged the production of slave-grown cotton and slave-grown coffee instead of sugar, they would still contribute much to the diminution of the horrors of slavery, if not to the abolition of , the slave trade. Coffee and cotton were articles requiring little capital and little exertion for thoir production, and, above all, not con tinuous exertion capable of being produced by free men and in the production of which free labour might enter into favoura ble competition with slave labour, while it was impossible, ex cept strider the most favourable circumstances, that, in the production of sugar, free labour could successfully compete with slave labour ; therefore, if they could by any means en courage the cultivation of coffee and of cotton, to the exclu sion of sugar, they would be so far encouraging the repression of the slave-trade, and the abolition of slavery. Under these circumstances he considered it especially undesirable to interfere with the great experiment now going on in the West Indies. What was the present condition of the negro population ? It was impossible for any one to have listened with any feelings but those of the highest satisfaction to the details which the Noble Lord had given the other evening of the thriving con dition of the negroes in our West India colonies. Hitherto that groat experiment had succeeded beyond the expectations of its most sanguine advocates. The Noble Lord said that the negroes were beginning to acquire property, that marriages were increasing, that population was increasing—a most impor tant element of future prosperity, if they would but have pa tience—that in Jamaica alone 90,000 negroes were working in the cultivation of sugar and dividing among them wages amounting annually to 1,750,000/. He would ask the Noble Lord if he was prepared to break in upon all that prosperity? To what did the negroes owe the possession of this property except to the encouragement given to the export of a staple pro duct from the West Indies? He would say nothing of the sa crifice of the hundred millions of capital invested in machinery in our West India Colonies—(Cheers)—he would say nothing of the sacrifice of twenty millions--( Cheers) he would say no thing of the utter ruin which must inevitably fall upon all our fellow-subjects holding estates and property in the West Indies —but he would say, lookat the condition of the negroes them selves, and he would ask if, when they were acquiring habits of honest industry, of working for wages, wages depending upon the export of a staple commodity frordlhat country, were they prepared, by encouraging a competition with the slave-grown sugar of other regions, to deprive the negro of his wages at the moment that he had learnt to depend upon his own exertions ? —(Loud cheers.) His Right Hon. Friend had spoken of mercantile distress. Far be it from him to deny its existence, or to attempt to lessen the effect whioh had been produced by the speech of his Right Hon. Friend ; far be it from him to interpose between her Majesty's Go vernment and any new channels which they might propose to open in our manufacturing industry. But let his Right Hon. Friend consider, if he were conferring a great advantage on our manufactures.lf while opening one new channel he was dam ming up all the old streams, and depriving them of amarket, not dependent upon the caprices of other nations, not to be taken from us by war, but dependent entirely upon ourselves, and which while it furthered the presperity of the colonies, furthered the prosperity of the mother country also.—(Cheers. ) His Right Hon. Friend had talked of the vast rivers of South America. Would he turn his eye to the other side of the globe, and look at the vast country containing millions of British subjects ; at the fertile valley of the Ganges, the re. sources of which were incalculable; at the new inlet which had been opened by the Indus, enabling us to approach the markets of Central Asia teeming with population, and which already imported a larger quantity of our manufactures than went to the Brazils, which was capable of receiving any amount of our produce, and only wanted a remittance to make a return, That remittance they could , make in sugar, the Cheapest and the only remittance they could wake—(Loud cheers)—and at the moment when Bri tish capital had been embarked in the great field of mercantile speculation—at the moment when it was known that an inexhaustible supply of sugar could be hail from those regions, would they take that moment to de prive our manufacturers of the benefit of the Indian markets by opening the markets for Brazilian sugar, when they knew that sugar was the only article that India could grow return ?He gave his Right lion. Friend credit yor the ability with which he bad 'brought forward his - statement, and also for that which had produced a great effect upon the House, that obvious air of sincerity with which Iv he had made it.—(Cheers.) He a:, firmly convlnced that his Right Hon. Friend believed his view to be the right one, but he (Lord Stanley) believed it to be a one-sided view, and was not prepared to run the slightest risk' of ruining our trade with the %Vest Indies, of disturbing and ultimately destroying that with the Nast Indies, for the advantages which the Right Honourable Gentleman bought might accrue. lie did not deny the financial difficulties of the country, but he did deny that our resources were failing. Although we had an annually increasing deficit, we had an annually in creasing revenue ; and when they talked of commercial dis tress, he would direct their attention to the state of affairs in America, and ask if the recently threatened interruption of our pacific relations with that one great customer, must not have the effect of producing commercial embarrasment ? Ile would also refer to the state of affairs in the East, and in Syria and India, to the three millions loss sustained by the seizure of opium in China,—to the state of our relations with that coun try ; and ask the country if they did not .see some reason for the interruption of commercial activity, and for that state of commercial langour which at present prevailed. But that was no reason for despondency—(Cheers.) He did not despair of the finances of the country under a due, a prudent, and a proper administration of them.—( Ilear, kear, hear. ) When he looked at the state of the revenue for the last five years, and found that though it had increased from 48 millions to 50 millions, there was a deficiency in the last of those years of 2,400,000; when he saw, moreover, that for five continuous years there had been a gradually accumulating deficiency, after a gradually increasing revenue, the deficiency amounting at the end of those five years to seven millions ; when he saw, too, that a great portion of that deficiency in the present year was to be accounted for by the expenditure incurred on ac count of Canada and China; when he saw that a moment of great financial difficulty was the time which her Majesty's Go vernment had selected for taking off a tax which produced, without injury or pressure upon the people, 1,600,0001. ( Hear, hear)—when he saw that ,in these three items he could trace the whole amount of deficiency in the present year, he might be excused if he entertained some doubts of the ability of those who had involved them in that difficulty. His Hon. Friend the Member for Halifax had said that what ever might be the issue of these debates the seed was sown which would produce its fruit in due time.—(Cheers from the Liberal benches.) lie (Lord Stanley) found that the seed was sown and would produce bitter fruit, and he deeply regretted that at a moment when the Government felt themselves totter ing to their fall—( Cheers from the Conservatives)—when they saw, he would not say county by county but borough by bo rough, their hold upon the country gradually dropping away— at a time when the common sense, of the country proclaimed that they could no longer hold the reins of office as they bad long ceased to hold the reins of power—( Loud cheers from the Tory benches)—he deeply regretted tl,at that should be the time chosen by her Majesty's Government for throwing loose upon the country a crude and undigested scheme involving the most extensive financial changes, deeply affecting every interest in the country, and paralyzing for the time all speculations in trade and all activity in commerce, and all this under a full conviction that it was impossible that they should be able 'to carry that project into effect. The Hon. Member for Carlow had produced the authority of his Right Hon. Friend, in a speech delivered in 1833, to show that on the mere announce ment of a great financial measure ,by her Majesty's Govern ment it was all but carried by the proposal, and in the end was certain of success. The principle thus laid down by his Right lion. Friend was, as far as Parliamentary experience had then gone, perfectly true ; but they had profited by experience since that time, and the ultimate adoption of measures so pro posed was now by no means so certain as it had been in former days. And not only had the House learnt that lesson, but the commercial, manufacturing, and agricultural community had learnt it too. He held in ; his hand a very matter of fact paper, the Price Current of Liverpool of the 11th May, 1841, signed by two gentlemen, one a Conservative, and the other a Whig ; and at the end of that paper there was the fol lowing note :—" Since the development of the Ministerial plan, the bare allusion to which excited such a panic in the trade, the market has been much calmer, from a conviction that no such project can be carried."—(Loud cheers from the Conser vative benches.) The proposition of her Majesty's Go vernment was here evidently looked upon as waste paper which was not worth speoulating upon. An Hon. Gentleman; who had attended that evening to the interests of the Irish corn-growers, had. expressed his intention to vote with her Majesty's Government, on that question. What , was the opinion of the merchants of Liverpool as to the effect of a duty of Bs. ? Why that whatever difference might exist as to the degree of protection requisite either for Eng land or Scotland, there could be.no difference in the minds of persons connected with Irish corn, for that there could be no doubt that the foreign grain would be inferior to the Irish, by the amount of the duty.—(Hear, hear.) He would repeat his deep regret at the course pursued by her Majesty's Go vernment on this occasion. He agreed that the seed which had now been sown would produce its fruit; but he feared that it would he the fruit of bitter animosity between the con tending classes; he feared that it would aggravate those jea lousies and rivalries between the agricultural and manufac turing interests, which every former Government had sought rather to smooth and to heal than to aggravate.—( Cheers. ) He feared that her Majesty's Government, while they were seek ing a popularity which they could not find—,(Cheers from the Tories )—were endeavouring to enroll upon their banners the the fatal and revolutionary doctrine of numbers against pro perty—( Cheers)—and he would tell Hon. Gentlemen opposite that he could conceive no responsibility deeper than that of a Government who in the plenitude of its power should aggra vate dissensions of this kind between great bodies and classes of her Majesty's subjects. But the responsibility was fearfully increased, when the measure which was to add to this effect was brought forward by an. Administration which was already tottering to its fall ; and when, as the Honour able Gentleman, the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, be told them that night, the principles which they were then introducing, the scheme which they were then throwing before 1 the country, must for many long years be the subject of keen and angry and ruthless contention.—(Loud cheers.) On the motion of Mr. SMITH ,O'BRIEN, the debate was then adjourned to to-morrow night. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House Adjourned at One o'Clock. MR. BURKE'S PEERAGE AND BARONET AGE or THE UNITED Ithionom. —A seventh edition of this work, which has so long been considered an unrivalled autho rity for information respecting every individual belonging to the titled classes of this country, is announced for appear ance next week. Besides a variety of other new particulars of the most authentic and interesting character, obtained by the most strenuous efforts and the most vigilant research, the author has now added full details of the families and armorial bearings of the Crowned heads of Europe, showing that many are allied in blood or connected by marriage with our own Royal Family. This work will therefore becoms, from the present time, not only a complete book of reference for the history of every distinguished family in Great Britain, but also possess new interest throughout all Europe, where, as in England, it will be found an indispensable companion in every library. HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE. The Queen held a Levee yesterday afternoon at two o'clock at St. James's Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, ac companied by his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, arrived from Buckingham Palace, escorted by a party of Life Guards. The Royal Suite consisted of Lady Portman and the Marchioness of Normanby, Ladies in waiting ; Lord Polti more, Lord in waiting ; Hon. Williatit Cowper, Groom in waiting ; Lord Alfred Paget, Equerry in waiting ; Masters Wemyss, Bvng. and Wilson, Pages of Honour in wailing; the Groom of the Sto!o to Prince Albert; Earl of Morley, Gen tleman in waiting on his Royal Highness; Captain Francis Seymour, Groom in waiting on his Royal Highness; and Co lonel Wylde, Equerry to his Royal Highness, At the Leree the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers were received in a Diplomatic Circle before the general. Circle commenced. The Foreign Diplomatic Circle, oonducted by the Master of the Ceremonies, consisted of the Austrian Ambassador, Baron Koller, first Secretary of the Embassy ; Baron Lebzel tern, Secretary to the Embassy, and Prince Nicholas Ester hazy ; the Turkish Ambassador, accompanied by Mr. Salome, her Majesty's Oriental Interpreter, and M. Agop, Interpreter Secretary to the Embassy; the Prussian Minister and Baron Schleinitz, Feeretary of Legation ; the Swedish Minister; the Buenos Ayrean Miuister ; the Danish Minister ; the Ba varian Minister; the United States Minister, and Mr. Ben jamin Rush, Secretary of Legation ; the Sardinian Minister, and Count Revel, Secretary of Legation; the Portuguese Mi nister, and M. Lobo de Moira, Secretary of Legation ; the Venezuelan Minister, and M. Fernio Toro, Secretary of Le gation ; the Russian Minister and Count Chreptowitch, First Secretary to the Legation; the Brazilian Minister and M. Macedo, Secretary of Legation ; the Hanoverian Mi nister ; the Saxon Minister; Mr. J. Murphy, Mexican Charge d'Aff.dres, and M. B. Muriel, Attache to the Lega tion ; Baron de Bourqueney, French Charge d'Affaires, and Count de Noailles, Secretary of the Embassy ; M. M. Mos quera, Charge d'Affares of New Grenada, and Captain F. Loranzana, Secretary of Legation; Prince de Castelcicala, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Sicilian Majesty, if. Canofari, Secretary of Legation, and M. del Pozzo, Sicilian Charge d'Affaires ; Count de Villa nueva, Attache to the Spanish Legation. The following gentlemen were presented : The Prince de Canino, the Duke Lante, and Don Flavio Chigi, by Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador. Mr. Edward Kavanagh, Charge d'Affaires of the United States of America, at the Court of Portugal, by Mr. Ste venson, the American Minister. The Count Sollohoub, by Baron Brunnow, the Russian Minister. The Marquis ale Bier's Sforza, Attache to his Sicilian Ma jesty's Embassy at Paris, by Prince Casteletca'a, the Sicilian Minister on a Special Mission. M. Charles Drouet, Belgian Charge d'Affaires, and the Chevalier de Morey, Charge d'Affaires from Spain, by Lord Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State fur Foreign Affairs. The General Circle was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Pres:dent, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; the First Lord of the Admiralty ; the President of the India Board ; the Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests; the Chief Secretary for Ireland ; the Secretary-at-War ; the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Comman • der of the Forces, the Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at- Arms ; the Captain of the Yeomen Guard ; Viscount Combermere, Gold Stick in Waiting; Lord Den man, Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench ; the Vice- Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household; the Master • General of the Ordnance; Sir John M'Neil, G. C. H., her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary to the Shah of Pe•.sia ; Sir H. Parnell, Paymaster-General; Right Hon. Sir G. Grey, Judge Advocate General; Mr. Maule, Under-Secretary of State Home Department ; Sir G. Houlton, Ensign of the Yen men Guard, Mr. H. Robinson ' Standard Bearer to the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ; Marquis of Huntly, A.D.C. to the Queen ' • the Master of the Ceremonies ; the Lord Advo cate; the Attorney-General ; Colonel Sir George Couper, First Equerry and Comptroller of the Household of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent ; Major the Honourable George Keppel, Groom in Waiting; Colonel Wemyss, Equerry to her Majesty; Sir Francis Collier, C.B. (in waiting) an d the Ho n . Captain Poulett, R.N., Naval A. D.C. to the Queen , Colonels Wood, Wynyard, Brotherton, and Brown, A D.C. to her Ma jesty ; Colonel Bouverie, Silver Stick ; Colonel Sir Horace Seymour, Equerry to her Majesty the Queen Dowager; Col. Lord Bowden, K. H., Equerry to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent; General Sir George Anson, G.C.8., Groom of the Bedchamber to his Royal Highness Prince Albert ; Major Hyde, Assistant-Master and Marshal of the Ceremonies; Dr. Frederick Shenck, Secretary to his Royal Highness Prince Albert ; the Dean of Hereford, Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting ; Rev. Thomas Mills, Chaplain in Waiting ; Mr. Samuel Han cock, Exon in Waiting ; /11r. James Bunoe Curling, Clerk of the Cheque of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms; Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Smith, Gentleman Usher to the Privy Chamber ; Mr. Arthur Blackwood, Groom of the Privy Chamber; Sir Benjamin Smith; Mr. Strachan, Gentleman Usher in Waiting to the Queen. The Earl of Belfast was presented, on his appointment of Lord Lieutenant of the County of Antrim, by Viscount Mel bourne. Sir James Graham presented an address of congratulation on the birth of her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, from the Mayor, Aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Pem broke. Sir George Hamilton was presented by Lord Palmerston. Lord Levcson presented an address of congratulation on the birth of her Rua' Highness the Princess Royal, from the Mayor and Town Council of the borough of Bridgnorth. Commodore Sir Charles Napier was presented on promotion and return from abroad, by Earl Minto. Mr. Colquhoun presented an Address from the Legislative Assembly of the Virgin Islands on the birth of a Princess, 'and also presented a Memorial from the Inhabitants of St. Vincent against the introduction of Foreign Sugar. Mr. Colquhoun, Agent and Consul General for the Hanse Towns ; Mr. George Frenerick Dickson, Consul General of the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata; M. Durant St. Andre, Consul General of France. Du xEs—Buccleuch, Bedford, Argyll. MARQUlSES—Westminster, Huntly, Granby, Abercorn, Downshirc, Breadalbane, Queenst.ery. EARLS—Spencer, Bandon, Listowcl, Morton, Manvera, Dunmore, Wilton, Carlisle, Pembroke, Lauderdale, Kenmore, Fitzwilliam, Howe, Courtown, Delawarr, Stradbroke, War wick, Hardwicke, Amherst, Roden, Sheffield, Harewoo:l, Brownlow, Beverley, Hillsborough, Eldon, Falmouth. VISCOUNTS—Gage, Newry and Morne, Bernard, Powers court, Ingestre, Emlyn, Holinesdale, Hawarden, Adare, Las celles, Hereford, Northlands, Barrington, Lake. Loans—Leigh, Boscawen, Trimlestown, Harry Vane, 'G. Manners, Sudeley, Wrottesley, Bateman, Eliot, Cowley, Lyndhurst, Mahon, Tavistock, Bolton, Castlemaine, George Paget, Louth, Camoys, Clarina, Maidstone, Jocelyn, Stop_ ford, Lovaine, Saltown, Keane, Brooke, Petre, Francis Eger ton, Granville Somerset, Abinger, Portman-, Edward Rus sell, Braybrooke, Talbot de Malshide. BISIIOPS—CIogher, Salisbury, Bangor. RIGHT HONOURABLES—Sir Gore Ouseley, G. R. Dawson, Sir Robert Gordon, Lalor Sheil, Sir A. Johnstone, H. Hob house, T. Shaw, M.P. HONOURABLES—C. C. Cavendish, Rev. William Herbert, Rev. C. B. Bernard, C. Cavendish, G. H. Cavendish, Locke King, W. Bathurst, Captain Stopford, R.N., W. 0. Stanley, M.P., Rev. T. P. Bouverie, Rev. H. D. Erskine, C. Stuart Wortley, Robert Boyle, Edward Petre, Colonel Lowther, Henry Ashley, Captain Cust, Rev. R. Devereux, W. Ridley Colborne, Commander Plunkett, Charles Gore, Robert Harid cock, William Duncombe, Captain Hood, C. Scarlett, Rev. A. Phipps, C. L. Fitzroy, C. Ponsonby, Major Massey, Lieut.-Colonel Rice 'Trevor, M.P. COUNTS—Aldenburg Bentinck, C. D'Aglie, B. Metaxa. BA RON Osten. BA 110 NETs—Felix Booth, John Johnstone, Thomas Bar rett Lennard, Bruce Chichester, John Guest, 31. P.. John Seale M.P. William Hort, Richard Bulkeley, P. Palmer Acland, ' W. S. Trelawny, John Cave, William Molesworth, A. 13. Brooke, R. Plumptre Glyn, Thomas Gage, John Walsh, A. Duff Gordon, Francis Head, W. R. Clayton, M.P., Robert Campbell, Charles Morgan, C. H. Coote, W, Joliffc, M. White Ridley, Stephen Glynne, J. Harnlyn Wil liams, Robert Bateson, William Middleton. _ _ Slits—Henry Ellis, 11. Pottinger, Edward Borough, Thos. Birch, A. Macdonald, E. Hayes, J. Fellows. J. Edwards, M.P., J. Jarvis, John Hanster, Henry Mildmay, Robert Moubray, K. 11. DMA N of Carlisle. Axcii DEA coN Shirley. Ray. DocTous—Foord Bowes, Saxby Penfold, Cooke, Stamer. Rim Mrssixuas—J. Hayes Sadler, Edward Young, Jo nathan Woodward, J. Hamilton Gray, Robert Coßyer P Thos. Haverfield, J. F. Laterrard, George Whitmore, H. R. Silly thies, H. Belmont Sims, R. W. Browne, R. Lane Freer, J. Kinneer Eyre. DOCTORS—Moore, A. T. Thomson, Ifill, Tweeddale, Addi son, Sutherland, Murray, Gordon. r.ssixtras.—W. Rae Wilson, of Kelvin Bank, Edward Foley, At. P., W. Fletcher Norton, of Elton, James Wigram, Q. C., Thomas Joshua Platt, Q. C., Crowden, Q. C.. W. C. Ross Henry Charles Hoare, Henry Colon, Henry Tufnell, 111. 1"., Henry Baillie, Robert Hamilton, W. H. Chicheley Plowden, Lionel de Rothschild, Thos. Stirling, B. Lennard, John M'Cullom, Whitmore, Edward Alarjoribanks, Gurney, Shafto Adair, Broughton Leigh, Darby Griffith, Salome, 13ris coc, M.P., John Wynne, A. Durant St. Andrec, E. Wynne, C. Kerry Nicholls, H. Whitmore, Evans, M.P., Brand, Evrart, M.P., Delany, 0. Mitford, G. W. Wood, M.P., Holdship, Justice Hagerman, Jones, A, Hussey, Gwynne, Redmond Prior, Dillon Trant, W m . C rau f ur d, Charles Clarke, H. Bul— lock, G. P. Lee, G. Byng, M.P., Protheroe, Towneley, G. Lewis, John Williams, G. Moore, Phillips, Rundle, Edmund Phipps, Trelawny, Hamilton Story, .1. Banks Stanhope, R. Studdert, Heard, Paton, Child, Horkley F. Wood, J. M. Bal.. four, Cochrane, Aiken, J. Al. Brackenb ur y, R. F. M a itl an d, T. Maitland snow, Philip Trench, Mundy, J. Gardiner, Verner, Fred. Cavendish, G. P. R. James, G. W. Lambert, Tisdall, Asshcton Smith, Geo. Lyall, Bainbridge, G. R. Smith, M.P., D. Barclay, E. C. Jones, R. A. Stafford, Foster, Barkly, C. T. Barnard, John Brindlev, Bailey, Comp ton, Edward Kater, Buck, Hunter, Edward Lee, Wroughton, Christopher Fagan, P. A. Sterne, T. Patterson, Wombwell, Wm. Jardine, Box, Thurlow, J. Bulkeley Johnson, Trotter, J. Lewis, Ricardo, Raper, Kenrick, Lane, R. H. Haywood, Fortescue, 31. P., Perry, Bernal, M. P., Banker, A n nesley, Charles Wood, 31. P., Robert Newland, Power, F. C. Brown, Middleton, Morgan J. O'Connell, Wrn. B. Brodie, M.P., Bishop Culpeper, Pusey, W. Everard, Stanley, Herbert, Sorel, Crawford, M.P.;" Mills Cave, Manackjee Cimetjee, R. Walker, M.P. , Parke, M.P., Clay, Hugh Adair, Bramston, M.P., Reynell, Augustus O'Brien, Dunbar, Kirk, M.P.; Charles Dundas, M.P., Henry Broadley, M.P., Codrington, Winston Barren, M.P., Hume, Mt P., Thomas Heneage, St. Leger, Murray, M.P., Gibson Craig, M.P., Horsman, Lumley, Clarke, Marryat, A. C Kng, Foby Wil- F. Reilly Alston, mot, Eddie, Maule, Thorneley, M.P., John W. Gladstone, 111. P. , Bainbridge IThe r lb ry e4 Helbert, E. It. M. P., a A n nd T r o e t w tie D , r W um . rn J o . nd lla C° mi r i b t:m ll , Y' lh iL o i n%a's Bell, Jeremiah Smith, I n v o ni tt . in, G A ia l d . , P to . n , e, Sta i‘ n l d .p ish ., Roche, Ifill. A DMIR r.s—Sir Charles Ogle, Sir George Martin, G.C.8., Sir Wm. Parker, K. C. 13., Lord Colvillr, Sakes, Sir William Hotham, Sir Patrick Campbell, Christian, Joseph Millen, Sir John West, Sir Hugh Pigot, Ta 3 lor, Hawker, Thomas, Sir Graham Hamond, Sir John Lawford. Comstonoax—Sulivan, C.B. CAPTAINS ( Royal Navy)—Sir George Seymour, Hargood, Copeland, Donat, H. 0. Brien, Grace, Robb, A. P. Hamil ton, Sir Joshua R. Rowley, J. D. Iloswall, Fitzroy, Carter, Lysayht, Sir Burton 31acnamara, Lambert, Meynell, Manners, Rowland Mainwaring, George W. Wines, Cuprage, William Luckraft, Al. Kelly, Williams, George Lc Geyt, W. Richard son, Forrest, Thomas Henderson, Sorthely, Sir Thomas Hast ings, Peter Richards. ( C. 13. Westbro o k, H au l ta i n, W m. Hayhurst Han, Wm. Maitland , Charles Eden, Aldridge, John G o . mCM.ANNanpEielirs, (RoyalDuellNavy) —jern:ngbarn' And rew D rew , C. Baker Hay, Lord Francis Russell, Gooch, 13 radly, F. Edwin. LIEUTENANTS (Royal Navy)—Henry Gaits Nell, F. E. Johnston, John P. Pechell, O'Callaghan, Wm. Henry Bridge, C. R. Carter, Edward Roche Power, Slating, Dwarris. GENERA Edward Harrison Sha r p e , H on. Sir C. Colville, Sir Robert Barton , Sir John Lambert, Si r Willi am Sir Ni Frederickcolay.SirA iv F et . h ß er a a r iL Barnard, A. , Sir Robert Wil son, Trevor, Lindsay, C. 13., 'p ar l ey , Ni co l , Sir J. L. Lushineton, Fraser, Salmon, Huskisson, Sir Charles Brooke 'Vere, Sir _Thomas. Arbuthnot, Sir Henry Watson, Sir J. Dow•nman, Sandwith, Salter, C. B. : Sir William Kerr Grant, Alexander, lion. Sir William Lumley, D'Ovll Sir Lowry Cole, G.C. 8., Sir Thomas Hawker, Sleigh. C.B Dickson, C. 8., Anderson, Sir John Maclean, Sir William Hutchinson. COLONELS-Hugh Baillie, Powell, Vans Agnew, C. B. Fox, Myddleton Biddulph, Henry White, M.P., Leicestot Stanhope, Mercer, Wilson, F. Hickey, B. Sandwith, C. 8., Parkinsm, Wilson, Vernon Harcourt, Holme Sumner, Si, Frederick Watson, N. Wallace, Sir George Arthur, Bart., K. C. H., Fitzroy, Johnstone, William Drummond, Doherty, Sir Robert Harvey, Sir Charles Dance, Lord Do Ros, W. Miles, Blanshard, C. 8., Darner, Rolleston, M.P., Earl of Cdrdigan, Hare, Henry Bentinck, Macdonald, Power, George Wyndham, Tomline, Verner, Purvis, Clarke Kennedy, Peter Hawker, Archibald Maclaine, Sir William Warre, Chamberlayne, M'Alpine, Peel. MAJORS—Sir J. Hamilton, Bart., Drake, Elliot, Brookes, Rotton, Bell, Trevclyan, Anderson, Martin, .1. Campbell, Mackinlay, Michel, Gage, Malcolm, M. G. White. CAPTAINS—W. F. Byng, Grindlay, W. J. Ottley, Ellis, Fulcher, Soden, John Hine, Whartsm, Percy call, H. D. Dyke, Fitz Gerald, F. L. Arthur, Fred. Gray, B. Gordon, Scott, lion. David Murray, C. Grant, Clarke, Gordon, J. G. Rich ardson, Brownlow Layard, Brandreth, H. Gloster, Hopkinson, Goodwyn, John Lines, H. C. S., Drummond, A. F. Blyth, Free, Hawkins, Oliver, G. Carr, Pringle, Pipon, L. Btilkeley, Hon. Henry Percy, Inigo Jones, Meredith, Henry Butler, Walker, Butler, West, Mackean. LIEUTENANTS —A. Magnay, Fitz Hugh. Hon. M. West, A. Caulfield, F. Vardon, Charles de Salis, A. Prescott, 13ed ford, Colville, French, Arthur J. Cole, Dance, Lovell, William N. Cole, Kennedy, Tottenham, Head, Mervyn Archdaill, M.P., Nicholls, Milbarik, Dennys, Bedford, IVeguelin Cunningham, Ros , , Cost, Dickson, Charles Sim, Henry Ma rlon, Rutledgo, Goad, Radcliff, Blank, Hepburn, C. S. Hext, Cannon. CORNETS—Tynte, Broadley, Harrison, J. Gwynn°, Hughes, Pitt. ENSIGNS—Farrar, Arthur, Lord, Mercer, Charles Graves, H. B. Codd. The f 'Bowing Noblemen and Gentlemen had the honour of being presented to her Majesty : Lord Wrottesley, on coming to his title, by Lord Portman Viscount Ncwry and Morne, on his marriage, by General the Hon. Sir C. Colville, G.C.B. Lord Harry Vane, on his return from abroad, by L Lord ix Waiting Mr. W. Rae Wilscn, on return from abroad, by Gen. Wetheral Sir William Hurt, Bart., by the Marquis of Lansdowne Sir P. P. Acland, Bart., by Mr. Henry C. Hoare Mr. W. Sainsbury Trelawny, Lieutenant for Cornwall, on his appointment, by Viscount Melbourne Lord G. Manners, Royal Horse Guards (Blue), by the Mar quis of Granby Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, on his appointment to the Deanery of Manchester, by Viscount. Melbourne Lord Bateman, on being appointed Lord-Lieutenant for the County of Hereford, by Lord Melbourne Mr. Henry Baillie, on his marriage, by Col. Baillie Mr. Robert Hamilton, on his appointment to her Majesty's Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, by Lord Foley Mr. Satanic, her Majesty's Oriental Interpreter, to lay with his homage at her2Majesty's feet. a few verses from Oriental languages, addressed to her Royal Highness the Princess Royal of England Mr. Thomas Stirling B. Lennard, by his grandfather, Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard Mr. John Wynne, by the Marquis of Ormonde Mr. Edward Wynne, by Mr. W. B. Brodie, M.P. Mr. Charles Kerry Nicholls, by the Earl of Falmouth Mr. Henry Whitmore, by Mr. Whitmore Mr. Adolphe Durant St. Audn6, by Baron de Bourqueney Rev. John Hamilton Gray, by Lord Byron Rev. Edward Young, by the Earl of Bandon Rev. Jonathan Woodward, by the Earl of Bandon Mr. Hold•hip, by Lord Lyndhurst Mr. Dehany, by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Clarina, by the Earl of Roden Mr. Gwynne, Deputy-Lieutenant for Brecon, by Colonel Wood, M. P. Sir John Cave, Bart., by Earl Howe Lord Jocelyn, on his marriage, by tie Earl of Roden Mr. Henry Bullock, by Viscount Maynard Mr. Justice Hagerman, of Canada, by Lord J. Russell Mr. Charles Clarke, by Lord Brownlow Mr. Redmond Prior, by the Ikon. Col. Lowther Hon. and Rev. Robert Deverevx, by Viscount Hereford Mr. Jones, by the Hon. Lieut.-Colonel R. Trevor Mr. Ambrose Hussey, High Sheriff of Wiltshire, by the Mar quis of Lansdowne Mr. George Philip Lee, of the Royal Berkshire Militia, by Lieut.-General Sir Robert Barton Mr. John Williams, by Dr. Moore Mr. James Banks Stanhope, by Lord Mahon Mr. George Moore, Consul for the Roman States, by Viscount Palmerston Mr. Compton, by the Right Hon. Mr. Sturges Bourne Mr. R. Studdert, by Col. Askworth Mr. Heard, on his marriage, by Earl Amherst Mr. Paton, on his appointment as Deputy Lieutenant of Aber deenshire, by the Earl of Errol. Count Aldenburg Bentinek, by Lieutenan-Colonel Henry Bentinek Count Charles D'Aglie, by his father, Count D'Aglie Mr. Child, by Rear-Admiral Sir H. Pigot Mr. James Gardiner, on his appointment as Auditor of the Duchy of Cornwall, by Viscount Duncannon Mr. Philip Trench, by Lord Bloomfield Earl of Lauderdale, by Mr. E. Stanley Sir Richard Plurnptre Glyn, Bad., High Sheriff of Dorset, by the Earl of Eldon Sir Henry Pottinger, by Viscount Palmerston The Deputy Governor of the Bank of England by the Chancel lor of the Exchequer Mr. T. Maitland Snow, Ist Royal Devon Yeomanry, by Col. Norcliffe Bishop of Clogher, by the Marquis of Ely Sir Thomas Birch, by Viscount Melbourne Mr. J. M. ackenbery, jun., British Vice-Consul at Cadiz, by the Earl of Clarendon Rev. Dr. Cooke, by the Marquis of Downshire Earl of Kenmare, by the Marquis of Lansdowne Lord Castlemaine, on coming to his title, by the Marquis of Westmeath Sir Robert Moubray, R. 11., Deputy-Lieutenant for Fifeshire Mr. Aiken, by the Earl of Bandon Mr. J. M. Balfour, by the Earl of Lauderdale Mr. Cochrane, by Col. Sir Charles Hopkinson Archdeacon Shirley, by the Bishop of Lichfield Lord Stopford, on appointment to the Grenadier Guards, by the Earl of Couttown 111 r. Ernest Charles Jones, on his return from Hanover, by the Duke of Beaufort Mr. Bainbridge, on his return from India, by Sir Henry , . Wil lock K.L S. .... lon. Robert Hancock, R.H.A., by Lord Castlemaine Dr. Anthony T. Thornton, by Sir Matthew Wood, Bert. Rev. Henry R. Smythies, by the Bishop of Ely Mr. Clark, Recorder of Lincoln, by Lord Brownlow Mr. Eddie, surgeon, Cape Mounted Riflemen, on promotion, by Sir James Macgregor, Baronet Mr. Francis Beilby Alston, on his appointment to the Herts Militia, by Colonel the Marquis of Salisbury Mr. P. A. Sterne, by Lord Morpeth. Mr. Bax, on his return from India, by the Earl of Clare. Mr. William Jardine, on his return from China, by the Earl of Clare Mr. Raper, by Lord Leigh Mr. Lane, High Sheriff of Herefordshire ? by Colonel Sir Ar ehibald Maclaine. Mr. Kenrick, on being appointed Deputy Lieutenant, County Kent, by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederick Smith Mr. Fortescue, M.P., by the Marquis of Ormonde Mr. Mills Cave, on his appointment to Prince Albert's own Hus,ars, by the Earl of Cardigan Manackjee Cursetjee, on his arrival from Bombay, by the Right Hon. Sir John Hobhouse Mr. R. A. Stafford, Surgeon Extraordinary to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, by General the Sir Wm. Lumley Mr. C. T. Barnard, Secretary of Legation at the Court of Saxony, on his return from Dresden, by Lord Palmerston. Commander Aldridge, R.N., on having received a second medal from the Royal Humane Society, Captain Robb, R.N., on promotion and return from foreign service, and Captain Cuppago, R.N., by Admiral Sir C. Adam Lieutenant-General Sir W. Nicolay on his return from the Mauritian, and appointment to command the Ist West India Regiment, and Lieutenant-General Sir T. Arbuthnot on re. turn from the Continent, by Lord Hill Admirals Sir W. Parker on his appointment to the command in the East Indies, Sir W. Hotham on being appointed Grand Cross of the Bath, Thomas on his appointment to command in the Pacific, Joseph Bullen on promotion, Com modore Sullivan on his return from the Brazil station, Cap tains William Luckraft and Thomas Henderson on promo tion and return from Syria, William Richardson on promo • tion and return from the coast of Catalonia and Valencia, George Le Geyt on being nominated a C. 13: , Forrest of her Majesty's ship Impregnable ; Commanders Andrew Drew on return from Canada, J. B. Hay on return from foreign service, Dalyell on appointment to Greenwich Hospital, W. H. Hall on promotion and return from Syria, F. Edwin and E. B. Westbrook on appointment to the Coast Guard; Lieutenants W. H. Bridge on promotion, Dwarris and 11. Gaitskell, by Lard Mint° Colonel Powell, M.P., on his marriage by Lord Hill Commanders Bradly on promotion, E. G. h. Napier, en ap pointment to her Majesty's sloop Pelican, and Lieut. F. E. Johnston, Flag-Lieutenant, on his appointment, by Sir C. Napier Lieutenants C. R. Carter, on promotion, E. R. Power and Holland, on return from foreign service, by Si; .1. Pechell. Captain P. Richards, on appointment to her Majesty's ship Cornwallis, and Captain G. W. Willes, by Sir W. Parker. Captain W. F. Byng, 13th Light Dragoons, by Lieut.-Gene ral Lord Strafford Captain F. t. Arthur, on his return from Canada, by his father, Col. Sir G. Arthur Captain Clarke, on return from foreign service, and Lieutenant Trench, by Major-General Nicol Lieutenants William and Arthur Cole, by General the Hon. Sir G. Lawry Cole Colonel Power, on his return from Mauritius, and Captain B. Layard, on his appointment to the 37th Regiment, by Sir H. Vivian Captain W. J. Ottley, and Lieutenant A. Prescott, and H. Dennys, on their return from India, by Sir J. Hobhouse. Lieutenants C. Sim, H. Barlow, and Ross, by Sir 11. Vivian. Captain Meredith and Lieutenant A. Magnay, by Lieutenant- General Vincent Captains Gordon and B. Gordon, by Lord Aberdeen, on pro- motion Captains Hawiins and F. - Gray, by Sir J. Hobhouse. Mr. John Brindley, by the Earl of Bandon Mr. Barkly, by Col. Sir Adolphus Dalrymple Mr. Foster, by the Hon. Henry Ashley Mr. Wroughton, by Lord Barrington Rev. Frederick Kiuneer Eyre, Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Wiltshire ; by the Marquis of Lansdown Dr. Ifill, by his Grace the Duke of Argyll Dr. Murray, 13th Light Infantry, on his return from India, by General Morrison Captain A. P. Hamilton, R.N., by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hamilton, Bart., K. C.D. Captain Sir Joshua R. Rowley, R.N., High Sheriff for the County of Suffork, by the Earl of Uxbridge Commander Witham Maitland, R.N., on promotion, by the Earl of Lauderdale Commander Lord Francis Russell, on his return from Foreign Service, by the Duke of Bedford Major-General A. Lindsay, by Earl Amherst Lieutenant Stirling, R.N., by Sir Walter Stirling Major-General Salter, C. 8., on his return from India, by the Earl of Clare The Rev. Henry Belmoht Sims, by Lord Abinger The Rev. James Frederick Steward, by General Sir Frede rick Wetherell, K. C. H. Rev. R. Lane Freer, 8.D., by Sir R. Price Bart., M.P. Mr. Christopher Fagan, on his return from India, by Major- General Sleigh, C.B. Lieutenant -Colonel B. Sandwich, C. 8., on his return from India, and being appointed a Companion of the Bath, by Lieut.-General Lord Keane, G.C.IL Lieutenant-Colonel F. Ilickes, on his return to India, Lieut.-General Lord Keane, G.C.B. Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson, by Lieut General Sir R. Wilson Lieutenant-Colonel Holme Sumner, upon his appointment to the Ist Royal Surrey Militia, by the Earl of L ove l ace . Colonel N. Wallace, by Viscount Palmerston Colonel Sir George Arthur , K.c.H. on being created a Ba , roue, by Lord John Russell Lieutenant-Colone ]Fitzroy, Grenadier Guards, on promotion, by Colonel Scott, Field-officer in Brigade waiting Lieutenant-Colonel Johnston, 66th Regiment, on his promo • motion, by his father, the Right Hon. Sir. A. Johnston Colonel Doherty, on his return from the Government of Sierra Leone, and appointment to the Government of St. Vincent, by Lord John Russell Lieut. Cunynghame, by Lord Saltoun Lieu'. Dickson, on his appointment to the 13th Light Dra goms, by his father, Major-Gen. Dickson, C.B. Litre. S. Goad, by Sir J. Hobhouse, Bart. Lieut. Radcliff, by Lieut.-Gen. Sir R. Wilson Lieut. Black, by Sir W. Warre Lieut. Hepburn, by Colonel Scott Lieut. C. S. Heat, by Gen. -Hodgson Cornet B. Harrison, by Mr. Bradley, M.P. Cornet J. Gwynne Hughes, leYLieut.- Gen. Lord Strafford Cornet Pitt, on his appointment to the Ilth (Prince Albert's) Hussars, by the Earl of Rionney Ensign Ferrer, on his appointment to the 56th Regiment, by Lori Lake Capt. Pipon, on promotion, by Gen. Sir W. Lumley Capt. Goodwin, by Col. Wilde Lieut. Colville, on his retittn from Canada, by Colonel Sir George Arthur, Bart. Nicolls, by Lieut.-Colonel Nieolls Lieut. Milbank, by the Earl of Zetland Ensign R. B. Codd, on appointment to 17th Regiment, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex Ensign Mercer, by Lieut.-Col. Mercer Ensign A. Lord, by Gen. the Hon. Sir Lowry Colo Ensign C. Craves, on his appointment. and going on foreign service, by Major-Gen. Sir H. Herbage, Lieut, Head, on his return from Canada, by Sir F. Head, Bart. Cornet Tynte, Prince Albert's Hussars, on appointment, by the Earl of Cardigan Lieut. Weguelin, by the Earl-of Cardigan Lieut. Bedford, Paymaster Ranee Albert's Hussars, by the Earl of Cardigan Lieut. Canon, by the Adjutant-General Lieut. Kennedy, by Lieut.-Col. Kennedy, C.B. Lieut. Alexander Caulfield, by Major-Gen. Sir Charles Dea con, K. C. B. Lieut. Dance, by his father, Col. Sir 'cakarles Dance, K.H. Sub-Lieut. F. Lovell. by Gen. Lord Qombermere Capt. C. Grant, by Hon. Gem Wade Capt. the Hon. Henry Percy, on his promotion and return from Canada, by the Earl of Brierley Capt. Inigo Jones, Prince Albania Hussars, by the Earl of Cardigan Capt.. Henry Butler, by his father, the H00.,,P. Butler, M.P. Capt. Butler, on his appokstment so , Deputy-Lieutenant, county Fermanagh, by the ,Marquis of Westmeath Capt. A. Mackean, by 'Col. lde Capt. R. Gloster, by Major-Gen. Sir lan Gardiner Cant. West, on promotion, by his -hither, Vice-Admiral Sir John West, K. C.B. Capt. Brandreth, by Admiral S Capt. Augustus F. Blyth, by tieut.- en. Sir R. Wilson Capt. Free, by Lieut.-Gen. Sir R. Barton Capt. G. Carr, by the Earl of Cardigan Capt. Pringle, Coldstream Guards, to restore the Badge and Riband worn .by the late Lieut.-General Sir Win. Henry Pringle, G. C.B. Major Michel, on promotion, by Lord Hill. Major Brookes, on return from Foreign Service, by Lord Fitzroy Somerset ' Captain Wharton, by his cousin the Earl of Zetland Captain Soden, by Mr. James Wigram, Q.C. Major Maekinlay, en return from India, by Gen. Sleigh Major M. G. White, on promotion, by Lieut.-Gen. Sir Ar thur Brooke, K. d. B. Major Di ake, by Maj.-Gen. Sir James L. Lushington, G.C.B. Lieut. Bedford, by Col. Sir George Couper. The following Noblemen and Gentlemen had the honour of presenting Addresses and Petitions to her Majesty : The Hon. C. C. Cavendish, M.P. for East Sussex, from the borough of Rye, of congratulation on the birth of the Princess Royal. The Earl of Manvers, from Householders and Inhabitants amounting to three thousand, of St. Luke's parish, Middlesex, expressing their conviction of the great hardships and griev ances inflicted on the poor by the Poor-law Act, and petition ing her Majesty to sanction the repeal of it, and to refuse her Royal assent to the Bill for its continuance now in the House of Commons. The Marquis of Downshire, the Marquis of Abercorn, the Marquis of Londonderry, the Earl of Roden, the Earl of Mount cashel, the Earl of Hillsborough, M.P., and Viscount Castle. reagh, from the province of Ulster against the Repeal of the Union. Lord Viscount Powerscourt, from the Bath Church of Eng land Lay Association, praying for the exercise of her Majesty's Prerogative for the preservation of Church -rates, and in favour of Church extension. Mr. Robert Newland, Mayor of Bedford, from the Corpora tion and Inhabitants of the borough of Bedford, of congratula tion on the birth of the Princess Royal. Mr. Marryat, from the House of Assembly of Grenada, of congratulation on the birth of the Princess Royal. Mr. Bailey, from the Mayor and Corporation of the borough of Sudbury, of congratulation on the birth of the Princess Royal. The Marquis of Breadalbane from the Presbytery of Caith ness, of congratulation on the birth of the Princess Royal. The Marquis of Downshire, from the nobility, clergy, and gentry of Antrim, Down, and the adjacent northern counties, against the repeal of the Union. Mr. Jeremiah Smith, Mayor of Rye, from the borough of Rye, of congratulation on the birth of the Princess Royal. Mr. Smith wee presented by the Hos. C. C. Cavendish. The Bishop of Bangor, a petition from the clergy of the Deanery of Estimana, against the union of the dioceses of St. Asaph and Bangor. The following gentlemen accompanied the address from the province of Ulster, against the repeal of the Union :—Sir Robert Bateson, Bart., Mr. Dunbar, MP., Mr. Kirk, M.P., Rev. Dr. Cooke, Lieut.-Colonel Verner, M.P. ,and Sir Arthur Brooke, M.P. Colonel Myddelton Biddulph, from the county and also the town of Denbigh, against the union of the sees of Bangor and St. Asaph, and against the abstraction of the revenues of the Church from the Principality. Her Majesty gave audiences to the Earl of Minto and Load John Russell. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Prince of Leiningen, attended by the Royal suite, returned to Buckingham Palace after the Levee. The Mess of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at-Arms dined together last evening at Longs Hotel. The Duchess of Kent took tun airing yesterday afternoon in an open carriage. General Alava, the Spanish Minister, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exehenuer on To,sii.v. to take leave. THE LATE DREAL.tuA., COLLI.- SION AT SEA. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, OTHER VALUABLE CARGO, AND EIGHT LIVES LOST. Information was received yesterday at Liverpool, that one of the numerous fishing-boats belonging to the port had fallen in with, and picked up, off the Isle of Man, seven men, who had been upwards of twenty fours in a jolly-boat, almost without clothing,, and en tirely destitute of any kind of food. On inquiry we found that the report was correct The mate of the Mary Scott and six of the crew had escaped in the boat belonging to that vessel after the collision had taken place with the Brooklyn, an outward bound vessel to Now York. It appears that the brig with which the Brooklyn came in contact was the Mary Scott, inward bound from Valparaiso, and having a valuable cargo of copper ore, &C., together with one hundred and twenty thousand dollars in specie. The mate of the Mary Scott states that the acci dent happened at half-past nine or ten o'clock, the light at Point Lynes being in view. The wind was trom the land, the brig close-hauled on the starboard tack, and was just about to alter her course, When the crew saw the Brooklyn running down free with topgallant sails set. The brig had two lights on 'the weather bulwark, just abaft the main rigging, one of 'them being a regular signal light. The carpenter was steering, and the mate told him to put the helm hard up, which has done. He got on the bulwarks, and called to. the Brooklyn people for God's sake to keep their luff, otherwise the brie . would he run down ; but they took no notice, and the Brooklyn, which was going at the rate of about seven knots an hour, struck the brig just where the lights were on the starboard side, and passed on without offering any assiStance. Captain Sadler, the master of the brig, was severely hurt by the concussion, and ran about, crying out that his back was broken ; the carpenter's arm was much in jured, and the mate was jammed between the round house and the bulwarks by the broken materials of the brig's starboard quarter. After about live minutes the mate extricated himself, and found that the mainmast, tho mainstay, and all the ringing, had been carried away, and that the brig had five feet water in her hold. All hands were on deck, and tried to get out the long-boat, but could not succeed. The Captain went below, and the mate, seeing that the) , were in a sinking state, ran to him in the cabin, and said, " Captain Sadler, if you want to save your life, now is .the time." He replied, " Well, take this box of specie, and come." The mate took the box, ran upon deck, but seeing that the brig was going down, dropped the box, and jumped into the boat, which then contained seven persons. The other people had the same chance as himself, but were so frightened they scarcely knew what they were doing. It was fortunate for those in- the boat that no more came in, for tlw boat proved leaky, from the hot weather having opened the scams Whilst lying over the long-boat.; one of the planks had been staved by the collision, and had there been a greater weight in her she could not have lived. They had no sooner dropped astern than the brig went down. The wind was very squally, with a heavy sea; and the mate had to break the case off the chronometer in or der to bail the boat of the water and keep them from being swamped. There was no fresh water and no bread on board, 'and the mate had nothing but a white cotton shirt on, having thrown off his clothes under the- apprehension that he should have to swim. The weather . continued, very stormy during the next 24 hours, with continual rain, all which time the ship wrecked mariners were in _ the boat. They had no sails, and only two oars. By the morning they had drifted dow n t o near th e Sk err i es , o ff Holyhead, and then kept before the wind in hope of being able to reach the Isle of Man, passing one of the brig's water casks on their way. When the colliSion took place the brig had just taken a reef in her topsails, and hove up her courses, the Captain remarking that after they had made all snug he would leave the mate in charge to dodge slowly up the Channel. Had a good look-out, or any look-out at all, been kept on board the Brooklyn, the crew of that vessel must have seen the lights of the brig ; and had the Brooklyn put her helm up, which, as the brig had the weather gage, should have been done, she would have kept clear. The Mary Scott was from Valparaiso, with a cargo of copper ore and wool, and 120,000 dollars in „speeie. ,She was 300 tons burthen, and her crew Consisted of the c a p tain ' and mate, eleven men, and two boys. This unfortunate event, following so closely upon the loss of the Gover nor Fenner, and in the continued absence of the steam ship President, has excited the most painful feeling amongst all classes of the inhabitants of Liverpool acid the neighbourhood who are acquainted with the parti culars. The name of the captain of the ship Brooklyn is Richardson. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATIL—OD Friday, the 7th inst., an inquest was held at Melford, by Harry Wayman, Esq., Cormier for the Liberty of Bury St, Ed mund's, on the body of Thomas Howard, a labourer, employed in the gardens of Sir Hyde Parker, Bart., o f Melford Hall, who, on Thursday, while working in tho gardens, suddenly fell down and expired ; h e i s supposed to have died from the effects of a cold brought on by working in a ditch. The Jury returned a v en di et by the visitation of Gud."—lpswich Express, EVENING EDITION: SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING. The unexpected occurrence of a dead heat fez.. the first plate gave a little interest to a list which in other respeaawal one et' the least attraction ever seen on the first day; the B. M. Plate is particular, instead of bringing out some Derby nap, had as entry of eight only, and was looked upon so coldly that scarcely a dozen Lets were made. The policy of doing away With thirt meeting altogether, and of appropriating the public money to the extension of the July Meeting. has been suggests& more than o nce , an d i s no t unlikely tube again a subject of disetti sion with the members of J. C. The following are the particula:l recess:4'y to complete our report sent from the heath : T. M. M. Plate.—Ramadan and Yaratilda made the run.. ning in company, Audrey waiting till the last moment, when he made a rush, defeated Yaratilda by nearly a laugh, and finished with a d ea d h ea t w i t h R ama d an . I n the deoi heat Ramadan had it all his own war. R. M. Plate.—Tauride made play to the T.Y.C. post, where Nick took the lead from her, and earned on the running to the bottom ; St. Colomb then made her essay, tired in the cords, and was passed by Taurida. who won cleverly by a length ; a capital race for second. The weather was remarta bly favourable, but the attendance thin, both Li! number and fashion. The following members of the rooms were present :—Duke of Rutland. Lord Jersey, Lord Godolphin, Lord John Fitzroy, Sir S. Graham, Hon. General Grosvenor, lion Captain Bons, Hon. G. Fitzroy, Hon. A. Villiers, Mr. C. and Mrs. Wilson, Mr. Payne, Mr. Bateon, Mr. Angersteiss, Mr. Portman, Mr. S. Stanley. Mr. Hawker, Mr. Powell,o4r. Wigram, Ace. The betting after the races was very Sat, and beyond an im provement in Prince Caradoc and Belgrade lot the Derby, and Potentia for the Oaks, p resen t e d nothing new. It closed as follows: NEITIIARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING. WEDNESDAY. The Suffolk Stakes of 25 sore. each, 10 Ct., and 3 only if declared, &c. B. M. 12 subs. 4 paid. Mr. Pettit's Langolee, 3 years, sst. 111 b. (Bartholomew) 1 Lord Exeter's Seittari 4 ye ire B,t. Ob. 2 Mr. Ihrwker nd. Bob ' Peel, 4 years, eat. 3 Betting.-5 to 4,iigainst Scutari, sto 2 against . Bob Peel, and sto 2. against Langolee, who won by head. Mr:Thornbill's Menatippc, Bst 711 s. (%binson) beat Mr. W. B . * Stanley's Minx, 7st 91b. Flat half of Ab. M., W. Biltting-43 to 4 on Menaliffe. Waal" a leagtb. Plata of 50 soca. for three years old, &e. A. F. Mr.' KO., 3 y es , Art ..... (Bartholomew 1 Lorikiidotir'sJeffy, 4 yrs, Bst 2 Drake 01,BedfOrd's Joi6jou, 3 yrs, Get 71bs Boyee i tScriggins, aged. 9st 71bs. 4 - Betties=-6 to 4 agst Joujou, 7 to 2 apt E. 0., awl 5 to I *Jet Kcmggins (taken). Won by 1 0 10 11 1 110" • The Jockey Club Plate of 80/. for four yrs old, 7st 21b, ire, Bst 31b, six and aged, Bst 91b, the property of 3lembers of the Jockey Club. B.C. The Plate was divided by the Duke of Graftetr's Currency. 4 vrs, and Lord Albemarle's Janus, 4 yra, and Currency walked over. Colonel Peel's Hawk's-eye, 7st 41b, received ft from Lord Kelburne's f. (dead) by Jerry, out of Purity, First half of Ab. M. 50, h ft. NEWMARKET—WEDIasnEr NIGHT. BEhir 3 to I agst Seott's lot 4 to 1 agst Coronation and Marshal Soult—taken 6 to 1 agst Ralph 11 to 2 agst Van Amburgl 8 to 1 agst Coronation—taken 10 to 1 agst Marshal Soult 14 to 1 agst Belgrade 16 to 1 agst Galaor 25 to 1 agst Sir Hans 50 to 1 agst Potentia 1000 to 15 agst E. 0. Oilers to back E. 0. agst Camelion, and to take 50 1 to about Eringo. ST. I. EG 9 to 1 agst Van Amburgh—taken 500 to 30 agst The Squire—taken oats. 17 to 2 agst Potentia The entries for to-morrow closed as follow : Handicap Plate-31enalippe, 4 yrs, Jeffy, 4 yrs, Bob Peel, 4 yrs, E. 0., 3 yrs, Langolee, 3 yrs, Jessica, S yrs, Hawk's- Eye, 3 yrs, Blanche, 3 yrs, Yaratilde, 3 yrs, aid Cuirassier, S. A match between Minx, Sst 71b, and Syria, Bst Jib, completes List. MANCHESTER-TUESDAY EVENING. The business done during the past three days has been very slender. Several parties seem desirous to " get on ;" but, as the fieldsmen have been decided gainers on the recent events, the backers of horses are exceed ingly shy. The odds of 6to 1 are offered on the Derby field ; 7 to 1 agst Van Arnburgh—taken ; 10 to 1 agst Marshal Soult--offered. THE WEATHER.-11oorc, MAY P. • ROYAL GALLERY' OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Barometer Thermometer... 61 Highest 65 Lowed • 44 Wind N. W. by N. —Freezing Point 32 Deg. REGULATIONS FOR THE CAR RIAGES AT THE BALL IN THE OPERA HOUSE, ON THE 19:11 OF MAY, 1841. The carriages of her Majesty and suite, and the carrivas a f the Royal Family only, will be allowed to set down in Charles street. Carriages of the AmhaFsadors, Foreign Ministers, L a di es Patronesses, and embers of the Committee, will proceed along the north side of Pall-mall, and set down with thr horses' heads to the east end of the Opera Arcade ; after vet ting down, they will turn and retire along the centre of Pall mall and St. James's-street. The company will enter at the small entrance in the Arcade. Carriages for the ball, from the north and west o! Piccadilly, will proceed by Piccadilly (south side), and down the 'Hay market (west side), in file, and close to the side pavement, and will set down with the horses' heads to the south, at the greet door in front of the Opera House; after setts pg down they will turn round and retire by the centre of the Haymarket, Picca dilly, &e. The company will cotcr at the usual pit and box doors. Carriages for the ball iron the east will proceed along the Strand, Trafalgar-square (south side), Cockspur-street, and will set down in front of the Opera House, in the Haymarket, with the horses' heads to the north ; after !setting down they will turn and retire by Pall-mall East, Trafalgar-square (man side), Duncannon-strect, Strand, &c. The company will eater at the box-office door. Carriages for the ball coming by Whitehall will fall into the line with those from the East, in Cockspor-street (alternately, if numerous), and after setting down they will, return also by Pall-mall East, Trafalgar-square (Nor& side, and Eat side), and Whitehall, leaving the Statue at Charing-eross on tins right hand. The Company will enter at the Rex-office door. The East end of Charles-street, St. James's-square, will be closed at nine o'clock. Carriages will take up in the same order as they set dawn. Those to come down the Haymarket to stand in St. James's. square, Regent-street, below Piccadilly, Jerrayn-street, &e. Those to take up for the east or the south to stand in Tra. • falgar-squarc, Cockspur-street, &c. The police will not permit any pertain whatever to stan44n.: der the Colonnade of the Opera House at any time during The night. In order to prevent obstructions, the police will, if neces sary, occasionally stop the file of carriages proceeding to the ball, in order that the public thoroughfares may be kept open. No delsy in setting down will be caused by this, as no carriage will be permitted to cut in before the carriage so stopped. Persons going to the gallery and tipper boxes to enter at. the gallery door. C. ROWAN. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Brighton Gazette.) .. PORTSMOUTH, MAT 12.—1 t is confidently rumoured that the appointment of Commander-in-Chief in, the Pacifie, has been given to Rear- Admiral Richard Thomas, of the Blue Squadron, as successor to Rear-Admiral Roes, and that the thtblin, 50, is to be commissioned to bear his flag. The; brig tender Rapid, 10, Lien!. Tryon, has returned front tho eastwa:d from protecting the fisheries. The new stzamer Geyser, built at Milford, has passed by fur Woolwich, undei convoy of the Driver steamer, and in charge of the Master of the Ocean, guard Ship at Sheerness. The iron steamers, Albert and WilberfaOse, were still al Plymouth on the ith inst.lnt, waiting final orders tb proceed to the coast. _ _ _ _ The troop-ship Athol, Mr. Bellamy, Mailer, may be alortlY looked for, from Barbadoes, to which island she conveyed the 59th regiment from Corfu. The new brig Bittern, 16, is at length to be commissioned, and to be coprimaaded by Commander the Hon. B. C. CarYs brother of Viscount Falkland. The steam vessel, Confiance, is ordered bowie from the Me diterranean to be paid off. The corvette Iris, 26, Captain Nurse, touched at Madeira from Plymouth on the 4th April, and sailed for Ole Cape of Good Hope on the 7th of the same month. The Volage, 23, Captain G. Elliot, remains •at Spittead wog orders. She brought home Hear-Admiral the Hon. Geolt e Elliot, C. 13., late Commander.in-Chief in the East Indies, and, it is thong et, will go to Chatham to ba paia of. The new brig Siren. Iti, according to report, will be commis sioned by Commander Lord F. Beaurlerck. The Woolverine, 16, Captain Tucker, is o rdered home, from the coast of Africa, to be paid off. She was at Priaca's Island on the 2d April, all well. The steam frigate, Dee, Commander Sherer, is hourly "- from the West Indies, to be paid off. • The Monarch, 84, Caytain Chambers, kit her at to! . IN o Spithead from Sheerness, our pilots having AT SPITIIEA 64, Vernon,:so, Pelican ! 16, olage, 26, and Nautilus, 10. i s hourly e spec_ted re at IN HA ItHOU R.—Queen, Victory, Excellent, Royal George yacht, Bittern, Fair Rosamond, and flag tndert. MEXICO. from Mexico. Her sailing Tuesday morning at Falmou th, Tampico, A ril 3 i HitTannah, Her Majesty's packet Petrel, Lieutenant Crooke, . arrived en dates—Vera Cruz, March 28; . ~I?. British and Graham, L tduard, *better, C_ ru f' ball was given in the cite of 15 ' Passen g ers —Mes3". Fernandez, Peres A Pulsford, Molintro, Holt, . _ ,: rootage% and three miners. Her freight 290,000 Barno, Dr. Martinez,the Exchange 45%. dollars Ma A r t ch Ve .2 r_ n a ., . grandlistemente, to . which the French diplomatic r epresentatives were invited. Prier Mexico to B to its coming on, it was rumoured that an insult was intended to the English, by placing oa the right side of t h e Mexican republican emblems in the bed in, the flag of the French nation, and that o f th e British rx' on the left. A strong representation was made to the persona concerned, on the impropriety of the arrangernent,.bst b it wsw of no avail. On the party being assembled, we are Wormed that Mr. Palter-aim with a pe n k n if e cut &era thb 13ritieh en bign, and left the room, taking it with him; all fles.,Evhshmen present followed. A great deal of conversation had arisen therefrom. Intrigue, on the part of the French, presented itself everywhere. Trade continued excessively dull, both at.tlexies) and Vera Cruz ; and no one contemplated a change its contmerce until a political revolution had taken place, and Bustamente had bean thrown aside, which the merchants thought would occur in two or three months. The 15 per sent. on importations acted es a direct prohibition. The right of concession by Arista, rela tive to the twiat 9 inonopolies we apprehend, was being d is p uted ; it w as , lhorftfore, uncertain how long that privilege would be enjoyed. The Comus remained at Vera Cruz, but it was probable that as the Vestal had gone doen there likewise, the freight in tended for the former would be shipped by the latter, on the corn missat iat account. The Government weio in treaty for a steamer wherewith to commence operations against the Taxians. A • gun-brig was cruising off Vera Cruz, anno ying the Mexican small coasting craft. In order to prevent the intrusion of this vessel at Ss eraficios, the sum of 6,000 dollars had been expended to raise a fort at that place. _ -,---- - -- • BaussEr.s, MAY 11.—A funeral service WRS performed yesterday in the Cathedral of Saint Gudule, in Me mory of the dea th of Naloloon,