The Sun. — London, England, 1849-02-27 00:00:00

Weibitton SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) The jury found O'Brien anti the male prisoner, Dun can, Guilty, but Acquitted the 'prisoner Mary Duncan, and The RECO/IDER sentenced Robert Duncan to im prisonment for one year, and O'Brien for six months, without hard labour. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FRO 3 I ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDLVG SATURDAY, FEB. 24, 1848. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*3lB Diseases of Uncertain Seat ••• ••• ••• 53 Tubercular Diseases... •... 174 Diseases of the Brain , N erves, end Senses... ... 132 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 39 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ••• ••• ••• 239 Diseases of the St omach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... Diseases of the Kidney s, &c. ••• Ch ildbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, B f 3, " Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. ••• M a lf o rmatiOns... ••• ••• Premature Birth •• ••• Atrophy ••• ••• .61 Old Age .•• ••• ••• ••• Sudden ... ... Violence, Privation, Cold, otinten;Perance Causes not specified ... 53 ... 10 ... 47 DEATHS PROM ALL CAUSES ... 1,191 Population Average weekly Deaths Enumerated, Deaths, 1844-8. in the _ . 1841 West Districts... 300,711 North DiAricts.. 375,971 Central Districts 373,653 East Districts ... 392,444 South Districts .. 501,190 Five Winters. 170 . 218 . 211 . 252 . 319 . T0ta15........ 1,948,369 -. 1,169 Malez ... Females ... Week. 159 206 185 311 330 -. 1,191 -. 605 -. 586 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males ... Females ... ... 735 ... 755 Total ... ._. ... ... ... 1,490 •In this number are included 40 cases of death by Cholera, 50 by Scarlatina, and 53 by Typhus Fe►er. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Feb. 27.) &GAM—There was much desire evinced to operate in all sorts of West India for grocery and refining purposes, whilst the rates paid are 6d per cwt above those of last week; business was, however, checked by the small and indifferent assortment at market. A public sale of 146 bhds 2 trcs Bar badoes went readily at a rise of 6d ; fine yellow sold at 41s 6d, good 39s 6d to 41s, low to middling 37s to 395. REFINED.—To- day a fair business was concluded in Re fined goods for home-trade purposes, and prices ruled firm ; brown Lumps at 455 6d to 495, and Standard Lumps 49s 6d to 50s. Bonded Crushed Sugar still sells readily at i 9.3 6d to 303 6d per cwt. M&uainus.—This afternoon the public sales of Mauritius Sugar only comprised 20 casks, 3,514 bags. They went off briskly at an advance on former rates of 6d per cwt; good yellow realised 39s to 39s 6d, middling 37s 6d to 38s 6d, low 36s 6d to 375, fine brown 35s 6d to 36s 6d, good 34a 6d to 355, ordinary to fine grey 36s to 40s, washed and syrupy 33s to 378 Myer cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the quantity of Bengal Su gar offered at public sale, amonnfed to 5,823 bags, and sold at full rates; fine strong white went at 47s to 48s, middling and good 44s to 465, good and fine yellow 40s 6d to 43s 6d, middling 39a to 40 ; Benares, good white, 41s to 425, low and middling 38s 6d to 40s 6d, damp 38s to 41s, and soft yellow 35s to 395. Madras is wanted, and 730 bags realized firm rates. _ _ _ . FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of Foreign Sugar, privately several inquiries existed, and former rates were offered; few sellers, however, are to be met with. The market has a firm appearance, and stocks continue to get smaller. blotassEs.—Prices are well supported for West India, and a fair demand exists at from 16s 6d to 20s for low to fine. East India Treacle t 53 Id to 16s per cw;. COCOA. —Holders of West India have confidence, and con tinue to refrain from submitting any to public competition. Trinidad, good and fine red, realizes 43s to 475, low and middling to 425, grey 393 to 435, and other sorts of West India 38s to 425. Foreign finds a more active demand, at from 27a to 28s per cwt. There has ag .in been no public sale, and the deliveries are exceeding the arrivals. COFFEE.—MIS afternoon there was little passing in Native Ceylon Coffee, and 33s 6d to 345 is the value of good ordi nary. Plantation met with little attention, and 696 bags 138 barrels at auction were nearly all taken in above the value; good at 653, low middling 525, fine fine ordinary 46s to 50s, line ordinary 41s to 425. a few lots of ordinary and good ordinary sold at 33s to 34s 6d per cwt. TEA.—The market has been in a depressed state for Black Tea since our last, and prices are not so firm. The trade are not so anxious to purchase Green as they have been, and quotations are lower. The public sales comprised 30,648 pkgs of which 7,600 were Congou, 700 Souchong, 1,800 scented Caper, 2,600 scented orange Pekoe, 1,400 Pouchong, 2,700 Twankay. 2,700 Hyson, 700 Young Hyson, 700 Imperial. and 4,600 Gunpowde. There has been lb tle disposition manifested to operate in Black, still merchants for the most part displayed firmness, and refused, excepting in a very few instance, , , to sell but upon former terms. The consequence was that nearly the whole has been take in and withdrawn. For Green the biddings hare been languid, and a willingness has been shown to sell. whilst the rates accepted exhibited a dec,ine of 1 1 / 2 to 2d, indeed on good and fine Gunpowder the fall was neary 3d per lb. Twankay, however, sustained the former value. The Canton kinds of Green were well got up, and excel those of last season. Fine Scented Orange Pekoe attracted attention and realised a slight advance; inferior kinds were held for the former value, but not much inquiry has existed. Of the total amount submitted to the hammer 6,900 pack ages were disposed of. Scented Orange Pekoe, very superior, went at 3s to 3s WO, fine Is 9d to 2s, ordinary and good oroinary 10d to is sd; Oolong, but middling strong Burt Is 2d to is 2id, inferior 9id to 94(1 ; Young Hyson, good ordinary colour is Id to Is 2d, but middling Is 2d to Is 2 d; Cocgou, but middling new rather coarse burnt, Bid to 91d, middling burnt, 10d to 11d, middling rather strong fiat Pekoe flavour, Is 24d lo is 4d ; Souchong, but middling rather strong burnt is 2d to 1s 2id ; Ning Yong good ord 8d : Hvsoc, but middling, Is 2d to Is 2id ; Gunpowder, good 23 9id to 2s 10id, but middling is 4-id to is &id; Capers. but middling fresh burnt 9d, better sort is B+l to Is 9id ; Imperial Cotton Is id. to is lid ; 'Tyson sort is 9d to Is 9id. Saco is no - t much wanted, and prices tend downwards, although the supply does not get upon a large scale. At auction 106 chests of fine large Pearl were sold at 245. The value of other sorts is from 17s to 235. Sago Flour is in greater request at 15s 6d to 16s 6d, and a loss amount is on offer. Farina at public, sale 160 bags were taken in at 16s 6d to 17s per cwt for good and fine Fre.ich, duty paid. Rim—To-day there was not a better demand for East India Rice, and 1,105 pkts Bengal at auction sold rather cheaper— good middling and good dusty white went at lOs to lOs 6d, and damaged 6s to 9s 6d per cwt. . . i.'PICES.—To• day Pimento was in excellent request, and at public sale 475 bags sold at stiffer rates; good middling and good realized 3• - '0 per lb ; 275 sacks Bengal Ginger sold at 24s 6d to 25s for good bold export sort, and damaged 23s to 24s 6d per cwt. Sriarrs.—Brandav is held with firmness, the demand is not so good as arrivals are upon an extended scale. Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1846 is held fur 4s 10d to ss, ditto 1847 at 3s 10d to 4s Id, dilto 1848 at 3s 4d to 3s 6d, and superior sorts 2s 4J to 3s 4d. Home and export deliveries pro ceed under faeouraule auspices. Geneva is still not much wanted, and sellers are ready to accept is 9d to Is 10d for ord, and 2s 4d to 3a 6d for fil:e. In the market for British made spirit there is still much firmness. To-day large sales were made in East India Rum at I s aid proof; and of Leeward Island, several parcels were sold at is 4id. A fair business was done in Jamaica at former terms. SA .TPETRE. —To-day a good sale was experienced f or Rough, and 645 bags at auction went at stiffer rate4—good strong grey 3 per cent refraction realised 27s 6d to 28s, 5 3 / ditto 2.75, and d amaged 25s 6d to 26s 6d per cwt. 4 COCHUNEAL.--' • • rw.ts afternoon Cochineal met with greater attention, and 154 bagi llondtu ras at public sale mostly sold at 35 8d to 4 s 3 d for ordina r y good silvers, whilst middling to good black was taken in tt o lid to 5s 3d per lb. Ors.—The market continues to improve advanee f d o r common Fish Southernto lf 1 , 01 to Oils. This after noon pale Seal Uil 324 o ther sorts 271 to 301, Cod 261 to 26/ 5s 321 per ton ; pale 32s to 34s per cwt, and Linseed Oil 26s 6 t d to 26s 9,1. ft TALLOW. —The demand has been more acti ve f or Russian on the spot, and an advance in the value is apparent. Sales to a fair extent have been made, and the rates paid are 40s to 40s 3d for P. Y. Candle of fine quality. For delivery in the last three months of the year several contracts have been concluded at 41s to 41s 3d, and at which the market is firm. A tair quantity of home melted found buyers at 40s to 40s 6d nett ca.h. Other sorts of Tal low sold with more readiness, and at firm rates. At public sale 5 50 pkgs of South American were disposed of at 33s 8d to 393 tor low :to fine • 4so cks of Austrolian 34s t o 40s 3d ; 55 cs k s o f Petersburg' second sat in part sold at 37a 6tl to 388; 12 c k s It a li an taken in at 37a 9d to 38s; and 67 cks Odessa Beef 39s 6d per cwt. For auction 1,000 pkgs of Tallow are declared. Rough Fat is quoted at 2s 3id. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE O F LORDS. Their Lordships assembled shortly atter Five o'Clock. Lord MONTEAGLE presented petitions from several places ih Ireland, praying for an alteration in the poor laws, and a change in the area of t axat i on; also a peti tion praying for colonial reform. The Earl of ABERDEEN presented several petitions against the Scotch Registration Bills. SCOTCH REGISTRATION BILL. The report on this Bill was brought up. IRISH POORA -LW. Lord STANLEY asked for an explanation of the intentions of the Government that e regarding the Irish Poor law, ;and would t o a message be sen t t o th e ot h er House,_lris requesting them ecrmunicate the first report of the Committee on the Poor -law. Either the a Go then ct ; hd, if or had not, subje th ey had, made esde up thei r m i n d s on m i ttee was useks,— ii the thought the Com ya r e h sp a o d nsib n i o li t t'y which they were throwing on the Committee Such he thought, they ought not to throw on t h em. must have been the case. The Committee mumbled, and the Noble Marquis laid before them a series solutions as a foundation for the inquiry. In the o ther re- House the Government had pursued another course ., resolutions similar to those of the Noble M arquis were moved in the Committee of the Commons, not as matters for inquiry, but as a plan a greed upon and submitted as a Cabinet measure. A member of that Committee proposed that evidence should be taken, and this motion was ne gatived at the instance of the First Lord of the Trea sury; as was also a motion that, in the absence of evi nce, this motion should be brought forward on 00 PPOn s ibilitY Of Ills Government. Thus the Indere of the Government in the House of Lords and Commons ' were in direct contradiction to each other. That resolu tion had been reported to the House of Commons, and the First Lord of the Treasury had given notice of a mo tion for Thursday, to found a legislative measure on the resolution. This was a degree of inconsistency in the conduct of the members of the Government which he could not reconcile. This resolution raised the important question of a rate in aid, to be levied upon the solvent to assist the insolvent proprietors of Ireland. He had been told that this proposition had emanated from him (Lord Stanley). The Marquis of LANSDOWNE—No it is not. Lord STANLEY was glad to hear that from the Noble Marquis. What he had said was, that provided they could get an alteration in the area of taxation and of paid guardians, he would consent tqa rate in aid, as a loan to be repaid in more prosperous times, but the Government had adopted the superstructure, taking away the founda tion. This proposition of the rate in aid he would not discuss at present, it should not be taken by itself; if so he thought they would be justified in opposing it, and he hoped it would not be made a ground of recrimination and angry feeling between the repre sentatives of England and Ireland. Much as he should wish to see England and Ireland treated as one in mat ters of legislation and taxation, they were not so at pre sent; and it was not fair in Irish proprietors who were exempt from income-tax to claim that they should be put on an equality as regarded poor rates ; and, on the other hand, he hoped that English representatives would not sanction the im position of a tax merely because it threw the whole of the poverty of Ireland on the whole of its property. Unless mutual sacrifices were made no benefit would arise either to England or Ireland. He protested against the manner in which this proposition had been brought forward. He trusted either that the Committee of their Lordships would be discharged, or that this proposition of a rate in aid would be delayed until their Lordships should have had an opportunity of taking evi dence on the sukeet The Mal quis of LANSDOWNE said, that with re spect to what had taken place in their Lordships' House he had pursued a course perfectly consistent. He had offered suggestions, he had not submitted resolutions, because he was' desirous that ample opportunity should be given to their Lordships to examine the whole of these questions. ith regard to the questions of the Noble Lord, he asked for that which it:was impossible to give, viz., an explanation of the motives actuating a Committee of the House of Commons, as well as those influencing his Noble Friend at the head of the Government. The only resolution which had been • reported was one con nected with the immediate relief of Ireland, and the reason for adopting that course was, that as regarded that resolution, connected as it was with the immediate relief of the poor of Ireland, there was no room for delay. He regretted the neces sity of separating that resolution from the others. He thought that a national poor-rate should be established for 'relit( d. At this moment, in those counties which have been dependent on the potato, the collection of rates was almost impossible, and the present ad ministration of the law gave a direct encourage ment to the sub-divison of land. Admitting the necessity of a rate in aid, and of fixing a maximum, he could understand that the members of the Committee of the other House might deem it expedient to report on those points at once, but in the mean time inquiry was going on, and before the Bill could arrive in their Lordships' House there would be ample time for their Lordships to complete their inquiry; therefore there was only an apparent discrepancy. He objected to a rate in aid as permanent measure, and the measure to which the Noble Lord had alluded, was only proposed as a temporary remedy for a present evil. Lord BROUGHAM said that pending an inquiry before Committees of both Houses into the working of the Irish Poor-law, he would not discuss the subject, but he was glad to hear the reluctance which the Noble Marquis had expressed to the establishment of a maxi mum. They might rely on it that when in a case of this sort they established a maximum, that maximum inevitably became a minimum. They had heard of a grant of 50,0001., he hoped it would be lost. The motion was then agreed to. After some further basiness their Lordships adjourned THE SUN, LONDON, .TUESDA Y FEBRUARY 27, 1849, HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes before Four o'clock. The following Bill was read a second time:—Bin brooke St. Gabriel and Binbrooke St. Mary Inclosuro (Amendment and Extension of Acts, Alteration of Awards, settling Titles to Lands, &c., and defining Parish Boundari, a). DUBLIN CONSOLIDATION IMPROVEMENT BILL. On the motion that this Bill be read a second time, Mr. REYNOLDS said since last he bad the honour to address the House on this subject he had re ceived several petitions from all classes of the citi zns against the Bill. He held in his hand a petition from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and burgesses of Dublin ag ainst the Bill, from the Grand Canal Company, uuer their common seal, from the burgesses and rate-payers of Dublin, amounting to 4 000 in number, both of them against the Bill, and from the president of the Chamber of Commerce and from the members of the Chamber of Commerce, against they Bill. The SPEAKER intimated to the lion. Member that he could not tau the course which he proposed, having on a preview: occasion addressed the House on the Bill. Mr. REYNOLDS would therefore move that on this day fortnight the Bill be read that day six months. After a few words from Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL and Lord LINCOLN, The House divided on the original question, that the Bill be read a second time, when there appeared— For the second reading 23 Against it Majority Mr. REYNOLDS then moved that the Bill be read a second time this (lay six months. Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT moved as an amendment that th , Bill be read a second time this day fortnight. Mr. REYNOLDS objected to the Bill, inasmuch as it was nothing more than a measure which was concocted by an attorney in Dublin, with no other view than mak ing an enormous bill of costs. He construed it as an insult to the inhabitants of Dublin to tell them that they should not be governed by their own representatives, which was the principle which was involved in this Bill, but that they should be governed instead by an ex officio board. He would never be a party to the creation of an irresponsible power. There was another Bill which was likely also to be re ferred to a Committee. If they meant honestly by these Bills. they would re!er them both to a.Committee up stairs. —(Elear, hear.) At any rate they would concur in the rejection of this Bill, and not allow an attorney to foist this measure on his fellow-citizens without their consent. Mr. GROGAN trusted that her Majesty's Ministers would not vote against this Bill without inquiry. Sir W. SOMERVILLE had already stated to the House that this was the least desirable of the two mea• sums; and thinking the Bill was a bad Bill he should do so now. Ile trusted that some postponement of the Bill would therefore take place. Mr. REYNOLDS—My motion is that the Bill be read a second time this day six months. The House then divided, when there appeared— For Mr. Reynolds's motion, that the Bill be read a second time that day six months For Mr. Sidney Herb; , rt's amendment, that the Bill be read a second time that day fortnight Maj , irity for Mr. Herbert's ;mendnierit ... —26 The Bill was then ordered to be recd a second time ;his day foleight. LEEDS AND THIRSK RAILWAY. The Leeds and Thirsk Railway (power to guarant(e interest on certain shares, &c.) Bill was read a secoLd time, and ordered to be committed. LDNDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY. The London and Black wall Railway (Amendment and Extension of Time) Bill was also read a second time and ordered to be committed. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. The North Staffordshire Railway Amendment of Acts Bill was also read a second time and ordered to be com mitted. ST. MARY, WHITECHAPEL. On the motion for the second reading of the St. Mary, Whitechapel. Tithes and Easter Offerings Bill, Mr. B. OSBORNE objected to the motion, be , cause the Bill was introduced at the sugges • Lion of the Rector of Whitechapel, to ex tinguish the rights of the inhabitants of that district altogether, and to give him compensation for that for which he had, in fact, no right to compensation, namely, the tithes of the parish, to which the rector had no title whatever. But, granting that the rector had a clear title to the tithes, the House, he was sure, would not consent to in terfere with, a commutation to which the parishioners were altogether opposed. They were so much opposed to this 8.11, that the promoters had to go back to a vestry meeting held in 1815, but was the proceedings of a vestry held so far back as that to bind the parishioners in 18 49?—(Hear, hear.) He bud now shortly put before the House the cir cumstances of this Bill, but the mere fact that it proposed to legalize a commutation of a 1,0001. a year for tithes, which did not produce 300/. a year, was .—(Hear, hear.) Such measures as these were adis w :r ° a ng ce to the Established Church, and he should therefore move that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. M GLADSTONE deprecated the tone in which the di this s u s e s a d i s t t h e i d s Mr. G. THOMPSON sec onded the amen dment. Bill. Honourable T he Honourable f o r ci Al e l n i t d l d e m l e a s e n x w h o I t u d l d the House more in coming to a Bill had he preferred dealing explicitlyconcluwsiiotnh on the thissir. cumstances under which the measure was introduced to making a random speech against th e Church.— (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman said the Bill called upon the House to sanc t ion a plan for plying the rector 1,000/. a year in of tithes, but he (M r . Gl a d s tone) maintained Bill did no such thi ng . All that be wanted was, that . . that t l t i h eu e the House should a ffi rm th e p r i nc ipl e of the Bill, which authorised the rector to abandon his right to tithes, and the payment by the parish of a certain stipend in lieu thereof, but the House was not called upon to fix that stipend at 1,000/. a-year. The Hon. Gentleman said the parish was opposed to this Bill. True, the parish was divided on the subject, but it was also most true that a large and respectable portion of the parishoners were strongly in favour of the measure, and a petition was about to be presented in its favour which was signed by a large number of the ratepayers, including Dissenters, a Dissenting minister, and some Jews.— (Hear, hear.) Th e o bj ec t o f t hi s Bill was to extinguish claims of the rector of a large and indefinite character, and which could only be enforced through the medium of a suit in Chancery, at considerable ex pense to the rector, and much more expense to the poor -rate Payers, and which was productive of could- derable litigation in the parish.—(llesr.) If the tithes could be collected they would give the rector ccsnsi derably more than 1,0001. a year. The tithes ela;rim-d were equal to a rate of 2s. 9d. on a rental of 96.000/. a year, which would give something like 12,000/ or 14,0001. a year, and what he asked the House to do in reading this Bill a second time was to establish the principle that the claim to these tithes should be com muted for sums not then to be fixed. Sir W. CLAY said it was with pain and reluctance that he was compelled to vote against the Bill. The object sought to be obtained would be more fully met. by means of compromises than by a measure of that kind. He could not see how they were justified in giving an arbitrary sum in lieu of a legal right. It was distinctly understood that the churches in Whitechapel were to be supported by the pew -rents, and he did not think it creditable that such a payment shout] be secured to a clergyman of the Established Church in a parish wbero there were so many non-conformists. For those reasons he was obliged to vote against the Bill. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL cautioned the Hons., against sanctioning the principle of the Bill, which gave power to pay the rector, out of the poor rates, an inde finite sum instead of an uncertain legal claim which h. hall. The claim of the rector had not been clearly made out, but assuming that it had, the principle then is question ought never to have been made the subject of a private Bill. He considered that it would be more satisfactory to postpone the second reading of the Bill and to wait until another Bill was introouced, which would show on the face of It the way in which the rectos proposed to levy the rate. Mr. GOULBURN said, the principle was not a new one, and that it was n.)t the first time that the House had been called upon to affirm it. Two years ago the House had agreed to Bills of the kind, and most justly, because they would prevent much litigation. He supported the Bill, because it would be well for the House to step in and decide between the parties without causing them to enter into a litigation, which would cost ten times the amount of the sum at which they were at issue. Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON wished, on behalf of a large number of his constituents, to trouble the House with a few observations. He understood t . tat the op position to the Bill did not arise from any personal op position to the rector, Mr. Claampneys, who was univer sally blessed by the inhabitants of the pariah,whether con nected with the Church or with Dissenting congregations, They desired tha., the rector should receive that to which he was fairly entitled, but no more. With a view to the amicable settlement of the matter, and the discovery of the exact rights of the rector, the parishioners were making an inquiry, which they were at that time continuing; and if the Honourable Gentleman would postpone his Bill until next &s -sion, he doubted not that those right, would be discovered, and he might depend upon it, when they were, that they would be fully re• cognised by the parishioners. The parties were not afraid of litigation, as there had been repeated and renewed litigation between them, and the result had always ended in the cutting down of the claim of the rector, and of the right of a large portion of the inhabitants to be exempt from the payment of the rate. The Honourable Gentleman had laid great stress upon the claims of the rector. In 1817 the then rector endeavoured to exact as much out of the parishioners as he possibly could. A vestry was called, and though his endeavours were sup ported by the staunchest friends, he could not obtain a greater suns than 1,100/. a year. Mr. Chempneys claimed no more. The parishoners had resisted the payment of that amount, and if the stipend had been reduced on their instrumentality to 4501. ; but now it was 6501. a year. The parishioners were not indisposed to the rector receiving double his present stipend if proper enquiry showed that he was entitled to it. If, however, the stipend was taken out of the poor-rate a great portion of the parishioners would pay it with reluctance, since the payment of it did violence to their conscientious scruples. Sir F. BUXTON hoped the House would allow the Bill to go into Committee. He had been connected with the district by business, and he considered that the claim of the rector should he commuted for a fixed sum, which he considered could be easily settled in Committee. He was (site satisfied that it was for the benefit of Whitechapel that those rights, whatever they were, should now be commuted. One great reason for anxiety with him that the Bill should be passed now was, that at present Whitechapel had the advantage of a most admirable clergyman, and he believed the excellent rector there would feel it his duty before long to re ign, and that another rector would be appointed who might be less scrupulous in asserting his rights. On that account he begged the House would allow the Bill to go before a Committee. Sir DE LACY EVANS said the Hon. Member who had addressed the House from behind him, had pro posed a very decisive and summary mode of settling all the matters in dispute. The Rector of Whitechapel said he had certain claims, and he did not find it convenient to go before a court of law to litigate them; but he asked the House to go before a court of law and get the matter settled for him. He (Sir De Lacy Evans) did not think that a very proper proceedidg. Surely, in these times, it was not advisable to press measures of this kind suddenly on a population, a great portion of whom were Jews and Dissenters. e hoped the Right llon.Gentleman would attend to what had fallen from the Attorney-General, and that he would think it would be time enough to bring the Bill before the House next session. The Right Hon. Gentleman had rather been wanting to the House on this subject. He said there would be a petition presented some day or other; but he was not at all prepared to say when that would be. lie stated that one or two Jews would petition the House in favour of tht mia , ure; but one swallow did not make a summer, or two either.--(Laughter.) There was a vestry meeting last year, which was unanimously of opinion that the Bill was oppressive in its character, and that it would be a great tax on the population. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the second reading Against it Majority against the Bill —l9 IRISH POOR-LAW. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD gave notice that he should on this day fortnight move an amendment on the motion for going into Committee on the Irish Poor law, that a clause should be inserted providing that no rate collected in Ireland as a rate in aid should be ap plied to the general purposes of the United Kingdom. VAN DIEMENS LAND. Mr. ANSTEY gave notice that he should on this day fortnight move an address to the Crown, praying that her Majesty's Ministers should not unnecessarily inter fere with the members of the Supreme Court of that i, land. DENUNCIATIONS IN IRELAND. Sir J. TYRRELL gave notice that he should on this day fortnight move for a copy of the denunciation pub lished in Ireland on the 3d of May, 1848; also for copies of the police reports relative to the denunciations in Kenmore, dated 18th March, 1848 ; 17th April, 1848 ; 24th April, 1848 ; 19th May, 1848 ; and also for copies of the correspondence which had passed on the subject between her Majesty's Ministers and the Government in Ireland. THE WAR IN THE PUNJAUB. Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON gave notice that on this day fortnight he would move for returns of the British troops, regular and irregular, ordered by the Governor-G , -neral of India, or any subordinate functionary, to take the field in the Punjaub, from the 18th of April to the 31st of December, 1848, showing the number of guns, the number of regiments or detachments of regiments, and the strength of each regiment or detachment in officers and men ; also for a return of the camp followers attached to, and officially reported by, each regiment, de tachment, and field department of the tr oo p s so employed; also for a return, showing the number of combatNnts and non-combatants that were paid by the Field Pay department, er subsisted by the Field Com missariat department, during each month of the above period; also for a return of the number of native al ltev, whether commanded by British officers or native sirdars, that were in the field or maintained during the same period. REGISTERED STEAM VESSELS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. Mr. ANDERSON moved for a return, in a tabular form, of the registered steam-vessels of the United King dom, on the Ist day of January, 1849, stating, in sepa rate columns, the foil 'wing particulars:—l, Vessels' names; 2, port of registry; 3, data of registry; 4, regis tered owners; 5, dimensions of vessels in length and breadth ; 6, tonnage, exclusive of engine-room, and gross tonnage, where practicable; and distinguishing vessels built of iron. Sir J. HOBHOUSE had no objections that the returns should be ordered, but he did not think they would ever be gut.—The returns were then order.d to be made. NAVY ESTIMATES. Mr. HUME gave notice of his intention, whenever the Navy estimates were brought on to submit a motion to the House for the purpose of carry , ing out the recommendation of the Committee, of last year with respect to the reduction of the number of admirals in the fleet, and the number of batallions in the army. The Hon. MEMBER also moved, pursuant to notice, for a list, alphabetically arranged, of all persons in Eng land, receiving salaries, pensions, pay, profits, fees, emoluments, allowances, or grants of public money, be. tween the sth day of Jan., 1848, and sth day of Jan., 1849. the amount of which exceeds 2001.; stating, the total amount received by each individual, and distinguishing the sources from which the payments are made, and the aggregate of the whole ; similar return of all persons in England, receiving salaries, pensions, pay, fees, emolu ments, allowances, or grants of public money (not in. chiding those persons paid by wages), between the sth day of Jan., 1848, and the sth day of Jun., 1849, the amount of which is upwards of 501. and not exceeding 2001. sterling each person, the total amount received by each individual, and distinguishing the sources from which the payments are made, and the aggregate of the whole; t=o as to exhibit in those two lists every person in Ent,. land in the receipt of 501. and upwards from those and from all other sources of public money (the Church ex cepted). Also, two similar lists for Scotland, and t wo similar lists for Ireland.—Agreed to. AUSTRIA. Lord PALMERSTON, in answer to a question from Mr. Anstey, said that the Austrian Goyernment had maintained the territory established to them by the treaty of Vienna. GREECE. Lord PALMERSTON, in answer to a question from Mr. B. Cochrane, declined laying on the table of the House the orders given by Sir Stratford Canning when on his way to Athens. Mr. B. COCHRANE then stated that it was their in tention on a future day to move for the paper.. NGE.-aIIIS DAY.) ATROCITIES OF THE NEAPOLITAN ARMY. 11r. BANKES, understanding that there was no obj( ction on the part of the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for the Foreign Department to the motion of which he had given notice, move d an address for copies of the informations received by Go vernment, on which the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs had grounded statements made in this House re lative to atrocities alleged to have been committed by the Neapolitan army in Sicily.—Agreed to. ENGLAND SUPPLYING ARMS TO THE SICILIANS. Mr. BANKES wished to put a question to the Noble Lord relative to a subject of some importance. Rumours were prevalent that some of the arms used by the insur gents in Sicily had come from her Majesty's Government. He wished to know if such was the tact ? Lord PALMEttSTON said that no stores had been given from the Government. The fact was, a contrac• tor who was in the habit of supplying guns to the •'rdnance applied for leave to take back some of the arms he had supplied, in order to complete an order from Sicily ; and on the matter bring referred to the Foreign. office, he (Lord Palmerston) thought there could be no obj,etion to allowing the party to bcak some of the arms upon the understanding he was to furni►h others tor them. Mr. BAILEY trusted the papers would not be cur tailed in any way.—(Cries of " Order, order.") Oh, he would put a question, then, and he would ask whether it was likely that these papers would be mutilated' as for mer colonial documents had been ?—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HAWES—Sir, the question put by the Hon. Gentleman is a most unusual one, and it is calculated to excite a prejudice, which, however, I am happy to have this public opportunity of distinctly and entirely re moving.—(Hear.) It has been stated more thin once by parties whom the Hon. Gentleman knows well, that instances have occurred that dispatches have been cur tailed by my Noble Friend at the head of the Colonial. office for purposes of his own.—(Hear, hear.) It is utterly unfounded. It is altogether unfounded that there has been anything of the kind —(Hear, hear.) It will be remembered that there dispatches were moved for by Lord George Bentinck in a former essien, and an explrnatiou was given by me at the time that these dispatches related entirely to some appre hended disturbances in Jamaica, in consequence of some exciting language used by some disappointed monopo lists at the passing of the Sugar Bill, through this House. That language was to the effect that the parties there were disposed to transfer their allegiance to the United States of America, which had excited considerable dis approbation, and some disturbances were apprehended amongst the negro population of the Island. Now, these dispatches contained particular charges and referred to particular individuals by name; but it was found that these charges which related to certain individuals in the island, were untrue, and the names were struck out of the dispatches, a course which I think was quite right to adopt; and it is a course which I approve of, and which I have determined to take again, if there be any necessity for it ; but I tell the House this, that when the Committee which the Honourable Gentleman had moved for sits, there will not be the smallest objection to place before the Committee the whole dispute was relating to the Ceylon affairs; but they cannot be laid before the House or the public, as they relate to individuals, and the private character of particular parties, and any Minister, in my opinion, would be unfit to continue in his office, who would consent to the publi cation of matters calculated to reflect unjustly upon the character of private individuals.—(Hear, and cheers.) Mr. BAILEY— Will the dispatches be laid before the House. .or. HAWES—Certainly not. Ar Mr. OSBORNE—But they will be laid before the l Committee. HAWES—Certainly. I have not the least objec tion to lay them before the Committee, but certainly not before the public in the House. air. BAILEY—They ought to be laid before the Ho Mr. HAWES—Let the Hon. Gentleman move for their production, and take the sense of the House upon them.—(Hear.) Mr. HUME—But the dispatches relate to the colonies generally.—(No. no.) The matter then dropped. CATTLE AND SHEEP (IRELAND). Mr. BOURKE gave notice that on Tuesday, the 13th of March, he would move for leave to bring in a Bill ;or the preservation of cattle end sheep, and for the more speedy detection of cattle and sheep stealing in Ireland. WINDING UP OF RAILWAY COMPANIES. Mr. SANDERS wished to know whether it was the intention of the Government to bring forward any measures this session for facilitating the winding up of embarrassed railway companies? Mr. LABOUCHERE said an Act was passed last session to facilitate the object to which the Hon. Gentleman had adverted, and it the Aet appeared to require any amendment, he should be ready to con sider any suggestions that might be made with that view, and if necessary, to propose another measure to the House on the subject., Mr. SAUNDERS—, But the Act applies only to joint stock compauies.--(Elear ) THE IRISH DEBATE. Mr. J. O'CONNEI,L said his motion with regard to the Irish poor-law, was first on the paper. He wished, therefore, to ask the Noble Lord (Lord John Russell), as., it was the wish of Irish member& that there should only be one debate on the subject, atiVas, certain parties in Ireland were anxious that certain views should be stated to the House as early as possible, whether he intended to bring on the debate on the Irish Poor Law on Thursday next, and if not, whether he could bring it forward on Friday or Monday? Lord J. RUSSELL was indistinctly heard in the gal lery, but was understood to say that it was his intention to bring the debate on on Thursday. Mr. F,gan, Mr. F. O'Connor, and Mr. Stafford withdrew their motions in order to afford the Hon. Gentleman ( Mr. J. O'Connell) an opportunity of bring ing on his motion on Thursday, Lord ASHLEY said he had so repeatedly postponed the motion which stood in his name for Thursday, that he could not postpone it. Lord J. RUSSELL said he had no objection to ad vise her Majesty to grant a commission on the subject. RELAYS IN FISHERIES. In reply to Mr. HINDLEY, Sir G. GREY intimated that owing to the conflicting opinions of magistrate's, it was the intention of the Go vernment to introduce a H ill on this subject. [LEFT SPEARING.] THE LONDON GAZETTE (THIS EVENING.) ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FED. 22, 1849. The Queen was this da p pleased to confer the honour of Knighchood up n George William Anderson, Esq , Governor of the Mauritius. FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 24. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Christian Ludwig Meyer as Consul at Port Adelaide, in South Aua tralia, for his Majesty the King of Hanover. CROW FEB. 26, 1849. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR. LI &KENT. COUNTY OF DONEGAL. — Thomas Conolly, of Cliff, in the said county, E•ri , in the room of Edward Michael Conolly, Esq., deceased. BANKRUPTS. James Scott, boot maker, Manchester. George Burton, engraver, Bradford. John Armitage, innkeeper, Lintbwait e , Y or k s hi re. James Gill, coal merchant, Litherland, Lancashire. Henry Hill Spurway, brewer, Tiverton, Devonshire. Joseph Woodharns, grocer, Tonbridge. Thomas Atterton, moltster, Rattlesden, Suffolk. Henry Bensley, bricklayer, Southtown, Suffolk. Richard Higgins, an d William Hi gg i ns, drapers, Watling street, City. Thomas Hughes, mealman, Newbury, Berkshire. Frederick Skill, printer, Hugh-street, Pimlico. Henry Loisel, jun., and Alfred Edan, foreign provision merchant, Hatton garden, Middlesex. William Lomas. dealer in tools, Norwich. DIRECT --- LONDON AND PORTS MOUTH RAILWAY COMPANY.—(THIS DAY.) The usual half-yearly meeting of the above company was held this Viten:looD, at the London Tavern (Mr. W. A. Wilkinson in the chair), when the following concise report was submitted to the shareholders : " Since the last meetings of the proprietors, the atten tion of the slirectora has been constantly applied to the subject of the arrangement contemplat, d in the leading paragraph of their report made to that meeting, whereby the funds ex ended on this undertaking might be rendered effectual, t o some extent, for the pur poses for which they were advanced, bat they regret that they are still unable to announce anything definite. It will be seen by the annexed account that up to the 31st December last, the call of 1/. 10s. had been paid on 13,929 shares, and since that period it has been paid on the further number of 1,455 shares, making in the whole 15,384 shares upon which this last call has been paiet. Two of your directors Sir Ralph Howard, Bart., cad John Meeson Parsons, Esq., having since the last meet ing of the proprietors resigned, their places have been supplied by Robert Walter Carden, Esq. and Samuel Laing, Esq. The statement of accounts represented the total re ceipts to amount to 132,5591. 6s. 3d., of which 7,304/, 7s. 23. was received last half year, while the expenditure was put down at 104,974/. 4s. 2d., of which 12,2144 16s. 9d. was :incurred during the past half-year, leaving a balance of 27,5851. 2s. Id. in hand. The report having been adopted, the retiring directors were re elected, and the meeting terminated, with the customary vote of thanks to the Chairman. NEWPORT, AItERGAVENNY , AND —(TIIIS DAY.) :HEREFORD RAILWA I"- The fifth ordinary tneeeting of the above company was held to-day at the London Tavern; Captain Fitz maurice in the chair. The report stated that since the last ordinary meeting of shareholders, the Commissioners of Railways had granted their certificate for an extension of the period for compulsory purchase of lands, on the main line, t o August, 1851, and fur completion of that line to August, 185 5- And the company's powers for purchase of lands on the Taff Vale extension, had been extended to 1852, and for completing that line to 1856. On receipt of this ctrtificate, the directors made another application to the p ropr i e t o rs of the Llattvi hangel, Grosmont, and Hereford tram roads, with a view to a further modification of terms for completion of the purchases of these roads respectively; and they have the satisfaction to announce, that a provisional arrangement had been unanimously agreed to by the shareholders of the three companies, whereby the period of completing the purch ase o f t h ese tram ro ads, and paying the balance of the purcha se moneys, would be postponed. By his arrangement, it would be opitional for the New port, Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway Cecil')lny, either to c; , mplete or to be relieved from the purchase of trese roads. In the event of their not completing the purchase, the money already paid would become for fei'ed ; while, on the other hand, the balance still due on the purchase money of these tram roads, amounting to 28,7301., would no longer be a liability on the share holders. In the meanwhile the revenue of the tram roads would, it is expected, prove sufficient both for payments of interest on the amount of unpaid purt.hase money due to the Tram•road Comp tnie*, at the rate of five per cent. p , -r annum, and for defraying the office expenses during the period of suspension. The balance-sheet represented the receipts to amount to 97,016/. 165., and the expenditure to 94,099/ 2s. 6d , leaving 2,917/. 14s. 43. in hand. The report was unanimously adopted, after which the shareholders resolved themselves into a special meeting, and agreed to a resolution confirming the agreement re ferred to in the report. Thanks were then voted the Chairman, and the meet ing terminated. VALE OF NEATH RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) The sixth half yearly meeting of this company was convened for this afternoon at the Great Western Offices, but there was not a sufficient number of shareholders present to constitute a meeting, and Viscount Villiers, M.P., the chairman, adjourned the meeting sine die. The following is the substance of the &rectors' report: During the past half-year two fresh contracts, which would complete the communication between Neath and Hirwain had been let to responsible contractors, who had been put in possession of land to commence their work. The works on the other portion of the line had been proceeded with satisfactorily. The proprietors would see by the statement of accounts that the sum un paid upon the call due on the 12th April, 1847, amounted, on the 31st Deember, to 11,696/. The directors had hesi tated, during the late severe pressure, to enforce by legal means the payment of these calls; but they were now prepared to take immediate steps for their reco ver y, in every case in which there was a reasonable prospect of success. The directors would use every effort to com plete the lower portion of the line, in order that it might be opened simultaneously with the South Wales Railway. The traffic on this section would con tribute to the deduction of the amount of interest which would otherwise be chargeable against the capital of the company. and would also afford satisfactory evidence of the value of the undertaking, and tend to confirm the opinion which the directors had always entertained of its ultimate success. The balance-sheet represented the receipts to amount to 109,2441., of which 1.240/. was for the past half-year, and the expenditure to 71,2634 9s. 10d., of which 25,5961. was for the past half year, leaving 37,980/. 9s. 10,1. in hand. TAW-VALE RAILWAY and DOCK (THIS DAY.) The usual half-yearly meeting of this company was held this afternoon at the London Tavern, Mr. E. Cooper in the chair. The report stated that as the Legislature bad refused to sanction the lease of the line to the South Western company, the agreement for the lease had been annulled. The Board of Trade would not suffer the guage to be changed from the broad to the narrow; and as the cost of constructing the line upon the bread gauge would cost 70,000 L more than it it were made on the narrow, the oirectors proposed to stop the works. From the statement of the accounts it appeared that the expendi ture had exceeded the receipts by 9524135., the receipts being 143,791/ 9s. 7d., %bile the latter only amounted to 142,838/. 16e. 7d. The report was adopted, and the meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman. LLYNVI VALLEY RAILWAY- (THIS DAY). The annual half-yearly meeting of the above Com pany was held this afternoon at the Great Western offices in the Strand. Mr. Matthews in the chair. The report stated that traffic on the line had been greatly reduced during the past half year, owing to the stoppage a some iron works in the district, and the di rectors were, therefore, only able to pay a dividend of 31. per cent. The old proprie tors, however, claimed the full 51. guaranteed, but that question stood in abeyance in the present and the dividend would be paid to them pro rata with the other shareholders. From the statement of the accounts it appeared that the revenue of the past half-) ear amounted to 3,244/. ss. 3d., and the expenditure to 2,2281. 3s. 2d., leaving 1,0161. 2s. Id. in hared, which, added to the previous surplus, made 1,3391. 18s. Bd. The report was adopted after some discussion, and the dividend having bean declared, thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting terminated. THE SOUTHAMPTON DOCK COMPANY.—(THIS DAY.) The half yearly general meeting of the proprietors of this company was holden at the office of the company, 19, Bishopsgate-street-within, this day, at one o'clock, fur the declaration ot a dividend and other business, and for the election of four directors, who went tut by rota tion. Colonel Barlow, the chairman of the company, presided. Mr. SAINTSEURY, the secretary, having read the ad vertisement calling the meeting, and the resolutions of the preceding half-yearly meeting, proceeded to read the report, which stated that, notwi;hstanding the depression of trade and commercial enterprise, in consequence of the state of the Continent during the past year, the busi• ness of the company is still progressive. 'the earnings for the year ending 31st December, 1848, have been 19,534/. Bs. 7d.; those for the year ending 31st Decem ber, 1847, were 17,3331 14s. 7d.; being an increase of 2,200/, 14s. in the earnings of the year 1848, as com pared with the earnings of the year 1847. The accounts exhibit a balance on the revs nue account, after payment of expenses, of 3,203/. Is.; and the directors are, comequently, enabled to recom mend a dividend, clear of income-tax, of 11. per cent. for the half-year (ten shillings per " share "), being at the rate of 2/. per cent. per annum. At the present meet ing four directors, namely, John Hopton Forbes, Esq., Count Eyre, Admiral Ward, and James Rigmaitien, Esq., go out of office by rotation, but are eli gible for re-election ; and their colleagues beg to recommend them for re-election accordingly. The capital account, up to the 31st of December last, shewed that the receipts amounted to 20,4051, and that the expenditure was 4,1321. 12s. sd. A balance of 24,4871. 18s. Id. remained in hand. The debit side of the cash account exhibited the sum of 50,812/. 13s. Id., and the credit side 32.614/. 17s. I Id., leaving a balance of 18,1971. 15s. 2d. 'the receipts in the revenue account were 10,182/. 18s., and the expenditure was 6 ; 9901.45., having a balance of 3,192/. 14r. The CHAIRMAN then said it would be his duty to pro pose that the report which had been read should be printed and circulated amor:g the members; but before he put the resolution he would address a few words only to the meeting, reserving any information which they might require to leave elicited until he was caked upon to answer any question which was put to him by any one present. There was one circumstance which he would mention to them. An arrangement had beet adopted by the directors, which had been recommend e d by several influential and experienced proprietors, for the employment for one year, of a commercial agent. It had been recommended to them, that very material benefit would result to the interest of their undertaking by employing a gentleman who was acquainted with all branches of trade, and whose extensive connections and his activity and habits of business were such as to ren der it likely that the company would derive very consi derable benefit from his services. Mr. MADDER asked what the salary of the proposed agent would be? The CHAIRMAN replied, for the year, 500 Z Mr. MADDER thought the company could not afford it. The CHAIRMAN thought that the increased trade that would be likely to accrue to the company would be suffi cient to justify the agent's salary. They had maturely considered the matter, and were of opinion that the services of such a person would be of the most signal advantage to the company. Mr. MADDER and Mr. HEATIMELD put several ques tions to the Chairman respecting the management ot the company's affairs, aad their fnture intentions and opera lions, which the Chairman having answered to the satis faction apparently of those gentlemen, the resolution adopting the report was then passed unanimously. The CHAIRMAN moved, and Mr. HEATHFIELD se conded, a resolution, that out of the surplus profits to the 31st of December last, a dividend be declared for the half-year, at the rate of two per cent. per annum, upon the original capital stock of the company, and that the same be paid to morrow, This resolution was also carried without a dissentient, as was also a vote of thanks to Mr. Daniel Maclaurin, Mr. James Arbouin, and Mr. James P. Woadhouse, for the valeanle services as auditors, and requesting them to continue their services for another year. The retiring directors, Mr. John Hopton Forbes, Count Eyre, Admiral Ward, and Mr. James Rigmaiden, were unanimously re-elected, they being eligible, and had offered themselves for re-election. The thanks of the proprietors having been voted to the chairman and directors for the efficiency with which they performed their duties, and to the chairman of the meeting for his conduct in the chair, the meeting separated. TAR SCOTCH IRON TRADE.—GLASGOW, FIR. 24. —The market was rather lively at the beginning of the week. with buyers of pig iron 535. 6d. mixed Nos., and 54i. No. 1; special export brands realised Is. to 3s. extra for No.l. t. o. c. net. This advance has not been main tained, and the price to day may be called 535. to 535. 64. No. 1, and 525. 6d. mixed Nos. paters without any demand. Bars are very firm, and have advanced lOs. per ton on our last quotations. They are now O. 10s. to 71. Plates, 81. 104 to 9/. 10s., with an excellent ex port dtanand. TURNPIKE TRUSTS.--A return moved for by Mr. Cornewall Lewis, M.P., shows that the gross total amount of the bonded debt and unpaid interest on the 1,102 turnpike trusts in England and North Wales amounts to the sum of 8,051,1201., viz., 7 ; 804,3251. in England, and 246,785/. in Wales. The length of road included in these trusts is 21,310 miles. The total re ceipts amount to 1,353,7031, and the total expenditure to 1,344,252/. THE WEATHER.—We have had a week of stormy, unsettled weather, with the wind, up to yesterday morn ing, from the west and north-west. Throughout the early part of the week the air was clear, with heavy gales, but on Friday and Saturday the weather, though less boisterou? was wet, cold, a nd di sagreea bl e . Yes terday the win d was from the south-east. About noon e had a heavy fall of sleet, followed by a drizzling rain. Frequ.nt showers fell in the course of the afternoon. — Liverpool Albion. COURSE OF EXCH Aittsro- an. .. •• • • 12 2 at sight .... •. 11 1 . 9Y 2 ttcrclaw .• •• 12 2 •• .... 25 7 Hunburgh .... • • M.B. 13 11'5,, earls, 3 dayesight .• 25 25 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 50 `4arseilles ........ •• 25 50 Bourdeaux.... , . . 25 55 Franktort on 'Maine. 191 Pettreburgh, Sil. Rble 353 Vienna, effee. •• 11 27 Frleste, ditto.... • • .... 11 28 Aadrid •• ............ 49 Cadiz • • • 49 , ti1ba0........ •• gircelona 5evi11e...... c~l br. Itar .............. ........ ••.. • • 32 30 lemoa ............ • • . 26 60 V enice ............ . ...... • • .... 39% Palermo, peroz ........ 1:8 Messina .............. 119 f)2 Oporto 52;i :tio Janeiro ........ • . I uenos Ayres .. gew York 2I days'sight Ptitiadelpia PRICES or BULLION, FEZ 02 Foreign Gold in bars ...£3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. u 0 0 ipanlsh Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars • ... • • G 0 0 Silvpr 111 hare ........ 0 0 0 COURT CIKCULAR. The Queen walked yesterday in the garden of Buck ingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert attended a lecture on magnetic influence, delivered by Professor Faraday yesterday afternoon in the Royal Institution. Colonel Soymour, Equerry in waiting, attended his Royal Highness. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, tic companif d by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an air ing- yesterday in a carriage and four. Their Royal Highnesses the Princess iielena and the Princess Louisa, were taken airings yesterday. The Royal dinner party yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, included their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary , Prince and Princess of Parma, his Excellency the Cheva lier Bunsen and Madame Bunsen, the Duchess of Suth erland, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne. the Countess of Lopez, Lady in waiting on the Hereditary Princess of Parma, Lord and Lady Dalmeny, and Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley. The band of the Coldstream Guards were in attend ance during the dinner in the Palace, and performed the following pieces Overture—" Maritana" Grand Selection on airs from "Haydee" Auber. Valse—" The Pearl of England" Fantasia—" Les Huguenots" The Coldstream Guards Polka (first time) Tolbecque. Sir Henry T. De La Beebe had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday. Mr. George Moffatt had also an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. Baronet at the Home office. The Harbour Commissioners had a meeting yesterday, at their office in Duke-street. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governor of Gibraltar. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 13 to 2 agst Mr. T. Mason's Prince George 7 to 1 agst Mr. Brettle's The Curate 9 to 1 agst Captain W. Peel's Proceed 10 to 1 agst Mr..). Bateman's Napoleon 13 to 1 agst Captain D'Arcy's Knight of Gwynne—t 13 to 1 agst Mr. Bretherton's Wolverhampton—taken 20 to 1 azst Mr. Russell's Arai) Robber 20 to 1 agst Mr. Crawford's Father Math , w 20 to 1 agst Mr.C. Price's The Iron Duke The two leading favourites, the Knight of Gwynne, arid Wolverhampten, were the only hors( s fancied. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STARES. 8 to 1 agat Mr. Gregory's Loupgarou,3 yrs, sst 2 b —taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. Harrison's Pyrrhus the First, 6 yrs, Bst 11lb—taken 14 to 1 agst Mr. Bourerie's War Eagle, 5 yrs, Sat 131 b No others mentioned. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 6 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Lugar, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b 10 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Canezou, 4 yrs, 84t lib— t 15 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Clarissa, 3 yrs, 4st 9lb 30 to 1 agst Lard Howth's Peep-o'-Day Boy, 5 yrs, &t 71b—taken The only notice tble bets on this event were 10 to 1 to upwards or 1001. agst Canezou (afterwards offered), and 30 to 1, in ponies, agst Peep. o'-day Boy. CHESTER CUP. 25 to 1 agst Mr. J. B. Day's The Tartar, 5 yrs, 7st 81b—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklatn's Inheritress, aged. Bst 61b 25 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Halo, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b—taken 30 to 1 agat Mr. Greville's Geraldine, 6 yrs, 6st 121 b— taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Nolan's Blucher, 4 yrs, 7st 81b 30 to 1 agat Lord Howth's Peep-o'-Day Boy, a yrs, Bst Sib 40 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Lugar, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b—t 40 to 1 ag't Mr. Maugan's Rathmiues, 5 yrs, 6st 101 b—taken 50 to 1 *gist Mr. Blake's Billinafad, 5 yrs, 7st 21b—t 50 to 1 agst Mr. Gannon's Do-it again, 4 yrs, 6st 131 b—taken 1,000 to 10 agst Mr. Westley's Tuscan, 4 yrs, 6st—t Halo and Rathmines were the " lions," the first being backed, in good orders, at 25 to 1, and the latter for all that could be got on, at 50 to 1 (half the odds betted last week), and finally at 40 to 1, the taker offering to go on. Joc-o -Sot was not mentioned, but his stable companion, The Tartar, receded to 25 to 1. DERRY. 3 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman 16 to 1 agat Lord Chiden's Honeycomb—taken 22 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Uriel—taken 25 to 1 agat Mr. A. Nichol's ninny kirk The reacti , in in Honeycomb will not escape notice ; the odds quoted were taken to 1001., and were not ob tainable at the close. Uriel was alto in favour, and no offer on the field exceeded 3 to I. OAKS. 5 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Escalade 6 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Sister to Arkwright 18 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wodastra filly COVENTRY STEEPLECHASES— SECOND DAY. Nominations for the Free Handicap:— Mr. F. Nicholl's Fisticuff Mr. Smith's Duncan Gray Mr. E. Parr's Rosslinda Mr. W. Taylor's Queen of Mr. Welfit's Oily Gammon Hearts Mr. Moseley's Dicky Mit.. Mr. B nbow's Cognac fortune Mr. C. Bedford's Merryman Mr. Moseley's Jerry Mr. Cszawright's Thar- Mr. Stagg na Yardarm g irton Mr. Holman's Verax Mr. Fowler na Little Fanny Mr. Holman's Old Dan Mr. Bretherton's Challenger Tucker Ar. Taylor's Lucy Neal Mr. Riehards's Camphine Mr. Wells na Cy nthia Mr. Eskrett's Shinrone L ,rd Lurgan's Sobriety Mr. Maltby's Slashin i : Mr. Land's Emperor Painter Jr. Land's Painter Mr. Cartwright's Justice tt Mr. Robinson's Gulnare England Mr. Tempest's The Rover LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING. LIVERPOOL. MONDAY AFTERNOON, FIVE O'CLOCK. Arrivals for the Spring Cup—Mogadur, Farewell, Ca !orlon, Reality. Rodney, Li lie. The Knowsley Sakes—Sir Richard. Tee Sefton Welter Cup—Postilion. The Steeplechase—The Curate, The Doctor, Wolver hampton, British Yeoman, Arab Robber, n, Kil fane, The Iron Duke, Sir John, Napoleon, The Knight of Gwynne, Chatham, Coriander, Alfred, Ballyhar, Equinox, Khondoitz. Mignionette and Rickard the First have been scratched. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 26.—The Hat stud, from Sutton Pool, on shore near the Eastern Pier, has been assisted off, apparently without damage. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb. 26. MR. COBDEN'S FINANCIAL SCHEME. Mr. COBDEN (in coutinuatitm from our Third Edition of last night) proceeded to say—lt was stated that the services had been left in an in. fficient state in 1835, and the Hon. Gentleman the Secretary for the Admiralty, would repeat what he had stated be,tore, that the dockyards were in a state of absolute destitution.— (A laugh) But he should remember that this argument had been used once before; for in 1816, wha•n the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) and those actin with him advocated a reduction to the standard of 1792, the answer they got was that it was dangerously low—that Mr. Pitt re gretted having gone buck to it in 1796; all this was re peated by Lord Castlereagh and others —ay, ad nauseam —till at last Lord Grenville, than whom there could be no more able authority, in his place in the House of Lords, denied that Mr. Pitt entertained any such opinions, and that, on the contrary, he had always congratulated himself during the French war that he had reduced tits establishment so low after the war with America, because it had enabled this country to come into the war with France with fresh energy and rigour. The objection to the state of the dockyards in 1835 affected a Right Hon. Gentleman on whose admi- nistrative abilities he had as much reliance as on those of any one in the House ; and he called on him to say during the discussion if the dockyards bad been left in that state of destitution to which they were said to have been reduced. Turning from their foreign relations, the question to which he was bound to advert was that which was always put before them in estimates for the army and navy. They were told it was necessary for our co lonies. The Right Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel), in his celebrated budget speech on the 14th of February, 1845, in alluding to this subject, said : " ()f the 112 battalions of infantry in the British ser vice, there are now 23 in India, 80 are serving in the colonies, and four are on their passage, making in all 77 battalions actually employed in the defence of our colo nial empire. We have 35 battalions at home, not, as is supposed, for the purpose of restraining the population, but for the purpose—and we effect it incompletely—of maintaining the system of reliefs for our regiments serv ing abroad." N6w he asked the House if the time hid not come for them seriously to consider if they could not reduce the expenditure incurred on those accounts for our colonial possessions?—(Hear, hear.) The question had been put to them by his Hon. Friend (Mr. Hume) as long ago as 1822. How much more necessary was it to con sider it now. Free-traders could not possibly advocate the system of keeping up a ruinous military establish ment in our colonies. lie could understand how Hon. Gentlemen, who were Protectionists from principle, or who believed that free trade has an experiment—be- lieving that exclusive trade with the colonies remune rated you for such expenses—could consistently vote for those establishments as long as they expected to regain protection. It there were Protectionists who thought the old system of protection could be restored he was willing they should vote against him.----(near, bear.) But be asked those who thought that, right or wrong, free trade was the permanent rule of the country, how they any more than the free-traders could pos sibly vote that this country should pay for colonial ex pendi(nre? They thought that in carrying out the free trade theory they had given an enormous boon to the oloies, and that in allowing them to trade where they ased taey had reinosed a great oiietaele from their pro- pet ity. There Was a (a.ff renee between the position of sonee of our celeeie and he did net apply those oh servatiete. to all of them. Fer instance, where they kept tip fi trifle l 'dare., like Gibrzletar or Malta, they must pay for their earrisoes. But he maintained that in Austratie, New Zealand, or the Cape of Good Hope —in temperate latitudes where the English race could become indigenous, it was folly and monstrous iejuistiee to ask thi- colliery to maintain those establishments. Tne cenamouest labourer iu one of these colonies was twit , r off trawl the struggling small fa. tiler of Devonshire. He had rend a letter from the wile of a Northampton emigrant in Australia lately, of which the tollusving was an extrect:— '• The only thing that grieves us now is to think of your starving in England, and we in a land of such great plenty. I wi.h you would all make up your minds and come. lam sure you would never repent coming here, for there is plenty o f work. and plenty of money, and plenty of victuals. We never (at less than a quarter of mutton a week for us three, and beautiful meat it is here." Hon. Genntlemen who thought he was speaking and arguing fairly from the principle of tree trade, mus agree with him that they should relieve themselves from colonial expenditure as speedily as possible. In Nen Zealand they had 2,000 soldiers to 20,000 colonists, or one soldier to every ten Europeans, who were fed and clothed at the cost of England, though every one of the emigrants carried his rifle, and knew how to use it, as a matter of course. In Australia, where there were 2,000 or 3,000 men, we were bound to keep them as a sort of police as long as we sent convicts there. But he believed the population would see the troops sent home or disbanded with pleasure, if they were allowed to have the management of their own affairs. He believed that much of the fdrce was required owing to the policy of the Colonial-office.—(Hear, hear.) It was used to keep down rather than protect the English population. He believed it had been truly stated, that only one-third of the troops were needed for the pro tection of this country, while two-thirds of them were stationed in the colonies. That system required a total change, and if it were made there would be no difficulty iu effecting the reduction he proposed. With respect to the armaments at home, he was aware the force in Ire land and England was much larger than in 1835. He was sorry it should be so. But there was a most exaggerated idea as to the necessity fur those troops last year.—(Hear, hear.) They were all under a panic then, and could not argue these things. But they might reason together about them now, when they were able to come to the cool consideration of the subject; and trials had occurred which threw considerable light on what they had designated with the name of a rebellion. There were not a hundred persons contederated in arms together in England and Ireland. Not thirty were pre sent at any of their meetings in this country, and at least six or eight of these were spies. This very im portant fact was to be borne in mind, that what there was of threatened revolution came from Hibernian in spiration. If it had nut been tdr the Irish element there would have been co turbulence at all among the English population.—(Hear, hear.) In justice to the greet mass of the working classes it ought also to be borne in mind thee for eighteen months previous to the outbreak of the French Revolution they had had to pass through a period of great privation and suffering. There could hardly be anything more severe than the pressure on the working classes in Lancashire and Yorkshire in 1847. Under such circumstances everybody knew the tendency which usually existed to turbulence and political excite ment.—(Hear) lint the people knew that every ounce of bread was allowed to come from abroad without paying a shilling of duty; that even the navigation-laws were suspended; that the Government was not placed in a position antagonistic to their rights and intere-ts;—all exasperation against the Government was allayed, and a perfect feeling of loyalty prevailed.—(Cheers.) He spoke not without observation. L had touched him d.eply— it was not without indignation that he had heard it al eged that it was the horse and foot artillery of this metropolis, not to say the special constables, that pre vented the people of this country from rising last year against the Government. lie did not believe it. Ho was happy not to believe it; for their case would be a very bail one were it so. Another point he should wish to mention in mercy to those few deluded men who were now expiating their folly by undergoing the punishments to when they had been sentenced, and it a as a point which he hoped would be taken into consideration that this country, as well as the rest of Europe, was subjected to a shock which affect(d especially men of sanguine temperaments, who suffered, it. might be, from fancied grievances. It was natural that the state of excitement and revolution which ran through the whole of Europe should be felt iu this country. The shock and sensation were to be expected. They had reason to congratulate themselves that it had taken so little hold on the minds of the people. What he meant to argue was that they could not take the actual condition of the people of Eng• land as a reason fer keeping up a large military force.-- (Hear, hear.) From the state, then, of their foreign re lations, especially on the ground that their colonial pos sessions might he put on a different footing, he would say there was no reason why the Government should not be desired by this House, as an act of justice and mercy, to reduce the large taxation of this country.--(Hear, hear.) It was not his intention on the present occasion to tell the House what they might do with the money they might save. He did nut intend to say anything as to how much the; might relieve the industry, the com merce, the agriculture of this country by a large re duction of taxation. He would not dwell on the eousi. deration that the only opportunity possible that Hon. Members opposite, representatives from the agricultural districts, who were anxious to promote the agricultural interest, might have of placing themselves in the way to gain the End they had in view might nor be presented; he meant by abolishing the hop and melt duties in terms of some proposition such as he had made. They com plained of being obstructed in the way of their industry. He acknowledged the justice of their claim. As a con sistent free-trader he would do anything to remove every obstacle in the way whether of the agriculturist or of the manufacturer.—(Hear, hear.) But it. was of no use going to an agricultural meeting and talking of the re ductien of the malt and hop taxes unless they looked at th it arithmetical table which he held in his hand, and from which they would see that it was only by reducing, and largely, the military establishments of the country, that thi y could make room for a large reduction of taxa tion.—(Cheers.) There was the tax on timber, which the Government, he doubted not, would make a corollary ti, the abolition of the corn-laws.—(Hear.) Then there were the duties on t. a, arid so on. lie heard gentlemen right and left of him whispering some favourite tax. — (A laugh.) It was not necessary that he should dwell on the advantages which would accrue lrom such reduc tions. He would have plenty of opportunities. But hi' could net, concluie without urging that while they maintained this root mous establishment they were incurring far great, r risk to this country than any they rata from tereigners by reduction. He would say to those who saw dengers abroad, and anticipated in other times a combination of foreign Powers which might threaten the security of the country, that if he had nothing else to look to than the chance of collision of foreign Powers he might take the same view as they did; but he hoped in justice to him they would bear in mind that the ques tions to be weighed were, what was the danger to be apprehended from the diminution of the forces. and what was the danger to be apprehended to the country if they maintained this en ormous amount of taxation. When it was from the packets of the people, and chiefly of the labouring classes, that the revenue was drawn, when it was taken by im posts which obstructed the trade and industry, commerce tied agriculture, of the country, it wa, a serious considera tion whether they would not run a little risk of danger from abroad in order that they might be a little better prepared to meet that danger when it occurred. Though he had shown that an increase had taken place from time to time, as particular causes suggested, yet it had been said other countries had increased their armaments. But, in the first place, he was of opinion that, with respect to the navy, they had in this country been the great offen ders in the matter. They had been the first to increase, and they had kept increasing in a greater ratio than their neighbours. Jedging from the tendency of opinion in France, he thought there existed a pacific disposition on the part of that people, and any approaches or over tures made by this House and country would gladly be mut by France in a reduction of their army; seeing they had now acknowledged through all their organs of public opinion that their finances were the great diffi culty and z danger of the new Republic; and the only re medy that remained for them as fur this country, was a large redaction of their militaryestablishments. It was not merely to military and naval reductions that his proposed reduction applied. It applied also to the civil expenditure. The sum was a small one. It was not only on the miscellaneous estimates and the consolidated fund that they were to carry out their economy; but there was a large amount of disbursements for the cost of collection, which if they could reduce they would in proportion increase the amount in the Treasury. There was one item to which he looked fur a considerable sav ing. The Noble Lord the Member for Bath (Lord Duncan) had said he would go into the Committee on the Woods and Forests with the hope of saving 600,00GL It would not be difficult to reduce the public expenditure to what it was in 1835. If it were left to him to do it he would spend not more than 10,000,0001. on their armaments; and while he would h ave 1,5 00,000/. more for the civl branch of the public service, he would have 1,600,000/. less for the military and naval establishments than he had in 1835. If the course he proposed were followed, he was confident they might return to the expenditure of 1835. The House itself bore witness to the growth of opinion on the subject ; and seeing the opinion, or progress of opinion, such as it was, he had no doubt a great reform would be effected, and the expenditure brought back to that of 1835. By the reduction of that expenditure, by the removal of those impediments which obstructed the free action of trade and industry, and caused distress, disease, and pauperism to prevail, they would foster those influences which tended to make men happy and contented citizens, instead of miserable, dejected, and disaffected; giving them something to fight for, to pre serve, and to love, instead of making them enemies of the public institutions, mitigating the pressure of taxa tion on the people, and showing them that a govern ment of this kind might be carried on as cheaply as the government of another country, Parliament by so act ing would do more to maintain the institutions of the country, and to preserve it from foreign attack, than by any expenditure they could bestow on warlike establish ment.—(Laud cheers.) Mr. 'HUME st emitted the motion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, while he could not concur in the conclusion at which the Hon. Member fir the West Riding of Yorkshire had arrived, nith,t yet bear testimony to the fair and temperate man ner in which the Hon. Gentleman had stated his view,. —(Cheer,...) The lion. Gentleman ha +, in perfect con sistency with his conduct on former occasions, abstained from making any attack on the present or any pest Government. When the Hon. Gentleman truly stated that the increase of the estimates be►d been made