The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-12 00:00:00

EVENING EIATION LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, May 11. IN RE HASTINGS BARONY. Their Lordship 3 sat in a Committee of Privileges to - the purpose of proceeding with the further eon of the claims to this Barony. The arguments in this case having concluded. The LORD CHANCELLOR intimated that he would give judgthent on Thursday. CARTER V. SIR W. H. PALMER. The arguments -in this appeal were resumed, Mr. Tiemey was addressing their Lordships for the respon dent when their Loidships rose. . . ; COURT OF (StIEESS BENCH, May 11. THE QUEEN V' HOLT AND OTHERS. This was an indictment preferred against the defend ant by a Polish gentleman named Wall. The substance of the charge was that the defendant Holt, with was said to be an attorney's clerk, had conspired with another per son to obtain money from the prosecutor under false pretences ; he having represented that a writ had been sued out against the prosecutor, and that he had de manded and obtained a sum of money from him, to ptevent his being arrested. After a lengthened investigation of several hours, the Nry acquitted the defendants. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.: OLD COURT. Charles Hawkins, aged 30, a drayman, was indicted ;or stealing a watch and other articles, the property of Thomas Davis. Mr. CLARKSON defended the prisoner. The prosecutor deposed that he was a beer-shop keeper, and carried on business at Camberwell. The prisoner was in the habit of coming to his houSe with beer. On the 9th of April, he went to the house of a relative, and when he returned at night his wife, upon his going to bed, gave him some gin and be ler, and he soon afterwards fell asleep,andwhen he awoke about two o'clock, he found that his wife was gone, and upon searching the house he missed a gold and silver watch, a quantity of rid and silver money, and other property, to the value of 801. He had been married to his wife about five months at this time. Cross-examined—He had got a great portion of his property back. Had reason to believe that his wife was most to blame in the transaction, but he had, neverthe k ss, taken her back, and she was now living with him. Edward Ball deposed that on Good Friday the pri soner told him he should want his horse and cart to re move his sister's boxes, but that it would not be till ten o'clock at night, as his sister could not get away before. Witness drove with him to Camberwell, and he waited for him at a public-house until half-past one o'clock in the morning, when the prisoner beckoned to him and told him to stop opposite the prosecutor's house, and he then brought out some boxes and other things, and put them in the cart, and told him to be as quiet as he could. Witness then drew off to the corner of the street, and shortly afterwards the prisoner and the wife of the prosecutor came up and got into the cart, and he drove them to the corner of a court in Grace church-street, and the luggage was taken out and placed in a public-house, and he left the prisoner and the woman there, and went away. The prisoner told him that he should get some money from " her," and that he would pay him in the morning. Cross-examined—He had never been paid for this job. The landlord of the Ship public-house, Talbot-court, .proved that the prisoner came to his house and asked if lie could be accommodated with a bed that night, as his wife was coming from the country, and would not be up to town until late. Witness sat up for him, and about two o'clock he came to the house with a female, and they brought several boxes with them. The prisoner and the female occupied the same bed-room, and they breakfasted together in the morning, and the goods were afterwards taken away by a porter to the steam-packet wharf. The prisoner paid the bill that was incurred. Peter Kendall, a police constable, proved that he went to Margate in pursuit of the prisoner, and found him in a lodging-house there, in company with a female who was in bed. He secured the prisoner, and on searching the room he found a gold and a silver watch, and three sovereigns, two half-sovereigns, and some silver. The prisoner said tl at none of the articles belonged to him, with the exception of the guard chain that was upon one of the watches. In another part of the house he found some boxes containing a quantity of wearing apparel and other articles, which were afterwards identified by the prosecutor, and among them was a canvas cash bag. The prosecutor was recalled, and in answer to a ques tion from Mr. Ullarkson, he said that he was inclined to have compassion on the prisoner, so far as his wife was concerned. Mr. CLAng.soN then addressed the jury at some length for the prisoner, and said that however i mmora l an d dis graceful the conduct of the prisoner might have been, yet be felt satisfied after the evidence that had been adduced Ilbo jury would be of opinion that he had no intention to yob the prosecutor of his properly, and that he was not aware that the articles contained in the bundles belonged to him. They had heard what the husband himself said upon the subject, and he was now plaeed in the unplea sant position of being compelled injustice to the prisoner to cog his wife to state the circumstances under which the property had been removed. The Learned Counsel then called— Mary Ann Davis, who deposed that she was the wife of the prosecutor, and she now appeared to give evidence with hiw knowledge and consent. She had been married :.bout four months when she went away with the pri soner, whom she had known for seven - weeks only. She became acquainted with him in consequence of his bring ing beer to her husband's house. She left her husband's house on Good Friday, and before she did so she had packed up different articles of property, but this was done - without the knowledge of the prisoner. Mr. CLARKSON—NOW, Mrs. Davis, I regret to be com pelled to ask you such a question, but I must do so— who was the instigator of the leaving your husband ? Witness—l was. Mr. CLARKSON—Did you first propose that step to the prisoner ? Witness—l did. Mr. CLARKSON—Was the prisoner at all aware that the property you packed up in the bundles belonged to your husband ? Witness—He did not know but that they belonged to me. By the COURT—The watches were packed up in the bundles. There was no money in the bag, but some of it was in my pocket and the rest in a tea-caddy. The RECORDER—How did the prisoner's guard-chain get on one of the watches ? Witness—l put it on myself. The REconinEa—Who paid the expenses of the Jour y ? Witness—The prisoner paid them. The RECORDER—Did he not pay with your husband's money ? Witness—No, he must have had money of his own. The RECORDER—What do you mean by that—do you know• that he had any money ? Witness—He must have had some money. The ItEcon DER-Will you take upon yourself to swear positively- that he had money ? Witness—l will. The REconuna—There was none of your husband's money spent ? Witness—There was not. I took away 7/. Zs. 84, and only two shillings of it were spent. The ItgeoanEtt—Are you aware that it has been re presented that you took a great deal more money than the amount yod mention ? Witness—lf any one says so, they say what is not true. The RP:warn:a—Then you take upon yourself to swear that the prisoner paid all the expenses with his own money ? Witness—l do. The witness gave all these answers with the most per fect effrontery, and did not appear at all abashed at her disgraceful situation. The husband was recalled, and he said that he could rot tell exactly how much money was taken, but he was certain that 15?. at least was stolen from him. The RECORDER, in summing up, animadverted in se vere terms upon the conduct of the prosecutor's wife, and said that the question for the Jury was, whether the pri soner merely intended to deprive the prosecutor of the person of his wife, or whether he was aware that it was lii pronerty thst was being conveyed away, and that he bit isted in the plunder and afterwards converted a por iti.n of it to Ilk Own use. l i! 4 flie Jury, after a few minutes' deliberation, returned a ` , .'n114 of Not Guilty. _ _ The ftliCoat)i.:a ordered the pr o p er t y t h at h ad been :4 11 ; 1 ,1 to be doliverol to the prosecutor, and at the same ame observed that he had been moat molly treated. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) . . The Court va.' octutpied the whole or the day trying - t .,;fli ng cast e of felony, no one of which possessed the .Igittest feature of public int3rest. TILE CROPS IN SUFFOLK AND, NORFOLK.--, Tlw spring sewing of corn, pulse, and seeds; may be con 'ilered as finished, with tke exception of 'barley, upon line~ where the superabundance of turnips remained so te, as to retard the necessary culture for barley sewing.: ..rae Lent corn . seed season has been successful, generally present • may be regarded as one of the earliest and best of seasons. T he late rains have proved -1 ;`-' , Ileticial to ve , retation. Potato planting proceeds with All the crops upon the ground r present a luxuria n t. an d prom i s i ng appearance. The pastures, I,,, iiitural and artificial, are so forward, that stock, both b.4?alt and she e p, have been some time abroad. H ay and 'straw are in great plenty. The wheats are not, however, in some places,.in a very forward state, and will require a favourabl e an d genial season to bring them to perfec- Ii". The great quantity of keep will encourage both . the reeding an d breeding-of live stock, the price of which is yet very high. Store pigs and mulch cows are dear, and tine a ready sale. The fall of lambs has been satis factory. Good horses only are saleable, but scarce, and bring high prices. The price of fat meat does not equal in proportion the cost of store cattle, which is yet on the advance ; and in some inar:ets the quantity of sheep and lambs has not equalled the demand.—lpswich Express. GENERATION UPON GENERATION.—There is at this time residing at Stock, a boy, named Hills, the spp of an industrious labourer, wh o has five grandfathers Wing. This extraordinary fact is thus explained.—Far row, who hal a father living, married n. young woman named Waldon, whose father was also alive. They had a daughter who married Hills the father of the boy, who had a father and grandfither living. Thus Hills, sen , Jun., Farrow, sen., l Parrow, jun., and I'Vuldon., make the five. Their unite ages amount to 332. W e do not know whether the boy was favoured with a simi lar supply of grandmothers.-- Tyne Pilot Ass-TORYISM.—PeopIe are poor because the cot.dk taxed. The landlords tax the 'corn for their own batted'. Therefore—The landlords work the poor like • ketits of burden. Again :—They who tax the poor, and make beasts of burden of them for their own benefit, must be selfish brutes indeed. The landlords do this : therefore, the landlords are selfish brutes indeed.—Even- VAWICK.-- On Tuesday morning, a heavy shower of snow fell here, which has been succeeded by cold uagenial weather, with heavy rains,—Tyne Pilot. PRICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES &c. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 11. Number Divider.d Price • of per CANALS. ner Share.. Annum. Paid. Share 1,740 7 pc' ccnt. Ashton & Oldham...Average97l.lBs.sh. 110 1,482 41. Ashby-de-le-Zouch .....Average 1131.8 h. 72 1, 60 1,00 54/. Brecknock and Abergavenny ...1501.8h. 93 1 1 ,00.1 1.16 th. 101. Birmingham, 1-16th share ....811. & 711. 200 4,000 ..... 6uo 31. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool. sh. all pl 400 51. Chelmer and Blackwater lool.eli. 101 500 321. C0ventry1................... lool.sh. 600 ..... .DO Cr0yd0n,.......... Average 311.21 10d. eh. - 2,060 51. Os. Dud1ey.............. 1001. eh. 94 • 600 131. Derby ..... -*. .. 1001.. h. 120 20,0 ',O 4 per cent. Danube Mayneand.. 411.135. 4d.pd :`3 3,5754 4' Ellesmereand Chester Average 133;.5h. 81 231 621 . Etewasn .... ........... ............ - 1 001. m. 750 t,29 . 7 301. Forth and Clyde....Averagel ' all. 163. 11. 6fo 11,000 81. Grand junction 100/.Bn 121 2,3494 255. Grand Union lool.sh 20 1,500 1,0001 V. percent. Ditto (optional) 5urrey......„..., Loan 1001. 996 800 131.125. 04. GLmorganshire, Aver, cost 172/.138.4d. ?.20 749 123. Grantham .... 1501.511. da's 6,238 21.05. Huddersfi 31d Average 311.65. 6d. an. 27 100 25,229 11.103. Kennet and Avon, Av. 391. lßs. 10d. sh 2434 11,699} 11. 7s. Lancaster Averdge 471. 6.5. 8d 2734 2,8972 301. Leeds and Liverpool lool.Bh 750 545f111. Leicester ........... l4Ol. all 151 1,897 51.03. Leicester & Northampton Aver 831.10! 73 2,409 101_ Monmouthshire ........... ...... lool.sh 200 2,9 107. Melton Mowbray !Pal. sh . 20G SOO 25/. Mersey and lrwell lool.sh. 555 2,000 2/.los. Macclesfield lOOl. sh. all pd 343 k 347 174 heath 1001. sh. 325 2,400 51. Peak Forest. Avc i.gc about 781. sh. 7336 21,418 S 4. Regent's (or London) Av. 33/.l6sßd. sh. 93.4 509 01. Rochdale Average e3sl.sh. Si 500 81. Shropshire /251.8h. 137 800 101.0. Somerset Coal l5O/.Bh. 180 3,6001. 41 prr cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121.105. sh. 11% 760 36/. Stafford and W0rce5ter..........140 1 .5h. 600 500 151. Shrewsbury ... „ . -........ ........... 1251. sh. 260 gjo 9 /. 3taurbridge......-....„ 1451.8 h. 396 3.64/ 2/, Os. Stratford-on-Avon Ayer... 791. 93. ed. sh. 35 sssl9ll Swansea . ! . t ...:....... ~..... ....... lool.sh. 265 3 . 762 21, log: Severn and wye and Railway Av. 351. sh. 45 2,600i5h. 33/. los. Troth', mid Mersey, i share ....JOU sh. 550 0,149 ......... Thames an: 31edway Av. 191. ss. Bd. sh. 9 1100°40h. 1 161. Warwick and Brrm;23harn lool.sh. 240 980 13. Warwick and taapton" lool.Bh. 160 7,000 41. Warcesica & Birmingham Av. 781.85. sh. 55 3,000 325. Wilts and Berks Average 671. 105. Bd. sh. 20 800 6.. Wyzlev and Essington 1251. sh 74 .26 ... W:soescn .•••••••••••••••••••••...fte. 6.1%4. Ih. SO 905 11. Wey and . Arun......... .......... ...1101. en. 22)4 DOCKS. 2.600 7 1.065i5h. j 3p. c. Commere al ...... -............. 1001.8 h. 63)4 5 - per rent. East and West India ....Stock 99 3.239,310 V. :4. p.c. t. London ..........Stock 70 Ditto Bonds 2,209 Si. 63. sd. Bristol Average 1471.95. sh. 75 48,3241. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOB 1,152,752 5 percent. St. Katharine..„.„....„ .................Stock 951 y 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds .............. ... 1 0 134 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years Deptford Pier ..... .... . ..... 201. sh. 201. pd 10 BRIDGk)S, 1,600 1 1. Hammersmith.. ............. ..........50/. sh. 21 1,231 Southwark, 01d........Av. 63!. 2s. Bd. sh. 3% 1,700 1/. 15i. Ditto, New, 0(71 per cent., 50/. sh. 16 a,OOO 5,000 :2•25. cil. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 601. pd 21 s,o'm I ... 34 Ditto, New Ditto of 71. ... 4Ol. pd 1814 60,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds ... 99 5,848 26s Vauxhall ......Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 26 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3110 s Albion ....... 5001. ah. 50/. pd 72 51,000 1 6 1' n ei c i c i e ,". " } Allianceßritish &Foreignlool.sh. 11/. pd 1351 60,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1004 sh. 51. pd 5 24,000 11. per sh. Atlas .50/. sh. 5/. pd 141 i 1,20015 h. Si. Birmingham I. ire 2501. sh. 551. pd 10734 20,000 41. percent. British Fire 2501. sh. 50/. pd 40 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial Mt. sh. 51. pd 53( 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical & "%led ical Lite, 1001. sh. 21108 pd 534 4,000 31 Os County ........ lOOl. sh. 10/. pd IC 20,000 ss. Eagle.... ..... . ........ ..........501. sh. 51. pd 5 200 fa s n p d er 3o c l e b n s t. .l Economic Life 10001. ah, 250/. pd 40G 2,271 228. percent. European Lit 0 01.,11. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 201. sh. 2/. pd 154 000,000/. 61. per ct Globe Stock 119 20,000 5/. Guardian 30,000 4s. 03. Hope .50/. sh. 51. pd 5 54 2,400 51. 12,. 6d. Imperial Fire 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 133 7,500 9s. Imperial Life lOOl. sh. 101. pd 10 13,452 5/. percept. Indemnity Marine ..-. ... 100/. sh. 8/. pd 29 ' 2,020 31 10s Kent Fire .50/. sh. all pd 92 3/. Ditto Life 5O/. pd 66 10,000 16s. Law Life 100!. sh. 101. pd 30 34 5,000 leg. London, Fire 25/. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 1934 .;?. °4 2, London, Ship 25/. sh. 121 : 10s. j?.l 18, 1,060,0001. ... ..... Minerva 1d1 e ..... ..... 510,0002 30,000 51. per cent. Palladium Life 5Ol. sh. 21. pd 216 s 50,000 5/. per cent. Protector 1; f: 10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Lnssenters ....MO/. sh. Si. pd 5% '1,500 11. Provident Lue ........ ..... 1001. sh. 10/. pd 20 201i,CCO Ss. I'd. Rock Life 5/. pd 4 1 , 19,2201 5/. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock 190 6,000 5 per cent. University Life 1001. sh. 5/. pd 5% 10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 1001. sh. 5/. pd 7% JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25,000 ......... A gric. and Com. of Irelane2s/. sh. 10/. NI 10,000 8 per cent. Australasia. 401. sh. 401. pd 58% 10,000 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 501. sh. 10/. pd 13% 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/.sh. 10!. pd 19% 30,000 6percent. London & Westminster 1001. :h. 201, pd 23 60,000 5/. London Joint Stock 501. sh. 101. pd 12 4000 4 per cent. Lancaster ..... ..............1004Th. 104 pd 30 25,000 10 per cent. Liverp001......... .. ~ .......... sh. 1241 . pd 13% 50,000 71 percent, Manchester and Liverq 50/ ill. 151. pd 10ipool Distrixt.....•••••••••,l • •.' 1..... 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester ........ ... ...lOW. sh. 101. pd 40,0008 per. eent. Provincial Bank of Irelndlool. sh. 254 pil 42 10,000 IS ler scut National Bank of Ireland 501. sh. 1741. pd 150 10,000 6 per sent National Provincial Eng.lool. eh. 351. pd 34% 10,000 Ditto New 101. sh. 104 pd 10% 10,000 ..... .... Gloucestershire 501. sh. 101. pd 32 6,000 lOper cent. Hampshire 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 lOs Od Bath 201.3 h. 161. pd 22 5,000 ..... .... British ........... .... .404 sh. 161. pd 181 5.000 15a/xrcen ße. ats.3 Ditto Provincial .....„..201. sh. 191. pd 25 928 51 105 Birmingham... .......... .............•.501. sh. 96 4,250 210 s Bristol .............. .......... ....... ...20/. sh. 36 2,950 Si 108 Brighton -.. .... -........................201.5h. 13% 750 31 104 Ditto, New 0 0/. sh. IN. pd 1/ 2,471 4i per cent. Brighton General • 204 sh. allpd 9 4,000 71. 05. Continental Consolidated ....751. 6241. pd 102% 1,000 101. City of London.. ....... .....100/. sh. all pd 195 1,000 61. Ditto, New 100/.811. 75/. pd 150 4,000 31.05. Equitable Silt. pd 20 10,000 3/. per cent. Imperial Ml. sh. COU SOO 51. per cent. Isle of Thanet 25/. sh. 204 pd 1834 2,350 6/. per cent. Independent 30/. 511. all r., 49 9,000 41. per cent. Phoenix 5O/. eh. 391. pd 34 1,000 41. per cent. Rateliff lOO/. sh. 80/. pd CO ,000 South Metropolitan 501. sh. 19/. pd 16 9,000 M. per cent. United General 501. sh. 471. pd 30 240 5!. per cent. Warwick 5O/. sh. 50 400 51. per cent Wakefield 2,000 31. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New ... ...... .. ..... ...5i 1. sh. 104 pd 1131 790 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2O/. *h. 181. pd WATER WORKS 1,000 31s. Birmingham 251. sh. 251. pd 21 4,t3 71 . East London 1004 eh. IC4 5,5 t s 1 21 155. Grand Junction Average 41/. I.ls. 4d. sh. 61 2,000 2/. Kent 1001. sh. 4634 372 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 926 1,500 2 /10s New River London Bridge Water Ann... 60 5,486 21 lOs Manchester and Salford 1001. sh. 553¢ 1,000 5 per cent. South London lOll4 sh. 10434 3,294 4i4 West Middlesex Average 631.1128. 94. ab. 92 1,360 1114, York Building Cm. Lessee /kop. 1001. ah. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6 , 300 ..... .... Birmingham and Derby ..._ 1001. pd 68 1 1 4 9,590 15,4410 ....... Bristol and Exeter ... ...... 100/. sh. 01 pd 3714 7,500 Cheltenham& G. Western 100/.Bh. 62 01. 3,009 Clarence 100/. sh. 1001 pd 33 8 . 000 „.. ...... Dublin and Drogheda 100/. sh. 5/. rid 30.1101 ..... .... Eastern Counties 25/. ah. 234 pd 9 10,000 Great North of England 1004 sh. 901. pd 7.i 10,918 14 per cent G Gr r a e ndJit e n s c t t e i r n i t 100/. sh. all p i l 209 i l 2; odo 25000 Ditto New. . . W. sh. 20!. pd 04 3,000 per cant Gosport Junction.. 504 sh. 401. pd 47 9,000 5 per cent. Hartlepool 1601. sh. 100/. pd 145% SAO ..... .... Hull and Selby 501. sh. 504 pd 45% 2,100 4/. percent. Leeds anti Selby MO sh. 65% 5,100 10 per cent. Liverrool & Manchester 101 I.sh. 1004 pd 105 7,068 leper cent. Ditto Ilalf Shares 50/. pd 90 11,495 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares ......... ... 254 pd 45 39,4439 ......... London and 8right0n......501. sh .. 504 pd 47% 24,00.1 London anti Blackwall 25/. sh. 251. pd 19 50,001) 3 per cent. Lon.lan anti Greenwich...2o4 sa. 204 pd 8% 25,000 815'r cent. London le Birmingham lOW. sh. 904 pd 159 25,001 Ditto Quarter Shares ....254 sh. 51. pd V% 31,250 Dit ti New Shares .321. sh. 321. pd 51% 34,000 5 per cent. Lnution anti S. Western Av.:381,175. 94, 147 33,1100 ... ...... London and Croydon] Av. 13L 15s 0,1 It kl Ditto New Scrip.... - -- ' - 1i 4 13,000 3 per cent. Manchester and Leeds...loo4 sh. 70/. pd h; 0,0 , 0 ,„ ...... . Ditto Ilalf Shares W. 251 pd 27 10,001! Al t nettester and Birmingham 704 sh. 404 2.4 54 Ditto Extension 7l. pd ti ... ...... !tow Midland Counties ...... ...100/. sh. 1001, pd 99 15,000 North Midland Ditto New 40/. rd 35 4 5,128 Northern and Eastern...loo/. sh. 504 pd ' 28 „„,8110 Preston and Wyre 5Ol. sh. :101. p(1 58 ~4,001) ..... .... South Eastern and Dover ....... .. W. 16 1,000 101 , per cent. Stockton and Darlington ---,IOW. sh. pel 275 9,00:1 Thatit,s Haven .501. sh 54 pd 6.000 ...... ... York and North Midland 50 . sh. 50/, pd 73 MINES. Albion Copper 5/.3 h, 2J!. pd 12 11. so. Alten l5l. sh 121. it .pd 10 A ngio Mexican,iss. 54 pm.lool. sh. a! 1 d 1% Ditto Subscription ... ..... ..........251. sou 114 2,000 104 Bolanos ......, 1501. sh all pd 35 Braziltanlmp. iss. 51. pni 354 sh. 901. I id 5 6 'O. OO O 0 (41) 11. 11111 Macaubas & Locaes United 25/.5h.254 pd 6 11 , Ditto St. John Del Rey -.204 sh. 14/. pd 24 IC,O(X) 00 Colivar Copper Company, 201.8 h. 20/. pd 1 10, 000 Ditto Scrip lO4 sh. 10/. pd 9' ......... 20 000 British Iron lOO4 sh. 601. pd , 000 British Copper 51. sh. 441. pd 1% , Cat Br.inca 6 1 1 pd 6A, ...... ... Candonga... .. 10,000 1 1 Copiapo .................„.»..201. sh l3/. pi 91 4 8,500 ... Columbian, iss. 51. pm. ....55/. sh 551. pd 01 2 i 050 31. English 20,000 „, ...... General MiningAssociation2o4 sh.lB/. pd I% 6,155 Mexican Company lOOl sh. 57j4 pd 6 3,000 11.500 Real del Monte, Unregistered.... ..... ... 2 q Ditto Loan Notes. Au pd 160 50,000 Ditti. Scrip..... 3% Ditto New Scrip 51 pd 4 West Cork ...n.............501. sir 50!. pd 38 LITERARY .i!isTITUTION. 8,000 4,000 Io,oot , ...... 1,000 ••• London, with Bronze Ticket ...75gs. sh. 1 6 1,500 London University lOOl. sh. all pd 7 7011 ••• Russell... King' Collega ............................. ...25gs. sh. 6 ....... .............. 100/. 1934 MISCELLANEOUS. in , ;or; 15s. Australian Agricultural.loo/.7sh. 281, p d 40 6, X4l 1. per cent. British American Land Company 31,.. pd 10,000 61. per cent. Canada Company ........ .11)0/. sh. 3'.:11. pd 31 Noce 5/. per cent. Upper Cana,.a Loan .......... ~ ............ 80% City Bonds, 4 per cent ..... . .... ... ........ 100% 2%009 IL 6s. General Steam Navigation 151. sh. 14/. pd 2431 • 10/.percent . Hudson's Bay Stock ....... ........... ...... . 254 ,C`lo 11. London Com. Sale Rooms... Av. 75/. sh. 19 ,00C ........ Caoutchouc Company ................ 124/. pd 12 ,„ .51 51. m New Brunswick Land CompwAy...s4/ nd p, ' per t. Reversionary lot. 50c...1001. s h. 1004 iv, 107 2,1;a1 5/. per cent. Ditto New 1001. sh. 100/, pd ph 4,000 : n ,OOO 0 1 . Van Dic.ner e s Land... 106/. sh. 174/ . pd ii LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES MAY 8, 1841, BANKS. 1,000,6061. 6/. p. ct. flank of Scotland ...W. As. lid. sh. all pd 159 2.000,0064 6 p. ct. Ilryal 0/Scotland 1004 sh. all pet 154 500.00111. 8 p. ct. British Liam Comp Any 100/.0). all pd :5.; 500,006/. 1;1.11. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. I OW. pd 169 500,01101. 09. cc. National lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 14 1 ,4 500,0001. 7!. p. et. Olssgow Union 250/. sh. 50/. pd 85 1,000,06.(U. 6p. ct. Western of Scotland .-4001. sh 401. pd 72' INSURANCE COMPANIES.. 250.0005 h, 6i p. ct. Scottisli Union 201. sh. 11. pd 24t.0d. 7 s s ( p) 7p. ct. Hercules lOO/. sh. 104 pa 1314 prow sp. ct. Insurance Co. of ScotlAnd .101. sh. all pd 10 good Bp. ct. North British 2OO/. sh. JO/. pd 17 ion Bp. ct. Caledonian Fire NM sh. 101. pd 20 5 , 000 6p. ct. F.dinbu.rgh Lire 1001. sh. 101. pet It% 1 00 , 000 31 p. et. West of Scotland...... ........... .... 101. pa MISCELLANEOUS. 2nd Gins. Un. Canalso/. sh. all pd 1434 Ditto Allocated;.....-........ 9114 sh. all pd lB 5,40! h ner cent. Edna Joint Stack Water.2h/. sh. all pd 31% 2.00 sh /5 per cent. Shotts Iron Founihav 50L sh 48/. -d 42 MOO 3 per Cv.ll. Sz Leith Glass 20451 i. 1111. pd 3% 4,5n0 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal (-las ..... QSI, Rh. all pd 6,4h0 10 per cent. t ia.gow iias ...... al. all pd 52 751 7i per cant. '-eith Coal fias 4/...h. all pd 1,154 Edinburgh ond Dalkeith rtar.way 504 sh 21 4,5!8 ... •0••• AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—On Friday, the 7th inst., an inquest was held at Melford, by llarry Wayman, Esq., Coroner for the Liberty of Bury St. Ed mund's, on., the body of Thomas Howard , a labourer, employed i n th e gar d ens of Sir Hyde Parker, Bart. , of Mulfo r d H a ll , who, on Thursday, while working in the gardens, suddenly fell down and expired ; he is supp osed to hav e di e d from the effects of a cold brought on by working in a ditch. The Jury returned a verdict "Died by the visitation of God."—lpswich Express. I Tlll4l SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 184 i. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.I FROM VIZ EVENING TAPERS OF TESTERPAY. GLOBE.—The Provincial Journals which have reached • us during the la.st week, and especially those of Saturday and yesterday, are full of most convincing proofs of the joy with which the movement of Ministers, in order to effect an extension of trade with foreign countries, by a relaxation of the laws by which it has been restricted, has been hailed by the great mass of the people. The usual modes of expressing satisfaction witN a measure before the Legislature, and a determination W afford its authors all the aid which it can derive from public meetings and petitions in its favour, have been taken. In the course of the present week we shall see, not merely the table, bu the floor, of the House of Commons covered with pethions for the adoption'of th epl an to relieve our declining.commerco and to supply our sufferingmnnufacturing population with the means of obtaining bread by their labour which the Government has announced, and which the parties in terested in monopolies have combined to defeat. The powerful interests identified with the monopolies with which the proposed change in our commercial sys tem will interfere are, of course, uniting their energies to destroy this last hope of the miserable masses, compelled to purchase the essential articles of human food at a price which forbids their obtaining them in quantities sufficient for their support ; while that very system of prohibitory duties excludes the products of their labour from foreign markets, and thus leaves them but half employed ; or compelled to tax their powers of labour to an extent beyond the limits of endurance for wages below what will procure a sufficiency of food. This has of late been; to a fearfully increasing extent, the condition of tens of thousands of our suffering country men. Their hope is in that Being whose " tender mer cies are over all his works," but whose benevolent pur poses are accomplished by human agency. In the hour of their extremity amelioration and ultimate remedy are placed before us in the comprehensive scheme of the Government. The scheme attacks the monopolies in which the commercial distresses of the country had their origin. The parties interested in these monopolies trust in their wealth and influence to counteract the pur pose of the Ministers. The Tories, whose political sys tem is opposed to change, and who hope to obtain office by the aid of a few members who have supported the general policy of the Government, but will vote against their plan of finance, either because they are personally interested in the maintenance of monopoly, or are under the influence of a philanthropy which mistakes its aims, are elate with joy at the prospect of obtaining the ob ject of their hopes. They will succeed, if prompt and determined demonstrations of popular support be not afforded from every.part of the kingdom. STANDARD.—Mr. Grote's reasoning proceeded alto ( gether upon the necessity of free trade to the interests of the consumers, throwing on one side all moral and patriotic considerations. It may be permitted to us, who . have been from the first opposed to the doctrines of the school of Mr. Hnskisson, who, however, never went so far as the present Ministers (with his pro Corn-law speeches), to remind our elder readers that we many years ago demonstrated the fallacy of the free trete doctrines, by showing that, carried to their full exte - 'it, they must lead to the trade in blood—must completely Otinguish every quality which goes to con stitute apatriot of Christian. We were laughed at for the extravagance of such xi deduction, and told that the moral principle and the spirit of I . : 1 . nate patriotism would always present insuperable barriers—ao-so they will, we trust, as regards the British nation. Big, it is plain that Whig-Radical Ministers and philosophic?" Radicals— the persons who laughed at our folly—rekct such restraints now ; and now it is our turn to smile. it is not, however, on moral grounds only that free trade ought to be an objeet of suspicion to prudent men. Free trade gives the reins to a spirit of gambling which, like all gambling, ruins millions in the succession of its fluctuations, and rarely fails to ruin a nation which indulges in it in the end. We hear a great deal of the impolicy of the Corn-laws, causing an excess of cultivation, and in some years a re dundant supply ; but no one thinks it necessary to speak of the impolicy of encouraging over-manufac turers. Yet the mischief of over-manufacturing is the greater, as for once that the demand for grain has failed, the demand for manufactures has failed a dozen times ; while the multitudes thrown out of employ by what is called a stagnation of trade, is tenfold greater than the number thrown out of employ by a too abundant harvest. Now, if such evil is unavoidable even under the present system, what bounds can we fix to the constantly recurring calamities that must be anticipated from an absolutely free trade ? COURIER.—The Ministerial trumpet has now been sounded through the length and breadth of the land for one good week with as much of soul-stirring effect as a penny whistle. The people will not march through Co ventry to such a puny rappel, and under the Ministerial banner. And yet the Chronicle does manage to achieve and record its one or two glories. As, for instance, to-day it commemorates an heroic epistle from Messrs. G. L. Jackson and Son, ship-owners, of the appropri ately classic region of Water-lane, in which those worthy persons take leave to dissent from the course of the great body of the shipping interest, which has so energetically thrown itself into the breach against the destructive assault on all interests by the Government. Messrs. Jackson, in consequence, request their names to be erased from the books of the Shipowners' Society, which, for anything we know, may peril the existence or lead to the dissolution of that powerful body, as it may bo taken for granted, although we may chance to be ignorant of the fact, that the great names of Jackson, like those of Baring, are a sort of convertible terms for comprehending all that mighty mercantile marine, whose flag proudly waves on every sea and on every coast, " from Indus to the Pole." To this renowned letter from Water-lane moreover is ap pended a post-scriptum, in which, like that of a fair lady, lies all the sting or marrow of the missive. Further, moreover, to grace the show and swell the progress of triumphant free-trade revolution throughout the coun try, the Chronicle has hit upon the happy expedient of dividing the reported proceedings of such meetings, public or hole and corner ' as may be held, into two separate portions, of which the first is given one day and the latter part another. By this economical pro vision a small stock of agitation may always be kept in hand to bh doled out, but not wasted, in succession. Accordingly, to-day we have the lengthy second part of a Liverpool gathering, the first of remittance having been duly honoured yesterday, in which, oddly enough, the only man or speaker who figures at the meeting, who is the whole meeting, and nothing but the meeting (save one), is a person of the euphonious name of Corden, believed to be an Alderman of that name, not even a Li verpool but a Manchester man. This, again, is a thrifty way of getting up a makeshift of popular demonstrations. MARKET INTELLIGENCE (From the London Mercantile Journal of May 11.) SUGAR.—There were buyers of West India Mus covades both for refining and the scale, and about4oo hhds and tierces changed hands privately at the extreme rates of Friday. A public sale of 150 hhds Barbadoes went off with spirit, and brought 65s 6d to 71 Gd for middling to fine bright yellow. MAIIIIITIUS.-1,086 bags were put up to public sale, the whole of which found buyers with a spirited compe tition, and the prices realized were full 2s per cwt higher than those obtained at the last auctions, or about is above the previous private transactions ; fine yellow at 68s to 68s 6d, good ditto at 65s 6d to 675, middling to good middling ditto at 61s to 63s 6d, and ordinary 'arown at 46s to 46s 6d per cwt. A parcel of about 7,500 bags of this description was sold by private contract, at prices nearly assimilating those of the above sale. EAST INDIA.—Two parcels of Bengal were advertised for auction to-day, consisting of 3,063 bags ; one parcel consisting of 742 bags, were however withdrawn, and the remainder sold without spirit, but at about 6d ad vance on the last auctions, or upon the same t erms as the previous transatsioni ty private contract ; good and fine white 66s to 68s. 6d, 'and middling and good middling ditto at 63s to 64s Gd per cwt. . REFINED.—Prices were firmer to-day for refined goods, and a fair demand existed ; for standard lumps 90s Gd was paid ; the supply is small. Bastards and Pieces have attracted more attention, and stiffer rates have been given. Treacle dull of sale. Bonded Crushed Sugar is held for 30s 9d to 31s, b u t th ere are f ew b uyers. UOFFEE.—The market was very flat to-day, and prices still unsettled. The public sales offered 3,063 bags Havannah and 1,543 bags 30 'casks Java, all im ported via the Cape of Good Hope ; the former was about half disposed of at is to 2s per cwt. lower prices ; good ordinary yellow at 48s to 50s • good ordinary p a l e being bought in at 46s to 47s ; die latter was a very good parcel, and principally found buyers at steady prices, viz., superior green at Gls 74s 6d, fine ordinary coloury at 635, good ordinary coloury at 63s to 66s 6d, and good ordinary mixed pale at 60s to 61s 6d ; a pile o f good ordinary bold yellow, bulked, was bought in at 60s per cwt. TEA.—Yesterday there was considerable excitement in this market, and a large business was done both by speculators and the trade, but chiefly by the former ; Company's Congou, which opened at is 10d cash, soon rose to 2s to 2s OP per lb, but almost immediately after receded to is 104c1 ; during the afternoon how ever the price rallied to is 1 lid, and finally closed at is lld per lb, sellers. The sales in free trade descrip tions were chiefly in the black and lower kinds of green, and Is 10d to Is 10Id cash was obtained for low Con gou and Twankay. To-day the market .was quiet, and prices drooping, li the ardour of speculators having abated. Company's Con gou opened at Is 10 : 4 1 d, but declined during day to is 10d to is 10(10 per lb. On 'Change there were few buyers at this price. The John o'Gaunt from China, has arrived at Liver pool • sailed, .Macao 23d January, and St. Helena 24th March, with about 8,000 packages of Tea on board. Paovistorts.--The prices of Irish Butter arc now perfectly nominal, scarcely a sale having . been made. The reduced prices of foreign Butter as quoted last week caused a brisk demand for the article, and prices rallied ; fine Dutch is now; taken off freely lit 96s to 102 s per cwt. Lard steady at previous rates. There. is little business doing in Bacon, and prices are rather lower, notwithstanding the continued high rate still paying for Pigs in Ireland ; sales made in sizeable Wa t,•rford landed at 561 to Atia, and in prime Limerick at 1 5 ,, t i s n t g o i 5 n fi c s lin ; transactionselototily at e prices fre9o lked ; board, say 57s to 58s for prime, and 51s t o 54 4 f or heavy: the trade not Rt&—Two parcels of East India were offered by publie auction to-day, comprising 3,907 bags Bengal and 500.baga Madras ; the former chiefly sold, but at 3d to 6 d under previous p r i ces , viz, Middling and good mid dling white at lls 6tl to 1.2 s ad per cwt ; the Madras was bought in at lOs 6d for good yellow pearly. PEPPER.-100 bags black and :12 bags white, were offered at public sale, and disposed of at 31 for good fair Sumatra, being b are l y t h e value, • CASSIALIGNEA in demand, but 1 02 cases offered at public sale, w ere a ll b ought in at 4s a b ove the 44 recent auction, viz. middling at 95s per cwt. SALTPETRE.—The market continues firm and the de - • mand steady ; a parcel consisting of 1,140 bags Bengal, was disposed of by public auction at 27s to 27s 6d for 41 to 34 lbs refraction. INDIGO.-36 serons Spanish were put up by the ham mer, and sold at 2s 8d to 5s 7d, being rather cheaper for ordinary, but the full value for the better lots. COCHINEAL.-126 bags were brought to the hammer, and chiefly sold at and after the sale at steady prices ; ordinary lacks at 5s to 5s sd, and ordinary to middling silvers at 3s 8d to 4s 6d per lb. Woo L.— The public sales of Colonial and other Wools, which occupied the whole of last week, went off with much spirit, and showed a better result than was generally anticipated from the very dull state of trade in the manufacturing districts. Nearly the whole was „:Id, and prices much the same as at the last auctions. Th e quality put up was 4 , 000 bales Colonial, and 1 , 600 b ales foreign. Australian fetched is to is Bd, in grease 8c: t o 10 ; Van Dieman's Land 10d to is 4d, and fine flee is 8d to Is 10d, in grease 7d to 9. d ; East India 2-414.1 to 7 0 ; Buenos Ayres 3id to 11. d ; German Lambs 1d to is lld ; Russian sid to is 7 d ; and Italian bid to ,w 4 per lb. _ 1 -ket remains dull, and to effect sale ae :n9ted. The quotation of fine T TALLOW.--The .p—riT prices se are rra, P. Y. C. on the spot, on'Ca.qnge, was 475. 3d, per cwt. OlL.—Linseed Oil continue in limited request only, and prices are again a shade easier ; on the spot 29s to 29s 3d accepted. REPORTED SAFETY OF THE -- PRESIDENT STEAM-SHIP. On Saturday - afternotin a very great sensation was created in this city (Exeter), by a report that C. Gordon, Esq., a Magistrate of this county, who is now living at Havitree, had received a letter from Plymouth, brought by a ship from Barbadoes to that port, which stated that the President had made Barbadoes in a dismantled state, but with her crew and passengers all safe. Our first impulse was to consult the packet list, where we find that the Tyrian, which arrived at Falmouth on Tuesday, left Barbadoes on the 16th of March, and as the storm which mu3t have disabled the President did not take place until the 16th, 17th, and 18th, she could not arrive at Barbadoes until long after this packet had sailed. This increased our hopes that the rumour would prove true ; as a vessel coming direct from the island would arrive here in less time than the packet ; that is, a vessel might leave Barbadoes the first week in April, and arrive here the first week in May. Our next course was, to see Mr. Gordon, who, with much politeness, gave us the following information :—lle had received a letter from his son, who lives near Ottery, in this county, which states that a letter had been received at Ottery from the Bishop of Barbadoes, or through the family or establishment of the Bishop, addressed to his friends at Ottery, saying that the President had ar rived there as above stated. The difficulties to which this account is liable are these :—The same means of conveyance which brought a letter to Ottery, would, in all probability, have brought other accounts ; and the captain of the vessel by which it came would also have given information ; still we have known so many in stances in which true accounts have been brought in the most unaccountable way, coupled also with the fact that no accounts have reached this country from Bar badoes since it was possible the President could have made that island, being the best place for which she could make, if disabled by the storm of the 17th of March ; weighing all these things together ' we must still preserve hope that this account, which we have now given as ru mour, will prove in a few days to be a well authenticated fact.—North Devon Chronicle. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, May 1 1. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woo sack at Five o'Clock. Messengers from the House of Commons brought up certain Bills, which were respectively read a first time. Lord STRAFFORD presented a petition from Lon donderry against lay patronage in the Church of Scotland; also a petition from a place in the same county for the repeal of the Corn-laws. Lord ABINGER presented a petition for the suppres sion of the tolls on metropolitan bridges. He could not concur in the prayer or in the reasoning of the peti tion. He thought the bridges were private speculations, which ought to be paid for by those who use them. He did not think the public money should be applied to re deem those tolls. Lord HATHERTON said that the principle laid down by the Noble and Learned Lord, would apply to the advance of money by Government towards the building of London-bridge.----(Hear, hear.) Lord BERESFORD presented a petition from Ber mondsey, also against the bridge tolls. He supported the prayer, and thought it very desirable that the tolls should be redeemed, if the money could be raised in any reason able and equitable manner. Lord DUNCANNON said that the subject had been referred to the Select Committee of the House of Com mons on Metropolitan Improvements, and until the Re port of that Committee was received, the Government could not determine upon taking any course. Lord lIATHERTON presented several petitions re lating to Sunday traffic on canals. Lord HADDINGTON gave notice that on the second reading of Sir Walter Scott's Monument Bill, he would move for the insertion of a clause to facilitate the trans fer of tho site. ARMS (IRELAND) BILL. Lord DUNCANNON moved the second reading of the Arms (Ireland) Bill. He said it was considered ne cessary to renew, for another year, this measure, which was now about to expire. The only alteration that had been made in it since last year was, that any person wish ing to register arms should give ten days' notice. After some verbal amendments, the Bill was read a second time. Lord DUNCANNON then moved the second reading of the Dublin Wide Streets Bill. After a few words from the Earl of WICKLOW, in approbation of the measure, the Bill was read a second time. SLAVES' COMPENSATION. On the motion of Lord DUNCANNON, the Slaves' Compensation Bill was read a second time, the object of the Bill being to enable the Government to settle the claims still remaining without reference to an arbitrator. Messengers from the Commons brought up the Pol lee and Govan Railway Bill, and several other Bills. The Administration of Justice (Borough's) Bill was laid on the table by the Marquis of NORMANBY. The Bill was ordered to be read a second time on Friday. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition from Dublin, praying that Liverpool should be made the station for the West India packets. The Noble MARQUIS presented also several petitions from Ireland, on the subject of Medical Reform, and the remuneration of medical officers to workhouses, and other public institutions. The School Sites' Conveyance Bill then went through Committee, in which several verbal amendments were .agreed to, on the motion of Lord DUNCANNON. Lord MOUNTCASHEL begged to ask, whether there was any clause excluding Ireland from the operation of the Bill ? The Marquis of LANDSDOWNE said that there was no clause to that effect, but he intended to move the insertion of one, for that purpose, in a future stage of the Bill ; and to bring in a separate Bill for Ireland. The Bill was then reported and ordered to be printed with the amendments. To be read a third time on Thursday. INTEREST ON PROMISSORY NOTES. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the amount of interest now payable by law upon promissory notes. He would not now go into a statement of his own views upon their operation, but he would trouble their Lordships with a few words upon the present state of the law. In the 4th of William IV., upon certain representations from the Bank of England, promissory notes under six months' date were taken out of the usury laws. In the Ist of Victoria, the exemption was extended to all bills under twelve months' date. That Act would expire towards the end of 1840, but in that year an Act was passed to continue the experiment for two or three years. The object of the inquiry did not re late to the expediency of bills of exchange, or to usury generally, but to the expediency of giving a certain facility to the advancement of 'honey, upon cer tain kinds of bills, by allowing a higher rate of interest than usual upon them in some cases. Lord ASIIBURTON was understood to say that he was by no means unfavourable to inquiry, as his own ideas on the subject were quite unfixed, but he had rather the inquiry were postponed for another year, when there would be sufficient experience of the present law. After a few words from the Marquis of LANDS -I)OWNE the motion (with a slight alteration) was agreed to, and tho Committee was appointed. CORN-LAWS. The Earl of FITZWILLIAM presented petitions from places in Staffordshire, against the present Corn laws. The Earl of RADNOR postponed till to-morrow the motion for returns respecting importation of corn, of which he had given notice for this evening. The Noble Lord, however, read a number of returns from the year 1810 down to last year, in confirmation of his state ment last evening that Scotland had of late years been supplied with corn and flour from Ireland to a large amount, and that the exportation of grain from Ireland had been gradually diminishing for eight years. This diminution, he contended, was attributable solely to bad seasons, but in a great measure to increased con sumption at home. The Earl of HADDINGTON had not denied that grain was imported into Scotland. What he said was that corn was imported into this country from Scotland, the corn received by the latter country from this being chiefly for the purpose of seed. There was also a large quantity of the finest flour for confectionery and the like exported (especially from Hertfordshire) to Scot land. But this bore no proportion to the whole con sumption. • Lord MONTEAGLE said that the argument of his Noble Friend (Earl Radnor) was complete, and showed from the Custom-house returns, which could not be impeached or disputed, that Scotland had lately become on importing country to a much greater extent than an exporting one. In four of the years, referred t o i n the returns, S co tl an d imported more wheat than th e rest of the unite d Ki ng d om . The Earl o f H ADDINGTO S begged to ask if the Noble Lord (Radnor) meant to say that Scotland imported 121,000 quarters more than she exported ? The Earl of RADNOR said that was precisely what -- he meant.-(llear, hear.) He believed the returns wore correct in sho w i ng the excess o f imported corn above the exported to be of that large amount, but he was not prepared to t a k e hi s oath of it.--(A lau g h.) The Earl of GLENGALL said that the diminution of the exportation of wheat from Ireland arose from the same cause as the diminished excise upon distilled spirits in that country. The people had taken to drink tea or coffee instead of spirits • and with these beverages they ate a great d ea l of bread, which was a kind of food they never thought of before.—(Hear.) The Earl of RADNOR was very glad to hear so satis factory a cause assigned for a diminution in the export. Lord ASHBURTON deprecated those. irregular dis cussions of so important a question. He believed that he was misunderstood in an observation which he made last night, and which was to the effect that the improve ments in agriculture would enable our own farmers to supply the population, with the exception of occasional years of scarcity, for which it was the great merit and utility of the present system of Corn-laws to provide a relief.—(Hear, hear.) Although it was true that on one occasion wheat did rise so high as 955. a quarter, yet, making allowance for the vicissitudes of the seasons, the price had maintained a most remarkable steadiness since the establishment of the present law.—(Hear, hear.) Before he sat down he must observe that he never ar gued that law prices, arising from a good harvest, were an injury to the farmer, because the latter was indem nified by the abundance of his crop.—(Hear, hear.) It was quite a different thing when the low price was occa sioned by the competition of the foreigner.—(Hear.) The Earl of WICKLOW said that the figures read by the Noble Lord (Radnor) opposite were his own figures, and were not of equal authority with those which other Noble Lords had read in reply from papers on the table of the House. He deprecated the unfairness of coming down prepared for discussions of this question by details, without giving such notice as would enable other Noble Lords to prepare a reply.--(Hear, hear.) The Earl of RADNOR said that as Noble Lords seemed to doubt the statement of figures which he made last night from memory, he had consulted the papers from which he had taken them a year ago, and he only referred to them this evening to confirm what he said last night. Those papers were contained in the blue book at that moment in the hands of a Noble Earl (Glen gall) poposite—(A laugh)—whose statement confirmed his, and gave him great satisfaction, showing that there had been for six or seven years a rapidly in creasing diminution of the export of corn from Ireland, . occasioned by the increase of home consumption. The Duke of WELLINGTON regretted that no no tice had been given of the i n t en ti on o f b r i ng i ng on a discussion of this question. Reference had been made to former speeches of his Noble Friend (Lord Ashbur ton) and others on general questions of free trade, as if the same principle applied to this question. Why, the very first writer who Introduced the doctrine of free trad in this country (Adam Smith) expressly excluded corn from the application of his principles.--(Hear, hear.) Adam Smith emphatically laid it down that care should be taken that the subsistence of the people should not be left to depend on the industry or good will of other na tions.—(Hear, hear.) He (the Duke of Wellington) was still of opinion that if agriculture was to be continued in this country, the protection must be maintained, and the present system was perfectly efficacious and just. Earl FITZWILLIAM said, that according to his re collection, what Adam Smith stated on the subject of the Corn-laws of his day was, that he found those laws very much in favour with corn-dealers and merchants, to whom they were profitable, but that he doubted very much that they were of any benefit to the farmers or to the public.—(Hear, hear.) It was, perhaps, a long time since the Noble Duke or himself read Adam Smith, and it might be well if they looked into the book again, to be better prePared for the next discussion.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) After a few words from Lord PORTMAN the conver sation dropped. MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY. On the motion of Lord WHARNCLIFFE, the Man cheste- and Leeds Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. CHURCH-EATER Lord MELBOURNE presented petitions from Vial worth and other places, against Church-rates. FRIVOLOUS SUITS BILL. On the motion of Lord DENMAN, the Frivolous Suits Bill was read a second time. Their Lordships Adjourned at twenty minutes past Seven, to Thursday. HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 11. The SPE/Mtn took the Chair at Four o'clock. On the motion that the Report of the Committee on the Kidderminster Small Tenements Bill be brought up, Mr. PRYME objected to the reception of the Report, on the ground that the effect of the Bill, as it then stood, would be to disfranchise many municipal electors, by ra ting the landlords of small tenements instead of the occu piers. When the Bill was first introduced, it contained a clause preserving all Parliamentary and Municipal fran chises to those who were at present entitled to them ; that clause had been struck out in Committee, and consequent ly the Bill would have a disfranchising effect. On that ground he should move that the Report be received that day six months. Mr. GODSON had wished that clause to be retained, and if the Hon. Member would withdraw his amend ment, he would on the third reading bring up a clause, which would be a re-insertion of the clause struck out in Committee. Mr. BERNAL, as Chairman of the Committee, had considered it doubtful how far such a clause could le gally take effect, and had therefo re th oug h t i t b est to strike it out. After a short conversation, Mr. PRYME withdrew his amendment, on the understanding that the clause should be introduced on the third reading. The Report was then brought up. The Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle Railway Bill was read a second time. The Lords' Amendments to the Liverpool Gas Bill were agreed to. The Lords' Amendments to the Northern and Eastern Railway Deviation Bill were agreed to. The Wells and Highbridge Roads Bill, and the Rox burgh and Dumfries Roads Bill, were respectively read third time and passed. Mr. GILLON presented a petition from a place in Forfar, in favour of the repeal of the bread -tax. Sir E. KERRISON presented similar petitions. Mr. WARD presented a petition from Sheffield in favour of the abolition of Church -rates ; also a petition from the same place, which, in the course of three hours, had received 13,370 signatures, praying that the Corn and Provision-laws might be repealed, and that the whole system of the Import Duties might be revised. Mr. BROTHERTON presented 16 petitions for the repeal of the Corn-laws, from different parts of Lanca shire and Staffordshire ; also 15 petitions from the opera tives of different parts of these counties. Sir JOHN NEELD presented petitions from different parts of Northamptonshire against any alteration in the Corn-laws. Mr. EASTHOPE presented upwards of eighty peti tions from different parts of England for the abolition of Church-rates, and the extinction of Ecclesiastical Courts. Mr. EVANS presented several petitions from Baptist congregations in Leicester, to the same effect. Mr. WALLACE . presented a petition from the Sugar refiners of Glasgow in favour of the Government propo sition for the repeal of the duty on Sugar. Mr. LANGDALE presented two petitions from con gregations of Baptists in Stone, praying for the admis sion of Dissenting Ministers to poor-houses. Sir W. YOUNG presented petitions from various places in Bucks, against an alteration of the Corn-laws. Sir R. INGLIS, on behalf of the Hon. Member for Liverpool, presented a petition from the Town Council of the Borough of Liverpool, praying that Liverpool may be appointed the mail-packet station for the West Indies. The Hon. Member presented 29 petitions in favour of Church Extension. Sir G. STICKLAND presented a petition from the county of York, praying for the abolition of Church rates, and of the Jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts. Colonel SALWEY presented a petition from the in habitants of Mirch Wenlock, in Salop, praying that the Corn-laws may be immediately and entirely abolished. Also petitions to the same effect from the working men in the employ of Messrs. Macmichael and Grierson, car pet-manufacturers, Bridgenorth ; from the working men in the employ of Messrs. Southwell, carpet-manufactur ers, 13ridgenorth ; and from the working men in the em ploy of Mr. Josiah Griffiths, of Quatford, in the county of Salop. Mr. BAINES presented a petition from the merchants, bankers, and manufacturers of Leeds, in favour of the measures introduced by her Majesty's Government, f or the reduction of the duties on Sugar and Timber, and for the amelioration of the duties on Corn, from several bodies of workmen in Leeds, in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws. The Hon. Member also presentedpeti lions to the same from three places in Yorkshire ; also petitions from the Wesleyan Methodists, Protestant Dissenters, Baptists, and Independants of Leeds, prayingfor the aboli tion of Church-rates ; also a petition, signed by 25,485 of the inhabitants of Leeds, praying for the abolition of the Corn-laws. Mr. TACIT presented petitions from the builders, brass founder3, and other trades of Manchester, against the Corn-laws ; also a petition from Knaresborough, in favour of the reduction of the duties on sugar, timber, and corn. Mr. BERKELEY presented 15 petitions from Dissent ing Congregations in Bristol, praying for the abolition of Church-rates and Ecclesiastical Courts ; also a petition from a place in Gloucestershire, to the same effect ; and a petition from the Chamber of Commerce of Bristol, against the alteration of the duty on timber. Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE presented a petition from Not tingham in favour of the repeal of the Corn-laws ; and another from the medical practitioners of the same place, praying for medical reform. Mr. B. WOOD presented petitions from the Dissent ing Congregations of Shadwell, Peckham, Clerkenwell. and other places in the Metropolis, praying for the abo lition of Church-rates. Mr. THORNELY presented a petition to the same effect from the Dissenters of South Shields. Mr. PATTESON presented similar petitions from Dissenting Congregations in London. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gave notice, that on Tuesday, the 25th of May, he should move an humble address to her Majesty, praying that her Majesty would be gra ciously pleased to take measures for the liberation of all political offenders now suffering imprisonment. CHURCH-RATES. Petitions praying for the abolition of Church-rates and Ecclesiastical Courts were presented by Mr. Pryme from Cambridge and Cottenham ; by Sir George Grey, from Devonport ' • by Mr. E war t, f rom Ch or l e y, and oth er places ; by Mr. Hume, from Leighton Buzzard, Kentish Town, and Weymouth ; by Mr. R. Gordon, from Ports mouth and two other places ; by Mr. T. Duncombe, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Buckinghamshire, and a district of the metropolis ; and by Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, from Reading. Mr. EASTHOPE then rose for leave to bring ia to abolish Church -rates. He was quite aware or the in convenience that would arise from any interference with the debate which was adjourned last night, and he was most anxious not to offer any such in terference ; but after the number of petitions that had been presented, and the excitement that pre vailed in the country, whatever his reluctance might be, he thought the Hou se wou ld a d m it th a t it was impossible that he could consistently ostpone his motion. H e trusted, therefore, that the d ouse W 9414110 him -- to introduce his Bill, and in such case he proposed not to go into the subject at all on the present occasion, but to take the debate upon the second reading. He, therefore, moved for leave to bring in a Bill fir abolishing Church-rates, and for making other provision for the maintenance of churches and chapels in England and Wales. Mr. HUME seconded the motion. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he understood the Hon. Member to state that this was a Bill for abolishing Church-rates, and making other provision for the erec tion of churches. If this were the case, he should have no objection to the Bill being laid on the table, and to see what the other provisions were. He believed there could not be much difference of opinion that this was a desirable object, but if the provisions were not satisfactory, he should certainly vote against the second reading.—(Hear, hear.) Dr. NICHOLLS said he thought this was not a proper moment for the introduction of a Bill of so much importance ; the law of the land had been ascertained by the decision of the Court of Exchequer ; and, therefore, his Hon. Friend was not justified in introducing, without giving any reason for it, a Bill to change the law of the land. Should such a bill be introduced, he should be ready to discuss it • but on the pre s e n t occas i on h e should move an amendment, that the Order of the Day for resuming the adjourned debate be now read.--(Hear, hear.) Sir R. H. INGLIS seconded the amendment, observ ing that he could not agree with the Noble Lord as to the expediency, under any circumstances, of abolishing Church -rates.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. EASTHOPE had not expected such an opposi tion to his motion. He was sure that the opposition he met with would be viewed in the country with much dissatisfaction. He was very anxious that he should not interfere with the expected business of the House, but met in the way he had been, he would press the question to a division. Lord JOHN RUSSELL—If the House had acceded to the proposition of the Hon. Member he would have willingly agreed, but as objections had been taken to the motion, he trusted the Hon. Member would not stand in the way of the House proceeding with the adjourned debate. He could not vote for the introduction of the Bill, because, under the circumstances in which they were placed, the House was not prepared for the intro duction of such a measure. Mr. HUME had hoped there would have been no op position to the introduction of the Bill, as it was almost the same as had been before the House for the last two sessions. However, as such objection was found with the motion, under all the circumstances of the case, he would advise his Hon. Friend not to divide the House upon the question, but bring it forward at a fitter opportunity. Therefore, although his Hon. Friend had been already subjected to so many disappointments, he would advise him to submit to one more disappointment on the pre sent occasion, and to withdraw his motion. If he saw any probability of carrying a division, even without discussion, he would advise his Hon. Friend to persevere ; but as he saw no chance of carrying a division, in the then temper of the House, he should advise his Hon. Friend to withdraw his motion, on the under standing that an early day should be fixed for the dis cussion of the subject. Mr. EASTHOPE trusted the House would believe that he was exceedingly reluctant to press an mo+ 3 ion against the sense of the House ; but he felt that i :ie should be neglecting his duty, and compromising . the interests of the numerous petitioners who nad intrusted their cause to his hands, if, in wit ll !...rawing his motion, he did not entreat that an early ' aaL be might fixed for bringing forward the question, On Tuesday next there were se veral notices on the paper which would take precedence of his, but he would, in withdrawing the motion, give no tice that on that day fortnight he should bring it forward again. The motion was then withdrawn. RETURNS. Mr. HUME moved for an account of the amount of the fund denominated the " suitors' fund" in Chancery on the Ist day of January, 1833, stating how the same was at that time invested. The amount of dividends re ceived, of payments made, and of surplus at the same date in each year, up to the Ist day of January, 1841 ; stating the payments under the heads of salaries, sur veyor of buildings, legal expenses, and miscellaneous. Account, in detail, of the manner in which the sum paid from the " suitors' fund," in Chancery, in the year 1840 was applied ; stating the name of each person to whom any salary or payment was made, and the amount of such salary or payment ; also, the sums paid for other purposes than salaries or fees, to whom and for what purposes paid. Account, in detail, of the manner in which the sum for Miscellaneous Ser vices was expended in 1840. Account of the amount received by the Accountant-General for brokerage, in each year, from the Ist day of January, 1833, to the Ist day of January, 1841—Ordered. Also for returns of the establishment of the City of Lon don Police Force, as it existed on the 31st day of December, 1840 ; distinguishing the number and pay of each class, whether officers or constables, the names and salaries of the Commissioners, Receiver, and other Clerks, with any incidental expenses of rent, coals, candles, servants, or other allowances ; also, a de tailed Return, of the Pay and Contingencies of the rest of the Establishments, stating the number and locality of the stations and receiving houses, with the rent and taxes, and other expenses for the same ; with a Summary of the total receipt and expenditure of the entire Esta blishment, from the Ist day of January to the 31st day of December 1840 (in the same form as the Metropoli tan Police Return, Parl. Paper, No. 172) : of the num ber and locality of the stations and receiving houses of the Metropolitan Police at this time, stating the rent, taxes, and other expenses ; showing the total amount at each station, under the several heads (as en tered in the Parliamentary Paper No. 172, of 1841) : of the number and locality of the stations and receiving houses of the City of London Police at this time, stating the rent, taxes, and other expenses ; showing the total amount at each station, under the several heads (as en tered in the Parliamentary Paper No. 172, of 1841.) Mr. HOSKINS obtained leave to bring in a Bill to exempt lime as manure from the payment of turnpike tolls. On the motion of Mr. FRESHPEELD, the folhwing Members were nominated as a Select Committee on West India Mails :—Mr. Freshileld, Lord Dcdmeny, Lord Viscount Ingestre, Captain Pechell, Captain Bun combe, Mr. Charles Wood, Sir Thomas Cochrane, Mr. John O'Connell, Lord Viscount Sandon, Lord Worsley, Mr. Philip Miles, Mr. Craig, Mr. De Horsey, Mr. Os wald, and Mr. Richard Hodgson. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for Ireland obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the more easy recovery of Arrears of Composition for Tithes, from persons of the persuasion of the peopl6 call e d Q ua k ers , in Ireland. SUGAR DUTIES. On the Order of the day for the Adjourned Debate for the House going i n t o C omm i ttee on Ways and Means being read, Mr. GROTE presented thirteen petitions, signed by a considerable number of persons residing in the metropo lis, praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws. The Hon ourable Member also presented a petition from the wholesale and retail grocers of the "metropolis, praying the House to :adopt the measure proposed by her Majesty's Government, relative to the Sugar Duties. Mr. EWART presented a petition from Liverpool, in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. FIELDEN presented a petition from Oldham to the same effect. Mr. HUMS presented various petitions to the same effect, from the fishermen of Peterhead and various parts of Scotland. Mr. MARK PHILLIPS presented a similar petition from Manchester, signed by 61,629 persons.—(Cheering.) Mr. RAIKES CURRIE presented a petition in favour of the measure introduced by her Majesty's Government for the reduction of the duties on Sugar, Timber, and Corn. ADJOURNED DEBATE. Mr. MACAULAY said that, unwilling as he was to stand in the way of his Hon. Friend (Mr. Gisborne), who had a right to address the House, yet he ought to feel no difficulty in presenting himself at the first oppor tunity to the attention of the House. It appeared that he (Mr. Macaulay) was not in his place yesterday evening. Had he been there, however, perhaps he might have had some difficulty in addressing the house in the state in which it then was. He should notwithstanding have trusted that, during the very few moments in which he would have felt it necessary to offer himself to the House, he would have experienced that courtesy which, even in the midst of the most excited political discussions, he believed that House never refused to any Member, be his personal feelings what they might. He was glad, however, that ho had not been in his place. It was not till that morning that he be- came acquainted with some part —of the de bate which took place yesterday evening. The consequence was that he now came down to the House without any feeling of irritation. He (Mr. Macaulay) did not believe that his Honourable Friend —for he would still call him his Hon. Friend—the Mem- ber for Newark had intended anything personally offen sive in his speech of the preceding evening, to one from whom he never received any personal provocation, He was satisfied that he might also add, that some part of the expressions which he saw were imputed to his Hon. Friend, was of a nature so gratifying to his (Mr Macaulay's) feelings as to more than com pensate, what could be given to him by censures which he was conscious he had not deserved.—(Hear.) Avoid ing, therefore, all irritable expressions avoiding all recrimination or retort, he would request the attention of the House during a very few moments. He had not intended to take any part in that debate, and lie would have been satisfied that the general principle of the measures brought forward by the Government, should have been left to rest upon that most luminous and eloquent exposition made of them on Friday night by his Noble Friend near him (Lord J. Russell), to which he felt it would be diffi cult to add anything.—(Hear, hear). The question of details he should have left with equal pleasure to his Right Honourable Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the President of the Board of Trade, and other gentlemen whose intimate knowlege of of the manufacturing interests of the country would enable them to treat those subjects with an ability and an authority to which he (Mr. Macaulay) could not 'pretend. He only offered himself to the House for the purpose of alluding to the question on which it was now impossible for him to remain silent ; but he would refer as soberly and as temperately as he could to those reasons which led him conscientiously to believe that a person who had, according to his situation and the measure,of his abilities,made exertions and sacrifices for the purpose of removing from our laws the stain of slavery—that a person who was sensible that a peculiar responsibility lay upon him, derived from exertions and sacrifices not his own, upon great question, might honestly and . Luta port the measur e w hi c h h." - eoperly sup proposed to th e H o n-. Majesty's Government for Neu"' - ' His Hon. Friend the Member .• "Ay as he (Mr. Macaulay) u n d erstood, 'ladimputed to him, and to those who EVENING _EDITION. took the same view of the matter Ritb him, some dereliction of principle. Nay, h e spoke. it 'L` f understood hi m r i g h t l y, o f a laxity of principk a certain infatuatio n , and of a judi c i a l bli n d ness svl appeared t o guide their course. Now he (Mr. IV •);;: utterly at a l oss to k now what the principle was Is-,1 ;'h . they were ac cuse d o f v i o l at i ng. He had liLaai-,‘,4 to speeches, h e h a d read the newspapers, d looked to th e resolution of the Honourab le ; Member for Li verpoo l ; b ut still he could not imag.a e what were those great principles of humanity which they were accused of deserting. He did not com plain .of the resolution before the House. mlle ode of not deny th at i t was a very fit Inu"e of advancing party interests, but he should say it con tained no great moral principle, but that it was 4 on the eeai trary skilfully contriv e d as a party motion, the object of which was to displ ace t h e . present advisers of Crown. He saw nothing in that resolution which could prevent those who opposed it from s tall ing in the same p os i t i on which they occuPtea before. He did not understand the morality of th e resolution.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Was it intended to be said that there was any law of morality which should prevent them from purchasing slave-grow n productions ? W ere th ey not already purchasing grown cotton in the United States, slave-grown tobsee! and slave-grown coffee ? And with regard to the very article of sugar, was there not a very larg e quantity of s l ave - grown sugar allowed to be intro duced into various possessions of the British .Empire --- into Canada and the Cape ? 'What, then, *a_ 4 that great mo ra l p r i nc i p l e, t h at great general lac of humanity and justice, which permitted slave-grow: cotton to be put upon the feet, but did 1 1 °‘ permit slave-grown sugar to be put into the mouth -- which permitted to smoke slave-grown tobacco, but did not permit them to taste slave-grown sugar —or, r a ther• which permitted them to drink slave-grown ced e° , but did not permit them to sweeten it with shave-groan sugar—nay, which permitted them to eP:t it a t Noe foundland or Barbadoes, but did not permit them to 1 01 it in Lancashire or Yorkshire ?—(Hear;hear.) He per' fectly understood th a t H on. G entlemen opposite might have reasons for showing why they should countenaiW it in one case and not in the other, but he altogether de' nied that they could show any peat general law of ITO' rality on which the distinction rested ; and he m ust sal that when he contemplated the whole of the case, 1 ! seemed to hi m th at t h e d i scussion partook much less °' moral feeling than of party interest. These co n 'siderations ce r t a i n l y we i ghed on his mind. He woo' A , suppose that some as icing should mar clown to that Ho use , and called upon them to exclOtt k e the cotton of the U n it e d S tates ; he would suppose Or, he drew, and he was afraid he might draw wiali grea' truth, a very melancholy and frightful picture of th e physical, social, and moral effects of s l ,avery in the southern States of America ; he would, suppose that ' 2 t l asked them w h e th er they Would rece i ve from that country he beli eve d b etween three and four hundred millions of po un d s o f cotter. annually, every ounce o ( which was produced }'; y s l avery ;—if such a person was to come fo x wa d with that arg umen t, an d ca ll u pon the either by ' - rohibition or by p ro hibi tory dut i es, he iv ° 11°118° to P P :ss a law t o i n t er di ct s l ave-grown cotto n. ...ant that the Right Hon. Baronet the Melly oer for Tamworth, the Hon. Member for N.awark. 'and his Right Honourable Friend the Membe r for , the Tower Hamlets, would all with one voice declare that such a proposition was inadelia" sible.—(Hear, hear.) The reasons they should assign he could but v e ry i m p er f ect l y g i ve ; but when he state d what the reasons were which influenced his own vot e ' he would leave it to the House to say whether Owl reasons might not apply to the present case. He shoal!.. say, if such a p ro p os i t i on were b rought in, "I 00,1' that slavery is a grea t an d f ear f u l evil—l admit -bat in all those parts of the world which lie within O de spher e of our power, we lie under- a moral obligKi on to f ib?' lish it. I admit that no cost, however grea!' that stands i n the way of so clear a duty, should, In that case, be coo; sidered ; but the ca se o f slavery, uswithin the sphere 'l' our own power, and in foreign tountries, presented case' of distinct features, and should be treated on P e r, fectly different princir,les.--(Hear, hear, hear.) IA was not the legislitto; of the U n it e d S tates, nor or he power to say to the planters of Carolina and Georgia'i " You must Het your slaves at liberty, and admit th' to the exercise of equal rights with yourselves." " t , could only operat e u p on th em b y i ndirect means. What' ever might be done by those rival means by which nation acted upon another, that they were b oun d to 9_ l ' o Nor should th ey stop here. He re gar d e d w ith highest admiration those efforts which had been ro t , .for the p ur p ose o f putting down the slave trade by mean of our cruis ers , an d by treatingwith other nations for the suppression of the slave trade. But he was not pre. pared to join i n any measure for suppressing slave tat., by suppressing commerc i al i ntercourse. The happlv.' of our own people was especially committed to our chirC t ; All men had s ome c l aim upon them, but not all t" same claim. In this country there was a manufacturing population depending entirely for daily bread o ° l 7 remote markets. Th ere were one million and a half of people who were supported by the cotton manufae: ture. It would be frightful to contemplate the etre . , which would b e p ro d uce d b y suppressing the tra d e in slave-made cotton. It wou ld reduce hundreds o f thou . sands to de s p a i r an d f am i ne, an d shake all the institv:l'Ars e of the State ; w ou ld ma k e G ermany supply the *,,lace of England, an d t urn t h e great body of our art•,zans into 1 beggars. The question before the House w•as in a vent similar positi on . H o firmly believed that the M eet would be to deprive us of the market of Brazil, if we persevered to comparein our present wb at w l o in ul e d of b r t l h ic e y e , /1 ad at tempted c upon the Brazilian slave trade., l oy the species of Pinrfldueune_ccee which , England would be enabled to exercise with .. Brazilian authorities to be produced by the persistence in the and with the effect 111 ‘,, e 1 tive system, the degree of unhappiness among t.h e slaves whi c h would be removed by continu in g those restriee,ons, with the de gree o f unhappiness which 'world be inflicted upon our own peopl e , that po or plewlkb w ere p ar ti cu l ar l y comm i tted to our charge, ol! for whose happiness we were more particularly responsible ' If it was his deliberate opinion that on the whole it IT, their duty t o a d opt a propos i t i on somewhat similar to if; one brought f orwar d b y h er Majesty's Government, he could not concei ve h ow any H onoura b le Gentleman could taunt him as - being guilty of any dereliction of prineiq because the result of his calculations happened to be °`,,, ferent from his (Mr Macaulay's.) He would not tle_ ll ,? / that the country had voluntarily paid a sum of 20,000,0Ye0, to be able to rid themselves of an enormous moral ar ls oo cial evil, for the existence of which we were responsible and which, moreover, pressed upon our fellow-subjec ts - ; — (cheers)—but was that any reason why we should Pof' and pay c on ti nua ll y w h at h e was certain would amolia, ; to a sum m uc h greater t h an 20,000,0001. for the purP°',. of ma r ki ng our avers i on to the evil for the existence of which we were not responsible, and which it was ceedingly doubtful whether we could at all mitigate ( !a lessen by adopting such means ?—(Loud cheers.) It lomi been said that f ore i gn countr i es would feel asto nishment at our inconsistency. He believed they would feel ast . „? .. nishment, if th ey understood that we had no scruple permitting articles of slave-labour produce to be co n ' sumed in our colonies, and yet t o reta i n t h at scruple' when it was proposed to consume th em i n t h e United Kingdom.—(Cheers.) And if they looked further, the/ would feel g rea t er astonishment, when they saw that was not be cause t h e cause of slavery, or the s l ave trade' was foste re d b y t h e one course more than the other, blot simply b ecause a great monopoly was interested in te c i ', one case, whi c h was not i nterested in the other.—(Lo,, cheers.) They might perh a p s app l y to such conduc e harsh words, to which he would not give utterance" (Loud che ers .) B ut if , f or the purpose of carrying th e inquiry a littl e f urt h er out, he were to inquire intoh , t history of th e pu bli c lives of' those who were now to -* vehement in their opposition to this measure--(Cheers)l if they wer e t o compare the division lists on the prese t occasion with the lists of divisions which had forme:l' l l taken place—(Loud cheers)—particular in the yea r 1 833—(Continued cheering) --they w o uld find Horne I . "; son for astonishment, when they found that tb-rise vet / 0 men were the fo remost amongst those who straggled , most vehemently to prevent the remedying nr a gr eat so` crying evil, for the existence of which w e w ere resP°° sible.--(Loud and long continued cheering.) his We i r tion was to show, th a t th ere was no incOn sisteney.ill their putting an end to slavery, and at the same tithe give' g their support to the proposition on the table of the ii ° ,7ll_ The Ministers h a d b een accuse d of lying prOii s „ it tion on the t a bl e o f th e H ouse w i t h out the least ilat! i ha d of its being carried. N ow , h e b e li eved that we • s arrived at a great commerc i a l , as well as a great financialdifficulty at the same time — (Cheers)—in order to make up the revenue necessary for the maintenance of the dignity of the country, in order fully to protect tll_ trade against our rivals. The great towns fluEnglarlo were crying out for a removal of all commercial' restric tions, and lie fully believed that the'Goverrunent were fully justified in bringin g -fo rwar d the proposition before the House. The Government had it in their power t° prop up the revenue, 'and at the same time extend the commerce of the country. They intended .to meet 5 great deficit, not by making the people poor, but 14 making them more comfortable in their circumstances. — (Loud cheers.) He denied that they had thrown befor e the House the proposition in any fit of despair. V l ,l Government certa i n l y did hope that the budget wow' have been received better than it had beeo - They werete question that' it perfectly aware tthat:ictouiwdas be car' out britet td th eb o y f b y did t hope, the weight of the Governm en t a lone up to the moment that the No ble tLieonrddillet then Member fo:: Liverpool g ave notice of his ul°- 'I were some pers ons on the other side of the Housi:.; who, from patriotic motives, would have coma forward, and without relating their eneral osition O t t the Go vernment, might consider tha g t the p o-p rop p osition 0 ' • the Government was a satisfactory mode of meeting th e difficulties with which they were now beset, and their support would have enabled them to carry the main Po" positions of the Budget. That had turned out to be 15 miscalculation, but lie would predict that the tto' was not far distant when the reform proposed by the Government would be the law of the land. On wha, ever side of the House he sat, those principles alwayswould be co i n n tin tl u ie e enrdealynt, attached. —(Hear r h , e woul d welcome converts whose reluctant rec i a lad nta b t e io e i n i, It would not be the first time they tardy, or.from whatever motives, had t eared likelf Ye VP A to promote the public interest.—(Cheers.) He w° 3 only further thank the House for their kind attenV,on, and relinquish the other parts of the subject to thos'o wbo the Members leaviPe„ were better able to do it justice.—(Loud cheers:' ) Sir G. CLERK, who was quite tnaudible k a the ga l- f lerY, in consequence of the r:fise arising fror a s everal ° that he felt great a disadvantage he' labour° ,in -* ' ..order how le House, was und-srstood to OA * Right Hon. Gentleman, W. ' could rising after theG.Clerk Ile (Sir had just sat down. to its fullest extent the principl could not carry . out few b this years y. ,countr) the great experiment meale a conceive that they ought to be told that, because . .t e hel" ( o a supply told that, ee to au a s b e an tb d e o y n eiotwadltognoetther. obtain Were they of cot aog-wil:ersyrB4 ti 1 1.0. 111(1J.J ,t :0: and I oven not si they quest Mem in th far 14 tends roda • '~ i 1, force 8.11101 be fo in it, eons solui prig