The Sun. — London, England, 1849-05-14 00:00:00

Ctirb IStittion SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. FRANCE. Napoleon Bonaparte presided on Friday night at a meeting of the Bonapartist Central Committee in the Rue Chabrel. There were at least 5,000 persons present. The address of the President was received with the utmost enthusiasm. Napoleon Bonaparte commenced by reading his letter to the electors, which has beon already given, in which he gives the most ample explanations of his late conduct. He apologized for taking upon himself so serious a duty as that of presiding at so numerous a meeting of the electors of Paris, seeing that he was the youngest member of the National Assembly. He denounced, in the fiercest manner, the men who compose the Club of the Rue de Poictiers, whom he denominated as renegades and cowards ; and he declared that the name of any candidate pro posed by such people ought to become an object of execration with the public. He rejected with in dignation the imputation cast on him of selfish motives for his opposition to the Ministry. He ad mitted that he was ambitious, but it was the ambition of serving his country which influenced his conduct. He called on his hearers not to be such fools as to imagine that the two Emperors who were at little more than 4S hours' distance from the French frontier, were occupying themselves with so small a Republic as that of Rome. The subject of their meditations and of their plans was the great Republic—the Republic that France had established, and which they were determined to destroy. He declared that it was the duty of every French citizen to be prepared to defend, at the cost of his life, the institutions he had established. He denounced the absurd principles promulgated by the Socialists, while he admitted that society as it at present existed required an extensive reform. He regretted that he had been obliged to sepa rate himself from those who were the nearest and dearest to him ; but he considered that his duty to his country was before every consideration, and that duty he was determined to perform at all risks. To the cries of " Vive la Republique," and " Vive Napoleon," which repeatedly interrupted him, he said, that as for " Vive Napoleon," it was of very little consequence in comparison with the cry which preceded it. His address lasted about two hours, and was repeatedly cheered. The meeting was attended by delegates from all the branch Bonapartist Com mittees in Paris. ITALY. The following telegraphic dispatch was publithed at Rome on the 2.(1 inst.:— " THIRD BULLETIN. " The French army is encamped at Castel di Guido. It is believed that it consists of 5,000 men. Nothing now. The country round Rome is tranquil. Nothing can be seen from Rome, but on the other points there are agents who have a view of passing occur rences. Forty minutes past ten o'clock A m.—The French troops are moving towards the west. " 23 minutes past 11—Colonel Mosi announces that he is watching the French troops. "30 minutes past I—Garibaldi must be at Malagrotta. " 15 minutes past 4—The enemy are striking their tents. " 15 minutes past 6-100 of our dragoons, with Gari baldi and his corps, are to be seen at Santa Maria de la Ripera. _ _ '• 5 minutes past 7—A column of the French troops is seen at St. Severs. Others at Prati. The fog impedes our communications." The Italia del Popolo of Rome, of the 3.1 inst., con. tains a:► iusulting article on the Neapolitan army " Surround, surround Rome," it says, " with a circle of fire; still Rome will resist as long es she retains a spark of li , e. If we are vanquished, it will be after our death! Up brothers ; to arms ! avenge the ambassadors of Palermo and Messina. Up; God is with u.;!" The Commission of the Barricades at Home pub lished the following proclamation on the 2i inst.:- 6' Gtneral Oudinot promised to pay for everything in cash. Let him, therefore, pay for the picture s of Raphael perforated by French bullets. Let him pay for the in jury and the insult inflicted oallichael Angelo. Napo • leon carried off the Italian works of art to Paris, but we had at least a compensation in th e admi ra ti o n bestowed on them by foreigners. At present the French Govern • meat invades our territory, and such is their love fur Rome teat they wish tb destroy it ? " A letter from Rome of the 4th inst. says— " The capital is tranquil. It appears that the Nea politzins are approaching our walls. The Commission of the Barricades have ordered all the blacksmiths to pre pare iron hooks to be used against the cavalry. Prepara tions have been made to meet the enemy. The Trium virate, whilst announcing to the people the approach of the Neapolitans, exhort them to defend their sovereignty to the last extremity. Considerable reinforce ments of infantry and artillery had arrived to the assis tance of the Unmans. The first division of the Neapo litans is said to amount to 8,000 men; the second to 2,000." The National publishes the following letter from M. Peacantini, late Envoy from the Roman Republic to the French Government : " The French have come to bombard the Roman Re public through love for the Pope. Whilst they were en deavouring to scale the garden of the Vatican, and were bomb .riling the palace, I was on the terrace with several representatives. I replied to the bombardment, and to the assault, by ordering the band of the Carabiniers to play up the Marseillaise.' The same evening I accom panied a Frenchman to visit the barricades of the Porta del Popolo, and showing him the obelisk of Sesostri3, the most ancient in the world, I could not avoid saying to him, '• Leok at this obelisk—it is extremely old. It is, we are told, 6,000 years old, but it never witnes.,ed any infamy equal to tha; of the eonduct of the Government of the Frentnltepublic against theltoman Republic. Speaking of M. Drouyn de Lhays, he says, If you see the Minister for Foreign Affairs, tell him that he was wanting in gcod faith to me.' Beltram and I have proved by our sepa rate votes, and by our collective declarations, what great confidence we felt in the French Republic, and how far we would go in point of concessions. We were far from thinking that he would have replied to Ls by the crime of fratricide." A rumour is in circulation in Paris, that the Neapolitans were beaten by Garibaldi before the gates of Rome, in an affair said to have taken place on the sth. NEWMARKET RAILWAY. (MIS DAY.) The adjourned halt-yearly general meeting of the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway Company was held this afternoon at the London Tavern, Bishcpsgate; Lurd George Manners in the chair. The report of the Committee of Investigation ap pointed at the previous meeting was read. It was a long document, but this following extracts will convey its spirit:—" The company was projected in 1845, during the prevalence of the railway excitement. The original design was, as your committee believe, not to make a line merely from Chesterford to Newmarket, which would have been absurd, but to make that line as part of a scheme, which was ultimately to em brace extensions to Thetford and Bury St. Ed munds. The actual proposal however, as pre sented to Parliament and sanctioned in July 1846, was to make a line from Chesterford to New market only, with a branch to Cambridge ; and for this purpose power was obtained to raise 350,0001. in share capital, and to borrow 116,0001. on debentures. This sum, economically manager!, would have amply sufficed to carry ou; the design. Unfortuaa.telyour dirt ctors appear to have assumed as of course that the ex tension Acts would be obtained, and that capital would be forthcoming to carry out the more extended plan; and in anticipation of this they directed expen sive surveys to be made of the proposed Thetford and Bury lines, entered into heavy prospective contracts for the purchase of laud, and ordered a vast supply of loco motive engines, passenger carriages, and trucks; they even sanctioned the erection of a double station at New market, which would probably have cost upw ar d s o f 50,0001 All this occurred between 1846 and the meet ing of Parliament in 1847. Meanwhile the railway excitement had sabstded, and it had become evident that capital, n able for carrying out the extensions, could not then b) obtained; nevJrtheless your directors adhered to their original views, and after spending an immense sum in overcoming a Parliamentary oppo sition, obtained their Extension Acts, which have ever since remained a dead letter. Fortunately the execution of the original design as to the double station at New - market was abandoned, and a more moderate building, though still too costly, was erected, after an expenditure of about 2,0001 From the contracts relating to rolling stock it was too late to escape, and you have been in consequence burthened with a plant which cost upwards of 88,0001. Part of it has since been sold at a loss, and the remainder is at this moment useless to you. The line was now in this position. Owing to mismanage ment it did not earn 101. per mile per neck ; and the, committee now submit the following as the result of their deliberation3:— " 1. They recommend you, if no suitable offer be made by the Eastern Counties Company, or any other company, to abandon, for the present, all thoughts of selling or leasing your railway, and to concentrate all your energies on the improvement of your property. If properly improved, it will fetch a good price at the proper time. "2. Remodel your system of direction. Whilst con demning the past, your committee fed disposed to at tribute your present position rather to the directorial system than to your board of directors or any of its members. The directorial syst em is, as th e y thi n k, faulty in principle. It does not impo se p art i cu l ar d u ti es on particular individuals , and we a ll k now t h a t w h a t i s everybody's business is nobody's, and is not done with business-like attention or energy. But whether that ) ,Clll ' • be a faulty one in all cas.s or not, your com mittee are satisfied that it is inapplicable to a small undertaking like yours. Such an undertaking ought to be managed chiefly by one responsible person. Your com mittee, therefore, re commend you to 3. Appoint a managing director, appropriato to him all the remuneration you can afford, and let that remu neration be by a percentage on net profits. Remunera tion by net profits will probably induce your managing director to make every eirOrt to increase your revenue, and diminish your expenditure. ilitherto yoir revenue has been but little cared for, and your expenditure has not bi en kept down. M any disputes which your com mittee cannot but think that a managing director, in- ....-•-•---- terested in keeping down outgoings, would, by his personal interference, have settled at once, have ' been left to ripen into expensive lawsuits, in which many hundreds have been spent. The con tract with the Electric Telegraph Company has particularly attracted the attention of your committee, as it involves a permanent burthen of not less than 3001. a year. Certain it is, that although large railways, with enormous revenues, may be remunerative, notwith standing some waste, small railways cannot bear heavy charges. Of course the managing director ought him self to be under superintendence, and should on all mea -1 sions of importance, act only with the sanction of other directors. Your committee are therefore of opinion that you should— " 4. Appoint five other directors, who should act gra tuitously until the funds of the company will admit of their receiving remuneration." Mr. FANE, the chairman of the committee, moved the adoption of this report, and after some discussion, it was agreed to. Mr. SHEPPARD, another of the committee, moved that the nomination of the directorS be entrusted to the com mittee and the Noble Chairman, which a as also agreed to, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the committee and chairman. ADULT DEAF AND DUMB INSTI TUTION.—(TIIIS DAY.) A meeting was held to-day in the Board Room of this excellent charity, 26, Red Lion-square, Blooms bury. From the sixth annual report it appears that the superintendents of the several departments have had occasion to give the most encouraging reports as to the progress of the pupils in learning the different trades carried on at the institution. There are at present twenty inmates, and it has been found advisable, during the past year, to separate the elder workmen from the youths; the former are therefore supplied with leather and cloth, which they manufacture at their homes, and bring the article after cympletion to the institution, whilst the youths work in the institution, thus as much as possible preserving the inmates from evil communi cations from without. A few of the elder workmen cannot wholly support themselves by their labour, and therefore receive temporary relief from the funds f the charity. Upwards of 180 deaf and dumb perions have received temporary relief during the past year, either by giving them clothes or money, and all who apply receive casual assistance in the various difficulties into which the deaf end dumb are peculiarly liable to fall. It was stated that since the printing of the report, some of the inmates had left the asylum fully qualified to support themselves by their own labour and industry, while others had been received in their place. The ap plications for admission, however, were far more nume rous than the committee could entertain, owing to the want of funds, and a hope was expressed by the meet ing that the co-operate of the benevolent would be ade quate in exteot to the nature and requirements of the charity. [IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. - - - The LORD CHANCELLOR. took his seat on the wool sack at Five o'clock. The Bishop of LONDON presented several petitions in favour of the Bill for the protection of women. The Earl of STRADBROKE presented several peti tions praying for a repeal of the malt tax. Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition from Sheffield against the proposition for giving the Commis sioners in Bankruptcy a criminal jurisdiction. His Noble and Learned Friend had promised to give to that prayer of the petition his best consideration. The subject had been already mooted in the Committee. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the Liverpool Association for Protection of Trade with a similar prayer. The Committee had that day heard the evidence from Manchester and Leeds on this point. The Earl of CARLISLE presented eeveral petitions from places in Yorkshire against giving a penal juris diction to the Commissioners in Bankruptcy; also, seve ral petitions in favour of fecalar education. PORTPATRICK AND DONAGHADEE. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY asked whether it was the intention of the Government to continue the communication between fort-Patrick and Donaghadce. The answer of the Marquis of LANSUOWNE was quite inaudible in the gallery. The Marquis of GLANRICARDEwouId not shrink from taking upon himself the responsibility of having ordered the removal of the packets between Port Patrick and Donaghcdee; by that removal there had been a saving of 4,0001. a year to the public, while the communication bet Ween Scotland and Ireland had been better carried on by other channels. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said that when the railroad should be completed to Port Patrick they would regret having given up that communication. AFFAIRS OF ROME. Lord BEAUMONT, in rising to put the questions of which he had given notice with regard to the intervention of the French, the Austrians, and the Neapolitans in the affairs of Rome, besought their Lordships to keep silence in order that, as he suffered from severe hoarseness, he might be heard. On the accession of the Supreme Pontiff, misgovernment had brought them to the verge of rebellion. During the reign of Gregory XVI. hundreds had been executed, and the prisons were filled' to over flowing. On the accession of Pius IX., it was deter mined to reform the institutions, in order to drevent an outbreak; but to such a height had abuses grown that it was seen that the attempt must lead to the separation of the temporal from the spiritual power, but it was made in a mariner which in sured its failure. It was attempted to govern the country with the advice of secular councillors without sacerdotal supremacy. These secular councillors were deprived of the initiative in legislation. At this time revolutions took place in the other states of Italy and the Roman people claimed for themselves those liberties which had been conceded to the people of the other Italian states. To the granting of these concessions, the whole body of the Cardinals was opposed. (LEFT 4YEAKIN G.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair & few minutes before Fuur o'clock. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed:— Caledonian Railway (Purchase or Lease of Wishaw and Coltness Railway). York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway and Mary port and Carlisle Railway (Lease and Amalgamation). York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (Newcastle upon-Tyne and Carlisle Railway Lease and Amalgama tion). THE SUN, LONDON, SECOND READINGS. The following Bills were read a second time: — Louth Markets and Improvements. Westhead's Patent (for Improvements in Manufac turing Fur into Fabrics). CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS. The reports upon the following Bills were considered and agreed to:— Charing•cross Bridge (Amendments of Acts, Powers to:alter authorised Approaches, &c.). London Gas Light Campany (Amendment of Act). PETITIONS. Sir IL IL INGLIS presented a petition from several clergymen at Warwick tigainst the Parliamentary Oaths Bill. Mr. J. BAILEY presented a petition agreed to at a large public meeting at Hereford, praying for some relief to the a r ,rerienitural and trading interests of the country. Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition from Dundee praying for the alteration of the game laws. Mr. EVANS presented a petition from the Indepen dents of Derby against the continuance of the Regium Donum grant. Mr. FERGUS presented a petition from a place in Scotland against the Scotch Sanitary Bill. Sir J. WALMSLEY presented a petition from Bolton in favour of an extension of the suffrage and vote by ballot, both as regards Parliamentary and municipal elections. Mr. P. WOOD presented a petition from Oxford in favour of the poor-law superannuation fund ; also a pe tition from farmers and others, praying that free trade might be carried out by the repeal of the duties upon malt and hops. Lord BROOKE presented a petition against any alter ati,rn in the Parliamentary oaths. Mr. HILDYARD presented a petition from Bridport against the alienation of tithes from spiritual purposes. Mr. 0. GORE presented a petition from Clerkenwell praying f'Jr the removal of Smithfield Market. Mr. STANSPIELD presented a petition against the paper and advertisement duty. Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition in favour of an ex tension of the suffrage, several petitions praying tor-the liberation of the Rev. Mr. Shore, a petition in favour of international arbitration, and a petition from Edinburgh, praying fur the abolition of the game laws. Mr. FREWEN presented a petition from Sussex against the Parliamentary Oaths Bill. Mr. COBDEN presented several petitions from Lan cashire in favour of Parliamentary reform. Mr. CAYLEY presented a petition from Milton, praying for some relief to the agricultural interests. EMIGRATION. Mr. J. O'CONNELL gave notice that to-morrow, when the Hon. Member fur Limerick brought forward his motion on emigration, he would move as a substitute that emigration was a must expensive remedy for the relief of Ireland, and that it is inure immediately neces sary at present to check the disasters of emigration than to promote it. PUBLIC L . r.PENDITURE. Mr. 11. DRUMMOND gave notice that, on the first Tuesday after the holidays, he should move the follow ing resolution:—" That a greater amount of taxation was levied on the people of this country than was neecessary for good and efficient government ; and whereas largo sums arc expended for supporting need less places and extravagant salaries, and the pre sent taxation of the country. presses heavily on all clas,,es, it expedient that this House should forth ' with adopt means fur reducing the expenditure of the Governmcnt."—(Cheers.) OFFICERS IN THE ARMY. Mr. EWART moved for u copy of uny instructions which may have bee❑ issued by the Commander-in- Chief respecting examinations to b 2 required on the admission or promotion of ofti•Jers in the army.— Agreed to. DENMARK AND GERMANY. Mr. DISRAELI said he inquired of her Majesty's Government, some time back, whether, in consequence Of the recurrence of hostilities between Denmark and Germany, they had any objection to lay on the table of the House copies of the negotiations that had taken place; but the Noble Lord staged that, notwithstanding the recurrence of hostilities, the negotiations were still pending. Ile (Mr. Disraeli) took this oppor:u nity of now inquiring from her Majesty's Government whether those negotiations had been pursued under the mediation of the British Crown,attd whether any negotia tion had been broached by herMajcsty's Governmentito the Plenipotentiaries of Denmark and of the Central Powers of Germany, and whether that proposition had been ac cepted by both or either of those powers ? Lord PALMEILSTON said that the proposition for a limited armistice was still under consideration; and as that was so, he felt it would not be fitting for him to go into particulars. THE BISHOP OF HONG KONG. Mr. OSBORNE said he had noticed in the Gazette that Hong-Kong had been erected into a hishopric.—(Laughter.) He wished to inquire of his Hon. Friend (Mr. Hawes) what was the amount of the bishop's salary, and from what fund it was proposed to pay the Bishop of Hong-Kong; secondly, whether the outfit, and transport, and palace of the bishop, or any part of his expenses, were to be:defrayed from the public Exchequer of this country ?: Mr. HAWES begged to state that it was quite true, as the Hon. Member had represented, that Kong. Kong had been created a bishopric—(Hear, hear)—but the bishop was paid from the Colonial Bishopric Fuud—a fund entirely private, and arising out of private contributions.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) his salary, therefore, was of no importance to the House, and was in no part paid out of the Exchequer. Neither had the Colonial-aice any knowledge of the Bishop's outfit. It had hitherto been customary for the Government to pray a Bishop's passage out, and he did not think that rule would have been departed from in this instance. ANNUITY TAX (SCOTLAND). Mr. COWAN inquired when the Government in tended to bring forward their promised measure upon this subject. Th report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into and report on the subject had been pre sented some time. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said the report in question had only been recently received. The propositions con tained in it were now under the consideration of the Government, and so soon as the course to be adopted had been decided upon leave would be sought to intro duce the Bill. Mr. COWAN—Cannot the Noble Lord " fix the day ?"—(Laughter.) Lord J. RUSSELL intimated that he could not. THE MARRIAGE BILL. Mr. STUART WOItTLEY referred to the conversa tion that had taken place with respect to the fixing of a day when the adjourned debate upon the Bill could be proceeded with, and moved, with that view, that orders of the day have precedence of :notices of mations on Thursday. the 7th of Juue next. Mr. OSBORNE moved, as an amendment, that private motions and orders have precedence of orders of the day, on Thursday the 14th of June next. If the Ministers did not intend to bring forward any more measures, he was satisfied they ought to give back the Thursdays which they had taken from the House, as several Hon. Members had several important measures to bring for ward. For instance, an lion. Member had had a motion on the books for peace intervention for the last three months, and had repeatedly baliotted during that time fur a day, and he bad been ballottieg for the last six weeks for a day on which he should be enabled to bring on his motion with respect to the Irish Church. The taking of the Thursday by the Government prevented any private Member from bringing forward any motion. The SPEAKER having put the motion, Mr. DISRAELI said, notwithstanding, the reasons adduced by the mover of the amendment, instances had occurred of lion. Members not availing themselves of the opportunities afforded them of bringing on their motions. Fur instance, the Hon. Member for the West Riding was called upon to proceed with his motion, but he declined to do so, perhaps on account of the prescnt state of Europe.—(Laughter.) These days having been liberally given up by the House to the Government, which would otherwise have been at the disposal of private Members, it should he thought be left to the feeling of her Majesty's Government as to restoring them. If it was understood that the Government did not intend to bring forward any further measures—(Laughter)—he thought they should appropriate more days to the use of private Members, which were certainly grenlei to them for other purposes than the one assigned.—(Hear.) Mr. HENLEY drew attention to the fact, that they had only proceeded a little way with the Committee of Supply—the miscellaneous estimates, for instance, were not yet upon the table—and that whilst this was the case it would not be well for the Government to give up the day in question. The Government should not give way because important measures had yet to be introduced by Hon. Members ; indeed almost every Hon. Gentleman considered that his own measure was the most important of all.—(Laughter.) It the Government gave way they would get into this state —that on every night when they ought to go into a Committee of Supply, private Members would bring on their motions, and the real business of the Government, and of the country, would in consequence be postponed sine die. Mr. COBDEN denied that he was called upon at an early hour to bring forward his motion. Ile wari not called upon till a quarter past eleven, and he put it to the House whether that was a proper hour to bring forward a motion of so much interest and importance to the country.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") Government, in his opinion, ought to give up one of their nights to the Marriage Bill. It would be far more convenient to them to do so ; for, if it were taken on a night appropriated to independent Members, many motions would have to be moved as amendments on going into Committee of Supply.—(Hear, hear.) Atter a low words from Mr. GOULBURN, Lord J. RUSSELL said he felt great objection to an order of the day being taken first on a motion night, while he felt equal objection to breaking through the rule which the House established before Easter, of giving up every alternate Thursday to Government.—(Hear, hear.) The Honourable Member for Middlesex and the Honourable Member for Oxfordshire had made some observations with regard to the present state of public Bills. Now he begged leave, in the first place, to say that it was not to be inferred that the number of Bills before them were all that it would be thought necessary to introduce in the present session. It was not to be in ferred that Government had no other Bills ready — (near, hear) for it had been considered more conducive to the dispatch of public business not to introduce a great number of Bills at once, so that the House might the more easily confine its attention to the measures immediately under consideration.—(Hear, hear.) Then with regard to supply, the Hon. Member for Oxfordshire was quite right in stating that they were late with many votes of supply, but with respect to the votes relating to the army, Government had been waiting to see whether the Select Committee appointed by the douse would make any report upon this branch of the supply. He had now, however, a communication from the Committee, stating that they should not be able to make an early report, and, therefore, Government was now in a position to proceed regularly with the votes of last year. Ile should wish, therefore, as soon as the House had disposed of some early ques tions of pressing importance, to ask the House to con sider the question of supply.—(Hear, hear.) Having said thus much, he hoped the House would not break through the arrangement made before Easter. He bad alread y suggested that the J Marriage i f ß t i h l l e m l i t g i h o t t b c u t n k e . n G o e n n t l l V e m e Wednesday, s p d r a e y f „ e r t r h e e d 6 i t t h h o e f might take Wtdnesday, the 13th, when Government would be willing to forego their orders of the day. Mr. OSBORNE said, of course, after what had fallen from the Noble Lord, he should withdraw his amendment. The amendment was accordingly withdrawn. Mr. S. WORTLEY said he would take Wednesday, the 13th, and withdraw his motion. The motion was accordingly withdrawn. STATE TRIALS. On the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL, the minutes of the arguments taken before the House of Lords in the case of the Queen te Smith O'Brien were ordered to be laid on the table. INCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL. On the question for going into Committee on this Bill, Mr. ROEBUCK said before the Speaker left the Chair he wished to take the opportunity of addressing a few words to the House on the subject of Ireland. He wished to express his opinion with regard to the honesty —if ho could attach the word to such proceedings—of the Government measures relating to Ireland.—(Hear, titer.) Having paid great attention to the pro ceedings of Government with respect to that unfArtunate country, he was unable to give them any praise, because they did not inform him what Go vernment intended to do with respect to Ire land.—(Hear, hear.) Money had already been spent lavishly for the purposes of that country, and they were now called upon to expend more under the plea that Ireland was in a state of distress.—(Hear, hear.) Ireland had been in a state of distress of this sort for the last three years— (Hear, hear)—and he did not dispute it.—(Hear, hear.) They were all by this time well ac i customed to it. (Hear, hear.) A remarkable description, however, of distress had arisen in Ireland in consequence of the failure of the potato crop. Some three years ago the Government of the Right Hon. Baronet opposite was informed of the probability that there was about to be a famine in Ire land—that the potatoes were likely to be destroyed in Ireland—and that those who lived upon the root would he unable to maintain themselves.—(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth, fearful of the unfavourable aspect before him, proposed the repeal .of the corn-laws, which he succeeded in carrying. Had the Right Hon. Baronet not succeeded, he thought the peace and tranquility that now reigned in the country, and the comforts now felt and enjoyed throughout a certain portion of the community, would not have been seen at the present time.—(Hear, hear.) There was the provident proposal of the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir Robert Peel) which saved Ireland from the dire ealamity with which Providence had visited it. The Right lion. Baronet, however, seceded from the post which ho held, the Noble Lord (Lord John Rus sell) succeeded him. Now, what did the Noble Lord do ? The landed proprietors had been wasteful in their expenditure, they had been accustomed to go far beyond that which they derived from their pro perties, they had burdened their properties in order to maintain their vanity; and they did one thing more, and here was the sore spot of Ireland ; they divided their properties into small holdings, and the ten ants to whom they were let, were only able to pay their rent by living on the lowest species of food which man could derive from the earth—the potato. At length that unhappy accident arrived by which the potato crop failed, and the landed pro prietors were found in this condition —they bad an enor mous population upon their land who were accustomed, as he had said, to live on the very lowest species of food, suddenly deprived of their means of subsistence ; and the Noble Lord was called upon to meet that extraordi nary emergency. Now, what did he do? It Was not every PPlx,:4'7r - r ;4 .7; MONDAY EVENING-, MAY 14, 1849. one in Ireland who was in distress, but he w ould take it that a large portion of the agricultural population were. Now how much money lied they expended already, and in hat state had they left the population of Ireland ? When he spoke of the Irish population, he meant from the highest to the lowest, because he did not find a particle of difference between any of them, and would say, with respect to the population generally, that there was a desire to acquire with out labour.—(Cries of "Oh ! oh !") It was all very well to cry "Oh ! " but it was they who should make use of that cry. They would not pay That demoralisation extended to all portions of the population, and if he wanted any certain means to de. monstrate the demoralisation which existed among th© Irish people, he should desire no better documents to prove his case than those returns which had been made of the manlier in which the loan from England had been expended.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") If their generosity had been expended for the poor, or it it had been laid out to relieve their necessities, he would be one of the last to complain; but it was not the poor who were relieved, for the money went to bolster up a s y s t e m which was in the highest decree injurious to Ireland.—(lltar, hear.) The tact was, that the treasure had been poured from this country into one vast golden heap, and there was a regular scramble amongst all classes to strive who should get the most.—(Hear, hear.) It was just such a scramble a 3 he had seen to get into the opera—a struggle who should sooneet arrive et the heap, and who should get most of the treasure.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He would tell them what it was.— (Hear, hear.) It was nothing more nor less than au attempt to live upon other people's labour—(loud cries of hear, hear, and order, order) — a total want of that independent spirit, he might call it of that enthusiastic desire, to realise a livelihood, without the labour that was necessary to earn it.—(Hear, hear.) lie bad, however, heard one Irish member open his mouth upon the subject of Ireland, but there was a con• tinual cry of somebody must do something, but that somebody was never thernselves—(heare bear, and up roar.) What he asked, then, what was it they intended to do and when ?—did they intend to allow the Irish to help thems elves —hear.) lie had been Englishcontin in this case most certainly that legislation interfered with Irish le t would affirm that if the maintenance of been thrown on the British people contin ually that Irish idta t p:t o ojeo i ao dnnr. Irishd t h h a a h He dto peoplewould wished would FOOn maietain their own poor. and that there would then be no further appeal to England in the name of religion. The whole fact was, that this was the case of the Irish proprietors—and a very Irish sort they had was—proprietors r more right than he had who did not possess a single living upon the which it ;rents t p s r e o f p r l i a e o to d r s s b t i o p acre.—(Cries of "Hear, hear.'') Among all the Irish complaints he had never heard of any complaint from any complaint from any Irish proprietor of being directly over taxed—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) If a landlord was reputed to have 10,0001. a year, and his estates were mortgaged to the extent of 9,0001., you never heard an Irishman asserting that he had only 1,000 . /. a ye ar t o li ve upon , notw i t h s t an ding the alleged griping influence of the new poor law—(Elear, hear.) All that must now be stopped. But when the difficulty was propounded, and he complained of the [draught from the taxes of Britain, all the reply he could ob tain from the Chancellor of the Exchequer was the alternative of a rate in nid—(Hear. hear,)—last Friday, he thought it was, he had heard the soft re medy of the Attorney-General propounded in a speech which had certainly captivated his imagination, but which had certainly failed to convince his judgment. He had desired to avert all the evils of Ireland by an amelioration of the practice of the Courts of Chancery.—(Hear, hear.) And such was the end. The fact was, the whole fault arose out of the faulty mea sures of the Ministers of the British people. The evil lay in their legislation. The only justification for one bad act of legislation was that it was made necessary by two others that a ere worse, ali;ch had preceded it. As au amendment, reed he pre sumed some pretence for justification for the line of con duct the Ministry had puraued, the Chancellor of the Exchequer told him that lie expected to get the whole of his money back.—(Hear, hear.) By what law, lie a uuld like to know, would they would be able to do that, and if they did it w want only be an aggravation of the evil of which he complaint d, and a permanent increase of the inlet:ties of the people of Ireland. Eventually this money would prove a national incumbranco, and he for one would be no party to taxing the British people for the support of persons who refused to labour for their own subsistence. Talk of capital! He (Mr. Roebuck) did not deny the necessity for making roads in Ireland. Why did they not offer 15 or 16 millions for making roads in Ireland when it was proposed three years . _ _ ago by Lord George Bentincit, instead of dribbling on day by day under the pret ence of supplying the miseries of Ireland. The one a nd the other was the it way to appl and well conceived scheme ; and if they w ere e . y the same ; it was the application of the funds of the country to individual enterprise. In that caselarge money of the State to general purposes, be (Mr. Roe ,., buck) would rather have voted for the plan o f the Lord, Noble now deceased, instead of the present proce dure. Be was told "you got your money bask." That was no answer to his question ; he was out of his money when he paid his taxes; and he asked what was the concerted scheme—taking it as a scheme—which the Government had when they brought forward this single measure for the relief of Ireland? He would allow that the s Chancellor of the Exchequer every now and then took the opportunity of asking to give a deal of money for the Irish people. He allowed that ; but why, he asked, could that money in any shape be considered as means of employing the starring people of Ireland ? He asked the common sense of this country, if it was not under the guise of asking for money to support the poor of Ireland that they were lending money to the landed proprietors ?—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Did any body believe that 300,000,000/. could in any way relieve the distress of the country ? Now, he would ask, what ought to have been done?—(Hear, hear) — and he must say, as far as regarded Irish questions in that House. it was a question that he had often asked of himself—What would they do for Ireland?— (Hear, hear.) One talked about the area of tax ation being too large. He heard a conversation bandied about that House this very day. The Hon. Gentleman asked the other, "Did you not go to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to ask to have these people paid ?" "To be sure I did," said the Honourable Mtu ber for Dublin. (Laught er .) Th at H onoura bl e Member used a happy phrase o l og y w hi c h h e (Mr. Roebuck) would in vain attempt t o i m it a t e ; but it stronglymarked thatthe hfeeling Roebuck)of (Mr. the Honourable shonl d n never v e Member forget so it. " I wanted to have a pull a t th e Ch ance ll or of the Exchequer," continued the Hon. Member for Dublin; but when the pull at the Chancellor of the Exchequer failed when they found the Chancellor of the Exchequer would not bite, an Honourable Gentle man opposite said—" Let the' corporation of Dublin pay." " The corporation of Dublin pay! Why you are a set of cormorants"--(laughter)—said the hon. member for Dublin. [Here Mr. Roebuck so happily imitated the Irish brogue as to elicit roars of laughter.] " You are a set of robbers," said the hon. member for Dublin. Now what was the meaning of that language of the hon. gent.? Why, that he was the advocate of those gentlemen who wanted compensation. But there was a Right Honour able Gentleman who came from Yorkshire, and he said, "Not at all; I am not willing to permit you to have a pull at the Chancellor of the Exchequer." lie would not say more; but they quarrelled among themselves. —(Laughter.) They were told that it was a regular practice to have a pull upon the Exchequer, but that the debt was a dishonest one when the landlords had to pay it themselves. He took a lesson from what had oc curred at the deba te, and de t erm ined should also derive a lesson from it on the first opportunity. They came there to have a pull upon the o Lsche n aer . Exchequer, and that Bill he termed pulling upon the Exchequer. The Exchequer was filled by our hard-working countrymen, men who laboured at their vocation with an honest and upright spirit—with a virtue, he must say coolly, with an indignant virtue; and when they consi dered the demands thus made upon the pro ceeds of their labour. He had of late seen the working men of England assemble in their thousands, and he told them, though they had teen often misled, that the first voice he should raise he the Cot-omens of England would be against the rapacious desires of the extravagant landed proprietors and gentry of Ireland. But, in the strict sense of the term, they were not landed proprietors ; let them, therefore, got rid of the name; let them go abroad and earn their own sub ffstcnoe; the land does not beleng to them, and the rents ought to be paid to them. Let them act like men whose capital was in their bare hands.—(Hear, hear.) It was on these grounds that he entered his seleinn protect against this Bill, which was part and parcel of the mischievous policy adopted by the Government. in which he saw nothing that was likely to redeem for a renewal of the same tax hereafter. Many country gentlemen were around him—what did they say to be called upon year after year to feed the Inch nation. As the harvest neared the prospect blackened—as the next few months wore on they would hear more of the awful sufferings of the people of Ireland. Hero they had been four years legislating h ow to mee t the deficiencies and defects of the harvests of Ireland. Four years ago the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (Sir R. Peel) told the land lords of Ireland that unless they set about in earnest to cultivate the soil, the evils the House was then seeking to cute must recur hereafter. But instead of obtaining the aid of practical men and tilling their fertile land, the advice was not acted upon. What was given to the poor was seized by the rich; and the consequence was that the people of Eng land had become disgusted. (Hear.) A reverend friend of his was implored by the minister of' a pariah in Ireland to solicit contributions from his flock in aid of the suffering people of the parish. Ile did so, and transniitten over a small sum, but a largo one, con sidering the means of the people who contributed it. What was the reply? " God bless you for your cha ritable donation—we are quite happy—all the rents are paid!" Why his friend sunk almost into a swoon.— (Laughter.) Was it for this that he had begged from door to dour, preaching charity to men, women, and children. No! It was to relieve the starving people of Ireland— not to pay the rents of grasping proprietors. It was taken by those who ought to hare been the almoner,, in stead of the receivers of the gifts. If such a course were pursued they would dry up the sources of charity altogether—(Cries of " Hear, hear")—and he would be amongst the first to preach with that intent. Tho Government originate a better and snore rigid system of the dispensation of the money thus ad vanced. If they did so Ireland might be retrieved iu two years; and England, in tiny future period of need, would not fail in her aid. If the Government did not do this, such Bills as these, owing to their inefficiency, would be only treated with scorn and contumely. Was it rihgt that a Member should insult his Irish fellow Members without some stop being put to it? The Hon. Member had made a comparison between the two countries, hut he would ask were there any schools in Ireland in which there were children who were ignorant of their Redeemer, end who knew nut the way of salvation ? Had they, in Ireland, any professors of political economy who wrote for public newspapers which were patronised by the Government, and who held out the doctrine that the people of Ireland should be starved down to what the diminutive capital of that country could allow for them, and that they should not interfere with the will of God, who had visited upon them a great calamity, or to attempt to save them from death? Was it not cruel that people who were perishing without having committed one single outrage, who went to the clergy and after receiving the sacrament, going hack to linger in the agonies of tuudne, should be crushed in such a harsh and reckless manner. They had shown wonderful fortitude and had sub mitted with admirable resignation to the trials which Providence had inflicted upon them. and was it just that they should be made the subject of any attack or slander in that House? It was Irish money, as well as English money, that had been given to them, and not, as stated by the Honourable Gentle man, English money alone. If the House gave them the management of their own affairs they would not ask for any money; but Vie House had taken up;,n itself the managLreent of their rinks, and they would not now submit to meet the consequences of their own acts. Ho had not intended to take any part in this debate, but he had thought it necessary to say thus much in answer to what the Hon. Gentleman had said.—(Hear, hear.) The Government had acted nigardly towards Ireland, but at the same time he must do them the justice to say that had they proposed large grants, the House could not have supported them.—(Hear, hear.) It was too bad then to attack' Ireland fur her misdeeds which the policy of the House and Government had goaded her people on to, and he trusted they shuold bear no more of tthese misdeeds, it misdeeds they could be called.—(hear, hear.) _ _ , Sir H. W. BAIi,RON was surprised that any English Member should have evinced bo bad a spirit towards Ireland; but the Honourable Gentleman, the Member for Sheffield, in his orinion, had completely contradicted himself. The Honourable Gent'eman, in his opening, said the landlords of Ireland ought to drain their estates with their own money, and in the next breath ho said the land ought to beculti vated for the benefit of the people. Why, good God, this could not be done without the aid of public grants. He denied that the money voted by the House went into the pockets of the landlords ; and as a proof of this he might mention that during the last year the landlords had subscribed 160,0001. for the relief of the Irish people.—(Hear, hear.) These attacks, thcn, were mcst unjust, and he regretted them the more because they were likely to dig up the channels of charity in this country, and leave the people of Ireland to die of abso into starvation.—(Hear, hear.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL remarked that the Hon. Member for Sheffield having been absent from the House for some time had of course a much keener appe tite for Irish subjects than the majority of other Hon. Gentlemen.—(Laughter.) The house, however, had heard so much during the present session of Ireland that the Honourable Gentleman's speech was not so much relished as it might otherwise have been.—(Hear, hear.) He would not attempt to d e f en d t h e Irish land lords, he would leave that to themselves, but with regard to the labourers of Ireland, he thought the Hon. Gentleman was unjust in his attacks on them.—(Hear.) (LEFT SPEAKING.) TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING Six O'CLOCK. DERBY. 2 to 1 agst Flying Dutchman 9 to 2 agst Nunn kirk 13 to 2 agst Tadrucr 10 to 1 agst Elthirun 13 to 1 agst Vatican to, 1 agst Chatterer 20 to 1 agst The Ktwut Ito Lo I agst Old Dan Tucker 25 to 1 Qgst Honeycomb 40 to 1 ttg4 Montaol: t.,0 to 1 agst Old Fux OAK s. 6 to 1 agst Wadrastra filly 6 to 1 agst Glauca 9 to 1 agst Sister to Alkwrigliti 16 to 1 agst Emma-donna 1G to 1 agst Caricature LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 12. (Sittings at Nisi Prius at Westminster, before the CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.) ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. SHILLIIIEER. This was an information filed at the instance of the Crown, for not paying the necessary excise duty upon horses let out for hire by the defendant, for the purpose of conducting funerals. The Solicitor-General and Mr. Watson appeared for the Crown, and Mr. Shillibeer conducted his own defence. It appeared that under the 2d and 3d of William IV., c. 120, a person letting out a vehicle for hire has it at his option to pay the excise duty, either at the rate of lid. per mile, or by paying one-fifth of the whole amount of hire ; and a considerable number of cases were proved against the defendant, in which he had returned ,a much smaller nmcunt to the Excise than that which he had charged to the customer. There were altogether twenty four different cases against him, and by each of which he rendered himself liable to a penalty of 20/. The defendant complained of not being supplied with the necessary information by the Crown to enable him to conduct his defence, and that, he had been prose cuted a second time for the same offence, the first action having failed, and obliged to incur an enormous expense. He said that he had no intention whatever to commit any wilful fraud, and that he had repeatedly asked the officers of the Excise, if he were wrong with respect to the duty, to put him right, but they refused to do so, and he believed, in fact, that they did not know themselves what was the proper amount of duty. He contended that, being an undertaker, and having his own horses, he was no more entitled to pay duty than a wine merchant, a coal merchant, or any other tradesman who kept a horse to carry on his business, and most of the cases against him were for horses used in his own jobs. He had been the means of giving a revenue of about 400,0001. per annum, by his introduction of omnibuses, and this was the return he met with—persecution. There were great doubts as to the law, and all he wanted was to have the law declared by the Court of Exche quer, not only for his own guidance, but for the guidance of the postmasters throughout the kingdom. But with all his offers and all his efforts with the Commissioners of Excise, he had been unable to accomplish his object. Why should they not have a special case argued and the judgment of the Court taken upon it? The question would then be settled as to the construction of the Act of Parliament. If his opinion were wrong he was quite ready to pay, but let the matter be settled. The defendant then cited several clauses of the Act, every two of which having application to the same point, con tradicted each other, and argued that there ought to be a settlement of the variances which those different clauses of themselves created. The Lotto CHIEF BARON left the matter to the jury, remarking that the defendant, ably as he had con ducted his case, must understand that it was not be cause he had combined the two callings of postmaster and undertaker, that he was to evade the payment of the duty as directed by the statute. The defendant had been placed in a different position, no doubt, to other persons furnishing funerals, because ho had combined in his own person the undertaker and the postmaster, but still it was quite clear that he was in the latter character subject to the post-horse duty. The questions then were, whether in that capacity he had neglected to make the proper returns, and whether he had made a fraudulent return. The defendant was mistaken in his view as to charging himself only at the rate of ss. a horse; he must charge himself at a reasonable rate, such as he would charge to a customer. The jury consulted for half an hour and then retired, and after an absence of ten minutes, came into court with a verdict for the Crown for one penalty of 201. on the second count, and for one penalty of 501. on the sixth count. They also said that in their opinion the de fendant had done all he could to slain such information from the Excise as would enable him to make the proper returns. The court was crowded the whole of the day by per. sons who were interested in the result. THE WEATHER.—The continuance of north easterly winds has had the effect of checking the pro gress of vegetation to a greater degree than might have b-en expected. The atmosphere, indeed, for several days past, has been remarkably chill and ungenial, par ticularly during the night. The days, too, have been very gloomy; and if occasional sunbeams have prevailed, diffusing an agreeable warmth, their sudden withdrawal has been succeeded by a chilliness more indicative of March than the merry month of May; and these sud den changes have proved anything but beneficial to health. If, however, vegetation has not, under the cir cumstances, made rapid advances, little comparative in jury has been occasioned.—Leeds Mercury. The Steeplechase horse Hieover, while out exer cising on Thursday, at Liverpool, jumped upon a hurdle, and was staked. He is likely, however, to recover. ROYAL ARTILLERY.—WOOLWICII, MAY 11.—The officers of the Royal Artillery gave a grand ball last evening, at their splendid mess room at Woolwich bar racks, and upwards of 700 persons were present on the occasion, presenting a most brilliant assemblage, the ele gence of the dresses of the ladies contrasting beautifully with the varied costumes of the army and navy. Rear• Admiral Sir James Gordon, K.C.8., Lieutenant-Gover nor of Greenwich Hospital, Commodore Henry Eden, and a number of officers of the guards, cavalry, and line regiments were present. flusies PISTOL.—A man who gives us a real name and address, writes to us as follows:—" On Sunday last, May 6, passing through a field near Potash Farm, I found a large double barrelled pistol bedded in the ground, with J. B. Rush engraved on the guard over the trigger, and a bunch of skeleton keys. You can mentitn this circumstance in your paper if you think proper." Of course we cannot say whether the above is a hoax, or a serious matter of fact; but we have put it in train for investigation.—.Aenfolk Chronicle. ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL, NEW CROSS..—NeiII Mal colm, Esq., has presented the munificent sum of 1001. fur the purchase of four debentures qualifying him to nominate the suns of naval and marine officers as pupils of the institution. We understand that several of the firmer pupils, following the example of other large public schools, have ass , xiated themselves together, with the view of testifying, - the estimation in which they hold their school. by attending the ensuing anniversary din t er, under the presidency of the Loud Mayor. PLYmou.lll, MAY 13.—Wind S.S, W.-12th, Sid. Victolia, Adelaide, South Africa, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PROMOTIONS. PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY. -- Itr.mr-Achnr,il Sir Francis Mason to be Vice-Adtnir,Ll, by the death cf Vice- Admiral Butcher. Captain Sir George Rose Sartorius (1814) to be Rear-Admiral. Mates—John Whitmarsh Webb, of the Excellent, and William Henry Whyte, of the Victory, to be Lieutenants. Clerks—George Marsh (1840), Charles Lyne (1841), and Richard Simmonds (1841), to be Pay masters and Pullers. APPOINTMENTS. Rcar Admiral Manly Hall Dixon to be Com mander in-Chief on the Irish station, vice INlaekay, promoted. _ _ - The Arrogant screw-frigate, 46, Captain R. Fitz roy, returned from her experimental cruise yesterday morning, and aLchored at Spithead, where she re mains. During her cruise she exhibited qualities of unsurpassable excellence as an efficient man of war, whether sailer or steamer, or in the combined capa city. The working► of the new galley and distilling apparatus has also been satisfactory. The quantify of fresh water this apparatus distils has averaged 300 gallons pr.er day, which was produced during the time only that the galley-fire was in requisition for the purposes of cooking the meals for officers and men. By the promotion of Captain Sir George R. Sarto rius to be Rear-Admiral, Captain Provo W. P. Wal lis (who was First Lieutenant of the Shannon in her action with the Chesapeake) becomes a paid naval aide-de-camp to her Majesty. The extra-riggers of the dockyard are working as expeditiously as possible upon the Cormorant, ad vanced steam-sloop, to get her ready to take the place of the Sphinx at Spithead, if needed. The following officers passed the necessary exami nations in navigation at the Royal Naval College last week to qualify them fur promotion to the rank of lieutenant :—Messrs. G. J. Malcolm, E. S. Grove, C. T. Jago, E. J. Lawson, G. R. Keene, E. W. Shaw, It. Onslow, H. Christian, and H. Ilawkes.. PLYMOUTH, MAY 12. Her Majesty's frigate Alarm, 26, Captain Granville G. Loch, went up har bour on the 10th inst., unbent sails, and struck top gallant yards and masts. She will be paid on Thurs day the 17th instant, but is ordered to be recommis sioned. The Confiance steam-vessel arrived on the 11th from Portsmouth. The Vanguard, 80, with her wales on, was taken into the north dock on the 7th inst. AV hen her wales are taken off she will b., removed to another dock, to give place to the Queen, daily expected from the Medi terranean. The north dock is the only one sufficiently capacious for either of these ships. The south dock, constructed in the reign of William and Mary, is to be filled with rubble. The apprentices were examined on the 101 by Professor Mozeley, was expressed his satisfaction at the progress they had. made since his last visit. Wind E.S.E., fresh breeze. WooLwron, MAY 12.—The Right lion. Sir Francis T. Baring, First Lord of the Admiralty, Rear-Ad miral J. W. Deans Dundas, C. 8., Captain Fitzhar dinge Berkeley, and the Hon.W.Cowper, Lords of the Admiralty, visited Woolwich Dockyard to-day, and were received by Commodore Henry Eden, Superin tendent; Lieutenant Robertson ; Lieutenant Gore, Flag-Lieutenant; Mr. Bellamy, Master Attendant; Mr. Lang, Master Shipwright; Mr. Jenkins, Store keeper; Mr. Humphries, Chief Engineer; Mr. Chat field and Mr. Peake, Assistants to the Master Ship wright ; Mr. Trickett, Assistant to the Chief Engineer ; and Mr. Barriers, Clerk of Works. Their Lordships arrived at half-past ten o'clock, and immediately proceeded on board the North Star, accompanied by Commodore Henry Edea and Mr. Lang, master shipwright, to witness the manner in which the vessel has been fitted for her expedition to the North Polar regions. Their Lordships remained nearly three- quarters of an hour on board, and were satisfied with the whole of the arrangements which have been made for the enterprising voyage the vessel is about to proceed upon, and on leaving expressed their anxious wishes for success. The North Star left Woolwich betwixt one and two o'clock, towed by the Monkey, for Queenhithe, and will leave that place on Monday for her desti nation. Their Lordships, after landing from the Nortl Star, proceeded to the basi❑ in the dockyard, and wen • • on board the Archer steam - vessel, recently launched at Deptford, and at present fitting with engines of 200 horse-power, by Messrs. Miller, Ravenhill and Co., suitable for a screw propeller. 'They then passed round the basins and witnessed the Samson under the shears, and now nearly ready for sea; and the masts of the Buzzard taken out preparatory to the vessel being taken to Black wall to have her engines fitted by Messrs. Miller, llavenhill, and Co. They also inspected the foundations being excavated for the erection of an additional pair of shears at the west end of the basin to facilitaie the progress of the works. The arrangements made, by order of the Commo dore, for storing the timber and keeping separate all the old stores and waste material until they are dis posed of, met with the approval of their Lordships, and after the inspection they entered their carriage at the south-west gate of the dockyard, and left on their return to town. The Vulture steam-frigate, having had the wood work repairs she required executed at Sheerness, was towed to Woolwich to-day by the African to have her engines refitted. The Admiralty barge was taken to Woolwich last week to be repaired and renovated, and a handsome boat sent to,London to serve in its stead until the repairs are effected. DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL BUTCHER.--This event has been officially reported to the Admiralty. The deceased's services are thus recorded in the Neu; Navy List:—" S. Butcher, midshipman in llowe's action ; commanded Guachapin of 16 guns, and cap tured (1800) Spanish 18 guns letter of marque Teresa." He entered the navy on the 4th of Febru ary-, 1781 ; became a lieutenant on the 17th of July, 1794; commander, 19th of February, 1801; captain, 29th of April, 1802 ; rear-admiral, 17th of August, 1840; vice -admiral, 19th of February, 1847. In consequence of the above death the usual ad vance through the grades of the various squadrons on the flag-list takes place down to Captain (1814) Sir George Rose Sartorius, who becomes a rear-admiral. Sir George was midshipman of the Tonbant at Tra falgar, and of the Daphne in the operations on the Rio de la Plata, and attack upon Monte Video in 1806 and 1807. BANK OF FRANCE. The following is a return of the situation of the Ban] of France up to May 10: ASSETS. Cash and ingots Ditto in branch banks Bills past due Bills falling due in Paris, of which 14,635,744 f. Oc. are from the branch banks 48 084 74' 3 Bills in the branch banks ... 79,392,409 16 Advances on coins and ... 15,916,682 00 Ditto on French public securities ... 27,187,492 45 Ditto by branch banks... ... 1,173,337 00 Ditto to the State on Bons du Tr6sor... 50,000,000 00 Ditto on the loan of 150 millions ... 50,000,000 00 Rentes of the reserve fund ... 10,000,00(1 00 Rentes, disposable funds 42,581,488 13 Investments of the new branch banks in the public funds 12,779,541 39 hotel and furniture of the Bank 4,000,000 00 Real property of the branch banks ... 2,283,787 00 Loan of 10,000,000 f. to the city of Paris 5,000,000 00 Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 00 Ditto branch banks ... 230,000 00 Bills protested at Paris 6 402,939 79 Ditto at the branches ... 3,935,048 00 Expenses of administration of the Bank 486,146 39 Ditto of the branches ▪ 381,614 00 Miscellaneous ... 977,282 9 Advance to the department of th▪ e Seine ••• •• • ••• Loan of 3,000,000 f. to the city of Mar seilles ... ... f. 205,645,832 79 . . 132,956,360 00 96,138 2 ••• 3,000,000 00 1,000,000 00 L 704,013,845 24 LIABILITIES. Capital ... ... • ... ... f. 67,900,000 00 Ditto of the Branch Banks ... ... 23,350,000 00 Reserve fund ... ... ... ,_ 10,000,000 00 Ditto of the bran c h banks ... ... 2,980,750 00 Reserve-irarnobiliere ... ... ... 4,000,000 00 Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 385,506,200 00 Ditto of the branch banks ... .., 26,134,800 00 Ditto to orde r (p ost -bill s ) .. ... 1,189,861 75 Account -current with Treasury creditor 34,950,212 10 Various accounts current ... ... 93,679,559 16 Ditto in branches 30,775,526 00 Bills payable at sight ... ... ••• 4,114,300 00 Ditto at branches 1 109 690 00 Bills of the branch banks payable by the Bank ... ... ... ... 7,240,119 17 Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 4,716,685 00 Dividends payable ... . . ... 230,477 25 Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 198,412 44 Discounts, interest, and expenses ••• 3 , 194 ,788 61 Ditto branch banks ... ... ... 1,697,074 00 Re-discounts of the last six months ... 246,109 S 5 Ditto in branch banks .. ... ... 460,661 00 Miscellaneous ... ... ~. ... 338,618 91 E 704,013,845 24 Certified by the Governor of the Bank of France, IYARG OUT. FEAT OF STRENGTIL—At the White Bear, Ken nington-road, Mr. 11. Cameron, for a bet of 40 sove reigns, undertook the somewhat novel task of throwing a 19.1 b. skittle , ball over the wall of the racquet -court at the above house, which feat he very ebeverly per formed. The terms of the bet were 111 r. Cameron to have ten trials (enough to make a man a compeer of Mr. Gavan I)uffy's, .‘ the man of many trials"), but they were not needed, for on the second attempt the t;areo was over, the ball passing clear over the wall, which is forty feet high, THE COUNTRY MARKETS. LivEarooL, MAY 2.—Easterly winds still prevail, and our arrivals corsequently are very short, but a favourable change would firing us in a fleet of large vessels, graM laden. M yesterday's market there was a moderate sale for wheat 10 country buyers at Tuesday's price, but the town dealers bought sparingly. There was a fair sale for barrel flour, at an ad vance ot:b1 per barrel. Oats fully supported late rates. Oat meal rather dull sale. Peas were Is i:er quarter dearer. Bar ley and beans without change. Indian corn was nearly Is pe r quarter lower, and only a moderate quantity so ld. 3bs 4t301b. was accepted for the finest yellow corn. There are many orders for this article in hand for the anticipated large arrivals with the change of wind. The price of each article o . f the trade is fully supported to-day, but there is not much busi ness passing. d. Wheat, per 701 b : English, white .. 7 2 to 7 GI .. 6 9 6 101 Irish, new .. •• G 2 6 31 Do., old •• 6 4 6 Dantsie.. • • 7 3 - 7 41 1)o., good mixed 7 0 Loweri;altie,whit, 6 2 6 Do. red 6 6 6 b American • • • G 6 7 0 1 Canadian .. 6 0 6 6! Spanish, red and i d. s. d : Barley, Feeding.. 3 3 to 3 - J,tye, per 4COlb .. 0 0 ° Beans, Engl,sh, pr imperial iinartr 33 0 36 ;Irish and Scotch, per 4501 b.. .. 30 0— 31 6 Forehm duty pd. 25 0 30 v 'European, per im perial quarter.. 32 0 33 Peas, English, per Foreignimperial quartr 32 0 — 33 I, .. 20 0 —3l white.. Tuscan and Bar letta, red .. •• G 2 6 4 Marianopo .• • 5 G 5 8 .. G S - 7 o! Odessa, Polish 5 8 -- 5 9 1)o., hard.. .• 5 0 5 2 Egyptian .. 4 3 5 0 Oats, per 451 b : English and Scotch 2 9 3 0 Welsh • • -. .. 2 ti 2 7 Irish, new .. 2 10 —2 10,; Do., obi • • 2 7 2 - 9 Barley, English,pr imperial quarter 30 0 —22 0, Malt, English, per imperial quartr 53 0 61 Do., Irish .. 55 0 Do., brown .. 54 0 -- Flour, English, pr 2801 b 3G 0 — 3 3 n Irish, extra fine.. 3t3 'United States, p'er barrel .. .23 0—25 ° n Canadian .. 23 0 -- " Oatmeal, English, & .tieotch,pr24olb 25 0 27 ( 1., Irish, new .. .. 25 —2 5 Do., old _. .23 6 24 " Irish, Scotch, and Intll,o corn, per 6 I‘lar.x,perGOlh.. 3 3 3 6 4SOlb .. .. 31 U HEADING, MAY 12 —Whe a t, per quarter, 345 to 585; bar ley, 25; to 355; oats, ltis to 233 ; beans, 30s to 405; pe a '' 30s to 38s. Fat hogs, 8s 6d to 8s 9d ; porker s , O s to Os p er score. Poultry—Fowls, per couple, 4s Od to 5s Od ; ducks' per couple, Os Od to Os Od; geese, each,Os Od to Os Od; butter? per lb, ltd to Is Od; eggs, 18 to 20 for Is. BASINGSTOKE, MAY 10.—Wheat, 32s to 54s p er quartel barley, 22s to 27s ; oats, lbs to 215 ; beans, 30 s t o 355; a ll bread, Is. ABERDEEN, MAY 11.—Grain—Oats 14s 61 to I 5s 6d,401b Per bushel ; barley, 23s to 245, 52lbs per bushel; hear, 233 to `-ti 52 lbs per bushel ; wheat. 46; to 52, ; oa t mea l , ll s 6d t o 129 per boll; flour, 37s to 45s per sack. Provisions—Bela 4d to ticl per lb ; mutton, ditt o , 4d to 6d ; veal, ditto,:, to 7d ;: pork, per stone, 4s 6d t o 5 s ; l am b, per l b, 7d to Od, tallow, per stone, 4s to 4s 6d ; rotatoes, per peck, Lod to Js , hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each Od t o O s ; hares, each, v* , to Os ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; b u tt er , p er lb , 8d so 1 6-1 ' eggs, per doz, lid to 7d ; cheese, per ston e , O s t o O s ; hens Pe... pair, 2s 6d to 35 Od ; chickens, ditto, Is 6d to 23; ducks, 2,50 d to 2s 6d ; ducklings, ditto, 2s to 2s 6d ; . turkeys, each , 3 : to 45 Od ; geese, ditto, Os to Os ; butter f o r ex p or t a ti on (presen t cure), per cwt, 62,s to Os ; eggs, wholes a l e p r i ce , per d o zen, to Od; 4b loaf, 6,1; 21b loaf, 3d ; pork, per stoue of 14 lb , 33 6d to Os Od; pork fine, small, bs 6d to Os Od ; pork large' 3s 6d to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of 204 lbs, loos, t0 ... , 01 ' Meal—Oatmeal, is 3d to Is 4d; bearmeal, Is 3d to iOS VI; peasemeal, 25 Od" to Os; lids, 6d to 7d ; b ar l e y fl our , 1 1 5 : 1 Os Od; barley dust, 8d to Od; flour, Is 10d to 2s; barley, per Ib' Ibd told. DALKEITIT, MAY 10.—The relative weight per four bu 9}1 .1 1 ,1 of the three prices of wheat were 18st 101 b, 18st 11b, and 01b. Oats, 13st lib, 125 t bib, and llst 71b. Barley, 16 , t 16st 21b, and lbst 21b.2 Peas and beans, 18st 9ib, ',lBst and 18st Olbs. Qrs. Best. Current. Inferio r ; 173 Wheat ... ...£2... 10 0 £2 6 0 £2 0 „ 12.59 Oats Barley 1 9 0 1 7 0 4 45 Pease and Beans 1 11 0 1 8 0 1 4 Avel age of wheat........... 4 - 5 s 51d. GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, .MAY 10.—To day the e u r; hers at our market were—cattle, 683 ; s h eep , 6 5 7 ; 1=139,i The greater part of the cattle were of very superior quali P o d at i Sales ruled slow at barely former rates, but ultimately a clearance was effected. A few left unsold. Best ox bee fee o second quality 40s to 44e, cows, bulls, and inferior be alts, fr ° , ? 34s to 35s per cwt., sinking th e o ff a l. TI N supp l y of sbe*er was equal to the demand. Best aged wethers br o u g ht 6d p lb., second 5d to :),1 per lb., clippe sheep fid per lb., 50 40 the offal—all sold. There was a goo d sup pl y of lambs:—t' t o in condition sold at from 16s to 22 s p er head, acme:cling quality. F r ids! BELFAST, MAY 10.—The suppli es o f gra i n since r the have been small, and in oats and oatmeal are unequal to .00 demand. Wheat must be noted th e t urn l ower , and in ferej' o an abatement of 5s per ton would rea dil y b e ma d e to lodes, ; sale?. Odessa, 91 5s to IC/ ; Peter a bur g h, 81 lO s to 91.,;1050 Baltic wheats of fine quality, 1015 s t o 111 5 s per ton. ia —Millers fine flour a slow sale, at my quotations ; co arse o ' lair demand, and prices well mai n t aine d. A mer i can bsrb ats 24s to 255. Barley sells freely at last week's prices. are wanted, and readily briog the advance of 6d nete" c e Friday. Oatmeal in moder a t e d eman d , at f u ll y the adv:lso of 3d noted in my last. Indian corn in fair demand at to 81 lOs per ton for yellow, and 2s Gd to Sc less for w hite. 001 CORK, MAY 11.—The grain trade throughout the king has been dull, but mote so in London than in the . 17, , n g„ i - e d provincial or Irish markets, that market having been an e ;,•oo by large arrivals of foreign grain. Here, except in the a r ,"'„ e of Indian Corn, in which a moderate business has been u°,l - t i; we have had little activity in the trade, with however but ll` g in change in prices. The arrivals of foreign grain hay e he lp few, while the receipts of home produce are very trifling• to the green market we observe vary little change in priceft org .. quantity offering being so small as t o b e t a k en rea dily. , 1 0 :0 pared Irish wheat of inferior quality, suc h as wou ld fete , ' 45 to 22s per barrel, is inquired for, an d wou ld se ll rea dily to "' a l t ' secondary descriptions of flour, which are in demand. . 1 , 0 foreign wheat but littl e bu s i ness h as b een t ransac t e d, ax‘d to tendency o f p r i ces i s d ownwar d s. A few parcels of black have changed hands at lOs rid to Ils per barrel, free On I°lbe which ma y b e cons i dered the current value of the article.. finest descripti ons o f flour continue slow of sale, b u t for so , ~ condary and co arse fl ours we experience a good demand. at foi l prices. A fair b us i ness h as been done in Indian corn at :an I' d ; vance of 2s 6d per ton, prime Galata having been sold ids se ° , instances at 8/ 15s, the article commanding readily 81 12s d,, e, P i e ton, a figure which last week we stat e d t o b e scarce l y obtaito,„l" Flour—Firsts 14s Od to 14s 6d ; extra 15s "Tv seconds, 13a Od to I3s 6d; households 103 to 12s; thirds 80 0 i s - s per cwt. Oatmeal 12s Gd to l3s; Indian meal 8s 6d to 9s ;. 14 , 1 : 0 , meal, lOsOdto I 1 s per cwt. Indian corn 8/ O s Od t o 8/10 s 1", ; $ 0 Bran 41 to 415 s per ton. Hay—F armers 22 s Od t o 470; toreros 425; dealers 46s to 50s; average 46 s 0d per ton . St' aw--E ar113 0,1; 23s Od to 88s Od; average 35 5; d ea l ers 38 s Od to 40 5 4 j; average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to' a l to household loaf to sid per 41b. F res h b u tt er , 9d per lb. Eggs —3s 9d to 4s per hundred. 0 .,, T 1a .. - s tl3 Newport 16s; Lydney 17s ; L an d ore 165; Best Culm 145 per ton. Tallow 43s 6d to 44s per Z e st Whiskey, 25 o. p., 6s Od p er i mper i a l ga ll on . to —Beef 4d to 7d; M 7, Mutton 5d to 6&d; veal b v et 7d ; vork 4d to sid ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages t'u lb. - Hops 6/ lOs per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2s 6d to N • 55 r e b ton. Bark—Barbary 81 to 8/ 10s; Valonia 14/ to 01; ' e 7110 a; English 0l per ton. Fleece Wool lOs to 125 per O r el Hemp 34/ to 36/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 18s to g er ditto 26s to 28s p er b arre l ; N ew f oundland 10/ lOs to il l 51 ton. Timber—N ew M eme l 4 / lOs ; old scarce; red pin-"n 15s ; yellow pine 3/ p er t on ; d ea l s, fi rst quality, 201; 6 e',; to quality 17/ p er 120. Hid es —M ar k et 103 to 16s; salt& /,, 16s per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 21d; market 2d to 2,-1-d• P e ',.. , Potatoes, white 12d to 14d ; Minions 19d to 20d ; n ,51, Peruvian, 11/ to 11/10 s; I c h a b oe 9/ per ton ; Tar—Ar• shaft 19s per barrel. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS' LIVERPOOL, ..11IAIr It. 0 1 ' STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The transactions to-day bays been ~,Dire; lows:—Caledonian, Preference, 11 % — Lancashire and. Yor"" 00.; Fifths, 4Z dis.—Ditto, Preference, 11N—Liverpool, Croup Southport, 5) dis.—North Union (11), 153% —ShrewsbiThYmi.. , Chester (N. W. M), Preference, guaranteed per cent., 1 ,, p• London and North-Western, 126—Dit to, N ew Quarters, • 2 'title —Ditto, Fifths, 5 p.—Midland, 64—Ditto, Halves, 12y, dis.-icr - Eastern and Dover (No. 4), 6%—York, Newcastle, and " e , t .. (Original N. and B.), G N. E. P urc h ase , guaranteed 6 per col' 1850, 16s. 3d. dis.— Midland Great Western, 26 dis. • BIRMINGHAM, MAY 12. t 0 9 '1 STOCK F.3CCOANGE.-111,1 following are to-day's transale Birmingham, IVolverhampton, and Stour Valley, 1O —Ches ter ct iV Holyhead 15 —Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 61:i1s. Si'• Ditto (Ii), dis. YORK, MAY 11. fol' STOCK EXCHANGE —The business transacted to-day N ll - 4 ' lli 10 lows :—Great Norther n , 101 . 3s. 9d.—York, Newcastl e , and dell v Extension, 13ii—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 4 1 4. NE WCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, MAT' 12. g V STOCK EXCHANGE. —The transactions to-day were as follalih , Caledonian, Preferen ce , 114 ex. in. —North British, Ifalycs, York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 19 —Ditto, Extension, 13 , ; , „:,- GLASGOW, MAY 11. to' STOCK EXCHANGE. —The business don e i n th e St oc k Exctav ,ire of day has been as follows:—Aberdeen, 1 9—Glasgow Cencralok-' minus, 12—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Halves (No. f) , o ce)' York, Newcastle, an d B erw i ck (G. N. E. Purchase or Trill-ere 41. 9s. O t TIIE SERPENTINE.--'Phis ornamental piece Abe water has been refill e d, an d now reaches its ustu ti:heitibe and there is sufficient water in the river to ct , h i c h overflow at the eas t en d t h rough the iron gratin;, 1"t furnishes th e t a ll over t h e rocks into the deli eVe"„tll which was formerly one of the most picture. , ,que stOd tractive points in Hyde Park. [ADVERTISEMENT. J—A Most Inveterate Ski m for sease Cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.--JamO ai d e litt, millwright o f N enag h, county o f D onegal, was 8 1' the with a dreadful skin disease, being covered with sores fill him ear to the elbow, and d own th e r i g h t s id e, w hi c h rendcr ie( totally unable to work at his trade. His malady was or !!„itY' lignant a nature that he became a loathsome object a 0 ( )jot' In this stat e h e was p resen t e d w ith some o f Holloway's oder' ment and Pills, and by perseverin g i n th e use o f these 00°„d ful remedies for a few weeks he h as b een soun dl y cure d, 8 a ll now able to resume his laborious occupation.—Sold " , 04ir Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment% Strand, London. BIRTHS. th 6 On the 9th hlst., at Great George-street, Westtninite i ' Of wi:e of Captain Th o m as Trattle, IGth Queen's Lance r, a son. Oa the 9th inst., at Canterbury-villas, Maida-vale, Roberts, of a son. erri' On the Mb. inst., at Hampstead, the wife of R. E. -- Esq., of a son. Oa the sth inst., at Newington, Mrs. Alexander iyidAe of a daughter. MARRIED. ocl.' On the 10th i ns t ., at St. Pancras, Charles E. Pric i .1 ). 1. 'M.D., of Bedford, to Amelia, only daughter of ChaLit° .11ullah, Esq , of Dcuglity-street. , b , Ro v' ' On the 10th inst., at tit. Giles's-in-the.fields, .- 3 il) ( George Bust, M.A., cl er k i n or d ers of that par i s h, to '' lll Mary, daughter of the late J. Swayne, Esq. - A jarr On the 10th i nst., at the church Of lioly, Trinity, St.' oat lehon e , M r. J ames Snelgrove, of Wells, Somerset, to .I•3V. eldest daughter of the late Mr. W. Board. 1 sliio, On the 10th i nst ., at St. Botolph, Boston, T,inco.n ~ to Mr. S. Wcath er l ey , of S t. Jame s's-pLce, Old Kent.ros o o f Mary Ann, only daughter of William W. Tuxtord, FA . ' the thrmer place. _.......----"" c O n t n o Bth iie, a n inst., On the ••th inst. ot ,m IT a u nit h l3 e , r it t b ic i ß b i . li no . Meredith, nd, s iirre E y s , years . a member of _ l ./ 0 00 Hughes, widow of the late Owen Hughes, Esq., of 'l.° street, Islington. On the dth inst., at Hizlewoocl, near Derby, aged 1.5' eldest son of W. ' Hutton, Esq., of Gate B near Gainsborough.oill ei‘, 6 s ti On the bth inst., at Falmouth, aged 23, Charlott e, daughter of Mr. W. It. Broad, of that place. Miss On the :Ali inst., at Beaumont-street, biaryleb one, Catherine Klose, aged 63. On the 4th inst., at 1 ceston, Norfolk, the infant son of Sit Jaco o Henry th b P inst., at Walthan:stow, Mrs. Ann Fabia n, relic t rusto, Bart. of the late R. Fabian, Esq., of East Cowes, age d 79 ._ ; 2 the 7 „ London: Printed and Published by MURDO 1:01.TN 7, ' , No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 1 1 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the c ount)' 14,,1e49.