The Sun. — London, England, 1855-04-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EYENINGI APRIL 27, t 856. bUri t La tl NI - 1 ." 1 ji . 4 1 nus ess ' ' this day. ri; -,' - - - -, r .1 ' AwAsi. c o mp ans . this day. A -f.), lit, 1 'Alit. enact Rau....... • (THIS DAY.) S iiARE MAR ETS. ____ _ _ - 72; 4, : i i,_,, sED r i,: i in F 1 : 0 7 1 1 : 1 : 1 ?:: . r e l:ALS• __- _-- _ _ ia COm i t , tau) css it .4-OfiRCIAL INT ELLIGEIti CE. RAILWAYS. • .•• ----- ----0.----_____ - 26 98 ___ Closing Price St. 100 Clydesdale Je. ',-; ie this day. B. Un. & 11 110 0 0 " CITY, Two O'CLOCK. hr. Paid. EAn ' 74l' '' this day. 50 all Ba ek f t o ,,n r hn d iae a my n s d h..: 1,....N.W. —.- 3 Business done S 2s t. 100 24 o B Slid. and Hal. E. C Closed Itiii."n Market at Liverpool yesterday ----- itkledeirj.i.tomeu,:caano ewzceriteedicife.eling, ____ St. 100 E. Lincoln 4r. Nrtim. 133 135 133 19 20 6 per cent. and prices of Surat t . 10(1, A.;o . 7.lee N n oltng. Boa, 4 per lb. dearer than last 3 -... 43 ... ••• ipeiudin'"e sales were estimated at 15,000 bales, L - -'. a i nd g Eastn. Junet... a ..... ... . ••• g 9 250 'allymena. ... t ikeo, f or e ' American (1,000 of which were ,1:1 3 all il 13 13 ° Ifa rt L t , S4 . w h olverh• & 84 Eii 25 all Glstr.GrDn./r , . & Yk. New. PriB illg 34 1)° ! 1 ) and 4,000 on speculation), coin a Stour Valley 100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. St. all Glas. Barr. & , CI; i a t to l d v o r n e l a s n t 1 . .. . - .. . & llerw. ... ... 1 eid . Parnae a d ~ 1 000 an Maranham at sd. to y.szNu 105 107 31 2 Cheshire Janet . St. 10) Do. New sz sel r b 'e y ct . -• .. y . 2 n ) Bahia ' , eci. to 9d.l at 6d. to 61d. 4OO Egyptian 15 1 I— 13 16 3 by k l lei _ , 4,000 Surat at 3d. to 4-ad. ; an , , 17i a 1 129 Do. Cheap. ; La , : Birk., d: , 8 d 23 - 24 hy sh alt at is. to Is 3d • per lb. The Rail -7; s origin . a . ' 20 all Do. Preference Do &c a 11 11 dow„,bare karket *• * - 25 all 1t1 2 11 5 8. 0 2 8 ' . dat £45 ) ... ... 10 all Lon., Til., &S. Peto -a ,ard,.. Was quiet, and prices tendedCons.s 2l o 2si as a 11 l 11 l I,0D I1"N on le . Hull ii . ilksw.GaDiyi. Shares. e e S DD _. oo E . asteri ili l3 The '4 22 19 D405.(,),Ra2P.,T(d)..'25c0t. ;tour v-y. LN_ao:;n°l4:looTney:t& '..5. ---__ i. . i.. __ • .. 1 th • P r oduce , 12 s : too all D L ; w . pe i esrt S co h ef t a u t: shares. s i. .. the tiali., , c roarkets have been interrupted in 10 61s. Carmarthen and Car ... i St. 100 Bristol and Exeter... 9,8, 5 90 94 ssi St. WO D. 5i all Mauch. Bran. 2 L i & l4lidld. 2i i 2i !tort 0 , 4 . i ., °Urge by the alteration in the duties, St. 100 & Holyhead. 12_ 1_ and Matlock 50 all Chester C d al ig e a d i o l nian. ..... . . .... ON D N o orf N ak . w ::: '"' ••• 14113C)rte4 struggle being maintained between the Ile 4 and th Do 6 per et. Midland 92 94 921 1 teQ 1 e retailers as to who shall suffer or 20 110 11 the first .50 ni al l l C C n o r r k k , 20 16 . Cornwall ... ... St. 1.( . 0 Micild•Bradfd. 0 tißeB Which effects of the Budget. Those Junction 6j 51, Newmarket En. Colin. par 41) 10 14 Cried 4 3 at a ii ~ had 50 all M ile id d d e le a s i b . ro' & 3 aßnidacka,lndraP. ... ' . i .. -- :.... abl has quantity of duty-paid sugar 5 0 45 Dublin&BelfastJunc. (liiide le' 414 -have since been offering it publicly, 25 Easternsp.c. E. .. —•-• * deen Junction Way of4l. thfference of the duty with the buyers by ~, n Now &Abet 64 .... 6 t Do 50 all Do. 6 p er c • Do •• ... Ye OA , le rtiPtati n 1 5 an -o. all Dundee Perth 14 I ‘. 5C` all Do. Fixodspe L. . N.w. Bury Exton... E BDt cackr Count. 1 lu n g a . ' 5 . 1 59 -- - 11- • kod o p ''', Out as soon as these stocks are st. 100 11 1 14 it ii i Wyre la 66 ' Counties 25 all Prest. & kLuStYk -•— ... 20 all Ea tern 50 all Northern and b4 ; 4, .the eZtra impost, if not paid by the ' Do st. 100 Eas ern East Anglian 130 133 ! lid the ' will fal l upon the dealers, the merchants, 100 Do S . t , oc ß k s - r t a . i A .c . nu . k i , °. . n . : . . •. A , 2 3 0 0 .2 3 22 2 &Hit. Gt Nortlan 111 t3,,„ gr Ofers. Qi St. ••• ... ougar, taking this circumstance Yorksh. ~. ... ni 72 4 Gooleg.sP•c• T. Brassey 74 84 the C eell4 t, is . oi c i era _ not quite so high as last week, but 25 8A Do., New all Shrews. &Her. St. 100 East Lancashirer_ _ asgow 54 56 54i 1 ri llAt ileas h dre not pressing sales. In coffee a fair st. 100 Er d hlib b it a r,,. nd ( 11 Peebles... 2d —... p±F ' 96 S. Staffordsh. , kt & 12 1 rYalleygr ',toe . cep Tan kB * been de n% Tea has been dull, and to all E 1 !12 Pr . 'LI, &Dundee 18 _ 2 .. 0 , a ll \ ;ea Darlingt ... ... km, . -eiri g. T . St. 100 E( in. Jnuc. ••• 1 Forth & Clyde ... ... . 6 per cent... 32 33 I I.; 4 e Jute there has been a further 10 .0, • , Eis and -, 50 all 'leu 'Furness 25 2 1 s 2 00 5: 176 a 1 1 u 8 0l S i ßD l hi o e Y. f s . it ß n6 o . h t h r 8 . a . n A d fia nca s h & M.MClean 24_ 2 d 41 4 : C ed qu ot ' l j ti u : tt Ussian. hemp is in demand at en oat cl a p las• Tallow has been improving l tah-. /* 2: ,4f 0 l a o ll i aDiofir_....xwtesinss.i.o‘,nv;i•e;; ' 6 . 7 ----_ 6 • wiits&g...t GtWestn. 884 894 St. 109 1,111 3 CO 1,1;13 INT ELLIOL'iti CZ --------___,.____ CITY, Two O'CLOCK. ,11:11 Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday c losed • With an excited feeling, and prices of Surat kid g . . Iserican were id. per lb. dearer than last Week. v . i lleitid ue sales were estimated at 15,000 . bales, ta4 in g 9 250 American (1,000 of which were_ , e y, f ' take ,er export and 4,000 on speculation), com et Prisiu, Q,,,, ) ei ti .° 'Nu par, and Maranham at 50-. ~ 1,000 Bahia at 6d. to 61d. ; 400 4 6 d. to 9d d. • and t 4 , ' ; 4,000 Surat at 3d. to 4i 'Rail wayeashlalands at ls. to ls. 3d. per lb. The Egyptian 00 are Market Was quiet, and prices tended Wuwards. th e ll i r e Produce markets have been interrupted in i:tt _ r course by the alteration i n the duties, port t ef struggle being maintained betweent the refitil and the retailers as to who shall suffer tiotp,„.by. the first effects of the Budget.. Those iitai, which had some quantity of duty-paid . sugar diricia'le, and have oft been offering it publicly, w e , eefitkle difference e duty with the buyers by Vfork :ettiPtatioa, but as soon as these stocks are te oilh _ eg off, .the extra impost, if not paid by the 4 4 , 1 :741e; will fall upon the dealers, the merchants, ilk tQe growers. Sugar, taking this circumstance bt th e h ae ,. °ll 4t, is not quite so high as last week, ll :e'clera are not Pressing sales. In coffee afair tip 44 4 has been done. Tea has been dull, and tillitto• ancil lg• In jute there has been a further n_ hel eoc ' ri ße, and Russian hemp is in demand at e I,lb, quotations. Tallow has been improving - most d 0.... h g "Y telt ;,?,Pears that there were larger clearances of to tal pars to the alteration in the duty 14 fe1i,..4.1._e quantities at the London Customs.,beingl7, 134,90`0'7:---April 16, 166,900 lbs. ; April _,,, 105,800 lbs.. April 18, 1 47,800 lbs. ; April I Total, 01)1f.241116001ibb8;.! A pril 20, 566,100 lbs. r yielding 84,006/. to the Customs._ o_ t oss . ) the quantities were—April 16, 0, °°. Aptii -•Prill7, 2;500 toms ; April 18, 2,000 tons , ksoehlt,•9' 3)500 tons ; and April 20, 4,400 tons, 1 : 1 '''g to about.2oo 000/. Slik-i7nleial return gives the particulars tlio; 4 . 1 : 0 4 f i °. spirits in 14e United Kingdom. From 1 the tt4 of a %ears that 'during the year ending of the gallons distilled a'lllary last the number of proof 86 ,318 ill trigland Was 6 ,881,664, in Scotlandfor kth e v . L., ' al l'a ill Ireland 8,259,930. The totals it 041'q' titgdora were 10i, lily ; 1'7,005,134 from Malt with unmalted 4,560,017 gallons from 8 ! )..442 3,415,339 from sugar with unmalted grain, The total kkolie2 gallons from Molasses only. Th e f il c't thitY Paid Was 7,660,778/. 9s. 2d. 1 41'3e14 ".%°willg are the nominal prices of foreign '''‘..iretia 6i to 6i ; - mexi %, 24, da Deferred Bonds, liereeil• ) 20.1.; poravian., 41 , t e tk : 4 „, 7 t ° 49 ;Portuguese Four per Cents.,_. 68 to 70; ditto Three ii ‘te 1,31 'llissian Five per Cents., 98 L .'our.ati,d-a-lialf peer Cents., 88 to .)0 , Nish xr NI. p ate,, 4•Nely Deferred, l7 i to 181; ditto Threets_ ; to 1 , 00 : 'l4) l'a„„ tB. .' 36 te 4,ditto Certificates, 4i 0 -'- ,_Tli e C i ive ) 3 1 . to 4, Overland 14 repo'eeraPh in anti • the h ' cipation. of 1 4 of Shang"' Y th e y the recapture of the city it; roZPerialists. If this statement be correct Slilleety ~e r a matter for regret than oth i e d r e wi t s b e e , et" i-ttell Partial successes on either s Shanghai at 4 .4 e a 4 Proleeged. The exchange ' ' Per ; I %ro dollar. material t n4ti e ' ell, Son, and Co, report no 4 in Ni t _ . Per Cen . :NV Redeem riO6i 107 -..4 the market for American Securities :— t 14, 1 n 46 ~,. , . Bonds 186-• • • ji,,,3 %%t ea 7= %,ent. I' 4,.. , K . . Per Cent. InseribedlB6B...lT, 107 l'oriz.'"••••• .. .... 1867-- 860. •• "" 81 /NI, lteshte 5 Per . 6;;;:tl . CIO -1858-1 ••• Bd. 85 'Zilvitzil4° Per Cent. do. - . . 1877-- lO2 ~11s$tt, s,Aer Cent. Bonds ‘it.,, Ndss,p4ueePetir&A.er(Slitriegrlilo.id; 92 84 83 87 N & H` l it r'reent Qt I. Bonds) 1858-9-66...088.. 86 koti, 4 .911111:31. °eat.. Ne er ling Bonds) ) 2 1868 ; 201 93 t. er Cent. Bonds V t teal e Loos OF CITIES:••18'71••• B _ 7 ._ 88 *llolkt Ce nt. Nte r go ds). • • 185718 8 4 7.. 8 4 1874... 7.3 : 4 6 r r e llt:. Bonds ' do. 1884... 72 do. do. 11 4 ' • 411.1104 D BONDS. ,0.18 Qentral 7 De 0 P 411%ne.etitria a V -mit. 80nd5.... Nut. 7 Des , e, ent Per Cent. Bonds I,:et Bonds) .' 14 liortzege (s ter 44e3Avania ........ • •••. 1859- • 94 toilas eutral 6p. Ce4.lii lie v? Y orli . .8n.(1 ‘.;.i ........... ..... d)rtiigage 183°... 88i 89 ugags, Convertiblee 7P ' 60 4, ij qew York elici Erie i';•••• e ; ..... •••• . _.. 185- •9 0 92 I;,•.e.lt_ge, Convertible Per Cent. 3(1. leri c and E rie 7 ~. i., ........ . "Jerk and Erio'7'ellt•Conrertible 1862... zd t.n....i.i . h..............pe...r...C.e..n. t . .. . . Sinking ..... . .. ... 78 80 th e o _ e g 8 securities there was a firmer tone at to 89 1, but lug the market, Consols being 89theta to:B,es Made since for money have reduced ben lar go, as ti ! • The total business has not, been •Prolpeet.. e er e is great suspense concerning the i 4 stea4"* (24'811eceSs at Sebastopol. The Omni um I kta 14:4 It° renaitn, and the new annu ity ~,_ t 2 11 i 4 tiene atilt 3-16. Bank Stock is worth 14.t,leleciner Bills are ss. to 7s. ium prem scarcely 411314i4: -raoreiga market there has been consequently ii ttre ziotirgi °i ng, and the quotations Bonds 1 lav e 1.. Y the aaine as yesterday. Turkish ; b Stock 1' 44 Leeeii4 rather firmer at 73i i- spa _6l, Am :Ze_ De full rates, the 3 per Cents. being 3 . Tuie,3l.; Ueferred 14. Dutch 21- per Cents. re' l 'i U , 41 1 th e 'l l l kore d o ..,-inglish Railway Shares there is rather supported, altho„ 4, and the quotations are is 4,tifig, 4 Ye heavier tone of the Consol market.___, 1 a11:444 1 v.i. a .11 L . Y mproveraent, and at this moment giv e :: to Batter bit in tn r appearance than when business r, 'ed• The Forei2 lines have been quieter,i I ,zreat liv . - a rather -nl l'roved des of Canada have 4 the have booo_ Colonial and Foreign lines thereheav_. Th e Qll t few transactions, and the prices are heavy. erlet,l4t Stock Banks are generally mai l 1 1 Nlace shares have declined slight y. u t -4 '4E14 1,,_ ---- A.berdeen.. Itabg Nottng. P.os, and Eastn. Junet... Belfast & Ballymena. Binning. Wolverh. Stour Valley Birk.enhd. Lancsh. Cheshire Janet Do. Cheah. & Birk., £5O and 225 Cons. Do., £2O Blyth & Tyne origina' .£25 (issd. at £45; Bristol and Exeter Ca1ed0nian............ Cazmarthen and Car digan Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall Orloff Junction DublimkßelfastJunc Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction Do. Now East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Zillion, A Ds., B Stock.., Do., New A East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles... Editt.Prl.l &Dundee Forth & Clyde June. Furness . Do. Extension........ Glasgow & S. Western Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Stli. &West.(lre ) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rail Qua. Stk Irish South-Eastern. Lancaster & CarliWe 'Do., Thirds.. Do. New Thirds Lancash. andYorksh DD., Wst. Riding Un. Liv. Crsby.&Southpt London & Blackwal' Lond. Bright & S.Cst. Lond. and N. Westn, Do. Fifths Do.lo/. C Do. Eighths London andS. Westn, Do., £5O ... Do., £40,. Lndndrry& Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Ma,nch.Shcf.k Linclu Do. f Shares, No. 1 Do., Man. & Lin. Un. Midland Do. Riming. &Derey G. West. (Ire, ) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Nwpt.Aberg. St, lirfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warreupoint and Rostrevor Norfolk Northn.Connties lln North 13ritish North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., A A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed N. Eastern—Berwick Do. do. Extension Do.do. G.N.E. Parch. Do. Leeds Do. York North London Do. New £lO N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamp stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Portsmouth Scottish Central SeottishMidland Shropshire Union Routh Devon South Eastern South Wales Yrksh. & Riv. Dun Do Staines, Wok &Wok Stockton & Darlin StG7kton H artlepl Tad' Vale Do. £lO shares Do. Pref., No. 1 Thames Haven Docl; it. 100 15 8A 100 - ;t. 100 0 all ;t. 100 0 1 ;0 all O all it. 100 ;t. 100 A. 100 3s. 100 St. 100 St. 100 67 - 69 83i - 89 72 - 74 123 -- 125 92 --• 4 .44 63. E --63 i 92i 3 63t f i 58 - CO .2 all 65 - 70 5 - 7 5 - 7 75k 6 14i fi 4 4: 100 3 0 all .1i all it: 100 it. 100 7i 7i 97 —93 97/ —97 i id d id 1 81 82 9 . 8 7 d :ii .2i 100 0 ,2 A 42i' A 34 5 all 5 all ;t. 100 ;5 all :2s 44. ;t. 100 ;t. 100 23 - 23 7 - 8 6 sBi 40 42 $ 12'1 Atl T 21.3 :u 9 all 11 - 9 li - 2 47 - 49 •3t. 100 i 0 Si It. 100 .6 all L 6 all 8 all 8 all it. 100 15 20 15 13 27i ..fig ••"If 70 71 7i 7 d 4i 4 121 13 47A 48i 48 50 d par id 5i 4 1 1 6 64 1 d y ar ite ;t. Iwo i 0 , 1 11 LO all .0 3' le 20 I'7, 20 all 10 all 10 1 •••'"11 It Ho 25 - 27 20 8 St. 100 130 St. 1.00 - 0 a I St. ! 0 50 all )0 1., ~ 4 . ..,,1~. i; :0 12 ,!5 a 1 iOO 4 0 0 , obi' V: t. 100 E - 2;i T ) I all .1875... 68 69 . ... 90 all 50 all 1 .11 18 10 5 and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfi. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limeri:.k West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace-, IWost London N,Nrinabledn & Croydon 98 - 100 63 - 65 44 46 12i 13 59A 60i 26 - 271 5 - 3 3 - 1 all I .0 171 s. 0.2 t ' 10 all 5 4 20 10 20 2s. 36 - 38 e': .Th all 30 10 ?,0 all l 0 10 1 . 6 - .1 7 7 34 - 44 io 110 7.- ii. ii = 6i* 0 all 15 15 15 all FOREIGN. Antwerpar,Rottordam Belgian Eastn. June Beziers to Graissessac Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Scrip Central of Italy Demerara Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian, g. 5 p. c 7 0 - 271 31 - 2i ;0I all ;o 10 I 5 all 51 to . .‘°o l l rer bee' 4 all all Do. Ey . .,ensiol , Do. 4S p. c. Bds., pay. '57, convertible...... Do. do. do., '59, do.. Tk of CanadaA is. Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Debon , con. into Stk. till '63 Do, Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of Franc Gt. Indian Peninsula guar. 5 per cent. Do. New 5 per cent. Do. Extensions Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares Do. Obligations ....... Gt.WesternofCanad - I P 75j f 64 56' 0: P tis ° obli°l 0,01 all Pi{ R - '.I;IPS THIS DAY.—CLOSING a t4 k %to i.uron% the Ouictat Li :r., Buqiness don. kr n_ cic. a ts,r;:'aiat, ii,':.;*•••••.... 2ll _,, A * titlw llt.-.6o'''llCei Anllniti2B . i ° ot ~. nsols A •• ' - *** 89 .1 Si 9 kl ) 4 r t veh t. . ull.Trutles ▪ 88i 8 I iilltkr:l;itilirtil.iitileani les 1124 bistt 301.'1, Edpire it,ii..:l.a.n .... i..B° - 34 i i , p . , apire 10th Oct., 16 3-16 14 * ll 'lt ' 4ll ' E • -1859 3 11-16 1.1. tt ' 0 4(6 ' .z.... ................... ~ 1 0 h :b ti 0 00 --- '''IRAIB °r i..4(ter t ......... '''' .......... • 13 04 41 Ae 1.000.. 89i Si it Il k . °lll it, 10 . th May lthetme".•;•• zio oo r LIU % ... d. ......... . .............. • 57. .. tze3;41,1)?!.. ....................................................... 58 4 egAer.::. 4 1%14°11(la lAi, ii per &n . i. 9 i . t 114441101,1°P FOREIGN FUNDS Tit IS DAY. ell% i.t., - ' 4 , li Per Cent BBi le D itto ,7 141 8, 3 ~.... d - N 36 ,41.1 , New r. t - -, , Otit, ~l i iiii 11.. ueferred, 3 per Cent lSi _ ..thtt o f - 7 .0 "!,u 3 , &I par cent ut.. ~,'._ L.tie Account.. .. i a itz juendk, on the above Payable in Loricion. it to p i t il g o ° ' 23 / 4 Per Cent. 12 Gull__ 621 Cent Certificates ..... .6` all 0 14 b all 10 ~ f.) 14 n 16! I 0 10 in al ZO 911 Shares Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., 62 P. '56 Do. do., '76 , p. '6O Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & Basle Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.c. prof Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Mediterran Tvindras Do. Nov Maria Antonia Do. do. New Namur St Liego (witl 71 97i I 81 i 'o ° % ott all !f) all 68i f 70i 124 g !O al' 0 all 5 3 !O aili A ) all !O 2s. 3 h) 16 DContola ............... . Ditto, May Accoun t THREE O'CLOCK PBi i . B£q 1 84 all Le all ?,0 16 Ng.. 4411 41 4 1)411 I° AT GREENOOK.—The suspicion *III 4 4 , 4 ~"'Y the Budget) that an additional duty t was to be !tree:u t'Pon. HUgar, made our harbours, quays, t and 14 " w e ek n " of great hustle and excitement duri ,i g ab a r l_l_ this a„ Carts Carts loaded with bags of sugar from .. i 11,1ta tr,,,llrazil, hogsheads from West Indies, boxes .y ~,41clok ti, --au °a l -1, and baskets from Java, drove madly Alie-,,,-.e strees, urged on by highly-excited drivers. 11 , arid hardly tsierrit wretched-loaking nags were at a decided re . 'Poe s , f t of the ques any cartage could be got for other tion . ~..°P Money, love being totally ou ic-firr7ee"ck Advertiser. 11 1:) ' -ujiPlez NOTICE. --The follovving,, relating_t r o ee t e h e e , Terteltelitary Mails for her Majesty's .Forces in G e . :_____ / 4 c% and the Black Sea has just been pu.blishefdrail. pt ribleeiquence of the opening of the enire line throu..t":"ll Lyons and 'Marseilles, the conveyance Greer France of the mails for the British Forces in h ated e ' TtlrkeY, and the Black. Sea will be so far ace:- Ol e r - aa to alio* of mails despatched from London , ._ri te4 ohi lllin gs of Tuesday and Saturday (by day mall b ) ti t 4 -lig Marseilles under ordinary circumstances,i Por e t efcivt,.the French' Mediterranean packets leaving that f ur ti , vr.r. Thursda.y and Monday. The mails :I' 4 British Forces will continue to be despatch .d ed yeti the General P ost -office every Monday and Friday a b y e trial4n, 43 heretofore, but supplementary mailswi tai 11 1 ) on the mornings of Tuesday and Saturday,con -I:ationa vfcoiriri espondence as may be posted or T r b e e ei a v yb ec e i reg 4 l ll `. l °o in tone for the day mail to France. sport s • PP y a l to the correspondence for for -14 . ervice in Turkey and the Black Sea, 0 14 eloaad mails via Franco. 6 all 9 all 451 44 60k lid 34 —34 i 7 231 23 2i 2gP , ..... ••• ,• ••• 9i - 15 - 16 48 501 88 90 2 ip par - - AP - 2i - 211 171 - 18, 96 - 98 97 - 99 100 - 102 95 9 7 191 - 204 99 -- 100 2 -2p 1 3 , 11 1 all .os. all 30 all to 15 1 1 [0 all 5 1 , nterest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France D 0.201. She.late Char leroi and Erquclines guar. 3$ p. c. & red. at 22A1. Our. 88 yre.' from 1 Jan. 1854.... Do. 201. 3 p. c ride .•• -•• par Alp lip 4 6 lz 2i 20 50 50 100 100 ,Mall 1 all 1. all all ;0 all ;0 I 13.5 ;5 1 25/3 - 6 I all (fray. B. dr 4-Cms. Shs. NorwegianTrunkPref Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen.— ParisCaen Sc Cherhrg. Rouen and Havre..... lioyal Danish Royal Swod is! t Sambre and Meuse Do. 5.. 1 / 4 p. cent. Pref Seind , ; Southern of France.. St. Andrew's and 2 1 l 0 all 1 all 4 all 1 all 3 all 5 1 1 all 1 all 1 fall 1l all ;0, all 5 1 all i 0 all 5 all ;9 12i 1 all 8 all 1 all 1. all 1 125.1 Agua I•`ria Anglo Aurtrin. Gold Anglo Californian „ Australian Australian Cordillera, Ave Maria Baden (Gd. Duchy of) Blmnarvon Iron and Coal British Iron Brazilianlmp. (issued at £5 pm.) Do. Cocaes & Cuiaba Do. St. John Dol Rey Carson's Creek Clarendon Cons. MM Co. of Jamaica...... PREFERENCE SHARES. St. 1100 Aberdeen lO2 104 103 St. 100 Do. N 0.2, 7p. e B9 —9l 25 all BlythandTynelOpel c. prof. (issd.at 50/)... „. St. 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 92 94 20 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares — St. 100 Caledonian £lO 9 .6 97 15 all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 54 per cent._ ... „, 94 all Do. do. Pref. No. 2 ... ~.. 2i all Do. do. Pref. No.-2 ... .., 61 all Cork &Bandons4p.c 2 4 2i iii all Duo.Prth .dtAl-er.J s* 6 10 2 Z. Anglian Cis. ASh ... .., St. ;100 Do. do. Cis. B6p. c ... ... St. 100 Do. do. Cis. C7p. c ... ... 6i all Eastern Counties Ex t tension, sp. c. No. 1 4 1 p pm tii al Do. No. 2 10 all Do. Now 6r. c. St. 124 134 131 20 all East Un., G. 6p. c. ... ... 5 all Do. 51., 10 Der cent. ... ... 10 all Do. 101. Debentr.Sh. ... ... St. all Do. do. 4 per cent._ ... -. ... St. 100 EautLancash.6p.ets. ... - ' 5 all E.&W. York. J. sths ... St. al I Ed, Prth.&Dun.4p.c. 58 62 20 all Furness — ... St. I(su Glas. &S. W. G. 5 p.c , . ...xd St. 100 Great Northn. sp. c l l4 —' 116 1154 St. 100 Do. sp. e. Redeem. at 10 p. c. preen.. ,, 107 109 St. 100 Do. 44 p. c lOl -- 103 124' 54 D 0.5 p.c. 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New — ••• 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 10 5 Netherlands Land.... —1/ 2 1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter. Stearn Navigat. Co • •re ••• 1 all N. B, Australasian._ 20 121 Nrth. of EuropeSt .3ani all Peel Rr. Ld. & Ivlinrl. 21 2i 50 all Peninsular & Oriental 61 63 61 / 59 10 Do. New •P 2 all Portland Iron Co ig - 103 60 Royal Mail Steam 63 70 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest. 14 1 Ditto New — P 23 all South Austral. Land 36 37 1 all Submar. Tel. Scrip — 1 I all lbo. Reqisterefl... 20 5 Trust& L. Co.IT. Can. 100 281 Van DifIIIIIIA'S Land. 12a -- 13 66 - 68 7i -8; 67# - 8 26 d ••• . 0 . ••• 12i 13 LITERATURE. EMPERIA •L PA !IL 1.4 - 11 ENT. The Dire and Times of Salvator Rosa. By Lady HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY: — Morgan. New edition. David Bryce. Following in the wake of many younger celebri - Mr. B. SMITH gave notice that when the h ber for South on: mern ties, Sydney Morgan, the veteran authoress ofDECIMAL COINAGE. Lancashire brought forward his motion " Italy," and " France," and " O'Donnel," and relative to decimal coinage he should move an humble " Florence Macarthy," has at length undertaken address to her Majesty, praying for a congress of all to issue her collected writings anew through the nations, at some conven i en t place, with a view to the adoption of a common standard of money, weights, and L I press, in the form of a popular and carefully - revised measures. s eries of moderately-priced publications. In re - THE CAMP AT ALDERSHOT. solving upon this venture, Lady Morgan has shown In reply to C o l one l B OLDERO , ordPALMERSTON said arrangements had been herself anything but precipitate. The wild Irish .made for erecting huts for 10,000 men at Aldershot,' girl, we all knew before this, has long sobered down which would be ver y soon rea d y . Th ere wou ld then be from any primordial volatility under the weighty sent thither twenty regiments of militia, three battalions influences of the approach of the grand climacteric. notof fi intendedld artillery, f or obvious and two troops of cavalry ; but it was no reasons b e e m t b o d h i a e v ci e fanyor permanent Her ladyship has gained to a considerable extent there, as they would the mastery even over the once apparently uncon- duty beyond eight days. (Laughter.) querable impetuosity of her own temperament. ARMY REFORM. Inherent rashness has in her instance been tem - Mr. MILES asked the Fi rs t L or d o f th e T reasur y when the Government would be prepared to state to the pered by the prudence won from experience. country the alterations which it was proposed to make Wherefore, even in regard to the mere reissue of in the different departments connected with the army ? her literary productions, we find her tardy as con p les details of were this Lord PALMERSTON said that the general princi trasted with her later contemporaries. A:lready consideration of his right hon. the crowd of greater and lesser novelists have friend at the head of the War Department. When lavished their cheap reprints abundantly, across the his right hon. friend had decided upon the matter, no bookstalls at our railway stations, into the outspread time would be lost in bringing the subject under the arms of the now hardly calculable multitude of our notice of the house. (Hear, hear.) THE SEBASTOPOL COMMITTEE. reading population. Are we not all of us happily In reply to Mr. COBDEN, familiar with these pleasant cataracts of parti- Mr. ROEBUCK, as chairman of this committee, said coloured republications—the blooming fruits of the committee had not taken it into their consideration when they Should bring up their report. With regard genius—pouring plenteously and perpetually from to the propriety of reporting from day to day, or from the book trade cornucopia ? The verdurous week to week, he would consult the other members of green of those plump little tomes in which the committee. For his own part, he saw no objection Mr. Dickens recounts again and again to the to reporting from week to week. (Hear, hear.) masses so many pathetic histo r ies and humorous THE BLACK SEA SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH. In reply to Mr. LAYARD adventures ! The blushing pink of those po- Lord PALMERSTON ' said his rig ht hon. friend the litical satires, through the medium of which First Lord of the Admiralty had received a message that Mr. Disraeli has diffused abroad so much blended day from the East to the effect simply that the submarine instruction and amusement. The purple and gold telegraph had been opened, but no news of importance d that fact had been communicated to the Govern in which, by right of his imperial position in the m e ant. (Hear.) realm of Letters, Sir Bulwer Lytton has appropri- Sir C. WOOD said he had received two messages, ately clad the creations of his inexhaustible fancy one yesterday and one to-day, from Admiral Lyons, in on the earlier occasion of their collective re-appear- which the gallant Admiral said he had no news to com municate. (Laughter.) ancel Through that charming re-issue, we mean In reply to Mr. ROEBUCK, of his tales and romances, symbolically emblazoned Sir C. ' WOOD said the telegraphic communication with the effigy of the classic vase, reminding one was inotAuißteucclip thereupon asked whether it the noble wn n beld lord at how deftly and lavishly his master-hand has long t h e head ß of the Government, with been in the scope of his duty to send by its means and in quire what really had happened there of late ? (Hear.) Lord PALMERSTON said it was his intention to ask his right hon. friend at the head of the War De partment to request the Commander-in-Chief to let them have some news every day. (Hear, hear.) RECRUITING OF THE CAVALRY. Colonel BOLDERO asked the First Lord of the Treasury what arrangements had been made as regarded the intended encampment at Aldershot, and whether the force would consist of cavalry, yeomanry, artillery, line, and militia regiments ? Mr. F. PEEL said that, since last year, the cavalry had been increased to double its force, and further reinforcements, to the extent of 550 men, and double that number of horses, were now on their way to the Crimea. One steamer had been employed to take them out, all the others being sailing vessels. TESTAMENTARY JURISDICTION BILL. Mr. DISRAELI, referring to the Testamentary Juris diction Bill, which stood in the paper for a second reading that evening, observed that it was a bill of very great im portance, and that ho hoped it would not be left any longer without a definite day being fixed for the second reading. Lord PALMERSTON said that the Solicitor-General was quite ready to bring on the measure, and that if the discussion on the financial bills of the Government was over by nine or half-past nine o'clock, the hon. and learned gentleman would proceed with the bill. EDUCATION IN SCOTLANI). Mr. C. BRUCE asked whether it was the intention of the Lord Advocate to bring on the bill for education in Scotland to-morrow ? The LORD ADVOCATE said the bill stood on the paper as the first order of the day for to-morrow, and that it was his intention to bring it on, if possible, but not after half-past 10 o'clock. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he should to-morrow proceed in the first instance with the committee on those bills which the house might con sent to read a second time that night. When they were disposed of the Lord Advocate could proceed with his bill. Mr. DISRAELI inquired whether progress with the bill for education in Scotland was to be made contingent upon the progress made with other bills? Lord PALMERSTON observed that every one who had watched the proceedings of the house must see the extreme difficulty of fixing any business beforehand. It was abso lutely necessary that the bills which might be read a second time that night should be proceeded with in com mittee tomorrow ; but after they were over, provided the hour were not too late, the house might proceed to consi der the Scottish Education Bill. Mr. DISRAELI said that the noble lord at the head of the Government had mistaken the nature of the inquiry he had made. He (Mr. Disraeli) was aware that the finance bills were of the greatest importance, and he knew that it was the duty of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to pass them as speedily as possible. He did not wish the noble lord at the head of the Government to fix any hour for taking the Education Bill for Scotland, but he wished to say that it would be much to the convenience of the house if the Government were to fix one day for the finance bills, and another day for the Education Bill, so that the pro gress of the latter measure should not in any way depend upon the former. He now begged to ask whether the noble lord would fix any determinative day for the Scottish Education Bill ? Lord PALMERSTON—If we cannot go on with the bill by nine o'clock to-morrow, another day will be then fixed for proceeding. THE VIENNA CONFERENCE. Mr. BRIGHT asked when it was the intention of the Government to lay upon the table of the house the papers relating to the recent transactions at Vienna, so that the whole subject might be brought under the consideration of the house? He perceived that the Foreiga Minister, in another place, had given an intimation on the subject, and he (Mr. Bright) presumed that the House of Commons would receive, at least, the same amount of information. This was surely a reasonable proposition in the present cri tical state of the country. (Hear, hear.) Lord PALMERSTON said that any correspondence communicated to the House of Lords was always simul taneously laid before the House of Commons, He could not, for reasons which every ono would understand, name a day for the production of the papers. The noble lord the member for London had not yet returned home, and it was therefore impossible to say upon what day the papers could be laid before the house. He could, however, assure the hon. gentleman that no unnecessary delay should take place in their production. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BRIGHT said that, unless the papers were produced upon an early day, he would make a specific motion on the r PALMERSTON t i Viennaea cannot otat thesaywith subject. (Hear, hear.) Mr. OT WAY inquired w h e th er th e F renc h Mi n i s t er, M . Dy de Ily s , had e e m e e rta t i i n in t e y, t b h u at t same Lord John Russell had left ? Lord uo rd n I believe he did. THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE. Mr. W. WILLIAMS inquired of the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Government had any objection to lay upon the table of the house the statement of the amount that would be incurred for the expenditure of the present year, including the cost of collecting the revenue. Mr. WILSON replied that a statement had been prepared showing the gross and net charges, and that he would lay it upon the table of the house. LOAN BILL. The house then proceeded to the orders of the day. The Loan Bill wasread a se con d ti me w ith ou t discussion. The second reading of the • Stamp Duties Bill (stamps upon bankers' cheques) was postponed until next Friday week. Pouring from his pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn : the graceful precursor of the homelier reprint given to the world since then by the daring and munifi cent enterprise of Mr. Routledge. Together with these republic ations of popular favourites among our novel writers—have there not been innumerable others with which the throng have long since made agreeable acquaintance, including among them the wizardries of Harrison Ainsworth, and the comic alities of Albert Smith, and the roystering narra tives of Dr. Lever, and the interminable chain o stories by G. P. R. James, tales of remote chivalry and midireval sentimentalism. Nay, the moralist, too, has come out in like manner into the common sunshine of the market place in the instance of Mr. Warren—the annalist in that of Sir Archibald Alison—the essayist in that of Mr. Macaulay. It must be manifest, therefore, that Sydney Lady Morgan is anything rathe than premature in re solving thus to test the strength of her continued hold upon the popular interest, by giving to the public in a new, and aggregate, and more accessible form, the entire series of her various contributions to polite literature. By some unaccountable freak the work selected to lead off this new series of re publications is anything rather than the writer's masterpiece. She herself almost apologises for the selection in the prefatory remarks here introduced by way of explanation —acknowledging that the style of the book may be deemed rococo by the " censors of the modern free-and-easy school," but reminding these worthies—and that, let us say, at once after the manner of a school rather more free-and-easy, so to speak, than that of the cri tics Lady Morgan seems banteringly inclined to propitiate—that " such as it is, it was the style with which the author won her spurs under the command of Field-Marshal O'Donnel, and other heroes, native and foreign, who championed to their utmost the sublime cause of right and their country's independence." Censors of whatever school we may be, assuredly it will be permitted us to observe, in regard to any such extenuative vapouring in the way of half-grotesque and half defiant excuse, that it savours rather of the blue booted than of the blue-stockinged. However this may be, the public of to-day are evidently expected to throw their caps into the air, as Sir Sydney Morgan caracolles by with more than one feather (none of them white) fluttering from the old bat tered helmet in which that chivalrous spirit gained so many victories in an earlier age, when Pegasus had somewhatless of the aspect of a Rosinante. Speaking seriously, however, it is greatly to be lamented that a happier choice than that of this same rococo biography (we thank her knightly ladyship for teaching us precisely the right phrase as applied descriptively to her " Life of Rosa") should not have introduced a younger generation of readers than that for which our authoress wrote originally, to the perusal of her numerous, varied, and some of them singularly brilliant literary productions. In penning the history of the life and times of Sal vator, Lady Morgar, has subordinated the artist to the malcontent. She has regarded the age and the genius of the great Painter through the distorting lens of her own littls insular prejudices. She has exulted less over the intellectual powers of the man whose marvellous imagination rendered him more than any one either before or since—the weird romancist of the landscape ! Lady Morgan, we say, in these memorial chapters, has exulted less over these high intellectual capacities of Salvator Rosa than over the discovery in his temperament of some of the more eccentric attributes of a sort of mongrel political Savanarola. Viewing him re verentially under this particular aspect she pro claims him to be the poet of Liberty, on the strength of some mellifluous samples of mediocre versifica tion, enshrined in the classic pages of the Parnasso Italiatio—ranking the name of Rosa with others no less illustrious than those of Dante, and Pe trarch, and Tasso, and Filicaja ! So much for the astute perceptivity of Salvator's Hi bernian biographer. Nevertheless it must be con fessed that through the haze of these outrage ous and utterly distorting exaggerations there may be tracked out, in joltering intervals, the advance, as am Artist, of Salvator Rosa from the dead level of his early obscurity to the lofty height of his matured reputation. It is pleasant to fol low a progress like this, even when delineated thus perversely and disjointedly. From the even ings when the stripling painter was patted on the head encouragingly by the homely but discerning Francanzani, with the " Fruscia, fruscia, Salva toriello, the va buono !" to the day when Salvator himself could say proudly to a Roman noble who strove to drive a bargain with him for his pictures — " Signor, io non pattegio onenia ° i of mio pennello !" It is unfortunate that with a theme such as that afforded by the " Life and Times" of this gloriously-gifted painter Lady Morgan should have so little understood the secret charm of the writings of Vasari as to have Idrowned the gentle and genial voice of an artist's biographer in the ragings and raving s o f a p e t u l an t, cap tious,denn-religious,senai-political, cross-grained pamphleteer. A sweeter, purer, calmer, divine ' mo re vitalising atm os p here th an that which hangs mephitically over the whole of this elaborated biography, envelopes the etern a l f oun t a i ns an d perenn i a l verdure of the Forked Hill. THE INCOME TAX. The Income Tax Bill was read a second time withou liscussion. CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL. Mr. JOHN MACGREGO R said that he would not op pose the second reading of this bill, but that he would op pose all its future stages, as he considered that the pro posed increase of duties upon the necessaries of life would create great discontent through the-country. Mr. BLACKBURN inquired of the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the reason that the increased duty upod tea was to cease in one your after a treaty of peace had been signed, and that the duties on coffee and' sugar were to remain the same ? As far as colonial produce was concerned, he thought it ought to have beim put at least upon the same footing with tea, which is the growth of a foreign country. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that I the reason which had determined the Government to make a distinction on tea was that the Act of Parliament, by which the decline in the teL duties had been suspended, was to be in opera Von for one year after a treaty of peace was signed. The subject was, however, one for the dis cretion of the house, and, if the house wished to admit the increase in sugar and coffee, which was very small, to the flame privilege as tea, he would not oppose it. Mr. HANKEY called attention to a statement whichhad been made upon a previous evening by the Secretary to the Treasury, to. the effect that the West India colonies werein a condition of reviving prosperity. He (Mr. Han key) denied that such was the case. The quantity of sugar produced in the island of Jamaica 20 years ago was 70,000 tons, while by the last return it appeared that the quantity produced had fallen down to 22,000 tons. It was scarcely fair, therefore, to say that the West India islands were in a state of increasing prosperity. Mr. GREGSON said that it was proposed to levy a charge of 180 per cent. on Chinese goods, whilst we obliged the Chinese to take our goods at 6 per cent. This was a specimen of our system of reciprocity. These tremendous duties on tea would impede our imports, and the consump tion ofithis country would necessarily fall off. Mr. T. BARING said he regretted theartieles which the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer had chosen for increased customs duties. The articles chosen were those which entered largely into the consumption of the humbler classes of the countri, and which were pro duced mainly by our own coloniet He readily acknow ledged that customs duties should bear their fair pro a l: s o!' . tion of burden, when the general taxation was hrre The addition of 3d. in the pound in the ofarti . cle tea mode would was altogether unexpected by the trade. The have been to charge 10 per cent. on all thehe same a mount of and thus articles of luxury would pay y a t rticles of n ecessity. fair rstoms duties, duty, and suffer the same increase, as articles thinking that the Mr. L. HEYWORTFI concurred proposed addition of duty t- Le i b a change would be of these these articles. The effect of shipping woul d-mlinish the consumption trade, and to all jurious to the colonies, to our p classes of the communeitfy.t Mr. LAING d d i h n this bill, that lae should oppose member - el so strong an objection to the e prin&ple involve It was altogether a departure second rea ding if he could find any honourabledarture from the to second him-. which butt been so successful for the COMMOTC I e the substitution of a system of di al policy , lv , rectlas o t IforYiladri;critam taxa';ion. The result of that commercial v h he name of Sir Robert eel ws le-rislation, with • w t. ' was to yhic ,— , th t t from the year 1812 to r the year &wow. Tng WAR IN TUE EAST. —POWERFUL PAT GLASSES.— Messrs. S . and B. Solo nions, opticians, E Albemarle-street, Pi cca di lly. Observe opposite th e York Hotel. 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They are of larger and all sizes, with increasing. powers accordingly ; while their vary ing from 4 to 6 inches enab'o us to discover more than the above, and the Georgian, with his 6 satellites, &c.—The Royal Exhibition, 1851.—Valuable, newly-invented, very small, powerful waistcoat-pocket glass,the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known 1 miles distant; they answer every purpose on the race-course, and at the opera houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at S to 10 miles. They aro invaluable for shooting, de er - s t a lki ng, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeeper s , an d tourists, Opera, glasses, with won d er f u l pSepeeteitvaecle Lenses of the great and very age d persons are nd Pr a e s o t cwe transparent m- c 1' ° p ) n o s w at e . tpeed Th rs e valuable a d van t age derived r en t g li t e h i e r ne s d ig , ht at the mo s t m i nu t e ocou from this, invention is, that vision b ecom i ng impaired is with these lenses of a muc h less magnify pp enabled i a ' e t s io e ° dotal and l e se m o p s lo t ing power—and they do not require the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance. Deaf ness—New Discovery.—The Organic Vibrator, an extraordi nary powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for deafness, entirely different from all others, to Surpass anything of the kind that has been, or probably ever can be, produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not perceptible ; it enables'deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at k public assemblies ; the unpleasant' sensation of singing noises iu the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords all the assist ance that possibly could be desired. 39, Albemarle-street Piocadilly. Observe —opposite the York Hotel. Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 54 per c. Pref Western of France WePt. of Switzerland WiJsbadan ...... Zealand JOINT-STOI MINES. 1853, in round numbers, the taxes repealed on a balance over taxes imposed, amounted to 6,716,000/. The effect of that upon the revenue, instead of diminishing it, was to increase it by 6,8C;0,600/. By now proposing to impose these additional duties, they were taking the first step to wards the reve rsa l o f the policy which, daring the last 10 years, had produced this addition to the revenue of the Country. Daring that period of 10 years the reductions made in the customs duties alone amounted to 8,677,0001., conferring an enormous benefit upon all classes of the com m9nity. At the end of that period the country was in re ceipt of nearly as large an income as when it commenced. If the w ar s h ou l d unhappily be prolonged, they m i g ht triple therevenues of the country by raising an additional revenue in this way during the first few years of the war ; but it was a question wheth er th ey would be ultimately compensate d in the permanent increase of the revenue by adopting such a course. The effect of the recent commercial policy had been to show that the u pp er c l asses were willing to beara share of taxation in order to alleviate the burdens which pressed upon the humbler classes, and the knowledge of that fact has done more to rem ove di scontent than all the legislation which had previously b een a tt empted.. He said, embarked in a great war they we re — w h en a feeling appeared to exist against aristocratic mismanagement, was it wise to reverse that policy, and to sh ow th a t t h e upper classes were now less willing to make those sacrifices which they had before submitted to ? There were only two alternatives before the Government—the one was, to have raised this million and a-half by an addition to the income tax. Such a measure as that would not have the effect of crippling the resources of the country, or impairing the strings of industry and trade. Next year he had no doubt that they would be obliged to increase the income tax to 10 per cent. The other alternative was, to increase the amount of the loan. They now proposed to raise 16,000,0001., and to have an increased taxation of 5,500,0001. It would have been better to make the loan 18,000,0001. or 20,000,000/., than to embark in a cause which he was afraid would lead to most disastrous results. He should therefore oppose the second reading of the bill, in order to record his disapproval of the principle involved in it. (Hear, hear.) Mr. LABOUCHERE regretted that there should be a necessity to impose an increased duty on such articles as tea, sugar, and coffee. He could not at all agree with the hon. gentleman that it was a necessary consequence of the recent commercial policy of the country that, under all cir- 1 cumstances, Parliament should insist that the burden of taxation should be borne only in the shape of direct taxa tion, and that there should be no attempt more equally to distribute the burden by indirect taxation. As a free trader, ho did not eonsider himself inconsistent in supporting the present financial propositions of the Government. There was only one portion :to which he objected, and that was the provision for the repayment of the loan at the rate of 1,000,0001. a year after the conclusion of the war. Capt. LAFFAN objected to a differential scale of duties being imposed upon sugar. He thought that, as in the case of wine, one duty only should be imposed upon all classes of sugar. The best and the worst class of wines equally paid Is. duty per gallon. He knew a sugar estate in the Mauritius upon which 30,0001. had been expended in the erection of machinery thereon for the refinement of sugar ; but within the last year orders had been given by the pro prietor of that estate to allow that machinery to lie idle, and to produce a cheaper class of sugar in order that the duty on first class sugar might be avoided. It paid the producer better to bring into the English market a cheap class of sugar than to refine it and pay a high duty. He (Capt. Laffan) submitted that the Chancellor of the Ex chequer ought to propose one duty upon all classes of sugar, which would produce an amount of revenue equal to that anticipated from the proposed differential duties. Mr. MALINS agreed in the general principles of the budget, and he thought that the Government had made a not unfair compromise between direct and indirect taxa tion. He thought that it would have been better to have obtained by loan than by indirect taxation the 5,000,0001. which the Chancellor of the Exchequer required above the ordinary revenue and the 16,000,0001. The proposed in crease of duties on imports and exports would cause great disturbance to trade, whilst the additional burden that would have been imposed upon the country in the shape of interest for a loan of 5,000,0001. would have been compa ratively insignificant. Sir W. CLAY denied that the proposed increase of the Customs' duties was at variance with the principles of free trade. It was absolutely impossible to raise the revenue by means of direct taxation. The income tax had been already applied to incomes as low as 100/. per annum, but many thousands of the people of this country still escaped the operation of that tax, and it was only fair to call upon them to contribute by indirect taxation to the exponKa of the country. For the last 23 years every Government had remitted some of the indirect taxes, and, at least, 25,000,0001. of that species of taxation had, during that period, been remitted. Almost every tax that had been imposed of late years was directed against the wealthier classes of the community. It might be that before the war was ended our expenditure would be considerably greater than that estimated by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer for the ensuing year, and the income tax might have to be raised 10/. per cent. But he trusted that the right hon. gentleman would refrain as long as he possibly could from increasing the income tax, which was a power ful engine that ought only to be resorted to in times of national peril. He objected to the proposal of the hon. I member for Wick, to procure by a loan the additional 5,000,0001. required by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He (Sir W. Clay) was in favour of defraying the expendi ture of the war within the year, as far as that could be done, because the people of this country would then feel the burthen of the war press more heavily upon them than if they were only called upon to pay the interest upon a loan for carrying it on. He approved generally of the budget. Mr. P. - URQUHART said he would divide with the hon. member for Wick against this proposal to increase the Customs' duties, because he believed that the effect of that increase would be a serious blow upon our manufac turing interest, which bad to meet the severe competition of Germany, Prussia, and Switzerland. Those countries had not to labour under the burthen of carrying on a great war, and we should take care not to put our manufactur ers out of a position of competing with them. He could not but think that any measure which crippled our indus try and commerce would be most injurious to the country. Mr. GLADSTONE rose merely to do an act of justice to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, because it had been stated by the hon. member for Wick, and other hon. mem bers, that he had taken the first retrograde step towards adopting a Protectionist course. Hon. members had de scribed, and truly so, the mischief that would result from adopting such-a course. But the right hon. gentleman did not take the first step. He (Mr. Gladstone) was the unfortunate person who, during last session, had to advise the house to take the first step in the re versal of the course of the last twelve or fourteen years. It was quite true, however, that the duties which were proposed to be increased did not affect the question of protection, As far as that was concerned, they had not yet reached the point at which the house would have to enter upon that serious question. The object of the Legis lature of late years had been to eradicate the bad principle of protection, and to diminish the pressure of duty on articles of large consumption. The first step in the undoing of that course was taken last session, by levying an addi tional duty upon sugar, and also upon malt. These were very great evils. (Hear, hear.) He did not believe that the house would stop there ; for, if it was incumbent upon the house for many successive years to add to the taxation of the country to carry on the war, they would again have to discuss the justice of protection. He thought the hon. member for Huntingdon (Mr. T. Baring) had acted unwisely in giving the advice that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should not have exercised any discrimi nation as to the articles upon which he levied an additional tax. He (Mr. T. Baring) would have taken the article of wine, for instance, which ho (Mr. Gladstone) believed to be most scandalously taxed at the present time—(hear, hear)—the consequence being to keep out of the market a large portion of the wino produced in Europe—(hear, hear)—or he would have imposed the ad ditional duty on tobacco, which already was so great that it was impossible to prevent smuggling. His belief was, that, if the war continued for many years, the Chancellor of the Exchequer then in office would find himself put to such straits for money as to be compelled to resort to the imposition of protective duties at a time, he believed, when the last of the Protectionists would be dead. (Laughter.) The number of Protectionists had greatly diminished ever since the minority of 1852 or 1854. He believed that those who struggled so long and so ably for protection would not now receive it as a gift, and that if it did come back it would come as the result of the war. It was all very well to say that we should raise the whole of the taxation by direct or indirect taxation. So far as equality, in the abstract, was considered, there could be nothing fairer than the house tax, and yet there was none which created greater difficulty, or caused more discontent, than that tax. It was not without great difficulty that the tax was imposed at all. Ho congratulated his right hon. friend in having been able to satisfy all parties. Those who liked direct taxation had it ; those who preferred in direct taxation had also got what they desired ; while those who liked loans were also accommodated—(laughter) —and although there were some who thought that the loan ought to have amounted to a round 20,000,0001., it was not very far from it ; for the 3,000,000/. Exchequer bills seemed to have baon overlooked, which would bring the sum up at least to 19,000,0001,, which was not very far off 20,000,0301. (Hear, and laughter.) It was but fair to themselves, and to those they represented, that they should realise to themselves the truth that, as in successive years they had taken off many millions of taxation without loss, so they might be in a position to impose that many millions without gain. As theprocess they had been engaged in had been one which, with a small loss, added greatly to the wealth of the country, so the present process was one which, with little gain, took much from the welfare I and comfort of the people. They had not undertaken the war without anticipating these evils. They were matters which ho hoped they would not try to escape the force of by having recourse to loans. He was convinced that this house could not commit treason so gross as to try to cover up and avoid the difficulties of the case by resorting to an unlimited use of credit—(hear, hear)—which he did not hesitate to say had been the curse of mankind. For when he considered the condition to which it had brought the finances, and the permanent mortgage which it had placed upon the revenue of the country, and, above all, the miser able, and unjust, and pernicious, and unjustified wars which the innovation had enabled nations to carry on, ie he could not too strongly condemn the practice, He h had brought so many evils upon the country- H had thought it right to relieve his right hon. friendfrom theHe inference which had been drawn from his budget. to meet thought that, in whatever way they endeavouredhtnot to shut the difficulties of their position, they u their eyes to them, or, depend upon it,i3 i ll o c e h b a pr c e o c u i Itend to keep the public mind from fu yp. rasteie;otiliel sacrifices they would be called upon to m t a x ke ought to have Mr. ALCOCK thought the inc e o r me an been increased to 10 per cent. ratho.tehlasaiaenecwreearsee ready to upon sugar, coffee, Sze. The wor king pay income tax rather than which were bacco, malt, and those other an additionatax upon o- paLicles of large consumption. After a few Words from Mr. HADFIELD, b an ett f e e i t - t t e o r inaudible in the gallery, Mr. I-lASTIE considered, have borrowed two additional itw° m u i l l d lio h n a s ve ra b t e h e e n r fa t r h the industry of the nation h . y increased taxation. that the right hon. member for Oxford Mr. FOX had failed to smaiadke.the discrimination that those who pre ferredV I so because they were willing direct taxation t to those pay their fair . quota of taxation, while who advocated wished to pay as little as • indirect taxation possible. It had been objected that the income tax was unequal, but its inequality was nothing as compared with the inequality of taxes levied upon tea, sugar, coffee, Sz,c. He thought that estiwarningthe necessity of reverting to protectionist principles n the event of the war continuing, was a warning agit f in h s i going further than absolute necessity d emanded. friend divided the house he w ou ld vote with him, but s h on e . would do so on no principle o f opposition to the most liberal grants of or public money which they mi g ht b e ca ll e d upon to make f the purposes of the: war in which they were engaged —(hear, hear)—for though, on the part of the people, he felt it to be his duty to protest against those burdens which f e ll too heavily on then, till, on their part, he would say they were fully preparedb o bear every -7 ;# -1 • PAPE I Z just <;fr\\ burden which was necessary to bring the war to a an ~- ~_ t honourable conclusion. (Hear, hear.) - ' !-..4k„1 . % ?.__ 7 Mr. EWART preferred the slight exteznsiOn •of 1tti.4=' .. ,.. .'i k . system of loans to the proposed mode, which f4 ll Viiiialli' - , :t.. ,„!; ~.,. the sound principles of political economy. • ' -i:", --, - 7 The bill was then read a second time, and was order ,T:: ;s`' N . / to be committed to-morrow. '- 1 S SPIRIT DUTIES (SCOTLAND AND IRELAND) - BILL. On the motion that this bill should be read a second time, Lord NAAS said it was not his intention to oppose the bill ; but he wished to know whether, in consequence of the proposed alteration in the duty of Irish spirits, the Government intended taking any steps to prevent smug gling, which, both morally and financially, Would be at tended with the most perniciou s effects? He also begged to know whether it was the intention of Government, at present or at any future time, to consider a scheme for the general equalisation of duties on spirits, which weild tend to remove much injustice and many anomalies whidh ' now existed ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, who spoke in a very low tone, said he fully agreed with the observa tions of the noble lord as to the pernicious effects of smug ing theling, butduty the tIl experiencelreland toookf place,last year, was favourabl e t o th e suit when an augmentat i on position that the social condition of the country was so much improved that smuggling would not be resorted to. It was the intention of the Government that the act for the employment of the constabulary as a check on smug gling should be enforced. The bill was then read a second time, and was ordered to be committed to-morrow. The Dispatch of Business (Court of Chancery) Bill was read a second time. TESTAMENTARY JURISDICTION BILL. Mr. R. PHILLIMORE presented a petition from a num ber of proctors, who concurred in the necessity for some im provements in the courts i n whi c h they practised, and would offer no oppos iti on to suc h a measure, b u t p r aying for an i nqu i ry as to their rights ; also petitions frem seve ral junior proctors and paid clerks of proctors, praying that their claims might be considered. 163Mso.liMoiAtoLrsIoNfSLpornedsoennte; f d ro pe ol t l it l i 2 on h s ank again , st the . bill , from . traders of the City, amongst the signatures had paid for their the Lord Mayor ,esmebrecihnagats that an of fromarticlls ? a o rt o ir . le e d ao c h l , er p k r s ay lf og pr t o h c a to t re ff who e from a committee bill passed theymi g o lii t_ proctorsbe reimbursedss representingal all the their expenses; x g p e e n n e ser general ;I) body praying that they parts t of be heard, by themselves or coun sel,lTOß-GE- against those the bill affecting their interests. pursuant tiO.hnaoviticneg, reading oft he bill, tomomveodvethite should Mr. MALINS rose, p be read a second time that d n a the house would give him credit six months. He trusteA t that he did not desire to perpetuate a single abuse in this or jus tice in the kingdom. In a desire to oth er cour t of ire to improve their courts, he would yield to no man, b u t t h ere was a difference be , tween improving and abolishi ng . I f his hon. friend had proposed to abolish the jurisdicti on o f t h ese courts as eccle siastical courts, and made them temp ora l courts he, and those who acted with him, would have given their cheerful assent to such a measure. (Hear, hear.) But last year the Government came forward with one view, and this year with another, and yet they hoped that the house would support the measure which involved consideration s of the highest importance. The general object of this bill waste make a total abolition of all the existing testament s t 7 courts of the c oun t r y — a ll th e ec clesiastical courts were ifo be abolished, all their jurisdiction was to end, and all their business was to be transferred to the Court of Chancery. What was that business? It, was the testamentary busi ness of the whole of England, involving the rights of all the personal property of the country, and was proposed to be extended to real property also. In 1852 the number of wills proved in England was 18,703, and 7,068 letters of administration were taken out, making a total of more than 25,000 testamentary and intestate grants in one year. The probate duty during the same period was upwards of 1,000,0001. All the commissions which had inquired into this subject had concurred in the one general principle, that the time had arrived when it was necessary to abolish the testamentary jurisdiction of all ecclesiastical courts. The house would bear in mind that the judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury was appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the judge of the Prerogative Court of York was appointed by the Archbishop of York. The busi ness, however, was tdmporal ; and therefore it followed that the courts should be temporal. His right hon. friend proposed by his bill of this year that the whole of this business should be transferred to the Court of Chancery ; and now came the question, upon what principle could that business be transferred to Chancery? According to the present practice, upon the death of a testator the executor produced the will, which thereupon underwent the process of authentication ; and his right hon. friend proposed to carry on that investigation in the Court of Chancery, on the ground that, as the effect of the probate of the will was connected with the construction, the whole matter ought to be in one court. He (Mr. Malins) thought the question of the effect of a will was one thing, and the construction of it was a totally different thing. Under the present rule the will was generally proved within a month of the death of the testator, and the executor, going to the proper court for the probate, placed the instrument in the hands of a proctor, as the most ready mode of detecting any fraud, if fraud there should be. When the house considered the great opportunity there was for committing fraud in regard to wills, he felt satisfied it would be slow to make an alteration that would have the effect of sweeping away an existing establishment, which, at present, was the best guarantee against frauds with respect to wills. While there were 25,000 wills proved within the year, or 80 a day, the total amount of bills filed during the same period in the Court of Chancery was not above 3,000 ; and when they considered that suits in Chancery embraced every possible engagement into which men could enter with one another, it would be im possible to come to any other conclusion than that suits with reg ard to wills in the Court of Chancery amounted t o no morethan 500 in the whole. Under such circumstances there was oue-fiftieth part of the wills submitted to probate, in regard to which there was no litigation whatever, and, consequently, what, he would ask, became of the argu ment that, because wills were proved in a court, the same court should be the court of construction? Parties went to Doctors' Commons ifor the purpose of establishing what was the will, and when they were armed with probate they went to the proper court, where the ques tion was raised as to the rights of the parties under that will. The matter would not be at all facilitated by both these things being done in the same court. If the process of proving were gone through, and a question arose as to who was entitled under the will, the process must be commenced anew, even if there was but one court ; and, therefore, for all practical purposes, the new court would be as much two courts as the courts at present existing. His right hon. friend proceeded upon the principle that there must be one court because these matters were so much intermixed;; but he (Mr. Manna) considered the two things were essentially distinct. The cases of testamen tary litigation were very few. Out of 12,000 wills proved in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the year, the average of contested cases was not more than 40. This was a mast important fact for the house to bear in mind, for he thought that they ought not to be called upon to legislate particularly for these few contested cases. The great bulk of testamentary suits terminated so early —many of them ending within two or three months—that it would be quite unreasonable for the house toltake them into consideration for the purpose of throwing them into a cuurt of construction. His right hon. Ifriend dwelt fat considerable length on the great abuses which had taken place in the ecclesiastical courts, and had referred to the appointment of Mr. Moore, and also the appointment of Mr. Manners Sutton, the son of the late archbishop ; but ho (Mr. Mathis) felt satisfied there was not an advocate or other practitioner in the ecclesiastical courts who did not lament that such things should exist, and who was not as anxious as his right hon. friend to prevent their recurrence; but these things had nothing whatever to do with the practice of these courts. The right hon. gentleman might as well have told the house that, becaue three or four years ago abuses of great mag nitude existed in the Court of Chancery, he should now in troduce a bill to abolish the High Court of Chancery. Cer tainly there were abuses and imperfections in the ecclesiasti cal courts, but they were of easy remedy, without involving the total destruction of those courts. But then, as the ec clesiastical courts had become unpopular, they became the subject of a public inquiry before a commission appointed during the existence of Lord Derby's Government in 1852, and the conclusion at which that belly arrived at was, that the testamentary business in the common form was well and satisfactorily conducted. The report of that commis sion was made to the House of Lords, and might not be so well known to the House of Commons as if it had been a document returned immediately to their house. Tho commissioners were Sir John Remilly, Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Turner, Vlce-Chancellor Kindersley, Tice-Chancellor Sir W. P. Wood, Sir John Dodson, Dr. Lushington, Mr. Justice Crompton, Sir James Graham, Mr. Henley, Sir R. Bothell, Mr. Rolt, Mr. W. M. James, and the Queen's Advocate, men of all parties, forming, therefore, a commission without political bias. It was the unanimous opinion of that body that the testa mentary busiuess should be transacted in temporal courts. But on the question of transferring that business to the Court of Chancery, nine out of these 12 gentlemen—the Master of the Rolls, Sir James Graham, and the present Solicitor• General dissenting —were of opinion that the un contested testamentary business could not be transferred, as general business, to the Court of Chancery with safety; and, if transferred to a separate department, which, for all essential purposes, would be a separate court, that it would be attended with all the inconveniences without the advantages of a distinct court • and, as they were of . , ta th sta ey opinion that the contested and the unconto w ste u d rt mentary business ought to be in the same i. , it the on were opposed to the trancsifie,retnic,eeii,of h a e nz g o the o t p o in f o h n e Court of Chancery. Such, to the most use was of issuing such commaissticorns of these learned c ommissioners, their °P at the t i e n hn i e o e n r sa s ilt S wt V i e na r sg e su t o o t learned men of the day, d if, Government of the day ? be set aside as worthless by . their part, and a report nia tinhete e e , i2sro t ei h isce e f " a d gk e e li d bera wi t t i a o t n and - the divisions and therefore he sett eas seldom mentioned tShire Jas. Graham was h n in s expressed liy these gentlemen when bu r t .,:e t s w e store by the opun e o d oR to those formed by gentlemen who they were °PP -- • bed the evidence throughout. It had beard and wei g that the solicitors, intowhose was a mistake to suppose sfer the busine • hands it was intended to tran Ss of the ecclesiastical were in favour of the change• He might refer t courts, 'tion which he had presented ' - • ° t h e peti of these _against this bill, s igned by 163 intended for them. Many of them, moreover, were exa mined before the commission, and Nava against the change proposed in this bill. strong evidence the firm of Labe.) and Co., London,l' Mr. Lahee, of expressed an opinion that it would be when so examined, to throw open the testamentary be most objectionable attor neys ; that the public would business to the at torneys did not desire it • very much regret, and the business now was , that it was unnecessary, for the done anywhere—byextremely well done—not to be better select body of respectable men, known to the court in wh a h they practised; but that if any at torney from any part of the country were allowed to appear and p rove a will ,such practice would ex tremely dangerous. a practice would be The learned S o li c it or -G enera l p r oposed to go turther, for he provided for not appearing at all, but send ing up a will by post and proving it. Mr. Young, of the firm of Bradbury and Young, was of the same opinion. Mr. Freshfield, the solicitor to the Bank of England, thought such a change would be attended with no advan tage to the public in the ;conduct of the business or the diminution of the expense, and that great danger wouldb f the incurred by the opportunity which the o p ening 0 t business to attorneys generally would give to the perpetra tion of frauds. It could not be doubted that the sentiments of Mr. Freshfield, on this subject, we re, in the main, those of the great majority of the solicitors,ie petition who were he had pre ' cordially of opinion—as had been pro ved by t ' sented that evening—that the system now adopted at Doc tors' Commons was an excellent one ; that it worked at once inexpensive • ly and effectively ; and that it afforded blic theto u the greatest satisfaction_p • He was not ad verse to improvem ent in the present system, but he was . totally opposed to the idea of overthrowing and utterly :.~~-. r ~.r