The Sun. — London, England, 1849-04-14 00:00:00

~~~ VITSA.N CIAL A REFORMEED 3IEETING T LS. VISIT OF Mil. COBDEN, M.P. LEEDS, FlitrDsY, Noon.—At the Music Hall, Leeds, last night, a very crowded meeting was held to receive 31r. Cobden, M. Y., Colonel Thompson, M.P., A. Henry, M.P., and other guests of the Cobden bahquet, held on the previous evening at Wakefield. During the proceed ings very great enthusiasm prevailed. Mr. J. G. Mar shall, M. P., occupied the chair, and was surrounded by . nearly all the leading Liberals of the district. " Mr. COBDEN, who, on rising, was greeted with the warmest enthusiastic plaudits, spoke as follows:—Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen—l am sorry to say that, be ing a little out of practice, and having had last night oc casion to address an assembly of friends met at Wake fisl l, I feel myself rather hoarse, and am t herefure quite unable to speak but in a conversatiot al way; but as e are met here to talk over matte rs of business, and as it may he called a sort of domestic inquiry i n to the aff iirs of the state—(Laughter) —we shall be able to get on, I dare say, by preserv in g the co nversational tone. In fact, our sitnation cow, as it seemsto me, lik e that very that of certain rai lwa y shareholders —(Laughter)—who have had ecca , i .ri to call meetings of the proprietors to ppeiet co n..eaittees of inquiry into the mana g ement of siledi ret t o rs.—(Cheers an d lau g hter.) And the p eo p le t of 'Peogland leave also had public meetings to form finan cial reform associations to inquire into the conduct of the Government. —(Eleer, hear.) And really I think it washigh ; time • for the resolution which has been moved, an d in the sentiment of which I cordially con rule has correctly told us that during the period since 1835. the national, the public expenditure of the eeeintry has been increased nearly ten millions. It was quite ten millions when we began to appoint these committees to inquire.—(Laughter.) Now, mark me, the increase in our expenses since 1835 is as great as the whole expenditure, nay much greater than the whole expenditure of the United States for the government of 20,000,000 of the people there — (Cries of " Shame.") Well, how has this arisen? Some people account for this in one way and some in another. We know that the money has been raised, and as it has been truly said by this resolution that it has been vainly spent in warlike establishments. But how is it that this es ependiture has gone on without being checked by one puny or another? Why, it is simply because the people, after' 1835, having withdrawn their attention from the condeeet of their representatives, the old system which prevailed before the Reform Act passed was renewed, and the 6 overnment made and the Parliament sanction( d this increaso of expenditure, partly and mainly, I believe for the purpose of increasing the patronage of Govern ment.—(]dear, hear.) Now, down to 1835, after the passing of the Reform Act, there was a very considerable amount of retrenchment. I do not attribute to the Re form Act that it was like the new broom sweeping clean; but I attribute it to the low price of agricultural produce in 1835, and a year or two previous. It is a singular fact, but if you look back for the last thirty years you will find that whenever the price of agricultural produce has been low the Government expenditure has been cut down; and, on the contrary, when the prices of agricultural produce has been high, notwithstanding the terrible distress which has been coincident with that fact in our manufacturing and commercial districts, I repeat, that when the price of agricultural produce has been the highest the expenses of Government have increased. This is so remarkable, that if you take a list of the expendi ture of the Government, and put it parallel with the price of corn for the last thirty years, you will find that the one is a pretty good barefreeter of the character of the other. And the solution I derive from this fact is this, that the Government of this country is mainly in the hands of the landed proprietors; that in times of grea t excitement, which must in thir very nature be evanescent —for the people cannot always be in a state of popular fever —in times of popular excitement, no doubt, the great communities—such as I have now the honour of addressing—the great and popular communities, exercise a great power, because, when they express their opinion, it either convinces, or if it does not convince, it alarms the agricultural interest into an acquiescence in re form. Bat as the rural and landed interest governs this country, when they are doing well and getting high prices they are willing for taxation to be high and ex penditure to be lavish; but when prices come down they look for a diminution .of the national expenses. It is one of the great advantages which I should calculate on from the repeal of the corn-laws, that it will put the agricultural interest in the same boat with the rest of the community.—(Applause.) Although they may for a time try to delude themselves—or the landlords may try to delude the tenantry—with the idea that they will get back protection again, and they will return to high prices once more, yet when they are once con vinced, and they will very soon be convinced, that they cannot return back to the tax upon corn, then, in spite of all you may hear to the contrary, you will see the Members fur the rural counties walk into the same lobby with myself and Joseph Hume.—(Applause.) They tell Us they cannot compete with the foreigners in the present state of taxation, and therefore I am very glad that we losve been the first—that we, the pre tenders, have been the first—that the manufacturing-dis tricts have been the very first—to come forward and offer to help the agriculturalists to reduce taxation; and more, if they will co-operate with us—that those taxes shall be reduced which I believe press particularly upon that interest. But I don't want this to be misunderstood. Our . excel], nt triend, the chairman, very properly said, that we have burdens upon our shoulders which will im pede us in the path even of free-trad-; and to have the full advantage of free-trade—it is to be sure not perfect freedom of trade yet, but I suppose we shall soon mike it so (cheers) —to have the full advantage of that freedom of trade we must remove the burdens from our shoulders. But I don't want it to go forth, or to be understood by our opponents. that we are making this outcry because we think we shall not be able as well to compete with foreigners without corn laws as with them. It was always my opinion, before the corn-laws were abolished, that whatever texati in we might have to bear, and what ever our competition with foreigner: might be, 3ou will bear it all the better without the bread-tax than with it. And I say so still.—(Loud cheers.) But if the agricul turists complain that, now that they are for the Knit time suffering under competition, they cannot carry on their business without reduction of taxation, we have not placed ourselves in opposition towards them, but we have been the first to come out and offer to aid them in reducing taxation. I had occasion last night at Wake field, to allude to the attempt that is now being made to raise the outcry in favour of reaction; that the people are tired of having corn at 455. per quarter; whereas they would have had it at 70s. if they had had the late sliding scale.—(Loud Cheers.) I had occasion, last night to say a few words upod this subject, because lam anxious that these people, these parrots, who keep re peating words till they themselves believe them to be true—that they should not run away with the delusion that the people of the West Riling, who, more than any others, have contributed to the repeal of the corn -laws— I say I am anxious that they should not delude them selves with the idea that you are in favour of a return to the old system of corn laws.—(Hear, hear.) They tell us all sorts of things have happened in conscepence of the repeal of the corn-lags. There is nothing that is mysterious that has happ , ned, but it is said was in consequence of the repeal of the corn-laws. They have lately hid the impudence to tell us that Ireland is suffering in consecrance of the repeal of the tax upon corn. I thought ee had had some irviries into the state ie . Ireland before the corn-laws were repealed ; I thought I had read some letters of Edmund Speoser, con taining a description of Ireland three hure'red years ago, much the same as if they had bran Written yesterday. I tholiglit I had read something in Dean Swift. which might have been received from a correspondent a work ago; and I thought that there had been a Devon com mission, producing three blue books that disclosed a state of things most disgrec:ful to this country, and un paradcli d on the flee of the earth.—(Hear, hear.) Aud yet they now come forward to tell us that free-trade has ruined Ireland. Why, if any country has been in a state of ruin for 300 years, it is Ireland. What has ruined it? Ireland has been reined because she wanted some thing be.ter than potatoes for her people to eat. And what has helped them to live? Why, Indian corn, which was brought cheaply from abroad. Why ? Because you had removed all obstructions to its importation. I have heard that some graceless wight once said that the best remedy for the evils of Ireland was to let the Atlantic over it about ten feet for twenty four hours. My nostrum is different. I say inundate Ireland with Indian corn and good wheat, and that will cure them better than by letting the ocean upon them.—(Loud ap plause, and a voice—" If you feet them, they won't work.") Oh, yes they will work, if you will give them two shillings un 1 sixpence a day.—(Vehement applause.) Well, then, gentlemen, these people who want to per sune!e us that there is a great reaction in favour of an other corn-law, complain to us in agricultural meetings in the south of the low prices oF their produce. They say they have got sprouted wheat. I read this account in a report of an agricultural meeting iu Suss:-x, where one of the Duke of Richmond's friends got up and said —" I have had to sell my sprouted wheat for 325. 6d., and to give some to the pigs, as no one will buy it now, but before the repeal of the corn- laws I could have sold it at a good price for the people to eat."—(Hear.) This may be very well for the farmers; but you will not have to complain that instead of eating sprouted wheat, which might produce cholera or dysentery, or some bad disease, you can buy go o d a any right to complain orwish don't ,, ur• andl,thick you will have te nage( Applause.) I can _ to g hus understa o nd ba t c h k at to the old sp a very bad thing for wtheestbofs7 a bad crop is farmers. We know that in the south and England we had bad wet weather, which fell in the crit ic al that intc?al s time when the wheat was upon the ground ; l as t this bad weather extended from the Land's Kent. That to dd landowners, was an unfortunate thing for the farmers the y east gather it who had their corn exposed, and were re v e t a . s in t coast up; but in the north of England and on they were more fortunate; the crops were good state. What I want to draw your attention I n c. ' a this, that if these farmers in the West of England have l a s whit - tartan° once in f6ur or five years with their crops, it is just what every manufacturer has with his manufactures. Look at the change of fa3hons ; look at the breaking of machinery ; at the new inventions of machinery.: look at the civil war in Germany ; at the oetbreek in Chin e and many other things which have happened in our experience—look at all these thiegs, which rnay operate upon and interfere with our trade and manufactures.—(Cheers.) You must bear in mind, also, in this calculation, that when the year is pros pereus the manufacturer dues not come to the public to , ael4hem to have a share in the balance ; he pockets h l, ofits of the good year, and wh e n fr om rain, or - Vtg any other accident, the year happens to be bail, , e _ kleteotFa)shfactrtren I cannot say pockets his loss, but he , pins; with it, and does not come to 2 arliament - - evvhi and saying' he has bad a bad trade, and wants ‘ . pied li passed to protect him and to make his trade FAA , e.. We say the same thing to the farmers—make yout,o,lol arrengements—make your own bargains. We .- We got lad ;9 let, sad yoq law/ take into cmibra- tin that you will have bad seasons and bad crops occa- i Ile will throw himself upon the people of Eiigland, and s'onelly; it is your business, and not that of the put lic, will undertake to say, " Here is a Van devised not to to see to this. And ii you omit to take into account give a poor-law at your expense—not to give loans, not these things, it is of no use your coining, like children, , to maintain a grt•at array, not to place a temporary whining to Parliament or to us. All that we can pro- . cicatrice over tie evilsof Ireland, but a remedy to good profits we wont coma ! reach the near:dation of the evil, and give permanent i m h is fo e r is a , a th h a a t re w o h f e t n he y you have (Hear, hear.) Some people ' happiness to Ireland." Let the Gave name nt throw ask, " What has free trade done for us?" I have seated themselves on the people of England with such a men et Wakefield what I have to-night repeated in aperen- sure as this, and it they are turned out to-morrow by a thesis. From the best opinions I have been able to vote of the House of Commons, or of the House of gather, I believe if you had not been able to secure the Lords, the people of this country will carry that Go. repeal of the corn laws when you did, you would have vernment back to power ten times stronger than ever had corn at 705. per quarter now—some say 725. Before it was before.—(Vociferous cheering.) Gentlemen, this year you never knew a deficient harvest, with a this is strictly a matter of economy.—(Loud cheers.) failing market afterwards.—(Hear, hear.) Well free The greatest drains made upon the people of this trade has done that fur you, at all events; and whatever country for the last four years have been for loans and your other troubles may have been—whether your poc- I grants and the expenses of military establishments in kets are boring out at the bottom with railway shares— I Ireland.—(Hear.) I speak of the Executive Gov. ro (Laughter)—whether your trade may be interrupted for ; meat, and I would say the same of the present Lord s time by the Schleswig-Holstein quarrels, or the eon- i Lieunnent, Lord Clarendon. He is a noblemen of vulsions in Hungary and Italy; whether these, or what- I whom everybody delights to speak well.—(Hear, hear.) ever other thing., may happen, be assured that you are I But I would apply unto him the scriptural maxim, "Woe better off with wheat at five and forty shillings a quarter I unto you when all man speak well of you"—(Laughter) —that you have more power to maintain your position, —for you are apt to stand on the good word, and are and more chance of averting the evils of these events; not anxious to merit it by your actions. Lord Clarendon that you are in every respect better off than if you hid is a nobleman whom everybody who approaches him the :hiding scale, and is concomitant of wheat at seventy I must like. I had a prestige in his favour, because I shillings a quarter.---(Applause.) Now, I have merely I liked his brother, Mr. Charles Villiers, before I saw the said this that we may put ourselves straight, and keep : elder brother. But it is not enough for the Lord•Lieu ourselves straight with our opponents; that we may un- ; tenant to keep the peace in Ireland with fifty thousand derstand how we are, and let others know that we are I bayonets, at your expense, and with no threatened in satisfied with the results of the repeal of the corn-laws, ' surrection. That is doing nothing to maintain his fair and with free-trade, so far as it has gone. With ' fame with this generation, or to hand down his regard to the national expenditure, you are aware, pro- name to posterity. I believe that Lord Clarets- ' Liable', that I proposed we should make an effort to get don possesses the soundest views upon political back again the public expenditure to what it was in . economy an 1 political matters generally. Let him 1535. I believed then, and I maintain still, that I acted i apply those views to the condition of-Ireland question. exceedingly moderate in proposing, as the great object 1 Ile has only to exercise moral courage, and he would of financial reform, that w e should revert to that I have himself the credit of redressing the evils of society period—(Applause)—because I am assured, that by the i in Ireland, where you have not fewer than 150 different time we have got to that point, the discussion which we I barracks for the lodgment of troops. It is generally a shall have bad, and from the light which has already t great encampment; and the people of this country should been let into this matter, we shall he able to get a great I declare that no Minister deserves their confidence who deal further.—(Great cheering.) For we shall not get is not able to propoucd a measure totally different from this all at once. I never expected we should get it all 1 that of any man now in power. Lord John Russell says at once. If I were despotic—if I possessed absolute I you cannot apply a panacea for Ireland. Suppose you power in this country—l don't pretend to say that we : cannot get any plan to effect all you desire in ten, twenty, could get it all at once. My plan extends to the anti- lor even thirty years ; let us, I say, have a plan commen podes. You must put your colonies on a new footing, y surate with the evil, and if it be different from grants, and I want you to tell the colonists how to govern them- or loans of money, or rates in aid, so much the better, selves.—( Applause ) They will be very glad to pay because neither grants, - r.or loans, nor rates in aid, are their own expenses, if you will leave them to manage i necessary for the regeneration or prosperity of Ireland. their own affors—(Cheers)— end so long as you refuse 1 I have spoken of Ireland ; but I will come now and say, them that they are right in tawng you for their govern- i though treading on delicate ground, that we have too ['sent, for their bishops, and in putting you to all the ex- !many soldiers in England. We have departed from pense they do. Well, this involves things so far off 12,000 I the maxims of our ancestors in having soldiers miles away, that, as I have said, if I had despotic power, to keep the peace in England.—(Hear, hear.) I will not I could not carry it out at once. But what I want is, confine myself to the assertion that soldiers are kept to that public opinion should so exercise itself as to con- maintain the institutions of the country ; I will admit, vince the executive Government that they should set if you like, what I have heard stated in the House of about arranging these things as quickly as possible. We Commons, that soldiers are not kept to maintain the in have made a step or two ; we have made some reduc• stitutions of the country, or to uphold the throne ; but tion. The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated it at I will say that it is contrary to our ancient constitu something like a million and a half. I think that very Lionel maxims, and contrary to the interests of the little, and I don't believe it has been done the right way. I people, to rely upon the military arm of the country to It will be said, "He is talking against the aristocracy keep the peace.—(Hear, hear.) I do not say that i n again."—(Applause.) I scarcely know how r eall y to ' times past it may not have been necessary to employ the talk to a large and good-humoured public meeting like military to preserve order, but I say that you have been this; because, when I get back to the House of Com- constantly increasing your reliance upon the military to mons, they will say, 4' This man has two tunes; he talks keep the peace. I look with great concern upon the to one tune in Yorkshire, and to quite a different tune constant increase of the military in the neighbourhood here." Now, I say, I don't like the way in which these of all your large towns. Ido not now say that it may reductions have been made; they have all been made not have been necessary to employ the troops to keep from the lowest end of the scale.—(Hear, hear.) It order ; lam sorry for it ; but what I wish to hear is, seems to be intended, from the way in which they have that something may be done to diminish the necessny for been made, to bring financial reform intodisrepute. Here having recourse to the troops to keep order,—(Haar, is a reduction in the army; and how do they go to work? hear.) We have had a return laid before Parliament of They pretend they are going to reduce 10,000 men. the number of barracks in this country, and the periods Would it not be thought that the simplest way would when they were built.—(ilear, hear.) It was a re have been to reduce ten regiments, or as many regi- turn devised for a very different object to that for ments as would embrace 10,000 men—and thus getting which I will use it. It was obtained with a view to ' rid-of the officers—(Cheers) —of the staff—of that pro. show the kind of accommodation, the size of the sleeping portion of the civil service which is required for that rooms, the ventilation, conveniences for washing ; and so large army—reducing the ordnance stores iu proportion. on, together with the date of the erection of every bar- In fact, reducing the whole scale of the military este rack. Now it isi to me a very interesting document, blishasent by one-tenth. Instead of that, what do they and from it I learn, that before 1790 there was hardly do? They send orders kw the Horse Guards to dis- such a thing as a military barrack in the neighbourhood charge 10,000 drunken men, and men of bad character of a large town. I scarcely find one in the whole list. —men who have been put in limbo and flogged—(Great We had thirty or forty stations for soldiers in the neigh laughter)—keeping up the whole staff, the whole esta. bourhoods of our large seaports and arsenals, and for blishment, the whole skeleton of the regiment, and tified places; but previous to 1790 there was scarcely a leaving the same number of officers. I wonder if there permanent barrack for the use of the troops in the are any drunken officers or bad characters among them? neighbourhood of a large town. It was a maxim of —(Cheers, and laughter.) They keep every General, our forefathers in those days, a maxim, held by Lord and Major, and Captain still standing, with the same Chatham—who declared that from the moment there pay, though he has got fewer men to look after.—(Loud are barracks raised in England, then farewell to the cries of "Hear, hear.") What does all this mean? liberties and privileges of England.—(Hear, hear.) It I believe it means—and I may as well out with it at was a maxim of our forefathers that there should be no once, though 1 believe I shad ca'ch it when I get back war. Then came the war of 1793, the French revolu to London —it just means this, that the Govern- tionary war; that was succeeded by distrust and excite ment look upon this cry for retrenchment only as a meat, and almost insurrection in our country, owing to mere passing fever fit, such as has been seen before, the pressure of the war establishment. From 1793 the They say we must attend to this cry; we must meet barracks spread rapidly over thecountry; and lam sorry this demand—in appearance at least; we will reduce to say that for the last twenty-five years they have been these 10,000 men to satisfy them and give an appearance sprt ailing more rapidly than before. Now, mark how the of economy; but we will keep the whole skeleton stand- war spirit generates the spawn of its own curses; see in,e, like the scaffolding of a house, so that we may how the se barracks, brought forth by this war spirit, build up the edifice again so soon as these financial re- have brought their evils with them. Why, the first out formers have turned their eyes another way.—(Ap. cry for financial reform stopped the expenditure of plause.) Well, now, I say this, is calculated to bring us 100,0001. for barracks in Birmingham. It was down in into disrepute, because it seems as it this reduction is the estimates, and it was withdrawn to make a show of intended nut to press upon the poor only, but is also concession. It was only withdrawn, and will be found calculated to let loose upon society men who can be of there again the next time you go to sleep. I attach as no use, but who may be more burdensome to keep than much importance as any man to the preservrtion of order, in the army.—(hear.) The same rule has been applied and think you cannot pay too high a price for it; and, I in the dockyards, they have been sending away from the repeat, that it troops have been necessary to keep order dockyards shipwrights and others; and I have had letter in large towns, rather than have anarchy, I would say I upon let sr from these dockyars, telling me of the would rather have them than nut; but what I want to scenes which have taken place when these men have been see is whether we cannot do as our forefathers did, and dismissed without notice; and it has been said, " That as the Americans do now, keep the peace without these fellow Cobden is the reason why you have been turned armed men.—(Applause.) For mark me, they are the away;" and I have got letter upon letter saying that it most expensive description of police that you can keep is my fault. But go to the dockyards and see the up. Let us take stock. In Leeds we have horse, number of supernumeraries employed there, the number foot, and artillery, a staff of officers, a commander, and of admirals and others who know nothing of their du- his aide-de-camp, the commander of the district ties, yet must be kept without one shilling rednetiou in —why you could keep five times the number of police their wages—(Hear, hear)—though they have got fewer men in your town for the same money. And men to look after. This, I maintain, is calculated to when art our military called out? Only in times bring financial reform into disrepute. We have heard of political excitement. We don't want the troops to it said (I believe the Duke of Richmond said it some- protect the town from the blackguard boys who break where) that if you will reduce the army it will be only windows; and it is 30 or 40 years since au attack was to keep as poor in the workhouse those who would hav e made on your gig mills; and in 1842, when the country . been kept as soldiers; but if you reduce the army in my was disturbed by the great plug riots, not a thread was way, and not in yours, the result would be different; for disturbed from the spindle, and not a farthing's worth suppose these able-bodied men were going into the work. of injury done.—(Applause.) Look at the effect of de house, which I don't believe would be the case with pending upen the military for preserving the public many, nobody pretends that you would have to keep the peace. Take the case of Louis Philippe 18 months ago. efacers at the workhouse —(Laughter and applause.) Who could have supposed any Government more safe Let us meet this fallacy, as you will hear of it atter this than that of Louis Philippe? I saw him about two years evening. If you had all the men that are in the army ago pass from his palace to the Chamber of Deputies, to keep in the workhouse, how much would they c st? between a double line of soldiers armed, one line being . Do you think they would cost seven millions sterling? It regular troops sad the other National Guards; and yet does not cost that, you know, to keep a million and a • with this 50 or 100,000 troops at his command, what was half of paupers in this country. Every man of the the end? He trusted to them instead of to public army, I should say, taking officers into account, costs opinion, and they all fell from him like a pack 1001. a year; but they would not cost 100/. a year of cards.—(Loud applause.) I wish that we should in the workhouse. Now, if any man talks to you of look at this matter:as a part of our financial reform this, just remind him that our reduction would begin movement, and avoid the old vague party cries, at the other end. It is not our plan to dismiss the men without reason for them. The reason why old agitations and keep up the officers. I confess, though I may be did not summed is, that the people were not educated blamed tor it, that I should like to begin with a field- or taught what they wanted, and the reason for their de marshal or two.—(Loud cheers.) Well , you kn ow, they mdlicis• This we will now avoid, and in meetings like blame us exceedingly in the Thus° of Commons if we this prepare ourselves to learn what is better , and, taking melee this a question concerning the aristocracy. They warning by our French and other continental neigh say it is not the aristocracy that is concerned in this hours, take a better way fo l r e sec s hr t in r g th w e h e a x t t w h e i want. in ewer. We are going to put this to the test by end by. will tell you candidly that _on we e mn o of the suffrage to be part of the plan of financial . r f tm.— I have told you how they propose to reduce the army; here is a proposal on the books of the house of Cum- (Cheld's-) mons by my indefatigable fliend, Mr. Hums— in kee me order; I want to see more men enlisted within . the d appleuse)—and t h e vote wi ll com e on beture 1a e and I want to see fewer men excluded who are interested (Lied pale of the constitution, and interested keep inn a ' before another month I predict—that we shall reduce the at particular times number of admirals from 150 to 100.—(Bear.) I w ill order to obtain their in parctir,:eual:airn% a a ends. fe lh r of disorder, have always been in een show you how. We have now more than 150 admirals; of opinion that this most con s e rvative thin g to do is to and, mark me, you can't employ more than fourteen of extend the suffrage; because you give the surest Rua them, do what you will with them.—(Laughter, and rantee of public opinion in everything you do, and avert hear, hea r .) In th e height of the French war, when we the danger of the stone overturning when you attempt to had a theu sa nd arme d v e s s els afloat, we never employ, d set the social pyramid on its apex instead of its base.— ferty admirals at one time. You cannot now employ (Cheers.) To put a stop to that increase in the army sit ' fourteen, though you have 150. My friend Mr, the neighbourhood of la-ge towns the best means would Hume's proposal is this, that there shall be only be a large extension of the franchise.—(Hear, hear.) I one post-captain promoted to the rank of admiral look upon the barracks in large towns as mere thin an for every three admirals who may die, until the expense—as a great moral evil.—(hear.) Apply one test. number of admirals is reduced to 100. Mind, at pre. Ask the value of land in the neighbourhood of barracks. sent, fur every admiral dying there in one post-captain Wherever you plant a barrack there a blight immediately promoted. This reasonable proposal of Mr. Home's is falls; people would rather go into the neighbourhood of opposed by Government, and it is talked of in the clubs a prison or a cemetery than they would carry their wives of London as something very little short of high treason. and children into the neighbourhood of a barrack.— " When that proposal comes on keep your eyes on it, and (Hear, hear, and an exclamation, I have property look to the votes. They siy that we do wrong when we unlet near the barracks.") Hera is a gentleman who call this an aristocratical system; they say it is no aris- speaks feelingly, for he has property unoccupied near toeratical matter: we shall test it upon this question of the barracks; and it is no doubt sensibly deteriorated admirals. You see how they prepare to reduce the in value from that cause. People seem to shrink from 1 army; and if you find that they oppose t hi s mot i on o f proximity to a barrack, but would they do so from a Mr. Hume's, I don't see that we shall be very immodest police station.—(No, no, and Hear, hear.) Will any or audacious if we say that it is an aristocratic question. one tell me that it is dangerous to trust the hard-work —(Loud cheers.) I have said that one way of reducing ing mechanic, living day and night in the presence of our establishments is to alter our colonial system. Now his wife and children—those men whom we trust in there is another question I want.to see altered. We keep warehouses and mills, on whose honesty we depend, and too many soldiers in this country and in Ireland. You from whom we derive that upon which we live—is it not are aware that there are at this moment, as near as pos- safer to trust to them for the safety and protection of sible, 50,000 bayonets kept up in Ireland, at the expense our institutions, than to depend upon those armed men of this country, and paid out of the Consolidated Fund. who lire in the barracks of which we have been speaking? I have heard qualified persons say that the 12,-00 or Well, gentlemen, I may have appeared to wander 14,000 police there are the most highly trained and finest wide from the question of financial reform; but it is a men in Europe. In addition to these, the pensioners er wide question, and if you will reduce your army and invalids are liable to muster when celled upon, so that other establishments you must ulcer your policy as re we have altogetto r very nearly 50,000 armed men in gards Ireland, England, and the co:onies, and your sys- Ireland.—(Haar, lifer.) I believe this is mere than th e tem of interfering with people abroad. I am free to whole number of British troops clamed at Waterloo. admit that wars have sometimes been popular, but this I What are they there fur ? They are employed, I will must say, that the people have had no power to make admit, to keep down a very restless and insubordinate wars or to stop their going on. No one seems to have population ; but why a re the y insubordinate ? Is the remembered yet that we are an island. We have not system of maintaining an armed force to be kept Ice for taken advantage of our insular position. Since the time that Nelson destroyed the combined fleets of France and Then who is to altee i e t v ? er, l or a n ay ot th ?— at (neoriGesoovefrn‘mNeon?is deserving of support Spain at Trafalgar we have been as safe from attack as if which cannot find the means of governing Ireland with- we had been in the moon.—(Applause.) Yet after that out the enormous and overwhelming expense of lo eping we got involved in four or five hundred millions of debt. I t h row t h at Two little powers quarrel in the River Plate; and you have had for the hst six years a th:et of 2,000 men—a up that army in Ireland.— (Applause.) wholly on the Executive Giiverlitiono and I sa ( y A t p li p a la t u th a, a; , fleet large enough to protect all your comnaerc —lying Executive Government is bound to resign.- -and more especiAl do I s iy that this Wing Gevern- I P " Is a a c y e gain - . meat is bound to resign, unless they can find means to keepbeea because ein Ireland without patting yoe .o the a%• . , pense of this army. I speak mud in voting fur have, I con'ess, from coercion Bills for oetween Mon f te p Video and Buenos Ayres. We next put the Queen ino Poe fugal f n her throne; we had . a fleet of . 5 Ouo men the Tagus; but as soon as I mentioned this ;., i y, qu , s ,i oo in the Free Trade Hall in Manchester we found oncehr twice out d u r - ag ° g ri ed through - the ' coercion Bills for Ireland ; and I ha d ,,, i , walked 0 more for Le land —something ' poor-laws.—(Cheers.) a dead lull in Ireland; no out of the House in We want eotmeheig this moment, there 4 political action • feeling. The ti copse are too mu c h 1 1 , thrtt a they were lisp: race.—(Applause.) We have. large fleet running to and Ire, carrying ustween the Neapolitaus and the Sici dis,s'ust ' Mans; c ' s-a g, „C ifthe Americans; had sent Irellnd W . disgust ItallS; just the same as . a fleet Now at than bayonets and hst ye , ar to carry messae'es betwe n the English Govern ment and • Me Smith O'Brien.—(Hear, hear.) Now the '• • 1 reason of all this is, that if they did not employ them- , no po Inca. they would hate no employment t :rue struck, too selves in dot , *ne mischief much exhausted with their too ' looking ,in 'intense sufferine at 111 —(l4' ud laughter.) Since we have been think of politics. There never . was a time '' s to • ' Male, the Ta g us, and in Sicily, they mor? suited attar them at in for a Minister to devise measures for remedying ' believe that by and th e have been so perplexed . that I firmly evils of Ireland. It is the spirit of landlord' Ism- to stand by the officers willineist on coming borne and lying in in the way of improvement in Ireland, and unless our Portsmouth Harbour; ' for it is utterly impossible for Ministe rin Ireland is in alliance with the spirit of land- them to ersuade the people leof . England - that they are linetism he will submit a plan to remedy the evils which I doing good p where the pen (A cause and laughter.) efliiet the mass of the people, regardless of the sinister I was ignorant of the y of all this expenditure Ultimo of the laadivrdisra of Iroland.—(Elear, hee,) until I I are.— pp .. gross nature was put upoa a committee last year to inquire THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING,' into the navy, and upon anther this year to inquire in' the army; and the chief g , od th s does me i.s, tnea I ain learning my lesson while they think I an sitting i !le.— (Applause.) Another result of C infinitives the Investigation to which the ti.oncial get. rmptustation tins given rise, is the exposure of the reckless wa,te and ex travagance in our dockyards; hut it, p is n to be wondered at that ships should be ord. red by per sons who do not know what a ship should be, when every two or three years there is a change in the Lord of the Admiralty, one of whom is occasionally turned out to make room for a fresh one. Take the case of the present Secretary for the Admiralty, Mr. Ward; he is a person of great official aptitude, and he has performed his duties at the Admiralty so well that I should have liked to have seen him made Secretary of the Admiralty for life. But now he is appointed Chief Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and another secretary will come who will have his lesson to learn, and he will learn it at your expense. There is no remedy , or this but to keep your establishments A 3 low as possible.—(llear, hear, and applause.) We have raised this question, and what we have said is nut only telling upon the Government, bat upon other Governments. There is not a meet• ing we hold but a report of what I say is trans cribed into the Paris papers, and is read ex tensively on the Continent.; and if we succeed in reducing our army, I believe it will be only con temporaneously with reductions in other countries; and, therefore, I look on these peace meetings and these financial reform meetings eith some complacency, as being likely to prove a means of diminishing the horrors of war. Gentlemen, I told you that I would talk to you in a familiar and conversational way, and I am afraid I have done so very inefficiently. I have only, in conclu sion, to recommend that you will.carry out the valuable suggestions of your chairman, and qualify yourselves by votes. lam not afraid of the people ; but I should deceive you if I told you that we should be able to carry any extensive reform i n the p re sent constitution of Par liament. If you want to extend the suffrage, I ask you to d nc o thy so has by qualifyingaedevise you to_ , yourselves for votin g i n th e set you i follow the exampl e In the midland coun ties which b y Mr. Taylor Taylor and others. You cannot lay cwo.,lr out 401. or 501. better then by the purchase of a vote. As a means of reform, I advise any man, it he has not a vote, and if he has the means, to qualify himself by purchasing a vote for the county. Especially should he do this when he does not possess a borough vote; and if he is a borough voter, he should still be anxious to gain a county franchise. And if this pro cess goes on, it will be the readiest means of carrying en financial reform, which, sooner or later, will come, and I hope it will come tranquilly; and that its progress will not be dammed up until the flood comes, tearing away its banks, as on the Continent, leaving everything in confusion and oat of its natural channel. (Mr. Cobden resumed his seat amidst reiterated plaudits.) E. BAINES, Esq., proposed the second resolution. Alderman LUCCOCY seconded it. Colonel THOMPSON, M.P., came forward to support the resolution, and was received with enthusiasm and prolonged cheering. He said—Mr. Chairman and gen tleman, I know not what I can better do towards promoting the objects which have been so ably sub mitted to you than to say that I sal sure that you will receive in a kindly manner any man of my habits who comes forward to declare that he, with many others of his ancient comrades, is scarcely of* the same opinions with those who have already ad dressed you.—(Cheers.) Knowing something, or at all events wishing to know something, if that be English—(Laughter) —about the subject which is before you, we are glad of the opportunity of rendering what we think a useful service to our country, and of saying that the whole thing which you desire is within the compass of an able and reasonable Govern ment, and that there wants nothing but for you to get up that steam force which shall compel them to exert themselves to accomplish it.—(Loud cheers.) But it is a matter which will require judgment. No human Odra that I ever heard of conduct themselves, or can be con ducted, without the application of experience and com mon sense. You have not been invited to call for any such thing. A period has been pointed out, not so long ago either, because to some of us it seems only yester day, when our establishments were thought to be great and magnificent, and were allowed by universal consent to be sufficient for our use and necessity.—(Hear, hear.) What, in the name of common sense, has happened to make it different? Show me what has increased in pro portion to the demands now made upon it. Is it your health and happiness?—(Laughter.) I am afraid not. — (Hear, hear.) If it were, there might be some show of reason for what we have witnessed since, but it has not been pressed on any side that I know of that such has been the case. No, no, it is the propensity which all men have to spend oth er p e ople's mon - 23 7 for them which has led to that extravagance that you complain of.— (Cheers.) Don't quarrel with us old files who say we are quite ready to give you the benefit of any knowledge and experience we possess.—(Hear, hear) We are al ways glad of an opportunity to point out how and where the evil can best be remedied, and to offer our services on these points, as we are on any others that may be proposed to us. You have already made a great advance on one important point. You have got freedom to exer cise your own industry, and to bring back in exchange for it the products of other countries.—(Hear.) There is more to get yet—not so much as if you had got nothing, but there is that which is important still, and you will have it, depend upon it, because there will be no stop• ping it.—(Cheers.) There will be opposition, and my counsel, therefore, is, that you omit no effort—relax not in any attempt that you can make to push forward to perfect success the freedom of trade and commerce.— (Cheers) There are symptoms of an expectation in certain quarters, I can tell you, that there should be something like a retrograde movement on that head. I think they are simpletons who indulge this expectation. whether they bo lords or commoners. —(Cheers.) Yet I do see signs of it, and 1 am obliged to acknowledge that I believe there are men foolish enough to entertain some such hope.—(Hoar, hear.) Now, lately, when a largo collection of agricultural members and the remnant of those who, having enjoyed privileges fLr a long time, would like to have them again, if they were able, assured another sinful interest—the ship-owning interest, that they would not allow it to suffer, were they not dreaming, mad as it may be, that a time might come when they should re-impthe those fetters on our arms which have so lately been broken off.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) You .exert yourselves—keep the Government moving. Humaq affairs never stand still, and here is an opportunity to advance in the right direction. Flavin' , got one thing, pitch for another. Call out for financial reform—you have need enough of it.—(Cheers and laughter.) There is net one of us but who could tell where he would be better off by a reduction of taxation.—(Hear, hear.) Why should we not expend ( h i a lveear.) not lost so mu c h o f y our own Surely there is nobody so deluded. that amount either for our own u se or f or the use of our wives and families which we are n ow o bli ge d to g i ve t h n hopel g el y s e? o — n reputation in this county fur c ommon sense, as, if it fur something comes to a simple question of paying money, that there is any man or woman who does nut think we should gain by a diminutionof the unnecessary taxes which we have now to pay.—(Cheers.) Follow the course, then, that has been recommended. Endeavour to increase your present power on the register. Pay less and vote wore. —(Cheers.) Take the plan which is offered to you to increase your power of voting, and trust in Provide nto for that which will come after. There is a struggling gas in this country which will have vent some way or other. Everybody begins to see and believe this. Our working classes are not 10 ignorant as to have grown up to manhood without seeing that sooner or later the ark of the constitution must certainly op n its door to admit them as will as those who are there already.—(Loud cheers.) There will be no violence — nu outbreak about it.—(Hear.) It may not come all at once—it may come by degrees, but so surely as the child which was once weak grows up to the strength of man, so surely shall those classes whom we now see in the possession of political rights, as well as those at a dis tance from them, arrive at the full enjoyment of all that they can desire.—(Cheers.) And wh3 ? Because it is so manifestly for everybody's good that it should be so. Rich men believe in it, and great men confess it. Is not this confession spreading and extending? Do we not see in our political proceedings that universal confession, that man, intelligent and wise, cannot for ever be kept from the enjoyment of poltital freedom /—(Hear.) What is the continent struggling for ? For that very thing, and nothing else.—(Cheers.) Never give up the opinion. Stick to the belief in what has been leo ably proposed to you here, that you have a strung sympathy and fellow-feeling in the attainment of political freedom on the continent of Europe, because political freedom brings peace, and harmony and commerce with it.— (Cheers.) It is not the people of Europe that are want ing to go to war with one another.—(Hear.) It is the despots and the aristocracy, unchecked by popular feel ing.—(Cheers.) See what a mighty change has taken place within these three years in the feelings of the people of England and France towards one another. I I was fortunate enough myself to see sonic of those early symptoms in France, where I happened to be, and, which I hope will ultimately be productive of the most beneficial results.—(Hear.) At this very moment hundreds of our fellow-countrymen from the metropolis, and various parts of the country, are en joying the hospitality of the French nation in the capital of France.—(hear, hear.) It as not so when we were boys.—(Laughter.) The drumm , r and the recruiting sergeant were our only music. We know better now.— (Cheers.) Our friends in London and elsewhere have had free admission to the opera—a thing that we should not have thought of; and all this proves that men are not influ ence d b y suc h sanguinary dispositions towards each other by nature.—(Hear, hear.) No, no, men were , made for better things; and we are advanced far enough to show that we may, if we like, check the progress of those practices which in past times have en tailed such a vast amount of misery and suff r.ng in the world.—(Cheers.) 1 do contess I am Utopian enough—that is the phrase—to look forward to the time when men shall learn war no mare.—(flea r, hear, and cheers.) We have been nearer to the completion of that prophecy than some thought of. What have sensible men to do wi t h I Yearning war, much more, at all events, than learning surgery? We may want surgeons still, bat in the name of common sense let us have the fewest we can d t with. —(Laughter.) This is the point which strikes me all wise and sensible men will choose to mark upon. I hope that we shall see a c , -ssatiun of those mis rable times when men, because one called a hat a hat, and another a 'limpet:at, shall think that they were born under a natural necessity of being each other's enemies. —(Cheers.) You have within your reach an opportunity of protno'ing this happy and desirable consummation. You know, and therefore I need not point out to you, what vast influence the county of York, and this riding in particular, has always had on political objects and transactions.— (Hear, hear.) Why, •if the county of York was to choose to make a peace, I have my doubts whether anybody else would dare to go to war. —(Cheers and laughter.) You are not without cu-ope- ration in th, gres!.'t objects which we are staling to pro mote, Lancpshiri and Yorks' - iire wi!t now stand to.. gt.ciler, for I per ?lye that pat have ju,t dest,royt.d !tut barricade of rill: •! oy wring. thr, ugh them, wherels when I was u b wt nld have sak,m aim ,st endless Janina. to climb them. Y uu, Lsricathire and Yorkshire, are r‘ - sponsible for your own pisi:i)n. If you atlow yourselves to be defeated it Juni .t iJcause y.iu are slack and care less in your effoY,•' s. on .the contrary, you put your ,houldera to the, -.wheel and join heart and hand in this good.work .ch has been set before you, depend on it there will attei td that succegs which has always marked the exertions c if the West Riding of Yorkshire.—(Loud and prolonged cheering.) The other ge utlemen who addressed the meeting were A. Henry, Esq... M.P., George Goodman, Esq., Darnton Lupton, Ecq., 'C. G. Maclea, Esq., E. Smith, Esq. (of Sheffield), Joshua Bower, Esq., and Thomas Plint, Esq. The proeeed;,ngs terminated shortly after ten o clock, with enthusiastic votes of thanks to the guests and the chairman. The. following is a full report of the speech of Colonel Thompson, delivered at the dinner given to Mr.. Cobden, at Wakefield, on' 'Wednesday last:— Colonel TROMP CON was received with immense cheer ing, which was ag•tita and again renewed. The Hon: and Gallant Colonel said, that at this period of the meeting it was becoming to be brief, and therefore he should compress into a few words the expression of his thanks for the honour they had done him; and inasmuch as all that was past had gone for ever, whethk; for good or for evil, he would apply himself rather to that which was to come, than waste time by lamenting in any degree that which was numbered among the things that were not.— (Hear, hear.) And his counsel was to speak the truth, and to say that they should not plume themselves too much on any past success, or forget the observance of those rules which prudence might suggest as to the future. --L(Applause.) It was their turn to be conservative now —and why? They must keep what they had got, and the way to do that, he believed, was to get more.— (Loud cheers and 'laughter.) Now, when he looked around him, he saw reasons way they should not omit to follow that course of action. Did they ever know such a thing in human life as a needle standing on its point?—(Laughter.) Did it not ulways go one way or the other?—(Hear, hear.) Let them take care, then, that their needle be pointed in the right direction. They had still many enemies. These envied them, and those hoped still to damage them. Expectation was not dead in their political opponents—on the contrary, every day they cherished the spirit of hope. Did he notfhear the other day many of dim boast—their enemies, he meant, in the agricultural body—for some there were who had left it—that they would not betray another im portant interest. What did this mean? Why, that they hoped to come back to power.—(Elear, hear.) They held forth the promise that if another interest would' help them, interest should be helped in turn. The meeting could know to what he alluded. He referred to the next important change which they hoped to see accomplished —the removal of the monopoly in the trading tly sea. —(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Their opponents supported this monopoly—why? Because they thought it aff uded a chance for other monopolies returning.—(Hear,.hear.) Those whom he addressed, therefore, would see the ne cessity of acting vigorously against all monopolies that happened to have life in them still, if they would pre vent the old ones coming back. Why, there was nut a man, woman, or child within these districts that was not able to tell their opponents that the principles on which all monopolies were based were foul and injurious to the country ; and if they looked at the state of feel ing as manifested in certain places, was there no reason to be seen why they should endeavour to carry forward their successes like able and reasonable men ? Look bow their opponents delighted to damage every chance of success in the popular cause, how they gloated over every failure, and sympathised with every satellite of despotism.—(Loud cheers.) Was not the animus most apparent in all this? Did it not show that they cherished the hope that times might still mend with them to the detriment of the people.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") He strongly recommended those present to cherish everything they heard to-night on the:ways and means by which they might carry the great object they had in view. There was a struggle now going on tor.the eman cipation of the working classes, by an extension of the suffrage, which at present was confined to a few.— (Hear, hear.) Till that was granted, and only as it was granted, would there be peace and quiet in the country. —(Cheers.) As wise men, then, let them look to the measures essential to the success of this righteous movement. Their interest, as well as their duty, was to put themselves at the head of it, instead of opposing it, for surely it was wiser to do so than to oppose that which they ' could not hinder in the end.—(Loud cheers.) His advice was, that they should exert themselves for union with their less fortunate brethren. He addressed those • who, in common parlance, might be denominated the wealthy and middle classes. There were myriads less fortunate who were watching the proceedings of this day, and who would look forward to the conduct of those who had taken part in them, after they left this meeting, to see whether they should count them among their friunis or not.—(Cheers.) Oh, there was something so plea sant in the idea of peace and harmony in the different classes of society, and something so useless and unne cessary in having dissensions and distractions, where all had but one common interest, that it seemed something like an insult to the understandings of an assemblage like this, that any voice should be lifted up to urge the exercise of their lyest eff,rts to bring about so desirable a consummaiin.—(Cheers.) They had .had sufficient experience of the disastrous consequences of having class against class in this country; and he would urge upon them, therefore, in conclusion, to take that opportunity of promoting an union so indispensably necessary, which a return to their respective localities would give, and let this meeting be held up as the period at which that union commenced and ended in great advantages to their com mon country, and left their names among those 'which were to be counted by posterity as their friends. (The lion. Member concluded amidst loud cheering.) TO THE BISHOP. (Fr.= the Western 7 lines) My Lord, I hope you will excuse My sending you a bit of news, Turned into tiog,, ,, rel rhymes, Which, with 'your Lordship's leave I'll send To have them printed by oar friend, The wicked Western Times. In the " Subscription Rooms" last week, A clergyman was heard to speak In praise of a petition Fur liberating one from gaol— A man you lately sent to hell,* For clerical sedition. There was a time when Parson Sh—re, And half-a-dozen culprits more Within this diocese. Would show an ugly looking scar, Resembling much the letter R, • Oa either side the face. But now (forsooth) these parsons laugh At you, and Dr. Fust, and Ralph, And say they'll wag their jaws In spite of all that you can say About compelling them to pay For breaking Canon Laws. There was a time when kings and queens Would look on mitred men and deans Wish reverential awe; But now a British Parliement Presumes to patronize dissent And bids us hold our jaw. We want a zealous man of God, Like you and like Archbishop Laud, To go from town to town, And urge the foes of old John Bull To go to work forthwith and pull Disset.ting chapels down. We also want, nay lord, more funds For building churches for our sons, Our nephews and our friends. We also want more deaneries, More tithes—more Easter dues—more fees — More penalties and pains. I wish, my lord, that you would pen And preach a pamphlet now and then In praise of popery; For this is just the thing we want To put down puritanic cant And low-church heresy. • The Arches Court. SoLomoN Suma. DARING ROBBERY AND GALLANT RESISTANCE.— On Friday evening, a little before ten, as Josephus Glo ver, Esq., of St. John's College, was returning to Cam bridge, after having taken tea with a friend at Grant cheater, on arriving at the swing gate at the end of the fourth field from Grantchester he observed a man stand ing on the contrary side of it, and holding a large cudgel in his hand in a suspicious manner. Mr. Glover at once perceived that he must either hastily retreat, or hsve an encounter. As there appeared only one man, he chose the latter alternative. The moment he had become en tangled with the gate the ruffian struck him a tremen dous blow on the forehead with the cudgel. Mr. Giover sprung from the stile. seized the fellow by the throat, and endeavoured to throw his assailant. At the same, instant another ruffian sprung from the hedge, and, seirting him by the collar, held him back while the other aimed blows at Mr. Glover's face, which, with the exception of one, he succeeded in warding off with his arms. At length Mr. Glover contrived to wrest the cudgel from his antagonist, and flung it a few yards from him. He was then taken by the feet and thrown on his back, in which position he foaeht as well as he could. His pockets were then rifled. The ruffians did not succeed in getting all his money, but they took from him a silver watch, a penknife, a latch key, and 1/. 2s. in money. They then tried to turn him with his face on the ground; Mr. Glover seiz ei the op portunity, sprung on his heels, slipped his bead between the legs of one of the fellows, threw him- on his beck, and sprung towards the other, - with intent to serve him the same. The other,' however, darted towards the cudgel, and the one thrown, not having yet got fairly on his feet, Mr. Glover had an opportunity of getting through the stile, and feeling himself all sate again. He speedily obtain , d . aseisienee and reached Newnharn, where his wounds were dressed by Me. Fawcett, and the police set on the alert. Early the next morning, two teen, named H ayes an d Wilson, were taken ineo custAy, and, on being brought to the county court, before Lord Godolphin, the Hon. E. T. Yorke, M.P., and other 111 9, gistrates, they were at once identified by Mr. Glover, and committed to take their trial at the ensuing assizes. —Cambridge Advertiser. Dispatches were sf-nt off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governors of the North A.ttler l ioal colonies. APRIL 14, 1849, .FROM THEJMNDON GAZ.,TTE F:IIDAY FOREP;N-OFFICE, APRIL 12 1849. The Queen 1i i b pas .1 1., ap,,T(.:e .1' ..1. Ault - 1141e le Mauastou as C.Jnaul a - E linbtirgh tir the Fr,wh tepubile. • CROWN-OFFICE, APRIL 12 MEMBER RETURNED . T:) SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PA R- LI iMENT. County of Southampton (Northern Division)—Mt 1- villa Portal, E q., of Freer°lk Priori, in the said county, in the room of Sir William Iltathcote, Bart., who has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. , • WAR• OFFICE, A PRIL 13. 3d Dragoon 'Guards—Captain Fenaick Boyce Barron, from the 4th Light Dragoon=, to be Cap:ain, vice Pure foy, who exchanges, April 13. 4th Light Dragoons—Captain Edward Bagwell Puro foy, from the 33 D - a.Y,Oon Guards, to be Captain, vice Barron, who exchanges,. April 13. 16 . h Light Dragoons—Cornet Lanerlot Balton to he Litutentue, by purchase, vice Dimsdale, who retires; David Barclay, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Ha!ton, April 13. lit or Grenadier Regiment of Font Guards—Captain Alfred Tipping, from the 68th Foot, to tie Lieutenant and Captain, vice Udny, who exchanges, April 13. 17th Regiment of Foot—William Henry Earle, Gent., to be Ensign,rhy pumpase, vice de Veulle, promoted in the 24th Foot, April 13. 24th Foot—Ensign Acton de Veulle, from the 17th Foot, to he Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Graham, who retires, April 13. 28 : 11 Foot—Robert Mark Halyburton, Gent., to ho Ensign, without purchase, vice Walsh, promoted in the 75th Foot, April 13. ' 48th Foot—Lieutenant Allred Augustus Chapman to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sir John E. Harington, Bart., who retires; Ensign Oliver Matthew Latham to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice ;Chapman ; Henry Glynne Earle .Welby, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Latham, April 13. 62J Foot Ensign Richard John Edward Reed to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wandesforde, who retires; Charles Morgan Seaythies Langhunie Gwynne, Geat., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Reed, April 13. 68th Foot—Lieutenant and Captain and Brevet Major John Augustus Udny, from the Ist Grenadier Regitmnt of Foot Guards, to be Captain, vice Tipping, who ex changes. April t 9. • 71st Foot—Ensign Robert Charles William Stuirt to be Adjutant,.vice Loftus, promoted, April 13. 83d Foot—Ensign William Cumming Shiels, from the 67th Foot, to bo Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gage, promoted, April 13. 85th Foot—Lieutenant Hugh Massey to be Captain, by purchase, rice Dering, who retires; Ensign James Gubbins to be Lieutenant, by purchase; vice I\Lssey; Henry Godolphin Rooper, Gent, to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Oubbins, April 13. _ _ 86:h Foot—l leutenaut Alexander Lecky, to be Cap tain, without pu-ch'ate, vice Joseph Edwards, deceased; Ensign George'Sherman Nunn to be Litutenant, without purchase, vice Leily; Hugh Stewart Cochrane, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Nunn, April 13. 88th Foot—Captain George Himilt.,n, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Gould, promoted, April 13. 91st Foot—Ensign &liven] George Maiuwaring to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Diekon, promoted in the Ceylon Rifle Regiment; R , ,bert Borthwick, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mainwar ng, April 13. 94th Fout—Lieutenant Joseph Alfred Sykes to be Captain, by purchase, vice Desborough, who retires; Ensign Henry Yansittirt Stonehouse to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sykes; Runsay Cunliffe Slarlen, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Stonehouse, April 13. Ceti•lon 'Rifla it-Timent—Lieutenant Edward John Dicksou, from the 91st Regiment, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet Mai or Bonner. who retiree, Aprill3. UNATTACHED.—Brevet Major John Gould, from the 88th Foot, to be Major, without purchase, April 13. ERRATUM in the Gazette of the 10th April, 1849. 12th Regiinent of Foot—For Philip Limburch Till brook, Gent., to he Ensign, without purchase, vice Cowell, appointed to the 75th Fout,.lo:h April, 1849, read 11th April, 1849. 17th Regiment of Foot—For William Lawes, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Nolan, promoted in 75th Foot, 11th April, 1849, read 10th April, 1849. 24th Regiment of Foot—For Brevet-Major John Par ris, to be MsjOr,viee Pa3, - nter, Jan. 14, 1849, read Brevet- Major John Harris, to be Mijor, &c.; for Lieutenant Robert Halalian, from the 18th Foot, to be Lieutenant; vice Spring:J.4n. 15_1848, read Jan. 15, 1849. Commission by the - Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia-Francis Charles Hastings Russell, Esq., to be BANRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Benjamin Moss, draper. Hartlepool, Durham. BANKRUPTS. James Fraser, draper, Brighton, to surrender April 20, at two, and May 25, at eleven, at the Court of Batik raptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Evershed, Brighton; Sowton, GrJat James-street, Bedford row. Bewick and George Burrows, railway con tractors, Derebaco, Norfolk, April 20, at two, ani May 25, at twelve, at. the . Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official aisignee; Bell, Bed'ord -row. George Bow, boot maker, Kingslawl-road, April 25, at eleven, and May 19, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Guildhall chambers; Lloyd, Milk-street, Cheapside. Thomas Charles Clarkson, leather merchant, Stam ford-street, Waek{riars•road, April 23 and May 21, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham official assignee Coleman-strew ; Lloyd. Milk-street, Cheapside. Richard Williams, undertaker, Bristol, April 27 and May 25, at eleven, at the Bristol District Curt. Hut ton, official assignee, Bristol; Wiykett, Chancery-lane; Ayre, jun., Bristol. _ - John Adatne. fuller, Laverton, Somersetshire, April 26 and May 24, at twelve, at the Bristol I)i3t:iet Court. Acramln, 016691 assignee, Bristol; Frampton, Gray's Inn; Miller, Fiiorne. George. Cowell, news and advertising-agent, Birming ham, May 1' and 29, at ttn, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ;- Mot teram, Knight, and Emmett, Birmingham. John Grosvenor, beer seller, Wolverhampton. April 19 and May 2G, at twelve, at the Birmingham Distant Court. Christie, official assignee; Birmingham; Corser and Underhill - , Wolverhampton; Mutteram, Knight, anJ Emmet, Birmingham. _ _ John Meredith, ni'altster, Tattenhall, Cheshire, May 11 and Juner.l., at eleven, at the L'.verpool Distsiet Court. Bird, otliCiaLlasignee, Liverpool; Philpot, Mon tague-street, Russell-square ; Ilambertson and Co., Chester. • Richard Milner, timber merchant, Darlington, Dur ham, April 25, at eleven, and May 23, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Marten, Thomas, and Holism, Mincing-lane ; Hoyle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. M. Marentie, King William -street, City, merchant, May 4, at twelve—A. Anderson, Phllpot-lane, City, merchant, an l Whitechapel. brewer, May 4, at eleven N. Butler, Portsea -place, Edgware road, wholvsale sta tioner, May 4, at twelve—J. Arnold, Oxford-street, linenchaper, May 4, at eleven—R. H. Moore, Pater noster-row. bookseller, May 10, at one. In the Country. _ W. E. Holmes, Lichfield, coachinaker, May 15, at ten, at the Court, Birmingham—T. Towerson, Todholes, Cumberland, miller, May 8, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle -npon- ne— C. Bertram, Newcas tie : u pon ne, merchant, Ally 4, at twelve, at the Court, New c:stle-upon-Tyne—l. Booth, Crew, Cheshire, linen and woollen draper, May 18, at eleven, at the Court, Liver pool—H. Roberts, Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire, draper and grocer, May 24, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—T. Hughes, Liverpool, woollen draper, May 18, at the eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—W. Shaw, jun., Salford, printer, May 8, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—W. B. Walters, Skipton, Yorkshire, cotton spinner, May 4, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—T. Barraclough and J. Eve ritt, woollen drapers, May 4, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—C. Jepson, New Malton, Yorkshire, junket per, May 4, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—J. Davison, Dud ley-hill, near Bradford, Yorkshire, woolstapler, May 8, - at twelve, at the Court, Leeds—S. Stead, Gomersal, Yorkshire, woolstapler, May 8, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—J. J. Palmer, Birmingham, wholesale jmeller, May 12, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. G. Lloyd, Shreivsbury, ironmonger, first dividend 3s. 6d. and second dividend, is. 4d., on Thursday, April 12, and any subsequent Thursday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Birmingham. R. Jones, Tottington Higher End, Lancashire, cotton spinner, 1 ls. 9d., on Tuesday, April 17, and every fol lowing Tuesday, between ten and one, at the office of Mr Hobson Manchester. F.. Gill, Manchester, dealer in hardware, le. 311, on Tuesday, Apfij 17, and every following Tuesday, be tween ten and one, at the office of Mr. [lobson, Man chester. J. Taylor, Hollingwood, Lancashire, and Manchester, rope manufacturer and slate merchant, 2s. 6d.. oa Tues day, April 17, and every following Tuesday, between ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. E. Briggs, Ca.tleton Mills, Lancashire, hatter and silk spinner, ls. 61., on Tuesday, Ap ri l 1 7 , and every following Tuesday, between every ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. J. Senior, Salford, Lancashire, common brewer, 33., on Tuesday, April 17, and every following Tuesday, between ten and one, at the cffice of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. J. Hunt, Manchester, merchant and commission agent 5d., on .Tuesday, April 17, a nd every followil , g Tuesday, bet w e en t en an d one a t the office of Mr. Hub son, Manchester. ' C. R. Berry,- Manchester, dryselter, le., on Tuesday, April 17, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. • R. Da,wsori Thorney, Isle of Ely, grocer and draper, 9s. 2d., on Wednesday, April 18, and three following Iredne6days, b:.tweeu ten and two, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Guildhall-chambers, Bisinghall• street. J. EVery, sen., Lewes, Sussex, iront,under, sd. on new proofs, on, Wednesday, April 18, and three follow ing W. daesdaye, between ten end two, at the office of Mr. Tailwind; Basinghall-street. T. C. Knight, Forte-street, Spital-square, undertaker, ss. 110., on Thursday; April 12, and three following Thursdays, between twelve Sod three, at the office .1 Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghad• street. T. Broad, lierz Cornwall, linendraper, Is. 1., on Thunday . , - April 12,' and three following' Thursda) s. between twelve' and three, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall- street. .- E. Ropeweil, LeadenLall-street, outfitter and clothier, is. Li., on Thursday, April 12, and three following Thursdays, between twelve and three, at the office of 'Mr. Stans - !eld, Bssinghall• street. J. Welsb, Carlisle', tailor and draper, final dividend of id., in addition to 3 t. : 6l:previon d , clrred, nn Satur ,l,y, April 14, nr rti,) .uhs.'qn,nt Lt...w en t,O qt:(1 three. ar the othe , A 1 Mr. Balivr, Nt , AcuAlv•upon • G. WrigtLt. Suri3erin‘i. ; atier 5 1., on S . 4turday. April 14, or any fodowing Saturday, between ten and three at -,h e o ffi ce o f M r . Wali;ey, NewcaF.tle-upnu-Tyne. , T. Dalton, Di. 1 1 .111113, rope i n :nu f acturer , 2d., on Saturday, April' 14; - or any folloAing Saturday, between ten and three, at the of f ice of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle:upon-Tyr e. J. Trt wick, juo., Newcaitle•upon-Tyue, draper, lid., on Saturday, April 14, or any following Saturday, be tween ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley, New castle• upon-l'yLe. _ . _ W. Linley, 'Con'sborOugh, Yorkshire, se) the•manu facturer, 45., on Saturday, April 21, or any following Saturday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Fret - man, Sh:iTield. J. Gurney, Slo ffi-ld, ivory scak-cutter, 35., on Satur day, April 21, or anx following Saturday, be:ween eleven and two, at the ofrfi., of Mr. Freeman, SbEftlahrl. T. Ccoper, York, stockbroker, 1.1., on Thursday, April 19, or any following Thursday, between Eleven and two, at the office or. Mr. Freeman, Sh e ffi e ld . F. Kirlly, Leedl.• grocer, 5d., on Thnrsday, April 19, or any following Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Fieenian, Sheffield. NOTICES. OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall -street. F. B. Stacy, Albion,place, Blaclifriars , road. law sta• tioner, May 4, at twelte—W. Allen, Watson, Norfolk, innkeeper, May 9, at half-past eleven—H. P. High Holborn, victualler, May 4, at twelve—W. Solomon, Union-street, Southwark, and High Bolborn, teadealer, May 4, at eleven. In the Country. C. J. Spence, Stockton-upon-tees, Durham, timber merchant, May 4, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle- * upon Tyne—J. R. Simpson, Sheffield, spring knife ma nufacturer, May 5( at ten, at the Court, Sheffield—J. 1 Kyrke, Glascoed, Denbighshire, lime burner, May 7, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—A. Mongredien, Liver pool, -! merchant; May e 4, at eleven, at the Court, Liver- - pool—A. J. Swift, Liverpool, irenfounder, May 7, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool —J. Hitchen, Ileeston, Cheshire, joiner, May 11, at eleven, at the Court, Liver pool—J. E. Christian, Liverpool, shipbroker, May 10, at f eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Booth, Crewe, Cheshire, linendraper, May 11, at eleven, at the Court, I.i.verpool-11. Whitfield, Stafford, builder, May 5, at twelve, at the Co ur t,-Bi rm i ng h am. , At the Court of Review, May 4. J. Parker, Prince's -road and Addison road North. :_ Notting-hill, c etch-proprietor —J. Willis, Osborne street, Whitechapel, ale and porter merchant—T. W. Hornsby, Darlington, Eurhain, miller —T. Hill, Red ditch, Worcester, hire, builder--E. Perks, Redditch, Worcestershire, ne e dl e manufacturer—T. Potts, .Bir mingham, metallic tube manufacturer—ll. Couwell, Wootton-under-Edge., Gloucestershire, paper maker. PAR DISSOLVED. K. Pass and C. 11. Keech, Berners-street, Oxford street, surgeons—J. Gilbert and J. Adshead, Noble street, City, commission agents—A. Acheson and 11. Acheson, Lcadenhall-street. City, wine merchants—ll. Lemmon and E. Cauham Gray's Inn-road, watc h an d clock mak ers —M. W hitelesd, Jas. Whitehead, and e rn Whitehead, Sheffield, joiners and builders (as far as re. Bards Jas. Whitehead)—A. S. Baldwin, T. J. Pi gg and Elizabeth Pigg, Norwich, carpentrrs—W. Strong. Buck ingham Cottages, Westminster, and W. Hawkins, Pais street, Lambeth, plasterers—H. A. Rumsey and J. Rum sey, Rockinghamewharf, Middlesex, bone boilers—C. W. Ale - xander and Wy. Smith, Denton Mill, and Graves end, Kent, mealmen and bakers —R. H. Goodridge, S. Revell, and R. S. Dainerell, Plymouth, wine and spirit merchants (as far as regards S. Revell)—J. Osborn, J. Osborn, jun., and J. White, Linslale, Bu c ki ng h ams hi re , general m erc h an t s ( as far a , regards J. White)—J, Avin tosh and C. M. Mintosh, Kingston -upon-Hull, nursery- , men—C. Cook and W.. J. Back, Regent-street, furri( rs-- J. Vale and E. We, Liverpool ; paper dealers—T. Back, Eliza Gould, and Mary Gould, Alright°, City, coffee house keepers—E. Blake and C. Rugg, NeWcastle-undere Lyre, and Mitchell's Wood, Staffordshire, ironstone merchants—H. Woolrich and C. J. Ellis, St. Peat Churchyard, muslin manufacturers—J. Leng and J. W. Kingston upon-Hull, booksellers and stationers—E. Harniston and J. Smith, Boston, Lincolnshire, linen' drapers—W. Dyson, W. Evers, and M. D yson , L ee ds, corndealers—S. Osmend an d H. Ormond, Sherborne lane, City, tailors —W. Manby and J. Hawksford, Wol verhampton, attortles and solicitors—W. S. Matthews and E. Bostock, Minories, leather merchants—H. Hus sey and G. N. Hussey, Sr. Swithin's•lane, City, hair' dressers—J. Robinson, J. Thompson, and M. Thompson, Carlisle, Cumberland. slate and stone merchants (as far es regards Mark Thompson)—John Richardson and Joseph Richardson, Burton-upon-Trent, Staff( rdshire , attorneys and solicitor:--Hartley Kenyon and Henry Kenyon, Haslingdon, Lancashire, tailors—T. Kay, W. S. Kay, and J. :Kay,, Woolford, Lancashire, and Man' chester, cotton spinners (as far regards the said T. Kay) —C. Doherty 'and J. Prince, Liverpool, contractors—W. Thompson, J. Fothergill, H. Scale, H. F. Cheshire , Mary Cheshire, and T. S. Forman, Aberdare, Glamor• ganshire, itonmasters—W. R. Berardi and S.. D. Lott. East Bergholt, Suffolk, millers—R. W. Dsro• and' J. Holland, Queen-street, Cheapside, boot and shoe mane' facturers. INSOLVENT PE rITIONERS. Edward James, Wahall, Staffordshire. William Clowes, Sen., Swansea, licensed victualler. John Powe, Swans, a. Isaac Taylor, rThley,,Worcestershire, licen se d b rewe r. Paul Elwell, VrOrcester,. miner. Robert Morrell. Islalinslee, Shropshire, puller. Thomas Cole, Portsea; [Aker. John Bracegirdle, Over. Cheshire, slater. John Pay, Perisea, carpenter. Daniel Moore, Grantehester, Cambridgeshire, black' smith. James Spalding; jun., Cambridge. John Wilrnott, Cambridge, primer. William Woods, Cottenhatu; Cambridgeshire. J:1111138 Richmond, B.md-street, upholsterer. Howell Davis, Toxet4-;ark, Lancashire, book keeper. Henry Edward Coop r, Wolverhampton. John Corns, WolverhaMpton. William Ridding, Walsall, spring hook manufacturer. Thomay Lynex, Walsall, spring bar maker. James Coleman, Bristol, grocer's assistant. • Richard Ingram, Cambridge, plumber. John Ilooker Ctiatterton, Nottingham, shopman. Robert Smith,EsstDereham, Norfolk, veterinary surgeori. Charles 1. , y, jun., Nottingham, cooper. Thomas Brooker,. Speen, Berkshire, plumber. Samuel Bennett, South Retford, Nottinghamshire, ion' keeper. Thomas Bolton, Knighton, Leicestershire, gardener. Edward Cracknell,. Oxford, stage coach proprietor. James Jones, West Cowes, grocer. Thomas Osborn, West.Cowes, cooper. Charles Smith, Stamford, biker. James Henry Th omas Rogers, Freshwater, I s l e , o f Wight' c ,, rdwaitier. George Thorn Fox, Shepton Mallett, Somerietshire' • . SCOTCH'SEQUESTRATIONS. J. N. Robertson and J. T. Rattray, Dundee, groeerl to meet April 13 and May 9, at one, within the Ror` Hotel, Dundee. - PRICE-OF SUGAR. The average.pr:ce of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, coo' puted from the returns ma d e i n the week ending April I° ' . ' 1849, is 265. o%d. per cwt. RA.ILWAY S H AitE MARKETS. ...„ BRISTOL, APRIL 13. SToex EXcltificE.--=-The.spas e market was bett e r t o -d a y. T he sales arc - Bristol and Exeter New Shares, 10% dis.-Mid Stock, 76-Ditt o , 6 per cent. (Birmingham and Gloucester), 121$ -North Staffordshire, 14 - Taff Vale (New), % p. LIVERPOOL, 13. e STOCK EXCHANGP. -We have had APRIL a fair t' business transacted „ day, and prices had an upward tendency. The sales are-Aberde e 4 Preference, 6 per cent. I n perpet., 4 p - Birkenhead, Lancashire, 3i i, Chester (late C. and B.) , guaranteed 6 per cent. till 1850, 15-Dit,e, 221. Shares, 7% dis. - Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, Preferel 7 -Lancaf.h re and Yorkshire, 32/. Shares, 7% dis.-Ditto, Fret el., , ence, 'll% . -London and No:th-Western, 13-2,i - Ditto, New Quart'," 4% p.--Ditto, :Fifths, G%-p. 76- Ditte, Halves, 9 Scottish Central, 23 k - Shrewsbury and Chester (N. W. M.), Preference, % dis. Ditto, -Preference, guaranteed 8 per cent., l "‘i South-Eastern and Dover (N o. 4) , Thirds, 7-York, Newcastle, an Berwick (Extension, Nos. 1 and 2), 3% eds.-Ditto (G. N. E. .r"" chase), 6 per cent. till 1850, 1% dis. :MANCHESTER, APRIL 13. STocic EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Dover (No. 4), 7 1-16-west Riding Union, 44i c. dis.-Grimsby, Quarters, 7% dis. -L on d o n ys 132 1 4 -Leeds, Preference, 11% -Manchester and Birmingham (.7.4 • 14% dis .-Le' . -- ; ll E xi as_te c r i n ies C i o it u re nti7 u , n B a l i tl , 6-ShrewsburY Fifths,Q a a rChester,tr33 Quarters, Preference, e l l!! el, Aram 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The transaction s t o -d ay hive been as f°/' lows :—Birraingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley, 5 - * p. _ coye nti t i l and Nuneaton, % p.— Lon .on and North- Western, 133-1",4), Staffordshire, 3/. les. 9cl. nis.—Shrew s b ury and 131nningham 5% dis.—Ditto (13), 31. Its. 3d. di:. YOlili, APRIL 12. STOCK ExcIIANGE —The Gusine s iransact,d to-day was t., lows : Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, N.D., guaranteed 5 per cel,. 9% —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Newcastle Extension), (th E. Purchase), 6%. BIRTHS, Of On the Bth inst., at Balmad u thy -house, N. 8., the wife Sir Evati MacKenzie, Burt, of a daughter. On the Bth inst., the wife of D. Bennett, Esq , of Fari' don house, erks, of a daughter, stillbo n. On the .oth inst., at North-lodge, t e ddi n gt on, the wi- / e of James Stiachan, Eq., of a daughter. On the 10th hist , at Tooley-street, S•nithwark, the wit l3l of the late A'exander Stewart, Esq., Collec or of her D ls. jesty's Customs, Bathadoes, of a daughter. On the 11th inst., at Loughborough, Mrs. W. J. WoolleP of a son. On the 12th inst., at Hyle-prk-gate South, Kensingtoll - the wife of G. Jeudwine, Eq., of a son. ARRIED. On the ll th inst., at S t yeter's Church, Eaton-square, t 13 60 Hon. Lawrence Parsoris, hr ,ther of the E ar l o f to . lion. Jane Dutcombe, eldest daughter of Lord and L° Ferersham. - • On the 1 tit inst.. at. Shermanb ur y Ch urc h, He-,ry Huy't Esq, M.D., of B roo k- s ' reet, L ondon, to 31aria Harriet, e l u e , t daughter .of Stecln H. Challen, Esq, of Sh erma nbnfl . park, Sussex. On the 11th inst., at St. Mary's Church, Bath, Man , r°i Forster Mills, Esq., youngest eon of M a j or - G enera l MP „ ' $ Willington-house, county of Durham, t o F rances, you nger daughter of R.. Fenwick , ot Bist , p Weatmouth. 'MED 4, On the 2d inst , at Maes ganw dd, near C orwen, age" Bof Hugh Davies, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the count)' Merionetb. On the 9th inst., at R tbe estaTrig-house, near Edinburgh. infant sin of L>rd and Lady Etibank. 11 11 On the 10th i !i st., i n SackVillestreet, St. James's, •/' !Ingham, E!q., aged 75. wits of On the I.oth i ns t., a! L ec hlad e , age d 51, Eli za b et h, Cap - ain W, 11. N., K.H. On the 11th inst., 11Enrietta,youngest daughter of ,h e late T. Partingt n, Eso, , of Wham, Sussex. r ro e , On the 11th inst. in Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, ‘-'°- bus uller, , of ' Ramsgate, aged 78. ' London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOTTh 0 ;1?, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, NO. Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the cou l l b'atur.l4y, April 14, 1549.