The Sun. — London, England, 1842-04-22 00:00:00

rbirb Nbition SUN-OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. 8,000 Albion Copper 51. 5 b. 511. p 0 12 4000 11. ss. Altcn l5 l. sh 19./. Pr pd 14 111 :00 ......... Anglo MEI ican ,iss. 5/. pm.loi?/. sh. a i 'l.d 234 Ditto Sul s:ription .... ..... .. . ......251. pu :3 2,00 0 Bolanos , 150/. a h all pd 4 . 10 ,0 0 11. ids Brazihanlmp. les. 51. pm 25/.sh. SU, pd 9. ,15,000 1:4000 Ditto St. John Del Rey -.20/. sh. 141. pd IN VC 010 ...... Vll,OOO Ditto Scnp 104 sh. 10/. pd 2 , 41,008 ...... ... British Iron lOOl sh. 70!. pd 8 000 ' Cat-. Branca 6l/. pd 614 Candonga 73/. pd 5 111,000' 1 I C O PIaP O b,506 . ... 41 ". Columbian, iss. 5.. pm. -55/. sh. 55/. pd 0% .2;850 si; English 11/. Cs. pd 2 2 ,, 6 , 00 . General 51iningAssoclation20/ sh.lBl. pd 3 3s t'lss -•.-,, Mexican Company 100/. sh. (;(!/ pd ... 3:00u .... ...... Volbcrou Consols: .. ... ... 10/. sh. EU. pd 4 Heatilel Monte Unregistered 3 Ditto Loan llotes. 11,50 0 1 , 01. pd 50 30,000 ._...... 4j.;ited illexican, iss. 2 pm. 4i,/. oh. a ll pd 134 ixtt.t.. lf.orlp l4 DUI- , New Scrip 4/ F.l 33l West Co.ic 5O/. sh 50/. pd 38 Ll'f ERA KY INSTITUTIGNS. London, with Bronze Ticket ...75g5..b. 13 1,000 """'" London University lOO/.sh. all 14 7 1,500 ••••••'•' aw.scii 25gs sh. 6 'GO . w•••••• sing' College lOOl. 1934 mifC,ELLANEOUS. Aus tra li s tj Agricultural.loo/.'sh. 28! pd 37 16'7" 151. c• "ritish American Land Compan y 3511. pd 9 45000 1. per cen.: X , ad a Coulpan Y 100/. sh. 3211. pd 29 bk._ 00 0 61. per cod- Ca ..-' - -,or Canaia Loan ' 0 , 1)0 0 51 , per cent. va - ,d. 4 %la cent ........... ....... , ~ 100 CIIY 8 6 .- -. A7' •vliption 15/. ,li 'lir 24% 10 .000 11. 6s. GeneralSte2 m - . 4 - ' ' 101. percent. Hudson's Bay m,ocis , 254 s ....Av. 75/. sh.. 191! IL London Com. ga l e Rnt. m 1241. pd 12 .•....... Caoutchouc Company New Brunswick Land Cornp.`l•l o j• Pd 12 5.387 41. per cent. Reversionary Int. 50c...1 001 . 10. • it'''. Pd 93 34 .i i ii33 51. per cent. Di tto New ....low. iii. 0( 4 Pd 107 4. 00 ° ••••"., lharnes Tunnel 4O /. 0 • a . l l p 4 7 10.000 Be. Iran Dleiner.'s Land...;oo/. s ki , . Pit. PI 13 -LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES APRIL 20, 1842. BANKS. 7 . .4 , -o,oog , 01,p. et. Bank of Scotland...B3l. Bcl sh all p d 152 cOOO,OOOl el. p. ct. Royal of Scotl an d jow : sh : all p d 150 yyjimo. 81. p. ct. British Liaen Company 100/, s h. all pd =O5 goopoot. 71. p. ct. Commercial ....... . 5001. , h. pd Lap ,500,0001,, G n. ct. National ............ ...... . it , e/. ah pd 14 , 101. 09,0001. 8! . p.c t . Glas g ow Uni on 250/. sh. 50/. pd fl% 1,0 10,0001. 6 p. ct. Western of Scotian, 2OOl. sh 40/. pd INSURANCE COIIIPA NIES. 111).000sh. 61p. ct. Scottish Union ........ sh. It. pd 23s Cd. ,500 10 p. ct. Hercules x ' lol. eh. 10/. pd 13 i t 301,000 10 p. et. Insurance Co. of Scotland_ hl. sh. all pd 54000 10 p, ct. North British 2001, a!!.. 101, pd 19% 100 10 p. et. Caledonian Fire 1001. s . h. pd 2, 1 ' 5 . 000 10 p. et , E dinbur g h Life 1190,0430 Si p. et. West of Scotland 141SCELLA NED U 4,818 ..... Edin. and Glas. Dn. Canalso/. sh. al lpd ha Ditto Soik. all xt 42% ‘145,404 N per cent. Edinb. JointSteck Water.2sl. sh all p 3a .I,ooosh 21 per cent. Shotts Iron I'ounderr......so l .sh 48/. p. A 38 0,000 3 per eentlrElinburgh & Leith Olass.2o/.sh. 18/. pd 3% 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251.5 h. all pd 30 4.450 10 per e , nt. Glasgow Gas 254 sh. all pd, 52 710 71 per. 7, MP Lekh Coal Gas 201.18. all pll.l i. 15 4 Edinburgh and galkeithtlali way 50.1.5& SO We learn that the attempt to reduce the hard earn- , ingi of the poor stocking-weavers, at Mansfield, s proven aboytiv A public meeting of th e t ra d e was ca ll e d cea Monday, ba When t " little bag-hosiers' sliding scale " was m ade known, and eat; irely disapproved of by the whole assembly. The work men to Whom the a b a t ement h ad b een offered sere waited upon, al Id readily agreed to a cessation from labo ar, until the Price the 7 hid heretofore received could be obtain( xi.. PRICES OF CANAI,DOCK,ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 22. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per Seams. Annum. Paid. Share. 1,766 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average97l.lBs.sh. 94 1,482 41. Ashbyede-le-Zouch Aecrage 1151.5 h , 71 1,260 ..... .... Basingstoke.... lool.sh. 5 1,065 31. Brecknock and Abergavenny lsol.sh. 92 6,0011 I-16th. 101. Biriningham,l-16th share ...,811. & 711. 194 4,000 ... . Ditto & Liverpool Junct.l 9 ol. sh .100 pd 21 600 fir. Bridgewater and Taunton.looeske all p 3 -- 409 51. Chelmer and Blackwater ..... lool.sh. 101 300 32!. Coventry Croydon . Avere7e3ll.26.lod. sh . - 2,060 5 ! Os Dudley 1001. sh. 04 600 131. Derby lool.sh . 120 20,000 4 per cent. Oanube and Mayne 411.105. 4d.pd 30 3,575 e 4' Eilesmereand Chester Averegel33:.sh. 69 231 ge •• l Erewasn .• • 6,453 eel. Forth end Clyde ....... 1001. an: ......... Pd . • 11_ 6 411.3 71. Grancteunction... .................. lute. 0 l'en ),049 1 1 255. Grand Union ........« .............„..1001. sh 3. 27 15 ',SOO . ..... .. Grand Surrey...-. .. u 0 1: n 1001. 1,0001 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan • 090 .. Grand Western .......... ...... 21. A. all . pd 10 . '2l 136.4 d. 0 800 13 12s. Sci. Glamorganshire,Aver. coati - 721 740 121. terantheen 1501.3h. eeti 6 138 e..ils. Huddersfield Average e //. 63.6 d. eh. :9 100 .. Kensingtoet lo6th. allpd 10% 20.3 e leS les . Kennet end Avon. Av. 391.185.10 4 .sh 18% 11,6991 le 105. Lancaster Average 6s. 8d e 7 Y,5971 301. Lecd s and Liverpool lool.sh 710 5451 11. 10s. Leicester 140/.31 150 , 807 51.0 5 . Le i cest er & Northampton Aver 631.10 E 72 • 2,409 les Monmouthshire -me.. um „I em 250 131. M elton Mowbra y 600 '.i Mersey and Irwell lool.sh. 540 S,O O O 11. Ins. Macclesfield lOll. sh. all pd 16 247 17/. Neath iool.sh. 305 '2,00 Si. Peak Forel. ivet.ge about 781.5 h. 64 I, tlB tes. Regent's (or London) Av. 33/.165.8d. eh. 10% 5,6110 et. Rochdale Average 861. eh. 62 590 81. Shropshire /esl.sh. 137 SGO Ile 108. Somerset Coal lsol.sh. 170 3e1.1111. 6p -r cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 12/.los. sh. 114 .700 381. Stafford and Worcester 1401.5 h. 666 1.00 151 Shrewsbury 1251. sh. 280 MO 91. 3teurbridge 3,047 21.05. Stratford.on.AVoll liver-791. 9s. ed. sh. 33 533 12}1 Swansea lool.sh, 205 3,762 21. 12s. Severn and Wyc &Railway Ay.e6l.9s. sh. 45 ,60945 h. 32/. 10s. Trent and Mersey, e share lOOl. sh. 475 8.149 I,ooosh.e , I,oooeske Lel. Warwick and Bermingham ...... 1001 .sta 2 C O 910 104. Warwick and lupin.' 100/.sh. 118 7,000 41 Worcester & Birmingham AvelBl.Bs.sh. 16 5 . 0 , 00 365 , Wilts and Berke A v e r ee e 671. 105 . 84 • eh • 28% ell 6s, Werlev and Erungt0n......... les/.sh '74 .26 90 3 II Wey and Arun..... llOl. en. 20 DOCKS. 2 ' 6" Pe 1 So c Commerc al .w..... 1001.5h. 61 1,96518 h. .• ' ' 5 per cent. East and West India .......... Stock 1034 .233,31015. Ole p. ct. London ..........Stock 78 Ditto Bonds 2,e09 31.65. sd. Bristol , ..... ........ Average 14 1 1. 91. sh . '75 69,324/. 51. per cent. Ditto Votes, various amounts lOB 252,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 97 502,144 4e percent. Ditto Bonds ... .„ ...... .......... , lOO4 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds lor 1121 years Deptford Pier ......«........201. sh. 201. pd 10 BRIDGES. 1,604) It Hammersmitl , 501.5 h. 2134 7,231 ...... .. .. Southwark, 01d.........Av. 631.2 s Bd. sh. 3e, 1.700 1/. 151. Ditto, New, of 71'per cent., 501.5 h. 15% s,OOO Waterloo 1001. eh. 3 5,000 fees. (Id. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 601. pd 21 5,000 les. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4Ol. pd 18% 60,000/. el. per cent. Ditto Bonds 99% 5,848 27s Vauxhall .......Average 701. 100.3 d. sh 26 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3110 s Albion .5001. sh. 50/. pd 70 6 0 .000 1 61;i n er d cleszel Allianeeßritish &Foreignlooe sh. Ile pd 14 60,00 f, 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 51. pd 5% 24,00/ . 41. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 144 1,200 eth. 5/. Birmingham hire 250/. sh. 551. pd 10734 20,0(e) 4/.percent. British Fire 250/. sh. 501. pd 41 19,1) )0 61. per cent. British Commercial .........501. sh. 5/, pd 6 5,0 a. 5/. per cent. Clerical & Medical Life, 1001. sh. 2110 s pd 03e 4,1.00 310 s County lOO/. sh. 101. pd 11 7. elOO 35. Eagle. ere, I' an s 30 d per cent bee a Economic Life 10001. sh. 250/. pd 406 "ee 11 ',271 221. percent. European Lite °O/. sh. all pd 22 '50,000 2s. Ditto, New 0 01. sh. 2!. pd I 1(, .000,000/. fl. per ct Globe Stock 116 20,000 51. Guardian 30,000 4s. Od. Hope 5O/. sh. 51. pd 5 31 2,400 51. 12s. ed. Imperial Fire 5OOl. sh. 50/. pd 139 7,500 10s. rd. Imperial Life 13,459 5/. per cent. Indemnite Marine lOOl. sh. el. pd 3131 9,020 31 103 Kent Fire 5O/. sh. all pd 91 31. Ditto Life 5O!. pd 06 10,000 25s Law Life 101)1. :de 10/. pd 3231 5,17013 Ids. London, Fire 25/. sh. 121. 10s. pd 17% 3,900 108. London, Ship .. 251. sh. 121. 103. pd 174 1/100,000/. ... ..... Minerva life 100/. sh. 2eooo 5!. per cent. National Loan Fund... 201. sh 2!. Ns. pd 2% :Veen° 51. per cent. Palladium Life 5Ol. sh. 21. pd 216 s 50,900 5!. per cent. Protector Life 201. sh. 21. pd 17s 6d 10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters ....100/. sh. Si. pd 5% 9.500 ii. Provident Lire lOOl. sh. 101. pd 20 200,060 4s. Od. Rock Life 59,220/ 51. percent. Royal Exchange Stock 170 6,000 5 per cent. University Life 100 e sh. 5!. pd 11 10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 51. pd '7 1 4 JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25,000 Agric. and Corn. of I reland2sl. sh. 101. pd 15,000 8 per cent. Australasia 401. sh. 401. pd 53 1e.04210 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 501. sh. 10/. pd 13 10,000 Viper cent. Birmingham Bank sol.sh. 10/. pd 13% 31,0e0 6 percent. London & Westminster 100/ sh. 201. pd 21% 60,000 5!. London Joint Stock 50!. sh. 10/. pd 12% 4,000 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. eh. 201. pd SO '25,000 10 per cent. Liverpool 1001 sh. lei/. pd 19 50,000 74 percent. Manchester and Liver/ 50/. sh. 151. pd 1934 pool Dis-onnt 20,000 7 percent. Manchester lOO/. sh. 101. pd 4% 110,000 8 per cent. Provincial Bank of Irelandloo/. sh. 25/. pa 41 10,000 6 per cent National Bank of Ireland 50/. eh. 17;1. pd 1534 10,000 6 per cent National Provincial Eng.loo4 sh. 3.51. pd 56 10,000 Ditto New 10/. sh. 101. pd 10 10,000 Gloucestershire .501. vb. 101. pd 32 0,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 9% GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 16. Od Bath 201. sh. 101. pd 22 " ,5 Ofle British 401. sh . 16!. pd 19 „t e, 151.fieTcent.1 es - land Bs. 61.3 Ditto Provincial 2O/. sh. 101. pd 13 990 51 10s Birmingham. .50' sh. 101 4,250 2/ Os Bristol 2O:. sh. 76 2,250 3/ lOs Brighton 2Ol. sh. 13% 750 31 108 Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 18/. pd 9 9,471 44 per cent Brighton General .20/. sh. all pd 934 4.0c05 71. 105. Continental Consolidated ....751. 62.V.pd 110 1,000 101. City of London.. ..100/. sh. all pd 195 1,030 01. Ditto, New lOOl. sat, 751. pd 150 4,000 3/.os, Equitable 5O/. pd 20 10,000 3/. per cent. Imperial 501.5 h. 6 0 34 800 5!. per cent. Isle of Than et 251. sh. 201. pd 19 2,350 61. per cent. Independent 201. A. slipe 56 9,00(1 51. per cent. Phcenix 5Ol. sh. 39/. pd 303; 1,060 4/. per cent. Ratclifl lOO/. sh. ROl. pd 63 4,000 South Metropolitan 50/. sh. - 2334/. pd 18 9,000 5/. per cent. United General 501. sh. 471. pd SO 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 5O/. sh. 50 40/1 51. per cent Wakefield 251. sh. 22 2,000 31. Westminster Chartered 6,000 Hs. Ditto New ..................5( 1. ;h. 10!. pd 11 780 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. 181. pd WATER WORKS 4,800 345. Birmingham 231. eh. 25!. pd 21 4,433 7!. East London 1001• sh. 1654 5,500 21 15s. Grand Junction Average 41/. 13s. 4d. sh. 56 9,1100 .21. Kent 100/. sh. 52 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 325 1,500 2 1101 New River London Bridge WaterA tin- 60 0,486 21 lOs Manchester and Salford 100/. sh. 54 1,000 5 per cent. South London 100/.5h. 98 8,294 4j l. West Middlesex Average 631.1125. 9d. sh. 44 1.360 11141 York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 11,390 2/. Os. Birmingham and Derby .... lOO/. pd 52 0,00 3 pet cent. Birmingham and Gloucester KO/. pd 5554 )b,OOO 4 per cent. Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. 70 pd 45 4,300 Cheltenham& G. Western 1001. s h. 72%1. 1734 3,0011 ~. ..... Clarence 100/. sh. 100/ pd 20 8,000 ..«..... Dublin and Drogheda 100/. sh. 5/. pd 410,00 e Eastern Counties 23/. sh. 23/. pd 1034 3n,000 5 per cent. Great North of England 1001. sh. 1(101. pd 873& sW,OIB 19 per cent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. all pd 182 t3,"Ge 4 per cent. Great Western 100!. sh. 05/. pd 94 34 25.000 3 per cent. Ditto New 50/. sh. 101. pd 65% (1,000 5 per cent Gosport Junction 'O/. sh. 501. pd 59 2,000 8 per cent. Hartlepool 1001. eh. 1001.0 14534 8.000 Hull and Selby 5Ol. sh. 504 pd 40 2,100 4 per cent. Leeds and Selby 6,100 10 per cant. Liverpool ed Manchester 'UCLA!). 100/.0 188% 7,206 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 5O/. pd 91 - e 11,405 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 9.51. pd 45 feepoe ........ London and Brigh ton SUL sh. 50/. pd 37 fe4,000 ..., . .... London and Blackwell e 2.51. sh. 251. pd 1.234 eO,OOO 3ne r cent. London and Greenwich 2O/. 04. 201. pd el 25,000 91).;,r sh. London le Birmingham lOO/. sh. 90/. pd 181 25,04)0 2/. -i i 63. Ditto csuArter Shares ....ese sh. 51. pd 37 31. .), 5 0 '/.:is. 4d. Di t o New Shares 32/. sh. 32/. pd 314 aro to 3 per se. London and &Western Av. nsr, 17s. Od. 61 es,eoo ... ...... London and Croydon] As. 13/. 15s. 9d. 14 Ditto New Scrip. . 14 18,1100 4.. per sh, Manchester and Leeds... loo/ . sh. 701 . pd 8 4 )10 00 Ditto Half Shares 5O!. 30/. pd 36% 10,000 .........Manchester and le rm ieg ham 70/.51).40/. '8 Inito Extension 7l. pd 2 10,000 21.105. Midland Counties 1011/. sh. 100/, pd 791 15,000 Si. Os. North Midland 1/.los. Ditto New 4O pd 34 70,256 1/.los. Northern and Eastern.... pd 44 fe,6oli Preston and Wyrc 5Ol. sh. f ell, pd 96 s e , 0100 4 per cent. South Eastern and Dover eq. I A 309( 1, 000 101. per emit. Stockton and Darlington . 6, 501. sh 1001 Bpd h. 265 10 5/. , 9 10/. per cent. York and Nerth Midland 50 . sh. 501. pd 94 MINES. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—Our readers are aware that we are not friendly on principle to indefinite propositions for the Extension of Suffrage, and for the framing of what is sometimes called a second Reform Act, though we are not blind to the imperfections and abuses of the present elective franchise. In reviewing last night's discussion on the motion of Mr. Sharman Crawford, we cannotbut feet that there is some degree of falseness in the pos tion of both parties. We do not say this to escape from the explicit statement of our own views, which we will never disguise from our readers on any question of national interest. But it does ap pear to us that there is some degree of vice in the arguments, or, at least, of imbecility in the positions, which are practically occupied by each party—the advocates and the opponents of mea sures of organic change. There are no two of the former who seem agreed what change they should advocate. There are no two of the latter who art quite alike satisfied with the system they defend. While Mr. Roebuck and Dr. Bowring have no notior of any but numerical franchises, Mr. Ward is not pre pared to abandon all property qualifications. While Sir Robert Peel defends the Reform Act as something he was nowise responsible for, except to embrac( the less of two evils in order to stave off the greater. Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham have their quorum pars magna to proclaim, and put themselves forward in the front of the battle, as champions of the Grey Reform of Parliament. All these variations. which hardly amount to serious discord within the walls of Parliament (excepting a note or two from the Members for Bath and Stockport in a somewhat sharper key), indicate that this question is not likely to present itself in a practical shape. It is, however, before such questions become urgent, that it will be well for those who assume to take any part in public instruction to discuss them impartially. For our own part, in our opposition, on principle, to Uni versal Suffrage, and—in general—to all Reform of Reform which assumes numbers as its guiding rule, we do not solely rely on an opinion of popular igno rance. It is invidious to ascribe ignorance to any one class in particular ; and it is difficult to prove in what degree ignorance or instruction characterise one class or other. The utmost extent to which the argument derived from assumed ignorance can go is, that—when numbers alone are made the basis of political repre sentation, whatever ignorance exists in the community . ,is sure oibeing represented. STANDARD.—Very nearly half the community, that is, the minority at the election of representatives, are bound by laws made by men whom they positively distrust and dislike ; and in no sense can they be con sidered as consenting to such laws, except as they con sent at all to live under a representative constitution ; and this consent is the same whatever form that repre sentative constitution may take. How unjustly, then, was Sir Robert Peel blamed for not gravely answer ing the solemn trifling of the revived Cartwright, and for amusing himself and his hearers with the ludicrous reasoning of the triflers—Dr. Bowring's planetary and book-keeping arguments among the rest. By the way, we would remind Dr. Bowring that there are planets whose periods greatly exceed twelve months, and others the periods of which fall short of that term ; and there are merchants who post their books quarterly ; so that his argument is false in its premises, besides belonging to our chapter of false analogies. But how are arguments like this to be answered except by a smile ? Sir Robert Peel did, however, gravely and decisively meet the propo sition of Mr. Crawford, by pointing to the impos sibility of the country going in a current of revolu • tions ; and by showing, from the variety of the propo sitions propounded by the different speakers, that to a current of revolutions, without end or respite, the country would be committed, by once more break ing up the Parliamentary constitution. Sir Robert Peel might have added, that the current would not stop with political alterations, but having done its work with them, must, in the end, overwhelm property. For our own part, we can see one hundredfold more and stronger arguments for an agrarian distribution of property than for any political reform ; and if the people are to be all charged with the office of legisla tion, and have nothing else to think of, they will not be slow to discover arguments so seemingly profit able to the vast majority. This hint ought not to be lost on Mr. C obden, and his worthy partners, in the more than worth of the land of the United Kingdom, which the millowners boast to have acquired in 25 years; nor ought it to be lost upon the aristocracy. COURIER.—There is, in fact, no election law in Ireland except what Committees of the House of Commons enact, and that which is strict law with one Committee, another, sitting in the next room, and at the same time, pronounces to be a grievous wrong. It is not now for the first time that a know ledge of this unsatisfactory and disgraceful state of the law reached the Legislature. Immediately after the general elections of 1835 and 1837, the glaring evils of the system became perfectly appa rent, and the then Government affected to deplore and promised to remedy them. Session after session the Irish law officers of the Crown introduced, what they termed deblaratory acts, but, :session after session, these were allowed quietly to drop off to wards the close. Early in 1840 Lord Stanley, aided by Mr. Emerson Tennent, took the subject in hand ; but, at that period, parties were too equally balanced in the House of Commons to admit of the success of Lord Stanley's admirable measure. What, we should like to know, has become of that Bill ? It possessed all the materials of a searching and effectual remedy, and, if tempered a little, and purged of any thing that could be construed into harshness, it would, we have no doubt, receive the support of a very large majority in the present House of Commons. We have heard, it is true, that an attempt will be made to assimilate the laws that regulate the franchise in Ireland to those which obtain in this coun try, and that, for the purpose, one comprehen sive measure of election reform will be in troduced. We are not disposed to under-rate the value of uniformity, but to such a course of proceed ing we discern many grave objections. The qua lifications and descriptions of electors, in both coun tries, do not correspond, and therefore we consider any attempt to introduce uniformity in matters es sentially different will signally fail. It were far better to confine the remedy to the specific evils complained of, than to endeavour to apply one grand panacea. We have but little confidence in that system of char latanism which aims at the cure of various distempers by the same means, whether in a medical or political point of view. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes Registered in the week ending April 16, 1842." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:— Weekly Average 1838-9.40-1 CAUSES OF DEATH. Total, Four I Four Springs. I Years Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 121 183 190 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 150 147 149 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration I.:‘seases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other . . Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. 4 b 4 Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c lO 9 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 7 6 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c 0 1 1 Diseases of Uncertain Seat. lOO 99 104 o'.d Age, or Natural Decay 6l 63 69 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intem perance Causes not specified Deaths from all causes". 822 --- Average Weekly Deaths B7l 912 - Population Average - 11;ths term- Weekly in DISTRICTS. merated Deaths the 1841. 18384-40-1. Week. West—Kensington, St. George ..___A__, ~ ( Hanover-square), Westmin- ~ Four I Four ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye rs.l Springs. St. James North—St. Mary-le-bone, St Pancral, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 156 165 Central—Saint Giles and Saint George, Strand, Clerkenwell, Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon. don, West London, City of London 373,806 188 179 169 East—Shoreditch,Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, St. George in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392;498 206 190 179 South—St. Saviour, St. Olave, St. George( Southwark),Ber mondbey, Newington, Lam beth, Camberwell, Rother hithe, Greenwich .............438,060 221 210 207 - - - Total 1,870,727 912 871 822 It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the 32 districts heiein mentioned, which include the City of Lon don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality-- and the parishes of St. 31arylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington Fulham, Hammersmitl. Chapelry), St. L u k e (Ch e l sea ) , Pad dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas and St. Paul (Deptford); and Woolvrich. The population, as enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890, and in June 1841, was 1,870,727. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, 1840, and 1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by 208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52. TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING I April 9. Apt it 18. 57 0 49° 34 37 43 4/2? 21, 1842. Highest Lowest Daily Mean . . 1 General Register Office, April THE DERBY " STRIKE. " —OnIy 10 of the 150, bobbin net hands, lateEin the employ of Messrs.Boden and Morley, now remain at work, the rest having struck. We understand that about 3001. has been transmitted by the hands in Nottingham to their brethren in Derby, and that the contributions increase in amount weekly.—Nottingham Review. The General Steam Navigation Company's mail. packet, John Bull, Captain J. P. Corbin, arrived this morning with the Hamburgh mail. The framework-knitters of Hucknall Torkard, being desirous of suppressing the truck system, have collected subscriptions from the inhabitants generally, and have met with good support, especially from the middle class. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, •APRIL 22, 1842 ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) IPSWICH. The Committee are now engaged in considering the 'final question as regards the safety of Mr. Wason's seat. The peti tioners allege that Mr. Smith, the landlord of the Suffolk Hotel, having agreed to give a Mr. John Talbot 25L for his vote, told Mr. Wasen of the fact, on which Mr. Wason, who was then in his carriage, the other two being also presented, got out and shook hands with Mr. Talbot, and thanked him earnestly for his support. This, if proved would, as the Counsel for the petitioners justly stated, settle the whole ques tion, by at once unseating Mr. Wason, on the grounds of being a direct party. Mr. HILL was endeavouring to upset this allegation, when our reporter left. BLACKBURNE. The Committee have struck off a few votes on each side, so that the hostile parties yet cor.tinue in the same relative situa tion. The Court was a good deal occupied with arguments on the law of occupation. COAL MARKET Ships arrived since P.-(THIS DAY.) last market .day, R. s. d. Aaair',. Buddle's West Hartley l9 t W E. BraddylPsHetton ... 22 9 Can's Hartley l9 0 Walls End Stewart's ..... .... 22 6 Holywell Main.. sew Tantield Moor Pontop W indoor l5 0 Tennant's Hartlepool 2O 6 Townley.... West Wylam l5 6 Walls Endßrown's Deanery 20 3 Wylam Walls End Hadley '4o 0 Anthracite 23 0 Walls End Hilda ... 19 6 GO URS.E . Ofil EXCH4 Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .........2 U l2 1 Antwerp Hamburgh , M. B. 14 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Marseilles Bourdeaux 26 0 Frankfort on Maine... 1524 INGE.—(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn . ....... Genoa '2s 95 Milan Venice .... ... 47 Naples 4O Palermo, per oz 120 Lisbon Oporto s2i Rio Janeiro Bahia Buenos Ayres New York,2ldays sight 46i Philadelphia 46 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars£3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin —.3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 9i Silver in Bars 0 4 1l Petersburgh, 3Us ... 36i Berlin-- ............ 7 Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 9 N Trieste, ditto 9 57 Madrid Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona Seville THE LON DON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, APRIL 13, 1842. The Queen has been pleased to appoint George Phillip. Lee, Esq., to be Lieutenant of her Majesty's Guard of Yeomen of the Guard, in the room of Sir Edwin Pearson, resigned. WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 16. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to permit the 32d Regiment of Foot to bear upon its colours and appointments, in addition to the distinctions heretofore granted, the word " Corunna," in commemoration of the gallantry displayed by the regiment in the action fought at that place between the British and French armies on the 16th January, 1809. WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 22. 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant W. Scott to be Captain, by purchase, vice Johnston, who retires ; Cornet J. Somerville to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Scott; C. J. Bourchier, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Somerville, April 22. 7th Regiment of Light Dragoons--Veterinary Surgeon J. Robertson, from the 9th Light Dragoons, to be Veterinary Surgeon, vice Johnston, who exchanges, April 22. 9th Regiment of Light Dragoons--Lieutenant-Colonel J. Scott, from the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase ; Captain J. H. Grant to be Major, without purchase, April 22. To be Captains, without purchase—Captain H. J. Close, from half-pay 22d Light Dragoons ;R. A. Reynolds, Esq., late Captain 11th Light Dragoons ; Captain T. W. M‘Mahon, from the 6th Dragoons ; Lieutenant R. Cooke, vice Grant, April 22. To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Lieut. the Hon. C. Powys, from the 3d Light Dragoons; Lieut. W. Cathrey, from half-pay 13th Light Dragoons ; Lieut. W. Drysdale, from the 4th Light Dragoons ; Lieut. O. H. St. George Anson, from the 9d Foot ; Lieut. W. W. W. Humbley, from the 4th Light Dragoons ; Lieut. J. R. J. Coles, from the 4:h Light Dragoons • Lieut. W. A. Hyd er , f rom t h e 4th Light Dragoons ; Lieut. d. J. Colville, from the 40th Foot ; Lieut. W. R. N. Campbell, from the 47th Foot, April 22. To be Cornets, without purchase.—Cornet Sir J. Radcliffe, Bart. from half-pay 23d Light Dragoons ; Cornet F. Lord Rendlesham, from half-pay 21st Light Dragoons; Cornet D. R. Ross, from half-pay 23d Light Dragoons ; Cornet E. R. Staples, from half-pay Staff Corps of Cavalry, April 22. To be Cornets, by purchase.—C. F. Studdert, Gent. vice Sir J. Radcliffe, who retires, April 22; P. Antrobus, Gent. vice Lord Rendlesharn, who retires, April 23; A. Hawtrey, Gent. vice Ross, who retires, April 24; W. C. Kortright, Gent. vice Staples, who retires, April 25. To be Assistant- Surgeon.—Assistant- Surgeon W. G. L. Staunton, from the Staff, April 22. To be Veterinary Surgeon—Veterinary Surgeon G. John ston, from the 7th Light Dragoons, vice Robertson, who ex changes, April 22. 10th Regiment of Tight Dragoons... Paymaster E. B. Frith, from the 47th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Wells, deceased, April 22. 13th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut H. Hamilton to be Captain, by purchase, vice Elli s , p romo t e d ; C orne t L. J. H. Allgoo d to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hamilton ; H. G. Holden, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase vice Allgood, April 22. 15th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. R. Knox to be Captain, without purchase, vice Vernon, deceased; Cornet T. R. Crawley to be Lieutenant, vice Knox, Marsh 9; Cornet T. O. Bache, from half-pay 23d Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, vice Crawley ; J. L. S. Lumsdaine, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Bache, who retires, April 22. 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons—T. Lyon, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Benson, promoted, April 22. 10th Regiment of Foot—Ensign J. V. H. Montage, from the 38th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fenwick, promoted, April 22. 15th Foot—Ensign E. Pardoe to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice West, promoted; G. A. Hatchett, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice Pardoe, April 22. 23d Foot—Second Lieutenant T. P. Rickford to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Brooke, who retires ; P. L. Phillips, Gent., to be second Lieutenant by purchase, vice Rickford, April 22. 24th Foot—Ensign F. Spring to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Chetwod, who retires; P. W. C. Lipycatt, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Sp r in g , Ap r il 1842. 25th Foot—J. Clancy, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, viee Thomas, appointed to the 57th Foot, April 22. 29th Foot—C. E. Mac Donnell, Gent, to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Stanhope, p romo t e d, A pr il 21 ; J. J o h nston , G ent. to be Ensign, without purchase, April 22. 31st Foot—Ensign W. F. W. Atty to be Lieutenant, with out purchase, vice Robertson, who retires ; Poole Gabbett, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Atty, April 22. 38th Foot—T. Bellew, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Montagu, promoted in the 10th Foot, April 22. 39th Foot—Ensign T. D. Bray, from the 57th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Smith, who retires, April 22. 45th Foot—T. Best. Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, April 22. 57th Foot—Ensign H. Thomas, from the 25th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Bray, appointed to the 39th Foot, April 22. 64th Foot—Surgeor. W. Smith, from the Saint Helena Regiment, to be Seargeon, vice Fogarty, who exchanges, April 22. 65th Foot—Asi.stant-Surgeon J. G. P. Moore, from the 94th Foot, to be Assistant-surgeon, vice Nicholl, deceased, April 22. .73d Foot--The Hon. F. C. G. Fitzclarence to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Simmons, promoted in the 29th Foot, April 22. 84th Foot —Ensign P. A. Iremoeger, from the Bth Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Palmer, whose appoint ment has been cancelled, April 8. 94th Foot —Assistant-Surgeon E. Menzies, from the 20th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Moore, appointed to the 65th Foot, April 22. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Assistant-Surgeon G. W. Powell, M.D. fro m the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Burnley, promoted to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, April 22. St. Helena Regiment—Surgeon M. Fogarty, from the 64th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Smith, who exchanges, April 22. UNATTACHED.-:-Brevet Major R. Ellis, from the 13th Light Dragoons, to be Major, by purchase, April 22. BAEVET. —Capt. H. J. Close, of the 9th Light Dragoons, to be Major in the Army, July 22. STAFF.—Lieutenant W. Ready (Staff-Lieutenant at Fort Pitt) to be Adjutant to the Invalid Depot at Chatham, April 22. EMO RA Noy st..—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel E. E. Kenny, has been permitted to retire from the Service, with the sale of his Majority, he being about to settle at Port Philip, April 22. The commission of the under-mentioned Officer has been cancelled from the date, inclusive, set against his name, he having accepted a commuted allowance for his half-pay : Paymaster W. Moir, half-pay 2d Ceylon Regiment, April 22. 1 The Christian n ames o f M ajor G a ll oway, of the 10th Foot,. are Thomas Leech " L ennox ," not " Lenon," as previously , stated. 1 The Christian names of Ensigu Hutchinson, of the 84th Foot, are " Harvey Francis," not " Henry," as previously stated. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, APRIL 20. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Firt Lieut. .1. W. Fitzmayer to be Second Captain, vice Skinner, retired on full pay ; Se cond Lieut. J. 'Willett to be First Lieutenant, vice Fitsmayer, April 12; Brevet Lierlt.-Col. F. R. Chesney to be Lieute nant. Colonel, vice Gray, retired on full pay; Second Capt. D. Thorndike to be Captain, vice Chesney ; First Lieut. G. R. H. Kennedy to be Second Captain, vice Thorndike ; Second Lieut. J., IC. W. Fertescue to be First Lieutenant, vice Kennedy; • Br evet Major W. Bell to be Lieutenant- Colonel, vice Fogo, retired on full-pay ; Second Captain F. Holcombe to be Captain, vice Bell; First Lieut. G. Sandham to be Second Captain, vice Holcombe • Second Lieut. W. H. Cox to be First Lieutenant, vice Sandham ; Brevet Major G. B. Fraser to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Romer, retired on full-pay ; Second Captain H. Stow to be Captain, vice Fraser ; First ]Lieutenant Charles Vansittart Cock burn to be Second Cr,ptain, vice Stow; Second Lieut. R. O'Connell to br ; First Lieutenant, vice Cock burn ; Second Capt. NT/. Fraser to be Captain, vice Law, re tired on full-pai; Firt ,t Lieut. F. Wodehouse to be Second Captain, vice Kraser ; Second Lieut. W. King to be First Lieutenant, vice, W..odehouse ; Second Capt. C. (jostling to he Captain, vice PAS coe, retired on full-pay ; First Lieut. J. H. Franklyn to be Second Captain,-vice Gostling ; Second Lieuts W. F.. S. T ill to be First Lieutenant, vice Francklyn ; Second Car,tain C. H. Mee to be Captain, vice Bridges, re t ired on tv:,l pay ' • First Lieut. H. T. Fyers to be Second Cap tain, vin e Al ee ; Second Lieut. M. Clifford to be First Lieu tell7.o,, vice Fyers ; Second Captain I'. Desbrisay to be Cap tl'.ri, vice Somerville, retired on full pay; rirst Lieut. U. .3anabier to be Socond Captain, vice Desbrisay ; Second Lieut. it. W. Brettingliam to be First Lieutenant, vice Gambier, Xiaril 13. Corps of RoyaA/Di‘iNialrlißneAs—LTTY.,beAPsaeictonl. d 9 Lieutenants—T. 7 . 4l agin, Gent. ; Q. Sl aug h ter , G ent. ; J . S. D owman , Gent. Commissio ns b y The Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Lancaster. W. S. St an di s h , Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; J. N. Ffarington, Esq., to be ditto ; P. Dawson, Esq., to be ditto ; 'l'. Y. P. Michaelson, Esq., to be ditto, April 13. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of the County of York, and of the City and County of the City of York. W. Bucke, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; J. W. Childers, Esq., to be ditto, A .pril 13. Ist West York / kfilitia—Lieut. R. M. Darnell, from the 2d West York Militia, to be Captain, vice Sinclair, resigned, April 13. _ , Hussar Regiment. of Yorkshire (West Riding) Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet the How.. B. R. Lawley to be Captain, vice the Hon. W. S. Luce lles,, resigned, April 13. Southern Regititent of Yorkshire (West Riding) Yeomanry Cavalry—W. de Cardonnel Elmsall, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Preston, promoted, April 13. WHITEHALL, APRIL 12. The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Butt, of Ryde, in the isle of Wight, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. JOHN MORE, merchant, Moorgate-street, City. BANKRUPTS. GEORGE GUILFORD, shii)o;ner, North Shields. JOHN RACKHAM, jun., coach builder, Long-acre, Mid dlesex. I !JOHN GIBSON, corn-merchant, Kingston-upon-Hull. RICHARD BURGESS SCALE, farmer, Halsted, Essex. THOMAS DOWNES TAYLOR, Oilman, Lower Holborn, HENRY GRATTON, hatter, Liverpool. ALFRED BAYLEY, stock-broker, Lothbury. STEPHEN SLY, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street. JOSEPH MAYOR, chemist, Northampton. JAMES SHAW, carpenter, Fetter-lane. JOHN SCOTT, railway carriage lamp manufacturer, Moorgate-street. JOSEPH GILL, iron -master, Brierley -hill, Staffordshire. ISAAC MARSDEN, jun. maltster, Bradford, Yorkshire. HENRY LACEY, bookseller, Liverpool. JOHN RICHARDS, metal-broker, Geosge- yard, Lom bard-street, London. =STEPHEN HOBDAY,tallow-chandler, Woolwich: &PETER PYNE, Crooked-lane Chambers, City,.provision merchant. JAMES LOCKWOOD, woollen-draper, Wakefield. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brow 7 norKlJCO;ado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending April 19, 1842, is 38s. tid. per Cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of April 22.) SUGAR.—The scanty supply of West India Muscovadoes Sugar has operated materially against business this week. Ts-day several enquiries prevailed for both grocery and re fining purposes, and the prices offered were fully equal to those of yesterday; but the scanty supply prevented the execution of several orders; the purchases for the week are 800 hhds and trcs, and the prices fully 6d higher than those of last Friday. REFINED.—For Refined Sugar full rates have been paid. Bastards, fine at 56s to 60s, good 53s to 555, low to mid 44s to 52s per cwt. Pieces, common 61s to 645, mid 65s to 675, good to fine 68s to 75s per cwt. Treacle, common at 275, patent ord 28s to 28s 6d, good 29s to 30, best old make 295, golden syrup 30s 6d to 335. Bonded Crushed Sugar of first quality, at 28s 6d per cwt. Dutch Cruched Sugar at 26s on board in Holland, but there are no buyers. MAURITIUS.—The trade have been free buyers of both brown and yellow descriptions, and prices have advanced 6d for good and fine yellow sorts, and is per cwt for all other kinds. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the demand was tgood for Bengal Sugar, at auction, 4580 bags. 141 puns were offered and all disposed of at very full rates; low white went at 633 6d, middling 68s 6d, good dry bright yellow 67s to 67s 6d, good middling 65s to 65s 6d, middling 61s to 61s 6d, sound brown 43s to 54s 6d, damp '47s to 48s, low [damp yellow 50s to 535, fair 56s 6d to 575, damp white 53s to 64s 6d per cwt.': FOREIGN.—Holders of yellow Havannah have submitted to rather lower rates. Prices have been sustained for white Brazil. COCOA.—British Plantation, prices have declined Is per cwt ; red Trinidad at 373 6d to 38s 6d, mid to good 40s to 445 6d, and low St. Lucia 32s 6d per cwt. Guavaquil 34s to 355 per cwt. TEA.—To-day there was little business transacted in the Tea market, it being expected that large public sales will be shortly declared caused the trade to buy with caution ; but holders were firm, and obtained full rates ; Company's Congou is lOid cash, and ord good common Free Trade is 9id to Is 10d per lb. Rum, BRANDY, AND HoLtANns.—For East India Rum, both for home consumption and export, very full rates have been paid ; Calcutta, at the high duty at is. 6d, and at the low duty Is 8d to is 9id per gallon. Jamaica, at 4s 6d to 4s ad for 30 per cent. over proof of fair quality. Leeward Island Rum proof at 2s 4d, 3t050. P. 2s 5d to 2s 6d por gallon. Cog nac first brands of the vintage of 1836, hhds at 5s 7d, puns Si 5d ; 1887, hhds 5s 3d, puns 5s Id ; 1838, hhds 5s ld, puns 4s lld ; do 1839, hhds 4s 6d, puns 4s 4d ; do 1840, hhds 3s I Id, puns 3s 8d per gallon ; prices for new sorts rule 4d to 6d per gallon below what it costs to import. Geneva common 2s per gallon. British Corn Spirits at 95 8d pe. gallon, cash. COFFEE.—There has been less demand for British Planta tion Coffee this week, and the market has presented a quiet aspect, which may be principally ascribed to the uncertainty that exists with respect to the Coffee duties ; although the supply is small, prices have suffered a decline of Is to 2s per cwt: This afternoon Coffee met with more attention from the home trade, but for exportation the demand is dull ; the public sales consisted of 970 bags Dutch Company's Java via Cape, 2635 bags 72 brls St. Domingo, via Cape, 394 bags Coffee, from Singapore, 299 bales 21 cases 202 jambiers Mocha ; Jata, however all sold at full rates, viz.—good fair greenisb at 50s to 51, good ord yellowish 51b to 51s 6d; St. Domingo of sound quality was all taken in at lower rates, good ord pale at 36s to 375, fine ord colory 40s to 44s 6d; Sumatra went at 30s to 3ls for ordinary and good ord ; Mysore good erd 40s, fine bold green 52s 6d to 54s 6d ; Mocha went at full rates, good middling yellowish at 105 s, good middling greenish 102 s to 103 s, very foul ungarbled 48s to 52s per cwt. SPICES.—This afternoon the public sales consisted of 519 bags 200 pockets East India Ginger ; 230 bags black and 77 bags white Pepper; Ginger went at 16s 6d to 17s for good middling ; Bengal and ord Malabar at lss ; Pepper realised 2d for fair Sumatra, and white bi to 6d for ord to mid. RlCE.—This afternoon the large quantity of 9,500 bags Ben gal Rice were ofiered at auction 12 tons Paddy were also put up; the former all sold, and at an advance of 3d per cwt.— good mid white fetched lOs to 105 6d, mid 9s 6d to 10s, and yellow 7s 6d to 8s per cwt. ; the latter fetched 201. per ton. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. ROYAL ASSENTS. The Royal Assent was this day given by Commission to the following Bills :—The Exchequer Bill, Frauds Bill ; the Consolidated Fund Bill ; the Mutiny Bill ; the Marine Mutiny Bill ; the Indemnity Bill ; the Midland Counties Railway Bill ; the South Eastern Railway Bill ; the Brandling Junction Railway Bill ; the Woodside Ferry Road Bill ; the Bradford Water- Works Bill ; the Staleybridge Gas Bill ; the Wind sor Bridge Bill ; the Duke of Bedford's Estate Bill ; the Bristol Boundary Bill; the Manchester Royal Infir mary Bill; the Stirling and Dumbarton Road - Bill; the Cheyne Inclosure Bill; the Stapleton Inclosure Bill; the Cottenham Inclosure Bill; Bunsen's Naturalization Bill; Leiber's Naturalization Bill. The Lords Commissioners were—The Lord Chan cellor, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, and the Earl of Shaftesbury. Their Lo;dships then adjourned during pleasure, The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'Clock. Several petitions were presented against the Severn Navigation Bill. Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented petitions in favour of the new tariff. Lord HATHERTON presented a petition from the Worcester Chamber of Commerce in favour of the Se vern Navigation Bill. SPIRIT DUTY (IRELAND) BILL. The Duke pf WELLINGTON moved the third read ing of the Spirit Duty (Ireland) Bill. `..The Bishop of DAIRY objected to the Bill, because he thought the placing of a Duty on Spirits, would have the .effect of reviving the system of illicit Distillation. LG rd MONTEAGLE said he did not believe that there was any article which could be more legitimately taxed. than spirits, and a wise government should go as far as they could without encouraging smuggling. Ile thought that this measure would be attended with a loss to the revenue. It was a most extraordinary fact that, in the course of 20 years, there had been six different calc'ilatons of duty, and in every one of them it nas stated that, where the amount of duty had been aug mented, the quantity of spirits which had paid duty had been reduced ; and when the duty had been diminished, the quantity increased. The total amount of duty which would have to be paid on spirits in Ireland amounted to no less than 150 per. cent. on the value of the article, and that at a time when the Govern ment was claiming the praise of the public by intro ducing a new tariff with a diminution of duties: In Derry and the North of Ireland steps were already in progress for the purpose of profiting by this very law. In Mayo, it was stated that this proposed ad dition of Is. had given quite an impulse to illicit distilla tion. He (Lord ' M.) did not like to turn prophet, but judging from past experience, he would say that it was quite certain that the expectations of Government would be disappointed with respect to the produce of this tax amounting to 250,0001. There were two points in the Bill which he considered most unjust in themselves. The Commissioners of Inquiry in the year 1823, and again in the year 1834, recommended the en couragement of the distillatien in Ireland of pure malt liquor ; and the Government allowed a drawback (,f Bd. in the gallon in the duty on such spirits. That diminution of duty it was now proposed to ,with draw ; and he believed the result of the change would be mast injurious to. the Irish distiller. Again, he com plained that while the duty at present attached from and :aftex the date of the passing of the Resolutions of the House of Commons, it was now proposed for. the first time that the duty should attach on and after the date of - the ResOlutions. The measure might thus be said to :have, contrary to all former precedent, a retrospective effect. But he objected more especially to the measure on the ground of its demoralising effects, and from a conviction that the expectations of an increase of revenue would not be fulfilled. He should certainly, therefore, say " not content " to the resolution. The Earl of RIPON said that he should regret as much as any one to see an increase or a revival of illicit -distillation in Ireland ; but he bad reason to be lieve that his Noble Friend's apprehension upon that • subject, would not be realised. The officers at the head of the revenue in Ireland had com municated to the Government their belief that after the proposed alteration they should be enabled effec tually to enforce the law. His Noble Friend complained that the Scotch distiller exporting spirits to the United States received a drawback of Bd. a gallon, while the Irish distiller would receive more ; this was certainly a hardship, and the Government would take measures to put the distillers of both countries on a level. He saw no other objection, and therefore he 'aped their Lord ships would pass the Bill. The Earl of WICKLOW was astonished that the Government having had, in the persons of the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the :Board of Control. Such extensive official experience of .Ireland, should now be disposed to risk the morality and :happiness of th e people of that country, for the sake of ;so paltry an advantage to the revenue. (LEFT SPEARING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. The Hon. W. S. LASCELLES took the oaths and his seat for the borough of Wakefield, in the room of Mr. Heldsworth unseated. --- The Deputy Usher of the Black Rod appeared at - the table, and summoned the House to the House of 'Lords, to heax the Royal Assent given by Commission - to several Bills. The SPEAKER, acompanied by a great number of Members, then proceeded to the House of Lords, and on his return he announced the Bills that had received the Royal assent (for which see our Lords Rejtort). PIEL PIER BILL. Mr. WILSON PATTEN proposed to withdraw the Piel Pier and Harbour Bill, and stated his intention to move for leave to bring in another Bill. Lord G. SOMERSET said if his Hon. Friend perse vered in withdrawing the present Bill, and moved for leave to bring in another, he trusted the House would not give him permission to do so. Mr. W. PATTEN said, under the circumstances, he would withdraw the Bill, leaving the parties to pursue the usual course of presenting a petition for an other Bill. Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition from the tan ners of Carlisle, complaining of the proposed alteration in the duty on foreign manufactured leather. Sir R. BATESON presented a petition praying for a system of education in Ireland. LIVERPOOL PAVING AND SEWERAGE BILL. The Liverpool Paving and Sewerage Bill was read a third time and passed. IFCOME TAX AND TARIFF. Sir JOHN YARDE BULLER presented a petition from Devonport against any further support being given by the Government to Maynooth College. Also a peti tion from Sidmouth to the same effect. Also a petition from Devonport praying for an alteration in the Poor law. Also a petition from the shipowners of Devonshire against the proposed duty on coals ; and a petition from the attorneys of a place in Devonshire, praying to he exempt from the operation of the Income-tax. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from the Pro testant Dissenters of Worcester against the Corn-laws. Sir BENJAMIN HALL presented a petition from Marylehone against the Income-tax. An Hosf. MEMBER on the Ministerial Benches pre sented three petitions from Lincoln against the proposed alteration in the Corn-laws. The petitioners further prayed that all tithes and taxes should be regulated ac cording to the price of agricultural produce, taking the present money p ayment as the maximum. Sir JOHN TYRRELL presented a petition from Essex, praying the House to reject the tariff unless it was greatly modified. An Hosr. MEMBER presented a petition, from Beverley against the Income-tax. An Hosr. MEMBER presented a petition from the So licitors of York, against the Income-tax. Mr. GROGAN presented two petitions from the tanners and paper-stainers of Dublin against the tariff. Mr. T. BUNCOMBE presented a petition for free trade, and for a reform of Parliament. Colonel SIBTHORP presented a petition from the solicitors of Lincoln against the certificate duty. Lord MARSHAM presented a petition from a place in Kent, against the tariff. Sir V. BLAKE presented a petition from the shoe makers of Galway, against the tariff. Sir 11. DOUGLAS presented petitions from the inha bitants of St. John's, New Brunswick, and from the Chamber of Commerce of St. Andrew's, in the same province, against any alteration of the timber duties. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. WALLACE gave notice that on the reading of the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into Committee on the Income-tax Bill, he should move a resolution to the effect that it is more ex pedient to have recourse to the issue of Exchequer bills, than to an Income-tax. The Honourable Member also gave notice that he should move for cer tain returns relating to the Courts of Session. The next matter concerning which he had to give a notice was a matter in which the House itself took an interest. There had been returns laid on the table two days ago, which he lie intended to move should be printed, but which returns, the printing Committee had refused to print. They ordered what he (Mr. Wallace) considered to be a component part of that return to be printed, and he believed it would be wasting the money of the House to print one without the other. Dr. BOWRING gave notice that when the House went into Committee on the tariff, he would move that the duty on foreign spirits be reduced to 15s. per gallon; the duty on wine to 2s. Gd. per gallon ; and that on fo reign manufactures to an advalorem duty of 20 per cent. Mr. EWART gave notice that in Committee on the Income-tax he would move that the persons included in schedule D, namely, those who derived their incomes from trades and professions, should have so much of their incomes exempt from the tax as should be applied to the purpose of ensuring their lives. INCOME TAX. Sir J. GRAHAM presented 'a petition, signed by 3,100 of the working classes of Yarmouth, principally engaged in the ,cotton-manufacture, in favour of the income and property tax ; also another petition, signed by a considerable number of persons with incomes above 1001. a year, to the same effect. On the Order of the Day for the second reading of the Income-tax Bill being read, Mr. CHARLES BULLER said he rose for the pur pose of moving that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. He believed he owed the House an apology for again interrupting them.—(Hear, hear.) He should not have done so were it not that the Bill bad arrived at a stage at which it was not necessary to trench on the topics that had previously engaged the attention of the Mouse. They had formerly discussed the necessity of any taxation at all ; they had discussed the general principles of the tax, end they had now to dis c us s it s p r i nc ipl es as explained in the details of the Bill now before the House. They had got the papers, and he must confess, that whatevea had been his former objections to the Income-tax—what ever forebodings he might have had as to its operation, all these objections, and all these forebodings, were greatly enhanced by a perusal of the Bill before them. It had been said that the tax was inquisitorial, that it was unjust, that it was arbitrary ; and every detail of the Bill only placed, in a stronger light, how rightly and justly those terms had been applied to it.—(Hear, hear.) He did not intend, on the present occasion, having only received the Bill of 189 clauses on the pre- vious day, to enter into such a thorough examination as would give anything like a just appreciation of it. Ile was merely going to explain to the House the grounds of his most prominent objections to it. When he read this Bill, and saw the provisions by which the tax was to be carried into effect, he did not wonder at the hostility which it excited in former times. He did not wonder at the eagerness with which its repeal was demanded, and the joy with which it was hailed; lie only wondered that in a free country a tax which so trenched on the comforts and rights of British subjects could ever have been tole rated, and he thought that nothing but the peril of the late war and nothing but the strong feeling which it excited, could have induced Englishmen to tolerate a law so contrary to all their habits and to all the principles of the Constitution.—(Hear, hear.) He did not complain of the Bill as introdacing any unne cessary vexation ; it was bfit .the necessary vexation which must be inflicted upon the subject in order to carry out a tax upon the country; but he did say that the provisions of this Bill gave an amount of arbritrary power which, as; lie believed, had never been given by any other legislature since the revolution. Why, the mere inquisition which was requisite for this tax was bad in itself.—(Hear, hear.) It was a very bad or very op pressive thing, that the commercial trading and manu facturing people of England should be obliged to come before an officer of the Government and detail to him the exact state of their trade and the position of their affairs. Ile (Mr. C.Buller) could not agree with the Hon. Member for Bath, that that was an objection which would only be felt by an over-timid, or, rather, a dishonest mind. He would recommend the Hon. Gentleman to pay some re spect to the feelings which had been evinced by the people of England through a long period of their history, that people who had always shown themselves ready to bear a fair share of the public burdens. The mere fact that the people of England had always felt this objection ought of itself to be sufficient ; they ought to respect a feeling so general, they ought to believe that the dislike which had ab,vas been felt to an Income-tax was not totally without foundation. The measures for enforcing the inquisition served to make it doubly oppressive. The means by which the In come-tax was to be enforced were totally alien from the feelings of the English people. He would not go into the whole of the plan—it was too complicated to admit of his doing so ; but he would here mention that there was such a cloud of Commissioners as would aston ish any weak mind.—(Great laughter.) There were first the Tax and Stamp Commissioners at the head of this hierarchy ; then the Commis sioners for general purposes ; then the Commissioners for special purposes ; then there were additional Commissioners, and these not being sufficient for the inquisition, there were Assistant-Commissioners. One of the benefits from this Commission would be that what the Chief Commisioner did not eat, the assistant Commissioners would lap up.—(Laughter.) He did not mean to attempt to throw the Commission into ridicule ; they seemed to him to have all the respectability of a • very fearful instrument of very grinding tyranny. What was the power invested in these Commissioners ? They not merely gave them a power of investigation—they were not merely tax-gatherers, but they gave them a judicial power. He found in this Bill no less than seven clauses giving a power to the Commissioners of levying large fines. They had the power of levying fines to the amount of 20/. or 251. Then added to this power was a special powergiven:them, that in case of a false return they should inflict a further penalty of treble the amount of the tax to be collected. Let them con sider what a power this was. He would give them an instance of it. There was clause 55. This clause empowered the Commissioner to go round and call on the people to deliver in a correct statement of their income ; and all incomes above 1501. were to be taxed, and to be recovered in any of her Majesty's Courts. Any person neglecting to make such a return, would be liable to forfeit a sum not exceeding 201., and treble the amount of the duty to be charged by virtue of this Act. Now, sup pose a gentleman bad 1,0001., if he neglected to make a direct return, he was liable to treble 301. besides the fine. Now he asked whether this tax could be compared to any other? Why, :they gave a power to the Commissioners under circumstances dis tinguished from every other tax, namely, to conduct the proceedings in secret. In all other matters if a person was charged with fraud, he had to submit to the verdict of a Jury in open Court, but under the present Bill everything was conducted in secret. This was a monstrous violation of the liberty of the subject. Every tax to be collected by such means must be a bad tax. He did, not mean to object to the details of the bill ; he did not, when the bill went intocommittee, intend to object to the details of the bill, for if they were to have an Income-tax, they must have a system of inquisition. He called on the House, as he had done before, to reject this tax if it was to be enforced by such a system ; enforced by by paid Commissioners of the Crown, whose proceed ings were to be conducted in secret. He called on them to reject this tax, because nothing but an imperious necessity could justify a recourse to such a system ; violating, as it did, all. the principles of freedom, and all the principles of constitu tional liberty. When they voted for the second read ing of such a tax, 'they were voting for its inquisito rial process. He said that before they passed the second reading of such a Bill, they should consider the necessity existing for such a tax. (Here the Hon. Gentleman turned his back to the Reporters' Gallery and became very indistinct.) He was. not going into the various topics with respect to this question, which had been hitherto discussed. He had beard a great deal about the penny pc.stage—a great deal about Affghanistan—a great deal about China, and divers other matters from the Government. Now, none of these subjects did he propose to enter into. His simple argument would be against the necessity of the tax. It was an unfair tax in itself, it was unfair to the nation. Individuals were to be charged three per cent. upon there incomes to raise only 4,000,0001. It was not of a large amount but for a a comparatively small amount of revenue. He confessed that he was surprised to find that there were supporters of this tax on that (the Opposition) side of the House ; but he did not think the Right Bon. Baronet could be very well satisfied with his supp or t ers on hi s own s id e of the House. Every Gentleman on that side she House bbjected to some of the details of the Bill. Many of those Gentlemen wished a modification of the Bill, but hey certainly did not support it with the same view as those on his (Mr. B. Buller's) side of the House, viz. a desire to see the tariff brought into operation. The Right Hon. Baronet had been the only expounder of the tariff they had yet heard, and a most inconsistent expounder the Right Hon. Baronet. When it suited his purpose to shape his speech to gratify Gentlemen on his (M:. C. Buller's) side of the House, then cheap ness was cried up, but when he wished to allay the fears of the other side of the House, then he said that there would be no cheap things at all. The Right Hon. Baronet had said, on one occasion, that a man worth 3001. a-year, who had to pay 9/. a year to the Income-tax, would save 101. or 121. a year by the operation of the tariff. Now what could he save it in except in the price of meat or provisions. Then the Right Hon. Bart. and the Noble Lord the Member for Cornwall, turn round to their agricultural supporters and say, " Oh, there will not be any cheap provisions ; you need entertain no apprehensions, the prices of pro visions will not be lowered ; you have nothing to fear, and the consumer has nothing to hope." When the Corn. Bill 's as under consideration the Right Hon. Ba ronet said he was constantly placed between the fire of two parties. Those on his (Mr. C, Buller's) side of that House told him (Sir R. Peel) that his measure would not admit an atom of foreign corn ; and if he re plied to it, up got an agricultural Member, and said— " Oh, you are going to ruin us by deluging us with fo reign corn." In the present discussions the Right Hon. Baronet leant over the table and told he Opposition, "Oh, yoti will have provisions cheaper," and the next moment he turned round and addressing his (Sir R. Peel's) own supporters said—" there will be no reduction in the price whatever."—(Cheers and laughter.) The Right Hen. Baronet had noy stated the fact so broadly as he (Mr. C. Buller) had put it—(Ministerial cheers)—but he would apeal to any Gentleman who had heard the de bates, if that wese not the purport and intention of the argument which the Right Hon. Baronet had urged, according to whether it was a free trade Govern ment on that (the Opposition) side of the House, or an agricultural Government on the other side that was to be conciliated.—(Cheers and laughter.) Then there was some Honourable Gentlemen on his (the Oppo sition), side ofthe House, who voted for the present Bill, not because they liked an Income-tax, but because they had a great fancy for direct taxation. They liked a property. tax so much that they would even take it with an Income-tax if they could not get it without. An Honourable Gentleman on the other side cheered Honourable Members when they said this. He would ask Honourable Members on the other side, • if they had considered • what would really be the effect of a Property -tax. Every time a Gentleman said, " I do not like an Income-tax, as an Income-tax, but I like a Property-tax," they cheered. Had they really considered the consequence of this ? Did they suppose that an Income-tax would be popular? Did they suppose that when the people would have, to submit to the proposed inquiries, and make those returns of their revenue, and make the consequent payments, that the Income-tax would be popular that their constituents would not move against it. Some thought that the tax on incomes would be repealed, and that on property retained. Those who thought so only deceived themselves very much. His Hon. and Learned Friend, the Member for Bath, (Mr. Roebuck) had a notice of motion on the paper to the effect that in Committee he would propose that, instead of sevenpence in the pound, threepence-halfpenny only be levied on persons deriving . incomes from trades and professions. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman might depend on it he would not have many at the other side to join him in taking off a part of the Income-tax. They would have an Income-tax as well as a Property tax, or none at all. Let it not be supposed that non. Gentlemen opposite would consent to a tax on property without a tax on incomes. He (Mr. B.) con curred iu the. proposal of his Hon and Learned Friend from mere motives of humanity. If he could save any human-being from the Income-tax by means, no matter whether just or • unjust, he would endeavour to do so. Not that he thought the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's prOpesition was foun ded on justice, for if they would exempt the professional mnn, why not also exempt the holder of a life estate ? The amendment of his lion. Friend the Member for Bath was glaringly unjust. When they exempted any kind of income from the tax they only left the remainder more unjust. Ile then came to the proposition of the Noble Lord the Member for London, and he fully agreed with him, that they cannot deal with the plan by amend ments, it must be unjust under any circumstances; they must reject it altogether or take it in all its injustice. Ile must confess that the more he dwelt on the subject the more strong were his objections to the tax alto gether, and the more strong was his conviction of the utter fallacy of the opinion in favour of the policy of a direct taxation—direct taxation on income. All taxation takes equally from the means of every man's enjoyment, an income was no measure of that enjoyment. A young professional man had one income, the man more ad vanced in life had a much larger one, the man with a large family saved one proportion, the man without a family saved another ; he would defy them to meet these differences with direct taxation. Different glasses lived in different styles, but with all these, they came with their rough and barbarous direct taxation, which he agreed was a direct taxation of a barbarous period, by that they swept all distinctions, and what came light upon one class, weighed with a-heavy pressure on another. He did not say as a consequence that they were obliged to carry out all the bad principles of base taxation. 'They need not raise all the revenue by taxation on articles of necessity, for he thought they were quite just in men tioning the amount of assessed taxes that had been repealed since the war no less than 4,000,000; they might have recourse to that system of taxation again, and raise the revenue by indirect taxation. He thought from the history of the world that they might get arguments against taxation. It had always been a badge of slavery, and the only instance he knew of a direct tax in time in peace during any considerable time, was the case of a tax which no one could defend, the Gabelle in France. The land-tax of this country was so odious that the classes who paid it had been ' gradually getting rid of it from the time of the Revolution, so that the -present moment it was not half the amount which it was in the time of George 11. The history of that tax showed the tendency. of freemen to get rid of direct taxation. Yet there was nothing in quisitorial in the land-tax. It was a tax of so much per acre, not entering into value—a tax upon the visible means of visible property. Now take the history of the United States of America. They were accustomed to . consider those States as affording a specimen of democratic government, and therefore of what the people would do if they had their own way in laying on taxation. Now the history of the United States was this, that the whole revenue of the Central Government had always been raised by indirect taxation, and in the history of all the sepa rate States of which the Union was composed, he knew of only one instance, that of Ohio, in which there had been a tax upon income and property, except during the late war.—(Hear, hear.) It appeared that this tax was to be discussed upon this democratic grounds. He owned he was not unwilling to discuss the question on such grounds, appealing to the welfare and interest of the working classes. But there might be language used in the House which appealed not to the welfare and interest but to the bad feeling of these classes, and he knew not by what other term he could characterize the language which had been held on the other side by gentlemen high in office who had attempted to support the tax by refe rence to the fact that the working classes would escape from it. He knew not how else to describe the hope expressed by the Right Honourable Baronet, that the meetings on this subject would ;be attended by persons who had less than 1501. a year. He contended that that was dangerous language, far more dangerous than any which was used last night. He held that it would be far more wise to concede the Charter at once, than to call in aid of this measure the freedom of the working classes from its operation, He was very glad to find that the language, inflammatory as it was, had produced no effect whatever. Bye the bye, he must admit that it had produced no effect. The Right Hon. Baronet opposite (Sir James Graham) had succeeded that evening in presenting a petition from 2,500 working people in. Carlisle, rejoicing in the In come-tax. Be did not complainsmuch of this, because there was at least a kind of oscillatory consistency in in the Right Hon. Baronets language:—(Hear, hear, from the Opposition.) In the inflammatory language which pie held now, he recognised t h e l anguage w lB3o,wherei n h e points out topeople tho se w h om he thenrepre sented,htihmet h execratione held in of the as fattening upon the spoils of the people by means of their aristocratic influence in legislation, and whom he denounced as the birds of prey that preyed upon the people.—(Cheers.) But ,he (Mr. C. B.) was happy to find that beyond the demagogues of the Treasury b enc h es the appeal had not been successful. that no meetings of electors had been disturbed by per sons intruding their opinions upon a tax which they were not to pay. The O h art i st press was not conc ili ate d , the Weekly Dispatch opposed the tax, so that that Right Hon. Gentleman had not secured that approbation o f that great writer, " Publicola."—(A laugh.) He ould read to the House a passage from the " National Association Gazette," and he must say that a fairer indi cation of all the intellect and good feeling which there was among the Chartists, could not be found than that which proceeded from the pan of Lovett. The following was the passage to which he referred " Sir Robert Peel loudly boasted that he would not tax the labourer, and the boast was still more loudly cheered, by the ignorant boobies who thronged the seats of the House of Commons." 'The Hon. Member continued to rend the extract, which stated that, in effect, the In c°/cr tax would eventually fall upon thr. industrious.co; He had thought it right to read that sage to the House, to vindicate the body, the working men f rom th e susp i c i on that i.e had yielded to the arguments w hi c h h a d bt f , held by Gentlemen opposit e , an d t h at they wished the imposition of an Income-t ax , b ecause it would I only on the rich. The w or ki ng c l as ses felt 11 ' 8 the tax would press heavily on theniselves, and they q i ; posed it as an encroachment on th e com f orts o f e very . nl 5 , in England. He apologised to the Hyuse for detatia7o them so long, but the opposition to the ral e assumed now a different form.—(Cheers.) They discussing . the details and principles of the Bill, and was anxious to take the first proper oPr o ; e tunity of expressing his oppoSition to Bill. lie was not sanguine enough 01; imagine that he should succeed en th e p resent occasi ) o but as one who had taken a str ong p art i n opPositioal.. the Bill, he felt anxi ous t o d e f en d, hi ms elf fr_s the misrepresentations, to which it appearol ; t those who opposed either the Bill or the Governe, were to be subjected.—(Loud che e r s .) If a Gen e man offered the slightest oppositi on t o th e iinteeli s progress of the measur e , h e was to ld that' , to conduct was factious, and that if he chose,,,, take an opportunity of discussing the ques, and there were many H o n. M em b ers aroun d hi m , rer t sentatives of large constitu enc i es , w h o h a d a Perfecelo. right to do so. It seem e d t o b e th e tact i cs 9 f the v v. vernment to set up Gentleman aft er G ent l ema n, te A rj " Oh! you are stopping the tariff, which is most imper tg e . tant to the hest interests of the. country should be piately considered."—(Loud cheers) They ha" o t right fully, freely, an d f a i r l y to di scus s, P io only the bad principle of this measure it still worse details—(Loud cheers)--and if hy so ' all they delayed the tariff, that was not their taull , b ' e the fault of the Government.—(Loutt cheers.) 1 ' ' Government chose to press forward th e I n u oin -tux Lag the tariff, the responsibility of the delay must rest el he the Government and not. with th em . H e k new th° was fighting against a majority—he knew tha t was an uphill fight, but he k new t h at the ( ?P i ; position to the income tax was grounded on re gi !` o and argument, and that when the tax was in opera when the Englishman should find all his ciecueists ll 4 exposed •to the inq u iri es o f t h e tax-gatherer, t1:491 would the odium attached to this inquisi t , ° L) impostlfall upon the Government. —(Great c heerwr i .. , and every year that it sh ou ld h e k ept up the strong:fa the more determined, and u lti ma t e l y t h e more sue ees' - would be the Opposition.—(Cheers.) • The question having been put, Mr. EWART said that with some parts of the ar w is of the Hon. and Learned Gentlem an w h o build. sat down he concurred ; from others he dlr.; tt He (Mr. E.) wished to dr aw a distinction heL"-lepe' property and income, b u t h e con f esse d t h at be o r one of those, whether they were called Badies ls 6 o Liberals, who were in f avour o f that g',ot of direct taxation so much deprecated by Honourable and Learned Ge n tl eman . I n Arneries' far as he understood ta xa ti on , th oug h i n di rect, was Ifi,„110- to fall more on the rich th an on th e poor. I n t h a t c ` ` ,a try there was an app rox i ma ti on to t h e ad vawo system of taxation which must apply . , t o : the, more than to the poor. It was conseque evi r j species of indirect Property-t ax . Th e H onoura ble 8,. Learned Gentleman had all u d e d t o t h e case o f Fra n c e He had told them of w h a t was d one i n FP'ibe of old, but he had not told them what the System of taxation was in modern France sinee_ i . revolution. Was not the land-tax in that cotta-,i r system of direct ta xa ti on . W as t h ere not a l so r e ec t sonal property-tax in existence in France. With re s n o to the Property-tax now proposed, he must e,.;i 0 0 that he did not regard in the same light, as mans that (the Opposition) side of the House ; more en it ally the Noble Lord (Lord J. R usse ll) w h o consideP-be, only as a war tax. The question appeared to hial s til thet what was the best tax to impose ? W' t i a e p et 4 a Property-tax was the best su i te d to the circuies' - fo r of the country or not. He (Mr. E.) abjured the di s tion between a war-tax and a peace-tax. Whatever, the the best tax to be a ppli e d to the circumstanees O' nos e. country, that was the tax which they ought to in o te, He agreed with what h a d b een s t ate d d ur i ng t his ‘ l ,. e " D ot that commerce had contests as formidable, ",p a el more formidable, than those of war. test were now engaged in a commercial CO to more formidable than a military contest. They. P ',T ‘ compete with all the n a ti ons o f t h e wor ld a pa - had now all the disadvantages of eoniPe, tl .be with foreign nations. Th e consequence emu''' . that some great effort must be made. LEFT SPEAKING. The Union Catholique relates that the COMII II 'f si Of t of Antiquaries having obtained permission to take a cast . ° l,s statue of the Virgin, which adorns the porch of the chin e s the Marthuret a t rtiorn, in the Puy-d e -D o me, and th e or grating which protected it being,. a few days ago, remote lo s the purpose, th e inhabitants, who had formed a false not io the statue had been sold for 10,000 f., mumbled in great l',„01 hers, armed with rude weapons of all kinds, and with F o l ; violence declared th e i r d e t erm i nat i on t o p r ev en t its ren i tt : t h and defend, at all risks, w h a t th ey h a d p reser ved through°, tY Revolution. Numb ers rema i ne d on guar d througlio d j night, but, in the morning, listened to the assuranctl_so I hem that there was no intention _ o deprive them ladium, and order was restored. - - • • • - CORN AVERAGE. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH.C9,OCt For the Week ended April 15, 1542, made - up horn the fIOP the Inspectors in the tufferent Cities and Tatwns in End Wales, per imperial Quarter. Wheat......... 595. led., Oats !Later 2es. lid. I Rya 3Zs. 6e Pease ......••' AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. F .... 5 . 2' 4- • Week ending WHEAT. BARLEY.] OATS. EyE. BEANS. -of their ----- ------ $ ~. Mar. 11 59 11 27 9 19 0i 33 3/ 3 1 JO $1 18 59 9 27 0 18 1 36 11 130 9 61 26 .... April 1 ..... 57 8 26 2 16 11 32 5 30 8 5B 2 26 2 19 11 33 10 29 ' 0 15 59 10 26 11 19 2 32 6 SO 11,04, IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGE S or THE Fliill, Wheat......... 59i. 116. I Oats ......... 18s. 9d.1 8eite5....40";11. ' Barley. '.6s 9d, I Rye DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. 1:4 1 ` Pi . Wheat 28s &I. I Oats Barley 225. 10d. I Rye SPORTING INTELLIGENC E' TATTERSALL'S—YisTranaY. i f 00 1 4 THE DERBY.—The speculations on this ev ent, i me to heavy as on Monday, presented some features of of importance. Th e F re d er i ca co l t was aga i n .. l o rd .0 00, ascendant," and from 13 t o 2 up t o 5 to 1 was baek e ls li; tiring energy. The last offer was 9to 2 only 0 h ,ll panion, Elena, was at 30 to 1, nominally onlYb at li no friends " hold hard" until the result of his race at c ert s lO have transpired, and that this seems next door to 1 1, r Of i ' i be was proved by a bet of 6 to 4, and a subsequent oo(' t ocl lon him. Of Scott's troop Jack (the Joanna ce"'„fstd-4 Lord of Holderne s s were t h e pr i nc i pa l performers • the is' several active supporters, with a consequent effect 0 , 0 6 4 4 0. and his Lordship, by reason of a small outlay and f r `j o tst: o r quiries, was promoted fity per cent. on Monday's..,gres,, sa d Attila ' had a few friends at 8 to 1, but the layers ",; k lan' t, it roux ; his position at present is not very firm. 1431- ie I sc bert' Canadian were again cn the decline ; the latter! te, 1P e • likely to be displaced by that long-neglected favour' at 1 , ,,,0t de Gorham, who was in favour in several qu arters , or e : J. rage of 22 to 1. The alterations, and all that w ai ,ecill ,or 3 in the betting, was confined to the horses we have :rt g r e in, ite• THE 2,000 GUINEAS STAKES.—A trifling dech, sc ice'' Orford's colt was the only change ; Meteor was w beo quently at 2to 1. _ , ce ,..si O • c e The Chester Cup was mentioned occasional)yr Pi ; ds 7 '..i - wet' laid ; but the business was not sufficiently definite no ~0 , 1 to enable us to make a formal quotation. We t e .,:lS eg i. it e ' however, that there was a disposition to back Mars-moo. , 1 ; of that Bellsna was four or fi ve points worse than ° l- ' e leva ti° o f The Oaks betting was remarkable only for the, o ffer s Dil-bar to the top of the list, and for unaeeepte" to 1 agst Lord Jersey's mare. Closing prices t" --- TWO THOUSAND GUINEA sTAICEs' 2 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes' Meteor 7 to 2 agst Lord Orford's Petulance colt 5 to 1 agst Mr. IVreford's Wiseacre....tak eo ' 6 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's lot tossf ss* LORD WESTMINSTER'S DEE STAKES AT C -5 to 2 agst Mr. Williams's De Fortibus• DERBY. &ke n 5 to 1 agst Mr. Trelawny's Frederica c-""t A...-0 5 agst Colonel Anson's Attila 12 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Jack (J° 3ll° e° 16 to 1 agst Lord W es t m i ns t er ' s Aucklsn'c ir ....take e w 16 to 1 agst the D u k e o f Grafton's Gs° 11 " 1 how -4e 22 to 1 agst Lord Verulam's Robert de a' e 30 to 1 agst Mr. Dixon's Ballinkeele--tak en 30 to 1 agst Mr. Biggs's Eleus 40 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's MeMor—taken- Ho ld er" 40 to 1 agst M i . G. Cl ar k' s L or d o f 45 to 1 agst Mr. Rogers's Ti toe—tak en 50 to 1 agst M r . Ramshay's Moss Tr °e r 50 to 1 ag s t Mr. Meiklam's Agreeable ' ta ken 6 66 6 t t o o 1 1 ag ag s s t t A ll i l r r . . F. Forth's T t V h,s o crolde ins o el e rtaken _- gwe taken 66 to 1 agst M r . P ayne ' s Palinurn'-- taken 1000 to 12 agst Mr. Gregory's Barrier -- a ken 200 to 1 agst M r . H er b ert ' s N es sus-I taken 200 to 1 agst Mr. Prince's Rookwith -500 to 400 on Ballinkeele agst Deus—take° °AKA. . ......aken 8 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Di!,-bsr 9 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Adela 6 t. 1 12 to la s Lord Jersey's BATH AND BRISTOL Itil a `' sweep g a kes nr 9 ; l 3lb• The City Cup of 1001., added Tfour, 9st 51b ; fiv e,,,, fig subq each, h ft, for three yrs old, Tat' miles and alma. k lett)" 9 six and aged, lOst 41b. About , i v flow ~. Elisa-; -- Es en w ED ,Egf . o .l . o o: Mr. Biggs's Eleus, by El ls ' 3 Yrs h *- * Boy 4 / 3 r: ...... g" o& Lord G. Bentinck's br f Topsail , 3 ..... ........ .. .. .. ... ... . ... --: bo '''oo4 Betting-3 to lon Eleus. Mr. G. W. Blathvrayt na. G he bolted. Eleus tn as door play for the first mile, Greenha m am' Y m , a en took I T the running at the best pace e ere Topsail collared him, a r e l' a.. as a pig" to the distance, w n, beating the filly by only if ti e a fine struggle, eventually wo n, a ft, and 5 -? '- j - 1 . h sum- / r , Mile and ...wa lk adod Glared, with 201. added. Rst ................. :t. _ . Mr. J. Day's Railroad, aged, 3 ft if declared, wi bMO ... l i could snake, but ran , a fte The Bath Handicap of 20 sous. each, Mr. Sadler's Bellissima, Bst .............................. , a dis• (- e d 0 ,t• Mr. Hobson's Piccotee, 7st 91b... • Gibe t ij Stork, Handicap of 5 sous. e w ac h h e , :eeheen , ............... The York Stakes were won by 1 rs two or three et le • RACES' ins Defy, Piccote, and NG AFTER THE on° DERBY BETTING 10 to 1 taken Frederica colt -1600 to 100 agst the Three others were beateon...J.l a l lon r g w. be 1000 to 10 agst Eleus IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS. April 21. , PARLIAMENTAR Y REPRESENTATIO,74•_id Mr. SHARMAN CR AWFORD in continuation 15, He felt that there were other Members more able torod cuss the subject than he was. He thought that he ed ' shown to the House t hat the p resent House a .„,,e mons was not a fair representation of the countr.' he therefore called up on them that agreed with count ) Pa , vote for the inquiry he had pr o p osed. Hel4'tile that the subject ought to be fu ll y discussed before fore nquiry was granted — (Rear , h ear ) —and he UAW , t hought in '',„4418161,::i1;.1' lo ekli tik b t ac ' 16 4 1 1 W tit .F o t ':dett Diqittry Place h , : m ny ot cause of objects , ects 14 ' ' tine