The Sun. — London, England, 1842-06-21 00:00:00

4 4 "0 111 l oon ikzut SUN-OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. PRICES OF CANAL, DOCK, ASSUR ANCIII COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 21. nice Number Dividend of per CANA LS. Per Shares. Annum. Paid. Share. 1,7,•6 1 per cent. Ashton& Oldharn...Average97l.lB3.lh, 94 1,4 4 2 . 4l . Ashoy.de-le.Zouch ..... A*•z.rage 1151.0 h, 71 1,.6.: 6 dsingstoke 1001.111. 5 24..,7, 51. Brecknoc k and Abergavenny lsot.sh. P 2 1,1 1.16 th. 101. Bir,ningham , 1.16 th share ....8;1. & 711. 193 T 1 „,....., Ditto & Liverpool .1 unct. I 9 ‘ l l. sh.loo p 4 S 1 3t. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool. sh. Mira -. 51. Ch e nner and Btackwater lo o l.sh. 1 01 3-2/. Coventry 1001. sh. 3u5 „. Cr0yd0n..........• Average 3 11.25.10 d. sh. - 5/ Os. Dudley 1001.1 h . 94 00 Derby i 100 1 . sh . 120 ~o ' 4 ref cent. &Unlade and Mayne .... .... .411.135. 4o.pd 31 9.1 4' Eilesthcreand Chester Aveitgel33:..sla. 67 .:-; I 621 Erowasn .. , 1001.sn. '72 I • .4 .. 8;1. Forth hnd Clyde.Clyde.l9ol. sr. 1001. pd. 1! 2,, 5i 7d. Grant .unction 1001.sn 123 "'• 411 *is. Granath:lon loo4.sh 27 Grand Surrey 1001.0. 15 Ditto (optional) Loan 1001. Grand Western 3 124. Md. Glainnreanire, Aver. cost 1721.1383 n: 210 121. Uranthyr. .... • 1501.5 h. 220 2., at. Huddersfialdi Avcrageld /1. 6s. 68 . ah. 19 Kensington lOO At. allpd 10 , 11.10 s. Rennet tud Avon, Av. 305.181.10 d. sh IA 53 11. 10% Lancaster Average 471. 6s. 8d , 2.751 ?; 3('l. - Leed sand Liverpool lool.sh 6,40}2 .1 11. 10s. Leicester 1401. at• 149 .517 31. ts. Leicester & Nort.aarnptonAver 831.105 72 2, , t0g 11'1, Monmouthsbire lOO/ .sli 200 24 13% Melton Mowbray • 1081. sh. 200 59( la. Mersey and Irwell lool.sh. 510 5,000, 11. los. Mace IC3 ileld lOOl. sh. all rd 16 21,1 171. Neath lool.sh. 305 9,460. M. Peak Forest' Aver ..ge about 781.5 h. f 0 1,41 1 , Na. Regent's (or London) Av. 301.165.84. sh. 1534 5,6811 ol . rochdale Average 351.5 h. 62 500 " 81. Shropshire 1251. sh. 137 WO 111. 10s. Somerset Coal l5Ol. sh. 170 3,60 W. 6 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 1 'no 3f.1. Stafford and Worcester.... ...... 1401..5h. 666 1". N) i 5, Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 280 39g in. 3taurbeidge......-........ 1451.5 h. 396 3,07 V. us. Stratford-on-Aso'. Le der...791. 9s. t9d. sh. 33 523 1.2i1 twansea 1001.5h. 265 3,782 21. 12d, Severn and Wye &Railway Av. 261.95. sh. 45 vutit sr,. att. lf:d. Trent and lit,y, i share lOOl. sh. 475 6.149 1,0Y3. ) - h s , it, Warwick and B , rmingham ...... 1001. s- 198 I,(% o 'x° l '•) , 11 , ..J 10,, Warwick and isapsen.... 1001.1 h. D 7 7,o'') I/ Worcester & Birmingham Av.7B/.Bs.sh. 55 5.600 561. Wilts and Barks Average 671. 108. B d. sh. 20 ~1'116.. Wy day and I"..ssingson 1251. sh . '74 .1 Wieneacn . ..... ... ........ V3:4-ah. 50 Oa I d Wey and Aru D n llol.ln. 20 OCAS. ....,••"•. t. per cent MOO & 1 np. c. Commerc.al ........... ............... 1001.1 b. 61 1, , 165i5h. 5 per rent. East and West India “...........Et0ck 104 1 4 3,238,310:3. 31/. p.ct. London ...........Stock 81% Ditto Bonds 2, 1 209 31.135. 5r1. Briskil Average 14 - /. Os. sh .75 60,3241. 51. per cent. I) Notes, various amountt IOS 22;152 5 p er cent. St. Katharine Stock 100 56C, 0 - .3 Itper cent. Ditto Bonds ..., 20U,000,..4 per cent. Ditto Bands for 10 years ...., ..„..... Deptford Pier ... 2Ol. sh. 20/. pd 10 BRIDGES. 1.600 11. Hammersmitl• 501.51 x. 21% 7,221 ... ...... Southwark, Old Av. 031.25. 3d. sh. 3y.. 1,7.1 I/. 15s. Ditto; New. of 71 percent., 501.1 h. 15% a j oi.o „,..,..., W ater l oo 1001. sh. 3 5,000 2•.:5. ild. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 00/. psi 21 5,0 ,1 0 Ns. 3 , 1. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4Ol. pd lAI4 10,0091 57. per cent. Ditto Bonds „, 5,848 9.7 s Vauxhall ..... ....Arnage 701. 108.3 d. sh. 28 ASSURANCE COSIPAIvIES. 2,000 3lloe Albion 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 60 60,000 1 6 P er ent 'l Alliancellritigh ez Foreignlool. sh. 111. pd 13% and 15s. 50,(w0 0 per cent. Ditto, fila rine lOOl. eh. 5/. pd 5% 24,000 ft. per oh, Atlas 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd 14 3 4 1,2001,11. 51. Biriningharn 1' Ire.. '5O/. eh. 55/. pd 107 u 20,00 4t. ptr c ent. Iltitigh Fire 25 0/ . 6h. 501 . pd ~ 1" 12,1100 01. per mit. ISfitigh Commercial 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 6 5,010 51. per cent. Clerical & Medical Life, ICOLsh.2IIP - . .,4 - 6% 4,0.;1 21 08 County lOO/. sh . „, 1 6 /. pd 10 9,000 Ls. Ea g le l ';',/t. ih. 51. pd 4% Send er cent. 200 30i bs. ~10001. sh. 2501. pd 406 2,271 c.:lB.per cent. Europesn LI. _,.... '01:s h. all pd 22 50,00,) 2g, Ditto, New .. 20!. sh. 21. pd 1% .000,0001. f Loer ct Glob:. ..... .... Stock 125 20,1)1* 51. 1 3 tia:•:„. 4n aO,OOO 4s. 0,!. Fr .op e 2,40-) 51. 121. M• tomerial Eire 5OOl sh. 501. pd 140 7,50 108. GI. Imperial Lite ION. all. 101. IA 11% /.11.1? 51. per erns. Indemnity 51.irin- lOO/. gh. AL pd 32 ,090 31 106 Kent Fire sol.gh. all pd 01 - 01. Ditto Life „. .J :• i - i., ,3 Law Life ION. sh. 10/, pd 33 , - lila. London, Fir. ""t! 4L. 12/. Ills. pd 17 ' 101. London, Ship .. ....251. she 12/. 10s. pd 17 . , 0 . ... ..... rilincrva life 1001. sh. 2 , ' r.i'.rer cent. National Loan Fune„, .201, sh 2!. 10.. pd 2 8 4 • I. ocr cent. Palladium Lit , 564. sh. 21. pd • , ~ 51. pre cent. Protector I,' f..., N!1. sh. '2l. pd IlhOd ; , :,,:. 4 per cent. Protestant liistenters .... 1 0 11. sh. 51. pci 5% q,;'.011 U. Provident Lite lO O/. sh , 101 . pd 20 01' ^.r' ts. Od. Pock Life . , ! .. i.ef coat. Royal E . Xeil:ll;gc per rent University Lae 1001. sh. 51. pd 11 ~, . A per cent. United Kina.dorri Life. 1001. sh. 51. pd • . JOINT. STOCK BANKS. :, . ..... .... A gric. and Cum. of I reland2sl. Ph. 101. pd r j • our cent. AllStrftlac , ta 40/. sh. 4(1. pd 52 1 4 ." • ' 10 ncr cent. BMI Kof Bit sninghom set. sh. 10/. pd 1334 ~ per cent. Birmingham Bank 50/. ah . 101. pd 13 ' •,, , prir cent. London & Westminster 1001 sh. 204, pd 2114 51. London Joint Stock 50/, sh. 101. pd 1231, c.f.: , nt. Lancaster lOOl. sh. VV. pd 50 - • . per not. Liverpool 1001 ph. 14/. pd I'd • "ii pert:et:l.. Manchester and Liver } 501.rh. 151 pd 194 pool Dis-onnt 20,i• ' 7 per 5.,. t. Manchester 1001.3h. 101. pd 4% a*0.. , • ,,, , 8 percent. Provincial Rank of I relandlool. sh. 25/.0 491. 0 10, ,. , ' 6 i.er . - cnt National Bank of Ireland 50/. sh . 1741. pd 16% 10,00;1 , it per cent Natirsnal Prov.,.clal Eng.lool. sh. 1:55/. pd 35% 115,P1 . 14 Ditto New 101. sh. 10/ pd 10 10,000 Gloucestershire 501. sh. 101. pd 32 6.00' 10 per cent. Hampshire 'Ol. sh. 51. pd 9% .., GA:i LIGHT AN) 1:01:E COMPANIES. 2,5',X) ilia thi Bath 2Ol. sh. IN. pd . 5.2 5,r0 0 .....„.. British 4Ol. sh. 101. pd 19% pt:.) i' l ;i e ',.. ce :ll Ditto Provincial 2O/. rh. 101. pd tit W!) 51. Itis Bitollllo3M 501. sh. 101 t,'2,' o .2i +,, Brlitol •2O/.sh. 20 V, .';i1) ::.l l+. - ;s Bright on 2ol.th. 14 ''/'•,O '1 !Os Ditto, New 2O/. th. IV. pd 9 2,471 I: , ner re,. Brighton (Ici,...rai 'al/. sh. all pd 9g c 000 72.1;14. Clntitlentat 0 onsalittat ,t 1 ....751. 62f Lpd 110 I,OPO 101. City oi London.. ....... ....INV. ch. all pd 195 I,COO 6/. Ditto, N,lvr lo(q.sh. 75/. ?II If,o 4.000 nI. Vs. Equitable 10,80.1 11/: per rent. Imperial 50/. sh. 79 000 fd. pev cent. isle of "l'hanet 251. sh. 201. pd 19 I,mo ra. p e r cent. Independent :30/, sh. all r, 56 9,U0 51. per c,nt. Phcenis. 5O/. sh. 39/. pd 2034 1,0.-0 4'. per cent. Retcliff lOOl. sh.PM pd 64 4,000. ti.uth I'lAtropolitan 50/. 5h.713%/. pd 1734 9,4mr, s!.per cant. United General V/. sh. 4' il. pd 20 2 , 11; 5/. per cent. Warwick ... 501. sh. 50 400 5!. per coat WaKe fi ?Id 2,000 3/. West Minster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New 260 3 poc cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. 18/. pd WAT Ea WO I'I.KS -- ...-........ -..... 4,01 346. Birmi _ ngham .c'. sh 25/. pd 21 4,433 7.. East London 100/. sh. 179 5,501 21 15s. ()rand Junction Average 411. lss. 4d. sh. 60 11,000 21. Kent lOOl. sh. 51% 37:2 101. Li werpool ttootle 2201. sh. 325 1,5(11 2 /10s ricw Myer London Bridge Water Ann... 60 6,4;.46 21 lOs Manchester and Salford MI. sh. 54 1,000 5 per cent. South Londox 1001.811. 98 8,f94 4il. West Middlesex Average 631.j125. 9d. sh. 96 1.36 d 1114 s Y - .,rlc Bmildlnit f,o. Lessee Prop. 1001. all. 36 IRON RAILWAYS. _ __ 6,300 2/. of. Birmingham and Derby -...- l O O/ pd !A/ 9,54 1 3 pet cent. Birmingham and Gloucester !CO/. pd 52 15,110 4 per cent. Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. 70 pd 43 7,500 Cheltenham& G.Western ...100/.s h. 801. 56 3,604 .. Clarence 1001. sh. 1001 pd 20 8,000 ........, Dublin and Drogheda 1001. sh. 5/. pd 00,(1030 Ea:tern Counties 251. sh. 234 pd 9% 10000 5 per cent. Great North of Englandlool. ah. 1001. pd 871)6 10,018 12 per cost. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. all pd 189 25401? r 4 per cent. Great Western 1001. sh. 05/. pd 88 25,000 :1 per cent. Ditto New 50/. sh. 50/. pd 6114 5.,1106 8 per cent. Hartlepool 8,04 V/ • Hull and 4clhy 501. eh. 501. pd 40 2,100 4 per ctnt. Leeds and 5e1by.......• 100 sh. 65 5,1P0 10 per cent. Liverpool& Manchester 101./.sh. 1001.p4 188% 7,9 S 10 per cent. Ditto EH f Shares 5ll. pd 21 11,1)5 10 ter exist. Ditto Quarter Shares 251. pd 45. .36 0 0 n ...... London and Brighton 50/. sh. 501 pd 36 t44,K , London and Blackwall 251. sh 251. pd 9N, ii , ,of to 3 per ern t. London and f:reenwich evi. st. 2(11. p d 6 25,000 91 per sh. London t Birmingham 1001. sh. 901. pd 175 435,0(11 21.7 s Cd. Ditto Quarter Shares -.251. sh. Si.pd 3 .4, 31,250 31.:'s. 40. Dit o New Shares 32/. sh. 32!. pd al 415,2,;t1 3 per sh. London and S. Western Av. •131,155. ed. 60% 13,060 London and Croydon} A 13/ 15s. Pcl IS Ditto 'Sew Scrip.... v * • - - • 13 12,00 , , 4.. per oh. iNi ...fieriest , r and Leeds...loo/. oh 70/. pd 75 1.3,1Y+) ~,„ (1 10 !,0 . ••• Ditto Extension 'l pd 2 10.000 2/. 1, s. Midland Counties Oul. sh. 101 l pd 7 I 1%00 'l. Oa. North Nlioland 11. 1 115 Ditto hew 40/. pi 3 . i 1,2 - .6 11.10 s. Nortlit , n and ::astern.... 50/. sh. 45. , .. pd 41% ;.,c4u Preston anti I•Aiyre ... 50/. sh, :, : i./. NI :ih k epo t , 4 per cent. South Eastern and Dover 5Ol pd 25 1,000 lot. per cea. Stockton and Darlington .... . . lOl./.sh. 265 %ON 0,000 taper cent. York arid Nerth MINES Midlapd 50 . sh. 501. pd 91% . ._ 8,000 Albion Copper 5/. h Li/. pi 12 4,000 U. ss. Alten l5 l. sh 12 / . i i :pd I% i 0 0;08 ... Anglo Mexican ,i s s. 51. p m.loo/. sh. a, Id, 2 Ditto Subscription .... ... 251 1 u 2% 2,000 Bolanos A ~.... 150/. sh all pd 4 10,00 ,, I!. 10s Brazilianlmp. iss. 51. pm...35/.6h. t: 1 1/. pd 9 Macautlas & Cocacs United 25/ i h. 25/. pd 44 Ditto St. John Del !toy ...20/ sh. 141 pd IN ...... ... telivar Coppel Company. 201.811..20/. pd 1 Ditto Snip 104 sit. 10/. pd 2 British iron lOOl oh. 7W pd 8 ~ ... .., tt-iiisli Copper 5/. sh. 4yl. pd 1 4 ,4 . 13,4nca l;4/. pd 5% C...;!:lonza ... (77,,iftpo ...., . .. ..... ...20i..sh, Ifil. 04 - 0 c ',., .0 -. ..551.6h. 55/. pd 1 2.,,e0 - . Etagiish• 141. Gs..pd 2 2040,A0 , Gestural Mining A asociatlon2ll/. sh.lig. pd 3% 6,m, 3,0%. /". - Pnlbcrou COilsOlt ..-• 10!. sh. 81. pd 4 11.500 . MI. zo Loan Note. 1501. pd 50 (Patted Mexican, iss. 2 pot. 401. sh. all pd 1 DM t. Scrip l% Ditto New Scrip 4/ pfl 3% West Cork ...... ........ ..... 501. mh 50/.pd 38 LITER A ItY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 1,50 , 1 London University lOO/.Bh. all pd 7 7po itussell °sgs. sh. 6 King' C•allege lOOl. 1934 511 .SOELLANEo us. 10,000 3 5 . Australian Arricultural.lool.•sh 28/ p d 33 cs utf 1, percent. British American Land Company 314 pi 9 10A1 , 2, 61 per c:::.t. Cana.la Company 100/. sh. 32i/. pd 30 30,0 Ct Si. per etnt. Upper Cana. , a Loan City Bonds, 4 psr cent lOO IL e s . OeneralStesm Navigation Dd.. h. 141. pd '24% 101. per cont. Hue s on's Ba y Stock 11. London Com. Sale Room: ...Av. 75/. sh. 19% Caoi.i:chotic Company 1251. IA 12% New Brunswick Lard C0mp...y...5u, pd 1 2 b , ..1117 4/ . per cant. Revervienary Int. 50c...1(X)/. sh. MO/. pd 535 t,01.3 51. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 100:. pd 107 50/. sh. ill Fat 7 4. 13 ( 11 Thmues Tunnel 10.00 84, VAR Die.ner.'s Land.... 7001.8 b. 19/. pd 10 ____----- 10,tif.k) 10.(10t; 20,00 J LIST el SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES JUNE 18. 1842. - BANKS. 1.04 o,ooe Al, p. ct. Fan kof Scotland ...831 ns. Bd. e . all p , all pd 155 d 154 1,000,0;:01 fl. p. et. FicyAl of Scotland ............ 1001.0 511n.0f0.'. 81. p. ct. British I.haen Comp.my...loo/.sh, all pd 205 60;;,(aoi. 75. t. ct. Commercial 5001. sh. 100/.0 10 4 1500,(1.1,. I; o ct. Niational ' 10C/..th. 101. pd 1 WV V 4/ B'. p. rt. (11:sgow Union k)?.0l. ch. 501. prii 79N 1500u. , : ,, W. 6p. ct. Western of Scotbnd OlOl. sh 40'. pd CS I NSURANCE i OMPANIES. 2511.n1Mish At p: et. Scottish to non aril. ah. 11. pd 243.0 d. 7.5i1i , 10p. ct. Hercules I WI. sh. 10/. pd 125, Iftr '„,/,‘, (1 ',,, ) , . 1 " i , ct. Insurance Co. of Sz:ctla - xl .10/. sh. all pd 9 •••,,,,, o p. et. NOM i.:7lt:sh PO/. sh. 101. pd f 0 I,fril • 10 p: c , .. Caletioni m Fire 1001, sh. 101. pd 20 5, 0 ' 41 ' 10 0 4 ct, t ' -Fi .. in 1, 1 4.. 4 .0 i , INV. sh. 10/. 1.4 4 15 100, ( :!X. ai '.t. ct. Wait 01 5c0tit5mi..................... 101. pd 4,4318 ..... _41.5CE1,L,A4E0U.t 4 . I:din. And Glas. Un. Canalso/. sh. all pd 10 nit° UOI. sh. all pd 4134 245,40 t. v 1 ner cent. Edittb. Joint Watcr 9.51. sh all pd 31 LOOOOl 2; pet cent. Shats trot. ] uu»ucty 501. sh pd 36 0.0)0 :3 pe!: 4ent. Edinburgh F. I.dzith Glass 04,sh. 1(W. pd 3% 4 :500 10 p!t cent. ralinist qg h Coil Gas ' 9,51.5 h. aid pd 50 4 ; 00 ti) per Czut. Gia+aru.. Gas ...... 351. sh. all pd 52 750 7i per (TOL • L'.l ., + Ctial Gas .. 2Ol sh all pd 25 u 54 eAinburth and LATkeith ila!4vay 501.5 h 30 AIcpTHER GRAHAM PROVIDED FOE.—The Gra hams are in the ascendant. We yesterday announced the ap a% r b a e h e a n ni , P r appointedi v at e pointrotnt of a cou , in of the Hon Secretary t o the Consul ship of Bayonne : we n ow learn t hat Ma j or Secretary and b: other to S ir James Graham, h Registrar-General in the room of thelate Alr. Lister. A petition ha. been presented against the last alectiors foi Ipswich; at , which two Tory members sere y e . turned.. . : . SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURIgALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The Standard professes, as our readers know, to represent the Conservative Dems-cracy, which we understand to mean the sincere bigotry and honest ignorance of its party in the country. How reconcile sincere bigotry and honest ignorance to condtr t on the part of Ministers which must clearly show those who have any glimmering of sense that they, at least, have been dupes 1 The Standard's mode of doing this difficult and rather dirty work is characteristic. The Standard has been in the habit of amusing the " Conservative Democracy " with d. clamations against the " money-power," and representing the " money power" as inspiring in an especial manner the late Mi nistry. The Standard has been conveniently oblivious of the obvious fact, that as the landed interest claim to be the possessors of the bulk of the solid weal h, and employers of by far the largest proportion of the labour of the country, the landed interest must, in fact, wield the greatest proportion of this abused money power. And so indeed they do ; they form the greatest " money-power" in the country, and the power which is most determined that its money shall rule all the rist, and that legislation shall be conducted with a sole view to its prices—i. e. its money-power. We need not ask whether this money-power was arrayed on the side of the late Government. But as the present Ministers find it neces cessary to take a leaf out of the book of their prede cessors (however garbled or interpolated) in the chapter of commercial relaxations, the Standard is put to its shifts to find a defence for their doings which it can hope to render palatable to its readers, the " Conserva tive Democracy." In this extremity it is compelled to have recourse to its old bugbear, the money-power. The money-power which influenced the Whigs, dictates, it seems, to the Tories ; and the Tory Ministers are not to be blamed for giving way to it, though the Whigs were! STANDARD.—In the House of Commons Mr. C. Buller offered a complaint of the effect of the late pro clamation upon the subject of the gold coin, which gave rise to a debate of considerable length. The Chancellor of the Exchequer defended the proclamation, on the ground that it had been called for by the pressing impor tunities of bankers and merchants, andjustified the seem ingly abrupt manner in which it was issued by the neces sity of using secrecy to obviate an opportunity for exten sive frauds. The Chancellor of the Exchequer made one observation which deserves general attention, namely that it is an offence legally punishable to refuse coin of full weight. The question is one of great difficulty, as is proved by the conflicting opinions of the most able men at different periods of our history. On one side there is the inconvenience of such a proclamation as has been issued—an inconvenience which we need not describe, as few but the very richest have not felt it. On the other, there is the certainty that any different course would cause a mutilation of the coin so extensive that scarcely a single piece of full weight would remain in cir ciliation, or find its way back to the Mint. Let it ence be known that a sovereign, how'much soever deficient in weight, retains its nominal value, and all the ingenious processes of sweating, clipping, plugging, &c., would be put into universal activity. Perhaps a partial remedy might be found by forming an estimate of fair wear and tear according to the age of the eoin, and fixing it for a definite time at a value proportioned to that estimate — say, the sovereign of George the Third at 19s. 6d., the sovereigns of George the Fourth and William the Fourth at 19s. 9d., the sovereign of the present reign at 20s. ; this is pretty much the estimate which the public has formed in practice. Still the remedy would be but par tial and insufficient as a guard against fraud, for many of the older coins retain their full weight, as not having been used in circulation, and some of the new have been diminished by dishonest practices. On the whole the Ministers have, perhaps, taken the wiser course, though that course is unavoidably productive of great hardship harship, however, which necessarily wears itself out, and which has already been sensibly alleviated. COMMON PLEAS--(THIS DAY.) CURLING V. JEFFERY AND ANOTHER. This was an action brought against the proprietors of the Exeter and Yeovil mail, to recover compensation in damages, for injury sustained by the plaintiff, in conse quence of the overturning of the defendants' coach, upon which he was riding as an outside passenger. It ap peared that a few miles beyond Basingstoke the horses became unmanageable and ran away, whereby the coach was partly upset, and the plaintiff thrown violently off. The evidence was conflicting as to the appearance of suf fering which he exhibited on being taken up, and put into the inside of the coach, and the defendants proved that he for some time afterwards went without his arm in a sling, and was active in the business of his profession es a solicitor; but, on the other hand, the evidence of his medical attendants, of his clerks, solicitors concerned in business with him, and other witnesses, it was shown that he had really suffered a severe sprain in the tendons of the fore arm, which was followed by pain ful and alarming .symptoms of inflammation, and that his whole system had received a violent and dangerous shock, which prevented him for several days from attending to business. His having gone about for some time as if nothing happened. was accounted for by his imprudently underrating, in the first instance, the amount of the injury, and in his zeal for business exerting himself too much, notwithstanding the pain he must have suffered. The defendants offered 301. compensation before the action was proceeded with, and this being refused, they paid that sum into Court. Mr. Justice ERSKINE, in summing up, expressed some dissatisfaction that, from the manner in which the pleas were framed, he was obliged to allow the Court to be occupied six hours with a cause which ought to have been decided in one. The Jury having retired for about an hour, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with damages 20/. over and above 301. paid into Court. BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAV.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) WILSON V. 3IACLEAN. This was an action brought by Miss Wilson, who keeps a boarding-school in Russell-square, to recoiter the sum of 25 guineas, the price of a quarter's schooling given to two young ladies, &lighters of the defendant. It appeared the daughters of the defendant went to Miss Wilson's school on the 19th of October, 1839, and left on the 13th of July, 1841. Up to the 3d of April, 1841, the plaintiff was paid to the full amount, and the question was whether, the plaintiff, having calculated the year at nine months, three being allowed for vacations ; and upon this calcu lation, the quarter having ended on the 11th of June, was entitled to recover for the quarter commencing after that time. It was contended, on the part of the defendant, that the year ought to be calculated in the ordinary mode, upon which the plaintiff was not entitled to recover. The Jury retired, and after some time returned with a verdict for the plaintiff. AFRICAN CIVILIZATION SOCIETY. A public meeting of the friends of this Society was held this day in Exeter Hall. The meeting commenced at Twelve o Cclock. Lord Ashley, MY., in the Chair. Besides the noble Chairman was observed on the plat form the Earl of Fortescue, Lord John Russell, Lord T ignmouth, Lord Mahon, Lord Sandon, Lord Howick, the Bishops of Norwich, and GL ucester, the Ven. Arch deacon S. Wilberforce, the Rev. Dr.• llealtry, Sir R. Inglis, Sir T. 1). Acland, the Hon. W. Cowper, the Hon. IV. Laseelles, &c., &c. The Rev. lir. DEALTRY and Sir B. LNGLIS read the Report, a great part of which consisted of remarks on the Niger expedition, and the disasters attending it. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the adoption of the re port. The conclusion to be derived from that report was that they ought not to allow the clouds which had appeared at the dawn of their enterprise to prevett them from going forward in the great work which they had commenced.—(Hear, hear.) Such was the impression with which he addressed the meeting. If they suffered themselves to despair of the ultimate success of their enterprise; which was as much based in justice as in charity, they would be rebuked by the history of those events with which the name of Africa and of the slave trade were connected. They would be reminded of the discouragements which were felt by those who first attempted the abolition of the slave trade, and yet how complete was the ultimate principle of those who sought that object.—(Hear, hear.) And with re spect to slag ery itself in the West Indian colonies, how great were the interests involved, how powerful were those, who, in the name of the West Indian Proprietors, called upon the Legislature not to abolish slavery, yet those who were for the abolition of that accursed crime—for an accursed crime he thought he might now, at least, call it—(Hear, hear) — did not relax in their efforts, they were not discouraged by the power which was wielded against them, and, through the blessing of God, they, too, had ultimately triumphed.—(Cheers.) Let them be encouraged by these past succeses to make further efforts on behalf of humanity. The object of that Society was to discharge a great debt of justice and of charity from Christian Europe to oppressed and• benighted Africa. That debt had been incurred by the hon., rors which, for many centuries, were sanctioned by the British Crown, by the British flag, and by the authority of the British name.—(Hear, hear.) The captivities and bloodshed of Africa—the manacles, the mortality, the oppression, the whip, and the chain, with all their accompanying ci cumstinces of disgust and torture, had been protected, authorised, and even pro moted by the power which Great Britain wielded in the civilized world. Was not that a debt which they ought to endeavour to discharge ; and s to discharge not merely by that which they had already done, not merely by declaring that nu British subject should engage in the slave-trade, or be at all concerned in that horrible it a the ; not merely by declaring that no British subject in our colonial possessions should be held in slavery. There still remained the memory of those oppressions, of those crimes in which they had had all been partakers, and for these no sufficient atonement could be made unless they exerted themselves actively and continuously for t It e improvement and the civilisation of Africa.—(Cheers.) With respect to the means by which that object was to be attained, he was not one of those who thought that it was to be effected in any one mode. He thought that by various modes, and in various directions, they should attempt to attain their object. lie could not but rejoice at the success which had attended the efforts of our naval cruisers on the coast of Africa.—(Hear, hear.) By many that was thought an almost hopeless .atterprise, yet from accounts which had recently 'deem received, it appeared that on some parts of the eoas could now scarcely be said to exist. That was a ~ ratifying proof that although their efforts might for a time , seem to fail, success would at length attend them. file report alluded at some langth to the progress of the Niger expedition: - As the Minister of the Crown he had done his best to secure that that expedition should be fitted out in iateh , a manner as would be most. ; likely to secure success, though knowing the danger to human life, that he • I THE SUN, LONDO did not think it right that any one should be engagtd in T the expedition who did not volunteer th ei r services.— (Hear, hear.) Lamentable as had been the loss of life attending that expedition, he could not regard it as. alto gether a failure and calamity. They had at least shown that the flag of England, and the authority of England's sovereign, was put forth to favour commerce and civilisation in Africa ; and let them not think that that would in after times be remembered by a savage people as an unimportant circumstance. If they saw the commercial ships of England intent only upon gain, her naval force intent only on projects of dominion, they would give little credence to cur professions of being guided by the light of the Gos pel ; but when they saw Englishmen ready to sacrifice their lives for objects of peace and charity, then, indeed, they would believe our professions, and be willing to unite with us for every good purpose.—(Hear.) But there were other advantages which might be derived from this expedition notwithstanding its alleged failure. They had learnt by sad experience that the River Niger, in ,the upper parts of it, was most unwholesome to European constitutions, but they had not found that -the Africans themselves were affected by its mala dies. What did this teach them ? Why that they ought to endeavour by every means in their power to enable the Africans themselves to teach Africans on their own continent ; and in one point of view, this was an object ; slavery itself seemed to favour this object. One would imagine that such a dreadful institution as that of slavery would contain no cheering feature, no light by which its darkness could be illumined, yet the slavery which had grown up in the West Indies, in conjuction with the education which slaves had received from her ministers, had :prepared men who were capable of enduring an African climate to extend the truths of the Gospel among their own countrymen.—(Hear, hear.) That was a very important consideration hen they were attempting to civilise Africa. Let them not, then, mistrust the ultimate success of their endea vours ; let them, if defeated in one mode, try another ; let them seek to acquire fresh information ; let them devise fresh enterprises in new directions ; above all, let them not doubt that while the spirit of universal emancipation, aided and sanc tified by the spirit of the Christian religion, —while these animated their endeavours they would ultimately secure the happiness and the salvation of millions of their fellow-creatures.— (Cheers.) The Venerable Archdeacon S. WILBERFORCE se conded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Several other resolutions were proposed, seconded, and carried, and a vote of thanks having been given to the Chairman, the meeting separated shortly after four o'clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE (THIS EVENING.) WHITEHALL, Je NE 20, 1842. Her Majesty has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Gr eat Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, constituting and appointing George Graham, Esq., Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriag,es in England, in the room of Thomas Henry Lister, Esq., deceased. FOREIGN-OFFICE, Juwx 20. The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Charles Francis Edward Herbet, as Consul at Dublin for his Majesty the King of the French. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Essex. J. Attwood, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, May 28 ; G. A. W. Welch, Esq., to be ditto, May 30; J. H. Pelly, Esq., to be ditto, June 1. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire. Ayrshire Yeomanry Cavalry—To be Captains—Lieutenant G. J Campbell, vice Fairlie ; Lieutenant Sir J. Boswell, Bart. vice the Marquess of Hastings ; Lieutenant R. Hunter, vice J. Campbell ; Archibald Earl of Cassillis, vice Sir C. Fergus son, May 26. To be Lieutenants—Cornet T. E. Cuninghame, vice Caw"- bell; Cornet J. J. Burnet, vice Sir J. Boswell; Cornet R. R. Glasgow, vice Hunter ; Cornet J. Hamilton, vice Sir A. M. Cuninghame, Bart. ; R. Fergusson, Gent. vice A. Cuninghame; R. A. Oswald, Gent. vice J. S. Hay, May 26, To be Cornets— The Honourable J. Kennedy, vice Cuning hame ; R. J. Craufurd, Gent., vice Burnet, promoted ; W. A. Cuninghame, Gent„ vice Glasgow ; W. C. Patrick, Geut., vice Hamilton, May 26. BANKRUPTS. JOHN ORMROD; builder, M anchester; to surrender July 2 and August 2, at twelve, at the Commissioners'. rooms, Manchester. Howarth, Manchester ; Apply, Alder manbury, London. THOMAS PITCAIRN, merchant, Liverpool, July 1 and August 2, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Low, Garey, and Sweeting, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London ; North and Owed, Liverpool. WILLIAM MAIN WA RING, coal master, Dudley, July 5, and August 2, at three, at the Swan Hotel, Wolverhampton. Amory, Sewell, and oores, Throgmorton-street, London; Twamley, Dudley. WILLIAM WATTS, grocer, King's Lynn, Norfolk, June 29, and Aug. 2, at eleven, at the King's Head Inn, King's Lynn. Swatman, King's Lynn ; Roy, Blunt, John ston, and Walton, Lothbury, London. WM. BELTON, draper, Deeßing Saint James, Lincoln shire, June 28 and August 2, at eleven, at Standwell'a Hotel, Stamford. Atkisson and Jenkins, Peterborough. MARGARET THOMAS, innkeeper, Manchester, July 2 and August 2, at eleven, at the Commisaioners'rooms, Manches ter. Jaques, Battye, and Edwards, Ely-place, Holborn; and Heath, Swan-street, Manchester. JOHN 6WANN, currier, Loughborough, July 7, and August 2, at eleven, at the King's Head Inn, Loughborough. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, King's-bench-walk, Temple ; Co aley, Nottingham. JAMES PLLMAN, wine-merchanf, Settle, Yorkshire, July 22, at one, at the Golden Lion Inn, Settle, and August 2, at one, at the New Inn, Gisburn. Ross, Symond's-inn, Chan cery-lane; Hodgson, Gisburn. JOHN JAME s GRANT, ale merchant, Gloucester-street, Queen's.square, Bloomsbury, June 28, at one, and Augu.t 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assig n. e, Bashinghall-street ; Hilleary, Leadenhall-street. JOHN HORATIO CLARK and HENRY CHARLES FARROW, wine merchants, King William. street ; July 5, at twelve, and August 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official aseignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; Selby, Sergeant's-inn, Fleet-street. RICHARD COCKRILL, grocer, Kirton-in -Lindsey. Lin colnshire, July 5 and Aug. 2, at twelve, at the White Hart Inn, Gainsborough. Bell, Bedford-row, London; Bellamy, Gainsborough. PHILLIP WALTERS and MORGAN LLEWELLYN, timber-merchants, Neath, Glamorganshire, July 12 and Aug. 2, at eleven, at the Bush Inn, Swansea. Walters, Swansea ; Rowland and Young, White Lion-court, Cornhill, London. WALTER JAMES BURGLE, carpenter, Beer-lane, Tower-street, July 1, at twelve, and August 2, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, Birchin-lane, official assignee • Scott, Saint Mildred's-court, Poultry. JEHU GEORGE BOURNE, carpenter, Wellington-ter race, Clapham, July 1, at eleven, and August 2, at two , at the Court of Ban kruptcy. Green, Alderavnbury, official assignee; Gregory and Cook, Swithin's-lane. GEORGE EDMUND CARTWRIGHT, chemist, Mar low, Buckinghamshire, June 28, at eleven, and August 2, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington , Coleman-street buildings official assignee; Marsden, Watling - street , City. EDWIN TWIZELL GOUGH, patent agent, Strand, June 29, at two, and August 2, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, Basinghall-street, official assignee ; Ashley, Shoreditch. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(THIS DAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 8 iGibraltar ..: .. Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8i Genoa . 15 95 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 iVenice 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 65 Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 26i Frankfort on Maine... 152 Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 'Buenos Ayres Berlin.. Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M 958 Philadelphia Trieste, ditto 9 59 PRICES OF BULLION, PER 07, Madrid Cadiz Bilbao 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona . 36 New Dollars 0 4 10A Seville ... 36 Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4 11/ MARKET INTELLIGENCE. ( From the London New Price Current of June 21.) SUGAR.—To-day the British Plantation Sugar market pre sented a firm aspect. The public' sales to-day were well at tended; Bin badoes common and mid sorts at an advance on la.t sales rates of 61 per cwt, good and fine fetched full prices low )ellow sold at 63s to 63s 6d, mid 64s to 65s 6d, good 66s to 675, and fine bright 67s 6d to 68s 6d per cwt : the latter all sold at prices on a par with those obtained privately, fine yellow fetched 65s 6d to 665, good 64s to 64s 6d, mid 62s to 635, low grey 61s to 61s 6d, good and fine brown 60s 6d to 61a 6d, washed 60s to 61s 6d per cwt. REFINED.—Te-day the Refined Sugar Ma.ket was firm, and a good business was transacted • standard lump fetched 83s 5d to 845., and brown grocery lump 82s to 83s per cwt. ; Basterds met with a free sale at 51s to 61a, but Treacle moved off slowly at the rates quoted above Bonded Crushed Sugar better salo at 27s per cwt. ; in other articles there is no va riation. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon there was no public sale, but one is declared ; privately several inquiries existed, but few parcels were to be met with, and stiffer rates were paid—low to fine yellow fetched 62s to 695, and brown 58s to 61s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the trade were free buyers of Bengal, and 3,500 bags at auction were all sold at very full rates—goad white fetched 69s 6d, mid 68s to 68s 6d, 10e mid 675, mid yellow 64s to 665, good mid 66s 6d, damp and washed 65s to 68s per cwt. FOREIGN.— To-day there were buyers of Havannah at last week's rates, but holders not being disposed to sell thereat Checked business. We quote good and fine yellow 19s to 20s, common and mid 18s to 18s 6d, and low to fine white 25s to 30s per cwt. The market looks healthy. MotassEs.—Prices have been sustained for West India; Antigua, fine at 30s, and St Kitts good 26s per cwt. B enga l Syrup 19s to 235. Foreign Molasses at 6s 6d. to 7s 6d per cwt, Honey, good and fine sorts 45s to 70s, common and middling 28s to 40s per cwt; West India Tamarinds at 40s per cwt. • COCOA.—There has been an increased demand for West India Cocoa, and rather higher rates have been paid for the best sorts, of which the supply is small, other kinds have brought full prices. COFFEE.—The demand has been brisk for British Planta ticn Coffee for home consumption since last Tuesday, and prices have advanced 3e to 5s per cwt. This afternoon the demand was good for all descriptions of Coffee for home consumption. The sales were 29 bags Mocha, 1010 bags Ceylon, 800 bags E. I. • Mocha sold at 83, 6 d to B;ss, for mid clean, garbled being rather higher. Ceylon being held for 6d to Is per cwt advance ; a part only found buyers ; viz., good ordinary brown at 755, good ord coloury 75s 6d to 764 61, and tine ord 79s 6d to file 6d, and triage 335. East India went at full rates; good and fine ord pale Singapore Java at 44s 6d to 475, good ord Batavia 35 s 6 d to 419, good ord Padang 30e 6d to 31s 6d, low 28s 6d to 30s Fer cwt. Foreign Coffee at stiffer rates; good ord St. Domingo fetched 34s to 355. and common to..good ord Rio 33s to 353. TEA.—The market for Tea has still an healthy appearance. To-day a good inquiry existed for Tea, but few parcels were to be met with, and buyers were compelled to pay stiffer rates ; common and good common sound Congou cash fetched is 8d to Is 9(1 ; Is 7d to Is 7d is the value of common out of condition. "Company's Congou is selling at Is 9d, and Twankay at Is 7id to Is 9d for common and good. RLM, BRANDY, AND HoLLANns.--In Leewards a fair business has been transacted at an advance. elf -Idlier gallon ; proof common quality at 2s 2d, good 2s 21 j d to 2.f3d, 2 td t) per tent one proof 2s Sid to 25 bd per gallon. Jamaica fine qua- (TIIIS DAY.) , TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 1842 lity 34 to 36 over proof Os 4d to 5s 6d, good 32 over 51, mid , and good mid 29 to 31 over 4s 6d to 4s lld per gallon. Deme rara of strong quality has been sought after. Calcutta Rum at the low duty, Is 8d to Is I Id, andat the high duty at is 6 1 %d to is 7d per gallon. The market for for Brandy is still in an inac.ive state; Cognac first brands of the vintage of 1837, hhds 5s 2d, puns, Bs ; 1838, hhds 5s puns, 4s 10d ; 1839, hhds 4s sd, puns 4s. 3d ; 1840, hhds . 3s. 11d, puns 3s 9d ; 1841, hhds 3s 10d puns 3s 8d per gallon. Geneva common at is lld to 2s. British Corn Spirits at 10s, cash. To-day, in the Rum market, sales of proof Lewards were made at 2s 2 1 ,4 d to 2s 3id, and Calcutta without certificate at Is di to is 7d per gallon. The market closed firmly. Rms.—Java at 6s 9d to 10s 9d for common to good white, and yellow 7s 6d to 85 6d per cwt. Carolina at 265, 28s, and 30s. per cwt. Patna 14s to 19s per cwt. • This afternoon for Bengal Rice 103 3d to 10s 6d was paid for middling white ; Madras at 9s for low, and 9s 6d to 10s for mid white. MPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met at the usual hour. TRANSFER OF LICENSES BILL. This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday. • A message from the House of Commons brought up the Dean Forest Ecclesiastical Districts Bill, and a variety of other Bills, which were severally read a first time. PUBLIC-HOUSE BILL. The Marquis of SALISBURY presented a petition signed by upwards of 150 individuals of Liverpool, against certain clauses in the Public-house Bill, with reference to the powers of interference possessed by the police. Lord KENYON presented a similar petition, also from Liverpool. NATIONAL EDUCATION (IRELAND). The Archbishop of ARMAGH presented a variety of petitions from the inhabitants of Ireland against the present system of national education in Ireland, and in favour of the system pursued by the Church Educational Society. The petitions were signed by nearly the whole of the Irish Protestant clergy, and were worthy of the most serious attention of their Lordships' House. The Marquis of DOWNSHIRE concurred in the re marks of the Right Rev. Prelate, and in the terms in which the petitioners had addressed their Lordships. lie was obliged to the Right Rev. Prelate for having brought these petitions before the House: CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Earl of CLARENDON rose pursuaut to notice, to present a petition from the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope. The petition was signed by 600 individuals, who stated that they had always been deeply sensible of the advantages of free institutions. They prayed for a legislative form of Goveinment, who should be as nearly similar as possible to the Government of Great Britain, When they considered the importance of this colony, containing upwards of 180,000 inhabitants, dissatisfied with the present form of Government, he thought their petition was worthy the attention of that House. They were of opinion that a management of their own affairs would be likely to render their state more thriving ; and they were the more convinced of this since the introduction of municipal institutions amongst them. A Bill was before the House of Commons to present New South Wales with a legislative form of Government ; and the inha bitants of the Cape of Good Hope thought that they were quite as capable of managing their own affairs as New South Wales. Earl RIPON stated that a similar petition, signed by the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, had been sent to her Majesty's Government. He could assure his Noble Friend that her Majesty's Government were as anxious as any one could possibly be for the welfare of that important colony. It would be strange, indeed, if they should fail to see the advantages of that system of Government by which this country had itself flourished. There were, however, a variety of difficulties in the way to be overcome before a similar Govern ment could be established there. The very position of the colony militated against it. The plan as proposed was exceedingly deficient as to any description of the means by which it was to be carried into effect. One part of the plan was that there was to be but ~one House, and that was to be altogether elective. Now it was true that in the constitution proposed for New South Wales there was to be but one House ; but then some of the Members were to be appointed by the Crown. He could only say, in conclusion, that the subject should have from him the consideration which its importance deserved. _ _ _ _ Lord BROUGHAM would have preferred that his Noble Friend had not brought forward this sub ject until a more seasonable opportunity presented itself.—(Hear, hear.) But as it had been brought forward, he could not let the occasion pass without saying that he would oppose the introduction of a sys tem which was falsely called the extension of the British constitution into the colony of the Cape. One great objection which he had to it was the withdrawal of the protection of the Crown from that large body of the population which had recently passed from the condition of slaves to that of freed men. He objected to place them en tirely under the Government of that other por tion of the inhabitants who were white freemen. Trini dad. and other colonies of the West Indies, had applied for a local representative Government ; but fortunately for the coloured population, the application was rejected in all except one ; and the result of the concession in that case convinced him that with regard to the interests of the coloured population, it was not adviseable, it was not safe, to grant what was called a constitution to the colony of the Cape until the state of society was con siderably improved. Lord HOWDEN was much gratified that his Noble Friend (the Earl of Clarendon) had brought forward this subject. He could, not see the justice of con demning a population of 20,000 persons, far ad vanced in civilisation and manners, to political bondage, because the sin of slavery had once existed amongst them. He believed that the colony was in every respect fitted to enjoy the advantages of a re presentative Government, and he could say from per sonal knowledge, that in the whole range of the British colonies there was not one better affected to the mother country, nor more sincerely loyal in attachment to the Sovereign and the Constitution, than the Cape. After a few words from. Lord BROUGHAM in ex planation the conversation dropped. [LEFT SITTING.] not to have mentioned names at all—(Laughter)— particularly as he was wrong.—(Laughter.) He stated yesterday, that Messrs. Howell and James had deducted 6d. for every sovereign they had taken since the procla mation. He had received a letter from them, in which they stated that the moment the proclamation was issued they directed their cashiers to take all sovereigns heavy or light. They had taken upwards of 2,000 in the course of ten days, and they found only 150 to be light, and the loss only amounted to about 11. 14s. 6d., or 3d. each. Mr. FOSTER wished to ask her Majesty's Govern ment if any steps were about to be taken with respect to the silver coinage. He was aware that great inconveni• 1 ence was felt by the public owing to the limited supply of silver coin. Mr. GLADSTONE had received complaints of the inconvenience which the public had recently suffered from the want of an additional silver currency, but he was not certain that that inconvenience was at tributable to any. actual deficiency of the sil ver currency itself. The apparent scarcity of silver coin was owing to the circumstance that the half sovereigns had suffered from depreciation much more relatively than the sovereigns ; they had of course become more discredited, and, there was in consequence a greater demand for silver to sup ply the place of the half sovereigns. Attention had been paid to the subject, and an issue of half sovereigns would take place at the earliest possible period to supply the place of those which had been discredited. Dr. BOWNING complained that 'the answer of the Right Hon. Gentleman was not quite satisfactory. The inquiry of his Hon. Friend was, whether there was any intention of making an additional issue of silver coin ? He (Dr. Bowring) could bear evidence to the great scarcity of silver coin ; he bad been informed that very morning by his own bankers that there was a very great deficiency of silver. Mr. GLADSTONE said, that if it should prove that the inconvenience was really owing to a deficiency in the silver coinage, mewls would be taken to remedy it; but he doubted if there were any actual scarcity of silver, for, only about four weeks since, complaints had been made by the bankers of a surplusage of silver coin. STADE DUTIES. Mr. HUT r begged to remind the Right Hon. Baro net at the head of the Government, of the promi:e which he had given some time since, that he (Sir R. Peel) would infolin him (Mr. Hutt) of the result of the measures which the Government had adopted for the settlement of the Stade dues. As he had received no communication from the Right Hon. Baronet on the sub ji-et, he was afraid that nothing satisfactory had been done. He therefore gave notice that, on Thursday next, he should ask the Right Hon. Baronet what steps had been taken for the settlement of the Stade dues. Sir R. PEEL would give all the information in his power on the subject of,the Stade Dues immediately.— (Hear.) The negotiations on the subject were not yet concluded. He had within the last few days had an in terview with the Envoy of the Hanoverian Government on the subject, and the Envoy had stated that the propo sitions of the British Government could not be accepted by the Hanoverian Government. He was not , able to give any further information on the subject. SLAVE TRADE PRIZES. Captain PECHELL wished, with reference to what had taken place on Thursday last, to ask where the money arising from the sale of the prizes cap tured by our cruisers engaged in suppressing the slave trade under the provisions of the Act of 1839, was lodged, and whether it was the intention of the Government to introduce a Bill to re medy- the oversight of the Act of 1839, and to divide the money among the captors. Sir R. PEEL said, that a Bill on the subject had been prepared, and would be speedily introduced. With re gard to the other inquiry cf the Gallant Officer, he begged to state, that he (Sir R. Peel) had referred to the public departments, and had not yet received any answer. When he received an answer, he would inform the Hon. and Gallant Officer. CAPTAIN WARNER'S INVENTION. Sir C. NAPIER wished to ask what steps had been taken with regard to Captain Warner's ,invention Captain Warner had, he (Sir C. Napier) understood, ex pressed a desire that Lord Hardwick and Lord Ingestrie should be appointed on the Commission to investigate the merits of his invention, and had complained that Sir Byam Martin and Sir Howard Douglas had demanded of him that he should make known all his secrets, without having ary guarantee given to him that they would not be divulged. Captain Warner further stated that Sir George Murray was . fully cog nizant of what had taken place, and that he (Captain Warner) was desirous of unbosoming himself to the Right Hon. Baronent—(A laugh)—and that after the merits of his invention should have been tested, he would leave the question of compensation entirely in the hands of the Right Honourable . Baronet. He also stated that, if a three-decker were placed before him, he could destroy it immediately. , He (Sir C. Napier) therefore thought that Government ought to ascertain whether or not Captain Witmer waf a char.atan. Sir R. PEEL said that, since the last mention of this subject three weeks ago, applications had been made by several individuals to have personal interviews with him on the subject of secrets which, they stated, were entitled to the utmost consideration on the part of the state. He did not mention that in disparagement of Captain War ner's invention. Shortly after his (Sir Robert Peel's) appointment to office, he had had an opportunity of seeing the extraordinary effects produced - by Captain Warner's invention, and he signified that he was will ing, not only in the regular authorized way to make ex periments with respect to the discovery—that he thought it rested either with the Admiralty or the Board of Ord nance to judge of the invention—but that he . himself was wholly incompetent to form a judgment upon it ; that he must permit to the heads of these departments the charge of instituting experiments of this kind, He, therefore, wrote to Sir George Murray, the blaster -general of the Ordnance, to request him to name two officers to whom no possible exception could be taken—who had the most professional knowledge and the greatest practical skill in gunnery, and everything respecting the destruction of human life.—(Laughter.) He had also stated that he thought it very hard that Capt. Warner should be put to any expense in the course of conducting the experiments and proposed that the expense should be borne by the public. lie asked, then, the House, whether or not, knowing the number of similar applications that had been made, he could have taken any better course. The two gentlemen whom Sir George Murray had appointed for the purpose of making the experi ments were Sir Howard Douglas and Sir T. Hastings. and he would appeal to any person conversant with those subjects, whether more suitable parties could be selected. What he thought right was that the experiments be taken in the first instance, and let them judge of them afterwards. That was the course which he would assure the Honourable and Gallant Admiral was absolutely necessary. With respect to the danger to human life in conducting these experiments, the Board of Ordnance would take the greatest precaution to guard against it. No experiment would be undertaken that should be attended with danger. That was the course which he had pursued, and he would . venture to say, there would not be one guinea left in the Treasury, if they were to give way to all the suggestions of persons, who thought that they bad made discoveries not only in things pertaining to the art of war, but to every other art. After a few words from Sir C. NAPIER the subject dropped. BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS.. Lord J. RUSSELL did not wish to interfere with the motion of his Hon. Friend, the Member for Sheffield, but he trusted that the Right Hon. Baronet opposite, as the second reading of his Bill for the prevention of bribery was not opposed, would allow the second read ing to be taken sub silentio, and name some early day for the committal of the Bill. The Bill was then read a second time, and at till suggestion of Sir Robert Peel, the Committee was fixed for Tuesday next. AFFGHANISTAN. Mr. MANGLES believing the statements of the Right Hon. Baronet, with respect to the advances made for the war in China and Affghanistan, wished to know whether any advances had been made to the East India Company, for the purposes of the war.in Affghanistan. Sir R. PEEL regretted that the Hon. Member had not given notice of Lis question. What he stated was, that the expenses of the war in Affghanistan required so much expenditure on the part of the East India Company, that it was inconvenient for them to be in advance on acceunt of the war in China ; and it was in consequence of that that he had proposed that two sums of money should be raised to defray the expenses, not of the Affghanistan but of the Chinese war. THE BALLOT. _ _ The SPEAKER - having called upon Mr. Ward to bring on his motion with respect to the Ballot, Mr. BERKELEY and Mr. THORSLEY presented peti tions from Liverpot 1 and Bristol in favour of the Ballot. Mr. WARD said that ho rose to address the House with a very sincere sense, both of the difficulty and of the importance of the task he had undertaken of sub mitting the question of the Ballot for the first time, to the consideration of the present House of Commons.—(Hear, hear, hear.) When he talked of the difficulty of the task, he did not mean merely that embarrasment which he felt, and which every man of inferior powers must fail in at tempting to engage the attention of that House toll question involving so much, both of principles and of de tails, as the Ballot ; but he had to contend with the addi tional difficulty of ridding his own mind from the recollection of the admirable ability, the aptitude of illustration, the closeness of reasoning, and the high mental and logical powers brought to him, upon that very question by his lion. Friend, the late Member for the City of London, Mr. Grote—a gentle man whom all who knew him admitted to have been an ornament to that House—(Hear, hear)—however much they might differ from him in political opinions and who had brought to bear upon that question in the three first Parliaments after the passing of the Reform Bill the best efforts of his highly cultivated mind. But while there was nothing he should so mach fear or deprecate as any comparison between the manner in which he might deal with the question and that adopted by his Hon. Friend Mr. Grote, he was encouraged in attempting to follow in his path by the recollection that time had brought many of his opinions, as to the consequences of open voting, to the test ; that what might have been disputed ten years ago, could not now be denied, and that instead of any reason ing upon abstract principles, he had only to ask the House to provide e remedy for evils now universally admitted, but in which many had formerly disbelieved. He could now appeal to the Acts of the House, to the Reports of the Committees, to the records of its own procee din g s, to those painful proceedings, and humiliating discussions which had taken up so much of their time, to show that the ten dency of the system of open voting had been progressing from had to worse, that its effects were most demoralising, most discreditable to the character of the country in the eyes of the world, and that a remedy was indispen sable, unless they meant ,to forfeit the confidence, to HOUSE . OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. Lord BARNARD presented petitions from several places in the county of Cork, against the system of Na tional Education in Ireland. Sir R. FERGUSON presented a petition from Lon donderry, praying for the abolition of Church patronage. Mr. B. WOOD presented a petition, signed by various parties residing at sthe southern side of the Metropolis, praying for the opening of the metropolitan bridges. Air. O'CONNELL presented a petition from an indi vidual, who had formerly acted as agent for the House of Assembly in Newtoundland, against the Government Newfoundland Bill. THE INCOME-TAX. Mr. LEADER presented a petition from the members of the Westminster Mechanics' Institution, praying that that institution, and others established fur spreading in formation amongst the people, should be exempted from the local and general taxes which now pressed on them, and especially from the operation of the proposed In come •tax. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS. Mr. HUME presented a petition from the borough of Lambeth, praying that that part of the Metropolis should be included in the general plan of metropolitan improvements. TEN HOURS BILL. Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from Stockport in favour of a Ten Hours Factory Bill. THE BALLOT. Mr. SHEIL presented a petition from the inhabitant electors of the parish of St. James, Westminster, praying for the protection of the Ballot to voters in Parliamen tary elections, that protection having been found most effectual in parochial elections. THE LIGHT SOVEREIGNS. Sir GEORGE COCKBURN said it might be satisfac tory to the House if he stated the result of the inquiries which be had made respecting the alleged issue of light sovereigns in the payments of the dockyard and the Pique. He found that all the sovereigns sent down from the Admiralty .for those purposes had heen pre viously weighed and ascertained to be of the full weight. Again, before they were paid out they were weighed one by one.—(Hear, hear.) But the origin of the report to the contrary might be traced to the fact, that several of the men on presenting their sovereigns to some of the shopkeepers in Portsmouth were told that they were deficient of weight, and were v‘orthne; more than 19s. each. The men brought back the sovereigns to the office, when they were all re weighed in their presence, and proved to their satisfac tion to be of full weight. Great pains had been taken to prevent the issue of any light coin in the payment of the wages either in the dockyard or the seamen of the Pique. Great pains had been also taken in all the other estsblishments, and he had ascertained that some, but very few light ones had been paid away at Plymouth, but not one at Portsmouth. CORN-LAWS. On the motion of Mr. HUTT, the Order of the Day frr the second reading of the Bonded Corn Bill was di, charged. Mr. BANNERMAN gave notice that, on the 30V - 1 of June, he sLould move resolutions for the admission of fo reign corn, by orders in Council, under certain drown. stances, when Parliament was not sitting. NEWFOUNDLAND BILL. Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice that, on the reading of the order of the day for the House to go into Committee on the Newfoundland Bill, he would move to postpone the reading of the order for six weeks, to allow time for the meeting of the Assembly before proceeding further into the Bill. And further, that the parties from whom he had presented a petition against the Bill, might be heard at the bar of the House. QUEEN'S LETTER. Mr. WALLACE moved for a return of the amount raised by the letter of the Queen, addressed to the Arch bi3hop of Canterbury, and the distribution thereof. CANADA. Mr. MIME moved for a return of the purpose to which 180,00 d, granted to the Canadas, had been applied. CAPTAIN WARNER'S INVENTION. Captain PECHELL wished to ask the Hon.. Baronet, the MemLer for Wiltshire, at what time he intended to bring forward his motion respecting the invention of Captain Warner ? Sir F. BURDETT said that he had given notice of his intention to bring the subject under the consideration of. the House at the earliest opportunity GOLD COINAGE. 11Ir. - C.7BITLLER said he:.withect to correct a mis take into which he had fallen the night b e f ore ; when he mentioned the name of a firm in the City. I.lWonght alienate the respect, and to outrage the moral feelings of the people whom they re pr e s e titeds--(H e ar, hear,) They were called the " bribery Parliament ;" and they deserved the name. Now, he wished to profess, hi t he first instance, that he did not mean to treat that question in any way as a party question. He looked upon it as a question in which all sides of the House had the same interest, and in bringing it under the consider ation of the House, he trusted he was actuated by better motives and hopes than if he had brought it forward merely to serve the purposes of a party. He admitted at once that corrupt influence had been most unscrupulously appealed to at the late and at other elections, by Liberals as well as by Conservatives. He regretted to find that- lie was forced to that admission ; and he wished his own party had always steered clear of corrupt practices at elections since the year 1833. But` that had not been the case. Both parties had acted upon the same system. That system was a bad one ; it was one which no honest man would attempt to justify upon sober reflection, al though he might have been tainted with it himself. It was a system which no well-wisher of his country would defend. He saw with great satisfaction that there were at present a disposition manifested on both sides of the House to look seriously to the dangers which such a system must entail upon the conntry. He had heard bribery denounced by the leaders on both sides in terms which would seal its fate in six months if those terms had been sincerely employed. He had a right to question the sincerity of parties, until he . saw them follow up that expression of their opinions by practical remedial measures ; and he did con sider that the best test of sincerity would be to renounce that power in which the abuse originated. He thought he could show that if the power was re nounced of unduly influencing electors, the existing evil would be soon eradicated. He did not approve of the policy of having recourse merely to measures of severity, which could never be impartially applied. He thought the present time was particularly favourable to the discussion. The balance of power in the Reuse was not so nicely distributed that it could be materially affected by any slight change in the machinery of repre sentation which would give an advantage to either side. He was bound. too, to say that the Right Hon. Baronet, the leader of the party opposite had shown a proper sense of respect for his own station, and a sincere desire fairly to discharge the duties imposed on him. He alluded more particularly to the course pursued by the Right Honourable Baronet, with respect to the Notting ham, the Southampton, and the Belfast elections. Some of the expressions used by the Right Honourable Baronet on that occasion ne might he permitted to recall to the recollection of the House. The Right Honour able Baronet said, considering the extent to which bribery had been stated to prevail, he did think and now stated hi's deliberate opinion that it would not be for the honour or dignity of the House to interpose any technical objections to prevent the inquiries. He said, also, that whoever might be the par ties compromised, or whatever might be the interest they might exert, he would not lend the countenance of the Government to any suppression of the fullest in quiry into those cases. The Noble Lord, the Member for Sunderland, who was one of the greatest opponents of the Ballot, had formerly used as one of his arguments against it, the improvement that had taken place in the disposition of the Landed Proprietors through out England, and that they might safely be en trusted with their influence over the constituencies. A singular change must • have come over him during the last election, for, in a speech he de livered on that occasion, he found the most sweeping charges brought against •the la ndlords. He found in that speech the most severe censures against the landed proprietors of the county of Northumberland, and he never heard the most strenuous advocate for the Ballot expose with so cutting a censure the mal-prac tices and illegitimate influence of the landlords as that of the Noble Lord. The Hon. Member then referred and quoted at great length from the speech of Lord ' Howick, delivered after the last election of Northumber land, in which he complained of the conduct of the ' Duke of Northumberland, Lord Tankerville, and Lord Ossulston, in influencing the tenantry in giving their He (Mr. Ward) claimed the vote of the Noble Lord to night on the strength of that speech. If he was desirous to see such practices put an end to, he would vote for his motion practices which were quite as • objec tionable, and quite as prevalent, as that of bribing, and for which he believed no remedy by penal' enact ment would be an effectual stop. He was glad to see the Noble Lord in the House.—(Lord Howick had just come in.) He would hand him the speech he had de livered in Northumberland, and with that in his hand he did not know how he (Lord Howick) could refuse him his support. He now came to the Bribery Bill of the Noble Lord, the Member for London. The Noble Lord admitted, as he (Mr. Ward) did, the extent of the evil, and the necessity of a remedy, and it only remained for the advocates of the Ballot to show the superiority of that remedy to the one the Noble Lord recommended. He (Mr. Ward) had no great faith in the penal enactments against bribery. They had for one hundred years back such remedies. They were tried in every shape, but it was impossible by reme dies of such a nature t o touch an evil of such a protean cha racter. Now there was no want of stringency in the existing law, as he said before. But the law had existed upwards of one hundred years, for he found during the life of 1)e Foe the same complaint, being 135 years ago. He said, " We have lately had three Acts of Parliament to prevent bribery and corruption at elections, We have the hest laws, but they are badly executed." In another . passage, written in 1780, immediately after an election had taken place, he said that some people had voted for money, fame for influence. and others from intimidation, • and he believed it was not impossible to debauch this na by variocs kinds of intoxication. With these examples before him (Mr. Ward) he had little hope, he confessed, by any legislative enactment that the Noble Lord could introduce, of getting rid of these practices which were privately connived at, but publicly condemned. Now he would ask any man in that House whether he thought that system would last ; could it last at all events without producing those effects, the Right Hon. Baronet himself had pointed out in the speech which he (Mr. Ward) had quoted. There were millions o eyes upon this system, millions who were excluded from it, because they told them that a property qualification was the only criterion of fitness to exercise the franchise. When they turned their attention to those who possessed it—when they looked to the 101. householder, and the 501. tenant-at-will, as a criterion and example of that integrity, of that disinterestedness, and patriotism, which a:property qualification was sup posed to secure, would they not say that the whole tenantry of England were sunk in a state of almost serfish submission to their landlords. Such was the wholesale, open-faced, unblushing profligacy that pre vailed at the last election, that out of the returns for England, Ireland, and Scotland, no less than fifty-five were impeached by petition, - there fifty-five petitions, affecting no less than seventy-eight seats. Every Gentleman in that House knew f erfectly well that a great many cases of wholesale corruption escaped notice altogether ' as there were not sufficiently clear parties in the different places to petition fur an inquiry. As he said there were fifty-five petitions against seventy-seats, they must not forget that in many of the Committees there were special Re s. ports. Now what did those special Reports say ? The Southampton Committee, said James Bruce, Esq., com monly called Lord Bruce, and C. Martin; Esq., were by their agents guilty of bribery at the election for the borough of Southampton. From the evidence it appeared thit gross treating and bribery had existed ; that the sum expended was 5,000 L, far exceeding the legal charges, and deserved the consideration of that House. He found that in the case of Ipswich that Rigby Wason, Esq., and George Rennie, • Esq., were by their agents guilty of bribery at the last election for the borough of Ipswich, the Committee also resolved unani mously that they should recommend to the House to suspend the issuing of a new writ until the evidence should have been taken into consideration by the House. [LEFT SPEAKING.] HAMBURGH MAIL. HAMEURGE, JUNE 16.—The last meeting of the Se nate of Citizens since the fire took place to-day. The Senate proposed raeasures for the consideration of the citizens :- 1. The appointment of a Commission, consisting of nineteen Members, five of the Senate, and fourteen of the citizens, for one year. 3. To contract a loan, not exceeding 32 millions of marks banco, to make good the losses sustained by the insurance fund. To pay the principal and interest of this loan an extraordinary insurance tax of 1 per cent. per annum, to be paid on the present insurance. All the loan shall be paid off (the means are added). 3. To fix a plan for re-building the part of the city that is destroyed. 4 To make some regulations respecting the building of the burnt quarters. (This seems to mean something eluivalent to an Act directing the erection of party walls and other measures of a similar nature.) 5. That the Commission, the appointment of which is proposed, depute two of its members to the existing " Board of Relief," and also to agree with the Senate in the principles according to which the funds shall be applied. The assembly of the citizens agreed to Art. 1 in every point. Art. 2, they approve of the loan, but do not ap prove of part of the means proposed for the repayment They fully approve of Art. 3,4, and 5. Among the recent donations for the poor of Hamburgh, is one of 10,000 marks, from the King of Sweden.—Thim burgh Papers. HANlnurtGu, JUNE 17.—The number of ships that passed the Sound in May, 1842, was: —From the North Sea, 971; from the Baltic, 914. In all 1,885; of these there were 410 English, viz., from the North Sea, 248; from the Baltic, 162. AN 4 , U NDS—BRumILS, JUNE 18 Actual Debt,yy per Cent. Eothaebild's Loan, 5 per Cent 1(33 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 93% 3per Cent. ---.Thirty.seven „ ~,,, (140) l(3 LOAD ur City, 1'.32, 4 per Cent. 93li Sottiet) ot Corium tee, 4 Sper Cent Sti Rank of Belgium, ft per Cent"... ....... 1.4, - tional SNciety — Exchange on London (short) — _.Brussels Papers, June 16. AUSTRIAN FUN DS..—VIIINNA, Juss 10 f iveper C.nts.Metalliques Fo.t per Cents. 1 03i 'I hreeper Cents. Rank Shares We are glad to learn that an appeal, which we trust may be eminently successful, has been made to public sympathy in behalf of the suffering wives and children of our army in Cabul. The list of subscriptions is appropriately graced by having at is head the name of the Queen for 2001. ; Sir Charles Forbes has given 100 guineas, the Hon. Mr. Elphin stone 50/., and a number of other charitable individuals have sent in to the Committee sums of less amount. The case is one of a very urgent nature, and we hope the general budy of our countrymen, and countrywomen as well, will aid in the promotion of so pressing an °bidet of benevolence. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT• HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 20. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE ioresented a petition front a gentleman of the name of. Price, residing in Essex, praying that a clause might be introduced into the Railways Bill for the protection of property adjacent to railways. GOLD COINAGE. Mr. C. BULLER (in continuation) proceded to say — When he was mentioning the conduct. of the Bank, he might allude to a subject which had been wen ,. tioned in the papers, namely, ' that while • .the Bank had been refusing light sovereigns, it • had also been issuing them. He had heard that from so many authorities, that he could not doubt it. A person went to the Bank, tendered eight sovereigns.. and a deduction was made in the payment f 0; 111 i: them. There was a cuse of a man who, having at one ,Terat department of the Bank tendered sovereigns wh i c h had I'4 been given to him at another department , they were elf fouud to be light, and the full value refused to be given • .eefe . for them. While the Bank was refusing light sovereigns, 111'1' it WaS issuing light sovereigns. He had thought it right • •—" . to bring the subject before the House, because it appear ed to him that by the measure which the Government had thought proper to adopt, a very great loss had been eslti in some way or other inflicted on the public. Might he ask at what period was it that this loss had been inflicted .• on the public—what period had been chosen by the Go vernmeut for inflicting on the country the mischief of al discredited currency ? It was at a period when the most-.,a0, unexampled distress existed among all classes ; wheneil trade and commerce were more paralysed, and the ittee9l. 9Q bourer Less employed, than at any other period Ine.avae.;; lol l a ware of. He should have thought it would have bee/1,300 the course of a wise Government, knowing that there 1 0 was unavoidable pressure from other sources, to have been exceedingly cautious of making, by their own ..(07_, f proceedings, any further additions to the pub- Sr lie burdens. lie thought that such a Govermnent ,141 would have waited . for a. while, or .if .it • would not have waited, that it would have adopted every bee: precaution, in order to let the blow fall as light l y as •e t possible on the public. .ile knew not to what cause to attribute the carelessness of the measure. Ile knew not, .7 , 4",, with the exception of the Right Hon. Baronet, upon ~TS4 7 whom they were accustomed to throw all the responsi bility of the acts of the Government—he knew not to whom to attribute this measure. To be sure there was the Right lion. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exe chequer—a gentleman who had filled, most creditably to • himself, the office of Vice-President of the' Board of Trade. lie supposed that the double duties of , his office had prevented him paying attention to the subject. lle had had to expound the tariff, and he had had to ,1 1 ',. / come down to the House. and contend for e v ery article of the tariff, because . he had not only to prove to that it 97, (the Opposition) side of the House, that there would be 10 1 :; great reduction to the consumer, lout then to turn round ar . ,, to prove to Members on the other side that the reduce; .tf, tiou in the auties would cause no reduction in price-41 Perhaps, under all these circumstance s th e Ri g ht H e m-. Gentietnan's energies had been so much tried that he ei could not attend to the Mint. He (Mr. Buller) could .r#` .. i have wished it otherwise , for he would v e nture to saY,eitr that there had been more harm done by this proceede bl - ing with respect to the coinage in one fortnight than the et tariff would make up in the course of a whole year. 1-11 S. %o' 6 i (Mr. Buller's) object was, not merely to vindicate the d Government, but he had another object in view, because .0; he would certainly be more satisfied if the Government .; would come forward and explain to the country the rea son, which they had not hitherto given, for this sudden and unexplained act. He would tell those gentlemen , and the House generally, that this was not a time , to take that high course of recklessness, and put forth to the public edicts inflicting injury on a great,,' portion of the community without vouchsafing an en:dos - 1 1 5 nation of the grounds for so doing. T he working eliesSeko were not in a humour to be trifled with upon thisniatte l :4o They had intelligence, and they had suspicion.e, Therl i w ould not acquiesce in these edicts without inq uir y. 111 must say that there never was a period in which a folle.1; explanation on the part of a Government would have greater effect upon the good sense and g ood feeling a J' e ji the great mass of the people than now.—(Hear.) 1.05 1 74 the Government show them that they had not trifled. ith' 1 . 7 ,1 their interests ; let them show them that their acts Were .4 with a view to the welfare of tile community. *: The people, whatever their sufferings might be, would' content if they were convinced that the measure was a just one. If the Right Hon. Gentleman could give that explanation which he (Mr. Buller) hoped he would; if be could show that the conduct of the Government had been founded on sound principles ;' if he could show that they had acted as liberally as former Governments ; if lel. could show that they had consulted the best interests 0' the public in the same way as former Governments had; if he could show that there was an occasion for maltilif the change, no one would be more rejoiced than himself He thought the Government should be glad of the or portunity he had given them of offering an explanation , on the subject, and at all events, by briaging the ma ter • under the consideration of the House, it would be shoWr; that parties, however poor and helpless, who lead suffere d from the course taken by the Government, had advocates in that House who felt a sympathy in their suftitringlii and who would take care that they should not be inSPrg" tl i! by the misconduct of their rulers. — (Hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Sat that he was sure the House would forgive him for offer - , ing a few observations in reply to the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, although he was aware that in doin g so h e should have to trespass on the indulgence of the House• , The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had endeavoured tP connect the important subject he had brought under the consideration of the House with another subject wh;ee was to have been the immediate topic of discussion that evening ; and lie (the Chancellor of the Exchequer ) could not but think that the precedent laid down by the e lion. Gentleman of iraroducing a discussion up on question foreign to that immediately before the Hous e ' was calculated to lead to much inconvenience. However' in replying to the Hon. Gentleman, he would pulb imj l . that mutter no further, but would strictly confine to the topic he had introduced. The lion. Gentlem en had complained of the course taken by the Govern men t ,; for withdrawing from circulation that portion of 0e '• gold coin which was below the current value. Bef "t re they proceeded to the consideration of that subject, tl'ee House, he thout, ought to bear in mind what was t" state of the law upon the matter. The law laid it doe r ; •'' as a principle that the gold coin of these realm s, whe si it was under a certain weight, was no lunger a leg tender for any payment. No person was compelled ti take it, and if any party took it he could nut coniP'd_ others to receive it from him in return. It followe ' therefore, clearly as he thought, that when a consider; able portion of the gold coin of the country was defiel,. in weight, that was a subject which would necesse b ,' attract the attention of the Government. It w oula.w - or extremely prejudicial to any class that a great 10 1 4 ) , - t: tion of the current coin should be so, deteriorated do l ' ts could not be offered as a legal tender in any paytee l3 o . He was willing to admit, however, that the subject ° attended with inconvenience, whatever was the ete,:s which the Government might take. He believedit /v ,„ impossible lo devise any means of rectifying the deP r .„, ciated coin, which would not press more or less u p ool if dividuals ; and he believed it would press more.severer'° upon the lower orders of society, inasmuch as they w' to more liable to be deceived by parties who wished t d profit by them. But he would beg the Hon. and Lee, rll la Gentleman to bear in mind what the evils of a " o t coinage were, even to them, and to consider the case, nip • merely in its reference to particular individuals, ,13 '1 1 , reference to the consequences which must ensue fr° ure continued depreciation of the coinage, if some inee s jje. had not been taken to arrest its progress• was quite ready to admit that it would have "„0, far more advantageous to every interest of fle d ciety, if the public had been more frequently wilectiel front time to time of what was the express state °illicit law on this subject, and of what was the weight at ° t oo the gold coin of the country was current. lie took they blame to himself that when he last held the office/le,' filled, he did not communicate to the public by p l i3ot mation, the provisions of the law in this respect., „ e t' , the House should bear in mind that it was only e' l ol4 , fielder times measures of this kind could be taken. we' to defer the period till the evil became intolersblee the not the course for a Government anxious to pres e rn - ve r '• people from loss, to pursue. The evil was ex; portion to the quantity cf light coin in circul more there was of deficient weight the eas reduce the remainder to the same standal making a profit from those to_whom such be passed. Under these circumstances it wi for Government, if the period was convenient earliest measures for withdrawing the lig) circulation. The Hon. Gentleman complau step was taken to lead the public to suppo; gold coin was diminished below what was law, and that this fact was not generally kno ment or the country. But every person in a tion must have known that the gold coin was in weight, and it appeared that such was the the Committee that sat last year on banks of issue. ou elP, peered that much inconvenience was caused to the ~ banks by the refusal of the Bank of England coin under the weight, it not being a legal tedero'n this Bank made communications to Government LIP eP calfr et growing evil. And when he entered into offieel,, , , e t, e communications were made to him on the siwibitekl, merely by the Bank of England, but by othec he 11 .0 establishments of the greatest respectability. je,oo Gentleman thought it uncommon that no P e pet ;` 1 , 4 ,1,; aware of those sovereigns being light, but the yog i !' e f that complaints were made that the Bank °' j3ene it did not take them. 'The law, as far as 01 3 to , 'PVT England was concerned, was strictly adhered` ancbli w its e io c r neither issued nor received a sovereign b weight. This was also the case in certai n hr os , the revenue, so that, from the practice of gi p ier e ) departments, and many private ones, a silinc*e.", t ee ' fee tion was held out to the public that coin belo ci e fl, s t weight would not be accepted as a legal te n e , be e i ,ldir ment. It became the more necessary, beeel - t his 4 60,7, 7 1 beg the House to observe that measures O .1 , 5 0 4(0• could not be taken at every moment when it ' T he t ee e dient, or when it was wished to take t heta' t de fer h ole and Learned Gentlemen had said, why 11 ` ) c oar se ie ; 1 .5.; measure ? The answer was, that if such ofea_sedGi, been pursued, the evil would nave b een aggrztlm, tenfold degree- What he would ask, was, b e en ! to il. state of affairs in the country ? There hauthe ask, tieual influx of bullion and go ld into 0 . 0 0 0 „Ole for some time, and was not that, he ot o b fed by a period when the light gold coinage el ce vl c ee nc erns• di awn ? That the evil was great was ac tory . t' t to re' . every man who knew anything of tri° ll nie rne e i . Wi n ; He felt that if he had omitted such 0, ° eel' do ptea e ver a a medy the evil, it probably would n G oa That was the reason why the Governme 0110 eller the course it had done. The Hon. and I-4 ° c beec lii p e(‘-e man had said that the measure he (th a e ian ce ° l l. the Exchequer) had adopted was at e,., 1 40 0 cedent. Now the Hod. end Leane d " preSe l .ofC r xaCtlY t b ilatiOn, 4- 4 tO rd er ana„ol4 I L3 a Ci t tS e t r obt I 3 111 °' r i A k ht CO i t ri . a t ' P ° filed tb >ose ° toa d by r equi re to Pt Orji¢' 3vin pu bitt Li oe: . as dirl e for' he fac t jt _trY ~, in t, ut, !‘ . l 1 4 e x , the P 4 ' §/ IN 1,4