The Sun. — London, England, 1849-07-25 00:00:00

COLONEL THOMPSON AND THE SHIPPING INTEREST OF HULL. (From the Hull Advertiser.) We are indebted to the Hon. and Gallant Member for Bradford, Colonel Perronet Thompson—a man held in grateful remembrance by the Reformers of Hull—for the earliest intimation of certain Government measures of much importance to the shipping interest of this port. The first of these is a Bill which has been read a first time in the House of Commons, granting permission to vessels, navigated by competent masters and mates, to be relieved from the payment of pilotage; and the second is a Bill for the examination of masters and mates on a plan similar to that proposed two or three years ago, but not then carried out. We have not received copies of these Bills, but Colonel Thompson is anxious that his old friends in Hull should look sharply about them, and see whether they are exactly such measures as Hull shipowners and Hull mariners ought to petition for. Other Members of Parliament express surprise at the apathy with which the shipowners receive intimations of a wish on the part.of the Government that they would seek the redress of proved grievances. In a letter which we yesterday received from Mr. James Clay, one of the hard-working Members for this port, that Honour able Gentleman says :—" Our Hull Chamber of Com merce ought to occupy the recess by concerting a combined action with the other principal ports, so as to agree on terms which may be fair and acceptable to them, as to pilotage, light dues, marine insurance, and the general provisions of Mr. Labou chere's measures, so that a combined influence may be brought to bear on the Board ef Trade." We cordially concur in this opinion ; but will the Hull Chamber i of Commerce and Shipping a ct upon t ? As the annual meeting is to be held in a short time, we may leave the directors to give an answer. On the part of the town generally we are grateful to these Members ef the House of Commons for theiraatt ention to such questions in connexion with the trading and marine interests of the port of Hull. Colonel Thompson tells us he considers himself in the light of an auxiliary Member for this borough, as being an important branch of the Bradford family, and early interwoven with his kindest political associates. Their is not a public man in Hull whose respect for the town will net be increased by this intimation. Of the veneration in which he is held by the working classes of this port, Colonel Thompson requires no newspaper at testation. AUSTRIA. Accounts have been received from Vienna to the 19th inst. On the 15th a desperate battle was fought at Waitzen, between the Russians, commanded by Paskewitch, and the Hungarians, under Georgey, in which the former were defeated. The Wiener Zeitung admits that the Russians were compelled to retreat to Duna Keesh ; and it was believed that they had been driven back to K!.- kosh plain, and that Georgey had succeeded in breaking through the lines and marching to the north, and effecting his junction with the main army. ITALY. The Roman Journal, of the 14th instant., publishes the following document: — PROCLAMATION. 6‘ Romans,—Since our entrance into your city incon testable proofs of sympathy, and numerous addresses, have convinced us that the city of Rome only awaited the momeat it should be delivered from a regimen of oppres sion and anarchy, to manifest anew its loyalty and gra titude towards the generous Pontiff, to whom it is in debted for its first liberties. Those sentiments have never been questioned by France. By restoring to-day in the capital of the Christian world the temporal sovereignty of the Chief of the Church, she has realised the ardent wishes of the Catholic community. Immediately on his accession to the supreme dignity, the illustrious Pius IX. made known to his people the liberal sentiments which animated him. The Sovereign Pontiff appre ciates] your desires and wants. France knows it. Your confidence shall not be deceived. (Signed) " OUDINOT DE REGGIO, " The General-in-Chief. " Rome, July 14, 1849." THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO GLASGOW. We stated on Thursday that communications had been received in the city which rendered it all but certain that the Queen wtould honour Glasgow with a visit on her progress from Ireland to Balmoral. It was not without strong grounds that we held out dads gratifying prospect to the hopes of the citizens. ContempoPuries of yesterday attempted to discredit our announcement, on the authority of " an officer on board her Majesty's yacht at Cowes"—a most un likely quarter to receive any reliable information on a point of this nature. Our contemporaries might as well leave applied to the royal coachmen and grooms. We are happy to be able so soon to place her Majesty's in tention beyond all further doubt, by printing the follow ing letter, which was received from the Home Office by our worthy Lord Provost yesterday (Friday) afternoon:— " Whitehall, July 19,1849. " My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's letter of the 13th inst. " I have much satisfaction in informing your Lord ship that her Majesty has intimated her intention of •isiting the city of Glasgow, on her route from Ireland to Balmoral; and I will take care that your Lordship shall receive due notice of the probable period of her arrival. "I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's obedient servant, " G. GREY. " The Lord Provost of Glasgow." Now that the gracious intention of the Queen is fully known, we need hardly say that every arrangement will be made to give her Majesty a reception worthy of the second city in the empiro.—Glasgow Mail. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The usual term of service of the following ships and vessels has expired. Many of them are ordered home and on their way to be paid off. As far as is known in the latter case, the port of paying off is stated:— The Ardent, 3 gum, Commander Nowell, Mediter raneaa station; not known where to be paid off. The Brilliant. 22 guns, Commander Watson, C. 8., Cape of Good Hope, to be paid off at Sheerness. The Bulldog, 6 guns, Commander Key, Mediterranean; not known. The Calypso, 18 guns, Commander Worth, Pacific; Chatham. The Childers, 14 guns, Commander Pitman, East Indies; Chatham. The Columbine, 16 guns, Commander J. C. D. Hay, East Indies; not known. - - The Constance, 50 guns, Commander Courtenay, Pa• cific; Devonport. The Contest, 12 guns, Commander M•Murdo, Coast of Africa; Portsmouth. The Eurydice, 26 guns, Commander Anson, Cape of Good Hope; Portsmouth. The Harpy, I gun, Commander Tomlinson, Brazils; Portsmouth. The Giffon, 3 guns, Commander Thuriburn, Brazils; aot known. The Herald, 22 guns, Commander Kellett, Pacific; not known. The Hound, 8 guns, Commander G. H. Wood, West Indies; not known. The Inflexible, 6 guns, Commander Hoseason, East Indies; Woolwich. The Medea, 6 guns, Commander Lockyer, East In dies; not known. The Melarnpus, 42 guns, Commander Mason, East Indies; Chatham. The Nimrod, 18 guns, Commander Belgrave, Cape of Good Hope; Devonport. The Pandora, 6 guns, Commander J. Wood, Pacific; Devompert. The Raleigh, 50 guns, Commander Herbert, Brazils; Portsmouth. _ _ _ The Scout, 14 guns, Commander Johnstone, East Indies; Chatham. The Spitfire, 3 guns, Commander Willes, Mediter ranean; Woolwich. The Terrible, 21 guns, Commander Ramsay, Mediter ranean; not known. Vie above list does not include discovery ships, troop ships, receiving or store ships, stationary vessels, and such like. Extract of a letter from the Cape of Good Hope Station ;-- • ~ .__ - - " May 25.—The Governor is still very ill, though nut of danger. The Geyser steam-vessel arrived here, from St. Helena, on the 30th ult., having run in and landed the Bishop at Table-bay on her way up. She will be here for the next three months at least, in con sequence of some necessary repairs connected ey e,cet.ehdw) on ith the her machinery. The Orestes left, this (s 15th instant, for a cruizi in the Mozambique. This vessel has been thoroughly cleaned out, and her crew turned over to the Seringapatam in the mean time, in consequence of sickness having shown itself. Some few men have been invalided;and there are eleven in hospital. The First-Lieutenant (Mr. Ellerman) will invalid home in the Childers, having lost his voice, and thereby be come incapable of performing his duty as efficiently as he has been accustomed to do. The Nimrod is expected here shortly, from the Mauritius, on her way to England, the Eurydice having left this to relieve her on the sth ult. Mr. English, secretary's clerk, has been appointed by the Admiral purser of the Orestes, vice Eeles, who is to be invalided, in consequence of his having met with a serious accident whilst shooting. He was loading one barrel of his guo, when by some means the trigger of the other was caught by a bush and a bullet with which the piece was charged passed - through the fleshy part of his right arm, belo w th e elbow. Hei going en favourably. The squadron now i n the Bay consists of the Southampton (flag), Geyser, Dee, Chit. ders, and Seringapatam." THE PORTLAND BREAKWATER. At 10 o'clock this mortiir g a guard of honour, with the Queen's colour and the splendid b an d o f the Royal Marines marched from their head quarter barracks to embark from the Clarence-) ard, and at the same moment gun detachments from. the artillery . companies of the corps, with their field pleees, left their b . arracks for em barkation the Sphynx steam -sloop, m order to take part in the ceremony of Flying the foundation-stone of the breakwater at Portland. Nearly all the daily and professional weekly journals have appointed Commander Bate (1848) to the Young Hebe, surveying -vessel, in the East Indies. The above officer i s . appointed to command the Royalist, 6 -gun• brig, to cont inue the survey comm.-neer' and prosecuted by Captain Collinson, C. 8., late of the Young Hebe. Wind—S. by W., fresh breezes and squally. CHATHAM, JULY 23.—The Childers, 12. gun brig, Commander J. C. Pitman, from Bombay, arrived off the dockyard at this port on Sunday afternoon, the 22d in stunt, to be paid off; she was towed up the river by a steam-vessel. The Hercules store -ship, Master Commander R.Fulton, is having her defects made good, and as she is wanted for further service, every expedition is used in discharging her cargo. It is reported that she is to take out female convicts. The Phaeton, 50, a new gun frigate, recently launched at Deptford, and now at this port, is ordered to be brought forward to be fitted as an advanced ship. Mr. D. Morgan, extra clerk in the Store Receiver's office, has been placed on the establishment of this yard as a third-class clerk. The Duck naval lighter sailed on the 19th inst. with stores for Portsmouth and Plymouth, and the Goodwill naval lighter remains waiting to be loaded. This morning the following detachments :—viz., 1 ser geant and 17 rank and file, with 1 woman and 3 chil dren of the .58th Foot ; 1 corporal and 16 privates of the 65th; and 1 sergeant and 14 rank and file of the 99th Regiment, with 5 women and 4 children of the 65th, under command of Captain Rupert B. Deering, with Ensign Muns, officer of the 99th, marched from this gar rison, en route for Woolwich, for embarkation on board the ship Adelaide for Hobart Town. The above troops form a convict guard. At nine o'clock this morning 1 bugle major with 6 buglers, 5 sergeants 15 corporals, and 53 privates of the Royal Sappers and Miners, under command of Cap tain Jervois, marched to Gravesend, and proceeded by the half-past 11 o'clock steamboat for Woolwich, and 1 sergeant, 1 lance-corporal, and 18 privates of the same corps also left head-quarters the same morning en route for Southampton. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 24.—The Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Bladen Capel, K.C.B. attended by Flag- Lieutenant Cochran, proceeded to Weymouth to-day to make the necessary preparations for the grand ceremo nial of laying the foundation-stone of the i3reakwater at Portland by Prince Albert to-morrow. The Adelaide schooner, fitted with steam machinery, &c., to perform the office of a tug for the Colonial Go vernment, arrived at her destination, Port Adelaide, on the 7th of March, from England. The officers (Mr. C. Forbes, Acting-Master Commanding ; Dr. Sloss, Assistant-Surgeon; and Mr. C. Chatfield, Acting Second Master), and men who navigated her, were sent passen gers to Sydney, where they arrived on the 26th of March in the merchant brig Emma, to join the Havan nab, 26, Captain Erskine. There is some merit due to the officers who safely navigated so fragile a vessel so perilous and lengthy a voyage. The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord Amelius Beauclerk, passed through Spithead to the westward this afternoon, supposed for Weymouth. THE EAST INDIA AND CHINA SQUADRON. C all a ct p oh trpnar arrived o vo r eu g ds Man, dwa iyt w ht a h s ße aeFta Fury y n gad steam sloop, ormr e o s n o Theothe Commander3dof Hastings,J ue. 72, W 0 Sir F. Collier, the Commander-in-Chief, who immedi ately rejoined the Hastings, and a few hours afterwards the Inflexible steam sloop, Commander Hoseason, sailed for England, via Bombay. The Meander, 44, Captain the Hon. H. Keppel, does not return here for the present, but on being relieved at Hong-Kong by the Amazon, 26, Captain Troubridge, proceeds to Manilla and Labuan to assist in the projected expedition of Sir James Brooke against the pirates of Borneo. His force will consist of her Majesty's ship Meander, 44, Albatross, 14, and Royalist, 6, and the Hon. East India Company's steamers Nemesis and Semiramis. The Albatross sailed from Manilla for Singapore on the 11th of May, but had not arrived on the 3d of June; she is to remain at Singa pore for a few days, and then proceed to Labuan. The , Mariner, 12, Commander Farquhar, was at Shanghai on the 17th of May. The Hastings, with the Admiral, and the Fury will sail for Trincomalee immediately after the arrival of the overland mail from England, expected here (Singapore) about the 6th of June. THE SUET, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1849. APPOINTMENTS IN THE SQUADRON. Lieutenants—Dennis Hickley, from the Hastings to the Cambrian, vice Moresby; G. E. Pearce Serocold, from the Hastings to the Columbine; Edward Nares, from the Hastings to the Arab. Midshipman—J. Forrest, from the Mariner to the Hastings. PROMOTIONS. Surgeon—Patrick Digan, M.D., senior assistant-sur geon of the Hastings, to be acting-surgeon of the Colum bine, vice Campbell, invalided. Assistant-Surgeon—John Murphy,:of thelnflexible, to the Fury. The Pilot, 16, Commander Lyons, has captured a piratical junk. Death—On board her Majesty's ship Alligator, at Hong-Kong, on the 11th of April, Mr. W. Henderson, assistant-surgeon to that ship. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, July 24.) SUGAR.—To-day no further decline took place in the value of West India Sugar, but at former rates there were free sellers of both grocery and refining sorts. There was, however, a fair business concluded by private treaty. At auction 153 hhds 11 trcs 6 barrels 13arbadoes all sold; low yellow at 37s to 37s 6d, middling and good 38s to 40s, and fine 40s 6d to 425. The purchases amounted to 400 hhds, &c. REFINED.—To-day ' Refined goods were dealt in with caution by home dealers, and prices declined to 49s 6d to 50s for brown grocery Lumps, and Standard 50s 6d per cwt. Bonded crushed Sugar is, however, in excellent request at 293 6d to 30s 6d per cwt, and there is a firm market. MAIIRITIITS.—This afternoon there was not more ac. tivity in the market for Mauritius Sugar: at public sale 5,871 bags were offered, and went in some cases 6d per cwt under former rates, but all sold; fine yellow went at 39s to 39s 6d, low to good 38s to 38s 6d, middling to good grey 37s to 38s 6d, washed and syrupy 323 to 38s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon two parcels of Madras Sugar, amounting to 3,325 bags. were offered at public sale, and a part only sold at rather lower rates; middling yellow went at 35s to 365, low 84s to 34s 6d, and ordinary to fine brown 32s to 33s 6d. Of 1,719 bags Bengal a part only found buyers at barely former terms; strong white went at 44s to 455, superior 48s to 493, strong yellow 42s 6d to 43s 6d, soft ditto 37s to 39s 6d, and good to fine white at 40s to 42s per cwt. FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of Foreign Sugar, and by private treaty little business was concluded, although there were sellers rather under for mer rates. There are again large arrivals. MoLissEs.—A further decrease is apparent in the demand, and there are sellers upon rather lower terms. The sales amount to 150 puns chiefly Antigua at 20s to 20s 6d for fine quality, and small parcels of ord Mo lasses at 17s to 18s. East India Treacle is not much wanted, prices are on the decline, and rule from 16s 6d to 17s. For Honey lower rates have been accepted. TEL—Former rates are well supported for Congou; a good demand exists for the lower sorts ; there is also more desire to do business in the better kinds. The value of ordinary and good common Congou is from 81 to 9d, but middling Sid to 10d, strong black ish leaf lid to is 3d, and fine and Pekoe kinds is 4d to Is 10d. Sales to a fair extent have been made in Souchong at 9d to Is 9d, and fine at 2s to 23 9d. There is firm ness in the market for Green, and at former prices a fair business has been done; indeed for the lower sorts stiff rates are paid. Pekoe Teas are dealt in with more free dom at former prices. No public sale of Tea is at pre sent declared. CocrusrEar..-The market was dull, and to-day at auction 173 bags went at a decline on former rates of Id for silvers and 2d for black, and a part only sold; Hon duras black at 3s 7d to 4s 9d, fine 5s to 5s 4d, silvers 3s 8d to 4s 2d, Mexican 3s 5d to as 7d, and black 35 6d to 4s per lb. aCoirEE.-This afternoon Native Ceylon met :with greater attention, and 2,850 bags were mostly sold at and after the public sales at rather higher rates; good ordinary went at 35s to 35s 6d, real good ordinary 365, and damaged at 32s to 345. Of Plantation 486 bags 12 casks sold Is to 2s higher; middling went at 53s 6d to 58s 63, low middling 50s to 525, fine to fine fine ordi nary 40s to 49s 6d, low to good ordinary 33s 6d to 37s 6d, and damaged 35s to S9s. 123 bags Costa Rica were taken in at 40s for fine ordinary sound. RICE.-To-day the market was more freely supplied with East India Rice, and less demand existed. At auction 8,500 bags of Arracan were offered, and taken in at full rates; good pearl barley at Bs, and fine cargo grain at the same price ; of 3,860 bags and 3,000 pkts Bengal a small part only sold upon rather lower terms, good white at 103 to 103 6d, mid and good mid 9s to 93 6d, ord 8s 6d to 9s, and damaged 7s to 9s. 410 tins Jamaica Arrowroot went at 5d to 100, but 100 bags Tapioca were taken in at Is per lb. On Friday 3,000 bags Madras and 1,000 bags Bengal will be offered at auction. SPIOES.-To-day at auction 130 pkgs of Jamaica Ginger went at 41 to 1013 s; 20 bags African sold at 36a; 21 bags Pimento at 3jd to 4d; 32 bags African Cloves at lid for mid dark. The public sales of Cinnamon will take place on Monday next, when 899 bales, and 60 chests of Ceylon will be offered. INDIGO.-The sales which commenced on Tuesday, the 10th instant, terminated yesterday ; the quantity originally declared was 13,787 chests, which consisted of the following assortment : viz. -10,560 Bengal Benares, &c, 350 Oude and Plant Oude, 753 Madras, 625 Kurpah, 6 Manila; 12,294 chests in the A Catalogue; 1,493 ditto sundries in the B ditto, of which about 500 chests are Madras and Kurpah; of these 3,999 chests have been withdrawn, leaving 9,988 actually put up. Annexed are the particulars of qualities and prices. -Bengal Benares, &c., purple and violet 5s to 5s sd, good to fine violet 4s 9d to 5s 23; mid to good violet 4s 6d to 4s 9d, ord and mid do 4s to 4s 4d, violet copper 4s to 4s 6d, consuming sorts 3s 4d to 4s 63, crd and low do 2s 9d to 3s 3d, trash and dust is Id to 32 3d; Oude and Plant Oude 2s to 3s 3d; Madras, mid to good 23 9d to 3s 10d, low t 4, low odmid and ls midlOdto2s22sd7dte; Kurpah, mid to fine 3s 3d to 3$ 3s 3d; Manilla is to Is I Id. SPRum rather mhasbe enhigher inexcellent a t resa request re since A this a - d aJMya week,aic a and p p a a i r d e h ; a t s h e e s lower a r t a t t cos 300 r p e a t a h s e at. most 2s s 6 o d u g t o h 2 t s after i o d . fo r T 2 h 7 e to 36 per cent. over proof, and small parcels of better sort at 3s to 4s for 34 to 37 per cent. over. Demerara 200 puns sold at 2s to 2s 4d for 30 to 38 per cent. over proof, being stiffer rates. Leeward Island met with a good demand at is 5d to is 61 East India is held for Is 4d to is sd, proof, but not many buyers are to be found. Brandy cannot be quoted higher, but a good business has been transacted. Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1848, 33 6d to as 8d; do. 1847, 4s 3d to 4s sd; do. 1846, 5s 3d to 5A sd; do. 1845, 55 8d to Si 10d; inferior marks 2s 3d to 2s 6d, and Bordeaux at 2s to 2s 2d. For Geneva, the market is quiet, but prices are firm at la 9d to Is 10d, and fine at 2s 3d to 3s 3d. British made Spirit is still quoted at 9s Bd, and Gin 8s 3d to 8s 9d per gallon. Tai.l.ow.-The demand continues to get larger for Russian on the spot for all purposes, and prices are still on the advance. Holders display firmness, and re quire 39s 6d to 39s 9d for fine P. Y. Candle. For delivery in last three months of the year, 1 many years' purchases have been made at 39s 6d to 403, and there are not free sellers. liomeinelted has been in ex Tellent request at 37a 6d to 38s, and some parties will no t accept these prices. Of South American the quan ta. r offered at auction has been large, amounting to 1,400 pk gs, still the whole sold at 34s 9d to 393 for low to fine; 38 0 casks Sydney at 36s 6d to 38s per cwt. For public competition 1,100 pkgs of Tallow declared. Rough fat is 2s id per stone. 03 .Ls.—Small sales continue to be made in Cocoa Nut; sells rs are willing to accept former rates. At auction 208 casl is Cochin only in part sold at 35s to 35s 6d; 19 casks Sy( lney 31s ed to 32s per cwt. Palm met with greater at tention, and prices are on the advance; on the spot sales of fiat + quality have been made at 30s 6d to 31s, and for arrival 30s. At auction 99 casks went at 29s 9d to 30s 9d. Prices have not advanced for Linseed Oil, although the home demand continues good, and sales to a fair extent have been made by exporters. The rates paid on the spot are 25s 9d to 265. For delivery, parcels have been sold at 26s to 26s 3d, but there are not willing sellers at this price. Rape Oil is still dealt in with much caution, and holders accept 37s for pale, brown 36s to 36s 6d, and foreign 37s to 38s. Prices have ceased to recede for Olive, and purchases to a fair extent have been made ; Gallipoli at 39/ to 40/, and other sorts 371 to 38/ 10s per ton. Lard Oil is a dull sale at 36s to 40s, and Ground Nut at 27s to 28s. Sperm has been in lively demand; prices are on the advance. At auction 15 tons of Colonial sold at 78/ 10s to 79/ 15s, and the market has a firm as pect. Purchases to a fair extent have been made in Cod at 271 103 to 271 15s; for arrival there are sellers rather under these rates. Business in Seal has been interfered with, owing to holders asking a further advance. Only small purchases have been made, pale at 32/ to 33/, straw and tinged 30/ to 32/, yellow and brown 271 to 291 10s. Southern is wanted, and former rates are paid by private treaty. At auction 13 tuns went at 30/5s to 311 15s for good and fine, and 50 tuns of Sea Elephant 29/ lOs to 31/ par tun. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. _ OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JULY 23, 1849._ Royal Regiment of Artillery—First Lieutenant Wil liam Ryves Nash Taylor to be Second Captain, vice Lyle, retired on half-pay; Second Lieutenant Guy Fitz- Henry L'Estrange to be First Lieutenant, vice Taylor, July 10. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. John Tabb, tea dealer, Upper Eaton-street, Pimlico. BANKRUPTCY SU?ERSEDED. Thomas Cox, draper, Hanley, Staffordshire. BANKRUPTS. Edward Thomas Delafield, brewer, Brook-street, Gros venor-square, to surrender July3l, at twelve, and Sept. 6, at one, at the Court, Basinghall-street. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill; Espin, Bedford-row; and Lawrance and Plews, Old Jewry Chambers. John Sida, corn merchant, Brentwood, Essex, Aug. 3, at:half-past twelve, and Sept. 6, at half-past eleven, at the Court, Basinghall-street. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Walton, Bucklersbury. James William English, chemist, Poultry, July 31, at half-past twelve, and Sept. 6, at eleven, at the Court, Basinghall-street. Canaan, official assignee, Birchin lane, Cornhill; Lott, Bow-lane, Cheapside. James Killick, carpenter, Dorking, Surrey, Aug. 2, at half past two, and Sept. 17, at twelve, at the Court, Basinghall street. Turquand, official assignee, Guild hall-chambers; Linklaters, Charlotte-row, Mansion• house. William Irons, sen., farmer, Barnet, Hertfordshire, Aug. 3, at eleven, and Sept. 1, at half-past one, at the Court, Basinghall-street. Green, official assignee, Guild hall-chambers; Willoughby and Co., Clifford's Inn. George Luck Harvey and Edward Grayson, wine merchants, Commercial-place, Brixton, Aug. 2, at two, and Aug. 30, at half-past eleven, at the Court, Basing hall-street. Johnson, o ffi cial assignee, Basinghalbstreet; Rosser and Tamplin, Fenchurch-street. David Allan, linen factor, Coleman-street, Aug. 8 and Sept. 11, at twelve, at the Court, Basinghall-street. Ed wards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; Lawrenee and Plews, Old Jewry. Thomas King, jun., builder, Greenwich, Aug. 2, at two, and Sept. 4, at one, at the Court, Basinghall-street. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch• lane, Lombard-street; Moss, Gray's Inn-square. Henry Tappenden, jun., corn dealer, Ashford, Aug. 6, at two, and Sept. 11, at half-past one, at the Court, Bas ing-hall-street. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Wilkinson and Gurney, Nicholas lane, Lombard-street. Thomas Wisking, timber merchant, St. John's-street, Brick-lane, Bethnal-green, Aug. - 6 and Sept. 11, at one, at the Court, Basinghall-street. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Shillibeer, Bucklers bury. John Collingwood Ives, haberdasher, Norwich, Aug. 2, at three, and Sept. 11, at two, at the Court, Basinghall street. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lom bard-street; Reed and Co., Friday-street, Cheapside. William Hardwick, laceman, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, Aug. 2 and Sept. 4, at half-past one, at the Court, Basinghall-street. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's•-place, Old Jewry; Braham, Chancery-lane. Hamlet Durose, surveyor, Woodsetton, Staffordshire, Aug. 4 and 30, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Ward, Stafford, and Smith, Birmingham. Thomas Jones, cattle salesman, Caron, Cardiganshire, Aug. 10 and Sept 4, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Hassell, Bristol ; Irwin, and Taylor, Gray's Inn. John Fisher, livery-stable keeper, Bristol, Aug. 9 and Sept. 6, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; White and Co., Bedford-row; Bevan, Bristol. Sarah Beal and Joseph Beal, scissor -smiths, Sheffield, Aug. 4 and Sept. 15, at twelve, at the Council hall, Shef field; Freeman, official assignee, Sheffield; Nixon, War wick-court; Blaney, Sheffield. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. _ _ J. Danks, Birmingham, wharfinger and carrier, 113. 3d., on Wednesday, Aug. 1, Thursday, Aug. 2, Thursday, Aug. 9, Wednesday, Sept. 26, and every alternate Wednesday, until and including Wednesday, July 24, 1850, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Bittleston, Birmingham. J. Rewcastle, Gateshead, Durham, copperas maker, is., ou Saturday, 28th instant, or any subsequent Saturday, between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, New castle-upon-Tyne. J. J. Ferens, Durham, grocers and drapers, 4s. sp., on Saturday, 28th instant, or any subsequent Saturday, between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, New castle-upon-Tyne. W. Wylam, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchants, 205., on Saturday, the 28th instant, or any subsequent Satur day, between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES, At the Court, Basinghall-street. C. Oswin, Harley-street, Cavendish square, dentist, Aug. 14, at twelve. In the Country. J. Sim, J. Sim, and D. Sim, Cockermouth and Braithwaite, woollen manufacturers, Aug. 16, at two, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne —J. Woodhouse, Dar lington Durham, butcher, Au g . 14, a t h a lf. p as t t we l ve , at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. Quigley, Birken head, Cheshire, victualler, ,Aug. 14, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool. At the Court of Review, Aug. 14. T. Smith and J. Osborne, Redcross-street, Southwark, builders—S. Hignet, Houlston, Shropshire, maltster and farmer—H. E. Stevens, Grays, Essex, grocer and tea dealer—C. Pritchard, Hereford, wine and spirit mer chant—W. W. Batchelor, Worcester, woollendraper and tailor—G. Day, Worcester, cattle dealer—W. Belton, Friday-street, Cheapside, City, wine and brandy mer chant—J. Scott, Devonport, jeweller and silversmith— W. Eleam, Liverpool, commission agent—J. Wild, Breckon, Brecknockshire, licensed victualler—J. Reding ton, Moreton, Essex, miller—J. Holdsworth, White chapel-road, carpenter and builder—J. Jackson, sen., Stockport, Cheshire, tailor. PARTNERSHIPS' DISSOLVED. J. Burbidge, Eliza Tregerthen, and Emma Payton, Bristol, booksellers and stationers —J. Britten, and W. Britten, Birmingham, grate founders—W. Oxley and J. xley, Lower Keyford, Somersetshire, tanners—J. Prest and W. Colegrave, jun., Leeds, attor neys and solicitors—A. A. Kirkman, A. J. Thorne, and B. 0. Engleheart, King William-street, City, surveyors and estate agents—J. Potter and J. Dovaston, Birming ham, malt millmakers—W. Story, J. Simpson, and J. Doswell, Lancaster, painters and japanners (so far as regards J. Doswell)—G. Stonham and E. Stonham, Ashford, Kent, millers—W. Lee and H. Archer, Great St. Helens, Bishopsgate-street, City, dealers in cigars and snuff—T. Allan and E. Smith, Friday-street, City, warehousemen—J. Sherratt and P. Sherratt, Maccles geld, silk manufacturers—S. Curtis and G. Curtis, Finsbury-street, St. Luke's curriers—J. M. Binns and T. Lund, Keighley, Yorkshire. joiners and builders— B. Brown, sen., E. Brown, and J. Brown, Coventry, watch manufacturers—T. G. Phillpotts an d . Phillpotts, New port, Monmouthshire, attorneys and aulicitors—E. Smyth, and T. S. Hawkins, Swansea, Glamorganshire, tailors and outfitters—W. Hughes and W. Lomas, Burn ley, Lancashire, ironmongers. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Samuel Stacey, Maidstone, Kent, tailor. Thomas Mansfield, Tutbury, Staffordshire, cordwainer, Wm. Walker, Stone, Staffordshire, veterinary surgeon. Timothy Rogers, Oxford, farrier. William Thorp, Oxford, tailor. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. J. Anderson, Rispond, Sutherland, farmer, to meet July 26, and Aug. 21, at twelve, within Mackay's Inn, Lairg, W. S. M'Kecknie, Glasgow, merchant, to meet, July 30, and Aug. 22, at twelve, within the Star Hotel, Glasgow. and S. be 2 r l t : o a n t , Glasgow, within the Buck' s gow,clothier,t Head Hotel, Glasgow. meet,July ot 3 e l l: J. Young, Dykehead, Lanarkshire, farmer, to meet, July 31, and Aug. 21, at two, within Whyte's Temper ance Coffee-house, Glasgow. ------- OSPITAL FOR, CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST, BROMPTON.—The new chapel to be erected by the eminent builders, Messrs. Hopkins and Roberts, will be proceeded with as speedily as possible. It will be built in the Anglo-Norman style, of Kentish rag-stone, with Caen facings and dressings. The com pletion of the western wing of the hospital will be pro ceeded with after as little delay as possible. On Sunday last a sermon teas preached at Park-street Chapel, Grosvenor-square, by the Rev. Robert Montgomery, M.A., in aid of the general funds of the hospital. A very handsome collection was made. OPENING OF THE BERWICK AND XELISO RAIL. WAY.—The Government inspector was expected upon this line on Tuesday, but notice arrived that the inspector had been detained from indisposition at Newcastle, and that the inspection had been postponed.—Kelso Chronicle. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office, for the CioTernors of Ceylon and Hong Kong. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF LORDS, July 24. Their Lordships met at Five o'clock. REGIMENTAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES' BILL. The Duke of WELLINGTON moved the second reading of this Bill, and in so doing expressed his ap proval of the objects of the Bill, and entered into a his tory of the foundation and progress of those societies in various regiments. The former constitution of these so cieties had cccasioned great inconveniences in the army, and there had been several commissions issued to ascertain the constitution of, and the claims on various of these societies in different regiments, and to make such a dis tribution of the funds as might be equitable. The ob ject of this Bill was to lay down such general principles for the distribution of those funds as should give general satisfaction to the various corps who were interested in them, so as to enable some decision to be come to as to the claims on the fund. This Bill appointed certain commissioners for this purpose, and the commissioners were the Secretary-at-War, the Secre tary to the Treasury, and the Commander-in-Chief. The Bill was then read a second time and ordered to be committed to-morrow. LANDS IMPROVEMENTS (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill passed through Committee. LABOURING POOR ACT BILL. On the motion of the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, this Bill passed through Committee. POST (COLONIES) BILL. This Bill passed through the Committee, on the motion of the Marquis of CLANRICARDE. MARRIAGE ACT AMENDMENT BILL. Lord REDESDALE presented a petition against this Bill. Lord CAMPBELL took the opportunity of expressing his delight at the withdrawal in the other House of Par liament of the Bill authorising the marriage of a widower with his deceased sister's wife.—(Hear, hear.) Had the Bill come up to their Lordships' House he should have felt it his duty to offer it his most strenuous opposition, as he considered it a measure contrary to morality and to good policy. The Earl of MINTO denied that his Noble and, Learned Friend, on this subject, represented the opi nions of the people of Scotland in regard to this mea sure. Lord CAMPBELL had never pretended to represent the opinions of the people of Scotland on this subject, but at the same time he must express his belief that the great majority of the people of Scotland were opposed to this Bill. POOR-LAW (IRELAND) BILL. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved the third reading of this Bill, and in so doing proposed certain verbal amendments, which, after a short discussion, were agreed to, and the Bill was read a third time and passed. TRUSTEES RELIEF BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. BANKRUPTCY (IRELAND) BILL. Lord BROUGHAM moved the second reading of this Bill, the object of .which was to extend to Ireland the provisions of the Bankruptcy Bill. Lord CAMPBELL saw no objection to the motion. The Duke of RICHMOND opposed the second read ing, because no notice had been given of it. Lord BROUGHAM explained, and the second reading was understood to be postponed. Lord REDESDALE presented a petition against the London Corporation Bill. The Bishop of HEREFORD presented a number of petitions from the Clergy of his Diocese, praying for a measure to provide religious instruction to the children of persons receiving out-door relief. The Boroughs Relief Bill passed through committee. Several other Bills were advanced a stage, among which were the second reading of the House of Com mons Official Offices Bill, the committal of the Joint stock Company Bill, the third reading of the Highway R ites Bill, and the committal of the Petty Bag Office Bill. Lord REDESDALE objected to a clause in the last Bill, on the ground that it tended to increase public expense, by raising the salaries of clerks in the Post office. Lord CAMPBELL assured the Noble Lord that the clause had no such tendency, and that if he had any apprehensions on that head, he would write to Lord Langdale on the subject, and inform the Noble Lord (Lord Redesdale) with that Noble Lord's opinion.— (Hear, hear.) He therefore hoped that the Noble Lord would not oppose the committal of the Bill, as he would have time and room to offer any opposition he might think proper, when the Bill was brought on for a third reading. This proposition was agreed to, and the Bill was committed. The Small Debts Amendment Bill was then com mitted; and several other Bill 3 were advanced a stage. THE BUSINESS OF THE SESSION. Lord STANLEY said that they were at present within three or four days of the termination of the session, and now, ou the 24th day of July, many important Bills came up to their Lordships' House from the Commons. They had More them several important measures— some to be read a first time, and others to be considered in Committee. There were the Dublin Rating Bill, the Poor Law Charges Act Amendment Bill, the Pavilion at Brighton Bill; all of these he conceived might longsince have been brought under the consideration of their Lord ships. There then was another Bill which had been most unreasonably delayed. He meant the Pilotage Bill, which was a matter of very serious importance, affecting our treaties with foreign powers. It was a Bill the importance of which could hardly be exaggerated, and yet it had thus been delayed till the very close of the session without there being the least necessity for any such postponement. They had that day gone through he knew not how many Bills; yesterday they had disposed of 22. Now, he could not help complaining that they should be driven into these slovenly modes of legislation. He should be sorry to raise any impediment or occasion any difficulty in bringing the session to a close; but it did appear to him that many of those Bills, might have been brought forward at an earlier period of the session, and he did not see why they should have been so long delayed. Earl GREY said that the complaint just made by the Noble Lord opposite was, to a certain extent, well founded; but it was a complaint at least 50 years old; it was made during every Administration and at the close of almost every session. He was afraid that such delay must be regarded as a necessary consequence, proceeding from the constitution of the two Houses of Parliament. He had himself not long since supported a Bill which he had hoped would have mitigated the evil, but he regretted that that proposition had not been agreed to elsewhere, and he still believed that it would have worked well. On the present occasion, however, he thought there were no just grounds for complaining of delay, and the Noble Lord must remember that the forms of the other House gave only two days to the Go vernment, and even those were often taken away from them by motions as amendments to going into Com mittee of Supply, and thus the time left for carrying s th er e ib i e m d p w or it t n a i n o t a m v e e a r s y ur n e a s rro o w f e t o h ni e p s a e s s a s . ion N w o w as , aacitrocutm be present year, there were many measures of consi derable moment, which were brought up to their Lord ships' House at an early period of the session, amongst which he might mention the Navigation Bill As to those that remained, they were little more than continua tion Bills, or annual Bills; and with regard to the Pilot age Bill, it was merely a measure to give the Trinity House and other authorities power to relax their rules, if they so thought fit. Lord STANLEY admitted the difficulties to which the Noble Earl referred, but observed that the Government might have obtained leave to bring in the Pilotage Bill long before the 12th of July. As a proof of the slovenly, careless manner, in which legislation was carried on, he might mention the Defects in Leases Bill, for the cor rection of a blunder in which they now had another Bill before them. The Earl of HARROWBY presented a petition from a place in Devon in favour of a superannuation fund for officers under the poor-law. The House thou adjourned till half-past four o'clock to-morrow (Wednesday). HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 24. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) CONSOLIDATED FUND APPROPRIATION BILL. This Bill passed through Committee. RAILWAYS ABANDONMENT BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. ROYAL PAVILION (BRIGHTON) BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. TURNPIKE ACTS CONTINUANCE BILL. This Bill, was read a third time and passed. PILOTAGE BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. LEASEHOLD TENURE OF LANDS BILL (IRELAND). On the motion that the House go into Committee on this Bill, Mr. LAW moved that the House go into Committ ee this day three months. He opposed it on the ground that it would destroy many ancient and va luable charters granted to the Irish Soci e ty. He had obtained the opinion of an eminent conveyancer upon the effect of this Bill, and he had stated that no clause could be inserted in the Bill effectually to protect the interests of the Irish Society, and that their only safety was in being exempted from the operation of the Act. This was the first time he had bad an opportunity o f protesting against this confiscation Bill, and in doin g so he could not avoid expressing his surprise that it should have been introduced at a period when Government were calling upon English capitalists and the Corporatio n o f London to come forward and assist in the regeneration of Ireland. The measure was neither just nor expedient, and he hoped the House would help him to get rid of some of its most objectionable provisions. Howev er beneficial the measure might be esteemed for some parties, he thought it was a rather strong one to introduce in the last week of the session, because it sought w to hich an h n had dl never the been benefits in t e rfe conferredred with or annull e d, by charters but by the arbitrary power of the Star Chamber, and the conditions of which the company or corporation bad, up to the present moment, faithfully fulfilled. lie there fore moved, that the House should resolve itself into a Commitee on this subject this day three months. Mr. DICKSON seconded the a mendment. Mr. GRATTAN supported the amendment, on the ground that he did not think a measure like this should be brought on at the end of a session, when its merits could not he fully considered. Sir JOHN YOUNG said that the Learned Recorder for the city of L o nd on h a d not advanced a single argu ment against the Bill, although he had made out a case tor considering why the Irish Society should not be exempted from its operation. Sir R. FERGUSON contended that the Irish Society were compell e d to grant the i r t en ants leases i n perpe tuity, otherwise their estate would have been ruined; but they increased the rents 36 per cent., and hampered the tenants by various vexatious provisions. It was erro neous to say that no litigation had taken place between the society and their tenants. The estate was formerly rated at 2,5001., but it had been so improved that it was now rated at 40,0001., and in fact the tenants were the real landlords. He asked the Irish Society to guarantee the perfecting of the leases into which they had entered. He hoped they would reject the motiun. Mr. NEWDEGATE moved the adjournment of the debate on the ground that Alderman Thompson and others interested in the matter were absent. Mr. LAW said his motion had been on the paper some time. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the Bill came down from the House of Lords a long time ago, and it had been already fully discussed; and though oppor tunities had occurred of his (the Solicitor-Gene ral) proceeding with the Bill he forbore to do so during the absence of his Honourable and Learned Friend the Recorder, who, he was bound to say, had met the case in an open and straight forward manner. By an arrangement this day had been fixed for the discussion of the amendment. He implored the House to_ go into Committee on the Bill. The city of London had no right to complain that they had no opportunity of stating weir views on the Bill. Mr. F. FRENCH replied that no one connected officially with the Irish Society was present. He had had opportunities of judging that the estate of the society was well managed, and on account of the way iu which they used their tenants they were entitled to the utmost indulgence. If the rights of the society were menaced a great blow would be given to the in vestment of English capital in Ireland. Mr. MONSELL said the members of the Irish Society could be heard during the future progress of the Bill; therefore the motion was a most vexatious mode of de feating it. The people in the west of Ireland were deeply interested in the passing of the Bill. Let the House pronounce upon the merits of the Bill, and not defeat it by a mere side-wind. Mr. NEWDEGATE disclaimed any personal object in his motion.-(Hear, hear.) He should withdraw it. The motion for the adjournment of the debate was then withdrawn. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL hoped the Hon. and Learned Gentleman would not impede the progress of this Bill. After some discussion, Mr. LAW said he would not put the House to the trouble of dividing. The motion was therefore withdrawn, and the House went into Committee. On clause 1 being being proposed, Mr. F. FRENCH moved the insertion of words to make the Bill permissive and not compulsory. Mr. LAW seconded the amendment. The SOLICITOR-GE NERAL said that the only ques tion was, whether it should be compulsory on the original lessor or the person who represented him to commute the leasehold tenure into a fee simple upon the payment of a fee-farm rent. Now the real owner was not the lessor but the lessee, who had a perpetual right to the renewal of his lease, which right, it had been decided, in a great number of cases, could not be taken away from him. The Irish Society were not, therefore, the real owners of the property, but the lessees who held under them, and to whom it was proposed to give the real advantages of their position. After a few words from Captain JONES, the amend ment was negatived without a division. On the qaestion that the clause stand part of the Bill, Sir R. FERGUSON moved to omit, at lines 40 and 41, the words " and every such grant and counterpart shall be prepared by the owner by whom the grant is made." The SOLICITOR-GENERAL objected to the omis sion of the words, but stated that if the lion. Member would withdraw his amendment on the present occa sion, he would have an opportunity of proposing that among other alterations on the third reading. After a short discussion, The SOLICITOR -GENERAL said he would agree to the omission, but would reserve the right to himself to propose its re-insertion on the third reading. After a few remarks from M r . GROGAN, who depre cated the interference between landlord and tenants, which was involved in the Bill, Sir JAMES GRAHAM thought the House should proceed on fixed principles with regard to this Bill. It appeared to him very hard that the owner of the rever sion having many of those leases on his estate, should be compelled by some of his tenants to convert into per• petuity, and at the option of some others of his tenants, should have another description of leases still running against him. He thought the same rule ought to be fol lowed in this case as was adopted in the House the other day with respect to copyhold tenure in England. He thought it desirable that the principle should be compulsory on both sides. Atter a few words from Mr. Newdegate, Mr. Aglionby, and Mr. Grogan, The House divided, when there appeared- For the clause ... 71 Against it ... 21 Majority for the clause ... -50 The clause was then ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clauses 2,3, 4,5, 6,7, 8,9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 were agreed to without any amend ment, and ordered to stand part of the Bill, Clause 21 was also ordered to stand part of the Bill. After a few observations from Mr. (IROGAN, Clauses 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36, were agreed to without any amendment. On the question that the interpretation clause (37) be agreed to, Mr. FAGAN moved the following amendment:- After the word " agreement," in line 39, page 24, to in. sert, " and for the purposes of this Act, a covenant or agreement, given in respect of a lease or under lease for a term of not less than ninety years, determin able on a life or lives, a perpetual right of renewal on the dropping of a life or lives within the term for which such lease or under lease, or the renewed lease or under lease for the time being in force may have been granted, shall, although covenant or agreement may not give right of renewal in the event of the termination of such term by Effluxion of time, be deemed a covenant or agreement for perpetual renewal of such lease or under lease." The SOLICITOR-GENERAL bad no objection to :he insertion of the words, and, After a short conversation, the amendment was agreed ;o. Mr. DICKSON moved the insertion of the following clause:—" Whereas some lands are held in Ireland by leases for a term of years exceeding seven hundred years, with a proviso or covenant contained therein, that three lives therein named should so long live, and containing a clause or covenant to renew those three lives from time to time during said term of years, without payment of any fine upon such renewal; and whereas the necessity of obtaining such renewals is useless, oppressive, and vex atious; be it therefore enacted,; by the authority afore said, that any such lease shall continue and hold good as a lease for the full term of years originally granted by such lease, discharged of any such condition as to the term being dependent on the continuance of any lives named therein, or the necessity of renewing same." The SOLICITOR-GENERAL objected to the clause, and it was ultimately withdrawn. Mr. LAW moved the following clauses : —" A n d b e it enacted, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to prejudice, diminish, alter, or take away any of the rights, privileges, powers, or authorities vested in or enjoyed by, or duties or liabilities imposed upon, the Society of the Governor and. Assistants, London, of the New Plantation in Ulster, within the realm of Ireland, under or by virtue of any charter or charters heretofore granted to them by the Crown, or of any statute or statutes in anywise relating thereto.—And be it enacted, that nothing in this Act shall extend, or be construed to ex tend, to prejudice or in anywise to affect the es tate or estates, or the interest or interests, of the said society in any lands, tenements, and hereditaMents to which they are now entitled, but •that the said society shall as fully and effectually maintain and enjoy all their rights, estates, and interests of in and to any lands, tenements, and hereditaments to which they are entitled at the passing of this Act, in as large and ample a manner, to all intents and purposes, as if this Act had not been passed." Mr. Alderman SIDNEY supported the clauses, and said, it appeared by this Bill that the House intended to confiscate those rights which had been given to the Irish Society, and which they had very beneficially exercised. After a few observations from Sir R. FaiGUSON, Colonel DUNNE thought that clause was the mosi valuable one which included the Irish Society, and he should therefore oppose the motion. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the additional clauses ... 10 Against them ... . 88 Majority ... —7B The remaining clauses were then agreed to, the House resumed, and the report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow at twelve o'clock. NEW FOREST AND WALTHAM FOREST BILL. This Bill, as amended, was considered, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. CUSTOMS BILL. On the motion for going into Committee on this Bill, Mr. NE WDEGATE took an objection to several of the reductions on duties proposed by the Bill, and es pecially that on embroidery, which would seriously affect the poor needlewomen in this country, who at present could scarcely earn a decent subsistence. Thc., present miserable way in which that defenceless class of society were remunerated drove numbers of them into the streets of this metropolis to seek an addition to their income in a way revolting to the bast feelings of hu manity. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the only article from which the duty was removed by this Bill was the article of corn. With respect to the duty on embroidery materially affecting the class of per sons to which the Hon. Member had referred, he believed that it would do no such thing; but this be be lieved, that it would effect a great good, by putting an end to that which was at present a great evil. The House then went into Committee on the Bill. On the clause relating to quarantine being proposed, Mr. THORNELY expressed a hope that before the House met again the whole system of quarantine would be done away with, as he considered it a disgrace to the country, and utterly useless, as had been proved by the report of the Board of Health. The clauses in the Bill were agreed to with a few verbal amendments, and the report was ordered to be received to-morrow. WORKHOUSE LOANS (IRELAND) BILL. The House then went into Committee on this Bill. On clause 1 being proposed, Mr. GRATTAN and Mr. 0. ANSTEY complained of the extravagance that generally characterised the ex penditure on workhouses. The Bill then went through Committee, and the House having resumed, the report was ordered to be received to-morrow. TREASURY INSTRUMENTS BILL. The House next went into Committee on this Bill. The whole of the clauses were agreed to, and thc House having resumed, the report was ordered to be received tomorrow. SLAVE TRADE (PERUVIAN GULF) BILL On the question thfkf this Bill be read a second time, Mr. C. ANS iIEY called attention to the fac, that ao leave had been obtained for introducing the Bill, while the names of those Hon. Gentlemen who had charge of the measure were not on the back of it. The SPEAKER said the Bill was founded on a resolu tion of a Committee of the Bill, and leave to introduce it was therefore given as a matter of course. Mr. C. ANSTEY thought the Bill ought to be post poned in the absence of the Noble Lord at the head of the Foreign Department. Lord JOHN RUSSELL remarked that if the Hon. and Learned Gentleman objected to the principle of the Bill, he would have an opportunity of stating his objections on going into Committee. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed to morrow. HOUSE OF LORDS' COSTS TAXATION BILL. This Bill went through Committee, and the report was ordered to be received to-morrow. GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH BILL. This Bill, as amended, was considered, and the third reading fixed for to-morrow. MARRIAGES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES FACI- LITATING BILL. The consideration of the Lords' amendments to this Bill was postponed until to-morrow. ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION IN THE COLO NIES BILL. - -- The second reading of this Bill was postponed until to , Morro w. METROPOLITAN SEWERS BILL. This Bill went through Committee. CLERGY RELIEF BILL. This Bill was ordered to be read a third time to morrow. NEW WRIT FOR BOSTON. On the motion of an Holt. MEMBER, a new writ was ordered for Boston, in the room of the Right Hon. Sir James Duke, who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. PROTECTION OF. WOMEN BILL This Bill was ordered to be read a third time to , morrow. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS' BILL. This Bill was ordered to be read a third time to , morrow. The House then adjourned at half-past five to seven o'clock. The SPEAKER resumed the Chair at Seven o'clock. Mr. H. DRUMMOND gave notice that at the earliest opportunity he would move the abolition of all duties on soap, candles, and malt made by persons for their own use. JUVENILE EMIGRATION. Lord ASHLEY then rose, according to notice, to bring under the notice of the House the state of a por tion of the juvenile population of the metropolis, and to move that it is expedient that means be annually pro vided for the voluntary emigration, to some of her Majesty's colonies, of a certain number of young per sons, of both sexes, who have been educated in the schools ordinarily called ragged schools, in and about the metropolis. He was very anxious to excite some interest, and to obtain some support, in pointing out the importance of a really repressive system. Prison discipline was a question which at the present moment excited great and general interest. The separate, soli tary, and mixed systems of confinement had each their several advocates, but if he could show that the preven titive system was the best, he thought he should be en titled to support.—(Hear, hear.) Last year he had stated that the number of this class in the metropolis was about 300,000, from subsequent inquiry he had very much under-estimated the real number. He had then tally described their habits, lives, and modes of obtaining an existence, and had shown the danger which arose to society from the existence of such a mass of persons of such cha racter and pursuits. As a means of enabling the House to judge of the extent of the evil for which he was anxious to provide a remedy, he would call atten tion to a return he had prepared, showing the compara tive number of males committed in the years 1847 and 1848. In 1847 the total number of committals was 41,479, of these 8,405 were under twenty years of age —between ten years and fifteen years of age there were 3,228, and under ten years 360. The total num ber of males committed in 1848 was 42,933, and there was a similar proportion of committals above the age of ten years, while in the number of those under tea years, the age during which they were in the ragged schools, there was a decrease.—(Hear, hear.) The total in crease on the year was 1,464, and of these one-half were under twenty years of age. The proportion of the committals from ten to twenty years of age was 12,693 to 18,000 persons from twenty-five to fifty, being one-third more of the latter ; but when they came to trials and convictions the case was reversed, of those between ten and twenty years of age the convictions were 1,237, while the convictions of those between twenty-five and fifty was 1,059. He found the same rule prevailed at Manchester, from which he had returns, and which he instanced because it was a large town, sub ject to somewhat similar influences, and because accu rate returns were kept. These facts showed a most awful and fearful proportion of juvenile crime, and that if it was at all possible to apply a preventive system, they were bound to do so, and to look directly to that class among whom the seeds of crime were sown in early life, which the utmost amount of after care might not be able to eradicate.—(liear, hear.) In order to ascertain the opinions of those most conversant with the facts, he addressed a circular to city missionaries, teachers of ragged schools, gaolers, and others. He put the ques tion to them, "Do many adult males become criminals for the first time after twenty years of age ?" To that question he had received answers, from 43 committees, " very few."—(Hear, hear.) Some replied that a very small proportion indeed became criminals for the first time after twenty years of age, and these were chiefly caused by drunkenness and want of employment; but they were very few—not one in fifty. Another reply stated that " of the poorer classes in cities hardly one becomes criminal after twenty years of age." Now, what was the condition of that class who thus grew up to be criminals ? A short time since, feeling anxious to know the actual condition of this class, he bad perambulated a great part of the City in which they had their haunts.—(Hear, hear.) He had penetrated into the lanes and courts where these children and young people were crowded together. In other places he found that moat of them who had no other shelter lived in the dry arches of unfinished or uninhabited houses. These arches were small and dark. A hole had been made sufficiently large to enable him to creep into them, and no one could see who was there until a lantern was thrust into this hole. The House might imagine the condition of these miserable creatures. They were asked to come to a model lodging house the following day, and thirty-three of them did so, whose ages varied from twelve to eighteen years of age; of these twenty four had no parents—(Hear, hear)—six had but one parent, three had stepmothers. Most of them had been once in prison, and one boy, only fourteen years of age, had been in prison twelve times.—(Hear, hear.) The whole of them were a prey to vermin, begrimed with filth, in rags, and not a few of them suffering from siekness.—(Hear, hear.) He examined most of them personally, and privately, as to their previous lives, and he had reason to believe they told him the truth. He took them separately into a private room, and ho said to them, " Now, I am going to put a few plain questions to] you, not with any view to your injury, and I hope you will answer me truly. When I have done I will answer any question you may put to me."—(Hear, hear.) They thought the terms were fair and agreed to answer him. He asked how often have you slept in a bed during the last three years? One said twice, another said three times, and another could not remember ever having done so. He then asked them how they lived, and they frankly confessed they had no other mode than begging or stealing. The only legitimate mode of earning a penny which was open to them was to pick up and sell old bones.—(Hear, hear.) But they freely confessed to him that they and their class had not and could not have any other mode of living but by begging and stealing. Now, he wished the House to observe what was the condition of this class—they were almost trained to crime at an early age. They replied, when asked to give up that kind of life, that it was no use, they had no other means of living. They formed a most dangerous class to society, and were ever ready to create or take advantage of popular commotion. The Noble Lord illustrated this fact by an anecdote of a lad of seventeen, who went over to Paris, about four years since, w ith his mother, and who had fought in the barricades in the late French revolution. These boys received no education from society, and could they be surprised at the fact that they not only did not respect the rights of property, but glo ried in violating them.—(Hear, bear.) As an instance of this feeling, he might relate an anecdote which bad been stated by a teacher of a ragged school. Fourteen lads entered the school, one Sunday night, who were not known to him. The practice was to receive and teach all,who came. They sat very quietly till the clock struck eight, when they rose in a body and marched out of the school. The master stopped one little fellow, and said, " You must not go, school is not over yet." The reply was, " I ,must Igo, don't you hear the clock has struck eight, and I muet go to work ?" " What kind of work ?" " Why, to cluster round the chapel doors as the people are coming out."—(Bear.) Such, then, being the moral condition of these outcasts, be would ask if they could refrain for an hour longer in instituting measures to reclaim them ? There were two modes of proceeding ; the first was, to wait until they commit ted crime, and then bring them to trial, and imprison or transport them. The other was, to take a preventive course, and anticipate the :gaoler by education, indus trial training, and a better position. It was said that this was a hopeless case ; and, as far as the pre sent mode of prison discipline went, perhaps it was true. It was in their case altogether inoperative in deterring from the commission of crime. It might deter those who committed crime from wantonness, or who had means to fall back upon • but the class of whom he spoke had no such mean. He wished to call the attention of the House to what might be termed the various causes of juvenile crime. These were, the example and neglect of parents, the careless exposure of articles, especially of food, in shops, and the existence of those places called the casual wards. Out of 250 persons that he once met, no less than 42 had told him that it was to the casual wards of the union they traced their every misery and their first step in crime. The want of employment was another prolific source of crime. The goal system was not that on which they could rely for the reforms. tion of criminals. At one time he recollected having been requested by 150 of the most notorious thieves in the me tropolis, to meet them and give them the benefit of his council as to the mole in which they could extricate them selves from their career of crime. He found assembled in the Minories no less than 250 persons. They one and all declared ,hemselves tire.l to death of their lives, beset by every kind of misery, for a long period not knowing how or where to get a meal. He told them that the question they had propounded to him was one of a most difficult character to answer, inasmuch as employment was most difficult to be obtained by honest means, alto• gether untainted by crime. How could he advise them to go and ask for that which of his own knowledge he was aware in lastriou3, well conducted men could not in more than one instance out of three obtain. The re formatory system carried out in the public gaols had failed, but it would succeed if the criminals were placed in a position where they would not have to endure more than human nature could stand. The system of emi gration ought to be encouraged with regard to the children, attending the ragged schools, and on receiv ing a certificate of good conduct they should be sup plied by the Government with a sum of money suffi cient to enable them to go to the colonies. The best results had already flowed from the countenance given to those children who wished to emigrate. In point of fact, ten times more good was effected by the 1400/. expended under the ragged school system than if 200,000/. were laid out under the present system of prison disaipliue. Of all systems the workhouse was the worst in which to train children such as he was now bringing under their consideration. They had a great evil to deal with. They had before them these 30,000 children, and what would they do with them? Let the House recollect the filthy and extremely ignorant state in which they were generally found. No one would employ them, and the only fool they had was obtained by begging or by stealing. How could such children get education, or any means of improvement? They were, therefore, driven into crime, and into the worst of practices. What, then, did these promoters of ragged schools do? They opened schools for their reception, and en deavoured in every way to gain them over to improved habits as well as to educate them. A child at these schools must be maintained by its parents, and then as a reward for good conduct they wished to be able to hold out to them the prospect of their being sent out to the colonies, and being placed in the way of bettering their condition. All children to be entitled to this boon are required to be of good health, to have attended some industrial class for a certain period, to be able to say the Lord's Prayer, and have some knowledge of their religious duties, and to be maintained by their parents for the period of five months. Parliament made a grant every year for education to the amount of 100,0001., and from a participation of any portion of this grant the children of ragged schools, from their habits and necessities, were altogether excluded. What, then, had been done? They had established 82 schools, in which they had 80,000 children, and he could not speak too highly of the efforts of the voluntary teachers. Under these circumstances it was to the House of Commons they looked to take up that duty which pri vate benevolence seemed no longer able to sustain. He submitted, then, the issue to the representatives of the reople, relying that they would act in the spirit of the prayer which was upon their lips every evening—. " That it would please God to have mercy upon all who were desolate and oppressed, and upon the afflicted and the fatherless."—(Hear, hear.) Sir GEORGE GREY, after complimenting the Noble Lord for the active and praiseworthy part he had taken in the promotion of ragged schools, referred to the early efforts of Sheriff Watson, of Aberdeen, in the establish ment of these schools, who had set an example which bad been ably followed by his Noble Friend (Lord Ashley). He thought, however, if his Noble Friend had made himself better acquainted with the subject, he would not have made the observations he had thrown out about the prisoners at Pentonville and Parkhurst. Ho seemed to think that that class of prisoners were let loose upon society. None, however, were sent to those prisons but prisoners who were under sentence of transportation. Notbirg, he (Sir G. Grey) would admit, could be more gratifying than the manner in which it appeared those boys had expressed themselves on their arrival in the colonies; and he had letters which had been received from persons sent out from Parkhurst and Penton ville, which he would be happy to put into the Noble Lord's hands, and which he believed, were of an equally gratifying character. He agreed with his Noble Friend that the amelioration of society must be of slow growth, but he would caution him against thinking that by any means at the disposal of Parliament anything could be done to effect a rapid change iu the condition of that class in whose welfare he was so much interested. After referring to the mo tion which the Noble Lord had submitted to the House, he pruceeeed to express his doubts as to the propriety of carrying it into effect. Much as they were bound to sympathise with that particular class of children to which he referred, they must not overlook the danger of hold ing out a premium to crime —(Hear, hear)—and what' ever Parliaments did it must make a distinction be twssen the children of honest parents and the children of bad habits and propensities. The Right Hon. Gen tleman here read a document, setting forth the views of Government at the time the experiment was first made of sending children from ragged schools to the colonics by aid from Government. The Noble Lord had Colo them that there were 30,000 children of that class al" luded to in London, and averaging the expense et 101. each, a sum would be required amounting t°. 300,0001.—(Hear, hear.) It wou ld b e necessary that if any step should be taken by Government in furthe rance of the Noble Lord's scheme, it would be abso lutely necessary that other children—children of ill' dustrious and honest parents, should be participators in the benefit.—(Hear, hear.) He had received l e tter,. from Glasgow clai m ing t o h ave some a id suc h as bad been extended (as we understood) to schools in Aber deen. He did not think that Parliament, by any enact' meat, could enable any class to feed and clothe theln: selves, and he therefore doubted th.t by any system of emigration they could confer the very great advant a ges which the Noble Lord seemed to anticipate.- He would mention that he had a representation from the grand jury at York, last year, Kith reference to certain crimi nals who were convicted of sedition and other offences , setting forth that these people had come to a sense of . the errors they had committ e d, an d t h at t h ey d rea ded being again cast upon society; and the gentlemen of the grand jury, therefore submitted to his consideration the wisdom and the humanity of Government enabling them; people to better their condition in the colonies. He stated to the grand jury, in his reply, that he should be most happy to comply with their suggestion if it were in his power to do so, but that the applications from persons el unimpeachable character were so numerous that Govern" went soul not possibly afford to these pepple, who were of course entitled to a preference, the aid and assistance that was required, and he was consequently compelled to refuse the prayer of the grand jury. If the House should give their assent to the Noble Lord's proposition he would say that it must not in fairness be limited to one particular class. The interests of society required that the children of the honest and industrious classes should at least be participaters in any advantage which Parliament could hold out, and, above all, they should take care that any benefit they conferred should not be given as a premium to crime. —(Hear, bear.) Mr. PAGE WOOD was glad that an experiment had been made in carrying out the views which the Noble Lord had laid before them, but he confessed he had, from the first, doubts of the success and propriety of the scheme, and his opinions were grounded upon the fact that they had in the workhouses over the kingdom so many orphans who could not be provided for. He thoughts therefore, that it was their first duty to attend to the claims which such a clas of children had upon them. An appeal of the same kind as this might be urged with at least equal force in bakalt 11k wheels in connexion with many Dissenting congregations. He was quite fa miliar with the difficdties of the question, and assured the House that it was quite necessary for them to be on their guard against their benevolent instincts, which, a s in the ease of almsgiving, frequently prompted them to bestow money on those who were either quite unworthy of it, or who, being worthy of it, became immediately inactive, and ultimately ruined. He thought, too, that , considering the great difficulty which poor and honest struggling people experienced in procuring the money which was necessary to enable them to emigrate, it was most unjust, to say nothing of its being extremely wrong in principle, to allow dishonesty and crime to be come a stepping -stone to that which frugality and pru dence could not obtain.—(Hear, hear.) But, supposing that the House should adopt the principle of the resolu tion, then he should suggest that the grant should not be made from the public purse, but should be admi nistered in the several localities by the individuals who contributed to it. Lord ASHLEY replied, and the resolution was by leave withdrawn. Lord DUDLEY STUART postponed until next SW sion his motion for a Select Committee to inquire into the ease of Krishna Rao Wittul of Baroda. BRITISH GUIANA. Mr. HUME move the following resolutions on the evidence and report of the Select Committee on British Guiana:— • " That it appears by the evidence taken before the Select Committee on British Guiana, that that Govern ment has been carried on for the last ten years in oppo sition to the expressed views and opinions of the elective members of the Colonial Legislature, and that the sup plies are now stopped in the colony, by continued oppo sition, to the great injury of the colony." "That this Howe is of opinion that the time has ar rived when the public expenditure of the colony should De reduced, as desired by the colonists; and also for the establishment of a responsible Local Government, which should have full power to decide on the extent and na tura of their establishments, and to provide the means for paying the same." The Committee, after pursuing it labours under very disadvantageous circumstances, inasmuch as the colonists who complained had no notice of the appointment of the Committee, and were only admitted upon petition to give evidence before it, had made a report which, in his opi nion, was quite inconsistent with the evidence. It well the report only of a majority of the Committee, and as such a very meagre, half-and-half, no report at all. The cases of Ceylon and Guiana were brought before the House in tLe E r,sent session as proper subjects of inves tigation by a Select Committee, and Guiana had been taken first, as being the more urgent of the two. The House would remember that the supplies for carrying on the Government of Guiana had been stopped, that the public institutions of tat: colony bad been at a stand, and the general blanches of the Colonial Government were at variance. With regard to the Home Govern ment of the colony, the conduct of Lord Grey was not only against reason but against law, looking at the institutions of the country. The colonists had a majority in the Court, but they had in evidence that, as the Governor had a double vote, he had the power, under the direction of Lord Grey, to overrule the wishes of the elective members. The minority of the representatives had petitioned Lord Grey for a re duction of salaries, but they had received for answer , that no reduction should be made in the civil list, but everywhere else they might make what reductions they pleased. He thought the Colonial-office had treated them with hearlless indifference.. The combined Court had refused to vote the money for the civil list, and there was no resource but au appeal to the Imperial Parlia ment. The colonies complained that all the promises of the Colonial office had been broken. The Noble Lord at the head of the Colonial department would net make the least concession, and therefore the House -- called upon to interfere. There Woo cite continued "ate I