The Sun. — London, England, 1849-04-17 00:00:00

'orb %titian SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. THE WEATHER. At about four o'clock this afternoon the sky became suddenly overcast, and we had a heavy fall of snow. At first it came down in small flakes, with the rapidity a a whirlwind, sharp and intensely cold. In about a quarter of an hour the flakes increased in size and density, presenting all the appearance of a regular snow storm. The streets and houses were soon covered with snow. Along the Strand it was rather amusing to see the numerous omnibuses meeting each other alt a rra ye daye in white, the drivers seeming evidently proud new and unexpected livery. The horses, too, trotted as if there was something smart in the wind, for the snow was swimming in full and rapid glory all above and around the m. It was indeed a novel and sudden change both to man ani beast. In the course of the afternoon the sky cleared up, and this tail of the winter season bids fair to usher in fine and genial weather. The thermometer went down to 28. The barometer showed no change. EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) (Sitting in Banco.) 'WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOUTH RAILWAY V. FOOKES. In this case a rule had been obmined by the defendant to set aside an award which was made on the 12th of January, 1848, giving him 1,7C01. as compensation for certain lands which were required for the construction of the railway. An arbitrator was appointed by each party, but not being able to agree, no award was made by them, and the matter was ultimately referre d to an umpire who was appointed by the Railway Commissioners under the power granted by a recent Act, and Who settled the amount of compensation. The claimant, when he applied to the Court for his rule to set aside the award, objected to it mainly upon the grounds, first, that the umpire was not duly appointed; secondly, that the umpire bad not, by his award, adjudicated as to the party or parties who were to pay the costs, and that his award had not determined the amount of the costs; and, thirdly, that the award was contrary to the evidence brought before him. Sir F. KELLY now showed cause against the rule, and w - as heard at considerable length, but his arguments we. - e altogether of a technical character, having reference chiefly to the construction of the Acts of Parliament affecting the case. Mr. .NlAuTrs addressed the Court in support of the rule, arid contended, that as it would be a great hardship upon the d efendant to lose his costs by an omission in the award, t2ie rule should be made absolute. The COURT' discharged the rule; but, inasmuch as their Lordships thought that considerable doubt attached to the question, it was discharged without costs. MORTALIT Y in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1549. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases — 4 141 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ..• 37 Turbercular Diseases... ... ... 197 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 144 Diseases of the Heart and Blood - vessels 38 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ...• 198 Diseases of the Stomach , Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ... .•• ••• Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ••• Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &I. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the , Skin, &c. ••• Malformations... ••• ••• Premature Birth ••• Atrophy Old Age Sudden ... ••• Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance Causes not specified ... ••• DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ..• ... 66 ... 11 ... 6 1,066 Population Average weekly Deaths Enumerated, Deaths, 1844-8. in the 1841 Five Springs. Week. West Districts... 300,711 . . 145 ... 142 North Districts.. 375,971 .. 185 ... 185 Central Distr.zts 373,653 ... 168 ... 203 East Div riots ... 392,444 ... 207 ... 260 South Dlstricts.. 501,190 ... 258 ... 276 Totals... ~....1,948,369 Males ..• ••• Females ~. ••• BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males ... Females ... ... 1,066 ... 512 ... 554 ... 707 ... 639 Total ... ... 1,346 *ln this number are included 2 cases of death by Cholera, 48 by Scarlatina, and 43 by Typhus Fever. COURSE OF EXCHA Llon4toruarn ........ •• 12 2% Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 1 Rotterdam .... ••.. •• 12 3 Antwerp • ..... • • ...... 25 75 II =burgh .... • •11.13. 13 12N, Paris, 3 days' sight 25 40 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 6;1 Marseilles • • • • ...... 25 65 80urdeaux......... • 25 65 Frankfort on Maine.... 1213( Retersburgh, Sil.ltble••• 36 Vienna, effec. do— 11 33 Trieste, 34 M a drid •• •• .... •• •• 48% Bilbao • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • Barcelona „ ,„ lv LiE.--(THIS DAY.] Gibraltar.. •• Leghorn ........ • • .. • • ilenoa • • • • •• • • • • • • Venice .. .. • • • • es.lermo, perm; Messina .............. Oporto • • . • ..... • • • . • • Rio Janeiro • • ...... • . Buenos Ayres .. ••.. . • Yew York, 2I dayesight Philadelphia .... • • .... seVillee • •• O. v. •. •• 33 50 26 2 41% 11:Pi L 3 1,4 535 ?BIM OF BULLION, FEZ Of irorelgn Gold in bars ...£3 17 9 eortugal Gold Coin • . 0 0 0 ipanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars •• .. 0 4 10 illver in bars 0 4 11 h AUSTRIA. It is said that Count Stadion has resigned. The Magyars have again taken St. Tomas, which was last year so obstinately defended by the Servians. The Servian Patriarch has been forced to fly from Becskerek to Panesora. The command of the besieging army at Comorn, which has lately been in a state of mutiny, as most troops are when unsuccessful, has been entrusted to General Wohigemuth. According to the Ostdeutsche Post of the 14th 'instant the paper circulation of the Austrian State amounts to no less than 232 millions of florins, while the metallic currency, gold, silver, and copper, shows as low a figure as 32 millions. " A pennyworth of bread to such an enormous quantity of sack." As the public is only concerned to the amount of 41 millions of notes, the Austrian Government must have taken advantage of the credit of the bank, to the amount of no less than 190 millions. The Vienna Gazette (the official journal) publishes in its number of the 12th instant the following com munication of the Imperial Cabinet to the Baron von Prokesch, the Austrian Plenipotentiary in Berlin, under date April 8,1849 : _ " The Count Von Bernstoff has communicated to me a circular, forwarded at the same time to all the Pills sian Ambassadors et German Courts, in which his Majesty the King, in consequence of the expressed intention of the Regent of the Empire to resign his post, has set forth his readiness to accept, on the proposition of the German Governments, and with the consent of the German National Assembly, the provisional direction of dr.) affairs of Germany; to respond to the call made on him, and to place himself at the head of a Ger man confederate state, to be composed of such states as are inclined to connect themselves voluntarily with it. " Besides these declarations, all the Governments re ceived the invitation to appoint, without delay, special plenipotentiaries in Frankfort-on-the-Maine, for the purpose of making explicit declarations-1. As to the admission into the confederate state, and the con ditions under which such admission is to take place. 2. As to the position which the Governments which shall join such a confederate state will oc cupy with respect to the German National Assembly and its decisions already agreed to, with the understand ing that the arriving at an agreement with relation to the Constitution shall be without delay commenced. 3. As to the relations to those German states which hesi tate to join the Confederate one, whereby it is desirable that the attempt be made to adjust the affairs of the still existing Confederation to the new form of state. " Our readiness to meet the propositions, if such were made on the part of Prussia in its capacity as a fellow member of the Germanic Confederation (a confedera tion which is based on a stipulation, and which de facto still exists), for the purpose of coming, in a legal way, to an arrangement respecting reforms in Germany, in accordance with the spirit of the age, on the basis of the project of constitution discussed by the National Assembly, our readiness , we re p eat it, is proved by our positive declarations and the repeated and decisive steps which we have taken to that effect in Berlin. "On the other hand, however, we cannot agree to, much less demand the execution of; the views expressed by the Prussian Cabinet in its circular dispatch of the 3d instant. The National Assem bly w hich was solely con voked, in ord er to complete, - 'in common with the Princes of Germany, the wor k of the im posed a limit on its labou r s was ended. The Assemb ly ,Constitution, by declaring that its task however, exceeding the pri vileges allotted to it, not only arb itrarily completed and carried out the Constitution, eo d but oven sought, without beingpir p ossession it as law , powers, to bestow on Germany Not only has the National Asitembly an hereditary of full acte a d ry wrhh Em peror. is this matter, it has also completely left the path of law by arbitrarily declaring itself en permanence. Upon these grounds we cannot acknowledge the validity of the decisions arrived at by the National Assembly , beyond the extent of its privileges , any more than we can admit of the prosecution of its labours. For us the National Assembly no longer exists; and on that account it can neither exercise any influence on ordon- DaIiCES respecting the formation of a new provisional central power, nor take any part in negotiations respect ing the coming to an agreement with regard to the work of the Constitution—a work set down by the Assembly itself as finished. "Should, therefore, the Regent of the Empire, through unforeseen circumstances, not accede to the urgent re quest of the Emperor, and decline to remain in his post until, in a legal way, provision has been made for the management of German affairs, we must energetically protest against the acceptation and exercise of this power by one of the German Governments alone, and we must insist upon its being organized in a way which shall enable all the governments to be duly represented therein. " As under these circumstances no further negotiations respecting the work of the Constitution can be carried on 1 without the National Assembly—as the central power, a purely executive authority, is not called to take•part in the negotiations, and his Imperial Majesty must adhere to the already expressed principle of not subjecting him self and his states to the central power exercised by:another German Prince, we cannot treat, at Frank fort, according to the plan proposed by Prussia, with its plenipotentiary, or with those of any other Prince. We cannot, therefore, avail ourselves of the invitation ad dressed to us, to send a plenipotentiary to the negotia tions proposed to be carried on there. " Our Gracious Sovereign is, on the contrary, corn • pelted to add that he solemnly protests against all the decisions arising from such negotiations, as well as against their consequences, and he does so with fall re servation of all the claims and rights of himself, his Go vernment, and his German provinces, claims and rights based on treaties still in force. _ " You will hand to the Prussian Cabinet a copy of the resent dispatch, in answer to the communication which t addressed to us through Count von Bernstorff." DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. We learn from our Hamburgh correspondence of the 14th inst. that a bill was on that day posted on the Hamburgh Exchange, stating the Danish en trenchments near Diippel bad been attacked and carried by the Saxon and Bavarian troops. We ex pect to have the details of this action in the next numbers of our Hamburgh papers. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1819. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, April 17.) Sucan.—This afternoon there was little disposition evinced to make purchases in West India Sugar either for grocery or refining purposes; still merchants refuse to make any further concession in the value. The pri vate operations are only 240 bhds. A public sale of 155 hhds 11 trcs new Barbadoes, however, went off briskly at full rates; good and fine yellow realised 40s to 425, and middling 38s 6d to 39s 6d per cwt. REPINED.—Today Refined Goods were operated in witk caution for home trade purposes, and prices are not supported, brown Lumps selling at 50s 6d to 511 per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar is offered at a reduc tion, still few buyers are to be met with, and 29s 6d to 30s 6d is the value. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon there was less disposi tion evincod to make purchases in Mauritius Sugar, and the public sales of 65 casks, 1,618 bags, went off at ra ther lower rates; middling and good yellow sold at 38s to 39s 6d, ordinary 36s 6d to 37s 6d, fine brown 365, or dinary to fine grey 37s to 395, washed and syrupy 34s to 38s 6d per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon an increased quantity of Bengal Sugar was pressed upon the attention of the trade. There are nine public sales, comprising 10,127 bags. There was less demand, and a part only sold at a reduction of 6d to Is per cwt ; low and middling white Benares went at 39s 6d to 41s, good and fine 41s 6d to 445, damp and washed 38. 6d to 42s 6d, strong white 47. to 48. 6d, yellow ditto 42. to 455, Mauritius sort 37s to 40s. 101 casks Moulmien went at lower rates, strong brown at 33. to 345, inferior 30s 6d to 33s 6d-998 bags Madras went at steady rates; mid dling yellow at 35s 6d to 37s 6d, and inferior 32. 6d to 34s 6d per cwt. FOREIGN.—To day there was no public sale of Foreign Sugar, and privately the purchases made were trifling, although sellers were willing to accept lower rates. The amount on offer is larger. COFPEZ.—This afternoon there was little desire evinced to do business in Ceylon Coffee, and at public sale 8 casks 438 bags Plantation were nearly all taken in at full rates; good quality at 60s, middling 55s to 58s, low middling 475, fine and fine tine ord 37s to 43s 6d. 10 bags Madras, damaged, sold at 40, per cwt. Native Ceylon is dull of sale at 30s to 32s per cwt, and several parcels of the new crop have come to hand. For public sale on Thursday, 100 casks Jamaica, 120 casks 500 bags Plantation Ceylon; and for Friday, 480 cases 45 bags fine Tellicherry are declared. MOLASSES.—The demand is brisker for West India, and stiffer rates are paid ; sales of low to fine quality have been made at 17s to 21s. per cwt. There has been a more active demand for East India Treacle, and it is difficult to make purchases under 16s. per cwt. COCOA.—This afternoon a public sale of 101 bags Trinidad Cocoa went at firm rates ; good red at 43s 6d and grey at 42s per cwt. TEA.—Public sales are declared for Thursday, and the quantity a - ivertised is nearly 20,000 pkgs. There are further arrivals, and the stock is now as large as at this time last year. For home consumption duty was paid upon 500,000 at this port for the week, although black can be obtained at lower rates, little desire was shown by town or country dealers to do business, and several parcels are on offer. There has been much dulness in the market for Green, and as the supply is abundant sales can be made upon rather lower terms. A further _ _ _ _ _ fall is also visible in the value of Scented and Pekoe Teas; the quantity on offer is also far more than suffi cient for the demand, which is still limited. RICE.—To-day East India Rice met with little atten tion, but s smaller amount was on offer. At auction 1,638 bags Bengal only in part sold at 93 6d to 103 6i for good mid and good white, and at 6s to 9s 6d for damaged, being the full value; 1,300 tags Madras were taken in at 83 6d for pinky white. SAGO.—To-day a public sale of 300 chests went at 21s to. 21s 6d for bold pearl being barely the former value. SPICES have been dealt in with caution—prices are also on the decline. Mace is not much wanted, and can be obtained at a reduction. Pimento is held with firmness, and the market is less freely supplied, but the demand for all purposes has fallen off. This afternoon at public sale 70 barrels Jamaica Ginger went at from 412 s to 71 103 for middling to good; these are full rates. 80 bags . white Pepper withdrawn. ClT.—Currants have been dealt in with greater readiness, and prices are on the advance. Merchants display much firmness, and obtain 35s to 40s for sound. Raisins met with more attention, and prime Valencia cannot be obtained under 40s per cwt; the stock also continues to get smaller. SALTPETRE.—To•'day rough met with a good demand, and 449 bogs of Calcutta, at auction, sold at 303 to 30s 6d for goal strong grey 5 per cent refraction; these are stiff rates. INDIGG.— The quantity announced for public compe tition on the 811 of May, has been increased to 6,507 chests. There has been little desire manifested by home dealers to do business, and export orders are trifling, still it is difficult to make sales under last quarterly sales' rates. To-day the public male of 73 serons Guatamala Indigo went from 2s ld to 4s 2d; these are full rates. SPIRITS.—East India Rust is in increased supply, and can be obtained upon lower terms, yet only small purchases have been made, and is 3d is the value of proof. For Leeward bland the market is in a quiet state, and prices are looking down; there are sellers at is 4d to is 4id proof. Fine Jamaica is wanted for home use and exportation, and firm rates are offerd; the supply is also still scanty, inferior and mid kinds continue to be dealt in with caution, and the supply is still on the increase, prises are also on the decline ; 30 to 29 per cent. over proof is 2s 7d to 2s 9J, 30 to 36 at 2s 10d to 336 d, and superior 3s 8J to 4s 4d. Demerara met with little attention, and sellers aro willing to accept 2s to 2s 4d for 28 per cent over proof. In Haven. nah Rum little business has been done, and is 2d is the value of proof. Prices for all sorts are still under this time iu the former year. Brandy has been dealt in with caution, and the stock continues to get larger. There are sellers of Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1845 at 5s 6,4 to 5s 8d; ditto 1846, at 5s 4d to 53 6d; ditto 1847, 4s 2d to 43 id ; ditto 1848, 3s 6d to 43 Bd, and interior brands 23 2d to 3s 43. Geneva is offered at is 9d to Is 10d for exportation sort, fins for duty at 2s 3d to 3s 3d, the sales made have also been small. British made Spirit is not much in demand; in the value there is no varia- tion. Gin is quoted at from 8s 3d to 8s 9d, and Raw Spirits at 93 8d per gallon. COCHINEAL.—To - day the quantity offered at auction was large, and amounted to 226 bags, not above half sold at rather lower rates; Honduras silvers went at 33 9,1 to 4s sd; Mexican black 3s lid to 4s 2d, very fine 4s 8d to 4s 10d, and silvers 3s 8d to 33 10d. TALLOW.—Prices continue to decline for Russian on the spot, and there are sellers of fine P. Y. Candle at 38s 3d per cwt, still the purchases made have been limited for all purposes. For delivery in last three months of the year there has been little passing, although sales can be made at 39s 6d, and the tendency of prices is still to decline. Home made is offered at 38s 6d to 39s nett cash, but the operations are of little mo ment, and an increased quantity is preising for sale. Other sorts of Tallow are depressed in value, and the supply exceeds the demand. At auction 50 casks Petersburg Soap Tallow only parity found buyers at 36s 3d to 36s 6d; 275 casks New South Wales 33s 9d to 395; 533 casks South American 33s 9d to 375. For auction the large quantity of 1,000 pkgs of Tallow are declared. Rough Fat is quoted at 2s 2f per stone. There is still a much larger stock of Tallow than in the former year, and deliveries keep falling off. Ou.s.—There are sellers of Cod at 261 per tun, still only small sales have been made, and pri ces t e nd down wards. Seal has been dealt in with caution, and on the part of holders a disposition is shown to sell. Pale can be obtained at 304 straw and tinged, 281 103 to 291 10s, and other sorts 261 to 28!. Southern is in scanty supply, and holders ask 27/ to 311 for low to fine, on the part of exporters and home dealers little desire is evinced to make purchases. For Sperm the market is in a quiet state, and as there is a fair supply fine Colonial can be purchased at 801 per ton. Imports of Oils are getting upoa an en larged scale, still there is a fair consumption. For Linseed Oil the market has a firma aspect ; home dealers have operated freely, and for exportation several parcels were disposed of. The rates paid have been 26s 6d to 27s per cwt, and there is not a larger supply. Purchases to a fair exte A nt have hebeenmreaadsee is delivery at 27s to 27s 3l visible in the consum ption. Rapeseed Oil has be en excellent demand, and there is muc h firmness i n the in the supply is also small, and consumption good; pale has been selling at 38s to 38s 6d, and brown at 37s 6d. Palm is held with firmness, and fine is not to be pur chaassebdesunr:dpeerratd in the3:i,b wit ut h dem and is not so good, and the market will be better suppli e d shortly. Cocoa Nut h caution. Sir Edward tt" N 'nd La dyKerrison arrived in Great Stan hope -street y esterday, been passing the hoaf)r-soln Brighton, where they have Advices from Valparaiso have been received, via New York, up to the 6th of Febr uary.e. The fever for emigration to San Franci sco still c ont inu e d, not to such an extent as about a omonautleldipraelvLihoouusglyh. There were 15 vessels loading f or that port, 150 r one of which, the Chateaubriand, had upward s o gers already engaged, and would probably tak p e as ro - The American man of-war screw.ateamer Massachuse tts had just come in with troops bound for Californi a Business in Valparaiso was very dull, and money was; scarce at li per mt. per month. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 3, 1849. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a Levee at St. Jame's Palace on Wednesday, the 2d of May next, at two o'clock. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, Ann 3, 1849. . . Notice is thereby given, that her Majesty will hold Drawing-rooms at St. James's Palace, on the following days, at two o'clock :—Thursday, 26th April instant ; Saturday, 19th May next, to celebrate her Majesty's birth-day ; and Thursday, 31st May next. N.B. The Knights of the several orders are to appear in their col lars, at the Drawing room, on the 19th of May next. ADMIRALTY, APRIL 5. Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant John Yate Holland promoted to First Lieutenant, vice James Splaine Dowman, cashiered by sentence of a Court martial. WEITEFIALL, APRIL 2. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Anthony Atkin son, of Beverley, in the county of Ycrk, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, Arnm_l2. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Samuel Sketch ley, of Horneastle, in the county of Lincoln, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. Alfred Henry Maude Goodeve, wine merchant, Gar lick-hill, Upper Thames-street, to surrender April 27, at half past twelve, and June 1, at half past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, cfficial assignee, Birchin-lane; Tripp, Adelaide-place, London-bridge. Daniel Smith and Frederick Daniel Smith, Bevor lane, Hammersmith, wholesale dry salters, April 24, at eleven, and June 1, at half-past one, at the Court o' Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Bahingball street; Young, Vallings, and Young, Saint Mildred's court, Poultry. Richard Cross, horse-slaughterer, Union-street, Lis son-grove, April 27, at twelve, and June 1, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannon, official assignee, Birchin lane, Cornhill ; Field, Finchley. John Loustan, wine merchant, Crutched Friars, April 24, at half-past twelve, and May 25, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Wilson, Furnival's inn. Charles Mayhew, hosier and laceman, Ebury- street, Pimlico, April 25, at half-past eleven, and May 26, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Guildhall chambers, Basinghall-street; Robin son, Ironmonger-lane. Mattew 'non Tibbett, innkeeper, Farcett, Cambridge, April 26, and May 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street build ings; Chidley, solicitor, Basinghall-street. William Tomlinson, victualler, Salford, May 24, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, offi cial assignee; Mourilyan and Roswell, solicitors, Gray's inn -London; Leming and Richardson, solicitors, Man chester. John Wiggins, bookseller, Greenwich, April 27, and May 26, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-court. Basinghall street; Bristow and Tarrant, Bond-court, Walbrook. • John Owen, farmer, Ti efnarmay, Montgomeryshire, April 30, and May 21, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis trict Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Ches ter, Staple Inn; Brabner and Son, Liverpool. Thomas Wright, grocer, Longton, Staffordshire, April 26 and May 24, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Young, Longton; Smith, Birmingham. James A shworth, woollen manufacturer, Nunhills, Lancashire, May 3 and 24, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Abbott, Lincoln's Inn-fields; Atkinson, Saunders, and Atkinson, Manchester. Henry Gore, plumber, Cheltenham, May 1 and 25, at half-past eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, Bristol, official assignee; Bromley and Co., Gray's Inn; Ches,hyre, Cheltenham. James Harris, batter, Weymouth, April 6, at one, and May 23, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, Exeter, official assignee; Arden, Weymouth; Lambert, Exeter; Bridges and Mason, Red Lion-square. Charles Beasley. mercer and draper, Bristor, April 27 and May 25. at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester ; Leman and Humphrys, Bristol. John Winder and Richard Fisher, merchants Liver pool, Ist and 25th of May, at eleven, at the Liverpool D:a rict Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Holme and Co., New Inn ; Booker, Liverpool. Benjamin Wright, innkeeper, Coalbrookdale, Shrop shire, May 1 and 29, at ten, at the Birmingham Dis trict Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Gordon, Shrewsbury; Hodgson, Birmingham. George Barras, wine and spirit merchant, Newcastle upon-Tyne, April 26 and Mav 7, at twelve, at the Newcastle upon-Tyne District - Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Bowiby, Newcastle upon-Tyne; Lawrence, Crowdy, and Bowiby, Doctors' Commons. James Wild, licensed victualler, Brecon, May 1 and 29, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Trehern and White, Barge yard- chambers, Bucklersbury; Sabine, Bristol. John Jones, innkeeper, Holyhead, April 30 and May 24, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Sweeting and Burn, South ampton-buildings; Lloyd, Roberts, and Co., Carnarvon ; Curry and Statham, Liverpool. George Mins, salt manufacturer, Droitwich, Wor cestershire, May 1 and 29, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Jones, Worcester; Smith, Birmingham. Lemuel Gulliver Groves, horse dealer, Charlton Marshall, Dorsetsbire, April 26, at one, and May 30, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter; Rawlins, Wirnburne Minster; Fincham, Blandford; Edwards and Peake, New Palace yard, Westminster; Stogdon, Exeter. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. PORTAL took the oaths and his seat for the Northern Division of Hampshire. The Hon. Member was introduced by Lord Charles Wellesley and Mr. Compton. SUNDAY TRAVELLING. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL for SCOTLAND pre sented several petitions from places in that country against railway travelling on Sur.days. MARRIAGE BILL. Lord DUNCAN presented several petitions againa the Marriage Bill. ARBITRATION. A number of petitions were presented in favour of na'ional arbitration by Mr. Cobden, Mr. Scliolefield and other Hon. Members. CLERGY RELIEF BILL. Mr. G. THOMPSON presented several petitions in favour of this Bill. NAVIGATION-LAWS. Mr. E. ELLICE presented petitions from Kircaldy against any alteration in these laws; also against the Marriage (Scotland) Bill. OATHS. Mr. STAFFORD presented a petition from Northamp ton against the new Oaths Biil. ARTERIAL DRAINAGE. The Ifox. MENBEit also presented a petition from Tipperary in favour of arterial drainage. CHURCH AND STATE. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition in favour of the disunion of Church and State. MARRIAGE LAW. Sir J. Y. BULLER presented several petitions from places in Devonshire against any alteration of the mar riage law. FEES IN COURTS OF .... EQUITY. _ _ Sir H. WILLOUGHBY asked Mr. gouverie, whether it was the intention of the Committee on Fees in the Courts of Equity and Law in England, to make any re port on that bubject. Mr. BOUVERIE said the operations of the Committee had been delayed in consequence of the preparation of returns which had not yet been presented. So soon as they were, the Committee would be called together, and active steps taken to prepare a report founded thereon. DUCHY OF CORNWALL Mr. TRELAWNY gavel notice that he should, to morrow, ask why the annual returns with respect to this Duchy had not been laid before the House. Mr. BAINES presented petitions from several places in favour of union rating. Mr. HUME presented petitions from Forfar, and several other places in Scotland, agsitpit the Marriage Registration (Scotland) Bill; alio a petition from Taun ton in favour of a better representation of the people in Parliament. NEW METROPOLITAN BOROUGH. Mr. MACGREGOR postponed the following motion, which stood on the paper for to-day, to Tuesday, the Bth of May :—That in consideration of the parishes of Kensington, Chelsea, Fulham, and Ham mersmith, containing a population of about 120,000 in habitants, residing on an area not exceeding 8,000 acres, and comprising also above 111,000 houses, of the annual rental of 10L and upwards; and further, in consideration that there is no other district in Great Britain with so great a number of inhabitants and houses unrepresented directly in this House, it is expedient and just to incorporate, by an Act of Parlia ment, the parishes of Kensington, Chelsea, Fulham, and Hammersmith, into a Parliamentary borough, em powered to return two Members to this House, to fill up the vacancies caused by the disfranchisement of the late borough of Sudbury. THE PUNJAUB. Mr. GOULBURN, seeing the Hon. Member for the Tower Hamlets in his place, wished to know whether it was his intention to night to call the attention of the House to the state of affairs in the Punj sub. According to the notice that appeared on the paper to that effect, as he understood it, the Hon. Member had postponed his motion on a former day, on the ground that the papers on the subject werelibt before the House; those papers had not yet been laid upan the table, and ho theretore trusted that the Hon. Member would not bring his mo tion on that evening. Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE said that some of thz, papers had been laid on the table yesterday, and the re mainder would be forthcoming shortly. Mr. G. THOMPSON said' that the Right Hon. Gen tleman opposite was in error as to the reasons that in duced him to postpone his motion to the present day; it was not in consequence of the papers on the subject not being before theHouse,but at the request of the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, in order that the progress of the Rats in Aid Dill might nut be suspended. Ile felt bound to persevere in his motion to-night, believing that without the papers alluded to by the Right Hon. Gentle man he should make out such a case R 3 would call upon the House to interfere.—(Hear.) Mr. G OULBURN regretted the course intended to be pursued by the Hon. Member, as several Members would not attend under the supposition that the motion would be postponed in consequence of the papers not being laid on the table of the House. LANDED PROPERTY (IRELAND). Mr. SADLEIR then rose, pursuant to notice, to call the attention of the House to the legal circumstances which unduly impede the sale of landed property in Ireland (Hear, hear) and to those facilities which may be safely afforded for its free transfer. When he looked to the condition of Ireland—to the des titution and suffering of her people, and the patience with which they bore those sufferings—when he looked to the financial difficulties into which she had fallen, when he saw injuries perpetrated upon her under the name of charity, and a merciless poor -law— when he looked at the sessional policy of her Majesty's Ministers, and the spirit in which they had received every remonstrance from Ireland, he trusted that he might claim with confidence the generous indulgence of the House while he called its attention to the le gal circum stances vs hich unduly impeded the sale of landed property in Ireland, and those facilities which might be safely afforded for its free transfer. Owing to the want of proper facilities for the transfer of landed property in Ireland, the application of capital and agricultural science to the improvement of the land and development of its resources was greatly impeded. He would just call the attention of the House to one sin. gle passage in tho report of the Commit tee which sat in 1846, for the purpose of con sidering how far the burdens on land in this country could be diminished, with the view of counter acting the effects which the adoption of free trade must for a short period have upcn the value of lauded property. The Committee complained that the transfer of landed property in this country was subjected to expense by the law, which, in th e o pi n i on o f the Committee, greatly diminished the marketable value of the land itself. Now, if such a difficulty were felt in this country how much more disastrous must it prove in Ireland, where land was so much en cumbered.--a(Hear.) It night, however, be said that the value of land in this country bore a fair proportion to the value of land in other countries, therefore the depression of landed property in Ireland could not be raced to the operation of the law which related to its transfer. But the House must remember that Ireland was not assimilated to the law of England.—(hear, hear.) Mr. Pymm, in his valuable work on ihe condition of the landed property in Ire land, attributed. much of the prevailing distress to the cumbersome and eipensive machinery which attended its transfer, while the absence of that principle, known in this country under the name of foreclosure," increased, to a tenfold extent, the expense of conveying land, and of course stilt aggravated the distress of the country. The most recent mortgagee was compelled, for his own safety and pro tection, to trace and enrol tle claim of the party who had the most remote and indefinite interest to the property, a system which was exceedingly costly, and subjected the transfer of the property to much legal chicanery, and served well to extend and keep up litigation, which could benefit no party but the law yers. Under the existirg system every individual who bad or had ever had a remote or indirect interest in the property, had to be brought before the Court of Chancery in Ireland. (Hear, hear.) The whole subject-matter with reference to the sale of an estate was referred to the Master's office, where it became the subject of unprincipled litigation, and thus an amount of expense fully equal to 30 per cent. upon the selling value was entailed upon the proprietor. There were several instances of as many as 180 charges being preferred and filed in one suit, and each of those charges was analagous to a small bill in equity. How ever small the demand of a creditor might be, it was im possible for the Master to take legal cognizance of the debt, unless it was placed under his notice by way of a charge and discharge. In fact, the success of the apparitor depended upon the ingenuity and skill of his lawyer in taking advantage of every technical objection, with the view of postpon i ng the day of the sale. Landed proprietors were in the habit of encouraging their legal advisers to resort to every contrivance to post pone the day of payment ; but they forgot that that postponememt was effected at a terrible sacri fice to their own interests. At length, after the Master's investigation into the title of the estate and into the cun ditions and circumstances of the encumbrances prior to the creditor's demand, the suit begins to as assume the practical shape and form of a report. This became again the subject of much dispute and litigation in nine cases out of the ten, but ultimately the Chancellor was empowered to pro nounce his judgment with reference to the payment of the several demands affecting the estate. Again long and bitter contests took place upon what were called the " note," of the decree, and upon the language used by the Chancellor. The unfortunate estate was again tio na r yt:i:lheodstefirlisedotffiheee;asrniodu:stbat officesfllof an accountant, of a profound lawyer, of an experienced had into previously the ia conveyancer, and of a stock-broker, was next called upon to constitute himself a land auctioneer.—(Loud cries of "Hear, hear.") It was referred to him to compose the particulars of sale, to adjust the various observations and remarks which were calculated to entice', to win over, and to attract the attention and notice of the capitalists. The conditions of sale in Ireland were very different to what were known as conditions of sale in this country, %here a portion or the entire of the pur chase money was generally required to be paid at a par ticular place on a particular day. The conditions to which he alluded practically meant that the purchaser must determine fur himself whether be was going to purchase a law -suit or an estate with a good title. In nine cases out of ten they meant that the purchaser should not obj , et to the title, in case there might be hereafter some different construction put upon what lawyers called an obscure will. (Hear.) Purchasers should not object because of procuring that testament, and he should be bound to accept the title although he or his descendants should be ousted from the possession by some flew in that obscure will. The conditions of sale practically meant that a purchaser should not object if it might thereafter turn out that a particular man or a particular woman was not born in wedlock. Ia fact the whole character of those condi tions of sale peculiar to Ireland, and the natural conse quences of the condition of the law by which real pro perty was disposed of at present in Ireland, really were to involve every purchaser of land in Ireland in all the sources and seeds of litigation arising from the course of careless conveyancing which now existed, and which had been now increasing for centuries in Ireland. The whole effect of that accumulation of small incumbrances, in consequence of the practice so general in Ireland of continuing those old incurnbrances on record, of con tinually making them the subject of transfer, in conse quence of the imperfect regi strat i on system withl reference to landed titles, and the absence of a registration system with reference to charges on land, together with the would re of :h o e s le gislation of that House with re f erence to judgment debts C 7 and 8 Viet, cap. 90 ). Th e natura l consequence of l y a w there must was b e n t o o siem b Member deterio rater the selling value of the landed p ro p er ty i n I re l an d. —(Hear.) tht He anomalous conditionventure of the bar of either country who would not undertake to ride with confidence upon the construction, operation, and effect of the statute to which he had just referred. There was no prudent or rational man in Ireland who would not shrink from investing capital in the purchase of property in Ireland, so long as be was obliged to purchase on conditions which would expose him and his children to future children. The proeeedings in the Master's-office to sell an estate must st r ik e every rational man as the very opposite of that which every prudent auctioneer would recommend. After the conditions of sale had been settled the estates were put up for sale at a particular Place and on a particular day. The sale must take place at that place and time, according to the rules of the Court of Chancery. Now he contended that the Master might be at liberty to sell the estate subsequently to that particular time it be had the opportunity, even thought it might be the result of private and prolonged treaty, so long as the parties interested in the pro perty were prepared to ratify the Master's proceeding. He warned the House of the danger of legislating with reference to questions purely Irish, but more especially those which had relation to the tenure of laud, without a perfect knowledge of the nature and operation of the laws of property—he warned them not to do so without con sulting practical men, well versed in the laws with regard to property in Ireland. He gave credit to the Solicitor- General for the introduction of the Incumbered Estates Bill of last year. It had accomplished much good, and so long as it remained unrepealed per sons would be prevented from len ling money upon pro party already deeply, if not irretreivab l y , mort g a ge d. Nothing—not even the prophecies of the most sanguine Minister of the Crown—would induce many of the landed proprietors of really was their ow • indeed, the Emperor of China had as much right to the properties of many of the s they themselves had. landed propietors of Ireland a with hich he was well There were estates in Ireland 7 acquainted, which if sold a t their highest value were principal an d nt of the wholly unequal to the payme nt interest now charged upon them. The Bill, how ever, threw some impediments, such as compelling the mortgagor to search for judgments against him, in the way of the transfer of laud which it would be well to remove. Now it was most desirable that the utmost facility should be given to the embarkation of capital in incumbered estates ; care should be taken to remove every obstacle, and to give the capitalist the utmost security in his investment. (Hear, hear.) He wished the House to bear in mind that there was no subject connected with Ireland that was more im portant than the state of agriculture ; as long as they shrunk from the consideration of the question, all their efforts by poor-rates or otherwite, would be of no avail. If they were determined to deal with the question of incumbered estates through the medium of the Incutnbered Estates Bill, he could assure them that all their efforts would fail. He thought the proper course to be pursued was to appoint a commis sion and refer to them all litigated claims, and those claims might be decided under the Act that constituted the commission, and all doubt and difficulty would be then removed, and no ques tion would be raised as to the legitimacy of one part or tho other, and a good title could be given to the purchaser. He wished to call the attention of the House to the statements of Mr. Senior, one of the Masters of the Court of Chancery in this country. Now, what was that gentleman's opinion with respect to the ineumbrances on land in this country ? Mr. Senior says "I am aware that the system of con veyancing imposes great difficulty, great expense, great delay, and great uncertainty upon the transfer of land. There is scarcely a title marketable in the legal sense of the term, meaning a title without a flAw ; scarcely any litle that is not subject to some legal doubt. A man who has, agreed to sell a field for 3001. does not know that he has not contracted to spend 5001 in proving his title, while he who has agreed to buy does not know that he has contracted to spend 5001. in getting the title appended. England is the only civilized country requiring a 60 or even a 40 years' title. In every country but this the transfer of property was made through a notary's book in every country, but the land is transferred in the same way as stock. He had in his hand a return very indicative of the condition into which agricul ture was rapidly falling in Ireland ; this was a re turn from some extensive lime quarries in one of the most flourishing agricultural districts in Ire land. These quarries were situated in the county. of Kilkenny. In 1845 these quarries sold 0 223 barrels of lime, but since then there had been a gradual diminution in the rates in every successful year, and in the last year, 1818, they had fallen to 24,793 barrels. He could not state to the House a fact which established more clearly than this how rapidly the agricultural interest of Ireland was falling. It might be thought an exaggeration, but nevertheless it was true that twenty years was not an unusual period for suits in the Irish Court of Chancery to extend to when they related to the sale or transfer of landed property.—(Hear.) All the cases he had referred to were in the Court of Chancery; but he would now mention one in the Court of Exchequer. He had not selected any exceptionable instance; he had taken tin m indiscriminately from a large number of cases which had conie uud.r his own personal observation. If it had been necessary he could have placed before the House instances delay, and of the evils arising from the present system, far greater than any which he had yet aduticed. The case to which he wished to refer was that of Power v. Power, in which the amount paid to the lawyers was 7,0001, being at the rate of 62 per cent. upen the yearly income of the pro perty which was tue subject matter of litigation. That no one instance of the enormous taxation which the present legal system imposed upon landed proprietors, and he was satisfied that no practical move ment could be originated more calculated to enhance the value of landed possessions, and more calculated to do away with this legal nuisance than a measure to facili tate an effizacious and speedy transfer of property In Ireland. It cost the receiver in one instance no less than 2081. to ,evict a tenant who owed 521. for rent, and to obtain possession of his farm. He would only now trouble the House with an instance of the sacrifice endured by a landowner who instituted what was called an " amicable suit," which was instituted generally at the suit of a friendly creditor, in. order ' to enable the inheritor to pay his debts. There were twenty-three answers. In the course of na ture a defendant occasionally died, and on the death of a defendant, however amicably disposed his representa tives might be, a bill of revivor and supplement became necessary. There was a "decree to account" obtained three years after the institution of the suit, which must have been prosecuted in perfect good faith and with great energy. Nothing but the most extraordinary energy on the part of the profes sional men engaged in that proceediag could have ob tained a "decree to account" in three years after the filing of the original Bill. There was a decree for a sale of the property in 1839. A portion of the estate to pay the debts, amounting to 17,000/., was offered for sale in 1839, the same year as the decree for a sale was pronounced. That portion was purchased for a sum of about 25,0001., but from the technical objections made by purchasers great delays took place in trying to complete the titles. The pur chasers availed themselves of all manner of difficulties, and got out of the sales. The same lands, with the same title, and with the same conditions of sale, were set up again in in 1845, but not being then likely from the fall in the price of land and the "fiables" on the title to produce enough to pay the debts, additional lands were added, and a sale affected at a loss of 27 per cent. —(Hear, hear.) Ascording to the practice and usage of the court the purchaser was compelled to lodge one-fourth of the purchase-money to abide the struggle and conflicts which imposed in many cases an objection. able and defective title on him ; and in this instance the investment amounted to 22,0001. odd when the estate came to be sold for the purpo.e of distributing the purchase-money among the parties entitled to it only produced 19,6001. If they lot. ger entrusted the Court of Chancery with the administration of encumbered estates he had no hesitation in saying that great injustice would be done to the mort gagor, the tenant, and all persons who had an interest in these estates. As the Solicitor-General intended to introduce a measure to modify the Act of last session, which bad given general dissattisfaction, he would meation a few facts with respect to the working of that measure. He referred to the case of " Gold smith v. Glengall," entitled " An Irish Cre ditor's . Suit," in which there were no less than 180 defendants. An attempt was made to make the whole of the suits which arose in the cause depend upon the issue of the first. The Master of the Rolls in giving judgment, said he was there to administer the law as it stood. He (the Master of the Rolls) had prepared a Bill, which would have reduced the defendants to two or three; but his measure was not adopted, and this he added was the way the opinions of practical men were set aside, and that of English conveyances adopted in their stead. [LEFT SPEARING.] THE EXLTEit POST-OFFICE ROBBERY, The convicts Poole, Nightingale , and Harrap,with some others, were sent off in custody from the Exeter gaol on Tuesday night to London. Poole and Nightingale declared that they were innocent to the last; but Harrap made the following confession to the chaplain:— " Exeter City Prison, April 5, 1849. " Rev. Sir,—According to promise, and from a firm and steadfast resolution of amending my future course of life, and as the only means of obtaining that peace of mind which is the necessary accompaniment of every penitent sinner, I have written you a full explanation of the unfortunate event that occurred on the 25th of March, 1847—namely, the loss of a parcel from Plymouth to Exeter, for Torquay, containing 60 51. notes of the Bank of England, the suspicion of stealing which, unfortu nately, tell on Mr. Edwin Hyett, at that time a clerk in the Exeter Post-office, and his brothers as accesso ries. I (Samuel Harrap), late letter-carrier, hereby acknowledge my self to be the only and actual transgres sor. The said parcel arrived safe to Exeter on the evening of the 25th of Mach, 1847, by the up Ply• mouth mail, and by accident was thrown into the basket with the newspapers that was my duty to sort in com pany with Smeath, another letter carrier, since dead, God rest his soul, I hope, and who I firmly believe to have been a strictly honest man. Not being able to withstand the temptation, I took it, supposing it then, from its softness, to contain some kind of ladies' work, but to my great astonishment, on opening it, I found it to contain, as aforesaid, 60 54 notes. Not knowing what do with them for fear, I hid them for a short time in the thatch of a stable that I then rented at Northern• hay, but soon after, being in want of money, I ventured to exchange some of them, and at different times and places I ex changed twelve of them. Shortly alter there was an outcry of some of the said notes being circulated. This had su-•h an effect on me that I was ill for some time. I then told my wife of it, who was entirely ignorant of it until then, and as you may suppose caused such grief and sorrow that had been hitherto unknown in my family. My wife, an affectionate and honest creature, begged of me to destroy them to prevent further trouble. I yielded to her entreaties, and I burnt the remaining 48 ; and would to God I had done so with the whole rather than to have undergone the anguish of mind I have endured, or caused such disgrace to fall on the heads of those in nocent young men. The above is a true and correct statement of the unfortunate circumstance, and which has been upwards of two years hid from the eyes of jus tice. Had I been a single man, my distress of mind could not have prevented me from divulging it before ; but, sir, you meat, of course, know that, although guilty of such an offence, I had an affectionate and kind wile, and my dear little children, the cares and ties of which naturally prevented ins from so doing ; but having now my sentence, the jus , ness of which I acknowledge, and from a wish to appear, although a convict, a man of some principle in the sight of the citizens of Exeter, I have here dune what I think it my duty to do in the sight of God and man, hoping at the same time that my transgressions will not prejudice the minds of the in habitants of Exeter against my wife, or be the means of refusing her that support which she now stands in need of for herself and children, she being, I declare, quite in nocent of my unjust proceedings. I now beg to say that I am heartily sorry for my past misconduct, and should it please God to once more restore me to liberty again, and to return to the city of Exeter, that I shall yet be aTe to make some reparation to those whom I have inj ed or taken from; and also to pay those tradesmen the balance of their accounts which I owe them, to show that whatever debts I have co 'tract-el I did not fdo it without having a view to pay them, and by my uture conduct to merit the name of an honest man and a Christian. Sir, wishing you to give this publicity in what way you may think proper, thanking you for all favours and kind instruction, with all due respect and submis • sion, I beg to remain your very obedient and hum de servant, " SAMUEL HARRAP." Harrap also stated that he had personally changed all the twelve notes—three at Wellington, where he bought the watch, three at Bridgwater, two at Weston Super Mare, and four at Bristol. The prisoner also expressed a wish to have a personal interview with Mr. Edwin Hyett, which was communicated to Mr. Hyett, but he declined seeing the prisoner —Exeter Gazette. THE ROBBERY OF FI VE HUNDRED POUNDS.— Our readers will probably recollect that on this day three months we gave a detail of the theft or robbery of the sum of 5001., which was effected in a very dexte rious manner from the counter of the Vision Bank, Ingram• street, on a Saturday, when the bank was more than usually thronged. The sum carried off consisted of fivu notes, each fur 1001. Not until the present week could the slightest clue be found to any part of the money, when, strange to say, one of the lost, or stolen notes for 1001. was found to have been lodged in the savings' bank at Greenock, by a spirit-dealer of that town, who was not previously known amongst his fellow townsmen as havin; at any time of his life been overly blessed with bank -notes for a largo amount. His name is Dugald Walker, and there can be mistake as to the identity of the note, from the peculiarity of a piece of silk being pasted on the back of it for its better preserva tion. He was yesterday (Friday) apprehended in his place of business, and is now in the hands of the Glas gow police for examination as to the rest of the 500/. — Glasgow Saturday Post. ROTHAM, KENT, APRIL 15.—Yesterday morn ing the wife of Mr. James Fremlin, of the Black Horse, Stanstead, was confined with three.fine full-grown chil uren, two girls and one boy, who, tog(ther with their na)ther, RrO doing well. PRICES OF SHARES .N BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM• PANIES' STOCK. From the Official List. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FArDAY EVENING. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 17. JOIN' '-STOCS S®2Y~B. Dividend per Amount of Share. Ainran. Name of Company. 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Bs. 20 0 0 19 0 0 18 Bristol ••..• • • • 161. per cent. 20 0 0 Brighton •• .• •• • • 6l. per cent. 20 0 0 16 City of London .. •• •• 101. 100 0 0 100 0 0 250 ContinentalConsolidat. 925. pr share 60 0 0 39 6 0 25 Equitable.... •• .•• • • 455. pr share 50 0 0 50 0 0 32 Imperial ....... ••• .• 61. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 66 Independent ....... • • 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 6234 London• • 5O 0 0 50 0 0 1234 50 0 0 50 • Phcenix 51. per cent. 50 0 0 46 0 0 24 Ratcllff 5/. 100 0 0 90 0 0 7b United General ...• • • 4361. pr cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 124 Westminster chartered 31. 50 0 0 49 Ditto, New • 12s. 50 0 10 0 0 9% CANALS. • . Names of E I Dividend Names of r , Dividend Companies. per Companies. 0 A er ~.„„e . .a i t 2 nn p um. , Annum. ---- - - £ LI Ashtn & Oldh 97 71. - Macclesfield. 100 1 21. 10s. - B trnsley •. • • 160 121. 180 Neath •.• • • • 1001 18/. 340 lirknk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 4001 201. 165 Birmingham 35 41. 81 Peak Forest. 78 1 31. 18s. - Coventry...• 100 25/. 2to Regent's • 33 1/. ss. 1834 Derby ••• • • 100 61. 63 Rochdale.. • • 85 41. 54 Ellsnire&Chs 133, 665. 40 Somrset Coal 450 71.105. 130 Erewash 1001 321. - Do.Lkl'dSt 12 61. p. c. - Grand.l unctn 1001 51. 80 Stffrd &Wore 1 4 01 28/. 310 ilrandSurrey 100, 21. 30 Shrewsbury.. 125 151. - Grand Union 100 11. 10s. 24 StourbridgQ.. 145 201. 285 Grantham • • 150 - - Severn andl Kennt fa ATII 39, 7s. 6d. 5% Wye Rail. j 2 6 V. 03. 25 Lee-is& Livrp 100 301. 320 Warwick&l Leicester .... 140 61. 63% j 100 41. 50 Leicstr &Nth 83 41. 45 Warwick& 100 31. 41 Louzhhorogh 142 701. 620 Napton.. Monmouthsh 100 81. - Worcstr &I Mntgomrysla 100 - - Binning. 78 21. 41 MeltnMwbry,loo - - Wilts & Brks - 11. 10 LEST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES Dividend Amount Name ef Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. -- - £ s. d. X 5. d Bank of Scotland British Linen Company 81. par cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 192 Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11 Clydesdale Bank • .• 634 per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12% Commercial Bank •• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 151% Eastern Bank.. ••• . •• 61. per cent. 25 u 0 10 0 C 9/. 7. Edlnblc Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 534 Egehangeßnk of Scot 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 32 Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 - National Bank 633 per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13% North of Scotland Bank 41. per cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 31.17 c. North British Bank • • 50 0 0 10 0 0 4. s.t;cl Royal Bank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 116 union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 804 Western Bank •• • • 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 73% Aberdeen Fire and Life 7341. pr cent. 12 10 0 20 I 24 B. Accord. Life and Fire 20 0 0 011 0 9s 6d British Guarantee Ins. 4'. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 lis Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21 Church of England Ins. 60 0 0 2 0 0 2 City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 11s Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 1736 East of Scotland Life lO 0 0 015 0 Bs.6d. Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 '46s 6d Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 12 ['tsar. Co. of Scetlnd • • Si. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 7 Life Assoc. of Scotland 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 6. Mercantile Life .. • • 10 0 0 010 0 3s. Od. National Fire and Life 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 1203. 6d North British Incur. 5341. pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 1 224 North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 1175.6 d. Scottish Life and guar. 20 0 0 011 0 1 ss. Scot. Dias. and Gen. Life 1 0 0 015 0 108.0 d Scottish Union Insrnce. 641. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 2s Standard Life •• • • . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 5 0 94 United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 0 155.0 d MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. d. e. 4. Australian Agricultnrl 100 0 0 30 0 0 - Anglo-Mexican Mint ll. 4s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - Ditto, Half Shares 2 10 0 • - Canada ... • • .... •• GI. per cent. 100 0 0 32 JO 0 31 Uppr Canada Bondi 51. per cent. - 88 City Navigation Comp.Cppr Mergng 5l. percent. 100 0 0 70 0 0 Gen. Revers. & Invest sp. bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 • 90 Equitable Reveralenry si. pr cent. 160 0 0 100 0 0 96 Gen. Steam Navigation 11. Bs. 15 0 0 14 0 I - London Institution .• . 78 15 0 - Russell Institution 26 6 0 3 Peninslr& Orient.Stm Bl. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 68 Reversionary Int. Soc 4341. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 90 Royal Mail Steam 6l 18..4. p. c., 100 0 0 60 0 0 54 South Australian . 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 16 Tan Dieman's Land 100 0 0; 23 0 • - IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 16. COLONIAL EXPENDITURE. Mr. SCOTT (in continuation from our Third Edition) said—The Colonial-office was responsible for all the evil which had accrued through the misadventure of the system which they had adopted, and he must say that the actions of the Government did not all square with their professions. The Colonial Gazette, of a recent date, informed them that 2,000,000 had emigrated from the United Kingdom to the colonies in twenty-four years. Now, he would ask where were they gone to? Why, the population of the whole of the colonies did not amount to 2,000,000; they had gene to the United States, the emigration to which, in the last twenty-four years, was from 40 to 60 per cent. from the United Kingdom, and the emigration to these States in one year, equalled the whole of their population in the Australian settle ment ; 188,000 persons , o ut o f 248,000, emigrated in the last year to the United States. The govern ment of the colonies was a government less of affection than of force.—(l.lear, hear.) The import.. ance of the colonies to the British Crown could not be too highly rated ; it was the empire of the sea that gave them their colonies, and it was the possession of their colonies that secured to them the empire of the sea. He could not but refer to their garrisoned colonies as of great importance, and as much neglected. He would take Malta, for instance. Now, as well might they select the Lord Mayor of London to fill the office of Commander-in-Chief at the Horse Guards, as Mr. More OTerrall to fill that of Governor of Malta, with 5,0001. a year. No doubt the Hon. Gentleman could sleep very well, but to make him Governor of a great military post like that of Malta was, he apprehended, not very judicious. They had lost the best colonies which they possessed by the impolicy and bad adminis tration of the Colonial-office, and those colonies which they had Maned from other powers, they had you by cm:pest, and nit by any acts of the Colonial Govern' went, which could not claim any credit for the acsitiisi tit nof those colonies. It was but a little time sines they gave up Vancouver's Island to a company whose course of policy was rather to depopulate than p o pulate. That island was enriched with iron, coals, &c.. and yet the Government gave it up to such a company as he had described. If they looked at the policy of the coeinis' department, in relation to the colony of Jamaica, the/ found its fruits in the bankruptcy, disgust, and bad Reis ing which that policy engendered, all arising from the bad faith which had been kept with the colonists. There , then, the t ffects of the colonial policy were most loath' some.—(Hear, hear.) He feared, if the House did n° l lend its assistance to cement the colonies of this great empire with the mother country, that it would take such a course as would lead to the dismemberment of its integrity.—(hear, hear.) Mr. HAWES said that he felt it to be his duty t° oppose this motion, as being unprecedented and as being adverse to the interests of the colonies is general. He, therefore, wished to take a gl a nce st the colonial system as it a t p resent ex i sted, An a place it before the House as it really was. He would first allude to the Executive Ceuacil of Govermen t in Cervida, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward's Island, and felt it his duty to state, that the Colonial-office rarely interfered with those G o vern' meats except in cases of trade; but in cases of trade and matters belonging to the Crown, he believed that it would be generally admitted by the House that the Crown had a right to exercise its veto. Again; he should sal that there were other representative Governments in which a totally responsible authority did not exist, .h e alluded to the West I n die s . Y et J ama i ca had full sod uncontrolled power over its own taxation and ex pereb' cure; but with regard to Trinidad, it was well known t° the House, that when that colony represented that thei r revenue was less than there expenditure, that the 1 0 r perial Government agreed according to their suggestion s to reduce the officers in that colony. He would snake no further allusion to Guiana than to state that Lord Grel informed that Government, that he would reduce th: salaries when these matter s were properly beetle' under his consideration. He should also say that the representative bodies in Guiana an d T r i n i dad were 0 ° : popular assemblages, for they con s i st f or the most part of merchants and absentees, who h a v e t h e privilege 1' voting by proxy, and therefore that the Crown had right to exercise a controul and to act as an arbiter he: tweeze the two parties, the aristocracy and the emetic° paced natives; and with regard to the latter class be coo' aidered it right that the Crown should exercise a al and salutary contr o l an d protection over them, tre si li f they advanced more i s intelligence, and information. 'es the forty-three colonies, twenty - seren had rep r e sen tati'l institutions, and there were nineteen which had act repro sentative Governm en t s . B r i t i sh Guiana might e' classed under this head, as having an actual Govers:, ment, though as yet very imperfect; but which he hope d would be ere long very much improved ; and tb, el Lilian Islands had also a representative Govern:On" founded on the treaty of Vienna, with a free pre' and other auxiliaries. Then there were 16 colonie s ' such as St. Helena, Ceylon, the Mauritius, and othe° which, from the small number and character of tbl, population, were not as y et fit te d to b e entrusted eri;d the management of their internal affairs; for h o we s t ask, was Ceylon, with 1,500,00 3 A s i at i cs and 4,000 Pr' ropeans, fitted to govern itselt? Thus, on the 10 06 there are 27 colonies enjoying representative gover:i ments and a free press. He contended that the imper',o policy of this country must b e carried out according the resolve of that House, and that, therefore, it most unjust to attribute to the Colonial Office a e',.;; content at home and i n t h e colonies for which Pt; House, which was the org an for the abolition of sr; very, was solely responsibl e , b e i t for good or be it ',,°; rn evil. Who, he would ask, supp orte d and carried out t" abolition of slavery ? It was t h e H ouse of Cotolitl," Then why attack the Colonial department for carrell out the resolve of the House of Commons? When t i t s House resol ve d, a f ter many debates, that s, policy of fre e t ra d e s h ou l d b ecome the policy of the country, he w ou ld as k, did tot that poli c y a ff e ct t o trade and conditio n o f t h e colonies ? and were net Iva very persons who th en a d vocated most strongly th measure of free-trade, the most p rom i nent in attaclo": the Noble Lard (Lord Grey) a t t h e h ead of the C o l° nial Department? Such attacks he considered to most unfair and unjust, and particularly coming ir ° Hon. Members who bad been in some degree the OW," of those complaints. With r es p ect to l ocal self.goves went, he felt confident that Lord Grey was as mueb„ s favour of that principle as an y ot h er person, and the only obstacle that pres en t e d i tse lf to him was ! e unfitness of some of those colonies. He would ask ; It House would Ceylon, the M aur i t i us, and Guiana, w/b0 a coloured population of 2,600,000 , and 8,100 whites , considered to have the necessary elements for selfsg ° ,l vernment. He th oug h t h e m i ght venture to say, for , if the French Govern ment h a d taken the policy P",„ sued by England as th e i r gu id e, at the first reY o ';"; tion, when they lost a most i mportant co lon' in the West Indies, such an event would not have curred; or had it been a d epen d ency of Englan d, 6 would have remained to that moment annexed to / 0. British Crown. There was another limitation to sc o t government in their colonies, and that was. where ge e naval and military establi s h ments ex i sted t h e Crown re o tamed its power and pre-emi nence i n regard to the 0 and every control necessary for those e t tablishree, must be vested in the S overe i gn at h ome. Wit h the"; restrictions he was for granting to all their colonies , i f far as it was practicable, or circumstances would se fe permit, free g o v e r nment an d representative asselnb,4l 0 4 to manage their own c oncerns . H aying thus ventured to show their colonial s y s t em as distinct from cul°°lo policy, he was justifi e d i n say i ng, that free iustituti l e were at all times conferr e d whenever the colonies 1,/,,ebi in a state to uso th em w i se l y and moderately. e Hon. Gentleman next proposed to inquire into financial relations between England and her coion r ,, but he thought that wo u ld b e a tas k of great diffien'is For example, grants had been made from time s of time to assist the col on i es . Ei g h t hundred thou s pounds was given to the Mauritius some time si e o e and a million to Ceylon; but these sums were ° s e withdrawn, and the colonies required to assist th e t a lves. The time was no doubt coming, when prcb, oo l all assistance would be withdraws, particularly t h r s ir their West Indian colonies, where the salaries of t he governors were paid out of ? the imperial funds; but the could not be done at present, however desirable it mad be, in consequence of existing distress. With reg7,o, to naval and military establishments in the colo°',: s . and the propriety of the colonies themselves trtir°" o o ing an armed force for their own protection, thatt do doubt, was a subject of great importance, and was ,he dcr the consideration of his Right Hon. Friend s os Secretary at War. Everything would be done thet possible, but a Committee of inquiry would do nog t d in the furtherance of such a step. It was next / l ie that the patronage of th e C o l on ial-office was veste"d e s the aristocracy, but what was the fact? Except sir office of Governors, every situation throughout t i l i f el colonies aas conferred on the colonists theali e e and persons appointed, not by the Colonials° fes but the Governors of each of the colonies. e a (Mr. Hawes) believed fi rm ly t h at t h e opposition offt'el to the Colonial-office in latter times aro se i n ag i e p. measure from persons who were disappointed in not g rc l. Ling those appointments to which th ey l ooked forel be But then, why should not members of the aristocracy" employed? And for his own part he hoped the day r. p ie never arrive when they would not be f oun d ta ki n g s t' i l l e fair share of thos e a p po i ntments at the disposal or 'le Crown. Lord Elgin bad shown himself an able Ole , nor and statesma n i n hi s administration of executive partments in their co l on i es. Lord Harris had bee` equally distin gu i s h e d , and notwithstanding all that Wip said, when 11,.n. Memb ers rea d t h e di spatches o n ' OO subject, they wou ld fi n d t h at L ord Torrington WO e able Governor, and showed himself as such in his 1 , 3 9 nagement of Ceyl o n.—(Ch eers, an d cr i es of " Oh,SPlde That was his opinion from all he had seen of the P° Ip Lord's administration ; and he had no hesitation to avowing it. But then, except these three appointwePees the governorships o f t h e i r co l on i es were not es."o. ferred generally on th e ar i stocracy. The office of G o a vernor of New South W a l es was given to Sir Ober'o. Grey, who, with Sir H. Young, and many other dis ti ll s guished persons, co u ld not b e said to have offices c°o. ferred on them b e c ause t h ey were of the aristocracy, He contended that the most successful system of eT is s gration ever carried on was by the emigration conl o g stoners to N e w S ou th W a l es . Th e mortality the voyages was next to nothing. A sum of 91 9, 1 0 0 was realised by the sale of land, the whole of which 'ill appropriated exclusively to the col o ny. H a lf of it :10 devoted to colonial improvem en t s , suc h as making ro bridges, &c., and the other half in carrying on the $0 tern of emigration. A sum o f 100,0001. was due tef, e d colony, and that was paid off. Another 100,000/, was ra l b i s t also, and that t oo was pa i d, and now a third sum t° amount was about being raised, which would b e clef° to the purposes of emigration. b/• Mr. SCOTT as k e d if t h ese sums were to be Pala the produce of land? th e Mr. HAWES r e plied that they were ra i se d 00 the security of lands hereafter to be disp ose d o f sso d colony. In 1846 the debt of 100,000/., t o w hi c h be _d already alluded, was due, and Lord G rey, instes , l; eb t stopping emigration at that time unt il the 'sae and the consequeid. was paid, encouraged it the more, was as he had stated, that the mon e y was now rerun so —(Hear, hear.) Another sum o f a s i milar amount Who also raised and expended, and a third now about t° ap raised. He opposed the motion of the Hon. Gentled because he deemed it unnecessary; because he ber' se st, it would not attain th e o bj ects he had in view. so while he did this, he attached the greatest importan e e l o o the discussion raised on it, because it drew the Otero of the House to the situation of their colonies, and in manner in which th ey were conducted. He would Item repeat, th a t t h e C olon ial-office had to carry out to o policy of that H ouse , an d none other. The WO' go • d ought to be m e t f a i r l y, w h et h er t h ey wore determtne d if maintain in its i n t egr i ty t h e i r co l on i al empire; s°olo. they were th e y s h ou ld p a y f or i t . H e b elieved the coot nial empire h a d con fe rre d grea t b ene fi ts on the nv,,),,bsy country. They were their broth ers i n blood. •.'s, ee possessed all the t i g hts of f ree -b orn su bj ects, and tecl trusted the day would never c ome w h en E ng l an d w ° isl e deem it necessary to sever the connexion so long e $ • ing between them. Mr. GLADSTONE agreed with the Hon. Gent who had just addressed the House, that no go° ° arise from granting a commission of inquiry into C o . jects so complicated, because be believed such a "' soa r mittee would find its hands so overloaded with o ,s ate st plexity of subjects as to render it a matter of the gr w ' oti ld difficulty to arrive at any satisfactory result. He osei not, however, say that a Parliamentary Committee to she not do some good, as for example, with regard be' disposal of Crown lands in New South Wales. hi' et de' hosed much might be said for such a motion; b_°, t he siring as he did that the attention of Parliament 1 . 17 0 , 5 e. country should be brought to colonial subjects, ° eau of still unwilling to give his assent to a descriensostbss inquiry which would not lead to anY, spa factory result, Ile bad further the Indui"' Price Price 41 10*. raid. raid. 45% 220 2108. 180 203 Price. 1 1 1 I,i Price,