The Sun. — London, England, 1849-04-27 00:00:00

etirt Pi'lagteitton SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) FOREIGN OFFICE, APRIL 27, 1849. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Right Honourable Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer ' K.C.8., late her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of Spain, to be her Ma jesty's Envoy_ Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary to the United States of America. WAR-OFFICE, Mau. 27. Ist Regiment of Life Guards-Cornet and Sub-Lieu tenant Arthur Walsh to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Leslie, who retires; Henry Wyndham. Gent , to be Cornet aed Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Walsh, April 27. 14th Light Dragoons-Acting Veterinary Surgeon Alexander Vsrilliamson Caldwell to be Veterinary Sur geon, vice Philips , appointed to the 7th Light Dragoons, April 27. t cr Grenadier Reg iment of Foot Guards-Lieu tenant-Colonel William Nelson Hutchinson, from the 20th Foot, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Cunynghame, who exchanges, April 27. Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards-Lieutenant and Captain Matthew Edward Tierney, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Forbei, who retires; Ensign and Lieutenant Ullick Canning, Lord Dunkellin, to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Tierney; Sir James Dunlop, Bart., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lord Dunkellin; April 27. 7th Foot-Lieutenant James John Lloyd, from the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Dawkins, appointed to the 35th Regiment of Foot, April 25. 10th Foot -Ensign and Adjutant George Thompson Whitaker to have the rank of Li. utenant, Feb. 21; En sign William Henry Peter Gordon Bluett to be Lieute nant, without purchase, vice Herbert, died of his wounds, Feb. 22; Ensign Milo Valentine Maher, from the 66th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Bluett, April 27. 20th Foot-Captain and Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Au gustus Thurlow Cunynghanae, from the Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Hutchinson, who exchanges, April 27. 22d Foot-Ensign Augustus James Beaufort Lochlan Butt to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Carrow, deceased, February 1; Ensign William Cairncross, from the 56th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Batt, April 27. 25th Foot-Quartermaster-Sergeant Robert Malcolm to be Quartermaster, vice John Potts, who retires upon half-pay, April 27. 38th Foot-Captain James Steadham Hawker Ferrer, from the 56th Foot, to be Captain, vice Anderson, who exchanges; Ensign Ludford Harvey Daniel to be Lieu senant,_.by_ purchase, vice Jarvis, who retires; William Mansell, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Daniel, April 27. 39th Foot-Frederick Charles D'Epernay Barclay, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, April 27. 40th Foot-Acting Assistant Surgeon John Coghlan Haverty to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Kingdom, appointed to the Staff, April 27. 51st Foot-Samuel Robbins, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, April 27. 56th Foot -Captain Thomas Anderson, from the 88th Foot, to be Captain, vice Farrer, who exchanges, April 27. Thomas John Sadlier, Gent , to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Cairncross, appointed to the 22d Foot, April 27. 66th Foot-Florence Nash, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Maher, appointed to the 10th Foot, April 27. 96th Foot-To be Lieutenants, without purchase- Ensign Octavius Lowry, vice Griffiths, deceased, Oct. 28, 1848; Ensign Charles Anderson, vice Lowry, whose promotion, on 29th December, 1848, has been cancelled, Dec. 29, 1848. To be Ensign, without purchase-Colour- Sergeant James Menzies, vice Anderson, April 27. Ist West India Regiment-Lieutenant William Sankey to be Captain, by purchase, vice Olpherts, who retires; Ensign Julius William Thompson, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Matthew Fanning, appointed to the 64th Foot; Ensign Courtenay Thomas Hammill to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sankey ; Frederick Mares Godden, Gent., to be Ensign, br purchase, vice Hammill, April 27. 2d Westlndia Regiment-Ensign Thomas Gibbings to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Wright, appointed to the 83d Foot ; John Foulkes Becher, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Gibbings, April 27 ; lloretio James Wise, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Peados, appointed to the Cape Mounted Riflemen, April 28. 3d West India Regiment-To be Lieutenants, with out purchase- Ensign George Sotherby Tyler, vice Amid!, appointed to the 80th Feot ; Ensig n William leers Lutman, vice Grant, appointed to the 96th Foot, April 27. To be Ensign, without purchase-William Beverley Robinson, Gent., vice Tyler, April 27. Cape Mounted Bailemen-Ensign Edward Monckton Jones to be Lieutet ant, without purchase, vice Walters, appointed to the - 73 i Foot; Ensign Frederic Cipriano Palacios, from the 2d West India Regiment, to be En sign, vice Jones, April 27. UNATTAcaxo.-Lieutenant Lionel Hoek, from the 9th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, April 27. Hoserrat. STarr.-Staff Surgeon of the Second Class Richard Dowse to be Staff Surgeon of the First Class, vice William Birrell, M.D., who retires upon half-pay. Staff Assistant-Surgeon Simeon Henry Hardy, M.D., to be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class, vice Dowse, pro rooted. Assistant-Surgeon Edward William Clemishsw Kingdom, M.D.. from the 40:h Foot, to be Assistant- Surgeon to the Forces, vice Hardy. promoted, April 27. Deekyard Volunteers-Deptford Brigade-Sergeant- Major James Jeffery to be Lieutenant and Adjutant, vice Samson, deceased, April 27. MEMORAND63I. - The Christian names of Lieutenant Cochrane, of the 23(1 Foot, are " John Thomas." The Christian names of Ensign Munro, of the 12th Foot, are " Innes Collin; not James Colin, as previously stated. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, APRIL 25. Royal Regiment of Artillery-Brevet Major Richard Beaumont Burnaby to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Rowland, retired on full pay ; Brevet-Maj,,r George Edward Turner to be Captain, vice Burnaby; First Lieutenant George Shaw to be Second Captain, vice Turner; Second Lieu tenant Edward Luco to ba First Lieutenant, vice Shaw, April 9. Csmmissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. Royal South Battalion of Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of Militia-Asssistant-Surgeon George Tate to be Surgeon, vice Wilton, resigned ; William Philpot Brookes, Gent., to be Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon, vice Tate, promoted; William James Holt, Gent., to be Ensign, April 24. ADMIRALTY, APRIL 25. Corps of Royal Marines-Colonel Second Commandant William Fergusson to be Colonel-Commandant, vice John McCallum, retired on full pay; Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Stevens to be Colonel Second Commandant, vice Fergusson, promoted; Captain and Brevet-Major William 'Taylor to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Stevens, promoted First-Lieutenant Richard Gscrge Connolly to be Cap tain, vice Taylor, promoted; Second Lieutenant Nugen Macnamara to be First-Lieutenant, vice Connolly, pro moted. BANKRUPTS. John Benjamin Dailies and Edward Braddock, glass and lead merchants, Farringdon street, to surrend* r, m a y 4; at twelie, and June 12, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official ay. , ignige, Basing hall-street ; Paxton, Lincolns.inn-tield • Hugh :Hill, coach broker, Old Kent-road, Surrey, May 9 at eleven, aid June 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall street. Pennell, official assignee; Helmer, jun.; Che;ipside. Isaas Jones and Mary Browne, glass merchants, High-row, Knightsbzidge, May 9, at half-past twelve, an d June 7, at ono, at the Ci , urt of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman• street-buildings; Linklator, Charlotte row, Mansion-house. Arthur Oiborne, linen draper, Reading, Berkshire, May 6, at twelve, and June 2, at half•past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Guild hall-chambers, Basinghall-street; Smith, Lincoln's-inn fields. Sir George Rich, Knight, corn-dealer, Fenchurch street, May 14, at two, and June 11, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official as signee, Guildhall-chambers ; Wilde, Union -court. William Worrall Batchelor, tailor, Worcester, May 12 and June 16, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; White, Eyre, and W bite, Bedford-row; Corbett, Worcester; Wright, Birmingham. Benjamin Thompson , woollen draper , Derby, May 11 and June 8, at eleven, at the Nottingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Nottingham; Pi c k. eriog, Derby; Motteram, Knight, and Emmet, Bir mingham. John Taverner, draper, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, May 16 and June 9, at twelve, at the Birmingham Dis trict Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; Smith, Birmingham. Joshua Metcalfe, grocer, New Mahon, Yorkshire, May 15 and June 4, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Finch and Co., Lincoln's Inc-field s; J agger, New Meton; Harle and Clarke, Leeds. William Edward Fergusson, surgeon, Macclesfield, May 12 and June 7, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis trict Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Parkinson, Argyle-street;. Parrot, Colville, and Ma Macclesfield. y, Lewis Low Whittle, grocer, Bolton, May 8 and Juno 4, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple; Heywood, Manchester. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com• pnted from the returns made in the week ending April 24 1d49, is 25& 10d. per cwt. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, Apri l 27.) s uGA L—To- day the.ze was little df sire evinced to make purchases in West India, although lower rates were ec cepto I. The slles amounted to only 260 , making fur the week 1,5 88 hhds, &c., and the decline in p r i ces during that time has been 6d to Is per cwt. REEINEp.---Tu-dity there was litte desire sh own to operate in Refined Goo ds b y home dealers. Prices closed at 493 6d to 5 0 s for b rown g rocer y Lum p s, and at 51s for standard. Bonded Crushed was dealt in with caution at 29s 6d to 31s per cwt. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon three parcels of Mauri tius Sugar were submitted to public competition, amount ing to 164 casks, 8,825 bags: the wholo found buyers, but at a reduction on former rates of 6d per cwt for grocery sorts, whilst refining fully supported the former value ) good to fine yellow went at 38s 6d to 410, low to middling 36s 6d to 38a, ordinary to fine brown 33s 6d to 364, grey 36s to :394, and washed 33s to 403 6d per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the market was well supplied with Bengal Sugar, and the quantity offered at public sale amounted to 7,012 bags; a small part, how- ever, only sold at rather lower rates, strong white went at 45s 6d to 48s 6d, yellow ditto 41s to 455, soft 36s 6d to 395, low to fine white Benares 38s 6d to 425. Of Madras, 1,371 bags were nearly all taken in; soft brown at 31s 6d to 32s 63, low yellow 345; but a few lots of superior sold at 40s to 41s. FOBEIGN.—To - day there was no public sale of Foreign Sugar, and privately the purchases made were small. For the week the sales are only 1,500 chests white Ha vanntkh at 355, 1,000 of yellow duty paid, at 4ls to 435, and a cargo of brown Bahia at 18s 6d in bond. COFFEE.—This afternoon an increased desire was evinced to sell Native Ceylon Coffee; at public sale 1,360 bags were offered, only a small part of which sold at rather lower rates; goo ordinary of the new erop, but badly garbled, went at 30s to 303 6d; rather better, 31s 6d; and damaged 27s to 30s 6d. Of Rio 400 bags were taken in at 29s 6i, for good ordinary brown there ' buyers at 28s 6d per cwt. Cocoa.—The market is still sparingly supplied with West India, and as there are several buyers, prices are well supported for all sorts; Trinidad, red is worth 403 to 465, and grey 38s to 42s per cwt. None has been offered at public sale. For Foreign the rates asked are 27s to 30F. MOLASSES.—There is a fair demand for West India, and the market is firm. We quote low to fine at :rom 17s to 21s 6d, and only a modera'e amount is on offer. East India Treacle 15s 6d to 16e per cwt. Fur Honey higher rates are again obtained. TEa.—No improvement has taken place in the value of black, still operations have been a more extended scale this week, and full rates are obtained. Congou has been sold to a fair extent, low to good ordinarny at 71d to 84d, mixed blackish leaf Bid to 10d, blackish leaf lld to is O'd, ditto strong Is Id to is 3d, superior and Pekoe flavour Is 4d to is 10d. She parcels of &met:tong sold were at 8d to Is 10d, and fine at 2s to 2s 9d. In the lower sorts of green large sales have been made, but upon former terms; there is also a better demand for middling and superior sorts, still there are ready sellers at last week's valuations. We quote Gunpowder, Canton made, at is 4d to Is 7d, Hyson kind Is 8d to 4s, Imperial Canton is to Is 4d, Hyson sort Is 5d to 2s 10d, Young Hyson 10d to 2s, fine 2e 6d to 3s 3d, Hyson ordinary is to Is 2d, better sort Is 3d to Is Bd, good to fine Is 9d to 3s, Hyson skin 8d to is 6d, Twankay 5d to 7d, middling to fine 8d to ls, and Caper 8d to h 6d per lb. There has been little desire evinced to make purchases in Scented or black leaf Tea, and sellers are willing to accept former low rates, and the supply continues plentiful. SPICES.—To-day a public sale of 110 boxes of Cassia Lignea went at stiff rates; first sort fetched 100, mid seconds 95s to 95s 6d, fine thirds 90s to 925, broken ends 91s, slightly mouldy 923, sea damaged 86s, loose and broken 89s 6d; 7 cases nutmegs sold at 2s 3d to 2s 6d for slightly mouldy, and at 2s 9d for better sort; 3 cases Mace, mid and good mid 2s 3d to 2s 4d per lb. Today the market was more freely supplied with East India Rice. The public sales comprized 3,795 bags, and 1,000 ate, they went off at fully former rates, and nearly all sold: Bengal, good white at 103 to los 6d, good mid 9s 6d, ord 8s 6d to 9s, very fine cargo 9s, good is 61, damaged 6s to 9s 6d, Arracan sound plump yellow 7s 6d to Bs, yellow Penaug 7s, damaged 6s to 6s 6d: Madras pinky white taken in 9s 6d per cwt. Saco.—To-day the demand was not brisker for Sago, and 500 boxes of pearl at auction sold at 19s to 19s 6d per cwt for good greyish white small pearl; these are rather lower rates. SALTPETRE.—To day there was only a limited de• mand for rough. The public sales of 2,254 bags went off quietly, and nearly the whole taken in at former rates; Calcutta 5 to 4i per cent refraction at 295 to 29s 6d, and 9i to 6i per cent at 28s to 28s Gd per cwt. INDIGO.—The purchases made in East India have been extremely limited fur all purposes this week, and there are sellers in some cases rather under the rates of the last quarterly auctions. For the Bth of next month the quantity declared for public sale is 8,363 chests. There has been little desire shown to make sales in Spanish, and sellers are willing to accept rather lower rates. SPIRIT3.—Tho operations in Leewafd Island Rum have been again of little moment, and for the week do not exceed 200 puns at Is 31d to Is 4d, and fine brown at Is 4id per gall. East India has been dealt in with cautron; at - Is 2id to Is 3d proof. Demerara, 28 to 40 per cent can be purchased at is 10d to 2s 2d. For Jamaica the value of 20 to 28 per cent over proof is 2s 4d to 2s 7d; 29 to 32 over 2s 8d to 2s Ild ; 33 to 36 over 33 to 38 4d; superior 3s 6d to 4s 4d. For Brandy the demand has been active, and the tendency of prices is to advance. We quote Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1845 at 5s 6d to 5s Bd, 1846 ditto 5s 21 to 53 4d, 1847 4s 2i to 4d 4d, 1848 at 3s 6d to 3s 81, in- ferior sorts 23 3d to 3s 4d, and Bordeaux 2s to 2s 2d. Only a limited demand exists for Geneva; ord at is 9d, and fine at 2s 3d to 3s 3d. The value of British made Spirit is still 9s Bd, and for Gin 8s 3d to 8d 9d for 17 to 22 per cent under proof. COCIIIIIEAL.—At auction 19 bsgs Mexican silvers _ sold at 3s 8d to 3s 9cl; 39 bags Teleritfo at 3s 9d to 4s 3d for silvery black, but IC9 bags were nearly all taken in ; Honduras slivers at 3s 10d to 4s 4d, black good 5s to 5s 2d, and Mexican black 4s Icl to 4s 2d per lb. TAT Low.—To-day the market - was firm for Tallow, and there is a good demand. At auction 453 packages Sydney were suld at from 33. s 9d to 38s 3d ; and 852 ditto South American, 34s to 393 for low to fine. OILS.—To-day Srrni Oil declined in value. and 100 tuns at auction sold at 761 153 to 781 for British, infe rior and low 651 to 72/ 15s; 177 packages Nut Oil talc( ti in 27115 i, and 60 packages Cocoa Nut were withdrawn. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took hi seat upon the Wool sack at Five o'clock. The Earl of HARROWBY presented several pc ti dons against the sale of Beer Act. The - Bishop of DUIZIIANI presented several petitions with a similar prayer—also a petition from aurham, praying for the abolition of the duties on paper—also a petition from Newcastle praying for the introduction of some measure to force proprietors of coal mines to adopt more effi !lent measures to prevent explosions in mines. Also a petition from Nottingham in favour of the Bill for the prevention of seduction. The Duke of ARGYLL presented a petition from some place in Scotland against railway travelling on Sunday. PRISONERS REMOVAL (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion of the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, this Bill was read a third time. PETITIONS- The Earl of MOUNTCASHEL presented several pe titions from different congregations of Dissenters in Eng land and Ireland, and from the inhabitants of various places, in favour of the Bill for the Prevention of Trading in Seduction. The Earl of HARROWBY presented a petition from several shopkeepers in the metropolis against Sunday trading. The Earl of EGLINTON presented several petitions against the repeal of the navigation-laws. Lord STANLEY presented several petitions with a similar prayer. Also some petitions from various land owners praying that the free importation of foreign corn might be prohibited. It was his intention to give to the measure the most uncompromising opposition, and he trusted that no threats and no anticipated difficulties would prevent their Lordships from throwing out the Bill, as they could not prevent him from seeking to throw it out by ever.: means in his power. The Bishop of OXFORD presented several petitions in favour for the prevention of seduction. He would postpone the second reading until Monday fornight. LY. Lord BEAUMONT asked when the ',papers relating to Sicily would be produced. The horrors of Messina had been surpassed by the horrors of Catania. The place had been given up to plunder and sacked, and the route of the troops had been marked by burning houses. He had understood that the property of English and Freed' subjects, although situated in the centre of the town, had been respected, which proved that these horrors must have been perpetrated, if not by the orders, at least with the connivance of the Neapolitan commanders. He wished to know if the Government had received any in formation on the subject. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, who rose to answer the question, was so inaudible that not even the purport of his observations could be caught in the gallery. Lord STANLEY c enplained that the answer that the papers should be produced in a day or two, was the same that bad been given to him ten days ago. He must say, with regard to the statement of the commission of atrocities, he never saw more vague reports than those sent by the British Consuls in Sicily. The Earl of ABERDEEN had expected to find the papers on the table immediately after the recess. Lord EDDISBURY said the utmost deligence: had been used in preparing the papers, and that they were laid on the table as soon as possible. The Earl of ABERDEEN wished to have the papers relating to Piedmont produced forthwith. The war in the north of Italy was at an end, and the papers should be produced forthwith. After a few words from Lord EDDISBURY, Lord BROUGHAM protested against the charge which had been made against General Filangieri, of conniving ,at the commission of atrocities; no general could command the effervescent spirits of a victorious and exasperated army and prevent the commission of atrocities. The Earl of MINTO denied ithat the statements of the atrocities committed at Messina had been ex aggerated, as had been stated by the Noble Lord (Stanley). The British Consul, Mr. Barker, had taken great pales to verify his statements, and they were not to be put down as unfounded on the strength of those stivemen.s on which the Noble L.)rd had relied. Ile 6(1 seen the statements of British officers describing the advance of the Neapolitans on Catania as marked by the burning of the house s, and the murder of women and children. The city of Catania, one of the finest in Europe, had boon wantonly destroyed, but the property of the Btitith and Maltese in the city had been re specteJ, although situated in the midst of the town. The General therefore possessed sufficient command over his troops to cause property to be respected, yet he gave up the city to pillage for two days. Lord BEAUMONT had not thought there could have been found a Noble Lord to speak of those scenes of horror so lightly as the Noble Lord had done. He trusted that the reports alluded to by the Noble Lord (Minto) should also be produced, and he moved for the copy of memorandums presented to the Neapolitan Government in 1814, the letter of Lord Castlereagh of 1816, and the correspondence of A'Court LA 1815 - an d 1316. His object was to ascertain whether or not we had abandoned our engagements to Sicily, and if it should appear W 2 had done so, nothing would prevent him from bringing for ward a motion to give the House an opportunity of ex pressing, an opinion on the subject. The Marquis of LANSDO WNE said that papers had been already presented to the House, but there could be no objection to collecting and reprinting them. The Earl of MINTO said these papers were necessary to enable their Lordships to understand the nature of our obligations towards Sicily. The motion was agreed to. GOLD COAST. _ _ On the motion of the Bishop of OXFORD certain returns, relating to missions on the Gold Coast, were ordered. PETITIONS. Earl FORTESCUE presented several petitions, praying that no more licenses might be granted to beer houses. The Earl of EGLINTON presented a petition from Greenock, against the repeal of the Merchant Seamen's Act. NAVIGATION LAWS. Lord STANLEY moved that a return be, from time to time laid before the House of the petitions presented for and against the navigation-laws. SANITARY BILL FOR LONDON. In answer to a question from allouLE LORD, The Earl of CARLISLE said that the Commissioners of Sewers had some most important sanitary measures under their consideration, among others, a measure for the supply of the metropolis with water, and for preserving the Thames from further pollution. He trusted Le should shortly be enabled to submit a mea sure for doing away with the burial of the dead in the metropolis. Lord REDESDALE rose, and was [LEFT SPEAKING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SrEARER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. NEW WRIT FOR SHEFFIELD. On the motion of Mr. TUFNELL, a new writ was ordered to issue for the borough of Sheffield in' the room of Henry George Ward, Esq., who had accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. Mr. IlEYWoßrii presented a petition from Leicester in favour of the Clergy Relief Bill. Mr. HENRY presented a petition from Churchtown, Lancashire, in favour of a diminution of the number of beer•shops, and complaining of their evil tendency. Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT presented petitions from places in Wiltshire in favour of the Marriage Bill. Mr. CL AY presented a petition from Hull in favour of the Clergy Relief Bill. Mr. MOSTYN presented petitions from several parts of Wales against the alteration of the Law of Marriage Bill. Mr. COWAN presented petitions from Edinburgh and other places in favour of the Clergy Relief Bill. Mr. GOULBURN presented several petitions in favour of the diminution of the number of beer•houses ; also several petitions from Middlesex and Huntingdon against the Marriage Bil►. Mr. J. S. WORTLEY presented petitions in favour of the Bill; also a petition from the Committee of Supply of the County of Bute against the Lunatic Asylums (Scotland) Bill. Mr. G. THOMPSON presented petitions from Gla morgan and other places in favour of arbitration in the case of international disputes. Mr. COBDEN presented several petitions in favour of the Clergy Relief Bill, and also petitions in favour of a reduction of the national expenditure from different parts of Yorkshire. Mr. HUME presented petitions from Fife against the Marriage Registration Bill; also a petition fron Montrose against the Scotch Lunatic Asylums Bill ; and peti tions in favour of the Clergy Relief Bill. TREATMENT OF IRISH PAUPERS AT CORK. Mr. STAFFORD wished to know whether, with re gard to the statement which it appeared from one of the papers that the Hon. Member for Cork had made last night, that the corporation of Cork had voted one hundred pounds to transport all their paupers to England, the Right Hoaourable Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Department had re ceived any information of such illegal conduct on the part of the Cork authorities. Sir G. GREY had received no information whatever on the subject. Mr. FAGAN had stated that the authorities of Cork had voted 1004 to cart sill the paupers out of the place. THE SHUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1049. POLICE RATE. Lord DUDLEY STUART wished to put a question to the Right Hon. Gentleman the 11c,me Secretary with regard to the metropolitan police. By the Police Act the Government was authorised to advance 95,0001. out of the Consolidated Fund towards the maintenance of the metropolitan police force, whenever the metropolitan parishes should have paid a sum equal to 6d. in the pound on the rating towards their maintenance. In 1847 the ma gistrates of Middlesex had re- assessed the county at 7,700,0001., instead of 6,200,000/, which had been the assessment previously ; consequently 35,0001. more was levied towards the police rate, under the new assessment, before the Government could advance the 95,000/. In answer to representations made to the Goverment on this subject, it had been stated that it was the intention of the Government to introduce a Bill authorising it to make the advan ce w h en th e ra t e s h ou ld be fivepence in the pound, instead of sixpences.—(Bear.) He wisEed to ask his Right Hon. Friend, although cir cumstances may have made it necessary to impose this burden on the rate-payers of Middlesex during the last year, whether it was likely to bo permanent? He trusted that en explicit arise er would be given to this question, in order that the irritation which had been excited on this sul.jeet might be allayed. Sir GEORGE GREY said that the sum drawn from the Consolidated Fund for the support of the police fore:, was 90,000/. usually, and last year it was 98,000/. When this force wns first instituted a rate of eight pence in the pound was levied. That was sub sequently reduced to divepence, but afterwards in creased to sixpence, in the hope of increasing the funds so as to miss a surplus. Last year circumstances bad occurred which compelled an increase of the force, a proceeding which was conceived to be necessary nut only by the Government., but by the whole of the metro polis. The expenses had consequently been increased, and however severe the pressure might be felt, he was assured that his Noble Friend would see the reasonable ness of it. In some future time he anticipated that a surplus would be created; but he thought that it would be unfair that the rate-payers should reap all the advan tage. At any rate ho could hold out no present hope of a reduction of the imposition. THE NAVY ESTIMATES. In reply to a question from Mr. lIUMB as to the time for taking the Navy-Estimates, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he was desirous of deferring the consideration of the estimates in the Committee of Supply till the Ist of May, but it might come on to-night. Mr. HUME said that this was no sufficient answer to his question. He thought that it was hard, not to say injudicious, on the part of Government to oblige lion. Members to enter into the consideration of the esti er o f upon the timates at eleven o'clock at night, when there had been the no subject.opportunity lie was awoatr. aware consider ing that the Chancellor Exchequer had a notice on the paper, and he thought that considering the debate to which that motion might give rise, it was, to say the least, unfair to force the con sideration of the navy ecimates. Lord J. RUSSELL begged to remind his Hon. Friend that this was only a vote on account, and such as was usually allowed to pass , without discussion. On Mends), night he propoi, d to take the third reading of the Rate in Aid Bill; and it was quite impossible for him to say to what discussion it might 'cal, and con• e el e a t h rr a i t e t d h o e n G , h o e ve t r r n u m st e e n d t t h h a a d t h in is a l n i y on w . F ay rie t n a d ke n n -o t u h ld e sidering that witho u t thi s vote t h e publ i c service could not not feel House by surprise. THE FEELING IN THE COLONIES. Mr. DISRAILI presented petitions from Canada, from Jamaica and other colonies on a variety of subjects chiefly praying for the restoration of the protection to their produce. THE PALACE COURT. Lord DUDLEY STUART wi:heciiOlnquire whether any measure had been token for the abolition of that great grievance to the metropolis. He trusted that some thing had bee done to remedy the evil of such a crying abuse.—(Hear, hear.) The AT TORNEY-GENERAL said that he was in communication with the Lord Stowa:d of her Majesty's Household, without whose authority nothing could be done; but be had reason to believe that an alteration in the constitution of that Court, or by its abolition, would speedily be effected.—(Hear, hear.) SUPPOSED APPOINNTMENT OF MR. REY NOLDS, JUN., SOLICITOR OF THE MINT IN IRELAND. Mr. BATESON wished to ask whether there was any truth in the report that a young gentleman under age, the son of Mr. Reynolds, a solicitor for Ireland, had been appointed solicitor for the Mint in that country. he CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—No, Sir.—(Great laughter.) (The Chancellor of the Exchequer was proceeding to some further observations when he was restrained; but as soon as the laughter which had convulsed the House had subsided he rose, and stated that the officers of Solicitor for Ireland and Solicitor for the mint in that country had been consolidated, and that he believed that young Mr. Reynolds was not com petent to take the position of a solicitor. He had cer tainly recommended him to be appointed to the situation of a clerk in the solicitor's office, Rnd he believed that he was so appointed.)—(Hear, hear.) PAPERS FROM TILE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. Mr. URQUHART wished to asked the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Foreign Department, what was the reason why the papers which he had promised in part six weeks ago bad not sooner been laid on the table of the House. Mr. URQUHART said that the Noble Lord had not answered his question and stated the reason of the delay. Lord PALMERSTON said that he had not presented these papers owing to a difficulty in getting them loge ther; but a 3 soon as he could procure them from the hands of the printer, they should be laid on the table of the House. Lord PALMERSTON said that he had promised the papers in part, that is, abstracts from them; but circum stances bad so transpired that he was enabled to give them in foto; and of course it was clear that more time was required to give the whole than only a part of the decunicnts.—(tlear,liear.) . SICILIAN AFFAIRS. _ Mr. BANKES wished to ask whether the Noble whether he had received any information respecting the progress of affairs iu Sicily ? Lord PALMERSTON had not received any ouch in formation. SEIZURE OF THE BOMBAY STEAMER. Mr. DISRAELI said, that some time since, it would be in the recollection of the Howe, that some years ago a steamer called the Bombay, which had been btaight or was, at least, engaged in the service of the Sicilian in surgents. He wished to know whether there was any truth that the Government corvemplated giving the agents of the insurrectionary committee any assist ance in the liberation of the vessel. Lord J. RUSSELL said that the law officers of the Crown, to whom an appeal had been made, had not given their opinion, but should it express any decision that the detention was illhgal, every assistance would be given for its liberation, but at present they had no grounds to believe it illegal. PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL. Lord J. RUSSELL postponed the further proceedings in this Bill to Monday se'nyight. POOR-LAWS (IRELAND) RATE IN AID BILL. Atter a Ebert discussion, the House went into Commit tee on this Bill; Mr. BERNAL in the Chair. On the questimi that the first clause stand part of the Bill, _ _ Sir H. W. BARRON coctplained of the great in justice of the measure towards the rate-payers of Ireland, and expressed his surprise at the temerity of the Government in bringing forward such a mea sure. Ile was not opposed to a poor-rate, far from it he had proposed a measure on the subject long before, the Noble Lord at the head of the Government had thought of it. He was surprised that the Government had not formed such a measure as the present, when their own Commissioners had reported that the rate-payers could bear no additonal burthens. Now he might be asked where the resources for the support of the Irish poor in default of this measure were to be derived from? Why that question had been an swered in the true Irish fashion by Mr. Twistleton him self, who called upon Government to tell him how a people could support themselves who had for the last two or three years been dependent upon the contributions of England. Government had'not condescended to reply to that query, but still the question was a very pertinent one, and fur the want of an opinion from her Majesty's Government, he would undertake to supply the defi ciency himself. A people in that state suggested b) Mr. Twisleton, could only return to a position of self- depend ance by stages arid degrees, and unless Government were prepared to make further grants to Ireland, or they never could succeed in carrying such a measure as this into effect. Some if mediate temporary aid must be afforded to the people of tlrulani, or they would be unable to overcome the difficulties that already encompassed them. This rate in aid would not alone relieve them, on the contrary, it have the effect of demoralising them, and, considering the unjustness of the principle upon which it was based, he for one was not surprised that it bad met with so much opposition in the sister kingdom. The taxes from which Ireland suffered so much were such that English proprietors had no conception of them. They talked about the three per cent. of the income-tax. bet the fact was, that taking the rateable property of Ireland at thirteen millions, they would find that it was taxed at the rate of nine per cent. Were they surpr i se d , t h en, t h at t h ose w h o were su bj ec t to distress, p over t y , an d d est i tut i on , s h ou ld ra ise th e i r voice again s t the injustice of this new it , flictioa; and they were aboutto try a fearful experiment, and they should not flatter themselves that if it ended in ruin, as he thought it would, they would alone crucify and destroy property in Ireland, for they themselves amust be entombed in the same destruc tion. Ilsk therefore, thought that it was the duty of the House and the Government to stem the torrent of ruin which inevitably awaited them. No less than 7,000 or 8,000 men were employed in collect ing poor -rates in Ireland, among whom there were elghteen captains, 120 subalterns, and a number of field-officers, besides large numbers of the police. When they saw landed proprietors in poverty, farmers seeking the shelter of the workhouse, masses of the people dying of hunger, it was full time for the Representatives of Ireland to appeal to the justice of England not to place a new tax upon an already impoverished country. Take an estate rated at 1,0001., the collection would cost 501. a year; 2501, for charges and family inheritances; 3s. in the pound, or 1501., for other charges; and further 3s. in the pound the estimated loss from bad tenants— altogether 6001. a year, leaving but 4001. Then, this new rate would deduct 25/. more from this miserably small stipend. This he believed was a fair average case, After the miseries of Ireland—the failure of her potatoc crop—was this a fitting time to inflict a new tax upon an impoverished people. Therefore he should oppose in every shape the imposition of a tax fraught with so much mischief. _ _ The House then went into Committee on the Bill. On clause 1 being read— Capt. JONES moved the omission of the words, " to fix and declare from time to time certain sums." The persons who paid that rate in aid, he submitted, did not determine the amount or manner in which it was expended, and had been no parties whatever to the proposal for that rate in aid. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON said, thrt as the clause now stood it would haVe the effect of imposing a rate of 6d. in the pound upon the very persons for whose behalf the rate was to be levied. (LEFT SPEAKING.) EAST INDIA HOUSE-(THIS DAY THE RAJA OF SAI'TARA. The debate upon the motion submitted by Mr. Sullivan was renewed to day by Mr. Mackenzie, who eloquently supported the right of the Raja to adopt a son, as he had done. Ile was followed by Sir IlEriair WILLoca," who said that tho British Government in raising the Raja of Sattara to the throne virtually acknowleded that even the miscon duct of the Raja of Sattara was not to effect its an nihilation ; and that in annexing the Sattara terri tory a sacred engagement had bevn violated. Sir ROBERT CAMPBELL briefly addressed the court as (lid also Mr. PaINCEPS, who said -he was always of opinion that the Raja of Sattara was very harshly treated, and had been deposed from his sovereignty on evidence which ought only to have been made the ground of an inquisition. Colonel SYKEs said the only question the Court had to consider was, not so much the right of adoption, for that could hardly be disputed, that whether they could not carry out the spirit, if not the letter of the treaty of the Baja of Sattara.—(llear.) That treaty conferred on the Raja the sovereignty of Sattara during his life time, and to his heirs and s uccessors afterwards. No one would dispute with him that heirs of blood must take precedence of adopted or collateral heirs, and those heirs were to be ifttetchle,y were found their and their pr o p e rty urable m anner b y purc h ase. found, acclaqiumirs e a do n iii d ng ha ht fair o thought a nbde hao(inmo i Mr. MiLts, another director, treated the resolution. as a vote of censure, and demanded that a question involving such a consequence should be decided by ballot. Major OLIPHANT did not put that meaning on the resolution. It was quite competent for a proprietor to move it without intending to convey any idea of want of confidence in the Directors. After some further discussion, Mr. SULLIVAN briefly replied, declaring that no thing was further from his intention in moving the resolution than iu casting a vote of censure on the Directors. _ - - Mr. MILLS having demanded a ballot, The Court adjourned, having appointed Tuesday next for taking the ballot, at twelve o'clock. m a or ce n oa in l g p , or s t h er ort e ly mpl a4t e e d r picked tall to t u h p e g a r n o d u n t a t a twelvet S il ee p tvo D oetg E sc,o r so ,w.tko D h, ad E ari a L T jero . hnh T eL h wo i u s a st Lout, 0 5 Strand, was proceeding up Carting lane,h ob s erved to stagger and Hospital,ee c s e s d life wt where, e immediately rbee, upon his arrival, the surgeon pronoun extinct. , ILLNESS of'LORD ADOLPHUS FITZCLARENCII.—WQ i ke w n ith to gr C e li ll a t rin force.r ollsse r s e t g ri r o e u t a t iy o learn that ThetLordA Noble id‘lph Lord w Adolphus Fitzclar a e s nce at i t s acke very d about three' weeks l since by rheumatic gout, which eventually resulted in bilious fever, from which his Lordship has suffered severely, and much alarm has been occasioned to the members of his family. MERCHANT SEAMEN'S ORPHAN ASYLUM.—The anniversary festival of this excellent charity took place yesterday at the London Tavern, where about 130 gen tlemen sat down to dinner on the occasion. The Lord Mayor presided, and in an effective speech proposed "Prosperity to the Asylum," which was very cordially received. His Lordship's appeal to the sympathies of the company, coupled with the interesting appearance of the children of the charity, who were paraded round the room, and who joined in singing the National An them, had the desired effect, and the secretary in the course of the evening announced subscriptions to the amount of 9001. There are at present 110 orphans under the care of the asylum, and the clean and healthy ap pearance of those who were exhibited to their bentlac tors last night furnishes ample proof of the attention and comforts which they enjoy. They were addressed by the Venerable Archdeacon Dealtry in a very appropriat e manner betore leaving the room, The dinner and ac companying arrangements were unexceptionable. Mr. Higgs was toastmaster. FINANCIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.--L2St evening a numerous and respectable meeting of the in habitants of Touting and the surrounding neighbour. hood was held at the Rising Sun, Lower Tooting, for the purpose of forming a local association in furtherance of the objects of the Metropolitan Financial and Parlia mentary Reform Association. Mr. W. Clarke, of Crof ton Lodge, occupied the chair, and Mr. Aitken, of Mit cham, having explained the course to be pursued, and commented upon the necessity of the metropolitan dis trictsl co-operating energetically with the City society, established under the presidency of Sir Jcshua Walrns ley, a resolution was passed to form an association, to be called the Tooting, Mitcham, Morton, Carshalton, and Wallington Financial and Parliamentary Reform Asso elation. By a unanimous further vote, Mr. Clarke was appointed chairman, and Mr. Aitken secretary, to this association. FOREIGN FLOUR.—The vessel William Gladstone, fl ar o r u i r ved in the docks from Valparaiso and Tulcuhano re speCtively, has brought from the latter place 500 bags of , as a portion of her cargo, consigned to order. We havenodistinct recollection of a previous impo r t a ti on of flour from t hi s di str i ct of S outh America —the port of Conception, Chili; but if any have taken place,. they are of very uncommon occurrence, and the arrival is of some interest and importance. ENGLAND AND IRELAND.— SIR ROBER I.' PEEL'S PLAN. No. IL TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In another letter I suggested the establish ment for Ireland of a great land corporation, the details of which I now propose to lay before the public. The corporation may be called the Irish Land Corporation, and as it is intended to carry out public objects, and to be amenable to the Legislature fur their right performance, its charter may be limited— say for - fourteen years. This would be unobjection able to capitalists, as the operations would be for short terms, and the capital could always be kept within control. This limitation of the charter would have a powerful influence in ensuring responsibility, the great difficulty in all schemes for laying out capital in Ireland. The Corporation to have the power of purchasing lands with a Chancery title, or sold for non-payment of rates and taxes ; or of purchasing by private contract lands heavily incumbered, or requiring expensive operations for drainage and clearing; or fur purchasing waste or bog land, or reclaimable lakes or waters. Such lands the Corporation will bring into a proper state for high cultivation by erecting the necessary farm buildings, and by proper draining, fencing, and liming ; likewise by carrying out the proper engineering works where lands are to be reclaimed. This is a necessary sequel to the first step, which is to get rid of helpless landlords and incumbrancers. It is true, the title to the lands having been cleared, the lands might at once be disposed'of to capitalists, who it may be sup posed, would be able and willing to bring the lands into a proper state, as is done by improving landlords in Ireland. This, however, is a contingency, and it must be made obligatory on the Corporation to bring all lands into a proper condition before sale; therefore if the operations of the Corporation are carried out largely a considerable part of the acre age of Ireland will be placed under the most fa vourable conditions. The Corporation should be obliged to make a yearly report to Parlia ment of their operations, and the Woods and Forests or Board of Works should like wise be called upon to report on the operations, of the Corporation. A direct Government interference or inspection would be unadvisable, as it would tend only to impede the proceedings of the Corporation, who can be made immediately responsible. A further reason for the Corporation carrying out works of improvement is that thereby they will have a wider market for their land sales. There are many willing to buy land having an assured income, who are unwilling to undertake advances of the ex tent of which they do not feel certain, and the nature of which they do not understand, for it is to be ob served that purchasers of land often know more of dividends on consols, and calls on railway shares, th an of the best modes f draining, subsoiling, irrigating, or erecting manure tanks. Therefore, by bringing the land to market with the improvements carried out a greater number of purchasers will be accom modated. The ensuing proceeding is to let the lands to a suitable and solvent tenantry, and to bring them under crop and proper cultivation. The last stage is to sell the lands in the market, or by private contract. The class of purchasers may be considered a little later. To give the highest selling price to the land, and to give the Corporation the greatest profit, other sub sidiary measures are necessary. All lands of the Corporation must be surveyed, and numbered, and registered, as lands are in the colonies, in a General Land Register Office, the records of which shall be in duplicate in Dublin and London. All conveyances, mortgages, and leases of such lands must be registered in all time hereafter in the General Land Register Office. A conveyance of the register lands will limit itself to a single certificate, and a few words and numb ers , as in a land sale in America or Australia, instead of the sheets of parchment and scrawls of verbiage now required for a conveyance. The assurance of title increases the value of the land, and facilitates its sale, or the raising of money on it. Land may he put up to auc tion and sold forthwith, instead of months being lost in perfecting a title. A bank or capitalists may et once advance money on mortgage, as on stock or railway shares, without going through the tedious and expensive stage of a verification of titles. We shall not hear of lands being put up to sale several times, or of suits to enforce a purchase. The Corporation should be allowed to commute their stamp duties for a small yearly fixed sum, be cause their purchase is really officious and not bene ficial to themselves, because it would he a forced transaction, and because they would render great services to the country. The Bank of England are allowed to commute for a fixed sum the stamp duties on their circulation. It might perhaps be beneficial to allow the stamp duties on register lands to be arranged on a per centage scale, instead of being as now graduated. This would favour the sale and purchase of small allotments, and render very essential services to the landowner. It does not fol low this would have any great tendency to produce a collier tenantry, but it would facilitate gradual and yearly investments in land by the accumulation of small purchases. Having shown the nature of the operations, the next step is to consider how the capital should be provided. It is necessary to premise that the capital required would be only in the nature of floating capital, and the operation is the more beneficial, because one sum will, by its re-application, produce great results. There can, there f ore, be little objection to the nature of the advance required. The groundwork of the operations should be the stock of the Corporation, to be subscribed by indivi dual capitalists, or in the manner next provided. Five millions may be taken as sufficient for the first sub scription of such stock, but there might be power to increase it. The Bunks of England and Ireland, and the three great Banks of Scotland, should have the power of subscribing Lor stock, and of naming jointly or severally one director for each 100,0901. of stock sub scribed and he'd. The Government to advance a proportion of three fourths of the purchase money on estates bought by the Corporation, charging 3t per cent. per annum. Such advances not to exceed ten millions in the whole at any one time. This advance is necessary to give encouragement to the operations of the Corporation, and place it in activity, and it is justifiable on the same grounds that advances have heretofore been made for the drainage and improvement of Ireland. As too such advance would entail no real call on the Money Market, because it is taking money out of one pocket ard putting it into the other, the Chancellor of the Exchequer can urge no objection to the adoption of a measure which, contradistinguished from most Irish loans, is unattended by the contingency of loss, and is limited in the time of its operation. The Corporation to have power of issuing deben tures, at such rate of interest as they shall think fit, for sums not less than 201., and free from stamp duty. The Banks of England and Ireland, and the char tered banks of Scotland, to have the power of taking debentures. Savings' banks and benefit societies in Ireland to have the power of taking debentures. Trustees in Ireland to have such power. Joint-stock banks in Ireland to have the power of taking shares and debentures ; and joint-stock banks in England and Scotland to have the power of taking debentures For all the operations of the Corporation, the security will be its stock and the land held by it. The Irish Land Corporation to publish weekly, in the Dublin and London Gazettes, accounts of Government loans, loans on debentures, land in hand, and other assets, likewise of purchases and sales. Further, to make a yearly return or report to Parliament of all transactions. The direction would be in the holders of stock, being chosen either by the holders generally, or by the banks in their respective properties. Such direction it is presumed would ine!pde leading capitalists and agriculturists, and would glee the opportunity to the agricultural Peers and Membea of the House of Commons to take a practical part in a great public measure. The seat of the direction to be in London, and not in Dublin. There is good access from London to Cork, Dublin, and Belfast, while London is the great money market, the residence of the greatest capi talists, and most practical men, and the metropolis of those who would be stockholders in the Ceenoration. It would be the interest of the holders of stot,. i f to choose persons as directors best able to advance the interest of the Corporation, while a timely check would be kept on the proceedings of the directors by the half-yearly meetings, to which reports of the operations would be made. Bad dividends, the index of bad working and inefficient management, would lead to changes in the direction ; while ambitious orators are always to be found in a body or stock holders ready to blazon forth any error in manage ment. The Governor and Court of Directors would choose efficient assistince in carrying out their opera tions; experienced surveyors, valuers, agriculturists, and engineers ; and as they would be able and willing to undertake the improvement of large estates, the inabageinent would be ecuuoloical. The profits of the Corporation would be derived from the improved value of estates, consequent on clearance of title, effective condition, good tenantry, and good reg i s t ry, to w hi c h wou ld be added the differences between the rate at which they could get money from Government and on debenture, and the selling price of property, or the result of reproductive improvements. Such a Corporation must have the power of dis charging all the duties incident to a landowner, sub scription to railways, canals, drainage works, cbtarches, chapels, and schools. A monstrow, (loctrihe hag been set up by the lawyers of the present d-ty in reference to joint-stock companie,, ;25, for inst.rnce, that raliv:ay companies have no power to ictib,cribe to schools and hospitals, or to discharge any of the socid duties. This is not a constitutional doctrine, for it does not apply to the Corporation of London or any of the old corporations, and if not clacked will nave the effect of creating in this country the evil, which it is now necessary to root up in Ireland—the exist ence of a large class enjoying all the emoluments of property, and exempted from the discharge of its duties. It is therefore necessary, regardless of the possibility of violation of conscience by contributing to parish churches, mass-houses, or meetings, that the Land Corporation should be unre stricted by the Legislature, not that there is any fear of mercantile men committing an excess in the dis charge of its social obligations. Had the Irish Corporation or the Drapers' Company been so restricted, many of the most valuable institutions of the north of Ireland would have been destitute of support. it is not essential for such a plan ns this that the Land Corporation should claim a monopoly ; but it should he fully understood that the Legislature would, it it so thought fit, give its sanction to other under takings of a similar description, or profit by the working of this to extend the operations of such a system in Ireland. The great reason for proposing such a plan ig, that it most effectually provides for all the exigencies of the case, overcomes all the difficulties, and is least fraught with evil. It is not proposed solely with the view of giving the profits to a cor poration, or of offering' a bonus to the Lon don capitalists, but because by no other means can the same efficiency of working be obtained, while it ceases to be giving away a profit when it creates a gain and prevents loss. The main feature of the proposed Irish Land Corporation is its essential character of responsibility, the great desideratum in any measure for applying capital in Ireland. As matters now stand, there is no more security for the proper application of money in Ireland than there is in Hindustan, while there is much more jobbing. We have had too fatal experience of this in the miscalled loans to Ireland, where money has been either perverted to private purposes or thrown away in waste. If anything has been made known more sickening than the misery of Ireland, it is its social corruption—from the peer to the beggar jobbery and intrigue are preferred to industry and independence. It does not therefore follow that the necessity of a particular operation for the benefit of Ireland being acknowledged, a grant of English money should be the measure adopted. Whether tor railways, drainage, or whatever purposes, the stumbling-block is the want of security for the proper application of the money, the want of security for the regular payment of the interest, and the want of security for the return of the principal. As to the manner Government lays out money in Ireland, we want no example quoted to urge us to caution. Such expenditure is in waste, as being under no real responsibility, and it is subject to all the influences of local jobbery. Sir Robert Peel's plan is promising in its results, if the results were but realisable by the volition of the Legislature, or the assertion of honest purpose on the part of the Administration ; but it is almost impracticable, because it must be attempted to be carried out by the irresponsible agents of the Government. Such agents are ir• responsible morally and pecuniarily ; the utmost punishment for the waste of a hundred thousand pounds of the national money would be the cashiering of a subaltern of engineers. Yet, daily as are our complaints of the waste and mismanagement of the Government departments, how rarely do we hear of the miserable retribution, which is all we are allowed to expect, now that the impeachment of a Minister is a bugbear that old women only believe in. The responsibility of such a body as the Irish Land Corporation would be both pecuniary and moral. To the Government they would afford full pecuniary se curity for all moneys advanced, and likewise the moral security that they would be properly applied, and the intentions of the Legislature be adequately fulfilled. This responsibility is secured by a large paid-up capital, by the inducements of self-interest, and by the certainty of efficient assistance. It would be in every way provided for by the control of the stock. holders, the weekly publication of accounts, and the yearly returns to Parliament. These would be the in ducements to proper administration necessary to secure a renewal of the Charter on the expiration of each term ; there would be in the hands of the Legislature the means of punishing neglect, or of obtaining fur ther security against it. How is this to be done by Sir Robert Peel's plan, and who are to do it ? The Woods and Forests—they are under ban. The Irish Board of Works. Can it be the Railway Department of the Board of Trade, the Ordnance, the Corps of Royal Engineers, the Surveyor-General of the Navy, the Shannon Commissioners, or the Eccle siastical Commission ? These are bodies accustomed to spend the public money—some of them of old standing, some of late institution—but there is no de • partment that we know of to which the Government can refer for efficient assistance. In fine, every argument that Sir Robert Peel can bring forward for his scheme is in favour of an Irish Land Corporation, every objection to Sir Robert Peel's scheme is provided for by the constitution of an Irish Land Corporation. Jobbing, the great evil of Ireland, can scarcely affect an estab!islitnent the members of which have every reason for resisting jobbing, and little opportu nity of being led into it. The managers of the Cor poration will be amenable to their own interests, to the judgment of their constituents, the inspection of Parliament, the scrutiny of the press, and the influ ence of public opinion, a cumulative jurisdiction beyond any which the Government can invoke. This plan of a corporation is practicable too in in every point of view ; the capital can be got, efficient managers obtained, the operations be carried out, and buyers are ready to come into the market. The very process of purchase creates new buyers, for it forces the mortgagee and the incumbrancer to seek a new investment, and by the diminution of the old classes of investment, establishes the eligibility of the new investment. The English and Scotch farmers will have every inducement to settle on properties in good condition and where they have landlords on whom they can rely. How much preferable too is a measure of this kind to a rate in aid, which releases from responsibility those who hare ill-managed their property, gives them a premium to continue their evil courses, and dimi nishes the means of the improving landlord, by taking from him and from under his control funds which would have been laid out on his own property, and brought a return to him and his labourers. How preferable, too, a measure the benefits of which must be lasting and the results the greater by the goodness of the example, whereas all other measures of the Government tend to encourage mendicancy and im providence even where they do not directly levy black mail on the well deserving, on behalf of those who will turn the largess to an ill use. In an institution of this kind the agricultural and commercial Members of both Houses of the Legis lature can take part, and while it can excite no opposition but the personal jealousy of rival Projec tors, it has the better chance for adoption. Above all things, it satisfies a cardinal want of Ireland, reproduction. It is neither a palliation nor a corrective, it is neither alms nor a loan, it is not limited in the time or sphere of its application, but will permanently advance the resources of Ireland, and contribute to the welfare of the empire. HUMPHREY BROWN. Tewkesbury, April 22, 1849. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From this night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32,f0r tho Week ending on Saturday, the 21st day of April, 1849. 18151:111 DEPAETMENT. X. Notes i55ued........ 27,769,625 £27,769,625 Dated the rth day of April, 18 BANKING D Proprietors'eap:tal • • 14,553,000 Rest .i• 3,124,487 Public deposits (in eluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ings -banks, and Di vidend accounts) .. 2,806,747 Other deposits ...... 11,515,217 Seven day and other X. Government debt .. 11,015,100 Other securities .... 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 13,446,0r,6 Silver bullion ...... 323,569 I X 27,769,625 M. MAUSIIALL, Chief C athier. 49. OEPAITIUN T. bills.. :....... .... 1,132,069 Government scour!. ties (including Dead Weight Annuity).. 13,952,241 Other securities .... 10,047,336 Notes ............ 8,691,680 Gold and silver coin.. 74 ),263 £33,431,520 1 £33,431,520 M. M LES HALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 25th day 0: April ' IS COURSE OF EXCH. Amster,tam • 12 24 at sight •• •• .. 12 04, Rotterdam .... • • .... 12 2 34 A.ntwerp• • .......... 25 75 llamburgh 13 124 altona Paris, 3 days'sight 25 40 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 65 qarseillss 25 65 80urdeauX........ • 25 65 Frankfort on Mains.. ... 121 Petersburgh, Sil. Itble.. 36% Berlin.. • • •• Vierata, are.% do • ..... 11 36 Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11 4 36 Madrid • ............. 9 Cadiz •• ••••••••• •• •• 493( Bilbao•• •• •• •• .• •• ID) Barcelona •• •• • • • • • • •• Setrilla.• •• •• .• .• •• •• .• GE.--( THIS DAY.) N... Gibra, Leghorn . .... .••.. • • 32 GO leiwa ........ 25 90 Allan .. • • • • • • Venice.... ...... • iaples ...... • • 40% Palermo, per0z........ 1 ;•fili Messina 120' Lisbon. • • • • • • • ...... 53 0p0rt0.... • • .... ••.. • • 534 Rio J aneiro Buenos Ayres Yew York, 21 days'sight , PRICES OP BULLION, PER 01 Foreign Gold In bars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. U 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars ....•• G 4 10% Silver in bars ...... • • 0 4 11 ABERDEEN RAILWAY.—The works on this im portant undertaking are again in full operation. About the middle of the month there were 1,575 labourers em ployed upon it. .114kawicit, APRIL 26.—The Primrose, frt ra London, has been assisted in here to-day, after being on the tut fleet §eud, and discharging pert of cargo. IMPERIAL P A RLI AMEN T. HOTTSE OF LORDS, April 26. The LORD (,11, , .NCELLO R tout; his se A. en the Wool sack at Fit .'elork. 12],r1 of E(; LINTON prcEentc-cl a petition from Glallow cocciAa'ning of the immigration of MAI - NEW SOUTH WALES LAND BILL. On the motion of EaH GREY, this all was read s third time. SMOKE PROHIBITION BILL. This Bill passed through Committee. PErITIONS. The Esrl of CARLISLE presented petitions against trading in prostitution; and praying for the enactment of some measure of regulating beer houses. Lord CAMPBELL present-el several petitions com plaining of the persecution to which the Rev. James Shore had he:•n , tehjee!( d. LEASEHOLD TENURE (IRELAND) BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR, moved the second reading of this Bill. This Bill was intended to remedy many evils which existed with regard to leasehold tenure in Ireland, and it would raise the value of landed property in that country. In many cases leases were renewable for ever on certain conditions, and therefore the real owner had only a very small interest in the land. In this country owners of land would not grant leases of land for lives renewable for ever. This specks of tenure led to a bad cultivation of the land, and inflicted an injury up.in the proprietors. The Noble a nd Learned Lord then want into a lengthened detail with regard to the various enactments which had at. different times been passed on this subject, and de tailed at large the evils which were the consequence of the existing state of the law. The object of this law was to make the assignment of leases compulsory on application of the owner of the land. This compulsory sale of leases, renewable for ever to the owner of the land, would obviate all the evils complained of, and would tend to the improvement of cultivation. by discouraging subletting, for the great subletters were the owners of the leases renewable for ever. The Noble and Learned Lord concluded by moving that the Bill be read a second time. L9ril BEAUMONT complained that the machinery of the Bill was unnecessarily complicated, and suggested that such machinery should be simplified. The object of the Bill was good, but the machinery by which it wei sought to carry it out was bad. Lord hIONTEAGLE said that the magnitude of the interests involved in this Bill were more extensive than any Noble Lord uncon nected with Ireland could imagine. These perpetual leases extended over the greater portion of Ireland, and the greater portion of the buildings in the towns of Ireland had been erected upon the faith of these leases. The subject was so important that he hoped his Noble and Learned Friend would not press the measure forward, but would allow time for consultation with the various parties residing in Ireland whose interests would be affected by the Bill. The Earl of WICKLOW thought the Bill was well intended as to purpose, and was well calculated to carry that purpose into effect. Lord REDESDALE observed, that if he assented to the second reading of the Bill, it was not because he agreed in the principle, but solely on account of the p©• culiar difficulties by which the question of land tenure was surrounded in Ireland, and from the feeling that it was necessary to attempt to deal with these diffi culties. He was opposed to the mode in which i was proposed to act with respect to copyhold pro perty. He thought all compulsory interference with property was bad in principle, and of the most dangerous character. Lerd CAMPBELL said, that whenever land wee mischievously burdened, it was .desirable that these burdens should be changed without injury either to landlord or tenant. That was the object of this Bill, and he did not think there was any ground for the alarm which the Noble Lord had expressed with regard to some of its provisions. It was most de sirable to reduce all tenures to what was called " ten ancy in socage," where the holder had the interest is the property irom the centre to the surface. The met' sure proposed by his Noble and Learned Friend wee calculated to be very beneficial to the parties to whom its provisions applied, and he hoped that it would receive the approbation of the Legislature. The LORD CHANCELLOR briefly replied, and the Bill was then read a second time. The Earl of WHARNCLIFFE moved for certain re turns connected with the mercantile marine, and the shipping interest generally. He understood that the President of the Thard of Trade assented to their pro duction.—Agreed to. Their Lordsbips adjourned at seven o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 26. TOOK-LAW (IRELAND.) Mr. J. O'CONNELL gave notice that he would move for a return cf the number of notices served I ron relieving-officers with respect to the eviction of tenant , in Ireland. PACKET SERVICE. On the motion of Mr. HENLEY, a Select Committee was appointed to inquire into the contract paeket service. POOR RELIEF (IRELAND). Lord J. RUSSELL then rose to move, pursuant to notice, for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Act for the more efftctual relief of the destitute poor in Ireland' He had sated on a former occasion the nature of the amendments ho had intended to introduce himself. What he had now to propose he proposed on the responsibility of the Government. The first and most important alteration was the introducion of a maxinatiril both with regard to the rates upon each separate elec . torn! division and the rates upon all electoral divisions: I s provisien, n hate ver its amount rn:glit be, he admitted was contrary to the general principles of th e poor-law of that country, but it must be rernein . bared that in Ireland the attempt to carry out the principle of the poor-law as in this country, that of relieving pauperism by a rate in support of the poor, and by a rate setting to work the able bodied poor, had been found to be productive of great distress, and great scarcity, and such oppression on the tenant farmer of the country and the property of the country, as to create great a larm: Such being the case, the Poor-low Commissioners beg considered whether it would not be desirable to p ro pose a maximum rete. That questi on h a d b een cons idered by the Government, and it was thought by them that maximum rate ought to be enforced. What he, therefore. proposed by this Bill was, that supposing there was one electoral division that had incurred expenses to th e amount of is., and that electoral division could only pay se, the oth er e l ectora l di v i s i on s hould pay 2s. in addition to their ordinary rate!! He was told that it was objected to this proposal dal; would be an inducement to electoral divisions to e aten(' their expenditure to the full amount limited by the low order to obtain the aid given by the additional rate of 23 ' on another electoral division. He could nut hoe ever , think that that would be the case, because it was obvious tat if an electoral division wer e enabled to support its poor with a 4s. rate there wa s no inducement for the in to increase the rates to 75.. to order to obtain the trifling relief he had mentioned fro°' some other electoral division. Now, some persons were of opinion that it would be advisable to lay the rate eV° the electoral division, which should not have raised A certain amount, but be was afraid if that propositio n were adopted, the result would not be that which they we re anxious to arrive at. While some electoral divisions migh t expend a sum beyond the rate of 73., there might; be other divisions whe re ra t es m i g h t b e under as., an d ye' , be able to support their own pauperism by having re course to a rigid system of economy; and it aP ; peered to him th a t i t would be unfair to cell upon that division to contribute towards th e support of another th a t m i g h t not have been so care f°' in its expenditure. It seemed to him, however, that th e guardians of the uni ons wou ld h ave a certain centr e , ; over the expenditure o f eac h e l ectoral division • and course the guardi ans wou ld take care t h at the expenditure was regulated by the strictest economy' This proposal was widely different from a general r ate,i o aid extending over the whole of the country, because il l the case of a rate in aid there would be a difficulty to controlling the expenditure, which could not h e urged against this proposal, because the guardians of the different unions would find it to their interest to look sharply a ft er th e expenditure. ••1'" main objection to this proposal was, that the di" tress of late years had so crippled the resources of maul unions, that some of the electoral divisions were exceed ing a 7s. rate. The Committee, however, which had SAt upon the subject had found that this objection applie d only to the western divisions, and he thought it vre ° much better to adopt this proposal than have recourse to unlimited rates in aid, as it gave security to the occupier ° and owners of land that these rates should never 14° beyond a certain limit, and would have the effec t of inducing many parties to expend th e i r capita upon the land who were now deterred fret° doing so by the fear of excessive rates. He Pro posed, further, that the Poor -law Commissioner e should have the power of settling and determining the past liabilities of certain electoral divisions, in contemplation of a new division of union s : Upon this part of the subject a rePer ; had been made by a C ommission appe i n te ;l last year. It was, however, impossible to adopt xi the recommendations contained in that report, but he might state generally that he was disposed t 0 adopt the views contained in the report from time to Wee' as the Poor-law Commissioners should think fit. At same time he thought the question relating to the wet''' . houses might dedisposed of now, and as far as they,e re concerned he was prepared at once to adopt the opin icin of the report, that it would not be safe to make a further division of unions without accompanying such measure with a proposal for increasing the number o workhouses.—(llear, hear.) He proposed to introduce a clause, the effect of which he had alluded to on a 1° ,5 nier occaeion, nemely, that the owner of land shou ld have power of deducting a portion of the rate on account of hi s rent c h arges .— Cl ear , bear'' , , lie proposed t o ma k e an i mportant alteration i n t h e p!' ° vi s ion of the poo r -l aw , w i t h respect to t h e re duction 0 which is tenant inede in his rent for the parits r of paying the p oor - ra t e . He intended, the the future, that the tenant sho u ld have ie power of deducting half the rate to w hi c h h e was liab le from the rent. He also proposed to introduce a P h r °vi. t Sion with reference to the improvement s whi c h wig . 0 . made upon the land—viz., that in order to 1 31 , A • vent any disputes and litigation, a valuation 'h e ' ll " be made of the improvements, and that there shou ld b e ,_ a no increased valuation for a period of seven years. c -I t k u: d been complained in petitions and memorials been presented to the House, that there was great dlocu: ragement given to the improvement of estates—that . 'o sooner bad a lauded proprietor improved the v a tr of his property than the amount of Ts ee Whit'