The Sun. — London, England, 1849-05-04 00:00:00

Cbtrb 'ambition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. SUDDEN DEATH of MR. HORACE TWISS.—(THIS DAY.) We regret to state that this gentleman expired this day between the hours of two and three o'clock under circumstances most painful to those who witnessed his last moments. Mr. Twiss, as a member and proprietor of the Rock Life Assurance Company, in which he took great interest, was at the annual meeting, held at Radley's Hotel, Bridge.street, Blackfriars, in the act of addressing the chairman upon the general management of the society, and although he did not appear to be in the least excited, he was seen to falter and gradually sink, and ultimately to fall down in his chair. Several of his friends present removed him from the room, but in the course of their so doing he expired without a struggle. Mr. Farr and other medical gentlemen were sent for, but, on their arrival, it was found that their assistance was of no avail. The Hon. Gentleman, it was stated, bad, for a long time, been impressed with the idea that he should, one day or other, die suddenly, as he laboured under the frightful disease of ossification of the heart, and, strange to say, within two hours of his death, repeated the same fact. Mr. Tiffs' was, in addition to his justly and well received " Life of the Late Lord Eldon," the author of many valuable contributions to the quarterly and other magazines. His body will be removed to his own resi dence, it being considered by the authorities that an inquest was unnecessary. THE LONDON GAZETTE (THIS EVENING.) CAMBRIDGE-COTTAGE, KEW, MAY 2, 1649.' The Duke of Cambridge has been pleased to appoint Edward Henry Mills, Esq., to be his Royal Highness's Surgeon and Apothecary at Kew. CROWN•OFFICE, MAY 4. =MIER RETURNED TO 6ERT3 IN TRIO PRESENT PARLIAXENr. Borough of Sheffield—John Arthur Roebuck, Esq., in the room of Henry George Ward, Esq., who has ac cepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern lundreds. WAR-OFFICE, MAY, 4. 4th Light Dragoons—Captain George Thorne George from half-pay Unattached, to be Paymaster, rice George Charles_Dalbiac, who retires on half-pay as a Lieu- tenant, May 4. 13th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant John Augustin Oldham to be Captain, by purchase, vice Dickson, who retires; Cornet Randall Wilmer Hatfield to bo Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Oldham; Peter Valentine Par evil, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, Tice Hatfield, May 4. 14th Light Dragoons—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Cornet William Spilling, vice Cureton, killed in action, Jan. 14; Cornet William D'Urban Blyth, vice Lloyd, killed in action, Feb. 22. To be Lieutenant by purchase—Cornet Stanley Oli vent Black, vice Spilling, whose promotion by purchase has been cancelled, May 4. To be Comets, without purchase—Ensign John Pitt Kennedy, from the 25th Foot, vice Blyth; James Leith, Gent., vice Black, May 4. Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Captain Charles Townshend Wilson, from the 59th Feot, to be Lieutenant and Captain, vice White, appointed to the 14th Foot, May 4. 2d Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Charles Fitz Gerald Studdert to be Captain, by purchase, vice Dom vile, who retires; Ensign Francis Lionel Octavius Atty to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Studdert; Edward Baker, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Atty, May 4. nth Foot—Lieutenant William Burden to be Adjutant, vice Hook, promoted, May 4. I 1 th Foot—Ensign David Simpson to be Quarter master, vice Joseph Jeffries Grant, who retires upon half pay, May 4. 12th Foot—Ensign Frederick Charles D'Epernay Barclay, from the 39th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Fendall, promoted in the 20th Foot, May 4. 14th Foot—Lieutenant and Captain Charles H.W bite, from the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Captain, vice Romer, appointed to the 50th Foot, May 4. 23th Foot—Francis Regan Cox, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Kennedy, appointed to the 14th Light Dragoons, May 4. 26th Foot—Lieutenant Francis Augustus Eliott, from the 93d Foot, to bs Lieutenant, vice Blackett, who ex changes, May 4. 29th Foot—Lieutenant the Hon. Horace Manners Moncktoa to be Captain, by purchase, vice Bevet-Major Coker, who retire; Ensign George Augustus Ferris to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Monekton • William Spike Dickinson, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Ferris, May 4. 39 tta Foot— Robert Broome Baker, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Barclay, removed to the 12th Foot, May 4. 40th Foot—F. ederick Samuel Blyth, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, May 4. 45th Foot—Sergeant-Major Thomas Cassidy to be Quartermaster, vice Walter., deceased, May 4. 39th Foot—Captain Robert William Romer, from the 14th Foot, to be Captain, v i ce Wilion, appointed to the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, May 4. 66th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Conner to be Captain, by purchase, vice Saunderson, who retires; Ensign Charles Perrin to be Lieutenant, by purchase; Horatio George Diikens, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Perrin, May 4. 75th Foot—Lieutenant Dudley Claues MB, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Bathurst, who retires; En sign John Robertson Turnbull to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Hill ; Ensign William Henry Urqu hart, from the 72d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Turnbull, May 4. 80th Foot—Lieutenant Geerge Dean Pitt to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Riley, who retires; Ensign George Newton Fendall, from the 12th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pitt, May 4.: 91st Foot—Lieutenant James Day Cochrane to be Captain', by purchase, vice Christie, who retires; Ensign David Knox Horsburgh to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cochrane; Charles Henry Sainsbury Pickwick, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Horsburgh, May 4. 93d Foot—Lieutenant Christopher Edward Blackett, from the 26th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Eliott, who exchanges, May 4. 99th Foot—Ensign Augustus Frederick Smith, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Leigh, who retires; Joha Bennett Williams, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Smith, May 4. Rifle Brigade—Second Lieutenant and Adjutant Wil liam Bagenall Brewster to have the rank of First Lieu tenant, April 12; Second Lieut. the Hon. Henry Clifford to be First Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Need, de c 'aced, April 13; Wroth Acland Lethbridge, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Clifford, May 4. Ist West India Regiment—Edward Barnes Goodman, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Thompson, promoted, May 4. 3d West India Regiment—James Dugald Thomson, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Lutman, promoted, May 4. St. Helena Regiment—Quartermaster-Sergeant Wm. Cornwell to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Gandy, deceased, May 4. _ _ BRETET.—James Reid, Esq. (late Captain 45th Foot) to have the local rank of Captain in the Fankland Islands, May 4. ROYAL MILITARY AsirLux.—Lieutenant Joseph Ed ward Addison, of the 70th Foot, to be Secretary and Adjutant, vice Siborn, deceased, May 4. Commissioned by the Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. Royal Gloucestershire Regiment of Hussar Yeomanry. —Henry George Sutton, Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice Callagan, resigned, April 28. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire. Southern Regiment of Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry.—Thomas George Augustus Parkyns, Esq., to be Captain, vice Charles George Balguy, Esq., deceased; George Nathaniel Curzon, gent., to be Cornet, vice Richard Milward, gent , promoted, April 28. [The following appointments are substituted for those which appeared in the Gazette of last Tuesday.] Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Montgomery. Montgomeryshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet Robert Davies Jones to be Captain, vice Beck, deceased; David Jones, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Jones, promoted; Mau rice Evan Lewis, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Nicholls, deceased, March 3. ♦DMIRALTY, MAY 4, 1849. The following promotions hare this day taken place, consequent on the death of Admiral Sir Adam Drum mond, K.C.H. Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir John Aeworth Ommsn pity, K.C.8., to be Admiral of the Bine. Vise-Admiral of the White, John Dick, to be Vice- Admiral of the Red. Vice-Admiral of the Blue the Right Honourable Lord William Fitzroy, K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the White. Rear-Admiral of the Red the Honourable Donald Hugh Mackay, to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White Sir Ddward Chatham Strode, 1E.C.8., K.C.H., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red. Rear-Admiral of the Blue Henry Prescott, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain George Ferguson to be Rear• Admiral of the 8 WHITEHALL, MAY 3. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Price, of Buntingford, in the county of Hertford, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCT SUPERSEDED. Thomas Tipson, factor, Birmingham. BANKRUPTS. George Sharp and Robert Lillington Fluder, timber merchants, Roassey, Southampton, to surrender, May 15, at half-past eleven, and June 15, at eleven, at the official ass i gnee, Birchin- Cuurt of Bankruptcy. Cannan, lane; Fluder, Egremont-place, New -road ; Sharp and Harrison, Southampton. George Andrews, grocer, King's Lynn, May 16, and June 18, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. J o h n _ son, official assignee, Basinghtll-street ; Harrison and Dubree, Hart-street, Bloomsbury. Robert Barnes, innkeeper, Woodbridge, Suffolk, May 10, at half-past one, and June 14, at one, at the Court o f Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basir ghall street ; Thwaites, Ly on ' s I nn; E w i ng t on , Ipswich. Benjamin Dickison, wine merchant, Little Tower street, City, May 17, at half-past eleven, and June 18, at half-Past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street ; Hill and Mathews, Bury-court, Saint Mary Axe. Frederick Edward Ball, grocer, Christchurel, Hamp shire, May 17, at two, and June 14, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Fre derick's-place, Old Jewry; Chidley, Guildhall-chambers. George Day, cattle dealer, Worcester. May 15 and June 12, at ten, at the Birmingham Dist- ct Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Pullen, Wor cester; Wright, Birmingham. William Jackson, auctioneerr, 'Birkenhead, Chester, May 17 and Juno 6, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Frampton, Gray's Inn; Hillier, Birkenhhad. John Taylor, butcher, Lincoln, May 23, and June 13, at half-past ten, at the Leeds District Court. Carrick, official assignee, Hull; Jones and Sons, Millman-place, Bedford-row; Tweed, Lincoln; Shackles and Son, Hull. James Haworth, common brewer, Clitheroe, Lanca shire, May 14, and June 4, at twelve, at the Manches ter District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manches ter; Smith, Lincoln's lan- fields ; Trappes, Clitheroe; Atkinson, Saunders, and Atkinson, Manchester. William Hurcombe, timber dealer, Bristol, May 16 and June 15, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Trehern and White, Barge yard Chambers, Bucklersbury ; Sabine, Bristol. Mary Jane Shephard, victualler, Liverpool, May 17 and June 6, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Caz-nove, official assignee, Liverpool; Nethersole, New Inn; Owen, Liverpool. Charles Shackell, tailor, Bristol, May 17 and June 14, at eleven, at the Bristol Distriot Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Surr and Gribble, Lombard street ; Whitton and Gribble, Bristol. Hugh Jones, innkeeper, Holyhead, May 15 and June 8, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Waring, White Lion -court, Cornbill. Seymour Dodd, fustian manufacturer, Manchester, May 17, and June 7, at eleven, at the Manchester Dis trict Court. Hobson, o ffi c i a l assignee, Manchester Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Friday-street, Cheapaide; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester. PRICE OF SUGAR. ___ The average priciiOfirOWn - orMuscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending May 1„ 1849, is 265. 3%d. per cwt. COURSE OF EXCIL Amsterdam ...... •• •• 12 2 1 41 Ditto, at sight 12 0%1 Rotterdam •• 12 23 , 4 Antwerp.............. 25 70 Homburgh .... ••MX . 13 12 Altoita• • ........ • • .... Paris, 3 days'sight •• 25 Mg Ditto, 3 months .... 25 6• ~ Marseilles • . ........ . • 25 60 80urdeaux......... • 25 60 Frankfort ea 3fains.... 121% Petersburgh, Sll. Rble.. 36% Berlin .. .. • • • • Vienna, effec. fib...—. 11 42 Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11 42 Madrid • • .. • ........ 49 1 4 Cadiz • • ,• ............ 43% 8i1ba0................ — Barcelona • • • •......... Sevtlle• • • • •• • • • • • • • • • iIsIGE.—(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar • • • • • • • • • •• •• Leghorn • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 32 Genoa .. • • • • ...... • • .. 26 'Elan • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •••••• Is%pies ••••••• • • • • • • • 40% ralenno, peroz .••• • • .• 116 Oporto"— •• •• •• .• 534 Rio Janeiro ........ 243,, Buenos Ayres -- New York, 21 days'sight Philadelphia PIICIS 01 BULLION, Pll os Foreign Gold in bars ...43 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin • . 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars •• .. 0 4 10 1 ,4 Silver la bars ...... • . 0 4 11 38 TEN YEARS AGO. INSCRIBED TO ALL WHO KNOW ME. (From Eliza Cook's New Weekly Journal.) The robin had been dumb all day, the clouds were close and drear, The oak-leaf bent its wither'd lips to kiss the dying year; The night was coming like a monk, in dark and hooded guise, And winter's voice breathed dolefully its heaviest of sighs. My thoughts were sad as sad could be, and lone, and still, I gazed Upon the shadows as they fell—the red coal as it blazed; The room was bare—no forms were there—but memories went and came With love and sorrow chequered, like the shadows and the flame. Oh! my young heart's tide of happiness had ebbed a wave too low, In that dim hour of twilight gloom, some ten years ago. Old merry Christmas was at hand, as constant as of yore, I counted those about me at the Christmas tide before. And if I missed some two or three, that ne'er could come again, No wonder that my bosom felt a gentle throb of pain. The twilight deepened murkily ;—I wept, but lo! there ca me A branch of holly falling from an ancient picture-frame, And as it shimmer'd at my feet, all fresh, and green, and bright, It seemed to fill my drooping soul with music, mirth, and light. A key-note of wide echoings that still around me flow, Was that poor holly branch, that tumbled, ten years ago. It conjured up with minstrel spell, a fair and merry throng Of glad conceits, that found a voica and burst into a song; I poured out ballad lines of joy above the shining bough, While pleasure quickened every pulse, and danced upon my brow. I gave that song unto the world, with secret hope and fear,— . I longed to try if I could win that world's broad, honest ear ; 'Twas done—applauding words of life came thickly on my way, And those who caught my holly leaves, flung back a sprig of bay; " We like your notes," the " people" cried, " come sing again" and so My " Christmas Holly" bound me to ye, ten years ago. Since then we've mingled cheerfully within our "House hold Room," Ye'ra heard me sing " Old Dobbin's" worth, and tell " Old Pincher's" doom, Ye hailed me in my " Murray Plaid," and listened to my strain, When 'lke a baby in a geld I wove my " Daisy" chain; Ye took my simple " Old Arm Chair," ye kne w it was a part 01 Love's rich cedar tree, that Death had cut down in my heart: Ye smiled to see my " Old Straw Hat" laid by with earnest rhyme, And chorused when a "People's Song" awoke your spirit chime; Oh I many a changeful carol lilt has knitted us I trow, Since first my " Christmas Holly" flourished, ten years ago. I bring ye now a posy bunch of varied scent and hue, And rather think " Forget Me Not," will anxiously peep through; True loyal hands to Nature's cause, have helped to pluck the flowers, And pray that ye will take them home to nurse in eve ning hours. What say ye? will they gain a place upon the window sill? Hare ye some household nock to spare, which they will servo to fill ? And as ye took my sombre branch in midst of wintry gloom, Will ye as tenderly receive my bunch of spring -time bloom? Once safe beneath your sunny care, oh! how the leaves Will blow, And proudly crown the hope you gave me, ten years ago. Spring flowers are sweet in every place, we like to see them come On upland sort, by roadside hedge, and round about our home; The monarch lady bears them 'mid the jewels on her breast, And Poverty will seek a bud to deck its tattered vest. Ohl take my mingled offering.—l long to hear you say Ye like the simple blossoms which I place upon your way. It ii the lucid dew of truth, that gems each painted cup, 'Tis freedom gives the fragrance, and my heart strings tie them up; 0! take them " gentle reader," let my " spring flowers" live and grow With ye who reared my " Christamas Holly," ton years ago. ELIZA. COOK. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, May 5.) SUGAIL—To-day stiffer rates were paid for West India sugar, and a good demand prevailed for home trade purposes. The private sales amounted to 1,200, making for the week 2,795 hhds and trcs, and the rates obtained are chief) , from 31s to 40s per cwt. The only public sale of sugar at present declared for next week i• 150 hhds of Barbadoes. REFINED.—To-day Refined Sugar was in good de mand for horns trade purposes. The rates obtained were 50, 6d to 51s for brown, and 51s 6d per cwt for Standard Lumps. The market for Bonded Crushed Sugar is still dull at former rates. afternoon - the quantity of Mauri tius Sugar submitted to public sale amounted to 6,359 bags. There was a more active demand, both for gro cery and refining sorts: the whole found buyers, and at an advance on former rates of 6d per cwt; fine yellow realised 39s 6d to 40s, middling and good 38s to 395, low 37s to 37s 6d, fine brown 363 6d to 375, good 35s to 365, middling 34s 6d, fair to good grey 378 to 39s per cwt. By private treaty several parcels were sold at similar rates. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the public sales of Ben gal Sugar comprised 3,120 bags; the biddings were brisk and prices in some cases advanced 6d per cwt; fine white Benares realized 421 to 425 6d, middling to good 40$ 6d to 41s 6d, low 395 6d to 40s, middling to fine soft yellow 375 to 395, and good to fine grainy yellow 42s Gd to 44 6d per cwt. Madras met with attention by private treaty, and the parcels sold were at stiffer rates. yOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of Fo reign Sugar, and by private treaty the operation for the week are only a cargo of white Havannah at 381, 2,000 chests yellow and brown at 19s 6d, and a cargo of Pa raiba, white at 225, and brown at 18s 6d per cwt. MoLesszs.—A fair business has been concluded in West India, and former rates are well supported. Prices rule from 17s to 21s 6d per ewt for low to fine quality. For Bengal Treacle there has been a fair demand at 155 6d to 16s per cwt, and the market is firm. COFFEE.—This afternoon the quantity of Native Ceylon Coffee offered at public sale was larger than for some time past, and amounted to 4,800 bags; still, the demand was brisk, and the whole sold at an advance on former rates of 6d to Is; ordinary went at 30s 6d to 31s, good ordinary 31s 6d to 325, fine ordinary 32e 6d to 33s 6d, and damaged 26s to 31s. Of Plantation the auctions comprised 187 casks 1,3E6 bags; they went off at firm rates— ver y fine realised 755, good 6 3 5, low mid dling 44s to 465, fine fine ordinary 395 to 435, and other sorts 30s 63 to 38s per cwt. COCOA.—For West India the market is firm, and the supply is small; former rates are kept up,. but home dealers operate with caution, as large arriv als are near at hand. The value of low to fine red Tr in idad is from 40s to 465, and grey 37s to 43s per cwt. Foreign has bee n d ealt in with caution, still holders ask 28s to 30s pe r cv :t, as the supply is small. TEA.—On the pa: rt of holders of Congou there is firm ness, and former mtes are well kept up —common and good ordinary rt. Ali zed "Id to Sid, mixed blackish leaf 9d to 101 d, bh ;ch ish leaf lld to is Old, ditto strong is ld to is 3d, a ed Pekoe flavor is 4d to is 10d. There has been a fair de ma ad for Souchong at is 6d to 2s 9d for good to fine, and at 9d to is 4d for others sorts. The value of low to fi) ae Pouchong is from 6d to Bd, but there are not many b uy'ers. Green Tea cannot be quoted higher, still lark, :o parcels of ordinary and middling sorts have been sold, whereas better kinds have been dealt in with mor efi •eedom. For Scented Teas there is still only a limit( let demand, whereas supplies are large, and prices rule lo W. No public sale of Tea, is at present deelared. _ _ RICH.—To-day Et tat India Rice rat with little atten tion, and rather ffer rates were taken. At auction 3,000 pkgs were ced, y in part sold; Bengal, good white at 10s, ord 7s 6d to Bs, Arracan bold yellow 7s 6d to Bs, and very ord 5a fid t o 6s per cwt. SPICES.—In Pune nto a fair business has been con cluded by private tr eaty, a t f rom 3 2d to 3-id. There fre s/rlown to do business in black Pep perh a s bbye privatebeen ttle t de ry s sty.., and 'one has been offered at public sale. Sumatra to be obtained at from 2id to 22d, and low to fine dale bar 22 to 31. None has been offered at auction. For wiz ite the demand is still good, and the rates paid are from 4d to 9d for low to fine. Mace is not much wanted, and it offered at 2s to 2s 3d, and good to fine at 2s 4d io 2s Bd. For Nutmegs the demand is limited, and a desire is shows i to sell low to mid brown at 2s 3d to 2s 9d, good to fine 23 10d to 3s Bd. Purchases to a fair extent have been made in Cloves, and the supply is still small. Prices are firm ; Bourbon and African at 7d to lid, Ben colen is 3d to is 9d. The value of Cassia Lignea is from 90s to 100 s. per cwt, but there are few buyers, still tke supply is scanty. INntoo.—The market has still an unfavourable ap pearance for East India. From exporters there has been scarcely any demsnd this week, and home dealers made purchases with caution. Prices as compared with those current on this day week exhibit a decline of 2d per lb. For public sale next Tuesday the quantity de clared is 8,911 chts. Spanish has a downward tendency. SALTPETRE.—T , o-day there was little desire evinced to do business in Saltpetre, although there are sellers 6d per cwt under former rates. At public sale 1,100 bags of Calcutta were taken in at 27s 6d to 28s for ordinary grey, 7/ to 7 pe r cent. refraction. SI'IRITS..--There is no disposition evinced by holders of Leeward Island Rum to make any further excess in the value, still only small purchases have been made at Is is aid to is 4id proof, but there is a plen tiful supply. East India has been dealt in with caution, and can be obtained at is 2d to is 3d proof. For Demerara the market has a dull aspect, and sellers are willing to accept is 10d to 2s 4d for 28 to 40 per cent over proof; the low and mid sorts are the most difficult of sale. On the part of shippers little desire has been evinced to make purchases in Jamaica. For Brandy the market has a firm aspect, former rates are kept up, and there is a good demand with large home trade deliverieu. Geaeva, ord export sort at is 3d to Is 10d, and fine home trade kind 2s 3d to 3s 3d. In the value of British made Spirit little business has been done, still lower rates are not taken. TALLow.—To•de.y the tallow market presented a quiet appearance, and former rates are not supported. At auction 723 pkgs Sonth American were for the most part sold at trom 34s to 393; 321 cks Sydney 34s 9d to 283, and 65 cks Odessa at 35s 3d to 35s 9d per cwt. Ou.s.—To-day at auction 100 tuns Sperm Oil went at 761 Os to 761 Os for good and fine Colonial, and part only sold. IMPEUIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'clock. Lord FEVERSHAM presented several petitions against a repeal of the navigation-laws. Lord STANLEY presented several petitions with a similar prayer. The Duke of WELLINGTON presented several pe titions with a similar prayer. The Earl of TALBOT presented petitions from War wick and other places with a similar prayer. The Earl of FALMOUTH presented a petition from Penzance with a similar prayer. The Earl of DELA ‘‘ ARR presented a petition from Cambridge, praying for a restoration of protection. The Duke of BEAUFORT presented several petitions against a repeal of the navigation.laws,_ THE SU N I LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1849. SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Mr. Charles Saunders, the secretary of the Great Western Company, compltiining that he had been represented as secretary to the South Devon Railway Company, He (Lord Brougham) had never stated that he was secretary to the South Devon Company. The petition also stated that the Great Western had no connexion with the South Devon, except as the holders of a great number of shares—that of course gave it great influence over the South Devon. The Great Western paid up their calls. Mr. Saunders did not pay up his calls. Ho purchased preference shares when there was a guarantee of six per cent. for ten years; They ceased paying the 6 per cent., at the end of the first year, and that he said he would not pay up his calls, and then it was suggested to him that the trans action was illegal. Such were the statements of the petition, and he thought it better to detail them to the House. He had understood from several Noble Lords that Mr. Saunders was a most respectable person. Lord LYNDHURST said that Mr. Saunders had nothing to do with the South Devon Railway, except as a shareholder, who had paid his calls, bad afterwards taken preference shares, and had, on being informed that those preference shares were invalid, refused to pay any more calls on them, until the point as to their validity should be settled, and proceedings were now pending to decide the point. Lord BROUGIIAM had been requested Ly Mr. Hunt to say that he was not the solicitor to whom he had al- luded on the former occasion, and he certainly had not alluded to Mr. hunt. After a few words from Lord Campbell, the Duke of Cleveland, the Duke of Beaufort, and explanations from Lords Brougham and Lyndhurst, The Earl of GRANVILLE said that be could cor roborate the statement that the first time that it was suggested to Mr. Saunders that these preference shares were illegal, was during the course of a conversation under the gallery of the House of Commons. He bad seen the gentleman who had first made that suggestion to the House of Commons. REPORTING STANDING ORDERS. Lord BEAUMONT gave notice that on Friday he should move the consideration of the Standing Order 130. In consequence of the construction of the House, and of the noise below fthe bar, it was impossible for the reporters to hear accurately what passed in the House, and he should, therefore, on Friday more the consideration of this standing order. PETITIONS. Earl GREY presented a petition from the merchants of the city of Montreal, complaining of the loss of the advantages they had derived from protection, and praying for a repeal of the navigation-laws. The Earl of EGLIN rON presented a petition from Arbroath, against the repeal of the navigation-laws. Lord STANLEY presented a petition from certain operative ailkweavers of London against the repeal of the navigation-laws. Lord MON TEAGLE presented several petitions from certain guardians of the poor in Ireland in favour of a property tax, rather than a rate in aid. The Bishop of CASHEL presented several petitions in favour of a grant for e d uca ti on to t h e E sta bli s h e d Church in Ireland. He denied that the Established Church in Ireland was rich. He knew no rich Protest ants of the Established Church in Ireland. ~..._... The Marquis of LANSDOWNE . explained. CANADA. - Lord STANLEY had u t n h d e ers ß io il o l d for that g i r t an h t a in d g be i e n n . s place tated w t i h t a h t re no g a r o d ffic t i o a correspondence had taken demnity to those who had suffered during the late re bellion in Canada, but that private correspondence had taken place, and taken place privately in order that they m ight not be laid before Parliament. If such a system of private correspondence were suffered to prevail Ministerial responsibility was at an end, and the suc cessor of the Noble Earl would have no records before him as to the opinions or information received by his pre decessors. He hoped to hear that the correspondence would remain in the office, and might hereafter be pro duced. He would ask if any official communication had taken place on the subject, and whether the responsi bility- of assenting or dissenting from the measure was to be cast upon the Earl of Elgin. Earl GREY said no official correspondence on the sub ject had taken placa, neither had the reports of the proceedings of the anadian Legislature been trans mitted to the Colonial-office. It was not the practice to transmit them until the close of the session. He had or dered all debates to be forwarded up to the latest date; He had had a correspondence with Lord Elgin, in which he claimed the right of assenting or dissenting from the Bill in the first place, and then to be sub mitted to the Government. The Governor had stated that be thought it inexpedient that he should be called upon to state what course he intended to pur sue until he should be called upon to act. That Bill had not been submitted to the Earl of Elgin, nor were public Acts ordinarily submitted to the Governor until the close of the session, and Lord Elgin had stated that the time had not come for his decision. Ho (Earl Grey) had advisedly ab stained from giving Lord Elgin any advice directly or indirectly as to how he should act, for he was convinced that the best way of ruling the colonies was to give their governors a large discretion and a generous and trusting support. Should he leave office next week, the documents left would furnish his successor with every information they could. He had, as all his predecessors had done, written private letters to the governors of colonies, but he should think he was departing from his duty if the official correspond ence did not contain every information that could be useful or necessary with regard to the Government of the colonies. Lord BROUGHAM rose, and was ELEFT SPEAKING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. CONSIDERATION OF LORDS' AMENDMENTS. The Lords amendments' to the Epsom Rates and Not. tingham Gas Bills were considered and agreed to:— ABDY'S ESTATE BILL. This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed: Chester wad jlolyhelid AGilway (Increase of 01)461, with Powers to the London and North-Western Railway Company to subscribe thereto). Kirkcaldy Harbour, Docks, Ferry, and Petty Customs. Sunderland Dock Act and River Wear Commissioners' Act (Amendment, &c.) Whittlesey St. Mary and . Whittl ese y St. A n d rew Union of Parishes, and for improving the Town o Whittlesey. PETITIONS. Mr. F. MACKENZIE presented petitions against the Registration and Marriages Bills. Mr. J. WILLIAMS presented a petition from St. Asaph, numerously signed, praying that no bishops or clergymen might be appointed for Wales unless they were conversant with the Welsh language, and attribu ting the spread of dissent to:the non•observance of this rule. Colonel REID presented a petition from the Dissen ters at Windsor, against the proposed alteration of the marriage laws. Colonel SIBTHORP presented a petition to the same effect. An HON. MEMBER presented a petition in favour o medical reform. An Hort. MENDER presented a petition in favour of the Clergy Relief Bill. Mr. COWPER presented a petition praying that the owners instead of occupiers might be rated for small tenements. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from the archdeacons and clergy of the Archdeaconry of Oxford against the New Marriage Bill. The Right Hon. Baronet presented a similar petition from Manchester. Lord G. MANNERS presented a petition in favour of protection, and a national rate. Mr. MOFFATT presented a petition against the new Drainage Bill. Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition from medical men in Dorsetshire against intermural interments. Mr. COBDEN presented petitions from York and other places in favour of the Clergy Relief Bill.l Mr. COWAN presented petitions from Edinburgh against the Marriageta tthe and produceof slave e ß c i o ll u s n ( t S ri c e o s t (Scotland). might Sir E. BUXTON presented a petition fro m Birming neam r be admitted that into this country until they abolished the slave trade. M r . F. MACKENZIE presented petitions from Peeblesshire against the Registration and Lunatic Asylum Bills (Scotland). Mr. MILES presented petitions from Somersetshire complaining of the amount of the recent grants to Ireland. Major BERESFORD presented a petition from Saf fron Waldon, praying that some control might be exer cised over the county rates. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Mr. F. O'CONNOR gave notice that, on this day fortnight, he should call attention to the transaction of railway companies throughout the United Kingdom. Mr. THORNELY begged to ask the Lord Advocate when it is likely that any Bill for medical registration would be introduced ? The LORD ADVOCATE said that in eight or ten days he should be enabled to place a measure on the table of the House. In answer to a question from Mr. CARDWELL, Mr. LABOUCLIERE said that he had not received any communication from Captain Denholme with respect to the excessive loading of steamers. When that was received, it would be placed on the table of the House. Lord DUDLEY STUART asked whether there was a measure in contemplation for amending the Metropo • litan Building Act? Sir GEORGE GREY said no notice had been given of the question. Lord DUDLEY STUART said, notice had been given of a question with rsepect to intermural burials. He wished to know when a measure on this subject would be introduced? Sir G. GREY said that a Bill had been prepared un der the auspices of his Noble Friend at the head of the Woods and Forests; but as it required reconsideration, it was determined to bring it on at a later period of the session. Lord DUDLEY STUART—We may hope for it this session? Sir G. GREY—I hope so.— (Laughter.) Lord J. RUSSELL moved that the House at its rising do adjourn till Monday next. BURIALS IN TOWNS. Mr. WYLD presented a petition from the inhabitants of Westminster against interment in towns. THE NAVIGATION-LAWS. In answer to a question from Sir H. WILLOUGHBY, Mr. LABOUCHERE said that, so far as he was con cerned, there was no foundation for a statement said to have been made by Mr. G. F. Young respecting a conversation represented to have taken place between him (Mr. Labouchere) and Mr. Hume, in reference to received b eseen, a l t e h t e te r r ep fr e o a m i of m th r. e Hnuamvige,atwiohno-la•wsrass to . intimating that the statement made by Mr. Young at the meeting in the City, to the effect that it Mr. Hume would assent to the third reading of ;the Na vigation Bill he (Mr. Labouchere) would next session He ihlladto bring in a Bill to repeal all the clauses in the Bill to which Mr. Hume was said to have objected was en tirely without foundation. LARD IMPROVEMENT AND DRAINAGE (IRE LAND) (ADVANCES) BILL. On the House going into Committee on this Bill, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he wished to say a few words on the present state of Ireland. He entirely differed from those Honour. able Gentlemen who seemed to conceive that all at once, by some legislative measure, the whole state of Ireland could bo amQliorated. The change which was required in that country was a total change in the social system of the west of Ireland. They must now look to an entire change in the social system in that part of the country. Nobody could be more mistaken in Lis opinion than ratherthose withwho t t li h o of u e gh w t h t o he f r e e lt could t be no improvement in the pr esent state of the west of t l la r e d r a e nd ;ere lle betterage prospects in store for the coun try. No doubt great evils existed in that part of the country to which he had referred, owing to the large number of small tenants who held under middlemen, and without the means of eviction, which had b een resorted to during the last six months, he was quite sure that no improve ment whatever could have been effected. Under the recent system the landlord depended upon the mid dleman, the middleman upon the small tenant, and the small tenant upon the potato. When, therefore, the po tato was stricken with the blight all these classes failed, and the result had since been that the land now remained uncultivated, because it had been impoverished by the previous mode of culture. The letter of Captain Ken nedy to the Poor-law Commissioners gave a correct pic ture of the evil—one, too, that proved, beyond all ques tion, that the case was one which no possible legislation could meet. What was really wanted to effect a remedy was the application of capital to the land by those who were ready and willing to invest it. If there were any such, as he was assured there were, Government was ready to assist them; but, besides that, all that Government could do was to relieve those whose estates were too much encumbered to admit of their being disposed of in the market. To show what improvement had been effected by a new system of farm ing introduced into Ireland, he need only mention the case cited the other night by the Right Honourable Baronet tho Member foe Tamworth. adding, at the same time, that even in the dreadfully distressed union of Ballina, which not long ago was thought to be in a hopeless condition, some capitalists connected with the Society of Friends in Yorkshire had done an immense amount of good by taking farms in the union, and adopting the English mode of terming. He bad received a letter yesterday which he considered the House would think with him was of a very satisfac tory nature. It was from Mr. Burke, the inspector of the Ballina Union, in the county of Mayo. It statedrsaunandcethoafta the generalact s oof opinion indus tryt h whom he had conversed was to be found in the fact that the cultivation of waste lands had been set about. sail, an the evidence peop lede o s f ir w ed hi t c o h draw out the resources of the Coming f rom one of the most poverty-stricken haveprevailed increased, t hamongste p th t ose with districts of Ireland, such a communication could not be regarded otherwise than most cheering and satisfactory. He could read a number of other communications, all tending to show that better days were dawning upon Ireland, but he did not wish to fatigue the House.—(Hear.) He believed he should be enabled to satisfy the House that the grants heretofore made had led to the profitable employment of large masses of the people. lie might observe that the Government pos sessed 43 inspectors, without whose sanction no money was expended, and who exercised a careful supervision over the expenditure of the money which had been ad vanced. They were the best guardians that could be appointed, and they prevented the useless expenditure of the public money. Without referring to:any other mea sures that might be necessary the welfare of Ire land, he thought that that which was really wanted was employment for the people.—(Hear, hear.) He believed and looked forward confidently to the time when the desire for employ ment would not exceed the demand. The first power which he intended to seek from the House was that the money to be advanced might be made in accordance with the Lands Imprisonment Act; that Act providing, according to his idea, the best mode of applying the money t o proper and whol esome purposes—since, under it, the the relations between landlord and tenant were pre served, and the influence exercised by the Government only extended to ordering that the money was properly expended, and the improvements of the land properly made. Out of the grants previously made 3,074,0004 had been applied for, and the advances of 1,500,0001. or one half, 'sanctioned by,the Government. The appeal for grants made to the Government amounted to 1,544,0004 given up 112,000/.—resanctioned, 59,0002; so that there was now lent (as we understood, for the Right Hon. Gen tlhman articulated his figures indistinctly) 1,491,0001. leaving a reserve of about 9,0001. 940,0001, had been issued, leaving for the employment of labour 952,000/. By the application of skill and industry, under the Land Improvement Act, land in some parts in Ireland which, two years ago, was not worth half-a-crown an acre, was now worth I.oe. an acre. Indeed, from the im proved system of drainage, the land, upon an average, was improved in value 80 percent. He knew an instance where 175 acres of arable land occupied by tenants. Some of whom were ejected .nd others of whom had consigned, had been turned to grazing pur poses, and within less than two years it yielded a return of 10 per cent. On an average the whole of the arable land laid down to pasture, had given a return of 8/. per cent. With respect to aeterial drainage there was some considerable misapprehension on this subject, as to what was the state of the law, and great disappointment had been felt in Le land that an unlimited supply of money was not always forthcoming. The intention of the Act was that all funds for that purpose we r e to be raised by the issue of debentures. He found very great fault had been found with the Board of works, because they had not undertaken works when, as it was alleged, they had funds to carry them on. It was only fair before such complaints were made that the parties making them should have taken the trouble to inquire whether the Board of Works really had funds to carry :on such improvements. Honourable Gentle men must remember that in 1847 those works in many parts of Ireland were undertaken with the view of affording out-relief; and works which would not have been undertaken were under taken at that time with the view of affording employment to the poor in distressed districts. At University Hall in Galway, land which formerly only produced 301. per annum had been effectually drained, and now yielded the landlord 1301.—(Hear, hea.) Borrisokane, land which previous to the drainage was completely covered with flood was now in a state of profitable cultivation. Formerly it was valued at 2s. an acre, now it paid no less than 13s. per acre, and the whole expense of working this beneficial change would be about Os. pt_r acre for twenty years. Notwithstanding, then, what had been said against the Board of Works, he thought the works completed under their direction had been most successful, and he should pro pose, therefore, to the House to advance a further sum for carrying arterial drainage.—(Hear, hear.) (LEFT SPEAKING.) DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. (FRO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) IHAMBURGH, MAY 1. The grand battle with which the German papers have managed to gull the credulous public here, who have only one way of thinking, and cannot brook any truth, however right and fair, has after all turned out to be a very sorry affair. The accounts at the onset given in the patriotic journals—not one of which but is well greased in the Augustenburg intriguing interest here— have assumed a very different tone in regard to the loss incurred on the occasion of that presumed victory at Colding; in which, had the Danish General, Von Bulow, but allowed his troops to have acted in the same spirit throughout the whole affair as they did at the com mencement, every different result had followed. The loss on the Danish side has been officially pub lished, under the authority of the medical staff, and consists in 300 men killed and wounded—among these only eight of the Danish Hussars of the Royal Guard killed , and sixteen wounded (after driving the Holstein Infantry before them, and with the aid of two companies of Jagers, taking some entrenchments on the mainland), instead of having been completely dispersed, and losing an immense number of prisoners, according to the German pretended reports. OaA the side of the Germans, the loss has been admitted, in an ac count of the correspondent of the liamburgh Nachrich ten, from Schleswig, to have been about 700 men. And General Bonin in his official bulletin names 1,000 on both sides at a rough guess, rather under the mark than above it, beyond doubt. The tender conscience of the Insurgent Government of the Duchies will not admit the true account appearing ; on the contrary, they are ashamed of the enormous loss of human life, which their evil deeds will have to answer for to the families of these victims of their ingratitude towards Denmark. The cries and lamentations, however,' of the parents, the widows, and orphans of those fallen will ultimately reach them, and offended justice will overtake the in trigues of the Augustenburg princely beggars with nowven sooner n gea a nc xi ouesto know or later. what reason rlensnhortht,ey havepeople forare withholding: the: truth,: and, bad as the affair is, they are desirous of knowing what has been the posis tive loss. They reason, however, is plain. They do not wish the great Fatherland to know that the Danes are sufficiently patriotic and heroic in their defence of Schleswig, and the justice of the claim of their King. They have all along used their utmost endeavours to make their friends believe (which they have, how ever, most signally failed in doing) that the native Schelswig regiments, in the Danish service, have no in• clination to fight against the German Holstein party, and in some instaeces have even gone so far as to throw down their arms. The following is a specimen of the dirty mode of aiding and abetting their insurgent cause, and is totally unworthy of a great and mighty would-be-united Fatherland:— Among the many false reports which the German papers have recently been filled with, there is one which states that, during the action near Colding, the 13th battalion of infantry threw away their arms, and turned, with seventeen of their officers, to surrender themselves prisoners of war. As this battalion in part consists of men from Schleswig, this falsehcod is not without sig nification, and this was not much relieved by the fol lowing correction, which again states, that the 13th battalion, it is true, did not lay down its arms, yet the flight of the same so hastily, gave occasion for the report in question. The truth however is, that the brave 13th battalion was during this action stationed at the island of Alsen, and took no part whatever in it; nor has there been any Danish officer, as yet, officially known to have been taken prisoner on this occasion. This fact will tend fully to convince the friends of the great Fatherland, and others, how little good faith can be placed in these Hamburgh-Holstein reports. General Prittwitz has his headquarters at Christianfeld, and is said to rave promised his troops, consisting of about 18,000 men concentrated thereabouts, to give them a turn into Jutland, which is some four miles from the spot they occupy. It is said that he has been espe cially requested by the King his master, who employed him last year in Berlin, to fire upon the insurgents in his defence, to mercifully cause to be spared those who are in arms against his former friend, the King of Den mark; and otherwise to aid them in their insurrec tionary conduct against his troops. The King of Prussia even goes further, from what General von Prittwitz is reported to have said of him, viz., that the Holstein in surgents were brave men, in having fought so well against their rightful Sovereign, and deserve to be spared from the due inflictions of Danish loyalty. Berlin, and General Prittwitz, on the 18th of March, 1848—and Hadersleben, and Prittwitz, in front of the Prussian army on the 28th of April, 1849, ought to be recorded in the books of European history, in bloody letters, that when the young princely ideas of future sovereigns begin to be taught how to shoot, they may well " read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest" this instance of Prussian policy. Insurgents shot down by dozens at Berlin by Prussian soldiers in 1848, and applauded by the same General (who posi tively ordered them to be so shot down at this period) for fighting the royal troops of Denmark in their at tempt to protect their own King against similar insur gents in 1849. 0 tempera, 0 mores There are various rumours of negotiation for peace; but no solid foundation can be discovered. It is also said the blockade is to be removed upon neutral vessels, yet nothing is certain. Denmark played, in the beginning of the contest, too generous a game to suit German-Holstein trickery, to their owls loss. It is scarcely to be supposed that the Danish Govern ment will continue this game any more until she knows their schemes better. The complaints now made of the ineffectual mode of carrying out the blockade of the Elbe and the Weser are aliabsui d; and none of those making the complaints are at all acquainted with the laws and the nature of such a blockade, much as they may learn hereafter, and thus grow wiser. There is no news of any skirmishing to-day from the war department in the Duchies. The troops are cooling themselves a little. They are considered, however, here to be idling their precious time away, if something is not daily reported in the fighting line, to feed the greedy anxiety for such information on the Hamburgh Exchange, where num bers aro seen smoking cigars all day long, having no thing to sell in the shape of goods, and paper will not go down without in the discount markets. Things look queer, and the visages of the people correspondingly so —sallow and smoky in the extreme. Mr. Bannerman had an interview, on Wednesday, with Earl Grey. SHOCKING SUICIDE.—This morning between the hours of six and seven a respectably dressed man, ap parently about the age of thirty-five, committed suicide by precipitating himself over the balustrades of Waterloo bridge, striking in his descent his head with fearful violence against the stone abutments of the bridge. The body was immediately recovered, but life had ceased to exist. The corpse was conveyed to the vaults of St. Mary-le-Strand, and was identified to be that of Henry Ford, a compositor in full employment on the Morning Chronicle. Ho has left a wife and four children to lament his loss. The body remains to await a coroner's inquest. The Adelaide Observer, of October 28, gives a woful account of the rapid declension of the renowned Burra-Burra Mining Shares. It states that in the course of thirty days the price had fallen 130 per cent. It quotes the shares at 1001.—they were 2301. The paper adds that nine actions bad been commenced by the directors against it for its observations respecting their management, So. SHOCKING CASE OF CIIILD-MURDER AT BATH, AND DEATH OF THE MOTHER.—BATH, MAY 3.—A shocking case of infanticide occurred in this city yesterday, and was speedily followed by the death of the unhappy mur deress. It would seem that in the course of Tuesday night a female servant, in the service of Captain An derson, of 15, St. James-square, was seized with sudden illness. Her fellow-servant, who slept with her, had not the least suspicion of her pregnancy, but states that she was restless, appeared in pain, and got out of bed. As a long time elapsed before her return, the fellow -servant was alarmed and went to look for her, and after some time she found her apparently in a dying state. Mr. Massey, surgeon, was immediately sent for, and on his arrival he found that the girl had delivered herself of a child, and was dying from the consequent haemorrhage. In a few minutes she breathed her last; and upon a sub sequent search being made the body of the infant was found concealed in the water-closet. The dreadful affair has excited a deep and painful feeling throughout the neighbourhood in which it occurred. PIRACY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.—A letter has been received from the agent for Lloyd's at Smyrna, by Lloyd's agents at Malta, dated Smyrna, 16th of April, 1849, giving information that several piratical boats in the neighbourhood of Scio and Mytilene have been plun dering small craft and visiting villages on the west of Scio. Her Majesty's steamer Tartarus, and the French steamer L'Averne would make inquiries after those boats, and a Turkish war cutter is cruising in the neighbour hood. The two former vessels have completed a very searching tour for the pirates, but have not met with them. One of her Majesty's brigs will shortly proceed in the same direction. MOINE, THE SCULPTOR.—This artist, who had attained considerable distinction in his profession, has committed suicide. Pressed by numerous creditors for deb's incur re d b y th e suspension of occupation, and having passed some days without food, or the means of obtaining any, in a fit of delirium he put an end to his , existence,—Art Journal, BANK OF ENGLAND. (From this night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32,f0r the Week ending on Saturday, the 28th day of April, 1849. ISSUE DEPLETNENT. Notes issued• • •• .• •• 27,602,255 £27,602,265 Government debt • • 11,015,100 Other securities . • 2,984,000 Gold coin and bullion 13,278,716 Silver bullion • • • • . • 323,569 nefit of the poor, and &cause the majority of the pop u lation needing education were Roman Catholics, tr`a . S particular system of education had been introduced, i I being impossible in any ot h er way to e ff ect t h e o bj ec t n view. Ha was not prepa re d t o sa y t h a t, a f ter try i ng the experiment for so long a time, they had at length sac; ceeded in producing a definite and perfect system adapted , in every respect to the peculiar circumstances of the' country; but their experience had at least taught them this, that it was in the highest degree injudicious to make separate grants for religious instruction in various creeds. The introduction of that principle into their present system would only end in setting priest against clergyman and bigot against bigot, and instead of pro ducing an exclusive benefit to a class, as would be confi dently expected, it would not be productive of good to any- Notwithstanding tho views of the Right Rev. Prelate he (the Marquis of Lansdowne) thought it would bo most conducive to the welfare of society in Ireland, to continue the system of education introduced there six teen years ago, and supported by successive Govern ments, which had gone on increasing in usefulness„ extending benefit after benefit, and attracting not only' many good Protestants, but the Presbyterian body of the north of Ireland, who would not be disposed now to take advice of the Right Reverend Prelate, or to withdraw the assent which they had given originally to that 5:, stem.—(Hear, hear.) Those schools which had been denounced as Catholic were in no other sense Ca tholic than their being so attended, and as for the read ing of the Scriptures being excluded, the Right Rey- Prelate, who spoke second, had clearly shown their Lord ships that the exclusion was only confined to certain hours set apart for studies of a temporal nature, and therefore strictly proper. He only wished there was as much scriptural instruction to be met with in many English cottages, where, though the Scriptures were not excluded, practically they were not taught. Every Pro testant in Ireland, who wished his children to be edu cated in the Protestant faith, might receive an education of that kind if he obese, and Its would not go further into the details of the question than to repeat what he had before stated, that he could hold out no hope of the reconsideration of a system which had hitherto marked out its object with satisfaction and efficiency.—(Hear.) The subject then dropped, and on the motion of the NOBLE MARQUIS, immediately after the conclusion of his speech, their Lordships adjourned, at Twenty Minutes before Nine o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 3. MARRIAGE BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this Bill, Mr. GOULBURN rose to move that it be read st second time this day six months. The subject, he said, was surrounded with considerable difficulties. In the first place, it was most painful to him to find himself op posed in a question of degree and obligation to many persons, for whose station and standing he entertained the highest respect, and to whose opinon under ordinary circumstances he should be most ready to bow—(Hear, hear)—and ho could assure his Right Hon. Friend that he felt the pain not the less, because it placed him in op position to his Right Hon. Friend.—(Hear, hear.) It was painful also to him to resist the wishes of many who had violated the law in ignorance, but he felt so strongly upon this question, that motives of this nature ought not to influence him in the course he should adopt.—(Hear, hear.) It was a question ex tremely difficult to deal with in Parliament, as it involved a Divine command conveyed to them through Holy Writ, which ought to be reserved for an assembly of divines and learned men to discuss and de termine in retirement.—(Hear, hear.) It watt a question which affected the whole law of prohibited degrees, and could not be confined to the narrow basis on which his Right Hon. Friend had restricted it.--- (Cries of " Hear, hear.") It was impossible to con fine the relaxation of the law to the particular limits contemplated by this Bill. The question for the House to consider was rather the degrees of affi nity within which marriages were at present limited, with the view to the expediency of confining marriages to simple cases of consanguinity. It was said that in quiry had demonstrated that the marriages now prohi bited by the law were the happiest, and they claimed to have proved this by facts. But persons who went into the country to make inquiries upon this matter, doubtless did so with a bias on their minds. The heart of man possessed more or less of evil; but was it right to pander to that vice, and was it a rational argument to say that by doing so they would thereby promote the cause of morality? The researches of the Commissioners had led them to observe that the number of marriages of the kind proposed to be dealt with by the Bill that had taken place during the last years amounted to 15,000—that the marriages of widowers with deceased wives' sisters affected at least 30,000. Let the House listen attentively to the facts adduced in the evidence gathered by the Cons missioners. Mr. Denham, the incumbent of tv • parishes, the population of which were 10,000 s declared that though the subj ec t h a d at t rac t e d his attention, and though he had mixed with all classes, high and low, he could not point cut any particular cases. The Hon. Gentleman quoted the evidence of other clergymen in support of this view, and arg ued from them that the number of marriages without the pro' hibited degree were, considering the large amount of the population, extremely small in number; and the Rev. Mr. Tyler, the rector of St. Giles's for 23 years, the popula tion of which wa s 27,000 , stated that he b ad ma de Inquiry, and could not discover a single case. The expo' rience of Dissenting ministers, several of whom he que_ t ed, presented the same results. It was said that th e prohi bition of the marriages referred to would induce conca- Waage; but that to his mind was no reason why they should legalise incest—(Hear, hear)—beeause marriages of this description were opposed to Divine law ; and even if they were not there were moral reasons why they should not be legalised. During ancient times, when men had opportunities of forming a better knowledge of the law of God, coming as it did fresh from his hands, than at the present day, when, indeed, their stock of modern knowledge could not fail to increase, though not of Divine law, no doubt existed as to the interpretation of the meaning of the law, and surely no doubt could exist at the present day, when they could only judge after thousands of years had passed away. (hear, hear.) When Henry VIII. wished to marry his wife's sister, the King got one of his courtiers to write to Cranmer to ask his opinion upon the matter, and whether such a marriage would be con trary to the law of God. In reply, he said the King could not marry otherwise than as laid down by the law of God, which he said prohibited such a marriage. This opinion was given by Cran mer, in days when the will of Kings—especially such a king as Henry VIII., were invariably bowed to. Ridley; Dr. Cox, and other great men of that day, were of the same opinion. The Hon. Gentleman quoted number of other authorities in support of that argument. The Right Honourable Gentleman then referred to the evidence given on the subject by the Right Rev. Dr. Wiseman, which was unfavourable to a relaxation in the present law, and proceeded to show that by the Levitical law a marriage with a deceased wife's sister was strictly?' forbidden. The uniform judgment of the Church of England had always been, from its foundation to the pre sent hour, against any such alteration as now proposed, and he (Mr.;Goulburn) contended, that a more fatal step to the prse° of families, or more calculated to endanger public morale, could not be taken, than the abrogation of the existing prohibitions in the marriage law. As to what had been advanced in the course of such arguments on the subject, that it was desirable, even for the sake of the deceased wife's children to allow such marriage, he contended that when a man mar ried the sister of his deceased wife, such a marriage must lead to the most painful discord in the family, and produce results calculated to promote anything but the happiness of those concerned. Besides, nine-tenths of the clergy were opposed to it, not only from conviction, but because they felt themselves bound by the canon law to resist any su c h re l axat i on as now proposed. The Right Hon. Gentleman, however, who proposed the Bill, sought to get over th e l as t diffi cu l ty b y ma ki ng i t opt i ona l with the clergy t o p er f orm it or no t, j ust as t h ey p l ease d. His (Mr. Goulburn's) Right Hon. Friend did not knout how to deal with the case, as regarded clergymen; and he, therefore, proposed that it should be left optional with them to do so or not, just as they pleased. But would that remedy the evil which he (Mr. Goulburn) anticipated? The effect of that must be, that one law would exist for those whom clergymen consented to marry, and another for those that contented themselves by going to the office of the register. If the clergymen refused to per form such marriages, and in nine cases out of ten they would so refuse, the people would then go to the office of the register; and what must be the effect of such as practice becoming general on the minds of the great body of the people? He implored them not to touch a subject on which the feelings of the people of England were so much engaged, and, above all things, not to show them they were willing to relax those laws which fenced round the institution of marriage. _ Lord BRACKLEY would give his vote most cordially that this Bill should be read a second time.--(Hear.) Mr. HAGGITT said that, both upon theological and social grounds, the argument in support of this measure was most unsatisfactory. The effect of passing this Jaw would be to place the Church and State i n an antagon i sti c position. Many clergymen were of opinion that these marriages were incestuous, and the legalising of these marriages would place them in a most painful posi tion; and he hoped that Gentlemen would well consider this point before sanctioning the measure . H e t h oug ht pure and high-minded women, upon the death of their husband!, would not go to reside in the houses of their brother-in-law, if there was a doubt u p on thi s su bject. Instead of lowering their l aws t o an i n f er i or stan d ar d of morality, they ought rather to elevate their standard if possible. The question now was, whether laxity or strict obedience should, in futwre, guide the law of Eng land. In deciding, they should remember that the one was only the principle of human folly, and the other of eternal truth.—(hear.) M . r. AIONCKTON MILNES said, the proposition which the Hon. Gentleman had put before the House was, whether this question was to be decided upon theo logical grounds? Th e re li g i ous op i n i ons upon t his subject were not so clear and palpable as to be a certain guide. If the religious ground taken by the opponents of the measure had been so palpable as they assumed it was, it might have been thought impossible that any member of the . Church of Engl a nd cou ld h ave s i gne d a pet i t i on i n its favour, whereas they bad numerous petitions, not only signed by the laity, but by the clergy of the Church. Ds himself had presented one that night from his own bo rough, which was signed by the vicar, a man of great piety, and a p o li t i ca l opponent o f hi s own. He believed, therefore, that both upon religious and moral grounds it was most desirable that this Bill should receive the assent of the House. lie feared that if it did not, an impas sion would go abroad that the higher classes were disre gardful of the interests and feelings of the middle and lower classes. With respect to the alleged immorality which would flow from it, he believed that it would pre vent muchof VstOillicit intercourse which 1101 Y took I X 27,602,285 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 3d day of May, 1849. BANKING DEPAITMENT. Proprietors' c vital • • 14,553,000 Rest -.- .......... 3,127,170 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ings-banks, and Di vidend accounts) .. 2,782,190 Other deposits .• .. 11,778,602 Seven day and other Government securi ties (including Dead Weight Annuity) • • 13,957,269 Other securities •• • • 10,095,826 Notes ••••••• • • • • • • • 8,533,925 Gold and silver coin.. 783,274 bills•• .......• .... 1,129,332 £33,370,294 £33,370,294 M. IeIiftSILILL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 3d day of May, 1849, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, May 3. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'clock. Petitions against the repeal of the navigation-laws were presented by the Duke of Northumberland, the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Beaufort, and Lord Beaumont. The Marquis of SALISBURY presented petitions from several inland towns situated in agricultural dis tricts, against the repeal of the navigation-laws. SCRIPTURE EDUCATION IN IRELAND. The Bishop of CASHEL presented a petition, signed by the Protestant clergy and inhabitants of Middleton, in Lancashire, in favour of assistance from Government for national education, and another signed by 43,000 Protestants in Ireland, asking for a fair share of assist ance from the Government, for the Protestant population of that country. Tho Right Rev. Prelate presented a third petition from 1,400 of the Protestant clergy in Ire land, in favour of the same object. The Dissenters of every denomination partook of the boon from Govern ment for the education of their various sects. And lastly, in 1847, even the Roman Catholic parents and guardians of children were, by a minute of Council, empowered to send their children to those schools approved of by them, where their religious tenets were not to be interfered with. He would then ask, was it just or fair that every other class should be encouraged in the education of their children, and that Protestants of Ireland alone should be excluded from the benefits of the Government grant. He asked in the name of those Protestants, that as the old system, which has been represented as impracticable and unpopular, was broken into fragments, that they should have their fair quota of thes e f ragmen t s . It is the doctrine of Protestantism that whosoever takes away the use of the Holy Scriptures from any man, takes away his birthright; and when the Bull. Unigenitus, propagated in 1613, went to that Effect, he considered that he was right in saying that Protestants and Roman Catholics could not be educated together in that harmony which he would wish. He would call the attention of their Lordships to some of the rules of the Board of Education, one of which is, that children should not be enforced to read extracts from the Bible against the will of their parents, and that if Protestant children were required, it should be only in those hours when the Roman Catholics were not present, and to that rule he should say, that the Protestant clergy of Ireland fully agreed. What the forty thousand petitioners require is, that their children should have the benefit of a literary and scriptural education. The next difference is, that Roman Catholics must have in spectors approved of by them, whereas the Protestant might be men of hostile feeling., and that the Roman Catholic children were to b e i ns p ec t e d on ly as t o their literary improvement. He would ask, is it fair that the Protestants should be treated thus ? Were they less remarkable for their loyalty, for :their industry, for their moral conduct, o r f or carr yi ng out justice as jurors, than their Catholic fellow subjects? The conduct of the Rev. Mr. Medlicott, a Protestant clergyman, in instigat ing six policemen, whom he found at the police barracks of Portlaw, to defend themselves to the last against a meditated attack of the mob, in which they most gallantly succeeded,was an instance, among many that he cited, to show their ability as a body ; though he would say it to the honour of five of those policemen, that they were Roman Catholics; and yet such men as these were to be debarred from the advantages of education. The Right Rev. Prelate then read a long extract from one of Mr. Macaulay's essays, the tendency of which was to con trast the influence of Catholicity unfavourably with that of Protestantism in Ireland; and then proceeded to say that the Protestants of Cork were, if anything, superior to those of the north. It was to the interest of the country that Protestants should be allow ed the ad vantages of education, and he would, therefore, call upon their Lordships, by the respect which they had for the Word of God, by their regard for the best interests of the people, by their desire to promote the social welfare of the community, to give a favourable reception to the petition now before them ; and to show themselves dis posed to give the Protestants of Ireland the same assist ance in education, as was given in that country to all other classes of her Majesty's subjects.—(Hear, hear.) The Archbishop of DUBLIN said that the subject of Protestant education in Ireland was one which deserved the greatest attention, especially as the objections that had been raised against it in England, and also in Ire land, were founded on an entire misapprehension of the facts; and he was convinced that it' their Lordships would think fit to proceed by inquiry, and consent to address the Throne for this purpose, they would find that it was not surrounded by so many difficulties as some were dia. posed to imagine. The system of education pursued at the university schools in Ireland respected the religious faith of the children sent to them; and, in that respect, might be considered uniform with regard to them, At Oxford and Cambridge, there was a limit placed upon education, which was there confined to members of the Established Church. At Trinity College, Dublin, this was not the case; but Protestants, Catholics, and Dis senters were equally allowed to participate in the ad vantages of the University, without any restriction or violation of feelings. That might be a good law or a bad one; but of this he was convinced, that consi dering the majority of students to be Protestants, the scruples entertained by members of that faith could not be just what they were described to be. With re gard to the alleged exclusion of the scriptures from these Roman Catholic schools, iff inquiry were made iu the matter, it would be found quite contrary to the facts, upon the common meaning of the phrase. It could, and would be only true in one sense, viz., that there was no right given to the schools to place the scriptures in the hands of children, that was to say, in other words, there was no right to force religious instruction upon them in opposition to the wishes of their parents. On the great principle contained in that book, of which their Lordships had that evening heard so much, "Do unto others as you wish they should do unto you," he thought that regulation was a very just one, for which of them would like to have his son forced to study the Koran? — (Hear, hear.) Ho thought, therefore, that if the great body of the petitioners before them were fully aware of the circumstances of the questions, they would have . paused before they t oo k a s t e p, th e t en d enc y o f which was to break up a grant, and to establish Protestant schools concurrently with Catholic schools in the same district. In many districts he was sure they could not exist together, and if they could it would be at the cost of the most injurious consequences. But the fact was that Protestants in Ireland were grossly ig norant of the question, in illustration of which he could tell their Lordships anecdotes within his own personal experience which would detain them until midnight. He felt convinced that, if Commissioners were ap pointed to examine into the working of the National Board of Education, that a great change would take place in the minds of those persons who were at pre sent opposed to it, as shown by the petitions which they had signed; and he should add, that if it were found that the Commissioners had not done their duty, he as sured their Lordships that there was no person more willing to be succeeded in office than himself—(Hear, hear)—for what he did was for the public goad, and no thing would be more satisfactory to him than to find a person of more experience than himself to fill the office of Commissioner.—(Hear, hear.) The Bishop of LONDON would ask, could it be thought from 1,300 to 1,600 clergymen in Ireland could be ignorant of those facts? He should say, with re spect to those men, of such well-known experience, that they do not want the children of Roman Catholics under them ; what they want is, that they might obtain the means of educating th e c hild ren of their own con gregation in a literary and spiritual manner, instead of sending them to Roman Catholic schools, for he should say that it was agreed to by all persons that all national schools in the south of Ireland are Roman Catholic; while, on th e ot h er hand, many in the north ar e Presbyterian, and that, therefore, most of the public bounty flows into the schools of those two sects in Ireland. H j e thought th a t th at long withheld justice should be at least meted out to the Established Church, for it had not been dealt fairly with for some years respecting education. He looked upon it as an invasion on the Divine prerogative, to ex clude any child from the use of the Hely Scriptures, and for that reason was opposed to the regulation that Ro man Catholic children should not be present while the Bible was being read, for he looked upon that as the basis of all religious education, and naturally he would not allow any child of his flock to go to a school where such a prohibi t i on prevailed. He was sure that the Right Rev. Prelate (the Archbishop of Dublin) would see, when he reconsidered the matter, that there was no analogy between the University of Dublin and the Board of Education, for in that University students were not restrained from reading the Bible, whereas in the National Schools, through the monopoly of the Roman Catholic priests, their children are not allowed to read it. The Earl of WINCHILSEA said, that when he con sidered the oath of a clergyman who bound himself to God to propagate the doctrine, by every means in season and out of season, that he was astonished that it should be said - that 1,300 clergymen were ignorant of what they did in signing that petition; and he looked upon it as a quibble for the Archbishop of Dublin to say that the Bible teas not totally forbidden in these schools. The Noble Lord concluded by imploring their Lordships to give to the Protestants of Ireland justice, in matters of education, which they required. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that the sub ject of education in Ireland had received particular attention in Parliament during the last fifteen or six teen years, and as it had been recently legislated upon in what appeared to be a satisfactory manner, he could not hold out the smallest hope that the Government would, by a new measure, materially alter the system which at present was acted upon. These granta of annoy were intended weakly for the be-