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tion embodying the terms of the loan, and carrying them out. The right hon. gentleman concluded by placing in the hands of the chairman a resolution setting forth and adopting the terms of the loan as they have already ap peared in print. Mr. M. T. SMITH asked whether the Government had given notice to the parties wi.h whom they had that morning contracted a loan, partly in terminable annui',lel, that it was their intention to levy a tax on those annuities ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said VI a it was impossible Government should make a statement to the contractors for a loan as to the additional terse about to be proposed to Parliament. Of course those who contracted for a loan must be aware of the possibility of an increase of taxation taking place. Mr. LAING thought that the house should not by a silent vote commit itself to an approval of the important principleadnvolved in the res o lution just proposed by the right. Lin.. gentleman—principles with respect to which a strong and by no means favourable opinion was enter tained in circles conv e rsant with monet ar y matters. We appeared now at the commencement of the war to be enter ing win a succession of loans of large magnitude ; : and it duo deliberation was therefore incumbent on the house to exercise deliberation as to the terms en which they were contracted, or we might act on. principles as erroneous as those on e e ce a t the debt incurred during the late which Mr. Pitt contrae war. , An obvious We . objection o r of method of raiting the tehantiellor of the Exchequer gas that : I ? 9n ;Pt a -P ) ;ersee ." 4 ei t the g nor another. He could understand "' w an g not incumbent upon us td impose _ ite being -PA . the presentgeneration for the sake of pos. any _burden- uP ° and, that 't Was therefore desirable to raise the loan t il e i rtl r a i r p hs er s - Gen t . c o wls, lqecau,se . they being the most marketable security were, the one in which ' a large su m o f money---„ciould be most readily raised on an emergency. That I, ;e e e ine was.indee4 very different from the one. they had d from the lateChaueellor of the Exchequer, Who only two.montha ago appealed to. them not to throw the whole -tharden;ou their posterity, but to malreea gallant effort to beazPart,ofitthemeelves. That doctrine might, however, be pushenUtcrofar, for there could be ncidoubt that in great emergencies we could, toternaitie the whole revenue by taxa-. tion, but must rasort to a latiti. Bet then came the question as.to theaform in which they should contract the loan. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that it was impossible toutract it in tenantable annuities. • Bat if from • OaO4OAlOl- to 1 00,000,00D1.. embarked in French and other foteiglvrailwav disci actually been- raised on terminable sacutitieei. how could it bediripossible for the Government of Engliad, with the vast :credit it possessed, to raise 16,000,0004 at a time when money market was re markably esny ? It was- said-indeed that there was to be . weiakitg fluid, hut with therlight of experience th •• guide .ne,.oolllii any one doubt th a t on .th e return of pe&ceethat ftbna.w°l2l4l be oPeedily sacrificed in order' to enable the -Government to meet the pressure for the . repeal 'of some ohnottious tax. -There was really no hope of paying, off any considerable portion of debt unless it was expressly contracted in a terminable , form. The raising of money by terminable annuities was, in fact, simply a question' of _ price in the market.. An annuity of 60 or 100 years had a clear and intelligible market value._ It would not i n de e d fetch quite so much in proportion as the Three per Cent. Consols, 'because the latter being a larger stock, there was More deraing in them ; they ware, therefore; a more readily available security in the market, and consequently com manded a higher price- But if now, at the commencement. nithe war, they began to create,terminable annuities, and continued doing so year by year, so as to make them all 4i:epics together and thus form one stock, they would be as readily available, - and would therefore comb-sad as high a proportionate price, as Consols. (Hear, hear.) .Let.the house consider the. effect of contracting a new' loan in Consols. That stock was , at present kept :hp at an artificially high price, because it was the only a Jail able :security for thoinveitrneeit of trust funds. But if, by an • increased issue, they increased the qiiality in -the hands of jobbers and large capitalists, the value of Console, which • was the barometer of the money market; and regulated the price of all other securities, would fall, and the amount of money obtainable by Government for a certain' amount of stock must necessarily be diminished. Why, what occurred lately ? Some few weeks since Con sols were at. 92 to 93, with a tlght,money market, anti the Bank rate of discount 5 per cent. The money market had since become easier, the rate of discount had fallen to 4:4 per cent., with a probability of further reduction ; but Consols, instead of going up, had fallen to 90 to 91. No doubt this was partly due to the rumours of the impend ing loan, and partly to the suicidal policy of the Govern ment in selling savings bank steels at the very time they knew they were about to contract a loan. Had a more judicious policy been pursued, he believed that tlee loan might have been negotiated at 92 to 93, perhaps eveu 91 or 95 ; whereas, if they calculated the terms of the ',resent loan, they would find them only equivalent to 85 or 66. Then with regard to the method of negotiating the loan. The Government might appeal to the public either directly, as had been done in France and Austria, or through the medium of the agents or middlemen. Now he did not, for his own part, participate in the prejudice entertained by some persons - against middlemen. But, then, if their agency was to be employed, the element of competition amongst them ought to be brought into play, which had not been done in the present instance. If they adopted the other method, they must fix a price which private ne gotiations would easily enable them to do ; throw open the • lean at that price to the nation, and let any one who liked subscribe 1001., or any other sum. That course had been adopted' by the French Government on a recent occasion with far better success than had attended the Chan cellor of the Exchequer's operation ; and he must say that he believed that the money might have been ob tained by this plan ore terminable annuities on much more • favourable terms than had actually been done. (Hear.) He must say he had bean]; with great regret, the enurne rietilettilef the , additioaal taxes by which the Chancellor cf theelterchetater proposed to raise the amount reilaire,l for thetieeVice of the-year.' 'The 'income tax stood during the "late war atad.per cent, and he could not think tket tbe preisent generation era-relies wilting than any fbrrner one to- bear by direct taxation the burdens of a war into which they bad entered- with their eyes open. Now, the whole additional revenue' it was proposed to raise might he oh: Wiled by a 9 per cent. income tax. Why, then, should they prefer to retrace the steps of their recent legislation, unsettle the system of taxation which had been established of late years, and for such small sums as it was proposed to raise by the additional duty an coffee and sugar disturb interests soimportant as those which were concerned in the-production or import of those great articles of con exemption ? He did trust that the house would declare its readiness to vote a 10 per cent. income tax, if it was ne cessary, to support the expenses of the war, but that they would nob fritter away the recourses of our trade, burden the working classes, and unsettle commerce by peddling and petty alterations in the system of taxation established by Sir R. Peel. Sir H. WiLLOITGEEDY observed that it was utterly im possible toextract eighty-six millions and a quairter in one .year fronaltha pockets, of the people, either by direct or in edirect[taxation, and that the necessity for a loantwas there-' fore, beyond dispute. Howished, however, for information twoon, of three pointe 4 einbraced in the statement of the hareceller of the Exchequer, He understood the right hen.. gentleman te sayahat the expenditure for the year ending March 31, 1x854-5 was 65,646,592 i. Did not that represent the accounts that . had come toehand rather than the total expenditure of the year ; And, if so, could the right hen.. gentleman say what the total expenses up to that period were likely to be ? Heatlee wished to know to ghat extent thecountry had run in debt during the last year ? the additional ten millions revenue voted kilt year, he under . stood five millions hod not been paid. On the other hand, 7,300,0001 additional debt, _consisting of Exchequer bills and bonds, to be repaid it was true in future yeariehad been contracted and the - money had actually been event. He wished to know when the Chancellor of the Exchequer had takencredit for the five millions of unpaid taxes for the past year? He wished also to ask whether, in impoiiug the income tax on terminable annuities, they were not taxing principal, and if so whether it was not evident that they were entering upon &career opposed to any sound principle whatever ? The CHANCELLOR-of the EXCHEQUER said that, the chiefportion of the payments on account of the expenses of the army, navy, and ordnance were either madein ready money, or at all events fell due lathe course of the quarter. And therefore, although there might be some arrears, he did not think they would be very large. H e was quite aware that annuities were subject to the income tax. Ile was; however, of opinion that an annuity, whether termi nable or perpetual, should be considered as 'income and treated accordingly. Undoubtedly the fact of their being thus-liable to taxation was one of the reasons which deterred the public from taking them to any extent. But those who purchase 1 them reckoned on theincome tax—its increase or decrease—as one of the contingencies to which they were exposed and for which they made allowance. With regard to what had been said about foreign railway securities, he apprehended they were not terminable in any other sense than railway debentures, which were loaps taken f; r a short time, and to be renewed by reborrowing. Mr. FREWEN said it was evident, from the speeches which had been already made, that the plans proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer would meet with a good deal of opposition. There was one point to which he wished to call the attention of the right hon. gentleman. It was this, that the Government should give every possible facility to those persons who were charged with taxes which they ought not to pay to- appeal against the injustice. Mr. GLADSTONE—I am in laced to rise at this pesiod of the discussion, because I do not feel entirely certain whether the committee are aware of the precise nature and bearings of the resolutions which have been read from the . chair. In the excellent speech of my right hon. friend the Chancellor of the Ex che q uer, a speech distinguished as ;ell by the utmost candour and fairness as by its great clearness —(hear)—in that excellent speech I only . regretted a single `Oteissio,n, namely, he did not state to us precisely either the ci Aler of the votes he intended to ask for to-night or tee Irsti.4gent and character of th ose votes. If, therefqre, I -Zatt"4o. * to state what I beli eve to be the character tletertba; those votes, it is only by wa y of offering my :1111,1stiiice to the committee, and my observations the aretieat to the correction of my right ho n . friend if us to-ra4r- e , A t The Chancellor of the Excheq uer asks whole subj ec t 4 16 nrst ple, for a vote which embraces Lae eo Q t.lee loan ac for which he has made a Pr(wi go on to ask for I.l4l,ll.preettuie that, having done so . , he Lira to tircy th::weitaiezes vote s T i ther votes, which will enel I Nr w, 4'yr: i s / th e y b eiou w g u to la ti le has proposed this oven friend will tlois ig lt' tam fo e class of indirect texes. their substantial are entirely ifist7 ' ' i ' th my right bun. enable him to levy It asks us different in coffee, and spirits, stress If ea for a vote to arprehe ee,„th' upon sugar, tea, he would be in a condition D o' night does not in any manner - e tell til ar w mots but that every gentleman who - :oa rl ' it "r fula tv r tai e v il a o g r te in il e l t i . t o , e as free at the next stage of the -c P irs in different eourse, and reverse the mea r s ecee( Ol g to of the Exchequer, as if he had never ese ur n ° , - e - re the , C hancellor lineinary step. The case is different, however sp:.lA,to the loan. Not from any fault out ctohnef-,4l;rarlioth tors ; Chancellor of the Exchequer, but in wirli previous practice and the dictates of prudence,il'mavy ri g ht hon. friend is asking us t o g ive a vote u pon the subject. the hem which will be virtually binding and conclusiv e of a ,- ; between us and the contractors. We are called upon t o . bight to give a vote which is to be a disti n c t " aye" or - . ,,n0" up o n the arrangement prop osed b y the Ch ancellor of the between the State and c ertai n contractors, :who are about to lend him 16,000,00 W., and after having . ' that vote it not be competent to us to inter ,will tore with or impair the conditions of that contract. eau no t o i pr t e i r e a r c e ha d to withhold my affirmative from the pro posalenittee sbould eo neellor of chequer, that the corn visionally the Ex merits of that entere lwra the-contract into which . he has pie,- contr i tio 'b i lit before I say anything upon the should wish to express my desire that, to prevent a p oss ible misunderstanding , we should contrive to exclude from the resolution th at p ort i on 0' :' which relates to the peculiar arrangement proposed by oy right ho4onrable friend in regard to the repayment 01 the loan. (Hear, hear.) With respect to that arranee meat, I give him credit for the best and highest intentions. It is obviously an effort on his part to vi‘ dicate, as far as he could, the principle that wo should transmit as little as we can of the burdens of the war to those who are to follow us, but to make provision for discharging them ourselves. At the same time I confess that, without ex pressing a final judgment, I feel great doebt and difficulty upon the subject of that peculiar arrangement. I think the Chancellor of the Exchequer should give es time to consider it deliberately. What I am afraid of is, that if we agree to-night to the resolution now before the commit tee, which resolution is understood to be binding and de cisive as to the substance of the arrangement, we may find that we have parted from our liberty to discuss the peculiar provision for the repayment of the loan. I would there fore suggest to the Chancellor of the Exchequer that that provision should be separated from the rest of the resolu tion ; and I am not aware of any strong reason why, if the provision should be so separated and put into the form of a eistinct resolution by itself, a vote should be taken upon it to-night. I hope mytight honourable friend will act upon my sugge3tion, so that there may be a distinct understand ing that his proposal as to the repayment of the loan is one of public policy exclusively, having nothing to do with the bargain between the State and the contractors, and that we may modify or-even reject it. I listened to the speech of the hon.mcnber for Wick with great interest, with great sym pathy, and with great admiration for its high English spirit. Atthe same time lam not prepared to concur with him in saying that it was the duty of the Chancellor of the Exche quer to propose at the present time to raise the income tax to 10 per cent. (Hear.) If all the payers of income tax were-irk the same circumstances as those who listened to the speech of the hon. member for Wick, then it would have been obligatory upon the Chancellor of the Exche quer: to raise the ineome tax to 10 per cent. That would have been the-simplest, the most powerful, and upon the Whole the safest and fairest measure he could take ; but it ie only those who have been conversant with the actual management of financial affairs who know how severe be comes the pressure of the income tax when you approach the blassea that are touched by its lowest limits. (Hear.) The qeestten ie a serious one; whether ' you can raise the iIIOOI3IO tax tin the war limit of 10 per cent. without under taking to solve a difficult problem—namely, the practica bility of a further extension of the tax downwards beyond anything' you have yet attempted. ' Consider the present position of- the' tax. You levy it upon persons who have 1001. a yeal'. In the main,' though not of course altogether, the dividing lisle of 1001. per annum is the dividing line between the edueited and uneducated parts of the commu nity. Now I donitt whether, all things considered, the educated part of the community having 1001. a year are - really a great deal better off than the less educated part of ethe community having Wt., 701., or 901. a year. (Hear.) I fear, therefore, that there are more than fiscal considera tions involved in the question whether we should raise the incomertax to 10 per cent. I look to that augmentation as a necessary incident to the present war, if protracted ; but when you raise the income tax to 10 per cent., you must consider that question with respect to the relations of the classes to which I have adverted, and in doing so you still have a great political problem to solve, and immense difficulties of machinery and administration to encounter. I think the Chancellor of the Exchequer was quite right, not finding it absolutely necessary, under present circum stances, to encounter these gigantic difficulties, to resort to other measures ; and I am not prepared to join in any censure upon him for not having proposed to raise the in come tax 'to 10 per cent. (Hear.) lam bound to say that although I am not prepared . to withhold my assent from the proposal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to borrow a large sum of money, yet I cannot profess to have a weaker oefninter impression of the disadvantages of public loans than l had formerly, when in an official capacity it was my duty to make provision for the present war. If there was one sentence in the speech of my right hon. friend from which I emphatically differed, it was that iu which he referred to a most able and vigorous pamphlet, well worthy the attention of members of this house and of the public generally, recently published by Mr. New march. That gentleman has explained in great detail the financial proceedings of Mr. Pitt during the revolutionary war, and I think the words of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer were that Mr. Newmarch had shown that the loans of Mr. Pitt were contracted- upon terms much more advantageous to the public than was commonly supposed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Of late years. Mr. GLADSTONE -In my opinion, that is not what Mr. Newmarch has proved. What he has shown is this that greater difficulties than is commonly supposed would have beset the path of Mr. Pitt if he had attempted to proceed in another manner. I have no doubt Mr. New march means that Mr. Pitt could not have realised so many public advantages as he did from a different manner of pi ocueding. He strengthens my impression of the da mage and detriment that occur to the public from be coming a borrower on a large scale under a pressing neces sity ; and he shows, not that Mr. Pitt's loans were less dis advantageous to the country, but that all loans whatever, no matter how contracted, muatbe attended with immense economical disadvantages, and heavy pecuniary burden. (Hear.) But, with that impression on my mind, lam by no means disposed to extenuate my share in the proposals of last year; on the contrary, I am content to have been the instrument of the late Government in attempting to induce the House of Commons to make a wise, a resolute, an honourable, and a successful effort. (Hear, hear.) Without in the slightest degree receding under that storm of criticism and invective which every one must expect who does not endeavour to square himself to everybody's wishes, but remembers there is such a thing as a public interest, which after all is something different from the convenience of classes, I am yet disposed to admit that there ie a limit to the application of the 'doctrine-which I advocated last year. You cannot possibly expect a free , eountry, or the representetives of a free country, to 'pleb - a very' ' sound economical doctrine, under ‘ all circumstances,,_ to ` these' extremes. Yon must re niember •tha.t you'haveto deal with flesh and blood, and Yoi &wk. not expect - $.9811 and blood to bear more than is reasonable. But Igo further, and admit that when a sud den accumulation of taxation becomes so great an evil, so great a cause of disturbance to all personal and social re lations, it is far better to provide yourselves with money at a pecuniary disadvantage than it is to carry that disturb ance to a dangerous height. Therefore, for a considerable time past, ever since the expenditure of the war became so uncontrollable that it was clear it would be necessary for the Governmeet to provide for a considerable portion of the expenses of the year by borrowed money, I was prepared to say that the Chancellor of the Exchequer could not be blamed for resorting to a loan. Last year I made provision myself ,for a considerable portion of the expenses by bor rowed money; but that was simply money borrowed in an ticipation of the tares, and I may state that the taxes im posed lest year will cover, within one million, the whole of that borrowed money. - I am indisposed to enter into any minute criticism as to the precise proportion of money to be borrowed in comparison with that to be raised by taxa tion, or even as to the question whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer has selected the stock in which to borrow with a sound estimate of the public interests, or whether he should have carried to a somewhat greater extent the principle of borrowing upon terminable annuities. I entirely agree with my right hon. friend that it would not have been practicable, except upon extravagant - terms, to have effected the whole operation upon ,that principle. But these are questions which may be discussed upon some future occasion. Ido net think it would become me to enter upon them now. The question for me is whether the principle and outline of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer's plan, considered simply as a means of providing for the financial necessities of the country, is one to which the committee ought to give its approval or not. None of those preferences which we may have for one mode of proceeding rather than another, are, under !present circumstances, sufficient to induce us to withhold our votes from the proposal of my right hon. friend. I certainly should wish to have the power of con sidering more maturely the special provisions he proposes to make for the repayment of the loan. On the other hand, it is of capital importance that this house should maintain, as far as possible, the influence and credit of its financial vigour in the face of the country ; and even if it were in my power to show, which I do not assume, that in one point or another the Chancellor of the Exchequer might have made a bargain more precisely consistent with the public interests, I should have to balance the advan tage so attained against the great and heavy disadvantage which I have good reason to know attaches to the position of the Chancellor of the Exchequer when his proposals are made the subject of undue criticism. I am, therefore, dis posed to withhold that criticism upon the present occa sion ; but there is one question upon which I think it necessary to reserve my ju lgment. The Chancellor of the Exchequer began his speech by a reference to the time at which he inade his financial statement, and ap peared to think that he required to apologise for not having come b e f ore th e h ouse at an earlierperiod than the 20th of April with an ex p os iti on o f his views and and'pro posals for the y ear . Th ere was one reason, undo ubtedly, why it was desir a bl e , if it cou ld h ave b een done, that this, finances of the country should have been brought under the view of the house at an earlier period of the session— namely, the rapid growth of the expenditure, which during the last quarter has pressed so severely upon the immediate resources of the Exchequer that it was necessary, if the Minister did not come down to ask for additional supplies, he should use his own discretionary power by availing him self of the favourable state of the public funds to raise money by sales of stock belonging to the National Debt Commissioners. The hon, member for Wick has censured that proceeding. I am responsible for a large part set' it. and my hon. friend is responsible for having continued in the same course. I do not believe it would have been satis factory to the house if at an early period of the session, before the conclusion of the financial year, they had been asked to make their financial arrangements. The truth is this. In a time of peace it is an easy matter to propose financial arrangements which shall last, for twelve months, but in a time of war it is very difficult to do so. On the other hand, it is annoying and worrying to the house to be continually pressed with one application after another for an increase of taxation. It is desirable to adhere to the principle of annual statements, and not to multiply your financial plans. Last year it may be a ques tion whether, in our desire to act upon constitutional grounds, and place ourselves at once at the com mand of Parliament, it was for the public eonvenience that twice the house should be asked tc alterthe taxes and make pecuniary provision for the expenses of the year. At any rate I think the Chancellor of the Exchequer has done quite right in reserving his statement till the usual time, using his discretionary power to supply himself with money upon terms not more disadvantageous thauworhm would have withbeen the plan of coming clown prematurely to Parliament .i. ,, l tneerwscaleagainbeforeof the taxes, end whichef the he se s sio n .would probab ly Nay f have a m d i t s.: posed to regret that , h avin g statement till the 20th of April , he did not postpone delayedhisftn i a t n f c e il r a afew days u m e e s n ti t on ne o g f ot t i h a e . longer.l greatest impsaoyrtathnCet. wi Y th ou re h f a e t r-e e ne a e t t t h e is a m ( e l whether the expert issue of these negotiations Lions going forward at Vienna. must depend w Vi e nna. (Hear, hear.) Upon the d b e t t u u r n e d f e o r rthe willyear 70,000,0001. be 80 Although , 000t0h,whether it must s t w i i . it in l. or r expenditure attnyn need case s e not h h v e e r e y e l l a a r r g g e e , a y s e t t h , e i n c t h h a e e e c e v l e l n o r t () o f f a t h s e l) e . L e ' d x y e h i e e q a u e e e r , has stated to-night. For example, there aro 4,000,000 1 . for embodying the militia. Of that 4,000,000 1 ., least, Perha 4,000 000/ would be saved in case of peace. ,Take, the transport" 5 000,003/. and 3,000,000 1 . at e .OOO _ service. Between ~ . T rio .voVt. have been voted. It would be practicable to save rethaulialf of in So • h the large :: :: :rt.e., that the event of peace. with "uportitnolYtaakb aistusap e „fice Portion of that money has been voted for the 4 : l : t e h • ti A ha.re la er a i go P gene r : meo a : ise h a i po n; eight millions, voted for the Ord %,velosle the 'gilt, at a timewhen I w i es for T h e daily n ee a e n e e d i t h y o f u e r: hourly hceosnesum psupplies,tion :is that, ba d not Proposed , La y to day the issue war beenitself. o.ll6;a"ected with them would terminate e ou a lii at h e a p v e e a be i e m n p g e l rt a( a l u i t f , be said that a w ar te lt ithee-chtfer eve expect from Terence at Vienna. It may but the present •Le" - " B ' ve '4 at porn R ee e e effe . ,allY time. So it might • negotiation on foot; a ae • -4 " it Pee 1' . ' r talh pro 4 lar• There la a Vets has been made in THE' SUN, LON DS T` 'EVENING, APRIL 21, 1865. it. You have arrived at the third of four comlitiorls, and ::pp to have something like of moral ce,t...!..,ty— ir.t, th titis up )!1 the third point the nego i ,tien will fail, if it is to fail ; and secondly, that you will know in a few days wlyyther it is to fail upon that third point or not. Under such eh, - ;unistances I should have thought that the budget, having boon delayed till the 20th of April, might have been advantageously postponed till a somewhat later period. Before I sit down I must add another sentence or two. It is impossible for any person to overstate the mag nitude of the issues involved in the negotiations at Vienna. I confess it pains me deeply to see and hear signs of levity —I do not mean in this house, but elsewhere—with re ference to a matter of such tremendous importance. (Hear, hear.) I apprehend that when these negotiations are con chided, whether they terminate, which God may grant, in peace, or in such a manner as to necessitate a prolongation of the war, this house, in one form or other, will have to pass its j ud gment upon them. It will be for you to determine whether Ministers have conceded too much or toolitne,whe ther theyhave properly discharged their duty in regard either to the acceptance or the rejection of terms of peace. Their re sponsibility cannot be described in language strong enough. It is quite clear that you cannot come out of theSe con ferences as you went into them. It would indeed be a sufficiently important matter for reflection if the only ques tion involved in the conferences was the continuance of the war upon the former footing, and with the relation 4 to the great European powers which you held before the negotia tions began ; but the high probability—the alinostceetainty is, that if you come out of these conferences with no other result, your relations to the other powers of Europe will have been signally changed in the course of them. The question which we may then have to decide, involving the fundamentally new conditions under which we may be called upon to pursue the war, will be a question of gigantic importance. (Hear.) Ido not wish my vote of to-night to be taken as my judgment upon 'that awful question. Do not let it be said that by making a'pecuniary provision for the year we have committed ourselves upon the subject of the issue of the Vienna conferences. The more financial disadvantage, whatever it is. of taking a loan at the pre sent moment, I am perfectly willing to face, rather than interfere with the course pursuedby the Chancellor of the Exchequer . , but absolute freedom to pass a judgment upon the conduct of the Government in respect to these negotia tiations, and upon the interest and duty of the country in respect to its future policy, I feel it a solemn duty to re serve. (Hear, hear.) - Sir F. KELLY did not think it necessary to trouble the committee with many observations, especially after the able and eloquent address of the right hon. member,for the University of Oxford; but he could' not but listen with much interest to the statement of the hon. member for Wick, that this was perhaps only the first of a series of loans to which they might be called on to give their consent. 'lt therefore became the committee and the house to with hold their consent on the present occasion, if they were satia fied that the plan proposed was vicious in principle and de trimental to the interests of the public. It appeared to him that the scheme of the right hon. gentleman was marked with every defect which could belong to a loan scheme.at the present day, while on the other band it possessed not one of the advantages which loans sometimes involved. It pos sessed the two conflicting and objectionable principles of giving an amount of stock equal to the capital proposed to be obtained, and of repaying the amount of the loan by ter minable annuities. Looking at the present rate of interest, to borrow a sum of 16,000,000/. by the creationof an equal amount of stock, is at once to be received as a false and mischievous thing, a principle involving a large sacrifice of the public interest. The loan was particularly ill-timed, as a very few days would bring the negotiations at Vienna to such a point as to enable those in London who were to sup ply the loan to have a more just idea of the probabilities, and therefore of the terms on which they wonld'advance money. While we were borrowing 16,000,0001. of money we were giving an amount of stock at a moment when the funds were 10 per cent. below par ; and we rendered it im possible at any future time to get the country out at a less sacrifice than 1,600,0001. A far more advantageous bar saiu might have been made—a bargain by which' 40,0001. a-year would have been saved to the country. But the sreetest objection lay to the payment of interest on a part of the loan. He considered 14s. 6d. per cent., as proposed by the right hon. gentleman to be paid by means of ter minable annuities expiring at the end of thirty years, to be an extravagant and unnecessary per tentage. To raise money on terminable annuities at a time when the rate of interest was high, when the price of public funds was far below its average in prosperous times, was to make a bar gain for the public obviously disadvantageous in the ex treme. The plan of guaranteeing for thirty years a rate of interest which it was hoped would continue .but two or three years longer, was very obviously disadvantageous, for in a few years, when the resources of the country would be mere developed, and the means of the country would have increased, there would be means of raising money on much more favourable terms than at present, and yet, in consequence of the bargain now to be made, we should be obliged during thirty years to pay a rate of interest founded upon the state of the money market at the present mo ment, under all the effects of the existing war. He could not doubt that with the credit of the country it would have been perfectly easy for the right hon. gentleman to have raised the loan at the current rate of 31.65. Id., or 3/. 75., or 31. Bs. per cent., and that for as long or as short a time as Government might have found it necessary to retain the money. They would thus have had the power at the end of the war to pay off the money so borrowed, and then re-bor row the sum at a lower rate of interest. But instead of that the right hon. gentleman proposed the double plan now before the committee. He had required an advance of what might be called a sum of 1,600,0001. upon a terminable an nuity of thirty years, not at 31. 6s. Bd. the present value of money, but at 31. 14s. 6d., which was paying 8s percent., or 62,0001. a-year, for the difference between a perpetual annuity and an annuity for thirty years" on the sues of 1,600,0001. 'lt had been stated that Pitt made leis loans during the war upon the principle of the right hcin. gentle man, but it should be borne in mind thatf ' that statesman never borrowed upon the creation o stock until he bad exhausted all the resources of his genius, until all his 'efforts had failed to procure money on other terms. He should abstain from dividing the committee on the ques tion, following the example of the right hon. mdmber for the University ot Oxford, bepanse he felt that it was the duty of every member of the house, engaged as they were in a war requiring all the efforts and resources at their command, to support her Majesty's Government in any measures they might bring forward for the carrying on of that war, unless they should feel them to bevicious in prin ciple and detrimental to the public interest, anti that it would be a breach of faith in the house to sanction them. The loan, although both vicious and detrimental, was yet necessary for the purposes of the war. Pie should not, there fore, oppose the passing of the resolution, but he entered his protest against the principles on which it was conducted. Should they feel themselves again under the necessity of once more resorting to the money market, he hoped it would be upon other and more advantageous terms. Mr. WILLIANIS could see nothing objectionable in the proposal to increase the taxation of the country but ho did not at all agree to the proposal to increase the national debt. The right hon. gentleman had merely . followed the beaten track of all former Chancellors of the Exchequer. They had always resorted to loans. During the last years of peace they had had an increase of 44,000,0001. of debt. However, he remarked with pleasnre that now, for the first time, had a Chancellor of the Exchequer attempted to get his pound sterling for his pound of Consols. Had Pitt adopted that plan, the national debt would have been 175,000,0001. less than it was. But the proposition to lay aside one million a year, to pay off those 16,000,0001., was impracticable and fallacious. On the sth Jan., 1818, the amount of the national debt was 776,000,000/. ; on the sth Jan., 1852, it was 765,000,000/. ; so that 11,500,0001. wes all the reduction that had been effected. The right hon. gentleman had omitted one important source of taxa tion, viz., the imposition of the probate and legacy duties upon property belonging to corporations, colleges, univer sities, and properties of that kind that now escaped. The late Mr. Hume used to say that either the country must put down the debt or the debt would put down the coun try. It would be seen that the latter alternative would come to pass, through the Chancellor of the Exchequer not being able to make ends meet, that is, by raising taxes enough to pay current expenses. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER wished to say a few words with reference to what fell from the right hoe. member for the University of Oxford. In negotiat ing the loan then under the consideration of the house, the Government had strictly followed the precedent of former loans. The Government would gladly have adopted some other means of providing for existing exigencies, but they found it impossible to resort to any other course, It would be utterly impossible for any Government to come down to the House of Commons and arrange the minimum o f terms on which they would transact public negotia tions, which, in order to be successful, must be transacted in private. The practice of former times bad, therefore, been adhered to. It necessarily followed that, a provi sional contract having been made, they must ask the house to accept the terms contained in that contract. But with regard to the provision to which the right honourable gentleman referred—viz., the application it was pro posed to make of a sum of money for the periodical repayment of the loan, that was not one of the essential conditions of the contract, and if the house did not ap prove of it, it would he quite proper for them to modify or alter it on the second reading. If the house would con sent to allow the resolution to pass, he would undertake to say that that provision should not be considered on the same footing as those parts of the resolutions which were matters of contract with the lenders. With respect to terminable annuities, the hon. and learned gentleman opposite was under a false impression, if he supposed that the course' now taken by the Government was a novel course. So far was that from being the case that the whole amount of ex isting terminable annuities, amounting to a million and a half, were created merely as terminable annuties upon stock. From 1773 to 1816 there were thirty-one loans, of which ten were aided by long annuities. The slave com pensation loan, in 1839, was also aided by long annuities. Therefore, that mode of loan was strengthened by prece dent. He confessed that where a Government borrowed 100 5 ., and received only 701., 801., or 90/. there was a posi tive disadvantage • but he did not see how , her Majesty's Government c ags o raiot u raß l .wp A TlietHa b ha e eroteh a bineajerlad l e o cs s hty e eeo r dafar i t f ndocd th oaann e dgs y received really 100'. in money for 1001, in s u n k. coffee, aff l eo r en . upon Hat hn E ed Y the swu W increase io.ennaai t taxa tionaisiobnunoct.uhhteacwsa rtea,hrya t sacrifice was being made; if the y p uer o emt o ea r rptm p tdi eople was being loaded with additional taxation ? He would ranch rather that 23 per cent. should ee b l e lhoar i ttoo posed, instead of the pitiful additionr egretted o t f h l a t p t e h r e cent. n T would the Exchequer be showing have and nobleness in their warlike professions, He very much i icw • c e ho t nl r yri n c.i) e e :E lit3nlleAostsrto,it misunderst oo d hi s r i g h t hon. friend (Sir F. hose,oolthe foyLstiethEhoeeb said Eswexr principleobservations Exchequer ou o cna f id e hner and resources taxation, byw hich he country, ahhnea entirelyl d gone o o r n e of the it into concurred. t he Exchequer marketl f p nh de pea-led to have raised this sum at the existing rate of interest—say 2i per cent.—that would continue only so l ong as the war lasted. If peace was soon made, there could be little doubt that the Three per Cents. would go up to 100, and the country would then be relieved of the percenta ge a b ove th a t ra t e, but which, under the present plan, it would have to pay for thirty years. Mr. WILKINSON said it appeared to him that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had made great sacrifices. He considered the Chancellor of the Exchequer was justified in taking the stock which was most in demand, and in making the best bargain ho could, but it was not quite clear to bins that this best bargain would not have been Three per Cent. Perpetual Annuities. He also thought it would be very difficult to induce the country to become so rvei,riteueomnisnagsthteoalnanyuibtyiesanmoiw proposed.ilion a year for the purpose of conviction that tthe Exchequer every credit character, but he his measures were of the best possible Mr. JOHN MACGR was compelled E f for ° sincerityß gve the in the Chancellor tied a loan in the manner the present state of affairs justi form of it an and he objected both to the now proposed, Ho did not think that public competition, to its not having been with The French Government had tried this experiment_ 8 b d e i e ff n er th f r r o oni wn h o im pen to signal success, and if the Government had treated th country with proper confide nce they Would have obtained the lean on much better terms. Montesquieu had observerl it t? 1- ' I h,:r! of Colllllloll.i became intro Conl ni.t than 1110 Ot;vei —in other words, when they were saddled with apathy and he much regretted to see so small an attendance when the measures were being discussed which would injure the real interests of the country. Posterity was not being treated fairly, and it would say that it was not rosponsible, forit was not represented—(laughter)—and that the tax was saddled upon it without its consent by those who engaged in measures to which it was not a party. If ever there were measures which exhibited little practical wisdom with re spect to future events they were those of the Chancellor of th,, Exchequer. If the house agreed to them the country would not, and he would do all he could to make the country take up his opinions. He believed that Government be longed to the fatal number whom the gods had in their anger determined to destroy, but whom in their mercy they hal first deprived of their senses to prevent them feeling their sufferings. He protested against the resrdu tion, which he was afraid would he only the commeoce ment of a series of loans • and he must 1 , 0 dissent from the other parts of the budget. He had consented to arrest the decline in the tea duties in the present state of affairs. but he was opposed to any increase in them. Mr. MUNTZ observed that the hon. member who bad just sat down had said that posterity would object to be taxed. The question was what would posterity say if they allowed Russia to override and take pissession of every country in Europe, to approach their shores and de stroy their trade and commerce. (Hear, hear.) He bad great objections to leans, because money 'easily obtained was in most cases wastefully expended ; but this was an exceptional case, and there had never been a war in which posterity was more interested. On this occasion, therefore, he was not prepared to object to a loan, but he did object to the principle upon which it was contracted. He ob jected to taking a large portion in stocks which could not be disposed of until the whole was paid off, and be must as k why was not the principle of terminable annuities adopted ? Even if the present and the next generation paid something more, it would be better that the loans should have an end, as all such debts ought to have. He must also protest against the principle - of contracting a loan and then asking the Hou:e of Commons to agree to it. With respect to the rest of the budget, he had many objections, eApecially to the paltry increase in the coffee and sugar duties, and, bad as the income-tax was, he would rather extend it than make any alteration in these ta.ses. In reply to a question from Mr. HILDYARD, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that the increase in the income-tax would apply to both classes of income above 1501 : and below 1501. _ Mr. MASTERHAN, who was almost inaudible, was un derstood to say thatitofar from having been improvident, he was surprised that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had i obtained such favourable terms, and he therefore thought the house ought to have no hesitation to confirm the ar rangements as far as they went. Mr. THORNELY objected to the appropriation of a million a year to the extinction of the debt. He was per fectly satisfied with the existing arrangements for that purpose. Mr. MALINS regretted to find the war so expensive, but he approved of the plan which the Chancellor of the Ex chequer had adopted to supply the deficiency. The: prin ciple which he had urged last year had been so far adopted that a very fair compromise had been effected between the principles of direct and indirect taxation. He thought the Chancellor of the Exchequer had exercised a very wise dis cretion in coming forward at so early a period to supply the deficiency, and, if it was necessary to carry on the war for a long period, he trusted that Government would meet the extraordinary expenditure by a mixture of direct and indirect taxation and moderate loans. He had merely risen to express his gratification at the budget. The resolutions were then agreed to, and the Chairman was directed to report progress. The house resumed, and the report was ordered to be received on Monday. INTESTACY (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill was passed through committee. AFFIRMATIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill was also passed through committee. STOPPAGE_OF WAGES (HOSIERY). On the motion of Mr. PACKE, the following, 'members were appointed to inquire into the stopoage of wages in the hosiery trade, viz. :—Mr. Packe, Mr. Wickham, Mr. Cobbett, Sir Henry Halford, Mr. Cheetha.m, Sir Joshua Walrnsley, Mr. Ingham, Lord John Manners, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Mundy, and Mr. Biggs. WOOLMER FOREST. Mr. WILSON obtained leave to bring in a bill for dis afforesting the forest of Woolnier, and the bill was subse quently brought in. THE SEBASTOPOL COMUITTEE. Mr. BENTINCK moved, pursuant to notice, that Mr. Jolla Ball be discharged from further attendance upon the Army before Sebastopol Committee; that Capt. Scobell be added to the coin mittee. He merely wished to state in the first place, that in bringing forward this motion he in no way meant to disparage the hon. gentleman whose name was involved in it, but it appeared to him to be per fectly impossible that an hon. gentleman who was a mem ber of the Government could tome upon the committee or its report with the same impartiality as if he sat below the gangway, the place which the hon. member for Carlow occupied in the early part of the session. Besides, the house had held it of the utmost importance that the coin nuttee should be impartially constituted, and therefore he submitted theta committee appointed to inquire into the conduct of the Government could not be considered im partial while a member of the Government was upon it. He might be tokt, indeed, that the present was not the same Government as the one whose conduct w s to be in quired into ; but, in reply to that objection, he must re mind the house that there were 8 members of the present Cabinet who were members of the late Cabinet, and there fore there were 8 members of the present Government whose conduct would be involved in the report which would issue from the committee now sitting upstairs. In addition to the matter of impartiality, it was of import ance that the naval element should be introduced into the committee, and that was why he proposed to nominate the hon. member for Bath. Mr. F. HUME seconded the motion. Mr. ROEBUCK fully concurred with the hon. gentle. man as to the propriety of discharging the hon. member for Carlow from the committee, but he thought the bon, member was going somewhat beyond his province in no minating the member who should supply his place. It would be remembered that the nomination of a portion of the committee was loft to the Government, and amongst those whom they selected was the honourable member for Carlow, but the honourable member having been ap pointed Under-Secretary for the Colonies, he had become incompetent to discharge his duties—(a laugh)—as a mem ber of the committee. If hon. gentlemen allowed him to finish the sentence they would have been deprived of their laugh. (Hear.) As he began the committee, so he should continue to support it, and since, by arrangement, it was left to the Government to nominate a portion of the coin mittee, and one of the members whom they selected was the hon. member now proposed to be discharged, he thought, ih all fairness, they ought to have the power of naming his successor. (Hear.) But it was said the naval element was wanting in the committee ; he did not think it was ; but the committee had, amongst other matters, to inquire into the clothing of the army, and therefore he thought a tailor might have been proposed just as well as a sailor. (" Oh, oh," and laughter.) Hon. members might cry " Oh, oh," but he wanted to know, if the argument was good in the one case, why should it not be equally good in the other? He wanted to know why it should be necessary to have a sailor on a committee appointed to in quire into the state of the army before Sebastopol ? How ever, he understood that the Government intended to pro pose that the hon. member for the county of Limerick should supply the place of the hon. member for Carlow ; and, in aceJrdance with the arrangement to which he bad already referred, he thought the matter ought to be left in their hands. Mr. LIDDELL asked upon what ground the Government could claim the right of appointing a member of this com mittee? Who first called fur the inquiry ? Why, the people; and Parliament, responding to the appal of the country, consented to the appointment of this committee to investigate the conduct of those whose mismanagement had destroyed one of the noblest armies that had ever left our shores. And yet they were told that by arrangement the Government had the right to appoint a portion of the committee. Ho protested against such an eAtraordinary doctrine, and thought the house would best discharge its duty by disregarding the arrangement, if there was any, and filling up the vacancy themselves. (Hear, bear ) Mr. ROEBUCK explained that the exiting committee was appointed upon an understanding with himself (no, no) and the right I.on. gentleman the member fa. Buckingham shire, and which understanding gave the Government the right to nominate a portion of the committee. (Hear.) Lord PALMERSTON said it was the uniform practice of the house, when a committee was to be appointed to investigate matters of such deep and great importance as those which had been submitted to this committee, that the members to serve should be selected by the mover of the committee iu communication with the Government of the day. Not that the Government wero al ways to ap point the persons to serve on the committee, but it was only right and proper, when matters were to be investi gated in which the conduct of the Government was con cerned, that only such persons should be appointed, who, by their impartiality, by their competence, by their ability, were the best qualified to perform the duties and execute the task confided to them. It was in that sense, and in that sense only, that according to the established practice of the house the Government and the hon. and learned member for Sheffield agreed in communication with each other upon the persons who should form the committee. Those who had watched the proceedings and conduct of the committee would agree with him that the choice eves well made, and that only those members had been selected who were the best fitted to be entrusted with the difficult and delicate investigation which had been confided to them. From the moment, however, that the hon. member for Carlow a cce pt e d the office of Under Secretary for the Colonies, it was quite impossible that ho could continue to be a member of the committee. His. official occupations would have interfered with his attendance on the com mittee, but it was not so much that as his belonging to the Government that disqualified him from continuing a mem ber of the committee? Now, his honourable friend the member for Carlow was the only Irish member on the com mittee, while he thought it was understood when the com mittee was appointed that it was only right and proper that there should be at least one Irish member on the com mittee. Therefore he should propose that the hon. mem ber for tho county of Limerick should be appointed in the stead of Mr. Ball, and that being the choice of the Govern ment—a choice which the hon. and learned chairmen of the committee did not object to—he should have no alter native but to oppose the appointment of Mr. Scobell with the view of nominating Mr. De Vere on Monday. (Hear.) Mr. F. FRENCH said the inquiry was one which had been demanded by the nation, and accorded by the House of Comm ons; an d it was the luty of the house to see that the inquiry was an impartial one. Now that could not be if the members were to be left to the selection of the Go vernment, or if the house refused to place a member of the naval profession on the committee, which, he believed, had become absolutely necessary. The motion for the discharge of Mr. Ball was then agreed to. Mr. BENTINCK then proposed that Captain Scobell that o mdmweajasomeltsintben G weettr hoh,wttvortoehei had nucalohsadmre? was Government ds rpi o ti os u eomun g ei : lothn t thq: ane t uh r e have i nt the theiraP appointment n e et o f conduct.a should be placed on the committee in the room of Mr. Ball. He had never heard so monstrous a proposition as k k ianim e n d get nhwte whetherrt middle ilndtaleengoseefn experience tilets com• he hon, member for Limerick, whom it proposed to put in the place of Mr. Ball, had only been a member of the house —the characters of in terest foe the report of th tsc i s: P y l c or wo lt i m l a i s hP m t t ea li e o r t a e l ot si e e s many public men Cependel upon it, and nothing could be more absurd than that they should chobee as one of the committee an hon, member who had not had the advantage of more than two or three months' parliamentary expo rience. Mr. HENRY DRUMMOND said it wa s a t a ll t i mes e xceedin - select competent persons to serve nn corrirniffoPq. Tho r!ornrirdooil, x,1.7 i . ll-I'y too, E.; ea , te e s iseuiestaece of appointing members who were unable to give their full attendance upon the committee, or who did not understand the question to be inquired into, and, therefore, in order to make themselves masters of the rub ject, they asked all sorts of questions, until there was no end to the printed evidence. Now, under these eircum -tancee, he and his hon. and learned friend consulted with :he various heads of as many parties as had heads—(a laugh)—as to the persons who might be agreeable to them, or who were in their opinion the best qualified to serve on the committee. In that way it was arranged that a cer tain number should be apnoiuted by the right hon. gentle man opposite (Mr. Disraeli), and the same thing was done with regard to the Government. Now, the gentleman who had just been superseded was one of those nominated by the Government, and the house was, in his opinion, waned by the original agreement to support the Govern ',ant in their nomination of his successor. tuirel WALC)TT ssid the observation of the hon ,rel le trued member for B e th about "a tailor and a sailor" was disrespectful to the profession to which he had the ho nour to belong, and expressed his opinion that the country would he very ill satisfied unless some member of the naval profession were placed upon this committee. Mr. ROEBUCK said the demand for a naval member of the committee arose from a confusion of the offices of judge and witnesses. The committee tad examined, and were ebout to examine, naval witnesses as to the state of Bala klava harbour ; and upon their testimony any member of the house having common sense could form as correct a judgment as could a member of the naval profession. This committee had been formed upon an understanding. (No, no, and hear hear.) Could there be a man in the house who did not know that such a proposition as that of this committee was always made upon an understanding ? He could not have carried the committee or appointed any member of it without an understanding. He went behind the Speaker's chair, and entered into correspondence with gentlemen on both sides of the house, and endeavoured to tome a committee which should give satisfaction to the country at large. He hoped the committee had discharged its duties to the satisfaction of the house ; but that would soon be seen. He adhered to his first position, that as the member withdrawn had been nouliated by the Govern ment, his place ought to be supplied by one similarly nominated. After a few words from Mr. JOHN MACGREGOR, Captain SCOBELL said that he hoped the house would not in this matter trouble itself about his feelings, because he had no desire to be upon this committee. The noble lord (Lord Palmerstou) had said it was necessary to have upon this committee men of impartiality. Did he mean to impeach his (Captain Scobell's) impartiality ? No, he dared not ;ho could not. He might be a little more in dependent than the noble lord liked, or he might be defi cient in ability ; but if he was appointed a member of the committee he should act as any man in the house. Lord PALMERSTON said that he should sorry that the hon. and gallant member should remain under the im pression that he had meant in the slightest degree to im peach his impartiality or his ability, or least of all his independence. He could assure his hon. and gallant friend (if he would allow him to call him so) that what he had said had no reference to him personally, but only to the general question of the understanding which took place as to these appointments. What he meant to say was, that communications between the proposer of a com mittee and other persons were necessary in order to ensure the selection of persons competent, from their imparti ality, their intelligence, and other qualifications, to inves tigate the matter referred to them. That observation applied to the genera] question, and not the .least in the world to his hon. and gallant friend. (Hear, hear.) He believed that, on the score of impartiality and intelligence, his hon. and gallant friend was as well qualified as any member of the house to sit upon the committee. The ground on which he thought that Mr. De Vera was a fitter person to be chosen was that the only Irish member had been withdrawn from the committee, and he thought, con sidering how deeply Irish men and Irish matters were con cerned in the investigation bei'ore this committee, there ought to be at least one Irish member belonging to it. Mr. MUNTZ said that if, as some hon. members seemed to insist, the Government was to have the filling up of this vacancy in the committee, they ought to do it without re ference to the house, and without asking members to stul tify themselves by voting for a gentleman of whom they knew nothing, because the Government recommended him. Mr. M A.GUIRE said it would be unfair to the country that the Government should be allowed, with the con nivance of any party, to pack this committee. He was ready to waive his nationality and vote for the bon. and gallant member for Beth. In reply to the question of the hon. and learned member for Sheffield (Mr. It)ebuck) as to whether this committee had discharged its duties with satisfaction to the public, he expressed his opinion that the committee dealt with the matter with too much deli cacy, and that the country would not be satisfied without an inteeiry into the conduct of Lord Raglan. He would gladly support the motion for the nomination of Captain Scobell. Mr. BENTINCK contended against the doctrine that when a committee was formed the Government should be consulted ou its constitution, and he especially objected to such a form of nomination iu the present case. The house then divided — For the nomination of Captain Scobell 6B Against it Majority The motion for the nomination of Mr. De Vere was post poned to Monday. The house adjourned at it o'clock to Monday. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—APRIL 20. ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL COMMITTEE. Mr. John Ball discharged from further attendance on the Committee. Motion made, and question put, " That C Seobell be added to ; the said Committee," The house divided ; Ayes 68, Noes S 1 - Anderson, Sir J. Bailey, C. Baird, J. Baxter, W. Bell, J. Blackburn, P. Brady, J. Butt, G. Cecil, Lord IL Coboold, J. C. Cubitt, W. Duke, Sir J. Duncan, G. Dunlop, A. Egerton, E. C, Ewarr, W. Fellowes, E. French, F. Frewen, C. Graham, Lord W. Greene, John Gregson, S. Gwyn, H. Hadfield, G. AYES-68. Ilastle, Alex. Ilistie, Archd. Hawkins, W. Hilyard, R. C. Ell!, Lord A. E. Hine, W. Irton, S. Jolliffe, Sir W. Kendall, N. Lacon, Sir E. Lafran, Capt. R. Lang ton, IL. G. Macgregor, Jas. Macgregtir, John Maguire, J. Tdalins, R. Mandeville, Vis. Michell, W. Morris, D. Mowbray, J. Mundy, W. iliuntz, G. Murrough, J. Pakenham, T. H. NOES-81. Goodman, Sir G. Hamner. Sir J. D. Herbert, 11. Heywood, J. Heyworth, L. Higgins, G. 0. Ingham, R. Keating, R. Keogh, W. Kmnaird, A. Kirk, W. Lewis, Sir G. C. Mangles. R. D. Marjoribanks, D. Milligan, R. Moffatt, G. Mon creiff, J. Monsell, W. No, thcote, Sir S. O'Flaherty, A. 0- borne, It. Palmerston, Viact. Patten, J. P.ixton, Sir J. Philipps, J. Phillimore. J. G. Pigott, F. Palk, L. Percy, I. Phinn, T. Price, W. Richardson, J. Rushout, Col. G. Scott, F. Smijth, Sir W. Smith, Abel Stanhope, J. Stuart, W. Talbot, C. Taylor, Col. Thornhill, W. Vance, J. Walcott, Admiral Williams, W. Willoughby, Sir II Woodd, R. Wyndham, H. TELLERS Bentinck, G. Liddell, H. G. Acton, 3 Atherton, W. Ball, J. Baring, 11. Pilklngton, J. Pollard-Urquhart, W. Power, N. Ramsden, Sir J. Ricardo, 0. Ricardo, S Ro2buck, J. Russell, F W. Schoh-fleld, W. Se_ mour, 11. . eyinour, W. D. kimerville, Sir W. Steel, J. Tancred, H. Thompson, G. Thornelv, T. Vane, Lord H. Walmsley, Sir J. Wilson, W. Whatman, J. Wickham, H. W. Wilkinson, W. Willcox, B. Wilson,J Wyvill, M. TELLERS Hayter, W. Berkeley, G. Barnes. T Bass, T. Beaumont, 'VV . . Bethell, Sir R. Bland, L. H. Bonh am-Carter, J Brotherton, J. Campbell, Sir A. the tham, J. Jollier, R. P. Co ville, C. R. Craufurd, E. 11. J. Crossley, F. Dent, :J . Drummond, H.l Dunne, IL Elliot, J. smond e, J. Ferguson, Sir R. Fitz Gerald, Sir J. Fitz Gerald, J. Fox, W. Gladstone, W. Goderich, THE NEW LOAN. The value of £1 annuity, payable half-yearly for 30 years, at 4 per cent. compound interest, is 17.33. The annuity at this price pays 5.753 per cent. during the 30 years, consequently the income tax is charged on 5.753 instead of £4, which is the real income, the difference of 1-753 per annum being the amount which should be put aside and improved to redeem the principal.* Therefore deducting .01777, the proportion of tax over-charged; £1 per annum becomes an an nuity of R. 98223, the value of which is 17.07. Arid the value of 14g. 6d. per annum is 212 7 6 Add 3 per cent. interest on the instalments from ',.4t1 April to the several periods of pay- mimt 0 18 3 £l3 5 9 And the price at which Government has sup plied the contractors with £lOO Consols £lOO 0 0 * £1.753, improved half-yearly at 4 per cent. compound interest, will at the end of 30 years amount to £lOO. THOMAS FENN, 34, Cornhill. rADVERTISEMENT.I—Many thousand cures have been effected without medicine, by Du Barry's Delicious Reva lenta Arabica Food, of indigestion (dyspepsia), constipation nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, paralysis, &c. We quote a few :—Cure No. 52,612.—Fr0m the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart.—" Rosstrevor, County of Down, Ireland, 9th December, 1854.—The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart feels induced, in the interest of suffering hu manity, to state that Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Ara bica Food has cured her, after all .medicines had failed, of indigestion, bile, great nervousness and irritability of many years' standing. This Food deserves the confidence of all sufferers, and may be considered a real blessing. Inquiries will be cheerfully answered." Cure No. 7 , .— Of dyspepsia, from -the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies.—" I have derived considerable benefit from Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines.—Stuart de Decies." Cure No. 32,836.—Fr0m the Venerable Archdeacon of HAIM- " Three years exces sive nervousness, with pains in myneck and left arm, and ge neral debility, which rendered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health-restoring Food. —Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibereen." Cure No. 4,208.—" Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility with cramps, spasms and nausea, have been efiec tually removed by Du Barry's delicious Food in a very short time.—Rev. John W. Flavell, Ridlington Rectory, Norfolk." Cure No. 51,416.—" Fifty years' indescribab:e agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, consti pation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach and vo• mitings, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. —Maria Jolly, Wortharn, Ling, near Diss, Norfolk." Cur No. 3,oo6.—Thirteen years' cough, indigestion, and gene ral debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food.—James Potter, Athol-street, Perth."—ln canis ters, suitably packed for all climates, and with full instruc tions —llb., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d. ; 51b., 11s. ;121b., 22 5. super-refined, 11b., 6s. ; 21b., 11s. ; 51b., 225. ; 101 b., 335. The 101 b. and 121 b., carriage free, on receipt of post office order. Barry du Barry and 77, Regent street, London ; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., purveyors o her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly ; also at 68 Co.,Cornbill ; 61 Gracechurch-street ; 330 and 451, Strand; 63 and 150, Oxford-street ; 55, Charing-cross ; 4, Cheapside ; 25 an d 54, Upperßaker-street. - ; 7 7. F t"11E 7 ," 1' FOREIGN-OFFICE, 2,lAnca 26. The Queen has been graciously pleaserl to appoint Tainf:s 11. Skeno, Big., now British Vice-Consul at Constanti nople, to be her Majesty's Consul at Aleppo. FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 9. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appo:nt Ar nold Burrowes Keruball, Es q., Captain in the Service of the Honourable East India Counpany, to be her Majesty's Consul-General at Baghdad. BOARD OF TRADE, ViTIIITEHALL, APRIL 19. The Right Hon. he Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a lespatch from her Majesty's feting Consul-General nt Buenos Ayres, enclosing copy of a decree of the Buenos Iyrian Government compelling foreign ve,sels to obtain the Visa of the Buenos Ayriun Consul at their port of clearance. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 19. The Right, Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council fur Trade and Plantatims have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de spatch from her Majesty's Consul at Palermo, reprting that the Board of Health of that port had given freo pra tique to vessels from the United Kingdom. [This article is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of 13th April instant.] COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. Aberdeenshire Royal Regiment of Militia - Sergeant Alexander Hutcheon to be Quartermaster, Feb. 26. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS. Royal Glamorgan Artillery Militia—George Travis Rad cliffe, Esq., to be Captain ; Richard Ilbert Phillips, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Josiah nice, Gent., to be Lieutenant, April 16. Dumfries, Roxburgh, and Selkirkshire Militia—Maillard Noake, Esq., to be Ensign, vice Scott, retired, April L. Stirlingshire ' &c., or 90th Regiment of Militia -Alex. Orr, Gent., to be ssistant-Surgeon. Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia— Arthur Burton, Gent., to be Ensign, April 11. Ist Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia, Ensign James Stewart promoted to be Lieutenant.vice Lieutenant Kensington Lowther, retired, April 13. 2d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia.—Frederick Rhodes Hazell, Gent" to be Ensign, April 11. 3d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia. Francis Binney, Gent., to be Ensign, April 14. 2d Royal Lanarkshire Militia—Robert Harrington, Esq., to be Major ; Cyrus Plaistow Trapand, Esq., to be Cap tain, March 12 ; George Augustus Alston, Esq., to be Captain, March 13 ; Thomas Donald, Esq., to be Captain, March 14; Augustus Frederick Lindley, Esq., to be Cap tain, vice Pearson, resigned, March 15 ; John Rowand, Gent., to be Lieutenant, March 13 ; James Begg, Gent., to be Ensign, April 12 ; Andrew Smith, Gent., to be En sign, April 13. Haddington, Berwick, Linlithgow, and Peebleshires Militia Artillery.—James Grant Suttie, Gent., younger, to be Captain, vice Park, resigned, April It. sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Mid dlesex Militia.—Ensign George Lane to be Lieutenant, vice Benbow, appointed to 48th Regiment, April 12. Eastern Regiment of Suffolk Militia Artillery Corps.— William Loathes, Gent., to be First Lieutenant, vice Dakins ' promoted, April 17 ; Thomas Moore McLeroth, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, April 17 ; John Mea dows Theobald, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, April 18. Lancashire Hussars—Francis Arthur Farrell, Gent., to be Lieutenant, April 14. [The following appoi , tment is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the 6th April instant.] 7th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Brevet- Major Henry Hawker Arnaud, late Captain 34th Regi ment of Bengal Native Infantry, to be Captain, April 4. [The following Appointment is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the 17th April instant.] Ross, Caithness, Sutherland, and Cromarty Regiment of Rifle Militia—Ensign William Houstoun to be Lieute nant, vice J. G. E. Cameron, resigned, April 16. [The following appointment is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the 17th April instant.] Aber.] eenshireßoyalßegitneut of.Militia—Thomas lanes, Esq., tube Captain, Feb. 27. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Henry Phillips, corn dealer, Bethnal Green-road. BANKRUPTS. George Jessop, builder, Cliftonville Hove, Sussex, to surrender, May 4, at twelve, and June 1, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Canaan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Sowton, Great James-street, Bedford-row, London ; Kennett, Brighton. Joseph Brooks, wheelwright, Bocking, Essex, April 28, at half-past eleven, and June 16, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-cham bers • Taylor, John-street, Bedford-row. William Fitch, stationer, Old FishAtreet-hill, May 8 at eleven, and May 29, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Brisley, Pancras lane, Cheapside. William Gittus, draper, Isleham, Cambridgeshire, May 2, at two, and May 29, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Sole. Turner, and Turner, Al lerinanbury ; Miller, Son, and Bugg, Norwich. Richard John Orgies, victualler, Shoreditch, April 27, and July 1, at two, at the Com tof Bankruptcy. Whit more, official assignee, BaAnghall-street ; Symes, Tees dale, and Sandilands, Fenchurch-street. George Greenfield, builder, Upper Holloway, May 1, at half past two, and May 29, at twelve, attlie Court of Bank ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Sea man, Pancras-lane, Cheapside. • . George Hargrave Morgan, builder, Hereford, May 4 and 26, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whit more, official assignee, Birmingham ; Gwillim, Hereford ; Suckling, Birmingham. William Morgan, potato dealer, Bristol, May 1, and 29, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. assignee, Bristol ; Harris, Bristol: - Willi... i?..tvias. sha older, builder, Birmingham, May 2, and 23, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Reece, Birmingham. Joseph Prescott, teadealer, Liverpool, May 3, and 21, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Loundes, Robinson, and Bateson, Liverpool. Edward Lawrence Kyle, licensed victualler, Reading, May 2, at one, and June 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Nichols and Clarke, Lincoln's-inn ; Smith, Reading. James Stevenson, provision dealer, Liverpool, May 3 and 24, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Evans and Sons, Liverpool. Edwin Adolphus Lock, draper, Curry Rivell, Somerset shire, 2d and 31st May, at one, at the Exeter District Court. , Hirtzell, official assignee, Exeter ; Slade and Vining, Yeovil; Terrell, Exeter. Louisa Browett, innkeeper, Bradford, April 30, at eleven, anti June 4, at half-past twelve, at the Leeds Dis trict Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Blackburn, Leeds. James Woolley, coach builder, Manchester, May 4 and 24, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Herna man, official assignee, Manchester'; Cobtiett and Wheeler, Manchester. David Norbury, butcher, Alderley, Cheshire, April 30 and May 23, at twelve, at lle Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Hardman, Manchester. George Hawke, dealer in hardware, Polruan (and not Pobruan, as advertised in last, Tuesday's Gazette), Corn wall, April 26 and May 31', at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Elworthy, Ply mouth. Frederick William Lister, jewel case manufacturer Great Queen street, Lincolp's-inn-fields, and Southamp ton-row, Russell-agquare, April 27. at half-past twelve, and June 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Baainghall-street ; Leverson, Saint Helen's-place. John Moseley, saddler, Macclesfield, May 3 and 24, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hernaman, Official assignee, Manchester ; Taylor, Manchester. Thomas Holder, silk throwster, Macclesfield, May 4 and 24, at twelve, at the Manchester district Court. Heron mann, official assignee, Manchester; Parroutt, Colville, and May, Macclesfield. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. John Orr, Johnstone, grocer, Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley, April 30. Joseph ,Rich, Edinburgh, tobacconist, Lyon's Rooms, May 1. Malcolm McCall, Oban, hotel-keeper, MTherson'a Hotel, Dunoon, May 3. BANK OF Art Account pursuant to the Act the Week ending on Saturd ?,Ntir'LA.ND, 'th and Bth Victoria., cap 32, for Ly the 14th day of April, 1855. 111.111ENT. ISSUE DEP Notes issue ........ 28,351,365 Government debt.... 11,015,10 C Other securities.... 2,9 , 11,90 c Gold coin and bullion 14,351,365 Silver bu11i0n........ - $28,351,365 £2 2 ,351,365 MARSHALL. Chief Cashier. Dated the 19th claret April, RC BOWING Dr Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 . . 3,123,446 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say- :PARTMENT. Go7ernment securities .06eludg.Dead Weight Annuity) .:.. 13,673,713 Other securities.- 13 2 , 36,068 Notes . 7,9,7 538 Gold and silver cola .. 1171,287 ini's Banks, and ' Dividend Accounts) 2,720,640 Other deposits 14,233,796 Seven Day and other Bills ~....... . 947,721 £35,578,603 .£5,578,603 :. MARSHALL, Chief Castii,r. Dated the 19th day of April, 1 PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar com puted from the returns made in the week ending the 17th April, 1855, is 21s 3id per hundredweight exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the ixu on thereof into Greatßritain. THE ILLUMINATION.-111e$sre. Robert Cocks and Co., music publishers to her Majesty the Queen, and to his Imperial Majesty Napoleon 111. A brilliant star with V. R. in the centre, and a similar one with the initial N. in cypher, all in gas. • • DARING GAROTTE ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.—A most daring garotte assault and robbery was perpetrated in Hutchesontown on the night of Monday. About nine o'clock a respectable woman, named M'Renzie, was proceeding home up Hospital-street, carrying with sore provisioning, when, opposite to close 52, she was suddenly clutched by some persr,ns who stood inside, and who proved to be three men, and, she thinks, a female. They dragged her into the close, put a piece of square cork into her mouth, and as soon as she clenched the cork in her teeth, and closed her lips on it, one of the assailants pressed his hand on her mouth, the others fixed her bands together by means of a piece of white tape, and in this state she was snatched up and placed flat on her face on the gr..und, and before she could get up and give an alarm the robbers were off, having carried with them two hip dies she had with her, one containing flour and the other oatmeal, the ring from off her finger, and one shilling in money, which she had placed hetween her open hand and a glove, to get at which, along with the ring, it was necessary to pull if the glove. Another woman had seen three sus , pieious-looking men lurking about the locality a short time previous to the robbery, which is said by the woman to have been niotit rapidly and dexterowily AMlClpliated. 1 - LA. v Lit c kik ) L APRIL 20. 0 00 1 / Though the attendance of millets and dealers v i , oar, w heav, moderate, more attention was accords ito -40 .4 oatmeal, and Indian corn; and when any change ,;,,,tioS in pric,s it was in favour of holders. Tourchief 11 1 6 , 1 per was 6d to is per qr. advance on Inn sl it 01 load on oatmeal. Egyptian beans arealllre 8°44000 and h ave recovered ti, portion of the decline in 0 since Tuesday. WAKEFIELD • AFFIL 19• wor e oi l ; Wheat a fail dewand , and last Friday's PP S ,ained, recovering the depression of that 01 4 „,, V a, steady sale at last week's prices. In b:ansi Hag uo material change. Eis l EXETER—APRIL 10. fr o 0 CORN.—In our market wheat nri,T; lig atm to Os Od. Malting barley, 3,43,, to : is od , g rip( N I v. Od to Os Oats, ' 351.1 to Zs Od. EWA Cie . 48, Od. Peas, 08s Od to 60 s 0 t FLOUR. —Fine, 50s Od to 51s Od ; seconost 0106 Od per sack. CATTLE.—Prone beef, 10; Od per sor e ;_relbsul' arebey $Ol 12/. to 141. ; butchers' calves, 5d to scot calves 00s to 00s each. Sheep , sid to 60.,,,7b; Od per lb. Store hogs, large size, ouch p u ',, sidlr 25s to 30s ; small, 003 to 00s. Ra" ' Pork carcases from 8s Od to 8s 9d per score. 66 0 V. 0 4' CORN.—Whes,t, white, per qr , 64s Od to Ott 28s Od. o c c h L eva o li a e t r s ,7 " 2 2 9 7 s s O o d d ß t t o N o 3E2oBSs:oo.d:;A:dir t3tiro, 1-cc7:111. 111 : 1 : 1 0a 6 13f oi o i MEAL.—Oatmeal, per imp. boll 22s 6 d t ° Ns -l " second, 00s Od to Os Od ; barleyroesl, 1 ' 0 0 ( 1 ILO peasemeal, 17s 6d to Os Od ; bran, per stonalito, Ist flour, per 2801 b, 503 Od to 56s Od ; 00s Od ; oatmeal, best, per st. of 141 h l e f yr a e so , J i v to Os Od ; ditto second,, Od to Os Oa ; b6r u r 31 to 00s Od ; peasemeal, is 10d to Os Od ; Ist fk," 3s 6d credit ; 2d ditto; 21 6 d cash, 2s 9 d cretil, --------- ' " r. f il BRISTOL SUGAR—APO'. r oe J There has been little or nothing doing t ia° 1 070 West India. A good demand for gauritioe, ! n o 0 1 some amount have changed hands at ths nglat day sennight. Refined goods met with are quite as dear. ,Haftley North Pere lie close of thior„. vvgisql4, I rit Davison's West s. cl. l • q.—Arito, 20: re..”"11 19 0 Lanabton PriXe • . Y Harti .... Tanfield -- ey • —l6 6 Braddyll .. ... Canfield Moor 16 0 Framwellgats .. Walker Prim Butes 16 0 fietton ••••••L"''' •. .. I Primrose Pelton Main 15 6 Haswell . .... ... Wylam 16 0 Lam bton ...... .. . 16 6 Plummer ~,•••"0 Wall usell's Hatton., ;..,...41 Bell send, Ste ... 1 South HetvAl ... . and Brown * Gosforth l6 9:Stewart's Harton l6 0: Heugh gall. . . ..• . Heaton 16 South Hartlepool . Ilebburn l6 Oj Sow, _ , .... -4. Hilda Killingeworth E. Eden Main 1 15 6 € 6T D e n e rs' l6 . 6.1114/rti1.e.;11.1:14 :, 17 3I ~'. • f, g8T1 134 . 0,/ COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-.,,. ..... 0 rfo • • ;,•' 0 Amsterdam . ......... 11 19 Gibra,tar •• ...,... .. / Ditto, three months .. 12 L. gt orn " ' ......",:•;.• / s Rotterdam ............ 12 : Genoa ...... .. .... ,0 4 , Antwerp ............. 25 50 1 Ilan •• ' ... ..... ...' iil ' , nice • • •"' '` „.•!! :,.. A P russets ...• • • •• •• .• 25 80 lamburgh .......... 13 9 Vltona .......... Nen- Naples •• .• • ..;.••••„ Palernla • i ina • • *!..,t4„ Paris ...... .... 25 27 Ditto, three months .. '25 52 .11arseiLes .........-.... 25 55 Rourdeaux .... Fr ankfort-on aine .. 19% Berlin ............ Vienna ........ .. • • .. 12 40 Trieste 12 44 Petersburg _ 3514 Madrid 49S Cadiz .•.. • • Barcelona ............ 4 evi11e...... I Mewsi. 0 1. 11 : ;;I p i l o i ; ply r nj lt iy n a o : tgcnlr • sot Foreign ilnuo coin , portnga l p o lar , p %les•can 1)0 liar/ •''' I . dew ,• IV " ------- S SEABuRNE MIL . 11 ; 11 l ..-•,ie.---- -- • deny . the - .4 (N aignifies that the mail, are, "writ fro— to .), ~ vi . - ,s,y the night—and Mby the morning '''' - ' 1°_ ...._... ! . sr , ;:,, „s. . 1 . I 'V T 4.ll 'port '' wi.....„--0"si), 7 i. , A Itiv_o 6°l _„,..0- , sato - % •:* ! Dover'', :.4 . . r dtli , ' P11 1 , 6°- Doc‘ s ;;P l . of t ut fora P4, !4/1/ / I I pocert , 5 0 , Ili pito , r t - r 000060 1 ' ire .: f, i . il4lllPt°7 1 0 e/ C''' ' - ill- : tia'araP tg ov 11 l .0 0 #, D itac t \ 0 frt, :t. I Ole o ' ' toivil 0 0 • ' ski ,e • bi:Wer '' PO i 0 sotitlor .- _,,. 0 4 soul- la " . • °Pitt / 40 0 0 ,,,,P;t4 i pri 0 4 5b4t1 1 .7, ,;.•011, poyero'ntoo fir s o ot ti ts Iyilli, riii" 11... , e 4 Pov e ri ,1 ° goy 1 1 _,; no tOP; 11 g o e.tAlf -, 6 1, so; So Ot ve ;;;;1 o'l JO 1 14 .• ' ~F ' Wl,ll in General Poo Loudon. Every FridE9',••,-:, •• •• •• " ..... „ l23d ofthe u►onth , • 184il?'&2 ‘& 30 of ni 20th of mot). 17th of the 121 ° 11t1I ilially.••••• •• 7' 19th of the Month ;9th of the month•• 9th of the monVii Mon :.Wed.,.. 124 lk 17th of rnOw lOnce a 18.13. i 8 .ay.da ortn 14th & 20th of mcn. Twice daily 'Twice dai1y...... i 4, 7, 17, 20, 27 of rn. 12nd & 17th of mon.l 'Tuesday& Friday_ 2nd of the month Daily ...........• i l7th of the month. 1 40 & 20th of 9th& 25th of moinh 17, 17, & 27 of mon Twice daily ...• •.. j 7, 9, 17, & 27 of ni• 9th of the Wont* }23d 01 month • • • • • •'i Dove r ''', 1 I ...) ' O f l'l4th of the month - e ,„ 9 0.7-1 ; 2nd of the month; Ott,. c'„,' , ', l .sthlsth2sthofidon .To7„ ; fw ; i2d & 17th of .montlc.oo,l,'" pER l ßy private ship... lifirwr...,••: `ll.hihth2stholinon , P P Xi iiillo ; Ttb i 7 th 27 tb oftnon •' SO llii ',,l tli ; 27th of mon. ,So_ii,?; , 1'3..T private ship. • . D uv et•., ;hall ,th2hthoinion, DP_v',..:'...,'''lr 'is.,hnth2stitotmoil. Pv . ., 1- h • piP . I 1 *Fe ..7th of rtiontly,S9'''. , ').' ' , - I '. t t‘'llifil'. / • -• • ith o mont"O 18, 18, & 28 of mon.' COAL MARK Prices of Coal per ton at t' COUNTRIES Imerica(byltrit.pack)N tmerice. by United Sts., packet) N imerica (by 11. States packet) .. tustralia (via South- ampton) . . Ditto (via Marseilles) N Ditto (via Cape of Good Hope) ............N tfrica ( West Coast) . . N exandria N Bahamas , 3 elgium ............N Brazil ......... .... Buenos Ayres :....... M Cape of Good Hope .. N Cape of Good Hope .. N Cape de Fords ..N Ceylon (see India) Ceylon ..............N Channel Isles .. ......N .China . - Constantinople Constantinople Cont. of Europe M & N Egypt (see India) France ........ M N Gibraltar .......... Greece (see India) Greytown .......... M fla mburgh ..........N, flavannah .......... M Holland ............ M Honduras ..........M India (viaSoutbampt.)M India (via Marseilles) M. lonian Isles (see India) Ireland N Lisbon ..............M Madeira ........ ~..M Madeira ............ N Malta (see India) Malta Mauritius (see India) Mauritius .........:N Mexico •• •• Naples ........N Sew Granada ...... New Zealand • • . • .• •• • • Papal States ......N Peninsula Peru .• •• •••• •• •• ..M Pert Natal .... .. NI 1 7useany Venezuela ........bi Van Diemen's Lami (see Australia) ........ . 1 West Indies .... • ...Mj ----„ • n oil 1 i ADVERTISEMENT-I—Hollo way's -- Lu r t- too .Idr extraordinary remedies .or the cure . 9' . ., rer- Wei oi l tract of a letter from Mr. John A.l lo°°J .i'r e Wei Llandovery,.dated March 16, 185 5 .:i t h ~ 1 /, to ' tiolloway, sir, I suffered for 10 ye"" .zed IP . apparently a white swell ng, whleh call — 0 4 ,j 4 my bed for two years; from an juj t i o rl eir ,l o - OP foroied into a w..und, a..d 16 jeceg °f -°I3 Y '- l al out, I tried several medical men, but t ' l3 :o ile o,p' curs my leg, I am, however, hapP9 L c) , 6 4.1 1 7 ointment and pills efflctually healed the , one month."-.Sold by all medieineyeetri.;4l, fesser Holloway's e,tahlichments, 2 44 and 80, Maiden-lane, New York. - ' On the 19th inst., at 8 13 : , F :o 4 : 8 : 1140.41041.6' 1.1 0 1 :: 11) , Egerton. 1, vrit e On the 18th inst., at Folkestone, the ,j 0 141 4, Durbin, R.N., of H.M.S. Curacoa. 00" . , On the 18th inst., at the Parsonagt o c,lo l ;" shire, the wife of the Rev. W. 11: 13 ' 'Thiele' Ou the 18th inst., at . All Saints' Parl.' °- - ' pti ster, the wife of the Rev. J. G. Brinell' On the loth inst., On the 19th inst., at 2, Sussex C° b vt 'l, O P De Bauvoir-square, the wife of Henri ti o - r, 4 Mrs. Vincent Yoll - ,ee,,,ptv of 114, Bishopsgate-street within, seli° l ~, ' OF A DAOGHTN- g • ir y 0 , ti r r Yi On the 19th inst., at Blithfield, the - 1 1,10°' On the 19th inst. at Fairlee Cottage, a 1 J lady of` Roscow Colo Shedden, E.l. 1 C l° ' ~ On the 20th inst at 29, Gordon-stree' ~ , Mrs. O. Mitchell Charles. . ---- .- . _ dt ' P 0 / MARRIED . ther O f On the 19th inst., at Harrow-ow oterljf., Stephen, Esq., of the Inner Temple, lt r olle rh ati A son of the Right Hon. Sir James If. 2' i Mary Richenda, daughter of the Rev' - t ., 4 4 1 4° '' / vicar of Harrow-on-the-Hill. c fmovvy, On the 19th inst., at St. John's Y - . 1 dr ~0 /Il i the Rev. Edmund Hall, rector of lefol:f h f lomii therino Mary, only surviving child - Any 7 Esq., of Fotherby, Lincolnshire. , Clo g ) On the 17th inst., at Ampney Crile.'"',. 0 f 4 , Rev. Frederic Bailey, D.D , PresidenL, ftet lee, to Margaret, second daughter. of t"" , f bony, vicar of Ampn e y C ruc i s . r 1,0 , On the 19th inst., a t th e parish 0 11 0 , 9 0: 1 1 N A . Priors, W a rwi c k s hi re , J o h n Franck... 4 ific oltlbe son of the Very Rev. th e D e an of ', - Aill ' Elizabeth, second daughter of CAP — •.) ' R.N. , DIED. O, SO il On the 19th inst., at Great WarlerPl gic 00 4 4 / Pinson Bonham, aged 93. , gjoiit t o , On the 16th inst., at Paris, Edward ~,i, v i ll aged 56. T A t.' tle ' 4 7 1* On the oth Feb., at Moulmein, -&- ell • 'O9 I . H. M.'s 4th R , gt. 0141510 I. son a i On the 23d ult., in the barracks at 0 •F 4 ' Pitcairn Campbell, 23,1 Welsh Fusiliersrosi tb o y Quartermaster-General, youngest ° °/3 j i Ij i fit pil 1 Campbell, rector of Liverpool. , sato ip_ t r i i t On the 4th inst., at the Hospital, re, iii' p Ludlow, F.R.O S, of Cbarterhouse-5c114,4 r e. . 1 son of Mr. Ludlow, of Christ's ff° 91 1,19, 0 ' e late one of the surgeons of the MatroP ° - , / iv a aged 29. • o f f 67.0 n the 14th inst., Mr. Henry ,Brov 11:4 vir . 0 14 0 ,0 1/ On the 17th inst., at Comptou, Dear pii b p Wm. Fleeming, Esq., age 3 83. sylis deb liti c il On the 19th inst., at t 'larence 1 4 4 , John's-wood, Alfred Daniell, Esq., of ' aged 71. 4, o 0 „ye LONDON : Printed and. Publipshod b! /1 1, 11 0 oto,:ir of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 7?''' . iss Strand, in the Preoingt o f the l s Middlesex, Skturdv" April 21,16. E et kt l n N otizt , !;4 )1k7.4014e k 414 t 1 ,1 kNo , N; ekt a l 4