The Sun. — London, England, 1855-04-27 00:00:00

errio e ', v t of , his rout ' tot 0. 1 over 11b -16 2 S •"" 30 " 0 • 2 0 :'",,21 1 5 ...' 11 `,.icl"'gs 411.."50 .".' '25 1 6 -" .. 11 ''''" s 0 • ~,,, ..... so 1 1 5 , •!..',5, tio 11 :0 0 ~. , ,et 1 , 1 '; t di f' ll ' o• Alf t ba g col 4 , 0 ' 1 " 0, 66 , i fo l. he Ogic‘ E %.I'4b %MAURO-CA INTEL:6IOEISi CM CITY, Two O'CLOCK. , The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday t .el anc*mWith an excited feeling, and prices of Sura erican were id, per lb, dearer than last , t ee l l c. The sales were estimated at 1,000 bales, tjaketiding 9,250 American (1,000 of which were prisi l l for export, and 4,000 en speculation), corn , ng 300 Parnara and Maranham at 53. to Id. ; 1,000 Bahi a at 6d. to 60. ; 400 Egyptian 0 t 6 ( 1 . to lola 9d. ; 4,000 S urat at 3d. to 4d. ; and ( 1 ': ) Sea Inds at l s. t o is. 3d. per lb. The Rail .44)' Share olk trards Market was quiet, and prices tended ' 4 . heThe Produce Markets have been interrupted . in , ' r usual course by the alteration in the duties 7 Bort of struggle being maintained between the iliporters and the retailers as to who shall suffer qr ,benefit by tbe'first effects of the Budget. Those ahvottses Which had some quantity of duty-paid sugar 1. ailable, and have since been offering it publicly, wa y the difference of the duty with the bunrs by Irwayrlef tereptation, but as soon as these stocks are eon s e ft; the extra impost, if not paid by the aCcfila,n'er, Will fall upon the dealers, the merchants, , th:" gewers. Sugar, taking this circumstance h ae44 t, is not quite so high as last week, but b il4i olders are not pressing sales. In coffee a fair ~ : ne ss has been done. Tea has been dull, and l i . ric e tistearj,4ll,eing. In jute there . has been a further t lia ti '4i rise and Russian hemp is in demand at . en- ; al eeci 'Notations. Tallow has been improving 1 teest deft,. happears that there were larger. clearances of I t -4'144 Prior to the alteration in the duty than 3 , /141 141 as folithe quantities at the London Customs being ; 134,9:v :---April 16, 166,900 lbs. ; April 1 7, ,: 1 06) -1. , lbs. „ ; April 18, 147,800 lbs.; April 19, so 1,1 2 8 1 ' 3 ° i ns. ; April 20, 566,100 lbs. Total , to Of ,5001b5., yielding 84,0001 to the Q ustoms. z tqlB4llgar, the quantities were—April 16, 5,000 2 3 ) • APO ' APril 4, 2 500 tons ; April 18, 2,000 tons ; . 1 1, 19 , , , , aillotillt, 0000 tons ; and April 20, 4,400 tons, stti. it. A tog to about 200,0001. 20 t2 t.o diAti ll ,, ° M . eial return gives the particulars of th m e . 41_44040e _p .. 8 irits in the United Kingdom. From _ t. „ciltichitiolat aPpears that during the year ending the ii° January last the number of proof gallons 5 86 , 3 1 , is t ngland was 6 ,881,664, in Scotland t 55 th e tj,,.) aedin Ireland 8,259,930. The totals for St. 11l I_4 ogntei_cl. Xingdotn were 4,560,017 . gallons from 2 , ~, din ; 3 Y , 17,005,134 from Malt with unmalted. 4. 442, 2415,339 from sugar with unmalted grain, it. tetoti"22 gallons from Molasses only. The total 7 e5 T ti tit et duty paid was 7,660,7781. 9s. 2d. 1)( 2 1t°0 1: 3 4 f°ll,2wieg are the nominal prices of foreign f el) NI 0,."-ITeada Deferred Bonds, 64- to 6,1 2 i h . _' .1 t o 0 ' vr eeet., -4 ; Peruvian, 68 to 70; ditto M Th e r x ee 41 to '''''' 47 to 49 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., -':_(!. ditto 103; ttusaian Five per Cents., 98 to 100; . r f IP% °letiritl-a-Efalf per Cents., 88 to 90 , I 7 ettliCew Per 171 to 18i; ditto Three 'Ate i -., 36 to 36i; ditto Certificates, 4-i. to s*; f ' u ti e t a4B l ly e) -31 to 4i. LN re e.egraPla in anticipation of the pverland 7 th e p r th the recapture of the city of Shanghai et lilt ratiril)Perialists. If this statement be corre li 'ee h t . el. a Matter for regret than otherwise, the shy such partial successes on either sidecrhai *4 4 ~,PTolonged. The exchange at- Shanghai kest,,'Per dollar. 41 material teratio;.u. • )3ell, Son and Co. report no XV, tr ,c, t 111 the market for American Securities :. Redeemable. Per . _cfp_ . Ned 44, 6 1.863...104 IU7I lit, L fat t t. P,.er Cent. Bonds p 1. : -" ° Per Cent. Inscribed - jo6 107 ' IP ` t e''• •• • .... • . 1867-_-18a. 90 1 )°114 , q,,:•(tate 5 Cent,pe...i.' .... ... . :.1858,-18 ••• 80 81 )4 1 4,1 t h ,,1 4 .): Per Cent d - 77: 84 85 it,Z4A4.4,-; Per Cent: ;ends lB .... N t koci z's sper Cent (Sterl. Bonds) 1868...10 92 1 10 9 , ,\r ki4i ) Per t-lent. (Sterling Bonds).- 66 .. 83 84 t 3 Irttia lei' Cent. Neil Bonds) 1858-9?-t58..... t'l6 Per 9.stit. (Sterling Bonds) 188 6.... 8 8 6 7 8 8 7 8 `-'eut. tends ' e* ( 4 6 p. cent .SANS OF CITIES. ,.. iPt "'' 1865- 83 1, a u , - (ker. 80nd5)......,..0 • - 1893... 80 0. Per Cent. Bonds D i e. do. 1874... 7 do. do. do. 1884... 72 Illi, . II ,i(:•" °entrai tAttsoAD BONDS. I.atilaizaii CeotralBr C"'t '11(18 lie rt Zi c , 7 Per Cent.P" tlerez, Bonds Pennayiva4'•') •••••..' 1 " 4ert (S Ler :Bowl ill'eentt,;i"•• . Labe . 1859... 94 egavgreY,o4Crritkon44vlieti!.i4lo.4"7...;...6...:4'bt...;: ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' 89:6 9829 Isige, con:e4:7l).er (";;;t 'i:l '''''' ." 1' 1 li. y el n rk i,. a nd Eri e 7 ~*--....... ' . ' 11° " . ' 1883._ 84 1 . 1.44' and Trio l'i Ce nt. Co 1.3 ;e4i - 1;1;862.. •79 8 ••••.. ... Per Cant Sinking 1 4 . ..... ~.,.. ..... . .. 78 80 tile 411811 seo u • • ***************** • tone at 14,„ opetli44 of titles there was a firmer 89 to i'lielti,ibtnotzle7s.it ta.c_ihee Since for' money have prose'r a F , ti,i,;B is tot business has not _ m., , ere ied h u s c e e n d i a ects of sti _ la great suspense concerning . the oa ~ 1 t St em ccess at Sebastopol. The "0 h itil 'I at i minu 1 oc b een • to premium, and the new annuity _ _ 211 1 4 doo e 4 . l• t , 41'16 3-16, Bank Stock In th leoequer Bind are 5t 7s premium. 25 4n Yth• e I\lr eit 8* '3 * arcely 1 doi n g Market there has been sc is worth %, 100 a re nearsi am h av e .3 , th e the quotations consequently 11 ye beea lial lie as yesterday. Turkish Bonds 1 tia bee e rather firmer at 73& i. Spanish Stock 5 4 1 4 th at 1411 rat • e 1'‘..,. s, the 3 per Cents. being 36f, _ lined G 2 Deferred iv . 3 Dutch 2i per Cents. rea- g 14 th:.t, 20 Nor - ‹ ingli 4 • ,1 1) doi„ 8 Railway Shares there is rather . thonkia!' ar ad the at,tio „,,,, heavier quotations are oi s :_"1:48 4 flatter , estae yit ilpr ov tone of the Cons m up a p r o k r e t t ed is , 20: 1 ,i a:Ment, and at this m ho o o ment gives 100 business ino iZet erileeci. Ithe I.,)oraerianticelintehsahnavwe been quieter, 100 Provefteat Western, o f 1 11 th gCanada have rather im -201 brit -e eel ri•,, 100 The few :Liu., and 'Foreign lines there have 20 Crystal(i nt "ransactions, and the prices are heavy. 5 1"al teek lianks are generally maintained 20 .4 . _ sin ce shares have declined slightly. 20 20 4%44 _•---........___...__L-- 20 33 1%11138 TIIIS DAY AT ONE ONll4' ) 10 ktil t (•Provt tite Official Litt. % ritoot ) 20 linqiness dont , IC" ate ".... 11 20 i,ur v,,,, m,i1._.,...•••• ... . . .................. 1 7i 4 8 'A'4 p t . Nkr Annuities.. 16 &Per o ell el ' t ( e llt. As A nnuities 20 rs 4 g kb., ! 4114,11111iitiets l3l 8 ~,t. siutie, 4ities sth . . . be 1 3 0 t„,..) 7tiiire itiii 18(4) 34 '/ ' ) "(;l .4e vr -."' E 2 an. . 10th Oct., 1859 3 1146 Ors t , i. t'c i ,..4:•••• ..... 2( 'fre t .. e'n.ot, lOtia May •-• 84 8i ,'ltxt;i'••• ................. qOOO Nth. 24 (1.... ........... 2( ........ 5 7 'irziail ...................... . ... treh e _ ti , ~. ................................ 5 8 . 4 12 4,, ler ii'••-; ........ .. .• .• ....... 5 21 41 qtt "4 18 58, 31 per Cent. B4 i 2( 4 PA • ' OP 0 ~ eitth Rema.',,C)ItEIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO ''' ; titi i . " Nee * i j '' Per Cent ..• ............... 36. t bitt lieilqa,e'ciferred cent er C ent........... 16* , i b f ," the AeleZnt ..................... ---73 i 2 Itch zzielnieads o n th f 3;b0vt:.11.8..v.a-Ae.; . T. 4 0. "on i 414 2 e, 21 Per Cent. 12 Gen..... 621, ' HA LP-PAST TWO. • klteols ................................... 1 1 8 f i 15 ) 4a3' Account .., ............... 88t i ill ""1"........,.....„.................... tr th !Alt io, leC h e q by ti: 111 , 1 a AT GREENOCK —The suspicion (co!le- lit tr,,°:ed nhc4snoget) that an addt . ional duty w e as g, to se b _ lEts;se:Fe4;B"o;oggreaar,t made e o e u d r elixaeribteumree, tqicluyr ng d i all tine ikrictit i,earts loaded with bags of sugar from Mauri. slen 1i1va,43eir..4_4,1111 hogsheads from West Indies, boxes theT@ the 'at Streeigand I 'askets from . Ja i va, lelized m adly n ir i v a er . s. etnel°" wretch Streets. on by higeh p4,,l4earui b nrdly an ) lug a nags en vi tl er Y a - t ex a decided pre- Id be got for other pion :`,.f()l• ruonev 1,3,ve411.3t ge total( out of the ques -1);-`-'`reenock „J., . E . ) sing y 4 4,0?.._0 autertzser. T„Plete,,i':! /c NoTioE.-The following, relating to the erkey,,,l,V Mails for her Majesty's Forces in Greece,. tha.,w`e t gr q the tiack Sea has just been published . 7 ~, betqwhietell4","l the Opening of the enire line of rail le;Gs,4Rh iirancel-1"4.114 and relarseilles, the conveyanc.ne ere, CrT l3, the mails for the .British Force 1 keit keY, and the Black Sea will be so far acce ttebe niera:Ltp,..) allow of malts despatched frnm London on 4elliti ,4 Of Tuegday and Saturday (by day mail) t A 1 0 41 4 e 4 t Zi4aifirAreenileleha,llander ordinary circumstances, in f ur th veq Thursd ..vetl eneral Po tediterranean ackets leaving that i t C Il riti t - 43? and Monday. P The regular mails , c't n th e r, da rorees will continue to be despatched ' W ads mails will be t kin' "P " 4 th e and Friday i Lng. L ud o °h Incrtungs,of Tuesday and Saturday, con . - 4 l'qoa Correspondence as may be posted or received '14.4a.41-114!1:1'1131 rivrt:l4ll e a frl th e t o d ay illlt)PP.t S3evice iPnYTurk hennainailto France, The h f e er ca t m h e e rtzep oillack Sea, for. - 41- C-1 -9-1 e -ti 131 ?4 4. 744 kra'A COI .1875-'6B 69 ... 90 all 4 10 .'s. 164 10 t' d I/ JOINT-STOi all :i WAD . , aSnb all British Colonial Bank all land Loan Company Britiib N. American 5 iChartd. Bank of Asia 2 lehrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Loud 18 English Scottish and Australian Chart.... l all Land. ,Chart. Bk. of Australia 5 Ditto New 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Lond. & Weetminster 35 National Provincial Of England 10 Do. Now 22i National of Ireland 1 all Now South Wales all Oriental' Bank of' 50 50 'on 100 Corporation . . .. . .... 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 Royal Australn.Tikg & Gold Imp Co all South Australia . all lllnion of Australia 2i Do. New io thtion - ei L9hclot! LINES :.SED a vtltte, !ITTA aL Agutk Fria ... Leming CoMpant. London t N. West. L. &N. W. Caledon... E. 13n. It Gt.Nrthn. Caldonian Gt. We 87.1 Irk. New. & Berw. Y. &N M D 0.., Do IS. Easter Do Peto & Ca Norfolk Do I L.& N. W Niald Ackton & Darling* En. Court Closin. meet esterdAy. 5 - 97 96 - 98 133 - 135 105 = 107 23 -- 24 11 -11 i 2i - 2i &. Count. L. & N.W kLn&Yk Do Gt North , Laneash Yorksh. T. Brassey M. Althea: Stoekt Darlings )0 I enttWestn MINES. 92 - 94 par ip 57 59 30 - 133 7i 8 4 2i 2 d 32 -. 33 I all Anglo Austrin. Gold all Anglo Californian 6. Australian all Australian Cordillera all Ave Maria all Baden (Gd.Dachy of) all Blienarvon Iron and Coal 13.5 British Iron 1 -- 14: 5 - 7 5 - 6 30 20 1 1 254 Brazilianlmp.(isstted at .£5 pm.) ell Do. Cocaes & Cuiab 15 Do. St. John Del Rey Carson's et Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica all Cobre Copper I Colonial Gold Xll Copper Min. of Eng all Do. Pref. 71 p. cent 16 Copiapo all English and Austin Copper Smeltg ni 1 Fortuna all General all Gt. NuggetVeinßeg. all Great Polgooth all Liberty all Linares . 1 Lusitanian all Mariquita all New Granada all New Linares Mining and Smelting C 0.... all Nouveau Monde all I Pontgibaud Lead Min. & Smelt 1 Port Philip all Quartz Rock all I Rhymney Iron all Do. New • 121 Santiago de Cuba all South Australian 7i Tin Croft all United Mexican all Waller all West Mariposa. .... . 12s. Worthing Mining ( Australia . all Yuba.. 2i - 3 2 — 2) 31 33 I - 53 55 3 _- 40 ld 10 2L 24 11 —1 4 -- 1G 14 4 a 7 - 7i g - b - 4 - a 143 -15 i 20 -- 22 5 -- 6 ' 54 -- 6i I -- -- 23 7 -- 73 !E SHARES. 102 - 101 90 - 92' 92 - 61 96 - ii 2 - 4 5i - 6 - 1111 P :24 - 131 Businets this day. .. .... .•• 58 - 62 24, 16i 20 20 20 10 I 11Z 107 - 109 101 - 103 A - ip 6 6 -- 6A 96 -- 98 88 -- CO 90 -- 92 10 -- 11 17i -17 i 10 104 72 -- 74 9191 -- -- i 1 9 i 1 1 •14i -14 i ,131 -- 136 r •• ... 3 - 2;tti 12 - 115 .18 108? * air ii - 15 6i - 7 I = i* i - i 24 -.24 61. - 63 - CS - 70 - - 36 - 37 7 ••• 1,21 1081 3 4 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVE NJ LITERATURE. The LYe and Times of Salvator Rosa. By Lady Morgan. Now edition. David Bryce. Following in the wake of many younger celebri ties, Sydney Morgan, the veteran authoress of " Italy," and " France," and " O'Donnel," and " Florence Macarthy," has at length undertaken to issue her collected writings anew through the press, in the form of a popular and carefully-revised series of Amoderately-priced publications. In re solving upon this venture, Lady Morgan has shown herself anything but precipitate. The wild Irish girl, we all knew before this, has long sobered down from any primordial volatility under the weighty influences of the approach of the grand climacteric. Her ladyship has gained to a considerable extent the mastery even over the once apparently uncon querable impetu os it y o f h er own t em perament. Inherent rashness has in her instance been tem pered by the prudence won from experience. Wherefore, even in regard to the mere reissue of her literary prOductions, we find her tardy . as con trasted with her later contemporaries. A!ready the crowd of greater and lesser novelists have lavished their cheap reprints abundantly, across the bookstalls at our railway stations, into the outspread arms of the now hardly calculable multitude of our reading population. Are we not all of us happily familiar with these pleasant cataracts of parti coloured republications—the blooming fruits of genius—pouring plenteously and perpetually from the book trade cornucopia ? The verdurous green of those plump little tomes in which Mr. Dickens recounts again and again to the masses so many pathetic histories and humorous adventures ! The blushing pink of those po litical ,satires, through the rn medium of which Mr. Disraeli has diffused abroad so much blended instruction and amusement. The purple and gold in which, by right of his imperial position in the realm of Letters, Sir Bulwer. Lytton has appropri ately clad the creations of his inexhaustible fancy on the earlier occasion of their collective re-appear- , ance ! Through that charming re-issue, we mean of his tales and romances, symbolically emblazoned 'with the effigy of the classic vase, reminding one how deftly and lavishly his master-hand , has long been Pouring from his pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and 'words that burn : he graceful precursor of the homelier reprint given to the world since then by the daring and' munifi cent enterprise of Mr. Routledge. Together with these republications of popular favourites among our novel writers—have there not been innumerable others with which the throng have long since made agreeable acquaintance, including among them the wizardries of Harrison Ainsworth, and the comic alities of Albert Smith, and the roystering narra tives of Dr. Lever, and the interminable chain of stories by G. P. R. James, tales of remote chivalry *and midimval sentimentalism. Nay, the moralist, too, has come out in like manner into the common 'sunshine of the market place in the instance of Mr- Warren—the annalist in that of Sir Archibald Alison—the essayist in that of Mr. Macaulay. It must be manifest, therefore, that Sydney Lady Morgan is anything rather than premature in re solving thus to test the strength of her continued hold upon the popular interest, by giving to the public in a new, and aggregate, and more accessible form, the entire series of her various contributions to polite literature. By some unaccountable freak the work selected to lead off this new series of re publications is anything rather than the writer's masterpiece. She herself almost apologises for the selection in the prefatory remarks here introduced by way of ,explanation—acknowledging that the style of the book may bo deemed rococo by the " censors of the modern free-and-easy school," but reminding these worthies—and that, let us say, at once after the manner of a school rather more free-and-easy, so to speak, than that of the cri tics Lady Morgan seems banteringly inclined to propitiate—t4t " such as it is, it was the style with which the author won her spurs under the command of Field-Marshal O'Donnel, and other heroes, native and foreign, who championed to their utmost the sublime cause of right and tUir country's independence." Censors of whatever school we may be, assuredly it will be permitted us to observe, in regard to any such extenuative vaponring in the way of half-grotesque and half defiant excuse, that it savours rather of the blue booted than of the blue-stockinged. However this may be, the public of to day are evidently expected to throw their cap; into the air, as Sir Sydney Morgan earacolles by with more than one feather (none of them white) fluttering from the old bat tered helmet in which that chivalrous spirit gained so many victories in an earlierage, when Pegasus had somewhatless of the aspect of a Rosinante. Speaking seriously, however, it is greatly to be lamented that a happier choice than that of this same rococo biography (we thank her knightly ladyship for teaching us precisely the right phrase as applied descriptively to her " Life of Rosa") should not have introduced a younger generation of readers than that for which our authoress wrote originally, to the perusal of her numerous, varied,'and some of them singularly brilliant literary productions. In penning the history of the life and times of Sal vator, Lady Morgan has subordinated the artist to the malcontent. She has regarded the age and the genius of the great Painter through the distorting lens of her own little insular prejudices. She has exulted less over the intellectual powers of the man whose marvellou,s imagination rendered him more than any one either before or since—the weird romancist of the landscape ! Lady Morgan, we say, in these memorial chapters, has exulted less over these high intellectual capacities of Salvator Rosa than over the discovery in his temperament of some of the more eccentric attributes of a sort of mongrel political Savanarola. Viewing him re verentially'under this particular aspect she pro claims him to be the poet of Liberty, on the strength of some mellifluous samples of mediocre versifica tion, enshrined in the classic pages of the Parnasso Italiano—ranking the name of Rosa with others no less illustrious than. those of Dante, and Pe trarch, and Tasso, and Filicaja ! So much for the astute perceptivity of Salvator's Hi bernian biographer. Nevertheless it must be con fessed that through the haze of these outrage ous and utterly distorting exaggerations there may be tracked out, in jeltering intervals, the advance, as an Artist, of Salvator Rosa from the deadievel of his early obscurity to the lofty height of his matured reputation. It is pleasant to fol low a progress like this, even when delineated thus perversely and disjointedly. From the even ings when the stripling painter was patted on the head encouragingly by the homely but discerning Francanzani, with the " Fruscia, fruscia, Salva toriello, the va buono !" to the day when Salvator himself could say proudly to a Roman noble w h o strove to drive" a bargain _with hi m for one of his ,pictures — Signor, io non pattegio mai col mio perinello !" It is unfortunate that with a theme such as that afforded by the PulDrliert ca l, c "Life and Times" of this gloriously- g ift e d pa i n t er calmer, r os s grai divine,nee Lady Morgan should have so little understood the secret charm of the writings of Vasari as to have drowned the gentle an d genial voice of an artist's biographer in the ravings and ravings of a petulant, pamphleteer.captious,de mi-re A ligios,semi sweeter, ; more vitalising atmosphere than that whiCh hangs mephitically over the whole of this elaborated biography, envelopes the eternal fountains and perennial verdure of the Forked Hill. opposite . o. 8 0 . lOo boSeory [ADVERTISEMENT.] TIM WAR IN THE EAST. —PO WERFUL -Et,ii S o . ad a i n il d y PATENT RecoxsomaseAlGbueesmsaisise.-- MreeerrB the York Hotel. By, her Majesty's' Roya Letters Patent for valuable and extraordi nary improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telesc opes, Camp, Race - course, Opera, and Perspective Glasses, to know th e di stances Solo coons, opticians, 39, of objects viewed through them—of groat importance to the army, navy, and others. These telescopes po ssess such extra ordinary powers that some 3} inches, with an extra eye piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring s and the double stars; with the same telescope can be seen a person's counterance three miles and a half distant, and an object from 18 to 20 miles. They are of larger and all sizes, with increasing 'powers accordingly ; while their vary ing from 4 to . 6 inches enable us to discover more than the above and the Georgian, with his 6 satellites, &c.—Th e R oya l Exhibition, 1851.—Valuable, newly-invented, very small, powerful waistcoat-pocket glass,tho size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known la miles distant ; they answer every purpOse on the race-course, and at the opera houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 8 to 10 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, de er - s t a l king, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera, race-course, camp, and perspective glasses, with wonderful power.—Newly-constructed Spectacle Lenses of the great est transparent power. The valuable advantage derived from this invention is, that vision becoming impaired is preserved and strengthened, and very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occu pation —can see with these lenses of a much less magnify ing power--and they do not require the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance. Deaf ness---Neiv Discovery.—The Organic Vibrator, an extraordi nary powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for deafness, entirely different from all others, to surpass anything of the kind that has been, or probably ever can be, produced. Being of the same colour as thesskin, is not perceptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distin a ctly at church and at ;public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the ears is entbely_removed ; and it affords all the assist ance that possibly could be desired. 39, Albemarle-street Pic Silly, :-01reryo gait* tho York HOW/ A LIE ARKE 6 DAY%) RAILWAYS. 'Olosing Prices yesterday. 19 - 20 41 - 41 Bj si 14A -13 i 15 16 9 8d - - 88 - gil 58 i -591 i li 2 fa 7 9 4 - 3 5i - 6 14 - 15 - 30 - 32 20 - 22 51 - 5G' 2d - rar 18 - 20 6 7 69 882 - 89, 72 - 74' 23 92 ' 4 63 1 63 i 58 - CO 65 - 70 5 - 7 5 7 754 98 99 97 - 99 id id - 1 d - 81 - 82 9 841 8 7di 23 23 7 - 8 68 -48 i 40 - 42 11 -. 9 - 2 Business done St. this day. St RALtwAys. 100 Aberdeen 81 Ambg. Nottng. Bost and Eastn. Junct all Baifast & Ballymona all Binning. Wolverh..' itour Va11ey......_ '9i B , rkenhd. Lanesb. Cheshire Junct all Do. Chesil. dr Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. 19 Do., £2O .. all Rlyth &Tyn origina £25 (issd. at £45 LOO Bristol and Exeter... 100 Caledonian 61s. Cazmarthen and Cal digan all Che - stei & liolyhead. all Coik and Bandon all Cork, Black, dt Pas , 16 Cornwall 1i off Junction .45 . lublitteißcdfastJunc all Dundee PerthezAb, teen Junction all Do. 100 East Anglian Eastern Counties.... RIO Eastern Union, A Stock 10 Do., B. Stock... S! Do., New A.... - 1.110 ~: ast Lancashire . 10C, alinburgh (St Glaago all Edinb. and Peeblet, t , M.i Edin. Prti. dt Duna,. 1,5 St, 20 St. I orth & Clyde Jan all I Purness. all I , ? o. Extension. 100 rlasgow&S \ken' 'OO 'rest Northern (h. I Do., A. Stock. J., B. Stock.. , .14 lit. Sth. & t X h.eat Weston,..,.. Stony Val. RA, Qua. Stk.. 411 1 Nei& south-Hasten dl I au:aster & 41 Do., Thirds 4 Do. New Thirds__ Ltneash.andYork. • oist. Riding [?T all I.iv.ersby.&Southi,t all London & Black wa! '.ond. Bright &S.C:;. 100 "ond. and N. West, 16 ,10. Fifths 54 ' )0.10/. Sh., NISLII C - ; o. Eighths .. ....„ 100 ' .oncion and& Weal. : 241D0.. £SU. 34 - Ipo,, £40.. all I.refn(lrry& Col eranit all Lndndrry. & Ennisk 100 vtanch.Shef.& Linelp all Do. Shares, No. l I 1 h ~, Mau. & Liu thi 100 Midland 1100 Birmng. & Derb: all Hidld. GI. West. (Ira. 224 Do. Half Shares All Newcastle & Carlisle 21i Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd 8 Newry & Enniskillel all Newry Warrenpoini and Rostrevor , 100 Norfolk .. 3i Northn.Counties 13n 100 North British all North Devon, No. 1 all Do., No. 2 di Tlo., A Deferred all Do., , B Guaranteed [OO N. astern—Berwick 20 Do. do. Extension 13 Do.do. Pluck all Do. Leeds 100 Do. York all North London 7 1 4 21 473 - 49 - 7 - 13 48i par * 44 —6 rat' - 27 - 65 all IDo. New £lO.. 1E N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamp; stead, and City Jn 174 North Staffordshire all North Western., all N. &S. Westrn. June, 1 I Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester........ If) Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 8 E'ortsmouth 4' ISeettish Central ~ A • 'Scottish Midland, 00 'Shropshire Union a south Devou goatl. Eastern all Mouth Wales 1 A. Vrksh. dr Riv. Dm, 2 Staines, Wok. &Wok a Stockton gt Darli 16, Stb:kten & fiartlep.. IPail' Vale 9 1)o. £lO Ahare? 1)o. Prot., No. 1... .].!i Thames Haven Doi• and 11,eilway. all Vale Nent,lt... sil Waterf 1. & Kilkinn All WaterforldzLimer 1 ;8 West Cornwad.... 5 West End of Londt.l and Crystal Patamt West London '177 8. In & Croydon Antworpakott,rdwit !ieigian Faßtn. .Inn; Rezierß to GraiSPieriEli, Bombay, Banda, awl Contia:l India,Serii Central' of May Demerara I bit,cl TVlenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian, g. 5 p. c, Do, E7;eusio,, Do: 44 p. C. We., pay '57, convertible Po. do. do., '59, do GI& Tk of Canadt - tA is Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of Frauot Gt. Indian Peninsula guar. 5 per cent Do. Niew b per cent Do. Extensions... Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Gt.Westernof Canad Shares Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Dn. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & Basle Lucca di Pistoja 5 p.c. prof Lyons and Geneva , Lyons & Mediterran. Madras Do. New Maria Antonia Do. do. Now Namur & Liege (with interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. D0.20i. sbs.late Char- leroi and Erquelines guar. 34 p. c. & red. at 222/. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds (fmy. B. & Ams. Shs. ) NorwegianTrunkPref Paris and Lyons Ditto 13onds Paris and Orleans Paris and Ronan... Pariseaen (St Cherbrg. Rouen and Havre loyal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Alonso. Do. 5# p. cent. Pref. Scitid Southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 54 per c. Prof_ Western of France._ Wept. of Switzerland Wl.isbaden Zealand 63 44 124 60 6i 2i 4 - 211 6 34 -2/ - 21 —13 ct 34 34/ 6 7 234 233 2it. 9, 3 / 4 - 15 16 48 50 88 90 1 19 par • • - to 2 2 171 184 96 - 98 97 •-, 99 100 102 95. .97 19 - 204 99 - 100 11 , 2 - par 1i 1p 4 6 14 2i 64 - 6 34 - 3.14 1.2 i 13 74 --- 8.. ? J 22i - 23 v, 44 46 39 - 41 • - PT" 21i 22 par - 1p 2 lid 7i 8 pm 4 4 - d 5 . 6 is -- is~. BARKS. SO - 82 I'd : i..a B - id 16; -• 17i 20 21 d iP -- ..• 33 - 33 39 - 40 66 - 8 ] ••• FOREIGN. 18A 18 Paid.l RAILWAYS. all Bedford and Blotchley 100 Buckghamsh. 100 ClydesdaleJe. 24 Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. 100 E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. all Glas. ,Barr. & Neils. Direct 101 Do. New all Glstr.dg Dn. Pr all Hrtlpl. Die. & Railway all Hull & Selby all Do. Shares. all Do. Shares. all Lon.&Greeuw all Do. Preference all Lon., Til., &S. 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. tuo Do. 6 per et. all Mauch. Bxtn. and Matlock all itliddlo2bro' & Redcar. . !' 0 Midld.Bradfd 54 Newmarket Bury Exton.. all Northern and Easternsp.e. all Do. 6 per et. al I Do. Fiseas p all Prest. & Wyre all I Do. Stirs. A 1)0 R,oyatn .Bz. Hit. g*s Slief. Roth Gooleg.s p.c. all Shrews.&Her S.. Statiords 11 Wear Vail eygr ii per cent, Do IWO I .giltaftgornrst PREFEREN 1 100 Aberdeen 100 Do. N 0.2, 7p. c . all Myth andryne lOper c. prof. (issd. at 501) 100 Ms. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares 100 Caledonian £lO all , obester & Holyhead Guar. 51 per cent all )o. do. Pref. No. 2 all Do. do. Pref. No. 2 all Cork &Bandonslp.e all Dun.Prth 4 Al^er.J 2 7+l. Anclian Cif.. ASI 100 Do. do. C's. B6p. c. 100 Da. do. Cls. C7p. C. I %stern Counties , Si ension, 5 p. c. No ai Do. No. 2 . all , to. New 6 r . c. S. 01 Cast lin., G. 6p. e a 0 no. 5/., 10 ner cent all Do. 101. Delientr. SI , all Do. do. 4 per cent.. 10 w.cst Lancash. 6 p.el. alt ~. .s: W. York. J. sths y 4 .0. Prth.&Dun.lp.c. all Fu .ne , s . 1 1. • ;las. &S. W. G. 5 p.c. 100 Great Northn. sp. c. 100 ')o. sp. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prom... 100 no. 4; p,e 51 Do 5 p.c. Scrip, Red. , t 5 p. c. pm... all Gt. N. of Scot. Ist Prot 100 it. S. &W. (Ireland/ 9 Do. 4 per c. Pr/. at 6 Gt. Westn. (Barks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c) 100 Do. con. red. 41 p.c. 100 Do. con. red. 4p. c. 10() Do. irred. 4p.0. all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh all Do. °nester Bp. c.P.S. all Do. do. 5 p. e. do 100 Do. Birm. Gua. Stk. all Do. Ches. Gua. Sh all Do. do. do all Do. do. do ....... • 6 Lan. &York. F. £2O 100 Do. 6p. c. Stock 100 Lon.&Brif,h• G• 5 P• e ' 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. St. 100 no. New Guar.6 p. c. 100 Do. do. 5 per cent 100 Lon. &N. W., Coy. dr Nuneaton 5 p. ct 50 5 Lon.& S. W.Con.3 it 121 all Londy. & Color. 1 Sh. 121 all Londy. & Ennis. 4 SI , . 10 all Sian ., Shef., & Lin. New, £lO 41 Db. £6 all garypt.& Carl. 4 p 0 all Do, 43 per cent 10i Do 100 - Mid. Consol.6 p.c.St 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... 100 Do. 41 p. c. Pref. St. 11?, , , Do. Pref. 41 per cen all Do. 51. Pr , f. 4 p. c.. 1 100 Ditto Leicester and Hitcben Pref. St. . 10 Norfolk Debenture .. 100 Do.Praf. 4p. c. Stool , 100 Do. 5 p.c. Ext 100 Do. 51 per ct . pref 100 Do. Way. Val. sp. c 100 North British 100 v. E. Berw, 4 p.c. P 5 .Do. do. do 13 Do Leeds 6 p.c ..No 1 9 De. do. Quarters 4(+ 10 Do. York O. & 4 . Per. all North Staffordshire., IG.) Oxford, Worcester, k Wolyerh..£ls, 6 p.c all Scot. Cent. ,New Pro all South Devon 1i Da. fixed, 41 per cent all S. Eastern (Readit4 &nu.) of £1 Os. 6d. 10., Do, 41 per c3nt.... all S Wales Gua. 4p. c. all Do. do. 41 p. c.... all S. Yorksh.4p.c.GUar. all Stock. & Dar. ,5 p c. 15 Do. do, do all Stock. & ii lira. g. F r. c. till July 1, 'M 4 Waei fd. & Kilk.6pc St. 20 St. 15 St. 10 St. 50 6 Ili 12 12 St. St. St. 16 5 St. 8 i 25 LO 1.0.6 .•• • ~2~ - ~3 1 12i -12 i / -- 61) !:34 - 136 94 - 96 - 4 - 85 - 87 103 - 105 93 -100 90 - 92 3} - 3i ---•— id 101 - 103 13 15 id par 221 - 23 96 - 98 li* see '••• • —24 d MISCELLANEOUS. ' Australian Agrictflt. , all Aus'zaln. Royal Mail 7 Berlin Water Works 40 Brit. American Land 1 Brit. dx Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co. 326 Canada 100 Canada G0v..6 p. ct. Jan. and July all Crystal Palace 4 Do. Preference all Crystal Pal. of France I Duston Iron Ore 8i Eastern Steam 22 Electric Telegraph all Electric Teleg. of Ir 14 Gen. Steam Navigat all General Screw Steam 10 Irish Beetroot Sugar 10 Magdalena St. Navig. all Mcditeran. Elec. Tel. 9 Alexi can&S.Amorion. 2i Po. New all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 5 Netherlands Land j. N. S. W. Coal & Inter I Steam Navigat. Co all N. B. Ar o stmlasian 124 Nrth: ciEuropeSt .pan; all Peel Er. Ld. & MinrL all Peninsular& Oriental 10 Do. New _ all Portland Iron C 0..,,, 60 • Royal Mail Steam all Snot. Austral. Invest Ditto New all South Austral. Land all Subniar. Tel. Sdrip 1)o. Registered 5 Trust do L. - COAT:Oa 254 Yau Ptgileta la* "A# 92i 63k 75i i 7i 97i II 81 i 68 I to 5 St. 25 NG, APRIL 27. 1855, MPE.I 3 d AI, PARLIAMENT. - 4, HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.) ROYAL COMMISSION.. The Royal assent was given by commission to the fol lowing bills, viz. :—Convention with Sardinia ; Pur chagers' Protection ; Lunacy Regulation Act Amend ment ; Commons Inclosure ; Dean Forests, &c. ; Wool wich Consumers' Protection Gas ; Pudsey Gas ; Cam bridge University and Town and Water ; Taunton Gas; Hoar withy Bridge. The Royal commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyle, and Lord Monteagle. Their lordships adjourned during pleasure. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. _ _ _ TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH THE CRIMEA. The Earl of HARDWICKE said that inasmuch as it was reported that the telegraph had been completed be tween Balaklava and London, he wished to know whe ther the Government bad received any communication es to what had occurred in the Crimea within the last 24 hours ? The Earl of HARROWBY said that he understood a telegraphic despatch had been received, informing the Government of the completion of telegraphic communi cation between this country and the East. He had not heard that any other despatch had been received since then. EXPORTATION OF HORSES, The Earl of MALMESBURY said pe had reason to believe that there had been an unusual exportation of horses from this country, particularly within the last six months. He was lately at Folkestone, where he nas informed that there was as many as 1,000 horses ex ported from that place to France within the last three weeks. • He wished to ask the Government whether they were prepared to take any steps to prevent such exportationo Lord STANLEY said he believed that the attention of the Government had not been called to the subject, and he did not think that they had any intention what ever to limit the exportation of horses. Lord CAMPBELL said, when he was Attorney- General some years ago, his attention had been called to the exportation of horses that was then going on. He then examined the law on the subject, and he found that, though there were some ancient statutes which limited the exportation of horses, those statutes had subse quently been repealed. The Government therefore had no power to prevent this trade being carried on. The Earl of MALAIESBITRY then moved for a re turn of the number of horses that had been exported from this country since the Ist January, 1854. After a few words from the Duke of NEWCASTLE, Earl GREY said he was glad to hear that there was no intention to prevent the exportation of horses from this country. The Earl of MALMESBURY bould not conceive how the keeping of brood mares in this country would inter fere with the freedom of trade, and doubted very much if the importation of horses contemplated by the noble earl would amount to anything. He would amend his return by moving for an account of the horses imported, in addition to the horses exported, within the period be had mentioned, though he thought that while the- ex ports would be found large, the imports would be found to be nil. With respect to free trade, he had opposed it, but he would never again ,interfere with free trade. (Hear.) That question was settled, and there was an end of it. (Hear.) Earl GREY, when he spoke of purchasea, did not allude to purchases for importation into this country, but purchases for use in the East. The Earl of HARDWICKE said the question was whether his noble friend would drive his theory of free trade so far as to injure his own principles. What did France do ? France would not permit horses to be ex ported from her shores. Throughout Europe and the whole world it was found that the animal was not pro duced in sufficient quantities to enable the purchasers of horse flesh to obtain it at a moderate price. We were notoriously the first breeders of horses, and we had the best blood of horses, and all his noble friend (Lord Malmesbury) said was, that we should so far preserve our brood mares as to maintain our improved breed of horses. Although a good free-trader, be could not see in what way the restriction, so far as his noble friend prOposed, would interfere with its beneficial operation. The returns moved for were then ordered. THE VIENNA CONFERENCE. , Lord LYNDHUST, in the absence.of the noble earl the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, begged to ask the noble marquis the President of the Council (alluding to Lord Lansdowne) a question which he and every member of the Cabinet must be competent to answer. The noble marquis was aware that by the treaty of the 24 of December the parties to that treaty were bound to each other, in the event of peace not being concluded on the basis mentioned in the first article—that the Allied Powers would without delay deliberate on such measures as would be necessary to give effect to the principles agreed upon, and the question he had to ask was, whe ther this deliberation was entered into during the resi dence in Vienna of the noble lord (Lord John Russell) and the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, and if such deliberation had been brought to any result The Marquis of LANSDOWNE—When the noble and learned lord calls on me to answer as the organ of the Government in this house, and as President of the Council, he invokes a, departed spirit. (Laughter.) The noble and learned lord has correctly stated that on ceasing the noptiatiou consideration should be taken upon the steps necessary to adopt in conseouence of the state of affairs. In the absence of the Secretary of State for Foreign Afftirs lam not able to answer, nor do I think that he would, if present, be able to answer till tie arrival of Lord John Russell, which wiil be in a few days, what has taken place in Vienna, if indeed any thing hai taken place. THE NILITIA (IRELAND) BILL. • This bill Wlti read a third time and passed. Their lordships adjourned at half-past 5 o'clock. HOUSE4I OF COMMONS-YESTERDAY. The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. The Birmingham Water Bill was read a third time and passed. Colonel FREESTUN presented a petition, from the Protestant Dissenters of Weymouth, praying for the entire abolition of church rates._ SOUTH•EASTERN AND LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAYS. Mr. PORTAL moved that standing order No. 177 be suspended as regards a petition deposited in the Private Bill-office on the 23d of March, relating to the South- Eastern and London and South-Western Railway CM ,panics ; and that the said petition do stand referred to the committee now sitting on the London and. South- Western Railway Bill. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. The Usher of the Black Rod here appeared at the table to summon the Speaker to the House of Peers to hear her Majesty's assent to several bills (for which see our re port of the House of Lords). The SPEAKER having returned from the House of Lords, Mr. PORTAL proceeded to enforce the arguments in favour of his motion. Mr. DRUMMOND seconded the motion. Mr. W. PATTEN opposed the motion, as he believed the railway would not be in any way prejudiced if this petition was referred to the committee. Mr. FREWEN supported the motion. After some remarks from Mr. BOUVERIE, The motition was agreed to. PETITIONS. Petitions were presented by Mr. Horsfall; from the West India AssociatiOn, against the proposed increased duty on sugar ; by Mr. Mintz, from Birmingham, signed by 12,000 people, including the Mayor and ex-Mayor of that town, against the Sunday Beer Bill ; by General Peel, from Huntingdon, against the bill for closing pub lic-houses on Sundays ; by Mr. Roebuck, from Sheffield, with a similar prayer ; by Mr. Packe, from Melton- Mowbrayf with the same prayer ; by Mr. Bright, seve ral petitions from Manchester with the same prayer ; by Mr. C. Druce, several petitions from places in Scotland against the Lord Advocate's Education Bill ; by Mr. E. Ball, from the Isle of Ely, for the abolition of church rates ; by Mr. Biggs, from friendly societies in. Leicester, against the Beer Bill of last session ; by Mr. Cowan, from Edinburgh, against the Maynooth grant. A num ' ber of other petitions were presented by hon. members, the purport of which we could not catch. DECIMAL COINAGE. Mr. B. SMITH gave notice that when the hon. mem. ber for South Lancashire brought forward his motion relative to decimal coinage he should move an humble address to her Majesty, praying for a congress of all nations, at some convenient place, with a view to the adoption of a common standard of money, weights, and measures. MILITIA. On the motion of Lord LOVAINE returns were or dered, showing, in columns, the number of volun teers actually serving in each regiment of militia, em bodied or under training, in the United Kingdom on the Ist day of March, 1855 ; the number of volunteers actually serving in each such regiment on the 15th d 4 of April, 1855 ; the number of volunteers enrolled previous to the 12th day of May, 1854, who left each such regi ment after publication of a circular from the War-office, dated the 27th day of March, 1855 ; the number of volunteers so enrolled who took the bounty of 11., offered in the same circular, to complete their term of service, and the amount of such bounty paid in each regiment ; and the total number of all ranks (distin guishing the same) effective in each such regiment of Militia on the 15th day of April, 1855. LETTERS PATENT. TiOn the motion] of Sir J. SHELLEY a return was ordered of the names and addresses of all persons who have petitioned the Lord Chancellor to extend the time for sealing letters patent, or filing specifications, under the Act 16 and 17 Vic. c. 115, stating whether no order, or any, and what order, was made, in each case. RAILWAY AMALGAMATION. Mr. ALCOCK asked the Vice President of the Board with his duty of Trade if ho would consider it c onsist h e e nt_ not to oppose any bills promoted by t ailci S ay outh Companies, -Eastern, South-Western, or Great Western junction railway from unless they guaranteed that the g ranted by Parliament Reigate to Reading (whi o. cl! for the purpose of u nitin, ) by w r a a s ilway i should be in fact, as well . as the ports of Dover, Southampton, and Bristo ~1 a j t u ng , i r o n n , in name, a "Junctionthrevaipweianyt,e"nbfyincnaeutsiienng stations to be made . at , borough and Iteadm,g Mr. BOUVERIE replied that he was not prepared to go the length implied by the hon. gentleman's question. INCOME TAX IN SCOTLAND. W. LOCKHART asked the Chancellor of the Exche qu er if it was his intention,in dealingwith the ' i zimna tax, to, remove the Vatic, to which thf? prop4s- , , . . tors of !suds and Rum 11;1 Alia were sibeciect respect that no deductions were allowed to them for rates or taxes, in accordance with the practice in England and Ireland. The CHANCELLOR sof the EXCHEQUER said .his hon. friend seemed to be under the impression that there was a difference in respect to Scotland with regard to deductions. Such was not the case, though in some respects th e S co t c h l an dl or d s .laboured under disadvan tage compared with those, of England and Ireland. The question had once before been under consideration, and it was not his intention to propose any general altera tion in the income tax relative to Scotland. THE CAMP AT ALDERSHOT. In reply to Colonel BOLDERO, Lord PALMERSTON said arrangements had been made for erecting huts for 10,000 men at Aldershot, which would be very soon ready. There would then be sent thither twenty regiments of militia, three battalions of field artillery, and two troops of cavalry ; but it was not intended for obvious reasons to have any yeomanry there, as they would no t b e embodied for permanent duty beyond eight days. (Laughter.) . _ _ ARMY REFORM. Mr. MILES asked the First Lord of the Treasury when the Government would be p re p are d to state to the country the alterations which it was proposed to make in the different departments connected with the army ? Lord PALMERSTON said that the general princi ples of this important matter bad been settled, but the details were under the consideration of his right hon. friend at the head of the War Department. When his right hon. friend had deCided upon the matter, no time would be lost in bringing the subject under the notice of the house. (Hear, hear.) • _THE SEBASTOPOL COMMITTEE. ' In reply to Mr. COBDEN, Mr. ROEBUCK, as chairman of this committee, Paid the committee had not taken it into their consideration when they should bring up their report. With regard to the propriety of reporting from day to day, or from week to week, be would consult the other members of the committee. For his own part, he saw no objection to reporting from week to week. (Hear, hear.) THE BLACK SEA SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH. In reply to Mr. LAYABD, - Lord PALMERSTON said his right hon. friend the First Lord of the Admiralty had received a message that day from the East to the effect simply that the submarfne telegraph had been opened, but no news of importance beyond that fact had been communicated to the Govern ment. (Hear.) Sir C. WOOD said he had received two messages, one yesterday and one to-day, from Admiral Lyons, in which the gallant Admiral said he had no news to com municate. (Laughter.) In reply to Mr. ROEBUCK, Sir C. WOOD said the telegraphic communication was not quite complete. Mr. ROEBUCK thereupon asked the noble lord at the head of the Government, whether it would be with in the scope of his duty - to send by its means and in quire what really had happened there of late ? (Hear.) Lord PALMERSTON said it was ' his intention to ask his right hon. friend at the head of the War De partment to request the Commander-in-Chief to let them have some news every day. (Hear, hear.) RECRUITING OF THE CAVALRY. ' Colonel BOLDBRO asked the First Lord of the Treasury what arrangements had been made as regarded the intended encampment at Aldershot, and whether the force would consist of cavalry, yeomanry, artillery, line, and militia regiments ? Mr. F. PEEL said that, since last year, the cavalry had been increased to double its force, and further reinforcements, to the extent of 550 men, and double that number of horses, were now on their way to the Crimea. One steamer had been employed to take them out, all the others being sailing vessels: TESTAMENTARY JURISDICTION BILL. Mr. DISRAELI, referring to the Testamentary Juris diction Bill, which stood in the paper for a second reading that evening, observed that it was a bill of very great im portance, and that he hoped it would not be left any longer without a definite day being fixed for the second reading. Lord PALMERSTON said that the Solicitor-General was quite ready to bring on the measure, and that if the discussion on the financial bills of the Government was over by nine or half-past nine o'clock, the hon. and,learned gentleman would proceed with the bill. EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND. Mr. C. BRUCE asked whether it was the intention of the Lord Advocate to bring on the bill for education in Scotland to-morrow ? The LORD ADVOCATE said the bill stood on the paper as the first order of the day for to-morrow, and that it was his intention' to bring it on, if possible, but not after half-past 10 o'clock. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he should to-morrow proceed in the first instance with the committee on those bills which the house might con sent to read a second time that night. When they were disposed of the Lord Advocate could proceed with his bill. Mr. DISRAELI inquired whether progress with the bill for education in Scotland was to be made contingent upon the progress made with other bills? Lord PALMERSTON observed that every one who had watched the proceedings of the house must see the extreme difficulty of fixing any business beforehand. It was abso lutely necessary that the bills which might be read -a second time that night should be proceeded with in com mittee tomorrow ; but after they were over, provided the hour were not too late, the house might proceed to consi- ' der the Scottish Education Bill. Mr. DISRAELI said that the noble lord at the head of the Government had mistaken the nature of the inquiry he had made. He (Mr. Disraeli) was aware that the finande, bills were of the greatest importance, an d h e k new th at it was the duty of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to pass theta as speedily as possible. He did not, wish the noble lord at the head of the Government to fix any hour for taking the Education Bill for Scotland, but he wished to say that it would be touch to the convenience of the house if the Government werJ to fix one day for the :inane.) bills, and another day for the Education Bill, so th a t th e pro gress of the latter measure sifould not in any way depend upon the former. He now begged to ask whether the noble lord would fix any determinative day for tho Scottish Education Bill ? Lord PALMERSTON—If we cannot go on with Up" bill by niuo o'clock to-morrow, another day will be then fixed for proceeding. THE VIENNA CONFE RENCE. Mr. BRIGHT asked when it was the intention of the Government to laY upon the table of the house the papers relating to the recent transactions at Vienna, so -that the whole subject might be brought, under the consideration of the house? He perceived that the Foreiga Minister, in another place, had given an intimation on the subject, and he (Mr. Bright) presumed that the House of Commons would receive, at least, the same amount of information. This was surely a reasonable proposition in the present cri tical state of the country. (Hear, hear.) Lord PALMERSTON said that any correspondence communicated to the House of Lords was always simul taneously laid before the House of Commons, He could not, for reasons which every one would understand, name a day for the prod action of the papers. The noble lord the member for London had not yet returned home; and it was therefore impossible to say upon what day the papers could be laid before the house. He could, however, assure the hon. gentleman that no unnecessary delay should take Place in their production. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BRIGHT said that, unless the papers were produced upon an early day, he would make a specific motion on the subject. (Hear, hear.) Mr. °TWAY inquired whether the French Minister, M. Drouyn de l'Huys, had left Vienna at the same time that Lord John Russell hail left ? Lord PALMERSTON—I cannot say with certainty, but I believe he did. THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE. Mr. W. WILLIAMS inquired of the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Government had any objection to lay upon the table of the house the statement of the amount that would be incurred for the expenditure of the present year, including the cost of collecting the revenue. Mr. WILSON replied that a statement had been prepared showing the gross and net charges, and that he would lay it upon the table of the house. • LOAN BILL. The house then preceeded to the orders of the day. The Loan Bill wasread a second time without discussion. The second reading of the Stamp Duties Bill (stamps upon bankers' cheques) was postponed until next Friday week. THE INCOME TAX. The Income Tai Bill was read a second time withoUt discussion. CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL. Mr. JOHN MACGREGOR said'that he'would not off pose the second reading of this bill, but that he would op pose all its future stages, as he considered that the pro posed increase of duties upon the necessaries of life would create great discOntent through the country. Mr. BLACKBURN inquired of the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the reason that the increased duty upon tea was to cease in one year after a treaty of peace had been signed, and that the duties on coffee and sugar were to remain the same ? As far as colonial produce was concerned, he thought it ought to have been put at least upon the same footing with tea, which is the growth of a foreign country. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the reason which had determined the Government to make a distinction on tea was that- the Act of Parliament, by which the decline in the tea duties had been suspended, was to be in operation for one year after a treaty of peace was signed. The subject was,.however, one for the dis cretion of the house, and, if the house wished to admit the increase in sugar and coffee, which was very small, to the same privilege as tea, he would not oppose it. Mr. HANKEY called attention to a statement whichhad been made upon a previous evening by the Secretary . to the Treasury, to the effect that the West India colonies were in a condition of reviving prosperity. He (Mr. Ha n - . ua key) denied that such was the case. The quantity of sug ar produced in the island of Jamaica 20 years *11(3 11 7 as 7° tons, producedw h i l h e a b a y fe t il he en la d s o t w re n tu to rn 2 i 2 t , fair, therefore, to say that the West India i 1 a a state of increasing prosperity.oo " O pe toarnesd..thlasktawtnitssq.sr:rretiky wbilst we oblige charge of 180 per cent. on Chinese6gocorscent. This was a Mr. GREGSON said that it wasdpropossd to levy : 1 ' the Chinese to take our goOds . at . 10 i These tremendous d the consump. our imports, an duties on tea would impede necessarily fall off. specimen of our system of reciprom y. tion of this country would Mr. T. BARING said heregretted Cbancellor of the Exchequer had right hon. gentleman?: me duties. The articles chosen chosen for increased to thearticles which the country, and which were pro• the humbler classes of the colonies. Ho readily k ac know. were those which enterede largely into the consumption of own taxation was increased. b t t 3 ies should sar their fair propor tion of burden, when . general_, ; 'edgeddticetl main ly that c ustoms b s t y o m o s ui d • The addition of 3d. in the pot in the .article of tea was articles the game of amounto f a ltogether unexpected by the trade. The fair m o d e would necessity. have been to charge 10 per cent. on all the customs duties', duty,an (l thus and articl es suffer the of f luxury ssme i increase, , p a a s y Mr. L. HE YWORTH concurred in thinking that the proposed addition of duty would. diminish-the •consumptionu• of these articles. The effect of such a change wotaa b e-In jurious sto the colonies to our shi • classes of the- community: - shipping_ trade, and to elk. Mr. LAING saidle felt so strop L 4 - principle involved in thisl'll that °ll 11 ,13,ieti,outhe reading if he could I , he should oppose the to second him. It was It find -any honotirable member: commercial policy which a h lethc r a departure. from the last 10 years, namel „ th . . been' so luidoesiful kir the' rect for indirect taxye e substitution of a system of_ legislation, .with . v, a ion. The result hich the rime • • o. that commercial -6r,,,.:a4... was 14,, . .of. •.81rR,. chart Peel way' wvV4 WV* t x o)—that, from the year 1e42 to the r" 1853, in round numbers, the taxes repealed on a balanco over the taxes imposed, amounted to 6,716,000/. The effect. of that upon the revenue, instead of diminishing it, was to increase it by 6,890,0001. By now proposing to impose these additional duties, they were taking the first step to wards the reversal of the policy which, dining the last 10 years, had produced this addition 'to the revenue of the e"iltrY.- During that period of 10 years the reductions made in the customs duties alone amounted to 8,677,0001., conferring an enormous benefit upon all classes of the com munity. At the end of that period the country was in re ceipt of nearly as large an income as when it commenced. If the war should unhappily be prolonged, they might triple therevenues of the country by raising an additional revenue in this way during the first few years of the war; but it was a question whether they would be ultimately compensated in the permanent increase of the revenue by adoptino•sueh a course. The effect of the rece n t commercial policy ad been to show that the upper classes w ere willing to bears sh are o f taxation in order to alleviate the • burdens which pressed upon the humbler classes, and the knowledge of that fact has done more to remove discontent than all the legislation which had previously been attempted. Re said, embarked in a great war as they were—when a feeling appeared to exist against aristocratic mismanagement, was it wise to reverse that policy, and to show that the upper classes were now less willing to make those sacrifices which. they had before submitted to? There were only two alternatives before the Government—the one wa.s, to have raised this asmillion and theheeiffneccotmeoftacrippling a-half buouy . a l n d a n d o d t it hve io a nto t the resources of the-country, or impairing the strings of industry and trade. Next year be had no doubt that they would be obliged to increase the income tax to 1) per, cent. The other alternative was, to increase the amount of the loan. They now proposed to raise 16,000,00;1 , and to have an increased taxation of 5,500,0001. It would have been better to make the loan 18,000,000/. or 20,000,0001., than to embark in a cause which.be was afraid would lead to most disastrous results. He should therefore oppose the second rending of the bill, in order to record his disapproval of the principle involved Mr. LABOUCHERE 'regretted that there should be a esnecessitys to impos e an i ncreased duty on such articles as hent g u e g n a t r fe n a 2 1( 1 1 1 co thatff e eft wasH e ac necessary not at e o a n l e a g gr u e e e n c wi e with the recent commercial policy of the country that, under all eir eurnstanees, Parliament should insist that the burden of taxation sh ou ld be borne only inthe shape of direct taxa tion, and th a t t h ere should be no attempt more equally to distribute the burden by indirect taxation. As a free trader, he did not eonsider himself in consistent in supporting the present financial propositions the Government. There was only one porti on ,io which he ob. loan and at the th rate of at was the provision for the re p a yment of te 1,000,000/, a year afte r th e conclusion of t . Capt. LAFFAN object e d to a di fferential e sc w ale ar. of duties being imposed upon sugar. He thonght that, as in the case of wine, one duty only should be imposed upon all classes of sugar. The best and the worst class of wines equally paid ls. duty per gallon. He knew a sugar estate in the Mauritius upon which 30,0001. had been expended sum e erection of machinery thereon for the refinement of ; but within the last year orders had been given by the pro prietor of that estate to allow that machinery to lie idle, and to pr o d uce a c h eaper c l ass o f sugar i n order that the duty on first class sugar might be avoided. It paid the producer better to bring into the English market a cheap class of sugar than to refine it and pay a high duty. He (Capt. Laffan) submitted that the Chancellor of the Ex chequer ought to propose one duty upon all classes of sugar, which would produce an amount of revenue equal to that anticipated from the proposed differential duties. Mr. MALINS agreed in the general principles of the budget, and he thought that the Government had made a not unfair compromise between direct and indirect taxa tion. He thought that it would have been better to have obtained by loan than by indirect taxation the 5,000,0001, which the Chancellor of the Exchequer required above the ordinary revenue and the 16,000,0001. The proposed in crease of duties on imports and exports would cause great disturbance to trade, whilst the additional burden that would have been imposed upon the country in the shape of interest for a loan of 5,000,000/, would have been compa ratively insignificant. Sir W. CLAY denied that the proposed increase of the Customs' duties was at variance with the principles of free trade. It was absolutely impossible to raise the revenue by means of direct taxation. The income tax had been already applied to incomes as low as 1001. per annum, but many thousands of the people of this country still escaped the operation of that tax, and it was only fair to call upon them to contribute by indirect taxation to the expenses of the country. For the last 23 years every Government had remitted some of the indirect taxes, and, at least, 25,000,0001. of that-sp ec i es o f taxation had, daring that period, been remitted. Almost every tax that had been imposed of late years was directed against the wealthier classes of the community. It might be that before the war was ended our expenditure would be considerably greater than that estimated by the Chancellor of the Ex hchale,cieuteorbfem; right hon. gentleman would refrain as long as he possibly •a t i h se e d en lO su l. in e pryceeanir. and D But he e i t n rus m te e d ta t x hat mightthe could from increasing the income tax, which was a power ful engine that ought only to be resorted to in times of national peril. He objected to the proposal of the hon. member for Wick, to procure by a loan the additional 5,000,0001. required by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He (Sir W. Clay) was in favour of d e f ra yi ng th e eipendi tura of the war within the year, as far as that could be done, because the people of this country would then feel the burthen of the war press more heavily upon them than if they were only called upon to pay the interest upon a. loan for carrying it on. He approved generally of the budget. Mr. 'P. URQUHART said he would divide with the hen. member for Wick against this proposal to increase the Customs' duties, because he believed that the effect of that increase would be a serious blow upon our manufac turing interest,. which had to meet the severe competition of Germany, Prussia, and Switzerland. Those countries bad not to labour under the burthen of carrying on a great war, and we should take care not to put our manufactur ers out of a position of competing with them. He could. not but think that any measure which crippled our indus try and commerce would be most injurious to the country. Mr. GL ADSTONE Dose merely to do an act of justice to the Chancellor of the .Exchequer, because it had been stated by the boa. member for Wick - , and other hon. mem bers, that be ball taken the first retrograde step towards adopting a Protectionist course. 110:1. members had de scribed, and truly so, the mischief that would result from. adoptin g such a course. Ent the right lion. gentleman did not take the first step. ,He (Mr. Gladstone) was tho unfortunate person win., d uring last session, hurt to advise the house to take the tirst step iu the re versal of the course of the last twelve or fourteen yc,ar,s. It was quite true,however, that the duties which were propose I to, be increased did no t affect the question of protection. .As far as that was concerned, they had not yet reached the point at which the house would have to enter upon that serious question. The object of the Legis lature of late years had been to eradicate the bad principle of protection, and to* diminish the pressure of duty on articles of large consumption. The first step in the undoing of that course was taken last session, by levying an addi tional duty upon sugar, and also upon malt. These were very great evils. (Hear, hear.) He did not believe that the house would stop there ; for, if it was incumbent upon the house for many successive years to add to the taxation of the country to carry on the war, they would again have to discuis the justice of protection. He thought the hon. member for Huntingdon (Mr. T. Baring) had acted unwisely iu giving the advice that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should not have exercised any discrimi nation as to the articles upon which he levied an additional tax. He (Mr. T. Baring) would have taken the _article of wine, for instance, which he (Mr. Gladstone) believed to be most scandalously taxed at the present time—(hear, hear)—the consequence being to keep out of the market a large portion of the wine produced in Europe—(hear, hear)—or he would have imposed the ad ditional duty on tobacco, which already was so great that it was impossible to prevent smuggling. His belief was, that,-if the war continued for many years, the Chancellor of the Exchequer then in office would find himself put to such straits for money as to be compelled to resort to the imposition of protective duties at a time, he believed, when the last of the Protectionists would be dead. (Laughter.) The number of Protectionists had greatly diminished ever since the minority of 1852 or 1854. He believed that those who struggled so long and so ably for protection would not now receive.it as a gift, and that if it did come back it would come as the result of the war. It was all very well to say that-we should raise the whole of the taxation by direct or indirect taxation. So far as equality, in the abstract, was considered, there could be nothing fairer than the house tax, and yet there was none which. created greater difficulty, or caused. more discontent, than that tax. It was.not without great difficulty that the tax was imposed at all. He congratulated his right hon.. friend in having been able to satisfy all parties.. Those who liked direct taxation had it ; those who preferred is direct taxation had also got what they desired ; while those who liked loans were also accommodated—(laughter) —and although there were some who thought that the loan ought to have amounted to a round 20,000,0001., it was not very far from it ; for the 3,000,000/. Exchequer bills seemed to have been overlooked, which would bring i the sum up at least to 19,000,0001., which was not very far off 20,000,000/. (Hear, and laughter.) It was but fair e should realise to themselves the truth that, as in successive Uti to themselves, and to those they represented, that th e : years they had taken o ff many millions of tax a t ion many _ loss, so they might be iu a pasition to impose_ ay in had been one which, with a small loss, ent pro vis was from the welfare to the wealth of the country, so the present c millions without gain. As theprocess they d a b d e d e ed n e e n r ge os gea and.comfort of the people. They . h: i They were matters war without :anticipating one which, with little gain, these t ei to escape the force of which he hoped they would no n° try was convinced that this by having recourse to loans. H o so took much house could not commitittf hear,ee case by relorting to art gross as to try to cover up and avoid the diffic .,Ai l t _ t hear)—which he did not unlimited use .Inett undertaken the and , ' e niii:hilo.ennicetuiorosuwesho of n hn a id n t k h i unjustifiedn d d . b o F u o g r h wt wars a t ah e r i e : considered the cont. manent mortgage which it had placed the country, and, above all, the miser rong y condemn the practice which he g 0 many evils upon the co_uhfuriistenry . d' st a innovationreliev e had iev l hisde r a n r a iw b g enabled pernicious, a nd . fro mho I. able, and ufil hesitateip.nn ctehcouldse t ar o nen s d a to . y nt htu h oe :a o f i d i rf t sr . • nations to carry on, had brought their position, from l budget. had t ii h e e thon g i fheireehhn thought t et eh t i t l eN i v a ruh t i Di , ejh i hu n t whatever way they endeavoured to meet their eyes to them, C oheir position, f ti r p the difficulties of ripen it, they ought not to shut such a course would tend to keep the public sacrifices they would. be called up on I'm _fully appreciating the to make. Mr. ALCOCK'tho htincometax ought to thought the been increased to 10 per cent. rather than increase the dut y upon coffee, ke. Th e working classes were ready to pay income tax rather than pay an additional tax upon to bacco, e malt, anti Aft those other arti c l es o f large consumption. After a few words from Mr. MIDFIELD, which were inaudible .in the gallery, Mr. FIASTIE considered it would have been far better to have borrowed tyro additional millions rather than fetter the industry of the nation by increased taxation. Mr. FOX said that the right hon. member for Oxford had failed to make the discrimination that those W l l i i,o n pr t e o - jarred direct taxation did so because they were ! b:, willing g ated pay their fair quota of taxation, while thoseasw It' Indirect taxation wished to pay as li ttle w possible. vas unequal, but its . had been objects,' that the income tag with the ineqUnlity of inequality was nothing as compared sw. He thought that taxeelevied_uPon tea, sugar, coffe e, . principles• . the necessity of reverting to p ro tectionist in the s a warning ,against . • event ef-the war to ntiening,wa lfilis giling demanded. further than absolute necess i tyh would vote with but 91. he friend dlvided the house e f . him, would do so on no principle o epposition to the most liberal grants of public money which, they might be called upon to'make for the p ur p oses of the war. in which they :', ere engaged --(hear, hear)—for thou g h,- on - the part of the people, b e felt it to be his . duty to p ro t es t ; tappet twee burdens, which fell - tie - heaVily on them, still, on their . part, he WeUld SW they were fully premed to boar mu _..