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. . Till Snl 4 .. 3 LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING. MARCH 9 ' .fiaNIII••••••• ••••••••11....--- ~...,...... ' , 8 2 1- ‘ I N A D It O E T S HER COM _ - , 4 .„,___ ,ftp,,- , e. , e MARKET INTELLIGENCE. THE POOR-LAW. punishine other nations who did not conform to our policy. .N BAN.K P S I , t Mt Ihr itl WV ' tttO n (From the London New Price Current, March 9.) SUGAR.-To- day the demand was good for West India, 1, Tr,.; T , Terg P •esented a petition from Le' t Leicester, er, pray- He hoped also to show that what had taken place in the ing 1... II some P Iteration may be made in the mode of meantime between the last discussion and the present, !I C S S E U S R A O N ( 11 ,";; ,, PA NIES' STOCK. levying the p , ,or-rate, and stating that whereas the exhibited in a remarkable degree the absurdity of those SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. and the rates paid . are in some cases rather above those 1831 were only 13,0001. in the aggregate reservations. The second of those reservations LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 9. current previously, making the advance for poor rates now limo unted to 34,0001. and upwards. had reference to the coasting trade, and ----seeih------- the week his per cwt. The total sales to- rates in Mr. MUNI Z presented a petition from a large num- went to impose on the shipowner, after exposing TOINT-STOCH ZANE.% day are 530, making . 2,420 hhds, &c., for THE LONDON GAZETTE• he week. At auction 32 hhds Barbadoes foundber of the i la lans of Birmingham complaining thathim to a perfectfreedom of competition with the •rel Vt. t Dividend Amount - although the; e paid 75 per cent. of the poor-rates, they foreigner in every branch of our commerce, obligations to ' , awe of Company. per ) of l'aio Prici, (THIS EVENING.) rowers at 39s for midijling greyish yellow, and at 38s for ordinary. The m rket closes with a firm a s p ec t f or had altopethe r only six votes in the ele c tion of guar di ans , w hi c h hi s r i va l s were not subject,-(Hear,) To a all Annum. share. I _ and pray i ng t, `tat some alteration in the law may imme. so framed it was impossible, with the opinions he enter. all sorts of Raw Sugar. For public sale on Tuesday x U. Z U. --- WAR OFFICE, MARCH 9, 1849. 3,000 bags Bengal, 4,000 bags Mauritius, 2,000 bags diately be made'. tamed upon that subject, that he could allow it to pass Australasia.......... 25 20 0 0 0 6 - 40 o 0 40 o 0 25N Ist Regiment of Life Guards-Captain Henry Boys, Madras, and for Wednesday 5,000 bags Manilla, and FREE-TRADE. into another stage, and it was his intention to gress, if the hritsh North American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 .- 6 eLl m on e;c • ia .. l . 0 . 1 .. L . c . c . ci0 . ; 6 7 1 1 : per cent. cent 1 25 00 0 0 0 from half-pay, Unattached, to be Captain, vice Thomas 3,700 let sof Siam Sugar are declared. REFINED g - be Captain, by purchase, vice Boys, who retires; home. in corn, th e F i e n ip l e is not applied to other commodities. objections which, he believed to be applicable to this Gloucestershire ...• • • 15/per cent. - - - consumption; brown Lumps at 50s to 50s 6d, and Cornet Sub-Lieutenant Henry Sambrook Crawley to IRISH POOR-LAW. ill-judged measure-(Hear, hear)-and so to state them lonian ----•• • • • • 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - to pass the Standard 51s. per cwt; at these rates there Lotidn and Westminstr 61 per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 2334 be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lowther; Edmund Mr. CLEMEN TS presented a petition from a person as to enable the House, as far as he could throw any Ditto ........ • - 13 0 0 are not generally sellers. For Bonded Crushed the rates •••••• - Waldo Meade Waldo, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub- . resident in the c ounty of Roscommon complaining of light the , paid are 31s to 325, and there are several bayers. Liewenant, by purchase, vice Crawley, March 9. f the oor-law and statinthat the oppressive etre vt o p , g early a decision as might be, on the merits of the Proyincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Surgeon James ths MAIIRITIUB.-This afternoon their was no üblic sale, in Ditto, New... ... •• • 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - 7th Light Dragoons -Veterinary '' soldandat • 6d but privately several parcels were so , per cent. 22 10 0 - 14th Light Dragoons, to be George Philips, from the to the poor-rate. C'n the motion of the Hon. Member the nature of a resumed debate. In the last Nat. Provncial of En .* * Eng . 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 Os 0 to Is per cwt above those of this day week. Veterinary Surgeon, vice Siddell, appointed to the 10th the petition was retell esd to the Committee on the Poor- session of Parliament the subject was very Dine, New.- -•• • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - EAST INDIA.-This afternoon there was a brisk de- Australia • • 5/ per cent. - 22 10 0 - Light Dragoons, March 9. laws. fully entered into and very ably discussed, mend for Bengal Sugar, and at public sales of 5655 bags LTlllOrl of Australia ... • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 2.% Scots Fusilier Guards-The Honourable Alexander RA TE IN AID. with great ability on the part of some he saw around Ditto ............. full rates were obtained ; fine white Benares went at 42s • 6/, per cent - 210 0 - Edward Frazer to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by pur- Colonel JONES pr esented a petition adopted at a him, and with conscicuous ability indeed on the part of tr l 4‘)l4 of L0nd0n..... 6/. per cent 50 0 0 10 0 0 - 6d to 435, middling and good 40s 6d to 42*, damp and Union of Madrid - vice Parker, who retires, March 9. Public meeting in Kerry • against the Rate-in-Aid Bill. one whom he saw no longer in that Hausr.-(Hear.) - chase, Regiment of Foot-Lieutenant John H. Lothian, 9th VALUATION OF 7 PROPERTY IN IRELAND. In that interval documents had been produced, and an e INSURANCE COMPANIES. froth the a - 7th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Lea, who ex- 6d to 50s, yellow ditto 43a 6d to 44s 6d, low and good Sir ROBERT FEW ; USON moved for and obtained expression of opinion evinced on the part of the public, soft yellow 34s to 37s 6d per cwt. changes, March 9. Dividend Amount der for returns of the several counties counties of which were h* hl advent ap . or , hi y advents coos to forming a correct came company. of Paid, per Priv: 42(1 Foot-Lieutenant William John Cuninghame to FOREIGN.-To-day there was no public sale of Foreign cities, and counties of towns in Ireland, of which the judgment and to coming to a true decision upon this Annum. Share. Sugar, and by private treaty the amount on offer is even be Adjutant, vice Hay, promoted, March 9. valuation under the Act & and 7 Will. IV, c. 84, has been great question. They had also on the table of the less than heretofore. There is still much desire mani 49th Foot-Captain Lachlan Hector Gilbert Maclean, completed specifying the manse of each baron or half House the comes ondence wli• comp , y p ich had taken place with d. ..£ s, d. Tested by exporters to do business, and they are willing Albion -•••••••• •• - at. 10s. 5 0 0 ° O from.half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, Vice M'Adam, barony, the acreable c ontents, and the ♦valuation foreign powers. The Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. La- Alliance Brit. and For. Cl. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 75 0 20 di ceased, March 9. to pay former rates. 57th Foot-Li eu t enan t F re d er i c k P ercy L ea , f rom th e AloaAsses.-Sales to a fair extent have been made in thereof ; stating also, the sum ordered to be levied b ouc h ere ) seeme d per f ect l y sat i sf i ed with that correspon- Ditto Marine••• •• •• 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 by the Grand Jury Warvant of Spring Assizes 1848 dente, and he hoped he would be so when the contents .-. a ; 1 7 38.6d.e n rsh. 50 0 0 5 6 8 15% West India this week, and former rates are well sup isrtlitilii*. Commercial :. 9th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Lothian, who exchanges, for each such barony or half barony, and the rate per had been fully discussed. They had also petitions from etericl,Med.&Gen.Life E u pl e c r tl a b r s e 1500 0 0 0 1 5 0 g 0 55i March 9. ported ; there is also not a larger amount on offer ; the centum which' each such sum'. bears to the valuation ; all parts of the country, which were of vast importance County .•..••- - .. - 0 19 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - 60 h Foot-Captain Joseph Robinson to be Major, value is from 16s 6d to 20s per cwt. East India Treacle Cr ,wn .. .. -.•-•• •• 14s. 5000 500 12% finds a more ready salesum ordered to be by the Grand Jur by reason of thegreat the levied at Iss to 16s per cwt, and the also, ,y number by whom the opinions , 1 6s. 50 0 0 5o 0 5% witheut purchase, vice Gordon, kille 1 in action ; Lieu- Warrant of Summer Assizes 1848 for each such barony contained in them were exesse I, by reason of the " 4 e - *** .. Eng.& Scot. Law .... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 212 6 - tenant Charles Napier North to be Capt-in, vice Robin- supply dues not extend. or half barony, and the rate per centum which each such places from which the petitions came, and by European Life -• • -5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. Cocoa.-There is much demand for West India, and son; Second Lieutenant Vincent Tongue to be First Lieu Cocoa.-There the valuation: •also the and sum bears to - as the supply is small, a further advance in the value is Freemasons' .• •••• • • • Cl. per cent. 20 0 o a o o - tenant, vice North, December 2F, 1848; Gecege Bliss acreable contents of each such county, county of city, represented by those parties who so expressed these f a d apparent. At public sale 45 bags of Trinidad were sold eoec Mac Queen, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Tongue, and county of a town, the annual value thereof , according opinions. If the House would attend to the num- Glardian ..... ..... .. 51. 100 00 36 - 10 0 4534 March 9. - at 45s 6d for good red, and 41s 6d to 43s 6d for mid-to the valuation under that Act ; the amount ber and character of the petitions _ _log and good grey; of superior red the supply is un. . . . p presented in opposi- I:nperial Fire •••••• •• 121 per cent. 500 0050 0 0 220 64th Foot-Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas Wilson from di f o r of the expense of such valuation, the cost tion to the measure, it would agree with him that it Imperial Life •••• •• • • 12s. 100 0010 0 0 15 usually small. Former rates are well kept up Lideogity Marine.... 11.,h, & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 28 the 77th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice , er acre of such valuation, and the rate which the coat would have been unfortunate indeed if the measure had Foreign, and only a small amount is on offer; the value I' - too 0 0 210 0 24g who exchanges, March 9. of such valuation bears to each 100/. of the valuation. been passed which was introduced last session. From a Law w 17;2 ... •• -- - - ••••••• .. 11. 16s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45 is from 27s to 28s per cwt. 34 66th Foot-Lieutenant William Montgomery Stew- From the counties of Waterford and Cork, specifyi ng li s t o f towns which he held in his hand, it appeared Le3al and General Life - 50 0 0 200 41 108 COFFEE.-The market has presented a tranquil ap- Lot tdcn Fire .. •• •• .. 101. 25 0012 10 0 13% art Caulfiell to be Captain, without purchase, vice the name of each barony or half barony, the acreable that petitions' had been presented from Edinburgh, Bel wirance for all descriptions of West India this week, London Ship .... •• •• 10s. 2 0 0 12 10 0 le% Turner deceased; Ensign Richard White to be Lieu- P t ts and the valuation thereof statin also thefast Dartmouth Sunderland, , Mootrose, Portsmouth, too 0 0 15 0 0 8% and although a smaller amount is on offer, yet the ten- contents Canine.. ••• •• •• •• .. - en to be l yied the Grand . ' Jury g Warrant sum of Po; tenant, vice Caulfield, Jan. 29; Alfred Torrens, Gent, tsea, Weymouth, Sunderland, and Glasgow. There .I ,, , led.lnvl L id&Gen.Life 4%/. per ct. 50 0 0 .2 0 0 2 dency of prices is to recede. The public sales of Coffee alf to be Ensign, vice White; Lieutenant Arthur Pilkington, ordere d Spring as' 1.848 fli r each such barony Assizes r e or was also one from the metropolis of the great commer- , :t tl o o n n a a l I l o f t ! Fund.. s b l ip p e e r r cent. 1002 0 0 :to g :.... declared, comprise 1,085 baps Brazil, 260 bags 14 casks from 31st Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Ross, deceased, barony, and the rate per centum which each cial world, London, which was presented by the First e Ceylon, and 2,240 bales Mocha. To-day there was no illadium Lila 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 11 19s. March 9. such sumthe valuation • also, the sum or- Minister bears to - 721 Foot-Lieutenant J ames Mackenzie to be Cap- public sale of Coffee, and the private operations are of _ a../10:2•11X • • - and dered to be levied by. the Grand Jury Warrant came a petition from • Liverpool the second great commer , , - 141 little moment. Prices generally tend downwards, Summer . Pi ot‘ctor Life.... ••• 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 - tam% without purchase, vice Moylan, deceased, Jan. 26; for eachsuchcial • of Assiz,s, 1848, rule at 31s to 33s for Native Ceylon. Provident Life........ 11. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 27 Ensign and' Adjutant Alexander Crombie to have the barony, and the rate per centum which each such sum of which was I Rock Life............ ss. 5000 10 0 5% rank of Lieutenant, Jan. 25; Ensign Seymour Stuart TEA.-Black is not offered at any reduction, still the e . tee petitioners viewed with the greaiest bears to the valuation: of the counties, counties of cities, alarm the progress of a measure which proposed to do 'loyal .Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. - Thellusson to be Lieutenant, vice Alackenzie, Jan. 26; sales made have been of little moment, and large parcels and counties of towns in Ireland, except Cork and away with these laws, which had been so long and so ' 3.1 1 u ,i t F trLite •• • • 6/. 10s. - - I 202 Charles Fleming Hunter, Gent to be Ensign, ~ vice could only be sold, but at lower rates. The value of valuation under the Act 6 and successfully Waterford, of which the Universal Life.... - - pr cat. 100 0 0 9 0 0 - Thellusson, March 9. low and good common Congou is 74d. to BAd. per lb. completed, have the effect 0 ' . • 7 William IV., c. 84, has not been t ahowing foreigners to share in those Victoria Life..., - 40 0 4% 77th Foot-Lieutenant-Colonel George Dub rley e , There are sellers of Green at lower rates, still half barony, the advantages which speeds ing the name of each barony or ought exclusively to belong to this ----------------- from the 64th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice few buyers are to be met with, and many acreable contents according to the Ordnance survey; nation. Since last session a correspondendence had been BRIDGES 'Wilson, who exchanges; John Richard Harvey, Gent., parcels are on offer, more especially of good stating also the sum ordered to be levied by the Grand produced, relating partly to Canada and partly to fo- Dividend Amount and fine kinds. There is not much demand for Black Name of Company. to be Ensien, without purchase, vice D - It t d 'ii e, promo e in Jury Warrant lof Spring Assiz e s pm off each such reign states, to which he thought it right to thaw the at- per of Paid. Price. the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, March 9. leaf Pekoe, and sales can be made at lower rates, but barony or half barony, and the rate per 1,000 acres as- tendon of the House before he proceeded further to des- Annum. Share. 80th Foot-John Wilkinson, Gent., to be Ensign,is brisk for good and fine Scented Pekoe' the demand , sessable in the county book, and the sum ordered to be cant upon the principle of the measure. He did not intend -- -_ _ and prices incline upward. One public sale is at present 4. s. d. Z. s. d. Without purchase, vice Mathias, who resigns, March 9. levied f h b bGrand J W f to trouble o each barony y thetug arrant o the House with any statistics, so much detail Charing-cross ...... •• - 25 0 0 declared. The stock is still less than last year, notwith- Southwrk,NwSub•Av. 83d Foot-Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William Tom- Summer Assizes, 1848, and the rate assessable upon each having been entered into last session, but would endeavour - 639 12 a - 2)4 kinson, from hall-pay 24th Light Dragoons, to be Cap- standing the late areivals. 1,000 acres in the county book. to rest his views and arguments upon the principle of this we Ditto Nw of 734 p.c. 355. per cent waterloo • P . 50 0 0 - 15 RICE.-To-day there was little passing in the East ........... - 100 0 o - lain, vice William Garstin, who exchanges, March 9 ; NF W ' PF 4 SPA 41t ADVERTISEMENTS. question itself. The Right Hon. Gentleman who intro- Ditto Old Ann. of 8/. 11. ss. 4d. 60 0 0 26 4 % Lieuten an t the Honourable William Gage to be Captain, India Rice market, still no further decline in the value Mr. BROTHERTONmoved for and obtained an duced the meets re r d his ar uments main! u - Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. 2 a. 2d. 40 0 0 24% ' was visible. At public sale 1,750 bags were nearly all - Ay. - It. 17s. 70 10 3 by purchase, vice Tomkinson, who retires, March 9; order for a return, showing the number of London three points or ut theta forward at least as t- ,24 _ Lieutenant Charles Peregrine Teesdale, from the Ceylon taken iu at lls to lie , newspapers, the number of advertisements in them, the principal inducement for the House to take this subject WATER-woltnies. Rifle Regimen', to be Lieutenant, vice Swinburne, ap. middling broken, and 8s for Batavia. rate end amount of advertisment duty paid by them in into its consideration, and to accede to his proposition, 1 Dividend Amount SPICES.-For Pimento a good demand has been ex pointed Paymaster. each year from the Ist day of January, 1841, to the Ist This great foundation was the case of Canada, and the Name of Company. . per of rate. Price. ' 92d Foot-Lieutenant-Augustus Fitzhardinge Berke- Perienced, and the rates obtained are fully equal to da of January 18 rv, 49. Similar return as regards the state of the West Indies. There were other topics 1 Annum. Share. ley, from half-pay Royal Waggon Train, to be Lieute- those current by private treaty, although supplies are , a I Scotch, and English provincial , the the Irish newspapers. into which he was desirous of enterin but he , ___ upon an extended scale. At auction 1,000 bags were 1 £ s. d. •C s. d. irint, vice Duff, appointed Paymaster; Ensign DavidTHE MARRIAGE LAW. - would for the present abstain, and simply before East London..•• •• ••• • 1 81. 100 00 - - 17 1 disposed of, mid at 3id to 3ad, coarse 3i-d to 3id, Grand Junction -•• • • 2/ 105. 41 Holland Erskine to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Several petitions were resented • f pres prhying o .r an alters- taking up what after all was the matter main) Bo and damaged 3d to 3d per lb. By private contract ei. los • le 13 4 - Berkeley, who retires; Gibson Stott, Gent., to be En- t' in the law which ion - Lambeth .......• •• •• 5f per cnt 100° 0 3 - - y several parcels have been disposed of, and at similar rates. o - 97 sign, by purchase, vice Erskine, March 9. of a deceased wife. (Hear, hear)-he would take up those three points New Rivr Lndu Brdge . 21. 101. . I Opinion is favourable as to the future position of the - 55 Celon Rifle Regiment-Lieutenant Henry Skinner POOR RATE. to which he had previously referred. The first of these V3uxhall ............ ! 51. per cat. 100 0 0 --- 100 ' market. Black Pepper is limited in supply, and the . West Middlesex . • . 161.05. pr cat. - to be Captain, stithout purchase, vice Raitt, deceased; Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY presented a petition was Canada, and had reference to the state of publlc - - 120 rates offered are fuliy equal to those of this day week. Second Lieutenant Richard Percival Wigmore to be from Southwark, complaining of the present oppressive opinion on the subject of the navigation-laws in our DOCILS. The market has a quiet appearance for Nutmegs- First Lieutenant, vice Skinner, Jan. 2; Rupert Camp mode of levying the rate, and praying for an ins- North American colonies.-(Hear, hear.) They had brown of low and mid quality realise 2s 3d to 2s Bd, bete bell Watson, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Wig- Dividend Amount ter sort 2s 9d to 3s 4d, and title 3s 5d to 3s 9d; tor limed Proved mode of ley) ing the rate throughout the country, an impression last session that all Canada was in favour Name of Com any,9 per of Paid. Price. more, March 9. DUTY ON PAPER. of the repeal of these laws, and it would seem from the Annum. Share. there are few buyers, and 2s to 2s 9d is the value, ac- UNiTTACHED.-Lieutenant Robert Dauglas, from Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment, to be Captain, without cording to quality. Mace is in fair demand, at Is 10d to Mr. HUME presented a petition from the paper manu- representation that had been placed before the House ------- h --- .t 8. d. £ a. d. 2 purchase, March 9. 2s 4d, and good to fine 2s 6d to 2s 10d; there is also no facturers of Edinburgh, stating that the duty on paper by the Right Hon. Gentleman at the head of the oil/la m -d a l ...... .4/ per cent. Stock. - 70 BREVET. increase of supply. Ginger has been dealt in with amounted virtually to them to 75 per cent, on the whole Board of Trade, that the opinion there was such East and West India... 6i. pr cent. Stock. - 127 t greater freedom; the supply is also falling off, and the value of the article, and praying for a modification or as to justify the course which he had taken.-(Hear, Ls t de Country - 20% Lieutenant-General Sir Charles James Napier, abolition of it. hear.) But he believed that the Right Honourable Gen- Ditto Bon • • 51. pr cant. Stock. - 1 ofprices is to advance. East India tendency 41. per cent. - 2 - - G.C.8., to have the local rank of General in the Arm RADICAL REFORM. tleman was not in possession of all the papers which st.hatharine --• • •• 4 per cent. Stock. y is 22s to 255, home trade kind 30s to 903. African and - 79 % ' in the Eist Indies, March 6. Barbadoes 28s to 30s, Jamaica 21 to 6/ 10s, and fine 71 to Mr. HUME also presented a petition from Taunton, he required fur a fair exposition of the matter. Ditto Bonds •• 4341. pr cent. - Southampton ••..• • • • 21. _ - for a radical reform of the constitution of the Yet with all these advantages there never was per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 Captain Henry Boys, of the Ist Regiment of Life 11/. Cloves are held with firmness, and sales to a fair Praying Guards, to be Major in the Army, Nov. 9, 1846. extent have been made; indeed, some parties will not House of Commons. a more slender case made out than that of Canada. In GAS -LIGHT AND CORE COMPANIES. WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 7. se ll at present rates. KAFIR WAR. fact, the papers were presented ev i dent l y w i th a view to Dividend Amount E Mr. Y. SMITH gave notice that on an early day he make an impression to serve certain purposes.- Name of co I t A List of Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates killed INDIoo.-At public sale this afternoon 7 serene of mpany, per of Paid. Price. in action at Ramnuggur, on the 22d o f N ovem b er 1848, G uatemala Ind i go sold at Is lld to 2s 9d, and very ord should move for returns connec t e d w ith- t h e expen dit ure (H ear , h ear .) He was sorry to say that the plan h a d Annum. Share. 1 in the Kafir war. the countenance of Members of the Government in high • -- - 1 and at Sadoolapoor, on the 3d of December 1848, or is to is 2d per lb. X. a. d. A. a d ' NAVIGATION-LAWS. places. There was a practice of presenting documents, n r i tie , „ . • • 1 C who subsequently died of their wounds. SALTPETRE.-To-day there was much inquiry after •••••••••.. it. 40 0 0 IS 00 , 14 - j Mr. DISRAELI 'presented petitions against the re- but instead of documents they had only per- Ditto Provincial.... 11. 85. 20 0019 • 0 ' - Raninuggur.-3(1 Light Dragoons. Rough, but the quantity on offer is small. Prices keep Bristol • • - ........ - P of the navigation-laws from, Hartlepool, Leek, dons of dOCUMents. Such parts were laid be. tel. per cent. 20 0 0 13 . ' 3 Died of Wounds-Private Ralph Grieve Nov. 9 5,1848. on the advance, and rule at 27s to 28s 6d for ord to fine s Perth, Dunfermline, the Association of West Indian fore them as suited the position which the Brighton •• •• •• -•• •• 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 - 16 Ramnuggur.-14th Light Dragoons. quality. Killed-Corp ora l Willi am T o dd ; Privates John COCHINEAL.-The demand was brisk for Cochineal, and tooto 0 0 100 0 0 250 Planters at Wasgow, and from Peterkio. Government had t o serve , whil s t o th ers were , ; oi . , ti o n f en L t o a n i d e . u o u n s;1 i • d • a * t * . 92 s. pr e share 50 0 39 5 • 45 Alderton , Willi a m A Mr. HUME presented two petitions to the same effect, omitted. H e wou ld b e one o f t h e l ast to b e li eve that the Equitab1e............ Brahenon, Charles Fox, Aline , Richard Ilungßichard Ba , William 63 bgs at auction sold at firm rates ; Hond u ras silv e rs one from Montrose and the other from Arbroath. Right Ho n . G ent l eman at t h e h ea d o f t h e Board o f6l. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 673 0 ertord gg , James went at 3s 10d to 4 s 6d, an d m id bl ac k a t 4s 9d p er lb. Imperial ............ Independent ...... •• 61 er cent 40 0 Sir JOHN WALSH presented a. similar petition from Trade would willingly or knowingly follow such a London.... . • p • 0400 0 64 v Raines, Charles Tuttell, John Ward, George Williams. SPIRITB.-For Jamaica Rum former rates are sup - 50 0 0 40 0 0 the county of Ayr. custont.-(Hear, and loud cheers.) A document was Ditto.. - :::::::::• 50 0 0 50 • Died of Wounds.-Privates John Hatton, 22d No- ported this week, but on the part of exporters or home Mr. NAPIE It presented a similar petition from Belfast.presented Ito the • s House, respecting the Members of • - - Phcenix • ...... ••.• .. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 46 o 0 28 t vember 1 Benjamin Jennings, 23d November. dealers little desire is evinced to do business, and supplies ECCLIASTICAL COMMISSION. the Legislative [Chamber 'of "Canada West. Now, it Istatchff ..... ...... 5/. too 0 • 90 0 0 77 Sadoolapoon-24th Foot. are good of the lower sorts. Of fine the quantity on offer , Sir GEOIeGE GREY appeared at the bar of the appeared that this Councirconsisted of 89 Members of Yv n e il t e in cl i G m e t n e e r r c al a .. •• • • 4%1. pr cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 12% Killea-Colour-Sergeant James Collins, private James is yet small. Leeward Island is held for Is 2d to is 3i(l h rtered 3/. 50 0 0 - Altirthp, proof, but only small purchases have been , House, and stated that in a ccor d ance w i t h t h e reso l ut i on whom 17 were absent from he country at the time that Ditto, New •• •• -• ~4 12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 9% ' Died of Wounds-Colo u r -S ergean t Willi am Young, made. E eat India is not to be obtained at lower terms. of the House an address had been p resen t e d t o h er M a - document was concocted, and of those seventy- CAATAI.S. two Mem- -- v Bth December; private J ames B i bb, 7 t h D ecem b er , The market is i n a dull state. Calcutta can be obtained j es ty p ra yi ng h er M a j esty to appo i nt a Comm i ss i on to tiers fifty-three had absolutely signed a declaration that Saduolapoor.-61st Foot. at Is 3d, and Penang at is 2id proof ; there are not inquire into the expediency of subdividing parishes into such was not the feeling in Canada. Such was the case Names Dividend' of 4, :i 1 " Price. Na mes °I r. . Dividend t Killed - Private George Kitchen, private William geaerally sellers upon these low terms. The value districts for ecclesiastical purposes, and her Majesty had also with regard to the legislative councilof Mon- Cen n- panics. d per I her 1 Companies. ..1 , • Price. 4 , tillilUßl. t Jackson, of Demerara is from Is 101 ti 2s 4d for 38 been graciously pleased to consent to the appointment of treal. Another document was presented from v Annum. ---- _ _1......_... such Commission. the Ch amber of Commerce I- _ e Red of Wounds-Private Henry Darling, sth Dec.; to 40 per cent. over proof. Brandy-Cognac of that country. a COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS..E 1 o private John Connolly, 4th December, best brands of the vintage of 1836 at 5s Id to „ This board consisted of 103 members, of whom thirteen Ashtn& Oldh 97 - I- Macclesfield Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire. 5s 3d, 1847 ditto 43 to 43 2d, 1848 3s 6d to 33 Bd, and i" CAYLEY wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet were absent from the colony. The mmbers who refused Barnsley., • • 160, 12L 180 Neath ... • : 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2/. 18 1 , 08. 3 4 ( 0 ) c Thomas Townley Parker, Esq., to be Deputy Lieute- inferior Brandy at from 2s 2d to 3s 2d. Geneva, the the Secretary of State for the Home Department to sign amounted to eight, while twelve protested and Brknk&Abrg 150' Si, 85 Oxford••• • • • • 1001 20' 1L 0 Birmingham 35; 41 80 Peak Forest. 78 I, 31 18s 67 tl nant, March 2. whether Government had received any report of the export value is Is 91 to is 101, and fine 2s 4d to 33 34. fifty.„ y „ s i gne d th e letter, declaring that they were in Coventry.... boo! • i 25" 210 Re gent's.... 331 11. 5.. 15 3 4 ADMIRALTY, MARCH 1. British Corn Spirit at 93 10d, Gin 22 under 8,1 3d, and colliery explosion near Wolverhampton, and whether it favour of protection.-(llear.) But there had been a Derby ••• •• 1001 61. i 63 Rochdale. • • 1 41. 1,4 ei was the iutention of Government to take any steps for document presented to-day which showed more Ellsinre&Chs 133 565. 40 Somrset Coal 1 8 5 5 0 . 71.105. 130 . te Corps of Royal Marines-First Lieutenant Robert 17 under Ets 9d per gallon. preventing such dreadful occurrences. strongly than anything else, the feeling of the C. i h ; rewr j h ••• 100, 32/. - Do.LkFdSt 12 61. p. c. - a Hockings to be Captain, vice Bunco, deceased ; Second Otas.-The market for Fish Oils continues in favour uu rnrcetyn 100,t o .2 5L. 79 30 B S h tff re rd &Wore 140 281. 3i 0 Lietver errant Arthur John Stuart to be First Lieutenant, able position; supplies are small, consumption is good, Sir G. GREY said he had received no official infornsa- nadas upon this question, It was the report of a •irraanndSwsbury.. 126 151 . - vice Hockings, promoted. and none has been offered at public sale this week. A tion on the subject of the accident to which the Hon. meeting held in the colony, at which there was e 7 -;rand Union 100' 1/, 10s. 24 Stourbridge.. 145 201. 285 WHITEHALL. JAN. 22. further advance is visible in the value of Cod, and at Gentleman alluded, but he had received a report of the larges 'lumber of persons present than had been Grantham .. 150 - - Severn and nnt & Avn 39 7s. 6d. 534 Wye Rail. 26 2 . 04. - The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Wilde, lint., Lord 27/ to 27/ 103 per ton ; several parcels have been sold. coroner's inquest on the sufferers from the explosion known at any previous assembly of the sort. " The te.isstLiere 100 30/. 320 Warwick&e Chief Justice caper Majesty's Court of Common . Pi .- -eas, Seal, pale is worth 31/ to 32/, tinged and straw, near. to Barnsley, and that report was now under the meeting was convened by parties favourable to the re- Leicester .... 140 5/. - itirming. 5 100 41. 50 consideration of the dome-office, peal of these laws, but upon a resolution being proposed ~ eicstr &Nth 83 41. 40 Warwick& at Westminster, has 'appointed Richard Underwood, 291 to 301, yellow and brown 271 to 28/ 10s. Southern, ',DU Aborogh 142 701. 650 Napton.. j 100 31. 41 Mr. CAYLEY said he observed the Hon. Member for adopting a petition to Parliament in of the city of Hereford, Gent., to be one price sale at 281 to 331 for low to fine, and there is favour of their re- Nlonmouthsh 100 81. - Worcstr 8,1 of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the a good demand. Holders of Sperm have confidence. Montrose had a motion on the paper relative to this sub- peal, an amendment was moved and •d b came y a large 3inteemrysh 100 - - Birming. 78 2/. 40 acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married Fine Colonial 81/ to 821, and Headwaiter 81/ to 83/ per ject, and he should be glad to know if the Hon. Gentle- to effect that majority, `the a repeal of the naviga- MeltnMwbry 100 - - Wilts & Brka - IL to women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines tun. Of Palm, fair and flue quality realise from 32s to man intended to persevere in tbat? Lion-laws, so far as Canada was concerned, would • IST OP SCOTTISH COMPAN IES ' P - m and recoveries, and for the substit u ti on o f more s i mp l e 345. T here are several export orders for Cocoa Nut Mr. HUME replied in the affirmative, and stated that prove most disastrous prosperity.-(Cheers.) Ric ES to its ' ni modes of assurance, in and f a i r the city o f Hereford also and a fair quantity ha s b een ta k en f or h ome trad e he should bring it. forward on the supply night. Th e E ar l o f Elgin had Dividend Amount conveyed an intima- Name of Company, per of Paid, price. St in and for the county of Her e f or d. purposes. The value of low to fine is 34s to 375. TERMINABLE ANNUITIES. tion to the home Gover nment that the erec- Annum. Share.ol BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. F or Li nsee d Oil t h e rates paid are 26s to 26s 6d Th e H ON . MEMBER said the House had ordered a re- tion of Montreal into a free port, would re- -.-- -........ -_-__ ____ r e .E s. h. Z s. d fit John Moulton, timber merchant, Manchester. for forward delivery, several parcels have been sold at turn of the value of terminable annuities, which he move the difficulties under which the inhabitants Bank of Scotland BANKRUPTS. 26s 61 to 27. Rapeseed Oil finds a ready sale; pale at understood was read y,and he begged now to move that were labouring-a proposition nhich was seconded by British Linen Company Si. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 - 0 191 John James Weston, cattle dealer, Cranbrock, Kent, 38t, and brown 375. Oltve Gir • - , 'poll at 43/ to 43/ lOs thereturn be continued to the Ist September.-Agreed to. several memorials. It was sent in tbe spring of 1847, italetionian Bank to surrender March 21, at eleven, and April 25, at Spanish and Sicily 41/ lOs to 42110 x, Barbary,' Levant, ROYAL ASSENT, and he asked, in fairness, why, wen they City of Glasgow ask. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11N It Clydesdale Bank • • 6r cc 2 te 0 10 0 0 1274 i s twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official and Portugal, 40/ to 41/ per tun. Lard 011 at 403 to S• Augustus Clifford Sir appeared at the bar, and sum- spoke loudly of the grievances of the people, s assignee, Basinghall•street; Carritt and Osgood, Basing- 445, and Ground Nut Oil at 31s to 325, moved the House to the House of Lords to hear the Royal - in respect of the navigation•law s , they did not take the Eastern Bank.. -•• •• 61. per cent. 25 u 0' 10 0 C y 1 5 0s " hall-street. TALLOW.-To-clay Tallow was in good demand, and Assent given by Commission to several Bills-(for which step suggested by the Governor General of the North Edinb.4 Glasgow Bank 6/. per cent. 50 0 500 •• 5 7 % cc Isle of of Scot 4l. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 33% WI Thomas Beadle, victualler, Croydon, March 19, at the public sales went at full rates. Of South American see Lords' report.) American provinces, and give them that relief they re- of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7• 0 In o, and April 30, at twelve, at the Court of Bank- 750 pkgs were mostly sold at from 34s 3d to 40s 3d; 54 The SPEAKER then left the House, followed by • d (11 a num- quire .- ear.) He put it to them why they did eational Bank 6% per cent. 50 0010 0 0 13% - Ir ruptcy. Turquintl, official assignee, Guildhall- chambers; cks New South Wales 37s did to 38s Od; 120 cks Odessa ber of Hon Members. not act as he , had pointed out ? There was Sorth of Scotlandßank 4/.per cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 ,41.175. ih Rus,ell and Son, Martin's-lane, Cannon-stri et. 38s 04 to 39, 6d; 150 pkgs Cape 37s 9 , 1 to 41s 6(1; 60 cks The SPEAKER, on his return, intimated that the nothing to prevent the Government from issuin an or- North British Bank - 50 0010 0 0 4as.ild di Et 1B Then oya ank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 116 h a Filden Chrismas, brewer, Say's-court, Kr nt, March P.Y. Candle 38s 94 for ord ;60 casks Taganrog 40s 3d Royal Assent had been given in the House of Lords to der in council declaring Montreal a free r g po t. Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 00500 0 80 15, at twelve, April 12, at two, at the Court of Bank- to 40s 6d, and 42 cks Archangel 37s 3d to 38s 3d per cwt, the Bills above referred to. ii Rh respect to the West Indies - where Western Bank. •••• • • • 8/. - per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 74 he ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street; , - RETURNS FROM UNIONS IN IRELAND. was the - dispatch from the Governor - Ge- • kberieen Fire an B. Accord. Life /tad F I ire d Life 7341. pr cent. 12 10 0 2• • 21 4 if - 20 0 0 011 oj9s 6d th Mr. STAFFORD inquired if the Chancellor of the neral, to which their particular attention was Bower and Son, Chancery-lane. British Guar,.ntee ns. - 10 0 0 1 0 0 ;12s Od „,, William huddle, timber-merchant, Ironhate Wharf, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT Exche goer had any objection to lay on the table a re- called sometiaie ago? What hd th d ' a they one? They had !aiedoniart Fire Insur. 101, per cent. 100 0 0 10 001 21 h' 6 • turn exhibiting the corrections in the recent return? introduced competition with respect toslavery Church of Eng and Ins, 50 0 0 20 0 2 ga Paddington, Marc 23, at one, and April 20, at twelve, _ Lets' of Glasgow Life 6l percent. - 25 0 0 .2 0 0 • 21. lOs bu at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Ed- (THIS EVENING.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER bad no " ' d • by. intro uc slave mg grown sugar to the E as tb gh Life Insur. * percent. 100 0 12 10 0 17% 59 wards, Frederisk's-place, Old Jewry; Bicknell and Co., sea. objection to do so. On • • investigation several minor lase- great injury of that Part of our dominions. o u f r Sc :Aland Life 6l. -10 00015 0 8s 6d. , i ; COL Irsught-terr ace, Edgware-road- HOUSE OF LORDS. curacies, not of a large amount, had been detected, which The United States would not answer us.-(llear, hear.) Eng. & Scot, Law Life 5/.percent. 50 0 0 217 6 465 * 6d 'll' William Gambier Walker, apothecary,Newick,would be corrected in the subsequent returns he should 'nation most careful in Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 103„ Sol Sus- They were a 1 all their proceed- Insur. Co. of Scetlnd•• Si. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 7 , i . ROYAL COMMISSION. be prepared to lay before the House. answer sex, March 22, at twelve, and April 20, at one a t the in ; they had no ens to give us. The House Life Assoc. of Scotland 51. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 1/ 6 1- • Court of 13ankruptcy. Whitmore, official one, i The Royal Assent was given by Commission this even- THE NAVIGATION -LAWS, would all remember the letter of Mr. Ban. Mercantile Life - 10 0 e 010 0 ,4s. Od. hie Basinghallestreet ; Palmer, France, and Palmer, Bed- ing to the following Bills, viz :-Consolidated Fund Bill, In reply to Mr. GOULBURN, croft. Austria w as vastly surprised that we National Fire and Life 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 1205. 6d to ford-row; Lewis and Verral, Lewes, Sussex. Vice-Guardians (Ireland) Bill, Buckingbam Assizes Lord J. RUSSEI.L intimated that he proposed to could not understand what the merits of the case were. North tor I t l c ri4s e h s 'n o r s r c . o . t . , 531. pr cent. 200 0 0 0 20 0 0 I 2254 p et per . cent. 10 1 0 0 ;17.1.6d. ~.,,, William Gale, coach-builder, Sough, March 16, at Bill, and the Commons Encolsure Bill. The Royal take the debate on the navigation-laws tonight, d ' an if Could they wonder at that? When she was willing Scottish Life (Id auar. Si.* 20 0 0 011 0 1 ss. eleven, and April 20, at half past eleven, at the Court of Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis' concluded, he proposed to take the Committeeof S u 1 Prhy to concede much to this country we t dth Scot. Ma.s. and Gen. Life - 10 0 015 0 105.0 d Po' Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Tucker and of Clanricarde, and the Earl of Shaftesbury. on Monday. If not, he should propose that the deb t " a e cold shoulder to her, a _ , , _ , urne e an said, she must • gtve up Scottish Union Insrnce. 6%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 2s cas Steavenson, Sun-chambers, Threadneedle-street. INSOLVENT LAWS. . be proceeded with on Monday. all her protection. We had got a very positive United Dep. 3tairlard Life Assurance .51. per cent. 10 0 o t 1 0 .15s Od do Joseph Perriatie, porter merchant. Ex: ter, March 15, Lord BROUGHAM laid upon the table the report of ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION. answer from Belgium, but Belgium would not assist us ; ' • the MISCELLANEOUS. frii and April 12, at one, at the Exeter District Court. the Committee appointed to consider the laws relating Mr. HORSMAN gave notice that on a futured ay heherself, and said • she had been just to said I will continue to Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter;to baekruptcy and insolvency. Several members of the intended to ask the Noble Lo d h Lord w at measures he in- Dividend Amount . Terrell, Exeter • protect my own commerce.-(Hear, hear.) Belgium of raid. price., gal Terrell, Gray's Inn.f mercantile community had been examined, and therefore tended to introdu h• b• ce on tis su ject. would not conform to our system; and was this Name of Company. per Annum. Share. Francis Braithwaite, apothec ar y, the report would contain divers suggestions for the ins- RATE IN AID BILL, put the screw for Bridge -street H country. prepared to - - ford, March 20 and April 17, at ten,attheßirmingham ere- provement of those laws, but the Committee had not, at An Ho N . MEMBER en • ired on what day the Noble had done that country ? Belgium- which every L. a. d. X. s. d. Ex District Court. Whitmore, official sesigne e !- first, had before them any persons representieg the un- L d d enquired ' , Burning- . or propose to take the second readinh of the Rate l' h a ht to do and that was to r 0 • en ig tene- country oug , po- Australian Agriculturl - 100 0 0 30 0 0 - tiof A.nglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 4s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 ham; Davis, Hereford; Motteram, Knight, and Emmet, fortunate class ofinsolvents. They had, however, urged • in 1 i . A•d 8 . 11 sect the subjects under her rule.-(Cries of "Hear, Ditto, Half Shares.. - 210 0 - - ger Birmingham. certain arguments against it, but the Bill which had now Lord J. RUSSELL replied on Monday week. If he hear.) With respect to France, she had, even in her Canada ....... ..... 61. percent. 100 - 0 0 32 10 0 32 P al John Downs, fishmonger, Newcastle under-Lyre, been drawn up by the Committee was calculated to meet could not be it on that d h ing on ay, e would name when revolutionary or transition s , E . tate ado ted a policy City Uppr Canada * Bonds 51. per cent. - 80nd5.... -- - 3%1 r cent. - 88 wh March 15 and April 25, at twelve, at the Birmingham their objections, and he believed he might now assert he would do so. opposed' to ours. After all the orations made by Comp.Cppr Mnrs Eng. 51 percent. 100 0 0 70 - 0 0 79 for( District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; that the alterations proposed by the Committee met with - NAVIGATION LAWS. the Member for the West Riding in his Gen. Revers. & Invest. 5 p * . c.& bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 011 ..- he the a . Reece Birmingham. approval of those unfortunate persons, as well as with M H a ERRIES presented a petition from Liverpool, t I h tinent, not one step had rave s on t e con Equitable Reversionry 51. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 9 - 6 con 1 John Tily, chemist, Cheltenham, March 27, and April that of the mercantile community in general. lie pro. • d • signe by 24,700 persons, entreating the House not to been made in the . countries through which Gen. Steam Navigation 11. Bs. 15 0 0 14 o • 21 1 4 Aga London Institution ... - 78 15 0 - posed to introduce - 24, at twelve, 'at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, at once a Bill founded on the report vote for the repeal of the n • ati 1 (P tf d policy td' • avig on. laws.- ro tee he travelled towards the ree-tra e , o issemtnate Russell Institution.... - the of that Com • - 26 5 0 3 official assignee, Bristol; Gauntlett, Lincolns's•inn- fields. Easter. Ha therefore and should let it stand over until tionist cheers.) the principles of which was the chief object of his Peninslr&Orient.Stm. 8/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 • • 0 67 that James Little, draper, Walcot, Somersetshire, March amendment of now laid on the table a Bill for the The LORD MAYOR said he esteemed h• h ' ' the laws it a hi mission. (LEFT 13PEA.SING.) Reversionary Int. Soc. 4141. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 90 den Royal Mali Steam.. •• 61 18..4. p. c,., D.O 0 0 60 0 0 50 34 the 22 and April e 23, at twelve, at the Bristol District solvency, the second relating to bankruptcy and in- honour to attend in that House to present a i• f ana l infrom South Australian...., IL per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 is Court.. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; White and Co., the 10th , Ma Y- reading of which he should move on the merchants, manufacturers, bankers, arti, seamen, MYSTERIOUS DisAppEARANcs -- On Friday morn- van Diemen Land., - 100 00.23 0 0 1 vein Bedford-row ; Bevans, Bristol. Lord WHARN(hr.rove , e_e • . _ and others. of the city of 1 - ....,1.. ...can., .6. 1 ...e :- L...• its_ T___-_ ri_...-L-11 o crrPßnarneer_ in r9,,,-.1. - - - -- Thomas Beadle, victualler, Croydon, March 19, at two, and April 30, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Turquand. official assignee, Guildhall- chambers; Rus.,ell and Son, Martin's-lane, Cannon-street. Filden Chrismas, brewer, Say's-court, Kt nt, March 15, at twelve, April 12, at two, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Bower and Son, Chancery-lane. William Buddle, timber-merchant, Irongate Wharf, Paddington, March 23, at one, and April 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Ed wards, FrcdtriA's-place, Old Jewry; Bicknell and Co., Cor. naught-ten ace, Ed; ware -road. William Gambier Walker, apothecary, Newick, Sus sex, March 22, at twelve, and April 20. at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Palmer, France, and Palmer, Bed ford-row; Li wis and Verral, Lewes, Sussex. William Gale, coach-builder, Slough, March 16, at eleven, and April 20, at half past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Tucker and Steavenson, Sun-chambers, Threadneedle-street. Joseph Perriana, porter merchant. Ex ter, March 15, and April 12, at One, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzal, official assignee, Exeter ; Terrell, Exeter; Terrell, Gray's Inn. Francis Braithwaite, apothecary, Bridge-street, Here ford, March 20 and April 17, at ten, at the Birmingham official a ss i gnee, Birming ham;District Court. Whitmore, Davis, Hereford; Motteram, Knight, and Emmet, Birmingham. John Downs, fishmonger, Newcastle under -Lyre, March 15 and April 25, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Reece, Birmingham. John Tily, chemist, Cheltenham, March 27, and April 24, at twelve, :at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol; Gauntlets, Lincolns's.:inn fields. James Li t tl e , d ra p er , W a lcot, Somersetsh ire, March 22 and April s 23, at twelve, at the Bristol District , Court. Mill er , official assignee, Bristol; White and Co., Bedford-row ; Bevans, Bristol. John Ellison, grocer, Cricklade, Wiltshire, March 22 and April 23, at half-past eleven, at the Bristol Dis trict Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Lovette, Cricklade ; Sabine, Bristol. Robert Stocker, licensed victualler, Bath, March 22 and April 23, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Viner, Bath; Sabine, Bris. o !, Geo..re North, calico . printer, Manchester, March 20, and AV , Is,. at twelve, a t t h e M anchester District Court. Pot. official assignee, Manchester ; Taylor, Manchester; hnson and Co., Temple. Jahn Gilm"b , whiting manufacturer, Hawthorn grove, Durham, Ma..h 20, at twelve, and April 26, at one, at,the Newcastle-l-lon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, . Nevr cas'' - -upon-Tyne; Forster, New cast,l!-upon-Tyne; Turnbull, 'Jan lepool. ilhana Hammond Ambler b k Durham,M , er, are 20 and April 20, at, half-past on, at the Newcastle upon-Tyno District Court. Wakl official assignee, New catle pon •' Tyne Trotter. ande3fluagson, Bishop At. c {land ; o g and F le i m 3o t w ilg e , h ls u Te r w h e_astle :upon .T ) ; Bell, Broderick, a,,a Bell, yard PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com pi.tcal from the returns ma d e in the Week ending March 6, 14-19, is 255. I;if,d- per cwt. Li a the first fourteen COST OF WAR IN TIME of P EACE. We ha ve t forty. five years of the present cent ury, w we have years of war and thirty-one of peac e . of 800,000 t 2004 accumulated by wa r , and yet expepivi@up,o6,ooo/. in further war expenses, instead 0A paAat - 01f - i;ur'unhappy obligations, And our present cgitleliditure in, thaw of peace is such, that it would 4 0 1 711:natiotitiltatbt in forty years, interest ex •_H';ltto the-41-frect war expenditure we add the in up-nn our debt—we find that this "ulg PAL.liff the.t debt by instalments in less Om 9vent7 Y eti T i " - "Siginfifp - T 4-7 Mercury. HOUSE OF LORDS. ROYAL COMMISSION. The Royal Assent was given by Commission this even ing to the following Bills, viz :—Consolidated Fund Bill, Vice-Guardians (Ireland) Bill, Buckingham Assizes Bill, and the Commons Encolsure Bill. The Royal Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Earl of Shaftesbury. INSOLVENT LAWS. Lord BROUGHAM laid upon the table the report of the Committee appointed to consider the laws relating to baP.kruptcy and insolvency. Several members of the mercantile community had been examined, and therefore the report would contain divers suggestions for the im provement of those laws, but the Committee had not, at first, had before them any persons repre - sentkg the un fortunate class ofinsolvents. They had, however, urged certain arguments against it, but the Bill which had now been drawn up by the Committee was calculated to meet their objections, and he believed he might now assert that the alterations proposed by the Committee met with the approval of those unfortunate persons, as well as with that of the mercantile community in general. lie pro posed to introduce at once a Bill founded on the report of that mte Hanto Committee, the w and s h ou ld l et i t stan d over until therefore ia sr nowe relating g to on the bankruptcytable aand Bill for the amendment in solvency, the second reading of which he should move on the L 0 1 d t h w M n a y. A NCLIFFE believed that the mercantile community were of opinion • that the measure as origi nally proposed might have been greatly improved ; but that they were satisfied t o accept the proposed mewl - ure as an experiment. The Bill was then read a first time. PETI The Earl of HARROWBY prt seated a petition from Liverpool against any alteration in the navigation-laws. The Earl of ST. GERMANS presented a petition praying that stock in trade might be rated to the poor rates. The Earl of LUCAN presented a petition from some union in Ireland, praying for the total and immediate repeal of the poor-law, inasmuch as they considered it a measure that was demoralising the country. The Earl of RODEN presented petitions from unions in the county of Louth, Armagh, and Monaghan, against the rate in aid, and praying fur the substitution of an in come-tax. LARCENY ACT AMENDMENT BILL. The Larceny Act Amendment Bill was read a third :inae and passed. Their Loidships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. The LORD MAYOR said he esteemed it a high honour to attend in that House to present a petition from the merchants, manufacturers, bankers, artisans, seamen, and others, of the city of London, against the repeal of the navigation.laws. The signatures to that petition amounted to 20,757. —(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He had carefully looked at the petition, and from his own knowledge he could state that many of the signatures to that petition were composed of the most influential and respectable firms in the city of London ; and he would venture to say there was no petition more entitled to the respectful consideration of the House. Mr. A. HASTIE presented a petition signed by 2,890 shipowners, artizana, merchants, manufacturers, and seamen of Glasgow against the repeal of the navigation laws. Mr. F. O'CONNOR rose to ask whether the Right Hon. Member (Mr. Herries) who had presented the petition from Liverpool, on the subject of the naviga tion-laws, had taken the trouble to count the signatures to that petition.—(" Oh, ob," and laughter.) Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from the inha bitants of Dunstable, in Kent, in favour of the repeal of the navigation-laws. THE NAVIGATION LAWS. O❑ the motion being read that this Bill be read a second time, Mr. HERRIES said he rose to oppose the further progress of this Bill.—(Hear ' hear.) He r oso to propo:e, as an amendment to the motion, that the Bill bl read a secocd time this day six months. Ile under- MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE --On Friday morn ing last, Mr. James Campbell, a greengrocer, in Church street, Wa'worth, and who is the owner of some house property in the neighbourhood, left home for the purpose of ordering some coals at a wharf in Bankside, and since that time he has not been seen by any member of his family. On the same morning a man, answering his description, wa s seen b y some boys jumping from halv e to barge c o i n )m t m he en Surrey fta a put-boy at the Prince of Canal, t and soon after his h a t was picked up o n th e b an k s of the canal. The miss ing Wales public-house in Penton•place, opposite to the former entrance to the Surrey Gardens. and by perse verance and industry had been enabled to build several houses in the neighbourhood, and accumulate consider able property; and he was very generally respected. Since his disappearance it has been found that he had discounted some bills for some parties, who were not punctual in taking them up when at maturity; and this, it is feared, has led to the rash act of self-destruction. Persons have b( en employed since Saturday morning, in dragging the canal ; but up to a late hour last even ing, n , . further trace of the missing man had been dis covered. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ----- — • .Z. a. d. A. i. d. British .. •• ...... • . . . 1/. 40 0 0 IS 0 0 14 Ditto Provincial.... 11. Bs. 20 0 0 19 0 0 16 Bristol .. .. .. —••• • • • .101. per cent. 20 0 0 Brighton ........ •• •• 51, per cent. 20 0 0 16 City of London .... .. 101. 100 0 0 100 0 0 250 tiontinental Consolldat. 925. pr share 50 0 0 39 5 • 45 Equitable ....•.. • • .. 455. pr share 50 0 0 50 0 0 34 Imperial .. .. .. .•• • • • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 67% Independent ....... • • 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 64 London ••........ .. .. 50 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 Phoenix . ...... ••.• .. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 46 0 0 28 Kate= .. .. . * •..... 5/. 100 0 0 90 0 0 77 United General ... •• • 4%1. pr cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 12% Westminster Chartered 31. 50 0 0 48 Ditto, New •• ••- • . • 12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 914 GALLICIA. took to oppose the motion because of the principle of the Bill, which they were now invited to read a second time. If it were not conceived in the spirit in which it was conceived, he should not have opposed it at that stage in its progress; but he was not content, so fer as his voice would prevent it, to allow this Bill, framed on such a set of principles, to pass this stage in its progress. It was a sweeping abrogation of the navigation• laws, with some such trifling, some such insignificant, reservations — (Hear, hear)—as tended not to amend or remove the objections to the abrogation, but to render them in some respects absurd, and in others onerous, without any compensation to the body of the shipowners.—(Hsar.) These reservations consisted lit NAVIG ATION-LAWS. Sir R. LOPES presented a petition from ,Exeter against the repeal of the navigation-laws. Petitions were also presented on the same subject from Hull, Dundee, North Shields, Dart mout h, P enzance , Weymouth, elcombe Regis , Portsmouth, and several other places, chiefly signed by 81 ipowners and builders. Among them was one signed by 4,937 daily labourers in Spitelflelds, who stated that they had found their wages so they had joined th e sh i pwrights and other artizans in the attempt to retain the navigation-laws. The state of things in Cracow remains still covered with mystery. The news which succ ess i ve l y tran spired were, that disaffection was gaining ground in Cracow and throughout Gallicia, of which the principal cause was a general levy of recruits by conscription. The country assumed so threatening an attitude that the Austrian Government found it necessary to call the Russians to concentrate on the very frontiers of Gallicia, to be within call and prepared to help. Privileges, in the shape of a per mission to recruit a certain number of men by the pro mise of bounties, were given to the city of Lemberg, and a promise of similar privileges was extended to the other towns of Gallicia. The Government could not help retracing its steps. From the latest news it would appear that the consequences of this vacillating policy have already made them selves felt, for we have accounts of a Gallician i:surrection, which caused the Austrian autho rities to call for Russian assistance, and of the occupation of several districts by the Russian troops. No implicit credit can be given to these rumours, unconfirmed as the are. The latest news we have are from a Vienna correspondent, of the 3d instant, who asserts that Cracow has had another rising, and that the troops bombarded the town, and restored tranquillity by subjecting five leaders of the insurrec tion to a court martial, and hanging them. Numerous arrests are sta'ed to have taken place, and a corres ponding number of executions are to fellow. TUB BURGLARY AT STRETHALL.—The man who was shut is now for a certainty identified as Abraham Green, a well-known gypsy desperado. He was com mitted on the sth of April, 1843, for stealing a pair of boots from a shop in King-street, and the sca►s that are now seen about his head and face are from the effects of his violent conduct, when being apprehended for the felony. He was acquitted for the felony : and two days after this was the last time he was seen in Cambridge. About a week after he was acquitted, he and another man were poaching upon the estate of Colonel Pember ton, of Trumpington, when they were met by two of the keepers, and a dreadful conflict ensued, in which Green succeeded in breaking the arm of one of the keepers, and both the poachers made their escape. The police have never had any clue as to his whereabouts since that time. Two men have been tak, n into custody at Newport, as being accomplices of the burglary, and have been re mt►nded until Monday neap--Cambridge Advertiser. THE DEVIL'S DYKE.—A correspondent of the Sussex dvertixer states, that he has scieu.ilically ascer tained the height of the I)ykr.hill to be 685 fret and 3 inches above the level of the sea. It has often been as serted that it was 1,000 feet above the sea. 1849 FRAN CE. __- We read in the Moniteur —" Acct rding to severid journals, certain persons have b;-come members re cently of the electoral committee of the Rue de Poi tiers, in compliance with the wish of the President of the Republic. We are authorised to declare that the President of the Republic is, and Kill remain, a stranger to every designation of persons, to every tormation of committees, to every electoral influence." PRUSSIA In the First Chamb:r Ofl;.sia, on the 511), the Ministry presented Bills for abol:shing privile g ed jurisdictions and establi.hing trial by jury. AUSTRIA. Numerous questions on the entrance of the Rus sians into 1 ransylvahia were addressed to the Austrian Ministry in the Diet at Kremsier on the 28th ult., and the deputy who put them denounce" the act of the Russians as a disgrace to Austria. Only one of the Ministers, Count de Stadion, was present, and even he did not arrive until after the deputy had commenced speak ing. He returned no answer. The Diet then proceedel with the discussion of the Bill on fueda - nu.ntal rights. The question debated was whether the separation of Church and State should be declared. No decision, however, was come to. The Austrian Cabinet has addres , ed a new note to the Ministry at Frankfort, in which it deeisres itself in favour of the renewal of a Germanic Diet, with a 14 Directory of seven Princes, cho-en from the reigning houses; the members to act without instructions; and the Austrian and Prussian Princes to have each two '% votes—the other members only two each. ITALY. From two proclamations published at Brescia on the 23d and 25th ult., by Field• Marshal Appel, it ;3 appears that numerous armed bands are scouring the mountains around, and - that the town itself has been the scene of serious dis turbances. " Shots," says the last proclamation, ,34 ,os " were fired on the 21st against the barracks IN of Casa Cazzago; the soldiers cannot walk in the ;;„ streets without being insulted and attacked with stones, and the very patrols sent to their assistance have been attacked." The severest military mea )s. sures are prescribed by the proclamations again.t the recurrence of such acts. The Pensiero Italian° of Genoa, of the 33, states that a Bourbonist plot had been discovered in Sicily, 14 and that Ruggero Settitno had denounced it in Par liament; also that letters from Rome, of the 24th ult., state that a dictator is about to he created there. BANK OF ENULAND. (From this night's Gazette.) :e. An Account, pursuant to t h e Act 7th and Bth ot Victoria , esp. 32,tcr the Week ending on Saturday, the 3d day of March, 1849. t88t1.6 DEPARTMENT. Notes Issued.— •• •• 28,314 555 Government debt .. 11,015,10( , Other securities .... 2,984.900 Gold coin and bullion 13,1,66,121 Silver bullion ...... 318,431 X 28,314,555 X 28,314,555 . M. MARS IIALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the Bth day of March, 1849. BANKING DEPAITBIBN T. Proprietors capital.. 14,553,000 Rest ••••• • • • • • 3,855,368 Public deposits (in aladi ng Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ings -bank s, and Di . Government securi- 1 ties (including Dead Weight Annuity) .. 14,074,183 'Other securities .. • • 10,795,769 Notes . • . • • • • • • • • • • • 9,942,4 :5 Gold and silver coin.. 662 299 vidend accounts).. 6,140,572 Other deposits • •• 9,197,754 Seven day and other bl lie •• •• 1,128,002 X 35,674,696 £35,674,696 M. MARSIIA.LL, Chief Cashier. 49. Dated the Bth day of March. 18, COURSE OF EXcii. Amster ........ 12 2 i Ditty, at sight ...... 12 0 Botterdain •• .. 12 2' 25 65 liamburgh .... • •31.1.8. 13 12 1 4 A1t0na.......... •• earls, 3 days' sigh t ...• 25 25 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 52S larseilles • . ........ •• 25 52s Bourdcaux.... . 25 55 Frankfort on Maine... 19.1% Petersburgh, Sil. Rble.. 31,S Berlin... • ..... .. •• •• Vienna, effec. f 10...... 11 29 Trieste, ditto.... •• .... 11 30 Madrid •• •• ........ 4914 Cadiz .• •••••••• . •• •• 491 i iilliao.. ••.••• •• •. • , Barcelona Seville•• •• •• ••• • • • A N (•E.-( THIS DAY.) Gibra1tar.............. Leghorn ........ 32 80 Genoa ...• • • ...... • • .. 27 liilan .......• ........ Venice .... .. • • .... Naples .............. 39% l'alerzno, .. 1:8 Messina 118 1 4 62% Oporto . • • • • • • Itio Janeiro ....... • • Buenos Ayres -- New York, 21 days'aight ehiladelphia .... • • .... PIIICYB OF BULLION, PER 02 Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9 l'ortagal Gold Coin 1 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 6 New Dollars 6 4 10% (Silver in bars ...... • • 0 b 0 LIE LATE REY. FATHER MAGUIRE.—The trial ` 34 of Mary Reynolds and Hugh Quin, for murder, by poison, of the celefrated Father Thomas Maguire, came off at the Leitrim Assizes on Tuesday last, and ended in the acquittal of both prisoners. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDG —The 16Cth anziverssry jubilee of this society was cele brated yesterday in the c ,thedral church of St. Paul's, when an excellent selmon was preached by his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, on behalf of the insti tution. There was an exceedingly large attendance of the nobility and clergy; amongst whom were observed the Duke of Cambridge, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop of S , . Asapb, Dr. Buckland, the Dean of Westtnin.ter, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Villiers, the Rev. Dr. Dale, vicar of St. Pancras, Archdeacon ilale, and several others of the canons. The choir Lumbers 68 voices, alai was re -34 enforced by the choristers from Windsor, Wt stmin>ter, and the Chapel Royal. A liberal collection was made in aid of the society's general designs. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Mare,: 9. TRANSPORTATION AND DISCIPLINE OF . CONVICTS. (Continued from our Third Edition of last night.) slr. H. HERBERT said that, in rising to second this motion, it would be disgraceful if an Irish Member did not rise at the very first opportunity to speak upon the subject. He called attenti on t o t h e crowded condition tee ' of many of the gaols in Ireland at the present lime, and ..... referred to some dectiments to show that within the last three years the number of convictions and committals t had doubled. The mortality, too, had increased to a t o very great extent for the three years commencing 1845. s In that year the number of deaths in the gaols of Ire ) :Ti land wes 81; in 1846 it h a d amounted to 132; while, in 78 1847, it had reuch e d the enorm o u s num b er of 1,315. It ili could not be said that any neglect attached to those i}e whose duty it was to provide good accommodation in - Ireland. In t h e re p ort o f the inspectors of prisons in 3% • 7, 3. that country, they had stated that up to 1846 the con .lid dition of all the gaols was such as to show that they 3 had been carefully atten d e d to and to lead to a ) hope that their functions would be comparatively light. He held in his hand a report which he had received on 6d the preceding day, of the state of the gaol of Tralee, the isad principal town in the county which he re; ,resented. That i gaol had b een or i g i na ll y constructed to hold 86 persons; lea but there were at present in it the astounding number of r% 528; being six tim es th e num b er wh i ch it was meant 6d. 6d that it should contain. He found that among those per. )5, sons there were 16 male and 16 female lunatics, and 37 r prisoners und er sentence of transportation, 15 of whom 6 Da had been sent ence d u p war d s o f s i x months. He had to,add as to that statement that it would be idle to expect that the 4 people of the county in which that gaol was situated could subscribe the necessary funds, in their present itn. od poverisbed condition, for meeting the exigency of the 2a case, and he earnestly hoped, therefore., that the atten b, tion of her Majesty's Government would be directed to the subject, with a view to alleviate as fur as possible so frightful an evil. Sir G. GREY (who was frequently inaudible in the Ice. gallery) thanked the Noble Wel for having brought ... forward the motion, because, though in this matter the Executive must always be intrusted with large discre tionary powers, and act according to the varying exi gencies which might arise, still it was desirable that Parliament should have a full knowledge of the mode in which the Government conducted this department. Be fore however proceeding to that part of his statement, ' he would just say a few words as to the charge of in consistency which had been made by the Noble Lord ite against the policy of his Noble Friend at the head of the Colonial office. He quite concurred in the opinion that the great object they should have in view was to deter from the commission of crime and to improve !34 the offender ; but in carrying this object out, the Ge vernment ought not to aim at more than they were able to accomplish. In doing this, consistency would be a fault instead of a virtue. In defending his Noble Friend, he begged to say that he participated in the blame that might be thrown upon his Noble Friend, and he did not wish to shrink from it, because ' all the Noble Lord had done had been with his fullest concurrence and consent. But he did not mean to say that there were no defects in the system now in opera tion. Two years ago, when he fully entered into; the whole subject, and stated in detail the course which the Government meant to take, and their reasons fer taking it, he had stated that the system was a tentative one, and that it would be improved, not only in accordance with the increased experience of the Government, but alaio with such sugge scions as persons of experience might , ffer. But he must call the attention of the Noble Lord to one part of his statement, in which he thought the Noble Lord had not done juatice to the present Government. It would be remembered that when they came into office in 1846, the veils arising from the system of transportation had risen to such a height, that the Honourable Member for Oxford University (Mr. Gladstone) then at the head of the Colonial-office, had, in a dispatch fully exposed the na ture and extent of these evils, thedreadful crime and im morality of which prevailed especially among the proba tion classes, and the late Government was exerting itself to put a stop to them. When the present Gov , rnment came into office, they felt themselves imperatively called upon to interfere it once, and to devise mane diets. means of dealing with those criminals against whose transport tation the colonies were exerting themselves in the strongest possible manner. The state of the colonies at that time was fully stated in the dispatch of the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Gladstone). Under those circum stances his attention had been direct. d to the subject of transportation. aid hr found that the system then pur sued was productive of errieus evils, anilez g lc , ! nuootthlaiinl to create the largest am ount of oisadear a social and mural point of view. In his opinion the system of transportation now carried on, subject of course to certain modifications, was not calculated to off et. the 4 etja et in view, namely, the punishment of fee-tee-es and she tefi,rmition of crimivals. Ile would the up test gut stion at the point where ho ;eft off- in 1847. and sate g. le rely the plan at present adopted. The enein feature of the scheme then proposed, and since carried out With some modifications was, that the pries cipt4l petal portion of the period should be spent, not in a .hstsnt colony, where hardened criminals were con gregated, but iu some of the convict establishments -of this century, and at Bermuda, or Gibraltar. The sen tence of traeeeortatien, he now tspeke of the casts of ordinary convtcts, was dividrd into three parts. The Govt remeet had determined that the first portion should be passed in separate imprisonment, as distinguished frem the silent system, the maximum period of imprisoement being 18 months, but averaging generally, except in extreme cast s, from 6to 12 months. A most incerteet and erroneous impression had got abroad, that the Government tied come to the conclusion that the system of sepsu ate imprisonment failed, and was ex ph dad. Nothing could be mere erroneous. Each suc ceeding year's experience, and the informatien derived from gentlemen in the service of the Government, and (revs neagistt atee, convinced hire that the syse m, sub ject to cot tein regulations in its administration, was the most valuable that could be emploe ed for the punish• merit as well as the ultimate r• formation of the criminal. In support of this opinion, he referred to several extracts: from the fifth report of the Pentonville Counei,sioners, who declared as the result of their experience, that the separate imprisonment system at p r , sen t in opt ration Has the only ground on a hich refeernatory dlscipline ceuld to ha .ed with any chance of suet:: ss, Iu a pamphlet on the subject of trans portation, which had been lately placed in his hands, written by a person practically conversant with the de tails of the system, somewhat similar opinions were ex press( d. The great value of the system, it was urged, should depend on the nature of the religious instruction afforded the convicts, and on the zeal of the officers em ployed. In several letters and spy eches published on the subject of separate imprisonment, the cells were de scribed as most attractive, comfortable places, by no means calculated to inspire the inmate with a horror of crime. His own obsei venous, on repeated visits to these convict cells showed him the utter fallacy of such state merits, and he might remark, moreover, that the frequent applications he had received from per sons undergoing the punishment for a remission of this part of the sentence, showed ho w severe ly it was felt. Att er a care f u l and valuable examination of witnese es, the Committee of the House of Lords, in their report, said that the separate system of punishment seemed exactly to supply what was required, but that it should be administered with great care. The results of the system were exceedingly satisfactory, a decided mo ral improvement having in many instances exhibited itself in the criminals. Independently of eight hundred separate cells in Milbank, there were now twelve hundred others, including those of Pentonville and Wakefield. which the Government had at their dis posal tor the purpose of carrying out the system, and as the period of separate imprisonment would not, ex ce pt in very extraordinary cases, exceed twelve months, he believee the available number would be found suffi cient for the purpose. Another description of penal la bour was that employed on public x orks. On that subject he did not understand the Noble Lord as expressing any decided opinion as to whether this should be carried on here or in the colonies. He seemed to think there were advantages on both sides, but on which side the balance of advantage lay he expressed no decided opinion. For his own part, he thought it of immense advantage that this secondary stage of punishment should be passed, not at such a distance from this country as Van Die men's Land or Port Philie, hut at home, or at some ' such place as Gibraltar or Bermuda, which were now brought within a reasonable distance, where the regu• lath ins laid down by the Government would be strictly enforced by men of a stamp and character different from those in the Australian colonies. The penal labour was performed at Bermuda and Gibraltar en board hulks, which he merely wished to speak of as temporarytexpe dients that would be rapidly improved by the erection of other establishments free from the objection which attached to the former. At Port land, too, the arrangements that had been perfected were free from the great majority of objections which applied to the hulks. For instance, it was ar ranged that each man should have a separate sleeping apartment. Means were taken to stimulate industry and good conduct; and he thought, taking everything into consideration, there were good grounds to hope that the Portland establishment would be productive of more benefit than they had reason to expect from similar estebtishments.—(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Baronet, having stated some other features of the Government scheme, as connected with the second stage of punish ment, prom edt d to answer an objection taken by the Noble Lord (Mahon) to the market selected for the convicts' labour, and read passages from the dispatch of the Governor of Bermuda, in which he estimated the labour of a strong convict at 304 per annum, while his cost of maintenance did not exceed 201. per annum, so that at Bermuda there was a balance of 10/. on each strong working convict in favour of the nation, the convicts being there employed on national works. The third stage of the punishment consisted in removal to the colonies. The Noble Lord laid great stress on the importance of the sentence being carried out by actual removal of the convicts, but the s‘ stem formerly tdopted, was merely to send theta to the hulks. What the Government proposed was, that an actual removal should take place, and that in the colonies the convicts, after a certain period, should, according to circumstances and good behaviour, receive either cenditiorest pardon or tickets of leave. The essen tial difference between a ticket of leave and a conditional pardon was, that the latter made the convicts free, but prohibited their return to the country from a hich they were transported. The ticket of leave, on the contrary, prohibited their leaving the colony—they were forced to remain within the limits of the dis trict, and be prepared to show themselves to the magistrates at certain intervals.—(Hear.) They should also pay a sum towards the cost of their maintenance before they received a conditional pardon. Ihe object of this branch of the system, though it fell short of the hopes and intention of the Government, was to discou rage large masses of convicts from settling down in one selected district. Important changes had been effected at Norfolk Island. The number of convicts there had teen reduced from 1,200 to 500, and it was retained, by the consent of Lord Grey, as a place where convicts might be sent to from Van Oiemen's Land who were al ready under sentence of transportation. In regard to the Irish gaols, he confessed that the case was a very difficult one, and that the Noble Lord had not over stated it.—(Hear, hear.) The crowded state of those gaols did not, however, arise from any suspension of transportation, but in consequence of the additional number of offenders in that country who were sentenced to be transported.—(Hear, hear.) The attention of Government had been repeatedly called to the case, and they were tieing all that could in present circum stances be done to relieve the pressure in the gaols in Ireland. It was not, however, in the power of the Go vernment. to relieve that pressure to the extent which might be desirable, for he found that, while for several years previous to 1847, the average number sentenced to transportation in Ireland was not above five or six hun dred, for the sears 1847 and 1848 the numbers sentenced to transportation had exceeded 2,000 in each year. That great addition coming upon them in the course of two 'ears had been the means of so much crowding the gaols, and rendering it difficult for Government to find the means of a remedy. In order to in some degree relieve the pressure tells created, a considerable num ber of those sentenced to transportation had been sent to Spike Island, where the means of employe ment and proper confinement had been pro veled for them; but, as he said before, when it was considered that the number of those sentenced to transportation during each of the, past two years, had exceeded by some three or four hundred the average of five or six years previous, it must be evident that the present pressure arose not from any suspension of transportation, but from an addition in the numbers sentenced to be transported. There was also another cause which might be assigned for this pressure, and it was that a large number of those now sentenced to transportation in Ireland being, from their youth, unfit to be sent out to the colonies, not being able to perform the work assigned them there, were obliged to be kept in this country, at least for a time. This was proved by a dispatch from the Governor of Bermuda, who stated in regard to a number of convicts sent to that colon)? from Ireland, that they were of no,use, in consequence of their youth, and requested that no more of that class should be sent, as should they be so, they would be ren dered still more hardened and contaminated with crime . from being sent to work and live among those older and more vicious than themselves. The Hon. Member for Kerry had said that the gaol of Kerry would not contain more than 81 prisoners, and he did not dispute the statement; and there was no doubt that there was a great deficiency of prison accommodation in Ireland, and :n order to ascertain what could be done, the Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland had called for a return of the num ber of prisons in that country and their means of accom modation, with a view of ascertaining what could best be done to remedy the evil complained of, but from the number of convicts sent out of the country for the last two years, he could hold out but small hopes of finding colonies capable of receiving any great additional number for some time. In regard to the exceptional cases where transportation was not carried out, some of those sen tenced to be transported were so advanced in life, that if sent out to the colonies they would only become* burden on the colonies to which they were sent; and la some cases the country sending them had been obliged to pa) for their maintenance. The instructions, therefore, given to inspecting surgeons were, that they object to re ceive on board any of the vessels for conveying cone viets to their destination, all such as they considered unsble to bear the fatigues of the voyage to Australia, or who, when they got there, would not be capable of engaging in the work assigned them to do. Those ob jected to must therefore undergo their term of punish • m4nt in this country. With regard to Irish convicts, the misfortune was that they were not physically fit, more from their youth than from their age, to do the work re quired of them in the penal settlements. With regard to 'he recommendations which the Noble Lord had sub mitted on this subject, he confessed that he felt much disappointed, as he should have been most happy to have taken up any suggestion of a practical and beneficial nae turn. The Noble Lord's recommendations, he conceived to be no improvement on the present system. As to giving the governors of the colonies to which convicts were sent a discretionary power to carry on a system of consign.- merit, be considered such a system would be pregnant with the greatest evil. - It would give rise to suspicion end ill feeling; and besides, what, at best, was the system of consignment hut a system of slavery ? The evils it was uhim et to tendered it nothing else, and he would not, teertaore, consent to its adopti •considered the pui le s il/sent of transportation a va l ua b le and importan t one; but, in considering any modification of it, they must have in view the interests of the colonies, as well as those of this country. And however important it m i g ht be to bring such subjects before the Houser ito At a „ r. I) ti Pe t i t j oi t)t ri eEl b Plc sl t lci 4 r l ti i : ll ß T k 4n ( 4 0 pt