The Sun. — London, England, 1849-06-01 00:00:00

Eliirbf Xllttion SUY OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. MANCHESTER RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY _ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) The Castle Irwell Stakes. Flatcatcher Liceotio • e• • •• The Broughton Stakes. Vanguard Piard Shot The Salford Borough Cup. Mrs. Taft Athelstane Maid of My Soul ••• 2 VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the Vice• Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) THE ROYAL ETCHINGS. PRINCE ALBERT V. STRANGE—THE ATTJRNEY-GENERAL V. STRANGE. This cause and information stood on the paper to dsy for hearing. On their being called on, tae SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that the case came be ore the Court upon a cause and information, which would be unnecessary for him to open in detail. The Court would doubtless recollect the facts of the case as they were detailed before it upon two motions, in which the Court granted injunctions which were afterwards affirmed by the Lord Chancellor upon appeal. The cause now came on for hearing, and all he proposed to ask the Court to do was to grant a perpetual injunction against all the defendants to the effect of the temporary injunction that had already been granted upon the hearing of the motions, and also to ask for the delivery up of the cata logues for the purpose of having them destroyed, and also the delivery up of the etchings for a similar purpose by the defendant Judge. The title of the plaintiffs was shown by the admission in the answer of the defendants to the etchings and en gravings, and the fact was also proved that the etchings had been improperly obtained. He apprehended that it would not be proper on his part to go into the facts of the case in detail, until he knew what course his Learned Friends,'who appeared for the defendant, intended to pursue. With respect to the costs, Mr. Judge had thought fit, since the hearing of the motion to obtain an order to allow him to defend :in ' forma pauperis, so that with respect to him he could only ask for the costs up to the date of that order. As to Mr. Strange, he was inclined to think he might have been misled by the representations that had been made to him, and he should cot therefore be disposed to ask for a hostile decree with respect to costs against him, though he felt hound to call the atten tion of the Court to the fact that on the hearing of the motion it was offered that all proceedings should be stayed upon the defendant's giving up the etchings and engravings. Mr. J. RUSSELL stated that he appeared for Mr. Strange, and considering the liberal way in which it was proposed to take the decree against him he should certainly be inclined to advise him to accept it, but if neither Mr. Strange or his solicitor were present, perhaps the Solicitor-General would allow the matter to staid over till he had consulted with him. He should certainly advise Mr. Strange to take the decree, but he had then no instructions upon the subject. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was willing to adopt that course, but it must he understood there was no com promise - Mr. S. SMITH: appeared for the defendant Judge, and to some' part of the decree proposed he had great objec tions. lie objected to that part with respect to the de livery up of the etchings, and also with respect to the costs. Under these circumstances, he thought it would be better for the Solicitor-General to read the evidenco, and go into the case in the regular way. Mr. Judge, however, did not intend to:go on with the exhi bitions, and, therefore, he did net object to that part of the decree. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was willing to adopt that course. The Learned Gentleman then went into a statement of the tacts of the case, the whole of which se gave in detail both on the occasion of the injunction being applied for to this branch of the Court and also the appeal to the Lord Chancellor. The Learned Gentleman concluded by asking for the decree before stated. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD was proceeding to read the evidence, when Mr. J. RUSSELL staled that Mr. Strange's son was now in court, and be had authorised him to state that his father would consent most willingly to the decree that the Illustrious Plaintiff suggested, considering that the offer was a most liberal one. Mr. WARREN, who was also counsel for Mr. Strange, observed that the words used by his Learned Friend the Solicitor-General, with respect to Mr. Strange, that he might have been misled, was extremely handsome and gn.rous on the part of the Crown. Mr. sergeant TaLFouRD then proceeded to read the evidenc Mr. S. SMITH objected to the reading of it, on the ground that it was nut entitled i❑ the proper suit. ' The Vicz CHANCELLOR overruled the objection. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD then continued to read the evidence, and al,o the answer cf Judge, which was not filed when the motion for the injunction was made. Li that answer Judge admitted that he had obtained the impressions from a workman of Mr. Brown's, who sold them to him as spoiled or dirty impressions. Mr. S. SMITH then proceeded to address the Court on behalf of Judge. Ills client had no wish to shelter him self under anything except the bare facts of the case. Ike was sorry that his Learned Friend the Solicitor- General had pursued a different course towards his client to that which he adopted with respect to the other defendant. Mr. Judge was anxious to con vince the Court that he had obtained the etchings by no corrupt or improper means. As to publishing or exhibiting the engravings, his client did not in tend to do so, and, therefore, he had no objec tion to that part of the decree. He did not object to being prevented from disposing of the engraving or etching?. Neither did he object to being prevented from publishing the catalogue in its present form ; that was, that it was pub lished under authority, but he submitted that he was entitled to retain possession of the etchiugr, and what he desired was to have the opinion of a jury whether the etchings he had were his pro perty or that of the plaintiff's. He:also contended that he WAS not bound to deliver up the catalogue he had and that be was not precluded from publishing it if he left out the insignia that he published it by authority. The Learned Gentlemen then proceeded to read evidence to show that Judge had not improperly or unwarrantably obtained the etchings, that he had bought them from a man named Middleton, in Mr. Brown's employ for 51., as spoiled or dirty copies. The Learned Gentleman had not concluded his argu ments when the Court rose. The further arguments will ba proceeded with to morrow. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 1, 1849. 2d Regiment of Life Guards—Lieut. Charles J. Tot tenham to be Captain, by purchase, vice Tollemsche, who retires; Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant Harcourt Johnstone to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tottenham; Robert O'Brien Jameson, Gent.,; to be 'Cornet and Sub-Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Johnstone, June 1. Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieute nant-Colonel Sir John Scott Lillie, from Half-pay Un attached, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet Colonel Henry William Barnard, who exchanges; Lieutenant and Captain Henry Turrens D'Aguilar to be Captain and Lieutenant• Colonel, by purchase, vice Sir John Scutt Lillie, who retires; Ensign and Lieutenant John Francis Cust to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice D'Aguilar; Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley Ma,xse, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cost, June 1. let Foot—Frederick Augustus Smith, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Amos, appointed to the 75th Foot, June 1. 16th Foot—Lieutenant the Honourable Arthur Ed ward Hardinge, from the 80th Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, vice George Douglas, ca , hiered, but allowed to receive the value of his commissions, June 1. 30th Foot—Captain Virginius Murray, from half-pay 86th Foot, to be Captain, vice William Hodder Heard, who exchanges; Lieutenant Edmund Augustus Whit more, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Murray, who re tires ; • Ensign Thomas Mapleson Fitzpatrick, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Whitmore; John O'Brien, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice FitzPwrick; Lieutenant Paget Bayley to be Adjutant, vice Whitmore, promoted, June 1. 54th Foot—Gentleman Cadet John Swann, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Hart, who resigns, June 1. 66th Foot—Captain Robert Crawfurd, from the Rifle Brigade, to be Captain, vice Cooper, who exchanges, June 1. 75th Foot—Major Alexander Jardine to be Lieu• tenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice De Lancey, who retires ; Captain Edward Hickey to be Major, by pur chase, vice Jardine ; Lieutenant John Jocelyn Bourke to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hickey; Ensign David William Martin to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bourke; Ensign Gilbert Andrew Amos, from the Ist Foot, to be Ensign, vice Martin, June 1. Rifle Brigade—Captain As:ley l'aston Cooper, from the 66th Foot, to be Captain, vice Crawfurd, who ex changes. June 1. MENORANDCM.—The Christian names of Second _Lieutenant Kennedy, Ceylon Rifle Regiment, are Irving Francis, not Francis Irving, as previously stated. Commission signed by the . Lord Lieutenant of Lan.. cashire. Lanaashire. Hussars—George Bullock Portw, Gent., to be Surgeon, ltitly. 24. WHITEHALL, MAY 3. The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wilde, Kai., Lord Cbief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster, has appointed William Adams, of Tenbury, in the county of Worcester, Gentleman, to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknow ledgments of deeds, to be ex , cuted by married women, under the Act passed fur the abolition of fines and reco veries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for the county of Worcester. WHITEHALL, MAY 26. The Lord Chancellor has appointed James Watkins, of Bolton-le-Moors, in the county of Lancaster, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court o Chancery. BANKRUPTS. Edward Woodgate, electro-plate manufacturer, Greenwich, to surrender, June 8, at one, and July 13, at h a lf-p IA eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Can nan, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; West, Gresham street. James Upton, corn-dealer, High-street, Wandsworth, June' 13, at one, and July 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfield, official assignee; Shearman and Slater, Great Tower-street. John Burdett Hamilton, confectioner, Bermondsey square, Bermondsey, June 9, at one, aud July 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Depree, Lawrence-lane, Cheapside. James Stokes, saddler and harnessmaker, Dover, June 13, at one, and July 12, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street buildings; Thorndyke, Staple Inn. George Ings, innholder, Salisbury, June 12, at one, and July 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Old Jewry; Sawyer, Gray's Inn. Edwin Heming Fereday, oil merchant, Bilston, S:af. fordshire, June 13 and July 24, at ten, at the Birming. ham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Bir. mingham; Brown, Bilston; Smith, Birmigham. George Thorney, carrier, Wolverhampton, Juno 9, and July 14, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Phillips, Wolverhampton; Motteram, Knight, aad Emmet, Bir. minszhatn. William Mitchell, draper, Birmingham, June 13 and July 12, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Sutton and Dunn, Birmingham ; Motteram, Knight, and Emmet, Bir mingham. _ _ Thomas Martinson Adams, corn factor. Lincolnshire, June 13, and July 4, at half-past ten, at the Leeds Dis trict Court. Carrick, official assignee, Hull; Taylor and Collesson, Great James -street; Mason and Dale, Lin colnshire; Wells and Smith, Hull. Robert Atkiasoo, spirit dealer, Liverpool, June 19, and July 9, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool ; Norris and Co., Bedford-row; Radcliff, Liverpool. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com• puted from the returns made in the week ending flay 29, 1849, is 265. 3d. per cwt. COURSE OF EXCE. Amster. lam •• .. 12 2% Ditto, at sight • ..... 12 a% ',Otte rda,n ••.. .. 12 2% 25 77 Han burgh .... • • 31.11. 13 131. Alton& ...... • • .... Paris, 3 days'sight .• 25 50 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 67% Marseilles • ......... • • 25 70 Bourdeaux ..... • 25 70 frankfort on Maine.... 122 Peter sburgh, SO. Rble .. 35% ISerlin•• •. .• •• •• Vienna, effec. So— •• •• 12 PI Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 12 18 Madrid •• .. ••.. • • •• • • 49 7 Cadiz • • • ...... 50 Barcelona .• • ..... .. • . NGE.-c THIS DAY. Gibra1tar............ •• Leghorn 31 0 Genoa .. 26 60 Allan .........• •• •• •• Naples .. ............ 46% ralermo, paroz ........ 116% Messina 120!4, Lisbon.... • • .......... 53 Oporto ................ 53 Rio Janeiro Buenos Ayres ...... • . New York, 21 days'slght Philadelphia .. :....:.. PIICE3 OP ataxiou, PEI 03 Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. t, 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars ...... 0 4 10 Silver In bars ...... •. 0 4 11% BANK OF ENGLAND. (From this night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 26th day of May, 1849. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. X. Notes i55ued........ 27,500,135 Government debt • • 11,015,100 Other securities •• • • '2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 13,176.5 ,6 Silver bullion • • • • • • 323,569 £27,500,135 27,500,135 M. MARSHALL, Chief C ashler. Dated the 31st day of May, 184! , EPAUTMEN T. ,Government semi- ties (including Dead Weight Annuity) .. 14,175 507 Other securities • • 9,837,316 Notes •••.••• • • • • • • • 9,030,935 Gold and silver coin.. 897,031 £33,940,789 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. BANKING D] Proprietors ' capital • • 14,553,000 Rest ... 3,151,602 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say jugs -banks, and Di vidend accounts) • • 5,370,655 Other deposits .•. • .. 9,755,000 Seven day and other bills • • • • •• • • 1,110,332 £33,940,789 Dated the 31st day of May, 1541 MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, June 1.) SUGAR.—To-day former rates were fully supported for West India Muscovado, and on the part of refiners and grocers much desire was evinced to do business. The purchases to-day amounted to 816, including 120 hhds Barhadoes at public sale, which went at 39s 6d to 41s 6d for middling to fine yellow. The total sales for the week are 2,308 hhds, &c., and the market closes with a firm aspect. REFINED.—To-day former rates were well supported for Refined Sugar, and home dealers were ready pur chasers. In Bonded Crushed Sugar rather more business has bean done, at former rates. MAIIRITIIIS.—This afternoon Mauritius Super was in excellent request, and the public sales of 6,681 bags 100 casks went at full rates; good to fine yellow realhed 40s to 425, low to middling 38s to 39c 6d, fine brown 37s to 38s, and low to fine grey 37s to 415 per cwt. There was no ordinary brown Sugar in the sales. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the public sales of Bengal Sugar, consisting of 4,489 bags, went at full rates; fine and very superior white Benares went at 425 GI to 445, middling to good 404 6d to 425, low and tine soft yellow 36s to 394 6d, and strong yellow 45s to 473 6d. Of Madras 1,200 bags went at 32s to 353, and butter sort' at 35s 63 to 37s per cwt. FOREIGN.—There is much firmness on the part of holders of all sorts of Foreign Sugar, and the rates pail are fully equal to those current on Friday last; indeed, some parties will not sell there'll. The private opera tions in Foreign Sugar have been again of much mo ment, consistidg of eleven cargoes afloat ; w hit e Ha vannah at 375, fine yell ow 25 ; Pernambuco brown 193 to 193 3d; Bahia 203, and white 24s 3d per cwt. CANDY.—With Dutch the market continues to be well supplied; at public sale 1,433 boxes were for the most part taken in, white at 73s to 753, yellow 58s 5d to 655, and brown at 54s per cwt. COFFEE.—This afternoon there was not much desire evinced to operate in Native Ceylon, and prices further declined 6d per cwt. 523 bags at public sale were ' good ordinary at 30s 6d to 31s, ordinary 30s, and damaged 273 6d to 30s. per cwt. Of Plantation 25 bags 22 casks realized the full value; fine went at 743, middling 50s to 5541, low midding 44s to 483, and good to fine ordinary 34s 61 to 394 ; 29 biles Mocha sold at 583 6d to 59s 6d for good, and 617 bags export Rio at 283 6d to 30s. The sma'l public sales or 22 casks Jamaica went at rather lower rates; good at 57s to 58s, low middling 44s 6d, good to fine ordinary 32s to 37s 6d per cwt. Cocoa.—West India met with less attention, and ra- ~her lower rates are taken, as the stock continues to get upon a larger scale: at publio sale 200 bags Trinidad went at 42s to 45s 4d for red, and at 41s 6d to 42s for grey. There is, however, still a fair consumption, with every prospect of a continuation. For foreign full rates are asked, but there are not many buyers. MoLASaEs.—For West India, holders asking a further advanee operated against business by private treaty this week; at public sale 49 pns 10 hhds New Barbadoes were taken in at 21s 6d to 22s 6d per cwt. Bengal Treacle, 16s to 16s 6d per cwt, at which there are not free sellers. Honey, 21 kegs Jamaica, at public sale fetched from 47 s to 534 per cwt,. fine is scarce, and there is much demand. TEL—There has been but little disposition evinced to operate in Congou this week, still holders are not dis posed to accept lower rates, and the quantity on offer is not so large. The value of ord and good ord is from 71 to 81d, mixed blackish leaf 9d to 101 d, blackish leaf lld to Is, ditto strong is id to is 3d, and Pekoe flavour is 4d to is lOil. In Souchong only small sales have been made at 8d to is Bd, and better sort is 9d to 2s ld. Of Green there is still an abundant supply, and prices have a downward tendency, whilst on the part of town or country dealers little disposition has been evinced to operate. There are sellers of Hyson of ordinary and good quality at Is to is 2d, but middling and middling Is 3d ro Is 7d. good Is 8d to is 10d, superior 2s to 33 3d; Imperial Canton Is to is 4d; llyson sort is 61 to 23 10d ; Gun powder is 8d to 4s ; Canton kind Is 4d to is 7d Souchoug 5d to 6d, bettei sort 7d to is; youn g Hy son, 10d to Is 10d, better sort 2s to 3s; and Hyson Skin of low to fine quality 8d to is sd. Pekoe and Scented Tea is unaltered in value, but there has been little business concluded. SPlCES.—Pimento co n ti nues to be wanted, and full rates are paid, although th e mar ket is well supplied. The parcels offered at auction amounting to 912 bags were all sold, and went at 3id to 341 for ord to good mid. There are also still several buyers in market. Ginger continues in good demand, and last week's rates are well supported; there is also not a more plentiful supply. At auction IN packages of Jamaica bold it were sold atTldhsort of East 31. 154 to 121. 4 s fur low mid to The value of snipping India is 34s to 265, and home trade kin d 354 to 80s. per cwt. Holders of block Pepper have c onfidence, and fine refrained from submitting any to public salne tak this week. By private treaty several parcels ha ve beeen by shippers and home dealers, whereas th e rates obtained are fully equal to those current on this day week. Cin namon is not cheaper. Cluves conti nue to be wanted, and as the supply is small former rat es are well sup ported. This afternoon at public sale 5 pkgs brown Nutmegs. were sold at 2s 7d to 2s 8 d p er lb, being the full value. INnado.—The market for East India has assumed a quiet aspect, still lower rates are not accepted. The quarterly sale is fixed for the 1011 of July, and already 376 chests are declared, while the total amount that will be offered is expo cted to reach 15,000 chests. Rtes.—To-day there was only a limited demand for East India Rice, but no decline in the value Lode place. At auction 2,000 Flits and 5,479 bags were only in part sold ; good and flue white Bengal at 10i to 11-, mid and goud mid 8s 6d to Os 6d, fine cargo is 6d to Bs, and damaged 6s to 7s per cwt. SALTPETRE.—To-day holders of rough were more .disposed to sell, and at a public sale of 1,451 bags of *Calcutta, prices declined 6d per cwt. Refraction 44 per cent went at 2Ga to 264 6d, 41 to 6k ditto 263 6d to 275, and 13 to 10 per cent 264 to 26s 6d per cwt. SPIRITS.—The demand has been good tor Leeward Island Rum this week, and former rates are well su ppo r ted: Is 4d to Is 41d per gallnn having been paid for several parcels of proof, and on the part of holders there is firm ness. East India has been dealt in with more freedom, , and it is difficult to purchase under is 3d proof. A fair i business has been done in Demerara, but a desire is TIME w LONDON, shown to sell at former rates of 2s to 2s 44 for 30 to 40 per cent. overproof. In consequence of rather lower prices have been accepted for the lower sorts of Jamaica, a goof business has been done, whilst sales to a fair extent have been mud:; in the better kinds at firm rates; of all sorts the supply is smaller. 'Ftle value of 19 to 29 per cent over proof is from 2s 2d to 23 sd, 30 to 36 over 2s 5d to 3s 6d, and inferior 3s 61 to 4s 3d per gallon. Of fine high flavoured sorts the supply is small and likely so to continue. Havannah Rum is to he obtained at is 2d to is proof. Brandy is held with firmness, and there is still a good demand at fully former rates; the stock is still on the decrease. Saco.—Today a public sue of 152 boxes of Pearl went at 208 6d to 21s per lower. CocairrEAL.—There has been but little disposition evinced to operate, and as the supply at market is good, rather lower rates have been accepted. At public sale 111 bags were only in part disposed of. Honduras sil vers went from 3s 9d to 5: 4d; Mexican silvers 3s Id to 3s Bd, black 3s lld to 4s Id, and Teneriffe silvery black 4s to 4s 21 per lb. TALLOW.—To-day the quantity of Tallow offered at auction was extensive, and rather lower rates were taken. Of South American 1,200 pkgs were chiefly sold at from 33s to 38s 6d, and very ord 29s 3d to 32s 6d; 209 pkgs Sydney 33s 6d to 37s 6d; 140 pkgs Cape 39s to 40s; 104 cks of P.Y.C., damaged 35s 3d to 36s 6d. Ous.—To-day Palm Oil da clined in value. At auc tion 134 pkgs only in part sold at 2 - s to 30i: 226 pkgs Cocoa Nut Oil at 30/ to 341 10,. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed:— Torquay Market. Transfer of Sheffield Canal to River Dun Navigation Company. _ SECOND READING. Williams's Estate Bill was read a second time. PETITIONS. The Sheriffs of London presented a petition in favour of the Smoke Bill. Several petitions were presented from poor-law officers praying for a superannuation fund. Mr. AGLIONBY presented petitions praying for an amendment of the Merchant Seamen's Act. Mr. MACGREGOR presented a petition, numerously signed, from a place in Scotland, praying for a thorough reform of Parliament. Mr. GLADS FONE presented a petition, praying for an alteration of the Merchant Seamen's Fund. CANADA. In reply to Mr. MILES, Mr. HAWES stated that all the papers relative to the legislative proceedings in Canada had been laid on the table. EARTHQUAKE IN NEW ZEALAND. Mr. AGLIONBY asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Culoni , s wheOer any further accounts had been received from New Zealand on the subject of the earth quake which had been telt there; and whether the ex tent and amount of damage is known. Mr. HA WES replied that since the dispatches laid on the table on the 25th of April no dispateht s had been receivt d from the Governor- General, who then reported the injury to be 50,000/. Official Gazettes had, however, been since received, stating that a Commission had been appointed, who had reported that the damage done to the town of Wellington did not exceed 15,000/. or 15,000/., part of which would be paid out of the colonial fund. He read a paper, stating that commercial confidence had been restore d in the colony. Sir C. BURRELL presented a petition from a place in Surrey, praying fur protection to agriculture. Mr. HEFUHES presented a petition from the Board of Trade of Quebec against any alteration of the navi gation-laws. OVERLOADING STEAMBOATS. In reply to Mr. CARDWELL, Mr. LABUUCHERE stated that the result of Cap tain Denhain's inquiries with respect to the overloading of vessels plying in the Irish Channel, had led the Go vernment to the determination that they should enforce the Act of last session for limiting the number of pas sengers according to the size of vessels. CANADA. In reply to Mr. HERRIES, Mr. frA.wEs said it was not usual to read over ,the proceedings of the Canadian Legislature during the sitting of its session. He thought in this the Governor•• General had exercised a wise discretion. THE DISTEE-sS IN IRELAND. Lord J. RUSSELL said that he was anxious to answer a question which had been put to him some time before the recess, with resptc. to a report which h-d been current in the newspapers, and which was said to be founded on a letter addressed to him by the Rev. J. Anderson, of Bstlinrobe.—(Hear, hear.) In that letter the Rev. Gentleman was stated, in the first place, to have said that he was particularly desirous to avoid say ing anything that might cause anxiety in the public m ud. He (Lori.: J. Russell) had deemed it necessary to make the fullest inquiries upon the subject, and he found by a letter addressed to him by the Rev. Gentleman, dated the 19th May, that the communication said to have bi>e L , made the other day was written as long ago as last No vernber.—(Liear, hear.) By this letter it was shown that the dreadful circumstance to which he referred oc curred in the Clittou Union. It had been stated that a person drive❑ by want had cut out the liver and heart of a shipwrecked body, in order to satisfy the intense cravings of hunger, and that he was with difficulty restrained from feeding upon such means for a Maddening re past.—(Hear, hear.) The real circum stances were very different. It was true that a dead body had been cast on shore, and that it had bt=en in reality found by an individual who was represented as being a person of singularly voracious appetite. He found this body, and, without being aware that it was human, was preparing to cut a portion of it away, but sortie of the neighbours interfi red, and pointed out what it was, when he immediately desisted. Further, so far from this individual being in went, he had been for a long period in regular employ ment by the farmers around, and in the receipt of good wages for months past.—(Hear, hear.) He wished to state these facts in order to disabuse the public of those erroneous impressions which were likely to result from such grievous misstatements of Irish distress.—(Cheers.) Sir G. GREY said that he was anxious to read to th; House a portion of a letter which he had received from Lord Clancarty, in correction of a report which had ascribed to his Lordship a statement of a great increase in the mortality in the Limerick Union. By thii letter it appeared that instead of increasing, the mortality had decidedly decreased. (The Hon. Baronet then read a letter to that effect.) FINANCIAL STATEMENT. In reply to Mr. GLAI)STONE, Lord JOHN RUSSELL intimated that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would make his financial statement on Friday, the 15. h ir,st. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Upon the motion of Mr. PARKER, it was ordered that the House at its rising should adjourn until Monday next. COAST GUARD—REDUCTION. Sir JOHN TYRELL inquired whether, in conse quence of the great reductions in the price of provisions, and also on articles of French manufacture imported into this country, the Government contemplated, or had actually formally carried into execution a great reduc tion in the Coast Guard service, inasmuch as the horses of the cavalry throughout the kingdom had either been or were about to be sold? POOR-LAW CONTRACTS WITH THE FRENCH. The HON. BARONET also asked, whether it was a fact that on the south coast of England the French had con tracted to supply poor-law unions with provisions ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, wit respect to the first question, that it was the intention of the Government to effect a reduc tion in the Coast Guard; as to the second, the Govern. ment were not in possession of any information with re spect to any unions having entered into contracts with the French. Str JOHN TYRELL wished to know whether all the horses belonging to the Coast Guard service were not ac tually being sold at the various repositories in London at the present moment? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Not quit• all.—(A laugh.) EVICTIONS IN IRELAND—NENAGH UNION. Mr. SCULLY, in rising to put a question to the Secretary for Ireland, gave an account of the total demolition of a large village on the estate of a Pro testant clergyman in the Nenagh Union, the conse quence of which was that hundreds of the tenantry were to be found on the high roads, lying in ditches, and taking shelter under trees, and many of them being in a dying state. Ought st,ch a state of things to exist in a Christian country ? The question, therefore, which he had to ask was whether the Government were pre pared to take any steps for the safety of those people? Mr. H. DRUMMOND thought that a statement of that kind, taken from newspapers, should not be made in that House without affording the gentleman on whose property the circumstances were stated to have oc curred an opportunity of knowing that the statement was going to be made in the House. The House could not take all statements exactly as true that came from Ireland.—(Hear, bear.) Sir W. SOMERVILLE said he had received no official information of the transaction in question. Ile understood the Honourable Gentleman to say that the guardians of the Nenagh Union had failed to provide adequate relief to the people in the workhouse. He (Sir W. Somerville) could only say if that were so, it would be for the Poor-law Commissioners to take what steps they thought proper under the circumstances. His Hon. Friend had not given him notice of his question, otherwise he might have been able to answer it more satisfactorily. Mr. J. O"CONNELL would submit to the Houce whe thtr it u as not a matter of the very last importance to put an end to that most tearful system of eviction which was going on in Ireland.—(B e ar.) The people were turned , out utterly to perish There was an Act passed last session that notice of an eviction should b^given to the relieving-cfficer on all occasions. It was evident from the number of d eat h s that had occurred in c , nsequence of evi c ti ons t h at that Act in that respect had not been carried into operation. The Honourable Gentleman opposite (Mr. H. Drummond) had said that the gentleman on whose property that atrocity had . been com mitted should have been apprised of the intention to state them to the House. There was no doubt as to whose p ro p er ty i t was on w hi c h that atrocity had been committed. There was no doubt that between 500 and fOO individuals bad been turned out upon the road in the most terrible weather, and that multitudes had suffered in consequence, and surely some thing must be done. lie knew no instance where, among several poor families who had been turned out upon the road, a poor woman was brought into the yard before the house by three bailiffs, on a sick bed; she was a miserable spectacle of wasting sickness; and in Limerick, recently, Mr. Leffley, the Sub-Sheriff, had ejected twenty families, each family numbering from six to seven individuals. Some of these poor creatures were on sick beds, but they could crawl out upon the road, and take shelter under the trees from the tempestuous weather which prevailed. Really, such people, suffering in such a way, and meeting their suf ferings in such a Christian spirit, were deserving the attention of the House. God forbid that he should say that her Majesty's Ministers did not feel for those sufferings; but he must say it was the duty of the House, as repre sentatives of the people, and as Christian men, to keep repeating those facts, that if they were wrong they should be refuted, but if they were right that the at tention of the House should be called to them and their interference procured, for the work of destruction was going on. FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 1, DANISH WAR. Mr. GEORGE SANDARS wished to ask the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs if be had heard of the fact of several British ships with British property, sailing from the port of Barth, having been seized by the Mulish ships of war, end taken into Copenhagen, though the said port of Barth is not one of the ports which has been decl tred under blockade, or any steps taken to render it so. Lord PALMERSTON replied that a few days ago an application was made to him on the subject, and he was now causing inquiries to be made into it. Mr. GEORGE SANDARS observed that one of the yeas. Is stopped had charge of the mails. Lord PALMERSTON said he had applied to the foreign power in question for permission that vessels with the mails might pass, but he had not yet received an answer to the application. Mr. G. SANDARS had been informed that! as many as 36 vessels, most of which were foreign, had been allowed to pass this blockaded port. Lord PALMERSTON said Government had sent out a steamer to ascertain if the blockade was completed, but the shores of the Elbe could not be so effectually blockaded as to keep out all vessels. No doubt some vessels had effected an entrance at night, but it must be remembered that they did so at a risk, and were liable to be afterwards seized and condemned. SUPPLY. The House then went into Committee of Supply. On the question that 162,467/. be granted for addi tions and repairs of Royal Palaces, Mr. B. OSBORNE said no man in the House had greater respect for the Sovereign of the country than himself. While he was sure he was only expressing the feding of the House in saying that he was most anxious that the Sovereign should be lodged in a way that would do credit to the country and the station she occupied in Europe, at the same time he thought the House was bound to inquire into the system in which these enormous sums were year after year brought before the House of Commons for public palaces. He was sure the Sovereign would be the last individual in the country to wish that -ystem to continue without proper inquiry bsing made into it. Now on the first page of this es imete he saw 7501. for Buckingham Palace ; but if the House would take the trouble to turn over tie next few pa g es. they would find an additional sum of 50,000/. for the same building. By the report of a Committee appointed in 1831 to inquire into the state of Windsor and Buckingham Palaces it appeared that, exclusive of the marble arch, there had been expended in BuckingLaus Palace no less a sum than 613,2961., which, added to the 150,0001 granted last year, made an aggregate sum of 763,2161., besides the grants for furniture, &c. Now, for such a sum as that they ought to have been able to build a palace fitting the Sovereign of the country, instead of which they had got a patched up building, erected in a hole. So mach, then, for Buckingham Palace.—(Laughter.) He had nut the least disrespect for the Sovereign, but he could not forbear calling attention to a vote of 6,5001. for marketaLles at Windsor, and for supplying them with water. Then, again, flushing and cleansing the drains was charged at 16,550/. The Noble Lord at the head of the Government rates, last night, that when round figures were put down that it meant that a further sum viould be required. He, therefore, called particular a tendon to the vote, because it might b in general thought it was only preliminary to a further sum. The House might say that it was a email sum ; but he found from the report of the Committee of 1841, that the expenditure upon Windsor Castle, from 1824 to 1836, had amounted to the enormous sum of 1,498,5161. — (He ar, hear)—making, with what was required this year, a total of 1,515,0001., exclusive of the sums voted to the Woods and Forests for furnishing and other that ;they w e re. It t rr e tte g r u s a . rdia T h h s ey of to other other nations that they were I,,, p ,a u s h I disgracefulic purse ; but th he a t sodeniedlarge a sum should have been spent upon two palaces, one of which was not fit to put a Sovereign in. He would not , pu i l t y t g h e e k t e o e t s li d e or t reoht:,btl toe o g f o ( a )h d t iivni into o i on, the a l s he m o hyuigwithht him ; but he called upon the House to express a strong opinion upon this excessive expenditure. Why, if they went on at this rate, the whole of the re venue of the country would be swallowed up in the build ing of palaces.—(Hear, hear.) Why the estimate of the new Palace at Westminster was 750,000 l.; but already they had spent 2,000,0001. upon it—(Hear)—and they were spoiling the House of Lords by erecting a hideous gallery, which would spoil the beautiful proportions of the building. And in the new House of Commons not a word would be heard; hut perhaps that would be an advantege to some Hon. Members.—(Laughter.) Again, he sow in the estimates a small sum since, it was 41 14 e, but he mentioned it for ante her reason—namely, from ifs being applied to the purposes of the abominable Palace Court, to which he wished to draw the attention of this Nub'e Lord the Member for Maryletone.—(Hear.) The miscellaneous estimates were, however, su large that it was impossible to follow them. He suggested that for the future all the sums expended upon public buildings should be carried on. At present Members thought that new sums were required, and they ware 131 consequently hue l i h l e io C nh. ll a A ul 11 N dp d c: G e t k ac i l ' e l w d ri o at r , t sa o h Membera EXCHEQUERt o h d e somneu u would l building.nnot d deny yo stah hopedsave money it was essential th a t repairs should be made. Mr. OSBORNE did not object to repairs. Th e CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—At the time the money referred to was expended on drains at Windsor Castle there were no drains. Mr. SLANEY said he remembered that a survey was made of Windsor by Sir 11. Delabeche, and that he reported that improved drainage was necessary for the health of the town. Sir DE LACY EVANS hoped that the barracks a Windier would not be forgotten. The votesvas agreed to. MARBLE ARC[I AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE. Mr. OSBORNE said, that i❑ this vote there was a sum, he vbserv, d, of 200/. for the expense of pulling it o ,,n the marble arch, 'This arch had cost upwards of 80,0001. in the er ction, and now there was to be a lurrher sum for pulling it down. He should very much like t o know what was to be done with this arch? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that in reply to the lion. Member, be really could not say what was to be done with the arch, for nothing had at present been decided upon, but one thing was very plain and that was that the arch could nut continue where it was.—(Laughter.) The vote wus the❑ pas,ed. COMMITTEE-ROOMS, &c. On the vote for 3,284/. to defray the cost of committee rooms and other temporary accommodations in the new Houses of Parliament,_ M—r.OSBORANE said he hardly thought that the House were aware that since the temporary accommodations had been afforded not less than 200,0001. had been spent upon them.—(Hear, hear.) Then, again, there was another item to which he thought no suffi cient attention had ever been directed, and that was the charge of 120,000/, for ventilation. Not that he was in clined to find fault with the ventilation—(Hear, bear) — but he wished the House to see what they paid for it. Then there was another charge which he wished to bring under their notice, and in d o i ng . so he was anxious ii - ear the opinion of the Under Secretary for the- Colenies, respecting those hideous galleries which were now being erected in the House of Lords. That R ght lion. Gentleman was a member of the Fine Arts Com mission, and as in all probability they would see the expense of them charged in next year's estimates, he should like to have his (pinion.—(Hear.) lie objected to money being expended on temporary erections, and would advise the Hou e to refuse their countenance, for it was his firm impression that unless the House put the screw on the Chancellor of the Exchequer he deci- Tlyhheea dedly b e li eve d that they would never sit in the new House at a ll.—(H ear, hear, and laughter.) The vote wa s t h en agree d t o . HOLYHEAD HARBOUR. letin h g er th m e a H je a s r tys b , our at Homail steam-packet s was t h en ag reed to. Holyhead sum for o f t h 4 e 5, 1, 7 c 7 c 1 0 1 m . m i Or m d a c t o io n p of HARBOURS OF REFUGE. On the vot e f or 14 4 , 5411. f or compl e ting the Harbours of Refuge, Mr. M. GIBSON wished to inquire whether these harbours were for commercial or for military purposes. He understoudil;attTese harbours, for commercial pur poses, were more likely to be harbours of destruction than of safety. The French, he understood, termed the harbour at Dover a harbour of aggression instead of safety. Amer a few words from the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the vote was agreed to. Atter a few obseevations from Mr. THORNELY and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER the vote was agreed to. A vote of 10,0001. for works and repairs on Cale donian Canal was agreed to without discussion. Upon nso of a t n a v i o n t t e a o n f i 24 gs , 2 e 3 v e 3 r being public l buildings proposed be t o he x ng ieng to the department of public works in Ireland, and also f,,r the purposes of inland navigation, under the direc• tion of the said CornmisAoners, Mr. SPOONER moved as an amendment, that the vote should be r,dueed by 1,22.51. Is. 7d., that sum being required tor certain repairs in connection with May nooth College. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided. Fur tLe reduction 96 Against it Alsif , rity KINGSTON HARBOUR. A vote for 5,500/. for defraying the expenses o f th e works and repairs at Kingston Harbour, was agreed to without discussion or division. SALARIES OF PARLIAMENTARY OFFICERS. A vote for 93,2001. fur the salaries of offictrs and expenses of the two Houses of Parliament, aid the sila nes of retired officers, was agreed to without discussion. THE TREASURY. On the vote for 7,2004 fog the salari6s,.and expenses of her Majesty's Treasury being read, Mr. GOULBURN said he could not concur in the principle on which the reduction had been made on those salaries. He did not deny that by this arange meat a large amount of money was saved, but it was vny ha,f, economy to save money at the expense of the efficiency of the departments. It was highly important that the subordinate officers of such depart ment of the state should be a ffi-Aent individuals well varsed in the usages and rules of Parliament, hut let them not ostabiish a system which should place great power arid vast duties in the hands of only a few individuals. It was much better to nave one responsible head over each department, and spread the duties over a number of subordinate officers, who' should be entitled to promotion according to merit and seniority. He therefore thought Vie ar rangement now proposed of reducing the subordinate officers, was an ill-advised one. [LEFT SPEAKING.] POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP. BEET. Yesterday Eliza Schulthberger was brought up for final examination before Mr. Hanpruill, charged with having udminian red repeated doses of arsenic to her hu-band, with intent to destroy his life. Upon taking her place at tee bar a striking change was visible in the countenance and deportment of the prisoner, her former coolness and self-possession having entirely deserted her, and given place to a haggard and restless expression, and an appearance of trepidation, as ii she were startling from strong internal emotion. The facts of the case, as adduced in evidence at the former examination, and which have already appeared in this paper, were now read over to the prosecutor, who entered into the following important particulars:— He stated that about twelve months since, and some time after the altered demeanour of his wife towards him first attracted his attention, he accidentally discovered that she was in the habit of receiving frequent clandestine visits from a man residing in the neighbourhood, and upon expressing dissatisfaction at her cenduct she became much agitated, and told him that she had done him a great wrong, but that he would learn all about it when she was dead. On the same evening she made an attempt upon her life, which he succeeded in frustrating, and fur a short time after there was an appearance of improvement in her conduct, but she soon relapsed into her former habits, and upon corn ing home unexpectedly upon a subsequent occasion, he found the blinds drawn down, and had to writ at le as t ten minutes before she admitt e d him. He noticed at the time that she looked very pale and agitated, and, hear ing a scuffling sere of noise up stairs, he inquired what it 'tweet, and she told him that it was caused by the cat. His suspicions, however, were not sufficiently excited to induce him to search the place, and he returned to his business, but, oat the following day, the man who was the object of his jealousy called while he was at home, and, observing a secret signal exchanged between the latter and his wife, he warned her of the coesequences, unless she prohibited his visits. The prisoner became thereupon greatly enraged, and told him that it ever he repeated such an ihenuation he should have cause to repept it, and shortly after this conversation he was seized with the symptoms he h::d before described, and which ultimately induced him to make the search that resulted in his discovery of the poison. Dr. John Ryan, a professor of chemistry residing at Dalston (but not acting in that capacity at the Germen Hospital, as before stated), deposed that about three weeks since the prosecutor's brother called upon him with a small paper parcel, containing a quantity of crystalline powder, resembling very fine salt, which he chemically tested immediately after, and found that it consisted of 10 grains of common salt and white arsenic, in the pro portion of 8 grains of the former to 2 of the latter. While the brother was inside his house he observed in the garden the prosecutor, who called upon him the following day to consult him in re ference to his health. He presented a very emaciated appearance, and exhibited such symptoms as minute doses of ars( nic administered to him for a length of time would produce. He complained of long-continued nausea, and, besides his emaciated looks, witness parti cularly remarked the felling off of his hair, the general unhealthy appearance of his skin, end a great depression of his vital energies, indicating tha; his nervous system had been very much affected by something of a poisonous nature. The man described that after his meals he felt a burning pain in the throat and the pit of the stomach, with a disposition to vomit, anti very offensive secretions. Witness attended him for about twelve days, and in the first instance prescribed whet he considered best calcu lated to act as an antidote to arsenical poison, and found the symptoms give way to that treatment, and on the fol lowing day he seemed to be better. He continued this treatment for 12 days, and considered him now to be per fectly recovered. The Doctor added, that the ten grains he found in the paper would not quite half fill a small saltspoon, but he was dceidedly of opinion that two grains of arsenic administered to a healthy man for four or five consecutive days might be sufficient to cause death. Sergeant Kelly stated that since the last examination he had been engaged in constant efforts to discover the shop at which the poison produced had been purchased, but hitherto without success. Mr. Vann, the prisoner's solicitor, said that under the circumstances detailed he should advise his client to re serve her defence; but he felt bound to intimate that she earnestly protested her innocence, and he should be pre pared with evidence before another tribunal to rebut the most material parts of the prosecutor's statement, and to prove that she had been compelled to leave his house and seek protection from her fattier, in consequence of her husband's ill-usage. The depositions were then taken by Mr. Vine, the chid' clerk, and the prisoner was fully committed to Newgate fur trial. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 31. CIVIL CONTINGENCIES. (Continued from our Third Edition of last night) Mr. GLADSTONF, objected to the charge of 2,5001. for a Commission of Inquiry into the Management of the Mint, he having made the same objection to the same Comrns , ion last session. lie knew of no reason which called for such an inquiry. There was only one duty which the Master of the Mint had to perform, and that was the duty of reforming the constitution of the Mint. The Master of the Mint might therefore have made the inquiry with proper assistants. He protested, therefore, altogether to the appointment of such a Commission. The appointment of unnecessary Commissions had the disadvantage of dividing responsibility. It would be better to have these inquiries made by heads of depart inents, who should be held responsible for the reports which they might make. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the Commission was appointed to inquire whether the coin age could not be c,inducted at a less expense than custo mary to the country. The gentlemen who were ap pointed on this Commission were gentlemen of experi ence, and had been appointed by a vote of that House against the opposition of the Right Hon Gentleman. The result of the inquiry had satisfied the Government that the appointments were as good as could be male. With respect to the appointment of Col. Forbes,whoheld an office in the East India Compan)'s service, it would have been unfair to have accepted Col. Forbes's services without remunerating that gentleman. Sir J. TYRELL said that with reference to the Mint, he did think the blue books ref], etrd on the former Masters of the Mint and on the Right Hon. Gentlemen on the Treasury bench. There had been commission after commission on this subject, at a great expense to the country, but productive of no improvement or re , form. Some explanation he thought ought to be given regarding a recent appointment to a situation connected with the Mint of a son of the Hon. Member for Dublin. Sir G. CLERK did not find fault with the Commis sioners endeavouring to procure all the information they could. What be complained of was, that evidence had been received against officers of the Mint from persons who had not lately been connected with it, and that the Commissioners had never communicated either directly or indirectly to these officers the charges preferred against them. These gentlemen complained, but were told that the Commission had ceased, and that no fur ther inquiry could be granted. He thought they were entitled to a full inquiry. Mr. SHEIL believed the Right Hon. Gentleman had alluded to a dccument in the report furnished by M. Pistrucci. He was ready to admit that he regretted the terms of the document. He had already communicated to the gentleman to whom it rete:red—Mr. Brand—the expression of his regret at the language used by M. Pistrucci. It ought to be recollected, however, that Mr. Wyon corroborated M. Pistrueci in the evidence he had given. The Whole facts had been laid before the Com missioners, whose duty it was to report and suggest such alterations as would prevent the recurrence of the evils to which M. Pistrucci had adverted. In the whole of he report there was not one word which reflected on Mr. Brand, who he could not help thinking had been too sensitive on the subject. Mr. Brand had written to him, in what he conceived rather hostile terms, court ing investigation. Instead, however, o f spec i fying any particular point, he had i demanded a genera l investigation. Such an investigation w ou ld b e pre posterous. He believed, f the report of the Commis sioners was carried into effect, a saving of 14,000/. or 15,000/. a yt ar would be effected. The recommendations of Colonel Forbes were extremely valuable, and would produce a saving of 10,000/. a year. With regard to the office of the Solicitor of the Mint, there could be no doubt that the Master of the Mint had the right to recommend en individual when a vacancy occurred. The salary was 800/. a year. In the late vacancy the Chancellor of the Exchequer had, with great justice and discretion, put a stop to a job.—(L aug h ter .) Th e j o b was i n the system and not in the individual ; and his Right Hon. Friend, very properly, would not allow the app o i n t men t to b e made. His Right Hon. F r i en d wou ld not consent to a person receiving 8001. a ye ar f or d o i ng not hi ng, b ut con solidated the office of the Solicitor to the Mint with the office of Solicitor to the Treasury, and thereby saved the country 800/. a year. Mr. Powell, who had been Second Assistant. Solicitor to the Mint for thirty years, was promoted to be First Assistant-Solicitor, and his salary was raised to 600/. a year, his fees havieg been abolished. On Mr. Powedi's promo tion, there, of course, occurred a vacancy in the office which he had held. On his (Vlr. Sheil's) recommenda , lion, the Chancellor of the Exchequer bad appoints d a son of his Hon. Friend the NI, rnber tor Dublin, who was perfectly qualified for the situation, and who had pas td five years in the office of an attorney, The At torney-General had also recommi:nded him; and he had, therefore, be e n a p po i nte d , not certa i n l y by him (Mr. Sheil), but by his recommendation, to the vacant situa tion, worth about 320/. a year. That was the who.e of the remarkable job. %Vial regard to his own office, he had only to state that Le was one of those who had re commended that the - patronage belonging to it should be tvausferred to the Treasury. Mr. GOULBURN said the real question which the Committee had to consider was respecting the propriety of appointing a commission to inquire into that matter, 1840. His complaint was that such a commission should be nominated to do that which it might be fairly considered the Right Hon. Gentleman the Master of the a,lint ought to do. But, moreover, he considered it would not be deemed otherwise than extravagant to send to India for a gentleman to act on that commission. Hr. LABOUCLIERE bore his testimony to the skill, integrity, and industry of the officers of the Mint gene rally, and however that establishment might be expensive to the country, cumbrous in its operation, and susceptible of improvement, all that was owing to the system which was in existence, and not to the officers who now ad ministered it. However able and zealous a Master of the Mint might be it was impossible for him to carry out satisfactorily such au inquiry as that proposed. Mr. GLADSTONE said, with regard to the recom mendations suggested for an improvement in the con stitution of the Mint., he had no objection. The impor tant question, he conceived, fur them to consider was, how the coinage of the country was to be carried on, whether by contract or otherwise. Was the present system objectionable eecause it was done by contract, or because the contract was bad? It was not so much a quesion of salaries as of contracts, and he hoped that would be maturely weighed before any dscision was come to. Sir J. TYRELL had no charge whatever to make against the integrity, honour, and ability of those who filled offices in that department; but he deprecated the idea of sending for a Commiesioner to India to inquire into that matter, seeing that any information which such an individual could give should have been derived from this country. Mr. MANGLES defended the appointment of Colonel - Forbes, than whom he considered n gentleman in this country could be better informed, from many causes, on the subject of inquiry. Colonel SIBTHORP wished to get some information relative to a charge which he saw in the estimates for "the travelling expenses of the Queen of the Belgians, the Duke of Saxe Coburg, and the Prince of Prussia, during their visit to this country," amounting to 5601. 35. 3d. He wished to know from what particular quarter that expenditure was to be met, by what autho rity it was sanctioned, and how was its amount ascer tained? He made the inquiry without reference to persons, and simply in the discharge of his public duty as a Member of that House. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the charges to which the Hon. and Gallant Member had referred had formerly been paid out of the civil list; but they had of late been defrayed out of the public funds, in compliance with the recommendation of a Com mittee of the House which had sat a few years ago. Mr. B. OSBORNE said he wished to receive some detailed information with respect to many of those items. Ile wished in particular to be informed of the nature of the expenses incurred for the President of Liberia, the Spanish commission, and the mission of Mr. Southern to Buenos Ayres. He should further observe that he felt bound to complain of the vague and unsatisfactory manner in which many of those votes were presented. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that in dealing a ith items of this kind, which were to meet contingencies the exact nature of which could not be foreseen, it had been found that the more convenient course would be to take round sums, and that course had been adopted in the present instance; so that it did not necessarily follow that the amount taken in the votes would be the amount actually expended. Lord PALME.3,STON said with respect to the ex- Trise of the Portuguese commission, he believed it was not a final vote, as he found that the sum taken was a round one. That Commission had been established with a view to inquire into the claims of a number of British subjects who had, with the consent of Government, served in the Portuguese army and navy. Great diffi culties had arisen in the settlement of those claims; and it had several years ago been arranged between him and the Portuguese Minister that two commissioners should be appointed —one by the Portuguese Government and the other by the Government of this country—to inquire into the matter, with the understanding that, when they agreed, their decision should he final, and thet when they disagreed, the subject of their difference should be referred to a third nasty, who was to act as an arbitrator. The Minister of the King of the Belgians had undertaken to act in that capacity, and had thereby incurred a much more laborious duty than he had at first anticipated. The commission was at present just completing its labours, so that he (Lord Palmerston) apprehended that no future ex pense would be incurred under that head. With respect to the negotiation% of Mr. Southern at Buenos Ayres, he aas not then at liberty to state what was the precise condition of that negotiation; but he bad the sa tisfaction of being able t o assure his Hon. Friend and the House that the last accounts he had received from Mr. Southern afforded very reasonable grounds for hoping that the loag-pending question would soon be settled in a satisfactory manner.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. B. OSBORNE wished to receive some informa tion with respect to the vote for the commission of in quiry into the application of iron to railway structures. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that a few years ago a fearful accident had occurred on an iron railway bridge over the river Dee, near Chester; and in order to ascertain the cause of that accident, as well as to prevent the occurrence of similar accidents in future, the Government had found it advisable to appoint a commission to inquire into the power of iron in bear ing heavy traffic on railway bridges. Mr. WYLD said that as there was in those votes an item for the charge of the commission of inquiry into the state of the British Museum, he wished to take that opportunity of expressing a hope that that com mission would soon bring its labours to a satisfactory conclusion. The LORD ADVOCATE said he believed the report of the commission would be laid before Parliament in a few days. Mr. WYLD wished to know if he could cbtain any information with respect to the catalegue of the museum? Mr. M. MILNES said the commission had very care fully inquired into that subject, and the result of that inquiry would be communicated in their report. Mr. COBDEN said, that as there was an item for ex penses incurred on account of the President of Liberia he should wish to be informed how this country had in curred any such charge. Again, he found that there was an item for the conveyance of the King of Mosquito to Jamaica, and he should like to know why we had been charged with that expense. Lord PALAIERSTON said, that when passengers were conveyed in one of her Majesty's ships of war, scme expense was necessarily incurred for their mainte nance. The President of Liberia having been in this country last year had expressed a wish to be allowed a passage home in a man-of-war, and her Majesty's Go vernment had thought that that was a wish which it was proper and advisable that they should comply. The chargejn question had been incurred for his mainte nance during the passage. A similar charge bad arisen in the conveyance of the King of Musquiao to Jamaica. where it was usual that that King, who certainly was not a very powerful Sovereign, should be crowned. Mr. COBDEN said, he believed a good deal of jea lousy was felt in the United States at oar setting up kings on the North American continent. t appeared that we conveyed an aboriginal or savage dbief to Ja maica, and dubbed him there a King; but it was a re cognised principle on the North American continent that no aboriginal chief sh ou ld b e recogn i sed under suc h a title. He did not want to enter into that subject; but he knew that it had been a subject of comment in the United States—and that which was at present only laughable might by-and-bye involve us in are unpleasant position with other countries in North America. In those estimates he found a sum for presents to the Mus quito Indians, so that it appeared we were not only crowning the King, but that we were also subsidising the people of that district. Then, again, he found votes for stores supplied to the chiefs of Portendic and to the Sul tan of Johanna. He wished to know why those ex penses bad been incurred; it certainly seemed to him that they were altogether unnecessary. Lord PALMERSTON said, that the Mosquito state had been under the protection of Great Britain for nearly two centuries, and he therefore thought it would be unreasonable in the people of the United States to find fault with a connexion which had been in existence long before those states had been raised into an inde pendent country. With regard to the presents to the Musquito Indian, he had reason to believe that that was the last time that such presents wculd be made. Then, again, with resptct to the presents to the Portendic chiefs, he had only to state that there was a gum trade carried on there, and that it was usual and considered necessary to make presents to those chiefs, who brought forward tke gum to exchange with our merchants. The present to the Sultan of Johanna was one of trifling amount, and was given to a chief with whom our rela tions would, perhaps, henceforward become of a mute friendlycuo.chhßaaprdsEcb.Nee incurred ev rtc e od r. onro wthehorwelitehfeolfaßrgreitiesxhpseunbse. jec L s o f r t ( t i .s , p li A te m V E i l d i e s o T . ON said that that expense had been incurred for the relief of British subjects who had been reduced to a state of destitution at Monte Video by the contest going on in that Country; and he hoped there would be objection to a charge which had originated in such a manlier. Mr. OSBORNE moved, as an amendment, that the vote should be reduced to 30,0001. The Committee divided, when there appeared— For the amendment ... Against it ••• ••• Majority ... The vote was then agreed to. The House resumed, and the Chairman reported pro gress and obtained leave to sit again to-morrow (this day.) The Defects in Leases Bill went through Committee, was reported to the House without amendments, and was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow (this day). . 47 . -32 - PASSENGERS BILL. The House then went into Committee on the Passen gers Bill, Mr. BERNAL in the chair. The several clauses, with some verbal amendments, were agreed to, and the report ordered to be brought up to-morrow. On the motion of the LORD ADVOCATE, the Po • lice of Towns (Scotland) Bill was referred to a Select Committee. REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, &c. (SCOTLAND). The House then went hit° Committee on the Regis. tration of Births. &c., Bill. Mr. DUNCAN was unwilling to ofl;e6strapnoyneftorremiitalfuorpa position to the , Bill, but sugg«:steit 3 week or ten days, as the feeling in Scotland was very ADVOCATE was understood t o say strong The u L pbm it t p he A su p bj that the objectionable clauses would be postponed for the: e. ses the i xc, pion of those referred to by the Lard Advocate) were then agreed to, and the Bolls, resumed. The Bill was ordered to be recommitted on Monday week. CLERGY RELIEF BILL. the House went into Committee on the Clergy Ro. lief Bill, and the remaining clauses were agreed to will' out opposition. _ _ . Ali. LACY proposed the insertion of the following, clause:—"And be it enacted, th a t i t s h a ll no t b e lawful for any archbishop or bishop of the United Church of England and Irtdand to to ordain, grant letters of orders to, or again admit to holy orders any person so having been relieved by sentence of deposition from holy orders as aforesaid." Mr. BOUVERIE said that such a clause was alto• gether unnecessary, inasmuch as it was impossible there could be a re-ordination. A clergyman might be SUP pended from the performance of his clerical functions but the ordination remained the same. When once I/ man was ordained, he was ordained for life under the ecclesiastical law. Mr. LACY was anxious that some words s hould ba inserted in the Bill to prevent him performing the offic e of minister. Mr. BOUVERIE said that th© suspension of such 6 man would have the effect of preventing him perforraid the office of minister. Mr. LACY said that that was all he cared for. The preamble of the Bill, as amended, was th"' agreed to. In answer to Mr. lIENLEY, Mr. BOUVERIE said it was his intention to have the Bill reprinted. The House then resumed. The Bill with amendment ° was then reported. Sir W. SOMERVILLE obtained leave to bring to the following to amend an Act for the R e" gulation of Municipal Corpor a ti ons i n I re l an d ; Bill 11)r the Itnprovem,nt of the City of Dublin; Bill to provie. for the Collection of Rates in the City of Dublin. The SOLICITOR GENERAL o b ta i ne d leave 11 bring in a Bill to emend the Joint-Stock Compani e 4 Winding-up Act, 1848, which was acc or di ng ly brag" in and read a first time. Mr. C. LEWIS obtained leave to bring in a Bill t f, quiring, annual returns of the expenditure on highwo/:, in England and Wales, to be transmitted to the Secret of State, and afterwards laid b e f o r e P ar li ament; which was read a first time. The House then adjourned at a Quarter after 1 4 i lle o'clock. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. , BIRMINGHAM, MAY 3l.—At Gl ouces t er an d W or ceste r markets on the 26th English wh ea t ru l e d d u ll , b ut l ower pri e s , were net generally submitt e d t o . F ore i gn presse d f or s ale a reduction of Is per quar t er . N o a l terat i on i n barley. Usti ~ scarce, and fully as de ar . B eans rea li se d quite as muc h snoe et e Peas neglected. During the present week, owing to the 6 _ A n weather, the transactions in wh ea t h ave b een very limit'', The millers offer lower rates, and h o ld ers are firm. Ber°l nominally unaltered. Consumers pay the present advanced prices of oats with extreme reluctance. We have a fair 0 1 : sumptive sale for beans at former prices. No inquiry for Pet; At this day's market there wa s a f a i r supp l y o f w h eat , an d I' sale ruled dull, at rather under the currency of this day fe, ° : night. Barley taken slowly, a n d nom i na ll y una l tere d in cot Oats, beans, and peas all held for former prices, with ye" little doing in either. BOSTON, MAY 30.—Wheat, red 40s to 45s Od, white 48s; oats 13s to 20s; beans, 30s to 33s per quarter. SLEAFORD, MAY 28.—Wheat, white 45s to 473; red dl o to 46s ; barley nominal; oats 16s Od to 21s; beans, CM 33s per quarter. 1 40 GRIMSBY.—Return of Sales to May 28—Wheat 14 , quarters, 3071 Os (average 43 3 10id); barley 00 quir o t ; e o, 0001 Os Od (average COs Od) ; oats 20 quarters; I °' (average 13s Od). 8 ,; LOUTH, MAY 30.—Wh ea t 40 s to 4 65; b arley 24s to 4‘ , , 4 a oats 13s to 16s; bean s :.30s to 35s p er quarter ; secon ds 10 "" Os Od per stone. LYxN, MAY 29.—Wheat 36s 40s 42s to 465, fine CO to 46s ; barley 24s to 265, fine 28s to 30s per quarter. otist OAKHAM, MAY 28.—Wheat 44 s t o 48s; b arley 2 7 3 t o oats 15. to 20s ; beans, 29: to 33s per quarter. MELTON MOWBRAY, MA Y 29 . —Wh eat 48.3 , 45s to - barley 28s to 81s ; oats 185 to 22s ; beans 32s to 36. peL t i r to UPPINGHAM, MAY 30.—Wh ea t 44 s to 475; barley pert' t o 29s ; oats 17s to 22s ; b eans 30 s to 33s per quarter. 13°` 7d to 8d per lb ; eggs 25 for Is. GAINSBORO', MAY 29.—Wheat 44s to 50s-315 quart er j 7391 (average 46s l Id); rye 3 quarters, 4/10s (average 3 05 ',4 NEWARK, MAY 30.—Wheat, white 48sto 50s, extra 0 05 1; 01 , 44s to 475, extra 00s ; barley, malting 30s to 31s, extra grinding 243 to 255; oats, new 155 to 21s, old 22s to 2 3 0 beans, new 30s to 345, old 38s to 40s; peas 30s to 323; tit 405 to 44s ; malt s;s to 56s per qr. ROTHERHAM, MAY 28.—B ee f 5 s 6d to 6s 6d per a t° o o ; mutton, 4id to 5(1 per lb. Beasts 387, sheep 8,670. DERBY, MAY 29. - There was a b etter supply of fat !ga g : to-day, and the quality generally was good ; the demand ! e l exceedingly flat, and a consid era bl e num b er of t h e b es t do r e could not be disposed of. The number of sheep was not l ar f; but the sale for them was d u ll. F at and store calves Na; about the average, but they were a drug. Beef, 5d to a„1 oil mutton, scl to 6d ; veal, 4d t o 5d per lb . R ough f a t, 0 4 per stone of 141bs. Hides, I!„ici per lb. C a lf s ki ns , 2d to 3 7 , 1 4 EDINBURGH, MAY 30.—The quantity of wheat brougi, forward to-day was 362 qrs, being 232 qrs less than ,last w e jj, Top price 2s, and the average Is Id up-47 qrs Old The quantity of barley b roug h t f orward was 247g0, befog e die 218 qrs less than last week. P r i ce on the top 6d, and r. average 6ci up-34 qrs unsold. Of oats we had' 6 °'' r i q c a brought forward,' or :•50 q rs l ess th an l ast wee k . Top Po. Bd, and the average Is 4d up—ll qrs unsold. The ( lA, tity of beans to-day was 34 qrs, or 107 qrs less than last W Price on the top Is, and the average Is 7d—all sold. Top of Wheat ... ... 65 lb 52s Od ... Barley ... 570 b 305 6„ . ,d Oats ••• ••• 4441 b 22s tm ... Beans ... •.. ••• 65 lb 325 Od EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKET, MAY 30. —The sog o of cattle this morni n g was 626 , b e i ng 15 : more last week. Demand good, and last week's prices fully ma iotato 4 especially for cattle of a small size. Top price of the b7 o beef 7s 6d; current 7s to 6s 6d ; middling and inferior 6 sl 5s 6d per Dutch stone. At th e c l ose of the market a g OO, k it clearance was effected. Th e su p p l y o f s h eep and lambs t'''d morning was 1,587, being 47 less than last week. Delo al ' o f good, and prices a shade higher than last week. T o p pricl? best mutton 6d per lb; current, Sid ; m iddli ng and infern from 31,(1 to 4d. Lambs (top) 21s 3d; current 17s to 18s. number of sheep unsold. trery.s GLASGOW, MAY 30.—We have a continuance of sonable weather, and vegetation is reported as highly favour' able in appearance. The supplies of British produce main unimportant, but of foreign they have been to a fair d tent. At Grangemouth the arrivals from abroad at:1001 ,24 5 about 1,714 quarters of wheat, 1,215 quarters of barley , , „old quarters of oats, and 90 quarters of peas. There was a for the finer descriptions of wheat during the week, b ut o s yl rior qualities were difficult of disposal at last Wed° c id terms. Indian corn was in demand for Ireland at adva°os rates. In other articles no material change occurred. vi a day's market was thinly attended. Wheat and flour sold s' ps. at last week's currency. Barley was inquired for, and t f ip er. rye, for Ireland. Oats and oatmeal were the turn °T O W Beans, unaltered ; and peas, in the absence of demand' still changed. Indian corn ad to 9d dearer per 2801 b. bt DUNBAR, MAY 29.—Wheat, weighing 6301b5, 1 1 : : t 0.0 45 , 6 d, ar.d prices to 40 s . B ar l ey , we i g hi ng Olbs, broug n. and prices to 00s Od. O a t s , we i g hi ng 4 2 1 1b 5, broug ht W' u ,bt and prices to 15s 6d. Bea ns an d peas, weighing Offibs, br ° ° 00s, and prices to 00s Od. DUNDEE, MAY 25. Wheat, 415 Od to 44s Od. A ° , 4, 15 0 ditto 45. Od to 48s Od. Ba r l e y, 22 s Od to 2350 d. 01— to 15s 6d. Peas and beans, 22s Od to 24s Od. 0d; CORK, MAY 30. Fl our —Fi rs t s 14 s to 14s 6d ; extra 15' seconds, 13s Od to 13s 6d ; h ouse h o ld s 10 s to 12s ; thirds Ss °, vat per cwt. Oatmeal 13s 04 t o CO s; I n di an meal 8s 9d to 9.; W o e. meal, lOs Od to lls per cwt. Indian corn 8! 286 d to 8/ lOs Pe r ge Bran 415 s to 4110. per t on . H ay —F anners 30s to 425; a/eo 38s ; dealers 45s to 48s; ave rage 00 s Od per ton. St. aw---L a : od; 17s Od to 40s Od ; average 32s ; dealers 40a Od to L' u 'od; average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6(1 t° Q at(' household loaf 5d t o Sid per 41b. Fresh butter, "'js.• 9,1 per lb. Eggs-3s 7d to 3s 9d per hundred. ) Y t / e 5l O Newport 15s; Lyd ney 16 s ; L andore 15s ; co Best Culm 14s per t on . T a ll ow 40s 6d to 00s pe r MOO Whisky, 25 o. p., 6s Od per imperial gallon. to —Beef 4d to 7d; mu tt on 5 d to 6d; veal t pe r 7d; pork 4d to Sid ; b acon 7d to 8d; sausages , per lb. Hops 6/ les per cw t. B angor s l ates 3121 6d to Zii"eocll ton. Bark—Barba r y 81 t o 8/ 10 5 ; V a l on i a 141 to 0 / ; rtt 0, 71103; English 01 per ton. Fl eece W oo l 10 8 to 12 8 per . ° re el Hemp 34/ to 361 per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings 17s to 186; / pec, ditto 26s to 28s per barrel ; Newfoundland 1011 0 s to 2 ton. Timber—New Memel 41 lOs ; old scarce ; red P"„ o nd q ls u s al ; ity ye i ll 7 or pe p r in l e 2o 3 . / pe n r id to o n s l iv d j e o a r l k s e , tfiirosts to 14x; salted2ol; s ec s Peruvian, per ew t i ; li c t a o l f Il skins n os ; 1: c d h t a o b 9c11; per market ton ; T 4 l r dl_t o 2 u P e , l ;e 6l : Potatoes, white 14d to 15d ; Minions 19d to 20d ; Gngei oe 19s per barrel. 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BIRTHS , 1.1 ,„ vt , On the 28th u l t ., a t G reen l o w, near Pennycuik, ... ,4 00 lady of Captain B r i s t o w. of a daughter. , a ,,RI On the 28th ul t o .,a tßath theship y Cygnet, ,of aof C o d tn a u m g a h n t d e r e f Ps a 1 Robertson, Risi. , f}l..si. c On the 28th ult., at Scarborough, the wife of the Res' Boys Ferris, of a son. de On the 28th ult., at Westbourne-terraee-road, the Tv the lady of H. Co (1 0 let t G.OAn. the 28th u lis t q .t . a , toßf iashdaughter. n, Toby, Esq., of a daughter. Lug' On the 29th ult., iu Chesharn-place, Mrs. Orton of a son. ....-- , MARRIED. th e On the 29th ult, a t S t. Geor4e's, Hanover-square' l 4 Rev. Frederick Savile Lumley, second son of the r'!000' Scarborough, to3.Mary. Mary. on l y daughter of Robert Je Etc', of lieacliley, Glouc es t ers h ire. On the 29th ult., at White Roothing, Essex, J•Prelcd° Williams, Esq., o f Pi erce Williams, Hatfield Broad nth° Rev the sameßudd county, to E mma Mary, eldest daughter 0 . H. , m.A., rector of White Roothing. ifirs otif On the ~9 th ult., a* Much Hadham, Frederick II '7134 Esq ,eldest son of T. F. Marson, Esq., of Cumberlart r o race, Rt-gent's park, to Mary Caroline, eldest daug hte ijort" T. S. Carter, Esq., of 'Moor-place, Much Hadhanb fordshire. On the 29th ult., at Donhead St. Mary, T. Parker ileicictii ford, C a pt a i n Royal Welch Fusiliers, to Frances El f . a i ! 0 Maria, on l y child of the late Charles 'Wyndham, ~ _.....!: Dorthead- hall, Wiltshire. .._._______ of with London : Printed and P u bli s h e d b y MURDO YO, N 3. 112, Strand, Pri n t er , a t Th e S u n O ffi ce, J''' ) " .. ti 0 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Wm" Middlesex, Friday, June 1, 1849. . h On Thu rs d ay, the 24th DIE ult D , at her father's re° ld- he e fi IP' Trevince, i n t h e county of Cornwall,. Caroline 00;liter aged 21, the wife of tl, hit Williams, Esq-, and only d eu° of Michae l ult,Wiiam-, at Brussels , Catherine the wife °',, Wilh mi. , , of On the 2eth u lt ., at IlasCngs, Thomas Probert. -r- l 'i n '' Newport, hssex, aged 73. hfr• S• On the *.Btlr ult., at .Newland-street, K ens ington, Lea, arti•t, aged 44. 1 oit On the 2t , th tilt, Lady Duff, relict o f th e l a te Genera James Duff, of Funtington, Sussex. 04 E 4 On the 29th ult., at " uston-square, Thomas Webster, of Queen-street, Che a psid e , age d 7 3. On the `.:9th ult., at 11ye-lal.e, Peckham, Mr. Neithrilitdel d, Stock, aged 75, for 52 y ears c l er k o f t h e b an k of Englas„...%