The Sun. — London, England, 1849-05-18 00:00:00

4Thirb Zlittion SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) WAR-OFFICE, MAY 18, 1849. 2d Life-Guards—Lieutenant Charles Hallowell Ca rew, from the 36th Foot, to be Cornet and Sub-Lieute nant, vice Gwyn, who exchanges, May 18. 7th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Philip Bunbury to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major Hogge, who retires, May 18; Cornet and Adjutant John Gray to have the rank of Lieutenant, May 17; Cornet William Stuckey Wood to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bun bury; Thomas Edward Dowbiggin, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Wood, May 18. 6th Foot—Major Andrew Armstrong Barnes, from the 25th Foot, to be Major, vice Griffiths, who exchanges, May 18. 24th Foot—Staff-Surgeon of the 2d Class John Stuart Smith, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Pitcairn, who ex changes' May 18. 25th Foot—Major John Thomas Griffith, from the 6th Foot, to be Major, vice Barnes, who exchanges, May 18. 35th Foot—Charles Robert Tennant, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Spratt, promoted, May 18. 36th Foot—Lieutenant, Cornet, and Sub-Lieutenant Thomas Gabriel Leonard Carew Gwyn, from the 2d Regiment of Life Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Carew, who exchanges, May 18. 62d Foot—Major Henry B. Harvey, from the 87th Foot, to be Major, vice Shortt, who exchanges, May 18. 63d Foot—Ensign Douglas Ernest Manners, from the 91st Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice William George Landrishe Crowther, cashiered by the sentence of a General Court Martial, May 18. 69th Foot—Captain George Hughes Messiter, from half-ray Unattached, to be Captain, vice George Floyd Duckett, who Exchanges, May 18. 71st Foot—Ensign Bernard Brocas to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Uniacke, who retires; Francis McDon nell, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Brocas, May 18. 72d Foot—William Whitmore, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Urquhart, appointed to the 75th Foot, May 18. 87th Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William T Shortt, from the 62d Foot, to be Major, vice Harvey, who exchanges; Second-Lieutenant Jehn Peyton to be First-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Murphy, who retires; Edward Henry John Meredj, Gent., to be Second , Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Peyton, May 18. 90th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Robert Carew Ander son, M.D., from the Staff, to be Surgeon, vice Ellson, deceased, May 18. 91st Foot—Samuel Tomyns Sargent, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Manners, promoted in the 63d Foot, May 18. . _ _ Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Captain George Bulkeley Tattersall to be Major, by purchase, vice Martin, who retires; Lieutenant Vincent Wing to be Captain, by purchase, vice Tattersall; Second-Lieutenant, Emu id Bagenall to be Fint Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wirg; Francis Irving Ice!inf dy, Gent., to be Second- Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bagenall, May 18. HOSPITAL STAFF —Surgeon George Kincaid Pitcairn, M.D., from the 24:h Foot, to be Staff Surgeon of the 2d Class, vice Smith, who exchanges-, Acting Assistant. Surgeon George Smyth King, M.D., to be Assistant- Surgeon to the Forces, vice Anderson, promoted in the 90th Foot, Itiy 18. UNATTACHED.—Captain Paris William Augustus Bradshawe, from the 77th Foot, to be Major, without purchase, May 10. MEMORANDUM.—The Christian names of Ensign Cox, of the 25th Foot, are Francis Megan, not Rean, as pre viously stated ; the Christian names of Ensign Dicken son, of the 29 11 Foot, are Wii:iam Spoke, not spike, as previously stated. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire. George Hildeyard Tennyson d'Eyncourt, Esq., Com panion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, to be Deputy-Lieutenant; George Spofforth Lister, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant; Ge( rge Skipworth, q., to be Deputy•Lientenant; Charles Fardell, Esq, to be Deputy-Lieutenant, April 24. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Lanarkshire. Glasgow and Lower Ward of Lanarkshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Lieutenant George Baird to be Captain, vice Tennant, resigned; Donald Smith, Gent., to be Lieu tenant, vice Baird, promoted; George Lumsden, Gent., to be Cornet, April 10. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire. The Montgomery Yeomanry Cavalry Regiment— Cornet David Jones to be Lieutenant, vice Leicester, re signed; William Basset Hewson, Gent. to be Cornet, via Jones promoted. WHITEHALL, DEC. 24, 1845. The Right Honourable Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, But., Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Com mon Pleas, at Westminster, has appointed Robert Smith, of Riehmond, in the county of Surrey, Gent., to be cne of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknow ledgments of deeds, to be executed by married women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and reco veries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for the county of Surrey, also in and for the county of Middlesex. WHITEHALL, MAY 3. The Right Ron. Sir Thomas Wilde, lint., Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster, has appointed Henry Smith, of Richmond, in the county of Surrey, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of insurance, in and for the county of Surrey, also in and for the county of Middlesex. WHITEHALL, MAY 14. The Lord Chancellor has appointed George Graham White, of Launceston, in the county of Cornwall, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPT SUPERSEDED. homas Robson, tailor, Houghton-le-Spring, Durham. BANKRUPTS. William Conchman. draper, Farringdon-street, to sur render May 25 and June 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lano; Ashurst and Son, Old Jewry. Henry Walker, oilman, Coleman-street, City, May 30, at half-past one, and June 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Ding wall, Tokenhouse-yard. Robert Daw, jun., linendraper, Launceston, June 2, at one, and July 7, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street; Lloyd, Milk-street. Jacob Jacobs, auctioneer, Canterbury, May 24 and June 27, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John son, official assignee, Basinghrllsireet; Cullen, High street, Poplar. Henry Girdlestone, apothecary, North Audley-street, May 31, at twelve, and June 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman -street bnildings; Chappell, Golden- square. Vincent Jenkinson and John Stafford Rollison, cow keepers and dairymen, Argyll- street, King's-cross, May 25, and June 26, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane; Dod, Great Marlborough-street. John Perry the younger, oilman, High-street, Cam berwell, May 25, at one, and June 26, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Ab church lane, Lombard-street; Teague, Crown -court, Cheapside. _ _ Philip Bond, corn dealer, Birmingham, May 29, and July 3, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Motteram, Knight, and Emmett, Birmingham. William Henry Higgett, pawnbroker, May 26, and June 23, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; Corser and Uunderhill, Wolverhampton. Samuel Hignett, maltster, Middle, Shropshire, May 26 and June 23d, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Salter and Jones, Ellesmere; Goodbehere, Birmingham. Samuel Stead, druggist, Bradford, Yorkshire, June 5, at eleven, and June 25, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Willan, Bedford row, London; Saxlebye, PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending May 15, 1849, is 265. 8 3 4 d. per cwt. TAT TERSALL'S—T HIS EVENING, Six o'CLocx. DERBY. 2 to 1 agst Flying Dutchman 4 to 1 agst Nunnykirk 6 to 1 agst Chatterer—taken 13 to 2 agst Tadmor 20 to I agst Vatican 50 to 1 agst The Old Fox 60 to 1 agst Drakelow Not six bets laid. OA 8. 6 to 1 agst Clarissa 6 to 1 agst Glauca—taken 7 to 1 agst Woodlark COURSE OF EXCIL Amsterdam ......••.. 12 2 Ditto, at sight 12 0 Rotterdam .... ••.. • . 12 2 Antwerp • • ............ 25 78 Htmburgh .... • • M.B . 13 12ii Alton& .. .... • • .... Paris, 3 days'sight .. • • 25 35 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 60 tlarsellles ••••••• • .. •• 25 60 Bourdeanx.... ..... . 25 60 Frankfort on Mains.... 121 V, Peterstergh. 611. Rble.. 36% Vienna. effec. flo • • 12 9 Trieste, ditt0......., •. 12 9 Madrid • • ...• .••• • • . 49% Barcelona „ kNGE.-(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar • • • • • • • • • • • . .• Leghorn .. ...... ••.. • . 31 0 Genoa .. •• • •• .. 26 30 Allan .. • • .... .. Naples .. .... •• .. 40% Palermo, peroa 116)4 Messina .... 120% .. • ... .. 53 Oporto. •.. • • . .••.. • • 53% Rio Janeiro • . • • Ruenos Ayres — New York, 21 days'sight Philadelphia ........ PRICICS or BULLION, PEI Of Foreign Gold in bare.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin • • 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars .... • • 0 4 10 'Silver in b.tra ...... • . 0 4 11 Seville •• ••••••••• .., It were a strange fancy to build up the human character after the model of the four great orders of architecture, yet probity is firm but simple as the Doric, pride of loftier a d more elaborate refinement as the Tuscan. Generosity with the beauty and grace of the lonic, and love, excelling with Corinthian excellence, pdssessing the strength of all, equalled in exquisite orna ment by none.—Eliza Cocks Journal. CONISBA.Y, MAY 15.--The Hersch::l, of Dundee, Li verpool to Cr oosta d t , was strand id near this place yes terday during a thick fog, but g t off at high water, with little al parent damage, and preceeded to Dundee to be overhimel, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING-, MAY 18, 1849 MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, May 18.) SUGAR.-There was a steady business concluded in the West India Sugar market to-day, and former rates are supported. The purchases amounted to 300 hhds, &c., including a public sale of 125 hhds Barbadoes, which went at from 39s 6d to 41s 6d for middling to fine yellow. For the week the total sales are 2,091 hhds, &c. On Tuesday a fair quantity of Colonial Sugar will be submitted to public sale. REFINED.-To-day former rates were well supported for Refined Sugar, and home dealers were desirous to do business. Bonded Crushed Sugar is little wanted, and can be obtained at previous prices. MAIIRITIIIS.-This afternoon the quantity of Mauri tius Sugar submitted to public competition was large, and amounted to 100 casks 12,989 bags: there was a brisk demand, and the whole sold at full rates, indeed the lower sorts were rather higher ; fine yellow went at 40s 6d to 425, low to good 37s 6d to 40s, good and fine brown 363 to 37s 6cl, and middling to fine grey 37s 6d to 40s per cwt. EAST INDIA.-This afternoon the public sales of Ben gal Sugar consisted of 3,540 bags; white Benares was chiefly taken in at from 393 6d to 42s 6d, being the full value; other sorts went at firm rates; strong yellow 403 to 435, fine 43s 6d to 455, Mauritius sort 37s to 40s 6d. Of Madras 2,082 bags sold at 32s 6d to 34s for brown, and at 39s to 44s for strong yellow. 112 casks Ceylon fetched 37s to 37s 6d fer ordinary and middling yellow, and good brown 34s 6d to 355. FOREIGN.-There has been less disposition evinced by exporters to do business in Foreign Sugar this week; the purchases made have been limited, and are confined to 3 cargoes afloat, 2 brown Pernams at 19s, 1 Paraiba at 22s 6d for white, and brown 193; 2 of white Haven nate 37s to 38s, small parcels of low to fine yellow at 20s to 23;; these rates are, however, equal to those that prevailed on this day week. Only small purchases have been made by refiners working under bond, and home dealers show little desire to do business in Foreign Sugar. MOLASSES.-The market for West India is still firm, and the demand is good at from 17s to 22s for low to fine, Bengal Treacle has been sold to a fair extent at 15s to 16s per cwt, and a lc:s amount is on offer. COFFEE.-This afternoon there was less demand for Ceylon Coffee. The public sales of 139 casks 795 bags went at rather lower rates, and a part only sold; Native, good and real good ordinary went at 32s to 33s 6d, da maged 25; to 325; Plantation, low middling 43s to 455, good ordinary 86s 6d to 275, whilst superior was taken in at from 60 to 85s. Of Mocha 105 bales sold at 52s 6d to 53; for middling, 48s 63 for good ordinary, triage 323, and fine long berry 76s to 78s per cwt. Coeoes-There has been a good demand by private treaty, and stiffer rates are paid for all sorts. Trinidad, low to fine red selling at 10s to 475, and grey 39s to 43s per cwt. The demand is not better for Foreign. At public sale 471 bags of Bahia were taken in at 28s 61 to 29s per cwt for good and fine quality. TEA.-On the part of holders of Black there is firm ness, and former rates are insisted on for all sorts, but the purchases made have been limited this week, and a larger amount is on offer. Green is not offered at a reduction, but only a limited demand bas been experienced; supplies are upon a more extended scale. Pekoe and Scented Teas aro held for the former value, still only small purchases hcve been made, and there is a fair supply. The biddings have been lan guid at the public sales of 24,800 pkgs, and the small proportion only of 5,000 found purchasers of 18,000 pkgs passed. RICE.-To-day the quantity of Ea=t India Rice sub mitted to public sale was extensive, and amounted to 10,686 13 , gs 3,720 pockets. The demand was dull, and a part only sold at rather lower rates; Bengal, fine white went at lOs 61 to 11s 63, mid and good 8s 6:1 to 10s, damaged 5s 6d to Be. Arracan and Madras, Barley Grain Bs, and fine yellow Penang Bs. SAGO.-The demand is better, and former rates are well kept up; the amount on offer is also smaller. At auction 400 chests sold at 20s to 21s 61 for good to fine quality. Sago Flour is still wanted, and the rates paid are front 17s to 17s 6.1. In the value of Arrowroot and Tapioca there is no variation. SPICES.-To-day a public sale of 456 bags of Sumatra Pepper went at 21d to 21 0 1, and inferior 2id per lb. 60 bags Cloves at lid for Bourbon. SPIRITS.-There is more firmness on the part of holders of East India Rum, and a good business has been concluded this week at is 24 , 1 to is 3d per gall proof. Sales to a fair extent have been made in Leeward Island at Is 3iel to is 4 ] proof, and holders show firmness. There has been a good business concluded in Demerara at 2s to 2s 3d for 30 to 36 per cent over proof, and on the part of holders there is less desire shown to sell. Fine Jamaica is in good demand at from 35 8d to 4s 2d for 34 to 38 per cent over proof. For other kinds the market is however dull. For Geneva sellers are willing to accept is 9d for ordinary, and 23 3d to 3s for fine. There is no variation in the value of British made Spirit. To day Brandy was dealt in with greater free dom, and on the part of holders there is firmness. We quote Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1845, at 5s 8d to 5s 10d; 1845 ditto at 5s 4d to 55 6d; 1847 ditto at 4s 3d to 4s sd; 1848 at 3s 7d to 3s 9d ; inferior brands 2s 3d to 2s 6d, and Bordeaux at 2s to 23 2d per gallon. INDIGO.-The result of the May sales of Indigo, which commenced on the Bth instant, finished on Tuesday. The quantity declared for sale was 8,911 chests, which con sisted of 6,602 Bengal, &c., 500 Oude, 478 Kurpah, 800 Madras, and 531 not printed. The annexed are the prices :-Bengal, fine purple 5s to sa. 3d, fine red violet 4s 9d to ss, fine violet 4s 7d to 4s 9d, good and mid ditto 4s 3d to 41 6d, good red violet 4s 6d to 4s 9d, mid ditto 4s 3d to 4s 9d, good violet and copper 3s 9d to 4s 3d, mid and ord ditto 33 4d to 3s 9J, low ditto 25 9d to 2s 31, trash low dust and washings 2s to 2s 9d; Madras, on Bengal principle (Kurpah) good and fine 3s 9d to 53 sd, mid and good mid 3s 3d to 3s 9d, low and ord 2s 6d to 3s, very low 2s to 2s 9d, regular Madras good and fine 33 3d to 4s 2d, mid and good mid 2s 6d to 3s,ord and low 2.2 d to 2s sd, very low is lld to 2s Id. _ _ _ SALTPETRE.—This afternoon there was an increased supply of Rough at market. Three parcels were offered at public sale, amounting to 3,810 bags, the chief part found buyers, but at a reduction of 6d to is per cwt for the better sorts; in the value of inferior, however, little variation took place. Prices ranged from 27s to 29s 6d for 24 to 16 per cent of low to fine quality. OlLS.—There has been only a limited business con cluded in Cod Oil, and sellers are willing to accept 251 lOs to 261 per tun; the market is also well supplied. Seal has been dealt is with caution, and prices are on the decline; pale in offered at 29/ lOs to 301, straw and tinged 27/ lOs to 291, yellow and brown 251 to 271. Southern has been dealt in with caution; ord to mid quality can be purchased at 26/ to 281, and good to fine at 281 lOs to 30/. There has been little pass ing in Sperm Oil, whilst prices are on the decline and rule at 76/ to 76/ lOs for fine Colonial; there is also a fair supply, but the consumption continues to get better. Linseed Oil has fallen in value, but a good business has been concluded on the spot by home dealers, and exporters have been buyers to a fair extent at 25s to 26s per cwt. For forward delivery several sales have been made at 26s to 26s 6d. This afternoon, at public sale 16 tuns Sperm Oil sold at 731 lOs to 73/ 15s, and 54 tuns Southern at 291 to 291 lOs per tun. TALLOW.—On the spot Russia is not offered at lower rates, but on the part of Soapmaker or Chandlers little desire is evinced to make purchases. The value of fine P. Y. C. is 38s 6d to 385 9d per cwt., but a decline is expected to take place shortly. Only a limited business has been concluded for delivery in the last three months of the year, and a desire is shown to sell at 395. Prices ruling low for home melted occasions the demand to be good at 37s to 38s nett cash, still there is not a larger supply. Other sorts of tallow can be obtained at rather lower rates, and larger parcels are on offer. Tallow is much cheaper than at this time last year, but the stock does not get smaller, and deliveries are falling off. There are sellers of rough fat at a reduction, still few buyers are to be met with, and a further reduction is looked far. This afternoon, at public sale 360 casks of New South Wales tallow went at from 34s to 37s 6d, and 700 pkgs of South American at 34s to 37s 9d per cwt. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Wool- sack at Fin, o'clock. The Marquis of HASTINGS presented a petition, praying for a repeal of the malt-tax. The Bishop of EXETER presented several petitions in favour of the Bill for the prevention of prostitution. The Earl of ST. GERMANS presented the report of the Select Committee on the Highways Bill. ROME: The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in answer to the question which had been put on a former occasion, re lating to the intervention of France, Austria, and Naples in hstaa t dt h e e bte a he ff an a t i it o d f eN li bo o yb m l eA e v , u s h r t a d stated that no communication eNaples. Secretary o h r a nowd Foreignt o Friend and th Affairs had had made to him in the course of conversa tion a communication from the Austrian Minister, of theintention of hia Government to interfere in the affairs of Rome, which communication was founded on a communication which the Minister had received from his Government. The Earl of ABERDEEN was happy to hear the explanation of the Noble Marquis, but he could not but observe that the Noble Marquis had on that occasion informed the House that no communication what ever had been made, but it should be recollected that the representation of the French Government was only verbal, which was held sufficient to satisfy that Government , wherea s the communications made by the Austrian Government were frank, full, and explicit; and as the question of the Noble Baron had been printed, it was unjustifiable that the Noble Marquis should have besn instructed to make the answer he had made. This was of a piece with the odious accusation against another power, which had been circulated through Europe for months, when the refutation of it was in the hands of those circulating the accusation. This was a part of that policy of hatred and passion which had al ready acted so injuriously on the interests of this country. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was understood to say that the communication from the French Govern ment was in the nature of a formal communication, whereas such was not the nature of the Austrian com munication. BANKRUPTCY. Lord 'BROUGHAM presented a petition from cer tain trading firms who had petitioned against the Bank ruptcy Laws Amendment Bill, praying that no altera tion might be made in the Bill which would prevent its ;sassing into a law. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE gave notice that on Frid,:y next he should move the adjournment of the Houze for the Whitsuntide holidays. CANADA. Lord BRQUGHAM gaYe notico that on Friday he should call the c.ttention of the House to the dispatch 0 f the Earl of Elgin. PETITIONS. Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition, signed a considerable number of short-hand writers engaged .11 reporting the proceedings of Parliament, praying th a t in the event of their Lordships determining upon havii an official record of their proceedings, their claims migl) t not be overlooked. NAVIGATION LAWS. Lord STANLEY said that he carefully consider ed the proposed Bill for the repeal of the navigati , )n -laws, for the purpose of seeing what alte ta tions he could consent to in those laws, Eli at he found that the Bill was founded upon a princi p le to which he could not consent, and, therefore, :he should propose such amendments as would alter the whole character and principle of the Bill ; he should propose that certain words should be omitted, rt id that certain other words carrying out his vic+ws should be introduced instead of the words at present in the Bill. He proposed to maintain the principle of la of granting a British registry to a foreign ship, to maint a in the coasting trade for British vessels, and to uphold be principle of the existing navigation-laws with some 1:e vv exceptions. Earl GREY hoped the Noble Lord's amendmen is would distinctly set forth what was the state of the hi w which he wished maintained. After a few words from the Marqnis of LANSDOW and Lord STANLEY the subject dropped. The Bishop of OXFORD gave notice that ho she propose an amendment on Monday in the Committee. on the Navigation Laws. DEBTS (SCOTLAND) BILL. The Earl of EGLINTON introduced a Bill to am a; id the law relating to the recovery of debts in Scotland. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY presented a peti tion from some individual praying for an amendment; of the law of entail in Ireland. LAND IMPROVEMENT AND DRAINAG El (IRELAND) BILL. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the fit st reading of this Bill, which had been brought up fi:o the Commons, and was LLEFT SPEAKING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Speaker took the Chair a few minutes before Four o'clock. LORDS' AMENDMENTS. The Lords' amendments to the North-Western Rail way (Extension of Lancaster Branch, Abandonment of William Lands Branch, New Road to Settle Stat ion, Extension of Time for Purchase of Lands and Const ruc tion of Works) Bill, were considered, and agreed t 4 i. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time ;and passed : Black Sluice Drainage Acts Amendment (Amendrlent of Acts, Extension of Time for Completion of Wor ks, Powers to levy and raise further Rates and Mori ;.es, to alter existing Rates and Tolls, and for other P ur poses) Bill. Charing Cross Bridge (Amendments of Acts, Powers to alter authorised Approaches, &c.) Bill. Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and Wilsonfxrivn, MorningEidc., and Coltness Railway Amalgamation York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (Barmoor and Alemouth New Branches, 8z:..) Bill. PETITIONS. Mr. BROTHERTON presented several petitions from Yet kshire against granting new licences to i`Jeer shop:. Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition, agreed to a t a public me Ling at Birmingham, praying for universal suffrage, vote by ballot, payment of Members, ann.ual Parliaments, electoral divisions, and abolition of property qualifications. Mr. ANDERSON presented a petition, signed by 10,000 inhabitants of Kirkwall against the Registrati on of Marriages, &c. (Scotland) Bill; also a petition co:na plaining of the operation of the Scotch poor-law. Alr. FAGAN presented a petition from the Cc rk Union praying for some amendment of the poor-law-. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from MsAd stone against the Parliamentary Oaths Bill. Mr. GLYN presented a petition against granting ad ditional licenses for beer-shops. Sir J. HOPE presented a petition against the S'xitch Marriage Bill. Mr. HODGSON presented a petition from railway proprietors residing in Carlisle, complaining of the pre sent mode of assessing railways for the poor and church rates. Mr. B. DENISON presentcd a petition from. the West Riding, complaining of the powers granted to county courts; also one against the extension of beer shops. Air. CHRISTOPHER presented two petitions from Lincolnshire; one against the alteration of Yarliamontary oaths, and the other in favour of international arbitration. Captain BERKELEY presented a petition from Gloucester, praying for the abolition of capital punish ment. Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from the copy holders of Ellenborough, in Cumberland, praying,that the Bill for the compulsory enfranchisement of copyhold land might pass into a law. GROUP XIX. Mr. WRIGHTSON moved that Mr. Parker, Mr. Osborne, Mr. Frewen, and Mr. Brisco be allowed to vote in the Committee on Group 19 of Opposed Private Bills provided they deliver in the.prescribed forms of de claration. The motion, after a few observation from Mr. WIL SON BATTEN, was agreed to. NEW NOIITII ROAD BILL. Mr. J. B. SMITH moved that tho petition of inhabi tants, householders, and owners of property in the New North Road, Hoxton, and its vicinity, against the New North Road (Continuation Act) Bill, (deposited in the Private Bill-office on the,l.sth inbtant), be referred to the Committee on the Bill; and that it be an instruction to the Committee to entertain the same, notwithstanding it was not deposited in the Private Bill-office within seven clear days after the second readily , of the Bill, by reason of the illness of Mr. Hume, the Member to whom it was intrusted.—Agreed to. Mr. C. BRUCE begged to give notice that when the House went into Committee on the Bill for the Regis tration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages for Scotland, he would move an amendment to clause 37. ALLEGED BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.—THREAT ENED EXCLUSION OF STRANGERS FROM THE HOUSE. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL said he rose to call the attention of the House to a breach of its privi leges, which was connected with the last discussion in the House on the Parliamentary Oaths Bill. In consequence of his having seen in the l imes newspaper an infringement of the rules of the House—(oh, oh) — in a report of the last discussion on the Bill which he had mentioned, in which report not only were the rules of the House violated, but the oaths taken by Catholic Members were entirely omitted from that re port, whilst other oaths were given. He should when the House went into Committe on the Parliamentary Oaths Bill to-night, notice whether strangers were present or not, and if he should ascertain that fact, he should draw the attention of the House to it.—(" Oh, oh," and laughter.) SENDING CONVICTS TO THE COLONIES. Sir W. MOLESWORTH said he wished to know whether it was the intention of the Government to send any more convicts to Van Diemen's Land; secondly, whether there was any dispatch from the Governor of Van Diemen's Land as to whether or no there was any more room for convicts in that island? Mr. HAWES said in answer to that question he could give no pledge that the Government would cease to send convicts to Van Diemen's Land. With regard to any dispatch from the Governor of that colony as to whether there was any more room for convicts in that colony, he begged to state that no such dispatch had been received on which any interpretation of the kind could be put. ARBITRATION CLAUSE IN TREATIES. Sir R. PEEL presented a petition from the congrega tion of the Unitarian chapel at Tamworth, praying for the insertion of an arbitration clause in international treaties. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved that the House at its rising do adjourn till Monday next. WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS. Mr. HORSMAN asked the Noble Lord when the House would adjourn for the Whitsuntide holidays? Lord J. RUSSELL said on Friday next he would move that the House at its rising adjourn till the Thurs day following. SICILIAN AFFAIRS. Mr. BANKES rose to ask the Noble Lord at the head of the Government a question, in the absence of the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, that last named Noble Lord having having stated on a pre vious occasion that Great Britain did recognise the in dependence of the Sicilian Government, independently of the Two Sicilies. He now asked whether Great Bri tain still recognised the independence of the Sicilian Government instead of the Government of the Two Sieilies? Lord JOHN RUSSELL said his Noble Friend the _ S s i e o c n r e t t o a r which for h ich F t o h r e e i l l HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY.—To-morrow being Foreign ff a a n i d rs L h e a a d rne s d tat m ed em o b n er th h e the day appointed for the celebration of the 30th anni yersary of her Majesty's birthday, there will be a grand had re- inspection of ferred, if he (Lord John Russell) recollected rightly, a battalion of each of the Foot Regiments that there was at that time a negotiation going of Guards on the Parade, St. James's Park, in their new on with the Government of Sicily. He had only uniforms, attended by their respective bands. It will to say that an independent Government of Sicily no be observed as a holiday. at the different Government longer existed.—(Laughter.) o ffi ces — Stamp-office, Excise, Customs, &c. Her Ma- Mr,, BANKS would ask the Noble Lord seconding, jesty will hold a drawing-room on the occasion at St. whether he was aware what was the result of the per- James's Palace. mission given to transport ordnance from Her Majesty's The world is certainly more and more sensible of stores for the avowed use of the Sicilian insurgents, the truth that there is no wisdom, and of course no and other encouragement given to those parties who poetry, in exeluAveness; and that to promote the happi formed the provisional insurgent Government in Sicily. ness of the masses is to promote that very improvement A British officer, who had formerly held a command In wh ich will qualify them for enjoying those high and Sicily when Lord William Bentinek was there, was ennobling pleasures now so prized by the few.—Eliza i afterwards engaged in the British service in the Penin- Cook's Journal, sular war ; and understanding that guys had Coax, MAY 16.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Mary, Friend, been thus furnished, and stores from the Mauritius ; Stratton, Jean, Patagonia ; Friendship, ordnance of her Majesty, he accepted a Clelland, Manzanilla; Northumberland, James, New command under that Sicilian Government. And Orleans; Gratitude, Davison, New York. he accepted a mission to this country to raise MARGATE MAY 18.—The 1.), chess of Buccleugb, from troops for the use of the Sicillians. Those arms and Shields to Calcutta, is totally lost on the Long Saud; troops were, he understood, partly embarked in a crewsaved. steamer named the Bombay, then lying i n the Thames, . ..DE.a, M AY 17 .— The N or den, Aspgrcn, fr om C 1 I and the others in a ship then l y in g at Live r - o oga, went on shore on the Goodwin Sands early this pool. 'I he steamer engaged to leave the morning; has been ass i s ted off with considerable damage, and has anchored o ff th e North Foreland. Thames was detained by order of th e C u s - P°R l ' Talmo m T, ~..AY 16.—The Jersey Tar, from toms. A question rose upon the matter, and the You h 11 whole thing was referred to the Treasury. The Board carne off caught the bar yesterday in coming in, but of Treasury, after deeply considering the subject, and (. .. ,(3, otf:ast night alter clicharging part of esrgo. after much conversation with the Noble Lord, and Ocean, V7E ., S MAY 17.—Wind S W., hard gale,—Arrived most likely with the Minister of the Crown of Edward, l 'eterson Bahia; Superior, Sodermann, Bahia; the King of the Two Sicilies. He might, how- Moller. Pernambuco, for Stockholm; Condor! Helot, Fort Au Pciuee. ever, be mistaken, but he understood that it Wag POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Constantine Askzvith, a German, was brought be fore the Lord Mayor, in the custody of Daniel For rester, the officer, who apprehended him in Holbrach, in Lincolnshire, under the circumstances detailed in the following evidence : Mr. John Lee, clerk of Mr. George Lee, ship agent, in Crutchedfriars, said—On the 16th of April the pri soner called at our counting-house, between 12 rind 1 o'clock, and said his name was C. Brand, that he -was captain of a Russian ship and that he had just left the vessel, which was called the Russia, a little bef ow Gravesend ; that he had employed as his broke rs, occasionally, Messrs. Sack and Bramen, and lilrew ise Messrs. Cs , zenoth and Schlu ton, butthat, being dissatis fied with the manner in which these finale had transac red his business, it was his intention this time to employ Mr. George Lee as his agent, for the purpose of re porting the ship and doing other necessary business connected with her at the Custom house. He said he was not in a hurry to report his vessel that day ; in. deed, he was, he said, without the quarantine cerEfi. cate—a document necessary to be produced upon th e occasion. His object in leaving his ship at Graves end was to go to Bristol, in order to pay a visit to a lady to whom he was going to be married, and he would return on the following day, when he would expect the vessel to be up, for the purpose of reporting her. He produced bills of lading, and a manifesto in the German language, representing the cargo to be timber, planks, &c. He then particularly directed my attention to an indorsment on the bill of lading authorising him to sell the cargo, and remit the pro ceeds to the consignee. " By the by," said he, " be fore the report be made I wish you would go to Messrs. Sack and Bremen to see whether anything is lying there for me," and he wrote an order to these gentlemen to deliver up any letters which might have been received there fur him. I accordingly sent one of the clerks of cur establishment to Messrs. Sack and Bremen's, and he brought back two letters which the prisoner read in my presence, and put into his poCeet without making any comment upon them. He then inquired whether we could recommend him to any respectable person who would undertake to copper his bran new ship, as he called her; and we said we would do so. After some conversation as to the most eligible docks in which to place his ship, he said " By the bye, I want a little money."—(A laugh.) It is customary with us to advance money to captains of ships upon their arrival from abroad ; and believ ing that the representation was corrects, I raked him how much he wanted. He said '251., and I imme diately counted 25 sovereigns into his hand. We spoke upon various matters, and he seemed to be ac quainted with several Prussian captains, some of whom he named. He signed a memorandum for 25 sovereigns, and he showed an anxiety to start for Bristol by railroad by the next train, and had a cab at the door. I told him the next train would go off at two o'clock, and he said, " Good bye," and I think he said, " God bless you."—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—You have not been on board the Russia, I dare say ? Witness—l should have been happy to see her. I looked lm at Lloyd's next day and found there was no use in making further inquiry about the vessel. I never saw the prisoner since until last night, upon his arrival in. the custody of the officer. The LORD MAYOE—You are sure the prisoner is the man ? 'Witness—Yes. I have two witnesses who can identify him. I believe there are other cases of the kind against him. Prisoner—l want an interpreter. I do not under stand the lan g uage. Mr. Lee and three other persons said the prisoner understood the language well ; and Forrester declared that, on the journey to town, the prisoner sh owe d that he understood the English language well. Prisoner—" I do not know it." He then said, with great rapidity, that the witness was quite mis taken ; that he had never been at Mr. Lee's office at all ; that he never had received or asked for 251. there; and that a similar mistake had been made before as to his personal identity. Mr. James Henry Lesley, clerk to Mr. Lee, said —I was in the office on the 16th of April, when the prisoner called, arid I was the first person who spoke to him. I can corroborate all that the last witness stated. I heard the money counted out to the pri soner, and I fetched the two letters from Messrs. Sack and Bremer's, and delivered them to the pri soner. • Prisoner—This man I have nothing to say to, but that he is the servant and the witness of his master. I don't know any of the people at all. If they mis take my person I can't help it; it is no fault of mine. Another clerk in the office of Mr. Lee also con firmed the evidence as to identity, and the prisoner was remanded until next Thursday, when it is expected that a number of gentleman who have been defrauded will attend. BOW-STREET. Jane Neuman, cowkeeper, of - Upper Gower Mews, near Gordon-square, was summoned, under the late Nuisances Prevention Act, to answer the charge of having suffered large quantities of offal, sour grains, and other filth to accumulate upon the premises in her occupation, to the annoyance and danger of the families residing in the immediate neighbourhood. The name of Sir J. Romilly appeared upon the in formation as one of the complaining parties. The serious nature of the nuisance having been proved by several of the parishioners, The defendant, who keeps about two hundred cows, replied that the premises had been in the same state for twenty years without having been com plained of. Mr. JARDINE told her that such a plea would not avail against the present Act, and accordingly di rected the immediate removal of the nuisance. John Scanlon, late porter at the Freemasons' Tavern in Great Queen-street, and at the Whitting ton Club, in the Strand, was charged with stealing several articles of plate, &c., the property of his em ployers. The prisoner had pawned some of the articles, in cluding a gold pencilcase, identified by Mr. A. E. Bacon, of the Freemasons' Tavern; and - at his lodg ings the officers found a quantity of crockery, glass, &c., no doubt belonging to the same establishment, besides some forks, spoons, and several books, the property of the Whittington Club and Metropolitan Athenteum, where he had received temporary em , ploy. The prisoner made no reply to the latter charge ; but with respect to the first denied that the gold pencilcase was ever the property of Mr. Bacon. He was committed on both charges. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Emma Harvey, a young woman who had evi dently sustained very serious injuries, was brough t before Mr. Hardwick, charged with having stolen a gold watch and other articles from No. 8, Lower James-street, where she had recently lived as servant. It was made known that the young woman, on gaining intelligence that the police were in search of her, and on seeing them en t er th e h ouse w h ere s h e had taken up her temporary residence, in Shire-lane, suddenly threw herself out of a two pair of stairs win dow into the yard beneath. The prisoner, in conse quence of the injuries she had sustained, was allowed a seat within the bar. Mr. Henry Newman said he lived at Nantes, in France. On Monday last he wen t w i t h hi s w if e t o Windsor, and returned about six o'clock in the after noon. Before he set out on his journey, he left a gold watch and chain in his room, and there were some stockings and other articles on the sofa. When he returned at six o'clock, the watch and several other articles of property were gone. The prisoner, who was servant in the house, had also disappeared. An assistant of Mr. Attenborough, pawnbroker, Fleet-street, produced the watch, which had been pawned by a young woman who gave the name of Emma Foster. Police-constable Quarterman, 361, said, from in formation he received he went to 4, Serles'-place- Fleet-street, and tried to get into a room on the second-floor. Hearing a noise at the back of the house he went into the rear and found the prisoner lying on the ground insensible. Witness procured a cab, and caused her to be removed to the hospital. In defence, the prisoner said, she went to a raffle the other evening and met with a young man who went home with her, and after some conversation, he induced her to take the watch. The young man stole the other things. Prisoner afterwards pawned the watch, and gave the young man the 'money. The young man afterwards took her to the theatre, and she did not return to her place as she was afraid she should be accused of the theft. The prisoner was removed to the House of Deten tion, Clerkenwell, until Saturday. TV OR SHIP-STREET. Mr. Hugh Burgess, of the firm of lleathfield and Burgess, experimental chemists and naphtha distillers, in Prince's- square, Finsbury, appeared before Mr. Hammill, to answer an information exhibited at the instance of the parish authorities of Shoreditch, charging him with having suffered to exist upon his premises an alleged dangerous nuisance, which was pronounced, upon the certificates of several medical practitioners, to be highly injurious to the health of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. Mr. William Bullock, clerk to the Board of Health of the district, conducted the prosecution, which ex cited an unusual degree of interest, and several trus tees of the parish attended to watch the proceedings. Mr. Bullock stated, that in consequence of almost incessant complaints being made to the board by the occupants cf the houses in that neighbourhood of the bad effects produced upon the health of themselves and families by the noxious vapours arising from the napththa distillery established within the last few months upon the defendants' premises, he waited upon them, accompanied by a deputation, about three weeks since, to point out the evil And requf.st its iei mediate suppression, which they assured him should be at once effected; but, as the complaints had been since renewed that the nuisance still continued with , almost unabated force, he felt it his duty to adopt the present course to insure its abolition. - Mr. John Dichman, an inspector under the sani tary Board, proved the existence of the nuisance on the 7th of March List, when he visited the place, and that it consisted of a most noxious efiluviutn, arising from the refuse matter deposited in the distillation of the naphtha being discharged from the defendants' distillery into two contiguous drains extending along a densely populated court closely adjoining their premises, and that upon again visiting the place a few days since he found the cause of complaint still existing.. Holland, the warrant officer, gave similar evidence, and stated that a great number of the inhabitants bed complained to him of the deleterious effects produced by ,tho vapour in question, and that several of them were then in attendance to give evidence of its con sequences to themselves. Mr. Richard Pares, a master turner in Horseshoe alley, stated that one of the defendants' dr a i n s p asse d under his workshop, and threw off such an over powering vapour, resembling the fumes of burnt shell -lack, that he and all his family were affected by the most strange sensations, pains in the head, and giddiness, and that some of his workmen occasionally suffered so severely from its effects that they were seized with a sort of stupor, and compelled to suspend their occupation. They were obliged to keep all their windows constantly closed to exclude the effluvium, but having been induced a few days since to open one of them for the admission of air for the benefit of his daughter in-law, who was then in the last stage of consump tion, and now lay dead in the house, she was ahnost instantly seized with a violent retching, produced by the vapour, and complained that everything she either ate or drank afterwards was impregnated with the taste of naphtha. Upon that occasion, notwith standing the essential necessity of the patient having fresh air, her medical attendant, Dr. Herring, who visited her at the moment, ordered the window to be immediately closed, and expressed his decided opinion, subsequent to her death, that such an atmosphere was calculated to greatly aggravate her disorder and pre clude her recovery. George John Pares, son of the last witness, de scribed the sensations he had repeatedly experienced whilst at work from the exhalations referred to, which caused such a sensation of giddiness, contraction of the chest, and general prostration of strength, that his tools dropped from his hands, and he was com pelled to abandon his work a n d to seek purer air before he felt at all restored. Upon one occasion he suffered so severely, that the injurious effects con tinued for four or five days afterwards, and his wife, who was in apartments some distance from the work shop, complained of suffering the same symptoms, although neither was subject to such attacks, and both were in excellent health previous to the distilla tion being carried on there. A married woman, named Jane Martin, also de posed to the pernicious effects produced upon her and her family by the vapour proceeding from the defen dants' laboratory, which was so intolerable that, whenever she had occasion to open one of her closets contiguous to the party-wall, she was forced back by the stench, and was obliged to retreat from the room to allow it to escape. Mr. F. Ingoldby, a surgeon in Finsbury-square, stated that upon visiting the court in question the atmosphere was so impregnated by the fumes of naphtha that he was seized with a violent attack of coughing, which lasted a considerable time, and the usual effects it produced were nausea, loss of appe tite, rejection of food, irritability of the mucous membrane, spasmodic action, and a general failure of health. The witness handed in a certificate describ ing its injurious effects upon two of his patients, named Archer and Cressall, residing in that locality, and similar certificates were produced from three other surgeons to the like effect, and stating the nui• sance to be such as to call for immediate suppression. Mr. Travers, who attended for the defence, assured the Magistrate that his clients had used every effort they could to mitigate the evil complained of as soon as they were made acquainted with its existence; and to prove that its effects were not of the destructive nature alleged, he had then in court one of the de fendants' workmen to establish that although he was exclusively engaged in this distillation he enjoyed the most perfect health. Mr. Bullock said that there could not be a mora conclusive proof of the deadly effects of this vapour than the fact a man who had been employed to cleanse an adjoining sewer since the notice had been served on the defendants had been taken out in a state of insensibility ; and, besides its pernicious effect upon the health of the poor inhabitants, it was so seriously detrimental to the value of the neighbouring property that one gentleman, who was rated at no less than 227/. for poor-rates alone, had complained that he was losing all his tenants in consequence, and that he would be unable to retain one of them unless the nuisance were suppressed. He proposed to call a number of other witnesses to speak to facts similar to those before stated, but Mr. HAMMILL said that, after the convincing evi dence just detailed, there could he no question that the nuisance was one of a most dangerous character, and he should therefore make an imperative order for its entire abolition within 48 hours, and, further, re quire the defendants to pay all the costs attending the prosecution. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From this night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7 th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32,f0r the Week ending on Saturday, the 12th day of May, 1849. ISSUE DEr &EINE NT. Notes igsued— .• •• •• 27;4t-.i0,625 Government debt .. 11,01.5,100 Other securities . • '2,984,900 Gold coin arid bullion 13,137,c56 Silver bullion ••• • • • 323,569 agreed that the detention of that vessel should be con tinued. The Treasury declined to interfere, and the result was that that vessel left for Palermo. The other left Liverpool also, and just at the time that the Secre tary at War of the Sicilians desired. It sailed first to Marseilles; when it reached that port, the French Minister taking a different view of the law, with respect to the detention of ships, did detain and had de tained that vessel in the port of Marseilles. He had to ask if the Noble Lord was aware of these facts, which be was bound to say he had received from a source which ho considered one of authority; and whether the Government was not authorised to detain a vessel going avowedly to disturb a foreign pewer. Lord PALMERSTON had no objection to lay the letters on the table of the House. The subject had teen fully considered and had been brought before the Consul, and it had been decided that there was no right on the part of the British Consul respect to what the French Government had done. Ac cording to the last accounts from Palermo there wss no Government there. The people lead posse s sion o f arms , and were engaged in protecting themselves against the Neapolitans. He could state, in reply to the lion. and Learned Gentleman, that having taken some pains to discover what had become of the formidable guns sent to Syracuse, and he had ascertained that they were now in the possession of the King of the two si c iii es ._(Laughter.) He had heard that Colonel Aubery was sent to this country for the purpose of raising men, but he had good reason to believe that no men were raised. With regard to the vessels, it was true that one steamer did leave from Liverpool. With respect to the Bombay, which lay in th e Th ames, the facts were these:—An application was made by the Neapolitan Minister for the detention of that vessel, as it was loaded with men, guns, an d ammunition; and as its leaving this country w ou ld b e in contravention of the Foreign Enlistment Act. The question was referred to the Treasury, the Foreign -office having nothing to do with the law that prevailed in this country on the subje c t. Th e w h o l e transac tion was carried on with the Treasury and the proper law officers of the Crown, and in consequence of the legal advice they receiv e d, th a t th ere was no j us t gro und for detaining the vessel, it was. released. Mr. ANSTEY then repeated his questions as to whether he would have any objection to lay on the tablo Heytesbury, the Under Se c r e t a ry of Foreign Affairs, with respect to a a dispatch siid o Statew from fo‘%r erd h ° L had married the subject of a Lord Ponsonby, with r es p ec t to the refusal of claims m for a e d i e gn by c i o l u is nty ir ; and also a letter to a Mr. Paget, from e, she being a Hungerian. Lord PA LMERSTON said, under the guise of ask ing a series of quecions the Hon. and Learned Member had favoured the Hous'e with as complete and detailed information as if he had been "our own correspondent." —(Much laughter.) Ile could not give the Honour able and Learned Member the whole details with to take any cognizance of the property of the individual in the case alluded to. Instructions had been sent to communicate that fact to the widow, and that the British Government had no right to in terfere in the matter as her claim must fall under th e cognizance of the court of the county cf which her husband was a native. With re gard to the second case, that of Mr. Paget, he would look an d see if there was any such letter in his office, and if there was, he should have no objec tion to produce it. But that case was very diffarent to the one previously referred to by the Honourable and Learned Member. The latter was the case 0 . an Austrian subject, and the question arose in the Austrian courts. Mr. ANSTEY wished to know whether the law cfficers of the Crown had been advised with on this subject. Lord PALMERSTON said that the doctrine in volved bed been plainly laid doe n and settled, and it was therefore unnecessary to consult the law officers upon it. RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE. Mr. WYLDE wiEhre, to ask the Noble Lord whether the British Government had sent any protest against the occupation of Hungary by the Russian troops?—(Hear.) Lord PALMERSTON said that her Majesty's Go vernment had made no protest on the subject. :Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN. Lord JOHN RUSSELL having moved that the re cord of the judgment of the House of Lords, affirming the decision of the Court in Ireland against Mr. Smith O'Brien, be entered as read, proceeded to move that Mr. Smith O'Brien, who had been convicted of high treason, should be expelled the House. The Noble Lord, in making the motion, said that the course he in tended to pursue he believed to be without precedent, hadht a b l e th en ot e lg o h nv i i t e w ted was wasso, t o h f e su cr e i h m a e o n f at w u h re ich as th to e ta in li d y iv to idual in capacitate him from holding a scat in that House. ' The precedents he had been able to find upon the subject had no reference whatever to the The e s zst wastcase. I Those precedents were of two kinds. on a writ with respect to high treason. The first caseoilinirt.hFoossutber a Member of that House having been taken , ject was on the 10th of May, 1715. In that case of rebellion for high treason was expelled the House, and House Member b o e f in t g h e i rebellion iu in another case, iv. 00 0 ru n ms ee informed 2 a 2 t d been J. Carnegie, June, aorpneeng .0 17 1; _l 6 s q , ~ the a Scotland; witnesses were called to the bar who proved the fact, and he was expelled the House, and a new writ was issued. The other case he had discovered were cases with regard to which there might be some doubt as to the nature of the offence, but they were cases of perjury, conspiracy, and various offences in the nature of misdemeanour or which there might be a doubt whether they were of the nature to require that the House should proceed to the severe penalty of expulsion. The present case of Mr. Smith O'Brien was one, and regarded the House totally without precedent, and was not similar to the case of Members with respect to i whom a similar proceeding had been taken to the one he was now about to adopt. When it was said that he was in arms against her Majesty, the House did not take any notice of the fact, but waited till the conclusion of the proceedings against him. Mr. Smith O'Brien being convicted of high treason in Ireland, brought a writ of error against that conviction in the House of Lords, and that House having sustained that conviction and affirmed the decision of the courts in Ireland, it became necessary that he should make the present motion for Mr. O'Btien's ex pulsion from that House. It was unnecessary that he should say one word on the nature of the offeuce, because nothing could be more complete than the conviction and the judgment. With re gard to the consequences following on such an o ff ence , he need only observe that it was An offence totally unlike the misd emeanours he had re ferred of treason,oprruh Parliament hold a nd a o I to l seat that persons that i tt wasto, i t guilty of it were unable to s i t i n that House. The consequence was, therefore, th a t M r. Sm i th O ' Brien el establish in th a t House; a having been convicted of high t reason, he was cilly dead, wa t s he hi l g a be elected, waselected, n net presi dent in modern time of expelli ng a M em b er. He had, and but he n nubledli not eve believed b therefore, consulted with the Speaker and other authorities as to the course to be taken in the case, and he had come to the resolution of moving the two follow ing resolutions—" Whereas it appears by the records of this House that Mr. Smith O'Brien has been convicted of high treason;" and when that resolution vas agreed to, be should proceed to move--" That a new writ be issued for election of a knight of the shire for the county of Limerick, in the room of Mr. William Smith O'Brien, who had been convicted of high treason." The Noble Lord then moved the first resolution. Sir FREDERICK THESIGER suggested that the word "convicted" had better be altered to " attai n t e d," as attainer did not follow convictions, but judgment. Mr. Smith O'Brien would not be civilly d ea d unt il judgment had been passed upon him. ATTORNEY - GENERALthought The ATTOR t he proper word would be " adjudged guilty of high treason," and, Th e r esolution having be e n so altered, it was put from the chair, and agreed to. The second resolution was also altered in the same way and agreed to. PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL. The House then went into Committee on this Bill. PRIVILEGE STRANGERS EXCLUDED. Oa dfaUseTl;eing proposed, Mr. J. O'CONNELL rose, and pointing to the reporters gallery, said, Sir, I observe strangers present." Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and they did so accordingly, reporters of course amongst them. [At our going to press the gallery remained closed. We were given to understand that a discussion took place upon the course adopted by Mr. J. O'Connell, in the course of which he was entreated by more than one Honourable Member to abandon his determination. This, we were further informed, be refused to do, upon which ho was assailed with loud and repeated hisses and " bahs," which reverberated throughout the lobbies and galleries.] Tho House th en procee d e d w ith the regular business before it, Which, of course , will not be conveyed to the public through th e ord i nar y c hannels of intelligence. X 27,460,825 M. MARSHALL, Chiefeashier. Dated the 17th day of May, 1849. BANKING DzPAATNENT. £27,460,625 Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000 Rest • . - 3,156,032 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say ings-banks, and Di vidend accounts) .. 3,797,985 Other deposits .. 10,752,558 Seven day and other bills •• • •• • • •• • • 1,190,845 Government securi ties (including Dead Weight Anniiity)7. I 4,035.069 Other securities •• • • 10,013,116 Notes ••••••••• • • • • • 8„505,065 Gold and silver coin.. 847,170 £33,450,420 £33,450,420 ➢I. MARSHALL , Chef Cashier. 19. Dated the 17th day of May, 18 RAILWAY StiAitiu MARKETS. BRISTOL, MAY 17. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Share Market to-day was somewhat better, but the principal transactions were in Great Westerns and Bristol and Exeters. Great Western, Quarters, were clone at 57k Bristol and Exeter, Thirds, 11 dis. LIVERPOOL, MAY 17. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Share market opened rather firmly to day, but was not so good at the close of business. The transactions are still limited. However, there was more done in London and Mid land Stock than for some time past. MANCILESTER, M 17. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The transactions to-day were as follows : Leeds, Preference, 11 15-IG—Dover (No. 4), 6 15-18—Sheffield (No. 1), DA dis,—Eastern Counties, B—North Staffordshire, b die. Ambergate, 5 dis. BIRMINGHAM MAY 17. STOCK ExcnANGE.—The following are to-day's transactions:— Chester and Holyhead, 15%—Midland,.New 501. Shares, 11 dia.- s , lirewsbury and Birmingham (B.), 41. 3s. 9d dis. Shropshire Union, 535. 9d. dia. YORK, MAY 16. STOCK EXCHANGE —The business transacted to-day was as fol lows :—Great Northern, 10 —North British, Thirds, 3% —Ditto, Quarters, 3 1 ,E—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, lb —Ditto (New castle Extension), 12% —Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 4—York and North Midland, Preference, 4. GLASGOW, MAY 16. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business done in the Stock Exchange to day has been as follows :—Aberdeen, Preference, 4/. ss.—Clyales (laic Junction, 61—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 344—Ditto, Halves (1 , .;o. 1), 61. Gs. Gil. —Ditto (No. 2), 6%. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 17. SHEEP STEALING. Mr. HAWES, in answer to a question from Mr. Bright, said that sheep stealing was still capitally pu nished in Van Diemen's Land. LAND IMPROVEMENT AND DRAINAGE (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this Bill, Mr. GROGAN said if five-shilling and two-shilling rates were struck in the distressed unions of Ireland that the effiacy of the measure would be materially interiered with. What they wanted in Ireland were zealous, energetic, and intelligent guardians of the poor. Mr. P. SCROPE approved of the provisions of the Bill generally, but what he complained of was that it contained provisions of a most serious character, and did not appear what its nem° proposed it should be, "An Act for the Effectual Relief of the Poor in Ireland." In many of the workhouses of that country relief was not given as it ought to be, and the consequence was that destruction of human life was frightful. In one union alone, that of Ballinasloe, out of 5,000 persons, upwards of 400 died in the course of a week. In Kenmare, they had heard from the respectable chaplain of that estab lishment, that the unhappy inmates were compelled to wear their clothes night and day; a state of things which produced the most frightful consequences, while in Skibbereen, six and eight were found to lie in the same bed, the width of which was three and a half feet, and the length six feet. Was it not no torious, that the poor preferred dying outside rather than go into the workhouses? He did not mean to say that that was the general character of work houses in Ireland, but there ought to be no such in stances. But was the outdoor relief of a better descrip tion? Many frauds were used, and in spite of the ut most vigilance, these frauds could not be put a stop to.—. (Hear, hear.) Even numbers of those who received this relief had no house, and nothing for clothing, nothing for fuel. It was the universal testimony that these unfortu nate creatures were reduced to a condition frightful and shocking to all beholders. Some steps should be taken to secure a more adequate relief than was at present afforded. But there was an excuse on account of the deficiency of funds. He thought if a demand was pro perly inaLle. Pa.;iarnent would net withheld, fur the next '.oar relief to these starving people, at the rate of three farthings a day; that would be sufficient to pre vent any loss of life, and they need not lose the money. Put the prOdllooo4oos 91 the Nil NY91.114 alone repay them. The reclamation of the waste lands might afford employment to the paupers; they might, at least, pro• duce sufficient for their own subsistence. The Society of Friends had succeeded in that plan in someiu sV:nces. Common sense told th em th a t if th e y had idle men, and idle land, to put the idle men on the land. They had roads unfinished, and drainage incomplete. If they set to work in a siraightfonsard way, nothing' would be easier than to make these people self-support irg, and so diminish the poor-rate. The Noble Lord has often stated that it was the first duty of a Government to preserve the live's of the people. To secure that ob ject responsibility should be placed somewhere. The people of Ireland 'were starving in numbers, and steps should be taken to preserve them from the extremity of destitution. There should be some rower of compelling relief where it was properly required. It was true that the Noble Lord would tell them the relieving-otTicer was liable to be dismissed in case of refusing relief, but what was the loss of Ss. a week to him, and that was all the penalty that could be inflicted for a neglect of duty or refusal of redo, wliich might result in the loss of hu man life. Mr. OSBORNE: said that a Committee was sitting uP stairs to inquire into the working of the law, and whY did the Government bring in a Bill to amend this poor law hetere that Committee had made its report? ID objected to this peddling system of amending the law.-- (Hear, hear.) Until they come to something like national rate the, present system would be, as it now was, utterly iticacient. The lion. Member (Mr. Scropo) had asked what was eight shillings a week; but he could tell him that eight shillings a week was a fortune in Ire land. Four shillit-gs a week was the average wages. He objected to app lying the principle of the English poor law in Ireland. It. Cashel there was an army of 10,000 paupers receiving relief every week, and these poor people were actually selling their pounds of yellow meat to obtain clothing. The existing law was inefficient. As to employing the people on waste l an d s , h e f eare d it was not a scheme that would pay, and he objected to this peddling syste ei of amending what was originally t% defective scheme of legislation. lie would not divide upon this Bill, and word d wash his hands of all responsibility under the circurast ances. Lord C. liANII2TON, who was imperfectly hard, was understocd to complain of the absence in the Bill of all allusion to the important question of settlement. no hoped the Governs neat would take some steps to remedi thatgravo de!ect. Mi:. CALLAGHAN said he thought this was a some* xshat hurried au,d imperfect way of amending the 1' He thought that the tenancy Crown lands should be in" eluded in the r,ste. These lands had been heretofore exempt. Colonel DU.N.INE said that ho had no confidence in that Committee on the poor-law up stairs. The Com mittee were completely under the influence of the Hon• 31ember for Me.: - ichester. He would support some clauzcs in the B ,11 and oppose others, although be agreed with the Honourable Member for Middlesex that the Bill woult I be perfectly intik, as it would not go to the root , of the e.ii. He approved of fixing a maximum rate, Why should not that income•tax which was paid by absentees from Irish property be taxed for the firl pport of the poverty of that country? Irish income, wherever it was expended, should be taxed for the support of the pauperism of that country. He thought that th a money laid out should be laid out in reproductive weriu He should not then discuss the details of the Bill, which could be most properly done in Committee. u s rose principaily to warn the House against that Committee on the poor-laws sitting up stairs, with whose conduct he was quite dimatisficd. Mr. LI. HERBKRT would defer to the general wish, and avoid the disce ssion of any of the details of this Bill on that occasion.,. At the same time he could not look at the state of Irel and, and the utter break down of the poor law, without entsring his protest against the priti ciple of the mess are, and it any lion. Member had felt dis posed to move an. amendment ho would have divided against the secoc d reading, because he considered east, uaion rating, whieli was its m a in p r i nc i p l e , was one Of the most danger( nis that could be introduced into anY country. He be] ieved that if they carried this mischiev ous Bill it would utterly break down and fail in its pro fessed objcca Th. only efT(ct would be to drag down the comparatively well conditioned districts to the level of the ‘sorst, and next session they would find they would have again :to ask for g ran t s f rom t h e I m pala/ Excht,quer or suffe r the people to die from starvation as they were now.— (Hear, hear.) He complained that they never had th is question of union rating fairly placed before the B uuse. In the present instance, it was mixed up with other matters, the object being evidtntlY to obtain its enactu tent indirectly. ale would ask, why the average area of taxation in Ireland should he nearly 10,000 mile. s, whilst it was so much smaller 1 0 England? He put that question to the Right Hon. Secretary for Irela ad. lie had asked him on previous occasions, why ours area of taxation should exist 10 'England and another in Ireland, and he trusted that he would not receive a reply. The lion. Gentleman pro ceeded to read sore .e statistics of the state of pauperism in the union with which he was connected. On the Bth of May there were 3,232 paupers in the house: to make, arrangements for 7ihis large nu m b er , th e y were f or ced to distribute them in various buildings. There were over 13,000 receiving relief altogether. The mortality was increasing in the house, though there was no deo' lera, and it was as well ventilated and managed as all one in Ireland. When he left, the mortality was 1 per cent. in the week. It had now risen to 11 per cent.--• fifty-three had died in one week. This was in whit; was called a prosperous union, because it had asked them for no money, and he had a right to be proud, when he stated, that within the last thirteen months there had been collected in that union, without the aid of a policeman or soldier, 40,6801. out of an a n nual rental cf 80,0001. In sonic places the rates had been 1-ts. in the pound. The lowest was Gs. In 1547, the board of guardians memorialised the Poor-law Cone' missioners to reduce the area 'of taxation, and desired to be allowed to carry out the law in a practical way, but the Commission turned a deaf ear to all their repre sentations, though they neither asked them for money nor relief, but to carry out a clause within our Act of Parliament. The adherence of the Government to the theories against interfering with a labour market which dial not exist, had ruined that union. Many a landlord who would now have been employing labour was now la despair, and thousands of those who might have usefully and profitably occupied, were forced into the workhouse. They were accused of using harsh language occasionally, but he thought, under these circumstances, they were justified in it. It was the Government who had changed the language of manly self-dependence into that of de spair and beggary, and when he thought of the state, not only of the uni on to which he had referred, but of every other union in the county, he felt that he had a sufficient justification for any strong language he might have used either ou that or former occasions. Sir W. SOMEP.VILLE said he would confine his observations to a reply to the objections that had bees made by the Hon. Members who had spoken, leaving the details of the 'measure to be discussed at a future stage. It was not to be expected that an important measure like this should pass without some opposition, but he confessed he was surprised at some of the objet' Lions that had been made. The Hon. and Gallant Member for Portarlington had blamed the Government' for not waiting for the report of the Committee. lie thought there was some inconsistency in that charge, seeing the Hon. and Gallant Member was one of those who, when the Government proposed the appointment of that Committee, urged that it should have been pre pared with its own measures without waiting for a Committee at all.—(Hear, hear.) Looking, however, at what had passed last year, he thought the Govern ment would have been chargeable with a breach of faith, if it had not proposed the appoint ment of that Committee. Tho Committee bad now sat for a long time, and the Government felt that, in the present state of Ireland, they were bound to come forward with such measures as seemed most urgent, without waiting for the report of the Coin' mitt,e, which might come so late in the session as to leave no time for its consideration; but though the Com mittee had made no report, it had collected a great deal of evidence, which had been laid on the table of the House, and thus assisted in showing the way to prac tical amendments in the law. He, therefore, thought the Government had exercised a sound discretion in laying this Bill before the House, in order to give Mem bers time to consider its details, and also for its circula tion in Ireland. The Hon. Member for Stroud had made a great many objections which appeared to him to have very little connexion with the poor laws. One important point he bad mooted, the insufficiency of the means provided for the administration of relief.—(Hear, hear.) But that was a matter which could be considered when they went into Committee. The Honourable Member who spoke last had alluded to his conduct, and said that he had on several occasions refused to answer to questions put to him as to the area of taxa tion. He did not remember of the question, as now put by the Hon. Member, ever having been put to him be fore. The question had been discussed in the House, and on that occasion he opposed the smaller area o f tax ation. That was a matter of opinion, however, on which the Hon. Member might fairly differ from him. The Hon. Member seemed to think that the Poor-law Com missioners were bound to agree to the recommendations of any union that might choose t o memor i al i ze them to make alterations in the area of taxation. That was not the case. Parliament had' vested a discretionary power in the Commissioners, and he was of opinion that they had acted wisely in refusing to accede to the request in the memorial from the union of Killarney. In one case when lie was on that Commission, they bad agreed to reduce the area of taxation in the barony of Drone, in the county of Carlow. They did so at the earnest request of the parties resident in that barony, who wer e un i te as unanimous as they were in the Union of Killarney; but, nevertheless, when they agreed to the alteration general dissatisfaction was created, and imputations of partiality and improper motives were made against the Commission.—(liear, hear.) He hoped he had answered all the questions of the Hon. 'Alembeia as ho was desirous of showing the utmost attention to what the Hon. Gentleman bad said, feeling as he did that there was no Hon. Member whose suggestions deserved more consideration.—(Clear, hear.) Every attention would be paid by the Govern ment to any suggestions that might be made, and he trusted they would receive every aid in Committee to make the Bill satisfactory. Mr. VERNON SMITH said it was rather singular that all the discussion which had taken place was in re ference to the omissions in the Bill—what he had to offer would be with reference to the provisions contained in the Bill. He thought they were much indebted to the Government for the introduction of the poorlaw into Ireland, as it had been the means of showing the rottenness that existed in too many parts of the social system in Ireland. He should look forward with great anxiety to the report of the Committee that had begin appointed. He was surprised he had heard nothing from Hon. Members on the subject of a maxi s " mum rate in one of the provisions of the Bill.—(Hear.) A maxivaura rate had certainly never been popular in