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lion embodying the terms of the loan, and carrying them ent. The right hon. gentleman concluded by placing in the hands of the chairman a resolution setting forth and adopting the terms of the loan as they have already ap peared in print. Mr. M. T. SMITH asked whether the Go v e r n ment had g i ve n notice to the parties with whom they had that morning contracted a loan, partly in terminable annuities, that it was their intention to levy a tax on those annuities ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that it was impossible Government should make a statement to the contractors for a loan as to the additional taxes a bout to be proposed to Parliament. Of course those who contracted for a loan must be aware of the possibility of an increase of taxation taking place. Mr. LALNG thought that the house should not by a silent vote commit itself to an approval of the important principles involved in the resolution just p ro p osed b right hon. gentleman—pri nc i p l es with re spect ' to ythe which a strong and by no means favourab le opinion w as enter tained in circles conversant with monetary matters. We appeared now at the commenceme nt l of the war to been nd er e m agnitude ; ait ing upon a succession of lo ans of arg Was therefore incumbent on the house to exercise due deliberation as to the te r s i as ch e t h r r e o y n e w o e u r s e c a o s n t t h r o a s c e t e o d n , or we might act e i n m c r t r h e o d d d o u f r i r n a g i s t i h n e g t a h t e e which Mr. Pitt cogrlhac-eteriitcohlue war. An obvious h o t d o eb th t byettheiaCshancellor of the Exchequer was that loan proposed nor another. He could understand it was neither on its being said t hat it was not incumbent upon us to impose a ny burden up o n the present generation for the sake of pos terity, and that i t was therefore desirable to raise the loan Three per Cant. Consols, because they being the most in marketable security were the one in which a large sum of most readily raised on an emergency. That doctrine could 1?e different from the doctrine was indeed very one they had beard from the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, who only t w o months ago appealed to them not to throw the whole burden on their posterity, but to make a gallant effort to bear part of it themselves. That doctrine might, however, be pushed too far, for there could be no doubt that in great emergencies we could not raise the whole revenue by taxa tion, bat Must resort to a loan. But then came the question as to the form in which they should contract the loan. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that it was impossible to contract it in terminable annuities. But if from 60,000,000/. to 100,000,0001. embarked in French and other foreign railways had actually been raised on terminable securities, how could it be impossible for the Government of England, with the vast credit it possessed, to raise 16,000,000 1 . at a time when the money market was re markably easy ? It was said indeed that there was to be a sinking fund, but with the light of experience to guide us, could any oue doubt that on the return of peace that fund would be speedily sacrificed in order to enable the Government to meet the pressure for the repeal of some obnoxious tax. There was really no hope of paying off any considerable portion of debt unless it was expressly contracted in a terminable form. The raising of money by terminable annuities was, in fact, simply a question of price in the market. An annuity of 60 or 100 years had a clear and intelligible market value. It would not indeed fetch quite so much in proportion as the Three per Cent. Consols because the latter being a lar g er stock, t her e w a s more dealing in them ; they were, therefore, , a morereadily available security in the market, and consequently com manded a higher price. But if now, at the commencement of the war, they began to create terminable annuities, and continued so year by year, so as to make them all expire together, and thus form one stock, they would be as re adily available, and would therefore command as high a proportionate price, as Console. (Hear, hear.) Let the house consider the effect of contracting a new loan in Consols. That stock was at present kept up at an artificially high price, because it was the only ae ail able security for the investment of trust funds. But if, by an increased issue, they increased the quality in the hands of jobbers and large capitalist., the value of Consols, which was the barometer of the money market, and regulated the price of all other securities, would fall, and the amount of money obtainable by Government for a certain amount of stock must necessarily be diminished. Why, what occurred lately ? Some few weeks since Con sols were at 92 to 93, with a tight money market, and the Bank rate of discount 5 per cent. The money market had since become easier, the rate of discount had fallen to 4:1 per cent., with a probability of further reduction ; but Consols, instead of going up, had fallen to 90 to 91. No doubt this was partly due to the rumours of the impend ing loan, and partly to the suicidal policy of the Govern. went in selling savings bank stock at the very time they knew they were about to contract a loan. Had a more judicious policy been pursued, he believed that the loan might have been negotiated at 92 to 93, perhaps even 94 or 95 ; whereas, if they calculated the terms of the present loan, they would find them only eqpivalent to 85 or 86. Then with regard to the method of negotiating the loan. The Government might appeal to the public either directly, as has been done in France and Austria, or through the medium of the agents or middlemen. Now he did not, for his own part, participate in the prejudice entertained by some persons against middlemen. But, then, if their • agency was to be employed, the element of competition amongst them ought to be brought into play, which had not been done in the present instance. If they adopted the other method, they must fix a price which private ne gotiations would easily enable them to do ; throw open the loan at that price to the nation, and let any one who liked subscribe 1001., or any other sum. That course had been adopted by the French Government on a recent occasion with far better success than had attended the Chan cellor of the Exchequer's operation ; and he must say that he believed that the money might have been ob tained by this plan oa terminable annuities on much more favourable terms than had actually been done. (Hear.) He must say he had heard, with great regret, the enume ration of the additional taxes by which the Chancellor cf the Exchequer proposed to raise the amount required for the service of the year. The income tax stood during the late war at 10 per cent., and he could not think that the present generation were less willing than any former one to bear by direct taxation the burdens of a war into which they had entered with their eyes open. Now, the whole additional revenue it was proposed to raise might be ob tained by a 9 per cent. income tax. Why, then, should they prefer to retrace the steps of their recent legislation, unsettle the system of taxation which had been established of late years, and for such small sums as it was proposed to raise by the additional duty on coffee and sugar disturb interests so important as those which were concerned in the production or import of those great articles of con sumption? He did trust that the house would declare its readiness to vote a 10 per cent. income tax, if it was ne cessary, to support the expenses of the war, but that they would not fritter away the recources of our trade, burden the working classes, and unsettle commerce by peddling and petty alterations in the system of taxation established by Sir R. Peel. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY observed that it was utterly' im possible to extract eighty-six millions and a quarter in one year from the pockets of the people, either by direct or in direct taxation, and that the necessity for a loan was there fore, beyond dispute. He wished, however, for information on two or tlirea points embraced in the statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He understood the right hon. gentleman to say that the expenditure for the year ending March 31, 1854-5 was 65,656,5921. Did not that represent the accounts that had come to hand rather than the total expenditure of the year; and, if so, could the right hon. gentleman say what the total expenses up to that period were likely to be ? He also wished to know to what extent the country had run in debt during the last year ? Of the additional ten millions revenue voted last year, he under stood five millions had not been paid. On the other hand, 7,300,0001. additional debt, consisting of Exchequer bills and bonds', to be repaid it was true in future years, had been contracted and the money had actually been spent. He wished to know when the Chancellor of the Exchequer had taken credit for the five millions of unpaid taxes for the past year? He wished also to ask whether, in imposing the income tax on terminable annuities, they were not taxing prin e cipas t l, and if so w h e th er it was no t ev id en t th a t th ey /Ver . what : ve e r lngupon a career oppo se d t o an y soun d p r i nci pl e The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the chief portion of the payments on account of the expenses of the army, navy, and ordnance were either madein ready money, or at all events fell due i n th e course of the quarter. And therefore, although there might be some arrears, h e did not think they wou ld be .very large. He was quit e aware that annuities were subject to the income tax. Ho was. however, of opinion that an annuity, whether termi nable or perpetual, should be considered as !income and treated accordingly. Undoubtedly the fact of th e i r b e i ng thus liable to taxati on one on was of the reasons which t l e t erre d the public f r o m taking them t any ext en t. B u t th ose w h o purchased them rec k oned on theincome tax—its increase or decrease—as one of the c onti n gencies nade to which they were exposedand for which the y allowance. With regard to what had been said about for eign securities, he apprehended they were not terminag r e e ilw ln aY any other sense li e s taken fur a than railway debentures, which w short time, and to be renewed by reloorro°: Mr. FR EWEN said it was evident, fprloamasg.the speeches which had been already made, that the the Chancellor of the Exche quer would meet P with a rproposedd I°l b y e( deal of opp osition. There was one point to evhicllhe wished to call the attention of the right hon. gentleman. It was this, that, the Government should give every possible facility to those persons who were charged with taxes which they ought not to pay to appeal against the injustice. Mr. GLADSTONE—I am induced to rise at this period of the discussion, because I do not feel entirely c er t a i n whether the committee are aware of the precise nature and hearings of the resolutions which have been read from the chair. In the excellent speech of my right hon. friend,the Chancellor of the Exchequer, a speech distinguished as well by the utmost candour and fairness as by its great clearness -- (itter)—in that excellent speech I only regretted a single ' omission, namely, he did not state to us precisely either the 414" of the votes he intended to ask for to-night or the ',....L•ffect and character of those votes. If, therefore, I to state what I believe to be the character holLat'ire,f those votes, it is only by way of offering my s t aa !staiace to th e c ommittee, and my observations til er . I teet to the correction of my right hon. friend if _ Itaitie-nitrerittat- The Chancellor of the Exchequer asks s!ttele s hw, re , Axe . first place, for a vote which embraces the atonal con'e m 4 t 7_tite loan for which he has made a provi fee on to eekt4 l 7 44 lsreenme that having done so, he will Iti!tiaiso,y,Tutrhae further nathreeleizseesfw,c, votes which will enable Now, if I at, : t e Y he has proposed this even friend will thu s' the ~,64 the class class of indirect taxes. Which my right hon. their substantial charact e r ' I 1 distin c tgue paid different in enable him to ley; • - et • coffee, and spirits, ainilereed a sks " for a vote to he would be in a _end t han es t o .l l - 1) " sugar, tea, night does not in any conditio nmanet: tell us tomorrow morning but that every gentleman who c r a m i r t i Nir r vote to free at the next stage of the different amuse, and reverse the re' in di ct to n e of the Exchequer, as if he had never n-ee—fat,aat ettgreent, lire of th e e 1 7 i t t Lz t a liminary step. The case is different, IT Tetti h this spect to the loan. Not from any fault on erxer. withPreel Chancellor of the Exchequer, but in strict c on e e t m il it hf the previous practice and the dictates of prudence mitt' with hon. friend is asking us to give a vote upon the'smal;• tight the loan which will be virtually binding and conclus ive t ° °f between us and the contractors. We are called upovntaos night to give a vote which is to be a distinct " ay e " or ' " nog' upon the arrangement proposed by the Chancello r of • the Exchequer between the State and certain contractors, who are about t o lend him 16,000,000 1 ., and after having given that vote it will not be competent to us to inter feteswer,ll(__*or- impair the conditions of that contract. P r ePaPed , to withhold my affirmative from the pro posal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the com mittee should conf i rm the contract into which he has pro visional', entered ; but befo r e I say anything upon the - merits o thai ontra c t, ,i iguii wis h to express my desire c t o h n at eri t v o e p t r o ev ex en el t ud a e g p t or w ti e on sh o o f ul it i fromp o ssi b the e h e i s a u . l n a d t e i r o s n t a t n h d a i t n which relates to the peculiar arrangement proposed by my t right honourable friend in re g ard to the re p a y ment of loan. (Hear , h ear.) With respect to that arrange ment, I give him credit for the best and highest' intentions. It is obviously an effort on his part to vindicate, as far as he could, the principle that we shou ld transmit as little as we can of the burdens of the war to those who are to follow us, but to make provision for discharging them ourselves. At the same time I confess that, without ex pressing a final judgment, I feel great doubt and difficulty upon the subject of that peculiar arrangement. I think the Chancellor of the Exchequer should give is time to consider it deliberately. What I am afraid of is, that if we agree to-night to the resolution now beforethe commit tee, which resolution is understood to be binding and de cisive as to the substance of the arrangement, we may find that we have parted from our liberty to discuss the peculiar provision for the repayment of the loan. I would there fore suggest to the Chancellor of the Exchequer that that provision should be separated from the rest of the resolu tion ; and I am not aware of any strong reason why, if the provision should be so separated and put into the form of a distinct resolution by itself, a vote should be taken upon it to-night. I hope my right honourable friend will act upon my suggestion, so that there may be a distinct understand ing that his proposal as to the repayment of the loan is one of public policy exclusively, having nothing to do with the bargain between the State and the contractors, and that we may modify or even reject it. I listened to the speech of the hon. member for Wick with great interest, with great sym pathy, and with great admiration for its high English spirit. Atthe same time lam not prepared to concur with him in saying that it was the duty of the Chancellor of the Exche quer to propose at the present time to raise the income tax to 10 per cent. (Hear.) If all the payers of income tax were in the same circumstances as those who listened to the speech of the hon. member for Wick, then it would have been obligatory upon the Chancellor of the Exche: quer to raise the income tax to 10 per cent. That would have been the simplest, the most powerful, and upon the whole the safest and fairest measure he could take ; but it is only those who have been conversant with the actual management of financial affairs who know how severe be comes the pressure of the income tax when you approach the classes that are touched by its lowest limits. (Hear.) The question is a serious one, whether you can raise the income tax to the war limit of 10 per cent. without under taking to solve a difficult problem—namely, the practica bility of a further extension of the tax downwards beyond anything you have yet attempted. Consider the present position of the tax. You levy it upon persons who have 1001. a year. In the main, though not of course altogether, the dividing line of 1001. per annum is the dividing line between the educated and uneducated parts of the commu nity. Now I doubt whether, all things considered, the educated part of the community having 1001. a year are really a great deal better off than the less educated part of the community having 601., 701., or 931. a year. (Hear.) I fear, therefore, that there are more than fiscal considera tions involved in the question whether we should raise the I income tax to 10 per cent. I look to that augmentation as a necessary incident to the present war, if protracted ; but when you raise the income tax to 10 per cent., you must consider that question with respect to the relations of the classes to which I have adverted, and in doing so you will have a great political problem to solve, and immense difficulties of machinery and administration to encounter. I think the Chancellor of the Exchequer was quite right, not finding it absolutely necessary, under present circum stances, to encounter these gigantic di tEculeies, to resort to other measures ; and I am not prepared to join in any censure upon him for not hevine proposed to raise the in come tax to 10 per ceut. (Hear.) lam bound to say that although I am not prepared to withhold my assent from the proposal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to borrow a large sum of money, yet I cannot profess to have a weaker or fainter impression of the disadvantages of public loans than I had formerly, when in an official capacity it was my duty to make provision for the present war. If 1 there was one sentence in the speech of my right hon. friend from which I emphatically differed, it was that in which he referred to a most able and vigorous pamphlet, well worthy the attention of members of this house and of the public generally, recently published by Mr. New march. That gentleman has explained in great detail the financial proceedings of Mr. Pitt during the revolutionary war, and I think the words of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer were that Mr. Newmarch had shown that the loans of Mr. Pitt were contracted upon terms much more advantageous to the public than was commonly supposed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Of late years. Mr. GLADSTONE —ln my opinion, that is not what Mr. Newmarch has proved. What he has shown is this— that greater difficulties than is commonly supposed would have beset the path of Mr. Pitt if he had attempted to proceed in another manner. I have no doubt Mr. New march means that Mr. Pitt could not have realised so many public advantages as ho did from a different manner of proceeding. He strengthens my impression of the da mage and detriment that occur to the public from be coming a borrower on a large scale under a pressing neces sity ; and he shows, not that Mr. Pitt's loans were less dis advantageous to the country, but that all loans whatever, no matter how contracted, must be attended with immense economical disadvantages, and heavy pecuniary burden. (Hear.) But, with that impression on my mind, lam by no means disposed to extenuate my share in the proposals of last year ; on the contrary, I am content to have been the instrument of the late Government in attempting to induce the Aouse of Commons to make a wise, a resolutP, an honourable. and a successful effort. (Hear, hear.) Without in the slightest degree receding under that storm of criticism and invective which every one must expect who does not endeavour to square himself to everybody's wishes, but remembers there is such a thing as a pubiis interest, which after all is something different from the convenience of classes, I am yet disposed to admit that there is a limit to the application of the doctrine which I advocated last year. You cannot possibly expect a free country, or the representatives of a free country, to push a very sound economical doctrine, under all circumstances, to these extremes. You must re member that you have to deal with flesh and blood, and you must not expect flesh and blood to bear more than is reasonable. But Igo farther, and admit that when a sud den accumulation of taxation becomes so great an evil, so great a cause of disturbance to all personal and social re lations, it is far better to provide yourselves with money at a pecuniary disadvantage than it is to carry that disturb ance to a dangerous height. Therefore, for a considerable time islet, ever since the expenditure of the war became so uncontrollable that it was clear it would be necessary for the Govern.neot to provide fur a considerable portion of the 1 expenses of the vear by borrowed money, I was pr- pared to say that the Chancellor of the Exchequer could not- be blamed for resorting to a loan. Last year I made provision mys,lf for a considerable portion of the expenses by bor rowed money; but that was simply money borrowed in an ticipation of the tares, and I may state that the taxes im posed last year will cover, within one million, the whole of that borrowed money. am indisposed to enter into any minute criticism as to the precise proportion of money to be borrowed in comparison with that to be raised by taxa tion, or even as to the question whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer has selected the stock in which to borrow with a sound estimate of the public interests, or whether he should have carried to a somewhat greater extent the principle of borrowing upon terminable annuities. I entirely agree with my right hon. friend that it would not have been practicable, except upon extravagant terms, to have effected tha whole operation upon that principle. But these are questions which may be discussed upon some future occasion. Ido not think it would become me to enter upon them now. The question for me is whether the principle and outline of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer's plan, considered simply as a means of providing for the financial necessities of the country, is one to which the committee ought to give its approval or not. None of those preferences which we may have for one mode of proceeding rather than another, are, under !present circumstances, sufficient to induce us to withhold our votes from the proposal of my right hon. friend. I certainly should wish to have the power of con sidering more maturely the special provisions he proposes to make for the repayment of the loan. On the other hand, it is of capital importance that this house should maintain, as far as possible, the influence and credit of its financial vigour in the face of the country ; and even if it were in my power to shew, which I do not assume, that in one point or another the Chancellor of the Excheqaer might have made a bargain more precisely consistent with the public interests, I should have to balance the advan tage so attained against the great and heavy disadvantage which I have good reason to know attaches to the position of the Chancellor of the Exchequer when his proposals are made the subject of undue criticism. I am, therefore, dis posed to withhold that criticism upon the present occa sion ; but there is one question upon which I think it necessary to reserve my judgment. The Chancellor of the Exchequer began his speech by a reference to the time at which he made his financial statement, and ap peared to think that he required to - apologise for not having come before the house at an earlier period than the 20,h of April with an exposition of his views and pro posals for the year. There was one reason, undoubtedly, why it was desirable, if it could have been done, that the finances of the country should have been brought under the view of the house at an earlier period of the session— naheely, the rapid growth of the expenditure, which during the last quarter has pressed so severely upon the immediate r m e so i n u i s r t c e e of the rs didnnot t come Exchequer dow n to that ns k i t for was additionalnecessary; supplies,the he should use his own discretionary power by availlne him self of the fav oura bl e state of the public funds to'raise money by sales of stock belonging to the National Debt Commissioners. The hon. tuen4oer for Wick has censured that proceeding. - I am responsible for a large part of it, and my hon. friend is responsible for havi ng the same course. I do not believe it wohldahave been satis factoryseadasbeioenn before the conclusion of the financial yea r , to the house if at an earl asked to snake their financial arrangemeeantel this. In a time of peace it is an easy matter to truth ppo is financial arrangements which shall last for twelve months -ro-e. but in a time of war it is very di ffi cult to do so. pathi, other hand, it is annoying and worrying to the house to be continually pressed with one application after another for an increase of taxation. It is desirable to adhere to the principle of annual statements, and not to multiply your financial plans. Last year it may be a ques tion whether, in our desire to act upon constitutional grounds, and place ourselves at once at the com mand of Parliament, it was for the public convenience that twice the house should be asked to alterthe taxes and make pecuniary provision for the expenses of the year. At any rate I think the Chancellor of the Exchequer has done quite right in reserving his statement till the usual time, using his discretionary power to supply himself with money othcoanethinued in upon terms not more disadvantageous than would have been the plan of coming down prematurely to Parliament with a new scale of taxes, which he would probably have to alter again before the end of the session. Nay I am dis posed to regret that, having delayed his financial statement till the 20th of April, he (lid not postpone it for a few days longer. I say that with reference to a question of the greatest importance. You havo at this moment negotia tions going forward at Vienna. (Hear, hear.) Upon the issue of these negotiations must depend whether the expen diture for the year will be 80,000,000/, or whether it will be under 70,000,0001. Although the expenditure must in Take the any case be very large, yet, in the event of a speedy peace, i t need not be so large as the Chancellor of the Exchequer has stated to-night. For example, there are 4,000,0001. fur i Tinbc'dYin g the militia. Of that 4,000,0001., 3,000,0001. at eß tialAtes , 4 _ east, Perhaps 4 ,000,0001., would be saved in case of peace. 6,000 . ,. ,ansport service. Between ti,000,009/. and more t Z 4 l : l 4;s o e been voted. lt would be practicable to save f teat in the event of peace. So with the large :eatnnenei. ptivai i i. r i za r e t l iw i o n g o f e i t g h h a t t millions, in ney has voted bee for the f o O r t r h d ee with the wargitr: itself "'fleeted under the ---:,, - 1 1 .!1. 811 1 3 1)Vies for daily and hourlyconsumption we had not been e and the ariZlncei" o f war * Thenecessity for these supplies, as that proposed ~,3 c al l ed n ur3ll day to day the inn. certainlyA s h ould have been glad if be said that a war m e a cif lgbt; I,t, to is a step so important but the present l asipositiyonl clr at .4 timYeienna. It may "" e l e l eigi a ...: expect fro . m a ~ t Soi h t e m re ig is ht ; , negotiation on foot; a certain lye ftffasxsostisespeeni * been made A THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1855. it. You h,,ve arrived at the third of four conditions, and you appear to have something like a moral certainty— first, that it is upon the third point the negotiation will fail, if it is to fail ; and secondly, that you will know in a few days whether it is to fail upon that third point or not. Under such circumstances I should have thought that the budget, having been delayed till the 20th of April, might have been advantageously postponed till a somewhat later period. Before I sit down I must add another sentence or two. It is impossible for any person to overstate the mag nitude of the issues involved in the negotiations at Vienna. I confess it pains me deeply to see and hear signs of levity —I do not mean in this house, but elsewhere—with re ference to a matter of such tremendous importance. (Hear, hear.) I apprehend that when these negotiations are con eluded, whether they terminate, which God may grant, in peace, or in such a manner as to necessitate a prolongation of the war, this house, in one form or other, will have to pass its judgment upon them. It will be for you to determine whether Ministers have conceded too much or too little, whe ther theyhave properly discharged their duty in regard either to the acceptance or therejection of terms of peace. Their re sponsibility cannot be described in language strong enough. It is quite clear that you cannot come out of these con ferences as you went into them. It would indeed be a sufficiently important matter for reflection if the only ques tion involved in the conferences was the continuance of the war upon the former footing, and with the relations to the great European powers which you held before the negotia tions began ; but the high probability—the almost certainty —is, that if you come cut of these conferences with no other result, your relations to the other powers of Europe will have been signally changed in the course of them. The question which we may then have to decide, involving the fundamentally new conditions under which we may be called upon to pursue the war, will be a question of gigantic importance. (Hear.) Ido not wish my vote of to-night to be taken as my judgment upon that awful question. Do not let it be said that by making a pecuniary provision for the year we have committed ourselves upon the subject of the issue of the Vienna conferences. The mere financial disadvantage, whatever it is, of taking a loan at the pre sent moment, I am perfectly willing to face, rather than interfere with the course pursued by the Chancellor of the Exchequer., but absolute freedom to pass a judgment upon the conduct of the Government in respect to these negotia tiations, and upon th 3 interest and duty of the country in respect to its future policy, I feel it a solemn duty to re serve. (Hear, hear.) . . Sir F. KELLY did not think it necessary to trouble the committee with many observations, especially after the able and eloquent address of the right hon. member for the University of Oxford; but he could not but listen with much interest to the statement of the hon. member for Wick, that this was perhaps only the first of a series of loans to which they might be called on to give their consent, It therefore became the committee and the house to with• hold their consent on the present occasion, if they were satis fled that the plan proposed was vicious in principle and do trimental to the interests of the public. It appeared to him that the scheme of the right hon. gentleman was marked with every defect which could belong to a loan scheme at the present day, while on the other hand it possessed not one of the advantages which loans sometimes involved. It pos sessed the two conflicting and objectionable principles of giving an amount of stock equal to the capital proposed to be obtained, and of repaying the amount of the loan by ter minable annuities. Looking at the present rate of interest, to borrow a sum of 16,000,0001. by the creation of an equal amount of stock, is at once to be received as a false and mischievous thing, a principle involving a large sacrifice of the public interest. The loan was particularly ill-timed, as a very few days would bring the negotiations at Vienna to such a point as to enable those in London who were to sup ply the loan to have a more just idea of the probabilities, and therefore of the terms on which they would advance money. While we were borrowing 16,e00,000/. of money we were giving an amount of stock at a moment when the funds were 10 per cent. below par; and we rendered it im possible at any future time to get the country out at a less sacrifice than 1,600,0001. A far more advantageous bar ' gain might have been made—a bargain by which 40,0001. a-year would have been saved to the country. But the greatest objection lay to the payment of interest on a part of the loan. He considered 14s. 6d. per cent., as proposed by the right hon. gentleman to be paid by means of ter minable annuities expiring at the end of thirty years, to be an extravagant and unnecessary per centage. To raise money on terminable annuities at a time when the rate of interest was high, when the price of public funds was far below its average in prosperous times, was to make a bar gain for the public obviously disadvantageous in the ex treme. The plan of guaranteeing for thirty years a rate of interest which it was hoped would continue but two or three years longer, was very obviously disadvantageous, for in a few years, when the resources of the country would be more developed, and the means of the country would have increased, there would be means of raising money on much more favourable terms than at present, and yet, in consequence of the bargain now to be made, we should be obliged during thirty years to pay a rate of interest founded upon the state of the money market at the present mo ment, under all the effects of the existing war. He could not doubt that with the credit of the country it would have been perfectly easy for the right hon. gentleman to have raised the loan at the current rate of 31.65. id., or 31. 75., or 31. Bs. per cent., and that for as long or as short a time as Government might have found it necessary to retain the money. They would thus have had the power at the end of the war to pay off the money so borrowed, and then re-bor row the sum at a lower rate of interest. But instead of that the right hon. gentleman proposed the double plan now before the committee. He had required an advance of what might be called a sum of 1,600,000/. upon a terminable an nuity of thirty years, not at 31. 6s. &I. the present value of money, but at 31. 14s. 6d., which was paying 8s percent., or 62,0001. a-year, for the difference between a perpetual annuity and an annuity for thirty years on the suae of 1,600,0001. It had been stated that Pitt made his loans during the war upon the principle of the right hon. gentle. man, but it should be borne in mind that that statesman never borrowed upon the creation of stock until he had exhausted all the resources of his genius, until all his efforts had failed to procure money on other t rms. He should abstaitifrom dividing the committee on the ques tion, following the example of the right hon. member for the "University of Oxford, because he felt that it, was the duty of every member of the house, engaged as they were in a war requiring all the efforts and resources at their command, to support her Majesty's Government in any measures they might bring forwael for the carrying on of thet war, unless they should feel them to be vicious in prin ciple and detrimental to the public interest, and that it would be a breach of faith in the house to sanction them. The loan, although both vicious and detrimental, was yet necessary for the purposes of the war. He should not, there fore, opi ose the passing of the resolution, but he entered his protest against the principles on which it was conducted. Should they feel themselves again , under the necessity of once more resorting to the money market, he hoped it would be upon other and more advantageous terms. Mr. WILLIAMS could see nothing objectionable in the proposal to increase the taxation of the country but he did not at all agree to the proposal to increase the national debt The right hon. gentleman had merely followed the beaten track of all former Chancellors of the Exchequer. They had always resorted to loans. During the last years of peace they had had an increase of 44.000,000/. of debt. However, he remarked with pleasure that now, for the first time, had a Chancellor of the Exchequer attempted to get his pound sterling for his pound of Consols. Had Pitt adopted that plan, the national debt would have been 175,000,0001. less than it was. But the proposition to lay aside one million a year, to pay off those 16,000,e001., was impracticable and fallacious. On the sth Jan., 1818, the amount of the national debt was 776,000,0001. ; on the sth Jan., 1852, it was 765,000,000/. ; so that 11,500,0001. weir all the reduction that bad been effected. The right hon. gentleman had omitted one important source of taxa tion, viz., the imposition of the probate and legacy duties upon property belongin g to corporations, colleg es , univer sities, and properties of that kind that now escaped. The late Mr. Hume used to say that either the country must put down the debt or the debt would put down the coun try. It would be seen that the latter alternative would come to pass, through the Chancellor o f th e E xc h equer no t being able to make ends meet, that is, by raising taxes enough to pay current expenses. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER wished to say a few words with reference to what fell from the right hon. member for the University of Oxford. In negotiat ing the loan then under the consideration of the house, the Government had strictly followed the precedent of former loans. The Government would gladly have adopted some other means of providing for existing exigencies, but they found it impossible to resort to any other course. It would be utterly impossible for any Government to come down to the House of Commons and arrange the minimum o f terms on which they would transact public negotia tions, which, in order to be successful, must be transacted in private. The practice of former times had, therefore, been adhered to. It necessarily followed that, a previ sional contract having been made, they must ask the house t,.) accept the terms contained in that contract, But with regard to the provision to which the right honourable gentleman referred—viz., the application it was pro posed to make of a sum of money fur the periodical repayment of the loan, that was not one of the essential conditions of the contract, and if the house did not ap prove of it, it would be quite proper for them to modify or alter it on the second reading. If the house would con sent to allow the resolution to pass, he would undertake to say that that provision should not be considered on the same footing as those parts of the resolutions which were matters of contract with the lenders. With respect to terminable annuities, the hon. and learned gentleman opposite was under a false impression, if be supposed that the course now taken by the Government was a novel course. Solar was that from being the case that the whole amount of ex isting terminable annuities, amouutiec to a million and a half, were created merely as terrnineble annuti,s upon stock. From 1773 to 1816 there were thirty-one loans, of which ten were aided by long annuities. The slave com pensation loan, in 1839, was also aided by long annuities. Therefore, that mode of loan was strengthened by prece dent. He confessed that where a Government borrowed 10 0 1 , and received only 701., 801., or 901., there was a peel tive disadvant age ; b u t h e did not see how her Majesty's Government could be a loser if they received really 1001. in n io M m o n p ßE: f Y t o h r W o l B o °Cot staple T l i o n H a s r o t t r io j k i ec e . :ed f to any in p c t r i e o a o se , s in uo t h he as taz a a: coffee, and sugar. He had he n ard e° a n g sn re m at deal about carry ing on the war with energy_ and determination. What loaadsacrifice to d b e i , ea l i f oo th ? e H po o or w p o e o o ld ple nri e fi d ne w i w th as ad b d e i i a t hnadt nobleness e e n r cent, aa in regrettedwau lwould da that tray the Chancellor w e althTha imposed, instead of taleheoiurldwarlialtce professions . t He very much addition of 1 per cent. as e returned to the principleofwould be showing hardihood muchtwh pitifulr beinga t er Mr. BAILLIE said the Clntadonfrces°ellourl: indirect e E taxation, r bs should o w n l h d i which hv have to have misunderstood his e rightcoe f s htn o hn f e. the Efrix oachnooduqn(osterity.r ap pealed. F Chancellor of the Exchequer had n gone e le i r concurred. t If the raised this sum at the existing rate of interest—gay Kelly) in w hose observations he r t e h t e mark 2 et and cent.—that would continue only so long as the — w ea ir lasted. If peace was soon made, there could be little doubt that the Three per Cents. would go up to 100, and the country would then be relieved of th e p ercentage above that rate, but which, under the present plan, it would have to pay for thirty years. Mr. WILKINSON said it appeared to him that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had made great sacrifices. considered the Chancellor of the Exchequer was justifie in taking the stock which was most in demand, and making the best bargain he could, but it was not qu'e 3 clear to him that the best bargain would not have bee a Three per Cent. Perpetual Annuities. He also thougOt it would be very difticulteto induce the country to become so virtuous as to lay by a million a year for the purpose of redeeming the annuities now proposed. Mr. JOHN 3IACGREGOR gave the Chancellor of the sat Exchequer every credit for sincerity in the conviction t hat but he his measures were of the best possible chara cter, was compelled to differ from him. He did not t hin k t 1 the present state of affairs justified a loan in the Inane er now proposed, and be objected both to the form of it ail ' 1 I to its not having been thrown open to public conipetitiot I t ! The French Government had tried this experiment e signal success, and if the Government had treat' i t the country with proper confidence they would have '' the loan on much better terms. Montesquieu had observed that the English consti ution would fail when the Hour., of Commons became more corrupt than the Government —in other words, when they were saddled with apathy and he much regretted to Rea so small an attendance whet the measures were being discussed which would injure thd real interests of the country. Posterity was not beim treated fairly, and it would say that it was not responsible for it was not represented—(laughter)—and tkatthe tax %vat saddled upon it without its consent by those who engaged its measures to which it was not a party. If ever there were measures which exhibited little practical wisdom with re spect to future events they were those of the Chancellor of th , Exchequer. If die house agreed to them the country would' not, and he would do all he could to make the country take up his opinions. He believed that Government be ' longed to the fatal number whom the gods had in their anger determined to destroy, but whom in their mercy they had first deprived of their senses to prevent them feeling their sufferings. He protested against the resolu tion, which he was afraid would be only the commence• ment of a series of loans and he must t - lso dissent from the other parts of the budget. He had consented to arrest the decline in the tea duties in the present state of affairs, but he was opposed to any increase in them. Mr. MUNTZ observed that the bon. member who had just sat down had said that posterity would object to be taxed. The question was what would posterity say if they allowed Russia to override and take p , ssession of every country in Europe, to approach their shores and de stroy their trade and commerce. (Hear, hear.) He had great objections to leans, because money easily obtained was in most cases wastefully expended ; hut this was an exceptional case, and there had never been a war in which posterity was more interested. O❑ this occasion, therefore, he was not prepared to object to a loan, but he di•_i object to the principle upon which it was contracted. He ob jected to taking a large portion in stocks which could not be disposed of until the whole was paid off, and be muss ask why was not the principle of terminable annuitio. , adopted ? Even if the present and the next generation paid something more, it would be better that the loans should have an end, as all such debts ought to have. He must also protest against the principle of contracting a loan and then asking the House of Commons to agree to it. With respect to the rest of the budget, he had many objections, especially to the paltry increase in the coffee and sugar duties, and, bad as the income-tax was, he would rather extend it than make any alteration in these taxes. In reply to a question from Mr. HILDYARD, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that the increase in the income-tax would apply to both classes of income above 1501. and below 1501. Mr. MASTERMAN, who was almost inaudible was un derstood to say that sofar from having been improvident, he was surprised that the Chancellor of the Exchequer hail obtained such favourable terms, and he therefore thought the house ought to have no hesitaticn to confirm the ar rangements as far as they went. Mr. THORNELY objected to the appropriation of a million a year to the extinction of the debt. He was per fectly satisfied with the existing arrangements for that purpose. Mr. MALINS regretted to find the war so expensive, but he approved of the plan which the Chancellor of the Ex chequer had adopted to supply the deficiency. The prin ciple which he had urged last year hail been so far adopted that a very fair compromise had been effected between the principles of direct and indirect taxation. He thought the Chancellor of the Exchequer had exercised a very wise dis creCon in coming forward at so early a period to supply the deficiency, and, if it was necessary to carry on the war for a long period, he trusted that Government would meet the extraordinary expenditure by a mixture of direct and indirect taxation and moderate loans. He had merely risen to express his gratification at the budget. The resolutions were then agreed to, and the Chairman was directed to report progress. The house resumed, and the report was ordered to be received on Monday. INTESTACY (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill was passed through committee. AFFIRMATIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill was also pawed through committee. STOPPAGE OF WAGES (HOSIERY). On the motion of Mr PACKE, the following members were appointed to inquire into the stoppage of wages in the hosiery trade, viz. :—Mr- Packe, Mr. Wickham, Mr. Cobbett, Sir Henry Halford, Mr. Cheetham, Sir Joshua Walmsley, Mr. Ingham, Lord John Manners, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Mundy, and Mr. Biggs. WOOLMER FOREST. Mr. WILSON obtained leave to bring in a bill for dis afforesting the forest of Woolmer, and the bill was subse quently brought in. THE SEBASTOPOL COMMITTEE. Mr. BENTINCK moved, pursuant to notice, that Mr. John Ball be discharged from further attendance upon the Army before Sebastopol Committee; that Capt. Scobell be added to the committee. He merely wished to state in the first place, that in bringing forward this motion he in no way meant to disparage the hon. gentleman whose name was involved in it, but it appeared to him to be per fectly impossible that an hon. gentleman who was a mem ber of the Government could look upon the committee or its report with the same impartiality as if he sat below the gangway, the place which the hon. member for Carlow occupied in the early part of the session. Besides, the house had held it of the utmost importance that the com mittee should be impartially constituted, and therefore he submitted that a committee appointed to inquire into the conduct of the Government could not be considered im partial while a member of the Government was upon it. He might be told, indeed, that the present was not the same Government as the one whose conduct w s to be in quired into ; but, in reply to that objection, he must re mind the house that there were 8 members of the present Cabinet who were members of the late Cabinet, and there fore there were 8 members of the present Government whose conduct would be involved in the report which would issue from the committee now sitting upstairs. In addition to the matter of impartiality, it was of import ance that the naval element should be introduced into the committee, and that was why he proposed to nominate the , hon. member for Bath. Mr. F. HtTME seconded the motion. Mr. ROEBUCK fully concurred with the hon. gentle man as to the propriety of discharging the hon. member for Carlow from the committee, but he thought the hou member was going somewhat beyond his province in no minatine. the member who should supply his place. It would be remembered that the nomination of a portion of the committee was lett to the Government, and amongst those whom they selected was the honourable member for Carlow, but the honourable member having been ap pointedUnder.Secretary for the Colonies, ho had become incompetent to dis large his duties—(a laugh)—as a mem ber of the committee. If hon. gentlemen ullowe l him to finish the sentence they would have been deprived of their laugh. (Hear.) As he began the committee, so he should continue to support it, and since, by arrangement, it was left to the Government to nominate a portion of the com mittee, and one of the members whom they selected was the hon. member now proposed to be discharged, he thought, ih all fairness, they ought to have the power of ' namine his successor. (Hear.) But it was said the naval element was wanting in the committee ; he did not think it was ; but the committee had, amongst other matters, to inquire into the clothing of the army, and therefore he thought a tailor might have been proposed just as well as a sa il o r. (" Oh, oh," and laughter.) Hon. members might cry " Oh, oh," but he wanted to know, if the argument was good in the one case, why should it not be equally good in the other? He wanted to know why it should be necessary to have a sailor on a committee appointed to in quire into the state of the army before Sebastopol ? How ever, he understood that the Government intended to pro pose that the hon. member for the county of Limerick should supply the place of the hon. member for Carlow ; and, in accordance with the arrangement to which he had already referred, he thought the matter ought to be left in their hands. Mr. LIDDELL asked upon what ground the Government could claim the right of appointing a member of this com mittee ? Who first called for the inquiry ? Why, the people; and Parliament, responding to the appeal of the country, consented to the appointment of this committee to investigate the conduct of those whose mismanagement had destroyed one of the noblest armies that had ever left our shores. And yet they were told that by arrangement the Government had the right to appoint a portion of the committee. He protested against such an extraordinary doctrine, an thought the house would best discharge its duty by disregarding the arrangement, if there was any, and filling up the vacancy themselves. (Hear, hear ) Mr. ROEBUCK explained that the existing committee was appointed upon an understanding with himself (no, no) and the light hon. gentleman the member for Buckingham shire, and which understanding gave the Government the right to nominate a portion of the committee. (Hear.) Lord PALMERSTON said it was the uniform practice of the house, when a committee was to be appointed to investigate matters of such deep and great importance as those which had been submitted to this committee, that the members to serve should be selected by the mover of the committee in communication with the Government of the day. Not that the Government were al ways to ap point the persons to serve on the committee, but it was only right and proper, when matters were to be investi gated in which the conduct of the Government was con cerned, that only such persons should be appointed, who, by theirimpartiality, by their competence, by their ability, were the best qualified to perform the duties and execute the task confided to them. It was in that sense, and in that sense only, that according to the established practice l i of the house the Government sled the hon. and leai ned member for Sheffielid agreed in communication with each other upon the persons who should form the committee. Those who had watched the proceedings and conduct of the committee would agree with him that the choice was well made, and . that only those members had been selected who were the best fitted to be entrusted with the difficult and delicate in• vestigation which had been confided to them. From the mo ment, however, that the hon. member for Carlow accep' led the office of Under Secretary for the Colonies, it v rag quite impossible that he could continue to be a member : of the committee. His official occupations would have i n t er f ere d w ith his attendance on the com mittee, but it was not so much that as his belonging to the Governme- at th a t disqualified him from continuing a mem ber of the committee? Now, his honourable friend the member 'lq.r Carlow was the only Irish member on the com mittee, 'While he thought it was understood when the com mittee Was appointed that it was only right and proper that thee:e should be at least one Irish member on the com mittee. Therefore he should propose that the bon. mem ber for the county of Limerick should be appointed in the st, sad of Mr. Ball, and that being the choice of the Govern ment- —a choice which the hon. and learned chairman of the. c ommittee did not object to—he should have no alter na ve but to oppose the appointment of Mr. Scobell with tl i e view of nominating Mr. De Vere on Monday. (Hear.) Mr. F. FRENCH said the inquiry was one which had I 'cell demanded by the nation, and accorded by the House ,f Commons; and it was the duty of the house to see that the inquiry was an impartial one. Now that could not be if the members were to be left to the selection of the Go nvheestmp agreedehail r vioaaT n t icatthm tn eleawelpoe e tr n aomo t hf. , oes o set r if the house refused to place a member of the i n o t n el o y n n t e lr essary, committee, which, he believed, had Mr s profession for the eischarge of Mr. Ball was then Ball. H E e N h T ai l i N ne C v lC or thenhear heard s o proposed monstrous tha C a aptai n propositionS ob Scobell h a dm : weheandala Government on otheso aug t idchn h htg e atti oci onlysro, iihe m ob, r n vent i eet i not Parliamentary ta e al he e r Ime appointmentarne amo t ewb h nen e tr a6r r ooy e fn o ( ei m : xiheepfet o e i f heeo M Tenunhcs r ee .. hon. member o hf bwv o e l he ih rip r ne a l . for Limerick, whom it proposed to put in the deliberations?ws o a m s e fi t t h t r o e e pl o a r four rru ph oe m n c o ot n uh t ne h tsr committee y an w d a s h e lo a o s k l i c ni e n d gt s h v we h i et middle gentle maniednrdtaleen os intense t s in terestmore a f h o s r e t r h d e report ha th o a f t this the o c o f m m m u i t t e t e t e h ' an h t o w n they should committee—the cho oso a c a l characters t o e f r s t h o e f r e e r ew months'ho h adno p t a h rr a l d am th e e nt a a d r v y a e n x ta p g e e many public men Depended upon it, and nothing could be m o or em th b rienoe: Mr. HENRY DRUMIZOND said it was at all times xpeclia.k .1 c;. Select coropeteutpenous t 0 bent/ in committees. The house complained, and justly too, if the enormous lengths to which the reports of selset aerunittees ran, but that arose in a great measure fi omthe ircurnstance of appointing members who were unable to I:ive their full attendance upon the committee, or who did not understand the question to be inquired into, and, - herefore, in order to make themselves masters of the sub kiet, they asked all sorts of questions, until there was no !nd to the printed evidence. Now, under these circuit'. tancee, he and his hon. and learned friend consulted with he various heads of as many parties as had heads—(a laugh)—as to the persons who might be agreeable to them, ,)r who were in their opinion the best qualified to serve on r.he committee. In that way it was arranged that a cer r,ain number should be appointed by the right hon. gentle man opposite (Mr. Disraeli), and the same thing was done with regard to the Government. Now, the gentleman who had just been superseded was one of those nominated by the Government, and the house was, in his opinion, bound by the original agreement to support the Govern ment in their nomination of his successor. Admiral WALCOTT said the observation of the hon. and learned member for Bath about `•a tailor and a sailor" was disrespectful to the profession to which he had the ho nour to belong, and expressed his opinio❑ that the country would be very ill satisfied unless some member of the naval profession were placed upon this committee. Mr. ROEBUCK said the demand for a naval member of the committee ar •se from a confusion of the offices of judge and witnesses. The committee lad exaseined, and were about to examine, naval witnesses as to the state of Bala harbour ; and upon their testimony any member of the house having common sense could form as correct a judgment as could a member of the naval profession. This committee had been forme , l upon an understanding. (No, and hear hear.) Could there be a man in the house who did not know that such a proposition as that of this committee was always made upon an understanding? He could not have carried the committee or appointed any member of it without an understanding. He went behind the Speaker's chair, and entered into correspondence with gentlemen on both sides of the house, an'l endeavoured to form a committee which should give satisfaction to the country at large. He hoped the committee had discharged its duties to the satisfaction of the house ; but that would soon be seen. He adhered to his first position, that as the member withdrawn had been notniated by the Govern ment, his place ought to be supplied by one similarly nominated. After a few words from Mr. JOHN kiACGREGOR, Captain SCOBELL said that he hoped the house would not in this matter trouble itself about his feelings, because he had no desire to be upon this committee. The noble lord (Lord Palmerston) had said it was necessary to have upon this committee men of impartiality. Did he mean to impeach his (Captain Scobell's) impartiality? No, he dared not ; he could not. He might be a little more in dependent than the noble lord liked, or he might be defi cient in ability ; but if be was appointed a member of the committee he should act as any man in the house. Lord PALMERSTON said that he should sorry that the hon. and gallant member should remain under the im pression that he had meant in the slightest degree to im peach his impartiality or his ability, or least of all his independence. He could assure his hon. and gallant friend (if be would allow him to call him so) that what he had. said had no reference to him personally, but only to the general question of the understanding which took place as to these appointments. What he meant to say was, that communications between the proposer of a com mittee and other persons were necessary iu order to ensure the selection of persons cempetent, from their imparti ality, their intelligence, and other qualifications, to inves tigate the matter referred to them. That observation applied to the general question, and not tLe least in the world to his hon. and gallant friend. (Hear, hear.) He believed that, on the score of impartiality and intelligence, his hon. and gallant friend was as well qualified as any member of the house to sit upon the committee. The ground on which he thought that Mr. De Vere was a fitter person to he chosen was that the only Irish member had been withdrawn from the committee, and he thought, con sidering how deeply Irish men and Irish matters.were con cerned iu the investigation before this committee, there ought to be at. least one Irish member belonging to it. Mr. MUNTZ said that if, as some hon. members seemed to insist, the Government was to have the fillingnp of this vacancy in the committee, they ought to do it without re ference to the house, and without asking members to stul tify themselves by voting for a gentleman of whom they knew nothing. because the Government recommended him. Mr. MAGUIRE said it would be unfair to the country that the Government should be allowed, with the con nivance of any party, to pack this committee. He was ready to waive his nationality and vote for the hon. and gallant member for Bath. In reply to the question of the hon. and learned member for Sheffield (Mr. Roebuck) as to whether this committee had discharged its duties with satisfaction to the public, he expressed his opinion that the committee dealt with the matter with too much deli cacy, and that the country would not be satisfied without an inqairy into the conduct of Lord Raglan. He would gladly support the motion for the nomination of Captain Scobell. Mr. BENTINCK contended against the doctrine that when a committee was formed the Government should be consulted on its constitution, and he especially objected to such a form of nomination in the present case. The house then divided — For the nomination of Captain Scobell 6B Against it Majority —l3 The motion for the nomination of Mr. De Vera was post poned to Monday. The house adjourned at 11 o'clock to Monday. HE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 2G. The Queen has been graciously pleased. to appoint James H. Skene, Esq., now Thais!) Vice-Consul at Constanti nople, to be her Majesty's Consul at A. , eppo. FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 9. The Queen — has been graciously pleased to appoint Ar nold Burrowes Kern hall, Esq., C,lptain in the Service of the Honourable East India Company, to be her Majesty's Consul-General at Baghdad. BOARD OF TRADE. WHITEHALL, APRIL 19. The Right Hon. the T ords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Buenos Ayres, enclosing copy of a decree of the Buenos kyria❑ Government compelling foreign vessels to obtain the Visa of the Buenos Ayrian Consul at their .port of clearance. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, APRIL 19. The Righb Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantatims have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de spatch from her Majesty's Consul at Palermo, reporting that the Board of Hcalth of that port had given free pra tique to vessels from the United Kingdom. [This article is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of 13th April instant.] COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. Aberdeenshire Royal Regiment of Militia Sergeant Alexander Hutcheon to be Quartermaster, Feb. 26. ';0 nmissio NS SICINED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS. Royal Glamorgan Artillery Militia—George 'fravis Rad cliffe, Esq. to be Captain ; Richard Ilbert Phillips, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Josiah Price, Gent., to be Lieutenant, April 16. Dumfries, Roxburgh, and Selkirksbire Militia—Maillard Noake, Esq., to be Ensign, vice Scott, retired, April 12. Stirlingshire, &c., or 90th Regiment of Militia - Alex. Orr, Gent., to be ssistant-Surgeon. Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia — Arthur Burton, Gent., to be Ensign, April 11. Ist Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia. -- Ensign James Stewart promoted to be Lieutenant, vice Lieutenant Kensington Lowther, retired, April 13. 2d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia.—Frederick Rhodes Hazell, Gent., to be Ensign, April 11. 3d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia. Francis Binney, Gent., to be Ensign, April 14. Id Royal Lanarkshire Militia—Robert Harrington, Esq., to be Major ; Cyrus Plaistow Trapand, Esq., to be Cap tain, March 12 ; George Augustus Alston, Esq., to be Captain. March 13 ; Thomas Donald, Esq., to be Captain, March 14; Augustus Frederick Lindley, Esq., to be Cap tain, vice Pearson, resigned, March 15 ; John Rowand, Gent., to be Lieutenant, March 13; James Begg, Gent., to be Ensign, April 12 ; Andrew Smith, Gent., to be En sign, April 13. Haddington, Berwick, Linlithgow, and Peebleshires Militia Artillery.—James Grant Stittie, Gent., younger, to be Captain, vice Park, resigned, April 1 .. sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Mid dlesex' Militia.—Ensign George Lane to be Lieutenant, vice Ben bow, appointed to 48th Regiment, Apr l 12. Eastern Regiment of Saffolk Militia Artillery Corps.— William Leathes, Gent., to be First Lieuteuaut, vice Dakins, promoted, April 17 ; Thomas Moore McLercth, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, April 17 ; John Mea dows Theobald, Geut., to be Second Lieutenant, April 18. Lancashire Hussars—Francis Arthur Farrell, Gent., to be Lieutenant, April 14. [The following appoi .tment is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the 6th April instant.] 7th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Brevet- Major Henry Hawker Arnaud, late Captain 34th Regi ment of Beugal Native Infantry, to be Captain, April 4. [The following Appointment is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the 17th April instant.] Ross, Caithness, Sutherland, and Crowarty Regiment of Rifle Militia—Ensign William Houstoun to be Lieute nant, vice J. G. E. Cameron, resigned, Aprill6. [The following appointment is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the 17th April instant.] Aberdeenshireßoyalßegirnent of Militia—Thomas Lanes, Esq., to be Captain, Feb. 27. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Henry Phillips, corn dealer, Bethnal Green-road. BANKRUPTS. George Jessop, builder, Cliftonville Hove, Sussex, to surrender, May 4, at twelve, and June 1, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Canaan, official assignee, Aldermanbary ; Sowton, Great James-street, Bedford-row, London ; Kennett, Brighton. Joseph Brooks, wheelwright, Bocking, Essex, April 28, at half-past eleven, and June 16, at ono, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-cham bers ; Taylor, John-street, Bedford-row. William Fitch, stationer, Old Fish-street-hill, May S at eleven, and May 29, at hal&past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Brisley, Pancras lane, Cheapside. William Gittus, draper, Isleham, Cambridgeshire, May 2, at two, and May 29, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Sole, Turner, and Turner, Aldermanbury ; Miller, Son, and Bugg, Norwich. Richard John Orgles, victualler, Shoreditch, April 27, and July 1, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit more, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Symes, Tees dale, and Sandilands, Fenchurch-street. George Greenfield, builder, Upper Holloway, May 1, at half past two, and May 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Basinghail-street; Sea man, Pancras-lane, Cheapside. George Hargrave Morgan, builder, Hereford, May 4 and 26, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whit more, official assignee, Birmingham ; Gwillim, Hereford ; Suckling, Birmingham. William Morgan, potato dealer, Bristol, May 1, and 29, at cloven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; Harris, Bristol. William Partridge the elder, builder, Birmingham, May 2, and 23, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Reece, Birmingham. Joseph Prescott, tcadealer, Liverpool, May 3, and 2 t, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Loundes, Robinson, and Bateson, Liverpool. Ed ward Lawrence Kyle, licensed victualler, Reading, May 2, at one, and June 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Nichols and Clarke, Lincoln's-inn ; Smith, Reading. James Stevenson, provision dealer, Liverpool, May 3 and 24, at eleven, at the Liverpool. District Court. Bird, Official assignee, Liverpool ; Evans and Sons, Liverpool. Edwin Adolphus Lock, draper, Curry Rivell, Somerset shire, 2d and 31st May, at one, at the Exeter District Court.' Hirtzell, official assignee, Exeter ; Slade and Vining, Yeovil ; Terrell, Exeter. Louisa Browott, innkeeper, Bradford, April 30, at eleven, anu June 4, at half-past twelve, at the Leeds Dis trict Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Blackburn, Leeds. James Woolley, coach builder, _Manchester, May 4 and 24, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Herna man, official assignee, Manchester; Cobbett and Wheeler, Manchester. David Norbury, butcher, Alderley, Cheshire, April 30 and May 23, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Hardman, Manchester. George Hawke, dealer in hardware, Pulruan (and not Pobruan, as advertised in last , Tuesday's Gazette), Corn wall, April 26 and May 31, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Elworthy, Ply mouth. - Frederick William Lister, jewel case manufacturer, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, and Southamp ton-row, Russell-square, April 27, at half-past twelve, and June 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Baainghall-street ; Levenson, Saint Helen's-place. John Moseley, saddler, Macclesfield, May 3 and 24, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester ; Taylor, Manchester. Thomas Holder, silk throwster, Macclesfield, May 4 and 24, at twelve, at the Manchester district Court. Horns mann, official assignee, Manchester; Parroutt, Colville, and May, Macclesfield. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. John Orr, Johnstone, grocer, Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley, April 30. Joseph Rich, Edinburgh, tobacconist, Lyon's Rooms, May 1. Malcolm M`Call, Oban, hotel-ke9per, MTherson's Hotel, Dunoon, May 3. BANK OF An Account pursuant to the Act the Week ending on Satur iINGLAND. 'th and Bth Victoria, cap X 2, for ,y the 14th day of April, 1855. LaTMENT. ISSUE DEP. Notes issue' •..... 28,351,365 Government debt .... 11,015,100 Other securities ... 2,954,00 r Gold coin and bullion 14,351,365 Silver bu11i0n........ - £28.351,365 £24,351,365 :. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated tha 19th day of April, 18 BASKING DE: X Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Rest _ , .. .. 3,123,446 Public deposits (in- ;PAETICENT. Government securities (includg.Dead Weight Annuity) 13,673,713 Other securities...... 13,266,068 Notes • • .......... 7,91.7.535 Gold and silver coin .. 671,287 eluding txchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 2,720,640 Other deposits ..... . 14,233,796 Seven Day t.nd other Bills •.••.• • • • •• . 947,721 £35,578,603 £35,578,603 XARSIIALL, Chief Dated the 19th day of April, 1 PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar coo. puted from the returns made in the week ending the 170 April, 1855. is 21s 3id per hundredweight exclusive 01 the duties of Customs plid or payable thereon on the im on thereof into Greatßritain. 13 9 .' DIY PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—APRIL 20. ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL COMMITTEE. Mr. John Ball discharged from further attendance on the. Committee. Mot:on made, and question put, " That C .pt. Seobell be added to the said Committee." - The ho .so divided ; Ayes 68, Noes SI. , AYES-6s. Anderson, Sir J. Butte, Alex. Falk, L. Bailey, C. II tsti., Archd. Percy, J. Baird, J. Hawkins, W. Minn, T. Baxter, W. Ilityard, R. C. Price, W. Bell, J. Hil , Lord 1. E. R chari-on, J. Ilke{burn, P. Ilutne, W. Budiout, Col. G. Brady, J. Irton, S. Scott, F. Butt, G. Jolliffe, Sir W. Smijth, Sir W. Cecil, Lord H. Kendall. N. Smith, Abel Cob 'old, J. C. Lacon Sir E. Stanhope, J. CLOW. W. Laffan, ki.,...t . A. Stuart, W. Duke, Sir J. Lang ton, 11. 0. Talbot, C. Duncan, G. Macgregor, Jas. Taylor, Col. Dunlop, A. Macgregor, John Thornhill, W. Egerton, it. C. Maguire, J. Vance, J. Ewart, W. IM-dins. It. Walcott, Admiral Fellowo, E. Mandevllle,'Yis. Williams, W. French, F. Michell, W. Willoughby, Sir H. Frewen, C. Morris, D. Woodd, R. Graham, Lord W. Mowbray, J. Wyndham, H. Greene, John 3lunly, W. Gregson, S. limits, G. TELLERS Gwyn, 11. Murrough, J. Dcmtinek, G. Hadfield, G. Pakenham, T. H. Liddell, 11. O. NOES-81. Acton, J Goodman, Sir G. Pilicington,J. Atherton, W. Hanmer, Sir J. P/ Ilard-Urquhart, W, Ball, J. Lienehy, D Power, N. Baring, H. Herbert, H. Ramsden, Sir J. Barnes. T He wood, J. hicardo, 0. Bass, T. Heyworth, L. Ricardo, S Beaumont, W. HigAns, G. 0. Roebuck, J. Bethell, Sir R. Ingham, R. Russell, F. W. Bland, C. FI. Keating, R. - Scholefleld, W. Bonham-Carter, j Keogh. W. Sc. xnour, H. Brotherton, J. Kinnaird. A. r• eymour, W. D. Campbell, Sir A. Kirk, NV, Somerville, Sir W. t: he, thorn, J. Lewis, Sir G. C. Steel, J. Jollier, R. P. Mangles. R. 1). Tancred, H. Co vine, C. R. Marjoribanks, D. Thompson, G. Craufurd, E. 11. J. Milligan, R. Thornely, T. Crossley, F. Moffatt, G. Vane, Lord H. Dent, J Mon erelff, J. Walmsley, Sir 3. Drummond, H.j Monsell, W. NV,Ason, W. Dunne, H. No. thcote, Sir S. Whatman, J. Elliot, J. O'Flaherty, A. Wickham, H. W. Esmonde, J. O•borne, R. Wilkinson, W. rergUSoll, Sir It. Palmerston, Visct. Willcox, B. Fitz Gerald, Sir J. Patten, J. Wilson, J Fitz Gerald, J. Paxton, Sir J. Wyvill, M. • Fox, W. Philipps, J. TELLEILS Gladstone, W. Phillimore, J. G. Hayter, W. Goderich, Vis. Pigott, F. Berkeley, G. THE N.EW LOAN. The value of £1 annuity, payable half-yearly for 30 years, at 4 per cent. compound interest, is 17.38. The annuity at this price pays 5.753 per cent. during the 30 years, consequently the income tax is charged on 5.753 instead of £4, which is the real income, the difference of 1.753 per annum being the amount which should be put aside and improved to redeem the principal.* Therefore deducting •01777, the proportion of tax over-charged, £1 per annum becomes an an nuity of £.98223, the value of which is 17'07. And the value of 14s. 6d. per annum is £l2 7 6 Add 3 per cent. interest on the instalments fro - n .4th April to the several periods of pay ment 0 18 3 Xl3 5 9 And the price at which Government has sup plied the contractors with £lOO Consols £lOO 0 0 • £1.753, improved half-yearly at 4 per cent. compound interest, will at the end of 30 years amount to £lOO. THOMAS FENN, 34, Cornhill. lADVERTISEMENT.I—Many thousand cures have been effected without medicine, by Du Barry's Delicious Rove lenta Arabica Food, of indigestion (.1 v.,pepsia), constipation nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, paralysis, &c. We quote a few :—Cure No. 52,612.—Fr0m the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart.—" Resstrever, Coanty of Down, Ireland, 9th December, 1854.—The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart feels induced, in the interest of suffering hu manity, to state that Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Ara- Hem Food has cured her, after all medicines had failed, of indigestion, bile, great nervousness and irritabil it y o f many years' standing. This Food deserves the confidence of all sufferers, and may be considered a real blessing. Inquiries will be cheerfully answered." Cure No. 7 . Of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the lord Stuart de Decies.—'' I have derived considerable benefit from Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines.—Stuart de Decies." Cure No. 32,836.—Fr0m the Venerable Archdeacon of Rcss.- " Three ye.,rs exces sive nervousness, with painsin my neck and left arm, and ge neral debility, which rendered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health-restoring Food. —Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibereen." Cure No. 4,208.—" Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility with cramps, spasms and nausea, have been eflec tually removed by Du Barry's delicious Food in a very short time.—Rev. Jobn W. Flaxen, B,idlington Rectory, Norfolk." Cure No. 51,416.—" Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, consti pation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach and vu mitings, have been reniGgecl by Du Barry's excellent Fond. —Maria Jolly, Northam, Ling, near Diss, Norfolk." CM* No. 3,906. —Thirteen years' cough, indigestion, and gene ral debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food.—James Potter, Athol-street, Perth."—ln canis ters, suitably packed for all climates, and with full instruc tions-11b., 2s. 91; 21b., 4s. 6d. ; 51b. ;121b., 225. s uper-refined, 11b., 6s. ; 21b., lls. ; 511;. , 225. ; 101. b., 335. The 101 b. and 121 b., car r i age free, on office order. Barry du B arr y an d 7, Regent street,receipt of post London; Fortnum, MCo., Mason, and C0.,d0. p u r veyors o her Majesty, 182, Picc a dill y ; a l so a t 68, Cornball ; 00 Gracochurch-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 63 and 150 , - Oxford-street ; 55, Charing- cross 4, Cheapside 25,1ta 54, 131,p4rBakerltreat. r()r • ATTI, , y 4/1 RE F;TS -- .4. --- , LIVERPOOL - APRIL 20. w is 011 1 1 Though the attendance of millers and i tO dealers t tooh moderate, more attention was accords he0;061 o a tmeal, and Indian corn; and when any change ,tot ill prices it was in favou r of holders. The c hier al ga pe was 6,1 to is per qr. advanco on Indian corn Iltrifiart load on oatmeal. Egyptian beans are In 0r 0 so ti gola i aud have recovered a portion of the decline in s > , since Tuesday. ' • N. WAKEFIELD- Artat re., I,—. Wheat a fait demand, and la st Friday PO" Balen twined, recovering the depressio n of that daps,: ,0,0 steady sale at laseweek's prices. In an hug uo material change. EXETER—APRIL u otedjo., (ll COB.N.—In our market wheat tna y be q , ru 0 g to 9s Od. Malan.' barley, 3s 9 ,1 to 4s 041_ 2 ' grint7 ,od Od to Os O. ' Oats, 3s 3d to Ss 6d. Beaus, Od. Peas, 011 s Ud to 60s Od. Ags Od FLOUR. FLOUR. —Fine, hOs Od to 51 s Od ; seco nds, -- Od per sack. (I. l '' CATTLE.—Prime beef, 10s0d per score ; co ws : 3l- 0A 121. to 141. ; butchers' calves, 5d to t , d Per, l ;bs IP, : ' 0 2 , 5 1 s p t e o r 3 lh os . ; S s t n o la re ll, h( oo )gs ; tlaorigoess.ize, calves 00s to 00s each. Sheep, sid to 01. ." ' 1 Rough fa t, " Pork carcases from 8s Od to 8s 9d per score. ',Os to 60s 0 ., 24d iiji: --- INVERNESS. —APRIL 17. 64, 10: 4 CORN.—Wheat, white, per qr., 642 Od to 6 65 '0OP" ley, tO chevalier, a,, 2 ,., 9 7 5 s Od oa to to '3 2 o B s s 0 0 d , I ;. ditto, coal oa ; 28s Od . t- 9 ME AL.—Oatmeal, per imp. boll 22S 6d to to second, 00s Od to Os Od ; barley t 165 16 5 8( ,, 10_,P to peasemeal, 17s 6d to Os Od ; bran, per ston v" 460 Uunl Ist flour, per 2801 b, 50s Od to stis of ; 2d ditto , oi l Od ; oatmeal, best, per st. of 1 41 b e ol l o li ji to Os Od ; ditto second, Os Od to Os Od ; 30V 4 T to 00s Od. ; peasemeal, is 10d to Os ; Ist , lo w ' 3s 6d credit ;, 2d ditto, 2s 6d cash , 2s 9d credit. --- 20 Of BRISTOL SUGAR —I-PRO - _....4 111 V There bag been little or nothirc, doing this ri'podllA West India. A good demand foNauritito, sn o t , :r i some amount have changed hands at the curi e , lot . day se'nnight. Refined goods met with a stew • are quite as dear. _....................." ___------ 1101•••••=_.._, ___---- , COAL MA EtK.ET.—Arien. 20 • O: • ~, w Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the PI a lisenfit °!.. 10 . ~, Davison's West Hartley ;a dolLamhton r.-- -° ''"-s 4s - ...:„ir 00- ... i l i North Percy Hartley lti 6 Braddyll ............. ,;. $ Taufieldrancd Moor Butes 1 8 6 0 Fllleatintownell..g.a..! : ...... •. .. .... 1" Walker Primrose l5 6 Haswell ................ :: .4 .1 5 „ 1 , r It Main 16 0 Liluibton ............... .. 11 , I Wylam .... 1 0 g 16 6 Plummer ... .... , „;..•'0 Russel's fletto ' '. ~; . • i s $ Wallsend. & c. f South nettoll.•••'. .. s ...';f Bell and Brown l6 9' Stewart's ..... • ...... . ~.1 0 Gosforth . 16 01 Bough Hall —•• . ... ~,,,. 1 Barton - ° $ 16 0, Kelloe .. ...... ! . ,4,,.. , •• 0 Heaton Hebburn l6 o,Soutb Kelloe ..... , ...... . Hilda 15 6 Tees ......... . . ; ;: f gep i Killingsworth E. l6 61Derwentwater Piw- Eden Main l' v•vg O P 0 COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—. ! '!;,/li ' Ti s i t t e to rd"m —ll 19 Gibraltar .• •''' ..... 0' Rotterdam three months .. 12 Ligyorn ..••••.:„..:'. ' 1 ............12 : Genoa ........ ...; . ~, 25 50 Brussels ....•• ........ 25 tO 7rtilan • .• • • • Venice • • • • ... ..• - e 3 • .... .~ ~•• ;,• , larriburgh .......... NaPie- .• Palermo • • , - -gsina •• • Ditto, three months .. 25 52 MarseiLes ............. 25 55 Bourdeaux . F. ankfort•on-Maine .... 119% Berlin • • •••••• • • • • • • Vienna .......... • • .... 12 40 Trieste 12 44 Petersburg ............ 35% Madrid ............... 49M 10 Cadiz ........ • • Barcelona •• •• .• • • •• •• .live Messi. Lisbon • • •• ; Oporto • • " Rio J a neiro.' ' ,/ Buenos MI ) d)e 0 O f N o w York, G Philadelphia • ratcss or n rai lioro r o 1 1 ' 0 I Foreign a °l( i ' d coin ` A Tortuga ] G 0 100 0 1, ytexicanbliooarst Seville.• •• •• •• •• •• •• SBABURNE 0408' o!"'' (N signifies that tke malls are sent froinitch by the night—and Mby the morning di -....-- . (N signifies that tke malls are sent MO !!.`,7) ../ • w -. 15 by the night-and Mby the morning -4°sPa . w i S. , sl i s i irrorA _, Day syn.,' Indic "' rof"1, A COUNTRIES. in General post; Dom!) SAO America(byßrit.pack)23 Every Friday jr- Americf..kby United Sts. • 1.10 1 P " . ,,,H • packet) ..........N America (by U. States jualwl• 801 10 $l, packet) .... ' ' •• • • • • .'• ~toi ~ Australia (via South-, .. soutlA rer , ..i t , ampton) „ ~m 1 ...•..••• . Doe r „. . 1., rLi.......d0nady0.n... ..............Liverpoojl ~...1 jr- Ditto (via Marseilles) NI ...... - • • Ditto (via Cape of tioedi, Hope) ...... ......171 .. orb ""..".11 ifllo° ..... " . Africa (West Coast) ..14,23c1 of the rnont .• , nai g. •• 0 ~ ... Alexandria .... N ti, 9, '24, &30of " • :,:; it tifs . ..n i „ P loe• yllt, Alexandria- „.,m,4th & 20th of mo'',' '' . ; it tlia."' .• r i ' i i Bahamas ...........M 17th of the moots ij o ver •• • P ,'On tl p., P Belgium ...... _.. „N•10ai1y.......• •• • . s u atiO °l l .s ,'' , Brazil ..............Ml 9 th of the month ~ ~ ,00 1 , 01 1 iv , • Buenos Ayres ...... ~Bll9th of the month • . 701011,P° :ape of Good Hope .. N 1 o°o of i Cape of Good Hope ../.71 0 00tijA° Jape de Verde ......N l , 9th of the mon th . 17eylon (see India) i too l °. ..,, t aiP Ceylon .............. N I m ot , - ,p Or , kttil ohannel Isles. ... N , Von.,Wed.,&Fri 4 :l4.Bet" - - „NAIL.- •• •• ........ M 12(14.17th ,e m oli'' '- China ... . ,Once a month.. . ~,, t ••' to o l i .onstantinople .... .. , ; 8.13,, 8,33,..5s et . .. 11.', 6 , 1 ,01P -I Constantinople ........ 4th 20th of MOI'. $ 011 ',, - , •• ' ' l .O l, • amt. of Europe PS &N, Twice daily ...... DO - . AP Egypt (see India) „ .o n , Ar , France ........ DI st N.Twice daily .....• D° T . - t ,:r119 1. ' 1 t ill . • libraltar .. .... Al 4,7, 17, 20, 27 oral Sou." ~ AP Treece (see India) 1 $.1 ,00 , .., 1 . ireytown .......... M 2nd & 17th of mon.,tiou' do n ... ': 04f., ismburgil •• • • .. .. N , Tuesday & FridaylLo n , „ a pe' 40 .1 Savannah .. ~ .. , *);Ar lolland ............ Al •I)aily ~.., • • ..... • 11)4 1,04; )r ionduras ........ .. 111 1 17th of the month.isolly_ lit h • , . 1 •ndia(vlaSouthampt.)il 4th). 20th of r 0in0.',P1P 1 ' 1 ....• . : 1 , 4; talla (via Marseilles) M,9th&2•sth a month P0vve........ p, lonian Isles (see India)l7, 17, &21 of mov Do i 7, 00 ,(1 ;;,?U'', Ireland ....... -id & N;Twice dally .. • . • • a 11 u . 3 0 ,00P t , (0 4 i 1.i5b0n.............. Ad 1,9, 17, 27 or In •!f, ° o L ths oll° • . Madeira ............m l 9th of the month .0- . .„. 0 01.• , ,ii • Madeira tialta (see India) ... •i a son nf rrion.k l )° lar I ..I1 China lonstantinople Clenstantinople ........ • iont. of Europe & N Egypt (see India) Franco at Twice daily.... • • • llbraltar 7,17, 20, 27 dm •Irecce (see India) iroytown .......... b 7 2nd & 17th of mon. 'lamburgil • • • • N ITuesday & Friday Savannah .. :rl!2nd of the montl. loiland .......... Daily ••.• • • • • ionduras of the month. ;ndia (vlaSouthampt.)lll 4tii Ft. 20th of en/ nclia (via Marseilles)sl,9th&2sth of month , ;ontan isles (see India)l7, 17, &27 of mots if Ireland & N '.rwice daily .. • • • • I,isbon .............. 9, 17, a. 27 or In • tiadeira • • • • •• •• 9th of the Mont h. ', Madeira ............ N 23d 0. month ••• • , Malta (see India) i ;Leta ; , 4 8, 18. &28 of mon. Mauritius (see India) Mauritius ..........N 114th of the month , Mexico .M ,s2thiulusetfht2hsetimioorrnl.to%lt..!l,SO4.iri.oo,,p•iroti,, ' iew Granada ...... '2d & 17th of montl f3ou ric o ..; New Zealand .......... !1.1 private skip • • 1/ 4 , r .•°,Ol Papal States th2stlionnon.. l.4 .l,o l) co' Peninsula . Peru 3 117th 17 th27thofmon. it 77th 0. mon.'„ 7 .:"• o iriot isr -- Pert Natal N :By private ship• • • ..or •.'' Sicily ..............y.sthl.ith2hthoinion, rmyye Tuscany ............/Othl s th 2stholinol).l" o oo Venezuela L7th of month' I Van Diemen'sLand (see ' V"! Australia) . , . West Indies .... 8112 ., .7th 0 month ../ ril ___-- )t • t I noo / [ADVERTISEMENTI—HoIIoway's 0111 h od extraordinary remedies for the cure of re si 0 tract of a letter from Mr. John Anthool.!To okil Llandovery, dated March 16, 185° ' With 0 t p?; ofioto Holloway, sir, I suffered for 10 yeah l i d e ° t oll apparently a white swelimg, whieb call' v ~fr!, f my bed for two years; from an ivie h r n ies7, l 4 o formed into a w-und, arid 16 pieces of "-- I I 'o l l out, I tried several medical men, be tb° ' th frd 09 .1.1 , to oi e 4 ply cure my leg, I am, however, happy ointment and pills eff!ctually healed th e W e i ig i 'pf one month."- —Sold by all medicine veutro"do fessor Holloway's e•tal,liqhm-ents, 244) ''' and 80, Maiden-lane, New York. BIRT 11 8. ; 111 OF A SON. o, 038 1 : 10 / On the 19th inst., at 13, Lowndes -scluf4 .A.O l 'fr Egorton. 0 3,- . f .. 1 On the 18th inst., at Folkestone , the Ooz lary Durbin, R.N., of H.M.S. Curacoa. On the 18th inst., at the P ar sonage , shire, the wife of the Rev. W. H. 1 5 - ' fl o e' 0 , 1 On the 18th inst., at All Saints' Pa rs°- ster, the wife of the Rev. J. G. Brine Al e A tt li A ,r On the P-Ith inst., Mrs. Vincent Irsrl"oo,,9Or' On the 19th inst., at 2, Sussex Co t raAP "1 0 De Bauvoir-square, the wife of HenrYl',l r , of 111, Bishopsgate•street within, solieib° - On the 19th inst., at B A li D t A hfi lj e l l a d T , ° t1 14 1; Ver t On the 19th inst. at Fairies Cottage, 0 1 , lady of Roscow Colo Shedden, Egrl- t o° On the 20th inst., at 29, Gordow s tree ' Mrs. C. Mitchell Charles. 1 ‘ ______ 0 I ' • MARRIED. 001:00,1_, On the 19th inst., at H a rrow- 00-ti l o cerk Stephen, Esq., of the Inner Temple, b arn bee, ' son of the Right Hou. Sir James St f e rvir. , Mary Richen ta, daughter of the Rey. ''' r e vicar of Harrow-on-the-Hill. ,„ r obt, On the 19th inst., at St. John's tir„,3, „'; the Rev. Edmund Hall, rector of hiers'ijor/f therine Mary, only surviving child t)'' Esq., of Fotherby, Lincolnshire. ; 0 1 4; , On the 17th inst., at Ampney Crile-e,, of - ' Rev. Frederic Bailey, D.D., Preside" q 4 lege, to Margaret, second daughter of the . heny, vicar of Arnpney Crucis. bof i On the 19th inst., at. the parish clier e r d r Priors, Warwickshire, John Francis ! V ir a l :o4o> i° ' son of the Very Rev, the Dean of Li, ti „;o u , • Elizabeth, second daughter of CeP`' ,0,, 1 R.N. THE ILLIIMINATION.—Messrs. Robe.t Cocks and C, music publishers to her Majesty the Queen, and to hi , 4 Imperial Majesty Napoleon 111. A. brilliant etar with V. R. in the cewre, and a similar one with the initial N. in cypher, all in gas. DARING GAROTTE ASSATTLT AND ROBBERY.—A mo=t daring garotte assault and robbery was perpetrate in HutChesontown on the night of Monday. About nine o'clock a respectable woman,. named Maenzie, was peoceeding home up Hospital-street, carrying with h-r some provisioning, when, opposite to close 52, she was suddenly clutched by some perscns who stood inside, and who proved to be three men, and, she thinks, a female. They drsgg-d her into the close, put a piece of square cork into her mouth, and as soon as she clenched the cork in her teeth, and closed her lips on it, one of the assailants pressed his hand on her mouth, Ike others fixed her bands together by means of a piece of white tape, and in this state she was snatched up and placed flat on her face on the ground, and before she could get up and give an alarm the robbers were off, having carried with them two bundles she had with her, one containing flour and the other oatmeal, the ring from off her finger, and one shilling in money, whieh she had placed between her open hand-and a glove, to b get at which, along with the ring, it was necessary to :•.„ poll eff the•glove.- 'Another woman had . seen three sits, f..:Otri)ote :'rrinted and P 1164 b*- pipiouslooking men Iprking Abetit. jhe a...sh6rt Nn. 112, Strand . ; P!in'itero'-,arW o ;,.': io tithe previous to the robbery, which isdiel by : the-No . 66)mi- , Strand, in the Preeinist of tlici to have been most rapidly ajad dezteroully accomplishe d, Riadlesex, Saturloy, A.Pril 21116 I I I DIED 100 . l ', ° I On the 19th inst., at Great Warlerr ~,," 44, 0 / Pinson Bonham, aged 93. 10 14 '' AO O On the 16th inst., at Paris, Edward ~.,- 1 aged 56. T A t -C°l‘ 4 . yjc l / 1 On the oth Feb ,at Moulmein, '.--- eli . 9r P O I , H.M.'s .4111 R gt. a . gent! ' 9 I , ' On the 23d ult., in the barracks at - OW 1) Pitcairn Campbell, 231 Welsh Fusiliers, f . tlie ' 0 4 Quartermaster. General, youngest 0° 0 fp i Campbell. rector of Liverpool. qc t r t o i ' O a ffi A t i On the 4th inst., at the Hospital, :0 8: , a o ttir J Ludlow, F 11.0 S , of Qharterhouse-scli.ti-J, ...Pei , .tf Son of Mr. Lwllow, of Christ's 14 04 11 - 00 J . ..0 1, late one of the surgeons of the MetroPcul 8 0 .1 ,/ aged 29. ' ' , i Th e , On the 14th inst., Mr. Henry Bro/ 11 ' ° . 1 67. virol l, 4/ On the 17th inst., at Compton, near hiefl/4 Win. Fleerning, Esq.,. aged 83. fie . " On the 19th inst. ; at Clarence Villa, t ore • ~ ~, John's-wood, Alfred Daniell, Esq., a 4 ' -2, . aged 71. • - ~'-,',4 / 11 //