The Sun. — London, England, 1849-03-07 00:00:00

THAMES TUNNEL COMPANY. The annual meeting of the Thames Tunnel Company was held yssterd y, at Dudley's Hotel, Bridge-street; Mr. Hawf 3, jun., in the chair. The statement of accounts repreient , d that the re ceipts oF the past year amount( d lo 5,4931., and the ex penditure 04,951/. is., leaving 541/. 19s. in hand. The amount paid to Government for the same period way 8491. 2s. 81, being 5331. is. 4d. more than was paid last year. The accounts were agreed to, and the meeting termi nated with the customary vote of thanks to the Chairman. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1548. • Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*3lO Diseases of Uncertain Scat ... •.• 42 Turbercular Diseases... ••• ••• 174 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... 134 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 46 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... 204 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... • Diseases of the Kidnejs, &c. • Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, 8 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 8 Diseases of the Skin, &e. ••• ••• 9 Malformations... ... 5 Premature Birth ... ••• Atrophy ..• •.• ••• ••• ••• ••• 20 Old Age Sudden Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance „, 35 Causes not specified ... „, 2 DEATHS FRO3I ALL CAUSES ... . Population Average weekly Deaths Enumerated, Deaths, 1844-8. in tha 1841 Five Winters. Week. West Districts... 300,711 . . 170 „. 181 . North Districts.. 375,971 .. 218 ... 179 Central Distr:zts 373,653 ... 211 ... 195 • East Districts ... 392,444 ... 252 ... 298 South Districts .. 501,190 ... 319 ... 285 ..... 1,948,369 Alalea ... ... Females ... ". 1,169 _. 1,138 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males ... Females ... 788 759 Total ... 1,547 *ln this number are included 35 cases of death by Cholera, 57 by Scarlltina, and 44 by Typhus Fever. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. ADMIRALTY, MARCH 3, 1349. The following promotions have this day taken place, consf Tient upon the death of Vice-Admiral Charles B. 11. Ross, C.B.:— . Vice-Admiral of the Blue the Hon. George Elliot C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral of the White. Rear-Admiral of the Red Archibald Duff, to be Vice- Admiral of the Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White Sir William Augustus Montagu, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red. Rear-Admiral of the Blue Charles Juhn Austin, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain Sir Andrew Pellet Green, K.C.11., to be Rear , Admiral of the Blue. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Kent. Sir Edmund Filmer, Bart., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Feb. 21. _ . v v Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Cheshire. - The Earl of Chester's Regiment of Yeomany Ca•- valry—John Coutts Antrobus, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Pearson, resigned, Feb. 5. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ayrshire. Ayrshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Lord Ni f ., , 01 Kennedy to be Cornet, vice Archibald Culling • hame, promoted. F••b. 27. WHITEHALL, MARCH 6. The Queen has been pleased to grant unto Elugh Henry kise, Esq., a Lieutenant. Colonel in the Army, and Compa•iion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, her Majesty's Consul-General in Syria, her royal license and permission, that he may accept and wear the Cross of the Prus.ian Order of St. John of Jerusalem, which his Majesty the King of Prus,ia hath been pleased to confer upon him, in .approbation of the services rendered by that officer in the course of the campaign in Syria, in the year 1841, and par ticularly for his distinguished conduct in the en gagement which took place near Mejdel on the 15th day of January in that year : provided, nevertheless, that this license and permission doth not authorize the assumption of any style, appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege, appertaining unto a Knight Bachelor of these realms; and also to command, that this her Majesty's concession and especial mark of her Royal favour be registered, together with the relative documents, in the College of Arms. l'E HALL, FEB. 22. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Hunt ThursfiAd, of Wednesbury, in the county of Stafford, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, MARCH 1. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Edward Colvill Husb Ind, of Rhyl, in the county of Flint, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the high Court oi Chancery. BANKRUPTS. John Henry Stulpner and Deidrich Carsten Ilt•rman Lower, merchants, Mark-lane, City, to surrender, March 14, at halt-past eleven, and April 17, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street; R. and W. G. Roy, Lothbury. John Highman White, grocer, Shaftesbury, March 14, at half-past twelve, and April 17, at half- past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane; Tilson, and Co., Coleman-street; Wills and Co., Shaftesbury. George Henry Beadle, builder, Sydenham, March 12, at two, and April 23, at halt-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, off Hal assignee, Guildhall chambers; Trail, Hare-court, Temple. 'James Lawrie, milliner, Newington-causeway, March 14, at eleven, and April 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Moorgate-street; Sheard, Old Jewry. George Henry Lovegrove, auctioneer. West Ham, Essex, March 17, at half-past one, and April 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street; Wilde, Union -court, Old Broad-street. Mary Garrad and Ebenezr King, milliners, Colches ter, Essex, March 15, at half-past one, and April 17, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Carman, officicl assignee, Bit-chin-lane, Cornhill ; Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Friday-street, Cheapside ; Philbrick and Co., Colchester. Thomas Tipson, factor, Birmingham, March 20 and April 17, at ten, at tho Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Bartlett, Bir mingham. Elizabeth Rutter, grocer, Tunstall, Wolstanton, Staf fordshire, March 17 and April 12, at twelve, at the ar raingharn District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Bir mingham; Cooper, Tunstall; Smith, Birmingham. Joseph Periam, porter merchant, Exeter, March 15, and April 12, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Ilirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Terrell, Exeter; Ter rell, Gray's Inn. Samuel William Graves, sharebroker, Manchester, March 22 and April 13, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Vincent, Inner Temple; Simpson, Manchester. Edward Emans, merchant, Liverpool, March 16, and April 10, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Cuurt. Turner; official assignee, Liverpool; Cotterill, Throg morton-street; Fletcher and Hull, Liverpool. Henry Newton, butcher, Northfield, Worcestershire, March 17, and April 21, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Chesshire, Biermingbarn. Lachlan McLauchlan, merchant, Liverpool, March 15 and • April 16, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Mourilyan, Gray's Inn; Neal, Liverpool. William Ward and John Ward, grocers, Lvadgate, Durham, March 20, at eleven, and April 16, at One, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle upon-Tyne ; Bolding an d Pope, Scott's-yard, Cannon sreet ; T. and W. Chater, Newcastle- upon-Tyne ; Bramwell, Sunderland. Christopher Appleby Jordisen, o corn t d eleven dealer, Maunby, Yorkshire, March 19 and April 4 a Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, at the Leeds; Mourilyan and Co., Gray's Inn; Holt, Middlesbrough; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. Benjamin Moss, tailor, Hartlepool, March 15, at bal:- past el even , and April 26, at twelve, at the Newcast 1 - upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle, upon-Tyne; Marshall, Durham ; Mule, Chan cery-lane DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. W. Stiles, Lisle-street, Leicester-square, coppersmith , March 27, at twelve.—A. Duffield and M. Duffield, Slough, Buckinghamshire, ironmongers, March 27, at eleven,—A. Rainey, Regent -street. Piccadilly, estate agent, March 29, at twelve.—J. Wilson, Green's-end, Woolwich, grocer, March 22, at eleven.—S. W. Young man, Norwich, wine merchant, March 29, at eleven.— T. Day, Three Crown-square, Southwark, secretary of the Southwark Savings Bank, March 29, at half-past eleven. —P. Clarke, jun., Colchester, pawnbroker, March 29, at eleven. —W. H. Blackmore, Dean-street, Soho square,i plumb er , M arc h 29, at twe l ve. —R . T . T u bb s, J e e d v ermanbury and Shoreditch, silk agent, March 29, a t en--L. A. L ew i s, Fleet-street, bookseller, March 29, at on e.--11. E m m a a r o .h ueland E. Emanuel, Hanover-square, goldsmiths, —ll9Tr.seNfer.ry-road 27, at half.past two.—J. Starkey, ,'W_esroad, builder, March 27, at two. Brown, Futter mortOli-street, stockbroker, March In Throg -29, at the ' Cou a n r t ch G. Thomas, Bristol, merchant, March 27, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol.—W. Keene, Neath, Glamorganshire, brewer, March 30, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol.—B. L. Watson, Bath, hotel keeper, March 30, at eleven, at . the Court, Bristol.—F. Gill, Manchester, hardware dealer, March 29, at eleven, a a s t i t e sinhepCounertr, Manchester.— . march 28, at T. Wrigley, Halifax, silk w one, at the Court, Manchester.—M. Stephenson, Ay. elaffe, Durham, common brewer, March 30, at eleven, a t the Court, Newca4le-upon-Tyne PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. - J. Robertson, Somerset- place, Kee nington common, baker, 4 id., on either of the three next Wednesdays, at the office of Mr. Graham, between el even an d two , Coleman -street. F, P. ak© and J. Jilling?, Honiton, Devonshire, drapers. 65., on either of the three next Wednesdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman street. R. G. Clode, Windsor, coal merchant, 4s. 61, on either of the three next Wednesdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street. H. Colenutt, Portsoa and Po-tsmouth, baker, 2s. 9 on Monday, March 12, an, two subsequent 1.1,,nday , , bemeen eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Cannan, Bir him-lane. _ _ . J. Wallace, Durham, grocer, 7d., in part of first divi dend of 25., on any Saturday between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. C. A. Wawn, one of the partners of West Cornforth Colliery Company, 35., on any Saturday, between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. T. Rowell, Hartlepool, Durham, merchant, 25., on any Saturday, between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle- upon -Tyne. G. Fletcher, Egremont, Cumberland, tanner, 50. in addition to 2s. 9d., on Saturday, March 3, or any follow ing Saturday, between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. E. Deflinne, Manchester, check and gingham manu facturer, Is. 63., on the fiat issued Nov. 13, 1848, on Tuesday, March 13, or any subsequent Tuesday, be tween eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Man cheiter. F. Deflinne, Manchest r, check and gingham manu facturer, 1 9-161., on the fiat issued Sept. 2i, 1844, on Tuesday, Alarch 13, or any subsequent Tuesday, be tween eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Man chester. J. Ogden, Reddish, Lancashire, cotton spinner, 5-(1., and 3s. 6i1., on new proofs, on Tuesday, March 20, or any subsequent Tuesday between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. T. S. Goode, Manchester, merchant, ls. 6d., on Tues day, March 20, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Pott, Manchester. J. Raleigh, Manchester, merchant, 60., on Tuesday, March 20, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Pott, Manchester. G. Hewitt and G. Hewlett, Manchester, woollen dra pers, is. 54d., on Tuesday, March 20, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Pott, Manchester. J. Wragg, Melina-place, Westminster-bridge-road, iron merchant, ss. 4d., on Thursday, March 8, and three following Thursdays, between twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Stansteld, Basinghall-street. W. T. Gooding, Old Brentford, glass cutter e 2s. 5d., on Thursday, March 8, and three following Thursdays, be tween twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall-street. C. Bartlett, Southampton, merchant, V., on Thursday, March 8, and three following Thursdays, between twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld Besinghall-street. S. Berry, Ipswich, licensed victualler, 3s. 2id., on Thursday, March 8, and three following Thursdays, be tween twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall-street. A. Stewart, Liverpool, ship broker, 2s. 6d. and 9s. 6d. on new proofs, on Thursday, March 8, or any subse quent Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Baainghall-street. W. Trap, Warminster, Wiltshire, mason, March 30, at eleven-R. Living, Leadenhall-market, poultry sales man, March 29, at half-past twelve-J. Coles, Launton, Oxfordshire, baker, March 30, at twelve-A. M'Alley, Romsey-terrace, Horseterry-read, Westminster, builder, March 29, at twelve-W, Broady, Helken-street West, Belgrave-square, commission agent, March 28, at twelve -J. Bennett, Hart-street, Bloomsbury, and High• street, Camden- town, artists' brush manufacturer, March 29, at eleven-R. W. Hunter, Praed-street, Paddington, baker, March 29, at one-T. Poole, South-square, Gray's Inn, money scrivener, March 29, at half-past eleven-J. Meet), Rayleigh, Essex, auctioneer, March 29, at eleven -W. H. Sheldrake, Ipswich, Suffolk, boot and shoe maker, March 29, at twelve. In the Country. J. Faulkner, Manchester, coach-lace manufacturer, March 26, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester-A. Du rarity, Liverpool, merchant, March 27, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool-W. A. Massey, Liverpool, wood turner, March 28, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool- W. Okill, Liverpool, share.-broker, March 28, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool-B. Dowd, Liverpool, tailor, March 27, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool-A. M'Cumb, Liverpool, tailor, March 27, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool-H. V. Stroud, Pettisbury, Dorset shire, miller, March 29, at one, at the Court, Exeter- G. L. Betty, T.lllo[oll, Sumersetbhire, baker, March 29, at one, at the Ceuta, Exeter-T. Hill, Redditch, Worces tershire, builder, April 5, at twelve, at the Court, Bir mingham-T. Potts, Birmingham, metallic tube manu facturer, April 10, at ten, at the Court, Birmingham-J. Bishop, Worcester, carpenter, April 4, at ten, at the Court, Birmingham. At the Court of Review, March 27. A. Smith, Nlarylbone-street, Regent-street, wire rope manufacturer—H. Kennedy, Taunton, Somersetshire, draper—J. Hunter, King William-street, City, and Buckingham street, Strand, merchant—J. Bradbury, Thavies Inn, Holborn, lace merchant—J. S. Goinme, Angel terrace, Hammersmith, cabinet-maker —W. Maunder, Peel-place, Kensington Gravel pits, baker—J. Blackburne, Liverpool, tailor-0. W. King, Hart-street, Bloomsbury, licensed victualler—J. Thompson, Shef field, ♦ictualler—H. D. Wilkinson, Sheffield, silver , plater—T. Sneezum, Rupert- street, Coventry-street, builder. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. G. Walker, S. Coulson, and W. Robson (so far as re gards W. Robson), Sheffield, electr -platers—J. S. Hunt, J. Hunt, R. Ruske!), jun., and C. F. Hancock (so far as regards C. F. Hancock), New Bond-street, Harrison street, Gray's Inn-road, and Manchester, goldsmiths — S. Gould and E. Shein well, Oldham, Lancashire, cabinet makers and upholsterers—H. Priestman and J. Priest man, jun., Latchford, Cheshire, tanners and leather dealers—J. Jukes and C. Boreham, Stone, Staffordshire —J. May, see., and J. May, jun., Terrace, Sutherland square, Walworth.road, Surrey, flour factors—D. Cope and G. Batchelor, Liverpool, oil merchants and paint and colour manufacturers—A. Taylor and T. Taylor, Manchester, tailors and drapers—R. Harvey and W. Davis, Epping, Essex, brick and tile makers—J. Storr, H. W. Farrar, J. Whitely, and W. Whitely, Leeds. cloth manufacturers—W. Carter and T. Hitchcock, Beckford-row, Walworth-road, Surrey, cheesemongers and provision merchants—J. Hooper and J. Ormero.t, Liverpool, leather and hide factors—R. Belson and G. C. Couch, Norwich. plumbers—A. Gordon and A. Du Bois de Ferrieres, Fludyer- street, Whitehall, engineers —W. Walker and 0. Bailey, proprietors and publishers of an engraved plate, entitled, " A Literary Party at. Sir Joshua Reynolds's"—W. P. Piggott and 'l'. Buddy, Wardrobe place, Doctors' Commons, City, and New Oxford -street, mathematical instrument makers and opticians—W. Watson and J. Lister, Wood house Carr, Yorkshire, dyers and stovers—H. S. Rogers and G. Cornwall, Strand— L. Henderson sad C. Lamont, Liverpool, seed and fruit merchants—J. Wood, J. Stott, and H. Stott (so far as regards J. Wood), Hal- Wax, Yorkshire, cotton warp makers—T. A. Verkruz-n and M. Verkruzen, Liverpool, Berlin warehousemen— H. Brown and W. H. Brown, Harleston, Norfolk, iron mongers—T. Robinson and Sarah Robinson, Burnley, Lancashire, drapers and mercers—A. Young and A. Young, Portsea, Southampt. , n, drapers—W. Simpso❑ and H. Simpson, Leadenhall-street, City, woollen dra pers—S. Shickell and R. Bridges, Rose-alley, New Park street, Southwark, pea and bean splitters. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Robert Ewer, Balsham, Cambridgeshire, grocer. John Gallon, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, smith. Thomas Lambert, Chichester, rope maker. Henry Scrace, jun, Trant, wood dealer. Robert Reeve, St. John's-common, Sussex, tailor. Ssmuel Matthews Banks, Handswerth, Staffordshire, plumber. Thomas Kinder, Birmingham, butcher. George Lawson Whateley, City-road, Finsbury, at torney at law. Anthony Blanchard Pike, Pembroke Dock, Pembroke shire, clerk. John Forster, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, labourer. William S uth, Colwell, Herefordshire, cattle dealer. Elizabeth Williams, Liverpool, grocer. John Finney Reed, Liverpool, profes!ional singer. Edward Gaskell, Great Crosby, Lancashire, omnibus proprietor. MusErruve Todd, Cockermouth,Cumberland, innkeerer. Francis Georg© Leach, St. Petrox, Pembrokeshire, clerk. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. D. Thompson, Glasgow, manufacturer, to mee within the Globe Hotel, Glasgow, March 10 and 31 at twelve. J. Ricks, Glasgow, bookseller, to meet within the Globo Hotel, Glasgow, March 9 and 30, at three. T. Bonar, Edinburgh, stone merchant, to meet within the writing chambers of Messrs. Rowland and Thomp son, Edinburgh, March 13 and 31, at one. J. Findlay, Auchterarder, schoolmaster and gas ma nufacturer, to meet within Phillip% Inn, Auchterari:er, March 10 and 31, at twelve. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price ad v e an u c r e rent, March 6.) SITGAR.—To-day a further apparent . in the value of Sugar, although an increased quantity submitted to public competition of East lii a dL a . titY Th w er a e s was much desire evinced to operate in West India both for grocery and refining purposes, and the rates offered were 6d per cwt above those of Friday fur all sorts, but business was checked by a decreased sup ply. The purchases amounted to 440 hhds, &c, includ ing a public sale of 150 hhds Barbadoes, at which the biddings ware brisk, and an advance in the value of 6d per cwt took place; good and fine yellow realiz , d 40s to 41s 6d, middling and good middling 38s 6d to 39s 6d per ext. For public sale on Thursday 3,000 bags white Siam, 3,400 pkgs Santa Martha, and for Friday 1,000 bags of Bengal Sugar are declared. REFINED.—To•day there was a ready sale for Refined goods for home-trade purposes, and prices ruled firm— standard Lumps realised 503, and brown grocery 495 to 495 Gd per cwt. There is much demand from exporters for Bonded Crushed Sugar at 30s to 31s per cwt, at which the market is firm. :MAURITIUS.--This afternoon the quantity of Mauri tius Sugar on offer was not upon an enlarged scale, and on the pal t of grocers and refiners 'Mich desire was evinced to operate. At public sale 4,051 bags went briskly at a further advance of 6(1 per cwt; low to good yellow and grey realised 37s to 395, fine 39s Od to 40s, and washed 36s 6d to 39s per cwt. There was no brown in the sale. EAST INDIA.--This afternoon the market was abund antly supplied with white Benares, and of other kinds of Bengal supplii.s were likewise upon a mora enlarged scale. At publ . c sale the total amount offered was 11,03 bags 146 chests; about 5,000 bags were taken in and withdrawn above the value, the remainder sold at 6d advance ; fine whi e Benares went at 428 to 435, m iddli ng an d goo d 40 s 6 d to 418 6 d , middling and fine strong yellow 41s to 435, mid• dling soft yellow 365, low 34s to 34s 6d, ordinary to good brown 29s to 333 60 ; 52 bags in bond were taken in at 25s to 26s for yellow. Madras is wanted, and 2,730 bags went 6d higher ; good white fetched 39s 6(1, low yellow 335, ordinary and middireg brown 29e 6(1 to 31s 6d. Of Penang 2 811 bags and 146 baskets seld at a similar advance ; go id soft greyish went at 37s 6d; low and middling 32s to 35s 60 per cwt. FOREIGN.-To-d,ty there was much inquiry after Foreign Sugar, and stiffer rates are offered; but business was interfered with, owing to a reluctance on the part of holders to sell, and none has been offered at public sale. By private treaty two cargoes of brown Pernambuco were sold at 203 % and a large parcel of brown Havannah at 21s 9d per cwt. MOLASSES.-There is much firmness in the market for West India, and sales to a fair extent have been made. The value of low to fine is from 16s 6d to 20s per cwt. East India Treacle is held for 15s to 16s per cwt; orders at present are, however, small. COFFEE.-This afternoon there was a better de mand for Coffee for home trade purposes, still the market was not more plentifully supplied. At public sale 130 bags 128 casks Ceylon wore only in part sold; Plantation, middling at 525, low middling 45s to 465 6d, fine fine ordi nary 43s 6d to 445, good ordinary 35s to 38s 6d, ordinary 30s to 335; Native, good ordinary 335, real good ordinery 345, very superior 363 6d; 91 bags Madras, good ordinary 32s to 345, and damaged 30s per cwt. For auction on Thursday 250 bales washed Rio, and for Tues day 2,240 bales of Mocha Coffee, are declared. COCOA.-This afternoon Trinidad Cocoa met with attention, and 60 bags at auction sold at stiffer rates; good middling red fetched 45s 6d, middling and good grey 41s 6cl to 43e 6d. TEA.-Black is with difficulty to be obtained at lower rates ; the operations are of little moment, and to dis pose of large parcels reduced prices must be accepted. Green has been dealt in with caution, and prices are still on the decline, except for low and middling sorts of which the supply is plentiful. Black leaf Pekoe is not much wanted, and can be obtained at lower rates; fine scented Orange Pekoe is in excellent request, and former rates are well supported ; there is not much demand for the lower kinds. Deliveries for home•trade purposes still far exceed those of the former, and there is yet a small steer. Prices rule moderate compared with the former years, and the market less supplied. A further in crease in consumption is also expected to take place, and several export orders for the lower kinds of Green are expected. None has been exported since this day week, whereas duty was paid at this port on 504,900 lbs. No public sale is at present declared, but by private treaty the market is well supplied. RICE.-To-day an increased quantity of East India Rice was pressed upon the attention of the trade. The public sales comprised 4,863 pockets, arid 5,100 bags. prices declined 6d per cwt, but the chief part sold; fine white Bengal went at lls to Ils 6d, mid and good 93 to 10s 6d; Madras pinky white 8s to 9s, Pearl Barley 7s 6d to 8s per cwt. SAGO is not much wanted, and at auction 77 boxes sold at barely former rates. SPICES.-To - day a public sale of 1,000 bags Pimento went at firm rates; mid arid good mid sold at 3id to 3-0, and inferior 3,id to 31d; 14 bags of Cloves were taken in at 4d for old ilourbon. SPIRITS.-East India Rum has been sold to some ex tent, but not at better rates. Madras and Calcutta only realised is 3d to is 3fd proof, and Penang is 2fd per gallon proof. Prices do not advance for Leeward Island ; the demand is, however, good at Is 5d to Is sfd proof, and at Is 50 for fine brown ; the supply is not so large, and holders are firm. Demerara from 2s to 2s ed for 28 to 30 per cent over proof. For Jamaica former rates are well kept up, and trade is getting more active for ord and mid sorts; there is also a good sale for superior kinds. Ord and mid from 2s 80 to 3s for 28 to 33 per cent over proof, 3s 21 to 3s 6d for better sort 34 to 36 over, and 31 8d to 4. 9d for fine and choice marks. Brandy is not cheaper. The value of Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1847 is 3s 1 Id to 4s Id, 1848 ditto 3s 4d to 3s 6d, and inferior sorts 2s 2d to 3s 3d per gallon. Geneva Is 9d to is 101 for export sort, and 2s 60 to 3s 6d for home trade kind: the market is quiet. British made Gin realises full rates. To-day there was little passing in Rum, still on the part of holders no desire was evinced to accept lower rates. SALTPETRE.-For Rough the demand is active, and a further advance in the value of 6d per cwt has taken place, as the supply continues moderate. At public sale 1,000 bags of Calcutta were sold. A further advance is looked tor. British Refined sells with readiness at 29s to 30s per cwt ; there is also a firm market. Nitrate of Soda at Ils 61 to 12s per cwt. COCHINEAL met with little attention, and prices have fallen Id per Ib, as the market is well supplied. At auction 150 bags Honduras were only in part sold; ord to good Silvers at 35 8d to 4s 4d, black 4s 60 to 5s 50; 34 bags Mexican, black 4s 20, silvers 3s 10d to 3 s aid , and 10 bags of eneriffe, black 4s to 4s 4d per lb. TALLow.-The market for Russian is firm, and on the spot there is a good demand; fine P. Y. Candle realises 40s 0,1 to 40s 6d per cwt. For delivery in the last three months of the year sales to a fair extent have been made at 41s to 41s 6d, at which there are not willing sellers. Mom° made is wanted, and realises 40s to 40s 6d net cash; the supply is yet plentiful. For other sorts of Tallow, the market has a firm aspect, and demand does not fall off ; supplies are still plentiful. At auction 227 csks of New South Wales were sold at 34s to 40s Gd for low to fine ; 758 pkgs South American 33s 6d to 393 90 ; 100 csks Odessa sheep 38s to 39s ; 17 csks beef 40e ; 100 skins of Persian 36s 60 to 37s ; 12 csks of Italian 395, and 8 csks of Cape 41s 90 to 42s per cwt. For public sale 800 csks of Tallow are declared. The value of Rough Fat is, however, 2s 3d to 2s 3f d per stone, and a fair quantity is on offer. OILS.-Palm has been in excellent request, and the tendency of prices is to advance, the supply also continues small, and the consumption is very great. At auction 46 csks went at 28s. for very inferior, and at 32s for mid quality. The value of fine is 33s to 345. For Cocoa Nut the market has a firm aspect, and demand continues to get brisker. At public sale 109 casks of Cochin mostly sold at 34e 60 to 36s 6d, and 50 casks of Ceylon at 34s per cwt. Cod 261 to 261 lOs per tun. Seal: pale at 311 to 31/ 10e, tinged 301 to 30/ 103, and other sorts 271 to 2,1 Southern 301 to 321 for gold to fine, and 28/ to 291 lOs for low to mid. Sperm: fine Colonial and British realises 811 to 82/, and Headesatter 82/ to 831. Linseed Oil has been taken by exporters at 26s to 26s 60. For delivery se veral sales have been made at 26s 6d to 275. Rape Oil is wanted, and the tendency of prices is to advance ; pale selling at 37s 61 to 383, and brown 36s 60 to 375. Arrivals of Foreign are small, and the rates paid are 39a to 40s for pale. Lard Oil 42s to 475 for English, and 42s to 44s for American. Olive is cheaper. Gallipoli 431 to 431 10s. Spanish and Sicily 41/ lOs to 421 10s, and other sorts 40/ to 411 per tun. Tonecco.--In the early part of the month the market was less animated, transactions being chiefly confined to export descriptions for Spain, and sales to the extent of 600 hhds were effected, consisting of mid and old quali ties; towards the middle of' the month the market pre sented more activity, and has closed with sales of all sorts of 2,131 hhds. Fine Kentucky strips are extremely firm, and Virginia of good and fine spinning qualities is held for higher rates than buyers are inclined to submit to. Imports 125 hhds, deliveries 1,822 hhds, against 705 hhds at this time last year. Stock 23,253 hhds against 30,488 in 1848. In Virginia sales hare been 470 hhds, fine teat at 3d to sfd, mid at 4fd to 41d, and ord at 2d to 24d. There has been a good inquiry for low descriptions for exportation, and sales have been made to some extent at a slight advance. For Kentucky Leaf and Strips the market has continued comparatively steady, and a frac tional advance asked in some instances on fine par eels of the latter has not been responded to by buyers. Sales have been of leaf 1,074 hogsheads, nearly all for exportation, and 370 hogshead. of Strips, the latter principally of good and fine sorts at sid to 6d. Colory Leaf has been in much request, arid may be considered a shade higher in price. Mary land-Sales have not exceeded 20 hhds, at sfd to 60. In Havannah Leaf, stock being almost exhausted of desirable qualities, sales have been limited and diffi cult to effect. For exportation there has been no de mand. Havannah Cigars' have been in good demand, stock of fine qualities, and of eligible sizes, being comparatively small, improved prices have in some instances been obtained. Mid and ord sorts have also been taken more freely for exportation, and the market has assumed a better character than for some months past. Cuba and Yara have been in fair demand at previous rates. In Brazil few sales have been effected, and those of a retail character. In Porto Rico and Manilla Leaf sales have been limited to a few bales for home use. Manilla Cheroots have been in steady demand, and previous rates fully supported. Columbian Leaf- Ambulema of coloury and leafy descriptions, have been in fair request. Havannah Seed Leaf of fine quality has been taken at full prices ; there is none remaining in the hands of importers. German Leaf of good descriptions, well-assorted, and free from ord, dark, and mixed quality, has met a ready sale, at improved rates. Amer feort-A few cases taken for snuff purposes. Negro Head and Cavendish of good and fine quality have been in steady demand at previous rates. Stalks were in good request. WESTMINSTER REFORM SOCIETY.—On Monday evening a meeting of the members of this society took place at the York Hotel, Wellington-street, Covent garden. Mr. Geesou in the chair. The minutes of the preceding meeting having been read and confirmed, several n:tw members were proposed and admitted. The chairman called the attention of the meeting to a fact strikingly To„ existing , 'rower anetimdwl their l u oce s tli estamreahtteptohmirie electors sbrsheeei annr o the wnst f waerwrheaeericlrrlhi eess representative extraordinary er7aone4mfttBuaosrtuo inrnveteetogdeiwsdsytntto Parliament. sst rt. oeeltmlhale. inequalities ,nilsaeullmcnm 1t eo ,tbnrhoesterr: boNyforwweghihosemter held 237 less than the Tower Hamlets, yet they returned no less than 86 members.—(llear, hear.) It was stated that in several parishes in Westminster, meetings were in progress for the purpose of petitioning for a, repeal of the window-tax.—Mr. Austin reg re tt e d- that while the inhabitants of Westminster were nr.king very great efforts to procure a diminution of the public burdens, they should have returned a representa tive to parliament, who thought it his duty to oppose Mr. Cobden in his attempts to reduce the army and navy estimates to the footing of 1835. Sir De Lacy Evans was a soldier. and perhaps could not conscientiously sup. nort Mr. Cubden in carrying out that portion of his fl ancial scheme which referred to the army; but the elec. t irs of Westminster had conscientious duties to fulfil also, and if they wera wise, they would not again return a man likely to be influenced by professional pre dilections.—(Hear, hear.) A conversation then ensued for most t hfiet t p 11 1 r g p t o o s e b e o p f u c r . l s i u c e i t d i n b g y opinions e t y a s a t t o r r t e h s e e n e t , o course it was determined that no steps should be taken until the result of the financial reform meeting. In Limerick garrison, on Friday, redactions w ere made in the 47th and 74th Regiments, and 3d Buffs. 0 _ THEE SUN, LONDON, WEDIsTESDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1849. IMPERIAL P ARLIAMEN T, HOUSE OF LORDS, March 6. -- - The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Fivo o'clock. COMMONS INCLOSURE BILL. This Bill passed throuuli Committ(e. DUBLIN SAVINGS' BANK. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the depositors in the St. Peter's Dublin Savings' Bank, com plaining of the losses to which they had been subjected iu consequence of the conduct of the directors and the negligence of the Government. The Noble and Learned Lord urged the necessity of making some compensation to these unfortunate sufferers. The Earl of ST. GERMANS said that the whole sub ject of savings' banks' management would ere long be brought under the notice of the House. The Marquis of LANSDO WNE defended the officers of the Government from the charge of negligence; he admitted the hardship of the present case, hut was not prepared to say that the Treasury could recommend any compensation should be granted. The subject then dronp ,, d. PETITIONS. The Bishop of LLANDAFF presented a petition in favour of some measure for the prevention of the seduc- Lion of females. The Duke of RICHMOND presented petitions in favour of the navigation-laws, of the ( qualizltion of duties, and of the repeal of taxes pressing on agriculture. The Earl of LUCAN presented a petition from a board of guardians in Ireland against either a union or a national poor-rate. Earl FORTESCUE presented a petition from Sid mouth in favour of an alteration of the law of settle ment, and of the substitution of a national for a local poor-rate. The Earl of RODEN presented a petition from the grand jury of the county of Louth against the imposi tion of a rate in aid in Ireland. The proposal of this rate in aid was most unjust, and its imposition would tend to alienate the affections of her Majesty's loyal subjects in Ireland. He would not have objected to the imposition of a property-tax, but he did object to this rate in aid. _ _ The Earl of WICKLOW viewed with horror the measure against which the petitioners had protested, and implored th Ministers to reconsider the matter before they went too far. lie did not object to the imnosition of an additional burden on Ireland, although he did not admit that Ire• land was not taxed i❑ proportion to her means, but he thought that burden might be imposed in a manner less obnoxious than that proposed by the Govern ment. He had desired originally that the property tax should be extended to Ireland, bec tuse ho knew that Ireland would 102 the suiferer ultimately by the exemption. There could not be a doubt but that when the income-tax should be renewed for England, it would be extended to Ireland; and why should it not be extended now, and appropriated for the next two )e irs to the relief of the poor? He would propose that the sums lent from the unions should, if repaid within two years, be devoted to the purpose for which it was proposed to raise this rate in aid. He had no doubt but that the money would be raised at once, and he hoped the Government would adopt one or other of them. He objected to the rate o❑ principle, and if it were but a penny he should object to it equally, The petition was ordered to lie on the table. SICILY. Lord STANLEY, in putttng the question, of which he had given notice, would abstain from any obser vations on the events which had taken place in Sicily during the last twelve months. He would assume that through the intervention of the British admirals an armistice had been enforced between the King of the Two Sicilies, our a'ly on the one side, and the Pro visional Government of the insurgents in Sicily, on the other. This armistice was of great advantage to the Sicilians, inasmuch as it gave them an opportu nity of purchashing arms and paying for them by forced contributions levied on the wealthier inhabitants who ad hered with unflinching loyalty to the King. He had been informed that a contractor who had contracted to supply arms to the Sicilians had also entered into a con tract to supply arms to the British Government, and he had been informed that, being unable to per form his contract with Sicily, he had applied to the Ordnance for permission to withdraw certain arm. from the Government stores to which they had been supplied by the contractor, in order to enable him to complete his contract with the Sicilian Govern ment. The Ordnance demurred until the sanction of the Executive Government should be obtained, and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs authorised such withdrawal. This he consi- dered a proceeding of a very questionable character, and, in his judgment, not consistent with the maintenance of strict and impartial neutrality.—(hear, hear.) his wished to ask the Noble Marquis whether the facts were has he had stated them. He should re joice to find that he was mistaken. He should reserve any expression of opinion as to this transaction to the period which could not be far distant, tor, on the receipt of the answer of the King of the Two Sicilies to the ul timatum sent from this country, the negotiations would be brought to a close, and there would then be no obj.•c- Lion, he conceived, to lay before their Lordships all the materials necessary for a full discussion of the whole subject.—(Hear, hear.) The Mar(Fis of LANSDOWNB—The matter alluded to by the Noble Lord lies within a very narrow compass. Unquestionably there is a foundation for the question which the Noble Lord has asked, and lam now extremely glad to have an opportunity of stating all the circumstances. A contractor who had been habitually a contractor in the service of her Majesty's Government, did in the autumn of last year (I believe previous to the armistice) make an application to the Board of Ordnance, for the purpose of being allowed to take back certain guns which he had make for her Majesty's service, to enable him to fulfil another contract for the use of the Sicilian Go vernment at that time.—(Hear, hear.) The Board of ordnance did make some application on the subject to the Foreign Department, and unfortunately it did re ceive from the Foreign Department instructions to afford facility to the contractor, and did allow him to take back those guns. lam ready to say, that when this transac tion came to be considered by her Majesty's Govern ment, although they did not believe that it amounted to any direct interference i n th e contest go i ng on b etween Naples and Sicily, yet that it was liable to misconception and might be considered a direct interference; and, therefore, it was the deliberate opinion of her Majesty's Government that it was a matter of regret that that per mission had not been withheld—(Hear)--and acting according to that line of duty which should al ways be observed, and especially between two powers like England and Naples —the latter being comparatively a less power, it was felt that this country should be be forehand in tendering satisfaction, and at the commence ment of the present year Mr. Temple was instructed to explain the nature, and the (whole amount and extent of the transaction, and to add that it had occurred through inadvertence, and that measures would be taken for the future to prevent the recurrence of any such inadvertence.—(Hear.) Lord BROUGHAII said that his Noble Friend had mentioned the Sicilian Government. He must mean the insurgents in Italy.—(Hear.) The Marquis of LANSDOWNE—I meant the Go vernment de facto existing in Sicily. Lord BROUGHAM—you can no more call that a Sicilian Government than you can call Mr. Smith O'Brien and his committee the English Government.— (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH would not enter into the discussion of the general question, although he had a strong feeling as to the obligations in curr ed by Eng land with regard to Sicily in 1813. They had a consti tution before 1813, in respect of which they stood much in the same position as England stood to its constitution before William 111. The consti tution of 1813 was guaranteed by Great Britain. In 1816 the c onstitution was reconstructed, Sicily was united to Naples, and their constitution was destroyed. The Sicilians were now in arms for that constitu tion. They were insurgents, as the Barons of England were insurgents against King John—as the people of England were insurgents against James 11. They were in arms to recover their constitution, and when that matter came to be debated, he trusted that the decision would be such as to maintain the honour of the country. The Earl of ABERDEEN thought we had nothing to do with the cause for which the Sicilians were in arms. If we had given guarantees to them we should support them, but if we had not it was disgraceful not to observe a strict neutrality. With regard to the transaction which had given rise to this discussion, he should not, after the explanation of the Noble Marquis, pursue the subject further. The Duke of WELLINGTONisaid the King of the Two Sicilies assumed the title iu virtue of the treaty of Vienna, and that the union of' the two king doms took place in virtue of that treaty, a la i that treaty the Government of this country was bound. The Government was not bound to enforce the execution of the treaty upon others, but it was bound itself not to depart from the letter of the treaty, and he hoped no step had been taken by this country which could be construed into a breach of the articles of that treaty. The Earl of MINTO said that though he had endea voured, and had been most anxious, to effect an accom modation of the differences between the King of Naples and his Sicilian subjects, and to maintain the union between the two Crowns, he never consented to treat the Sicilians as a people i n open rebellion against th e i r lawful sovereign; but, on the contrary, he had always considered th e m as having engaged in the asserti on o f rights for which, at least, a very meritorious case h a d been made out. Lord BROUGHAM said he thought the Noble Lord who had just spoken had either forgotten to look over the treaty of Vienna lately, or else seemed to con,ider it as having no bearing on the question. If the Noble Eerl had not a copy of the treaty, be should be happy to send him one, and would earnestly recommend him to examine the papers on the question before the discussion came on. The Earl o f MINTO said h e was perfectly ac qua i n t e d with the contents of the treaty of Vienna; but the 104th act of it, which most related to the present:question, only provided for the restoration to the King of the Sicilie s his Neapolitan dominions, and recognised his title as King of the Two Sicilies. The subject then droppod. IRISLI PRISONS , Lord MONTEAGLE moved for Irish criminal re turns, and for returns showing the mortality in the pH sons of Ireland, during each of the last five years. The Noble Lore?, in speaking . , of the iecrease of crime which had recently been observed in Ireland, said that although a great portion of it was no doubt attributable to the augmentation of distress and indigence, a very injurious effect had been had upon it by certain measures, to say the least of them, of a very doubtful policy. He meant the abolition of the punishment of transportation, without the substitution of other penal discipline, and the repeal of the Vagrant Act. The Noble Lord concluded by moving for the returns in the usual form, to be furnished by the Inspector of Prisons. Earl Gl-',EY said that the Noble Lord had assumed throughout his speech that the removal of convicts ircm Ireland under sent, rice of transportation had been disceninued. The Noble Lord had stated that circumstance, and other circumstances, as facts, but they were only imaginary facts. So far from the removal of convicts having been discontinued, the numbers had gone on increasing, as was apparent from the returns which he held in his hand of the transportations during the five years ending in 1845, and the three succeeding years. The sentence of transporta tion, indeed, had been exercised of late very indiscrimi nately. The grand jury in Ireland, he must say, had not exercised the functions placed in their hands by the Act in a proper manner, and were much to blame in not having provided increased accommodation for the pri soners, a neglect of duty with which they were charge able. He might communicate to their Lordships that prison establishments were in course of erection at Ber muda and Spike Island, owing to the defective accommo dation at Van Diemen's Land and Norfolk Island. The number of prisoners transported from Ireland to those two List-named places was so great, that many of them died from overcrowding. On those considerations Port • land appeared to be a desirable place to send transports from Ireland to. But there was great misdirection with regard to the class of convicts sent out from Ireland, many of them being truly unfit for transportation, so much so that, on their arrival at Bermuda, the governor of that island reported that they were truly unable to stand the voyage, arid that fever to a great extent had broken out amongst them. The Duke of RICHMOND said it was very inconve nient that when one Irish Peer made a statement, another rose and contradicted it. He was surprised how the magistrates could commit persons to gaol whose condition was such that they were likely to die on the voyage out, and who seemed to him to be more objects for an hos pital than for the severity of Lord MONTEAGLE replied, and expressed his sur prise at hearing the Government cast blame in this mat ter on the grand jury, whereas blame—if blame there was —was chargeable against the Government officer whose duty it was to make out the returns. He (Lord Mont eagle) made his statements on the official documents which had been laid on the table of their Lordships' House—those documents, consisting of returns, were now said to be erroneous; they were on the table of their Lordships' House since the last session, and although complained of as erroneous, no attempt was made by the Government officer whose duty it was to make them up, to correct them. Earl GREY explained his statement with respect to the documents on which the Noble Lord (Monteagle) founded his motion to the House. The motion was then agreed to. On the motion of the Marquis of L EINSDOW NE, the Irish Distress Bill, the Vice• Guardians Bill, and the Buckinghamshire Summer Assizes Bill, were read a third time. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Marsh 6. The SPEAKER took the Chair at ten minutes before Four o'clock. PRIVATE BILLS. On the motion of Mr. WILSON PATTEN it was ordered, that in the case of petitions against private Bills deposited pursuant to Standing Order No. 107, the peti tioner may withdraw his petition on a requisition to that effect being deposited at the Private Bill-office, signed by him, or by the agent who deposited such peti tion; and that where any such petition is signed by mare than one person, any person signing such petition may withdraw his opposition by a bimilar requisition, sigaed and deposited as aforesaid. SEC )ND READING. The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and Wilson town, Alorningsbie, and Coltness Railway Amalgamation Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from Churchdown, in Lancashire, praying that arbitration instead of war should be substituted in all international disputes. Mr. LOCKHART presented a petition from Glasgow against any alteration of the navigation-laws. Sir J. TROLLOPE presented a petition from Wis beach against any alteration of the navigation-laws, THE PEACE MOVEMENT. Colonel JOLLIFFE presented several petitions, nu merously signed, praying that all disputes likely to lead to warlike operations, may be settled by arbitration. Mr. COBDEN also presented a petition fur the same purpose, signed by nearly 10,000 persons. Mr. HOWARD presented a similar petition from Car lisle. Sir JOHN HANMER presented a petition to the same effect from Mold. NAVIGATION LAWS. Sir A. BROOK E presented petitions from several places in Scotland, praying for the repeal of the navigation laws. MARRIAGE REGISTRATION (SCOTLAND) BILL. The HoN. MEMBER also presented petitions :gains' the Scottish Marriage Registration Bill. BIRMINGIIAA EXEMPTION OF COUNTY RATES BILL. Mr. MUNTZ moved that there be given an instruc tion to the Examiner of Petitions for Private Bills to sit and proceed on the petition for leave to deposit a petition for the Birmingham Borough (Exemption from County Rates—No. 2) Bill forthwith, which, After a few words from Mr. Wilson Patten, and Mr. Greene, inquiring as to the compliance with the standing orders, to which Mr. Muutz replied in explanation, the motion was agreed to. NOTICES OF MOTION.— ECCLESIASTICAL FUNDS. Mr. HORSMAN gave notice of his intention this day fortnight to bring forward the motion of which be had previously given notice with respect to ecclesiastical funds. RAILWAYS. Mr. LOCKE postponed the motion of which he bad given notice with respect to railways to this day for night. WAR IN THE PUNJAUB. Mr. G. THOMPSON gave notice of his intention, on this day fortnight, to draw the attention of the House to the affairs of the Punjaub, and to move for the ap pointment of a Committee to inquire into the justice and propriety of the war that was going on there. FINANCIAL REFORM. Mr. HUME presented sev, ral petitions in favcur financial reform. THE CONVICT MITCHEL. Mr. ROBINSON, seeing the Right Hon. Baronet the First Lord of the Admiralty in his place, felt anxious to pat the question to him of which he had given notice, with respect to the convict Mitchel. He wished to know if any report had been made to the Admiralty by Commander Wingrove, of her Ma jesty's sloop Scourge, respecting the treatment of the convict _tlitchel on his passage to Bermuda. Sir E. T. BARING said that a report had been made to the Admiralty on the subject. It was correct that Mitchel had dined with the commander of the ves sel, but no other officers were present, and the course that had been pursued by Commander Wingrove had been only adopted for the better security and safe custody of Mitchel. Mr. ROBINSON said that from the Right lion. Gentleman's own explanation it was clear that the orders that had been sent out with respect to Mitchel had been deviated from ; he wished, therefore, to know whether the Admiralty had taken any notice oethat deviation? Admiral DUNDAS said that Commander Wingrove had most prop rly considered that the safest place for the convict was in his own cabin, where he was conti nually under his own eye. WRECKS ON THE EAST COAST OF SCOTLAND. Mr. G. S. DUFF wished to ask the Secretary of the Admiralty whether any report or reports had been received at the Admiralty on the subject of the disasters which occurred on the east coast of Scotland in the month of August last ; and if so, whether he would have any objection to lay such reports upon the table of the House ? _ - _ _ _ Sir F. T. BARING replied that a report had been received on the subject which he had no objection to lay before the House. Mr. RICARDO asked if the report had been made by Captain Waddington? Sir 'T. F. BARING was understood to reply that it had. WAR IN INDIA- APPOINTMENT OF SIR CHARLES NAPIER AS COMMANDER IN- CHIEF. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, adverting to the subject of the War in India, said—Sir, I stated in reply to the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Montrose, when he asked me a question yesterday with respect to India , that her Majesty's Government had th oug h t i t right to tender advice to her Majesty, but that they hail received no reply from her Majesty, and I was, therefore, unable to answer the question of the Honourable Gentleman.—(Hear, hear.) I am now, however, in a position to state that her Majesty has been pleased to return a reply to the advice of the Government to nominate Sir Charles Napier to the appointment of Commander-in-Chief of the British army in India—(Tremendous cheers)—and that her Majesty has been pleased most graciously and fully to approve that appointment.—(Renewed cheei ing.) Both the Duke of Wellington, the Com mander-in-Chief, and I, have to-day seen Sir Charles Napier, and I have the satisfaction to state that he is ready to obey her Majesty's commands, and pro ceed at once to India in the capacity which her Majesty has been pleased to assign to him.—(Cheers.) The Court of Directors h ave not yet had an opportunity of meeting, but I fully expect they will do so to morrow, and approve of this appointment with joy and satisfac tion.—(Loud cheers.) TUE CONVICT SYSTEM. Sir GEORGE GREY observed that the Noble Lord the Member fcr Hertford had a notice on the paper relative to this subject for Thursday. Perhaps the Noble Lord would be good enough to state now the terms of the motion he intended to submit to the Ilou•e. Lord MAHON said his motion would embrace the whole subject of the convict system; but his chief object in bringing it forward was to elicit the intentions of the Government on the matter. Mr. HUME trusted the Right lion. Baronet would be prepared on an early occasion to state what his in tentions were upon the subj4.ct. CRIMINAL OFFENCES (IRELAND) BILL. Sir H. W. BARRON wished to trouble the House for a few minutes with a short explanation as to the part he had taken in reference to this measure.—(Hear, hear.) He stated that sir. Berwick, the barrister xho=e name had been referred to in the discussion upn the Bill last Wednesday, had written a letter to a Dublin paper, in which he said that the statement with respect to his having suggested and diawn up the Bill was wholly erroneous, and that he had never had any personal communication with him (Sir Henry W. Barron) on the subject of the Bill. Now he (Sir 11. W. 13arron) begged to say that that statement was in effect literally true—(Laughter)—and Hon. Mem!: , ers would no doubt rt ct that it was perfectly consistent with what he stated in the House on Wednesday. The whole com munications between him and Mr. Berwick had passed through the hands of a professional gentleman of twenty five years' standing, and of considerable reputation, so that he, in fact, had no personal interviews with him. Mr. Berwick further said, that the measure as it stood was very objectionable, and in some respects ridi culous—(Laughter)--that he had struck his pen through some portions of it, amended others, and inserted an ad ditional clause, but that he never dreamt of being made responsible for the Bill, of which he, on the whole, dis approved, and that he never expected that it would be introduced into Parliament without having, in the first instance, been entirely remodelled. He submitted the measure to the Secretary for Ireland, who was so kind as to read it. In order to show that the Bill was not altogether original, he might say that out of 57 clauses, 37 had been printed verbatim from the Dublin Police Bill, which had been introduced by Lord Eliot and the Solicitor-General for Ireland. Mr. J. O'CONNELL stated, in the absence of the Hon. and Learned Member for the University of Dublin, that Mr. 13,.rwick entirely disclaimed any share in the preparation of the measure in question. Sir GEORG E GREY said, in justice to the framers of the Dublin Police 8111, he felt it due to them to state that they found the greatest discrepancies between it and the - Bill introduced by the Hon. Baronet.— (Loud laughter.) He wished, at the same time, to state that the Lord-Li,utenant had conveyed to him that in his estimation Mr. Berwick was one of the best stipendiary magistrates of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) Lord BERNARD bore similar testimony to the merits of that gentleman. Sir H. W. BARRON said he had the highest respect for the pubic character and personal honour of Mr. Berwick. No one in or nut of the House could enter tain greater respect for him. He had sat with him on the bench—(Laughter)—and he never saw a judge ad minister justice more even-handed.—(Hear.) Sir W. SOMERVILLE said he was sure no one sup posed the' the Hon. Barenet had any personal object in the introduction of the Bill.—(Hear.) It was perfectly true that he had read the Bill of the Hon. Baronet at his request. He (Sir W. Somervil:e) wished also to bear his testimony to toe high character of Mr. Berwick. . _ NOTICES OF MOTION.-ADJOURNED DEBATE. Lord J. RUSSELL hoped that Hon. Gentleman who had notices on the paper would postpone them, and allow the adjourned debite to proc-ed. THE ARMY IN BARBADOES. Viscount DRUMLANRIG postponed the following notice :—Returns of the strength in rank and file of the service companies of the 72d and 66th Regiments when they arrivtdin Barbadoes: of the names of all officers who accompanied the service companies to Bar. badoes, their period of service at this date; and, of the number of rank and file, together with the number of officers attacked by illness since their arrival; and num ber of deaths and recoveries, specifying the names of the officers, up to this date. TIIE CONDITION OF IRELAND. Major BLACKALL postponed the following motion for a week:—That the peculiar circumstances of Ire. land, consequent upon four successive years of distress, require the immediate adoption of such measures as may assist and encourage the individual exertion of the owners and occupiers of Irish property, and pro mote industry, by giving remunerative employment; and that all grants or loans of money to particular districts should be applied, as far as possible, to such purposes as may conduce to the eventual improvement of those districts, and enable them to support themselves from their ordinary resources. Mr. MACGREGOR also postponed his motion. INDIA AND AUSTRALIAN MAIL STEAM- PACKET COMPANY. Mr. SCOTT moved for copies of any proposals re ceived by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, in the course of the year 1848, in reply to the advertise ments issued by them, inviting tenders for the establish ment of a communication by steam navigation with the Australian colonies ; and of any charter of incorporation or letters patent granted to any person or persons for the purpose of forming a company, to be called " The India and Australian Mail Steam-packet Company," together with any certificates or indorsements of the Board of Trade, showing the fulfilment of the conditions of the said charter in respect to any deed of association to be entered into by such company. The Hon. Member was proceeding to make a statement to the House of the grounds on which he asked for the papers referred to, when Mr. HUME rose to order, and would beg to ask, whether the Hon. Member should be permitted to make a statement which was beyond the terms of his motion. The SPEAKER submitted to the Hon. Member that he should postpone his motion, in order to allow the ad journed debate to proceed, seeing that many other Hon. ilembers who had motions on the paper had already given wad•. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said there was no objection on the part of the Government to the Hon. Member's motion, if he would confine himselt to it, and refrain from going into any statement. Mr. SCOTT would rather go on with his statement. —(Laughter, and cries of" Order," in the midst of which the lion. Member resumed his seat.) The motion was then agreed to. STEAM NAVY. Mr. ANDERSON postponed his motion until Friday next for nominating the Select Committee oo a steam navy. TURNPIKE ROADS IN MIDDLESEX. On the motion of Lord DUDLEY STUART, an ad dress was agreed to tor a return of the aggregate length of turnpike roads in the county of Middlesex, and the aggregate amount of debt and unpaid interest on all the trusts in that county. TEMPLENOE PETTY SESSIONS. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL pstpon, d until to-morrow the motion for which he had given notice, for a return of the number of sum:may:es issued during the last seven years at Templenoe or Cloverfield Petty Sessions, in the county of Kerry, stating the matter in which each was issued, and at whose suit. The copies of the correspondence relative to the breaking up of the police station at Coss Castle: and, of the correspondence relative to the informations sworn by the bailors of Lord Rodney's yacht; with a statement of the reasons why these in formations, sworn on the 25th day of July, 1848, were not returned to the Crown-office until the 30th day of January, 1849. DUBLIN MUSICAL FUND. Mr. REYNOLDS begged to ask the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Home Department whether bore would be any objection to grant ihe returns for which he had given notice, as the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of Ireland was not in his place? _ . Sir G. ti - REY inquired whether the Hon. Member had made any communication to the Right Hon. Baronet respecting his motion. . Air. REYNOLDS said that he had asked the Right Honourable Baronet whether there would be any objection to make the returns, and he under stood the Right Hon. Baronet to say that there would be no technical objection on the part of the Government. Sir G. GREY said certainly there would be no tech nical objection, but as this society was a private society, it was evident the Government had no power whatever to compel the returns. The motion was then withdrawn. IRISH POOR. Lord DUDLEY STUART moved for returns of the number of Irish poor who, between the 31st day of De cember, 1847, and the 31st day of December, 1848, have received relief out of poor-rates in the several parishes comprised within the city of London, the borough of Mary• lebone, the city of Westminster, the borough of Lambeth, the borough of Southwark, the borough of the Tower Hamlets, and the borough of Finsbury, respectively, and of ihe money value of the relief so afforded; and, of the number of the Irish poor relieved during the same period out of the poor-rates in the parishe's com prised in the borough of Liverpool, city of Glasgow, city of Bristol, borough of Cardiff, borough of Newport (Monmouthshire), borough of Merthyr Tydvil, borough of Manchester, borough of Salford, borough of Preston, borough of Bury (Lancashire), borough of Leeds, borough of Paisley, and the city of Edinburgh, re spectively, and of the money value of relief so afforded. Mr. MONSELL wished to know, before the House proceeded further, what was the reason that the papers ordered last Friday had not been issued? Lord JOHN RUSSELL was aware that the papers had been ordered, and he c meeived that the only cause of the delsy could be something which had proved un avoidable. The papers, however, would be laid on the table at the earliest possible mom Pot. THE CONVICT SYSTEM. Mr. F. O'CONNOR wished to ask whether the Noble Lord who had given a notice of motion on this subject intended to persevere in his motion, as several Members, if he did, were very desirous of taking part in the debate. Lord MAHON said in reply that he certainly would persevere in his motion. RATE IN AID (IRELAND) BILL. The House then resolved itself into Committee on the Rate in Aid Bill, and Mr. GROGAN ruse and said, that in alluding to his motion for the adjournment of the House, he hoped hN should be excused by Hon. Gentlemen 1,,r the trouble he had given them, in consideration of the immense Im portance of this measure, at least to Ireland. and the effect which it was likely to create on all the estates in Ireland. He could not h. 1p saying that, and he hoped the feeling with which he uttered it would be appreciated by a society of English gentlemen. He could not help saying that her Majesty's Minis ters had entirely failed in making out any plea for their case but that of necessity.—(Hear, hear.) If there was no other hopes for Ireland than those con tained in the speeches that had been hitherto delivered on the subject, especial y that•of the Right Honourable Baronet, the late Prime Minister, he should be almost inclined to despair for the fate of Ireland ; but he thought there were greater hopes for Ireland than had been held out by any of those Hon. MErnb(,rs. He did not think that any Hon. Member that had spoken in favour of the measure had advanced arguments to justify the Government in inflicting this rate upon the people of Ireland.—(H ear, hear.) He called upon the Goverment to put Ir e l a nd in a position to bear an English poor-law before they forced such measures as these from them.— (Hetr, hear.) Why did they not remodel the system of electoral division, and adapt the law to the means of the people? Assimilate the law of Ireland with the law of England, and then ihne might Le a chance of a po.)r-law succeeding. Give them the English poor-law iu iti entiruty, aid he for on?, was qatte prepared to adopt its respo:isibi:ities.—(Hear.) lie could not :ee the justice of the statement, that be• c Ire!and paid no duty upon bricks and soap, nor, inched, the income t tx, that she should, there fore, pay this rate in air). Though it was stated that this rate was only to be imputed for two ) ears he feared, like the income tax in England, that it would be imposed in perpetuity. But alter all, he doubted much whether the rate could be obtaincd, looking at the present way in which pro perty was rated in Ireland ; if, therefore, immediate relief was intended, the funds would have to come out of the Imperial Trea'ury. lle reminded the Government that an Act was passed in the 23cl year of the reign of George 111., for the collection of a rate in aid of the poor in certain districts of Scotland which provided that the money should be collected in the districts to which the relief was to extend, and not in other parts. That was exactly his opinion. He regretted that the extravagance and mis management of the Government in the west of Ire land rendered it necessary that her representatives should oppose the introduction of this measure. The lion. Member then entered into a series of stadsti cal de tails relative to the number and cost of the p lepers in the B illyshannon and Nenagh unions under the guardians, as compared with the period under the charge of Mr. Darcy, and contended that the increased cost in the latter else was owing to the extravagance of the Government officials, and that the Government itself was responsible for the present state of affairs in these unions. He believed that the guardians elected by the rate-payers had been unnecessarily and unjustifiably re moved, and vice-guardians substituted, instead of the guardians being aided, as they ought to have lafen, by competent officers. One of the best features in the plan of the Noble Lord was his proposition of a maximum. The real cause which prevented the cultivation of the land, and the improvement of wastes by the landed pro• prietors, was in many cases the fear that the results of such employment and improvement would be swallowed up by the paupers on other estates. With respect to the proposal of the Right Hon. Baronet, the Member for Tamworth, of a plantation in Connaught should be made similar to that in Ulster, at a former period in its his tory, he should be very happy to see such a plantations if he saw similar results likely to follow. But it could not be effected without the commission of great indiefs dual injustice to certain families, and to proprietors who were willing and ready to discharge all the duties of their position, and to provide employment, but who were deprived of the means of doing se, and bad not got that supp.irt from the Government which they ought to have done. He had been assured by numerous pro prietors in Mayo that they were quite willing to take upon themselves the responsibility of providing employ ment and of supporting the poor on their own estates, but they had themselves been pauperised by the burdens thrown on them from other quarters ; the consequence was that the land was now lying waste, and every body who had a little money was flying from the country. how were they to stop these people from going ? A plan to effect that would be much more beneficial than a mere plan to redistribute burdens, especially when that redistribution was founded upon such palpable injustice. They said the people of Ulster were loyal, peaceable, and industrious, and because they were so they were to be taxed for the support of ano ther portion of the island.—(Hear, hear.) For his own part, he was firmly convinced that a limitation of the area of taxation was the only foundation upon which a better system could be placed. No one thing was, in his opinion, so well calculated to draw out the resources of Ireland as limiting the area of taxation, and had that been part of the Noble Lord's plan ho would have been content to wink at much of the injustice of a rate in aid. The gross and flagrant abuses of the present arbitrary de cisions excited general complaint in Ireland. He knee: one large property through which an imaginary line bad been drawn by the Government officials, separating tt into two electoral divisions. On one side of this finite' nary line there were four or five occupiers, who, being on good terms, made a mutual arrangement to contri• bore to a fund for the employment of the able-bodied , and the result was, that rates in that electoral division some time ago were only 6d. in the pound. On the other side of this imaginary line, however, the same agreement did not subsist between the parties in ecru' pation, and the consequence was that the rates there were 2s. 6d., and he had heard they had since risen to 6e 6d. He thought the Nole Lord would have done well if he had examined and adopted the suggestion s thrown out by a Noble Lord (Stanley) in another, place, that Noble Lord was pr a cti ca lly acqu ainte° with the subject, and had a lar ge p ersona l interesS in it.—(Hear, hear.) His suggestions, if ado tees would have had the most beneficial effect.-odee r ' hear.) With respect to emigration, although in sortie places it might be necessary to set the social machiee in proper working order, yet he believed in most distriele of Ireland the population was really below the require merits of the country, and therefore he had no confidenc e in emigration as a remedy fur the present state of Ire: land. There was no proof that all the resources of t he West had he en exhausted; on the contrary, they had th e strongest evidence that in the Archdioc ese of Tuam th e resources were not expended, for the people of twent3: : seven parishes were about giving in a simultaneous COI lection to the assistance of the Pope Mr. D. CALLAGHAN had listened with get t attention to the exposition of the Noble Premier views in proposing this rate in aid, and he must confess that he went with him in almost all his reasons e el the subject • but he did not go with him i n think; lug that the rate in aid was the proper means meeting the difficulty. Attacks had been ma rls in that House and through the press on th e l an dlords 0 , Ireland anti Le did not mean to stand up in defence of all the landlords of that country, but he felt at the sam e time that some of them were charged with a great maul s f..ults which it was impossible for them to avoid. It W e n said the landlords declined to employ the labourers 0 , their estates, but the landlords of the south of Relent; were almost all of them men who had given leases their land for three lives. In doing that they gavel possession of the land for that ti ee, and consequently Was the farmers wh6 held the land that had the etne,, l l . ment of the labourers.—(Hear, hear.) H e (Mr. tie b , highest) (rid not feel called upon to prop os e any 5 ,e. e stitution for this tax of a r a t e i n a id, an d feet that it was the bound e n d u ty of Ministers e see the people did not starve, he agreed to tb resolutions. The course of legislation ad o pted by Ihis country towards Ireland had tended t o p r oduce 1r ;„ , that coantry a very general opinion that it was t ( S ie borne and ruined by England. He was most decide opposed to the feeling which pervad e d som e of t4lO literary productions of that country. There vras ell which probably many H onoura bl e M em b ers we re w' acquainted with— , " Fruitful our soil, where honest men starve; Empty the mart, and shipless the bay; Out of our want the oligarchs carve— Foreigners fatten on our decay. Disunited, Therefore blighted— Ruined and rent by the Englishman's sway. to Although he believed that Ireland had much cause 4 , complain of the conduct of this co un t r y t ow ards liv e j still he was most anxious to see good feeling pronst 4 e d between the two countries, and a d e sire manifest to bear each other's burdens, and share th e ir good l e tune and prosperity.—(Hear.) Mr. M. J O'CONNELL did not alto ge th er app rove of the wording of the amendment, but he should suePe„ it in preference to the rate in aid proposed by the Govefr o ment. He would rather the restriction as to the o e A taxation of sums below 150/. per annum were re raolv; and he should rather that the tax was to be levied e n fixed incom a, and not on incomes derived from trtgloi and pro , essions. With r e gar d to t h e. general quest i o n se real g for the poor, he was of opinion that such rS ought to be placed up on fi xe d property and rea l incotee oi n e while in reg a rd t o l oca l rates i t was i mpossible to hale 5.010 control over them, so as to prevent the misapplies° le and jobbing which so often took place in the adminisieor, ing of them, unless the parties administering them Iv, control!. d by a sense of local and fisc a l responsibLi(ey He thought the proposition of the Governm en t miger th e so altered as not only to apportion th e ra t e b e tween s he landlord and tenant, but also between 0 landlord and the mortgagee. Had that been dollei, would not have pressed so heavily on i n di v id ua l pal l i d The Noble Lord, in introducing his proposition , e i y that a d s inction ought to be made in regard to fl ns y % settlemen s in the imposing of the rate, a n d t o exclue dependents on property coming und er th a t c lass fr o si the rate ; he could see no obje c ti on . If th e ame ndno of his Honour able and Gallant F r i en d (M a j or Macke filed, then he would be placed in a serious po-it i° He would then have to decide whether he would eer e ' port the rate as proposed by the Government—en d ie regard to that he did not hesitate to say, thet bib such an event he would feel it to be his duty te constituents to support the Government mea su be, faulty as in many cases he felt it to ei ee With re. $ d to the opposition of Hono u r a bl e GentieeToe frnen the north of Ireland, he th o u g ht t h e i r oN:we lt e d came wiih ha grace, as they alw a y s were w ont to bet down the proposition of the late Honourable Ide b Ee n ee far Bath (Mr. Roebuck), who always contended that g ee part of t' e country was not bound t o contr ibute 00, support of the other. But not ouly did they do I se e they likewise had no objection, and, in fact, seeP er „ o 3 measures subjecting all the o t h er p rov i nces i n ire' i b - e it ~, tube taxed the one for the supp or t o f t h e other. tee opposition now, therefore, w ax i ncons i stent. As to ey area of taxation, he considered the electoral divisions e 1 tar too large, but then a difficulty arose how were leis to make representation co -extensive with rating• no e his opinion it would be inconvenient to have be guardian representin g two or mora d i v i s i ons , et g ie thought in rural di s t r i cts some such system as to operation in England should be adopted. In regt eo i. the ep ect, of the Right Honourable Baronet the i t a tier for Tamwor h, last evening, he c o nsidered me e most _ratifying symptom th a t t h at Ri g h t H on . Genii! r ea should have thr o w n o ff hi s usua l caut i on , an d tentl e hn e, very judicio us a d v i ce on t hi s su bj ect. Hi s remarks,cos in some instan ces , me t w ith rat h er severe censure ft some of the Irish Members ; b u t th e y were not the„inte useful in cons e quenc e . H e thought the Right 13 0 . Baronet deserved the thanks of Ireland for the 50 1 be tions he had thrown out, and he hoped they woe', e of taken up in Ireland and acted upon. There coulaee, be a doubt but that the mode of affording relief to land pointed out by him was far more beneficial, l e e ll e , would la,! productive of better results than to give mose - nary relief to the people of that country. ir ported by both sides of the House the Right Hor• el ls roneL's plan might be worked out with the greatest:it vantage; and did it receive that support, and see' n e c,:rried out by the Government, he hesitated not to st, Hen. that the Right H. Gentlem an m i g ht be justly COgi dered as one of Ireland's best benefactors.—(Heen) e t ee Captain JONES was one of th o se who supportel t i o g Irish poor-law, and he considered that were def i l e 00 landlords made to pay th e i r rates now th e r e would beat t o necessity for the pr esen t measure . H e considered n o Cho 100451 1r9 9f ci9Yeziament was insufficient to cal 1,138 562 576 it r ' lie exc did 28E altl in th e et Pas • th e Re for the the • It too atil Ire inf It : Iv o r be