The Sun. — London, England, 1861-04-13 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—YESTERDAY. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock: THE SPIRIT DUTIES. The Earl of EGLINTON presented a petition from the distillers in Ireland praying their lordships to reconsi der the measure passed last session for increasing the duties on spirits. ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS BILL. On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, this bill was read a first time. SECOND READINGS. The following bills were read a second time :—Bristol and South Wales Union Railway, Ederfield Chapel to Little Bolton Road ; Dublin, Wexford, and Wicklow Rail. way. THIRD READINGS. The following bills were read a third time and passed Walbridge Gas, and Isle of Wight Water. SUB-DIVISION OF BENEFICES BILL. Lord LYTTELTON gave notice that on the 18th ho should move that this bill be referred to a select committee, and on the same day bring in a bill to restrain incumbents from giving certain leases. LAW OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES BILL. This bill passed through committee, and was reported. THE DRUSE CHIEFS. The Earl of CARNARVON rose to inquire of her Ma jesty's Government the decision of the Turkish Govern ment in regard to the Druse chiefs now prisoners at Bey rout. He wished to know whether the sentences had been remitted, and whether they had been restored to liberty? He condemned the legal proceedings against the Druses, and said the evidence which convicted them would be worth nothing in an English court of justice , and he felt if ever there was an attempt at judicial murder the sentence on the Druse chieftains was one of them. He considered, as we had sent out a British Minister to that country, we were bound to see that justice was fairly and temperately administered by the authorities in that distant country. Lord W ODE HO USE said he should have been glad if the noble lord had postponed his question until the papers had been laid on the table of the house. The papers con tained the fullest information on the subject. With respect to the Druse chiefs, there were two dis tinct classes. Eleven of them surrendered themselves up at Beyrout, and were now under sentence of death, and Bat another place. With regard to those not at Beyrout it had been proposed to execute some five or six, but the British Government had recommended that only one or two should be executed ; and in that recom mendation the French Government had concurred. With regard to those at Beyrout a difference of opinion prevailed with respect to the fate of the prisoners. He could not state what the ,intentions of the Turkish :Govern ment were—whether it was intenied to carry out the ori ginal intention, or to commute the sentences by some lesser punishment than death. MARINE MUTINY BILL. This bill was read a second time. Their lordships then adjourned. The Earl of ELGIx entered the house during the time the Earl of CARNARTON was speaking, and was most warmly welcomed by the members of the Government present. The noble earl took his seat on the front bench below the gangway. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—YESTERDAY. The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. METROPOLITAN RAILWAYS. The Sheriffs of the City of London appeared at the bar of the house and presented a petition from the Corporation of the City of London, praying that in the case of these lines of railways which were seeking to obtain termini in London, whereby a large number of the working classes would be displaced from their present habitations, provision should be made for the conveyance of the work ing classes from the stations of such railways at cheap rates. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway (Additional Money) ; Exeter and Exmouth Railway; Huddersfield Gas ; Llanidloes and Newtpwn Railway ; Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway ; Oswestry and Newtown Rail way (Branches, &c.) ; Petersfield Railway (Deviation) ; Ryde Water; and Stratford-upon-Avon Railway. The Leeds and Ealand Road Bill and Witney Railway Bill were considered, and ordered for third reading. The Dean Forest and Hundred of St. Briavals and New Forest Bill were read a second time. PETITIONS. Several petitions were presented against and in favour of the Parochial Assessment Bill, in favour of legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister, in favour of the Poor Law Removal Act, from the inhabitants of St. Bride's and St. Dunstan's, London, setting forth the danger that was likely to ensue from making a low line level sewer along Fleet-street, &c. THE CONVICTION AT ARMAGH. Mr. VANCE presented a petition from the Protestant citizens in Dublin relative to the conviction of Tate for the manslaughter of the man Murphy. The petitioners set forth that the dying statement of Murphy, which entirely exculpated Tate of any criminality in the transaction, was withheld from the jury, and that the witnesses Storough and Hepburn were not produced at the trial; that the latter had deposed that Tate was not even present at the time when Murphy was murdered ; and praying for the dismissal of the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General for Ireland from her Majesty's service. CAPTAIN MACDONALD. Lord J. RUSSELL laid on the table a correspondence relative to the arrest of Captain Macdonald. FIRE INSURANCES. Mr. P, P. BOUVERIE moved for an account of all sums paid into the Inland Revenue Office in Great Britain and Ireland for duty on insurances against fire, for the quarters ending severally the 25th day of March, the 24th day of June, the 29th day of September, and the 26th day of December, 1860 ; distinguishing the amount of allowance made to each office for collecting the same in the country, and in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin respectively, with the dates of such payment, together with an abstract showing the gross amount of duty collected in the year by each company ; and, like account of sums insured by each office on farming stock for the game period.—Ordered. MILITIA QUARTERMASTERS. Mr. SCULLY asked the Under Secretary of State for War if his attention had been called to the scale of pay and allowances to militia quartermasters ; and if it was intended to place them more on a par with other staff officers in that branch of the public service. Mr. BARING said that the committee to whom this question had been referred had reported that the pay which the Quartermasters received was sufficient, and, therefore, it was not intended to propose any increase in the amount of their remuneration. THE AMERICAN TARIFF. In reply to Mr. GREGORY, Lord J. RUSSELL said that the Government had re ceived a copy of the American tariff. _ KING'S COLLEGE, ABERDEEN'. Mr. W. LESLIE asked the Secretary to the Treasury, whether the estimates would include a grant for the pur pose of providing certain new buildings at King's College, Aberdeen; and, if so, to state the sum, and the nature of the proposed additional accommodation. Mr. F. PEEL replied in the affirmative, and said that the estimates would be laid on the table in a few days. THE CHRISTIANS IN TURKEY. _ _ _ In reply to Mr. MONSELL, Lord J. RUSSELL said that the correspondence rela tive to the Christians in Turkey had been received by the Government, and would be delivered to members to-mor row or Monday. STATE OF INDIA. Mr. LAYARD said that, as the Secretary for India was not present, he would not propose the following question of which he had given notice, " whether, notwith standing the minute of the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal upon the Report of the Indigo Commission, dated 17th December last, a bill had been introduced into the Legislative Council of India to enforce contracts for the delivery of agricultural produce; and, if so, whether such measure had been introduced with the sanc tion of the Government of India : And, whether he would lay upon the table of the house copies of that report and minute, and of the Act XI. of 1860 of the Indian Legisla ture, together with the correspondence thereon between the Governor. General of Ind ia, the Lieutenant- Governor of Ben gal, the Indigo Planters' Association, and other documents and papers relating to the cultivation of indigo in Bengal." This subject was one of the greatest importance, and he trusted his right hon. friend the Secretary of State for India would shortly be in his place to answer his question. The statement which he (Mr. Layard) had to make on this question would be such as was scarcely ever paralleled in the annals of this house, and exhibited the conduct of the Europeans in India the worst c h arac t er , an d t h e sufferings of the natives'in t hl 7 e onta toost harrowing light. If he was not placed in a posi tion Abkrhit this subject on before Friday next he would sr _ bis question on the motion for adjournment. i..,7.0n alttd_bjeect afforded ICI NNAIRD expressed a hope that an early oppor tunityg s his hon. friend (Mr. Layard) to forward.Eb tsoN MONUMENT—TRAFALGAR- A d miral WALe OTT S erled Aß at E tention to the incomplete state .ef the Nelson rtion - ent in Trafalgar-square, the vote to. complete the sameutilion of • 10,58. Navin; la been granted in the ses- Mr. CO W}'ER admitted that ti , ere was great delay in comp l e ti n g Me monument in aueati— delay in reference ; 14" the re might be some thing worse than . faigar _ square . (L aughter.) The Bona i° F the monument to works in Tra were entrusted for d , 9si g n to that emin entarti st Sir Edwin Landseer. THE DUCHIES OF SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. Mr. H. BAILLIE asked the Secretary of State for Fo reign Affairs whether h tie had any obj eetion to lay on the table of the house the corre epondence with the Governments of Prussia and of Dem rtark, relative to the affairs of the duchies of Schleswig f II Id of Holstein ? The hon. member expresocd his approval" r of the manner in which the noble lord (Lord J. Russell) discharged the duties of his difficult position, but at the same time he considered that it was most desirable the house should be put in possession of the foreign policy the Government proposes to pursue. He then entered into a narrative relating to the hostilities be tween the States and Denmark. Sir H. VERNEY brought forward a motion of a similar character, and expressed a hope that her Majesty's Go vernment would endeavour to mediate so as to arrange the difference between the States. THE TAEPINGS AND THE ENGLISH MISSIONARIES. _ _ Col. SYKES asked whether a series of 13 papers, begin ningwith consularnotiflcations dated the 18th and 29th Dec. 1860, and the 2d of Jan., 1861, comprising narratives of missionary visits ,to Soochou and Nankin in 1860, letters and other documents, and ending with an edict for the tole ration of Christianity by the Taeping king, dated 29th Dec., 1860, papers which had been already published in the North China Herald, the official organ of her Majesty's Legation at Shanghai, had been transmitted to the Foreign-office by her Majesty's Legation at Shanghai ; also whether Consul Mea dows had resigned his office, and if so, on what grounds ? Lord J. RUSSELL having described the different dis putes that had arisen in the States in question since the armed intervention of Austria and Prussia, said that various propositions were made between these States which were not mutually satisfactory. Last year the Danish Govern ment applied to this country, and submitted a proposition to their consideration--certain propositions which her Majesty's Government did not consider would receive the the approval of the German Confederation, and they com municated their views to the Danish Government. The French Government applied to the English Government for any correspondence which had taken place in re ference to these disputes, which was instantly supplied, 1 and M. Thouvenel stated that on the part of France he had adopted a course similar to that pursued by her Majesty's Government. He believed that the Governments of France, Russia, and Sweden were ready to unite with the Government of this country in endeavouring to arrange these differences, but consider able difficulties existed in effecting that object. In Isupport of this statement the noble lord entered into details relative to the conflicting interest and sentiments of the inhabitants of the States in:question. It would be most injurious to the interests of Europe if anything occurred to affect the integrity of Denmark, and the best exertions of her Majesty's Government would be directed to effecting an amicable adjustment of the differ ences that had unfortunately arisen. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord went on to say that although there were many hon. gentlemen in the house who might feel a partiality for Germany or for Denmark, the hon. and gallant member for Aberdeen was the only one who took an interest in the Taepings. (A laugh.) The hon. and gallant member had asked many questions on matters he had read in the North China Herald. In reply to his request, it could not bepro mised that any papers which the Government could give him on the subject should be very quickly laid on the table, because the clerks in the Foreign-office were now fully em ployed in copying, and the printers in printing, other docu ments to be laid before the house. The noble lord then particularised the papers relative to the Chinese rebellion which he should be able to produce. ARTERIAL DRAINAGE. Sir J. SHELLEY wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the promised bill for the amendment of arterial drainage and outfalls would be intro duced by the Government ? Mr. CLIVE said that a bill had been drawn before Easter, but it was found necessary to reconsider and revise it. He hoped that some day before the end of the month it would be presented to the house. EVICTIONS IN DONEGAL. Mr. SCULLY wished to ask the Chief Secretary for Ire land if he had received information that on Monday, the Bth of April inst., a resident magistrate, with a sub-inspec tor and 200 police, assisted the sheriff of the county of Donegal to evict 45 families, numbering about 280 persons, from the townland of Derrybaugh in that county ? They had heard in that house a good deal about oppressed na tionalities, but he defied any member of the house to find a parallel out of Ireland for such a scene as that which was enacted on the occasion referred to. The hon. gentleman read from the Dublin _Daily Express, a Tory paper, and also from the Londonderry Standard, an account of the evic tions. He had often heard the noble lord at the head of the Government quote the words pudet ha3c opprobria, &c., and he would now ask him and the Government whether some means, such as the compelling of the landlord to maintain for some time the persons he evicted could not be devised to check this constant eviction of human beings from their homes. It was true that the steward of the landlord had been brutally murdered near the scene of these proceedings, bnt he did not think that justified the wlplesale eviction of so many persons. "He found no fault - with the resident magistrate, Mr. Dillon, who appeared to have performed his duty in a humane and considerate manner. . . Mr. CARDWELL said that he had received no official account of the transaction to which his hon. friend referred, nor could he have received any account within the time since the notice had been given. He understood his hon. friend acquitted the officers of the crown of any charge of inhumanity, and admitted that they performed their duty in a considerate and humane manner. With regard to the exercise of his private rights by the gentleman in question, he could not express any opinion, having no official report, and knowing only the facts as they appeared in the columns of the newspaper. But he believed no member of that house would say a word in vindication or extenuation of any indiscriminate evictions, or of any unkind and un feeling exercise of private rights. As a matter of fact, however, he must state that the steward of this gentle man had been recently murdered, and that the mur derers had not been brought to conviction. On a recent occasion also the premises in which this gentleman had been sleeping were set on fire. These were facts which ought to be known. But in the absence of official informa tion he declined to express any opinion. STOPPAGE OF SAILORS' PAY. Sir J. PAKINGTON said he wished to ask his noble friend the Secretary of the Admiralty whether it was true that there had been a delay in the payment of sailors in Portsmouth Harbour; if true, to what [extent it was true, whether the practice extended to Plymouth or any other harbours besides Portsmouth, and what were the reasons for withholding the pay. He asked these questions in con sequence of a paragraph which appeared in the Times on Monday last, which stated that great dissatisfaction was felt by the men in consequenv. This statement appeared to give some colour to rumours which had reached him some time before, but to whichbe gave no credit, that the pay of the men was postponed with a financial object till after the financial year. Lord C. PAGET said the Admiralty had not received any complaints of the nature to which his right hon. friend alluded. He also wished distinctly to state the Admiralty had in no case withheld the pay of the men for a financial object. When sailors desired to send money to their wives or friends there were two modes of doing so; they could either remit the pay themselves or remit a portion of it as it became due. When they saw it stated that some discon tent existed amongst the men they referred to Portsmouth on the subject, and the report came up that day, but he had not had time to see it himself. Besides the portion of the pay paid to the wives, the men had a monthly allowance, which was made to them at all times. At this period of the year the books of the ships in the home ports were made up and the balance due to the men was handed over to them by remittances ; that was to say, they were permitted to remit it to their friends. A few days before the books were made up the men were asked whether they wished to remit a por tion of their pay, and a great many of them did wish to do so, and then they wrote to their friends to state that they had remitted so and so—Ls for instance—aid the parties probably expected to receive it by return of post. It was impossible, however, they could do so, and sometimes they had to wait till the end of the month before the order could be got from the Accountant-General for the payment of these remittances. Lord FERMOY said before the question was put he wished to tender his thanks to his hon. friend (Mr. Scully ) for having called the attention of the house to the recent evictions which had taken place in Ireland. The right hon. gentleman had alluded to the murder of Mr. Dare's steward There might be one person or ten persons guilty on the estate, but that was no justification for victimising 270 in nocent persons. It appeared that the sheriff and police were present to do their duty, but there was another legal officer who was not present—the relieving officer—whose duty it was to have been present to convey these poor persons to the workhouse, instead of their being left, as they were the whole night, on a bare mountain without shelter. MEXICAN BONDHOLDERS. Mr. BUTT, who had given notice of a motion for an address for copies of any convention providing for the ap• propriation of the customs duties of any of the Mexican ports to the payment of the claim of the bondholders, said he was quite ready to go on with his motion, but he under stood fromthe noble lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs that he did not expect a discussion to-night, and he would, therefore, postpone his motion till Tuesday. RELIGIOUS WORSHIP. Mr. L. KING obtained leave to bring in a bill to afford facilities for performing divine service by ministers of the Church of England and Ireland. SMOKE NUISANCES (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill passed through committee. _ _ ANNOYANCE JURORS (WESTMINSTER) BILL. This bill was read a second time. POST-OFFICE SAVINGS BANK BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. LONDON COAL AND WINE DUES CONTINU- ANCE BILL. On the motion of Sir G. C. LEWIS, the commitlee on this bill was postponed till Monday. CHARITABLE USES BILL. This bill was read a second time. SUPPLY—COMMITTEE, ADJOURNED DEBATE. Mr. LONUFIELD, in resuming the adjourned debate on Ithe amendment of the hon. baronet, the member sfor Tavi r4ek (Sir J. Trelawny), viz. :—that instead of the speaker nviug the chair, " while this heuse is prepared to contri • bate all the aid in its power to the eaecutive in putting down rebellion inher Majesty's colony of New Zealand, yet, having regard to the treaty of Waitangi, it would rejoice to hear that the difficult and complicated question of the title to the block of land at the Waitara is to be the subject of inquiry before a special tribunal immediately on the re assertion of the: Queen's :authority," said that the govern ment last evenineclaimed absolute exemption from blame on the part of the governor of New Zealand, while he thought the most that could be said was that while possessing the best intentions possible to act rightly, he had been betrayed into a fatal error in waging war with those whose rights ought to be respected. It was well known that the. settlers when they went to buy the land knew that the title to it was disputed. It, was admitted that there was a tribal right to the land. If the Government had simply contended that the settlers could make a better use of the land than the natives of New Zealand, it would be quite a different matter; but they overlooked the rights of the natives, and urged that Governor Brown was right in all his transactions with the natives, and that Wm. King was wrong in every instance, If the hon. baronet went to a division he, should vote for the amendment. Mr. LOWE said the question admitted of a plain state ment being made in very few words. The colony was in habited by two races, Europeans and Maories. The Euro peans possessed the northern part, and the southern was occupied by the Maories. The rights of the Queen had been settled by the treaty of Waitangi, and under it she was enabled to extinguish the native title to the land which was purchased. It was stipulated that the Queen should have the right of pre-emption, so that she might be the interme diary between the settlers and the natives in land transac tions, and thus prevent disputes arising. The Government of New Zealand entered into an agreement with certain persons for a large Flew of their land, situate on the river Waitara, and on concluding the bargain a map was laid at the feet of the governor symbolical of its covering the land sold to him. Subsequently the chief, Wm. King, came forward and said the land (belonged to those persons, but that he would not allow them to dispose of it, and the whole question was whether this chief was justified in the course he had pursued. The question seemed to him (Mr. Lowe) to be one of an exceedingly simple solution. The chief gave no reasons for his conduct; he did not appeal to any court, tribunal, or authority, but he simply spoke as one sovereign would to another, " I hold the land in my hand, and I will not let`it go." He also said that they (the sel lers) had floated the land, but that he would not let it go to sea. The chief began by stating that he had no pro perty in the land, yet he would not let the settlers purchase and take possession of it. This was an exceedingly simple case, and it merely amounted to this : that this chief, being very strong, and confident in his own power, defied the English Government, and inter vened between the natives, who wished to sell, and the British Government, who wished to buy. By the simple exercise of his sole power he would not allow the sale and purchase to take place. The result of such a course led to acts of violence, and then war broke out between the natives and the colonial Government. There was a land league, with William King at the head of it, organised fiir the purpose of preventing the sale of any more land to the Government, and he was carrying out that policy in defiance of the treaty of Waitangi. The chiefs had thrown off their allegiance to the Queen, and it was absolutely necessary that the colonial Government should exert the royal autho rity by force of arms. [At this point, there being only about 25 members pre sent, an hon. member moved that the house be counted. Before the glass had run out about 25 other members came into the house from the lobbies, and there were conse quently more than 40 members present when the Speaker had finished counting.] Mr. LOWE continued—lt must be admitted that only one interpretation could be placed upon the conduct of Wm. King when read by the light of the transactions connected with it. It was sought to be made out that that chief could by the exercise of his veto prevent the sale of this land. But it must be proved strictly that he possessed that right. Was the right in him, in the tribe, or in ene of the families ? Next, what was the custom in reference to the disposition of land ? Did the majority of the tribe sell it, or must they be unanimous ? Then again, what were the powers of the chief ? Could he act independently of the tribe or not ? All these were difficult questions, and must be proved by those who set up this right to the land, but it could not be established. It must be remembered that they had to deal with a semi savage race of people, where right was akin to might. Still the proof lay 'upon those who asserted the right ; but the presumption of right was with those persons who came forward to sell their land. There was no proof of any tribal right, no proof that this man, Wm. King, was the chief of the tribe, no proof that any agreement had been come to by the tribe or any part of it that he should veto this sale and purchase, or that he should act as their agent in the matter. On the other hand, all the presumptions were in favour of the real owners and the Government of the colony. Even if Wm. King had been in the right he had put himself in the wrong. He ought to have appealed to some competent tribunal, or to the governor. If the Government acted upon the principles now urged by some hon. members other horrors and outrages would ensue. Whatever might have been tha cause of quarrel, the strug gle was now one between the two races for power and do minion. The Maories wished to drive the English into the sea, while the English hoped to become possessed of their land. (Hear.) He hoped the houso would not agree to any resolution which would show that they had no confidence in the governor of the colony. Mr. ADDERLEY thought the discussion on this amend ment promised to bo of very little use in its protraction. According to his view of the discussion, if it proved anything it proved that this question could not be usefully dealt with by that house. (Hear, hear.) That was apparent during the speech of the right hon. gentleman who had just sat down, and from the present attenuated, he might say moribund, state of the house. (There were about 25 mem bers present.) He thought it would be awaste of time to at tempt to come to any satisfactory conclusion en the ques tion when it had been found impossible to do so in the colony itself. If the views of those who desired to censure the governor were sound, it would be absolutely impossible to hold land in New Zealand at all. The war was now raging, and it must be finished before they could usefully discuss the question. But the chancesof its beingcentinued would be increased by this discussion, if a report of it should reach the colony before the war was brought to a conclu sion. The colony had been allowed to have representative institutions, and the Parliament . of New' Zealand would not allow the House of Commons to decide this important question for them. Since those institutions had been granted the native interests had been carefully attended to ; and who were more interested in the welfare and hap piness of the natives than the colonists themselves ? (Hear, hear.) He believed that they might safely entrust the colonists to maintain good faith with thenatives. After the war was concluded it would be necessary to revise the law of 1853, and to strike out those clauses in the act which implicated the English parliament in any way with . - questions of this sort, and to leave them to be dealt with by persons on the spot, who would more easily put an end to them, and also prevent many disturbances from arising. Mr. KENNARD regretted that so very few members were present during this discussion, and also the entire want of a few words of conciliation from the government in this case. They were all united in feeling that the rebel lion must be put down, but they had hoped the government would make some declaration that the treaty of Waitangi should be adhered to, that all disputed questions should be clearly settled, and that the law should be made more simple for the future. The government, however, seemed determined to press forward the war, and to attend more to the interests of the colonists than to the natives. He regretted the tone which the government had adopted upon this subject, but he did not see any use in continuing the debate. (Hear, hear.) Colonel DUNNE said he merely rose to say that Colonel Brown, the governor of New Zealand, was his personal friend, and that there was no man living who could be more trusted than he to deal with the natives in a spirit of fair ness and justice. He hoped the house would not pass a vote of censure upon a man doing his duty in a distant part, and under very great difficulties. Mr. DUNLOP did not understand that the resolution implied a censure upon the governor of New Zealand, but that it was simply intended to shorten the war, and bring it to a conclusion by showing the natives that the questions between them and the settlers should be dealt with fairly and properly by ajudicial tribunal. It was not the wish of himself and others to exterminate the race of the Maories, but to lead them to believe that the Government would do them all the justice their case deserved, and that their rights in the land would be respected. He should support the amendment if the house divided. (Hear, hear.) The house divided— For going into committee For the amendment 24-14 The Speaker then left the chair. NAVY ESTIMATES. £161,157 Admiralty-office. Mr. WILLIAMS requested an explanation of the great increase in the number of clerks. The salaries of these additional gentlemen amounted to no less than £8,117. Lord C. PAGET said it was caused by a corresponding diminution in the number of extra clerks, who had in reality been regularly employed. On the whole, there was a reduction in the vote. The item was then agreed to, as were the following : £253,422 , coast-guard service, royal naval coast volun teers, and royal naval reserve. £G3,851, scientific branch. £172,947, establishments at home. £33,640 establishments abroad. £1,112,126, artificers, &c., at home. £67,828, artificers, &c., abroad. £66,000. medical stores. £90,510, miscellaneous, £684,016, half-pay. £486,430, military pensions. £180,397, civil pensions and allowances. £247,000, conveyance of troops. Lord C. PAGET postponed votes 10 and 1 1(£3,489,477, naval stores for building and outfitting fleet, steam vessels, machinery, and ships built by contract; and £469,835 for new works). He did so in consequence of a motion which the hon. member for Sunderland (Mr. Lindsay) proposed t o bring forward on the subject. The orders were then disposed of, and the house ad journed at 9 o'clock, TIIE SUN, LONDON, :SATURDAY BOROZTGH OF MARYLEBONE ELECTION. Last night a crowded and influential preliminary public meeting of the electors of this borough took place at the Victoria Tavern, Mornington-road, St. Pancras, convened specially for the purpose of hear ing an exposition of the political opinions of Har vey Lewis, ;Esq., of Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor square, late Liberal candidate for Hull. J. R. Collins, Esq., vestryman of St. Pancras, was unanimously called to the chair, and supported by Messrs. Nicholay, Whitmore, D'lffanger, jun., Douglass, Ross, and a large number of other old and influential Reformers. The circular convening the meeting having been read, Mr. PETER GRAHAM, on rising to introduce Mr. Lewis, said he was one of those who brought that gentleman forward. He was a descendant from an eminent Welsh family of the highest respectability, who had studied for the bar, but at the death of his father, found himself in possession of an ample for tune, and now he was extensively engaged in banking and commercial pursuits, a large proprietor and active director of one of the most prosperous joint-stock banks in the country, and chairman of the Mercantile Marine Insurance Company. Mr. Lewis, from his great experience and knowledge of how to conduct business, and from his study for the legal profession, was just the kind of man they wanted to represent this great constituency in Par liament in place of Mr. Edwin James, whose resig nation he regretted. He (Mr. Graham) then called called upon Mr. Harvey Lewis to state to them his political principles, and hoped they would badger him well. (Laughter and applause.) Mr. HARVEY LEWIS, in an able and lengthened exposition of his political opinions, said he ad-1 dressed that meeting with considerable embarrass ment, inasmuch as he looked upon it as representing the intelligence of this important district of the borough, and hoped he would be acquitted from any charge of presumption in aspiring to the post so ably occupied by that learned gentleman, Mr. Edwin James. Although he (Mr. Lewis) had been defeated when he was a candidate for Hull, he was not ashamed of his antecedents, and had the pleasure of being able to refer them to the marked kindness he received from the Liberal electors on that occasion, and he had the proud satisfaction of being able to exhibit at any time of his life a testimonial subscribed for by 12,000 working men of that con stituency. (Hear, hear.) Therefore he felt, without a blush of shame, he could come before a greater constituency and say he was prepared to represent them in default of a better man. (Hear.) He took it that no Tory or lukewarm Liberal had any right to seek their suffrages. His political opinions were thoroughly, completely, and unalter ably Liberal. He viewed with very great regret the way Reform had been shelved in the House of Commons. He was for Reform, and was anxious for as great extension of the suffrage as would meet the growing requirements of the age. He was a thorough advocate for the Ballot, for economy and retrenchment, and the total abolition of church rates, although he was a firm Protestant and mem ber of the Established Church. He was also in favour of Law Reform as absolutely and essentially necessary; and it was almost a work of supereroga tion to say that he was a friend to Free Trade. In regard to his foreign politics, he believed this coun try was not called upon to fight about the quarrels of other countries, and their assistance by moral, and not physical force, was all the assistance they ought to give, and which they should offer to every foreigner struggling for his freedom. (Cheers.) He was a bitter opponent of centralisation—(hear, hear)— and he thought it was very much to be de sired that all attempts to interfere with their local interests should be promptly put down. If the feeling of that meeting was favourable to him he should at once declare himself as a candidate, but he entreated the Liberal electors not to be divided. If they honoured him with their confidence, as long as he had life it should never be betrayed. (Ap plause.) Mr. WHITMORE moved, and Mr. SILAS TAYLOR seconded, the following resolutions :—" That the political principles of Mr. Harvey Lewis, as ex pressed by him this evening, are in perfect accord ance with those entertained by a large majority of the electors of Marylebone, and this meeting is of opinion that he thereby is well qualified to repre sent the borough in the Commons House of Parlia ment, and pledges itself to give him its cordial support." After a variety of questions had been satisfacto rily answered, Mr. Alderman BLUNDELL, who has been mayor and magistrate of Hull, gave Mr. Lewis a very ex cellent character, and strongly recommended him as an honest politician, well deserving to be a re presentative of this borough. Mr. Jour' BRADY, M.P., and other gentlemen having supported the resolution, it was then put to the meeting and carried but with but one solitary dissentients, amidst profound applause. Mr. LEwis, in returning thanks, hoped that no division in the Liberal interest would take place, and as it had been intimated by their ehairman that the election would would take place so early as Wednesday next, no time should be lost to call an aggregate public meeting, when he was willing to have his name submitted with others, and to abide by that decision, rather than any split of ,the party should ensue. The usual compliment to the chairman closed the proceedings. Ainongst the candidates for election now talked of are Mr. Wingrove Cooke, recently one of the correspondents of the Times in China; Mr. Phinn, Q C., late member for Bath ; Mr. Montagu Chambers, late member for Greenwich; Mr. Marshman, late Chairman of the Electric Tele graph Company ; and Mr. Campbell, a wealthy Australian merchant. Mr. GEORGE WINGROVE COOKE met some friends in the borough last night who approved of his address, and entered into arrangements to secure his return. Meetings were appointed to be held in all parts of the borough at the earliest possible period to give him an opportunity of personally expressing his opinions. MARRIAGE WITS A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. An influential and numerously attended public meeting was held yesterday in connection with the Marriage Law Defence Association, at Willis's rooms, for the purpose of opposing such a change is the Marriage Law as would render marriage with a wife's sister legal. Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood occupied the chair, and on the plat form were noticed, among others—Lord Redesdale, the Hon. J. Napier, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Bishop of Moray and Ross, the Bishop of La the M.P.'Mr. G. Northcote, Rev. Principal Cuning and Mr. A. J. B eres f or d having l beeenoffer chairman,sd up in bythe Dean e, R , os H oni fAron W. Westminster,T . T. e L J ra y m g th oe Palmer,n, s open ing which w the proceedin gs, hel din t said hatm thatrroom at last th year, e he meeting, had been called upon to move a resolution, and had addressed them at seine len g th u p on t h e subject they had met to consider. He should not, there fore, detain them long himself, but would indicate those gentlemen who would address them, and who would take part in the deliberations of that day. Last year they had the Duke of Marlborough in the chair, and they had also the assistance of two distinguished prelates—the Bishop of Oxford and the Bishop of St. David's, who were prevented by I their official duties from giving aid on the present occasion—they had also the assistance of many of the laity, because they desired it to be known that the present question was not purely an ecclesiastical one. It was not even a moral question alone, but it must be regarded as pre-eminently a social ques tion, deeply affecting every family in the country, because it was a question affecting the alteration of that law which had been the law of England ever since the existence of England itself. The Hon. J. Napier moved the first resolution,—" That this meeting is convinced that any alteration of the mar , riage law which would prevent marriage with a wife's sister, or any other person within the degrees of consanguinity, now prohibited by law, would be fraught with great danger and injury to religion, morality, and family. life." The Bishop of Salis bury, in seconding the motion ' said he had just ar rived from S a li s b ur y to attend the meeting by in vitation. He felt some reluctance to enter into a subject which touched upon one of the most delicate of God's institutions, but the arguments of their opponents compelled him to come forward and speak against the conduct of men who had impiously out raged the laws of God and man. The restrictions on our marriage laws had existed for, upwards of 1,200 years, and our very liberty depended upon their being maintained in the present state. Mr. Colquhoun supported the motion, which was then carried unanimously. Mr. Beresford Hope moved, " That this meeting will endeavour to promote by every means in its power an effective resist ance to the bill now before the House of Commons , for legalising such marriages." He said there were some evils on the side of Constitutional Govern ment. Great political questions were settled satis factorily, but great social questions were often turned out of the right path by a most contemp tible by-current. He advised them to petition, to agitate, and to put pressure upon their repre sentatives, and also to impress upon them that voting against the wishes of four-fifths of the respectable population of England would be very likely to cost them their seats. The motion was carried, and a vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. r - EVENING, APRIL .- l3, 1861. El IRAORDINARY CAPTURE. By means of the Wakefield police, the perpetra tor of a most daring burglary, which took place in London in December, has been captured, with the greater part of the proceeds in his possession. On Wednesday evening week a person named John Adams attempted to change a S 5 note for beer at the Wakefield Arms Hotel. Mr. Macdonnold obtained possession of the note, and he was of opinion that it was a forged one, but on further examination at the police-office it was found to be good. Adams said he had found the note at Hull. This statement (his character not being of the best) the police gave no credit to, and Mr. Macdonnold, Inspector Frost, and Constable Perkin visited the house of his mo ther, in Cain's-yard, Westgate. Search was made, but at first with no result, except the finding of a large quantity of clothing, blankets, quilting, and other articles—all new, and of the best quality— which, though found in their presence, the mother and family denied all knowledge of. The finding of these articles stimulated the police to renew their search, and eventually Inspector Frost found in an old box a gold watch, and on a more care ful examination, from a hole which he unripped, out fell a roll of notes—four £5 and five £lO bank-notes. Mrs. Adams was at once taken up on the charge of receiving stolen goods. From inqui ries made by the police it was found that many notes had been changed both at Wakefield and Leeds, and information was given to the London police. On Friday the mother and son were brought before the magistrates and remanded, In the meantime word was received from the London police that the notes and gold watch had been taken from the house of a gentleman in Harrow-on .the-Hill, near London, in December last. The amount known to have been taken was £125 and a gold watch, but the amount the Wakefield police have traced leads to the belie: that more was taken. The circum stances connected with the robbery are very strange. The gentleman is named St. Leger, and on the day of the robbery he went out to dine, leaving his servants—of whom there were several—in the house, as also a very fierce watch dog, which is let loose during the evening in the house. On his return home he found the notes and gold watch had dis appeared, and he immediately charged the servants with the theft. They each and all declared their innocence, and also persisted in saying that they had never left the house during his absence. A detective, however, was employed, and he succeeded in elucidating that the servants, with one exception, a housemaid, who was left with the dog to take care of the house, had been away during the night. The detective was still of opinion that it would be impossible for any person to enter the house with the dog in it, and ultimately the housemaid con fessed that she had been to a publichouse and had taken the dog with her, and it was during that time that the robbery must have been committed. Mr. St. Leger on this dismissed the whole of his servants, and up to the capture of Adams by our police not the slightest trace has been found as to the robbery or the notes which were stolen. Of these only one has passed to the Bank of England, where payment had been stopped, and that was traced to a Mr. Brady, clothier, of Leeds. On Sun day last Detective Smith arrived, and on Monday conveyed the prisoner John Adams to London. Before leaving the prisoner acknowledge that he had committed the burglary. He is a Wakefield man, and last Dec. he left his work at Mr. Shepherd's industrial school, inducing two other persons to leave with him. They tramped it to London by way of Manchester, arriving in London in a very destitute condition. After the robbery had been committed the prisoner said he was very nearly being robbed himself in St. Giles's out of the proceeds, only waking from sleep just in time to catch a fellow walking off with his trousers containing the money. The prisoner had also one or two almost romantic escapes from being taken into custody. He is to be brought up on Wednesday next at one of the London police courts. POLICE TELLIGENCE.-April 12. GUILDHALL.—THE EXTENSIVE FRAUDS ON FOREIGN FIRMS BY A PRISONER IN THE QUEEN'S BENCH.—Edward SeFers, a prisoner in the Queen's Bench Prison, who, it was alleged, had traded in the names of" Charles Reil and C 0.," of 12, Saint Andrew's-road, Southwark ; "J. F. Dodson and Son," of Newman-street, and" Segers and C 0.," of 38, Saint Mary-axe, and afterwards of Lime-street, was brought up on remand, with a woman named Elizabeth Smith, before Sir F. G. Moon, charged with conspiring together, and with others not in custody,. to obtain by false pretences goods to the various amounts of £7O, £l2O, and £5OO, with intent to cheat and defraud Mr.Cozzi of Paris, Mr. Pierre Torycadet, of Nice, and Mr. Bernstein, of Hamburgh, respectively. Mr. Laxton conducted the prosecution on behalf of Mr. Cozzi and Mr. Torycadet; Mr. Orridge, prosecuted in the case of Mr. Bernstein ; and Mr. Lewis, jun., was for the defence. Mr. Wavell, from Stubbs's Trade Protection Establishment, attended to watch the proceedings on behalf of a number of Continental, as well as English firms, who have been victimised by per sons believed to be connected with the same gang of which the prisoner Segers is alleged to be a member. Mr. Laxton said he was in hopes that he should have been able to have completed his case on the present occasion, but it had unfortunately happened that in the case of Mr. P. Torycadet, a material witness of the name of Leopard was too ill to attend and he should therefore have to ask for a remand on that account, in addition to which the prosecutor had not been able to reach here in time for this examination, and it would be impossible to com plete the case without him. With regard to the charge against the female prisoner, it was thought she could give material evidence which would lead to the most important disclosures, and it was there fore, desirable that the case should not be proceeded with against her. Bull, the detective officer, who has been engaged. with Baker, another officer, in getting up the evi dence in these cases, said he was satisfied that the female prisoner would afford the police every assistance if she were discharged. Sir F. G. Moon said he could see clearly that the female prisoner ought to be discharged, as it was evident she had been made the instrument of the prisoner Segers, but he did not propose to discharge her without having some security for her appear ance if she should be wanted hereafter. Mr. Orridge then proposed to state the facts of his case, although he did not intend to offer any evidence until the next hearing. Mr. Lewis objected to any ex parte statement being made where the object was obviously to pre judice the prisoner. A statement had already gone forth that the prisoner had obtained goods from foreign houses to the extent of £20,000, but he was instructed by Segers that there was no truth in tha assertion. Sir F. G. Moon said the interests of justice re quired that he should investigate these charges most carefully, and the publicity that a statement of facts, to be substantiated by evidence at a future hearing, would obtain, would enable the prosecutors to arrive at information which they could have no other means of reaching, and for that reason he thought it desirable to allow Mr. Orridge to state his case, although he did not call evidence in sup port of it at present. Mr. Orridge said he should be able to show on a future occasion that the prisoner Segers, in con nexion with a man named Altorff, defrauded Mr. Bernstein, of Hamburg, of a quantity of wine, to the value of ,E,500 ; that the wine was paid for by bills accepted in the name of Edward Segers and Co., and dishonoured when they came to maturity. It would also be shown that at one time the pri soner was trading under the name of "J. F. Dodgson and Son," of Newman-street. Mr. Lewis said the prisoner had been sued on those bills, and after eight months' imprisonment obtained his discharge by a compromise of the matter with the person of whom he had the wine. Mr. Orridge said, until this case appeared in the newspapers his clients had no idea that the pri soner had been carrying on such an extensive system of fraud, and as the fact of his being in custody became more generally known other charges would be preferred against him of a similar cha racter. Sir F. G. Moon then discharged the woman on her own recognisances in £2O to appear and give evidence if required, and remanded the prisoner Segers until Saturday the 20th April, on which day the examination will commence at ten o'clock in morning. Mr. Lewis applied that the prisoner should be remanded back to the Queen's Bench under the habeas upon which he was originally brought up, instead of being sent to Newgato. Sir F. G. Moon said he had not the power to remand out of the jurisdiction of the court, and if he had he did not think it would be desirable to send the prisoner elsewhere than to Newgate. Mr. Lewis said in that case he would apply to a judge to order the prisoner's discharge from New gate. LAMBETH. —CHARGE OF OBTAINING GOODS BY MEANS OF FICTITIOUS CHEQUES.—LeopoId Treu man, a German, and John Henry Zimmerman, for merly of 30, St. Mary-axe, where he carried on business in the names of Zimmerman and Son, were brought up on remand from Saturday last, and placed at the bar before the Hon. G. C. Norton, charged with having obtained goods from various tradesmen by fraud and fictitious cheques. Mr. Lewis, jun., was engaged for the prosecution, on behalf of the Trade Protection Society, Gresham. street; and Mr. Neale for the prisoner, Mr. ( Wavell, chief inspector of the society, also attended en its behalf. The particulars of the former examination were given in our paper on Monday last, when it appeared that the charge then preferred against them was for defrauding Messrs. Atkinson and Co. of pro perty by means of a fictitious cheque, drawn in the name of a person purporting to be Charles Richards, and which was made payable at the Messrs. Spiel mans, bankers, Lombard-street. It was presented there, when it was found that no one of that name kept an account there. It was subsequently dis covered that a short time ago Zimmerman opened an account at the bank, and that when he did so he obtained a cheque-book, which he had made use of in carrying on his frauds. Inspector Hubbard, of the L division, who had the case in hand, and who has been most active in his inquiries, asked for a remand in order to pro duce further charges against the prisoner for similar frauds committed by them on Messrs. Shoolbred and Co., of Tottenham-court-road, and on Mr. Jay, 247, Regent•street. Previous to the investigation of these cases, Mr. Lewis, jun., stated that the prisoners had been practising for a length of time a succession of frauds by means of fictitious cheques, and he stated that it was their practice as soon as the goods were obtained to pawn them, by which they had succeeded in getting a considerable sum of money. The articles were ordered by Treuman, who gave for them a fictitious cheque, which was drawn in the name of Richards, and which was made payable at the bank of Messrs. Spielmans. It was his duty to say that the public and tradesmen in general were somewhat indebted to the Trade Protection Society, for which he appeared, for having undertaken the prosecution of the case, and which was anxious that the c h arge against he prisoners should be fully investigated. The other cases were then proceeded with, when it appeared that on the 30th March Treuman ob tained at Messrs. Shoolbred's, a carpet and other articles of the value of about £l5, and that on the same day they were pledged at Mr. Attenborough's, Greek-street, Soho, for £9 10s. Treuman then gave a cheque wish the signature of Mr. Fisher attached to it, on the 27th of March. The same prisoner got a Cashmere shawl, 32 yards of glace silk, of the value altogether of .£2B, for which he gave a cheque, signed Henry Richards, and which was pledged the same day at Messrs. Attenborough's. Mr. Lewis now asked for a remand. This was granted, and the prisoners were re manded for a week. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. WHITEHALL, APRIL 12. _ The Queen has been pleased to nominate the Reverend Morton Drummond, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Exmoor, in the counties of Somerset and Devon, and diocese of Bath and Wells, the same being void by the resignation of the Reverend William Henry Thornton. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. John M'Gregor to the Church of Kinlock Luichart, in the parish of Contin, in the Presbytery of Dingwall, and shire of Ross, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. Evan Mac kenzie Masson to the Church and Parish of Dull, in the Presbytery of Weem. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, APRIL 12. 9th Regiment of Light Dragoons—For First Lieutenant John Chaytor, from the Tipperary Artillery Militia, be Captain, without purchase, vice Oliver Ormerod, &c. as stated in the Gazette of 9th instant, read, First Lieu• tenant John Chaytor, from the Tipperary Artillery Militia, to be CornetJwithout purchase, vice Oliver Ormerod, &c. CHAPLAIN'S DEPARTMENT. The Reverend Sydney Clark to be Chaplain of the Fourth Class. NAVAL PRIZE MONEY. Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy, - Admiralty, Somerset-House, April 9. Notice is hereby given to all persons interested therein that preparations are now being made for the intended dis tribution of the proceeds received and tonnage and slave bounties awarded for the brigantine, name unknown, cap tured on the 26th September, 1859, by her Majesty's ship Spitfire. Agents or other persons having any just and legal de mand, unliquidated, against the said proceeds are required to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that the same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that officer, and paid under the sanction of the Judge of the said Court. Agents and all other persons holding powers of attorney, prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue of which they may be legally entitled to elaim the share belong ing to any captor, are requested, with as little delay as pos sible, to transmit the same, accompanied by the usual docu ments, to the Prize Branch of the Department of the Accountant *General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset house. Due notice will be given, by future advertisements in the London Gazette of the date proposed for the commencement of distribution ; and ? at the same time, the amount of an individual's share in the respective classes will be an nounced. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Thomas Blaber Daniel, ironmonger, High-street, Poplar, John Vingoe, builder, Westbourne-grove, Bayswater. BANKRUPTS. John King, hatter and clothier, Shepard's-terrace, West India Dock-road, to surrender April 26, at one, and May 23, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. George Woodruff, butcher, Manchester, April 26 and May 15, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. John Lake, builder, Peage, Surrey, April 25, at half-past twelve, and May 24, at eleven, at th e C our t o f B an k ruptcy. John Calverley, builder, Maida-vale, Middlesex, April 25 and May 24, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Joseph Jackson, hatter, Brighton, April '23, at half-past two, and May 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John Weston, tailor, Leek, Staffordshire, April 24 and May 13, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Henry Norris and Wm. Norris, jun., builders, Hackney, April 24, at two, and May 22, a t half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John James Christopher Young, licensed victualler, Stonebridge-common, Kmgsland, Middlesex, April 24, at half-past one, and May 22, at twelve, at the Court of Bank. ruptcy. William James Webb, rug manufacturer, Ball's Pond road, April 25, and May 23, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Henry Austin, manufacturing chemist, Bermondsey street, Bermondsey, April 25, at half-past one, and May 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Samuel Webb, builder, Sudbury, April 22 and May 27, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alfred Edward Williams, cooper, Stainsby-road, Lime house, April 25 and May 28, at 'twelve, a t th e C our t o f Bankruptcy. Samuel Wynn, contracter, Upper Tranmere, Cheshire, April 26 and May 17, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. John Robinson, plumber, Liverpool, April 24 and May 13, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Demetrius Stephen Pezzali and George Stephen Pezzali, merchants, Great Tower-street, April 24, at two, and May 27, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. George Frederick Barrett, ironfounder, Baker's-row, Clerkenwell, April 22, at half-past two, and May 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Philemon Roberts, grocer, Darlaston, Staffordshire,April 26 and May 17, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Uourt. John Knighton, licensed victualler, Nottingham, April 2i and May 16, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Thomas Hunter, grocer, Edinburgh. Peter Elder, farmer, Summerhill, near Aberdeen. Robert Finlayson, grocer, Edinburgh. William Stewart Andrew, Glasgow. James Siliars, blacksmith, Glasgow. James Wilson, jun., wrip ht, Glasgow. M'Allan Brothers, calico printers, Glasgow. Robert Gardiner, grocer, Aberdeen. Robert Bald, ironmonger, Glasgow. Robert Cruickshanks, grocer, Auchinairn, Lanarkshire. George Longstaff, public-house keeper, Castleton, Rog. burghshire. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Sth Victoria cap. 32, for the week ending on 'Wednesday, the 10th day of April, 1861: ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued ......£26,818,700 Government Debt £11,615,100 Other Securities .. 3,459,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 11,525,338 Silver Bullion .... 848,362 £26,843,700 £26,848,700 BANKING D Proprietors' Capi tal £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- ) EPARTMENT. Government Secu . rities (including Dead Weight A nnuity) £10,222,938 Other Securities 18,816,006 Notes Gold and Silver Coin 748,732 counts) 4,902,527 Other Deposits 13,201,791 Seven Day and other Bills 653,155 £36,478,036 M. £3(1,4,036 SHALL, Chief Cashi7Ber. Dated April 11, 1861. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Musco va d o S ugar, com puted from Returns made in the week ending the 9th day of April, 1861, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain : Muscovado, the produce of the British pos- PER. CWT. sessions in America .................... 24s 21d Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius .. 24s nd Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies.. —s —d Average price of the foregoing .......... 248 3,t ,d [ADVERTISEMENT.] Pills and medicine invariably ag g/avate and perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, dis appointment, and expense may be avoided by persons in indifferent health sending only their address to E. S. Barry, Esq., 77, Regent-street, W., London, and they will receive gratis and free by post the "INVALIDS' Own •siUIDE," or Natural Restorer, without medicine or ex p'nse, of perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, and refreshing sleep, to the most enfeebled, insuring the remova of indigestion (dyspepsia), constipation, liver complaints, nausea, epilepsy, paralysis, debility, nervousness, palpitatiot , cough, asthma, consumption, dropsy, flatulency, diarrhea, dysentery, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, acids, noises in the ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpi tation, heartburn, headache, despondency, cramps, spasms, sinking, fits, bronchitis," Unguestionably the Welt Guide j ttt heitlth►", COUNTRY Ikd~ld AE S. LIVERPOOL-AnuL 12. There was a thin attendance of the town and country trade at this morning's market, and we had but a limited business doing, and both wheat and flour declined slightly. Barley, oats, and oatmeal were a limited sale, and the turn easier. Beans and peas were steady, but unchanged in value. Indian corn a fair inquiry, and mixed was 3d down in price, and white 6d to is down. WAKEFIELD-APRIL 12 The supplies of grain here to-day were very fair. The wheat trade rather limited, and for good descriptions there was a retail demand, at is decline upon the former rates. Barley, with an inactive demand, at is under late quota" tions. , In beans, oats, and shelling little change. Averages for the week : Wheat • 868 qrs., at 56s Od Oats — —s Od 8ar1ey......... 328 3Bs 60 Peas .... 70 4os Od Beans 2O — 46 s Od Rye — -3 —d EXETER—APRIL 12. Wheat, white.. 7s 6d to 8s 6d I Barley. ..4s Od to 55 Od Ditto new .7s Od to 8s Od 1 Oats 3s Oa to 3s 6d Flour, fine, 47s to —s; seconds, 45s to —s per sack. CATTLE. There was a fair supply of cattle, with a brisk sale, at about last week's currencies. Fat beef,p score, los to 11s3d Ewes, per lb .... —d to 70 Perk carcases,do lOs Od to lis Wethers, d0......--d to 8d Sheep, per lb. Od to —d. Fat calves, do.. ~--d to 61 1 Rough fat, 4id per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR-APRIL 12. We have had a very good business in this market for raw sugars during the past week, the sales reaching about 8,500 tons, at full prices. Refined goods in steady s ale. Rums in but little request. ET—APRIL 12. the dose of the market 8, d. Walls End. South Hetton 18 6 0 Hartlepool.... lB Kelloe Heugh Hall 17 u„ Cassop 17 6 n - ,r, Braddyll'a Hetton l7 , s '' Framwellgate l7 u Shincliffe l6 3 South Hartlepool 16 9 :et, 33; sold, 16. COAL MARK . (rrioes of Coal per Ton at s. d. 1 Carway and Duffryn Malting Do. - Anthracite-20 Walker Primrose 12 Craghead ilolywell 16 Eden Main ..17 Walls End. Tees. 18 6 Trimdon Thornley 15 0 Ships at marks THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. April 18. Do. (via Marseilles) April 12. Brazil and Cape Verde May 4. Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &o, Cuba and Mexico .. .. April 29. Canada, & c. (via L'derry) - April 17. Cape of Good Hope, &e. ' May 3. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) April 18. Do (via Marseilles) April 12. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. Ap r il 18. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) April 18. Do. (via Marseilles) April 12. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. .. April 25. Do. (via Marseilles) .. .. April 19. - - .. April 11. Lisbon Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. April 18. Do. (via Marseilles) .. April 12. Vigo, and Oporto .. .. April 11. United States, California, &c. . April 11. Western Coast of Attica, Madeira, Teneriffe .. Overdue. West Indies and Pacifie,Carthagena. Cuba, &o. April 13. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. ~.___......_____, .. --_,...---r 1861. 1860. 1861. 1860. x X Ballymena and Port Rush - - - Reif ast and N. Counties 100 100 1,854 1, 7-23 Belfast and County Down 39 Junes 22 39 2,001 722 1 , 565929 Birkd., Lane., & Ches. - - Blyth and Tyne 22 Bristol and Exeter 125 125 6,461 6,432 Caledonian Cookermouth & Workington 8 4 4 216 240 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 387 362 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 6 1 215 237 Cork and Youghal 26 - - -- Cornwall 5 31 5 31 1,302 1,251 Deeside l7 17 • 274 265 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,372 1, 254 , Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 1 , 87 6 1,62 5 Dub. & Wicklow (in.Kingst ) 404 401 2,783 1,902 Dundalk and Enniskillen n 7 Dundee and Arbroath... - 174 174 628 ~,„,6 7" ., Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun. 31 31 1,128 L. , ' East Anglian 674 674 902 1 , 06 E.Counties,Nrik.,&E.Union 499 499 23,971 27.04‘'! Edinburgh and Glasgow 142 142 6,185 5,85 9 Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee 78 78 3,623 3,554 Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasgow & South-Western 1831 1831 8,324 7, 91 + Great Northern 283 283 25,921 23,69 0 Great North of Scotland Gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd ) 329 2494 8,611 6,9 55 Great Western 5834 5781 39,917 39, 29 ' Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 55 55 796 657 Irish South-Eastern 24 ,254 173 158 Lancashire & Yorkshire 394 394 36,026 36,970 Leominster and Rington Limerick and Ennis 24 241 199 182 Limerick and Foynes 2 , 261 178 178 Llanelly 4 4 538 416 London & North-Western London and Blackwall st 5 1 1,563 1,601 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 22 223 4 18,807 17,96 5 London, Chatham, & Dover 5 194 1,074 356 Lond., Tilbury, & Southend 42 40 1 , 342 96 0 Blan.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh 17 1 2 7 8 4 1 ii i. :, 4 11 3 F 46 1 835 02.1 Manch. S.Jun.&Altrinchamo Maryport and Carlisle QOl fis7 Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6141 6144 38,301 ~.,„,---., Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind. 177 177 4,780 4, 13, ..'_ Monkland 56 66 1,55 0 1,129 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,157 2,146 Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 78 3,601 3 , 697 North British (incl. Selkirk and Galashiela) - 5, 1,1 7° North Devon 35 35 426 "''' N-Eastern(Bedale&Leybrn) 764 764 35,965 38,499 North London 9 9 2,535 2 , 58 e North Staffordshire 246 233 , 7 , 6 2 9 .. 7,872 Oswestry and Newton 2O - 359 . ..- Rhymney 194 194 746 511 St. Helen's Canal & Railway 30 30 1,982 1, 995 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 3 , 882 3,79 0 . Shrewsbury & Birmingham ---_ Shrewsbury and Chester 3 2 6 0 4 6 1 3 64 1 8 9 1 4 1 1 1 : .9 05 7 0 6 :- 2 1:1 4 0 Shrewsbury & Hereford Shropshire Union South Devon South-Eastern SouthS. II Wales e and River Dun /11 1 lii. ' 21,165 22,0 a. 73,100272 (421 Stockton and Darlington Taff Vale Ulster 5l 51 Ulverstone and Lancaster . 19 Vale of Clwyd Vale of Neath lO 35 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick West Cornwall W.HartlepoolHarbr.&Rail 39 West Midland n s4 , 5,014 3, 96 "' 2,008 1,7 70 ~,,..1 9 10 274 2 33 7 15 4 791 o °' 140 13 3 1 , 949 1,249 371 322 77 1,475 1,442 704 7 38 n 4,879 . 3,871 162 158 6,936 6,926 W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7 7 443 372 Whitehaven Junction l2 12 635 632 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35- - 576 540 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,001 887 Austrian B2B 673 36,336 32,750 Belgian Eastern Junction 264 264 262 257 Buffalo and Lake Huron - Demerara (fortnight) - - - - Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 2,567 2,565 Dutch Rhenish lO Bl 1 081 3,700 3,015 Eastern of France. ...... Grand Trunk of Canada 970 970 14,958 14,572 Great Indian Peninsula... • 2974 2734 4,644 4,324 Great Luxembourg l2B 128 2,781 2,50 5 Great Western of Canada 345 345 10,782 9, 050 Lyons and Geneva 142 142 5009 3999 Madrid, Saragossa &Alic an t 301 284 15 , 315, 13 , 49 2 Northern of Canada Sorthern of France 620 620 45,819 43,47 7 Norwegian Trunk 44 44 768 „ ',,a. Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 879 840 84,970 7 0, 784 Paris and Orleans 922 922 53,869 47, 8 20 Paris and Strasburg - -- - Royal Danish 69 69 , 489 593 Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,234 ! ,23 t South Austrian ' ,,i 4 - i Southern of France . 777 773 23,377 Ai : -- Welland.. - ........... ..... 25 - --. - West Flanders .. 75 75 1,045 97 " W. and N.W. of France.... 742 730 35,440 33, 721 [ADVERTISEMENT.]-Holloway's Ointment and Pills.-- Look to the Future.—The first symptoms of departing health should hare instant attention and redress no t more for the comfort of the present b u t f or th e happiness of the future. Whatever be the irregularity, wherever situated d ► however marked, Holloway' s r eme di es w ill reac h it an , remove it. The external employment o f th e Oi n t men t a nd the internal use of the Pills will always restore order anti, ease. Cutaneous complaints, defecti ve nu t r i t i on, want of appetite, nausea, and biliousness, are immediately cure ( ' and healthy functions permanently restored to each organ' The united action of Holloway's remedies over the hump frame is so singularly searching, soothing, and curative' that few diseases can long withstand the thorough purifi cation they constantly bring about. 1,251 265 1,254 1,62 5 1,96 2 1,6 21 67 0 1,077 1,06 5 27,046 585 v 3, , 55 4 174 1,377 7,91+ 23,6 90 1,5 30 6,95 5 39, 657 158 36,970 142 182 178 416 81,968 1,601 18,7 9 2 17,3569 w g6O 110 5 1,273 1,095 39,6 57 . 4,6 4 . 1, 429 2,14 6 3,60 7 5 '421 38,40 72 5 8 872 BIRTHS. BURY.—On the 11th inst., at Scarborough, the wife of V' J. Bury, Esq., of a daughter. D'OYLY.—On, the 12th inst., at 15, Gloucester-place, p, o 1; man-square, the wife of the Rev. C. J . D'Oyly, chaPlB" of Lincoln's-inn, of a son. WALIIISLEY.—On the 12th inst., at Northwood li° ll l New Finchley-road, H ampstea d , the wife of E d W ar Walmisley, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. FIFE—WHAmoN.--On the 11th inst., at the Holy Trirl it ii s :: Marylebone, Captai n Fif e , o f th e B om b ay Engineers, t h e youngest son of Sir J o h n Fif e , t o K atharine Alice, t second daughter of the late Robert Wharton, Efol'' 31, Upper Harley-street. Twrss—CovEv.—On the 11th inst,, at St. Peter's, E at , °ll t; square, Quintin William Francis. ealy son o f the daughter Horace Twiss,_ Esq., to Fanny Shell e y, secon d do.uP ,Ltil :„. of W. IL Covey, Esq., of Wilton-st ree t, Belgo• square. DEATHS. CAMPBELL.—On the 9th inst., at Croftnese Cottagek . 7 Aberfeldy, Perthshir e , J o h n C amp b e ll , E sq forraerlY° Liverpool. 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