The Sun. — London, England, 1856-02-26 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed with an improving tendency. Compared with Friday's rates prices of American were firm. Other kinds were unchanged. The sales were estimated a t 1 0,000 bales (of which 1,500 were taken for export, and 2,000 on speculation), including 430 Pernan n and Maranham, at 6d. to 6d. ; 300 Egyptian, 6d. to nd. ; 1,500 Surats, 41d. to 4d.; and 120 Sea Islands, 111 d. to 15d. per lb. In the Railway Share Market there is little alteration to note in prices compared with Saturday, and the ;mount of business was to a fair extent. Mercantile advices from Belgium continue to state that the solution of political complications aOir pending causes great reserve in commercial operations. The animation in the import mar kets at Antwerp has subsided, excepting in co tton, for which the demand has been con siderable, and holders of supplies are demand lug higher prices, which, for the time, paralyses the deali ngs o f the manufacturers. About 1,200 ;ale,* o f Amer i can h ave c h ange d h an d s a t th e fol °willg rates :—good ordinary 301 to 311 cents per kilogramme ; middling 33/ to 344 c., and good b aiddling from 341 c. to 35c. In coffee 2,389 bags °I Brazilian, sold for 48k to 661 c. per i kilo., and 6 36 bales of St. Domingo at 59 to 70c. Batavia, 4 clinaryto good ordinary 351 e. to 361c.,andCheribon ' w hite and green 37c. to 384 c. The market for 'ngur is quiet. At a sale by auction, 3,500 cases ° f Savanna of good quality brought 321 2 f. to 390. Per 50 kilos. Sales by private contract are limited, !"'d prices nominal. For refined sugars the market 1 a Weak, and the demand is limited. The addition le the stock on hand during last week was 190,000 The Bavarian Governmelit have addressed a cir cular to the other states of the Zollverein, relative to the reduction of the existing duty on iron im- Ported from foreign countries. This circular re• quests that the question should he discussed at a L ec ulference of delegates from the several customs "Vertments belonging to the Zollverein states. The Funds continue very buoyant, and a further 5 0 'fight advance has taken place, principally in con- :I6 4 , 'Pence of a statement that an armistice had been 25 4 l e n ed. Until something is known of the it ma nner in which the Conferences are proceed- 10 j 'g) the s p ecu l a t o rs are disinclined to ope- ` 4 t t ate largely, and the market consequently rules 50 — tillie t• Consols for money, after being 92 k, 25 r ' c eded to 911 and the account prices have tcp f l i/ eti way per cent. from their highest point, 50 "ing been 921 1, and since 91i to 92 k. This Z 0 fit ness was occasioned by a delay in the arrival of qt the quotations by telegraph from the Paris Bourse. 50 h , the Conferences are in the French capital the 3t. r 4 elents on the Bourse there may be expected to St. huence the values of our securities. The New Scrip St. g P 4 been 2t o 2i rein. and the Exchequer Bills ditto 11 7 premium. The New 3 per Cents. have been SL 63 -0 9 3g ' and the Reduced 92k I. Bank Stock 2 5 5 fiaaßArch, risen to 215. Exchequer Bills are 2s. for the 50 u an d par f or th e J une d esc riptions. The * u°ll de are 97i to 98k. 1.0 eclat of the Foreign Securities are firmer, but eis an absence of active dealing. Turkish 6 2 ° o eer Cents, are I p er cent. higher, being 95k, 10 it °4 ) for th e 4 per Cents., the prices are 1001 10 S panish 3 per Cents. rule firm at 43. Russian 5 . 4 . riipeCents. have been dealt in at 1041 to 10 5 , Por „iimese 5 per Cents. at 52-, Chilian 6 per Cents. 3. "' 1021, and Brazilian 5 per Cents. at 1021. s't• The following are the nominal prices of Foreign 5°,,, 20 t ° 0 4: —G rena d a Deferred Bonds, 6! 7/; Mexican, st. 1 ; Peruvian, 801 811; nt ditto 3 per Cents., 55 Qr tuguese 4 per Ces., 47 49 ; Russian 5 per > 0 e ' 4144 -, 104 6 ; ditto 44 per Cents., 92 94 ; Spanish 15 3 ~Per Cents., 42k 43 ; ditto Deferred, 23! 24 ; ditto st , ,de rtificates, 41 5. St. Railway shares are quiet, at previous quotations, 25 although i n one or two i nstances a . s li g ht a d vance 2] 4 1 48 occurred. Great Northern have risen 5 to 2 . , °B ., and the A shares 1/. to 21. The Foreign and 1' n ''° l onial lines are dull. 1( The Mining and Banking shares are dull. Canada 5 ? land hav e risen about 1/. - 1111 ITISR FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. (Prom at Oficial List.) 11 4 :4 lak Stock 215 it, gent. itetl...uou AttuuitiSti... . lea Cent C onso l s Annuities 92} 18 2 li I -.4..,* 3 per Cent. A n nnities Civ 2i per C en t. A n n u ities 77 "g Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860 3 9-16 ? A . Ditto Thl Years, expire sth Jan , 1860 3 i 1„, Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 l6 13-16 i .4 ` 4l k Bonds .E.lOOO ~i Di tto, under £lOOO 6 2 il ` 4l v4ole ?or Account Ditto s cr i p X tebequer Mlle, 26d. March. June. £1000 £SO Nu o n — 12d2p • Ditto Scrip • 1i iNI Ihtto Bonds, 1858, 36 per Cent 9B Ditto, 1859 b PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. nn Bonds, 5 ner Cent. tti',llaiaduo7l:Tnds, 6 per Cent IO2A Ditto Bonds Mho New Consolidated... I t c Pti . ricse Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 52A 11 4 : 8s , 1 a!I Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1822, £ SL lO4l 5 4 ~ "inuan 80n,45, 5 per Cent. Trl t ish Bonds, 3 per Cent 1.4 01 Bonds, 6 per cent — Ditto Account Ditt o guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Dl Account Account lOOl i i 1 ) Dividends on the above navebio i n Lo ndon. 1401 Rxeliauge, 2i per Cont., 12 Gail 61 bikto 4 p er Cont. Cortifloates THREE O'CLOCK. C , nsolP, money Ditto Account, March 11... ........ 91i 2 MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) HAY MARKETS. 4l 15s hay, 41 4s to 6/ 6s; clover do. , 15 s to 6/ 15s; and straw, 11 4s to 1/ 9s per load. Moder a t e su pply, an d a fair demand. C UNII3ERLAND.—Meadow hay, 4 l 4 s to 61 8 e ; clover do. , 4, lO s to 61 12s ; and straw 11 5s to 1 / 108 per load. ' 4 PPIy tolerably good, and trade rather dull. WArrEcHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 4/ 5s to 6/ 6s; clover do., °. 41 15s to 6/ 156 ; and straw, 1/ 5s to 11 9s per load. Fade slow. COLONIAL. TB,A.—The market has been very quiet, the trade show ing but little disposition to purchase, and the merchants h ope not pressed sales. Common Congoup 9d. per lb. SUGAR.—No change has taken place in the value of either raw or refined, and little business has been done for home e° neumption. Shippers still continue to operate for ex. Pertation. The public sales of colonial this week are ex pected to be large. I ,,CoPPRE. This article has been in limited demand. i-tantation Ceylon of the better qualities has been inquired ? r, bnt or di nar y so rts were dull of sale. Native continues and Mocha has been in demand at full rates. 'IM---For rice there has been snore inquiry , and for mer prices have been fully maintained. °I —Only a trifling, business is reported in this article. ai r Demerara brown sold at 2s 5d per proof gallon. TALLOW.—A. speculative demand has arisen amon g rt, r ,tiea under contracts to deliver between this and the pre=., and prices have advanced to 58 s 6d and 59s for delivery in February and March. The market for home c9baumption continues dull. PRIpATE AND JOINT-STOCK BANKS. The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of circu lation of the private and joint-stock banks in England 4 1' 11 .1 Wales for the four weeks ending the 19th of Jao. , ad, and gives the following as the average weekly cir• enla.tion of those banks during the past month, viz.:— P rivate banks Joint-stock banks 3,080,873 Average weekly circulation £6,991,127 911 comparing the above with the returns for the pre- 11 ce ding month, ending the 22d of Dec. last, it shows — 11 An increase in the eirculation of the private banks of An increase in the circulation of the joint-stock banks of £70,266 22,708 Increase on the month as compared with the return for the correspond ` l4 ,g period of the preceding year— : viz., Jan. 20, 1855, ' 1 ?w ows A decrease in the circulation of the private 4b d a eCr k e s as o e f i iiii ' r — c . u . O . ; '''''''''''''' ''' ''''''''' '''''''''''' banks of.. 228,208 23,420 Decrease on the year ~ 011 comparing the above with the amounts of the fixed ;— aces, the following appears to be the comparative state of the circulation the Private banks are below their fixed issues 2630,4E3 The Joint-stock banks are below their fixed astu te , 235,270 Total below their fixed bogies.. . i s si, 4915,733 ield at hair. 1 been , about on the chiefly as. It above period Janu- be les- xamine nent of a to be Lion or t corn- board. E,G22/., aace of )iota of for by out the on was )5 , their a good factory. ich bad g body - of the Ist raise Norton vidends 9,000/., and the s. The with the )le, and acre pay ther al ption of I ueani• ,f Dud. of March rest at 5 ce upon time. his coin ] capital ncluding er cent. eference :eferenc• , enditure 3u bFerip 'just the account and the the 31st J, include 87,8551., axperseee, supply of this sum 213/, re dividend lion fees, be South lee fixed npany at /. From 27,8441. see, and Western March, n Grange ing a dis• deducted shares, cent. per ipany en -11,0411. idered M opany ae .ent gua rd within e line to ) the 315 t ) the bail . - (Wednes• amounted . Bd. The amounted 15,591/. it revenue e added a Ora-year's )f 16,160/. and at the /. 15s. id. eir report, actory 4, though per cent.) .bout con:!- PS, &c., IX and seve •evenue is nt. on the mall and to be car- t of Dee. iared with The net loans and Dut of this )f 335. 9 d. d. on each • cent. per 8331., and NT. !cided the- re not bees /flitted to kND WAlt' nding or ) arties be orders are lition that is CRAT)• th in this ,to for the se for con- ray is esti- missioners posed rail 'en to the nsfer their )ay.) IV.y.W. ; Niger (e.), laldur, for [yeses, St• on ; Felix, i—Samtle 1 a ; Jameo ,verthorpe, ?sy Queon, rma, from m Trieste. a Berbiee ; falifax and etis, from Lad's. lloi ning. Duke of use. Marl, ; Georges Mellicent, steamer, Dporto. Despatch, dorning• ►n■ ; Law• ia. Feb. 25. 15 a.m. tins. 1; DislAs .61 s. in. Etbiope p ang oon id Nelson [ongkong de Cribo , xth; MATY from the ew York' SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) ItAILW ANS. I Paid.; RAILWAYS. Closing Prices this day I.Leruver. Unbg. Nottng. Boat and Easta. Junct... all 3elfast k Bally - zoom, all sirming. Wolvorh Stour Valley 294 iiirk elhd. Iztnosh Cheshire Jnnct )o. Chozh. & Birk. £5O and 225 Cone 1. Do., ....... all Myth &Tyne origina 1 £ 25 (iasd. at 145 100 B ristol and Exeter.. 100 :2aledonian. !61s arm. and Cardigan r all Chester ea Holyhead a , `perk and Bandon.. all ;Jork, Black, dt Pass 18 Cornwall all Do. A 8 I Do. B 14 CrioT Junction 45 Dub;ind - ißelfastJunc all Dun. P. &A. Jnc 100 East Avgllan 211 ,E as t ern Countios 100 f Rs.st. Union. A SO 10C Da., B. Stool 8 Do., New A . 10 East Kent 100 ~ elSt Lancashire 106 gdinl urgit & Gimp , all dinb. and Poobles 100 ,din.Prth diDundo , 9 "orth & Clyde Jun!. all Furness . all i Do. Extension.. 100 !Glasgow &S. West's , - all Great N. of Scotlud. 100 Great Northern 100 Do., A. Stock 1 00 Do., B. Stock 1)0 Gt. Sth. &West.(lre 100 Great Western 100 Do. Stour Val. Rai' Qua. Stk all [risk South-Eastoni. all Lancaster tz Carlisle 141 Do., Thirds 8 IDo. New Thirds [OO Lencaslt.andYorksh Do., Ws t. aiding Un. all Liv-Crsby.StSouthpt all London & Blackwall !00 Loqd. Bright At S.Cs! .00 Loud. and N. West 16 au. Fifths 52 Do.lol. Sh..M&B. „C 23- Do. Eighths ..... . 100 London andS. Weetu all I Do.. ..£sn all Do., £4O all Lundrrytit Colerain Lndndrr”. & 100 Manch Linui• '123. Man. & Lin. nu 1 Metropolitan 100 Midland 1110 Do. Birmng. all Midld. G. West. (Ire all Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & all Nwpt.Aberg. &He , ' 83 Nowry & Enniskillst all Newry Warrenpoin and itostrevor .00 ,Norfolk 3 3lNorthn.Counties lln 1.00 Nora British Nth Dovon Rail. & [OO Deck Stock [OO Do., A Stock... All no. , B Stock all Do., B Guarantee 100 N.Eastern—Berwic 21} Do. do. Extension 15 ' Do. do. G.N.E. ?urol; IEo. Leeds 100 !Do. York 100 North London 31 is N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamr , stead, and City Jn.. 17i North Staffordshir.... al, iNorth Western all NT. Sz 8. West rn.June 1 I Nuncaton, Hinckley, and Leicester.. l. ►0 Os, Wore.. 1% Wolv 8 F'Grts7.louth t_,oo Scottish Co :Aral Lai! !Scottish Midland WO 18 h ropsh ire Ur i m all :South Devon r !South Eastern 1100 !South Wales . La 13. Yrkel , . 6c Riv. Dn. iDo.. 16 , Stsines,Wok. &Wol. a I 'Stockton t Darn IS , 4t kt on Hartlepl ?( 1 , Taff Vale... I.VI 'Do. Prof., No. L :rhumes Hay. P.& R. ttiverstone & Lance all (Vale of Neath all iWaterfd. & Kilkenn all I Waterford&Limeriel all 'West Cornwall all West End of Louder and Crystal Palace.. all Do. A ......... 3 Do. B .. all , West London .0 all 'Winibledn &Croydel 25! 261 -4! ... ...." . • 8 -8, 16 - 16 13 - 14 9 - 8 87 - F 9 57 - 574 i 3! qt. 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Cebtral of Fran all Gt. Indian Peninsul , l 1.4 Great Lusombouri., C o o n b st i l i t ga ut t ed ion S s. h . a . ref , all Do. . 11. Do. re-is. forftd. Sh. all Gt. Western of Cana e a Shares 5i Do. New all Do. lids., payablc's7, with option till '55 all Do. do., '62, p.'56 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O all Do. do., '73, without option all damilton & Torontr all Do. 6 per cent. 17 Lake Const. & Bast all Lierre and Turnhout all Lucca it Fist. sp. c.p 16 Lyons and Geneva au 14 Lyons & Meditorran W all Madras, gua". 41 p.c k) 10 Do. Now 0., sp. c. !O 5 P,o. 4 p. c. Exton 11 , all Maria Antonia .0 all ,Do. do. Now all (Namur di Liege (wit' interest) Do. (ex intereSt) Northern of France D 0.201. Shs Do. 20?.2 p. c Tide (fmy.B.&Ams.Shs NorwegianTrunkPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Rome and Frascati.. Royal Danish PoyalSwedish Do. Obligations Sambre and Meuse... Do. 5i p. cent. Pref. Scinde, guar. 5 p. c Do. Southern of France , St. Andrew's anti Quebec (A). . West Flanders Do 5,1 per c. Pref '. &N. W. of Franc, West. of Switzerland' Wiesbaden ... •••••• &Man,' to ail A I all 10 ► all 40 I %II .o I 5 5 all 4 all .t.) 1 all ') I all 10 i all t!.! LO 11, !O All 6 all h) all 10 76 0 1 50 a lei 1 p 2 ; 3 i 3i 2i d par 2 P r Rsi 39 12 -14 p 21} -21 t - r 10 3 / 4 - 93 1 , 1 3 / 4 - 153 73 - 76 82 - 86, - 6 P 20g -20 i 41 - 5 3 - Si 25/ - 261 3 # - 3 il 99 - 100 120 - 125 120 - 125 IC7 -• 109 25 - 25: 120 - 125 - r . m.. .- 104 19 -19 i to t 7 9 2 3 5i 6 5.} 5 4, s9} 39 ; 11 12; ?A - • 8 ; 50 - 50 EP : . 62 19 7- iii . •- .. 9 -9; ••• ••••• -1, pm - 3i - 4 331 - 34 • •• ."'' • iii = Jot JOINT-STOCK BANKS. ,kngtro.lasio, ,Bank of London .... itri. Col. bk.&Ln. C. Ilritish N. American (Thartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China, City Colonial Commercial of Loud Zug. cic ot. & Ans. Cht Loud. Cham Bk. of Australis ••• Ditto New: •• Tendon and County.. land &E. Bnkg. Corp. London Joint Stock. London and Paris.... Loud. & Westminster National Pro.of Eng Do. New ••• Nations'• of Irclaud.. New South Wales Oriental Bank of Corporation PrGvincial of Ireland !JO. New Aus B &Go Im Cc Royal British south Australia Union of Australia_ Do. New .....•••••••••• UP 9 , Loudon e - 94 64 - 66 par 3. p 67 69 isi 174 151 4 3d Ipar 2p par ••• ‘.. N• ••• ....." . • 37 : ie 39 - 41 WEEP • 114 ami. MOH ••• 38 - 40 71 - 72 7i 86 27 = 29 Business done this day. 25 25 St. St. 20 5 18 20 5 20 ••• "' 'lO 20 .0050 i 0 10 )0 10 )0 2O )0 1 35 b all 5 1 100 50 THE SON, LONDON; TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1 856. LINES I, FIXED RENTALS. L ITERATURE. being really admirable as miniature memoirs of our living celebrities. But then again in the midi t if our consequent satisfaction at these moments we sud denly como plump upon some one that might really as lief have been left out—say, for in stance, a provincial parson like the Rev. F. Close, a name of utter indifference, we presume, to every one out of the limits of a small division of Gloucestershire. Vainly, too, while stumbling over name after name, equally unimportant in its way to the one we have just particularised, may the reader look for the smallest scrap of informa tion about a delightful writer, such as Peacock of the India House, the author of Nightmare Abbey, and the friend of Shelley. The volume, indeed, is glaringly incomplete in several particulars, and as glaringly replete with obscurities instead of celebri ties who are in its pages 11•37 scores and by shoals for mally proclaimed to be fitting objects of our admi ration. Altogether the book would have been much better if many of the memoirs in it had been left out, and if several others, nowhere discoverable from first to last, had been introduced in their proper places alphabetically. No doubt the com piler of a work of this very novel character is la bouring under a variety of difficulties while carrying his design into execution. Ho has to gather his particulars together from sources the most uncer tain and the most scattered. He has to exercise his judgment in his selection of the proper themes for attraction. He has to take as much care as possible to give enough, and at the same time not to give too much. And in doing all this he must necessarily be liable to overlook what ought never to have been over looked, and to chronicle what ought never to have been chronicled. It seems ridiculous, par example, to find in the notice of George Cruikshank not a whisper about his famous little drollery of Lord Bateman, and not a syllable of reference to his etchings illustrative of suck gems of fictions as the masterpieces of Henry Fielding and Tobias Smol lett. Appended to the volume are some hundred and odd pages, giving biographical sketches of celebrated " Women of our Time "—a supplemen tal portion of the work, from which we could spare nothing, though one to which we conceive a good deal might be added with consider able advantage. A compilation like the one before us, relating to so many persons of all ages, is obviously liable to be rendered at any mo ment obsolete here and there as the record of men and women but just snatched from among us by death, and to whom we have become consequently rather the posterity than the contemporaries. As the editor of the book has been himself compelled to notify apologetically by announcing as " de ceasnl during the passing of the work through the press"—such men as Bishop the coui poser, as Silk Buckingham the traveller, as Count Mold the states/Alan, as Samuel Rogers the poet, as Bruat the sailor, and Markham the soldier, as Leon. Faucher, and Robert Montgomery. Besides, a famous novelist like Henrich Heine dead since the actual date of the book's publication. Notwithstanding its scarcely numeral le flaws both of omission and commission, the book cannot fail to be very useful in its way, while to all those who are really and accountably curious as to the salient points in the career of the eminent men and women of our times it must necessarily prove exceedingly entertaining. Raili'fAbc • L: aria= Compan Clodne Prices this day ausiaast, thIS The Divine Comedy ; or, The Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri. Rendered into English by Frederick Pollock, Esq. With Fifty Illustrations, drawn by George Scharf, jun. Chapman and Hall. timidou N. Went. E. Un. tit.Nrttin. E. Count. Caldonian. 96 - 9i 94 - 18 An exquisite gift book—the very jewel of a library—being, as it is, one of the grandest poems ever penned by mortal, faithfully and gracefully translated from the original Italian into our Eng. lish vernacular, and adorned by a most delicate pencil with a profusion of classic and imaginative illustrations. Again we say, an exquisite gift book, being all this, as it actually is : the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, embellished by the crayon of George Scharf, and rendered into Eng lish by the pen of Frederick Pollock—the artist proving himself to be no less ingenious and fanciful than the translator shows himself to have been faithful and competent throughout. Perused in any form—in the melifluous term, rims of the original—in Cary's prose translation—in Pollock's recent version of it in blank verse—hew wonderful it is, that Divine Comedy, that threefold and celes tial epic—the Paradise, the Purgatory, the Pande monium ! If, as Lord Byron said in one of his re pentant notes to " Don Juan," one can almost hear the footsteps of the elder gods resounding through the sonorous verse of Keats while reading his sublime fragment of " Hyperion "—how truly may it not be said that while reading the "Divine Comedy " of Dante, one can hearken to the howlings of the damned in the " Inferno," hear the sweet and solemn harmonies of repentant life-in-death through the " Purgatorio," or watch the gleaming features and the glowing robe of the angelic Beatrice floating for ever and ever in the glorifying at mosphere of the Paradiso. What marvellous visions of beauty and horror they are, crowding upon us with aspects so weird and awful for the most part as we follow the shade of Dante and the attendant ghost of Virgil through the regions of the after life—" down to Hell," by Acheron, by Sty; by Phlegethon—up, up, from the sea, beyond the flowery valley, past the successive regions of the Proud, of the Envious, of the Angry, of the Sloth ful, of the Avaricious, of the Prodigal, of the Gluttonous, of the Luxurious, even with the limits of the crowning garden of the Earthly Paradise— " higher still and higher," beyond the " Sphere of Fire," successively more and more heavenward to the Moon, to Mercury, to Venus, to the Sun, to Mars, to Jupiter, to Saturn,. to Gemini in the fan cied regions of the fixed stars, onward, outward, upward, further and further, beyond the .Primum Mobile into the infinite and ineffable Empyrean of " Paradise." 0 the wondrous flight the most daring ever essayed by mortal imagination ! And to follow the dauntless poet in this his flight of audacity the merely English scholar finds, as it were, wings given to him by Mr. Pollock's transla tion. A translation most remarkable for its faith fulness. Insomuch that we might pronounce in regard to these 580 pages the dulcet panegyric uttered by the bard of the " Paradiso " in refer ence to the faces seen in the beatific vision recorded in the third Canto of the third division of the " Divine Comedy" 11 - 13 133 - 335 4 4 Do at. Wesw VIE. Now. $t Berw. Y. &NM, Do Do 105 - '3. Easton Do Peto & Co 13 -1? i 23; - 24; 1 107; - 112; (Norfolk, Do L.& N. W k Midi& Stckton & Darlingt. Midland ••• '". of • - 92 - C-4 En. Conn. E. Count Do 55 -- 1)7 L.&N.W j Do soo .... soil GtNorthu [Awash Yorksh. T. Brassey 151.11Cloan itockt. & Darlingt Do 132 74 - 8 3 - 20 31:i - 32 83 - 85 ,HAKE. " Quali per vetri transparenti e torsi, 0 ver per acque nitide e trauquille, Non si profonde che i fondi sein persi. Tornan de' nostri visi le postille Debili si, che perla in bianca fronte Non vien men forte alle nostril pupille ; Tali vid' io piu facce a parlar pronte." The Coldstreams and the Musqueteers. By Thomas Litchfield. 3 Vols. Newby. This novel presents many :stirring scenes and striking adventures. Although the time is one which has been so often chosen for historical ro mance the plot has principally reference to events of a private nature. A great deal of ingenuity is displayed in the complicated and intricate working of the narrative. Those who delight in the mar vellous will be pleased with the production of this book. It bears raferenc• to two distinguished regiments who were of great repute at that time— " The Musqueteers" and " The Coldstreams." The characters of several of the men are described with vigour ; and Bernard, in particular, is a likely instance of how far brutality and greediness may sink a man. The craft and cunning of the Jesuits Chalfont and his friend are also ably depicted, and the scenes in which their deep plans are devised and their wily purposes unfolded are the most powerful in the work, although not so interesting as those of a lighter class. Andrew Melvil, who was compelled to secret himself in the cavern under the disguise of a gipsy, is rendered attrac tive by his resolution in facing dangers and his spirit in submitting to inevitable misfortunes, while he rose above all trials that could be sur mounted. His daughter's melancholy state com pletes the mournful picture of his exist° ; and although harmless in her derangement, and even at times engaging from her sweetness of dis position, it is not to be regretted when she falls a victim to her devotion to the perse cuted Wilfred (the hero), anti gives her life to rescue him from his crafty foes. Of Wilfred him self we do not tee so much as might b 3 expected ; but it is consistent with the arrangement of the plot, as more is done in reference to him, and his friends and enemies endeavour to confront and cir cumvent each other more than to draw him into the contest openly. Where he does appear, how ever, he distinguishes himself with a zeal and energy, and displays a spirit of boldness and daring that render him worthy to be ranked among his order of the Cavaliers. Agnes Monkton is a very worthy heroine. She is not of the romantic style that generally belongs to romances of that period. Her strong sense and decided demeanour were the secret terror of her enemies ; and so much did they fear her straightforwardness and courage, that they employed every stratagem rather than be baffled by her. Forgery, that ever-prized device of the cunning, was resorted to, and thus for a time did they attain their object. It is impossible to follow out in detail the course of the involved and elabo rate events. They are, however, well worthy of perusal ; and the introduction of military ma nceuvres into the descriptions imparts a life and spirit to th:i style, and accords with the mode of existence at that troubled period of history when warfare was the order of the day. "The Cold streams" will doubtless obtain consideration from its dashing sketches, its clever details of character, and the skill with which its story is devised and executed. Yes ! tali—tali—yet non si profonde the i fondi sein persi : though Debili si, the perla in bianca fronte non vien men forte alle nostre pupille And many pearls of great price there are, dropping ever and ever from the lips of the glorious poet as he speaks—pearls so reflected through the truth ful and transparent medium of Mr. Frederick Pollock's fanciful and eloquent translation ! It was Coleridge, if we recollect rightly, who some where about 1818 first awakened public attention to the merits of the prose version of Dante ciiven to the world some time before by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary—a version which had, nevertheless, remained wholly unnoticed until thus spoken of iu earnest terms of praise by the authoritative voice of the author of Christabel." This justice was done, moreover, by the genial and discerning cri ticism of Coleridge through the opportunity pre sented to him for so doing by a lecture he delivered upon the subject of the sublime poetry of Dante Alighieri. Whereupon the reviewers of the Edin burgh and Quarterly " followed suit" immediately, and the reputation of Cary as a Translator was in a manner instantly made and permanently esta blished. Mr. Pollock, in his turn, deserves pre cisely such an appreciative lecturer to give the key note to after paeans in his honour to be chaunted by the critical Boanerges of the blue-and-buff and the stone-coloured old Whig and Tory quarterlies. Happily the time may yet come sooner than might be anticipated even by those dubious lookers on who pin their faith exclusively to the poetic prose of Cary. When it does —among the admirers of the charming volume under notice may we take rank, as numbered in the category of its prophetic appreciators I Honour, meanwhile, say we, without waiting for any such lecture, honour to the scholarly hand that penned this strictly accurate, and yet gracefully rhetorical English version of the "Divine Comedy"—a ver sion beautifully embellished by the classic limnings lavished upon the letterpress by the Flaxman like pencil of George Scharf, the younger. Alto gether the volume may be accepted as a tributary memorial to the genius of Dante not unworthy of the literary and artistic enterprise of this nine teenth century—a monument nobler than one of brass or marble, and more durable, according to the familiar boast of Horace Commemorative of the heroic student-life comprised between the memorable dates of 1265 and 1321, the dates of the birth and death of that grand old Dante Alighieri of Florence, whose name his colossal masterpiece of the " Divine Comedy" has securely immortalised. Men of the Time. Biographical Sketches of Emi nent Literary Characters. One Vol. David Bogue. A biographical dictionary of eminent contempo raries—hastily collected to g ether, it would almost seem, for the purpose of puffing certain sixth-rate names into a spurious sort of an artificial celebrity. The original germ of the work appeared three or fonr years since in the form of a small squab vo lume of 400 and odd pages —now extended into a little unwieldy monster of nearly a thousand. At the outset the production bore evidence from preface to finis of the merest book making. Snip pings from country newspapers, and all sorts of little rags and tags of information, for the most part worthless, were the raw materials out of which this veracious instructor appeared to be chiefly fabricated. The artirAe devoted to the biography of Dickens, for example, was eked out through some eight vapid pages by about the only good thing in it—viz., the bodily reprint of a letter addressed by that glorious no velist to our contemporary, the Times, giving a description of the rabble congregated outside Horsemonger-lane Gaol to witness the execution of those horrible wretches the Meanings. The omis sions observable in the work, even in its second edition (1853), were something preposterous. And with these errors of omission there were errors of commission, if possible, yet more preposterous. There was an especial little glorification, for example, of George Dawson of Birmingham and not a word, good, bad, or indifferent about Samuel Warren, author of "Ten Thou sand a-Year" and the " Diary of a Late Physi cian." So with regard to many another idol of some obscure little clique, and many another world-wide celebrity. As the compilation has grown it has, as a matter of course, given signs of very considerable improvement. Numerous men of mark previously overlooked have been at length remembered, and their names duly inscribed upon the long catalogue of eminent contemporaries. But with the really distinguished, other persons have bad their lives emblazoned upon Mr. Bogue's scroll of fame, whose lights are still hid sway in dark corners under bushels, and by this premature ex posure to the winds of heaven are threatened with being more effectually extinguished by means of the very puffs designed to blow them into a blaze of renown—a " conflagration of genius" expected, of course, by the puffer-general ulti mately to set the Thames on fire. The uninten tionally destructive influence of these same mis taken puffs will be aided, moreover, we conjecture, rather freely by the bursts of laughter certain to be provoked by their extravagance, from every reader blessed with a keen sense of the ridiculous. P'ane gyrics, some of them are, kindred in their preter natural absurdity with that which has just led :Mr. Ruskin into the ludicrous gaucherie of mentioning quietly, and, as a matter of course in the same breath, as sages (vide Vol. 111. of " Mod'orn •Painters")—Plato, Carlyle, and Helps ! Such amazing little demi go d s i n Noah's-Ark- coa t s and all-round collars as are here strutted out to the astonished gaze of the multitude and pelte d with sugar plums and bouquets, like th e pune hi - THE RECENT ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT LIVERPOOL.-- ed Hellos of a carnival, or the debadeurs and pi e reota chg. The causes assigned in a London paper,for the . theattempted a masquerade. 0 the wonderful little emmets of • suicide of Wm. Tathen are, over-speeu!ationin palm insignificance who are here vaunted into a kind of angelic men -mountains ! Figures shown to us which he had entered into serious oil and tallow trades, and the failures inLiverpool. serious angelic of houses for been requested to state that no such through a magnifying medium of infatuation until : Bristol.—Bristol Mercury. liabilities. We have ... . , they assume to themselves the apparent dimensions THE SUICIDE IN THE EXCEIANGE.--LITEEPooL, Feb. failures have occurre3 in Bristol.—ff of colossi. Nevertheless when the compiler lists nso contrive that his information becomes at 25.—The unhappy gen tleman, Mr. W. Tatham, who he ca I attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat in a once instructive and entertaining. Several of the I vault under the Exchange Readin g -room last week, died more important biographical sketches contained inday about noon in the Northern Hospital, to which this the new and enlarged issue of "Men of the Time 'a, :place he had been conveyed late on Friday night. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY). (Continurd from, our third Edition of last Night.) THE WENSLEYDALE PEERAGE. The Earl of MALMESBURY said there was no one in the houee who was not fully convinced, supposing that life peerages were accepted by their lordships, that in the hands of the noble marquis the power of making such appointments, as far as numbers were concerned, would be safely lodged, but there was no security for the future. (Hear.) He considered that the peerage would lose one of its most valuable appendages, if it was unac companied with the privilege of transmitting to;one's children the honour acquired for personal merit. He should consider it a reproach and an insult to be offered a peerage and to be told that it should not descend to his children. He did not believe that such peers would be on a par with their lordships who were heredi tary peers, nor were they so considered in those coun tries where the two kinds of peerages existed. Dignities for life never conferred equal privileges with hereditary dignities, and he could prove that by what occurred in the reign of King Stephen. That king, who was only a king for life, conferred a charter for certain privileges on the Bishop of Lincoln, but when in subsequent times, in the reign of Edward 111., the Bishop of Lincoln was called on to show by what authority he exercised those privileges, and he produced the charter granted by King Stephen, the lawyers of those days decided that he being only a life king could not. make a grant in perpetuity. The bishop had to give way in consequence. The noble earl then quoted the opinion of Talleyrand in 1815 in favour of an hereditary peerage, and confessed for him self that he looked on the creation of life peers with great alarm. (Hear.) Lord BROUG HAM said that he entirely approved of the course taken by his noble friend on the part of the Government. He was sure that his noble friend Lord Wensleydale would not have taken any other course than that announced by the noble earl, which was quite in accordance with what Lord Wensleydale communicated to himself, namely, that he should come to take his seat as soon as the state of his health and the law—the law allowed. He hoped the house would never consent to give up that flower of its privileges, the appellate juris diction, but it was worthy of consideration how far the services of that court might be obtained for themselves. He could only say that he should willingly give any assistance in his power to promote the object in view. The Earl of HA RROWBY considered that indepen dence and the hereditary quality were essential charac teristics of the peerage, but they ought not to make the peerage too exclusive, and should make some con cession to personal merit and services when not accom panied with great opulence. They ought to be careful that, in clinging too much to the independent principle, they did not lose the opportunity of introducing into that house men of sterling talent and ability. They should beware of closing the doors of that assembly against the rising talent of the country. Lord CAMPBELL must protest against what had been thrown out by the noble earl who bad last spoken. With his sentiments he ought to say "no" to the resole tion,`And to divide against it. After what had passed, no one would contend that Lord Wensleydale could take his seat in that house. If he attempted to do so they would be under the disagreeable necessity o freeuesting him to retire. Earl GREY did not consider himself ins the‘eastbound by the opinion of the Lord Chief Justice. The resolu tion now before the house would remain binding, until their lordships saw ground to rescind it, and be was confident that they would soon do so. He did not think 111 either that those who objected to the resolution were bound to divide against it. He should avail himself of the constitutional privilege of recording his protest against it on the votes of the house. Lord CAMPBELL explained. He bad merely meant to say that, so long as that resolution remained on their votes, Lord Wensleydale could not claim his seat. Earl GRANVILLE thought he should act most en tirely in the spirit of the resolution proposed by not going further into the question, though sundry provo catives had been thrown out by noble lords opposite. The course to be taken toy the Government would de pend on the form of the resolutions to be proposed by the noble and learned lord, and on its appearing that they would not lead to any unnecessary delay. The Earl of DERBY then moved that the house do agree to the report of the committee of privileges. The LORD CHANCELLOR put the question, and declared that the "contents " had it. Lord CAMPBELL moved " that it be ordered and adjudged accordingly." After a few words from Lord - DmisfeN and the LORD CHANCELLOR, the motion was agreed to. The Earl of DERBY gave notice to move, on Thurs day, for a select committee to inquire whether it was ex pedient to make any and what provision for the more effectually securing the dile administration of the ap pellate jurisdiction of their lordships house, and to re port their opinion to the house. The house adjourned at 7 o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.) LOCIL DUES ON SHIPPING, &c., On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Sir F. THESIGErt said, in asking the house to refuse its consent to the second reading, he felt justified in taking ',hat course, by the absolute refusal on the part of. the Go vernment to listen to the just.claims of those whose inte rests were affectei by it. It was a bill which shook to its very foundation the security of the whole of the corporate property of this country. When he listened to the speech in which the tight hon. gentleman the vice-president of the Board of Trade (Mr. Lowe) introduced his bill to the house he had been startled by some of the doctrines which he had propounded ' • but when he came to look into the provisions of the bill he confessed to have been struck with utter amazement. The righe hon. gentleman had based his measure upon the principle that the corporate towns of this kingdom had no property exclusively their own, that they held all which they possessed at the will of the public, that they might be stripped of their possessions at pie 'owe. When he(Sir F. Thesiger) heard such doctrines as these mentioned he could not help being reminded of those discreditable periods of English history when the charters of corpora tions were rescinded. But the difference between those measures and the present violent proceeding was this — that at leas'', in times past, some pretence was made of de reliction of duty on the part of corporations ; that at least some semblance of a judicial proceeding was ' (eon° through ; but in the present case they found a liberal Government, without any reason assigned, purposing, by the undue exerciseof the power which Parliament possessed, and with out one single allegation of improper application of funds, to confiscate the property of corporations to the use of the state. (Opposition cheers.) Happy it was that the corporations had this protection, that they could not be despoiled unless Parliament became the. ,instrument of the in justice. He (Sir F. Thesiger). was indeed surprised at the infatuation which the Government had rascally shown. The house had seen them reviving an obsolete and ques tionable prerogative for the purpose of impairing the here ditary character and privileges of the House of Peers. (Op position cheers.) And in this matter they were found arm ing their Vice-President, of the Board of Trade, as their champion, with maxims and principles more arbitrary than the most arbitrary portion of English history had theretofore brought forth. (Opposition cheers.) The Go vernment seemed anxious to make applicable to themselves the words of an uncompromising opponent of the former malpractices against corporations, who described the then offender " as making the charters of corporations fall down before him like Jericho,' and as carrying away their spoils like the spoils of Gaza." The bill before the house was conveniently divided into four parts. The first portion referred to the question of passing tolls. Had the bill gone no further than this question, he (Sir F. Thesi ger)—though he thought its provisions were open to some observation —would not have been found amongst its opponents. The fourth part related to various mis cellaneous matters, and matters of detail, with respect to which it was not necessary then to trouble the house. To the second and third portions only therefore would he direct the attention of hen. gentlemen. The second part proposed that all rates and duties leviable, on ships or goods carried in ships, within the United kingdom, and which were possessed by corporate towns, should be trans ferred to the Commissioners of Casten's, and be applied according to the direction of the Board of Trade. The house should know that there was nothing iwhatever in the bill determining the dues—(hear)—and, for all that ap peared in the measure, these dues might be continued to the end of time. (Hear.) The third portion of the bill re lated to the d ifferential duties. The house was aware that the former policy of this country wasto impose a higherdnty upon foreign than upon British vessels. In 1510 and 1815 reciprocity treaties were entered into with Portugal and Ame rica, by which the vessels of those countries wore placed on the same footing as those of Great Britain. In 1819, when the legislature abolished these differential duties in favour of these two nations it was considered that the corporations en titled to these increased tolls would be deprived of the ad vantage which they had derived, and the legislature provid ed that the difference which would arise from the abolition of those dues should be made up to the corporations and others entitle to receive them out of the consolidated fund. This state of things was continued by other acts of Par liament in 1838 and 1852. In the latter year power was given to her Majesty in Council, when any nation received English ships on the same footing as their own, to greet them similar privileges in British ports. But the same principle of compensation was observed, and paylnents from the consolidated fund had from time to time been made. He would especially call the attention oft hewas house to the fact that, with regard to the local dues, i intention of the Government to take them from tlfrecorirr ration and convert them to its own use— N_ Lowe) —while they abolished the differ4l°duers.ni The. right honourable gentleman said Noi (Sir F. Thesiger) should like the negative to be pointed out in the bill. (Hear, hear.) The ground upon which the Government set forth by the right lion. proposed to take this sten, te! gentleman, was that corpe ratio d n is p t r i o n p e e ti r e t n y bweatswepeunbplircipvartoe perty—that there was a_ clear rights and possessions and core orate rights and possessions —that the latter belong to the public. It was necessary to consider the different classes of corporations, to whe e l ' , o f course, different observations applied. He would not take e s te account those corporate bodies the members of which joined their funds for the purposes of trade ; the property of these was eo clearly of the nature of private property that it was not necessary to detain the house in order to prove that which was self-evident. The other classes of corpo rations were two ; those which *ere established simply for public purposes, the individuals of which had no right to any corporate property; and those which were created in order to be the medium of conferring rights and privileges on individuals by a general description, and to prevent the necessity of an individual grant to each member of the corporation. In melee cerporatioes as those to which he had last referred, each individual member possessed a right and share to and in the privileges and property of the corporation. The right hon. gentleman bad classed toge ther all corporations, and had applied the same rule to all. The right hon. gentleman in his speech, in introducing this bill, said :—"Of course we shall hear of vested interests; but ever and over again this house has decided—and I think it will not go back from that decision—that in this matter there is the widest possible distinction between corporations or public bodies and private individuals. Mr. Maim a high authority on such points, says, in the first volume of his 'Constitutional History of England,' that Parliament, although bound to respect the legal interest of private per sons is not withheld by any such rule withregard to corpora tions." The right hon. gentleman did Dot give any reference to this passage in Mr, Rabat! work ; and he (Sir F a Ting! Bedford sad Bletzhley Buckgharush. Clydesdale ie. Col. Stour Vy. Sad. and Hal. E rJin. 7..6 pc E. tin. H. Sh. 4.11a5. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New Glstr.ct Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do.. Sharer. Do. ; Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lon.,Til.,&S. 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Walewski, who is the President of the Peace Conferences—" He has qualities which pe culiarly qualify him to preside over a small assembly of eminent and able men. He is himself a most distin guished man of the world, of amiable disposition and manners, at all times benevolent and courteous. In his presence there is no reason to dread that the bounds of debate will be transgressed, or the orator be carried beyond propriety by strong love of right and the legiti mate ardour of patriotic zeal. Though still young, Count Walewski is quite a veteran in diplomacy. Twenty-five years ago he represented at Paris and London the provisional Government of Poland when in konirrection against the dominion of the Rus sians ; in 1840 he was sent to Mehemet Ali, the Paella of Egypt, on a mission _entrusted to him by M. Thiers, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the Council of Ministers under King Louis Philippe; after which, M. Guizot sent bins on another mission to the provinces of La Plata ; in 1849 he was the French Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Tuscany ; in the following year the French Government charged M. Walewski to represent it in the same capacity at the Court of Naples, where he remained till 1852, when he was named Ambassador to the Queen of Great Britain. The pedigree of Count Colonna Walewski is a most illustrious one, which is always an advantage in a diplo• matic assembly ; he is descended from a branch of the Italian family of the Colonna, which has given to the church one pope and some cardinals, and has supplied the Court of Rome, and the Kings of France and of Spain with celebrated generals and skilful negotiators. A Colonna, in 1507, was Grand Constable to King Fer dinand the Catholic." LORD CARDIGAN IN THE CRIMEA. A writer in the Morning Herald of yesterday makes the following distinct assertion respecting Lord Cardi gan :—" On the 27th Sept., 1854, the day the Allies ar i ived at Balaklava, there was sent to Lord Cardigan, by the Commander-in-Chief, a written official condem cation and reprimand of his whole conduct from the time of his landing in the Crimea. This conduct regarded both the management of his own brigade, and his con duct from the time of his landing in the Crimea. This censure regarded both the management of his own bri gade, and his conduct towards his superior officer— Lord Lucan. In fact, it wasonly by the interference and intercession of Lord Raglan that Lord Lucan was pre vented pushing the matter further. Lord Cardigan is bold in his denial, because he knows well there is no offi cial record of this stinging rebuke to be found at the Horse Guards, as his lordship was always a favourite with Lord Raglan (why, all the world now openly talks of), and he, therefore, made it a p rivate censure, as he did in the case of%the sth Dragoon Guards at Varna. Will Lord Cardigan deny that he ever received this censure 2 Will Lord Cardigan deny that be made petty complaints to Lord Raglan, which (in spite of the marked favour shown towards him) were dismissed as frivolous. l 3 9 i 26 I 51 96 82 1 123. 106 60} 59! 73 04 Pin 174 824 i 71 1 9 7i I i 102 t it 921 i 3 xd 241 5k to} 61 1? . .., i 6 51 61 01 401 a d 214 20j 4 31 25i 61 5O 50 all all 101 100 Do.. all luo IBi Elt. St. St. 25 i 1 100 1100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 93 7i 100 80 1183 18 1041 99i 100 93 24 ger),not recollecting en y such opinion to be therein expressed, and fearing that the right hon. gentleman might inadver tently have referred to seine " Board of Trade" copy not accessible to the general public—(laughter) ---he had, there fore, referred to the work itself, and the passage which he found there, ran thus :—" In estates held, as we call it, in mortmain there is no intercommunity, no natural privity of interest between the present possessor and those who may succeed him ; and as the former cannot have any pre text for complaint if, his own right being preserved, the legislature should alter the course of transmission after his decease, so neither is any hardship sustained by others un less their succession has been already designated or ren dered probable. Corporate property, therefore, appears to stand on a very different footing from that of private individuals ; and while all infringements of the established privileges of the latter are to be .sedulously avoided, and held justifiable only by the strongest motives of public ex pediency, we cannot but admit the full right of the legis lature to now mould and regulate the former in all that does not involve existing contracts upon f a r slighter rea sons of convenience. Mr. LO WE explained that he had not professed to quote the words of Mr. Hallam, but had only stated their effect, Sir F. THESIGER would proceed to illustrate what he had been saying with regard to corporations, by referring to particular cases. He would, in the first place, take the case of Liverpool, because that was a ease to whistle the right hon. gentleman himself had referred. The right hon. gentleman said that the corporation of Liverpool received 125,0001. a-year, of which sum they spent only 4,000/, u p on matters connected with shipping. The right hen. gentle man was not correct when he said that this sum was raised entirely by shipping dues ; in fact, it was raised to a great extent by an export and import duty. These local dues of Liverpool had most probably arisen from the petty ens toms, which in former times were levied by the King's prerogative. These dues were frequently granted to indi viduals and to corporations, and one of the subjects of such a grant was the corporation of Liverpool. In 1628 the cor poration purchased these dues for the very large sum of 374,9891. In 1635 they sold their rights to Lord Molyneux, the ancestor of the Earls of Sefton, who shortly afterwards purchased a fee farm rent which _had been reserved out of the does. In 1764 the then Lord Molynenx made a lease of the dues to the corporation of Liverpool for 1,000 years, and in 1777 the corporation purchased from Lord Moly neux the reversionary interest in fee, and they became the absolute owners of the dues. In 1136, their title being then questioned, an action was brought to try the right, and a decision was given in their favour. Since then the title had been unquestioned.. Now if a corporation could possess private property at all, he (Sir F. Thesiger) would like to know how a stronger title &add be made out. Let the house suppose that those dues had remained the pri vete property of Lord Molyneux, and had descended to the Earl of Sefton ; would the right hon. gentleman say that the right to them ought not to have been preserved inviolable ? Would any one say that there was any dis tinction between the right of the Earl of Sefton and that of the corporation which purchased it from hie ancestor for a valuable consideration? (Hear, hear.) What right had any one to say that they were not to continue in possession of their property ? It was paid for with the funds of the corporation, and for the benefit of the corpo ration. Bat the right hon. gentleman might say perhaps those dues were given originally as a sort of trust for local purposes, such as maintenance of harbours ; but he (Sir F. Thesiger) would venture to assert that not one of the char ters had been granted with that condition. He had lea many, and could not remember one in which any such con dition was inserted. Oa the other hand, the right hon. gentleman assumed that such conditions existed, and that they had been violated. He passed now from Liverpool to another case that exhibited the injustice of this measure. In 1771 the Hull Dock Company obtained an act for making their docks, with a power which was usual in those times, of charging a double amount of dock dues on foreign vessels. In 1842 they were about to celarge their docks, but were afraid to incur the expense without previously making a permanent arrangement with the Government respecting their double dues. They put themselves in communication with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the President of the Board of Trade (Messrs. Goulburn and Gladstone), and an arrangement was ultiinately come to by which the Go vernment redeemed the toll On foreign vessels by a pay ment out of the consolidated fund equal to the average of five years' previous collection, which accounted to 6,3331. He would ask the right hon. member for Oxford Univer sity, whether that transaction was not an arrangement deliberately entered into with the . Government, and one by which the Government was a considerable gainer, seeing that the difference for the last fourteen years as against the corporation was 54,0001. ? The hon. and learned member having quoted the Treasury minute referring to this trans action continued :—But the right hon. gentleman would probably say that Hull was a case for which he had pro vided, by permitting the levy of a toll wherever a pay ment had been made out of the consolidated fund, and was withdrawn by the bill. Now, in the first place, he had to reply, that this offer was not likely to be available to the Hull Dock Company, because they had been great sufferers lately by competition, and if they raised the toll they would infallibly drive away the ships. The amount payable last year was 11,0001. and odd pounls, and if the 6,0001. odd from the Treasury were taken away, the company would be deprived of snore than half its not in come. The last illustration, stud perhaps not the weakest case he should give, was the ease of Bristol. " The electors there had dues to which they were entitled nuder a charter from Edward IV., iu the year 1462, mind to be levied on goods exported and imported. There were also one or two fee farms which the Crown reserved, and which were after wards purchased by the corporation. In the year 1825 the corporation, at their own expense, obtained an act of Parliament enabling them to alter and reduce the tell ; and they reduced them accordingly from 5,0001. to 2,0001.; and they continued in that position until the passing of the Municipal Reform Act. Their harbour was formed by a company in 1805, and to provide the necessary funds the inhabitants of Bristol agreed to assess themselves in a permanent rate to the annual amount of 2,4001. 111 181 S, the shipping interest being dissatisfied with the management of the harbour and the docks, they requested the corporation to purchase the rights and interests of the company. The corporation agreed, and the arrangement was carried out in the Dock Act of 1848, by which the ratepayers were bound to make up any deficiency that might occur in satisfying the claim of this company. The inhabitants agreed to an assessment of 1,4031. in order to supply the deficiency. Subsequently 70,0001. was spent in the repairs of the docks, and it was all guaranteed- oat of the borough fund. Now here was one of the cases in which her Majesty's Government would strip the corpora tion of all local dues derived either under charter or by voluntary assessment of the inhabitants. The right hon. gentleman might say that this was an exceptional onse end would be provided fur, but they &sputa not have excep tional cases. The question was one of principle, and on principle it ought to, be decided. The case of Bristol was identical with that of Liverpool, only that there was a trivial difference in the mode in which the right to levy was derive 1. He was ;dealing with the principle which the right honourable gentleman had boldly put forward, namely, that a corporation, because it was a corporation, could hold no private property. He would now return to the right hon. gentleman's precedents. The right hon. gen tleman had quoted the case of the corporation of the Tri nity House, but that was a corporation of exclusively a public character. It had been incorporated by Henry and received its present charter in thoreign of :Ames 11. It. was composed of 31 elder brethren and an indefinite num ber of younger brethren, the latter to be composed of per sons who had been commanders of merchant ships. But no individual member had any right in the funds, which were strictly for public objects. In 1853, an application was made from the Board of Trade that the Trinity House should cease to collect for charitable objects. It appeared that the corporation hail applied some of their surplus funds to the relief of decayed mariners and their families, but the Treasury decided that these charities communicated no vested rights. He had been surprised to hear the right hon. gentleman quoting the case of the Trinity House in sup port of his view. He (Sir F. Thesiger), en the other hand, held it to be.a case going entirely for the view which he sup ported ; for in it was marked most broadly the distinction between vested rights and powers conferred merely for public objects. Another argument put forward by the right hon. gentleman was, that all the vested rights of the corporations were destroyed by the passing of the Munici pal Reform Act in 1835, by which the property was taken front the corporation and given to others. The right hon. gentleman was unhappy in his selection of arguments. He (Sir F. Thesiger) would venture tosubnsit to the considera tion of the house, that the 5 and 6 of Win. IV. was one of the strongest grounds for insisting on the finality of all ar rangements respecting corporate property. (Hear.) They knew that corporations had originally had certain privi leges and franchises, anti that by degrees their privileges were monopolised by close bodies. Such a state of things was remedied by the Corporation Reform Bill, which took the revenues from these close bodies and placed them under the control of the burgesses at large. That was the view of Lord Brougham, who called the measure restitution, not spoliation, and by the noble lord the member for Lon don, who said that municipal funds should be appropriated to public municipal purposes. It was se provided ex pressly in the 92d section of the act , which declared that all tolls and dues should become part of the borough fund. Should there be any surplus after the specific object for which the rate was levied had been carried out, the surplus was to be applied for the general benefi t of the inhabitawnerets and the improvement of the borough. So that the to lls itw (Hear.) The right hen. gentle manby the Corporation Reform Bill conferred onthe leoroughs as part of their property. admittedwas a that into the bill by an oversight, but t rate , .was most might probably urge th at thishporfo,vcitsiownows 1 i n serte d 10, clause most carefully discussed and dal. h en gentleman the right of 92 of the bill. How then, in the face maintainoYf such precedents, could the r i g ht • • the Government to co nfiscate the property of corp ora t e bodies ? He (Sir F. Thesiger) defied any one to ma k e a distinction between the private property of at individual which was, for the present at least—(hear, hear)—invie lable and tint which having been the private property of an i n dividual had subsequently become the private pro perty of a corporation. But the right hon. gentleman had exhibited considerable ingenuity in his mode of intro ducing the question, having prefaced the objectionable principle with two short clauses, on which, as he doubted not, there would be very little difference of opinion, thus as it were, making a covert from which he might dart out upon his prey. The right hon. gentleman hoped in that way to obtain the second reading of the bill, and then turn round to the house and say, " You have already acknow ledged the principle of confiscation." Had the right hon. gentleman confined his legislation to passing tolls he would have met with little opposition, but he used these in his bill to mask his real object. Bat let no hon. member be deceived by this contrivance ; th&object of the Government was, by introducing these comparatittely unobjectionable clauses, the better to mask the principle eiX confiscation and spoof He knew he addressed honouralslb members , oms whom had been instructed by their cons tituent es these Liverpool local duties ; but let them net z o flatter'y wan tn ir them selves that if the Government measure were eclantthe constituents would be relieved. The objec t to remind the na - abolish ish Trade,t h . the n thatrate,but f the to right transfer hothh. the g conk _ t hi w a n n t n o t r r e doh ids the slightest degree benefited. bill the constituents of the _dho.n.Htneem beneggrsedwould not b e i n interfere with their property, a ttempt was made now t o re p res entatives of inland co rporations that, although no tt dto b t hed rotect them from would Ys:p os sible to p confieca still if this precedent were once permi e ees a e it be hardl tion. T h ey would Lin d out, p robably, that all the favou r they had obtaine d by th e i r devotion to the G overnmen t was the melanchtsehoy lyp s r l privilege had read, vilegee that of b once awitrdedteeintghedeGvrnenrcianed c hief, of whoto last. (A laugh.) He therefore most earnestiv'entreated them to stop at its commencement a ceeiree which, in the and, might be fatal to themselves. (Hear, hear.) He had thus endeavoured to place before the house all the circum stances under which it appeared to him impossible, to maintain the principle upon which the bill was based; and he confessed that he was at a loss to know whether he was snore astonished at the measure itself than at the argument s which had been brought forward in its support. The mea sure was intended to take away from these corporation property to which they were entitled by charter, by Act of Parliament, by public agreement, and by irnmeinoria Peifiellgiolls and that upon arguments which Appeared t 26 t 72 J 711 1 77a 8 tsi lit I_sl 53 21 21 i 25 1 65 i 16k 14 85 4 9 i i 45 t 37i i 39i