The Sun. — London, England, 1861-05-07 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF LORDS7YEsTEnDAy, The LOAD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. ROMAN CATHOLIC PAUPERS. The Marquis of NORMANBY presented petitions in favour of the better education and care of Roman Catholic pauper children in workhouses. The Earl of DERBY presented similar petitions. Lord LLANOVER also prek ented similar petitions. PRIVATE BUSINESS. _ _ . The Wrexham and Minera Railway, Universal Plicate Telegraph Company, Neath Water, and Elton and Black burn Roads Bills were read a second time. Tho following bills were read a third time and passed : Caledonian Railway (Cleland Branches); Dumfries, Loch maben, and LockerbyJunction Railway; Caledonian Railway (Stonehouse branches), Caledonian Railway (Rutherglen anti Coatbridge branches); Caledonian and Symington, Big gar, and Broughton Railway Companies, Blane Valley Rail way; Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway ; Dunblane, Doune, and Calendar Railway; Kinross-shire Railway, Rhymney Railway (additional capital), Glasgow and Mil nagarvie Junction Railway, Stratford-upon-Avon Rail way, Garston and Liverpool Railway, Kingston-upon- Thames and Leatherhead Roads, Alva Railway, Romney Railway, Staffordshire Potteries Water, and Great Western Railway (capital) bills. THE SUEZ CANAL. The Earl of CARNARVON moved for copies and cor respondence between the Government and the Consul- General of Egypt, and any other communications that have passed between her Majesty's Governmen t and the Govern ments of Turkey and France relative to the Suez Canal. The noble lord Bald he thought the con. struction of such a canal was of very great importance to this country both politically and commercially, but that it was full of difficulties of an almost insurmountable nature, and that being so, it was to be regretted that money was to be embarked in the undertaking. But as there were political considerations mixed up with this work, he thought it was the duty of the Government t o give all the explanations in their power to show the policy they have pursued, as the canal was being prosecuted with vigour by M. Lesseps and a foreign company under powers granted to him by the Viceroy of Egypt, and he wished the Government to inform their lordships of the steps they had taken in the matter. M. Lesseps had per suaded the Viceroy to become responsible to an enormous amount, not only during his own life, but that of his suc cessors, and in fact so securely fixed the Pacha that M. Lesseps held, he might say, the government of Egypt. The French Government was most interested in the question, and though he did not wish in any way to obstruct the ex tension of the commerce of France, he thought it was of the greatest importance that she should not, unless in a fair and legitimate manner, take such steps as to prejudice the neutrality of Egypt. He thought the object of the company in executing the work appeared clear and unmistakable ; its great object seemed to be to identify every act of . their own with the French Government at home. He sincerely hoped the Government would not mix itself up with a bankrupt com pany or attempt to vamp up a mercantile failure, for a more gross or delusive bubble was never launched upon the sea of commerce. Lord WODEHOUSE replied that it would be very inju rious to the public service to publish the correspondence for which the noble earl asked ; but ho could assure him that there was not the least discord in the Cabinet upon this important question, nor had their policy in any way changed. He believed with the noble earl, that the project was in itself impracticable ; but still there were considera tions which rendered it necessary that it should be watched with the greatest care, as her Majesty's Government felt they were bound to carry out the engagements into which they entered in 1856 for the maintenance of the Ottoman Empire, and also the engagements of 1811 with respect to the Pasha of Egypt. The history of the undertaking was this. In 15.51 M. Lesseps obtained from the Viceroy of Egypt a concession for this canal, but, as had been stated by the noble earl, that concession had never been confirmed by the Porte, which would not be given unless the security of the Ottoman empire was guaranteed. There was, too, a great objection to the system of forced labour, which was contrary to law ; and with respect to the alienation of land, spoken of by the noble earl, there was no doubt greatdanger arising from keeping upon it a compact body of foreigners, who might on an emergency prove themselves an army, and cut off our communications withthe east. But although M. Lesseps had actually commenced his scheme, there was little likelihood of its ever being carried to a completion, for as fast as a harbour was made at the Mediterranean extre mity of the Isthmus, the silt was so great as to imme diately choke it. Her Majesty's Government had never hesitated to express to the French Government its opinion upon the project, which he had hoped soon to see aban doned, on the grounds that the construction of the canal would be dangerous to the peace of Europe. The Earl of CARNARVON, satisfied with the state ment made on behalf of her Majesty's Government, then withdrew his motion. MARRIAGE LAW AMENDMENT. Lord REDESDALE, in bringing up the report on this bill, suggested that it was an indulgence to the Roman Catholics. There ought to be a system of registration fulepfed, t) prevent clandestinity. The LORD CHANCELLOR considered that such mar tiag,es Were sufficiently gmardeil against by the bill. The mPasure was not an indulgence to the Roman Catholics, but a mere matter of justice to them. Lord CHELMSFORD thought that, in order to prevent abuse, there ought to be a registration of the marriages. After some further conversation, it was agreed that the bill should be recommitted on Friday next. ROYAL ;iIARINE (EAST STONEHOITSE:DEVON. SHIRE) BARRACKS BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed, and their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-YESTERDAY. SvE.ui.Eit took the chair at four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Captain JonNsoN took the oaths and his seat for Mont gomery. THE SPEAKER. The SPEA.R.ER said, in reference t) his recent indis • position, that it had been a matter of great regret and annoyance to him that he should have been detained from attending to his duties during the last two or three sittings of the house. Ho trusted, however, now, through the indulgence of hon. members, to be able to continue his attendance without further interruption. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway Bill were considered and agreed to, as well as those to the Oswestry and Newton Railway (Branches, &c.) Bill and the Strathspey Railway Bill. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway ; London and North • Western Railway (Chester and Holyhead Railway) ; Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Xdditional Works) ; Newgate and Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Markets; Fenatth Harbour, Dock, and Railway; Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Astrurance Society; Westminster Improvements; and South Yorkshire Railway (Keadby Extension. The following; bills were considered and ordered for third reading :—Banbridge Extension Railway, Conway and Llanrwst Railway, Downpatrick and Newry Railway, Great Southern and Western Railway (Extension), Llan daff and Canton District Markets, Londonderry and Cole raine Railway, 'Manchester and Milford Railway, (Abe rymwith tranch), Rhyl Bridge, Stockport, Timperley. and ./ . ..ltrincham Junction Railway, Tyne Improvement, and Vale of Clwyd Railway. The following bills were read a second time : Fylde Water, Metropolitan Railway (Improvements, &c.), Courts of Justice Building, and Hastings Western Water (No. 2). PETITIONS. Several petitions were presented for and against the re paal f the paper duty and in fav our of the Budget gene rally, i n i n favour of Roman Catholics in unions b e i ng enabled to exercise their religious duties with more facility than at present, &c. PAPER MILLS. Mr. M‘MATION moved for a return of the number of paper mills at work in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ire land respectively, in each year from 1838 to 1856 (in con. tinnation, to the present day, of Parliamentary paper, No. 109, of setsbion 1, 1857).—Ordered. CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL• EWART gave notice that when the Attorney- General biougbt on habillfor the amendment of the crimi nal law, he would reeve a reeolut ion for the commutation of punishment by death. LANDED PROPERTY IMPROVEMENT (IRELAND) Sir W. SOMERVILLE brought in a bill on this sub ject, which was read a first time. ADDITIONAL MAILS TO CHINA., Mr. LONGFIELD asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether (having regard to the estimate for the Post -office packet service for the year 1861-2) it wes the intention of her Majesty's Government to discontinue the additional mail monthly, to and from China; and whether any notice had been given to her Majesty's Postmaster-General to that effect ; and, if so, to state what has been the expense to the public of this fortnightly mail, giving credit for the sums received for post ige of letters thereby? Mr. PEEL said that the carriage of the second monthly mail, on application to Government last year, was renewed for a period of cix months, a subsidy being imposed at the rate of £24,000 a-year. TIIi ENGRAVERS TO THE ROYAL MINT. Mr. POTTS asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if it was intended to adopt tho principle of competitive exami tion for the office of Engraver to the Royal Mint, now vacant by the superannuation of,Mr. James Wyon, with a view to the combination of mechanical knowledge with the engraver's art, in the appointment, and to the general im provement of the British coinage? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was not in a condition to answer the question at present. The oftice in question was vacant, but bef9Xe taking any steps in reference to it hos would Fait until the Master of the Mint had made his report on all subject, C.iNON 2J.] Mr. 11. SEYMOUR asked the Secretary of Safe for the Home Department, if that portion of Cann 29, which for bids a parent from being admitted to answer as godfather for his own child be altered or repealed by the Convoca tion of Canterbury, according to the Royal licence granted to them under the advice of ; her Majesty's Government, whether such alteration or repeal will have the effect of re lieving the members of the Church in the province of Can terbury from the obligation now lying upon them in refe rence to sponsors. Sir G. C. LEWIS said that the Convocation of the Pro vince of Canterbury had received a license from her Majesty to amend or 'repeal that canon, but they had not yet availed themselves of that privilege. He understood there was an ancient canon of tl e Church which had the same effect. AMERICA. Mr. GREGORY asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any a ttempt on the part of the Govern ment of the Un ited States to levy Federal dues off foreign vessels outside the ports of the Southern Confede racy, befo:e such vessels break bulk, would not be an in fringement of international law; and, if so, whether in structions would be issued to our cruisers to that effect. Lord J. RUSSELL, who was very indistinctly heard, said he had consulted the Queen's advocate, who stated that the matter must entirely depend on circumstances. No such instructions as those alluded to had been issued. With regard to any blockade that might be attempted it would not be recognised unless it were effective. The Southern States must be considered as belligerent, and as related to the belligerent rights of certain portions of the States, they had the precedent of 1825 in respect to Greece, when the belligerent rights of the provisional Go vernment of that country were allowed, notwithstanding the remonstrance of the Government of Turkey. When the question with regard to the American States arose, the attention of the Crown officers had been directed to the subject. The questions involved were of a very intricate character, and until they had been decided no communica tion could be made with other States on the subject. (Hear.) MARRIAGE OF H.R.H. PRINCESS ALICE— ROYAL MESAGE. Lord PALMER TON moved that the two orders of the day which had precedence of the third and fourth orders, be postponed until the latter orders had been disposed of. This was the course adopted by the house when questions relating to the Royal Family were to be brought before the house, as in the case of the Princess Royal. The mot Ton was agreed to, and the orders for going into committee of ways and means, and for considering the re port of supply were postponed. _ . _ The house then went into committee on the Queen's mes sage announcing the approaching marriage of H.R.H. the Princess Alice; and the Speaker having read the Royal message, Lord PALMERSTON said the people of this country were proud, and justly proud, of the Royal family which they had the happiness to possess. (Hear, hear.) They considered that it would not be consistent with re- spect to the Royal family or to the dignity of the country, to allow members of that family to be without an adequate provision, in order to maintain them in a condition consistent with the position they held. (Rear, hear.) At the commencement of the reign the So vereign resigned the Crown property to the house, which undertook to make an adequate provision for her in return. Havingreferred to the provision made for George 111., the noble lord said that her Majesty, notwithstanding her large family had not applied to the house for any of those addi tional large demands which had been the case in previous reigns. With respect to the Princess Royal, the house had granted to her Royal Highness a dower of £40,000, and an annuity during her life of £B,OOO, but it was now proposed to apply only for £30,000 for a dower, and an annuity of £6,000 a year for Her Royal High ness the Princess Alice. It was essential to the interests and dignity of this country that members of the Royal Family should not go abroad as paupers. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord concluded by moving a resolution voting the dower, which, as well as the annuity of £6,000 a year to H.R.H. Princess Alice, was agreed.to in Com mittee of Supply. The house then resumed. PUBLIC EXPENDITURE. In reply to Sir H. WILLOUGHBY, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that ,the estimates respecting China were made on his official authority, and he believed they would be found correct. From the difference of the financial years in this country. and India, it would be impossible to speak with certainty relative to the finances of the latter. He did not anticipate any increase in the navy estimates would be rendered necessary by the events that had oc curred in America. THE PAPER PUTY. The house then went into committee of ways and means. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved a resolution respecting the duties of excise on paper and mill board, and paper of every description, from and after the Ist day of October next. Lord R. CECIL said he thought the small discussion which they had had this evening showed that the right hon. gentleman had resolved to foresee nothing. (Hear.) Last year, when hostilities with China had really commenced —at any rate when violende had been committed—the right hon. gentleman could foresee nothing but a peaceful mission to the mouth of the Peiho. That was so in 1853, when the Turkish question assumed a warlike form. Then the right hen, gentleman proposed a budget founded upon the as sumption that there would be a long durat;on of peace. Even when the war was actually impending he was resolved not to see any Russian war. Last year there was the China Wf• r, and this year there was the American war, and he (Lord R. Cecil) did not think the house would do its duty if they limited their foresight to the narrow horizon of the right hon. gentleman. (Hear.) By the resolution before them they were not merely sacrificing a present but a future re venue, for they knew perfectly well when the excise duty was swept away they could not impose it again. (Cheers.) Was that a wasteful proceeding or not ? He was anxious to apply more carefully the grounds upon which the doctrine as to remission of taxes rested, and he wanted the house to examine into the facts and figures upon which this policy was based. (Hear.) The excise duties upon glass and soap were swept away, and he desired to Know whether it had been successful. Ho would first take soap. It was said that this was an article upon which the excise had acted with great severity, and that it prevented the productive power of the manufacturer and crip led trade in such a manner as to prevent the manufacturer competing with foreigners. Were the expectations of the right hon. gentleman correct, and ought the house to have abolished that tax ? He found that in 1849 the value of the exports was £159,000, and in 1853, £290,000, while six years after the removal of the tax, in 1859, the value of the exports had sunk to £225,000. Then let them take the case of glass. When it was pro posed to abolish the duty, it was said that it interfered with the manufacture, and that persons in this country could not compete with those of Belgium, France, and other countries, and it was assumed that the removal of the tax would give enormous development to trade. In 1844 the value of exported glass was £380,000 ; in 1850, £307,000 ; and in 1859 it recovered to £606,000. (Hear.) But then the general increase of exports from 1844 is 1859 was 123 per cent., whilst on glass it was only 57 per cent. (Hear, hear.) Again it was hoped that the trade in window glass would have been - sery much stimulated, but what were the facts ? In 1841 we exported 27,899 cwt., and in 1859 only 27,607 cwt. (Hear.) True, there was an increase in the manufac ture of bottles, but that only benefited the consumers of alcoholic liquors. Another of the promises made by the late Sir It. Peel was that we should have a range of articles varying from the balance spring of a chronometer to drain age pipes all made of glass, but 15 years had now elapsed, and he appealed to all who heard him to say whether one or the other promise had been fulfilled. (Hear, hear.) A meat deal had been said of the increase of national wealth under an improved system of fiscal 'legislation, but the question was whether the legislation and the wealth stood in the re lation of cause and effect. The general increase of wealth was admitted, but the question was, what had created it ? It might have been produced by their remission of taxation, by the influx of gold, or the enormous development of the railway system. If we wanted to see whether it was caused by any one of those three causes, we must compare our ad vance with that of a country in which that cause did not exist, and if in that country the increase was as great or greater than our own, then the reasonable conclusion was that the alleged cause had had nothing to do with the effect produced. Now inFrance there had been no remission of in diraet e ct taxation, and he wou ld see h ow th e i ncrease o f t ra d e i n that country stood as compared with our own. In 1817 the imports of England amounted in 1856 to £172,000 , 0 00, • being r an n v i a n t as to e £9 o o f ,o 9 o o o p ,o e o r o c , e a n n t d . alas° of France were, in 1817, 955 millions of francs, and in 1856, 1,872 millions o f francs, b cent. (Hear.) But the exports ewereng a an st i i n a crease of 96 per stronger In 1847 the exports of England wer e £sB ,ooo,oo case. odin 1856, £115,0 00 , 000 , being an increase o f 96 per cent. an In F ra nce they were, in 184 7, 7 19 millions of f rancs ; in 1856, e removal all the theories of indirect 1,856 million s, bein g an increase of 159 per cent. (Hea r .) He submitted . o h n a n t o th ti e o s n e factsbetw between n ep tb t away respecting taxation and the increasing prosperity of the country. (o r _ position cheers.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer now ridi culed the idea of contemplating the affairs of a future y ear i n allY Present arrangement of finance, but in 1855 he cen sured the then Chancellor of the Exchequer for thinking only of the present and leaving future ye ars destitute. W ith respect to the constitutional question, he looked u p on th e scheme of th e r i ght hon. gent l eman for fettering the action of the House of Lords as an exceedingly vain expedient. The right hon. gentleman and the hon. member for Birming ham did net seem to recollect that behind the House of Lords last year was the whole of the educated public opinion of the country, of which both hat house aryl the other house were merely the vehicles and instruments. If an occasion should happen again, if that house (the Commons) should act as madly as it did last year, the House of Lords would not be deterred from its duty by any such expedient as that of the right Jinn. gentleman. What would the House of Lords do supposing that the House of Commons were to do as it had done in the previous year, viz., leave the finances with an enormous deficiency ? The House of Lords would simply alter the bill, and strike out the clause removing the `duty in commit. What would the Howe of Commons do 111 E SUN, LONDON, TrEgDAY !EVENING, MAY 7, 1861, I then ? They would be exceed i ng l y ex u ltin g , would make many lottd speeches, and if the opinion of the country was against them, they would prepare a new bill with the ob noxious clause removed, and send it back to the House of Lords in a penitential mood. (Opposition cheers.) On the other hand, if public opinion did not support the House of Lords, the House of Lords was far too prudent to resist. However, the House of Commons ought Itself to see that the new device of the Chancellor of the Exchequer had for its object the withdrawing of the finances of the country from its own revision. In old constitutional times the cus tom of the House of Commons had been to revise the bud get in every stage, but now they were confined to two, un less they resorted to the almost revolutionary expedient of rejecting the budget altogether. He (Lord R. Cecil) said that while pursuing the shadow of avenging himself on the House of Lords, the right hon. gentleman was really damaging himself and the House of Commons. The right hon. gentleman said on a former evening that he could not understand the opposition, because he had brought forward his resolutions in a spirit of conciliation. Ho (Lord R. Cecil) said that the right hon. gentleman was indulging in a disastrous raid on the principles of the constitution. He must have known that they (the opposition) opposed his measures as they would oppose any measures that injured the revenue and left future years destitute, but there were special reasons for opposing his present propositions. They had a special character—they were the purchase-money of political support ; they were hush money thrown to the stern watch dogs of reform, to induce them to condone the back sliding from former professions. All he (Lord R. Cecil) was surprised at was that they should be satisfied with so cheap a bribe, but they could not expect that members on his side of the house would be satisfied with measures which were calculated to produce such detrimental results on the exchequer of the country. Mr. L. GOWER contended that the gre dual abolition of excise duties bad been received with the greatest approba tion by the country, but as to the constitutional question, he did not conceive that it belonged to the present debate. The present topic was the removal of the excise duty on paper, which he supported because it was not only a bad but an arbitrary tax. -He looked upon its existence as being a seri ous impediment to the industrial development of the country. They had the evidence of manyhighly respectable publishers that without this tax they could very much cheapen the works they produced, and particularly those of a low priced character, and he could not understand, in these days when hen. members were encouraging the establishment of pub lic libraries, and doing everything to :attract the labouring man from the public-house to the mechanics' institution. how they could ignore this fact. There appeared to be a general impression abroad that the chief objection in that house to the reduction of the paper duty was the benefit it would do to the cheap press of the country. He could hardly believe such to be the case. It was true that it was formerly supposed the Tory party considered the diffusion of political knowledge would be attended with considerable danger, but he hoped these were exploded views, although he suspected they lingered on some portion of the benches opposite. For his own part he thought it most desirable the working man should be acquainted with the laws he was bound to respect, and he believed that in this aspect the cheap press would be of the greatest benefit. (Hear, hear.) He had watched with great interest the establish ment of the cheap press throughout the country, and he had observed with much satisfaction the entire respectability with which it hal been conducted. (Hear, hear.) He had never seen any attack upon morality or religion, nor any indulgence in personalities. On the contrary, they put forth their opinions, not by the force of abuse, but by the force of argument ; and he must also pay a tribute to the eminent ability which distinguished their leading articles. The result of the abolition of this tax would be to improve the paper on which the cheap press was printed, and he really believed, when that was done, that every man would be able to obtain for a penny as good a communication as that for which he had now to pay fourpence. He felt that all these considerations ought to weigh with hon. ?gentle men opposite. He must say the sympathy expressed by them on this occasion for the poor man appeared to be some thing exaggerated and would not bear a very strict analy sis, because there could be no doubt that the remission of the paper tax would greatly benefit every class of the com munity. For all the reasons he had stated he was prepared to give this resolution his most cordial support. (Hear.) Mr. BENTINCK.—The varied uses to which paper might be applied had %pen insisted on as an argument in favour of the remission. One of those uses was alleged to be paper pipes, but he had heard that where such pipes had been laid down they were eaten away by rats. (Laughter.) That fact showed that paper could not come into such general use as had been imagined. (Hear, hear.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer did not think the sup plementary estimates of ,last year a sufficient warning against the proposed remission. The Chinese war, he said, could not be anticipated. Could the right hon. gentleman foretell what effect the American war might have on the financial condition of this country ? If not, why dispose of his imaginary surplus by this unnecessary remission of the paper duties ? The opposition to the remission was irrespective of party feeling. (Hear, hear.) He would for that reason, at this time, :egret any decision that would necessitate a change of Government. He had reason to believe that, in their opposition to the resolution on the paper duties, the majority of the Oppoeitiou were not actu ated by any hostile feeling against her Majesty's Govern ment. The surplus calculated upon by the Chancellor of the Exchequer consisted of money borrowed and the casual receipt of an indemnity from China. Those sources of in come should not be dealt with as if they were permanent or usual sources of revenue. (Hear.) He (Mr. Bentinek) deeply regretted that the noble lord (Palmerston) should have given his assent to the proposal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Would the noble lord undertake to say that the present state of America would not involve us in any difficulties ? Would he say there would be no deft • ciency in the supply of cotton and tobacco ? or that there would be no consequent distress in the manufacturing dis tricts ? (Hear.) From what had occurred since he last spoke had the noble lord any grounds for altering the opinion be then expressed ? Lord C. HAMILTON said that the taunt used by his hon. friend (Mr. L. Gower) in reference to the working man's tea did not apply to his (Lord C. Hamilton's) side of the house, for the term was used by the right hon. the Chancellor when he was in opposition to Lord Derby's Go vernment, consequently the shaft directed towards the pre sent Opposition fell short of its intended aim. The noble lord then said that he house ought to insist upon having some more solid arguments in support of the Eudget from the Government than had yet been addressed to the house. Neither the Chancellor of the Exchequer ner the right hon. gentleman the President of the Board of Trade had given that information respecting the project before the house which hon. melhbers were entitled to. The right. hon. gentleman (Mr. Gibson) said the data rested on by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in respect to his Budget had been supplied to him from the Government departments, and that it was not likely that these departments would have cooked the accounts to suit the purposes of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. Now he (Lord C. Hamilton) contended that this was an effort to shirk responsibility, which the Government had no right to resort to. The right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer also said that if the house would have a large expenditure it must be prepared to meet that expenditure by increased taxation. Now, that was not language that should be addressed to the House of Commons. He hoped that some explanations would be given on these points by the Government, in the course of debate. Mr. BAINES considered the Budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was founded in justice, and with a due regard to the development of the industrial resources of the country. The repeal of the paper duties would largely pro mote the value, importance, and circulation of that class of publications consisting of religious, social, and literary works—which was eagerly sought after by the working classes ; and that was one of the great reasons why he supported this branch of the Chancellor's budget. He stated on a former occasion the great number of cheap publications which were now issued, and he believed they would be ma terially increased by the present measure. Take the Holy Scriptures. There was a drawback on the duty on those published by the Queen's Printer and the University, but it was not so with others. Then the tax on writing paper was a discouragement to parties who wished to learn to write, and the removal of the duty would of course facilitate it. It was condemned nine or ten years ago by a resolution of that house. It was positively repealed last session, but thrown out by the House of Lords. It was therefore one which the Chancellor of the Exchequer was bound to re move as soon as possible. After what occurred last year with the other House of Parliament, the honour of that house required that it should be repealed. With reference to the expense of their war establishments, he found that in 1840 they were 14 millions, in 1850 15 millions, and in the present year it had risen to the enormous, and, he would say, shameful sum of 25 millions. They had no war in China, peace was restored in India, and as to tho Great Powers of Europe, they were on the most friendly terms with most of them. As to America, the naval power of those States was absolutely annihilated ; and although a naval force may be required to protect their commerce in the Gulf of Mexico, no additional expenditure was necessary. Then why incur this enormous expenditure ? Sir L. PALK agreed with hon. members that a surplus was in the Exchequer, but he did not by any means approve of the manner in whioh it was applied. What were they to do with the surplus? Would they reduce the income le me a duty, o tax? Undoubtedly that tax ought to be reduced ; theb lda u ur t eienwf e al i s sc o it l th e y m a tt n hwtehto a: pledge that was given by the right hon. gentleman th a t it s h ou ld b e taken off in 1860 was not kept. T ex .% h v w a b s hr n oi eu o hg t h t the o t b i Gn e oa r ve revenue Gov e rnment e t and opf rno pebaoyrs nearly o r • sat mil lion i ngu e and a half, and that which pressed least of any tax on the people—he meant the paper duty. (Hear.) Last year, when it was proposed to repeal that duty, the House of Lords stepped in, and by their vote saved that tax to the country. It was then said that the country would be indig nant, and that meetings would be held in disapprobation of the course taken by the House of Lords ; but no such meet • ings were held—(hear, hear)—and if there were an appeal made to the country as to which tax the public would pre fer to have repealed—that upon tea or upon paper—he ven tured to say the response would be the tea duty. (Hear, hear.) The bon. gentleman read documents which he had received Prow §tativuers and ethers, representing tv hire that the repeal of the paper duty would have the effect not of cheapening, but of rendering the price of paper dearer. One gentleman—Mr. Bond, a stationer—represented to him that the repeal of the paper duty would prove ruinous to him in his business. In this country they could not get a supply of rags sufficient for the purposes of the ma nufacture of paper and the demand, and foreign paper would therefore be brought into the market in competi tion with the home manufacturer in this country, and would have the effect of raising the price of the home manufactured article. (Hear, hear.) He was in posses sion of information which clearly showed that the cheap publications would not be much benefited by the repeal of the paper duty. But he was told that if they repealed the paper duty, they would save £22,000 a-year by getting rid of the collection of the duty. But was that so. They would still be obliged to retain the half of the staff, and thus not get rid of the whole cost of the collec tion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—I have taken credit for £ll,OOO until October, when the tax will cease. Sir L. PALK—However that might be, there were other taxes which the Government promised should be repealed, and among them the taxes upon tea and sugar; and why should not faith be kept with the public in relation to the promised remission of taxes on those articles of necessity ? (Hear.) He believed if they could remit any tax which was less injurious to the people of the country than another, they could not put their hand upon one that pressed less upon the people than the paper duty. The question that the resolution be agreed to was then put. Mr.DISRAELI said that the opinion of the house should be fairly taken as to the remission of the paper duty. He would not then oppose the passing of the resolution ; but in stating that, he begged to add that he reserved for himself and those who acted with him the right to express their opi nions fully on the occasion of the bringing in of the bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the right hon. gentleman had a perfect right to take his own time to explain to the house what were his particular views on this subject, and he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) would not therefore think it necessary to trouble the com mittee on the present occasion, but would reserve himself for another opportunity. The resolution was then agreed to. EXCISE.—CHICORY. The CHANCELLOR of theEXCHEQUER said he had been asked to postpone the resolution on the Custom., duties and be should therefore pass on to No. 6, which was then read by the chairman. That, towards raising the supply granted to her Ma jesty, and in lieu of the duties of Excise now payable on the article hereinafter-mentioned, there shall be charged and paid for and upon all chicory, or any other vegetable matter applicable to the uses of chicory or coffee grown in the United Kingdom : For every hundredweight thereof, raw or kiln-dried, until the let day of April, 1862, the duty of Bs. 6d., and on and.after that day, the duty of lls., and so in pro portion for any greater or less quantity than a hun dredweight. And for and upon all chicory or other vegetable matter as aforesaid, upon the importation thereof into the United Kingdom from the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark : For every hundrelweight thereof, raw or kiln-dried, until the Ist day of April, 1862, the duty of Os. ; and on and after that day, the duty of 125., and so in pro portion for any greater or less quantity than a hundred weight. This resolution was also agreed to. EXCISE.—REFRESHMENT HOUSES. The following resolution was then proposed : That, towards raising the supply granted to her Majesty, every person who shall keep open any house, room, shop, or building, for the purpose of selling therein, or who shall sell therein, at any time between the hours of n i ne o f the clock at night and five of the clock of the following morning, any victual or refreshment, or cigars, or tobacco, to be consumed on the premises where the same shall be sold (except beer, cider, wine, and spirits, sold respectively under a proper license in that behalf, and except also cigars and tobacco sold by a person duly licensed to sell beer by retail to be consumed on the premises, and also duly licensed to sell tobacco), and every person who shall keep open any . house, room, shop, or building, for the consumption therein by the public of any victual or refreshment, cigars or tobacco (except as aforesaid), although the same shall not be sold therein, shall respectively be deemed to keep a refreshment house, and shall, unless he shall be duly licensed by the justices to keep a common inn, ale house, or victualling house, on the same premises, take out a license to keep a refreshment house chargeable with the duty impose.' by the Act of the last session of Parliament, chapter 27. After a short discussion, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed that there were many houses of entertainment open at late hours of the night to which it was deemed desirable to ex tend police inspection. Some of these houses were of a doubtful character, and it was often very difficult to draw a line of distinction between one class of houses of entertain ment and another. After what had been said upon the sub ject he felt it to be his duty to endeavour to amend the clause so as to obviate reasonable objections, and at the same time not to give up the principle contended for last year. It would be impracticable, he thought, to alter the hours. The resolution was withdrawn accordingly. ' The following resolutions were then proposed and agreed to : • ENCtsE-3.eintio—TtLtAlL LICENSE Ti) DEFILERS. 7. That, towards raising he supply granted to her Ma jesty, there shall be charged and paid upon very additional Excise license t) be taken out by any licensed dealer in spirits to authorise and empower him to sell by retail any quantity, not being less that one reputed quart bottle, of oreign or British spirits, not to be drunk or consumed on the premises, the sum of £3 3s. STAMP DITTIES.—HOUSE AGENTS. 9. That, towards raising the supply granted to her Majesty, there shall be charged f,r and upon a license to be taken out yearly by every person who shall use or exer cise the business, occupation, or calling of a house agent, not being as auctioneer, or an at praiser, duly licensed as such, the stamp duty of £2. STAMP DUTIES.—FURNISHED HOUSES. 10. That, towards raising the supply granted to her Ma jesty, in lieu of the stamp duties now chargeable for or upon any lease or tack of any furnished dwelling-house, for any term or period of time less than a year, or any agreement, minute, or inetnofan dunt of agreement con t ain i ng the terms and condit:ons on which any such house is let, occu• pied, or held for any such term or period of time, where the rent for such term or period of time shall exceed £25, there shall be charged the stamp duty of 2s. 6d. with pro gressive duties respectively, to be calculated as in the case of deeds and instruments in general of the same amount. And for the duplicate or counterpart therecf the like duties. ------ S TAMP DUTIES. —HAWKERS AND PEDLA RS . there shall be c h arged the stamp 11. That, towards rais in g the su pp l y granted to her Ma jesty, in lieu of the sta m p dut y of £1 now chargeable for or upon a license in Gre at Britain g ra nted to any hawker, p th e i d t yl hereinaftera r f 0 , l o lo r w p i e n tt g y ,ra c t h h e ar a t p t ii m os n a te n who shall trad e on l y i n the man ner)d s, a y : For or upon a license to any such trading person who shall travel and trade on foot without any horse or other beast bearing or drawing burden, and who shall carry his goods, wares, or merchandise to, and sell or expose for sale the same at, other men's houses only, and not in or at any house, shop, room, booth, stall, or other place whatever belonging to, or hired or occupied or used by, him for selline or exposing the same for sale in any town to which he may travel, _ m be ll g t. r l a s nted for any ths and not exceed- X. s. d. Where such licence shal l be g ran ted for any 1 0 0 exceed ing a year A n period e exceedingtr e o t th e x e c s e a e m d s i ei n x g s mh s a i o x l nl 2 0 0 STAMP DUTIES—FOREIGN BILLS. 12. That, towards raising the supply granted to her Ma jesty, in lieu of the ad valorem stamp duties now payable for or upon bills of exchange drawn out of the United Kingdom for the payment of money exceeding £5OO, there shall be charged for and upon every such bill of exchange the stamp duty of Is. for every £lOO and part of£loo of the money thereby made payable. CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. On the question that the Chairman report the resolutions to the house, Mr. BENTINCK thought that the very sudden termi nation of the debate on the paper duty must have created some surprise. He wished to repeat the question which he had put to the noble lord at the head of the Government in the early part of the evening. He would first remind the noble lord that news of a most alarming character had been received from the United States. (Laughter.) The news lately received rendered it ho sure that the civil war, which it was thought might be avoided, could not now be avoided. Wien the resolution relating to the paper duty was carried, it was thought that this result might have been averted. He wished, therefore, to ask the noble lord whether, in his opinion, the news received to-day would not bear to a great extent on the financial affairs of this country, whether he did not anticipate that we should be obliged greatly to in creme our armaments, and whether there would not be a diminution both of customs and excise duties, and a large amount of distress in tho country, which must diminish the revenue ? and if so, whether that did not alter the opinion he had expressed a few days ago as to the financial pro posals of the Chancellor of the Exchequer ? Lord PALMERSTON—Sir, nobody could regret more than myself the intelligence we have this day received from America. At the same time I think anybody must be very shortsighted and incapable of anticipating the course of human events who did not anticipate events of the same character from the commencement of the unfortunate quarrel. It was plain that the disunion between the two sections of the United States was too deeply seated to make it possible that they should not separate, or that the separation could take place amicably, or without a con test. But, however we may regret all this, it ought to make no difference in the arrangement which, on full considera tion, the house thought proper to make for the service of the present year. I still adhere to the opinion expressed on the other side by gentlemen who wished that, in addition to the income-tax, the tea and sugar duties should be reduced, that a reduction (which the house has determined shall be on the paper duty) may be made safely and consistently with the services of the year. Mr. BENTINCK said the noble lord had not understood him. Did he mean to say that, in the proposed financial arrangement, preflaration had been made for increasing the armaments, and allowance given for the reduction of re venue, or did he mean that there would be no occasion for an increase of armaments, and that he did not anticipate any reduction of revenue ? • Lord PALMEHSTON—I thought I had answered at least the spirit of the question. I do not see any reason why, IT9 bliQuld apply for ally increased armaments as arisin out' of the events in America, anti I should hopo that our Cus- • toms duties will not materially suffer. Mr. DISH &ELl—Sir, in moving that these resolutions be reported to the house, it is important to know what these resolutions are. I understand that 5 and S have been with drawn (The Chancellor of the Exchequer explained.) Mr Disraeli proceeded—ln respect to resolution No. 4, which passed in a remarkably thin house, and which related to the paper duty, I wish to say that it did not pass un observed, but I thought it wise for the convenience of the house that the resolution should pass, and that I should reserve to myself, and to any other member of the house, the right to take exception to it at any future stage, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer accepted that. I would remark that, from the manner in which it has been brought forward, the opportunity which the house will have of expressing its opinion will be very much curtailed, while as regards the other house that opportunity will be wholly abolished. Considering these circumstances we ought to proceed with unusual delibera tion. I should also like to know when it is intended to re port the resolutions to the house, when the bill will be brought in, and what is the course of business contemplated ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Sir, the course I propose to take is this. I stated on the part of the Government that it was thought best for the convenience of the house, and best adapted to present circumstances to bring all the main features of the financial plan under the view of the house at once, and that at the close of the com mittee I should move for leave to introduce a bill treating the whole as one measure ; that all the main features might be treated consecutively, and in connection. The inconveni ence of the contrary course was shown last year, when the hon. member for Sontersetshire, in opposing the repeal of the paper duties, was obliged to make constant reference to the income.t AX, though not in the same bill, and though it had already been passed. Government, however, regarded the main features of this plan as being essentially one, though consisting of several parts ; though some minor points, not essentially of the general plan, will be treated separately. I understand the question of the honourable gentleman to be what course I propose to take ? My reply to that is, that it is thought advisable, in order to meet the wants of the public service, to prosecute this mea sure to as early a settlement as is consistent with the convenience of the house. Considering that these plans had been before the country for three weeks, he hoped that the house would be prepared to take the mea sure into consideration as early as possible, and he pro posed to move tomorrow (this day) that the resolutions be reported, and would then move for leave to bring in a bill, the second reading of which he would fix for Thursday. Mr. DISRAELI thought that would be pressing the matter with undue precipitation, and thought that Monday would be a more fitting day for the second reading of the bill, as it might probably happen that there would be some discussion on the bringing up of the report. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the most convenient course would be to move to-morrow (this day) the bringing up of the report, and he would then state what day he would be prepared to move for the second reading. At the same time it was most important for the public service that the plans should be definitively settled as soon as possible. Mr. DISRAELI said there could be no pressure with respect to public business in connection with the principal features of the financial proposition, as the duties on tea, and sugar, and paper, were not proposed to cease at present. He again deprecated the proceeding with undue precipita tion in dealing with these measures. If ever there was a time when it behoved the House to proceed with delibera tion it was in the case of these resolutions, when it was proposed to deprive the House of Commons of some of ibs constitutional privileges in discussing measures of finance, and in depriving the House of Lords of all power of revi sion in the matter. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER repeated his determination to move the report of the resolutions to morrow, and would have the bill printed, and be in the hands of members on Wednesday. That bill would include the provisions of the tea and sugar duties, the paper duty, and the income tax, and probably the resolution relating to chicory. Mr. MASSEY then left the chair, and the house re sumed, with cheers from the Ministerial side, at the com pletion of this stage of progress in the Budget. On the report of Supply being brought up, Mr. HENNESSY said it was generally the practice to postpone the discussion of the civil service estimates until a late period of the session. Last session, for instance, these estimates were discussed at the close, when, the house being nearly empty, the Government were enabled to secure a majority. During the recess, sixty members had pressed the noble lord at the head of the Government as to the propriety of making reductions in the votes, and they were told in reply to attend to their business in the house, and to prevent the estimates from being taken at a late period of the session. When he (Mr. Hennessy) made a motion upon these estimates, the sixty members in question all voted for enabling the Government to postpone the discus sion on them until the close of the session. (Hear.) lie begged to move that the resolution with regard to the civil service estimates be read a second time that day fortnight. The 31" waked whether the lion. member ob jected to any particular vote? • Mr. HENNESSY replied in the negative. He only ob jected to the taking of any vote on account at present, it being desirable to consider the question more fully at some future time. Lord PA LMERSTON hoped the hon. gentleman would not persist in his motion. The money was required to pay the immediate demands of the service. So far from the Goveinment wishing to postpone these estimates until a late period of the session, there was every desire to bring them on as soon as possible. After a few words from Lord J. MANNERS, Mr. PEACOCK asked when the miscellaneous estimates would be brought forward. These were a class of estimates which it was necessary to inspect, and in which a judicious reduction might be made. But it was most desirable that they should not be postponed to a late period of the session, when the greater number of persons present were usually the supporters of the Government. Mr. F. PEEL said that the civil service estimates now sought for were only sufficient to meEt the necessary expen d ture to the end of the month, and that there were bAlances which he anticipated would be sufficient to enable the Go vernment to meet the general engagements of the service until .he votes were duly considered and passed. Mr. HENNESSY having withdrawn his amendment, the report of Supply was agreed to. COPYRIGHT (WORKS OF ART) BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. WALTER said that by the third clause any person purchasing a picture after the passing of this Act would net be allowed to permit a friend to t tike a copy of it, or himself to have it engraved, which was an infringement on the natural liberty of the subject. So far as the protection of artists from real piracy went, he would cordially support a proposition to carry out the object; but he could not con sent to the principle that an artist should have a copyright in his picture as against the purchaser of it. In committee he should certainly move an amendment on, the clause. Lord FERMOY thought that the bill went too far. When a work of art was sold the copyright should go with it, and to enact to the contrary would affect the interests of the artists themselves, as the sale of their works would be restricted by such a provision as that contained in the bill. Mr. LAYARD advised the Attorney-General and artists to consider well before they consented to the passing of this bill. There were various things in the bill altogether be yond the reach of the law. No one could imitate the idea s uggested by a picture without exposing himself to penalties under this bill. The bill would throw art altogether into the hands of traders. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in answering the obser vations which had been made on the bill, said that in the first place he must observe that the hon. member for Berk shire had not distinguished between the purchaser of the work of art and the purchaser of the copyright of it. If a person bought the picture merely, he had a right to enjoy it, but not to multiply copies; just as the man who bought a book had a right to the book, but not to multiply copies of it. (Hear.) In conclusion, the hon. member might be able to argue the question whether the idea or conception could be rendered matter of copyright. The member must be familiar with the language by which the original concep tion was considered as that which made the original concep tion. As to the possibility of copying parts, it was a com mon thing that pictures were found in which a part was borrowed from one picture and a part from another, and then the entire work was put forward as original. He hoped the house would carry the second reading of the pre • sent bill, which was the first attempt to give to the artist a protection which he had in every other country in Europe. The argument that the artist was best without protection would, if true, apply equally to the author, yet the author had more complete protection here than in other countries. The artist appealed to the highest faculties of human intel ligence, and why should they deny him a protection which was given to literature ? He was sure no one would say that the Copyright Act had been injurious to literature. The bill was then read a second time. The house adjourned at a quarter-pasf 12 o'clock. Locomotives were first dawned in the reign of Charles the Second ; constant improvements have made them perf cation. The same means have now so perfected Herring's magnetic brushes and combs that they restore the colour to grey hair, and cure neuralgia and nervous heads , he with 11 but un erring certainty. 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This was an action of libel against Mr. Bird, the secretary of the Protestant Alliance, and it was proceeded upon certain correspondence published in reference to Mr. Turnbull, in connection with his office of Calenderer of State Papers. Mr. Prideaux (with him Mr. Felkard) said : He had to move for a rule, calling upon the defendant to show cause why so much of an order of Mr. Jus tice Williams, as allowed the 4th, 6th, and Bth pleas to be pleaded, should not be rescinded. Mr. Turn bull was a gentleman of the Roman Catholic persua sion, who had been appointed by the Master of the Rolls to the office of Calenderer of state Papers, and Mr. Bird was the secretary to a self-consti tuted society, of which their lordships might possibly have heard the Protestant Alliance. The declaration contained two counts upon libels, and he trusted that it would not be necessary for him to read the whole of these two counts, because he hoped to be able to show briefly that these three pleas ought not to be allowed, and the force of the application was that it was perfectly manifest that whether the statements in these pleas were true— as they might be in some measure—or whether they were false, they were pleaded to parts of the declaration that were not in themselves libellous. The libel in the first count states in substance that Mr. Turnbull was a gentleman of such prejudiced, bigoted, and jesuitical principles, that he could not be trusted with the care and custody of the State papers, and that Sir John Romilly had felt it neces sary to have three gentlemen to keep watch over him, in order that they might see he did not muti late or destroy such parts of these papers as have an apparent bearing against the Roman Catholic interest ; and the fourth plea justified as being true the following statement in this libel :—"I know that Mr. Turnbull was appointed by Sir John Ro milly to prepare for publication a short abstract, or outline, of the letters and documents received from foreign parts from the reign of Edward VI. to the Revolution in 1688,' a period in which occurred the important religious struggles in the Continent, such as the 30 years' war, the war of independence in Holland, the wars of the Huguenots, the Dra gonnades of Louis XIV., and the treasonable at tempts and plans of the Jesuits against the life of Queen Elizabeth and the safety of the realm of Eng land.'" He, asserting that these statements were true, raised, as he submitted, a perfectly immaterial issue. The libel set out in the second count was somewhat analogous to that in the first count; but in addition to imputing to Mr. Turnbull that he was so untrustworthy that the Master of the Rolls was obliged to keep superintendence over him, it went on to impute that he would if he could muti late, destroy, and throw into the fire such of the State papers as militated against the Roman Ca tholic interest, and pretend that they were de stroyed by accident. The Lord Chief Justice said that the objection was, that the statements alluded to in the plea were im material, whether they were true or false; and it seemed to the Court that their respected brother Williams would never have allowed the pleas to be placarded unless there was something more behind. Mr. Prideaux assured their lordships that there was nothing behind. The 6th plea justified the following statement in one of the libels Still further to show the danger to our records, I will direct Mr. Brewer to the following passages in Mendham's Literary Policy of the Church of Rome,' second edition, page 360. It may afford some useful illustration of the subject of the work to observe that among many other specimens pro ducible, the Bodleian Library affords a signal one of he execution of the directions of the papal index in a copy of " Gesner's Bibliotheca," edited by Senilor, fol. 1,574. The pages 485-488, contain ing an account of Luther and others, with their works, have been cut away, and the ower part of the last of these pages so dexterously united, that the very catchword answers, and only the thickness of the pasted portion betrays the abstraction. The articles of Philip Melancthon, Martin Bucer, Jo. CEcolampadius, the Beza are completely erased, although Twingle is untouched. Was not that mutilation the work of some zealous followers of the Jesuits ? Again, the Rev. A. T. Russell in his "Life of Bishop Andrews," published in 1860, states that he had searched the State Paper-office for his materials and had discovered that many important documents are not now to be found, and adds, " It is remarkable that precisely those papers which con stitute the most important evidence against Garnet and the other Jesuits are necessary ; so that if the merits of the controversy respecting their criminal implication in the Gunpowder plot depended upon the fair eff:ct of tne original documents not now to be found in the State Paper-office, impartial readers w.,uld probably hesitate to form a decided opinion against them. It is undoubtedly a singular ac cident that, among so large a mass of docu ments precisely those should be abstracted upon whose authenticity the question so hotly disputed between Catholics and Protes tants mainly depended." Those parts of the libel had reference to circumstances which were supposed to have occurred long before Mr. Turnbull was born, and, therefore, it was immaterial whether the statements were true or false. The eighth plea was in justification of the following statement : "Upon what authority does he assert that not one of the memorialists, in the very height of their alarm,.has visited the Record-office. I do not wish to be too hard upon my clerical caliburn, but I beg to inform him that he is quite wrong in his asser tion that many of the memorialists have visited the Record-office, and that I have in my possession a long list of papers in the Record-office, referring to various plots by the Jesuits." This also he sub mitted was an immaterial circumstance; but although immaterial, it would probably prejudice the plaintiff if he did not traverse the pleas, and if he did traverse them, he would raise issues upon circumstances which occurred hundreds of years ago. and this must lead to unnecessary expense. Mr. Justice Byles asked whether the plaintiff was prepared to strike out those allegations to which the pleas referred. Mr. Prideaux said he felt considerable difficulty in doing that. Rule granted. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—May 6. BOW- STREET.—Mary Lane, the wife of a man employed in the docks, was charged with assault ing her daughter, a girl of about 12, on Saturday night. Police-constable F 96, deposed that he was on duty on Saturday night, at half past 9, when he was called into Charles-street, Drury-lane, by the pri soner's husband, who took him to the house No. 38, and gave her into custody, for throwing a chair at a little girl, who was then bleeding from the head. The prisoner was drunk, but the husband was quite sober. There was a bed in the room, and prisoner threw herself on the bed and kicked witness in the stomach. She had excused herself by saying that she threw the chair at her husband, and it missed him and struck the child by accident ; but in the presence of witness she gave the little girl a heavy blow in the face with her hand, and behaved in a very violent manner while he was taking her to the police-station. The little girl, who gave her evidence very reluc tantly, said it was an accident, and her mother did not hurt her much. She was obliged to admit, how ever, that the prisoner had been on a former occa sion confined to prison for three imlaths for having threatened her (the child's) life. The husband was her step father. The prisoner said she had been exposed to con tinued ill-treatment from her husband. Mr. Henry--Y at are always getting drunk. Prisoner—Can a woman get drunk on nothing He never gives me any mo ne y to spend, but sends the child out to buy things and leavts me penni less. lam black and blue (showing a very dirty arm) from his blows. As for the girl, I never meant to hit her. Mr. Henry said it would be better to remand the case for a few days. The confinement away from drink would do her good. WESTMINSTER„IDavid Locke, mason, was charged with having violently assaulted Jas. Whee• lan, whose face was much disfigured. Complainant said that he was in the Marquis of Granby, near Ebury bridge, on Saturday night, taking a pint of beer, when a man of whom he knew nothing invited him to drink, and on saying that he had some of his own, the man declared that his reason for refusing to drink with him was be cause he had signed the document. Many words occurred between them, and the man abused com plainant so much that he took off his coat and challenged him to fight, but acting on the advice of a friend, he put it on again and went away, but had not proceeded far when the defendant followed him, knocked him .down with a violent blow in the eye, and th en aga i n an d aga in struck him as he was risin g, and knocked him under a horse's feet. A boy clearly confirmed every word of this state ment with reference to what occurred outside the house. Defendant said that complainant challenged any one to fight, and he went out and they struck one another. After some further evidence had been called for the defendant, Mr. Arnold took occasion to observe that the evidence given did not at all relicye defendant from the charge of assault, He had elca - kly attacked tha man in a very unfair and cowardly way, and must pay a penalty of £3, and commitlcd him in default for a month. HAMMERSMITH.—Mr. John Kelk, the well known builder and contractor of the intended Inter national Exhibition of 1862, in South Kensington, appeared before Mr. Ingham, to answer the com plaint of Mr. T. L. Donaldson, district surveyor for South Kensington, for unlawfully commencing a building on the north side of the Cromwell-road, before giving two days' notice thereof, as required under the 13th section of the Metropolitan Build ing Act. The complainant's case was as follows :—The building in question was intended to form part of the Great Exhibition of 1862, as the picture gal lery, and was one which required the supervision of the district surveyor. Under the 6th section of the act certain buildings were exempted, and it was contended that this was not one of that descrip• tion. It was also contended that public buildings came under the supervision of district surveyors, as fire-proof staircases, &c., were required. Mr. Ingham inquired what was done on the for mer occasion, when the Great E x hibiti o n was erected in Hde-park ? He wished to know whether that building came under the supervision of the dis trict surveyor? Mr. Donaldson could not answer that question. He said it was built on crown lands, and before this act was passed. Mr. Keck said he could answer, No. Mr. Ingham said that, according to the act, crown lands were not exempted. Mr. Donaldson was then sworn, for the purpose of raising the question. He said that the works commenced about a week ago for a building 1,200 feet long on the north side of Cromwell-road, for which he had not received any notice. The defendant, on being called upon for his answer, said he had not come prepared to argue the question in a legal point of view, as there had not been time to summon the commissioners together for them to consider what course should be taken. He attendd for the purpose of asking for a post ponement. Mr. Ingham was ready to grant the application, and said that it appeared to him there was an omis sion in the act, as it never could have been intended that a building of this nature should come under the supervision of a district surveyor, but as the act stood it seemed that it did. The defendant said he did not wish it go forth to the world that he had been wanting in courtesy in not giving the district surveyor notice, and he read some letters to show that there had been a corre spondence between them on the subject. Mr. Ingham said it was not supposed for a mo ment that there had been a want of courtesy on the part of Mr. Kelk. The defendant then said if Mr. Donaldson had waited a week longer the consent of the Metropo litan Board of Works would have been obtained. In certain cases the board had power to take away the control of district surveyors, and he would men tion the instance of his building the new Horticul tural Gardens adjoining the inteided Exhibition. He was contractor for that building, and the board had authorised him to execute the works without the supervision of the district surveyor. The Exhi bition of 1862 could never take place if it came under the supervision of the Building Act ; and he simply attended that day to ask for an adjournment for the case to be settled in the same way as the horticultural building. Mr. Donaldson denied that he had no authority over the horticultural building, and said he caused some alterations to be made. What Mr. Kelk re ferred to was certain special powers. Mr. Ingham said the question had better stand over, and asked what time would suit them. Mr. Donaldson wished for a short adjournment, as the building was going on. He said there were certain things being proceeded with which could not be allowed. If they went on and were con demned defendant would have to pull them down, and therefore the sooner the question was settled the better for Mr. Kelk. Mr. Ingham said that would rest with Mr. Kelk. The defendant said an opinion had been obtained, and it was to the effect that the building was lifted out of the act by the 56th section. Mr. Ingham suggested that the summons should be adjourned for the application to the Metropolitan Board, and recommended the defendant to be care- ful of his right to proceed with the building, as he might find after expending a large sum of money that he would have to pull down the works he had erected. He cautioned the defendant to be careful of obtaining the consent of I he Metropolitan Board for what he did. The defendant said that unless be obtained the consent of the Metropolitan Board there would be no Exhibition of 1862. It would be impossible to erect it according to the terms of the Building Act. Lie summonses were adjourned for a fortnight. COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER -MAY 4. A small supply of wheat, for which the trade was ,slow, and former prices barely made. Barley saleable at prices much the same as of late. Beans 2s per qr. dearer. No peas. Wheat, white 6os to 66s I Beans, Mazagan..364 to 420 red 44s to 60s Middle & small 42s to 48s Barley —s to —s White peas 44 to 48s Oats —s to —I 8 Grey,. 38s to 44s CHELMSFORD-MAY 3. A good supply of wheat, but the demand was very slow, and best wheats barely maintained late rates ; inferior sorts is to 2s lower in price. Spring corn firm. Beans in brisk demand, and is dearer. Wheat, white 35s to 65s Peas, Partridge ..44s to 455 red 44s to 62s White 43s to 46s Barley 29s to 42s Boiling 43s to 47s Chevalier ....32s to 45s l)un 40s to 43s Grinding 26s to 37s Beans, Tick ....39s to 483 Malt 61s to 67s Harrow Ticks 39s to 503 _ .. Chevalier ....64s to 69s Mazagan 33s to 453 Oats 26s to 31s STAMFORD-MAY 4. There was an average show of wheat at market, and late prices were n t exceeded. Oats scar( e, and sold readily at the late advance. Beans sold at high prices. Wheat .. 56s to 62s 26s to 32a White do 60s to 66s Beans 4os to 454 Barley 3os to 44s Ditto, old ........46s to 48s • KIRKALDY—MAT 4. * A small supply of all kinds of grain, in middling condi• tion. Business not brisk, and prices fully higher. Wheat Barley Oats First.... 34s Od 33a Od 24s Od Second.. 55s Od 408 Od 30s Od Third .. 62s Od 43s Od 32s Od COAL MARE (Prices of Coal per Ton at s. d. 1 :ET—MAY 6. the elope of the market Lambert's West Hart ley. l6 6 Tanfield Moor Butes l3 3 West Hartley ~ 16, 6 Carway and Duffryn ' b. d. _ Malting Do. Anthracite -21 6 Wylam Hastings Hartley ....16 6 Holywell 16 0 Howard's West Hart- ley 15 6 Walker Primrose 13 0 North Percy Hartley 15 6 Walls End Tunstall Cassop l7 3 Haswell Heugh Hall 16 3 Ships at market, Walls End. -- Hartlepool.... Kelloe Shincliffe l6 0 • ......, South Hartlepool 16 6 South Hett on 18 3 Peases West .15 0 Harton. 15 9 Thorpe Hetton lB 3 Acorn Close ..16 3 Thornley ....15 6 Wharnclifte ..16 0 Shincliffe 16 0 Byron . ....16 3 Framweligate l6 3 Eden ..16 3 Russel's Hett0n......17 0 BIT ddyll's Hetton 17 3 South Kelloe .....17 3 118; sold, 81. iAlotiw ay's Ointment an d Never ons of the skin, sores , u l cers , b ur ns, and scrofu lous enlargements of the glands, Hello. way's Ointment present a ready and easy means of cure, which never disappoint the most favourable expectations. DvaEtEFTaiuSlEtl4.—ENlnr.allr a It manifests a peculiar power in restraining inflammation, removing stagnation, cooling the heated blood, and check ing all acrimonious or unhealthy discharges. Whilst thus acting locally the Pills are no less remarkable for their power it, improving the general condition and habit of body which render the cures complete and permanent. Under the genial influence of these potent remedies the puny infant becomes the robust child ' • the pale and emaciated regain colour and rotundity, and the dyspeptic eats freely without fear. BIRTHS. BOWMAN.—On the sth inst., at Stangrove, Eden-bridge, Kent, the wife of A. Bowman, Rsq., of a daughter. ROBINSON.--On the 6th inst., at 14, Willis-road, North Kentish-town, the wife of Thomas Gervas Robinson, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. H anover - squ are, W. Henry Bennett, o f th e Inland ,al St. George's, BENNETT—BATLIURST. — On the 4 th inst. Re venue, to Emma, youngest daughter of Mr. J. Bathurst, of Rochester. FORMAN—FISHER —On the 30th ult., at Stoke Damerel, Devon, George C. Forman, Esq., to Georgiana, youngest daughter of W. F. Fisher, Esq., of Stoke Villa, Devon port, and The Sanctuary, Shobrooke, Devon. DEATHS. CHAPMAN —On the 6th inst., at 24, Westbourne-terrace Thomas Chapman, Esq., aged 82. ECCLES.—On the 3d inst., at Holly Bank, Southport, Josh. Eccles, Esq., of Mill-hill House, near Blackburn, aged 61. GAINSPORD.—On the Gth inst., at Brighton, G. R. Gains ford, Esq., aged 67. JAMES.—On the 4th inst., at Barrack, Cumberland, Wm. James, Esq., aged 71. Po LLARD ,on the 2d inst., Frederic Gilbert Pollard, 8.A., of Queen'ssq , of Clapham-park, ap h College, am -p C a a r m k, br s id u g rr e e , y s . econd son of G. Pollard, E LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Triz Sum Office, No. 112,8trand, in the Precinct of the Sayoy. In the County of Miami; TueadaY, ALLY 7,1561.