The Sun. — London, England, 1842-02-26 00:00:00

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 20, 1842. The Queen has been graciously pleased to nominate and ap• point Admirals the Hon. Sir John Talbot, ,Sir Robert Barlow, and Sir Henry Digby, Knights Co mmanders of the Most Ho nourable Military Order of the Bath, to be Knights Grand Cross of the said Order. - The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Lieutenant-Co lonel Hugh Henry Rose to he a Companion of the Most Honour able Military Order of the Bath. DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 23. The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Snagg, Esq. to the office of Solicitor-General in the Island of Grenada. FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 25. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Alexander Thom, as Consul at Aberdeen, and of Mr.'John Cadell, as Vice- Consul at Leith, for his Majesty the Kink of the Belgians. WAR-O FFICE, FEB. 25. Bth Regiment of Light Dragoons--Assistant-Surgeon T. A. Blake, from the Bth Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Gaither, promoted to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, Feb. 25. 32d Regiment of Foot—Capt. J. Salmond, from half-pay Unattacbed, to be Captain, vice E. 0. Broadley, who. ex changes; Lieut. W. Cave to be Captain, by purchase, vice Salmond, who retires; Ensign W. Bellingham to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Case : F. T. Stanuell, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bellingham, Feb. 25. 49th Foot—Lieut. A. Mackenzie, from half-pay 30th Foot, to be Lieutenant (repaying the difference), vice Gibbons, pro meted ; Ensig n C. F aun t t o be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mackenzie, who retires; R. Thompson, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase vice Faunt, Feb 25. 2d West India Regiment—Ensign J. Hill to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice J. B. Davidson, who retires upon half pq, Feb. 25. 3d West India Regiment—Ensign T. Mowbray to be Lieu tenant, without purchase, vice J. R. Maxwell, who retir, s upon half-pay, Feb. 25. HoserrA r. STAFF-Assistant-Surgeon T. C. Gaulter, M. D., from the Sth Light Dragoons, to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, vice W. Smith, appointed to the St. Helena Regiment, Feb. 25. EM OR AND U3l. —The commission of the under-mentioned officer has beeen cancelled from the date, inclusive, set against his name, he having accepted a commuted allowance for his half pay—Paymaster J. Mackay, half-pay 68th Regt., Feb. 25. WHITEHALL, FEB. 12. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Marshall, of Kingston-upon Hull, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Frederick Robin son, of Hadleigh, in the county of Essex, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Jamesßenjamin Vickers, of Manchester in the coun t y o f L ancaster, Gent. to be a Master Extrao rdinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. JOHN LOCKLEY, plumber, Bilston, Staffordshire. WILLIAM BARNES, fire brick manufacturer, Shincliffe, Durham. FREDERICK PRAT T, miller, Saredon-mill, Staffordshire, BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. THOMAS SCUDAMORE, chemist, Birmingham. JOSEPH S3II 111 NEEDHAM, banker, Ullesthorpe, Leicestershire. BANKRUPTS. JOHN DOVER, merchant, Three Cranes-wharf, Lon don, to surrender March 8, at ha'f-past ten, and April 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, Basinghall street, official assignee ; Armstrong, Staple Inn. THOMAS HUBBELL, cattle-dealer, le-dea' er Valthamstow, March 4, at half-past t we l ve , an d A pr il 8, at e leven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. G reen , Ald ennan b ury , o ffi cia l assignee; Wood and Wickham, Corbet -court, Gracechurch-street. JOSEPH DAKEYNE, lace-dealer, Edinburgh, March 8 and April 8, at eleven, at the George the Fourth Inn, Notting ham. Smith, Furnival's Inn, London ; Shilton, Nottingham. JOHN DAVID, maltster, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, March 23, and April 8, at eleven, at the Ivy Bush Hotel, Carmarthen. Holcombe, Chancery-lane, London ; Gwynne, Tenby. JOSEPH BATE, iron-merchant, Dudley, March 9 and April 8, at eleven, at the Swan Hotel, Wolverhampton. Cole, Adelphi-terraee, London ; Dalton, Dudley. RICHARD LAMPRELL, builder, Sherborne-lane, City, _March 12, at one, and April 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewrz ; Sandell, Bread-street, Cheapside. HENRY GOUGER, merchant, Great Winchester-street, City, March 4, at eleven, and April 8, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, Basinghall-street, official assignee ; Simpson and Cobb, Austin-friars. GEORGE DODSON, wool-dealer, Boston, March 5 and April 8, at twelve, at the White Hart Inn, Spalding. Scott, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Millington and Kenrick, Boston. VERE HARE and JOHN HARE, painters, Taunton, March 11, and April 8, at eleven, at the Castle Inn, Taunton. Whitaker, Gray's Inn-square, London ; Gillard and Flook, Bristol ; Trenchard, Taunton. JOHN HOLROYD, cotton warp-maker, Wheatly, York shire, March 10, and April 8, at one, at the Commissioners'.. rooms, Manchester. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London ; Caistor and Farnworth, Manchester. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. T. Waterfield, straw hat manufacturer, Dunstable, Bedford shire, March 18, at one—J. Maughan, hardwareman, Percival street, Clerkenwell, March 18, at eleven—J. Robins and C. Williams, carriers, London-wall, March 19, at eleven—J. Marshall, boiler maker, Colchester-street, Whitechapel, March 18, at eleven—G. Dickens, surgeon, Hertford, March 18, at eleven—T. Bedford, carpenter, Goswell-street, March 18, at half past twelve—C. Hall, upholsterer, Piccadilly, M arc h 18, at one—A. G. W. Biddulph, J. Wright, H. Robinson, and E. W. Jerningham, bankers, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, March 19, at one. In the Country. J. S. Daintry and J. Ryle, bankers, Manchester, March 21, at ten, st the Compaissioners'-rooms, Manchester—G. Last, }general merchant, Birmingham, Mara' 21, at one, at the Wa terloo-rooms, Birmingham—W. Horsnaill, carpenter, Dover, April 11, at twelve, at the Shakespeare Hotel, Dover--N. Li therland, merchant, Liverpool, March 19, at two, at the Cla •rendon-roonts, Liverpool—J. G. Bond, draper, Great Yar mouth, March 23, at twelve, at the Star Tavern, Great Yar mouth—W. Parker, grocer, flockley, Nottingham, March 17, at one, at the George the Fourth Hotel, Nottingham—S. Evans, clothier, Road, Somersetshire, June 15, at twelve, at the George Inn, Frome Selwood. CERTIFICATES—Mx Reif 18. A. Emerson, T. Tripp, and J. Benn, distillers, Brookfield —T. Burbey, R. Loe; and J. Loe, bankers, Portsmouth—T. Potts, metallic tube maker, Birmingham—D. B. and J. W. Smith, paper manufacturers Alton, Staffordshire—M. Mar shall, money scrivener, manufacturers, Magna ' Somersetshire—T. Kitchener, engraver, Arundel street, Coventry -street—W. Mai and J. Turlay, tailors, Manchester. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. A. Gray, J. Losh, J. Spiers, and W. Cunningha m , S an Fernando—J. Smith and W. Pinto, furriers, Old-change, City —J. Collis M. Collis, and J. P. Whicker, far mers , Chi e k ere ll , Dorsetahire—J. Bagshaw, ben., M. Kendal, J. Bagshaw, jun., and J. Walker, earthenware manufacturers, Carr Hill, Durham —W. Tomson and R. Tomson, jun., wine merchants, Rams gate—J. Gwyn and C. J. M. Winkworth, wine merchants, Ramsgate—J. Simmens and J. Pedgrift, brick makers, Reden hall, Norfolk—R. Mills and F. A. De Wilde, brass founders, Wells -street, Oxford-street--W. Alexander and J. S. Cas sels, merchants, Lima-street—J. and R. Phillips, plumbers, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire—W. Mursell and W. Drawbridge, ironmongers, Lymington, South am pt on — W. Harrison and G. Walker, jun., listing millers, Headi ng l ey , Yorkshire—W. and G. Perry, cut glass manufacturers, New Bond-street--P. Robinson and W. Oxley, common brewers, Warrington, Lancashire—J. and H. Schofield ? timber mer chants, Bra iley, Yorkshire—G. and J. Millington, calico printers, Manchester—G. J France and J. St. G. Puckridge, general salesmen, Ryder's-court, Leicester-square—R. Lever, T. Duffield, and P. Whelan, wholesale yarn dealers, Manchester (so far as regards R. Lever)—T. Holliwell, J. Boumphrey, and G. Holliwell, painters, Liverpool (so far as regards T. Hai well)—E. Grundy, E. Grundy, jun., S. Grundy, E. Grundy, tertius, and J. Williams, woollen merchants, Manchester (so far as regards J. Williams)—R. and J. J. Thompson, coal mer chants, High-street, Wapping—F. Turner and J. Clench, ge neral dealers, Pages-walk, Grange-road—H. and E. Toceal, silk manufacturers, Manchester—J. Gray, W. Baron, and J. Blatherwick, raft' merchants, Hebbarn-quay, Durham—R. ' Snare, sen. and H. Snare, jun, builders, Thetford, Noriolk— J. Wilson and S. Southon, linen drapers Southampton. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. JOHN HENRY and JAMES PLETCHER, wood mer chants, Glasgow, March 3 and 24, at twelve, at the Chambers of J. Smith, Glasgow. JAMES AIIRRILLEES, merchant, Aberdeen, Feb. 28 and March 23, at two. at the Lemon Tree Tavern, Aberdeen. JOHN MURRAY, watchmaker, Aberdeen, March 4 and =B, at two, at the Lemon Tree Tavern, Aberdeen. ,GRAY and rocers, Edinburgh, M arc h 3 an d 7, at one, at the Royal CO., ischarige, Edinburgh. ALEXANDER INNERARITY and CO., merchants, Glasgow, March 2 and 23, at eleven, at the Chambers of W. ! Stele, jun., Glasgow. JAMES GREIG and CO., merchants, Perth, March 4 and 25, at one, at the Office of Hunter and Conning, Perth. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1842 PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed I from the Returns made in the Week ending Feb. 22, 1842, is :365. t.d. per Cwt., exchsive of the Duties of Customs paid or ! payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain. I THE DIARY AND LETTERS OF MADAME D'ARBLAY. are requested to state that the second volume of "The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arislay," author of " Evelina," &c., is published this day by Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, aid may now be had of all booksellers, price l Os. 6d., bound, with portrait. Mr. Colburn has also this day published " Ex cursions along the Shores of the Mediterranean," by Lieut.. Colonel E. Napier, author of "Scenes and Sports in Foreign Lands,"&c., 2 vole. small Bvo. ; and has also just ready the fourth volume of Agnes Strickland's " Lives of the Queens of England,' comprising She Queens of Henry the Eighth. ARMY AND NAVY.—The March Number of Colburn's United Service Magazine, and Nav al p and Military ,Journal, jinteresting ourn al, will contain the following :—On Tel luric Magnetism—Observations upon Naval Courts_Martial aper ß ahirmand N a val Articles of War—Letters from a Queen's Officer in .—Reminiscences of a Light Dragoon—England's Wooden Walls, Tho Monarch—Historical Yarns and Shakings—An Incident during the Peninsular War—Historical Details relative to the Military Force of Great B:itain, from the earliest periods to the present time—The Slaver, from the' Note-Book of an Officer em ployed against the Slave Trade—The Young Officer's Death-bed— Late Hurriaane in the British Channel—Presentation of Colours to the %d Regiment—Memoirs of Sir Josias Rowley—Captain Pearse On Ship-building Qualifications for Promotion Despatches from China and India, complete—Casualties in the N viger — l Pedition Distributions of the Army and Navy, and all tt be Naval and Military Intelligence of the Month, &c. An incident of a 'nog interesting character, which may no: he eut of place he a r t e t t . h o e rccord, prs sented itself at Mr. Mur.. ay's annual Pinner Sate, Lite Albion ci Tavern, 4th inst. :—Whilst -:he collected edition th e Charles Dilelin's " National Sea I ...i o ns," (edited by Thomas I)iwin) vas being sold, a request was tirade to a gentleman present, WhO ' secondary to his musical talents, A l7 ,4 l l:i n ie u .: o 6 ,:r o o f f , tv f o Lc o i r iu t g he is c o o i rn il y . patty with one of the melodies. C w bi a )7 l 1. hesitation, h o re.. t ddied, knowing too well that the wick T h oma s Dibdin were literally b, a toast distressed of the late a would comp ly with the request, provided every iienUern:ntit' he n e the room w ould put de ww Nica_crown. It is almost opedipts to statetht e a sthis call upon the be st s y m p athies o f our nat n re was instantly re_ ipo ndcd to, and a collection nearly 10/. was liamled up, as a small token of respect for the memory sf our National Lyrist. The ! cugu p, t ay were then gratified by hearing one of his sweetest songs , s ung in a most m asterl y and feeling style. .; n ,P Subscription has skiee been preeented to the widow, who moot thankful t 7 receind the :timer—Publisher'S Circular. ph uth Journal contains FATAL FRAY."-"11 -1- i n lo of T omas galublyn, a trawl er , em. an inquest held on S he body gsloyed as a pilot on board o :ye of the Brighton maciusfej bogs, who came by his death in a scuff le some other fishermen. Th ese t w in; ;,-lacei between the Shor e . serious fights are said to be da il y ham and Plymouth fishermen. pre party ssio sttruck Hatrthiya the blow which is supposed to have caused his death, has po; yet been discovered, though Acveral are in custody. The inquest has teen adjourned to next Tuesday to wait for the apprehension of a person suspected. Hamblin bits lea # rjdow and three children in very destitute condition. ~ "VIA , Vbtrb 12bition THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES - - BRITISH FUNDS. / Bank Stock ... 170 .lndia Stock. ..... ...... .., _ 891 IDitto Bonds .............. . —pm 89i Ditto Old Annuities ... Ditto New Annuities... 33ypeerr Cent tt Cent ß cl id ict. 991 3, per 981 Ex. Bills, 1 ,000/....21d 26 pm Ditto 5001 26 is Ditto Small 24 pm Jan. 1860 ..... .-.. 121 Bank Stock for 0pg,... Nisl Lo ee n : g 3sP i l i e u rCe i Ce tie nn si tt ioexpire Oct 1859. ........ India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. •••••• • • • Consols for Acct 691 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, spa cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 pei cent lO3l Ditto, New Ditto 321 Brazilian 80nd5.......... 6.5 i Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres ; ii per test 191 Russian, 5 per cent '-- Chilian, 6 per cent..... Ditto, Metallic ..... .. Colombian, 6 per cent.. ( Spanish, 5 per cent. 241 Ditto, 1824....., ..... 22j Ditto , Deferred.... .. . Danish, 3 p er cent....... 82 French, 5 per cent. --f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent. ... 35i French, 3 percent —'. —c Ditto, 6 per cen t_. 1637 Dutch, 21 per cent. . 52 Peruvian, 1825, 6per ct. = Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . 1021 , SHARES. Bristol :.nd Exeter (70 paid) . 37 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) 9 1 1 Great North of E ng l an d R a il way (100 p d) 83 Great Western Railway ( 65 paid) BB Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ......... Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) :;51 London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 114 London and Birmingham (90) Ditto Thirds (32 paid) s7i Ditto New Shares (2 paid). London and South Western Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 3B Northern and Eastern (40 paid) ...... .... 3.5 North Midland Railway (100) Ditto New Shares (40 paid) 32i Ditto Thirds (15 paid)C l4 York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... 2 8 Ditto New Shares (15 paid 284 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. Sir Robert Peel's position might justify his use of the language which Shakspere puts into the mouth of Wolsey : " I have ventur'd Like little wanton boys that 3141 M on bladders, But far beyond my depth." The Right Hon. Baronet has floated into office upon the tide of confidence created in the monopolists by his plausibilities, which led each section of his supporters to infer that he would gratify their cupidity, by leaving their particular interests untouched by any modifica tions he might propose in the commercial system ; aided and assisted by Anti-Poor-law agitators ' who were quite sure that a Peel C a bi ne t wou ld gratify them by abo lishing the Somerset House Commissioners, and leave the management of the several Unions to the un controlled discretion of the local guardians—with this special provision, that the question of the out-door relief to able-bodied labourers and their fa milies be revived, and the separation of the sexes in the workhouses be discontinued. Then started up another class of sapient sentimentalists ; who were quite satis fied that the way to prevent over-production, to which the distress of the manufacturing operatives is plainly attributable, is to work the mills ten hours instead of twelve.; and that Sir Robert Peel, if in office, would adopt their suggestion—regardless of the fact, that the poor operatives are unable to procure sufficient food by much more protracted labour, and that to restrict them to ten hours' work would be to consign them to starva tion. Then, there were the Church Extensionists ; who unchristianized the Whig Cabinet, because it refused to adopt their scheme for increasing churches and mul tiplying clergymen at the expense of millions added to the national taxation. These were quite sure the patriotic piety of Sir Robert Peel would in duce him to patronize and support their panacea for restoring the nation to prosperity. Sir R. 11. Inglis only postponed his annual motion in the last session of the late Parliament, to bring it forward, " under happier auspices," in the present one. Well ; the Premier is now fairly afloat. But the inflated bladders on which he depends to keep him so, are bursting in succession. The West India interests are in alarm. The Canadian timber interests also complain that he has deceived them, and evidently designs to desert their cause by adopting the proposi tions relating to the importation of timber which the late Ministry introduced as a part of their fiscal schemes. The Duke of Buckingham, as the head of the agricultural monopolists, has seceded from the. Cabinet, reared the flag of rebellion against the Chief under whom he consented to serve, and is rallying his forces by the cry of "No surrender !" STANDARD.—The discussion in the House of Commons last night was more practical than any of the preceding discussions on the same subject. Still it was protracted to enormous and disproportioned length by the irregular interference of the Op position speakers. Mr. Christopher proposed a mo dification of Sir It. Peel's graduated scale, the effect of which modification would be, in the opinion of the Honourable Mover, to ensure more complete protection to agriculturists. The pro posed scale of Mr. Christopher has been for some time before the public. The Bon. Member for North Lincolnshire recommended it in a very able speech, but without, as we must candidly acknowledge, prov ing that it ought to be preferred before the scale of Sir Robert Peel. This, however, is a matter upon which men may conscientiously differ, without affording ground to impeach the honour or the judgment of those who think in one way or the other. It is plainly for the common good that our domestic agriculture be protected up to that point which shall hold out the highest encouragement to the investment of skill, labour, and capital in the culti. vation of the soil, so as to produce from our own fields the greatest possible amount of grain ; but it is no less plainly for the common good that beyond this point agriculture be not protected. In this de partment, as in every other department of human industry, some external pressure, as well as full couragement, are required to carry it to perfection, and even for the ultimate security of those engaged in it. We have an example of the latter use of external pres sure in the case of manufactures. Our manufacturers have had nearly to themselves the markets of the world for several years, and the effect has been, a cruel and ruinous competition among themselves as to who shall toil their labourers most severely, and who shall sell at the lowest price, until at length they find themselves in danger of being driven from, the markets they lately commanded, by the disgraceful inferiority of the goods they send into them. But while all wise and good men are agreed as to - the necessity of protecting agriculture up to the point of highest encouragement —a point much short of absolute monopoly, were absolute monopoly possible, as it is not—the wisest and best men must fail to agree in fixing the precise point to be preferred. In this matter each will be necessarily directed by opinions formed fikm his own experience ; one, estimating the fair remune ration of the farmer from the returns of a particular description of soil, must form a different estimate from him who grounds his calculations upon the returns of a different quality of soil. The public burthens are uniform ; and rents and the price of labour, by a natural social influence, must acquire a kind of uniformity in the same country ; but the productive qualities of the soil, as we are all aware, vary materially ; so that what is a protecting price in one county, may fall short of a protecting price in another county. It is the duty of every man, however, to stand out for the protection of all within his own immediate sphere, and it is for the Legisla ture to determine, from the sum of opinions, in favour of that degree of protection which, without permitting the ruinous discouragement of any, shall guard again& the equal danger of excess. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) Tux Q UEEN V. JOHN PARKER., BENJAMIN PARKER, AND I . IIILIP MAY. Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-GENEILAL.—The arrangement was that IVlty should sell the wines, and when we knew the produce, we should see how much more would be wanted to:pay him his advances. May said he wanted nothing more than the money he had paid on the goods. This was after May had been examined before the Commissioner. I was at a meeting of the creditors at the office of Dixon and Overbury afterwards. An opinion of counsel was read. -I do not recollect that that opinion was that there was no case against M a y. T he propriety of prosecuting May was discussed. It was mentioned that if May were acquitted he would bring an action for malici ous prosecution, but I do not recollect that it was said that in that case he would only get nominal damages. Dixon submitted to the creditors whether ' they would include May in the indictment or not. I did not hear it said that May should be included, because if the bill were found he would most probably come forward and settle it. I did not hear Mr. Silvester's name mentioned. I do not recollect that any thing was said about the benefit of creditors as a ground for the prosecution. Mr. Fairlie was there • he stated he would go no further with the prosecution, but I did not hear him state the grounds, and Mr. Boxer his attorney withdrew his name. Mr. May produced a book at the bankrupt's examination. No complaint was made while I was there that May had withheld any information. Cross-examined by Air. CIIAMBERS—I saw Joseph Parker fur abut five minutes on the 2d July ; that was the first time I saw him. It was the same person I saw afterwards on the 13th July. On that occasion he expressed his surprise at his brother's conduct in assuming the name of John, while his I been e name was Benjamin, ifawneclaisdallde,ave th his e brotherpiemididses.Be not return that night, he (Joseph) everhavingth e Parker, did not co m e back while I was there. I n ever asked for Parker's accounts, asked for. neverinterfered impel,. I left it all t o Mr. Tarn. and donot in In the ow a o ee f ii t u hnetisr with _ ....... —,... (Continued from our Afternoon Edition. ) Mr. PLATT then called as the first witness Jacopi Arenfeld, who was examined by Mr. CLARKSON— He stated that he was engaged in the service of Benjamin Parker in the month of May last. lie knew him by the name of John Parker, and he was engaged by him, as buyer at a salary of 3001. a year. He understood that Parker was engaged in the foreign business and was a man of ample means. The counting.. I house was in Thames-skeet, tinder the name of John Parker and Co.. describing themselves as shippers for the Sydney and Texas trade. They were also importers of wine. Benjamin Parker stated to him that his stock of wines was worth two thousand pounds, that his capital in cash was four thousand pounds, and that he had a very good connexion ab roa d. principally in the wine-trade. Benjamin Parker had a brothe r i his service to whom he was introduced by the name of Joseph Parker. He received directions as to the course he was to pursue as a buyer, that was, he was to buy such ar ticles as were fit for the markets of ydney and Texas. They were bought partly for cash and partly on credit, and he had no reason to believe but that they were respectable nvn. The counting-house was fitted up as for the shipping trade, with bills of lading, rlacards, notices of ships sailing for the colo flies, &c. Among other houses he applied to Tarn and Law, with whom he opened an account for Parker and Co., about the latter end of May lest. Some of the goods that were supplied were paid for within the fortnight. '1 he articles he had purchased included merinos, black lutestring, pieces of Orleans, cotton, sheets, damask cloths,'printecl furniture, pieces of Irish linen, a stvw t a k t or l : e t a o l n io ud c se . of sometimesh s n e r p v , a e , e r r. k a n l et roocaucntadsoifocnos the t T h v e hl saeeive remained' % t c h r e e sdaenl. same e v f e o r r e tal day,da a t y t H h o e e r understood that they went to the packers to get ready for shipping. I It r; as usual for parti es engaged in the shipping trade to.keep a shipping-book, but he never saw one at Parker's, Sometimes the goods were removed in his presence. Ills hours of attend ance were from nine till five o'clock, and sometimes goods that be bad left there in the evening, were gone in the morning, or being then carried away. Q 4 the 10th of July, Benjamin Parker said that Mrs. Parker was ill at Brighton, and went away, and he never saw him again. He was not dis. charged from their service. Shortly before that, Mr. Parker had taken an additiolaal warebOwe, Oat be might have more room, and a . press fpr packing his own goods. Witness here exa mined the invoices of . goods supplied to the Sim, and stated that t'oei were the invoices of goods he hid purchased. He also spoke to an interview between Benjamin Parker and • May before Parker went away, from which it appeared to wit ness that there was an understanding between them. t h adled butboo twobeen oo n ve ne d meetings by . of R creditors.e-exam n e dia Neither . 0 f P t t Ao those the Parkers, nor were they present at either of them. I have Leard that Mr, Boxer is related to Mr. May. I have seen Mr. Boxer here to-day. — m cietaitatge att e nded Richard Fennell—l am one of the firm of Fennell and Sons, manufacturers of cotton yarn in Aldermanbury.f Arenfeld called on us in June for samples of cotton yarn for India for the house of John Parker and Co.. Lower Thames -street. He said that John Parker was a man of large property, that he had married a lady of large pro perty, and that he was a great shipper to India ; and that if my goods suited, he would purchase some to send out by every ship. I was referred to Tarn and Law. I was to he paid cash by a cheque on the London and Westminster Bank. I Examined by Mr. PLATT-Knows the handwriting of Mr. went to Lower Thames -street, and asked to see Mr John Benjamin Parker. • The letter handed to him was lik e hi s p ar k er ; a n d B en j am i n Parker, now iniCoart, came forward. writing. I asked if his name was John Parker, and he acquiesced by Examined by the Arrousxy-GENERALL.-Went i n t o th e bo w i n g. I told him my name-he said " I hope the goods will service of John Parker in July of last year. Bought goods for turn out well. You are to consider Arenfeld as my buyer, he him till the beginning of June and July. Had no doubt but will call to-morrow and give you an order." He said they were that the business of J. Parker was perfectly correct at that for the India market. Arenfeld ordered nearly 4001. worth time. He had two warehouses and two counting houses. Mr. of goods, of which we supplied 3161. The last lot was sent in B. Parker told him they kept a shipping book. He was not on the 3d July. I called about the 101. I was to have cash for aware of it from his own knowledge• my cheque the day after the place was shut up. I saw agentleman Cross-examined by Mr. HomenßEY-Knew Tarn and Law th er e but couldget no satisfactory answer from him. The inv.iice before the present transaction. Law joined Tarn about three was not sent to the Parkers for two or three days after the or four years before the present business. He referred people goods. On the 1 2th of July I went to May's warehouse. May from whom he made pu rc h ases to t h em. R ecollects the first is a woollen factor in Ca # eaton-street. It was aft & r I had • been purchase that Parker made of Tarn and Law. It was on t o Thames-street. I told May I had called f o r s om e cotton the 4th of Novemb er . Th e payments for that purchase goo d s of mine. I t o ld h i m my name, and he said an attach were made in cash. Never heard Tarn complain that the meet had just come in. He admitted they were in his posses very first cheque was dishonoured. Supposed all the goo d s s i on , but would not let me see them. He said he given to the Parkers were intended to be shipped for Sydney. had a claim of forty or fiftounds n them. He Did not advise th e P a rk ers to as k a h ouse in Hamburgh to said he had received them from J o h n Parke r , o that he had no send them goods. Is a native of Mecklenburg; lived for some invoice, and understood that Parke r had received them for time in Hamburgh ; has been out of it for 20 years. wine. He said the attachment did not signify much-that he Examined by 11.1 r. VALENTINE-IS still a commission,-mere should not give up the goods, for all the creditors should share chant. Has acted for many years in that capacity. W as act- an d share alike. 1 offered to lodge a cheque in any bank for the ing in that capacity for Parker. Was fourteen years in this amount May had advanced on my goods, and to idemrafy country. Did not tell the Parkers immediately that he knew him if he wouldrestore soy goods. He said he could not think of Tarn and Law. Is 45 years of age. John Parker is about doing so, but that he would let me know before they were sold. 24 years. He said I need not make mysolf uneasy; there would be Examined by Mr. BODKIN-Benjamin and John Parker plenty of money for all. He said he had about 10,0001., and were in Court. (The witness here identified the prisoners.) lie had advanced 3,000/. on them. He said he had wine war- He did business for Messrs. White and Greenwell. He re- rants to a large amount-from 3,000/. to 4,0004 ferred persons bythe direction of Benjamin Parker, to Messrs. Cross-examined by Mr. KoLLT-This was about the 12th Tarn and Law. Several persons called on Parker to settle of July. It was the same day as the attachment. I had not their accounts. Mr. Fennell was one of those persons. any communication with other creditors at that time. • I at- Mr. James Tarn was then called and examined by Mr. tended at the meeting of creditors at Dixons and Overbury's. SWAN-Is one of the parties from whom goods were oh- Mr. Boxer, the solicitor, Mr. May's brother in-law, said that tamed by the prisoners. They received the goods through if we prosecuted May he would file bills in Chancery against the representations of Arenfell. The invoices handed to bins all of us. I said I believed May was a guilty party, are his. The goods they received amounted to 2,7601. and that I would have nothing to do with the prosecution un- There is a balance of 1,600/. due. The witness was here less May were included. I think Mr. Dixon said that it was handed some cheques on the London and Westminster Bank, Counsel's opinion that May was just as guilty as the others. which he identified. Some were paid. They were s i gn ed by I did no t want Counsel's opinion to convince me of May's John Parker and Co. Other goods, besides those which were guilt.-(A laugh.) paid for, were sold and delivered to J. Parker between the 4th Cross.examined by Mr. HUMPHREY.-The amount of the and 12th of June. One chequ e was for 3681. Is., and goods obtained we understood to be from 6,000/. to 11,0004 I another was for 200/. Both wer e paid. He also sold goods heard nothing at all about any goods being paid for at auy one on the 11 th of June. That was before he got the cheque of the meetings -(A laugh.) on the 12th of June. When be called at their counting-house Mr. Hosirnaxv-Was it not stated that the amount of the in Thames-street he saw there Arenfeld and J. Parker. He debts of the Parkers was about 2,800/. ? (Arenfeld) introduced John Parker to lim as Joseph Parker. Witness-I never heard the word debts mentioned. The Benjamin Parker was not there at that time. He (Benjamin) goods the Parkers had swindled the creditors out of was, I un was afterwards introduced to • him by his brother John, derstand from 6,000/. to 1 1,0001.-(A laugh.) There was one under the name o John Parker. Arenfeld also called person there whose goods were worth more than 5,000/. Benjamin Parker by the name of John. He now knew Re-examined-I never g o t m y goods ag a i n . him as Benjamin, and not as John. He spok e t o B en j am i n Joseph Scott-I am the agent for Holmes and Co., Parker with regard to the goods he delivered them. They of King-street. I first heard of John Parker and asked him about some calicoes, and with how many pieces he Co. in July 1841. Holmes and Co. are general ware could supply them. He stated that he could not supply them housemen, fOn 3d July I took samples to 7i, Lower at that time with more than 200 pieces, and that in the course Thames -street. I had to wait some time, and then of six weeks he might supply them with 300 pieces. They an- I saw a person calling himself Joseph Parker. He sail, swered they did not wish to ship 200 pieces, as it only lowered wait a few minutes, I expect my brother John in them in the estimation of their Sydney correspondent. With directly. Mr. John Parker soon after came in. He regard to the merinos, B. Parker said they were very cheap, and is now in Court. ( Witness identified Benjamin Parker as the asked if they could be supplied with more. Hesaid that what they person.) I shewed him samples of reticules. He said he had received had been shipped. He (witness) had heard that Ben- a gentleman from Port Philip that would be very likely to jamin Parker had been married to a Miss Bamfield, of Hemp- take them, and then he bought theni. He said he would pay fur stead, and had received 4.000/. fortune. With regard to the them on the second Monday of the following month. He calicoes, he,told Benjamin Parker that he did not conceive that said he was a general merchant, shipping different a shipment of 200 pieces would lower them in the estimation of kind of goods to Port Philip, to Texas, and all their correspondents. On the 26th of June Benjamin round.-(A laugh)-and also to America. I sold his Parker came to him and infoimed him that he had closed goods to the amount of 771. Bs. 4d. They were never paid his account with the London and Westminster Bank, for. I called at the warehouse again on the 6th of July. I and had opened an account with the London County Bank. He again saw the one who called himself John Parker. I again asked him (witness) what he had done with the cheque. On sold him 1914 4s. 104. worth of goods to be paid for on the the 28th of June he again saw Benjamin Parker. He was 10th July. I saw Joseph on that occasion before 1 saw John. paying him a sum of money to the amount of 180/. That was Mr. Homenasty here interfered and asked what paper it was not the entire amount of what was d ue t o hi m , but he stated the witness had in his hand. It turned out to be a copy of his that Miss Bamfield was out of town, and that when she re- deposition, which he said h e h a d g i ven the attorney turned to town she wo u ld se ll out 5,000/. worth of stock, on the 10 th of January, when payment was refused. He was and he would then pay the remaind er . H e sa id h e would have desired to put the paper, in his pocket, and the examination the 5,0004 on the 10th of July ; he also said that he: did not was resumed. Joseph Parker told me his brother was wish to draw on the London County Bank, as he had only re- worth 20,0001. If I had been aware that the man cently opened his account there. On the Ist of July they passing as John Parker was an uncertificated bankrupt received goods to the amount of 465/. 17s. Bd. He would not I would not have parted with the goods. On the 10th of July have supplied these goods were it not for the representations Mr. Holmes and I went to Thames -street, and saw Joseph. that had been made upon the 28th, and if he had nut been, Holmes asked f or hi s account, and Joseph said his brother ai led to believe th a t th e goo d s were i ntendnd to be shipped. ways paid the accounts, and that he was at Brighton, and By Sir F. PoLLocx-He never k new Mr. M a y before that would be back the next morning, when the account would be time. lam one of the prosecutors in the indictment. Mr. Law, paid. my partner, is another. There are a b ou t fi ve others. We make Cross-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE-4 received that paper common cause and divide:the expenses. M r . 'Holmes and Mr. I have put in my pocket from Mr. Holmes's attorney, about King are also prosecutors. I first saw Mr. May at the Bank- s i x or seven months ago, and have kept it ever si nce . I was ruptcy Court in September, when he was examined by Mr. told to examine it well. I have done so. I have read it fre- Keane. The examination concerned this case in a cer- quently since. Mr. Holmes was very angry with me about taro way, and I thought it right to be present ; but I parting with the goods. did not suggest the examination. Parker was not to my Mr. BALLANTINE-Are you sure that the younger Mr. knowledge made a bankrupt after that affair. If there Joseph spoke of his brother as John? Witness-Yes, he did. had sbeenvtny proceedings in bankruptcy, I, as a principal I never asked one of the Parkers to lend me 101., or any other creditor, must have known it. I was not then fishing up evi dence for the present case. P ar k er was indicted at the Cen tral Criminal Court, but May was not known. It was after this I indicted Mr. May. I only know that May was before the Commissioners of Bankruptcy once ; but I have heard that he was there oftener. Messrs. Dixon and Overbury, my solicitors, conducted that proceeding. By Mr. H v sent REY-There was a meeting of creditors in July, which Mr. Law, my partner, attended, but not I. The first cheque for 200/., was not returned, but was paid by my bank ers ; if it were returned, I know nothing of it. Sometimes we write the terms on the invoices, sometimes we do not. The first account with the Parkers, dated the 4th June, was paid ready money, 2i per cent discount.x The next transac tion, on June the 7th, due the second Monday :of July, was not paid. The next was June the Bth, for 481., due same day. The next, June 9th, 891. ; one bill paid June 11th ; 150 L was the next to be paid by a bill at three months ; next, June 15th, 359/. 19s. 11d., was to be paid by 1001. on the 18th June, balance,a three months' bill. The 1004 was paid. The next was June 17th, 1001. 3s. 714., and paid in cash. But some of the words in the invoice are not in my writing. The neat was June 18th, 63/. 16s. 7d., to be on the same terms as that of the 15th, by a three months' bill. The next, 23d, 596/. Bs, and he paid 2004 cash on the 2d of July, the balance on the second Monday in August. I find some words in the terms not in my writing, but I believe the words were written by my clerk. The next is dated 25th June, 154/. 4s. sd. which was paid. The next for 73/. 18e. 6d. paid. The next July 1, 861. Os."2d. pay able the second Monday in August. The last was 221 55. 6d. of sometime after. Of all those sums about 1,000/. would not be due till - the month of August. Between the 28th June and the 3el July, . I received not 727/. in cash, but 1 received several sums as already stated. I find, however, that my memoranda have been altered by some other person. On the 26th June, there was a dishonoured cheque for 97/., but Mr. Parker afterwards paid it into the bank. John, alias Benjamin Parker, told me that he married Mrs. Bamfield's daughter, and that she was a lady; of property. I have since found that he did marry that lady. I made in quiries of Mr. Silvester, to whom Arenfeld referred me, and learned that such was the case. He told me that Mrs. Bamfield was a person of large fortune. I made the inquiry on the 4th of June at Silvester's counting-house, in Lower Thames-street. Cross-examined by Mr. JAstxs-I am a warehouseman. My usual terms were two-and-a-half cash, or three months' bill. I had been in business eighteen months. The goods had been bought principally from Hind and Co. I stopped pay ment in 1841 for 7 , 0001. The balance due of 7801. caused the stoppage. Some of the goods had been paid for, and some not at the time of my stoppage. I might have answered ten refe rences for the Parkers. I might have answered a reference as late as July Ist. I did not know of any dishonoured cheque. Symonds never complained to me on the subject. He said he had a cheque marked which had been subsequently paid. I had known Arenfeld at Manchester. I knew that he had failed, and had been found guilty of conspiracy. I never pressed upon Arenfeld goods for the Parkers more than tradesmen usually do. The greater part of the goods we bought for the home trade. ' The Jury retired for a short time for refreshment. Before their return a conversation took place between Lord Denman and the Counsel engaged, es to the possibility of the case lasting over two days. His LORDSHIP said that he would, if possible, finish the case in the course of the day. Re-examined by Mr. PLATT-It was first determined to in dict May after the two Parkers had been indicted at the Old Bailey. I heard that after they were indicted May had sold the goods. 1 stopped payment in August, 1841, about the time of Parker's bills becoming due. When Symonds asked a refer ence I showed him my ledger and told him all I knew of them. David Law-I was in partnership with the last witness in June and July last year. I went to the premises, 7i, Lower Thames-street, on 13th July. I saw a person there represent ing himself as Joseph Parker. He turns out to be John Parker. I asked if Mr. Parker was in, and he said "No ; he expected him shortly." Mr. Dixon, the solicitor, was with me, and he asked Joseph Parker if his brother's name was Benjaman Parker or John Parker, and he said his brother's name was Benjamin although he passed as John. Mr. Dixon asked if his name was Joseph Parker, he said Yes, and that he was not one of the firm. Dixon asked if all the goods were shipped and gone out of the country. He said yes, every piece of them. On the 14th of July 1 attended a meeting of creditors at Messrs. Dixon and Overbury's. May was there. I asked him how much money he had ad vanced on my goods. He said, 3,700/. on the goods he had had from John Parker. He thought the goods worth from 7,000/. to 8,0001. He said he thought the wine would produce enough to cover his advances. Some one asked if he would be at liberty to inspect the goods in May's possession. May s..id yes, he would do anythi ng i n hi s power to forward the views of the creditors, and that at all events the creditors should be at liberty to take back their own goods on payment of the advances upon them. Nothing was said on the subject of selling any of the goods except the wine. I called on May in August respecting bringing the affair to a conclusion. Slay said I am as anxious as ever to have it brought to a conclusion, but you have put it into the hands of a solicitor. The arrangement was that the wines should be sold. I understood from May on that occasion that the wines had not been sold. [The case was proceeding when we went to press, and is ex.. petted tooccupy the Court till midnight. ] COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Guildhall.) DUNCAN V. BROADWOoD AND MILLER. This was an action brought by the plaintiff for the recovery of a sum of 1,0471., claimed by him as compensation for his services in superintending the Prince's Theatre, in Oxford street. It appeared that in the autumn of the year 1836, the late Mr. Ward, the well-known actor, had determined on converting the Queen's Bazaar, in Oxford -street, into a theatre, and had taken a lease of the premises from Mr. Hamlet, the proprietor, for that purpose. Mr. Dun can, the present plaintiff, who was the nephew of r. Ward, was employed by him to superintend the erection of M the new building. The plaintiff was to be paid according to the usual charge of architects, 5 per cent. upon the builder's outlay ; and this per tentage, with other charges, amounted to the sum which he now claimed. In the month of February, 1837, Mr. Broadweod, M.P. for Bridgwater, Mr. Miller, the present defendants, and other gentlemen formed a Com mittee of Management, and interfered to some extent in the direction of the undertaking. They had also become sub scribers to the theatre by purchasing debentures. The case having been thus stated for the plaintiff by Mr. Sergeant WILDE, evidence was produced to show that the Committee of Management had given a guarantee to the builder of the theatre, Mr. Barren, for the purpose of ensur i ng to him the p ayment of a portion of expenses. Mr. KELLY stated for the defence that the Committee of Management wore in no way responsible for the expenses lof the undertaking ; they had entered into no contract with the plaintiff; and they-had even been assured by the plaintiff him self that they should be liable for no expenses save the price of their own debentures. It was also proved in evidence that they had guaranteed his expenses to the builder to the amount only of the subscriptions they might receive. Before the evidence for the defence had been gone through, Mr. Sergea n t WILDE stated he did not think be could keep up the ease with any prospect of advantage to his clients. The case for the plaintiffs was therefore abandoned, and a verdict returned for the defendants. AMERICAN FLOUR &PROVISIONS eLiLveirzparodiol and Co., dated Ne w O r - We have been favoured w i t h an extract from a circu- Anti-Monopoly Associa tlaiorn d b d •e y s Messrs.ed t o t F I d leans, January 17, 1842. It shows how admirably the soil of the valley of the Mississippi is adapted for the growth of the food of man, and what supplies of flour and provisions might be drmyn from New Orleans alone thousands of whom ar e of n fo o r w th fa e m su is lis an ist g en fr c o e m vv o a u n r t p o e t o p t l h e e , bare necessa r i es o f lif e . Nor would it be necessary to export one farthing in mpney to pay for this flour and these provisions. The farmers of the United States would gladly receive British manufactures in return for the produce of their farms. Thus a most extensive and rapidly increasing market would be opened to our cottons and our woollens, our cutlery and our hardware, giving employment and good wages to artizans, as well as supplying them with bread at a lower price than they can ever hope to buy it `while our own agriculturists enjoy the monopoly of the home market. We fear th at the Corn-laws; with Sir Robert Peel's latest "improvements" will effectually seal Mississippi, so far as the export of flour and provi sions is eoncerned,- and cut us off from all supplies from that quarter, while; even under a moderate fixed duty, not to speak of a system of free trade, an extensive im port from the New World would take place : " As the laws affecting the introduction into England of grain and other provisions will shortly be discussed in the British Parliament, we annex the present price of flour, pork, and a few other articles, remarking that, under laws favourable for such trade with England, the supplies which could be drawn from this port are truly unlimited, as au industrious population of more than four millions of people are the cultivators of an extent of many millions of acres of the richest lands, and their sur plus prod u ce is carried at a che a p rate by means of the numerous navigable rivers which converge into the Mis sissipi ; these stream are now navigated by more than three hundred steamers, from 800 tons burthen down wards. Nearly half a million barrels of flour ; 262,000 sacks and 163,000 barrels of corn (maize) ; 210,000 barrels of pork ; .8,000,000 pounds of cured pork ; and 1,378,000 pounds of bacon were received here last year from the interior. "Flour, superfine, dull at 5 dols. 75 ets. per brl., or • 225. 6d. per 1961b5. Pork, per barrel, mess 8 &Ls. per brl., or 325. per 2001bs. 64 it prime 6s. " " 245. 41 Bacon, and hams 3i cents per lb. or lid per lb, Cured pork 2to 2i " " Id. Cheese 8 " " lid._ Butter • 8 to 14 Lard. 4i —Liverpool Albion, " " d 'i to 7d. " 2id....... DISCOVERY OF A NUMB ER OF H UMAN SKELETONS. A few days since some workmen employed in cart ing earth out of a pit in a field adjoining Risby toll gate, and the road leading to Fornham St. Genovieve, about two miles north-west of Bury St. Edmund's, discovered a considerable number of human skele tons, some of them within about a foot of the surface; the bones generally were in an ad vanced state of decay, but the teeth in some of the skulls were very white and perfect. It is supposed these skeletons are the remains of a portion of the slain who fell in the battle between the troops of King Kenry IL an d t h ose o f hi s s ons, more than 600 years ago.. I n a wor k ent i tled Historic Sites in th e County of Suffolk, by John Wodderspoon," th e y as being the spot w h ere author observes " The village of FDrnhatn St. Geno vieve is celebrated in histor • the peaceabl e re t en ti on o f the English Crown in the person of Henry 11. was decided by a bloody battle, which took place in the year 1173. The obliterating hand o f ti me h as, of course, removed from the place much evidence of the ground having been o ccup i e d as a milit ary position, but there are mounds still exist ing by , the lonely road side, b ene ath which th e d ea d were huddled at the conclusion of the fight, and which serve as memorials of the event, and of the immensity of the slaughter." The circumstances which led to the 'encounter were briefly these.: —The sons of Henry 11. having taken up arms against their father, were joined by Robert, Earl of Leicester, who, haling insulted his sovereign, was obliged to fly the country ; he took refuge in France, . and there collected an immense army of Flemings, and, passing o ver to d England l an d e at .Walton on the 21st of September. He marched to Framlingham Castle, and h ear in g that the ca use h e had espoused wanted prompt assist ance in Leicestershire; he directed his march towards that part of the 7 country and while passing Fornham St. Genovieve, was attacked by the King's troops ! into it, and call for some explanation and information ting it. They had as yet heard very little in de lying .at Bury St. Edmund's. the battle soon be- 'r_e n sp c, en . of the sliding scale. He did not quarrel with came general, and the result was that the Earl lost 'that. They had been rather debating priciples, and the day, and ten thousand Flemings were slain upon were not called on to interfere so much with detaile. They the field. The battle took place on the 27th of j had now, on the first vote to be taken on the sliding October, 1171—Essex Herald. scale, an opportunity of asking some of those questions, and receive some of those explanations which he felt satisfied the Government would think it their duty to give. He begged to call the attention of the House to the very resolution he held in his hand, it called on them to decide " whenever the average price of wheat, made up and published in the manner required by law, was, for every quarter, under 515., the duty for every quarter should be 205." " Whenever the average price of wheat, as made up in the manner required by law"—why, these words raised the important point of the mode of taking the averages. All the arguments and all the discussions had hitherto gone on the old system of taking the ave rages; but the Right Hon. Gentleman stated that he un derstood by the mode of taking the averages, a considerable alteration was made in the average price of whek They had heard from the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton, a gentleman for whose opinions he had great respect, a corroboration of this opinion. In fact it was quite im possible to meet any gentlemen on either side of the House, without being satisfied that a; strong opinion prevailed that a mode of taking the averages would make a considerable difference in the average price. The speech of the Honourable Gentleman was quite conclusive on this point. He said the difference would be 55., but that was an exaggeration. However, after a careful examination, he (Mr. Baring) found it would be 2s.— (Hear.) He did not mean to 'impute any intention to deceive to the Right Hon. Gentleman, but lie thought he had better prepare and carry a Bill at once to attain his object than to cheat the people in this manner.— (Cheers.) The House had a right to receive from the Right Honourable Gentleman that information and those papers which he and his, Cabinet had no doubt before them when they decided on altering the mode of taking the averages, which, nevertheless, he said, would have no effect on the results. It was clear that hitherto London was a certain general indication of the sales of all other markets ; but the new plan would deprive London of that position, whilst we had no means as yet of knowing what quantities would be sold in the 150 new towns to be added to the old ones. But as the effect would undoubtedly be to disturb the averages, he trusted the necessary information respecting those 150 townswould be given to the House. There was anotherpoint on which, the House wanted information. The Right lion. Gentleman the Vice-President of the Board of Trade had brought forward resolutions in which he proposed to place a duty of 3s. on 'corn imported into Canada and some other Colonies. His Noble Friend approved of the rest of the Bill, but he entered his caveat against the 3s. duty—(Hear, hear)—however, the question was asked, and as it required an answer he (Mr. Baring) Presumed that it had been heard ; the answer of the Right Hon. Gentleman was, that so far as that propo sition, now under the consideration of the Government was concerned, it was not decided whether they should go on with it or abandon it altogether, and it must be con sidered as a proposition left on the table for considera tion. He (Mr. Baring) thought that they had a right to know what decision they had come to.—(Hear.) He (Mr. Baring) recollected when he brought forward the sugar duties, that between the time he had announced it and the time he printed the duties, that in conse quence of representations mode to him, and in accord ance with his own opinion, so that the proposition might not meet with a strong opposition, he made some alterations in the duty ; and the Right Hon. Gentleman told him that nothing but the knowledge of his cha racter could convince him (the Right Hon. Gentleman) that there was not something unfair in the proposition; and the Right Hon. Baronet the First Lord of the Treasury, in three set speeches, denounced the measure as one so ill advised and so ill considered that an alteration actually had been made in it between the time of making the proposition and printing the duties. If he (Mr. Baring) then had done as the Right Hon. Gentleman had done now, if he had made a Bill for Canada, and was in a state of uncer tainty, not knowing whether to go on or not, and were to turn round and say that in consideration of the trade, and so on, he begged of the House to go on, what would have been done to him ?—(Hear.) Why there would have been no end of the attacks which he should have received from the fluency of the Right Hon. Gentleman and his party, to the more solemn and serious attacks of the Right Hon. Baronet, who in three set speeches at tacked him for making a slight alteration in a Bill be tween the time of its commencement and its printing.— (Hear, hear.) There was another part of the measure of the Right Hon. Baronet, of his scale, upon which the House had no information whatever. He had started with the admisSion that they were to adhere to the sliding scale. That was the principle of the Bill. Now in his opinion, there were two single occasions on which this principle teemed to be exceedingly weak, and he was anxious to learn from the Right Hon. Ba ronet and the Government the principle on which their two rests were to be made. He heard that the Govern ment placed great store upon these two rests. They began from 51s. to 525. with the sliding scale ; from 51s. to 525. the principle was considered good ; but the mo ment they came to 525., and went up to 555., then the principle ceased, and they had no sliding but a fixed scale. Now, he should be glad to know why that which was good between 51s. and 525, should be supposed to be - bad between 525.• and 555. ? And tlien the proposition of the slide between 565. and 595. contained something curious about it. In the Bill proposed by Mr. Canning and his colleagues the slid ing scale was adhered to throughout. There was a fixed principle throughout, showing their reliance and confidence in the principle of adhering to the sliding scale. They were turned out upon that ; the Bill was - rejected, he would not say h6w; and the Right lion. Baronet and the Noble Duke came in, and formed their Administration. They altered the prin ciple, they followed the sliding scale from 655. to 665., but the moment they came to 665. they introduced what was called the jumping scale.—(Hear, hear.) That principle was now aban doned. It was recognised at the time ; and it was con sidered one of the principal beauties of the. Bill. Now of all the absurdities of the sliding scale, he believed that to be the worst ; and he should be glad to know why those who, in 1838, were convinced that it was per fection itself, should think it right to abandon the scale at 665. He should be happy to hear from the Right Hon. Baronet some explanation of that extraordinay change of opinion. —(Cheers.) For his own part, he would freely tell the Government, that those pauses: should receive no opposition from him. He accepted it .as an admission that the sliding scale would not do pure and unrnitigated.—(Cheers.) It was a confession that the principle of the sliding scale could not be carried out.—(Loud cheers.) There could be no ithmetical difficulty in making the scale slide through out ; therefore, there must be some grave and solemn reason for these pauses. % Now, he should like to know what was the reason that made the principle of a sliding duty good from Ms. to 525., and then made it good for the slide to cease from 525. to 565.—(Cheers.) He should be glad of further information on that point.—(Cheers.) He would admit that nothing could be more absurd, 'nothing could be more unsatisfactory then to discuss the prices at which corn ought to be sold ; but he (Mr. Baring) conld not help that; it was the fault of the principle of Hon. Gentlemen op posite—(Cheers)—it was the fault of the principle of the sliding scale.—(Loud cheers.) Now he should like the Right Hon. Gentleman to point out the principle on which he made that pause. They had had papers in abundance laid on the table of that Reuse. They had been almost smothered with papers, and he should like to see how the Right Hon. Gentleman could from those papers make out his own calculations.—(Cheers.) The subject had been introdnced with all due solemnity: Months ago the newspapers had announced that the Government was about to take the subject of the Corn laws into its most serious co ns id eration; then that the public was informed that the Right lion. Gentleman had sent a gentleman to the Continent for the purpose of collecting statistical information ; and that the Right Hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade was instituting inquiries as to the prices in the home inarket. Then it was announced that the Cabinet was in delibera tion, add behold the result!—(Cheers.) He wished to know why the Right Hon. Baronet considered that a price of 545. to 58s. was a proper price to be secured to the farmer. lie was anxious to know what had induced the Right Hon. Baronet to come to that conclusion, He knew how uninteresting it was to go into a dry detail of fig u ' r es, but he wished to test the probability of the Right Hon. Baronet's Bill having the • effect which he had stated he intended it should have. 'He (Mr. Baring) had not at his command all the information to which the Right Hon. Baronet had access. As a Member ofi;ar liament he could only have access to those papers which the Government had been kind enough to present to the House. He had looked over those papers, and each successive paperLhe had read had tended to confirm him in the conclusion at which he had arrived as to the ulti mate failure of the Right Hon. Baronet's experi ment.—(Cheers.) The Right Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down had stated that he had IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, gone into calculations as to what the effect of HOUSE OF COMMONS , FEB. 25. the Right Hon. B aronet ' s Bill would have been, CORN-LAWS. had it bee n enacte d i n former times. Now, that was not a bad method of testing the efficiency of the Right Hon. The motion having been read by the SPEARER, Baronet's plan, and he (Mr. Baring) had ende •• d Mr. BARING said, that though he would take that to discover from public Rightdoc u tt o merits what would"hlaivee opportunity of agreeing with the Hon. Gentlemen who been the effect of the had just .sat down in objecting to a 20s. duty, but onn. Baronet's rr plan if it had been enacted in 1828. As far as he . Baring) could quit© different grounds from those which the see, no trade in foreign corn of the slightest importance Hon. Member'seepinion. He would also take guidedthe oppor- runty to enter on th at part of the discussion which had could be c arrie d on under 60s. As far as he (Mr. appeared tce-him not to have been much alluded to during Baring) could find, corn could not be introduced into this the late debates. • He wished to'call • for iome explanic- country under 60s. It was necessary that they should lion and inforniation as to the sliding ale 1 sc , on w nch make allowance for freight and other expens es at they were c a ll e d to vote ; he must also state his opi- tendant on importati on . The Right Honour a bl e Ba nion as t o th e mo d e i n which the Hon. Gentleman . had ronet had only allowed, for all these expenses from brought it forward, unsupported by one single word four to five shillings per quarter. He knew where the ,li g ht Hon.. Baronet got his figures. He had got them , f , rom his agricultural friend s ._ (Hear, heir.) And from the Consular returne, in which was given a return IT he (Mr. Baring) had not continu e d th e debate, o f f re i g ht, and freight only. But there were other ex as opposed to the Hon. Gentleman, there would not p enses , which if they attended to the information give n have been a singl e expressi on fr om a ll those Hon. Gen- by Mr. Meek, they would find would greatly increase the tleme n who committed thems e l ves o n the hustings— price of wheat before it could be introduced into the (Cheers )—to the principl e o f no sureenderee(cheers) English market. He would only refer the Right lion. —there had not been-a single syllabl e uttered by them. Baronet to the statement of the gentleman whom he He was su re th a t th e li on . Gentleman had proposed had himself selected. Allowing for freight and insurance the motio n in the wanner he thought the most ad- 65.,_ and for the expenses attending thesale between 4s. visabl e a n d th e b es t, b u t h e mus t sa y that the agriculs and ss. per quarter, the whole expenses of importation, tural interest was somewhat unfortunate in its representee according to Mr. Meek, before the corn could be con tives, as they had managed t o b r i ng for war d th e motion veyed to the purchasers in England would amount to so that it was utterly impo ss ibl e t o t a k e a vo t e upon it. los. 6d. It was the Right Hon. Baronet's own offieer They had heardsomething on a former occasion described w h o - furnished that information. During the last ses by the rather fine sounding . term " Scimnachy," but he s i on Ministers told the House that it was necessary certainly never saw anything that was a more complete they should make inquiries before they came fighting with shadows than the motion of th e H o n, to an y conclusion as to the measure they should pro, Gentleman.—(Cheers.) He wished to call f or some ex . p ose . They accordingly selected an officer i who was no planation of the sliding scale that had been proposed. d ou bt admirably fitted for the mission on which he was HQ apprehended the House had already decided that it despatched. The insurance and other charges of ex would adhere to the sliding scale. It h a d decided porting to London were about the same as at Stettin, against a fixed duty —it had also decided against a total , namely, Ins. When the price of whe a t i n England was rep e al ; and they had now to consider the sliding under 60se n otwithstandi ng th e ch ange whi c h the Right scale as a principle, a n d h e w i s h e d t o look Hon. Baronet made in his Bill, there could be no court FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. We find the following in the Courrier des Etat UiliS :—" A French broker having sold several lots of ground to an American gentleman, and having called upon him for the money when the promissory note which he had given was due, the debtor said—' I have great respect for you, and therefore, instead of decei v i ng you b y asking for time, I will be candid, and give you my word of honour that I will never pay either principal or interest.' The broker replied, that in that case he would immediately go and get judgment against him. Well,' replied the debtor, I will show my gratitude for the Way in which you take up the affair. A judgment will cost you 40 dol lars ; but if you will go to the three houses in Wall street, of which I will give you the addresS, you will obtain judgment against me in due form for 10 dollars.' —Another debtor implo r ed f or t i me f rom his creditor, who consented, but added that, in order that things might be done regularly, he would get judgment against him, but would not put it in force. You are so good,' said the debtor, that I will make a bar gain with you. If I was to oppose the judgment it would cost you forty dollars, but by my consenting to it you will save thirty. I will do so, and, by way of acknowledgment,- you shall send me in two tons of coals.' " It is stated from Barcelona that several parts of Catalonia are invested by banditti and bands of rebels. Near Sellera, the Alcade and a rich landowner had been carried off, and a ransom of 1,300 ounces of gold (about 420,000 f.) demanded for their release. At Panadella, a diligence had been stopped and plun dered, and near the Seu d'Urgel, there had been a conflict between a banditti and the inhabi tants of a village, who 'rose en masse, and ob tained a complete triumph. On the 27th ult., one of the chief leaders of banditti, named Marcos Basan, was arrested, and thrown into the prison of Berga. This man had for some time past held priso ner in a cave a youth, upon whose liberty he had set a price of 250 ounces of gold. On the 28th, a Court martial at Barcelona, condemned four men for deser tion, pillage, and incendiarism. As a countryman was coming into Paris from Sceaux, about 4 o'clock the morning before last, his attention was awakened by some feeble cries, and, searching for the source, he found on the road side an infant which could not have been many minutes be fore brought into life. He carefully wrapped the babe in his blouse, and carried it to the found ling hospital. Inquiries being set on foot, it was soon discovered that, on the same morning at a rather earlier hour, a man and his wife, named Meunier, were coming to P ar i s from Palaiseau in a cart, with milk for sale, when the poor woman was taken in labour, and actually delivered of a child in the cart. The husband, in the confusion occasioned by the distress of his wife, and the darkness, unwit tingly threw the new-born child out of the cart, and then hastened to carry his wife, in a senseless state, back to a midwife at Palaiseau, who immediately ascertained that the main part of her duty was already performed, and inquired what had become of the child. This brought the poor man to his recollection. He hastened back on the road to Paris, and soon learning what had been done with the infant, went to the hospital, reclaimed it, carried it to its mother, and, it is said, they are both likely to do well. Pinaud, a youth, only 16 years of age, was two days ago brought before the criminal tribunal for a rob bery with false keys. Notwithstanding the evidence was clear and positive he pertinaciously denied its truth, and defended himself with so much effrontery that the President lectured him with great severity, assuring him that persistence in such conduct would ultimately lead him to the scaffold. Still he refused to make the confession the judge wished to extract; but when the magistrate read the articles in the Penal Code relating to robberies with false keys, and which in certain cases im pose the punishment of hard labour at the hulks for twenty years, the prisoner imagining that this sentene was pronounced upon him, fell into violent paroxysms of despair, threw himself on the ground, and against every prominen . t angle he could find, endeavouring to dash his brains out. It was in vain that the muni cipal guards in charge endeavoured to restrain him, representing that his youth exempted him from this extreme penalty of the law, and that his punishment was limited to four years' confinement in a House of Correction, for he continued his. desperate attempts at self-destruction, until after the guards had carried him out of Court, which was accomplished with great difficulty. HAMBURGH MAIL. BERLIN, FEB. 17.—His Majesty arrived here yesterday, about one o'clock in the afternoon, on his return from England, in perfect health. The public, who were assembled in great numbers, welcomed their august Sovereign with loud accla mations. COLOGNE, FEB. 14.—Accordirg to an official notice re ceived here to-day, the Telegraph, edited by Dr. Gutz kovv, and published at Hamburgh, is prohibited in the whole of the Prussian dominions. This is in consequence of the prohibition of every work publ shed by Hoffman and Campo.— Hamburgh Papers, Feb. 22. DUTCH FUN 0 5.—AusTEntutd, Fan. 22. Actual Debt, 2% Money. Bills per Cent .. 5ll 52% Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Alnort Syndic,4% percent, 92% 93 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 76% 77% Commercial Company, 414 per cent ls6t 157% Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. USA I 9 1 4 Exchange on London, One month l2 12% Two months ... Hamburgh, One month 35 75 Two months 35 41% Dutch Papers, Feb. 22. itELCi lAN I. V NDS—fsaussaLs, FEB. 22. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. i .3 '% 3per Cent. 734 —__—________(l,4o) 104% Loan of City, 1%:32,4 per Cent ! 4 1 1 Society of Commerce, 4Saper Cent B4 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............ Nations ISociety . Exchange on London (short) _ —Brussels Papers, Feb. 22. Th4rty.acvcn• AMERICAN NEWS. GREAT BRITAIN AND TEXAS. General Hamilton recently informed the editor of the New Orleans Ilee, that the dispcsitions of the new British Ministry, are equally favourable with that of Lord Melbourne's Cabinet towards the Republic of Texas, and that the evening before he left London he signed, with Lord Aberdeen, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, a protocol strongly indicative of these friendly feelings. He is hastening to Texas with the least possible de lay, to obtain the confirmation by its Government, of some im portant international and financial measures he has arranged in Europe. JAMAICA. Advices to the 12th ult. from Kingston, Jamaica, have been received by the Charleston Courier. KINGSTON (JAMAICA), JAN. W.—DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN KINGSTON.—We had congratulated ourselves, that after the re cent disturbances and loss of life, tranquillity would have been restored without a sacrifice of property. In this we have been mistaken. About ten o'clock last night, the store of Mr. Fingzies, at the corner of Harbour-street and Mark-lane, was discovered to be in flames, which was entirely consu , hed with all the contents. It is impossible to state in what manner the fire originated, owing to a diversity of reports The military from the barracks repaired to the scene, and we are sorry to add that two of their number were injured by the falling of a beam, but to what extent we are unable to state. Atter a tedious examination of witnesses, and loss of public time, the House of Assembly have pronounced European linmigration to be a failure, and which has brought fruitless expense and discredit on the island, and instead of brightening our prospects has tended to darken them, by spreadi ng an un favourable but erroneous opinion of the healthiness of the climate, and the poverty of the inhabitants. lUNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 26.—At the Congregation on Wednes day last the foll ow i ng d egrees were conferred :-- BACHELOR IN LxviNlTY.—Joseph Stoney, St. Peter's College. BACHELORS OF ARTS.—George Ambrose Dimoek, Sidney Sussex College ; William Alfred Waring, St. John's College ; John Henry Hughes Hallett, Cains College ; John Horatio Bastard, Trinity College. The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. T. Tuirstall §mith, M.A., of St. Peter's College, in this University, to the vicarage of Whaplode, Lincolnshire.' _ tY petition between the importer from Dantzic and English grower. That was his proposition. Ile: that in the year 1828, the average price in England pit 50s. 6d. ; and it appeared, f rom ießeport of a tj onl tee of which the Right Hon. Baronet the Secrete') wheat at Dantzic in - the same year was 30s. the'That the Home Department was a member, the aveheLgeo u a n pp d a e r r en t t he fr s o e m ale the e i f r t o h l e vn ßig ß h e t pol i t. one would have been 205., and, by adding_ for freightage, they would have a sum of at which, of course, the Dantzic wheat colddeo; N ur o m:b y le .1 3 a 1 0 : , be sold, in the 1828, in this country. He, ready to admit, however, that under 60s. there have been some relief in the year in question und,_ e l it , prie ro scale of the Right Hon. Baronet. The average England, in 1832, amounted to 58s. ; the averag!_l? A , in Dantzic was 385., which, with the duty and ire ie would make it amount, if exported into this country , rp ot e 625., at which price, of course, the importer could have com e into competition with the English .V OO, In 1833 the average price of English wheat was ei e I ld. ; th e p r i ce a t Dantzic was 305., whiclei_7o freight and duty of 18s., would make 58s. the price in England, as he had already said, be e 525. 11d. In 1834 the prices were extremely law in vei l countries ; the average price in England having 5e 46s , and the average price at Dantzic having beF e th e The duty and th e f re i g h t upon Dantzic wheat year would, therefore, have made the price of it if q ° - r e te lti into this country amount to 655., and the duty au rice have been at the maximum. In 1835 the averageoli'it in England was 355.; and in Dantzic 295. ; s c) : sob ] that year Dantzic wheat could not have been' of in this country at , less than 595., wil le et he course, excluded it from our markets at In 1836 the price in Engiand.was 48s. a the h Dantzic was 33 5 . 6d. ; a ddi ng the duty ;Pf 205., t tig' freight, the Dantzic wheat could only be sold "' t .. 6Ss land at 63 5 ., w hil st E ng li s h wheat was selling led'' Again, in 1837 . th e pr i ce i n England was 5°J-173., whilst the price at D antz i c was 295. 4d., the dtgareo and the price at w hi c h i t wou l d come into the trir 565. 4d. No d ou bt t h e pr i ces ran very close in tb..ooos stance ; but it must b e reco ll ecte d that there were wet year continued lo w p r i ces i n t hi s country, and that ru e prices were c l ear l y b e l ow t h e prices which w°lltiojoe under a free tr a d e or a mo d erate duty. The ..toe) Gentleman (the Vi ce -P res id ent of the. Board of f o h f t be had furnish e d hi m t h at morning with a return. bad price and time at which certain quantities of o°ol been introduced i n t o t h e E ng li sh market. That r f e et furnished a conclusive anode of ascertainine• the Pr' C o d which cor n was i ntro d uced into England.° lie . e gi that the trade was, in fact, very trifling. In the ) 00 1832, 1833, 1834, an d 183 Z, there was undoubtedly sele wheat introd uce d at a great loss ; but if Hon. or el a ie men would consult th e paper wh i ch had been Placeeei • their hands that morning, they would see that there no corn whate v e r i n t ro d uce d i nto this country IT ci er or duty of 20s. Bd. Wh en t h e d uty was 20s. Bd.,tiLe'66e rage price i n England' must be betwee% ha lt and 675. Deduct from 665. the 20s. Bd. the party would have to pay for duty, and tlia"ss.4d' the price which he received free o f d u t y a t 4 fr o That was conclusi ve ev id ence to his mind, that or 1828 up to that time there had been no extend` p e e portation of foreign corn ,imder 455, Bd. , R io „dor Friend the Member forLambeth had gone throng 4 55 , veral calculations, all leading to the conclusion that; wastabout the ave rage pr i ce, and that was ab°,l'.oo price'which was gi ven b y t h e returns. From thetrot returns it appeared that the average price of wheeee of Guernsey was 46 5 . a quarter, and at Jersey the Pt-rtee foreign wheat since 1828 was 48s. a Gi u he a He admitted that too much importance r e cta not be attached to the average price '0 in those small i s l an d s , b ut yet i t was a remarkau4, ther the average pri ces even in t h ose islands w ere rl i o, against than in f avour o f t h e calculation. • 'The Bon. Gentleman mentioned the case of El s inorei ) calculated the p r i ces a t w hi c h foreign corn might l e e be troduced into England by the prices at which it COa tet el procured at El s i nore . Th e Right Hon. Baronet sere that for the last 25 years, the average price at °s . v' tiit was 28s. 10d. B u t it must b e remembered that' ig ht was not the ave rage pr i ce of Denmark. One ' l3 t he as well calculate the prices of corn in Russia b)r ie d prices at Ri ga , or o f Prussia by the P eve at Dantzic, or take the prices at Elsinore fo r t he whole of the Continent. The average price nle a '.llo . prices on the whole Continent. But what dojo, papers th a t come cut of the hands of the R i g ht' g t Baronet hims e lf s t ate ?- Again, if th e H ou se' 0.1 0 the Returns f rom t h e ' year 1828, lion. Members 'ln tl/ find that the p r i ces even i n Dantzic from 1828 d o' the present ti me were above 30s. a quarter, a nd 1 101 ', e S a quarter, as t h e R i ght Hon. Baronet had ' tha t ,r t hat culated ; and again, Mr. M`Gregor state ( ' ye ll , from 30s. t o 355. a quarter were the s lowest, whi c h h e considered were the P ric : t the foreign corn on th e C ont i nent. It was admitted t'eeeter• price of wh ea t at D antzic averaged 365. a qu The Right 1116 n. Baronet s t ate d t h at the prices ay rte., nore should be taken on an average at 28s. a cl us e y Now he must b e a wonderful coneuror.--(l,augli t ' ne r if he could expl a i n w h at cou ld i nduce a merchant tc'jv fm.;r to go to Dantzic to buy his wheat at 365. a (P ar st to pay a greate r ra t e o f f re i g h t and insurance uP° l ? aof Dantzic, when he could get the same descriPleee) wheat at 28s. a qu ar t er at Elsinore.-(Hear, To persuade him that whilst the average price f i e . wheat was 365. at Dantzic, there was at Elsinore 33 terminable stock w hi c h would be sufficient to fikr n t this country at 28 5 ., an d swamp the landed Wert?,sis t he (Hear.)-to p ersua d e hi m to that, exceeded e"" the ability of the Right Hon. Gentleman, becausa face of it, it was incredible and absurd. e table, Sir R. PEEL was understood to say across the t h a t that the st a t ement was - Mr. M`Gregor's.- y(Hea r e t ter Gentleman said th at t h ere was in Denmark an 1- minable stock.-(Hear.) r • th , Mr. BARING th an k e d the Hon. Gentlemaw." ) ; we e correction ; but the statement to which he refs rrele e " di d that of his (Si r R. P ee l' s) own Mr. Meek. But tot understood the Right Hon. Baronet himself to sP: ea ele there was an enormous quantity of corn and of e tuta i re de land, which would be turned into corn land, with this country were free. The Right Hon. B ti r r i ° ,i - e i er must see that there was some misapprehension a ve t out of the use of the word " corn. '-(Hear.) s t- Hon. Gentleman used it chiefly in reference to ash' espe An Irish Gentleman would understand oats to be 11 1 .1 1 t he by it, and would think from the statement that ae lle f land in Denmark was to be laid out in the cultivat w e eee oats.-(Hear, and a laugh.) The Noble Gentlemane',o - the House of the inexhaustible resources of -vl if the , e t mark, mixed up M`Gregor, Meek, corn, currency', di Mr. Campbell's Rhymes in one argument.-(Hear'eters a laugh.) The Hon. Gentlem an sa id t h at 700,000 clti: rot, could b e f urn i s h e d at Elsinore alone. But th vas, according to the very papers on the a udit ho of which th e s t atement was made, the utmost that 01 been exported f rom t h at port was 160,000 quarters' 09 the utmost that could be exported of good whea t re -250,000 quarters.-(Hear.) Thus, this grea t bugbe ti a' ld Elsinore--last year it w as Od essa -(Hear, et ta er furnish at the utmost only 250,000 quarters to _s s n ' t ie the landed int eres t o f t hi s country ; and Hon. G e the men professed to think that this was to regulat e ie. , , e. prices and the c onsumpt i on of 26 millions of pc°,Pop ,L (Cheers.) The Ri g h t H on. Gentleman, in concite t oet a said that th oug h h e h a d trespassed long upon the 1 1 ° he had confined himself entirely to the scale. Mr. GLADSTONE said he would endeave a ' r ee t° t follow the Right Hon. Gentleman who had .in s ‘ t he down, in the several points which he entered upon '3 O l- course of his sp eec h ; . an d though the Right Hon. de, tleman had mixed up a great deal of reasoning in a eo n. cussion so dry in itself, he (Mr. Gladstone) would -- fine himself to th e 'na k e d subject before the d°lsteo• ¢ (Hear, hear.) Th e .Ri ght Hon. Gentleman sio"„ 130 the new mode of taking the averages proposed by de' Right Hon. F r i en d seemed to him to be materially ee festive ; and he was certainly astonished, to a , degr that beyond what any statement he had ever heard in ,or House produced i n hi m (M r. Gladstone), when l'e•ing ceived the late President of the Board of Trade g l a oa some credit to th e statement, that the effect produced a the avera ges , b y t h e mode of taking thene less tha n s s . a quarter.-(Hear, hear.) Ile (Mr• ,st; stone) designat e d suc h a statement as ono of the ,se absurdity.-(Cries of " Oh, oh," from the ° P r aia* tion.) He would beg of .Hon.. Gentlemen W let t he go into details, and show to the ,Conamitte n .,, j bt reasons why lie designated the statement of the 7,0 Hon. Gentleman an absurd one, though he sugg e e s W e ete the House that it was one worthy of attention.- -- k. aue S' hear.) It was i mportant that with respect to this ' l ,ih tion the n ew li st o f towns should not be mixed tie the subject, because the Right 1113 ii. Baronet bad ffec t explicitly declared that if any sensible or serious e id were produced by the new list of towns which w , e , r° olo .provisionally on the table, an alteration wel.nti ace e r. place in th em so as to prevent any such effect.--( G e ' hear.) With regard to the estimate of the 1 1 " t the . tleman wh o b rought forward the proposition that averages eee averages w ou ld b e affected not to an e xtent 0 o ti' but wh o countenanced two-fifths of that reed. mate, he (Mr. Gladstone) was prepared to P se d,, that estimate, even so modified and r !`l 3. . was one altogether beyond any rational calcula tion ' 0 , 1 , 0 (Hear, hear.) If they took the population of the r° in g which now made returns, for the purpose of aseP:rta t iii t he; the averages, they would find that those towr.s, w ita ooe; exception of London, contained a population, of 2 , s° "' e eem e ' ; and with London added, the amount of population :' OOO4 according to the census of 1831, no less than 3, 982 'a The new towns included in the list on the table, l ' ut eet' populati on o f 1 , 623,000, but for the sake of round Poo bens, he would say 1,600,000. He did not ' to give the Committee, at the present moment , u e ea information which he hoped they would ba r ef,e the subject. That information was in course of P r i be ration ; and when it was fully before them, he W e 'e, would be able to show that the estimate ad va elf e re whether by the Right Hon. Baronet or by the a or Member for Lincolnshire, was altogether unsuppert e reasonable evidence. He was now going to test . t it . e ,: e ' :, sertion of his Hon. Friend time Member for Lincolrm,:„ta. that the averages we. aid be influenced 2s. a quarter'" no t" whole by the change. But that Hon. Member wa s ate to be designated an unwilling witness in this i natter i ; ic,ei , believed h e was anxious according to his conseie! „ . ee views, to r e p resent they plan of the Government , favourable a li g h t to the agricultural interest .0 , thought it wou ld b ear. So far, therefore, from unwilling witness, lie believed h e was willing' and " to show the farmers of E ng l an d that the protectiprotection * es - em tip, if not quit e t o hi s mark, yet to what he thoughe seo . • sential. The popul a ti on o f t h e new towns was 1,600,7 o; and of the old t owns 4,000,000 ; that was, the new 1 ` ) eve "e were to the old Hs twei to five. He could not er . " the precise amount of the corn sold in the new towir..,;„) there had been no account kept, but ho would take d the Y' average quantity sold at the same amount per lic % u id in the old towns. He did not know that, any one c or object to that estimate, either that it was toe I nucl !reo too little, but let them se how it would operate. if • new towns b e i ng to the old as two to five, it follol t 6 - the infusi on o f new ones raised the agTega A: te average to 2s. a quart er , t h at i n these new towns, which it was I