The Sun. — London, England, 1842-04-30 00:00:00

~..n 1 Mr. MACKENZIE seconded the motion. Mr. DARBY eoecurred in the propriety of the motion. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that after great con sideration, he had come to the opinion that the warrant was had; but, notwithstanding that, he trusted his lion. and Learned Friend, the Member for Woodstock, would not per severe in his amendment, but would allow the House to ad ourn till Monday, as he felt convinced the House could not de termine the question:withoat great discussion and consideration. It was impossible to expect that, having sat now up to one o'clock, the Members should be in their places this day - at twelve. Nor would they have had time enough to consider so important a question—a question. perhaps, involving the neces sity of introducing an Act of Parliament ; and therefore, he trusted the House would not act so precipitately as his Hon. and Learned Friend the Member for Woodstock required them to do. Mr. THESIGER refused delay.' They did not require de lay to imprison this individual—(Cheers) —and they ought not now to fear precipitation in releasing him. Mr. G. BANKS concurred with the Hon. and Learned Member for Woodstock. Mr. FERRAND thought that no time should be lost in dis charging a man who had refused to obey a warrant which the Attorney-General had declared to be an illegal document. Mr. C. BULLER concurred with his Honourable and Learned Friende that there was-no just ground for the motion of the Henourablo and Learned Gentleman opposite ( Mr. Thesiger). When notice of that motion was given there wag no intimation made by the LIOn. and Learned Gentleman that lie desired disco-lion on the subject, and should the Ilouse meet to-day, Hon. Gentlemen would come unprepared for that discusssion ; besides they wanted opportunity to look for precedents to ascertain the nature of the objections entertained on the question. Hon. Gentlemen who so con fidently expressed their opinions on the subj ect were not aware of the grounds on which the Attorney-General had founded his opinions. He (Mr. C. Buller) cancurred in that opinion, and would support the original motion of adjourning the House to Monday. Sir R. PEEL said he bad every reason for voting for the amendment, seeing, as he did, that if their decision was postponed till Monday, it would occupy that time which he would desire to see devoted to the Income-rax.—( Hear, hear.) He thought they ought to put out of their consideration altogether the conduct of the witness.—(llear. ) He hoped that the doubts with respect to it would be cleared up. The only question was, whether they were justified in detaining him under the warrant. He thought the presumption was in favour of the legality of the warrant, the Speaker having acted under the best legal advice that could be obtained. Con sidering, however, that it was then a quarter past one, and the short notice which would be given, it appeared to him impossible that they could decide on the matter at twelve o'clock to-morrow. For himself, he must say that he could not form a satisfactory opinion in so short a time. He thought, therefore, that it would be much better for his Hon. Friend to give notice that he would, on Mouttay next, move for the discharge of the witness, on account of the illega lity of the warrant. Mr. ATTWOOD said, he hoped the Honourable Member for Woodstock would persevere •in his motion, or elm move that the witness should be at once discharged. It appeared that the highest legal authorities doubted the legality of the warrant ; therefore they had no proof that the witness was not justified in his disobedience. Lord teItRINGTON concurred that it was impossible for the House to make up their minds on the question between that hour and twelve o'clock, and he mmt therefore oppose the adjournment. After a few words from Mr. HODSON, Sir C. NAPIER said, that as the Attorney-General had given his opinion that the Speaker's warrant was illegal, he thought he ought to vote for the immediate discharge of the person in custody, and he should therefore move that the prironer he discharged forthwith. The SPEAKER having put the motion, Mr. BROTHERTON said that he understood that the Hon. and Leernetf Gentleman opposite (Mr. Thesiger) intended to bring forward the discussion on Monday. The questlen was a very grave one, but he did not see why they were to presume that the warrant was bad. He should therefore vote for the adjournment to Monday. elr. T. DUNCONI BE taidthat after the opinion which had been given by the Attorney-General and the Hon. and Learned Member for Woodstock, he did not see how they could detain the prisoner for one incenent.—( Cheers ) Ihe question was, were they now exceeding their power in confining this indi vidual? It had been said that the lawyers would be put to great inconvenience in being taken front the Courts of Law, but he thought that the duties of a representative of the people were paramount to every other. He thought that this individual was illegally detained, and if the Hon. and Gallant Commodore pressed his motion to a division, he should vote for it. What would be the consequence? All witnesses sum moned under the Speaker's warrant need not at tend. He did not see the end of the inconvenience that would arise. He should therefore votel'or the motion. Mr. THESIGER felt indebted to the Honourable and Gallant Commodore for having brought the matter so dis tinctly before the House, and the House would perceive that his men motion being grounded on the strength of his convic tion that the warrant was invalid, that the matter and the question should be brought before the House, lie should not hesitate to vote for the amendment of the Hon. and Gallant Member. It had bsen suggested that the effect of the decision would be to destroy every other warrant issued under similar circumstances. But he apprehended there was no grounds for coming to such an opinion. He could not see any great inconvenience from coming to a de cision as to the validity of the warrant. The effect would be that if a warrant granted for the attendance of witnesses during the last session was invalid, the witnesses ought to be brought before the Election Com mittee by a fresh warrant or a summons of a Judge. It appeared to him that the Southampton Committee had not pursued a regular course ; and he for one did not approve of the doctrine that the proceedings before a Committee were en tirely beyond the control of the. House. It astonished him that they should have been so often called on by the Southamp ton Committee to interfere in their proceedings with witnesses. The Courts of Law adjudicating on the greatest questions were seldom or never driven to the necessity of dealing with severity with witnesses for the evidence they might give; and yet the Southampton Committee, which had sat but for a few days, had called on the House, on three different times, to interfere in the cases of witnesses examined before them. He was strongly of opinion, that the warrant of the Speaker in the first instance was illegal. He came to that conclusion, be cause it was laid down by the highest authorities that a proro gation put en end to all proceeokgs in the House of Lords or the House of Ccmmone. Under these circumstances he could not think the witness was bound to obey the wa-rant. He could not have been required to produce any documents. All he could have been required to do would be t answer the questions put to him. Under th‘:se circumstances, and feeling strongly that the warrant was illegal, he had come to the con clusion that the witness was not guilty of any contempt, and that they would destroy their character with the country if they were to refuse for one moment to discharge this indtvi duil.—(Cheers. ) Sir W. SOME RVILLE considered thellon. and Learned Ge ntleman had taken an unfair advantage of the House in bring ing forward this motion; common courtesy ought to have induced the Hon. and Learned Gentleman to have given notice to the Chairman of that Committee of his intention to reflect upon the conduct of that Committee. He also considered the re marks of the Right Hen. Member for Knaresborough highly unbecoming. Ile did not object to the House meeting this day, but he could not vote for the motion of the Gallant Commodore. He felt convinced, notwithstanding all that had teen said about the liberty of the subject, and the opinion of the people, that the people would know how to distinguish be tween attacks upon the liberty of the subject and attempts to stifle inquiry. Mr. sCARLETT supported the motion. • Lord WORSLEY hoped the House would not agree to the motion of the Gallant Commodore. He thought it most im portant that the House should not consent either to the motion of the Gallant Commodore, or to that of the Hon. and .Learned Member for Woodstock. Sir ROBERT PEEL said this was a new question, and if they decided upon it it would be quite without parallel. The proposal was not to discharge the prisoner on the ground of a doubt of the illegality of the warrant ; but on a great consti tutional questi:n to come forward without notice, to reverse a decision to which the House of Commons had come to the night before, lie must say that, from his expe rience, he considered the course without a paralleL He must fay that, after the decision of the night before of four or five to one, it was establishing a most dangerous precedent. Had a notice been given, it would have been their own fault if they were not present. Hart a notice been given at 5 o'clock of a motion to be made in the course of the evening for the dis charge of the prisoner, it would have been a different case ; but on the contrary, no notice whatever was given, but a motion was made to discharge the prisoner without notice. Sir T. 1). ACLAND oppmed.the motion. Mr. JERVIS asked the Hon. Member for Woodstock, whe ther the effect of his motion would not be to originate great incouveniencies? He hoped, therefore, that his Hon. Friends near him would come forward, as they were bound to do, arid oppose so inconvenient a precedent as this would lead to. Sir J. TYRREL said that if there were any doubt as to the legality of this question, they had a right to give the benefit of that doubt to the prisoner. Capt. BERNAL said that he thought the prisoner had been unfairly treated by both parties. He hoped the Gallant Commodore would press to a division, because every hour they kept the prisoner in custody they were doing him injustice. Mr. BORTHWICK said that if the Commodore opposite did press to a division, he hoped that he would not only con sider the honour, dignity, and convenience of the House, but also the convenience of the person whom this motion con cerned.—( Laughter. ) Mr. ATTW OOD said, the arguments against the illegality of the warrant not having been disputed, he believed that the warrant itself Was invalid. In voting for the decharge of the prisoner, he should disregard all that had been alleged about -the inconvenience of the proceeding. _Mr. GODSON could not permit the division to take place. witholet expressing his opinion, as a IVember of the Committee, that the prisoner never ought to have been committed. Sir C. NAPIER replied. If the Right Hon. Baronet would consent to let the House meet at two o'clock (this day), he would withdraw his motion ; if not, he should press it. Mr. BLEWITT could not submit to the authority of the Attorney and Solicitor •Generals eithout having ar. opportunity of forming his own opirrion.— (Divide, divide. ) The House then divided, when there appeared— For Sir C. Napier's amendment l4 Against ... Majority against the discharge —s3 The House then divided on the original motion • of adjourn ment till Monday, when there appeared — For the motion Against it 42 Majority in favour of the House sitting this day —3 The SPEAKER then said, as the House had decided to meet today, he wished to ascertain at what hour he should take the Chair. Several Hon. Members having mentioned various hours, Air. 13ORTHWICK moved that the Speaker take the chair this day at two o'clock.—Agreed to. The House then Adjourned at a Quarter before Three &Clock to Two &Clock this dace - - - Colburn's New Monthly Magazine for May keeps up its character as one Of the most entertaining of the peri odicals, Thorns Hood, the Editor,, furnishes his quota of amusement in a paper entitled " Air. \Vakley and the Poets." Mrs. Trollope is again en her favourite ground in the chapters here given of her " Harnahys in America," and the picture they convey of life and manners at New Orleans must always rank with her most characteristic sketches ot American society. The " Recreations in Natural History" are Continued with the ability so prominent throughout this interesti ng ser i es . ~ F emale Arithmeticians," by Leman Blanchard, E., h an illustration of Cocker, as novel as it is ingenious. o Con fessions of an Avaricious Man," by the late H. D. Inglis, E, q ., are concluded, and with sery striking eft, ct. "In French Cooks anti French Cookery," a Most attrWive subject is m ost attractively disposed of. - " Graduates and Under-Graduates," by the author ot " Peter Priggins," affords an able illustration o: the result ot tsients misapplied. " The 1 ,te Andrew Duerow" has due justice done to his abilities by the writer of an article with this title, and " Phineas Quiddy" is allowed by his amusing author, Mr. Poole, to continue his career of sheer industry, without any diminution of interest. " The Poetry of the Law, and the Law of Poetry," and Horace Smith's " Short Rides in an Author's Omnibus," will furnish the reader with much amusement ; and the editor, in his " Whispering Gallery," is as liberal as ever with his apot:-.cgms and put. a. 7144bittio SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch. It is admitted' on all hands that the Income-tax will operate most unequally on different classes, and more especially on those who derive income from real pro perty, and those who obtain a livelihood from trades or professions. In order to render an unjust tax as little burdensome as possible, and make every man pay ac cording to his means, various plans have been suggested, which have been all rejected, on the untenable plea, as far as we can judge, that in any view of the subject there must .be great inequality and injustice. If this tax, says Mr. GouLnunN, were waived, some other must be adopted which would still less effect the equality required ; but is it not the highest piece of ab surdity to refuse to mitigate an evil because it cannot be entirely removed ? Men are placed in various circum stances as regard their mode of living, their incomes, and families, and neither direct nor indirect taxes would fall equally on every individual. That, however, fur nishes no reason for making one man pay twice as much as another—an injustice which this odious Bill will, in many.instances, effect. It is the duty, there fore, of our Legislators, and especially those who profess political principles favourable tolliberty and equality, to see that the burdens of hard working tradesmen, mer chants liable to a thousand vicissitudes, and professional men struggling for existence, shall not be heavier than those laid on men born to wealth and idleness. The party who show such anxiety for the interests of the people, we should expect would take every opportunity of defending their cause ; and we, therefore, feel great disappointment and sorrow to see such meh es Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Mr. LanoucuEnE voting last night with Sir R.PEEL against the motion of Mr. ROEBUCK, for lessening the tax on profits from any trade, profession, o vocation. We cannot conceive that this was done for any sinisterpur - pose, such as to make the tax as hateful as possible,in order to pave the way for the return of the Whigs to office. The late President of the Board of Trade is above sus picion, and the Noble Lord, too, possibly acts from con scientious motives ; hut some bow or another he not un trequently makes speeches, and gives votes, directly opposed to the wishes and interests of his best sup porters. His finality - speech, afterwards retracted, his attack upon the electors for boroughs, .hi's eulogy of the landed interest, and his vote of last night, arennly a few instances of that mysterious and obstinate propensity for damping the spirit, and. neutralising the exertions of the friends of liberty. .He vowed to resist this Bill at every stage, yet We was absent from one most important division, and took care to be present to vote against a motion which had the hearty concurrence of nine-tenths of the borough constituency. This tax will affect trades= men more grievously than any other class, for, inde pendent of its inquisitorial character, they will be com pelled to pay, in thousands of instances, more than their fair proportion; and every attempt, therefore, should have. been made to render the burtheff as light as possible. The case, however, is hopeless ; the leaders of the opposition are divided, one votes with the Tory Members, another, in the Scotch family fashion, by way of secu rity, votes with the Opposition; and thus, from want of concert, contrive to share with Sir R. PEEL the odium of this oppressive and unjust tax. The result is deeply to be deplored. The other amendments met with the same fate.. The Bill will pass with all its severity un mitigated, and the people must submit to the measure, without even the consolation of knowing that it was car ried in spite of the most gallant fight made by their re presentatives. We observe in the notices of motion respecting the Income-tax two most valuable ones in Mr. WALLACE'S name. They are to provide that the commercial and manufacturing interests shall be taxed only aeeording to their profits in the past year, in place of by an average of three years; and the other is that the intolerable inqui sition shall endure for one year only, unless it be re newed by Parliament. With regard to the first, we cannot comprehend how any measure so unjust could have entered the head even of Sir ROBERT PEEL, as calling on the trading ' interests, in their present pro 'trate state, to exhibit their incomes on an ave rage of years, it being an undisputed fact that trade of any kind, foreign and domestic, has been getting worse and worse for the last five years. Surely then nothing short of a reckless spirit could have conceived the scheme of going back for three years, in order to squeeze an ap rent income out of the little remaining capital . which here and there may exist, although no profit has been made, or any income has accrued to the unhappy victims of this landlords' inquisition ; for it is to the landed in terest in the House of Commons that the trading community have to look for this ruinous infliction. The country is under great obligations .to Mr. WALLACE for the stand he has made against the Inconie-tax, and the commercial world should give that gentleman their unqualified support. As to the endurance of the tax, no set of men are more deeply con cerned in having it fixed at one year than the landed proprietors. By doing so they will be able to ascertain its intrinsic worth, as well as their own ability to pay it, after they have felt the effects of the Corn, and Provi sion, and - Timber-laivs, to which their properties are about to be subjected. We should really wish some Member of the House of Commons would put a question to the Right Hon. the Secretary-at-War, as to what is meant by marching regiments, destined fur foreign service, half round the kingdom, fur embarkation in ships which are intended to touch at ports only a few miles from their original head quarters. Thus, troops stationed a short distance inland from Portsmouth, are marched to London, and embark at Chatham in vesselS which touch at Portsmouth before leaving England. It is well known that the navigation of the English coast is dangerous that soldiers suffer from sea-sickness in the passage from Chatham to Ports- mouth ; and therefore there is a species of cruelty in touching at all English ports after they have once em barked for foreign service. But what is chiefly objec tionable is the expense to which these circuitous marches must put the country. The army is expensive enough, without adopting this very silly mode of increasing the expenditure. An immense mass of nonsense is daily published in the United States about England. To correct the half of it would occupy our columns to the exclusion of every thing else. We have therefore long given up the task as hopeless; and when we now notice it, our object is to re move impresSions which, if allowed to take .root . might :seriously affect the continuance of amicable relations between the two countries. A New York paper of the Ist inst. now before us, states that the Government of the United States had reason to believe that the invasion of Texas by Mexico, -was countenanced by Mr. PA KENHAM, the British Minister, and that it was the design of England to blot . Texas out of the list of independent States. Now both these ru mours are wholly untrue. Mr. PARENHAM did not advise the invasion of Texas, and we feel perfectly satis fied that England has not the slightest intention of at tacking the independence of Texas. We know very well that Mexico never can re-conquer Texas, and that were the latter unable to stand alone, she would throw herself into the arms of the United States. Now this is a re sult which we have the greatest interest in preventing. As for a war with the United. States, the very idea is abhorrent to the feelings of the British people. We .have Madrid Papers of the 21st inst. The Minis . ter of the Interior informed the Chamber of Deputies on that day, in answer to a question upon the subject, that the Government was taking the most active measures to suppress the robberies in Catalonia. Many of the Spanish Prelates, in disobedience of the order of the; REGENT, have published pastoral letters, calling upon the faithful to pray, in conjunction with the POPE, for the welfare of the Spanish Church. It was reported that they would be prosecuted before the civil tribunals. The Three per Cents. were done, pith the current coupons, at 22i for cash, and 22i nt sixty days ; and the bee per Cents. with the II coupons, at 27i ler cash, and 28 27% at sixty da3s. The Foreign Ccnrcrted DOA sold for 20, with % prem. at sixty days. The Railway Bill is the only question discussed in the French Journals. No question can be of more import ance to France. Belgium, Holland, Prussia, Austria, and even Russia, will soon be intersected with railroads, whereas almost nothing has yet been done to promote locomotion in a country which, next to England, stands in greater need of railroads than any other in the world- Should the Bill now before the Chamber of Deputies be wholly adopted, more thanien years will be rt quired to construct all the lines recommended in it. The youngest son of Louis PHILIPPE is about to enter the army as a Lieutenant of Artillery. W hat a pity that loyal personages can never fix upon any other profession than that of slayers of men ! The Emperor of CHINA, who is a heathen, displays in this respect a more Christian example to his people than the professing Christian Princes of . Europe What time he devotes to manual labour is employed in agriculture. He takes more pride in being a ploughman than a sol dier. Hence • the comparative happiness of his people ; nor bill Europe ever arrive at any degree of lasting happiness till her rulers follow the sage example of the Monarch of China. The war in Africa is reported to be at an end. ABD--EL-KADER is compelled to succumb to the irresis tible power of France. Frightful beyond conception is the misery which so protracted . and cruel a war has entailed upon the wretched Moors and Arabs. Every where the progress of French arms is tracked by desola tion. The sites of villages are only known by their ashes. U RSE—P.4.IIIB, THURSDAY, APRIL 28. rust Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pm.. Prie. . erenct. 5 per Cent!........... 119 75 ... 119 7/ ... 1 0 119 6.5 4,4 per Cons lOl SO ... 1 750 107 50 ... 107 50 4 per Cent!. _ 102 ... 102 ... 102 ... 102 3 per Lwnt• CI 5•1 81 50 ... 61 30 61 30 Loan Rank or nranc, Lattitte rant 1,0001. Shires 1032 50 ...W32 50 ...1032 50...1C3•2 5C 5,0001. sv area 5045 ...5045 ...SO-12 50 ...3043 delgian tank 1811 lO5O —.11150 ...DSO. ...lOW Belgian 5 per Lents o per Cent:., 1840 lO5 ... 105 105 .. 105 Spanish Active ... 2514 20,6 Parqive 4 7 1., 4;li, 47 4 ... Portuguese 5 per Cents. r2y 4 22 , 4 32y, ... 3.0 4 , K►a au lt 6 . 106 105jt, ... 105; HAILWAS SHARES. St. Germain Ver5Aun...a.......... ........ 332 50 ... 33'4:0 ...... V-32 50 ... 3j2 50 Rouen 5.55 ... 555 ... 552 50 ... 552 50 Urie slla •• • The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Fisher Miller, Esq., t be one of the Deputy Registrars of her Majesty's Court of Bankruptcy. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. A sale of Consols to the extent of about 30,0001 , has ren dered the market heavy, and quotations 92i to 94 for Money, and 92 to 92i for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 91i to 91i; New Three-and-a. Half per Cents., 1001 to 101 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 994 to 99i ; Bank Stock, 167 i ; Exchequer Bills, 59 40 premium. The Foreign Security, which has been dea!t in, has been the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. Stock at 53k. Railway Shares are in better demand; Birmingham, 182; Great Western, 94; Cheltenham and Great Western, 18%, Sr uth Western, 63; South Eastern, 30%; Eastern Counties New, 51. 14s. 2d; Thames Haven, 7 7i ; Croydon, 14; and Brighton, 37. The Committee of the Stock Exchange have declared that Monday will be a holiday, consequently no business will be transacted in the Funds. The bonds of the insolvent States are quoted, Colombian, 26 1 / 2 ; Peruvian, 19 1 / 2 • Spanish Five per Cents. and the Three per Cents. are alike, 24%. The usual return of the quarterly average of the weekly s and assets of the Bank of England, for the twelve weeks ending the 23d inst., when compared with the last re turn shows the circulation to have increased 283,000!., the dif ference between 17,235,0001. and 16,952,000/. ; the deposits to have decreased 374,000/., the difference between 8,283,000/. and 8,687,000/. ; the securities to have decreased 688,000/., the difference between 21,891,000/. and 22,586,0007. ; and the bullion to have increased 465,000/., the difference between 6,590,000/. and 6,125,0001. ; the balance in favour of the Bank is also less by 132,000/., the eifference between 2,970,000/. and 3,102,000/. This return shows an increase in the circula tion of 649,000/. ; in the deposits of 1,058,000/. ; in the bul lion of 1,952,000/. ; and a decrease in the securities of 184,000/., in comparison with the corresponding period of 1841. Papers to the 2d 'March have come to hand from the Cape of Good Hope. They are, like the last, completely destitute of colonial news. A severe hurricane had been experienced in the Indian' Ocean, whereby three vessels had been di:masted, and to seriously injured as to be obliged to put into the Cape to refit. They *btiec the discovery by an Fnglish whaler of several islands in the Pacific Ocean, previously unknown. They were eight in number, of some extent, fertile, and inhabited. The appearance of the natives and tho canoes, &c., were totally dif ferent from any others in that neighbourhood. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. R A ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 . 55i to Cheltenham and Great Western. 72i ... to Ditto New 2l. 6s. 8d Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O - to 54A Great Western London and Birmingkam 90 lB2 ...... to London and South Western 3Bi 63i to 68 London and Croydon ( Trunk). 134 l 4. to .7-. Midland C Junties Nqrth Midland, (New) South Eastern and Dover 5O 304U... to Ditto Scrip .. York and North Midland... SO Ditto ?4 , ...w Shares COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.I Amsterdam CF. 12 8 ;Gibraltar ... ....... Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 BfGenoa . 25 95 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 13iVenice Altona .._ , - Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 I, J 'Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon blarseilles Bow Beaux '26 0 ' Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Blaine... 152?; Bahia t'etersburgh, 3Us ... 36:4 Buenos Ayres Berlin-- ... ............ 7 ;New York, 21 days sight 46i . . Vienna, effee. 11. 3AL 956 Philadelphia , 57 Trieste, ditto 9 'PRICES OF MULLION, PER oz Sladrid Cadiz Bilbao ... 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona Seville LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 29.—The large business of the two preceding weeks has done nothing towards placing the quotations at a higher rate. Directly the demand became more moderate, as it did after Tuesday, the lest Man chester market day, the whole class of middling quality of Ame rican became heavy, with a tendency to decline. The sales to. day are from 3,000 to 3,500 bags, and although it is unneces sary to change the figures :in the scale of prices, the general dulness justifies the report of a worse market. The sales of the week amount to 19,910 bales, of which 2,000 have been taken on speculation, and 1,600 for export. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 29.—The market was firm, and closed well for South Western and South East ern. Eastern Counties, are quoted 91, the New Debentures, 51. 12s. 10d. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock New, 6 ; South Western, 63i ; Manchester and Leeds, 86 ; Midland Counties, 791, Quarters, 19i. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 29.—We have nothing material to note on' the state of our market to-day. Our sales are—Bristol and Exeter, 44A ; •Bolton and Preston, 22 ; Dublin and Drogheda, 15 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 531 ; Lancaster and Preston, Three-quarter Shares, 184. LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.) LONDON, APRIL 30.—Wind this day at noon, E. SHEERNESS, APRIL 29.—The John and Mary, from New castle, which was on shore on the Nore Sand, got off this morn ing, after throwing ab6ut 60 tons of coal overboard, and has proreeded to London. DEAL, Arm'. 29.—Wind N.E., light.—Arrd. Forfarshire, China; John Eve, Calcutta; Royal Saxon, Madras; Bolivar, No . seastie. and left for Singapore; Commissary, Charleston Arrd. from the River and ski., Sons of Commere', Sydney; Mariner, Calcutta; Lord Lynedoch, Bombay; Urania, Monte Video. Orr KiNsat.k.—Arrd. Jane, M'Donald, Africa. Cowas, Aram 29.—Arrd. John and llelena, !hiller, Porto Rico. Sld. Urania, Rio. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 25.—Wind S.E., moderate.—Arrd. Blorenge, Banks, Calcutta; Palestine, Nairn, La guyra ; Liver. pool, Belmont, Brown, JAn Bolton, Fkidon, and Prudence, Cattily, New Orleans; Cornelia, French, Glenar, and Espin. dola, Mobile; Fanny, Sloan, Charleston. .61d. Silksworth, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Catherine, Halifax ; Port Royal, Africa; Warwick, Madeira. Arrd. off, Jane, Laguna; Jane Walker, Mobile ; Franconia, Fenella, Emma Graham, Vera city, Isabel, Giraffe, Blakeby, aid Haidee. Orr TORBAY, Aran V.—Madagascar, Weller, Calcutta. PLYMOUTH, Artist. 29.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Trusty, El son, Calcutta. Sld. Corsair, Demerara. Arrd. off,_Sea-witch, Baker, for London. FALMOUTH, APRIL 28. Wind S. to E , light breezes.— Sld. Sylvanue, Prince Edward's Island ; Ashareru, Alexandria. Arrd. off, Elise, Bremen for Baltimore ; Phenomenon, Kales tick, Batavia; Orestes, Cook, Mauritius; Penninghame, Grieve, Pernambuco for Hamburgh ; Susanna Maria, Suri nam for Amsterdam ; John Hall, Perkins, Matanzas for Ham burgh; Elizabeth, Finlay, Sierra Leone. Oir KINGSBRIDGE, APRIL 28.—John Mitchell, Calcutta. Orr PENZANCE, APRIL 28.--Arrd. Coromandel, Ryan, China ; Nautilus, Thomas, Mauritius. CORE, APRIL 27.—S1d. Martha and Herbert, St. John's, New Brunswick. COWES, APRIL 29.—The Francisco, which arrived here eaky, has come in to discharge. GRAND JUNCTION AND IMANcnEsTr.n AND But" HINGHAM gAILWAYS. EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT. With no ordinary surprise we have received a letter from a highly respectable gentleman of Manchester, of which the fol lowing is an extract :—" The Grand Junction Railway will not allow the Manchester and Birmingham Company to open their line for the present, although QUITE READY. By the agree ment, we are informed, that so soon as the Manchester and Birmingham Company are ready to bring the whole or entire of their traffic upon the line, THEN the Grand Junction Com pany shall receive it, and give up their station at Manchester; but as the Manchester and Birmingham Company are ready only with the passenger traffic, the Grand Junction think they are entitled to resi.•t it coming upon them. Therefore the Manchester and Birmingham are not to have the advantage of training their staff for a few weeks until all their trucks are ready, and they can bring in one day the entire of their traffic. Chester races are next week, and the Grand Junction will not allow the Manchester and Birmingham to run to Crewe, but will compel every Manchester passenger to go 13 1 ,2 miles round, and every Stockport passenger 25 1 / 2 miles round, because the Grand Junction wills at to be so. Thus the public is set at nought as well as the Shareholders."—Railway Magazine. SOUTII EASTERN OPENING .—We understand the Directors and some of their friends are going over the line on the 2d proximo, and that the line will be opened to Tonbridge on the ltith.— Railway Magazine. SUICIDE OF A GEN TLEMAN.—Thursday a long investigation took place before Mr. Baker, at the Castle Tavern, City,read, on the body of Mr. John Robertson, aged 49, late Actuary of the Westminster Fire and Life office. It appeared that the deceased occupied apartments .in the house of Mr. Tracy, IN°. 18, City-road. He was very precise and steady in his habits and mode of living, but was troubled with the gravel complaint, which caused him to fret very much, and was frequently heard to say, that he thought he was not able to do justice to the :Westminster Fire Assurance Company. On Tuesda}• evening he retired to his chamber about ten o'clock. Next morning the servant went up to wake him, and found the door locked. The door was burst open, when the deceased was discovered seated on a chair undressed, with his throat cut in a dreadful manner. Verdict—" Temporary Insanity." Thursday being the anniversary of the birth of Queen Christina, the Queen, Madame Adelaide, the Princes, and the King and the Queen of Cie Belgians paid a visit to her Majesty in the Rue de Courcelles. After the Royal visit she received a great number of Spaniards. Sr, g:A i 4 43 r u 4 - de g I AN D iptCoitc Of)joution. Who runs may read." POItEIGN. The discussion on the Railroad Bill forms the leading topic of comment in the original columns of the Paris Journals ; but it is really astonishing to see how little interest they have thrown over the subject ; their articles are indeed mora an analysis of the debate, with running remaiks upon the speakers, than a broad and general criticism upon the principles of the Bill as involving the two great questions of public utility and public expenditure. The other subjects commented upon by the Journals, and they are very few in number, are , aholly without interest. The Monileur Parisien lays—" We are assured that a great number of Deputies, in order to prevent the anarchy of rivality respecting the Railroad Bill, and at the same time to husband the public resoutces, haVe resolved on giving their appraation only to one great line to be immediately executed by the State, the other lines to be undertaken successively, according to their degree of importmee. The direct line of the east is that to which they give the priority, and they require that the army should be employed on the cuttings and'embankments." A letter from Mascara, in the Toirlonnuis, April 5, says : "At last all is finished here. The last submission of the Hachems came in this morning. The family of Abd-el-Kader was to-day at General Lamoriciere's asking fur peace for them selves and rest of the disaffected. Flocks are grazing on all sides in the plains of Eghres, and the tribes are fixed peaceably near the walls of Mascara. Our last expedition carried every thing before it. But what an expedition it was ! Twenty eight days and as many nights' mat ch, and every day a rassia! Our men were really admirable. We performed .Its.s leagues in different directions, and occupied for two days the town of Frendah, which we restored uninjured to the inhabitants who have submitted. We suffered exceedingly from ci Id and frost during two days. We had three feet of snow in 24 hours, and with it iae and wind in abundance—end all within a Teague ..f the desert. Four men died of cold in our bivouac. Com- mandant de Geraudon, whose battalion was charged with the care of the cattle, left 600 sheep, 200 oxen, and 40 prisoners, men, women, and children, on the road, dead f►om cold. It was a real scene of desolation. " A letter from Cadiz, in the Debats, says:—" Sit great a landing of contraband articles took place here a few days since, that th inhabitants never saw anything equal to it. A large English brig, probably from Gibraltar, kept in the offing waiting apparently for signals. In the evening she entered our bay, and east anchor. The next day we were surprised to learn that 3,400 bales of prohibited goods had been landed, and afterwards introduced over the stalls into the town." Several changes have taken place in the Corps Diplomatique of Holland. Baron Schimmelpenninek Von der Vye, hitherto Envoy at ►he Court of Russia. succeeds Count de Perponcher, who has resigned the post of Ambassador at the Court of Berlin. Baron W. Mollerus leaves the Court of Vienna, and takes at St. Petersburgh the place of M. Schimmelpenninek, and is succeeded by Baton J. D. B. A. Van Heeckerer►. I LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 30, 1842. ALL i'ivited to the BALL at BUCKINGHAM PALACE, on the 12th of MAY, are expected to appear in DRESSES of BRITISH MA NUFACTURE. j Ladies not to wear Plumes. or Trains. Gentlemen to appear in Costume, Uniform, or Full Court I Dress. THE WEATHER.—.NooN, APRIL 30. ROi'AL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer .... 66 ) Highest 6B Loivest 42 Barometer 9.B7.—Wiad 'E. HIGH W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. I:orning 9 minutes after 5I Evening 9 minutes after) 5. .. 4 .' .- 4 1 , - , , , , .." ~As- _p .. . ~. '...ti " I'' . §ant. . ..... tit s " , m • ...°*',..; THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY 7EVENINCv, APRIL 80, 1g42, PAILLIAMEIVTAMY. The Royal Assent was given to the Corn Importation Bill, Spirit Duties ( I reland) Bill, and some private Bills. The Marquis of Normanby drew the attention of the Lords to the case of Mr. Biddul i h, a Magistrate of Ireland ; but as Earl de Grey said he had written to Irelind for information on the subject, the Noble Marquis did not press the matter. A petition from Gateshead, complaining of the appointment of Tory Magistrates, gave rise to a good deal of crimination and recrimination amongst Noble Lords relative to appoint ing justices for party purposes. For some time the House was quite agitated with the subject, Both' parties seem on this point to have acted un the same principle, and the crimination and recrimination of each is the condem nation of both. The Marquis of Normanby, the Lord Gliancelbr, the• Marquis of Londonderry, Earl Radnor, and the Earl of Warwick, were the principal speakers. The Earl of Winchilsea made a statement on behalf of the Kentish fruit growers, and against the alterations in the tariff, ishich wi I limit their so- called protection. The Noble Earl said, it is not just to take away protection from the production of a particular commodity; but is it just thin to take away the property of other men to give that protection ? The Legis lature can give nothing of its own; it merely takes from one portion of its subjects to give to another, which, if it be pro. tection for some, is spoliation for others. The Earl of Radnor showed that protection had injured the apple growers. Lord Brougham drew the attention of their Lordships to the Bribery Act, passed last Session, which prescribes that Members accused of bribery should be reported, and expressed his astonishment that this part of the Act had not been com plied with. Their Lordships adjourned at Seven o'Clock. A new writ was moved for Brighton in the room Mr. Wigney. In reply to Mr. Thesiger, Mr. Redington said he was not prepared to move for Mr.lllabson's discharge. Sir J. Yarde Buller, however moved for the discharge of Mr. Gibbons, which was agreed to. In reply to Mr. Milner Gibson, Sir R. Peel said that the question when the treaty with Brazil expires was still the sub ject of dispute. Mr. Wynn, like Lord Brougham in the other House, called attention to the Bribery Act, and to the fact that it was not carried into execution by the Committees. The House was occupied the greater pact of the evening in Committee on the Income-tax. Mr. Roebuck moved an amendment on Schedule D, to tax professional incomes one half, but it was lost by 258 to 112. After such a decision and division, we n,ay safely conclude that the Bill will undergo no important alteration. Mr. Sharman Crawford subsequently divided the Committee on his amendment, to exempt all industrial incomes from tax, which was lost by 50 to 259. The Committee also divided en Sir C. Napier's motion, to exempt all naval and army officers, who have no incomes but from their profession, anti are below the rank of a General or Flag- officer, which was also lost by 205 to 32. The House then resumed. Mr. Gilsbons was brought to the bar, reprimanded by the Speaker, and discharged. At a Quarter to Three o'Clock, the Commons adjourned, but met at Two o'Clock this day, to allow Sir. Thesiger to move for the discharge of Sir. Mabson, on the ground that the Speaker's warrant Cr his attendance on the Southampton Election Committee is invalid. .Trunlrac OPINION. In reference to Sir. Roebuck's amendment on Schedule D of the Incorne-tax Bill, the Morniny Herald observes:—" We think, indeed, that professional income of any kind, but especi • ally where it is of fluctuating amount, ought to be exempt altogether from such a tax. This total exemption, it should seem, there is little chance of realising-, under the present un toward aspect of the public revenue. - The next thing, in point of desirableness, is such a modification as that which is com prised in Sir. Roebuck's amendment. his ought to have been carried. It is impossible to deny the general but striking argument upon which it is founded: that it is cruel and absurd to the last degree, to impose on industrial income the same amount of tax as you levy on (what we should consider for the purposes of argument, were distinctly and emphatically termed) fixed property ;—on landed property,' is the terms of Sir. Roebuck's amendment. There is, we must say, a principle of moderation about the proposition which at once increases our respect for the mover and our favour to the amendment." The following is from the Chronicle:—" The Election Committees are going on in a very useful course. Day after day they are unravelling the rays:cries of our representative system, and exposing to public obloquy the enormities of those practices by which tilt House of Commons is brought together. They are bringing the present constitution of Parliament into universal and merited ohloquN: and Tories, as well as Whigs and Radicals, are all labouring, not certainly for the purpose, but still effectually for the end, of proving that the Chartists are right so far as they complain of the present system. The con clusion that that system is full of dangerous and disgraceful defects, is one which Chartist declamation has not been able to establish; but which is now being, day after day, impressed on the public mind by evidence upon evidence, delivered upon oath, and restricted by the rules of law." The Post says :—" It is very well known by those who are familiar with our High Courts of Justice, presided over by men of learning in the law, and impressed with a conscious ness of their great responsibility—it is very well known, we say, with what reluctance they use the blower of commitment for contempt, with which they are vested. The Judge never exercises the power but in the very last resort, and atter hav ing done all that patient explanation can do, to subdue the ob stinacy, or clear up the misunderstanding, which has led to a neglect of the authority of the Court. But it mould appear that Committees of the House of Commons, and in a late case the gentleman who presides over a Committee, has no such careful sense of the rights of personal liberty. A gentleman who calls himself a Liberal' in politics, the Chairman of the Southampton Committee, seems to be possessed with a rage for committal to Newgate, which forms a strange illustration of that devotedness to the liberties of the people for which he seeks credit as a public man. He is a great admirer of liberty in the abstract, but when his admiration comes to be tried by an individual example, he would exemplify it by the method of committal to her Majesty's gaol of Newga'e !" The Advertiser has the following observations :—" Mr. Roe buck's amendment in Committee on the Income-tax—' That for nal in respect of the annual profits or gains from any pro fession, trade, or vocation, there shall be levied annually, for every twenty shillings, threepence-halfpenny'—was last night lost in the House of Commons by a majority of 258 against 112. Lord John Russell, as if in verification of our opinion that the Whigs are desirous that the Income-tax Bill should pass in the unmitigated enormity cf its injustice, in order to make the Tories more odious to the country, actually opposed the amend ment, on the grounds that it was inadequate to remedy all the unjust operations of the Bill, and that if the House, having agreed to the necessity of an Income-tax, once commenced making distinctions between the sources of income, it would only involve itself in ineatricable labyrinths. We confess our incompetency to discover the force of t his reasoning,Even though the Houseof lower oligarchs e --it would be mockery to call it the House of the People—has decreed the imposition of an oppres sive and inquisitorial tax, this is no reason why. as Lord John Russell contends, the tax should be levied with all its monstrous inequalities. Neither do we see why Lord John Bussed should be ao solicitous to guard the House from getting into any labyrinth on this subject, that House being no longer under his leadership, but, on the contrary, approving a tax to which he pledged his utmost opposition—it is not his business to clear away the difficulties and impediments which crowd upon the path of his opponents. The truth is, his Lordship's tendencies have far a long time evinced themselves far more in favour of the class to which he belongs than of the people. * When the Reform Bill was passed, there was but one par ty in this country who considered it a final measure, of whom he aims to be the leaner. That party consisted of the men who framed it—forsooth, the Russells, and those pre tenders to popular confidence who, on so recent an . occasion as that of Sir. Sharman Crawford's proposition for extension of the electoral franchise, absented themselves, heroically and honourably, from the House of Commons. Than these the Tories were not more blind, nor more selfishly deter mined to uphold aristocratic usurpations. The Tories confessed that the Reform Bill would be looked upon by the people as a c ° leading cnly to further concession ; while, on the other hand, the democratic body regarded it not even as a con cession. but merely as something leading to a future reality. The Whigs, and the Whigs only, regarded it as a teimination to organic change—as a first and final balance between the pre teusious of the aristocracy and the rights of the people. Titus, in the opinion of those pseudo-statesmen, the first step in par liamentary reforM wa• also to include the last;—the little more than fact of sweeping away the rotten boroughs was to stand for that gradually progressive tnlargentent of political privilege among the people, which their increasing intelligence and wealth so imperatively call for. It is to be owl ed tlat this may be Whig statesmanship, but it is certainly tit the view which will answer in the nineteenth century for England. England, to be at her natural stage in the political principle— to be where, if Sir. Pitt's policy of reform had nsued,• she must now have essentially been, would now see the franchise extended to ail those classes among whom intelligence and in dustry are found to predominate." I%WNEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. The subscribers t; the Royal Naval Female School held their annual meeting yesterday at the Thatched-house Tavern : an institution which is established to bestow upon the daughters of necessitous Naval and Marine officers of and above ward-room rank, at the lowest cost, a good education. The total number of pupils at present is SO ; 1001. was collected by subscription, and 300/. added by donations to the funds. ELECTIONEERING. Colonel Gore raTito — oli — eriT7os7eCaTio — ui a state, that the ,L( electors of East Sornersetshire hAve already aken steps to find uct:cer, in .he cvent to hi• DZIZITARY. The fott.ficationi of Parts are proceeding vigorously; forty one parts of the escarpments of the contiouou, vt, 11 have been e.mme,,et tl, and thirty in a hundred of tho e o, the de tached farts. The embankments have been commenced in eight forts out of eleven. The senior Knight of Windsor,.Captain Edward Skilton, died at Windsor )esterday,• aged 70. Lieutenant Ragg suc ceeds him. LAW AND P 9 ZdCE, " Tamar Dick," the murderer of his mother at Merthyr Tyd vil; has been captured by hi% father-in-law and brother-in-law, in a wood at Clynderis, and was to have been examined yester day by the Magistrates. Robert Sandys, found guilty at the late Chester Assizes of the minder of his infant child, has for the present been respired from the punishment of death, to which he had been sentenced. William Smith, a bov aged 14, committed a shocking murder in Preston-street, • Liverpool, on Thursday, by stabbing Eliza May, a woman of ill fame, in a court where they both resided. She has died since at the infirmary, and up to Fii day.evening the murderer had escaped. CO U . ,er-=.IIII.SizIONAIME The Du Ness of Sutherlind s assemblies, in honour of the debut.of her eldest daughter. Lady Elizabeth Leveson Govver, will commence next week. Lady Harriet dive's second ball last night, in Lower Grosvenor street, %%as attended by upwards of three hundred fashionabka. The Earl of Ripon, Viscount Godetich, &c., visited Mr. Pellat's extensive glass-works yesterday. The Marquis of Rawly will take the chair at the annual dinner of the Officers Lf Regular Militia, at the Freemasons' Tavern, on Wednesday, 4th May. The Baroness Bunsen, lady of the Prussian Minister, re ceived eignpany on Thursday lalt, at the mansion of the Prussian'Embar.sy, on Carlton-terrace. .ntzst: x 1.1,1.1% )ODITS. On this day. in 17716TreTeTar forts of the kingdom being dis mantled, the following resolution is recorded in the journals of the House of Commons under the above date :—'•That the several castles of Tickhill, Sheffield, Knaresborou,,h, Cawood, Sandal, Bolton, Middleham, Hornsea, Mulgrave, and Cralke, in the county of York, being inland castles, be made untenable, and no garrison kept or maintained therein." SPORTING ITT ELL 1•G ENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) ALCASTER STtiEPLE CHA , ES.—THDRSDAY. Sweepstakes of 5 Sovs. each, with 25 Sovs. added, list. 71b. each, winners extra. The winner to be bold for 751. Four Mr. Lamp!ugh's The Rorap (Owner) Sir. Matthews's Bellona The following also started, but were not pLeed —Mr. Ekin's Duenna, Mr. Smith's Tom, and Mr. Robins's Single Peeper. Won in a canter. The Sweepstakes of 3 Sovs. each, with 15 Soya. added list. 71b. each, two miles, were won in tour heats, by Sir. Mellon's The Queen (Horley) beating Mr. Lamplugh's The Romp, Sir. Robson's b. g. by Napolemi, and several others. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY. DEE STAKES —7 to 2 agst Skiptun, 2 to 1 agst William de Fortibus, 3 to 1 agst Marion, 8 to 1 agA Lord Stanley's colt. CHESTER Cur.-10 to 1 agst the Feathers, 6 to 1 agst Marshal Soult (t), 7 to 1 apt Vulcan (t), 8 to 1 agst Rory O'More (t), 11 to 1 titst Lanercost, 13 to one agst the Young-'un (t), 16 to 1 agst Jolly 'Far (t), 17 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorn, 20 to 1 agst Zelmyra, 35 to 1 agst Retriever, 30 to 1 apt Cormorant. No other change. DEar.v.-4 to 1 agst Attila (t), 7 to 1 agst Frederica colt, 16 to one agst Jack, 16 to I agst Auckland, 25 to 1 agst Meteor, 30 to 1 agst Lord of Holderuess, 30 to 1 agst Tiptoe. The rest as before. BAIL CO CHIC -(1111S DAY. The Court was i-i,g,ged this day in .dill ofiing of motions which postess::d no gtnei al interest. MARi,BOROUGII-TREET. (THIS DAY.) will am Saunders, a fashionably dressed young Mall, was charged with drunken and disorderly conduct, and assaulting police-constable No. -121, of the C dkision, in the execution of his duty. The complainant stated, that about one o'clock this morning he saw the defendant, litho was excessively intoxi cated, staggering along Oxford-street, and violently po,hincr against every person, either male - or female, he• met with. Meeting a lad carrying a pot of beer, he " slammed" him against the shutters of a shop, and caused the beer to be spilt, alter which he " upset" twn men walking together, and then insulted two respectable females who were returning home from a friend's house. Vi itness having got up to him, then seized him by the collar, upon which he struck him with his clenched list a tremendous. blow on the lelt eye. (complainant's eye was much talaekened, and nearly cl ised), which, fur a time, completely stuniied him, but on recovering himself he followed the defendant, arid succeeded, with con siderable difficulty, in taking him into custody. The defendant said he was very sorry' for what had hap pened, but the truth was he had been &inking some ale and gingcr mixed, with some blends, and it had "ov:rtaken him." AGISTRATE—In what situation of lift are to„? Inspector Plume, of the C said di. defendant at the station-louse represented himself as :7.l.c:cased victualler. • Defendant—No, 1 am not a licensed victualler, but lam the son of one. AIAGISTRATE-T wish it was more generally understood that 411 persons, no matter in what condition of life they may be, will he most severely punished for amsaillt ing the pine. They must be protected in the execution of their duty. If they act %%rung fully, ncthing can' be riadi r or easier than the attainment of redress. I shall therefore fine the defendant N., and, in default of payment, one month's imp) isontnent. The defendant, not having the money about him, was locked up. • ELECTION I'ONI3III"TEES. (THU!, DAY ) SOUTHAMPTON. The whole time of the Committee has bcen occupied with the subject of a conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Gillian and Mr. Vt renn ; but it was not brougbt to a close when we left, nor would it be dining the day, the Committee having to rise at two. The only fact proved ivs, that Mr. Callan v.ted ; t hit Mr. Wrenn gave Mrs. C. 101., butt that nu one could say ex actly what tor. REA DING. The Committee having heard long arguments decided on ad mitting the poll-books a, evidence. PENRYN AND FALMOUTH. Tue Committee met at eleven o'clock ; Mr. C. WOOD in the Chair. The Committee proceeded to hear the evidence of bribery, of which it has been alleged the sitting Membei, Captain Pl'imridge, has been guilty by his agents. The first wiiness produced was Mrs. Gay, who proved that before the election he husband received 6/. ; and that a Mr. James came to her on the day of the election and gave her a sovereign, desiring her to bring her husband to vote for Cap tain Plumridge. The next witness produced was Sarah White, who proved that Richard James tame,tl her house with Capt. Plutnridle on the day of canvassing, and that on the day of election she went to James' house by the direction of Mr. 'filly, a lawyer, and that she received 61. from James. Her husband voted for Vivian and Plumreige. On her cross.examination, she stated that her husband had nothirg to do with the money. The money belonged to her; the vote to her husband .—( Laughter. ) iler husband was a voter 35 years ago. '1 he first money they ever received was from the Vv hig party.—(Laughter.) The next witness produced was Thomas Williams, who was under examination when our account was brought off. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF .COMMONS. The SpEAKER took his scat at TWO &Cluck. CATHOLIC GRIEVANCES. • Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition from 'a town in Yorkshire, pra)ing that the grievances under which the human Catholic subjects laboured might be remedied. The Hon. Gentleman presented similar petitions trom a place in Stafford shire, from Whitehavon, and from Chi:stow. INCOME TAX. Mr. BERNAL presented a petition against the Income-tax, SOU EHAMPTON ELLCTION: Mr. THESI GER said, that before proceeding to address the House on a subject of great importance, he trusted he would bepermiite.t to say a few words, in order to set himself right in the opinion of the House, as to the course he had pursued on the present occasion. It had been :nosed in the course of the debate that morning, that he had taken advantage of the House in bringing this grave ann serious:question before them, when many Hon. elembers had lett the. House unt:er the impression that the debate would not be brought forward that evening, and that he, in that way, took theta by surprise. He confessed it was with considerable pain and regret he heard that Impu tation cast upon him by his own side of the House, because he thought that the course he pursued was so well known to many of his Honourable and Hight: Honourable Friends rear him, they would have acquitted him'of any iniputatton of a very serious character, and which left a vet y painful impression on his mind, from its being supposed that he could be ea t ialle of cot dealing tai. ly with the House.—( Hear, hear.) When he came to the House yesterday, he made up his mind to give notice of motion for discharging the inuividual in question. Hut he found that the Honourattle Member for Knares borough had before him given* notice of a similar motion to the Clerk of the House. He (Mr. 'lhesiger) mentioned to him his intuition of . - making a meriuti die the subject, and the Honourable Member very courteously permitted him (Mr. T.) to subatifu.e his own name for the Honourable Alember's, and ' after his arrival in the House he communicated to the :speaker his intention of opposing the motion for adjoui ument till Monday, and was resolved, as Jar as Lc pes,thly could accomplish it, that the house should meet this day, in order to determine whether the custody of this individual was legal or not. He communicated his intention to the Chancellor of the ktic•hequer, to one of the Secre ticks of the Treasury, and he believed also to the Secretary of the Home Doped tineot, The Chancellor of the Exchequer told him that his opposition would probably lead to a debate, and reiniested of hint to defer it till after the debate on the Income-tax, and that the adjournment of the House would not be moved till eller his Hon. l'riend the Member for Cirencester communicated his intention to several Members on the oppusite side of the House, so th'at he did every thing in his power to snake his intention known.—( Hear, hear.) He thought that state.aent was necessary to vindicate his character. With regard to an observa tion made by the Honourable Member for Chester, that the notice of motions showed " elouday," that hap pened by mistake, fur he desired the Clerk to take out Monday, which he said he would do when the motion was made. He felt it due to himself to make these few remarks, for he confessed that he had entertained the deepest feelings of regret for the situation in which he was placed, by no one who knew all the circumstances being generuus enough to stand forward in his vindication. 'He felt it t.ue to himself to explain those cir cumstances precious to going into this grave and serious guys. Lion. In the discussions which had occur s ed upon previous nights upon this question, as to the continuance in custody of this individual, he confessed that he might have expressed hisnseit with an undue degree of warmth. He felt very strongly on the subj: et of the validity of the warrant. He felt that the House was committing a grievous injustice towards this indi vidual by continuing him in custody upon a warrant %Odell appeared to be illegal, and be therefore had expressed himself very strongly on the subject; and having then accomplished his object, which was to assemlse the House as early as possible. fur a grave and calm consideration of (hat question, he might be permitted to apologise for any warmth he might have betrayed; and to call upon the House with him to consider with all the caltruess which befitted the dignity ann. impostanee of that subject—the grave and setious question which was then sub mitted for discus:ion. On the oue hand they had a long continued practtee, which was of course entitled to their respect. On the other hand, they had to deal with the liberty of a fellow subject, and they muse take care that that liberty was not improperly infringed upon, and that the person ought nut to be continued in custody bey , nd the per:od abs o l ute ly necessary to determine the fact whether it was au improper con tinuant:Qin custody. Wi , h these remarks he would proceed to consider the question which had been submitted to the House. He apprehenued that they would hav'e nothing on that occasion to do with the quesiion as to what had been the ordinaty force of these warrants, except -so far as to be cautious that they del not supersede any prat — tier, or any rule of that 11ouse, upon good and suffi cient grounds; but provided that practice bad been abandoned, and therefore became illegal, he was quite sure that the House would feel that it was absolutely necessary at the earliest possible period their attention should be called to the subject, for the purpose of diseontinutng the practice. Nor did lie consider on the present occasion it would be at all necessary to introduce into the discussion any thing regarding the conduct t of the Soinhampton Committee, of the behaviour of the vt itness before that Con mittee, or before the House. Diffetect opiihons might be entertained on that subject. Some honowahle Ilrm hers might think that the witness had exhibitted a disposition to conceal the truth, which would make him a fit subject of punishment. Oth,rs might believe that he meant jutly and fairly to state everything which he knew regarding the subject matter before the Ccmmittee. But whatever opi nion Hon. Utntlemen might entertain on the subject, they, ou. 4 ht then to enter into the discussion of the question. He contended that the conduct of the prist ner was not what they had to consider. If he had not misconducted himseif, it was of course au irresistible arguirent in favour of proceeding immediately to discharge him. But they were not here to ex ercise any discretion on the subject, or to consider whether the individual deserved punishment or nut. He wished to call the atientii:o of the House to the validity of the proceedings under which the alleged contempt arose. He wished to point out to the House, the view he bad taken, after the most anxious consideration, of the warrant under which , _.... this party had b een suppo.ect to be compelled to attend before a Committee of the house of Commons, assembling in the present session of Parliament, but which was not a valid or even an existing warrant for t at purpose. Therefere there could not be a contempt committed by the witness refusing to produce papers which were specified in the warrant. It might be useful if he first called thr attention of the House to the form of the warrant it.elf, on which the question arose. It was dated the lOth of September, 18:Hon.41, which an .on- Member might recollect was during the last Session of Parliament. It recited that, " Whereas a petition had been presented corn plaining of an undue election for the town and county of ,t,outh ampton to the present House of Commons, the matter of which petition is to be II." in the present year of tier every person, to bring in their Session of Parliament by a Select Committee, ap.. pointed under the Act passeu in the 4th and 5:1 1 present Majesty, he there:ore retitiiiei', among ot h ers, Air. Mabson, and each and custody every list. with accounts, and other general words, no doubt s ufficient to include the book of counter toast and cheques which ha d been I nt ntioned, and ther ew i t h to such and appear r a t p h p e c; orders arbef as such Select ore thesaid e S c e t Clectem Committee, a n d rece i ve mittee should app o i n t and decide. Now, he was into : tiled that warrants forme' ly required parties to attend on the day on which such Committee was to he struck, and to attend from day to day under the or d ers o f t he house. The conset,uence of this form was, the parties were in the habit of attentimg on the day whin the Committee was struck, and to the great expense of parties continue their attendance _in London. Very irequen:ly no ti ce was given that their attendance would rot be required for the present, and they were discharged, and a new warrant afterwards applied for, which was issued by the speaker, to compel their attendance at the particular period when their attendance was required. MANCHESTER RACES. Acceptances for the Cup.—The Potentate, aged, Set 81b, Bradwath, 5 yrs, Sst 41h, Retriever, 6 yrs, Sst 21b, Champagne, 5 yrs, Bst, The Young-'un, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b, Certis, 4 yrs, 7st 81b, Jolly far, 4 yrs, 7st 81b, George, aged, 7st 71b, Alice Hawthorn, 4 yrs, 7st Dlb, The Maid, 5 yrs, 7st 21b,Cullina, 4 yrs, Est 121 b, and David, 3 yrs, 6st. CHESTER—FRIDAY NIGHT. The following horses have arrived :--Bees•vving, Bees-wax, Clinker, Mr. Grayden's Clinker colt, Cruiskeen, Zelmyra, Fidhdun, Rory O'More, and Retriever. Scott's and Heselttne's lots are on the road, and several others in the neighbourhood. The ground is very hard. PARLIAMENTARY I (Front the rotes and Proceedings of the fi PROPERTY TAX .1 FRIDAY, Aran, 29. DIVISION ON MR. ROEBUCI MINORITY—AYES, Hatton, Hawes,l 3 Captain V . )1V ISION rouse of Commons. ) BILL. :'s MOTION. 112. Aldan'', William Bannerman, .A. Reddington, T. N. Met., Bar, lay, David Bernal, IL Bernal, Captain Blake, M. J. Blake, Sir Valentine Blewitt, lteginald Bowring, Dr. Hay, Sir A. L. Heatheoat, John liettea, , , E. Hill, Lord marcas rt s - *. Lord Hume, Joseph Huii.pinry, J. Runibold, C. E. Rundle John Seholedeld, J. Scrope, G. P. Smith, i enjamin Smith, Ve.uon.. nrodic:W. B. Brotherton, J. Bryan, George Bulkeley, Sir It. B. W. Hutt, W. - James, W. jervis.,l. John tone, Alex. Lan?ston, J. H. Stallstield W. Stanton, H. Staunton, Sir G. Strickland, Sir u. Strutt, Edwin d Stuart, Lord J. Tancrcd, H. W. Thornely, Thomas Tollemache, F. J. Towneley, John Trollope, Sir John Tufnell, Henry Turner, E Busfeild, W. Byng, G. S. Chapman, Benjamin Christie, W. D. Cob en, Richard Colebrooke, Sir T. E. Collins, tV. Crawford, W. S. palmeriy, Lord • Marjoribanks, S. Marshall, W. Martin, John Milner, R. M. Mitcalfe Henry Mitchell, T. A. llorris, David Morrison, James Mostyn," Hon. E. M. Villiers, Charles P. Vivian, John Ennis Vit ian Hon. Cai tai Waklcy, Tnoutas Walker, R. Wallace, R. Ward, H. atson, W. H. Wawn, John f. Wrn. Wilshere, W. Woo Benjamin Wood, Yorke, H. redhead Duke, air James Duncan, Lord Duncan, George Ebringtoo, Viscount Ellice, lit. Hon. E. Ellis, Wynn Evans, William Ferguson, olonel Forster, Matthew Gibson, 'l'. M. Gill. Thomas Gorden, Ltrd F. Mullis, G. F. Murphy, F. S. Napier, Sir Charles 0' taien, J. Ogh ten, W. Smith O'Connell, J. l'aget, Lord Alfred Palmer, It. Pechell, Captain Philips, G. It. Philips, Mark plunnidge, Captain . . Granger, T. C Guest, J. Hall, Sir B. Hustle, A. Poi uuby, }ion. John. Power, James Pulsfurcl, it bert LeIdeT EL J " P s. Itt.ebuck, J A. MAJORITY—NOES, A'Court, Captain $ Ernlyio, Viscount Art,n, Colonel Eccott, Bichicam Adare, Lord Estcourt, T. U. B. Adderley, C. B. Farnham, E. B Allis, John Peter Fellowes, Edward Antrobus, Fdniund Feilden, W Arbuthnot, Hon. H.l terrand, W. B. . Archdall, General Fitzroy, Captain Arkwright, George Follett, Sit W. W. Ashley, Loid Forbes, 1A Morn Bailey, J. Forester, Hon. 0, Bailey, Joseph, jun. Fuller, A. E. Baillie, Colonel (Jaskol!, J. M. Baillie, H. J. Gladstone, W. E. Baird, Will am Godson, Richard Balfour, J. M. Gordon, Hon. W. Bankes, George Gore, Montague Baring, W. B. Gore, W 0. Barnard, E. G. Goring, H, U. Barneby, John ' Goulburn, H. Basferville, T. B. H.: Giahon, Sir J. Beckett, William Greens 1, Peter Bell, M. Get gory, W. H. . Beresford, Captain ' Grhubton, Lord Bert eford, Major Grogan, Edw.,rd Bernard, Viscount Haltord, H. Blackburn, John 1. Hamilton, C. J. B. Blakemote, R. Hamilton, James 13oosin, W. H. Hamilton, W. J. Buldero, Henry G. Hamilton, Lord C. Borthaick, Peter Hami den, Henn notheld, Beriah Hamer, Sir John • Bradshaw, James Harcourt, G. G. braniston, 'f. W. Hardinge, Sir H. Broassley, Henry Hardy, John Broadwood, H. Hayes, Sir E. Brooke, Sir A. B. Henley, J. W. Bruce, Lord E. Hepburn, Sir T. B. Bruen, Colonel Ilerbeit, Hon. S. Uuckley, Lomond H.llsborough, Earl of Buller, E. Hodgson, It. Bailer, Sir J. B. Y. Hogg, J. W. Butibury, Thomas Hoinies, W. A'Court Burrell, Sir e. M. Hope, Cliatle• Campbell, Sir H. Howard, C. W. G. Carripbell, A. Howard, P. H. Cardwell, Edward Inglis, Sir it. H. Carnegie, Captain li.on, Samuel Cavendish, lion. U. Jackson, J. D. Chapman, Aaron James, Sir Walter Criarteris, Hon. F. Jernryti, Earl Chelsea, Viscount Jocelyn, Viscount Chetwode, Sir John Johnson, W. G. Cholmonneley, H. Johnstone, Sir John Christmas, William Johnstone, Hope 258. I Meynell, H. . Hiles, P. W. S, Miles, W. M:reiaunt, Sir J. Morgan, Octavius Mundy, E. Miller Murray, C. R. S. Murray, A. Nee Jmeph Neeld, JOiir. Neville, Ralph Newl'ort, Vi count Newry, Viscount Nichol!, J None),, Lord Norreys, :sir D. O'Brie , A. Stafford Packs, C. W. Paget, Lord W. Palmer, G. Patten, John 'Wilson Peel, Sir R. Peel, Jonathan Planta, J. i'lumptre, J. P. Polhill, F. Pollii.g,ton, Viscount. Pollock, air M' Praed,• W. T. Pringle, A. Pusev, Pmlip Rashieigh, William Reade, W. M. Reid, Sir J. rt. Ri. bards, Richard Rolleston, Colonel Rowe, Sir George Round, J. Ruslibrooke, Colonel Russell, Lord John Russ. li, Charles Russell, J. D. W. Ryder, G. D. Sannerson, R. Sandon, Lord Scarlett, Hon. R. Scott, Hon. F. Shaw, F. Sheppard, Thomas Soirley, Evelyn J. SRA limp, Colonel Smith, Abel Smotlett, A Somerset, Lord G. Sotheron, T. H. Stanley, Lord Stanley, 1 dward ztewart, John Stuart, H. Sutton, Henry M Tennent, J. E. '1 hesiger, F. Tollemache, John Trench, Sir tredericl Trevor, Hon. G. R. lrotter, John 1 urnor, Chi istopher yrrell, Sir J. V ere, Sir C. B. Verner, Vernon, Granville Vivian, C. C. Waddington, H. S. Wall, B. Walsh, Sir J. Welby, Li. Tanis , Wernyss, Capain Wodehouse, Edmond Wood, Colonel T. Wortley, J. tuart Wyndham, Celonel Yorke, Hun. E. T. 1 oung, John Young, Sir VV Chute, W. L. layton, It. R. Clerk, Sir G. .:ochrane, A. Cockburn, Sir G. Codrington, C. W. Collett, W. Bickford Colville, C. 611. Connolly, Colonel Coote, Sir C. H. Corry, 11. L. Ccurtenay, Viscount Cripps, J. Curteis, H. B. Darner, Hon. Dawson Darby, George Dawnay, Hon. W. Denison, John Evelyn Denison, E. Beckett Dick.nsou. F. It. Jones, 'l' . Kemble, Henry Kerrison, air E. Kirk, P Knatchbuil, Sir E. Knight, Henry Gaily Knight, F Winn Labeuchere, H. Laseeltes, W. S. Lawson, Andrew Legh, George C. Leicester, Earl of Lemon, Sir C. Liddell, H. T. Long, Walter Lo;:es, Sii Ralph Lowther, J. li. Lygon, General Mackenzie, Thomas Mackenzie W. F. Douglas, Sir C. E. Douglas, J. D. S. Douro, Marquis of Mackinnon, W. A. Muaitiachy, F. A. Maher, V. . . Drummond, H. H. Dugddle, W. S. AI aholi, Lord Mainwaring, T Duncombe, A. Du Pre, (leorge East, James Luller Eaton, Richard J. Egerton, V% . T. Ege. ton, Su P. G. Eliot, Lord Manners, Lord J 111aroil, Earl of Blarshain, Viscount Martin, C. W. Alartin, G. R. Master, W. C. Dias erman, John '1 ELLE kg. Fremaiith, Sir T. Barilig, H B. MINORITY of Fi favour of I Blewitt, Reginald Bowring, Dr. Brodie, W. B. Brothertott, J. Bryan, George 13u:delId, William - Bristle, W. 1). °Wen, Iticl.ard Collins, William Duncan, George Lilts, Wynn ~vans, W. Helder), J. Forster, Matthew will, Thomas Granger, 'l'. C. dal!, Sir B. Heathcoat, J. fty-two (Tellers ine dr. `barman Crtusifo Hill, Lord A. M. C. Hume, Joseph Hutt, W. Johnsto: e, A. Langston, J. H. Leader, J. I'. Martin, J. Mitcalfe, Henry Mt.rris, David Moat) n, E. M. L. Murphy, F. S. Napier, :iir Charles O'Brien, J. Pechell, Captain Plumridge, Captain Power, James Iledington, T. N Rundle, J. SIINORITY of Thirty-four ( eluded) who voted in >rd's Motion. Sao'Wield, J. beak, air J. H. Somerville, Sir W. Stanstield, W. It. C. Tatiered, H. W. Thoritely, Thomas Turner, Edmund Villiers, Charles e. 4N akley, Thomas Walker, It. Wa.soti, W. H. Nawit, J. T. Williams, W. Wood, B. TELLERS Crawford, W. S. Wallace, It favour of Sir Char) Bernal, R. jun.—Wycombe Blewitt, eginald—Monmouth Bryan, M,,jor—Kilkenny Co. Bulkeley, Sir R. W.—Flint Cavendish, Hon. C. C.—Youghal Christie, Wm. D.—Weymouth Cowper, Hon. W. F.—Hertford Huncombe. T. S --Finsbury ' Du tufa:, Admiral—Greenwich Dundas, Froth rick— Oikney Granger, T. C.—Durham Hall, Sir Benjamin—Mary lebone Hollond, Robert—Hastings Martin, John—Tewkesbury Mom s, I).—Catrnarthoi Murphy, F. S.—Cork Murray, Alex.—Kirkcudbright Pechell, Captain—Brighton Tellers included) who voted in les Napier's Motion. Pulsford, Robert—Hereford Redington, T. N.—Dundalk Rundle, John—Tavistock :eholetield, J —Birmingham Seale, Colonel—Dartmouth Somerville, Sir Wm.—Urogheda Stansfield, W. R. C.— Huddersfield Stuart, Lord J.—Ayr farner, Edmund—'Truro Wakley, l !minas—Finsbury N allace, llchert Greenock Watson, W. H.—Kinsale Wood, Benjamiti— outhwark %Vorsley, Lord—Lincolnshire TELLERS. Napier, Sir Chas les—Marylebene Plunuldge, aptain—Prilryn VESSELS OF THE UNITED KIN GD OM. A return has been laid before Parliament of the number of vessels above fifty tons burk hen, and the total amount of their tonnage registered at each of the ports of Great Britain and Ireland, including the Channel Islands. The three chief ports in England are London, Liverpool, and Newcastle ; in Scot land, Glasgow (including Greenock and Port Glasgow), Aber deen, and Dundee ; in Ireland, Belfast, Cork, and Dublin. The returns for these places are as follow :—London, 2,405 vessels, 598,554 tons; Liverpool, 1,097 v., 307,852 t. ; New castle, 1,143 v., 259,571 t. ; Glasgow; 662 v., 187,545 t. ; Aberdeen, '298 v., 52,443 t. ; Dundee, 282 v., 50,060 t. ; Bel fast, 250 v., 44,458 t.: Cork, 221 v., 29,765 t. ; Dublin, 134 v., 23,072 t. Total for Engla d, 10,804 v., 2,033,345 t. ; Scot land, 2,261 v., 429,635 t, ; Ireland, 1,037 v., 165,969 t. ; and for the vrho!e of the United Kingdom, including the Channel Islands, 14,416 v., and 2,068,732 t. (LEFT SPEAKINC.) I3y the accession of M. Lacove-Loplaune to the ilti nistry, he leaves vacant two posts, viz., those of Coum ilhz of the cour des Comptes, and of Admin;sttator of the estates of the Duke D'Aumale. RAILWAY Rh T t;RNs. We extract from the Ilaitretyiii:lluzine the sums re 7 •:-eived on the principal 11 - Zaiiwa . ...s •of Greet Brit:tilt for the week enthnz day of the month ork-!fixe'd to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, hOrses; mails, and•nler-. chandize Week Name of Railwa Miles • Total. i .. ended . y . Opened. X. 9. a.. Apr.2s Birmingham & Derby Junct. 48 1,061 11 /8 22 Birmingham and Gloucester 55 1,509 17 8 16 Brandling Junction 25 745 4 9 22 Chftdcr and Birkenhead .. 24 Dundee and Arbroath 24 Eastern Counties 23 Edinburgh and Glasgow 23 Glasgow and Ayr .. ...- .....• - 40 955 15 6 23 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenoek 22i • 658 8 11 23 Grand Junet ,Ghester&Crewe 113 8,636 3 5 23. Great North of England 45 1,302 10 2 24 Great Western 21 Hayle l6 - 224 12 6 23 Huh and Selby . . 23 Lancaster & Preston Junction 201 396 8 1 22 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 3,833 2 7 23 London and Birmingham ' 114 16,313 4 8 28 London and lllackwall ... 34 847 13 10 23 Loudon and Brighton :,.3 Ditto Shoreham Branch ....•• • 51,' 114 19 '2 ' 26 London and Croydon 28 L ndon and Greenwich 34 829 15 0 25 London and South 1i estern .: •93 6,041 42i 22 Manciiester, Bolton, and Bury 10 57'211 2* 25 Manchester & litrminglam 23 M inctiester and Leeds 23 IViidianit Counties 23 Newcastle and Carlisle ...... 21 Newcastle and North Shields . 7 312 311 24 Northern and Eastern ...... .23 North Midland 22 North Union 23 Preston and Wyre 25 Sheffield and Manchester 7 281 11 6 24 Uktcr 24 438 15 3 23 York and North Midland 23 1,562 12 11 COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL . YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. The fist general meetir.g of the members of the Squadron will take place at the Thatched-house t avers, on the 14th of May. There are five candidates fin• members to be baltote.d fur, and eight fur honorary me r hers. Capiatu George Keane has sold his Osprey, of 45 tons, to Mr. APAndtew, oho is about to sail for Cadiz. Sir H. Parker•is i-xpeeted home daily in his schooner yacht, Louisa, 1.43 tons, from the Mediterranean. Lord Louvaltre has sold the Turquoise cutter yacht, 78 tongs to Mr. Coote. The following yachts have hauled off :—The Gitana, schooneer 163 tons; the Kate, schooner, 94 tons; the Corsair, 84 tons; the Will o' the Wisp, cutter, 45 tons; the Kestrel (the Right Hon. the Earl of Yarborough's) yawl, 202 tons; the Tali,. man (ii. illechlam, Esq.); the Therese, cutter. 121 toner. the Earl of Desart. The Harriet, schooner, I. Beardmore, is fitted read) for sea, but nut yet off the whiter ground. The weather has been very fine this month, April showers quite unknown ; indeed, with the exception of a slight shower on the 14th, no rain has fallen during the whole. During the past week several large houses have been taken, three of toe West Cliff Cottages—Beach Vida, Oak Hill-house, one of the Bath-houses, and Prospect-house. The Countess of Shannon and the Ladies Boyle are ek" pected at East Cowes Castle, on Satdrday. THE ISLE OF WIGHT BANKING COMPANY.—At - meeting at the Bugle 1.,n, Newpr-rt, on the 25th inst.. sufficient number of shares having been taken, three Directors were elec'ed, Messrs. Roe and Thasliford (to be considered one), Sir Thomas Cooke, and Sir. Rouert Eames, the two others. It wa s r eso l ve d that no' Director s h ou ld L i e allowed to over•draw his account above 500/., it being the gene ral opinion that when Joint-stock &aka have gone wrongr it has been by the Directors over-drawing their accounts, W embark in ruinous speculations. The present Directors • er° not specuiating men, nor likely to require - accommodation , but future Directors may ; the resolution is therefore a gee& One. The business of the new establishment, it is extreetod , will commence in ab ou t te n d ays , an d w ill , we hope, inspiro that cor.fidence it de.erves. The numerous failures that hats occurred in the Island e ithin the last twelvemonths have bees ruinous to its trade. There may be said now to be no priV .. .ate banking establishment in the Isl an d; th e l ast being embodle° in this new Joint-stock Hank. THE MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.) NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The mai ket was very dull, the supplies large, and prices ire lower. Beef, 2s. sd. to 31. Bd. ; Mutton, 3,2 d. to 33, 10d. i Veal, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 8d ; Lamb, ss. 4d. to 6s. 2d. ; Pork, 2s. Bd. to 4-. Bd. Poultry dull of sale, and prices lower; the supply being large. Eggs dull of sale, at 4s. 6d. to 6s. 9d• per 120. , WHITECHAPEL MARKET. The trade for Beef and Mutton was brisk; in Pork and Vela no improvement. Beef, 2s. 4d. to 3.5. 6d. ; Mutton, 2s. 4 °' to 45.; Veal, 2s. 4d. to 4s. 10d. ; Pork, 2s. 4d. to 4s. bd.; Lamb, 4s. 4d. to ss. 10d. Clovt r, 2/. 10s. to Si. Bs. ; 2/. to 4/. 4s. ; Straw, 11. 12s. to I/. 16s. TEA I•IARKET. The market was dull, and pt ices on the decline. ComW e Congou, is. 81d. to Is. 9d., arid Company's, at ls. 9:ld. per lb• TA LLO W. MARKET. Prices steady, and a fair business transacted at 465. 3d. the spot, an*: 48s. 6d. :or delivery in the last three months the year. SPIRIT MARKET. Rum sold slowly, but prices kept up Proc.( Leewards Is. 4id. to •2s. sd. per gallon. Brandy met a lair sale, and prime 1,1 ere firm. OIL MARKET. Prices of Fish Oils draping, and the mai ket heavy. Scut heru Oil 13 291. 10s. to 321. l er tun. Linitred 01 , 345. tid. per 04. WOOL MARKET. Priers steady, and a fah' business transacted in both Euglia s and tor, ign. WAKEFIELD COtt.N NtARKE The supply was good, and prices of Whet and Barley de' chord Is. per quarter; Shelling rather lower. No variatic° in Oats, Beans, and other articles. %Cleat, Lssex and Kent —s. 60. tn 62k. f:3 . N tO , t. 51's. to li. s. finc6lio Lin. and C:on. • Yorkshire —s 545. tt 56,. not 1 . 4;‘• —.— VC hat —s 60.. tc lint I 8 4, Foreign, tied —s. to Si . tint 15 , ------- Whitt , to -t. Carley, I.artillk an.t Sutt.ilk Lincolnshire ---- Yorkshire Wald .., —.. ---• Joule, e —.. Beans, New -- Oki Oats, Potato - 1 . 2 A 3 t —.,— Poland — 3. —s. to t. 03. tin. ; —. wriest: ma and Sn o i -- mealing ~.. ShAling Malt Rapes 6 en _ 031 • : :,,itit . :t . . 0 i t t ~n 351.7 4 0 00 1 ... . p ppe t er r , L I f.. 3 . r o , a l . NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Devonport Independent.) I SIR GRAHAM MOORE.--1 his distinguished officer, se e("3l. . panied by L:idy Moore, Captain Eden, Mr. Ward, (late Lieutenant) and J. Erlye. Esq., late Secretary) embarked e‘• board H. M. steamer Lilthrning, nff Mount Wise, on We d L o s er , thy evening. and immediately stated for Woolwich , 4 1 3 : 4f ; t whence the veteran Admi ra l an d hi s L a d y w ill proceed ,„nat , seat at Cobham, Sur r ey. D ur i ng t h e t h ree years Si r Gra' — and Lady Moore have re s id e d a t t hi s port , t h ey have g ain . universal respect, from all classes, by their courteous bettr i ; r , kindness of heart, and unflinching hospitality, an d with nh, I hearts we wish them e v er y hapt.iness in the retireinen`at , plicate life, which their amiable and social qualities l at e fail to adorn. The Gall a nt Ad m i ra l i s brother to the lamented Sir John Moore, the hero of Corunna. i p st , H. M. S. Cal e doni a , 120, Captam H. Eden, (flag - ''' to ed ! this port) was paid off o n Tu es d ay l ast, an d re . cova mts"° o f on the fel•owing morning, by Capt. A. Milne. The fil o Admiral Sir Graham Moore, G. C. 8.. (white at the mein ) t struck at sunset on Tuesday evening. whi te , Admiral Sir David Milne, G. C. IL, hoisted 'his flag aid at the main) on Wednesday morning, as C.mmander -10- "l et this port, on board th e C a l e d on i a , comman d e d by the , e of ljr,t Admiral's son, Captain A. Mil ne . A sa l u t e o f 14 bituon, was fired immediately on th e fl ag b e i ng h o i s t e d. Joho Lou r w. . Esq., of Stonehouse (f ormer ly S ecretary to th e late S ir to to , Hargoocl), has succeeded Joseph 'dye, Esq., as Secretary lo the Commander-in-Chief. Admiral Sir David Mil"' ia t re jaunting at Elliott a Royal Hotel, pr e p ara t or y to his offic. o o f sideli n e o n M o u n t Wi se b eing p ut in o: d er f or t h e recept ion hems, It, family, and suite. H.M.S. Aialabar, 72, C a pt a i n Si r G . R . S ar t o rinst f t r 'o t i; arrived here on Wedne s day, f rom Gib ra l tar, w hi c h she l e ft sir the sth instant, leavi ng th ere t h e F orm i da b le, 84, Captai n C. Sullivan, Bart. H M.S. Agincourt, 72, Captain Henry W. Br ne : l llie towed into the Sound on Thursday morning last, by the and Corsfiance steamers. SOP H.M. steamer Meteor, Com. M. A. Slater, arrived °ll m t oe day, from P o rtsm ou th, with 110 Marines, who wer e 1 board the Agincourt the same day. Satura j l H.M. steamer Tartarus, Lie. , t. Smith, sailed O n ' last, for Woolwich, to be paid off ice d on H.M. steamer Alban, Master Com. J. King, arri, here Tuesday, ft not cruising at in, tiara - n‘ of the Cheso e ioo § ant she had been for the purpose so ..ing with provis. ere by homeward-hound vessels that h. ht LI:, detained tn easterly winds. 0 1" receizing ship 2Etna, 8, Lit-ut. Wilson , S i l o rsdef• paid off on M on d a y l ast , an d was ta k en i nto duels oe to have hrr copper cleaned and exansi °d • °n SI. H. M. brig Wizard, 10, Lieut. Somerville, was paidus day last. soli Ye ll 11.51. oa brig Nightingale, ti, Lieutenant J. Harnv e rlnes- e -' Nlo.:day ' , ern Ireland, and same into harbour on to be paid off. 3 ta ken.e nt Li. sts. Implacable, 72, having been r e p a ired, e ia of dock The s or, T iiuesday. for usa, convict-ship, sa il e d on S un d a y las t ' - South Wales. • rd We hive received a letter from a gentleman on bos ,hic h we troop-ship Belleisle, dated Ist February last, from 7 1 o f Car extract the following:—•r We have just made th e Inn s i n ee Frio—all well. We have not had an hour's bad left Devonport. One soldier fell overboard, one dit ilies e A" and one °fill:, sailors was killed bi falliag from a loft s, es for our casualties. Great credit is due to the soldierr keeping their children so very clean; they are able s et of healthy. The officers of the Stith are a truly estime,o.he extra to Ado*" stores make us feel it more." feilows. The ship is certain!) , too much crowded, and of Navarsno, so ! tal Sir Edward Costrington, at this hattle_evon), i , ap pointed Captain T. White, of Buekfast Abbeys Edward. T. White, Esq. (late Assistant-SeereterY. 9" weathe.rsomenv Purser of H.M.S. Talbot, 28, at Shcerne-? Private letters from the Benbow , Cadiz, th ere id 01 1. . instant, report that she was going to ,outh ;t° be PI e a fortnight, and thence proceed to to sail for Spithead home The Daphne, Captain balling, was tl'he Jaseur, Cowman ter diately, to be paid off at Chatham. Willis, to 'amain as guard-ship in the bai,..rt Bwyal, February r Extract from a private letter, slated arrived. Ile steain i e d, 25, 1842: " The Admiral is not yet direct for En gialthe leaves this afternoon, but I am sorry not_,ckie E entre; est filibratlotarre,mtabienBrothr aro the ships here are—Vestal, Charybdis, 1 a ß li acr ie r at a ii} c7ing in. The Admiral is capecteddaily—we DIED. On the 28th instant, at his house, Mornington C res cent,for- Hampstead-road, at an advanci d a g e, Simon Gray, Etcl., for merly of the War-office, and author of various literary duct ions. On the 22d inst., in Wyndham-pl ac e, Bryanston - sq uare, Laura, the %sire of Martial Laurence Welch, Esq. On the 23d inst., Airs. Anne Ha tton, of Wallfield Lodg e, Hertford, youngest sister of the late Sir Thomas Hatton, Bari., aged SO. On the 25th inst.. at the Rectory, Held, the Rev. Spencer James Ls.% in, aged 76 Londtn: Printed I.tid Published by Mt/RD() Y(11 IV , of No. 112, Stran.:. at The Sur. Office, No, 112 Strand, is the County of Bliddlesex, Satur,lay, April 30, 1b42. • at 1-