The Sun. — London, England, 1842-02-22 00:00:00

Vtirb 17:Vition SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. PRICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 22. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. Per Paid • sh oe Stares. Blares. Annum. 1,766 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Averag e971.185.5h. -98 1 4 482 41. Ashby.de.leaouch Average 1131.1 th. - 72 1.2 .60 1,01,5 sil. Br ecknock and Aber gav enny ISO/ .511. 92 B,ood 1.16 t h. 101. Birmingham , 1.16 th share ....BS. & 711. 194 1,000 ........ Ditto S. Liverpool Junes. MN. eh. 100 eel 21 600 M. Bridgewater and Taunton.ool. sh. all p 3 ...• 400 51. Chelmer sad Blackwater ..... ••• 1001.8h• ICI 300 321. Coventry ....,................. « lool.sh. SOO Cr0yd0n...........- Average3.ll.26.lod.sh 2,060 Si. Os. Dud1ey.......................«....- lOO/.5h. 9-2 .. -1001 sh . 120 600 131. Derby ..... .. .«.«... .................. 3. 4 . d 30 30,000 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne ......... 411.1 . 1. p 3,574 4 , Ellesmere and Chester ATeTZgel33..sk, 73 23 621 Erewnsn ..- .......... ..... ...... lo o l.sn. 733 6,4.5 8/1. Forth and Clyde l9O/. SD. lOU pd. IN 114 4 1 7i. Grants .• unction ........... ......-- ..... 1001.5 n 14 2,8491 255. Grand Linton lool.sh 27 'SOO .. Grand Surrey I,flool 41. per cent . D itto (optional) L oan 1001. Grand Western ............•. . . IL sh. all pd 10 600 131.12 a. 9rl. ()law s hire, Aver. cost 1721.138.4ri. 22-0 749 121. Gran thval lsol.sh. Wu 6 438 21.05. Huridersfivid Av crage 5 /1. es. ed. 811. 2154 Ivo • •••••••• Ken sin g ton ..- ...... ..........100sh. all pri 10% a 5.126 11.105. Kennet and Avon, Av. 391. 18s. 10d. sh IN 11,699 e 1/. 7s. Lancaster Average 471. es. 8d . 27 Ix?* 301. Leeds and Liverpool .... ....... ....I 0111., h 730 5451 111. Leicester 140/.31 150 89 ., hi. ff s . Leicester & NortkamptonAver P' 31 .103 '71% 2,409 101.. Monmouthshire .....«... 1001., 1 , 200 , 254; 104 Melton Mowbray .... ...... - lO6l. eh. 200 Aon 254 Mersey and irwell lOOl. sh . 510 3,000 2/. 105. Maccl es feld IOOI.IM. all pd 20 21.7 17/. Neath lool.sh. 34)5 ..2 . 40ri N. Peak Forest...« Ave' .ge about 781. sh. 71 1,418 Ss. Regent's (or London) Av. 331.1111.8 d. sh. 10 1,6,,,9 61. h0chda1c....... ...... ... Average 8.51.5 h. So 500 81. Shropshire 1251.,h. 137 :SOO 111. lthi. Somerset Coal l5Ol. sh. 170 3,600/. 6 prr cen t Ditto Lock Fund Stock... ...... 121.105. eh. 115 700 361. Stafford and Worcester...» ..... l4ol.sh. 686 iOO 151 Shrewsbury 300 111. :.Raurbridge .......... 145/.,h. 396 3,047 11, Os. Stratford.on.Avon A 5er....791. 9s. ki.sh. 33 sa 101 Swansea lool.lh. 265 3,762 21. 12s. Severn and Wye &Railway Av. 261.95. sh. 45 .600 f so. 741. 10s. Trent and Mersey, * share ....Jut% sh. 475 8,149 Thames and Medway Av. 191. Os. Bd, ah. 2 I 000 sh. 1, , 11 ~.} 161. Warwick and B:rmiegham lool.sh 203 ~1 134. Warwick and 'es :seim 1001. oh. 117 7,000 41 Worcester & Birmingham Av. 781.85. sh. 55 6,00() 305. Wilts and Berka A - . , erne 671. 10s. Bd. sh. 28N 600 6.. W)ilev and Essington 1251.5 h 74 .26 ... %wove:len .......... ........ . ..... .......:=. sh. Su 205 la Wey and Arun, ..........« ....... ....1101. sn. 20 DOCKS. 20 " 1 3 c. Commerc al ....... 100/.sh. 61 1,065h5h. 1 ). 5 per een t.• East and West India ........... Stock 103 3438,31011. 3il.p.ct. London.. .. ..... . ............5t0ck 75' Ditto Bonds 2,200 31, 6s. sd. Bristol Average 14 - 1. 9s. sh. 75 66,3241. 5/. per cznt. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOO 232,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 07 502',en0 11 per cent. Ditto Honda .., look 24'.000 4 per cent. Ditto Ilonds for 10 years ....... ..... .... Deptford Pier .......... ..... 20/. sh. 20/. pd 10 BRIDGES. 1,030 11. Hammer:mitt • 501. h. 2134 1',231 Southwark, OW Av. 031. 2s. Sd. sh. 35., 1,700 14. 15s. Ditto, New, 0171 per cent........50/.sh. 15% (4000 ..... Waterloo 100/. sh. 3 5,000 f.l:i . s. 0:1, Ditto, Did Annuities of 81 601. p 4 21 5,000 19s. Si!. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. ...... 4O/. pd 1837 60,004 5/. per crnt. Ditto Bonds 5,848 27s Vauxhall ........Average 701. 108.3 d. eh 26 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3110 s Albion 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 72 W),000 1 6 1n e f r i e i c , l ti Alliance Britlsh k Foreignlool. sh. 11/. pd 1434 60,000 0 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOO/. sh. 51. pd 5 24,000 11. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. Eh. 51. pd 14 I,2ooish. Si. Birmingham t. ire 5O/. sh. 55/. pd 1073! tO,OOO 41. per cent. British Fire . 2501.5 h. 50/. psi 40 12.000 61. per cent. 2:ritish Commercial 5O/. sh. 5!. pd 6 5,000 U. per crust. Clerical & Medical Lite, 11301.5h.21103 pd 6 34 4,000 310 s County lOO/. sh. 10!. pd I , 7,000 as. Eagle „„„ r 5 per cant.? Economic Lit , 10001.8 h. 2501. pd 40 6 ''''' 1 and 30i hs. j 2,271 22s.per cent. European Li.... 0 0/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 0 01. sh. 21. pd 1%, 1,000,000/. (I.per ct Glob" Stock 116 20,O(:0 51* Gila:Aims 30,000 41. 0...!. Hope 5O/. sh. Si. pd 534 2,400 M. 12s. 6d. Imperial tire 5OOl. sh. 50/. pd 136 7,500 12s. Imperial Lilo 13,459 5/, per cent. Indemnity Marine lOOl. sh. 8/. pd 30% 2,020 31 lOs Kent Fire 5O/. sh. all pd 91 3/. Ditto Life Ull. pd 6); 10,000 16s. Law Life lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 31% 5.000 I Os. London, Fire 251. sh. 121. 10s. pd IS 3 9(X) 10s. London, Ship 0 5/. sh. I`3/. 10s. pd 1831 innn.nent ... ..... Minerva Life 10))!. sh. 21,000 5/. per cent. National Loan Fund... 901. sh 2/. Ws. pd 2% 33,000 : , i. per cent. Palladium Lite 5O/. sh. 91. pd 216 s 50,000 5/. per cent. Protector L'.f.i 0 0/.0. 2/. pd 17s Od 11400 0 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters .... MO/. sh. 5/. pd 5 311 5.500 IL Proviklent Lite lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 20 go4),4100 4s. Od. Rock Life. " 2/, pd 4 tui,2lo/ 5/. per coot. Royal Exchange 'stock 165 6,000 5 per cent. Unsversity Life 100/. sh. 51. pd 8% 10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 51. pd 7% JOINT STUCK BANKS. skone Agric.and Com. of Ireland2s/. sh. 10/. pd 15,000 6 per cent. Australasia 401. sh. 401.0 533,i lop* , 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 501. eh. 10/. pd 13 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5Ol. sh. 101. pd 13. 31,000 6 per cent. London ,Sc Westminster 1001 oh. 201. pd 2274 60,000 5/. London Joint Stock 501. eh. 101. pd 123 i 3,009 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. sh. 201. pd fill 25,000 IP per cent. Liverpool 1001 sh. 12a1. pd 19 50,000 7i per cent Manchester and Liver } 501.5 h. 15/ pd 10 39 pool Dis-onnt 20,000 7 pereo,,t. Manchester lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 4% 80,000 8 peT cent. Provincial Bank of I relandlool. sh. 251. p , 4 41 10, - 030 a, cr cent National Bank of Ireland 501. sh. 17, 1 /. pd 16% 10,000 6 per cent National Pros i..clal Eng.lool. sh. 35/. pd 35 1(►,0On Ditto New... 101. eh. 101. pd 30 11,000 Gloucestershire 50/. sh. 101. pd 32 d,OOO tOper cent. Hampshire 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 9 GAS LIMIT AND COKE COMPANIE::,. 2,500 itis Ott Bath 2411. 3h. 101. pd 22 5.001 British 401. sh. IC). pd 18 a ono 5 - :!. r e r centi Ditto Provincial 2Ol. sh. lot. pd 15 . Land as. Os, 9 , 31 51 It's Birranghain . . 50/. ah. CO 4,150 V/ Os Bristol .. . 2Ol. sh. 26 ~.2:•,/i 3/ In, • BriLliton 2O/. eh. 1314 7.'0 3/ 10s Ditto, New °W. sh 151. pd 9 2,471 41 per rent Brighton General 2Ol. sh. all pd 0 34 4,000 71.185. Continental Consolidatqd ....75/. VV. pd 110 1,000 101. City of London.. ....... ....lOW. rh. all p.l 195 I,islo 01. Ditto, New lOOl. sh. 751.? d MO 4,000 31.05. Equitable snr. pd :II 10,000 3/. per cent. Imperial sel. sh. 603 POO 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 20/. pd 1t.% !AO 0!. per cont. Independent 401.3 h. all r, 56 1..00n s'. per c :nt. Phceris. 5O/. 51,. 29/. p 4 32 1,0110 it. per cent. Itltc:iff 1(101. sh. 00.'. pd (3 4,000 South lit.tropolitan 50/. sh. - 2334/. pd 17 9,000 51. per eclat. United General 50/. sh. 4 . 11. pd 2S 210 51. per cent. Warwick 'AI!. oh. 50 400 51. per cent Wakefield 1,000 3/. Westminster Chartered ..... W. sh. 15 34 6,000 123. Ditto New .511. sh. IW. pd 11 280 3 per cent. YarMouth 9 01. sh. 161. pd WATER War:KS. -- 4,900 345. Birmingham 2V. sh. 251. p 1 21 4,413 71. East London 1001. sh. 1f,2►~ 5,500 21 15s. ()rand Jultiction Average 411. 131.4 d. sh. 54 I,GCO 2/. I:ent 100/. sh. 52% 3;;2 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 3:5 1,504) 21105 Ncvs River London Bridge Water Ann... CO 4,490 21 104 51anchester and Salford 1001. sh. 54 1,100 5 per cent. South London lOOl.O. .1-I8 9,294 4e/. West .11(Idlesex. Average 631.'125. 9d. sh. 90 1,300 11 - 145 - York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. • 6,300 21. Os. Birmingham and iii•ii,i 9,500 ....... Birmingham and Gloucester...ACM. pd 55 15,060 4 per rent. Bristol and Exeter lOOl. eh. 70 pd 274 7,500 Cheltenham &G. Western 1001. sh. 72%1. 123 2 3,000 ' N,OOO • Dublin and Drogheda ...... 100/.lh. 51. pd 60.011. Eastern Countic' 251. Fh. 234 pd S 7 10,000 Great North of Englandloo/.sh. 1001. pd SO 10,918 12 per (vat. Grand Junction lOOl. eh. all pd . 191 25; 00 3 per cent. Grer.t Western lot)!. sh. 65/. pi f. 3% 25.0110 ' Ditto New 504 sh. tO4 IA 59 - O,OOJ 5 per cent Gosport Junction 'M. sh. 50/. pd 55% 9,000 0 per cent. thaticpool 1001. 5), 100/ pd 115} i , 8,1101) Hull and ticlby 5Ol. sh. 504 pd 34 o,too 4 per Cert. Leeds ar.d `..'eilly lon ,b. (5% 5.1141 141 per cent. Lireri.ooi & Manchester 111 Loh. 1004 pi 4 122 'WS 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 504 pd yil 11,405 10 per asst. Ditto Quarter r,hares ''s4. pd 45 30,0110 ......... limrt,m and 8righi0n......50/. sh. Lio pa 35% 94,000 ........ London and Blackwell 251. sh. 25/. i.d 11 h, moon 3 rer cent. London and Greenwich ...20/. 614. :XI. pd 5% 25,000 94 per ah. London & Ilirminglian4 100 i. sh. On:. ixi 157 25,000 Vi. 7s Cd. Ditto Quarter Shares ....:::V. sh. 5/. IA ZA% ' - 51,25) rir. 7s. 4d. Ditto New Shares 3:1/. sh. 32/. pd 2141' •' ' 36,000 5 per cent. London and S.NV,tern Av. :!.Sl, 175.34. L 9% A9o° ......... Lo D nil t o to n N al , p w l C s r c o r y ip do . i . l Ar. 13/. 15s. ikt. 1 : 4 4 won 2 per cont. Manchestor and Leeus...lOo4. ,h. '7O/.0 :3.A, " 13,0 1 : 0 Ditto Half Shares 5Ol. •'5l. NI 31% 10. 000 .... ..... 111:n0:ester anti Bin!' nag ham 701..11.40/. ..:ti Ditto Extension 7l. pd 2% 10,000 2/.les. •••• ..... Midland Counties 104)4 sh. 1001, pd 73 • I wo pi. 08. North Midland .... ..... 1.01. sh. 1001 pd I)'J 1/.los. Ditto New 404 pd 34 10,256 1/.los. Northern and Eastern.... 50/. sh 40/. pd 54% 2,600 Preston and Wyre .... 501. sh. 301. pd egpoo ......... South Eastern and Dover .... ..... 4 54 pd 26% 1,1100 10/ , per cent. Stockton and Darlington ........100/.sh, 205 0,000 6000 10/. per cent. York and North Midland 50 . eh. 501. pd 8736 MINES. 8,000 . . ... ... Albion Copper 5/.1 0. :11/. p 4 12 4,000 U. ss. Alten l5/. sh 12/. li bpd 10 1 0 .00 0 ......... Anglo 111otican.iss. 51 pm.loo/. sh. r. l 1 d 14 Ditto Subscription ....,.... ....... .251. iiti • I% 2,000 •.....• Bolanos , 1501. sh all p - 1 4 10,000 it. lth. Brasillanlrnp.iss. 51. pm 251. eh. 91? pd es 6,000 Macaubas ir Cocaee United 254e1).25/. pd 414 11,000 ... ...... Ditto St. John Del Rey 2Ol. sh. 14/. pd 1.) 1(,(x)0 .. Bolirar Copper Company. 20/. sh. 201. pcl 1 10,000 ....,.„, Ditto Scrip . 104 eh. 104 pd -2 20,000 British Iron . 1001. eh. 701 pd 8 000 ... ...... British Copper if. sh. 44!. pd 114 ....... Ctta Branca 64/. ;id Cijt Camloriga .. 10,000 1 / Copiapo 8,500 ... • , Coluintnan, isa. 51. pm. - 55/. sh. 551. pd ON •2,K50 ql. . -.English 141.65. pd 3 90,000 .... .... General Mining Assoclation2o4sh.lBl. pd X% 6,155 ..... ... Mexican Company 100/.51). Ci , i pd 3,000 l'olheron Consols . lO/. eh. 81. pd .4 11,500 ......... Beanie! Monte, Unregistered 3% Ditto Loan Nete• 1504 pd 160 50,01 ,0 ..,,,,... United Mexican, iris. 2 pin. 40/. Ph. all pd os DIM. Scrip l% Ditto New Scrip 41 )•,1 3 West Cork ..... ••••••••••••••••501. sh 501. pd 34 • LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1000 ...... London, with Bronze Ticket ...75gs.sh. 143 0 4500 ........ London University ... ...... !COL sh. all pd 7 7C; 0 Russell .25gs. ill. 6 King' College lOO/. ' 1234 1418CELLANEOUS. 19,X4 151. Australian Agricultural.loo/. sh. 28/. pd 37 1 1.X0 1. percent. British American Land Company 351/.pil 9 1 0 ,,.€116 6/. per cri.t. Canada Company IOU!. sh. 3211. pd 98 '''& 4_4 - 1 1 51. per cent. Upper Canarta Loan 20 mut City Bonds, 4 rr cent 1,9 . 11.65. GeneralStesm Navigation 15!.:h. 141. pd 2411 101 • Per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 11. London Com. Sale Rooms ....Av. 751. sh 19% ••.....,. CaoLtcheuc Company 1284 pd 1234 New Brunswick Laud Cornpa:.y...sol. pd H s ' l " U •Per c.ot Itevciwonary Int. Soc...ltal/. sh. 1001. pd 93% 2,833 51 60e* cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 101 1 . pd 107 4 ." ••••••••. Than es Tu nnel 5O/. sh. rib IA .10 10.000 os. NI - an Die.ner.'s Land...JON. sh. 18i/. pt! 134 LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES FELL La-O,OOW 61:p. et. !tank ~B s „ A • N lt '- ' • te40,000/ f/. p. rt. Royal ei ,,otland ...Mt. Os. lid. sh. all pd'l,ls 500,0001. SI. p. ct. British Lis !land 1001. sh. all pc; 1.4:1!.4 600,001/. '7l. p. ct. Cornruerciala Cn ' Pan Yr' ")(l ' s". u" Vi . 0 ; 1 _„,„,_,. ~. _,. . ..,__.,_ , ............. 00;.sh.10e/- rd .5 9 r ;u o, u o a . 8",. p." I T . 4 -, t vi..,, , , , ,. ini . ,;,; ............ .10.3.6 h. lei. pd 14 1,000,0001. 6p. ct. Western of Scoi.l.:ln .............. 6 , 1 1 1 , * :.'1211'.. ,d FO . C l' l3 ° l. INSURA.NCE Com Scotland '''' 250,11001 h. 61p. cr. Scottish Union . P •INIES. 7,500 In p. ct. Hercules ............................ sh. 1/. pci ~3, 01. 100,000 10 p. ct. Insurance co. j .......... . A M ' sh * " li * I' d 13 40,000 10 p. ct. North British ..... .. ............ LW. , h. ail pit i',4 1,000 10 p. ct. Caledoni. , n Fire„.. . i !?Pl.sti. 10/. pd 17)4 :,.,.'l. sh. 10/. pd 2,1 . 5,000 10 p. Cl. Edinburgh Life ..- , 1, eh. ipi 100,000 Sip. et. West of Scotland. ._,.... ... 1 . IA 15 MISCELLANEOUS. .. °I " I' d 4,818 ......... Edin. and Chas. Un.Canalsol.sh. all rid I i Ditto Allocated .......... .......... sh, a n i.,, 1 -‘ 11 245,40( f 4 per cent. talinb. Joitit •>t,..cl: Water,..!:./. En ~0 pd I.ooosh 9.e per cent. Shotts Ir on Founders 50t sh 481 pd 40 0,000 s per cent. Edinburgh Sr Leith Glass.2o/.sh. lfd. pd 4.500 10 per cent. Edinburgh CO3l 62S ....!. sit. all pd _lr, 4,450 10 per cent. 012 A gOW Gas .......... ...... 25/.sh. all pd b2'. 160 71 per cent• Leith Coal Gas ....... ...... 201. 4 h. all pd 2 , 1,154 ........ Edinburgh and Lktlkelthrlagway 50/. sh 30 --.............i................. BERLIN, FEU. 16.=—His Majesty, the King, arrived tete in hood health, at ten o'clock to-day, on his return }tom ThQ %nitwit • navigation of th-, , port of Taganrog was closed oa "" 00, st December List. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. - FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The, arguments oh the Ministerial side of the Corn-law question will go down to posterity, if in deed they go down at all, as the most monstrous monu ment ever reared by class-ignorance on class-interest. We say this quite dispassionately - ; for, in truth, we do not think greatly better of some of the arguments put forward in succession on our own side of the question. There is a sort of Spanish arroganeeand superiority in our own conceit over other nations, occasionally displayed on both sides, combined either with strutting airs of inde pendence of foreign supplies (at' the very moment when so many are cloakingstarvation in threadbare garments), or with swelling boasts of becoming the sole workshop and factory of the world • (at the very moment when rival manufactures are every where meeting us in neutral mar kets)—there is, as it seems to us, a blindness to realities, and a grasping at unrealities, which, to our apprehension, are amongst those symptoms which mark the decline of nations. Strike out all the nonsense from the speeches on both sides about depending on nobody for our food, and supplying everybody with our manufactures—strike out all this arrogant nonsense, and groundless assump tion—and what will be left ? Few of the sentences which call forth cheers; but all the common sense of the subject. The sort of pretensions which the . landed interest set forth as entitling them to exclude commerce would justify a State-inquisition into their mode of ma naging their estates. We are, forsooth, to depend upon , nobody but upon them for our daily bread. Why are we to depend upon them ? How are we to be assured that they have an interest in providing us with abundance, or, if they have, that they act on it ? Our simpler forefathers did look after every man's fields, and every man's barns ; and if, with our vast population, we are statedly to depend on home growth, we must look after them. We must see that this landlord does not sacrifice to political interest the encouragement (by granting leases and otherwise) which he owes to his tenantry, in order that they may have a motive for im proving cultivation to the utmost. We must see that ano ther does not devote to embellishment or amusement the ground that is wanting for the supply of increasing numbers—that he does not withdraw a rood of ground from arable which is fitted for it. In Edward the Sixth's days, and earlier, these were deemed matters for royal proclamation. Our ancestors deemed the gross produce as deserving attention as the net produce of the soil, and abundance for -the people' at a cheap rate, as " remunerating prices" for, the farmer. We may smile at their simplicity, but we have followed the worse part of their precedents. We have legislated ex clusively for prices, and cared exclusively for rents. STANDARD.—Lord Aberdeen's presentation of the Treaty ratified between Prussia, Austria, Russia, and Great Britain, for; the . suppression of the slave trade, calls attention to a subject of some serious consideration —serious, not merely as respects the object of this Treaty,. but the state of feeling upon the Continent of Europe. It is probably known to most of our readers that this Treaty - is little more than an act of adhesion by. the other Great Powers to a former Treaty ratified ' between Great Britain and France eleven' years ago, and which, of course,' is still in force' as regards the nations parties to it. A few years since, however, Grea:. Britain and France agreed to invite Prussia, Austria, and Russia, to enter into the common engagement ; these Powers promptly acquiesced, and a new treaty; comprehend ing the Five PoWers, was agreed upon, Great Britain and France taking the iniatative. This is the treaty, the ratification of which by Four Powers was an nounced last night by Lord Aberdeen ; but the name of France is still wanting—of France, who would yield no thing by the treaty which she has not already yielded eleven years ago, and who was herself one of the,, movers in the transaction. Upon reasonable grounds' this hesitation of our neighbour is difficult to be ac counted for. It is not pretended that Great Britain has, with respect to France, or to any other country, abused the opportunities afforded her by the treaty. of 1831. And there is not the least.ground for suspicion that. the French Government, or the. high-minded and generous people of France, have a wish to protect the traffic in slaves. Acquitting Great Britain, therefore, of having given cause for hesitation on the part of France, and as freely acquitting France of any sordid motive in hesita ting to ratify the treaty, we must, we fear, ascribe that hesitation to a feeling from which even high-minded and generous men are not always free—a feeling of jealousy. COURIER.—The principle of putting leading ques tions to the Members of the Cabinet, with the view of extracting information as to the precise nature of the measures in preparation, or such replies as may enable in genious speculators to guess at them with any degree of certainty, we look upon as extremely objectionable, and one that ifyielded to would be attended with the greatest incon venience and injury. Mr. Stewart last night had the modesty to inquire of Sir R. Peel what might be the particular articles of foreign produce alluded to in the Queen's Speech, the duties upon which it was intended to modify ; and knowing, as he must in the present state of the discussion on the corn question, how impossible it must be for Sir R. Peel to name any specific day for his general financial statement, he was unreasonable enough to demand an explicit answer on the subject. All, however, he took by his pumping questions was a reiteration of the assurance before given, that he would make his financial statement and disclose his reme dial measures with regard to the present unsatis factory state of the revenue at the earliest possible opportunity. The government has,' in our opinion, exercised a wise discretion in holding back till after the Easter recess tlus poor Law Commission Continuance Bill, a hill which, w e are extremely happy to believe on the assurance of the Home Secretary, will be in its cha racter no make-shift, but a full and complete measure on the subject, and one that will contain many important modifications of the existing law. What these modifi cations may be we have no means of ascertaining ; but .we do most sincerely hope that they will be of such a nature as the friends of humanity, and the adi , ocates of the rights of the poor of this country to substantial relict, can approve. • MARKETiNtELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of February 22. Suoaa.—Government not having yet developed their plan relative to the Sugar Duties, has kept the market for West India in a very dull state during the past week ; the rates ac cepted are 6d to is per cwt lower. Bengal and Mauritius ; Demerara, fine yellow at 675. middling 62s ; Jamaica good mid greyish 665 per cwt. To-day much dulness prevailed in the British Plantation Sugar market, and the trifling quantity disposed of was at ra ther lower rates; the comparative cheapness of Bengal and Mauritius Sugar cause the trade to . supply their immediate wants with those sorts, and this will in some measure account for the extreme small quantity of West India .sugar sold of late. At public sale, 36 hhds Trinidad were offered, and sold at 62s Gd for good middling brightyellow, and 60s to 61s for mid. REFINED.—To-day there was little business transacted in Refined goods for Home consumption, and 79s to 79s 6d js the value of standard lumps. Treacle, Bastards and pieces dull of sale, Bonded Crushed Sugar sells slowly at 28s to 28s 9d for good quality. unatus.—This afternoon there was a good demand; 7,919 bags were offered at public sale, a useful grocery pared, the whole found purchasers at full rates; fine bright strong yellow went at 653 to 665, good 62s 6d to 64s 6d, middling tiOs 6d to 625, 104 middling 59s to 60s, good to fine brown 56s Gd to 585, good middling 50s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the public sales consisted of 1,:379 bags brown Bengal, and 568 baskets, 124 bags Penang; the former went heavily at is to 2s decline, low to mid damp at 41s to 445, good 46s to 46s 6d, low to mid sound yellow 55s to 58s per cwt ; the latter taken in at 13s to 14s for low damp brown. Fo REIG N.—Holders of Foreign Sugar are firm. For Brazil the demand has been limited; Pernambuco mid bright yellow at lekt to 183 6d, ord dingy 16s 6d to 173 6d, low to mid brown 15s to 16s 6d, ord white 20s to 21s, mid to good 22s 6d to 245; Alaceio low to mid yellow at 15s to 17, per cwt. Yellow Havannah has brought full prices. To-day some small parcels of brown and yellow Brazil and Havannah were sold at former rates ; holders are firm. MOLASSES.—For West India prices must be quoted lower ; Demerara common quality at 225, mid 23s to 24s ; St. Vin cent's 263 to 26s 6d ; St. Lucia common 22s to 22s 6d. Ben gal Syrup 22s to 23s 6d. Foreign Molasses 6s 6d per cwt. Honey of fine quality is wanted; Cuba fetched 60s 6d to 62s per cwt. BUM, BRANDY, and HOLLAND& —We haye to report a firm market for West India Ruin, Leewards have been in good request both for home consumption and exportation ? the purchases have been 390 puns proof at 2s Id to 21 2d 6 to 8 )•er cent over proof at 2s 3d to 2s 9d, 10 to 12 over 2s 5d to 23 6d, and the operations would have been on a mere extended scale if the market had been better supplied; the quantity remaining in first hands is small, the market hav ing been nearly cleared of late by the Government contractors. For Jamaica Rum, the demand is gradually improving, and prices have an upward tendency, 5s 2d to 5s 8d have been paid fur mime parcels of good and fine quality, of Calcutta several parcels were sold in the early part of last week ; proof with certificate at ls 94 to 2s, at the high duty of is 44 to Is 4id, but the market has been quiet during the last few days. At auction on Friday 50 puns with certificate were taken its at prices averaging Is &I to Is 10d proof, 350 hhds without cer tificate mostly bought in at Is 6d for 16 per cent over, and 27 to 28 over is Bd, or at an average of Is 3id to ls 4d proof. The price of the Government contract is still kept a secret, it is whispered to be within a fraction of is 9id per gallon. The Brandy market has been in a dull state, holders are disposed to lessen their stocks, and • have submitted to a further decline in prices of ld per ' Gallon. The following are the market rates : Cognac first brands of the vintage of 1836 at 5 s 9 d for hhds , puns 5s 7d, do. 1837 hhds 5s 4d, - puns 5s 2d, do. 1838 hhds 55 2d, puns 5s Od, do. 1839 hhds 4s 4.)d, puns 4s 7d, do. 1840 hhds 3s 11d, puns 38 10d. Geneva has moved off slowly; common at 2s, and fine 2s 6d to 2s 8d per gallon. The market yet dull for English Corn Spirits, sellers at 9s 9d cash. To-day in Rum several purchases were made ; Proof Lee wards at 2s 2d, Calcutta at low duty Is 9d to 2s Id, Jamaica fine Ss 6d to 5s Bd, and some parties ask 6s per gallon. Brandy is in better request, buyers of the vintage of 1840—hhds at 4s 2d, puns 4s per gallon, being Id to 2d higher. Ty.A.—The market for Tea has presented a healthy appear ance during the past week, the rates previously established have been' fully sustained for all descriptions, at.d a good demand has prevailed to supply both town and countryerders ; Congoucom mon for cash, has 'well disposed of at Is 10d4d, good ord Is I Id to Is 11 id, middling blackish leaf Is Ilidto 2s, good 23 id to 2s. 2d, fine Pekoe flavor 2s 3d tos2s 6d ; the lower qualities were the most in request ; sales of Pouchong were made at Is 5d to Is 10d, and commit .n Twankay is 101 d. Of Company's Congou several parcels were taken for clearing at is 1014, cash; but on speeu`ation few purchases have been made, the smallness of the stock checking operations.— Yesterday, however, there was less business transacted, this may be ascribed to the large public sales declared, viz. of 8,000 pkgs for Thursday, and 28,000 pkgs for the Ist March. The deliveries of Tea keep on a large scale, and during the past week reached 466,0001b5. The quantity imported durit g that time amounted to 28,000 pkgs. 'To-day the market presented a quiet aspect, the prices ac cepted are rather lower. Common Free Trade Congou cash selling at Is' 100 to is 104 d. Twankay common is 100, and Company's Congou is 101 d to is Iold cash. COCOA.--West India is not offered on lower terms : the stock is large. Foreign sells slowly, 335. is the value of Guayaquil. This afternoon at public sale 127 .bags damaged Guayaquil went at 25s 6d to 30s per cwt. • SAGO. —For Sago,. full rates have been paid; Pearl, good quality at 22s t o 25s 6d, middling les to 20s, low middling 14s to 16s ; privately 10s to his have been paid for large parcels of common Sago. Flour at 12s per cwt : East India Arrowroot went at 6d to Bid for good quality. East India Preserved Ginger at Is 9d. Orange Is, Citron Is, Chow Chow 2s per lb. Rica.—For Bengal stiffer races have been paid ; lOs 6d to Ils for good middling, and lls to Ils 6d for good white ; lOs to 103 6d is the value of middling. Java yellow at Bt6d to 9s, low white 9s 6d, middling to good white 105 to Ils per cwt, common kinds have been the most in re quest. Madras at 9s 6d to lOs for fine yellow. Patna at 15s to lis for commons and middling, and 18s to 22s for good and fine quality. Carolina for home consumption, first sort at 365, second 345, third 325, inferior and broken 28s to 30s per cwt. TALLOW.—Holders of Russian Tallow have displaled more firmness during the last few days, and have Obtained an ad vance of 3d per cwt. To-day several purchases were made in Petersburgh Yellow Candle at 48s 6d on the spot, and 49s 6d for delivery in the last three months of the year. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 22. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING., FEBRUARY 22. 1841. 31EMZERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PA RLIA KENT. Borough of Bandonbridge.—The Hon. Francis Barnard, commonly called Viscount Bernard, of Castle Bernard, in the county of Cork, in the room of Joseph Devonshire Jackson, Esq., who has accepted the office of Solicitor-General for Ireland. County of Cornwall (Western Division)—Sir Charles Le mon, of Carelew, in the county of Cornwall, Bart., in the robm of the HOR. Boscawen Rose, commonly called Lord Boscawen Rose, now Earl of Falmouth. _ . Coinbined Counties of Clackmannan and Kinross—Major- General William Morison, Companion of the Bath, in the room of the Hon. George Ralph AbererombY, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. WHITEHALL, FE➢. 5. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edward Wm. Haste wood, of Bridgnorth, in the county of Salop, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, Fzn. 9. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Henry Gem, of Moor-street, Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, Faa` 17. The Lord Chancellor has appointed George Maxwell Ed raonds, of Opndle, in the county of Northampton, Gent, to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. EDWARD RAWLINSON, share-broker, Lancaster. WILLIAM HOLMES, silk gauze manufacturer, Cheapside. SAMUEL LEWIS LAZARUS, coach-proprietor, Jer myn-street, St. James's. RICHARD :FROST BURTON, coal-merchant, Hack ney-wharf, Cambridge-heath, Middlesex. BANKRUPTS. JOSHUA DARWIN GANDAR, victualler, Brydges street, Covent-garden, to surrender March 3, at !two, and April 5, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, of ficial assignee ; Heathcote and Holman, Coleman-street. CHARLES VAl\ DERGUCHT, silk-mercer, Quadrant, Regent-street, March 8, at half-past one, and April 5, at ele ven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, Abehurch-lane, official assignee; Hogard, Paternoster-row. GEORGE DONALDSON, watch-maker, Pall-mall, West minpter' March 9, at two, and April 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy : Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Drake, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street JOHN PILLING, innkeeper, Lancaster, March 9 and April 5, at one, at the Royal Oak Inn, Lancaster. Mayhew, Johnson, and Mayhew, Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn, London Blackhurst and Son, Preston. EDWARD HARPER, grocer, Steeple Claydon, Bucking shire, March 8, and April 5, at ten, at the Georg e Inn, Ayles bury, Buckinghamshire. Aplin, Banbury, Oxfordshire. SETH FLITCROFT, ironmonger, Liverpool, March 4, and April . 5, at , one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Tattershall, Great James -street, Bedford-row, London ; H'ole and Marples, Sheffield.. JOHN PARKES HOPE, builder, Atherstone, Warwick shire, March 4, at the Bulls Inn, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, and April 5, at the Three Tuns Inn, Atherstone, at twelve. Baxter, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Baxter, Atherstonc. JOHN PARSONS, rnaltster, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, March 2, and April 5, at twelve, at the George the Eourth Inn, Nottingham. Parsons and Benn, Mansfield ; Deane, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. JOHN APLEAN, merchant, Liverp ool, March 12, and April 5, at two, at the Commissioners '-rooms, Manchester. Holden and Clarke, Liverpool; Walmsley, Keightley, and Parkin, Ckancery-lane, London. JOHN DAVIES, oil merchant, Liverpool, March 15, and April 5, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Holden and Clarke, Liverpool ; Walmsley, Keightley, and Parkin, Chancery-lane, London. JOSEPH BANKS and JOSEPH BURGESS, drapers, Manchester, March 10 and April 5, at twelve, at the Commis sioners'-rooms Manchester. Willis, Bo wer , an d Willi s, 'I o kenhouse-yard, London ; Barrett, Ridgway, and Ford, Man chester. JAMES COCKBURN, merchant, New Broad-street, March 4 and April 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, Copthall-court, official assignee ; Wylde, Rees, Humphry, and Wylde. College. hill, Queen-street, Cheapside. JOHN SMITH, milliner, Bond•street, March 3, at one, and. April 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; Stephen, Size lane. COURSE OF EXClli Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ~........2 U l2 8 Antwerp l2 71 Elamburgh M.B. 13 141 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 70 Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Marseilles Bout dealpc 25 0 I Frankfort on Maine... 151 i l'etersburgh, 3 Us 1' erlin ............ 7 Vienna, effee. 6. 3 M 964 Trieste, ditto 9 55 Madrid ' Cadiz Bilbao Barcelona Seville 4NGE.—(THIS DAY). Gibraltar ... .. ..... Leghorn ... .. Genoa . 25 95 Milan ... Venice Naples Palermo, per oz 120 Lisbon Oporto 52 - 1 - IRio Janeiro 27 Bahia Buenos Ayres New York,2ldaya sight 461, Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, FEB. OZ, Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold C01n...3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 9i ,Silver in Bars 0 4 111 IMPERIAL PA RLIAMENT (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsaelc shortly after Five o'Clock. Mitford's Divorce Bill went through Committee. and was ordered to be reported on Thursday. PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGES. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented pea tioni from Presbyterian Congregations in Donegal, Ty rone, and Armagh, ' praying an alteration in the law with respect to Presbyterian marriages. CREDITON UNION. The Bishop of EXETER gave notice thet he should on Thursday present petitions on the subject of the conduct of the Poor Law Commissioners with reference to the CI-Nihon Union in Devon. CORN-LAWS. Lord HATHERTON presented petitions from NeNV eastle-under-Lyne, Handsworth, and other places in the county of Stattbrd, praying for the revision of the Corn and Provision-laws. • The. House then adjourned to Thursday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four •o'Clock. Sir C. LEMAN took the oaths and his seat for West Cornwall, and Lord BERNARD for Bandon. The Midland Counties Railway Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. The Hinckley Road Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. The Stanhope and Tyne Railway Bill was brought in, read a; first, and ordered to be read a second time. The South Eastern Railway Improvement Bill was brought in, read a first, and ordered to be read a second time. The Leicester small Debts Bill was brought in, and read the first time. BURIALS IN TOWNS. Mr. MACKINNON presented a •petition, which the Hon. Member said was of great importance as regarded the health of the metropolis, recommending that burials in large towns should cease ; he begged to move that the petition be printed, and a Select Committee be ap pointed to inquire into its merits. COEN-LAWS. Mr. R. E. BULLED, presented a petition from Stone, in Staffordshire, praying for a repeal of the Corn and Prorision-laws. Mr. THORNLEY presented a petitiori from a place in Scotland, complaining of the distress existing in the commercial districts, and praying for a total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws, and a general re vision of the import duties, with a view to their reduction, Mr. EAMES CUI3IIIE presented a petition from Northampton, praying fur the total and immediate re peal of the orn-laws. _ _ _ Mr. EVANS presented two petitions from places in Derbyshire, praying for a repeal Of the Corn-laws as soon as possible, and for an. inquiry into, the duties on sugars and other foreign produce with a view to their Lord DALMENY presented a petition from Stirling in Scotland, praying for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws. Dr. BOWRING presented forty-one petitions, signed by upwards of 10,000 individuals, complaining of the oppressive operation of the Corn-laws, and praying for their immediate repeal. BRIDGE TOLL. Sir GEORGE BANKES presetl;d a petition from previously W es tminster, which, together with th ose presented, made 150,000. petitions for' that itibj PRESBYTERIAN MIXED MARRIAGES, Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition from the Ministers, Elders, and other Inhabitants of Banbridge, in connection with the Remonstrant Synod. The peti tioners referred to the late decision of the Irish Judges with reference to marriages by Presbyterian ministers, and prayed for an Act to make valid all marriages here tofore solemnised, or which shall be hereafter solem nised by a Presbyterian or other Dissenting minister, between parties, one of whom may be a member o f th e Established Cluirch and the other a Protestant Dissenter; a petition from the Minister and Members of the first Presbyterian 'Congregation of Cromlin, in the county of Antrim ; and another from the Minister and other Mem bers of the Presbyterian congregation of Carlingford, in the county of Louth, praying for a law to render valid all marriages which have taken places by Presbyterian Ministers ; and further, that the law of marriage in Ire land be henceforth definitively settled. on the basis of religious liberty, and affording equal advantages to all sects, in like manner as in England and Scotland. Sir R. BATESON presented similar petitions, very numerously signed, from places in Derry, Antrim, Rings end, and Donegal. ELE fr C om Tl . O th N ree CO2 The petition or l s T . COMMITTEE. t E nht . e 0 Queensborough, praying for a scrutiny icMt the e r conduct f of the Mayor and Corporation respecting the election, having been referred to the Election Committee, was ordered by the Rouse to be printed. COEN-LAWS. Sir B. HALL presented a petition from Paddington praying fora total repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. HAWN'S resented petitions from Kennington, I .St. Mary's, Newington, and other places, praying for a repeal of the' Corn-laws, and another praying, that Waterloo and other brikes be thrown open. A petition was presented by an lion. MEMBER on the Ministerial benches, praying that the Gilbert workhouses be not incorporated with the New Poor-law Unions. The petitioners went into thegrounds of their objections to such incorporation, stating also that the regulations of the New Poor-la, are not suited to rural districts. Mr. GIBSON presented thirteen petitions, all praying for a total repeal of the Corn-laws. _ Sir E. S. HARES presented a petition from Donegal, Ireland, on the subject of Presbyterian marriages. Colonel ACTON presented a petition from merchants and traders of the eastern part of the metropolis, for thrOwing open Waterloo and Southwark bridges. Colonel ACTON presented a petition for leave to bring in a Bill to improve the harbour of Wicklow. Mr. M, PHILLIPS presented a petition from the Corn millers in Manchester, praying that as they had invested large sums in mills, the llous,•; would not consent to the encouragement of foreign wheat in preference to flour. Lord J. MANNERS presented a petition from the parish of St. James, praying fur the opening of the Metropolitan Bridges. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition from Bir mingham, against the Corn-laws. Mr. HINDLEY presented six petitions from qunday- Schools in connection with Dissenting Congregations to the same effect. ' Mr. WYNN ELLIS presented a petition from a con gregation of Wesleyan Methodists, praying for a total repeal of the Corn-laws ; also,. a petition from a Con servative gentleman, the Chairman of. the Board of Guardians for the Leicester 'Union, to the same effect. Sir G. DE LARPENT presented a petition from Not tingham, against the Corn-laws. . IPSWICH ELECTION PETITION.. Mr. RIGBY WASON presented n petitition from the agent to the sitting Member of the borough of Ipswich, stating that one of the witnesses who had been summoned under the Speaker's warrant, td give evidence in the election petition against the return for that borough, was about proceeding to the Continent. He (Mr. Wason) would call the attention of . the House to the subject to-morrow, and in the meantime he. would move that the petition should be printed with the votes. The SPEAKER intimated that such a course was not usual, but as the circumstances of the case were of a pressing nature, he supposed there would be no objection to the Hon. Gentleman's motion. Mr. RIGBY IVASOT said, that as the Gent. was leaving on Saturday, there would not be time to give longer notice. Leave was then given to print ,the Petition, with the Notes. Mr. S. O'BRIEN .presented a petition from the West Riding of Yorkshire against the Corn-laws. Mr. LIDDELL presented a petition from a Presby 7 terian Church in Coleraine, respecting mixed Presby 7 terian marriages. • • • Sir G. STRICKLAND presented, a • petition against the Corn-laws.. Mr. J. S.. WORTLEY presented a petition from the confectioners of London, praying that some steps might be taken to prevent competition in the trade, by the inhabitants of the Channel Islands. Mr. COBDEN presented a great number of petitions from Scotland and other places against the Corn-laws. Mr. AINSWORTH presented a petition, sighed by 11,000 persons, from Bolton, praying for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws. Petitions to the same effect were presented by Mr. J. Fielden, from Oldham ; by Mr. Villiers, from several parishes in the cities of London and Westminster; from the town of Paisley, in Scotland ; from places in Derby shire and Somersethire'; seventeen from Lancashire; also from places, in Yorkshire, and from the borough of Wol verhampton; also by Lord John Russell from the town of Harwich, and from places in Forfarshire. Sir ROBERT PEEL presented certain papers by command of her Majesty, which were, ordered to be laid on the table. COLONIAL DIFFERENTIAL DUTIES. Mr. LABQUCHERE seeing, the. Right Hon. Gentle man, the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, in his place,, wished to ask hitn a question on a subject which had out of doors created considerable anxiety. In the measure which he (Mr. Labouchere).had introduced last year for. regulating the commercial relations of the colonies, he had proposed that there should be a protect ing duty of 7s. per cwt. in favour of British manufac tures. He was desirotts that in all other respects the Colonial Legislature should be allowed to form thir own , fiscal 'regulations, but be thought it was the duty of the British Legislature to secure a protec tion of 7s. per cwt. for British manufactures. He hoped that the Right Hon. Gentleman intended to legislate upon the same principle ; but the resolution was ambi guously worded, and great anxiety existed out of doors on the subject. He wished to know, whether it was the intention of the Government, in their proposed measure on this subject, to secure a protection of 7 per Cent. on British manufacturers. Mr. GLADSTONE was much obliged to the Right Hon. Gentleman for giving human opportunity of allaying, any anxiety which might prevail out of doors on the sub ject, although he was not aware of the existence of any such impression. Nothing could be further from the in tention of the Government than to leave the differentiae. duties impotod f,t•ci,,-,n commodities imported into the colonies, liable to 13 neutralized by the Colonial Legis latures. It was the intention of the Government that the protection of 7 per cent., or whatever .other protection might be given, should be a bona fide. and real protection for British goods. That was the principle on which the Government pro posed to legislate, and he had no doubt or hesitation in stating that it was Iris intention to carry that principle into effect. The language w hi c h h a d been. used by the Fight Hon. Gentleman last year had been altered, not for the purpose of narrowing the principle, but ,for the purpose, of,increasing its effect. . There were certain cases in which the Colonial Legislatures had themselves imposed differential duties on foreign articles, and the Government did not propose to interfere with the pro tection which the colonial legislatures might be dispoSed to give, in the shape of differental duties. They merely intended to give to the colonial legislatures the power of • continuing any differential duties . they might think proper, in addition to the protection of 7 per cent., which , by an act of the British Legislature, it was in , tended to give to British manuf.cture; in all the colonies For this reason, instead of the words of the resolutions of the Right Hon. Gentleman, he (Mr. G.) had intro duCed a separate clause, whi c h would have the effect of securing independently of colonial enactments, pre ference to articles of British `produce or manufac tures, and in case the colonies themselves should lay on, Or wish to lay on any further differential duties on ar ticles of foreign manufactures or produce, under parti cular circumstances, the Bill which the Government . meant to introduce would not interfere with such a course. SPAIN AND THE GREAT POWERS. Mr. HINDLEY begged to ask the Right Hon. Baro net, at the head of her Majesty's Government, whether this country' had made any efforts to induce Russia, Austria. and Prussia, te'recognise the present constitu tion and Government of Spain„ and whether the Right Hon. Baronet could say when such a recognition was likely to take place ? Sir R. PEEL.—It is not easy to give a simple and brief ansWer• to questions of this nature. The Hon. Gentleman asks, as I understand, whether any communi cations have taken place between her Majesty's Govern ment and the Great Northern Powers respecting the recognition of the • present Government of Spain, and whether there was any prospect of such recognition taking place ? I wish to take this opportunity of stating in answering the question that our policy respecting Spain has been perfectly simple and opcn,and without any reserve. Our anxious wish has been to see Spain a prosperous, a powerful, and an independent nation.—(Cheers from both sides of the House.) Our wish is to see Spain independent of all foreign protection, and that no power which she can possess for her own just defence, should be an object of jealousy to any other power.—(Cheers.) It has been our desire, certainly, to give strength and stability, as far as is possible, by our councils and by exerting our influence, to the present Government of Spain ; for we thought we saw under that Government growing 'indications of advance of civilisation and prosperity; and certainly we have exercised our influence as far as could be done-with propriety to induce the Gevernments of the Continent of Europe—to induce the three Great Powers to recognize the Government of Spain.—(Cheers.) We have thought that such exertions on our part would give effect to - the advancing civilization of that country and stability of the Government which, in the p us res the interests Spain of ' seemed coun try. Gentleman's e i niedto best ent calculatedgeieral tocolnidroitrhioonte of the desired recognitions are likely to take place. Al- question to the period can answer is, that our It i s imp oss ibl e to answer the Hon. exertions have been made in to the Spanish Government way, to g iv e th a t stability an amicable and friendly G Is Ithink serve, that one of Sir, we have no interest to the tranquillity of the greatest 'objects in promoting - that country should be re- IN Inch we thought would result from such measures. Europe is that the state re stored to prosperity and she used to should hold the pl ac e which fill amongst th e States—(Dear, hear)--and no ex er e independence, and that Spain family of European States to bring that .about. tions on our part shall be `Wantingl' I.CKETS. • WEST INDIA frot . n , Capt. PLUMRIDGE, e e r ry to in a dis q t u in e etly s who ln l a Va n s s' N Y ' said, that in theprinted Mr. SIDNEY HERBER Admiralty regulation of the West papers relating to the Iwo rd . Liverpool was, by a India packet stations, t Falmouth. printer's error, substituted for Beard,. re! Chancellor o “h . e Excheq uer w h et h er it COMPTROELEII begged to ask the Right Hon. OF THE EXCHEQUER. . 6 e C n o t l l e o m n e a l o S t I b B e TI il' Was his int e nti o n to submit any . measure, to the H ouse for reg u l a ti ng th e m an and the . o th er d u ti es o f the Comptroller and the Dep u ty dayne r,o to l l i a ss y ü b it e ig tor Exchequer i ll i e o r us B e all ills Comptroller of th e Exchequer. • , . • . TbeCl- 0 1 itkolN an CEle.4aLrly tnt o f the EXCHEQUER hoped to he at)l that he proposed to do respecting the issue of Exche quer Bills. The subject was a. matter of serious consi deration to the Government, as well as to the CoMp troller-General of-the Exchequer, and some proposition in relation to it would shortly, be made to Parliament ; G but bey on d th a t h e was. not able to make any s t atement at present. In. respect to the latter part of th e He n . Member' s ques ti on , he should say that ther e was a t a ll of:nvteennttsionnooilniteanntieoanriyclay to take the sense of th e H ouse a b o lishing the offic e ofComptroller eneral. Colonel SIBTHORP then gave notice that it was hi s on the su bj ec t o f both the offices of C omp t ro ll er an d Depitty-Comptroller.—(Hear , and laught er . ) INTERMENT 1N TOWNS. !‘fr. MACKINNON gave notice that he would to morrow move for leave to bring in a bill on the subject of interment' of the dead in towns. PUBLIC WORKS. • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice that on Friday next, in a Committee of the whole House, lie would call the attention of the House to the Acts which regulate the advances for public Works. '.CITE CORN-LAWS—THE WAGES 01? LABOUII. Mr. COBDEN. gave notice that on the first opportu nity he would move, that inasmuch as that House had repeatedly declared by its votes and by the Reports of its Committees, that it was beyond the power, of the House to regulate the wageS,of labour, it would be manifestly unjust to pass any law raising the price of food without previously considering and determining what the opera tion of such law would be upon the rate of wages in this country.—(Hear, hear.) Leave of absence was granted to several Hon. Members until .aftei Easter or for shorter periods. Mr. JERVIS moved that leave of absence sh ou ld be . given to Mr. G ra i nger t o go on eircult.—(Loud c ric s Of " No, no.") Leave of absence was granted to Sir Hesketh Fleet wood on account-of ill health. " Mr. C.' BUIIER wished to call the attention of the House to the exceeding hardship of refusing leave of ab sence to Mr. Grainger.—(Cries of "Question.") It ap peared to him that it should be the object of that House to make attendance upon their duties as convenent to lawyers as they possibly could.—(Laughter.) He meant as convenient to them as to other Members, consistently with the proper discharge of their duties. When this question arose last session, •it was suggested that as it was in the power of the General Committee Elections to place different Members on the several Committees as they chose, the best course would be to place those hon. members who had to go the circuits upon those lists in which they is ould not be called upon during the period whilst -the circuit lasted. Surely tha was . " - a course which could not be attended with inconvenience to the public business. What was the state of things at pre sent ? The. Northern Circuit commenced on Wednes day, and Gentlemen were obliged tn go down imme diately, if they intended to attend the circuit, without knowing in what list .their name would be placed. If the suggestion to which he had referred were adopted all difficulty would be removed. Mr. JERVIS could not. see what possible inconve nience would arise from granting leave of absence to Mr. Grainger. Of co u rs e the tine would allow but one .panel to sit before. Easter. A barrister could not be excus id from being placed upon a particular piteel ; but the Cqnunitte had now the power. ifleave of absence were granted, to substiiute another for the absent member. Supposing that, a certain number of gentlemen of the legal profession were appointed •to act as Chair men, it was manifest that no Committee could sit before Easter, except one ; and therefore there could be no practical inconvenience arising if the indul gence sought for were extended by the House ; deed, if it was the ebject of "professional gentlemen to be dispensed with, or 'to escape the duties of attending: on committees altogether, he (Mr. Jervis) would agree with the House that they should be obliged to . perform , those duties, but it was not so, all they sought for was to be exempted from those duties during the circuits, he, therefore, hoPed the House would reconsider their deter mination, and that Hon. Gentlemen would not be carried away by any feeling, that lawyers had any intention' or anxtety to shrink from the:performance 'of the. ar duous and responsible duties of acting on Committees as well as other Hon. Memberson the entire, he submit ted that indulgence' should be extended to professional Gentlemen during their absence on circuits. Sir GEORGE GRRY agreed with his Honour able Friend in saying, that if Honourable Gen-: tlemen Were . bona fide practising Barristers, they should' be exempted from being on Committees during the circuits, and their names reserved for those counties where they could attend and perfOrm their duties con veniently and efficiently : Mr. MURPHY observed that the subject was of first importance to the profession ; if they sought the relaxa tion alluded to for the purpose of escaping attendance altogether, he would say it was unreasonable.—(Hear.)He thought it a very hard case' that they should be denied the 'indulgence which they sought, it being simply, not that they should escape any duty, but that they might be allowed to deter it. He trusted be should be excused for making his first appearance before the HOuse in a mutter of a personal consideration, but he thought it best openly and at once to state his views on the subject, as be should consider it a great hardship if he were not allowed that privilege which he now sought to obtain for another. Lord . MAHON thought-the application belore the House was quite just and reasonable. The indulgence claimed was not for the benefit of barristers only, but the interests of the clients also might suffer much. He did think the indulgence sought was one which the House might in justice to confer. Lord G. SOMERSET said it would not be convenient at present to make an examination into the panels. Ho should suggest, if that were the desire of the House to giant any indulgence, that it should not be done till after the appointment of the Chairman's panel and the general panels. He would press it on the House, that leave of absence should not be granted till the expiration of that period which would be some time about the middle of next week: As lie had said before, to.release the various Mem bers of the legal profession from their duties in this post, would throw impediments in the way of their ex ercising their discretion in conducting the business of Election Committees. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he was inclined, on general grounds, to join with the noes on the motion for granting leave of absence to _Honourable Members under ordinary circumstances. But it was frequently of the utmost importance to a member i)f the legal profession, and might, in fact, determine the whole career of a lawyer, his being able to attend, or being debarred from attending a circuit. In, such a case, it was better that the mode of carrying it into effect should be cOnsidered by the Members of the General ComMittee. The most convenient mode would be to grant the leave of absence, and then so to arrage the panels that the Members should not be called on duty during their absence. The members of the legal profession might rest assured that the House was not unwilling to treat them with fair consideration. Mr. E. BULLER asked the Right Hon. Baronet whether in the event of the Mouse coming to a decision to-night, he would proceed with his own plan imme diately ? early statement, he - (Lord J. Russell) conceived that by taking votes on account, without going through the estimates, he might obiatit the necessary votes to ' enable him to go into Committee of Ways and Means. Ile (Lord J. Russell) did not say that that coarse -Might be taken, but he wished to know whether the Right Honourable Gentleman meant to go formally the estimates in CoMmittee of Supply. Sir R. PEEL was experiencing the same difficulty that the Noble Lord would have expericncett at the corn mencement of last Session if he had continued in the Go vernment. Ile bad called the attentren of the House to the subjects of the Corn-laws and the Import Duties, and it had been stated, in the Speech from the Throne; that it Was - the intention of the Govern-; ment to bring . those subjects mater the consideration of the House, therefore the Noble Lord had he continued in the Govtrnment, would have experienced precisely the same difficulty which he (air Robert Peel) was ex periencing at present. lie (Sir R. - Peel) had thought it infinitely better to proceed - at once with • the question 'of the Corn-laws, than to postpone. 'the consideration' of • that question until he could bring fern and his geeeral financial statement He was not an are of any consideration of public interest which should interfere to prevent explanation on the part of the Government %illicit they might think it necessary to make in the Committee of Ways and Means, and so far as the public interest was concerned he was prepared to snake his statement at as early .a period as possible. He had not expected that the discussion on the Corn-laws would have been so long. It was desirable that the House should come to a decision on the question of the Corn laws at as eaaly a period as possible.—(Hear, hear.) That measure affected the duties on corn, and he hoped that after the House had decided on the measure, those who were opposed to the sliding scale, and those who were oppoeed to any duty whatever, would receive the Government measure as. a great relaxation of the existing system, and not to be disposed to throw ob stacles in the way of its becoming. the law of the . land • as speedily as - possible. A soon as he possibly could he would bring in the Bill. He had not been able as yet even to introduce the Bill, on account of the. length to which the preliminary dis cussions had extended. He did not complain of that, he had .no right to complain of it, he - merely men tioned the fact. He proposed at the earliest oppor tunity after the debate on the Corn-lawS should .be closed, to take'the Army and Navy Estimates in the Committee of Supply, and if the • House should feel disposed to vote those estimates, lie woulkat the earliest possible moment he could, get those votes proposed. that the House do resolve itself into a Committee of Ways and Means, when he would explain the whole of the intentions of her Majesty's Government with regard to the finances. The moment he had an opportunity of making that statement, he would avail himself of it. if they were to interrupt the discussion on the Corn laws now going on, they would not elicit my opinion from the House, while great inconvenience would be offered to thepublic service.- 7 --(Hear.) What he proposed measures to take the. : opinion of the House on the principle of the law and on the duties, and then to take a vote; after which, in a Committee of Supply - , he would state his financial proposals.. • GOLD COINAGE. The CHANCELLOR of the i4.IXCHEQUER, in answer to an Honourable Gentleman whose name we could not learn, said that the attention of her Britannic Majesty's Government had been for sonie time directed to the state of the 'gold cur• relic.), and that they bad, in preparation a measure to remedy the inconvenience now complained of. • '• CORN-LAW B—(ADJOURNED DEBATE.) On the Order of the Day for resuming the adjourned debate being read, • Mr. S. CITIAWPORD said, that being the represen tative of a constituency, which had sent a petition. signed by 20,000 persons to that House, but whir:. the rules preVented from • entering - uper at the time of the --presentation, he was now anxious't, say a few words on the subject of that - petition. te> a duty he owed to himself and his " constituents. He rose, therefore, to give his unqualifieo unhesitating. and uncompromising support to the inet:on of the non. Member for Wolxerhamptchi. lie •(Mr. 'Sharman 'Crawford) called for 'the inane ((late ' and total repeal -of the Corn• law riot' ' only 'on the 'part •of his constittiene.), but on the part of every class of the nation, not even excepting the' landlord, for, as a landed proprietor. he felt, that though the Corn-laws gave an appaient ad vantage, yet the landud interest would stiffer ultimateb inure troth their continuance than front their appeal.— (Hear.) It had been alleged that' it was injudicious ti bring .forward this motion, because he knew it was impractable to him to carry it. He asked would it. not be also impraeticable to carry a modification of the mea sure now introduced by her Majesty's Government? The Government was so powerful that they could cur.% their own measure without noticing any modification, anu therefore it was right to make a stand, upon true principles. The , Corn-laws - were ' not snpported by justice, or by wisdom, and therefore, we were right in demanding their immediate and total repeal. Be demanded a total repeal because he thought it was only consistent with justice, and he demanded the imme diate repeal because the necessities of the people ' required that it should be immediate. lie felt that those who supported the total and immediate repeal were bound to bring the subject before that House for he was of opinion that no Member should agitate the public Upon a s question which they were not ready and willing to discuss within the walls of the House. Those who main tained the principle which he maintained might be called impracticables ;" but he would ask, how could any great principle be supported or defended, if there were not some parties ready to stand upon the high groUnd of principle: Comprises might be useful ; but there could be no •ComprOmise unless th er e were some who strictly adhered to principle.' • But though he would not compromise the question - of a total repeal, he would be ready to take into con sideration the just claims of the agriculturists to relief and indulgence. It had been stated that the County-rate, the Poor-rate, and . the Land tax, were burthens which pressed 'peculiarly upon the landed interest. Now, he thought, those claims had been satisfactorily answered, and that the landed interest were not subject to any burdens in these respects, which they were not justly entitled to bear. He held a different opinion, however, with regard to the tithe taxation. could not admit that the tithes were justly chargeable to the landed interest. He would be ready to make a comparison with the landowners on the tithe question ; if tithes might be considered national property, he would be willing to extinguish tithes altogether, and to let every man pay for his own clergyman.—(Bear.) There was another question which he conceived ought to be attended - to: It was alleged that tenants who had :alien • out leases at a rack-rent, and in the high duties, swould be subjected to very great hardships by the lowering .of the averag es , He admitted that there would be hardship, and was pre pared to consider some mode of protecting, them. He thought the mode by which thhy would be .prote c t e d was this, that in cases were tenants had taker! out leases at a rack-rent., since the year 1815, if it appeared it. or five years after the Corn-laws were repealed, that the average o 1 prices were lowered, there should be a proportioniible loitering of the - rent. In the speech the Noble Lord w ho opened that discussion the N ogle Lorei called : for such a settlement of thequestion as would remove all complaints. The Noble Lord deprecated conceding without conciliating, altering without settling. Whet he heard that speech he hoped that the Noble Lord vas about to advocate a repeal of the Corn-law ; fur 'hi was " satisfied that no measure short' of a total ropeid sold satisfy the people of this country. - The proposition of a fixed duty, or any other measure short of repeal, would only excite freSh agitation. The Hon. 'Member for Liskeard spoke of the Corn laws as a vested interest, and deprecated - dealing with them in any other light. He denied that they were, were a vested interest;. they were proposed by the landlords themselves for their own protec tion, and therefore they could not be considered as a vested interes. Be would give the House an instance of the powerful feeling which had been raised out of the House in reference to that object. At a meeting held ut Rochdale, the working classes and the manufac turers had come into collision. SVROI3ERT PEEL said he hoped the House would see the necessity of bringing this long and protracted disbussion to a close—(Hear, hear)—and in ,the event of a division, he shocld be prepared to go on with his prososed measure to-morrow (Wednesday) ; should any thing occhr to interrupt this course, he should propose to proceed with it on Friday. DETENTION OF ' BRITISH SUBJECTS. Mr. MURPHY rose to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice, relative to the detention of British subjects by the authorities of Central America. A grant of land had been obtained ft om a petty king in Central America, and money had been ob tained, and an association, consisting of fourteen individuals ; had been appointed . for the purpose of carrying out the objects for which the grant had been obtained. A ship had been chartered, and indivi duals selected to explore the country. Ond of those in dividuals was a professional gentleman, and the other an individual named Bell, who was web known from his connexion with the ViXen. These individuals had interview with the King of the country, , who confirmed the grant, hut wishing to explore the country they • ascended, a river, in the aios quitto country, and frOm thence they got into the Blue. Fields river,. which -they ascended till they came into. the Spanish territories. Here being fatigued and wearied, they were seized by the Spanish Government, and after being taken a distance of 30 miles, were east into prison. The only reason assigned for such conduct on the part of the Spanish authbrities was, that these individuals were taken by way' of reprisal for some in dignities east upon Central America by Colonel M•Donnell. At the end of forty clsys all the prisoners Were liberated except Mr. Bell who died from the seve tities he endured. Under theSe circumstances he i'ished to bring the facts before the House, and in the words of the motion, of which he had given notice— to call the attention of the House to the detention and. imprisonment of certain British subjects by the authori ties of Central America ; and to - move for copies of any s.--... correspondence which may have taken place with her , Lepretre .Dubocage whose name has figured in se- Majesty's Government upon that subject ; and o f any veral political p rose cutions and who was condemned to impri despatches which they may have received from Sir senment for att em pt ing the lives of two sergens de ville, in the Charles Metcalfe, the Governor of Jamaica. r i ot at t h e I mpasse Saint Se,hastien in 1836, but was included Lord STANLEY said it would be unnece s s ar y t o in the amnesty on th e marr i age of' the Duke of Orleans, has enter into the details of the case after the statement I since been living quietly, maintaining himself by his trade as a which had been made by the lion, and Learned Member, house-painter. '1 his man on Tuesday committed suicide under . the e na . following ou r ed of a woman, e i r t c h u e mt a e. From what he (Lord Stanley) understood, Mr. Bell and intimate friend of h b is et. o o vv in n e other gentlemen entered into a speculation, and contracted mistress, he used ro ev g er attempt to seduce her, but she indig for a certain extent of territory on the Mosquito shore, but nantly repelled . his advances. y On Tuesday he informed a these gentlemen, wishing to explore the country, had friend named Rousselet, who occupied the same room with him, ascended the Blue ,Field Rivers, and having entered that he had had a quarrel at La Courtilk, and must fight a into the Spanish territories, they were seized and duel. Taking a pair of pistols they went together to Belleville, imprisoned by the Spanish authorities.—(Hear.) That and entered a wine -house, where .Dubocage said his adversary was, however, the information of the party them- was to meet him. No one, however, came, and they remained selves, and it was entirely an ex-parte statement, drinking with some other companions till night, when they re restitution .and reparation, unless the individuals in turned together into Paris. While in the Rue du Faubourg question had been seized in consequence of , some du Temple, Dubocage, who was in advance of the rest, sud violations of the laws of the State, were de- denly turned round, and saying, " Good night, my friends," mended by .her Majesty's Government. The explana- put one of the pistols to his bead, fired, and instantly fell dead. tion of the state had not yet been received i n thi s coun- An immense quantity of snow has lately f a ll en i n try. Such being the case, the. HOuse would not, he con- the mountains of the Ardeehe, and many of the passes have been entirely blocked up. On the 3d instant a hundred artil cerved, require an ex parte statement, and he hoped, lerymen, who had left Puy for Aubenas, on their way to Africa, therefore, that the Hon. Gentleman wouldhis motion, were only able to cross the Peyrabaille by dint of excessive fa- Mr. MURPHY, after the explanation of the Noble tigue, and holding each other from time to time by the hand. Lord, would of course comply with the request of Several lamentable accidents Laic occurred in different parts of withdrawing the motion. He (Mr. M.) had been under the mountains. the impression that despachcs on the subject had been The late cold weather and the prevalence of snow received froni Sir C. Metcalfe. However s he presumed in many parts of France seem to hare been highly propitious to the Government would adopt the measures that seemed sportsmen fond of wolf-hunting. The departmental papers best in the case. I have recently been prolific in ac counts of animals of this species The motion was then withdrawn. having been shot in all part s o f the country, especially in Nor- COLONIAL DUTIES—VAN DIEMAN'S LAND. 'Dandy and in the Jura. • l'ile adventure of the tame bear and traveller, on Mr. G. HOPE moved for leave to bring in a Bill to Van Diemen's bee taospboatitnhe recent] diligence, which our readers may remem confirm .au Act of the Legislature of Land for authorizing the levy of certain duties of cus- b g ly occurred, did not terminate so risibly, it appears,for one of the parties concerned. Young Bruin, after toms, and on spirits, , the precipitate d esert i on of his companion, being driven to Leave granted. MINISTERIAL. FINANCIAL MEASURES. seek another pastime, occupied hi mse lf w i t h i nspec ti ng th e bandboxes, carpet bags, and other light articles on the top ef Lord JOHN RUSSELL wished to know if the Right , the coach, and not being in possession of the keys, he made Honourable Gentleman w ou ld now state to the . k re ibl e entry, by means of tooth and claw; with such effect, House tjte course he meant t o pursue w ith regard , that boxes and bags with their contents were in a few minutes to the other important m easures o f t h e G o vern- . torn to pieces, many of them in the ope ation Leing thrown oppor- 'the a t t o te t n h t e io d n of the conduhci;eunre,wanddhthuerb inent, The Right Honourable Gentleman had stated : down upon the road. an endeavourede eaairi that he Was anxious to take the earliest evastation. The juvenile bear, tunity of making that, statement. The reasons were ! P to s be so a t w o a awakene r e a e obvious why such a statement should be made as early as , 1 conflict easily civerted from his frolic, and showed fight. however,.v , lt as not A ensued, and became so desperate, that the man was soon as possible. - Various rumours were afloat, and questions ' compell d ' Hon. Gent. e , in order to save his own life, to put an end to that of asked in public on the matter. The Right .to the • the refractory outside traveller, who te;miatd his long journey might be of opinion that it. would be dangerousthat from Texas to the Garden of Plants moie t ie s the form of a grey public interest, for some reason, or other, to make nadier's rap than a living animal. An action, it is said, has statement now. He (Lord J. Russell) wished to leave . been brought against the condueteur for the loss of the animal. Judgment as to , , it entirely to the Right Hon; Gentleman's the liandaybad of Asesteidurn aiiriounces that the course he ought to pursue. If the Right Honour- ; Mademoiselle Rachel is w arrive shortly at the Hague, for the able Gentleman thought it Was necessary to make an l ' purpose of performing for a limited number of nights, (LEFT SPEAKING.) LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 21. L :T . O LORD DUNGLAS V. THE DUKE OF ARGYLL. The arguments not having concluded at half-past threi, o'clock, were postponed till to-morrow (this day). VISCOUNT MAITLAND V. HORNE. Lord CorrENHAst gave judgment in this case, w hich wt; argued before the House when his Lordship was Chancellor.,* Their Lordships, under the advice of the Noble Lord, orders d l the judgment in thr Court below to be reversed, with costs.- VIGERS V. PIKE. This appeal also stood on the paper for judgment, but 11,80 ' Lordships deferred giving their decision till to-morrow 0.0 4 day COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 21. (Nisi Prins sittings at Gutidhatl, Before Lord ABINGEn and a Special Jury.) 1. SHARPE V. THE BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY CD:C. , . a .. Mr. Richards and Mr. Martin appeared for the plai Tall .1 ' ' -- the Solicitor-General, with Mr. Wortley and Mr. o t :". were Counsel for the defendants. This was an action brought far the recovery of abebaliannicstio the price of five locomotive' engines, stipulated to . sS at 1,765/. each, by Alessrs. Sharpe and Roberts, the celeb „;e engine manufacturers of Manchester, for the defendants' - the' sum fur which the action was brought was a°d stirs defence set up was that in the construction of the ents.7 e sti the plaintiffs had departed from the agreement or spec ,a je „ o a entered into between them and the defendants, by a er fastenings or rivets in making the fire boxes instead of cFP' a „.. fastenings, which they were bound by contract to use; I (,re r at peared that the plaintiffs had built ten engines for rise Western Railway Company, who subsequently became , ce i n le i netted with the defendants, arid that they• stipulated W the five engines in question, precisely on the same Pril w ay and, in every respect the same, as the Great Western Rely engines, engines, the fire boxes of those engines were mod e 5 ... as: copper rivets, but the plaintiffs substituted iron, beta, they alleged it was more durable, of more absolute str etl ev. sod more capable than copper to withstand the P° o 7o using of expansion. This variation front the original { l i v ery was not discovered until some time after the . f o r the of the engines, and then the defendants objected to nay l o „ p er engines on the ground that the substitution of iron fur co pper was never acquiesced in by them, and that they coO 6l . Aen se copper fastenings better and safer. It now appeared in ttas that the substitution of iron for copper rivets was a su bs tial and practical improvement, and that that, amongst, n ?sr deviations from the of iginal specification, had been mad , l ' wo re advantage of the defendants, and to render the engine', 4 , t iffs durable. In many instances the alterations cost thee: o M more than the construction of the engines, according % t iffs original agreement, would have amounted to. The had turned out 200 engines within the last three Yea r ',,' s ch none of them had copper rivets. They were all very w approved of. r. Gregorie, an engineer employed on the Croydte° i r on deposed that iron rivets were much better than copper• er ; might be more safely heated to a greater degree than CO_ ? P besides, it was more powerful, and capable of drawig o k flanges, which form the copper joints of the fire-boxes , n to a closer than iron. In saying that iron could be heate it greater degree than copper more safely, he meant , l o g could be heated to a greater degree without deteriol o s the quality of the metal ; the tenacity and str e o, of iron were greater than copper, and in Contra' ot it exercised greater force. Iron contracted mere rapid!'" o r copper could, it was better for rivets because it had the P e tr a r of drawing the joints together more tightly. There was n ° 0 11 of cot rosion. It was observed that the heads of copper bol ts bo ip in fire-boxes were worn away whilst the heads of iror4 et e used for similar purposes were comparatively sound. &s. were several engines supplied to the Croydon Railway 1 1 of zany by Messrs. Sharpe ana Roberts (the plaintiffs). them were made with iron rivets—they had now been O r r to en that hue for tour years, and there was no reason what complain of them ; the iron fastenings were found to be "' better than copper. na" Mr. Thomas Stethen, engineer of the Brighton and P be rs Railway Company, and Mr. Fife, engineer of the Ner t t hat and Eastern Counties Railway Company, likewise depos ed iron rivets were preferable to coper. r t he The SOLICITOR-GENERAL objected to the opinions ° f t he witnesses being received as evidence, and address t se • J ray for the defendants. The simple question wa s'whethe t r ors plaintiffs had complied with the contract entered into , them and the defendants or not, and if not, whether ths.'eisg :endants . had waived the non-compliance 'by retl' e ,of end using the engines ih question prior to the disco' lid the defects in them ; that the plaintiffs should be s trict , at I down to the terms of the stipulation they had entered int e ' t tle to the degree of latitude to be allowed in deviating cr e it ee o rt; particular contract, he denied that .the plaintiff be n es' trom the defendants to deviate from the terms of the ste e tion without the consent of Mr. Brunel . or Mr. Gout X 4 0 C engineers of the ompany. A preposition, it is i ree , e made to Mr. Brunel, to alter the contract by i rnakinsgst of the stays or bolts from copper instead of ron, h Brunel, on behalf of the defendants absolutely . refused I se ~ quiesce in such an alteration, because it was found o ' o oo copper bolts had worked well in the engines of th e s ; i4 4 F Western Railway, and therefore no consent had been ' alter or deviate from the specification in that respecctits p i 0 contended that the plaintiffs could riot maintain theirs t ° ,, they had deviated from the terms of their written contrsci;real Mr. Daniel Gouche, one of the engineers of the p ipet Western Railway, proved that the fire-boxes of the 112 e '7os on that line, with the exception of those supplied by Sharpe and Roberts, were made with Roberta r seen 411 the engines supplied by Sharpe and n we gia ol to time, and did not discover that the rivets were at _tr°! l ' o lo long after they were delivered to the defendants. of the ten engines delivered to the Great Western were defective. . L T o h r e d ‘ A v ß i t l n N e G s e stateddt h w a h t e t n h t e h y e e e r n e g engine t s he had be b s e t e o n f v his reerceeloi,li lection delivered in 1840 ; they had all done considerable ' c os t The five engines delivered to the defendants had Pot muc h work, the boiler of one of them (the Panther) ' and burst ; it failed near the door. tha t Lord ABINGEII—CouId you form a judgment w hether, j jog .failure in, the Panther engi ne was ow i ng t o iron rivets yr Ised? I Witness—l don't know. We have had no proof of thsi' D st have had conversations with Messrs. Sharpe and R° be ., l l ll e I . never on any occasion consen t e d to t h e su bstitution sts rivets for copper rivets. It was never mentioned to We' :! still in the employment of the defendants. Mr.. Brunel, the other engineer, deposed that be e stale fii !es . authorised the plaintiffs to use iron instead of copp er a s th e , ( .1e Mr. RICHARDS contended for the plaintiffs IT toe to of fendants had acquiesced in the deviation that had ; a ste'' t be from the terms of the agreement, in using iron c i iot to copper rivets, and in any event the departure, acen r , it aaot' it f evidence, must have the effect of serving the de e silf" e , s t rendering the engines more e ffi cient and durabl e ' ti e of c " could be of no advantage to the plaintiffs, thndifferenteaiq lob ,s.;l being only a few shillings in each engine for copper f ' s l .d Lord MUNGER, in summing up said, that with reg 3 s being the balance of one of the engines delivered to t:, , er diet.e ant and not objected to, they were bound to find be,f, the plaintiff. The question then was, Whether Is/fi a e nd 2 PD, the price of another of the engines delivered to th e . w' bee n ° # 10 should not be added to that sum ; that engine ." 01°,4 jected to because it was not executed in the way slt! t i a tbs'ae contract entered into between the parties ; it was to al a man ordered work, and if it was not done accorone te di contract, and as it had been ordered, it could be Or, r ov e 0 ; the same principle, if the engines in question were 0n",..0 0 4 „ they were ordered, they could be rejected by' the dc" tbe but then they Jury would have to determine whethe r o bjeec o c e tract had been substantially performed—whether the, fa e' e li ' taken long after the delivery of the engines,. arose af t t oy collateral cause ; the contract was not to be inferW,rd ii t from the speciflcation—ther e were many engines del , , 00 51 ,i , the plaintiffs to the defendants, and the jut y s hould L' ir iefi,, whether there were not abundant opportunities for the fro s ants to consider the deviation that had been made ise t i r t contract; it might have been easily ascertained but " I s O l e r s had been instituted, and no objection made. Sever t bses„s l made with iron rivets had been received and had n th ey ai jected to by the defendants. That seemed as re f approved of them, and if they were, in t r t teri'ts of fact., aware of the deviation in that respect, from th fet alo D e the agreement, that acquier , ence on the part of the l e d " ce ll gave rise to a new coreract, by which they should of t r at bound, if tie jury thought that the alteration - • beu td atP t i t s made with a fraudulent intention, but with a view „ t the, substantial improvement in ' the mach nery, and thL, to p fendants having had sufficient time and opportue," l o l cover that the alteration was made, acquiesed in it iaeir'Do! mitted it to be made, particularly when it was Of ,ofsy advantage, a verdict should be returned for the pia' n opt if the jury were of opinion that the deviation was n e a. i . t ae.' in by the delendants, and that it was detrimental terests, they should find a verdict for the defendants . t hei'y The Jury immediately handed in their verdict for tiff, for 2,3751. damages and interest. THE MARKETS. i IP PRE.:E EnD. I Ihe h)ghcst eof :••(.: 1. he M ticplisisVi Loaf. G.. .d Bread may be had a , 74d. PREE.i 01 SEEDS. t rte% 5•,4e.!1( stl 1 . ; i Per Cwt. _ _ per Qua , - .....:`; 0 0 . ,,i Sew English Heft C10ver...65i 83s St. Fein ..........•.--• ......... 2 6, 4 Old Litt , . Dino -s s-s Rye Grass.... ........ ,ii••,....,36 1,0 New Foreign Mao.- -s 755 92s Pacey Grass ............. 20 ' E 'iis ',;:o 01d Ditto Di.to -s -s -s Linseed, for fe..ilia ' • " 3 JO •'s hew White Clover 54s (Ts 65s Dit t o, for sowing ..... ' -'''' e t , Old Ditto Ditto -a .., s -s. Ditto, for erushi. , S etas cw Tre. oil .... Old Ditto -s 'LW I , Bs Canary................. 1 , 10 13:4 'fr. folium -- a -s -s Per ......... o ` l 11 il i tis ~, to /, English Carraway -s .506 5.s White Mustard•fil t o ~ Foreign Ditto s 46s 130 s Brown Ditt0..... , ' 5O Ci' ,6 ", Coriansier ... -s -s -sTares ..... - ..................... '1 a " I'RIt.E OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. prr ` ..... I 1 6 ~" Town Tallow ....... ........ £2 10 0 Melting Stuff.- ..... ..". 0 ' Yellow Russia White ... ii 0 C Graves ................ •:•,....' g , Soap Ditto 0 0 0 Good Dregs .....»••• ., 4 , .. 0 . g PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 51 ' ~•• Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Meltors) ....... 0 49 I PaICE OF OIL. L.., . 0 Rape Oil. brown, per ton ...." ps 0 Ditto, refined .................... `' 5 5 4 10 .................. ....... ~ ...... its 0 Linseed Oil. ....... .. ......... . .................... ...... .. I . 1 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill (per 1000) ........ . .... d• Rape t ake, per ton ............... .---. ... ....... ....''` N 6 COAL MARKET. • „. 4 0 6 Ships arrived since list maricet.daYs "'-' it .ie 0 6 ~ d. ole o ~.. al 6 Adair's Bell, Robson k Co. Hartley 16 fliWalls End Ha on ....:„... 'il 6 Buddle's West Hartley lB 0 Walls End Ken to n •'" . ...• 0 6 Can's Hartley Hebburn Main lB 9 Walls End Stew r ioc ..... .. ... " 0 0 crew Tanfield Moor IS 3 1 Walls End A c e s s r. ... . ......... „ .. , 0 0 Ord's Redheugh ' l6 oWalls Enil C 3 ni gur'.•• • ;,..,.. it 0 '1 anfleld Moor ' 0 0 Walli End SO 0 04 ,01 ' • ... , ' pi Wylam ' l7 61'w:want's Hl, O lO '" ... •• 0 6 Walls End Heaton l9 6; Walls End ik.,"; v burn ... .... 1: 0 Walls Eud Hedlcy l9 6 Walls Et.d .'°' ....... itel I S ..... t fro. . ' Walls End Hilda. lB 9 Hartley ..... i i es Walls Walls En En d d K H i o n t i s n pA v r 0 . 1 1 8 8 8 6 BRhaivpecnnts:r.r..t...., ....... .... i• Walls End S. Killingworth 15 9, _ - IMPERIAL PARLIA Isll4l must do co-to.-mmv,, SOUSE OF vs, cf;-01).,/ H,CORN-LAWS—ADJOURNED .PPI)-`-0 st ; air. LIARDY (in • • ceetleA I 0° They Continuation) pro 1110' t ier . one or the other .° work "IIeCV only proiect•th him a n d the manufacturer, but all wh ..._, „wi n der t g .. are connected with him in trade. li? all e, !n ni the . agriculturist, they likewi,e peterv.,a iii,, T.,.;they protect saddlers, blachsmiths nn t t he l'',, who are connected with him, - and they pr"ititrt p ot ...; also. Hon. Gentlemen, therefore, ni . : Lot o:r e , that en f protection did not extend to the taboo !*:.'160)014 m n ined only to the landed proprietor. 1 I°',. e o f lio, _ n en oppo s ite could never have looked at the 11.1:1,'e 00,et:, jthis country, and the return' it makes wt`,P0..804, ~ where was the estate that paid mere tiln i n . 4 „ti oll i ß o, halt or three per cent. for the money Ift it ` r - . ---( 1 ' 17- 0 1 That was not the case with inaltuffiettl ys o •_ . 0 ,00 ,i hear.) But when they thouht that 6a,ooci. 'a.,,lifoi an ,h la ., ' • la out in laud ' lei" " sure vv.°- tiltnik v. 0,1 only nO,O tilo or three per cent,. .he. . Car. J- .1, .tic h to 0 ,. , t WI'S a stroug proof that iltele 1%115 DO !.,.1.,, joi„ 1,,, proteetion in favour of land. 't Ito i...ott. .1-;7o's; ' posite hid. menf • 1 opinion of Mr. 1 -1 ""- -. , ~ io. - ict. an :-.iN . eo r ' its am r'orl co t , that do lt th e had At to ti ,- th e " t 't rilat ''re th e It (1,, hii . t ay of had 3! e ( )11 on (i ttr, api 4.11 th a 14 ~~ri' al .)ii 17 41 6 ti 1) flit