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"thinly very ingeniously, and, admitting his premises, very conclusively, that an income tax might be made an equal tor—for, supposing a man to have an an nuity of 1001. for ten years, he could, if an incom e tax was imposed, pay it only for ten year.; whilst the man who had a perpetual annuity of 100/., would ply it in perpetuity. But does my Hon. Friend propose that this tax should be a perpetual tax, or does he suppose that it should be a perpetual one? To say nothing of putting on a tax, which, for many years at least, would be an unjust tax, on the ground that length of time would finally make it equal." We do not think his Lordship has correctly understood the Hon. Member for Bridport. What the Hon. Member meant was, that all persons should pay in proportion to the property they possessed ; that income of various kinds is of various values, and that the tax should be imposed on each pro perty according to its value. A door, however, might be opened to fraud in the case of persona possessing estates in fee. Supposing the rent of an estate 2,0001., an an nuity to that amount might be granted to a relation of an advanced age. The value of this annuity might be small. while the proprietor might dur:ng its existence escape the prop-rty tax. But with regard to professional incomes, it is true that a lawyer who receives 1,0001. a year, and lives up to his income, may pay as much in indirect taxes as a squire with 1,0001. a year, who also lives up to his income ; and it has been inferred from this that an in come tax, treating all incomes alike, no matter how de rived, would not be unjust, as the lawyer would be re lieved from the same amount of indirect taxes as the squire. But a professional man with 1,000/. a year is not justified in spending, and seldom does spend, the whole of his income, while the squire seldom saves any thing, and generally exceeds his income ; and the reason is obvious —the professional man considers his life and income pre carious, and, as an honest man, endeavours to save something, that his family may not be left destitute. His indirect taxes, therefore, do not equal the squire's. And any income tax which shall not estimate the value of his income on correct principles, and impose the tax on such an annuity as that value would purchase, would be ex ceedingly unjust. But experience teaches us not to anti cipate much from any other sources of income than those derived from lands, tithes, mines, annuities, interest on mortgages, and other property of a similar description. No man would hesitate any more now than in 1816 to have recourse to fraud to evade the tax, whenever practi cable. No extent of inquisitorial powers, however severely they might press on individuals, could possibly extort a c ansiderab'e proportion of an income tax, from any but those who might be unable to evade it. But Lord Althorp plainly told the House that they might if they chose nega• tive his proposition, but that he should consider such a vote in the light of a notice to quit. As a good deal of stress was laid on his declaration in the course of the discussion, w© shall here give it. After admitting the doctrine that l'ilinisters ought to follow the directions of a reformed Parliament, he proceeded to observe— " I admit that I have united against me all who are in favour of a property tax,—l have united against me all who are in favour of a repeal of the malt tax—and all who are in favour of the motion of the Hon. Baronet—with some of those who are of opinion that there might be larger reductions of taxation without any substitute whatever. Perhaps it may be thought that I have acted improperly in pursuing a plan which has united so many parties against n-.e ; hut it is clear that all those who will so unite in voting against me, must disap prove of the policy which I have adopted with regard to the finances of the country ; and if it should appear, by the result of this evening's discussion, that a majority of the House agreed o n vo ti ng aga i nst my propos i t i on, t h at majoriiy will have expressed its disapprobation of my tinaneiftl plans ; anal I should certainly not, in such a case, consider myself fit to remain Chancellor of the Exche quer." Of course, if there had been any wish in the House to get rid of Ministers, this declaration of his Lord ship would only have strengthened it ; but such a wish does not exist, and his Lordship's declaration put the House on their guard. We have already observed that Lord Althorp proposes to give a boon to the small shop /co'epets. It is this. " Two objections (said his Lordship) have Leen made to the proposed relief to shopkeepers. The first is, that the relief will be but trifling ; the second is, that it will operate as a relief only to the larger shop. keepers, and will be of no benefit whatever to the smaller. I have considered these objections, and I think the latter has considerable force. I think that the objec tion may be obviata d, with respect to the windows, by not deifuetiog three, or any particular number of windows which the shop may have; but by enacting that in all houses having shops attached to them, one half of the duty should he taken off. That is simpler than nay aari• ainal plan, and will be less difficult to carry into affect; anal it will relieve the large and the email shopkeepers in equal prop(); tions, without a much greater sacrifice of revenue than I at first estimated." We have assumed, what has all along been taken for granted by the House, that ravines to the exo-nt of the rep, ala could not possibly be made. Mr. Hume endeavoured, at considerable length, to show that savings to the extent of the taxes reduced might be made. "He hoped (he said) that the goose would act upon the same principle as Ministers had acted at the India House, when the Directors said they could not carry on the Governmeut of India without money. Ah ! (said the President of the Board of Control,) we will cut off the ionney, anal then you will be forced to be econo oliaal," This is no doubt a good maxim to a certain extent, It is for the House to say what the people can afford, and the scale of expenditure must be framed accordingly. But Mr. Hume will final that his difficulty is here with the House, reformed though it he. Toe getting rid of the malt tax is a very different affair from lopping off five millions from the expenditure. Mr. Hume concluded with announcing an amendment in the event of the loss of Lord Althorp's, purporting that the . repeal ought, if possible, to be made good by a corre epsuoling reduction in the exprndi ore of the country; a rid if tOis,a could not be effected, by the imposition of new taxes on the oeoperty of the country. Sir Robert Peel ciwelt much on the necessity of taxing income as well as property, anal on the inamcrality to which an income tax avoulal necessarily lead. A good deal of skill is displayed in the mode of are,uing the iteople out of their partiality for a property tax, which the Members know would fall almost exclusively on the rich. The middling classes would ha come great sinners; but the pockets of the rich would be emptied. Upon the whole, the result of last night will prove satisfactory to the country. Economy joust be forced on the Government ; far all governments natural'y dislike the unpleasant t.,sk of depriving men of offices and incomes. By degrees we shall obtain consi derable reductions. But the Home were taking a mortal igap, which filled the country with alarm. The tonal toaio,as began to look about them. But ail will now go G rp 811300.4,1;/.-,Norning Chronicle. Sir 4. Key int night brought forward his resolution for the repeal'of the house and window taxes. The Hon. Baronet, in an I ffec , ive speech, urged the various objec tions to which he conaiderrd those taxes liable, and dwelt strongly on the unjust and partial manner in which they bad been made to hear upon the productive industry cf _the country. The circumstance that London alone pays more than half the amount of the tax, and, combined with: Yorkshire, Somersetshire, and Lancashire, more than three-fourths, was insisted on to show how partially the impost operates, and how heavily it presses on trade. The comparative exemption of the great mansions, as contrasted with the charges on shops and on houses of a m L l, ll , ng size, formed another topic of animadversion, as will as I.;:it general tendency of the system to abridge the eon:forts of ti,et people, by cutting off, or materially di. cninishing, lhe advantages of light and air. As for the re lief intended by ti Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Key copsideted it a delu.ion, which would affect but few even of the shopkeepers thtmselves. For these and other reasons, amongst which we 'shall only notice the opportunity that would be afforded by the repeal of these taxes, to gat rid of the expensive establishments necessary to their collection, he concluded by moving for the repeal of the house and window t.ixes. It fur nishes a curious proof of the turn which public opinion has taken when we find Sir John Key, one of the most ardent supporters of Government, driven by the force (1 circumstances to propose a motion which involves their political existence. Lord Althorn moved the resolution of which he had given notice, as an amendment to that of I 'e Hon. Baronet. The amendment went to recognise tee substituti on of a property tax in case the malt duty grid asseved taxes should be repealed, but at the same ;time pledged the House to the inexpediency of such a tax. His-Lordship reminded them how unpopular and inquisitorial the former property tax had been, and asked what reason there was fo r suppos i ng that it would be less so now than in 18 1 6, when it was relinquished in obedience to the w ish e s of t he people? In the eourse of his speech, after admitting fully the difficulty in which the House was placed by his amendment, and the inconsis tency of rejecting one night the opinion whieh they h a d adopted on another, the Chancellor of the Exchequer in timated his intention of retiring from office in case his proposition should be lost. Thus was the same threat which had 'sired the same Ministry before, resorted to in the present instance also.—Morning Herald. Lord Althorp brought forward in his Rouse of Com mons last night the motion of which he had given notice on Mond.y. He proposed that his House of Commons ebuuld vote, in the brit place, that the malt tax ousht nAt to be reduced to ten shilling's a quarter; in the second place, that the hou s e and window taxes ought not to he taken off; in the third place, that, if the one were reduced and the other taken off, a property tix would he unavoid able. He proposed, therefore, in the first place, that the House should affirm a resolution which it had already negatived; in the second place, that it should rtject a sug gestion which hail not been discussed ; in the third place, that it should adopt a principle which had not been pro pounded. The amendment moved by Lord Althorn pro duced, of course, a debate of great interest. We will make no detailed remarks upon it to-clay. Fur the present let us only say that we observe with deep regret the, disunkn which prevails among those whom we most desire to se e united upon a question on which we should have thought that nothing but union could exist. The following were the divisions :—On the repeal of the house and window tax, ayes 157, noes 355 ; ma jority for Ministers 198. On Lord Ahhorp's res.dution, ayes 285, noes 131 ; majority for Ministers 154. On the motion for leave to bring in a Bill , in pursuance of the vote of Friday last, to reduce the malt duty, ayes 76, noes 238 ; majority for Ministers 162. If the vote of Friday night surprised his Majesty's Ministers, those of yesterday will astonish the country. These votes develop a new privilege peculiar to a Parliament which has un dergone the process of Whig reform, that of affirming contradictory propositions within an interval of four days, without any sacrifice of its consistency, any abatement of its dignity, or any injury to its reputation. The present is the first House of Commons that ever enjoyed so happy an immunity. We rejoice in the opportunity afforded Icy the double resignation of Sir John Hobhouse—to the in habitants of Westminster of proving their unabated con 6 dente in Reformers —and to the Administration of showing how easily they can still find among the same virtuous and honourable class the means of supplying the vacancy thus occasioned in their very meritorious and enviable body.—Morning Post. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIA,-Having been lately employed by several Canal Companies to make a series of experiments on the Pad dington Canal with a light wrought iron boat, which I purchased in Scotland for that purpose, I am anxious to state that I was not present at the experiments mentioned in the Courier of yesterday evening. The results said to have been observed on that day are very different from what 1 have found them to be after very careful and repeated experiments; a detail of which I am preparing for publication. It is needless to observe that in any new system some little experience and management are necessary ; whereas, on Saturday, as fir as I can learn, there was not any person present except the steersman, whom I brought from Scotland, that was at all acquainted with the system of working the fast boats on the Paisley Canal, where upwards of 126,000 passengers have been carried in the last twelve months, with considerable profit to the Cana Cotnpany.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, 35, S'rand, April 30, 1833. JOHN MACNEILL. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. WA R-CFFICE, APRIL no. Royal Waggon Train—Lieut. C. M'Clintock, from the 88th Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Basil Jackson, who re tires, April 30. 68th Regiment of Foot—Major N. Pringle, from half-pay of the 31st Foot, to be Major, vice D. Darner, whose appointment has not taken place, April3o. 88th Foot—Ensign G. P. O'Malley to be Lieutenant, by pur ohase, vice M'Clintock, promoted in the Royal Waggon Train ; Gentleman Cadet C. Ellison, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice O'Malley, April 30. MEMORANDUM. The appointment of Ensign Tobin to the 56th Foot, on the 12th instant, was by purchase. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Sussex. J. V. Shelley, Esq., April 23; Isaac N. Wigney, Esq., April 26, to be Deputy Lieutenants. Royal Sussex Regiment of Militia. 11. W. Bates, Gnt., to he Ensign, April 23. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Gloucester, and of the ( Ay and County of the City of Glou cester, and of the City and County of the City of Bristol. W. L. Lawrence, Esq., H. N. Frye, Esq., March 16; E. C. Rogers, April 2, to be Deputy Lieutenants. Royal North Gloucester Militia. J. G. Welch, Esq , to be Captain, vice Matthews, resigned ; H. J. AA bite, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Welch, promoted, March 213. Royal south Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of Militia. T. Earle, Gent., to be Ensign, March I. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Flint. Flintshire Yeomanry Cavalry. Y. Mostyn, Gent., to be cornet, April 22 Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lincoln. Lincoln Heath Yeomanry Cavalry. Anthony Peacock, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Jarvis, resigned, April 26. WHITEHALL, APRIL 29. The King has been pleased to constitute and appoint the Right Hon. Robert Montgomery Lord Belhaven to be his Ma jesty's High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. WHITEHALL. APRIL 3. The Lord Chancellor has appointed William; Hoskin, of the town of Penzance, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. ' LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 30. The Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household has ap pointed Thomas Shifter, Esq., one of the Grooms of his Ma. jesty's most Honourable Privy Chamber in Ordinary, in the room of Robert Powell, Esq., deceased. DOW NI NG-STREET, APRIL 26. The King has been graciously pleased to nominate and ap point Vire- Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, Knight Commander of the Most Hon. Military Order of the Rath, to be a Knight Grand Cross of the said Order, in the room of Admiral Lord Garr, hier, deceased. The King has further been pleased to nominate and appoint Rear-Admiral Thomas Harvey and Rear—Admiral Richard Hussey Hussey, Companions of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, to be Knights Commanders of the said Order. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY THOMAS RANSFORI), hat-manufacturer, Bristol. JOHN SIMSON, hatter, Hertf rd. JONATHAN CARTER, waterproof manufacturer, Ches. hunt, Hertfordshire. FIiANCIS waterproof-manufacturer, Cheshunt. + NKRUPTCY SUPER , EDED. ROBERT SHORT, sailmaker, Dartmouth. BANKRUPTS. JOSEPH FRANCIS TAYLOR, wine -merchant, Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate-street, to surrender May 16, at one, and June 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Hensman, 11a smghall-street. JOHN MICHAEL ROBERTS, copperplate-printer, Villiers street, Strand, May 7, at twelve, and June 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Govett, Tysoe-street, Wilmington-square. DAVID M A RELE ET, draper, Whitechapel-road, Middlesex, May 7, at one, and June 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Robinson, Queen-strect-place. ALEXANDER NORTON, upholsterer, Bulstrode-street, Manchester.square, May 8, and June 11, at ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Hammet, Southampton-buildings, Holborn. THO M AS MILLI N GTO N and W I LLIA r• 1 MILLINGTON, curriers, York, May 14,and June 11, at eleven, at the office of Messrs. Blanchard and Richardson, York. Williamson and Hill, Verulam-buildings, London ; Blanchard and Richardson, York. EDWARD BURTON and JOSEPH TAYLOR WINTER BOTTOM, wine.merchants, Manchester, May 13, 14, and June 11, at two, at the Palace Inn, Manchester. Michael, Red Lion_ square, London; Morris and Goolden, Spring-gardens, Man chester. WILLIAM BADGER, shopkeeper, Merthyr Tydvil, Gla. rnorganshire, May 14, and June 11, at one, at the Commer cial-rooms, Bristol. Evans and Stevens, Gray's Inn-square; Haberfield, Bristol. DIVIDENDS. J. Nettlefold and T. Reid, furnishing ironmongers, Francis_ street, Tottenham-court-road, May 23, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—J. Uoall, carpet.manufacturer, Islington, May 10, at ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy —J. Finney, mer chant, Charlotte-street, Portland-place, May 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—R. G. Bowyer, grocer, Brick-lane, Old-street, May 15, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—H. Crace, painter, Regent-street, May 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy —A. and W. Coombs, Bennett's hill, Doctor's-com mons, May 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy—T. Wild, wine -merchant, Savage-gardens, Tower-hill, May 21, at half. past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy— C. Cooper, grocer, Upper North-place, Gray's Inn-road, May 21, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy—A. Hammick, coachmaker, Long-acre, May 22, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—B. Wright, builder, Theo bald's-road, May 28, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy—P. Woodman, sen., corn dealer, Piccadilly, May 21, at eleven at the Court of Bankruptcy—W. Caffall, sen., butcher, Rickmans. worth, May 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy—J. and T. Brown, black ash-manufacturers, Bromley St. Leonard's, Middle. sex, May 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy —F. F. Cross, livery stable-keeper, George-yard, Whitcombe-street, May '23, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—J. Williams, eta. tioner, Fleet-street, May 23, at one, at the Court ofßankruptcy W. Henton, grocer, Nottingham, May 22, at twelve, at the Ton. tine Inn, Sheffield—W. Corkhill, ironmonger, Whitehaven, Cumberland, May 25, at eleven, at the Globe Inn, Cockermouth —D. Lockier, victualler, Brighton, June 26, at twelve, at th e Burlington Arms Inn, Brighton—R. Hall, hatter, Newcastle_ upon-Tyne, May 23, at eleven, at the George Inn, Newcastle upon,Tyne-11.. Garbett, grocer, Shiffball, Shropshire, May 22, at eleven, at the jerningham Arms Ipn, Shiffnal—J. Cash, tailor, Liverpool, May 20, at two, at the office of Mr. Thomas Woods Mandsley, 'solicitor, Manchester—E. and J R. Grey, corn-merchants, Liverpool, June I, at two, at the office of Mr. Rardswf.l), solicitor, Liverpool—W Tolley, sen., music-seller, 13irmingharn, Aug. 14, at two, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birming ham—J. Lyon, jun., malt-dealer, Salford, Lancashire, May 25, at nine, at the spread Eagle Inn, Manchester, CIiTIFICATES.-:-51A1/ 21, J. Townsend, cressing-case-manuf:cturer, Castle-street, Hol born—R. Hardy, victualler, Barbican—J. Brockman, wine-mer. chant, Leamington Priors, Warwieksbire—R. Walkington, upholsterer, High Holborn—T. North, carpenter, Wootton, Bedfordshire—J. Peachey, ironmonger, Regent-street. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Clements and C. Wright, 11frlingford Mills, Norfolk—J. and W. Daniel, joiners, Leeds—A. Clare and J. R. Dickinson, attorneys, Frederick's-place, ( Id Jewry—R. Rose and R. Iles, km., aolnirion.parriers, Fairford, Glonce,tershire—F. Greasley, Ind 'l'. Parrott, screw-manufacturers, Birmingham—J. and T. Hyde, cotton-deniers, Manchester—J. Wylie and Co., wine merchants, Newca,stle,tnider-Lyme, Staffordshire — J, Relfe and J. Unwin, ko o k se ll ers , Coriihill—J. and R. B. Neweom, tea t Oms, High str ee t, Borough—R. Grayson and T. Splatne, coal_ merchants, Liverpool—J. and J. Pearson, flour-dealers, Week, yvells-steet, e9_ l t, Ceshire—J. Myatt, sen ., and S. Patiall manufacturers nity-square_ v 6 i. P a elate — J, Exley and CO.; e ' orn-tLctors, Tri_ i . J. J effbl, V P V i b i s l: r c e . u r :t t e rn r s e , r ° SI l a e n t i t i 9 e ' 1 4 8 — , -I' IT Lieresley and e a l t i n — d N W N, : Rhodes, maltsters. Little G and Co., brlck.malcers, settil, yo t :h Z' r orkshire—B. Townsley Pinny, potatoe-merchants, iverpool-1.- 1 4 .. D ouglas io and ,I. Sindrey, auctioneers, Cokmal..street—J. Willettan,VT: NO,. hlacksmiths, Bradford, Yorkshire—C. Campb e ll an d c O '-' ~ mer chants, Willow, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY I, 1833. The result of the debate last night was, as every one expected, in favour of Lord A LTHORP'S amendment ; but the majority in his favour was increased by two considerations, which many had not calculated upon. It was thought far from necessary that Ministers should resign if the House of Commons should think that a property tax was more just and politic than the taxes at present most complained of. Lord ALTHORP, however, last night said, that although he granted Ministers were bound to be guided by the House, no individual Minister could he expected to carry into effect a measure of which he radically disapproved, and that therefore he should retire from his situatio❑ if the House rejected hisamendment. Some really wish the present Ministry to remain undisturbed in their places, and we are of the number, on account of the many beneficial measures they have entered upon, which, we should fear, would not meet with such good treatment from one party which might come into power, as we expect from the Whigs. Among these questions are the East India Charter, Borough Reform, and Slavery (we hope). The majority was doubt less swelled also by many, who, in the dim prospect thus opened to them of a possible total change of Administration and a dissolution of Parliament, saw an early abasement of all their Parliamentary glories in the justice which would be dealt out to them by their disappoin:ed con stituents. These circumstances being consi dered, in conjunction with the aversion of many to a property tax, it need not be matter of surprise that on Sir JOHN KEY'S motion for reducing the house and window taxes, the numbers were, Ayes, 157 ; Noes, 355: and on Lord ALTHORP'S amendment, Ayes, 285, Noes, 131. By the first vote the repeal of the house and window tax was positively negativ e d, and by the last it was in effect resolved, that the vote of Friday night should not be carried into effect. Indeed, to say that it should be carried into effect, without at the same tim e reducing some of the taxes that press upon the owners of other than landed property, is a thing which none but a country gentleman could for a moment have imagined, not a thing_fit to he done, but even to be proposed. Proposed, however, it was; some Member, Sir W. INGILBY it is slid, having during the exclusion of reporters from the gallery, moved for leave to bring in a Bill founded upon the resolution of Friday last The division against this modest proposal was 238 to 76, giving a majority against th e re p ea l of the malt duty exa c tly equa l to that in its favour on Friday. This was not, however, the most impudent thing of the evening, for all who voted for the motion (lid it in the perfect conviction that they should perhaps have credit with their oonstituents, without the risk of being involved in a property tax. The test of their sincerity will be their being in favour of a property tax, and to that test we would recommend their con stituents to look. What we allude to as being even more distinguished for brass than this motion are the candid avowals of some of the country gentlemen, that they cared not a rush for any sou l li v i n g but themselves. Mr. HEATHCOTE, the Member for Lincolnshire, was one of the candid persons who made this admission. With reference to Sir JOHN KEY'S motion he said : 44 T. e Hon. Baronet had enlarged upon the grievance* which the inhabitants of towns suffered from the imposition of these taxes ; but he (Mr. Watheote) could not lose sight of this fact, that there were 106,000 farm-houses through out the country exempted from the duty. How could it be expected, then, that the agricultural interest would consent to abolish a tax to which they con7ributed little or nothing, and impose one in its stead which would prove extremely onerous to them? —(Laughter.)" It is for the House to laugh at the naivete of this confession ; but it is for those whose weak submiSsion it insults, to insist that the men who fix their own prices for the food getting fro m o th er s, taxes. ai h ix e oe y us impedel.d at ea s t t h e p a c y o u a n n t r ye equal a l proportion of the By way of clenching his argument, ant) leaving no doubt with respect to the injustice that is done to the middling classes of the tovms by the higher classes who own land, Nit.. HEATHCOTE thus proceeds : " He would endeavour to explain to the House how far the county of Lincoln, which he had the honour to repre sent. was affected by the house and window tax. Ile found by the last assessment, that the value of real property in that county was 2,061,8301., while the amount of duty paid for houses and windows amounted to no more than 25,0001. If be deducted from that sum the amount paid by the different boroughs in the county, the tax levied on the agricultural districts would he reduced to 17,0001., and if the house and window duties paid by the higher classes were also deducted, the amount imposed on the general inhabitants of the country districts would be decreased to a very trifling sum.—(Hear, and laughter.)" All this means in plain English, that the landowners, who are the law-makers, have taken care to exempt themselves and tenants (who thereby pay larger rents), from a tax which falls Kith monstrous inequality on the owners of and livers in town hou'es. Who will venture to say, after this, that it is demagogues and agitators who set the people against the aristocracy ? It is not agitators who have put one in opposition to the other : it is not the press which has exempted land from the share of taxes it ought to pay ; it is the landowners themselves that have said—" You shall pay, and we will not." All that the press can do, is to point out the injustice that is done the people, and it may be at length that the systematic plan of fiscal rob bery under which they have so long suffered, will be overturned. The arguments advanced against a property tax, founded upon the unpopularity of the pro perty and income tax, in conjunction with many other war taxes, and the fallacy of the idea that it would be unjust to have a property tax with out an income tax, we must revert to on a future occasion. We have only space to•day to refer our rea'lers to the resolutions upon the Corn Laws, laid by Earl FITZWILLIAM before the House of Lords last night. They are well worthy of careful consideration. The resignation of Sir J. HOBHOUSE has produced considerable excitement, and at least as much diversity of opinion. It is manly and honourable (so far as it goes) but we are old enough to remember the days when people used no such cold, cautious expressions in speaking of the Hon. Baronet's conduct. Time was when he could be praised without a paren thesis being thrust in by way of draw-back to sth h approbation. But that time is passed and gone. The stanch patriot, whose course, while he was the people's advocate, was ever clear and straight-forward, finds that course beset with thorns and briars, the instant he takes up his position on the Treasury Bench. The placeman is all doubt and distrust and vacillation, where the patriot was all energy and confidence. But Sir JOHN is a placeman no longer ! Granted. But what has become of the patriot ? His re signation too does him honour ► Granted. But what becomes of his gratitude to the people of Westminster ? Argue the question as you please, ['put in every possible variety of light you please, still you can draw from it but this one conclusion—namely, that Sir JOHN HOBLIOUSE has thrown his constituents over board. He has given up the cause to defend which they returned him to Parliament. They asked him to speak out boldly on the question of the assessed taxes. He has replied by a cour teous equivocation. True, he has made the amende honorable by his resignation ; but this is not enough. lie should have been bold and decided ; not deserted the ship at the very first cry of " breakers ahead," but stuck to her so long as there was a plank left to stick by. He should have advocated the repeal of the house and window tax—which, by the bye, was his own question, the favourite child of his own loins—through evil and through good re port, in all times and in all weathers, no matter what was the opposition, or who were the Ministry averse to it. Instead of which, at the very first cock of the Ministerial gun, the shy, shrewd bird is on the wing and away. A pop-gun has suf ficed to paralyze a Westminster patriot ! The frown of a Whig Ministry has thrown the gentle, timid creature into fits. Sir JOHN HOB HOUSE'S pr es ent position is of the order of the " inexplicables•" It is not humiliating, it is not satisfactory; it is a sort of odd cross between the two. It is correct within certain narrow, fixed limits ; it is manly on a small, contracted, scale of manliness. Assuredly gratitude forms no portion of its merits. Westminster had stronger claims on Sir JOHN'S attention than Government, yet he has chosen to put both on the same level. He has evinced as much dread of offending Ministers as his constituents. Yet to the one he is under a deep, overwhelming load of obligation ; while to the other, he has owed nothing but an Irish Secretaryship. His task then was clear. It should have been decided, not vacillating. He should have stuck to his constituents, and begged his " exeat" from the Government. But Sir Jot-IN is a quick-witted man. He is gif ed with a keen glance that pierces far into the furtive. He has quitted the Govern ment, but he has quitted it in such a courteous, reluctant spirit, tha' that Minister must be hard hearted indeed who should bolt the door behind him. In a word, he has cut and run, but the " cut" is conditional, and the " run" is only just round- the corner. We need scarcely say, that in these few plain remarks we are influenced by no hostili'y to Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE. We accuse him of no tergiversation —no apostacy—our sole cause of complaint is, that he has shown a strange want of vigour and decision. If we speak har:hly of the ex-Irish Secretary, it is because we are haunted by an acute recollection of the Westminster Patriot. The past extorts from us a condem nation of the present. Sir JOHN HomiousE,the man of the people, was all energy and straight forwardness. Sir JoHN HOBHOUSE, the Whig placeman, has been all doubt, timidity, anal vacil lation. " The flaming patriot, who so lately scorched us in the East, now sinks temperately in the West, and is hardly felt as he descends." These words, applied by JUNIUS to HORNE TOOKE, apply with at least equal force to Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE. We have carefully perused the Hon. Baronet's address to his constituents, but must confess we can make little or nothing of it. " If," says he —it is astonishing what virtue there is in an if . "—" I could give any vote at all, you had most certainly a right to it." The plain Eng lish of this is, " I would gladly give my vote in favour of the repeal of . the house for ever cut mys e lf out of office. Now this, and window tax, b ut b y so do i ng, I should Gentlemen, is a very unp l easant alternative, so toav oidit,l will t a k e t h e mean path, that i s to sa y, willmake a show of consistency with you, by resigning Westminster, and I will make the same show with Government by resigning office. Peradventure Ministers,who understand these sort of delicate arrangements, will see fit in the fulness of time to reinstate me; possibly you may do the same thing ; but at any rate, whether you do or PRICK, (IF STOCKS THIS DAY AT Olitf o'CLoCK. Dank Stock .. 3 Per Cent. Rot 86%% India Stock ..,. ..... 2 , 26;6 w-a . i 3 ner Cent Cons. 87% yi % 'lap Bonds 26 28 26 pm. :N Per Cont. — Itiouth Sea Stock Di to Red. . 95mi I'lld Annuities — Kew 3% per Cent. 9 7; 51New Ditto — 3 per Cent. Ann. 1720 .... —l:3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 4 per Cent. 182.6 Rdnk Long Ann. to expire i Ditto 500.. ... 48 46 pm. Jan. 5, 180 , — i Ditto Small Oct. 10, 1859 — f Ditto Commei ell ...... ..—prr. Jan. 5, 1860 — Ditto Advertised ... ...... ^m. Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank for Account April 5, 1880 — India for Account Jan. 5, 1i79 — Cons ( ~v Account —SPA% a, !J., PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account 58%% Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account 61% Buenos Ayres Bonds 23 Ditto Account Chilian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1824 Ditto Account — Danish Bonds Ditto Account.... ........ Greek Bond 3 32 1% 1 1 Ditto Bonds, !525 ...... ( Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 244 Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent '12% Ditto Account Neapolitan THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds 1571 'Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account Regency Scrip 4 ;414 5 dis. Ditto Account 5 47i dis. Prussian Bonds Ditto Bonds, 182 9 (Russian Ponds, 1822 lO2 ( Ditto Account N e w Loan 97% !Sp a nish 130nd5,18121. .. Ditto Account li Ditto Bonds, 1823 ...... 19(6 44 Ditto Account French Rentes, 5 p. c. Exchange f per cent. Exchange , Dutch, 2a c 45% • Ditto Account 4si Ditto, 5 p. c R 4.% Ditto Account ...... 84% Frt.nch Scrip 4 pm. PRICES OF SHAKES TI IS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. ( iss. at 51. pm., .£lllO - 111' . 4 Bolanos Mining Company £l5O 137 i.; Brazilian lmp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. ring.) £2.11 6 0 Ditto National 17% Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Cocaes. British Iron Mining Company £so ini Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) 50 9% English Mining Company l2 25% General Mining Association Mexican Mining Co. .£46 7% Beal del Monte Mining C 0...., — 28% 29 Tialpuxahua Mining Co 230 -- United Mex. Min. co. (iss. at 2/. pm.) 40 13 Ditto New Sciip 5 16 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp. lO 10% Protector Insurance Comp. ...... .#.l 7 0 Australian Co. Canada Company l7 49 General Steam 'Navigation Co. Provincial Bank of Irel an d 25 52 PRICES oF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 27. Bank Stock Consols, 3 per cent Gov. Stock, *,', per cent 93N, National Ditto 2 4 1,4 Ditto, New 94 Patriotic Ditto — I per Cent — Hibernian Bank ei. - ii l 60v. Deb. 3!ii percent 8 7 , ,,, Provincial Ditto — Royal Canal Stock ...., .... Royal Irish Mine — Grand Canal Stock — Imperial Mine — City Deb. 4 per cent...—. 77% Nlining Co. of Ireland 1 111 ,, 5t riffle° neb. 4n. , C— -, m,prrial Unor4incr, COURSE OF EXUHA Amsterdam C. 14 12 3 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam Antwerp 12 8 Hamburg M.B. 13 15 Altona 19 15 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 N Ditto 2 U. 26 15 Bordeaux 26 20 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 154 Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effective H. 2 M. 10 10 Trieste do Madrid 37% Cadiz Bilboa 37 Barcelona 37 Seville 97 Gibraltar 47% NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 46:4 Genoa 0 6 15 Milan 91 Venice 46' Naples '',9Y4 Palermo per oz. 1.20 Lisbon Oporto 47.4 Rio Janeiro Bahia 3l Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight 1 Cork 1 BULLION, PER OZ. - X. E. d. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New 'Dollars Silverhars,standard 0 4 10i • elje *tilt 'F•Fdt "" . €7 * - 441,1c :AN.. 0 4 • • not, there are other constltuencic3 besides West minster, though of none of which I am so justly proud, and to which I feel such deep, unutter able gratitude." If Sir JOHN'S address does not mean this, or something like this, it means nothing. Many of the friends of Colonel EVANS appear anxious that he should again stand for the repro , sentation of Westminster. There is, however, some difference of opinion among his former sup porters as to the degree of chance which he will have in the event of Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE be coming a candidate, as he is expected to do, not withstanding the letter in which he seems to take a farewell of his constituents. Indeed, some of the members of his Committee have been exerting themselves to-day in preparing the way for another election of their late representative. The partisans of Sir JOHN HoßtfousE say, that if he becomes a candidate, he will be carried into the House on the shoulders of the people, owing to the " magnanimity of his conduct in resigning the Secretaryship for Ire land," rather than vote against the reduction of assessed taxes. This seems to be the opinion also of some of his opponents in Westminster, whilst others say, that as he has not redeemed the pledge which he made to vote for the reduc tion of the house and window taxes, which press so heavily on his constituents, and that he is un worthy of further confidence. The friends of Col. EVANS will, we understand, meet this evening to determine whether, under all the circumstances, he shall be invited to become a candidate for Westminster. Our readers will see by our Commons' report that the Gravesend Pier Bill was read a second time last night. is lamentable that any one could be found to oppose a measure, called for not only by the convenience of thousands, but by the neces sity of providing for the public safety. Several lives have been lost, even within the last year, from the want of the pier. We have also to congratulate our readers upon the passing, in the House of Lords, of the Grand Junction Railway Bill. This is but the beginning of a series of Bills for effecting measures which will effect greater changes than are dreamed of in the philosophy of the wiseacres who oppose them. There is some talk of a meeting of the mem• bers of the London Political Union in con junction with a deputation from the Political Unions in the manufacturing districts, to be held in the course of a few days in the open air, in the neighbourhood of the metropolis. Several political men of note, among them a gallant officer, who was a distinguished Member of the last House of Commons, have, we hear, been successively invited to preside at this meet ing. We do not find that the Member for Birmingham, Mr. ATTWOOD, is at all con nected with this affair. The object of the meeting is said to be to petition for univer sal suffrage. Without offering any opinion as to the effect which such a meeting would produce upon the country, we cannot recom mend too much caution to those who take a leading part in the unions. After the union between Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Ministers, for the purpose of promoting that alleviation of the burdens of the people, which the vote of Friday last had led the public to expect, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the party of Sir ROBERT PEEL, now become so important to the Government, would lay hold of any opportunity to put clown the expression of pub lic opinion, and as they have served the Whigs in favour of the Aristocracy, the least that they could expect would be for the Whigs to serve them by some legislative act against the Political Unions, if the indiscretion of those bodies should give them a fair excuse for proceeding against them. It should be borne in mind, that millions who are anxious for a reasonable extension of elective rights, and, above all, for the adoption of Vote by Ballot, are not advocates for Universal Suffrage. We are able to state, upon good authority, that notice has been given to Ministers by their friends in different parts of the country of nu merous indications of an intention to rause payment of the house and window taxes. There are several rumours as to the probable successor of Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE, as Secre tary for Ireland, but we have reason to believe that none is to be relied upon at present. Among others Mr. W. BROUGHAM, brother of the LORD CHANCELLOR, has been men- tioned, but it is very unlikely that he would relinquish so lucrative a situation as that of Master of Chancery, for so uncertain and harassing a post as that of Secretary for Ireland. Mr. W. BROUGHAM is indeed well qualified for the office, but it is very improbable that it will be offered 'to him, for his refusal would be certain. Mr. EDWARD ELLICE is also mentioned ; but that gentleman was, we believe, offered the situation a long time ago, when he positively declined it, and we know that he would not accept it, were it to be now offered to him. Mr. SPRING RICE would pro bably be the choice of Earl GREY, if there were not almost insuperable objections to his being sent to Ireland as Secretary. Mr. KENNEDY: and Mr. LABOUCHERE are mentioned. There is nothing to Prevent the acceptance of the office by either of those gentlemen. The French papers of Monday contain some further accounts respecting the proceedings of the Russians in the east, but they are not of an authentic character. It will be seen that the French funds were affected in consequence of the memorable vote on the malt tax : 'Pants, Aram 29 —The funds have declined in conse• quence f the fall in the English market on Saturday. The 3 per cents. opened at 771. 95e., and fell to 771. 50c. on the receipt of the news from England. Towards the end of the Bourse, they rose to 77f. 30c., at which they closed. The news from Constantinople produced no effect whatever. FRRNCII FUNDS, PARIS, APRIL 29.—Five per Cents. 101 f. 90c. 70c. 15c 80e. 75c. fkic. 9 c. 95c.; Three per Cents. 77f. &)c. 70c. 110 c. 70c. '7sc. 80c.; National Loan 101 f 65c. ; Bank Actions 1,720 f. ; Rente de Naples 91f 80c. 70c. 80c. ; Roman Five pet Cents. 91f. 9 )c. ; Rente de Espagne Five per Cents. 16; Ditto Three per Cents. 44% IA 44% 1 4 44; Royal Spanish Loan 90%14 ; Rente Perpetuelle de Espagne Five per Cents. 76 75%N% 76; Belgic Loan ; Haytian Loan ::50t. It will be seen from the following accounts from Germany, that the myrmidons of NI CHOLAS have not a bed of roses to repose upon. Had we not been so often disap pointed, we might hope that these partial movements were but the preliminaries to a grand outbreak all over Germany ; as it is we fear that after a little harassing skirmishing, the Poles, %, ho have ventured to return to their iative country, will be obliged to retrace their steps : FRONTIERS OF POLAND, APRIL 16.—The account. , which have been received of the most recent disorders in the kingdom of Poland, are by no means calculated to place them in their true light. Su much NMI certain, that not Gni,. in the tavirons n(Crscocrtbtit.lll,ll other provinces--for instance, those in &adiant; lied, insurgents now in larger, now in smalle r f n % have appeared. It is said that in the envirols,°o, a band, consisting entirely of officers of the . l' om army, had been engaged with Russian troop der 3 & r i of April the whole Russian garrison was un remained day and night in the streets. regiment bad entered Kalisch shortly helbr e ; „of! scoured all the neighbouring co untry, and "lied that appeared to them to be suspicious. Trs I have left Warsaw since that time, declare 006°0 hcdo s boe ;r rnee e vu e ,co t hy s b . uuor l tef t bth w teo as an p nothing of any disturbances in that city, but t ' b o r g i d that great preparations were made against a P c o si t irrection, whence it might be inferred that tli , t i 0 6 d t . disturbances u o r f b an ces April in t h o e t i h v e i r e q te u agratrerrtsseanree of not i ra , n rs f a o utvu:;ll to Kaliseb, was under arms, and p• rtly encanlPf_a tateffih r i a trp t is e itla d sbnala t ten o hte w atetii a snm r tsi , : l uem s rirn n i egiinegiaisthtliulotr,nttagahekiein.detcshapsuhiiraatecyhei e s es u : o tt t h p eth t ° ap e : l lo a pt i h ni iiii;s e:,, l r:end:v:i wile' p March which the kingdom of Poland are connected with lb e : in Frankfort? ebe . o ro th b e a r b , l a y n b d e p e e a r u h se ap t s be it iwnsausrarp:ti°l3l7; celebrated at pa r I° ' Zeitung. April 25. f lte" DRESDEN, APRIL 20.—1 n consequence °f !Ito Frankfort, our Government has thought it ' ~0 take some measures of precaution. Several de'pi of troops have been 1 p.ac.al in the frontier vill4lei int. frontier towards southern G-rmany ; an iimyett rcernente are to be sent. The police has r e— ; A injunctions great respecting passports, and especially ~ vigilance on the frontiers with respect to '' Poles. arms.fwo ram. l e s rso i p t e t r o li b p e s imoraiggiisnneedet ao :: n d , th:e ei:1,011; A.. THE MARKE rg.--t THIS DA Ir, The -j arrivals of g C ra ( i ) n ß i N ip tO -‘ thi l s i d A a i g l 'r ricek Ma de O r , I and the return of Flour pretty good. The ~lu r sdo, ' remains much the same as reported on limited transactions to-day. ARRIVALS. 0 3tj ' Wheat. arle• English 2,890 qrs. 1, BY 0 820 qrs. `. lse iirc A Foreign . Foreign I J I -- ~,e l O __.,....--- , Dip COUNTRY CORN MARKETS °URI'S & , 89- Os" . 'le I Wheat. 1 Barley. 1 ........ „,.../ , ~ ,4 Per Quarter. Is.t o s . s . to s. 4 • to 50 1 4 „ Boston 5l 24 "-- 18, i Gainsborough —.......— 57 34 77 !o, ii V Grantham ....—......_. 53 67 36 41 ;,i, tlo' n i 4 N. Grimsby —...........—..._. 42 59 24 3' , ;,; il 56 $ Horncastle—....—..w. 44 50 20 27 •‘," 8; ft 2 Lincoln .. . 45 61 20 28 ;,/ ,U 9 5 Spilsby , 48 54 28 35 ... .; .0 : 0 " , it Stamford 47 59 30 36 f.. ) ; 19 ~ York--. 5O 62 2 2 31 l ' ~ „„ 'IP.' . ~..” . ts , i EXETER di iilli, 1 , -• 1. 1 i , „di' Beef (score) Bs. Od. 9s 6d. Wheat (bushe l) 4 v i • Mutton (16.)--0 5} 0 6 8areye.::::::,,...., 9 5 6 Veal and . amb—O 6 0 7 Oats 06 i 1 l •. Perk,,.,... —0 4 0 6 Beans 1 Geese (each) .---4 0 5 6 Bitter (11).)^"'''' ' t ! ° Ducks 'counle\....— ec'" O - 4 0 5 0 Eggs (12) 0 „ Fowls —..........--3 0 4 (1 Potatoes (P H A DDI N S G C T ° OISI TC C I" ()R I N I A 11 1 1 1 A K IV r :;„ - 7, 6 ' Y ril Ifti l' Wheat. Barley. Oats. a l.:od Oa` ' ,„.0 1, First 63: Od 36s Od 20, 04 .Od p-, Second 554 Od 32s Od Ills Od j ot° Third There were 437 qrs. of in market, 386 w^" 51 Unsold.-0 Grey. jottl 4 . Average 2l. 153.0. 1 . 9 " ..,5 0! Apri 'o° DALKIE'I'H CORN MARKII 7I.,-- e. l` gt o ci Wheat. Barley. Oats. 010,.°0d 0 .. „ ' First...... 61s Od 34s (d 20s Od „'''y, Od 7 4 • ° Second ... 5Cs Od 30s Od I9s Od ,", 61 ,I 'Third s2s Oct '26s Oct , 19s ed "‘"'" 0,1 ' SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE---(T 01 .59 ..it.. FROM LLOYD'S. ..--- trre . DEAL, APRIL 30.—Wind W.S . W. moderate. 0i.04, Ada, Guttery, from Jamaica; and the Char les from St. Vincent. ~. ....Ar fifej PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 30.—Wind N ''. 0 port the Sampson, Ch a d w i c k, f rom N ew York. ~,,,Tyo L ro FALMOUTH, APRIL 29.—Wind W. to • 7 ' i . ro/ 01 - ' breezes and squally.—Arrived the Trusty, We lsh, CI • and Rapid, Rosewall, from Gallipoli. pert C HASTINGS, APRIL 30.—A rr ived off Pe. - d' In , Hodnett, from St. Vincent. Di t4 COWES, APRIL 30.—A rr i ve d th e Gil Bla 9 , 4.0.' Havannah. V', LIVERPOOL, APRIL ..9.9.—Arrived the . - 00 t th e J and Abeona, Chambers, f rom N ew Orleans—O ff ,,l ; eft' rinero, from Laguira ; General, Brown, fora Glasgow, and Aurora, from Mobile. the LONDONDERRY, Aram 'ti.---Arrived Ewing, Bartley, from St. John's, New Brunswick' t be l'° DUBLIN, APRIL 29.—Arrived from Barbad°e'' Griffith, and Arena, Buck, from London. 0 416 " CORK, APRIL 9.B.—Arrived the Ringmaho l ' 11, 01 STANGATE CREEK, APR IL 30.—A from Jamaica; and the Gl eaner, H arr i s , froth ,rria chester, Dixon, from Havannah ; Elizabeth , ‘l / 4 , 3 Alexandria ; and George and J ames , Stothard, GREENOCK, APRIL 27.—Arrived the Fh -ira ' d tiu s . Bombay; and the Emer a ld, M e l v ill e, f ro m B'f 3u. cti, pot , a, t`,oo Loss OF TOE HIBEILNIA.—The Hibernia, „ th verpool to New South Wales, caught fire at 50 fed Feb., lat. 5 S. long. 21, and spread so fast thAt !),. atsiat° quantity of provisions could on ly b e save d i n the b o ,rd, ivtlot about 80 persons crowded ou t o f 232 sou l s on I,°the j enduring great privations, were picked . 1 : :OW transport and the brig I sa b e ll a, an d arr ive. „C on the 2lst of F e b. The British barq ue Ell en Gray, Malaine, f , rQ v fl' ef and Jamaica, for L on d on, was lost on Pocket he/ the 20th of March —crew saved. THE FUNDS.—{THIS 0 ° t o ll ; CITY, TWELVE a he ro , i sv . , The express from Paris thi s morn i ng brings t Dr' 80c. about 20 cents higher than the last prices; been for the fall here of one per cent. in our office' r ee l at Paris of our Mi n i s t ry go i ng out of on c " to th e nt e Three per Cents. would have b een a t 80, owing fi d IS 0 " Budget being very favourabl e . Th e i r s i n king fi - 0 to be made use of. to the Montreal Papers to the 4th of April; 9u ebec bsve lr- to t April ; and Sydney pape rs t o th e 2 6t h of ro''' v n ose' A t' ceived at the North and South American Coffe e ,: ee The Montreal papers state th a t, f or the last w: ist ps" season has assumed all the ch e e r f u l ness o f a veil' ice opposite the town is breaking up graduallf. The Sydney papers are void of all interest. We have no arrivals of the least consequence' rOrl,/ THE FUNDS. l thi s (A, The grand question of t axes was decided e'''.. l s6 Oro in the House o f C ommons b y a majority o l Aiv; eo to,o of Lord Al t h orp ' s amendment, so that MinisterZolla ception of one--Sir J. C. Hobhouse— ar e again countrythce Consols, s p o l 1 7:7 approveich wi t h out lef t off othe theiradoption m ye s terday measures ut f sr a 7e s p s r r o ei p , n e ts i r o t ri 0, ti p e tre p d r e .0; at 87i 1, at which price they are at present. o t ° Funds coming higher, with a favourable st ep Budget, has rather imp rove d th e Conso l Mad'e- In the Foreign Funds littl e d o i ng as yet. ` 04 . 1 0 HALF-Pd p ,,, 0 of: e ae Accounts have been recei v ed f rom Rio Jane . ' o t t per' March, which bring an improvement in the 04 0 0 34% ; the Stocks had a l so got up, and all 10 4 " gd the country being in a prosperous state. COc t iil. td' We hear that Don Mi gue l h as appo i n t e d 3 Vtebe to his army, of th e name of Palmiorem ; to th e tionalists had taken possession of a strong Cal" - 0 9 10 bourhood of Figueira. the it bll The Consol Market has continued arm dij 7erit /1. the morning at 871, alternately bu y ers a nd se )$' a doing. tOC XS • . In the Foreign M ar k et Brazil and Be l li' o „al improved; in other s e cu r iti es not hi ng doing. ,0 THREE C Consols for the Account, 871, I 10C w 0 hts 0 o' 4 His MAJESTY held a levee at „. 1 i, ° f IV which was num e r ous ly atten d e d. The ioo• different order.; wore their collars on th e °cr oterld s° l o o hands of the Life and Foot Guards were in v a ,t AAI Yesterday a ballot was taken at the ' o rP,; el 4 s H T o u u A se ßT fo , r E t . l z , e1: 1 - e o cp io a n sed o . f a D A i t r esi c z to , r ,, i ci n o t c l k te t r h e : rg in e i p s o sg r e tr % tY" clo•ed and delivered to the scrutineers, who election to have fallen on JOHN COTTON, Es;' Ro O b l l th ß e ia r d t e h n ult., at (I A I , d o e f r a l e t y l a, _,..------ 0 1 -- BIRTHS. the Re v ' On the 28th ult , at Brentwood, the lady of is ji Newbolt, of a son. On the 27th ult., at his house in Albemarle- Robert Keate, Esq., of a son. 4 Di MARRIED. ° or al Wilson, , On the 30th ult., at Woolwich, John Jatnf.g,_„ n F,sq , ,,ef Northampton -square, second son ot• John vv , !"."_,: da , l . Hill, Cumberland, to Elizabeth, eldest suniviwto, . , .et, r a, .0 the late John Cullen Ashbee, Esq., of Charing. 7 . A 1 0 DIED. On the 29th ult., place, Dr. Babingtou, aged 77, lie' t• On the 28th ult., at' her house in Upper Bedford -P ri:ft On the 29th ult., at his house in Dcvonshire place, ! 0 , beth, widow of Thomas Neale Esq., aged. 6l . 1/0 0$ 10 On the 28th ult., at Bath, the Rev. Charles fr. of Prideaux-place, Cornwall-place, aged 73. uGglhotuecr.estershieere:,::;o, 4 Louisa, d a ughter of sir C. des .‘4O Pawn's ♦ND PUBLISHED DV MUNDO YOUSth SUN OFFIcg, 112, Si RAM Losiposi. AbN iatki THE 11 ,IRAL 1, "AITAIN Op H ONE 14 the por e t ° %le in