The Sun. — London, England, 1864-02-20 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS—Last Evening, The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. THE CRAWLEY COURT-MARTIAL. Lard COLVILLE gave notice that on Monday he should ut a question to the noble Earl the Secretaty of War, touching the conduct of the judge advocate at the late court-nlartiel held on Colonel Crawley. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a second time :—•Durham University, Exmouth Docks, London Joint Stock Bank, South London Market, Clifton Hampden Bridge, Falmouth Docks, Grand West= Canal and Bristol and Exeter Rail way, Hayling Railway, Holywell Railway, Salop Fire-office, Wandsworth and Fulham-bridge, Waterford and Wexford Railway and Rosaclare Harbour, and West London Dock Warehouses. The Bishop of ARMAGH moved for certain returns connocted with the Irish Church. The returns were ordered. Thir lordships than adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening. The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. CHAINS, CABLES, AND ANCHORS BILL. Mr. HUTT asked the hon. member for Birkenhead (Mr. Laird) if he would postpone his motion for going into com mittee on this bill next Tuesday until next month ? Mr. LAIRD said ho bad no objection to accede to the request of the hon. member, as he hoped in the interim he would receive the assistance of Government in modifying the bill. OUR EASTERN POLICY. Mr. FERRAND gavo notice that on Monday next, on the motion for going into committ,e of supply, he would move that, in the opinion of the house, our eastern policy was objectionable, and that the agriculturists of the United Kingdom should be taxed for carrying out this po licy, which had for Its object merely the extension of com mercial objects in which they were not interested. INDIAN OFFICERS. Colonel SYKES gave notice that he would move that, except in cases of emergency, the appointment of Indian officers instead of English officers was a violation of the act of Parliament. CAPTURE OF THE MARTABAN. Mr. G. S. LEFEVRE asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether it was true that a British ship, the Martaban, had been captured by the Alabama, end burnt by order of its captain; and, if so, what steps the Government are taking to obtain reparation, and to prevent the repetition of such outrages ? Mr. LAYARD said that no information had been re ceived on the subject by Government, and they knew nothing of the matter except through the newspapers. RECOGNITION OF MEXICO AS AN EMPIRE. Mr. S. BEAUMONT asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, if any communications had been addressed, during the recess, to her Majesty's Government vith the view to a recognition of an empire in Mexico ; sad, if so, whether he would lay them upon the table of the house ? Mr. LAYARD said no such information had been re ceived by tho Government, who declined giving any opinion on the subject. THE ROYAL ACADEMY AND THE SALE OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. Lord ELCHO asked the First Commissioner of Works whether the Government had taken any, and, if so, what steps to give effect to the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Royal Academy; and, when the re moval of the late intetaational exhibition building would be completed, and what was intended to be done with the site? Mr. COWPER said that the Royal Commission had recommended an alteration in the Royal Academy, the exnutive of which were now deliberating. With regard to the second question, the site of the International Exhi tion had not yet been cleared ; but although the removal was going on rapidly, no precise time had been fixed for erecting a buiHing on the site with reference to the dis• posal of the whole site. DUTY ON RAGS. Lord STANLEY asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether her Majesty's Government,was In communicati ,n with ary foreign Power with a view to the reduction or abolition of the export duty imposed by the latter on rags; and whether there would be any objection to an early production of the correspondence. Mr. LAYARD said the subject had not been lost sight of by hsr Majesty's Government, and, as negotiations with Austria, Portugal, and other States were proceeding, he trusted the question would not be then pressed. SALARY OF THE SECRETARY OF THE CHARITY BOARD. Mr. FEIIRAND asked the First Commissioner of the Charity Board, in what act of Parliament the clause was in serted which increases the salary of the secretary from £6OO to £BOO ; and whether public notice was given to the house that such clause was intended to be inserted ? Mr. LOWE said he had hoped the hon. member who had access to the act of 1860 would have taken the trouble of informing himself on the subject—(laughter)--but as the hon. member had not done so, he (Mr. Lowe) had done as him self. The officer in question was a barrister, and as there had been an increase in his duties it was thought only just that there should be an increase in his salary. He availed him self of that opportunity to make a personal explanation in reference to what he had said on a previous evening, and ha wished it to be understood that it was not his intention to have said anything dero gatory to the commissioners of the charity, which he con sidered one of the ablest, most industrious, and honourable bodies in her Majesty's service. REMOVAL OF THE ASSIZES FROM YORK. Mr. MORRITT asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it was finally decided that the assizes should be moved from York to any other place ? Sir G. GREY said that no final decision had been come to, and no opinion had been expressed on the subject, but assizes must always necessarily be held at York. It was recommended that assizes should be held at Leeds, but there could be no decision on the subject until there had been an order in Council. GOVERNMENT ANNUITIES BILL. Mr. H. B. SHERIDAN asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is was intention to proceed with the Government Annuities Bill this evening, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had no objection to postpone the bill, and regretted that its object had not been properly understood. He would there fore postpone the committee until Monday week. THE CAPTURE OF BRITISH VESSELS. In reply to Mr. S. FITZGERA.LD, Mr. L A.YARD repeated the statement ho had made the other evening as to instructions having been given to Lord Lyons on the subject of the Saxon, who had communicated with the American Government, and an investigation was ordered by Mr, Seward, which was going on. He believed that his noble friend (Earl Russell) had been misunderstood as to what he was raported to have said on this subject,but the papers that were laid on the table of the other house would be presented as a matter of course to this house, RUMOURED INTENTION OF THE AUSTRIAN AND PRUSSIAN FORCES TO ENTER JUT- LAND , Mr. NEWDEGATE asked the First Lord of the Trea sury, whether, in the event of the Austrian and Prussian forces entering, or proposing to enter, Jutland, her Majes ty's Government would not consider such action or inten tion as inconsistent with the plea upon which the German forces have entered Holstein and Schleswig, and, therefore, requiring more energetic and decisive action, diplomatic or otherwise, on the part of her Majesty's Government in the sense of the treaty of 1852 ? Lord PALMERSTON—We have no definite accounts cf the intentions of these Governments to enter Jutland. The only information on the subject was that contained in the newspapers ; it is to the effect described by the hon. member. No doubt such an entrance would be considered an aggravation of the violent outrage and injustice wh i ch, in our opinion, has been committed by the entrance into Schleswig, by hi 1 , great sacrifice and bloodshed had taken place, and for which thus two Governments (Austria and Prussia) were answerable. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the latter part of the question as to what change of course th e Government would be ready to take in the event i alluded to, without intending disrespect to the hon. mem ber or the house, I must decline any answer as to the future policy. GOVERNMENT ANNUITIES BILL. Mr. SHERIDAN asked the Chancello r of the Exchequer whether it was his intention to proceed with the Govern ment Annuities Bill this even i ng ; and w hether, consid er i ng that the titl e o f the bill does not fully con e y t h e real oh. jects of th e bill , and that the bill hithe rto has passed thro ug h two stages, without being fully understood, and, further, considerin g the groat interests affected by the proposed alteration of the law, he would have any objection to post pone for a short time the further consideration of the measure. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said ho had no objection to postpone for a short time the further consideration of the measure, the objects of which he re gretted had not been perfectly understood. He would post pone the committee until Monday week. THE MURDER OF MR. GRAY. Ivfr. S. FITZGERALD wished to know what was the date of the despatch addressed to the American Government with reference to the murder of Mr. Gray. At the same time he would ask another question. O n F riday last he had MOVC:i for p a p ers relating to the case of the Margaret and Jessie and other vessels, but the Government refused to pro d uce d them. Since than th e noble l ord at the head of the Foreign-office had consented to the production of those despatches. (Hear.) He wished to know whether they would be laid on the table of this house also. With regard to the Saxon, he might state that he referred to the murder, not to the capture of the prize. Mr. LAYARD said the first information was received by her Majesty's Government towards the end of Decem -I;e., but the depositions were not received from New York until about the 20th of January, They were imme diately sent to the law officers of the Crown. Their re port was received on the 30th, and the same afternoon instructions were sent to Lord Lyons to ask for such re dress as we were entitled to from the American Govern ment : but before the receipt of any instructions Lord Lyons had communicated with Mr. Seward, on the 30th of January, orderel an inquiry to be m into what had taken place. The last information roc , iced was that that investigation was going on. With retard to the second question, the hon. gentleman was slightl in error as to what Earl Russell promised to give the other night. He promised that a certain list of claims should be laid upon the table of the house. There was no objection on the part of the Government to give a list of all the claims ; but they were naturally anxious not to do anything which might in terfere with the interests of any persons who had claims against the Government of the United States. Of course, the papers laid before the other house would be laid before this house also. BANK ACTS (SCOTLAND) BILL. Sir E. COLEBROOK asked the Chancellor of the Ex chequer whether he intended to proceed with the second reading of the Bank Acts (Scotland) Bill this eTening. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied in thee affirmative; but there would be a committee on the bill, when a Curther discussion might take place. EXPLANATION. Mr. AYTOUN was understood to offer an explanation to the house with regard to an expression he had made use of in the discussion on Kagosima. With reference to the conduct of Mr. Moss, he had used the word "crime," but he had received a letter from that gentleman stating that in the course of the affair spoken of, the gun had been dis charged by accident, and not by order. He therefore re gretted having used the word " crime," which was not a suitable word under the circumstances. THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS. Mr. FERRAND hoped he might be allowed to move the adjournment of the house, in order to defend himself against the attack which had been made upon him by the right hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. Lowe). What he (Mr. Fer rand) said was that the tight hon. gentleman had told a member of the house that he (Mr. Ferrand) had been right in opposing the proceedings of the Charity Commissioners in his own neighbourheod ; that the commissioners were wrong; and that the Government were about to introduce a bill to put a stop to the fraud of which he complained. Having made this statement, he begged to withdraw the motion. (Laughter.) THE DANISH PAPERS. Lord J. MANNERS asked when it was probable that the Danish papers would be presented ? Mr. LAYARD said not a moment's time was being lost. He believed the papers would run to between 600 or 700 folio pages, but he would do his best to get them out as soon as possible. Lord J.MANNERS reminded the hon. gentleman of his promise to give the papers by instalments. (A laugh.) WEST RIDING ASSIZES. On the order of the day for going into committee of supply. Sir J, HAY moved that an honourable address be pre sented to her Majesty, representing to her Majesty the town of Wakefield, the capital of the West Riding of Yorkshire, as the place suggested by a large majority of the magis trates of the West Riding as the best for holding an assize ; that Wakefield, containing as it does the West Riding Prison, the head-quarters of the West Riding Constabulary, the West Riding register-office, and the West Riding pro bate-office; is also geographically the central town of the West Riding, and possesses every convenience in courts, railway communication, and hotel accommodation for the purpose; and praying that her majesty will be graciously pleased to nominate the town of Wakefield as the assize town for the West Riding of Yorkshire. Tho hon. and gallant member, in support of his motion, stated that 191 magistrates of the West Riding expressed an opinion that Wakefield should be the assize town, whereas only 59 were in favour of Leeds. Mr. LEATHAM seconded the motion, and in a very humorous speech pointed out the great superiority of Wakefield to Leeds, both as regarded population and the convenience of the bar and the bench. Sir G. GREY, having complimented the hon. member who had just sat down on having made a very amusing and a very talented speech, proceeded to quota the sec tions of the Act of Parliament under which the order in council had been made. He stated that the Lord Chan cellor, Lord Wenaleydale,lLard Cranwerth, end Earl De Grey and Ripon, were members of the committee to whom the decision of the question had been relegated; and that he himself had invariably replied to applications end memorials from every quarter that he could not form any opinion until the whole case was before him. The committee, too, considered the subject carefully, and had come to the conclusion, having regard to no private in terests and no reference to political feeling, but guided by the objects of the cheap, speedy, and effective administration of justice, that Leeds had the preferable claim, and that it would be most conducive to those objects that the assizes should be held at Leeds. Mr. BEECROFT supported the claims of Leeds on the' grounds of its large population, great amount of assize business, and on account of the hotel accommodation and railway facilities afforded in that town. Sir G. GREY begged to correct an omission, and to state that neither Lord Wensleydale nor the Secretary of State for India attended the Council; bat they had sent in their written opinions to the chairman. Mr. ROEBUCK said the Privy Council had determined and said that the assizes should be removed from York to the West Riding, and also that they would recommend to her Majesty's Government that Leeds should be the town. Parliament had said that the Privy Council was the best to decide on that matter ; and the house having passed an Act of Parliament giving that power to the Privy Council, he wanted now to ask the house why they interfered with the decision of the Privy Council. (Hear, hear.) Colonel SMYTH was of opinion that the assizes ought not to be removed from York; but if there was to be a change, he would say that Wakefield was the most fitting place. Mr. BAINES deprecated any interference by tbo House of Commons in a question which had been settled by the authority to which it had been delegated by Parliament itself. The Privy Council had considered the matter by the aid of all the lights it could obtain, and by the aid of the most important tribunal that could be devised, and the consequence of attempting to appeal from that decision would be endless confusion. The intention of the old law was that the assize should be held in the most important town of the county. That principle had been followed out in recent times—such, for example, as in the case of Lancashire, in which the assizes had been moved from Lancaster, first to Liverpool, and then to Manchester. Now, Wakefield could not be considered the chief town of the West Riding, for, as compared with Leeds, it was but a fourth or fifth rate town. The hon. member impugned the figures which had been quoted to show that Wakefield was more eligibly situated as regarded the population in the registration district of Halifax, and his belief that there was not a shadow of reason for attempting to disturb the deci sion of the Privy Council. Sir J. PAKINGTON had been a member of the Royal commission in 1857 to consider the question. They had come to an unanimous decision against transferring the West Riding assizes to the town of Leeds, the majority being in favour of retaining the assizes at York. At the same time a minority had come to the opinion that a case had been made out for the West Riding having a separate assize, and it was his firm belief that, if the question had been between Leeds and Wakefield,. the commission would have decided in favour of the latter. For that reason ha should, if the question went to a division, vote for the amendment of the hon. member for Wakefield. Mr. HADFIELD said that at an influential meeting hold in Sheffield it had been decided that Leeds ought to bo the assize town for the \Vest Riding ; but at the same time they had an intention ultimately to ask for a division, which would make Sheffield also an assize town. The house then divided— For the original motion 133 For the amendment * •• ll9 Majority Sir 3. D. Hay's motion was therefore lost. THE LAW OF SETTLEMENT. On the motion that the Speaker do leave the chair being put, Mr. WARNER, who had a motion on the paper calling attention to the operation of We law of settlement on the condition of the working classes, said that he had, since giving notice, had an opportunity to some extent of ex plaining his opinions to the house. He had also ascer tained that those feelings ware gaining ground, for the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Milner Gibson) had publicly declared his opinion that the question of union rating was only a question of time, and that the law of settlement must go when they came to union rating, He (Mr. Warner) was satisfied with that declaration, and thought he should best servo the cause in which he was in terested by leaving the subject to be discussed by the com mittee on the poor laws, which he understood would be reappointed. He bogged therefore to withdraw his motion. GENERAL GOUGH. Col. BARTTELOT asked the Under Secretary for War on what principle Lieutenant-General Gough, C. 8., had been appointed to the 2d Dragoons ; and moved an address for papers. The hon. gentleman laid great stress en the circumstance that General Gough had never served in ina cavalry regiment, f or , th oug h h o h a d b een f or some ti me the 3d Light Dragoons, he never did a single day's duty with that gallant corps. Col. DICKSON would not say one word either for or against the appointment of General Gough, but ho consi dered that discussions in that house on military appoint. ments were very much to be deprecated. (Hear, hear.) Mr. B. OSBORNE said General Gough's services almost comprised the history of the successful campaigns of this country during the last 42 years. During 40 years of that period, i n d ee d, he had been engaged in active service abroad. and his appointment to the 2d Dragoons did equal honour to the Horse Guards and to the general himself. (Cheers.) Mr. P. DAWSON expressed his approval of the ap pointment. The Marquis of HARTINGTON observed that, after what had fallen from the hoe.. member for Li.keard (Mr, B. Osborne) it would be unnecessary for him to trouble the house by enumerating the eminent services which General Gough had rendered to the country. As for the rule sup posed to exist to the effect that infantry officers could not be appointed colonels of cavalry regiments, he could state that no such rule existed either at the Horse Guards er the War-office. After a few words from Sir J. SitELLBY, the subject was allowed to drop. CAPTURE OF A SHIP UNDER THE CONFEDE RATE FLAG IN BRITISH WATERS. Mr. HALIBURTON asked the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs for information relative to the capture of a ship under the Confederate flag by a Federal vessel of war, within the harbour of Pankbar, in Nova Scotia, and under the guns of the fort ; and whether complaint had been made of the outrage to the Government of the United States, and with what result. The hon. member stated that the people in the North American colonies were alarmed for their safety in consequence of the inroads which were con stantly made upon them by parties belonging to the United States—parties who cared nothing for law and order, and who thought they were privileged to commit every sort of outrage with entire impunity. He did net wish to inquire whether this was a piratical act, or whether it was a lawful capture, nor did b e want to inquire into the subsequent pro ceedings of the Court of Admiralty at Halifax; but simply to call the attention of her Majesty's Government to the state of alarm which prevailed in the colonies, and to ascer bin if any proceedings were taken to prevent outrages of this character. DENMARK.—TREATY OF LONDON. Mr. KINGL AKE called attention to the way in which the operations of the treaty of London of the Bth May, 1852, was effected by a note addressed on the same day by Baron Brunnow to the Danish Minister at the Court of St. James's, and asked whether the communication of the note to her Majesty's Government hed been received by them with ac quiescence, or had been the occasion of correspondence which could be laid upon the table of the house. The hon. gentleman said that, at a time when the Treaty of London was a matter of complexity and confusion, he might be pardoned for endeavouring to bring to:the knowledge of the house a transaction which had occurred on the same day the treaty was sigaed, but which, so fer as ho knew, had not yet been communicated. This was a treaty which could have no application until the King of Denmark had taken the necessary measures for changing the succession, not only to Denmark Proper, but to the two Duchies which were subject to all this dispute. He believed there was a growing opinion among the people of this country that it would be grievous indeed if there were any words in that treaty which could lead Great Britain to force by diplomatic pressure upon a reluctant people a ruler chosen by diplo macy. His present object was to bring before the house the true tenor of the arrangements which had been entered into on the Bth of May, 1852. To make this clear, it was necessary to give the house the report of the Warsaw pro tocol. The protocol of Warsaw, far from being a conces sion by the Emperor of Russia, was rather a retractation of, the concession formerly made by the Emperor Paul. But whether that was the true interpretation or not, it was quite certain tnat the protocol of Warsaw did carefully seek to keep alive the rights and claims of the Emperor of Russia, in the event of the failure of issue on the part of the King of Denmark. There were at the time as many as 17 lives intervening between the succession to Denmark and the Emperor of Russia ; but by the protocol of Warsaw 14 of those intercepting persons were put aside. He had heard the noble lord at the head of the Government had approved of the Warsaw protocol, but that he had ceased to be a sup porter of it. The treaty of London dealt only with the sue cession, and in a general way indicated how Europe should act in case of failure of issue on the part of the King of Den mark ; and it dealt with it in this manner, setting forth that, in the event of the failure of issue on the part of the King of Denmark, it would be competent for the King of Denmark to propose new arrangements to Europe, and this new arrangement was to be taken into consideration by the parties to the treaty, by which the initiative was given to the King of Denmark. Accordingly the second article of the treaty had been relied upon as a safeguard, and Lord Clarendon, when speaking on the subject, declared that the second article of the treaty guarded against the dangers arising frost a failure of issue on the part of the King of Denmark. Butlon the very day when the treaty wee signed, and while the ink of the treaty was lot yet dry, another paper was prepared, which was signed by Baron Brunnow, and addressed by him to the Danish Minister at the Court of London, which, if acquiesced in by the several parties of the treaty, would positively annul the second article of it, and would do more, for it would bring into force and make obligatory on the King of Denmatk the stipulations of the Warsaw protocol. The hon. member road a translation of the note, the purport of which was that the terms of the protocol of Warsaw hold good between Russia and Den mark, and asked whether a similar note had been addressed to her Majesty's Government and acquiesced in. THE Stirq, LONDON, SATURDAY EVISNING, FEBRUARY 20, 1864. officers has rendered it unnecessary for me to insist upon the questions which, under other circumstances, it would have been my duty at once to instruct your lordship to dis cuss with the Government of the United States, namely, the wilful and flagrant violation of her Majesty's territory by the officers of the United States cruiser Ella and Annie. " Tho Government of the United States having subse quently made, as reported in your lordship's dispatch of the 12th of January a full apology for the violation of her Majesty's territory, committed by its officers in the case of the Chesapeake, it is only necessary for me to authorise your lordship to state to Mr. Seward, that her Majesty's Government accept tho apology in the same spirit in which it has been offered, and are truly glad that the matter has been settled in a manner honourable to both parties, and calculated to improve the friendly relations which her Ma jesty's Government are always anxious to maintain with the Government of the United States: ---I am, &c., (Signed) "RUSSELL. "The Lord Lyons, G.C.8., ecc., He (Mr. Layard) trusted that the apology and the answer wculd prove satisfactory to the hon. member end to the country. (Hear. hear.) His hon, friend behind him (Mr. Kinglake) had made an extraordinary dise:,vory in a mys tei ions manner, (A. laugh.) He was at a loss to know what mysterious sources of information his hon. friend possessed; but he had taken the trouble to make a translation of a document which, with that readiness to assist which was never wanting in the librarian of the house, he could have immediafely obtained in the library. That document, and the translation of it, had been laid on the table of the house in 1856 on the motion of Mr. Hutt. The hou member would find the protocol of Warsaw and the note from Baroi Brunnow addressed to the Danish minister. That note and the enclosure were communicated to the Earl of Malmes bury when at the Foreign Office, and acknowledged by him. No correspondence has taken place except by way of simple acknowledgment by the Earl of Mahnesbury. It would not be proper for him to follow the honourable gentleman in his view of the nature and value of the Warsaw proctocol. That was a question of great importance, which it would not become him at the present moment to enter upon. Mr. ROEBUCK said that the discovery made by the lion. member opposite belonged to the family of mare's nests. It was indeed a very large one, but it was large only on account of the inflation which it had received on this occasion. Suppose a contract were entered into be tween A and B ; and A, behind B's back, wrote a note to C ; could any one suppose that that note would alter the contract between A and Bl' That was really the nature of the transaction as stated by the hon. member. A treaty was made between five Powers. The Minister of one of them chose to mite a note to the Minister of the King of Denmark about it. But the treaty remained just as it was ; and the note remained waste paper, which the hon. gentle man had amused himself by translating. (Laughter.) The house then went into committee of supply. BANK ACTS (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill was read a second time. INSANE PRISONERS' ACT AMENDMENT ACT. The house then went into committee on this bill. Clause 1 was agreci to. On clause 2, Mr. G. HARDY moved an amendment to the second clause to the effect that in the cage of pi ;goners under sen tence of death, and certified by twn or more visiting justices to have become insane ai'.er conviction, the truth of such certificate should be inquired into by three commissioners to be appointed for that purpose. The amendment led to considerable discussion, end upon a division it was nega tived by 32 to 26. The several clauses of the bill were then agreed to, and the bill was ordered to be reported to the house. The Warehouging of British Spirits Bill was read a second time. Mr. H. BRUCE obtained leave, to bring in a bill to con firm certain provisional orders under the Land Drainage Act, 1561; also a bill to authorise the inelosure of certain lands in pursuance of a report of the Enciosure Commis sioners of England end Wales; and a bill relating to the importation of diseased cattle. .Tb e other business on the paper haling been disposed of, the house vdjourned. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. POST.—Speaking a few days ago of the Army and Navy Estimates, we said that we felt no alarm at the amount of expenditure which they involved. What we said of that portion of expenditure we say still more emphatically of the general and entire expenditure of the empire. Of the many Fears which create nights of puzzled worry, and days that produce consequential publications of prophecies, essays, and petitions amongst a parti cuter class of political econcmists and the statesmen of parochial vestries, there is none more illogical nor built on narrower basis than the Fear of Ex penditure. There are not a few of these people : of whom some are under a persuasion that a coun try, ancient, and complicated in its systems of long groWth, can be administered to in accordance with the principles of abstract dogmas, and of whom others believe that all knowledge of finance is to be gathered in the counting-houses of traders, and all capacity for managing the resources of a great em pire is to be obtained by practice in the manipula tion of a parish rate. The one class generally emits pamphlets or papers at social science gatherings, and the other takes pleasure in giving voice to the political ideas of financial reform associations. Both are rather active just now ; the latter the more so of the two, for its task is the easier. To acquire suffi ei3n t to take la degree in the art of loose agitation is not a hard matter, and requires nothing like the applica tion and labour undergone by a graduate who pants to become an acrobat of the Alhambra, or a conjuror who occupies St. James's Hall and the wondering attention of Christmas and New Year holiday makers. The process of graduation is very simple. Nothing more is necessary than to fix, after the manner of some great prototype, as Mr. Cobden, upon two particular periods, one of small expendi ture and another of larger; buy, for three half pence a piece, the abstracts of revenue and expen diture of each intervening year at Hansard's ; put the figures at the oottom of the columns in a string like the blown birds' eggs of a schoolboy, or the names and titles of a petty German prince; commit the figures to memory, and give them forth dressed up in phrases which may be obtained in abundance from among the properties of any plat form, and the master of which demands no gter mental effort than is made by an average preacher of sermons every Sunday; add to these acquisitions a strong voice, and the thoughtless iteration of a parrot, and you have a model speaker on financial reform of perfect efficiency, and as invulnerable to the lance of truth or the sword of reason as our friend the parrot. Indeed, nothing would stop such a man but treating him as the overwearied do the persistent bird, namely, throwing a cloth over him, and enveloping him in the darkness of night. With political economists of this description we will net attempt to deal. But it may not be useless at this moment to say a few words about this bug bear expenditure to those who, from dislike to troublesome examinations, or from facile belief in the pedlar, might not distinguish paste from dia monds, or aluminium bronze from gold, and be cheated into faith by their Autelycus as easily as the Corydons and Phillises of " Winter's Night Tale." It is perfectly true that the expenditure of the country has, in the last 20 years, increased with a steady rapidity, and in a large ratio. It amounts, no doubt, to what, in the unmeaning economical jargon of the day, is called war expenditure ; a mode of phrasing which really expresses nothing but a barren fact—a fact from which, presented naked, there can be evolved neither truth for the present nor warning or guidance for the future. The ten dency of expenditure depends not upon its amount merely. It is beneficial or detrimental, it aids pro gress or leads to ruin, just as it is the result of bold and thrifty foresight, or of impulsive or timid ex travagance. Parsimony deserves the epithet of-reck less as often as expenditure. We were, for instance, parsimonious in a high degree in Mr. Cobden's mo del financial year, the year 1835 ; and never was parsimony so extravagant, and never were its ulti mate results more costly. In that year, 1835-6, the theft Chancellor of the Exchequer, in deference to a cry for what was deemed to be economy, cut down expenditure largely, and in so doing silenced the op position of a loud, if not strong, party. Of income little thought was taken. The desirable was con • sidered to be effected when expenditure was by any means brought below it. We had a surplus, and the country gave itself credit for thrift and foresight. But what was the ultimate result of the fear of expenditure that was operative in 1835 ? From 1837 to 1842 what ought ever to be the rela tive positions of income and expenditure were inverted ? Expenditure went first, and for five dreary years Income panted and laboured after it, like a dismounted sportsman after a runaway horse in a ploughed field ; and the further the two went the further was Income behind, till in 1842 they wire so far apart that we had an annual deficit of nearly £4,000,0U0. Nor was the fact of that deficit the least remarkable nor the least alarming feature of that period of financial desolation. Concurrently with the deficits taxes were augmented, while, not withstanding their augmentation, their produce became less. The resource of the country were strained, yet income dwindled Thu wealth of the country diminished. The years, as they rolled on, gathered nothing. The enenditure of the .n c ountry i w n a t s h l a e t ss ep b o y ch tw w en h t ic y h m th il e lio C n ob s denschool than it is ow, helplessly on the path that leads to insolvency. h . We ad been recklessly exiravagant in economy. fo e ot Let the admir,::: et' the then ayotem of finance n pine it e . n t d after t y the nation was paralysed, tud ha d p lanted turn his attention from that period see? An expenditure large in the ebsTract, , Whatto the year lie no doubt—largor by twenty milliom than it was twelve or fifteen years ago ; and he is alarmed—alarmed because he sees only one fact, instead of perceiving a whole truth. Had he true perception he would sea that, in advance of Expenditure, is marching Income, with a certain and still larger stride, And such is the increase in the wealth of this country, and such, by the judicious manipulation of the Finance Minister, the availability and elasticity of its resources, that, concurrently with this state of things, taxation is subjected to yearly remission, instead of being strained, as in the years to which we have referred, to the point of unproductiveness. Under such circumstances our expenditure now can not be justly described as either dangerous in ten dency or extravagant in fact. A man who spends three hundred a year may be more truly extrava gant than another who spends fifty thousand. And as it is with an individual so is it with a nation. A truth which we the more earnestly desire to impress upon the public, because although some reductions may bo effected by care and skill in administration, we do not anticipate that there ever can be, at least so long as the country continues to advance in wealth at its present ratio, such a retrenchment of expenditure as would satisfy the so called Fi nancial Reform School. Every year the commu nity adds to its functions, and every yenr, as the wealth of the eonntry becomes greater and the profits of professions and trades are augmented, the discharge of these functions becomes neces sarily more costly. TIMES.—The Australian colonies are finally re lieved from the doubts and uncertainties by which they have been tormented during last six months. They have received an explicit assurance from the highest authority, and in the most public manner, that it is not the intention of the Government to give effect to that recommendation of the Commis sioners which contemplated an increase of the num ber of convicts annually transported to Western Australia. The controversy has ended as it was sure to end, and as persons of much less experience than the Royal Commissioners ought to have anti cipated that it must end. When people are so fond of pointing to the great and free colonies of Great Britain, established by the potent agency of liberty —that pearl of great price, as Mr. Burke said, of which we only have the monopoly—they ought to remember the means by which they have created and the tenure by which they hold this mighty em pire. It is not our fleets and armies, it is not our parental care, it is not the bonds of commerce, it is not the community of language, literature, and tradition that mainly attach our colonies to us; it is because they can enjoy under the sceptre of Queen Victoria a liberty equal to our own and superior to that which can be obtained elsewhere. It is of the very essence of this liberty that it re fuses to be constrained within narrow bounds or cramped within technical fetters. It is apt to de mend not only all that is, strictly granted, but all that is necessary in order to give that grant full enjoyment. It is of course strictly true that no colony has a right to interfere in any portion of the Queen's dominions beyond its own limits, and it is equally true that the British Parliament has a right to transport convicted offenders to any part of the Empire. But these two rights together make one grievous wrong, if the result is that the criminals so transported really find their way to the colonies which are unwilling to receive them. In such a case the technical law is on one side, and the substantial merits entirely on the other. The price of labour is much higher in the eastern colonies of Australia than in Western Australia. The climate is suitable to a European population, and under these circum stances it is impossible to doubt that as fast as sen tences expire the prisoners will find their way from the barren and stationary West to the wealthy and prosperous East. It was not likely that communi ties founded on the principles of liberty should ac quiesce in this, and it was equally improbable that England should be willing, even if she were aisle, to coerce them. In the present state of opinion with reference to our colonies, we have but one alterna tive in case of a serious difference between them and the mother country. If a question arises with a foreign country, there is always the last and worst resource of war ; if any part of the United Kingdom were to refuse obedience to authority, the civil power, supported by the military if necessary, is ready to enforce it. Bat with a Colony practically neither of these resources is available. In case of resistance to the decisions of the Home Government we could not rely on the colonial authorities to sup port us, for they are responsible to the Colonial Parliament, the emanation of popular will ; and as for the exertion of military force, opinion in this country has long pointed to a peaceful separation as an alternative far preferable to a repetition in any shape of the blunder and crime of the American war, the darkest episode in English history. It follows that within limits defined by the alternative of separation from the Mother Country the more im portant colonies enjoy a freedom from our control greater than is possessed by any other country in the world, We ought not to repine at this, for it is the very tenure by which we hold them, the glorious tenure of a common liberty, a liberty capa ble of being exercised to some extent even against ourselves. As, therefore, the success of the Colonies in this country was inevitable from the first, we wish that the concession which we have had to make had been made less grudgingly, and with less effort to prove that the apprehensions of the Colo nies were unfounded, or even exaggerated. If "he who gives quickly gives twice," it is no less true that he who gives avowedly under compulsion can scarcely be said to give at all. Why insist that the Commissioners were clearly justificei in mak ing their recommendation upon the evidence be fore them, although the Government is equally jus tified in refusing to act upon that evidence? This might have been true if the attention of the Com missioners had been exclusively confined to the wants of Western Australia, and if the case of the other Colonies had never been brought before them. The contrary is, however, notorious. Among the witnesses examined we find the name of Mr. Newland, a magistrate of South Australia, who fully stated to the Commission the very facts upon which the Colonies have since relied, showing the great immigration into South Australia from Western Australia, about half of Ni hich consisted of " expieees ;" the increase of crime, the excitement in consequence, and the facilities for accomplishing the voyage. Mr. Childers, once a resident in Vic toria, himself served on the Commission, and sub mitted to it an amendment, pointing out, among other things, the discontent which was sure to ensue in the Colonies, which amendment the Commission unanimously rejected. This plan of making every thing pleasant to everybody by showing that the holders of two contradictory propositions are beth in the right has, no doubt, the advantage of pre serving good humour for the moment, but to us it seems much better that an error should be con fessed when it really has been committed rather than that such strained inferences should be adopted in order to conceal it. Nor do we think it should be said that " the alarm and apprehension of the colonists are no doubt to a great extent " untounded." Oar whole colonial system is founded on the assumption, which facts have abundantly verified, that the colonists understand their own local affairs much better than we do, and that we are just as unfit to govern thein as they are to govern us. Whether it is for our interest to send our convicts to Aaatralia is a question of which we are much better judges than the Australian colonists. Whether it is their interest to receive them is a question of which they are much better judges than we. So far from their apprehensions being unfounded, it is quite certain that they would be fully verified as to the ultimate destination of convicts whose sentences have expired. Western Australia must be, from the very nature of the cam., a sponge to be periodically emptied into the Eastern Colonies, for the same reasons which draw the people of Ireland to America. All that can be said is that the convicts who will go there will be so reformed that they will be a valuable acquisition. On this point also the Australians are the best judges. Their great want is labour and population ; and, if they refuse to receive able-bodied men, we may be very sure that they do so for sufficient reason. There is one part of this subject to which we earnestly beg to draw the attention of our fellow ' countrymen in Eastern Australia. We have a right to bo heard, for we did not even wait for the announcement of their opinion, but pointed out immediately the grave error the Commissioners had committed in menacing them with a renewal of transportation. They have gained a com plete and, we should think, to them moat gratifying triumph. The debate on which we have been commenting will show them how reluctantly the scheme of in creased transportation has been abandoned. Let them use their success with moderation. They may contend logically, no doubt, that they are aggrieved in like kind, though in less degree, while a single prisoner is transported to Western Australia, ; but we hope they will not insist on this extreme view, and we are quite sure that it is not for their interest to do so. A very strong feeling would certainly be excited in this country at anything which could fairly receive the name of an attem p t at dictation on the part of the Colonies as to the manner in which the Home Government ought to dispose of its prisoners. Even between the Mother Country and the Colonies it is not reasonable to suppose that the concessions are all to be on one side. They participate in all the advantages and they bear none of the burdens of the Empire to which they belong, In New Zealand our blood has just been poured out like water for their service in a quarrel in which we have no manner of interest of our own. Let them be content with what they have achieved, and re member that to the continued union of the Mother Country and her Colonies the goodwill of the former is jinn, as necessary as the goodwill of the latter. MINISTERIAL EXPLANATIONS. Mr. LAYARD said the hen. member (Mr. Haliburton) had with great propriety abstained from making any re marks upon that part of the subject which was still under judicial inquiry. With regard to the seizure of the vessel, he had stated accurately what took place. It was well known that some agents of the Confederate States took a passage on board the Chesapeake, seized upon the captain and crow, killed ono of the officers, and wounded two others, and car ried off the vessel. They then took refuge in a harbour of Nova Scotia. An American gunboat entered that harbour and recaptured the vessel illegally and by force. As soon as information was received in this country of what had taken place the Government sent instructions to Lord Lyons to ask for immediate explanation and redress. He might, however, state that long before the instructions which were sent to Lord Lyons were received, Mr. Seward, of his own accord, having heard of the occurrence, made a communi cation to Lord Lyons, at first doubtful as to what the facts really were; but when the facts were ascertained Mr. Se ward made a full apology, expressed his regret, and that part of the question terminated. Some time would elapse before the papers would be ready, and as the country would be anxious to receive information on the subject, he would read to the house Mr. Seward's dispatch and the answer to it from the noble earl at the head of the Foreign-office. "Department cf State, Washington, Jan. 9, 1861. "The undersigned Secretary of State of the United States has the honour to present his respects to Right Hon. Lord Lyons, accredited to this Government as the minister ple nipotentiary of her B.itannic Majesty, and to state that he submitted to the President certain papers which were placed in the hands of the undersigned by his lordship on the 2d day of this month, and which are described as follows :-1. Memorial of Susan Henry ; 2. Affi lavit of John E. Holt ; 3. Memorial of John E. Holt ; 4. affidavit of John E. Holt ; 5, Provincial Secretary to Mayor of Halifax, Dec. 19,1863 a 6, Mayor of Halifax to Provincial Secretary, Dec. 19, 1863; 7, Same to same, Dec. 22, 1863; 8, City Marshal to Mayor of Halifax, Dec. 21, 1863; 9, Police-constable Hutt to City Marshal, Dec. 21, 1863. The undersigned is authorised, in the first place, to express to his lordship his appreciation of the delicacy of the manner in which his lordship has thus, without formal complaint, brought to the notice of this Government the fact that the commissioner and other officers of the United States steamer Ella and Annie, in their recent visit at Halifax in pursuit of pirates who had captured the American steamer Chesa peake end taken refuge within British jurisdiction directly violated the sovereignty of her Majesty by the resumption of power and authority in the name of the United Slates, as well on board the said steamer Chesapeake as on board the British schooner i nvestigator while within British waters, without having obtained consent thereto of the authorities of her Majesty's Government there or elsewhere. The undersigned observes that in some of these papers it is represented that the acts of power and authority referred to were attended with circumstances of severity, rigour, and insult to British subjects. The undersigned, however, thinks that it sufficiently appears from the papers that the rigour and severity elleged wore not greater than were necessary to secure the persons of the pirates in pursuit of whom the officers complained of were engaged, end to deliver them up to the British authorities of that place. He hopes that this view of the case may be taken by her Majesty's Govern trent. The undersigned would observe, in the nextplaco,that the Chesapeake and the prisoners were promptly delivered to those authorities, in compliance with the instructions of this department. rho undersigned is further authorised to assure her Majesty's Government, in the spirit of a former commu nication made by the undersigned to his lordship, relating to the capture of the Chesapeake iu British waters, that the President disapproves and regrets the act of force, power, and authority which was exercised by the officers of the Ella and Annie, within British waters, on the occasion mentioned, as a violation of the law of nations and of the friendly relations existing between the two countries, so greatly to the satisfaction of the United States and to the advantage of both nations. "The President has reason to believe that the proceed ings thus disapproved were taken by the officers concerned under the inluence of a patriotic and commendable zeal to bring to deserved punishment outlaws who had offended against the peace and dignity of both countries. The Presi dent, while he recognises this circumstance as modifying the character of the transaction, and mitigating the censure to be bestowed upon it, nevertheless freely concedes that it does not constitute a justification for the violation of the sovereignty of Great Britain, which those officers have com mitted. He has, theref ore, directed that they shall be cen sured for this violation, and he will take such other moans as may bo necessary to prevent a recurrence of the griev ances complained of. Fully determined to make all the amends that are due to Groat Britain in the premises, the undersigned will await the consideration of her Majesty's Government upon the case as it has now been submitted. "The undersigned avails himself, &c., (Signed) " Wm. H. SEWARD." " Foreign-office, Feb. 3, 1864. "My Lord,—Your several dispatches of the numbers and dates specified in the margin, respecting the case of the Chesapeake, together with the papers which have been re ceived by the Secretary of State for the Colonies from the Colonial authorities in North America, have been submitted to the law officers of the Crown for their opinion on the dif ferent questions raised in them. " The greater part of those questions have reference to the administration of the law in the colonies ; and I need not trouble your lordship with the view taken of them by the law officers of the Crown. " The Secretary of State for the Colonies, to whom I have communicated the opinion of the law officers, Till doubtless give full instructions to the several colonial authorities. " The readiness which Ur. Seward, in his first communi cation with your lordship, manifested to make all proper and suitable reparation for the dots of the United States ALLEGED FRAUD OF £2 000. At the Guildhall yesterday, John Lumley Wragg, who was described as an agent, residing at Raglan-cottage, Shacklewoll-green, was placed at the bar before Alderman J. Clarke Lawrence, charged with the following frauds upon his employers : Mr. Lewis, for the prosecution, said his client was Mr. George Hawksley, who carried on an extensive business as a silversmith and manufacturer of plated goods at Sheffield, and the prisoner was his agent and managed his London business for him at his (prosecutor's) premises in Thavies inn. The case was somewhat complicated, arising from the variety of frauds, but he only proposed to go into one class of frauds on the present occasion. The prisoner had been in the prosecutor's employ from the age of 17, and on the esta blishment of the business in London the prisoner was ap pointed agent, and was paid by commission alone, but the business expenses were paid by the prosecutor. The pri soner's duties were to obtain orders in London and send them down to Sheffield to be executed, and remit ail money s within a week after receiving them. It was also his duty to send down once a month a sale account of all goods sold, and of the orders obtained. This was the ordinary course of business, but in the early part of the present month the pro secutor discovered certain irregularities which induced him to discharge the prisoner, and it was subsequent to that date that the following circumstances came to his knowledge. On the 11th November last, and while still in the employ of Mr. Hawksley, the prisoner took some premises in Hatton garden, and putting up the name of " John Lumley and C 0.," carried on business there on his own account, selling to himself the prosecutor's goods, and in one instance re mitting to the prosecutor a bill of exchange for £22 odd, which the prisoner had accepted in the name of " Lumley and Co." That bill would be the subject of a charge of forgery, as there was evidence to show that it was drawn and accepted for the purposes of fraud , and notwithstand ing, he had since admitted that he was " Lumley and C 0.," he told the prisoner in December last, in answer to ques tions as to the stability of the firm, that Lumley was a highly respectable man, carrying on a good business in Hat ton-garden. In the books kept by the prisoner those goods were entered as sold to the firm of " Lumley and Co." in December, and on the 19th of January last there was another entry of goods sold to the same firm, to the amount of £l9, but the prisoner did not enter the sale of those goods in the monthly account sales. There was another entry on the Bth of May of a silver tea and coffee service and silver salver, sold to C. Bean for £.53, but that sale was not ac counted for in the following monthly return, but, on the contrary, those goods were represented by the prisoner as being in stock at the stock-taking in the following December. A similar transaction to the amount of £34 was entered under the date of August 4, but OR November 4 it ap peared that he sold to Bean, of Brixton, 70 cases of dessert knives and forks for £9O. He made no return whatever of the sale of those goods, but it had since been ascertained that he received from Bean a silver soup tureen and stand, which he immediately afterwards pledged with Mr. Atten borough for £6O. There were other sales to Bean from May to August to the amount of £4OO, none of which had been accounted for by the prisoner in the monthly returns required of him, Another feature in the case was, that the prisoner had entered into partnership with Bean in a busi ness at Portsmouth, for carrying on which the prisoner had advanced a sum of £2OO, and sent prosecutor's goods from time to time to Bean at Portsmouth without accounting either for the goods or the cash, and in order to destroy the evidence of all these transactions, he had cut out leaves and otherwise mutilated the books, but from the books and docu ments which had come into the prosecutor's possession since the prisoner's dismissal there was evidence he (Mr. Lewis) believed to make out a very strong case, and to show that by the frauds complained of the prosecutor was a suf ferer to the extent of more than £2,000. Mr. Beard, who was retained for the defendant, said as a remand would bo applied for on the other side, he wished to state that he was also anxious for a remand to enable him to adduce such evidence as would give a most complete and satisfactory answer to the charges preferred against him. Alderman J. C. Lawrence said he must have some evi deuce in support of the very strong case opened by Mr. Lewis before he could entertain the question of remand. Mr. George Hawksley said—l am a silversmith and elec tro-plate manufacturer, and carry on business at the Char lotte street Works, Sheffield, and at 6, Thavies Inn, Lon don. The prisoner first came into my service when he was between 17 and 18 years of age, and has continued with me, with the exception of a short interval, when he went into business on his own account and failed. About two years ago I took premises in London, and arranged with the prisoner to become my agent, and agreed to pay him by a commission of 7i per cent. for trade in London, and 10 per cent, in the country, and to pay his expenses. He ought to have made £5OO a-year by his commission. It was his duty to send the orders to me, and sometimes I sent up goods to him, and sometimes direct to the customer according to his order. He had also to receive cash on my account, and to remit it to me from time to time as he re ceived it, or in the course of a week or a fortnight. He fur nished me with a sale account every month by which I was enabled to ascertain what stock he had in London. When he came down to Sheffield to take stock in December last, I asked him who " Jno. Lumley" was, and he said he was a very respectable man, that,he was a householder,and had a shop in Hatton-garden. I made the inquiry because it was a new name in my books. I received a bill of exchange for £22 45., with Jno. Lumley and Co.'s acceptance, for goods which the prisoner had represented he had sold to that firm. In the day-book kept by the prisoner there was an entry dated May the Bth, 1863, of a silver tea and coffee ser vice and salver as sold to Mr. Bean for £53 9a. There is also an entry under the date of the 4th of August, sold to Charles Bean, of Portsmouth, for £34 9s. 6d. The prisoner never accounted to me for either of those sales ; but in his dead stock account he represents those goods as being still in stock. I have, however, examined the stock and do not find any of those things in it. I never authorised the pri soner to send the goods for approbation, as I never do it. The prisoner's deficiency in cash, goods, so., amount to upwards of £2,000. Cross•examined by Mr. Beard—l found, by his books, that the prisoner ha 3 been in the habit of sending goods out on approbation ; but I knew nothing of it until the other day, I discharged the prisoner on the Bth of the present month, and it was not until then that I discovered he had an office in Hatton-garden, I have always known him as John Wragg, I did not know that the goods had been sent to Bean on approbation, for I would not have trusted him with a ponny. Bean has not paid for the goods I believe. I expect the invoices sent up with the goods wero made out to the prisoner. The letter produced requiring the prisoner to return certain goads,and threatening legs', proceedings to re cover the amount of them, was written by my authority. Mr. Beard said it was now evident from that letter, that the goods were regularly sold and invoiced to the prisoner, who was not a servant, but merely an ordinary trade customer. Alderman J. C. Lawrence said the letter was dated a week after the prisoner's discharge, and it did not therefore affect the charges agaimmt the prisoner. Had it been written before the irregularities were discovered, it would then have been evidence of an allowed practice of sending goods out on approbation. Witness re-examined—My own name and that of the prisoner beneath it, as my agent, are painted on the door of the premises in Thavies-inn. Mr. Beard addressed the bench on the question of bail, which was opposed by Mr. Lewis, Alderman J. C. Lawrence said the evidence did not go the full length of the opening statement, and under all the cir cumstances he was inclined to accept bail; but he did not think it a case in which any indulgence should be shown to the prisoner. He therefore fixed a high rate of bail, his own recognisances in £l,OOO, and two sureties of £5OO each, with 24 hours' notice. The prisoner was then remanded. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. (From the Illustrated London News.) The will of the Most Hon. Charles Gordon, Marquis of Huntly, of Aboyno Castle, Aberdeen, and Orton Longue ville, Hunts, was proved in her Majesty's Cburt of Probate on the 12th inst., by the Most Hon. Mary Antoinette, Marchioness of Huntly, the relict, the sole trustee and exe cutrix appointed during life, as well as guardian to the chil dren. The personal property in the United Kingdom was sworn under £14,000. His lordship was premier Marquis of Scotland and head of the clan Gorden, and succeeded to the title in 1853; was twice married, and has loft issue six sons and five daughters, and attained the ago of seventy-one. His lordship executed his will in April, 1863, and a codicil the July following. To the marchioness his lordship has bequeathed the residue of his real and personal estate. The furniture and other effects at Orton Hall and Aboyne Castle to be heirlooms with the inheritor of the title. Provision is made under marriage settlement for younger children. The will of Admiral Sir William Hall Gage, G.C.8., G,C.H., Admiral of the British Fleet, late of Thurston, near Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, was proved in London on the 28th ult. The executors nominated are his three nephews, Sir Henry Charles Blake, Bart. ; and Patrick John Blake, and James Bunbury Blake, Esqs. The personalty was sworn under £30,000. Sir William was the son of the late Hon, General T. Gage, and brother of the third Viscount Gage ; and served en the Mediterranean and other stations ; was Lord of the Admiralty 1841-6; Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth 1848-51. The gallant admiral died at the age of eighty •seven, having executed his will since 1862. The will contains numerous legacies to relatives and friends, and leaves the residue of his property, real and personal, equally between his three nieces, Frances Blake, Sophia Blake, and Louisa Henrietta Baroness de Bertouche. The will et William Crake, Esq., of Stanhope-street, Hyde Park, was proved in the London Court, on the 26th ult., under £140,000, the executors appointed being his three sous, Vandeleur Benjamin Crake, Esq ; William Hamilton Crake, Esq. ; and the Very Rev Ed ward Neville Crake, B.A. The will bears date 1860, To his wife he has bequeathed an annuity of £l,OOO and a residence, dividing the rest of his property, real and personal, equally among his children. The will of Mr. John Willie Goodwin, of Leicester, brewer, was proved in London, under £20,000 personalty ; and the will of Mr. John Geo/ WaltJ t of High Holborn) see 4 /stual% under fe50,0611 The Condemned Condemned Pirates in Nevirgatet The preparations for the execution o f the c" demned pirates have been already comineuued ~b , l the authorities. Hitherto a passage has been P—; served by the police for those who, having bu Bl ti rs ig at the prison, desire to gain access there to; but t . 0 time, so great is the expected throng, the b arr , have been so arranged that from Ludgate-bilit the one hand, to St. Sepulchre's Church wa ll tiP : h , the other, the people will be penned up in o n ce de- ments, the whole forming a compact Inaa s ' o f wedged in which there will be no possibilitY motion until the execution is completed. T he b ,: s . riers are certainly strong enough to resi st the P' .8 sure of any possible crowd, but those whole WW I; it may be to be next them will stand a fa ir 04 : a rp „if being cut in two by the crushing an d the eh. s edges. The houses opposite the gaol ar e reaPitig soi golden harvest. Guineas are being paid ill 131 not instances for standing room at a window, W 0 there is—shameful as it seems —scarcely aAPtio disengaged in the Old It is expe cte' o ne not fewer than from 300,000 to 400,000 Pe.rirp-000 will be present to feast their eyes on the I ii "; o t sight of five men dying at once victims to theJtsin vengeance of the law. For to five it is new ce,for the number will be reduced. Up to a late huu "ro , terday little hope was entertained respeeti u g , 0 a le, prieve or a respite by the authorities of lie ria det , although Mr. Beard continued active in h is e t il ir y'll yours to induce the exercise of the Home Seare co merciful direction respecting two out of the Ibio pirates of the Flowery Land. And in the, a il to i• exertions were crowned with success. A u ul l if O. cation was received yesterday evening friali au' Grey by Mr. J onas, the governor of Newgals o r nouncing that two of the condemned culPritiLing cellino and Los Santos, would be reprieved u her Majesty's pleasure. sath °. The minor arrangements of the Cal - a nd rities were finally settled this morning; there is every reason to believe that the °I re ; ea' cised will produce the contemplated e ffect 04- wits suring the pubiic safety. Never is it suPP c° p et' there less sympathy shown by the pub lic fcr the Bons condemned to death. The men wil l g° to g 00 gallows almost unsccompanied by any reg r ; ° F tifi the part of either society at large or of the h r- B V, who will assemble to see the execution. ella' man Catholic chaplain is unremitting in hie 6- 8 0 anee upon the prisoners, and his exhortatioooo. said to have produced considerable effect hP° of the condemned pirates and murderers• COUNTRY M.AREE TB. LIVERPOOL—FRIDAY. c oast There was a fair attendance of the tow n an' W": trade to-day, and buyers evinced a better feeling• m ts lce" more inquired for, and had holders been disposed ~‘ 4w , doal trifle less money a good business might have br os tron Flour was dull, and prices irregular. Oats ana".,o with a dull sale, barely maintained late rates. ladi"" _ e peas at nominal prices. Beaus rather declinee.• corn very dull, at the rates of Tuesday last, b_.ell/1801b. qr lower on the week—mixed American at 29a P" 4 WAKEFFIELD—FRIDAY. da y, 1 " - Only a small business was done in wheat to• oto. the prices of last Friday generally made. Bar le loel la° steady sale at former prices. Other articles nifull rates. . TAMFORD—FRIDAY 36 a r. White wheat, S 40s to 4s; red, 38s to 42s per, e , pe a , Barley, malting, 32s to 3SS ; grinding, 2951 l Oats, 23s to 27s per 24 stone. Beans, ol d, qr.; new, 36s to —s. --- 30 LINCOLN—FRIDAY. , i s()St ° 36i White wheat new, 39s to 45• ' Barley, grindil l b . .Os V 305 Red do. 34s to 41s I Oats, old, .. ..... Vs No Old white —s to —s New do ......... . 3 9 5 to tig , Red do. — 8 to —s I Beans.. .......... 3 6 3 to 0 — Barley, malting 35s to 37s 1 Beans, new ..... ed CORK—FRIDAY. , O . ••••• The following were the uotations this ra 0111113 4;4 01, to wheat, 8s Od to 8s 10cl• white, 8s Od to 9s Bd'"4o 4d 6d to 8s Od ; oats, 4s 10d to 68 2d ; black .t 5a 3d. BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDA I • a aeet The raw sugar market exhibits a quiet —„' o reew. er . week, and the sales have been limited to a few r r eso l 0 ; West India on the spot. rum oods are ratb to e Deb and sell slowly. The sales ofare confined raras, and prices unchanged. COAL illoes of:Coal per Ton al LARIi ET. tne close of the O rel' 6 s. d. Bates' sWest Hartley ..14 0 Bower's West Hartley.l4 9 liyass's Bebside West Hartley . 14 9 lambert's West Hart- Haswell w .f. s .!: :d 0 9 0 0 Whitworth... . 0 9 East Hart1ep00 . 1 .1.. ..,..4 3 South liar 0 fi c HK e a s a s i t ri s t t :o l e p n e . c . ............. ......................... 9 8 89 Braddyll's ..... Caradoc ......... Wh arnc liffe ......• 0 H.eugh .... 0 South Kellce.' n * Russel's Ilett° 147; sold. 90. ley 14 6 Valker Primrose 12 3 Hastings Hartley l4 9 Wylam 17 0 Eden Main l7 3 Cowpen Hartley 14 9 Hartlepool W. Hartleyl4 6 ranfield Moor Butes 15 0 Davison's West Hart- ley„ l5 0 1 Ships at market, Foreign Mail Packet LiSt. MAILS DUE. !P' 14 - anatralia and Mauritius, via Southampton . '''''' JO,' 6. via Marseilles ....... ~Idt". o . brazil and Cape Verde, by British pacltet. ...... .yeta 3, Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. liole lt ,, l ", i ,l'o , China, Penang, and Singapore, via SouthanWi- Jab. via Marseill e° " 0, ialkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .................... .1`0"., India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via SouthaniPtoll• Feb , 0 6 via 'Marseille@• • •'yela 9, India (Bombay), via Southampton ........... Fe „ b " 6 , via Marseilles ......... NV' 0. ...... Portuga 1.... .... b , , 'delta, Egypt, and Aden, via S'outharnpto'' ...... - I' via Marseilles ....... Feb,, Newfoundland ...... • • - e , Oporto and Vigo ........... ...y i ., C. S. and British N. America, by Brit. pac k et b, 9 ' by U.S. PackVeitlfif ~ 1 0 ' by Canadian Ps e 1 0 li W.C. of Africa, M- adeira, and Teneriffe ........ 'io r. 0 Bahamas, via New York ' .................... F° l3. aa V Mexico. ......... •'' h. ................ ...„. I y 0... All parts of West Indies, including Chili, f j California. and British Columbia. ........... .val ADVERTISEMENT.]—Avoid MediditeS: theY 3115070-0,1-CO vate ß chronic complaints, but Du Rani's y el t i ° oo 9 ~,.isif its cost Revalenta Arabia' Food, which Pit," reet",,,et, in other remedies, invariably cures thele;itiri;fo perfect digestion. strong nerves, sound lunge• ti . 4 od e : 1) 0 pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional rega lw ' s°. el e to the most disordered or enfeebled. We ea-tract 11100000 of 60,000 Cures :—Cure No. 58,216 of the g ar a e for 14e qsa Brehan, Paris, of a liver complaint, wasting ail ofe r ' 0 0 0 years, debility, with a nervous palpitation vieololl digestion, constant sleeplessness, the most iutoler i Vil• 0 00 agitation, and dreadfully low spirited.—Cure 14 % 0 Loa fd S ry t o u srap ar e t dpy d ssi e pa. D e—p ec Nsi i z e . s, 4n9 rrd Lieut. of Waterford, °_ , ,, i t D illil e :joo• 8 4 2. 0u5n " flatulency, spasms, sickness, and voiniting,•"74 SOP:ie' eFsifs,tyastyhemarz' :tigde..7:4ooollsooii.o,', —Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Fr;:o cineti l thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting ef blood,:00 olinoif ment, and extremeaf—Cur No. 47,121. "ri/4!013' Jacobs, of nervousness, indigestion, ifyi lie ivy' rp i. , spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure No. 54,81%00 sild ° of.' T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, " of indlg es _„ -- t res o ill , dity of the liver, which had resisted al D odo ,- 2 00.; 0 ; .„_ : alb. , tol d In tins, 1 lb., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d ; 51b., iis. w ee , - - ,,i00 a 4o ls s o .— F ß o a rrtn ry um Du an ß d arg as an on d ; Co an .,N d o a . l 77 l G , it"ceeger:'ll4l-' 4 C___„"bdw. ♦ery town of the United Kingdom. 0........!................................."""......-- DimErTa.—On - the 19th i ß ns ir t. ,h a l t 3. 46 A f it gent's-park, Mrs. Charles Dickens, jun., ° C .. .,,, 1i fe of / HAY.—On the 12th inst., at Carshalton, the '''' j $4 O H. Hay , Esq., of a son. ii. ijewl LEAP.-0 the 19th - LEAF.—On mat , the wife of Fred. le til Burlington Lodge, Norwood, . of a sou. .. .the nnbillr• STOURTmv.—At Upper Ratbmines, near v i,, OW of Captain the Hon. Everard Stourtorif e ' " t Glocestercire'telos• Col , Marriages. ,t O le; COCX.ELL-IVIONKLAND.—On the 18th ®o no loe-49 f the. William Cockell, late 16th Regt • , only ~„;0, 0 .0 ill. Lieut.-Gen. Cockell, of Sandlofoid *Loclie'ir I;l:firlc.. Georgians, daughter of Geo. Monklanuoi:Z., ( 1 4 ,0" 0 0 4 . 11- HUTCHINSON—RICHARDSON. ()Tithe 18,4%; Of vjptB '' land near Yenrith, Geo. Hutchinso, •r'2,.4.1,0110' street west, to Deborah, youngest &wen. Richardson, Esq., of Culgaith, Curaberlan Deaths. o ,o' BAYER.—On the 17th inst., at Harlistlo.°lll.6: 1414. on-Thames, Henry Baker, Esq., ag e ' " SO P' PALLING.—On G B . l — ak o e, n ag t e h d e 86. 16 th list., sir - ar,,1 10 0 113 '9 ' 0 BLAKE.—On the 17th inst., at Woking eatillds Palling, Bart., of Earslxam Hall, Dlortol t tory , 0, 11 0 ,b0t DANIEL.—On the 19th must at Coorab s 13 ' r : o c tet ° f L ' pE v A e R ry s E suddenly, on th t e h ellißthev.inß:itcqhda.tDa,nlo e l, ag e ' t-04 aged 64. / ne ngh of John Pearce, Esq., aged 75. n Coo so° PEEL.—On tbe 17th inst., Al fred L'ann°l 1;00i:rota We') otlg li° Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Charles Lean° a bor oo .. months. t Well „, 0 0. Win 2WORTIL—On the 16th inst., 6 . 4 1, of v Whityro,—, Lucy, widow of Mr. Robert field, Bucks, aged 100. Loud"... _ LIAR W.,*; rrtrd and Prblished at (Ace v• 1 / 4 ', 'No. 112, Strand, Printer, at VIZ 'l3-.‘ COttil _22.Trid. the l'relnat of tbe 300,6' 111441L'Hig.—Saturday, YeWllOll 2 ' 3 ' 11 1 / I °R . 41Vi 11. 1 ( 1111k11 Itti f tebr ' B 1 1 4 8°Id P e .; ANlts leE 14 °rDor Ca N t ,A it 04 A eCal ti a N q Zl ‘lN kn ri 1k,4118 tot', tt 11 p It t e a t 1), .4 4t ick t b nt ) " IN el LA I er, e ' Ol 'bet oel' kete;,l, r h . AT tr, t re walk( ,L 1 re N N .„,geit Fig 11041, P 0 , 'WI Of VI at 11 ith 101 8-13 141 1 81 sl Der s hltre th th e kgt t tr oo , leF 434d° tt ezr P iN e b l lll Te th e e t i 440 LL] 4 4,,;,11.41 k essra. 44111 . RI, ? tt Dorkry %it Rar. Th e N, The isl: