The Sun. — London, England, 1854-03-06 00:00:00

XPRESS EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Ilalf-pastycven, o'clock. TATTERSALL'S. (THIS E v ENDTG.; DONCASTER STEEPLECHASE, to 1 agst Bourton (taken.) 9to 1 agst Clansman (taken). HOPEFUL STAKES. to 2 agst Cypriana (taken). DONCASTER HANDICAP. 4 to 1 agst Lerrywheut (taken). sto 1 agst Hungerford (taken). 9to 1 agst Feversham (taken). 12 to 1 agst Midsummer (taken). 15 to 1 agst England's Glory. GREAT METROPOLITAN STAKES. 15 to 1 agst Royalist (taken). 18 to 1 agst Lindrick (taken). 100 to 8 agst Ariosto (taken). 100 to 6 agst R:,taplan (taken). 100 to 6 agst Lamprocles (taken). 20 1 agst St. Clair (taken). CHESTER CUP. 13 to 1 agst N2wminster (taken), 50 to 1 agst Lurley (taken). 50 to 1 agst Horatio (take n ). 50 to 1 agst Dr. O'Toole. 50 to 1 agst Brown Brandy (taken). NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES, 9to 1 agst Red Lion (taken). 20 to 1 agst Diomedia (taken). 100 to 6 agst St. Faith (taken). DERBY. to 1 agst Autocrat (taken). 13 to 2 agst King Tom (taken). 12 to 1 agst Dervish (taken freely). 20 to 1 agst Ruby (taken). 22 to 1 agst Acrobat (taken). 20 to 1 agst Wild Huntsman (taken). 30 to 1 agst Marsyas (taken). 40 to 1 agst Bessus (taken). 45 to 1 agst Canute (taken). DONCASTER RACES. ADDITIONAL ARRIVALS.—CIotiIde, Freddy, Prince Plausible, Speed, King David, Lord Lieutenant, Eulo gist, Pearl, Gamekeeper, The Rajah, Ptolemy, Middles borough. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS-(THIS EVENING.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woo: sack at 5 o'clock. The Earl of HARROWBY gave notice of his invita tion on an early day to call attention to the proceedings of the Sanitary Commission, particularly as regarded the metropolis. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY gave notice that on Friday be would move for the continuation of the papers in reference to the religious disabilities of the Christian subjects of the Sultan. The Earl of HARDWICKE drew attention to the imperfect ventilation of the house, and expressed a hope that some steps would be taken to remedy the detect. (At this time the house was so completely filled with fog that it was difficult to distinguish many of the peers present. The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented several petitions from Scotland against the endowment of the College of Maynooth. CONSOLIDATION OF THE CRIMINAL LAW. Lord ST. LEONARDS asked the Lord Chancellor what the Government proposed to do in regard to the Criminal Law Amendment and Consolidation Bills ? [LEFT SPEAKING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(THIS EVENING.) The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. SECOND READINGS. The Great North of Scotland Railway Bill, and the Stamford and Kettering Road Bill, wero read a second time. On the motion that the Kensington Improvement Bill be read a second time, Mr. RICARDO moved that the bill be read a second time this day six months. Mr. BOUVEItIE thought it would be very dangerous to accede to the second reading of the bill. Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUR said the objections stated against the bill had no real foundation, and he thought, as the inhabitants of Brompton were in favour of the bill, it ought to be now read a second time and sent to a committee. Lord R. GROSVENOR thought, as no principle of public law was infringed by this bill, the house ought not to refuse the bill going through a second reading. The house then divided on the question, when there appeared— For the second reading For the amendment ... Majority against second reading So the bill was lost. Mr. FORTESCUE, the new member for Louth, took the oaths and his seat. Mr. OLIVEIRA presented a petition from Inverness, very numerously signed, in favour of a reduction of the duties on foreign wines. Sir J. SHELLEY presented a petition from West minster, praying for a reduction of the duties on post carriages and horses. Lord D. STUART presented petitions with a similar prayer from the inhabitants of St. Pancras and Oxford street. General BUCKELEY presented petitions from differ ent places in Wales, praying for the closing of beer shops on the Lord's-day. Sir B. HALL presented a petition from Marylebone against the Poor Removal Bill. 53 153 ---105 SUSPENDED WRITS. Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that, on Thursday first, he should move a further suspension of the writs where commissions had been issued. PETITIONS. The following petitions were presented by Mr. H. W. WICKHAM :—From the guardians of the poor of the Bradford Union, West Riding of Yorkshire, praying for an amendment in the Vaccination Act, making it compulsory on the vaccinator to make a due return of successful vaccination to the registrar of the district ; also three petitions from the inhabitants of Buttershaw, West, Riding of York—one praying for an alteration in the distribution of the revenues of the Church, so that all incomes of from 4,5001. to 15,0001. per annum be done away with, and the capitular system entirely abolished ; one praying that the Oaths Bill may not pass into a law ; and one that Inns and Beer-shops be entirely closed on the Sunday, except to bona fide travellers and lodgers. CHARTS OF THE BLACK SEA. Mr. TRENCH asked the First Lord of the Admi ralty whether the important charts and documents re lating to the navigation of the Black Sea, brought by the /Late Doctor Clarke, of Cambridge, and deposited at the Admiralty many years ago, have been made use of. Sir J. GRAHAM replied that the subject was still r.nder consideration. ORDNANCE SURVEYS. Colonel BLAIR asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether that part of the statement which he made in reference to the ordnance survey of Scotland is correct, where he is reported to have stated that " no scale would be adopted exceeding 20 inches to the mil e ." The CHANCELLOR o f the EXCHEQUER said he bad no intention to fix any limit to the maximum of the RUSSIA AN. Mr. LAYARD, adverting D to the TURKEY statement of Lord J. Russell that new proposals had been made to Russia, wished to know it, in event of the Russian troops having 'Withdrawn from the Principalities, Russia would revert to th e st at us quo ante bellunt—that was, would the old treaties between Rnssia. and Turkey remain still in force. been re Lo rd J. RUSSELL said the Emperor of Russia had q u ested to ev acuate t h e pr i ncipalities, because it was a wrongful occupation ;but the q ues ti on of esta bemain a lishing peace b etween Turkey an d R uss i a would still took plac e r matter fo r negotiation after the evacuation had Mr. LAYARD complained that this was no answer t o his question, but he gave notice that on an early day he would bring th e question under the notice of the house. THE BUD GET. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER it mittee of ways and means, bro ug h t under consideration the present financial state of the country, an d h av i ng adverted to the gravity of the occasion when he was called again to disclose his Budget for the coming year, be proceeded to state that last year the receipts from the Customs were estimated at 20,680,0001., they had up to 'this time, the financial year being still incomplete, yielded 20,600,000/. ; from excise, the estimate was 14,640,0001., the receipts had been 15,170,000/. ; from the stamps the estimate was 6,700,0001., the receipts had been 6,960,0001, ; from taxes the Psti:nate was 3 , 2 50,000/., the receipts had been 3,178,000 1 - ; the income tax was estimated at 5 ,550,000/., the actual receipts had reached 5 ,700,000/. ; the estimate for the post-office was 90 0,000/., the receipts had been 1,042,0001. ; from Crown lands the:estimate was 390,0001., the receipts had been 3:91,000/. The miscellaneous receipts were estimated at 320,000/., the actual receipts had been 503,0001. ; for . old stores the estimate was 460,0001., the actual receipts bad been 4 81,0001. The total estimate of the income of the year, on the 18th:of last April, wa5 . 52,990,0001; while the 4o ac tual receipt s o f th e year had r e ached so less than c 25,0001. Thus showing an increase over the eeti• TEE SUN, LONJA mate of 1,035,0001. (Cheers.) The expenditure of the year at the same period was estimated at 52,183,0001. but it had, in point of fact, only reached 51,171,0001., so that while in the receipts there had been an increase over the estimate of 1,035,0001., there had been a saving iu expenditure of 1,012,0001. (Cheers.) He calculated, therefore, that this year there would be a surplus of income over expenditure amount. ing to 2,854,0001. (Cheers.) The changes which had been made in the Customs, he was happy to say, had worked most satisfactorily ; while, with regard to stamps, instead of the adoption of the penny stamp in all cases having resulted in a loss to the Exchequer, it had actu ally increased the receipts under this head by 36,0001. (Cheers.) By the extension of the income tax to Ire land, it was estimated that an addition would be made to the revenue of 460,000/. ; the actual receipt from this source had been 480,0001. (Loud cheers.) The extension of the income tax to incomes of 1001. a year was estimated to produce 150,0001., it had actu ally reached 250,0001. The change in the duty on Scotch spirits, which was estimated to produce 278,0001., had only yielded 209,0001. ; while the same increase in the case of Ireland, which was estimated at 198,0001., had produced no less than 213,0001. (Cheers.) This statement was based upon an actual experience of 11 months, and an estimate of one month. (Hear.) So much, then, for the past ; and now he had to state the estimates and views of the Government with regard to the future. (Hear, hear.) The following, then, was the probable estimate of the revenue for the year 1854-1855 : INCOME. Customs Excise .. £20,175,000 14,595,000 Stamps Taxes 7,090,000 3,015,000 Income-tax Post-office.. 6,275,000 1,200,000 Crown Lands 259,000 Old stores Miscellaneous 420,000 320,000 Total income The expenditure of the year 1854-55 was estimated as follows : EXPENDITURE. Funded Debt ..... Unfunded Debt . .. £27,000,000 ... 546,000 Consolidated Fund.. 2,460,000 Army ... 6,857,000 7,488,000 Ordnance 3,846,000 Commissariat 645,000 Miscellaneous Estimates 4,775,000 Militia. 530,000 Packet Service Eastern Service 792,000 1,250,000 Total Expenditure 56,189,000 The house would perceive that the army for the East, which would number 25,000 men, would cost 1,250,0001., and that upon the whole / calculation i of estimate and expenditure, there was a deficiency of no less than 2,840,0001. (Hear, hear.) Had there been no eastern war to provide for, there would have been a sur plus of 1,666,0001., butas matters now stood, the question for the house now to decide was, how should this increased expenditure be provided for it. The Government was not prepared, nor, did he believe the house was ready to acquiesce in a proposal to retrace the steps which had been taken with regard to the repeal of Customs duties and the removal of indirect taxa tion, but though that course was not advisable at the present moment, the country must yet not sup pose that there would be no return to a _system of indi rect taxation in the event of the war continuing for a lengthened period. (Hear, hear.) It was enough, how ever, for the country and the house to know that, under existing circumstances, it would not be wise to provide for the immediate wants of the country by reverting to taxes which had only recently been wholly abolished or partially reduced. (Cheers.) At the same time,^ to resort to a loan, and to charge the war upon posterity in behalf of the public, was not worthy of the occasion, nor was it called for by the necessities of the moment— (cheers) —and, therefore, putting a stout heart upon the matter, it was proposed for this year, at least, only to make additions to the direct taxation of the country. Such a course would be a deception of the peoplewho wanted to know the price they were called upon to pay for the exi gencies of the moment. It was, in point of fact, by these means the people would be brought to fix their eyes upon the necessities of the war, and bring an honourable peace. Having brought the subject to this point, there cannot be much doubt what the Government will pro pose—(loud laughter)—or the committee agree to. In referring last April to the subject of taxation in the way of income, he had not a shade of doubt as to the speedy arrival of the time when he could put that in force. 6,275,000/. ,was the estimate he had taken for next year. He proposed to increase the income tax by one-half, ant levy the whole merely for half a year ; in other words, that they should double the income tax for half a year. (Sensation.) It was impossible to estimate the cost of warlike operations if they continued, and he could not guarantee that the funds they now asked for would he sufficient for more than twelve months. The levying of direct taxation was al ways from six to nine months in arrear of the time when the tax began to be chargeable. It was, therefore, only by levying the tax on the first half-year that they could levy it within the year. If he proposed an increase of the tax for the whole year, it was possible they might levy money which they might never require —therefore it was much the simplest course that the proposal he made should take the form which he now proposed—namely, for the half year. Irrespective of any change of the law, the income-tax from April 1854 to 1855 would amount to 6,275,0001., and the moiety of that would be 3,307,000/. If they added that to the 6,275,0001., it made 9,587,0001. The total income of the year he calculated at 56,656,000/., and the expenditure at 56,189,0001., so that there would be, by way of provision for the service of the year, about 467,0001. With regard to stamps chargeable on bills of exchange, he thought it fit up to the present time to exempt bills drawn abroad from discount, and to lay on a tax on those drawn at home. But he thought this law was evaded by dishonest persons bringing bills from abroad to have drawn, and those bills came into the hands of per sons who could not know anything of them—(hear),— tnerefore the proposal he intended to make was this— he proposed to adopt an ad valorem scale at the rate of 3d. for each 251. ; he propos ed to carry this scheme upwards to 5,000/. ; he proposed to abolish altogether the distinction that now existed between home-drawn and foreign:drawn bills, and make them all pay the income-tax. He proposed also to do away with impressing those bills. (Hear, hear.) Every exertion would be made to expedite th e process of die sinking, &c., but he did not expect that it would be in operation before the sth July n ext. The average rate of the present duty was 10s. 6d. per cent., and he now proposed to reduce it to 108., and that would give a revenue of 434,0001. (Hear, hear.) He anticipated a considerable accession to the revenue of at least 40,0001., and 50,0001. from the tax on foreign drawn bills, so that the whole proceeds of those items would be 544,0001. He intended to ask the house to-night for a vote of 1,750,0001. for an Exchequer loan. He was afraid, if there had been 4,000,0001. or 5,000,0001. in the Exchequer more than was needed, there might be a temptation to deal with the balances ; but whether that temptation might be a strong one or a weak one, it had been removed. (Laughter.) He thought it right, therefore, to ask the committee for leave to raise a mo derate Exchequer loan ; when that authority was given that was an authority which he did not expect to have exercised to the full extent, but even if it did, the unfunded debt would stand at the point at which it stood twelve months ago. Twelve months ago the amount of the funded debt was 17,750,000/. ; at present it was about 16,000,0001. in round numbers. He thought the house had no reason to be dissatisfied with the rate of discount on Ex claequer Bills, which was now twopence per day, or 3 per cent., and twelvemonths ago it was id. per day, or 11 per cent. The house was aware that the com mutation of stocks last year was comparatively abortive —the total saving on these was 285,0001. Setting aside the collateral question of stamps and a few others, such as the refining of sugar, the proposal he had to make was that they should agree to double the income on the first half year, and to provide ?,.an amount of Exchequer Bills within 1,250,000/. Government had sought to leave to the House of Commons the fullest control over the funds of the country, and they had taken `the course which was most agreeable to themselves as constitutional ministers, and would be such as would not forfeit the confidence of the House of Commons. The right hon. gentleman then sat down amid loud cheers, having been speaking about two hours. Mr. E. BALL then rose, and was (LEFT SPEAKING.) The Drake and Duchess of Somerset entertained Lord Glenelg, Lord Seymour, Mr. Babbage, and a small p ar ty at dinner on S aturday evening, in Park-lane, after which her Grace Attended Lady Palmerston's party. The Marchioness of Ailesbury has arrived in Gros venor-square, from visiting the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Cantle. Flis Excelle tney Sir lenry and Lady Julwer, who have been pass ing the winter at Brighton, have returned to town, THE BUDGET. (From the Times.) To-night we are to realise one of the first "hor rors" of war. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is to tell us in his Budget how we are to pay for it. There is, indeed, no absolute necessity for doing or saying anything about the expense yet, and an ordinary nation would maintain a grave silence on that part of the subject for many a month to come. The increase in the Estimates, though large in these days of retrenchment, does not exceed the three millions of annual surplus ; and, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer calculates he is saving a million a-quarter on the old Estimates, he starts well for a war—better, probably, than any Minister of Fi. nance ever started before. But as the war, now imminent rather than impending, goes on, expenses ' will increase. We shall have to arm, to feed, to clothe, and to convoy our Eastern allies ; to make fortifications, and raise the whole cost of the war from a Turkish to an English standard. It is true that, even with a whole continent intervening, we shall be able to make war more economically than the Russians, who have to march their troops thou sands of miles by bad roads, through an ill provided country. It is true, also, that in the power of steam we possess an immense advantage over our fathers, who brought the last European war to so glorious though so costly a conclusion. It was just about the close of that war when the appearance of something like a coal barge, with a steam engine on board, moving a pair of paddle-wheels, excited the curiosity and the contempt of old sailors on the Thames. Besides a surplus, and steam, and a stock ef national enthusiasm which will I ast ratherlonger than Mr. Cobden expects, we have also such an accumu ration of shipping and material of every descrip tion as no nation ever had before, or is ever likely to have 'again. Thus prepared we could wage a war with Russia for the next six months so tre mendous as to shake her huge bulk from sea to sea, without paying one shilling more than has already been included in the annual estimates. But, strike as we may, and astonished as Russia may be at the blows she will undoubtedly receive, we have no right to expect- that six months or twelve months will bring the war to a conclusion ; so we must reckon on its further continuance and increased expenses, and consider how they are to be met. When Europe sees that we are prepared to be as lavish, if necessary, as in the last great war, that alone will have the force of powerful armaments and brilliant successes, inasmuch as the world will see, that even should we suffer defeat after defeat, and exhibit ever sa much mismanagement, we must win at last from unlimited resources and sheer de termination. Should the war be protracted from year to year, and, as some prophets of ill have predicted and others have desired, involve all Europe in the quarrel—stir up the discontented " nationalities" —fan the embers of revolution—and finally sweep over as wide a range, and endure for as long a period as the last war—we shall then un doubtedly have to retrace our steps through the whole course of financial remission. We should have to raise the succession-tax as a perma nent resource, and, possibly, also restore some of the import duties to their former oppressive amount. Indeed, there is no saying where we should stop. But; without any attempt or desire to conceal the full danger, we may honestly say that there is no real reason against an early and happy termination of the war. If England and France put forth their best, and Austria and Prussia only observe their neutrality, there can be no doubt, humanly speaking, that Russia will suffer such loss and dishonour as must bring her to reason. Driven back across the Pruth, shut up in all her ports, with her great dockyards, her arsenals, and most probably all her navy destroyed, and her commerce entirely suspended, she must soon feel the utter folly of her own first appeal to the ultima ratio, in the invasion of the Principali ties. But such a war must not be done by halves. We must take care, and we can very easily take care, that not a yard of Russian bunting shall be seen in any part of the globe, and the Czar shall become as unknown and fabulous a personage as the Llama of Thibet or his old neighbour Prester John. In this there can be no real difficulty, see ing that Russia, huge as she is, cannot molest the world without passing through the two narrowest apertures in the whole range of the Ocean,—the Bosphorus and the Sound. Providence, which has made such great inequalities, and which has accu mulated on one semi-barbaric throne so many con ditions of power, has counterbalanced them in this instance with a fundamental weakness that no wealth, no territory, no population can over come. This weakness is fatal. It • has ever been found that empire was impossible without the command of the sea. In ancient days, to have the Mediterranean was to govern the world ; to be excluded from it was to be nothing. Much more is it so now. We have only to make this known and felt in Russia, and we shall soon create a public opinion in that country that will fight with our fleets and do the work of an in vasion. To do that well and at once, whatever the cost, will be the best economy in the end, and we crust that the Ilouse of Commons will this evening show that it is prepared to enable Government to pursue such a course. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer will make his financial statement this evening under very differ ent circumstances from those which attended the Budget of 1853. A year ago, it was not necessary to increase the public revenue, nor even to main tain the existing amount of taxation. The Finance Minister had only to compare the ciaims of different classes for relief, and, while reducing taxation, to adjust the public burdens in the most equitable manner. Mr. Gladstone accomplished his difficult task to the satisfaction of the country ; and, with a foresight which will now be more fully appre ciated, lie took measures to secure, not only a stable, but a growing revenue. To-night, how ever, it will be his less welcome duty to devise the means for engaging in a war, of which it is at present impossible to foresee either the extent or the duration. The House of Commons has already granted, with unstinted liberality, the supplies which have been asked ; and, according to the well-founded constutional practice, the provision of Ways and Means is considered after Parliament has sanctioned the requisite expenditure. The Government is immediately responsible for the prudent choice of financial expedients, rather than for the outlay for which it is necessary, according to the votes of the House, to provide. The Chancellor of the Exchequer will derive but little aid, on the present occasion, from the practice of his predecessors during the last European war. It is generally admitted that far too large a portion of the expense incurred in that struggle was thrown on the shoulders of posterity. The annual charge of the additional debt created between 1793 and 1815 amounted to 23 millions—a larger sum than the entire expenditure of the country, inclusive of th• interest on the' debt, during the first or second year of the war. Even iu 1798, the revenue amounted only to 20 millions, while the expendi ture exceeded 50. It was not until 1799 that the Income-tax was imposed; and it raised the revenue, in the following year, to 29 millions—a sum which would have defrayed the total outlay of the year 1794, when the 'public income had only reached 17 millions. In 1815, the amount raised by taxa tion reached the enormous sum of 72 millions, of which no less than 42 millions were absorbed by the charge of the debt. It was only in the thirteenth year of the war that the total expenditure of the country began to exceed the amount which was eventually raised within a single year. A capital of 800 millions, added to the debt in two and twenty years, represents the price at which exemption from immediate sacrifices was purchased by the nation. Mr. Pitt was fully aware of the inconveniences of that funding system which he earned to so great a height. In 1798, in proposing to the House of Commons a large increase of taxation, he contras ted the comparative advantages of providing for the public expenditure by loans, or out of the annual revenue. " Raise the present sums," he said, " by taxation in two years, and you and your posterity are completely exonerated from it ; but if, on the other hand, you fund its amount, it will entail an annual tribute for its interest, which, in 40 years, will amount to no less than 40 millions. . . . . Shall we sacrifice, or shall we save to our posterity, a sum between 40 and 50 millions sterling I" Unfortunately, the views thus ex pressed by the Minister were not even partially carried into effect, until the debt had been augmented by more than 100 millions, involving a permanent charge which greatly increased the difficulty of furnishing the necessary re venue by annual taxation. It cannot, however, be supposed that any such difficulty exists at the pre sent moment. The resources of the country have expanded to an astonishing degree during the long peace which we have enjoyed. In 1815, our exports were valued at 52 millions—in the last twelve months, they have been declared at 90 mil lions, while the taxes have sunk from 92 to 53 mil lions. Moreover, the economy of war is far better understood now than it was at the commencement of the last European struggle. The expedition which is about to be sent to Turkey is more nume rous than any land force which was employed during the whole of the war, up to the death of Mr. Pitt ; and yet the estimates show that a mode rate addition to the national income will be sufficient to meet the increased expenditure. It must, how ever, be remembered, that the extraordinary ex penses of the campaign cannot yet be ascertained. But, while additional resources will be neces warily required, it is satisfactory to know that the I financial arrangements of last year have hitherto proved highly successful. The actual surplus, on the sth of January, amounted to 3,000,0001. — including, however, the proceeds, for a part of the year, of the various taxes which were repealed in the Budget of 1853. The Succession duty has as yet scarcely come into operation for the benefit of the Exchequer ; but during the pre sent year, the first instalments will begin to fall in, and the amount will gradually increase, until it becomes permanent in 1858. There is some reason to fear that the elasticity of the re venue arising from indirect taxes may be repressed by the operation of the war ; but it may, at all events, be hoped that the allied naval forces will be strong enough to secure commerce against any interruption by sea. There seems no reason why . the American or Australian trade should be seri ously checked by a rupture with Russia. The immediate wants of the Government will probably be supplied by the issue of 1,750,0001. Ex chequer Bills, for which Mr. Gladstone will ask the House of Commons to-night. He will probably ex plain, at the same time, his intentions with respect to the unfundeddebt. The amount of outstanding Bills—which was greatly reduced in the early part of last year—has again been raised to its ordinary limit of between 17 and 18 millions by issues in the autumn, which, in consequence of the change in the value of money, were required to effect the conver sion of the South Sea Annuities. It is well known that the same causes operate somewhat differently on the value of those securities which are always convertible, and on the funded debt. If the war continues, Exchequer Bina . , though they may fall in actual price, will probably rise in value as coin , pared with Consols ; and this peculiarity acts as a protection to the Government against the possible risk of a sudden demand for the payment of the Bills in money. Bank-notes are held with confi dence by the publi c , because they are payable on demand ; and Exchequer Bills are willingly ex changed in March and June, because the exchange is not compulsory on the holder. The Ways and Means which Mr. Gladstone will this evening propose to the House of Commons will be known throughout the kingdom in a few hours ; and there is, therefore, little use in con jectural anticipations of the Ministerial intentions. In the latter part of the last century, a Chancellor of the Exchequer, under similar circumstances, hunted through the- tariff to find commodities on which duties might be imposed or increased. The long list of Mr. Pitt's taxes, extending from hair powder upwards, shows how severely a sound fi nancier must have been pressed, when he sought for money, not where it might be obtained at the smallest sacrifice to the community, but wherever he could get it. The effect of multifarious imposts on the springs and sources of wealth is now, how ever, more generally understood. The country has reluctantly resolved on undertaking a just and necessary war ; and it will not refuse to the Go vernment the means of conducting it to a successful issue. The needful expenditure must obviously be met by that form of taxation which is at once the most simple, the most economical, and the most easily withd r awn ; and the unpleasant necessity of the crisis has been so generally foreseen that there can be no doubt as to the. assent of the House of Commons to the measures which will be proposed. MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1854. POSTPONEMENT OF THE REFORM BILL. The postponement, and only too probable sup pression, of the Reform Bill, may be regarded as the first of those sacrifices which the country is called upon to make at the altar of the implacable demon of battles. The sacrifice is doubtless a great one, yet we can hardly hope that all similar sacri fices will be made, with equal cheerfulness and alacrity. The ready approbation with which the House of Commons met the proposal to immolate this great, liberal, and beneficial measure on the shrine of their country, or, at any rate, to sequester it from public view for a decent period previous to its execution, must not, we fear, be anticipated when the Chancellor of the Exchequer asks, as ho may probably this very day do, for an increase of the public burdens, which may curtail our incomes, abridgeour pleasures, and confound our plans. It is one thing to surrender, from a sense of patriotic duty, the disfranchisement of a borough, which with all its faults has, at any rate, had the good taste to re turn one good member to Parliament • or to post pone the enfranchisement of a number of ten-pound county voters, who, whatever be their abstract merits, will have the drawback of swamping a county influence in which one is interested ; or to adjourn the granting of the representation to a minority in a borough where one's party has hither to rei g ned supreme. These are sacrifices which every true patriot makes with pleasure ; but the proposal to forego hard money, or money's worth, is not likely to be received with uproarious cheers, or carried, if carried at all, with a burst of accla mation. We fear there is no denying it,—wherever the desire for reform resides, it is not in the majority of the House of Commons. Ministers may see clearly the wisdom and policy of passing into a law with as little delay as possible provisions with regard to our electoral system, which will obviate the necessity for a considerable time of any fur ther change, and, by adopting the state of the re presentation to the state 'of society, may at once insure the smooth working of the representative machine and delicate sensibility of the political balance. But the House of Commons does not share in this conviction, or, if it does so, it is con tent to let it sleep with other convictions till some imperious emergency shall occasion a disinterment of buried principles, or the necessity of appealing anew to popular favour shall cause men to look about for some topic of interest and excite ment. Ministers may give what reason they will for deferring or abandoning their Reform Bill, but the one reason of infinitely more weight than all others put together is, that they have not the means of carrying such a measure through such a house. If a Reform Bill is framed on the old system, on the precedent of the measure of 1832, it will require for its success conditions very similar to those of that stormy period. There must be union, there must be enthusiasm, or a bill which combines against it all the corrupt in fluences of the country, by striking at them all, is sure to miscarry. There can be no want of union among the antagonists of the Reform Bill ; a com mon interest and a common danger secure this without concert or preparation. But where is the bond which is to unite and organise its supporters? Every private abuse has its natural champion and indefatigable defender, but who will enter the lists on the part of the public ? The great ma jority of the House of Commons seem to have no vocation whatever for this task. Impressionable they doubtless are, but there has hitherto been no attempt to make any impression upon them. If the house has been ready to make the Reform Bill a holocaust on the altar of Bellona, the country has shown no wish to interrupt the rite. Iphigenia is bound to the altar, but no Diana comes to rescue her. Calchas, in the form of Lord John Russell, raises the knife, and there is no Agamemnon to avert his face. The public mind of this country, though clear in its convictions and ardent in their pursuit, is certainly not qualified to entertain many ideas at the same time. The majority of the middle and the upper classes are too much absorbed in those lucrative pursuits which the prospect of war has as yet but little interrupted, to spare time or attention for a scheme which requires to be considered and ana lysed in order to be understood, and appeals rather to the understanding than the passions ; and the people—those by whose voices and whose influence the first Reform Bill was carried, and by whose opinion the second must pass, if it be destined to pass at all—are engaged so entirely in contemplat ing the preparations for war, and have thrown their passions and thoughts so completely into this one novel and exciting subject, that questions of domestic policy fail even to get a hearing, and the national pugnacity, fairly aroused, leaves no room for any other sentiment. Since, then, the house will not act without the people, and the people have not sufficient leisure or eagerness to drive their legislators into a Parlia mentary suicide, we suppose we must give up all hopes of passing this bill, good as it is, and adjourn to a future, and perhaps a remote, tune the cor rection of abuses which, little interest as they may excite within Parliament or out of doors, are never theless of the highest moment, and materially in terfere with the working of our constitution, and detract from the credit due to representative insti tutions in general. There seems to be no help for it, and it is neither prudent nor dignified to pro tract a struggle with impossibilities. We must, however, remark that the proposal and withdrawal of such a measure at such a time is, though proba bly unavoidable, an evil of a very serious n a t ure . The war must be very unlike other wars if it remains all through its prosecution as popular as it is at pre sent. The public mind is flattered by the exhibition of our strength and spirit, and dwells upon our corning glory without counting the cost. If dis content, the inevitable concomitant of protracted hostilities, should arise, every one will be furnished on the highest authority with a manual of griev ances ready prepared to his hand, and we shall not be surprised to find the call for reform, which is so silent now, loudly raised at a period when it will be next to impossible to attend to it. The county householder will have been taught to feel Mu grievance in being deprived of the franchise. The other classes intended to be admitted to the suffrage by the provisions of the bill will complain, under increased burdens, that they have no voice in imposing them. Districts :.ill feel that they have an inchoate right to members not yet granted. and boroughs that they are under sentence, and only await the hand of the executioner. These evils would be small if we could only insure the continuation of the present state of popular in difference. But this we cannot do, and we there fore regard it as no slight misfortune to be obliged to embark in foreign conflict without having pre viously settled our domestic relations.—Times. THE BELGIAN GIRL'S CASE. On Friday afternoon a private application was made to Mr. Arnold, at the Westminster Police-court, by the police,' in consequence of which the information, upon oath of Alice Leroy, the unfortunate Belgian girl, and of Elvire Cerckel, who aided her in her escape from the house of ill-fame in Denbeigh-terrace, was taken in writing, and a warrant issued for the apprehension of Alexander Desaux, the father of Laura Leboucher, alias Madame Denis. Inspector Simoncli, proceeded to the house in Denbeigh-terrace, but had no sooner effected a partial entrance than Desaux attempted to close the door against him, and called a very powerful and savage dog to his aid. Fortunately for the inspector, he had taken with him Antonio, the foot-boy recently in the e stablishment, to whom the dog was much attached, who succeeded in quieting the animal, and Desaux, a miserable dirty-looking old Frenchman, the janitor of the establishment, was brought away, and on Saturday placed before Mr. Broderip for examination. The warrant, as in the case of Feistel, alias Harrison, who has undergone two or three examinations, charged him with conspiring with others by false representations to procure the defilement of a girl under 21 years of age. Mr. Threw, for the prosecution, said, that apart from the present charge, defendant had rendered himself liable to the law as the keeper of a brothel, and for assaulting and falsely imprisoning Alice Leroy. He would, how ever, at present confine himself to the charge under the common law, as cited on a previous occasion, in the case of the " Queen v. Mears and Chabot," and would shape his case in accordance with it. It was then determined that the information upon oath before alluded to should be read and translated to defendant as evidence for a remand, and this was accord ingly done. Alice Leroy's information was as follows :—Defendant is the father of Madame Denis. He was always in the house in Denbigh-terrace. He was there the day I ar rived from Brussols, and dined with us that day, and every day after. Several times when I have been going down stairs he has met me, and told me to go up again, and he has told me his daughter would scold him if he let me go down. This happened more than six times. Ho remained almost the whole day with me, and the other girls, in the room there, smoking or reading, and if I went to the window he would draw me back, and say his daughter would scold him. The words he used were, " What do you want always going to the window ; you don't want anything, and we sh a ll be scolded ?" I never saw but the two young ladies in the house before spoken of, and they had not much more liberty than I had. Only the little one who was brought from Brussels with me by Harrison went out sometimes with him and madame . Defendant slept in the third-floor front, and I and another girl in the back. The morning before I escaped madame came into the room where I was cry ing, and said to me, " You think to escap e , b u t you shall not," and locked up my cloak and bonnet. I had previously told one of the girls that I would rather live in the streets than in that house ; and I told defendant that madame had loaked up my bonnet and cloak. I told him the same evening that they were locked up in the morning. Elvire Cerckel's deposition was as follows :—I first knew Madame Denis's father a year ago. He passed a few months with her then, and came to the house to live altogether about 6 months ago. He was always up stairs with the girls ; but what he was doing there I do not know, as I was always down stairs. I did not sleep there. I went about half-past seven or eight in the morning, and the girls were not up then. He was up and down stairs before they were up, and up and down stairs the best part of the day. Sometimes he went out, but very seldom. It was his watchfulness prevented her escape sooner. The morning that I effected her escape he was to comedown, and 1 went up and remained up ; and I found he was in his room, so I woke Alice and got her up and out of the house ; and after, when he ran out with me the wrong way, he told me that as her things were locked up he thought she could not escape ; and that was the reason he went up to bed again that morning. Mr. Broderip (addressing the interpreter)—Tell him I am quite ready to hear what he has to say, but inform him that I shall not be the magistrate ultimately to dispose of the case, although I remand him till a future day. Ask him, therefore, if he wishes to say anything before me. The interpreter made the inquiry and replied—He says that the day before Alice escaped, they had offered to put her on board a steam-boat and send her back to her own country. Mr. Broderip--Ask him whether that is all he has to say? The interpreter replied—He says the girl advised Alice to escape to get money from madame, and that he went out every day with the dog for a walk. Mr. Broderip—Tell him it is my duty to remand him till Monday at two o'clock, when he must be brought up before the magistrate wha will dispose of his case. Upon this being communicated, the interpreter re ph ed—Ho says if you will let him go he will come back again. Mr. Broderip—Tell him I cannot do that. _ _ Defendant WAS accordingly remanded. M. and Madame Denis, alias Laura Leboucher, ab sconded directly after the girl's escape ; 30 guineas has been offered for her capture, and ten guineas for her husband's. A NEW PLANET. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—At half-past 2 o'clock yesterday morning, Mr. Marth, assistant at this observatory, discovered, close to the bright star Spica in Virgo, a new planet, evi dently belonging to the group between Mars and Jupi ter. It appears like a star of the tenth magnitude. The following are the positions given by Mr. Marth's obser vations : Greenwich Apparent Apparent Mean Time. Rl ht Ascension. Declination. h. In. sec. h. in. sec. deg. m. sec. March 1, at 14 45 6.7 13 17 31'05 10 5 28.8 South March 2, at 13 53 47'6 13 17 4 . 61 13 5 25.4 „ I remain, sir, your most obedient servant, J. R. HIND. Mr. Bishop's Observatory, Regent's-park, March 3. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Mr. Norman Pogson, one of the assistants at this observatory, has been observing a star to-night in the constellation Virgo, which turns to be another planet. As I am not aware that this object has as yet been seen elsewhere, the announcement of it in your columns may be interesting to astronomers, Its position in the heavens is as follows : Greenwich Right North Polar Mean Time. Ascension. Distance h. in. sec. h. m. see. deg. m. sec. March 2 ... 13 24 46 13 17 4 . 98 100 5 30.0 „ ... 13 58 57 13 17 4'30 100 5 30'3 „ ... 16 32 51 13 17 1.28 100 5 28.9 Daily motion in R. A. ,------- - 28 sec. ; in N. P. D. ----- - 11". Yours, &c., M. J. JOHNSON. Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, March 3. DISASTERS AT SEA.--On Saturday information was re ceived at Lloyd's that the Edinburgh steam-ship, one of the fleet of the General Steam Navigation Company, on making the entrance to the Texel in the course of Tues day last, struck on the Borkurn Reef, one of the patches which abound near the approach to the river. The gale was blowing heavily from the N.W., and some of the crew and passengers imagining, it is thought, that the steamer was going to pieces, unknown to Captain Phil lips, imprudently took to the boats, and put off from the vessel. They consisted of three passengers, fire sailors, and four stokers. Nothing has been heard of them, and it is feared that the two boats were overwhelmed by the heavy sea which was running. After remaining on the reef some time the Edinburgh was got off. She was found to be leaking, but was taken into Hamburgh on Wednesday morning. 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The TRIAL STAKES of 7 sovs. each, 3 ft, with 30 sovs_ added ; for 3-yr-olds, 6st 1 Olb ; four, Bst 71b ; five, 9st ; six and aged, 9st 31b ; mares and geldings al lowd 31b ; and maiden 3.yr-olds, at the time of start ing, allowed 31b ; four, 51b ; and upwards, 71b. Win ners of 200 BOYS. at any one time to carry 51b ; twice, 101 b ; and thrice, 141 b extra. T.Y.C. (13 subs.) Age. I Age. Lord-Lieutenant The Field-Marshal 3 Romeo Adelaide The Jewess 3 Miss Agnes Violet 3 i Blakely Snowdon Dunhill 4 C by Cotherstone— Jack the Giant-Killer 4 Duchess of Lorraine... 3 3 The HOPEFUL STLEFI3 of 5 sovs. each, with 100 added, for two-year-olds ; colts Bst 71b, fillies and geldings Bst 31b. A winner before starting to carry 41b extra; the second to receive 20 sovs, out of the stakes. Half a mile. 55 subs. Tocsin Chaon Poor Dick The Deerstalker c by Pyrrhus the First— Prince Plausible Roulette b f by Footstool—Lady Milton The Slave Excitement The Rajah Sahara Redemption b f by Orlando—lodine's SWeeiheart Palmerston bl or br c by Sir Tatton Sykes—Damson b c by Sir Tattoo. -Sykes— Black Doctor's dam b c by Sir Tatton Sykes— dani b f by Cowl—Merriment The Baronet Brother to Flirt Phoebus A lrm's dam - Forest Maid His Piper b f by Malcolm—The Cock ... tail's darn br f by Melbourne—Testy Aurora Crown Pigeon b f by Orlando—Despatch Frederick Ingotnar b f by Don John Caviar,. or. Paragon—Venus • gr f by Chanticleer—High Sheriff's darn b f by Rochester—The Doe. Rose b f by Planet Canute's darn c by Planet—Bonnie b f by Poynfon—Pink Bon net Puncture . The Usurer. Brother to Twinkle The Medway b f by Touchstone—Va- lentitt, .Cypriana leh f by The Hero—Nubia The Great Prophet Plausible b f by Chanticleer, dam by Don John—Game Lass ch f by Cotherstone—Mail of Saragossa Baroda b f by Van Tromp, dam by Bay Middleton—Nitocris Manzi° Brother to Snowdon Dun- hill Lady Palmerston The GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE (HANDICAP), of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and only 5 if declared, with 100 added. A winner of 100 sovs. clear, after the weights are published, once, 71b ; twice, or a winner of 300 sovs. clear, 101 b extra. The second to save his stake. About three miles and three•quarters, over the usual steeplechase course. (38 subs., 7of whom pay 5 soya. each.) Yrs d Ib Bourton (in 101 b ex) Peter Simple a 12 0 Oscar The Colonel - 0 Half-and-Half, a 10 10 Abd-el-Kader a 10 5 Melon 6 10 2 Bedford b) alo 0 Lucy Neal ...... a 912 Tom of Tuam a 9 11 Victress Spring 6 9 10 Trout (in 101 b ex.) a 9 8 Malay Clansman , 5 9 7 Star of England... a 9 7 Yrs st lb Forest Lad a 9 7 Cervus Sir Mark 6 9 5 Geraldus a 9 5 Royalty br g by Young Priam, darn by Woldsman a 9 0 Lucks-all Jumpaway The Farmer (h b) 6 9 0 Swiftsure Little Charley a 9 0 Robin Hood Burnt Sienna a 8 10 Chester The Old Rake a 8 7 WEIGHTS for the SLIEFFIEJ 50 soya. (handicap). for Last mile. and ROTHERHAM PLATE o: ree-year•olds and upwards, Yrs at lb Snowdon Dunhill 4 8 2 Lancashire Lass 4 7 10 Billy Richardson 5 7 7 b f by Charles the Twelfth, dam by Orleio, out of an Arabian mare 4 7 7 Braxey Voucher 4 7 4 Little Tom 4 .7 0 King David 4 7 0 The Tempest s' 7 0 Worcester 6 7 0 The Twin 6 ' 7 0 Donakoy Lord Lieutenant 4 6 12 Marchioness Take Notice 6 6 8 Game Tommy Hazelnut Shamrock 6 St. Mark 6' 6 6 Wings of a Dove 4 6, 4 Nancy Martinson 5 6 4 Yrs st lb Determination 4 6 2 Annie 4 6 2 St. Clare Ptolemy 3 5 12 Mirabeau Ludwig Contender 3 6 10 Poetess f by Napier— Ca therine Parr's dam Pauline 3 5 8 Adelaide Daphne 3 5 5 Field Marshal 3 5 3 Monimia Orange Blossom 3 5 2 Annabel 3 5 0 Mrs. Humby 3 5 Communist Julius Caesar 3 5 Antonia 3 5 0 Violet The MUNICIPAL STAKE of 5 sovi each, with 25 added ; for 3-yr-olds and upwards. St. Leger Course. To close and name this day kUonday). WEDNESDAY—THE HANDICAP. The DONCASTER HANDICAP STAKES of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, and only 3 if declared, with 100 sovs added. A winner once after the weights aro declared. to carry 41b ; twice, or a winner of a handicap of 100 sovs clear, 71b extra. The second to save his stake. St. Leger course. (78 subs., 34 of whom pay 3 sovs. each.) Age st lb England's Glory 5 6 2 Helena (h b) Vixen 3 6 0 Light of the Ha- Age at lb Hungerford King of Trumps 5 8 1 Eulogist 4 7 13 Daniel O'Rourke 5 7 12 Ethelbert Alonzo Fevershain ~ 4 7 4 The Little Fawn 6 7 2 Lerrywheut 5 7 2 St. Michael 5 7 2 Mr. Sykes 4 7 0 Jack Leeming Dove Windsucker Colsterdale Lord Fauconberg 4 6 12 Catherine Parr Radcliffe Hero._ 4 6 10 Janey 4 6 9 Jack the Giant Killer .4 6 8 Needwood a d 8 Marchioness St. Andrew rem 4 5 12 Pearl Criterion Village Lass Middlesborough 3 5 7 King Alfred Caliph Baalbec 3 5 6 Midsummer Ptolemy 3 5 5 Lady Napier 3 5 2 Blakeley Toggery. 3 5 2 Streatlam Fairy 3 5 0 Julius Agripla 3 5 0 Pauline Sister to Aphro- dite 3 4 9 Antonio 3 4 6 The BETTING-ROOM STAKES of 5 SOTS. each, with 50 added ; for two-year-olds, est. 121 b. ; and three, 9at. fillies and geldings allowed 31b. A winner once in 1853 or 1854 to carry 31b.; twice 51b. extra; horses that have started twice in 1853, and never won, al lowed 51b. The second to save his stake. Red House in. (26 subs.) Age. B c by Sir Tatton Sykes —Southdown 2 Chaon 2 Thessaly 2 Adelaide 3 King Alfred Wire Monimia 3 Horatio Pauline Ptolemy 3 B f by Orlando—lodine's dam 2 Ruminator 3 Tadcaster Age. Br f by Rochester —The Doe, by Melbourne 2 'Foxhunter 3 Qualm 2 Marco Spada 2 'Gamekeeper The Sole Star 3 Sine-qua-non 3 Johnny Taft (h b) 2 Langley 3 Cardsharper Rosa May 3 Br f by Melbourn e — Testy ............... —. Sister to Aprodite ...... 3 THE JUVENITA SELLING STAKES of 5 sous. each, with 40 sovs. added, for 2-yr-olds; colts, 9st; fillies and geld ings, Bst 101 b. The winner to be sold for 100 cove., &c. Half a mile. TUE SCURRY STAKES (Handicap) of 3 sovs. each, with 20 sovs. added, for horses of all age& A winner after the publication of the weights to carry 71b extra ; the second to save his stake. Red House in. To close and name at seven o'clock on the evening before running, and the weights to be published as early as possible the same evening. • THE INNKEEPERS' STAKES of 3 soya. each, with 25 added, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Optional selling weights. One mile, To close and name this day (Mon a.",\ RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS. By the Great Northern, King's-cross.—First-clage ex press day tickets issued from express stations to Don caster to-morrow (Tuesday) are available for return on that day and Wednesday by any train to the stations at which it calls. First and second class ordinary day tickets issued from any station to Doncaster on Tuesday aro available for return on that day and Wednesday by any train except the Edinburgh express, to the stations at which it calla. A special train will be despatched on Tuesday at 8.45 a.m., and will arrive at Doncaster at 12.45 p.m. This train will return an hour after the last race on Wed- nesday. All who return by the Elinbnrgh express will be charged the full fare back, without any allowance for the special ticket. By the North-Western, Euston-square.—First and second class ordinary day tickets will be issued at the Euston station to Doncaster by any train excepting the the 9.30 a.m. express, on Tuesday and Wednesday, available for returning by the ordinary trains on either of those days. First class express day tickets will also be issued on those days by the 9.30 a.m. express train, available for returning by the express or any train on either of those days. The Earl and Countess of Ashburnham and family have arrived at Ashburnhain House, so long the seat of the mission from the Czar, and where the great Autocrat sojourned during his brief visit to England, from A►sh. burnham-place, SHIPPING INTELLIGENCL CUSTOM HOUSE, -ARCH 4. ENTERED INWARDS.—The LE°lus, from St. Michael's 3 Undaunted, Berdianski ; Ellida, Kallundberg ; Welcome, Rouen ; New Express, Demerara; Amable Marie Louise, Dielette. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Segunda Do lores, for Monte Video and Buenos Ayres; Rangoon, Mon treal ; Mary Lyon, Terrol and Cadiz ; Maria, Cape of Good Hope ; Esperane.e, Adelaide; Brute, Memel ; Anne Logan, St. Vincent's. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Weranda , for the Falkland Islands ; Granite City, Sydney ; Algoa Bay • Enigheten, Gothenburg ; Julius Caesar Au gustus, S tettin ; Florida, New York • Tullock Castle, Port Philip ; Buon Poare, Trieste and Venice; Anna Meta, Altona. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 4. The Kangaroo (is a) has arrived from the Clyde to embark troops for the East. The Retriever has arrived here from Wexford, with wrecked goods, ex Niagara. The Mary Ward, from New Orleans, at this port, with mainmast sprung. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Limenienne, from St. Peter's, Newfoundland, to Mauritius, crew suffering from scurvy, Dec. 10, l a t. 25 S., long. 58 E. The Home, from Madras to London, Dec. 26, lat. 35 5., long. 25 E. The Lauriena, from London to Algoa Bay, Jan. 22, lat. 2 N., long. 19 W. The Pauline, lat. 48 N., long. 14 W. The Crown, lat. 49 N., long. 7 W. The Menaus, from Shanghai to London, Dec. 26, lat. 34 S., long. 27 E. The Baldaire, from Mauritius to New York, 27th, lat. 36 S , long. 24 E. The Geimanicus, from New, Orleans to Liverpool, Feb. 4, lat. 26 N., long. 80 E. The Kinsman, steering W., lat. 38, long. 74. The Masonic, betuld S., lat. 38, long. 75, Feb. 12. The Huron, from Calcutta for Boston, Jan. 2, lat. 3i S.,long. 19 E. The Providence, from Memel for Melbourne, 22d, let. 1 S., long. 21 W. The Camperdown, from Calcutta for London, Dec. 2'4 lat. 12 N., long. 86. The Liberia, from Liverpool t o St. J o h n ' s, N . 8., F e b. 21, lat. 49 N., long. 28 W. The Agnes, barque, Feb. 15, lat. 44 N. long. 14 W. A British ship, No. 7,524, the 17th. The Wilhelmina Luna, from London to Sydney, N.S.W. Jan. 9, lat. 1 N. long. 21 W. The Eva Johanna, from London to Geelong, Feb. 25, lat. 48 N. long. 5 W. Tho Mariquits; from Calcutta to Bordeux, Jan. 22, St. Helena, _ _ _ The Koophsildel, from London to Hobart Town, Nor. 15 lat. 38 8. long. 40 E The Bellatrix, from Amsterdam to Melbourne, Jan. 7, ea tho Epuator. COUNTRY MARKETS. FIADDINGI The following are the pi to-day : '--MARCH 3. I of grain at our market WHILLT. SAMMY. OATS. MAX , . First BBs Od 50s Od 46s Od 61a Od Second .„ 7Bs 5d 1 41s 5d 36s 3d 50s 6d Third 62s Od 1 30s Od 31s Od 431 Od Total quantity of wheat in market, 555 qrs., 479 sold PP PP barley „ 365 qrs., 256 sold oats PP PP OP 747 ql.B. PP PP beans PO 232 qrs., 2285 sold Average of wheat £3 18 5 9-12ths Ditto of Barley Ditto of Oats Ditto of Beans .... DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—MARCH 3. Wheat on the top is up, current price is up, and this lowest is up. Oats on the top is 4d up, current pries' Be 8d up, and lowest 2s 4d down. Barley on the top 1 / 1 1 6d up, current price is 6d up, and the lowest same as last market. Peas and beans on the top is up, current price 3s up, and lowest 108 up. Qrs. Bost. Current. Inferior 272 Wheat 84e Od 1590 Oats 36s Od 3os Od ,• i 415 Barley 43s Od 3ss Od 53 Peas & beans 53s Od 49s Od Averzige of wheat, V. Is 10d. ABERDEEN-Mißeli 3. The prices of grain. are—Old oats, 27a 6d to 28s Ofl; 401bs per bushel; now oats, 00s Od to 00a Od, 401bs pot bushel ; bore, 36s 64 to 37s Od, 531ba per bushel ; barley, 86s Od. to 36a 6d, 531bs per bushel • wheat, red, 60s Od to 70s Od, 621b3 per bushel ; wheat, white, 72s Od to 76s Od, 621bs per bushel ; oatmeal, 23s Od to 240 Od per boll; flour, 60s Od to 62s Od per sack. Provisions—Beef, per lb. 6d to 8d ; mutton, ditto, Gd to Sd ; veal, ditto, 6d to 8d; pork, per lb, Os 5d to Os 7d ; salmon, per lb, Os Od to Os oa; rabbits, each, Od to Od ; tallow, per stone, 5s 9d to Os Od; potatoes, per peck, 124 to Os Od ; butter, per lb, 10d to la ; eggs, per doz, Os 61 to Os 8d ; hens, per pair, 3s Od Do 3s Gd ; chickens, ditto, 2s Od to 2a 6d ; ducks, ditto, 20 Do to 3a 01 ; ducklings, ditto, 28 64 to Os Od ; turkeY4 each, 43 01 to 5s 04 ; geese, ditto, 3s 04 to 4a Od ; butter for exoortation (present cure), per cwt, 80s to 84s Od; ditto (summer cured), OOs to OOs Od. ; eggs, wholesale price, , per dozen, sid to Od ; 41b loaf, 84 ; 21b l oa f, 4d ; Po"' fine small, Os Od to Os Od • pork, large, Os Od to Os Od; lamb, per lb., 5s 6d to OA ; cheese, per imperial stoat,' 58 64 to 7s. DUBLIN—AIABoEi 3. Whito wheat, 44s Od. to-its Od; red ditto, 411 to 44e Od; barley, 17s 6d to 22s 6d ; oats, 14s Od to 17s Od ; rapeseed, 00s Od to 00s Od per brl oatmeal, 16s Od to 17s Od ; bake"' flour, 24s Od to 28s' Od per cwt; Indian corn, 47s Od to 5110 4 per 4801bs. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, IfAucn 4. STOOK ExCErAitGE.-:-The market has been quiet to-ditY at a decline of upwards of 1 per cent. on the leading stocks, closing very flat :----:Caledonian, '271 ; East Lancashire. 161 16 •, Edinburgh and Glasgow, 304 ; Great Northern. 224 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 67 / ; Liverpool, Crosbp and Southport, 111; London and North W es t ern , 101/ ; ditto fifth shares (C), prem ; Midland, 611 ; North British, 81 7-16 ; Sonth-Eastern and Dover, 181; Maw cheater, Sheffield, and Lincoln (61. new), k prem. MANCHESTER, Mena 4. STOCK EXCHANGR.—Caledonian, i; Edinburgh arla Glasgow, 30 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 66i ; ditto, 16 1 . shares, dis ; Manchester and Birmingham, C Quarters, prom ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lineolnahires, 211 ditto, 6/. Preference, prom ; Midl an d R a il way Conaol , soi1; North Western, 71; South Eastern and Doter, 18,1* BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 4. , - -- STOCK EXCHANOE.—The following were among the closing quotations :—Midland, buyers 60, sellers 61i North Staffordshire, buyers 6, sellers 51 dis • Shropshire Union, 31 die; South Staffordshire, buyers if, sellers die. ex div. • BRISTOL, MARCH 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was very flat. Greih..t Westerns were done at-78i ex di v ; V a l e o f Nosth, ex div. FATAL ACCIDENT IN ROTTEN Row.—On Saturday Mr. Bedford, the coroner, received information of the death of Mr. Henry John Blagrave, No. 8, Southwick' place, Hyde-park, which took place at St. George's Hoe pital, about 3 o'clock that morning. On the a ft er noon of Thursday, Mr. Blagrave was riding in Rotten-rosrr, where there was a t th e ti me a f as hi ona bl e attendance o f equestrians, when, on the animal stumbling he fell cet and came heavily to the ground. On being picked uP be he was found insensible, and removed to St. Georgie Hospital, where he rallied a little. A relapse came 011 which continued till his death, which is supposed to We been the effect of, a fracture of the skull and concussion of the brain. Deceased, who was aged 34, was in the possession of a large fortune. WOMAN'S RIGHTS' CONVENTION. - The Wornan'• Rights' Convention was opened at Albany on the 14 t h ult. Though the drizzling rain, ice, water, and mud la the streets kept the timid within doors, several hundred men and women were in attendance. Susan B. Anthony, of Rochester, called the meeting to order, and nominated for !president Mrs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,' of Seneca Falls, which nomination the committee aocepted. The Rev. Miss Brown, from the business committee, read • series of resolutions, setting forth, among other things. " That for men to govern women, without consent asked or granted, is to perpetuate an aristocracy utterly hos• tile to the principles and spirit of free institutions ; and that it is time for the people of the United States, and every State in the Union, to put . away for ever that remnant of despotism and feudal oligarchy—the caste o f sex. That the fundamental error of the whole structure of legislation and custom, whereby is the are practically enslaved, even in this Republic, the preposterous 4c• tion of law, that in the eye of the law husba n d an d wife are one person, that person being the hu s b an d ; and, protection, that the final result is that system of t u t e l age, m i sca lle d I ) 3r which the industry of women i s k e pt on half-pay, their a ff ections trifled with, their energies alp' pled, and even their noblest aspirations wasted away 0 ' vain efforts, ennui, and regret." The resolutions pro' reed at great length in this strain ; and the editor 0 ' the New York Herald complains that the convention have sent him the copy of an address to the Legislature "four columns long." He is provoked into adding, , g While these women are wasting time at Albany, nurse• are wanted in every part of the country, at wages rang' ing from $5 to $25 per month, according to capability. These women compl a i n th at they are deprived of thou' rights, have no opportunity of making money, and ye t refuse to fill situations when offered." BIRTHS. SO. At the Ch a t eau of Ering, i x nßavaria, the Hon. I. llll ' Jalues Erakine. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 4th inst., at 5, lionghton•place, Ampthill•rg l° ' Mrs. Charles Roby. _MARRIED. At Edinburgh, on the 3d inst., John Balfour, Egg. , °/. Colinton, Moreter Bar, to Jane C. Graham, eldest dug ter of Pa,triok Graham, Esq.,.of Itobshill, Kenfrewehire• DIED; On the 3d inßt., at Blyth-hill, Sydenbam, Kent, Janet Berman, wife of Robert ildq, surgeon, R.N., aged 61. LONDON: Printed and Published by BEURDO YOUNat of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Son Odle*, No. 112. 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