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The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that the duty on beet sugar was an excise duty, and that was the reason why it was net mentioned in the resolutions. It was bis intention in the course of a few days to introduce a re olution, making a proportionate reduction on sugar the pro- Lice of beet. The House then went into Committee. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then rose for tire purpose of introducing his sugar resolutions, and said that with regard to the policy of enforcing a distinctive duty on di Terent classes of sugar , he tho u g ht it ri g ht to avail himself of the opportunity to explain to the House the reasons why he deemed it advisable to adhere in substance to the course pro. posed by her Majesty's Government, and he wou ld Hot suffer Vmself to be drawn aside f rom his task b y anything that had been said in the preliminary discussion. He would admit, at twee, that in attempting to impose a discriminating duty on sugar according to its quality, he was undertaking a subject which was attended with considerable difficulty—( Hear) — end he never concealed from himself, nor did he now, that it was always a matter of difficulty to impose a duty of that description, and it was particularly difficult where the course to be pursued was a departure from the [ordinary p-actice. But it was admitted generally by those who were di :posed to take a different view of this question from his own, di it a distinctive duty on sugar was in itself a desirable object, gee the a duty proportionate to the quality of the sugar was just and perfectly equitable in principle; and it was one, which if it could he practically introduced, would be fair to le eels every interest concerned in the decision of the question. was also generally admitted that there ought to be some el,stinction between refined sugar introduced into this country s -,a that which might be introduced in a state short of refined ; seel he was anxious that the Committee should bear in mind those admissions with regard to what should fall from him. The question that would remain for the decision of the Corn seqtee was whether they would, in consideration of the diffi eetities attending the introduction of two distinctive tuties, they would abandon a measure which, viewed fti the abstract, was just in principle and desirable ler every interest concerned ?—( Hear, hear.) The Committee eliould bear in mind the effect of the decision they would arrive a'. They were now for the first time practically entering into a new era with regard to the sugar duties. They were for fee first time admitting into competition with the sugar, the produce of their own colonies, the produce of certain classes of setgar, the produce of foreign labour. Now they knew from experience that there were different classes of foreign sugar, seme being of a finer quality in respect of classification than the corresponding quality of sugar produced in their own colo isies.—( Hear, hear.' It had been already observed that tee finer quality of sugar would necessarily come into the markets of this country, while the lower descrip tions of raw and clayed sugar would not be introduced. They had found it necessary to impose a distinctive duty upon fie sugar of their own colonies, and therefore they could not do to herwise with reg ard to the foreign produce. Besides, by imposing a lower d uty on the sugars consumed by the poorer casses, they were conferring a great benefit upon these classes. its they were now about to make a change in the system, they ought not to abandon the chance of the improvement which he proposed, and which was equitable in principle and just to all classes. To equalise the duty on refined and clayed sugar would cause the refined sugar to be introduced into this coun— try under the low duty, and thence exported with a higher draw- Lack ; and therefore he thought that proposition would not be introduced into the present discussion. The distinction be tween refined and clayed sugars had been hitherto clearly narked; and whatever the difficulties they might have in in troducing a new system, it must be remembered that they had Litherto been acting upon a system of distinctive duties. It would, he had no doubt, be alleged that a similar principle to what he proposed had been tried before, and had bees abandoned. But that was not at all conclusive. The system which was abandoned in 1823 had worked well for twenty ''ears. There was no difficulty in the distinction between tnuscovado and clayed sugars, whilst it was confined to the 'West Iddies. But when it was attempted to apply a similar wile to the East Indies, difficulties arose which led to a change in the plan on which the duty was imposed. It was attempted, ein the part of the West Indies, to show that all sugar which came from the West Indies was clayed, and ought to be excluded from the lower duty, and therefore, to benefit the West Indians, an additional duty of 10s. per cwt. was laid upon all Jiast India sugar; but let them see what was the practice of other countries as to distinctive duties on sugar. They had 1 cfore the House a Ecomparison of several tariffs, which was prepared by the industry of a gentleman employed by the Covernment, and he wished the Gentlemen who thought the system impracticable would look to that followed in other countries which imported sugar. In most of these the came distinctions were used as now possessed. In Denmark, the duty on raw brown clayed sugars was 10s. Tier cwt. On raw white clayed sugar it was Bs. 3d. per cwt. tOn others, the duty was altogether prohibitory. In Sweden She duty on refined was 4s. ; on white powdered, 2s. 6d. ; on •ecllovr brown, Is. He would not go into a detail of the tariffs oaf France and the United States, which, next to this country, -mere the greatest consumers of imported sugars. France im lmrted annually 8.5,000 tons, and the United States 65,000. They also employed this system of distinction, which was pound to effect its object, and without complaint. In France the distinction was classified into four types, and in the United :States he found in the tariff the same threefold division which vas contained in these resolutions. Now he did not think so tadly of the business of the House and of the country as that we could not carry into effect a system which was found pactieable in other countries, in which, certainly, the eeiservance of the law was not more faithful on the part of the public servants, and of those who *paid the duties, than in this country. He had, therefore, the strongest reason to believe that a distinctive duty would be Mound practicable, and it was admitted by all to be equitable. 'The next point was, what was the opinion of those in this country who are acquainted with the subject ? Those to whom the Government must look on questions of this kind—that is, the Customs—were they favourable to the plan? They had the s'-port of the Chairman of the Customs to that effect. 'The evidence of the officers who had been examined was—not that there was no difficulty—but that the difficulties were not :in any degree insurmountable, and ou the whole they thought that the attempt ought to be made. Nor had he confined his :inquiries to those who were connected with the Government, acrd who might be disposed to concur in the views of the Go vernment. But he had put himself in communication with !persons who were practically acquainted with the trade ; some said that the plan was impracticable; others thought there were difficulties, bat that the plan was nevertheles both prac ticable and expedient. But he found from the admissions of those who were most opposed to it, that their opinions were riot altogether to be relied on ; and, in fact, it was the prac t ice of the trade, to make the same distinc tions in buying and selling. He had also acquired slew knowledge as to the practice in respect to Java sugar, which was divided into twenty sorts, and these sere judged of from samples sent in numbered boxes to this country. The buyer selected the quantity he wished for, and the number being sent out to Java, the order was executed ac cerdingly. What was practicable between buyer and seller, could not be impracticable for the purpose of duty. He tad also the advantage of a meeting at Liverpool, which, was open to all connected with the trade, and a majo rity, though certainly a small one, decided in favour of the pan. It was thought at that meeting that the chief difficulty would be in this, that the officers of the Customs at the out posts might have different opinions as to the qualities from the officers in London, and that this would lead to confusion. But it was to be recollected that the outports where sugar was im ported were but few, and were not now at a great distance from London in regard to time. London imported one.fifth whole quantity, and Liverpool another fifth ; and there were, besides, only four or five ports for the importation of sugar. TberefOre, whatever objections there might formerly have been, did not exist now. The words which he had introduced into the resolutions were—that the sugars should be " lis t inctly marked as white clayed,:or sugars equal to white clayed," in order to shut out any question as to colour; and in the Bill which would be brought in to give effect to the resolutions, care would be taken to prevent colour being made the test of attaching the duty.—( Hear, hear. ) In that he was supported by the highest authorities—amongst others by Mr. Deacon Hume, a man who had spent the whole of his life in connexion with the subject. Relying on such authority, en that of several 'Boards of Trade, and on that of those who preceded him in the office which he held, he was convinced that it was for the in terest of the consumer, the grower, and the dealer, that the distinctions which he introduced should be maintained. Mr. HUME did not wish at that moment to enter into a slebate. But he would suggest that time should be given to the growers and others to dispose of the stock which they had in. hand. Mr. F. BARING was understood to say that the resolu ti ins might be taken now, and that the suggestion of his Hon. 'Friend (Mr. Hume) might be introduced in the Bill. Sir R. PEEL said that a clause might be added at the end, according to the suggestion of the Hon. Member for Beverley. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought that it would not be expedient to extend long the time before the Dill should come into operation. Mr. M. GIBSON said that the preamble of the resolutions stated that the purpose of the duties was to raise a supply for her Majesty; whereas, it was avowed by the Government that one of the objects was to give a bounty to the growers of Sugar in the West Indies. Now he thought the preamble ought to state the whole of the objects.— ( Hear.) Mr. HUME apprehended that as a Committee of Ways and Illeans could only vote supplies for her Majesty, they could not adnt measures to raise money to put into the pockets of %Vest India proprietors. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said they had power to vote the money, because it was for the purposes of the Crown. Mr. HUME protested that they had not. Mr. WARD asked if it ought not to be distinctly stated w hat part of the rate went to the Crown, and what part went into the pockets of the producer? Mr. WILLIAMS thought the resolution answered the e t uestion put by the Hon. Member, because it stated how much wes saved for the public service, and how much was raised for the use of the West ledia proprietors. Lord SANDON said all the money raised would, in fact, go to the Crown.—( Laughter. ) Mr. M. GIBSON moved the insertion of the following words, after the word " Majesty : " " For the purpose of giving a bounty to the growers of sugar in the colonies." This, he thought, would make the rate intelligible to the public. Mr. GREENE ruled that the amendment could not be received. Mr. M. GIBSON said he certainly heard the Chairman, the last time they were in a Committee on Ways and Means, put the first resolution towards raising the supplies granted to her Majesty, that " in lieu of the duties of customs there be levied the following duties on sugar." The resolution was car ried and afterwards withdrawn. They were now going to move a resolution for the benefit of the colonists, and, there lore, he presumed it was the intention of the Government to abandon the former resolution. It was, therefore, hard that he could not move an amendment to the original resolution. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought the lien. Gentleman could not be serious, and if he were not, he could only tell him that this was not the time to joke. They were then i n a C omm i ttee o f W ays an d M ean s for granting her Majesty supplies, and it did not matter in what terms they framed their resolutions . Mr. BRIGHT protested against the Right Hon. Gentleman assuming the amendment to b e al jest. He did not think it was joke at all, f or th e Hon. Ge nt leman who had brought forward this question was the rep resentative of a large manufacturing with constituency , whos e t rade Brazil would be totally de otroyed if the resolutio n were agree d to.--( Hear, hear.) He P must protest against thi s hop, ski p, jumpsort of a manner of voting away the public moneyand a for the ser vi ce of the West India planter; and instead of meeti ng the a mendme nt e b m y e c n al t lin t g o it a joke, it would be much better for te vrn grapple with it at once. Sir ROBERT PEEL entreated the Hon. Member for Manchester not to persist in interfering with the usual course of business of the House. Mr. M. GIBSON said, if the Chairman ruled that he was not in order with his amendment, of course he could not per sist in it. It was said that his amendment was at variance with the usual practice of the House. Now, it was admitted that a Committee of Ways and Means would violate the spirit of their rules if it interfered with the matters connected with t r ade. The distinction betw een a Committee of the whole House and a Committee of Ways and Means, he understood to this :—in a Committee of Ways and Means they must confine themselves to voting supplies to her Majesty's Go vernment ; in a Committee of the whole House, they could pass resolutions regulating or relating to trade. He therefore thought it would be more regular that they should agree to the present resolution in a Committee of :the whole Mouse, and not in a Committee of Ways and Means. It was 8 hard cafe that he was not permitted to add those words, be- THE SUN, LONDON, SATCTRDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1845. cause it was only reasonable that the public should know what 7 the whole of the experiment, that it was necessary to look at the money was really for. the matter in its full bearing, and as it affected every variety The amendment was then withdrawn. of interest. He (Sir W. Clay) was anxious_ that that sys- Mr. HOGG rose, not for the purpose of entering into a dis- tern should be tried, and he was confident that if applied to cussion upon the course the Government now proposed to wear it would be found to prove the truth of his position, and pursue, but to express his concurrence in the alterations the give a great boon to the consumer, without in the slightest de- Right Honourable Gentleman the Chancellor of the Ex- gree injuring the revenue, or increasing the price to the con chequer had made in his resolutions. He originally sumer. By the experiment of putting a duty of 4s. Bd. on objected to the rule the Government wished to establish sugar a benefit would be derived to the revenue, without im of ascertaining the quality of sugar without reference posing any additional burden on the consumer, and this he to its colour. The Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of thought was the best mode of protection, and he, therefore, the Exchequer had since consented to fall in with his views, and proposed it as an amendment.—( Loud cries of " Divide, divide.") he had only now to thank that Right Hon. Gentleman for the The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that attention he had paid to his suggestions. He had communicated while he could not but allow the value of the labours of the alteration to the Committee of the East India and China the Hon. Baronet, yet he thought that a duty devolved on Association, from which it would be remembered he presented the House and the Government to secure a sufficient protection a petition to the House some short time age on the subject, I by the duty they imposed for the colonies ; end the main spirit and he was happy to say they were perfectly satisfied with the I of the argument lay, as he met submit, whether there was a measure as it now stood. With regard to the practicability of sufficient protection provided by 'he amendment which the working the measure, he thought that part of the matter ought lion. Baronet had proposed. 9 his was the only position that to be left to the Government. he could submit on the present occasion. He (the Chancellor Mr. C. WOOD wished the whole of the correspondence of the Exchequer) felt that it would be unfair to put the which had taken place between the Government and the Bra- sugar produced by free labour in comparison with sugar which zilian authorities to be laid on the table of the House. The was the produce of our colonies. He did not think that it was Right Hon Gentleman contended that one rate of duty ought necessarily a matter of course that there should be a rise of to be applied to all sugars, and that no distinction ought to be price in the article by the imposition of differential made on account of saccharine matter, granulation, or colour. duties—( Hear, hear)—but, on the contrary, be be- The CH AN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUF.R said that there lieved that there would be a reduction in the price would be no difficulty in making the classification with respect of which the consumer would derive the benefit. It was his to white clayed sugar, as it was a commodity well known. opinions that the rise and fall of price did not depend on the Mr. F. BARING did not expect that there would have amount of duty, but on the extent of the consumption. If the been a classification during the present year. He had always supply were to progress less than the amount of demand, the been in favour of the classification of sugar, considering it a sys- practice would be with sugar, as it had been proved in practice tern that would ultimately he beneficial. He thought the qua& with every other article, the proportionate increase of con fication by far the best mode. The duties were generally ad sumption would cause an increase in price. In his (the Chan valorem, but the greatest inconvenience arose from that. He cello , of the Exchequer's) opinion, the benefit to be derived should be very glad if the Chancellor of the Exchequer would from a fiscal measure ought to be divided between the pro give the House a short estimate of the benefit he hoped to deducer and the consumer. The producer would obtain more rive from the duties he now proposed. by the classification proposed by the Government than by the The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that his plan of the Hon. Baronet, and he believed that so far from original expectation was that a greater quantity of the higher the prices heing enhanced by the imposition of the classes of Java sugar would be introduced into the country. differential duties, they would on the contrary be reduced. There had, however, been no opportunity at pres ent to brin g it lie was satisfied of this, from the slight operation of the mea to the test, as no vessel had arrived fiom Manilla. sure to which the House had agreed during the last session of Sir W. CLAY said that all the orders which had been sent Parliament, and this benefit, he thought, had been greatly re out by merchants to Java and Manilla were orders for a higher gulated by the amount of protection. He believed that if quality of sugar, for which, therefore, the higher duty would be sufficient protection were given to our own colonies, both paid. In compliment to the Hon. Member for Beverley the the East and West Indies would so increase in the amount of Government had partly given up the test of colour, but the their supply that they would be able to provide for the whole explanation given by the Hon. Gentleman bad not removed of the wants of this country with an ample suffi tiency, and the difficulty. that the price would be in accordance with the supply, while, After a few words from Mr. C. WOOD, which were inaudible if they threw additional obstacles and discouragements in the in the gallery, way of the colonists, and prevented the full and fair effects of Mr. GLADSTONE said the reason why the principle of their efforts, their property would he so depressed that they discrimination had been given up before was, not because it would be unable to compete with the sugar brought from other was impracticable, but because the mode of discriminating was parts of the globe. The difference of circumstances in which glaringly unjust. The efiect of that mode was, that low sugars, the several sugar growers were placed would act very inju which had undergone filtration, often had a high duty imposed riously to the interests of the colonists and the quantity of auger on them, while upon many excellent sugars a low duty was grown for the British market would be reduced, and a con charged. It appeared from the returns of the United States siderable rise of price would ensue to the consumer. — (Loud that a considerable quantity of sugar entered there cries of " Divide, divide.") at a higher rate of duty, and this proved that the The Committee divided, when there appeared . -- 69 principle of discrimination could not be carried out . For the amendment The fact was conclusive as to the possibility of establishing a A g ainst itls2 discriminating duty. It was as yet altogether matter of conjec - Majority against the amendment ---83 ture what foreign sugar would be introduced into this country. On Clause 4th being read, Mr. HUME did not know whether the Hon. Member for Mr. M. GIBSON said that the Government adopted a Beverley had read the paper put into their hands a few days highly disproportioned rate of duty on foreign as compared ago. The words of the Act of George IV. were, " clayed or with colonial molasses, for, while they rated the latter at ss. 3d. otherwise refined sugar, so as to be equal to the quality of re- per cwt., they charged the former 1/. 3s. 9d. What, he should fined sugar." These were the words demanded by the Hon. like to know, had become of the intended 10s. 6d. duty ? Member the other evening, and now conceded to him ; but he ( Hear, hear.) What had become of the principle that they did not believe that they would remove the difficulty. Who were to raise their duty according to the variation in the quell was to say whether sugar was clayed or not clayed? Was the ties of the various sugars ? If they imposed a duty on foreign party to be a custom-house officer, a refiner, or a generul molasses proportioned to the quality of the article, they ought trader ? The volume to which he had referred pointed to impose a duty of 7s. on foreign molasses, and ss. 3d. on out the grossest contradictions on the part of men colonial. Ue did not ask them to equalize their duties, because who were the best inforsned on the subject. that had been already disposed of. Let them deal with What conclusion had they come to ? That " they deemed molasses as with sugar.—( Hear, hear.) lie called upon the it right to state the great difficulty existing in obtaining an agricultural gentlemen to support hint in his amendment. unbiassed opinion on the question of fact, which sort of sugar They had been calling for cheap molasses to feed stock, and should pay the higher, and which the lower, rate of duty. As here was an opportunity for agricultural reduction, and, at the to sugar that had undergone any process for the purpose of same time, to relieve the rest of the community from a heavy discharging it of its impurities, and making it equal to clayed burden ; and this, too, by carrying out the very principles of sugar, it appeared impracticable to put in force the Act of the the) Right Hon. Baronet. The Noble Lord the Member Ist of Geo. IV., and that the only course was to repeal that for Newark and other Gentlemen would, by supporting him ow Act and impose one rate of duty." The whole of the volume that occasion, gain at least cheaper treacle for the agricultural pointed oat the utter impossibility of levying the duty. The labourer.—(Laughter.) He would, therefore, move that the owners of cargoes continually asked to know what they had dut y on foreign molasses be reduced to 75., in order that they to pay. Scarcely a cargo was introduced that did not pay the might adhere to the principle laid down by themselves on this lower duty, a bond being taken for the payment of the dif- questiou. He would move this as an amendment, upon the ference, if it was found necessary ; in some cases the higher clause. duty was paid to escape delay. If this was the case Mr. EWART seconded the amendment. where there was only one distinction taken, he asked Mr. M. GlBSON—Perhaps the Right Hon. Gentleman the the Honourable Member for Beverley what he could ex- Chancellor of the Exchequer would be inclined to state what poet under a plan so much more complica ted? In com p liance amount he would accede to ?—(Laughter. ) with the recommendation of the Commissioners, that distinction The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER begged to was withdrawn, and from that day to this there had been no remind the Hon. Member that the molasses he proposed to trouble at all. He had thought that the Right Hon. Baronet, admit at a reduced duty was the produce of slave countries ; in the simplification he was introducing into the Custom-house in fact, by the House acceding to this proposition they would business of the country, would have considered more carefully be reversing what they had already agreed to. As to what the complicated plan he now proposed. He could not agree had been said about agricultural distress—why, if any of the with the lion. Member for Beverley as to the classification of Hon. Members at his side of the House, were to make such a sugars, unless it could be done in a manner that could not be proposition as that of the Hon. Member opposite, he would mistaken. They might draw fine distinctions, but he (Mr. be the very first to oppose it.—(Laughter. ) Hume) did not like these lines drawn between night and ( lay. Mr. HUME hoped the Government would not be so hard- They,would have different distinctions drawn in London, Liver- hearted as to refuse this proposition, as molasses was an article pool, and Bristol, and the whole plan would be impracticable which the poor starving wretches of this country used when to carry oat; he - regretted that so complicated a scheme should they could not afford to buy butter. have been introduced. No two dealers would agree en one Mr. COLLETT rose amid loud cries of " Divide," and said line of distinction, and the consequence would be, that he could not understand what the Chancellor of the Exchequer some cargoes would be stopped, and some would be allowed had stated. to pass. thus producing utter confusion. When any Mr. M. GIBSON said he wo uld now move, that mo doub t existed, they ought to encourage the importation lasses imported from China, Java, and Manilla, or any other of the best article, but these regulations would discourage the foreign country, whether under reciprocity treaties or other. introduction of the highest qualities ; he regretted that the wise, be admitted at a duty of 7s. ; that be conceived would Government should have gone against the recommendation of meet all the difficulties of the other side, and do no harm. their own officers. He would rather take the opinions founded Mr. EWART, amid renewed cries of " Divide," was un on their experience, than try any newl experiment ; he could derstood to say, that he agreed with the Hon. Member that only enter his protest against it. He had no objection to a the high duty on molasses was a great hardship, revenue being raised on sugar, provided it went into the Mr. WARBURTON.—If the sugar to be imported under Exchequer, but he did object to the indefinite premium and the new regulations was to be in an improved state, and not advantage that were given to particular interests. He thought like muscovado, then an additional supply of molasses would that protection ought to be given to the West Indies, till they be required , and therefore the duty ought to be reduced. could be supplied with labour, or they would be unjustly The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he treated. But there was no reason why this protection should would have no objection to the amendment being introduced be extended to the Mauritius and the East Indies ; they could in its proper place in the Bill. already command labour, and stood in a different position. Mr. WARBURTON.—It would be only fair to make the He wished the Right Hon. Baronet had stated distinctly what proposed reduction, for at present the different duties bore to was the amount of protection he would give, and then they each other were as 28s. was to so was 7s. to ss. 3d. was would know what they had to trust to. He hoped the Hon. After a few words from Mr. BARING, the amendment Member for Beverley would find reasons for the satisfaction withdraws. he had expressed with the proposals of her Majesty's Go- Mr. WILLIAMS hoped that the Government would allow the holders of stock time until the 14th of March, and give vernment. Mr. HOGG said the Hon. Member for Montrose bad ex. pressed astonishment that he should be satisfied with the plan of the Government. Ho did not understand what ought to be the measure of Parliamentary contentment ; the standard might be as difficult to ascertain as that of the qualities of sugar. He had made certain objections to the manner of levying the duties on sugar, and the Government had been kind enough to attend to those objections and to remove the cause of them. The Hon. Gentleman was astonished that he (Mr. Hogg) should be satisfied and should hold his tongue. He had heard of parties in a case, who having judge and jury with them, by their impudence in talking, had turned both against them. He believed he had the House with him, he had got the Government with him, and that being the case he was perfectly content. It was proposed that the duties should be taken according to quality, but as this appeared likely to lead to great discussion, he, to guard against that difficulty, proposed that the word quality should not be left to the caprice of Custom-house officers, but should be defined by the Act of Parliament, to be founded on three elements, colour, percolation, and the amount of saceharine matter. This had been adopted ; the whole of the difficulty arose from this, that the Custom-house officers persevered in asserting that all sugars from the East Indies that had gone through a certain process of percolation by which they were freed from molasses, were liable to the higher duty; all the difficulty had arisen from the dogged adherence of the Custom-house officers to this practice of charging the higher duties on suear that had undergone any purifying process. Sir R. PEEL said he had been surprised by one of the ob servations made by the Hon. Member for Montrose. He in ferred that the Hon. Member thought it desirable protection should be granted to the West Indian colonies, for some time at least, till they could be provided with the means of commanding labour, as they were placed in a peculiar difficulty, to which the East Indies were not liable. A protection might, therefore, be claimed by the West Indies, which could not with equal justice be extended to the East Indies. Then the Hon. Mem ber must revert to the practice under which different rates of duty were applied to West Indian and East Indian produce. He did think, till the lion. Member for Montrose declared that there ought not to be any distinctive duties, it had been almost the unanimous opinion of the House that the produce of the West Indies should have some protection. But the Hon. Member now seemed to advocate a return to that practice under which differential and discriminating duties were levied on West and East Indian produce. • He thought the Hon. Gentle man who sat below the Hon. Member would be rather sur prised at that doctrine. The Hon. Gentleman had an objection to discriminating duties, but he said, if they could establish& d ffe rential rate of duty on ths higher and lower qualities of tea, then the principle of a discriminating duty would be perfectly just. Well, but the Government was about to apply that prin ciple. He had never concealed the difficulties of the case ; he had stated them the other night, and the interval that had occurred since then had been employed by them in inquiring of the most experienced Government officers, whether this principle of a discriminating duty, with respect to the qualities of sugar, could be carried out. The opinion of these officers was that they ought not to abandon these discriminating duties. After considerable experience they said there would be nice shades of quality, which might create some difficulty, but that after some prac tice with respect to the great bulk of sugars imported, there would be no such difficulties as would be found in superable. Almost every Honourable Gentleman who had spoken, had admitted the principle of discriminating duties was not unjust. If they abandoned it now for an equal rate of duty, he believed they could never revert to it again. They were about to make a considerable change in the sugar duties, and the experiment must be tried immediately, if it was to be tried at all. If they abandoned the discriminating duties" now, they could not revert t o it on a future oceasion. Therefore, - on the whole, the Government had decided that the experiment ought to be tried, because they believed the principle was a good one, and because the best experience proved that the difficulties attending its operation might be overcome. In Bristol, Liverpool, and London, the greater quantity of the sugar consumed in this country was landed. A small quantity was brought into the Clyde, but the greatest amount, not less than four-fifths of the whole, was im ported into those three ports. Liverpool was now within ten hours of London, and by bringing the officers of these ports into close communication with each other, they hoped it would be possible to establish a unity of action, and conduct the exa mination of the sugars in such a manner that the trade would not be subjected to great injury. That was the conclusion the Government had drawn from the inquiries they had made since the subject was last under the consideration of the House. The preponderance of practical opinions was decidedly in favour of a trial of the experiment. He thought the House would have inferred from the general course of this debate, that opi nion was in favour of trying the experiment. He could not help thinking, too, that a great change was to be made in carrying on this manufacture, by the application of new machinery, greater skill, and fresh capital. They could not judge of the future state of this trade by the past. Sir WILLIAM CLAY thought the Right Honourable Baronet was bound to show some grounds for these differential duties. He thought the House and the country had a right to expect this. Seeing that the prime cost of sugar was not more than 10s. per cwt., it was too much to impose a duty equal to 100 per cent. on the prime cost. He thought this was neither just to the people of England, nor prudent to the colonies themselves. He believed the time was fast approaching when British India would settle the question as to the comparative productiveness of slave and free labour. He believed that British India would produce far more than enough to make np any deficiency that might Government t o take _place in the supply of sugar from the colonies. a A la r l a e ld ßa lo ro ud Criesof" divide, divide," the Honour endeavour proceededonfetthesayha d that l he reference beiieire believed t o hat this of revenue, but he believed that those served better by the adoption of his Sir s; l pgi a m , ses would be His object was to impose a duty of only 4s. Bd. y s) w p t lan. hich was equal to 4/. 13s. 4d. a ton, and by the adog e o r n c of this w plan no less a sum would be saved to the consumers in - this country than 1,160,000/. The Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer had laid that he wished to apply them the benefit of a draw back, in order that they might dispose of their stocks without loss. He should propose that the altera tion should commence upon the sth of April. Mr. HUME begged to ask if the Government welted allow a drawback upon sugar in stock, purchased after a given day ? He thought the question was a very lair one. Sir ROBERT PEEL said that it had been the invariable practice, in changes of the Customs' duties, to carry them into effect without any drawback. If it were in the present instance allowed to one class of traders, the great holders of sugar would also demand it. What the Government had pro posed was, that the Bill should not come into operation until the 14th of March, which was giving them a month from the original announcement. He hoped the House would not require the Government to extend the time to the sth of April.—( Hear, hear.) The probability was notorious, before the meeting of Parliament, that an alteration would be made in the sugar duties. It was stated in connexion with the income tax. He would give the House a proof of this. Shortly before the meeting of Parliament he received a memorial signed by seventy houses in the sugar trade, and by the Chairman of the East India Association, the Chairman of the West India Asso ciation, Mr. Stirling, chairman of tile Chamberof Commerce, and by every house in the sugar trade. The memorial was prepared in December, and set forth that, as a sum of not less than ten or twelve millions was annually invested in that trade, the memorialists approached the House most earnestly to entreat that any change which was contemplated should be announced early after the meeting of Parliament, and should come into operation as speedily as possible.—( Hear, hear.) All that they proposed was acquiesced in. A month was given and he submitted that there was no reason why the time should be extended to the bth of April. Mr. WILLIAMS said that the memorialists were persons connected with the import trade, and they would not be such sufferers as the growers. He thought that it was only just and reasonable to give the growers a drawback upon the stock in hand. Mr. THORNELY said the gentlemen who had signed that memorial were importers, not dealers, and all their goods were sold in bond. Those who were most affected by the proposed alteration had made their purchases, believing that the existing duties would continue until the sth of July. Mr. SHELL said he had received a letter from a grocer in Clonmel, who stated there was not a bonded warehouse in Clonmel, and the consequence was that the grocers had been compelled to take a large quantity of sugar for home consump tion for Tipperary. New the Right Hon. Gentleman must see that injustice would be done to those parties by the proposition of the Government. Dr. BOWRING thought that if they were to establish a drawback on sugar, it would lead to great embarrassment, see ing that the Right Hon. Baronet proposed to take off the duty from 430 articles. Lord EBRINGTON said he had received letters from several of his constituents, complaining of the probable effect of the Government with respect to sugar. Lord SA NDON—Though he perfectly concurred in the po licy of the Government, yet he thought it would press exceed ingly hard on certain parties, therefore he thought some draw back should be allowed. Mr. TRELAWNEY inquired if a drawback had not been allowed under similar circumstances? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said a draw back of 3s. had been allowed in 1838, under similar circum stances, but in that case no notice was given. The general rule with respect to Customs' articles was, that no return should be made in the articles themselves, because the dealers were not obliged to take those articles out of bond unless they required them. He thought the refiners had less to dread from the com petition of a low duty than any others, for they were a small body and could protect themselves by keeping up the price. Mr. BRIGHT considered that that debate aught to teach them to place their duties on a sound principle. That would prevent a renewal of those debates every year, and the merchant would know how to make his calculations, which he could not do now. After a few words from Colonel FOX, Mr. BRAMSTON said that if the Hon. and Gallant Mem ber divided the House, he would support him, because he thought the case of the sugar refi ners was a very hard one. Lord EBRINGTON thought that the Chancellor of the Ex chequer was best answered by his own resolutions. If the re. liners could keep up the price, what became of the advantage of the reduction of duty ? After a few observations from the CitancELLoa. of the EXCHIQUBIL and Mr. HINDLEY, Sir R. PEEL said he trusted the Hon. Member would not divide the House. Mr. HUME advised his Gallant Friend not to divide the House. The amendment was then withdrawn, and the resolution was agreed to. The House resumed, and the Report was ordered to be re eeived on Monday. Sir JAMES GRAHAM moved the second reading of the Justices' Clerks and Clerks of the Peace Bill. Mr. B. ESCOTT trusted that the Right Hon. Baronet would postpone the second reading of the Bill to a future day. After a few words from Mr. HENLEY, i n oppos i t i on t o the second reading, Sir J. GRAHAM postponed it until Wednesday next. The LORD ADVOCATE obtained leave to bring in the following Bills :—A Bill to simplify the form, and diminish the expense of obtaining infeftment in heritable property in Scot land; and a Bill to facilitate the transmission and extinction of heritable securities for debt in Scotland. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER, Mr. Cardwell was aided to the Hull Docks Committee. Mr. JOHN ABEL SMITH moved for copies of all corres pondence between her Majesty's Government and Captain Elliot, Sir Henry Pottinger, and others, relative to the difer cues of 406 chests of opium. —Agreed to. The House then adjourned, at One o'clock. We understand the sum of 250,0001. will be asked for in the present session, to be applied to the repairing and extending the fortifications in Malta, more particularly the lines known there by the name of the Colonera.—Afaltie raper. LAW INTELLIGENCE HOUSE OF LORDS, March 7. The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers present were Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell. E3TUMIT V. SI'OTTISWODE. Their Lordships, a fter hearing the Counsel for the appel lant in this Scotch appeal, gave judgment, affirming the deci sion of the Court below, with costs. TILE REV. DR. R. GORDON V. THE EARL OF RIN'NOM This case came before their Lordships upon appeal from the judgment of the Court of Session. The appellant is the Rev. Dr. R. Gordon, the collector of the Ministers' Widows Fund in Scotland, and the respondent, the Earl of Kinnoul, is the patron of the parish of Auchterarder. Our readers will recollect that the long litigation which has taken place with respect to the right of the Noble Earl to present to the living of Auchterarder, and the refusal on the part of the Presbytery to induct his presentee (the Rev. Mr. Young) to the living. The question that now came before their Lord ships was whether the appellant, as collector of the Mi nisters' Widows Fund, wa.s entitled to the stipend during the vacancy in the living, or the presentee of the noble resp , ndent. The Court of Session decided in favour of the Earl of Kinnoul, there being eight judges for him, and five against him ; and from that decision the present appeal was brought. The Lord Advocate and Mr. F. Kelly were counsel for the appellant, and Mr. Anderson for the noble respondent. The case appears likely to occupy their Lordships some days. COURT OF CHANCERY, March". The LOAD CHANCELLOR, after disposing of several lunatic petitions, proceeded to hear the further arguments on the part-heard case of the Ludlow Charities, which occupied the Court the whole morning. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT,March 7. The Vice-Chancellor of England took short causes and un opposed petitions to-day, none of which possessed any interest except to the parties concerned. SECONDARIES' COURT, March 7. Theresra.s only one cause for hearing this morning, which was a case of simple debt, and presented no point of interest whatever to the public. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, March 7. (Before the CHIEF COMIIRSIONEIS.) IN RE JOHN LE Gays. The insolvent had carried on an extensive business as a coach-maker. His petition had been already before the Court, when it wag adjourned, in order that a certain deed of assignment, by which all the property became vested in certain creditors, on conditions ofpaying a weekly sum to pay wages until some unfinished carriages were com plete 1. The property was eventually taken to an auction room, and there sold. Several of the creditors com plained that they had not received a fair share of the proceeds of the sale. The LEARNED CHIEF COMMISSIONER commented strongly upon the conduct of the insolvent, by which all were defrauded for his benefit. However, the circum stances of the case did not come witkin the statute, and he must, therefore, be discharged. IN RR ALEXANDER BLAZDELL. • The insolvent in this case was one of the firm of Wood gate and Blazdell, the well-known pianoforte and harp manu facturers of Wigmore-street, Cavendish-square. A large number of creditors appeared in his schedule. His petition to be discharged was opposed by Mr. llawse on the part of a musical instrument maker, named Lock, and supported by Mr. Cooke. It appeared from the evidence of the opposing creditor, and several other witnesses, that the insolvent had become bankrupt about a year and a half ago, and after getting his certificate, he became a partner in the above firm, Mr. Woodgate being understood to be the person who was to supply the money for carrying on the business. The oppos ing creditor supplied the insolvent with pianos and other musical instruments, for which he never received one penny, the property hating been sold under a distress for rent shortly , after their delivery and a short time previous to the insol vent's arrest. There was a quantity of valuable timber used in the manufacture of pianofortes and harps, some of which had been sold for the payment of wages, and the remainder passed into the hands of a person named Barret. The LEARNED COMMISSIONER said he should adjourn the case, in order that an account might be rendered of the above property. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.°'' OLD COURT. Thomas Howell, Frederick Smith, and Robert Frankli n , who had been tried and convicted on Tuesday last of a burglary, committed in the George and Vulture Tavern, George-yard, Lombard-street, were this day brought up to receive the judgment of the Court. The RECORDER said that there could be no doubt of their guilt, and it appeared that the two first-named prisoners had been more than once summarily convicted. It was dangerous to allow such characters to go at large, and the sentence of the Court was that they be transported for ten years. (Before Mr. Baron PARKE.) , RAPE.— William Canzplin, aged 55, residing at 17, Ber mondsey-street, was indicted for having committed a rape on the person of Jane Matthews, aged 13, on the 30th Decem ber last. Mr. Doane and Mr. Payne were for the prosecution ; Mr. Ballantiue and Mr. Robinson for the defence. The evidence, which cannot of course be published, seemed to establish the fact that the prisoner had taken the prose cutrix to his own house, and there had given her some gin and peppermint, and while she If AA in a state of stupor had perpetrated the offence for which he was indicted. Mr. BALLANTINE took a technical objection, which was, however, overruled by the Learned Judge. The Learned Counsel then addressed the jury. Mr. Baron PARKE summed up. and the jury, after a brief coneultation in the box, expressed a wish to retire. They re mained out nearly an hour, and then returned with a special verdict—" We find the prisoner Guilty of having committed the act while the girl was in a state of insensibility. He having administered the liquor to her for the purpose of ex citing, not of rendering her insensible." Mr. Baron PARKS said he would receive the verdict as one of guilty, and reserve the speciality of the verdict for the con sideration of the judges. Mr. DOANE suggested a question which his Lordship was about to put to the jury, but iu the minute that elapsed during the entering of the verdict, and the suggestion of the Learned Counsel, one of the jury, a Mr. Hobkirk, had vanished, and although criers were sent out in every direction, he was nowhere to be found. His Lerdship was, therefore, unable to p u t the question, and the verdict was entered as given in. The prisoner was afterwards brought up for judgment, and sentenced to transportation for life, Mr. Baron PARKE ob serving, that he would reserve the objections raised in his case for the consideration of the judges, but he could hold out no hope to him of any avoidance or commutation of his sentence. NEW COURT. MLNT PRosEcuTioxs.—To-day the Court was entirely en gaged in trying prisoners for passing counterfeit coin. Messrs. Bodkin and Ellis were in attendance as Counsel on behalf of the Crown. The parties indicted were G eo. Cottin, Maria Robins, John Carrol, Da n iel Gray, John Jones, John Morgan, and Geo. Halliday. The two latt er p l e d ed gu i lty. The trials were devoid of public interest, and th e persons conv i c t e d were sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour for periods varying from six to eighteen calendar months. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From Friday Night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Eth of Victoria. cap. 32, for the Week ending of Saturday, the ht day 01 March, 1845. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. X. X. Notes issned ...... 28,952,105 Government debt 11,015,100 Other securities 2,984,900 Gold coin and bul lion 12,943,918 Silverbullion 2,008,147 £28,952,105 M. Dated the 6th day of Marc £28,952,105 SIARSHA.LL, Chief Cashier. 1845. BANKING DI X. Proprietors' capita 114,553,000 Rest ... 3,575,172 Public deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings banks, Commis- F ion ers oftiational Debt, and divi dend accounts) 5,476,984 Other deposits 1 0 , 323,799 Seven day andother bills .....•983,328 WARTMENT. Government SElM rities (including Dead Weight Annuity) Gold deesB:s2s4 Other securities anasi lver 119707:4005 coin 777,959 £34,912,283 M. MM Dated th• Bth day •f March, X 34,912,283 ISIIALL, Chief Cashier. 1845. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the let of March, 1845." The Table is issued from the ffice of the Registrar-General : Weekly CAUSES OF DEATH. Total. Average of Five Winton! Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagions Diseases 169 172 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat ll9 114 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l7l 167 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration 404 347 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 4l 23 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &C. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles••• 11 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c. Old Age, or Natural Decay ...............'•••" 88 89 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance ••• 27 27 Causes specified Deaths from all Causes DEATHS most THE £IIINCIrAL THE ABOVE HE.APB. .... ..... ET:.. ......... ............ ................ Weekly Average Total. of Five Winter". Consumption l5B 148 Scarlatina 23 27 Pneumonia . Dropsy ..... .. _ 3B 38 looping Cough 45 43 Typhus lB 30 Small Pox 24 19 Disease of the Heart Measles 24 21 Apoplexy Diseases of the Brain l2 11 Diarrhoea.. .. 8 6 Sudden Deaths ,,.,.„•, 19 18 DISTRICTS. DCatha Weekly Births iu Average of in the Week. Five Winters. theta eek. West North 2Ol 192 240 Central East 224 223 349 South 1039 1480 Total .. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. J. W. Braddick, farmer, Bristol--second div. of 3d. iu the pound, March 10, or any subsequent Monday, at the office of Mr. Acraman, Liverpool. E. Davies, blacksmith, Great Crosby—a div. of 2s. 7d. in the pound, March 10, or any subsequent Monday, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool. J. Garnett, merchant, Liverpool—third div. of 4d. and 2-sths cf a farthing in the pound, March 10, or any subse quent Monday, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool. R. .Alsop, grocer, Manchester—final div. of 2s 8 1 / 2 d, and a first and final div. of 14s. 8 1 / , 1 0 in the pound on new proofs, March 18, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. E. Heron, butcher, Hartlepool—first dir. of Is. in the pound, March 8, or any subsequent Saturday, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. T. Eldridge, coach-builder, Upper North-place, Gray's Inn road—first div. of Bs. in the pound, March 8, and throe fol lowing Saturdays, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane, SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TELE EVENING PAPERS OF TESTEPDAT. GLOBE.—On Monday, as tb‘Chancellor of the Exchequer announced last night, in answer to a question of Mr La bouchere, the Government project of levying different duties upon different qualities of sugar is again to be brought for ward ; and—we hope—to be abandoned. When we consider its absurd and utterly impracticable nature we are inclined to believe that Sir B. Peel, as he says, really did not know what he was doing when he proposed it. Mr. Goulburn, if we may venture to form an opinion from his hesitating and con fused manner of defending it, is equally in the dark. Mr. Gladstone has, we think, been its ablest advocate; and accor dingly we are inclined to attribute to him the largest share of the responsibility of its production. The measure is, how ever, quite faulty enough to justify the assumption of even a triple paternity, and the full application of Gay's remark, that " The child whom many fathers share, Has seldom known a father's care." Here, as by common consent, the practical application of the new duties has evidently been quite lost sight of. Each, with a lofty horror of drudgery, seems to have left the details to others. We wish they had settled the onus of this before hand. Perhaps, by right, it should have fallen to Mr. Glad stone. The Chancellor of the Exchequer might plead other engagements while getting up materials for the "financial statement." The Premier could not be expected to do the work of a subordinate; and yet it is unfortunate for himself that he did not descend a little in this instance. No judicious admirer of Sir R. Peel, so eminently " great in small mat ters, and in all great matters small," will be prepared to admit, that had he thought for himself on the subject, he could have committed co gross a blunder, for instance, as to describe the present proposition as one involving no alteration of the differential duties in favour of colonial sugars. Yet, on the 14th ult. (we quote from Hansard), he announced the higher scale of duties in the following terms :—" With regard to white or clayed sugar, or sugar which by some process is made equal to clayed sugar, we propose that the duty on British plantation or East India sugar shall be reduced from 255. 3d. to 16s. 4d., and that . . . . the duty on free labour foreign sugar—that is clayed, or sugar equal to clayed, shall be 28s.—thus retaining the whole amount of discriminating duty, which last year was 10s. 6d, but applying it in a different manner, giving 9s. 4d. protection on muscovado sugar, and increasing the protection to lls 8d on the more valuable and costly article of clayed, or white sugar. The average amount of discriminating duty, therefore, will re main the same as it was last year." Independently of the ignorance it betrays, the confusion of ideas involved in this announcement is curious. If it means anything to the pur pose, it can only be—that the " average amount" of several discriminating (or differential) duties represents the amount of " protection" afforded by them. If this be so, we have at hand a very easy mode of settling the dispute be tween the home consumer and the colonial producer of sugar. We have only to levy upon " white-clayed," or some other superior class of foreign sugar, a " discriminating duty" of 205., and we may then admit all foreign sugar of a lower quality at a " discriminating duty" of Is, ; for the " average amount of discriminating duty will remain the same"—viz., 10s. 6d. Sir Robert, in short, has only to deduct a few shillings from the 9s. 4d. and add it to the lls. Bd. (always preserving the aver age amount of:protection), in order to meet the wishes of at least a very large majority of those now opposed to him on this question. We fear, however, that a careful consideration of the probable results of such a step would only induce him to insist upon the more careful performance of the "discriminat ing duty" imposed upon those who are permitted to furnish him with materials for his financial speeches. We have already shown that, assuming the practicability of the proposed mea sure, one of its effects would be to exclude from home con sumption the sugar made liable to the higher scale of duty. The effective " protection " would then be the difference be- tween 14s. and 235. 4d., or 9s. 4d. instead of 10s. 6d. The only sugars, colonial or foreign, which could be made liable to the higher rate of duty, are those from the East. But its partial operation upon these would be evaded by their being mixed with the inferior classes of sugar, and entered in the highest condition compatible with the payment of the lower rate of duty. MARKET NEWS. (YESTERDAY DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. W. Law, draper, March 28, at, half-past one—W. Smith, printer. King-street, St. Giles's, April 3, at half-past eleven—H. and A. Wood, Blackwell-hall factors, Basinghall street, April 2, at one—H. W. Collinson, hat maker, Stam ford-street, April 3, at eleven—T. Creeke, tailor, Cambridge, March 28, at one—D. Fowler and R. Green, merchants, Lime street, March 28, at two. In the Country. 0. P. Wathen, clothier, Woodchester, Gloucestershire, April 1, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court—J. Cox, silk throwster, Nottingham, April 3, at eleven, at the Birming ham District Court. . CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. G. Jackson, jun., upholsterer, llertford, March 29—J. Curwen, cheesemonger, Bridge-place, Vauxhall, April 4 W. Tydeman, timber merchant, Chelmsford, March 28—S. Libbis, innkeeper, Stratton St. Mary, Norfolk, April I—H. H. Stutchbury, bookseller, Theobald's-road, Bedford-row, April 2—J. Harwar, piano-forte manufacturer, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury, April I—C. M. Mottram, warehouseman, Friday-, street, Cheapside, April 5—G. E. Lanham, builder, South ampton, April 2—J. F. Barwick, wheelwright, Old-street, St. Luke's, April 4—J. Wallington, painter, Bristol, April 2 W. Fairclough, licenced victualler, Liverpool, April 2—J. Harley, plumber,Wolverhampton, March 31—J. G. Schott and J. C. Lavater, merchants, Manchester, March 31—W. Rees and G. Edwards, gardeners, Wells, Somersetshire, March 25—C. Parry, farniture broker, Cleaver-street, Kennington road, March 28—J. Coles, jeweller, New Bond-street, March 28—J. Hook, brick merchant, Nine-elms, Wandsworth road, March 28---idt. K. Mann, wine merchant, Hull, March 28— F. Deflinne, check manufacturer, Manchester, March 28. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. _ _ G. R. and W. Donkin, drapers, Beverley—P. C. and 11. St. C. Cailieri, wine merchants, Cheltenham—R. Baldwin and M. Arrowsmith, spade makers, Balderstone, Lancashire—H. Bume and H. Farrant, linen drapers, Exeter—T. H. Kay and J. Walker, dyers, Leeds—J. Cannell and D. Graham, grocers, Great Newport-street—J. Hotchkiss and J. Hotchkiss, jun., wine merchants, Blackfriars-road—W. J. and S. Haslam, chemists, Thaxted—J. C. Bolt, J. Critchley, and J. Greaves, coal miners, Batley, Yorkshire (so far as regards J. C. Holt) —J. Duiding and J. W. Danby, attorneys, Lincoln—R. Cooper and W. Ravenscroft, silk mercers, Liverpool—W. Taylor and H. Millichamp, iron founders, Birmingham—J. S. Kewley, T. L. Morecrotl, and R. J, Hardman, brokers, Liver pool—.B. Badger, J. Badger, and T. Badger, millers, Birming ham—A. Towler, H. Campin, and C. W. Sickle, merchants, Norwich (so far as regards C. W. Sickle)—C. Darnbrough and T. Wright, druggists, Manchester—D. Oliver, jun., and W. Noble, grocers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. J. I. Syer and E. A. Sanders, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars—F. E. Richards and R. C. Meggitt, starch manufacturers, Hessle, Yorkshire —S. and T. Walker, millers, Bingham, Nottinghamshire—l. Brampton, son., J. Brampton, and I. Brampton, jun., glove manufacturers, Leicester—D. Ledsam, J. F. Ledsam, C. IL Capper, M. Dixon, J. Marrian, J. Reynolds, A. Warner, W. Steel, R. W. Winield, and W. Potts, metal rollers, Bir mingham (as far as regards A. Warner and W. Steel) —T. Williamson and E. Scott, farmers, Walkeringharn, Nottinghamshire —J. Yoxall, W. Holding, and J. Hoyle, contractors, Lancaster and Carlisle Railway— J. Simpson, G. Tomlinson, J. Brooke, J. Whittaker. J. Day, D. Fox, P. Fox, J. Butterworth, M. Spelding, and W. Dean, cloth finishers, Batley, Yorkshire (as far as regards M. Spel ding and W. Dean)—J. S. Tooker, A. J. Cipriaut, G. Mead, A. Mitchell, and R. Dennistoun, merchants, New York and Liverpool (as far as regards Tooker, Mead, and Co., New York, and Tooker, Mitchell, and Co., Liverpool). SCOTCH. SEQUESTRATIONS. John Hamilton, fleslier, Leith, March 12, and April 9, at one, at the chambers of J. Henderson, Edinburgh. David Irving, farmer, Greernnerse, Kircudbright, March 13, and April 3, at twelve, at the inn of J. Pagan, Maxwell to w n. Robert Wallace, , mason, Galston, March 11, and April 11, at twelve, at the chambers of D. R. Andrews. Kilmarnock. M•Donell, Brothers, clothiers, Inverness, March 12, and April 2, at two, at the Castle of Inverness. Lang, and Mercer, merchants, Leith, March 12, and April 9, at two, at the New Ship Tavern, Leith. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending, March 4, 1845, is 31s. 10Id. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. ST. PETIMBUR GII FEB. 18.—The *bulletin of the laws contains to-day a m anifesto relative to an anticipated levy of recruits. After the usual introductory matter, it is as follows :—" The gradual subjection of the mountain tribes of the Caucasus, by which the power of Russia in those ex tensive countries is confirmed, makes it necessary to strengthen our force now in the Caucasus, without weaken ing the army required by • the wants and the dignity of the empire. We, therefore, think fit this year to order that the usual levy of recruits in the Eastern Government shall take place in March instead of Novemb2r. It is therefore to commence on the 13th of March, and to be completed on the 15th of April without fail. We order this time that the levy shall be seven men for every thousand. We have given a special ukase on this subject. Given at St. Petersburgh the 3d (15th) of February, 1845, in the 20th year of our reign,--Nickmaa," CORN 3EXCHANGE Our arrivals of Wheat continue good from the northern counties; however, the show of samples here was on the in crease. The finest qualities of both Red and White com manded a steady sale, at full prices ; but all other kinds were a slow inquiry. Foreign Wheat, free of duty, was in fair re quest, and previous rates were well supported ; but Corn under lock was a mere drug. The supply of Barley was quite equal to the demand, and it was only the finest quality that could be disposed of. All other kinds were very dull. The Malt trade was heavy, and where sales were pressed lower rates were taken for all descriptions. Oats were ex tremely dull, and rather cheaper. Beans, Peas, and Flour as on Monday. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. 7,310 qrs. 4,020 qrs. Malt, 5,260 qrB. SMITHPIELD. English .• • • Irish .... •• • Foreign Oats. A Flour. 6,630 7,620 1,430 I -- For the time of year the supply of Beasts on sale was rather numerous, but of very middling quality ; yet the Beef trade was in a depressed state, and Monday's quotations were with difficulty supported. No foreign stock was offering, but we had 100 Scots, by sea, from Scotland. The numbers of Sheep were extremely small, owing to which the Mutton trade was active, at full prices. Calves were in short supply and steady demand, at previous figures. In Pigs. a steady business was doing. Milch Cows sold slowly at from 141 to 191 each, in eluding their small Calf. Per Blbs. to si s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts ••• • 2 4 2 8 Second quality ditto. 210 3 2 Prime large Oxen.. 3 4 3 6 Prime Scots Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 6 Large Hogs •••• • • 3 0 3 6 ink the offal. a. d. to a. d. Second quality ditto 3 8 3 4 Coarse-w oolled ditto 3 6 4 0 Southdown Wethers 4 2 4 4 Ditto out ofthe wool Prline small ditto •. 4 8 5 0 Small Porkers 3 8 4 0 Buckling Calves, —lB 0 30 0 Quarter old Pigs • .16 0 20 0 Inferior Sheep :... 2 8 3 0 Lambs SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. Sheep. 1 Calves. I Pigs. 789 2,380 I 109 314 101133117GAT211 AND LEADZI , 7IIILX.I.• _ Prime Beef and Mutton sold freely ; other kinds of meal slowly, at our quotations. At per stone, by the Carcase. . . 0.11. to s. s. d. to s. d. Beef, inferior•..... 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior .. 2 6 2 8 - middling 2 6 2 8 middling.. 210 3 4 prime large • . 210 3 2 prime .... 3 6 3 8 - prime small .. 3 2 3 4 ; Pork, 1arge........ 210 310 Yeal.. • ........ .3 10 b 0I - small ..... 4 0 4 4 BOROUGH EOP DIARECET. As might be expected the supply of all kinds of Hops offering here is very scanty, yet the general demand is in a sluggish state, at barely, but at nothing quotable beneath, last week's prices. Sussex pockets, 71 to 81; Wealds, 71 lOs to 8/ 4s; Mid Kent, 8/ to 10/ 15s East Kant, 81 5s to 101; Choice Ditto, 101 5s to 12/ 12s ; Mid Kent Bags, 71 15s to 8115 s East Kant Ditto, 111 to 121 Bs. COLON'IAI•. SUGAR.—The market has been dull for most descriptions, owing to the postponement of the duties Bill. British Plantation has been cheaper, but the sales are perfectly in significant. REFlNED.—Standard Lumps have been 69s to 70s per cwt. EAST INDLt.—Of 4,591 bags 486 boxes Bengal about half sold, at 51s to 52s 6d for low greyish yellow, at 4Fs to 62s for washed, at 53s 6d for mid yellow, and at 51s 6cl for soft white, being lower rates ; 3.550 bags Madras were taken in, washed brown at 47s to 505 per owl, and damp at 48s to 51s. Up to ,last evening there were no public sales of Mauritius. FoutiGN.-255 cases 8 brls Bahia were nearly all taken in at 18s to 24s per cwt for sound. COFFEE.—This article has also been quiet privately, and the auctions comprise only 63 bales Mocha, which were taken in at 40s to 40s 6d for triage; and 1,119 bags Ceylon, which sold at 65s 6d to 68s for fine ord pale coloury, at 53s to 56s for good ord greyish, and at 61s to 75s for pea-berry ; 75 bags Bahia were taken in at 28s for good ord; and 143 bags Costa Rica at 43s to 44s for fine ord. SPICES.-500 chests Cassia Lignea went at 61s to 62s for good mid, and at 54s for ord coarse, being is to 2s dearer; 1,003 hags Pimento nearly all sold at 2id to 3d per lb. RICE.-2,850 bags Bengal and 100 pockets, nearly all sold at lOs to 1 is 6d for low mid white, and 1,864 bags Madras at 9.s 6d to lOs per cwt, the market having been brisker. SALTPETRE.-545 bags Calcutta have been taken in at 27s to 27s 6d for mid dingy white 3 per cent. refraction. CorroN.—Owing to the extensive sales at Liverpool there has also been more business doing here at advanced rates; but the London market for this staple is insignificant com pared to that at the oatport, from which it entirely takes its tone. _ _ _ TEA.—There have been public sales of 8,970 packages of China, and 1,223 of Assam. Of the former about 6,000 sold, Pouchong and Hyson being Id cheaper, and Congou and other qualities at about previous rates. The Assam sold freely at full prices, ranging from 2s to 3s 10d for the better sorts, though some of the inferior commenced at 514,d per lb. This tea is getting into repute. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. has been about 39s to 39s 6d par cwt. on the spot. COAX. 11C.A.R.ILET. Prices per ton .at the close of the market :—.Adair's Main, 15s 6d ; Buddle's West Hartley, 17s ; Hasting's Hartley, 16s 6d; Holywell Main, 17s 6d; Jarrow low Main, 15s 6d ; Morrison's Hartley, 15s; Nelson's West Hartley, 168 6d; Ord's Redheugh, 15$ 6d ; Port's Primrose, 15s ; Tanfield Moor, 19s 6d ; Taylor's West Hartley, 16s 6d ; Townley, 16s 6d ; Twizell Main, 15s 6d; Wylam, 15s 9d; W.E., Bell and Rob son, 17s; Bewicke and Co., 18s 6d; Gosforth, 18s 3d; Heaton, 18s ; Hotspur, 17s 6d ; Killingworth, 17s 6d ; New march, 17s ; Urpeth ' 16s ; Eden Main, I9s ; Braddyil's Het ton, 20s 3d ; Houghall, 18s ; lletton, 20s 3d ; Lambton, 20s ; Morrison, 17s 9d ; Pemberton, 18s ; Russell's Iletton, 20s ; Stewart's 20s 6d ; Caradoc, 20s ; Heughhall, 18s 3d ; Kelloe, 19s ; Trimdon, 20s ; Adelaide, 19s ; Brown's Deanery, 18s 6d ; Cowndon Tees, 18s 3d ; Seymour Tees, 18s 9d ; The Dukes, 183 6d ; Hartley, 16s; Lewiss Merthyr 21s 6d ; Tenant's, 17s 6d ; Derwent-water Hartley, 15s 6d ; Sidney's Hartley, 16s 6d ; West Hartley Netherton, 16s 6d.—Ships arrived, 63. (From the Loudon New Price Current of March 7. SUGAR—To-day the market for nearly all descriptions of raw Sugar presented a firmer appearance, and the trade en tertained a better opinion towards the article. There was rather more business transacted in West India Muscovado Sugar, 130 hhds finding purchasers at prices on a par with those of Friday last for yellow, but brown kinds are rather cheaper than at that time. The total purchases for the week are 330 hhds and tierces. REFINED.—To-day there was very little demand for home trade goods, and prices are still declining. Brown lumps, 34 to 40 lbs, may be purchased at 675; middling ditto, 32 to 42 lbs, 68s; good to fine lumps, equal to standard, 70s to 71s; Tittlers were, 30 lbs, 69s to 773 ; and Hamburgh Loaves, 9 to 13 lbs, 72s to 80s per cwt. In Loaves there was very little business done. Bonded Crushed Sugar is dull of sale, at 31s to 31s 3d per cwt. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon there was a large public sale of 14,014 bags 14 casks of Mauritius Sugar. There was a clause in the conditions of sale, that if the reduced duty is not receivable at the Custom-house on the 14th inst., buyers at this sale are at liberty to throw up their purchases, but notices to this effect must be given not later than the 15th instant, after which they will not be received. There was a large attendance of the trade, and merchants being free sellers, the whole was disposed of at prices that averaged those of the previous public sale—some piles how ever went 6d to is per cwt cheaper, fine yellow fetched 62s to 645, good 58s 6d to 61s, good middling 57s 6d to 58s middling 55s 6d to 575, low 53s 6d to 54s 6d, good grey 57s to 58s, low 52s to 535, good and tine brown 52s to 535, washed 52s to 62s 6d, and Syrupy 57s to 59s 6d per cwt—there was no common brown in the sale. EAST INDlA.—Bengal has been purchased this week with caution, but any material decline in the value has been pre vented by merchants supplying the market sparing:y. This afternoon Bengal and Madras Sugar met with more atten tion, and the parcels disposed of privately were generally upon former terms. FOREIGN.—There are not many purchasers of yellow Havannah Sugar, but merchants have still confidence and will not sell but at previous rates, they still refrain from offering any at public sale—the private purchases are only 350 chests of low yellow of old quality at 19s 6d for expor tation, and 500 chests of middling to tine at 20s 6d to 223 6d per cwt—there is nothing pressing privately. White has met with little-attention. A floating cargo of new Bahia has been sold at 243 6d for ....... 1133 THE LATE LADY FLORA lIASTINGS.---IMS lady died in 1839, without a will. A sum of money, arising from estates in England, to which this lady was entitled, has been realised by a recent sale, by which a sum of 30,0001. becomes divisible between the deceased lady and her sisters, which has rendered a representation to her estate necessary. Her mother, the Dowager Marchioness, having survived her, but dying without administering, the a dministration of Lady lora's effects was granted on the 4th inst. to her sister, Lady Sophia, her share being upwards of 7,0001. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, M.A.ncit 5, 1845. The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Captain John Hamilton, late of her Ma jesty's Packet Service.. CROWN-OFFICE, MARCH 6. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE LN TIIIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Shaftesbury—Richard Brineley Sheridan, Esq., in the room of Henry Howard, Esq., commonly called Lord Howard, now Earl of Effingham, called up to the House of Peers. WHITEHALL, MARSH 6. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Thomas Bradley Paget, A.M., to the vicarage of Welton cum Mel ton, in the county and diocese of York, void by the death of the Rev. Henry William Champneys. WHITEHALL, MARCH 7. The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint Charles Neaves, Esq., Advocate, to be Sheriff Depute and Steward Depute of the Sheriffdoms or Stewartries of Orkney and Zetland, in the room of Jarnes Allan Maconochie, Esq., deceased. WAR-OFFICE, MAncit 7. 14th Regiment of Foot—B. Drew, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Graham, promoted in the 31st Foot, March 7. 19th Foot—Capt. F. Deacon, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice'. Beckham, ho exchanges, March 8. 31st Foot—Ensign J. H. draham, from the 14th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Shaw, who retires, March 7. 90th Foot—Captain A. Trollope, from half-pay 20th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice G. D. Bowyer, who exchanges ; Lieut. F. Woodgate to be Captain, by purchase, vice Trollopo, who retires ; Ensign R. Grove to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Woodgate; J. Perrin, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Grove, March 7. 95th Foot—Lieutenant. G. J. Dowdall to be Adjutant, vice Cobbs, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, March 7. UNArrActiED.—Lieut. F. Deacon, from 19th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, March 7. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MARCH 6. Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Captain C. Rose to be Captain, vice Henderson, deceased ; First Lieut. W. C. Had den to be Second Captain, vice Rose, Dec. 26 ; Second Lieut. H. Grain to be First Lieutenant, vice Hadden, Feb. 22. 31EmonAnn:31.—The date of the promotion of the under mentioned officer has been altered, thus :—Lieut. Boucher, Dec. 26. _ _ Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex. G. R. :Robinson, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant ; T. T. Clarke, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Feb. 28. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire. T. W. Evans, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, March 4. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Ross shire. J. E. Baillie, Esq.. to be Deputy Lieutenant; J. Matheson, Esq., M.P., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; 11. M. Fowler, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; R. 13. A. MacLeod, jun., Eaq, to be Deputy Lieutenant ; G. Ross, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu tenant, March 5. WHITEHALL, MARcit 1. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Whidborne, of Teignmouth, in the county of Devon, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. Frederick West, bootmaker, Southampton, to surrender March 18 and April 22, at twelve, at the Court of Bank. ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Mackey and Girdlestone, Southampton ; Smith and Atkins, Sergeants' Inn, Fleet street, London. William Spencer, brewer, Wallingford, Berkshire, March 18 and April 22, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Alsai,Ter, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Smith, Golden-square. Charles Jacobs, fruit salesman, Farringdon- market, March 14, at half-past eleven, and April 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Overton and Hughes, Old Jewry. Joseph Wilson, bootmaker, Jermyn-street, St. James's, March 14 and April 15, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Wright, Smith, and Shepherd, Golden-square. John Struckett, grocer. Wye, Kent, March 14, at two, and May 3, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, offi cial assignee, Aldernianbury ; Palmer, France, and Palmer, Bedford-row; King, Maidstone. James Stephen Herring, builder, Cecilia-place, Spa-road, Bermondsey, March 15, at one, and May 3, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook court, Basinghall-street ; Rippon, Blackfriars- road. George Salmon, timber merchant, No. 15 Wharf, City road basin, March 22, at eleven, and May 3, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, officicial assignee, Sambrook court, 13asinghall-street ; May, Queen-square, Bloomsbury. ' William Cawthorn, jun. wine merchant, Salisbury-wharf, Salisbury-street, Strand, March 17, at half-past two, and April 18, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street ; Lawrence, Old Fish-street, Doctors'- commons. John Hardy and George Hardy, grocers, Wisbech St. Peter, Cambridge, March 1 4 , at tn. o, and Aprl 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers, London ; Jenkins and Abbott, New Inn, London. Thomas Kewell Gorbell, bookseller, Bedford-place, Com mercial-road, Middlesex, March 14, at half-past two, and April 18, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers ; Turner, Mount-place, Whitechapel-road. John Rock Day, licensed victualler, White Hart-street, Drury-lane, March 14, and April 16, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-build ings; Smith, Barnard's Inn, Holborn. Daniel Mackay, merchant, Liverpool, March 18, and April 8, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool s Sharpe, Field, and Jackson, London ; Miller and Peel, Liverpool. William Butterill, grocer, Sheffield, March 20 and April 10, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds ; Tattershall, Great James-street, Bedford row, London ; Broadbent, Sheffield ; Blackburn, Leeds. William Cornelius Whittenbury, cheese factor, Leeds Marck 19 and April 14, at eleven, at the Leeds DietrictCourt. Fearne, official assignee, Leeds ; Rushworth, Staple Inn, London; Sanderson, Leeds. William Pell, linen-draper, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, March 19, at eleven, and April 29, at two, at the Newcastle-upon- Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle upon-Tyne ; Griffith and Crichton, Newcastle-upon• Tyne Griffith, Gray's Inn, London. white and 19s 3d for brown, one of old white Bahia 235. oil a Cargo of Pernambuco in bags at 19s 6d per cwt, All for`` near port, and small parcels of brown Bahia on the spots to I9s per cwt for good and fine quality. The b usium. transacted by private treaty in other kinds of foreign Wit has been fully On former ims. Moi,AssEs.—.Although te West Indin may be purchsl4 upon lower terms, still the business transacted has b een6/2 tremely limited in all descriptions this week. Importers ki generally disposed to realise on account of the heavy sW e an d not more than 23s per cwt can be obtained for the best, inferior may be purchased at 20s. East India dull of ssr" and may be ✓ had upon lower terms. Cocoa..—West India has been purchased with cautioo% private treaty, and none has been offered at auction, lis! c ; ; could only be disposed of, but at a further decline in Pri,;bt, there are few orders for foreign, but the stock being "b quotations are still kept up. fanj COFFEE —This afternoon there was no public eelsteu kind of Coffee, a fair amount of business was transa e vately in good ord Ceylon at 46s 6d to 475 per ewt , holders show firmness, Singapore Java met with more ettwr.• tion, and 500 bags of good ord were sold at 38s to 39s Per TEA.—To-day there was a better demand for nes& ec ol description of Tea, and holders manifested more firirl e ,d ; common and good common sound Congou fetched 10d to 1 0 , d Twankay, ellow leaf, of the late arrivals, Is 3d to Is 33, middling to good 'Tyson of ditto, 2s 9d to 3s per lb. old Sricas.—Cassia Lignea has been in increased demalluas although the market has been more liberally supplied' pee pet P advance of is to 2s per cwt has taken place. Black Fe,,rif is little wanted, but holders are not inclined to reduce prices. White is dull of sale, and former rates are notobll7o, able. Ginger has met with little attention, and Pricegoll going down. Although prices rule low for CinnarsOn! r i c o there are few purchasers to be met with. For Nutraegsp be keep up. Cloves are little wanted, and parcels could 04" sold but upon lower terms. Mace is little wanted. de' market has again been well supplied with Pimento — % mend has been good, and former rates are well support 0 in Rum, BRANDT, AND HOLLANDS.—The purchases I Leeward Island Rum have been extremely limited week, althouh there are sellers uon further reducedtAnT and is 10d to is lid per gallon is the value of proof stre t t;e,o Demerara strong descriptions 3s to 3s 2d. There bas scarcely any business transacted in Jamaica fo_ _ hoc portatiou, and the home trade continue to p u „7 with much caution. The value of 2 6 to o'bigli P. is 3s 4d to 4s, fine 4s 2d to 4s 6d, and very fi ne th e flavour 5s to 7e per gallon ; of the last mentioned so" acl. is little in the market, but all other kinds are Plen;"tal Calcutta has met with little attention, and prices Sr l iga declining; is 9d to is 91e1 is the value proof with, 90 'aeS without certificate. Brandy has been purchased with not. ; caution we quote Cognac best brands of the cs 39, age of 1838, hhds 4s 11d, puns 4s 9d . ..; 1 8411 hhds 4s Bd, puns 4s 6d; 1840, hhds 4s ad, puns 4s 64 ; 18 43, hhds 4s 7d, puns 4s 5d ; 1842, hhds 4s 4d, puns 4s 2d i; s crl hhds 4s 2d, puns 4s ; 1844, hhds 3s lid, puns 3s 9d, 1341 4 7c1 good mid of the various vintages 2s 10d to 3s B d , low Tbe to 2s 9d, and Bordeaux 23 6d to 2s 8d per gallon.. the market is in a dull state for Geneva, and is 9d to ls ; value of common export sort; fine fit for ditty is worth cs o, to 3s. English Corn Spirits firm at lOs 2d per gallon; ,ad RicE.--•-A brisk demand has prevailed for Bengal, -los. further advance in prices of 3d per cwt has takea Joired Madras has met with increased attention, and en, l ° o s ale rates are again obtained, the parcels brought to pub"„,lo amounting to 1,864 bags were sold at prices showing t P ; lob vance on those of the last auction of 3d to 6d per c w ; middling pinky white Bengal grain fetched 95 6 ,1 90 0 bold brown ditto 9s to 9s Od ; sea damaged first c 1 94 to Os 6d, second class 8s 6d to 9s, and third class 7 ( 1, .01 3 8s 6d per cwt Java yellow is fetching Os 6 d to 1 been white lOs 6cl to 12s 6d. In cleaned Rice there ha: dto lSi good deal doing at 23s to 28s for Carolina, and 135° a per cwt for Patna. O n SALTPETRE.—This afternoon there was a better &fool,' for Rough and 269 bags of Calcutta at public sal es ic : be at 27e 6d for good grey 31- per cent. refraction, being 20 7.. value; privately 1.200 bags of Madras were sold at for 124 per cent. refraction. ; v orse . ,..b FRUIT.—The demand for Currants has at 1engt0,.'7,; ( 0 0 .4 and prices hay e an upward tendency, merchants s ,'' bt oie", firmness, and supply the markets sparingly; a fai r bitlen'l has been transacted at 49s to 50s for Zante and CeP o tol2 A and 50s to 52s for Patras. Raisins are not much vfits present. Valentias are taken very sparingly a t l ove r Smyrna 40s to 465, black 32s and Denies in baskets led fig; dined 2s per cwt, say 345; 5,549 drums Turkey Pu l f ro, one sale passed over, no bids, and the other taken in 011' to 48s. Oils.—There has been an increased demand for 291; and a further advance in prices has taken place; i to 6 1, to 30/. In Seal more business transacted, pale 3 0 i / to,' yellow and straw 27/ to 29l 105, and brown 2 4 a ft' Southern Oil 27/ lOs to 301. and inferior at 26/ to 21„faciilri Sperm Oil 831 to 85/ for British, and 80/ to 8 2 / for filrocl. Linseed Oil 24s 6d to 24s 9d on the spot, and 255 to,POII, cwt for delivery all the year. Rape Oil 37s for p al ms to for brown. Olive sold at firm rates, Gallipoli at rye Spanish and Barbary 417 to 42/10s per tun • d Asi TALLow.—This afternoon at public sale 113 cat to "0 South Wales Tallow sold at 36s 3d to 39s 9d for 11168 quality ; 4 casks East India at 40s 9d ; 37 4 PiP es A floe, bbd South American at 36s 9d to 37s 9d for good st ip ero 32s 3d to 36s for low to fair quailty, being c f.,7110 kegs North American Lard taken in at 3 83, '" • Stearine Lard at 34s to 38s 9d per cwt. IRELAND. . en ol4l. VISIT OF MR. O'C ONNELL TO Lth'lotiro ,11 MARcU s.—lt is stated very confin"- 00001 day, but whether correctly or not, that Dir. has consented to proceed to London, for th e P c T o opei; presenting a petition from the Royal Canal ' kg to praying for liberty to make sale of that prol e ,' - ialtbe Dublin, Mellinger, and Athlone Railway W. order that a railway should be run along therbos,j canal. Some negotiation for such a sale hn u t a l e P7O, progress before the publication of the report A AO', 0 of Trade, adverse to the Dublin, Mellinger , s„„ 11- „ s pasio Company. The object of the Royal Canal vvi t it 5 to have the Bill for that railway - passed, old of V A - 114 6 serted that the line preferred by the Boarti_,..;ded 'Ol that from Dublin to Galway, cannot be Prn":., s ll° this session, owing to some defects in the 81 * -1) of the latter company. MEETING OF THE CORPORA -1 r t tio, , 0 The corporation of Dublin held a meet i tar , scyr the Lord Mayor presiding. After some " I— d to 'woo was agreed that a petition should be presented Att, .01 liniment in favour of the Dublin, Mellinger, ° f , 0 1 . $ Railway, the line against which the Board , 0 1 . 540, reported. It was also arranged that the al l y t r be attached to the petition, and 'that the e attired in his civic robes, should present it 11C the the House of Commons. LANG THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO IRV-1,-0140V The Evening Packet (the Castle organ), sli t , es t ing the accuracy of the statement made hY, 01 )0 0 1 ,0 1 tile Advertiser, respecting the intention o and her illustrious consort to visit this & ore _ ce r, summer, adds :—" Extensive preparations c h - 01 in progress to give our august Sovereign ° l oots. ; .0 1 ) tion as will prove the loyalty of her Irish suijobilhlluilk we can state on.the best authority that th di d ." Drogheda Railway Company have in PrO r ' •eitYpi ing a magnificent state carriage for h er Nii alon s .r s e commodation. It will be of the most co met ture, and the materials composing its deco the most solid and costly description. ..., ,cs. SPORTING INTELLIG ,° , G. ---* a 30111'„0 LIVERPOOL WATERLOO COURSIN,-. - , r th , THURSDAY.—(CONCLUDED.), ors o ls P r, ; THE', ALTCAR STAKES.—Mr. Woodburn o , si r u - ,0 0 ,, Lord Eglinton's Sea Mill—Mr. Gamin's Ga° 3 ll Eire h tro . ) ; Segar's Doctor—Mr. Nash's Cruiskeen beat Porpthe'',,o o l Charlie Bates—Mr. Fowler's Kizzie beat 31 1 ( r. f P., 0 - 6 t Dashaway—Mr. Alderson's Pepper beat iii -. llo,ktf i g Ranger—Mr. Pollok's Cross House beat P k r aV v ,,,o — Kitchen Maid—Mr. Eden's Emilius beat Mr. -- u isln d 00 0 ,t First Ties.—Derbyshire beat Seamilliross _ .i. P., P.' Gambler—Kizzie beat Pepper—Emilius he.,,5 0 '" Ai v Second Ties.—Cruiskeen beat Derbral l " Pr Emilius. b e st O r. Deciding C our se.—Mr. F ow l er 's Kizzie -- t Cruiskeen, and won. us e t ‘ A „,,il tvr THE WATERLOO CUP.—Second Ties. — -,l, s be , trip—Sherwood beat Duchess—Lune beat x' : " is s , e•A is bo lt Se beat Stream. Third Ties.—Sherwood beat Scotia—TL gr• t t, Deciding Course.—Mr. Jebb's Titania bell I ''' g be st 9llor Sherwood, and won the Cup. , __SO scre THE WATERLOO PURSE.—First Tle B . - If - por o Rowena—Turk beat Duke of Wellington-- „ at $ away—Sparks of Fire beat Spree. o re! r") 1 1, Second Ties.—Young Lill beat Turk --S baA t of Fire. Ma- Decidinq Course.—Mr. A. Graham's - Clarke's I oung Llll, and won the Purse. , E OO _____------. Of 49111"'Plif ie CAPTURE Or A. DARING GAN..ri t brele 7 l i d' ROBBERS.—On Thursday afternoon, betNeeeistiOiLiaer. o'clock, a gang of omnibus robbers, e t ;j - belieo o fashionably-dressed fellows (all young al e l the `"/ 104 701 the swell mob, were captured, at the corher r jettog.A 0 circus and Oxford-street, under the lelibe 1 1 " - jorg ri . stances :—A lady, a passenger in one of °o be opt!, omnibuses from the City, had been r obbed ° j os- e A , by these men, who were passengers in the 0. 01 ;j h he da , arrival of the omnibus at the Regent'ecirwc $s o:Kitt about getting out when a gentleman, Who he d tbl i g IP) senger, and had, unobserved by them, v rater s o i.• - co , A , ments, acquainted the conductor (and the l ild . i . c i t ithe t l i o unconscious of having been robbed) of thl c : ho 111° tie police officer was immediately called. g 3u " V- 1 given into custody. .E., Thi6cofigetitl.ll HEDWORTH LAMBTON, ESQ., 1 4 :7,...„ P : i the man, we are glad to hear, has returnea "—sr,. e Alec in strong and renovated healtb.—Tyo ,00 ' ----....0.-'--------- .BIBTIIS. On the sth inst., in Dorset -place, Derset - W sll4 ,of • of J. F. Elmslie, Esq., of a son - 00 1°°''' On the 6th inst., Mrs. Norman,. of Bromley -4 _4.00. „ V daughter. if lel-9-' 411' On the Ist inst., at Rememham Lodge , — 6O Al , the lady of Ralph Ashton, Esq., a a daughter. , 101 ... On the 2d Inst., in Lower Seymour-street, w, tr "Onyl, Esq., of a son. the 2d inst., at North Ockendon wife of the Rev. Richard Croft, of a son. _,_ i Artittlf A P On the 3d inst., at Wandsworth, the WO o' Esq ,of a daughter. ,n i orD" , -fe oi - p On the 3d inst., in Harley-street, the WI 4 0 Corfield, Esq., of a daughter. s pelt the On the 4th inst., at High-street, Wbitech Becton', /39;fro J. F. Chittenden, Esq., surgeon, of a son. i t 9 14 00 , IfIA.RBIED. AbrsPetetg On the 3d inst. , a t Deal, John AT Fred er ow n, t° i disv i n, Joe , St. George's - terrace , Kensington N 0 T 7 you ngest daughter of E. Pain, Esq., o f Pea t me li tor On the 4th iniit., at Christchurch, Haas, dita late of the King's Dragoon Guards, to Dorothea the late S. M. Ciag.tonn, E3q. .410 0 4 400' DIED. , viobilri o f v" On the 4th inst., Francis Hilton, Esq. , 0 1 ' 'otter I, On the sth inst , Emma Carroll, Deco cla . _ # Or tain J. Ford, of Chelsea College. o'f tb° Of At Escot, Devonshire, Charlotte, wider of , KennawaV, Bart. -n dforcl44 0 On the th inst., at Tavistock-street, ...4 ..,,d , i f 1. Henry Cardwell. Goss ell-'" On the sth inst., in Frederick -place, voslf Pickford board, aged 64. r 94 , On the sth inst., in Carev-street, Join . ' . ,Thtifrell' -I sy O m n on tl d i s e }6,Lithulik'nes.tE.,,sin'n Nels-on-square, Cltria", $ 'if --:•---1.------------- nn o, l i o , j Lontlon: Printed and Published by All-1100 chc.oo` .- il No. 112, Strand. 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