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intrb Mbition LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 19. Dividend per Annum. Names of Coro. panles. Amount of Share. Canals. 14 per cent. M. Astitoi and Oldham... Ashby-da-la-Zouch av Basingstoke 1.111• Breckneek & Abergay. Birmingham,l-16thsh. Do. and Liverp. June. Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry • 0000000 0.1111•••••• Cromford .....» ~. Dudley •............••••••••• Derby........ Danube ancr . Maine.... Ellesmere and Chester s. d. 97 18 0 113 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 per cent. 41. 40t. ed. 15.4, rewash Forth and C1yde......... Grand Juncti0n..... .... Grand Union .............. Grand Surrey ............ Grand We5tern.......... Glamorgansh. ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham .•••••••••••••••••• Huddersfield ..... Kennet sad Avon ...av Lancaster ...............av Leeds and Liverpool... Leicester _ _ 11. 50. e~ tom. Id. .ss. 4. 1 as. W. 14* 17s. 164 - 6 percept. 28 151. 20/. 11. 1011. 151. 321.105. la al. 10s. 11:is. 3 per cent. per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. Si. 10s. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. lig per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. I% percent. U. Os. 83. 18s. Id. per cent. U. 7s. 9►. 10.. • per cent. CI per cent. 6 per cent. 13s. 6d._pr sh 54 Ss. 4 per cent. Is. per share 5 percent. 3/. 5 per cent.? t 30s. bds. fl per cent. 5 per cent. per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 4s. its. 6d. per cent. IPe. I oh. & bds. 14 55.. pir cen!. Per cent. 5 per cent. U. Si. 5 per cent. ISK, perms t. IL 5 per cent. lax cen t E per cent 6 per cent. 5 percent. 6per cent. eper cent. per cent. per 6 per cent cent 6 per cent. els per share 6e. per share 10 per emit. per (nut. 16s. IL ss. (4 I/. 73. . be. Ol. an an d d be. per cent. 'cent. 10/. 101. 6/ per sb 159 p er ib 6 pe rcent. 5 per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent Ii per cart. L A i per cent. 31. 12s. I 21Z10s. 21.10 e. 21. 108. •per cent. 44 16s. 141. 10a. per oh 44. per cent. Bs. per 6h. Ss. perch 10 per cent. Q% per cent. W. ss. per sh 11341. per sh. Ns. per sh. 4 per cent. if , Pc , cent 10 per cent /AL per eh IN. p7r sh. 11.145. Lper share .saad par sh 61.179. pr eh 1131 i)er ah 4 11. Ws. 11. Ss. 15d. U.l - 13. 10d. lb per cent. per cent. }0 per cent. 1.0 per cent. II 11. 31. 17$. 6d. 1 :ies. —• lOpe7cent. Ma per stk. per l4 kW. eh. 4111 15 4 ;. epee cent. b per valt. Up, and der cent. ?per cwt. Leicester &Northarnp Loughborough Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Melton Mowbray Mersey And Irwell Macclesfield Oxford Peak Forest av Regent's (or London).. Rochdale as Shropshire ...»............ Somerset Coal Do. Lock Fund Stock Staffbrd and Worcester Shrewsbury Stourbridge . .... Str atford-on:Ayon...av Swansea...•• " ••••• 1. 0• Severn & Wye & Trent & Mersey, sh. Thames & Medway..av Warwick and Binning. Warwick and Napton Worcester & Birming Wilts and Berks .av Wisbeach ... _ Wey and Arun Docks. Commercial .... . . East and West India London Ditto Bonds Bristol ay Do.Bnds, var. amounts St. Katharine............., Ditto 80nd5........ Ditto Bonds Southampton Bridges Hammersmith ... Southwark, new Subs. Ditto New of 7% pr c Waterloo Ditto Old Ann. of 84 Ditto New ditto of 71. Ditto Vauxhall. AV Assurances. .............. Alfred Alliance Brit. and For Ditto Marine ' Atlas Birmingham Fire British British Commercial .. . Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County Eagle Economic Life ........... European Life Ditto New Freemasons ••• Globe Guardian Hope Life Ditto F1re.......... Imperial Fire Ditto Life.... Indemnity Marine Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire Ditto Ship National Loan Fund Palladium Protector Life Provident Rock life Royal Sun Fire.......... Ditto University Life. . Universal Life Union Fire and Life Joint !Ink flanks Australasir... .......... Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial ........ London & Westininstr Ditto New.... London Joint • Stoc e k Metropolitan....- Provincial of Irelad Ditto New..... National of Ire la n d Nat. Provincial Englnd Ditto New Gloucestershire.......„ Union of Australia Union of London Gaslight & Coke Bath . .. . . British Ditto Provincial........ Binning. & Staffordsh. Bristol . ....... ... Brighton Ditto General City of London Ditto New Continental Consolid Ditto New ... . ...„ Equitable. Imperial ........ ... •••••••••• Isle of 'Mallet Independent ......... ..„ Phoenix ........... Ratcliff South Metropolitan United Genera 1........— Westmins. Chartered Ditto New ..... Water Works. Birmingham ..... E tst London Grand Junction av Kent Nw Riv Len. Bridg An Manchester and Salford Vauxhall, late S. Lond. West Middlesex av Yrk BuldgCo.Les.Prop Iron Railways. Birmingham & Derby Birmiug. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Eastern Counties Edinburgh & Glasgow Grand Junction. Great North of ingliid Great Western Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths ....... Harwich (Braithwaite) Hull and Selby ..... Lancaster and Carlisle Leeds and Selby Liverpool & Manchestr Ditto Half-Shares London and Brighten Ditto Loan Notes London and Blsckwall Louden and Greenwich London and Birmingh. Ditto _Quarter-Shares Ditto London and S. Western London and Croyd on, _ Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares Manchstr and Birming Midland Counties...—, North Midland Do. %-Sh., iss. 10 dis Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss.s/. dis Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre Stockton & Darlington South East. and Dover Yarmouth and Norwich lork and N. Midland Ditto New Shares Mines. Albion Copper Alten Anglo Mex., iss..s/. p.m Ditto Subscription Bolanos . Ditto Scrip BraziL Imp. iss. 51. p.m Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U. Do. St. John Del Rey British Iron Candonga. Ditto Itegi,tered Cobre Copper Copiapo Columbian, Ins. W. p.m General Mining Hibernian ....." Imperial Slatearn — "py. Mexican ..... •••• Mining Co. of Ireland.. Real del Monte, Un reg Ditto Loan Notes Rhymney Iron Santiago de United Mex.,its.2l. pm. Ditto Scrip Ditto New Scrip.,., •.• Lon L dn t , t Y w e it r h a S r in.Ticket . London Universit y Russell King's ... Miscellaneous Angle Mexican Mint ,Australian Agricultur , M lt. American Land, Canada ....... Upper Canada Bonds Gen. Stearn Navigation Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wood FAV•I IL Mex. and S. AMCIiCail New Brunswick (Land) New Zealand Penins. & Orien, Steam Royal Mail Steam .."" j Reversionary Int. Soc. South Australian I Thames Tunnel . Van Diemen's Land .„ 141 i per cent per ant LIST or SCOTTISH COM JUNE 12, 0 per cent. 6 per cent. 8 per cent. 1 6 per cent. ' I per cent. o per cont. gPer cent. 6 par cent. 7per cent. g a __Per cent. , . ever cent. t* percent. Per cent, / I Per r cent e Viler omit Pee cant e 85 0 0- )25 0 0 150 0 0 12 10 • 140 0 0 125 0 0 145 0 0 79 9 8 100 0 0 26 9 3 50 0 0 19 5 8 100 0 0 100 0 0 78 8 • 67 10 8 105 0 0 110 0 0 100 0 0 Stock Stock 147 9 0 Stock 50 - 0 4 50 0 0 63 2 II 50 9 0 109 0 0 79 19 3 100 o 0 100 0 0 290 0 0 40 0 0 50 o 0 1M 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 23 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 SO 0 0 100 0 • 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 • 2• 0 0 77 10 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 39 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 BO 0 • 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 soon 100 0 0 os 12 9 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 SO 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 16 13 4 12 15 4 100 0 0 32 0 0 41 B 10 13 15 9 100 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 se e 0 20 0 • 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 -5000 95 0 0 5 0 0 b 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 33 0 0 25 0 0 in') 0 0 100 0 0 20 Bank of Scotland..." Royal Bank ...... British Linen Compny Commercial Bank Glasgow Union Bank Western Bank .. ... Central Bk. of Scotland Caledonian Insurance Hercules Insurance.... North Brit. Insuranc , : Insurance Co. of Scoti. Edinburgh Life Insur. Scottish Union Insur Standard Life Insur Dalkeith Railway Edin. and Gilts. Railwy . .Tasg. and Groan. RAIL ‘Wallisllnd Arta S a a. .... 1100 1 o Xll9 4 f 0 0 0 55 0 0 20 • 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 6000 25 0 0 50 0 0 23 0 0 40 0 0 75 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 9 10 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 leo 1 o Ica 1 0 All7ad 'lOO 0 0 100 0 0 70 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 23 0 e 50 0 0 100 0 • 100 0 0 75 0 0 5000 12 0 • SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. PRICES OF SHARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. Paid. !Price. t e6 250 80 :107 31U ea 460 144 1452}6 isg 850 141 73 Ir:s 158 965 502% 40 70 :38 112% 72% 18% 6% 17 - !IL) - 3L •14254 1 61 1% :190 27 51 , 1 15 z 15 2 40s. As. 4% 179 206 12% lb° Ili 1534 26% 6000 40 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 55 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 6 21e o 10 0 0 5 0 0 250 0 0 All paid 2 0 0 3 0 0 36 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 ( 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 2 10 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 5 0 0 1 5 0 20 0 0 40 • • 40 0 0 5000 200 0 • 25 0 0 20 • 0 20 0 0 O 0 • "/ 10 • 2500 O 0 • 17 10 350• O 0 0 10 • • 25 0 • 10 • • 16 0 0 16 • 0 19 0 0 30 0 0 2* 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 • 31 5 0 2 0 0 50 0 0 50 Q 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 39 0 0 80 0 0 25 0 0 48 0 0 ... 10 0 0 23 0 0 2 0 0 50 0 0 .3 100 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 S 2 8 8 70 0 0 30 0 0 40 0 0 ,100 0 0 1100 0 0 40 0 0 1 45 • 0 15 0 0 ' 29 0 0 20 • 0 10 0 0 'lOO 0 0 50 0 0 18 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 1 13 10 0 100 0 U 25 0 150 0 0 21 0 • 25 0 0 15 0 75 0 0 7 10 0 7 10 0 40 0 0 13 0 0 5.5 0 0 20 0 0 10 10 0 3 0 0 50 0 0 7 0 150 • 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 110 0 100 - 0 0 109 0 0 10 0 • 13%) 0 0 35 10 0 32 10 0 14, 0 u 1 10 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 7 0 0 75 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 13 . 0 5 9 5 0 10 0 10 0 0 100 e 23 0 se 0 90 0 221, 109 47 11% 7 ,4't; 7 217% 121 GO% 20 20 I%j 6 9 Yi 434 118 1 0 c 0 0 90 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 a 1,n2 4 4 17 103 2 1 t 5% 4 'ANIES' PRICES. 844. 10 0 • 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 • 12 10 9 1 0 0 2 10 0 50 0 0 6000 26 0 0 90 0 0 17 , 2% 170 226 169 I 95% 7R IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships assembled at Five o'clock. The Insolvent Debtors Bill and the Court of Bank ruptcy Bill passed through Committee. Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from Northumberland against any alteration in the corn laws. Lord WHARNCLIFFE laid on the table a Bill for the regulation of charitable bequests in Ireland, which was read a first time. The Marquis of NORMANBY said he should pre sent several petitions in the course of the ensuing month in favour of this Bill. LEEDS PARISH BILL. Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved the first reading of the Leeds Parish Bill. The Bishop of RIPON expressed his full concur rence in the object of the Bill, which was to divide the great parish of Leeds into smaller parishes, the en dowments for which were to be provided out of the public funds. The Bill was then read a first time. SLAVE TRADE TREATIES BILL. Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved the third reading of the Slave Trade Treaties Bill. The Earl of MINTO wished to draw the attention of their Lordships to the present state of the slave trade in Cuba, and to the inefficient manner in which the treaties for the suppression of the slave trade were executed by Spain. During the regency of Espar tero, the Spanish Government took every possible means to put an end to the slave trade in Cuba. He understood that since the Spanish Government had been changed, the slave trade had revived, and the same fees had been established for the benefit of the Governor on the importation of slaves, which had formerly existed. In fact, the treaty was constantly violated for the benefit of the Governor, O'Don nell. He hoped the Noble Earl would be enabled to state that those statements had been exaggerated, or, at all events, that her Ma jesty's Government had done all in their power to enforce the observance of the treaty. The Earl of ABERDEEN said it was but too true that a great increase had taken place in the slave-trade and he was sorry to say that there was little or no ex aggeration in his statement. At an early period of the last Session, he had expressed a hope that the Slave Trade would speedily cease in the Island of Cuba, owing to the exer tions of the honest Governor-General Valdez who then ruled over that island. But General Valdez had gone far beyond the instructions of his own Government in carrying the treaty into effect, and in consequence of his exertions the importation of slaves had diminished from 40,000 annually to 30,000. He was sorry to own, that in the present year, within one month, as many slaves had been imported as had been imported during the last year of General Valdez's Government. The Noble Earl was quite right in attributing this increase of the slave trade to the change of system in the superior Government of Spain. The Noble Earl must be aware that all these treaties were im perfectly executed by Foreign Powers. He had only mentioned the case of Spain, but there could be no doubt but that the same was the case with the Brazils. From one end of the empire to the other the provi sions of the treaties were set at naught. The Bill was then read a third time. POOR-LAW (IRELAND). The Marquis of CLANRICARDE postponed his motion on the Irish Poor-law till Thursday week. INCENDIARY FIRES. The Earl of STRADBROKE presented a petition from Stowmarket, in Suffolk, praying the House to take some measures for the prevention of incendiary fires in that district. From all the evidence he had been able to collect on the subject, he believed that they were caused chiefly by children, or persons of dissolute character. They seemed to arise. from various causes, the principal of which was the great increase of population, and the difficulty of employing them. The petition also complained that the magistrates felt a difficulty in dealing with per sons charged with setting fire to outhouses and to standing corn, in consequence of the state of the law. Lord DENMAN said there was a difference of opinion among the judges on this point, and he could see no impropriety in introducing a measure to make the question clear, both with respect to outhouses and to standing corn. He was sorry that the Noble Earl had stated the cause of these fires to be the condition of the population. As far as his experience went, he generally found that they were caused by motives quite unconnected with the state or condition of the people. Lord CAMPBELL said he fully concurred in what had fallen from his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Denman), and trusted that the defects which had been pointed out would be remedied. He was happy to hear that the Noble Lord who presented the petition did not attribute these fires to the mitigation that had taken place in the criminal law of the country with respect to arson, but to other causes. Lord WHARNCLIFFE said he would take care to mention to his Right Hon. Friend at the head of the Home Department the suggestions which had been made, and which, he was sure, would receive an early and attentive consideration. Their Lordships then adjourned until Friday next. HOUSE OF COMMONS. There being hut thirty-six Members present at Four o'Clock, the House adjourned till to-morrow. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS D►AY.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) NEWTON V. ROWE AND NORMAN. The jury retired to consider their verdict, and, after an absence of several hours, returned into Court with a verdict for the plaintiff on the first issue, damages one farthing; on the second for the defendant; on the third for the plaintiff, damages one farthing; and on the fourth for the defendant. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The vote of Friday night on the Sugar Duties, by which the " strong Government" of Sir Robert Peel was left in a minority of 20, in a full house, if it did not take the country by sur prise, at least roused it from the state of apa thy in which it has too long indulged re specting public affairs. All kinds of rumours were rife during Saturday, Sunday, and yesterday, as to the course which Ministers would take under circum stances at once humiliating and embarrassing —so strongly condemnatory of their policy by their own supporters, and consequently portentous to their existence as a Government. Cabinet Coun cils were held daily. The Carlton Club was convened by special summons. Its drawing-room was crowded. Consternation was strongly depicted in the countenance of many of its Members ; by whom the possibility of a dissolution of Parliament was re garded with dread—an event not merely fraught with the loss of legislatorial privileges, but involving an abandonment of the pleasing hopes of more substan tial advantages, by which they have been sustained. As the hour at which the House of Commons com mences business approached, the neighbourhood of the House became the scene of considerable attraction. A long double line of well-dressed persons from Palace yard to the door at which the Members enter the House, was formed early ; while groupes of ten or a dozen were seen in warm debate as to what was likely to be the result, or listening to some one who pretended to a clearer insight into things to come than those around him. An unusual number of police were in attendance—a precaution that was deemed necessary by the authorities ; but their functions were wholly un called for. The crowds were perfectly peaceable, and indeed good-humoured. Same jokes were indulged in at the expense of the Government, which recently appeared to bid defiance to assault, but now seemed tottering to its fall, from sheer inability to keep its professed sup porters :together. Whatever might be the feelings of those within the House, those assembled without ap peared to anticipate the disruption of the Ministry rather with satisfaction. Scarcely an expression of regret was uttered for its position. All seemed to concur in opi nion that an early termination of its career was inevi table ; and to glory in its supposed inextricable diffi culties. Within the House of Commons the scene was interesting and evesimpressive. Tho strangers' gal lery was filled immediately the door was opened. At least a hundred, who had obtained Members' orders, were compelled to remain in the corridor, where they waited, in hope that by the retirement of some who had been more fortunate than themselves, they might got ' admission before the debate at which they desired to be present had come to a close. The lobby was inconve niently crowded ; and the police in attendance had con siderable difficulty in keeping a passage for the ingress and egress of Members. The seats under the gallery were early filled with gentlemen who had obtained Speaker's orders ; among others, we observed Lord Morpeth, who, we are happy to say, appeared in good health. His Lordship took a marked interest in the scene. By half-past four the House was filled. By a quarter before five it was inconveniently crowded in every part ; the Members' galleries not less so than the body of the House. The reporters' gallery was also filled, several of the editors of the public journals having obtained admission thereto, that by personal observation of what passed they might form a more correct idea of the actual state of the Ministry, its intentions--the disposition of the House—and the probable effect upon the country, than a mere perusal of the debate could af foerredd 1 h ) . t e House.ely• at lice proceeded e o'clock roceede Sir d t Robert o his a e e P u e s e t l e m e ead seat with a slow step ; and evidently under the in if not depressedfeelings.His coun iluence of subdued, tenance indicated —at least so we thought, and the im pression was confirmed by the expressed opinion of those more familiar with his appearance than ourselves —intense anxiety. Not a solitary cheer from t h e Ministerial benches greeted him as he passed. lle took his scat in silence. After a pause, the Premier moved that the House resolve itself into Committee on I the Sugar Duties Bill. This was carried pro forma, The Speakerleft tethecek his hair,and Mr. Greene, the Chairman of Committees,accus tomed seat. The Premier then rose, amida silence in Ever y lArr assed and f s;D ze la d rg u e po a n n atlizasseniably_u4.trulyeznimeprresivssiv3e. vri ' his voice tremulous. For what he said we refer to the ample report of his speech, which we give in the accustomed place. The only passage of interest, in a speech of more than an hour and a half, was reserved for its close. The oration was dull, stale, and unprofitable. It was a mere recapitulation of what had been much better said in support of the Government proposition of Friday, which had been negatived by the House, and was now re-urged as a justification of the Go vernment, in adhering to their plan, and calling upon the House to re-consider and reverse its decision. The humiliation of Sir Robert Peel was not com plete when he closed his disjointed and dull oration. The silence with which it was listened to, unbroken by a single cheer to exhilirate his depressed spirits during its delivery—if we except one from Colonel Peel, which, though evidently given as a hint as to what was expected, was not responded to—was but the precursor of severe reproofs, cutting sarcasms, biting reproaches, and significant warnings, from Members who rose in succession on his own side of the House, interspersed with, and relieved by, crushing arguments, and blistering reminiscences, from the Opposition benches. Lord John Russell, in a speech of no ordinary excellence, vindicated himself, and the Opposition generally, from the futile charge of combination which Sir Robert Peel had brought against the Majority by which his proposition had been negatived on Friday evening. The Government obtained a reversal of the vote of Friday night, and carried its proposition ; but in a way which has abated nothing of the sting of the defeat which its scheme originally sustained. A majority of twenty-two adopted its plan. The most extraordinary efforts were employed by the Government to gain this majority. The character of several of the Mem bers of the House has been stamped with in consistency, and has received damage, past all hope of repair, in the estimation of the coun try. Nor is this all. Eleven Members of the Op position benches—the leaders of the Anti-Corn-law League—conceiving that the Ministerial plan promised to advance with greater rapidity the abolition of all import duties voted with the Government. These eleven gentlemen, ultra free-traders, reckoning twenty two on the division, constituted the precise majority' by which " the strong Administration" of Sir Robert Peel was saved from defeat, and consequent dissolution! And yet the Right Honourable Baronet had the indis cretion to talk of unnatural combinations of parties hostile to his Government! Can any imaginable com bination be more unnatural than that by which he is preserved from the necessity of putting his threat of resigning office into immediate execution? STANDARD.—In the House of Commons, last night, Sir Robert Peel stated at great length the reasons of the course which he had proposed with respect to the sugar duties, and the line which he had resolved to pur sue if the House should persevere in maintaining the vote of Friday night. It is wholly impossible to do jus tice in an abridgment to either portion of Sir Robert Peel's speech. The proof of the sound policy of the Ministerial arrangements, and of the mischief that must follow the adoption of Mr. Miles's resolution was complete. The Right Hon. Baronet's treatment of the political bearing of the late vote was not less success ful. Sir Robert Peel, as a Minister of the Crown, pro poses an arrangement in the gravest part of his duties as a Minister, which arrangement he thinks the best for his Sovereign and country ; and which, as he proved last night, is in strict conformity with all the opinions that he pro fessed when a leader in opposition, and when the party to which he belongs recommended him to the favour of the Crown. Mr. Miles, and a few of the Right Ho nourable Baronet's professing friends, fancying that this arrangement might " touch their breeches pockets," make themselves strong by an alliance with the old de clared enemies of their party, and, by a surprise, steal a vote against the Minister. The Minister declares that if this vote be not rescinded he will not remain in office ; and what unfledged biped, except a Whig, would submit to the ignominy of remaining in office without power ? Yet this is called tyranny on the part of Sir Robert Peel. Now it seems to us, that the tyranny is all on the other side, all on the side of those who, by concert and arrangement with their own and his political enemies, would compel a Minister to act according to their will. Mr. Miles and his friends they were who placed the question in the position that the minister must obey. the party, or the party the minister ; and the minister would be, in deed, unworthy of his station if he should submit to them. There are a great many circumstances essentially dis tinguishing this case from the cases of the Factory Bill and the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, on both which we think the Government might haveyielded without dis credit. The Factory Bill and the Dissenters' Chapels Bill were not measures necessarily within the routine duty of the Government ; any Member of either House of Par limpet is free to bring in such Bills—to abandon either, therefore, would not be to neglect an official duty. The reverse, in all respects, was the case with the Sugar Bill. The opposition that the Government met with upon the Factory and Dissenters' Chapels Bills was not factious, was certainly not intended for the purpose of either displacing or bullying the Government, or working any private job. The names of the leaders of that opposition prove the perfect purity of the motives which urged it. Lord Ashley and Sir Robert Inglis are not men to soil themselves with the mire of faction ; and the hundreds of thou sands of petitions out of doors, even without the vouchers of such high and spotless names, must acquit the opposition to the Factory and Dissenters' Chapels Bills of being the effect of hostility to the Government or of any unworthy intrigue. Mr. Miles's resolution had no high names to vouch for its honesty, had no support out of doors to prove its national popularity ; and so ill concealed had been the disgraceful intrigue which led to the coalition move ment, that it was known in the early part of last week —on Friday we ourselves copied from the Morning Herald a very angry article denouncing the trick, at least sixteen hours before it was played. This was a kind of hostility to which no Minister could submit, and to which no Honourable party could suffer itself to be permanently committed ; accordingly last night Mr. Miles's resolution was, upon a motion of Sir Robert Peel, in effect rescinded, by a ma jority of 255 to 233. The debate was long and animated. We have already spoken of the speech of Sir R. Peel, the next best speech was Lord Stanley's ; but Mr. Kemble put the whole question in an admirably clear light, by a few words which produced a great effect. Mr. D'lsraeli made a speech which surprised some, but which will not astonish any one who truly appreciates this empty over puffed person. He, Mr. Benjamin D'lsraeli, was pleased to talk of the servility of the Conservative party—of men (as the Chancellor of the Exchequer happily remarked) "at least Mr. D'lsrael's equals in point of rank, station, and birth, and in the consideration of the country." They had need to be that, certainly, if they did not first see the light in Houndsditch, obtain their education in an obscure attorney's office, and seek to win a discreditable livelihood by writing wretched novels. But enough of this person ; we hope that last night has finished him. We congratulate the country, and more particularly the honest Conservative party, upon the result of last night's debate. Zhe dis cussion and the explanations leave no longer any doubt of the just and free relation subsisting between the Ministers and the Conservative party. COURSE __ OF EXCH. Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at sight l2 4 Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i Antwerp Hamburgh ➢I.B. 13 14 Altona l3 146 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine 1216- Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effec. 11.3 M 953 'I rieste, ditto Madrid 37 Cadiz Ililbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville — .NGE.—(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar — Legkom 3O 45 Genoa 25 90 Milan — Venice 47 Naples 39 Palermo, per oz ll7 Lisbon 5-4 Oporto 54 Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres — NewYork,2ldys sight Philadelphia — PRICES OP BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars..X3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons—. 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10 Silver in Bars 0 4 11 'i TIIE LONDON GAZETTE (THIS EVENING.) FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 17. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Antonia Acosta, as Consul-General in the United Kingdom for the Re public of Bolivia. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Charles Maynard, as Consul at Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope, for the Free Hanseatic city of Haraburgh. WHITEHALL, Jut4z 17. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. John Rogerson Currie to the church and parish of Ednam, in the presbytery of Kelso and county of Ptozburgh, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. Joseph Thomson, late minister thereof, to the church and parish of Morebattle. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JUNE 15. Royal Regiment of Artilery._Second Captain A. Gossett to be Captain, vice Knatchbull, retired on half•pay ; First Lieutenant G. D. Warburton to be Second Captain, vice Gos sett ; Second Lieutenant the lion. W. Kennedy to be First Lieutenant, vice Warburton, June 9. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ayrshire. Ayrshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet P. Warner, to be Lieutenant, vice R. Fergusson, resigned, June 11. WHITEHALL, APRIL 26. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Justinian Adcock, of Cambridge, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, MAY 23. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Josiah Edwin Hinds, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the county of Stafford, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. FREDERICK HEIGHINGTON WARD, tallow-chand ler, Arbour-terrace, Commercial-road. BANKRUPTS. JOHN HOLLAND, draper, Butted, Sussex, June 28, at eleven, and J u ly 26, a t t we l ve , a t th e C our t o f Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Lofty and Potter, King-street, Cheapside. THOMAS LEAVER, baker, Great Coxwell, Berkshire, June 27, at half-past twelve, and July 26, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's•place, Old Jewry; Clarke, Medcalf, and Gray, Lincoln's-inn-fields ; Haines, Faringdon. WILLIAM EDWARD RAY, grocer, Heathfield, Sussex, 4th and 25th of July, at tw e l ve , a t t h e C ourt of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Lofty and Potter, King-street, Cheapside. HENRY PEACOCK and JOHN PEACOCK, grocers, Stockton-upon-Tees, July 5, at hat half-past one, and Aug. 5, at One, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Harle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Chisholnae, Hall, and Gibson, Lin coln's Inn-fields. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. It. Hughes, wine merchant's cellarman, Liverpool. W. H. Stephens, undertaker, Peckham. W. Shallcrass, corn dealer, Union-street, Blackfriars-road. T. Playfair, house agent, Portman-street, Portman-square. J. F. Muckleston, baker, London-road, Southwark. G. Sutton, oonreve match maker, Bethnal-green. J. Wheeler, labourer, South Littleton, Worcestershire. S. Dainton, painter, Bermondsey-street. G. Crook, parchment maker, Witney, Oxfordshire. W. Eagle, clerk, Grove-place, Bethnal-green. W. Wright, carpenter, Bedford-street, Covent-garden. J. Turtle, cowkeeper, Clapham. H. Wilton, attorney-at-law, Rodney-street, Clerkenwell. J. Glover, accountant, Peckham-grave, Camberwell. W. Robertson, coffee-shop keeper, Eagle-terrace, City-road. S. Parbery, builder, Wells-street, Jermyn-street. F. Layton, carpenter, Brackley, Northamptonshire. W. Weeks, horse dealer, Edmund-place, Aldersgate-street. J. Pearson, victualler, Newcastle-under-yme. J. Turner, licensed victualler, Newton, Cheshire. R. Watson, horse breaker, Northampton. J. Devereux, frame-work knitter. Adam-street, New Kent-rd. J. J. Sanders, jun., carpenter, Poplar. H. Jones, shopkeeper, Bedwelty, Monmouthshire. C. Thomson, surgeon, Aldersgate-street. W. Platte, cloth manufacturer, Birstall, Yorkshire. J. M. Walker, Baybam-terrace, Camden-town. E. L. Weale, wine dealer, Walcot-square, Lambeth. E. Briden, working gardener, Hampstead. H. Puddick, eating-house keeper, West Smithfield. F. T. B. Durnelow, attorney's clerk, Shepperton-pl:, Islington. T. Beck, farrier, North Wharf-road, Paddington. J. Stott, attorney, Leeds. M. Leech, innkeeper, Mottram in Longdendale, Cheater. T. Hancock, pork-butcher, Stretford, Lancashire. J. Walker, cotton waste spinner, Green-hill, Lancashire. W. Massey, victualler, Stockport, Cheshire. M. Johnson, saddler, Type-street, Chiswell-street. C. Eaton, carpenter, Henry-street, Portland-town, Marylebone. J. Shepherd, bricklayer, Woodford, Essex. J. Hobson, cooper, Northampton. W. Facon, Gloucester-terrace, Parks-wall, Chelsea. E J. Tweed, traveller, Wells-street, Cripplegate, City. E. Seale, farmer, Clehonger, Herefordshire, J. Way, baker, Portsea. J. Taylor, coffee-house-keeper, Newcastle-place, Paddington. G. Ford, jeweller. Hollen-street, Oxford-street. J. Roberts, jun., beer-retailer, Mapes-street, St. Matthew's, Bethnal-green. W. H. Coveney, clerk, Cambridge. P. S. Parker, accountant, Elizabeth -street, South, Pimlico. J. Abbot, journeyman potter, Vauxhall-walk, Vauxhall. M. Neale, watch gilder, Great Sutton-street, Clerkenwell. J. Banyard, saddler, Suffolk. D. Ross, clerk, King-street, Westminster. J. Cato, wine cooper, Wellington-street, Kingsland-road. G. Gardner, eating-house keeper, Stone's-end, Borough. R. J. Bradbeer, carpenter, 'Upper Souldwick-st., Edgeware-rd. SECOND - NOTICES. J. Parker, sen., coach maker, Bath, June 24, at one at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee. B. Newnham, taitor, Frith -street, Soho, June 24, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, H. Davis, French teacher, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, June 24, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official-assignee. C. Higginson, schoolmaster, Broadisell, Oxfordshire, June 24, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee. W. Parker, coal dealer, Heigham, June 24, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee. J. Chandler, labourer, Mitcham, June 24, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee. J. Charlesworth, clothier, Almondbury, Yorkshire, June 22, at elven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, officialassignee. J. Duce, cloth maker, Leeds, June 22, at eleven, at the Leeds District C our t. Young, fficial assignee. J. Thompson, Veterinary Surgeon, Boroughbridge, June' 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Freeman, official assignee. B. Pocock, Fuller -street, Bethnal-g-reen, June 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwaras, official assignee. W. R. D. Bretf, baker, Lion-street, New Kent-road, June 21, at ele ven , at the C ourt of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee. T. Hoile, farmer, Sandwich, Kent, June 26, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. R. Winch, schoolmaster, Herne-bay, June 26, at twelve, at the Caurt of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street. A. Newark, milliner, Oxford, June 26, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basing hall-street. J. llnsworth, butcher, Bolton-le-Moors, June 21, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee. E. B. Downing, Gent., commission agent, Birmingham, June 21, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignees J. B. Broomhead, Batley, Yorkshire, June 22, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee. T. Braim, commission ag ent, Leeds, June 22, a t e l even , a t the Leeds Di s t r i c t C our t. Hope, official assignee. T. Clough, provision dealer, Leeds, June 22, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of June 18.) • SO:Wt.—To-day a large business was transacted in all de scriptions of West India Sugar, but merchants were com pelled to submit to a reduction on former rates of 6d per cwt ; the private purchases amounted to 700 hhds and tree. The proposition to reduce the duty on Colonial Sugar, and on Fo reign free labour to 34s on clayed, and 303 on unclayed and 5 per cent. which was carried on Friday evening in the House of Commons, was last evening rejected by the Government, and the duties originally proposed by them are to remain the same. This has produced a greater desire on the part of holders of Colonial Sugar to sell. REFIRED.—To-day the home trade purchased Refined Sugar more freely, but no improvement in prices can be quoted; brown Lumbs selling at 755, and standard Lumps 76s per cwt. The market is quiet for bonded Crushed Sugar at 25s 6d to 25s 9d per cwt. MAURITIVS.—This afternoon the trade evinced little incli nation to do business, and a small part only was disposed of, but merchants would not give way in price—fine yellow fetched 63s to 655, good 60s to 62s 6d, middling 58s to 59s 6d, low 56s 6d to 57s 6d ; middling brown 52s to 535, good to fine 54s 6d to 55s 6d, middling to fine grey 57s 6d to 61s, and low 56s to 57s per cwt. EAST INDIA.--This afternoon the trade purchased Bengal Sugar with caution, and 1,668 bags at auction were only partly sold, but former rates were sustained ; fine white sold at 64s to 64s 6d; good 618 6d to 635; damp and washed 61s to 64s ; and grey 57s 6d per cwt. Foußios.—ln yellow Havannah the transactions have been upon a very extensive scale since last Tuesday, but importers are compelled to submit to a further reduction in price of 6d per cwt ; in white only a limited business was transacted, and rather lower rates are accepted. To-day a good disposition was shown to purchase Foreign Sugar, and stiffer rates were paid ; two floating cargoes of yellow Havannah were sold at 20s 6d for a near port, and a cargo of white Havannah, for Russia, at 308 6d per cwt. MoLAssEs.—Pric,es are still on the decline for West India, and buyers have been cautious in their proceedings; only small parcels of low St. Kitts and St.:Vincents sold at 23e per cwt. Bengal Molasses at lower rates. COCOA.—lmporters of West India submitted to rather lower rates, buyers have been induced to come forward more freely, Trinidad at 42s to 43s for fair grey, 44s for good, and 45s 6d to 47s 6d per cwt for good bold dark red. In Foreign Cocoa prices are sustained. This afternoon Trinidad Cocoa were taken in at 4As for mid red. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Prices have fallen id to Id per gallon for Leeward island Rum ; proof quality smoky at 2s lid, 3 per cent over ditto 2s 2d, and 10 per cent over 2s 24d per gallon. Jamaica 26 to 28 per cent over proof 3s to 3s Id, 30 to 32 per cent over 3s 2d to 3s 4d, 33 to 36 over 3s 5d to 3s 7d, good 3s 8d to 3s 9d, fine 3s lOd to 4s 3d, and superior 4s 4d to 5s per gallon. Demerara cannot generally be quoted cheaper, 3s 3d accepted for a small parcel 37 per cent over proof. Calcutta at is Ild per gallon proof strength with certificate. Brandy is still dull of sale. Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1838—hhds at 5s 6d, puns 5s 3d; ditto, 1839, hhds 53 3d, puns 5s id; ditto, 1840, 11 p h un h s ds 5s 4s Ild ; puns 4s 9d,:,:mid and good ; ditto, 1841, hhds 5s id, puns 4e s 3s Ott to 4 s 3 d , and low 2s 8d to 2s lld per gallon. Genera for shippin g a t I s 9d to i s 10d, fi ne f or h ome middling hhds ditto, 1842, c onsumption has fetched 2 s 4d to 3s per gallon. At previous rates the market is firm fo r E ng li s h C orn Spirits. To-day, ; qusla 2i4tcie Rum 2s 2d per gallon ; proof Jamaica fine high flavour 36 per cent. over proof sold at 4s 2d per gallon. COFFEE.—A good demand has prevailed for West India since this day week, and previous rates are sustained. Mocha at firm rates; middling fetching 71s to 735, and good mid dling 74s to 755. To-day For eign C o ff ee met with attention, fine ordinary Rio for exportation, at 37s per cwt. Jamaica at full rates ; good middling 100 s to 110 s ; middling 82s to 89s 6d ; low middling 80s to 818; fine and fine fine ord 66s to 76s ; and Triage 50s to 57s per cwt. Ceylon at 48s to 49s per cwt for good ordinary. TEA.—There has been more activity in the Tea market ; importers are less inclined to press sales, and none has been offered at auction. In black several purchases have been made, and rather higher rates paid. Green Tea is much wanted, and stiff rates are paid. To-day there was not much business transacted in the Tea market, but holders were firm, and would not sell but at full rates. SricEs.—Cloves upon easier terms. For Cinnamon holders are not inclined to take lower rates. Pimento is still much wanted, and prices are fully sustained. Mace at 3s Id to 3s 5d for middling bright Bencoolen, and 2s 9d to 2s 10d for ordinary. Jamaica Ginger at 4/15s to 9115 e for ordinary to good. East India dry Ginger 2s per lb ; Jamaica preserved taken in at 4e per lb. This afternoon Jamaica Ginger and Malabar were offered; the former were all taken in, but the latter were sold at 91s to 92s per cwt for good bold. SAGO.—Pearl, fine small at 255, middling greyish 18s to 19s 6d per cwt; African Arrowroot 2d to 3d; fine West India is 5d to is 6d; Bermuda 10d to is Id. Sago Flour taken in at 22s for good quality ; there were buyers at 19s per cwt. RlCE.—,Bengal, low white at 106 6d, mid 108 9d to lls, and mid and good Ils 3d to lls 9d per cwt. Java of white quality is dull of sale at 9s 6d to I ls, but yellow is much wanted at 9s to 9s 6d, and Madras at 8s to 8s 6d per cwt. Patna Rice at 13s to 16s, and Carolina 21s to 26s per cwt. • Isproo.—East India at prices 3d to 4d per lb under those of the last quarterly sale ; there is, however, a good consump tion going on. OiLs.—Prices have ruled firm for common descriptions of Fish Oils, and a good demand has prevailed from the home trade ; Cod Oil 33/ to 33/10s, pale Seal 33l 10s to 344 and low to fine Southern 27/ to 321 per tun ; Sperm Oil 73/ to 761 per tun paid for British ; Linseed Oil at 25s 6d to 26s per cwt on the spot; Rape pale at 38s 6d, and brown 37s to 37s 6d per cwt ; Cocoa Nut Oil fine quality taken in at 30s per cwt. Prices are still on the decline for Olive Oil ; Gallipoli at 49110 s to 50/, Spanish 471 to 481, Barbary 461 to 461 lOs per tun. Palm Oil at firm rates ; 27s 6d to 288 per cwt paid for fine quality. TALLOW.—For Russian Tallow on the spot prices have ad vanced 6d. per cwt. ; 40s. 9d. to 41s. per cwt. currently paid for P. Y. Candle. For delivery iu the last three monts of the year at 425. to 425. 3d. per cwt. Town Tallow at 395. 6d. to 40s. per cwt. net cash. Odessa yellow Candle fetched 405., and New South Wales 375. 9d. to 40s. per cwt. To day P Y C disposed of at 41s. to 41s. 6d. on the spot, and 425. to 425. 6cl. per cwt. for delivery in the last three monts of the year. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, Jute v: 16.—The Sydenham steam-frigate, Lieutenant-Commander D. R. B. Mapleton, having landed Lord Stuart De Rothesay and suite at Southampton on Wed nesday, put into this port on Thursday to have several ma terial alterations made in her fittings and rigging. The funnel of this vessel is so close to her mainmast as to destroy by the heat the rattlings and other ropes in its vicinity, and to endanger the safety of the mast itself. Her masts will be reduced from three to two, and the mainmast will be re moved further aft. From the close proximity of the funnel to the mainmast the chain shrouds frequently become so heated as to preclude the possibility of a man going aloft, however urgent the occasion. Rear-Admiral Sir H. Pigott, K.C.11., Commander-in-Chief on the Irish station, has hoisted his flag on board the Albion, 92 , Captain N. Lockyer, at Cork, from which station the Volage, 26, Captain Sir W. Dickson, Knight, is ordered to Liiboti to protect the interests of her Britannic Majesty's subjects at that poit. . . The Fox, 42, Captain Sir H. Blackwood , Bart. , is in the Shannon, in daily expectation of orders to ;proceed to the East Indies. The Pantaloon, 10, and the Waterwitch, brigs, are rapidly progressing, and will, when ready, be commissioned by corn menders instead of lieuenants, as formerly. The Cygnet brigantine, 6, Commander H. Layton, is at Spithead, with orders to proceed to the island of Ascension to-morrow, and act under the orders of Captain W. Jones, of the Penelope, 22, steam-frigate, the senior officer on the African station. The Prometheus steam-sloop, Commander J. Hay, went out of harbour and dropped anchor at Spithead yesterday. She was paid wages, and awaits orders for the coast of Africa, whither she is expected to sail about the 20th, vici Madeira, and Sierra Leone. _ _ The Dee steam-vessel, Master Commander T. Driver, called at Spithead on Thursday (en route from Cork to the Thames with troops) to put supernumeraries on board the St. Vincent. _ _ _ The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant-Commander W. Tringham, left this harbour for Brighton on Tuesday to resume her pro tection to the fisheries. Sir W. Symonds, the Surveyor of the Navy, is about to build a new frigate, the same as the Vernon, 50, to be called the Constance. Mr. Blake, of Portsmouth, Mr. Fincham, of Chatham, and Messrs. Chatfield, Cruize, and Reed (Commit tee of Naval Architecture), at Chatham, have each a frigate upon the stocks from their own designs. Mr. Blake's is to be named Leander ; Mr. Fincham's, Raleigh and the School of Naval Architecture, the Thetis. The following are their respective dimensions : Length. Breadth. Depth. Ft. In. Ft. In. Ft. In. Tons. Guns. Constance lBO 0 52 8 16 3 2,126 50 Leander lBl 4 49 10 12 8 1,960 50 Raleigh lBO 0 50 0 16 8 1,935 50 Thetis The following ships are ordered to be laid down :—At Portsmouth, the Shannon, the same as the Leander, by Mr. Blake. At Pembroke, the Arethusa and Liffey, same as the Constance, by the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir W. Symonds. At Chatham, the Severn, same as the Raleigh, by Mr. Fin chem. The North Star, 28, Captain Sir G. Home, was at Port Nicholson, New Zealand, Feb. 18. She had been nearly lost in a gale of wind in Cook's Straits, within fifty yards of a coral rock. The Penelope, 22, Captain W. Jones, captured at the Gal linas, on the 3d of April, a slaver hoisting Spanish colours named the Maria Luisa, which Lieutenant W. Mottley car ried into Sierra Leone on the Bth ; she was afterwards con demned. She is reported to be a beautiful fast sailing vessel, well manned and armed. The Penelope has received orders for the Cape Verd Islands, to pick up the Madagascar, 44, Captain Foote. The Hydra steam-sloop, Commander H. B. Young, arrived at Sierra Leone on the 10th of April, whence she sailed on the 14th for the Gallinas, followed on the 19th by the Sealark, 19, Commander T. L. Gooch. The Rapid, 10, Commander E. C. Earle, arrived on the 15th of April at Sierra Leone, from the Coast; having on the 12th captured another fine slave schooner, the Santa Anna, a Brazilian, with nearly 200 slaves on board, which was brought into Sierra Leone on the 19th ' • she (the Rapid) had also sent in an empty craft on the 7th of April. The Ferret, 6, Corn. mander J. Hoake, was at the Gallinas on the 15th of April. The above entirely sets at rest the rumours which were some time since afloat respecting the Rapid having been captured by pirates and her crew murdered. The Illustrious, 72, Captain Erskine, flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam, arrived at Halifax, from Bermuda, on the 15th of May, and sailed with the squadron on the 26th ; the state of St. Domingo and Cuba requiring the presence of a British force. The Styx steam-vessel, Captain A. T. E. Vidal, on the 23d of May was pursuing her surveying avocations at St. Michael's. _ . - The Resistance troop-ship, Commander Patev, arrived at Quebec with detachments of the 60th Rifles and other regi ments on the 14th ult. She was in a few days to convey the right wing of the Ist Royals to the West Indies. Also ar rived the Apollo, Commander Maclean, with troops from Jamaica, on the 17th. She was to sail for England on the 25th with the 68th. _ • The following ships are ordered home to be paid off ; several are on their way :—East India Station.—The Corn wallis, 72, flag of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, G.C.8., was spoken near Calcutta on the 16th of April ; the Pelican, 16, Commander Justice, at Ningpo, has been four years in com mission; the Childers, 16, Commander G. Wellesley, with specie on board, has been three years in commission, and was relieved at Whampoa by the Wolverine, 16, Commander Morris, from Amoy; the Nimrod, 20, Commander Glasse, was at Madras on the 18th April, and has been in com mission four years and a half ; the Syren, 16, Commander Smith, on her way from Moulmein to Bombay, has been in commission three years ; the Harlequin, 16, Commander the Hon. G. Hastings, from Malacca, has been in commission three years ; the Wanderer, 16, Commander Seymour, from the Cape the 10th of April, with 1,500,000 of specie on board, has been four years and a half in commission ; the Clio, 16, Commander Fitzjames, from Bombay, has been aove four years in commission. DEVONPORT, JUNE 14.—The Ranger, 10, is ordered to be fitted for service on the coast of Africa, instead of the Grecian, 16, which will not be brought forward at present for that purpose. The Echo, steam-tug, arrived on Friday from Portsmouth, with sailors belonging to this port, recently paid off from the Malabar. In Harbour—The San Josef and Confiance. In Dock—The Kent, Grecian, Actaeon, and Ranger. In the Sound—The Caledonia, and the Dutch vessels Jason, Snelheid, and Dolphin. Woomvimr, JUNE 16.—The Drodalus, 42-gun frigato brought from Sheerness to Woolwich to be fitted with a spar deck, is fast approaching towards completion, and when ready for sea will have a powerful and effective armament. Co. Lacy, of the carriage department, and Captain Palliser, of the proof department, attended at two o'clock P.M. to-day at the butt, in the Royal Arsenal, to witness six rounds being fired from a 56-pounder gun, 10 feet long, weighing 85 cwt., Monk's pattern, mounted on a traversing platform, to be fitted on the quarter-deck of the Dmdalus. The platform is 16 feet long, moving on a pivot about two feet and a half from the elevated end, and the carriage on which the gun is mounted traversing on the other end upon a brass circle, to be laid upon deck in that form at 111 feet upon the pivot, to enable it to be fired in any direction. The recoil of the gun carriage to-day was very satisfactory—the first round, 5 feet ; the second, 5 feet 5 inches; the third, 5 feet 8 inches; the fourth, with the screws loose, 8 feet 3 inches ; the fifth, with the screws partially fixed, 5 feet 10 inches ; and the sixth, 6 feet. The simplicity of the platform is such, that the gun, although of such great weight, is run up to its firing position with the greatest ease. SHEERNESS, JUNE 14.—A court-martial was held yester day on board the Ocear, 80, Captain P. Fisher, to try Mr. F. F. M. Strong, master of the Pearl, 18, Commander R. H. Stopford, recently arrived from South America to be paid off, on several charges, comprising neglect of duty, insobriety, insubordination, &c. The charges were preferred by the first-lieutenant of the Pearl, B. A. Wake. The Court was composed of Captain-Superintendent W. H. Shirreff, of Chatham Dockyard, President; Captain-Superintendent P. Fisher, of this yard; Captain W. F. Martin, Flag-Captain of the Camperdown ; Commander I. W. Morgan, of the Camperdown ; and Commander R. H. Fleming, of the Ocean. The charges having all been duly investigated, the prisoner was called upon for his defence. Commander Stopford gave him a good character as a man of good general conduct, and a thorough seaman and good navigator. The Court having been cleared and the members having deliberated upon the case, the prisoner was afterwards called in, and the Judge- Advocate declared it the opinion of the Court that the first charge had been fully proved, and the second partially, and the sentence was, that he be dismissed the ship and placed at the bottom of the list of masters, there to remain for five years from the date of the sentence. The Amazon, 44, was undocked this day. The Pearl, 18, Commander Stopford, arrived at the Nore on Friday, and on Saturday Sir John Chambers White, the Commander-in-Chief, inspected her, after which she pro ceeded to Chatham to be paid off. The Sparrow ketch, Lieutenant Commander C. Otter, ar rived on Saturday from Chatham, and in the evening of the same day sailed for the Scotch coast, for surveying service. The Bonetta brigantine, Lieutenant Commander Brock, arrived on Tuesday from Chatham, was inspected by the Port Admiral, and sailed on Wednesday for Malta, to continue the survey of the Archipelago, under Commander T. Greaves, of the Beacon, 6, surveying vessel. The Camperdown, 104, Captain W. T. Martin, was paid advance yesterday, but has no sailing orders at present. In Harbour—Ocean, Raven, Africaine. _ _ In the Basin—Vulture, Crocodile, Monarch, and Vernon, In Dock—Boscawen, Amazon, and Zolua. At the Nore—Camperdown. The Skylark, 4, Lieutenant Commander G. Morris, was in spected by the Port Admiral and paid advance wages, on Tuesday, and sailed on Wednesday for the Isle of Man. PROMOTIONS. Commander—William Kelly, of the Winchester, to the rank of captain, vice Fair, deceased. Lieutenants—W. H. Aldham, to the rank of commander, vice Kelly, promoted. Mates—Lord C. W. Butler (1840), of the Aigle ; Hon. T. A. Pakenham (1840), of the Warspite ; C. S. Crompton (1840), of the North Star ; and P. W. Coventry, to the rank of lieutenant. APPOINTMENTS. Captain—W. Kelly, to the Conway. Commander—W. C. Aldham, to the Winchester. Lieutenants—F. H. Stevens to the Belvidere, pro tem., vice Quin, invalided; Thomas Gresham, from the Formidable to the Medea. Master and Pilot—G. Collier, to the Cygnet, vice Burney. Second illlter—W. Betts, to the Collingwood. Assistant-Surgeons—J. Findlay, from the Illustrious, to have charge of the Romney slave depot at the Havannah, vice Birtwhistle, invalided ; T. Tait, to the Fearless ; J. G. Buchanan, to Greenwich Hospital. Mate—S. Osborne, to the Black Eagle. Midshipmen—T. Brandreth, to the Excellent; J. Parish, of the Indus, to the Excellent; A. H. Hodgkinson, of the Queen, to the Collingwood. Naval Cadets—G. B. Rennie, and F.W. Noel, to the Aigle ; R. Parker, to the Alfred ; W. 11. Truscott, to the Excellent ; A. C. Couper and C. Markham, to the Collingwood. Naval Instructors—W. S. Harvey, late of the Mal a b ar , t o the Agincourt; J. Richardso n , t o the Excellent. Engineers—J. Henty and J. M. Macdonnell, to the Pe nelope. COAST CUARD. Discharge—Lieutenant W. Butler, R.N., of Sutton station, resigned. Removals—Lieutenant C. E. Blissett, R.N. from Bahl. more station, to Castl e t owns h en d station, vice Dyer. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—A short time before five o'clock yesterday morning, a fire of a most alarming charac ter broke out in the extensive range of premises belonging to Messrs. Craven and Lucas, sugar refiners, Red Lion-street, Whitechapel. The private watchman first perceived flames issuing from that part of the building denominated the "pa ' tent house," in the immediate locality of the flue of the fur nace. An alarm was immediately raised, and information of the circumstance transmitted, with all possible dispatch, to the Jeffery -square, Wellclose-square, and Watling-street stations of the fire-engine establishment, engines from which places, as well as from the West of England office, in the Waterloo -road, were quickly in attendance. Water having been obtained from the mains of the East London water works, and the engines being brought into full play, a power ful stream was pumped upon the blazing materials, which from their peculiarly ignitable character burned so furiously, that by a quarter past five o'clock it was apprehended the whole of the premises would be consumed. Beside the build ing on fire, a double house occupied by Messrs. Craven and Lucas also caught fire, but happily the flames were arrested before they obtained firm hold of it. The lower floors of the patent house were most seriously damaged, the upper floors destroyed, and the roof burned off. The stock in the upper part of the building was reduced to ashes, and considerable injury was done to the whole establishment. Without a question, the " stop" effected by the united efforts of the firemen in this case was never excelled ; and consequently property upon the contiguous premises and in the neighbour hood to an immense amount is preserved. Mr. Braidwood reports the fire to have originated in the flue of the furnace, the soot accumulated there having ignited, and thus set fire to the building. The loss in the case of the manufactory will fall upon the offices of the Sun and the Phoenix ; the contents of the dwelling-house are covered by policies of in surance in the Athance, Imperial, Phoenix, and Sun &c -aeca. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, June 17. (Sitting at Nisi Prins, before Baron RoLFE and a Special Jury.) THE ATTORNEY GENERAL P. JOHN DEANE -THE CUSTOM-HOUSE FRAUDS. (Continued from our paper of yesterday.) Several witnesses were examined on behalf of the defen dant, to establish the case stated by the defendant's counsel; which was in effect, that, under the denomination of " plain silk," the defendant had imported ribands of an inferior quality, made of in cartoons, which occupied the whole space contained in the three cases, and on which he had paid the full duty. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL. in reply. commented on the un satisfactory nature of the defendant's evidence, and the facility with which, if so minded, he might have called per sons who could have explained the real nature of the trans action on which the charge was founded. Baron ROLFE left it to the jury, upon a careful investiga tion of the evidence, to say whether the defendant was a party to any fraud upon the Customs in the importation which was the subject of the information. After a short consultation the jury found a verdict for the Crown, and assessed the single value of the goods imported at 2,8401., which renders the defendant liable to penalties in three times that amount. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Guu.NET.) Edward Youngman Cotton, 27, was indicted for stealing three gold seven-shilling pieces, several sovereigns, and other articles, the property of Edward Driver, and Henrietta Rharpe was charged with receiving a portion of the property, know ing the same to have been stolen. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecution. The facts of this case having been very recently fully de tailed in the police reports, it will be unnecessary to repeat them on the present occasion. It will be recollected that the male prisoner was footman to Mr. Driver, the auctioneer and surveyor, and that at the time the robbery was committed an attempt was also made to set the house on fire. __ The jury found Cotton guilty and acquitted Sharpe. The prisoner Cotton was then indicted, with a man named Chandler, for stealing a quantity of plate, the property of his master. In this case the jury returned a verdict of guilty against both prisoners. The prisoner Cotton was then arraigned upon a charge of having feloniously sat fire to the house of the prosecutor, but upon this indictment no evidence was offered, and the jury, therefore, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The Court sentenced Cotton to be transported for fourteen years upon the first indictment and seven for the second, and Chandler was sentenced to be transported for ten years. LAUNCH OF HER MAJESTY'S STEAM-VESSEL PORCUPINE. The interesting event of launching the Porcupine, the first vessel built at the roval dockyard, Deptford, since its re establishment, took place yesterday afternoon, at half-past two. There a large assemblage of spectators, and a great number of ladies were launched in the vessel. She was named with the usual ceremonies, by Miss Lucy Hill, the daughter of the gallant Captain Superintendent of the dockyard, Sir John Hill, and went off the stocks in easy and graceful style amidst the prolonged cheering of the company. Imme diately after she was afloat she was warped from off the slip wherein she was built into dock, where, from the excellent accommodation provided, the ladies were enabled to walk ashore. As the construction of the Porcupine is on a novel and peculiar principle, the following account may be interest ing to our naval readers. In appearance she is clean and handsome for a steam-vessel, with the unsightly paddle-boxes, and presents no remarkable difference from other vessels of her class. The frame of the vessel is on a new plan, introduced by Mr. 0. Lang, the master shipwright of Woolwich Dock yard, similar to that on which he is constructing the Prince Albert, 120 ; and the Porcupine is the first_ever completed on that principle of " dowling " and bolting the timbers in separate pieces instead of one solid block. Her planking also is on a new plan—a modification of the diagonal plank ing of boats (brought forward some years since at Devon port by Mr. Johns, late foreman of that yard) by Mr. 0. Lang, Jun., the acting master shipwright of Deptford Dock yard, under whose superintendence the Porcupine has been built. Instead of the old plan of fore-and-aft planking, with a single three-inch thickness, she has three one-inch planks, two of which are diagonal, clossing each other alright angles, and the third or outside one is longitudinal. She has been exactly six months building. The following are her princi pal dimensions : ft. in. Length between perpendiculars ..... 141 0 Ditto of keel for t0nnage........ 124 7i Breadth, extreme ... Ditto, for tonnage Moulded 23 6 Depth in hold , 13 6 Burden in tons, old measurement 382 40-94 Ditto ditto, new ditto In launching she did not break a quarter of an inch, and her light draft of water was afore 4ft. 1 lin., abaft sft. 1 lin. She was originally intended as an armed sloop, for service on the coast of Africa ; but subsequently it was ordered that Captain Bullock (who very . much liked her appearance) should have her as a surveying vessel for the Thames, in which operation he is now engaged in the borrowed mail steam-packet Myrtle, from the Dover station. She will be coppered and sent to Woolwich, where it is expected she will be fitted in about six weeks. She is to have the engines which were taken out of the Black Eagle steam-yacht, of 130 horse power, with new tubular boilers. The Spitfire, steam-vessel, is ordered to be laid down im mediately on the slip whence the Porcupine was launched, and is to be 50 tons larger than the latter. The Spitfire and the Terrible steam-frigate, the largest in the service, build ing on the adjoining slip, are both to be launched before the commencement of the next financial year, April 1, 1845. Deptford Dockyard has much improved in appearance since its re- commission on the Ist of April last. We under stand, among other improvements, it is in contemplation to build a new roof over the large slip whence the Queen Char lotte was launched, and a new mould loft, to replace the old sheds with new ones, to repair the two slips, in such dilapi dated condition, and to convert the small dock into a slip. HARBOURS OF REFUGE ON THE COAST. It has been suggested to Lloyd's, that if the Spatway, or passage between the Buxey and Gunfleet Sands was better known, and such measures as are necessary for that purpose, such as the laying down buoys, &c., and a leading mark through and into the river Colne, the shipping interest would bo greatly benefited, as although that harbour is but little known to seamen generally, it is capable of holding 500 sail. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 17. Their Lordships assembled at Five o'clock. OPENING LETTERS AT THE POST-OFFICE. The Earl of RADNOR, adverting to the petitions which were presented a few evenings ago in the House of Commons, complaining that the parties who had signed those petitions had had their letters opened at the Post-office, expressed his surprise at this power having been so recently exercised, and contended that no ground existed for such a stretch of authority. He was inclined to say that such a power ought not to exist; but if it did exist, he thought it ought to be exercised under responsibility. He should take that opportunity of moving for a return of the nutn ber of letters which had been opened at the Post-office since January, 1844. He would also take that oppor tunity of asking for some explanation as to the arrest of the Count Ostrowski, who had been forcibly taken From his lodgings on a vague charge being made Against him. He (the Earl of Radnor) contended that this arrest had been made contrary to law, and if this gentleman had killed one of the parties wh o came into his room he would have been perfectly exculpated in law. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that if the Noble Lord had looked into the statute-book, he would have found that the power of opening letters by the Secretary of State had been exercised since the reign of Queen Anne ; and the warrant which was necessary at the present time, was precisely in the same form as that which was required in the time of Queen Anne. If it should appear that the Secretary of State had abused this power, that would be ground for inquiry, but in the present instance there was nothing of the sort, and, therefore, there was no ground for the Noble Lord's motion. With respect to the other matter alluded to by the Noble Lord, to say the least of it the person alluded to had acted in a most indiscreet manner, and if there had been any thing improper in his arrest he had his remedy. It was a subject for the consideration of a court of law, and not for that House. Lord CAMPBELL thought the question of open ing letters under a warrant from the Secretary of State was a question requiring the earnest considera tion of their Lordships.—(Hear, hear.) He con tended that the words of the Act of Parliament, which gave the Secretary of State this power, provided that for every letter opened there should be a separate warrant isued by the Secretary of State under his hand and seal. Lord BROUGHAM thought this was a matter well worthy of the consideration of Parliament, but he expressed his regret that-the subject had been intro duced without notice. He said it was impossible to carry out the object of the provision in the Act of Parliament for the issuing of a warrant for the open ing of such letter, inasmuch as to be enabled to do so the Secretary of State would have to be acquainted with all letters the person whose letters were to be examined was about to be receive. Lord DENMAN regretted that the return of the Noble Earl was resisted, as this was a subject that ought to be fully inquired into. It was a subject of great importance, and was not at all connected with party considerations, and he believed that the only object of this motion was to obtain information. If this motion were rejected, he, trusted that the Noble Earl would give notice, and bring the subject forward at a future day, with a view to the considera tion of the clause in the Act which gave the Secretary , of State the power pf opening letters, for, in his (Lord Penman's) opinion, such a power ought not to be in existence one hour.--(Hear, hear.) Lord BROUGHAM and Lord CAMPBELL briefly ex• plained. The Marquis of NORMANBY said that it was only in cases where danger was apprehended to the State that this power of opening letters by the Secre tary of State was exercised. He did not think that at present there was any ground shown for the production of the returns which had been moved for. He believed that the Secretary of State would be very glad to have this power removed out of his hands, for it was a very unthankful and unpleasant power to hold. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said that the letters which had been opened were the letters of a foreigner, and he understood that they had been opened at the suggestion of the Sardinian Minister in this country. if this were the case, he thought it was an interference which ought not to be tolerated. He thought they ought to know precisely what the law upon this sgbject is. ••••••••• The Duke of WELLINGTON said there 0 ground whatever for the rumour which at e Marquis had adverted to. di The motion was then negatived without !IQ PRESBYTERIAN , MA RRlAGE' te gf I The LORD CHANCELLOR laid o n tbe Bill on the subject of Presbyterian marriages. LIBEL BILL. 00 Lord CAMPBELL postponed the second of the Libel Bill till to-morrow (this day). POOR-LAW (IRELAND). 040 The Marquis of CLANRICARDE pos t P ° bite motion, for calling the attention of their Lordkehotee the subject of Mr. Penethorn's report on W cg. in Ireland, till Thursday. t-1 1 t The Duke of WELLINGTON sai d Penethorn's report had been referred to B C ' pa d of the other House of Parliament in conseq, some letters having been received, contr adict lug of the report ; and when the Collor concluded its labours, the Government w ow pared to take it. SURCHARGESsome steps S UNDER THE COO ACT. Th e Pe, The Duke of RICHMOND moved f or „ n aetw ber of surcharges which had taken place` — Coursing Act.—Ordered. DISSENTERS' CHAPELS 1 31 — te a The Earl of MOUNTCASHEL pr eset] tion L s against this Bill. ord LURGAN presented a petition in 1 9 giving power to the Poor-law Guardians joi.tepil to apprentice children who had been hour workhouses. DEBTOR AND CREDITOR 131 , 11/ ;" This Bill went through Committee, an d tiered to be read a third time on Friday. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' Blu"' e aieg Lord BROUGHAM moved the second re 0 0 0 this Bill, and proposed to take the discuesieli next stage. The Bill was read a second time. jL PARISH CLERKS' REGULATION - This Bill passed through Committee. The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 17 ' SUGAR DUTIES. 'tl' Sir ROBERT PEEL (in continuation) s al col' ? dioss t o; propose to make no distinction between - -- ain e nies, but to admit sugar fr om a ll at the 5 ' ott, but you do propose, in r es p ec t to foreig n : l o6 establish a discrimination which you do ~„1 1°0 • 109 . 0 to apply to your own. If this foreign sug'"ltsPio worth 705., as compared with other suga rs : 00L o admitted at the same duty,, why should Y °7 o g o "j i able, supposing there be white sugar con' Os Java or Manilla, to compete with the sug ar _ t rieo precisely in the same way, as the coarsest di - 00 0 1 4, of sugar, worth 565., will come into conlPe t ? l ,4o; the coarse description of foreign suger vi chbi. hear.) Those, then, are the grounds upon . 4 bli Majesty's Government do not think it wool to vote for the discriminating duty in fa . :; ° : ft vial sugar which is proposed by my , 14 , 0 ,," . 1 41 '0 resolution, which gives a protecting onv te ntt ° o , (Hear, hear.) We cannot, therefore, es'„ol t o proposal of my Hon. Friend, because, after ; ( 4 tion, we entertain a decided preference l ell 'ofit plan. We do not think what he proposes i 5 ° 1 01 P l y ought to receive the assent of this House not, therefore, in our power to vote for it on i er its,F t . Differing from my lion. Friend on the r t es its ts ‘ purely commercial point of view, I do not: o po00 admit, on the part of the Government, tb,5 11 ,4 fill litical grounds, I cannot undertake to sa ci r o id ,if My Hon. Friend, in supporting his motion , t he ' ,/ was no very material difference betwe en hisono posal of her Majesty's Government and b € 7 O l that he proposed, in respect to lutfi of sugar the same amount of protecting oil that therefore we might without difficulty o itts t ; amendment of my Hon. Friend. It it be a t iti no importance we are disinclined to ad°Peenev;• was carried by a combination of those 1 7 0 1 ; tis:a lsl r i il i support us, by a combination with our nents. If the measure be unimportant; it , t eg ,' combinations take place in support ° , l o ,sq surely significant of a want of confidence. -- k e if i If you cannot effect an important public objet e, if be no great difference in the two propo s als, _., quence of the concurrence between polincal el",s"4 that surely bears strongly on our condition 'P o i dro cutive Government, and diminishes our Inee ns e , or our duty. Ido not believe that the concurreeoftyl vote was a casual concurrence, growing ot t tii t , bate. Circumstances—l may be wrong — ""esi i 9 pression is that it was a preconcerted arrans ti (Loud cries of " No, no," in which Mr. 3 1. 1 r et heartily.) When my Honourable Friend t ens hol j that is not not so I am bound to believe bins' jetni we inferred there had been a preconcerted ll' js' ing.—(Cries of " No, no.") Understand re L e ' l ,o complaining—(Cries of " Oh, oh ")—but I l e tt" to state it.—(Hear, hear.) I do not deny t o t a t' Hon. Gentlemen to enter into combinations , I , tr) a right to consider what bearing that has llPli p st oo roi siti•n of the Government when it may dete' — , whether it lill accede to an unimportant P'",, el/ I cannot doubt the right of the two parties t:',i o thi if they please to carry an unimportant propos i a o tet'd I must claim for myself the right and manner d se ri in what the effect of my position would be in ca ve oc r When my Hon. Friend originally gave netioolq f amendment, it was to this effect—that he'd o ri pose a reduction of duty upon British coloincrifollo the amount of 20s.—(Hear, hear.) My Ilo re t t do rip, not indicate any intention at that time of b o J r duties in the form and manner which he t il t s tri, i submitted. His original proposition was, w a r , o'4l tion should be made upon British colonial sogsibe"," there should be no reduction upon foreign., A dpi Lord opposite (Lord John Russell) had Ettal t ,,titsi, which proposed that there should be a Po', tell 1 upon all sugars intended to be admitted °'sbsel.4ol lings ; and my Hon. Friend (Mr. Miles), at, a t ber`V period, amended his motion, and shaped it in t/0 58V, which it was ultimately brought before the,'" o tee e ..f it fearing that the West India party, who ba r i s es ..i ii- tY givings, might hereafter have their olia l- a citiel i against him, he accounted for his conduct hP` t l, c 0"/ the forms of the House did not admit of lli a go n.;',/ i his original proposition. Now, in that reY ' — in ore o ft' was quite wrong, for nothing could have been oil if it had suited the views of my Hon. Frie nd -Altil his supporters—(Hear, hear, and laughter/toe f i him to have adhered to his original proP°' itl ijous el e in perfect conformity with the orders of the I'o, without calling forth, Sir, your vigilance , °I. „ 0 11 oi l that risk which some of the West India r big ; 3 he has incurred by giving effect t° obe a o , measure. It must be recollected that 0 " I , Honourable Friend (Mr. Miles). tha t 0 4 t e whether he would make any relaxation 1 1 .; ber Al t of his amendment which referred to the "'bhe "" g li,„ ;J white clayed sugar, that his answer lo a m os A r j prepared to do so.—(Hear, hear.) Now,' 1 1, 0 gerA clined to be mortified,or to complain ofeY pas - otmil, in the course of debate as any man. I -- ges• ro l".l, o altogether forget the terms in which o ?_,l nt leter (Mr. Miles), as the mover, and the Hon. u e " iPt,A (Bailie), as the seconder of his resolud°lltbe 6e),, this subject. I have no desire to exhinl ee d, 1 P ie° • l feeling of temper on this occasion. In:: do t° At feeling of the sort, but I cannot but axo n. COX servations which were made by the .: c 1 fr i A who supported the motion. My Hon. Fi l 'i s l t O . OO r the Government were sacrificing the c010n..0, ot tJ: i and the first proof which he gave of that por f oo'lj 0, the reduction of the duty on foreign i voe' t o although he admitted that that reduetil o e t i e te 4 materially interfere with the home produ c ,:„ o _.,.„ 111 .00„ , he said that it was a blow to the- Austrs, ll- O ,YrOLf Now I hope I shall be able to satisfy Ine i f s sle ° o r P, - I that point. There has been a consulertoovbree it t l i ; tralian wool since that reduction, and , t i p i est b e , 4 days since I was assured by an Hon. Gen' - ve rli o ° , on the other side of the House, that there ne 00,4, a more brisk sale of Australian wool • the t ,.. oe dg r e l .t had followed the reduction, and that the Pr', be,,56 Tian wool was higher now than it had b ee i, ..,{', t o ''',,t reduction of the duty on foreign we'; ‘ ,ies` t itite Therefore my Hon. Friend cannot not ta t' tre c i 1 des bo o t reduction of the duty on foreign wool es, ~id , t _ eo t A I the Australian wool. My lion. Frieno ' c i es , 9 had better throw off the mask.—P ti f e elirgi , My Hon. Friend having naturally a fe ll°w to u ll h it os lv Os the agricultural interest, calls upon the m t he s i - to 0 him. It is but natural and legitimate tn e op per ) ).4 so ; but my Hon. Friend makes a direct c , wit it o ti f Noble Lord, and to these opposite who, ° w ith til t h# l / P and states that he is prepared to conihi ii l l ! p ot e h y I the purpose of rescuing the colonies. .e 11;, 'ber o ,4 peal to the Noble Lord knowing that t, to ver pr el i v was prepared to establish no distinction w_ at .n ll the, e d J sugar, the produce of free labour, and stlf7„, : Fl o p, li of slave labour.—(Hear, hear.) MY ''',;" inojes s to Member for Inverness, who seconded wao....(soceji that our course was vacillating and tortu o ° c og I'fie and that the West Indian interest had n ot , 0 4 the intentions of her Mujesty's Governt a t beir s te lt, i t appealed to Hon. Gentlemen opposite for lo ot a tPi,‘ which was willingly granted. Now, 4 c o ds :1; t, ferring from the speeches of my II"' ' r desir P rg r , supporters, that in their opinion it is not _ oor ns 0 troduce any distinction of duty betw7 lo .) yoo t e sugar and free-labour sugar.—(Hear, h ul a g e „ it , an occasion as this it is right that I eh° whit pe te r perfect unreserve, and state the reason'aetelely consequences what they may, we n re tio de< o icl i t/ abide by the proposition which we firs tiot tf°,o ing and counter cheering.) My 11°Il if n3Y 11( 13 9 °° ‘ l .l certificates of origin are no security.. .•• w bich „ e e Friend was justified in the observations f reig n 0 4 iid he must concede the admission of eV ° frie v a 4l. maintain the present system. My . i` lA s 'ecer ik ' s ee t ' o ic a opinion that acertificate of origin was n° do n ot c l 4 11 A 6{l , the introduction of foreign sugar, an d the e t he "Ir l holding that opinion, he can escape fr° l:ll . e a, or be t 4 4 that all foreign sugar ought to be adnnt il l . ger B ~,,,, of duties remain as they are. The B?, 1 00.0? seconded the motion expressed in 8,w .. . 5 00t r. fi t terms his opinion of the impolicy or f n 0 , 4 , 0 r, distinction between free and slave-gro,7. s hoo ~:i l k Honourable Member admitted that IL II 0 cititi g iir( ' a duty of 15s. on all foreign sugars w art icto_.. i pe s el applied by the Government to some P the ri, . 0 1 There was a material difference between Frie s , of the Government and those of his 1143 3; t ,t theiote,/ Majesty's Government have determined ; To d e r I t/ be the authors of such a proposition. c.orete, cumstances, the course her Majesty's 1 -lioil ' poses to pursue is this :-.—Th• Noble THE SUN, LOW ON, TUESDAY ETENING, JUNE 18, }844,