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cashiered. Another article set forth that if an officer behaved on fairly for discus , ion, but he hoped the Committee would in a scandalous and infamous scanner, and unworthy the con- not discuss it on the present motion. He thought that very duct of a gentleman and an office , , he was also to be tried by a little g iod could Brie from ch-cussiou the subject of duelling court-martial, and cashiered ; and in -:irtic'e. it was tho - With e-peel to ti!e conslitut . ou of a Court of stated expre'sly, by order of h , r ey,ry ii imoir, which inflict certain pu,,ishinents, cu , ,a y officer was acquitted of disgrace for refu,iog to fi 2 l.t o , ot h erw i, T. i n h is op i n i on i t wou ld not b e attended with or accept a challenge. Having thus shown what was requ i re d any h-neficisl re•uhs. He was of opinion, that pecuniary fines by the articles of war, in the case of any officer who refused to would not be popul ir in England. In former days the Royal fight, or accept a challenge, he asked how it was possible for power interfered most beneficiilly with dueling. He need not any body of officers, upon their oaths—men of education—who recal to the recollection of the House the numerous instances were told that it was no disgrace to refuse a challenge, to try in which that power had been so exercised, with the pap a man for conduct unbecoming an officer, and notwithstanding piest effects. He believed that unless that power were re their oaths, tell him that he was cashiered for not fighting a stored to the Crown, it would be impossible to put down duel ? Why, such conduct would be a violation of oaths, of duelling. It was in vain to look to legislation to remedy the decency, and of common senoe, and he did not believe the evil. He believed it could only be cured by the state of po- Noble Lord could adduce any case of that nature. The pular feeling on the subject.—The vote was then agreed to. Noble Lord had had opportunities of proving if there were 2,327,196/. was then voted for the pensioners of Kalroainharn such cases, While Secretary at War, he had, in accordance Hospital. with his duty in that high station, to recommend these Articles On the motion that 38,000/. be granted for retired allowances, to her Majesty, acrd when the Noble Lord told him that the Colonel RAWDON said that he thought this was a proper Government possessed the power of putting down duelling opportunity of mentioning that Colonel Moore, the brother of in the army, and that it ought to be put down, he asked Sir John Moore, had given up his retired allowance when he the Noble Lord what he had been about during the five years found that his private fortune was sufficient to enable him to he was in offiae, and why he had not taken some such steps in live without it.—The vote was agreed to. that direction which he found fault with the present Govern- ORDNANCE ESTIMATES. latent for takf B hi -Id • lure the Noble Lord that Captain BOLDER°, in rising to move the Ordnance Es timates, said that there had been an expense of about 93,8001. in the expenditure upon the Sappers and Miners. But in the experise of barracks and barrack masters there was a diminu tion to the amount of InB,ooo/.; and that reduction would have been greater if it had not been necessary to augment the commissariat in China. An additional charge would be ne cessary for the expense of rebuilding the powder-works at Waltham Abbey. At the Cape of Good Hope also, an expen diture was incurred, in consequence of the destruction of one wing of the fort, occasioned by the indiscretion of two children playing with lucifer matches. The charges for the restoration of the 'fewer would not be felt by the country, for in the ap propriation of the new building to the purposes of stores the country would be compensated for the expense. By calculating the price of fuel in the two countries he found that the allow ance to an officer in England would be 6/. 10s. a year, and in Ireland 71. 10s. Since they had been in office they had ef fected a reduction in the Ordnance estimates of 303,483/. an nually. He hoped this would be taken as an earnest of the integrity of their desire to reduce the expenditure as much as possible. Dr. BOWRING said he did not intend to divide the Com mittee on any of these items, nor did he mean to detain the Committee, except to regret that a similar course had not been adopted in the ordnance as in the other votes. He saw that a large part of the expense was incurred for the colonies ; he thought that the colonies ought to bear part of the burden of their own defence. He saw that the lonian Islands did so, and why not the others? Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS said, as the lonian Islands had been referred to, he hoped he might be allowed to make a few observations with respect to them. They formed a most in teresting country, from their soil, their position on the verge of civilisaton, their climate, and classic associations. 'these islands had been thrown back on this country for regeneration and civili zation. But their progress had been arrested, and their prosperity injured, by the fixed contribution which they were compelled to pay out of their revenue, to this country, towards the ex pense of their military defence. That contribution was 35,0001. a year, for this purpose alone ; other expenses they were compelled to pay, raised that sum to 54,0001. a year. The whole revenue of the islands, some years ago, was 180,000/. ; it had since been so much reduced that it was now no more than 100,000/. ; the fixed contribution therefore amounted to no less than 50 per cent. of the revenue. He had been unceasing in his representations to the Government of the necessity of making some abatement in this contribution in favour of the islands. The depreciation in the price of their chief exports, currants and oil, had dried up the sources of re venue, and though they had reduced taxation and made every sacrifice possible, the contribution was found to be excessively oppressive. The state of their public institutions was very lamentable. There were no asylums, and the lunatics were mingled together with felens. The lonian Islands were not colonies ; they were in an anomalous position between colonies and independent States. They should not do their duty to that interesting people unless they reduced something of that fixed contribution.—(Lord Stanley— .' We have done it.") He appealed to the Government whe ther he had not brought forward this question strongly during last year ; and he asked the Noble Lord whether he was dealing fairly with him, as a friend and supporter of the Government, in not acquainting- him with the step he had taken. He would appeal to the House to say whether the Noble Lord had done justice to him in not communicating to him what the Noble Lord said he had done. But he would still exercise his right of making these representations to the Committee. In 1835 the poor of the islend were begging about the streets, there being no poor-house to receive them. He built a poor-house, and it answered exceedingly well ; but a few months ago, it ap peared that it was abolished. He would appeal to the Com mittee whether he had not a right to state these circum stances ; and he appealed to them again to say whether the Noble Lord had treated him as he ought to have done in not first communicating with him, after he had made out a case so strong that the Noble Lord himself requested that he would not press for the production of the papers, the order for which was yet uncancelled by the House. If he had pressed for those papers he should have had the credit of having ac complished the redaction. The conversation on this subject then dropped. Mr. WILLIAMS complained of the immense amount of money spent. in building fortifications and new barracks. The barracks at Manchester alone were put down at 117,000/. There were others also at Newport and Bristol. What was there in the state of Manchester that required those barracks now more than at any former time? He thought this sum for the erection of new barracks was most enormous. Captain PECHELL, in alluding to the late military riots which had occurred at Brighton, said, that after the severe punishment which had been inflicted upon the offenders, he did not wish to do more than allude very briefly to the matter. Damage to the amount of 501. had been done, and it was be fore stated that compensation would be made by the regiment to the foreigner whose house had been attacked. All his pro perty had been destroyed, and he was now without the means of subsistence and lie (Captain Pechell) hoped that the Right Hon. Gentleman also would suggest some means for relieving the distresses of those persons. Sir H. HARDINGE said that whatever might have been the intention of the soldiers originally with respect to raising a sub scription amongst themselves for the purpose of repaying the expenses and damage done, the course adopted by the pro secutor's solicitor had eetirely frustrated it. After a few words from Mr, AGLIONBY and Sir H. 'LA DING E in reply, the vote was agreed to. A sum of 110,7071. was then voted, to defray the expenses of the Royal corps of Engineers, and Sappers and Miners. 343,5'Z71. was voted to defray the expenses of the artillery and gunnery department. 391,1971. was voted to pay the salaries of barrack-matters on foreign stations. A vote of 483,721/. was then proposed for defraying the charge s of the ordnance works, &c --This vote was agreed to. A vote of 166,796/. was then proposed for the expenses of the ordnance surveys. In answer to a question from Colonel RAWDON, Sir R. PEEL said the Report of the surveys taken in Ire land would be laid before the House in the course of the session. The vote was then agreed to. A vote of 229,5801. for the expenses of ordnance stores was then proposed. In answer to a question from Sir C. NAPIER, Captain BOLDER() said that in all new ships the sailors and marines were supplied with the new muskets. The vote was then agreed to. A vote of 163,680/. was proposed for defraying the charges of the superanuation and pension list. Captain PECHELL wished to call the attention of the Right Hon. Gentleman the 'Secretary-at -War to a case of some hardship. A poor pensioner had been compelled to- go into a workhouse, arid during the time he was there his pension was withdrawn. When he was discharged from the union the pension was renewed, but its proceeds were taken by the guar dians until the expenses to which they had been put for his maintenance during his stay in the workhouse had been de frayed. He (Captain Pechell) wished to know if this was legal ? Sir H. HARDINGE said it undoubtedly was not. The vote was then agreed to. A vote was agreed to of 174,6881. for the expenses of corn-. missariat supplies. The CHAIRMAN then reported progress and the House resumed. The House then resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved a vote of 8,000,0001. out of the Consolidated Fund. The vote was agreed to , and the Report was ordered to be brought up on Monday next. The House then resumed. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition regarding the Ro chester Railway.—( Against it as we understood.) The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter past Eleven o'Clock. sr not _Mg . cut he could ass, the subject had not escaped the attention of her Majesty's Go vernment. However, as some reforms were to be submitted to her Majesty on the matter, he was precluded from entering more particularly into it at present. With respect to the Noble Lord's statement, that officers were broke for not fight ing duels, he ; . (Sir H. Hardinge) would refer to the ca-e of which an' Hon. Gentleman, a few evenings ago, had said an account had come by the last mail from the West Indies, where an officer was tried for having submitted to an insult. Of course he could not mention the name of the officer, but he would read the charge against an officer who was brought to a court-martial* in the year 1843, for scandalous and infamous conduct, unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentle man in submitting to be charged with ungentlemanlike and blackguard conduct, and with no, refuting the same charge, or reporting it to his commanding officer, or taking measures to exculpate himself from charges so derogatory to his character. Now he (Sir H. Hardinge) thought that that officer ought to have gone before his brother officers and asked them to try the charge ; but, according to the Noble Lord's version, the officer was tried for refusing to fight a duel. Such a thing was most improbable. He ( Sir H. Hardinge) had been for 40 years in the army, and he had never heard of such a case as the Noble Lord ima gined. He would give another instance in the same year of 1843. He took the most recent cases as the Noble Lord said that the system was going on at the present day of officers being forced by the regulations of the service to fight duels when they ought to have the matter settled by a Court of Inquiry. The ease was this :—ln April, 1843, an officer was tried for scandalous and infamous conduct, unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, in having submitted to be stigmatised as a " liar" and a " scoundrel," and suffering other opprobrious epithets to be ap plied to hint by another individual. The Court found him guilty, and ite was cashiered. He (Sir H. Hardinge) had in quired into that case, and he found that that individual had con ducted himself in a most ungentlemanlike manner, and that he had not dared to face an inquiry by his brother officers.—( Hear, hear.) Accordingly they forced him to a court-martial. How such cases could be distorted in the way in which the Noble Lord had dune, he (Sir H. Hardinge) could not understand. Indeed, in the case of one officer in sulting another, and not making a demand for explanation, he • might be put into " Coventry" by his brother officers, and thus find himself in a very unpleasant position.—( Hear, hear. ) Well, he would take the Noble Lord upon that point. Ile knew the case of a field officer, who, being a religious individual, and having conscientious scruples on the matter, declined to fight a'tfuel, because he felt that he ought not to sin against the laws of Gud. The officers of his regiment, from the manner in which his name was used, in consequence felt very uneasy; but the present Commander-in-Chief protected him to the extent of having the matter inquired into. The cause of quarrel was investigated, and the result was that the proper conduct of that field officer was corrobo rated and confirmed, and his brother officers withdrew their objection to him, and he was now one of the most respected of in the kgrvice. Again in 1804 Sir Charles Morgan, in the case of a lieutenant who had associated with the surgeon of his re g iment, notwithstanding hi s h av i ng b een co ll are d an d struck by him, and who had been brought to trial for conduct unworthy an officer—in that case Sir Charles Morgan wrote an observation upon the second article of the charge to the effect that it was tantamount to making it a crime to refuse fighting a duel, and that if he had been aware of it before the investi g ation that he would not h av e s u ff e r e d the a rti c le to have been" brought forward. He (Sir H. Hardinge) could only appeal to the Noble Lord, that in every case with which he had anything to do, and having made every possible inquiry at the Horse Guards with respect to other cases, he could not find an instance of an officer being brought to trial because he was wanting in courage to fight a duel. - Colonel FOX asked the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman if he did not know of any instances of the Sovereign dispensing with the services of officers, because they were put into Coventry for not fighting a duel ? That he believed was generally the way in which cases of that kind were disposed of. Sir H. HA RDINGE said if he understood the question of the Gallant Officer, it Seemed to imply that the Sovereign of the country was a party to punishing officers for not fighting duels. Colonel FOX—The Sovereign acting by the advice of the Ministers of the Crown. Sir HENRY HA RDINGE knew no instance of an officer's services being dispensed with in such a case, except where the harmony of the regiment rendered it necessary to remove cer tain officers.—( Hear, hear, from Lord Howick.) But the Noble Lord could not expect that the army should be sub jected to restrictions and restraints to which other parts of the community were not subjected. Sir A. L. HAY asked what would be the condition of officers in the army if they were not allowed to take steps to remove any stigma which any young- and ill-tempered officer might happen to cast upon them ? He questioned if duelling was as prevalent in the army as in other portions of the community. They might do away with duelling in the army by means of statutes, but he would tell them that they ought to pause be fore they prevented the officers of the British army from assert ing their honour and repelling indignity. Captain BERNAL said a very wide field had been opened by the discussion which had taken place, and he thought it was necessary to consider at once whether it were right to go into the whole question on the present motion.—( Hear, hear. ) He was perfectly prepared to discuss the subject w 1 enever it showid be the pleasure of the House to do so. There was a vast deal to be said upon it.—( Hear.) The whole sys'e:n was an anomalous one. They had statutes which pronounced duelling to be an effence nothing short of murder. —( Hear, hear.) They had juries endeavouriag to evade these practices ; they had judges, who were prepared to give tkem the go. bye; whilst the majority of that House were always ready to assist in the evasion. . Under these circumstances, would any man say that the widow of an officer who had fallen in a duel should, on that account, be deprived of a pension ? ( Heer, hear.) Let them either say at once that an officer of the army sheuld be supported in his conscientious views, or let them be prepared to treat his widow, if he fell in a duel, in the same manner that they would treat the widow of an officer who fell in battle. He ( Capt. Bernal) had no wish to interfere with the discretion of the Crown. He knew perfectly well that no officer's widow had an absolute right to a pension. He would not, however, enter into the question 011 the present occasion, considering, ashe did, that it ought to form the suoject of a eubetntive motion.—( Hear, hear.) Wi,hout assuming to himself the right of advising the Committee, he must say that he thought it would be much better to a aive any further dis cussion. • Colonel FOX explained. Mr. P. BOILTHWICK said the question simply was, whe ther a particular lady should be deprived of a pension which under ordinary circumstances she would have received, merely because another person ha 4 committed a crime. As at present advised he (Mr. P. Borthwick) thought it would be a most unjustifiable mode of punishing an offence to visit it upon the person who did not perpetrate it, and who, of all persons in the kingdom, would have been most anxious to prevent it had it been in her power. Lord HOWICK said the Hon. and Gallant Officer near him (Sir A. Leith Hay) hod argued that duelling was abso lutely necessary in the army. Now, he did not ask them to pronounce an opinion either way; but he did ask them either to sanction or discourage it consistently.—( Hear, hear.) If they sanctioned duelling, it was nothing less than gross cruelty and injustice to deprive Mrs. Fawcett of her pension; if they came to a resolution to put down the practice, then, however painful, it might perhaps be necessary to pursue that course. The Hon. and Gallant Officer opposite (Sir Henry Hardinge) had only ;answered his argument in a miserable spirit of personality.—( Cries of "No, no," from both aides of the House.) He repeated the observation. He bad brought the question forward as a general one, and what was the Hon. and G a ll an t Offi cer ' s rep l y ? Why he said that the Mutiny Act provided so and so, and he asked, why, if that was not sufficient, he (Lord Howick) had not added to its provi sions. What did it signify whether he did, or did not, during the time he held the office of Secretary at War, suppress duel ling in the army ? The Hon. and Gallant Officer knew very well that questions conne c t e d w i t h t h e d i sc i pline of the army never came under his (Lord Howick's) notice, except when some particular difficulty . ' arose; and during the time that he was Secretary at War, it so happened that there never was a case similar to that of Mrs. Fawcott's. His notice was never called to this anomaly, and therefore it was that he had never thought of adopting any means for its removal. But he begged to tell the Hen. and Gallant Officer, that if while he was Se cretary . at War a case had b een b roug h t b e f ore hi m, i n which he as called upon to exercise the painful discretion of ad vising her Majesty not to great a pension to an officer's widow b ecause h e b ad fallen in a duel, he would not have given that advice unless he had been prepared to carry out the principle, and to take every measure in his power to put an end to duelling in the army.—( Hear, hear.) Now w h a t was the arg ument o f the Hon. and Gallant Officer? He to ted, and he believed correctly, that officers , practically and • substanti a ll y , were brought ' before courts - martial - for refusing to tight duels. I t was perfectly true that the lette r o f o th the law was again s t d ue lli ng —the articles war were most express and decisive; but the officer was called upon to do nothing unbecoming th e c h aracter of a gentleman and he received an insult without t a ki ng immediate steps for' redress, dr h e was liable to a court-marti a l. A n of fi cer had been tgusght before'a court-martial in India for an o ff ence of that description The charge was that he had received a blow, an d h a d net taken steps to Obtain that legitimate . and immediate redress to which he was entitled for so gross an insult. The measures were an appeal to a superior authority and a duel. But it was per fectly well known that if an officer took the course of appealing to a superior auth or i ty, he had the punishment inflicted upon him 'which was known by the name of being sent to Coventry. Under penalty of this sentence, he was virtually compelled to choose the alterdative of the duel. Sir HENRY H A RDINGE inquired as to the particulars of the case to which the Noble Lord referred. Lord HOWICK said the case was exactly what he had stated. He rather thought that the officer belonged to the y Indian army, but the two ser v i ces were governedexactl by the same rules. In another ca se , a fi e ld -officer had been actu ally sent to Coventry for refusing to fight a duel on religious grounds. The Hon. and Gallant Officer (Sir A. Leith Hay) had argued that duelling was the keystone of the honour of the army. Sir A.- LEITH HAY said he had not used that expree sion.--( Hear, hear.) Lord IsIOWICK begged the Hen. and Gallant Officer's par. i TIER MAJESTY'S BUCK HOITNDS.—A. field of up don. He had meant only to state the purport of his argument. wards of 100 attended the meet, on Wednesday morning, at Sall The Hon. and Gallant Officer had argued that duelling;was i init. Amongst those present we observed the Earl of Rose necesiary to maintain the discipline and honour of the army. Ism, Lord Sheffield, Lord William Beresford, Major. General Sir A. LEITH HAY--Most certainly. Wemyss, Colonel Vyse, the Hon. Captain Lowther, several of Lord HO WICK—In the case to which he had just referred, the officers of the first Life Guards and the second battalion of had the officer been a subaltern instead of a field-officer, he the Scots Fusilier Guards, and a good sprinkling of sport. tog t hgentlemen front the vicinity of the metropolis. would probably hare been forced out of the army.—(Hear, t ha e m. u ia s n u e al tim d e the stag " Wild Boy" was uncarted near bear.) He would again say that they were imperatively called Farnham Upon to adopt a decided course, and not suffer the present lane , was taken at Mill.end, near Rickmansworth. Nearly t i p, wh ole o f the field, including the Earl of Rosslyn, Lord anomalous state of things to continue. • W. Ber sford, &c., were up at the finish. The Royal buck bounds Captain BERNAL hoped the Hon. and Gallant Officer (Sir (as intimated to the field out yesterday) will meet on Monday next H. Hardinge) would not ha tempted by the Noble Lord's re at Ascot, and on Friday at Lyttleton, near Staines. marki into the discussion of this subject.—( Loud cries of" Hear, hear.") He thought nothing could be more unfair than the DEATH OF ADMIRAL HALL.—We have received, attack made by the Noble Lord, but he tru,ted that the Right • by the Queen's messenger, who arrived on Thursday morning, a Hon. Gentleman, against whom it was directed would main- letter from St. Petersburg'', dated February 20, containing taro ajudicious silence.--( Hear, hear.) the following account of the sudden death of Admiral H a ll : Sir . G HARDINE said the Noble Lord had talked The writer states—" We had a very melancholy circumstance of miserable personalities, He left it to the House to say on Sunday before last, during Divine service at the English whether the Noble Lord was justified in that remark.— church. Admiral Hall, the much-esteemed friend of the (Hear, and cheers.) He had simply reminded the Noble Emperor, fell suddenly down in a fit and expired, at the age Lord, - that the present Goveinment had been in office only •of sixty. He was formerly a lieutenant in the British sere two years, and asked him why the late Government had not vice, and was afterwards made an admiral in the Russian remedied the evils of which h e comp l a i ne d . H e would _be navy. The Emperor, in honour of a faithful 4ervaut, wilt ready to meet the Noble" Lord whenever the qUestion came attend his funeral. RAILWAY BILLS. SECOND REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON RAIL- WAY BILLS CLASSIFICATION, The Select Committee appointed to consider which of the pending Railway Bills shall be deemed competing Bills, according to the reso utions agreed to by the House, have agreed to the following Re port : Your Committee having considered the cases of the following Raihvay Bills, viz. : Ashton, Staleybridge, and Liver- Manchester and Leeds (Bury pool Junction, i Branch), Bantiley Junction, .Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, Blackburn and Preston, •Manchester and Leeds and Hull Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings, 1 Associated, Colchester and Harwich (No. 1), ,Maryport and Carlisle, Croydon and Epsom, 31einkland (Nos. 1 and 2), Delabole and Rock, 'Newbury, Basingstoke, London, Eastern tinion, 1 and Southampton, Edin'.urgh, Leith, and Granton, INewbury and Great Western Epsom and South 'Western, I (Valley of the Kennet), Garnkirk, Glasgow, & Coatbridge, Newquay, Gravesend, North British, Gravesend,Rochester,andChatham North Wales Mineral, Harrogate and Knaresborough, .l'ontop and South Shields, Leeds and Bradford, !Sheffield and Chesterfield Junction, ' Leech' and Selby, Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and London and South Western,' Manchester, (No. 2.) South Eastern and Hastings, Manchester and Birmingham Stratthrd (Eastern Counties) and (Macclesfield and Poynton! Thames Junction, Branches) (No. 2), IWhitehaven and Maryport, Alanchester and Leeds (BradfordiYork and Scarborough, Branch), tahreoroisel o t p h in e iox g h tru at e , : o f . toirfiseawid L B h i L l t l , s B , of th i e ta ti n r w llo a w y it r i e g s a ve re ct il iv il e l l s y to m a rn u : plts.tiiittitgml,Vsilthaiocnyebrahiligoetlii,ern,dvii,zi.v:e—row Junction, mler-Lyne, and Manchester, with Sheffield, Ashton- BrightiM, Lew,s, and Hastings, with South Eastern and Hastings, (1.1 i,,, an a Epsom, with Epsom and south Western, Grawseml, with Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham, Manchester and Lectis (Bury Branch), with Manchester, Bury, and Lin idon and Southampton, with Newbury anti Rossendale, Ne ( w lr i e ) a u t r3 lV:sq s e i r7i c ( t 1" I tlly of the Kennet), and that the following are Bills to authorise the construction of new Lines of Railway which will compete with existing Railways, viz. : Banisley Junction, Garnkirk, Glasgow, and Coatbridge, Sheffield and Chesterfield Junction. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS, (From the Votes and Proctiedmpo of the Rouse of Commons.) THURSDAY, MARCH 7. TRADE WITH THE BRAZILS. Motion m tele, and Question put, " That an humble Ad dress be presented to her Majesty, representing to her Majesty the great importance to this Country of the trade with the Empire of the Brazils, and humbly praying her Majesty to adopt such measures as may appear best calculated to maintain and improve the commercial relations between the United Kingdom and the Brazils :" The House divided : MINORITY—AYES, 132. Acheson, Viscount Forster, Matthew Philips, G. R. Agllonby, H. A. Fex, C. R. Protheroe, Edward Ainsworth, Pe , er Gibson, T. H. Pulsford, It bert Aldam, William Gisborne, Thomas Rawdon,J. D. Arundel, Lord Gore, Robert Ricardo, J. L Bannerman, A. Greenaway, Charles Rice, E. R. Barclay, David Grey Sir G. Roche, E. B. Baring, F. "I'. Grosvenor. Lord R. Ross, David R. Barron, H. W Guest, Sir John Scholetield, J. Bellew, R. M. Hastie. A. Scott, Robert Berkeley, C. Hatton, Capt. Villiers Scrope, G. P. Blake, M. J. Hawes, B. Smith, Benjamin Blake, Sir Valentine Hayter, W. G. Smith, J. Abel Blewitt, Reginald Heathcoat, J. Standish, Charles Bewring, Dr. Hindley, Char es Stanley, W. O. Bright, John Hobhouse, Sir J. Stanton, W. H Brocklehurst, J. Hollond, it' bert Stewart, P. M. Brotherton, J. Herman, Edward Stuart, Lord J. Browne, Hon. W. Howard. C. G. W. Stuart, Villiers Busfeild, W. Howard, Lord Stock, Ser,leant Butler, P. S. Howard, P. H. - Strickland, Sir J. Carew, R. S 5-,, , wing. Lord Strutt, Edward Cave, R. 0. Hut , W. Tancred, H. W Chapman, rt. Labouchere, H. Thornely, Thomas Clay, Sir W. Langston, J. H. Towneley, John Colborne, W. Ridley Lascelles, W. S. Trelawny, J. S. Colebrooke, Sir T. Layard, Captain Tuite, Hugh X Collett, John Lemon, Sir C. Turner, Edmund Craig, W. Gibson Leveson, Lord Vane, Lord Harry Dalrymple, Captain Macaulay, I'. B. Villiers, Charles 1% Emnistoun, J. Mangles, R. D. Vivian, J. H. Oivett, E Marjoribank-, S. Wakley. Thomas Duff, James " Mar , h4ll, William Wall, C. B. Duncan, Viscount Mitchell, T. A. Wallace, 11. Duncan, George Morris,,David Warburton, H. Duncannon, Lord Morison, General Ward, H. O. Duncombe, I'. S. Muntz, G. F. Wawn, J. T. Dundas, Admiral Napier, Sir Charles Wilshere, W. Easthope, Sir John Norreys, Sir 1). J. Woraley, Lord Ebrington, Viscount O'Connell, XJ. Wrightson, W. B. Ellis, Wynn O'Ferrall„More Wyse, 'l. Elphinstone, Howard Ord, W Yorke, R. H Evans, William Palmerston, Viscount TELLIi KS. Ewart, William Parker. John Hill, Lord - Marcus Fitzroy, Lord C. Pechell, Captain Tullman. it MAJORITY—NOES, 205. Acland, Sir T. D Fuller. A. E. Milnes, Richard Acland, I'. D. Gardner, J. D. l Mundy, E. Miller A'Court : apt. Gaskell, Jamei M. Neeld, Joseph Adderley, C. B. Gladstone, W. E. Neville, Ralph Affix, John Peter Gladstone, J. N. Nicholl Right Hon Antrobus, Edmund Glynne, Sir Stephen Norreys, Sir D. J. Arbuthnot, Huh Gordon, Captain O'Brien, A. S. Arkwright, Geo: ge Gore, AL Ossulston, Loid Bailey, Joseph Goulburn, Henry Pakington,lJ. S. Bailey, Joseph, jun. Graham, Sir J. Patten, J. W Bailhe, Colonel H. Granby, Marquis of Peel, Sir Robert Baillie, H. J. Greena I, Peter Peel, Jonathan Bankes, George Greene, T. Pennant, Colonel Baring, Hon. W. B Gregory, W. IL Plumptre, J. P. Barrington, Viscount Grimston Lord Polhill, Frederick Bell, Matthew Grogan, Edward Pollington, Viscount Bentinck, Lord G. Hale, Robert B. Pollock, Sir Fred. Beresford, Major Halford, H. Prard, William T. Berkeley, Hon. H. F Hamilton. G. A. Pringle, Alexander Blacks(one, W. Hamilton, Wm. J. Pusey, Philip Bolden), H. G. Hampden, Renn Rashleigb, Win. Borthwick, Peter Hamner, Sir John Reid. Sir John It. 9ottield, l3eriah Harcourt, G. G. Rendlesham, Lord Bradshaw, James Hardinge, Sir H. Repton, George J. Brampton. 'l'. W. Hayes, Sir E. Richards, Richard Broadley, Henry Heathcote, Sir W. Round, C. G. .„,;, Bruce, Lord E. Herbert, Sidney Round, John Bruges, W. H. L. Hervey, Lord A. Roue, Hon. Captain Buck, L. W. Hinde, J. H. Rustibrooke, Colonel Buller, Sir J. Verde Hodgson, Frederick . Russell, J. 1) Burrell, Sir C. M. Hodgson, R. - Ryder, G. D. Cardwell,'Edward Holmes, W. A'Court Sanderson, R. Castlereagh, Viscount Hope, Charl s Sandon, Viscount Charteris, Francis • Hope, Alexander Scarlett, It C. Cnttwode, Sir Johri . Hope, G. W. Scott, F. Chute, William L W Hornby, John Shaw, Frederick Clayton, Rice It. Hughes. W. B Sr irley, Evelyn J. i live, it. H. Hussey, Thomas dibtherp, Colonel Codrington, Sir W. Ingl a, Sir R. Smith, Abel Collett, W. Weldon! Jernayn, Earl Smith, T. B C. Compton, H. Jocelyn, Viscount Smollett, Alexander Copel.nd, Alderman Johnstone, Hope Somerset, Lord U. cress v. ell, A. J. B. Jones, Captain Stanley, Lord Cripps. W. Kemble, Henry; Stewart, John Darner Colonel K• atabull, Sir E. Stuart, H. Darby, George Knight, H. G. Sutton, Hon. H. M. Denison, K H. Law, Hon. C. E. * Ferment, J. E. Dickinson, F. H. Lawson, Andrew The:lger, F. Dodd, George Lefloy, Anthony Thompson, Ald. Dougla -, Sir H. Legh, G. C. Tollemache, J. Douglas, Sir C. E. Lincoln, Earl of Trench, Sir F. W. Douro ,Marquis of Lindsay, H. Trevor, Hon. R. Douglas, J. D. S. Lockhart, William Trotter, J. Duffield, T. D. Lowther, Colonel Vivian. John Ennis Dugdale, W. S. M'Geachy, F. A Waddington, 11. s. buncombe, A. Mackenzie, Thomas Walsh, Sir John B. Dune mbe, 0. Mackenzie, W. F. Wellesley, Lord C. Du Pre, C. G. M'Neill, Duncan Wilbraham, R. B, Eaton, Richard J. Mahon. Lord Williams, T. P. Egerton, W.T. Mainwaring, T Wodehou•e, &Intone Eliot, Lord Manners, Lord J. Wood, Colonel Emlyn, Viscount Marsham, Viscount Wood, ColonciT. Escott. Bichkam Martin. C. W. Wortley Hon. John: Lstcourt, 'l'. G. B. Rlasterman, John Yorke, E. T. Fellowes, Edward Mantua!, T. P. Young, John Filmer, Sir E Maxwell, Hon. J. P. Fitzmaurice, W. Meynell, Captain TELLERS. Flower, Sir James Mildmay, H. t. Jahn Clerk, Si George Follett, Sir W. W. Miles, P. W. S. Bating, Henry Fox, S. Lane Miles, P. W. S. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. [This Gazette c•ntains the Indian Dispatches, which have already been published in The Sun. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MARCH 8, 1844. Notice is hereby given, that one week• of the present Court Mourning, to commence on Sunday next, the 10th instant, will be also for her late Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Oldenburg. DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 7. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Rawson William Rawson, Esq., to be Treasurer for the Island of Mauritius. The Queen has also been pleased to appoint George Williams Lewes, Esq., to be Provost. Marshal for the Virgin Islands. The Queen has further been pleased to appoint Daniel H. 0. Gordon, Esq., to be Treasurer for the Virgin Islands. WHITEHALL, MARCH 6. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. John Campbell, 111. A., to the church and parish of Gairloch, in the presbytery of Lochcarron and county of Ross, vacant by the death of the Rev. James Russel, late minister hereof. WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 8. _ _ Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieut. A. M. Gray. from the Royal Canadian Regiment, to he Lieutenant, vice Claremont, vino excharr , es Mareh 8. * 76th - Foot—Captain W. Doran, 'from the Ist West India Regiment, to be Paymaster, vice W. Webster, who has been placed upon half-pay, March 8. Ist ‘Ce, , t India Regiment—Major-General Sir G. T. Napier, K.C.8., to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Sir G. H. B. Way, deceased, Feb. 29. Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant E. S. Clare mont, from the Ist Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Gray, who exchanges, March Ed. lloserraL STAFF.—J. W. Mostyn, Gent., to be Assistant- Surgeon to the Forces, vice Home, appointed to the 26th Foot, March 8. A I EMORANDUM.—The Christian name of Ensign Webster, of the 2d West India Regiment, is Rowland only, and not Row land William, as previously stated. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland. Northuinherland Regiment of Militia—J. Fife, Gent., to be Ensign, Feb. '24. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire. Royal Merionethshire Light Infantry Militia —R. M. Richards, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, viee E. L. Ed wards, promoted, March 1. WHITEHALL, FEB. 28. The Lord Chlnceltor has appointed Charles Bodenham, of the city of Hereford, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the high Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. HENRY EDWARDS, coal merchant, St. Alban's, to surrender, March 15, at three, and April 19, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Roche, Plowman, and Roche, Charles -street, Covent-garden. THOMAS WILKINSON, boot maker, King-street, Hol born, March 15, at half-past ten, and April 19, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Heath, Graced urch- street. JOSEPH BARWICK, omnibus proprietor, Great Carter lane, Doctors'-commons, March 21 and April 25, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street ; Letts, Bartlett's-buildings. GEORGE FO: )RD, seed merchant, Lenham. Kent, March 19, at twelve, and April 16, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Bower and Co., Chancery-lane ; Hart, Maidstone. JACOB MONTEFIORE and JOSEPH BARROW, merchants, Nicholas.lane, City, March 14, at one, and April 16, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Rasinghall-street ; Ashurit, Cheapside. ROBERT BARKER, druggist, Manchester, March 20 and April 23, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Stanway, official assignee Manchester; Shield and Harwood, Queen-street, Cheapside, London ; Bagshaw and Stevenson, Manchester. JOSEPH DOUGLASS, rope manufacturer, Newcastle upon-Tyne, March 22, at eleven, and April 16, at two, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow-church yard, London ; Bates and Dees, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. THOMAS BREWER, pavior, Liverpool, March 22 and April 19, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Caze. nove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Bridger and Blake, Fins bury-circus, London ; Dodge, Liverpool. RALPH LEWIS, wine merchant, Tryddyn, Flintshire, March 19, at twelve, and April 16, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Milne and Co., Temple, London ; Ingleby, Mold, Flintshire. JAMES THOMPSON, iron manufacturer, Stoke-upon- Trent, Staffordshire, March 22, at two, and April 17, at one , at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Smallwood, Admaston; Motteram and Giddy, Birmingham. JOHN DOUGLAS PAYNE and LYDIA RUSHTON, furriers, Birmingham, March 20, at two, and May 3, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Lloyd, Milk -street, Cheapside, London ; Grif fiths, Birmingham. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. J. Gaunt, auctioneer, Pudsey, Yorkshire. R. Roffey, bricklayer, Deptford, Kent. J. C. S. Kelly, livery-stable-keeper, Wardrobe-place, City. H. Smith, carpenter, Farlington, Southampton. E.J. Bradshaw, miniature painter, Wolverhampton. W. Eggleston, flour dealer, Manchester. J. Shaw, fancy manufacturer, Highburton, Yorkshire. T. Johnston, draper, Hadley, Shropshire. N. B. Smith, carpenter, New Millman-street, Gray's Inn-lane. B. Kaye, woollen draper, Halifax. J. Young, blacksmith, Calverley, Yorkshire. J. Shepherd, boot and shoemaker, Huddersfield. L. W. Williams, eating-house-keeper, Brydges-street, Covent garden. W. Dobson, flour dealer, Leeds. J. Scott, labourer, Halifax. W. Ratcliffe, police-officer, Birkenhead, Cheshire. J. Addey, joiner, Selby, Yorkshire. A. Liddelow, butcher, Seymour-place, Camden-town. It. Spenaley, tailor, Birmingham. I. Price, undertaker, Stepney green. W. Walker, basket maker, Oldham Lancashire. J. Bendall, tailor, Welbeck- street, 'Cavendish-square. J. Fryer, tobacconist, Cockshill, Stepney. T. Minchew, carpenter, Bilston Staffordshire. T. Scott, carpenter, Bishops Cleeve,_Gloucestershire. J. Slade, carpenter, Bexley-heath, Kent. J. Seel, joiner, Kensington Low-hill, Lancashire. H. G. Huller?. gat.stter, Broad-way, Ludgate-hill. W. Richardson, builder, Liverpool. W. Dickenson, baker, _Nottingba!o2 J. Ahrenfeld, hat manufacturer, Well-street, Cripplegate, R. Tennant, Ward-street, Lambeth-walk. H. Haslip, cutler, High Holborn. J. Bowling, plumber, Beaumont-street, Marylebone. T. Cheshire, cabinet-maker, Dunstable. C. Ashui st, publican, Heaton Norris, Manchester. J. Brom'ey, hay and straw salesman, Woolwich. E. Beck, grocer, Tiverton, Devonshire. C. Sterckareengrocer, Grosvenor-row, Pimlico. W. H. Crook, baker, Southampton. J. G. Hatcher, coach maker, Castle-street, Tonbridge, J. T. Griffiths, victualler, Llanelly, Carmarthenshite. E. West, commission agent, Dcziepheath, Kent. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1844. ( W. R. Chaulk. farmer, Blackmore, Essex. E. Brown, lamp trimmer on the Brighton Railway, Croydon. T. Barton, corn-chandler, Burslem, Stafford s hi re . R. Owen, tavern keeper, Llarir wst, Denbighshire. H. Savage, tool manufacturer, Co l'e:, Gloucestershire. W. Evans, farmer, Cwmcarvan, Monmouth , hire. W. Presley, fruiterer, Prospect-place, Old Kent-road. A. Graham, engineer, Landport, Portsmouth. W. Palmer, huckster, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. J. Walton, butcher, Kirkby llavensworth, Yorkshire. Z. G. Esker, tailor, Topsham, Devonshire. J. Edwards, farmer, Llanarmon in Yale, Denbighshire. W. Parry, miller, Hope, Flintshire. R. Hill, baker, Cheltenham. SECOND NOTICES. J. Firman, bailiff, Frinton, Essex, March 16, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee. J. Sleigh, Lieutenant, R.N., Semaphore, Haslernere, Sur rey, March 16, at eleven, at the Court of Bankuptcy. Groom, official assignee. J. Cox, Broadley-terrace, Marylebone, March 16, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee. W. Billson, tailor, Albion-hill, Leicestershire, March 20, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Christie, official assigne.s. J. Lilley, grocer, Birmingham, March 12, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee. F. Forman, butcher, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, March 13, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee. J. T. Morgan, butcher, Ftckenham, Worcestershire, March 13, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee. E. M. Parsons, baker, Great Portland-place, March 14, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee. J. Marston, watch-maker, eastle-street, Leicester-square, March 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee. T. W. T. Prescott, Duke-street, Marylebone, March 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee. G. Dennes, attorney, Great Vine -street, Piccadilly. March 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee. P. B. Goode, attorney, Polygon, Soraae-town, March 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee. G. S. Peacock, mariner, Charles-street, Stepney, March 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee. E. J. Cotsford, auctioneer, Ann-street, Pentonville, March 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee. G. White, Regent-street, Westminster March 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee. T. Hayward, wood carver, Tabernacle-row, Finsbury, March 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee. W. Ray, farmer, Edgware, Middlesex, March 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee. W. Cauty, Jermyn-street, March 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee. W. Norris, butcher, St. Alban's, March 13, at eleven, at the 'Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee. J. Baker, painter, Bradfield, Essex, March 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee. F. Blackley, steward of a steam-ship, Southampton, March 12, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Meager, official assignee. G. Moody, Union-street, Shoreditch, March 12, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee. T. Robottom, coachman, Great Scotland-yard, March 26, at half past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, official assignee. F. Collins, dancing-m a ster, Brighton, March 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson official assignee. J. Clayton, cooper , White Hart, Kennington, March 27, at one, at the Co urt: of Bankruptcy. Lackington, official assignee. S. Nicholls, excavator, Kensall-green Middlesex. March 27, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. C. S. Sharman, tea-dealer, Bedford, March 20, at two, at the Court of B an k ru pt c y. Lackington, official assignee. J. Oliver, fruiterer, Cobbscroft, Kent, March 13, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. H. Hemming, coachman, Birmingham, March 16, at half past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assigneee. G. Chidlow, licensed victualler, Wens, Salop, March 16, at half-past twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Whit more, official assignee. C. Brown, miller, South Shields, March 18, at half-past eleven. at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee. E. Cunnah, attorney-at-l a w, Chester, March 12, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Mid, official assignee. J. Leigh, victualler, Llay, Denbighshire , March 13, at half past eleven at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee. T. Smith, dealer in toys, Warrirgton, Lancashire, March 13, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee. J. Ogbern, butcher, Clifton, Gloucestershire, March 13. at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Kynaston, official assignee. T. Mayers, wheelwright, Christleton, Chester, March 12, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee. T. Bland, market gardener, Monmouthshire, March 13, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Kynaston, official assignee. G. Warburton, harness maker, Chester, March 13, at twelve, at the Mancheetr District Court. Hobson, official assignee. W. Plowright, publican, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, March 15, at half-past one, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Bisinghall-street. E. F. Jaques, market-gardener, Commercial-place, Brixton, March 29, at half-past one—J. Gbsden, licensed victualler, Wilsted-street, March 29, at half-past eleven—R. Wills and R. Davy, drapers, Oxford-street, March 29, at half-past one —J. G. James, wine merchant, Bucklersbury, City, March 20, attwo—J. 0. Palmer, music seller, Liverpool, March 29, at half-past one—C. Parslow, tailor, Blackman-street, Borough, March 2.4, at half-past eleven—J. Wheatley, livery-stable keeper. Kennington-cross, Lambeth, March 29. at twelve— J. Miller, parent sailcloth manufacturer, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, March 29, at two—W. F. Mills, merchant, Hart street, Mark-lane, March 29, at one. In the Country. _ W. Dar'ue, innkeeper, Whitehaven . , April 2, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—W. Tomkinson, wine merchant, Stoke-upon-Trent, March 29, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein -mentioned. R. Stevens, china dealer, New -cut, Lambeth, March 29 C. Webb, apothecary, Oxford, March SO—J. B. Montefiore, merchant, Nicholas.lane, City, April 2—W. Monteath, linen draper, Oxford-street, April 2—R. T. Hicks ' wine merchant, Cooper's-row, Tower-hill , March 29 _4. A. Holmes, mer chant, New Broad-street, March 29—J. Deakins. horse dealer,Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, March 29—J. H. Her rymabookseller, Birmingham , April 2—J. Ru s ht on , livery stabletp keeper, Nottingham, April 2-T. Redshaw, harness maker, Bourne, Lincolnshire. April 4—J. Andrew, licensed victualler, Ladd-lane, City, March 29--J. Gunton, butcher Cambridge, March 29—J. Jukes , nail manuf ac t urer , W es t. bromwichStaffordshire, March 29—A. W. and T. S. Low. man, cheesemongers. East cheap. City, March 29—D. Row. lands, wine dealer, Pwllheli , C ar narvonshire, March 29—C. J. Hunt, z. billiard table-maker , Cork - street, Burlington-gardens, March propri e t ors o f I rv i ng ' s pa tent'W. F or d) — A . Bill an d N. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. A. Caig and J. Alltree , tailors , Liverpool —W. Ford, J. B Brunt , ri g t h i t l pm W a pa . ci eh l r r i and n v in i e n a( g es , hoe far Sas. r e gardsH oope manufacturers, Birmingham —J. andG. Graham, linen drapers. Carlisle—T. Bernstein and W. W. Bamford, booksellers, Liverpool—R. Poole, A. Haymes, and hlh ß a a m rn , "aP W. S. Poole, attorneys, Kenilworth, Warwickshir e —A. C a r. rick and R. J. Pollock, surgeons , Bath-place, Kensington— le, Devonshire—J. Lancashire—C. Foster and R. Grantham. joiners , Hull — W. vo n M e ll e an d J. C. Booth t 0 o a h n d and i A. F. Drake,perry grocers, a ttorneys, cers, Oldham, im Thorn, merchants, 31ark-lane, City —G. B. Phipps, T. Tapling, and W. Morrison, carpet warehousemen, Leicester— A. A. Harvey and S. F. Underhay, surgeons, Bath—G. Purt and W. Hale, aerated liquor merchants, Upper Thames-street —C. Swainson, sen., and C. Swainson, jun., calico printers, Blackburn, Lancashire—l. Rogers and H. Ilayles, coash painters, Hunsworth-mews. Marylebone—W, Mackintosh, R. O'Dwyer, and A. P. Maher, general merchants, Liverpool— W. M. Williams and E. A. K. Edgar, lock *manufacturers, Fenchurch.street—J. W. Glover, T. Robinson. and J. Had dock, rope makers, Eccle4ton, Lancashire—J. Law and J. Erving, merchants, Rio Urande, South America—E. Chesnay and .1. B. Wilkinson, artificial florists, llouverie-street, Fleet street—J. and R. Alees, drapers, Frome Selwood, Somerset shire—E. Leece, sen., and E. Leece, jun., coach builders, Preston, Lancashire. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. MUNGO CHAPMAN, mill master, Bathgate, March 14 and April 4, at Iwo, at Johnston's Inn, Bathgate. DAVID DO UD, newspaper proprietor, Edinburgh, March 14 and April 6, at one, at the Old Signet-hall, Edinburgh. • HUGH DOUGLAS. merchant, Greenock, March 14 and April 4. at two, at D. Crawford's, writer, Greenock. ROBERT BROWN and JA.IIES SMITH, general iron mongers, Edinburgh, March 14 and April 4, atone, at the Old Signet-hall, Edinburgh. WILLIAM HOUSTON, dyer, Greenock, March 13 and April 2, at two, at the White Hart Inn, Greenock. JAMES KIPPEN and WILLIAM A. LINDSAY, mer. chants, Greenock, Marcia 14 and April 4, at twelve, at the White Hart Inn, Greenock. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending March 5, 1844, is 365. Sid. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. THE PROPOSED COAL TAX.—On Monday evening a meeting was held at the Town Hall, Hertford, for the pur pose of taking into consideration the proposed addition to the tax on coals coming into London. The meeting was very respectably and numerously attended. The Mayor (J. Gil bertson, Esq.) having been called to the chair, said that the attention of the inhabitants of Hertford had been called to the proposed tax, because it was considered to be a very unjust impost. He, for one, could no t conceive wh y the inhabitants of Hertford should be called upon to pay for the improvement and embellishment of the City of London. The City should tax itself for that purpose. Thousands of the people of Hertford would never see the banks of the Thames, and he could not see why they shoul d be called u p on to pay for its improvement. He objected to the tax on prin ciple, and he hoped the meeting would petition the Legisla ture to refuse an impost so manifestly unfair. Mr. Crawley moved a resolution declaratory of the injustice of the tax, and of the determination of the meeting to oppose it. He said it would be about as reasonable to make the inhabitants of Bishopsgate-within pay the Hertford lighting and paving rate, as to make the inhabitants of Hertford pay for the im provement of the City of London. The resolution having been seconded, was unannously agreed to. A form of petition to the House of Commons was then agreed to, and resolutions passed, :calling on the borough and county Members to support it. Mr. Lawrence, an extensive coal merchant at Hertford, expressed his apprehension that, should the City tax on coals, which is already 13d. per ton, be further in creased, the coal trade with London would be materially injured, as the inland navigation would be able to enter into competition by the river Lea, and sell coals cheaper than the present Hertford merchants could do. It appeared, also, from a statement made by the River Lea Navigation, that the amount of of coals brought by the Lea during the past Year was 93,558 tons, of which quantity 15,359 tons were for th e consum p tion of Hertford, and 13,72 . 4 tons for Ware ; so that, should the result of an additional tax on coals be the closing of the trade with the port of London, the City itself would be a con siderable loser, as it received on each of the 93,558 tons a duty of 13d. The following specimen of the " schoolmaster abroad" hangs in a conspicuous position in the High-street of our fashionable town :—" Lost 28th Day of Febuary neare Winehcombe st a small red merocker Box containg a gold Ring with Emmeral Set in Diamods. Whoever has found the same and will Bring it to the cryer's office will receive to gineas Reward."... Cheltenham chronicle, • Joseph Murray, 22, Alfred Bevis, 22, and James Bevis, 25, were indicted for feloniously cutting and maiming Na thaniel Nevell, with intent to murder him, and in other counts the intent was laid to be to maim and disable the pro secutor. Mr. Wilkins appeared for the prosecution. Mr. Ballantine defended James Bevis, and Mr. Wilde defended Murray. The circumstances of this case wi!l be fresh in the recollec tion of our readers from the full report that, appeared of the ,prisoners' examination at the police-office, and it will, there fore, be unnecessary to repeat them on the present occasion. The prosecutor is a boot and shoemaker, carrying on business in St. John's-street, and on the night of the 7th February, he was disturbed by hearing a noise in his shop, and on going there he saw three men, two of whom he identified as Alfred Bevis and Murray. They immediately attacked him, and one of them struck him with a life-preserver, and inflicted a very severe wound upon his head, and he was otherwise very much injured. Confirmatory evidence was adduced tending to show the guilt of the prisoners Murray and Alfred Bevis, but the evidence was very slight against James Bevis. The jury accordingly found the two first-mentioned pri soners Guilty, and acquitted the prisoner James Bevis. Mr. WILDE having taken a technical objection to the in dictment, which would have required the postponement of the judgment, Mr. Justice PArrEsox expressed his opinion that it would be advisable to try the prisoners upon another indictment ' that had been preferred against them. The prisoners were accordingly arraigned upon that charge. The evidence was precisely the same, and the jury returned the same verdict, as in the former case. Mr. Justice PArrEsoN then sentenced Murray, against whom a previous conviction for felony was proved, to be transported for life, and Alfred Bevis for ten years. CENTRAL CRI %lINAL COURT. THE DEPTFORD MURDERS. Sarah Dickenson, a married woman, aged 36, was put to the bar, charged that she, on the 10th of January, in the pa rish of Deptford, did, with a certain razor inflict a wound on the neck and throat, and did strike, cut and wound, one George John Dickenson, of the age of three years, and did mortally wound him, so that he died. She was also given in charge on the Coroner's Inquest. The Wretched prisoner was bitterly affected, and presented a most pitiable spectacle. The Learned Judge (Patteson) ordered a chair to be placed in the dock for her support. Mr. Doane was Counsel for the prose cution, and Mr. Clarkson for the defence. The Learned Counsel having opened the case by a brief recapitulation to the jury of the facts of the case, called the following witnesses : Elizabeth Spencer, sworn—l am the wife of William Spencer, and I lived at No. 5, Giffin-street, Deptford, when this affair occurred. The unfortunate prisoner and her husband lived there. We were lodgers there. I knew the prisoner and her family for better than three months. I knew the little boy and the child too. I remember on the 10th of January last Mr. Dickenson going out in the morn ing. The last time I saw him that morning was about a quarter-past eight, and I did not see him again till between half-past five and six o'clock. He and his wife and children oc cupied two rooms below, and we lodged above. About half past five Mr. Dickenson came into our. room in a state of great alarm, and fell fainting on the bed. In consequence of what he said I went down stairs, and found the prisoner lying on the bed with her throat cut, and in a dread ful state. I also saw the two children with, their throats cut, and they were quite dead. I knew the parentsto be in very great distress indeed—most deplorably off. From illness the husband was unable to work, and I believe he had never had a day's work since the birth of the baby, about twenty months' ago. He had nothing to keep his family on, but the small sums they got from their lodgers. I know they had pawned everything. They treated the children with the greatest of kindness. I never saw more affection in my life. The parents had parted with every rag of their own clothes, and had pawned much of their children's. They were both exceedingly kind to each other—never saw a kinder husband or a better wife. I had recommended her to go to the overseer, but she did not go— she could not bear it. For the day through oftentimes I have known them only have a bit of bread and a few potatoes. The parents often went without altogether. I know once for two days the children had only two penny loaves, and the parents had nothing whatever. Prisoner often com plained heavily of her head, and the pains she had in it. Oftentimes she has complained she was afraid she would lase her senses. She has often said her mind wandered and she should go distracted. Before this happened she was often wandering, and forgetting what she was about. I have been 'present when she was teaching the children their prayers, and she has forgotten all at once what she was doing, and forgotten the words. On the Tuesday, that is the day before ' this happened, she borrowed a penny from me to buy sonic , thing with. Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—I have often seen pri soner walking about with her hand to her head. It was at those times she complained of her head, and said she was afraid she should go out of her mind. Sarah White examined.—l was a lodger in Mr. Dicken son's house when this affair happened. I remember the little boy George. I last 'saw him alive on the morning Of Wed nesday. I did not see him again till about twenty-five mi nutes to six, when I heard a terrible noise. It came from the last witness, Mrs. Spencer. I went into the room, and saw what has already been described. She inquired se • veral times where her husband was gone to. Her conduct as a mother and wife was most affet tionate. George Dickenson, the husband's brother, was then called and examined—l am the brother to the prisoner's husband, and am a licensed victualler, livin g in Cannon-street.. I saw the body of the little boy at my brother's house. Cross-examined.—l did not know the prisoner before she was married. After they were married, in 1839, she came as housekeeper to the house I then kept. She had an acci dent by falling down the steps into the yard. Her forehead was much hurt—so much so, that I had to send for a doctor. She was very ill after that, and left ; about three months after the accident she was confined with her first child. I always thought she was of a desponding character, but more so, much more so, after this accident. I have often heard her complain of her head, and put her hand up to it. I knew no thing of her family. By the JUDGE—After the accident she was very low spirited —very much more so than before. This I observed particularly from the time of the accident to her first con finement. They took a public-house in 1839, and stayed in it till 1841, when my brother failed, and since then he has been doing nothing. John Hills examined—l am churchwarden of the parish of Deptford. Having heard of this melancholy affair, I went to the house about six o'clock. I f oun d th e h us b an d there, and what he first said to me was in the absence of his wife. When I first went down and saw three bodies lying, as I thought murdered, I thought the husband had done it. The woman was, as I thought, lying in the agonies of death, but it soon appeared that, wounded as she was, she knewall that was going on. I examined the husband's hands, when she said it was not he who had done it, but herself. She after wards, when somewhat recovered, gave me an account of it. She said she murdered the little boy first, because he was the strongest, and the little girl afterwards. This was her own spontaneous declaration. She appeared most anxious to excul pate her husband, whom I suspected and was examining. She said that having cut the throats of her children, she had cut her own, but was afraid she had not done it effectually. In the evening she said she attempted it the day before, but her heart failed 'her. She appeared in the greatest agony of mind, upbraiding herself bitterly for her wickedness. The room was. in a very distressed state—no bed and no bed clothes—indeed the most abject misery. I found duplicates for very many thingS, but the children's silk clothes were there packed iu boxes very carefully ; they were very clean and very nice. Cross-examined--The distress was shocking to see. I did not warn her not to tell me anything, and did not ask her to tell me. J was present at the inquest. I remember that eleven out of twelve of the jury wished Mr. Carttar to take a verdict that she was of unsound mind. He refused to do so, and they kept him for a long while. George Worman—l am relieving-officer.of Deptford union. Neither prisoner nor her husband ever applied for relief. John Hewitt—l am a police-constable. I went to the house of the prisoner at the bar. I found a razor there, which I now produce. I saw the prisoner bleeding terribly, and the two children murdered. She said, "It is I that have done the horrid deed." She also 'said she had attempted to do it the day before, but her heart failed her. She said she murdered the boy first, and it was two or three minutes before she could murder the little girl. She heard the chime of the clock strike a quarter past one, when she commenced the horrid deed, and she added she sat up looking at her murdered infants till a quarter past five, and then she cut her own throat. Cross-examined = When I first went into the room the prisoner was not able to speak. Did you caution the woman not to speak. Did you not feel it your duty to do so ? Mr. Justice Parrnsosr—lt was not his duty to do so. There is a very mistaken notion on that subject. A police man has no right to warn any person. Mr. CLARKSON—Oh, very well, my Lord; be it so then. I shall not urge the question. It is a pity, however, that some judges should have one opinion on this subject and some another. Roscoe—l am a policeman and was present on the occasion. I began to search the husband, and the prisoner said, "It was I who did it. I did it at a quarter past one." Arthur—l am a surgeon, living at Deptford. I was called to the house, and saw the dead body of the boy George. I examined him, and in my opinion his death was caused by a wound from the razor. The prisoner was then in a dreadful state ; her wind-pipe was actually , severed in one place, and in another nearly cut through. I sewed up the wound, and did all that was necessary. Cross-examined—This was about five o'clock. I thought she was dying, and did so for many days after. She was in a state of collapse. She was not in a state to have questions put to her. Ido not . think it would have been right to attack any weight to her answers, in the state she was then in. I believe her to have been in a state of aberration, whilst under my care, since the dreadful event. I considered her mind to be in a " state Of a sort of imbecility , since the affair." The discharge of blood, consequent on the cutting of her throat, would have relieved her head. I consider her weak state of mind to be altogether foreign from the circumstances attend ing the dreadful deed. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. Cuaixsosr then made a most powerful and touching address to the jury, urging that from the intense anise!" the prisoner was struggling with there was ample ground toatain tain that her mind had given way, even supposing it tb lave been originally a sound and strong one. But, happily for himself, for the Judge, for the jury, and for the sake (of our common nature, lie was in a position to prove that insanity was in her family, and that she had herself, on many occasions, froth want - and suffering, been labouring under an aberration of mind, and not responsible for the acts she did. The Learned Counsel then called witnesses, whose evidence we give the chief points of:— Jane March—The young woman at the bar is my sister. When she was in a situation, about eight years ago, her mis tress brought her to me in a cab ; buSseven years previously , to that I had observed her do very strange things. Her mis tress brought her to me on account of the eccentricity of her conduct, and through it she lost her situation. I have known her lie in bed days and nights together without any food or nourishment whatever. Once for three days and three nights she did this, and although urged by alf of us to take something she never would. Another tinie she sat up three nights in the kitchen. She assigned as a reason the dreadf u l state of her head. During those nights she had no sus tenance. She was always complaining of her head. She would often go out by herself, come home again, and go right off to bed in the middle of the day. At other times she would wander about the house, for hours and hours together, never saving a word to any one, and when we spoke to her, however kindly, never replying. This was before the acci dent, when her head was so much hurt. She was always low in her spirits, but at times very melancholy indeed. She (k'rom the London New Price Current of March 8.) was often bled. to relieve the head. Bleeding had that effect SUGA e was -7'her a dullness in the West India Sugar for a time. My aunt was in a madhouse for some time, an d mai ket in the early part of the wek, grocers and refiners purs I believe died there. chasing all descriptions with much caution. To-day stiff prices am' uncle by marriage to the young woman were paid for all descriptions of West India Sugar, and all par• at the bar. Her aunt was out of her mind—incurably so. She died so.' ties were desirous to p urc h ase , but business was che c k e d b y the smallness of the quantity on, offer. The tail sales for the William Jones—l am a doctor of medicine, living at Lut- week' are 660 hhds. Brown Sugar of dry quality is not to be terworth, in Leicestershire. In February last I was making h a d under 60s a visit to the house of Sir Robert Ot wa y. At t h e request of R per cwt. ZFINED.— To-day little desire was shown on the part of the ladies of his family , I went to see the young woman at the the home trade to buy Refined Sugar, and prices are droop bar. I remember the opinion I formed then, and I have l og • b rown l umps are 76 5, to 7 6s 6d, and standard 7 7s 6(1 to heard all the evidence given in Court this day, and I have no 78 s per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar was taken sparingly at doubt whatever that, at the time of this sad event, there was 263 to 26s 3d.per cwt. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon . th e pr i ces pa id were fully a disease of the brain that incapacitated he r from being re sponsible for her acts. Cross-examined . by Mr. DOANE—Distress of mind might equal to those of the last public sale—ord foxy brown fetched 54s good 58s to 695, low y e llo w 59 s to 61s, mid 61s 6(1 to so surcharge the b ra i n w ith bl oo d , as i n a d ay or two to 63;6d, good 64s to 66s 6d, ord 'strong grey 60s to 61 6a mid and good mid 62s to 63s 6d, and good 64s to 65s per Cwt. ' drive a person mad •, and, as in this case, a subsequent great t B o e2n,g7a517 bags, Sugar loss of blood might brine , that person to a state of rationality EwsT T .NDIA. This aftern attention ; two parcels amount o io n n g so as to be able properly to answer questions. Mr. DOANE simply replied on the evidence, and thewe m re et off w er i e t d h at public sale, and sold at full rates—good white at 68s 6d, mid Learned Judge having summed up, 67s to 67s 6sl, low mid 66s damp andwashed 63s 6d to The jury immediately returned a verdict of "Not Guilty 661 6d, mid soundyellow 6 1 s of murder, being at the time in a state of insanity," to the damp foxy to 61s 6d, damp 59s to 61s, low great relief of a crowded and distressed Court. Date yellow 60s, and damp 59s 6d There was another indictment against the prisoner for the per cwt. murder of her other child, on which she was also arraigned. F • FOREIGN. —There has been less activity in the market for The same verdict was given as in the last case. Foreign Sugar this week, but holders are firm, and have re- Thefrained from passing sales . This afternoon there public the unhappy woman, .whose sufferings throughout 'were of . the most acute character. was then removed from the dock. sale of Foreign Sugar ; privately some parcels of yellow Ha- Williant Gregor, who was convicted on Thursday of at- vannah sold at I9s 6d to 22s 6d per cwt. for low to fine, and tempting to make a revolt on board ship, was brought 'up for the market closed firmly. judgment. . COFfEE.—prices have been fully supported for West India, Mr. Justice Parrs sox said that the jury had coupled with and some parcels disposed of privately : the market is still their verdict the expression of an opinion that the lightest scantily supplied, and none has been brought to public sale. sentence permitted by the law should be passed upon him Ceylon, 580 bags at 2s to 3s above thrie of and also censuring the conduct of the captain and the owners this day week ; good ordinary fetched 70s 6d to 71s. 9 puns of the vessel, and at the same time strongly recommended the of Berbice sold at 63s 6d for good ordinary greyish. Mocha at prisoner to mercy. The opinion of the jury had been notified 74s to 75s for middli n g y e ll ow , an d 72s to 73s for middling to Lord Abinger, who tried the case, an d hi s Lordship' re greenish. In other sorts of E as t I n di a C o ff ee a goo d deal of quested him to state that he did no t at all concur in the j business was done privately at stiffer rates : Padang fetched 325; opinion of the jury. He considered the offence a very serious .to 345, and Batavia 33s to 40s. The closing prices of good' one, and passing a very light sentence was quite out of the ordinary Ceylon were 71s to 71s 6d per cwt ; at a late hour.. a question ; but the recommendation of .the jury would be so • - per cwt. parcel of fino ordinary Plantation sort said at 85s to 90s p far attended to, that the prisoner would not receive so se • nous CoFoa.—All deseriptions of West India are much wanted, a punishment as he would otherwise have been sentenced to. ' higher rates andpaid. Trinidad sold at 46s to 46. '1 6d fai• low The Learned Judge then said that the sentence he had to prey, being Is to 2s above previous rates : nod and privately, g (lsorts have been f e t c hi ng a2 s t o 57 9 , and low to middling pass upon him was, that h e b e i mpr i soned for one year in the fine re gaol of Newgate, with ha r d labour, if the discipline of the 47s to 51s per cwt. F ore i gn i s h e ld firmly at 28a to 32s gaol permitted it. per cwt. . Tice.:—To-day there was less inclination shown to purchase, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) WORSHIP-STREET. Mr. Edward Harpond, who was described in the charge list as a gentleman, residing in Park-road, Greenwich, was charged before Mr. Bingham with having wantonly urged a ferocious dog to attack several persons, who had thereby sustained serious injuries. It appeared, from the evidence, that on the previous after noon, the prisoner and another "gentleman," who were both slightly intoxicated, were observed proceeding along the Kingsland-road, accompanied by a savage dog, which they were amusing themselves by "setting" at every living object that came within their reach. The dog was first seen to attack a poor horse, the nose of which it seized and clung to t until it was beaten off with the butt-end of a whip. The prisoner appeared highly delighted with the "sport," and excited the dog to renew the attack by clapping his hands and calling out "go it," with other encouraging ejacula tions; and he afterwards. caused it to fly at a group of children, one of whom was severely lacerated with his teeth. His disgraceful conduct attracted the indignant notice of several bystanders, but he disregarded their remonstrances, and whilst they were looking for a policeman, the prisoner set the dog at another boy, who was instantly dragged to the ground and bitten in several places. The last occurrence took place close to the station-house, and was observed by a policeman named Kelly, who immediately took the prisoner into custody. He offered no resistance in the first instance, but when the charge was taken down the prisoner com menced a furious assault upon the officer, who was also seized by the dog, and his leg was so shockingly lacerated that he was obliged to proceed to the hospital to have it dressed. After a desperate resistance the prisoner and his dog were both se cured, and the latter vicious animal was destroyedon the spot. The respective charges of the policeman Kelly and a boy named Healey, who had also been bitten, were fully sub stantiated; and a surgeon's certificate was produced relating to the case of another boy named Copan who was stated to be so severely injured that he was unable to attend. In reply to the charge, a solicitor, who attended for the prisoner, assured the Magistrate that client was sincerely sorry for what had taken place, and was quite willing to defray wlratever medical expenses might be incurred by the injured parties, and to give_ them ample compensation for the sufferings they had sustained. Mr. BINGHAM said that he should consider himself unfit to discharge the duties of a magistrate, if he were to allow any compromise to take place in a case of this description. A person in humble life who had been guilty of such gross misconduct, would infallibly have been sent to prison, and asit was to be presumed that a person in the prisoner's station was possessed of superior intelligence and instruction, he should make no distinction in his favour, but should commit him forthwith to the House of Correction for one month; besides which, he should order the prisoner to pay a fine of 40s. for the assault on the boy Healey, and at the expiration of his imprisonment, lie would be brought up again, to answer the complaint of the boy, who was at present unable to appear against him. The prisoner, who appeared astounded at the decision, was then removed from the bar. CLERKENWELL. Ann Smith was charged with assaulting Mr. Robert Dult, chief usher of this Court. Mr. Duke, a very respectable and obliging officer, deposed that on the previous night; between twelve and one o'clock, he was passing along Pentonville-hill, when the prisoner and two other girls attacked him. He had not given them the slightest provocation. The prisoner was particularly violent. She first pushed him off the path, and then kicked him in the legs and struck him with her clenched fist in the face. A police-constable came up, and he gave her into custody. The prisoner, who had not the least excuse to make for the outrage, was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment. MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY CORN EXCHANGE. Although we had about an average supply of English Wheat, the demand for it was steady, at prices quite equal to those obtained on Monday. There was a moderate retail trade for Foreign Wheat, at fully previous rates. The Barley trade was in a depressed state, at barely stationary prices, with a good supply offering. Malt was a mere drug, and is per quarter lower. The Oat trade was dull, at barely late rates. All other grain as on Monday. ARRIVALS. I Wheat. - Eng1i5h.......... 3,180 qrs, 1ri5h......... ..... F0reign.......... 2,350 113,1ev. I Oita. Flour , 90 V10 1 41 qrs.' 4,250 ir, 2,940 sacks. 170 ! -- Malt, 3,4'20 qrr. SMITHFIELD. Upwards of 300 Scots having been received by steamers Pram Scotland; the supply of beasts on sale was rather exten sive, and of good average quality, yet the demand was steady at fully Monday's quotations. From Holland 10 beasts were on offer. The numbers of sheep were scanty, while the sale for them was active, at very full rates. In calves a good business was doing, on previous te►ms. Pigsmoved off freely at our quotations. Milch Cows were sold at from 161. to 191. ss, each, including their small calf. Per 81trs. to sink the offal. s. d. to s. d I d. toe. d. Interior Beasts 2 6 2 8, Inferior 5heep......... 2 8 3 0 Second quality itto— 210 3 0 1 Second quality ditto... 3 2 3 8 Prime large 0xen...." 3 4 3 6, Coarsimmolled ditto.. 310 4 0 Prime Scots, &c.. 3 8 40 ' SOuthdown Wethers 4 2 4 6 Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 O f Large Hogs ............ 3 0 3 8 Prime small ditto 4 2 4 8, Small Porkers ......... 310 4 4 Suckling Calves. each 13 028 0 quarter old Pigs. each l 8 0 21 U SUPPLY AT MARKET. 919 Beasts. 1 2 Sheep j j Ca 160 1 W lves, Pigs O ,410 EWOATEI AND LEAD X N NAL Zs. We had but a moderate supply of Meat, while the demand was steady on full terms :---- At per atone, by the Carcase s. d. too. d.l s. d. tar. d. Beef, ..... 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior 2 6 2 8 - middling ...... 2 6 2 8: middling 210 3 2 -,-- prime large ..... 210 3 2, - prime 3 4 3 --- prime small 3 4 36, Pork, large ..»... 2 3 8 Veal 3 46) -small... ........ 9 6 4 2 BOROUGH 110 P AZARILET. - The supply of all kind of Hops i s very small, while the demand is steady, at fully late rates. • CtilotNi.tx.x.. Stlaut.—The market for British Plantation has been very barely supplied, and the sales have been consequently limited to about 700 hhds at full prices ;, yellow and fine having been sold at 62s to 67s Gd, and brown at 53s to 60s 6d. MAURITIUS AND BENGAL.--The transactions at public sale have been restricted, 4,453 bags 238 casks of the former sold at 63s 6d to 67s for good to fine yellow, and at 60s to 63s for low to mid, good and fine brown realising 58s to 59s 6d ; 1,509 bags of the latter went at 67s to 68s for good white, and at 61s to 63s for mid yellow. Prices have not been so buoyant. FOREIGN. 268 boxes Havannah at auction realised 24s 6d to 27s for low to mid, sound quality, and 17s 6d to 25s for da maged. Privately there has been a fair business. Refined has been steady. COFFEE.—British Plantation has been quiet but steady in price. In Ceylon .there has been less doing; good ord has realised 68s to 68s 6d, and Plantation 83s 6d per cwt. In East India sorts 3,816 bags have been offered and partly sold ; Batavia at 31s to 33s 6d for ord to good ord, and at 42s to 44s for fine ord; 400 bags Singapore Java went at 435, and some good ord pale at 36s to 395. There were 148 bales 82 bags Mocha sold at 61s Gd to 72s Gd for mid; and 911 bags Foreign, Brazil, were taken in at 30s to 34s for triage to ord and good. Privately 1,500 bags Domingo have been sold, but the price is not known. _ _ Coco.i.—There has been a good demand for British Plan. tation ; 40 barrels Trinidad went at 46s to 46s 6d for low grey RUM.—This article has been very firm, proof Leewards at 2s ld per gallon : _ SEICEs2=B46 bags Eastern Pepper sold at 2id to 3 1 1(1 for good light, and 282 bags whitepartly found buyers at sid to 50, and for one or two lots 91d per lb. 150 boxes Cassia Lignea went at 58s to 675. Pimento has been firm, and 57 bags by auction sold at. 3d to 3d for good. RICE.--The principal business has been privately at full rates ; 500 bags at auction brought 12s for mid white. Corrox.—Business has fallen off in this article. - TEA.—The accounts from China state that business was proceeding slowly. The market is steady, and there will probably be more doing when the general contents of the letters have been duly weighed. • TiLow.—P. Y. C. is qUiet at about Tuesday's rates. in consequence of the accounts come to hand from Chins , slat ing that shipments o f T ea were go i ng on l arge ly. Holders , however, were firm, and sound common Congou cash is ne t to be purchased under I s . OP. per lb. The falling off in the d " roand is considered as only temporary. MOLASSES.—West Ir dia cannot be purchased on leer terms, 27s 64 to 28s paid for Antigua. Cuba Honey takee la at 20s per cwt. Seices.--Vack Pepper is rot to be purchased on l over terms. Eist and West :rndia Ginger have been in excellent request and prices are rather higher. This afternoon at st, , ,S; tion 31 chests of Cassia Lig nea went b r i s kl y at 651, fid to Do; for good middlin g mi xe d, b e i ng th e f u ll wort h ; m iddling 's to be had under 65s per cwt. , s SAco. —Mid large pearl t a k en i n a t 17 s 6d, small: 'lf.. - .15s to les, a small p ar t so ld at 18 s to 18 s O d f or g ood bright pearl, IBs. f o r sma ll w hit e o ld pear l . T ap i oc a at Da S 7d per lb for good to fine quality. d Ricx.—hengal low w hit e ll s 6d to ll s 9d, wit'. J to .'s zoo 12s 6d, and fine 13s, 12s for fair mid and white, and sea darnag . d at 9s to /Is Od per cwt. Madras and Java are held firmly , the lower descriptions have met with attention; several parce ls of yellow sold priv a t e ly as 9 s 64 to 9 s 9d per cwt. Pons 14s to 17s, and Caroli n a c l eane d h ere at 21s, 245, and 0' pe t cwt. '1 hi, afternoon Ben ga l a t s tiff er rates , m iddli n g White' 12s6d, and low middling 12s per cwt. q„ A to Rum, REANDY, AND HOLLANDS...4IIMAkIL at d 3s 94 for fair quality 30 to 37 per cent over proof; the d E l' ne e- e have disposed of 250 puns at as 4d to 4s 3d for 32 to ou, cent over proof of fair to good quality ; for small pareej f superior 4s 6d to 5s 6d paid. Leewards at 2s Id to ‘2 l, gallon, proof. Demerara at 2s lld to 3s 3d for fair to fine lity. Calcutta Rum at Is 104 to is 100 proof with Certiflestei In Brandy holders manifest firmness :-_Cognac, best brant o ° , the vintage of 1838, hhds at 5s 11d, puns 5s 9d; ditto, 1 ' 1 ' ; hhds 5s Bd, puns Sc 6d • ditto, 1840, hhds 5s 6d, puns 534 4 j, ditto, 1841, hhds 5s sd, puns 53 3d ; ditto, 1842, hhds b' et puns 5s 2d ; and inferior and middling mars 36 to 49 " r gallon. Geneva for export a ti on a t I s 10d to i s lld ; fin".. or % home use is fetching 2s 41 to 34 per gallon. English Spirits at 101 2d, and single cask s a t 10 s 3d per !Wen , ;Id To-day proof Leewards sold at 2s 2d to 2s 3d, CAlcutia is 1 to Is 11d, and common Jamaica 31 to 33 per cent Def r r -- 3s 4d to 3s 6d per gallon. h Oil OILS. — The market for com mon descriptions of ta En d is firm ; Cod at 331 5s to 331 10 s . P a l e Seal at 35i, .7 t h Southern at 32/to 341 for com t o fine. Sperm Oil has met wbil much attention. British fetched 701 to 72/per tun. Linsee d of on the spot at 27s to 273 3d ; for delivery the tenden e l prices is still upwards ; Rap e , pale at 35s 6d to 365, and 34s 6d to 35s per cwt; Olive Oil at 46/ to 47/ for Gallipoli, 421 to 421 lOs for Spanish, and 41/ to 411 10s for Barb 9; Palm, fine at 28. to 28s 6d, a n d i n f er i or 24 s t o 27s per cs Cocoa Nut. Oil at 28s 6d to 32s per cwt; North America Lard Oil is 41/ to 42/ per tun. eted TALLOW.—For Russian a good b us i ness has been Sral i n o vr on the spot, and 40s 6d to 41 s p er cw t. pa id f or fi rs t s ort ae- Candle. For delivery in th e l as t th ree mont h s o f t h e Yes r 4 Et' 6d to 4 9d per cwt. Town . Tal low a t 40 s 6d t o 41s per s " - e ; 4 taert - hsh. This afternoon P.Y. Candle, at 40s 9d to 414 Out oh the spot. THREE-AND-A-HALF PER CENT'' , The announcement made last n ig ht i n th e House atl' ° „ 0 mons by the Chancellor of the E xc h equer o f hi s inten"°-of bring forward immediately a p ro p os iti on f or th e reduction . 03 the interest on the Three-and-a-Half per Cents- has reads the anticipation formed a few d a y s back that his ; was fully matured. It has created therefore no surer! es but, with regard to the nature of it, no Pqc ise ,,, l ora can be collected in the City, even from those 5,."; usually well-informed on such subjects. In general the lief is entertained that it will evince a spirit of liberal dint, towards those whose interests are directly affected i f s i r because it is by that course a l one it s success can n ti ek sured. The situation of the Money Market is as to give to a Finance Minister the Pow,, er t nearly dictating his own terms i n th e re d uc tion ; well the present Chancellor of the Exchequer has been trained in these matters, and h as w ithi n hi s recollec too also some signal instances of failure through attenieting t io much, it is thought he will adopt the safe course rate *Dig he that calculated to produce the grea t es t i mm ediate at to the country. When the largeness of the amount vior, converted is taken into the account; a n d the great en itest rassment, too, which might be p ro d uce d by a ny veg e b s ido number of dissentients, every argument is 01 1 op of a liberal, or even generous policy. Great 1 1 _,ar.„,0- and suffering must, under the mos t f avou rable c" . ;bile stances, be produced by any s uc h measure , es pecial 0 0 the fundholders are undergoin g , i n common w ith al c od classes, the infliction of a property-tax, to which it is w eight' of additional pressure ; and thi s mus t h ave it s due Thus both moral and political considerations will lead elot., case to the same result. The course stated on Ther sda jesat of giving 31 per cent. during ten y ears , an d then 3 IL ix only, is believed to be that whi c h th e Ch ance ll o r ef I"" . - chequer will adopt.—Times. • • LLOYD'S SHIPPING. o d Lowroxt, MARcu B.—Wind light south easterly breeze cloudy. gld DEAL, MAacat 7.—Wind N. to N.N.E., moderate.--0, Helen and Martha, Trinidad ; Camerens, Jamaica ; Rid ° Cuba. RAMSGATE, MARCH 7.—Sld. Hercules, Havannah• . for OFF DOVER, MARCH 7.—P assenger , W a t so n, Leith ; TOL, MARCH Delftshaven, 7. Arrd Batavia . for kson Calcutta. Amsterdam * SlCLCharid' , Cape of Good Hope ; Re n f rews hi re , St. John's, N.B. j utO MILFORD, MARCH 6.—The Cabotia, for Now fork, discharge to repair. rlcr OFF BEACHY HEAD, MARCH 6.—Arrd Van -- Batavia for Amsterdam. c are MUMBLES, MARCH s.—Arrd. Tartar, Cornhill, shifted, sails split, and loss of bulwarks. Sld. Cobrero , ,.„ o PoRTHcAwL, MARCH 6.—The S ussex , from • Li Suy a'° S Bristol, which was ashore near here 24th ult., has be off with little damage. lAi e PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 7.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. • don for China; Pekin, London for Madras. GIP SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 7.—Sld. Liverpool (steame r). ral tar. PLymouTzt, MARCH 7.—Wind N.—Off Westbroo k' nington, Singap o re. , • qll FALMOUTH, MARCH 7.—Wind N.E., light breeze s 'g t iro' Lord Stanley, Aden ; Albert, Dominica ; Jupiter' ` , 0 0 11 nique ; St. Jaques, Port-au-Prin ce ; P er ill an , t" , The 'West India steamer passed this morning on her Southampton. CO" vets te CARDIFF, MARCH 6.—Sld. Keziti, Cuba; Chase , T .„blik t , WHITEHAvEn, Malted' 6 —The Shannon, from this port, -on shore near here, has been got off, place. LrvEttroot, MARCH 7.—Wind N.N.E., Cbigwell, Tobasco, Jan. 20 ; Ci rcass i an , From "" rig?' Dec. 2 ; Pampero, Robert, B uenos A yres ; Molsoof peg: ditto, Dec. 29. Sld. Caroline, Africa ; Mary Ell en ifart ol does; Fox, La Guayra ; Marquis of Lori', San ta Sarah and Aisilia, New York. d7°' MARCH s.—Arrd. Sir 'Robert P eel , Manilla; Hostelina, Le Cheinnaut, Cuba. E ta ; HULL, MARCH 7.—Wind N.N.W., mod.—Sld. N .' I'M RoTHßsax; MAncit s.—Sid. Marmer, St. John 7 Brunswick. • 0 08 ' SUIDERLAZD, MARCH 5.--Sid. Lady Prudhoe, 6. A dividend of 7s. per share was & fit clay— via meeting of Shareholders of the Croydon Ba nw t a T i e l an r : on Thursday, the balance of profit and -lotui for , 31 4 4 half-year, including the sum formerly ' s e. ' o of d t for depreciation of stock, showing an „,-, 1111 „ 0 L-ti t 14,635/. 18s. Hid. It appears from the ney„fue! b it the traffic between Croydon and London CO opl*a( a stationary condition ,• but so soon as the to p tunity shall be afforded by the propo rtionate .tis tbz~ the Bricklayers' Arms line, the Directors state that ; intention materially to reduce the fares to that stat l- o f tro l t as they have no doubt that the conseq uen t increiW rop ose„, will warrant the necessary expenditure, the)" P A hlie the same time to add as much as possible to tho irequeneo commodation and convenience, by the great er t hey_f m i of trains and other mean s , w hi c h, they g a n a gie 7, e d would be perfectly valueless as inducements to tr oto poi, oo the high rate of fare to which they are at peeseA, t wall.!'„o to resort. Negotiation with the Greenwich aci d ao d "' r e the subject of a reduction of toll has ea..' tors t ° to disposition was manifested to induce the Pire c tte mPt t bs open the - matter, after the late unsuccessfu l A tin t bo bring about an arran gemen t. Mr. Wilkinson' o t of course of his address to the 'meeting, hin t % loo 6e o v probability of the Croydon Company accepting we re the Greenwich line, supposing reasonable tern - co op 40 mitted to ; but it does not seem that the Crorint i or fasNo are inclined to allow a lease of theit line to the Sn .. u n ideren to . Company, since prospective advantages be of paramount importance, and as not nr c i t silty are !L i , to ~ b 4, calve due attention in any arrangement I,ent-he under the present aspect of affairs, take don Company supports the project of a line of r" id nrig,, Chatham, to form a junction with the Croydon I .°_, par',, t ho lines, to open a communication with thew est! .. " t ; ic o c t eito England ; and the Directors propose to allow the re Iders jr 0 4 Chatham line to pass free of toll till the shareho bori c to g 4 per cent. The works on the Bricklavers Arnnected.,o‘ proceeding satisfactorily, and it is confidently el;t the line will be opened r public traffic by the 150 00 Mar.—Times. b• was io t We understand that the trial of Tilo son er i s ce lately spirit-dealer in Greenock, and presentlY,Ptaock jai I here, indicted for the murder - of his wife, is .ttr ...Of place. moo at Edinburgh on the 14th of the present Wl' 0 0 1,4 Advertiser. Cug ABLE Iffholott: [AD VE RTIS E ME NT.] —D ROPS LES 'l, s t LowAY's hus.—ExTRAORDINARY CASE, • - r., Char „ v oile - Diggle, residing in one of the almshouse ll Aw l- a dful )';,l sjl e ; Westminster, was by the' watery dropsy Zjibee,l e ecl , in body and legs as to be increased to do, "",, ar e (n t ry it 1, , 1 %. Medical man had declared her past Al' t - ra ordi a a a , t tsk i r?, death was daily expected), yet, however e 5- b a ils e 1!,;,, appear, she was reduced several inches i ll Odic'" c ure f o r $ only a few doses of the above extraordinarY per feCt _ OO til t wonderful remedy may be considered any kind of dropsy, however long-standing, EstalOtareft as 3 or da age r l inn ea case may be.—Sold at Professor Holloway. 9, and by 244, Strand (where advic e may be had kratisp, t he 220• F all respectable medicine venders througt."o,;llP World, in pots and boxes at Is. lid.• 2 s. 9/ ' and 335. each. On the 4th inst., at CBliftillionT,HthSe.lady of W it/19 ' 111 C. AC: Esq., of a'daughter. Ole ' 13 riot i On the 4th inst., at the Holt, Wokinghanl, = e tray d of John Spencer Wynn Werninck, Esq., of a sun . , be ha On the 4th inst., at Queen - street, May-fa ir ' " 101°1' Harry Thornton, Esq., of a son k, t On the sth inst., inSnssex-g.ardens, Ityde• Ig ir 4 , Mrs. Lambart, of twin daughters, still-born. ,' T iiratro' ' On the sth inst., at Woburn -place, the wife al v• .si Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. o f Tr On the sth inst., in Chester -place, the lady ' oi l Webster, Esq., of a son. 11-0 16 On the sth inst., Mrs. James Boyd, Canberra _ . . daughter. yr it 0 .6 On the sth inst., at Stoke Newington, OM • _, :daughter. l' MARRIED. IC 0 IC', .r 1 ~ t o On the Ist inst., at Usselby Church, IVOliam -. '„ - A c t ' ric s ' o f lace, eldest son of Hugh Wallace, I:ark ! of 1-)°`"r- lA' Catherine Mary, daughter of William Brackeaburyt Usselby House, Lincolnshire. DIED. , tli' 3! On the 29th ult., Marie Louise, aged 8, ol d " a , ' 'd nst., Charlotte J . Ca aged 4 vears and 8 Mout, to daughters of Mr. J. Cahais Smith, a iide-vale, 31;liggitret' On the 2tl inst., at Bath-place, Peckham, 113i13 . the wife of Captain T. A. Carr, aged 29. xv ero -teri ' On the 4th inst., John BiLni Wood, Et*, e° 4 0 race, Brighton, aged 42. 0 0,. , , On the 4th inst., at Stttbbington Lodge , nerj r us 7ic! ° l° , , William Grant, Esq., banker, of Portsmouth, Peace and Deputy-Lieutenat for Samuelcounty of I4o' 0 On the sth inst., Ann, wife of Windbag), Cumberland-terrace, Regent's-park. o f 1.°V141:;6° Loudon:. Printed and Published by 1111.7 R No 112, Strand, at The Son Office, Igo. 11X rr - Outlay of Miaillbsex, Saturdob Dot 9► 11" I 1.) 1 I) 4 1 „ k,,1:14