The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-17 00:00:00

Nbiti on ,to 74s 6d, pea berry Mocha sold 54s per cwt. Jamaica, 80s to 88s, country dam 573 to 6 0 s, triage 37s to 455, broken of the new crop, sold at former rates ; mid colory went at 85s, fine a .d fine tine ord 70s to 745, triage 35s to 66s per cwt. MOLASSES.—West India at rather l ower rates ; Demerara, good, at 255, St. Vincents 245, St. Kitts low and mid 22s to 23s per cwt. For Bengal Syrup holders are not inclined to take lower rates. TEA.—To-day.the market was firm for Tea, and several purchases were made in nearly all descriptions ; Common sound Congou cash Is to is Id, and Twankay ordinary is 3d per lb. Cocoa.—Para held for 34s to 355, Guayaquil 35s to 365, and Bahia 36s to 37s per cwt. British Plantation has still a dull appearance, and prices are going down. This afternoon Trinidad taken in at 44s to 47s per cwt. "INDIGO.—For East India holders remain firm and will not sell, excepting at the rates previously es t a blished. For Spa nish higher rates have bee n asked, - Guatemala taken in at 3s 8d to 4s 3d per lb for middling and good middling. RteE.—The market has an improving appearance for all descriptions of East India Rice--Patna at 13s to 17s, and Carolina at 21s to 26s per cwt. This afternoon Bengal Rice met with attention, mid white went at lOs 6 d to Ils, and sea damaged first class lOs 6d per cwt. Ott s.—ln common Fish Oils this week prices are still going down. Pale Seal is 331 10s, and Cod 331 lOs to 341 per tun ; Sperm Oil firm at 75/ to 76/ for the best British, and 731 to 741 per tun for inferior. Linseed Oil at 26s 9d to 27s per cwt on the spot. Rape Oil, pale, at 395, and brown 38s per cwt ; Olive has brought full prices. lm at re • ducted rates. Cocoa Nut Oil is du ll of sale, and prices droop ing. This afternoon Southern Oil at 271 to 301 for good 24s and to fine; Cocoa Nut Oil at 29 s 6 d t o 30s 6d ; Palm at 255, and low 235. TAELow.—There has been little inclination shown to pur chase P. Y. Candle on the spot this week, and 40s to 40s 6d per cwt is the value. For de liver y p rices are goin d g sellers for the last three months of the year at. 41s 3d to 41s 6d per cwt. Town Tallow at 39s to 39s 6d per cwt nett cash. This afternoon New South Wales Tallow sold at 35s 6d to 38s ; South American at 34s 6d to 38s 6d, and in cerior 32s per cwt. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Cloch. BRITISH AND FOREIGN ANTI SLAVERY SOCIETY,--(THIS DAY.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Mr. G. TuomrsoN thought that he had not been fairly treated, and he would new press his amendment which he had before been disposed to withdraw. It was to the effect that the proceedings of the Committee should be suspended until there should be a general meeting of the Society. After a prolonged and somewhat angry discussion the amendment was carried. Several other members then addressed the meeting, and thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the meeting separated. _ TATTERSALL'S.-QTHIS EVENING. UAIITEII TO SIX O'CLOCK. DEIU 7 to 2 agst Ratan—taken 12 to 1 agst Orlando—taken 14 to 1 agst Bay Mourns ' 18 to 1 agst Leander: 20 to 1 agst Akbar 1000 to 15 agst Loadstone—taken No other change. COURSE OF EXCH , Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at sight l2 4 Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 141 , , Altona l3 15 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine 122 Petersburgh, 3Us 364 Berlin 7 Vienna, efTee. fl. 3M. 954 Trieste, ditto Madrid 364 Cadiz I;,'ilbao 36 Barcelona Sevilla — NGE.—(TIIIS DAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn Genoa 25 90 Milan Venice 47 Naples Palermo, per oz ll7 Lisbon 534 Oporto 534 Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldys sight Philadelphia PRICBS OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons-- 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 91, Silver in Bars 0 4 11 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. (THIS EVENING.) Their Lordships assembled at Five o'Clock. Lord A BIN GE A took the oaths, and signed the Parliamentary roll Earl FIT Z WILLIAM presented a petition from the Quakers of Ireland, praying for the abolition of the punishment of death in all cases whatsoever. Lord BROUGHAM and another Noble Lord presented pe titions from Edinburgh and Leith, in favour of the North British Railway. ROMAN CATHOLIC PENAL ACTS REPEAL B!LL. Lord BEAUMONT in postponing the second reading of this Bill expressed a hope that the Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolsack would make his arrangements so as to allow the Bill to be brought on as early as possible. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that some delay was necessary as this Bill proposed. to repeal twenty-eight Acts of Parliament, and therefore it would take the Government some time to consider the subject. The Duke of Wellington stated that, on next Thursday, he should move the adjournment of the House to that day week. Lord BROUGHAM wished to ask the Noble Lord the Se. cretary for Foreign Affairs if he had, received information with respect to the annexation of Texas with the United States. Fhis was a question of vast importance, so far as the abolition of slavery was concerned, but he trusted that the deciding por tion of the Congress, namely, two-thirds of the members, would oppose it. Nothing which had dropped from or the Noble Lord at the heal of the Foreign Department even justified the inference that this country, although deploring the existence of slavery, ever contemplated any interference with the Constitu tion of America. The Earl of ABERDEEN said the Noble and Learned Lord could not expect him to give a precise answer to the ques t'on he asked. It was a subject quite new and unexampled in the history of nations, and his Noble and Learned Friend might depend upon it that it would receive the most serious atten tion of her llsjesty's Government. It was true, he believed, that the treaty for the annexation of Texas to the United States had been signed ; but he agreed in the hope ex pressed by his Noble and Learned Friend that the majority of Congress would not agree to the ratification of it. At present he eould not speak with confidence on the subject, but when the time came, he should state his opinions to the House, and act consistently with his duty as a Minister of the Crown. Nothing that he or the Noble Lord opposite had ever said, could justify the suspicion that they intended to interfere with American institutions. DUBLIN AND CASHEL RAILWAY. Lord MONTEAGLE said he wished to draw the attention of their Lordships to a matter of vast importance to those per sons interested as shareholders in the railway between Dublin and Cashel. A Bill upon the subject of Railways in Ireland had been introduced, and it had been announced that this Bill could not possibly be carried into effect this year. Any dis appointment in this matter would be a source of injury to those shareholders. DUBLIN AND CA SHEIRAILWAY. Lord MONT EAGLE presented a petition praying that the standing orders of their Lordship's House might be suspended in favour of the Dublin and Cashel Railway. The Duke of WELLINGTON said there was undoubtedly great interest attached to the measure to which the petition of the Noble Lord referred. It was the wish of her Majesty's Government to give every facility in both Houses of Parlia ment to the progress of this measure. The standing orders of their Lordship's House were established for the purpose of securing the public and persons interested against being taken by surprise. Now, in the present case, there could be no sur prise, inasmuch as the notices respecting it had been given several years ago. THE LONDON GAZETTE (THIS EVENING.) ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MAY 13, 1844. The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Forester, to appoint William Lyon, Esq., as one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, vice Vaughan, who retires. WHITEHALL, MAY 17. The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle, Bart., to be her Majesty's Secre tary at War. WAR-OFFICE, MAT 17. 6th Regiment of Dragoons—Lieutenant H. D. White to be Captain, by purchase, vice Thompson, who retires ; Cornet F. W. J. Fit zWygram to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice White, May 17. Bth Dragoons—Lieutenant G. Lockwood, from the 75. h Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Cooper, who exchanges, May 17 . "'loth Light Dragoons — Lieutenant J. Wilkie to be Captain, by purchase, vice Wood, promoted. Cornet F. Leigh to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wilkie. C. H. S. G. Lord liarvagh to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Leigh ; May 17. 11th Regiment of Foot—Major W. Chambre, from half-pay Unattached, to be Major, vice Bisshopp ; May 18. 18th Foot—Lieut. W. T. Bruce to be Adjutant, vice Graves, promoted; Ensign R. H. Farrer to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Bruce, appointed Adjutant ; R. Holahan, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Farrer, May 17. 70th Foot—W. D. M. Best, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Young, who retires, May 17. 75th Foot—Lieutenant W. H. Cooper, from Bth Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Lockwood, who exchanges, May 17. 85th Foot-linsign J. A. Keyt to be. Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Lethbridge, deceased, April pi C. H. Aide, Gent., to be Ensign, without put chase, rico Keyt, May 17. 89th Foot—Ensign A. Mt Geachy Alleyne to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mills, who retires ; A. E. Malloy, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Alleyne, May 17. UNATTAertEn.—Brevet Colonel C. Bisshopp, from the 11th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel by purchase ; Brevet Colonel Sir T. H. Browne, from Captain half-pay 23d Foot, to be Major, without purchase; Brevet Major W. Chambre, from the Ilth Foot, to be Major, without purchase; Captain R. B. Wood, from the 10th Light Dragoon?, to be Major, by pur chase, May 17. AltatOßANDCM.—Major 0. Pilling, upon half-pay unat tached, and Fort-Major at Sheerness, has been allowed to re tire from the service, with the sale of an Unattached Majority, May 17. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Sussex. The Plight lion. G. H. C. G. Lennox, commonly called Lord G. H. C. G. Lennox, to be Deputy-Lieutenant, May 7 . _ Commission b' the Lord.Lieutnalit of Middlesex. West Middlesex Regiment of Militil—The Right Hon. G S. Byng to be Colonel, vice Sir J. Gibbons, deceased, April 2 9, WHITEHALL, MAY 9. The Lord Chancellor has appointed J. Price, of Shrews bury, in the county of Salop, Gent., to be a Master Extraor• Binary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. THOMAS BRAND, livery-stable -keeper. Stamford-street. BANKRUPTCIES SUPEZI.SEDED. CHARLES STEWART SWEENY, apothecary, Albion• place, Hyde-park-square. JEFFERIES BRIGINSHAW, publican, Wandsworth. BANKRUPTS. ART UNIONS. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition from the Art Union of London, praying that the Art Unions of the country may be legali lß sed. ISH POOR LAW. • EDWARD BUCKTON LAMB, builder, Burton-crescent, to surrender May 24, at eleven, and June 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Palmer, Nitre-court, Temple. SARAH BANKS, victualler, Ipswich, May 23, at half past one, and June 28, at ono, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers; Smith, Furnival's Inn ; Pownall, Ipswich. ROBERT MASTERAIA N, surgeon, Trinity-street, South wark, May 23 and June 28, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry Chambers ; Wright, London-street, Fenchurch-street. PETER CATTANEO and JOSEPH CATTANEO, jewellers, Reigate, Surrey, May 24, at twelve, and July 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry Chambers ; Birkett, Curriers' Hall. THOMAS WILLIAM YOUNGHUSBAND. bitumen manufacturer, Uper Belgrave-place, May 28, at half-past two, and June 28, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's place; Old Jewry ; Wadeson, Austin-friars, City. CHARLES NEWTON and CHARLES WORSSAAI, engineets, Kingsland-road, June 1, at one, and June 28, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. Hickson and Son, Jewry-street, Aldgate. RICHARD MARKS, victualler, Union-street, Southwark, May 28, at two, and June 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane ; Dy son and Flavell, Bedford-row. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. (LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. A. Thomas, clog maker, Oldham, Lancashire. 11. F. Brown, veterinary surgeon, Bakewell, Derbyshire. li. W. Salisbury, goldsmith, King's-road, Chelsea. J. Bond, tailor, Manchester. W. G. Legge, accountant, Shaftesbury-street , Nevv North-road. R. Duke, police officer, Henry-street, Pentonville. J. Griffin, miller, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. W. L. F. Tollemache, Hyde-park-placc, Marylebone. W. Lillie, wheelwright, Deptford. J. Slade, carpenter, Bexley, Kent. B. Nash, letter-carrier, Stockton, Durham. R. Oake, joiner, Leeds. J. B. Broombead, Batley, Yorkshire. T. Braim, commission agent, Leeds. .1. Jones, plasterer, Liverpool. D. Blair, boot maker, Manchester. E. B. Downing, commission agent, Birmingham. E. Kirby, jun., paper maker, Maidstone, Kent. W. Styles, butterman, Rothcrfield, Sussex. W. Gant, grocer, Castleacre, Norfolk. T. Mathew, labourer, Coychurch, Glamorganshire. B. Watkinson, draper, Castleston, Derbyshire. W. Tuamer, clerk Reading, Berkshire. R. Collins, plumber, Greenwich. W. Lys, hatter, Road-side, Mile-end-road. J. Lines, Bloxham, Oxfordshire. J. Charlesworth, clothier, Alniondbury, Yorkshire. W. H. Alsop, accountant, Manchester. J. 11. Leathes, Norwich. S. Alcock, bent maker, Manchester. H. North, confectioner, Mousley, Leicestershire. F. J. Grace, tailor, Arlington-street, St. Pancras. I'RICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending Mav 11, 1844, is 365. 11Ad. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of - Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. COAL. On the motion that the Order of the Day for going into Committee on the Customs Acts be read, Lord 11 WICK said that the coal return, which had been asked for a long time since, was not yet in the possession of the House. He thought it very hard that this return, so e , sential to the c nsideration of the subject of the coal duties, was not yet in the hands of Members. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that when the return was asked for, he sent directions to have it made out, but owing to some difficulties that presented them selves, they had not been S abIeCHURCH to make it out yet. IRIH . ATI% WARD said that he wished to ask a question of the Noble Lord opposite, the Secretary for Ireland, on the subject of the Irish Church. In the debate which had taken place last year on the Irish Church, he (Mr. Ward) had given an estimate of the revenues of the Irish Church which amounted to 552,753/. The Noble Lord who censured him on that occasion, also gave an estimate which amounted to 432,023/. which he received from the Ecclesiastical Commis sioners. The Noble Lord subsequently explained to [ him (Mr. Ward) that his (the Noble Lord's) estimate was inaccurately made up, and that a mistake of 120,0001. had been made. Thus both estimates would nearly agree. Au estimate had since been made out which though it took twelve months in the preparation, was ex tremely defective. He wished to ask the Noble Lord whe ther he could reconcile it to his conduct and his duty to lay such a return on the table as the only information which the Ecclesiastical Commissioners could give Parliament on the subject. Lord ELIOT said that the Hon. Gentleman had accurately stated what had taken place last year. The estimate which he had given was derived from the Ecclesias ti c al Commissioners, but Mr. Irck, the gentleman who prepared it, being engaged in other business, had committed an error of 120,0001. in the calculation. In order to prepare an accurate return, it was necessary that the dignitaries and bishops of the Church should make returns of their revenues ; but neither the Government nor the Ecclesiastical Commissioners had the power to compel them. They could only give perfect returns of the revenues of those particular livings which had become the property of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and of those livings which came under the operation of the Church Temporalities Act. After a few words from Mr. SHAW, Mr. SHIEL wished to know from the Noble Lord whether he had any objection to lay the letter of Mr. lrck on the table of the House? Lord ELIOT said it was a private letter, and he did not see what good could be obtained by its production. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL said the course pursued in this matter on the part of the Noble Lord and the Hon. and Learned Member for the University, after the mistake of Mr. Irck, was most strange. The Learned Recorder had moved last August for a large detailed return of the revenues of the Irish Church ; but those papers had not been laid before the House. If the papers were laid on the table of the House, they would have a full body of information on the subject. Lord ELIOT disclaimed any intention to conceal any infor mation on the subject. SIX CLERKS— COMPENS AT lON. Lord J. RUSSELL said that the Right Hon. Baronet had stated the other night that Lord Cottenham had given his as sent to the compensation clauses in the Bill relating to the abo lition of the office of the six clerks. Ile (Lord J. Russell) had since understood from that Noble and Learned Lord that so far from giving his approbation to those clauses, he had de clined giving any opinion on the subject. Sir J. GRAHAM said if the Noble Lord had intimated to him that he meant to draw the attention of the House to the matter, he would have brought down a letter which had been handed to him by the Solicitor-General, and which he (Sir J. Graham) had in his hands when he made up the state ment. That letter was from Mr. Wainwright, and he stated positively in it that he had waited on Lord Cottenham, and es pecially called his attention to the clauses giving compensation to the parties, not only during life, but extending to a period after their death, in consideration of the transferring which had been exercised for a long period, and that Lord Cottenham made no objection whatever to those clauses. Lord J. RUSSELL—It was not that he made any objection, but that he declined giving any opinion on the subject. Sir JAMES GRAHAM—That was not the representation of Mr. Wainwright. Mr. C. BERKELEY inquired whether the Government meant to introduce a Bill upon Charitable Trusts. The Right Hon. Baronet had said some time ago, that it was the intention of the Lord Chancellor to introduce such a Bill into the House of Lords. Sir JAMES GR NIIAM said that it was the intention of the Lord Chancellor to introduce a Bill on the subject. Mr. BORTHWICK complained of the state in which the public business was at present. He wanted to know when the Poor-law Amendment Bill would be brought before the House. There were several other Bills too, such as the County Courts Bill and Ecclesiastical Courts Bill, which he was also anxious to know when they would be brought forward. The House was so freque n tly counted out that it became q u i te an abuse; and last night so thin was the attendance of Hon. Members that he could have counted it out when the First Lei d of the Treasury was speaking. Sir J. GRAHAM said he was afraid he could not set the i Hon. Member's mind at rest with regard to the House being counted out on Motion nights; but he was not aware that it , had been counted out on a single Order night. The Right Hon. Baronet the First Lord of the Treasury had given notice of his intention to move, that after the first week in June Orders should take precedence of Motions. He ( Sir J. Gra ham) could not give any definitive answer to the Hon. Mem ber's question with respect to the poor-law, but he would en deavour to do so before the Whitsun recess. He had hoped that some progress would have been made in the County Courts Bill before Whitsuntide, but a difficulty had ar'sen which he did not foresee. A very grave question was now pending in the other House with respect to the abolition of imprisonment for debts in execution. The principle had, in fact, been affirmed by the other House. Now, it appeared to him important that the sense of the House should be taken on the principle of that measure before they proceeded further with the discussion of the details of the County Courts Bill, which proceeded on the opposite principle, and would not only continue imprisonment for debts in execution, but even extend its operations to debts of smaller amount. Upon the whole, he :thought it would be expedient to postpone the further consideration of that Bill until the other Bill, to which he had referred, had been brought before the House. MONTE VIDEO AND BUENOS AYRES. Mr. EWART said he did not know whether it was in the power of the Right Hon. Baronet the First Lord of the Treasury to answer the question of which he had given him notice, with respect to the war between Buenos Ayres and Monte Video. A vast amount of property was at stake. He believed he was justified in saying that the Right Hon. Baronet had stated, some time since, that it was desirable that some interposition should take place, on the part of the French, the British, and the Brazilian Governments, for the purpose of putting an end to the war. Since that time, the fears of British subjects had increased by the continuance of the war. It had been stated by General Rosa, that he could not be answerable for the safety of the property of British subjects, or of the persons. In a battle which had recently taken place, the Monte Videans contrary to general expectation hae been victo rious, but this victory had only tended to prolong the war, not to bring it to an end. He wished to ask if the Right Honourable Baronet could hold out any hopes of intervention on the part of the British and the French Governments, for the purpose of bringing the war, now raging between Monte Video and Buenos Ayres, to a termination, and opening the commerce of the River of Plate. Sir R. PEEL regretted that the war between Monte Video and Buenos Ayres still continued, characterised, as that war was, by the most revolting cruelties ; and looking to the spirit in which that war had been conducted, he was afraid that there was little chance of its speedy termination. In every case in which any violation of the rights of nations had taken place, with regard to British subjects it was the determi nation of the Government to give protection to its stajects, even by a recourse to force, if necessary ; but so long as there was no violation of the law of nations, he was not pre pared to intervene. There could be no doubt but what it was extremely desirable that these hostilities should cease. England and France had offered the intervention to the two belligerent Powers, and that intention had been accepted by one of them. France, he had every reason to believe, took the same view as England did of this subject. No doubt it was possible, by a forcible intervention, to put an end temporarily to these hostilities ; but then they must be prepared to take military possession of the country, and to provide for its internal government, for, as soon as their force should be removed, hostilities would be renewed. The precedent, too, would be dangerous, for other powerful States, sanctioned by our example, must take upon themselves to interfere in the domestic politics and internal arrangements of States subordi nate to them ; therefore they ought to pause before they inter fered in such a manner. Mr. M. GIBSON admitted the justice of the Ri g ht Hon. Baronet's remarks as to the imptopriety of direct interference, but he wished to ask if the Government had taken care to pro vide means to resume the safety of the persons and property of British subjects in Monte Video and Buenos Ayres. Sir, R. PEEL said that there was a British Naval force in the River of Plate, and which would afford all practical protec tion to British subjects and property. IRISH ESTIMATES. In answer to a question from Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he would bring on the Irish Estimates on Friday. DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL. Sir R. PEEL stated, in answer to Mr. Shiel, that the Dissenters' Chapels Bill would not be discussed this evening. —( Hear, hear.) If there was time before ten o'clock his Hon. and Learned Friend (the Attorney-General) would, in moving the second reading, state the object of the Bill ; but he would take care that there should be an opportunity afforded of considering the Bill at. a future stage some other evening. DUTY ON STAVES. Mr. LABOUCHERE said he felt it his duty to take this opportunity of calling the attention of the House and the Government to one branch of the trade of the country, to which, if prompt measures were not taken by the Government to support it, would be utterly and completely destroyed, he meant the cooperage trade. He had to express his regret that no alteration had taken place on the duty on staves. It was a question of much im portance, and if the Government did not Intimate its inten tion of taking it up themselves, some other member would do so. pointsHb in w which o . h u l iu d cf hn the thettaueg o in to stui disadvantageous mb the jbeeert. d duties u e tl t i a ne i s ls b consequence h , ad u d t ubtye c merely nh state aduf arrangedi,ettehh nee inlmanner left tm 02, principal on stores imported into the country which furnished the raw materials for the coopers' trade, while the duty on staves imported from North America into our colonies were entirely abrogated, the cooperage trade at home was nearly destroyed. Even manufactured casks from the United States were introduced at a duty of 7i, ad valorem, into the colonies in consequence of which the exports of casks into the colonies were put an end to. The British cooper was, therefore, deprived of the trade with the West Indies, because he was not able to compete with his American rival. If this had taken place on the principle of free trade, he would not com plain, but he complained that it was not properly applied. But the colonial trade was not alone ruined, the foreign trade was likewise destroyed. It must be obvious that this must be the case. The cooper now paid between 60 and 70 per cent. ad valorem, en staves imported into this country. In consequence of this heavy duty they could not export casks, and he believed that foreigners were able to undersell the home manufacturer in the home market. This was not the result of any natural advantages on the part of foreigners. When they paid between 60 or 70 per cent. upon foreign casks, it was impossible the trade could exist under those circumstances. The consequence was that ruin was impending on the coopers. Journeymen employed in London, now 500, were not fully employed.—( Hear, hear.) the coopers of London were a most respectable class, ai.d he entreated the Government to take the subject into their con sideration. There was no question of reveuue involved— ( Hear)—fcr the whole amount obtained was not more than 20,000/. It was a question of arrangement, not of revenue ; and he intreated the Government not to allow the coopers to be crushed. The duty on furniture now had been reduced to the great advantage of the country, and i t(i: t i l lua s eet t ryi e a d b e o e f am b e eingundersold an exp n r ti n g b y country foreigners i n i n Liverpool, furniture. eeds hopedtuhnei their h t i h ins e t y e vn w at l o i uo u un l b d nl eo m tb a tr o t a u na r el e th l e y rnt c fh o eo n u s dr i u d ti e ry r a od t ne b , e f obr e ee ff f lu e r,r o ne t 8 theyt o a f v e t s h .d o e s e . Mr. GLADSTONE said the statements of the Right Hon. Gentleman were greatly exaggerated. He seemed to censure the Government on the ground of certain allegations made by a certain class of traders. He (Mr. Gladstone) should like to The Marquis of CLANRICARDE then rose pursuant to notice, to present a petition respecting the state of the Eden derry Workhouse, in Ireland. The prayer of the petition was merely for inquiry, in order to prevent a recurrence of such conduct in future on the part of the Commissioners. This was a matter of vast import, because the law, as it now stood, was most unpopular amongst all par ties, with the exception' perhaps of some few amongst the higher classes. It is perfectly impossible, if they wanted to maintain peace in Ireland, that this law could be continued. In the newspapers of this day were detailed the circumstances of an affray caused by the collection of poor-rates, when the highest amount due was only Is. This measure had been car ried completely against the will of the greater number of the Irish Members, and therefore must have been ill-suited to the condition of the country. The Duke of WELLINGTON agreed that this was a sub ject of great importance. The report of the Commission ap pointed to inquire into the subject would be laid upon the table in a very short time, when their Lordships would have better information. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock. The Westminster and Lambeth Suspension Bridge Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from Salford against certain clauses of the Poor-law Amendment Bill. Also a petition in favour of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Petitions in favour of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill were pre sented by Dr. Bowring, from Bolton; Mr. Pusey and Sir George Grey from Devonshire ; Lord Robert Grosvenor from Chester ; and the Solicitor-General from places in Ireland. Petitions were presented against the Bill by Colonel Con nolly from Donegal, Mr. Plumptre from Durham, and Mr. Ileathcoat from Tiverton. Mr. M. O'CONNELL presented a number of petitions against the Irish Registration Bill. Lord DUNCAN presented a petition from Bath, praying that the practice of granting Post-office Money Orders on the Lord's Day may be abolished. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition against the union of the Sees of Asaph at.d Bangor, and in favour of the esta blishment of a Bishopric of Manchester. Lord CHARLES MANNERS presented a petition from several solicitors residing in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, against certain clauses in the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill. Mr. FERRAND presented a petition from the Welsh Cal vanistic Methodists resident in London against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Sir T. WILDE presented a petition very numerously signed to the same effect. Mr. FOX MAULE presented two petitions one in favour of, and the other against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Colonel LOWTHER presented a petition, signed by 4,500 persons, in favour of agricultural protection. Captain PECHELL presented a petition from an Unitarian congregation in Brighton, and from several other dissenting congregations of the town, in favour of the Dissenters' Chapels Mr. PATTISON presented two petitions to the same effect. Lord POLL INGTON presented a similar petition. Mr. HUME presented a petition from a Dissenting congre gation in Warwickshire, against certain clauses in the Dissen ters' Chapels Bill. Mr. C. BERKELEY presented a petition from Cheltenham, in favour of - the Bill. Mr. HIN ULEY presented a petition against it. Sir G. STRICKLAND presented a petition from members of the E,tablished Church of Preston in favour of the Dis sectors' Chapels Bill : also'a petition from the Roman Catholics of the same place to the same effect. Mr. BARNARD presented a petition from the Vauxhall Bridge Company, against the Lambeth Suspension Bridge Bill. PULTENEY TOWN HARBOUR BILL. On the motion of Mr. GREENE, the Pulteney Town Harbour and Improvement Bill was ordered to be re-com mitted to the former Committee. Mr. ESCOURT brought up the report of the Standing Orders Committee on the Great Southern and Western Rail way (Ireland) Bill. Mr. WYSE presented a petition from Kilkenny, praying for the suspension of the Standing Orders in reference to the Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland) Bill. Petitions in favour of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill were pre sented by Mr. Ward from Sheffield, Lurd A. Lennox from Chichester, Mr. Y. Smith from Northampton, Mr. Labou chere from Taunton, and Mr. C. Wood from Halifax. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented petitions in favour of the Disenters' Chapels Bill, from the Protestant Dissenters of the New Meeting-house at Birmingham ; from the Protestant Dis senters of the Old Meeting-house ; from the officers and teachers of the Dissenters' Sunday-school, and of the adult pupils of the same at the Old Meeting-house ; also one from the descendants, relatives, and friends of persons who have been interred in the burial-ground attached to the Old Meet ing -house. Lord JOHN RUSSELL presented a petition from► Devon shire in favour of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Lord \VORSLEY presented several petitions from Lincoln shire in favour of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Mr. RUSHBROOKE presented a petition from Suffolk in favour of severer punishment for the crime of arson. Sir J. HANMER presented tA;;Peiitio;;l;;fa your of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. NOTICES OF MOTION. when the Savings' Banks Mr. HUME gave notice that, Bill should be brought before the House, he should move a clause, repealing the section of, the 9th George IV., ca p. 19, which allowed the Minister of the day to deal with moneys de posited in Savings Banks in the purchase of Government securities. Mr. H. BERKELEY gave notice that, when the Inclosure Bill :should be in Committee, he would move to expunge clause 86. IMPORTATION OF BOOTS AND SHOES. Mr. H. BERKELEY moved for a return of the number of boots and shoes imported during the years ending Jan. 5,1840, to Jan. 5, 1844, stating the amount of duty paid thereon.— Agreed to. GAOLS. Mr. MACKINNON moved for certain returns ci the subject of gaols. Sir W. CLAY presented a petition from the Tower Hamlets in favour of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. know on what ground the Right Honourable Gentleman had made his statements. So far as the law was concerned the trade was much better than it had been when the Right Honourable Gentleman was President the Board of Trade, and when he shad made no proposition in their behalf. He (Mr. G.) granted that the case of the coopers was. a serious one, and that the whole trade in wood was under serious disadvantages. He admitted that the reduction of the timber duty, for which his Right Honourable Friend had been so censured on the other side of the House,as an improvident sacrifice of revenue was not sufficient to place the workers in wood in this country in a po sition to stand on an equal footing with the rest of the world. (LEFT SPEAKING.) A deputation of private country bankers, consisting of Mr. Plumptre (Kent), Mr. Rodwell (Suffolk), the Hon. A. L. Melville (Lincolnshire), Mr. Veasey (Hunting- . donshire), Mr. Spooner (Birmingham), Mr. Tweedy (Cornwall), and Mr. Birkbeck (Yorkshire), had an in terview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. --- - IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. PROMOTION IN THE NAVY. Sir CHARLES NAPIER (in continuation from our Third Edition, proceeded to say)—ln 1815 they had 831 captains, the average of whose age was 36. They had 837 retired captains with an average age of 31 years and four months. They had 812 commanders and 80 retired commanders, making in all 892, with an average age of 27 years and six months. They had 400 flag lieutenants, with an average of 23 years and seven months. In 1843 they had 720 captains, and what would the House believe was their average age ? At the present moment their average age was 46 years. Now, if his Gallant Friend, who was made a saptain at 17 or 18, only got at the head of the list when he was 52, what was to become of those who were only made captains at 56? He asked the House whether this was not a miserable state of things? He thought he had explained as clearly and as shortly as he could the present state of the navy ; and he was now going to pro pose, not a full remedy, because he knew to do so would be useless. If he got the Right Iron. Baronet to listen to him, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would perhaps tell him that he had no money for the purpose. But he believed there was not one man who had sat at the Board of Admiralty for the last 20 years who had not seen the danger they were in, and the necessity of remedying it. He did not believe there was a naval officer in the House or out of it, who was not sensible of that danger, and the Right Hon. and Gallant Officer wbo sat opposite to him (Sir George Cockburn) knew that as well as he. did. He thought it most extra ordinary that the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government, having bad the evils of the system shown to him, should persist in maintaining it. The Right Hon. Baronet afterwards proposed to allow the old officers to sell out and young officers to purchase in under certain regulations. At the time he proposed that, the Right Hon. Gentleman stated that when he brought the matter before the Commission he had not met with sufficient encouragement. According to the regulations now existing, though he was sorry to say they were not carried into execution, the Admiralty could not promote more than one man in three deaths. That patronage was entirely in the hands of the First Lord of the Admiralty, and he promoted whomsover he pleased. But the Government received many applica tions, and being out of office for ten years they had a great many hungry fish to provide for.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) But the number of deaths was not equal to the number of promotions. From 1830 to 1843 there were 332 commanders made captains ; 535 lieute nants were made commanders ; and 939 midshipmen were made lieutenants. In 1815 there were 892 com manders, at present there were 1,135. Those were not all regular commanders, but some of them were lieute nants on 7s. a day, with the rank of commander. The lieutenants were then 4,010, Now they were only something more than 2,000. There was something fair in this. He did not see any objec tion to the selling out, and he would propose, in addition that no officer should have any vacancy who had not served a certain term ; that no officer should be ap pointed post captain who had not served as a com mander for five years, and that no lieutenant should be appointed a commander who had not served the same period. He would also propose that a midshipman should serve the whole of his time before he could be a lieutenant. This would enable the Government to give the vacancies to officers who had served for a consider able time. Now, if purchase were allowed, what wsuld take place ? Men of fortune, of family, and of influ ence, would press the First Lord of the Admiralty to promote their sons.—(Hear, hear.) It was quite natural that they should do so, and it was often impossible to resist such applications. But the First Lord of the Admiralty would say, " I should be ex tremely happy to promote your son if I could, but be must remain a commander fur five years before I can make him a post captain. If you wish to. make him a post captain, you may purchase after two years, other wise you must wait for two years." How would it af fect the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel) if he wished to obtain a vacancy for his son ? He was very happy to have it in his power to compliment the Right Hon. Baronet opposite upon the great talent of his son, who had now,he'understood, become a lieutenant, not through the Right Hon. Baronet's influence, but through having passed a very clever examination.—(Hear, hear.) In the case which he had supposed, the Right Hon. Baronet would have been able to purchase one of the commissions for sale, without taking away what belonged to others or injuring the service. Now let them look at the case of midshipmen. Numbers, he hesitated not to say, had left the service disgusted at seeing others put over their heads. If naval officers, who had served for several years, conducted themselves with impropriety, why let them be sent out of the service at once ; but when they behaved in a proper manner, they should not be treated with so much indifference and neglect.— (Hear, hear.) With respect to the retired list, the navy was the only service under the Crown that had not a v oluntary retiring list.. The officers in the army were allowed to sell out, and hence a certain number of pro motions might take place ; but i n th e nav y, i n conse quence of the pernicious system which prevailed, officers w ere obliged to rem ain until they were wholly unfit for serv ice. The marines should, at all events, have the same justice done them as the artillery, but they had not. If the artillery were permitted voluntarily to fall back up on the retiring list, why There were captains in inrm, as to be wholly unfit for instance of this occurred in Syria s td h hua o t u yt I .s d e r Av n i iet remarkables t o h a e g e m d a a r i tl n d fi —there were 1,600 marines there, but almost all their captains were unable to discharge their duties—out of the whole number of captains, only one was able to march properly.. One officer of marines was so dis tressed with the, fatigue of marching, that he (Sir C. Napier) was obliged to get a donkey for him—(Great laughter)—he really could not go on a quarter of an hour longer, if it were to save the lives of all the men of the division but for the donkey.—(R e newed laughter.) What a state of things-1,600 young men, fit for any sort of service with officers so aged, infirm, and worn out as to be unfit to march with them.—(Hear, hear.) Suppose there had been no donkey—(Laughter) —how were they to have managed ? Hon. Members might laugh, but the fact showed the absurdity of the present system. He believed the Right Hon. Baronet had proposed to allow 150 captains to retire on 150/. a year each. Now that would amount to 15,0001. ; but he (Sir C. Napier) did not ask so much : all the retiring pension which he sought for naval officers who had reached their sixtieth year would amount to only 10,000/. Another point which he wished to press on the attention of the House was that they should go down lower on the retiring list. In . some instances, old commanders who had been thirty or forty years in the service were allowed to retire upon sixpence a day. Now was this just, or fair, or becoming ? Those young men whom the Admiralty intended should fill the post of admirals, should be placed at once upon the Admiralty list, so that in case of war there should be twenty or thirty, or a sufficient number, of these officers in readi ness to meet the exigencies of the public service. In the event of a war now, where were admirals to be found who would bo capable of carrying on a blockade, or other important hostile operations ? Why they were not to be found at all. At. Syria, where there were seventeen sail of the line, most of the young admirals were so timorous and so nervous, arising from their inexperience, that they could not sleep a wink at night, whilst within sight of the land.—(A laugh.) It would surprise him very-much if the House refused to accede to his motion. After what they had heard a few nights ago from his Hon. and Learned Friend behind him (Mr. Watson), he thought they could hardly say *at the parties whose claims he (Sir Charles Napier) brought under the notice of the House were not as deserving of consideration as those to whom his Hon. and Learned Friend had alluded. Why it appeared there were four Chancery clerks receiving for sine • cures alone 28,0001. a year.—(Hear, hear.) And when those sinecures were about to be abolished, these four clerks got a retiring pension, amounting to 22,000/. a year during their life, and 11,0001. a year, for seven years after they were dead.—(Laughter, and cries of "Hear, hear.") Another batch of these clerks, eighteen in number, had 49,0001. a year, and they got a retiring pension of 26,0001. a year.—(Bear, hear.) The Hon. Baronet theu alluded to the " patent during plea sure," which had been abolished by Act of Parliament, and asked, was it fair that, whilst Chancery clerks re ceived those enormous sums as pensions, such paltry com pensation should be made to such men as Sir M. Seymour, Sir T. Briggs, and Sir T. Gordon, the latter of whom had nothing more than a house rent -free at Greenwich Hospital ? No distinction should be made between the treatment of officers in the army and in the nary. The Hon. and Gallant Officer concluded by requesting of the House to agree with him in the resolution which he would now read to them—" That it be a recommendation to the House that previous to the preparation of the esti mates for 1844 and 1845, a plan of retirement be devised so as to render the naval service efficient, and with a view to reward old and deserving officers."—(Cheers.) Sir R. PEEL said he would more especially address the observations he was about to make to that portion of the speech of the Gallant Officer which had reference to the department over which he (Sir R. Peel) had control, and would leave those observations of the Gallant Officer which were of a technical nature to be answered by his Hon. Friends connected with the Admiralty. He thanked the Gallant Officer for the kind notice he had been pleased to take of the young man, his son, who had been recently promoted, not, as the Gallant Officer had observed, through his (Sir R. Peel's) influence, but on account of his own merits. To be so lauded by so distinguished an officer as the Hon. and Gallant Member could not fail of stimulating the young man to pursue that line of conduct, of the success of which the Hon. and Gillant Officer himself furl sished so bril liant an example.—(Loud cheers.) The o bservations he, Sir R. Peel, had made on a former occasi , an, were in no degree meant to disparage the services naval officers, or to recommend to the .House a too ri.gid economy in the consideration of their deserts, but Pa he meant to say was, that the House should be very cautious in coming to any conclusion regarding compensation to naval men, because though lion. and Gallant Officers on both sides of the House might conjointly press on the House the adoption of certain measures, it should be remembered that they were not the best nor the most impartial judges, and that, like members of other professions, they were apt, in a strong feeling fur their own, to disregard those principles of rational economy by which the House should be governed.—(Hear.) The whole question had been referred by the late Government to a Commision, of which the following distinguished persons were mem bers—the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Richmond, Lord Melville, Lord Minto, Lord Howick Lord Hill, Mr. Labouchere, Sir E. Kemp, Sir Hussey Vivian, Sir H. Hardinge, Sir G. Cockburn, and Sir T. Hardy. The Commission also examined a great number of naval officers. The very question which the Hon. and Gallant Officer had brought under the consideration of the House was brought before the Commission, namely, the policy of constituting a retired list of captains, for the I purpose of clearing the list of a number of officers of very advanced age. The Hen. and Gallant Officer had reed an extract from the report of the Commissioner in reference to the impolicy of continuing the retired list of that class of admirals which had got the name of yellow ; but he had not read that part which bad an immediate bearing . on this proposal to constitute a re tired list of captains—doubtless the omission was not intentional. The Commission said it did not occur to I them to suggest to her Majesty the adoption of any other changes with regard to the captains pay and al lowances ; various propositions were made to them to re commend the establishment of a retired list for officers of this rank, as well as of other ranks. The whole of these propositions had relation to the claims arising out of seniority of service ; but as it did not appear to the Commission that this change was calculated to advance the public interest to an extent at all commensurate to the charge which would be entailed on the public revenue, they refrained from offering any recommendation to her Majesty to extend the principle of a retired list beyond the present practice, except in the cases of mates and commanders. This very proposition, therefore, had been brought under the consideration of the Commis sioners, and they stated that they saw no advantage in constituting a retired list. The report bore the signa tures of Lord Minto, Lord Melville, Sir Charles Adams, and his Right Hon. Friend Sir George Cockburn. He hoped that under these circumstances the House would not constitute itself a tribunal to decide this question; that they would recollect that the Commissioners had considered the question in its comprehensive bearings, on other branches of the naval and military services, and that they would not imply an opinion at variance with that expressed by the Commissioners.—(Hear, hear.) hear.) In consequence of the deference due to the opi nion of the Hon. and Gallant Officer, the Treasury had given this matter the fullest consideration, and if they hesitated, it was not on account of the expense, but from a sincere conviction that the measure, if adopted, would not produce the effect which the Hon. and Gallant Offi cer anticipated.—(Hear, hear.) That it would not clear the list of captains ; that it would positively do no good whatever except by enabling particular officers to exer cise their discretion as to whether they would retire or not. He pronounced that the Gallant Officer would not wish to make the retirement compulsory. Sir C. NAPlER—Certainly not.—(Hear, hear.) Sir ROBERT PEEL—Against compulsory retire ment, the strongest opinion had been expressed by Rear- Admiral Griffiths, who said that it would involve a breach of engagement, and give great pain, whilst the saving would be quite insignificant.—(Hear, hear.) This point would be brought under the consideration of the Treasury, and it was clearly shown that the retirement of 100 officers, would not be of any avail whatever, in clrearing the list. The retirement of 150 captains would entail au expense upon the public of about 26,0001. If the retirement were optional what 1; , ould be the effect ? Our oldest officers, the captains of 1808 and 1809 were not those who would take advantage of the option. Entertaining the hope that the next brevet would give them the rank of admiral, it was not to be expected that they would retire.—(Hear, hear.) The officers who would take advantage of the retired list would more probably be the captains at the bottom of the list, who despaired of ever obtaining the rank of admiral.—(Hear, hear,) That; was the precise intima tion conveyed to the Treasury on the part of the Board of Admiralty ; and of what advantage, he asked, would such retirement be • to the public ?—(Hear, hear.) It did appear to him to be very improvident to offer this boon, when the oldest men, who expected to at tain the distinction of the flag, would, in all probability, reject it ; and when only young men who had no chance of obtaining, for a considerable period, the rank of admiral were likely to accept the IL per day on the list of retired captains. It did certainly therefore appear to him that the advantage to be gained by the public was not sufficient to compensate for the expense of the retired list. If they created this list now, when six or seven years had elapsed, they would have to go through precisely the same operation for the purpose of again clearing the list.—(Hear, hear.) He did hope that that House, having before them the opinion of the Commission, which was composed of the most eminent men in both services, would not be induced by their na tural predilection in favour of naval men, or by the ad mission which must be made as to the state of the navy with respect to those who occupied the highest rank in the naval service, to express an opinion which would in the least degree fetter the judgment of her Majesty's Government. The opinion which they enter tained on this subject was in exact conformity with that of a Commission which had been appointed for the ex press purpose of investigating it. Nothing could be more painful to himself and to his Right Hon. Friend than the performance of this imperative duty of guard ing the public purse against demands, the yielding to which would be unaccompanied with any public advan tage. It was not to be argued that because improvident arrangements had been made in other cases, they should make an improvident arrangement in the case under consideration. He hoped the House would disregard any such precedents ; that they wouldconeider the question on its abstract merits, and above all that they would con sider the policy of leaving questions of that nature to those who had to take a comprehensive view of them. He should say nothing whatever as to the policy of per mitting the sale of con:Assions; that was a professional question, with which he had nothing to do. If he were asked what was the most effectual mode of preventing an immense accumulation of aged officers, he would say a de parture from the principle of seniority, and the selection on the part of the Crown of officers for promotion who had shown themselves best qualified for the public service. —(Hear, hear.) He knew that there was great jealousy in the profession on that subject. He thought that seniority was, on the whole, the best principle that could be adopted, affording the greatest security against the abuse of power and patronage. He believed that the principle of selection from inferior ranks of the profes sion of officers to exercise command would shock' the feelings, and perhaps the professional prejudices, of many men whose opinions were entitled to great weight. Let them depend upon it that the creation of the retired list of 100 captains would do nothing whatever to clear the list. If he were convinced of the propriety of adopting the proposal, he would not be influenced by the consideration of ten or twenty thousand pounds a year, but he had a firm and sincere belief that it was not a remedy for the evil in question, an evil consequent upon the long duration of the war. If the House adopted the recommendations of naval officers in this instance, they must expect to have the same recom mendations with respect to marine and artillery officers. Each service would adduce very good reasons why similar advantages should be extended to itself. He trusted that the Executive Government might be con sidered to have a due regard for the interests and honour of the different branches of the service, and lie hoped the House of Commons would continue to leave these matters in their hands. Lie hoped that they would not countenance the proposal of the Gallant. Officer, which, while it involved a considerable expense, provided, in his opinion, no remedy whatever for the evils which he admitted the Gallant Officer had proved to exist. Captain BERKELEY said he most fully concurred with the Gallant Officer as to the grievances which he had brought before the House. The Right Hon. Baronet, however, at the head of the Government, asked them to leave such matters to the Executive. That was always the case when naval officers were under consideration. —(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Baronet could see no great advantage in making this retired list ; but he be lieved that every naval man must perceive that it would be attended with ve:y great advantage. Much was said about old and experienced officers. He believed that the term " old and experienced officer," was very much misapplied. If a man became experienced by remaining on the shelf, totally unemployed, there were many officers who were entitled to that description. It bad been stated that many midshipmen were not allowed to sleep when the vessel was in sight of land. He would ask, if they were called upon to blockade a lee shore on a dark night, under such circumstances, could they possi bly be efficient . ? The Right Hon. Baronet said they ought not to seek good things because others had obtained them. .Did they not regard the navy as their best bulwark in time of war ? Why, then should they make the navy the exception, and not give those who belonged to it the same option of retirement which was extended to the other service? — (Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Baronet sad it was the ardent wish of every man in the navy to obtain the flag. He would take his own case. He had been promoted at the end of the war in 1814, and during thirty years he had only been able to serve six years and six months, because he had not interest enough to obtain a ship for a longer period. He would ask what chance had he of obtaining the flag ? Certainly , none, until he was per fectly incapable of performing his duty in case the flag were offered to him. He thought that the present sys tem had the effect of setting officer against officer, and allowing the appointments to bo influenced solely by political motives. He felt confident that the profession thought that practice was not- so likely to be done as things were now managed, as if commissions were totally unconnected with, and independent of, the various changes of Governments. The warning given by the Hon. and Gallant Member for Marylebone must, sooner or later, be attended to, and he thought the sooner the better; and he felt sure that the House would do wisely in acceding to his motion. Sir G. COCKBURN, who was almost inaudible in the gallery, said he thought the Gallant Officer had not brought this matter fairly before the House. Tho nature of the naval service of this country was such, that during the time of war a vast force must be maintained, and consequently then a great many officers were called into service ; but durng the time of peace, when a reduction must necessarily take place, those officers must be placed upon the retired or half pay list. The officers for service, according as they may be required, were taken from the list of names ; but no one could for a moment suppose that all whose names stood upon this list could be employed on active service. The Gallant Officer had mentioned the names of several officers, but out of the number to which he had alluded there were only two who had been employed in active service, and_those two only fora couple of years. In navy was not in a state of' safety. The Right 'Hon. Gentleman entirely rested on what the Commissioners had said, but there were only three naval officers:among them. He would like to know what confidence was to be placed in a Commission which came to a decision on one day and reversed it the next? That was something like what had occurred on Lord Ashley's motion—(Laughter . ) What did that Commission do? They gave 10s. a-daY to lieutenants in the navy. And why did they do so? Simply because they discovered that those lieutenants would not serve unless they did something of the : sort. It was a kind of " thank 'ye for nothing" affair.-- (Laughter.) Arid what did they do with respect to commanders? Why they gave them 6d. a-day.- - (Laughter.) What did Admiral Wyse say with respect to this? Why he said they ought to be ashamed of such a thing, and he would be sorry to see such aCom mission again appointed. The Right Hon. Baronet said that the expense of carrying out the proposition which he (Sir C. Napier) had submitted would be 25,000 L n-year; but this was a mistake, for it might easily be done for 15,0001.; and the Right Hon. Baronetsaid that if this retiring pension were allowed, the first-class officers wetild not accept of it. He (sir C. Napier).4 id not expect they would, but those of a lower class would, and their places would have to be filled up by junior officers. It was all nonsense to suppose that men who were between sixty and seventy years of ag e were competent to take the command of I fleet, or even a large vessel of war. lie piSir Charles Naer) was not very old, but he fre quently felt that he was not so strong as when, onlY twenty-five years of age.—(Laughter.) The Noble Lord the Member for Staffordshire (Lord Ingestre) hid said that he (Sir C. Napier) had accused him of being tongue-tied, but he had done no such thing. be had said was that the Noble Lord had received a rePri man,l from the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Government, and all lie could say new. w 1 ,5 that had such a reprimand been given to him he NO" ) not have taken it so easily as the Noble Lord had Alone• The Noble Lord said that ho did not intend to suppor t this motion, and yet he supported a similar motion bis i t year. Did the Noble Lord think that what was gooiL last year was bad this? No doubt ho did, for seep changes often happened in that House.—(Hear, and a laugh.) It appeared that as this motion 111 been opposed by the Right Hon. Baronet, it , we te therefore receive the opposition of every Member on Ministerial side of the House. One said to the other, " You support it, and I will stick to you like wsut.r n (Laughter.) He trusted, however, that the 101, - 1 would ultimately find favour, and he was sure that go would result from his having brought it forward. ..„„, After a few words from Sir R. PEEL, in explantr " :he House divided — For the motion most instances, when an officer retired, he was succeeded by the next officer in command, and and in all cases he was granted his half-pay when any accident occurred. He regretted to be compelled to differ from so high an authority as the Hon. and Gallant Officer the Member for Marylebone; but still he (Sir G. Cockburn) should say that he was confident, if war were to break out to-morrow, the fleet would be quite as well manned and officered as it ever had been. The question brought forward by the Gallant Officer was one of great importance and intricacy, and therefore it was a matter for fair discussion, and considering the points relating to it pro and con., and then decide upon what was best to be done. Captain PECHELL thought the expressions which fell from the Gallant Officer who had just sat down, afforded further proofs of what had been frequently asserted before—namely, that it was hard under the present system, to render justice to the officers in the distribu tion of promotion. That Gallant Officer had alluded to precedents, as also did the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government ; but this Commission would never have been appointed were it not for the number of times which the question had been brought before the House. The Gallant Officer who had lately been appointed to the Government of the East (Sir 11. Har dinge) had spoken most manfully in behalf of the navy, for which they felt deep gratitude. He (Captain rechell) got several letters from the masters in the navy, complaining of the manner in which they had been treated; and also of certain expressions7which were used in that House, and which they thought were likely to lower their position in society. The claims of those officers had not been brought before the Commission, and he considered this to be a great hardship. Many of the officers had no opportunity, from their long resi dence on shore, of being sufficiently conversant with nautical affairs, and in order to obviate this evil, he con sidered it would be necessary that some change should be made in order that the younger officers might have some opportunity of be coming practically acquainted with their profession. He stated that employment in the navy was never ob tained except by means of political or aristocratic in fluence. This was notorious ; one Board of Admiralty might be slightly better than another; but, to use a naval expression, they were all tarred with the same brush. They would give employment or promotion to those deserving of it, being continually pressed upon by political influence. With respect to the employment of ships, he stated that the Queen, of 110 guns, was kept during nine-tenths of her period of service at anchor in Malta harbour. And he could state another instance, in which a ship, on board of which some important experi ments had been tried—the Fox—and of which experi ments the operation had never been tested. This vessel had been lying ever since in the river Shannon, whether for the purpose of collecting the poor's rates, or frighten ing the unfortunate natives, he did not know. But for the sake of improvement in naval architecture, he felt indig nant that there had been such apathy in both cases. In neither case had a sufficient trial been given to the improvements. It was the object of the motion to pro cure more frequent employment for young officers—that principle the Government had itself acted upon in choos ing the young and Gallant Member for Ipswich, whom they sent to Hong-Kong to share the prize-money with Admiral Parker, which, no doubt, he was very well able to do.—(Hear, hear.) Were young officers more fre quently, employed, it would give more satisfaction to the profession. He believed that the present Board of Ad miralty were as well disposed to them as any other, and he hoped they would listen to the motion of the Gallant Commodore, being assured that it did not at all interfere with the prerogative of the Crown. Lord INGESTRE said, he should not follow the Hon. and Gallant Member for Brighton from Ireland to Hong-Kong and back again. He was as well disposed to promote the object of the motion as any one, and he was as capable of exercising an inde pendent vote in that House as the Hon. and Gallant Member. But there was a question of prudence involved in this matter.—(Hear, hear.) He questioned whether the reiteration of these motions, without a chance of obtaining the object in view, was not doing an injury to the cause, especially when such discussions were pressed in a House so thinly attended. He should not vote against the motion of the Gallant Commodore, neither should he vote with him. But lie trusted he would not press his motion to a division, for, if he did, he would do great injury to the cause he advocated. The ques tion was much better left in the hands of the Executive, because this House was not a court of appeal in ques tions of this sort. With the respect to the delay of the Queen in Malta Harbour, he thought there might be good political reasons for it, and though it was desirable to try vessels, to test their powers, and exercise them, yet opportunities were not always available for doing so. Captain HARRIS (the new Member for Christchurch) and Mr. Hume rose together—the latter gave way, and the Hon. and Gallant Gentlemen addressed the House. He said the question was one of the greatest interest, and though he should not be disposed to inter fere with the Executive, yet as that House voted the supplies, if it should express a wish to put the navy list in better order, he did not see why they should not do so. With respect to the Gallant Commodore's plan of allowing 1001. a year to 100 captains as a retirement, he thought many of them would not accept it ; still he would have no objection to support the proposition, pro vided it was clearly understood that the arrangement should be voluntary. Mr. HUME said the question was one of great im portance, and had been often submitted to the House. It appeared, from all the debates on the subject, that they had a list of so many officers of different ranks, yet, from the whole list, they would have a difficulty in officering a fleet. Though he had heard that contra dicted, yet it was certain that the list contained a great many men who could not, under any circumstances, re enter the service. Thus, whilst they had apparently a largo naval establishment, they had really a most in ferior one. They were paying and keeping up an ap parently great military establishment, while their force was really a small one. The estimates were no less than six millions, yet they were told that a large num ber of officers were unfit for service. They had heard that the House of Commons was not to interfere in this matter — Sir G. COCKBURN said that he had not denied the right of the House of Commons to interfere with respect to the navy. Mr. HUME said he had understood the Gallant Officer to say that the House was not to interfere with the promotion or pay , of the navy, and the lion. and Gallant Officer grounded his opposition to the motion on the fact of a Naval Commission having been ap pointed three or four years ago. He considered an in quiry into the state of the navy would be of the greatest importance, because he believed it would be shown that many deserving officers had been set by to make way for young men, the friends of the partisans of the Go vernment.—(Hear, hear.) From the report of 1838 it appeared there were 683 captains in the royal navy, 313 of whom never served a single day after they were posted.—(Hear, hear.) There was one admiral who had served only nine years, and was only one year in actual service. He believed the same admiral had lately got a command in Malta. He had supported the Hon. and Gallant Member for Greenwich when he brought forward his motion for an inquiry into the state of the navy with a view to remove those who were unfit for service. That was a proper principle, and he believed no naval officer in or out of the House would object to it.—(Hear.) They had now waited four years and a half, and nothing had been done. He thought the masters. who were a most meritorious class of persons, had been treated with great injustice.—(Hear.) if inquiry were granted he hoped it would not be limited to clearing the list, but would be extended to ascertain how it had become so numerous. The appointments in the navy rested with the head of the Admiralty, and of course, political influence was regarded.—(Hear.) This was not the principle on which the best bulwark of the country should rest. — (Hear.) He had not opposed the grant to the effective part of the navy. It was the money that was applied to the useless and extravagant parts of it that he objected to.—(Hear, hear.) They had seven captains and seven lieutenants for a ship, and only used one.—(Hear, hear.) Would any one keep seven coachmen and only use one ! —(Hear, and laughter.) It was no wonder then that they had to pay 1,500,0001. to officers on half-pay. If the half-pay list were examined it would be found that the service of most of the officers had been but but small.—(Hear, hear.) A regulation had been made that no promotion should take place till three persons had died. That bad been acted upon for some time, but the returns would prove that it had soon been disregarded. The practice had been to place school boys over the heads of old officers, but he was glad to think that things were not so bad now. At the same time, he did not think that the old officers should be pensioned off without sufficient grounds. He did not think the Gallant Commodore would do so himself. —s (Hear, hear.) But he thought that an inquiry ought to be granted. Mr. S. HERBERT did not think the Hon. Gentleman who had just spoken could have heard the motion cf the Hon, and Gallant Commodore, or the reply of his Right Hon. Friend—(Hear, hear)—for he seemed to mistake the question altogether. The real question was, whether the remedy which the Hon. and Gallant Commodore proposed would cure the evils which they were all will ing to admit.—(Hear„ hear.) He believed that the effect of his motion would be to add 25,0001. a year to the permanent burdens of the country without effecting the good he expected from it. How would it act ? if the retirement were optional, those who were at the top of the list would refuse the additional pay, and would run the chance of their lives against the hope of being made rear-admirals.—(Hear, hear.) They should then go down the list to the young officers, who would accept the retirement, and the consequence would be that the old officers would be in active service, and the young men would be on the retired list.-- : (11ear, hear.) Anything like compulsory retirement was out of the question. He admitted that the practice of promoting men according to seniority was good, but under pre sent circumstances it could not be done on a large scale. Such was the practice in France, and he approved of it. But there were different opinions amongst naval officers, and The question being a large one, and the remedy pro posed being one which would prove ineffectual, ho should vote against the motion of the Hon. and Gallant Commodore. He should not regard the expense if it re medied the evil complained of, but if at the end of two years they found themselves where they were before it would be absurd to impose such a biirden on the coun try. He hoped the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman would withdraw his motion. Captain CARNEGIE said he should oppose the mo tion, because it was a direct interference with the Execu tive Government; because if the retirement were optional, those at the head of the list would decline the additional pay of ss. a day in the hope of obtaining the rank of rear-admiral. He did not think there was occa sion for immediate inquiry. Sir C. NA PIER replied. He did not think he ever heard the Right Hon. Gentleman make so lame and weak a reply as to his speech.—(Laughter.) He had not attempted to controvert the case, ho (Sir C. Napier) made out. lie did not disprOie him 'statement that the Against it 7l Majority against the motion —4s tioffi The West India - Relief Bill was read a second: and ordered to be committed. The House then adjourned, at Ten o'Clock. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM.—On Wednescli: the seventeenth Anniversary Festival of the Licen ° ,l Victuallers' Asylum was celebrated at White C o r , r House Tavern. Mr. Broadwood, M.P., in the Eh ri There was a very numerous attendance of raerar4 and friends of the institution present, between 40 011 7 1 500 sitting down to dinner on the occasion. Ang; the gentlemen on the platform, supporting the xiar Chairman, were—Mr. Foreman, M.P. fur Bridgwater, ft; Mundell, Mr. C. Bleaden, Mr. Deane, Mr. Larby, Vousley, Mr. Southall, Mr. Hodges, Mr. Wicker, end .1.- 1. Walter. The banquet provided on the occasion was eltce_A lent. The usual loyal toasts having been duly hon o t q l the Secretary read the report, which stated thl t t t o benevolent feelings of the public had enabled the p t he continue the liberal weekly allowances which for last four years the Board had made to t he . l- 4 mates ; such allowances make up the incom e to r each single person, widow or widower, to 6 3 • ii - week, and that of a couple to 7s. per week. Ad of period the Society's funded property consist eu 6,4651. 16s. Bd. Three per Cent. Consols, and 6171. 6 , ° •„ c is Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities, which two together were of the value of 6,400/. ; and the 13 7, t a were gratified to say that the Society has def,rlere every claim against it to the present mome nt. , its . were at the present time 102 out of the 103 htlielird tions in the Asylum occupied ; and, including in. ,° couples, no fewer than 131 inmates were, at t 04 5, 47 0. meet, reaping the comforts afforded by the. P o i. rality of the donors at large, a fact which the °loci butors to so noble a work of charity could fairly the tbo honourably boast of ; and some slight conception necessities of the inmates might be formed from the that to the occupants of the 102 houses now moe weekly allowances are at the present time mad e the less than 79 of them, being more than two-thirds of tb. whole. Many excellent speeches were mado loyal course of the evening. Subscriptions were anu cti amounting, in all, to 1,741/. Amongst the subscriber.acii, were, the Chairman, 25 guineas ; Broadwood, and Co., in addition to 20 guineas, 50 bert Mundell, 15 guineas ; Mr. H ug gi e n i s n , egl l ss Mr. E. ugns, 15 s C. Broadwoodo! guineas ; p theDirectorsof the Imperial Gas -light C; pany, 50 guineas ; the Directors of the License d tuallers' Fire and Life Insurance Company, 10 guinewoo ALDERMAN GIBBS AND CHARITY PROPERT Y Wednesday, Mr. Day, the vestry clerk of St. Gel:, ; gui r n . e , s°l the Martyr, Southwark, had an interview w ith- 40 . Rock, the newly-appointed churchwarden of St- 1;(1, phen's, Walbrook, relative to Mr. T. Dickenson's 100 who, by will, dated the 18th of December, 1631, dirk b y that the sum of 121. should be paid every ten yeli r toor the churchwardens of St. Stephen's, for peLatil l children, belonging to St. George's to a trade. or applications had been made to Alderman Gibbs for S o o count of the property of the charity, but the Al de „ aet was not inclined to let the gift of the donor g" bas of his hands. A curious correspondence bereenno taken place. Mr. Rock states that it was in congeal:el of the manner in which Alderman Gibbs 111 ,. $ 00 1 the charity property which came into his Wu"' o ol)', first induced him to bring the matter be fore that/ iitaeP lie ; and the most tangible case which presente the to his notice was Dickenson's gift. By the will to b° donor, the moneys arising from the estate we,r.e„b ass kept separate from the parish accounts , but wit' t h it et i not done ; Alderman Gibbs had mixed them loot in one account. He added, that having he ell ,, o 's, and sworn in as the Churchwarden of St. S r t o e p P e ,, p r - cvirtet i certainly would take care that the charity p in trust by the churchwarden should be pro perly tu jh out, or, if it was necessary, to join amicably ; o o bi parishes which were interested in any gift, s" ro per t q a scheme for the better distribution of such togs of It is at length arranged between the legal restiotiat Mr. Rock and Mr. Alderman Gibbs tha t tbeclu oboe' c hurchwarden shall be tried in the Queen's Be •P 01 term, by means of a feigned action for tresion s t de r f• Or SEDUCTION BY A FRENCH PRIEST A AA ' n " one of the communes, in the department of _ 11 ; 4 14 Cher, states that a great seandal was lately Ft . " the cure having seduced a young girl of 16, bad to one of the most respectable families in t e w" The parents knew that she frequently went t° s ies tr Tce . but thought it was for the purpose of religion boolh6 tion. On May Ist she disappeared , an d the P ti ots ,l in `ll O having accused the cure of being instrutne business, a great clamour was raised agai nst to at last acknowledged that he had sent her.' th e t ,4 / under the care of a servant, in order to conee'oolll,4o, sequences of the seduction. The father n! 1 0 1 ; s t lodged a complaint with the Procureur Il ca f r oal t o g' and a few days back two ecclesiastics cam e city, and carried off the cure in a c arriaq W o o precipitation that he could only take nr allg or e4 umbrella and his breviary. The Bishop he 'd res t 0 0 1 suspended this priest for a similar act, 0 (1 , 1 , 1 : the him to the exercise of his functions only . pressing solicitations. neitr i I re it •ne' MURDERS IN SPAIN.—The fouovvi-o, to o -nly.- Spanish journal. It seems to us, however " to t to ss bable for belief :—" A terrible crime ha ° J i t is ° per place in the neighbourhood of Igualde• hoo sNi s i; having lain in, in au isolated c ountry o we neighbours took the child to the li o biedyl b ' to have it baptised, leaving a women . n , the l e alc had offered to remain by the patient durl_F„on, Bence. When they had all departed, this ;Yu; r ioet w or ing forth a knife, commanded the ptielt Ths.ol l : show her where her money was pla ce "' 01 0 1 1/1 , obeyed, and taking her into another. rootn,loll4st, lock her in. She then called to her twceerop. VOP re, had man been who left ivas behind, and in the a ndsentthemff for r; air wid to about outside, and, stopping the learnt their errand, and returned with th 1 7 .0 t he icip oor the mother that if she did no t at once oPu is he would put them to death. Th e .) he t it o not paying any attention to tliis thren he bm - fofv, one of them with a knife, and knocked () a t e clo d to fr t. the other against a stone. He then Pr% t he P e° 1111; 1 1 1 0 the door, and had nearly succeeded, whe, to ok 0 11 40 j turned from the baptism, and the assassin an d fe , , t oit4 The mother related what had taken plsse, e a ' d beef;.' re tf. in an expiring state. The alcalde, whci r m ootit Yl o ilro o f to the baptism, entered first into then co of, prisoner was lucked up. motherbbe''' tohe rwe. second, and escaped. Tbe diet l l on v the day, and her husband is not expo' %. . ------------ Of 'BIRTHS. Hon, Sion car P. ' On the 16th inst , the l ad y of the c o os tagu, of a daughter. e AOO O On the 24th ult., lady 0. a t Gibraltar, the o'robir.'„ missary-General Dinwiddie, of a ion. .. WO t On the 14th inst., at Ring ' 's Bromley DUO" 0' lg f* the Hon. Mrs. New t on Lane, of a daughter. • gtont t, On the 15th inst., at Coburg-place (011 Bowler, of a daughter. I r • of Esq., fi' On the 12th inst., at Donnington, the lady ° Esq., of a daughter. • i;• ' MARRIED• i lr ' e b ' On the 14th inst., at St. Ann's, Westrninost_e got ~ Borstal!, of St. Martin's-lane, to Elizabeth, ?"Gurrot : 46°. , ter of the late John Lewis Rutley, En' , a J. Y . street. tile Wri;, t e .1 , On the 15th inst., at St. Mary's, Larabethe, ,I ale ''' Cox, M.A., to Emily Clara, youngest daught r "'• SO' Pittman, Esq., of arwick-square. g a te. S tuli" tsO ttl On the 15th inst., at St. George's, 0.133-13 ingest dst„ ster, Esq., of Ramsgate, to Ernma Curtis, yoce ,rbsee of the late G. T. !lardy' Esq., of St. Lavaca t Ol der DIED. Al es lAt e At Liverpool, Mary Ann Charlotte, the wif ° °I Pick , Magnay, Esq., 69th Regiment. e on , On the 20th ult., at Cairo, Edw ard Ban er oc mote t, jall.' of the East India Company's Mstdras CiV.:.iliani t , On the 11th inst., at Bognor, Susselc9l‘l yotsrlus' Esq., of Stockwell, aged 41. ~. o f RP On the 11th inst., Christine, the true A SPreule. Wilson, Esq., of Haarlem. nria On the 12th inst., at Cheltenham 31'5.,....-----,, 0 /0 0 '1 0 -- —-- istvgDO o. 0 London : Printed and Published by _ officek,o4 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Thi 8 " 1 ,„ to CO Strand, in the Precinct of the WO, P. itiddiesa, Friday, Ility 17, OW' MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of May 17.) Suuin.—To-day buyers of West India Sugar were cautious in their proceedings ; prices, as compared with last Friday, show a decline of 6d to is per cwt for the low and middling descriptions, of which the supply chiefly consists, but in the value of good and fine yellow kinds there is little change at present, as the stock is trifling. The market is on the whole much better supplied with Sugar than on Friday last. RE FIN r.n.—To-day few parcels of Refined goods were taken by the home trade, and prices are still drooping ; standard lumps selling at 77s 6d to 78s, and brown hunps 76s 6d to 77s per cwt ; bonded Crushed Sugar has been taken readily, and A is with difficulty to be had under 26s per cwt. MAtninus.—lmporters are still anxious sellers and have supplied the market largely ; the prices accepted show a re duction on those of this day week of is to is 6d per cwt. This afternoon there was no public sale, and very little busi ness was transacted by private contract. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar was only in limited request; duty paid good white 64s 6d, middling and goo d yellowish 61s 6 d to 62 s 6 d , damp 60 s to 63s 6d, sound grey 60s to 62s 6d, damp 57s to 62s 6d ; in bond, strong yel low Dobah 40s, fine white 395, good 38s 6d, middlin g 36 s 6d to 375, damp 32s 6(1 to 335 per cwt. FOREIGN.—The demand for all sorts of Foreign Sugar is decidedly increasing, and prices are looking up, the quantity on offer in the private market is unusually small ; prices are still considered to be moderate , and our Refiners working under bond are scantily_supp ed. Rum, BRANDY, AND H OLL ANDS.—For Jamaica Rum holders remain firm, and former rates areaslulosntained. Leewards small , proof, and 9 per cent parcels at 2s 21td to 2s 3d per overproof at 2s sd. Demerara 3s 2d to 3s 4d, 36 to 37 per cent overproof. Calcutta Rum at is lld per gallon proof with certificate. Holders of Brandy are not_ inclined to further give way in price. Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 7d, puns 5 s s d; di tto 1839, hhds 5s sd, puns 5s 3d ; ditto 1840, hhds 5s 3d, puns 5s ld ; ditto 1841, hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s ; ditto 1842,hhds 5s Id, puns 43 II d ; middling qualities 3s 2d to 4s 6d, and infer for 2s 8d to 38 per gallon. Geneva for exportation at is Btl to Is 9d ;fine, for home con sumption is 2s to 3s per gallon. English Corn Spirits at 10s 2d per gallon, cash. SAGO.—A reduction on former rates of 2s to 38 per cwt has been submitted to. Sago Flour at 19s to 20s per cwt. This afternoon Jamaica Arrowroot was taken in at 8d per lb. Pearl Sago taken in, middling small brown at 435, and good large white Pearl 18s 6d per cwt. COFFEE.—In the value of West India no change has oc curred this week ; none has been submitted to public compe tition, and by private contract few purchases have been made in any descriptions; parcels could only be dis posed of upon lower terms. Holders of Mocha have submitted to a further reduction in prices of 2s to 3s per cwt. Ceylon Coffee this afternoon at 53s to 54s for good ord ; Plantation fine fine ord grey Demerara went 78s, fine drd 70s THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1844. '