The Sun. — London, England, 1845-02-25 00:00:00

intrb Vtittion SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES From the Official List, PUBLISIIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25. ZAZIAWAYS. ---------- Dividend Amount Name of Company. p er of I Paid. Price. Annum. Slare. -------- - £ a. d. £ a. d. Aberdeen........... - - 2 0 0 2% Birmingham & Gloster 3L ss. perch. 100 0 0 100 0 0 132 Ditto, New, iss.7a dis. 15s. 25 0 0 17 10 0 32 Brlghton,Lows,&.Hast. - 50 0 0 50 0 7% Bristol and Exeter •• • • 21.165. per sh. 100 0 0 70 0 0 83 1 4 Ditto and Gloucester - 50 0 0 30 0 0 56% Caledonian • . .... - 50 0 0 5 0 0 7 Cambridge and Lincoln - - 2,5 0 • 1 10 0 3 Chatham & Prtsmouth - 20 0 0 1 0 0 Chester and Holyhead - 50 0 0 5 0 0 7% Chichester & Brighton - - 5 0 0 5 1 4 Churnet Valley ....... - 20 0 0 2 0 0 7 Cornwall •••••• • • • • _ _ - 3 0 0 4'4 Direct Northern......- 50 0 0 2 10 0 2 Direct Iforwich ...... - 20 0 0 1 0 0 14 Dias, Beecles, & Yrmth - 25 0 0 110 0 1% Dublin & Belfast June. - 50 0 0 210 0 53% an I Ditto d Galway.. - - 2lO 0 3'4 Eastern Counties ... - 4s. per eh. 25 0 0114 16 0 I 16% Do., Perpetual, No. I IL per ct. 613 4 I 313 4 1 pm. Ditto, ditto, No. 2... - - 1 0 13 4 % pm. Eastern Union - 50 0 0' 10 0 0 1834 Edinburgh & Glasgow 21. Is. p. sh. 50 0 0, 50 0 0 62 Ditto, Quarter Shares Ils. 3d. p. sh. 12 10 0 112 10 0 16M Ely and Bedford - 25 00 ! 10 0 1% Grand Connection - 50 0 0 ; 2 10 0 Grand Junction •• • • Ditto, Half Shares lOl. per et. i5O 0 0 50 0 0 , 112 Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0 I Gt. Southern &Western - 50 0 0 5 0 0 1 11 Great North of England 31. Is. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1188 Ditto, New.• •••• • • • - 40 0 0 i 5 0 0 I 42 Great Western Ditto, Half Shares- 7/. per cent. 50 0 0' 50 0 0 9934 Ditto, Fifths.. -•• Guilford Junction. •. • - 50 0 0 35 0 0 Harwich ••••••. • • • • • • - 20 6 0 1 0 0 1% Hull and Selby .•• • • Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0112 10 0 18 34 Kendal & Windermere - 25 0 0 ' 1 10 0 Lancaster and Carlisle - 50 0 01 15 0 0 2934 Leeds and Bradford. - - ,50 0 0 i 5 0 0 2174 Liverpool & Manchestr 101. per ct. 100 0 0 100 0 0 Ditto, Half Shares• • 101. per ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0 Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0 London & Birmingham 101. per et. - Stock. 226 Ditto, New Thirds • • 101. per ct. 32 0 0 2 0 0 I 42 Ditto, New IA Shares 101. per et. 25 0 0 2 0 0 2834 London and Blackwall - 16 13 4 • - 7 London and Brighton.. i/. Os. per sh. 50 0 0 50 0 0 , 58 1 4 Ditto, Loan Notes.. 51. percent. ; 10 0 0 10 0 0 1 13% London end Greenwich - 12 15 4 - 10 7 4 Ditto, Pref. or Priv 5/. per cent. 18 i 7 2 - 24% London and S. Western 51.55. per sb. 41 6 10 -- 7836 Do., New Cons. Bths - 40 0 0 6 0 0 ; 25% Ditto, New - 50 0 0 2 0 0 11% London and Croydon • lOs. per sh. 13 15 9 i - 17% Ditto, Guarittd. sp. c. - 9 0 0 4 0 0 1 414 London and York. •• • • - 50 0 0 i 2 10 0 7 Lynn and Ely ••• • • • - 25 0 0 2lO 0 1 5 Manchester and Leeds 1/.75, 6d. p. s.' 100 0 0 70 0 0 1 138 Ditto, Half Shares • • 1/.178.6d.p.5. 50 0 0' 30 0 0 60 DIV°, Quarter Shares 4s. 25 0 0 2 0 0 I 14% Ditto, Sixteenths .• • - 6 5 0' 1 5 0 I 5 34 31anchestr & Birming. 21. per share 40 0 0 ' 40 0 I 63% Ditto, Quarter Shares - 10 0 0 2 0 0 1 10% Midland - Stock. 124 Ditto, Fifths .••• • • • - - 2 0 0 3 36 Ditto, Rim. & Derby 21.13 x. per sh, - Stock. 92 Newcastle & Berwick - 25 0 0 110 0 12% Newestle & Darl. June. 6e. 25 0 0 24 0 0 48 North British ... . - - 710 0 1232 Northern and Eastern . 21. ss. 50 0 0 45 0 0 61 Ditto, Scrip, iss. 51. d. 15s. 50 0 0 25 0 0 46 Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 16% North Kent ••••• • • • .. - - 2 15 0 3 Norwich and Brandon . - 20 0 0 , 10 0 0 16 Ditto, New......... - 10 0 0 I 1 0 0 3 3% Portsmouth Direct .... - 50 0 0 2 10 0 2 Preston and Wyre .... - 50 0 0 50 0 0 Richnind &W. E June. - 20 0 0 1 0 0 3% Rugby . - - 1 0 3% Ditto, 2d Pref., 1841 - 25 0 0 25 0 0 Sheffield and Lineola • • - 25 0 0 1 5 0 1% Sheffield & Manchestr 51. per cent. 100 0 0 82 10 0 Ditto, Quarter Shares - 25 0 0 8 0 0 13 Shrws.,Welv.,Dud.,Bir - 50 0012 10 0 4% South Devon - 50 0 0 10 0 0 1 636 South-Eastern & Dovr 11. Is. 33 2 4 - 40 Ditto, New iss.lBl.dis - 50 0 0 8 0 0 15 South Wales - - 2 10 0 4% Stevenson's I'rtsmouth - - 2 10 0 2% Thames and Medway.. - 19 5 8 - 10% Trent Valley ••••• • • •. - 20 0 0 2 0 0 20% Yarmouth & Norwich - 20 0 0 20 0 0 27 Ditto, New •••• • • • • -- 20 0 0 8 0 0 14 York & North indland 10/. per ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0 102 Ditto, Half Shares • • 101. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0 51 Do., Scarbro' Branch - - 20 0 0 41 Ditto, Selby Scrip - - - 20 0 0 64 Ditto, Extension .... - 25 0 0 1 5 0 12% Boulogne and Amiens. - 20 0 0 2 0 0 6 Gt. Northern of France - 20 0 0 4 0 0 534 Orleans and Vierwn - - 20 0 0 2 0 0 13% Orleans & Bourdeaux - 20 0 0 2 0 0 634 Paris and Lyons - 20 0 0 2 0 0 274 Paris and Strasbourg - 20 0 0 2 0 0 2% Paris and Orleans. • - 20 0 0 20 0 0 46% Parts and Rouen R.,tien and rfavre - 20 0 0 12 0 0 2% JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Dividend Amount Nam° of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. £ a. d. a. d. Australasia .• • ....... 8/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 44% Britsh North American 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 45 Commercial of London 51. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 21 % Colonial .•. Londe and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27% London Joint-Stock .• Cl. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14 1 A Metropolitan ......... 25 0 0 7 10 0 Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 44% 6 Ditto, New......... 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 National of Ireland .. 01. per cent. 50 0 0 17 10 0 16 1 ,1 Nat. Provncial of Eng. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 37% Ditto, New.•• • • M. per cont. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia.... 25 0 0 25 0 0 27 Union of L0nd0n..... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12 yt INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. I, Price. Annum. Share. I £ s. d. ! £ s. d. Albion ••••• • • • . • ... . 3/. 10s. 500 0 0: 50 0 0 7234 Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 , 11 0 0 20 Ditto 3farine... • ... Gt. per cent, 100 0 0 ' 5 0 0 6% Atlas . 13s. 6d. pr sli. 50 0 0 5 0 0 1634 British Commercial • . 7s.per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 7 Clericl,3led.&Gen.Life Sl. per cent. 100 0 0 ' 2 10 1 6% County ...... •••• • • • • 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1 Crown ••••••• • • • • • • • 9s. and 40 0 0 50 0 10 6/. ss. bs. Eagle 6s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 5% Bconomic Life . /&30s.bs. Eng.& Scot. Law Life Si. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 234 European Life •••• • • • • 531, per cent. 20 0 0 • All paid. 20 Freemasons' ..• •••• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe ••• • . ..... ••• • • • 6/. per cent. Stock. - 142 Guardian • ...... ••• • • 5/. per cent. ,100 0 0 36 10 0 50 1 4 Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 121. per cent. 1500 0 0 : 50 0 0 ' 19.5 Imperial Life... Indemnity Marine •• • • I/. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 30 Law Life •••••• • • • • • . U. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45% Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2O 0 5% London Fire London Ship Marine . 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 3fcd. Invlid & Gen. Life - 50 00 i 20 0 3 National Loan Fund.. Si. per cent. 20 00 ' 210 0 21 , 4 National Life ••••• • . • • 8/. p er cen t . 100 0 0 1 5 0 0 934 Palladium Life .5/. per cent. 50 0 0! 2 0 0 2 Phoenix .. .. ...... •• . • 3/. p. et. & bs. - 1 - Protector Life.. .. .• • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 1 0 0 Provident Life • • .... • • 1/. ss. 100 0 0, 10 0 0 24 Rock Life . 4s. 50 0 010 0 4% Royal Exchange ....• • 5/. per cent Stock. - 19234 Sun Fire . - - Ditto Life . 11. Gs. - - Universal Life DOCKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. X s. d. "X s. d. Commercial East and West India East Country London ••••••• • .• . , . 14%1. pr cent. Stock. 117 St. Katharine Southampton • • •• • • 41. per cent. 50 0 0, 50 0 0 WATER-WORKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. i per of raid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s, d. Fast London...—. •• • • N. 100 0 0 230 Grand Junction ••• • • • 3/. 46 13 4 90 Kent .... ••• • • • 21. 10s. 100 0 0 65 Vauxhall .. West Middlesex • LIST or SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ 5. Q. Bank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland Cl. per cent. 100 0 0 168% British Linen Company 8/' per cent. 100 e 0 226 Commercial Bank .. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 167% National Bank. ..... • • El. per cent. 10 0 0 lb% Union Bank of Scotland 736/. pr cent. 50 0 0 97 Western Bank-- —• • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 76 North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. I 5 0 0 7 Clydesdale Bank.... • . 61. per cent. I 10 0 0 14.34 Eastern Bank.. ..... . 31. per cent. I 18 0 0 11% Caledonian Bank ... • • 61. per cent. 210 0 I 3% Edinb.Bt Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. 5 0 0 ' 7 5 4 City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. 815 0 13% Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 1% • Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Insur. Co. of Scotlnd•- 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10 North British Insur 9/. per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 24 3 4 Caledonian Fire Insur lOl. per cent.'loo 0 0 10 0 0 25 Edinburgh Life Insur 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1 8 34 Edin. &Glasg. Railway 4% l.percent.l 50 0 0 50 0 0 ; 65% D itto. % Shares 4%l.percent.j 12 10 0 All paid. 16% Edin., Leith, & Grantn Ulan'', & Ayrshir Rail. 4%1 per cent.' 50 0 0 All paid. 66 I Clasp., & Greenck Rail. 2/. Per cent. 125 0 0 All paid. 12% Glsgw&Ga r nkirk Rail. 5/. per cent. ' 25 0 0 All paid. I 28 Dundee&Arbrothltail. Si.percent. ;25 0 0 All paid. 32 CANALS. Names of ii: IDividericl l i. Dividend Companies. *4 1 r , Price. Nam es of ?...) :3 Pe Anntun. co Companies. a Pin. Price. I , 4 Annum. -.-- ....__ ,A XI ------ Ashtn & Ohlh 97,51.55. pc ! 70.72 Ajenmouthsh 100 7 : 160 Ashby-d-la-Z,113! 4/. 5 se acclestleld . 100 Barnsley •• • • 160! 121. 180 -;l 4 ntgomry s h 1 00 51. p 8 Basingstokc..lloo - 15 BrknkikAbrgllso 51. ar, ath ...... 100 20/. 365 Nottingha Cromford .... !100, 181. 164 Peak Forest .. 1r 121. 260 Dudley .• • ... iloOi 4/. 80 Regent's .... 3 8 3 3 1 1 i 40 Derby • • • . .. ,100 8/. 103 Rochdale ... •85 41. 24% Ellsmre&Chs,l33 41. 58 Shropshire • • 125 a/. 1 55 Erewash •• • :100, 321. , 440 Somrset Coal 150 71. IN. 123 Forth & Clyd 100 41. ! 105 Do.Lk Ed St 12 61. p. c. 11 GrandJunctnlloo' 71. 140 , tffrd &Wore 140 281. 480 Grand Union 100 , 1/. 10s. 25 Shrewsbury.. 125 15/. 230 Glainorgush . 172 14%1. i 210 Stourbridge .. 145 20!. 36 0 Glstr & Brkly ' 00, - 8 Strtfrd on Av 79 11. 10s. 30 Grantham • • Jlso' 121. 185 Seveni and} 26 1/. 88. 30 Huddersfield.! 57, - I 20 Wye Bail. Kennt & Arn. 39. 7s. 6d. lO Trnt &MI 50 301. 450 Lancaster .•• ' 47: 1/. 10. I 40 sey, 1 -i sh. Leeds& Livrp 'lOO, 341. 1 610 Thams &Med 19 - 10 Leiceswr .... 140 10/. ! 139 Worestr & 78 41. 50 j Lelestr & Nthl 83' 41. 70 Birmlng. Loughboroghl 142' 70/. / / 10.50 Ms & Mks 67 17. 4s. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25 1845. The business transacted in Brandy has been ex tremely limited, although upon further reduced terms : Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d ; 1839, hlias 4s 9d, puns 4s 7d ; 1840, hlids 45 9(1, puns 4s 7d ; IS4I, hhds 4s Bd, puns 4s 6d ; 1842, hhds4s sd, puns 4s 3d ; 1843, hhds 4s 3d, puns 4s ld, common 2s 7d to 2s 10d, mid to good mid 2s lid to 3s 9d, and Bour deaux 2s 6d to 2s 8d per gallon. Geneva has been taken sparingly at is 9d, home consumption sort at 2s 4d to 3s. The market firm for English Corn Spirits at lOs 2d per gallon, cash, and the demand good. RICE. —This afternoon Bengal Rice sold privately at for mer terms, 352 bags at auction were disposed of at the full worth, good middling white fetched lls, middling lOs 6d to Ils ; sea damaged, first class 10s 6d, and second class lOs per cwt. WooL.—The market has a firm appearance for all descrip tions, and at previous advanced rates there has been a good business transacted. COCHINEAL.—This afternoon Cochineel met with little attention ; 92 bags of Honduras at pubblic sale were only partly sold at rather lower rates, and went at 4s 9d to 5s for mid to good sivers ; 6 bags of Vera Cruz fetched 4s 8d to 4s 9d per lb for low black. OILS.—The market has been much better supplied with Southern Oil, and a declim in prices of 30s to 40s took place. Of 300 tuns offered at auction not above half found pur chasers; fine quality at 281 to 301, middling to good 261 15s to 271 15s, and low 251 to 26/ per tun. Seal is dull of sale, and prices are still going down ; 311 to 31/ lOs having been accepted privately fur pale of first quality : 12 tuns at auction went at 251 5s for brown, and at 29/ 5s for common pale. An improved demand for Cod at 291 to 29 5s per tun. Holders of Sperm still manifest firmness ; there has been a good business transacted privately at 831 to 85/ for British, and at 801 to 821 per tun for American. Cocoa Nut is not so much wanted, and prices are easier; 16 tons of inferior at auction produced 24/ 15s to 25/ per tun. In Palm many transactions have taken place at firm rates, good and fine at 25s to 26s 6d, and low to middling 22s to 24s 6d per cwt. The late advance is fully sustained for Rape Oil, pale fetch- ing 37s to 37s 6d, and brown 36s to 36; 6d. Linseed Oil is still attracting attention, prices rule firm at 25s on the spot, and at 25s 3d, to 26s per cwt for delivery; although the crushers are working freely, still there is only a small quan tity of Oil offering for sale. Of Olive Oil many parcels have been sold, and merchants manifest firmness; Gallipoli has been fetching 431 to 44/, Spanish 421 to 42/ 10s, and Barbary and Sicily 41/ to 41/ lOs per tun. TALLOW.—Prices are on the decline for Russian Tallow, still there has been a good demand on the spot. P Y Candle of first quality 39s to 39s 6d, and other sorts at 37s to 38s 6d. for delivery in the last three months of the year 39s 3d to 39s 6d per cwt for first quality. Town Tallow is selling at 39s to 40s per cwt nett cash. For other kind of Tallow prices are still going down ; at auction 426 pkgs of South American went at 32s 6d to 38s; 108 casks of North American 35s 9d to 39s 3d, and 44s casks ; of New South Wales 38s to 40s per cwt. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT (THIS EVENING) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack shortly after Five o'clock. Mr. O'Mera, the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, presented papers. . . BAIL IN ERROR BILL. Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that, on Friday next, he should move the second reading of the Bail in Error Bill. DIVORCE. The NOBLE and LEARNED Loan also gave notice of his intention, on Thursday week, to introduce a Bill upon the im portant subject of the transfer of the jurisdiction in divorces to another tribunal. Earl FITZ WILLIAM presented several petitions from va rious parts of Wales, Westmoreland, and York, in favour of Temperance. Lord BEA UMONT gave notice of his intention, on Thurs day next, to put a question to her Majesty's Gov ernmen t relative to the proceedings which had taken place with respect to Corfu and Calabria. garden and his poultry-yard. He eschews notoriety —ho seeks retirement—how comes it then that Mr. Hollylodge is made high sheriff of the county ? Mr. Hollylodge has a:wife (Mrs. Glover), bustling, ambitious, purse-proud, to whom her neighbour, Lady Winkleworth (Mrs. %V. Clifford), a high-bred aristocrat, is even as Mrs. Grundy was to Dame Ashfield, and Mrs. Hollylodge has a brother, Smirker (Mr. Strickland), a shrewd country attorney, who has an itching palm for the teen which fall to the lot of deputy-sheriff. "What would Lady Winkleworth say if I were the lady of the sheriff of the county ?" quoth Mrs. Hollylodge. " What sums could I not realise if I were deputy.sherifl;" calculates Mr. Smirker, and accordingly Smirker goes to London, and by intriguing with the subor dinates in office, manages to get his brother-in-law nomi nated sheriff of the county. Poor Mr. Hollylodge stands in the last category of Falstaff's men of honour, and equally to his surpriso and his annoyance, hears of the honour which has been thrust upon him. At first, he is inclined to pay the fine, but as Smirker kindly undertakes to perform all the duties of the office, in fact, to be the factotum, Hollylodge, much to the delight of the ladies, consents to serve. The whole house is in a bustle; Nonpareil (Mr. Webster), who has been footman to three Lord Mayors, is brought down from town to drill the servants, Andrew (Sir. 11. Widdicombe) a plain clodpole, and Pansy (Mr. Buckstone), a gardener, much addicted to the study of the History of England, and who is particularly anxious to know whether Jane Shore would be a proper person to undertake the office of governess in a respectable family. Banners are painted; new carriages are built; splendid liverieries are ordered, one of which is donned by the high sheriff himself, as his official costume, much to the amazement of Lady Winkle worth and the confusion of Mrs. Hollylodge. Par ties are given, and the high sheriff is completely put out of his way, and is in the high road to misery in conse quenee, when, fortunately, the intrigue of Smirker is dis covered. Smirker himself is struck off the rolls. Hollylodge is superseded, much to his own comfort ; and the husband of Lady Winkleworth is appointed in his stead, much to the discomfort of Mrs. Hollylodge. These are excellent ma terials for the production of fun, and Peake has worked them up with the hand of a master. Puns, some excellently good, some ludicrously bad, but none indifferent, are bandied about in all directions. Hits at the prevailing follies of the day—all of which tell--occasional flashes of genuine wit, and frequent bursts of the most hearty and unctuous humour, abound in this very amusing piece, in the composition of which Mr. Peake seems to have con sulted the taste of all classes, for there is a sentimental un derplot, in which a young soldier is sentenced to death for having struck his superior officer, who had been offering an insult to his (the soldier's) sister. The soldier and the sister turn out to be the nephew and niece of the high sheriff, and of course the soldier is pardoned. The piece was evidently written for the Haymarket company. Peake has taken the measure of each member of it concerned in the production of the comedy, and has exactly fitted every individual. The , comedy, therefore, goes admirably. The mise en scene is per fect, and at the conclusion it was announced for repetition every evening amidst the loud applause of a crowded house. Mate—H. Bainbridge (1836), of the Caledonia, to the rank of Lieutenant. APPOINTMENTS. Captains—J. M'Dougall (b. 1836), to the Vulture ; Sir Watkin Omen Pell, to the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, vice Huskisson, deceased ; Gordon Thomas Falcon (1813), to be Superintendent of Pembroke dockyard, vice W. O. Pell. Commander—R. Barton (1833) to the Vangu►rd ; G. 11. B. Proctor (acting) to the Dwarf, vice Chamberlain, pro , moted. Lieutenants—F. W. Sidney, to the Cyclops ; R. Tattnall, from the Vanguard to the Rodney, vice Lambert, to the Vanguard; J. G. Robinson, to the Firebrand; W. Armitage, to the Comus ; J. Carrol, to the Styx; W. J. Saunders to the Vulture ; A. Kortright, to the illustrious, for Surveying Service. Masters—J. Cater, to the Vulture ; G. L. Bradley, to the Fox ; R. 0. White (second) to the Rodney. Surgeons—G. W. Pritchett to the Vulture ; J. Sloan to the Tory convict-ship; C. A. Browning to the Theresa convict ship; A. Kilroy to the China convict-ship ; W. Bruce to Deptford dockyard; W. Loney, M.D., Additional Assi3tant to the Penelope; J. Gray (Acting Assistant) to the Pandora. Mate—J. C. Clark to the Rattler. Midshipman—J. A. Phillips to the Flying Fish. COAST GUA Removals—Lieutenant A. Cooper, from Cromer to Fishers ;ate, vice Elie, removed ; Lieutenant M. Liddon. R.N.,from iouthampton Water to Cockbush, vice Vincent. dead. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 24. LAW OF DEODAND. Lord CAMPBELL, in pursuance of a notice he had given on a former occasion, laid a Bill on the table for abolishing deodands. The Noble and Learned Lord characterised it as a foolish and absurd law, and expressed his surprise that it should have been allowed to exist from time immemorial to the nineteenth century. He would briefly state what the law was which he wished to abolish. By the old common law of England, which was still in force, it was provided that all per sonal chattels which should tend to the death of a human being should be forfeited to the Crown, no matter whether the owner of the chattel was concerned in the affair or not, because in that case it would become murder or manslaughter, and the law of deodand would not apply. Now, he thought it extremely absurd that if a man took Lis sword and slew another, that his sword should be forfeited to the Crown. He could give various instances illustrating the absurdity of the law, but he thought one or two would be quite sufficient. If an ox gored a man, the ox was not forfeited; but if a man fell from the horse of another, and was killed, the horse became a deodand. The law of deodand, however, did not apply if the chattel were not in motion at the time the accident occurred ; thus, if a man climbing up a waggon fell from the waggon, the waggon was not forfeited ; but if the waggon is in motion, the ease became different. As the law LOW stood, if a person on the top of a coach being intoxicated, fell asleep, tumbled from the top of the coach and was killed, the coach and everything in the coach, including the luggage of the passengers, would be forfeited. The law made some very absurd distinctions ; thus, if a man fell from a ship into salt water, there was no deodand ; but if a man fell from a ship into fresh water, thea the ship and cargo became forfeited to the Crown. The ancient law provided that the chattels should be sold, and the proceeds applied to the performances of mass for the salvation of the soul of the de ceased. Now, he felt that this ought not any longer to be the case. It placed the coroner in a peculiar position, and imposed upon him the duty of inflicting a punishment—for he was, in fact, the instrument of the jury—when, in fact, he was only engaged in making an inquiry. He thought that the imposi tion of a deodand was, at least, contrary to the spirit of the law. The power, his Noble Friend said, was definite and in dependent ; but he (Lord Campbell) doubted whether the imposition of a deodand might not be revised by the Court of Queen's Bench; and of the whole of the law of deodands he would not hesitate to say that they were a clog on the adminis tration of justice, and that, too, in cases where the application of the principle of recompence was sometimes the most ap parent. He (Lord Campbell) had on this subject consulted a most intelligent coroner—he meant Mr. Wakley—on this point, and he quite assented to the view he had taken. In many cases no cause of action could lie. In others the principle fell with peculiar force on the proprietors and directors of railways. The law in France, and most other continental countries, and, he believed, also in Scotland, avoided this abuse. In Scotland, however, the law was any thing but correct. In that country, if a man was thrown from a coach and was killed, no deodand could be imposed. because there was no one who could claim a pecuniary right in his services. While in another case, if a boy was thrown from a coach and injured, his father could claim recompence, though he believed that a case had occurred the other day in which a boy had been injured, and then a deodand was im posed. —( Hear, hear.) The LORD CHANCELLOR said that he believed the case to which his Noble Friend had referred, in which death had ensued, the individual who suffered was the man's wife and not his son. Lord CAMPBELL said, the correction of his Noble Friend was immaterial. All he was anxious to show was, that no cause of action would lie in many cases in which a deodand was imposed. This was evidently an absurdity which ought to be amended, and he therefore hoped that no opposition would be offered to the introduction of the Bill which he was desirous of laying on the table of the House, and which he should beg to move might be read a first time that night. He believed his Noble Friend (Lord Littleton) had a measure of something similar character to lay before the House. What were the precise provisions of that Bill he was not aware, though he believed they were in many respects similar to those of his own Bill. He was, however, ready to meet any proposition of his Noble Friend, either to amalgamate the two Bills, to introduce such clauses of his own as might be necessary to render the Bill of his Noble Friend complete, ri in or he would take the contrary course, and introduce such provi sions as the Bill of his Hon. Friend contained, but which his own Bill was deficient. Or he would, as a third course, be willing to introduce the two Bills 'sari pasee, and leave the House te deal with the clauses as they might deem best. The LORD CHANCELLOR did not wish to oppose the proposition of his Noble Friend (Lord Campbell). The system of deodand presented many instances of absurdity, and he thought that opportunity for them ought to be abolished. There were, however. some points which he wished to bring under the consideration of his Noble Friend. His Noble Friend was aware that deodands were considered to farm a por tion of the extraordinary revenues of the Crown, and that pre vious to the introduction of any measure for abolishing the im position of deodands, he thought that it would be necessary to obtain the consent of the Crown before the passing of the measure. He thought it would be better to obtain this con sent before the introduction of the measure rather than apply for that consent when the Bill was in its last step. There was also another point which hewished to brinz under the con sideration of his Noble Friend, and that was—that as this was a Bill which referred to money, whether it was competent for the House of Lords to entertain the question of the abolition of deodands. He repeated, that he did not wish to oppose the in troduction of the measure of his Noble Friend, but merely to draw his attention to the points which he had submitted. Lord CAMPBELL said that so fully aware washe that the consent of the Crown was necessary to the measure he had to introduce, that he had sent notice of his intention to bring in his Bill to her Majesty's Ministers, with a view to obtain their consent. With respect to granting compensation to those individuals to whom the value of the deodands had been granted by the Crown, he could not see how they were entitled to any recompence for the loss of a thing which was only of value so long as it had existed, and as a property in the nature of a deodand was always of uncertain value,and might subside by other means as well as by an Act of Parliament, there could be no vested interest in it, and therefore the claim to compensation was a groundless one. Another consideration which his Noble Friend on the Woolsack had brought under his notice was the impropriety of originating a measure of this character in the House of Lards. Had his (Lord Campbell's) Bill been a money Bill, there would, doubtless, have been an obstacle. But he (Lord Campbell) conceived that there was a material difference between this and a money Bill. A deodand was im posed in the nature of a _penalty for an effenee, and not as a supply for the Crown. Deodands were instituted originally, not fer the sake of revenue, hut were given to pay for ensuring the rest of the soul of the deceased, so that though this mea sure was introduced without consent, he should not, he conceived, be infringing on the rights of the Crown. Several measures analogous to - this had been introduced into the House of Commons during the Presidency of his Noble Friend Lord Canterbury, who had just entered the House. With the zeal of his Noble Friend all were acquainted, and all were ready te allow his great knowledge of the forms of the House, and of the extent of constitutional privileges. Yet he had never ob jected to the introduction of those measures, and he (Lord Campbell) therefore telt justified in bringing this measure be fore their Lordships, and moving the first reading of the Bill. Afer a few observations from Lord MONTEAGLE and the Loan CHANCELLOR the Bill was laid on the table. RAILWAYS. The Earl of DALHOUSIE laid on the table the report of the Midway Committee of the Board of Trade, with respect to the Manchester and Leeds and other railways. Earl FITZ WILLIAM did not wish to impugn the conduct of the Committee of the Board of Trade, as be thought the public were deeply indebted to them for the trouble they had taken. He was induced to take this opportunity of making these observations, because it appeared to him that that Board of Trade had not been fairly dealt with in other places.— ( Hear, hear.) He was himself clearly of opinion that it would be better that Parliament should not entertain any of these Railway Bills until the opinion of the Board of Trade had been given upon it. He thought that the Government ought origi nally to have issued a Commission to inquire into the beat mode of railway communication over the country. He did not mean to say that the opinion of the Board of Trade ought always to be adopted, but the greatest deference ought to be paid to it. He thought when the opinion of the Board of Trade was against a measure it would be conclusive, but he did not think it should be so when they reported in favour of the measure. He believed that the whole course that had been adopted by the Board of Trade showed the purest motives. He thought the traffic in railway shares ought to be put an end to, either by legislative proceedings or the conduct of the Executive . Government. This was a subject worthy of the consideration of Parliament. It had been said that railway Bills were private Bills. Now, he thought it was a perfect monstrosity to say so, when it was considered that those very measures were the means of afford ing communication through all parts of the country. He was sorry that the authority of the Board of 'trade had not been more looked up to than it had been in certain quarters. He trusted that their Lordships would lend their assistance to up hold that authority. He felt bound, however, to say that he considered the Board had not been properly constituted, to make its authority acquiesced in. He trusted that an efficient body would be formed, to take this important subject into con sideration. The Earl of DALHOUSIE said that the power that had been given to the Board of Trade, with respect to railways, had been given as an experiment. During the last year the Committee of the Board of Trade upon Railways had been ex ceedingly pressed in consequence of the great number of rail way Bills that had been brought forward. He thought, there fore, the greatest latit u d e oug h t to b e g i ven them in preparing their reports. The whole of the proceedings of the Board would be before Parliament in a short time. The Committee of the Board of T ra d e h a d b een treated as culprits, and as cul prit! condemned. Now, all he asked was, not that they should receive pardon, but that they should be put again upon their trials. Lord CAMPBELL thought the Board was not supported by any authority. Certainly it rested upon the resolution of another House, but he believed their Lordships had come tono resolution whatever. It could not, therefore, be expected that the decisions of the Board should be acquiesced in until the reasons for them had been laid before the public, and the matter had been examined in a Select Committee. He most distinctly and strongly protested against the report of the Board of Trade being looked upon as an absolute decision, for it was im possible the Board could have in every case been supplied with sufficient information to enable them to form a correct judg ment as te the merits or demerits of any particular scheme. Indeed, the Noble Lord himself had admitted that in some in stances they were groping in the dark; and he therefore did not think it right that the decision of the Board should disturb the interests of - persons who had invested in some of these railway speculations to the amount of several hundred thousand pounds. —( Hear, hear.) The Earl of DALHOUSIE rem i n d e d t h e H ouse t h at a Committee of the Ho use o f C ommons h a d sat f or a l ong t i me considering this question—whether there should be any parti cular Initury into railway schemes by a Board in connexion with the Government, and this Committee discussed the matter in all its bearings. The decision they came to was—that there should not only be a Board of Inquiry of this nature, but that it should be entrusted to the Board of Trade, and not only to the Board of Trade, but to the railway department of the Board of Trade, to form this tribunal. Not only did they do this, but they explained what should be the functions of this Railway Board, the precise manner in which it should be regu lated, and, in order that there should not be the slightest room fur objection, the Committee stated what the Board should not do. They, therefore, not on►y defined what were the functions arid the particular points to be discussed by the Board, but they went further, and detailed what were the points on which the hoard should not be permitted to inquire. How could Noble Lords Etter this assert that the Board hsd been founded without due and sufficient authority? The subject then dropped, and their Lordships immediately afterwards adjourned. HOUSE (11' C1)11.11( iNS. Feb. 24. WAYS AND MEANS. Mr. M. GIBSON (in continuation) said—What was the alleged grievance of which those grow:l-s comylaioed, in refe rents(' to this deficiency of labour? They contended that they were entitled to it because labour was not abundant ; t hat the cost of the produce of sugar was increased by the d:fficulty of procuring labour, and the high pri-e of labour in consequence. Now, how stood the fact? In the first pious the Home should receive very cautiously the statement of in terested parties, when they come to consider the tales t ion of the cost of producing sugar; and, therefore, if they were to hear evidence on this points, he should suggest that it should be relevant and important, and should emanate from persons of authority and intelligence, at d who mere disinterested. He would then ask the House to consider what was the cost of pro ducing sugar during the time of the existence of 51 tvery, and slan at the time when no very sanguine hopeswere entertained as to the emancipation of the slaves. He would first take the cost of the produce, in the year 1828, of one hundred weight of sugar, with all the advantages of slavery in its most unmitigated form, and without the apprehension that slavery was about to be abolished. The authority he wished to quote on this point was a disinterested authority, was an authority that Parliament was entitled to receive with respect, an authority to which Parliament was entitled to pay the greatest attention. That authority was that of one of their own public officers, a perfectly disinterested man himself, who had writ ten a work on the sugar-cane and the cultivation of sugar—Mr. Porter of the Board of Trade.—(Hear, hear.) What does he say in that work on the cost of producing a hundred weight of sugar during the period of slavery, previous to 1828 ? He says that the cost of producing it was about 9s. lOid. per cwt. But he would take the liberty of reading an extract from Mr. Porter's work, which would perhaps be more satisfactory ;—" In the ten years from 1819 to 1828, the whole expense of a sugar estate attending its cultivation, in cluding salt provisions, provision grounds for the negroes, stores, repair of buildings, medical attendance, the salaries of overseers and attorneys, cost of planta tions, and stores and clothing sent from England, was 26,851/. ; the number of slaves was from 127 to 142, the average number 140. The produce consisted of 29,492 ewts. of sugar, and 164,285 gallons of rum ; now, if they valued the rum only at Is. 6d. per gallon (the price is now 2s. 4(1. ), this would give 12,3211., leaving a balance of 14,5291., being at the rate of 9s. 100. per cwt., as the cost of the production of the sugar." He was aware that there were statements from interested parties, that made out the cost of producing one hundred weight of sugar to be now materially increased, and that even at the time he mentioned, that it was much greater than the sum he had named. But he contended that in Parliament, if they were to have authorities, let them have that of experienced men, of Parliamentary Papers; let them not have merely the authorities that might be quoted from the loose and random assertions made before Committees of that House by parties who had a particular object to serve. The gentleman he named was incapable of any misrepresentation, and entitled to their respect. He was one of their own paid officers, and had had experience to guide him in making the statement he had pub lished; therefore, as a witness, he was worth five hundred fold more than any interested parties they could bring as having made assertions before Committees of that House. Now, he had given the cost of raising a hundred weight of sugar during the period of slavery, upon this authority. He would now give them the cost of producing a cwt. of sugar on authority that he thought must have great weight at the present time. The cost of 1 cwt. of sugar at the present moment, on two estates, subject to to all those difficulties which were now complained of, and which were looked upon as forming a ground for the protection, was 10s. 6d. The quotation which he was about to read was from theJantaicl Royal Agricultural Reporter. That question had appeared in an ingenious periodical which he was sure her Majesty's Government must generally peruse, the Economist—( Laughter)—to which he was indebted for his attention being called to the facts ; and it was to fact, and not argument, he would now call the attention of the House. The Jamaica Royal Agricultural Reporter of the 20th of January, 1844, contained a statement that the Royal Agricultural So ciety gave a prise of 201. or a piece of plate of that value, to the manager of any estate in mak ing the greatest quantity of sugar at the smallest cost, from the lit day of January to the 31st of Decem ber, 1843, " all things considered." He begged the House to attend to the meaning of those words " all things considered." By those words it was meant that allowance should be madeto those managers who should make sugar at com paratively the least cost. For instance, if a manager were subject to a greater deficiency of labour than another competitor for the prize,then the greater cost of production necessarily occasioned by that deficiency, would be taken into consideeption in award ing the prize. What, then, was the difference of the cost of production? On one estate it was 10s. 6d. per cwt., and in another 6s. 9id. So that they had what appeared to be good authority for stating that the cost of producing sugar was, in the island of Jamaica, since the period of slavery, from 6s. to 10s. per cwt. ; and, at this present mo ment, it was about 10S. 6d. He asked whether that could possibly be a ground for giving them a bounty of 10s. on every cwt. which they produce ?—( Hear.) Why the protection was greater than the cost of production. But rumour said that, in reality, the protection was more than 10s.—( Hear.) He asked what possible ground, after the authority he had cited, there could be for giving an additional 10s. for every cwt. which was produced in those colonies?—( Hear, hear.) If the Brazilian could produce sugar without any lost—if it were rained down from heaven— from the skies—without any effort of human industry— he would still be at a disadvantage in competing against this protection of 10s. per cwt.--( Hear, hear. ) No person could deny the truth or justice of that argument, or that he had not based his feats oa competent authority. If that were so, he would ask if they were, without further in quiry, without an attempt to resist this obnoxious tax, calmly to consent to and allow its imposition, and net call on the Go vernment emphatically, and in the spirit of remonstrance, to give them a clear and satisfactory account of what it was they meant by that 10s. protection. But then, with regard to the deficiency of labour in the West Indies, he would ask, was it a fact that such deficiency existed ? Would any member of that body get up and state there that any difficulty arose from the scarcity of labourers? Why the Noble Lord, the Secretary for the Colonies, and now a Member of the other House, had stated, 'a year or two ago, that the number of labourers in the West' Indian colonies was sufficient, and all that was ne cessary was, that their labour should be properly applied. and they themselves properly used. He thought he could show from the words of that Noble Lord that it was owing to the Emancipation Act not being carried out with true spirit that any difficulty at all arose in procuring a continuance of labour. The Noble Lord said He would venture to say that with regard to the expense of cultivation, there was no single instance in which this natural consequence did not follow as effect and cause—viz., that where they gave the negrolabourer an interest in the amount of work to be performed, or in the amount of produce raised, then they would obtain constant and industrious labourers, but when they did not give that interest, then they would not obtain them. The amount of competition carried on there at present was ruinous, and the planters competed with each other in such a way by employing the labourers at certain periods, and paying them accordingly, and not giving them an interest in their work, and rewarding them according to that work, that he thought that was the cause of the enormous expense the planters were now subjected to in the West Indies." That was the reason why they did not get the negro freely to give his sinews in their service.—( Hear, hear.) If that were true, and he had the authority of Lord Stanley for saying that it was true, that Noble Lord, who was the great advocate for paying the 20,000,000/. compensation to the West India interest, how could they expect that the negro would work continually for them ? Why, if the same principle were applied towards the British labourer, he very much doubted whether they would not find the same result, and many branches of their industry failing for want of continuous labour. It was stated at a pub lic meeting a few nights ago that, notwithstanding this com plaint of the deficiency of labour in Jamaica and other islands, there was another most anomalous complaint. They complained that they suffered from the number of able-bodied paupers. Here was the same most strange anomaly. One party stated that they had not a sufficient numb. rof workmen to pt rfarm the oecessary labour. ano other numbers of the same party complained of the expense they incurred in maintaining a num ber of able-boaied paupers. —( Hear, hear.) Able-bodied paupers and protection seemed to have the same affinity as some chemical bodies. Monopoly and pauperism seemed inseparable.—( Hear.) He - could not account for it in any other way than when the greatest amount, of protection was so destructive of industry, that pauperism ensued. He defied any one to show him where a great protective interest was main tained, that there were not great numbers of able-bodied pau pers. He believed able-bodied paupers must exist from the nefarious system in the West Indian colonies. It created a re pugnance on the part of the proprietors to make free men, and free men, as they were called, were, in point of fact, to a great extent, slaves. He very touch doubted whether the con. ditions implied in the servitude of the West Indian negro was not inconsistent with the. spirit of the Emancipation Act, and at variance with the rights and privileges which that Act gave the negro a right to claim. Another reason assigned by the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies for the present de pression in the West India colonies, was absenteeism on the part of the proprietors. He said that the system was going on to such an extent, that it was in vain to hope for an improve ment ; and he further said, that these colonies would not be productive under any system of protection and monopoly. The great bulk of the West India proprietors lived away from their estates—they were perfectly ignorant of all the branches of industry, and who had been employed in the cultivation of their estates. They knew nothing of their own interests, and the poor negroes were left at the mercy of heartless overseers, and attorneys, whose only desire was to get as much toil out of the poor wretches as they could. Manufacturers, agricultu rists, distillers, and chemists, are all connected, in a great de gree, with the growth of the sugar-cane. lie would ask his Hon. Friend the Member for Stockport whether, if he:were to reside in Vienna, and leave his print-works to be conducted by some overseer or attorney, he would not find it impossible, however favourable might be markets and prices, to secure a proper return for his capital. Such, he said, was the condition of the West India planters. They levied money from their estates, and unlike the English landed proprietors, they did not place these estates under the superintendence of a tenant who felt an interest in its prosperity. In their case the same per son was landlord, tenant, manufacturer, distiller, and in many instances merchant ; and then they came to that House and told them that their business was not profitable, and asked them to levy a large con tribution from the great body of the people, for the purpose of enabling them to meet the deficiencies which had been created by this absurd and injurious management. No man could deny that there was considerable force in this ob servation; and he would not claim for it that force if he had not in his favour, amongst others, the Noble Lord the Secre tary for the Colonies. He should be sorry to see the Hon. Member for Weymouth (Mr. Bernal) obliged to change his agreeable house In Eaton-place for a residence in Jamaica ; he should regret the loss of his society, and his being subjected to an unpleasant climate ; but he confessed he saw no hope for the West India body, unless those who were the owners of estates either attended to them themselves, or leased them to those who would have the same interst in them as the proprietors. If no tenant could be found to act as a substitute for the pro. prietor, there was then no hope for a better state of things unless the proprietor girded up his loins, and went out to his own property to manage his own bust ness.—( Hear, hear.) It was of no use to be dancing attendance on the colonial-office, to be praying for thispri b v u i- t privi lege and that favour.—( Hear, hear.) Nothing remained ec ono-nical to adopt a better system of managemeet,a application of labour, and an improved system n oT r :ultivation.— ( Hear.) Lord Elgin, the Governer-General, had tile statedpiotig wouldat t he adoption even of such a primitive machine Geeral as ' make a difference of Aft per cent m the amount of production. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEB. 24, 1845. The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Forester, to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms :—John Blenkarn, Esq., vice Jones ; and Thomas Rickbell, Esq., vice Gregory, who hare retired. WHITEHALL, FEB. 22. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting unto his Royal Highness Adolphus Frederick Duke of Cambridge, K G., the office of Warden and Keeper of New Forest, in the county of Southampton, in the room of the Right Hon. W. S. Bourne, deceased. WHITEHALL, FEB. 22. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Sir J. Parke, Knt. ; Sir E. H. Alderson, Knt.; Sir J. T. Cole ridge, Knt. ' • the Hon. J. S. Wortley ; F. Kelly, Esq. ; W. Whateley, Esq.; J. Greenwood, Esq.; Sir IV. Heathcote, Bart. •, E. Denison, Esq.; and T. G. B. Estcourt, Esq., to be her Maje•itv's Commissioners for inquiring into the expe diency of altering the circuits of the Judges in England and Wales. CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 22. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARMA- MENT. County of Cornwall—Eastern Division—William Henry Pole Carew, Esq., in the room of the Right Honourable Edward Granville Eliot, commonly called Lerd Eliot, now Earl of St. Germans, called up to the House of Peers. County of Buckingham.—Christopher Tower, Esq., in the room of Charles Robert Scott Murray, Esq., who has ac cepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's manor of Hemp holme, in the county of York. WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 25. 7th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Major G. Simmons, from half-pay Unattached, to be Major, vice T. Le Marchant, who exchanges • Captain J. C. H. Gibsone, to be Major , by purchase, vice Simmons, who retires ; Lieutenant J. Crofts to be Captain, by purchase, vice Gibsone ; Cornet C. E. Petre to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Crofts, Feb. 25. 4th Regiment of Foot—Captain E. Methold, from halr pay 3d Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Brevet Major R. Chetwode, who exchanges; Lieut. C. S. Hest to be Captain, by purchase, vice Methold, who retires ; Ensign D. J. Gam ble to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Heat ; J. N. M'Kelvey, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gamble, Feb. 25. 14th Foot—Lieut. J. Dwyer to be Adjutant, vice Spence, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, Feb. 25. 24th Fcot—Captain J. G. Weir, from half-pay Royal Staff Corps, to be Captain, vice F. T. Maitland, who ex changes, receiving the difference, Feb. 25. 50th Foot—W. R. Farmar, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Nangle, appointed to the 47th Foot, Feb. 25. 52d Foot—Sergeant-Major W. Knott, from the 60th Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice Williams, who resigns, Feb. 25. 60th Foot—Second Lieutenant R. J. Feilden th be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Parker, appointed to Scots Fu silier Guards; R. H. Robinson, Gent., to be Second Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Feilden, Feb. 25. 66th Foot—Ensign T. A. Mellsop, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Coates, whose promotion has been cancelled, Jan. 24. 72d Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel C. Gascoyne, from half-pay 6th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Lord A. Lennox, who exchanges, receiving the difference, Feb. 25. Cape Mounted Riflemen—Captain J. Sandes, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice H. Y. Gold, who exchanges, receiving the difference, Feb. 25. BREVET.—Captain E. Methold, of the 4th Foot, to be Major in the army, Jan. 10, 1837. COMMlSSARLlT.—Commissariat-Clerk H. Curll to be De puty-Assistant Commissary General, Oct. 17, 1844. MEMORANDUM.—The Christian names of Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class M'Donald are John M'Cay, and not M'Coy, as previously stated. Erratum in the Gazette of the 24th January, 1845. 66th Foot—For John Clifton Hawkes, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Coates, promoted, read, vice Mellsop, pro moted. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Middlesex. West Middlesex Regiment of Militia—C. Rameden, Esq., to be Major, Feb. 22. WHITEHALL, FEB. 19. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edward Hughes, of Ellesmere, in the county of Salop, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. John Henry Dansday, tailor, Regent-street, Westminster, to surrender, March 7, at one, and April 8, at ele v e n, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing hall-street ; Sutcliffe, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. James Brown, perfumer, Skinner-street, Snow-hill, March 7, at two, and April 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Torkington, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. Lovel Davis, wine agent, Ewhurst. Sussex, March 5, and April 9, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Gregson and Newell, Angel court, City; Young, Battle, Sussex. William Holmes Sumner, grocer, Hoxton Old-town, March 5, at one, and April 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane ; Murray, London-street, Fenchurch-street. Charles Lee, miller, Wakes Colne, Essex, March 3, at half-past twelve, and April 4, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street; Marriott, N ew Inn, and Colchester. James Gray, upholsterer, Manchester, March 10, at one, and March 31, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Stanway, official assignee, Manchester; Soles and Turner, London ; and Todd, Manchester. Cornelius Murcott, coal-dealer, Birmingham, March 7, and April 4, at half-past twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Tyndall and Sons, Birmingham. COURSE OF EXCH) Amsterdam CF. 12 7:1- Ditto, at sight l2 5i Rotterdam 2U. 12 8 Antwerp 26 10 Ramburgh M.B. 13 15 Altona l3 15 Paris, 3 days' eight— 25 85 Ditto, 3 months 26 0 Marseilles Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine 122 .NGE.--(THIS DAY.) Gibra1tar.....•......... Leghorn ....... 31 Genoa ..... ...... 26 15 Milan ...... Venice .... ....... 47 Naples ...... Palarrso, 1.4 r oz llBk Lisbon s3f Oporto .. Rio Janciro Bahia .. ...... O4 Buenos Ay, Ps NewYmk.::'dyssight Philad?ipli;ll PRICE.S 31' 1 111LCION, Eft 07, Foreign £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New l h •u'. ioons 0 0 0 New Dalai s 0 0 0 Silver iv nrs 0 0 0 Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 9 59 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36* Cadia Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville — MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London NewPriee Current of Feb. 25.) S:GAIL—To-day the merchants would not sell excepting they obtained the advanced rates of last week, but the de mand was limited. There was no public sale, but of Bengal and Mauritius large parcels were again brought forward. If a small reduction had been accepted for West India Sugar, it would have been the cause of several parcels being taken by the Grocers. REFINED.—To-day there were scarcely any business done in refined goods by the home trade, and prices are little better than nominal ; brown lums at 70s, and star dard lumps at 71s to 71s Gd per cwt. In Bonded Crushed Sugar there is only a partial business doing. MAyniTrus.—This afternoon the demand was less active, and 5,4E2 bags 24 casks at public sale were only partly dis posed of. at a decline of 13 per cwt., good and tine bright yellow fetched 60: to 61s 6d, good middling 58s 6d to 595, middling 56s to 58s, low 54s 6d to 555, middling to good grey 55s to 595, low 53s to 545, very low brown 435 ; syruppy 60s, damp and washed 49s Gd to 58s 6d per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon three parcels of Bengal Sugar amounting to 3,020 bags were submitted to public competition, buyers were less inclined to purchase, and a part only was sold at a decline on last week's rates of Gd to is per cwt; tine white went at 65s to 665, middling 62s 6d to 63s 6d, low 61s 6d to 625, damp and washed 59s to 655, good strong sound yellow 595, low 51s 6(1 to 53s 6d, damp and washed 49s to 545, middling damp brown 46s to 48s, and sound 495. Of Madras, 481 bags duty paid, were only in part sold, at barely former rates, sound brown went at 48s to 50s, and damp at 47s to 50s. 116 bags damaged Jaggery were taken in at 40s per cwt for low heavy. MoLAssEs.—The demand has been very good for West India, and importers are obtaining prices is to 2s per cwt above those current two weeks back ; since this day week 400 puns have been sold at from 21s to 24s per cwt. In East India there has been more business done and at better prices. Of Bengal Treacle 95 casks at auction were taken in at 21s, there were purchasers at 20s per cwt. The duty on Molasas is to be reduced to 5s 3d pet cwt. COCOA.—This afternoon there was more demand for West India Cocoa—at public sale 164 bags of Trinidad Cocoa were so:d at the full value, viz.—ordinary grey at 43s 6d to 425, middling red 43s to 445, low 425. to 42s 6d, and sea damaged 38s-50 bags Bahia were taken in at 38s for fine red, and 36s to 37s for good bright red. 215 bags of Cocoa Shells from Dukirk taken in at 15s to 16s 6d per cwt. FOREIGN. —This afternoon Foreign Sugar was inquired after, and disposed of privately at firm rates. Bahia at 18s 6d for brown, and 22s 6d for white, yellow Havannah at 21s to 21s 6d for mid and good mid qualit y , and 2000 bags of yellow Manilla at 18s 6d to 19s 6d per cwt. CoFFEE.—To-day the large quantity of 8,697 bags of Singapore Java was brought to public sale, of which 1,377 bags consisted of sea damaged; these were all sold at stiffer rates, and fetched first class 27s 6d to 34s 6d, second class 25s to 32s 6d, third class 24s to 30s, fourth class 21s to 245, sea da maged and repacked 20s 6d to 26s ; the sound was nearly all taken in above the value, fine ordinary yellow at 42s to 455, good ordinay 35s to 40s, fair ordinary 31s to 335, but a few lots were sold at 3ls to 38s for fair to good ordinary; 92 bags sea damaged Padang taken in at 21s 6d to 22s ; 101 bags sweepings from Singapore Coffee sold at 21s to 255. holders of Ceylon are free sellers, and 1,763 bags at public aution went at a further decline of is per cwt, but rrearly the whole sold, good ordinary pale at 46s 6d to 475, very good ordinary 47s to 47s 6d, first class 46s ed to 475, second class 45s 6d, third class 445. Of Mysore at the 4d per lb duty, 154 bags 38 bales were only partly disposed of at moderate rates, good ordinary pale yellowish fetched 5:3s to 55s 6d, ordinary greenish 40s. There was little dis position shown to purchase Foreign Coffee • good ordinary pale at 30s, good ordinary colonry 31 s, die sea damaged partly sold at fair rates, first class at 25s 6d to 295, second class 23s 6d to 28s, third class 23s 6d to 265, fourth class 225, sea damaged and repacked 23s 6d to As ; Costa Rica was all sold at a fall of 2s to 3s, fine fine ordinary coloury went at 45s to 47s 6d, and a few lots of middling coloury 53s Gd per cwt. - - TEA.—Twankey was in good demand, and common fetched 2s 2id ro Is 3d per lb. Ilyson much wanted, buyers of com mon to good at 2s 6d to 3s. The market for Congouis, how ever, in a vet) , dull state, common sound at 10d, and good common 101 d per lb, cash. SPICES.—This afternoon 31 casks of Nutmegs were offered at public sale, and sold at full prices—Batavia bold limed at 2s 5d to 2s 6d, rather small 2s 4d to 2s sd, and 1 cask of brown from the Cape 2s 9d : 5 casks of Mace fetched is 6d to is 7d for low. Pimento is still wanted, and 387 bags at public sale were all sold at very full rates, middling fetched 3d, and common mixed 2d per lb. Rust, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS —Holders of Demerara Rum submitting to a further reduction in prices, occasioned buyers to operate more freely, and 180 puns 30 hhds were sold ; 33 to 41 overproof at 3s, and hhds at 3s Id per gallon. Leewards scarcely any business has been transacted, all other sorts have been ' p _although there are sellers of proof at 2s to 2s Id per gallon. Jomaica of fine quality, being scarce, fetch . full rates ; but urc r hased sparingly, and prices are 26 to 29 over 3s 5d to 3s 7d, De :Crtto overproof 3s 3d to 3s sd. 31 to 36 over 4s 6(1 to ss, superior and 3 6 highover 3s 7d to 4s, fine flavoured 5s 4d to 7s per gallon. In Calcutta Rusmaiesfur,her reduced rates having been taken ; the amount to 200 hhds is 10d per gallon, proof with certwc,ate BANKRUPTCY. Lord CAMPBELL wished to know when his Noble and Learned Friend en his left (Lord Brougham) intended to pre sent the petition with respect to the London Commissioners of Bankruptcy ? Lord BROUGHAM said that he cculd have presented a petition a week ago, but that he had put it off, in order that the subject might be fully considered. If the returns satisfied him that since he had given the notice the Commissioners had attended more to the businesi, he would not present the petition. He, however, could net think it right that five of the Commissioners should be out of town during the summer, leaving only one Commissioner to transact the whole business. Their Lordships then adjourned till Thurdday morning, at Ten o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The House resumed at Five o'clock, when there was a con siderable attendance of the Members, and from the conversation there appeared considerable excitement. Several petitions were presented by Lord Pollington, Sir Howard Douglas, Mr. Ewart, and other Members, for rail way and other private Bills, but from the loud conversation of the Members the names could not be correctly ascertained in the gallery.. Sir JOHN YARDE BULLER brought up the reports of several railway Bills, and stated that the standing orders of these before the Committee had been complied with. The Caledonian Railway Bill was read a second time. Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition from 1,800 inha bitants of the borough of Lambeth against the extension of the South-Western Railway. A petition was also presented from 480 inhabitants of the borough of Lambeth for a free passage over Waterloo-bridge. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from Manchester against the sale of spirits on the Sunday. Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition from the rate payers of Rochdale, complaining of the introduction of the New Poor-law Act by the Poor-law Commissioners into that district. The petitioners prayed that they might be heard by counsel at the bar in support of the allegations contained in the petition. The Hon. Gentleman gave notice of his intention to move to morrow that the petition be printed with the Votes. Lord MAHON presented petitions againat the Medical Bill. Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition against the Medical Reform Bill. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. COLLET T gave notice that he would ask the Right Hon. Baronet, the Frst Lord of the Treasury, whether he intended to appoint another Bishop of Bath and Wells during the life of the present incumbent? and in the event of his receiving an answer in the negative, whether, at the death of the present bishop, he intended to propose another Bishop of Bath and Wells, or to unite that diocese with the diocese of Salisbury. Mr. S. CRAWFORD gave notice that on Tuesday, March 11, he would call the attention of the House to the petition which he had just presented from the rate-payers of Rochdale, against the new poor-law system. Mr. WALLACE postponed, from the 6th to the 11th, his motion with regard to railways. Colonel WOOD gave notice that in the Committee on the Poor-law Settlement Bill, he should move that any poor person who had been resident in a parish for a year without receiving parochial relief, should not be liable to be removed. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY. Mr. W. 0. STANLEY asked whether the line of com munication between this country and Ireland had been agreed upon, and whether it was intended that the line of communi cation should be by Holyhead and over the Menai? Sir ROBERT PEEL said the subject was under the consi deration of the Board of Trade ; and in the event of the plan being approved of, the Government would be inclined to make a grant for the purpose of carrying out that object. Mr. W. 0. STANLEY asked whether it was the intention of the Government to bring in a Bill founded upon the report of the Commissioners of Lunacy. Sir JAMES GRAHAM was understood to say that he had not yet had time to peruse these reports.. The Government would give the fullest consideration to the subject. Sir. BANKES moved for a return of all duty paid by per sons acting as auctioneers during the last three years, distin guishing the numbers who have respectively paid the different amounts of duty. Lord PALAIERSTON asked when certain papers con nected with slavery would be laid on the table of the House ? Sir ROBERT PEEL said they had been laid on the table last night.—( A laugh. ) Mr. M. PHILIPS put a question, which was not heard, re lative to the sugar duties. Sir R. PEEL said he thought it better to reserve the opinion of the Government for the present on that subject. COURTS OF SESSION (SCOTLAND). Mr. WALLACE said that for the convenience of Members of the Government he had brought forward that motion first which he intended to bring on second. The motion of which he had given notice had reference to the Courts in Scotland, and he hoped before he sat down that he should be able to prove from facts that the time had arrived when a regulation of these Courts was not only necessary but practicable. Hon. Members should know that there were in Scotland two Courts of Review. Now in his opinion there was no necessity for two Courts of Review. The Supreme Court of Scotland might be so can ducted that the whole of the business might be confided to one Court, without any detriment to the interests of the country. It was evident that, since he had agitated this question greater attention had been paid by the judges to the business of the Court. In the First Division of the Court of Session, in the years 1841-42 the number of cases which had been brought before the first division of session was 204. In the 'ears 1843-44 it was 174, and in the years 1844.45 it was 270. In the second division of the Court of Session, in the year 1842-3, the number of causes was 216 • in the year 1843-4, the number of causes was 145 ; and in 1844-5, it has diminished down to 82 ; therefore he had no hesitation in saying that that return proved that the people of Scot land, represented by their attorneys, had not such confidence in the legal knowledge and acquirements of the judges of the second division of the Court of Session, as they had in those of the first; inasmuch, as during the last year, while the number of causes in the first division Court amounted to 270, those of the second division Court had diminished to eighty-two. The next document to which he should refer, was a return of the number of causes in the Inner Court and Outer House. A number of causes were brought from the Outer House to the Inner House. The number of causes brought before the Outer House had considerably diminished. In the first division there had been 298 causes brought forward, in the second only 46. That was an incontestible proof that in the opinion of the in habitants of Scotland, as represented by the solicitors, the second division of the Court of Session was not an efficient court. The second division had fallen off, in what the Lord Justice Clerk. The difference between the Courts was, as he had stated, was in the proportion of 270 to 82. Another return showed that only one-fifth of the business found its way from the outer court to the inner. In three-fourths of the present session there had been but nine causes in the Inner Court of Review, and at the end of the session there will searcely have been more than twelve causes. The sub ject was one which concerned all the people of England, Scotland, and Ireland alike, for they all paid alike, and and bore a gr ea t cos t, no less than 25,0001. per annum for the payment of their judges. He held in his hand the Act that was passed for increasing the salaries of those judges, in order to diminish the arrears of business, and to facilitate justice. (LEFT SPEAKING.) THE THEATRES. HAYMARKET. A new and original comedy in three acts, so styled in the bills, entitied, The Sheriff of the County, from the pen of our old friend Peake, was produced hero last night, with the most deserved success. In the olden time, when there were such things as three-act farces, this would most probably have been called a farce, bnt we will not dispute about names— farce or comedy, it is a most agreeable, lively, bustling affair, and kept the audience in a constant titter for more than two hours, and Peaks may boast that he has done more than Majesty itself can do, created a high sheriff whe does not, either by himself or his deputy, cause a moment's heart ache to a single individual. Mr. Ifollylodge (Mr. W. Farren) the high sheriff of the county, is the most amusing of officials—a retired country gentleman, devoted to hie ADELPIII. Mr. Morton is the most indefatigable of farce writers. He seems recently to have taken a vast liking to infantile heroes : A short time since he produced Young England, at the Hay market ; and last night he produced a farce at the Adelphi, which he might have called Young Jamaica, but which he does call Mother and Child are Doing Well. In the Young England, Buckstone is the victim of the " horrid child." In Mother and Child are Doing Well, Wright is the unhappy individual who is called upon to take arms against a sea of troubles, brought on by having a mysterious infant forced into his arms. Of the two we think the sorrows of Wright are the more amusing. His Felix Huffy is admirable. He is a Cheapside grocer, suddenly transported to Jamaica, who cannot for the life of him see why he should not do exactly the same thing,:at exactly the same times, between the tropics that he did in London ; and who, having heard a negro speak of the mudder and the piccaninny, has awful misgivings as to whether he has not been unwittingly made the depository of a dreadful secret relating to some mysterious murder perpetrated in Piccadilly. Then the child is brought and left with him in a m:vsterioiis way —secrets of divers sorts are half-confided to him by divers persons of whom he knows nothing—until at last he is obliged to adopt a series of numbers, such as secret number one confided by mysterious stranger number one; and even with the help of the numbers he gets involved in inextrica• ble confusion. There was a rich and unctuous stolidity about Wright's personation of this character, which reminded us strongly of Liston. He has more of the quiet Listonian humour about him than any actor at present upon the stage. He was called for at the conclusion, and announced the piece for repetition in a strange sort of mysterious c on tid en i • tial way, that set the House n a roar. The House was crammed. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) OPENING OF TIIE STEAM-FRIGATE DOCK. This splendid dock (the foundation-stone of which was only laid in July last), was this day opened, and the Oriental Company's steam-ship Braganza docked, amid the hearty cheers of the assembled multitude; the Cowes band playing " Rule Britannia." The following are the dimensions of the dock : Feet. Length from head to gate 257 Breadth 62 Dept of water on the sill at spring tides l6 Ditto at neap tides Height of blocks 5 The dock is very substantially built with massive stone piers; it resembles in shape the interior of a ship; the bottom is a selid masa of timber, resting on a bed of blue clay, at least 200 feet in depth ; the entrance is completely sheltered, and so accessible that the Braganza was only one hour and twenty minutes from her leaving the wet docks at Southamp ton, to her being hauled into and squared in the dry dock at Cowes ! The largest ships may lay afloat off the entrance to the dock at low water. DEATH OF WILLIAM HEARN, ESQ. NEwronT, FEU. 22.—Many in our town were grieved at hearing of the death of this gentleman ; he had been ill a few days—was seriously so yesterday—this morning a corpse. He was town-clerk of the borough, and to his exertions our present representatives are indebted for their seats; he it was who formed our famed borough boundary, lie fought all the battles in the registry courts, he was the slave to his party, and they were slaves to him. He it was who saved the Tory corporation at the passing of the Reform Bill; he saw they would stand no chance if left to the support they could obtain in Newport; he therefore introduced in his new hisew party.asBs boundary his Tory friends at Cewes ; he not only constructed the machinery but worked it afterwards. Whatever may be said about trickery, that he had both talents and tact at c in a r n di n n ig o n t iand b dv e ohdcaeaNntreei killed l n te o da r shltiahmvaet itnohsoun d r a -exertions oaafn bodyu,nit at 55th v ve e and twelve children to deplore his loss. w Mr. Hearn was one of the executors under the will of the late George Ward, Esq., to his vast estates in the Isle of Wight, to which the Rev - . William George Ward, of Balliol College, is heir presuirptive. MONUMENT IN MEMORY OF THE LATE GENERAL SIR WILLIAM Norr.—A numerous meeting was held at Carmarthen, at which the mayor of the city presided, to adopt measures for carrying out a project entertained by a numerous body of the most influential and respectable in habitants of the above place, t o erec t a monumen t i n me mory of the late General Sir William Nott. During the meeting, it was stated that the Court of Directors of the East India Company not only highly approved of the scheme, but intended to give a munificent donation towards the object in view. Also that the Earl of Ellenborough had signifi e d his wish to be on the list of the committee at present in the course of formation, as well as to subscribe 1001. in aid of the funds required to defray the expenses. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 23.—The R o d ne y, 92, C a pt a i n C o lli er , C. 8., has been taken into the basin to be fitted for sea. Her masts were taken out on Saturday. A recommendation having been sent to the Admiralty by the dockyard au thorities for the fore and main masts of this fine ship to be removed and stepped further aft, an order to that effect was communicated on Friday. She will consequently have to be docked in order to undergo the required alteration. It is a great pity the defect of the masting of this ship was not made known to the Admiralty when she was paid off up wards of twelve months ago—she could then have been altered without so much loss of time, and causing so great an outlay as will now be the case, as she is wanted to join the line-of-battle-ship trial squadron early. The foremast will be removed, we believe, some thirty inches, and the mainmast about twenty inches further aft, which will make her a much easier ship on a wind in a head sea. The above alteration will not appear a . very considerable one to the uninitiated, but it will require all the decks to be altered, and other contingent reformations. There is no doubt but that the change will much improve the ship, as in deed we believe it would almost all our men-of-war, great and small. An accident occurred on board this ship on Wednesday to two riggers, whilst gammoning the bow sprit. One of them, named Benham, had his jaw dreadfully fractured, and the other was knocked down and much in jured, by the breaking of the gammoning, which is made of chain, instead of rope, as in former years. The latter is infinitely superior to the former, both in point of safety, ease of working, and other advantageous features. Benham lies in a most dangerous state, having been unable to take food through the regular channel. It is much feared lock jaw will ensue. The Fantome, 16, Commander Sir F. Nicholson, Bart., arrived from Sheerness this morning to complete her crew, and receive advance wages. She saluted the flag of Admiral Rowley, and brought up at Spithead. The Comus, 18, Commander Thompson, arrived about two hours after the Fantome, saluted, and anchored at Spithead. The Eagle, 50, Captain Martin, arrived from Sheerness on Wednesday, to complete her crew (of whom she is short up wards of 150), and receive advance wages. Captain Rowley went along s ide in the Admiralty yacht , on the arrival of this fine frigate, and took out her captain in his cot and con veyed him to the official mansion o f h is uncle, the Com mander-in-Chief, Sir C. Rowley, Bart., where he remains confined by illness, brought on by over exertion at the fire in Chat ham Dockyard. The Royalist, 10, Master-Commander Parkinson, was at Singapore, last. from Port Essington, on the 19th November. Three of her commanding officers having died within twelve months (Lieutenant Chetwode, and Acting Lieutenants King sley and Wells), and no official communication having been made to the vessel for upwards of a year and a half, the Second Master, Mr. Parkinson, was compelled to promote himself to keep the pendant flying.. Her masts being both sprung, and her gear in a very dilapidated condition, Mr. Parkinson took her without orders to Singapore, whe re a t the time our letter left he was waiting a reply from Rear- Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, the Commander-in-Chief, to some dispatches sent to that officer explaining the woful condition and distress of the vessel. The garrison of Port Essington are anxiously looking out for 21rellef, having been hi their present quarters six years. Lieutenant Graham Ogle was at Hong-Kong awaiting the arrival of the Royalist to take the command. The Cyclops steam-frigate, Captain Lapidge, at Tarbert, has hoisted the ensign for vo l u nteers for the navy. Th e Lynx brigantine has also hoisted a similar ensign at Dingle. The Vindictive, 50, Captain Seymour, flag of Vice-Admiral Austen, is rapidly completing crew and fittings alongside her hulk. Her topgallant masts are swayed up, and she presents a serviceable appearance. The Vengeance, 84, is expected to be put in commission shortly. The fortifications are being repaired and strengthened. The old gun carriages on the King's Bastion have been re placed by new, and eight 32-poun.ders, instead of four, mounted. Blockhouse Fort, commanding the mouth of the harbour, will shortly display a double instead of a single (as formerly) row of teeth, and we believe it is contemplated to remove the old victualling store, upon which stands the old telegraph on the platform, in order to extend the Platf orm Battery to th e R oun d T o wer. Works will also be erected on Southsea-common, between the Castle and the King's Bastion. PROMOTION' S. list C O ° f M l co nfirmed as Master of the Acting Master—G. G eo rge, Tartarus.mB3aontdoertsh—atNo.f3,llB76g.er and J. Pasley, from the retired . ..... 10 —( Hear, hear.) Yet thee were still to be tol d that, theelc s, nothing to be done for the West India colonies cetlea ;t P a '' bu sdae! protection and monopoly. Where was the use of o e supply of manual labour, if that labour was not made elr Chore eSO by the use of maclenery ? It was the argument of ioo° undertook to regulate the hours of labour in the imsnu .„o ,o o districts, that if they could not obtain the use of man' . e. Of for so long a period as they had been accustomed to a ‘s e e s ee; must make up for it by an increasei use of r° The English manufacturers were enabled to maintain,eesi sition in the markets of Europ i, not by the extent:lot' manual labeur, but because they brought machinery . if of labour, so as to make that labour more productive. teol they must do in the West Indies—( Heer, h e ar)--an d I , (I, observed in the Jamaica journals a very sensible sp e l i ir Captain Dillon, who had endeavoured to inculcate. it minds of his fell°"-colonists the doctrine that it 14'0% 41° 4 advisable for them to expend the colonial revenue i . P it ,/ lug steam-engines and machinery from England , til e , deavuuring to protmee the immigratiun of fresh . le to i lie believed that that was the most sensible course th r e e ' . e i ioni-ts could adopt.—( Hear, hear.) For the last th . e .c e ties there had net been the slightest improvement insltses`o,o vation of sugar in the colonies. He believed that the _ e el gine would be found to be a most beneficial aid to 10° 4 tl' West India colonists—( Hear, hear) —for at Pre t s ec 'e t adopted precisely the same system of cultivation wr t ''_ ic e' had adopted three centuries ago, when the slave-traTineer exist, nee.—( Hear.) He was afraid that the Wes roe were not inclined to adopt the principle of the B p at e si; facturers, and to ripply machinery for the pair' wee' , labour more productive.—( Hear, hear.) He had er out e rr an excellent article on this subject in a colonial PI the/ de merit and influence—the West Indian, in which to 4 0w. said that it was the duty of the West India colonists feto their attention t, the introduction of ma ,hieeti o sp i r it; purpose of rendering labour more productive. This v eg lee l , ciple which the West India colonists too much ~,,n tols r i s e To show how averse the West India proprietors wer Aso their industry productive, he would mention one 4° ' il bely way had been projected between Kingston and s t _ e lt it re rsof It was well known that a great portion' of the lawee t eeere West Indies were employed in transporting—in con tO l O4 duce from one place to another. When the he had referred was proposed, not a single gentlel?;o4, been protected, who said that protection stimulatece ' t he ~,,, not one gave their countenance to the proposal teropeiltse, way. Who were the parties who took up th e Poo' ''o and who found funds for making the railway ? t 0, 0 10°,0 persons who had no confidence in protection, hul l e s ols r ;to forward to the adoption of free trade. Who 100 ke n os 0 1 exposing the West India proprietors to a free eon'P e e , 011 0 0 the produce of the world—those were the Par i ke i esle s f el found the money to make the railway from t es lis ti t tO railwaaen 00 ~, Spanish-town. Why, if the West India proprie ° 50 p0r.,01 in their principles, they would hare come forwarit°_,,, ' t r e e railway. Perhaps they believed that protectioteWe'neelvje cease, then why not give it up at once, instead ar t "? fl o e and manufactures in a state of suspense and aolle„terot,jef believed that the West India proprietors We re : Orie l protection. He believed that the only reason that but t se was not adopted by colonial proprietorslto to to free traders to accomplish, WSS'tho tigh t fir be r i were enervated by monopoly. He es n et t,° elil was a most important fact, and one that °eg os le, s ue gotten. There was nothing which told so much w .e esle'ee of Parliament and the British public as plain :7,00V facts ; and he thought, from the facts he bad sts` th e sw e e lie would see that there were some grounds fr' r ee t 01115# which had been made on that side of the Houseett"reetii.,ter had enervated the West India proprietors, elid e i n , elle' the solid principles of competition to give they of t ''', l ` r Now, he would not dwell longer upon this branch oy! tion, because if the position he maintained were fleoh; ther areument would be unnecessary, and the r.,g0 04 ,,,, 1e convinced that the importers in this countryh" " re ioP' s eii to every advantage in this trade as the geowf• es ties'et o Indies. His plan he rested on the broad basis o '4 Of, ( would say that this House could n t interfere!' oilier', justice with this trade or continue this pr otect s ti l eltt, would contend for it that the Government s,", bet P s ilts this protection, in order to do equal justice to a ll o t st et , subjects. But he knew that this doctrine w as hlb PI latable to many Members of that House, altheoltooso/15 not appear upon the face of it an act of injustice-et f ief 4 , trader of this country. But let him take a sh o ee por ti ? case. He would ask, did they increase the 11004 country by this continual protection to the W ' l e tbs is sor s o ii should limit himself to the West Indies, becaushe 000 r silent of the Board of Trade, in answer to t er sn' m dl l Member for Taunton, on the Brazilian arlfer of that his plan of protection was not intend' West, I f s ritius or for British India, but for th e to t "s/ el therefore he would confine his argumen r esse' . of de' Indies, and he would ask have the imports in c ipe tio ° lo 4 el would take the period previous to the eeleelises 0,, slaves, and he would contend for it that the pr - len tb r e , creasing for many years previous to , tp este u ,:jeej the emancipation took place. It s ' a jtisk l e ssj °l o o ' that imparts from the West Indies had been g r.- 10yr" ing though the growers had all the advantages o at be et f" and slave-labour.—( Hear, hear.) For it on s !, ° ben tb ee s s e' that these protective duties were enacted, 0 00 i e ete owners of slaves themselves, and when their e° ° t hstt oos S i g s; players . of slave-labour; it must not be f o rgotte t n he eff 0 1 tective duties did not originate from the new o , 3 suirfoeV, that had been laid down, that they were to 4 their l ee philanthropic considerations when regulating c od ef ro du ies. He repeated that these duties were 000 , / , were slave owners themselves ; and at that tiroettbeo d i r India colonies had all the advantages th e y oil 0 0 11 ),' • their imports were gradually falling off. An nee etse etre the case since? Notwithstanding the vas , "'Ore', fort' pnlation, notwithstanding the great augtn ew ee esWei le mend for sugar, in order to insure the 00 11: - 1000; • working classes, the imports had been n t , Ito,' eV . , It might have varied from year to Y ea se ' s et w Y r r . lieved he was correct in stating that ', ll - e i e": 0,411 0. ported in 1834, the very year in which 44 eel , their slaves, was greater than in the year ° el; ! t e es Ci r :e year in which the account was made UP., or lel f ,( 0 Right. Hon. Gentleman, the first Ministel; tbs i te, stated there had been no material iecress e Le loor A ill i sugar. When they considered the vast iner e l, ero l "e, istion, what a deficiency there must be whenLeo,;o o 'sf r limited supply among the greater number of r: 0 1 4 7 5 ,0. / 00 1 ' , much smaller a share fell to the poorer classes optli nity ? Those who were in the enjoyment of,' 000, ale?, comfortable incomes would not diminish 0 0. 6 0 0 4 Li' , sugar, but in the division of a smaller quantiti - e tees'es t ,s number, depend on it the comforts of the or e es'Ar s ' must be materially diminished. How unres t !. co 1v r doubt that a great evil was inflicted on,t' e l e sel e s telo o ,o o ' confining the supply of sugar to their ern ct- t ee " &S t ' with the exception of a small quantity' j 0 OW' was consumed last year was supplied o° oll t e_ ewes; But the consumption of this country wa s ° s eat ° CPO, the produce of our own colonies. Arc t ee 0 ,0 Price Currents, the average price of sugar 00 54 6d ess t jlt!, was 215. per cwt., whilst in this country it 1 stee d s r sr e difference of 13s. per cwt. The quantity ° differ" OP; here was 207,000 tons per annum. But thf e toase ee e,, per cwt. made a difference of 131. per r'.),,eoOiet 207,009 tons amounted to 2,600,000f.--essi tt eee 7 ",,Ag ' / sugar consumed in e this country last year e°S fp erePelso - 0 , than the same quantity would have cost if l e g ....i rt l Continent.—( Hear, hear.) Did they call tio g jO eb oe , the poorer classes ?—( Hear.) Was this t e spse o rtly o with the recommendation of the Queen it ' l ,, - of t h A e tbel or' throne, that they should consider the wan ) Dt 7 l 3/ 0 labourers end the poorer classes ?—( Hea r ' le pay f ; jii s e tl f ' the doctrine that the British artisan mu' . cot 110)4 upon his sugar because we had es l ar g e t houge"4 o r e P a e • sions in the West Indian Islands ? li e e in,„" o l.) jer e mocking the sufferings of the working clale,ee(llse,ioe,cohee hating themselves in the eyes of the wal l !: won' 00 5 4' were always professing sympathy with t ee e e ditlit e % and talking of cutting down the public ° r are ° h o w , e , wise doing everything to relieve the tax-P a s e s se ee see e) and then upon a vague statement that Or est be ta le sitions could not be practically applied, O r e ; 0 / V 0 01 4 4 i selves to the charge of mocking the Inis e v - e ,..--( ft ee s s is whom they professed to be asexious to relieeeee 0 to 0 .4 , He would contend that protection had o ' 4 ne rts ,0° benefit to the manufacturers. Why the elri y e se . roe Indies were greater twenty years ago than L" . 0,6 5 r , 70 1794 the exports to the West Indies wer e 4, 0 ,0 0° In 181)4.- ...... - ......................... 3 ,69 1 In 1829 .......... ..• 2, 4403,1, In 1842 .. those ! 1 1 ' t ter; In 1843... .............................. r je t b l e tio e 0 , If they compared the exports of 180 4 , 1 4 1 0 7. 1 u0w_ 1 ~ 0 to .h r e d ot , would appear that while they were over n _o(ite., io o 4 1, is user peer, they were only upwards of 2 '''''',: re tee' 4o , ` t iet sl —(Hear, hear.) What benefit, then, tl. l l : t 111C 11 CO )0 0 ,0 Why should they pay more to the b Y' a l e of w ee ie tie did not pay more for his e ., . e „ of ~.,e? "'ot' Manchester than the Brazilian ?—(L'r' — t his ''" e re l. t be s t' He asked whether he had not made sne, o f ell e 0 0 te e e; shown that this tax was not for the benes: ha rtee b ' e pS e v e lt , jo whilst they vve,e inflicting a griev ° ", oto i i iod e t eeSl o st sumere, only a portion of the tax weru ke ts 1 7 00 0: it 0 o chequer, and another portion into the fl oe recoil Ilie therefore that could not be said to be forr tie hso e bs Otos point of fact, defrauded the revenue . t' ace ese I t ees eit e, not for the benefit of our import trade 7 t heal tis ie " 0 0;0 means increased under it. He had shn or mo o ,tet s po the advantage of our export trade, becatturt colonies had been a stationary trade, a ele P, 00'40 0 0 sition to favourably influence productiolet. Bight .e for, ,it ~ it. was not for consistency, because t r i t sf rait e oet of) f e te , had, a few evenings ago, proposed to Ti n e hash suit 0000; o f colonial produce on the same terms. 4 ..nc e we. erst i e s se b e was at vat ea by tu - f t he 0 01; 00 . them that the present system ecogols ~0 o e b _ 0 ciples—principles admitted and r atie tte 00 t lee 0 p of the Crowe, which had received the s ee t he 02 „t i ts re° l . l , • laid down rjl 60 1 r 0 tee ilof,J Commons, and which were .1 most P raC (I Or hio It y statesmen and the ablest and „ 0 , 0 in t te e ti e mists. It was an arbitrary ta xation.l t l i ' m berli e _ e _o l l i e s to e of this countr b the mere fore d e e I" of re terg e b tn et o , and for which they received no a , e a hear;') ne this fa lesel ti 'd explanation.—(Cries of " He? r to take " w ere, sti e d' position which he was entitled _ .gees eol b s e len o ot i lel unless it. could be proved that el anything—if he had assumed any . h , a g o ': way ~.ear, . _ no _,4 , titled to assume—if he had been , a _ ( Hear, ' e nd 01 10 9 0 futation.---e lar ge tr eeia 00 , o i upon his opponents for are e iog a ineas o.att , And if his reasons were fallat.cinou_se:llebtobiesielsea)bscertett: a Member of Parliament, rep D L the a l, ref ; R ot pi manufacturing district, a grea rtie st b h o e d y y of f a iled in, 00 ,..--( to t te o f he was entitled to ask them,' _ f f r if igat t . o i, 01 _ d e 4 4 desist from this unwise system °f cheers.) And ev ropri e uo 0A ey he would be further en , a t t it e le ti a ttle_ °th e rro t o th ae l ' 1;1' sist at once, because a more The ther ib ee d hi 11 c" 1 could not be desired.—( Heart sers, an" es trioee ; At s If, were ali k , e r The. /I te l feS it ' e l H r ilea" he a° rti'sse t interests.—( ea '•to t : r eer e great monopolist ct according ,„ e i, o sails to Baronet should, however, tto „ s a t aside t b r o a u t n i o el n b w y e t r h e e ..w i r b o i r g d ordinary r g.. y o s r u y p , p t o b r e . y, t he tram: jog for r oe:, own mind though he might he u fi g n idL him- tthe e fi l f salde s s e e r t t t e 1 d e in i n c % n i t g h e s 0 s c u eo g r l a o f the e a :: l d pe, he would be applaudee y . _ mid any ' ligh test r ot° eir try. He was unwilling to the 'L ela prget °l India interests wards inflicting any ihiture brough t it ° ere, t h° be r ef ? declared he would not If hisopi roloosal o h n ad wotf irewearti ; Diunter c oe , of the mere ~.1 s holl .ton , 00 4 the consumers, th e intere' e fited bY the total his n i ‘ S t j r icti le ot s i :j of all classes, would be ben ht forwar nee re' .fice 0 0 be breug . er e ot o r] ~# 0 differential duties, countries w res ter s esbe/ jesj had been told that foreignbis - s, would be a g .ean y, an sor ee t es t, he believed that the interests of the prod b ° a e nte , of .t tio , of e , Great Britain, and that ut the few fort hef ie ht b e lie lig b tb / e j events, the sacrifice of b _, tie. There 104014, sal a t had not to we re o e at to e i t e do what foreigners and it was . n Gove' Jo Iv " tf a broken in upon us, minded foreign i 001 01 t b a d tie 0 because some narrow ' rest cornmere's .) Do e P o o r in est t r h i a c t ti ; on b , u t t ganmeriaserable s r _g_Vre l ent s o ll ,e" b; .0 1 the contrary At the P a coo- p 1,0 some examples of ee ernnient. a r so a the 'ef t el fluenced by their example. . aulen e 0 re sent - tb 0 case of the Dutch eeov as tbeY rse sica' etee lsW i est e same ter m s hastvhtahtiesver.gr,forii, Hear, heal. reignersooo:tc; wee the ril l' ice e by i rie d of te ie 0 of Brazil and Cuba._ An d the su gar pro_ l o ng p e 181 6 0,0°1 1 d fair competition 3h increasing during e : hat , feetl ooo , e_ e j s it , d D n u o t e ch of G j o av v a er , n o m n e t n b t o w _ Java was gradually WIWI, ano ' 1 00 0,°°° e of J 3 ,no i .e , to -, ogs- hie- lei 29 2 27 ton t he 5 e 0 - .0 2 1 t it had increased from , tition with cas to ot .00 full compe .3g tre the ;0 4 it was exposed to , That "o co o f e: n e d admitting at sug achnide. reolt of ~ that satisfy them . o u f n dcerutbhae. :flit:t:ere, o.fheeoarm.pe) free-labour , m anClP . ehe See the e • Ilna "- arts curled out in all P a the lc rw grown. lie wished to s 0 1.1 , _..,tr coo, ow Goi i