The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-10 00:00:00

Vbirti VEZittion SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. PRICES OF SHARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 10. Dividend _ per I Amount r: amen of Com- of Paid. Price. panics. i Share. Annum. Pi per cent. 41. Canals. Ashton and Oldham Ashby-de-la-Zouch..av Basingstoke ...... Theckneck & Abergay. Birmingham, 1-16 t h sh. Do. and Livcrp. Jinx. Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry Crom ford Dudley ........ £ ff. d. 9'7 18 0 113 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 A a. 15 0 100 0 0 100 • 0 1(0 ( 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 41 13 4 133 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 too 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 172 13 4 100 0 0 150 0 0 57 6 6 39 18 10 1001 o; pc r colt. 4/. 401. N. Lis. Derby................ ........ Danube and Mayne.... Ellesnaere and Clae4->ter 41 1 - 3 4 Brewash 0000000 •....•••..••• Forth and Clyde Grand Junction ..... Grand Union Grand Surrey Grand Western Glamorgansh., ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham Huddersfie;d ..... .....av Kennet : - .ad Avon ...a♦ Lancaster Leeds and Liverpool Leicester Leicester & Nort-harop Loughborough ...ay . Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Molton Mowbray. ...... Mersey and Irwell Macclesfield ...... Neath Oxford Peak Forest av Regent's (or London).. Shropshire ......... Somerset De. Lock Fund Stock Stafford and Worcester Shrewsbury Stourbrtdge Stratford .on-Avon,..av Swansea Severn & Wye & Rail Trent & Mersey, 14 sh Thames & Medway..av Warwick and Birming. Warwick and Napton Worcester & Birming Wilts and Berke av Wisbeach . Wry and Arun leo O 0 IL 58. 100 0 0 SI 17s. Si. 1. 10s. 341. 101. 47 6 8 100 0 0 140 0 0 83 10 0 142 17 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 18 0 3 17.. 33 its 9 8500 126 0 0 150 0 • 12 10 • 140 0 0 125 0 0 145 0 0 79 9 8 100 0 0 26 9 3 50 • 0 19 5 8 104 6 per cent. 28 15/. 20:. 11. 188. 151. 82L 70s. 101. 84 10s. 100 0 0 100 0 0 73 8 67 10 11. 4a. 105 0 0 110 0 0 3 Ter cent. per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. Si. 10s. Docks. Commercial East and West India London ........ Ditto Bonds Bristol... av Do.Bnds, var. amounts St. Katharine Ditto 80nd5........ Ditto Bonds Southampton . ..... 100 0 0 Stock Stock 147 9 0 5 per cent. 5 per cent. I% per cent. 4 per cent. ♦ per cent. Stock 50 - 7) 0 Bridges , Hammersmith Southwark, new Subs. Ditto New of "i.,i pr c • ‘Vaterloo , 1 Ditto Old Ann. of Si, .' Ditto New ditto of 71 Ditto Bonds Vauxhall. av Assurances. Albion Alfred Life Alliance Brit. and For Ditto Marine Atlas Birmingham Fire ! ; British Fire British Commercial— Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County Eagle 1 Economic Life ...... European Life 1 Ditto New • Freemasons Globe Guardian Hope Life... - ... ...... , Ditto Fire. ..... .... . Imperial Fire Ditto Life... ....... . Indemnity Marine:— Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire Ditto Ship .......... National Loan Furvi P4lladium Life ...... Protector Life Provident Lite Rock Life R yal Exchange Sun Fire Ditto Life........... ...... University Life Universal Life Union Fire and Life i i Joint Stk Banks Australasi , .... .......,,,,,, Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial London & Westroinstr \ Ditto New... London Joint Stock Metropolitan 1 Provincial of Ireland Ditto New...... i National of Ireland Nat. Provincial Englnd Ditto New Gloucestershire......., Union of Australia i Union of London Gaslight 454. Coke lli per cent. 11. Os. 81 188. Id, per cent. IL 7s. 3► 10s. 4 per cent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 13..edprcb 54 ss. 4 per cent. 7s. per share .5 per cent. 3/. 5 percent.l 1c 306. bd.. b}; per Cent. b!¢ per cent. per cent. 8 per cent. b per cant. - is. Q 4. ed. 12 per cent. :19s. J. st;. k bds. 38. 10s. '1 Os. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 1/. ss. S per cent. 64 per cent. IL 4s. 5 per cent. 10.3 i per cent 51. fl per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. Spec cent tSper cent per vent per cent it per cent. 6 per cent. Ills per share 6e. per share In per cent. per cent. 1 Bs. Bath IL 3s. British 11. is. Ditto Provincial...— N. and bi. Birmingham... ......... 4)41. and be. i Birming. & Stafrordsh. per cent. Bristol scent. . Brighton Ditto General City of London ..... Ditto New Continental Consolid Ditto New.....„ Equitable Imperiel Isle of Tbanct Independent ...... Pheemt Rateliff South Metropolitan..... United General ~.. ... Westmins. Chartered.. Ditto New... ..... ........ pg. 101. ft per sh 15s per •h 0 per cent. 5 per cent.' 6 per cent. 5 per cent . 6 per cent. 4% per cent. 94 12s. Water Works Birmingham East London Grand Junction av Kent ... ,-....- ,-.... • Nw Riv Lon. Bri . dg Ail. Manchester and Salford Vauxhall, late S. Lond. West Middlesex av Yrk BuldgCo.Les.Prop iron Railways. Birmingham ,, & Derby m'rmilaS. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter Cheltenhm & Gt. West Clarence . East ern C0Mie.7.....: . -Edinburgh & Glasgow Ditto l‘T .... -.-.-. Grand Junctioo. 1 Great North of E .a. i l Gre t Western ngin44 i Ditto Half Shal.- es Ditto Firths „.. Hull and 5e1by...... ******* Leeds and Selby ** :: * ::.:: Liverpool & Manchr Ditto Half-Shares__ Ditto tlnarter.Sharei Loudon and Brighten.. Ditto Loan Notes London and Bl.ckwall London and Greenwich London and Birmingh. Ditto Quarter -Shares Ditto Thirds London and S. Western London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds - Ditto New Shares Manchstr and Birming Ditto Extension Midland Counties 1 North Midland Do. 3011., iss. 10 dis Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss. 51. dis Paris and Rouen Stockt , n & Darlington South East. and Dover Ditto New, iss. le dis. York and N. Midland, Ditto New Shares Mines. Albion Copper Allen Anglo Mex., iss. 51. p.m Ditto Subscription Bolanos Dirt , Scrip Brazil. Imp. iss. 51. p.m Do. Mocaub. & Coe. U. Do. St. John Dcl Rey British Iron Candonga Ditto Registered Cobre Copper , au la rgian • i 1 General Mining . 51. p.m Hibernian Imperial Slate Compy Mexican Mining Co of Ireland I Real del MOnte Un g 1 Ditto Loan Notesrc-. I Rhynaney Iron Santiago . de Cuba. ,,,,, ,.." ** I Unit m ex . , i um Pm . ; Ditto Scrip .. ' Ditto New 5crip. ..,,,,., -******** I 21. 10s. 21. 10s. 21. 10s. •per cent. 41. 165. IL Its. : 10s. per sla 1/. 4s. pe 1 r cent os . 21. . Ss. per sh. 21. ss. per sh is 10d per sh In per cent 2 per cent. as. per sh 2341. per sh, IN. per sh. 6 per cent. JO per cent. JO per cent. JO per cent. 1141. per sh I% per oh. 14,5. 8/.per share . SA 141 per sh 8/. 17s. pr ah rl3* per sh 14 - 10 s. 11. 5 , g. I/. !IS. 10c1. J 5 per cent. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. IL IL V. I7s. 6d. 1 . 10s. lOper cent. 10e. per eb. I/. lOL per sh. Literary. Londn,with Sin. Ticket :London University Russell King's College Miscellaneous Anglo Mexican Mint Australian Agricultur Brit. American Land, Canada Upper Canada Bonds Copper Miners' Comp Gen. Steam Navigation Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wood Pay., iss. 11. Mex. and S. American New Brunswick ;Land) New Zealand ...... Penins. k Orien. steam Royal Mail Steam Reversionary Int. sot South Australian Thames Tunnel Van Diemen's Land li. 13s. per cent. per ccnt. 5 per cent. alas. andi 146 d. bs. j [per cent. iper cent. N 4 per cent Oper cent LIST OF SCOTTISH C()3I1. -- MAY 8, 18 Bank of Scotland 'royal Bank - British Linen Compny Comtr.ercial Bank Glastow Union Bank VitLystern Bank .. -, ... Ccnttal Pk. of Scotland Caledar.lan Insurance . Iletcutes Insurance - North Belt. Insurance Ing4rance Co. of Scott. Edinburgh Life Insur. Scottish Union Insur Standard Life Insur : Dalkcith Railway Edin. and Glas. 'Railwy Glasg. and Green. Raiff . ,4:llundte4ncl AID/. ( per c... 4 t, ( P!T ecru(. reT_cent_,l • ...Tier tert;" ; 'par -.(per cent. eent. Spot:cent. - ?per cent,' 9"per cent. iper cent. Der amt. '5 per cent. z.per cent. • (per cent. 24 per cont S)6 per cent SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. t FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. STANDARD.—We confess ourselves wholly at a loss to account for the vote of the House of Lords last night upon the Dissenters' Trusts Bill. The purpose of this Bill is to confirm the usurpation by Socinians of chapels and other trust property designed for the use of Christian Dissenters ; and it was carried in a House of Lords containing twenty-six Lords Spiritual, by a ma jority of forty-four to nine ; the only Bishop, in fact, present, was the Bishop of Exeter, who is always at his post when the interests of religion and humanity are concerned ; and who last night proved that they who charge him with being a too High Churchman, and too lenient towards the Tractarians, offer him a great injustice when they insinuate that he is indifferent to the rights of Christian Dissenters, or slow to protect even those who decline the administra tions of the particular church to which he belongs, when they appeal to him as brother Christians, and members of the one great Catholic Church, to which all who sin cerely accept' the Gospel without mutilation or addition equally belong. The other bishops were at a " charitable festival." Charity is a good thing, but we cannot help thinking that the affair might be postponed when the bishops were wanted to resist a wholesale scheme of Socinian usurpation. The only imaginable effect of the Bill upon the material interests of Dissenters is, as we have said, to confirm the present usurpation of Christian church property dishonestly occupied by Soci nians; but we see in it a prospect of future litigation, that will fill the four inns of court with gladness. Every tenet of every preacher will be watched with a more than theological jealousy, to guard against the estab lishment of a prescription in favour of an erroneous doctrine. And as the only effectual security against such prescription,legal proceedings will be taken as soon as the teacher deviates a hair's breadth, or seems to de viate from the creed sf the founder. Ejectments upon the text will be substituted for ejectments upon the title, and erroneous doctrines will take the place of non payment of rent, and non-performance of covenants. We all know what a Socinian is: he is a person'with just as much Christianity as a Turk, but much less reli gion. But we must not suppose that the change from real Christianity to this sad heresy is ever made ho nestly, and at once. No, like other departures from truth, it is made slowly and furtively—hence the neces sity that will arise of closely watching teachers and trus tees, and bringing them to their duty by lawsuit after lawsuit. And this notable Bill is to quiet possessions and to prevent litigation.- If ever it pass we shall see how that will be. Meanwhile, we exhort the Christian Dis senters to be up and doing ; they have more than once shown their power to influence the Legislature, and have influenced it upon occasions (as we must think) much less worthy than the present. They need not feel jea lous of the cordial support that they will receive from Churchmen, for the most ingenious discoverer of bad motives will be at a loss to find any motive for Church men moving in the matter, except a regard fur our com mon Christianity, and a respectful sense of the value of a Christian ministry which, though dissenting from ow establishment, acts as its faithful auxiliary in the cause of religion. GLOBE.—The Times -pursues its argument= ad ho , minenz to the country gentlemen, on the question of this evening : " Country gentlemen are dreading more and more the growth of the manufacturing population. They see at their very doors, and within the limits of their old domi nions, the rapid increase of an empire beyond the reach of all direct influences, and daily more and more es tranged in feeling. Their attempts to control are de feated ; their advances are rejected ; their teaching de spised.Do they wish to widen the gulf, and augment into inveteracy the indifference or hostility of this rebellious mass ? They will most assuredly do so, beyond all re m' dy, if they now refuse to protect the labour of the weak and dependent, and that for the most despicable of all possible reasons, viz., because they would thereby endanger the existing protection of their own wealth. How long do they suppose protected wealth will co-exist with unprotected labour ? How long will the landowner get his twenty shillings' premium on his quarter of wheat, while the factory woman is working from half-past five in the morn ing to seven in the evening every day of her life ? It was neither candid nor statesmanlike in the Premier to warn Parliament against a generous amount of protection, because it was impossible to say where protection was to stop. Not to protect so large a class must be as dangerous as to protect it. The alienation of the multitude cannot but ba costly. Scarcely any price, in reason, is too great for their affections. If some difficulties attend a social remedy, more must follow its omission. A people will perhaps make troublesome demands on the kindness of rulers; but what people can be more trouble. some, more formidable than that which feels its government to be cold, indifferent, and worthless ?" There would be some consistency in this line of argument on the part of a corn-protectionist ; and the Times, we suppose, thinks itself at liberty to be all things to all men. On the part, however, of the professed advocate of an open corn trade, there is something curiously hollow and worthless in this appeal to the agricolous apprehensions. " How long," says the Times," will the landowner get his twenty shil lings premium on his quarter of wheat, while the factory woman is working from half-past five in the morning I to seven in the evening every day of her life ? " Of course this argument is, not at all addressed to the selfish feelings, like those of the cold-blooded cham pions of the Ogre Millocrats. There is something eminently generous in erecting a new " protection," to prop up an old one, and in courting the alliance of the Spinner Interest (12 or 13,000, we believe, or thereabouts), as a new prop to the Landlord Interest, and outwork against the Anti-Corn-law League. And those who think the landowner ought to get his 20s. premium on this quarter of wheat, may consistently think the spinners should get whatever Time Bill their delegates ask for. Because the maintenance of such a premium on home-grown wheat is equivalent to a decree that the spinner shall work for the landowner's benefit. It is equivalent to a decree that the money the spinner earns abroad he shall lay out on dear wheat at home. Well—if the landowner finds the intensity of com petition for his high-priced wheat too painful for his feelings to witness, he may be consistent in seeking to moderate it. He may be consistent in saying to his factory slaves—" Don't work so hard—don't be so ever in earning your half-rations. You won't get any the more fel. it; I can tell you that—l keep the key of the corn-chest." This may be consistent, if not remarkably sane, in restrictionists. It may also—for what we care to dispute—be "gracious," as the Times says, and all the rest of it. It may infinitely strengthen her Ma jesty's throne, that her faithful Commons should dis pense such "favours" to the working people. It may be (and we confess that it would be) carr y ing out the principle of protection to its due consequences. For the assumed virtue of protection is to raise all classes to a privileged elevation: Any class, therefore, which com plains protection has not raised it, has a right to its Act of Parliament. If the landed interest is to be believed, it is the grand disposer of the fate of the labouring people—its immense preponderance, as a purchaser of their products, renders its patron age almost exclusively worth looking to. It follows legitimately enough that this omnipotent patron, this exclusive customer, may, whenever he chooses, lighten the toils of his-workers, as the Pharaohs might, have lessened the piece of pyramid to be turned out of hand for the day's pittance of pulse ; or Mehemet Ali the piece-work he expects from his toilers in Egyptian bondage. If the landlords hold the position they pretend to —then the terms of labour are doubtless a proper object for their regulation. But the Times, which would strip them of their sham omnipo tence—with what sense does it call on them to exert it? Turn we to the Standard and Herald. The former says, citing the memorial of the millowners, that the average of factory wages "is but 10s. 34d. the week for indefi nite hours of labour as regards adults, and for four teen hours of labour from infants. In mere pecu niary receipts, then the spinners are not in so much better condition than the agricultural labourer." Now the returns procured by the respectable heads of firms whom we mentioned yesterday, were returns from the Lancashire cotton mills ; and no writer, who was not as ignorant, or ill-intentioned, as this one, would have dared to make any such statement as the above respecting their hours of work. The Standard had already stated, in the very same leading article, that of the factory workers 53 per cent. are under the age of 21. All but the ignorant know, and none but the ill-in tentioned would knowingly falsity such a circumstance— that the maximum of work allowed in cotton mills to hands under twenty-one is twelve hours during five days of the week, and nine hours on Saturdays. Fifty-three per cent. of the workpeople being, it appears, under twenty-one, it is impossible that mills should be kept open longer than the hours we have last mentioned. Under thirteen years of age the - Act of 1833 restricted the hours of work still farther to eight; and the present Government measure propose farther restriction. We are not now discussing the policy of such legislation it proceeds on the idea of protecting infants—which is the sole prin ciple the Standard lays down, and then, as we have seen, proceeds to falsify the present state of facts. We advise the Herald to pause, before it has next the effrontery to provoke exposures of such treatment of facts by its evening partner or by itself—by indulging in such silly and gratuitous insolence as the follow ing :—" We must ureservedly declare, that we have scarcely seen an article in the London press, on the side of cruelty, which has not borne upon it the most evident signs of the kindred vice of falsehood." As the Herald has the cool assurance to name the Globe in con junction with such such language, it would have done well to adduce, if it could, an instance of the " kindred 1 vice" in our columns. Really parties, whose lights (or firebrands) are the Oastlers and Ferrands, should hold their pens, if possessed of common prudence, respecting that vice at least. 30 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 C 5000 10 0 0 5 13 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 2 10 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 • 10 0 0 5 0 11 6 5 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 j 5 , ) 0 0 2012 0 2 20 0 0 1 20 0 0 10 0 0 7 10 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 17 10 0 35 0 5 10 0 0 10 9 0 25 0 0 12 0 0 16 0 e 1$ 0 0 19 0 0 5000 2. 0 me 75 0 0 31 5 0 29 0 0 50 50 I 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 39 0 0 80 0 25 0 0 48 0 0 l 0 0 o 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 70 0 SO 0 0 100 0 0' , 23 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 0 100 0 0 100 0 D 75 0 0 50 0 12 0 0 SO 0 , 100 0 0 100 0 0 SO 0 0 25 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 ,2 0 0 $2 0 0 70 0 0 30 0 0 40 0 0 7 0 0 , 100 0 0 100 • 0 40 0 0 45 0 0 15 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 59 0 0 25 • 0 E 1 e 13 10 0 190 0 0 25 0 ( 130 0 0 21 0 0 . 25 0 0 15 0 0 75 0 0 7 10 0 7 10 0 40 0 0 13 0 0 55 0 0 20 0 0 10 10 0 3 0 0 59 0 0 ,7 0 0 1150 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 2 10 0 100 7 0 109 - 0 A 10 0 0 30 0 0 M to o It 2 10 0 itt 3 0 0, 14 • 0 25 , 1 10 0 Ws pm 5 0 0. s S 0 .Itl 75 0 0 43 96 0 0; 50 0 0 Fra 100 - 0 0 ms;t 20 0 0 50 0 0 5% 20 0 0 4 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORT MAY 9.—The Colling-wood, 80, was commissioned ye s t er d ay b y Capt. H. Edea for the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Geo. Seymour, who will r e li ev e Re ar - Admiral Thomas, in the üblin, on the South American appointments have be en made to the station. The following n Colling. - ,wood, Commander H enry Broadhead p sieuorots.e. F. _— , T. B. Hankey, C. J. Balfour, J. 0. Bathu rs t, ? i tisilES' PRICES. ; ville, and G. E. K. Gore ; Mr. John Penn , 44. _ .• i master and pilot, Arthur Dawson, paymaster ' —170 X John Bro thers, g unner, G e orge Johnson, car - I 4 ' Filter ; Wm. Warren , boatswain ; Rev. N. Proctor, 242 172 chaplain ; Maurice Jones, and Roderic Dew, mates ; 95 AlgeTlloll de Horsey , W. H. Dawson, T. E. Riley , W. 74 R o wley Lambert, Hon. H. Moreton, W. 21 B G : 3 1‘ f i a o s rg on a , n' and W, B. Urmston, midshipmen. Naval 2 1 1 % .. , Cadets—Charles Armytage, Smith, Wyndham, and Ed -9 ' ward Hardinge (in lieu of a midshipman); R. C. Coiling -17% ' wood,master's assist. ; W. Wills and G. Wise , clerks ; ' 4% F. Man,ell, surgeon ; John Spelr 3 and Wm.. Duirs, 59 1 assistant do. The Netley, tender to the Caledonia, 71 1 4 3 's ; arrived on Monday from Plymouth, with supernume -28 1 varies and newly-raised wen fur the Cygnet, at 50 73 C 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 20 0 (► 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 12 10 0 1 0 0 2 10 0 5006 5000 25 0 0 25 9 0 00 2 8 00 0 0 70 10 3 300 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 11 1000 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 Steck 100 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 G 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 . 0 0 Stock 100 0 0 100 0 0 20:, 0 0 40 0 I) - 50 0 0 10 0 0 100 • 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 1100 0 11 20 0 0 50 0 0 , 23 0 • 1 50 0 • 20 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 77 10 0 50 • 0 21 0 0 20 0 9 20 0 0 100 0 0 109 0 0 75 • 9 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 • 2.5 0 0 30 0 • 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 • 51 0 • SO 0 0 50 25 0 0 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 • SO 0 0 100 0 0 103 12 9 0 0 0 100 0 0 ; 100 0 0 100 0 . 0 100 .0 0 100_ 0 0 25 0 0' 50 0 • 12 10 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 WO 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 1100 0 0 100 0 0 50 9 0 25 50 0 0 10 0 0 16 13 4 12 15 4 100 0 0 32 0 9 11 6 10 13 15 9 100 0 9 50 h 0 70 0 0 70 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 A 0' 50 0 9 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 23 0 0' 50 0 0 23 0 0 3 0 0 15 0 0 100 0 0 139 7) e 3500 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 2000 30 0 0 55 0 0 20 A 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 150 0 0 25 0 0 soon 25 0 0 40 0 0 "15 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 TO 0 100 0 50 0 100 0 100 0 13 0 5 0 5 0 10 0 10 0 167 315( Allpaid :381i 112 G 0 0 0 40 0 0 - 64 611, 400 11.13'. 142 I 50 ( 3 : 11 , 01,4 1514 213 250 All 12% 4114 41% 131 i3Ti 24.4 Sil t , 25 26!4 It 150 623 i 2.91 77 25 It;a, 2324 - 1/9 117 7434 . eon; - 61 k i 12 414 13 20 Si 1% 6 10 1 2 1 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1844. Chatham. She will return to Plymouth as soon I . s she has made good defects received by running foul of the float ing bridge when coming into harbour. 'The Flying Fish, one of the new brigs, will, it is ex pected, be commissioned in a few days by Corn. Harris. The St. Vincent, sailed on Tuesday for Sheerness and Woolwich with the supernumeraries brought round in the Netley. The Camperdown, 101, Capt. Martin, at Sheerness, is completing her crew and sea-going stores, and may be expected at Spithead in about three weeks. The St. Vincent, 120, Capt. Rowley, at this port, will also be ready to go to that anchorage about the 16th inst. The Caledonia, 120, Capt. Milne, is in Plymouth Sound, for wardingc, her preparations for the summer cruise. The far •famed clipper brig Waterwitch, 10, now at Cowes under repairs, will, it is understood, cruise with the experimental brigs, in conjunction with the cruisers Cygnet and Pantaloon. The latter vessel is just paid of from the coast of Africa, and is to be got ready for re commissioning with all dispatch. The Malabar, 72, Captain Sir G. Sartorius, has ar rived at Cork from Lisbon, and received the flag of Rear-Admiral W. Bowles, from the Volage, 26, about to leave the Irish station. The Rodney, 92, has been completed by the dock yard, and is to be kept ready fur immediate commis sioning, if required. Operations are forthwith to commence for the removal of the wreck of the Edgar, 74, which was blown up at Spitheid in 1711. The Success hulk, with lighters, is again moored at that anchorage. The troop-ship Rattlesnake, 26, Mr. Brown, master, is daily expected to arrive from China, with the 55th Regiment, and naval and military invalids. The America, 50, Captain the Hon. John Gordon, fitting out at Plymouth, will be completed about the 20th inA., it is reported, for the Mediterranean. Ships in Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Victoria and Albert, Excellent, Fearless, Fanny, Emerald, Coiling wood, Netley, and Echo steam-tug, THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) WHITEHALL, Alwv, 9, 1844. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters . patent to be passed under the Great Seal, constituting and appointing Robert Slaunsell, Esq., Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and Captain in her Majesty's Navy, one of tile Com missioners of Greenwich Hospital, in the room of Edward Hawke Locker, Esq., resigned. WHITEHALL, Alai- 9. . The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Charles Goodall to the church and parish of Dron, in the presbytery and county of Perth, vacant by the death of the Rev. Patrick John Macfarlane, late minister thereof. \VAR-OFFICE, May 10, 1844. lit Dragoon Guards—G. Briggs, Gent., to be Cornet by purchase, vice Stuart, promoted; May 10. Bth Light Dragoons—Cornet Lord A. S. Churchill to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Carden, who retires; J. V. Allen, Gent. to be Cornet by purchase, vice Lord A. S. Churchill, May 10. sth Regiment of Foot—Second Lieutenant G. Renny to be First Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Scott, deceased, May 1 ; A. E. C. Forster, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, vice Renny, May 10. 7th Foot—Lieut. C. F. Wedderburne, from the 52d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Stewart, who exchanges, May 10. 22d Foot—Lieutenant R. Blackall, from the 49th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Stopford, who exchanges, May 10. 24th Foot—Lieutenant W. G. Brown to be Captain, with out purchase, vice J. A. Lutman, who retires on full-pay ;C. M. Drew, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, May 10. 25th Foot—Ensign C. D. Pogson, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Birch, appointed to the 51st Foot ; G. A. Hart man, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Pogson, May 10. 39th Foot—J. T. W. Bacot, Gent. to be Assistant-Sur geon, vice M'Gregor, appointed to the Staff, May 10. 47th Foot—Lieut. W. Armstrong to be Captain, by pur chase, vice M'Nally, who retires ; Ensign G. P. Drought to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Armstrong ; G. C. D. Nangle, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Drought, Alay 10. 49th Foot—Lieutenant C. P. J. Stopford, from the 22d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Blackall, who exchanges, May 10. 5241 Foot—Lieutenant J. H. F. Stewart, from the 7th Feot, to be Lieutenant, vice Wedderburne, who exchanges, May 10. 73d Foot—Lieut. Sir C. Shaw, from half-pay 90th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Bicknell, appointed Adjutant ; Ensign T. Nash to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sir C. Shaw, who retires ; W. L. Peto, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Nash, May 10. 81st Foot—Lieut. H. Farrant to be Captain, without pur chase, vice Brevet Major H. Dixon, who retires on full pay ; Ensign D. A. Murray to be Lieutenant, vice Farrant ; F. S. De V. Lane, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Murray, May 10. 9th Foot—Lieut. W. Fisher to be Captain, by purchase, vice Aldworth, who retires; Ensign T. C. Poole to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vine Fisher ; G. D. D. Cleveland, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Poole, May 10. Cape Mounted Riflemen—Ensign M. Rorke to be Quarter master, vice D. S. Schonfeldt, who retires upon half-pay ; Sergeant-Alajor J. Salis (Ridingmaster) to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Rorke, appointed Quartermaster, May 10. UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant L. Clare, from the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Captain, without purchase,"May 10. HOSPITAL STAF F.—Assistant-Surgeon J. M'Gregor, from the 39th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Horniblow, appointed to the 72d Foot, May 10. - - ADMIRALTY, MAY B. Corps of Royal Matines.—Brevet-Major J. R. Coryten, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Lieut.-Col. D. Campbell, to re tired full-pay ; First Lieutenant J. Mitchell, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Coryton, promoted; Second Lieutenant P. H. Geoid, to be First Lieutenant, vice First Lieutenant Mitchell, promoted. - - Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of truism C. G. Evert&ld, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, April 30 WHITEHALL, MAY 4. The Lord Chancellor has appointed G. F. Brown, of Diss, in the county of Norfolk, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDE. GIOVANNI BATTISTA SALVI, wine merchant, Duke street, Portland-place. BANKRUPTS. MOYSE BRUNSWICK, merchant, Lime-street, to sur render May 22, at half-past twelve, and June 21, at half-past eieven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official as signee, Basinghall-street ; Robinsons, Queen-street-place. J AMES ELLIOTT, innheeper, Caxton, Cambridgeshire, May 24, at one, and June 21, at half-past twelve, at the Court of - Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Peppercorn and Wilkinson, St. Neots; Mitton, Southampton buildings, Chancery-lane, London. FRANCIS BANNER provision-merchant, Upper Thames street, London, May 2'2, and June 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, of fi cial-assignee, Birchin-lane, Corn hill ; Iladham and Houghton, Verulam-buildings, Gray's-inn. JOSEPH CLARK, colonial broker, Mincing-lane, Fen church-street, City, May 21, at one, and June 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman- street ; Casterton and Company, Angel-court, Throg morton-street. RICHARD SCRASE SAXBY, wine-merchant, Old Fish-street, City, May 21, and June 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptey. Edwards, o ffi cial assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Gilbert, Hooke, Street, and Gutteres, Brabant court, Philpot-lane, City. CHARLES STYLES, grocer, Worthing, May 21, at ens, and June 26, at twelve, at th e ourt of Bankruptcy. John son, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Buchanan and Grainger, Bssinghall-street. THOMAS KEMPSTER, builder, Blackman-street, South wark, May 22, at half-past two, and June 'a:6, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Stenning and Carnell, Tunbridge, Kent ; Stenning, Staple Inn, London. SAMUEL WOODROFFE, wine merchant, Chepstow Monmouthshire, May 17, and June 21, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Kynaston, official assignee; Beavan, Bristol. GEORGE PARKER, shovel manufacturer, Sheffield, May 25, and June 22, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official sssignee, Leeds ; Duncan, Featherstone-build- ings, London • Unwin, Sheffield • ' Blackburn, Leeds. JOHN Di X ON, linendraper, Sheffield, May 22 and July 3, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds ; Walker, Furnival's Inn, London ; Black burn, Leeds. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. C. W. Spear, waiter, Liverpool. W. Tipper, traveller, Lady Lake's-grove, Mile-end -road. E. Harris, attorney's clerk, Branch-place, Hoxton Old-town. J. Ferrer, licensed victualler, Liverpool. J. Patten, raessenger, Paradise-street, Lambeth. J. Merchant, sen., builder, Bexley, Kent. R. Copan, schoolmaster, Coppers, Kent. H. Parrott, Marlborough-place, Walworth-road. J. P. Hillhouse, tea dealer, Bedford. E. Croft, brickl a yer, Castle-street, Southwark. J. Friend, boot maker, Hythe,"Kent. J. Nye, surgical instrument maker, Alfred-place, Southwark. W. Parker, coal dealer, Norwich. T. Mason, tailor, Sheffield. T. Hodgson, joiner, Otley, Yorkshire. J. Sutcliffe, carrier's agent, Halifax, Yorkshire. D. Henry, engraver, Leeds. G. Small, pig butcher, Liverpool. N. Daniell, dentist, Charlottee-street, Fit sroy-square. R.:uteliffe, common carrier, Rochdale, Lancashire. J. Hilton, clerk, Aleare, Somersetshire. W. Newman, builder, Hammersmith. P. Lancashire, gardener, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Lancashire, J. Daniel, farmer, Langstone Monmouthshire. H. Vinter, St. Helen's, Isle Of Wight. J. M'Larty, lodging-house keeper, Spring-street, Shadwell. J. Parker, sen., coach maker, Bath. E. APCormick, tailor, Carlton-street, Regent- s treet : T. A. M. Browne, toke St. Mary, Somersetshire. E. Howell, tailor, Henstridge-place, St. John's-wood. W. Harris, baker, Oxford. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending May 7, 1844, is 375. 9id. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of May 10.) SUGAR.—In the home consumption Sugar market there has been less business transacted this week, importers have been more desirous to realise, and lower rates are accepted for all descriptions. To-day the demand was very trifling for West India Sugar : prices are still drooping, and rule is per cwt under those of this day week for brown and low yel low, and 6d per cwt for bright sorts. The total purchases for the week are only 740 lihds and tres. REFINED.—To-day the grocers were tempted to buy Re fined Sugar more freely, in consequence of further reduced rates being accepted ; brown Lumps selling at 775, and standard Lumps 78s per cwt. The market is firm for bonded Crushed Sugar at 25s 9d to 265, at which a fair business is doing. Alavarrirs.—Low yellow selling at 59s to 60s 6d, middling 61s to 62s 6d, good 63s to 64s 6d, fine 65s to 66s 6d ; good brown 57s 6d to 58s, fine 58s 6d to 595, ordinary to middling grey 58s to 625, good to fine 62s 6d to 64s per cwt. Ensr INDIA.—This afternoon the demand was limited for Bengal Sugar, and 2,004 bags 4 boxes at public sale were sold at rather lower rates ; fine white at 65s 6d, good 63s 6d to 655, middling 61s, low 59s 6d to 60s 6d, middling yellow 58s 6d to 595, damp and washed 57s 6d to 64s per cwt. FOREIGN. —There has been a good demand for white Ha vannah Sugar by private contract this week, still no advance in prices can be quoted; yellow is held with firmness, and rather more business has been transacted. For Brazil full 18s 6d ; Bahia, middli ng grey 235, good brown 18s and prices are paid. Whi te B ah i a sold at 22s 6d, 20 cases brown Pa rabia soft white 21s per cwt. MOLASSEB.—Price; are maintained for West India, and a good demand has prevailed ; Antigua at 275, and Trinidad at ed to 273 6d privately good Demerara 253 per cwt. Bengal Molasses at 15s to 17s per cwt. Honey went rather previous prices : Cuba were taken in at 19s. TEA.—lmporters submitting to rather lower rates buyers have been induced to come forward more freely. To-day a good deal was dime in 1 - Issson, and the rates paid are hi to 2d per lb above those of the last public :sales, common fetched 2s 2d to 2s 4d per lb ; in other sorts of Tea purchases to a fair extent made, and common and good sound common Congou cash is to is Old per lb. Cocoa.—For Foreign previous rates paid. For West India prices are on the decline. Yesterday Trinidad good dark red went at 49s to 49s 6d, middling 47s 6d to 48s, good grey 44s to 465, middling 43s 6d; very low 365, and sea-damaged 44s Gd per cwt. CoFF'EE.—Althoug further reduced rates h ave been accepted for West ludia Coffee of all descriptions, still buyers operate with reluctance, and the public sales Jamaica of the new crop went heavily, 2s per cwt under last week's price. This afternoon the demand for Ceylon Coffee was brisker by private contract ; good ordinary 49s to 51s per cwt; 60 bags fine ordinary grey Plantation were taken in at 80s. Mocha is to 2s cheaper, good ordinary green went at 73s 6d, Triage 48s to 66s black 14s, and low sound brown 50s; Singapore Jaya sold at 55s to 57s for fine ordinary brown pea berry, and 46s to 50s for sea damaged; New Jamaica sold at 87s 6d to 91s 6d for mid dling, being is to 2s per cwt cheaper. SPICES.—BIack Pepper has been less in. request this week, but holders have refused to submit to lower rates: This afternoon Cassia Lignea sold at a reduction on former rates of 2s to 3s per cwt; country damaged 52s 6d to 535, mouldy 59s to 59s 6d, stained by cockroaches 58s 6il, broken ends 57e, loose and broken 51s 6d per cwt; ground Bombay Ginger, of good colour, but deficient in strength, partly sold at 39s to 40s ; 30 bags bold Bengal taken in at 24s ; China preserved Ginger taken in at 2s to 3s per lb. SAGO.-13s is the lowest price of sound pearl. This after noon Sago met with less attention, fine small pearl sold at 20s 6d per cwt, Sago flour taken in at 21 per cwt. Jamaica arrowroot at 81 per lb. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Leewards, proof to 3 per cent over sold at 2s 2d to 2s 3d, and common proof almost black 2s Id; Jamaica 3s 4d to 3s 5d paid for 20 puns 26 per cent over proof ; Demerara strong quality 35 per cent overproof at 3s 2d ; Calcutta Rum Is Ild to is 110 for several parcels, proof strength; Of the low qualities of Brandy many parcels have been dis posed of for exportation at 2 s 9dto 3s per gallon, but the bet ter kinds are difficult of sale, and again cheaper.—Cegnac, best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 7d, puns 5s 5d ; ditto, 1839, hhds 5s sd, puns 5s 3d ; ditto, 1840, hhds 5s 3d, puns 5s Id ; do., 1841, , hbffs 55 2d, puns 5s ; do., 1842, hhds 5s ld, puns 4s 11c1; and middling qualities 3s 2d to 4s Gd per gallon. Geneva fur exportation at is 8d to is 9d, and several parcels of fine taken by the home trade at 2s 2d to 3s. English Corn Spirits, at lOs 2d per gallon, cash. RlCE..—Cleaned Rice is not much wanted, but in prices there is no alteration. This afternoon Bengal Rice sold at lOs 6d to lls for mid white, and 9s 6d to lOs for first and second class sea damaged, being rather higher. INDIGO.—East India has met with less attention this week, but holders will not sell excepting at the advanced rates pre. viously quoted. With Spanish the market is still scantily supplied. Ou.s.—ln common descriptions of Fish Oils prices have still a downward tendency ; Cod Oil is 341, pale Seal 33/ 10s, and Southern 251 to 23/ per tun. For Sperm a good business doing ; 75/ to 761 per tun paid for fine. Linseed Oil 26s 6d to 27s per ewt on the spot. Rape Oil 39s to 39s 6d for pale, and 38s for brown. Palm is plentiful; 27s to 27s 6d per cwt is the value of tine. Cocoa Nut at 28s to 325. Holders of Olive are firm ; Gallipoli, at 521 lOs to 53/, Sicily, 521, Spanish 511 to 51l 10s, and Barbary 501 to 501 lOs per to. This afternoon, Palm Oil taken in at 26s to 27s for good and fine quality. TaLLow.—For P.Y. Candle fur delivery, prices have de clined 6d per cwt, 41s 3d to 41s al having been accepted for the last three months of the year, on the spot at 40s to 40s 9d per cwt. Town Tallow, nett cash, at 39s 6d to 40s per cwt. American Tallow upon rather lower terms. This afternoon New South Wales Tallow sold at 38s 6d to 39s Gd. South AmeriCan 34s to 39s 6d, low 28s to 33s 6d, scrapings and pumpiugs 3s to 19s. Italian 39s to 40s per cwt PROMISSORY NOTES. (From This Night's Gazette.) An account of the Average Aggregate Amount of Promis sory. Notes payable to bearer on demand, which have been in circulation in the United Kingdom, distinguishing those circulated by the Bank of England, by Private Banks, and by Joint-Stock Banks, in England and Wales, by the Banks in Scotland, by the Bank of Ireland, and by all other Banks in Ireland, and of the Average Amount of Bullion in the Bank of England, during the four weeks ending the 27th day of April, 1844, pursuant to the Act of 4th and sth Vic toria, cap. 50 : ' ENGLAND. Bank of England .... Private Banks Joint-Stock 8ank5........ .. SCOTLAND. Chartered, Private, and Joint-Stock Banks 2,713,627 IRELAND. • Bank of Ireland 3,625,925 Private and Joint-Stock Banks Total. Bullion in the Bank of England - .£15,844,000 HENRY L. WICKHAM. Stamps and Taxes, May 12, 1844. COURSE OF EXCIL Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at eight l2 4 Rotterdam 2U. 12 61 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 l 5 Altona l3 15 Paris, 3 days' sight— - 25 65 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine Petersburgh, 3Us 364 Berlin Vienna, effee. ff. 3M. 954 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36/ Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville ,NGE.—(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar • Leghorn 3O 50 Genoa 25 90 Milan — Venice 47 Naples 39 Palermo, per oz ll7 Lisbon 534 Oporto 534 Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres — NewYork,2lclys sight Philadelphia — PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons.— 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 9i Silver in Bars 0 0 0 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met at Four o'Clock. ROYAL COMMISSION. The LORD CHANCELLOR announced that a Com mission had been issued to give the Royal Assent to cer tain Bills, and directed the Commons to be summoned to their Lordships' bar by the Usher of the Black Rod. The Commissioners were, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buccleuch, and the Earl of Shaftesbury. The Commissioners, having taken their seats at the foot of the throne, the Speaker, accompanied by several Members of the House of Commons, appeared at the bar, when the Royal Assent was given by Commission, in the usual form, to the under -mentioned Bills : The Exchequer Bills Bill, the National Copyright Bill, the Dean Forest Inclosure Bill, the Great Western and Cheltenham Railway Bill, the Norwich and Brandou Railway Bill, the South-Western and Guildford Railway Bill, the Midland Counties Railway Bill, the Manchester and Leeds Railway Bill, the Norwich and Yarmouth Railway Bill, the .Alanchester and Birminhain Railway Bill, and the a rby Junction Railway Eill. Their Lordships then adjourned during pleasure. Their Lordships resumed at Five o'Clock. CONFERENCE. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. A Conference with the Commons took place respecting some amendments which had been proposed in the Lan caster and Carlisle Railway Bill. The Duke of RICHMOND reported to the House that the Commons agreed to a portion of the amendments. Messengers from the Commons brought up several Bills, which were read a first time. Several petitions were presented in favour of the York and Scarborough Railway Bill. The Courts of Common-law Process (Ireland) Bill, and the Bail in Error Bill went through Committee. The Earl of MOVNTCASIIEL presented petitions from Donegal, Coleraine, and several other places against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. DUTY ON WOOL. The Duke of RICHMOND, after presenting a peti tion from a place in Sutherland, in favour of agricultural protection, said he wished to call the attention of their Lordships, in consequence of a notice which he had pre viously given, of a motion to order certain returns upon the subject of the wool trade in this country. He was the more anxious for the production of these returns in consequence of the proposed re duction of the duty upon this article, and be cause he recollected that the facts adduced before the Committee, appointed in 1828 at his suggestion, am ply proved that the reduction of these duties would tend materially to injure the farming interests of the oottntry. He disliked this measure much, not because it met the support of his Noble Friend, who presided at the Anti-Corn-law League, but because when this re duction was mentioned in another place it was loudly cheered there. Another reason was, that, at the present moment the greatest distress pre vailed all through Australia, and they all were aware that by taking off one penny from German wool, they would do much to injure that colony. He would ask the Noble Lord, the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, whether her Majesty's Ministers had had any communication with foreign Governments on this subject—whether the Austrian Government were con tent to allow the manufactures of this country to enter Austria with equal facilities—or, if that Govern ment would take English long wool as well as short wool? He would also ask whether they had received any assurances of reciprocity on the part of the French Government, so far as trade was concerned ? He only hoped that the same result would not now take place as w hen the sixpenny duty was reduced to a half penny. The United States immediately put on a higher duty upon our woollen clothes.—(Hear, hear.) He con cluded by moving for several returns relating to the im portation of foreign wool. Lord DALHOUSIE had no objection to the motion of his Noble Friend, accompanied as it was with an undertaking to abstain for the present from geing into a discussion of the substantial question. At the same time, that he would not object for the returns, because he also was desirous of more exact information on the subject. However, he was not prepared to answer the question ©f his Noble Friend as to whether her Majesty's Government had communications with Foreign Powers in, reference to the reduction of their duties in our woollen goods. He had not received any information on the subject, but he was able to say that when foreign nations would or would not reduce the duties on our woollens, that would not affect the question His Noble Friend had alluded to the Committee of In quiry in 1828, on the effect of a reduction of the wool duty, in 1824. But his Noble Friend did not inform the House that it was clearly made out before that Committee that the depression t,f the wool masters was not traced and was not traceable to the reduction of the duty.—(Hear, hear.) As his Noble Friend was not going into the question at present, but only wanted the papers for information, he (Lord Dalhousie) would also abstain 'from going into it. But it was right that he should acquaint their Lordships with the fact, that the depression of the wool masters was clearly traced to the high duty imposed in 1819, which caused our woolen goods to be thrown out of competition in the foreign mar ket, and necessarily to lessen the demand for home-grown wool. Be bad lately had a communication with Mr. Bishop, a gentleman who was well known in connexion with this subject, and from whom he learned that when the duty was raised in 1819 he knew a Nobleman who was a large grower of wool, that Nobleman told Mr. Bishop that he would not sell his wool at 2s. 6d. a lb., but would keep it till the next year, when he would get 3s. Mr. Bishop however told him that if he kept it for one year the price, instead of being raised by - the duty, would be lowered, and instead of 2s. 6d. he would get no more than Is. 6d., and if he kept it for two years he would get no more than one shilling.— (A laugh.) The nobleman had kept the wool for three years as the prices were going down, and at last he sold his wool for 9d: a lb.—(Laughter, and cheers.) (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'Cb'ck. The Attorney-General (Sir W. Follett) took the oaths and his seat for Exeter. COMMISSION. _ ----- The Übher of the Black Rod appeared at the bar, and summoned the House to the House of Peers, to hear her Majesty's Commission read for giving the Royal Assent to certain Bills (for which see Lords' report.) NEW WRIT FOR SOUTH LANCASHIRE. Lord F. EGERTON, in moving for a new writ for South Lancashire, in room of Mr. Wilbraham, deceased, said he regretted his inability to do adequate justice to the merits of that lamented and re spected gentleman. Few men had more justly earned the good will and kindly feelings of all parties, and he was sure he would be borne out in this assertion by Hon. Gentlemen oppo site.—(Loud cries of " Hear hear," from the Liberal Members.) Mr. MARK PHILLIPS fully concurred in what had fallen from the Noble Lord who had just sat down with respect to the estimable character of the late lamented Representative for South Lancashire, and felt sure that this feeling was concurred in by every Hon. Gentleman on his (Mr. M. Phillips') side of the House. Mr. AINSWORTH said he shosld be wanting in respect to the memory of Mr. Wilbraham if he did not also render his meed of praise and admiration for that gentleman's high character and feelings. MANCHESTE R IMPROVEMENTS. Mr. M. PHILLIPS obtained leave to bring up the report from the Committee on the Manchester Improve ment (committed) Bill forthwith. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition against the Swansea Harbour Bill. On the motion of Mr. WILSON PATTEN, the Blacicburfi and Preston Railway Bill was read a third time, and passed. Sir R. INGLIS presented petitions from places in Yorkshire in favour of a ten hours' clause in the Fac tories Bill. The Right Hen. Gentleman also presented petitions against the union of the dioceses of Bangor and St. Asaph. Mr. liIENRY BERKELEY prevented a petition from the Solicitors of Bristol, complaining of the insufficiency of the compensation allowed under the Act the 6th of Victoria, relating to Chancery Reform. Mr. FERRAND presented two petitions in favour of a ten hours' clause in the Factories Bill. Mr. AINSWORTH presented a petition from a nu merous and respectable public meeting at Bolton, in favour of a Ten Hours' Bill. Mr. WARBURTON presented a petition from Kendal, praying that if the Ten Hours Bill passed, that there should be a reduction •f all duties on corn and pro- Visions. Lord J. RUSSELL presented a petition from the journeymen coopers of London, complaining of the ope ration of the duty on the importation of staves. Mr. S. WORTLEY presented a petition from the neighbourhood of Halif a x, in f a vour of the Ten Hours' Bill. Lord MARCH presented petitions from Sussex and Kent, praying for a repeal of the stamp duties on in surances against hail-storms; also four petitions against the union of the dioceses of Bangor and St. Asaph. Sir J. GRAIIAM presented nine petitions—two aom Bradford, signed by seventy-four millowners; one from Ashton-under-Lyne, signed by four millowners, em ploying 12,741 persons ; one from a town in York shire, signed by twenty-eight millowners, employing 10,000 hands ; one from Oldham, signed by millowners, employing 6,000 hands ; one from Staleybridge, signed by millowners, employing 6,600 hands ; one from Brid port, one from Warrington, and one from Bolton. These nine petititions, together with the one he presented from Manchester, were signed by 326 millowners, em ploying 100,000 persons, paying 50,0001. a week in wages. and 2,500,0001. a year, and they prayed the House that no diminution to ten hours should be made in the time of employment as such a reduction would be fatal to the manufactures of the country, and prove detrimental to the manufacturing labourers themselves. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. Mr. ESCOURT appeared at the bar, and said that he had been to the House of Lords, and that their Lord ships had appointed a conference to consider the amend- Aunts on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Bill. Several Members were appointed as a Conference, and they immediately left the House to meet their Lord• ships. After a short time, Mr. ESTCOURT returned, and informed the House that he had left the Bill, and the reasons of the House for disagreeing from their Lordships' amendment, with the Conference. , NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. Mr. HUME gave notice that he would put a ques tion, at an early period, to the Noble Lord opposite, respecting the expenses of' the New Houses of Parliament. bISSE . NTEIIS' CHAPELS BILL. This Bill was brought down from the House of Lords, and read a first time. Mr. HINDLEY hoped the Bill would not be hurried through the Hmise, as there was great interest excited in the country about it. Sir R. PEEL said that the Bill was only going to be printed, and that the House would have full opportunity of discussing it. INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA. Mr. lIUME inquired whether there was any objec tion to collect, as speedily as possible, all the orders that had been printed and published regulating the intercourse of British subjects with the Chinese. Sir R. PEEL said that every order and regulation that was necessary on the subject had been made known. 'SUGAR DUTIES. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that, in answer to a question from the Noble Lord op-, posite, on a preceding day, he begged to state that on looking at the state of public business, the 24th instant would be the day on which the Sugar Duties Bill would be brought before the House. Mr. ELLIS inquired whether it was intended to make any difference in the duties on raw, arid on clayed or partially refined sugar, imported from the, British co- lonies. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, he must give the non. Gentleman the same answer that he had already given to other similar inquiries on the sub ject—that it was better to reserve any question of detail till the whole subject was before the House. PRISONS' (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion that the Order of the Day for the third reading of the Factories Bill be read, Mr. HUMe: said that the Priszais' (Scotland) Bill stood on the paper for this evening; but as it was im possible that it could come on that evening he wished to suggest that it be referred to a Committee upstairs. Sir J. GRAHAM said he would postpone the Bill till Monday, and he would then state the course to be taken respecting it. IRISH REGISTRATION BILL. Mr. SHEIL asked the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for the ,Home Department whether he intended to bring on the Irish Registration Bill, or ...whether it was abandoned or not ? GRAHAM said the Bill was not abandoned, and that he would move its second reading on an early day, but that the day was not yet fixed.—(Laughter.) FACTORIES BILL. The Order of the Day for the third reading of this Bill was then read. Mr. M. PHILIPS presented a petition from Staley bridge (as we understood) against a Ten Hours' Bill, and on the motion of the Hon. Member the petition was read at length by the clerk at the table. Lord HOWICK presented a petition from the in habitants of:: Dewsbury, praying that ten hours be the time of labour or five days of the week and eight hours on the other. He did not move that the petition be read at the table.—(Laughter.) Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition, signed by 6,020 inhabitants of the borough of Stockport, in favour of a Ten Hours' Bill. On the question that the Bill be read a third time, Lord ASHLEY rose. He said, after the three dis tinct declarations that had- been made by the House, he need not make any further attempt, by argument or per suasion, to influence the feeling and understanding of the House. It had, by three distinct declarations, de cided actually in three cases, that the period of labour should not amount to twelve hours, and in two cases virtually that the period of labour should not exceed ten hours. On those decisions the world at large expected that a middle term would have been taken, but her Ma jesty's Ministers had refused to consent to that term. They had invited a revival of the debate, by calling on the House to reverse these decisions, and therefore they who stood by th e w h o l e o f th ese decisions, and who protested against this novel and somewhat questionable course, were not to be charged with wearying the atten tion of the House, or wasting its valuable time, if they did endeavour to urge every argument and move every consideration that the countervail this proaigious exer cise of ministerial influence and official authority. With respect to the moral and physical condition 'of the people, one way or other, the minds of all were made up; it was even admitted by many of their antnonists that if a reduction of the hours of labour could be effected without injury to the workman or the master manufac turer, it would be desirable to effect it. But they said a danger would arise to the workmens' interests, and he, who proposed the plan, was actually charged with being more inhuman than those who resisted it. But he wished to reject altogether the use of such epi thets, and he would not in any way retort the imputa tion cast upon him of malignity and of cant.—(Hear.) In the whole of those debates there was not one taing that he regretted ; he did most deeply regret that he should have been charged with calumniating the whole body of master manufacturers.—(Hear, hear.) He totally disclaimed that charge.—(Hear, hear.) He should be ashamed of himselt if he presumed, either there or elsewhere, to use such language of a class of men who could boast of as many munificent and worthy individuals, and could be pre sented by any class which had ever supported or adorned the institutions of this country.—(Cheers.) Neither because he addressed himself to a particular evil, was he to be considered as an enemy to the fac tory system. He firmly believed—for he had labori ously examined many of the mills—that if they re moved some of the imperfections of factories they would become a blessing, if not absolutely, certainly .and relatively to the labourin; classes..—(Hear, hear.) Now, when he first introduced this question, he did not touch upon the commercial article, because he did not consider it necessary in the view which he took of the question, nor did he consider, it necessary now. But he owed it to those whose interests he represented, to show that he had not left any part of the question unconsidered; that he had not rushed, like an enthusiast, into this career, not caring what conse quences might ensue from the attainment of this end. He said at that time, what he now said, that which was morally wrong could not be politically right ; he had then, and he had still, the deepest conviction that that which was morally right could not be politically wrong. All that he had read, all the con sideration which he had been able to give to the subject, all the intercourse which he had had with persons who, from their practical experience, were the best able to' instruct him, confirmed him in this conclu sion. And now he must entreat of the House with very much respect, and with very much earnestness, that they would be good enough to give him thetr atten tion while he went through a statement which was at all times dry, and which would he feared be much drier when coming from him, and whichwas moreover somewhat trite. Now, after much inquiry he could discover no more than from leading arguments against this measure, and those arguments were comprised in the petition from Manchester, which had been laid on the table of the House. Those four arguments were that the passing of the Ten Hours' Bill would cause additional employment—that there would be in the same proportion a reduction in the value of the fixed capital employed in trade ; that there would be a great diminution of wages to. the great injury of the workmen ; and lastly, tha there would be a rise in prices, and con-equent danger • from foreign competition. Now, upon these four points the commercial argument rested. With re spect to the first, he would observe that hitherto it had been urged that the reduction of the hours of labour by one-sixth would involve a reduction in the same proportion of the goods manufactnred. Was the case so ? Was the reduction in the amount of produce in - proportion to the reduction in the amount of the hours of labour ?—(Hear, hear.) He could produce evidence to disprove that position.—(Hear, hear.) In the first place he would read an extract from a letter written 'to him by a gentleman who employed 1,200 hands in his mills. (The Noble Lord here read an extract from the letter alluded to, in which the writer stated that a-reduction in the hours of labours to ten hours would only cause a decrease of 1-12th in the amount of production. as the increased energy of the work would make up the difference in this the writer stated to be the result of his own experience.) Another rnillowner in a very exten sive way of business had stated to him that the mill owners would lose very little by the reduction of the hours of labour to ten hours.—(Hear, hear.) k LEFT SPEAKING.) EGLINTON PARE MEETING.—The races at Bog side commenced to-day under the most favourable circumstances. The gay company, with whom the castle of the noble patron of the sports has been filled for the last few days were early on the ground ; and the crowd was much greater than usual on the first day of the meeting. Upwards of fifty horses have arrived, as competitors for the various prizes ; and though eight of the races are not yet closed, there were, last night, not less than ninety-seven entries, so that unprecedented running may be expected. The steeple chases, on Friday, will, as usual, be of absorbing interest. Lord Eglinton, the Marquis of Waterford, Lord Glenlyon, Lord Drumlanrig, Sir William Scott, A. Moore, Esq., John Campbell, Esq., J. 0. Fairlie, Esq., and other crack riders, take part in the competition. The course is in capital order ; somewhat too hard, perhaps, in consequence of the continued dry weather, 'though the shower of last night moistened it a little.—Ayr Observer of Tuesday. FIRE AT THE LIVERPOOL THEATRE ROYAL.— While the World of Dreams was being performed at the Theatre Royal last night (Monday), part of the light coloured hangings used in the piece, and which were sus pended contiguous to one of the side lights, accidentally caught fire, and burned with great rapidity. The audience, supposing the bkze to have been necessary to give due effect to the representation, and not any means the result of accident, fortunately sat still, and manifested little, if any, symptoms of alarm ; and the fire having been speedily ex tinguished, the performances proceeded as if nothing had occurred.—Manchester Guardian. _ _ At the late battue among the gaming►rhouses, se veral sprigs of nobility were captured, and are now in durance vile ; two or three sporting characters were also secured. During the sojourn of her Majesty in the Isle - of Wight, Sir Robert Peel will occupy the seat of Hughes Hughes, Esq., at Ryde. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an inter view with the Chancelloi of the Exchequer yesterday. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, May 9. DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL. Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved the third reading of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. The Bishop of EXETER opposed the third reading of the Bill. Lord MONTEAGLE contended that the gentleman who had been so frequently alluded to at dif ferent periods by the Right Reverend Prelate—namely, the Reverend Mr. }links—had been a person who was a minister for upwards of thirty years, having been ordained in 1790, and during that time had merited the highest respect, and although the gentle man still continued attached to his original opinions, yet his two sons were now clergymen of the Established Church. The Bishop of EXETER said that in the year 1790 the ministers of . the Presbytery of Munster refused to ordain him, and he was compelled to apply to•his brethren in Dublin to gain his ordination. The Earl of WINCHILSEA wished to record his decided hostility to. this •measure, and he could assure their Lordships that nothing but a conscientious con viction that this measure was not founded in justice,. but was at direct variance, both in a religious and civil point of view, to the interests of the country induced him to do so: Ho contended that the great body of these Dissenting meeting-hous►s were originally intended to be used for the observance of religious worship by Trinitarian Dis senters. The ground upon which he founded this opinion was, that the endowments took place long before Socinianism, or Unitarianism, had a legal existence in this count►'y. It was with deep regret that he felt him self compelled on that occasion to differ in opinion from the ' Noble and Learned Lord on the woolsack ; but he held that Unitarians and Sociniatis were not to be con sidered true Christians, for whomsoever denied the divinity of Christ denied both the Father and the Son, and, therefore, such persons could not be looked upon as Christians. Earl FITZWILLIADI said he wished to express his gratitude to the Right Rev. Prelate for what he had done on that occasion. He also wished to express his gratitude to the Noble and Learned Lard on the wool sack for having brought this Bill before Porliament, in asmuch as thereby he had done a great public service. He felt gratitude to the Right Rev. Ft-elate (Exeter) for his having taken upon himself the office of chatechist. He could not understand that the usage of the congre • gation was to be interpreted as the doctrine of the preacher. He thought that their Lordships would do well to leave to the congregations the power of disposing of their property according to their own wishes and their own consciences. He believed that all that posterity would ever know of the Bill would be that the !louse of Lords had agreed to a Bill of which the object was to enable persons of particular religious opinions to endow chapels for the performance of their own worship. Such a Bill would be no interference with property—it would be no violation of God's law. It would leave the reli gious part of the people in the possession of their right to worship as they pleased. ®Lord KENYON, as a Christian, thought it was his duty to oppose the Bill, and he - would take the opinion of the House. _ _ Lord MINTO defended the Unitarian body from the aspersions which had been cast upon it by the other side, and especially by the bench of Bishops. The Bishop of EXETER denied that he had ever said anything to justify the attacks which had been made upon him. In the remarks which he had made upon the conduct of Dr. Hincks he never intended to as perse the character of the present Dr. Hincks. Lord MOUNTCASHEL opposed the Bill as one of spoliation. After some observations from Lord TEYNIIAM, the House divided, when there appeared— For the third reading of the Bill Against it Majority for the third reading The Duke of RICHMOND postponed his noiice with respect to Wool till to-morrow (this day). POACHING BILL. The Earl of STRADBROJiE moved the second read ing of this Bill. The Duke of RICHMOND said that there ought to be some delay befoie the Bill was read a second time. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow (this day). The other Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and the House adjourned at Half-past Seven o'Clock till to-morrow (this day). HOUSE OF COMMONS', May 9. THE LORD-LIEUTENANTCY OF IRELAND. Captain BERN AL seconded the motion. The House could not but remember that in a recent debate, Ireland was described as a country with a starving popu lation, an absentee aristocracy, an alien Church, and the • weakest Executhe in the whole world—but he believed he should be able to convince the House that it was the most mischievous as well as the weakest. By a sort of fiction, Ireland was called an integral portion of the empire, but was governed in all respects like a colony, the Executive being quite overrul.ed by the Cabinet in London. In fact the policy of Pitt had never been completed, and the union had never been perfected. By means of steam and railroads Dublin was now brought nearer to London than Edinburgh, yet at Dublin there was a quasi-King, a Court, and a Privy Council—all the outward and visible signs of a different kingdom, without the inward and spiritual grace of a separate Parliament. Then look at the appointment of the Lord-Lieutenant. He was always chosen from party motives. When a Whig nobleman was appointed, and showed any favour to the Catholics, the Tories said the peace of the country was in danger; when a Tory noble man was nominated, the Orange Tories were in ecstacies. The office of Lord-Lieutenant was the cause of violent party spirit being carried into private society; and the Lord. Lieutenant was merely regarded as the bead of a party. If it were that all Governmen t was experimental, and therefore progressive, how happened it that for 672 years Government made no progress in the sister kingdom ? The Government of Ireland was administered by three principal officers, the Lord-Lieutenant, the Lord Chancellor, and the Chief Secretary. Up to the time of the union, there was only one Irish Lord-Lieutenant, namely, James, Duke of Ormond, and since the union there was only one--the Marquis of Wellesley. Since 1760 there were twelve Lord Chancellors, three of whom only were Irishmen. During the same period, there were 42 Chief Secretaries, seven of whom only were Irishmen. There were besides several minor officers, each of whom had their several cliques. There was the Under Secre tary with his clique ; the Attorney-General with his clique ; and there was another officer who acted in the Castle like the prompter of a theatre—one who, though never seen, was heard in whispers, and who, he be lieved, was a greater source of mischief than all the • others put together—he meant the law adviser to the Crown. The Lord Lieutenant had indeed " the like ness of a kingly crown," but he was under the control of the Home Secretary, an officer in which the interests of Ireland were indeed not best understood. was not even a member of the Cabinet Ministry. —(Hear.) The Hon. Gentleman then quoted from a speech of Mr. Shaw, delivered on the 30th of May, 1843, who said that the Lord-Lieutenant had not the responsibility of the Crown nor the power of a Minister, that he was constantly controlled and was often blamed for that for which he was not responsible.— (Hear, hear.) This was an opinion which was prevalent among the higher classes in Ireland, and the Duke of Leinsier looked upon the office as one remote cause of the agita tion for the repeal of the union. —(Hear, hear.) It had been said that it would be impossible to carry out the measure, in consequence of the oppositions of the Dublin tradesmen, but they might abolish the office and continue the grant, which they might apply towards the removal of the local taxes of the city of Dublin.—(Laughter.) He only suggested it. might be applied to public works, or to the moral and religious education of the people. But at all events this argument was no defence for continuing the office of Lord-Lieutenant. The true element of a country's greatness depended on the internal resources of the country, and if Ireland relied on these, she had nothing to apprehend. —(Hear, hear.) It had been said that the office was a bond of union. Now he had spent seven years in Dublin, and he was certain that, so far from the office being a bond of union in Dublin, it was a fertile source of jealousy and discord.—(Hear, hear.) In fact, this mimic ' representation of royalty tended to bring the monarchi cal principle into contempt. It had been objected to Lerd Normanby's Government that he had not the 'aristocracy of the country at his levees. Now, he begged to read to the House an advertisement which appeared in a Dublin newspaper, of the Ist of March, 1844. That was during the present viceroyalty. The advertisement was from Saunders's News Letter, and was to this effect :—" Notice.—Gentlemen who pur pose attending the approaching levee will be supplied with a brown claret court-dress at 2s. 6d. the suit. The strictest secresy will be observed.—(Laughter.) This being the lowest charge made for claret-brown suits to the humbler classes on occasion of teetotal and repeal processions, there can be no deviation from it.' --- (Laughter.) The House would at once gather from this, that in the estimation of a tailor, the levees of the Lord-Lieutenant were placed en the same footing with repeal and teetotal processions. The same claret-brown suit was to answer for both, and, what was of more inif: s portance to the wearer, the price was the same. " might be asked if they were to do away with the office of Lord-Lieutenant, how wire his duties to be per' formed ? The Home-office was employed with a num' bes of Bills, which would be got rid of—God knows when. But what objection could there he to the ap pointment of a fourth Secretary of State for Ire' land, with a seat in the . Cabinet? By that plan they would obviate the necessity of placing the Se: cretary in the Cabinet, and thus raising him above b' s superiors. Grattan had defined the true genius of t he Irish nation to be affectionate. He (Captain B.) ne ed not refer to her past history to recal, in proof of tb!" , assertion, their desperate fidelity to a fallen monare ° ' The Irish people had, up to this century, never see ° , their sovereign but in arms. The three first Princei 0' the House of Hanover bad never visited that co untriA and at the time of the visit of George the Fourth, so g lo ' were the Irish to see a bona fide live King, that the ire' pression of his footsteps were cut in the rock where e e landed. He would suggest to the Right Hon. Gentlente at the head of her Majesty's Government, to advise hif Royal Mistress, in the event of the abolition of the Lore; Lieutenantcy, to pass a portion of her time in Ire's'''. every year. He would 'then see the realization of tfeli peroration which the Right Hon. Gentleman declared some time ago—his Royal Mistress visiting Ireland as t o angel of peace ; and, like her Royal predecessor , tw o would leave, not her footsteps engraven on a ba ne rock, but her memory living in the hearts of aloyal, grateful. and devoted people.—(Cheers.) so Lord ELIOT said that this motion referred n°t much to a question of party politics as to one of gen_e r e t policy. The system which it was proposed to do "de with existed for 400 or 500 years, and the Hon. Gen t man who introduced the motion was bound to show, n ° only that some great evil was inherent in that syste??s but that that which it was proposed to substitute in it! stead was well adapted to serve the purposes of the Lor d ' Lieutenantcy. It appeared that both the Hon. Gentle men vvhd had spoken on the subject had overstated 1 116 objections to the office and understated its advantage s ' The Hon. Gentleman who introduced the motion n aj f referred to debates on the subject, and to the Opinions ° Mr. Pitt as favourable to his proposition. But the 0 ,", pressed opinions of several Irishmen were opposed La the abolition of the office of Lord-Lieutenant. when the subject was on a former occasion before t'! .. House, the Hon. and Learned Member for Cork e s l i , pressed himself as decidedly opposed to it. , she John Newport was equally opposed to it. iss, Hon. Gentleman who had seconded the motion bad' vested to his own experience during the time he was ss Ireland. He (Lord Eliot) could not, of course , what was the state of things in Dublin Castle at ° es time, but, for himself, he knew nothing of the e intrige o of which the Hon. Gentleman had spoken. His N° h e s Friend the Lord-Lieutenant and himself held tbenssel; responsible for all the acts of the Government, and t s e ; were not influenced by any of the representations ° e .„ o ho authorised persons. He believed that those person s ; h i held office under the Irish Government were actuat e ° o f the purest motives, and he repudiated the insinuati c lies the Hon. Gentleman against them. The Hon. G en man proposed that there should be a fourth SecretaFlted State. He presumed that a new office was to be apPcl es e for him, for the Hon. Gentleman said, that, licw t he were the interests of Ireland less understood than h i p, office of the Secretary of State for the 110 11 2 0 ,„ of partment. Now, if they abolished the 01 "` est Lord-Lieutenant, every Irish Act of Parliament t° hi be carefully revised. Various powers were give ll t se different Acts to the Lord-Lieutenant himself, of t°,..i t e Lord-Lieutenant in Council. It would be a source e ` os . calculable diflicalty if all these powers were to be ir ds of ferred en masse, without consideration, into the bo l a to the new Secretary of State. How did they prod vest these powers ? All transfers of licenses, an l d l matters of detail, such as transfers of places for' the r ot; quarter sessions in assizes, were made by consent c'ceo. Lord-Lieutenant. It would be matter of serious ji l t to venience if the parties should be obliged to resorte4 England in order to have business of this sort trae' n o c o lch Then, with regard to the Secretary's office. He I t - ifsr in'order to give the House some notice of them ° f t ot ions duties of that office, read to the House a listoeiej establishment, and describe the duties which d e f e d of upon each branch of it. The establishment cons's to a chief secretary, an under secretary, one chief cfe rl ‘' senior clerks, seven senior assistant clerks! s iott eight junior assistant clerks. The first lathe/ comprehended one senior and six other clerks, an w it, conducted all the correspondence which took pla t ve t s 0 ' magistrates, with clerks of the Crown, with cleroe the peace, all ecclesiastical matters, and prepared returns to be laid before 'Parliament. This latter f heir tion of their duties occupied a considerable part 0 r and time. The second division consisted of one sep°„-oess seven other clerks. They conducted all the b°""tlje relating to the judicial departments, the Trease r J o 'seS• Crown Solicitor's-office, and the remission of se ° en ° • This was no light duty in Ireland, every A n dere almost was submitted to the Lord-Lieutenant, 045 . he made the subject of the most minute inquiries. ,c, the no less then 1,270 sentences had been submittedilbo it d Lord-Lieutenant, and considerable injury wool", d flitted upon the country if the people were deni e d th e access to the officer who exercised the authority br tbr . Crown. Then there were the duties exercisea_.4 tb; law adviser of the Crown, who was connected ; 1 0 N il Secretary's-office. It was the practice in irl eo in I ° , the magistrates to refer to the Crown for ad' stoe so.e, cases of difficulty. These references were so that it would be impossible for the Attorney iii!rx,„, egor-Generals to attend to them, and therefore it w e ef„, o tie l v., nary to have an official law officer to answer thos,_srfelso tions. If the Hon. Gentleman proposed-merelyl°.„,et ft the Lord-Lieutenant, and leave the establishlor, clerks, as it was at present, he (Lord Eliot) r l efe ete; abuses would soon creep in which were now' pfd be se by the executive authority, and the change Ou see . tended with great detriment to the public sern, ec4 o Hon. Gentleman had talked, in the course et nT oos eis o '. of the case of Scotland, as though that were aliT s 7, 11 , h the case of Ireland. He begged leave to tell; ,t out Gentleman that the case of Scotland Was.l es a ch ar s in point. The lion. Gentleman said a grenD",i identity of institutions. Why he must b.e_ w e e re j *6 .0 _4 that the laws and institutions of Scotland t Tj oi s It was " different from those of England. d ° int° lately that trial by jury was introduced at ea country ; and in many other respects S t° ect ferences had existed, and still enti re wo uld 000 , ist, between the two countries. 11 tbe , OU ld touch on the many extraneous topics whic h eh h e VI ibe Gentleman had introduced into his speech ' b ee°re tit t° confine himself to the immediate question_ argot oe not , House. It was, however, he contended ° Lord - L ie A t i l k e ere °t " say that Scotland did not require essentially' —be to They far a s te uld net g ° v erse `l v was the rule • and though he w° old revintend!g TThheestitanteewoftltahte tinwoticteouonntreiecsaas-easoebsesdeienc_o.o w ithous the case in Ireland, still he must say, peep °` Irelandsj i ss to reflect in the least degree on t ceto the e and say—God forbid that he should —that A trSig eS ' • the people of Scotland. - more freV en f o re, $ violations of the law, were much that they did not pay the Ireland, there on i t . land than in Scotland. In to take, 1113 rrhef ° t6Damisteu°rbbaendcleens, " t in Ir e local executive was required,ediate authorities t ies ' ll self the responsibility of imin the auteo.-obe no time to consult p w cni e , r e e s. n . ° (cor i ueolis o o f f citsay7 air"' Nice sun nt, was Waite P -te. London ; and he believed the P Dos lsLl haa sP theofg h th t offire divide.") The Hon. Gentleman ogrren a o tly offi en ce d r an ti g o e ld re in d g if si t m h i e l r a e r tin u ll a ti nc e ° offic° A pply W th e Surely t nu a changerneatlrygut hmaetargument objection against L ot nr would -Lieutenant, e t cecionunaa COllell °f LL gellte( Wh en other