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fourtt Zbition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. INDIA AND CHINA. (From a Second Edition of the Times.) The Indian Mail of the Ist of May does not contain any very remarkable intelligence. The dissatisfaction 1. hich prevailed, at the departure of the April Mail, amongst the native troops had ceased. The Supreme 4; overnment had, by the adoption of judicious, and at the same time severe, measures, brought the Se t oys to a full sense of duty. One regiment, the 34th Bengal Regiment, was disbanded in t'•.e most impressive manner. The Commander -chief, who was allowed a carte blanche s)n, the occasion, used his powers with considerable Leniency ; explanations took place with the men of dif f Tent corps, who after a proper understanding returned 10 their duty. The regiments, as ordered, proceeded to Sinde without any hesitation. The disbanding of the 34th Regiment was a painful sight. The men had always been quiet and peaceable, but they had iningled themselves with the mutineers of other teorps, and they mere ordered to be paid up and dis rliarged from the service. They seemed to feel their alis ig race most acutely. Strong comments have been .Is-ade on the non-punishment of some of the other five r. gitnents who appeared to have gained their s.in l ands for batta and allowances ere they con wto go to Sinde. The 6th Irregular Ca ley, which behaved so nobly in resisting all ;he attempts to mutiny, has had considerable ad vyatages conferred on it by the Governor (lsts,venl.". The mutinous spirit of those five regiments ra had the effect of calling forth the most decided proofs of a contrary- disposition from the 27th Bengal legiment, and from the Bundelkund Legion, both which dunteered to proceed instantly to the banks of the The Bengal regiments that have gone to Northern FiriP are likely to find employment, in consequence a a revolt brought about to the north of Shikarpore Vy a chief named Bejee Khan, who, having placed inself at the head of some cavalry, attempted plunder the country. A party of horse, Issuler the command of Captain Taite, was sent to take Lim prisoner ; bill he repulsed them, and cut down 10 s 'id wounded 20 of the British troops. This event had , ken place near Poolajee, and had awakened all the es , ergies of Sir C. Napier, who was determined to put e' ,wn the disturbance in the bud. There was to be a ;_erseral assembly in May of the Beloockee chiefs at I;yderabad, when a conference was to take place between '%em and the Governor of Sinde. This measure is cal r lated to remove any dissatisfaction which may still 'wive exited in that country. The heat had set in there with great force, but the :$., alth of the troops did not appear to suffer. Kurrachee ,vas improving fast. and buildings were rising around it. 3tegulations were adopted for levying 3} per cent. duty .41 goods ists.ded these. Every tifort is made by certain parties to irritate Sir C. Napier by criticism and censure. Ile is allowed to be a gallant soldier, but his acts as Governor and ad • 7uinistrator aro commented on by hie opponents with • •rimony. It is necessary to explain that fact in order t ) place his character in a fair light before England. He liolA taken the command as Colonel of the 22d Regiment, And his address to the regiment on that occasion is worthy of both. The news from the Punjaub represents that country • in as disturbed a state as ever. Another member of ane Dogra family has fallen the victim of his own ephew. Two of Runjeet Singh's reputed sons, named Cash r.tkra and I'eshora, had raised a party and endea voured to oppose the rule of Heera Singh and his puppet king. They stationed themselves at Sealkote, Fortress about eighty miles nrtth of Lahore. Heera Singh sent troops to attack them, but they defended themselves with bravery. Amongst the chiefs disposed to support their cause was the uncle of Heera Singh, t;uchet Singh, a brave but rash soldier. The army of Lahore, who now hold the reins of power. .and who are ruled by Shore Singh, because he has the slisposal of the Treasury, invited Suchet Singh to come to Lahore, and promised to put him at their head. He ame with about 500 followers, and took up a position. 3 leers Singh, in great alarm, made all sorts of promises to the army, and led them to attack his uncle. Suchet Singh made promises also, but the army knew who had t. - ..‘ money, and adhered to Heera. Suchet attempted -to retteat with his small band, got into a Fa .a.tueer's house, aad fortified it. Heera caused the artillery to play upon it, and soon forced the a m , e 4, to come out They attacked their assailants nsword ftt ,hand. Suchet and his Minister, and some of ; hi s mos t a t t .:ched adherents were slain. Heera is de. fse-ibed as weel, ing over his uncle's body, and caused 4overy honour to I:,e paid to the remains. The only bro ther of Heera's father; Dhyan Singh, is Goolab, who is said to be highly indignant at the death of his brother, 1)0 it is presumed he will is more cautious in his pro 4.eadings. The fall of Suchet was a deathblow to the ' }Lopes of the pretenders at Sealkote ; they fled, and their partisans dispersed. Heera Singh is master at Lahore as long as the :t ; o a i .e, who receive from him double the pay they lase to receive from old Runjeet, will allow him, Ill„ is pos ,, e , se j talents, but he is not a favourite with tthe old Siekh families, many of whom are intriguing against him. The only :=Upport he possesses is in the zruay, which is like the Prteorian band in other times. It may be tueutioned that to the tampering of certaii, I;iekli agents the spirit of mutiny which was excited atinongst the British sepoys on the banks of the ;t3utlej has been attributed. The Affghans appear to I;.a awaiting the acts of Heera Singh, as if in expec ia`ion of a bloody termination to his life. The noto a-,as alkbar Khan was at Jellabibad, watching ant; ; intriguing with the Alahommedaris in Peshawur, am ra. •he we t hank of the Indus. The British resident " . "14.' to await a revolution in Lahore. Lord Ellen borout,4l was to go for some time to Allahabad. In in full operation at Gwalior, where the Minister et.rw.en to govern the country during th minority- of the young Raja, Jynjee Sindeah, was t npopular ; and it was even raid that plots were lair: assaasinute him. This is the ordinary course a tt" events at an Indian Court, where the detection a conspiracy has merely the effect of putting down some intriguers for the benefit of others. Tht residence of Lord Ellenborough in the neighbourhood .of this state will have the effect of neutralizing many of hose intrigues. His Lordship had remained for sonic twnths at Calcutta, where he had organized various im provements. Among them may be specified, besides the a b o litfon of the Madras tffansit duties, the organization ofa military police, from which great benefit was expected. The new from China extends to the 10th of March. A sh;p was seized with opium on boar in the port of *.Shaugha.i, and sent down to Victoria, whore she was sisi,sequently liberated on payment of a fine of 500 dollars. This seizure appears to have been brought -about by a British merchant, who compelled both the Chinese authorities and the British Consul to take official .eotice of the opium being on board. Several chests were a.arown into the sea, and others injured. This step has brought the question of the treaty and of the opium ~ s nuggling into discussion. . The death of Sir William Casement, after nearly fifty ytta.ra uninterrupted service in India, had produced a vac a vey in the Council at Calcutta, which was filled up by the itypoinunPnt of Mr. Millett. The cholera was ravaging tce three Presidencies, but not to any great ex t'nt. The 1 ith and 42d Madras regiments had suffered severely. The Post-office arrangements through India had enabled the express from Bombay, with the news from Europe, to reach Madras four hours and Calcutta forty six hours before the Hindostan steamer had arrived at e:ther of those ports. There seems no doubt, if efficient j, ‘sere stationed from Suez to Bombay, that the vvoul.l be first on all occasions in the great port r wai t' . But the Indian navy steamers being destined tither purposed have not sufficient power. The Hin ostau was to be docked at Calcutta, but was still ex • uected to start for Suez in May. The next mail was to leave Bombay on the 20th of The newspapers give an ,Vcount of the attempt to put • a a kind of pirates in the north of Sumatra. (From a Correspondent of the Chronicle.) BOMBAY, MAY 1, 1844. The Pcuto steamer, which arrived this morning from I:urraehee, beings news of an unpleasant nature from tech.. The Beloochees had been ravishing the •iuntry around Shikarpore, had approached within six miles of our cantonments, burnt several large \.• 'lnge: within our sight, and carried off 1,100 head a: cattle and -fitty mules. They were followed $-v ,Lieutentint Fitzgerald, who, in the course •.,1* the pursuit, was attacked by Doomie Murrees, ~,ad compelled to retire with a loss, it is said, of twenty NilNi l l9l as many wounded. The successful leader of is said to have been Beja Kam, a Doom -, j 61i)ra d for hi s f ree b oet i ng exp l o i ts in 1840. He ‹.lly Government at that time 3,000 ru • off his thievi ng practices, and prote p c e t e t s h a e :1 4 etiviSiti Shikarpore and Dadoor. He a ft erwar d s • .bureendere4 y himself, upon a .pledge being given him K 4.1: E (' 6 . , that his life would be spared, and was detained for a time as a prisoner at Sukkur. His detention was considered , a breach of faith on our part, and though he was after ! wards relieved, his clansmen vowed vengeance against us, and this is in obligation they rarely failed to carry into I effect. lam as yet without particulars of this unfortu nate affair. So much as I have stated is universally believed in. Two troops of irrigular horse, with Captain Foster's artillery, were immediately pushed on from Sukkur, while the 9th Native Infantry, pre viously under orders to proceed to Ferozepore, were commanded to hold themselves in readiness to push on to Shikarpore at a moment's notice. The present reverses took place near Poolagse, close by the scenes of Clark and Clibbon's disasters in May, and Au gust, 1840. The system these warriors invariably pur -1 sue is to dash down upon us from the mountains in the hot season, and so draw us into the desert, where the quickness of their horses enables them to escape from I us. I tremble at the thought of another hot wea -1 then campaign of however limited extent or dura tion. It was thus our mishaps begun in 1840, which terminated in the siege of Caubul. We taught the enemy to defeat us on a small scale, till they learned to put in practice against us the bloody instruction we had given them on the largest. I do not know whether or not this will do anything to en lighten you as to the geography of the western frontier of young Egypt. You all seem to be content to assume that our boundary has actually been improved, and then proceed to argue on the illegitimacy of the means resorted to for its improvement. If you turn to the map you will find that Shikarpore, Larkhana, Kolra, Tatta, &c., are on the western bank of the Indus, with our own strong posts in our rear; those of the enemy in our front. Should the Murrees manage to sack one or two of these posts, the people at home may discover that, at least in a military point of view, it is anything but an expedient arrangement. The editor of the Naval and Military Magazine I observe, recommends to station posts on the Beloochee hills ; I thought Khan Kelat and Quetta had cured you of this nonsense ; a map of Beloochistan would show you that the hills that skirt the Indus extend for 500 miles in the direction of Persia, resting on an unexplored country, about the 1)e -bosheer of the Helmon. You must double the Indian army before you can supply this without posts. A great noise will doubtless be made about the collec tion of 130,3001. of revenue, reported to have taken place at Hyderabad and Kurrachee. It must be kept in view that this has to meet an expenditure of a million and a quarter on troops alone. The mutiny amongst the Bengal regiment ordered for Sinde has, for the present, been subdued. The men have been frightened by the dis bandonmen t of the 34th N. 1., one of the least offending of the mutinous corps, and the publication of a juggling " ge neralorder," which is interpreted one way by the soldiers and another by the Government. The men believe that everything which they desired has been conceded to them ; whereas, Government, in reality, intends to give them no more than what they previously pos sessed. The 64th, in which mutiny first made its ap pearance, having afterwards volunteered its services, ar rived at Sukkur on the 9th of April, and it is said broke out into mutiny afresh so soon as they discovered the trick that had been put upon them. Should this prove. true, it will be pleasant to have one regiment disaffected and two others nearly devoid of officers, in presence of a fierce, vindictive, and indefatigable enemy. The facts above given are chiefly de rived from Kurrachee letters. At Sukkur they are all Bengallees, and hare but little correspondence with us in Bombay. Sir Charles Napier left Kurrachee on the 2d and arrived at Hyderabad on the 7th April; and after re viewing troops, inspecting cantonments, and flying about everywhere, returned again to the sea-coast on the 17th. The buildieg of a Government house has been com menced at Kurrachee, and here the general treasury, medical stores, and general head-quarter establishments, have been sent. It is believed that Lord Ellen borough will find himself compelled to rescind the order that Sinde should be occupied by Bengal troops alone, and once more commit a charge of a line of the Indus to the Bombay army. An absurd sys tem of mystery-mongering has obtained since the news papers become somewhat free in their strictures on the recent conquest. A register is kept at all the post offices both of the addresses of letters and the names of the party who send them ; and these are very unscrupulously used for the detection of news paper correspondents. It is curious how the General forgets how easily this may be evaded. It is said that he, when he used to write for the ***, sent his letters to his wife, Lady Napiet forwarding them, not to the editor, but to a friend high in the staff. The Ameers of Sinde have been sent round from Bombay to Calcutta ; while here they were treated with the utmost kindness and attention by the Governor, Sir George Arthur. Gwalior wears a somewhat threatening aspect. Lord Ellenborough appears to be equally unfortu nate in his policy, either in going tco far, or not far enough. Sinde is an example of the first, Sindian coun try of the second of these. The regency which we have set up in Gssalior has become in the last degree unpopu lar. Ram Pas Phalkea, our protege, is now suspected of having been the author of tho disturbances which occasioned our advance. Determined to be revenged on his opponents he betook himself to the plan not unfrequently resorted to in Europe in the 15th century, of bringing in a foreign foe to upset the indepen dence of his country for the sake of overwhelming a rival party. His confederates doubt, his brother chief:despise, and his victims detest, a traitor such as this set over them by the force of foreign bearance. The Gwalior contingent, powerful as it is, would do little against a general rising of the Maharattas ; and should the Government we have set up be overturned, we have nothing for it but the commencement of a new war, and the ultimate appro priation of the country altogether. Insurrection and disorder continue to prevail in the Punjaub, and the period is obviously not very far removed when we shall be called upon by one party or another to act as allies or ar bitrators, in either case ultimately to take the place of principals, and make a quarrel first and the country sub sequently our own. Dost Mahomed is said to be rapidly consolidating his power around Caubul, and should he seize upon Peshawur, as is most likely, and we conquer the Punjaub, as is next to certain, we shall find Akbar Khan, whom we would have hang( d if we could have caught him, our next door neighbour, and probable our most able ally. Lord Ellenborough is at present at Calcutta, but it is said that he was about to proceed to Allahabad, conceiv ing that nothing in the way of civil or military ar rangements can be properly managed without his personal presence. The death of Sir William Case ment will be a great loss at the Council Board. From China we have news to the 18th of March. The difficulties attendant in carrying the various com mercial arrangements of Sir H. Pottinger into effect begin already to be experienced. It is singular that the first instance of this has arisen from a British merchant putting himself forward as an informant against opium smuggling, with a view it is said of gratifying private malice. The hot weather has set in all over India, and in e this quarter apprehensions of inconvv, nience for want of water begin to be entertained, in consequence of the deli- , ,:iencies of last year's rains. Trade during the past month has been done to 4 fair extent, although in prices no improvement is observable. The short period of the active season now remaining, and the large supplies ' of goods arriving and expected, have produced in 'solders an anxiety to get rid of their stocks, which being thus pressed upon the market can only be realised at declining prices. We have suffered a severe loss in our society by the death of 1)r. John Grant Malcomson, formerly of the Madras medical service, ,lately of the house of Forbes end Co. He was a man of great talent and learning, of the highest integrity and utmost bene valence of character ; he was cut off by dysentery when engaged in a tour through Goozerat. 0. P. Q. IN THE EAST. COURSE OF EXCIL Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at sight l2 4 Rotterdam 2U. 12 6* Antwerp Hamburgh M.B l3 14 Altona l3 141 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine ANGE.—(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 45 Genoa 25 90 Milan Venice 47 Naples Palermo, per oz ll7 Lisbon 54 Oporto 531 Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Avres NewYork,2ldyssight 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 Sifter in ears 0 4 11 Petersburgh, 3Us 364 Berlin 7 Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M 953 1 rieste, ditto Madrid 37 --- Cadiz Uilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships assembled at Five o'Clock. The York and Scarborough Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. In answer to a question from Earl FORTESCUE, Lord WHARNCLIFFE stated that the papers relating to the appointment of Mr. Gray to the mlgistracy in Ireland would be shortly presented to the House. The Gold and Silver Wares Bill was read a second time. Messengers from the Commons brought up several Bills. TRANSFER OF REAL PROPERTY. . _ Lord CAMPBELL said that as their Lordships did not seem to be troubled with much business, he would take that oppor tunity of putting a question to his Noble and Learned Friend on the Woolsack, with respect to a Bill which be had intro duced at the commencement of the Session, to facilitate the transfer of freehold property. He wished to know if the Bill was intended to be proceeded with this session. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the Bill was of a very complicated nature, and he had felt it his duty to submit copies of it to some of the most eminent conveyancers in the country, and several of these conveya ncers h a d no t y e t sen t i n th e i r opinions upon it. As soon as those opinions were received the Bill would be proceeded with. PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGES. The Earl of ROUEN prese n t e d a num b er of petitions pray ing that Presbyter i an mixed m arr i ages might be legalised. Also petitions againts the Dissenters' Ch ape l s Bill . Their Lordships then Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Sriwcza took NEW the Chair WRIT. at Four o'Clock. Mr. YOUNG moved that a new writ be issued for the election of a burgess to serve for the borough of Enniskillen, in the room of the Hon. Arthur H. Cole, who since his elec tion had accepted the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hun dreds.—Ordered. The Report on the Epsom and Croydon Railway was fur ther considered, and the Bill or dered to be engrossed. The Pulteney Town Harbour Bill was read a third time and passed. DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL. Sir JOHN LONSDALE presented a petition from Scar borough against the Dissenters Chapels r E SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING'', JUNE 4, 1844. Mr. SCH 0 LEFIELD presented petitions from various:con gregations of Dissenters against the Bill. Mr. MUN T Z presented several petitions from congregations in Birmingham against the and one from the congregation meeting in Cw li-street Chapel, Birmingham, in favour cf the Bill. Mr. MAUNSELL presented several petitions from places in Northamptonshire also against the Bili. Mr. W. EVANS presented several petitions in favour of the Bill, but we could not hear the designations of the petitions. A great number of petitions both for and against the Bill were also preser:t( d, but in the confusion of the House it was impossible to catch the names of the Members or the petitions. hir. BOYD presented five petitions from Coleraine and Antrim against the Bill. Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY presented several peti tions from places in Glouce!terthre against the Bill, and two in favour of it. Air. BERKELEY presented several petitions from Ber keley and other places in favour of the Bill. ENTWISLE presented several petitions from places in Lancashire against the Bill. Mr. DUGDA LE presented petitions from Birmingham in favour of the Bill. Mr. B. Smith presented petitions from Norfolk ; Mr. Brotherton from Camberwell, and other places ; and Major Beresford from Armagh, agait:st the Bill. Similar petitions were. presented from Dissenters in Stafford shire, and oth: r parts of ;.he kinklom, by Sir R. H. Inglis ; from North Lancashire, by Mr. W. Patten; and from Northamp ton, by Mr. Vernon Smith. Mr. FOX MA ULE presented thirty-six petitions against the Bill, the first of which was from the General Assembly of the Free Church. The HON. MEMBER preserved also a petition from a body of journeyman sawyers, praying for the imposition of a tax upon saw mills.—(A laugh.) Lord A. LENNOX presented a petition from Chichester, which was, he said, signed by " some magistrates, spine alder men, and some lawyers"—( A laugh)—in favour of the Dis senters' Chapels Bill. Colonel P.OLLESTON presented 110 petitions from places in the county of Nottingham, praying for agricultural pro tection. Lord A. LENNOX presented a petition from certain lawyt rs and aldermen of Chichester, against the Dissenters' Chapel Bill. Sir J. EA S I HOPE presented three petitions from Leices ter against the Dissenters' Chapel Bill. Mr. DENNISTOUN presented a petition against the same Bill, from Glasgow. _ . . Mr. ROSS presented a petition in favour of the Dissenters' Chapel Bill. Mr. WATSON presented a petition from Newcastle-on- Tyne, praying for the establishment of one court of jurisdiction in testamentary matters. Mr. HUME presented a petition, numerously signed, from the borough of Porter, against the exclusive privileges of the trade guilds in the Royal boroughs of Scotland, and complain ing of the conduct of the Guild of Tailors in Forfar, who had fined a poor tailor 10s. for having worked at his business for private employers to save himsel from destitution. The Hon. Member also presented a petition from a private individual in Dublin, complaining that p..rsons holding Government situa tions were a.lowed to be also directors of public boards, &c., by which they were prevented from giving all their time to the public, as they were bound to do. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from Yeovil, pray ng for the repeal of the Poor-law Amendment Act; also a petition from the borough of Southwark against the heavy sentence pronounced upon Mr. O'Connell and the traversers in Dublin. Colonel WOOD presented several petitions against the In closure Act and the Di,senters' Chapels Bill. Mr. STUA NT WORTLEY pieseaed petitions from se veral places in Yorkshire, against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill; also three petitions in favour of the same Bill. Mr. MILDMAY presented a petition from Southampton against the Bill. _ _ Mr. M. I'HILIPS presented several petitions from Mao. chester and its neighbourhood, against the Bill ; also several petitions in favour of the Bill. Mr. COBDEN preaented petitions in favour of the Bill. Sir G. CLERK presented petitions from Stafford against the Bill. Mr. ALDAM presented a pe!ition from Yorkshire, against the Bill. Lord DUNCAN presented a petition from Bath, in favour of the Bill. Sir A. BROOKE presented petitions from Fermanagh ; against t►he Bill. — Mr. PAT I P 5 ON presented petitions against the Bill. Mr. BROTHERTON prcseLted six petitions in kvour 0: the Bill. Mr. PLU3IPTRE presented petitions from Kent, against the Rill. 111 r. GLADSTONE presented nine petitions from Newark, against the I3ia. Air. HUAI E presented a petition from Ipswich, in favour °I the Bill; alsu petitions from Bethnal-green, and other places, against the Bill. Mr. BARNABY presented 29' petions in favour of the Corn-laws. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Mr. WALLACE gave notice that he would, on the 2d of July, move for a copy of the pretest of the jury who tried Alexander Walker at the Glasgow Assizes. Mr. ESCOTT gave notice that he would, on this day week, move for a return of the fres paid to clerks of petty sessions and assizes. Mr. MACKINNON gave notice that he would postpone his motion on prison discipline till the 2d of July. Mr. 'l'. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the Isle of Guernsey, complaining of the disturbances that had taken place in the island, and praying for interference. Sir J. GRAHAM understood that considerable excitement had prevailed, but that the loyalty of the island was undisturbed. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved for a copy of the judgment and the committal of Mr. O'Connell and his co-traversers. Sir J. GRAHAM said he could assure the Hon. Gentleman that he was as anxious as he himself could be, that this return should be presented as soon as possible ; but he trusted the Hon. Gentleman would not press the Government on the sub ject inconveniently. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said he was informed by persons fully acquainted with short-hand writing, that the notes must have been furnished within three weeks after the trial. Sir J. GR A HAM raid the short-hand writer was in the employment of Mr. Gurney, and being detached from the esta blishment here, of course he could not receive the same assist ance as he would have in town. He possessed the entire con fidence of Mr. Gurney, and he believed there would be as little delay as possible. Lord J. RUSSELL moved for a copy of a dispatch from the Earl of Aberdeen to the Earl of Westmorland, with respect to commercial relations between this country and Prussia, with any answer to such dispatch from the Court of Prussia. Mr. GLADSTONE said that in the present state of the correspondence, he thought it would be highly inexpedient that the correspondence should be produced. It was still going on, and its character was somewhat changed. Lord J. RUSSELL said that if the correspondence was still proceeding he woo's' not press for its production. Mr. GLADSTONE said perhaps he might as well state to the Noble Lord what wnuld oth. , rwise be stated in debate. With regard to what had appeared in the newspapers, he had no reason to believe that it was not substantially accurate ; although the dispatch of Lord Aberdeen had probably passed through a double translation—first into the German language, and afterwards into the English. There were subsequent com munications, however, which would he necessary to make in telligible what had found its way into the newspapers. But the ground upon which the Government did not think it ex pedient to lay those papers on the table at the present moment was, that subsequent to the dispatch dated the 19th of March, received from Baron Bulaw communications had been received, which were con ceived in a different spirit, and tending to different results. With respect to the iron duty and other matters, it was thought best that the carrespondenee should be suspended until the final issue of the communication was known. The Govern ment did not wish to be parties to the publication of a corre spondence which partook, he wield not say of a hostile, but of an argumentative characta.—(Hear, hear.) He would hare no objection whatever to the production of the corre spondecce when it was brought to a close. lord J. RUSSELL then postponed his motion until that day fortnight. Dr. BOWIIING said, that not being aware of the Noble Lord's intention IN ith reference to this question, he had given notice of similar motion; but he would now withdraw hie mo tion, and leave the matter in the hands of the Noble Lord. Sir C. NAPIER said. seeing the Gallant Admiral (Admi ral Bowles) in hi, p!ace, he wished to know if it had come to the knowledge of the Admiralty, that the Commander-in -Chief in the Mediterranean, Lad taken the mess place from the officers of the ward-room, and sent them down into the gun room, and had removed the gun-room officers into the cockpit, and taken the ward- room for his own accommodation ? Ad m i ra l I3OWLES said he hoped his Honourable and Gallant Friend would give notice of this questi. n.—(Hear.) Being a jour* 31.mber of the Admiralty, and having only sat for one week in the House, he hoped his Hon. and Gallant Friend wouli give notice of any question he intended to put to him. it C. NAPIER had only put a question on that which was matter of pubic notoriety. PARISHES OF SCOTLAND BILL. Mr. EDWARD ELLIGE wished to ask the Lord Advo cate if it was intended to I.roeed with the Bill for the division of pat ishes in Scotland during the present session ; and if so, when he intended to bring it forward. The LORD ADVOCATE said that the time when the measure was to be brought forward must depend upon the progress of the public business. He hoped to be able to pro ceed with the 13:1l on Friday, but it should be recollected that it had been originally put off at the request of Hon. Gentle men opposite. EXPORT DUTIES ON COALS. Lord HARRY VANE moved that this Hou s e d o reso l ve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to take into con sideration so much of the Act 5 and 6 Vic , e. 47, as relates to an export duty on coal, with a view to its immediate repeal. He was sure that the House would believe that there was nothing further frcm his intention than to take this motion out of the hands of the Noble Lct d the Member for Sunderland. who bad exhibited the greatest ze d v:ith regard to this subject in 1842. His Noble Friend had also brought forward the sub ject in 1843, but having brought it forward twice, he scarcely thought it desirable to bring it forward the third time, and therefore he (Lord H. Vane) had taken upon him self ,to direct the attention of the House to the sub ject. The circumstances were different now to what they had been when the subject was last before the House. Then there was a deficiency in the revenue, now there was a surplus. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had thought it right to propose reductions in the duty payable in other article, and he thought that the ec-al trade had a claim upon the Government for relief. If he could ?rove that the coal trade was suffering under great depression, he thought that he was entitled to call upon the House to mete out the same measure of justice to that trade as to others. The fact on which he rested his ar gument was the injurious operation of the tax, not only upon the coal trade itself, but in the displacement of labour in the r (aeries, and in the effect which it had upon the ship '. ing interest. The returns which had been presented to the - HinNe showed that there had been a great diminution of the (leper, trade in the last year, and there had been a consequent diminution of employment and wages. The decrease of exports had been more than 100,000 tons in 1843, as compared with 1842, although in the same period there had been an increased consumption of coal upon the continent, and there would have been an increased demand for ours, if it had not been for the duty. The coal that was exported in that year con'isted altogether of small coal, upon which there was no profit. But the effect of the tax was to prevent the exportation of large coal, upon the pro duction of which the greatest amount of labour was employed. In consequence of the duty there had been a great falling off in the exports, notwithstanding the great and increasing demand for the article from the mere gt nr:ral use of gas-lighting, the extension of railways and steam navigation, and the greater de mand that was found to have been created in the Mediterranean. In 1841 the export to Russia was 75,595 tons; in 1843 it was 114,605 tons, being an increase of 39,000 tons. But this in crease was owing to the treaty of navigation. The export to Nor wanayin, e in re l n B e 4l . , f w 3 a o l 2 l 6 s, t 2 o o . 7 s. ton T s h ; i i s n u l as B43 o i w t i w ng asl t t2 t 33 he to e e st s a , b b l e is in h g . t m o ne casualns t ; of n increase . eleB4t3al, a t w s rly o , arhk:sl3; export4a, 4 n 2d5 to this n )s could, nbmeinarak a t i hnelesfo decrease i r e, was o b ef 148,724 tons; The export to Prussia its 1841 was 115,000 tone; in 1843 it was 147,000 being an increase of 31,000 tons. But this was a special case. In Germany the export in 1841 was 16P,000 tons ; in 1843 it was 147,000, being a decrease of 32,000 tons. In Holland the export in 1841 was 171,000 tons, in 1843 it was 149,000, being a decrease of 24,000. The export to France in 1834 was 59,692 tons; in 1841 it amounted to 451,000 tons, being an increase in 8 years of 39!,313 tons, or an increase each year of 48,000 tons. With regard to Spain, to Italy, and to Turkey, he would admit that there was a slight increase, but that was owing to accidental circumstances. Unless the duty were reduced altogether there could be no doubt but the export of coal would diminish every year. He would net trouble the House by entering more at large into statistical details, but he would state that he bad received communications from persons well informed on the subject, from master colliers, from the owners of mines, who declared that in consequence of the diminution of export which was occasioned by the im position of the duty it was out of their power to give full employment to the colliers, who were conse qttently depr►ved of one day's labour in the week. He thought that he could claim the support of the Hon. Members for Newcastle, Gateshead, Tynemouth. and Shields, and others connected with the shipping interest, (LEFT SPEAKING.) THE LONDON GAZETTE (THIS EVENING.) CROWN-OFFICE, JUNE 4. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER.—SOUTHERN DIVI. SION.—W Entwisle, Esq., in 'the room of the lion. R. B. Wilbraham, deceased. DISTRICT OF BURGHS OF KILMARNOCK, &C.—The Hon. E. P. Bouverie, in the room of A. Johnston, Esq., deceased. FOREIGN OFFICE, MAY 31. . . The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Francis Reid, as Consul at Glasgow for his Majesty the King of the Belgians, Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant and High Steward of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. _ _ J. C. Maxwell, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; W. Max• well, Esq., to be ditto, May 9. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland and Cumberland. Westmorland and Cumberland Regiment of Yeomanry Ca valry.—H. Spencer, Gent., to be Cornet. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Backs. The Taplow Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry.—J. Parton, Gent., to be Cornet, lay 24. • WHITEHALL, May 25, 1844. The Lord Chancellor. has; appointed Thomas Turner, ix Wellington, in the county of Salop, Gent., to be a Blaster Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. TIMOTHY STEPHENS, umbrella manufacturer, New gate-street, to surrender June 14, at half-past one, and July 16, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill; Taylor, South-place, Fins bury-square. JOHN CLARK, grocer, Abingdon, June 13, at halt past ten, and July 5, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Penn e ll, official assignee, 13 asinghall-street ; Ashurst, Cheapside. RICHARD COLEMAN, and EDWIN ROBERT HALL, ironfounders, Colchest er , J une 18 , an d J u l y Is, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewrj-chambers ; Tooke and Son, Bedford-row ; Philbrick and Co. CHARLES A LDERTON, tailor, Brighthelmstone, Sussex, June 15, at half-pa;t one, and July 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Wood and Fraser, Dean.street, Soho. WILLIAM LINE, builder, Ramsgate, June 14, at two, and July 12, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Williams, Coleman-street, City. EDWARD SEDGWICK, scrivener, Hythe, June 11, and July 10, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, offi cial assignee, Basinghall-street ; Nias, Copthall-buildings. WILL lAM HENRY BATES, factor, Birmingham, June 14, at one, and July 12, at half-half ten, at the Birming ham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Palmer and Son, Birmingham ; Fellowes, Dudley ; Austin ar.d Hobson, Gray's-inn, London. JOHN SMITH, wine-merchant, Warwick ; June 12, and July 17, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Bit tleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Heath, Warwick. BENJAMIN NORMAN and EDWIN BUCKMAN, ironmongers, Cheltenham, June 17, at twelve, and July 16, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Foster, Wolverhampton ; White, Eyre, and White, Bedford-row. LEWIS JONES, general dealer, Barmouth, Merioneth shire, Juno 13, and July 11, at twelve, at the Liverpool Dis trict Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Clarke and Co.. Lincoin's-inn.fields, London; Owen and Griffith, Dol gelly; Green, Liverpool. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. J. Jenkins, painter, Praed-street, Paddington. W. H. Jones, cordwainer, Kidderminster. W. B. Plummer, slopseller, St. Alban's. R. Thomas, victualler, Hertford. T. Taylor, sen., brickmaker, Aston, Warwickshire. E. Maltby, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire. J. I. Mitchell, tea dealer, Gloucester. H. Dale, baker, Worthing, Sussex. W. W. Bradly, clerk, St. James-cottage, Old Kent-road. E. Edwards, builder, Gravesend. J. Johnson, tobacconist, Coburg-place, Old Kent-road. J. Riches, printer, Norwich. 'l'. H. Johnson, traveller, Shepperton-street, Islington. W. Blake, carpenter, Elizabeth-place, Upper Holloway. J. Townsend, jun., undertaker's assistant, Charlton. A. Norfolk, porter, Red-hill, Surrey. J. Huntingdon, builder, Liverpool. G. Habbij am, jun., Cumberland-street East, Regent's- park. J. Price, jun., grocer, Cotton-street, Poplar. L. R. Mackintosh, Cleeve, Gloucestershire. W. S. Preston, broker, Rupert, street, Westminster. W. Francis, farm steward, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire. T. Carter, shopkeeper, Walcot, Somersetshire. E. Garnham, butcher, London-road. T. Paragrein, foreman, Richmond-street, Maida-hill. J. Enoch, upholsterer,. Leamington Priors. J. Barker, baker, Richmond-buildings, Brighthel ms t one . W. Roberts, coalmerchant, Bangor. J. Rae, Northumberland-street, Torteth-park. P. Doran, Blundell-street, Liverpool. J. Thompson, innkeeper, Peterborough. T. Hall, butcher, Great Ashby, Leicestershire. J. P. Hillhouse, tea dealer, Bedford. J. Williams, silk weaver, Bethnal-green. J. Rees, mauufacturer of pills, Leckh amp t on , Gl oucesters hi re. J. S. Harvey, traveller, City-gardens, Islington. T. Lee, lieenced victualler, Millwood, Yorkshire. A. Gray, miller, Long Ashton, Somersetshire. E. Middle, butter dealer, West -by-Water, Somersetshire. W. Mace, victualler, Worcestershire. T. Dale, provision dealer, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. C. George, maltster, Worcerstershire. C. Cheetham, hatter, Pimlico. r B. B. Wilson, surgeon, Holrae, 'Westmorland. J. Mitchell, wheelwright, Vauxhall. W. Ba3ford, engineer, Ratcliffe-highway. F. W. Cole, builder, Hammersmith. F. Hillen, warehouseman, Shepperton Cottages, Islington. G. F. S. Gillard, grocer, Plymouth. SECOND NOTICES. 0. R. Windser, solicitor, St. Ann's -terrace, St. John's woordq,ua ; at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tu John Bunker, Horsemarket, North amp t ons hi re, J une 10 , at J n u d n , e official l o c , ia a l t a h s a s l ig f- n p e a e s, eleven half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee. G. Sheppard, cook, Upper Stamford -street, Waterloo-road, June 10, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee. M. Prebble, tallow-chandler, Strood, Kent, June 11, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee. J. Elderkin, beer-sbop keeper, Brook-green, Hammersmith, June H, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee. R. Vinter, Springfield, Isle of Wight, June 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. J. Everitt, rope maker, Great Yarmouth, June 11, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. J. Wetenhall, stock-agent, Walcot-terrace, Lambeth, June 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. J. Black, husbandman, Norwich, Lancashire, June 10, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Stanway, official assignee. A. Aspinwall, cigar dealer, Manchester, June 10, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee. .1. Young, auctioneer, Durham, June 10, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Dist) ict Court. Baker, official assignee. W. Barton, innkeeper, Darlington, June 10, at half-past ten, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Distri c t C our t. Wakley, official assignee. J. Hall, labourer, Bubwith, Yorkshire, June 8, at eleven at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee. ASCOT RACES. (THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.) (Continued from our Third Edition.) The Borough Members' Plate of 50 Boys., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 says. each; three yrs old, 7st; four, Bst 41b; five, Bst 101 b; six and aged, 9st; winners once in 1844 31b, twice, 61b extra. The winner to be sold for 150 sous. Old mile. Lord Che.terfield's Artful Dodger Mr. Copeland's Imautn 2 MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of June 4.) SUGAR.—A reduction on former rates of is to is 6d per cwt having been accepted for West India sugar, has caused a considerable increase in the demand. This afternoon new Barbadoes Sugar went off without spirit, and in some cases 6d per cwt. under former rates ; fine yellow sold at 65s to 66s 6d, good 62s 6d to 63s 6d, middling Gls to 625, and low 60s to 60s 6d her cwt. In the Wrest India market less business was transacted; the demand for Grocery and Refining purposes was limited, although merchants submitted to a reduction on the rates of Friday of 6d per cwt. REFINED.—To-day Refined Sugar was less in request for home consumption ; Standard Lumps are 77s 6d to 78a, and brown grocery 76s 6d to 77s per cwt. In Bonded Crushed Sugar there is not so much doing, and prices have declined to 25s 6d to 253 9d for first quality. Mminines.—This afternoon there was a large public sale, the principal part of white consisted of bright yellow descrip tions. Holders submitted to a decline on former rates of is to is Gd per cwt caused nearly the whole to be disposed of— fine yellow sold at 63s 6d to 66s good 60 to 62s 6d; middling 58s to 59s Gd, low middling 56s 6d to 57s 6d, fine brown 565, good 54s to 54s 6d, and ordinary to good grey 57s to 62s per cwt. EAST India.—Madras in bond sold 2s to 3s under the general valuation ; low brown damp and washed went at 24s to 25s 6d, middling 28s to 295, low yellow rather bright 30s to 30s 6d, middling 32s to 32s 6d, and good 33s to 34s per cwt. For Foreign East India sugar prices are firm. This afternoon Bengal Sugar went la under former rates ; fine white at 64s 6d, good 63s to 63s 6d, middling 61s to 62s 6d, low middling 59s to 60s, middling yellow 56s to 57s 6d, good 58s 6d to 59s per cwt. FOREIGN.—White Havannah has brought full rates. Brazil has sustained the previous currency, and small parcels of brown and yellow have been sold, but in white little business has been transacted. MOLASSES.—For West India rather lower rates have been accepted ; Trinidad taken in at 26s to 27s ; Barbadoes 27s ; Antigua sold at 25s to 25s to 24s 6d for middling, and 24s for ordinary. East India is dull of sale; Madras bought in at 9s Gd per cwt. Cocoa.—British Plantation has been less in request ; Tri nidad middling red at 43s to 465, grey 42s to 445, sea da maged and repacked 30s to 34s per cwt. Foreign is wanted, and full rates paid privately for small parcels. COFFEE.—lmporters of West India have supplied the mar ket freely, but submittiil to a decline on former prices of 2s to 3s per cwt has occasioned the demand to be good. Holders of East India brought forward large parcels, and prices have fallen for all sorts. This afternoon Jamaica Coffee was in limited request only, and 137 casks of the new crop at public sale were sold at a decline on former rates of 2s per cwt; good middling at 96s to 975, mid 84s to 88s, low mid 79s to 83s 6d, fine fine ord 75s to 78s, ord 51s 6d, fine ord 60s 6d to 695, ord 50s to 555, triage 20s to 555. Mocha is to 2s per cwt under former rates, middling yellow went at 71s to 735, fine ordinary 69s 6d to 70s, broken 50s to 655, and sea damaged first class 63s 6d to 67s 6d ; the remainder was all taken in, good mid and good yellow at 75s to 78s, mid. 725, pale ratherl broken 655, brownish ditto 68s, and sea da maged 51s to 71s per cwt, being the former value. Ceylon good ord at 47s to 47s 6d ; 49s 6d to 51s for fine ord colory, 61s 6d for fine fine ord, and 20s for triage. TEA.—There has been a flatness in the market for all de scription of Black Tea, and rather lower rates have been ac cepted; but Green has sustained the former currency. To day importers of Black Tea were generally inclined to realise, and for Green prices were not so firm, buyers were cautious in their proceedings. The quantity offered at public sale was large, amounting to 46,390 packages. There was a good at tendance of the trade, but they evinced little inclination tr.) purchase, and the biddings were languid. Rum, BRANDY„IND HcLrANDs.—Leeward Island Rum at 2s 2/d to 2s 3d per gallon, proof strength. Jamaica 26 to 28 per cent overproof 3s ld to 3s 4d, 30 to 35 over 3s 54 to 3s 9d, good 3s 10d to 4s, and superior 4s 2d to 5s per gallon. Demerara, strong quality at 3s to 3s 4d. Calcutta Rum at Is lld proof strength. For Brandy lower rates have been accepted. Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1839 has been selling-1111(1s at 5s sd, pulls 5s 3d ; ditto 1839,1111(1s 5s 3d, puns 5s Id ; ditto, 1840, hints 5s 2d, puns 5s ; ditto, 1841, hlids 5s id, puns 4s lld ; ditto, 1842, hlids 4s 10d, puns 4s Bd, mid and good middling qualities 3s id to 4s 4d, and low 2s 8d to 3s per gallon. Geneva at Is 8d for shipping, and 2s to 3s for good and fine for home consumption. English Corn Spirits at lOs 2d per ga ll on , c ash. To-day proof Lee wards at 2s 24 to 2s 2id, and Calcutta proof is lOid to is I Id per gallon. Rim —Bengal fetched lls to lls 6d fa gool middling bold white, lOs 6d to Ile for middling rather broken, and 103 6d per cwt for sea damaged. Madras and Java have maintained the former currency. Cleaned Rice is held firmly, Patna at 13s to 17s, and Carolina 21s to 26s per cwt. Saco.—Rather above former rates, and the market has al together a firmer appearance for the article. Sago Flour 19s 6d to 201 per cwt. Tapioca fetched 4id to 4id, and Rio Arrow root 4d per lb. • INDlGo.—llolders of East India are more inclined to realize, and have submitted to a reduction on the rates of the 'last quarterly sale of 2d to 3d per lb. The market is quiet for Spanish, and prices are not so firm. Ou.s.—Southern Oil fetched 271 5s to 321 5s for common to fine pale. In Seal Oil more business has been transacted, pale at 331 lOs to 331 on the spot, and 321 per tun for arrival. Cod at 331 to 331 10s. Sperm sold at 711 lOs to 75/ lOs for Oil, and 781 lOs to 801 per tun for Headmat ter. Linseed Oil has been taken sparingly at 25s 6c to 25s 9d per cwt on the spot; for delivery little business has been transacted. Rape is cheaper, prie 38s 6d, and brown 37s 6d per cwt. Palm 27s to 28s per cwt for fine. Cocoa Nut Oil tine quality at 29s to 30s. Olive has been taken sparingly, Gallipoli at 50/ 108 to 51/, Spanish 491 lOs to 501, and Bar bary 48/ lOs to 49/ per tun. This afternoon Cocoa Nut Oil at 26s to 27s ad per cwt. TALLow.—In Russian on the spot, prices at present cannot be quoted lower; P.Y. Candle is 40s to 40s 6d per ewt : for delivery at 41s 3d to 41s 6d, for the last three months of the year. In the value of American there is no variation. Town Tallow at 38s 6d to 395, nett cash. New South Wales at 41s for fine. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. STANDARD.--The debate last night in the House of Commons upon the sugar duties certainly presents the Whig-Radical party in no respectalele light. The state of the case is this—the British colonies are untainted by slavery, but in getting rid of the taint they have become less productive, and in consequence they cannot supply a quantity of sugar adequate to the demand of this country. The Government being thus required to open new sources of supply, faithfully follows up the principle which led to the abolition of slavery in our own dominions, and proposes to take the supplemental import, in preference, from countries not tainted with slavery. The mode in which it is proposed to give effect to this preference, is to reduce the duty upon sugar the growth of Java, the Manillas, and China, where slavery does not exist, to 345. per cwt., leaving still a differential duty of 10s. in favour o f th e British colonies. Lord John Russell, briefed long ago by those persons who have a present trade with Cuba and the Brazils, which they could fondly hope to augment instantly by open ing our ports to slave sugar—briefed long ago by the greedy gamblers, who are as indifferent to the future of their country as they are to the happiness of their contemporary human beings—Lord John Russell attacked the Ministerial arrange ment as false in commercial policy, and as hypocritical in its alleged purpose. Now we are willing to meet Lord John Russell on both grounds; and we trust to show that blunders in the first, and that the charge of hypocrisy, which he imputes in the second, recoils most disgustingly upon himself and his own party. Lord John's commercial theory is this—that we are always to confine ourselves, at whatever sacrifice, to the markets of which we are already in any degree possessed—a good rule enough for the few who trade in these markets, but what a doctrine for a great maritime nation I Perish your prospects of an enlarged intercourse with China, or of the restoration of the commerce of the mighty empire of India, but nurse in your bosom all the abominations and blood of a Cuban and Brazilian traffic, because you may, by doing so, gain a smartish improvement in the present cot ton trade. Such is the pedlar policy of a Whig-Radical political economist ; but such is not the policy by which Great Britain has grown great—it is by finding new and wider and more elastic markets, that a country must permanently enlarge the sph ere o f her commerce. Would that all the tropical productions received in this country, were received from the old world, or from our own American colonies. The old world is far more densely peopled, and the elasticity of trade must always be in proportion to the density of population. The Brazils and China are both before us. With either of them we may now open a trade for sugar. Brazil may have a population of five mil lions, of whom not more than two millions wear any clothing to be spoken cf, the remaining three millions being negro slaves in a state of primitive nudity; China, on the other hand, has a population of three hundred and fifty millions of fully clad people. Which of the two affords a prospect of the the better market? Oh, but, it will be said, the Chinese manufacture for themselves. So did the Indians, we answer, until they found the British manufactures cheaper and better. China alone is able to take all our manufactures twofold, and to pay us in produce that must enable us to command all the markets of the world. This is a trade worth looking after, though it does not hold out any promise to the Cobdens and the Brights, of a grand gambling sweep, that would place them in a condition to double their fortunes in a few months,—the only thing that a Leaguer ever dreams of. Lord John's arguments, however, go all upon the hypothesis, that the produce of sugar throughout the world, and the demand for sugar, are fixed quantities. If, says he, you will not consume the slave-made sugar, others will, and they will discontinue to consume the free grown sugar, so that slavery will be just where it was. But what if we open new markets ?—what if we, by our demand, cause more sugar to be grown in Java and the Manillas, and, above all, in China ; before long, too, we trust, in our free African colonies? The new mar kets will take from us new manufactures ; and they will either add to the amount of sugar grown, so as effectually to ruin the trade of the old slave countries, or to compel these countries to abandon slavery. To this it must come, if Great Britain steadily pursues the path that she is pursuing—a path which, besides its being the path of duty, must conduct her to boundless wealth by the way. The measure of Ministers, if rightly understood, is in deed a measure of really free trade, for it is a measure emanci pating our commerce from the trammels of interested exist • mg relations between a few traders and a few narrow markets—the worst imaginable monopoly. It is our firm belief American colonies, trade u would d f c d o o u u r b s l e still that preserving a total time break trade pof our our own commerce of Great Britain in seven years. We propose, however, no such daring experiment : we state the proposi tion merely in illustration of the opinion, whether right or wrong, which we hold upon the subject of the Brazil trade. RAILWAY BILLS in PARLIAMENT. The following is an account of the length, cost, and other particulars of the principal lines of railway now before Par liament :-- ASHTON, STALYI3RIDGE, AND LIVERPOOL JUNCTION.— Length, 6i miles; estimated cost, 150,000/.--The expected income is 13,336/.108. 11d., and the estimated annual expen diture 40 per cent. upon the receipts. BLACKBUILN AND PRESTON.—Length, 9 miles and 52 chains ; estimated cost, 120,0001.—The anticipated total gross income is 17,6661. 11s., and the annual expenditure 7,155/. BRIGHTON AND CHICHESTER —Length, 221 miles; esti mated cost, 285,0001.—The Brighton Company have agreed • to lease the line for ten years, from its completion, at a rent of 12,0001. a year—being 4 per cent. upon the estimate, di viding the net profits equally between the Proprietors of the two Companies. BRIGHTON AND HASTLNHS —Length, 324 miles; estimated cost, 475,0001.—The Brighton Company have agreed to gua rantee 4 per cent. to the Shareholders in this line, upon the capital, for ten years next after the opening; together with a moiety of the profits which may be realised beyond such per centage. DUBLIN AND CASIIEL.—Length, 123 miles; estimated cost, I,ooo,oool.—This is the first division of a line of railway from Dublin to the south and west of Ireland. The proposed route is front Dublin to Cashel, with a branch to Athy and Carlow. The estimated income is 182,000/. ; and the annual expendi ture, at 40 per cent., 73,000/. EASTERN UNION —Length, 16 miles 74 chains • estimated cast, 200,0001.—The estimated income is 25,363/. 19s. Id., and the cost of working the line 40 per cent. on the traffic ' receipts. EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND GnAlcrox.—Length, 2 miles and 1 furlong; estimated cost, 73,4001. EPSOM AND CROTDON.—Length, 8 miles and 680 yards ; estimated cost; 170,6091.—A branch from the Croydon Rail way, intended to be constructed by that Company, and to be worked by the atmospheric principle. The Committee of the House of Commons have recommended it in preference to :the branch proposed by the South-Western Company to Ersoat AND Souni-WEswix.—Length, 5 miles ; estimated cost, 60,0001.—A branch from the Kingston Station of the South-Western Railway, by which Company it is proposed to be constructed. GARNKIRK, GLASGOW, AND COATBRIDGE.—Length, miles and 5 furlongs ; estimated cost, 100,000 L—The eastern extension proposed by this branch will 'effect a connection with the Wishaw and Coltness Railway, and the western extension will bring the railway nearer to the centre of Glasgow. LANCASTER AND CAtuAsr.E.—Length, 69 miles and 70 chains •, estimated cost, 900,000 L—Guarantees have been given by the Birmingham, the Grand Junction, and the North I7nion Railway Companies, for subscribing towards the line 100,0001., 250,0001., and 65,0001. Annual traffic has been proved to the extent of 107,6251.; estimated annual working expenditure, 45 per cent. upon the gross receipts. MANCHESTER, BURY, AND ROSSENDALE.-I...ength, 13 mil es and 76 chains ; estimated cost, 300,0001.—This line runs from the Manchester and Bolton Railway, through Bury, to the Forest of Rossendale. NEWBURY, BASINGSTOKE, AND SOUTBANIPTON.—Length, 15 miles and 13 chains ; estimated cost, 200,000/.—The South-Western Company have agreed to pay to the pro prietors of this line a net annual rent in perpetuity, equal to 3-1- per cent. on the outlay; and also to divide equally with the shareholders the contemplated profits, after payment of that rent, which, it is calculated, will raise the dividends to 5 per cent. NORTH Burnsir.—Length, 57 miles and 57 chains, with a branch of 4 miles and 686 yards; estimated cost, 800,0001. This is one of the four railways proposed to connect Eng land with Scotland. The route is from Edinburgh to Ber wick ; from which latter terminus it is intended, by another Company, to make a line to Newcastle—thus completing an uninterrupted chain of railways from London to Edin burgh. SALISBURY AND SOUTII - WESTERN.—Length, 21 miles and 57 chains; estimated cost, 240,000/.—A branch from the Bishopstoke station on the South-W e st ern lin e , by w hi c h t The Stamp Duties Bill was read a sec ond timer Company it is to be constructed. The estimated income is their Lordships then adjourned. 26,453/. Os. Ild., and the annual expenditure, 10,581/. SHEFFIELD, AsIITON-UNDER-LY.NE, AND - MANCHESTER.— Length, 2 miles and 670 yards ; estimated cost, 91,000/. A branch to be made by the Sheffield, Ashton, and Manches ter Railway Company. SOUTH DEVON.—Length, 51 miles and 72 chains; esti mated cost, I,loo,oool.—The Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and the Bristol and Gloucester Railway Companies have agreed to subscribe amongst them 400,0001. to this undertaking. SOUTH-EASTERN AND HAsTisGs.—Length 25 miles; esti mated cost 2501.—A branch from the South-Eastern Rail way station at lleadcorn. A Committee of the House of Commons have recommended the line from Brighton to Hast ings as a preferable one. STRATFORD AND THAMES JUNCTION.—Length 2 miles and 1,100 yards ; estimatad cost, 45,000/.—A branch from the Eastern Counties Railway to the Thames, for the purposes of enabling coals, &c., going inland, as well as malt and other grain consigned to water-side premises, to be put on and taken off the above railway, without any intermediate transshipment, WHITRHAVEN AND MARITORT.—Length, 12 miles and 169 yards; estimated cost, 100,0001.—Estimated nett income of t his line, after allowing 40 per cent. for the working expenses, is 8,971/. 7s. 10d. YORK AND SCARBOROUGIL—Length, 42 miles and 10 chains, with a branch of 6 miles and 48 chains; estimated cost, 260,0001.—This line is to be constructed by the York and North Midland Company.—Railway Record. HOUSE OF COMMONS. - T at le 3OS WAYS AND MEANS.—SUGAR DWI t to endate a , Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved, as an ani, x _ hens en, the proposition of the Chancellor of the }- , .: 1 1 1 01 , 1. 1! reduction to thirty-four shillings of the (14_3: A 0J sugar from foreign countries. He (Lord J. hose b m ole the Right Hon. Gentleman in proposing ~,,t t hif tions had referred to former contests. lie said , t"' ti al rpr is was an old battle-field, and he expressed in o ' es palt that he (Lord J. Russell) should be anxious t ,_ fe t, o l. again on a field where he had been ulready.e_e, his' Now, he thought the Right Hon. Gentlen3annauends!.. self sounded a retreat to the forces which he comet_ bst —(Hear, hear.) He appeared prepared to give . UPd li, the ground - for which he had been contending,_, gee (Lord John Russell) came forward with se 6 s , 11 confidence than on former occasions, ~,e ndet, found that the Right Honourable u se fa; had abandoned those weapons which . t u be bei merly wielded with very great effect; th n rote cM deserted those who had looked to him for I . )_ dec i4e . s and they might now expect this question t e • ee ts „Ise: on the real ground of the facts and again , s u r pa* applied to the case.—(Cheers.) He had nev".„, e sts ° the Right Hon. Gentleman appear to lack atettbe Oil; much as on that occasion. Ile had stated a t 4 s ots, mencement of hiss peech, that there was no a. j' es b!: a sufficient supply, and that the price of , su g sr the b ilEtl l s reason for introducing this change. WO', to ~,, urg e which was formerly waged. arguments quiteuccessfoi were stated in favour of a change, and were n g d , repelled. The Right Honourable Gentlema,:ehteti the price of sugar was so very higibl:'prire P. From the last Gazette it appeared that tess..,.iossree sugar the hundred weight, in the British p e'''' eb America, was 395. 9id. ; the average price of t Th . descriptions of sugar in the last year was 379. 41 Ac e a° ee • 3/41. ' G e stir average price of sugar in 1841 was ~,''''' tiaa , ~,, in 1840 was no less than 48s. The Right .t." . o _ 0 11 , man now came forward, and said that the pi.' ! coo l!. being 2s. more than the price of last year, soa t 7 oo , i ll e sive argument in favour of the proposed alters ski; ll - , o vr recollected, with regard to the amount of 6 0 , .., was available at a former period, that ta t ted tli f i u ; Lord, the Member for Liverpool, a na ble „,,,, here were about 240,000 tons ara the n"", consumption in this country, whil st ou st 7 1 Member for Beverley stated, that the 9° ,,,, - 00 ° 4 4 260,000. What was the statement made a', o f 1' , of West India proprietors ? That the supply the f as , , from the West Indies, was 128,000 tons, trl' oo, g ailit Indies, 70,000, and from the Mauritius, 32 ,• 13 at the ,", 4 1 230,000 tons, with a reserve of 40,00 u •-, be ",, ginning of the year. If these facts w h _ ic ,, P ho 1 1 0 mentioned were sufficient to induce th05%.,1 of, formed the Government to reject the propo2s7000.11!1 late Government, was not the supply of 240,T idtet atil, cient to prevent the necessity for the propos eu re ferte tt o f There were reasons to which he had before 1 sep pli o to the necessity of securing a better gener a ii dace s ,,; sugar, which he thought were sufficient to pt oi t c if Committee to reconsider their determin ation Po time, and to propose such an additional suP,P l T • el tidix that was to be done, and if it was to be a° 410 ,00 1 , consent of the Government, again he said let ' l4, besri to their measure a straightforward one — C l-le o % onl i c let them make it a measure that should he ,. i sde e o the laws and principles that governed trar srsticireo merce. If they thought fit to give a cer tain o l t se l e t to their colonial possessions in c onsequen ce . hebeli t cds• change they had made with regard to OW ~ ,,a of But that be done, and let them make that a g r° , ts ies• o se tinction between their colonies and other couffieree,ooo let them not adopt a new principle in cem theYi l i til e which would make a confusion from whi ch . og 1.- s io find it difficult to escape—one contradiel.oooool, known maxims on which the progress o f tin t gets 00 trade had hitherto been based. The Rig t h a aso l OD tleman said that this proposition was nosed blesfeci because it had before been prepo ss n di , o.f 1 , Hon Gentleman behind him, and had bee sal , s l ot in the House. Why, he might as well was bringing in a Bill for establishing that it was not new, because it had been, , for l ' D eo dosed and vindicated by the Hon. Mat"; was a lsti ale.—(Hoar, hear.) But in point of faet h i e i e tsr l or principle ; he contended that placing t t h e ir C/ittr s grounds of morality, erecting a pulpit in d i n go oet house, and converting the whole of their lan_ 00r,,,d, into preachers of anti-slavery doctrines, wa' o , Or; be a new principle in commerce.—(Cheers -) 4 , e itseu l l s it in the first place, entirely to the princtP be tbe i fieb thought it could end in nothing but mischief; 0 , it. f t oo 2 it would be impossible to act consistently tIP 000 to t NOM . o , respect to this very question they took „ fo to • oa r various countries in different states of civlA rs, w ho I ,,is of which were governed by barbarous ' ehie er ti lei seo r P il cised a despotic power of life and death ov er of tor jects. There were others, consisting of Ind"tuhe l ost o t, in the low condition of serfs, among whom aid O s 11 0 rible cruelties were practised—yet they when -the goods arrived at the Custom-house :Artie; the social condition of these people, or wha t -s- • 1 of the senates and rulers who governed them yep isbi took them as a matter of trade, and sold the a l • slth in return. There were other ways in whi cil i a: bli t 7bei attend to the social happiness of the v/O r ,, t hia 0 6 respect to commerce he believed the hes t att liti ti o; could do for the increase of Christian rp " an d / to allow commerce to take its own WI ettat t'r to the civilising influence which e'l bs ftn,e 4 . must have, rather than interfere violently be gulations with its accustomed course. I n the ba n ;;„ 1 1 they would offend all those natives agains t : of 13 0‘ declared, by these resolutions. The elpri", e ea; ts' and the kingdom of Spain would naturshisidge i i , and they would no doubt be induced to inu_ le hetit i s; taliating tariffs, in order to meet these r e fer thS a .J. (Hear, hear.) That, in itself was a reaso m , pro tri es attempting the legislation which they nt; he ee"' w el d , How could they know the exact state of laistl,toos for which they now proposed to legislate r . oa ler' 4 l about to legislate for Java. Now, he " 6 _ o of s ec o -0 I from accounts which he had read of the si ll do do cos I in Java, that in that country the suga r e t ., wer e O il t ° a compulsory cultivation. The cultivat.o_uwe, 00e pelled to produce a certain quantity 0 ! 1 4 ° i - 10. w be dispose of it at a certain price. The Big: e d t airose tleman might, perhaps, contradict him 'i, Jams" t° better informed on the state of legislation a we if i lr he was. But was not the fact of their ig l ; fie the ii ss the state of affairs in Java reason sufficif n , were_ 30: staining from legislation?—(Cheers.) T hey oftio si t 0: equal state of ignorance with regard. to , i _ eo , 4 nilla. Then, with regard to Puerto e , ep tion . pre* reason to believe that, with the ly tie t tile' small part of that island, slavery wsaertiel we. veiling practice. Yet s u gar, the produce 7 00 olio!: was to be refused, while sugar, the Phouse 90 0 got j t was to be received. Our Custom - _ e f suy s 10 said, " We are so satisfied with the st e a hat islen ree , so sto Java, that we will admit the produce of ver y i11 ..0 0 we are so shocked at the existence of sla tha t cov oi se: Rico, that we will refuse to trade witn, kh thes: oe j f° Now what was the state of our trade ; A labour countries ? Cuba and Brazil v:qe g r u e sis .ll %, de9 d li grow sugar by slave labour in gre at : y r an t.4. r ale ill ; was sufficient to provide for their own Wi de 1) 11 tbel they grow this sugar ? In order to P o fwhi e tb selves various ar ti c l es o f manufacture neocaoirs! stood in need. From whence did thei_a yora ie Or manufactures ? Why, from Lancashire rcessealbli fart therefore they were holding out an in shire/ s hire ° ,c ° • people of Cuba and Brazil to continue, ro cas sp e d nishing them with the manufactures ra ot .1 " in Lb OW hut s , - ef Yorkshire.—(Cheers.) They sent the ilet er ; s s-s.", f tures, and they were paid for them illg e ; s untri , o f l op would not consume that sugar in 4 1 " disli ° ,„cl b e olt said it was a crime. How, then, did ~' glow ,Tfsi t 'l e s Why it so happened that t h e y took for I ",i to ' o f from Russia, which could not be pal re pare i r ec hiee d manufactures, because Russia was u° ,, t r, P the i , ti ellee them; therefore they sent this sug, - ste p a mend,; slave labour, to Russia, and took the De_ wo prO' d i f e te j Russia in return for these slave-gr,u_elinst,,,,,s The Right Hon. Gentleman protestenia e' ass' importing sugar from Cuba, yet Bu as tw orto „AO te such commodity, and we as freely ' J e eseil e sdi ot s tallow and hemp, and gave Russia tho s s en d dl obee t oo , in return which we would otherwise ifr p t i ta..`' 00141,4 Cuba. The Right Hon. Gentlema n rd ( s aid ye ri o s ot consciences being free. Upon my I nt iing t h e liied Lord) the Right Hon. Gentleman , __ w ee, . 0 g c „ e el to reconcile these things to his c0e5!' .. ., 0 ,. beide, to any objection at all to slave-grown !u 4 : 6 51 011 4 '' ~4 0r tse d ssis. Oar e ew into Russia; nay, he was ready to a , tbe ~,h i s 9 0 0 give Russia our manufactures, bu.. l, b i n s, very 03,101 directly of slave-grown sugar shockeu u , W. i o te,f e hes a very thin veil inde(Hear, hear . ..L. o es, oil jot doubted whether, if the Right Hon. IS is an_ stick of being a stout Protestant, had been a _r tes :tS;',,, t ota,io that his confessor would think these p8r6'3,59011: w oe abet excuse. In 1840 we sent to Cub t 83 3,0 0 9 o to 18 40, our produce in manufactures ,• in 18 3 !_ , _ oditln .st, in 94 5, 1842, 938,0001. worth. And this In za „ I , se nt ' tal i t he was sent by other channels. To Br s a , / Wort' All tie' 2,635,000/. worth ; in 1841, 2,560,50' ntifs°llreil. Gen 1/6 ffoa• only 1,650,000/. worth of our na i _a_ R i g ht i eeri44 returns proved that all the time tnu .. „N e st a thew man was declaiming so earnestly at et t hen en p- in were encouraging the slave trad a e. Bee orga7ised .bit Hon. Gentleman retreated to ted forni to e r ie l l ei l e isl ov e i:l o ( CUSTOMS BILL. argument which had been this House, and which he attemy ctig sr,i sns aptetes The Earl of DALHOUSIE moved the third reading of this Bill.roduce 1, u lot 0,,, i. The Duke of RICHMOND objected l to the abolition admitted 90,000 tons, the p althouh wedid not ourselves con - um ... e 45 s tr 01 . ii G t e o ntieo3otha sat t 61 % iti , ft st e, of the duty on the article of wool, going these raefatveodu fromred c t e h u e n e t Ties, t and contended that it would have the effect of ruining many of the flock- ilphotaii.tounctoooff!ioserga_erc.yr;o; 04:00_0. be replaced by other prod uee—the Pr2stedent.cinott; masters of the country The object, it was stated, that we were thereby, indirectly, "' of the reduction Of the wool duty was to benefit the manufacturing interest of the country. Now, if this were the iinngthselalevaesrtY.hadThdeiinßini He said the sugar of Cuba was ver, w v go d, . very e O P; O ,O Ot . / t g is h h t e l d lo t n h . e fort sn,c _O5 ~. case, the foreigner would, of course, in self defence increase the duty on our ma- that slave-labour in this colony . n el t hos rage si b a ot nufactures. He believed, ' and in this opinion he was Manilla, and Siam et econ, f , 1 0 ,1 We took from Java, borne out by the short-wool g . rowers of the country, tons ; and, so far, we certainly &Ur sa, he ar.l. he 0 of that this measure was inexpedient and ought not to and protection to slave labour.—(p`st froo , r,is , e pass. He opposed the measure because he believed itto in the road to free he a step that principles of trade—not to put „red to 034 f ss ° a . was the case, it was better not to depts. hese sr- - 14 s of t if free-tradeprinciples l were to be adopted by the Go- allegations, which certainly P a- Petter to a doe-- or vernment, it w ß o e ud ultimately lead to the ruin of It was bdifferential 0 01 re st this count also objected to the reduction in the much of hypocrisy. sugar on the same scale of go vf oa ie ,gd V stegar.4 that o ii d ss oin, a duty on vinegar ry. as being much too large. At present the duty on vinegar was 18 guineas a ton, and it was ' s for the sake of arginnen res , ~0 .. ,.. g .ht t ei l we admitted admitted free-labour benefit would be produced —that k t i :"" as proposed ot to reduce it to four guineas per ton. He did i think that was just e to the vinegar manufacturer in this country. Why did not the Government now try reason for making it. But when of P nlicir el l Y re illi their hands at taking off some of the burdens on agri- , done to the world by this distinct _ e s t a h w at i rs i vi p b ra e e , tit' s to be m erely in , is great c .„ ° i•e. ?ca culture ? He thought it was but fair to turn and turn , distinction rovedp G consequences follow from this line de, h e re 010000 about. He could not give the measure his support. Lord WHARNCLIFFE defended the measure, and ' country should persevere (led to s pe ak he Rig , cc , not see why the overnmeiantampy-eottoo,,f-slivfloto; contended that its effect would be to increase the demandbut this , and other countries; for home grown wool. Right Hon. Gentleman procee ded Lord BEAUMONT defended the measure. ' America admitted the s uga r °f that s- „v -s ther e ha iP t `' le' The Earl of RADNOR expressed his regret that the rate. 1 Gentleman's statements in resr et Cube me erl ic reduction in the duty on glass had not extended further.send the sugar of Brazil ..tight lion% to o did not United States. What guarantee wa _ 4l Ca- Gea o i The Earl of DALHOUSIE replied; and The Bill was read a third time and passed.thought._ to, vitro; the ra colnt a r timed ea t o d depend deal o...,bwii.t wi, An incident of a very singular character, and which, but for almost providential interference, might have been attended with most fatal consequences, oc curred to the Rev. Mr. Crook, of Bromley. on Sunday evening. The Rev. Gentleman had been to officiate at Keaton church, and was returning home about ten o'clock in his chaise, when, after he had gone a short distance, the horse from some cause or other became unmanageable, and started off at full speed, going down the steep descent called Mason's-hill at a furious pace. He proceeded in his career to the Bromley turnpike, the gate of which was shut and fastened, and before any alarm could be given, or the turnpike-keeper had an opportunity to open it, the animal dashed against the bar and shivered it asunder, dragging the chaise through after him. The Rev. Gentleman kept his seat, and the horse continued at the same speed to Bromley, where he was stopped. It was found upon examination that nei ther the horse, chaise, nor harness had received the slightest injury, and the only mischief done was the damage to the toll-bar SALE or GUANO.—Yesterday at two o'clock, a sale by auction, took place at the auction-rooms, Mark-lane, of a large quantity of guano, in anticipation of the arrival of the cargo which is at present on board a vessel in the Downs, that has imported it from the coast of Africa. There were about 450 tons, this being the largest importation in one vessel, and which was brought from the island of Ichiboe. The analysis of the guano was stated to be about as follows : Volatile ammoniacal salt, consisting of phosphate oxalite, carbonate and humate of ammonia (containing seven-and half per cent. of free ammonia), twenty-six per cent., and organic animal matter, eight, together thirty-four per cent., fixed alkaline salt principally phospate, muriate, and sulphate of potash, eleven per cent. ; phosphate of lime and mag nesia, and oxalite of lime, thirty per cent. ; with only half per cent. of sand, and of moisture 24.50 per cent. There were sixty lots of five and ten tons each ; the average prices of which were 91. 7s. 6d. per ton. The whole was disposed of for about 4,2301, which, as the only expenses were freight, insurance, the pay and the support of the crew during the voyage to and fro, would leave very large profits to the owners. On the subject of the game-laws, we beg to call attention to the sentence at Bicester, reported elsewhere, of a Thomas Causley, to four months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for having killed a partridge and taken her eggs. The reason assigned for passing this atfbcious .sentence was that, unless a stop be put to this system of birdnesting, " there would not be any game in the neighbourhood of Bicester!" So wretches are to rot in gaol, and their families starve out of it, that gentlemen may pop their guns at vermin that have been fed at the expense of the farmers and labourers holding gardens! Mr. Dormer, one of the magis trates (not one of the reverend ones), very properly and humanely " declined signing the convictions, and saw no reason for adding ' hard labour' to the sentences."—Ay/es bury News. Lord Charles Fitzroy paired with Lord Charles Manners, in favour of Lord John Russell's motion on the sugar duties, IMPEMAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 3. FACTORIES BILL. Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved the third reading of this Bill. The Earl of RADNOR did not think that legislation was required upon the subject of female labour in factories. The Duke of SUTHERLAND would not oppose the Bill. He would, however, have supported a measure limiting the hours of labour to a smaller number than twelve hours. Lord BROUGHAM thought legislation on this sub ject did a great deal more harm than it did good Legislation upon this subject must necessarily be ignorant legislation, and therefore it must be bad. This Bill could be nothing else than a Bill to cramp the in dustry of the working classes, and to cramp the powers of the manufacturers. The working classes had already the power in their own hands of working as long or as short as they pleased. Ho was afraid this Bill would not be the last, upon the subject ; but he trusted that the G.overnment would not again lend itself to any fur ther attempt to cramp the energies of our manufacturers, and to curb the industry of the working classes. Should they do so, they would only be arming foreign manufac turers with fresh powers to compete with this counfry. The Marquis of NORMANBY would give his vote in favour of this Bill, in the hope that it would lead to further legislation on the subject. The Noble and Learned Lord said they were legalising in ignorance upon this snbject. Why, what did Mr. Baker, the fac tory inspectors say upon this matter? He said that the manufacturers employed women while men were stand ing idle. With this fact before their eyes, could any man for a moment say that they wero legislating in ignorance on this subject ? Their Lordships must recollect that in the manufacturing districts human labour was made a por tion of a power which never tired. Tho hours of labour of the agricultural labourers were limited by the length of day, but the working classes in the manufacturing towns worked by a light which was never extinguished. He was glad to hear that his Noble Friend behind him (the Duke of Sutherland), entertained a similar opinion to him upon this subject ; lint had he stood alone he would have advanced the strong opinion with respect to factory labour which he had just expressed to their Lordships. Lord WHARNCLIFFE admitted that a great por tion of the wealth of this country flowed from her manufactures. but he also knew that we had paid a ter rible price for that wealth. He was old enough to re member, that instead of high mills studding the country in the West Riding of Yorkshire, every cottager worked his own loom by means of his wife and children, and the wife had sufficient time to attend to her domestic duties. Now, however, the large mills were filled with women, and these women knew absolutely nothing but how to tie the knots and attend to the machinery in the mills. This kind of labour was demoralising to these women. In many mills in the country men were entirely ex cluded, and the consequence of this was, that the women acquired the same habits as the men. They drank, and instead of the wives having to fetch the husbands home, the husbands had to fetch the wives home. Was such a state of things to be allowed to exist without any at tempt being made to remedy it ? The Bill was then read a third time and passed. On the motion of Lord DENMAN, Wilson's Estate Bill was ordered to be postponed from to-morrow until the report of the judges, to whom the Bill had been re ferred, had been presented to their Lordships. ,NIGHT POACHING BILL. The Earl of STRADBROKE moved the third reading of this Bill. The Earl of RADNOR opposed the Bill, on the ground that the law at present in existence with respect to poaching was quite strong enough. He believed that the continuance of poaching was owing to the distress existing in the country. Earl FITZHARDINGE denied that the persons who were in the habit of poaching were driven to the com mission of that offence by distress. Those persons were generally idle and dissolute persons, and men who passed the principal part of their time in the ale-house. He must protest against its being put forth that the majority of the persons charged with poaching had been driven to that offence by the distressed circumstances tinder which they were labouring. Lord BROUGHAM complained of the slovenly manner in which the Bill had been drawn up, inasmuch as the preamble differed from the enacting parts of the Bill. Lord CAMPBELL supported the Bill, which was to meet cases of persons being found in a public road with instruments for, and in the act of destroying gam e . The LORD CHANCELLOR thought the Bill was very defective in its construction, and contended that if passed in its then state, it would be inoperative. Lord BROUGHAM suggested that the further con sideration of the Bill had better be postponed for a few days. The Earl of STRADBROKE then postponed the Bill till Monday next.