The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-30 00:00:00

ebtrb 'ambition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. PRICES OF SHARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 30. Dividend per Amount I Names of Com. I of panics. I Share. Annum. Canals. bi per cent. 41. Ashton Yncl Ashby-de-la-Zouch..av Basingstoke Brecknack & Ahergay Birmingham, 1-111th sh Do. and Liverp. Julie Chelmer & Blackwator Coventry Crom ford Dudley Derby ......... . Danube and INlayne Ellesmere and Cliebtei Erewash ............ Forth and Clyde Grand Junction Grand Union Grand Surrey Grand Western.: Glamorgansh., ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham Huddersfield ..........av Kennet r.ad Avon ...av Lancaster 3 , 7 Leeds and Liverpool—. Leicester Leicester & Northamp Loughborough ........av Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Mel ton Mowbray Mersey and Irwell Maceesfield Neath £ s. 97 18 113 0 100 0 150 0 pa cent. 44 81. 15s. 11. ss. il 1 - 85. Bi. .51. 1. 10s. 341. 101. Paid. A S. d. ioo - 7) 0 Oxford Peak Forest av Regent's (or London).. Rochdale av Shropshire Somerset Coal Do. Lock Fund Stock Stafford and Worcester Shrewsbury Stourbridge Str at ford .on. A von...av Swansea Severn & Wye & Trent & Mersey, 14 sh. I Names & Medway..av Warwick and Birming. Warwick and Napton Worcester & Birming Wilts and Berks av Wisbeach Wcy and Arun Docks. Commercial East and West India London Ditto Bonds Bristol av Do.Bnds, var. amounts St. Katharine Ditto 80nd5....... Ditto Bonds Southampton 41 13 4 leo o 100 - 0 0 Price. 107 313( 65 All paid 19 5 100 0 100 0 78 8 67 10 105 0 110 0 32 675 141 1200 73 155 100 117 ;360 365 502% 40 138• X 109 171. 301. 334 171. (5,1. 10/. 6 percent. 28 151. 20.: 11. 10s. 151. 321. - 10 s. 101. 84 10s. 11. 4s. 3 per cent. k per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. 31. 10s. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. it% per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. 1% per cont. IL Os. Bd, 18s. Id. per cent. 11. 7s. 3i. 10s. 4 per cent. 6 percent. 6 per cent. 13s. 6d. pr sh 51.5 x. 4 per cent. 7s. per share 5 per cent. 3/. 5 per cent./ 30s. bds. 534 per cen►. 534 per cent. I per cent. 8 per cant. b per cent. 4s. &1. per cent. 19s. /. sh. & bds, 11. .51. 105. 'los. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. IL ss. 5 per cent. per cent. IL 4s. 5 per cent. In per cent 51. P per cent. 8 per cent. 5 percent, S per cent. 6 per cent. per cent. 8 per cent. per cent. 6 per cent. 21 a per share 6e. per share 10 per cent. 5 per cent. 16s. 11. 1/. is. 51. and bs. CV. and bs. ..l per cent. scent. 1 0 1. 10/. per sh 15e per sh 6 per cent. 5 per cent.' 6 per cent. 5 per cent R per cent. 4;4 per cent. 126. 2/. 10s. 21. lbs. 21. 10s. liper cent. 41. 16s. 11. 14s. 10s. per sh 1/. 4s. per cent. P.I. 10s. Vs. per 'h. 41. ss. perch 78 10d per sh 10 per cent . 2 per cent. .ss. per sh 2361. per sh. 12s. per sh. 4 per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. /W. per s h W. p^r eh. I/. 14s. &per share .field per sh Si. 1 - : 's. pr sh 1138 par sh 1/. 10s. 1/. se. 15s. 1/. lls. 10d. 15 per cent. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 1L 1/. 3/. 17'. 6d. I,lox. lOper cent. IN. per sh. 11. 104 perch. 14 46. IL 155. f per cent. A per ccnt. A per cent. 141.;14. and i 5.643. bs. Eper cent. Tper cent. 44 per cent Oper cent t per cent. (per cent, (per cent. —tvercent, et !_fP7T Cent.; v spot* c.ent. f r.• 7percent. • "• • 11:p,n cent • tor cent. ( ; ..• feet cent. 5. per tont., yet coat: L.er Cent./ 4r, per cent percent ~,\ LIST OF SCOTTISH CO3ll APRIL 24, 1 Bank of Scotland Royal Bank British Linen Compny Commercial Bank Glasgow Union Bank Western Bank Central Pk. of Scotland 'Caledonian Insurance . •lierculet Insurance North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. et' Scotl. Edinburgh Lite Insur . Scottish Union Incur • . Standard Life hour Dalkeith Railway Edin. and Gl.u. Railwy Glasg. and Green. RaiL 17EunslessindArlir..11aiL Bridges Hammersmith Southwark, new Subs. Ditto New of 7% pr c Waterloo Ditto Old Ann. of 84 Ditto New ditto ot7l. Date Bonds...—. Vauxhall. av Assurances Albimn Alfred Life ~ Alliance Brit. and For Ditto Marine Atlas Birmingham Fire British Fire British Commercial Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County Eagle Economic Life ...... European Life Ditto New Freemasons Globe Gimrdian Hope Life Ditto Fire Imperial Fiie Ditto Life Indemnity Marine Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire Ditto Ship National Loan Fun Palladium Life Protector Lite Provident Life Rock Life yal Exchange Sun Fire Ditto University Life Universal Life Union Fire and Life Joint Stk Banks Australasi, Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial London & Westrainstr Ditto New....... ......... Lon , lon Joint Stock Metropolitan Provincial of Ireland Ditto New National of Ireland..... Nat. Provincial Englnd Ditto New Gloucestershire ~.. Union of Australia Union of London Gaslight 4. Coke Bath British Ditto Provincial Birmingham Binning. & Staffordsh Bristol Brighton ............ Ditto General City of London .Ditto New Continental Cons°lid Ditto New Equitable Imperial Isle of Thanet Independent ......... Phceni:t Ratetiff. South Metropolitan United General Westinins. Chartered Ditto New ........ Water Works. Birmingham East London Grand Junction.......av Kent Nw Riv Lon. Brtdg An Manchester and Salford Vauxhall, late S. Lond. West Middlesex av Yrk BuldgCo.Les..Prop Iron Railways. Birmingham & Derby Birming. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter Cheltenhm & Gt. West Clarence ......... Eastern Countie4 Edinburgh & Glasgow Ditto New, Grand Junction Great North of Enl 4 Great Western..,. Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths ....... Hull and Selby Lcedi and Selby Liverpool & Manchestr Ditto Half-Shares...... Ditto Quarter-Shares London and Brighton.. Ditto Loan Notes...—. London and El .ckwall London and Greenwich London and Birmiugh. Ditto Quarter-Shares Ditto Thirds London and S. Western London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares Manchstr and Binning Ditto Extension - Midland Cou ..t ies North Midland 1)o. iss. 10 dis. Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss. St dia Paris and Rouen Stockt n & Darlington South East. and J)over Ditto New, iss. 18 dis. York and N. Midland—, Ditto New Shares raines. Albicn Copper Alten Anglo Mex., iss.sl. p.m Ditto Subscription..." Bolanos DM) Scrip Brazil. Imp. iss.sl. p.m Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U. Do. St. John Del Rey British Iron Candonga. Ditto Registered Cobre Copper Coniapo Columbian, iss. 51. p.m General Mining ..... Hibernian Imperial Slate Compy Mexican Mining Co. of Ireland Real del Monte Unreg Ditto Loan N otes Rhyinnei Iron Santiago de Cu'ua... United Mox.,iss.2/. p"ro" Ditto Scrip ........... Ditto New Scrip.....„. Zit erary. 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., isa. 11. Mex. and S. American New Brunswick (Land) New Zealand ...... Penins. & Orien. Steam Royal Mail Steam Reversionary Int. Soc. South Australian ....... Thames Tunnel Van Diemen's Land 100 0 0 Stock Stcck 147 9 or Stock 50 0 0 50 0 0 63 2 8 50 0 0 100 0 0 70 10 3 100 0 0 100 0 0 20u 0 0 40 0 o - 50 0 0 101 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 2$ 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 I 50 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 11 10 0 54) 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 8 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 73 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 • 25 0 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 50 0 • 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 25 0 0 160 e 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 SO 0 0 100 0 0 63 12 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 1.2 10 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 16 13 4 12 15 4 100 0 0 32 0 0 41 6 10 13 15 9 100 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 70 0 e leo 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 u 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 e 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0, 50 0 0 25 0 0 5 0 0 15 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 35 0 0 23 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 28 0 0 `-'0 o o 5300 20 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 60 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 44) 0 0 100 0 0 400 0 0 70 0 0 5000 .100 0 0 1 23 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 0 100 0 I 11® o 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 12 0 0 5000 100 0 0 1 100 0 0 I 50 0 0 25 0 050 0 1 10 0 0 100 0 0 2 0 0 22 0 0 70 0 0 30 0 0 40 0 0 7 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 45 0 0 15 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 23 0 0 31 0 f 1310 0 'lOO 0 U 25 0 150 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 53 0 0 20 0 0 10 10 0 3 0 0 59 0 0 7 0 0 150 8 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 2 10 0 75 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 100 4- 0 0 100 — 0 o 10 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 30 0 0 35 10 0 32 10 0 3 0 0 14. 0 0 • 1 10 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 7 0 0 75 0 0 26 0 0 50 0 0 60 - 24 100 0 0 104 20 0 0 50 0 0 5.74 20 0 0, 4 100 0 0 15 0 0 5 q 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 C 50 - 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 5E+ 0 0 20 0 0 PAN lES' PRICES. 344. 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 12 10 0 1 0 0 2 10 0 5000 50 0 0 2500 25 0 0 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. STANDARD.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer last night introduced the Budget, in a speech of considerable length and of unexampled clearness. It is wonderful how plain a tale one can tell when his case happens to be a goof one, and the news he has to tell is likely to prove pleasant. The financial statement was, however, deprived of much of its interest by anticipation. The revenue accounts had forestalled its most agreeable dis closures—the known character of the Government for prudence and for a contempt of " clap trap" reputation, gave warning that there would be nothing striking in the financial plans for the future. The im portant facts developed in Mr. Goulburn's speech are these—The revenue for the year just closed exceeded the Right Honourable Gentleman's estimate made twelve months ago by 2,700,0001. The expenditure of the same year fell short of the expected expenditure by about 1,300,0001. There facts, one and two—the' great excess of revenue, and the great reduction of expense are no doubt gratifying ; but the most extraordinary fact of all, is the appearance of a Chancellor of the Exchequer wh ) in so great a deuce underrates his prospects, and underrates his retrenchments. Such a minister is the most surprising contrast to his predecessors in office, as for many years their practice has been to pro mise a great deal more revenue, and a great deal more retrenchment than they ever realised. Between excess of revenue and defect of expenditure the surplus of revenue above expenditure last year amounts to 4,100,0001. Now, of this sum, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, like an honest and prudent man, takes at once 2,700,0001., to make good a deficiency of last year to that extent, and the balance of 1,400,0001. he places safely in the Exchequer, to enable the Government to take a confident tone in its ap proaching negotiations with the Bank of England : so much for the present year. For the year before us Mr. Goulburn estimates the revenue at 51,790,000/., about a million less than the revenue of the year just concluded, which was 52,835,124/. The expenditure for the year before us he rates at 48,643,170/., leaving a surplus of 3,146,830/., viz.:— Revenue £51,790,000 Expenditure 48,643,170 Surplus In the estimated expenditure are included— -- China arrears 400,000 Three-and-Half per Cent. dissentients 200,000 Liquidation of an old guarantee loan to the South Sea Commpany £239,000 839,000 All this, however, it is to be remembered, is included in the expenditure of 48,643,2702 On the other side, there are to be some reductions of taxation as follows : Glass Vinegar 12,000 Currants 90.000 Coffee 50,000 Marine insurances Wool lOO,OOO Or, in round numbers, somewhere about 400,0001. These reductions are, however, . obviously contem plated in the estimate of produce of revenue, which is not merely 400,0001. less han the produce of the pre sent year but 1,100,000/. less. The anticipated surplus therefore, as between probable revenue and expen diture, will be a clear sum of 3,146,8:301. There is, however, a large part of this sum to be accounted for by causes not indicative of anything connected with the regular sources of revenue. 769,9001. will appear on the credit side of next year's account. on account of the postponement of the dividends upon the Three-and-a-Half per Cents., leaving the actual sur plus from sources of permanent supply 2,376,930/. Mr. Goulburn intimated that the question of the sugar duties would be taken into consideration upon another occasion ; and that he would, probably, propose a reduc tion to 10s. of the differential duty upon all foreign sugars, the proince of free and not of slave labour. We have no room to remark upon the debate that followed this gratifying exposition ; nor is much notice neces sary ; the Whigs and Radicals certainly cut no very brilliant figure in the discussion. _ . . GLOBL—The contrast is remarkable between the out-spoken style of the Duke of Wellington and the non committal style of Sir Robert Peel on the final breach between Government and the East India Directors. We say the final ,breach ; for it now appears the differences are of some twelve months standing. Before we come to his Grace of Wellington's views, and the instan taneous chatter confirmatory of the learned " monkey who has seen the world," and scram bled and climbed over many more prominent points in the world's business than he has had any trustworthy faculties, or has now any human memory for—before we come to what was said in the Lords last night, we must just take a moment's notice of what is said by the two " Kings of Brentfurd" who divide the Ministerial press between them. It is perhaps un fair to treat the Standard and Herald as twain ; for they seem to have only one set of ideas as one set of types between them. But if not two, they are twice too saucy to be allowed with impunity their present license. The style in which they presume to treat this grave subject will draw punishment—to themselves from their readers—to their patrons—whose position can only be covered by such audacities. The case of the Ministry will be prejudiced by the precipitate effrontery of their organs. " The public," says the Evening Herald, "is still wholly in the dark as to the grounds upon which the Directors of the East India Company have thought it prudent to risk—we probably might say, to forfeit, by an extreme exercise of it—their power of recalling the Governor-General." "We repeat it," says the Morning Standard, " the act of the Directors is doomed ; and if the Legislature does its duty, the power of the Directors to put the interests of the empire in danger by the reretition of such acts doomed with it." These sort of services to Ministers by their press are rather too like those of the ass in the fable, who struck his hoof in his master's face to knock off a fly from his nose. For the juxta-position of these two sentences (emanating evidently from the same servile spirit) too clearly points at the infirmity of the case of Ministers as it now stands. The public is still wholly in the dark as to the ultimate grounds which have out weighed all the reasons which rendered twenty-four gen tlemen, twenty of whom we are told by the Standard are Conservatives, unwilling to fly in the face of Minis ters. But if the public are in the dark as to what ulti mately decided the Directors, they are by no means un prepared to belieye, by the whole aspect of their pre vious conduct (as well as that of the nobleman whom they have now peremptorily recalled), that it must have been something strong and positive, and conclusive in all their minds. It is not the fault of the Directors if we are to remain in ignorance of their guiding motives. It is Not they who shrink from publicity, or entrench themselves in politic reserves. Before they can be con demned, John Bull will assuredly insist they shall first be tried—and they court the trial. In this posture of affairs one would have thought it required assurance transcending that of accustomed sycophancy to an nounce any Parliamentary or public judgment. No such judgment can be passed without all the evidence; and the party which makes itself the accusing party rthrc,ugh the organ of his Grace the Duke of Wellington is the party which possesses and with holds the evidence. We are told by Sir Robert k'eel that " the Government most certainly were not taken by surprise; they had an opportunity of stating their views to the Court of Directors, and most certainly the Court of Directors did give full and fair intimation to her Majesty's Government previous to taking the measure." We ate told by the Duke of Wellington " My Lords, though I believe that this is the first time in the history of the Government of India that this extreme measure has been resorted to by the Court of Directors, or carried into execution, or will be carried into execution, it has more than once been called into con templation; but the intention has been always recalled on the remonstrance or advice of the Minister of the day. And it is the fact, that it was in contemplation by these very - gentlemen, with reference to the same Governor •Ge neral, in the course of the last twelve months. But they were at that time prevailed upon to pass a resolution, and to abandon the intended recal." With this prima facie evidence of calmness and circumspection on the part of the Directors, and with no other evidence as to their motives except the shrewd presumptions afforded by the apparent absence of similar qualities on the part of the late Governor-General, it is rather too much even for the Duke of Wellington to expect Parliament or the public to take his word for the discretion of Ministers, or the indiscretion of the Directors. DREADFUL MURDER IN CORN- WALL. On Wednesday an inquest was held before Joseph Hamley, Esq., coroner, and Mr. Gilbert Hamley, de puty-coroner, in the parish of Davidstow, on view of the body of Charlotte Dymond, aged nineteen years. It appeared from the evidence that deceased, ac companied by Matthew Weeks, left her mistress's (Mrs. Peters) house on the 14th instant, about four in the afternoon ; they were seen on the moors going towards Roughtor. Weeks returned to Mr. Peters's house at nine o'clock, and when questioned as to where Charlotte was, he said he did not know. On the following morning his mistress told him to get up and come and help her, for she was sure he had put away the maid, and he ought to have known better in this busy time. He was repeatedly asked what had become of Charlotte, both by his mistress and some other persons ; but he said he saw nothing about her. On the Tuesday following, his mistress said, I insist on your telling me what litel become of the girl." He then said, "If I must tell you, she went to Brown Willy to Caius Spear's house last Sunday, and was easierggooitnagnto 1 1 is s I p a I n a d e e t h f e o r f o her o w ." g : d o a n y, F as ri l‘ d l a r 3 .. , L l e v u e x e r s had said to John Stevens, another servant of Mrs. Peters, " Can yo u l en d me a needle and thread to sew on a button to the collar of my shirt ?" Stevens said, b i d ? sewing. "flow came y our shirt tor one." He said it was Satur day, Weeks met a man nam ed t a he almost It is wohno a saas n tku e er y (iv ! him what he had done with gone, but iflreel‘s said, "I g don't know where she isshe is found • murdered, they will take up her m other for it, for she said she would kill her if s h e again." On the Sunday it was supeeted that am e heh ad home murdered the girl, and Mrs. Peters sent Steven s and her son to search the moors. They went to th e moors, and traced her patten marks for some tim e , but s h or tly lost them. On their return to Mr s . Peters, they found Weeks had put on his best clothes, and run away. As he was leaving, Mrs. Peters said "Mathew, bow have you got your trousers in that mess ? You have brushed them so much that the cloth is almost through." He said it was very dirty last Sunday. She begged him to come back to dinner, and he said he would, but he has not been heard of since. On the following day, several people 60 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 a 0 55 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 1250 0 0 2 I All paid 0 i o o 38 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 ( 50 0 0 10 0 9 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 9 10 0 0 5 0 0 8 6 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 SO 0 0 200 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 7 10 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 17 10 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 1 25 0 0 10 0 e 16 0 0 18 • 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 31 5 0 211 0 0 SO 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 3000 39 0 0 80 0 25 0 0 48 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 661 232 97% 114 i 7354 4514 ri 4 21 5714 26.5 g 4i S 10q, 119 55% ti% 4 13:34 y. 113 36s ym 4 44 nog 169 2 , 24 t 170 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AP t RIL 30, 1844, went to search for the deceased, and, on going down a small bank, they discovered a woman's foot-marks op posite those of a man's, but quite close, as if they had had a struggle. About half a gun-shot from this bank they discovered the body of the poor girl lying on her back, with her throat cut. The wound was eight inches in length, and about 2i inches in depth. Mr. Good, the surgeon, who made the post mortem exami nation, said it was impossible she could have done it herself, as it was done with such force, that it had partially separated the bones of the neck. When she left home, she had on a bonnet. and red shawl, but neither of them have as yet been found, nor have her shoes or pattens. When Weeks went away, Mrs. Peters went into his room, and found his shirt under the bed, with the collar and all the plaits in front torn off. Mrs. Peters examined the shirt the day before the Sunday he put it on ; it then wanted no repair, but was a particularly strong one, and almost new. There were also several spots of blood on the sleeve. The jury, without a moment's hesitation, returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against Matthew Weeks, who was apprehended on Wednesday afternoon, on the Hoe, at Plymouth, and immediately removed to Camelford.— Falmouth Packet. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of April 30.) SLaAß.—Prices have been sustained for West I;idia Sugar, but the market on Wednesday and Thursday was in a tran quil state : on Friday, however, there was a better demand for all descriptions, and merchants displayed firmness. To-day increased activity was produced in the Colonial Sugar market in consequence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer stating that the only alteration in the duties will be on Foreign Sugar, the produce of free labour, that not to come into operation until November next. and giving to West India, Bengal, anp Madras Sugar a protection of lOs per cwt. For British Plantation the rates paid were Gd to is per cwt above those of Friday. REFINED.—The grocers have purchased Refined goods largely, paying higher rates; the supply has become small, and Refiners are unwilling to enter into contracts for forward delivery. To-day numerous parcels of refined goods were taken by the home trade, and advanced rates paid; standard Lumps fetched 80s 6d to 81s, brown Lumps 79s to 80s per cwt. In Bastards and Pieces large sales made at rather higher rates. Bonded Crushed Sugar is wanted, and is not to be purchased under 25s 9d per cwt. MAURITIUS.—The demand has been good, and previous rates are sustained. At auction 310 bags were disposed of ; mid yellow at 61s 6d to 625, and low 61s to 61s 6d per cwt. EAST ImmA—The grocers have been ready purchasers of Bengal Sugar paying fully former rates. This afternoon Bengal Sugar met with attention, and 1,600 bags at public sale sold at full rate ; fine white at 688 Gd, good mid 64s 6d, yellow 61s 6d to 62s 6d, strong 638 to 63s 6d damp and washed 61s to 67s per cwt. There was a good deal of inquiry privately for all descriptions of Foreign East India Sugar, but the advanced rates asked prevented business of moment ; the present prices are I9s to 22s for Manilla, and 20s to 25s per cwt for Java. FOREIGN.—White Havannah has been iu good demand, and very full rates are paid. To-day there was a flatness in the market for Brazil, Havannah and Porto Rico Sugar, in consequence of no reduction in the duty being proposed, but holders were not inclined to take lower rates. _ _ MOLASSES.-The demand for West India has been good, and former rates are sustained. Bengal at 17s to 17s 6d, and low and middling 15s to 16s 6d per cwt. Prices are for West India 2s to 3s per cwt lower than they were last year at this period. TEA.-Since Tuesday last the demand has been brisk for Tea. Congou at Is old to is id for common, is lid to is 2d for good common ; Twankay, ordinary at is 22d to is 3d ; Hyson, common and good common 2s 2d to 2s 8d ; and Pou chong, low to good 5d to 10d per lb. The total sales since this day week are 6,000 packages. To-day there was less demand for Tea ; but holders were not generally inclined to take lower rates. The falling off in the demand is to be attri buted to their being no alteration in the duty. CocoA.-Prices have given way Is per cwt for West India. Trinidad middling red at ii.9s to 50s, ordinary dark red 47s to 48s 6d, middling grey 47s to 47s 6d, low 44s to 46 damaged 30s to 45s ; Grenada middling sound 475, low 42s to 455, and sea damaged 30s to 42s per cwt. Foreign Cocoa is held for previous rates, but little business has been transacted privately. COFFEE.-The small parcels of West India sold privately have been rather under previous rates ; at auction 120 brls and bags unclean Demerara were taken in at 70s for fine fine ord, and fine ofd 65s per cwt. This afternoon a brisk demand sprung up for Mocha Coffee, and prices advanced conside rably, middling yellow fetching 78s to 80s per cwt by private contract. The demand for Foreign and Foreign East India Coffee has considerably increased, and higher rates given ; Sumatra 28s to 295, Padang 31s to 345, Singapor Java 36s to 425. Company's 50s to Ms. Rio ordinary to good ordinary 31s to 353, and St. Domingo 32s to 34s per cwt; these prices are 3s to 4s above those of last week, but for all sorts of Coffee at the 4d per lb duty, the market has a dull appearance, and prices are drooping; few parcels have been disposed of privately ; 56s to 57s is the va lue of 'good ordinary Ceylon. At auction only 176 barrels Rio and 91 bags of Havannah were offered : the former sold at high rates ; very fine colory mountain berry 85s to 90s 6d, middling and low middling 62s 6d to 745, fine ordinary dingy 53s to 565; the latter was taken in at 53s per cwt for fine ordinary. SPICES.-Cassia Lignea has been taken sparingly by pri vate contract, and in some cases the rates accepted are rather under those of this day week. This afternoon Nutmegs were wanted, and 10 cheste at public sale sold at full rates : good bold brown Singapore at 3s Bd, middling 3s 2d to 3s 4d: low middling 3s to 3s ld. Of Mace 7 chests were sold at 3s 2d for middling, and 2s lld to 3s for low middling. East India Ginger was sought after, and 1242 pockets Bengal at auction, and sold at 18s to 18s 6d, for ordinary rather small being higher. Rux, BRANDY, AND llonnwxns.-Prices are maintained for Jamaica Rum, and good and fine qualities are much wanted ; 3s 10d paid for 40 puns good quality, high flavour, 33 per cent overproof, but common and middling sorts have been taken sparingly at 3s 5d to 3s 8d per gallon. Leewards firm ; 2s 2(1 paid for 140 puns proof strength ; Demerara at 3s Id to 3s 5d per gallon for strong descriptions. Caleutta at is 10d per gallon proof strength, but holders will not sell under is Ild. For Brandy prices are firm, and rule as fol lows :-Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s lOds, puns 5s 8d; ditto 1839, hlids 5s Bd, puns 5s 6d; ditto 1840, khds 53 6d, puns 5s 4d; ditto 1841, hhds 53 sd, puns 5s 3d; ditto 1842, hhds 5s 4d, puns 5s 2d; mid quali ties of various marks 3s 5d to 4s 6d, low 2s 10d to 3s 4d, and Spanish Brandy 2s 9d to 2s 10d per gallon. Geneva dull of sale, shipping sort at Is 8d to is 9d, fine fit for duty 2s 2d to 3s. English Corn Spirit at lOs 2d per gallon, cash. To-day for Brandy there were sellers at ld per gallon under the rates quoted above. West India Rum attracted more at tention ; Jamaica, 28 to 30 over proof, 3s 4d to 3s 6d, 35 over 3s 9d to 3s 110 d, fine 4s 6d to 4s 1 ld; Demerara, 28 to 30 over 2s 10d to 3s, 33 to 35 over 3s 4d ; proof Leewards 2s 2d. RICE.-Bengal Rice, low white at 10s to lOs 3d, middling lOs 6d, for good Ils per cwt ; Java is dull of sale at 8s 6d to I Is, and Madras at 8s to 9s per cwt. Cleaned Rice at 13s to 17s for Patna, and 21s to 26s per cwt. This afternoon, Ben gal Rice, good middling white fetched lOs 6d to Ils per cwt. SAGO.-Pearl Sago, common at 12s 6d to 13s 6d, middling 14s to 15s, good 16s to 19s, and fine 20s to 25s per cwt. This afternoon, Pearl Sago .sold at 17s 6d to 18s, for mid dling small brown Pearl being higher. INDIGO.-Since the conclusiom of the quarterly sale the market has exhibited a firm appearance for East India Indigo. From shippers the demand has been brisk for Bengal, and the advanced rates previously established fully supported. OILS.-303 to 40s per tun for southern oil. Fine pale at 29/ to 301, good 28/ to 281 15s, middling 271 to 27l 10s, one lot 26/ 103 per tun. Seal, pale at 33/ lOs to 34/. Cod, 34/. Sperm, fine British at 75l to 76/, and inferior 721 to 74l Headmatter, 80/ to 80/ lOs per tun. Linseed Oil at 26s 6d to 27s per cwt ; Rape Oil pale at 39s 6d to 403, and brown 38s to 38s 6d per cwt. Olive Oil : Galli poli at 52/ 103 to 53/, Sicily 524 Spanish 51/ to 51110 s, and Barbary 501 to 501 lOs per tun. Cocoa Nut Oil 29s to 31s 6d common to fine. Palm 24s to 28s per cwt. TALLOW.-South American in casks at 33s 3d to 39s 9d, boxes 36s 6d to 395, very low sgft dark in barrels 20s to 20s 3d ; of 19 casks 53 barrels North American fetched 38s to 395. East India 38s 9d to 395, and New South Wales 403 2d to 40s 6d per cwt. Russian Tallow has been taken sparingly on the spot ; 40s to 41s is the value of P. Y. Candle here ; and 42s to 42s 3d per cwt for the last three months of the year. Town Tallow is 40s to 40s 6d per cwt nett cash. TILE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 30. BREVET—Commissions to bear date April 30. To he Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army—Major T. Ryan, 50th Foot ; Major E. W. Bray, 39th Foot ; Major G. L. Christie, 3d Foot ; Major J. Stopford, 40th Foot; Major Si. Barr, 29th Foot ; Major P. J. Petit, 50th Foot; Major H. Havelock, 13th Foot ; Major C. Van Straubenaee, 39th Foot. To be Majors in the Army—Captain P. M•Kie, 3d Foot; Captain F. Coddington, 40th Foot; i,Captain J. B. Oliver, 40th Foot ; Captain A. W. F. Somerset, Ist or Grenadier Guards ; Captain M. G. Nixon, 39th Foot ; Captain W. L. Tudor, bOth Foot. To be Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army, in the East Indies. Major H. C. Barnard, 51st Bengal Native Infantry ; Major J. G. Drummond, 6th Bengal Native Infantry ; Major H. Dick, 51st Bengal Native Infantry ; Major 0. Phillipps, 56th Bengal Native Infantry ; Major H. Earle, 39th Bengal Native Infantry ; Major W. Mactier, 4th Bengal Native Cavalry; Major W. Garden, 36th Bengal Native Infantry ; Major E. J. Smith, Bengal Engineers; Major J. Nash, 43d Bengal Light In fantry; Major W. Geddes, Bengal Artillery ; Major T. San ders, Bengal Artillery ; Major H. J. White, 50th Bengal Na tive Infantry; Major G. E. T. Oldfield, C. 8., sth Bengal Light Cavalay ; Major J. Alexander, Bengal Artillery ; Major J. T. Lane, Bengal Artillery. To be Majors in the Army, in the East Indies—Captain P . Grant, 59th Bengal Native Infantry ; Captain B. Browne, Bengal Artillery ; Captain H. M. Graves, 16th Bengal Grena diers ; Captain C. Grant, Bengal Artillery ; Captain B. Y. Reilly, Bengal Engineers ; Captain F. Brim], Bengal Artil lery ; Captain H. Clayton, 4411 Bengal Light Cavalry; Captain R. J. H. Birch, 17th Bengal Native In fantry ; Captain H. J. Guyon, 31st Bengal Native Infantry ; Captain J. Saunders, 50th Bengal Native Infantry ; Captain J. H. Sl'Donald, Bengal Artillery; Captain G. Camp bell, Bengal Artillery; Captain R. Cautley, 10th Bengal Light Cavalry ; Captain R. Smith, 28th Bengal Native Infantry; Captain Peter Innes, 14th Bengal Native Infantry ; Captain Philip Harris, 70th Bengal Native Infantry ; Captain C. Ekins, 7th Bengal Light Cavalry; Captain N. A. Parker, 58th Bengal Native Infantry; Captain F. R. Evans, 26th Bengal Native Infantry; Captain J. G. W. Curtis, 37th Bengal Native Infantry ; Captain T. Young, 2d Bengal Grenadiers; Captain G. Dalston, 58th Bengal Native Infantry. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire. Denbighshire Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry—H. Jones, Esq., to be Captain, vice J. Peers, resigned ; R. Lloyd. Gent., to be Cornet ; W. Rowland, Gent, to be Cornet, April 18. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Easter Term.—Sevent Victoria.—April 30. This Court will, on Thursday and Friday, the 9th and 10th days of May next, hold sittings, and will proceed in disposing of the business now pending in the Special Paper and New Trial Paper, and in giving judgment in cases previously argued. By the Court. WHITEHALL, APRIL 25. _ The Lord Chancellor has appointecl Henry Bunny, of New bury, in the county of Berks, Gent., to be a Mager Extra ordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY SUPEBSEDED. WILLIAM GIBSOSI CLIFT, coach broker, Chapel-yard, Cross-lane, High BANKRUPTS. JAMES MACLEAN, carpenter, Somerset-street, White chapel, to surrender May 11, at two, and June 11, at half -past eleven. at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, offs-ial assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Burnell, Fenchurch-sireet. SAMUEL, WILCOCKSON, linen draper, Chesterfield, Lancashire, May 14, and June 5, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Putt, oMcial assignee, Manchester ; Hard wick and Davidson, Weavers' Hall, London ; Sale and Wor thington, Manchester. CHARLES JOHNSON, lime dealer, Rochdale, May 11, at eleven, and June 4, at one, at the Manchester District Court. Stanway, official assignee, Manchester ; Woods anti Jackson, Rochdale ; Norris, Allen, and Simpson, Bartlett's buildings, Holborn, London. CHARLES NICHOLS, bookseller, Wakefield, May 11 and June 6, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Frame, official assignee, Leeds; Willis and Co., Tokenhouse-yard, London ; Taylor and Westmorland, Wakefield. GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT, innkeeper, Iron bridge, Shropshire, May 18 and June 8, at eleven, at the Bir mingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Bir mingham; Clarke and Gosling, Austin-friars, London; Marcy Wellington • Slaney, Birmingham. ' JOHN PERRY maltster, Birmingham, May 11, and June 5, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham • Suckling, Birmingham. GEORGE EDWARD PHILLIPS, saddler, Plymouth, May 13, and June 6, at the Exeter District Court. Herna man, official assignee, Exeter; Elworthy, Plymouth; Stogdon, Exeter ; Surr, Lombard-street, London. JOll'N P.gMBERTON, soap boiler, Leeds, May 11, and June 1, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ;:Wdliamson and Hill, Gray's-inn, London; Bond, Leeds. GEORGE MORREY, publican, Stratford-upon-Avon, May 9, and June 8, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham; Robinson, Ironmonger-lane, London ; Stringer, Stratford-upon-Avon. JOSEPH GOULD, cheese factor, Sheen, Staffordshire, May 10, at half-past twelve, and June 7, at one, at the Bir mingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birming ham ; Smith, Birmingham. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. T. S. Robinson, publican, Great Neston, Cheshire. E. M. Shaw, Manchester. W. H. Bagnall, watch maker, Bishopsgate-street Without. F. N. Bracher, schoolmaster, New Sarum, Wiltshire. M. Fothergill, attorney-at-law, Pontefract, Yorkshire. W. Dennis, joiner, Nottingham. J. Standen, block pitcher to a calico printer, Salford. J. Pagden, London-road, Southwark. A. Benjamin, dairyman, Gravel-lane, Houndsditch. G. Carreer, edge tool grinder, Sheffield. M. Prebble, tallow chandler, Strood, Kent. W. Swann, fish merchant, Great Yarmouth. W. Barthram, livery-stable keeper, Raven-row, Mile-end. J. Luckett, coffee-house keeper, Adam-st. West, Marylebone. J. Thompson, veterinary surgeon, Aldborough, Yorkshire. J. Gerrett, licensed victualler, Cock-lane, Shoreditch. W. Curran, stevedore, Liverpool. G. P. Trounsell, Lieutenant, R.N., King's Kerawell, Devon!. R. A. Jefferiss, butcher, Newington. J. Bonny, tailor, Liverpool. W. Cornhill, coffee-house keeper, Coleman-street. R. Hamm, carpenter, Bedford-street, Tottenham-court-road. W. Ellerson, horse dealer, Eynesford, Kent. E, Baker, publican, Lawrence-lane, City. COURSE OF EXCH. Amsterdam CF. 12 5 Ditto, at sight l2 3 Rotterdam 9 U l2 5A Antwerp 25 95 Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Altona l3 15 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70 Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 95 Frankfort on Maine 1221 Petersburgh, 3Us 36 Berlin - Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M 955 1 rieste, ditto Madrid 364 Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona Seville — SGE.—(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 55 Genoa 25 99 Milan Venice ....... Naples 39 Palermo, per oz ll7 Lisbon 53/ Oporto s3i Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldys 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 DoHars 0 4 9/ Silver in Bars 0 4 11 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships assembled at Five o'Clock. Lord Campbell, the Marquis of Salisbury, and several other Noble Lords, presented petitions for and against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. The Marquis of NORMANBY presented a petition complaining of a practice which had lately sprung up, of enlisting boys out of union workhouses without the consent of their parents. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from Sussex, complaining of the refusal by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to renew leases of property held of sup pressed prebendaries. The Noble Duke in supporting the prayer of the petitioners complained of the hardship which this refusal had imposed both on the large land owners, and the small farmers in the country. Lord WHARNCLIFFE said the object of this Bill was to have the Church property made available to Church purposes. 'The chief complaint which his Noble Friend had made was, that although the Commis sioners might grant leases for a stated number of years, yet that they could not give reversionary leases. He (Lord Wharnelifre) could nut see how the Noble Duke was jus tified in finding fault with the Commissioners for making the most of the property consigned to their care. He could assure his Noble Friend that in every case where a tenant in possession sought a reversionary in terest he invariably gut the preference. The Duke of RICHMOND said the question he wished to put to the 'Noble Lord was, how a person could be expected to expend 10,0001. on a property in which he had no reversionary interest ? The Bishop of LONDON thought that the Ecclesias tical Commissioners would be guilty of unfairness, if they did not try and make the most of the property over which they were appointed as agents. Why if their Lordships would recollect they would see that in cases where the Crown lands were to be let, the Noble Lord opposite refused, in his capacity at the head of the Woods and Forests to grant any new leases, and therefore he (the Bishop of London) thought that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners were fully justified in adopting the same course as that which the Crown took. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE characterised the conduct of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners as unjust and arbitrary, and expressed his opinion to the effect that if such conduct had for a moment been anticipated at the time of the appointment of the Commission, that Commission never would have been appointed. He hoped the Noble Duke, on an early occasion, would bring this subject forward in a more tangible shape than he had done that evening. After a few words from the Earl of BESDOROUGH and the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, The Bishop of LONDON said he ought to state in the name of the Commissioner, that every proposal made to them for the renewal of leases would meet with ample consideration by them. The Bishop of EXETER said he had opposed the ap pointment of the Ecclesiastical Commissioner from the first, but that commission having been appointed, it was money from the Church order to provide for the reli po g th rio e u i p r se d rat u ys t t y arus t e o tthi o oe lta oo i of n ut a ihd s e, much pin people. opl e (LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. BASINGSTOKE AND NEWBURY RAILWAY. On the motion for the further consideration of the re port on the Basingstoke and Newbury Railway, Mr. C. RUSSELL rose for the purpose of proposing that the consideration of the report be postponed till the next session of Parliament. He did this on the ground that the line of railway which bad been pro posed to the town of Newbury from the Great Western Railway, was not only shorter than the line which was at presnnt before the House, but would cost in its con struction much less. The line from Basingstoke to New bury was to be a single line, while the one from Read ing to Newbury was proposed to be double. The cost of the former would be 200,000/, while the cost of the latter would be only 150,000/. With respect to distance, the Basingstoke and Newbury line was 10 per cent. longer than the'other line, and with respect to cheap ness for passengers, 20 per cent. Under these circum stances, he should propose that this report be further considered that day six months. Mr. LABOUCHERE considered that no Hon. Gentle man would be willing to serve upon a Committee if their de cision were to be brought before the House and subject to a revisal. Mr. Ord, the Member for Newcastle ; Mr. Evans, the Member for Derbyshire ; Mr. Beckwith, the Member for Leeds, and Mr. Colquhoun, were the five Gentlemen who constituted that Committee, and he here asserted that these gentlemen were alone influenced in their decison by the evidence that came before them. Those were the grounds upon which he, as a member of that Committee, was induced to give his vote; and he hoped the House, if a decison were called for, would confirm that vote. He hoped the House would reject the proposal of the Honourable Member for Reading, who himself could not be fairly said to be an unbiassed party in the affair, inasmuch as he was the Chairman of the Great Western Railway :. . Mr. PAKINGTON hoped the House would not look upon this as a matter of private business, but that they would attend to a few observations which he found him self bound as a Member of that Committee to offer. From the time when the Committee frame! their report a great dissatisfaction had bee n expressed by many persons connected with the Great Western Rail way; and the Committee had a right to complain of the manner in which those objections were made. He, for one, never heard of any intention of revising the deci sion of that Committee up to the present moment. The Hon. Member for Reading had stated that he was in possession of certain evidence which would show that local interests prevailed on the Committee, and he (Mr. Pak ington) would appeal to any of the four gentlemen who sat upon that Committee along with him, whether he was not perfectly justified in saying that he denied, in the strongest terms which the usages of that House allowed, the truth of that assertion. The Committee sat for seven days, and so anxious were they to come to a right conclusion, that they called what might even be termed superfluous evidence. He would ask the House to re flect fairly upon the relative position in which the Hon. Member for Reading stood, and which the Committee were placed. The Hon. Member for Reading was the Chair man of the Great Western Railway, while every Mem ber who composed that Committee could not possibly have any ulterior object in view, but must alone have been influenced in their decisions by the evidence which was laid before them. With respect to the proposed line to Newbury. and that of Woolhampton, the Com mittee, in deciding in favour of the latter, were influenced by a conviction that the latter would tend more generally to the public convenience. He had not mentioned what he was sure would have great weight with the House, namely, that on every decision to which the Committee had come, they had been unanimous. But he would ask the House whether the rule was to be to put Committees upon their trial in that House after they had zealously and conscientiously done their duty—(Hear, hear)—and that for the satisfaction of parties avowedly interested in opposing their decisions ?—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HAYTER said he must be Lallowed to ex press his dissent from the proposition that a reversal by that House of the decision of a Committee was to be looked upon as condemnatory of that Com mittee.— (Hear, hear.) If Hon. Members were to sit in that House merely to enrol the decisions of Committees, all that he could say was that their duties would become a mere farce. In his opinion they were there to discuss the propriety of the decisions which their Committees arrived at, for that House sat as a court of appeal. Looking at the reasons of the Committee, he was in capable of coming to the _conclusion to which they had come; although he was aware the communication could be made easier from Newbury to Reading than from Newbury to Basingstoke, yet he could not consent to the conclusion come to, and must vote against the measure. Mr. GLADSTONE thought the House would agree to . this, that in approaching the decision now in ques tion, they should look with confidence on the proceedings of the Committee—that was thegreat ingredient in the case, although not the only one. Now he thought, as far as confidence in a Committee could preceed in any case, the present Committee had claims to the highest degree of confidence. He was glad that the Chairman of the Committee had stated briefly an outline of the course on which the Committee had proceeded. They had not come to their decision without full examination of the evidence and arguments that had been adduced. It appeared to him, from all he had heard of the case, the Committee had done their duty with the greatest care and fidelity. They had given full consideration to local interests, and they had pro • ceeded very much upon the consideration not only to ac commodate the local traffic of Newbury, but upon the general principle on which railways should be founded The House should recollect that these questions re lating to railways had of late much changed their char acter, and were becoming every year more difficult, and getting beyond the capacity of a Committee to deal. with them, as those Committees were usually con stituted. They were increasing in complexity every year. It had become necessary, in considering them, to calculate on distant contingencies. Projects which at first might appear to be of a local nature might become of national importance, and they would be in a dismal condition if in a case like this, in which the greatest care had been exercised by the Committee of Selection in the choice which they had made, and in which the Com mittee had exercised the greatest circumspection in the discharge of their duty, the result should be the sum mary reversal by the House of the important verdict of that Committee. • Mr. HAWES, in reply to the observation of the Right Hon. Gentleman, that the House came to this discussion under great disadvantages, inasmuch as they had not before them the evidence taken before the Committee, would remark that such must always be the case unless, in every instance, the evidence were printed, and time were given to Members to peruse it before entering en the general discussion—a course of proceeding which would scarcely meet with the approbation of the Right lion. Gentleman. When the report of a Committee was laid on the table, it was 'perfectly competent for the House to raise the question whether or not the decision of the Committee was a sound one ; and, differing as he did from the Committee, he should support the motion of the Honourable Member for Reading. The Committee had rejected the most direct line and a double line instead of a single line, the cheapest line instead of the dearest one. He thought it best to defer the consideration of the Bill until the whole of the lines of communication intended to be embraced in that wide field of consideration which the Right Hon. Gentleman had thrown out before them, were fully before the House. Without meaning to cast any aspersion on the decision of the Committee, he must say that if the House adopted that decision they would impose on the public an inferior and dearer line. - Mr. AGLIONBY said that he should give his vote in favour of the decision of the Committee, but on grounds entirely different from those put forward by the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, and by the Right Hon. Gen tleman the Member for Wells. He would not enter into any details. He agreed with the Hon. Geatleman oppo site, that the House was to be, to a certain extent, the judges of the merits of a line, but to the least possible extent. He voted for the decision of the Committee on this ground, that it was the duty of the House to sup port the great principle that Committees ought to be free from all local and private interests. They had to a certain extent got rid of the burthen which existed for many years of Committees being influenced by local interest, and their decisions never gave satisfaction to anybody. He thought that a new system should be established, which would give Committees more of a judicial character. He hoped to see this principle ex tended to other classes of railways. The best possible tribunals should always be obtained. All matters were discussed with harmony and unanimity before independent Committees. They were now about to set aside the decision, because some gentlemen said that better evidence might be laid before it, or that a better judgment might be formed upon the evi dence. He denied that it was a good principle to set aside the decision of the Committee on that account. The party impugning the decision of the Committee must do so by laying strong grounds, by showing that there was either gross injustice, or flagrant want of judg meat by the Committee. There was no evidence to in duce him to alter the decision of the Committee. The Committee was the best judge whi c h of th e t wo li nes were best, and on this ground it was most dangerous for the House to interfere with their decision. Mr. W. EVANS said there had been no such hurry in the Committee as that which had been attributed to it, for they had been willing to sit as long as the proper performance of their duty required. He would not deny that the other line was somewhat better as a London one, but the Committee looked to the best line for all; and, therefore, they determined upon that which joined Newbury to the coast as well as London, and gave ad vantages to the entire district. They refused no evi dence that was offered, and they had given an unani mous decision, which he trusted the House would confirm. Lord HOWICK said, were he to exercise his own judgment upon the present question, he certainly should come to a different conclusion than that which the Com mittee had arrived ; but be was so persuaded that if they did not support the authority of their Committees, such immense harm would arise, that he should feel it his duty to support their decision in this case.—(Laughter.) He thought the interests of the companies were of minor importance. The interest of the public was to be con sidered, and he thought it would be for the interest of the public that both lines should go forward. Mr. COLQUII OUN wished that, consistently with his sense of duty, he could have voted for both lines, but when he found that there would not be traffic enough to support both lines. That there was the strongest desire evinced on the part of those connected with the trade of the district that the Basingstoke line should be completed, a desire evinced not only by the expres sion but the coming forward with the subscriptions ; and when he found that there existed the greatest apathy among them with regard to the other line, which, more over, was opposed by the greater part of the landowners of the district, he felt that he had no choice, and was reluctantly compelled to exclude the Great Western line. Sir H. PEEL had not known anything of the subject before he entered the House ; but he wished the Com mittee, composed as it was of gentlemen having no local interest on the subject, had been unanimous in the deci sion to which they had come. If that were the case, it would be very dangerous if the House were to reverse the decision of the Committee. Mr. ORD said that the Committee had been unanimous in their decision: Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided The numbers were— For the motion Against it Majority _ . Immediately upon the re-opening of the gallery, strangers were again ordered to withdraw, but no divi sion took place, and on our re-admission we understood that the Report was received. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY. Mr. GLADSTONE in moving, pursuant to notice that he had given, that Sir George Clerk be added to the Committee on the Chester and Holyhead Railway Bill, took occasion to explain, as the appointment of a Member holding office to a Committee was rather of rare occurrence, that it was necessary to have certain public interests represented on the Committee for the adjustment of certain points connected with the Bill ; and hence he proposed the ad• dition of Sir George Clerk to the Committee. He regretted that he was obliged to make this motion later than usual, but at the same time he believed no in convenience would arise, because his Hon. Friend, if appointed by the House, would not interfere in the ge neral discussion as to the course of the railroad, but would confine himself to stating the views of Mr. Walker. On the question being put, Captain MANGLES said that he believed it was most unusual and contrary to the rule upon which Commit tees were constituted, to make such an appointment at such a period. He understood it was probable the Com mittee would come to a decision that afternoon, but if the Hon. Gentleman was appointed, the Committee would be obliged to sit for a longer period, and the expenses would be thereby increased. The Committee would give as much consideration to any representation on the part of the Government, without the Hon. Gen tlemen, as they would if he were present. Sir R. PEEL said they were now going to establish one of the most important lines of railway in the coun try, by which Dublin would be brought within four teen or fifteen hours of the metropolis. The Go vernment had already been at great expense in re ference to this line—they had sent naval officers to report upon the nature of the coast and har bour, and engineers of the highest eminence to report upon the line. A report had been made which was of very considerable value and importance. If the line was to be establisbed, and if it was to have the con currence of the Government, and to be followed by an expenditure of two, or three, or four hundred thousand pounds for the purpose of making Holyhead a perfectly safe harbour, he (Sir R. Peel) did feel that the public had such an interest in it as to justify the Government in desiring to be represented in the Committee upon the Bill. But he would ask, had Mr. Walker, one of the gentlemen em ployed by the Government, been examined by the Committee (Captain Mangles was understood to say "No.") Then he must say the Government were most anxious that he should be examined. So important did he consider this proposed railway to the public that he felt the Government should have a representative in the Committee on this Bill. Mr. LABOUCHERE fully agreed with the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir Robert Peel), that it was of the greatest consequence that in Committees, where the public interests were directly involved, the Government should have a representative. He recollected, that when _the Liverpool Docks Bill was in Committee, he had felt it his duty, as President of the Board of Trade, to apply to the Committee of .election to be allowed to have a member of the Government upon that Committee. And the Right Honourable Gentleman should, in the present instance, have applied at the proper time to the Committee of Selection and not to that House. He doubted whether the House had the power to appoint a Member to the Committee, and that if one were appointed as a representative of the Government, he should have the power to vote. On this point, the Speaker would, perhaps, assist them with his opinion. The SPEAKER (as we understood) stated that he apprehended the Right Hon. Baronet could not vote in the Committee without signing the declaration. Mr. MARSHALL wished to know from the Presi dent of the Board of Trade the reason fur proposing the Right Hon. Baronet at the present time ? Sir R. PEEL made a few observations that were in audible in the gallery. Capt. MANGLES said if there would be no expensive delay in the addition of Sir George Clerk, he should not object to the appointment. Mr. HUME thought they ought to be obliged to the Government for proposing the Eight Hon. Baronet. Mr. P. SHAW considered that it was very important for the interests of Ireland that the Eight Hon. Gentle man should be on the Committee. Mr. FFRENCH considered that the railroad could nover be constructed unless they obtained the assistance of the Government ; and, therefore, he thought it most important that the Right Hon. Gentleman should be on the Committee. The motion was then agreed to. Mr. GLADSTONE moved that Mr. Walker's Report be referred to the Committee. NOTTINGHAM IMPROVEMENT BILLS. On the motion of Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, the Notting ham (West Croftland) Improvement Bill, and the West Croft Nottingham Inclosure Bill, were respectively read a second time. VENTNOR IMPROVEMENT BILL. The Ventnor Improvement Bill was read a second time. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. Messengers from the Lords brought down certain Bills. NOTICE OF MOTION. DETACHED COUNTIES BILL. Mr. COLVILLE gave notice that in committee on the detached parts of Counties Bill, he should propose certain amendments. DUCHY OF CORNWALL. Sir R. PEEL gave notice that, this day fortnight, he would move fur leave to bring in a Bill for defining and regulating the rights of the Duchy of Cornwall. IMPORT DUTIES. Mr. COBDEN postponed to this day week, the motion of which he had given notice fur this evening, on the subject of the Import Duties. THE FRANCHISE. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD gave notice that he would on 'Tuesday, the 14th of May, propose a measure for the extension of the franchise. WELSH TOLLS. Colonel WOOD postponed to Wednesday, May 15, the motion of which he had given notice on the subject of tolls on lime in Wales. Captain PECHELL wished to know from the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Cancellor of the Exchequer whe. ther any additional facility has been afforded to those persons whose income being under 150/. had been taxed for the income tax, to enable them to get back the sums deducted from their small incomes. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the greatest care had been taken to expedite the returning of their money to those parties. Where delay had occurred it arose from the parties themseives not coming forward. If the Hon. Gentleman could point out any case where unnecessary delay had occurred, he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) should be happy to remedy it. (LEFT SITTING.) STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, APRIL 26.—A steady though not very extensive busines continues to be done in Foreign Wools. The advance which has been obtained at the recent London sales, has also given rather a firmer tone to prices in this market. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, APRIL 26.—We have not any alteration to report in the state of the English wool market during the present week. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, APRIL 26.—The market con tinues firm at previous prices. No alteration has taken place in any descriptions. LEEDS.—On Saturday there was a full average market at our cloth halls, compared with the markets of the last three months, but on Tuesday there was rather less business done. The demand is still for goods calculated for the home spring trade, and low goods for shipping, the supply of which are limited in quantity, and are taken out nearly as they come in. The stocks of goods of almost every description are lower than they have been for several years, and prices are rather looking up, particularly in low qualities. 1 here con. tinues to be a good steady business doing in the warehouses. The stocks of finished goods are light, and there is every prospect that goods will be higher in consequence of the ad vance in the price of wool, particularly in low qualities. HECKMONDWIKE BLANKET MARKET, TRURSDAY.---There is no alteration to report in this market since our last ; very few blankets were offered to-day, most of the manufacturers being engaged with orders for some weeks. _ _ BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—In Pieces there are no material change in either prices or demand since our last. Yarns are moved off as produced, and the spinners are gene rally bare of stock, which will prevent any further decline in prices. During the week there has been more inquiry for Wool, and somewhat more business has been done. TRADE OF MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.-There has been a large business done in cloth this week, and the demand has, if anything, increased since Tuesday, though in prices the buyer has had the advantage. This arises from the manufacturers being willing sellers, and where a very slight advantage has been conceoed to the buyer, there has been no difficulty in clearing off large lots. In twist, an active business has been carried on, at prices not quotably different from those of last week.—Leeds THE LATE MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT THE ROYAL HOTEL, CLIFTON.—The gentleman of the name of Heathcote, who was stopping at the above hotel, and who, on Tuesday night, in a state of great alarm, con sequent on a fire breaking out in his bedroom, jumped from the window into the street, and was greatly hurt, continued to linger at the infirmary, to which place he had been immediately conveyed, until Sunday morning, when he expired. From the first very faint hopes were entertained of his recovery, and indeed so dreadful were the injuries which he had sustained, that it was scarcely to be desired that he should live, for had he done so, he must have been a maimed and disfigured man for the re mainder of his days. The inquest on the body was held at the infirmary on Monday afternoon, when the jury, after the examination of several witnesses, returned a verdict of " Accidental death." "'The two superb mansions at Albert Gate, on the site of the old Cannon Brewery, are now nearly completed. The building portion of the work is nearly finished, and preparations will shortly be commenced on a scale of sump tuous magnificence to make them ready for the reception of their noble tenants, the Marquis of Abercorn and the Earl of Leicester. There is now a continuous communication over the Grosvenor Pimlico estate, through Belgrave, Eaton Chester, Eccleston, Warwick, and St. G eorge ' s squares, ' direct to Vauxhall-bridge. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS. April 29. THE BUDGET. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (in continuation from our Third Edition)—The House must bear in mind• that, in the present year, that fund has been produced by the imposition of an extraordi nary tax in the year 1842, and which produces 5,100,0001., which is the main ground of sur plus which, this evening, I have announced to the House of Commons. Now, I will call the attention of the House to the circumstances under which that tax was imposed. It was imposed at a period when the country had been labouring for a considerable number of years under the evil of the revenue of the country failing to equal the expenditure, and when there was the necessity for great exertion in order to make the revenue sufficient to bear the necessary charges of the country. It was imposed also with • another object—namely, with a view of giving relief to the commercial interests of the country, by reducing the amount of taxes upon a variety of articles, and for the purpose of trying the experiment whether by immediate reduction in certain duties you might not bring round in a limited period the revenue to the same amount as that which it was before the reduc tion took place. It was imposed, therefore, with the double object of supplying, during an interval, the previous deficiency of the regular revenue of.the country, and for giving time for the repealed duties to recover, so as to be as pro ductive as before the reduction was effected; with that view it was submitted by my Right Hon. Friend to the House, and he stated his opinion, that if that tax were continued for five years, it would have the effect which he anticipated.—(Cries of " Three years.") My Right Hon. Friend took it for a shorter period.—(Laughter.) My Right Hon. Friend indeed took it for a shorter period for three years—and he did so on this ground, that if at the expiration of that period the result which he had anticipated to occur at the end of five years should not occur, then the House would have an opportunity of considering whether they would continue that impost for the same period, or whether they would take another mode of supplying any deficiency which might exist. I have no hesitation in saying that, at the present moment, I cannot form any estimate of what those reductions may be. 'When I look at the list of arti cles in the tariff on which reductions of duty took place, and at the increased consumption which has taken place of those—when I find that only on five has consumption decreased, while on all the rest con sumption has increased —I must say, I entertain, very sanguine feeli ngs as t o th e u l t i mate success of the ex periment. But the House will be good enough to bear in mind that in some main articles—timber, I will espe cially mention on which a reduction of the duty has taken place, that reduction did not come into operation until the middle of last year. The exp e ri men t, th ere f ore , i n th ese i ns t ances, has not had a fair trial ; and I am not therefore pre pared to say what course ought hereafter to be pur sued in respect of them. In the course of the next year the peoperty-tax must necessarily come under' the consideration of the House, and it will be for it to say what course it will pursue with respect to the continuance or discontinuance of that impost. Such being the circumstances, I think it must be obvious to every one that I should not have acted a becoming part if I had induced the House to consent to a large reduction of duty, which might have had - but one effect, namely, . that of hindering Parliament from coming to an unfettered decision on the financial condition of the country in the course of the next year. It is, there fore, that I think this is not the period for the 'House to entertain propositions for any reduction—for alny. considerable amount of reduction—of the taxation' ot the country. But there is another reason which, independently of the property-tax, must have contd. derable weight with the House in inducing it to pursue the course which we now recoramend . We have had, as the House is aware, a de w ciency of revenue as compared with expenditure, for a series of years. That deficiency continued far six successive years, and though for the present v have mastered it, yet it should be recollected by th ee House that we are still suffering from the conse quences of it. Those deficieneies had to be met either by adding to the debt of the country, or by drawing on the decreasing amount in the Exchequer, in $ way which it was not safe for any country to de' Why, Sir, when I addressed the House in the course of the last year, the balances in the Exchequer we i: r e under 1,000,0001. per month ; by the adu e tion of the surplus of the revenue during the present year, those balances had arisen to 11 2,000,0001. to 2,400,0001. But when we had a balance of only 1,000,0001. per month in the D ( ' chequer, what was the state of our account at the Bank of England? We were obliged to borrow 2,700,000/. in anticipation of the revenue, while We were at the same time obliged to borrow 5,000,000/. more in deficiency bills, for the purp ose of paying the public creditor the sums which wer e due to him. I think, therefore, that we Car not act wisely for ourselves, or honourab l y for the country, or, indeed, safely f o r its interests; e do not make some effort to return to such e state of prosperity as will place the balances in the tr chequer in a position that will enable it to liquida te its payments to its creditors, and to bring the dernen.r, of the Bank on account of these deficiency hi l , l ! within some limited compass ; or, at all eventss.."l render the Government so far independent Of t° „ 11 assistance, that it may have at its disposal a e°";; siderable portion of the sum required for its 0 1 1 quarterly expenditure. The p re s e nt qu arter ° the year is at all times one of great TO e, sure on the finances, in consequence of the payrati on account of the National Debt. We require ler% balances in the Ex c he quer , i n or d er th a t we may ecti‘‘,; dependent of the Bank to a c er t a i n d egree , an d coe,e ll 'i the operations of the Government on the priacir e 4 have just stated. Under these impressions, so strolls y e do I feel the importance of this course, that even if t ilet had been no question involving the continuance of th property-tax coming on in the course of the next Yet: I should not have thought I was acting the part of "'" honest man or a conscientious Minister, if I had fo r borne to ask the House to apply the surplus of the Pr; sent year to the augmentation of th e b a l a nces in t Exchequer. I trust, and indeed I feel confidel that the House, acting on the principle W,l llc ,i guided it on a former occasion, will not he ' „ tate to comply with that request. I forget that when I brought forward the proposal for te e reduction of the Three-and-a-Half p e r Cents., the /Pe% at once cordially concurred in the sentiment that /l should not relieve ourselves at the risk of hazard' °o. 1 dangers to be incurred hereafter, or at the expense, ° those who are to come after us. And upon that er; ciple I now call uPox the House not to give themset s temporary relief by a present re m i s sion of t a xation, ~`";i to place the finances o f th e country u p on a f o oting tP7, will 'enable it hereafter to follow the bent of lis inclinations, and give relief to its donstitUe° without endangering the credit of the countri t ; or risking its ability t o mee t th e paytnell it was bound to make.—(Cheers.) These are the 1 sons which have induced me to resist the large demo°. which have been made u p on us from Ya ry ' 13 0 ous quarters for a reduction of taxation. t .,4, at the same time there are some a rticles on whirl taxes are imposed, upon which ei t her a partial or t° ," :,. 4 reduction of the duty may be made without much ivir ti , to the revenue, but the removal of which may be c to lated to give an impetus and improvement trade. I propose to submit to the House . 01 variety of articles, more or less of importance, in 1 ,111 t , I think some reduction of the duty may be made. Ftr. 9 o with respect to those articles that will affect the D tC 2 e revenue b , I allude to a regulation with respect to , article of glass. I ha v e h a d an a ppli ca tion made to If; to repeal the wh o l e o f th e d u ti es on that atti c but that I am not goin g to do.—(Hear, hear, an d to laugh.) Th a t i s not th e course I am about 0 pursue ; but the re i s one port i on o f t h e d u ty en g s ta which I think I can s a ti s fy th e H ouse ma y be reee'l e - b without injury to the revenue , an d th e e ff e ct ofwb. o would give facility to trade. I allude to the distinotithe duties on flirt glass and bottle glass. Flint glass, e l es present moment, pays a duty of 2d., while bottle gboase pays only a duty of th r ee f a rthi ngs ; each 0f t to articles, upon exportation, are entitled the receive a drawback, nearly amounting t ° „, i 'd to whole of the duty ; and, in order to put e t :,, s — ade fraud, the la w enact s th a t no d raw b ac k s hell r Now on flint-glass, unless its price is sd. a pound' ode the fact is. that there have been great improvemen ts tu rere in the manufacture of that article. M a ny mandia e a if can make flint-glass at less than sd. a p ou nd ; e n . he ir they• do so, then they are deprived of he drawback, added to which, when they go into t market they have to compete with the f ore i g ner, wh° ' manufacturing his glass at a less price, has the advan tage. There is another necessity why sone alteratiohe should be made—there is grea t difficulty, so well is i t so article manufactured, in discovering which is bott le g a and which is flint glass ; and when the claim for the drag. back comes, there are perpetual disputes as to the dtl_titi Under these circumstances, I am of opinion that it W0t!..1 be beneficial to remove the distinctive duty between of. and bottle glass. The reduction will only amount tot,fr limited sum of 45,0001. a-year, but in 0* present y ea it will be only 35,000/., as I propose that the reductien: not to take place till the sth of July, by which tie it the manufacturers will have an opport u nity to bond glass, and avoid the imposition of the duty. The u.„ l/ 0 . on bottle glass being three f ar thi ngs , an d on flint glass t r ;', l t pence, I propose that the duty on b o th s h a ll be le" y three farthings. There i s anot h er ar ti c l e su bj e ct to du o to which I am d es i rous o f ca lli ng the attention of the 1 -I °t,is with a view to its repeal—l mean the duty on the artie-be of vinegar.—(Great la ug hte r .) It ma y excite ' et laughter or ridicule of H on . G en tl emen who are e . quite aware of the bearing such articles have upon Ine r li e , factures; but looking to these considerations, I cannot 1° bear dealing with them. Now, if Hon. Gentlemen reed he ninth report of the Excise Commissioners, they will this that, so far bacleas the year 1834, the repeal of t er • duty . on vinegar was recommended.—(Hear.) The C O l missioners stated that the produce of the duty in the )_re year was 23,0001., for the due protection of which th.hi, was a code of regulations under the 58th o f George -` to with regard to which they observed it was difficult for concede on what ground it was necessary to provid v ies the protection of so small an amount of duty by a i, or e, of provisions of so complicated and exten s ive a no e s, e s, The Act in question contained twenty-nine clans the infringement of which was punished b penalties varying from 1001. to 500/. The circunist a n ° o . of vinegar being used by calico printers, a nd that 03 ! 4 "be facturers would be much benefited by the repeal o t .' e a duties, as well as the benefit which the public der ig oo l from an article so generally in use, were all additi t o f in favour of a repeal of the duty. This was the opine 833'4. a gentleman ho directed the excise in 1833 and 0 I may observe to the House, that vinegar only PaY s es a duty when it is made by the manufacturer for sale; of therefore, as in the case of beer, the duty falls hearts, upon those who have not the m eans o f ma ki n g the f ro g~ cle for themselves, and are obliged t o p urc h a se it, for the manufacturer, whil s t th ose w h o can ma ke D d a themselves are altogether e x em pt f rom the b° The that presses upon their poorer brethren. ad revenue, revenue, in this respect, has but little ther e !: to since the period I have allud e d t o . It amenni:l e d, 25,000/., and is a t ax w hi c h I thi n k oug ht t o b e rePe" is Acids of a particul a r ki n d are essen ti a lly n ecessar•l o p many branches of manuf ac t ure , suc h as ca li c o-print for instance; and in ord er t o g i ve t o th e manuftee t ee the advantage of procuring those acids cheaply. „des law provided that pyroligneo us ac id s i n a Cr- de. impure, and unrectified state, s h ou ld be n i ; O s without payment of duty at all. This coscee" dr er, was intended for the benefit of the manufeet r eti At the time the concession was made it was consiu'd a very considerable one, because manufacturers m e t pyroligneous acids in the state contemplated by the re r of Parliament. But as the skill of th e manUfet n tu ro li improved, those acids were produced in an ireir t hae state, which offered more ad van t ages i n t h e i r tlee_,„" o r if they were sited in what he migh t ca ll th e i r Parlieu' e sf tary state.—(Laughter.)- I will, however, allow onti t ol. for the dealer to get r id o f t h e stoc k on tPacco The next sutiject is o n e o f cons id era bl e iuipor—s tbe both as regards its cons equences t o th e comm erce ? t. h 1 country, and the amount of revenue d er i ve d fron t 1 • the propose to the House a considerable reduction nel'ase duty on mari ne assurance . By ma ki ng that I.° of' tion, we are likely to pr o d u c e an e ff ec t w hich l i t ", vantageous and appears a ttainabl e . T o those wh ° b o o l ° anything of marine insurance, it is obvious that it s re settle itself in Great Britain. Marine assura lic s e atic t quires large capital on the part of th ose who e°""f o re , it, and perfect confidence in their honour. If, there„, sag there be any country in the world in which I shO giu c osh' marine insurance would flourish above any other (10 00 try, it is Great Britain, possessing, as it yet/ capital, integrity, and great extent of territory' - en tha t notwithstanding these things, marine insurance te ios 0 ' decline. The tax was originally imposed in t pferi war, and was valued at a very large amount. os in" ship that sailed, and all the property it carried , "' re but cured, and they could be insured no wh o s vhel l in this country. But then, after the peac e .' u tioo s, the country was suffering under heavy contriudotioll imposed for the carrying on of the war, v° r e e ; , 0 34 was made in the duty on marine insurance. But 010 the pressure of this duty was felt to be so gre! t wbic h Lord Auckland, acting upon the principle I. l l )° _" ries in' I now propose to act, reduced the duty on m e ldereh i s ° surance to one-halt; and calculated upon a L 4! Lail loss to the revenue. But in that calculatio toith . Auckland was mistaken, for in two year!! n°het it standing that large reduction, the duty eattler , re sent had previously attained. The consequence ot o er- Britls to c h h ig a h nt r s ate i s ns o u f re ins i u n ra f n or c e e ig i n s t c h o a u t nt a r t ie p s re i s n ent Pr the Ma d : 1 0._ ° their own ; and in Hamburgh, for instance, In our - 11/ marine insurance has sery . much increased. tint o country, in marine insurance the . Tan:, 'to say duty has decreased, and I am s e r e- to t materially so, a fact which I certainly v. present high rate of duty. There j 5 at another--ti ra cire °l ; stance which makes the duty on marin e e i n o s e urencoh England heavier in many instances. :In derably less t goods sent by steam-vessels is consi shor t tiri when sent by sailine• vessels ; therefore .R.l ohttrgh eference as between this country and France, and Pla 64 ON 400 lLy3s. 6.4 1894 154 28 1614 100 fg 40$. 21s. 4% 170 205 12% 110 41 41% 155 '5 O 7 81 50 60 - . 74% 19% 5% 16). 341( tl l ,‘ 25 28% 11