The Sun. — London, England, 1851-04-29 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 28. The House met this aftercoon for the first time after the Easter reeea3, the SPEA.SER taking the Chair at Four o'clock. NEW MEMBERS. Mr. SerirenntMulipizir t o ok the oaths and his seat for Cork; Mr.' FRESTIFIELD took the oaths and his seat for Boston; and Mr. MONCRIEFF : the Lord Advocate for Scotland, took the oaths and his seat for Leith. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed: Aberdeen Public Records. Harwich Improvement, Quays, and Pier. Heathcote's Divorce. Richmond and Lancaster Turnpike Road (Western Dis trict) Continuation of Term, &c. The following Bills were considered and agreed to:— Charing Cross Bridge. Royal Naval School. PETITIONS. Mr. HASTIE presented a petition :against Papal agcresA on. Mr. G. BERKELEY presented petitions from Glou cestershire to the same Pffect. Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented a large number o petitions from place; in Lincolnshire coropi:4ining of agri. cultural distre:;sl. Mr. SIOONEE presented a petition praying for a more equal fl djuit talent of the income-tax. Mr. PITZEIoY presented a petition praying that the Cor.)eers' Bill may be referred to the consideration of a t%:eiee,*. Committee. Mr. COWAN presented several petitions from places in Scotland against Papal aggression. Lord BERNARD presented two petitions to the same effect from places in the county of Limerick. Mr. BERRIES gave notice that'he should to-morrow present a peti(ion from the shipowners of London, and move that it be printed. Mr. ANSTEY presented petitions from 400 members of the Jewish persuasion in London a gainst the Sunday Trading Bill. Mr. SPOONER presented a petition from Cirencester against the property-tax. et ition from the clergy and Mr- CHILD presented a p inhabitant s o f Colwich, Staffordshire, against Papal aggression. Mr. ELLIS presented a petition from the Cocker. mouth and Workington Railway Company praying f or a more equitable ra tin g of railwaYs. Mr. FULLER' prese nted a petition from B o di am, Sussex, comp l a ining of agricultural distress; also peti tions from Wartiing, Brede, and Ucktield, Sussex, and from Horsemonden, Hawkhurst, and Breneh ley, K. „ t , praying that ld. in the pound might be taken off hops. INCOME-TAX. Colonel, SIBTHOItP gave notice that when the House went j ut° Ci,mmittee on the Property and Income-tax Bill he should move amendment s t o the effect that tenant f a rmers and occupiers of land, as well as officers in the army and navy, should be exempted from the tax. REPEAL OF THE MALT-TAX. Mr. PACKE gave notice that when the Hon. Member (Mr. Cayley) brought forward his motion for the repeal of the malt-tax, he should move an amendment to the effect that half the tax be repealed. AMENDMENTS ON ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL. Lord J. RUSSELL said that perhaps it might be con venient if. he were to state now, agreeably to his pro mise before the recev, the view which the Government took with r egar d t o the amendments which were pro posed to be inserted in the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill in Committee, end more particularly those which had been propsed by the Honourable Member for Midhurst. With respect to the first clause in those amendments, her Mjesty's:Ministers would have no objection to it in brinciple, but they thought that it would be carried into effec; more completely by the terms of the preamble of their own Bid. With regard to the other clauses which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had given notice of, her majesty's. Ministers had found, aster full consideration, that they ecull not agree in them. With respect to the preleab!e of the Bill he (the Noble Lord) wished to re serve any opinion until the ilouse should have gone through the clauses and settled what form the enactment vv,.uid take. CEYLON. Mr. BAILLIE wished to know, a 3 the Hon. Member for Montrose but expressed some opinions on this sub ject, Ord had given notice of a motion which might ma teridly affect the state of the question, whether there was any intention or the part of Government to carry the recommendations which had been made into effect? Lord J. RUSSELL said that the recommendations had been so vague that ha bad not presumed to act upon thzm, and that he waitni for further advices before he cc,aid express any opinion whatever. PROPERTY AND INCOME TAX. The House then proceeded to the orders of the day, and the motion for the secoad, reading of the Property and Income-tax Bill having been put, Mr. SPOONER said that he rose to move an amend ment that this motion should be postponed till this day six months.ln 1842 Sir R. Peel proposed the imposition of an income-tax because he found an empty exchequer; but with that imposition, to which Parliament had con sentee, there was also a condition annexed—that it should not be continued for more than three years. It wen a tax upon income; and that tax was manifestly imposed for a peculiar purpose, and for a particular tele-. In 1846 the deficiency in the Exchequer had bees supplied, but then came forward the grand financial projec - s oi Sir Robert Peel. He had determined to do featly with most of our indirect taxes, and then the inc ene- ex eau continued for three years. This carried the matter un until 1848, when the aspect of Europe was sech that it was not difliault to get an Act to carry on the tax far three years longer. Bat a time had now arisen in which there was no cennplaint of want in the exchequer, when, in fact, the Chancellor had a surplus, and no necessity existed for tee ccntinuance of this tax. It was unnecessary to go into any arguments against this tax, because nothing het the greatest emergency coald justify it. The late Mr. Francis Horner, as far back as 1315, stigmatized it as an unjust tax, and called upon the then Cbencelior of the Exchequer to abandon t, while the Noble Lord himself, who was at the head of the present Government when this tax was first introduced, denounced it as not only unequal in its operation, but also liable to lead to much fraud and deception. Now that was the character of the tax as given by those who now proposed its continuance; and he put it to th e H ouse w h et h er i t was prudent, in the existing state of agriculture, to persevere with this measure? If Government did, all he could s ay was, that they would find themselves mistaken if they thought it would lead to no opposition or resist ance out of doors. No tax, in fact, was more obnoxious to a n d he, therefore,us to the great mass of the implored the House not to sanction its continuance. He knew instanc e s in which p e rsons rather than thew their b coks, and let their affairs be known to the world, had submitted to pay extortionate sums under this tax; and he was quite sure if the House knew how unequal this iniquitous tax pressed on the people, it would pause before it gave its sanction to the second reading oft •e, Bill. The Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary for the Home Department, in a very short, but very power ful end able speech, said on a former occasion, if he had the melancholy prospect before him of this becoming a Perrneeeent tax, he •would endeavour to diminish its inequelhy ; but, looking to its probable dura tion, lie should not object to it then, thinking that if its ieequali:Le remained, they might on a future occasion resist the tax with more effect. lilt the Right Hoc. Gentleman, who entertained that opinion when he Wi3 out of offic , now came and asked the llou le , whol ters alteration whatever. to agree to the Vt-XitiOU3 tax without any a whatever. hatever. `Then, again, Viscount theinfluential Go vernment, said to impose a tax on income and on property ems obviously that the income tax unjust, and he agreed tax should be confined to periods of the greatest c',untry was invotenb passible emergency, such as when the war or suffering under serious difficulties. That la_ Lord was high in office, was a . clever and able , man, lik ly to adopt and was not remark hastily, and he hoped that when this ex it .. went to the Noble Lord in another place, he would and say how he came 1 to P " his opinions on taxa tion.ahtis support to the Chancellor of the exchequer, Chanc a time when the country was involved in no war and wh there was a surplus revenue. H e .._ " , en Ch a ncellor of the Exche quer , and h ic e t came to the that all the Right Hon. Gentleman said mademust confess on his mind, and that he heard a strong impression all that came from him with groat delight. He said that .` so far fro m this tax pressing exclusively on the rich, i t pressed on the labouring cLtss es, and diminished the mean s 'O f employment, and that he did not believe that the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir Robert Peel) could think that it pressed more exclusively on the rich, b 3. cause, if he did, . w hy had he not imp osed the tax on the people of Ireland?" It was a well known f a d, which Honoureble Gentlemen on the other side would have difficulty in denying, that ever since the year 1819 poverty bad been increasing in the country meet rapidly, that poor- ra tes were consuming the whole produce of the land, and that farmers could not contitmene occupy, even if they had no rent to pay. The Hon. Gentleman 'to the Under -Secretary for the Colonies, ' man opposl , lu 1844, was ono of the most vehement opposers of the tax, and had made a most decided speech against it.—(tesar.) Red he his opinion? ti as another class he now altered Bet there . ._ ass to which he wished to call the attention of the House and that was the tenant farmers of England, No el t uS was more oppressed by this tax than that, and so ha when the tax was first pr told the House years ago, were assessed upon a o t unded. Tenant farmers erroneous basis, and if the untajxust and grossly tinued, it would bet nothing but right tat some change must be con should be made in this part of it. There were other in equelities in the tax wh i c h he could point out, but as they must long ago have become familiar to the House and the country, be should abstain from doing 50. The distinction, however, that was made between the l holder and the fendholder w as meet unjust and i znd litic, inasmuch as the manner in which the tax was leviedf'°- mado the former pay almost twice as much as the latter. The tax, in a word, was grossly unequal and vexatious; it also held out a premium to commit fraud, a n d gave rise to a good deal of deception which would be well avoided at the expense of the tax. That, in fact, was the effect or these taxes, and nothing could possibly remedy the evil. What, therefore, he naked 01 . 0/IbUse was, that they should take all these ntWs‘ilktp-con4ideration. The principle bad been de rll'- erare - yreatkags,Nhen Lord Stanley made his celebrated 1-411___Li6tiun-fwPOl6l4 the income-tax, and then it was de /< imeo tit.terms;:' tbqugh not in words, that at the , 4 !.-41piptio* -- O t lie, • seal time the tax would be i t f; Artlttede SOttie A/ topte had been made to increase the j z f\ ;.(icae,',but4Usitint to a certain extent signally failed. desirable e: . > Ney - ertstreiM t ' ekoeeditigly le t the ex t q ~.- - . N 1, whiclS tko public had conceived ebOtild 1.1 A THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1851. be gratified, and that the income-tax should be r remitted altogether, Now he was also sure that the re mission of the window duty for a house tax was an un certainty on which they never could rely. When he had previously brought forward this motion the Noble Lord at the head of the Government had been pleased t say that he would look into the matter. He did not know how the change of circumstances could affect the change of measures. This was no party question, and he would therefore beg to remind his Lord ship that he had already assented to the necessity of abandoning the duty upon insurances. He believed that the tax was part of a system the effect of which would be to undermine the strength and re sources of the country, and on that conviction he should move that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr. MUNTZ seconded the a mendment, and in doing so begged to say that he concurred generally in what had fallen from his Hon. Friend who had just spoken. His Hon. Friend and himself were in the position of lo r u e se t: being better a bl e t o j u dge of the iniquitous working of They th eincwocheree-btaoxththpalancmedostin a o f the e r thecountry where Membersof that i large proportion of the manufacturers were small men, and they were able to s ee that on those small men t h e tax fell most unjustly.—(Hear, hear.) Next to the tenant-farmers, indeed—(Hear, hear)—who were obliged to pay whether they made any profits or not, the small manufacturers were more oppressed by the t ax t h an any other portion of the community.—(Hear,) These men were notoriously surcharged, often more than once. They were surcharged on their first returns, and, not being able to show their books, were obliged to pay. The thing went on, and he had known ,instances where persons had been surcharged three or four times over. Could anything be more unjust than that?—(Elear.) It was a common practice for them to come to him and ask what they should do; but all he could say to them was, that they should produce their books, show what their profits were, and so get off. Their reply to this was, that they could not do so without letting their neighbours into a knowledge of their business, and that they would rather pay the tax than show their books under such circumitances.—(Hear, hear,) For himself, he must say he would rather pay double the amount of the property-tax than such an inquisitorial, unjust income-tax, as the present. The great difficult; with him was, how they w e r e to get rid of suc h a t a x. He saw no end to it. It was a tax for ever. He asked the House, if the principle was to be recognised, how were they to get rid of the tax? —(Hear, hear.) Could they get quit of it as they got quit of the duty on bricks or coffee? It was clearly impossible. His Hon. Friend (Mr. Spooner) was wrong when he denied that any re duction had taken place in the price of bricks. He (Mr. Muntz) paid from Bs. 6d. to 9s. the teousand less for bricks than formerly. At the same time the abolition of that tax only gave partial relief, for it was a tax that operated very partially in many parts of the country where nothing but stone was used for building. Instead of the brick-tax, therefore, they should have taken off the income-tax, and if necessary imposed an increased property-tax. He remembered after the first year's collection of the income-tax having occa sion to wait upon Sir Robert Peel on business, when he referred to his (Mr. Muntz's) having voted for the tax, and then said it was the prettiest way of adding five million pounds to the revenue. He (Mr. Muntz) said he had voted for the tax because he did not think any tax could be imposed on the working classes, and ho saw no prospect that any other could be paid. By the way in which it was levied, however, he had no hesitation in saying that it was the means of making men rob them selves in the most iniquitous manner.—(Hear, hear.) It was said that the window-tax was to be repealed; but it was the middle class who paid the window -tax, and he contended that they ought first to take off those taxes that pressed most heavily on those least able to bear them. There were a vast number of his constituents who paid the income-tax who never paid one shilling of window duty. They talked about taking off the taxes on articles of consumption. Was the window-tax an article of consumption? Yet they had repealed it, taking care, however, to put it all on again in the shape of a house-tax.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. FRESHFIELD, having had no opportunity of joining in the previous deliberations of the House on this question, and as this was the stage at which the prin ciple of the Bill would be determined, was anxious, on personal grounds, to guard against any misconstruction that might arise from the course he might take will re gard to voting on that occasion. The question was, whether the income-tax, with all the objections that had been rated against it, as being a war-tax now proposed in time of peace, was to be continued, or whether they were prepared with some other provisions by which the expenditure of the country could be so met as to war rant them in rejecting the Bill? Were they to agree to the second reading of the Bill that night, with the dis tinct understanding that it would be so modified in Committee as to free it from many of the objections urged against it, though not to the principle itself ? (Hear.) In 1842, when Sir Robert Peel brought for ward this tax, and was so strongly opposed by gentle men now on the Government side, on the ground that it was essentially a war -tax, he had this excuse, that there was a deficiency in the revenue of 4,800,0001., while we were engaged in fighting on the Indus and in China. Then in 1845, though Sir R. Peel had a surplus, he was enabled to obtain a renewal of the income-tax, on account of the many taxes which he then remitted and moderated. In 1848, when the measure was again introduced, not by Sir It. Peel, but by the present Government, there was an excuse, if not re justification of it, found in the misceievous measure of 1846; for the period was approaching when, in IS4U, an end would be put to the revenue from the importation of corn. In 1842 the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) stated that, h. 41 the commercial measures proposed by him in 1841 been adopted, he believed there would have been no neci ssity for the Bill then introduced. What was the ceretnercial measure of the Noble Lord? It was a fixed duty of Bs. Now that the present measure was before the House might they not hope, when they got into Committee, to have brought under their considera tion the commercial measure that was desired by the Noble Lord in 1841 as some reason why a part of the in come-tax should be abandoned? He wirhed, when he voted for the second reading of the Bill—for he was not prepared to give up so much revenue without a sub stitute—to guard himself against its being supposed that anything would induce him to vets for this measure if he did not belitve that there would be important altera tions made in Committee—alterations as to extent in point of time, the objects of the tax, and also the amount of the tax.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped the Noble Lord would find some substitute for the schedule affecting the tenant-farmers, and he concurred in all that had been said with reference to annuitants by the Honourable Member (Mr. Spooner). With re gard to the proposal of the Chanceliur of the .xche , quer to give up one direct tax, and substitute another in its place, he drew from it the inference that there was to be a reconsideration of the whole subject of taxation, and that a more just system would be the result.—(Hear, hear.) In conclusion, he would v o t e for a renewal f the income-tax, but for a limited time only, in order to give the Government time to consider what more befitting mode of taxation ought to be adopted.—(Hear, hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could not congratulate his Hon. Friend opposite (Mr. Spooner) upon any great accordance between him and the Hon. Gentleman who had seconded his amendment; for, though they agreed on the general point that the Bill ought to be rejected, there was not a single point in the argument on which they did not differ.—(Hear, hear.) Th e Hon. Member for North Warwickshire stated that the great grievance of the income-tax was the existing unjust pressure nn the lauded proprietors included in schedule A. The Hon. Member for Birmingham, on the contrary, was perfectly willing to double the pressure on the land by increasing the property-tax, but thought it unjust that the same rate should be imposed on trade.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for North Warwickshire spoke of the repeal of the duty on bricks as not having reduced in any way the price of bricks; while the Hon. Member for Birmingham said he himself paid Bs. 6d. a thousand less for bricks than he did before. This was a proof that considerable benefit had been conferred on a large portion of the community. The Hon. Gentleman, however, gave the oddest reason against the repeal of the tax. He said it was an exceedingly partial tax, and, therefore, ought not to have been , repealed.—(A laugh.) The Hon, Gentleman (Mr. Muntz) blamed him exceedingly for taking off the window duty and not repealing — the income-tax. Now, the House had, o❑ former occasions, rejected motions for the repeal of the window-tax; but he found, on referring to the division list, that the Hon. Gentleman was one of those who ♦oted with the Noble Lord 'the Member for Bath on his motion for the total repeal of that tax.— (A laugh.) The Hon. Gentleman was one of those who last year voted for the repeal of the window-tax; and how he could now object to hit (the Chancellor of the Exche quer) repealing that objectionable tax it would piazz: him, h e t h oug h t , t o ex pl a i n .—(H ear, hear.) H e wou ld not detain the House long upon this question, as he thought it would not require many words to prove that the Souse ought not to assent to the amendment of the Hon. Gentleman oppotiti. He had proposed the re- Thnigit made what was a newat o f the income-tax for a limited number of years. Lien. Gentleman opposite (M r . H err i es ) thereupon fair proposition for him te make. He proposed that the tax should be renewed 01 ly to a certain extent. The Right Hon. Gentleman knew well what was the state of the finances, and he proposed to renew the income-tax to such an extent as would l e ave what he thought an adequate revenue. He knew too well what was d ue to the credit of this country and to the maintenance of its establishments not to propose the " n tlithance of such a portion was the income - tax at least as n ecessary for those im portant purposes. It was his (the Chancellor of the Exchequer's) duty to resist that m ot i on of the Right il°use had Hon. Gentleman, 'Tel a majority of the " l ouse concurred w i t h hi m in the opinion he held, and voted the renewal of the determined,inco income-tax ons fo i o tei tha tin . i t_ e. The _ vote, that a gi ven amount of revenue should erqen a l limited t t be sacrificed by the r e p eal of the window-tax, and by the reduction of the d u ti es on t c a u coffee and timber.tax'an All these things would ha ve been motion of the Right lion. Gentle man impossible if the tax, the House had on the renewal of the income Now, if (Mr. Herries) had succeeded. - But, having determined Gentleman (Mr. Spooner) was amendment of the Hon. Gen the duties on deter mined that other taxes should be repealed. ow, the but the repeal of the coffee and timber be given up, carried, not only must the reduction o f (Mr. Herries) duties must be surrendered also; and more than that, whil e the Right Hon. Gentleman ‘ would have loft revenue enough to maintain the esta blishments o f the country, the proposition o f thelion. Gentleman (Mr. Spooner) on the present occasion would, if carried, render necessary the imposition of further taxes. lie stated, on the first occasion on which he had brought the ::object before the House, that if the income tax were not to be renewed there would be a deficiency of 1,000,000/. this year, and of 3,500,0001. next year.— ' (Hear,' hear.) He wished to know if the Houu was i 1 prepared, after the vote to which it had already come, to go back to a state of matters in which nut only would there be none of the relief he had proposed to give, but in which it would be absolutely necessary to impose new taxes, not only for this year, but for next year also.— (Hear, hear.) That was a decision which, he believed, the House was not prepared to sanction, and therefore he trusted they would negative the proposition of the Hon. Gentleman.—(Hear, hear.) With regard to the various proposals to which the Hon. Gentleman had re ferred for modifying the tax, he would only say, as he hail done before, that they were very proper questions to be considered when they came into Committee. He would not now, therefore, go into the subject of the vari ous schedules, but would be prepared to do so very deli berately when the time for doing so came. In the mean time the question was, whether they should repeal the income•tax or continue it. He was not prepared to adopt the first of these proposals, and therefore he hoped the House would reject the amendment of the Hon. Gentleman, and reserve for the Committee a full consi deration of the various questions that might affect par ticular interests.—(Hear, hear.) Colonel SIBTHOR' asked the Chancellor of the Ex chequer whether it was his intention to go into Com mittee wirh the Bill on Friday next? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it certainly was his intention, if possible, to go into Com mittee on Frid.iy; but, as there were some motions on the paper which had precedence, he could not say whe ther he shculd he able to do so or not. Mr. MACGREGOR considered the schedules upon which the ir.conie dutiPs were now levied to be in themselves unjust, but h. would not say anything more on that sub ject until the Bill was in Committee. But this he would say, that rather than abolish the income-tax altogether, he would vote for it as it now stood, because they could not abolish it without imposing other taxes of a much more objectionable character. Mr. DISRAELI said it appeared to him that the ob jections which had been urged by the Hon. Member for Warwickshire (Mr. Spoono, many of which were very just, might be brought under consideration when the House should have res , lved itsflf into a Committee with much greater eff ,, et than on the present ecc, sion. Under those circumstances, and considering that his Honourable Friend had had an opportunity .4 making a very able statement to the House, he (Mr. Disraeli) did not think it was expedient to carry the discussion further then. For his own part, he ob jected to many of the provisions of the Government measure, but, at the same time, he was not prepared to express an opinion to the effect that he was entirely op posed to the general scheme of the Government proposi non. Therefore, seeing that his Hoe. Friend had already fully given his opinion; on the subject, and con sidering that he would again have an opportunity of ex pressing them in Committee, he trusted his Hon. Friend would not ask the House to divide on the present oc casion. Mr. SPOONER said he did not wish to press his mo tion against the feeling of the House, and he would therefore certainly consent to withdraw his amendment. The Hon. Gentleman here paused for a moment, and then said ho would not withdraw his amendment, but would prefer having it negatived. The amendment was then put and negatived. The Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday next. The Stamp Duties Assimilation Bill, the Exchequer bills (17,756,0001) Bill, and the Indemnity Bill were se verally read a third time and passed. The other orders of the day were then postponed. COMMITTEE ON CUSTOMS. Mr. MITCHELL moved that Mr. J. L. Ricardo be a member of this Committee in lieu of Mr. Fagan, who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. The CHANCELLOITOI T ihe EXCHEQUER sug gested that some Irish Member should be nominated in the place of Mr. Fagac,—and the name of Mr. Murphy, the newly-elected Member for Cork, was mentioned. Mr. MITCHELL objected to Mr. Murphy, as not being a man of commercial experience. The motion was finally withdrawn, with the under standing that it should be further considered on a future day. SWITZERLAND. The government of the canton of Tessin°, in Swit zerland, has just addressed the following circular to the commissaries, municipalities, and police agents of the canton : " It results from the official reports which have reached the Council of State that several Austrian deserters have lately arrived on our territory, and that there is reason to fear that others may follow their example. Such a state of things might give rise to serious complications, and be the means of introducing into our country a class of persons who would sooner or later become a charge to the State for want of being able to find an asylum in the neighbouring States. The Council of State in the interest of the tax-payers as well as to fulfil its federal duties, and from considerations of humanity towards the deserters themselves, invites you to use the strictest surveillance and to take the measures necessary to send those deserters back again over the frontiers of Lombardy from which they had arrived. It is important that the municipalities of the frontier should not delay the execution of this measure, in case of need, for their promptitude will prevent or alleviate the punishment in curred by the deserters." The Government of the Valais, in reply to a letter from the Sardinian Chargé d'Affaires in Switzerland relative to the construction of a carriage-road over the Great St. Bernard, has given an assurance that the work in that canton shall be completed by the time those on the Sardinian territory were finished. THE SEWAGE QUESTION. MR. DOVER'S DISINFECTING PLAN. Every one has heard of the convincing argument used by the Emperor Vespasian in defence of a certain item of taxation which formed part of the Imperial Budget. Drawing forth a piece of coin which had formed part of the contribution drawn from the obnoxious impost, he placed it under the nose of the remonstrant, and with the remark, non old mi filius, returned it to his purse, and Titus no doubt was convinced, for we hear ao more of his expostulations. Mr. Richard Dover is cer tainly the Vespasian of our day, for he proposes to draw a revenue of somewhere about 3,000,0001 per annum from those great sinks of impurity and filth which as yet have produced nothing but infection and disease—the sewers. If Mr. Dover should succeed in his plan, and carry out the promises which he makes, we doubt not that he will find the public of the present day le4s scrupulous than was the Emperor's son, and perfectly ready to con cur with him in any undertaking which will not only remove an evil of the greatest magnitude, but convert it into a source of profit and revenue. On Saturday last we were witnesses of some experi ments which that gentleman made, on a large beet., on some sewage water from the great Essex street sewer. The scene of his operations was an open space of ground on the banks of the river, directly over the sewer which discharges itself into the Thames at the bottom of Essex street; and into this grand canal of filth and abomina tions he had inserted a pipe, through which, by means of a force pump, he drew off into a large tank some gal lons of dark, filthy, rank-smelling sewage water, which in a few minutes more would have been precipitated into "Father Thames," and formed a part of the giant river so often apostrophised by poets and orators as waving the shores of the Queen of Cities. In this tank Mr. Dover had already placed a portion of the chemical preparation which is the main point of his discovery, and in a very short time the water which we ourselves had seen pumped into the tank dirty and of an almost overpowering odour, emerged through a tap at the opposite side as pure to the sight almost as a mountain brook, without the slightest offensive smell, and which, on being further passed through a common filterer, tasted not at all unlike a compound of Harrogate and Cheltenham waters. The result of this part of the experiment enacted before our own eyes was sufficiently satisfactory, and if Mr. Dover had no other object in view than that of rendering our river the pure and silvery stream which it was in ancient days, we should have no hesitation in pronouncing hits a public benefactor, and a more efficient conservator of the Thames than all the Lord Mayors who ever floated over it in a gilded barge. But the best part of the plan remains behind, and Mr. Dover does not let the sewage get off so easily. The che mical agent used by that gentleman to purify and deodorize the stream of filth, acts, by fixing and precipitating all those matters which emit noxious smells and poisonous gases, which at the same time are of the utmost value for agricultural purposes. A residium of these is thus left at the the bottom of the lade, which, by a drying pro cess, is converted into a dark coloured sandy substance, to which Mr. Dover has most uppropriately given the name of British guano; a large quantity of this was submitted to our inspection, and on putting it to the usual test of foreign guano, that of rubbing it between the hands, we found it did not discolour them. The practical experi ments which have been tried with this British guano in agriculture have been moat successful, and we are in formed that in the growing of turnips it has been found of the greatest veue. This Mr. Dover calculates could be sold to the farmer, with a fair profit to the manufacturer, at 51. per ton; and as this is not one half of the present market price of foreign guano, it becomes a serious question whether an extensive manufacture of this article would not really be a step in the right direction towards the alleviation of agricultural distress; particularly if the declaration made by a Noble Duke be correct, that with guan oat 51. per ton, the British farmer would grow wheat to a profit at five shillings per bushel. Mr. Dover proposes to erect works, of which the cost would be slight when compared with other projects which have been submitted to the public on the sewage question, at the exit of each sewer, and under his management, the dirty puddle of a Thames which flows through the metropolis would become a clear limpid stream, no longer the bearer of poisonous odours and deadly infection—an im portant point in the great sanitary question would be satisfactorily settled for ever, and the tons of agricul tural manure which each day are rolled uselessly on to the ocean, would he arrested, and made the means of increased fertility to our lands, and increased surplus in our revenue. The remuneration which Mr. Dover asks from Go vernment for his discovery is so moderate, as to re fleet discredit on thwm should they refuse to give him at least the advantage of a fair trial. They have before them a simple, efficacious plan for promoting, nay, en suring we mi d ; ht say, the sa n it ar y we lfa re o f t h e metro polis, cause in which th e y h ave b een f or some t i me oli boasting of their great zeal and anxiety, and with them rests the responsibility if they neglect to take advantage of the result of Mr. Dover's long experience and un wearied efforts. Wo understand that the experiment is to be repeated in a short time, and we shall then have much pleasure in announcing any new facts which may be elicited on a subject which must be of the greatest importance to every member of the community. THE BRIBERY AT THE LAST FALKIRK ELECTION. On notice being given by Mr. Edward Ellice of his Royal C omm i ss i on o f i nqu i ry i nto the lat e e l ection for St. Alban ' s, Mr. Cobden oen gave proceedings mnos a o T t e ic tf o ora that be would move, as an amend ment, that the Commission be also required to investi gate the proceedings at the late election for the Falkirk District of Burghs. It will perhaps be alleged as an objection to the amendment, that there can be no necessity to inquire into this case, seeing that the par ties who petitioned against the return of Mr. Bairn withdrew the petition without bringing it to trial, from want of evidence, apparently, to support the charges it contained. Should some Member of Parliament in his ignorance make such an objection, Mr. Cobden, we be efrom preli m i nar y i nves ti gat i ons w hi c h a to show that there is a gre a t l i r e e v a , t will rr e s be e n able,t being rnad reason for inquiry, and that the manner in which the petition was got up and was afterwards withdrawn, is as strong an argument for his motion as ally that can be derived from the proceedings during the election, as proving that besides the practices alleged to have been followed at that time, a transaction afterwards took place, from which it would appear that there is some one in the burghs assuming the right to manage their business as it they were his own domain, and as if Mr. Baird were an interloper whom he alone could have a right to call iu question. A Londoa barrister of great experience in election matters spent several days in this town last week, and is now, we be lieve, in one of the other burghs, making minute inquiry into the practices on both sides during the canvass. He is not carrying on his investigations with any view to unseat Mr. Baird, against whose return a second peti. tion cannot be received. His sole purpose, we believe, is to collect for Mr. Cobden and the other Mem bers of Parliament by whom he has been deputed, information which shall show the necessity of giving pro tection to the voter aga....st undue influence. It is said the evidence he has already gathered is of a very de cided character, and implicates both parties. What ever may be the nature of the protection to the voters intended to be proposed by Mr. Cobden, he will, at all events, sea from the evidence which will be submitted to him, that it is in vain to look to universal suffrage. He will be informed that the night before the nomina tion of candidates, three hundred of the unenfranchised —the men whom Feargus O'Connor delights to honour, who have cheered his democratic sentiments to the echo, and who, like that disinterested patriot, are pre pared to die for their rights—allowed themselves to be put in a state of brutal intoxication, and bartered their vaunted integrity for a few gills of whisky. Some of them, too drunk for the purpose for which they were intended, were carried from the scene of dissipation in carts, which were literally emptied of their cements in the open fields. It his been jocularly said. that the op en in g o f t h e p u blic -houses t o t h ese m e n was an experim e nt f or t h e p u rpose of ascertaining with what effect the system of treating could be carried on under a more extended franchise; and it must be acknowledged, that it fully showed that an extension of the electoral privilege, without efficient protection to the voter, would be a moral and social curse b )th to the inlividuals so admitted to the right of voting and to the community of which they form a pare—Falkirk Herald. MURDER NEAR TRURO. (From the Devonport Independent.) It has happily been some time since the frightful crime of murder has been perpetrated in Cornwall; but we are sorry that we have again to add to the catalogue of heinous guilt, a murder committed in this county on Saturday last. The locality where the deed was per petrated is called Silverwell, near the Chiverton Arms, on the road between Truro and St. Agnes, and about five miles from the former place. 'rho murdered man, William Kendall, occupied a small farm, and lived in the house with his wife alone. This was his second wife, to whom ho had been married about four years. Her former name was Teague, and she had a son by her first husband, called Elijah Teague, and now about 17 years of age. This son lived with his mother and Mr. Kendall until January last, when he went to lodge at a neighbouring house with Henry Grose; but he still occasionally worked on the farm for his father-in-law, who was about 72 year; of age, Ilia father-iu-law had on Saturday last ridden to Chacewater; and the young man was on that day working on the farm, employed in threshing and boiling turnips. His father-in-law was never more seen alive; but was disco vered on Sunday morning dead in his own house, sitting on a chair in the parlour. There was a large wound over the centre of his forehead, of an irregular oval figure, two inchss and a half in length and two incbe in width. The mortal blows appeared to have been given with dreadful force; the bones were broken in, and the surgeon who was called, inserted his finger on the right aide to the depth of nearly an inch. Sixty• one pieces of bone were extracted, and the fissures were driven an inch and a quarter below the surface of the skull. A hammer was found on the garden heige, and this hammer fitted into the wound in the man's forehead. A white hair was found attached to the end of the hammer, and the surgeon, on a micros copical examination, believes it to be a human hair, and that in all probability it was torn from the deceased's eyebrow. An inquest has been held on the body, before Mr. John Carly on, county coroner. The inquiry com menced on Monday at eleven o'clock, was continued on Tuesday, and did not terminate until late on Tuesday night. The result was, that a verdict of " wilful mur der " was returned against the deceased's son-in-law, Elijah Teague, who was apprehended under the coroner's warrant, and has been committed to the county gaol at Bodmin, to take his trial at the next assizes. The evidence o❑ which the jury grounded their ver dict was of a singular character, and wholly eircum st rntial. The son in-law was examined at the irqueat, us well as other witnesses. He states that be found de ceased, who had returned from Chacewater, about eighty yards from his own house, lying on the ground insensi ble, with a large wound in his head caused by a kick from his horse; that be then lifted him up, and carried him into his own house, his heels dragging on the ground. There do not appear, however to be any marks of the body having been thus dragged over the ground. Deceased's wife was absent at this time, having gone to Henry Grose's (Elijah Tesgue's lodgings). On her returning and ask ing for her husband, Teague said he was in the par lour, but he would not allow her to go io, saying the horse had " thrown" to him, and it would hurry her. She did not go in, but went went back to Grose's who called one or two nighbours, and with them and his wife proceeded to deceased's dwelling. When they got there they found de ceased's wife walking up and down before the house, she having left Grose's house in the interim, and gone there. The neighbours found the door locked, and could not find the key where it was usually placed when no one was at home. As they could not get in, deceased's wife proposed th it the door should be lifted from its hinges, but this was not done, and strange to say, no entry was made into the place until the next morning, when the old man was found dead in the parlour, as before described. The sur geon, Mr. Moyle, does ❑ot conceive the wound in deceased's forehead could have been caused by the kick of a horse, as stated by Elijah Teague, but that the injury was in flictof by two or more blows from some heavy instru ment. Another circumstance was the fact of Elijah Teague having been about three hours absent from home to call a surgeon (according to his own statement), and an explanation of which he was called on to give in his evidence. He also pointed out five spots of blood at the place where he says he found deceased's body before he took it into the house; but the surgeon gives his opinion that the spots are not blood that had flowed from a re cent wound. The prisoner's own statement of the circumstance having been heard, and the evidence of the surgeon, Mr. Moyle, as well us that of Mary Grose, Henry Grose, and Ed ward Mitchell, of Tregavethan, the jury, at the adjourned inquest held on Tuesday, returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against Elijah Teague," who was committed to the next assize for trial. There does not appear in the evidence anything to show a motive for the committal of the act, but it is stated in the neighbourhood that there were frequent disagreements between the deceased and his son-in-law. the position in which the market stands, so much un steadiness pervades it; and to-day it has had more of ar. uncertain character than during the last month. On every hand loud complaints are uttered by producers that they are offered prices which they cannot accept, because they heve a reference to what the raw material is expected to fetch instead of its present cost; and that, unless they close with these low-priced offers when made, they are not usually repeated unless accompanied by a demand for further concession. Still it is remarkable that we cannot hear of any accumulation of stocks ; pro ducers express a decidel repugnance to commence run ning short time, and there is a❑ increase of 700 bales in the average consumption per week (as shown by the de mand on Liverpool) compared with the same period last year, trade there being in a fair state. With such fact• to be remembered, we are bound to repeat that the causes which brought about what may be termed the mo mentary panic of to-day are not to be stated. Want of confidence, which has hitherto been manifested solely in respect to the continuance of toe raw material at its present high price, is now manifested with respect to the credit of certain parties; and the fact that one Greek house has stepped, that some other small manufacturing firms have failed, and that others are understood to be asking for time, has led to rumours which we believe to be exaggerated. The firms that are gone do not, in the aggregate, represent any very serious amount of loss, and would scarcely have been noticed at another time. With a different state of feeling as to the circumstances we have last named, it is not improbable that a large business would be done on speculation, for Delia espe cially, as the latest accounts received thence warrant the belief that extensive orders must be transmitted soon, possibly by the next mail. Some of the shipping helms seem to be of this opinion, for we understand that large offers were made in the course of Thursday afternoon; and we bear of houses that have given out orders much more considerable than any before this year, though still below those which they gave last year at this time. The demand for home languishes, and does not come up to that of last year. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, April 28. (Sittinp in Banco.) THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE LONDON DOCK COM PANY. Sir F. KELLY baying addressed the Court for some time on the general facts regarding the accumulation of the sweepings, but not without interruption on the part of the counsel for the Crown, was ultimately inter rupted by Sir F. PoLLocx, who stated that in the opinion of the Court it was desirable that mks should be granted on both sides, when all poin's should be open both to the Crown and to the defendants.—Rule nisi accordingly. JUDGES' CHAMBERS, April 28. (Before Mr. Ju.itiee Wicarrmest.) THE QUEEN V. THE REV. J O S EPH SMITH. In this case, during th e list wee k, a writ o f certiorari wasissued upon an order made by the Lion. Mr. Justice Coleridge, directed to Mr. W. Carrick, one of the coro ners for the county of Cumberland, to return the deposi tions taken before him; and an application was subse quently made before the same Learned Judge to admit the Rev. Gentleman to bail, but, owing to an accidental omission on the part of the coroner to return the depo sitions, the Learned Judge declined to make an order. To-day Mr. J. F. Adams, of the firm of Plucknett and Adams, Lincoln's Inn-square, the agents for the solici tor of Mr. Smith, renewed his application, and said that as the depositions had been returned, and were then before his Lordship, he was then in a position to ask the relief sought; the peculiar circumstances of the case were no doubt familiar to his Lordship, from the publi city given by the press to the evidence taken before the coroner; and ho felt no doubt that his Lordship, on reading the depositions, would readily concede that the case was one which his Lordship would consider as a fit and proper one for the exercise of the jurisdiction which the Judge possessed of admitting the prisoner to bail. On the former application he adduced before Mr. Justice Coleridge sufficient evidence, by the certifi cates of the Learned Coroner and Dr. Graham, to show that the Rev. Gentleman had been in a state of mind since the fatal occurrence to render his removal danger ous, and call for the sympathy of his Lordship and justify the application he then made. Notice of the application had been given to the parties representing the next of kin of the deceased, as also the coroner; and he (Mr. Adams) had the satisfaction of producing the consent of those parties to the prisoner being admitted to bail, and the only question was, if his Lordship should be of opi nion that it was a case for making the order, what amount of bail was rr quired. The prisoner was in cus tody under the coroner's warrant, and he would, there fore, ask that the bail to be fixed by his Lordship might be taken before one of the magistrates fir the county, to prevent the necessity of the defendant being brought up by habeas corpus to London. The Learned JUDGE having read the depositions, said, he was of opinion it was a fit case for the allowance of bail, the defendant entering into his own recognizlnces in 4001., and two sureties in 2001. each. An order was accordingly made for taking the bail as fixed by his Lordship before a magistrate, the approval of bail being in the discretion of such magistrate, upon which the Ray. Gentleman will be discharged out of cus tody until the next [mixes. The order was fur warded by last night's post to the proper euthor►ties. POLICE INTELLIGt;NCE. HOUSE.ANSION- Alderman Wilson waited upon the Lord Mayor for the purpose of requesting his Lordship's assis'ance in carrying out the alterations► he proposed as to the con veyance of the public in omnibuses—alterations which had been so long considered necessary, on account of the vast inconvenience arising from the packing of passen gers in these vehicles. The Alderman said, that since the recent convictions had taken place at Guildhall be had received more let ters than he could read, and more applications than ho could attend to. It was admitted by Nlr. Lewis, who ap peared for a great number of proprietors, that the con struction of the omnibuses complained of was in the proportion of ninety-nine out of one hundred illegal. The clients of that gentleman accordingly pleaded guilty, and he undertook on the part of 800 of them to have heir carriages altered with as little delay as possible. :t was gratifying to know that many omnibuses had been altered, and the exempla ha.l been followed by several proprietors who had not been aurora sned at all, but were satisfied of the rational ground of complaint. At the same time it was necessary to state that some proprietors were res dyed not to make the required alte rations until compelled to act in compliance with the orders of the regulations for the public accommodation. Against some of the refractory parties he bad received information, and he had ordered informations to issue for Saturday, and it was his intention to deal with them according to the strict letter of the law. The LORD MAYOR said, he also had received com plaints upon the subject, and he believed the only mode of proceeding likely to prove availing would be to et,- courage those who suffered from the want of room, as regulated by Act of Parliament, to come forward in the general cause. Alderman WILSON said, that on his way to the Man sion-house he had been stopped by a gentleman who complained of the act of a conductor in thrusting a thir teenth person into an omnibus when twelve were inside, all of whom grumbled at the intrusion as illegal, and calculated to cause intolerable inconvenience, but were obliged to submit. To meet that case he should direct a summons to issue, but he wished it to go forth to the public from the bench of the chief magistrate that the excuse of want of time to make adequate alterations in the seats would not be available in cases of future trans gression, and that the heaviest penalties would be in flicted upon the proof of the admission of an illegal num ber, or the admission of more than twelve when the licence was for thirteen when there was not sufficient room for the latter number, or unless the proprietors could show that the corner seats were convenient accord ing to the terms of the Act, which required that their should be sixteen inches in the front of each seat, mea suring lengthways in a straight line. A great majority of proprietors have consented to make the required alterations, and he thought it would not be justice to those who had so readily acquiesced in the decision of the magistrate to allow a few refractory persons to set the law at defiance and to continue to give annoyance to the public in the present condition of the metropolis. The LORD MAYOR said that upon reference to the Act of Parliament he found that the "convenience" of the public was particularly and emphatically alluded to, and he felt convinced that the admission of more persons into an omnibus, whatever the licence might be, than could be conveniently accommodated, would be a violation of the law. He did not consider that the question was whether the corner seats in omnibuses should or should not be removed, but whether the accommodation con trived suited the convenience of all the passengers; and he considered, too, that the Act required that there should be associated together with the sixteen inches allowance to each passenger other accommodations in the construction of the public carriage. His Lordship said he was persuaded that his brother magistrates would join in carrying out to the full extent the necessary re gulations, and that such public notice of their intention should be given as would arm all omnibus passengers with the power of, to a great extent, protecting them selves. The penalty amounted to WI, and pr o b a bl y a few convictions of the kind wou ld check the pr act i ce which daily increased of crowdi n g in passeng ers go i ng towards the Wert-end. He believed, indeed, that Cheap side and Fleet-street presented at that moment many instances of the inconvenience complained of, and of the transgression of the law which it was so necessary to observe. WESTMINSTER. Frederick Judd utaderwent a length , ned examination, charged with the wilful murder of his father, Richard Judd, formerly an army accoutrement maker, in bib 63d year. Mr. BRoPERIP inquired of Mr. Symons, an inspector of the B division, whether th e r e wal any chlrice or pro curing further evidenc,l and, upon receiving a rep that there possibly might be, said he should remand :he prisoner upon this charge of parricide until Wecne,day next. The accused, who never exhibited throughout the in quiry the slightest emotion or c.,nef rn, then tripp.d lightly out of the dock, exclaiming, as he pa,sed some friend am ong the auttitOry, who t.)ld him to keep hits courage up, " All r i g h t , B i ll." .Mtehael Connell and Ann his wife were finally ext charg,-d with having caused the death of Caroni e Jew.ll by brutal violence at Chelsea. Voluminous depositions, the substance of which has been already published, were read over by Mr. Tayl,,r, tit chief clerk, and Mr. BRODERIP having been informed, in answer to hi, inquiry, that there was no chance of procuring any further evidence, said, "Under these circunl,tances it is my duty to deal with the case on the evidence ad duced before me. I absolve the male prisoner from any , hand in rh. death of Caroline Je•well, but I commit the pins n , r Ari her, eud killing and sla)ing rho inalo prisoner for tilt , robbing of Susannah Blanch field."—Committed accordin g ly. CLERKEL WELL. Thomas Humphrey, 19 years of age, was placed at the bar before Mr. Combe, charged by W. Burton, No. 87 E division, with having stabbed him with intent to mar' der.—He was filly committed for trial. leichard Luffey, John Smith, Alfred Hatton, Caroline Bishop, and Emma Bishop, were then charged with having been concerned in assaulting the officers and in citing the mob to violence and to rescue the prisoner Humphrey The prisoners pursued the constable Burton while be had the prisoner in custody, and with some of the mob acted with c ir,siderable violence—pelting them wit h stones and calling for a rescue. The prisoner John Smith first attacked the officer, and was rescued from the constable. Emma Bishop was discharged; Caroline was tented t o one munth's imprisonment with hard !snow ri Luticy and Smith 20s. each or 14 days; and Batton 405., or a month's imprisonment in the House of Gov section. SOUTH IF AI?K. Wiili rm Gorily was charged with assaulting IT/ wounuing Chl.rles Percival in the throat with the Po'?' of his umbrella with intent to do him grievous boal harm. In consequence of the serious nature of the injury ill,' fl.cted on the compl a i nant h e h as b een con fined to I. bed, and was incapacitated from attending to give evl• dence against his assailant until the present occasion; At ono period, shortly a f ter t h e a ll ege d outrage, the complainant's life was considered in imminent danger' but he is now pronounced by his medical attendant e l convalescent. The prisoner declined making any defence row, and he was committed to the Central Criminal Court for trial. THE COUNTRY 1112 The following is the official statement corn, &c., received in the port of Lond Essex, from the 21st April, 1851, to t both inclusive : LRKETS. • • of the quantities Of lon from the ports to the 26th April, ltbit .I g c.) 4.; ig 2 cp CH 02 Colchester 7 4 1 395 —I 47 8 Harw h ich Leig 18 4 15 Mahlon „ . CHELMSFORD, APRIL 25.—P r i ces t o -d ay were as 10,1°" .. ,. , ,id Wheat, white, old 41 s to -15 s ; new 40s to 455; red , i: er 35s to 40.; new, 35s to 40,; b ar l e y, 26 3 t o 30 5 ; char 5 3s _ 22s to 30s ; grinding 19 s t o 25 3; oa t s 15 s t o 21 s ; malt to 55s ; chevalier 54 s t o 56 s ; p eas , partr id ge , ne w 27s v : 295; old, --s to —s ; white, new, 26s to 28s ; old, __.s to -7:4 „„f; dun, new, 26s to 28s ; beans, ti c k, new 25 s t o 27 s ; old, b to 27s ; harrow ticks, new 25 3 t o 27 3; o ld 00 s t o 00s; ""”. zagan, new 23 , , to 25s ; old 00s to 003 per qr. ...A 36 0 COLCHESTER, Aram 26.—Wheat, white 42 3 to 465; ..-,. d i e to 42s ; barley 22s to 28s ; b eans , mazagan 22 s t o 24 5 ; Ow and mall 24s to 28s; peas 26s to 28s per qr. of HADDINGTON, APRIL 25.—The following are the prices grain at our market to-day:— Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Bela First ... ... 42, Od I 298 Od 23s Od 3 01 4d Second ... ... 398 2d 1 27s 3d 20s 10d 2 85 O d Third ... .. 34s Od 21s 6d 18s Od 25 5 _d Total quantity of Wh ea t i n mar k et 411 qrs., 395 o l d 151 qrs., Do. B ar l ey d o. 141 0111 wNO Do. O a t s d o. 43 3 qrs., 0., id Do. B eans d o. 140 qrs., 1 22 !sold KIRKALDY, APRIL 26.—The following are the quotst io for grain : - .°0 Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Feld First 423 6d 273 Od 21s 6d —s Od Second 393 Od 24s Od 20s Od —8 Od od Third 36s 6d 21s Od 18s Od —s Od Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs imperial, 28s Od to 29s Od' n j GLASGOW, APRIL 23.—Provi s io ns —Ch eese, 33 s t o 42s ' 1 per cwt ; retail, 5d to 6d pe r lb. Ski m m ilk , 2 080 d t o Os Pe , cwt. Country fresh butter, lld to Os Od per lb. Jrish Pe A dered, in lumps, 9id to 10d; country powdered, wholesale, 9 to Od. Country eggs, 8d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, 56 .4 ,. per 120, or 6d per d ozen . H ens , 3 s Od per pa i r; 2s 6d. FALKIRK, ArItIL 24.—The supply of grain in this da market was 570 bolls; wheat at 178 3d to 19s 3d per b O O barley, 178 Od to 19s Od ; oats, 00s Od to COB Od; beans, 14s to 14s 9d per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. PERTH, APRIL 25.—Wheat, old, ON Od to Os Od; di tt t o new, 37s to 4ls ; barley, new , 20 s Od to 23 s Od ; oats, 14_, 188; peas and beans, 23 s Od t o 26 8 per quarter . Ostrav" , per sack, 00s to 28s. KiLso, APRIL 25.—. Wheat, old, 00s to 008; ditto, new' 25 ! to 32s Od ; barley, new, 17s Od to 208 Od ; ditto old, OS to potato oats,oos to 003; ditto new, 15s Od to les 6d ; oolsold oats 00s Od to 00s Od ; ditto new, 148 to 158 Od ; peas, 24 1 to 28s Od ; beans, 22s to 24s per boll of six imperial bushels' HAwicic, Arm. 24.—Wheat, old, 288 6d to 325; !or ie l' new, 00s to 00s Od ; ditto old, 19s Od to 20s Od ; potato Id 108 Od to 00s Od ; common oats, 008 Od to 00s ; peas, 21$ .4 to 238 Od ; beans, 2 s Od to 22 s Od p er boll of six iroPe rl bushels. BERWICK, APRIL 24.—Wheat, 378 10d ; barley, 25a 6 1 c g oats, 18s 4d ; rye, 008 Od ; beans, 24s 5d ; peas , 000 average per imperial quarter. STIRLING, APRIL 25. —Wheat, foreign, 208 to 245; d it e t° ' home, Os to Os; ditto ditto new , 17 8 Od t o 19 3 Od ; barley, boll of 6 bushels, Os Od t o O s Od ; ditt o new , 16 s Od to 195 O d .. Oats, common, 00 8 Od t o 00 s ; ditt o new , 11 s 6d t o 130 ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, 00s Od; distillers, 318 6d to 338; ditto brewers, 3 9 s fd to 348; besr: per boll, 00s Od to 00* Od; ditto new, 12s 6d to 14s 8d; pease 12 . 6d to OCis Od; flour, new per sack, 318 to 33s Od; ditto comest ditto, 188 6d to 20s Od; oatmeal, per load, 00s Od to Oita Od ' ditto new 29s Od to 30 s Od ; dit to per pec k o f 7 1 b s, 8d to 91'. fresh butter, pe t lb, 9d t o 10d ; eggs, per dozen, 5d W bay per ton, Os Od to Os ; ditto new, 808 Od to 008. Eden Main ....• 149 6 1 11 etton Haswell .... I t q Lambton Lumley Russell's Hatton Stewart's Caradoc ..... .... South Hartlep00l Tees - 3J Birchg. Graigola Bartley Nixon's Merthyr and „A Cardiff .... - Sidney's Hartley .Sold, 101 Unsold, 97. COAL IIIARKE' Bate's West Hartley 133 6d Hasting's Hartley l3s 9(1 North Percy Hartley l3s 6(1 Redh ugh Main Pelton Main l2s Oa South Peareth anfield Moor ranfield Moor Butes l3a Od T. - YEST E RDA Y. Wall's End, &c. Acorn Close Gosforth . Harton Hebburn Hilda l;s Od Riddell Ships at mark.t. 198. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS• BRISTOL, APRIL 28. STOCK EXCHANGI.—The share market contisues fin* but m ithout alteration in prices of stock. , LIVERPOOL, APRIL 2S. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market w a s b e tt e r to- 019 0 and prices had an upward tendency. The amount ofb ll siness actually transacted, however, i s n o t su ffi cient to a ffec t quotations altogether. The sales were—Birkenhead, Lan' . cashire, abd Cheshire Jun c ti on , I, A dis. —Ditto (late Chest and Birkenhead), 20 LA—Caledonian, 154—East Lan caSbir: • 17 1 ,x —Lancashire and Yorkshire, 63%.—Ditto, Fifths, 61 1- 1 a dis.—Ditto (West Riding Union), 5% dis.—London North-Western, 129 EA —Ditto, New Quarters, 54 Midland. 63 1 / 4 —Ditto, Halves, 13 dis. —North British, 9 South-Eastern and Dover, 27% —York, Newcastle, and wick, 21% —York and North Midland, 27 1 / 8 . BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 28. STOCK MECHANGE.—There was no movement of an terest or importance in the Railway Share Market to-tbtP The chief transactions reported were in Shrewsbury and Or' mingham (B), 3 1 4 dis. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —The wonderf u l e ffi c acy Of of Holloway's Pills and Ointment in Curing an aged person ue Rheumatism.—Mr. John Pitt, of King. s tr ee t, Dudley, 11" has resided in that town .for upwards of 65 years, with the e!„: eeption of ten years, when he served in h ar M a j es ty's 241 Regiment of Foot, began to t uffer ab ou t f our years ago lef, s . severely from rheumatism, and at ti mes was una bl e to Wm` He was under various doctors, and took every kind of medieip e e j without deriving any benefit, an d at l ast was e ff ect u a ll y c ar by Holloway's Pills and Ointment, and be can now walk e: well as ever he could i n hi s lif e.— S o ld b y all Druggists, anti Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. 'fret THE BELFA ST L INEN T RADE .—Th e y arn Inah•-• has been remarkably dull during the past week. There sr,: few operations, and sto c ks are increasing ; very goo d 40,, line can be bou g ht a t s s . lid., 45's a t 4 s . 9d. , and 50 ' s to 700 at 4s. 7id., and a large discount given for cash. In B ally' mena, on Saturday, there was very little cloth sold; there'll seldom been so dull a market, both as regards yarns 11 °,., cloth. In Coleraine and Arm ag h b us i ness in cloth vin trifling. Wages have fallen i n t h e country districts. ° I yarns are reduced, and likely t o b e 6 d per bundle lower neli month, it is expected that cloth will be made much cheaper' and manufacturers be enabled to do a more saving busiest The news from the United States is most discouragi l3 4,7,,. „, regards prices. Thre e h ouses in New York auctioned tD,.'" 4-4 bleached and bl a y li nens at a great sacrifice. It is 11: lieved that those houses resort to such sales when their flexion fails to secure private sales. The advices from vannah a o much improved as regards demand, and a s l ig b t improvement has taken place in prices. - Banner of Ulster. aIRTHa OF A 80 On the 23d i ns t„ at C ast l e Ashby, )1. Northampton, the La d, William Compton. Ou the 24th inst., at Guernsey, the lion. Mrs. Saumares' On the 23d i ns t., a t E ast Ti ste d R ectory, the w if e o f the Rev. F. M. Cunningham. 01 , A DAUGHTER. On the 25th inst., Lady Parish. On the 25th inst., the wife of the Hon. J. C. Dunds& On the 2 th iust., at Walthamstow, the wife of the Rev Joseph Oldham. MARRIED. On the 22d inst., at St. Mary-le Bow, D ur h am , the Be' Charles Clayton Lowades, 8.A., Assistant master of Luct ° ,, Grammar School, Herefordshire, t o S usanna M ar i a , daught er of . I .P. Roberts, Esq , late of Holb ec h e -h ouse , S ta ff o rdshir e. On the 25th inst., at St. Miry's, Islington, Evart ThoftiP' son of W. Evans, Esq., of the Vale of Clwyd, North Wales, to Sarah Amelia, you.gest daughter of J. Davis, Esq'' Thornhill square. Islington. Rev. On the 23d inst... at Blethvaugh, Radnorshire, the Am i Edwards, B.A. scholbr of St. John's College, t' ° " - j, idge, and curate of St Andrew's, Worcester, to Margar,! . eldest daughter of J. R. Esq of Monaughty, Ridnorsbue !DI 71: I On the 23d inst, at Bath, Anne, wife of the Hon. C°- ° Ol J. Browne, of that city, aged 77. er te On the 244 h inst., at Southampton, a few days aft arrival from the West Indies, John Jaffray, Eig., son ef late Robert Jaff ay, merchant,Gdasgow, aged 35. a d, On the 24th inst., Ann e , w id ow of the late W. Whitehe of Minchinhampton, aged 68 On the sth! inst., Mr. William Strange, of Cheyne-wa lkr Chelsea, aged 56. On the 25th inst., at Ashby•lodge. Northamptonshire, Aged 61, Susannah, relict of the late G. H. Arnold, Esq. Cla rk A. On the 2 - ,th in s t., Ad e l a i de Augusta, wife of Mr. of Plaistow, Essex. On the 25th inst., in Jewry-street, Aldgate, " 1- Rixon, Esq., aged 73. of London Printed and Published by MURDO TOUNG,,. No. 112, St ran d, P r :. ter, at The Sun Office, No. I '4 Strand. in VI A , Pre c i nc t of th e S avoy , i n tho yountY Xiddloiox, Tuesday, April 29,031 THE GREAT EXHIBITION. Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that he should move that on Thursday next, the Ist of May, the House do meet at six o'clock, instead of at the usual hour of four. The House then adjourned. EXHIBITION OF 1851.-APPOINT MENT OF JURORS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six,—Feeling anxious that foreigners, as well as our own countrymen, who are exhibitors in the Crystal Palace, should not have any good cause to complain of the arrangements made by the Commissioners with re spect to the appointment of " the Jurors" for determin ii,g tae prizes, permit me, through the columns of your valuable journal, to call attention to what appears to me a mistake on the part of the Commissioners, and which may be considered by many exhibitors to show a want of impartiality and fairness in the appointment of the jurors. I learn from the list published by you this 'evening, that Mr. Thomas De la Rue and Mr. Venables (the former one of the principal exhibitors, and the latter also an exhibitor himself, or immediately connected with the firm exhibiting under the same name), aro ap pointed jurors under Section 17. I do ❑ot impute any intention on the part of Mr. De !a Rue and his coadjutors of acting partially, but it is so obviously a violation of principle to appoint any exhibitors to dcoido on the competing merits of their own inventions when compared with others, that I am sure it will only require a notice of the feet to ensure a more satisfactory appointment. Amongst the large number of manufacturers under Class 17 no difficulty could have existed in finding per fectly competent persons, who were not themselves ex hibitors or personally interested in the goods they were called upon to judge cf. The case of Professor Cowper may be instanced, he having declined acting as a juror that he might not be placed in the awkward position of deciding upon the merits of machines extibited as improvements upon his own invent ous.—l urn, Sir, &c. JUSTITIA. April 26. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM. Among the most prominent objects of interest now in the metropolis, the Anatomical Museum of Dr. Kahn, which is now exhibiting at 315, Oxford-street, claims a high rank. This museum is not only interesting to the medical man from the number, anatomical correctness, and artistic beauty of the specimens contained in it, but it also gives to the general and non-medical observer a clear idea of the marvellous structure of the human frame, a knowledge of which, and of the functions per formed by each organ, is essentially necessary for every person to whom health, the first of blessings, is an object of consideration. Dr. Corn be, in his admirable "Prin ciples of Physiology," complains of the slight know ledge of this science manifested among the people of this country, and suggests that every parent should make himself acquainted at least with the structure and functions of the vital organs, so that the rising genera tion may be free from those exciting causes of disease which obser►ation has shown to proceed from a sys tematic violation of the laws of nature. This important information may be acquired at Dr. Kahn's Museum, where a medical gentleman delivers periodical lectures, illustrated by wax models, on the subject. In a collec tion consisting of nearly four hundred specimens, it would be impossible to mention all the objects of irate• rest, but among the more prominent will be found a series of models showing the formation of the human being from the first moment of conception to the time of birth. This series has called forth the highest en comiums from all the scientific gentlemen to whom it has been submitted. Immense models of the eye and ear are shown, and clearly explained ; as is also a full length figure, which takes entirely to pieces, affording opportunity for a most lucid description of the physio logy of digestion, circulation, &e., and the organs by which those functions are performed. The evil effects of tight lacing are also exhibited in the figure of a young lady who suddenly fell dead in consequence of this per nicious habit; and models may also be seen which are more calculated to deter youth from vice or imprudence than the most impressive moral lecture. Some curious malformations and freaks of nature are shown, and ex cite considerable amazement. We have derived great pleasure and instruction from our visit to this excellent museum, and can confidently promise equal gratification to such of our readers as may feel disposed to spend an hour or two in the examination of its varied and inter esting contents. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1851. ♦PRIL. Chester NAY. ' Lewes 5 Newmkt. Second Spring 6 Plymouth Spring Liverpool II (Hoylake) 7 Durham Shrewsbury 8 Lothians 8 York Spring ............ 13 Bath ....................... 15 Epsom .................. 20 Harpenden ............... 28 Wye ........................ 29 North Harts . 30 Abingdon .................. E. S. LancaFhire (Newton) 18 Stockbridge ....... ..• 19 Barnstaple & N. Devon 19 Lenham Winchester.... Newcastle Macclesfield Salisbury Ipswich ULY. Ascot Beverley, Hull, &c 4 Hampton ll Manchester ll Coggeshall South well (Notts) Knighton l3 Loo (Holland) l6 Bibury Stamford l5 Ilsley Nottingham Chelmsford 22 Goodwood Newmarket Carlisle ........ 1 Ludlow Lancaster Worcester Liverpool . ........ 9 AUGUST. Ripon Brizhton 6 S out h port Wolv e rh ampton ... 11 Derby 26 Huntingdo n l2 Egham 27 Reading 1 Leicester WEPTEMBER. 10 Eccles . ........... . ........ Warwick ............... 2 Doncaster Lincoln .................. 4 Sandbach Radcliffe .................. 8 Bedford Lichfield ................. 8 Eglinton Park ... 23 or 24 Yarmouth ............... 9 Manchester Autumn 25 Weymouth ............ 10 Newmarket F.O 3O Monmouth c)(711. Yorkshire ° l l llE wreni Union Hunt 8 Richmond 9 Caledonian 1 Newmarket S.O l3 Chesterfield 1 Newmarket Houghton.. 27 7 Cheater THE LATE MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE AT WALTON. (From the Carlisle Patriot of Saturday.) Both the principal parties concerned in this lament able tragedy have long been held in high esteem by 'a, who knew them. The Rev. Joseph Smith is Incumbent of Walton, with an income of 1301. a year and a parsonage house. Though the means derived from his cure were so limited, he did a great deal of good in the locality ; in fact he dispensed in charity a large portion of his income. His chief personal characteristics were excessive ner vousness and timidity. He sensitively shrank from giving pain to any living creature; and yet this very nervousness and timidity seem to have placed him under circumstances in which he deprived of life an individual whom it is believed he never saw, and against whom, certainly, he entertained not the slightest feeling of enmity. Yesterday the jury and witnesses again assembled to sign the depositions and complete the necessary forms. The magistrates were, we believe, again in attendance, and found Mr. Smith labouring under great mental suf fering; and we are uncertain whether or not they were enabled to read over the depositions to him. The case is now i❑ their hands, and there is no doubt but they will admit him to bail, if indeed the necessary forms have not already been completed. The remains of the unfortunate deceased were in terred, on Tuesday last, in Ettleton Churchyard, near Ncwcastleton, and friends and acquaintances from far and near flocked to the spot to pay the last sad tri bute of respect to the memory of a man who was the pride of the district, and beloved and respected wherever he was known. A correspondent who witnessed the funeral says--" The procession presented a very im posing spectacle. In some parts of the road along which it pissed it appeared as if it extended for nearly a quarter of a mile. It is doubtful if ever so large an attendance was before se-n at any funeral in the parish. Many came from a great distance—for poor Sorbietrees' was known far and wide—and many more would have been present, but this being the lambing season, the sbepberda could not leave their flocks. Grief was depicted in every ;ace, and every man seemed to reel the loss as a personal bereavement. There is wail ing and lamentation throughout the whole district." The deceased, who was a keen sportsman, was to have met " the Duke's" hounds on " Canobie Lee" on the. Thursday morning—the day after his death; and it was to enable him to keep this engagement that he declined to stay all night at Brampton, as he had been pressed to do by several friends. At the " meet" in the morning his well-known face, cheerful voice, and hearty laugh were soon missed—for wherever he went be was the " observed of all observers;" and the common expres sion on every tongue was—" God's sake, what's gotten Sorbietrees?" Mr. Armstrong was the representative of a long line of ancestors, famous in their day as chiefs and leaders in the border warfare. He was considered one of the handsomest men in Lidlesdale, and the surgeuns who made the post mortem examination describe him as one of the finest formed men they had ever seen. He was a fast friend and a kind neighbour —ever trying to do goo .I to all who had ever come under his notice. It was this strong feeling of regard for all who had ever lived under his roof that cost him his life; for there is no doubt, from what he said to his wife and others, that the object of his calling at Walton Parsonage was for the purpose of offering to re-engage the witness Glen dinning, who had lived several years with his father and himself, as a servant. STATE OF TRADE. BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY. — lnquiries during the pre sent week in the neighbourhood of Dudley have con firmed conclusions previously expressed as to the unsatis factory state of the iron trade; and advices received by the last packets from the United States give little en couragement to the exportation of the raw material from these districts. The proprietors of some of the most ex tensive establishments state that the demand for iron is comparatively small, and, as is known (from the rates fixed upon at the last quarter-day), prices are barely re munerative; in some instances they are ruinously under the mark. But although prospects are so cheerless, fur naces for the most part remain in blast, and, so far as we could judge from a cursory view of the most densely populated parts of the iron districts, there did not appear to be any observable or material cessation of employ ment; but how matters are to improve without a reduc tion of make is a problem yet to be solved. The decreased demand for British iron in North Ame rica owing to the repletion of the market is not the only depressing circumstance in connexion with the manu facturing interests of this neighbourhood and their trans atlantic commerce. Within these few weeks locks, bolts, and other door fittings, the make of which has hitherto been confined chiefly to Willenhall, Walsall, Darlaston, and other contiguous localities, have been introduced amongst the factors of Birmingham and Wol verhampton, as of American make. Samples of cham ber bolts have been exhibited which Staffordshire ma nufacturers assert are offered one-third cheaper than they could afford to make them. It is somewhat singu lar, however, that while this kind of iron ware is im epxorptoerdtsattosuch Americalow of pric o e t s he f r rom des t e h r e ip U tio n n it s ed of States,the manufac tured metal goods remain unabated. Amongst Other branches of Bi rm i ng h am tra d e at pre sent particularly active m a y be mentioned that o f stee l toys. The name does not t ru l y d enom i nate t h e manu facture. Steel toys co ns i s t o f c hi se l s, pincers, and other iron and steel implements of a like description. The make is now unusually large, and the demand for Shef field files so great that the factors experience great dif ficulty in obtaining the execution of their orders. The steel-pen trade, now carried on in Birmingham to an immense extent, continues its career of prosperity. Mr. Gillott, the eminent manufacturer, has considerably en larged his establishment; and Mr. Mitchell and other pen-makers of repute are in full work. The electro-plate trade is also thriving. Although a comparatively late discovery, electro-plate, like plate-glsss, has already become of every-day domestic use, and finds employ ment in its manufacture for no inconsiderable number of our industrial population. The Messrs. Elkington's works in Newhall-street are busily occupied, a large pro portion of their productions being for exportation. Amongst the most splendid specimens of this modern discovery exhibited in the Crystal Palace will be found the productions of Messrs. Elkington. The copper trade is brisk. The demand for the lamp manufacture and all description of tubing at the present time© is unusually large; so much so, that some of the first houses are almost run out of stock, and prices, con- 1 sequently, remain high. Locomotive tubing carries off an immense quantity of copper, and is now in great re quest. The brass foundry business remains steady, and, notwithstanding continental competition, large quantities of brass manufactured goods continue to be exported. Some of our factors speak unfavourably of the state of the home trade with regard to the demand for Binning ham manufactures; but, generally speaking, there are fewer complaints than gratulations. 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