The Sun. — London, England, 1851-04-09 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. FIRST APPEARANCE of Mdlle. MONTI. It Is respectfully announced that TO-MORROW d, with the EVENING,Apri ori -1 era of 10 (included In the Subscript ion), will be produce ginal Music, Dances, Sec., Anber's celebr ated Op NITTA. (M DI PORTICI, asan iello). The costumes executed by Miss Bradley and Mr. Coembes, tinder the superintendence of alma. Copere. The appointments by Mr. E. Bradwell. The incidental Dances by M. Paul Taglioni. The Sce nery by. Mr. Charles Marshall. The 311se en Scene under the direc tion of Mr. A. Harris. Alfonso, Signor Scotti (his first appearance) ; Lorenzo, Signor 2tlelrcurali (his first appearance) ; Selva, Signor Balanchi ; 3lasa rfitllo, Signer Pardini (his first appearance), of the Italian Opera, Berlin ; Pietro, M. Massol (his first appearance at her Majesty's Theatre) ; Borella, Signor Lorenzo ; Elvira, Madame Fiorentini (her first appearance in that character) ; Fenella, Mdlle. Monti (her first appearance in England). In act first, a Grand DivertiSement ; La Gurache et Napolitaine, by Messrs. Kohlenberg, Soto, Aussandon, Soldansky, Allegrini, ras cales, Emma, Dantonie, and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet ; Le Bolero, by Madlies. Mathilde, Rosa, Julien, and Lamoreux, and M. Ehrick.. Finale Generale, in act th ird, La Tarantella, lla Aussandon, by Madlle. hrnalia Fsraris, M. Charles, Madlles. Kohlenberg, S Soldansky, Allegr.ni, Pascales, Emma, Dantonie, Mathilde, Rosa, Julien, and Liunoreux, MM. Ehrick and Gouriet, and the Ladies and Gentl. men of the Corps de Ballet. Director of the Music and Conductor, M. Balfe. To conclude with a selection from the admired Ballet, La F.sme ralda. in which 314,111 e. Carlotta Grisi and M. Charles will appear. Auber's succesful Opera, Gustave ou le Bal Masque, will be repeated forthwith. Application for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the Box office of the Theatre. Doors op ened at Seven, the Opera to com menet, at Half-past Seven o'clock. _ . T IIEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. James Andc:soll. • TILES EVENING Will be presented by her Majesty's S;:vants THE QUEEN OF SPADES. P rine of Moskau, fr. W.Nelidorf Lacy ; Ivan, Mr. J. Anderson ; Kopeck, Inc Barrett Katinka , Miss F. Vining; Olga, Mrs. W. Lacy. After which, a new grand Operatic Spectacle, entitled AZ AEL, THE PRODIGAL. 'Reuben, Mr. Vandenhoff; Azael, Mr. J. Ander son ; .tmenophis , Mr. W. West ; Bucharis, Mr. Cooper ; Setlaos. Mr. Rafter; Jephtele, Miss F. Vining; Nefte, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Lia, haslle. Victorine Legrain (Premier Sujet du Opera Pr). who been expressly engaged for the occasion, and will make her appearance every evening. To conclude with RAISING THE WIND. Mr. JAMES ANDERSON has the honour to announce to his Friends and the Patrons of the Drama generally, that his BENEFIT is fixed for SATURDAY, April 12, being the Last Night of perform ing before Easter, on which occasion w in be presented A petite Comedy, entitled A MORNING CALL, in which Mr. J. Anderson and Mrs. Nisbett will appea r ' After which UNTE SO IR MELANGE.CABNAVL With a MUSICA L AtiTod beotfho • elirEedntbeYrtaAinZinA.EenLts.. YILLATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKE F s Webster. Sole Lessee an] Manager. 01 Brampton TILLS EVENING, Will be performed TUE LADY or LYONS. Claude Melnotte Mr. J. W. Wallach ; Pauline Deschappelles, Miss L. Addison. To conclude with DON etESAR DE BAZAN. Don Cmsar, Mr. J. Wallaca. THEATRE ttuYAL, Under the direction 01 Madame Celeste THIS EVENIG, Will be performed THE WILLOW CONE. To be followed by JACK IN THE GREEN. ROYA.L RITHEA TEE, OXFORD-STREET. -Under the Management 01 Mr. C. lieu and fr Reale T h e last 4 nig6te of Pauline, previous to the forthcoming Easter Novelties. THIS EVENING, be performed a new and original Lomedy entitled LOVE IN A MAZE. Characters by Messrs. C. Kean, Keeley, Wigan d , Harley, Addison, Meadows ; Mrs. Keeley, Mrs. Winstanley, an Mrs. C. T o conclude with a new Melodrama, ent i t l e d PAULINE, in which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Keen will appeal ROYAL OLYMPIC TH E Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. arren. THIS EVENING , Will be performed THE FARMER'S STORY. After which CHARLES KING. To conclude w4,THE BOTTLE IMP. r. 91. ASTLFY'S ROYAL AbIPLUTHEATRE. Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highneen Prince Albert. Proprietor and IA anager, Mr. W. Batty. The public are respectfully informed that the Theatre is closed Until Easter Monday next, April 21. The Theatre will be entirely newly decorated and re-embellished, and every effort made to sustain the high repute which this establishment holds in public estimation : the vast improvements of additional height, in order to facilitate the scenic effects, as essentially necessary to the hippodramatic entertain ments, have been particularly attended to, and every department actively employed for the production of a splendid historic spectacle, from the pea of G. H. Rodwell, Esq. New scenery, machinery, decorations, and magnificent costumes. The circle will prove doubly attractive, Mr. Batty being on the Continent making arrangements with artistes of the first talent and celebrity of their professions. Particulars will Ise given in future announcements. HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE rma DAY —Morning 39 min. after G I Evening 10 rain. after 7 To Mt glow—Morning 44 min. after 7 Evening 26 min. after THE WEATHER. --Sun Orricß, APRIL u• TuzsmomErrisr., IN THE SHADE. 46—highest since noon yesterday. 34—lowest this morning and during the night. 40—this day, at noon. BAROKETEU, 99'85. Worn E.lsT.E.—dull, cloudy weather, with rain. ----_-_- - DAILY WEATHER TABLE. Stete of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations are arranged in order of latitude. KINGSTOWN (Duni-DO—Wind S.S.E., gentle breeze— overcast. Phymoutx—Wind E., strong breeze—partially cloudy. VoßTsmoum—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. BRIGHTON—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—rain. H isTusos —NV it d N.E., fresh breeze—partially cloudy. SoUTRAMPTOS— Wind 1 , 1. E., strong breeze—cloudy. FoLtinsTorzE—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. TUNBRIDGE—Wind E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. B CSINGSTOKg —NV ind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. UREENNY ICH—Wind gentle breeze— partially cloudy . . Swrianota —Wind N. E., gentle breeze — overca s t. CoLcuEsTEn—Wind N.NV., hard wind—partially' cloudy. eAsrptuDGE—Wind N.E., strong breeze—partially cloudy. Ruony— Wind E., gentle breeze—overcast. PETERBOROUGH— ind N.E., strong breeze—partially cloudy. TeamouTtl— Wind N.E., hard wind—overcast. HoLy READ— ind E., strong breeze—overcast. LANcAsTzu—Wind N.E, calm—partially cloudy. llautrivroN—W ind N., gentle breeze— overcast. BERWLCK—Wind E., gentle breeze— overcast. The returns tram the following places indicate the state of tie wind and weather on Monday morning at nine o'e;e•ck : LLMEItICK—Wind S., gentle breeze—cloudless. CARLOW—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—cl , udy. MULLLIGAR— bid S. NY ~ gentle breeze—partially cloudy. LrAcwroN—Wincl N E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. HoiarnEAD—Wind N.W , gentle breeze—partially cloudy. Lzr.ns—Wind S.E., gentle breeze- partially cloudy. DREIJNGTON—Wind S., gentle breeze partially cloudy WIOTEIAAVEN - Wind S.. gentle breeze—overcast. At the :Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean daily reading of the barometer was above 3u inches on Monday and Tuesday. The mean of the week was c 9 907 inches. The mean temperature was 43'.5, which is about the average of the same week in ten years. The mean daily temperature varied little during the week, but it fell to fi 9 0 .5 on Saturday, which is 5' below the average. The direction of the wind varied from south-west and west to north during the firslaCur days, and was chiefly north-east during the remaiuder. - • ..),, 7,, , 42 r )7; 2' ft? . , 0% . : El-! 1•11, ,<. ft' V I• is, dk7 6._ UliV Ant LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AiTIL 9, 1851. In tte'llouse of Lords last night, The County Courts Extension Bill went through Committee, and actor considerable discussion the clauses conferring on county court judges a jurisdiction in equity of a character similar to that exercised by the Masters in Chancery was confirmed, Lotwithstanding the oppo sittrm of the LORD CHANCZLLOR; but the arbitration and reconcilement clauses were struck out, although Lord Be L ouoluo t declared that hi 3 opinion of their suit alOtness was unaltered. Their Lordships then adjourned. lu the 'Ewe of Commons, Two persons named SLEGcs and Br a bsconded to avoid giving evidence RcumAN' who had before the St. Alban's Election Committee, were ordered to be taken into cus tody by the Sergeant-at-Arms. . In roply to Mr. T. BARING, it Virat3 stated by the CHANCELLOR of theE e xcIIEQUER th that there w as no intention to withdraw Treasury Minute permitting grocers to adulterate their coffee with WHEY moved for a Select Committee to inquire into l C e law rel atin g to church -rate s. Mr. IIArecAeTLE seconded the motion. Lord JOHN litlssELL Would not object to the appoint ment or th© Commi!te e. Sir R. INGus regretted that the Noble Lord had as . suited t o v ~ Le motion. Mr. .GRIGHT, Mr. HEywoRTIJ, and Mr. LENNARD supported r the motion, and Mr. A. B. flopE opposed it NI . COWAN nu mitten shculd be egx.,t93enticd t d that the inquiries of the CORI: .Scotland' Mr. Fox MAuLt. to objected, as the subjects were per fectly distinct. The motion Was th e Lard ASHLEY then then agreed to. La rd enmoved for leave to bring In a Bill to encourage i the building of lodging hang classes. The No ble Lord g described the pj h e e sen t state of the d we ll in g - houses and lodgings for patiated upon the numerous e wzrkinF.: classes,ils, mora l an and ex which resulted from their beingd physical, the over -crowded with in mates, proceeded to explain provisions of his Bill. measure The Bill, he observed, would be e for the establish permissive ; in fact, nearly a transcript of the in an escribed its ment of baths and washheirses, which had beend attended any borough. by signal benefit. The Noble Lord the in n main provisions. It might be adopted The council of any borough adopting the its adoption oiild charge the expenseta on the borough fund; bud on 'flight Sitir:n, the churchwardens of any pariah might n t i a vestry !meeting to determine whether the Act convene be adopted, but the resolution affirming not to be deemed to be carried unless two-thirds t* vestry voted for it; the vestry to adopt, but the Com missioners to carry out . the Act, and the overseers to be empowered to levy the money necessary to 1 into operation. Vestries of two or more 6 1........., ,i,. ight concur in ado;ting the provisions of rstr sil o,›lii*:-.1-.414, The Council or Commissioners would be A. 4 r .,_,.., 9w . . ail adapt old lodging-bouse,:, or to purchase J O .‹.- - ..... i which to erect new ones. They were also to :1., ;.. ''..7.Akilii . •_:- :ygg, subject to the approval of the Secretary ~ \---- 7. -,..:' • • =nd to make charges, subject to the approval !ze ) . 7 . !.., III.; r-law Board; but nu person receiving pare "— I;,' "..,....., . 9 bo allowed to be a tenant of any of the izl , L (,k,; . ';: • ...• '. ' .Ring-houtes. •-.6.-a----'-/ THE SUN, After some observations in favour of the motion from Mr. SLANEY and Mr. HUME, Sir G. GREY assented willingly to the introduction of the Bill, but cautioned the House against expecting measures of this character to remove directly the social evils upon which the Noble Lord had dwelt. They were to be diminished rather by individual effort. Mr. STANFORD, Mr. Fox, Lord C. HAMILTON, and Mr. LABOUCHERE having severally addressed a few observations to the House, leave was given to bring in the Bill. The Bill was subsequently brought in and read the first time. Sir H. W. BARRON then moved that the House do re solve itself into a Committee to consider the state of Ireland, with a view to relieve the distress there existing. The Hon. Baronet in the course of his speech severely attacked the Irish Poor Law, to the existence of which he seemed to attribute the greater portion of the prevail ing distress. Sir LUCIUS O'BRIEN seconded the motion, which was supported by Mr. REYNOLDS. Sir W. SOMERVILLE opposed the motion, and in the course of his speech announced his intention of laying on the table of the House all the pepers relating to the recent occurrences in the Kilrush Union. Mr. Mettoas JOHN O'CONNELL supported the motion. Mr. S. CRAWFORD attributed the distress of Ireland to the unsatisfactory nature of the relations between landlord and tenant. Lord J. RUSSELL attributed the greater portion of the distress in Ireland, which, however, he was happy to say, was less aggravated than it bad been, to the dreadful famine which h a d recen tly prevailed in that I country.... Mr. FRENCH supported the motion, which, on a divi sion, was negatived by a majority of 9—the numbers being, for the motion, 129; against it, 138. Mr. FREWEN moved for a Select Committee to con sider the establishment of a mail-train between Great Yarmouth and Leicester and Rugby, to meet the mail trains between Liverpool and Holyhead at Rugby. Mr. C. LEWIS opposed the motion, which was with drawn. _ The Small Tenements Rating Act Amendment Bill was read a second time. The House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'clock. With an occasional eccentricity Lord ASHLEY pos sesses a very large amount of benevolence. His noble speech of last evening compensates for all those efforts in aid of the Sabbatarians which had unfortu nately estranged many of his most ardent admirers from this generous and large-hearted patrician. He has vindicated anew his right to that popularity which of all others is the most desirable, that of the true and practical philanthropist. Lord ASHLEY is not one of your kid-gloved well-doers. He is not contented with being a remote advocate of social im provement. His sympathy for those who are plunged into habitual squalor and destitution is the sym pathy not of the Sadducee but of the Samaritan. He is ready, and not only ready but eager, himself, to pour in the oil and bind up the wound, to carry the afflicted to a place of shelter, and to supply them with the means of assuaging their distresses. While men of a different character are susceptible enough to weep over fictitious sorrows, be reserves the evidence of his emotion for occasions when he can alleviate the actual woes of the community and mitigate the an guish of poverty by the tenderest evidences of com miseration. Nothing but a sense of duty, prompted by a staunch and elevated •beneficence, could have enabled the Noble Lord to enumerate the facts with which he yesterday startled the Legislature into attention, and, we had almost said, horrified into acquiescence. Than the details contained in Lord ASHLEY'S speech of last evening we cannot imagine to ourselves any thing more sickening or more calculated to fill the mind with dismay at a spectacle of such supreme wretchedness. That men, and women, and children should be plunged into a conditio❑ so abject, that fellow creatures should exist in such habitual degradation, that scenes like those depicted by Lord ASHLEY should be of nightly recurrence in all the larger towns of the United Kingdom, and especially in the more populous quarters of this very metropo lis, in the midst of all the pomp of fashion, all the wealth of commerce, and all the luxuries of an almost effeminated civiliza tion, would be truths too horrible for belief but that they are placed altogether beyond the reach of contradiction. The ghastly woes endured by the humbler classes prove, on inquiry, to be of a nature such as might have caused even the soul of DANTE to shudder at afflictions the like of which for intensity had never entered the most sombre recesses of his imagination. Details of these afflictions were furnished by the Noble Representative of Bath in an abundance only too lamentably conclusive. He related with impressive sim plicity the appearance presented by the cus tomary dwelling-places of the poor—those dens of filth and misery, the mere description of which is almo.t unendurably repulsive. Yet, in spite of their loathsomeness, Lord ASHLEY has had courage himself to penetrate these pits of disease and infamy, and the yet greater courage to speak of them in the presence of the assembled gentlemen of England on the floor of the Commons House of Parliament. Among the many dismal revelations made in Lord ASULEY'S speech of last evening a few will be suffi• cient to illustrate the necessity of introducing some such Bill as the one demanded by that nobleman—a Bill for encouraging the construction of lodging houses for the labouring population. " What," he asked at the outset of these revelations, " must be the condition of dwellings with 8, 10, 20, or 25 persons living in a single apartment ? " What must he the condition of those persons them• selves under the circumstances ? Remember that these are very far indeed from being exceptional cases, and that hundreds—alas ! thousands—of instances may be adduced, where, in one room, more than 30 individuals are crowded together, sleeping upon rags or straw, adults of both sexes, dogs, and children ! Imagine; the foulness of the atmosphere in those pest houses of London, those dens of all abomination ! Where can be the decency of people living after this fashion ? Where that sweet and wholesome morality in which contentment is alone attainable ? Sickness must, as it were by necessity, be engendered by so much filth and confinement, by such a lamentable absence of light and ventilation. More than this must be the consequences of the system—the sickness of the mind as well as of the body, the debasement of the intellect as well as the stunting of the physical powers, the propagation of disease in the soul as well as in its earthly casket, must by necessity follow from this execrable manner of existence. Following Lord ASHLEY in his melancholy pilgrimage, we encounter scenes of misery such as are scarcely conceivable among a nation of Caribbees much less of Christians. The wand of CIRCE seems to have been waved over the roofs of the metropolis. The people seem to have been transformed from human beings into swine, their homes into styes, abounding in every thing that is despicable and villanous. One while we glance into a room where fifty. eight fellow creatures are huddled together, indiscriminately. Adults, both male and female, numbering, altogether, twenty-seven, with thirty-one children, and a few dogs, are lying about on the straw. It is scarcely possible to breathe. We hear one who has entered the appartment saying, "I have felt the vermin dropping on my hat like peas." We listen to him speaking of it afterwards, and saying, " I dare not sit, or I should be at once covered." We can believe another who has said of these pits of horror that " missionaries are seized with vomitting or fainting upon entering them." Further and further we follow Lord ASHLEY in his very terrible narrative of the condition of the working•classes. Our heart almost fails us as we proceed, but taking example by that noble nature which has gone before us, and has ventured to fathom these depths of wretchedness, we go on undeterred by the other wise overpowering influences of disgust. The truth, grim and gigantic, glares upon us out of the accumulation of facts, and we are not i n any manner amazed when we hear Mr. Fox ac knowledging that education is idle to deal with woes life these —woes that demand for their decr ease th e direct i n t e r po : i f t a i r o n b a o c f k the s 18 4 3 Legislature. m. e find in the L ancet a A let il t . t.C ad wY: as by a sanitary advocate, since then distinguished by his brilliant efforts to p revent the con ti nuan ce of extramur al interment, in which l etter the argument of Lord ASHLEY was even then very signifi can tly anticipated. " 11'hen children of a larger growth," says Mr. GEORGE ALFRED WALKER, in the communication here referred to— " When children of a larger growth shall be fully awakened to the conviction that in many localities dis ease is manufactured by wholesale,' to be treated by retail;' whe n blessed with the means to do goo d a nd the leisure to individuals or bodies o f p ersons who, execute, will, instead of crusading for the evangelisation of transmarine heathen, attempt (and by the only sensible and immediately practicable means) to Christianise our own; when they will take as much care of the breed of the human as they do of the higher order of domestic animals; when men, women, and children who, in thousands of instances. are worse lodged, worse fed, and worse treated than the horses of the rich in their stables, or the beasts of the Zoological Gardens in their dens, are, for the first time, anxiously and efficiently cared for; when the spurious, the rotten philanthropy above hinted at, instead of pathetically lamenting the moral depravity of the millions whom it has never seen, will set itself seriously to work to improve the temporal condition of our own unhappy, too frequently degraded and brutalised poor; when it shall study poor human nature in detail instead of in the mass; go into the so called houses and neighbourhoods in which so many of our fellow-creatures vegetate, like fungi, not live, like men; it will be the agent in producing enormous, incalculably beneficial results,—results that would be felt in the mi nutest and most intricate ramifications of the great human family." Results of this beneficial character we anticipate from the Bill for leave to bring in which Lord ASHLEY asked only yesterday, and we rejoice to think not un successfully. The introduction of that measure we shall look for eagerly, and shall watch its progress through both Houses with a solicitude that can know no diminution. The only point decided by the division of Monday evening is that the property and income-tax is not to be relinquished as a source of revenue. Nothing has yet been determined as to the duration of the impost or its mode of assessment. These are points on which the opinion of the House will unquestionably be taken, and we trust that the results will be such as the justice and expediency of the case demand. The veteran JOSEPH HUME has already given notice that he will in Committee propose that the duty be granted for a single year only, in order that a Committee of Inquiry may be appointed in the meantime, with a view to the removal of the complaints and objections now made against its ine quality and injustice. We long since strongly re commended such a limitation, even under the most favourable circumstances. Nothing would tend more to strengthen and consolidate the power of the po pular branch of the Legislature than such a course. According to the constitutional theory the represen tatives of the people should have the entire control over the public purse, and no taxes should be levied without their assent and approbation. It is necessary that this legitimate and constitutional power should be relinquished in the indirect taxation of the coun try. In all matters coming under the Customs or Excise, the nature and amount of the tax must be known with perfect certainty, or the merchant will be deterred from importing and the manufac turer from producing. It is on direct imposts only that the Commons House of Parliament can retain that salutary check over the Executive that is of such vital importance to the welfare and prosperity of the country, and which affords the most valuable guarantee for the liberty of the subject. Nothing would supply so powerful a motive to strict economy as the knowledge that the amount of the income-tax for the current year would depend on the vigilanee of Hon. Gentlemen in checking every species of ex travagance and preventing any unnecessary outlay. There would be a direct connexion between each vote in Committee of Supply and the pockets of the Members, that would speedily lead to important con sequences. We should not then see millions of pounds sterling carelessly and recklessly voted in thin Houses without consideration or forethought. A death-blow would be given to corruption and jobbery of every description ; and we should no longer see the stoppages in transitu, against which so many complaints have been preferred, sanctioned or tolerated. It is not necessary, however, that the tax should be renewed even for a single year in its present op pressive and unequal form. It might, perhaps, be difficult to introduce a perfectly equitable system under which every person should contribute exactly in proportion to his means and resources ; but that affords no sufficient reason why an attempt should not be made at ap proximation thereto. It is manifest that there is a wide distinction between estates in perpetuity and estates for life or other limited interests. A man whose income will die with himself must lay by a considerable portion of his income, or insure his life as a provision for his wife and children while the man who has full power over his property can spend the amount, whatever it may be, certain that the same fund will be available for his family after his decease. It might be difficult to assess the value of every life estate separately, but an average might be struck, and if two-thirds of the sum now chargeable on such property were assessed for the future, it would re- . _ move the chief ground of complaint, and render sub stantial justice in the premises. We merely throw this out a temporary suggestion, for we are satisfied that modes might, and would, be suggested before a Committee which would make a still more equitable apportionment of the burden. But as Mr. PEEL justly remarked, " if there was a distinction between a life-income and a permanent income, there was a still broader distinction between either of those incomes and incomes which were held on contingencies more precarious than life itself— such contingencies as fortune, health, reputation, and employment." It is indeed monstrous to class such incomes, which cannot be depended on even for a single year, with those which are certain and permanent, which may improve, but which can scarcely depreciate. The barrister or physician may be unable to bear the toil and exertion necessary for the exercise of his laborious profession!; there is a wear and tear of intellect that must tell sooner or later. Ile must take advantage of the favourable season, to use the homely but expressive maxim, " to make hay while the sun shines." It may be long before his name becomes known, before his ability_and talents are appreciated. During that period he may have necessarily contracted debts and liabilities, not for purposes of extravagance, but to maintain his position and standing in society, which, if once forfeited, would be fatal to his future prospects. The fundholder would, under such cir cumstances, sell out a few hundreds or thousands, as the case might be ; the landowner, might mortgage his acres or houses—neither would be subject to the tax. The former would have no liability whatsoever, and the latter would be allowed to deduct the amount paid by him as a charge payable out of his property. But no such privilege is allowed to the professional man. No allowance whatsoever would be made by the collector, and he should pay the tax upon money that had merely passed through his hands, and which he could not venture to apply to his own use. He must also look forward to the time when his over-taxed powers may fail, or when his popularity may cease. He must not only provide for past debts, but for the helpless old age that is creeping on. Practically he may not be justified in applying the one-fourth part of his net earn ings to his annual expenditure, and yet he is charged as if no change or alteration of cir cumstances were possible —as if he were the fortunate proprietor of a snug sum in the Three per Cents., that would still be productive at all times and seasons. Who is there that has not within his own ex perience known deserving individuals reduced from a state of affluence, and the enjoyment of every comfort, to misery and destitution? It was our painful duty to notice even within the present week a melancholy instance of the kind—to speak of Mr. Serxo, the eminent tenor, who' once delighted the playgoers of the metropolis and realised a handsome income by his professional exertions, but who has for some time been suffering under the most bitter privation!, and that without any fault or error on his own part, Who is there who can think of such cases even for a single moment, and not perceive the gross injustice of the system which Sir CHARLES WOOD is so anxious to perpetuate ? The case of the merchant, manufacturer, or trader, is scarcely better than that of the barrister or physi cian. One year he may he tolerably successful ; his business may be flourishing, his debtors punctual ; the next he may barely maintain his position with out any material loss or profit; while the third be may have to draw largely on capital to supply the deficiency occasioned by bad debts and the bankruptcy of correspondents. It is a bitter mockery to demand from such a person, who may be himself tottering on the verge of ruin, tpayment of n h c e m ehas a ,0 considerableainnsnougcrihneal existence. s u mßfuo But he hdutymust u s o an tn pay a y t q h u ar i so s inquisitorial m t.andohuel would r G y ha i a n zv g eet t escrutinyen counter with i i into , to or h s u s b a m i ffn i a t t r o gs the certainty that his difficulties will be spoken of in the neighbourhood, and his credit, perhaps, Materially damaged; 1111 d even LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1851. then he may not obtain redress, for he will have to abide the decision of prejudiced judges, whose judg ments cannot be appealed from, and who are prepared to give the benefit of any doubt to the Exchequer. Once more, then, we emphatically call upon the people to bestir themselves while there is yet time, to prevent this monstrous injustice from being perpe tuated, and so deep a disgrace from being inflicted on the British name. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were only 2,500 bales, with a heavy market. The sales comprised 2,000 American, 200 Egyptian at 7 3 ,4 d. to 10d., and i3OO Surat at sd. to styd. per lb.—Railway Shares were quiet. In the Colonial Market rather an increased business has been doing in Coffee, but many doubt whether the altera tions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the duties, will materially add to the consumption, while adulteration goes unproh ibited- The West Indian and Mexican mail is still due. From Amsterdam, under date of the 7th instant, it is stated that the Funds generally were without any particular change. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 57k. The information received from Madrid as to the progress of the debate upon the Debt is somewhat discouraging, and it is positively lamentable to observe the disregard of public faith manifested by some of the speakers, Senor Castro, for ex ample. If such should prove to be the sentiments of a majority of the Committee, degraded indeed, say we, must be the state of feeling in Spain, and small the hope of justice to its foreign creditors. We cling, however, the unfavourable an tecedents notwithstanding, to the hope that the Ministry will be sufficiently strong to carry its project; for, confisca tory as it is in reality, it is yet as good, probably as can ever be obtained from such a ceuntry, or more properly from its ambitious and avaricious statesmen, always more intent upon their personal interest than upon the public weal. The English Funds have been very firm, but compara tively dull. The dividends are now in course of payment. Consols have been 96 3 /4 % for Transfer, and 96% to 97 for May. The New Tbree-and-a• Quarter per Cents. have been at 97% 3 / 4 , and the Three per Cent. Annuities at 96 to I A. Bank Stock has been at 211 1 4 to 212. Exchequer-bills have been quoted 545. to 555., and India Bonds 625. to 645. premium. In the Foreign Market the transactions have been very limited in extent. Spanish Bonds are merely nominal. The Five per Cents. 20 3 / 4 to '2l, and the Three per Cents. 39 1 4 to 40. Mexican Stock has been at 33 1 4 to 33N ; Peru vian Four-and-a-Halt per Cents., without the divi•tend, are 80 a . Brazilian Stock for the Account, and ex-Dividend, have been quoted 881.4 to 89. Russian Bonds have been at 111, and Dutch Four per Cents. at 89% to without the dividend. Railway Shares have been neglected, and rule at lower rates generally. North• Western have receded to 126.4, North Stafford to 103 e, South-Eastern to 26%, South Wales to 34, and others in proportion, except the foreign shares, which are firm. QUARTER TO THRE Consols Ditto Arenuns 961 BItITISE FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONK O'CLOCK. ( From the Official List. ) Bank Stock 211% 212 211 1 4 ex d. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 96% 96 ex d. 3 per Cent. Consols Anne New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anis. 97 % 34 ex d. Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 7% 7 5-16 x d India Stock Do. Bonds, 1000/ Ceiviels for Account E :slangier Bills. I%cl. 2d. March. Jane. 1,0001.... 55 54 p ;OW Small — 56 54 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. BB% Ditto Account . BB% 89 ex d. Mexican Bonds, 1846,5 per Cent., Coupons Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto for the Account Peruvian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Account De. Deferred 38% 39 Russian Bonds. 1822, 6 per Cent lll Ditto 4% per Cent. 98%% Ditto, Small . Dividends on the above payalele in London. Belgian 2% per Cent Dutch 2 1 % per Cent., 12 Guild Ditt• 4 per Cent. Certificates COURSE OF Amsterdam .......... 11 15N Ditto, three months .. 11 16N Rotterdam .... 11 17 Antwerp • • ............ 25 22% Brussels • • • • 25 224 flamburgh ......M.B. 13 75i Altona • • ..... • • .... Paris, 3 days'inght 25 2% Ditto, 3 months .... 25 22% Marseilles ............ 25 25 Bourdeaux ... • Prankforton Maine.... 110% Vienna, effec. fib •• •• .• 13 18 Trieste, ditto 13 20 Petersbargh,Bil. Rble.. 37 1 4 Madrid • 50 Cadiz •• •............. 50% Barcelona • • • • THE SHARE MARKETS BRITISH RAILWAYS. Railways. Paid. Normal rrioes. Aberdeen • • • . • • •• I Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Juncion Belfast and County Down Birming., Woiverhamp., and Stoar Valley • • Birkenh., Lan., & Chesh June., late 331. 6s. ad.. Do. Chest. & Birkenhd., 501. & 251. Consolidated Do., do., 201. • .. • • Bristol and Exeter .• • • Caledoniaa • • • • • Cheater and Holyhead Direct Loud. and Portsm. Dublin and Belfast Junct. Dublin and Kingstown.. Dundalk and Enniskillen East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) •• Do, (181. E. & II.) • • Eastern Counties .. • • Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shares • • Do. do. do. .. Do. do., B & C shares East Lancashire • • • • Do. New quarters • • Edinburgh and Glasgow Edin., Perth, and Dundee Do. Newport .. ••1 Exeter and Exmouth .. Glasgow and South-West, Do. do. G. D. & C tock Great Northern • • • • Do. halves, A, deferred Do. halves, B, 6 per ct. Great Southern and Western, Ireland Great Western • • • • Do. New, 171. •• Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds • • • • • • Lancaster and Preston .. Lancashire and Yorkshire Do. quarter shares .. Do. fifths .. • • • Do. West Riding Union Leeds and Thirsk .. • • Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .. London and Blackwell • • Do., Tilbury Ext. Scrip London, Brighton, and South Coast .. • • London and N.-Western Do. do. new quarters . Do. fifths Do. 101. sh., M.& it (c) London and S.- Western . Do. new 501. Do. new 40/. .. .• Londonderry & Coleraine Do. half shares Londonderry and Ennis killen. .. • • Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock • • .. • • Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire . • • • Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union . • Midland •• •• .• •• Do. consolidated pref. Do. 501. shares . • . • Do. Birming & Derby Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) Newcastle and Carlisle • • Do. quarter shares .. N ewmarket • • .. Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Newry and Enniskillen • • Newry, W arr enpoint, Rostrevor • • .. • • Norfolk .. • . .. • . Do. New 20/. shares • • Northern Counties Union North British...... North Staffordshire .. North-Western North &Sth.-West.Jane. Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. .. Scottish Central .. Scottish Midland .. Do. new Shrewsbury & Binning. Clas 3 A.. • • Do. Class 8.. • • • . Shrews. & Hereford., Old Do., do., New Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) •• Do. Halves .. • • • • Do. Oswestry • • .. Do. New.... .. • • Shropshire Union • • • • Do., A, B, C, & D, fully paid up at per cent • • South Devon .• South-Eastern South Wales.. .. South Yorksh. and,River Dun Shell., Roth., and Goole, South Divisioa Stockton and Hartlepool Swansea & Loughor, &c. raw Vale Extension .. Thames Haven Deck and Railway .. • • Vale of Neath • • Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick, Waterford, Wex., Wick. and Dublin West Cornwall • • • • West London .. .. • • Whitettaven and Furness York, Newcastle, & Ber wick .. .• •• • • Ditto and Newcastle Extension .. Ditto G.N.E. purchase or preference • . • • York and North Midland LINES LEAS' 14% to 15 E%-3 die. 10% - 11 81 -83 13% - 13% - 23 •• .• 20 —lB Cs, 4% - 634 3 -3% 7% - 7 % 6% -6% •• - •• 4% -4% 16! - 111% 3% -4% 34 - 36 734 - 8 • - •• Ni - 34 17% - 17% 5% - 6 12 - 12% 42 -43 IW4 87 2% —2 I A die. 78 —B2 8 —lO p. 29 —3l p 58 —59 lOU —9% d. 7 —6% dls. 6 —5% d. 17 —IS 8 % iP 94% —96% 127 —l2B 4~1( 5 p. 50. 3 p. 86% 87% 73( —6% dis. 6 4 as. 334 —3( d. 34 -35 3 —2% dis. 60% —63% .• •• 14% —l4 dia. 34 —36 •., ...... •• S% -.- 9U 43{ 4 dia. b 4 dii. 16 -28 13 —l2 di,. 2 —2), die. 9U 10 _7 6%dis. ._ . - 1 p 17% .. 18 16% int gx, —10 A 16 .... 15 dls, 4y( 4 dl.. 3% —3% Ali. 2% —1% IS —2O 9 —lO 13 —l5 % % 111 '- 3% 23“1. xcl le —2O 26% 26% 34 - - 36 1 34 % db. 3% - 44 9% - 10 . —• • 'l', • — 6% CS. 1 2X, 4 34 5 d. b3(— 5 17 —lB 8 .... 7% 21 -2154 4 —3% dis. -1% din. 26 —26 X, rXXED al 'TAXA. Business done to-day. EXCHANGE. Gibraltar...... Legh0rn........ ••.• • . 30 55 Geaoa .. ••• • • • ••• • • • 25 52 34 Milan •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Venice • • • . • • • . • • • • • • •• Naples .......• •• 4l Palermo, peroz ........ 120, Messina 124 X, Lisbon— • • .• .......• •• 33 % Oporto •• •• 6 3% Rio Janeiro • • • Buenos Ayres ........ New York, 60 days'alght Philadelphia PYICie 01/ BULLION, PEA OZ. Foreign Geld inbars.. XS 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloon .. 0 0 0 New Dollars ••...• 0 4 11% Silver 1n bars ........ 0 5 1% LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY, LONDON, APRIL 9.—Wind at noon N.W., variable. HULL, APRIL 8. —Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Constance, Kioll, Boyense ' • Anne, Clanun, Horsens; Cecilia, Thornsen, Son deberg ; Stad Enschuli, Newkouse, Yevolla ; Union, Lever son, Flushing; Kuren Hinkeldy, Jorgensen, Mairhoe; Lama, Paulls, Leer. Sid. Lord Mulgrave, Miramichi. HARWICH, APRIL B.—Wind E. by N.—Arrd. Three Sis ters, Swendron, Kiagerve. COWES, Aram 7.- Sid. Fortitude, Ceylon. OFF SALCOMBE, Aram s.—Admiral de Ruiter, Tetsing, Bargoewangia. ST. Ma.wEs, Aram 6.—Arrd. Kron Prinz Oscar, Arvoes kans ; Sarah Margretta, Erickeren, Porsgrund; Christian Aujust, and Twende Broders, Drain. TARBERT ROADS, APRIL 6.—Arrd. Munde, Leile, Ibrail. CLYDE, Aram 7.—Arrd William Bromham, Siena Leone; Lady Falkland, Gallacher, Paraiba ; Marco Palo, Gavagwire, Galatz ; Alarm, Trinidad. Sid. Clydesdale, Demerara; Agnes Sophia, Pictou ; Oxford, Miramichi; Euclid, Rankin, and Thomas Henry. Quebec. EAL, APRIL 8 —Wind N.E., strong and squally.—Sid. Zoe, Jamaica ; Acis, Nassau. LIvERPOOL, APRIL B.—Wind E.N.E. to E S.E.—Arrd. Britannia, Parr, Paraiba; British Queen, Wise, Porto Rico; Nino, Giovannia, Odessa; Grecian steamer, Hardie, Con stantinople. Sid. Eothon, Valparaiso; Squantum, New Orleans; Lady Httbart, Staten Island; Samuel, Newfound land; Allianza, Smyrna; Martha J. Ward, Constitution, and Yorkshire, New York • Star of the West, New York ; Cuth berts, Boston; Troubadour, Halifax; Pursuit and Clarissa, Quebec ; Julia y Pepiter, Bilboa. Off port, Union, Transit, Winifred, Martha, Eleanor, Dixon. PLYMOUTH, Amu B.—Wind E.N.E.— Sld. Chance, Leg horn. PENZANCE, APRIL 7.—Wind S. E., strong.—Arrd. David Grant, Constantinople. SCILLY, APRIL 6 AND 7. Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Silura, Ginzelier, Bayonne, and sailed' sth for Dublin; Mulatto, Newman, Buenos Ayres for Hamburgh. PILL, APRIL B.—Wind E., strong.—Sld. Warrior, Africa; Glenelg, St. Vincent; Jane and Barbara, Quebec. KlNanown, Aram 8. Wind N.E.—Arrd. Emilie, Thornsen, Bahia; Chumbo, Antola, and Geilger, Laurisino, Havannah ; Elizabeth, Lucon ; Jean Josephine, Nantes. NEWPORT, APRIL B.—Wind N.E.— Arrd. Salccmbe, Fayal. Sld. George, Putten, New York ; Neptune and Monmouth, :St. Thomas's; Hispina, Havannah ; Morden, Barcelona. QuEENsTowx, APRIL 7.—Wind S.E.—Arrd.Henry Winch, Harris, Cnina. Sid. Edward, Malta; Maze, Ballini. Off port, Robert Kelly, New York for Liverpool. LONDONDERRY, APRIL 7.—Arrd. Mary Dale, Lelia, Phi ' ladelphia ; Levant, Christenron, Barbadoes ; Villade Serenti, Naples. Sld. Londonderry, St. John's, New Brunswick. IN TILE TRovra.:, APRIL 7.—Arrd. Maid.'Paterson, Stathule. ABERDEEN, APRIL 7.—Wind S.S.*.— Arrd. Adolph, Thomson, Rostock. Sid. her Majesty's steamer, Lightening, Banff. BERWICK, APRIL 7.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Sporting Lass, Williams, Saldanha Bay. SIIIELDS, APRIL B.—Wind E.S.E. to E.N.E.—Arrd. Gold burg le Land, Levenson, Husom, llarbet, and Scandinavia, Rudkeobing ; Ariel, Adamson, Grimstadt; Arundal, Hissing burg; Christiana Augusta, Orsen ; llavanger Brin, Olsen, Hyborg ; Cucalia, Barskump, Papenburg ; Undaunted, Barker, St. Valery. Sld. Pearl, Quebec. STOCKTON, APRIL B.—Wind N.E., strong.—Arrd. Peter Cardt, Roch, Heiligenhafen. Sld. Rennor, St. Thomas's. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY. The quantity of English Wheat on sale in to-day's market was unusually small, and for the most part of very middling quality. Selected samples of both red and white sold at prices fully equal to those of Monday, but all other kinds were very slow in sale, at barely late rates. The total im ports of foreiga Wheat this week have been confined to 2,250 quarters. Although the amount of business doing in that grain was small holders were firm. In prices we have no change to notice. With Barley we were very moderately supplied. The trade may be called steady, at full currencies. Malt, the show of which was larger, met a dull inquiry. There was a fair inquiry for Oats, but we have no improve ment to notice in their value. Beans, Peas, and Flour, were held at full quotations, but the inquiry for Flour was less active. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Barley. I Malt. Wheat. 600 Oats. Flour. Qrs. 1,490 F:nglisk • • •• • • Irish •••• • • • • Foreign 2,750 Qrs. Qrs. 280 5,350 Qrs. sacks 670 1,530 1,050 9,000 15,390 BOROUGH HOP MAREET. Fine Hop; are in moderate request, at full prices. In all other kinds next to nothing is doing. WIIITECEAPEL. Generally speaking, our market has ruled inactive, on the following terms :—Beef from 2s 2d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; Lsmb, 4s 8d to 5s 10d ; Veal, 3s to 4s; Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 10d per 81bs by the carcase ELECTION.—Mr. Calvert, the ex- Member, was at Aylesbury yesterday, and addressed the electors on behalf of Mr. Bethel!, of whose return there seems very little doubt. Mr. Fox's motion, for national education in frQe schools, for secular instruction, supported by local rates and managed by local authority, is postponed to an early day aver Easter. REPRESENTATION OF COVENTRY.—Mr. Geacb, of Birmingham, was yesterday returned Member for the city of Coventry, by a majority of 43G votes over Mr. Strutt, the late M.P. for Derby. _ The Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall has pre sented the Rev. James Hutchinson, M.A., late preceptor to Princess Mary of Cambridge, to the rectory of Great Berk hampstead, Hertfordshire, rendered vacant by the death of the Rev. James Crofts. THE BIRKENHEAD BifyrEns.—The trial of the Bir kenhead rioters was brought to a conclusion }•esterday at Chester. The defendant Brown, the Roman Catholic priest, was acquitted ; the other defendants were found guilty ; and Mr. Justice Williams sentenced Feehan and Griffith, who bad been out on bail, to twelve months imprisonment; and Haggarty, Smith, and Fitzsimmons (who had been in prison since November), to nine months' imprisonment each. 1 1 0 100 8 6 8 25 12% 12% 1 13 4 47% 100 11 6 3 It AT Railwa y s ' CoLociaspainnfes. Paid. Closing Prices. Bduonsineesa. llarks.anii liants Ex. 5 per Cent Gt. Western 6 34 1 P. Bir. and Oxford June.,callsduly paid, or with a guarantee .• Do •• . • 20 28 34 2934 Do., without a guarantee .. Do .. • • 20 27 —26 Nol., & Dud.,calls duly paid, or with a guarantee .. Do .. 15 6 34 934 p Do., without a guarantee .. Do • • 15 7 —8 p Buckinghamsh. Lon. &N. W. 175 17% —lB E. Lin., Guar. 6 per Cent. .. G. Northern 25 3254 —33 Hull and Selby Yk. &N. M. 50 101 103 Do. 54 Shares Do 25 50 —5l Do. IA Shares Do • • .. 125( 23 —24 Leeds and Brad. Midland • • 50 9754 9834 983( Lon. and Green. S. Eastern . 12 15 4 11 1 4 11% Do., Pref. Do 20, 24 —25 Lowestoft, Gd. 4 per Cent. • Norfolk 20 lb —l6 N. &.• East, 5 per Cent. .• E. Counties . 50 54 —56 Do. New .. DO • • • • 43 4 6 p Preston and L. &N. W.] 25 41 —43 Nyre •• .. S &La.& T. Do. Si Shares ADo .. 1854 734 834 p. Read., Guild., and Reigate . S. Eastern 20 91 2134 Roy. & Jiltehin G. Northern 6% 8 •o. Shep. Ex.. Do .. 35t I%p. South Staffords. Mr. M'Cleten 93r 3 CA. Wear Val. 6 per Cent. gua. Stock.& Dar. 25 24 2434 Wilts, Som., & kWeymouth .. Gt. Western 50 45 4534 .RErEE: SNARES. Railways. I Paid. I Nominal Prices. Business done to-day. --- Aberdeen 6 8 % % dis dia. Caledonian 101. •• .. 10 6% 6 36 614 fi Chester and Holyhead .. 16 16 1634 x.d 163 E x.d East Anglian (31. 10s.) 6 per cent. .. • • 3 34 236 Do. (51.) 7 pr. ct. Pref. b Do. (71. 175.) 7 p. c.:Pref. 2 Eastern Counties Exton., per cent. No. 1 613 4 par —3E p Do. No. 2 .. 613 4 par — 34 p pm Do. New 6 p. cent. Stock 10 10% 113( Eastern Union, Scrip guaran. 6 per cent. • • 20 16 1634 Do. 101. Deben. Shares . 10 .. East Lancashire, 6 per cent. quarter shares .. 6% •• •-• Glasgow & S.-W. Consul 100 .• Gt. Northern, 5 per cent. 1234 13% 1334 Great South. & Western (Ireland) eighths .. 234 3i 1 p. Lancashire and York shire, F. 201... • • 6 134 dls. Do. 6 per cent. Stock'. 100 .. Leeds and Thirsk, 6 per cent., No. Do. 6 per cent., No. 2 . 17 .. —•• Do. 6 per cent., No. 8 . 5 . • —• • Do. quarters, 1848 .. 9 134 2 p London, Brighton, and South Coast guar. 5 per et., late Croyden thirds 100 .. De. pref., S p ct. Stock, 1851, from 501. share. E 100 114 120 Do. ()env. b per et. 1852 60 ' 57 —6O Do. new guar., 6 per ct. 100 136 •-139 London &S.-W., new • • 5 234 2 34 p. Londonderry and Ennis killen, half shares •• 10 Manch., Sheffield, and Line., quer. slim, No. 1 25 1334 1434 Do. new, 101. •• 10 11% 123 Do., 61. • • • • .. 3 % % p 1 % Midland Con. 6p. c. stock 100 132 134 Do. Cense. Bristol & Birrning., 6 per cent. • • 100 .. Do. Bristol & Glonces. 48 Do. do. do. •• 33 10 6 .. —•• Do. Erewash Talley .. 50 •• Do. Leic. & Swanning. 8 per cent. guar. •• 100 .. Norfolk Extension .. 20 17 —l3 00. guar. 534 per cent. 5 4% —4% Do. Waveney Valley .. 2 North British .• b 5" 534 x.d x.d Shrewsbury and Birm. Now Guaranteed .. 8 11 1134 • Shrews. and Ches. (Nor. W. Min.) 8 per cent. 10 153( -- 15% South Devon .. .. 25 14 —l6 South-Eastern, 434 p. et. 10 .• Waterford & Kilkenny, 51. 1 . • —• • WestLondon,ist Cl. (101.) 10 .. —• • Do. 2cl Class de. (par) 20 .. York, Newc., and Berw., 17 Gt. N . of E. Pur. 16% 16% 4% York and North Midland 11. and S. Purch. .. 10 13 f— 1 dia. FOREIGN. Boulogne and Amiens .. 20 9% —9% 9 % It Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) 90 18 18% 13 56 34 Demerara .. .• 1734 • • —• • Dutch Rhenish .. 8 db. 3'4 East Indian .. 14 156 P. Do. do. do. • • 20 Greatlndian Peninsula•• 6 % % P. Ditto ditto .. 234 %—3G P• Louvain ala Sambre 734 • •.L uxembourg 5 1% —., Ditto .. • .. 10 3 56 — • 336 3% % Madrid and Valentin .. 2 • • —• • Maria Antonia 25 7 Ditto, New •• • • 734 2 4 Namur and Liege .. • . 20 s —834 Northern of France • • 16 14% 1534 15 14% Orleans and Bordeaux .. 8 4 3% dls. 4% Paris and Orleans • • • • so 3 5 —B7 Paris and Rouen • • •• 20 25 Paris and Strasbourg • • • 16 2 54 5 26 aim. 10 % 11 Rouen and Havre .. 20 10% 10% Sambre and Meuse .• 20 3% 4 3% Tours and Nantes .• • • IS 9 —B% Ws. 6% Tourney, Jurbiss, Lan den, and Hessen .. 90 West ilanderl •• It I% ••• 9% IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock, THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed: Greet Western Railway (Arrangements with refereacv to the purchase, &c., of the Wilts, Somerset, and Wei•mouth, /cc. Railways). Stockton and Darlington, Wear Valley, and Middles. brough and Redcar Railway Companies Amalga mation (No. 2). Uttoxeter to Stoke, near Stone, and from Millwich to Sandon Turnpike Wads. SMITHFIELD MARKET. Petitions were peesented in favour of the removal of this market, by Sir E. N. Buxton, from South Essex; by Mr. H. Drummond, from Dorking; by Mr. Henley, from Oxfordshire; by the Earl of Arundel, from Surrey ; by Mr. Sandford, from Reading ; by Mr. Carter, from the Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals; by Sir Goorge Grey, signed by 30,000 of the merchants and bunkers of the city of London; by Mr. Christopher, from 500 greziors of the county of Lincolnshire; also from Stamford and Boston. Petitions were also presented against the removal of the market by Major Beresford, from E,sex; by Mr. Deedes, from Hampshire and,,Wiltshire; by Sir H. Hal ford• from Leicestershire; by Lord Burghley, by Mr. Stafford, from Northamptonshire; by Sir J. Duke, from 78,000 of the inhabitants of London. ST. ALBAN'S ELECTION. Mr. AGLIONBY moved that s,o much of the evi deuce taken before the St. Alban's Election Committee as constitutes the charge reported by the Committee, upon which Henry Edwards has been committed to the custody of the Sergeant-st• Arms, be laid before this House. Sir G. CLERK thought that the course proposed by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman was not the best that could be taken in the twitter. It would be quite suffi cient for th purpose if the short-hand writer were dr dered to attend at the bar of the House with his notes of the evidence. _ After a short discussion the short-hand writer was ordered t , ) be in attendance at the bar to-morrow at five (i'clock. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET BILL. Mr. B. DENNISON withdrew tSis Bia, and in doing so begged to deny the insinuation which had been cir culated abroad, that the Great Northern Railway had anything to do with this Bill. SMITHFIELD ENLARGEMENT BILL. On Sir JAMES DUKE rising to move the second reading of this Bill, a discussion ensued on a point of order, which was ultimately settled by The SPEAKER, who decided that, according to the rules respecting notices given at the Private Bill-office, the Hon. Baronet was quite in order; and Sir JAMES DUKE then simply moved the second reading of the Bill. Mr. CHRISTOPHER then said that as the second reading of this Bill was persevered in, he should, with the permission of the House, recall the circumstances under which this Bill was introduced. In the first place, they would remember that this Bill had already been submitted to a Select Committee, and that on the evidence taken by it, the Government had decided on bringing in a Bill for the removal of Smithfield market to another locality. Only two members of the Corporation had ventured to oppose the introduction of the Government Bill, and he therefore thought that he was perfectly entitled to consider the two Bills together. —(Hear, hear.) What did the Corporation propose? Why, nothing more than to keep the market in its present central situation, only with an enlargement. He was told by one of the ' witnesses in the Committee that this enlargement would be to the extent of about sixteen or eighteen acres, but on going over the ground by a correct admeasurement was less than eight and a quarter acres, a space altoge ther below the necessities of the case. lie was told . _ something about baths and washhouses, but what was the benefit to be derived from them compared with the disadvantages which would be incurred by the continu ance of the market? The alterations proposed could only be effected by the expenditure of upwards of a million of money.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Alderman SIDNEY begged to correct the Hon. Member.—(Cries of " Order!' and the Hon. Alderman ultimately sat down.) Mr. CHRISTOPHER resumed, and said that accord ing to the published estimates the money required would be 1,043,0001. Now it should be recollected that a few, and only a few, but more than he wished to see, of foreign cattle came to Smithfield. Some, but not many, came from Sussex and the southern counties of, England, so that it became a paramount object that the cattle sold in the market should not be driven, as they now were, through the narrow streets and lanes of the City. If this enlargement was made it was very evident that the whole of the expense must come out of the pocksts of the farmers and graziers of the counties north of London. And even supposing that was not to be, yet still the mere alteration of the market could not serve the object which all admitted it was necessary to obtain. The Hon. Gentleman then read a resolution of the Select Committee, in order to show their condemnation of the mere alteration of the market, and the necessity for its removal. Now, ac cording to the best computation, on a full market day not less than 7,000 head of cattle and 30,000 sheep were crowded together on the inadequate space of little more than six acres of ground. It was; therefore, manifestly impossible that the business could be proper!) carried on, and the cons( quence was, that farmer or grazier was left entirely at the mercy of the butcher and salesman; and he had heard that on one occasion as many as 2,000 head of cattle had been driven a e ay, be cause there was no room for them in the market.— (Hear, hear.) But even should adequate space be af forded, that would not remedy the other serious evil of which both the farmers and the public had to complain, viz., the deterioration of the quality of the meat. — (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member then read some ex tracts from butchers before the Select Committee, to prove this point; and then went on to say that by the system now pursued the cattle were depreciated in qua . lay to the extent of 11. per head. With regard to the agricultural districts, he could only say that they had been induced to support the removal of the mar ket under an erroneous impression, but he hoped the House would abolish the abominable nui sance and support the Bill of the Government. He concluded by moving that the present Bill bo read a second time this day six months. Mr. FITZROY said before he went into a considera tion of the advantages or disadvantages of the Bill, he should like to say a word or two upon the subject of the claim which the Corporation set up to continue the market in their own hands. Now, how stood the fact ? When the market was originally established the whole population of London was almost comprised within the walls et the City, but since then the population had been re duced to 120,000, and of those same 50,000 claimed the prescriptive right of keeping the market with all its attendant inconveniences within the City in opposi tion to the opinion of the majority.—(Hear, hear.) A second class of persons who opposed its removal besides these was the market salesmen and money-takers; but he would first dispose of the City population before he dealt with the salesmen.—(Hear.) Now great stress had been laid by the Hon. Baronet the Member for the City upon a petition which he had recently presented on this subject, and with the permission of the House he would mention a few facts in connexion with that petition. He bad a right to ascertain whether or no all the signatures to that petition were genuine. Well, then, besides those which had been attached to it under an erroneous impression of its prayer, he had been given to understand, and the parties themselves were ready to make an affidavit of the fact, that no less than sixty-one names had actually been forged to the petition.—(Hear, hear.) Contrast, on the other hand, that fact with the petition which had been presented by the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and they found that whereas the one was unworthy of credit while the other bore the names of every eminent house in the City, and some 2,121 of the inhabitants of the lion. Baronet's own ward.—(Hear.) He came now to the second class of people who object to the removal, namely, the salesmen and money-takers. That their individual interests would be injured by the re moval there could be no question, but the grounds which they urged against the removal were unfounded in truth. They say it will not injure them, but it will destroy the trade; but so far from doing that, in his opinion it would considerably improve and increase the trade of the metropolis.—(Hear, hear.) Now with reference to the details of the Bill it was said the enlargement would be amply sufficient to accommodate the public, but he distinctly denied that it would, for although one of the witnesses examined before the Commission, Mr. Taylor, he believed, stated that 5,000 beasts was the maximum number ever re quired to be tied up in Smithfield-market, he found by the returns that on - the 16th of December last there were 6,400 beasts actually turned and sold out, besides some 30,000 odd sheep, so that if the enlarge ment went upon the understanding, and he was told it did this, the maximum would never be greater than 5,000, how could it bo sufficient to accommodate the daily increasing trade of the metropolis?—(Hear.) Then, again, with respect to the loss which annually re sulted foom the want of room in the market, that was slot a question which concerned the tradesman alone, but it was a question that materially concerned the genera l public too. The annual loss from the deterioration of the beasts was estimated in round numbers at something like 200,0001., and from that loss the public suffered severely, besides getting sometimes very bad meat into the bar gain.—(Hear, hear.) But how was it proposed to carry out this extension? W h y in this way :—th ree en trances were to be placed near Victoria -street, where only one would be requited, and one was to placed to the north of the market where at least half-a dozen would be wanted. The plan, therefore, was defective in the extreme, and since it was only proposed to promote the interest of the retail dealer in the neighbourhood of the present market, where one house in every five was a tavern, be was quite confident the House would not pass the Bill in opposition to the expressed wishes of the vast body of the community.—(Hear, hear.) Sir CHARLES KNIGHTLEY was at a loss to know what his Honourable Friend who had just spoken had to do with the question, for he had never sent a single oxen or sheep to the market in his life.—(Hear, and laughter.) Now, the opinions which he had to give to the Route on the sub ject were all founded on experience. For forty years he had been in the habit of sending cattle to London. On the average he had sent 100 in the course of the season, and during that period he had never had a loss or accident of any kind whatever.—(Hear, hear.) The inhabitants of Smithfield did not want the market re moved, they did p9t oraplititt 9f Us being § 13' 21 ,i; 17% 34 bag AG 14% 127 126% 21% 4 2 0 ICO 100 3i;( dla. 60% ji 20% 9% % mi % 4% db. 3% di,. 3%% z.d 26 % % % 34 13 5 3 9 12 3 paid up paid up 20 21 1 i I,fi 7,t u 6% U and he shoul i he pled to know what business anybody eke hed to interfere in the matter?—(A laugh.) Hewe s ',old that' flue were alarmed by the horned beats, and that nurses and children wore continually being run over.—(Hear, hear.) Why, how could tbst be, when halt the beasts were driven to and from the market before these fine ladies c ould be out c , ' their bed, while, as for the nurses and children, they had no business in the stre , ts leading to Smithfield, they ought to confine thetnselvee to the squares and retired parts of the town.—(A laugh.) The fact was, there were some people wk. wanted to make their fortunes by the removal, and that Was the real secret of this opposition. 'rho question resolves itself into this—whether they should sweep Smithfielii f market clean away out of th t e . town, and compel parties to drive cattle right throng !. the town from certain directions, in order to get to He thought, hi mse lf, th er e w as a grea t deal of inoel humanity connected with the present subject. He should give his decided opposition to the present measure"; (Laughter) —he meant his support to the proposition of the City altheeiti. s.—(Hear.) Sir H. VERNEY then rose, and was (LEFT SPEARING.) .gLECTION COJIMITTEE.-( THIS DAY ST. ALBAN'S. The Committee sat this morning at half-past twelve. Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE made an application to the C 011 1" mittee to procodd with the inquiry into this case. He con. tended that the Committee had no right wurler the prese nt Act of Parliament to make any special report t° the House except at th e ti me w h en th e y reportel their final determination. The Learned Cotio,s e ' quoted all the authorities on the subje c t, e ach of whi ch he contended supported his view of the case. He could 0 111 d no precedent of a Committee making any special report Whi le the proceedings were going on. Mr. E. JAMES followed on the same side. He c ontende d ' that the Committee had no right under the -83 d section °` the Act, except in cases where witnesses had refused t° answer, or had been served with the Speaker's warrant, an had not obeyed. The case was analagous to a trial at .: 41 :1 Prius, where, if the necessary witnesses might kept away by one of the interested parties, the case Wat l ' id still go o-,, and a verdict be given, although the judge direct proceedings to be instituted against the offending Pe` • sons; and he contended, therefore, that the Committee bad Do power to delay this inquiry. . tr. Sergeant WRANGHAM opposed the application. The Learned Counsel was proceeding with his argula o when we went to press. INSOLVENCY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner LAW.) IN RE JOHN HENRY DOYLE. This case, which has occupied the Court for three daYel was finished this morning. The insolvent was ordered tu,, amend his schedule, so far as rel a t e d t o th e asser tion th!,' . Mr. Dillon was a partner ; and als o i n re f erence to Mr. Russell's debt, insolvent's description of which has been struck out and amended, in conf orm ity w ith th e Cofunt sioner's opinion that it is a partnership and not a priva te debt. The insolvent is to advertise his amended schedule before being discharged. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY') OLD COURT. (Before the Commorr-SERGEANT.) FORGERY —Joseph Lucas Horrocks, aged 46, described:l a merchant, pleaded guilty to an indict ment charging for with feloniously uttering a forged bill of exchange 4-tel. 9s. 7d., with intent to defraud William Miller Chris ti and others, and was sentenced to be transported for 14 Ye,i ir g : FELONY. —A youn g man name d J ames B on d, describea o a chemist, pleaded guilty t o an i n di ctmen t c h arg i ng him W er stealing a bill of exchange value 208/. 14s. 6d., and oth.,, property of George Willi am A cton, an d was sen t e nced 14. 10 years' transportation. (Before Mr. Justice EALE and Mr. Baron MAaTcc).„, l FORGERY.—A respectable-looking middle aged P er 7o named Smith, was put forward on a c h arge o f forgery, 11*.os Mr. CLARKSON applied to have the trial postponed on : to ground that a material and necessary witness to substaetls the charge was dangerously ill, and unable to attend. Mr. HUDDLESTONE, who appeared for the prisoners the case had already been postponed three sessi o and as the prisoner was most anxious to take his trial Wel' diately, he must resist the application. $l 4 Mr. Justice ERLE, in the face of the allegation on the P s of the prosecution, had no alternative but to postpone " case. e► t i° Mr. HUDDLESTONE hoped, under these circumstance Cour; would admit his client to bail. de Mr. Justice ERLE said ho would consider of that, en cide to-morrow. Aoile% v POST-OFFICE ROBBERIES.—A respectably-attire. .7 man, named Burk, pleaded guilty to an indictment, char o , him with stealing a post-l e tter c o n taining a watch, the • perty of the Postmaster-General. The prisoner had bee e d clerk in the Post-office. He was sentenced to be trans P ort for twelve years. Another clerk in the Post- o ffi c e, named S m ith, plea d 4 guilty to a similar offence, and was sentenced to be tr*" ported for ten years. John Reynolds, aged 48, described as a labourer, wo o f • dicted for stealing a Post-office letter containing parts g d watch, the property of the P os t mas t er -G enera l. 8e - been a carrier. The COURT sentenced him to ten years' transportatioe - oa James Cook, aged 24, described as a postman, Ple a if guilty to an indictment charging him with having feloe , ,,°;l- destroyed three post-office letters, the property of the tor master-General ; but he added that he destroyed the l e e oo while in a state of intoxication; and this appearing to b oi s from the depositions, the Court (sentenced him only t° months' imprisonment, with hard labour. MR. SAPID, THE SINGER. • TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. ,ir Stn,—By your paper of last evening I see that this g a ol tleman, who was once the primo Lenore of Covent Garda' , of afterwards a private teacher of music, is now in a star li s complete destitution in a garret at Edgeware-road• t c unexpected inform .tion surprises me and grieves me, if.ble was only some few years ago that I eng a g e d thi s respect : 0 ; man to give my children lessons in music at my own and in bearing this testim o ny t o th e prop r i e ty and al'i tic ti with which he performed hi s e n gagemen t s , y ou would In t o oblige me if you w ou ld b e th e me di um o r conve ying to beg one guinea, and I am sure he will thank The Sun for Ma' known his case.—Yours, obediently, DALETII' Cheltenham, April 8, 1851. [Acknowledging with all earnestness the prompt libelri t 1 of of our correspondent, we trust that many others of ,: 0 1 readers will emulate his benevolence, and a fford a pracP :4 sympathy by this means to a distinguished and Beset"' . artist, now overwhelmed by misfortune.—ED. Sun.] th e CAUTION TO PARENTS.—A few days ago, j 0 / be neighbourhood of Leicester square, as two little girls , 4 40 tween eight and ten years of age) were proceeding tot 0 school, they were met by a female who interrogated the fete to where they were going; one of them told her they w er f going to school. The woman then said "Do you pay ° t i l e week?" One of the children said " Yes, I have got o f money in my pocket." The woman then said, " 01 L o tl. dear, you had better let me tie it up in your pocket-n% n a kerchief, for as you go along you will see some bullocks Pio be frightened, and lose your money." The chili t ii lf gave her the money for that purpose, bat the woman Oft tied up a few coppers, taking care to abstract the s ilver' up appears the same woman has been practising this trick er several children. CORNHILL WARD.—ELECTION OF A CO , - fi r COUNCILMAN. - Yesterday a wardmote of the wa'd of CA', to hill, was held in the vestry-room of St. Michael's Chur c "'so elect a Common Councilman, in the room of Alder .Al Carter, who was a Common Councilman of th e w ard. „ 5 61 man Carter having taken the chair, Mr. Atkins pr?r nt i and Mr. J. Wilson seconded the nomination o f Mr. lif t he Hoppe, solicitor, as a fit and proper person to represex p oi• ward in the Common Council. The resolution wrq mously agreed to, when Mr. Hoppe acknowledged the4 lo . of the ward. Mr. Deputy Harrison moved and Mr. P. r d. dell seconded a vote of thanks to the chair, and the - mote was dissolved. $ 9 SUSPENSION OF A CLERGYMAN OF THE Et3TAEL' ig O 11 11 CHURCIL—A strong sensation has been excited in the 1- . 6 iS, of Gravesend in consequence of the suspension fo r II of months of the Rev. Mr. Blew, minister of the chn.r e t he St. John, by the Bishop of Rochester. The report S i t he district is that the Bishop was originally applied to 00 t he subject by Mr. Duval, churchwarden of the church of too t Most Holy Trinity, and subsequently a correspondence. top place between Lord Ashley, Mr. Duval, and the hi s " The result has been the suspension above mentioned' t ed appears that the church of St. John was originally er e _.. c ot by subscription and let o u t a t diff er e n t times to ditto' r e clergymen, and that Mr. Blew ultimately became the Pia prietor by purchase. Th e R e v. Gentleman had suceeed e , bringing a large congregation to the church, had form t he school, choristers, &c. The gravamen of his offence ls having subscribed an address to Dr. Wiseman, got 1. 1 1 3 , 0t certain clergymen of the High Church party, in yr" - IO those whose names are attached regret the manner 0 which he has been received in England ; address h'lico " your Eminence," express respect for his person and t i t s as a "bishop of the church of God"; and state that Ad " clamour of the many" in his case " is not to be reg ard of as the unequivocal voice of religion and of the Church England."' -- -- A yeti' TUB CONVICTS HARWOOD AND JONES.— , .. tO tion, signed by the whole of th e j ury, has b een f or wardea ti o Mr:Locke King, M.P. fo r E ast S urrey , f or p r esent% o f through the Home Sec re t ary, pray i ng f or a commutati°oo the sentence of death passed at the last assizes upon the t i l e unfortunate men, Levi Harwood and Samuel Jones, for 00 , murder of Mr. Holiest, and who are now lying at 0 ° tl t monger-lane Gaol for execution. It is founded upott ifW oo strong convicti on i n t h e m i nds o f t h e j ury t h a t th e sho a, pf actually fired by the approver Hiram Smith, and o°' either of the men now lying under sentence. dal SOMNAMBU LISM IN L I VERPOOL.—On Wedne S tre et night a lady was di scovere d wa lki ng a l ong St. Anne' o o oo in her ni g ht d ress . Sh e was f as t as l ee p. S ome gent' passing by got a car and conveyed her home. —Liv e Mercury. BIRTHS ox a sox. g e ed On the 7th inst., in Eccleston-square, the wife of Fox Eristowe, Esq. On the 6th inst., at Blomfield-road, Maida-hill, th e of Mr. James Buchanan. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 7th inst., at Lowndes-square, the Lady VivitiP uo to On the 6th inst. , the wife of the Rev. W. L. Mason, e of St. Mary's, Bury St. Edmund's. MARRIED. „ t aviu 9 On th 3 sth inst., at St. Pancras N.w Church, ki c .,,, - „rlo,t William, fourth son of John Hoffman, Esq., Reading , to Eliza Susanna, youngest and only surviving (laugh' the late Mr. P. J. Carwardine, Hereford. JOl O On the sth inst., at All Saints', Southampton, Capto - -vice Shepherd. Royal Navy, to Anna, second daughter of Admiral Dick. DIED. On the sth inst., at Leicester, Major Thomas Cradoc,l;grlf On the 4th inst., at Torquay, the Rev. Matthew u". LL.B., Magdalen College,Cambridge, aged 27. • f ° On the sth inst., at f Lower Tulse-hill, Anne, the ° W. Macfarland, E.sq., aged 55. ,f• t 0 On the sth inst., at Cl a ph am - common , Sarah, r elic Robert Fauntleroy, Esq., late of Wandsworth, SurreLillis° On the 7th inst., at Por c h es t er -pl ace , Hyde-park, w Baker, Esq., age 4 a 8. 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