The Sun. — London, England, 1845-03-11 00:00:00

„ et t . bi ribittoi, SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. --....--- LATEST PRICES OF SHARES From the Official List, • PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 11. RAILWAYS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. Per of Paid. Price. Annum. Stare. -------- - £ a. d. £ a. d. Aberdeen ••• • • ••• •• • " - - 210 0 2% 131rminghain & Gloster V. 55. per sh. 100 0 0 100 0 0 133 Ditto, New, iss.7l die. 15s. 25 0 0 17 10 0 33% a= Brighton,Lews,& Bast. - 50 0010 0 0 10 Bristol and Exeter •• • • 21.16 x. per sh. 100 0 0 70 0 0 82 Ditto and Gloucester - 50 0 0 30 0 0 60 Caledonian • • - 50 0 0 50 0 7% Cambridge and Lincoln -- 25 0 0 110 0 5 Chatham & Frtsmouth - 20 0 0 1 0 0 Chester and Holyhead - 50 0 0 50 0 8% Chichester & Brighton - - 50 0 5)4 Churnet Valley .• ••• • • - 20 0 0 2 0 0 7% Cornwall .. •••• - • • - - 30 0 4% Direct Northern ••• • .• - 50 0 0 210 0 2)4 Direct Norwich • - 20 0 0 1 0 0 1)i Diss,Beeclas, & Yrmth - 25 0 0 110 0 334 Dublin & Belfast June. - 50 0 0 210 0 6 Ditto axd Galway - - 210 0 2% Eastern Counties .• • • De., Perpetual, No.l 51. per et. 613 4 313 4 1% p. Ditto, ditto, No. 2. • . - - 0 13 4 % pm. , Eastern Union - 50 0 0 10 0 0 18% Edinburgh & Glasgow 21. Is. p. sit. 50 0 0 50 0 0 64 Ditto, Quarter Shares I Is. 3d. p. sh. 12 10 0 12 10 0 16 Ely an , l Bedford .•. . • - 25 0 0 1 5 0 1% Grand Connection •• • ; - 50 0 0 210 0 Grand Junction •• • • Ditto, Half Shares • • 101. per et. 50 0 0 50 0 0 112 _,...... Ditto,Quarter Shares 101. per et. 25 0 0 23 0 0 Gt. Southern &Western - 50 0 0 5 0 0 11% Great North of England 31. is. 100 0 0 100 0 0 189 Ditto, ITew.• • • •.. •• • - 40 0 0 5 0 0 41 Great Western Ditto, Half Shares • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 Ditto, Fifths..• ••• • • 71. percent. 20 0 0 20 0 0 39% Guilford Junction • - 50 0 0 3.5 0 0 Harwich .•-.•••• • • • • • • - 20 6 0 1 0 0 1% Hull and Selby .• •• • Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 I() 0 12 10 0 2034 Kendal & Windermere - 23 0 0 110 0 5% Lancaster and Carlisle - 50 0 0 15 0 0 34 Lead.' and Bradford... - 50 0 0 5 0 0 21% lAverpool & Manchestr 101. per et. 100 0 0 100 0 0 Ditto, Half Shares• • 101. per et. 50 0 0 50 0 0 Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0 7.endon & Birmingham 101. per ct. -- Stock. 230 Ditto, New Thirds.. 101. per et. 32 0 0 2 0 0 43)4 Ditto, New U Shares 101. per et. 25 0 0 2 0 0 30 L midon and Pdackwall - 16 13 4 -7% London and Brighton.. 31. Os. per sh. 50 0 0 50 0 0 64% Ditto, Loan Notes • • 51. percent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 13% Thndor. and Greenwich - 12 15 4 - 10% Ditto, Pref. or Priv. • 5/. per cent. 18 17 2 - 24% London and S. Western Si. ss. per sh. 41 6 10 -- 80 Do., New Cons. Mils - 40 8 0 6 0 0 23 Ditto, New ••-• • • • - 60 0 0 .2 10 0 12% Condon and Croydon • • 10s. per sh. 13 15 9 - 18% - .Ditto, Guarntd. sp. c. - 90 0 40 0 5 1 ,4 London and York. •• • • - 50 0 0 210 0 5% Lynn and Ely - 2.5 0 0 210 0 554 .5; anchester and Leeds 11.75, 6d. p. s. 100 0 0 70 0 0 147 Ditto, Half Shares • • 11.172.6 d. p.s. 50 0 0 32 0 0 67% Ditto, Quarter Shares 4s. 25 0 0 2 0 0 17 Ditto, Sixteenths .• • - 65 0 15 0 7% Manchestr & llirming. 21. per share 40 0 0 40 0 6.5 Ditto,Quarter Shares - 10 0 0 4 0 0 11% Midland .••••- - . . . . 4/. 4s. per sh. - Stock. 131 Ditto, Fifths .••• • • • - - 2 0 0 3% Ditto, Birm. & Derby 21.135. per sh, - Stock. 97 Newcastle & Berwick - 25 0 0 110 0 14_ New estie & Dee. June. 6s. 25 0 0 94 0 0 46)4 North British •••• • • • • - 25 0 0 10 0 0 7 Northern and Eastern . 21. ss. 50 0• 0 45 0 0 60% Ditto, Scrip, iss.sl.d. 15s. 50 0 0 25 0 0 44% Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 16% • North Kent. •• • - 50 0 0 215 0 3% Norwich and Brandon . - 20 0 0 10 0 0 17 Ditto, New.. • ..• •• • - 10 0 0 1 0 0 :4 Portstmuth Direct - 50 0 0 2 10 to 2 Preston and Wyre - 50 0 0 50 0 0 26% Richmnd& W. E June - 20 0 0 1 0 0 3)4 Rugby • . - 20 0 0 10 0 4 Ditto, 2d Pref., 1842 - 25 0 0 25 0 0 Sheffield and Lincoln • . - 25 0 0 1 5 0 134 Sheffield & Manche,stE 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 82 10 0 Ditto, Quarter Shares - 25 0 0 8 0 0 13 Shrws.,Wolv.,Dud.,liir - 50 0 0 210 0 l 3% South Devon ••.•• • • • • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 17 South-Eastern & Dovr 11. Is. 33 2 4 - 41% Ditto, New les. 32/.dis - 50 0 0 8 0 0 17 South Wales .•••• • • • • - - 210 0 I 4 Stevenson's I'rtsmouth - - 210 0 2)4 Thames and Medway.. - 19 5 8 - 17% Trent Valley - 20 0 0 2 0 0 22 Yarmouth & Norwich - 20 0 0 50 0 0 27)4 Ditto, New •••• • • • • - 20 0 0 8 0 0 1 3 % York & North Midland 10/. per et. 50 0 0 50 0 0 104% Ditto, Half Shares • . 10/. per et. 25 0 0 25 0 0 51% Do., Scarbro' Branch - 25 0 0 20 0 0 43;4 • Ditto, Selby Scrip - 50 0 0 20 0 0 69 Ditto, Extension .. • • - 25 0 0 1 5 0 17% Boulogne and Amiens. - 20 0 0 2 0 0 1 11 1 4 Gt. Northern of France - 20 0 0 40 0 6% Orleans and Vierzon - 20 0 41 2 0 0 18 Orleans & Bourdeanx - 20 0 0 2 0 0 10 Paris and Lyons ••• • • • - 20 0 0 20 0 311 Paris and Strasbourg • • - 20 0 0 20 0 2% Paris and Orleans... • • - ,20 0 0 20 0 0 52A Paris and Rouen ..• •• • 21. 20 0 0 20 0 0 45% Rotten and Havre •• • • - 1 20 0 0 14 0 0 32 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Cot pany. per of Paid. Price, Annum. Share. £ a. d. £ s. d. Australasia ••••• • •• •• 81. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 44N BritshNorth American 61. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 45% Commercial of London 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 23 Colonial . 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 14 Londe and Weatminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 28% London Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14►% Metropolitan • • • Provincial of Irclan;l•• Si. per cent. 100 0 0 _25 0 0 44% Ditto, New... .• • . 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 National of Ireland ;. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 17 10 0 16 Nat.. Provnelal of Eng. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 3.i 0• • 3734 Ditto, Now• •••• • • • • 51; per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 .:Union of Australia• •• . 1 25 0025 0 0 26% Union of London.•• 51. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12% INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. - ' - " £ S. d. .-E s. d. Albion •• •••••• • • • • • . 31.105. ! , 00 0 0 50 0 0 72% Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 19% Ditto Marine. 6l. per cent, 100 0 0 50 0 6% Alla. .. ••• • • l 3s. 6 d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 16 % British . Commercial • • 7s. per share 50 0 0 50 0 7 Cleriel,Mud.&Gen•Lite bl. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6% County 38: 100 0010 0 0 1 € 9 i s . . 5 :14 . 1 40 0 0 5 0 0 10 Crown • • • • .... . w 68. 50 0 0 5 0 0 bpi Economic Life /5 P er c ' t '' I 1000 0 0 250 0 0 L.& 30s.bs. Eng. & Scot. Law Life 6l. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 2% European Ufe• ••••• • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20 Freemasons' .. •••• • • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe 6/. per cent. Stock. 142 Guardian —• • • ...... • 51. 100 0 0 35 10 0 50% Imperial Fire • • Imperial Life. •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16 Indemnity Marine •• • • 11. sli. & hs. 100 0 0 513 1 30 Law Life .. ....... ... 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45% Legal and General Life 50 0 0 2 0 0 5% London Fire ••••• • • •. 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16 London Ship •• •• 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16 Marine ••••••• • • • • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 14 0 0 Med. Invild & Gen. Life 50 0 () 2 0 0 3 National Loan Fund.. 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% National Ufa lla Padium Life... Phenix • • ... ....... Protector Lif e Provident Life •••• • • - Bock Life .••••• • • . • • • 4s. 5 0 0 010 0 .17, Royal Exchange 5l. per cent Stock. Iss Sim Fire .. ..... .. Ditto Life ... ..... Universal Life •. DOCKS. Dividend ' Amount Name of Company, per , of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. 1 Z a. d. '£ e. d. Commercial . • ....... 31. per cent. I Stock. jaet and West India ..; e%/. pr cent. Stock. 142 East Country Landon ••••••• • . • • • • 4%1. pr cent. Stock. 116% St. Katharine .. .... 5 per cent. Stock. 109% Southampton •• .. WATER.-WORKS. Dividend Amount N I ?Tame of Company. 1 ! An P n e u r m. Rbeare. raid. East London..• • . • • • Grand Junction . . Price. SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BUItCHELT..) ROUDHLOFF JOHANNING The parties to this action arc both Frenchmen. The plain tiffs, Messrs. Roundhloff, are makers of guitars, residing in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square; and the defendant, Mr. Johanning, is a music -seller, who lately resided in Great Portland-street. The action was brought to recover 51. Bs. 9d. for three guitars, which the plaintiffs had supplied to the defendant at various times. Mr. QUALES stated the;case for the plaintiffs. His clients had been in the habit of doing business with the defendant for several years in the sale of guitars. The practice was to supply guitars upon sale, or return. Several were supplied between 1838 and 1840, and of those supplied and sold dur ing this period, there were three guitars that were not paid for. The first of these was delivered in the early part of 1838, worth 2/. 155.; and two others were supplied on the 9th of November and the 9th of December, in 1840, worth 21. 10s. each ; making 71. 15s. in all. Towards this amount Mr. Johanning had paid several small sums, and delivered some goods to the plaintiffs, which - reduced the debt to Si. Bs. 9d., for which the present action was brought. Unfortunately for his clients they were not able to read or write English, and at the various times at which :the defendant (Mr. Johanning) had paid sums of money, the latter, who could write English, had been in the practice of drawing up receipts in that language, and getting his clients, or one of them, to sign, upon the mere faith of Mr. Johanning's honesty. Notwithstanding this, he had no doubt that he could easily prove the debts. After various un successful attempts to get a settlement, the present proceed ings were entered into, and he (Mr. Quales) would have to put himself in the witness-box, and there would be able to show that Mr. Johanning had acted in a most disgraceful manner throughout the whole of these transactions. A foreigner, a professor ;of music, and Mr. Quales himself, then gave evidence to the effect, that the goods bad been delivered to the defendant, and that the latter had admitted that he owed money to the plaintiff, though notwithstand ing repeated endeavours to get a settlement, the defendant refused all satisfaction. The evidence was not very clear or satisfach ry, and was very much damage 4 by the cross er amination to which it was subjected. Mr. BAGLEY for the defence, maintained that the whole case was got up by the pla'ntitrb' attorney for the sake of costs, who in this instance had appeared in the character of advocate;attorney, and witness ; and that Mr. Johanning did not owe . a farthing of the debt claimed. Receipts were then put in of payments made on March 13th, 1838, Nov. 20th, 1840, and Dec. 21st, 1840, respectively, corresponding exactly with the amounts sought in the action. Respecting the receipts having been written in English, this was un true, as many of the receipts which the defendant had given from time to time, were written in French, the native lan guage of the plaintiffs. To this it was rejoined that the re ceipts produced were for other guitars sold and delivered, and that the dates did not correspond with those for whicl: payment wassought in the present action. The UNDER-SHERIFF briefly summed up, and The jury, after having retired for a short time, returned a verdict of 21. 18s. 9d. for the plaintiff. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAFERS OF THIS DAT. GLOBE.—The Bill for removing the municipal and corpo rate disabilities, under which members of the' Jewish faith were left by the Municipal Reform Act, was read a second time last evening in the House of Peers. The unanimity and harmony of the Lords spiritual and temporal, on the pre sent occasion, presents a striking contrast to the alarm which in 1841 rufflecithe lawn of the Episcopal Bench, and commu nicated pious fears for the national Christianity among the lay Peers, and induced them to reject the self- same bill by a lasts. majority. We abate not one jot or tittle of the satisfaction which we fed at the removal from the statute-book o' another of the few remaining relics of intolerance by which it is still disfigured. For the repeal of these remnants of a dark, and therefore suspicious, age, we have invariably con tended with such powers as we possess. The admission of Jews to all corporate offices, in common with every other class of the community, is no less politic than just. By omitting, ii: the case of persons of the Jewish faith, the words "upon tb true faith of a Christian," from the declaration required b be taken upon the admission to corporate offices, this objet will be effected. Thus, one of those anomalous, absurd, anti positively injurious distinctions against which our efforts hay( been directed, will be abolished. The removal of this repraacl. —the most strenuous advocates for its retention, as essentia! no less to the safety of Christianity in this country than ts the Established Church, as part and parcel of the Constitu tion, now converted into advocates for the change, of whirl they, so recently, exhibited an alarm approaching to horror this is gratifying. Still the change itself, anti in quarters where we look for consistency, is not the least strange because it is gratifyidg. We have been wont to con nect with high office in the Church a calm investigation o: principles previously to their being adopted, and especially before they arc deliberately and openly avowed. Yet in th( present instance we see nearly the whole of the Episcopal Bench, in less thin four years, relieved from thoss painful apprehensions for the safety of our ." national Christianity," which would be endangered from the .admission of the Jews to corporate offices, and per mitting a Bill to pass for that purpose without. : word of disapproval, or an effort to impede its progress ! The lay lords who in 1841, under Episcopal leadership, fought so determinedly against the anti-Christian measure, were equally complacent. We reproach them • not for ac cepting what they so recently rejected. We do not doubt of their having yielded their formerly strongly expressed objections to the force of reason and th( power of truth. The Bishops now feel as strong an obligation ' to defend the "national Christianity," of which they are con stituted the guardians and the guides, as they did in 1841 when they assembled in the House of Lords to vote the •re jection of a Bill, precisely the same as that which they now allow to be passed - with as little apprehension of its contain ing anything dangerous 'to Christianity or the Establishe( Church, as if it were a railway Bill. But we canno. help thinking that the Archbishop of Canterbury, wh( then moved the rejection of the Bill, on the ground that " if such a measure as the present was allowed to become the law of the land, the character of the country would be altered, and it would no longer be an exclusively Christian country," should have explained the cause of thi change of mind. His Grace, we say, should have assignee the reasons which had effected a change of views so coin plete, and a relief from fears so painful. The Bishop 0- Londotesspeech against the Bill of 1841 was distinguished by those powers of eloquence which his Lordship is known t. poesess, and which are never wielded with more effect that when they are directed against any measure which, in hi: view, tends to endanger the Church, by removing restric tions upon those who dissent from its communion. Yet tin Bishop of London last night contented himself with ob serving, " Ile wished to explain that he was no party b the measure, but that he did not oppose it, because In did not desire to raise a discussion and stir up angry feel ings." What has produced this " love of peace" at th• expense of principle, and at the cost of those imminen: dangers to the Church which the Right Reverend Prelate so powerfully enlarged upon in 1841 ? Other Prelates oi. that occasion were equally eloquent in their denunciations of the anti-Christian character of the Bill. Where were they last night ? Echo answers "Where ? " Not one was found. "faithful among the faithless," to lift up his voice to protest against the Bill, or to reprove the Government for lending its powerful aid to subvert the "national Christianity." That they would have done so, and that by " thoughts whist breathe in words which burn," had they not seen cans. to change their opinions, there car: be no doubt. But their explanations would have been more edifying and satisfactory' than their mysterious silence. As to Lords Winchilsea, Ro den, and the temporal lords who distinguished themselves by their resistance to the Bill of 1841, they doubtless waited for the signal of distress from the Episcopal Bench, or the sound of the tocsin to summon them to the field. Neither ob serving the one, nor hearing the other, they remained at home. Still, in the absence of any explanation of the-cause, of a change complete, and universal, there will not be want ing persons who Hill ascribe the change of views to the changed position of parties. Had the Whigs continued it. office, there would probably have been as strong objections is Prelates and in Peers to admitting Jews to corporate offices as there were in 1841. Principles are immutable; but Hi tical power is affected by circumstances. Bishops, as well as Barons, are influenced by hope. STANDARD.—In our imperfect state it is impossible to reconcile all the orders and institutions of society to nature' equity; yet so deeply implanted is the love of justice is every breast that, though we can scarcely move a step, or indeed, scarcely contemplate the undeserved mercies that the very humblest of us enjoy, without feeling that jus tice is universally violated through our whole complicated social system ; still, strictjustice is the criterion by which we would try everything, and to which we would have every thing conform, except our own conduct. It is pleasant, no doubt, to contemplate a golden age— " Qum vindice nullo Sponte mil sine lege fidem rectumque colebat, Pmna metusque aberant, nee verba minacia fixo Are legebaet ur, nec supplex turba timebant: Judicis era sui, sed erant sine vindice tuti." That was a happy state of society (if it ever existed) which felt no want of constables, police-officers, judges, armies, line of-battle ships, war steamers, or their unavoidable and most disagreeable attendants, customs and excise offices, stamp and tax departments, &c., &c. This happy age, however, was not, even in the imagination of the poet, of very long duration. Constables, police-officers, judges, &c., become necessary, until at length— " Ultima ccelestum terras Astrea reliquit." The divine virgin abandoned the whole earth absolutely with out pausing to establish her shrine either in a custom -house, or excise or stamp and tax-office. Hence it followed, if we may carry or. the allegory, that nearly every tax is not merely "an evil," as Sir Robert Peel ad mitted, but also " an injustice," and the furthest that the wisdom of legislation can go is to select the least degree of injustice. If gentlemen had kept this consideration in view last night many passionate and moving appeals might have been spared by the opponents of direct taxation. It strikes us, indeed, that these appeals were not met as they ought to have been, by a set-off of the far greater evils and far more flagrant injustice of indirect taxes. There is, no doubt, a manifest inequality in directly charging a man's earnings as highly as the interest of the earnings of another man or of that other man's ancestors (for such interest fairly enough represents i ['cornett:om fixed property), but what is this compared to the inju;tice of indirectly taxing the earnings of the father of half-a dozen children, with six or seven times as heavy a burden as the unmarried man, who may be ten or one hundred times as rich; ray, taxin g th e father of a family directly also in a m uc h hi g h er ra tio than his richer neighbour—for the man who has a family must have a house or a lodging of some size ; whereas the single man may live in a single closet, and dine at a club, as a great many do, not a little to their discredit ? " Oh, where is your justice then," in indirect taxation : In speaking of the rich man who escapes indirect taxation, we have not altogether drawn from fancy. Some years ago we knew a Member of Parliament whose income was itot less than ten or twelve thousand a-year, and who boasted that in a long life he had never paid a shilling in taxes : lie lived in an untaxed cottage about two miles from town, rode an un taxed pony, was-as abstemious as Father Mathew could de sire—and before-he enjoyed the privilege of franking himself, used to receive all his post letters under cover to an official friend. As his estates were in Ireland, he bad escaped the income and rroperty taxes. The man was a miser, but as he had disguised his miserly disposition under a political pretence, he was bound to go through with it ; and, in fact, to the day of his death, never paid a shilling tax. The public, however, bad its revenge in probate duties upon some hundreds of thousands cf pounds at his death. Now such extreme cases are, no doubt, • rare ; but thousands of eases there are morn or mesa nearly approaching to this which we have described ; and is it not men- Arens that the wealthy should be left even the choice t o f evad i ng taxes, when the poor must pay rarely Hobert Inglis- g ou l is r :undoubtedly em the e m H o e s t n r 3 ea re s tn on h a e b r l e fe ; r b t h u e t s h ir el?_ Of all the propositions suggested last night, that of University of Oxford, w must take leave to differ from him here. An income of 1501. a yweaerreis, noth a sdeed, a email income to be taxed, and if th e t ax system which must richly reimburse all njiceesmsaer?' a l r s t ol o . f a year who need compassion, we should say, give up the • milliona which Sir Robert Inglis would wish abandoned. One hun dred and fifty pounds a year is, as we have said, a small income; brit even deducting the income-tax, it is a sufficient 81. 1X s, d. 100 0 0 46 13 4 Kent 21. 10s. 100 0 0i Vauxhall .... •. • ..... 51. per cent. 1100 0 0 West e eeeeeeeeeee ••. • • . 41.165. pr ct. 63 12 9 LIST OF SCOTTISII COMPANIES' PRICES Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ---------- - £ a. d. £ a. (I. Bank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 168% British Linen Company Si per cent. - 100 0 0 226% Commercial Bank - 100 0 0 167% National Bank 6l. per cent. - 10 0 0 15% Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 95 Western Bank •••• • • • • 61. per cent. - 50 0 0 76% North of Scotland Ban,k 61. per sent. - 50 0 7 Clydesdale Bank.. •• • • 61. per sent. - 10 0 0 14% Eastern Bank •••• • . • • 31. , per cent. - 15 0 0 11% Caledonian Bank - 2 10 0 3% MO.& Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. - 5 0 0 7% City of Glasgow Bin ik . 51. per cent. - 815 0 13% Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1% Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Irk: Co. of Scotlnd • • Si. per cent 10 0 0 All paid. 10 , Neal' Itrittsh Insur. • • 91. per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 27 Caledonian Fire insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cont. 100 0 0 10 0 0 18% Edin. & Glas,;. Railway 4341. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 6534 Ditto. % Shares 4% /. percent. 12 10 0 All paid. 16k Edin., Leith, & Grantu I - 20 0020 0 0 15 Clam,' & Ayrehir Rail. 4%l.per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 65%, Glasgw & Greenek Rail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 12 Gisgw &Garnktrk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 28 I Dundee & .trbroth ]tail. 5/ per cent. ,25 0 0 All paid. 32% .. - CANALS. , - • NaDividend of 2 , l „ ci 1 1. At p u e tu r m.l a “ce. 1-.:l"o'eans l o es f 4 per Price. oi I 1 4 , 1 Did An v i n d u e m n . Companies. X : , 1 ------- - x Ashtit &014h1 4 97 51.55. p c 72 Moninouthsh 10 ,, 1 8/. 160 Ashby-d-la-Zill3 4/. 70 lintgomrysh MO; El. 98 . Barnsley.. - il6O: 121. -180 Macelestleld . 1001 15 Basingstoke..:lool - 5 Neat h lOO 2e7. 365 Brknk&Ahrgll.s% 5/. 85 Nottingham . 150 121. 2CO Cromford....lloo, 181. 164 Peak Forest. 78 31 . 40 D u dley .... - 1 160 4/. 80 Regent's ... • 33 11. 2 4 Derby •• - ..110% 8/. 103 dale EllAturc&Clis i l33 4/. 58 Shropshire ErdWash ...ilooj 32!. 440 Soinrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 123 Forth & Clpt 10% 41. 165 Do.LkFd St 12 Gt. p. c. I I GrandJunctn 100 4 71. 140 tffrd &Wore 140 28/. 480 Grand Unln - 1, lb; 1/. 10s. 24 'hrewslatry l2 15/. 230 GlamoraSlO.f I 7511 I .1% L 210 Stourbridge Weir& Britlyj 00. - 8 Strtfrdon Av : 9 1 !. 10s. 1 30 Grantham • • 'lso' - 12/. 100 Severn and 26 IL Bs. 10 Iltuldtzsficld.! 57 - 20 Wye Rath Kennt & skYll 39- 7s. 6d. 10 Trnt&Nr-} 50 301. 450 Lancaster...l 47! 1/. 10. 40 sey, % sli. Leeds& Livrp 10% & f led 570 Thetas ed 19 - 10 Leicester .... 140 : 10/. 110 Worestr & 7 8 41 . 50 Lelestr&Ntli 831 41. 70 Binning.] 1 Loughborogb 142 ' 70/. 1050 ilia & Bas 67 11. 4s. THE SiN, LONDON, TUESDAY E_yE I NING, MARCH 11, 1845. income for a single man to protect him from the necessity of our compassion. 145/. 10s. will provide an individual with suffi cient food, sufficient raiment, and a decent lodging, in even a comparatively respectable station of life ; and it. may be doubted whether the single man of 1501. a year is not to some extent compensated in the reduced price of his com forts and humble luxuries for the 4/. 10s. taken from him by the income• tax Commissioners; but if the man be married, still more if he have two or three children, there can be no doubt at all of his ample compensation. Six persons con suming the ordinary food and using the ordinary raiment of the working-classes, will certainly save more than twice four pounds ten shillings by the various reliefs afforded by the tariff and those promised by the reduction of taxes, while a consideration of far higher interest— the demand for labour—must greatly enhance the value of that whish,is the poor man's capital—his industry. It were desirable, indeed,- to relieve the humbler classes of all taxes ; but we must fall back upon the reflection that. in our present state, we have but to choose among evils and injustices, and that the best legislation is that which selects the least in each kind. Mr. Sheil complains of the hardship of the legacy duty as contrasted with the immunity from taxation of a descent of freehold property. If, says the Member for Dun garvon, a man leaves me 20,000/. in land, I get it free ; but if he leaves it to me in money, I must pay legacy duty. There is here a little mistake. Lands devised to a stranger arc subject to the same duty as money, and money bequeathed to one's children pays a very trifling duty. But, let us look on the other side. If any one chooses to give Mr. Sheil, in money and durante vita, 20,000/., he may do so without a penny additional cost; but if any one chooses to endow the Right Ho nourable Gentleman with 20,000/. in land, or to sell him so much land, the parties must, one or both of them, pay 240/. for a stamp, with such trifling additions as a conveyancer, who, however, will scarcely stop short of three figures may think it convenient to annex. So, after 111, there is no such great inequality in th?, cost of trans ferring land and transferring money—at all events, if both modes of transfer are to be placed in the same category— as regards mortuary demises, they ought to be placed also in the same category as re- Teets conveyances among the living—and as no finance mi nister would dare to encounter an insurrection upon the Stock Exchange, such as a conveyance tax like that on land would excite in the locality in question, we' suppose that stamps upon conveyances must be abolished ; with how little advan tage to the revenue the stamp returns can tell better than Mr. Sheil or ourselves. For the rest, we refer to the speech -of Sir Robert Peel, in which the whole subject is exhausted. COURSE OF EXCH) Amsterdam CF. • 12 Ditto, at sight l2 6 Rotterdam 2U. 12 8i Antwerp 26 20 aamburgh M.B. 13151 Utona l3 154 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 90 Ditto, 3 months 26 15 Ilarseilles Bourdeaux 26 25 Frankfort on Maine 123 .NGE.-- (Tills DAY.) Gibraltar.. Leghorn ... Genoa . 26 20 Venice Naples Palermo, I.* , 1184 Lisbon s3i Oporto.. 534 Rio Janeiro .... Bahia ...... 24 Buenos Ayres... ...... NewTorkx2dyssight PRIG lekt •IF *WILTON, Mit OE. Foreign .34,1 d, bars..S.3 17 9 Portuga! (gold Coin 3 17 5 New llool•ioons..... 0 0 0 New l - N,llars 0 4 9/ Silver in Bars. 0 4 1 eetersburgh, 3 Us... 37 aerlin 7 Vienna, enc. fl. 3 M lO 2 Trieste, ditto fadrid 36} Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Mut eh II.) SUGAR.—To-day there was no public sale of any descrip tion of raw Sugar. Importers of British Plantation mani fested firmness, and refused to sell but at full rates ; the lem and, however, was trifling, the private purchases amount ing to only 80 hints and tierces. The demand for Mauritius, Bengal, and Madras, was only for small parcels, but full prces were insisted upon. BEFINICD.—To-day there was little variation in the value of home-trade goods, but the business done was extremely limited. Bonded Crushed Sugar moved off slowly, at 31s to 31s 3d per cwt. alatmenus.—There has been an improved demand for this les , ..:ription of Sugar, but merchants have been free sellers, and the market has been largely supplied especially with ',right Grocery descriptions. At auction 14,014 bags and 14 casks were all disposed of at prices that averaged those If the last public sale, some of the piles, however, went 6d to is per cwt cheaper, fine yellow realise 623 to 645, good 58s 3cl to 61s, good middling 57s 6d to 58s, middling 55s 6(1 to 575, 'ow 53s 6d to 54s 6d, good and fine grey 57s to 58s 6d, mid fling 54s to 553, low 52s to 535, good to fine brown 52s to 53s' 3,1, washed 52s to 62s 6d, and Syrupy 57s to 59s Gd per cwt The-quantity of brown in the sale was small. EAST INDlA.—lmporters of Bengal Sugar have manifested more firmness, and the market having been sparingly_sup tilled, previous rates arc sustained. There has been a better Imand privately for all descriptions, and several parcels tare been disposed of at previous rates. At auction 2,309 iags were all sold, one lot of - middling white fetched ;Is Gd, the remainder were damaged, and went at 583 to 62s for washed, 58s 6d to 65s for damp, and 30s to 52s per cwt for damp and washed yellow. The public sales declared are of little moment at present. Madras has •net with more atttention. There has been no public sale of Foreign East India, but 13,000 bags of Manilla, with certifi cate, are declared for the 18th. Java has been sought after, end full prices are offered, but the market is still scantily supplied. Manilla is held with firmness. FOREIGN.—There has been a good demand for all deserip ions of Prazil Sugar, and very full rates have been paid for .very kind. The private transactions arc a floating cargo of new Bahia at 24s 6d fur white, and 19s 3d for brown, one of , ld white Bahia at 235, and a cargo of yellow Pernambuco in tags at Os 6d per cwt, all for a near port. On the spot 100 chests of Bahia have been sold, white at 21s to 245, and Town at 18s to 19s per cwt. At auction 255 cases and 8 ,arrels of Bahia were taken in above the value. Yellow Asvannah has been sought after, and previous rates offered. n other kinds of Foreign Sugar the private operations are yon a more extended scale at former terms, and there is ' , Ailing pressing for sale. Holders of Foreign Sugar gene ally are sanguine in their expectations as to the future posi i.in of the article. Only a small quantity has again been' imported. MOLASSES.—There are few purchasers of West India, but Alders are not inclined to reduce their prices, and 20s to .i3s per cwt is the value. East India dull of sale, but not , ffered upon lower terms. RlCE.—There has been a lively demand for Bengal, and natty parcels have been disposed of at prices showing an tdvance on those previously quoted of 3d per cwt. The supply t market is yet insufficient for the demand; 1,759 bags 500 ,ackets at auction went readily, low white at 103 6d to I Is, nid lls to Ils to Ils 63. good mid bold but rather dusty Is 6(1, sea damaged, first class lOs 6d to 1 ls, second class tOs 6d, third and fain th class 7s to 9s Gd per cwt. The mar let has been sparingly supplied with Madras, it is muah in -equest, and previous improved rates are well supported, yel low fething Os to Os 6d, and common white 9s 6d to 10s. ['here are several buyers of Java, but there is little in the narket, and prices rule firm, white is worth lOs 6d to 12s 6d, :nd yellow Os to lOs per cwt. Cleaned Rice has met with 'eady purchasers, Carolina at 23 to 28s, and Patna 13s 3d to !8s per cwt ;it is taken off nearly as fast as it is produced. COFFEE.—This afternoon Plantation Ceylon met with in- Teased attention, and 400 begs at public sale, a favourite :nark, went at 4s to 6s per cwt above the we nations. and !etched 86s to 88s for middling bold dark colory, and 7 5s to 82s for sea damaged first class. Mocha is .wanted, and 84 bales at auction were sold at steady rates— hat is to say, middling greenish clean garbled at 593 to 60s, bold Triage 50s, small broken 38s to 40s, black 16s 6d to 17s, and sea damaged of other sorts 35s to 57s 6d.. Ceylon of ;nod ordinary quality is fetching 46s 6d to 47s by private reaty. TEA.—Since the public sales of Tea there has been an im droved demand for all descriptions at full prices, sound !ommon Congou for cash has realised 10d to 141, good :ommon 10 3 1, 1 4 to 11d, Pouchong 5d to 10d, Twankay !ommon of the late arrivals Is 2%d to is 3iel; Hyson :ommon 2s 7d, and middling to good of the new import 2s 8d to 3s per lb. In line Congou there has been a. good deal loing at 2s 5d to 2s 6d for Pekoe flavour. An increased desire cave been shown to purchase scented Orange Pekoe, and , 1,500 hf-chests have been sold at 3s 2d to 3s 4d. The ac :mutts come to hand from China state that the crop of green Tea was likely to prove large, but of black it was not ex pected to be above an average—prices ruled high for all sorts, and the shipments made had been large since the de :tarture of the la•t mail. _ _ _ RU3I, V BRANDY, ASA) HOLLANDS —Leeward Island Rum it Is 10d to Is lld per gallon proof strength. Demerara, 4trong descriptions are worth only 3s to 3s 2d per gallon. Jamaica was purchased with caution, and the prices ire yet depressed, 26 to 36 per cent 0. P. 35 4d to 4s, fine 4s 2d to 4s 6d, and very fine high flavour 5s to 7s per gallon. Calcutta Rum at Is 8d without, and at Is 9d to is 9id per gallon proof strength, with certificate. Although there are free sellers of Brandy, still the purchases have been limited : Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds Is 11d, puns 4s 9d; 1839, hhds 4s Bd, puns 4s 6d; 1840, hhds 4s 8(1, puns 4s 6d; 1841, hhds 4s 7d, puns 4s sd; 1842, hhds 4s 4d, puns 4s 2d; 1843, hhds 4s 2d, puns 4s; 1844, hhds 3s I Id, puns 3s 9d; mid and good mid of the various vintages 2s 10d to 3s Bd, low 2s 7d to 2s 9d, tmd Bordeaux 2s 6d to 2s 8d per gallon. The market dull for Geneva, and Is 9d to is 9id is the value of common export , ort ; fine fit for duty is worth 2' 4d to 3s. English Corn Spirits firm at lOs 2d per gallon, cash. SPlCES.—Cassia Lignea good and fine 63s to 665, mid and flood mid 57s to 625, low mid 55s to 56s Gd, and low to good 'rd 50s to 54s per cwt. Black Pepper has been purchased with caution at 2Ad to 24d for Sumatra, lid to 2Ad for Pa lang, and 20 to 3-id for Malabar. Although prices ruld low for Cinnamon, still few purchasers are to be met with. For Pimento the demand good, and former rates are well sup ported, good middling at 3d, middling at lid to 3d, low mid dling 2d to 2FI, and sea damaged 2d to tad per lb. NEW PROJECTED RAILWAYS. (From the Gazette of this Evening.) RAILWAY DEPARTMENT, BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MARCH 11,1845. Notiee is hereby given, that the Board constituted by the Minute of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, for the transaction of railway business, having had alder consideration the following schemes, for extending rail way communication between London and York and in the intermediate districts to the east of the present lines of rail- way, viz.:— The Barnsley and Goole, The Bedford, London, and Birmingham, The Cambridge and Lincoln, The Direct Northern, The Eastern Counties—Cambridge and Huntingdon, The Eastern Counties—Ely and Lincoln Extension, The Eastern Counties—Brandon and Peterborough De viation, The Eastern Counties—Hertford and Biggleswade Junction, The Ely and Lincoln, The Goole and Snaith, The Great Grimsby and Sheffield, The Hull and Gainsborougb, The London and York, The Lincoln, York, and Leeds, The Midland Railway—Syston to Peterborough, The Midland Railway—Nottinhum and Linccln, The Midland Railway—Swinton. to Lincoln, The Rotherham, Bawtry, and Gainsborough, The Sheffield and Lincolnshire, The Tottenham and Farringdon-st:eet Extension, The Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, The York and North Midland, and Doncaster, The York and North Midland, and Goole; lave determined on reporting to Parli(!mqt in favogr q the Bedford, London, and Birmingl4kw, Cambridge and Lincoln, Direct Northern Xas:to the portion between Lincoln and - York), Eastern Counties—Brandon and Peterborough Deviation, Eastern Counties--Hertford and Biggleswade Junction, Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Midland Railway—Syston and Peterborough, Midland Railway—Nottingham and Lincoln, Midland Railway—Swinton to Lincoln (as to the portion between Swinton and Doncaster), Tottenham and Farringdon-street Extension, Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole ; and against the Barnsley and Goole, Direct Northern (as to the portion between Lincoln and LOnd - on), Eastern CountieS=Cambridge and Huntingdon, Eastern Counties —Ely and Lincoln Extension, Ely and Lincoln, Goole and Snaith, Hull and Gainsborough, London and York, Lincoln, York, and Leeds, Midland Railway—Swinton to Lincoln (as to the-portion between Doncaster and Lincoln), Rotherham, Bawtry, and Gainsborough, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, York and. North Midland, and Doncaster, York and North Midland, and Goole. DALHOUSIE. C. W. PASLEY. G. R. PORTER. D. O'BRIEN. S. LAING. l'IlE LONDON GAZETTE (THIS EVENING.) WHITEHALL, MAncif 8. The Queen has been pleased to grant to the Rev. James Enddl Tyler, 8.D., the place and dignity of a Canon Resi dentiary of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London, void by the death of the Rev. Sydney Smith. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAncn 7. The Queea has been pleased to approve of Mr. Joseph Gordon, as Consul at Jamaica for his illajesty the King of Prussia. _ _ The Queen has alse been pleased to approve of Mr. Robert P. de Silver, as Consul at Port Louis, in the Isle of France, for the United States of America. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of the North Riding of the County of York. H. W. de la Poer Beresford, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant ; M. W. V. Milbank, Esq., to be ditto ; M. Wyvill, jun., Esq., to be ditto, March 8. BANKRUPTS. Joshua Taylor, draper, Whittlesea, Cambridge. Albert Green, apothecary, Brighton. William Hardisty, whitesmith, Wakefield. John Roberts, grocer, Liverpool. Thomas Griffiths, auctioneer, Blaenifed, Cardigansbire. DavidHoldforth, grocer, Stratford, Essex. Alfred Knott, miller, Brighton. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT (THIS: ;EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack al Five o'clock. THE WELSH BISHOPRICS. Viscount STRANaionD presented a petition from the University of Cambridge for the repeal of the Act uniting the bishoprics of Bangor and St. Asaph. CANALS AND RAILWAYS. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from the Birming • ham .and Staffordshire Canal Company, which he considered of some importance. The petitioners represented the canal interest as distinguished from the railway interest. For his own part, whether for his good fortune or misfortune, he had no connexion either is ill canals or railways, and he would only state the case of the petitioners, as they put it themselves. They did not object to the formation of railways, but they complained of the unfair course adopted towards them by the railway com panies. They admitted that they were beaten by the railways as far as the carriage of passengers was concerned— Lord BROUG 9 Asl—And speed.—( A laugh. ) . .„ Lord CAMPBELL—But the petitioners said they could beat the railways in the carriage of goods, if it were not for the unfair means adopted by the railway companies to ruin'the canals. The railways carried goods at so low a rate that the canals could not compete with them, and thereby the former would secure a monopoly, so that after the ruin of the canals they would charge the public what they pleased for the carriage of goods. At present they charged ten times as much for the carriage of • ton weight of third-class passengers, and thirty times as much for the carriage of a ton of first• class passengers, as for a Con of goods. By this means they made up the excessive charge for passengers, for the loss they had on the carriage of goods. The petitioners prayed that there should be a. fixed ratio between the charges for passengers and that for goods. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that he had pretemied, some time ago, a petition upon the same subject, and that (as we endersood) Lord Normanby suggested that no Act should pass :to prevent the charges of railway carriage when once lowered from being raised again. SPIRIT LICENSES FOR TOLL-HOUSES IN SCOTLAND. The Earl of MINTO presented a petition frets several places in Scotland against the granting of spirit licenses to tell-houses in Scotland. The Noble Earl said that this was a great grievance, of the extent of which he believed their Lordships were not at all aware; but he could allure them that the granting of licenses to these houses was a source of great evil and immorality to the country. A plea had been put on the ground that the opportunities for the accommodation of travellers in Scotland was so few, tbat it believed the evil did not exist equally in all the countries, but was absolutely necessary to grant licenses to these houses. He in fact he could say that it existed to a very 'great extent. These toll-houses were become regular houses for drinking and intoxication,. and great inconvenience ofterrarose from the blocking up of the road by carts and other vehicles, and the consequent tumult which arose . H e b el i eved that (the D u k e o f B uce l euc h) eren s t it o e f the evil, an d t h e I puke of hw ß ia e ss xb aN e w r o g ab l rl i ee h o ad fFr a it t eh t n e ed nded a meeting the other day, in which the evil was loudly complained of, and he believed that no remedy could be applied until there was a change in the law. The grounds of the evil appeared to rest upon the pecuniary inte rests which the Magistrates had in these toll-houses. They were fearful that it these licen ses were not granted the revenue would merely be raised to satisfy the necessities of the trusts and pay the interests of the sevrral debts. Tne Duke of I3UCCLEUCH said that his Noble Friend had rppealed to him, he must say that eertaiuly great evil did exist, and he believed that there was some reason in what his the pecu n i ar y i n t eres t s o f th e magistrates strPa'rteiesn;d buthad h sa e id be r l e ie sp v e e c d tig t n hat this re presentation had been greatly exaggerated.—( Heur, bear.) He had, it is true, made an effort to introduce a clause in the Ge neral Turnpike Act of Scotland to abate the evil. But with respect to the pecuniary interest of magistrates in these tolls it should be observed that the gentlemen for the several counties had given their guarantee for the satisfaction of the claims on the trustees, so that the plea of those houses being licensed for the sake of revenue was evidently groundless. Lord ABINGER said, that he could bear his testimony to all that had fallen from the Noble Lord opposite reepeeting the evil of those houses, and one of the few nuisances which he would venture to recommend to their 'Lordships, would be one for throwing some additional obstacle in the way of Aranting licences to those houses. He thought the doing so would greatly abate the evil and immorality which those houses occasioned, and he hoped that a measure would be introduced for altering the law respecting them. The petition was then ordered to lie on the table. ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION. The Earl of CADOGAN moved for certain returns relating to the Ecclesiastical Commission, which were ordered to be laid on the table. SCOTCH CURRENCY. OThne the motion of the Duke Of BUCCLEUCH, other Bills were also read a second time, but the titles were not heard in the gallery. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The. House resumed at Five o'clock. NEWCASTLE AND SHIELDS RAILWAY. Mr. ORD presented • petition in favour of the Newcastle and Shields Railway. TRENT VALLEY EXTENSION RAILWAY On the motion of Mr. M. PHILIPS, the Trent Valley Extension Railway Bill was read a second time. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY EXTENSIONS. Mr. ESCOTT brought up the report on these extensions. It was stated that the standing orders in this case might be dispensed with, and leave was given to bring in separate Bills. NEWARK AND SHEFFIELD RAILWAY. On the motion of Mr. STRUTT, leave was granted to bring in the Newark and Sheffield Railway Extension Bill. Several Hon. Metribers brought up Railway Bills in which the standing orders had been complied with. endeavoured by an offer of mediation between the two parties to put an end to that hostility. The question which he was going to ask was founded on documents which bad been published in the newspape,s of Monte Video, in which had appeared a correspondence between the British Minister at Buenos Ayres, . and the Minister for Foreign Affairs at Monte Video. Founding himself entirely on that correspondence, he learned that in the summer of 1842 the British Government determined to interfere, and to put an end to these hostilities by foreign interference. Now, without at all expressing any opinion one way or the other upon the policy of the question, as to whether it was one which 'should warrant the interference of the Government of this country as a third party, he would say he was en titled to an answer.. - --(Hear.) It was quite true that those two States had an undoubted right to quarrel amongst themselves ; and, therefore, without saying which party was in the wrong. Whether either, or one, or both was to blame, he would still conterid for it that his question should be answered. It appeared by a letter which he had read, and which had been sent to Mr. Mandeville, the Monte Videan Consul, by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that it was' the wish and the intention of the British Government to use every effort to put an enet.to4e war. • (LEFT SPEAKING.) HUDDERSFIELD WA ERWORKS BILL. This Bill was read a first time. Mr. HAWES presented a petition from the rated inhabi tants of Lambeth in favour 6f the South-Eastern Extension Railway BilL Sir H. DOUGLAS presented a petition from Liverpool, praying that those merchants who bad a stock of sugar on hand might be allowed a drawback. The Hon. and Gallant Member heartily concurred in the prayer of the petition. Mr. THOS. DUNCOMBE presented a petition signed by 3,000 miners of Durham, complaining of the explosions that had taken place in that part of the country, and praying the House to take the subject into its consideration. Mr. LIDDELL presented a petition from a place in Durham, praying that public-houses might be closed on Sundays. Lora G. SOMERSET proposed the following Members for the Committee of classification on Railway Bills I—Sir R. H. Inglis, Mr. Fox Maule, Lord Mahon, Sir Wm. Somerville, and Mr. Wilson Patten. Mi. ESTCOURT moved that no private Bill other than Railway Bills be read a seeond time after Friday, the 18th of April next, and also that, as soon as the agent for any private Bill shall have received from the Committee of Seleetion notice of the hour and day fixed for the Committee on such Bill, he shall forthwith give notice thereof to the clerks in the Private Bill-office. The motion was agreed te. SUGAR DUTIES. Mr. HUME presented is petition from several sugar refiners in Scotland. praying, before any alteration was made in the sugar duties, a delay should be granted them in order to dis pose of their stocks in hand. tition from the Com- Mr. MACKINNON presen ted a pe - missioners appointed by Act of Parliament to consolidate certain Bills affecting the borough of Southwark. RAILWAYS. Mr. HUME, on behalf of Mr. Wallace , p ost p oned his mo tion relative t o railways, and railway passengers and traffic. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Sir R. PEEL gave notice that on Thursday next he would move the adjournment of the House from Thursday, the 2 th instant, to the Monday week following. The state of public business would not admit of a longer postponement. WEXFORD, CARLOW, AND DUBLIN JUNCTION R AIL WAY. Mr. W. COLLETT presented a petition in farm of the Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin Junction Railway, from the Harbour Commissioners of Wexford. BUENOS AYRES AND 114IONTE VIDEO. Lord PALMERSTON said he rose for the purpose of putting to the Right Hon. Baronet a question, of which he had given notice a few days ago, w ith regard to the hostilities now being carried on b e t ween B uenosi Ayres and the State of Monte Video. The house well knew thatbetwe 211 these two States there had existed for three years past in a state of hostility more or ess violent; and that the British Government at one time NR. J. COHAN'S CONCERT. - - This concert took place at the Sussex Hall, Leadenhall street, last evening, and went off with great eclat. The talented berieficiarc himself gave us three of his own exquisite Fantasias on the Pianoforte, which were cleverly executed and much applauded. The Distins were there, with the Sax-horns, and John Parry with his comic songs. The most wonderful performance of the evening, however, was the guitar duet by Don J. and Don R. de Ciebra. In their hands the guitar is really an instrument—an instrument of expression, of power, and of compass. Until we heard these gentlemen we had no idea that the guitar could be made to discourse such excellent music. They were loudly . applauded, and the duet was rapturously encored. The principal vocalists were Miss Sara Flower, Miss Canavan, a .young lady of great promise, and the Seguins. Signor Lanza conducted. The concert was very well attended. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at Bucking- Palace. Aali Effendi, Ambassador Extraordinary from the Sublime Porte,had an audience of her Majesty to take leave. Sarim Effendi had an audience of the Queen to present his credentials as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten tiary from the Sublime Porte. Their Excellencies were respectively introduced by the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of Foreign Affaus,and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, M aster of the Ceremonies. The Earl of Aberdeen bad an audience of the Queen. Her Majesty was attended by the Earl of Morton, Lord in Waiting, and Mr. It. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday, attended by Sir Edward Bowater, Equerry in Waiting. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Dunmore, non. Miss Paget, Earl of Morton, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Major •General Sir Edward Bowater, honoured the performance of the French Plays with their presence yesterday- evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken an airing in the royal gardens of Buckingham Palace yesterday. The Duchess of Gloucester visited their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, on Sunday, at Cambridge House. _ The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday. The Grand Duchess (Stephanie) of Baden.—Her Royal Highness attended by the Baroness de Strumfeder, and Baron Roth de Schreckenitein went yesterday morning to Westminster Abbey to inspect that sacred edifice. His Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, accom panied the Grand Duchess during her visit to the Abbey. A deputation of ropemakers, on the subject of the duty on cable yarn, consisting of Mr. James J. Frost, Mr. George Gould, Mr. Charles , Rennell, and Mr. James Falfrond, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office 9f the Board of Trade. Sir J. Graham and other Cabinet Ministers had interviews with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council Chamber. The Lords present were,the Master of the Rolls, Lord Brougham, the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce. the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. • A petition for an extension of the term of Parkins's patent was heard. Their Lordships granted an extension of the eriod of the patent for the term of five years. DREADFUL DEATH BY FIRE or A FEMALE, 103 YEARS OF Aort.—On Saturday morning, between twelve and one o'clock, • a female named barah Cox, who had arrived at the age of 103 years, expired in St. George's Hospital under the following distressing eircumstr 'lces :—The deceased ie sided at Chapel place, lirompton, and was in possession of a small indepenfferice - Her daughter, who is upwards of 60 years of age, and who lived Wittrher, had left home for the purpose of obtaining her quarterly amount of income, when the old woman, in reaching something from the mantelpiece; fell over the guard in front of the fire and set herself in a blaze, in winch state she was found by her landlady; but before the flames could be extinguished her clothes were con sumed, and her person frightfully scorched. She was con veyed to St. George's Hospital, where death terminated her sufferings. COLLISION OFF DEPTFORD DOCKYARD.—Late on Saturday night, as the Royal Adelaide steamship was proceeding on her passage to Edinburgh, and when abreast of the dockyard, she ran down the schooner Afin Guthrie, of Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, taut from Sligo, with a Mil cargo of pork, beef, and bacon, together with a quantity of oats, for the London market. It was so dark at the time (about eleven o'clock) that the schooner was not sceu until the collision became inevitable. She was struck on the beam with such force that she was cut to the water's edge in an instant. The cap tain and crew of the Royal Adelaide rendered every assistance to the senooner, and while in a sinking state townd l.cr into shallow water next the Isle of Dogs, where the master and crew were safely put on shore. By the collision the Ann lost her foremast, her rigging was cut to pieces, and ber bulwarks stove in. Late last night she was still under water, nothing but her nutinmas and rigging being vi , slide. Every attempt to weigh her during the day was made, but without success. A Trisiderable portion of her cargo has been da maged and rendered unsaleable. Lr.rd Duncan had an interview with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday. Her Majesty will hold a Chapter of the most an cient and most noble Order of the Thistle to-morrow after noon, at St. James's Palace, when his Grace the Duke of Montrose will be elected and invested with the insignia of the Order, in the room of the late Earl Cathcart, deceased.— Evening Paper. Private , letters have been received from India, which, we regret to say, contain the melancholy intelligence that the Bishop of Calcutta, the Rev. Dr. Wilson, was suffering from severe indisposition : his medical ad visers had recommended a sea voyage as the best means of restoring his health. His Lordship intended re turning to England immediately ; but as he was at a dis tance of 800 miles up the country from Calcutta, it was al prehended that this great distance would be almost too much for him to accomplish without very great fatigue. It is now thirteen years since his Lordship quitted his native country. THE ALLEGED MURDER AT SALT-HlLL.—There is a rumour in town to-day that Mrs. Ashlee, the principal witness in this case, is dead. We have not time to verify the matter by making proper inquiry. PIRATES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.—ObTEND, MARCH s.—The Comete de Boninge, which arrived here from Messina, 2d inst., was fired into by pirates, in three lateen-rigged craft, in the Gutt, about fifteen miles off Cape Santa Maria. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, March 10. JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL. Lord MOIV TEAGLE presented a petition in favour of the Bill. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, in moving the second reading of the Bill referred to by the petition just presented by his Noble Friend—as he did not anticipate any effective opposition , to the measure—he should confine himself to stating very shortly the motives and intention of the Bill. The object was to get rid of the disabilities, some anomalies, some inconsistencies, and, he might be permitted to say, some absurdities, which pressed upon persons pro fessing' the Jewish persuasion. In order that he might be fully understood upon the subject, he should begin by shortly calling their Lordships' attention to the position in which persons entertaining the Jewish religion stood with respect to offices held under the Crown. There was no objection to these persons being placed in the commission of the peace for a county, and many of them at present held the im portant and responsible office of county magistrates. There were recent instances of these appointments to offices of this description. Sir Moses Montefiore, who was at present a justice of peace for the Cinque Ports, and also was a n;agistrate for Kent, had, within a short period, had his name recommended by the Lord-Lieutenant to be placed in the commission of the peace for the county of Middlesex. Bat this was not a solitary instance. Mr. Salomon, several years ago, was placed in the commission of the peace for the county of Sussex, and had since been placed in the commission of the peace for the county of Kent. Mr. Lizardi and Mr. Cowen, two other gen tlemen of the Jeviish persuasion, were also magis trates for the county of Sussex, and he had never heard any complaint made of those appointments, nor had he ever heard that any of these gentlemen had rnisconducted themselves in the discharge of their magisterial duties. On the contrary, he believed that they had conducted themselves with the greatest propriety. Nor was it merely to the commission of the peace they were confined, they held also the office of' Deputy- Lieutenant in different counties. Mr. Salomoas was a Deputy-Lieutenant ; so was also one of the Messrs. Rothschilds—nay, more, they were so by Parlia mentary sanction and authority. They were eligible to the office of High Sheriff. They were not only eligible, but they were bound, when appointed, to discharge the duties ; and if they refused to accept the office, according to the charter of the city of Lon don, they .were subject to a heavy pecuniary penalty. That was the position of persons belonging to the Jewish persuasion with respect to many high and pre-eminent offices in this country. They all knew that the office of sheriff was a stepping-stone and passport to the office of alderman of the city of London. A person who conducted himself with pro priety in the office of sheriff, and discharged the duties to the satisfaction of the citizens of London, so as to earn their regard and esteem, thus would have great influence and effect when the offite of alderman became vacant, and that person appeared and offered himself as a candidate. When a responsible and burdensome office was imposed upon any man, which led to others as the rewards of that labour and re sponsibility, and their Lordships compel him to fulfil the preliminary office, and to discharge the burden :;ome duties, while they excluded him from the higher and lucrative office, which is as its usual reward — (Hear, hear)—nothing could be more unjust than such a proceeding—nothing more impolitic .nd un 'vise than to withhold rewards for the discharge of duties in a laborious and responsible office. That was not only unjust and impolitic, but the manner in which it was effected was vexatious. A gentle man in the office of sheriff gained the esteem and ap probation of his fellow-citiz.:.ns, and was unaninicusly elected Alderman. He went to the Mayor and Alder men to be admitted. He offered to take the oaths, but the answer was, " there is, in addition to these, a declaration prescribed by the 9th Geo. IV., which you will have to take first." 'That declaration was, that the person elected would not use the influence, power or authority of his office to injure the Protestant re • ligion or the Protestant Church of this country. All this the person elected was willing to declare, but he was told that he must subscribe the declaration in the true faith of a Christian. That he could not consci entiously subscribe. If it were necessary to exclude the Jews, let it be done by direct legislation. Here was an individual, a county magistrate, a deputy - lieutenant, capable of being elected and bound to serve the office of the Sheriff of London, educated in the City, brought up in commercial pursuits, and intimately acquainted with the trade and local interests of London. Would their Lordships pass a Bill to exclude such a man from the office of Alderman, and if not, they ought not to do so by the circuitous means now adopted. Per haps their Lordships were not acquainted with the nice distinctions upon this subject. These distinc tions were the subject of inquiry in the Court of Queen's Bench, where a Noble Lord near him de cided that it was the duty of the Court of Alder men to admit him upon his taking the oaths, leaving it to himself to sign the declaration when he thought fit : but if he neglected to do so, he was protected by the Act of Indemnity. That decision was reversed by a writ of error, in the Court of Exchequer, which ruled that the declaration should be taken at the time of presenting himself, and that the Mayor, and Court of Aldermen had the right to prescribe the order in which the oaths and the declarations should be taken. The result was, that the Court of Aldermen, who had no-voice in the election, might, by prescribing the declaration in the first instance, exclude the person elected, and place an officer favoured by them, but not elected by the citizens, thus giving the aldermen control over the elections in which they had no con cern. That was not the case in other towns in Eng land. In Birmingham the oaths were taken first, and if the declaration were not signed afterwards, the neglect was protected by the Act of Indemnity. Thus it was in Birmingham, Portsmouth, Southamp ton, and other places. His object was to get rid of these' anomalies, and to place the matter on a clear and distinct footing. The mode which he proposed was well known to their Lordships. It was when the declaration was about to be'taken by a person of a Jewish persuasion, that the words "in the true faith of a Christian" should be omitted. They had done this in the case of Quakers, Moravians, Inde pendents, and others, who had scruples of conscience against that form. He might he told that the object of the words was to exclude Jews, but he had a case in favour of tYs view, in times less liberal than the present, when people saw dangers that were not now apprehended, and were disposed to be more chime rical. In the 10tE year of George 1., the same words were omitted in favour of the Jews from the declara tion prescribed by the Abjuration Act. In the Act, the 14th of George 11., the same exception in favour of the Jews was made. He thought it right to rest his case on these limit( d grounds, lest the particular hardship might be lest sight of , if he went into a wider discussion of principles. He would not go into details of what was dome in other countries—in France, in Belgium, in the United States of America, and, above all, in Holland—(Hear, hear)—where, without any distinction, for a great number of years, Jews had been admitted into the highest offices with out any inconvenience, and to the satisfaction of all enlightened minds. In the Austrian Status a great improvement was proceeding ; but Prussia was taking the lead of liberality to the Jews. Jews were ad mitted to the schools and universities, and several of them attained the highest distinctions in the learned professions. (The Noble Lord then read a document to the effect that the Jews in the Prussian universities and the learned professions in Prussia, distinguished for learning and genius, were considerably more than in the proportion of their numbers to the other race.) There was nothing that he more regretted than the degradation Of this class ; and their Lordships had always expressed a sympathy for the disabilities to which they were exposed. And under these circum stances he did hope that their Lordships would pass the Bill which he now submitted to their attention.— (Hear, hear.) He thought it unnecessary to enter on any lengthened review of the Acts which related to the hardships and disabilities to which members of the Jewish persuasion were exposed ; and he thought that the time was come when all the obsolete Acts by which these disabilties were imposed should be swept from the statute book. He need only refer to one of those similar Acts which had been imposed in former times—he meant that of Edward I.—by which members of the Jewish persuasion were not only confined to par ticular towns, but to • particular districts of those tow ns, called " Jewries," and by which they were obliged to affix certain badges to their outer garments, which ex pressed their religious opinions and callings. This, he thought, was a sufficient review to justify the House in sweeting those acts from the statute book. The Bishop of LONDON said that he bad but one , observation to make at; this Bill. He should not now oppose it, for he knew that would only bring on a use less discussion ; but he would beg their Lordships to observe that by this silent acquiescence in the second reading he by no means precluded himself from opposing it in a future state. He would not pledge himself to any particular line of conduct with regard to the Bill. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that he was not. at all surprised at the declaration just made by the Right Rev. Prelate, but he nevertheless rejoiced at the introduction of this Bill, and he trusted that the time was not far distant when all disabilities would be re moved from the members of the Jewish persuasion. He could not help congratulating. the Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolsack on the perfect consistency of his conduct on this occasion. He (the Marquis of Lana ; downe) recollected that five years ago the Noble and Learned Lord had presented a petition from Mr. Salo mons, for the very privilege which this Bill was about to confer, and he would therefore congratulate the House ' on the progress of liberal opinions, and hoped they would find encouragement in the wise course they had now adopted. His firm impression was, that the time was not far distant when a full consideration of this sub ject would be called for, and when that House would be compelled to do justice to a class of men than whom none were more respectable • and that without in the least inconveniencing the public interests of the country. What could be more injurieus to the public interests, what more unjust to the individuals themselves, than that while respectable men of the Jewish persuasion should be admitted to the magistracy in counties, they should be excluded in corporations? Wbat more ridi culous than that they were fit for the office of Sheriff and Justice of the Peace, and yet be incompetent to fill the office of Alderman of the city of London? He cor dially supported the Bill brought in by the Noble and Learned Lord upon the Woolsack. Lord BROUGHAM said he entirely concurred in the Opinions that had fallen from the Noble Lord who had just spoken, and he hoped that the measure brought in by his Noble and Learned Friend upon the Wool seek would be passed without one voice being raised against it. While he thought that no long time would elapse ere further concessions were made to the Jews, he yet thought that the limited Bill of his Noble and Learned Friend was more politic and more expedient than a more extended treasure would be at that time. It was certainly a most ridiculous anomaly that members of the Jewish persuasion should be empowered to act as ministers of justice in counties, and be denied the same privileges—he would not call them privileges, he would say rights—in corporations. It would be most ungrate ful in him--it would be most unjust to his fellow la bourers in the city e f London—if ho did not take the opportunity of recording the' great, 'the charitable, the generous, the magnificent aid rendered by thb gentlemen of the Jewish persuasion to all sects and all classes, their enlightened industry in promoting wise and useful ob jects, without regard to creed or sect, and the readiness with which they aided, with purse and hand, any scheme which was calculated to advance the interests of their fellow-subjects. Lord CAMPBELL adverted to the Bill brought in in 1810, to remove• the disabilities that pressed upon the Jews. That Bill was rejected by a large majority in that Muse. When he had the honour, in 1831, of being Attorney-General he, in the case of Mr. Salomons, re ferred to by the Noble Lord, brought in a Bill to re move those disabilities, but only in the single instance of sheriff; and that Bill was founded upon the analogy that existed between the duties of sheriffs in counties and sheriffs in corporations, and that as the former were not required to make the declaration, so ought not the latter. He was exceedingly glad that a change had been made, and he hoped that in the next session of Parliament the Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolm k would come down to -the House with a Bill which would enable a person of the Jewish persuasion not only to sit in the Court of Aldermen of the City of London, but to a seat in the Legislature of the country. The Bishop of LONDON would offer no opposition to the Bill because he did not wish to promote discussion, but he begged it to be understood that the Bill was not to be taken as an instalment of future concessions. Lord COLCHESTER said the speech of the Noble and Learned Lord opposite (Lord Campbell) had almost persuaded him to oppose the measure, but it nevertheless was not his intention to do so. But in assenting to the Bill it must be understood that he did not for a moment think it right and proper that persons of the Jewish per suasion should ever hold a seat in Parliament. Lord REDESDALE said it had been stated that there was a similarity between this measure and a Bill introduced in 1841; but this was strictly not the case. There might be a similarity in the two preambles, but in any other respect there certainly was none. After a few words of explanation from Lord CAMP BELL, which did not reach the gallery, The LORD CHANCELLOR said the Bill of 1841 related to municipal corporations, and no doubt this had induced h;s Noble and Learned Friend to assume that there was a similarity between the two. The Noble and Learned Lord bad certainly opposed the measure in a circuitous mode, and it appeared to him, from what had fallen from a Noble Lord on the Ministerial side of the House that this circuitous opposition had nearly proved successful.—(Laughter.) ......*--•-•!„d to The Bill was then read a second time, and nrue'' be committed. LUNATICS IN IRELAND. Lord MONTEAGLE brought in a Bill for am The the law respecting pauper lunatics in Irela n n Bill was read a first time, and ordered to b e rell" this day week. f The Earl of CADOGAN moved for returns°. be „ ar ts Ecclesiastical Commissioners, show mg in *DAL there had been a surplus of the funds a purposes of the Commissioners, and in what , C tl i 6 surplus funds had been applied. obJ 6 ' The Bishop of LONDON said that he had tion to produce the returns called for by the N° l3° , o ofr but he trusted he would modify his motion so as d 'bich viate a great inconvenience, for part of the r eturn s " g bet the Noble Earl desired had been included in „,; I! returns already presented to their Lordships' 11°a.ted pplicable all the returns which had been moved for were pr e - e - o bi , the production of them would cause an irnmens_je.tfi'ea,sl! to the clerks, w hereas, if the motion were 10 7 ', 1 „„) Igo this would be avoided. He (the Bishop of Tien e ",; s tioi l , not the slightest objection to give every 113 ' °— C ' and produce all the correspondence in the poso s ; ° s tb the Commissioners, and he would, therefore, sugg e ;go the Noble Earl should move for the first of tbe fetc",i) on The Earl of public grounds, and that he wished to know, been stl' funds of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners blow the ministered, and where there had been a surplof tbos! Right Rev. Prelate would give the returns ° , 4 tha t parishes NN here a surplus had been found, Oa ', att ire*, surplus had been administered, that was all b_e, fr' Lord LYNDHURST suggested that the 1 10 ' should modify his motion. O l4l/ The Earl of CADOGAN said that he Wo.- - ha s ssi f his motion, and would be prepared to say io he would p.tt it to•morrow. - CONSTABLES (SCOTLAND) . BILD Or" MENT. TT //tij On the motion of the Duke of BUCCLE- ()fled, Bill was read a third time and passed.—AdPur- 0 HOUSE OF COMMONS, ,t THE INCOME-TAX • t . did Mr. C. BULLER (in continuation) said he did deny that a revenue might thus be increased, if te rc , cn' were induced, by the abolition of these dudes:oo, jel; sume more of the articles which still paid tiottinellifl on the other hand, there was a danger of ollleis,f the revenue, by the consumption of the heir gebw.; withdrawn from the tax-paying articles, by ba tuting articles, that no longer paid duty , for t';fdttes the, abolition of the duty on glass might „icon' i d people to purchase and employ glass in milnY j it he v i a stead of articles which would still pay dutY• v su e ; a still greater objection to dealing with the rebeoel,' this manner, because all their calcalations wer e an d j. favourable years—years in which the Cust°lnsthe cise had been recovering, from an increas e in ( 1 to 1 .3 perity of the country. W hen they g allud s failures of the Whig Chancellor of the E2Leb t hen n ot had had their taunt and their sneer, let theti l ,,j t heag of the matter like men of sense, and then W° ll see, that whatever had been the faults 0' the' as Kati e s st' Chancellor of the Exchequer, the gre bbi l their deficiency was the three or four bsu rigtil °flue And what was it revi teir trade The ef the other measures of the ved Gove h rnm ent ?? W r ilY heti. had not revived on the articles the tariff Wileerod the increased consumption of the peopl e ' vests, and by a revived American trade, the OV c° e ref i ' improved. Was the Right Hon. Gentleinfil rV for a different state of circumstances? G a * io'p the he repeated, and an uninterrupted trade, lis ul a be t he the condition of the people. But what wnwellifi con-equence if those disasters should occur ~t ote e tre next three years which had often occurred :11,0 which, in the nature of things, must occur °roe te r would the Right Hon. Gentleman say ine be j 3 be introducing his budget, if there had been s°Thefos' l ie vests and a declining trade in the interim? tosl,ol recommend them to do away with the incota_er-theP'itif would tell them what was much more-1 001 Y e de the Hon. Baronet would come forward in 18 481 '. 1 0 o . ° t or in spite of the income-tax—(Hear, hear)--; pr o (t House to increase the income-tax or proval e ,.) t t a is' way for meeting the deficiency.—(Hear, l'e3,l;;;Pit fraudulent and delusive to tell the country ;wee t le come tax would be only continued for 6',oe° h longer. He would tell them fairly th at Far, Getiighl things could not occur. But Honours- t he c e seemed disposed to place great confidence i n ia eff in Honourable Baronet, so much so, „ t i aI P sideration of the abolition of the an' alters!' the diminution of the cotton duty, and the tb i, the sugar duties, they were willing to hesf„l o ie fain ts tax for three years longer. As honest sa°t" men, they could have no doubt b ut the oug ht c e . would be permacent, and, therefore, th fe ast e per r ro P it in that shape in which it would be e ,„ t iess„ t c‘; He was not now gi ing to mention his on income-tax in detail. lie had done o os w oad casion, and he now would say that his n kelel it t eO ri been all verified by the operation of this tslce, sr they were fully justified in complaining of teat ss of the income-tax. It had pressed with gr h r ut etr e jlir equal severity. It did not regard degree , '4O S r ' e te r the same weight on the man of immense "'t o o I c3 trimony as the man of fluctuating and ll' ir f - e re ed , g „; e O ,; Besides, it gave great opportunities for, " ti eelt,' ,o o( l ,l, honest man was obliged to pay for the i r i t , t t in el t c t sion of the dishonest one. Ile admitted tu r g te ede e t" the collection of the income-tax was not s o ot' les' s so much severity as in the country; but be e ` r e le' r i England—the north, for instance —he ' D ere re; complaints of the conduct of the Cornmi ssi° o4 ° was said, pressed with the greatest stri?g trod e r lione sons of obnoxious politics and rivals. e ltei' o efr,{ amendment did not extend to any sli ce! l e a' the tax. He put forward a 12,, h 1 o re° per' principle, and did not wish to TO. confuse it with any unnecessary u e f A e po je e amendment that could be proposed c ot j , might follow when his amendment wa g ro tiO ti es o confessed that he had before shaped tha t tt ot her ' o l 9 o r , the purpose of giving an opportunity t° r Tbs t e es: e :o ments being proposed.—(Hear,red 0 0 4 . o e object, because he believed the tax recl ul oters tl ",etf li ations, and that this rude and primitive 0 01 0 0 4 4 not be made decently in tho nineteenthift ttls,'"t great care and amendment. The bje~ to had said that if they once began arnelli"he would be proposed that they would ,l' O e t „,4l, r through with them before the sth ol P'r e d '' per t 01 41. gov e would ask, was the sth of April c e n ot ere °l3 13 placing of a tax of a most oppressive u;e ht WO yes footing ?—(Hear, hear.) Then the B'g just 11601/ said, let them pass the income-tax n° w );ree l e 0 0 ' et and if they did not like it at the end ot ot e o ft let them amend it again. Now svhat h e rs thee r e that if at the end of three Y4ieer•hf, 1' on e amend it, why not amend it now ?-` ...Ol e " t le the evil remain for three years I()Tig ";hotightfder 4't If a person's shoe pinched him, 11 ' ke it t e 1 54 ,0 would say he was a fool if he did not t lit .- 0 , 0 and not let it remain for three years nw re ve t ee what he wanted with the income-taxo i o or, of to Gentleman said that if his (Mr. Bu i % por i :ol f , f tll carried, he would be obliged to gi , e 9r, ; ts'eca reduction he had proposed in taxa t ' n , 'r iot s7 e pe fr ets, that, he had only to say that there wa io ' it , ths' o e. ro of Right. Hon. Gentleman proposed to jr , e 'olli r e ta e , so heavily on the people as the present ,he te 5e ..0 00.,, 0 t lion. Gentleman concludeel by moving b ` . ., Cl ro F re' rt y which he had given notice : Tha t t - te e Oleg under which the renewal of the incora e e diegoeSoft proposed, are such as to render it el e e c t of 00 bable that Parliament will have the P° lr e ee ers ; o re t en with its continuance at the eed of thr e l o t0 t:6 00 4, 0 z it is therefore the duty of this I-louse.'h--its the tax be imposed in a form in . w p t i b c an i a ll the 4 shall be less unequal and inquisitor's trt, en the Mr. EWART seconded the amend ° 1;0 014 10 tion having peon put by the Speaker, ..neJE ei 'CI 4 " b el 'os s The CHANCELLOR of the EX doe r h COD the ds'ohieli ands Hon. Gentleman " who bad just speech by remarking that he hail in,jangtlOr be sceSi the income-tax observed a degree °,! he per ! , unbecoming in the representatives or t, w hit: 070 or es, •0I if determined to relieve the dullness eceesr ere plumed be had indulged in a s eries l o e f , : lrlo . oe n b te cioe e po t i lli co d not sound in argument, were those who had heard them. If t here sightßete acquiescence in the proposals of hi s e oai n e oa fic *, it was attributable not to argument or the part of Hon. Members, but to a g t he re, l l esc o es that, in the circumstances of the ca , t c h 0 0; of the income-tax was a measure vo:restieerbs the approbation of the House. Th e q e ,rid l e 11 0 fully debated on former occasio.n.,rsg,er eurcesliogi, jority in its favour was t 0/s ,be f e g f which usually attended Governsleoceoese if the income-tax were calculated _ ' su bjeel o o of those who took au interest in !tr ire el 0_ 0 ) h it that the Hon. Gentleman had witk or , 10, 40 05_,01 0 0 probation until so late a period ?--( d l' ge ee t' er el_ d r v e li „ had he waited until the Bill h a ll , a g e l House ? He now came forward with his ec ot ie. 0 1 4 tion, with a view of drawing with ' _ elv eree ot es P t ell`, were weak enough to suppose that etsirgseeeoeos neral resolution would be followed I*X (t he ` l o er o i respect to details.—(Hear, hear.) f : t he P o r t . pr i tio r e , of the Exchequer) did not claim .I. , oute ge, e ceet tea what no tax ever possessed, the au: but to s t l e Fr ° V e r di equally upon all classes of perso n i l u s n 'd that the Hon. Gentleman was b, _ w ant ,ijear4,o he proposed to reduce, and how n s : _ o o . e the exigencies of the public r e "o e nti .40 0 00. 0 t There was one admission in the b.?" . lie IP A %e ll , fhetlhpotteedve,:irhtLiolgp•ree:rr.Arirelcstyorcr;l n to ot wh g i o ch th h e e c l o e u n l g d th no o t direct to indirect taxation--erlrratete teits",olo proposed in this instance to su 1, for a_ 02 0 I iti i direct taxation, but it was pror. se d i re et, l" Ti jo , f g or re lf a l ierest lise ar .p t: ot ea be rybo .el e ; w to hi eh substituteindirect direct for zied taxationt he Gentleman had admitted, that w e ' el deets i f t eder:o . situation of the Government, he wr wh ieh j u r i e..; os 4 , l ' e r tax, for the sake of the advantagoe! rived from it. That being the c .1 % et e t ioili: r ias,,e# ing a resolution that the income ' 7 ne y or et ,o 3 Boned, he should have prop°s e .:Gove ril . P' ef ill° l le l ' e articles for those upon which t 0 . , ), ot t s oc e a reduction. He had gone throup,, re eeiv iro , 0_ 0 ,0 1 44, to which he should have g ifen so s a; ere se t cis o f mentioned tea, tobacco, malt ' a to s itee a r°l etai the duties upon which nsountet. _.ecee,,c 0 o f ioe. millions. Ile stated distinctly' th at to 11 ' 0 010dB h aiJ should have led them to approllt_r7setereeortetes4 be t el the duties on tobacco and spirits c , ?l et plus ; setting those articles G ag e a n i , l;_ t ii i bTe t d o ti i g !,:o o n ti g f i r i, t3 0: 1, 1 tit r e; He understood the Hon. be no objection to the reduction f the du P ie t that he objected to the repeal o n t o re e l : as ti °tee articles. The Hon. Gentler of e ptri o tersol a s peal of the duty on tobacco and co ol ' o leo s ill more in accordance with the oor lg en w e l t the P community and one from whip (ge ntle greater benefit. The /lot' r