The Sun. — London, England, 1850-06-19 00:00:00

WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING.—The Royal Mail steamer Severn, Captain W. Vincent, arrived this morning, at ten o'clock, with the usual West I❑dia and Mexican mails, after a run of 13 days from Bermuda. She brings on freight 624,127 L, of which 60,000 are on account of the Mexican dividends; also 341 b. of platina, 1,080 bales of tobacco, 213 serons of cochineal, and 150 packages sundries. Accounts from Jamaica are from the 23d ult. The markets were unchanged, and business dull. Exchange OD London, Jamaica Bank 90 days par. The wet season has set in on the island, and t h e crops generally presented an improving appearance. Our accounts from Havannah are from the 27th ult. The c holera was on the decrease. The prises of produce were not affected. The business in imports suffered a good deal, and also from the excitement occasioned by the Lopez expedition. The tobacco crop large and of good quality; prices moderate. We have accounts from Havannah relative to the American Expedition and the general state of Cuba: it does not seem likely that any simi lar attempt will be made. About 140 prisoners, taken into Havannah by the Spanish Admiral, were in close confinement. The Captain-General of Cuba refused to supply their names to the senior officer of the American squadron, or to permit him to have any interview with them. St. Jago de Cuba was being put into a thorough state of defence, in anticipa tion of an attack from another section of the Lopez expe dition. No apprehensions for the safety of that city were entertained. In the Havannah markets sugar was firmly supported. The weather had been in a great degree unfavourable for grinding, and the yield of the crop will fall consider ably short of the original estimate. The transactions in coffee were trifling. In freights vessels were abundant. Exchange on London, 11 premium; Paris, 2i discount. There is no news of importance from Mexico Her Majesty's schooner Bermuda had captured, after a 49 hours' chase, a remarkably fine Brazilian brigantine, with 280 slaves on beard. ASHBY'S DIVORCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 18. The House assembled this at ternoon by special appointment, to hear further evidence in Ashby's divorce. Lord Brougham sat as Deputy Speaker. The second reading of this Bill was postponed some months since, on the motion of Lord Brougham, for fur ther evidence. _ _ Sir William Cockburn, the Rev. the Dean of Ely, and Mr. George Thomas, of Clifton, were now called, and their evidence went principally to prove that Mr. Ashby always displayed a great affection for and kind- ness to his wife. Lord BROUGIII3I said he bad moved on a former occasion that with regard to this Bill further evidence should be adduced, in order to show that Mr. Ashby had exercised due vigilance over his wife, and had not thrown temptations in her way, and had used every means to prevent her from going astray. Although there was reason to suppose that the petitioner was too lenient—it had been shown that he had great affec tion, and he was unwilling to drive her by any harsh means into the arms of her lover. The Noble and Learned Lord concluded by saying that, taking all the circumstances of the case into consideration, he was of opinion that the petitioner was entitled to the remedy which he sought to obtain. He should, therefore, move that the Bill should be read a second time. The Bill was accordingly read a second time. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, June 18. (Sittings at Nisi Prius b fore the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury.) NEWNHAM V. STEVENSON AND ANOTEIER. This case, which occupied the Court the whole of yesterday, was resumed this morning, and again oceu piei the Court during the whole of the sitting. There was no point of interest, but the evidence was tedious and at great length. The jury returned a verdict, at a late hour, for the defendant. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. THIRD COURT. Sydney Robert Sparks, 27, clerk ; Charles Stanley, 23, Edward Wrz; : yk!, 57, Edward Wright, 23, agent, and James Campbell, 37, agent, were indicted for conspiracy and fraud. The °fiances imputed to the prisoners were. that they had obtained various sums of money from different persons on pretence of either employing them or pro curing situations f u. them on a handsome scale of wage +, which conditions they failed to perform, and evidently had no means of fulfilling. The cases have been so re cently before the police-courts that it may be sufficient to =tile that several charges having been proved the jury found them Guilty. Mr. PARNELL said the frauds proved this day were but a few of the clearest picked from the mass. The Learned JUDGE, in passing sentence, commented upon the gross nature of the charges, and sentenced Wright, the elder, James Campbell, and Stanley to 18 months' imprisonment and hard labour; but considering that Sparks hal not taken any money, and Wright, jun., had acted under the guidance of a bad father, the seotence oa them world be 12 months. The flw cases tried in the New Court before the Com mon S , rgeant were not of interest, The only one of impPrtance removed from this court to that, was that of Barley and Lawler, for alleged skittle sharping, which stands until next session. The courts stand adj,:urned until Monday, the 9th of July. MIDDLESEX SESSIGNS, June 18. (Before Mr. Sergeant ADAms, Assistant-Judge.) The June adjourned sessions of the peace for the county of Middlesex commetcod this morning at the Ses sions House, Clerkenwell-green. There wero seventy prisoners for trial, but the offences wore of a very light character, and the cases tried during the day were nut of public importance. MARKET IN TEL LIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, June 1 8.) STD;An —To-day refiners or grocers were not much dis posed to operate in West India Sugar, still holders were firm. In all 360 hhds &c. were sold, including at auction 150 hhds 17 trcs 4 brls Berbadoes, which realised full terms for better sorts, but-inferior went rather cheaper; fine yellow sold at 403 to 41s, mid to good 37s 6d to 39s 6d, and low 35s 6d to 37,, and 23 hhds 4 trcs Jamaica, low and good yellow 35s ad to 35s 64 per cwt. _ _ REFINED.—To-day the Refined Sugar market was in a quiet position, and 48s 6d to 49s per cwt is the value of brown Lumps, whilst larger parcels are on offer. Crushed Su4ar met with little attention, but the rates asked fur British are 27s 6,1 to 29s per cwt. Mat:funus —This afternoon home dealers were not much disposed to operate in Mauritius Supt., still former terms were supported. Of 14,000 bags offered at public sale about 10,000 bags sold, and c nsisted chiefly of the better sorts; mid to fine yellow went at 36s to 40s, low 34s 6d to 35s 6d, ord to fine brown 29s to 34s 6J, and grey 34s to 39s per cwt. EAST INDIA. —This afternoon there was no variation in prices of Bengal Sugar, but the public sales of 3,000 bags went off quietly; white Benares at 37s 6d to 41s 60, fine yellow 335 to 375, low 31s to 31s 6d, good and fine grainy 41s to 455, and fine brown ditto 36s per cwt. ForMGN.—Today there were several buyers of Foreign Sugar, and it was difficult to buy at the terms of last week. There was no public sale, but privately a cargo of brown Maroim was sold at 183, and one of white Havannah, but the price has not transpired. MoLassEs.—Full terms are asked for West India, and only 100 puns of fine New Antigua have been sold at 16s 6d per cwt. Bengal and Mauritius met with little attention, and 12s to 13s is the value. COFFEE.—To .day the Coffee market presented a quiet ap pearance, there was no public sale, and by private treaty both shippers and home dealers operated with caution. The value of good ord Native Ceylon is 42s to 43s per cwt. Cocoa.—For British Plantation holders are firm, and will not sell but at full rates. Node has been offered at auction since our last report. The value of Trinidad is from 383 to Via. and other sorts 36s to 43t per cwt. There has not been much business concluded in F ore i gn, b u t t h e rates as k e d are 9 7, .„tFo ,A 2B s, and th e su ppl y i s not upon a larger scale. .—An active demand exists for common Congou, and a Welber advance has taken place, sales having been made at ”4d to lod, and the supply is less than for some time past. In better qualities operations are upon a more ex tended scale at previous terms. Green Teas have been operated in with caution. Scented and Pekoe Teas can be prices, yet home d ea l ers operate e bought at rather lower getting upon a more extended with caution, and supplies ar scale. ,SPICES.-- This afternoon a p u bli c sale of eighty barrels Jamaica Ginger went at rathee lower prices --low middling an d middling 8 3 s to 104s,and three lets inferior at 75s to 87s per cwt. 1,219 bags Black Pepper likewise changed hands at 3- id for Malabar, and 3d to 3Ad for Sumatra, being be inciifired megs Were all taken barely former quotati.ons. Six casks Nut in at 2s 10d for limed RICE.—To-day East India Rice was was were not sellers rn ueh to found price:. At auction 502 bags Beng a l after by private contract, and t rather under the quoted pri to 95 6d. 42 brls Jamaica were taken in at 103 6d per cwt for very good white; bat a few lots of damaged sold at 93 Arrowroot went at 5d to 6d, and dam aged 4d to 4 d. SALTPETRE.—To - day there were buyers of Rough to a fair extent privately, but holsters requiring an advance had the effect of checking business; 6' per cen g t re- in at 26s to Calcutta were taken26s 6d for and at auction 309 basf o fraction. a e n on t COCIIINEAL.—There continues to be a g ood demand for have also been k home use and export ; some parcels speculation at fully former rates, and supplies are not so plentiful. INDIGO._ For public competition on the 9 th of Jul y the quantity of East India declared is already large, and amounts to 7,384 chests. Holders are not disposed to accede to lower rates, but the business concluded has been small for all pur poses. Full terms are obtained for Spanish. Sriarrs.—For Jamaica Rum previous terms are well sustained. The sales amount to 350 puns-32 to 36 per cent over proof of fair iknd ord quality at 25 3d to 2s Bd, 34 to 36 over good 2e 10d to 34 3d, fine 3s 4d to 3s Bd, and small parcels of high flavor 4s to 4s 4d per gallon. Prices have ceased to decline for Demerara, and a more active demand exists; 150 hlids have been sold at 2s Id to Is 3d for 34 to 40 over proof. Leeward Island met with a better sale, and about 250 puns have been sold at is 4d proof. Purchases to a fair extent have been made in East In dia at is 3d, and there are not free sellers. For Brandy there is a ceelet market, and operations have been limited by ship ' home dealers. The value of Cognac beat die vintage of 1849 is 4s 4d to 4s 6d, 1848 ditto Is Bd, 18-17 ditto 5s Id to 5s 3d. and inferior sorts 2d. For Geneva the demand is still limited at B d, and fine 2s to 3s. Prices for British made at 9s 4d, and Gin at 7s 10d to 8s 4d for 17 to 22 alder proof. c.-- For Russian on the spot operations have been r all purposes, and fine P. Y. Candle is held ,d to 37s per cwt. For delivery in the last three the year not many buyers are to be met with, is a disposition to sell at 38s to 38s 6d. Home :o be obtained at the moderate terms of 35s to 35s 1, but not many buyers are to be met with, and :on sue to get upon a larger scale. For other pers - and 1 brands of ti 4s Gd to 4; 2s 8d to 45 51 ./ f f 13:41 tO la ‘5...---;7i- • lilt rule ; ept un ALLOW ited 1 2 , •- •4 • ps6 3 6d - • • "oathslmre L *‘•-•'. I nd t d is t( - • t cash V OHO cc • S . 0 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 19 4 1850. sorts of Tallow prices tend downward, as large parcels are on offer. At auction 832 pkgs of South American were principally disposed of at 34s to 365; 36 pkgs Greaae 30s; 460 pkgs Sydney were sold at 33s to 36s for common to fine; 86 cks and 735 mats wrecked P. Y. Candle 34s to 35s 6d, and 8 casks East India at 395 3d to 393 6d for fine. OiLs.—A. much better demand has been experienced for Linseed Oil from shippers and home dealers. For delivery in the last three months of the year operations are upon an ex tended scale at 29s 6d to 30s. Rape Seed Oil is not much wanted, pale is offered at 36s to 375, brown 35s to 35s 6d and Foreign pale at 37s to 3ls per cwt. Cocoa Ntr, Oil 29s to 32s for Ceylon and Cochin of fine and good quality ; whilst about 300 tons have been sold. Palm is not much wanted; there are sellers of fine at 30s to 30s 6d. Olive Oil is still purchased with caution, and sellers are willing to accept 411 to 42/ for Gallipoli, and 39/ to 40110 s per tun for other sorts. Southern Oil is held for 32/ to 341 for common and fine, but few buyers are to be met with, and the market will be better supplied shortly. Sperm Oil is yet in good request, supplies are not larger, and the rates obtained for fine Colonial are 841 to 861. Seal has been sold to a fair extent at about previous terms, pale realising 30l to 31/, other sorts 281 lOs to 29/ 10s, but several arrivals are near at hand. Cod met with little attention, and holders are more disposed to sell at 34l lOs to 35/ per tun. Of Teel Seed Oil 70 casks at auction ' were taken in at 34s Gd per cwt. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. IPSWICH, JUNK 18. The market was scantily supplied with wheat, awl the growers are reluctant to sell at any reduction in price, yet the market must be within 6d to is cheaper than last week. Beans dearer. PER QUARTER.' PER QUARTER. Wheat, red Ditto, white. 43s to 45s Oats oos to 00s Barley, malting ... 00s to 00s Rye oos to ON Ditto, grinding ... 00s to 00s Malt ...... .... Beans ... ♦YERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 15, 1850. Wheat Barley Oats ....... —. ... Beans. — If —s. Od. Peas HULL, Jults 18. __ . Messrs. Taylor and Bright's Circular states :—We have again to report a favourable week of weather, and all accounts agree in representing a much improved appearance of the crops of spring crop, and continued favourable prospects for wheat. The trade has continued in the same quiet yet firm state that we had occasion to report in our last circular. For fresh quail+ ies of red wheat we have had a good demand and ready sale at full prices ;'white wheats and danzig are less in request, and inferior, out of conditioned, or long chambered parcels are difficult to turn into money; at the present low price of flour quality is more than usually looked at by the lower classes, and hence second descriptions of wheat are less needed than when the average price is higher. To-day's market was tolerably supplied with farmers' wheat, which met a free sale at fully the rates of last week. Foreign of good fresh quality in fair demand, and at full late rates. But little doing in malting barley ; grinding meets ready buyers at quite up to our quota tions. A good many of the cargoes now arriving fall short in condition. Only a slow sale for beans, and no notable change in the value of peas, of which article arrivals are moderate. Very little business passing in linseed, but prices are well sup ported, as is also the case with cakes, the stock of which, both English and foreign, is much reduced. No rapeseed on the market; the above import is for inland account, and from Taganrog. Rape cakes are held at 80s per ton. Bones rather lower. The following are the present prices of grain : 8. 8. Wheat, English, red 39 to 41 Do. white ...... Dantzic and So- S. 8. Peas, white and yeL 24 26 Do. grey , Linseed Black Sea. 42 44 - - nigsberg 4O 45 Pomeranian and Do. Petersburgh ... 38 42 Do. I . !.iga&Archn. 38 40 liamburgh . 37 40' Danish, Holstein, & Do. Konigsberg .... 34 38 Per ton. Friesland Russian and Odessa 30 —36 Do. fine foreign ...... 61 bs Oats, English •l2 16 Do. inf. foreign...ol Os to Si 53 Do. Danish.... l2 16 Rapeseed Do. Friesland l4 18 Rape cakes...oos Od to 804 01 Do. Russ. & Odessa 12 16 Tares, English 2Bs —00 s Barley,malting...... 20 23 Do. foreign 20s —26 s Do. grinding.. ....•• 17 19 Guano 61 to 101 10s Beans 2l 24 Bones, do 95s 01 to 97s 6d Do. foreign ...........21 23 Rye meal sllos Coax, Julia 17.—Flour—First 123 6d to 13s ; extra 14s ; seconds, Ils 6d to 123 6d ; households 9s to 118; thirds, 7s to 9s per cwt. Oatmeal lOs 6d to 11 s; Indian meal 75 6d to 8s Od; wheat meal, lOstolOs 6d per cwt. Indian corn 140 s to 150 s Od per ton Bran 3/ 1286c1 to 3/15s per ton. Hay—Farmers 33s to 40s; average 363; dealers 408 to 48s Od; average 44s per ton. Stzaw—Farmers 25s Od to 37s Od ; average 28s ; dealers 00s Od to 00s Od; average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 61t1; household loaf 5d to 56d per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to 9d per lb. Eggs-3s 10d to 4s Od per hundred. Coals— Newport 14s; Lydney 15s ; Landore 14s ; Best Neath Culm 13s per ton. Tallow 40s Od to 00s per cwt. Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 6d per imperial gallon. Meat —Beef 4d to 4id ; mutton 5d to 6id ; veal 4d to 5d ; pork 3d to Od ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sausages 5d per lb. Flops 6t 10s to 81 lOs per cwt. Bangor slates 312 s 6d to 315 s per ton. Bark—Barbary 71 5s to 8/ 5s ; Valonia 141 to 0/; French 715 s ; Spanish 9/ per ton. Fleece Wool 10s to 12s per stone. Hemp 331 to 00/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 13s to 14s ; red ditto 15s to 20s per barrel ; Newfoundland 9/ Os to 10/ per ton. Timber—Memel, 85s per ton ; deals, first quality, 18s, second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 14s to 20s; salted 15s to 21s per cwt ; calf skins lid to 21d per lb. Potatoes, white 10d to 12d ; Minions 14d to 16d ; Guano— Peruvian, 111 lOs; Ichaboe, 91 per ton; Tar—Archangel. 19s per barrel. RAILWAY SHARE MAR TS. LIVERPOOL, Juxx 18. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was very little business done to-day, and prices were lower. The transactions were as follow : Birmingham and Oxford, guaranteed, 27%—Lan caster and Preston, Quarters; 13 3 4—London and North- Western. 109'i—Ditto, New Quarters, p.—Ditto, Fifths, 1 p.— Midland, 26 cis.—York, .Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. till 1830, 5 dis. Ditto, .“ f i dis. MANCHESTER, JUNE 18. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was but little business doing to-day, and prices were on the decline. BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 18. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was buoyant to day, and prices had a tenthncy upwards. Shropshire Unions were done at 3 dis.—London and North-Western, 109 Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 9 dis.—South Stafford shire, 4 dis. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 18. Their Lordships met at Five o'clock. The Ear! of WICKLOW presented a petition from eel.- ain Irish solicitors against the Process and Practice Ire land Bill. ENCUMBERED ESTATES ACT AMENDMENT BILL. The Marquis of WES MEATH moved the third reading of this Bill, and repeated his former complaints against the proceedings of the Commissioners for the sale of Encumbered Estates in Ireland. He had in the streets of Dublin overtaken a group of drunken fellows who had declared that their wish was to uproot the Irish landlords; and he believed such to be the wish of the Ministers, with the exception of the Noble Marquis opposite. He believed that they had indulged in the abominable and wicked wish of changing, the whole pro prietary of Ireland. They had indulged the wicked wish of selling the estates of the Irish proprietors, in order to introduce capitalists who would advance money to the tenants, and it was upon speculations of this sort that this measure for the sale of encumbered estates had been propounded. The highest legal authority had said that there could not be a greeter calamity than the establishment of a court from which there should be no appeal, yet such a court was this court for the dis posal of encumbered estates in Ireland. He could not believe that the Commons of England would consent to let the present law remain unamended in the statute book. The Noble Marquis concluded by moving two additional clauses. _ _ _ The Esrl of CARLISLE considered the whole Bill unnecessary, and ho thought the clauses would still fur ther tend to militate against its progress in another place, and therefore he must oppose them. One of those clauses tended to circumscribe the powers of the Commis sioners in dealing with leases. Now, in many instances neither tenants nor landlords could settle what were their respective rights without extensive litigation in the courts of equity. The Commissioners had now the power of dealing with those rights, which had prevented extensive litigation. If the clause were agreed to it would not only prevent any sales for the future but, as it was retrospec tive, would vitiate those already made, which perhaps was the object of the Noble Marquis. It would only produce more mischief. The Marquis of WESTMEATH had no objection to withdraw the words which made it retrospective. The Earl of GLENGALL supported the clauses. The Marquis of WESTMEATH denied that the lessees and landlords of Ireland did not know their rights. The Earl of CARLISLE said that the clauses pro posed would obstruct the working of the Act. • The Marquis of WESTMEATH did not care one straw for the working of the Act. He wished to obstruct its working, and to prevent its working altogether. He wanted to put a drag•chain upon the working of the Act, and he did not care if the Act and its machinery was sent he knew where. The Duke of RICHMOND wished to know, if the parties did not know their rights, how the Commissioners should know them? Lord BEAUMONT would have no objection to the clauses if the grievances existed of which he complained, and if the clauses would furnish a remedy, but he belibved that both the Noble Marquis and himself had laboured under a mistake with regard to that matter. The effect of the rule made by the Commissioners was not, as he and the Noble Marquis had thought, to diminish the term of notice, but to extend it. The old law made six months' notice requibite for the renewal of leases, but the regulations of the Commissioners gave the six months and something in addition. He would suggest that the clauses be withdrawn. _ _ _ The Marquis of WESTMEATH still maintained his own opinion on the matter, but as one of the clauses did not seem thoroughly understood he would withdraw it. The clause was then withdrawn. The Marquis of WESTMEATH then proposed a clause forbidding the sale of any encumbered estate unless it should produce fifteen years' purchase. Persons had been driven mad in Ireland by the operation of this law, and had committed murder while in that state. The Earl of CARLISLE was constrained to oppose the clause even at the risk of being taunted with pro moting madness and murder. It was contrary to the spirit of the Act, which was to leave the deci sion in all such cases to the Commissioners, who were men of acuteness, honour, honesty, and learning, and to pass this clause would be to take a wrong estimation of the character of these gentlemen, and to withdraw from them the confidence of the House. The Commissioners, and he spoke by their authority, were anxious to give an explanation of every case which could be made matter of accusation against them. If their Lordships chute to make this House a court of appeal against their decisions ' they would be anxious to afford their Lordships explanations on any individual case that could be brought forward against them. He would supply their reasons, and explain to Parliament the groiiiids on which they had decided. The Noble Marquis had not thought proper to wait for the production of the returns which had been moved for —probably it answered his purpose best not to do so; but he had been in communication with the Commis sioners. One of the cases brought against them was that they had disposed of one estate for one and a half year's purchase. That estate had been sold with the lull concurrence of the creditors and the owners, and it was doubtful whether the estate was worth the head rent of two hundred pounds a year, and all parties were agreed that it had fetched its full value. Another estate had been sold at seven years' purchase; it was sub ject to a head rent of 4091.; it was let at 7321., and %as sold for 2,2001. The holder coniented to the sale, the creditors consented to the sale, but the proprietor of the head rent opposed it. Dr. Layfield, one of the Commissioners, whose political opinions dif fered from those of the Government, and assimilated with those of the Noble Marquis, declared that the es tate had been sold fir its full value, and owners of pro perty were now anxious to bring their estates under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners fur Encumbered Es tates. The Earl of WICKLOW hoped that the Noble Mar quis would exercise the same sound discretion respecting tnis clause, which he had exercised about his former clause. It would be quite absurd to fix such a minimum, for there were many properties in Ireland which would be well sold for less thin fifteen years' purchase. The Earl of DES ART proposed to add to this clause the words, " without the consent of the proprietors." 'The Earl of CARLISLE must resist every amend ment which proposed to limit the powers of the Com missioners. Lord STANLEY argued that, after the observation of the Noble Earl, the question clearly resolved itself into this—would the House leave the Commissioners without restriction, or, in other words, would it allow them to sell estates at five.or seven years' purchase, to the ruin of the proprietors? If the Commissioners had sold estates either for that or for a lower sum, it was a complete justificardon for the Noble Marquis's introduc tion of this clause.. No man could say that in some cases fifteen years' purchase might not be a reasonable rate, but the whole question was, whether or not they would fetter the Commissioners? Earl FITZWILLIAM, though in some respects friendly to the alteration which the Noble Marquis in tended to introduce, felt rather disposed against the clause. The Earl of CARLISLE observed that the Nobl e Lord had mentioned sums paid for properties in Ireland, but he did not relate the circumstances under which those sums had been paid. In a case where the land .vas let for 7301., the profit rent being the difference be tween that and 4001., the Commissioner said that in England the estate might sell for, perhaps, 4,oool—it actually sold for only 2,2001. The Earl of STRADBROKE said that, no doubt, estates had been sold in Ir e l a nd fur eight and ten years' purchase; and if they. took what. those estates once let for, it might be easy enough to show that many estates were sold for eight or ten years' purchase; but such in stances should nut guide the legislation of Parliament. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the clause ... ... 32 Against it ... ..• 30 Majority in favour of the clause —2 On oar re-admisSiOn we found The Marquis of WESTMEATH addressing their Lordships and moving a clause, the object of which was to give owners of estates, pending the proceedings con nected with sales of those estates, the same protection from arrest as in cases of bankruptcy. The Earl of CARLISLE observed that the Commis sioners had no power over all the estates which a man in such circumstances might possess, but only over the par ticular propert7 then brought to sale. The party to such a proceeding might possess other estates in Ire land, or several estates in England, and he was at a loss to understand why such persons should be protected from arrest. According to the law of this country, none but those who gave up the whole of their property were protected from arrest; therefore, on general grounds, he advised the Noble Marquis not to insert such a clause; he did not, however, wish to interfere further, but to leave the Noble Marquis the entire responsibility with reference to this Bill which he had taken on him self. The clause having been agreed to, the Bill was read a third time and passed. THE PRESENCE OF FOREIGN MINISTERS IN THE HOUSE. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that in conse quence of an occurrence which took place yesterday it became necessary that ho should give notice of a motion for Friday next. That occurrence afforded the strong est possible proof of the necessity there was that they should come to some positive arrangement for the accom modation in that House of the Foreign Ministers. He need not add that the circumstance to which he referred had taken place altogether under the influence of mis apprehension and mistake. It unfortunately happened that a Foreign Minister of high character, of high re spectahility not only on account of his own personal merits and worth, but on a ccou nt also of the situation which h e h e ld i n t hi s country, was o bli ge d to leave a place that he h a d occup i e d ;i n t h at H ouse during the early part of yesterday evening, a place which be had some reason to think himself entitled to possess, but which, according to a strict interpretation of the orders of the House, must be regarded as set apart exclusively for ladies. If the Foreign Ministers were excluded from that position there was no place for them at present, ex cept a mere standing place. Now, there were many people who could not stand throughout the whole of a long debate. For these reasons, then, he hoped that they would be able to consider of a place, a small place certainly, but one in which the Foreign Ministers might be satisfactorily accommodated; and he now begged to give notice that on Friday next be should move for the appointment of a Select Committee to make the arrange ments necessary for the accommodation in that House country. He only of the Mini s t ers w h o represente d f or eign stat es in thi s desired to add that abroad such ac commodation was provided in all public assemblies. The Duke of RICHMOND presented potitiont coin, plaidng of agricultural distress, from Taunton, trom Jedburgb, and other p aces. JUDGES OF ASSIZE BILL. On the motion of the Earl of CARLISLE, the Judges of Assize Bill was read a third time and passed. Their Lordships then adjourned to It dq neat. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 18. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. PRIVATE BILLS. The Bilston Improvement, Market, Waterworks, and Cemetery Bill was read a third time and passed. PETITIONS . Mr. WD.I. BROWN presented a petition signed by 7,300 members of a Friendly Society at Liverpool (as we understood) in favour of the Friendly Societies Bill Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from the managing committee of a Friendly Society, at Bristol, against the Friendly Becieties Bill. Mr. BRAMSTON presented a petition from a place i n E ssex a gainst the admission of Jews to Parliament. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD presented petitions from the Presbyteries of Balleinana and Coleraine, pray ing for a better system of tenant right in Ireland. Mr. LUSHINGTON presented a petition from the Floral Unity Lodge of Odd Fellows against the Friendly Societies Bill. Sir C. BURRELL presented a petition from a place in Sussex against , the admission of Jews to Parliament Colonel TFIOMPSON presented a petition from the South London District of Odd Fellows against thi Friendly Societies Bill. Mr. PORTAL presented a petition from Hampshire against the admission of Jews to Parliament. Mr, P. MILES pretented a petition from the managers of the Savings' Bank at Bristol against the Savings Bank Mr. PETO presented a petition from certain Dissent ing congregations in London against the compensation clauses in the Metropolitan Interments Bill. Mr. STUART presented a petition signed by 250 of the respectable inhabitants of ...Newark against the spread of beer shops. Sir W. MOLESWORTH presented nine petitiors from lodges of Foresters and Odd Fellows in favour c f the Bill relating to friendly societies. Mr. WALPOLE presented a petition from Midhurst, as we understood , against the admission of Jews to Parliament. Mr. ADDERLEY presented similar petitions from places in Staffordshire. Mr. B. OSBORNE presented a petition from Cong, in the county of Ray°, praying that the House would pass a Bill providing for the revenues of the Protestant Church in Ireland being applied to their original pur poses. Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition from Newington in favour of the Marriage Bill. Mr. BANKES presented a petition from a place at Dorset praying that the Savings Bank Bill be referred to a Select Committee; also petitions from the same place iu favour of and against the Ten Hours Bill. Mr. COLVILE presented a petition from Derby against the Savings' Bank Bill. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. THORNELY, in the absence of Mr. Ewart, postponed the motion on the abolition of capital punish. ment until the 13th of July. Mr. O'CONNOR postponed his motion on the People's Charter until further notice. Mr. BOUVERIE postponed his motion on the subject of divorce by private Acts of Parliament until the 11th of July. alter a great interruption would take place in the pro duction of cotton, a n d a grea t bl ow b e i n fli cte d on the in dustry of this country. To what other country could they turn for this supply? Neither Australia nor the new colony of Natal could be expected for some time to be able to furni,h any facilities; the growth of cotton in the West Indies had bten virtually extinct for some years, and the British possessions in India Sere the only places left to which they could turn their attention. That this idea was by no means a vain ore was proved by the efforts of the East India Company, fur the last sixty years, to promote the growth of cotton in their territories, at an expense of not less than 100,0001. a-year, and the Select Committee of that House had reported that all the natural circumstances of that country were favourable to the experiment. Ele did not mean to encourage the growth of cotton by depressing any other branch of industry, but he intended hat they should do so by those lawful means of which a Government might properly avail itself for the purpose of stimulating the energies of the people. Now it was an extraordinary fact that notwithstanding all the exertions of the Government of India to encourage the growth of cotton, no satisfactory results had been arrived at; and he wished to know who it was that had been in error— whether that House, the East India Company, or the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, had been in error. He knew not whether the Government would grant the Com mission of Incpiry which he proposed, but if they did not, he thought they were bound to hold out some hope to the country, that they would propose some measure which would he at least as effectual as that which he now proposed for the adoption of the (louse. Now it could al ways be ascertained from the condition of a people whether the Government of their country was favourable or unfavourable to their progress and prosperity. That was fact which could not be too universally known; and no should be able to show that the condition of the cul- ivating population of India was by no means satisfac orv—that they were in a condition of extreme, •abject, and almost universal poverty. He had never yet met with any person acquaint-d with India who denied that the condition of the culti- vating population was unsatisfactory. All testimony wai concurrent on that point. A celebrated Raja, who visited this country twenty years ago, stated in a pam phlet which he published that such was the melancholy condition of the agricultural labourers in India that he always alluded to it with great pain. Three years afterwards a distinguished gentle man connected with India, Mr. Shaw, who was a judge AS well as the author of a standard work on India, said he British Government was not regarded in a favourable ight by the native population, and among the rea- ions which he mentioried as giving rise to thi, state of things, was the gradual impoverishment of the country by a system of taxation and extortion un paralleled in the annals of any country.—(Hear.) rhe Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to quote similar suthorities for his opinion of India, and then went on to state that he did not read these extracts for the purpose of throwing obloquy upon the Government of India, nor did be wish in the slightest degree to exaggerate in colour the evidence he should adduce in support of his motion. He brought that evidence forward because ho intended to found his chief argu ments upon it. He did not say, nor could it be said, that this miserable state _of things was the fault of the people of India themselves, nor did he wish entirely to attribute it to the suits of their government, their fiscal system, or the Idministration of their laws. There was nothing in the tharacter of the people of India which should induce his country to believe that they were not capable of producing large and increasing supplies of cotton, the result of their own industry. He came next, then, to the question of government, and he might ,tats in the beginning he had no hostility to the India Company, no portion of feeling against them mixed with ~ he motives which bad induced him to bring forward this question. He believed he should have from ,hem and the House an acknowledgment that he tied kept himself from bringing charges against them He had contented himself, and should continue to do so, with bringing the simple facts before the notice of the House. Now there were two main points upon which dl the evidence concurred. With regard to the present londition and future prospects of the people of India here was no dispute whatever, but with regard to the internal improvement of the country there was consider able difference of opinion. The Hon. Member read several letters from gentlemen in the civil and military -ervice of the East India Company, from a soldier in a regiment of Fusiliers in India, from Colonel Grant and Nlajor Coffin, describing the wretched means of rued communication in the districts of Ghoozeran and tlhooaerat, the great cotton growing districts of the East. fie would recommend to the attention of the Indian Government the account given by Mr. Dalrymple, in 1798, of the ancient Gentoo Government, and the means adopted by them to ensure a continuity of 'avourable crops. He would also mention a report ,resented to the Governor-General, Lord Delhonsie oy the merchants of India, which, he thought, showed be great inattention which had been shown to the :re quirements of British India, which contrasted strongly with the great and liberal public works of the ancient princes. There was only another document to which he would refer, and that was to the evidence of Mr. Mangles ,afore the Select Committee, who admitted that while the dross revenue derived from India was at least 280,000,0001., something under 4,000,000/. had been spent on internal improvements. He thought he had made out a case against the East India Government for ot attention to the internal improvement of those. provinces. de would call the attention of the House to the manner us which the revenue was raised by assessment on the and. The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to quote the 'vidence of Mr. Gibbons, Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Tucker, o show that the land assessment interfered with the 3ultivation of cotton, and of the produce of the land 4enerally—the tax in many cases rising from fifty to seventy per cent. on the value of the produce. The dumbay merchants said they could not penetrate into the nterior of the country, and the people of the interior .aid they could not reach the out-ports, because of the want of railways to aid them in communicating. As aiming, therefore, that the motion he was about to sub nit would be opposed by the Government, still he thought they bad so far advanced in commercial matters .n that House, that they would not be told by the Right (ion. Gentleman that the merchants of Manchester had ,otter go to Bombay themselves to purchase their cotton. the Right Hon. Gentleman pointed to the two blue looks on the table, but he ought to know that he Committee expressly stated their inability to decide the question from want of sufficient infor mation. It was, indeed, for that reason that he now proposed to have a royal commission to investigate the subject further. A Commission had been appointed for Ceylon„whose modes operandi was described in a report made in the year 1831 by Lord Colebrooke to Lord , Joodrich. When the Commissioners arrived in Ceylon they published their commission in the English, Cinga ese, and Malabar languages. Numerous communica ions were immediately received from all parts of the Aland, and from all villages, classes, and castes, and from hese the Commissioners were enabled to draw up a list f interrogatories, which led in the end to the accumu estion of extensive and valuable information respecting ho cultivation and productions of Ceylon. In the same manner he conceived that a Royal Commission appointed at the present time would be attended with equal advan -ages. That they had the power to alter this state of things there could be no doubt. The 95th section of he Charter Act gave the Board of Control the power of controlling all those Acts of the East India Company which related to the government or revenue of their territory, and the 51st section reserved the power of supervision for Parliament. He would now call their attention to the important subject of Indian finance, which the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tam worth, in a speech which he made in the year 3842, showed the House was intimately connected with that of imperial finance, and it was in that imperial bearing that he contended that Parliament had a direct interest in the objects of his motion. The revenue of the United Kingdom for the last nine years had not exceeded, on an average, the sum of 56,000,0001. per annum; deducting rom which 29,000,0001. for the funded and unfunded lebt, they would have a net disposable fund of 25,000,000!. per annum. Now the Indian Government received a gross sum of 22,500,000/., and the interest on its debts and its dividends did not exceed 500,0001. So that it left a net revenue of 22,000,000/. to the company, against the 25,000,0001. that -belonged to the Govern client of the United Kingdom. Ho could not conceive what the arguments would be, by which it would be at tempted to gainsay the impolicy of the condition of things which he had pointed out. The Noble Lord might say it was proved that cotton could not be had from India, or that the condition of India was satisfac tory, or that a Commission would give no valuable in formation; and he might refuse the Commission. But he (Mr. Bright) had shown that there was a vast amount of industry . in this country sur rounded now by great perils, and that every individual engaged in that industry would support the proposition which he was now making. Let them not say that they felt bound to reject this measure out of a sentiment of delicacy towards the East ladie Com pany. Their Charter Act would expire in 1854, and next year they would have to give notice of their desire to have it renewed. Now Parliament, unfortunately, did not know much about these Indian questions, and hence it would be a great advantage to every Honour able Member to approach the subject, when ready for dis cussion, with the knowledge which would be derived from the report of a Commission. Hence on all grounds he thought the motion worthy of being carried. If it were rejected, it would not be the rejection of the East India Company, nor of the Right Honourable Gentleman the President of the Board of Control, but of the Noble Lord himself who was at the head of the Government. If the Government were incapable of appreciating' the importance of this matter, he would turn to the House of Commons, in the belief that it would sympathise, if not with the interest which this country had ita it, at least with the condition of the countless millions by whom India was peopled.—(Cheers.) Mr. M. GIBSON seconded the motion. Sir JOHN C. HOBHOUSE said he bad to request the indulgence of the House while he attempt , d to recur to the various topics which the Hon. Member had just brought under the consideration of the House, and t the outset he might assure the lion. Member that he was not himself (Mr. Bright) more sensible of the mag nitude and importance of the subject, and of its various bearings, than he was. He conk. assure him that since, and, indeed, before he gave nis notice of motion, his at tention had been drawn to the examination of the ques tion, and he could add to this assurance this further one, that if he (Sir J. Hobhouse) thought the Hon. Member's plan would effect the object it professed to have i n view, he would say at once " take a Royal Com mission and make the best use of it." But the Hon. Member'a motion involved, not only the question which he had so promptly and so ably brought forward, viz.. the beat mode, of securing a large and constant supply of cotton, but to a great extent also, the industrial and OCOWILIiC3I condition of the people of India.' Who Honourable Gentleman admitted that the E tst India Company were not to blame. Since tie year 1783 there were reports o❑ this subject, which were contained in five hundred and fifteen pages, of which a summary had been made by Dr. Boyle, from which it appeared that the greatest attention had been paid to this subject since that period, and, in fact, from the year 1788 to 1839, there had been eight different measures to promote the cultivation of cotton, and this course was pursued up to 1839, when Lord Auckland esiablished his experiment by sending ten American planters to the country fur the purpose of improving the cultivation. Four were sent to the presidency of Madras, three to Bengal, and three to Bombay. Even last year the company offered a re ward of 5,000 rupees for improved cotton cleaning. Then there was the Committee which sat in 1847 and 1848, of which the lion. Gentleman was chairmati, and certainly there was no objection made to the appointment of that Committee. It made its report in July. The Hon. Gentleman took no exception to the evidence, but he Ras not pleased with the report, and he considered at it was a fair reduction from the evidence. It cer- ;ainly did not recommend a Royal Commission, as the H n: Gentleman had now proposer]. It is true the Committee expressed their apprehension tbat the growth of cotton would fall into its old course if Government relaxed its efforts to improve it. Now, he would ask, why had not the capital and intelligence of this country been applied to the cul tivation of cotton, as it had been to that of other pro. ductions of India? The Honourable Gentleman re- sorted to the vexed question of the land assessment to account for it, but several of the witnesses who had been examined by the Committee stated that it had nothing to do with the question. He could only deduce one fact upon this point—that the Committee did not report upon it all. The Committee, however, did justice to the East India Company, and he hoped the House would do the same. It should be observed that an improvement had been made with regard to the assessment which was now taken on the character of the soil, instead of the na- tare of the produce. The company were making great efforts for the promotion of the cultivation, and were alive to its importance; but he doubted whether we could compete with American cotton; still every effort should be made to improve the cultivation in India. There was something in the produce which prevented such competition, an opinion which was confirmed by tho testimony of Doctor Boyle, though he was acquainted with the sentiments of Mr. Crawford upon the subject; and after quoting that gentleman's opinion, he said he thought the cotton of India, on account of the shortness of the staple and the quantity of dirt it contained, was not so fit for British manufactures as the cotton of America. The dirt in India cotton amounted to 25 per cent., while in tha of America it was not more than 121 per cent. There was the same difference in the comparative produce per acre. In India it was fifty to a hundred pounds an acre, while in America it was from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds an acre. Besides, a great deal of the produce of cotton in India was required for clothing the population, which amounted to 120 millions, so that they would never expect a large supply from that country. Other products, such as indigo and opium, had greatly increased, and there was no reason for sup posing but the same result would take place with regard to cotton, if it was profitable. The land assessment was not the obstacle. The ryots were not the serfs the Hon. Gentleman represented. The Hon. Gentleman charged the East India Company with neglecting the roads and irrigation. He would say nothing with regard to what had been done towards the formation of railways. The Hon. Member for Westbury had the other night fully ex plained that; but with respect to irrigation, the Company had expended, in the presidency of Bengal, 586,001. for canals; besides, there was the estimate for the Ganges Canal, which amounted to a million.—(Hear.) And in Bombay there had been an expenditure of 230,0001., be sides an annual sum of 50,0001. in clearing canals, and another annual expenditure in the Punjaub of 50,0001. for the purpose of irrigation. The Hon. islember com plained that larger sums had not been expended, but he should consider the great expenditure occasioned by the wars they had been recently engaged in; which, however, it was to be hoped would not be required again, and that a larger balance would in future remain for these purposes. Another point urged was the condition of the people. No doubt in India, as in other countries, there would be found great distress. The cultivation of cotton had greatly increased according to the state ment of Mr. Hamilton Bell. The increase was in the north-west provinces, and there the condition of the people had greatly improved—wages had increased. The people were better fed, and this improvement would lead to their requiring better clothing. The peo ple were indisposed to make accumulations, except for their marriages and the expenses of their religion. The Right Hon. Gentleman read largely from a private letter of Mr. Frier, to prove that even marvellous changes for the better had taken place in the Sattara district in the Deccan. After an absence of some years, the writer could scarcely recognize the people, so much were they improved in condition and circumstances. That district had bad no special advantages. The whole was the effect of good revenue administration. There bad officers could be found he did not deny, but he could make the same admissions with respect to other departments. Generally speaking there was every sign of improve ment morally and socially. The abominable practice of Thuggee, which no former Government had attempted to grapple with, was now almost wholly done away with, Life and property were generally and permanently secure. That never was the case before. The Right Hon. Gentle man read from a very learned work by Sir Henry Elliot up in Mohammedan history. In the preface to that book Sir Henry had asserted, that within the last half century the English had done more fur India than had ever been done in ten times the period before. Now, with reference to the cotton commissioners, if any gentleman went from Manchester, they would have to spend five years in In dia before they learned what they had to do, and then they must go to the servants of the company for the in formation they required. They kcal, in fact, at the pre sent time every information that these gentlemen could require. He did notsee, there fore, what a Commission could do more than the company had done, or were wil ling to do. If the Manchester capitalists would ensure a certain price, the growers in India would ensure them any amount of supply of that article.—(Hear.) There was, he would remind the Hon. Gentleman, a commercial association in Manchester,which bad fora long time been in communication with the East India Company respect ing the best mode of improving the quality and increas ing the quantity of cotton grown in India. -The board of that association a ere opposed to this suggested Royal Commission, entertaining grave doubts as to its useful operation. The experienced members of that board were inclined, from experience, to trust to the efforts of the East India Company. The Hon. Member, therefore, did not represent the whole commercial in terests of Manchester. Ho represented the Manchester Chamber of Commerce—a very important part, no doubt, but not the whole. Then with respect to the commissions sent to the other parts of the world, if in quiry was made it would be found that they were newly acquired territories, and that their object was to inves tigate the laws and customs of the people. Ho objected to the supersession of the East India Company by the issue of this Royal Commission. It would be implying a reflection upon all that the company had done for the promotion of this great object. What more could a Commission do that had not been done? They could ask questions, but questions had already been asked. The nook contained thousands of questions, and both the Governors-General of India and the officers of the company were a illing to do all that was desired for the advancement of cotton cultivation. As neither the Government at home, nor the officers and servants of the company abroad, had neglected their duty in this respect, he did recommend the Hon. Gentleman not to press his motion.—(Hear.) Sir EDWARD COLEBROOKE said he admitted the difficulty of forming a Commission such as that sug gested, without the concurrence of the East India Com pany and the Government, but be would suggest that these Commissioners should not come altogether from this country. The servants of the company might form an important element in the Commission, and if they entered into an inquiry with a proper spirit, no doubt everything anticipated as desirable would be obtained. The Hon. Gentleman who had brought forward this motion had spoken too sweepingly respecting the results of the Indian revenue system. In the north-west the settlements had been periodical, and the instructions under which he had acted in India as a revenue officer when carried out, did not leave the land valueless. Far from it. At the same time, the revenue had im proved 75 per cent. Up to last quarter the value of land had doubled. The Government were guilty of gross neglect with respect to the internal communication in India, and therefore hoped that the House would take this matter into their serious consideration, as such neg lect tended not only to the injury of the British empire, but to the colonies individually, which, he regretted to say, was a source of complaint with other colonies as well as this, to which he more particularly referred, for he felt assured that such a line of policy tended to inter fere with the revenue of this great empire. . Mr. NEWDEGATE could easily believe that as far as the internal administration of India was concerned., there was a great improvement; but locking at the diffi culty of communication between the interior and the coast, he thought that the Hon. Gentleman Mr. Bright need not look for any great supply of cotton from that country. He (Mr. Newdegate) thought it deserving of consideration to inquire what were the causes which operated to produce the falling off of the production or supply of cotton from India. The question was worthy of inquiry. He believed the real cause was attribut able to the low price given in the markets of this coun try for it. He had a letter in his possession from a large and respectable house in the trade, which would show that, and prove that the discouragement given to the cultivation of the article was owing to the low prices given by the spinners for it. The Hon. Member read returns which had been furnished him in support of his argument; and then directed the attention of the House to the article of sugar, with a view of showing that the alteration of the tariff in this country, and the throwing open cf the trade, had caused large tracts of cotton-growing countries* in the United States to be di verted from the production of that article to that of en g'-tr. How, he would ask, were they to get out of the difLulty ? He thought it would be wise in the House to reimposo one penny per pound on cotton, as a muses of getting out of the scrape into which the Free-traders had brought the country, for as the Free-traders had got the country into a scrape, so they must get:it out of t Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON said that the tranel . n co ton engrossed a capital of 70,000,0001 or 80,00000:1; and gave employment t 02,000 .000 peop le in the British i o 6 l l ? fhey were chiefly dependent on one country—the Untie d. States—forin possession their chief He waa, however, would show that India affor ded not only an ample but a n f supply ia d oonfbtthe the article. authority, rich field for the cultivation of cotton, and that, if pro• perly attended to, the cultivation of the article would become so profitable in that country , as to render England, for its supply of it, independent of the U n it e d Ststes.—(H e ar, hear.) Ther e w ere, it w as true, diffi euitieo in the - w Y+ but they were of a nature which 134- LEEDS, JUNE 18. STOCH EXCHANGE. —Business in this share market was very flat to -day. The transactions were as follow :—Great Western, 59—York and North Midland, 17—Caledonian, 80i, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—We are informed the Go vernment have sent out orders to Commodore Martin to detach from his squadron the Indefatigable, 50, Captain Smart, K.H., to Cuba. It is also rumoured that the squadron of Commodore Martin will come to this rendezvous to revictual and re fit in July next. The Fairy royal yacht, Master-Commander Welch, under the especial charge of Captain the Right Hon. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, G.C.H., embarked her Majesty and the Court at o,borne this afternoon, at a quarter-past 2, fn- Gosport, en route to London. Her Majesty was received with the usual demonstrations of loyalty and respect, afloat and ashore, especially at South , ea, where a vast multitude was assembled to wit- ~. .._ .... ness the military spectacle of " Waterloo-day," and left Gosport at about 3 o'clock in a special train, under the charge of Mr. Cornelius Stovin, the general manager of the South-Western Railway. WATERLOO DAY. This day, being the anniversary of the battle of Wa terloo, was celebrated in this garrison in a manner no place in the kingdom, except the metropolis or Phcenix park, could surpass. In the morning the troops, to a number close upon 3,000, took up position on the cod mon at Southsea for review. About noon Lord Frede rick Fitzclarence presented the inhabitants, through the Mayor and Corporation, with statues of Nelson and Wellington, to ornament the esplanade adjoining Hol lingsworth-room, Southsea-beach, whereon they have been placed. This ceremony was accompanied by a feli citous address from his Lordship, and a becoming re sponse from the trustees of his generosity. At the same time the Corporation presented Lord Gough with an ad dress upon his visit to the town, which was cordially received and courteously acknowledged by the veteran General; aftrr which the troops formed brigade on the common, for the presentation of new colours to the 28th Foot by Lady Augesta Fitzclarence. The new colours were consecrated in the usual manner by the Chaplain- General to the Forces. After this ceremony the troops were brigaded by Lord Gough, in the presence of many thousands of spectators. At three o'clock the soldiers were marched up to the water's edge, to fire a feu-de-joie as the Queen approached on board the Royal yacht Fairy. After the yacht had been skilfully steered through the channel marked out for her, the troops returned to the common, and were reviewed for the pleasure of the million. They were afterwards indulged with rustic sports, for prizes awarded from the band and purse of Lord Fitzclarence, which yielded indescribable amuse ment...At six o'clock the inh a bit a nts gave his Lordship a banquet, presided over by the Mayor, and Mr. Coun cillor George Sheppard, as vice-chairman. The affair was a highly enthusiastic one, and will long live, we have no doubt, in the memories of those who partook of it. A display of fireworks on the common in the evening was the concluding feature in the events of this " Waterloo day;' shanks twthe 'Fi Sir Francis Boring lINE' 18.—Naval Cadet Richard Sheep flag-ship at Woolwich. Wo nmsuu j APPOINTMENT. issued the followinmg did not hold a levee to-day, having following notice:—"Sir Francis Baring is 1850." Wednesday, obliged to change Tuesday, the 18th, . t t: day of receiving officers from the 19th. Dated June 12, Rear-Admiral J. W. D. Du d Lord, held a levee to-day, (184 Thomas H. which was C. 13 ., First Naval following officers:— was attended by the Captains—William P. Stanley ( 18 38) and the Hon. Edward Plunket (1846). Commanders —Thomas Challoner Christian (1846), Melville G. H. W. G. NV. Brown (1848). Rosy (1849), and Lieutenants —R. A. Newnham, George W. Rabbet William Thorp, John M. Cooke, J. P. Thorburn' Andrew R. Dunlap , E. E. Maunsell, J. W. Vau ghan ' Shute, B. Piers, F. J. Protheroe, and W. C. Bainbridge. Paymaster and Purser—G. H. Moubry. Clerk—E. J. Foster. The following notice has just been issued at the Ad miralty:—" The examination of officers on subjects con nected with the steam-engines (in conformity with the Circular No. 57 of the Bth December, 1849), will take place at the Royal Naval College on Monday, the 7th of October, and all officers wishing to attend the same must give ten days' previous information of the same to Captain Chads. "Admiralty, June 14." A deputation, including Mr. Greenall, M.P., Mr. Bulkeley Hughes , M.P , Mr . Leigh, Mr. Webster, and Mr._ Wyatt, had an interview . with the Commissioners of Railways yesterday, at their office in the Board of Trade. WESTMINSTER SEWAGE. Lord DUNCA—Nro-se and said, that seeing the Noble Lord, the Member for Plymouth in his place, he wishes to ask him several questions on an unsavoury subject, namely, when the sewage of Westminster is brought into the new cesspool in P a rliament-gardens, where the Com missioners intend to pump it to: where the outlet to the new sewer now constructing is to be; and why the Corn missioners of Sewers did not commence at the end nearest the outlet : what the total estimate of the new line of sewer amounts to; and whether there is any ob jection to lay the estimate on the table of the House ee Commons : whether the new line of drainage is suffi ciently deep for the requirements of the Commissioner, of the Westminster improvements, and to drain the entire of the Westminster district ? Lord EBRINGTON said it was not sewage water that the steam engine had been erected to pump out but water which issued from the adjoining land and col lected in a deep cut that had been made for the purpose of erecting a new sewer. As regarded the other ques tion, he replied that the water was to be pumped into the sewer in Great George-street, which was on a higher level, in order to enable the workmen to continue their operations. Mr. GREENE asked the Noble Lord whether it was intended to carry the proposed sewer from the poim where the steam-engine was placed, at the corner of Palace-yard, through Whitehall-gardens, to an outle. into the Thames, in Scotland yard? It such were du intention of the Commissioners of Sewers, what was their object in carrying it to so great a distance, when a shorter outlet, and, it might be presumed, at least at good a fall might be obtained near Westminster-bridge; and whether, if an outlet were at once male for the new sower near Westminster-bridge, the carrying off the sewage, by means of pumping it up, might not be alto gether avoided? Lord EBRINGTON replied that the wall which was to be erected at the outlet of the sewer in Scotland yard was to be of a temporary nature, because the Corn missioners of Sewers were desirous that the Thames should not be polluted by the sewage wate' of the metropolis any longer than was necessary. He was not competent to give an opinion as to the su periority of the plan which bad been adopted for the erection of these sewers, but it had been approved of by men who were capable of judging as to what was mob , advisable under the circumstances. Sir DE LACY EVANS wished to ask the Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Greene) whether he coulr give the House any ihforrnation regarding the three great cesspools which it was said had been oonstructe under the new Houses of Parliament, and also whethet he could lay on the table a copy of the controversy whici hounderstood had taken place between Mr. Barry an( the Commissioners of Sewers regarding the drainage o the new Houses? Lord ASHLEY said there was only one cesspool, though there were many tributaries. In 1843 a corre spondence took place between the consulting engineer of the sewers and the architect, but he could not sa) whether or no Government would consent to lay it or the table. lilr. BANKES wished to know if the steam-engin, now constructing in Parliament-gardens would be buil to consume its own smoke. icount EBRINGTON was understood to reply in ,he negative. GREECE. Mr. B. OSBORNE wished to put a question to the Hon. Baronet the Member for Radnorshire relative t' the affairs of Greece. The Hon. Baronet, from time t, time, had moved for papers relating to the Greek busi. mess, which bad recently been laid on the table of the House. Now, he wished to ask the Hon. Baronet when he intended to draw the attention of the House to the subject ?—(Cheers.) Sir J. WALSH really must correct a mistake the Hon. Member for Middlesex had fallen into. He had never moved for any papers whatever, but be had on one or twe occasions put is question across the table on the subject . He did not, however, think that his having done si necessarily obliged him to undertake the serious task o bringing the matter formally before the House. GROWTH OF COTTON IN INDIA. Mr. BRIGHT then rose to move that an humble ad. dress be presented to her Majesty, praying her West) to appoint a commission to proceed to India, to inquirt into the obstacles which prevent an increased growl' , of cotton in tbat cou n t r y, an d to report upot any circumstances which may injuriously a ff e ct the economical and industrial condition of th e native population, being cultivators of the soi within the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras. He telt certain that the House would not require him to offer any apology for bringing forward th. subject to which his motion referred; for at the first glance he felt persuaded that every Member to , the House must acknowledge the importance of the subject which he was about to bring under their !motley. Whatever might be the fate of the resolutionwhich he was about to propose—whether he succeeded in obtain ing this commission or failed, at least there woulc be but one opinion in the House with regarc to the importance to which it referred, namely,. the ob t iining of an ad equa t e su pply of the raw mater ial of one of the greate s t text il e ma nufactures of this country. The trade emp l oye d di rect ly or indirectly probably not much less than 2,000,000 of the popula tion of the Unitea Kingdom, and it employed an amount of capital far greater than wa s t o b e f o und engaged n . any other of the manuf actur i ng tra d es o f the United K ingdom. That i trade also p ro d uce d a ver y much larger amount of the whole exports o f t h e United Kingdom than did any other b ranc h of our national industry, and that had , as a matter of course , a .very great influenci over the i m p or t s . The raw material on which that ca pital was engaged, in the wor kin g u p of which 2,000,000 of our population obtained their i livelihood, was a sub ject not of l oca l, b u t o f national importance. The whole import of cotton into this country in 1800 was not more than 56,000,0001b5. weight. It had increased ver y rapidly, an d in 1849 it had reached the enormous amount of 754,000,000165. weight. Our sup plies of this material were drawn first of all fr om th e United St a t es of America ; s!condly, in point of quantity, f rom th e British possessions in India; thirdly, 4 from B raz il ; f ourt hly, from Egypt; and fifthly, from the British West Indies. Taking the import of the last fi ve years, th e U n i te d St a tes of America had furnished 78i per cent • of th e c otton consumed here , the East Indies about 10 per cent., t h e empire of Brazil about 7 pe r cent., Egypt 34 per cent., and the British West Indies, about per cent. The increase had been enormous in the 'Tufted States; it had be en very little, if at all, f rom British India; it had been very large from Egypt; almost t s auonary from Brazil ; and in the East Indies the supply had fallen almost to nothing, We derived 784 per cent. from the United States, and although the increase there had been very large, y e t t h e crop was a n excee dingly fluctuati ng that periodi ca lly tilt cotton trad, e o f this country suf fered great difficulty and embarrassment, either from a real or trom L menaced insufficiency of supply. In 1838 the crop was only , 1,360,000 .bales ; in 1848 it was 2 . ,700,000 bales; in 1849 it was 2,000,000, vary . ing thus 700,000 or 800,000 in only two crops, or a falling off at least of 25 per cent. These facts were sufficient to show the House that it was their bounden duty to take some steps to relieve the manufacturing interests from the effects of these fluctua tions,. There was another po int, too, to which he m us t call their attention, and that was, that the whole of the cotton was the production of slave labour. Now, with. out going any further, he thought they were qu i te justified in saying that the ins titution of sla ver% would not last much longer, and in whatever way it waa disturbed, there was great fear that for soul) time tish enterprise and native industry in India, would over. come. The cotton plant was an exotic in 'lndite an d 11 . 1 the spree) of sixty five years, they had it by retur n ' that 775,000,000 lbs. of the article were produced, thus showing that under the application of industry, ° 6l3 `„ ta nt skill, and enterprise, cotton in that country m i g ht only be greatly productive in quantity, but greatlY en hanced in quality. The question was one of del terest to the people of this country, and he saw D 0 snot son why the laeouririg population of India should 13° f be employed and served materially by the cultivation ° the article. He thought it must be quite clear to t he House that their conquests in India had been most pensive, and little available for the interest s of this country. The war in Affgbanistan was attendee Nitta vast expenses, and great sacrifice of human lite , what did this country profit by it ? Nothing wua, ever. The war in the Punjaub was, in like man ee ,,q most costly in blood and treasure, and t h e conquo t "e the country was not made available for the p ur p oses industry, production, trade, or commerce. In 01°5 wars the loss of human lite was great, and the exPetls° incurred vast; bet the conquests made were hitherto barren of all profitable account.--(Hear, hear.) Ther war in Siude had not nearly paid its expenses; the wat in the Punjaub had not done so by five or six thousa,ats pounds u-year. But admitting that all these coneuebe had been profitable, they had no doubt entailed u P °D,t company future expenditure in their having to edge, the affairs of those new provinces, and, ther efjr a ' l no opportunity ought to be lost in acquiring additior.v.; means of rnestieg this increasing expenditure. IDd Right Honourable Baronet the President of the . 13°itr e Control had read a letter from an assoeial: in Manchester ageinst sending a Commission to In e l- e in the terms of the motion, but he confessed that P t considered that letter rather an evidence for thane 4l iti b s o such Commission. It was not fair that they s l 7 be compelled to abide by the evidence of the servants oi the East India. Company in respect of this matter. 0 doubt, a difficulty might arise in finding such me n e t could make themselves understood by all the differ e - b tribes in India and ascertain their opinions on the e s s me ject; but no doubt such men could be obtained. °°--iit years ago the East India Company themselves sent ° le ten American planters to India, in order to inve o t i t g h tl e y the matter, and while it was no doubt the fact that the found the merchants of India too much engrossea ' D o h management of their own affairs to give ther n f r - of assistance in that investigation, yet, after manY Yse e e ti e e. strict inquiry and practical investigation there, the of tlemen had come to the conclusion that the natin t e India knew as much, some of them more, about the ; tivation of cotton than the people of America theni se „,;: t e did. The question, thee, resolved itself into a 7 - f matter of government. Let the GovernolenA'; India countenance the matter, and remove those o f culties which lay in the way, and the culdvati° cotton in India would increase to an enormous o,,te" 0 , but he had no hesitation in saying that the len"„' f was one of the greatest drawbacks to the cultivatio`; cotton in that country. He would, therefore, eal l „%st the House to give the subject due consideration. not a party question, but one which interested l y country as well as India. And, believing that a °bee mission proceeding to India, and fully investigating e , 0 far the cultivation of cotton there was practicable, v'et• to what were the difficulties in the way of its being ea tivated, would be of much public benefit, he would s'. po . rt the motion(Hear Sir JAMES WEIR HOGG said he admitted, ow h the Hon. Member for Manchester and the Hon. ge ef who had just sat down, the inestimable importaneedes having a supply of cotton from India, so as to Ir v( ' this country independent of a supply from the °lee States, and if it was possible that the East Indio co ; gt pany were actuated by interested feelings, it w °ll ' eed once be seen that in this matter they had as strong te r deep an interest as any manufacturer in ManDb,rie' possibly could have.—(Hear, hear.) But he had t ", be quire of the Hon Member for Manchester what the wanted ? Was it information that he wanted of his subject ? Why he had that information, an'e t er speech proved that he had it in considerable se o o • 0 dance. The Hon. Gentleman asked for a 00 0 mittee some time ago. That Committee it. granted, and the Hon. Gentleman presided aeroid He gelled every witness before that Committee win gad speak to India and the cultivation of cotton there , bed that Committee reported, but the Hon. Gentlenis tl A s ot not founded his motion upon that report. He " - t here done so, because in the report of that C o mmittee m in' was no mention of the appointment of a Royal te, ° :ere' sion to be sent to India. There was, he believed, ;: e h 0 cedeut, and only one, for the appointment of e" o es• body. That was in the days of Clive, when a C D° Or sion—but it was not called a commission then, thueeose pointed mere called surveyors—when surveyell Thefe appointed to go out and investigate the mattes t e ye surveyors were appointed and away they went , be . e• ship in which they sailed having foundered at sec' $e thing more was ever heard of them,—(Hear, hear.e, 111 0 was always ready to pay the utmost respect htv enter , opinion of so large a manufacturing town as MO D : . O° C but it was fitting that the House should ka°hee,ter, although the Hon. Gentleman represented Mial e l l" th e he did not represent the opinions of inpoi people of Manchester. Now his Righ t reetr D i Friend the President of the Board of :eel''' . read a letter from the chairman of the Com'oeir Association cf Manchester repudiating the 0 01:1 ,:„ttb a t : tbt of cotton n in i em o rtehaf Commission onratnhye , op a trh n o d emr h ob e t c od o ny u drif the stthaetceo:ctnie; t ies o to, o d c y o ft tn a thadoud h donein Indias The East India Company sent all th e i r ex peri°lo3ftg 10 l be them before they were aware of the e x i s tence Chamber of Commerce, and the president of t hat iloe' ciation (Mr. Turner) was the greatest consumer o-e del cotton in England. That association, therel °l. ,i' the'. Glared that the East India Company had done tiv e elifl it was in their power to do to promote the g r k ° ,ess k r cotton in that country. The Hon. Gentlema n 7 1 ," se"; that he would not read Indian newspapers O il ject, as they were on all rides now acting on t," - . be e ; principle; he would read the Manchester Gor d 't the Hon. Gentleman knew what was in that P e a r b e e e °- knew that it denounced him and his motion. Cote: (Sir J. Hogg) last was chairman of the East Ind 00 pany a deputation came to him from Manchester e at o d subject, who talked about petitioning the subject, but he told them were they,, S teb_, li° o some of their capitalists over to India and 'it r f , - 4 p a rlia o3- 0 oe b agencies there, to purchase the cotton wbell if lfr oo grown, and ate that it was properly Pa e-e ie 1:1- c sent to the coast, they would do more e - . o lb e e o year to promote the growth of cotton in India t' oe t h v io would do in a dozen by petitioning Perlin sad "se the subject. Why did not the Hon. Gentlerat: es friends send out agents to India? No don`fr e fq;es Right Hon. Baronet the President of the I3oar e " 9 tilree trol had said, the report of the Committee on tir o II ; 1 1 was a controversy, but there was one noi r) " ire II which all the witnesses' examined agreed, 01, 1 to the establishment of European agents in' ~ .:6 0 ' ,0 T ie ? that the cotton was properly dressed, and se,!'",,e proper state. Why, .then, bad net that ar e een t 'to W by. the gentlemen of Manchester had r1° 1 1., - 5 00;tet enterprise of the public press, for when they v' wo rlu collect inforenationehey sent to-all parts of th e P l ed the purpose of obtaining it. Seventy years America supplied. the world with indigo, and iL ro t E d to that the soil of India would not do so, but Ol e ' gre!,"i e eti peens went to India, established agencies, ilau„ - , tel","01 take it when grown, and in 1830 there was D : re cle9;o o sterling of European capital invested in tha t ; e ses I : t ittr India now supplied the world with indigo. If tils- ton e ei with indigo why not with cotton? It was th, e eia" D ot opium, which the Hon. Member who spoke la! b oo 0 . East India Company had a monopoly of, but 1 1111 e, tvo'dis, the case. At the time the cultivation of in le I li stbe troduceci no European could bold or lease len foe 0 , 0 0 or go through the country without the Per rDigs teg e s tre J East India Company; but they had this adyaiDeesed,ote, now they could go to whatever part theY P the re bo a hold or lease land as they pleased. There was:twat' l 0 none of those difficulties which the indigo sP ee e - e 01, to deal with. The lion. Member for the T f a w d - i e lea to of had said that if they gave the people of l e pea r ;be nothing they would not cultivate cotton for Ab e f Ore Manchester. That was holding out a b,tette,t' e be e ) growth of cotton, which he thought wout a u e s. eee t :,ee the Hon. Member for Manchester. The P ft dro d g_ a f. had also said that the land-tax was the g re h - e e ba D to the growth of cotton there; but on the to l o t 0 Mill, the great political economist, had st be ing t er t the very perfection of taxation, the system t ot s erf ; certain portion of the rent of the ' soil era: the eatilitieee meet the exigencies of the Government va n d cra pri' Then as to roads, the Hon. Member o f 0 1 %30' that there were no roads; but at Goojerat, ~e e s in ;dill , cipal cotton districts, there was not better Lu te % in ' f p With respect to the oppression of the 1 0 " ge ntle ° , no doubt oppression occurred—but vv e h li e t ve or ' i l.eso l l that House who possessed a property at "" o f opP e et o sand acres, had not had similar instaneeseedergor tb on their estates, by means of agents or l'._rceets ov er oi He was glad, however, to know that the ir to re eso e v ot to: East India Company did all in their P iec sog ° O le o redress those oppressions. As to the Pr we , noa r T it eet e in India, he believed that more cot to o `` ee ttonel de ti4 there than was manufactured by Seethwtiat a P ° ,, P e s f t et l of Manchester for all the world. ed theta se 'egl iw ei there was in India, and they elotu e en ding on t er. t unda ov her row Aesoete fo ete r ' i cotton manufacture, nor were they d e P e t hey . 0 - - for a market,for they had China sale. The President of the Como ne t h e grOwt b „ ° o est! c e, Manchester said they should irnPr °ve t o would ll e ' A ete, l .,o in India, or else it would be of none t a f a iled ~ entr e e a high price, unless the cotton all ot f o r the' s , Or o . So that they had absolutely no mar lace, tol d 1, eir Dtl er cotton, unless such a failure took p to 0 0 , to expect the people there would,. ,n b u toe Ce ee e stances, grow cotton when they cou , l i et e aet , jo_ to ee ..o port themselves and their family ? o f tea, ,11 bee pany tried experiments in the groWleg„_ they succeeded, gave it up for the p i Y o a s OP O J° t ee ° so; and they were prepared to do . so co to pe if Manchester merchants could be ndu y ; 3. f beel v ol o they were precluded by Act of rarliam" 0 10' eV to superintend its cultivation. The ik tet uitt e ,;et read a passage from the report of the c arry &he t ',t log that European capital would slot?! be lief cultivation of cotton, and expressed bla, e tut be t,` oo , time had arrived when such efforts cou_i r ' ete ee, `', lt eisl with success. He earnestly hoped, th' ieb toe . 0 k l i eg Hon. Gentleman would not ores , his °p w itb b l o oli t o o Mr. WILSON PATTEN said he Batt the C° 00 11 31 i0 Friend who last addressed the Hollie, on c f . A O O, B and certainly that Committee was unanimous: J o r Clot P oe orOW t" • • that the greatest difficulty to the . e st° do India was the want of internal constralatelied ono, hoped soon to see a proper remedy comma pl i e d ti n 0 " 00 government of the Noble Lord who now .e., et ire e es tioe f tO' Mr. MANGLES said, upon the el" ,ems ot e el ist revenue, that it was one of the best Ile, re eert i eey th injurious o v u e s r the Vg oo . t, eo t Manchester. In this opinion be was !T ed to P OO l O O O ewtl9(sctisnva'tntrtibdu'teadnitiobaill by th e _ OO otitis Pee' eminent authority, Mr. Mill, who a° of India. He should like the 110 Use tO / o . ' if lOvr knowledge of political economy saeragae oLt the actual amount of the laud a Bo t:orotig_:::01)-?.0: said to 1 of Botnt In the %err, an obstruct Colur port th for a C, Mission• ernm.l auspicio Mernhei they go , Member vernmel Mr. 1 out elici questior thought by with Than Mr. I from la Majosty or not i' harbour lion; an spited f tention ty's Ga posed in tent foi result it Mr. ] repeal Victoria biting t] the trap than th trodncel the Poi the Post be no of Acts; bi their du ground prohibit Ashley) his own thousan Colon that the zees for did not portion knowlec inflicted the publ Inerchat loss of c much (Hea have I ton Nob! tend eepts oppo the t. and( tnigh Sund Byste of it 01 CR} be al 1 40d1 in t then then the'