The Sun. — London, England, 1851-03-28 00:00:00

yam " r .q, b lot it ton 44 '. _ ...law SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held to-day at the Freemason? Tavern; Mr. Duncan in the chair. The proceedings were commenced by the confirmation of a resolution empowering the directors to confirm the forfeiture of certain shares, of which notice had been given; also to empower the directors to continue their proceedings for recovery of arrears of calls by prosecu tion or otherwise, with authority to conclude arrange ments with individual defaulters. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the adoption of the report, assured the meeting that the directors had, during the last year, paid particular attention to the traffic of the company, and to the working expenses, the effect of which was that the revenue had increased 15 per cent., while the working expenses had only in creased 10 per cent. The increase of revenue had taken place entirely in the goods' department. They had had much competition to strive against both in the lines of railway which had lately been established on both c °oats, and in the .team navigation which was now carried on with so much success; this bad, no doubt, greatly impeded the increase of the traffic but, on the whole, the Caledonian Railway, if put into com parison with other lines, would show quite as great an increase as any other railway. The chief line they had to dread was the Dumfries and Carlisle Railway; but an agreement had been effected between the two which he thought would be found to work well. The most gloomy part of the company's prospects was the finance department. The directors, however, had ap plied themselves with energy and perseverance to the consideration' of these difficulties, and he hoped in course of time, when they had got their arrangement Bill through the Legislature, they would be enabled to surmount them. The directors, however, had very great difficulties to contend with, which might be judged of from the fact that 76 lawsuits had been instituted against the company, which were now in progress. Great opposition had cer tainly been offered to the second reading of the arrangement Bill, but, as he thought, the argu ments used against it were entirely fallacious, and he was quite certain that it was founded on just and reasonable principles. The fact was those parties who had opposed it most strongly were precisely those who would benefit in the greatest degree from its pass ing; and they were doing themselves the greatest injury by their course of proceeding. He thought:that the ex ertions of the directors during the last year deserved the fullest confidence from the shareholders, and he called upon them for their aid and forbearance.—(Cheers.) Captain PLusisrri seconded the adoption of the re port, because he considered that it afforded a complete proot of the beneficial nature of the policy which had been pursued by the directors. He recommended unanimity among the general body of the shareholders, and though the time was far distant, yet he had no doubt that prosperity would revisit them; but the chief thing would be unanimity, and without that the Bill, which was to rescue them from bankruptcy, never would pass successfully through the Legislature. Mr. J. WHEELER wished to repudiate any insinuation which might be drawn from the Gallant Captain's speech, that the l.arty to which he belonged, the pre ference shareholders, were opposed to unanothity. Still, how,ver. he must say, that the zeal which had been manifested for the pr e ference shareholders was new-born, since it was only the other day that it was proposed to reduce their dividends from i to 2i per cent. Mr. FENTON also wished to contradict any odium which might have gone abroad as to any coalition existing be tween the preference and guarantee shareholders. Mr. BAILLIE COCHRANE, recommended that the blt+ernese of feeling on both sides ehould be laid aside, because ho was sure that it was by that meats only that their vexata questio could be settled with advantage to both partie'. Mr. LAMOND, on the part of the guarant , e share holders, handed in a protest aAainst the adoption, in order that it might. not gore lore the committee that they ac quv:icr>d in the et , .!ernents contained in the report. Ater further discussion the report was adopted. The CHAIRMAN then ie . posed a resolution to empower th,; dlrecto , s to present apc ion to Parliament praying for the abolition of the tax on parengers, which was seconded by Mr. Campbell, and carried unanimously. A resolution for the ers , ;ation of Sunday traffic was then proposed, but negatived almost unanimously, and the meeting serrated with a vote of thanks to the Chairman. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seet upon the Woolsack at Five o'clock. FE PITIONS. _ . . The Archbishop of YORK presented several petitions against Papal aggression. * Lord REDESDALE presented several petitions against the emancipation of the Jews. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented a peti tion from a railway company in Ireland praying for an alteration in the law regulating the rating of railwa) a. The Marquis of BRE ADALBA NE presented several petitions against Papal aggression, •aud praying for a withdrawal car the grant to May nootie Lerd STANLEY prescneel zeveral petitions against Papal aggr , sf , h)n. L Ord BROIJGHAI'd presented a petition from Leith, praying ter a suspension of the operation of the Mercan tile Marine Act. PAPAL 'AGGRESSION. Earl FITZWILLIAM, in presenting several peti tions againot Papal aggression, took the opportunity of smtiug that the intensity of the popular feeling on this subject had increased, and under these eireuarltanees he was astonished that those who had charge of the BM on ths subject in the other House should have abaudontel those clauses which were calculated to make the provision of the Bill eff'c tual. There had been no division which indicated any desire on the part of Parliament to have those clauses expunged from the Bill. There was an opinion abroad that the restraints imposed on the propagation of the Boman Catholic religion had been removed from a disposition to Remaeize, and be was sure that if something were not dune to allay the popular feeling, the agitation of the autumn would be renewed, and an intolerant spirit excited in the mind of the people. He hoped that the Bill would be passed in its original form, that it would be rendered effective, and that it would be passed without delay. Parliament had not been sufficiently alert in giving ex pression to the desires of the people and in vindicating the authority of the Crown. He was satisfied that the es:ablishment of these sees with territorial titles would have great effect in spreading the Roman Catholic reli gion, and it was against this he wished to guard; and, therefore, he wished the Bill should be passed in its entirety, and that he regretted the omission cf the clauses which the Government proposed to omit. He thought it was their duty to legislate upon the subject in such a man ner as should vindicate the honour of the Crown, and therefore he felt strongly the necessity of preventing those measures which the Papal agents had concocted for the purpose of extending tile rule of the Roman Ca tholic Church in this country. The Earl of CARLISLE would not follow the example of his Noble Friend in commenting upon a Bill which was under discussion in another place, but would content himself with presenting several petitions against what was commonly called Papal aggression. The Earl of ABERDEEN had received several petitions from various Catholic communities against the Bill now before the House of Commons, which ho was prevented from presenting, and which he hoped he should never have an opportunity of presenting, for he hoped that Bill would never find its way to their Lord ships' House. He would now present a petition from Clare against any penal legislation on the subject. Earl GREY thought the Noble Earl was not correct in his anticipation that the Bill would not come before this House, because looking at the numbers of the division the other night, the probability was that it would come before their Lordships. The pe tition which the Noble Earl presented might be received by their Lordships without any breach of the regulations. It was a petition against penal legisla tion, and therefore had no reference to the measure now before the other House of Parliament, which was net a measure of penal legislation. Their Lordships then adjourned. - ROUSE OF COMMONS. The 5P84.12a took the Chair at Four o'clock. THIRD READINGS. The following gills were read a third time and passed : Mildenhall, Burnt Fen Road, and Lakenheath and Rockwood Roads. Pyecombe and Hicks Turnpike Turnpike Roads. REPORTS. The folowing Bills were cons i dered an d agree d to: — Cheltenham and Gloucester District Turnpike Road. Cheltenham and Pains wick Road. Stroud and Gloucester Road. Tenterden and Woodchurch Roads. N EW WRITs. yTER, new writs were On the motion of Mr. Uri Member for the 7, who has or deredac- for the election of n borough of 11 Davenoort, in the room of Sir J. Romi cepted the office of Master of the Rol ls; for Southamp ton, in the room of Sir A. Cockburn, who has accep ted the office of Attorney-General; and for Oxford, 4 , 01 _ room of Mr. W. Page Wood, who has accepted th e afic : of Solicitor- General. PETITIONS. A large number of petitions were presented, complain ing of the Papal aggression. Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from Finsbury, praying for the repeal of the window-tax without the substitution. of a house-tax. Culoael DUNNE presented a petition from a place is Ireland against the abolition of the office of Lord-Lieu tenant or the centralization of the Irish law courts. Mr. MO WATT presented two petitions praying for the repeal of the paper duty. 14,rd ARLI - Ni ) EL and iiUMREY presented a petition from the Hop. M. Lan gdale, l ate a mem b er o f th e kit uae, against the Aboliticn of Religious Houses Bill. Mr. R. PALMER presented a petitiou from a place in IL-rkshire, complaining of agtictilturai distress. ""--6737itialArti Members presented petitions against the ( . ..41t 144 , „ - ' 4 e l T eS pre ,, e nterl petitions . from various 4 r \ ,rt4 / r ig?, i-4 1 , to2f..s in :41 , .; - u of t 6 Eat for the sup ; A, I I •-• r . : 0-2,lma. i y tracing. . . , it-, t", j :fri;o4 irda p I.,,entect a !....,,.... it !lon !rota tho guArdiar s 0 1 " i;.401 , ,fri l .. cent •pski Ve:,..outd 11,110 S, praying for . the eats .... tc:ii44o 1 '' - oiftitry financial boards. •••' . 4.'t . ,---f. - '4,-. THE SUN, Mr. P. MILES presented a petition from a place in Somersetshire, praying for the abolition of tithes. Colonel FREESTIJN presented petitions, very nume rously signed, from the Wesleyan Methodists of Wey mouth, and Melcombe Regis, Wimprith, Preston, Broad way, Osmington, Fortune's Well, Wakeham, and South well, in the Island of Portland, and other places in the county of Dorset, against Papal aggression, and praying the House that the penalties attached to the offence may not be made dependent upon the sole discretion of the law officers of the Crown. Mr. CHILD presented a petition from Hanley, Staf fordshire, signed by the high bailiff, clergy, and up wards of 500 other inhabitants, praying that the use of foreign titles under the authority of the Bishop of Rome may be suppressed, that no further grant to Maynooth, not secured by treaty, may be made, and that all mo nasteries and convents in this country may be subjected to civil inspection and control. Mr. FARRER presented a petition from Darlington, in the county of Durham, and another from a place in Hampshire, against Papal aggression. Colonel MURE presented a petition from the tenant farmers of Renfreswhire complaining of undue pressure of the income tax; also one from the minister and the congregation of Auldhouse Chapel, Pollockshaws, against Papal aggression. Mr. BAINES presented a petition from upwards of 8,500 inhabitants of Hull for more stringent and effec tive legislation against Papal aggression. Sir G. STRICKLAND presented a petition from Preston for secular education. Mr. HORSMAN presented petitions to the following effect:—From the justices of the peace for the West ern Division of the county:of Cumberland, praying that in the Bill relating to the expenses of prosecution, the clause prohibiting justices' clerks from conducting prose cutions in cases where they have acted as clerks to the committing justices mayjnot pass into law; from traders and inhabitants of Cockermouth, against Excise duty on paper; from certain inhabitants of Cockermouth, praying for amendment in the game laws; from Roman Catholics of Cockermouth against the Bill for preventing the assump tion of titles by the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church; from the Rev. Thomas Williams, vicar of Ellough, in the county of York, complaining of the conduct of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and praying for redress. Mr. PUGH presented a petition from the Wesleyan Methodists of Llaidloes, Montgomeryshire, against Papal aggression. HOLYHEAD HARBOUR. Mr. REYNOLDS gave notice that he would move for a return respecting the money expended in the works connected with Holyhead Harbour. HOP DISTRICTS. Mr. FREWEN gave notice that, on the motion for going into a Committee of Supply, he would move a resolutions respecting the distress existing in the hop districts in Kent, and the inability of the hop-growers to pay the excise duty. RESIDENCE OF FOREIGNERS IN THIS COUN TRY DURING THE EXHIBITION. Mr. S. WORTLEY gave notice that on an early day he would call the attention of the House to the residence of foreigners in this country during the approaching season, with the view of preventing any disturbance in our relations with foreign powers.—(Hear.) Mr. B. COCHRANE wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any communi cation had taken place with foreign powers as to the inconvenience arising from large bodies of foreigners coming to this country in uniform and side arms during the ensuing Exhibition—(Laughter)—also whether her Majesty's Government intended to take any steps to prevent large bodies of foreigners collecting together and making seditious speeches to the danger of the lives of the public.—(Hear.) Sir G. GREY said he was not aware that any such communication had been made to foreign powers by the Government. As to preventing large bodies of foreigners assembling and making declaratory speeches, he could only state that the Government would not fail to avail themselves of every legal means to prevent a breach of the law of any description, whether by foreigners or other parties..—(Hear, hear.) STREET NUISANCES. Colonel SIBTHORP wished to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman whether he had given any orders to the Com missioners of Police to put a stop to the continual nuisance of barrel organs—(Laughter)—and also to another nuisance—he meant rows of five, six, and some times seven advertising vans being driven along the public thoroughfares?—(Hear and laughter.) Sir GEORGE GREY said he communicated some time ago with the Commissioners of Police, and he found they were quite ready to exercise those powers which the law placed in their hands for removing all dangerous obstructions and impediments in the public streets. They had th• power of removing barrel organs in certain cases, such as when a person was suffering from sickness in a house. Those large organs which were drawn by horses were no doubt calcu lated to excite alarm, and occasion accidents in the streets, and on a representation being made to the Commissioners of Police on the subject, it would be their duty to interfere.—(Hear.) Advertising vans would also, he apprehended, come under the operation of the Act, though there was no particular clause ap plicable to them. HIGHWAYS BILL. Mr. RICE wished to ask the Secretary of the Trea sury if it was the intention of the Government to in troduce any Bill this session for the better management of the highways. Mr. C. _LE WIS said that a Bill bad been prepared on that subject, but he could not at that moment say whe ther it would he introduced this session. ORDNANCE SURVEY. Lord H. VANE asked the Clerk of the Ordnance when the Ordnance maps, on the scale of six inches to a mile, for the North Riding of Yorkshire, and the counties of Durham and Northumberland, would be completed? Colonel ANSON said that the survey was progressing northwards, hut he could not hold out any hope that the maps in questicn would be ready for some time. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Mr. REYNOLDS begged to ask the question of which he had given notice last night, and on which the House had expressed a resolution in 1848, through the Com mittee which had been appointed to consider the matter every Member of which had, with ono or two exceptions, voted for the abolition of ministers' money in Ire land, and stated that the cost of that expense, if defrayed at all, ought to be defrayed out of the revenues of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland. The question which he had to ask, then, was at what time did the Government intend to introduce any measure with a view to the abolition of ministers' money. That money amounted to 16,0001. a-year, out of which his constituents paid 2,0001. a-year, and there fore he thought a sufficient case was made out fur the alteration of its assessment. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that, instead of imme diately answering the question, he thought that the better plan for him to adopt would be to stat e the course which the Government intended to pursue. It was necessary, in the first place, as the second reading of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill had been passed, to proceed with the Army Estimates, in order to go into a Corn mittee.—(Hear, hear.) The Government, therefore, proposed to go on with the Army Estimates on Monday, in order to provide for the exigencies of the country. Having got these settled, ,they proposed on Friday to go into the great financial statement, and his Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Ex chequer would intimate what the intentions of the Go vernment were. It had been his intention to enter on Monday into the matter which the Hon. Member for Dublin had opened up, but the events of the last few weeks had so disarranged all the public business of the moat importance. He regretted this, the more as he had intended to proceed with the Committee for the Eccle siastical Titles Bill on Monday, the 28th, er to take the first day which was an order day, but that was] Friday during the holidays, and, there fore, he should propose to take the Committee of the Ecclesiastical; Titles Bill on Monday, the sth of May. He regretted this much, but he would proceed with the question of ministers' money immediately afterwards. — (Hear, hear.) There was another matter which had also occupied much of public consideration—that was the retention of the office of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, which it was proposed to suppress by the Bill brought in last year.—(Hear, hear.) His own opinion still remained the same, but he had received intimations from so many parts of Ireland—(Loud cries of" Hear, hear")—of the feelings of the inhabitants of that part of the country, that he should not, this session, introduce any measure for the suppression of the office of Lord- Lieutenant.—(Load and repeated cheers from both sides of the House.) With respect to the question which the Hon. Gentleman the ➢Member for Dublin had proposed he would observe that although it was his intention to deal with the matter, he could not say at what time the measure would be introduced. CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT IN IRELAND. Mr. MOORE was proceeding to ask a question with respect to his motion, which stood on the paper regard ing the Church Establishment in Ireland, when he was stopped by being called to order by both sides of the House. - PAPAL ENCROACHMENTS. Mr: STANFORD rose to ask the First Minister of the Crown, whether it was the fixed intention of t h e Government, in conformity.with the declaration made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department , to limit the measures of the Government for the repression of .4 papal encroachments" to the single clause of the " Ecclesiasti ca l Titles Bill," which declares the meaning of the 24th section , of 10 Geo. IV., c. 7; and whether her tesiastic Majesty's ,_,t,the scope .2) e tile r ainent will resist any attempt to enlarge al Titles Bill, and to render i stringent, as, for instance, by extend ilt;s provision s gthepen morea l t ie .t s ce to ra p p e ti r e s : p n e rsoh g i i b v i i t n e g d ; as by we e l x l t a e s n d u i s n in g g th o e r claiming the titles there araiss e o d f cardinal, byt the m use by British subjects of e !Bence, ac., not conferred orthO any penalties title, to ecclesiastical the aisu er secular, don of Papal bo lls, rescri p ts, er Sove reign; by ex tendin g the Caineu to the publics without the consent of the Crown, a nd to documents o h the holding of synodical meetings, &c•, and by perrnittir penalties to be sued for without the inttrventioo of the ththee Atter oe) - Gemini ; and by enlarging the terms of the pr the 13i11, SO as to rende r it declaratory cf theo imble of tTni' Parliament on the ent.ire.question of p a p a l sgn.iei USU .'n of AL Lead JOHN RUSSELL ac id that it vv,' Perfectly Cunipetent, to any Member of that House to prcpose LONDON, any alterations or additions on the subject, but he could not possibly pledge himself to any ,positive reply to the question.—(Hear, and a laugh.) (LEFT SITTING.) SEARCH FOB SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. COMMANDER PULLEN'S EXPEDITION. The following is an extract from a letter by Lieut. Hooper, to a relative at home; it is dated " Fort Good Hope, McKenzie River, Tuesday, July 16, 1850. " In my letter of the 28th ult., I told your of our intended second trip to the sea, and that we were just returning from Great Slave Lake to Fort Simpson to prepare for the voyage at that place. A quarter of an hour after that letter was sealed we were on our road,' the epistle also proceeding in the oppo site direction. We reached Fort Simpson on the 3d inst., and util the 11th were busily engaged in getting our boats and all matters in readiness, which, with few bands and small resources took up much time. On that day we quitted Fort Simpson and descended the river to Fort Nurna, which we reached on the night of the 13th; stayed there the night, and started the next morning for this place, where we arrived this morning. To-morrow we leave: this, the last post on the river, as also the last place from which I can communicate with you until our return, which will probably be about the end of Septem ber or beginning of October. " Our boats are two—the larger one brought from the Plover; the other is a river boat of the Hudson Bay Company, and called the Try Again, with reference to our attempt this time. We are 17 persons in all—Cap tain Pullen, myself, 10 of our old hands, 3 new ones of the company, and 2 Indians for hunters. We may ex pect to reach the sea about the 23d of the present month, and if we meet with no detention ought to get to Cape Bathurst in a few days, then across to Woollaston or Banks' Land as opportunity may best serve. It is not impossible that we may winter in one of those lands should provisions be plentiful there, in order to extend our search as far as may be. Therefore if you do not receive from me an announcement of our return, which I shall not fail to give if we return back this year, you must not be alarmed at our absence, nor fancy a thousand horrible contingencies; but, on the contrary, rejoice that we have fallen upon a never-before-trodden land, and are prosecuting with ardour a prolonged search, instead of confining oar operations to one brief summer (we are as safe you know, in the greatest danger as in a feather-bed in the security of our native land, and be assured not many of our party are easily daunted with trifles). We are not sanguine of success, but we look forward with great hope, as the region we propose visiting is one which has not before been explored, and in a direction which the most experienced of Arctic voyagers imagine to be the most probable situation for the missing ships. Should we find them, what delight would be ours could we but succeed in restoring the distressed and gallant party to their anxiously-sorrowing friends. " Sir J. Ross left at Port Leopold, on the land of North Somerset, provisions sufficient for sixty men for twelve months, with a steam launch. " Now, should we reach Banks' Laud which is about 300 miles from Cape Bathurst, and find the sea to the east ward clear of ice, with a fine westerly breeze, we might perhaps make for that place, where the provisions would support our party fir four years nearly, and enable us to search away properly. But this is only a remote chance, as it is impossible to say what we shall do, depending, as we must, on the weather, which in these hyperborean regions can never be determinately calcu lated upon. We take energy and determination to the task and hope to the onset ; these should smooth all difficulties; the issue is in the hands of an all-wise God. To him let us leave it. " Enclosed is a likeness of an Indian woman of the slave tribe, taken at Fort Simpson. The costume I can answer for as being correct. Her dress is of smoked moose skin, her belt of porcupine quills. Her knife hangs in a sheath from her neck, and she holds in her hand a canoe paddle. Her name is Clo. tel-hee-ah-zee, or the Little Rabbit. These Indians have very odd numss;: there is one: called Pass-under-the-Ground; another, Thirty-six Tongues—l suppose from his talk ing disposition, he being super-eminently loquacious. "This is a noble:occupation—endeavouring to save life; far more ro than destroying it, and I trust I may never be forced to that necessity, or at any rate but in a just cause." THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MARCIE 26, 1851. The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon John Katie Haberfield, Esq., mayor of the city of Bristol. WHITEHALL, MARCH 28. The Queen has been pleased to constitute and ap point Sir John Romilly, Knt., to the office of Master and Keeper of the Rolls and Records in Chancery, vacant by the surrender thereof by the Right Honourable Henry Lord Langdale. CRQWN-OFFICE, MARCH 26. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Dungarvan— Ihe Honourable Charles Frederick Ashley Cooper Ponsonby, of St. James's place, London, in the room of the Right Honourable Richard Lalor Shell, who has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. WAii-OFFICE, MARCH 28. 18th Regiment of Foot—Ensign John Edward Swindley to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Minter, deceased, Dec. 22, 1850; Ensign Arthur Henry Thistlethwayte, from the 97th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Swindley, March 28. 25th Foot—Lieutenant Douglas Ernest Manners, from the 63d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Newenham, who exchanges, March 28. 31st Foot—Ensign Edward Temple, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Leeson, who retires, March 28. 55th Foot—Lieut. Charles Cliffe, from the 3d West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Quantrillo, who exchanges, March 28. 63d Foot—Lieut. William Henry Newenham, from the 25th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Manners, who exchanges, March 28. 65th Foot—Lieutenant Duncan Bazalgette to bo Cap tain, without purchase, vice O'Connell, deceased; En sign James Barton to be Lieutenant, vice Bazalgette, Aug. 19. 86th Foot—Ensign Hopton Bassett Scott to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Baxter, who retires; Ensign James Kenneth Douglas Mackenzie, from the 77th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Scott, March 28. 3d Foot—Ensign William George Conway Gordon to he Adjutant, vice John Gordon, killed in action, Dec. 30. 3d West India Regiment—Lieut. Charles Monckton Gibbon Quantrille, from the 55th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Cliffe, who exchanges, March 28. WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 28. List of Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates of the 91st Regiment killed in the recent action with the Kafirs, 29th December, 1850, or who have subse quently died of wounds received in that action. Sergeant—Houston, Robert. Corporal—Stevenson, Moses. Drummer—Smith, William (Ist). Privates—Cleaver, William; Clegg, Thomas; Cul verwell, John (died of wounds); Deans, Thomas; Harding, John; M`Donald,John; M`Nair, James (died of wounds); Morrison, Donald; Nicol, James; Phillips, William; Potter, John; Ramsay, David; Reeves, Samuel; Robertson, William C.; Scott, Alexander; Smith, Thomas; Sweeney, John; Thompson, Alexander; Tollard, Thomas; Walsh, Robert. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey. The Right Hon. Charles Edward Viscount Crowhurst to be Deputy-Lieutenant. WHITEHALL, MARCH 22. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Francis Green, of Carmarthen, in the county of Carmarthen, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has also appointed Henry Fen wick, of Liverpool, in the county palatine of Lancaster, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, MARCH 26. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Etty, of Liverpool, in the county palatine of Lancaster, Gent., to be a blaster Extraordinary in the High Court of Chan cery. BANKRUPTS. William Griffiths Williams, draper, Carnarvon, April 10 and May 15, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Williams, LiverpooL Samuel Armstrong, glass and china dealer, Bolton-le- Moors, Lancashire, April 14 and 28, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Marsland, Bolton-le-Moors. Robert Miller and Alexander Street, builders, Lan caster, April 7 and 29, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Blackhurst, Preston. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from returns made in the week ending March 25, 1850, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon on the importatien thereof into Great Britain:— From the British possessions in America 275. 04d. per cwt From the Mauritius ... 275. 11 d. „ From the East Indies .. 28s. 3id. Average price of the three foregoing de scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as above, and exclusive of duty ... 275. 9d. By authority of Parliament, HENRY BICKNELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company. Grocers'-hall, March 28. COURSE OF EXCH) Amslerubm .......... 11 15 Ditto, three months 11 16)4 :totterdarn .... • ..... 11 16)4 Antwerp .............. 25 22)4 Brussels... , 25 22)4 aamburgh .... —M.P. 13 7% Paris, 3 days'stght • • 25 0 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 20 Marseilles • • ........ •• 25 22)4 80urdeaux......... • Frankforton Maine.... 119 Berlin.... • ....... •• •• Vienna, effec. flo•• •• •• 13 18 Trieste, ditto.... • • 13 20 Petersburgh,Blll.Rble•• Madrid .............. 50 Cadiz •• •.••••••• .• •• bOM Barcelona •• •• •• •• •• Seville•••••••.•• •••• • k.NGE.-(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar •• •• •• •• •••• •• Leghorn 30 50 Genoa .. •• •• •• 25 5234 Venice................ Naples •• 41% Palermo, peroz.• •• •• •• 125 Messina •• •• •• 125 53% 0p0rt0.... •• •• 53 % Rio Janeiro Buenos Ayres New rork,6odays'aight Philadelphia PRIMO OF BULLION, PER OS. Foreign Geld in bars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars ...... 0 4 11% Silver im bars ........ 0 b 1 3y MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, March 28.) StrGAIL—To-day rather lower rates were taken for West India Sugar, but all sorts were purchased with cau tion, and the sales are oii'dt 170 hhds, &c., including at auction 37 pkgs Daml tt a, crystalized were sold at 40s to 42s for mid and % tied yellow, 2 tres 41 brls Bar. badoes, low soft yellow , e fid, and brown 35s to 37s 6d per cwt. For the week total sales of West India are 1,000 hhds, &c.; prices are 6d and in some cases is per cwt lower. REFINED. —To-day Refined Sugar was operated in with more freedom for home consumption, and prices were firm at 48s to 503 6d for low to good grocery Lumps. There is still little doing in Crushed Sugar, and rates at tend downwards. 7 MAIIRITIIII3.—This afternoon holders of Mauritius Sugar were not disposed to sell at any further reduc tion, but the trade were not inclined to operate. Of 6,921 bags at auction not above one half sold, good and superior yellow at 39s to 435. other kinds 36s to 38s 6d, crd to fine brown 32a to 36, and refining sorts 35s to 403. EAST INDIA.--This afternoon Madras Sugar was offered at a reduction of 6d to is per cwt for sort quality, still the demand was limited. Of 2,203 bags at auction a part only old at 27s to 28s 6d for low and good brown, and at 20s to 31s for common and fair yel low. Bengal was operated in with caution and the public sales of 5,167 bags went at rather lower rates whilst not above half sold, low to good white Benares at 393 to 42s 6d, damp 38s to 425, date 36s to 38s 6d, ord and mid soft yellow 32s 6d to 355, brown 29s to 31e, and fine grainy white 48s per cwt. FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of Foreign Sugar, and the private purchases were upon a small scale, with sellers at rather lower rates. MoLessEs.—Few buyers are to be met with, and there are sellers of low to fine West India at from 14s to 163 6d, Cuba and Porto Rica 14s 6d to 15s 6d, Bengal and Mauritius 12s to 13 per cwt. In West India Honey sales have been made at from 50s to 60s per cwt. COCOA.—West India is in limited demand, and there is a reduction of Is to 2s per cwt, although the supply is limited, and stock 1,003 bags less than last season. Of Trinidad 213 bags at auction sold at 43s to 47s for low to good grey. 100 bags Grenada sound from 42s to 44s per cwt. For Foreign the demand is better, but there is no advance. Sales privately of Para and Bahia have been made at 28s to 303. _ COFFEE.—This afternoon Plantation Ceylon Coffee was dealt in with caution for all purposes, and prices declined is to 2s per cwt ,• of 193 casks 191 bags at auction not above half sold, fine ord at 49s to 50s, good mid and good 58s to 625, and pea berry 60s to 655. Of Mocha 31 bales realized about the former value, and went at 76s for good long berry, and at 42s to 45s 6d for triage. For other sorts of Coffee the market has a dull aspect, and .at auction 1,138 bags Rio sold ra ther cheaper; good ord went at 41s to 425, damaged 35s 6d to 40s. Of Java 57 bags from the Cape of Good Hope were taken in at 525. There are sellers of Native Ceylon tat 44s for good ord, and with few buyers. TEA.—The market has been freely supplied with Green this week, chiefly by the late arrivals from Shanghae,_ but rather lower rates having been submitted to, occasioned a good business to be concluded, more es pecially in low and mid sorts. For common Congon there are still free buyers at 111 d to is, and medium is id to is id; the market has also a firm appearance, and there is noincrease of supply. The better qualities are, how ever still operated in with caution, and holders are de sirous to soil at from is Id to is 9d. Of Oolong the supply at market has been larger than for some time past, and a reduction of ld to 10 has taken place, still most of the parcels on offer have been disposed of. In scented and Pekoe Teas sales have been to a fair extent, but at rates under those current previously. RlCE.—Prices have at length ceased to decline for East India, and there has been an improvement in the demand. Of Bengal 2,000 bags auction were sold at 9s 6d to 103 6d for good mid and good white, being rather above firmer rater Privately several parcels have been disposed—Madras, pinkey 7s to 8s 6d, Bengal, broken and low white 8s to 8s 9d mid to fine 9s to I Is, but sorts from 9a to 10s per cwt have been most in request. Fine white Java is wanted for cleaning purposes at 1 Is to 11s 64, but the supply is scanty. For Cargo and Pearl Barley Madras there is, however, yet a dull sale, and 7s to 8s is the value. Cleaned Rice finds a brisker sale, Patna at 12s to 17s, broken 103 6d to 11s 6d, town dressed Carolina 20s to 28s, and American 16s 6d to 17s 64. Sago has been sold to a fair extent privately at 20s to 235, and Sago 153 to 15s 6d per cwt. Of Ber muda Arrowroot 65 casks at auction went at Is to is 3d. 10 barrels East India 2d, 150 tins St. Vincent's, 8d; 70 tins 20 brls Jamaica, 4i to 6d; 25 pks Dominica and Demerara, 3d to 4d; 36 boxes Tons les Mois, 21 10 24d; 466 brls Tapioca, low to good, 2d to 4i -d per lb. SPlCES.—Holders of Ginger will submit to lower terms, and supply the market sparingly, but privately operations have been upon a small scale; low to fine Jamaica at 21 10s to 91; and African 34s to 378 per cwt. Of Bengal 1,106 pockets, and 260 bgs at auction were taken in at 18s to 19s for mid and good export sort. Mace is held for full terms, but met with little attention; and of 14 cases at auction a small part only sold at 25 3d to 2s 6d for mid and good. Prices remain for brown Nutmegs at from 2s 7d to 3s 4d, and fine 3s 6d. For limed there is, however, a quiet market; and 6 cases at auction were taken at 2s 6d to 2s 8d for small. Holders of black Pepper appear unwilling to submit to any further reduction. At auction 500 bags light dusty, Penang were taken in at 30, and 241 bgs huff heavy Malabar at 30. The tendency of prices is evi dently downwards. White is, however, wanted, and the rates paid privately are from 6d to 8d for low to fine. Pod is still operated in with caution at 30$ to 40s per cwt. Cloves are not offering upon lower terms ; but the sales made have been small ; Penang at 10d to is 4d, and Bourbon 6d to 6d. Of Amboyna 206 casks at auction were taken in at 80 to 9d. A fair demand exists for Pimento; prices have suf fered no further depression; at auction 557 bgs sold at 4d to 5d per lb for low, mid, and good, one lot inferior 40; 185 bgs were taken in at 5d to 50 for mid and good. For small parcels of Cassia Lignea 94s to 102 s have been paid, and supply does not increase. The value of Cassia Buds is yet 108 s to 110 s per owt. Cinnamon of inferior quality is still wanted; but best sorts are operated in with caution. The value of Ceylon is for first sorts 2s to 3s 6d, second ditto is 6d to 2s 7d, third and fourth is 2d to 2s 2d per lb. SATTPETRE. —The private operations in Rough have been upon a small scale privately, and prices still tend downwards, although the quantity on offer is less than last week. In Calcutta limited purchases are re ported at from 26s to 28s 6d for low to fine. At auction 1,439 bags Madras were taken in at 26s for 14 per cent refraction of good quality. British Refined is to be obtained at 29s to 30$ per owl, and there are but few buyers. For Nitrate of Soda the demand is only for small parcels at from 14s 6d to 14s 9d per cwt. INDIOO.—TO-day 240 serous offered at auction, and about two-thirds sold at extreme market rates to 2d advance. 180 Guatemala, low lean copper and coppery Cortes to good and fine Sobres from 28 5d to 4s 4d. 60 Carraccas, about one-third sold at fully 3d lower; low to good Cortes 3a to 3s 4d, with a few fine Sobres 3s 8d to 4s. COCHINEAL.—To-day 183 bags were offered at sale; viz., 70 low to mid Honduras Silvers, about one-third sold at 3s 3d to 3s 7d, being previous rates; 29 Tene rife, all taken in at 3s 6d; 95 decided good Mexican Silvers, all sold at 3a 2d, and a few at 3s 3d; the Shall s chiefly taken in , mid at 3s 4d to 3 s sd, g , 3s 7d. SPIRIT S.-0 Peratiolls in East India R um have been ood upon a small scale, although there are sellers at is 54e1 to is 6d per gallon proof. For Leeward Island the market has a dull aspect, rates tend downwards, and rule at is 7d to is lid proof; the market is also better supplied. Demerara met with little attention, and is offered at 2s 3d to 2s 7d for 30 to 40 per cent over proof of low to fine quality. Jamaica has been operated in with much caution for home use and export; in the value of better sorts there is scarcely any variation, but the lower kinds can be obtained at rather lower rates. The value of fine and choice marks is 3s 7d to 4s 4d for 34 to 38 over proof, mid and good 2s 9d to 3s 7d, and common 30 to 33 per cent 2s 6d to 2s Bd. In Brandy sales continue upon a small scale for all purposes, and sellers are willing to accept for Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1850 4s 3d to 4s sd, 1849 do 4s 6d to 4s 8(), 1848 do 48 9d to 45 11d, 1847 do 5s 21 to 5s 4d, and inferior as to 4s. British made Spirits is still 9e 8d to 9s 9d, and Gin 8s 3d for 22 per cent under proof. Geneva sells more freely ord is 7el to is Bd, and fine 15 9d to 2s. TALLOW. —This afternoon at auction South American sold at 35s 64 to 395; New South \Vales, sheeps 36s 94 to 38s 9d, and ox 363 3d to 37s 6d. The value of new Y.C. is 403 to 40s 6.r for present and forward delivery. OlLS.—This afternoon at public sale 60 tuns Southern Oil part sold at 301 to 311, 17 pkgs East India Ground Nut Oil 331 10s, 90 ditto Gingelly 321 105 to 331 105, 30 Allen Collyer, jun, jeweller, Dover, Kent, to Barren der April 1, at one, and May 1, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall street; Harris, Moorgate-street. George Garnham, banker, Rougham, Suffolk, April 11, at half-past twelve, and May 9, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan. official assignee, Birchin-lane; Hensman, Basing-lane; Wayman and Co., Bury St. Edmunds. Henry Medworth, grocer, Wisbech Saint Peter, Cam bridgeshire, April 5, at half-past one, and May 9, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane; Abbott, Jenkins, and Abbott, New-inn, Strand; Watson, Wisbech. Walter M'Dowall, printer, Little Queen-street, Lin coln's Inn-fields, April 5, at eleven, and May 9, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assig nee, Basinghall-street; Edmunds, South-square, Gray's inn. Richard Pegg, wine merchant, Brighton, April 14, at half-past one, and May 10, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall chambers. Basinghall-street; Bridger and Collins, King William-street, City. Samuel Turner Jay, dealer and chapman, Badley, Suffolk, April 9, at half-past one, and May 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Trinder and Eyre, John-street, Bedford row; Archer, Stowmarket, Suffolk. John Glasspool, bootmaker, Regent-street, April 8, and May 6, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, efficial assignee, Abcurch-lane, Lombard-street A'Beckett and Sympson, Golden-square. Henry Christopher Billing, silversmith and jewelltr, Cheapside, April 7, at eleven, and May 12, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee; Sambrook-court, Basingball•ataeet; Petidell, Cheapside. Richard Jackson, " tanner" (not " farmer," as adver tised in last Tuesday's Gazette), Selby, Yorkshire, April 14 and May 5, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Weddale,Selby; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. John Powlesland, dealer in seeds, South Tawton, Devon, April 15, at one, and May 6, at eleven, at the F.xeter District, Court. Hirtzel, eflieial assignee, Exeter; Fultord, North Tawton; Tunuer, Grecian; Stogdon, Exeter. ditto Tee Seed Oil 32/, and 60 ditto brown Rapeseed Oil 32/. RAILWAY INTELLGENCE. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. The following important memorial has been forwarded to her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonial De partment:— The Memorial of the Directors of the London and South-Western Railway Company Sheweth,—That your memorialists humbly desire to submit a statement of the advantages that would result from making the port of Southampton a central depot for emigrants, both to the public interest and to the emigrants themselves. That these advantages consist -Ist. I❑ a greatly superior safety as regards navigation. 2d. In saving of time at sea, and particularly in punc tuality of departure—a matter of the first importance as regards emigrants of limited means. 3d. In economy in regard to the expenses of the ships, and consequently the cost of the emigrant's passage. 4th. In economy, also, as regards the expenses preli minary to reaching the port of embarkation, arising from the peculiar facilities of conveyance for passengers, baggage, and goods to Southampton, both by rail and by sea, from Ireland, England, Wales, and Scotland. In support of these allegations, and especially of the first, as regards safety, your memorialists beg to draw the attention of the Commissioners to the subjoined re turn of the casualties in wrecks officially reported to Lloyd's, between London and Dungeness, in the course only of the last eighteen months, commencing January, 1849, from which it appears : That 141 vessels have been completely wrecked, or have undergone severe damage during that period. 25 being total wrecks, many of them being vessels of, the largest class. That lives have been lost in no less than eleven cases. That the ascertained damage to vessels during the period in question has been no less than 309,9421. 15s. 11d. That during seven years, between 1837 and 1843, on the sea voyage betweeti the Isle of Wight and the Thames— ,000 .. ...... 58 per cent.* ,000 ,000 .473 4,894 ..... 1,125 23: 2 960 ........ 2i179 1,000 ... 40 „ 44,760 * The published balance-sheet gives this item 58 per cent. upon the first 1,0001. per week; the estimate as sumes a reduction to 50 per cent. on the second 1,0001., to 45 per cent. on the third 1,0001., and so on. Rough estimate of the comparative minima guaranteed by the Great Western Company, say in June, 1853:- ISt EXISTING CONTRACT.—Upon each 501. ca pital (one share) from completion of the un dertaking, 5 per cent. in perpetuity, say par £5O Add claims fur arrears of interest during construe tion: Vessels. 4 per cent. from June, 1849, to June, 1851 ... Ditto ditto, 1851, ditto, 1853 ... Promised equivalent for increase of interest during construction to 5 per cent. ... ... There were totally lost, with all or several of the crews and passengers ... ..• ..• There were wrecked or foundered, the lives being saved but property lost There were severely damaged, by running on the shoals or otherwise ... 1057 That within the last year the Royal Adelaide, with al on board-250 souls, was lost. That the Sarah Bridges, in tow of a steamer above Margate, broke adrift, and neither vessel nor crew were ever seen afterward. That within the last few years the Reliance and the Conqueror (Indiamen) were lost, and nearly every soul on board, amounting to little short of 200, perished. That within the same period, the Burhampoota. emi grant ship to South Australia, was totally wrecked, and the emigrants, after a hair-breadth escape of their lives, lost all they had. That, also, within the same period, the Amphitrite, while riding at anchor in the Downs, was driven out by violent weather and totally wrecked, all on board being drowned, consisting of between one and two hundred female convicts, bound to Australia, and the whole crew. That all these casualties occurred within sight of home, and in the course of a proverbially dangerous na vigation, the dangers of which are unnecessarily in curred, as every vessel actually passes the port of safety, Southampton, on its voyage, and by stopping there would avoid all the dangers of the Godwin Sands and the east end of the Channel. That from these established facts your memorialists submit that it is a matter capable of demonstration and beyond all doubt, that by using Southampton as the port of embarkation the apprehensions now reasonably enter tained of the danger of the sea voyage to the colonies, which operates as a great drawback to emigration, would be appreciably diminished, and the safety of the emigration ships secured in the most practical manner. That, as regards the second and third allegations, re ferring to saving in time at sea, and the importance of punctuality of departure, by using Southampton as the point of taking on board emigrants, by which also a saving in the cost of emigrants' passages must ultimately be secured— It is notorious that the delays caused by contrary winds in rounding the North Foreland are continual, always of uncertain duration, and therefore destructive of punctuality, and often extending to as much as twenty days, and more. That the discomfort of the passage is greatest at first, and that the opportunity of communicating with friends at home, which a protracted delay in the Channel af fords, acts as a decided discouragement to emigration. The punctuality of departure from Southampton, where vessels are towed at once out into the open chan nel, is necessarily far greater than from the Thames, to come from which the North Foreland has to be turned. Of the importance of this punctuality to emigrants who have made all their arrangements for leaving Eng land, and sold everything on the supposition that they are at once to step on board, it is unnecessary to en large. The sufferings of the emigrants detained in the Channel, by reason of contrary winds, must be well known to your Lordship; it is perhaps one of the greatest impediments to emigration, and it would be entirely re moved by making Southampton the port of departure. It is unnecessary to point out that delay at sea is ano ther word for expense to the ship and passengers; and in the case of emigrants, that such uncertain delays on a rough sea frequently give rise to permanent sickness on board, always to much misery and anxiety both to emi grants and their friends—the arrangements made for the comfort of passengers being thus frequently entirely dis arranged. That the loss of time incurred by ships in and near the Downs, if represented in money, would amount even to a larger sum than the damage to shipping (which we have seen from the return from Lloyd's is proved to have exceeded 200,0001. per annum). That the dura tion of the average voyage from England would be re duced by making Southampton the port of departure instead of London, to the Australian colonies by 1-12th; to the Cape of Good Hope by I.7th; and to North America by 1-4th. That therefore it is certain that were an emigrant trade once established at Southampton, the expense of engaging ships, comparatively to that from the Thames, would be ultimately largely reduced. Fourth allegation—ln regard to the superior means of conveyance to and from Southampton : Your memorialists will endeavour to explain the pecu liar advantages Southampton possesses in respect both of its geographical position, and also of the facilities which art affords. That your memorialists' railway, commencing at Southampton, connects itself with all the railways of the south of England, with the Great Western Railway at Basingstoke, with the South-Eastern at Farnborough, and so with the Brighton and South Coast Railway. Parliamentary powers are being applied for this session to complete a short railway extension between Brent ford and Willesden, which will connect all the southern line with the whole railway system of the nerd). The rails of the South-Western Railway run to large pre mises on the banks of the Thames at Nine Elms, and at Brentford-cross the Grand Junction Canal—thus they communicate with the whole inland navigation of Eng land, which is so largely made use of by persons of the working class for the conveyance of baggage and pas sengers, on account of its superior cheapness. The rails also come close to the Basingstoke Canal at Farn borough. That a branch of less than a mile at Salisbury, for which powers have been obtained, will make another junction with the Great Western system of lines, and thus with the line to Dorchester and the other lines which have been mentioned, connect Southampton with a net-work of lines traversing the southern agricultural counties, which provide the moat eligible English emi grants. That the short railway communication of 80 miles between London and Southampton, would enable the Government officers in London to inspect the emigration vessels and depots at Southampton, and return to Lon ,don in a few hours. The electric telegraph extends along the whole of the line to London, and as far as Dorchester; at London it connects itself with the telegraph system of the country, so that communication may pass, and answers be re ceived instantaneously, between Southampton, London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, Hull, Leeds, Glas gow, Edinburgh, Newcastle—in fact, throughout the country. In addition to the facilities of railway and telegraph communication, Southampton possesses remarkable ad vantages in sea communication. ' It is placed in regular intercourse with Dublin by a line of first-class paddle steamers, belonging to the Lon don and Dublin Steam Packet Company, which call twice every week at the Southampton Docks, and the regular steamers from Cork to London could also touch at Southampton. There is also a Plymouth steamer which calls periodically at the Royal Pier. A regular line of Liverpool steamers in connexion with Glasgow will run between Liverpool and Havre, to commence with the spring of 1861, calling at Southampton. When, in conjunction with the combined advantages thus enu merated, which exceed those of any other port in the kingdom, it is remembered that Southampton is the port the most easy of access and egress, and the safest for vessels within, of any port on the coast of England,— that at the entrance of the docks there are 18 feet of water at low tide, which circumstances induced her Ma jesty's Government, some years since, to fix upon it as the best port for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Service,—it is submitted by your memorialists that the greatest bene fits to the public and emigrants would result from mak ing Southampton the port at which a large portion of the business of emigration of the United Kingdom should be concentrated. To promote this object, your memorialists are pre pared to make such arrangements as shall secure con veyance to and from Southampton at most moderate rates. In proof of their sincerity on this point, it may be stated that they at present carry emigrants e ighty miles, with a full complement of luggage, at the charge of ss. That the facilities of telegraphic communication with London and the whole kingdom would be placed at the disposal of the Commissioners and their officers, at rates little more than nominal. whet(' pre- That the South am pton Dock Compa n y , mises afford an inexhaustible supply of the finest drink ing water for ships, are pledged to co-operate with your memorialist s in all arrangements for the accommodation and dispatch of emigrants or emigrant ships, and are prepared to give up entirely all the ordinary dues on the tonnage of emigrant ships us in g the port of South aropton. That your memorialists are in possession of premises suitable for depots for emigrauts, both in Loudon and Southampton, with regard to w hich the y w ill be pre pared to treat on very reasonable terms, and in thi s and every other ,way to me et t he re q uirements of h er Majesty's Colonial Land and Em i g ration Commissioners. 260 SECOND PROPO3EDCONTRACT.-45,0001. per an- Mll, instead of 200,0004 per annum in per petuity, 2'408 4• P 602 £58 . 01 from completion, say 45,000 --of 50/.. 11.25 200,000 Say one year's proportion of 30,000/. rent, on three-fourths of 4,000,0001. Ditto ditto of 38,0001. ditto 13-16ths ditt0...,., 0.585 X 12.335 The proposed contract represents the liability of the Great Western Company, offered in exchange for the existing liability, leaving the difference contingent upon the success of the South Wales system when completed. SOUTH WALES AND GREAT A RIGHT REV. PRELATE (whose title was not known in WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANIES. the gallery) .dso expressed his objection to the manner . adopted for obtaining the information sought fo r . A large shareholder in the S' , uth Wales Company, The Marquis of BREADALBANE said that the ministers upon data submitted by him to Mr. J. A. Franklin, the of the Church of Scotland once voluntarily ret urned answers professional auditor and accountant, has obtained the to similar queries submitted to them by Sir J. Sinclair. following computations:— The Bishop of OXFORD remarked, that in the case re- It is understood that the directors of these two corn- ferred to by the Noble Marquis there were no co nflicting in panics have made a preliminary contract, substituting terests to prevent the return of correct information. In for the existing guarantee of 5 per cent. payable by the Eng land the case was different, and prejudices existed which Great Western Company, graduated payments as fol - were likel y to mislead those who were called upon to give in lows, receiving in exchange one-third of the net profits formation. upon the South Wales line, viz.:-1. When Swansea is connected with Gloucester, 30,500/. per annum. 2. On extension to Carmarthen, 38,5001. per annum. 3. On extension to Milford, &c., 46,0001. per annum. Hence the computations given below. Estimates of profits and dividends upon the railway from Swansea to Gloucester Junction, assuming the fol luwing data:—Mileage, 105; debentures, 500,000/., at 5 per cent.; maintenance of way and contingencies, 100/. per mile per annum; management and charges, 5,0001. per annum; share capital, 2,500,0001. Every 1,250/. per annum saved in any of the fore going items of expenditure will increase the dividend one shilling per cent. If the share capital claiming dividend bo 250,000/. less, the dividend will be one-ninth greater. Hire of Stock and Gross Traffic working expenses Amount of Dividend per per Week. per consecutive two-thirds cent. 1,0001. traffic. of Profit. THE PAPAL AGGRESSION. Earl FITZWILLIAM, having presented some petitions against Papal aggression, gave notice that he would to-mor row present more per itions of a like nature, and would take that opportunity of making some observations which seemed to be called for by the present state of the attempt to legis late on the subject. Lord BROUGHAM would beg his Pioble Friend —only that he knew it would be vain to do so—not to carry his threat into execution. He had well hoped—as they said in. Chancery—that their Lordships would have got over the time until after the Easter recess in a sort of quiet—he vats afraid only a temporary quiet—respecting this subject. Any thing more hateful to him than the whole controversy which had been going on for weeks, if not for months, he had neve r known, and he should fail in attempting to describe how deeply he suffered from it. He had derived some consolation . until from the prospect of an intermission of t he controversy after Easter, and therefore he would entreat his Noble Friend not to mar his hopes, if he did not know that it was more difficult to prevail upon his Noble Friend than almost any other person.—(A laugh.) He could assure, his oble Frien I—though he feared it would only cause bins to persist more firmly in his intention—that the whole House prayed for a respite, as regarded this question, until after the Easter recess, and, if his Noble Friend would consent to. appoint any time for addressing their Lordships. after that period, he would promise that he should have the whole night to himself without any interference from him.—A laugh.) Lord WODEHOUSE presented a petition against Papal aggression. Lord REDESDALE presented a petition in favour of ex • tending the jurisdiction of county courts. The report on the County Courts Extension Bill was brought up. Lord BEAUMONT suggested that the Bill should be re - committed. Lord BROUGHAM had no objection to the recommittal of the Bill when it should have been reprinted. The Bill was then ordered to be reprinte d, as a mended, and to be recommitted. All ~INISTRATION OF CHARITIES IN ENGLAND, &c- The Bishop of OXFORD stated that lie had given notice. to her Majesty's Government of a question touching a very' important subject, namely, whether they intended, and when,, to bring in a measure for securing the due administration the charities in England and Wales. Since he had entered House he had been shown a draught of a Bill which it was re intended to introduce into this House ietlepurpose of at w hat gulating charitable trusts ; and he wished to know . period of the session the Government w ould bring forward the measure? The LORD CHANCELLOR replied that the Bill would be introduced within a week from the presen t time. certain returns relating to licences and registrations un!n :ler the Catholic Relief Act of 1829 were ordere d, on the motio of the Earl of WINCHILSEI. Theis Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 27. STEAM TO INDIA. Viscount JOCELYN then rose, pursuant to notice, to move for a Committee to inquire into the question of th existing s team communications between Eng land and India; and to report whether any improvements Ma? be made in the conduct of those communications, previous to the grant of a further contract to any company proposing to carry on that line. Likewise to consider the subject of steam communica tions, having for its object a line or lines connecting; England, India, and Australia; and to re p ort to the• House the most fitting mode in which such communica tion may be effected, with due care to economy and. with advantage to the public interests. The Noble Lord stated that he introduced a similar motion last ses sion, but since then the subject had become more. interesting in many points of view. The ques tion was ono of some importance to the contr. try, and he much regretted that it had not been taken up by the Government. There were many consi derations which induced him to bring this motion. forward, but the principal one was The contrects contrects with the Peninsular and ive Oriental'. c ompany would expire in 1853, which woul d g the Government an opportunity of changing or selecting' a better means of communica tion with our' Indian empire. He made this motion entirely' on public grounds; he had no hostility to any existing' companies ; on the contrary, he thought they wore much indebted to them for the accommodation wh ich their services had given to the public , an d for the aprit and energy with which they condu cted their trade. By the resolution of last session, it was agreed that a route of steam communication should be establishe d between Singapore and Australia, and the Peninsubx and Oriental Company had stated their readiness to ez pend 5,000/. in the settling of the route, but they thoug l that they ought nut to be tied down to any regulatiova which the Indian Government might choose to lay dowi t. le• and he conceived that they were perfectly right, fo in his opinion, nothing could be more injurious to th public interest than the vesting the mono• poly of a great social or commercial. advantage in the hands of a great and powerful party • such as that constituted by the East India Company. It. was well known that the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company . had always been desirous of obtain ing the possession of the route between Sue= and Bombay. That route would have been o f the , greatest benefit to them, but the grant of it hall always been frustrated by the necessity for the sere ices of the Indian navy. Far be it from him to depreciate that navy, for he was aware how benefit cial its services had been both in India and Chiles; but it should nevertheless be recollected that vessels , 0f that navy bed not altogether superseded the neceosellki for the employment of vessels in her Majesty's Bernet 'rho purpose then alleged for the exc l u sion of Lb..° vessels of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Co Dr pany was not served, while ou the other hailla it was abundantly evident that if the Indian navy te/s 4 excluded from this line, the Peninsular and Oriental. Steam Navigation Company would be enabled to eEe''' ploy larger and more powerful vessels, and thus not on ly increase their speed, but also render the communiesti orr. with India more regular and certain. (His Lordsb.ip then read extracts from dispatches from the Eiv,rl of Ripon, when at the head of the Board of Control, and from those of the authorities in India, in order to show that this change would, if effected, acco plish the objects he bad in view.) He ar llB aware that some prepositions had been made by a company formed last year, but he could not say that they could be entertained, and therefore he thought that; the chief object to which the Committee should direct its attention was in the first place to the establishment'; of the routes and the depets to be formed for steam cc fl: 1 e munication between this country and Australia. By t existing arrangements the mails left England on the 7.91 of every month, and reached Suez on the 201 of ever, month, from which place they were forwarded to India.. The existing arrangements with the Peninsular and Ori ental Company was to last for seven years, and would expire in January, 1653. The total expense of the lino was 265,0001., of which sum the Indian Government pro vided 125,000/, and the home Government 140,000/. The question now was, when the existing arrangements ceased, what course should they pursue in r eference to future ar rangements. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Com pany wished to get into their hands the line be- India and Egypt, but he thought nothing t ween would be more dangerous than establishing extent a great mo nopoly by this company, which, from the t and ex pense of the operations, could not be open to competition. The conclusion which her Majesty's Government had come to, when the question was put before them in 1845, was to leave that line in the hands of the East India Company. In the course of the _last few days various complaints had reached him of the mode in which that communication was conducted. There were insufficient means of commercial commun ication, and passengers complained of insufficient arrangements for their comfort. Be did not, however, at tach much importance to complaints of the latter descrip ti,m. It had been stated that the cost of carrying pawn gers was greater than on other lines. That should be in quired into, as it could not be cured by competition. There was another complaint by the Bengal Chamber of Comm erce, d they required greater speed and more regularity in the arrival of the vessels at Bombay. The next point into which be proposed the Committee should go, was to consider the subject of steam communication between India and Austra lia. Upon that subject also he thought that a Coratnittee of that House would be the best mode of inquirY• should regret hasty and unwise contracts. He did not wisA t m o it p t r e e e ja w dg n e ul t d he ha q v u e es a ti n on en , e b fi u c t ia h l e e t ff h e o n u t thought inquiry g by a Coin-' the public at large, and in coming to some deincistrZ elusions upon the subject. Lord NAGS admitted that the Noble Lord had made out an excellent case for inquiry as to the first branch of the motion, but with regard to the second branch he was afraid_ that the proposed mode of inquiry would have the effect of co io n. depriving the Australian colonies for some time of the bene_fi of steam communication. Last year the Chancellor of the Exchequer had assured them that no time would be lost in carrying into effect the project submitted to the Government . on the subject. The present session was far advancedand. the Australian colonies were as far from obtaining the _t com pletion of that project as they were when steps were cil of re _ taken on it in 1844. In 1844 the L e g islative Co un Sydney had passed resolutions on the subject, and iet 184 6 the committee of the council recommended that the stem of 6,000/. should be voted for establishing stea m coinnir,d,o3ca tion between Singapore and Sydney. In 1847 the subja,_ was much agitated in this count r y , and in 1848 ts_ . l : co ntract for the sailing packets in carrying the t o Australia expired. Up to that time there bad thi a tolerably regular mode of commu nication between t b cou ntry and the Australian colonies. T he Governmene coalt d e clined to renew that contract, in the belief that socei_ into. tract for steam communication will speedily be enterlidinanni:rd. From that date up to the present time no regular el A u stralia;, cation had existed between this country and the result was, that the colonists had been obligen to pay a much higher rate of postage for letters, ne wspapers, ..nd reviews Shortly after the contract mentioned had expir ed, Government issued notices for tenders for steam commuuic.a wthnidchiant.haenduAnvuesrntrnialig tion, and one was sent in from the Steam-packet Company for ",6,000/., accepted. It turned out afterwards that this company had not a single shilling of capital, and t t e ha li t ol f d or the c ni on o t n r t a h e s t: during which they were allotee a s i n gle steamer. Indeed, at they had not laid down a o senn tes b h efor t e en t d n e e rs, the end of that time the company was dissolved under the Winding up Act. In 1850 notice had been issued by the Admiralty not considered t-atisfactory, w In answer to the question of his the other day, the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite seemed to admit that the tender uow before them for performing the service of steam Government . an d one mmunication with Australia free of expense to the Trea sury,Oriental su and for the postage of letters alone, was unsatisface tory. He had been told that the Peninsular and Company had offered in their tender to establish steara communicat i on between Singapore and Sydney, provide they were allowed to charge a shilling postage on evert letter from this co ntry to Sydney. His object in moving t e ano..Lnnent I,as merely, j tr a nsposing the parts of the 'no tion, to ensure the consideration of the questioa of steam communication with A ustralia without any delayr. What ever the report of the Committee might be on the Indian part of the question, nothing could be done in it for two years, as the contract between the East India CoropaY and the FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1851 HOW TO BE MISERABLE. Sit at the window and look over the way at your neighbour's excellent mansion, which he has recently built and paid for, and sigh out—" 0, that I were a rich man." Get angry with your neighbour, and think you have not got a friend in the world. Shed a tear or two; take a walk in the burial ground, continually saying to your self, " When shall I be buried here? " Sign a note for your friends, and never forget your kindness, and every hour in the day whisper to your self, I wonder if he will pay the note ? " Think everybody means to cheat you. Closely examine every bill you take, doubt its being genuine, till you put the owner to a great deal of trouble. Believe every dime passed to you is but a sixpence crossed, and express your doubts about geeting rid of it if you take it. Never accommodate, if you can possibly help it. Never visit the sick and affiicted, and never give a farthing to the poor. Grind the faces and hearts of the poor and unfortunate. Brood over your misfortunes, your lack of talents, and believe that at no distant day you will come to want. Let the poor-house ever be in your mind, with all the horrors of poverty and distress. Then you will be miserable to your heart's content — if we may so speak—sick at heart, and at variance with all the world.—American Paper. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From this night's Gazette.) AnAccount, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 82, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 22d day of March, 1851. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. -' Notes issued.. .• •• 27,715,620 Government debt .. 11;015,100 Other securities •• 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 13,682,245 Silver bullion • • • • •• 33,375 £27,715,620 £ 27,715,620 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. LB5l. , ETAULTMEN T. . Dated the 27th day of March, 1 BANKING D: L. Propriotors'capital.• 14,553,000 ' Rest • •• •• 3,619,206 Public deposits (in cluding' Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ings-banks, and Di vidend accounts) • • 8,792,245 Other deposits .. • • .. 8,977,263 Seven day and other 8i115..... • • • .. 1,016,084 ,Government some- tiea (including Dead Weight Annuity) • • 14,145,250 Other securities •• • • 12,907,809 , Notes ••••••• • • • • • • . 9,221,300 !Gold and silver coin.. 683,440 £36.957,799 £36,957,799 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. 1851. Dated the 27th day of March, 1 EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTER.—On Sunday morn ing last a large rat attacked a brood of chickens in the poultry yard of W. Iloldsworth, Esq., when the hen most valiantly defended her offspring, and successfully kept the rat at bay, inflicting considerable punishment. The cock then came to the hen's assistance, and by their united efforts suc ceeded in giving the rapacious intruder its quietus.—Notting ham Mercury. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woo' sack at Five o'clock. COUNTY COURTS. The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented several peti tions against Papal aggression from places in Notting hamshire also a petition praying fur a further exten sion of the jurisdiction of county courts to Chancery cases. . Lord BROUGHAM supported the prayer of the peti tion, inasmuch as the present constitution of the Court of Chancery amounted to an absolute denial of justice in cases in which the amount of litigation was less than 5001. He intended on Monday to introduce a Bill au thorising the county courts to interfere in cases which really could not go before the Court of Chancery. Lord LYNDHURST had, by the orders which be had issued, saved the suitors in Chancery 50,000/. a year. Lord BROUGHAM could bear testimony to the suc cess of the exertions of his Noble and Learned Friend in the diminution of the court fees. HOUSE OF LORDS, March 27. THE CENSUS. The Bishop of OXFORD presented a petition from a body of clergymen in the diocese of Oxford, complaining of their being called upon to answer certain questions contained ill the papers issued from the Registrar-General's office, inncuouni_ flexion with the census. The questions referred to the holars ber of persons attending churches, the number attending national and Sunday schools, and other of s cholars l) queries a similar nature. The petitioners objected to thesebe made to ints of being issued-1, because replies would fail stowhich might them in many instances ; 2, because any re be made must necessarily be vague conducive to 3, because the general result must be eanlied incorrect ; n truth ; 4 , be' the propagation of error rather tbs. obtained ' would cause the incorrect information th d % s e o f the great be made available to the interests over which the ministers lOfretihueb: be sent in by to watch. The returns of the census should be lost in con- Cushturch were bound o pinion of that Monday next, and therefore no time of the veying to the clergy an indication unity had been af- House as to whether they should reiLlyportto the queries which had been put to them or not. l'ullis brother prelates on this forded him of consulting many ocnisly s of opinion that the subject, and they were a be what the petitioners effect of answering the queriesalluded to in their Lordship? w" and, q consequence of what passed stated. The subject a 04,. had been issued from the House a few days since; on that occasion, anotherpsetia,ting that no person was bound Registrar-General's office'w r the queries objected to. It ap under a penalty to ,areythat this was not all that should to intimate that answers to the peared to him, howeanvessrs at all. . queriesbe done. It was nece ted so fallacious as facts except were not .expweeas sta served that n iptinnarle were true, generally, how much more such garbled statistics as must be tistics. If that rem, ivl,3 , to closely would it e obtained in answer to to the proposed queries. Authentic in• attainable when demanded under a pe. formation was natty. Under°tese circumstances, he hoped that Ministers e o jectiona e queries be insisted on, and, if the information sought would intimate that answers to th 1) . • bl • would not now for should co ntinue to be thought requisite, an enactment . previously to the g ofthe next census miht oe pa which would render it imperative on takin clergymen and others to answer the queries intended to elicit it. If consulted by the clergy of his a . • diocese as to the course th e y oug ht to pur sue, he shoul d be inclined to advise them not to answer the queries, .and yet he was unwilling to place himself in an an tagonistic position towards the Government in this matter, a nd to seem desirous of thwarting efforts which could only originate in good intentions. Earl GRANVILLE believed that the public expectation would be disappointed if the Government were not to attempt to obtain statistical information respecting spiritual and secular education. At the same time it had been thought right that the public should be distinetly informed that replies to the queries could not be enforced by any legal obligation. Beyond that point the Government did not feel justified in going. One observation only he would make in reference to what had fallen from the Right Rev. Prelate, namely, that if all other bodies of persons in the State, except the clergy, returned the information which was required from them, it would not redound to the credit of the latter. The Bishop of SALISBURY said there was no objec tion on the part of the clergy to give the fullest informa tion in their power upon any matter which came under their supervision; but they alleged , and he thought truly , that returns which it was left to the voluntary act of indivi duals to make or withhold could never present results upon which any dependence could be placed. It was certain that in 80 large a body as the clergy a considerable number would object to make the returns called for, and he confessed that he participated in the objecion. The result would be, that only inaccurate and partial information would be obtained. - ii;11 - +ITZWILLIAAI was understood to say, that clergy men ought not to be called upon to state the number of per sons attending their churches, that being a point on which it would be bAter for them to be ignorant than well-informed in some cases.