The Sun. — London, England, 1851-06-25 00:00:00

e , f6 —`4 loft SUIV OFFICE, Seven (Mock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAXER took the Chair a few minutes after Twelve o'clock. PRIVATE AUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the Dundee and Arbroath Railway Bill were considered and agreed to. The St. An,lrew's and Quebec Railway Bill was read a second tins 2, and ordered to be committed. On the motion of Mr. WILSON PATTEN, it was agreed that the Committee on the Water Supply of the the:ropolis, should have power to send for persons, papers, and records. PETITIONS. Mr. LAW presented a petition against the Public homes (Seatland) Bill. Dlr. WA WN presented a petition from South Shields, complaining of the repeal of the rarigation laws. Mr. DUNDAS presented a petition from a place in Scotland sgaiont the Public -houses Bill. Lord MELGUND presented a petition to the same effect. Mr. W. PATTEN presented a petition from the turnpike trustee's of Lancaster, preying for an altera tion in turnpike trusts. Mr. SPOONER presented a petition against the New Forest Bill. Lord HAAS presented a petition from a place in Fiteshire in favour of home-made spirits in bond. Mr. FORBES presented a petition from the Presby terians of Banff against the admission of Jews into Parliament. THE IRISH STATE PRISONERS. Mr. ANSTEY put a question to the Under Secretary of State fur the Colonies, whether the State prisoner Mr. MacManue was not discharged from the custody of Sir William Denison's commandant at Port Arthur by a solemn order of the Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land eleclacifeig such custody to be illegal; whether the said State prisoner, after having, in coaaequence of such order,with the connivance of Government, quitted Heber ton, and returned to his own house at Launceston, has not been again arrested by Sir William Denison upon the same charge on which his Excellency had caused him to be placed in such custody ; whether it is true that he was, upon such his aecond arrest, brought all the way back from Launceston to Hobarton, a distance of 120 tales, on foot ; and whether he was not, at the date of the last advises, suffering from a fever occasioned by such treatment? Mr. HAWES said that it was quite true that Mr. MacManue having applied to the Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus, and the return to that court being deemed insufficient, he was discharged from custody. To th e rest of the quest i on of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman he could give no answer, not having yet re ceived sufficient information. The Chief Justices' Salaries Bill was introduced and read a first time. UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) L • Sir G. CLERK presente d tt pet i t i o n from B I the ijGeneral Assembly of t h e C hurch o f S co tl a nd strongly objecting to the provisions of this Bill. Mr. E. ELLICE , j un ., p res ented it petition from the Provost a n d C orporat i on o f St. Andrews in favour of the Bill. Mr. COWAN moved the second reading of the Bill. describing the The Hon. Gentleman commenced by- difference between the English S and university system. The universities in Scotland were far from assuming the ecclesiastical character which they pas sassed in England; th e y were not so dependent on the national Church, for all the chairs of professors might be held by laymen except the chair of divinity. The tests which had formerly been created bad been for the purpose of keeping out of the professors' enairs Prelatiee, and Papists, who were hostile to the Hanoverian succession. In the present day these tests were but of little use, and it vas well known that several of the professors' chairs were occupied by Episcopalians, with great credit to the mseiveis he would allow. The simple object of the Bill was to throw open these chairs de jure as well as - de facto to all classes of Dissenters. Freda the best int forint:tem he had been able to obtain, no test whatever had been required for the last twenty years in the Uni very of Scotland, and this ho thought was a very street; argument for the repeal of the testa Re con cluded by moving the second reading of the Bill. Mr. .LOCKII ART considered that the measure was calculated to destroy the religious and Protestant cha racter of the Scotch Universities. There had been no public demonstration in the country to justify the House in taking so important a step as the abolition of university testae which had already worked so well. All the aniver- Cities in Scotland bore a high character, and religious dissensiotA had never entered within their walls. The Bill was, in fact, in direct opposition to the oath taken by her Majesty, that she would maintain the established Church in Scotland with all its rights and privileges for all time to coime. He moved that the Bill be read a second time this day six months. Mr. EWART said it was quite competent for the House to pass a measure to amend or alter the Act of Union. The lion. Member had said that the Bill would violate the principles of Protestantism; he (Mr. Ewart), however, thought that religious freedom was the heat promoter of the Protestant faith. The Bill was quite in accordance with the religions feel ing of the country, and congenial with the enlightened views of the people, and he had therefore great pleasure in happening the second reading. Sir GEORG e p GREY said the opinions which he entertained in regard to the principle of the Bill remained unaltered, and if the Honourable Member went to a division he should feel bound to give it his support. His Right Hon. Friend the Secretary at War add stated in the House that it was the intention of the Government to introduce a Bill of the same kind, but that he did not think it expedient to do so this session. He (Sir George Grey) very much doubted the policy of the Hon. Member pressing the House to a. division on the present occasion. There was no probability of success, and looking at the appearance et: the House, it did not seem that the question bad excited much interest among the Scotch Members. Ile was, however, of opinion that however ne cessary tfteso tests might have been, the occasion for their I nsthattion had long since passed away, and it was not con. ducise to the advantage or interest of the universities that they ehould be maintained. If enforced, the effect would be to exclude from the chairs of universities many emi nent men. The universities themselves had the good sense to avoid such a result by practically putting these tests into abeyance. As there was, however, little pro spect of the Bill passing this session, he trusted that the Hon. Member would withdraw his motion. After a ;i3W words from Mr. E. ELLICE, jun., and Mr. A. HASTfE, The Route then divided, when there appeared-- For the second reading ••• • • • 65 Against it ..• ••• •• 66 Mtjority against —1 The auncunceinent of the numbers was received with loud taught-r. ENCUMBERED ESTYITE3 LEASES (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. M'CULLAGEI. moved the second reading of this aid explained that the object of the measure was to give power to the Ericlinahircd Estates Commissioner. to grant leases, under certain citeuraseincee, to the : ta ° et pyilit,, , tenants of lttnds which they m , glit value and i"A" or• As the I uee tt d law now stood great injustice h a d one to the occ u pyi ng tenants of the encum b ered e3tatei which, had been - sold in tee Commissioners' Court, and he proposed - Opt i on of that in ruture the tenant should have the miag a lease in perpetuity upon patine a of the vu , t„. uatton and the remaining thrto-fourtha in the chap., of vent iEstiy of thosef tvieinful ejectments that had recently thiat, rib, atter the neumbered estates ie Ireland, and tenant had devoted his time and means for a tong series of to t h e Years improvement of the pro perty so di4osed or, Upon the question being put, mr. FRENCH said the propositiou of the Honour able add Leartid Member W as a monstrous one. It was nothing more than t that the should be e Purchaser of an encumb red estate ea empelied, whether h® lease in would or no, to grant 3Perpetuity to a art whom he knew noth alluvv_sueh an uning whatever of. He hopedpGoy vernment would nut just Bill t o be read a second time. Mr. NA H believe that ER could hardlyt the g ee. and Learned Member had any serious intention of Proceed ing with this measure, because if it were passed i t Would have the afflict of directly defeating h- , obJect of the Encumbered Estates Aut. w s e ectioned by t o which was , Legislatu re f or th e p urpose o f e ncouregteg who would of capital in I r i s h land. Now, purchase au encumbered estate if on e of the conditions of sal e wee t o b e th a t the purchaser should a t ? The grnt leese for 999 years to the occupying tenet] _ bear ide euf such a l aw was a b sur d, tme he trusted I House reij , .et the Bill at once. DUNNE said this IV4B one of the most extra" ordinary Echeines of legislation he had ever heerd of. Toe E ueuratered Estaie3 Act was an attempt at notifica tion, lett this Br 1 wss netting less than a speciL-a u 1 R'ilulesu p l.4 rc " 'rY• and the House ought hot to enter tain it for a single thr,tnemt. Mr. E. a ROCHE urged upon the House the neces sity of re d , ming the law of landlord amid tenant. Tee recent ceetue eihtloted the startiieg fact, that the popu lation uf Ire l - I, d had fallen from between nine and ten znillions to eomething like six millions, which he attributed to the restricted nature of tenant - right ;n that country. Nov this Bill recognised tree principl, of tenant right, and he was therefore divined to support the second reading; but it must riot be euppoesd from toot circumstance that he, was sexious to see all its provlstoLs adop,ed, Lecauo by wls oPpo'4 , -cl to that p.ii t of it which was likely to encou nge ieent charg, s. The Hen. arid Learned M em b er who last addressed the ase,e told them that what the land wanted was to he let alone, end he should be glad to how whether her Majesty's Government subscribed to that doctrine, or whether treey thought something ought to be dons] to improve the reiar.:oß3 subsisting be t alien landlord end tenant in that country. TAe En cumbered Estates Comini.iiiiin?rs had tnacle many la inentahl in the va;cation of land, and he should ptuse bef ;re be give them the power to Talus locate nide:. this Bill, but that was a matter of de tail w'aicli tale ht be lees fir contiderxtion lit Commit' o9 . The ATTditNEY GELERAL for IRELAND con- C lied DID w;l5 objectiotialle nit only in its de tail, but in . Finciple also, and if it vi,ie carried he very sexist noubn.d wheeler it could be jut into (Tendon. It sot.-!d be an act of gross injustice to confer upon the 13neambered instates Commissioners the power of leasing which it proposed. Such a power was indeed utterly opposed to the rights of property known either in England or Ifeland; and he therefore felt bound to give the Bill his most determined opposition. Ho movsd as an amendment that the Bill be read a second time this day six months. Mr„ S. CRAWFORD supported the Bill, because it gave liip a hope that some slight step would be taken to atiniato the disadvantages under which the Irish people laboured. He would support every proposition of a similar nature until some comprehensive mea sures were brought forward by the Government. At the same time be considered that the only relief fur the evils of Ireland was an entire re-adjustment of the law of landlord and tenant The House then divided, when there appeared— For the second reading ... 15 Against it 94 one mile, for 501. a side, completing the distance, it was saH, under tour minutes mil a n.l . ke is a well built fellow, stands five feet seven inches and a half high, and weighed Bst. 101 b. Ile trained under the care of William Shepherd. After a few preliminaries the men prepared to start a little after halt•past six o'clock, each with a smile of confi dence on his countenance. 7to 4 was freely cffsred on Seward. Matthews won the toss, and placed his man on the I,3ft. They bounded away at the first attempt, Matthews leading by a clear yard. This distance he in creased to three yards on going down by the house, and maintained this lead until reaching the hill the second time, where Seward passed his opponent, and eventually won easily by thirty yards. Time two minutes and forty five seconds.—Manchester Guardian. dert - m Park the ground was torn up in many places, and tree-s were hlAwa d wn. LA the tuwu,laip of Tong; 80 o.iier trees were similarly destroyed. At Warring ton a house wai set on fire by the lightning, and the engines were culled out, but the flames were fortunately extinguished without much damage being done. A person named Ibbeteon was sitting in his shop in Salford, when the lightning struck one of the windows, and smashed a pane of plate glass, four feet by two. He himself was stunned, and was unable to speak for upwards of two hours. He is now per fectly recovered. There is a rumour that two per sons were killed at Chorlton-cum-Hardy, but we have not been able to trace it to any authentic source. Fol lowing the coarse of therm from Holyhead into Yorkshire, the wire coils of Ire least 25 of the telegraph instruments were completely fused. In Rochdale six cottsges in course of erection were washed away by the flood, and carried to the gasworks, which were at once stopped fro'm working. The loose sand and earth got into the Typhon which communicates between the purifier and condenser. At Mills-hill, near Mi ddleton, a barn was blowa down, a n d some sta b ling much injured. girl was struck by li g h tn i ng at Rochdale, and D e a l :Ogle lot several ho urs a f terwards. IcAaoym servantipn se et Altij ority against second reading —79 The Bill was consequently lost. The Landlord and Tenant Bill, as amended, was con sidered, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED Di THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1851. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases — 4 '205 Diseases of Uncertain Seat 35 Tubercular Diseases ... 189 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... 109 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 55 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ••• . • •• • • •• • • • • •• 112 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ••• ••• ••• 59 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. •• ••• ••• 12 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ... 9 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 8 Diseases of the Skin, Ste. ... 3 Malformations... ••• ••• • • ••• ••• 3 Premature Birth ••• ••• •• ••• ••• 31 Atrophy ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 23 Old Ag e ••• ••• I•• ••• ••• ••• 37 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 52 Causes not specified ... 15 - - The Gunpowder St)res (Liverpool) Exemption Re. peal Bill was read a third time and passed. MEDICAL CHARITIES (IRELAND) BILL. The House went into Committee on this Bill. Oa the question that the preamble be postponed, Lord NAAS übjeoed to the principle of rating con tained in the Bill. It was the first occasion on which rates had been raised after the manner of the poor's rate for the support of charitable institutions, and be was afraid that this instance would be used as a prece dent for future purposes. Sir WILMA SOXERVILLE explained that the object of the Bill was to distribute the expenses of these charities, which had formerly been borne by the occupiers alone, over all classes equally, and that was the reason why this system of rating had been pursued. After some desultory discussion the clause, with some verbal amendments, was agreed to. On clause 2 being proposed, THE LONDON GAZETTE, June 24. WHITEHALL, JUNE 21, 1851. The Queen het been pleased to pr esen t t h e R everen d Evan Jenkins to the Vicarage of Rinivilgaio, alias Con wilgaio, alias Cynw)l Gaio with Llansawell, in the county of Carmarthen, and diocese of St. David's, void by the cession of the Reverend George Howells, the last incumbent. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Cardiganshire. John Bonitbee, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Jane 20. W. Thomson, Edinburgh, writer, to meet within the Temperance Hotel, Edinburgh, June 30 and July 21, at twelve. J. Campbell, Rothesay, joiner, to meet within Kin , loch's Hotel, Rothesay, July 2 and July 30, at one. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. BANKRUPTS. Anthony Patter, horse-dealer, Chapple, Essex, to sur render July 12, al , one, and July 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Graham, official assignee; Hil leary, Fenchurch-street. Joseph Sowerbz, silk mercer, Oxford-street, July 10 and August 12, a; eleven, a t the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, o ffi cial as signee, Abchurch-lane; Wootton, To kenhouse-y ard. William Hansen, statuary, Warwick-road, Kensing ton, July 3, at tee, and Aug. 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch lane; Ladgrove, Xark-lane. John Benton, corn merchant, White Horse-street, Stepney, July 4, at half-past one, and Aug. 15, at twelve, at the Ccnrt of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook -court, Basinghall-street; Hillearys, Fench arch street.: William Davies; coal merchant, Walbrook, July 3 and Aug. 7, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Gresham, Castle street, Holborn. Augustus Bozzi Granville, boarding and lodging-house keeper, Wembly, bliddlesex, June 28, at two, and Aug. 23, at elevt.o, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers, Basingball-street; Lawrence and Plevs, Old Jewry-chambers. Thomas George Tidt.y, bookseller, Rugby, Warwick shire, July 3 and 31, at twelve, at the Birmingham Dis trict Court. Chriotie, official assignee, Birmingham; Wratislaw, Rugby. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. Sir R. FERGUSON moved the omission of the words " or hospital district or districts," for the purpose of not conferring any other power on the commissioners over hospitals than that of inspection. Mr. REYNOLDS opposed the amendment. In con sequence of the want of inspection in county and work house hospitals thousands or people had died from wilful neglect and need of proper medical advice and treatment. Sir W. SOMERVILLE hoped the House would not agree to the proposition, or the Hon. Baronet; for great as the abuses were in connexion with hospitals and in firmaries in Iceland, they would be increased if those institutions were not included within the operations of the Bill. Sir D. NORREYS opposed the amendment, and hoped the Bill would beigiven up altogether if it were carried. Colonel DUNNE said the Bill was only an experi ment, and he thought it would be best to try it upon dispensaries first, and if it were found to work well, then its provit:ions could be extended to hospitals. Lord BERNARD did not think it would be advisable to introduce the amendment into the Bill now. Mr. FRENCH was not disposed to support the amend ment. _ _ _ DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES 968 Population Deaths in corre. Deaths Enumerated, sponding week in the 1841. of 1850. Week. West Districts... 301,189 . . 133 ... 169 North Districts.. 376,568 .. 164 ... 188 Central Districts 374,199 ... 128 ... 165 East Districts ... 393,067 ... 140 ... 186 tiouth Districts .. 503,346 ... 210 ... 260 Totals... ..... 1,948,369 Males ... ... Females ... ... 775 ... 963 ... 492 ... 476 Mr. VESEY recommended the Government to adopt the plan of the Honourable Member for Londonderry, and then they would get rid of all the other amendments that were to be proposed in the BIM Mr. S. CR:AWFORD expressed a hope that the amendment would not be carried, as he felt all medical charities ought to be placed on the same footing, and under the same control. Mr. FLAUERTY also called upon the Committee to reject the amendment, and allow all the medical charities to rest upon one general fund. It, however, the Bill was not to be adopted in its integrity he would much rather wait for another year before legislating on the übjectat Mr. CLE 'vIENTS supported the amendment, adding that it could be easily recalled next session if it did not succeed. rater a few words from Mr. CONOLLY and Sir W, SOMERVILLE, Lora NAAS said he should be the first person to sup port the Bill if he thought it would do Ireland any good, out he had heard nothing proved against the existing management of the hospitals, and iu the abaence 9f any ,uch proof he could see no reason for changing the system. - Colonel "RAW DON implored the Committee not to allow the Bill to he defeated, as it was calculated to con fer a great and lasting boon upon Ireland. Mr. HAMILTON did not wish to see the Bill thrown out, but ho could see no reason why it should not in clude dispensaries, and, he should certainly support the amendment. After a few words of explanation from Sir. Wrd. SOMERVILLE and COl. DUNNE, the Committee divided, when there appeared— For the amendment Against it ... 24 ... 85 ... -61 Majority ... The amendment was cousequently lost. • On the motion of Mr. CLEMENTS, the Chairman was instruc'ed to report progress, and the House haying resumed, he did so accordingly. The remaining orders were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Six o'clock. FRAN CE. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1851. York hire, linen mannfitctureu—Ellen Thaelk r.2y and J. Th.:ckeva.y, Widlord, Nottinghamshire, cotton dmblers—S. Binsted and J. W. Prcbble, Rotherhitbe, New-road, japanners—P. Griffith, T. W. Griffith, and E. L. Griffith, Nil-mail, wine merchants. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Edward Shelley, Liverpool, ale and porter dealer. John Jones, Liverpool, agent. Samuel Genese, Liverpool, auctioneer. James Wood, Liverpool, assistant master. Henry Liversedge, Liverpool, beerhouse keeper. Thomas Duke, Liverpool, beerhouse keeper. John Surr, Liverpool, clerk. John Douglas Robinson, Liverpool, passenger broker. Robert Mil ward, Worcestershire, beerhouse keeper. Samuel Beard, Shropshire, labourer. William Lediard, Worcester, cabinetmaker. James Greenough, Lancashire, druggist's assistant. Joseph Morris, Sussex, lodging house keeper. James Gibson, Northumberland, painter. Charles flail, Portsmouth, beer seller. Walter Scott, Southampton, printer. George Hough, Huddersfield, corn miller. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. A. Drysdale, Edinburgh, silk warehouseman,' to meet at the Ship Hotel, Edinburgh, June 30 and July 28, at two. The Committee on the revision of the Constitution remained assembled yesterday from eleven to four o'clock. After an animated discussion, the propositions submitted to the Assembly by MM. Craton, Larabit, and Bouhier de l'Ecluse were rejected, and the Com mittee adjourned to Thursday to decide on those of MM. de Broglie and Payer, and to elect its reporter. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES M. de Reedtz, the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs, has passed Hamburgh on his return from Ber lin to Copenhagen. There is a rumour of a crisis in the Danish Cabinet. Messrs. Madvig and Claussen, the two Ultra. Liberal Members of that Cabinet, will, it is said„ba induced to resign. ITALY. The Turin journals of the 20th inst. announce the departure for London of Count de Revel with powers from the Sardinian Government to contract a loan of 75 millions of francs. STA'TI OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, TIIESDAY.—The prospects of supply from the present crop of cotton, of which 2,224,976 bales are officially reported as having reached the Ame rican ports, together with the forwardness in some dis tricts of that which is now in the ground, and the gene rally favourable state of the weather, have had 'the effect of checking the upward tendency of the Liver pool market, and indeed of giving to prices a slight turn in the buyers' favour. Our own market has been so far affected by this cause as that a less lively state of things has prevailed to-day, than we bad to describe in the two past weeks. It has produced a little more chariness amongst the buyers, who are inclined to inquire how prices may be influenced by its becoming speedy evident, nut only that we shall have a crop of 2,400 000 bales this year, but a still larger elan in the next. Oa the other band, the spinners have maintained a lirm and independent attitude, being to a large extent well supplied with orders, and having great confidence in the sufficiency of the home arid foreign demand together, to sustain the value or their production, even it that of the raw mate rial should more than loee what it has lately regained— a which seems indeed necessary to a satisfactory condition of the trade of this district. With a somewhat diminished inquiry, therefore, there is yet prevailing firmness in the prices of yarns, particularly of water taist. Many spinners aro so much engaged as to be unable to take orders for some articles. In goods, also, there has been a general quietness; but, though in this department sellers do not show exactly the same degr ee of ease ab out selling or not selling as in yarns, still the quotations remain unchanged. ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We have had rather more in quiry for goods to-day, as well as a little improved de mand for pieces; and the manufacturers are in better spirits, at witnessing symptoms of better times coming. There is no change in the wool market; prices are firm, and the demand is steady. MACCLESFIELD, TIIESDAY.—The demand for manu factured goods remains without improvement ; this, coupld with the low rates now current, tends to check any increase of production, which continues to be ex tremely limited. Home-thrown—This article has been marked by a considerable increase of business, several large parcels (chiefly China organzine) having found purchasers at a reduction equal to that on raves at Liverpool. Raw Silk—The public sales at London, which commence to-morrow, have had the usual effect of suspending business until their result is known. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—We have had a very quiet day ihn%:uropiece hail, and the amount of bu s i ness transacte d W been large in any descriptio n o f worste d goo d s. only rreep at z ; ard to both the yarn an d woo l mar k ets, we can ith t 1:101Th our last week's report. t h e c I oth R t , ,,I I I ELD, , TIIESDAY.—The .manufacturers in complain very much of the slackness ol the m ar k et n*etown. stocei:shef: s t c h areely having been any buyers low sales were.etTeeted. In the walre . hall at present are low, and rally abited for, were not o o n s h t a h n a ,i t seemed to b l e gene tow tun kind and quality of d o h t c i u se s q es uen ab t o y ut ve a r n y has been done during the week as is ( s e ttlne , of t hek season. Rather more has ' been t t r h a i done in the wool .n y ar o:2.tet steady p r i ces. u n s r u er i u i it ;e t LEEDS, TUESDAY . r.t.it w ehavf_ had a fair market both to-day and on t'a r . 4 ll ,r 1 last. There is rather more bu siness doing to or..t , andstocks continuo low. co;,eiu much excite -1?D and Ar ---- - ,•,.ance may ----_,,,, ATTILEWS. RACE between meet, was brough 4, to a _g .1 _. Mon d Nearly 5.00 5 r °la This gri at foot race, which iI7 , A has ()mused ~„ tistac_ro . r e y day, at Ilyd--pa:k, Lihetha. asseaible,l to view the race. , The di . t . as 1,100 the championship; an , th yards, fur 501. a sine and_ 0_1,3, " Th e A 6 match was netween George Se ..Eue. ' Mit thews, of hip man Wonder," and Viiiiiam . of betting took place mingliam. A great deal ,i,„ osporting houses on Sunday evening . , at all "--- , tra i„ of in Sheffield, at 12 to 10 on Seward. A p ci ' %.tischargPd 17 carriages was run from Birmingham, an its cargo sakly into Sut field uncut half-past n ine in the morning. It would b.,, superfluous to give a detail eta ,c 1 an ew" of S , .!vve.re's o-rtormances. He comm ence I his pt destriancareerin 1840, in America, besting the well , known 1 i3elden, for 1,000 ,l,,llars, distance 100 yards. Ile also beat Ainsw( rh, ii, , ,,d several others, ar, distsi,ces varying from 100 to 200 y ards. He trained under t;. - ,e wire of J. Howard, of jradford,,..r. ,8ar0.74t, near Iniion, and was in first - rats condition- He is 33 years of ags, weighs llst. 710., and stands five f ea t seven i nches h ig h. Al a t t hsws'a doings aro not of so recqut a date. He has run some good men, including the celebrated Charles Westhall, of London 1 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males Females ... 728 ... 754 Total ... ... 1,482 *ln this number are included 19 by Scarlatina, 35 by Typhus Fever, 16 by Diarrhoea, and 1 by Cholera. DESTRUCTIVE kIAILSTORM. Some portions of Lancashire were visited with a storm on Saturday last, which, though of short duration, was fearfully violent, and destroyed a good deal of pro perty. It appears to have come from St. George's Channel, and to have passed over Holyhead. Chester, end Birkenhead, in its course, at all which places travellers speak of its violence at early periods of the afternoon. It reached the neighbour hood of Manchester between 7 and 8 o'clock in the evening, but the town felt comparatively little of its force. The main fury of the elements seems to have fallen upon the villages and towns skirting the Cheshire border of the county—Cheadle, Ditisnury, Leveuhulme, Gorton, Denton, Droylsden, Fairfield, Ashton, Old ham, Middleton, and Rochdale. The commingling of the elements was fearfully grand, though terrific. Masses of heavy, dark clouds loomed in the western horizon long before the storm ac tually burst forth, and lightning darted from them in such rapid fleahes, that it appeared to spread through the atmosphere like waves of vivid flame. There vies not a breath of wind at this time, and the sultriness was almost intolerable. A few heavy drops of rain sprinkled the earth, utid came like an avant courrier to announce the near approach of the storm. More vivid flashes of lightning, and peals of thunder like distant artillery. Teen came the elements together in a general burst, as if they would bear down, tear up,' or destroy everything in their course. Heil, rain, thunder, lightning, and wind all comming ling in terrific combination, brewed a storm such as is seldom witnessed. The wind blew in fearful gusts, and the hail tell in masses which rendered it unusually de structive. Our correspondent had not the means of col lecting an account of all the mischief done by it, but witnessed many of its results in the neighbourhood of Fairfield. At Gorton, about a mile from the celebrated Moravian establishment of Fairfielol, the windows of the cotton-mill of Mr. John Rylands, on the western front, were struck with such violence by the hail. that upwards of 500 squares of glass were broken. A gentleman who witnessed the storm here says that the hail fell in balls which were generally as large or larger than hazlenuts, and many of them were nearly as large as walnuts. Though most of the hailstones were of a roundish form, many of them were mere flattened pieces of ice, more like the squares of ivory used for dice. Several of these which were gathered up by some other parties were measured, and varied from three-fourths to seven eighths of an inch in breadth. No wonder that they came in edso nnntant destructiveAt Droylsden, to rtohjelsagelna, which is betweenss with which they Gorton and Fairfield, they were yet more destructive. The windows of the Catholic chapel were struck by them, and nearly 200 squares of glass were de stroyed in them. Great numbers of the cottages of the poor were struck at the same time by the storm, and their windows were completely riddled by the hailstones. Nearly all the cotton-mills, both in Droylsden and Fair field, and many of the houses suffered more or less. Strange to say, one of the mills, apparently most ex posed, had but few windows broken. This was the mill of the late Mr. 011erenshaw, now in the hands of his executors; but the windows of two small cottages belonging to the same estate, and near to the mill, had no less than 89 squares of glass in them broken. The windows of Messrs. Christy's mill suffered a good deal, and those of Messrs. Lees' mill to some extent. The hands employed in Mr. Christy's mill, or many of them, occupy cottage houses near the premises in Queen-street, and the windows of these were so riddled by the hail that upwards of 200 squares of glass were destroyed. The greatest sufferers in this neighbourhood from the storm, however, are Messrs. Worthington and Benson, spinners and menu. lecturers, in whose mill, according to the statement of a member of the firm, upwards of 1.000 squares of glass (another person said he counted 1,200 and upwards, in dependent of broken skylights in the weaving sheds) were broken. But it would be almost impossible to convey an accurate idea of the mischief done in this ay. Few houses have entirely escaped being marked by the fury of the elements, and one singular feature we noticed in these broken windows was, that in some cases the hail had taken out pieces of glass without fracture of the remaining portion of the squares—much as a ball from a gun or a pistol would perforate a window. Some of the cotton mills at Stockport suffered a good des!. The windows of the mill belonging to Messrs. James Marshall and Sons were a good deal broken, and many of the windows in Mr. Marshall's private house were knocked in. In the Sunday-school at Eveleigh, between Stockport and Hszelgrove, scarcely a square of gla ss in t h e windows was left entire. In Heaton-lane, Stockport, such was the force of the storm that shops had to be closed, aad a draper suff. , red severe loss from the break ing of his windows and injury to his goods. Hailstones were picked up in the market-place, and on the castle hill, se large as pigeons' eggs. The storm was severely felt at Middleton, Radcliff :;-bridge, and Bury. At Red ctiffe-bridge a horse was killed by lightning, and an in fant in its mother's arms was struck by the electric fluid at Bury, and killed. Toe mother escaped with scorched neck and arms. Some large poplar trees were torn up by the roots in Alkring ton wood, near Middleton, and a good deal of property was destroyed in that neighbourhood. Further in this direction, at Rochdale, Littleborough, and the Vale of Todmorden, the hailstorm was not so heavy, but much damage was done by the floods which succeded the heavy fall of rain. The growing timber along one side of the vale was injured and torn up a good deal. At Moses-gate rail way station, near Farnworth, Bolton, a beerhouse belong ing to a man nam e d S m i t h was set onfire by the lightning, but the flames were extinguished without any great da mage. Another house at the same place was struck by the electric fluid, and injured. At Newton, near Manches ter, where Shooter's-brook an d the Bluebottona•brook form a junction, a number of cottages were flooded; and at a beethouse kept by Mr. Gagga, several barrels of ale were stove in, a pig and pigcote carried away, and other damage was done, inflicting a loss of up wards of 101. At Manchester the damage was princi pally confined to the blowing down of a few walls; but at Peel-park, Salford, where the working classes had been promenading, and enjoying in their own public park the music of a fine military band lent for the occa sion, the museum had a narrow escape from the electric fluid, which was happily attracted from the roof to some adjoining trees, whose branches were stripped of their leaves, and left scorched and withered by the blast. Very considerable damage was caused by the storm in the neighbourhood of Oldham, and several persons were severely injured, although no one was killed. At the house of Mr. Richard Evans, the proprietor of some ex tensive collieries at Royton, the damage sustained could not amount to less than 2001. The whole of the roof of the back part of the house and those of some outbuildings were completely stripped off by the wind, and some very valuable furniture destroyed, in. eluding a mirror of 501 value. A large chimney at the celiiery was blown entirely down. Two cottages belong ing to the same gentleman sustained damage to the amount of 61. A barn belonging to Mr. Thomas Platt, farmer, at Crompton, near Oldham, was blown entirely d g o4 l n de . teteu 'i nti ' d h , e loss in this case was about 40/. Part of the roof of another barn at the same place, belonging to Mr. liam Tay ino lo f r, thae was n also blown off, the damage The wall fell upon amounting to 101. On the road between Oldham and refs blown down and of the reOtifthaagded carrieder w to a n s a , w ea the ny .. township ewl -b newly - built of , some buys who were standing near it, it'vlicitainuagwvenr!lssevere injuries. O ne o f t h em, name d J oseph b w o i n i e i LitturactTwuroudn,ynears of all agehis, had uth arms and his jaw seneadrly, teeth being knocked out. James Ogden, Peter Holt, and turesnoyf thiveulegsand arms. Another from 18 to 20 years of age, ; the rot,f lv e t n together, and d J ) o s e s p , t ta c i n o t t atr il acyoug Wen sal cottage close rdeenlnuticrnel damaged d wn. f4'):l64,lel;r:dio:wkreooroi oancnaedrorwfititdrh'deaowwwiaseydows were Nine other ewtages at this plat© blown entirely t he a g es ie tr s u s y a e n d d . chimneys of one The total umouut st of damage suained by the cottages in Cnadderlon is estimated at nearly 20 01. Iu Craw. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 24. CASE OF JOTEE PERSHAUD. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH moved for the pro duction of the charges against Jotee Pershaud, an army contractor in India, and of the verdict given on the trial. Jotee Pershaud was no ordinary person. His father had long been connected with the Indian Government, and Jotee Pershaud had continued to take contracts for the supply of the Indian army. He had contracted to find the army of the Sutlej, and never had army been better provided, and in the last war in the Punjaub he had contracted to provide the army in provisions and horses, and that army was always well supplied, whilst the enemy had been compelled to surrender for want of provisions. He was always at head-quarters and had agents in all parts of India, over whose conduct of course he could not ex ercise any control. He was a man of gentlemanly demeanour and had performed great services, yet at the end of the war he had had charges of the gravest character brought against him. Now, nothing could be more dangerous than to bring grave charges against a man who had performed great services without being very certain that such charges could be proved. Now be stated upon the most high authority, that it would have been very difficult to carry on operations effectually if Jotee Pershaud had not had the manage ment of the commissariat. The charges against Jotee Pershaud had been referred to the military authorities, and they had reported that those charges were frivolous and vexatious, and bad recommended that they should not be followed up. This report was sent to the military board, and the military board was divided in opinion as to its adoption. It was not, however, equally divided; for two of the Members concurred with the conclusion of Major Ramsey, while the other thought that the whole metter should be referred to the President in Coun cil. On the 19th January, 1850, accordingly, reference was made of the matter to the president in council, and on the 15th of February following the President in Coun cil referred the case to the Lieutenant-Governor of the north-western provinces. On the 11th of March the Lieutenant-Governor Further referred it to the magistrate of Agra, who made his report on it on the 27th of June. o.her reports were also made, one on the 9th and one on the 12th of July, by two other gentlemen, civil agents, engaged in the investigation of parts of the charge. After the first report was presented it was withdrawn, and the report of one o f th ese gen tlemen substituted in its place; because it had been discovered in the meanwhile that, unfortunately, the ma gistrate of Agra, to whom it had been referred, was a debtor in a large amount to Jotoe Persaud. On that account the further prosecution of the inquiry was con fided to another person, who, on the 7tn of November, made a final report upon the case. The lieutenant governor thereupon directed the prosecution to proceed as against Jotee Persaud, which was confirmed by the Governor-General. AU this while, however, the Go vernor-General of India appea re d t o be without any cognizance of the early proceedings in this case. In January and February, 1850, the Governor-General was at sea, on his voyage from Bombay or to the eastern islands, and he could not therefore have cognizance of this part of the proceedings. In fact he only became so when the final report was made. The trial took place on the 27th of March, and, after twenty days' trial, the accused was acquitted. He (the Earl of Ellenborough) should state that in September, 1850, after he had been arraigned, Jotee Persbaud proceeded to Calcutta and instituted a civil suit for 5763,000/., the balance of his claim against the Government. This was a proceeding grounded on misapprehension and ill-advised. Because if it had been brought at first it would not have been competent for the Government to interpose a criminal prosecution while a civil suit was pending. Ho (the Earl of Ellenborough) did not think it very extraordi • nary that Jotee Pershaud, seeing that he was to bo tried under the new Act in the Mofussil court by a judge and jury appointed by the Government, and seeing the way in which the trial was to be got up, should prefer a trial in the Supreme Court to a trial at bar. He thought the President of the Council consmitted a great error when he did not adhere to the opinion of the majority of the military board, and not proceed further with the inquiry. But he thought the proceedings from the first founded in error as to the course the Government ought to pursue. That course should have been to direct the military accounts to be investigated, to pay to Jotee Pershaud what they believed to be due to him, and leave him to bring his action for whatever balance he might deem due to himself. But undoubtedly they were grave charges which were brought against the persons who were concerned in those transactions. He understood that the witnesses against Jotee Persbaud were per sons who had been concerned in the military con tracts, and that they had been brought by force under the escort of the police to Agra; that at first their evi dence was in favour of Jotea Pershaud, that they were then threatened with prosecution fur their own mal practices, but were also told that if they made a full confession they would be pardoned, and some of the wit nesses were kept in durance until the trial commenced. The whole of the evidence, too, on which be was ar rainged was evidence taken in his absence. Jotee Per shaud in the meantime went to Calcutta, and not having returned at the expiry of his term of bail his recog nizanoes were entreated, and Mr. Laing, who was his ad vocate and also his bailsman, instead of having his goods seized, had an embargo laid upon his press —for he was the editor of a newspaper—the object teeing to atop the mouth of the paper. In this country how great would be the indignation excited if a party were to enter the bedroom of a lady and seize her jewels; but in India to violate the sanctity of the zenana of a Hindoo was cal culated to excite not merely the indignation of the people, but to raise a spirit of insurrection from one end of the country to the other. It was an offence never to be forgiven, and if they disregarded the opinions and feelings of the people in matters of that kind they might be cure their dominion in India would not be worth a fortnight's purchase. He thought he had es tablished sufficient grounds fur the production of the papers be had moved for. Lord BROUGHTON said that the Noble Earl had given an accurate account of the early part of the pro ceedings to which he had alluded. But there was this inconvenience in discussing the subject in the present state of their information, that the official documents which had reached him did not come down no the par ticular transactions to which the Noble Earl had espe cially alluded, and which he thought most worthy of censure. He was happy to fiad that the charges which in the first instance were brought against the Govern ment of India had not been repeated by the Noble Lord; that, on the contrary, he had the candour and straightforwardness to state, that the charge against the Government of having instituted the criminal investiga tion fur the purpose of putting a stop to the civil suit was wholly without foundation. The contrary was the fact; the civil suit was not instituted until a great part of the criminal investigation had beewproceeded with. The facts were shortly these:—On the 50th of March, 1849, a native contractor sent a communication to the authorities, charging Jotee Pershaud with fraud, embezzlement, and forgery. A. military board, consisting of three members, was appointed to investigate the matter, and two members of the board reported that the charges were not sufficiently well founded to be worthy of being further prosecuted; the third officer, however, being of a contrary opinion, and Sir John Littler, the Governor of the north-western province, on receiving those two different opinions, ordered the investigation to be pursued. The inquiry was put into the hands of Mr. Denison, who, after ex amining the accounts, reported that he bad discovered a false charge fur 4,400 bullocks, which had never been used, and also that another false charge for 2,500 bul locks had only been withdrawn on the announcement of the inquiry having been instituted. Subsequently the inquiry was put into the hands of Mr. Cumming, who reported that he bad examined all the proceedings and all the witnesses, and that he was fully satisfied there existed the most extensive frauds. It was true that Mr. Denison on a former occasion had borrowed a sum of money from Jotee Pershaud, with which he purchased a house; which, however, he had subsequently mortgaged to him for the money thus lent, and before the close of the investigation the money was repaid. But when Lord Dalhousie became acquainted with the affair he at once ordered the investigation to be entrusted to other hands. Two other magistrates also investigated the charges, and reported that they had discovered frauds of greet extent. Tuat was in July, 1850, and up to that time there had been no hint, on the part of Jotee Pershaud or his ad visers, of an intention to proceed by civil suit to recover in the Supreme Court balances alleged to he due to hire. It was not till after the ccmmencement of the criminal inveatigatiou that sucivau intention was announced. Lord ELLENBOROUGH—After his arrest. Lord BROUG El lON—The amount of those balances was sot down at 570,0001., and respecting them Newbold, the assistant commissary-genera l . x Colonel his surprise at such a demand, as no previ ous e pressed claim had been made by Jotee Pershaud. Bu t, to conducted, he o s h o w the spirit s of fairness in which the whole affair was might mention that Major By grave, who had been ap pointed to examine those accounts, bad reported that there was a balance in favour of Jotre Persbaud. Lord BROUGHAM- 110 w much? Lord BROUGHTON did not know the exact amount. Major Lawrence, who sign , d the amineuxttersott tropthe C Council of the Government, in a minute, uac he bud now betore bins, made men ti on of an offer which had been made on the part of Jotee Pershaud of a com promise, in which h e agreed to put an end to th e civil suit if the Government would abandon the criminal pro ceedings against him. The offer was refused. Subse quently the whole of the proceedings were reviewed by the Governor-General; and, in his minute of the 4th of November, Lord Dalhousie expressed his approval of the determination of the Council to persevere in the prosecu tion, in order that, if it were true, as: alleged, the cha racter of high departmental officers was implicated, their misdeeds might the sooner be brought to light; or, on the other hand, if there was no foundation for those imputa tions that their character might be the sooner vindicated. With respect to some of the minor charges, he had only seen them in the newspapers. Mr. Wylie showed that the great est indulgence bad been shown Jotee Pershaud; there had been no extortion practised on him. He had forfeited his recognizances, and he had been left unmolested. Lie knew, therefore, of no charge which could be brought against the Government in the matter, unless the Noble Earl said he was not fairly tried. That, however, could not be justly maintained; for the jury consisted of four half-castes and a native, a very able advocate had de fended him, and he was acquitted. What, then, did the Noble Earl complain of? Was it of an error of judg ment on the part of the Governor-General in having ordered his trial? Had he not ordered the trial, would it not have been said that it was in consequence of some complicity between Jotee and some high departmental officers, whose conduct the Government did not want to have exposed? What, too, was to be done with the re ports of the magistrates, four of whom had given it as their decision that th e charges against Jotee Pershaud were well-founded, and ought to be prosecuted? The Government had, in fact, no other alternative than to order the trial, and he could not see that it should be made a ground of complaint against tho Government that they had failed to obtain a verdict. Their Lord ships know that it was not always possible to obtain a verdict in this country. All that he contended for was, that there had been a sufficient case to go before ajury in the matter. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH replied. He con tended that there had been a great error in judgment committed in the proceeding criminally until Jotee Per shaud had proceeded with his civil suit, and had been found to rely upon upon documents liable to im peachment. He brought no charge against the Gover nor-General, who he believed could not have acted in any other manner than he had done; but still he doubted if the prosecution would have been sanctioned by him had he been in Calcutta in February. REGISTRATION OF ASSURANCES BILL. This Bill was read a third time. Oa the question that the Bill do pass, The Marquis of LANSDOWNE observed that in the passing of that Bill it was his belief that they had ar rived at the satisfactory solution of a most important qeestion—a question, too, that for centuries had been in agitation. Although this Bill had been introduced with the sanction of the Government, still the chief merit of the solution of the difficulties in its details mainly belonged to his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Campbell), who had been the Chairman of a Com mission for the investigation of this subject. The measure was one not hastily or rashly adopted. It was, on the contrary, the result of the most careful inquiry. It was a measure that went from that House with greater sanction as a measure of law reform thew any that had ever before been approved of by their Lordships; it went from them with their unanimous approval; it was a measure more entitled to the approbation of the public than any that he knew of; and he trusted that it would meet with the concurrence of the other House of Parlia ment.—(hear.) The Bill then passed. SALMON FISHERIES BILL. On the motion of the Duke of ARGYLL, this Bill passed through Committee. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. Lord BERNERS presented a petiiion from Leicester against Papal aggression, and then stated that nothing but au imperative sense of duty would induce him to proceed with the notice he bad given of presenting peti tions complaining of the continuance of agricultural dis tress, and praying that the laws of settlement and re moval might be repealed. Ile had hoped that some eiewpre would have been introduced by her Majesty's Government in consequence of the report of a Select Committee of their Lordships' House; but now the petitioners whose cause he advocated were placed at a disadvantage in not having the aid of the Noble Duke the Lord-Lieutenant of Leicester. The petitions he bed to present were signed by upwards of 1,000 re.pect able farmers in Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, who were suffering very great distress, and who hoped some measures would be edepted, relieving them from the great burden of taxation to which they were sub jected. There had been other petitions to the same ,fftct entrusted to him, but he would not occupy their Lordships' time with them at that hour, espe cially as some Noble Lords who intended to take part in the di-cussion had left the House. There were three allegations made in those petitions—first, that there was increased distress; second, as to the mischiefs of the law of settlement; third, as to the injustice of an unequal system of rating. Ho reserved, however, to a Etter occasion the discussion on these points which he hoped would receive their Lordships' attention. COMMON LODGING-HOUSES BILL. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, in moving the second reading of this Bill, hoped that it would meet with the same kind indulgence from their Lordships which it had received from the other House. After a few words from the Earl of MINTO, The Duke of ARGYLL said, ho hoped that the Bill would be extended to Scotland, where the lodging-houses were worse than in any part of England. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE complimented the Noble Earl (Shaftesbury) on the Success of his labours in the improvement of the condition of the poor. The Bill was then read a second time. BRITISH WHITE HERRING FISHERY BILL, This Bill was read a second time. MARRIAGES (INDIA) BILL. The report on this Bill was agreed to. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 24. BONDED WAREHOUSES AT MANCHESTER. Mr. MILNER, GIBSON rose to move for a Select Committee, to inquire into the working of the system of warehousing foreign goods, in bond, in Man chester, as it affects importers, dealers, and consumers of goods liable to Customs duty, residing in Manchester and the neighbour ing towns ; also as to its effects on the Cus toms revenue, and to report to the House as to the expediencyor otherwise of placing Manchester on an equal rooting with all bonded towns in the Ucited Kingdom. He did not ask for this Committee on behalf of the cor poration of Manchester, or of any particular interest in that town, but on behalf of the whole in dustrial population in that immense and im portant district. At present foreign goods were allowed to be bonded in Manchester; but it was under stood that the Government were about to nernove these bonded warehouses, and his object was to ask for a Com mittee to inquire into the propriety of that removal. In 1840, when a Bill was brought forward for establish ing bonded warehouses, an exception was made by those who opposed the Bill in favour of Manchester. By the !ivy as it now stood the Corporation of Manchester were, in the first instance, liable for the expenses of the Cus toms' establishment in Manchester, connected with the bonding system; but as that expense (2,709/. a year) was not deemed to be a proper application of the funds of the rate-payers, the Corporation had given notice, as they were entitled to do, of their desire to terminate their liability. It had been said that to allow bonding to be carried on at the expense of the State would lead to the establishment of a general system of inland bonding. Hon. Members on the Treasury bench need not be alarmed on that point, for they had supported the Bill introduced by the late Lord Sydeuham in 1839, for establishing a general system of inland bonding. The privilege of a bonded warehouse had been granted to Manchester, but was clogged with the condition that the borough funds should be liable for the expense of the Cus toms' establishment. That condition was proposed at the eleventh hour, and was accepted by Manchester because it could not be resisted ; but it was always believed that they would be relieved from this im proper liability as soon as the experiment had proved successful. Supposing it was worth the while of Man chester to continue that system, why let it do so. Well, then, and if o th er towns similarly circumstanced claimed the same privilege he had no objection it should be granted to them. The State having granted the privi lege to eighty other places of having bonding warehouses, and having undertaken the expenses of Custom-house officers, why not bear the expense in that case also? If the Chancellor of the Exchequer were of opinion that the bonding warehouses system was carried too far, he would ask was it reasonable to commence with a town which was eighth on the list, and where a largo amount of revenue was collected? There were only seven other towns in which a larger amount of revenue was collected than in Manchester. He did not . ask that that bonding should b e di scont i nue d anywhere; b ut he thought thehis bonding faciliti es i n t h e m i dst o f suc h a locality Chancellor of the E xc he quer s h ou ld not le ese s was. It might b e sa id t h at M anc h es t er was not a seaport;:: that argument. and he knew great stress was laid u London that wßau.terll.lanwchaessteirt not td communicationfrequently What apt! acwesa,santdo ships down the river, goods were taken out of done in Man. th the case owni tth in the . prevent the same large proportion of the and brought up me he t r h e in t g o b fr e om bon frb d oe e mi d n ? g . chester? In Chester, a very other W ht too, there had been • to the place. He could not see not imported directly in goods warehoused between Cheater and Man what difference there was Carlisle, cheater in that respect. was b l ro n ug Customs received for one year to the a mount of n o l ess than 36,471/. for bonding foreign good s; yet notone fraction into • e fraction of them had been Carlisle direct. - not go up there, for he believed it was ten Ships could or twe!ve miles from the sea; but all these goods had received from other bonding been rece warehouses• In the case of one principal article, vit, that of tea, there Here ported; seven places into which it vette permit ' e im ported; but there were 40 others into wh' h o d ic gmi g ht be brought, and therefore they did depart from the prin ciple of only allowine bonding to take place in a sea port. The same might be said of tobacco and various oth.r articles in the Nva f' y o trade. If their bonding es tablishment in Manchester w discontinue it. Ho le G. as not worth keeping, then minittee for which he sought thought it was improper to put the public to the ex e Manchester warehouses and Customs then he would be sattoi-ii• but if they thought otherwise then he wood .* ti,,. ' say, in the words of Lord G. Somerset, that the Government tff()rth would be acting on a ref)st ruinous principle sake of any pedantic attachment to the opinions of el e d they were to r , . Custom• house office; a . (fuse payieg the expense where such establitnments a ere already Mr. Goulburn's opinion had been in favour of the system which he recommended, provided the necessary expenditure would be repaid by the benefit to the public. Go vernment, no doubt, would be well represented on the Committee for which he moved; in fa c t 4 p art i es ll would be cared fir on if. Tee al:Joule; ei rev, ntte collected at Manchester was no les that: 350,0001 and that had been collected at an expense of onlyl7s. per cent., w h ereas i n ot h er p l aces t h e ex pense had reached as much as 51. 16s. 61 per cent. He would, therefor e , w ith out trespass i ng furt h er on t h e -att e ntion of the House, conclude by moving, according to the termof his notic e . The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had often ad m i re d t h e e l oquence an d i ngen uity of hi Right Hon. Friend, but never so much as on that occa sion, for if people only took their ideas of the present question fro m hi s speech t h ey wou ld h ave but a faio_t, notion of wh a t th e rea l mer i ts were .—(Laughter.) ho were to confine himself to the mere point of opposing the appointm en t o f t h e C omm i ttee h e w ould not have much to addr ess t o t h e H ouse on th a t occasion; no r would he have t o go i nto t h e var i ous s ubjects touched upon by his Right Hon. Friend. But his Right Hon. Friend had made it necessary for him to say a tow words on thos e t o pi cs to w hi ch he had adverte d. If his Right lion. Friend' s d e fi n i t i on o f a port was t o be taken for granted, it wo u ld b e rat h er diffi cu l t to ma ke out the "al meaning of the te rm; f or if the f ac t of Manchestert having some communication with the sea was sniffier , to make it a port, if that description was to be adopted, then then almost every town in Ettgland might claim 0 )0 1 _ considered as a port. The warehousing been hitherto confined to the ports alone, w the single exception of Manchester; although there the were other places which formerly enjoyed privilege, and from which it had not been taken away. Otherwise it was confined to those places which came system with under the well-defined term of " ports." In 1840 a Com mittee had sat on that subject, and they had reported " that if, with advanta ge to tra d e, an d sa f e ty to the_ e; re venue, inland bonding wa re h ouses m i g h t b e established , they could be conceded under certain restrictions: Andt when an application was made by Manchester on the subject, the privilege had been allowed to that place, on condition that the expenses were to be borne by Le! town. He denied that any hope had ever been held oute by the Treasury that the expenses was to be borne by the public. Nor did he think his Right Hon. Friend ne Member for Cambridge (Mr. Goulbourn), who, he re gretted, was not then in his place, could ever have give; reason to expect that after a certain number of years .e such could be the case. But the arrangement %vnd a l; had been entered into by the consent of all parties d been embodied in an Act of Parliament. Probably, how ever, after Vie removal of the duty on cotton,; been a largo item in the Customs, the people of bad e• They plated, and, therefore, they sought a chang of the did not find it was so profitable a bargain as tbeyacontem come to Lim asking him to take the charge duties fhey h a u d p ()linor;:hhester benefit. for that 'which was for their own particular h i rightsel ; to but askhe had the said public he to thoughtpsT duty upon. goods warehoused in order to meet th e They had been recommended to put a reasonablerate ex o! penses, but that they had refused doing. They preferredask for coming to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to _ e ... that which he was obliged to decline granting. H dla not think there was any use for an inquiry in case.thatt He had been applied to last year to put an end to bonding told them, that as an Act of Parliament had been passed repeal altogether, and he had agreed to their proposal, but bad in the mateter, they would have to get another tokreep bad it. They had accordingly introduced a Bill. but _ objected to th e one they brought i n. A n o fficer of Cus toms had been th en sent d own to ma k e a ll due inquiry, and to exaznine whatev e r w it nesses they thought pro r to prod u c e; an d at the end of that inquiry the officer had ' been highly complimented by them for the manner in which he bad conducted the inquiry. The evidence taken upon that occasion was then before him, an d be had no objection that it should be printed; but any fur ther_ investigation i nto the subject would be a waste of time and money. But he would say that the evidence Liken before that Commiteiion did fail in making out a case of any great advantage to be et rived from that bonding system. The Right Hon. Baronet here read several ex tracts from the evidence alluded to with respect to various articles, to show that what he had stated was correct. But, after all, it was only a question of benefit to the people of Manchester. And some of the witnesses most in favour of, the proposition of his Hon. Friend were obliged to admit that it was an advantage to the town worth paying for. One of the Manchester witnesses also said that the advantage was worth pay i ng f or , b u t that it was a mat ter o f fc cling with tee inhabitants of Man chester to obtain it through the Government, and they complained that they should be singled out to bear that charge. But it should be observed that they had been singled out at their own request. The question ws s , whether the revenue should at present be charged with a sum of 2,7001. a year for the purpose of carrying out an arrangement into which the people of Manchester had voluuiarily entered, with a view to promote their own interests. His Right Hon. Friend seemed to think that there was something peculiar in the case of Man chester; but he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) con fessed that he could not see it. On the contrary, be thought that Leeds and many other large towns, re moved far inland, had a stronger claim to the indulgence in question than Manchester, which had an easy and most rapid means of communication with the great port of Liverpool. But the consequences of extending the proposed concession to all large inland towns, would rig to create a serious loss to the revenue. He thought it was a wise principle, that when a town asked for the benefit of the bonding system, it should undertake to pay the expenses rendered necessary by the concession. His Right Hon. Friend had referred to the small cost of collecting the revenue et Manchester as compered with other towns. But it should be re membered that in Manchester it was unnecessary to incur the expense of a landing establishment, which was indispensable at a seaport, and he would further remind his Right Hon. Friend and the House that whether the bonding system was or was not adopted at Manchester, it would still be necessary to incur at the seaport the present expenses of the landing establishments. In reply to the application for an inquiry into the subject, he had only to observe that they had already enough of evidence before them, and that he did not see how they could derive the slightest advantage from the col lection of any additional quantity. Mr. BRIGHT said that the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer seemed to think that the people of Manchester were liable to the charge of knocking at the Treasury doors and asking the Treasury to do something for them which they were not ready to do for themselves. Now he (Mr. Bright) would not undertake to defend the people of Manchester against that charge, because he believed it was perfectly notorious that there was no other portion of the inhabitants of the United Kingdom against whom it could be less reasonably urged. It appeared that the Right Hon. Gentleman himself had formerly been an advocate for that very concession to the people of Man chester.—(" No," from the Chancellor of the Exche quer.) Well, it appeared, at all events, that the Right Lion. Gentleman had voted in favour of a Bill which had been introduced by his colleagues for carrying out that object, In his (Mr. Bright's) opinion it was a mere au peratition to suppose that seaports only ought to have the privilege of bonding establishments. There was no thing in the position of Liverpool, as compared with the position of Manchester, which could prevent one of these places from benefitting by the system as well as the other. The Right Hob. Gentleman thought that it would be necessary to impose some check on the exten sion of the system. But he (Mr. Bright) believed it would be easy to impose • any check that could reason ably be required by enacting that no town should be en titled to the privilege unless a town in which a sum of 100,000/. or 200,0004 a year were not collected, and by farther enacting that all towns asking for the privilege should bear the expenses of it for the first five years There had been received in Manchester 70,0001. in 1845, 187,0001. in 1846, 177,000/. in 1847, 249,000/. in 1848, and 319,000/. in 1849. Manchester was at present the sixth largest bonding place in the kingdom, and that fact alone constituted a strong ground why the inhabi tants of Manchester should receive the privilege in question. He did not wish to say anything offensive to the Right Honourable Gentleman, but he should ob serve that any person with a capacity above that of an exciseman for the consideration of such questions must be aware that the exchequer could not, under the pro posed concession, lose the whole sum of 2,700 L, which was at present raised from the ratepayers of .Manches ter, for it was manifest that any measure which gave in creased facilities for the distribution and consumption of articles on which duties were paid, among a vast and prosperous population like that of Manchester and its E a L s Lc confined n said fi n e d that t o his his bed Right neighbourhood, must lead to some add it i on to the re venue of the state. But the people of M anchester only asked for an inquiry into that matt er; and that was, he believed, a fair and reasonable d emand. the Member for the Uni vers i ty of Cambridge (Mr had requested him t o state what by had been the circum ilindoinsp.oFsirtiieonnd, r. stances under G o M u u C r n A ) , R w D h o W was which the bonding system had been ex tended to Manchester in the year 1846. His Right Hod, Friend had objected which limited the o privilege to a d e p ar t ure f rom the prac ticecrivilege t o seaport towns; an d he had s t ate d that hed not see why, if suc h a con cession w ere made to Manchester, it sho u ld not like wise be made to any other large town which might put forward asi rei ar application. The proper check, in the opinion of his Right .Honourable Friend, against any abuse in snch ca ses , was that those towns which asked for the privilege should bear the expense of carry ing it into effect; and he thought that there would be an i n f r i ngement of the understanding which bad been come to upon the subject, if the concession at present demanded were granted to Manchester. The lion. Gentleman tho Member for Manchester (Mr. Bright) said it was a superstition to suppose that the bonding system sh ou ld he confined to sea ports. But be would remind the Hon. Gentleman that the great object in introducing that system was to encourage the re-ex pert trade. The Hen. Gentleman thought that any man with a genius above that of an exciseman would attach no value to the sum of 2,7001. He should, however, ob serve that th e r e was not a word in that resolution which would not apply to many other towns as well as to Man chester; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer might not unnaturally shrink from giving up a sum of nearly 3,0001. a year, multiplied by the number of all the large inland towns in the kingdom. Mr. lIUME said he could not support the motion, be cause the extension of the bonding system to Manchester had been granted on the distinct understanding that the inhabitants of that city should themselves bear the expense of the measure. He could not see any neces sity for any further inquiry into the subject. But if his Right Hoc. Friend had moved for an inquiry into the state of the different ports, and the expense of collecting the revenue in them, he (Mr. Hume) would readily have given his support to such a mo tion. He found that is many of those ports the expense of collecting the revenue was greater ahem the sum col lected. In the port of Borrowstoeness, in Scotland, the expense of collecting the revenue was 9411. a year, and the amount collected was 541/. In the port of Tralee the expecse of collection was 5284, and the sum col lected was 591 . In Guernsey the expense of collection DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. W. Dale, London -wall, City, boot and shoe maker, July 15, at eleven—J. Shelford, Hertfordshire, butcher, July 15, at half-past eleven. In the Country. J. Carter, Bristol, victualler, July 17, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—B. Wright, Liverpool, dealer in paint, July 15, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. W. Shaw andti:ghaw,Seddlea7rt — h,i;kshire, tim ber merchants, 205., on any Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, George-street, Manchester. Courtney, Old Jewry, City, clothier, is. 33., on Thursday, 8 and three following Thursdays, be tween eleven and two , at t h e o ffi ce of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall-street. W. Smith, Curtain-road, timber merchant, 2d., ou diy,june 26, Thursday, June 26, and three following Thursdays, be tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stausfeld, Basinghall-street. S. Benton, Fore -street, City, linendraper, lid., on Thursday, Juno 26, and three following Thursdays, be• tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall-street, J. baw,on, Northfleet, Mitre-court Chambers, Temple, and Clement-lane, ship-owner, 2s. 6d., on Thursday, June 26, and three following Thursdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall-street. W. Dinkel], Isleworth, grocer and cheesemonger, Gd., on Thursday, June 26, and three followthg Thursdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman•street. J. Ford, Richmond, licensed victualler, 2id., on Thurs day, June 26, and three following Thursdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman street. E. I:l3nassit, Lime -street, City, wine merchant, sid., on Thursday, June 26, and three following Thursdays, between eleven and two, at the offiue of Mr. Graham, Colernan-strePt. S. Bayly, Folkestone, grocer and cheesemonger, lid. on Tathstiay, June 26, and three following Thursdays between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham Coleman-streeZ. C. A. Harris, Bushey, Herefordshire, and Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, fl ix spinner, 3d., on Thursday, June 20, and three following Thursdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street. Elizabeth Mc Knott and J. Glass, Belvidere-road, and Slarktriars-road, coal merchants, 2s. id., on Thursday, June 26, and three following Thursdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street, NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall•street. G. Wheeler, Richmond, Surrey, grocer and cheese monger, July 16, at eleven—R. GadOn, Cople, Bed fordshire, licensed victualler, July 17, at eleven—J. Marshall, Southampton, coal merchant, July 18, at half past one—W. L. Martin, Gravesend, Kent, ironmonger, July 18 at two—J. Moores, jun., Aylesbury, Bucking hamshire, draper, July 18, at two. In the Country. 11. D. Stevenson, Bishop Wearmouth, merchant, July 16, at one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. Mitchell, Monkwearmouth Shore, Durham, shipowner, July 16, at half-past ten, at the Court, Newcastle-upon- Tyne—W. Andrews, Liverpool, agent, July 15, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—T. H. Butler, Lichfield, ironmonger, July 17, at twelve, at the Court, Bir mingham. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. J. Burrell, Blackraore, Essex, victualler, certificate of the third class—W. M'Dowall, Little Queen-street, LincoWe Inn-fields, printer, certificate of the third class —lt. Gadesden, Brompton-square, coal-merchant, certi ficate of the third class—Mary Astle, J. T. Astle, and C. Astle, Cloak.lane an d C oleman - street, bookbinders, certificates of the third class—J. Fletcher, Haslingden, Lancashire, hardware dealer, certificate of the second class—J. Al. Lean Liverpool, commission merchant, certificate of the drst class, after twenty-one days from June 19-It. Blacker, Ripon, Yorkshire, innkeeper, certificate of the second class, after twenty-one days from June 19. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Massey, Neptune street, Wandsworth, and T. Umpelby, High-street, Lambeth, potters—W. Scaife and J. Hunter, Bradford, Yorkshire, coach proprietors—T. Milward and J. Southey, Utfoulm, Devonshire, millers —W. Brotberton, J. Bryan, and J. Peto, Hungerford • wharf, oil merchants (so fir as regards the said W. Brotherton)—J. H. Laogworthy and T. Pratt, Farm. street, lielkeley•square, and Gloucester-mews East, King-street, Portman-square, veterinary surgeons —R. Dent aid W. W. Page, Leamington Priors, Warwick shire, drapers—J. Bewley and T. W. ;Asher, BYech street, Wiz Wean, varnish manufacturers—J. Tattersall and F. Pilling, Salford, Lancashire, machine makers— J. Blake and W. Short, Liverpool, ship chandlers—W. Parsons, Colehester-stre44, Whiti , chapel, and D. Ed wards, Llav,r4ock street, Hampstead-road, builders — G. Leeds, D. Morley, and J. Bawl), Hulme, Manches ter, small warn manufacturers (so far as regards the said G. Leeds)—G. Day and E. Barman, Dewsbury, York. shire, millwrights—W. Dowell and G. Dowell, Wapping wall, grocers—J..l3. Pigott and K. N. Newton, Barnsley, William Heath Booth, builder, Creek-road, Deptford. Francis Pallmer Pinker, clerk in the Mental Life As , surauce Office, Windsor-terrace, Vauxhall-road. John Trix Bragg, wine merchant, Belgrave-street, King's-cross. Jonathan Jarvis, milkman, Great Wild-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields. Frederick Sparrow, tea merchant, Skinner-street, Snow hill. William Fairchild, veterinary surgeon, Church-place, Paddington-green, James Fi.her, confectioner, Sloane-street, Chelsea. Abraham E. Davis. shoe maker, Mitre-street, Aldgate. Nathaniel Jones Woolley, High-street, Camden-town. Ann Reynolds, lodging-house keepeer, Gresse-street, Raihbone-place. Alexander Reid, commission agent, Tachbrook-street, Pirnl co. Edward Cowell, agent for the sale of books, &c., Cam bridge. Frederick Gilbert, grocer, Phoenix-place, Spite Melds. Anthony Carroll, furniture dealer, East-street, Finsbury marker. Thome; Rattray, ironmonger, Bedford-place, Stepney. Colin M-Cullum, ship broker, Sidney-square, Mile-end. E. Kiggios, hawker, Wellington street, Blackfriars.road. J. Hall, surgeon, Terrace, Trinity-square. Tower-hill. William Wells, j un., Shouldham. street, Edgeware.road. H. Harley, coal dealer, Riding House-lane, Marylebone. F. Houstoun Bloxam, clerk, Mitcham-common, Surrey. James Bennett, licensed victualler, Saltord Lancashire. Henry Crockwell, commission agent, Salferd. Francis Harrington Church, surgeon, Gravesend. George Garner, baker, Manchester. Thos. Harrison, butcher, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire. John Osbaldesten Hayes, beer-house-keeper, Salford. John Jackson, beerseller, Manchester. James Mills, farm bailiff, Westerton, Sussex. Ralph Robinson, agent, Salford, Lancashire. H. Upfield, grocer's assistant, West Chiltington, Sussex. E. Davies, carpenter, Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire. John Evans, tallowchandler, Merthyr Tydvil, Glamor- Jo g h 2 n li C sh a i n r n e. on, wheelwright, Harlow, Essex. Richard Osbourn°, tailor, Rochdale, Lancashire. Joseph Richardson,journeymau printer, Middlesborough Yorkshire. Henry Thomas, mason, Paignton, Devonshire. James Richard Taylor, cut nail manufacturer, King's Norton, Worceatershire. Richard Wade, linendraper, Chatham. Thomas Sunderland, fancy-cloth manufacturer, Lindley, near Huddersfield. W 1; he h teat elite ch th th to