The Sun. — London, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

fourtt Xilttion SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. THE ART UNION OF LONDON. (THIS DAY.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Th• following prizes were drawn:- 459. Miss E. Taylor £lo 2142. Mr. E. H. Deacon 2O 10145. Mr. J. M. Payne 4885. Mr. J. Breech, Bradford 10552. Mr. James Dean, Kirkstile 674. The Rev. H. Conway. Workington 7O 3126. Miss Rowe, New Oxford•street 7592. Mr. R. Wingfield, Slough 5O 8632. Mr. Wm. Shippery, Worthing .. 5O 2316. Mr. Jacob Bell, Langham-place BO 8656. Mr. Edgworth, Wrexham 8191. Mr. Davidson Forria. lO 7581. Mr. W. Mastin, Sleaford BO 1476. Captain Reynolds, Junior United SerAice Club . 100 511. Mrs. Dilafosse, Oxford-terrace, Hyde-park 15 1024. Mrs. Douglis'Guest, St. John's Wood 369. Mr. W. E. Eddison, Walbrook 1272. Mr. C. Dooman, Hammersmith 6867, Mr. A. E. Cresswell, Norwich l5O 9750. Miss K. Loder, Albany-street,Regent's-park 20 1373. Mr. W. Howe, York l5 1368. Mr. F. Macqueen, Tottenham-court-road 6O 9349.11 r. A. Harris, Hartlepool 6785. Mr. G. Platt , York BO 66(4. Miss F. Ball, Merthyr 4220. Mr. William Duffield, Batb 2O 7331. Officers of Marine Library, Chatham 25 901. Mrs. C. Smith, Exeter-place, Knightsbridge 40 2254. Mrs. James Thurlow, Judd-street 25 2251. Mir. St. Barbe, Stoke Newington .. 15 9512. Mr. W. Gell, Douglas, Isle of Man lO 4546.. Mr. Archibald Vickers, Disly, near Man- ._ --- Chester 4O 601). Mr. .1. H. Mann, Chairman of the Artists' _ Benevo!ent Fund, Kentish-town 4436. Mr. E. H. Maling, Bishop Wearmouth 4O 2114. Mr. C. Babbing, Lambeth-walk 3511:- Mr. G. Bankes, Bromsgrove 6284. Mr. Ed. Lichfield, Liverpool l5O 3184. , Mr. W. F. Burn, King's-road, Bedford-row 15 2634. Mr. G. W. Newell, Maidenhead 1000. Mr. D. Wire, St. Swithin's-lane 2149. Miss Ecoper, R"ading 1212. - Mr. H. 13. Armistead, Liquorpond-street 5873. Mr. W. B. Wingate, Dumfries 25 4585. Rev. L. P.rter, Bolton 73. Mr. J as. Durant, Bank of England 25 8502. Mr. C. W. Benny, Winchester 5O 9898. Mr. B. Child, Henley-on-Thames 7123. Mr. William Lavers, jun., Plymouth 8360. Rev. C. Po:chett, Grantham 3866. Mr. C. Jeffries, Limehouse 8249. Mr. George Grant, White Vale, Glasgow 9507. Miss Dodder, Isle of Man l5 10368. Mr. P. Bald, Glasgow 2344, Mr. J. T. Hughes, Sr. 2.lartin',-;e-Grand 1328. Mr. A. D. Colburne, Piccadilly _ _ _ 406'5. Mr. J. Woodhouse, Ashby-th-la-Zouch 4159. Mr. David Taylor, Kennington-common 2263: Mr. J. T. Armistead, Bank of England 4O 6600. Mr. J. Greenh3lgb, Mansfield .... 15 1640. Mr. E. East, per Mr. Simpson, 11!acktriars- road 7205. Mr. Edgar Braithwaite, Pontefract .•• 2040. Mr. 0. Staite, Bernard-st., Russell-square... 6698. Mr. R. Malcolm, Nairn_ 3974: Mr. H. Moorhouse, Billeter-stret 3930. Mr. E. S. Stillwell _ . 7064. Mr. R. Morris, Philadelphia 2925. Mr. T. J. Young, Great Cumberland-street 9855; Rev. Dr. Penrose, Wrettle, near Chelmsford 4344. Mr. Doidge, of Bideford 9743. Mr. Williara Moffett, per W. Watson, Bpi- _ . ney, New South Walei 7069. Mr. R. F. Sneyder, Philadelphia 1222. Mr. Thomas TroHope, Braintree, Essex 553. Nressrs.Sraith and Wheedon,Paternoster-row 667. Mr. F. Graves, Powis-place, Hampstead-road 33i91. Mr. J. 13. Gillingham, Wareham 10362, Mr. T. Robertson, Glasgow 4322. Mr. J. Bewdley 2948. Mrs. R. C. Wilson, Preston 6309: Miss Swift, Liverpool 500. Mr. W. W. Smith, Kentish-town 8886. Mr. E. B. Green, Melbourne, Port Philip 5365. Misg Lewis, Chepstow 3318. Mr. Clam. Brown, Lower Tooting 5396; Mr. J. Lucas, Chester _ 10332, Mr. Edwin Nudd, Dnnstan•hill 6373. Mr. Wm. Pickford, Lynn 617. Mr. Edw. C. Proctor, Ball's Pond . 2235. Mr. A. E. White, Poplar 1047. Mr. B. Oakden, Goudhurst 1574. Mr. F. Watts, Warwick-Equare, Pimlico 9215. Mr. S. Commissesnd, Grenada 233. H. Carr, Morden College, Oxford 8933. Mr. G. H. Gardner, Bowness, Windermere 1179. Miss E. Lovegrove., Blackwall... 5650. Mr. Jams Bate, Demerara 6360. Mr. T. Watson, Butterworth .. 1774. Mr. J. A. Hallet, Great George-street 748. Mr. W. J. Bugbee, jun., City Gas Works 8351. Mr. W. W. Hardwick, Grantham 5565. Mr. J. Derma*, Cranbrook, Kent ... 5616. Mr. Henry Gardner, Bury St. Edmund's 5596. Mr. D. Burrell, Oxford-street 70 15 10 20 50 9828. Mr. M.Stass,aden.terrace,Sheperdess-walk 25 63t)7. Rev. H. C. Michell, Leamington 4O 1889. Mr. W. Payne, Horslydown lO 4657. Mr. J. Munro, Boston, United States 3073. Mr. R. Lee, Ragent's-square. St. Pancras 9504. Mr. W. Beckwith, Isle uf Man 5511. Mr. T. H. Penn, ilayland, Colchester The whole of the money prizes having been drawn, tho committee proceeded with the drawing of the names for the works of art. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) TOLLER V. ATTWOOD. Me. MALINS having finished his reply, The Cotirr took time to consider. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) WHITEHALL, APRU. 19, 1850. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Joseph Challinor, of Leek, in the county of Stafford, Gant., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BAN KRUP TS. William George Ce&y, omnibus proprietor, Poplar, to surrender May 7 and June 13, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall street ; M`Leod and Stenning, London-street, Fenchurch street. James Brighton, licensed victualler, Derby-street, Gray's Inn-road, May 7, at half-past one, and June 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Dimmock and Burbey, Suffolk-lane, Cannon street. Thomas Colliagwoocl, innkeeper, Nunehan Courtney, Oxfordshire, May 11, at half-past twelve, and June 22, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall - street; Ford and Lla(3, Bluomsbary-square. Anthony Edward Corvan, baker, Hampstead-road, May 11, at half-past twelve, and June 22, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Hubbard, Bucklersbury. James Guest, commission agent, Birmingham, May 13 and June 17, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Chriztie, official assignee, Birmingham; Raw lins and Rowley, Birmingham. John Brown, builder, Bristol, May 14, and June 11, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Harley, Bristol. James Vill ar, maltster, L ec kh am pton, Gloucester shire, May 13, a t t we l ve , an d J ane 10, at eleven, at the Bristol .. District C ourt . H utton , o ffi c i a l ass ignee, Bris tol L_'Wmterbotham and B e ll, Ch e lt en h a m. Charles Pearson, licensed victualler, She ffi eld, May 11 and June 22, a r ten - at the Leeds District Court , Sheffield. Freeman, bers, She ffi eld. ev dal assignee, Sheffield; Chem:- Conrad Greenhow, jun., timber merchant, Newcastle upon-Tyne, May 7, at half-past ten, and July 10, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Walley, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Hoyle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Crosley and Compton, Church court, Old Jewry. • MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, April 30.) SIIGAR.—To-day there was a good business concluded d ro werecers in the West India Su g ar market, but merchantsn compelled to a cce p t the rates of Friday, a were the chief operators.. The total purchases amounted to 890 hhds, &c, including two public sales of Barbadoes, consisting an) hhds, 49 trcs, and 15 brls, which went at steady rates; fine yellow at 40s to 425, mid to good 37s to 39s 6d, low 35; 6d to 363 6d; but 24 hhds Trini dad were taken in at 35s per cwt. RELINED.—To -day Refined Sugar was purchased with caution by home d,,,alors; still, brown Lumps , were not to be obtained under 43 s per cwt. Crushed Sugar dull of sale at former terms. AlAuKurius.—This afternoon there was rather more desire to operate in Mauritius Sugar, and at public sale 7,365 bags were all sold at full terms; low to tine yellow welt at from 34s to 395, grey 33s 6 , 1 to 383, brown 28s to 31s, grainy 35s to 42s per cwt. EAST Ittnia.—This afternoon the public sales of 4.079 bags Bengal Sugar went off quietly at former terms, and about two-thirds sold; ord to fine white Bc nares at 36s to 365, good and fine grainy yellow 39s to 42s 6d, and fair soft yellow 33s to 343 6d. Of Madras, 2,762 bags were all sold, but at rather lower rates; soft brown went at 27s to 27s 6d, and ord yellow ditto at 28s to 2k 6d per cwt. FunEros,—Although bonded parcels can be obtained rather under previous rates, still the shipping orders completed have been of little moment, and are confined to 500 cbent..; fine brown Bahia at 18s 3d; a cargo of white Pernambuco for at', Mediterranean at 24s 6d; 600 boxes low yellow Havannah, 18i ; small parcels of better sort, 19s to 208 ; and two cargoes .. 1 ~ qf brown Bahia, at 173 4d to 17s On per 446 At public sale of 1,795 chests Ilavannak 1,200 • Aohtl at Iron, 19, to 21s 61 for mid to fine; and superior at 22s to 22s 22s 6(.1. Duty paid kinds have been brought more freely to market. Lnd rather lower terms. are ay.- ceded to for infirior, but better sorts remain much the same as quoted previously. There has net been much business concluded by private treaty, still at auction 983 hhds 24 is 330 ba Porto Rico nearly all found buyers. , Of llavanhah 1,278 chests were io part sold, good to fine L ;4yelbw at 393 to 41s 6d; low to nod, 383 to 38s 6;3; washed, 35s 6d to 38s 6d: 706 bags Rio, brown, at 345 to 353 6d; yellow, 38s 6d to 395; and 43 chests Bahia yellow and brown, 34s 6d to 38s. Refiners working under bond have made purchases with much caution, and the sales are chiefly confined to 1,000 chests brown Havannab, at 36s 6d per cwt. MOLASSES.—To-day at public sale 29 casks Bengal Honey were taken in at 255, but 40 pkgs Jamaica sold at 42s to 435. Cocoa..—This afternoon the public sales of 434 bags Trinidad Cocoa went off quietly, and a part only sold, but full rates were obtained; good red realized 44s to 465, low and mid dark 38s to 40s 6d per cwt. COFFEE.—This afternoon there was greater dulness in the market for Coffee, and prices further declined. The purchases made ;privately were trifling by shippers and home dealers, whilst :the nearest value of good ord Native Ceylon is 41s per cwt. At auction 167 bags Rio sold at a considerable reduction on late sales ; good ord at 37s 6d, ord 365, and damaged 26s to 29e. Of Jamaica 28 packages taken in at 45s to 50s. TEA.—There has been a good demand for common and medium sorts of Congou for home trade purposes; shippers have been buyers to a fair extent, and the rates paid are 9jd to ls. per lb. In better sorts only limited sales have been made, and sellers are willing to accept from is 2d to Is Bd, but fine met with the least attention. There has been little passing in Souchong, and prices are on the decline. Of flowery and scented Orange Pekoe larger parcels have been sold, and former terms are well sup ported. A good sale has been experienced for scented Caper at Is to Is 4d. Lower rates have been acceded to for common Green Tea; the better sorts have been purchased with caution, and can be obtained at a slight reduction. With Green the market is abundantly sup plied. SPlCES.—Nutmegs have been in fair demand at the former value, and 27 pkgs sold at 2s 6d to 2a 9d for mid and good mid brown. For Mace, prices are rather lower; and at auction 9 cases were sold at is pm to 2s 6d for low to good. To-day at public sale 11 barrels Jamaica Ginger sold at 85a to 94s for inferior; 20 bags Pimento sold at 4isl, these are lower rates. 14 cases Penang Cloves, is 4d for fine bold. SPlRlTS.—Operations in Leeward Island Rum have been small at from 1s 3id to is 4d proof, and there is a a better supply at market. East India dull of sale at Is 2iel to is 3d proof. Jamaica has been purchased with caution for all purposes, and there are sellers at rather terms. The value of 20 to 25 per cent over proof is 2s 2d to 2s 7d, 30 to 37 over 2s 8d to 3s 33, and superior 34 to 39 over 3s 4d to 4s 2d. Demerara met with little attention, and has declined in value, tales of 30 to 40 per cent over proof having been made at 2s to 2s 3d. In the Brandy marketmuch dulness exists. and sellers are willing to accept for Cognac best brands cf the vintage of 1849, 44 3d to 4s sd, 1848 ditto 4s 51 to 4s 7d, 1847 ditto 5s to 5s 2d. Inferior sorts 2s 7d to 4a 3d. Gin has been purchased wi:h caution at Is 7d, and fine at 2s 3d to 3s 3d. Operations in British made Spirits are limited at 9s 5d to 9s 6d proof, and Gin at 7s lad to 8s 4d for 17 to 22 per cent under proof. INDlGO.—Prires are rather lower for Spanish, and supplies continue to get larger. At public sale 150 serons Guatemala were all sold; Cortes, middling to flee at 2s lid to 3s sd, ordinary and good ordinary 2s 4d to 2s 10d; Sobres, good and fine 3s 6d to 3s and goad Flores 4s to 4s 3d per lb. East India-is held for former terms, but the demand has become limited for home use and exportation during the last few days. Tn., quantity declared for auction is now 11,630 chts, c f which 8,625 are new, and 3,005 chts are second hand good.i. Ons.—For Olive Oil prices have further receded, and operations are not upon a largos scale; sales of Gallipoli have been made at 441 lOs to 45/, Spanish 441 to 451, other sorts 421 10.1 to 43/ lOs per tun. Palm is not much wanted, 30s to 31s is the value of rood and fine, and at auction 83 casks were taken in. In Cocoa Nut operations are upon a larger scale, but at lower rates ; sales of good and fine Cochin have been made at 30s 64 to 31s 63 per cwt, but several parcels have arrived. Linseed 011 met with little attention from shippers or home dealers ; and as there is a plentiful supply, crushers are willing to realize, and ac cept 131 s to 21s 3d on the spot. There has been little business dune for delivery. Rape Seed Oil has been purchased with caution, sellers are willing to accept 38s 6d to 40s for pale, and brown 37s to 38s. Cud .Oil is cheaper and few buyers are to be met with; the present value is 345. Only trifling sales have been made in Seal Oil, pale at 361 to 374 and other sorts 341 to 351. TALLOW.—An improvement has taken place in the demand for Russian on the spot, but not with an advance in princes. " A fair amount of business has been con cluded, and the rates paid have been 36s 9d to 37a per cwt for fine P. Y. C. There has been more disposition to operate for delivery in last three months of the ear, and the rates paid have been 38s to 38s 6d per cwt, : but at which they are not free settlers. A good demand has been experienced for some melted, and the terms obtained are 35s 6d to 36s nett cash. With other sorts of Tallow the market is less freely supplied, and rates exhibit an advance, a limited quantity having been brought to market. At auction 600 pkgs of South American were sold at from 33s to 36s 6d for low to fine, and 1,700 casks Sydney at 35s to 37s 6d per cwt. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met at Five o'clock. PETITIONS. The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented several petitions from Presbyterian congregations in Scotland and Ireland against Post-office Sunday labour. The Earl of ROSEBERY presented several petitions against any alteration in the law of marriage which should authorise marriage with a deceased wife's sister. The Earl of RUDEN presented a petition from some place in Ireland for a grant to Church schools; also petitions against Post-office Sunday labour. The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from Wisbrach with a similar prayer. PROCESS AND PRACTICE (IRELAND) BILL. The Earl of CARLISLE moved the second reading of this Bill, the object of which was to render justice in Ireland more cheap, more certain, and more expeditious. Lord MONTEAGLE hoped that sufficient time would be given to the public and the profession in Ireland to consider the provisions of this Bill. The Marquis of WESTMEATH objected to any alteration in the law, which required greater strictness in the particulars of summonses in actions for ejectment. After a few words from the Earl of CARLISLE, the Bill was read a second time. WEST 'INDIA APPEALS BILL This Bill passed through Committee. TITLES OF RELIGIOUS CONGREGATIONS BILL (SCOTLAND). On the motion of the Marquis of BREADALBANE, this Bill was read a third time and passed. ADVANCES FOR PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND). The Marquis of WESTMEATH moved for copies of all communications made in and since February, 1849, to the Beard of Works in Ireland, or to the ish Go vernment by the Marquis of Westmeath, Sir Montague Chapman, Bart., or any other landed proprietors in the barony of Delvin, and cou,nty of Westmeath, relative to the public works carried on in that locality under what is termed Mr. Lebow:bees Letter, and the replies thereto, as well as all inclosures accompanying the same. The Noble Marquis complained that the result of the acceptance, by the landowners, of Government advances had been to bleed the improvers, and to encourage and benefit the lazy and careless. The persons employed had not done their duty properly, and under these cir cumstances he hoped the Government would insist upon the payment of the uttermost farthing of the money, to which those who had accepted the advances had made themselves liable, for the Government officers had taken the management of these works out of the hands of the landowners. He denied that the money had been asked for; Mr. Labouchere had made a proposal, in perfect good faith he believed, and that proposal had been accepted. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that the whole of the advances made under Mr. Labouchere' letter had been ialade to the landowners for the improvement of their property; and no later than last year the persons to whom these advances had been made received a great indulgence in having the time for the repayment of thos3 advances extended last a great year indulgence. froten i years n t o o pp tw os e i n ti t o y a .. two years. This was to the Noble Marquis , he had been asked for , vances wo a u n l d d e c a u r n a t e e ;VI y that e t d h e f s o e r andy the landowners; and if allththeelemtteearssaruergwihngiehupwoan Labouchere the adoption ofs ac ceded to in his letter wer e He e r e th o e u r ld ex tensionnot L th o e r r d e s f h or ip e s' -payment of those advances, or for giving of the time for the r e -payment a t e a e b e l d e e wo t u o ld aa n y o t rPeciroduced, the box on their contain aea t them. for a repay ments. The Noble Marquis had complaine d suchthat these works had been most ine u tf p e a c n tuy any portion d one The Marquis of WESTMEATH—OnIy in stance. that T in one he ad M m a is r s q t u o i n s ; of ha L t A t N he SD re o a W l N sts E te w c a f s t r k ej e oi e c a e s d e to w h ou ea ld r appear from the papers for which the Noble Marquis had moved, and to the production of which there was no objection. The Marquis of WESTMINSTER said the Noble Marquis had been imposed upon many persons, who were totally incapable of doing a day's work, who could not properly use a spade, who could scarcely stand had been employed and paid for a regular day's work, be cause none of those who had the management of these works dared to refuse them. The Earl of MOUNTCASIIELL complained of the manner in which persons had been employed upon the roads. The reads had been rendered worse than useless by the persons so employed. The effect of the poor-law in Ireland was to drive the ratepayers out of the country and to prevent the employment of the poor. The motion was then agreed to. The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and their Lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at a few minutes before Four o'clock. Sir B. H. INGLI3 moved that the petition of Thomas Marsh Nelson, which was deposited in the Private Bil. office upon the 29th day of this instant April, against the London (City) Improvements Bill, be referred to the Committee on the Bill ; and that the petiti oner may be beard before the said Committee, pursuant to the prayer of his petition. Atter a short conversation, in which Sir J. DUKE and Mr. FORSTER took part, the' motion was postponed for the present. PETITIONS. Mr. BROTIIERTON presented a petition in favour of international arbitration. Sir J. DUKE presented a petition from the ballast heavers of \Yapping, praying the House to extend to them the same privilege as had been extended to the coal-whippers; and also from a number of respectable' inhabitants of that district, recommending them to the favourable notice of the House. Mr. WILLIAMS presented a petition from a meeting at the London Tavern, praying the House to pass some measure for the efficient supply of water to the metropolis. Colonel THOMPSON presented a petition from a parish in Middlesex praying the House to pass some efficient Health Bill. Lord DUNCAN presented a petition in favour of a more equitable system of poor rates. Mr. CAYLEY presented a petition in favour of the Marriage Bill; also three petitions from Yorkshire in favour of protection to British industry. Alderman SIDNEY presented a petition from St. James's parish complaining of the unequal imposition of local burdens; also a petition from the attorneys of Leek, in Staffordshire, against the Stamp Act. Sir E. BUXTON presented a petition in favour of the ocean penny postsge. Mr. FOX MAULE presented several petitions from places in Scotland against Mr. S. Wortley's Marriage Act. Mr. C. PEARSON presented a petition from Lan cashire in favour of the Ten Hours Bill. Lord ASHLEY presented several petitions to the same effect. _ _ Mr. P. WOOD presented a petition from the clergy of Norwich in.favour of the Vestry Clerks' Bill. Numerous petitions from all parts of the country were presented against Sunday labour in the Post-office. Numerous petitions were also presented in favour of a system of national arbitration. Mr. HUME presented a petition from miners and pitmen in Durham and Northumberland, praying for a remedy to prevent accidents in mites and collieries; also a petition from Stepney in favour of a measure for sanitary reform; also a petition prayin g for a repeal of the taxes on knowledge, and another in favour of inter national arbitration. Mr. M ACKIN N 0 N presented a petition from Stepney in favour of the Government measure for intramural interments. _ _ _ Mr. ELLICE presented a petition from Coventry against Sunday labour in the Post-office. Mr. UORSMAN presented two petitions from Cum berland, one against granting ladditional licences fir beer shops, and the other against Sunday labour in the Post-office. Mr. PORTAL presented a petition complaining of agricultural distress, and praying fur the repeal of the malt-tax. EMIGRATION OF PAUPERS. Mr. MILES gave notice that on the 28Lla of May he would move a resolution to the effect that, it was expe dient for the Government, with the assistance and co operation of the boards of guardians, to take immediate steps to forward the emigration of orphan children, Rho were the inmates of workhouses, to Australia. SUNDAY LABOUR IN THE POST-OFFICE. Lord ASHLEY gave notice of his intention on an early day to move a resolution to the effect that there shall be no labour carried on in the Post-office during the twenty-four hours of the Sabbath. SLAVE TRADE. Sir JOUN PAKINGTON gave notice that he should move an addition to the resolution to be proposed oe the 17th of May, on the subject of the slave trade. THE NAVY. Mr. ANDERSON wished to put a question to the Right Honourable Baronet the First Lord of the Admiralty, of which ho had given him notice. In the early part of last session a Commit'e3 was appointed to inquire into the practicability of pro vidir e• a reserve steam navy through the medium the cearirnercial steam service cf the country, and, &ter a long investigation, the Committee came to the vAution that it was not only desirable but precticable. Twelve months had elapsed, and Set nothing had been dene to carry out the recommendation of the Committee. He did not think, therefore, that he was premature in now asking the First Lord of the Admiralty what means have ben adopted to effect arrangements with the owners of mercantile steam-vessels to render such vessels promptly available for the national defence in case of need, iu pursuance of the report of the Select Committee of lust se': sion on steam navy. Sir F. BA RING said, to carry out the suggestion, it would be nece nary either to introduce a measure into Parliament to force merchant seamen, engaged in the cummercial steam navy, to enrol themselves, so as to render them liab!e to be called upon to serve in her Majesty's steam navy, or to take a vote of money to secure their voluntary services in a time of reed, and he certainly was net prepared to adopt either alternative, at least during the present session. LIGHTHOUSES IN IRELAND. Viscount BERNARD wished to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty, whether his attention had been called to the numerous wrecks which have occurred on the south tti coast of Ireland during the last few years, and whether any steps were about to bo taken to erect light houses on the Bull Rock, the Forge Rock, and the Gal ley Head, as recommended by the late Captain Wolfe, in a letter dated March 10, 1848 (Secolid Report, Tidal Harbours Commission). _ _ _ Sir F. BARING said the matter referred to in the Noble Lord's question was under the control of the Irish Government, and he had received information from the Palace: Board that three new lighthouses were now in the course of erection on the south coast of Ireland. The Noble Lord must be aware that the Palace Board had ocher demands upon their funds, and at present they could not undertake more.—(Hear, hear.) MEMBERS' OATHS. Mr. WOOD asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether it:was the intention of her Majesty's Government to propose any measure, during the present session, with reference to the oaths now administered to Members on taking their seats in this House. Lord JOHN RUSSELL had to say that it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to introduce a measure on that subject during the present session of Parliament. He would take an opportunity, so soon as public business admitted, of stating the precise nature of the measure before it was introduced. EVICTIONS IN IRELAND. Mr. POULETT SCROPE asked the First Lord of the Treasury, vhether he was:aware that a vast number of ejectment decrees had been recently served on a single estate in the county of Galway, whereby several thousand persons are liable to be in one day forced from their homes, and their houses levelled ; that in that and several other counties of Ireland evictions and house-levellings on a similar wholesale scale have been for some time past, and are still going on; and if the opinion of the law officers of the Crown had been taken as to whether such depopulations, whereby large bodies of her Majesty's subjects are at once deprived of shelter and livelihood, and many (as may be easily proved) of life, be not illegal, and a hi g h crime and misdemeanour by t hel ancient common law of the realm? ' Lord J. RUSSELL said he had so official information respecting the number of evictions which had taken place in Ireland, and he saw that- the Irish newspapers which discussed this subjec', were very much at variance both as to the extent of the evictions and as to the persons who carried them into effect. It was certainly not his intention to submit any case to the law officers of the Crown on this subject—indeed he thought it would be exceedingly difficult for the o law officers to give an opinion upon the point mentioned by the Honourable Member. NAVY ESTIMATES. Colonel CHATTERTON asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, seeing the sum of 538,6421. charge} in the Navy estimates for the years 1849-50, under the head of " Victuals for Seamen and Marines," what portion of that sum had been; paid, or now 'remains due, to houses in England, Ireland, and foreign houses in the provision trade, for the supply of beet and pork for her Majesty's nary. Sir F. BARING said it would be difficult and inju dicious to apportion the sums among the different houses in England and Ireland. DUTY ON WHEAT. In answer to a queattion from Mr. NEWDEGATE, who complained of certain inaccuracies in the returns presented to Parliament of the duty received on the im portation of wheat, Mr. LABOUCHERE said he was sorry to say that the Hon. Gentleman had fallen into error in the method of his calculations. It would require a more detailed statement than he could at present lay before the House to explain them, but he would just mention one instance. The accounts which the Hon. Gentleman alluded to were from the sth of January to the sth of February, and nut from the first of the month, as he had stated. Of those, up to the 31st of January, corn entered at 10s., and the remainder at Is. duty. After a ehort conversation, the matter was allowed to drop, Mr. LABOUCHERE expressing a perfect confi dence that the Hon. Gentleman would find that the re turns were correct after he had perused the statement which ho would lay on the table of the House. PREROGATIVE COURT—OFFICE OF REGIST RAR. Sir B. HALL rose to put a question to the Noble Lord at the head of the Government with reference to the office of the registrar of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, which he said was a sinecure office, the emo luments of which amounted to 12,000/ per annum. The Archbishop of Canterbury had the power of appointing to the office, and also of nominating two others in re version. Archbishop Moore had appointed his two sons, Thomas and Robert Moore, the latter of whom now held it, having succeeded his brother in 1845. Along with the registrarship ho believed that gentle man also held a prebend stall, and two rectories, having a net income of 14,0001. per annum. Dr. Manners Sutton, while he was Archbishop, had appointed the present Viscount Canterbury, his grandson, then twelve years old, to the revisionary interest, while the late Arch bishop, Dr. Howley, had declined on conscientious grounds appointment ,w h e a t t h a e l r l. th e T p h r e es q e u n e t s A tio r n eh s h w is h h ic e l p i he to make wish e adn to y a sk w e re had not filled up the vacant reversionary interest with the name of the son of the present Bishop of Winchester, and what the age of that son was; and, also, whether it was the intention of the Government, in conformity with the provisions of an Act passed in 1847, to introduce any measure for the purpose of revising those appointments? Lord J. RUSSELL said, as the Right Hon. Baronet had given notice of his question, he had obtained in formation on the subject to which it referred, and ho found that Mr. John Moore was appointed to the office by the late Archbishop Moore, and that Robert Moore was appointed to hold it in reversion after the death of his brother. It appeared, as the Right Honourable Baronety did he hadtrt till up truly stated, that the late Archbishop during his lif e ti me. — ( ll aar te . h he v a a r c . a ) ncy fie wh ( i L c o h rdj. Ru occurred s sell) could not say whet h er the Archbishop made any communication to her Majesty's Government on thr: subject, but ho remembered perfectly well that in a coeversatien which he had had with him, the Archbishop mentioned that an office had become vacan', to which he did not intend to make an appointment, but he did not state the nature of the office If lippeared likewise that the second reversion of 441 p `argce had since been given by the present Arch bishop- t 8 his nephew, Mr. Sumner, who was a young man no* studying at the Temple. (A laugh.) With respect to the existing law, as it effected that appointment, he might state, a Bill was introduced and passed into a law in 1847, which provided that all appointments subsequently made in the Ecclesiastical Courts, should be taken subject to any regulations which might afterwards be made by Parliament, either as to their alteration cr abolition.—(Hear, hear.) The nature of the office in question was at present under going inquiry by a Select Committee of the House and it appeared to him (Lord J. Russell) to Le one of those offices which, when Parliament dealt with the sub ject, would either be abolished, or so altered that the person holding it should perform efficient duties. — (Hear, hear.) It appeared to him, likewise, that the enormous salary mentioned by the Right Honourable Baronet must be abolished, and by the provisions of the Act to which he alluded, the person holding the office in reversion would be entitled to no compensation whatever. Sir B. HALL then gave notice that on Thursday nest he would move for certain returns connected with the ofgcers of the ecclesiastical courts in England and Wales. Mr. HORSMAN gave notice that on the same (lay be would put a question to the Noble Lord (Lord J. Km sell) respecting the purchase, by the Ecclesisaical Com mission, of the Bishop of Gloucester's interest in the estate of Hawfield (a 9 we understood). DRAINAGE BILL In reply to Mr. DISRAELI, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said tbo Bill which he had mentioned in his financial statement respecting drainage wuuld bo laid on the table of the House in two or three days. OFFICIAL SALARIES. Mr. HENLEY then rose to move Shit an humble ad dress be presented to her Majesty, humbly to request that she would be graciously pleased to direct that a careful revision be made of the salaries and wages paid in every department of the public service, with a view to a just and adequate reduction thereof, due regard being had to the efficient performance of the several duties. He believed this subject had not been to the fullest ex tent brought under revision since the year 1821.1 This House then voted an address to the Throne en the then circumstances, calling for a revision cf the salaries paid to all members of the service, and praying for a re duction of the numbers emplot el. That motion was afterwards referred, by minutes of the Trea sury, to the heads of the various departments, and more alterations and reductions took place in conse quence. That measure tti as afterwards followed up by a Committee of the House, whifla had referred to its consi deration the salaries paid the officials who held seats either in that or in the other House of Parliament whiefi was :somewhat :analagous to the Committee: which was appointed a short time ago. Another Committee appointed in the same year took cognizance of the various officers who had heretofore been paid out of the Civil List, and who from that time were thrown upon the Consolidated Fund. These Committees led to re ductions, but not of a 'great extent, and since that time there had been no further dealing with the sub ject. It would, however, be in the recollection of the House that about two years ago the present Government thought it right to refer the expenditure of the two great branches of the public service to the consideration of a Committee of this House, and he thought that of itself was a pretty strong indication that there was some thing special in the times to induce the Government of the country to take so very unusual a course. It chanced to hire to have the honour of sitting in one of those Com mittees, but while the report of the Committee on the army estimates recommended reductions in the heads of departments, that of the Navy Committee was altogether silent on the subject, that brought them down to what took place the other day, when the Noble Lord at' the head of the Govern ment brought forward a motion which was carried to refer certain limited branches of the service to a Select Cornmito a. With what view the Noble Lotd made that motion ho did not know. He did not know whether the Noble Lord thought any increase or any reduction were necessary, because the Noble Lord did not tell them ; but lie could hardly suppose that the Noble Lord had any other object but a reduction in view. But, however, that might be, he would state shortly to the House the branches of the public service which the Noble Lord selected in the consideration of this Committee. They were first the offices held by gentlemen who held scats either is this, or the other House of Parliament, then there was the diplomatic corps ; and, lastly, there where what were called judicial offices. Now, he was prepared to show that each of these separate branches stand upon sieseial grounds, which some other branches did not. He would take first on order the judicial salaries, now since reference must be had to the remunera tion received :by eminent men - practising in the same precession of equal dignity. That was an important element which must enter into the consideration of the question of what ought to be paid to an eminent advocate on undertaking a judicial office, and therefore he maintained that this branch of the public service stood upon grounds of its own.—(Hear, hear.) He now came to the diplo matic service. Of course a sedarate element which must enter into the consideration of that question must be the restricted :circle of men of ability from it they could select individuals to fill the office. They mill also take into account the expences which an A.mbdesador was necessarily expected to incur in the various :countries where the public service required than to goS—(Elear.) Therefore they stand upon sepa rate ground - from all other branches of the public ser vice. —(Hear.) He came next to the official gentleman who held seats either in that or the other House of Parliament. who, he thought, he 'should be able to show stood altogether upon grounds apart from the great body of public servants who held perma nent offices in- the various departments.—(flear.) In the first place those gentlemen were only in and out of office, and subject to a change by a thousand circum stances. But there was this peculiarity attached to teeir office, that while other servants of the Government were only required to work by day, the servants of the Crown in this and the ether House of Parliament were called upon to work by night as well as by day. Therefore both on the ground of not having permanent possession of their office, and of having to work by day and by night, he did draw a distinct line between those gentle men and all the other branches of the public service. If it was thought that the three branches of the public service, the army, navy, and ordnance, stood in need of revision, he wanted to know why it was that larger amounts of the public expenditure, which ho should bring before their notice, were not also to be subject to revision and economy, if economy was proper. With respect to the army, navy, and ordnance, those estimates had been annually under the revision of Parliament itself With respect to judicial offices and official salaries in this and the other Houses of Parliament, those had been recently submitted to more recent discussion than the larger mass to which he should call their attention. Now, he knew there was a very large number of gentlemen, not only in this House, but out of it, who had lain down the almost categori cal opinion that no economy could be practised and no saving could be made except in the warlike estab lishments of the country. Great countenance had been given to that opinion, not only by the Noble Lord the First Lord of the Treasury, but also by the late First Lord of the Treasury in his financial state ment in 1845. He (Mr. Henley) could not but think there was a deal of error in that state ment. When it was considered how large the expenditure of the country was, which never came under the review of Parliament at all, he thought it would be very difficult to show that if that large ex penditure were carefully looked into some cor.- siderable saving might not be efreeted. He found that under the head of Customs, Ex cise, stamps and taxes, pest-offices and Crown lands , according to a financial return for 1848 to 1849, the amount paid under the head of salaries and wages was no less than 2,818,0001. He found also by the same return the sum paid in various salaries to Com missionerso,ooo and the salaries was27l,ooo4the o fofficersdiplomatic in courts salaries were l4of justice amounted to no less than 1,970,9241.; making altogether the sum of 4,327,000/. odd ; not one farthing of which ever came under the review of Paris ment.—(Hear.) Then in the navy, army, army, and ordnance, the return of salaries and wages of persons who had - nothing to do with fighting men showed a sum of 1,500,0001.; for salaries in the commissariat 100,0001.; salaries in miscellaneous esti mates, 1,131,0004 So that there was of sala ries which came under the annual revision of Parliament a sum of about 2,647,0001. They had in addition large sums paid in salaries under the control of Government, though not paid out of the public Exchequer. Taking the expenses of all the courts of law they amounted to 500,0001. per annum, thus making a total amount of 7,000,0004 in civil salaries. He wished to call the attention of the House to the amount of what was paid to the army, navy, and ordnance. The whole sum paid in round numbers was 6,500,00001., so that at least one million more was paid for civil salaries than to the army, navy, and ordnance. And yet they were told that it was quite impossible to save anything out of the civil expenses, and that the only way was to go to the warlike expenditure. (LEFT sPEASING.) COURSE OF EXCHJ Amster,lam .......... 12 2 Ditto, three months.. 12 3Y, Rotterdam .......... 12 3% Antwerp .• . • ••••••• •• 25 80 Brussels • • • • .. 25 10 Ilemburgh • Di.l3 • 13 133 e &tons • • ........ • • .... 3 days'sight . • 25 60 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 SO Marseilles 25 80 Beurdeaux......... • Frankfort on Maine.... 121% Berlin Vienna, effec. tio •••• •• 12 7 Trieste, ditto.— .... 12 8 Petcreburgh, Sil. Rble •• 37 % Madrid ••.. • • ........ 49% Cadiz •• .• •• •• • • •• •• •• 49 % Barcelona derille • • •• •• LNGE.-(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar.... .• . . Leghorn ••••• • • • • • •••• 30 75 Genoa . • •• 26 10 gaples •• • •••• • • •• 40% Palermo, per0z........ 12214 Messina • .• 124 3 4 Lisbon... • 31.‘ Oporto .• .. • • .... • • • • 53 3 Rio Janeiro Buenos Ayres New York, 60 days'sight Philadelphia raicks Or BULLION, PLZ OZ, Foreign Gold in bars .. 43 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars .... •• S 4 10% Silver in bars ...• •• 0 4 11% GREENOCE.—DARING AND SUCCESSFUL INTRE i,IDITY.—I'Ve have to record an accident of a most alarming character, but from which happily no serious consequence resulted. On the morning of Friday se'nnight which, it will be recollected, was stormy, a small boat, taking men off to her Majesty's steamer Greenock, at present lying at the Tail of the Bank, was suddenly caught in a squall when alongside the ship, and upset, precipitating sixteen men into the river, and placing them in the most imminent peril. Captain James Brown, the officer in command of the ship, having heard a violent screaming from his berth, leaped un dressed through a port in his cabin into a boat the sailors were in the act of lowering, and by his energy, we are ;sappy to say, all hands were rescued from a watery grave, he him self having with his own hands pulled five men into the boat—Edinburgh Courant. 4.; • • •)-' • • 11 os I 7.1 0 4 0 j Pcl Colchester llO 220 55 no Harwich Leigh 432 40 31 Maldon 648 16 356 130 105 500 HADDINGTON, Aran. 26.—The following are the prices of grain at our market to-day:— Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. First ... ... 39s Od 24s Oil 19s Od 28s Od Second ... ... 35s 10d 22s 6d 17s 4d 23s 8d Third ... .. 32s Od 21s Od 14s Od 224 Od Total quantity of Wheat in market 408 qrs., 386 sold Do. Barley do. 235 qrs., 152 sold Do. Oats do. 298 qrs., 255 sold Do. Beans do. 175 qrs., 172 sold KIRKALDY, APRIL 27.—The following are the quotations up to this date : Wheat. :Barley. Oats. Beans. Peas.: 1 First 40s Od 22, Od 19s Od —s Od I—s Od Second 33s Od ]9s Od 18s Od —s Od —s Od Third 32 I s Od 16s 6d 14s 6d —s Od —s Od Oatmeal, ner bag of 2801 tis imperial, 24s to Os Od. _ GLASGOW, APRIL 24.—Provisions—Cheese, 00s to 00s Od per cwt ; retail, Od to Od per lb. Skim milk, Os Od to Os per cwt. Country fresh butter, 10d to lOid per lb. Irish pow dered, in lumps, 9d to Od; country powdered, wholesale, Bid to 9d. Country eggs, 8d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, 4s 10d per , 20, or 6d per dozen. Hens, 3s Od per pair ; Ducks, 2s 6d. STIRLuca, APRIL 26.—Wheat, foreign, 20s to 23s ; ditto, home, Os to Os • ditto ditto new, 16s 6d to 20s Od; barley, per boll of 6 bushels, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 14s 3d to 18s Od. Oats, common, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, lOs Od to 12s 3d; ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od; ditto ditto new, Os Od; malt, distillers, 32s Od to 34s ; ditto brewers, 35s Od to 36s ; beans per boll, Os 6d to Os Od ; ditto new, lls Od to 13s 6d ; pease 13s to OQs; flour, new per sack, 31s ed to 32s 6d; ditto common ditto, 20s Od to 22s d; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new 23s 6d to 25s 6d ; ditto per peck of 71bs, 7d to 8d ; fresh butter per lb, Od to Od; eggs per dozen, Id to 8d; hay per ton, Os to Os. XxLso, APRIL U.—Wheat, old, Os to Os; ditto, new, 24s to 29s Od ; barley, new, 12s to 16s Od ; ditto old, Os to Os ; potato oats, OOs to 003 ; ditto new, lOs to 13s Od ; common oats 06, to OOs Od ; ditto new, 00s to 00s Od ; peas, las Od to 00s Od ; beans, 183 to 00s per boll of six imperial bushels. PERTH, APRIL 26.—Wheat, 34s Od to 313 s Od ; barley, 17s Od to 19s Od ; oats, 14s to 16s ; peas and beans, 20s Od to 24s per quarter. , Oatmeal, per sack, 22: to 245. BERWICK, APRIL 25.—Wheat, 33s ; barley, 18s 10id ; oats, 13s 6id ; rye, COs Od ; beans, 24s Od ; peas, 00s Od average per imperial quarter. Far.xxxx, APRIL 25.—The supply of grain in this day's market was 388,bolls; wheat at 16s 9d to les Od per bell. ; barley, 16s Od to 18s Od ; oats, 12s 6d to 13s 6d; beans, 12s 6d to 14s 6d per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. COAL MARKE' Carr'e Hartley Holywell Tanfield Moor rantield Moor Butes— 13s 0,1 Walker's Primrose West Hartley Wylam . Wall's End, &c. _ .-YESTERDAY. Belmont l6s Gd Haswell l7s 6d Lumley lss 6s Whitwell Heugh Hall South Hartlepool Whitworth l3s 3d Maclean's Tees 13.3 6d Seymour Tees Elsicar Steam Hartley Huuwick Coke 2os Gd Sidney's Hartley Ships at market, 136. Acorn Close Brown's Bewicke and Co. Brown's Gas Gibson Original Gibson Riddell's ..... ...... 14s 3d Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of New South IYales. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 4, 'THE- PROPOSED CONSTITUTION. We have received files of papers from Adelaide to the 24th December inclusive. On Friday, the 21st December, a great public meeting was held in the Exchange, Adelaide, in accordance with a requisition of the Sheriff of the Province, C. B. Newenham, Esq., to adopt resolutions and appoint a committee to pre , pare petitions to both Houses of Parliament on the subject of the proposed new constitution. Many of the shops were shut, and business was altogether sus pended during the progress of the meeting. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted : " Proposed by Mr. J. H. Fisher, and seconded by Mr. G. S. Kingston:— " 1. That the Bill laid before Parliament, entitled, A Bill for the better government of her Majesty's Australian colonies,' so far as it relates to the colony of South Australia, meets the wishes and wants of the co lonists in most of its most essential provisions; and by recommending the concession of a representative Go vernment with such extensive powers, deserves to be re garded as a wise, liberal, and comprehensive measure; and that the thanks of the colonists are due to the Right Hon. Earl Grey, Secretary for the Colonies, and to Mr. Hawes, Lord John Russell, and Mr. Labouchere, the Members of the House cf Commons who prepared and brought in the Bill. " Proposed by Mr. Samuel Davenport, and seconded by Mr. George Elder:— " 2. That the formation of a general assembly of the Australian colonies, however desirable on the majority of matters proposed to be left to the decision of such As sembly, is in pat ciple, as in form, a federal union; is, in a British sense, unconstitutional, as morally opposed to the social institution of the colony, and endangering our colonial independence. " Proposed by Mr. G. A. Anstey, and seconded by Mr. A. H. Davis:— "3. That the resolutions recently passed by the Le gislative Council, recommending a second chamber, do not represent the opinions nor convey the sentiment of the colonists, particularly as the proposed Act confers all needful powers ior amending the constitution, and adapting it to future exigencies; and that any provision which should enforce upon the colonists a system of life nominees is such a chambvr, this meeting deprecates as an intolerable evil, which might neutralise all the good to be anticipated from the proposed measure. " Proposed by Mr. F. S. Duttor, and seconded by Mr. G. M. Waterhouse:— _ _ _ 4. The colonists 13 , ieg prerared as heretofore to bear the whole expenses of their civil government, con sider that they have a constitutional right to regulate, by means of their representives in council, the mode of raieing and of appropriating the colonial revenue, free from ell direction and control by her Majesty's Trea sury, or by the Commissioners of Customs; and they further consider that the local Government should have the power of appointing all officers of Government, and that the salaries should be fixed by the colonial legis lature. " Proposed by Mr. J. B. Montefiore, and seconded by Mr. W. Peacock:— " i. That this meeting considers the provisions in the Sydney Act, fixing the qualifications of members of the proposed representative council, and of the electors, in applicable to the circumstances of the colony; and that cower should be, therefore, given t') the local legislature to qualify such provisions as they may see fit. " Proposed by Mr. W. Blyth, sad seconded by Mr. Samuel 'Stocks:— " 6. That a copy of the resolutions passed at this me( t ing, and signed by the chairman, he forwarded to E trl Grey; and that the following gentlemen be appointed a committee, with power to add to their number, to pre pare petitions to both Houses of Parliament embodying these resolutions, requesting his Excellency the Lieu. tenant .Governor to forward the same with the least pos sible delay:- 6. J. H. Fisher, E. Stephens, A. H. Davis, John Brown, G. S. Kingston, S. Davenport, R. D. Hanson, Geo. Elder, G. A. Anstey, S. Stocks, jun., John Baker." A vote of thanks to the chairman was carried by acclamation. IRELAND. BIRTH-PLACE OF " THE DIME." DUBLIN, SATURDAY.—Mr. Murray, one cf the resident masters of Trinity College, Dublin, has pub lished a brochure, in which he sets at rest the moot point of the birth-place of the Duke of Wellington. One might think there was little ground for specula tion in such a case, seeing that his Grace's mother is only a few years dead, supposing (which is extremely unlikely) that his Grace himself should be ignorant of the fact. Strange enough that the biographers of the Duke of Wellington differ on the subject. Burke and Maxwell record the birth of his Grace as having occurred on the Ist of May, 1769, at Dungan Castle, in the county of Meath ; and Gurwood and Lodge assent expressly to the time and tacitly to the place. Mr. Murray has discovered a piece of evidence which he deems conclusive of the fact that Dublin may henceforth claim the honour of being the birth-place of the conqueror of Napoleon. In a Dublin news paper, published on Siturday, the 6;h of May, 1769, entitled the Public Register, or Freeman's Journal, there is the following brief announcement : " BIRTH.—In Merrion-atreet. the Right Hon. the Countess of Mornington. of a son." Mr. Murray maintains that the house in which this event occurred is that at present occupied by the icclesiastical Commissioners, and in support of his assertion refers to the following passage in Lord Cloncurry's " Recollectionsi" : " I graduated in the arta in the year 1791; as it hap pened, upon the day on which my father entertained the Lord-Lieutenant (the Earl of Westmoreland) for the first time, at Mornington House, a residence in Mer rion-street, which he had purchased from the late Mar quis Wellesley." The late Lord Cloncurry paid as purchase-money for this house the sum of 8,0001. Next, as to the date of his Grace's birth, Mr. Mur ray adduces one fact to prove it occurred on the 29th of April, 1769, and another that he was actually baptised on the following day; therefore the Ist of May must be erroneous. Eishaw's Gentleman's Magazine, in the number for May, 1769, has the following : BIRTIL-April 29, the Countess of Mornington of a son." In the parish registry of St. Peter's Church, on a page headed "Christenings, 1769," is this entry : " April 30, Arthur, son of the Right Hon. Earl and Countess of Mornington." It is' here to be noted that the east side of Upper Merrion-street was then, as it is now, included in the parish of St. Peter. We can assure the English reader that he is not prouder of his Stratford•on-Avon than his Irish neighbour shall be of the house in Merrion-street, the birth-place of the duke of Wellington. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. The following is the official statement of the quantit , corn, &c., received in the port of London from the pi Essex, from the 22d April, 1850, to the 27th April, both inclusive : ies 0 its in lea°, AMERICAN NEWS. We have been favoured with the following intelli gence, purporting to have been forwarded by electric telegraph from New York to Halifax, and received at the North American and European Telegraph Agency -office, Liverpool : " We have just received our extraordinary telegra phic dispatch from New York, New Orleans, and Washington, vid electric telegraph to Halifax, bring ing news and dates considerably later than those brought by the regular files and advices per steamer. By this means of communication our advices extend to New Orldans, April 18, 5 r.m. ; New York, April 19, 5 r.m. ; and from Washington to the evening of the 18th. " The letter of cur Halifax agent is as follows : "Commercial Telegraph-office, Halifax, N.S., April 19, 11 o'clock P. 31. " We have received, through the Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Halifax lines, exclusive intelligence from all parts of the American continent two and a-hall days later than is embraced in the letters or papers that go to England by this week's stermer, a brief summary of which is herewith forwarded :-- "POLITICAL. "In the Senate of the United States, on the I;th, during a debate on California and slavery, a violent altercation occurred between Benton and Foote, in the course of which Foote drew a pistol and aimed at Ben ton. Foote was immediately disarmed, ano a cum rcittea of investigation appointed. "Oa the 18th, a resolution nay passed in the Senate referring the whole question of California and the terri tories to a committee of 13, to report a plan for com promise. " The committee is not yet appointed. "It is settled the Cabinet will out be dissolved. "COMMERCIAL. "NEW YORK, APRIL 19, EVENING. " Cotton—The sales of the two days past amount to 2,800 bales, at very full yrices. The weather has con tinued cold and frosty, and every account received from the south is,lisastrous as retards the prospects of plant ing. The incoming crop will not, it is confidently be lieved, reach 2,000,000 bales, and the country will hold over the baleuee of the present crop. " A decline of hc. is anticipated on receipt of the steamer's news from Europe of the 6th of April, which has not yet come to hand. " The New Orleans market was active last evening (18th of April). Saks, 8,000 bales ; at ll c. to 1 1 ie. for middling; and all southern markets are higher for the shipper than this. _ _ _ Fleur—Our market for flour is very firm at quota tions current on Tuesday. " Corn has advanced to 60c. for yellow. " Provisions—Mess pork, 10 dolls. 12ic. to 10 dolls. 25e. per cwt. Other articles are without change. " Sterling exchangP, M i c. to 54c. premium, and the tendency is upwards. " Government securities (American) are Tery firm at quotations of Tuesday last." LAW INTELLIGENCE. QUEEN'S BENCH, April 29. EX PARTE NASII IN RE THE WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICKLOW, AND DUBLIN RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. KEANE moved for a rule calling upon theWater ford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway Com pany, to show cause why a nundarnus should not issue commanding them to take off from the register of shareholders the seal affixed thereto at the 7th ordinary meeting of the company; or, in the alterna tive, for a rule to show cause why a criminal informa tion should not be filed against the Earl Courtown for certain misdemeanours at that meeting. Lord CAMPBELL inquired of the Learned Counsel whether there was any precedent for such an alterna tive motion. Mr. KEANE said he was unable to cite any, and that he would confine his motion to the first manda- mus. The object of the application was to ascertain whether the shareholders had any voice in authenti cating the register of shareholders. Lord CAMPBELL.—Is there any clause in the Act (the Companies' Clauses Consolidatkn Act) which says that the seal shall be rimoved? Mr. KEANE said there was not. Mr. Justice EaLE—The sealed register is only prima facie evidence of a person's being a shareholder. Mr. KEANE said that though a party might defend himself from liability in an action, there were other rights and privileges which might be prejudiced. Mr. Justice EaLE—I• your grievance that you have been improperly placed en the list, or that others hare been put on ? Mr. KEANE said the complaint was that persons had been improperly placed on the sealed register. Lord CAMPBELL said he had no doubt upon this question, and the rule must be refused. The Court would order an act to be done where the law imposed a duty which the party reiused to perform, but there was no precedent for the Court's ordering a thing done to be undone. The Court would order a seal to be affixed, but no mandamus had ever issued to tear a seal from off the parchment. That would be a stretch of the authority of the Court, and he (Lord Campbell) would not give his sanction to the experiment now made. The rest of the Court having expressed similar opi nions, the rule was refused. THE TEA TRADE, APRIL 29.—The deliveries of tea in London last week were 557,2901 b., being rather smaller than in the preceding week. The stock in London on the 16th inst. was 35,315,0001 b., against 36,933,0001 h. at the corresponding date of 1849. The quantity of congou in cluded in these totals is 26,474,0001 b. now against 24,575,0001 h. in 1849; of young hyson, 3,021,0001 h. against 2,038,0001 b. : 1849. 1830. Total delivered .. • . 11,575,000 total delivered .. 11,869,00 Exported .. 1,150,000 Exported .. 1,250,000 Sent coastw. 2,500,000 Sent coastw. 2,500,000 3,650,0001 3,750,000 Home consumption Home consumption from London •• •• 7,9)5,000 from London •• • • 1,119,000 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 29. PETITIONS. Mr. C. LUSHINGTON presented a petition praying the House to grant some effective health Bill. Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from Bristol against the union of Church and State. SAVINGS' BANKS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then rose pursuant to notice, to move fur leave to bring in a Bill to amend the law relating to savings' banks, He was sorry that any delay had taken place in bring ing on the subject before the House, having given notice as early as the first night of the session that he would move for leave to bring in a Bill, but illness and press of business had prevented him doing so until the present time.—(Hcar, hear.) He would make no apology in laying the propositions which he intended to make before the House, because all were egreeed as to the importance of the subjv ct, and few who had turned their attention to it were unconscious of ±ae extreme difficul ties which would beset at any attempt to make en alte ration in the present law as concerned these societies, That some further legislation was necessary as to the constitution of savings' banks, they were all equally agreed. It appeared that it was nearly forty years age when societies were first formed for the - purpose of affording the poor a secure mode of investing their savings, and of obtaining the payment of interest upon them. From that time they had gradually grown up into importance until they now had as much as twenty millions invested in their hands, and it was not surprising that these institutions should re quire new regulations when their operations had become so gigantic. But there were other circumstances which rendered it equally necessary for the Legislature to inter fere. 'Most of the savings' banks now in existence were ori ginated and supported by reputable and benevolene per sons, but they did not give that regular and constant attendance to their affairs which was indispensably ne cessary to their attaining a state of efficiency. Without " attributing any blame to the trustees and patrons of those banks, he would say that, with few exceptions, they gave no regular attention to their duties, and the affairs of the banks were generally left to the management of a secre tary, an actuary, a clerk, or some other officer over whom sufficient vigilance was not exercised. From re cent failures of those institutions it appeared that the trustees were in the habit of signing cheques in blank; and also that the cheques which they exercised was, in many instances, merely of a nominal character. The Bill which it was his intention to pro pose was entirely a prospective Bill ; and at a later period of the evening he should propose that a Commit tee be appointed to take into consideration the last section which it contained. He thought it would only encumber the Bill to extend its operations to past transactions. It would perhaps be advisable to refer shortly to the his tory and progress of these societies, because people seemed hardly aware of the nature of their constitu tion. Not much more than thirty years ago they were not at all recognised by the Legislature. It was little more than forty years, as he bad already mentioned, since they were first formed. He believed the first society was established at Wendover, in 1799. In 1604 a similar society was formed at Totten ham ; in 1808 another was formed at Bath, and in 1810 one was established at Dumfries. The one at Tottenham was started by 6 benevolent individuals for the savings of the poorer classes, and they agreed to allow 5 per cent. upon the deposits. Each of these 6 persons were responsible to the extent of 1001. They were to have another trustee for every 1001. Now to such an extent did these voluntary societies go, that in the year 1817, when the first legislation took place on the subject, there had been formed by the voluntary association of benevolent persons no less than seventy of those societiea in England, four in Wales, and four in Ireland ; and the whole object of that legislation was to prohibit the trustees from receiving any profits and to provide for the deposit of the moneys of the societies in the public funds. There was no security whatever previously for the deposits except the credit of the trustees, and their honourable dealings with the depositors. In 1617 the Government undertook to receive the moneys deposited in the savings' banks, and to be responsible for them, and Ito allow a certain rate of interest thereon. In 1824 an Act was passed to render it imperative on the trustees to transmit to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt the deposits to ba lodged from time to time in the banks, and to be invested in the public funds. From that time the Government became re sponsible for all the money transmitted to them, but - `they became responsible for nothing else. A tort t b e , rate of intsrest vests alloy=.ed to the trustees fur .. ! management of the bank,_ and the remai nder ?, a. to eo to the depositors. (Hear, hear.) e„ . 1828 the preceding Acts were consolidated into one. __li was then enacted that the rules should be properly &,ehr,,, eified by an officer appointed by the Government. it' - trustees were exempted from liability, own individual sets of neglect or fraud. In 1844 all Act was Fused, which exempted. the trustees frons,„ke liability whatever, and reduced the rate of interest. 1 _" . .., whole duty, and the whole responsibility of the Gover_% meat, consisted in this—the rules of savings' banks l e to be transmitted to the proper officer appointed hi ke , Government to certify them, and to see that 10 4 except for 10 0 were.in conformity to law. The trustees were Pe ro t, fectly competent to make what rules they pleased' P It vided they were not inconsistent with the lee'' o f,-. was the duty of the Commissioners for the Reduc tion be . the National Debt to receive any sums that leir ees ; transmitted to them by th e t r ustees, to ' n b aa lt them in the fends, and to pay there lc, to them when properly called upon b y the a t , tees. Annual accounts were only required to be tr ",',. mitted to Parliameut by the trustees; and the Caline' l 4 , sifters of the National Debt had a check on the trusteeselt the knowledge to furnished, and they had also the P ° fi r , se closing teeir account with the trustees if they 0 ; 40 Wins regard to all other matters the trustees of 0 4, navings' banks had a complete control over thos e b3t' ai The first question which had been raised by the r ee t e o f discussiois on this subject had been as to the ellen' t o the responsibility of tie Government and e te l ge the reseonsibility- of the trustees. The trustees it at altogether liable for the reglect that 11 0 1 be incurred by them as individuals; and the G o verrt° le ware only responsible f o r th e sa t e custo dy of such le e c n . e n . as had been transmitt e d f rom th e b an k s to th® „ u eb s, inissioners for the R e du c ti on o f t h e National v ire o In , the sear 1828 the r es p ons ibilit y o f trustee s be at affirmed, but in 1844 the liability was removal le o them, and it must be perfectly understood that th ere ], to no - responsibility. Hon. Gentlemen seemed en tire (ael hove forgotten the origin of th ese b o dies, that , 3 0 1 were voluntary associations, and not conne cted : el y the Government at all. The Government were et wog their bankers, tool responsible for the money thst re , paid. Until the last year or t wo th e th e ory of th e e d, aponsibility of Government had never beers , a dvsl3 tflt. I inor had any application been mad e p r -Goeernlnt e ec t et' compensation. No instance had becliered of a i ling having been sustained by the failure of 'SO 8 , 1i. „, - , s tost bank until the year 1821, at Carmarthen. i The i' ... 00 1 at that time were liable, but it turned 01 that they were not able to supply the deficiency' dse the Lord-Lieutenant of the county, he believed , n; t oe took to compensate all th e su ff erers. Th e t heory (7 ,', A 0 responsibility of the G overnment was qui t new one. Nor did he think that in his 'tts posed measure it would be right to take tie° ll 4 si Government the charge of m a ki ng goo d an y deg el 'o which might occur from th e neg l ect o f an y . but i s ts aee co officers. He also thought that any general =tare: 00 with the appointment of office rs i n t h e :savings i tsls would destroy that which he h e ld t o be a ye' n est portion of savings' bank, namely their voluntary geld racter; but he proposed to appoint a treasurer, w iie ;bigh generally be a local banker, and he would make it is the crime and misdemeanour for any other person ibis be treasurer to receive and pay money. By doin t e - r steit thought he should remove the greatest occasion of: eeste Ho proposed at the same time to repeal the ci i iie re' the Act of 1844, which entirely did away with al ( e sponsibility of the trustees. They were officers of ther t b and although the real responsibility wou ld rest wi t ': teat treasurer and manager, it was no thi ng b u t rig" eel the trustees should share in some degr ee wit responsibility so as to prevent misconduct °' 3 eel part. Toe first clause of th e Bitl s peci6 eA n - ede dut'es of the treasurer, an d ma d e it a - psi meenour for any other officer to receive c; r dealt money. The next question w hi c h t h e Bill be with was the subject of audit. Wh eli n tjee introduced his Bill relating t o I re l an d seine - :;tsfr tion was taken as to the mode o f au di t there wl` of lished, inasmuch as it could not ap ply wi e tj ; eel degree of satisfaction to seap or t town s. " .1. 0 1 however, been partially in operation in w oes, of the large seaports in thi s coun t* ~,- , o oe re it had proved most successf u l, an d he P r 7 v ers: to extend the system of a u dit no w in - 0 .1 4 0 0, tion in Ireland to the savings' banks of P e e to reserving, however, power to the Trealloos send inspectors to examine the books. 00 1 he diapo.ed of the second clause. Th° be 10 clause dealt with the questi on o f i n terest gal allowed on deposits. He proposed th at sIP Government should act a s t h e b an kers ' l 'o depositor. The depositor did no t care so much 31 0ei interest as the security of his deposits' yes, it was only fair that when Governmen t t e' the risk of guaranteeing the reparn ee e l3l oll deposits, without reference to the 10 55 , to g' might arife on the purchase and sale or - rate' that the interest should be at a I ° W n aive' At present the managers of a savings' bank re" ea' 3/. ss. as interest on the moneys they paid to th e e , vernment, they allowing 2/.17a. 6d. to their deposili IP; proposed to reduce these t wo sums to 3/. and b O 6 ; In the year 1846-47 the numb e r o f depositors dec„ 2, I 5; by upwards of 12,000, but the d ecrease was iu th e :eoe sums, the depositors under 20/. having in the sse l i . r el ti increased more than 12,000. He proposed, therel‘l be lie limit the amount of deposits to 100/. He h a e l pressed to reduce it still more, but ho thought s t " e - o sig: best limit he could fix. When the amount e e f - e alis: reached 100/. all interest should cease, and if the t hi 0" chose they would invest their money for then' t est' funds, receive the dividends, and pay them t e iosr giving them also a power of attorney if they chos e ero se ' point another party to receive them. All theee h r e es' eiona were prospective. Ho should not compel t ce r isting depositors to submit to those terms, but P" t etel l ; sidered it would be for their advantage to accep t At' In confirmation of his views on that part of the s e - A rti r , he had received several communications frosts es; conversant with the subject, one of which e :,,105, letter from the manager of the Croydon , f - ' bee: Bank. This gentleman, who stated that he h e " er for thirty years the manager, and for fourteen /01, the treasurer of the savings bank at Croydo n ' clip —" I have had occasion to remark that th e el, inducement to deposit money by those for , 0 % : savings banks are intended consists in or" safe place for deposit, and that the amount of t e et ioll for the most part forms but a secondary conet e r r , 01 , 0 ' whereas those persons whose means l ' -. ' are grey , bet o fre who do not actually require savings banks, use ' c ats; suit their convenience whe n th e funds are high , 1 10 :i their money out of the s av i ngs bank to invelatOt funds when low, just at th e time that • the evit"hte loft from the savings bank is attended with bol e tee; country. This cause operated far moreaextensiY, e ,l o o t ; bank in 1847 and 1848 in reducing our capita l stagnation of trade did. Twenty pounds weal° into h v e • enough for a depositor to be allowed topo t ,',earbs bank in one year, and when the sum invested to to e 1001. there is no necessity to allow further dereepite pro made- Our secretaries are secretaries alone; 41 : 40 e l , vince is bookkeeping; they have nothing t° se - tre e e - ; money, and no officer cf the bank is permitted '" 015 act business but at the bank and in banking ho e , s r e s 'eto b r i , as money is in the question; and thus the ecoue aj ettt s confined to the secretary, trustees, and manager'„ 1 1 ' money to the treasurer, trustees, and manager' tr iSil gums with which they were dealing were of "° ree eif e amount. The gross amount of interest or dividendste t b e s by the Commissioners for the National Debt ar se 7, 0, establishment of savings banks in th e year 151 0 0; 0 18,014,000/. up to the time the last an nu al sectio n e el ' I , laid before Parliament; and the total amouti V „ l P fil lie f depositors in the same period wa s 20,455,0 0 v' p ' r ese e ° 0 left an annual loss, at the pre sen t ra t e of in t e",ne I 's 42,671/. par annum. He proposed then to reee pg 0 0 rate if interest from 3/. 6s. to 3/. per cent., lii n , it t i l ye ti amount to be paid to dep os it ors t o 2/ . 155., wh ri ,, nt i e II; be a very small reduction t o eac h d epos itor. ` 4 e. e t, sent average rate of interest paid was 21. 18s t ie etna cent., and the proposed diminution of 3s. 4d. ~r4,l, ; A e would be an annual loss to a depositor of 101 °, l to eD, one of 20/. of id.; to one of 501. of ls. Bd.t o ,e"„ey Is'' , positor of 1001. a loss of 3s. 4d., as ho had sir e ; s ter ol d el which would be very small in the case of ett e ' n esee' e r , tor, but would be a saving upon . the whole, e- et tlrl' ' relieve the Government from loss, while it % e s' afevi o 0 ford the means of paying the treasurer for th e 1 : 04 , ee 'fa once of his duty, and thus to a certain extent ta ll f. n o savings bank from -the expense of manageen i eelf sum up, then, what he proposed with respect te tt eer i e, o o banks: the provisions were to appoint a tro g ro P d . whom all deposits should be received , , t a t fret the amount of deposit to 1001, at sc ßi n aid, o .l interest should stop ; that the interest ,s - _ e. ,'' t, the Government should be 31. per co" IS) that to the depositor should be 21. 1 ";.48 1 : 0 14 with respect to friendly societies ; and with el ell t 4 them, he proposed to enact that no further En° 23 `,e. o l o P - r e be invested by them directly with the Cern: P it be for tae National Debt, except so much as nl e s 10 ,ot ceive . ...l on account of assurances paid Pre vw ore . .0% passing of this Act. Hon. Gentlemen were s' y A nt i la fgr friendly societies were framed fur the purpose ° h e ee re oG assurances to parties, and the rate at which th ey ion : 0 11 give the assurance depended upon the rate ° lir a oet io . they themselves were allowed. Now, no. 13° bStil‘ o f could invest except in savings banks at savnglosst; e f terest, but the older societies had given them ° a d. eel' of dependent on the rate of interest they r eceile t ' r et.e 4 o course it would be unjust to them to touch t pt evle interest. He proposed, likewise, to limit t he feg e e n j) eei of investing in the name of trustees—a Pri g ' t - e ci fe`', o o' had been grossly abused—parties having inv e9 ;eo .- 49 A t' actually their own in the name of other Iser t ' o tesi !del times their children, and at others merely 0 ° o ften t oe ties, and that was done, he was sorry to ei l l'oe 'Os the knowledge and advice of the trustees. b p, pery n ict bad been carried on to a great extent, to trustees. I° o oo to avail themselves of the privileges l e ' t be sl e mer accorded, and invest sums far beyon",,, be le , which it was originally intended Owes' : beret 0 0 sited by parties. He should ene et t e $C 4O 3 0 4 ' that no person should invest as a trustee , cy, A u b it e behalf of a person in infancy, idiotcy, 1n e , 11 . 00 te ef 0 9 , soundness of mind. The only other prove l . in g to o co he would call attention was that refer' t o hi 10 granting of annuities , which, according % i d ee o bi° 1833, under which they were granted, c u t beittg e el' under 41.; and in the case of the partY l° , os de b ; il iog to continue the payments (which might b e , r e beef S e stelments), or dying previous to the annev arti eou ro ts available, the money paid by him was f c e er of, gdo did not propose to disturb the existheg Pe-ttotti° tone' ing annuities on those conditions, but heis t . c osh e s bi power of purChasing annuities under ota_who toter and as those new annuities could not hqeuedeee payments made in instalments, he shouto,_uid De t oe amount to 11., and the mode of working 0f, 0 . s in . .i t i, to boy d thh 01 the purchaser could accumulate hie "we; env 713° savings bank until he had sufficient ~, tin ~,, e, first of 1/., subsequently of another poulLu ~,i bsi3t*, l De mieht go on accumulating his "savings 1u1.",,,,,, ow' purchasing annuities of 14 from time to fr"'" - Al ~~ THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENI a, APRIL 30, 1850,