The Sun. — London, England, 1850-03-13 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, March 11. MAGISTRATES' ROOM. (Before Mr. Sergeant Meareir.) John Wilson and Charles Lancaster were charged with having on the 31st day of January last, com mitted sacrilege in the parish church of Kirby Mal zeard, in the West Riding. Mr. Blaushard and Mr. Travis prosecuted ; the pri soners were undefended. It appeared that on Wednesday, the 30th of January, a christening had taken place in the church at Kirby Malzeard, which was attended by the clerk, sexton, and others; after which the church doors were locked, and all left secure. The next day the sexton went to the church, and finding that he could not get in by the door he usually entered at, he got in by another, and on entering the vestry found that the vestry chest had been torn from the wall in which it was fixed with mortar, and in the room above the vestry, called the vestry chamber, several locks were broken open, and eight bottles of port wine, which had been placed there for sacra mental purposes, had been stolen. The iron chest had been broken open, and the floor was strewed with papers and lime and mortar. Lying on the floor was found a pickaxe and likewise a piece of a blackthorn stick, which had been sawn off. In order to establish the charge against the prisoners at the bar, two farmers named Bland were called, who stated that on the morning of the 30th of January, the day before the sacrilege was committed, as they were going from Kirby Malzeard to Ripon, they met the two prisoners, in company with another man, going towards the former place. In the evening, between five and six o'clock, as they were returning from Ripon, they saw, in a by-lane, near Westfield farm, the two prisoners at the bar seated by a fire which they bad made against a hedge, this spot being about two miles from the church ; and subsequently, on the same night, about ten o'clock, the prisoners were seen by a woman, named Margaret Jackson, at a place called Grewelthorpe, in a lane leading to the church, who, mistaking them for some persons with whom she was acquainted, spoke to them, and it being a light night, she distinctly identified the pri soners. The next morning, between seven and eight o'clock, the two witnesses named Bland, who were on their road to Ripon, again saw the prisoners on the road, who, on seeing them, suddenly turned and proceeded as if they were going towards Kirby Malzeard, instead of from it. As soon as the sacrilege had been discovered the prisoners were taken into custody on suspicion ; and the church being searched, it was found that the lime with which the iron safe had been fastened into the wall had been trampled about by those who broke into the church, and so caused footmarks to be made on the serge cloth which covered the floor and cushions around the communion-table. The boots of the prisoner Wilson were brought to the church by the police, and were carefully compared by the clergyman, with the foot marks, and several peculiarities which the boots pos sessed were distinctly marked upon the communion table floor. The Blends having given information as to seeing two men at the fire the day before, they went with the clergyman of Kirby Malzeard to the place, and on searching about in the hedge, they found the root of a blackthorn which had been half pulled up, but which, being firm in the ground, the stick had been cut off, and the black thorn found in the vestry exactly fitted the root. Another circumstance against the prisoners was that on the day after the robbery the prisoners were seen by a respectable farmer seated underneath a hay-stack near the road leading towards Ripon, at which place they lodged, and close to that hay-stack was found a bottle which had contained port wine. A piece of cord was likewise found there, and that cord corresponded with a piece of cord which formed part of a brace of one of the prisoners, and a similar piece was likewise found in the house where the pri soners lodged, attached to a carpet bag. In addition to this evidence it appeared that the chaplain of the goal at Ripon had observed the prisoners making signs to each other during divine service, and having mentioned it to the governor the prisoners were asked if they knew each other, which they denied, and in consequence certain conversations between the pri soners were overheard by the governor of the Ripon gaol. The prosecution called as the last witness Thomas Stubbs, governor of Ripon gaol, who said, —The prisoners were in my custody on this charge, and had been kept separate ; they had denied know.. ing each other. In the chapel I saw Lancaster hold ing up his fingers to the other prisoner. They were in separate cells. On the 14th and 15th of February, being between the cells, I heard Wilson cough, and then say, " Tom, this is a bad job, they have got the marks of my b- boots in that b old church at Kirby, and the stick that we left there. It's a bad job, shall we get off ?" Lancaster answered, " No. It's a bad job led—it's all up ; fif teen years lad ; but I don't care a curse if they send me for ten years, the first day I gain my liberty I'll begin robbing, drinking, smoking, and wh—g, in spite of all they can do to me." Wilson then said, " I suppose there is a deal said about our drinking the wine under the hay-stack, but they can't swear it was wine. Tom and me came over from York on Saturday night and sprung the screw, and he went back the same night and drank the rest of the wine the Sunday before I was taken at York. I wish we had a mouthpiece (counsel)—it might do U 3 a deal of good. We must stop talking now, as the governor may be coming, but we can hear him." The case for the prosecution being closed, the pri soners simply denied all knowledge of the transac tion, and accused the witnesses of perjury. His LORDSHIP having summed up, Verdict, Guilty. Sentence twenty years' trans portation. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BO W-STREET. Willians Dugdale, of 37, Holywell-street, Strand, was brought up on a warrant (after twice evading a summons) to answer the charge of having exposed indecent prints for sale in his shop window. The proceedings were instituted by the police cf the F division. Mr. JARDINE was ashamed to see aged men like the defendant trading in these abominable productions, which corrupted youth and nurtured the most vicious tastes and habits. liis Worship sentenced the pri soneito three months' imprisonment, with hard labour. The defendant gave notice of appeal. Andrew White, J. T. Cox, W. J. Dugdale, and Henry Jlay, were then separately charged with similar offences, all being resident in Holywell-street. The summons against White was suspended for a fortnight to enable the police to see if he was willing to abandon the trade. Cox and, Dugdale, jun., were acquitted by a failure in the evidence, and May was committed for one month. Notice of appeal was given, and Mr. JARDINE consented to take the following bail: Dugdale to enter into his own recognizance in 1001., and to find two sureties of 501. each ; May, his own recognizance in 601., and two sureties of 301. each. Other inhabitants of Ilolywell-street have been summoned. Warrants were issued for the apprehen sion of two of them, and in the other cases the prose cution was withdrawn. WORSHIP-STREET. henry Clifford, a hair-dressser, in ifoxton-square, was charged with attempting to commit a criminal assault upon a young woman named Sarah Slater, 18 years of age, living with her mother in Vincent street, Shoreditch. The complainant, a modest-looking young woman, stated, that after spending the evening with a young man who was paying his addresses to her, she was returning home through Old -street-road, when she Was accosted by the defendant, with whom she had had some slight previous acquaintance , and who in vited her into a public-house to partake cf refresh ment. She declined the offer for some time, but ultimately accepted it, and on leaving the house w as proceeding through floxton-square, when the prisoner, on reaching his door, urged her to enter with him. She positively refused to do so, and Was about leaving when the prisoner seized her by the arms, which he pinioned behind her, and forced her into the shop, the door of which he secured, and instantly extin guished the gas. Before she recovered from her alarm the prisoner again seized her, and, flinging her down upon a piece of furniture, proceeded to acts of the grossest indecency and violence, which she strenuously repelled, and screamed out " murder." The prisoner thereupon placed his hand over her mouth to stifle her cries, dragged her bonnet from her head, and tore her dress in several places ; but she continued screaming, until a large crowd collected in front of the house, when he at length desisted, and she suc ceeded in extricating herself from his grasp and es caped into the street, where she claimed protection from the persons standing by, one of whom went for a policeman, and the prisoner was given into custody. Police-constable Cole, No 492, stated that he was hastily summonded by a gentleman to proceed to the house, on reaching which he found the com plainant leaning against the wall, in a state of great agitation and exhaustion, and crying bitterly. Her dress also was grea tly dishevelled, one of th e s t r i ngs was off her bonnet, her 'mantilla was torn in several places, and she appeared to have been just engaged in a desperate struggle. On learning the nature cf the outrage to which she bad been subjected, the pri soner was taken into custody and conveyed to the station, where the young woman attended to prefer the charge against him, but fainted from terror and excitement, and was sent home to ha friends under the care of an officer. On being called upon for his defence, the prisoner generally denied the facts alleged against him, which he declared had been greatly exaggerated, and cast some injurious insinuations against the character of the complainant, who, he stated, had voluntarily accompanied him. Mr. IIAMMILL said it was a case which required the fullest investigation, and he should therefore order the prisoner to be remanded for the production of further evidence, but would consent in the mean time to accept substantial bail for his future ap pearance. WESTMINSTER. John Marson, a builder, who has undergone three or four examinations, charged with uttering a forged 51. note, and putting off a spurious cheque for 151., was fully committed for trial on both charges. CLERKEN WELL. Joseph Edmonds was placed at the bar for final ex amination, charged by Mr. William Lewis, jeweller, of 122, Old-street, St. Luke's, with having obtained 901. under false and fraudulent pretences. The prisoner was discharged for want of evidence. James Smith Hase, a respectable-looking middle aged man, was finally examined, charged by Mary Ann Hoy, a young woman, with bigamy. The prisoner denied the charge, but he was fully committed for trial. SOUTHWARK. James Burns, a locksmith, in Manor-place, Dover road, and three of his sons, William, John, and James Burns, jun., were brought before Mr. A'Becket for re-examination, charged with housebreaking. Con siderable interest was manifested by the auditors, in consequence of the hitherto respectable charactera borne by the accused, and the circumstance of their being so nearly allied to each other. Mr. Binns attended on behalf of the prisoners. Sergeant Berry, M division, produced property of ♦arious descriptions, discovered at the residence of the elder prisoner, in Manor-place, and which, it was alleged, formed a portion of the articles plundered from four different houses which had been broken into and robbed. The prisoners were committed for trial on the four charges. WANDS WORTH. Thomas Day, a carter to a carrier of that name at Bromley, Surrey, George Biden, a waggoner to Mr. Holden, a Godalming carrier, and William Clarke, a hanger on and occasional help to waggoners, were finally examined yesterday, being their sixth appear ance before Mr. Beadon, on a charge of being con cerned in,'the death of Ely Wing, aged 62, a collector at the Kingston Tate, under the trustees of the Surrey and Sussex roads, on the 24th of February last. They were committed for trial at the Kingston assizes. RE-OPENING OF THE EXPOSITION OF THE PRODUCTS OF FRENCH INDUSTRY, BY M. SALLANDROUZE DE LAMORNAIX, IN HANOVER-SQUARE. This interesting exhibition, which has been closed for some time for the purpose of adding to it other specimens of French industry, re-opened on Monday morning. It is greatly enlarged, and so nume rous have been the additions that the proprietor has found it necessary to take the adjoining house to the one in which the exhibition was formerly held, in order to provide the necessary accommodation. The added portion was formerly occupied by Mr. Buckicgham, as the British and Foreign Institute. Tne following extract from the prospectus gives a general, but accurate, description of the exhibition ; , " The first room is devoted to very cheap bronzes, such as candlesticks, clocks, and other ornaments, chiefly by M. Journeaux ; they exhibit an extraor dinary progress in the adaptation of the arts of design to objects formerly considered to be almost exclu sively within the reach of the rich. " The second room contains a profusion of crystal and porcelain, remarkable for the purity of the de sign, the richness of colouring, and the taste and originality of the ornaments. Two China vases, exhibited by Mr. Aaron, from the manufactory at Chantilly, attracted particular attention. Specimens of engraved, coloured, and enamelled glass, from the manufactories of St. Louis and of Baccarat, biscuit ware from Sevres, and a multitude of beautiful ob jects, exhibited by M. Lahoche Boin, enabled him to demonstrate his well-known skill and taste. " Decorative pipers from some of the first manu facturers of Paris, and a fine collection of photo graphic pictures are hung on either side of the stairs leading to the third room or grand gallery. This con tains splendid specimens of Gobelin tapestry, and se veral very large carpets of the various kinds manufac tured in the looms of Aubusson, at the establishment cf M. Sallandrouze ; these are as remarkable for the beauty of the design and the brilliancy of their colouring, as they are stated to be for their du rability. Numerous pianos, superb furniture, large bronze and china vases, chalices fur church service, work cabinets by MM. Grol.e ' bronzes by MM. Eck and Durand (the makers of the celebrated bronze gates of the Church of the Magdalen, at Paris), rich and beautiful specimens of binding, by Madame Gruel, and many other objects fill the space : and amidst them stand out to great advantage several beautiful mashle statues by M. Etex, and some wonderful specimens of printing in colours, by M. Engelman. These missals are faithful copies of some of the finest examples of monastic labour, from the royal and other libraries of France, and are, perhaps, the most won derful specimens of the chromo-lithographic art that I have ever been executed. " A small room leading to the first floor is devoted to mechanical and children's toys, to perfumery, and numerous specimens of those little delicacies of the toilet in which our neighbours excel. "Another room is devoted to articles made of zinc, chiefly from the Vielle Montagne, and specimens of the numerous applications of which that useful metal is susceptible; among which should be particu larly noticed the beautiful white paint, which is not only unalterable in colour, but has not any of the dreadful effects of white lead on the health of the workmen using it. " The seventh room, which commences the suite on the first floor, is filled with choice specimens, from Sevres, of china and enamel, of which the subjects are as well selected as the execution is perfect. " The eighth room is devoted to bronzes ; MM. Barye, Eck, and Durand, Charpentier, Marchand, Fe ratio, and Christofle, and Co., have contributed nu merous specimens which are as remarkable for their beauty of design as for the sharpness of the exe cution. " The ninth nom is literally crowded with speci mens of all those little objects of luxury with which M. Sussee tempts every one, in the form of work boxes, dressing-cases, and ornaments of all kinds. Here, too, M. Duvelleroy attacks the ladies by a beautiful collection of fans. " The gallery leading from this room is ornamented with designs for shawls, tapestry, carpets, &c., and among them are some designs by Amedee Couder, for buildings for exhibitions of national products, &c., which at this time are very interesting. There is also here a collection of cut steel ornaments, which would hold a good p os iti on , even a mid s t th e produc tions of Sheffield and Birmingham. " The tenth room contains an immense variety of specimens of miscellaneous manufactures of utility. " The eleventh room is devoted to woven stuffs. A wonderful specimen from the Gobelins holds the chief place; there are, however, others in the room which may well take their place beside it. The superb me rinos and cachmires of M. Paturle and Co., of Paris, are already so well known in England that the ex hibition of their productions was almost needless. There are several specimens of new kinds of stuffs for furniture, &c.; and among them is the portrait ofJscr guard, woven at Lyon:, in the celebrated loom of his invention, and which hears his name. A large col lection of most interesting manufactures, exhibitei by MM. Maureau, Dautey, and Vacaussin, rani of shawls, by MM. Hebert, Dcneirouse, Gaussat, &c., complete this room. " The last room but one contains a rich collection of thread and blonde lace, barege, shaw ls, &c. ; and the last room is devoted to jewellery of all kinds, amongst which the beautiful productions of Froment Meurice are pre-eminent." THE SUN, MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, March 12.) SUG AR. — To-Jay importers of West India sugar were for the most part disinclined to make any further con cession in th e va l ue, still refiners and grocers operated with much caution. The private purchases were only 350 hhds, &c., and none was offered at public sale; for low to fine brown the value is from 33s 6d to 35s 6d, 3 ellow 353 6d to 40s, and grey 34s to 38s per cwt. REPINED.—Today there was greater dulness in the market for Refined Sugar, and prices declined; brown Lumps were sold at 47s 61 to 483, and fair to good grocery 4Ss 6d to 50!. There are free sellers of Crushed Sugar at the rates quoted, but few buyers are to be met with. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon the demand for Mauri tius Sugar was not more active, The public sales of 5,360 bags v, eat at a reduction on Friday's rates of 61 p,r cwt, but all sold; fine yellow avert at 38s 6d, mid dling and good 36s 6d to 38s, low 35s to 3.63, brown 283 63, better sort 33s to 345, an 3 refining kinds 34s to 38a per cwt. • EAST INDIA.—This a'''ernoon there was little desire to operate in Bengal Sugar, and at public sale cf 4,886 bags not above half sold at rather lower rates; low to mid white Benares went at 37s to 38s, better sort 38s 6d to 419, low and mid yellow, like Mauritius, 33s to 363 6cl, and Khaur 283 to 28s 6d. Of Madras 6,503 bags were of fired, and went at easier price , , but the chid' part sold; good and fine Ltrong white 42s to 43s 6d, scf; yellow 33s to 353 63, ord 31s to 32r, and brown 283 to 30s per cwt. _ _ FoaEIGN.—Tc-day there was no public sale of Foreign Sugar, but by private treaty 11,000 bags of greyish Ma nilla were sold at 193 per cwt in bend. The market has a quiet appearance, and prices tend downwards. Cocoa. —West India continues to be dealt is with caution, and there are sellers rather under former rates. There are few buyers of Foreign, and 30s to 31s per cwt is the nearest value. TEA.—Prices have not improved for common Congou, still the demand has been more active, at 91d to 10J. In medium kinds a fair business has been concluded at 11 d to ls 2d, and the market is firm. There are still few buyers of good and da e sorts, whilst a desire is evinced to sell at from is 3d to is 91. Some parcels of low sorts were again taken by shippers. Fine and good kinds of Green sell well at fully former terms, but there are now few buyers of low and middling, still holders are not disposed to press sales. For Scented Caper and Pekoe Tea a more active demand exists, and late rates are well supported. MOLASSES.—In West India few sales have been made by private treaty. At auction 600 puns Barbadoes were taken in at 17s 61, but a small Fared of St. Vincents found buyers at 16s. There is a dull sale for East India at 13s to 14s. COFFEE.—To-day there was much inactivity in the CofFea market, and for all purposes the private opera tions are trifling, whilst none of any kind was offered at public sale; prices were again depressed, and the latest operations in good ord Native Ceylon went at 54s to 55s pa:- cwt. RICE.—The quantity of East India declared for auc • tion on Thursday and Friday amounts to 3,400 bags and 815 pkts. There are sellers of inferior sorts by private treaty at a further reduction, yet all parties continue to operate: with much caution; for superior white full terms are asked, still few buyers are to be met with. At auction 1,200 bags of Penang were taken in, but sold afterwards at the low rates of 6s 6d to 7s for ord and cargo mixed. The ♦alue of good mid to fine white Bengal is 9s 6d to 11a mid, and inferior 8s to 9s, cargo 7s to 7s 6d, and Madras Pinkey white 8s to 9s per cwt. Only limited sales have been made in Cleaned Rice, town dressed Carolina at 20s to 265, broken 14s to 15s, American 19s to 19s 63, Patna 12s to 18s, very fine 193 to 20s, and broken lOs to Ils 6d. . SPicas.—Cassia Lignea is not much wanted; and at public sale, a part only of 291 chests found buyers at 105 s to 107 s 6d for mid to good. Cassia Buds are to be had at 110 s to 115 s. With shipping kinds of Ginger the market continues to be freely sup plied. At auction 1,690 pockets and 900 bags of Bengal sold at 193 6d to 21s for middling to good bold rough. Homo trade kinds are still in small supply, and the value of Jamaica may be reckoned at 41103 to 101 10s, East India 30s to 40s, Barbadoes and African at 35s to 40s. In black Pepper only small purchases have been made privately by shippers or home dealers. Malabar is quoted at 3-0 to 4id, Sumatra and Penang 3p to 3id. Only small sales have been made in white at 5d to Bd. The market is quiet for Pimento at 61 to 6id. There are sellers of low and jungle sorts of Cinnamon at lower rates, and few buyers are to be met with. For better sorts orders are small, and last quarterly sales' rates with difficulty are kept up. Of nutmegs, a fair quantity has been sold, brown at 2s 6d to 3s 6d, and superior 3s 83 to 4s 4d. Mace is wanted at 2s 3d to 2s 63, and better sort 2s 7d to 2s 103. Cloves met with little attention—Bencoolen is submitted at is 63 to 2s, Penang is 2d to is 9d, African and Bourbon lid to 8d per lb. SPIRITS.—For Leeward Island Rum orders have be come small, and on the part of holders there is less firm ness, whilst the rates accepted are is 441:1 to is 5P proof. East India met with little attention, and is 4d to is 4I is the value, whilst prices tend downwards. In Demerara only small sales have been made at 2s 3d to 2s 6d for 30 to 40 per cent. over proof, and a reduction is looked for. Jamaica met with little attention from shippers or home dealers, whilst previous terms are not to be obtained. The limited orders executed have been at 2s 43 to 3s for 28 to 35 over, better sort 35 2d to 3s 63, and choice marks 3s 8d to 4s per gallon. Brandy—The value of Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1849, is 4s 6d to 4s 8d; 1848 ditto 4s 8d to 4s 10d; 1847 ditto, 5s 3d to 53 sd; and inferior sorts 3s to 4s. The value of British made Spirit is still 9s 6d, but the demand is not active. There is no variation in the value of Gin ; only small sales have been made in Geneva at Is 9d to is 10d for common, and fine 2s 3d to 3s 3d per gallon. CCCHINEAL.—This afternoon the demand was not better for Cochineal, and at auction 22 bags of black Honduras went 2d per lb cheaper, ord to fine from 3s 93 to 5s 4d. INDIGO.—This afternoon at public sale 32 sills of Guatemala Indigo sold at 2s 5(1 to 3s, and better sorts 3s 4d to 43, these are rather lower rates. TALLow.—Operations in Russian on the spot have in creased, and prices exhibit an advance, holders display firmness, and obtain 37s to 37s 6d per cwt for fine P.Y.C. A more active demand has been experienced for delivery in last three months of the year at 38s 3d to 38s Gd, and these are not free sellers. Home melted met with attention, and realised 36s 6d to 37s nett cash. The public sales went off better than for some time past; 1,150 pkgs South American sold at from 33s 6d to 363 6cl, 470 cks Sydney 34s to 36s 9d, 12 pkgs East India 35s 6d to 375, 40 cks Petersburg Soap 33s 6d to 345, 184 pkgs E. I. Vegetable Tallow were taken in at 35s for fair, whilst 49 boxes Genoa Candles sold at 6d to 7d per lb. Tallow is 3s to 4s per cwt lower than last year at this time, but deliveries are smaller, and stock larger. OILS.—The rates required for Linseed Oil on the spot are 32s 3d to 32s 61 per cwt; still home dealers have operated with caution, and at present there are few ex ports orders. Only limited contracts are reported for delivery at 32s 6d to 335. The production of Oil is . not much larger than the consumption. Rape Ssed Oil is not much in request, and can be obtained at a reduction, whilst the supply is larger than for somo time past. The value of pale is 41s, brown 39s to 40s, Foreign pale 43s to 43s 6d, and brown 40s. In Cocoa Nut operations have been upon a more extended scale, but at rather lower rates, and the parcels sold were at from 30s to 345, but the market continues to t• well supplied. Palm is not much wanted, and holders are more disposed to sell, good to fine at 31s to 32e, yet there is not a large quantity on offer. In Olive only small purchases have been made, and on the part cf holders a desire is evinced to sell at from 461 to 491 per tun, the consump tion is also less satisfactory. Cod Oil is still in small supply, and is held for 33/ lOs to 344 still few buyers are to be met. Seal has been purchased with caution, pale at 371 to 371 10s, straw and tinged 331 to 364 and other sorts 311 to 321 10s, but the better descriptions are now least in demand. The value of low to fine Southern is from 31/ to 331 103; few buyers are to be met with. There is a dull sale for Sperm, and 811 lOs to 82/ is the value of Colonial, whilst the market will be much better supplied shortly. Lard and Ground Nut Oil met with little attention. Of Southern some r arcels have been received. THE CoUNTRY MARKETS. IPSWICH, Meicit 12. The very favourable season for seeding operations in spring corn keeps the attendance of farmers at market very small ; hence the supplies of all grain are small. Wheat sold on much the same terms. Barley somewhat lower, the malt trade being so completely stagnant. Other articles as of late PER QUARTER. TER QUARTER. Wheat, red 1 i Peas . 2ss to 26s Ditto, white. 3)s to 43s Oats o,?s to OA Barley, malting ... 22s to 24s Rye OOs to OCs Ditto, grinding ... 20s to 226 Malt. oos to 00A Beans AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 9, 1850. Wheat Barley Oats ....... ...... Beans Peas HULL, MARCH 12. Messrs. Taylor and Bright's Circular states :—With con tinued moderate arrivals, the trade remains in a most inanimate state, and operations are on a more limited scale than ever. Panic has seized the farmer, and courage forsaken the specu lator. To-day's market partakes of the character , of Mark lane yesterday ; without being quotably lower, dull to an ex treme. The remark applies to spring corn as well as wheat, foreign as well as English. Linseed quiet; cakes not lower. No rapeseed offering, and cakes rather easier. Bones dull. The following are the present:prices of grain :- 5. s. Wheat, English, red 34 to 37 Do. white ...... . 36 40, Dantzie and Ko- 8; 2, IPeas, white and yel. 24 27 Do. grey Linseed, Black Sea 45 46 nigsberg 4O 41") Pomeranian and Do. Petersburgh ... 38 45 Do. Riga&Archngl. 38 42 Hamburgh Danish, Holstein, & . Friesland 3O 36 hussian and Odessa 30 36 Oats, English Do. Danish lO 12 Do. Friesland l2 14 Do. Russ. & Odessa 12 14 Barley,malting 2O 22, Do. grinding lB 19 Beans DJ. foreign ...... 23 . _ 25 'Do. Konigsberg 36 —39 Per ton. Lins cakes, Hull 6/10s 6/12s 6d 1 1 Do. fine foreign Do. inferior foreign 5l Os Rapeseed Rape cakes...B2s 6d to ess 01 'fares, English .32s —00 s Do. foreign 20s —30 s Guano 6/ to 91 103 Bones, do ...... 00s Od to 87s 6d Rye meal 6/ Os _ _ Coax,MARCH 11.—Flour—First 123 to 133 Od ; extra 14s; seconds, 10. 63 to 12s ; households Os to 10s 6d; thirds, 7s to 8s per cwt. Oatmeal 10s to lOs 6d; Indian meal 7s to 7s 3d ; wheat meal, 10s to 00s 0.1 per cwt. Indian corn 132 s 6d to 135 s per ton. Bran 3112 s 6d to 3/15s per ton. Hay—Farmers 22s to 31s; average 30s ; dealers 31s to 40s Od; average 36s per ton. Str aw—Farmers 15s Od to 26s Od; average 225; dealers 00s Od to: Od; average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 613; household loaf 5d to 51jd per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to 10J per lb Eggs —3s 10d to 4s Od per hundred. Coals— Newport 15s; Lydney 17s ; Landore 15s ; Best Neath Calm 14s per ton. Tallow 40s Od to 00s per cwt. Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. Meat —Beef 4d to 6d; mutton 4d to 6d; veal Od to Od ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sausages 5d per lb. Hops 131 Os per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2s 6d to 3/ 5s per ton. Bark—Barbary 715 s to 8/ 51; Valonia 14/ to 0/; French 71 5s ; English 0/ per ton. Fleece Wool 10, to 12s per stone. Hemp 32/ to 001 per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 16s to 171; re d ditto 20s to 223 per barrel ; Newfoundland 9/ Os to 11/ per ton. Timber—Memel, 85s per ton; deals, first quality, 18s ; second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 14s to 200; salted 15s to 21s per cwt ; calf skins 2id to 2/d per lb. Potatoes, white 8J to Old ; Minions 12d to 13d ; Guano— Peruvian, 11/ 10s; Icbaboe, 91 per ton; Tar—Archangel, 19s per barrel. THE MACKEREL FISHERY AT PLYMOUTII.—OLIT quays during the week have presented scenes of great bustle and activity, arising out of the landing of fish which has hem caught off the harbour in large quanti ties (after having long delayed .the hopes of the fisher men). The first day on which the fish were caught in any quantity was Sunday last, when the boats had from 3,000 to 4,000, and on Monday they had about the same quantity. On Tuesday the fishermen were very fortunate, the takes of the boats averaging from 3,000 to 12,000 fish a piece, ono boat actually catching 15,000. Yester day (Friday) morning an immense catch of mackerel was brought in, tha grea'er part of which was sent off by train to London, Bath, Bristol, and other towns. One boat b2longing to Stoekham made 73/. 10'. by her night's catch. The quantity sent up by train yesterday afternoon. filled 19 trucks, and was i❑ weight but lit,le short of 100 tons. This train of loaded waggons, together with two passenger carriages, required three engines to take it along the line, and even then at the liemerdon incline it was necessary to divide the train into two separate portions. A delay, consequent upon the conveyance of this large cargo of fish, took place in the departure of the two late trains yesterday. About 100 t weight of fish have been sent up the line in the week, exclusive of that dispatched yesterday. There are about 150 boats engaged in the fishery, and the aver age take has been 80,000 fish a day. The prices have ranged as &Bow :—Sunday, 11. and 18s. per six score; Monday, from 153. to 163 ; Tuesday, from 10s. to 125.; Wednesday, ditto; Thursday, ditto; Friday, from 89. to 14s. Der six score.— Pitmouth limes. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, March 12. Their Lordships as,sembled at Four o'clock. ROYAL COMMISSION. The Royal asie7.t was given, by Commission, to the Party Processions (Ireland) Bill. The Royal ommis sioners were the Earl of Shatesbury, the Earl of Minte, and the Earl of Carlisle. Their Lordships then adjourned during pleasure. Their Lordships resumed at Five o'clock, Lord PORT MAN officiating as Deputy Speaker. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from some place in Scotland, in favour of the Bill for the removal of obstructions to the sale of corn in Scotland. APPELLATE JURISDICTION. Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that he should, on Friday, move certain resolutions on the appellate juris diction of their Lordships' House and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. RAILWAY (COMPANIES) AUDIT BILL. Lord STANLEY moved the first reading of this Bill, —Agreed te. The NOBLE LORD gave notice that he should move the second reading on Friday. PROTECTION. Lord REDESDALE presented petitions from North umberland and Worcester complaining of agricultural distress, and praying for the imposition of a protective duty on the importation of agricultural produce. Ho complained that, on the opening of Parliament, the Noble Marquis (Lansdowne) had stated that there was every prospect of a diminution of the distress of which the landholders complained, but six weeks had elapsed and that prophecy had not been fulfilled. The petitioners attributed the depression under which they were suffering solely to the alteration which had taken place in the law, and they considered that nothing could save them but a return to the f,rmer system. The free•trade system was repudiated by America and by every other country, and he thought it was a most bold assertion to say that we could net return to a protective system. He believed they could, and ho thought they would sooner or later return to protection. The Noble Lord who had so long led the other side of the House hal declared that whoever should propose a free import of corn must be mad, yet the Noble Lord had seen that free import proposed and carried by one who had all his life long opposed it. He, therefore, did not despair of a return t o p ro t ec ti on . The strength and happiness of a nation depended upon its wealth, for the richest would always be the most power ful nation, and always he enabled to give its people plenty of work at good wages. Taxation was'greatly increased in burden by everything that tended to lower income, and thus tae burden cf the malt tax had been greatly increased as a burden by the fall in the price of barley. There had been throughout the country a large reduction of wages, amounting to a falling off in the income of the labouring population of 52,000,0001. a year. The llon. Gentleman who moved the Address in the House of Commons said that the country had gained 91,000,0001. by the repeal of the corn-laws. That Hon. Gentleman had taken a famine year as his standard of comparison; but if he had taken an ordinary year as his standard cf comparison, he would have found that his saving would have been only 40,000,0001.; and as it was money that ruled, not produce, he (Lord Redesdale) contended thet there was a loss, becawe more bad been lost in the price by the famine than had been gained by the consumer. The operation of the alteration bad been to make wages low, and yet the moment the landowners attempted to lower wages there was an outcry against them in the public papers fur endeavouring to reduce wages to a starvation point. An attempt had been made to draw a distinction between the agricultural and manufactur ing intereste.—(Hear, hear.) There was no such distinction—the growing of corn and the conduct of a pasturage-form was a manufacture, and the land lord, instead of being the drone which he had been re presented, was a master manufacturer. But the agricul tural manufacturers laboured under difficulties which did not affeet the manufacturer of textlle manufactures. The agricultural menuracturer had to pay tithes, he could not work short time, and he had to tight against a perpetual glut of his commodity in the market, as this being the only country in which corn V‘9,3 admitted duty free, we had the surplus of all other countries poured into our market. Such was the case at present, there was a glut; the complaint was that there was nothing doing. It was the duty of the Governmeat to take care that they should not suffer from the glut which Providence had created, and when there was a glut in the market created by the super abundance of the produce of our own land, the agricul turist was entitled to the exclusive possession of that market until the glut should to cleared off. It would not do to try the experiment of free trade too long. He wisbel to have the question argued calmly on its own merits, he did not wish to excite party feelings, but he felt convinced that our national prosperity depended on a return to protection. Ho wished to ask Noble Lords opposite to what they attributed the present state of agricultural distress ; and, secondly, whether they could hold out any hope of an immediate enhancement in the present price of grain, and if they could not, whether they considered the present exteut of laud could be cul tivated at the present price of corn. Much had been said of high farming, but high farming was an ex pensive process, and could not be carried on at the present prices of corn. He also asked if the Government could form any idea as to what the future price of corn would be under the present system. There was nothing unreasonable in asking a Government what, in their opinion, would be the price of corn under the present system. They were working under a system of which they were perfectly ignorant, and which, in the opinion of all practical men, would lead to ruin. He hoped, therefore, to receive an assurance from the Government, either that they enter tained a hope of some rise of the price of agricultural produce under the present state of things, er that they contemplated some alteration in the present state of the law. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was not surprised at petitions of such a nature emanating from the inhabit ants of those agricultural districts in which a certain amount of distress did undoubtedly exist, but he was surprised to find that a Member of that House could gravely state with the petitioners that the cause of that distress was the removal of the,duty on foreign corn, and that the only remedy to be applied was a return to a system of protection. The Noble Lord had put four questions to him, and he should endeavour to answer the first two with as much clearness as lay in his power; but he must be excused if in dealing with the ethers he displayed a greater amount of caution. He had been one of those who had combined their efforts for the removal of restrictions which pressed heavily on articles c f food, and he had joined in those efforts from a belief that the change which was thereby effected in the commercial policy of the country, would ultimately prove beneficial to the people at large, but he had never supposed that that change could be effected with ou t cons id era bl e dif ficulty, and pressure of a temporary nature. But he considered that the period of that difficulty and pressure bad now passed away, and that the distress under which the agriculturists were now labouring arose from causes w h o lly independent of that change, one being the agitation which had so extensively existed throughout the continent of Europe for the last two years, and an ether he felt bound to add being the apprehension and panic created among the agriculturists by those who en tertained ill-founded notions respectng the effect of the removal of protective duties. The Noble Lord com plained that the agriculturists were sufferiag fr9m a glut, from an overabundant supply of foreign corn. But What. was the fact? why, that never in the history of the country was stock known to be lower, for as far as could be collected from all the docks and warehouses in Lon don the amount of stock in January this year was only 242,028 quarters, whi le at the same ti me l ast year it was 1,354,000 quarters, which was followed in the month of February by an importation of 384 ,000 quarters, and in the month of March by 623,000 quarters; the importa tion quar ters, of March te r s i t n h e February t i o o f n t i h n i s y the e a p r r e, being et mono a l be ing sensibly declining. Nor had they any reason to expect that there would be any extensive importation from abroad this year, as he had been informed that the demand of other countries was now very great. Taking the poorer classes as a whole, there never was a time when the consumption of food amongst them was greeter. It had increased, and would, he truste l, still increase, and lead the country to a greater degree of enjoyment and prosperity than we had experienced hitherto. There was a pr ogress towards wealth and not pauperism, and the time he hoped was not far distant when the beneficial results of this great experiment would be visible to all.—(Cheers.) The Earl of MALNIESI3URY said he believed that the Noble Marquis was himself deceived, and that was the reason why he was attempting to deceive them. If the stock of wheat was low in the docks it was not in the farm-yards. The most important part of his speech re a , that the time h a d no t yet come when Government could do anythi ng t o a lle siate agricultural distress. Thousands would read that declaration to-morrow with pain and sorrow. He had three letters from clergymen in Wiltshire, from districts purely agricultural, describ ing the difficulties with which the poor were contend ing. The deposits in the savings banks were steadily decreasing. Th e b est f arm labourers had but s even shillings a week, an d t h e majority but six shillings a week. The vicar of Bere said, in his letter, that they were in the very last state of depression. Families were living on four shillings a week. So much for the Noble Marquis's statement that wages were being raised.—(The Marquis of Lansdowne here made a movement of dissent.) w e ll, he thought he had said so. The Noble Lord here read more extracts to the same effect from various communications he bad re ceived. There had been a general depreciation in agri cultural produce. Lie regretted the declaration of the Noble Marquis that h e cou ld offer no alleviation. The unjust position in which the agricultural interest stood was greatly the result of the policy of free trade. The poor-rates had incre ase d o ne-third during the last few years. Public opini on was daily growing in favour of the substitution of a national rate for the relief of the poor, The tenant-farmers had always been the most quiet and loyal race in the country. Depend upon it, nothing but distress has compelled these men to come out and join in agi'rvion. It is a common expression now to say—" The sma ll f ar mers, they must go." And for what were they to be Faerificed ? To the prosperity of Manchester. They had spent a whole evening in discussion of a ruction resting on no broader grounds than that a man's gas&D had been cut through by a railway, and yet now they deliberately aban doned 200,000 f amilies. The Noble Lord here read some statistical details in reply to some statements of Mr. Cobden. Tha' gentleman had applied the term "horse shoe interest " in reference to these sufferers. Some of the members of her Majesty's Government had applied to them terms scarcely more tender. lie thought the time was not far distant when the foreign markets would be glutted, and the manufacturers would look in vain for a home market. The depression of the agri cultural interest would affect Manchester and other ma nufacturing towns, for any great class of the community could not be permanently depressed without injuring the others. But before he sat down he would ask the Noble Marquis a question—not whethar the Government, in the present depressed state of the egricultural interest, would return to protection--but whether the Government would riot in any case relicive their burdens by placing the agriculturists upon an equllity with other classes of the community as regarded taxa tion?—(Hear.) Lord REDESDALE wished to know distinctly from her Maj,sty's Government if it were their in tention to bring in any measure for the relief of ogrieultural distress, now so prevalent throughout England? Earl GREY said that if the condition of the country at present were compared with %hat it had bees i❑ 1835, there would be found a very considerable advantage, not withstanding all the murmuring that had been raised about the want cf protection. He was also astonished that Noble Lords had not considered what the condition of the continent was for the last few years, and what facilities had been afforded to the English farmer for the conveyance of his produce by the railways. He should say that he deplored the agricultaral distress as much as any person could, but he felt at a loss to account why no measure had been introduced in either House of Par liament t) indicate whether they wished for the law of 1848, or that of 1835, or that of 1815, or whether they wished for a fixed duty on corn, which they some time since so strongly denounced. He denied that there was an) thing of the agricultural distress so loudly complained of, and that whatever share of it did exist was not owing to any change in commercial restrictions; and, more over, he contended that the condition of the farmer in 1849 was far beaer than in 1835, for it was evident from the Gazette that there was more corn sold last year than in many cf the preceding years, and that, too, at a higher price, which well accounted for the farmyards being devoid of corn-stacks. He would call the at tention of their Lordship to the difference in the price of corn in 1819 and in 1835. In the lat ter year the lowest price of wheat was 369. per quarter; in the firmer it was no less than 38g. 9d. per (parker, end in addition to that, he was prepared to prove that there was double the crop in 1849 to that of 1835. Thus there was a greater produce and higher prices, and how, he asked, could agricultural distress be so much complained of? He would also wish to remind their Lordships that since 1835 there was a very considerable reduction in the price of artificial food fir cattle; fur, in looking to clover and ether necessary Lead, it would be at once seen that the price was much less last year than it Lai been in 1835. Ho did not think it necessary to allude to the falling off in the exportation of corn from abroad for the last year, as his Noble Friend (the Mar quis of Lousdowne) had proved that matter to the sais • faction of the House. He complained much of the lan guage used by some Noble Lords relative to the falling off of prices in corn, because he believed that such lan guage tendel to create an unnecessary panic in the coun try, and would only require those Noble Lords to look to France and Belgium, and they would find that France, up to the late revolution, obtained 51s. 2d. per quarter, whereas at present she gets only 233. ; and Belgium got 525. 23. some few years since, but at present obtains only 38s. Id. per quarter. Lord REDESDALE explained that he had not called on Parliament to prevent a glut. That would have been calling cn Parliament to interfere with the course of na ture and of Providence. But he said Parliament could prevent a glut of produce of our own land being aggra vated by an importation of foreign corn, and had done so by means of the corn-laws. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. Lord S rANLEY presented a petition from the Cape of Gocd Hope, praying t) Le exempted from receiving transported convicts. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Mardi 12, The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. ROYAL ASSENT. Mr. PULLMAN, the Deputy Usher of the Black nod, appeared at the table of the House, and summoned the House to attend at the bar ef the House of Lords to hoer the Royal Assent given by commission to a certain public Bill (f)r which se) Lords' report). The Speaker having complied with the summons, attended by a few Members, communicated to the House the name of the 13i11 which had been assented to. PRIVATE BUSINESS The report on the Suffolk and General County Ami cable Insurance Office Bill was considered and agreed to. The Greenwich Hospital Improvement Bill was read a second time, and referred to the following Select Com mittee:—Admiral Dundas, Mr. Barnard, Mr. Cowper, Sir Charles Douglas, Sir Edmund Filmer, Mr. Thomas Liw Hodges, Mr. Cocks, Mr. Tatter► Egerton, Mr. Masterman, and Mr. Thomas Gre' , ne, and five Members to be added by the Committee of Selection. PETITIONS. A large number of Petitions was presented :gains Sunday labour in the Post-dfice. Sir B. IL INGLIS presented a petition praying for the re-establishment el the Ten Hours' Bill. Mr. 0. DUNCOMBE presented a petition spins' the Minutes of Council on Education. Mr. PEEL presented a petition from Leominster, praying for the extension of the jurisdiction of county courts. Mr. LAW presented a petition against the Marriage Bill. Mr. Lushington, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Parker, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Hume, and several other Hon. Members presented petitions praying for the repeal of the taxes on know ledge. BERKELEY presented a potition praying for the abolition of church rates. Mr. O'CONNOR presente 1 a petition praying for the atreadment of the Factory Act. Mr. COWPER presented a petition to the same effect. Mr. MOWATT presented a petition six yards and a half in length, praying for the repeal of the window duties. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. Sir R. H. INGLIS, seeing the Right Honourable the First Lord of the Admiralty in his place, tegged to put to him in public a question which he had once before addressed to him, and the purport of which the Right Hon. Gentleman was fully acquainted with. The ques tion referred to the unfinished search of Sir John- Franklin and his gallant companions. At the time he put the question, he took the liberty of suggest ing that the search should be made by a division of tonnage in smaller vessele, instead of a concentration of tonnage in large vessels, and that it should consist in a great measure of steam power directly applied, and that each officer should in a certain degree be independent of each other. He (Sir R. Inglis) wished now to ask in what state the expedi tion intended to go in search of Sir J. Franklin was at this moment, and of what force it consisted, and how soon it might be expected to sail ? Sir F. BARING said the expedition consisted of two steamers, which would be accompanied by two mercan tile ships. The two steamers were to be under the com mand of Captain Austin, and the other—a separate ex pedition—was to be under the command of Captain Penny, of the mercantile marine. Every exertion would be made by the Admiralty for the purpose of forwarding the expedition; and he was infurmed that the expedition would sail the last week in April. Tho Admiralty were extremely anxious that the expedition should sail as soon as possible. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1850 THE MALT DUTY. Mr. WODETIOUSE said it was his intention to move certain resolutions as an amendment to the notice which had been given after Easter, for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the duty on malt. He intended tl move that great injustice was incident to the levying of the duty on mait, and that its t)tal repeal would be a measure cf extensive benefit to the agricultural interest. TIMBER DUTIES. Mr. ANDERSON gave notice that on a Bill being brought in for the alteration of the timber duties he should move that it be extended to the timber employed in building boats for the coast fisheries. IRISH LEGISLATION. Co7onel DUNNE gave notice that on this day fort night he should move resolutions expressive of the evils of recent legislative enactments in Ireland. NA LION AL LAND SCHEME. Mr. O'CONNOR gave notice that on an early day le should move for leave to bring in a Bill to wind up the affairs of the National Land Company. IRISH POOR-LAW, _ _ Mr. FRENCII gave notice that on an early day after Ester ho should move resolutions, that the extent of the poor-law in Ireland was tot illy inadequate to the relief cf the poor, besides being injurious to the geacral interests of the country. REDUCTION IN THE NAVY. Mr.:HUME gave notice that, on going into Committee on the Navy Estimates, he should tike the sense of the House with a view to adopting the recommendations of the Select Committee of last year, that the number of admirals should be reiuced. PARLIAMEN rmn VOTERS (IRELAND) BILL. Lord CASTLEREAGH gave notice that on the bringing up cf . the report of the Parliamentary Voters (Ireland) Bill he should move that a qualification of 121. he substituted flr 8/. ORPHAN EMIGRATION. Mr. MILES rose to ask the President of the Poor- Bard whither any arrangements . are proposed, or p an re c s e en o t r c f a mi rr a 3 l i e ng or o p u h t a , ns t7 c f a a p e a i b li l t:t o e f th e e n mm in e g d a ia er te_ Mr. BAINES was very indistinctly heard, owing to the buzz of conversation which prevailed in the House; but he was understood to say that the Colonial Land c v ao i r c en : a , et t y ) the colony of Australia.. Emigration Commissioners had offered facilities for the emigration of female orphans, by agreeing to take them out if their preliminary expenses were paid by the boards of guardians. Of those facilities the Poor-law Board had availed themselves to a considerable extent, hit in some instances the guardians had refused to con tribute the necessary sum required by the Commission. Mr. IMVETT said great complaints had been received from the colonies that improper selections had been made of the young women sent out by the Poor-law Commis sioners, lane he hoped the Right Honourable Gent!eman would give the Rouse an assurance that in future a due regard would be paid to the ability of the female; to perform the work they were sent to the colonies I,r. Mr. BAINES said every precaution would be taken on the part of the Poor-law. Board and the Einigiatio2 CommLsioners to secure a proper seleefon. THE LAND SCHE 11E. In reply to a question from Sir B. HALL, M-. F. OVOININOR said it was his intcution to con sult the best conveyancer, the best Equity lawyer, and the beat common-law lawyer he could find on the subject, and to bring in a Bill to wind up the affairs of the Land Scheme. AUSTRALIAN COLONIES BILL. Mr. GLADMTolsiigav; notice that in the event cf the House sanctioning the Elective Councils for the government of South Australia, ho should propose a clause giving her Majesty limited power of appointing councillors for life on the ground of public services; also the insertion of a clause giving the bishops and members of the Church in Australia powers to conduct the affairs of the Church amongst themselves. REPEAL OF THE WINDOW DUTIES. In reply to Mr. HUME, Lord DU . i NCAN stated that he sho u ld cer t a i n ly b r i ng on his motion for the rep ea l c f th e w i n d ow dut i es to night fhe could do so b: fore half-past ten o'clock. MARINE BILL. Lord J. MANNERS gave notice that in the event of the Marine Bill being read a second time, he should move that it be referred to a Select Committee. ADMISSION OF JEWS INTO PARLIAMENT. Mr. PAGE WOOD called the attention of the House to the circumstance, that his motion on the subject of the admission of Jews into Parliam en t p artoo k o f t h e nature of a question of privilege. He (Mr. P. Wood) had to ask the indulgence of the Hon. Member for West Surrey to postpone his motion, in order to en a bl e hi m (M r . P . Wend) to bring on his motion for a Select Conensitte to inquire into the practice of the House as to the admis sion of Jews and Friends to Parliament. Mr. H. DRUMMOND said if this motion of the Hon. Gentleman (H. P. Wood) were so pressing it might have been brought on any time within the last three years.— (Laughter.) He (Mr. Drummond) was not disposed to po.stpone his motion, much as he was ready to do at all times to oblige the Hon. Member for Oxford. TAXATION OF THE COUNTRY. Mr. H. DRUMMOND then rose to move, that whereas the present taxation of the country depresses all classes, and especially the labouring classes, by dimi nishing the funds for the employment of productive la bour, it is the opinion of this House that ade quate means should be forthwith adopted to reduce the expenditure of the Government.—(Hear.) He said he should not take advantage of the distress or ill-usage under which a large portion of the community was suffering to excite a clamour against taxation in general; nor would he deny that there was a great deal of prejudice against it. He would admit that in many cases it was the mere transference of luxuries from one people to another, but after grant ing all that, there was still a large margin on which there was a transference of the reeestaries of life them those who needed to those who needed them not. He could not enter into all the subjects which led to that consideration. De was particularly anxious to avoid those touched upon by the Hon. Member for the West Riding (Mr. Cobden). He should, therefore, confine himself strictly to the words of his motion (given above). But if this trade was carried on with reckless profusion, which created heavy burdens upon the people, and largely increased the taxation, it at least had this advan tage, that it gave to this country a monopoly cf the com merce of the world—that it did give an immense field for enterprise—that it did create an immense demand for our manufactures—and that, in fact, the whole commerce of the world was centered in this country, and if its energies were occasionally depressed, there were at the same time springs of reaction in existence which tended at all times to restore the balance of prosperity.—(Hear, hear.) Such was the condition in which they were placed in 1809. All he desired was to see the same condition return.—(Hear, hear.) Now, all that he asked of them was to follow out the course of the policy which they had adopted, if, indeed, they had adopted any settled policy at all. All he asked of them, at all events, was to be honest, and to pursue the course unto its legitimate end upon which they had entered.— (Hear, hear.) Now, he would be equally honest with them, and he trusted that he would be believed when he said that there was nothing which he more desired than to keep the present Ministers in their places— (Hear, hear)—for much ho feared that if they were not on that side of the House they would vote with him, and thus would precipitate measures which he was desirous of delaying.—(hear, hear, and laughter.) What then he desired was, that they should follow cut the course which they had adopted with fairness and honesty, but instead of doing that, they were stopping in the middle and deluding the country with vain and flimsy excuses.—(Hear, hear.) The farmers were now beginning to be tired of the union into which they hal been brought, and were desirous of seeing the end of those measures of which so much promise bad been made and so much bitter fruit had been reaped. The two points which he wished to bring under their attention in his present motion were to reduce the ex penditure in the country, especially in the matter of salaries, and to be honest Free-traders, in taking off all the burdens which weighed upon the production of raw nsatcrial of every kind.—(Hear, hear.) Now he had received a letter from a har rhder, whom he had not the pleasure of being acquainted with except by communication, signed with his initials, whose permission he ha Ito quote him. Being a lawyer, and looking at the motto " 'Ne sutor ultra," he began. with the judges, and affirmed that the salaries of all judicial functionaries were much too high, having been fixed at a time when the public were as tounded by the reports of the immense sums saiStio be made by Mr. Sugden, Mr. Scarlett, and others of the h aling lawyers of the times. It was fancied at that time that all eminent barristers were making enor mous fortunes. But now, he went on to say, times were far changed, many barristers were glad to get the judge ship of a county court at 1,0001., and the most eminent at the bar, he believed, would be very glad to get a settled income of 3,0001. or 4,0001. a year. When the Honourable Gentleman the Member for the West Riding ha I stated, the other evening, the difference which existed between the English and North American judges, the Hon. Gentleman opposite had explained the different circumstances in which each were ' placed, but that was no answer to the Honourable Gentleman. The salaries of the judges had been fixed at a time when the prices of provisions were high ; and what was desired now was to reduce them to a pitch consonant to the reduced price of provisions. But this gentleman sent him another extract from the report of a Select Committee, showing that the salary of the Lord Chancellor, which in '97 was 5,9001. was now 14,000/. ; that the salary of the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, which in '97 was 4,8001., was now 8,0001.; and that the salary of a puisne judge, which was 2,200/. in '97, was now 5,000/. But in 1809 Mr. Per cival, then the First Minister, on the ground cf the differ ence of prices occasioned by an alteration of the stand ard of value, proposed to raise all salaries 25 per cent., and in 1813 a similar increase was made in the amount of all pensions. Now there was a great difference between their salaries and those given to foreign persons; for in stance, the President of the United States received only 5,0001. a year, while our Governor of Canada received as much as 7,0001., and such a governor of a province was not entitled to more than a sovereign king. —(hear, hear.) But he had another most valuable authority—a letter from a tenant-farmer who had supported the Reform Bill, and he said that his neighbour, Lord Cottenhana, had lately made a reduc tion in the wages of his labourers to the extent of 3s. a week—(Hear, hear)—and promised to reduce the wages of others at the same ratio at Michaelmas next.— (H ear , hear.) This was what the Whigs, with their self-com placency, usually called the improved conditio n o f t h e labourer--Cheers) — which meant, in fact, a bare exist ence in summer and derni-starvation in winter.—(Cheers.) He had not the honour of knowing that Noble Lord, but he learned from his friends that it was impos sible to select, any person whose sense of the adequacy of remuneration was more delicate, or who was more keenly alive to the advantages of good wages.—(llear, hear, and laughter.) It was said that it was hypocrisy on the part of the landlord to preach about protection, because the protection which they asked for the tenant went back into their pocke , s in the shape of rent. That was not true, so far as his part of the country was concerned, for there the greater part of the land was held by men who farm their own land—yeomeu who had no resources of their own whatever. Some of them had sent him their books to show what their produce sold for six years ago.—(Hear, hear.) In 1842, in one in stance it was 1,061/. In 1848 it was 872/, and in 1849 6761., a diminution which the legislation of the House had produced and was intended to produce. The dif ference was 38 per cent. A short while ago he was speaking to a farmer on the subject of the motion re lating to the reduction of local taxation. He said " What is that to me? I grow 100 load of wheat a year. This year that wheat is only worth 1,0:001., which a few years ago was worth I,sool."—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") But, now observe, they had lowered by their measures the value of the produce, but they had not lowered the value of the cost of production.—(Hear, hear.) There was the place where the Free-traders had been faulty— there was the point on which they had not been honest. Now he knew a case where the labour on one farm cost 3821., and another 1,3004; and there was neither of those that had got toe smallest relief from the fall in prices. In the district where those farms were situate the wages had fallen from 12s a week to Bs. a week ; and there the greatest distress exhibited itself. There was the case of a clergyman who bought an advowson : and on the faith of that had borrowed money with which t) build a house, which he did build. Ten years age the al vowson was worth 1,200/. a year, now it had come down to 3601. a year. Now he wanted to know (and . hespoke to the Free-tr a d e r s ) by what right they prohibit any one of the yeomen of England from growing what he pl ease d on his land, and using it as he liked ?—(Che e rs from the Protectionists.) lie wanted to know by what right he was prevented from growing tobacco, linseed, beet-root, or whatever he pleased, and using it as he pleased, without any meddling orin terference by that House ? Ile would ask why they might not grow hops, or not, as they liked ? A Right Hon. Friend of his, who was much esteemed in that House, was talking to him the other day about the duty on hops, and had very judiciously remarked that the farmers ought to be permitted to cultivate their hops as they thought proper , a nd putting out his right hand, as if gathering hops, said why could they nut permit the farmer to do this as he likes.—(Hear, hear.) And if that remark was applicable to hops, it was also equally applicable to clay. Vs by could they not allow the farmer to move and knead his clay into b r i c k s , an d use those bricks for improving orincreasing his farm-build ings, and do everything in fact connect e d w ith their business according to their own pleasure?—([lear.) But he could easily see that when the e ff ec t was to touch their own intereti it was deeply felt and soon expressed. They thought the farmers slow peopl e , b u t he couhl assure them that if, after having heard any messure, ts ee y found it to to detriment al to their in terests they would not be slow in bringing that matter to a conclusion, an d i n f orm i ng t h em o f the ne oust of their disconte n t.— (H ear , h ear. ) I n 18 23 the consumption of malt was on an average five bushels a head. In 1829, when the duty was increased to 215., the consumption fell to ono bushel; in 1831, when the duty was reduced, it rose; and, in 1840. when it was again reused, it rose to two bushels.—(Hear.) Now came the point which the Free-traders had to answer. It was all very easy to go doe n to the hustings and abuse the lauded aristocracy, but he had observed that the votes given in that House were more in accordance with some private interest than the professions on the hustings. He should continue with th's motion, and give every constituency a full ormortauity of teeing what the vet of its Members were here. The House must make up iti mind to take off the burdens Which were pressing upon labourers. They had not kept fa ith with til.c 0 pubic debtor --they h a d taught the - Pmers ü bli debtor to have no faith in them. Ma n Y • of Whig Pr:nciples had declared to him their,. uttero re..:klene6s as to what would become ei, , ith i i n ns t t h it e u i t r ions of the country, since they lad lost tat ' 4 1 1., power of preserving them. There was aohs too, among the labourers that they did net See there should be so muc h diff ere nce between poor o rich. It was a f ear f u l con di t i on o f things to which the were tending, and t o aver t i t t h e y must act justlY• way in which they must act was by diminishing tr salaries of all the servants of the Crown; and als° taking away every impediment from the cutivatJr of w e soil to do as he pleased with his produce. He did not *fit them to say that he sought to screen the rate —no' Pu`' u , the property-tax, he said, on the landlords; but tbeJ must repeal those l aws , an d the labourer. take off the pressure from Mr. CAYLEY seconded the motion. I , l „ e „„ u e 7lt always entertain e d an o pi n i on th a t danger wow' b e en from the commerci a l p o li c y w hich bad recently sr. adopt- d, and he thought he and his Hon. Friend Drummond) were consistent in the course which (bey. now pursued, for the purpose of obtaining a r eductioe expenditure, seeing that universal distress was the sequence of that line of policy to which be bad refe rre d., He wanted to know how it happened that at this P r e , cuiar juncture the House was so anxious for econosut. and retrenchment.—(Hear.) According to th° P er fo r pie advocated the other night by the Hon. Montrose and the Hon. Member for the W m e't there ought to be an increase instead of a di ro inutiotp l as our expenditure, f or th e os t e nsible object of gin trade was to increase ou r revenue, to make Pe°ll3)o more prosperous and more happy.-e(Hear, hear.) , be the parsimonious and n i ggar dly economy advocateulJ., Hon. Members clearly s h owe d that increased pro pear.) was not the result of our f ree - tra de measures. ( es What had been the consequence of this s ystera o" tr y trade ? Now that they h a d got it, was the con satin' better satisfied?—were the working classes better asthis lied? Nothing of th e sor t. O ne of the effect s of this cheap system had been an Lim-ewe of supplY " greater proportions than th e i ncre ase in the PcP u ', ''' e r The population sinc e th e y ear 1811 has increased 6.per cent., the commitments f or cr i me had been 500 121 cent., while the incr ease i n em i g ration sinc e I Tbe had brea 1,900 per cent.—(Hear, hear.) fall iu the price c f corn d ur ing that r r i r o l B °4 had been 60 per cent. In th e y ear 1811 corn w a ' theth an , a quarter, in 1849-it was 445. a qua rter. Well , wanted to know, what ad van t age this system of r s? ness and falling prices had b een t o the working classrede Why had they se little co n fid en ce in their fr ee -t the principle that they dared only compare the first of () three years of free t r ade with the l e t r .beal proverbial distress ? In 1840 the price of- e d being 87s. a quarter, the number of amounted to 1,199,0001., and in 1848 the hui nt r er jn paupers relieved Ives 1,876,000.—(Lie0r, he sr ,: i nr ter, 1846, when the price of whet was 545. Bd. $ qu ay the in-door paupers were 445 000 in 1848 they ant f to 4,294,000; and in 1849 there eat only a reclacursbn% there en 400,000, although in the previous year of 1848 been an increase of 1,000,000/. in the poor-rates. in Paupers relic eof 1846 the price of wheat was 545. Bd. per quartr;ded 1849 it was 445,, and in 1848 it was 50s. c i °ll h te : o that those facts showed that where there had " v .- r e ts' high rcuounerat;ng price cf corn the P°°' --il e rs had been less and the number of Pauper-proPsre relieved had bean less. He believed that a large tion of the working classes in this country re fit employed on the land. If th er e was net Plod on the productions and the cultivation of then„ far there could not be certain employment or good wag,nsed the labourer. It was b ec ause he 7 - the to give the l a b ourer a su ffi c iency o' ia necessaries of life that he we bf favour of proteotion g enera lly. If t h e y could Prul - ig ter practice that the working classes, fed, better clothed, and more happy under a low price of corn than under a high eu r e 'fres would for once he a convert to the principles, % ne er a b a o e ci d y :o . rt ierfeur79 l l : trade.. But in his short exrcrience he ha d ',. e rje ytt seen that to be the care. On the Co n a lso whenever corn had fallen moat in price, he n u " " fl ed seen the country pinched the most ; i bis therefore he was of opinion that i f was cheapness which they hod now go t the allowed to go or much f u rth er hi s Noble Friend st, at head of the Government, instead of being staggere the proposition of the Hon. M em b e r for the W e l. Riding for a diminution of 6,000,000/. in t b e e e w o lf penditure, would have t o prepare ":„ r .) for something more than that.—(llear, From 1811 to 1820 the average price of corn w as a s and the average amount of poor and county rate f 6,100,0001. per annum. But if th e y t oo k the arersge o f the price of wheat twice a wee k in the four is preceding the fill enactment of th e poor-laws, n ani tb e c ee in 1i32-3-4-5, it was 445. a quarter. Dur in g ati years the average amou n t o f th e poor a nd ce u t ee rate was 8,10C,000/., so that it w a s evident t hat on condition of the poor was not in any way dependent 016-1,, the high prieeof corn. When wheat was at 959. 5 ; ter . the poor and county rate amounted to 6,100,00 9,, in the other year to which he had alluded, wherl,: lhe ata was 445. a quarter, the poor and coliu'l . e r tls was 8,100,0(01. Like the Right Honour-. 0 Baronet the Member for Tamworth, he corn h should range between 56a. and 60s. a quar ter : i .O e believed that price would not ru nn-A to only re the farmer, but also cause g ood ~ v9,e-w r 0 the working manufacturer. (Heai, hear.) ',l e c. 1822 to 1849, taking tho time when the Bill for eli",, - . 13 0 , ing the value of the currency came into full opera s be the price was on an average 595. a quarter. B ut excepted the notoriously scarce years of 18 23 t r tes, 1839, and 1817, the price would have been 535. q ua ' a ce, Lest he might be said to be taking a solitary instat/1n desired bat he would tale the years 1832-3-4.5, in whi ch 40 revenue ne was 46,C00,000/. and the price of wheat ibis net attach more importance to 1 , 0 , fact . than it was worth, but it was a significant w ,,,, f1 e 0t. irg to the Noble Lord at the head of the Goverrumence If ho thought that that great change could 'bead place with no other revision of taxation that' ; 01 already tsken plac e ; if h o t h oug h t t h at th e y had Wi ne . at the end o:' the journey of f ree t ra d e , ho was rsi 6ta tie Th ey were scarcely arrived at the first sta e ' 1 0 would have to en coun t er war to th e 1‘11 1: 0 ' between British wages and foreign Nvog e3 'nerair' tween a country with p oor -l aws an d t h e world i""" w as He thought that the tendency of the presen t systeo l it to make the ri c h richer and the poor poorer , i n reof would be well if that House in which they sat well be shaken to the foundations by the conflict. ths Mr. F. MAULE rose and said, he thought it vi t,, a -e duty of the Government to state at once to the mean t to and to the country the course which they with reference to that motion—a motion indefinite if . ba its terms, and almost admissible by all partinie, nte de which had been supported by th e m over and .„,, se- c, ea in speeches of a tot a lly different character. J' ae tz wit" *-Z • „ c o p' in the motion a series of resol u ti ons e nding " ea r.) elusion in which he entirely concurred.—( ll°° ' rthe He certainly could not differ f rom hi s nom Frie nd ' P aad assertion that taxation was a disagreeable burden; bet neither could he differ from him in the conclusion, tdee the best means of lessening the pr e ssure of that hu, r ln of was the diminution to the utmost e xtent practicsun to the expenditure of the country. But when 1 - . 0 cadis ota fp . the speech of his Hon. Friend, he thought be e cern in that speech a proposal to d ea l with the publi c du e come without any reference to the faith which w e n: pee to the public creditor. -(Hear, hear.) He thoun ar ies he could see in that speech a reckless attack on the sa t t he of ono particular class of individnals—he rafeapit" Was judges—whose position should be approached , 11 -,: i ness to be approached at all, by that House with tn e ded careful consideration. His Hon. Friend bad cop t a d in his speech by a general attack on the policy std u .P,:"ersi this country in the year 1846, not in s ubseq vi ue o u j o i n e n las or , and his Hon. Friend who had seconded the ma le that question entirely 3 question of preteu ti :f the free trade. His Hon. Friend had Old them o nce many evils which would result from their par s e .- pre' in that policy. Now, he (Mr. Fox Maule) " I l ne rea pared to contend that all their recent experien ce !" bar that that policy was one Which had conduced to tue co ptness of the country, and to the promotion of t he esot° fort of the great mass of the p eo pl e; and corn° wets what quarter it might, her Majesty's Govertirrie,n t h tea t prepared to deal with all the contingencies to ww e o l a til policy might give rise calmly, but with a firm res e t be' the); e ot to proceed in the steps which, in their opinion , already successfully trod.—(Hear, hear.) lie a 00: at all clear that hie Hon. Friend was himself sistent in the course h e was th en pursuing. 11?t-tocesTicie ugbtf ho remembered a ti me w h en hi s H on . F r i e nd, 06 arr . considering che a p corn as t h e greatrst bane to tb ° of cultural labou rer an d th e f armer , considered it a s c OO5l, d the greatest b ene fit s th e y could enjoy—wh orl be st 0 the ered that the heaviest tax the people had to PsY ' O, landlords' monopoly of corn—and when he called u l t landlords to abandon that monopoly for the V i gor the community at large.—(flear, hear.) His cen i e able Friend said that the supporters of our re cent st mercial policy left out of their calculation the cost production. But seed formed ono article irj t i ll o e seer e n j i of produ c tio n , an d th e p r i ce o f see d b a d been b by that policy. And again, the cost h°t manual labour and of horse laboure had he h er ; l 5 in larly lowere Ilis Honourable Friend er vi d 'hise it his opinion, fallen into an error into 5 0P' the advocates of protection frequently fell, hY., p ;sing that the labo u ri ng c l asses cf this couo t n r 't tae silted exclusively of agricultural labourers. -1 1 1 ass fact was that there was in this country a larger c ant? labourers employed in commer c i a l than in tir e d ...bat i n pursuits. lie was further prepared to maintain 'cog' the whole hi , tory of this country the labourers gen a foie , with the excel Con of those in a few, and onli s ide° agricultural districts, had never been in a leLt erl ru, c e ° then at present, when all the great articles of subsist PC' 4 0C I were at an unusually low price. The only e ne o , which his Hon. Friend could p iint out were reu u d eau in the salaries of the judges. But his Hon. Fr ic f,Wi c : himself shown that not many years azo tho =c - 0 tba . had been reduced; and tho fl ees , was a lso anrs l i ng 44 there was at present before them a Bill for lega ll i gl ehl e ,` immediate reduction of the salary of the 1.° 1. " e 00 0 '1 Justice of the Queen's Bench from 11,0001 t 9 'Chit and a prosr eetive reduction of the salary of t e " o - 001 Justice of the Court of Common Pleas from 1„ . " if o 7,000/. Those, however, were no doubt large ss' - ` ic°' tnat i compared with the salaries paid in some ether co s eill But any gentleman, and particularly any gent less o 9 oe lived on his or tat r in the country, most hnow the proudest boasts of this country was the tiriq ueg d 13 uprightness with which justice was administere s t i t ag to all classes. It was manifestly desirable units th services of the most cornretstit men iii thc cba se' connected with the profession cf the law s hould er, a nd cured for the discharge of the functions of jodgeelider' in order to attain that end the H ous e should c°- e , bu t not what were the salaries paid to judges elsewiler