The Sun. — London, England, 1850-07-27 00:00:00

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The lndependance of Brussels has the following under date of Hamburgh, 22d inst.:—"The position of the two hostile armies was on the 20th such, that that of Holstein extended over all that part of the south of Schleswig which was occupied be fore the commencement of hostilities by the Prussian corps, and that of Denmark was in pos session of all the northern part where the Swedish troops were previously stationed. The line of demarcation therefore, which for more than two years past has been so many times disputed, is thus marked out in the Duchy. It is on this extent of ground that the two hostile generals manoeuvre and watch for the favourable moment for giving battle. The larger part of the Russian fleet continues to occupy a position at the mouth of the port of Kiel. The different steamers at tached to it are employed in the transport of stores and of the Danish troops coming from the island. If we may credit the accounts received from the Baltic, a se cond Russian fleet, with 10,000 troops on board, was on the point of leaving Cronstadt for the coast of the two Duchies. Sweden is also about to send a squadron there under the command of Prince Oscar, and it is not impossible but that England will also send a naval force equal to that of Russia. There will then be, in reckoning that of Denmark, four fleets belonging to maritime powers more or less hostile to the German cause on the coasts of the Duchies. A heavy firing was yesterday heard in the direction of Eckenforde; it was supposed that the Russian fleet was being cannonaded, but this fact I will not guarantee. The Provisional Government at Kiel has just published an order forbidding the in habitants, while the war continues, from keeping up any relations whatever with Denmark. A great number of persons compromised by their Ger man sympathies, in that part of Schleswig oca copied by the Danish army, daily emigrate into Holstein. An . event has just taken place which proves to what a pitch the feeling of enmity is car ried. On the 20th, a Holstein war steamer chased and captured a Danish merchant vessel, and carried her into the neutral port of Travemunde (State of Lubeck). The authorities of the port interfered, and the captain was" obliged to release his capture. The steamer, on leaving Travemunde, was attacked by a superior Danish force. Finding that she must sur render, the captain landed his crew in boats, and then blew the vessel up." The foreign consuls at Kiel have formally pro tested against the blockade of that port, which had been announced to them by the Danes. An embargo has been laid on all the Danish vessels in the port of Kiel by the Government of Holstein. ITALY. The Croce di Savoia of the 19th states that a society of British capitalists and bankers have made propositions to the Piedmontese Government for a loan, which would offer great advantages to the trea sury, if the Ministry consented to renounce dealing with M. de Rothschild. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 20th publishes a Royal ordonuance, dated the 12th, regulating the formalities which corporate bodies are to fulfil in order to obtain the permission of Government to ac cept donations and legacies, in conformity with the law of sth of June last. The Statuto of Florence of the 18th states that the Gonfaloniere of Leghorn has been summoned to Florence, to give his opinion as to the propriety of raising the state of siege in that seaport. A great number of Swiss recruits are constantly passing through Florence, on their way to Naples. IRELAND. DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING. HER MAJESTY'S EXPECTED VISIT.—it is the intention of the committee of the Royal Dublin Society to keep open the exhibition of manufactures for another fortnight, in expectation of being honoured with a visit by her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Her Majesty and Prince Albert will, it is said, remain but a couple of days in Dublin, and proceed to visit the Marquis of Ormond. at Kilkenny; the Duke of Devonshire, at Lismore Castle; and the lakes of Killarney. The committee of the exhibition at the Royal Dublin Society expect a communication this day, which will enable them to make a definite announcement as to the length of time the exhibition shall remain open. The following is taken from the Limerick Chronicle of yesterday:— •' Her Majesty will certainly partake of the princely hospitality of the Duke of Devonshire, at Lismore Cas tle, in September next, and visit the beautiful scenery of the Blackwater. The Duke of Devonshire will revisit Lismore Castle early in September." THE P3TATJ CROP. The reports from the country this morning are sub stantially similar to those received the past few days from Limerick, Kerry, Clare, and Tipperary. We hear of blighted stalks and other marks of supposed disease in the potatoes, while the whole province of Ulster ap pears to be perfectly free from suspicious signs. The great county of Cork has nothing unpleasant to report. Waterford denies the existeaee of disease; and in short, with the above exceptions, together with letters of com plaint from places in Leitrim and Roscommon, we may say that about five-and-twenty of the thirty-two Irish counties are free from even blighted stalks. It is worthy of remark that up to the present but few blighted tubers have been produced. Subjoined are selections from th© journals of yesterday:— LIMERICK.— (From the Chronicle.)—" We may not repress the strong apprehensions felt this last week for the state of the potato crop in Limerick and the sur rounding counties, whose luxuriance appears checked by a sudden blight, atmospherical we believe in its origin. The leaves and stalks of the plants are discoloured in many fields, and in others shrivelled up, betokening the approach of that direful calamity, which for four sea sons has stricken down the staple food of the Irish people, and caused a social revolution, the most terrific in its effects. Reluctantly do we give expression to the serious fears entertained by the principal landholders and farmers in this county of a' general decay' in the crop. Our own.hope and belief is, that the blight is yet but partial and temporary. " The potato is again blighted lin the neighbouring of Newcastle, and the accounts from the neighbourhood parishes are of the same nature. At Ratkahill on Sun day morning the potato gardens were in a flourishing state, and on the following they were blighted. " A subscriber says that he has several fields of pota toes in the barony of Kenry, which, from the appearance of the stalks, were given up as decayed, but on digging the root was found quite sound. A gentleman arrived in this city yesterday, from Waterford, where his intercourse was very extensive, who assures us, from personal observation and inquiry, that there is no sign of potato blight in that county." The Examiner says—" We regret to say that, as will be perceived from our Kerry, Newcastle, and Kilrush correspondence, the potato crop is extensively and fatally d imaged, and the rot set in and extending with disas trous virulence." Our Abbeyfeale correspondent writes —" You will be sorry to hear that the blight has again made its appearance here, that the stalks and tubers are quite black, and that it is to be apprehended that the crop will be almost entirely lost." A Castleisland cor respondent writes to a similar effect. eLONXEL.—(From the Chronicle.)—" We regret to say that the rumours of failure In the potato crop are gaining ground here. It is true we have not seen, since the commencement of the season, a single tainted potato, nor scarcely one that could be called bad, but the farmers with whom we have conversed on the matter say there are great fears, and that diseased tubers have been seen in many quarters of this county. These re ports have rendered us nervous on this most important subject. The potato fields present a most luxuriant ap pearance." CLARE.—Great alarm exists in Kilrush and round that town, in consequence of all the potato gardens, with few exceptions, being completely blasted and withered. There is no doubt of the failure of that root now. As a consequence many who were in high spirits before are now preparing to leave for America. Cont.—A correspondent of the Cork Examiner writes —" I have just returned from a tour in the counties of Cork, Limerick, and Tipperary, and, as conflicting statements have gone forth regarding the important potato crop, I have taken great pains by ocular proof to ascertain the real state of the crop up to the present day, and though there cannot be a doubt that in several localitiel the leavei and stalks present a cheerless ap pearance, all are . obliged to admit that the tubers are yet safe, and as the strongest proof that the blight (if blight of former years it be) has not descended. I send y ou a twelmen of stalks and potatoes, and when I as sure you that the stalks I send were in their present state 12 days since, I think you will admit from the soundness of the tubers, that we have every reason to trust that God, in his mercy, has subdued the virulence of the disease, as with leaves such as I send (in former years) arras gene. " CHURCH RATES. The following petition on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends, for the abolition of those rates called ob arch-rates, was lately presented to the House of Commons. TO THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN - - - PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. The petition of the undersigned, members of the reli gious Society of Friends, respectfully showeth, That the Society of Friends has uniformly objected, on conscientious grounds, to the payment of the rates called church-rates. Their objection has been apart from political motive or consideration; it has been founded on what they assuredly believe to be the doctrine of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ—doctrine which, when rightly understood andconscientiously acted upon, forms the ground-work of the happiness of man, and the wel fare of states. It is, in the conviction of your petitioners, contrary to the law of righteousness and truth, that any portion of the community should be compelled to contribute to the support of a system of religious belief and practice which they regard as at variance with thu doctrine of the New Testament, and especially 0;1.3 such cloims, as is the case of your petitioners, should be exacted with a serious and oppressive loss of property. Without enumerating all the objoctions to the appro priation'. of the rate in question, your petitioners would especially mention the assumed consecration of build ings used for divine worship, and of ground set apart for the interment of the dead; the providing of special vestments for the minister; the supplyinr , of bread and wine for what is called a sacrament; and the upholding of a fabric wherein certain doctrines are tsught, and usages are upheld, from which their religiously dissent. It is against these, and other stiailar appropriations, your petitioners ente."tain a strong conscientious objec tion; and therefore, w 'hilst cherishing a warm attach ment to the constitutio. t of the Government under which they live, and desiring' peaceably to obey the laws of the land where they do not violate the law of God, they would earnestly entrast Parliament to relieve them by the entire and immwiiate abolition of the rates called church-rates. Signed by us, membE rs of a meeting appointed to re present the Religious Society of Friends in Great Britain. (Signed by 49 Friends.) London, the 19th of the 4th mo., 1850. [The Edict of Nantz, 1578, exempted French Pro testants from all payments to the Catholic worship—and now, in 1850, Dissenters may reasonably claim to be re lieved from forced payments to the Establishment.] THE SUN, FUTURE ADDRESSES TO THE CROWN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Pray remind the Premier, through your uni versally-perused columns, of his hitherto unfulfilled pro mise of asking the House of Commons to assimilate its practice with respect to addresses to the Crown to the usual practice with respect to addresses in reply to the Speech from the Throne, and which assimilation would render the sort of atrocious surprise practised upon Par lament and the people on the Sunday post question a matter of impossibility for the future. I am, Sir, yours respectfully, July 25, 1850. INDIGNANS. P.S.—The Premier should be made to pay, for his Sunday post enormity, the losses he has occasioned to individuals thereby. DINNER TO JOHN WILLIAMS, ESQ., M.P. The friends and admirers of this gentleman in the parishes of St. Marylebone and St. Pancras entertained him at a dinner, at the Artichoke Tavern, Blackwall, on Wednesday last; James Nisbet, Esq., ex•church warden of St. Marylebone, presided; the vice-chair was filled by Frederick H. Bridgeman, Esq., the present churchwarden. The dinner and wines were of the usual excellence of that famous locality. The usual loyal toasts having been given, The CHAIRMAN said it waa with no ordinary feeling of gratification he had the honour and pleasure to pro pose the " Health of the Hon. Member for Macclesfield, Mr. John Williams."—(Applause.) His worth, useful ness, diligence, and integrity ai a public man, were truly and justly appreciated by the numerous company present. Having raised himself by persevering in dustry and sterling honesty to the position he now occupied, must; while it redounded to his honour, be a source of real pleasure to all who knew him. The constituency of Macclesfield had done them selves much credit, and Mr. Williams great honour, in returning him to the House of Commons, where by his unwearied attention and untiring diligence, joined to his manly and independent conduct, he had sustained the high opinion his constituents had conceived of him.— (Applause.) He (the Chairman) would no longer de tain the company, but at once propose his respected and esteemed friend, Mr John Williams. The toast was drank with enthusiasm. Mr. Writ-TA -as rose and said—Words would be quite inadequate to express the warmth of his grateful feel ings for the splendid entertainment to which he had been invited, and the flattering manner in which his name bad been received, and these feelings were greatly enhanced by the recollection that the numerous friends present had known him long before he had anticipated becoming a public man, much less a member of the Commons House of Parliament. He sought no honour save that of being useful to the industrial classes, to which it was his pride to belong, and he hoped the day was not far distant when that class would be fully and fairly represented in the House of Commons,, when that House would really and truly represent the feelings and wants of the middle classes.—(Applause.) He trusted as a tradesman he had never done any thing to cast dishonour on his name, and as a Mem ber of Parliament he had always used his best endeavours, by a constant and de►oted attention to his duties, to support the true interests of the country, by advocating the principle of - unrestricted commerce; free-trade in its most unlimited inter pretation, and the abolition of those taxes which bear heavily and directly upon the industry of the country—(Applause)—and the repeal of which was so urgently demanded by the neces sities of the people. The vestry of St. Marylebone was the medium by which he was intro duced into public life, and cultivated the desire to be useful, as far as his humble abilities permitted, to his fellow-man. Having witnessed in that board the salutary effects of local self-government, he had become an ardent admirer of the principle, and hoped he should be ever found in the foremost ranks of its supporters, and a most determined opponent to the' centralising principle which was the fashion among the rulers of the present day, contrary to the habits of the people of this country, dangerous to their liberties, tending to throw an amount of power into the hands of the Government of the day, which even tually might be applied to the basest purposes. He looked upon the present moment as one of the proudest and happiest of his life, and hoped he should never forfeit the high esteem of the numer ous friends by whom he was surrounded men whose friendship was a source of the greatest pleasure to him, and in whose kindly feelings it was his high am bition to maintain a place. The Hon. Gentleman resumed his seat amid loud cheers. Several appropriate toasti were given, in which the speakers bore testimony to the high estimation in which their guest was held for the great usefulness of his public services. After a most agreeable meeting, the company sepa rated at a late hour. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last night's Gazette.) gin Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 20th day of July, 1850. £B3Ol DIPAIITJUNT. ft Notes issued•• ...... 30,257,440 Government debt 11,015,100 Other securities .... 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 16,038,182 Silver bullion ...... 219,258 430,257,440 X 30,257,440 [. MARSHALL, Chief Caahler. Dated the 25th day of July, 1851 DANICDNG D ] Z. Proprietors'eapital.. 14,553,000 Reat . . • ...... 3,180,101 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer. Commissioners of National Debt, Say- 0 EPAIITKEN T. Government securi ties(including Dead Weight Annuity).. 14,285,583 Other securities •• .. 10,184,360 Notes •• •• ••.•• ...... 9,689,180 Gold and silver coin•. 653,292 lngs-banks, and Di vidend accounts) .. 4,545,194 Other deposits ...... 11,122,418 Seven day and other bills.. •• ••••••.... 1,311,702 £31.812,415 #34,812,415 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 25th day of July, 185, MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, July 26.) SUGAR.-To-day the West India Sugar market pre sented a dull aspect, and there were sellers at rather lower rates, but all parties operated with much caution; of 388 hhds 6 tons 41 brls St. Lucia at public sale a few lots only sold, good yellow at 36s 6d, mid and good grey 35s to 365, ord 34s to 34, 6d, and fine brown at 33s 6d. Only 336 hhds, &c., were sold to-day, making 1,498 for the week, and prices close fully 6d per cwt lower than on Friday last. REFINED.-There is yet a small supply of Refined Sugar, and a further advance has taken place in the value. Prices for brown grocery lumps rule at 49s 6d to 50s, standard lumps 50e 6d, tittlers low to fine 505 to 53s 6d, double 548 tO 54s 6d, Hambro' loaves 50s to 545, and double at 55s to 593 der cwt, but tow and middling sorts continue to be most wanted. In wet lumps a good deal has been done at 46s 6d to 47s 6d, superior 48s to 48s 6d, and there are not free sellers. For Bastards a good sale exists at 27a to 32s for brown, and at 33s to 36s for yellow. Of Pieces large parcels have been sold, but not at an advance. The value of good to fine is 40s to 455, and low to middling 37s to 395. Treacle continues to be operated in with caution, and there are ready sellers at low rates ; boiled from West India Mo lasses is to be obtained at 13s Gd to 14s 6d, patent 14s 6d to 15s 6d, and golden syrup at las to 18s. For British Crushed Sugar the rates demanded are 27s 6d to 28s 6d. The value of wet lumps is 26s to 26s 6d, but little has been done. Treacle is not much wanted for exportation, and prices remain at lls 6d to 12s 6J, but the supply is larger. Prices do not improve for Foreign Crushed Sugar, still larger transactions have taken place; Dutch at 23s to 25s 6d, superior 26s to 275, and Belgian at from 24s to 25s 6d. For Loaves there is a firm market, and a good business has been con cluded; the rates paid for Turkey 4 to 5} lbs are 40s to 4.55, Hamburgh 6 to 7 lbs 34s to 355, 10 to 10i lbs 335, 14 to 15 lbs 32s 6d; tittlers 22 to 30 lbs 29s 6d, Prussian 40 to 45 lbs 30s, Dutch 6 to 10 lbs 29s 6d to 31s, and Belgian 10 lbs 27s 6d to 28s per cwt. operatedp ahrt only t a : r ns r aht Tcr rather ei or a n f l,o t e rn oon Mauritius Sugar was andwer rates; te l, a 6 ; s g 0 2 b on a gs y e a ll t o w w auctionent ata 36s 6d to 37a 6d, low a nd mid 34s to 35s 6d, good and tioLbsr.rowumn32l,a.t.T33hs i . s an af d ta inferior 301 6d per cwt. r y = at public sale 2,323 bags Bengal Sugar offered ; s o l d ood at full rates, but g low like other sorts went rather cheapei, w g hite, nitres 38, to 40s Mauri tius sold at 36s to 375, mid and w hite washed 37s to 40s; one 6d, low 37s to 37s 6d, damp lot superior sound white 42s per cwt. FOREIGN.-To-day there was little passing by private treaty in Foreign Sugar, and in some cases rather lower prices were taken; at auction 130 bags brown Bahia sold at 32s to 345. The private sales for the week are only a cargo of 600 chests yellow Havannah at 395, to be deli vered here; one for Bahia for export at 18s for brown, and a small proportion of white at 21e; and 200 chests yellow Havannah at 21s on the spot. 11JOLAS8ES.-The market for West India is still quiet, a b a u l t es a , s pricesand requireru l efor low holdersAn tAn t igu a n a are and not B 3r d b i cs n s e e a d to ss 6 p ci re s s ( s ) 16s, St. Kitts and Tobago 13s to 13s 6d, and St. Vincent's 14s to 14s 6d per cwt. For East India rates rale at 115 to 12s, and even thereat not much desire has been evinced to operate. Although importers keep upon a small scale, still there is a much larger stock than last year. Of Jamaica Honey 40 casks at auction sold at 39s to 43s for good quality. To-day 200 puns St. Vin cent's Molasses were sold at the low rate of 13s per cwt. COFFEE.-This afternoon there was little desire evinced to do business in Native Ceylon, and there were sellers of goodjord at 43a. Plantation was only in limited request, still prices are supported; at auction 20 casks 121 bags sold, low mid and mid at 51s 6d to 533 6d, fine to fine fine ord 478 6d to 501 64. and pea berry 59s to 59s 6d. Of Java 547 bags taken in at 42s to 43s for Singapore. • Cocoa.-There has again been no arrival of foreign, and holders are not disposed to take lower rates, but operations have been limited by private treaty at 27s 6d to 28s 6d. British Plantation continues in good requelt, rather higher terms are paid a 3 supply does not get larger. At auction 453 bags of Grenada were sold at 39; to 463 fir ord t 3 fine red, and 16 bgs ord g-ey Trinidad at 40s per cwt. TEA.—To-day the public sales of Tea went off at stiff rates, and of 5,573 pkgs offered 1,400 sold Congou, good ord Hid, medium at is to Is id, good Is 2d to Is 2id, Scented Orange Pekoe good is 7d, Hyson ord is 21d, Young Hyson ord is 6d to Is 7d, Gunpowder ditto 2s 50 to 2s 7d per lb. . . . . RlCE.—East India met with little attention. At auc tion on Tuesday 1,000 bags of Arra,can were taken in at 8s 6d; 348 bags very low broken dusty Para at 7s, but 1,752 bags and 438 pockets Bengal were sold at lOs to 103 6d for good, at 93 6d to 10s for mid, and at 6s to 93 for damaged ; 150 bags good pinky white Madras realized 8s 6d to 9s. Yesterday, however, a large demand prevailed, and there was an advance of 3 , 1 to 6d per cwt, and the pri vate operations were 10,000 bags, tho chief part on speculation. Prices for white Bengal closed at 9s 6d to 12s, cargo and pearl Barley 83 6d to 8s 9d, and pinky white Madras 8s 9d to 9s 3d. There has been no arrival of East India this week. Patna is still in good request at 9s 6d to 16s for low to fine, but town dressed C trolina is still operated in with caution at 223 to 2Ss. Of American 42 casks at auction realized 19s to 191 6d per cwt. To-day the market was less active, still a fair business was concluded privately at full rates. At auction 418 bags Brazil sold at 12s to 123 6d. SAGO.—To-day at auction 300 bags Sago taken in at 12s 6d for Borneo, but 373 cases small pearl sold at 21s to 21s 6d; 400 bags Sago Flour partly found buyers at 16s 6d; 100 brls Tapioca 43-d to 51d; 240 pkgs Ar rowroot, Bermuda Is Bd, Brazil 4d, East India 21d. FRIIIT.—Since our last the business done in Currants has bk en very limited, but prices continue-firm. The clearances fir home consumption are increasing, and altogether amount since the Ist of this month to 750 tons. The stock of Valencia Raisins is very small, not exceeding 140 tons, and at the present rate of consump tion cannot last till the arrival of the new crop. In other descriptions of fruit there is not much doing. SPICES.—There has been a much better dem - and for black Pepper this week, and previous rates are well sup ported. At auction 4,861 bags Sumatra were all sold, good clean black realized 33 to aid, grey ditto to 3d per lb. By private treaty a fair business has been concluded, and Malabar realized 3d to 30. White realizzd full terms, and met with more attention. At auction 146 bags realized 6d to 6id for mid, and 40 to 5P fur damaged. For brown Nutmegs of in terior and mid quality a reduction of 2d per lb has taken place, but full terms have been obtained for better sorts, which met with a good demand. At auction 66 pkgs were sold, fine at 3s 3d to 3s sd, good 2s 10d to 3s 2d, mid 2s 6d to 2s 9d, low 2s 3d to 2s sd, out of condition ls lid to 2s 2d, and a few lots of good limed 2s 103; 312 bags wild in the shell went at 2d to 3d, and one lot good 58. Mace is wanted, and must be quoted Id to 2d higher; 30 packages at auction all sold, common at 2a to 2s Id, mid dling 2s 2d to 2s 3d, and out of condition is 7d to 2s. Of Cassia Lignea there is still a scanty supply, and a fair inquiry has prevailed, whilst the rates offered are from 86s to 90s per cwt. A reduction of id per lb has taken place for Boarbon Cloves, the supply having much increased, still at public sale 333 cases were chiefly sold at 6fd to 64d for mid and fine, and at 6,1 to qd for damaged. The value of Penang is still Is to 15 6d, but little has been done. Pimento is not much wanted, and rather lower rates are acceded to, although supply is not larger. At auction 66 bags sold at 588 to 6d for good, and at 54d for damaged. Jamaica Ginger has been freely offered for sale, and a reduction of 5s to 10s per cwt. took place at the public sales of 320 packages, but all sold, good to fine at 41 101 to 61 13s, inferior and middling 21 lOs to 4155, and one lot low 2195. Of Malabar 82 cases went at 27s to 28. 63 for small, and 25 cases Cochin at 75s to 955 for good and fine bold brown. The value of shipping East India is 17. to 18s. Cassia buds are in more active demand, and realised an advance ; at auction 33 boxes realised 99s 6d per cwt far good. In Cinnamon very little has been done, as the public sales of 2,300 packages will commence on Monday. SALTPETILE.—To-day the sales made are small in rough, and at a public sale of 600 bags prices declined 6d per cwt, fiti to 9i per cent selling at 244 6d to 253 for Calcutta of ord and mid quality. COCHINEAL —This afternoon at public sale 22 bags Mexican Cochineal were taken in at 3. 7d to 3s 9d; 19 bags Teneriffe sold at 4s to 4s Id for good black, and 4 bags Honduras silvers at 3s 6d to 35 10d for very ord to good. INDIGO.—The market for East India is still firm, and a fair business has been concluded at fully former rates. Since the quarterly sales about 1,000 chests have been sold chiefly for exportation. Former terms were well supported for Spanish, and supplies have beemmoderate, whilst a steady demand exists. SPIRITS.—In Leeward Island Rum sales have been upon a limited scale this week, and rather lower rates are acceded to, whilst only 150 puns have been sold at Is 3i3 to is 4d proof. East India met with a dull sale, and must be quoted rather cheaper; only small parcels have been sold at is 2id to is 3d proof. Demerara is not much wanted, and last week a terms are not supported; the purchases do not exceed 200 puns at is lid to 2s 2d for 30 to 40 over proof. There are free sellers in Jamaica at former terms, and shippers or home dealers do not appear much disposed to operate. The sales are confined to 250 puns at 2. 68 to 2s 98 for middling 34 to 38 over, good and fine 3s to 3s Bd, with small parcels of superior at 3s 9d to 4F. Brandy has been sold to a fair extent and the market is firm; Cognac best brands of the vin tage of 1849 at 4. 5d to 4. 7d, 1848 ditto 4s 68 to 4s Bd, 1847 5s Id to 5s 3d. Geneva is dull of sale with sellers of ord at is 6d to is 7d; fine is still quoted at 2. to 3., In the value of British made Spirit there is no variation. OILS.—To-day at public sale 70 tuns Manilla Cocoa Nut 0:1 sold at the low rates of 24s to 27. 3d, 20 csks Palm 26s to 28.. TALLOW.—This afternoon at Public sale 300 c3lts ' Sydney sold at 323 91 to 35s 93; 640 pkgs South American 335 to 365. THE POST-OFFICE STOPPAGE AND EPIDEMICS. (From the Historic Times.) London is threatened with another outbreak of cholera, and although it is not likely to assume a severe epidemic character, the hot and close months yet to come are likely to develop the whole tribe of zymotic diseases. We pro mised, and wish, to abstain from reverting to the vexed question of the cessation of Post-office labour on a Sunday, but the Registrar-General's report, recounting a few deaths from the fell disease which spread devasta tion amongst us last year, obliges us to show the evil which may arise from the non-delivery of letters on a Sunday during the possible prevalence of a fearful ma lady. The sudden nature of death from cholera requires no comment; and during its ravages, facility of inter course is demanded by the dictates of common humanity. If the cholera should visit us, then, is there still to be no delivery on Sunday? Are the dying to die without the possibility of informing their kindred or friends, should the terrible attack overtake them on a Saturday? In reply to this, it may be urged that we are not better off in London, for there is no letter delivery here; but we reply, we are in a far better position than provincial towns, for a thousand channels of communications pour into London, while the Post alone conveys intelligence out of it, with the exception of the larger country towns. The stagnation of intelligence during such a" period would be frightful, and enough to alarm even those who from, doubtless, the best principles, advocate the total suspension of Sunday delivery. We believe that directly after the prorogation of Parliament the old system will be revived, with certaiti modifications in deference to the many conscientious, but, as we think, miitaken men, who have formed the list of 400,000 petitioners. If, how ever, all Sunday delivery is to remain abolished, we would throw out an undigested suggestion as to a means to avert the evil in the event of cholera again visiting us. We propose, in each a ease, that Government should issue postage• stamps of a particular design or colour, at a shilling or more per stamp; and when one of these is placed on a " letter, the Post-office authorities should be answerable for its delivery. Against this it will be immediately urged, that attorneys, and brokers, and creditors, and people of all sorts of denominations, will take advantage 'of this issue of stamps to send their business-letters; and no doubt it would be so; but surely it is better for some hundreds of people to promote their pecuniary interests even on a Sunday, than that one dying person Should be deprived of the last solace ever to be bad in this world. We can conceive nothing more frightful than to re ceive a letter on a Monday, which has been lying a dead lump of useless intelligence all Sunday, conveying the last wishes of an expiring persons to see a near and dear relation—and on the Monday delivered too late. The next objection to be urged against the plan is, that the extreme poor would be deprived of the privi lege; but in cases of death and sudden illness, surely there would be some kind Samaritan to whom the afflicted might fly at such a period; and what species of charity could emanate from the clergyman with such grace as that which would enable the dying to commu nicate with the absent loved ones? Even some of our strict correspondents might pull the black stamp from their pocket-books, and give it without trembling for their eternal happiness, even though one more letter had to be delivered on a Sunday owing to the gift. Whatever objections, however, might be raised against the plan, and we premised that it was a crude one, it letter th e ian w r e n u ,s l . d n d. de sire.woulde. correspond e nc e Tnte would have the effect of placing a severe tax upon Sun day delivery; and this, perhaps, is as much as many de neaatc; ter. onceesn tf would otap o ouu f pl at tohe puttingstop a tonn expensiv eenormous stamp o odn ofa postmen, and tr i flin g cha n n a n t e u i r s e ; 0 and although h o i n t greatly diminish the labour of perhaps be accepted by the Sabbath as a graceful compromise, if not a necessary the party measure. NKFORT-ON-TII —The secretaries of the Peace R C I . PEACE - - ----- and Eliliu Burritt, are vigorous o l n y gress, CONCRES3 AT F A the Rev. H. Richard The preparing the way for a have visited Heidelburg. E-MAINE. large continental delegation. u nu , G in i g es t s l2 3;n eir course through Ham- B Al e a r n i s h l e: a m n , d W a o r r e m n s 0 , w ll r c e o s n d t e i thew towns they have ionl,nantoe3pbe persona n ioduction Cassel, Halle, Leipzig, b b e u e r n gh r , ec H eiv an ed ov:r it , h a g n r d ea C t o s lo tt g e n n e t to the universities, professors, and other eminence. From Leipzig a powerful and influential delegation ected Liebig, the celebrated chemist, fully interls is to be P • present at the Congress ; the well-known theologian, Dr. Tholuck, is also expected; Professor Ulrici, the popular com mentator on Shakspere, has engaged to attend ; and Dr. Langeur, President of the Court of Appeals at Dresden, and who was tutor to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, has cor dially engaged his influence in favour of the object. EARLY HARVEST. —A field of black barley MU cut, carried, and stacked by Mr. Mills, at Langford Lodge, during the past week.—Both Chronicle. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 2G. MILITIA PAY BILL. Thia Bill was read a third time and passed. IRISII PAUPERS. LONDON. SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1850. The LORD CILINCELLOR took his seat, ou the Wool sack at Five o'clock. Lord REDESDL.LE drew their Lordships' atten tion to the statement made at one of the pulice-courts of the metropolis, that a Dr. Do novan, one of the poor-law authorities of Ireland, had sent over several paupers to this country without making any provision for them, thus leaving them to be maintained by English parishes, or to starve. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was understood to state that the matter should be inquired into. THE LIVERPOOL FORGED PETITION. Lord BEAUM.ONT moved that Hume, M'Arthur and Byrne should be called to the bar, admonished, and discharged. Lord BROUGHAM supported the motion; these per sons had given all the information in their power, they had used no prevarication in their evidence, and they were the dupes of others. The M irquis of L ANSDOWNE should not oppose the motion, but he must denounce the _offence of which these persons had been guilty as most heinous ; and he found that in many pars of the kingdom there prevailed a practice similar to that of which these persons had been guilty—a practice which did irreparable injury to the sacred right of petition. The Earl of HARR° WBY had received a letter from the secretary to the society which had employed these men, exculpating himself and his society from blame. Lord BEAUMONT said the inquiry into these frauds was still going on, and he hoped the really guilty parties would be discovered and punished. The prisoners Byrne, Wilde, and M'Arthur were then called to the bar, reprimanded by the Lord CHAN CELLOR, and discharged. PETITIONS. Lord BROUGHAM presented several petitions in favour of the County Courts Bill. Ile would take this opportunity of correcting a gross delusion which oertain persons, who he suspected knew better, had propagated, charging him with inconsistency as a law reformer in relation tv this Bill. It was because he was not inconsistent that he had given the option of bringing actions either in county or superior courts, for he had given the same option in the Bill he had in troduced in 1836. The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from sundry labourers in Scotland, praying the House to in troduce some measure to prevent parochial boards from taxing their wages to the relief of the poor. The Earl of EGLINTON presented a petition from Ayr in favour of a Post-office delivery on Sunday. The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented se veral petitions against the Marriages Bill. HYDE-PARK AND THE EXPOSITION. Lord BROUUHAM said he rose to discharge one of the most important duties that had ever devolved on him since he had had the honour of a seat in that House—a duty he felt the greater difficulty in discharging in con sequence of considerable indisposition which he was labouring under since he took his seat in the House at ten o'clock that morning. It was within the knowledge of their Lordships that he had, from en early period this session, stood forward as the antagonist of those who (from praiseworthy motives undoubtedly) had un dertaken the structure in Hyde-park for the proposed exhibition of 1851. That circumstance, however, sank into entire insignificance compared to the question that unhappily, but incidentally, had grown out of it. He was now to call their Lordships' attention to the in auspicious course which had been taken in the matter of the Hyde-park exhibition—a course that had been taken under the responsibility of the first law officer of the Crown. It was now his painful duty to describe in detail the history of this transaction, as it involved one of the most important questions to which he had ever occasion to solicit the attention of their Lordships. It would be of course for their Lordships to judge, when they heird the statement of facts he was about to submit, and the comments he had to offer as to their bearing upon the law and the constitution—it would be, ha said, for their Lordships to judge whether he had given any exaggerated description of the import ance of this question. He held in his hand the peti tion of some of the most respectable of our fellow-citi • zens residing in the neighbourhood of Hyde-park. It was his intention to deal exclusively with the question of public right. These petitioners repre sented the facts of the case as he was now about to state them. They have prepared an information to be placed on the file of the Court of Chancery, for the purpose of staying by injunction any further structure being erected, or any further alterations being effected in Hyde-park for this exhibition, inas much as they were advised that Hyde-park was the property of the public—that it was with drawn by strict right from the power of the servants of the Crown, or of any department of the service of the Crown, without the authority of the Legislature inter posing by special Act of Parliament. They stated their case to three of the most able and learned counsel that at present adorned the bar of that country. These three counsel had maturely considered the case, and had given their opinions upun it. Sir F. Kelly, a man of the highest talent and legal knowledge; Mr. Rolt, also of many years' standing in the Court of Chancery; and Mr. Cairns, were consulted, and their opinion was, upon a deliberate view of the law and the statutes—and they gave that opinion' without hesitation—that the structures about to be raised in Hyde-park were illegal; and they recommended an immediate injunction to stay the pro ceeding. As it was not an infraction of the rights of the individual, it could only be by a bill or in formation in the name of the Attorney-General. All such informations in which the Attorney-General was the party who proceeded, the substantial party, the reel party, was the relator. The Attorney- General was only the formal, but qn absolutely ne cessary party, and the relator was the real substan tial party who proceeded. He alone gave the instruc tions to counsel, the Attorney-General had nothing whatever to do with it; the relators alone had the con duct, carriage, and control of the cause. The Attorney- General was only there as representative and on behalf of the public, whose interests were affected. He did not deny that the Attorney-General might become, from the formal, the real and substantial party in the cause. The matter could only have followed out of the assent of the the Attorney-General. He was applied to and re fused his concurrence--the business behoved to stop there. No means was suppliei by the constitution to compel him. Sic yob was enough—that was the law, that was the c onstitution. The order of the Sovereign could not compel him; there was nothing but an Act of Parliament to do that. It was thought advisable that the relators should lay the opinions of the refusal, Gell buteal' and he, aft er t a ki ng t i me , aga i n stated the r easons f or t h at re f usa l. reiterated He had already said that these gentlemen had given their opinions without any doubt or hesitation, and that there was a clear case fora court of law. He was told by those three competent lawyers, not only as the facts of the case were disclosed to them, but on the law as it was explained to them, that the encroachments contemplated were con trary to the law; the Attorney-General said— an d if any man could suppos e th at he (Lord Brough am ) li g htly considered his vested authority, or that h e h a d t h e slightest prejudice against him, he sh owe d t h e greatest always s nce of entertained all for his revered relative and himself —th e A ttorney - General said he had in that matter a d uty of a udicial that the was highest respect an d attachment j passing i n hi s m i nd, for he had nature to perform. The informati on ca l led in question A the discretion of the authorities h av i ng the control over and management of the parks. Th e N o b le and L arned Lord then went on to quote the opi n i on of the General at length as it h as already ttoerney appeared vote of the House of Commons having already interfere, of the question. Where any ca se of oppression in The Sun, in which he de c li ne d to s da d wass likely to be undertaken for some sinister motive—where it e it was clear that the case that there was no reasonable or probable cause , for for bringing tiot refuse into ctoourat,flotwhe the eghrlator t o go was un t was flin:"Y of ail t d be effl A p tt t orn a e n y d - G doubted. So in like manner where a man Was convicted and the verdict of the jury was followed by a judgment, the aggrieved party could not suo out a writ of error without the permission of the Attorney -Ge neral. He knew a case, that of O'Connell e an d others. who were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment, and the parties then brought a writ of error. The judgment in that case was reversed, and the parties set free; and if there was any right in the Goverpment or in the At torney-General to have withheld his fiat for the prose cution of the writ of error, that was a case in which they would most certainly have interposed. It was clear that if there was any right in the Attorney-General to do so he would have done it in that case. - It was equally clear that it was an act ex debilo justifier, and not ex gratia, and that the fiat could not in that or in any similar case be refused. The Noble and Learned Lord then referred to the proceedings in the House of Com mons on the subject of the erection of the proposed building in Hyde-park, showing that the division took place, not upon the erection of the building, but upon the question of the matter being referred to a Select Committee; and yet he observed it was upon that the Attorney-General took upon himself to refuse his assent to that information. But suppose there was a decision of the House of Commons on the subject—was that a decision as to the legality of the proposed erection? Did that justify the Attor ney-General in refusing his assent ? Certainly not. But as the Attorney-General had referred to the pro ceedings in the Hous© of Commons, he begged to call the attention of their Lordships to what was said on thet occasion by Lord John Russell. He had said they had nothing to do with the question of law—that was not the question before them. The only question was whether they should offer advice to the Crown restrict ing the erection of this public building in Hyde-perk, supposing the Crown had the right to select Hyde park. Lord John Russell did not decide the question of law, and he (Lord -Brougham) defied any stronger or plainer words to be used to show that tee question of law was not referred to in that House at all. Now, then above all, the House of Commons was the lowest and the last place to decide questions at issue between the Crown and the public, between the Attorney-General and the public, or between one Party and another. Why, even their Lordships, although of far greater weight and hn portanee, unless when sitting in their judicial capacity, could not, and dared not, touch questions of law between the public and the Crown, or between one party and another. The present was a very grave question, and if the Attorney- General was without better reasons than these, because it displeased some persons under whom he held office to impede, to obstruct, and to frustrate the due administration of justice, he must say that such rea sons could not for a moment prevail with ther Lord hips or with the country. - If the Attorney sGenerale was merely to say that he would not allow this inform stion to be tried, and thus frustrate the public from all the courts if equity and justice, it might well be asked if they lived in a free country and were governed by the law. That line of conduct could not for a moment he de feuded. It appeared that the information was direct-d agsinst Lord J. Russell and the other Cemmis,ionc There was a clear alt of malversation on the part of the Commissioners of Weeds and Forests, and yet the At torney-General would prevent the public approaching the courts of law to obtain redress, by refusin4 his sanc tion to the legal, practicable, Equitable course of law. Now the officers of the Crown cared nothing for im peachment, and it was only by discussions, and by bripging their conduct before that and the other House of Parliament, that they could he reached. It might be said that the Attorney-General had the right to refuse, and in some cases of error no doubt he might interpose, but he called upon whoever might be disposed to defend the course taken by him on the present occasion, to show him one single instance in which a great public question between the people and the Crown—between the inha. bitants of the capital and the Crown—had ever been stopped and stifled and frustrated in its progress to a I-gal julicial termination by the fiat of; the Attorney- General. One word more as to the gross inconsistency between the conduct of the law officer of the Crown end that of Lord John Russell. The Noble Lord called on the House to vote against the address, because it :had nothing to do with the question of legality, as that could only be decided by a court of la x. One of the first things the relators found was the law officer playing into the hands of the Treasury. The one said, "Go to the courts of law, and in the meantime give me your votes;" but when they came to the courts of law the next morn ing, 'they could only get to the keyhole, but could not get in. But the Crown, it was said, was the representa tive of the interests of the public. The petition which he had presented must,be regarded as the petition not of an individual, but of the public complaining of the Crown. He was told, "Do not complain, you are only the public; I am your foster mother—l am your .tendsr parent, in whom you may safely con fide." " Most excellent Sovereign," he would reply "most gracious Queen; most deeply do I reverence, your exalted station; most entirely do I confide in your maternal care; but nevertheless, as long as Kings are Kings, and Queens are Queens, where there are conflict ing interests—where your Majesty is on one side and I happen to be on the other, and I am in open and avowed conflict with your rights, when I deny your right—when my case is that you are wrong and I am right, may it please your Majesty not to be offended if I say I had much rather, with all my loyal affection and profound veneration for your Majesty, and the constitution of which you are the head, trust myself to my own defence of my own rights." But if the Attorney-General must necessarily be made a defendant, the information might be filed by the Solicitor-General. But what would be the construction put upon the conduct of the Attorney- General ? Would it be thought that he had taken his course because there was nothing in the point about to be raised? Could they think—would the public think—. would any portion of the public think or believe, or for an instant fancy it possible, that all this had been done b<, cause it was supposed that the case was quite clear, that there was no doubt whatever as to the right of the Crown to do what it was now doing, and that the public were all wrong and had no title whatever to interfere ? No; it was because they dared not let it go into court—it was because they preferred to the decision of a court their majority of 166, got together not, he would venture to say, by any efforts on the part of the proper officer endowed with what was commonly called the whip.—(Hear, and a laugh.) But there were more whips than one. There were other whips than that of the Treasury Secretary. There were Court influences and canvassers, and there were persons who mutually were influenced by, and, in their turn, influenced those Courts—those whose " Whispers still to greatness far too near, Which often vibrate in a monarch's ear." Fine writing had been described as right words in right places, and so fine voting might consist in giving right votes in right places; but all these votes would not serve to remove from the minds of the people of this city and of this country the conviction, that the reason for relus ing the fiat was one and 'one only, namely—that they were wrong in point of law and dared not go into court. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE complained that his Noble and Learned Friend had given him no notice of his intention to bring, this subject under their Lordships' notice. He denied that the Attorney-General had done more than fearlessly and conscientiously to discharge his duty to the best of his judgment and discretion. He also distinctly denied that any instructions had been given him to depart from that course which he con ceived to be essential for the public interests; and he would add that, were he capable of yielding to such in fluences, he would not be the son of that father whose memory, in common with his Noble and Learned Friend, he affectionately cherished and venerated. He protested against the allusions made by his Noble and Learned Friend to the discussions which bad taken place elsewhere. He must be forgiven for saying that it was ens thing to refer to the recorded votes of the other House, and another to the speeches delivered there in detail, the inconvenience of which was prove :1 by experience. Whether his Honourable and Learned Friend the Attorney-General had acted judiciously or not in considering the majority of the House of Commons as the exponent of the public voice, and in regarding the relators to whom his Noble and Learned Friend had referred as representing their own feelings only, and not the feelings and sentiments of the public at large, his Hon. and Learned Friend the Attorney- General would no doubt be able satisfactorily to explain in the proper place. All he could say was, that he did not stand there to defend or explain the course pur sued by the Attorney-General in the exercise of the great and important functions entrusted to him; but to express his conviction that he would be able to justify himself in point of law, of equity, and of policy. Lord BROUGHAM said the reason why he had not given his Noble Friend notice of his intention to call their Lordships' attention to the subject was that he had only received the Petition last night. The Noble and Learned Lord was understood to say that he had communicated his intention to the Attorney-General. Earl GREY warmly protested against the imputation cast by the Noble and Learned Lord on the motives of the Government and law officers of the Crown, without giving any notice of his intention to any mem ber of the Government in that House. CIVIL LIST. The Marquis of WESTMINSTER protested against the motion which the Noble and Learned Lord opposite had placed upon the paper in reference to the Civil List, which, in his opinion, was perfectly unconstitutional. The Noble and Learned Lord bad declared his intention of dealing with the whole of the Civil Liat, forgetting. apparently, that it was the result of a bargain made with the Crown on the surrender of its hereditary revenue. Lord BROUGHAM said he had no motion with re spect to the Civil List as yet, and the observations of the Noble Marquis were therefore somewhat premature. He would not take advantage of the opening afforded him by the Noble Marquis to discuss the subject, but he de nied the bargain. The Marquis of WESTMINSTER would take that opportunity of stating that no alteration had been made in the salaries of the officials of the Board of Green Cloth, and the Gentleman who had succeeded Sir T. Marrable received the same amount as that gentleman had received while living. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said he attached great importance to the subject, and would take care that the Lords should be summoned for the night when his Noble and Learned Friend proposed to bring his motion forward. THE LEASEHOLD TENURE OF LAND (IRE- LAND) BILL. Lord BEAUMONT moved the third reading of this Bill. The LORD CHANCELLOR expressed his approval of the principle of the Bill, but suggested that the max imum amount of compensation under the measure should be fixed at a year and a half's rent. The Earl of WICKLOW said that in his opinion the courts of justice ought to be left to decide upon that sub ject, and he thought it was better that they should reject the Bill altogether. In order to record his opposition to the measure he should move that it be read a third time that day three months. Lord BEAUMONT defended the Bill. Lord MONTEAGLE thought that they ought to be allowed to have an opportunity of considering the amend ment suggested by the Lord Chancellor, and that the further progress of the measure should be suspended for that purpose until next week. Lord REDESDALE said he was favourable to the principle of the Bill, but he could not think that its pro visions were calculated clearly and fully to carry out that principle. The Bishop of DOWN said be thought that they ought to postpone until another session their final de cision upon that subjrct. The Marquis of WESTMEATH said that an act of injustice had been done by the Bill of last session, and in his opinion they ought at once to endeavour to remedy that injustice. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, in explanation, that having had the Bill referred to him by the Noble Marquis the President of the Council, and having com pared it with the existing law, he thought that it was an improvement upon that law, principally upon the ground that the Legislature had intended to give some such compensation as was granted in that Bill. The only amendment which he had proposed was, that the maxi mum of the compensation should be one-and-a-half years' rent. After a few words from the . Earl of WICKLOW, Lord STANLEY suggested, as the motion for the third reading had been proposed, that the consideration of the amendments should be taken on Monday next., The Bill was then read a third time, and the considera tion of the amendments fixed for Monday next. Earl GREY moved the third reading of the Militia Pay Bill, which was agreed to, and the Bill passed. On the motion of Earl GRANVILLE the Stock in Trade Bill was read a third time, and passed. Several Bills on the table were advanced a stage. and their Lordships adjourned at a Quarter past Eight o'clock. ROUSE OF COMMONS, July 26, PRIVILEGE.-BARON ROTHSCHILD. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mr. HUME proposed that the adjourned debate should be resumed on Monday, at twelve. Mr. SPOONER objected to this arrangement. After a discussion of a ♦ery irregular nature, Mr. ANSTEY moved, as an amendment, that the de bate be resumed at five o'clock that evening. Mr. B. OSBORNE seconded the amendment. Mr. SPOONER hoped the House would not assent to either the motion or the a mendment.—(Laughter.) He thought some farther time ought to be given to allow Scotch and other Members who might be absent to attend in their places when the debate was resumed. Lord JOHN RUSSELL thought the adjournment should be to the earliest possible time—(Hear ; bear) — in order to decide this question, the more especially as the Hon. Member for London (Baron Rothschild) did not wish to be heard by c,iunsel on the preliminary point. Ho would support the motion fr adjournment, and thought that the adjournment should be to Monday next —([year, hear.) Mr. SCOTT rose, amid loud cries or " Divide " and considerable uproar, to propose that the adjournment should ha to Tuesday Mr. REYNOLDS had listened with Job.late patience for the last three hours to the speeches on this question —(Laughter)—but had been wholly unable to understand to what day the House wished to adjourn.—(" Divide, divide," and great uproar.) All he had to say was this, that this question had been before the House for three years, and that eight divisions had taken place upon it, or upon the question of civil and religious liberty. He begged to express his delight that Baron Rothschild had taken a manly stand on this question, and that all hypocrisy in discussing it was to be got rid of. Ile trusted this House would not he the tool of the House of Lords in treating this question.—(Divide, divide.) He would support an adjournment until Monday, at twelve o'clock, though if his Hon. Friend (Mr. Anstey) persisted in dividing the House on his amendment, that the adjournment should take place until five o'clock this day, he (Mr. Reynolds) would vote with him. Amid great confusion Mr. SCOTT ultimately with drew his motion. Sir C. BURRELL proposed an amendment that the debate should be adjourned until Tuesday, at twelve. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the motion that the debate be ad journed until Monday at twelve . l9l For the amendment that it be adjourned until the evening at five 62 Majority in favour of adjourning until Monday at twelve —l29 The gallery was again cleared, and the House divided on Sir C. Burrell's motion, when there appeared— For the original motion l6B For the motion of adjournment till Tuesday Majority for the original motion The debate was consequently adjourned until Mon day, at twelve o'clock. The House then adjourned until a Quarter before Six o'clock. The House resumed at a Quarter before Six o'clock. PE lIiIONS. Mr. WYLD presented a petition from the colliers of Durham in favour 0( the Colliery Inspection Bill. General LYGON presented a petition from Corn wall against the admission of Jews to Parliament. Sir F. THESIGER presented a petition from four individuals who had been prevented from becom ing relators in a suit in Chancery, complaining of the evils and inconvenience which will arise from holding the National Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde park. The petitioners stated that it was the intention of the Commissioners of the Exhibition to erect a very large building in a portion of the park, and for that purpose they had obtained a licence from the Commissioners of Woods and Forests for about 20 acres of the moat ornamental part of the park; that it was proposed to erect a steam-engine and boiler of consi derable size, with the necessary offices and conveniences; that the Attorney-General had refused to sanction the institution of a suit in Chancery; and the petitioners prayed the House to take the matter into their consi deration, and to take such a course as should prevent a denial of justice. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition from Bir mingham against the new postal arrangements. NEW WRIT FOR DUNGANNON. A new writ was ordered for the election of a Member for tho borough of Dungannon, in place of Lord North land. PROVISION FOR THE PRINCE OF WALES. Lord J. RUSSELL brought up a Message from her Majesty, recommending her faithful Commons to grant Marlborough House to the Prince of Wales on his at taining the age of eighteen. Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that he would move the Message of her Majesty be taken into consideration oa Monday next. IRISH FRANCHISE BILL. Lord J. RUSSELL said he would now state, in com pliance with the notice which he had given, what course he intended to take with reference to the Iristi Franchise Bill. The House of Lords had made several amendments to the Bill, two of which were of considerable importance. One was the alteration of the qualification giving a vote for a county from 81. to 151., and the second rendered it not compulsory for per sons qualified to vote to register their names. Now, with respect to the first amendment, he proposed that the qualification instead of being 151. should be 121., and as to the other amendment, be proposed to disagree with their Lordships. STAMPING OF PERIODICALS. In reply to Mr. SCHOLEFIELD, Mr. C - ORNE WALL LEWIS, who was indistinctly heard, was understood to say that the Board of Stamps considered that Mr. Dickens's Household IVarrative of current events came under the designation of a news • paper. and therefore required a stamp. Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, the printers, had offered to send a special case on the subject to the Court of Exchequer, and the Board had , agreed to their proposition. THE CASE OF BA - RO - N ROTHSCHILD. In reply to Lord J. MANNERS, Lord J. RUSSELL stated, that if it should be neces sary to adjourn the debate on Monday on the motion re biting to Baron Rothschild, he should propose that it be adjourned to the Thursday following. CEYLON. Mr. BAILLIE called the attention of the House to the report of the Ceylon Committee. The Com mittee had come to the extraordinary resolution of not reporting to the House either their opinion upon the matter referred to them or the evidence which they had taken, but that they would recommend the evidence to the serious attention of the Government; that was to say, the Committee was appointed to inquire into the conduct of the Government, and they recommend the evidence to their serious consideration. He need not say that he utterly repudiated hav ing anything whatever to say to this report, which he believed to be discreditable to the Committee, and not very respectful to the House. The Committee recommended a Commission to be sent out to Ceylon. which the House .had previously decided should not be, in the event of the Government not taking some step, such as recalling the present Governor, to improve the government of the Colony. It was too late, however, at this period of the session to go fully into the matter, and he therefore gave notice that early next session he should move that the evidence be printed. THE CHURCH. IN WALES. Mr. J. WILLIAMS—It being well known that the separation of the great body of the people from their ancient Church in %Vales is caused by the want of sym pathy on the part of their English ecclesiastical rulers with their feelings, habits, and language, and that the solemn ceremony of confirming children and consecrat ing churches is still performed in language not under. stood by the people, I beg to ask the first Llrd of the Treasury whether he will as,ure the House that no clergyman shall, in future, be appointed to any see in the principality of Wales, who is not well acquainted with and able to speak, read, write, and preach in the Welsh language? Mr. NICHOLL wished, before the Noble Lord an swered that question, to ask the First Lord of the Trea sury whether he - contemplates the necessity of repealing the Act 1 and 2 Vic., c. 106, secs. 103, 104,105 ? Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in answer to the Hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Williams), had to state that some years ago it was a question with that House whether or not the House would pro pose to enact that no clergyman should be appointed to a see in Wales who was not acquainted with the Welsh language. That proposal was rejected, it being thought desirable to leave to the Crown its full discretion as to the appointment to sees in Wales. Considering that cir cumstance, and considering also the manner in which that discretion wes exercised, he did not think it right to give an assurance on the matter. With reference to the second qaestion, he considered that the present Act did make sufficient provision on the matter of the know ledge of the Welsh language being had by the parties holding official situations in Wales; and his persuasion was no further legislation was required, but if it were ha should have no hesitation in proposing a modification of it. THE IRISH FRANCHISE. Mr. DISRAELI said, with reference to the statement which had been made a short time previously on this subject, he regretted that a more conciliatory spirit had not been shown by her Majesty's Ministers, so as to afford a prospect of that measure becoming law. Ile (Mr. Disraeli) felt it his duty to state that he should oppose the alteration her Majesty's Ministers proposed to make in the Lords' amendments in th© Bill. Lord J. RUSSELL hoped the House would allow him to make the alterations he proposed. His proposal in reference to the Bill was certainly hardly liable to an observation of censure, on the ground of too great a de parture from the amendments. When he said he was ready, for the sake of obtaining the consent of the House to the Bill, to agree that an alteration which had been made from 81. to 15/. by the Lords should be modified, so as to make it 121., want of conciliation was the last charge that could be brought against him. CEYLON. Mr. lIUME wanted to know whether it was compe tent for the Ceylon Committee to make the recommen dations they did to her Majesty's Government? The question to be considered was, whether the people of Ceylon should be left until the next session in their pre sent deplorable state. 146 of them had been tried by court-martial illegally constituted —that was to say by deputed powers, tmtd martial law had been proclaimed without any necessity. Ile (Hr. Hume) complained of the atrocious conduct of Lord Torrington, of Colonel Drought, and of their subordinates. After two years of inquiry the Committee bad been unable to find out how the proclamations enforcing martial law had been issued, or by whom they were sent to Colonel Drought. Lord Grey had declined to appear before the Committee, on the groncd that he had no further information to give than what was laid before them. A course of proceed ing insulting to the Committee, evasive of the truth, and all for what? For the purpose of sheltering those mer ciless men. The SPEAKER said the Hon. Gentleman appeared to be referring to the evidence taken before the Com mittee, which was not reported to the House. Mr. HUME said he wa2 alluding to the correspon dence that was before the House, as well as to informa tion that had been furnished him by individuals, as he had a right to do. But the fact was the Government was afraid of the evidence, which was of so damaging and so injurious a character to Lord Torrington, that no court-martial which could be constituted would allow him, up.n hearing it, to hold any longer her Majesty's commission. Was it not a miserable thing that the Go vernment should cover him? If the character of England was to be thrown into the scale in which all the atrocious acts of governors were weighed, then would the country '1 It be for ever degraded. He (Nlr. Hume) w as _ to allow her Majesty's subjects to remain an boar long*? er under a gove rn s r o f t h a t d e scription than was absolute necessary. 'The sentences of the courts -martial had not. moreover, been confirmed by t e i t h e r Lord Torringt9n, Colonel Drought, or General Smolt; and though nei res woes of these courts bad been delegate d first to Genf ra Smelt, and then to Colonel Drought, and then to inferior efficere, the sentences were carried into effect witbout a artni. moment's delay, and the poor creatures who h ad be e? , condemned were shot next morning. 'The courts-co teat perpetrated the a trocities at Cephalonia under the sanction of Sir H. Ward were, a t all °e regularly constitut e d, b u t those which perpetrated th e f atrocities committed at Ceylon under the san tieri - e Lord Torrington were perfectly illegal, the court befog' rarely composed of more than three members. ( de Hume), therefore, protested against the whole prooee... Tugs of the Government in the matter. Not only wire the miserable inhabitants of Ceylon shot, but they 'ter! also plundered; and it was stated that tho proclamatilsi of outlawry and martial law were issued by CaPt i l e i d Wateon to certain favoured individuals , wh° tvimthose themselves of the opportunity to rob the houses of bt, whom they arrested, or who had sought safety in argon. and sold the property afterwards by public 11 0 °,, 10 There was a portion of the evidence that was sougeb of be stifled. 11e (Me. flume) demanded, in the Dw? t e te 40,00 a petitioners before the House, , aud that all these circumstances should take place guilty perpetrators should not be screened by, the 15 , ° „ that an inquirY ° be vernmeat, and that the House should not sancnon by 1,14. silence Lerd Grey's approval of these atrocious procee°_,, legs- Ile was deeply grieved to be obliged to considered himself so strongly on the subject; but be co- ° de w that no language was too strong for the atrocities tt. had taken place in Ceylon. H trusted, therefore, 13...5..P the Noble Lord in sett-defence would now product! .1.0 e: evidence suppressed by the majority of the CoestaitLe and so vindicate his own character, as well as the hu nt L nity and dit of the ouse. rd J. cre RUSSELL H said tbat the House would agr ee . with him, that it was quite impossible to e nter to discussion of the affairs of Ceylon when the C ommit" had not reported the evidence. To discuss them °P ° I ! the statements of the Hon. Member for Montrose ivos: altogether out of the question, and he hoped n o on tee would take for granted any of the statements which W i bad not borne out by evidence. All that the Commitaies done was to call the serious attention of her Majesty's Government to the subject, and to a dvise the aaPe_ i , a ess merit of a Commission of Inquiry into the facts, n r, ni rd other steps were taken to settle the matter. face J. Russell) could only state that the serious attentione. her Majesty's Government had been given to the l! .. ", 0 j( et, and that the strictest inquiry should be w ade I n the conduct of all persons concerned in the eleP d t e e re a Ceylon. He had no doubt the Committee con Of the they had sufficient reason to we the suppression .00, evidence ; but he had reason to know that some poC u i of that evidence had still appeared in Ceylon. n° a loe , purloined from some Hon. Member of the Comin t _, in He hoped more care would be taken in that respac!he the future, but he could not assent to the request ot Hon. Member. Mr. GLADSTONE agreed with the Noble Lora wa s the question could not then be discussed; but he ex , not at all surprised, he would confess, at thee str e f, g a ai pressions of the Hon. Member for Montrose. ,",ard true that the Committee had decided, as the Noble 11 stated, against reporting the evidence; bu t it wto l o ge true that only the very day before they bad bY a 6 0 0 majority come to an opposite decision, with the excePotid, of the: portion of it which was personal or 006(1°,100, In his opinion the Hon. Member for Montrose or the no e aora o ; ef Member for Inverness would be doing their duty in taking the first opportunity next the Goue raising the question, both as to the conduct of en y at vernor of Ceylon, and the conduct of the Governtnldoot home; and last, but not least in importance, the e° of the Committee. rec_o t 7 l ; Mr. J. S. WORTLEY said the:Committee mended the evidence to the serious consid erfLtill:cfe to Government, but they did not report tha t evi e jolted the House. How could that evidence be consm ee bere of to the Government, except through those In ein i g was the Government who were on the C o mmittee ? te e ha d m m it difficult to decide. In his opinion the Co as well as s most e taken a most unwarrantable course , inconsistent one. The inquiry, however , had Prevande ct the d existence of a state of things in Ceylon which don the immediate attention of the Government. t he C his Mr. HAWES said he was a memb er or "" a ',, detl mittee, and in that capacity he thought i t to be "no time to e _A to submit the evidence laid before it from to the Colonial Sec •etary of State. The C also furnished the Government with a copy o f the deuce. m oat Mr. W. PATTEN submitted that this wes t ! gore irregular mode of proceeding on the part ef tli ot ise • Member, and quite contrary to the rules of the , He put it to the chair if it was not informal aim n" proper. 'f th; ()inmate eniSio. The SPEAKER was understood to say tu a cola Committee reported the evidence to the Hous e litestate then be communicated. The Committee neig" he t it that the evidence ought not to be reported, bet tm hos lit should be referred to her Majesty's G o vernmen t l;tteer was for the House to refer it, and not the C° ll3-1 who had not the power to do so the elves kcal Mr. BRIGHT had never seen frseport. so P e r r k ridiculous, ao utterly lame, and so entirely caw ° i„eolt its serious character, as that of the Committee. two ing at the rumours that prevailed during the in t he years, he considered that it would be the dul l . ° ilc°' House to force the Committee to report the The Committee had been sitting two ears; anu in - g pop f e r ri iyio t .o h ndb l od H pfor o iote u hvg s eeedat gravest rys a at s yth e ehi e seo r tg t p a nu i o n abrtl ui w cdra h oet e iie t oe h gnx e_ i r ons fot i ett t dhh Y ie w o eg a r. l ediena;rhe's.7do Sae; oittbi" as regardand be transactions that had taken place in c e y lon; he trusted that the House would therefore comp e' el t duction of the evidence taken before the C ommitte On the S The subjectPEAKERC ga then droppein d. uttin P g t h e question that he should leave the chair, RETIRED NAVAL OFFICERS. f the Sir G. FECHELL rose to call the attentiOn Also House to the case of the retired rear-admirals, al)„,drai' the judicial appointments of vice-admiral and rea f r re tire; real of the United Kingdom. In 1845 a Plan e t it b e " meat had been proposed by the Admiralty, be ot her demerit of not being compulsory. In 184 6 ° on 01 plancivil was issued, which threatened the deprive', from appointments in the case of non-retiremela e service. The Hon. and Gallant Gentlectiortr cited several instances, among them that of si r 'Of Inrewathediciblyheheeioengsiedoemrepdelnleadvatlooffigciveers tilipad not leOna pointments and to retire to make way tii°rl4:lr/51ii: .44 - 1 concluded by moving„ for a return of all the ci vil is pointments held by flag officers, distinguishiog active service. TV ° Sir F. BARING could not agree to the Ti turn' hole' was no rule which prevented a naval officer 1 1.0 00 0 ing a civil appointment. There were certain regoroar with respect to the receipt of salary, but no ru l , e a iainicti ting to a prohibition against naval offieers IL% 41 A civil appointment. No officer holding : ' o p Of il. appointment had been compelled to give ' C I' "et ire i to accept a retiring allowance . The privilege Of he-a went had been offered to certain officers, and they %- gladly accepted the offer, but it was not c0n31 )° ,'4 3 , sea them to do so. The cases referred to by the be lOW .Gallant Gentleman had not happened while office. dm After a few words from Mr. HUME a n It Dumas, which were inaudible in the gallery. oa t, ter e Sir J. DUKE referred to the case of Sir a -7 o fri complained had been subjected. If there was a rule in lie d Sir H. Hart, that rule oug ht to have been aPP" se e similar cas. ten' Admiral BERKELEY explained the cire lli ge l er - a tie° underwwmhainecthionS refusediwraH. Hart took the retireme nt which " s then negatived. The _ REPORT OF MR. G. A'BECICETI% 001 Mr. HENLEY rose to call the attention of te n. tbe e teethe 3 part of the report of G. A'Beckett, .t 1.4004,141 to relates to Reading, in Berkshire, contained in t ,r, l ea a— a e the poor-law board on laws of settlement s°,'„,n-eot, of the poor, presented to both Houses of Part" — had 176 ca 11 command of her Majesty in the yearlBso.. stated by Mr. A'Beckett ' in his report tnae . g O V eedi existed in Berkshire and other places, of 0 -I , i n te e small houses, and thus driving the occupan t° et des ing poor-house. This statement had caused "g en re I of surprise in his locality, and much correspoaoooo existedorr e s n i n d e t n h c e e H e taken wo place on the subject. tha u t ld the eo w nr o r to let him take an opportunitY G ot °O4 that . if any erreorewished. Geffepeoll Hato and corrected. A 0 0er m b a e tte l r a , id it tolg thbtebe t lain whether PALMER said he had endeavoure7vrre wiek w ether the statements in the report of "-hood bad as far as his own immediate neighbont'on toaei concthat e r n e d , were correct, and he had not !eel Oe n ; co ob j e c they had any real foundation . He ha d cated with a gentleman in Oxfordshire on the t e sta that I'P be and the reply was that the report, as far as ,Th g t was concerned, was at variance with facts. It aid 1 101 satisfactoiy if the Right Hon. Gentleman w°- these papers to be placed on the table. to i° i btoo" ees Mr. BAINES would be sorry if any state any /Art y or, reports shoUld be found to do injustice t° 81 ; l ascl ase With reference to the matters in question, he, re que l ibe municated with Mr. A'Beckett, and he h e au n . s ibine him to go down to reading and veriff+ 1 e .,,P,, 3 ! be A u th" statements that had been made. He had .`"Thirstneo the result to the Hon. Member, which result 0 % 0 01 t he original statements; and he now begged e t,esh Hon. Member that he was quite ready to papers he had on the subjeCt." vo A t ilt / THE EXHIBITION IN HYDE...* ,0 0. . Colonel SIBTHORP rose to draw the atte l3ti r to el . House to the refusal of the Attorney-o°3°j: to ~.0 9 0 certain documents necessary to enable • P art r ; - to r es- ses e for an injunction against the Commission() , el them from erecting any building in I l Y de-Pell" c°ll°rlf (Messrs. Kelly, Rola P an Cairns) glad to find that the o intone of three ernipeen°o- fort e „ l 'a were i° with hie own, and that the case had been full,' aro w itle very distinguished member of the other llotinseofie view of inducing the first law officer of the ' r eee t he consider his decision. Amongst the reasons g,; s eas ' O . vote t of the House of Commons. Now Hon. and Learned Gentleman for that deci sle vn i S.) il e o (Cole f the So liee s o e f rtained very little respect for the opinior! be 0 03 0 f q Commons, and he should be very serrY t part of his property depended on their de .i vv "" j ar ea! b P ere l'eeling frequently step; edein and interferon aver s a e • and with the rights and liberties of the people, sioo h ip was a majority at the beck and call of trete t i all whose whistle had the same effect 111 3 ° ° n eoe° Do si sound of the huntsman's horn on the pa t ion b e re' - -(Laughter.) Ile was borne out in the si n b e e e a formed on this case by the petition which bad oatO sented,.namely, that the Commissioners of L ae o % Forests had no right whatever to eglne rt s bial‘ Pi e of England to anything that they 1111 g".