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THE EXPRESS EDITIO N. SUN OFFICE. EIGHT o'CLoca. POSTSCRIPTUM TO SPO}t TING NOTE No. 28. Hesse Romberg having run second to The Ban this day for the Metropo!itan Flanthcap must be taken as superior to the Cutler. Blyzikr-mgc-r, or in fact anything for the Newmarket Handier—, ala price is sto 1. The Knight of Arenel is in t".,1 - c‘ jo , . the Port Stakes. Sir G. Hawley's Teddington iw a force for the Derby, as is also Lord BODP;i3 Durclee, the latter quoted at thirties. 6 P.Y. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF BANK OF EN C. LAND. (From this night's Ga:t,tte.) An keeovint, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32 , ter the Week ending on Saturd,...y, the 2: ;1 day of March, 1851. 168IIE DEPARTM ENT. Notes issued ........ 97,556,410 4Q7,556,410 Government debt •• 11,015,100 Other securities . • 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 13,523,035 Silver bullion • • • • • • 33,375 1 4 27,556,410 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the id day of April, ittsl B;NSING DE?4ZTMZN T. Proprietors 'capital • • 14,553,000 Government INTIM- Rest • •• • • • 3,022,72 G ties (in:lading Dead Public deposits (in- I Weight Annuity) 1 4,145,2 50 eluding Exchequer, ) ther securities •• .. 14,063,963 Commissioners of votes . 8 ' 594,275 National Debt, Sav- 6eldan . d .. sll;;;Co . l ll. •-• 649 ' 769 Inge-banks, and Di vidend aecosints) • . 8,999,821 ther deposits 9,226,234 $ even day and other Bills ••••• • • • •• . • 1,051,416 £37.493,247 A 37,493,257 uARF,IIALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 3d Of April. 1851 THE LONDON GAZETTE, (THIS IvENING.) LORD CHAMBERLAIN', OFFICE, APRIL 4, 1851. Notice is hereby given. that her ~lajesty will hold Drawing- Rooms, at st. James's -Palace, on the following days, at two o'clock :—Tuesday, 6th. May next; Thursday, 15th May neat; and on Saturday, 31st May next, to celebrate her Majesty's irth-day. N.B. The Kniguts of the several Orders are to appear in their Collars, at the Drawing Room, on the 31st of May next. LOLD CHAMBERLAINS OF.e ICE, APRIL 4. Notice is hereby given, that her --a esty will hold a !e --wee at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday, the 18th of June ne st, at two o'clock DOWNING•STREEI, APRIL 4. The Queen has ben ple-, , ed to app.int Edward Murray, Esq., to be Marshal of t.l:e Island of Trinidad. WHITEHALL, APRIL 2. . . The Queen has been pleased t) direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, appointing George James Turner, Esq , one of her Maje‘ts's Couri, , el. to be :L Vice-Chancellor, in the place of the Right Hon. Sir James Wi,lram, Knt., resigned. CROWN 014T10E, Arial, 3. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIA- VENT. Borough of Devonport—Sir John Romilly, Knight, Master or Keeper of the Rolls and Records in her Majesty's High Court of Chancery. Town of Southampton—Sir Aley:. - Irder James Edmund Cockburn, of Wackehurst-place, in tLe county of Sussex, Knight, her Majesty's AttornPy- Ueneral. A mut, 4 City of Oxford—William Page IVccd, Eq., her Majesty's Solicitor-General. WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 4. . _ Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards Cornet Thomas John Mitchell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Black, who retites, April 4. Dr.,eion Guards—Cornet Ellis Brooke Cunliffe to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vivo ~:cEvoy, who retires, April 4. 1.111 Light D.agoims—Assisraiit-burgeon James Macbeth. from the 10th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice John Edward Stephens, who resigns, Apre 4. Dragoebs Lientenen: Arthur Tremayre to be , by Purchase, vir- Stewart, who retires; Cornet Peter Valettine Purcell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tremavne, April 4. Coldstream Regiment of F o ot-Guards—Battalion-Surgeon Wiliam Thomas Christopher Robinson, to be Surgeon- Major, vice Et ward Greatrex, who retires upon half• pay ; Assistant-Surgem James Mourn, Ni.D., to be Bat talian-Surgeon, vice Rubinson; Frederick Wildbore, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice .Lord, April 4. 7th Foot—Ensign Richard Lyons Otway Pearson, from the 95th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Stainforth, who retires, April 4. 9th Foot—Lieutenant Peter Fenamin blouse, from half pay 80th Foot, to ba Lientena , t, vice Morton, appointed Paymaster Sin Foot; Thomas Rice Hamilton, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice it sae. who retires; April 4. 10th Fon; -"John Julius Evans Jacob. Gent., to be Assist ant-Surgeon, vice Macbeth, appointed to the 10th Light Dragoons, April 4. 13th Foot—Assistant Staff Surgeon Richard Robert Dowse, to be Surgeon, vice John Robertson, M.D., who retires upon half-pay, April 4. 25th Foot— Ensi, , n AlexaneJ r Strange to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Northey. who retires, April 4. 32d Foot—Lieuten .nt Henr. emyss to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice M, who retires; Ensign John Medley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wemys, April 4. 5, Foot—Lieutenant Oiarles Chile, from the 55th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Edward John Chambers, who retires upon half-pay of Ceylon Rifle Regiment, April 4. 51st Foot Ensign and Adjutant Stewart Alexander Cleeve to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pegus, who re tires, April 4. 55th Foot—Lieutenant George Edward Lawes Chartres Bissett, from the 56th Foot, to tio, Lieutenant, vice Godden, who exchanges ; Lieutenant J(111 Warren, from the 66th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Clifle, appointed to the 50th Foot, April 4. 56th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Gordon Cumming, from half-pay Ceylon' Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Warren, appointed to the 55th 1. 7 .,0t, April 4; Lieutenant Frederick Mares Godden, from the 55th Foot, to be Lieu. tenant, vice Bissett, who exchanges, April 4. 65th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Robert McCoy to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Bazalget.'.e, hose promotion, by pur chase, has been cancelled, Dec. 13. 1850 ; Ensign William Frederick Thomas Marshall to be Lieutenant, without pur chase, vice Barton, appointed to the 4th Foot, Feb. 7 ; Gen tleman Cadet Frederick Stanstield ilerries, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vie-, Ala shall, April 4. 73d Foot— Ensign Albert Henry Godfrey to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bower, who retires, April 4. 76th Foot—Ensign Andrew Gammell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Barton, who retires; Charles Thomas Caldecott, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Grammell, April 4. 77th Foot—Lieutenant William \Ventworth Grant Dilke to be adjutant, vice 'TV eston, wha resigns the Adjutancy only, April 4. 91st Foot—Ensign and Adjutant William George Conway Gordon to have the rank of Lieutenant, Dec. 30, 1850; En sign Robert Borthwick to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Melvin, killed in action, Dec. 31, 1850; Gentlemaa Cadet He”ry Auburey Bond, from the Royal Military Col lege, to be Ensign, vice Gordon, appointed Adjutant, April 4 ; Gentleman Cadet Francis Gord ,, n Bibbert, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Borthwick, April b. 2d Wes India Regiment—Quarermaster Patrick Carroll, from the oiFth Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice McHugh, cashiered by the sentence of a General court Martial, April 4. 3d West India Regiment— Ensign .krancis Brown Dixon to be Lieutenent, without purctlase, vice Cumming, deceased, March 26. Royal Newfoundland Companies Lieutenant William Jenkins to be Captain, wiiliout I,:rAise, vice Chambers, de ceased; Ensign Charles Henry to be Lieutenant, vice Jenkins, January 24. 1104IPITAL STA* F.--john Hoffman. Gent., to be Assistant- Surgeon to the iorces, vice D0 , ,,..9e, }_romoted in the 13th Foot, April 4. Erratum in t c Goz,iee 7. 4th Foot—For Ensign James Barton, from the 65th Regiment, to be Lieutenant. wi, hoot purchase. Read Lieu tenant James Barton, front the 6..-,th Regiment, to be Lieute nant' without purchase, &c. BIZMORANDUM.—The Christian names of Ensign Young, of the 22d Foot, are "Thomas Newton." ADMIRALTY, APRIL 2. The following promoti n l::;} this day been made, onee: . K.H. on the death of Rear - Admiral John Toup NiFolaa, c -CB' K.H. ; Captain Sir John Hill to be hear-Admiral of the Blue. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire. John Barker, Esq. , to be Deputy-Lieutena& of the cou n ty of Stafford, March 25. The King's Own Regiment of Staffordshire ltilitia— The Hon. Charles Wrottesley to be Lieutenant, vice Haig, re signed, March 25. The Queens Own Royal Regiment of StafStaffordshireYeo many Cavalry --Major the Honourable William Beget to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Peel, deceased ; Captain. Ure Hono u rable Gilbert Claetwynd Talbot to be Major, vice Be got, promoted; Lie utenant the Hon. Charles John Talbot commonly called Viscount Ingestrie, to be Captain, vicei e nant, Tal bot, Promot e d ; Cornet Henry Begot Lane to be L vice Gieb c , rne , resigned ; Cornet 3i, icon Edward Buller to be Lieutenant, vice Arkwright, resigned; Charles Corser, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice 1 rane. re-:fined; Joseph Chal linor, Gent, to be Cornet, vice Chai!i:-,,r, resigned, March 25. Commission Regiment by rn the Lord - Li eutenant of Somersetshire. Somerset Regiment of Yeotntry Cavalry—Richard Wes Bare, Gent to be coronet vice Cape!, promoted, March 19. Commission by the n o . Berwick, Haddingtonrd-Lieu „ ~Linlith Lord-Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire. of Milila gow Est bid Peeblesshire Re gimeatto be Lieutenant, ' — "L'avtd Ainslie, Y- , gcle , vice Francis Charteris baviclion,l;'eb. 12. BANKRUPTCY Richard James Johnson, , .. ,' ED supLiz,LD • BANKRUPT S. IVoolwich. George Henry Bradberry and - ' S° ehants, Great Tower-street, Cite, George Rice Le, oW mer ee; httutt half-past one, and May 16, at ..,, to eumnder April 16, at ruptcy. Stansfeld, official e,.,,Tte, at the Court of Bank bats, Buckingham-street, Strian.. and Cunning- Leonard Wild Lloyd, builder, Goldh k ..„.,,, New- I road, Shepherd's-bush, April 16, at one, and---`',“--' 16, at at the Court of Bankruptcy. s ' t - ec i may ae signee; Abrahams, Lincoln's Inn-fields. ' 4°4, official as- John Gentry, smith, Bocking, Essex, April 1 May 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, two, and official assignee ; Stevens and Satchel!, Q ueer L cY ' Graham wine merchant, Newcaatleenea 3 Ida. arm, , Chea p_ John Benson Browne, Lyme, Staffordshire, April 17, and May 8, at twelve under_ Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official aas "! ga t the Birmirgham ; Kough, Shrewsbur3 ; Motteram, Knight, en e li Erqmet, Birmingham. - Robert Moate, innkeeper, 'West Stockwith, Nottingham, April 19 and May 10, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Sheffield; Marratt. ~. oucaster. Howell Reynolds, innkeeper, Aberaman, Glamorganshire. April 23 and May 10, at eleven, at the ristlDistrict Court. Acraman , eili: ial assignee, Bris:di J B ames o , M D erthyr ; Short and Strickland, Bristol William Andrews, commission merchant, Liverpool, April 14 and May 12. et Aeven, at the Lively() 1 District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liver pool ' • W i W ar ns, Liverpool. Charles Roope, wine merchant, Liverpool. April 11 and May 15, at eleven, at the Liverpool LA,: iet Court. Turner, official assignee, Live. pool ; _Fetcher ;. Hull, Liverpool. Robert. Andrews Taylor. Lt.- , m te..n- and colour manufac tue:-, I , tin for , Purl, :to. :\ ~L 'I , I :o ti , \ eive, and May 9, at owe, at the Nec- castle- ...p. t,-Tyne District Court. Baker, efficial nssigne, Newcastle , upet: Tvne ; Forster, Newcastle- 1 'n -Tyne; Bolding and Pope, Feiichurch-street. T H'J SUN, and, for his part, notwithstanding that he enter tained strong opinions on the subject, he was convinced it would be better to leave this matter in the hands in which the Legislature had placed it.—(Hear, hear.) And looking at t he p resent state of affairs in the Church, nothing should induce him to take any step that would lead to produce a disruption amongst its clergy. Mr. NEWDEGATE fully participated in the course intimated by the Noble Lord opposite. He wished, however, to know when the Noble Lord proposed to bring on the second reading of the Bill for the admission of Jews, as it was his inten -1 tion to move that it be read a second time that day six 1 months. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he should bring it on at the earliest possible period after the dispoeal of the financial question. Mr. FREWIN wished to know whether it was the intention to bring in any Bill on the subject of seques trations or sinecures in the Church. Lord JOHN RUSSELL was understood to reply in the negative. Mr. COWAN, in the absence of the Lord-Advocate i.om circumstances which he was sure they all de- plored, wished to ask the Right Hon. the Secretary at War, whether Government intended to propose any measure for the abolition of tests in the Scotch Univei- sities ? Mr. FOX MULE regretted that ho could not give a direct answer to the Hon. Member, but yet he was at the same time anxious that no step should be taken which had not reference to the general prosperity of the country. For this reason he believed that the compact entered into by the Scottish Church, although a true test, was fallacious. By the resolution which appeared upon the books of the House, it was evident that this was felt to be a momentous question. ACCOMMODATION IN WORKHOUSES (IRE LAND). _ _ After a few words from Mr. SCULLY, Sir W. SOMERVILLE said that be could give no answer to the question of the Hon. Member, for the re turns of the last five months had not been made upon it, but as seen as he could get them they should be laid on the table of the House. The guardians had done everything in their power to increase the accommodation, but they had found it very difficult to do so. The sanatory condition of the work house was exceedingly bad, but the Poor Law Commis sioners had directed their attention to the subject with the view of inducing the guardians to find a remedy. Mr. REYNOLDS rose amidst loud cries of " Oh, oh, and time." When the noise had subsided, he went to say, that when the Hon. Baronet (Sir B. Hall) was speaking on a comparatively insignificant subject a few minutes ago, the House heard him in perfect silence.—(" Oh ") In consequence of the noise in the House, scarcely any of the statements of the Right Hon. Gentlemen (Sir W. Somerville) were heard on that side of the House. It was not his intention to address the House at any considerable length—(Re peated cries of " Oh, on")—but he respectfully claimed the right to speak on a question which invelved the life and death of his fellow-countrymen and country women. In Kilrush Union eighty persons were allowed to die per week for want of food, and they were indebted to the really benevolent and charitable clergyman of the Established Church, the Rev. Mr. Osborne, for bringing to light the cruel carnage which was permitted to go on day by day in that workhouse. What was the tact? That a workhouse which was built to accommodate 4,465 persons was now filled to suffocation, and to overflowing, there being 5,005 inmates within its walls; and what did the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary for Ireland say? That there were 214 more persons in the building than it could hold.—(Loud laughter.) He was happy to perceive that on a grave and melancholy sub ject like this Hon. Gentlemen could be merry.— (Oh!) Let him not be understood as meaning that Hon. Members really wished to treat lightly such a subject. He considered if these deaths were caused by the neglect of Government they were accessories to the crime of murder, sod as such accountable bef ore God, he wished be could say before man also. In his opinion the St cretary fur Ireland had too many irons in the fire, it would be meet), better if he were to resign his post of Commisiener of the Poor Law Board to some man who would take coach or railroad, and have a personal in spe ctiun of the state of affairs himself. Sir LUCIUS O'BRIEN bore testimony that the facts stated by the Honourable . Member were perfectly true. The boar:l of guardians of Kilrush were sub j cted to an etiormous pressure each day, and as the Go vernment advances had been stopped, the union was thrown on its own resources, which were totally unable to support the burden. Sir DE LACEY EVANS expressed a hope that the Metropolitan Buildings Act would not be brought on at a late hour of the night. Sir G. GREY said it certainly would not. The motion for the adjournment of the House until Monday was then agreed to. The House then went into Committee of Ways and Means, Mr. BERNAL in the chair. THE BUDGET. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then rose and said—Sir, several weeks have now elapsed since I first put into your hands the resolution to which I am about to call the attention of the Committee.— (Hear, hear.) Since that time I believe the attention of Hon. Gentlemen has been directed to topics perhaps of a more interesting or exciting character, but certainly not of a more importance than that to which I am now about to advert. —(Hear, hear.) Time has also been afforded to me for reconsidering the proposal which I then made to the House, and of preparing any defence which I might have to make for them.—(Hear, hear.) We have also had the advantage of bearing from a Noble Lord at the head of a great party the course of financial policy which he was prepared to pursue. He is prepared to reduce as far as possible the income-tax at once, with a view to its ultimate extin guishment as sooon as circumstances will allow, and he is prepared to makeup the deficiency which that proceeding would create by the imposition of a duty upon the im portation of foreign corn.—(Hear.) Now, the proposal which I have submitted, and which I shall submit to the House, have for their object the promotion of the comfort and the health of the labouring portion of the ccmmunity and further to reduce the duties upon articles of import either of consumption or raw materials.—(Cheers.) That is the policy which we feel it to be our duty to pursue, and these two courses are now on trial before the House and the country and it is for the House and the country to decide which will be the most beneficial course to be adopted for the welfare of this great empire.—(Cheers.) With regard to my own proposal I can assure those Honourable Gentlemen who have been impa tient for this night, that it has been from no wish of mine that it has been so long delayed* They will readily believe that I have been anxious to correct some of the many misapprehensions that have prevailed on the subject of my proposal, but believing as I do that the principles upon which these proposals were found to be sound, and those proposals themselves to be honest, fair, and just. I have been most anxious for the opportunity which this might afford me to explain what has been done, and to vindicate the course which I feel it to be my duty to pursue.—(Hear, hear.) I feel I shall not in vain ask fur the indulgence of the House because it has never been refused to any one who has been the object of so much attack as myself, and I have therefore no hesitation in asking for the kind indulgence of the House whitat I vindicate my opinion and justify my conduct. He ad mitted at once mat his proposals bad not been re ceived with satisfaction by the country or by the agricultural party, who were suffering from what must be necessarily incident at all times to a change in a pro tective system, and which he believed could alone be removed, not by an unjust reduction of taxation in their behalf on the part of the Legislature, but by their own individual exertions.—(Hear, hear.) Time had been given for the re-consideration of that question, and the decision at which they had arrived upon it.—(Hear, hear.) He would not refer to the steps which had been taken with regard to the settlement of this question, for he felt that it was a matter which ought to be brought before the House. They should recollect that in the time of Lord Mel bourne's Government ;here was a deficiency of 5,000,000/. but the case was now different. Since the Government had disposed of the emancipation affair a new aspect had come over them, and that while a deficiency was the evil complained of, a redundancy was now the evil. The deficieney had :for merly been upwards of 5,000,0001., but since lit 46 the rates had been gradually altering, so that in fact the whole of the tables had been changed, and they had now a surplus of 2,000,000/.—(Loud cheers.) An Hon. Member had proposed to reduce the national expenses to about 2,000,0001., but he thought that the better plan would be to keep faith with the national creditor—(Loud cheers),—for if they did not he was assured that the country would feel it to be necessary—(Hear, hear)—to s upport• it. What was the consequence? Why that advantage would be gained b y the ad p tion of a principle w hich be did not wish to adv ocate, but which might be this plan which had been proposed it that y a saving of 400 1 000/. would be effected. lc iw l n n assis t 'erdeeasuu maintainingph apoaensa thet B wepuhnl credit of the country by meansad ac complished great things by of /the sinking fund, however fallacious the principles were on which it was founded. In my time tha t fund has been entirely changed, and the only: available sinking fund had relieved of a portion of our burdens we should not let those who foll ow us be placed at a greater d isadvantag e, but tage, but should tak e means to give them the same relief in prospective which we have enjoyed. I am the more serious on t hi s point as doctrines have been promulgated within the last six months, which, if carri e d i nto pract i ce, wou ld have a very diffe rent result. It was incorrect to suppose that if there sota year. Fi ve-sixths T hat w o o f were any failure in the payment of public dividends, the upper or opulent classes would sustain the chief in jury.re- ceipt of dividends received sums of nns persona e dt r h s o o s n lha s orr w g depended ko h e o fenpnedrh, oo].dvesr t on bisu a t t oh the , o s w e funds—they ohrop hiae wst iedd t o h c w e t e o:m nc et eu i p hr en i r e d i : st el d gr i utlhdegipveerssoomnsewinhdoexwnoeofrte in the er fro T m h on the understanding that they would receive classregular f p r e: o n:4l h wouldo dividends . snffie t i h o o n s e of dividends, th e H ous House.—(Hear .) i w e h a o r solicited i jesi nt oh teeapseoennsroseinbi anon- p ayment ad e ty r om e prreeonctot t e he noo f t cile, the complaints respecting taxation coming from those who admit that recent legislation has materially ini pr, vr , d the well-being of all classes, and that the country richer and in a n- tt.ir: position to meet the burdens which are imposed on it. It the complaint had come from those who contend that distress bad fallen on the agricultural classes by that legislation, I might PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from returns made in the week ending April 1 1850, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain : From the British possessions in America 265. 10 1. per cwt From the Mauritius ... 275. bid. - _ From the East Indies ... 265. „ Average price of the three foregoing de scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as above, and exclusive of duty ... . 265. 71d. By authority of Parliament, HENRI BICKN ELL, Clerk of the Grocers' CompaY• Grocers'-hall, April 4. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING•) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack shortly before Five o'clock. The Earl of ALBEMARLIC took the oaths and his seat. PETITIONS. The Archbishop of YORK presented petitions from places in Yorkshire against Papal aggression. The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented similar petitions from various parts of Scotland. The Earl of GLENGALL presented a petition from Carrick -upon-Suer, praying their Lordships not to sanc tion any penal measure which would outrage the feelings of the Roman Catholics. The Earl of ENNISKILLEN presented petitions f ro m different parts of Ireland against Papal aggression. MILLS AND FACTORIES (IRELAND). On the motion of the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, the Mill and Factories (Ireland) Bill was read a third time, and ordered to be committed. Lord MOUNTCASHELL presented several petitions from various parts of Somersetshire and War wickshire against Papal aggression. The Noble Lord also presented petitions from Monaghan, Down, and other Irish counties, praying that any measures that might be adopted in this country to meet that aggression might be extended to Ireland. The Noble Lord also presented a petition from the grand jury of the county of Wicklow against the abolition of the office of Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition in favour of the Patents Bill from various parties interested in the trade and commerce of the country. COUNTY COURTS. Lord REDESDALE moved the adoption of the re port on the County Courts further Extension Bill. After a few words from Lord ABINGER and Lord BROUGHAM the report was received, and the Bill was ordered to be re-committed on Tuesday. COMMITTAL OF PRISONERS FOR LARCENY. Lord BERNERS moved, pursuant to notice, for a return of the number of prisoners committed for larceny in England Wales from 1849 to 1851.—Agreed to. The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from the Metropolitan Board of Health, stating that the greatest neglect prevailed on the part of parents in having their children vaccinated, and praying the House to adopt some stringent measures on the subject. On the motion of Lord COLCHESTER, certain re turns were ordered with respect to the importation of meal and flour. After the presentation of several petitions against Papal Ageression, their Lordships adjourned, shortly after Six o'clock, to Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. THE NEW SOLICITOR-GENERAL. Mr. PAGE WOOD, the new Solicitor-General, took the oaths and his seat on his re-election for the city of Oxford. The Hon. and L, arned Gentleman was intro- duc . ed by Lord Duncan and Sir James Duke. Be was rery loudly cbeered. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Haleswo:Ill, B. ccles,kand lladdiscoe Railway Bill was read a third time. PETITION'S. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY presonted a petition from ninety-one deputy corn meters, in the city of London, against schedule 1) of the Inci.me-tax Act. Several pttitions were presented against Papal ag- gr- Mr. CURISTOPHER presented petitions from cattle-dealers, in Lincolnshire, against the continuance of Smithfield-market ; also a petition from Peter borough, against the paper duty. Captain EGERTON presented petitions from Crewe and other places to the same effect. Mr. REYNOLDS presented two petitions from places in Ireland against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Mr. C. BRUCE presented a petition from a place in Elgin against the Bill for altering ,the parochial system of education in Scotland. Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from Liverpoo' against the excise and customs' duties and in favour of direct taxation. Lord MAHON presented a petition from Hertford in favour of the Bill for the removal of Smithfield market. Mr. ADAIR presented a petition from Cambridge against the paper duty. Mr. BATESON presented a petition from London derry praying tor Parliamentary aid towards scriptural schools in Ireland. Lord R. GROSVENOR presented a petition from Clerkenwell, against the window duty. Sir T. D. ACLAND presented petitions from places in Devonshire, against the paper-duty. HOLYHEAD HARBOUR _ _ Mr. REYNOLDS gave notice that, on an early day after the Easter recess, he should move for a Select Committee to inquire into the policy of continuing an expenditure of public money in an attempt to ccnstruct a harbour of refuge at Holyhead. PUSEYISM IN THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. Sir B. HALL said he would take the opportunity of putting a question to the Noble Lord at the head of the Government. He (Sir B. Hall) understood that the Right Rev. Prelate the Bishop of London had stated in another place, that in consequence of the extreme pressure of public business, it was not his intention to bring in any measure for the correction of " clerks" in certain cases, but that he intended to bring in again the Bill which was rejected last session. Before he put the question he would ask the Noble Lord if he had seen a letter in the Ti*aesnewspaper of this morning. It appeared from that letter that a Noble Lord, who was formerly a Member of this House, desired to have his child baptized.—(Cries of " Oh," and order.) He took it to be baptised, and the clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Wagnel, of Brighton, requested it to be immersed— (Order, order)—he was quite in order, and should insist on putting the question.—(Hear.) What he stated was that the Noble Lord desired to lhave the child baptised, that the clergyman insisted on an immersion, and the mother of the child said it was in too delicate a state of health. Mr. B. COCHRANE rose to order. He wished to know whether the Hon. Baronet was at liberty to make a statement.—(Hear.) The SPEAKER—I understood the Hon. Baronet began his question by stating a fact.—(Hear.) Sir BENJAMIN HALL said he was merely stating a fact on which he founded his question. The clergyman refused to baptize the child without immersion, notwithstanding the statement of the father, mother, and nurse, that it would be dan gerous to the existence of the child to do so if it were so baptized. The clergyman refused to baptise the child in any other way, and the Noble Lord to whom he referred said the child was thus refused admission into the Protestant Church, except at the risk of its life, that risk having been declared by a competent per son. Now he wished to ask whether during the last six months the Noble Lord had bad any communication with the archbishops or bishops with reference to the continuance of certain forms which had been introduced into the service of the Church by certain clergymen, and whether ,it was their intention to take any effectual steps for the purpose of suppressing such practices which the Bishop of London in his recent c harge had denounced as histrionic performances.— (Hear, hear.) Could the Noble Lord, in other words, tell' them whether they intended to take any steps to suppress Puseyism 7—(Lawghter.)l Sir R. INGLIS moved that the House at its rising do adjourn until Monday next, in order, by the motion, to have the opportunity of protesting against this House be ing made the arena of any religious dis cussion, because it contained in it men of all q denominations, on any quite agreed with suject connected with the Church. who were not therefore fitted for legisla tion Sir B. HALL the Hon. Bart. that this House was not the fittest place fcr a polemical dis cussion, but what other arena had they for making known their sentiments oa these subjects? There might be times and circumstances Under which these matters might be brought under discussion, because there was no other place for them. In his opinion the prelates of t te h r e , C an h d ur t c h h ey had mig b h ee t n de w p an en t d in u g p i o n n tihteitrhduties hen in thisthe mat ter, -mo tion of the Hon. Member for Cockermouth came on a full inquiry would take place. Lord J. RUSSELL was sorry that the Hon. Baronet had thought it necessary to bring this question forward. with regard regretted the statements which h a d b een madeth regard to what had taken pl ace w i t h respect to the sacred rite of baptism, for when th e y h a d no other au thority than a statement in a newsp a p er , no statementon the other side ought to have been made as to any misun derstanding which might have taken place. His Hon. Friend had given notice to him of a question, which, considering the circumstances which had taken place, would perhaps better have been deferred. Now, with respect to the other matter. He mentioned, some time ago, that he had spoken to the Archbishop of Canterbury upon this subject, and since then he had had no communication of any importance with his Grace. He had thought it far better to leave the matter in the hands of the Archbishops and Bishops rather than to be constantly interfering, and asking them about what was the nature of their proceedings, or what they had done or intended to do. A short time ago, however, an twenty• four of the bishops, was laid w hich those bishops declared them e h introduction of usages that selves against t ad be d fo r r e e ss, the sigpnuebdlic, by in were inconsistent with the former practices of th e Church. Besides tha t an address bad been presented to the Crown by his Right Honourable Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, signed by 320,000, Parliam , nt, and ---many Memb ers of both Houses of Majesty b a d commanded his Right incl u di ng communicating t h e Hon i eurable _r her Friend to write to the archbishops, substance of the address to thew, and directi ng them to discountenance p rac tices that were inconsi stent with the anc i ent l aw s and usages of the Chu,eh ; adding, h o wever, at the some time that her Majesty placed full con fidence in their dil•icression and lad -- gre4t He had no doubt that, the touts of two or three df.ys, he s houid be able e inat Jetct r bewre the House. He had only to state further, that he thought it quite undesirable to bring discussion of this nature before the Rouse of Commons, LONDON FRIDAY EVENING APRIL 4, 1851 hare understood the reasons of their complaints The Hon. ' Member for Montrose told us a few night. ago that 100,000,000/. had been put into the pockets of the people in the price of food alone, and the Noble Lord the Member for Stamford had said that, in his opinion, 60,000,000/. had been taken out of the pockets of the agriculturists. Ido not consider it necessary to go into the precise amount of the benefit which has been conferred upon the people of this country, but there is no doubt that to that amount are men richer and better able to pay the taxes; but I affirm it to be a matter of absolute demonstration that the pressure of taxation is less than it was ten years ago. I am not afraid of such opinions being urged in this Houge, because Hon. Mem bers knew better; but I call upon them to come forward to withstand delusions which is their consequences must be so fatal to the national welfare. I really beg par don of the House for troubling them so long upon this subject, but I speak warmly because I feel warmly the danger of such a course as has been recommended to me by those who tell me that I ought not to retain a margin, but ought to repeal taxes, even if I should produce a deficiency in the revenue. It is time that such persons who respected national faith should stand forward boldly in defence of its obligations. It might be important to do so ; nothing is so distasteful as to tell peopleithat they were not in such a state of prosperity as they thought themselveig, but I feel it my duty to make thus early a stand against such doctrines. Since I last addressed the House I have had the oppor tunity of considering the statement which I then made, but I have had no reason to alter the statement which I made as to the probable amount of income and ex - penditure. I might add somewhat to the recepts of the Customs, and if lam to pay attention to the prophecies of the Hon. Member for Southwark and of the great leader of the party opposite, I must not look forward to a year of such prosperity; and with regard to the items of expenditure that have already received the sanction of the House—(lronical cheers)—l do not mean that as an argument for not altering them, but when we laid them before the House they were such as we thought necessary for the government of the country. The probable amount of the surplus I still think to be about 1,892,0001., and I have been told that, even with this amount, I ought to have done something to produce an effect. I confess, when I sat down to consider on the proposal which I should sub mit to the House. I did not sit down with the desire of producing an effect, but to consider what taxes pressed heaviest on the industry of the country, and what did the greatest mischief, and those taxes I proposed to repeal. It must not be forgotten that the great protective duties have already been repealed. The Government of Sir R. Peel bad reduced the duties on timber and repealed that on corn—the present Government bad repealed the na vigation laws and the duties on sugar, and there is no rea son, therefore, for the country to complain on this point. Sir, there is, it is true, one large duty which I have been reproached for not having abolished. That is the duty on tea.—(Hear.) But let me remind the House of this, that though that is a high duty, it is not a pro tective duty, and whatever supplies may come from Chins, there; are nolcompeting countries from whence supplies might bring down the price of that article.— (Hear, hear.) I have on former occasions expressed my opinion that it would be a most desir able thing to reduce the duty on tea, yet I think there are other duties which have a prior claim for reduction. If, for instance, I had reduced the duty on tea, how could I have refused t 3 reduce the duty on an article that comes into serious competition with it, namely, that upon malt?—(Hear, hear.) In the next place, I think there are other duties that have a prior claim to our consideration; but, perhaps, I may be permitted here to remark to Gentlemen on both sides of the House who call for large re ductions of taxation, that no reduction can be ex pected so long as they seek to abolish the duties imposed on minor articles. We have been called upon to sacrifice 120,000/. upon the attorneys' certificate duty, 150,000/. upon advertisements, 360,000/. upon newspaper stamps, and 100,0001 upon Irish leases, and if we are to accede to these demands, which have reference to minor matters of taxation, how is it pos sible for me or any other person occupying my positionento ex tiost to a g apply laairiye end comprehensivediepesable surplus thatmuacunyohap pof taxes?—(Cheers.) I have been told that the proposal I last made to the House was based upon no principle, but I insist that it is founded upon the principle which I have always advocated in this House, and that is that the proposal was most likely to prove beneficial to the great mass of the people.— (Hear, hear.) I have neither turned to the right nor she loft to see whether I could benefit any particular class, but in all my commercial or financial measures the principle that in variably guided me has been that which pointed to the interest and welfare of the great body of the work ing and labouring population of this country.—(Cheers.) They are not fully represented in this House, and therefore they are more the peculiar objects of the care and solicitude of a Government which has been instituted for the benefit of the many and not the few.—(Cheers.) It was for their sake that I al ways advocated the repeal of the duties on corn, and the reduction of duties upon foreign cattle and foreign provi sions, and it was also for their sake that I myself proposed a reduction of the duties on sugar; it was for their sake too that I proposed a reduction of the duties on raw mate rials, and not merely for the purpose of putting more profits into the pockets of the manufacturer, or more wealth into the purse of the mer chant ; but it •was because I believed that a reduction of the duties on raw materials would tend considerably to increase the employment to be giren to the labourer.—(Hear, hear.) We have given them cheap food and cheap clothing, and now there remains one other matter of vital importance to them, which it is our duty at once to deal with, and that is the improvement of their dwel lings.—(Cheers.) Hon. Gentlemen will remember the reports that were made last year on the crowded and wretched state of the dwellings of the poor in large towns, and it was with the view of intro ducing some improvement in that state of things that be last year proposed to repeal the duty on bricks. —(Oh, oh, and cheers.) This may be a matter of in difference to Honourable Gentleman opposite, but it was none to the poor none to the poor man, and since we have cheapened his food, and cheapened his clothes, and improved his dwelling, it remains for us to adopt measures to give him the free enjoyment of light and air. —(Loud cheers.) I am not prepared to send an army of excisemen into every corner of the land, but I am prepared to reduce the duty on all imported articles.—(Hear, hear.) I also bold that the reduction of the duty on timber is a wise and sound proposition.—(Hear, hear.) Last year we did all we could to do away with the objectionable system of drawbacks on the duty on timber used in ships, but the prin ciple does not seem to suit all parties. The Government had reduced the duties on timber as far as they could, and those who understood the subject knew well that it would be unwise to go further.—(Hear.) I believe also that the reduction on protective duties is the best course that could be pursued both to the consumer and seller.—(Hear, hear.) I believe also that the reduction of the duty on foreign sugar has been most beneficial, and as a proof of that I may state that when the Government reduced the duty in 1845, the increased consumption was beyond all precedent.—(Cheers.) The proposal I made with respect to the reduction of the outy on clover and grass seeds has not met with much favour and support— (Hear, hear)—and, therefore, I will not, though I believe it to be most beneficial, press is further.—(Hear, hear.) If, however, the proposal I made when I last addressed the House en the financial affairs of the country are not considered to be productive of benefit, then I must confess that I stand condemned; but if they are of benefit, then I call upon the House to support and uphold them.—(Hear, hear.) The next matter of which he desired to speak was the window duty.—(Hear, hear.) Now, by the abolition of that duty there would be a loss to the revenue of I,Bs6,oool—(Hear, hear)—and according to the plan of the Hon. Member, the only saving would be about 40,0001.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) It should be re collected Out he had a margin to allow for the Kafir car.—(Hear, hear.) It might be all very well for Honourable Members to cheer, but he felt it to be a duty to protect those who had gone out from this country under the understanding diet they were to be protected from all the enemies to which they were ex posed.—(Hear, hear.) It was not the number of the population which ought to regulate their votes, but the necessities of the people.—(Hear, hear.) He had no objection to that grand great outcry which had been raised with respect to the tax on air and light.—(Hear, hear.) To this he would very readily respond. He quite agreed with the Honourable Mem ber in the fact that nothing could contribute more to the final progress of society than the admission of more light and more air into the dwelling of the poor than that which they now enjoyed—(Hear, hear.) That, therefore, was the case to be considered, and the reply which he had to make was that the new tax which he proposed to impose on domestic dwellings would pro duce about 1,800,0001. per annum., or about two-thirds of that which was now realized by the window duties. —(Hear, hear.) So that the result was that the only saving that would be obtained by taking the plan of the Hon. Member opposite would be, even if successful, 9,0001. per annum.—(Hear, hear.) He admitted that the small duties to which he had referred were of small benefit, and that they might very beneficially to the country be remitted .—(Hear.) But the course which he intended to pursue was the justest that could be pursued. I propose to take as low a rate on houses as I consis tently can, in order to get the revenue which it is indis pensible I should have. Leaving out of consideration all reference to the number of windows and openings, and getting rid of every objection on sanitary grounds, and offering the greatest possible relief to all parties, I propose to take a uniform rate of 9d. on dwelling-houses and 6d. on shops.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen will remember that I proposed before, that on all new dwelling-houses a duty of ls. in the pound should be levied, and that a lower rate should be levied on dwelling-house in connexion with farms, and dwelling-houses a portion of which was used as a shop. I have thought it fair to continue this lower rate as regards shops. I propose to maintain the self same distinction viz., an uniform rate on all houses, old and new, of 9d. in the pound on the annual value, and on all houses a portion of which is a shop and on houses on farms, a lower rate, viz., 6d. in the pound. I propose to retain the distinction of exempting all houses from the tax under the value of 20/.—(Cheers.) The result of my proposal will, therefore, be to get rid of all reference whatsoever to windows in any shape— ( Elear)—to reduce the number of houses now paying taxes frem aheut 500000 to 400,000, to give a lynefit which did not exist under th • old ;rouse-t-,..x to :,hop; and otoes in connexion with farms, to give altogether relief to the extent of I,lso,oool.—(Cheers.) The amount I pro pose to maintain is 720,000/., instead of 11,8564 as I be- fore proposed.—(Cheers.) 1 admit that flu we are some cases in which this tax will fall unequally; a certain class of houses, but no general legislative messy cre can pro perly meet those cases. Much will depend on. the nature of the districts and streets in which the houses are situated—those in fashionable neighbourhoods paying the most. Old-fashioned houses of country gentlemen, the houses of clergymen in the country and farm -houses will be considerably relieved. Farm-houses, the rent of which is between 2001. and 3001., will be totally ex . empted, as farm-houses of that rent will not be assessed at a greater value than 201. a year. I now propose to show the House examples of the extent of reliet which will be afforded under these arrangements. In Marylebone a reduction will take place in the amount of tax paid of from 92,0001. to 30,0001., and if I go to streets in Regent-street the present tax amounts to 2,2001.—it will amount in future to 1.900/. In Finsbury-square, which, if I may say i.t without offence, is not quite so fashionable a neighbourhood, the tax will be reduced from 1,725/. to 2501. In Wrestbourne square, a more fashionable part, there will be an actual increase of 10/.—(Laughter.) I have obtained re turns from six of the largest country houses in the southern counties, and I find that where they pay 2,0401. they will now pay 5671. In Liverpool the tax will be red aced from 1,960/. to 950/. In Manchester, instead of 30,0001. it will only be 15,000/. ; in Hlirmingham 8,4001. instead of 18,400/. ; and in the City which my Noble Friend represents, the red action will be from 23,0001. to 7,0001. I do not believe that even my Hon. Friend the Member for Finsbury can say that this will be a tax which will be paid by the people in the sense in which he uses the word; but I believe it will be conceded that I take the tax from off the people and have it on property. The. advocates of direct taxation upon property . rasa scarcely find fault with this proposal. 3,100,0001. of pro perty will be exempt from taxation, and the whole tax will be paid by 400,000 of the most val ;table houses. in the country.—(Hear.) I scarcely think there is any need of quoting any authorities for the rn icessity of a tax of this sort, but I may say that Adam Sm iOa and John Miles entirely agree in recommending a tax N v hich is paid by houses. The loss on this tax then I estimat e to be about 1,136,000/. With regard to the timber duties, I still adhere to my proposition of reducing one-half ; and the same with coffee; and on these two the loss will be 40,0001., so that on the whole the loss will be 1,536,0001 That will leave a surplus—l am ashamed, though, to call it surplus, so we will say a margin of 356,0001. for the ensuing year. The loss on the :window- tax will be 1,400,000/. The estimated loss on the reduction of the duty on coffee and timber 400,0001., mt thing a total reduction of 1,536,0001., which would letree a margin for the ensuing year of 356,0901.,, but for the present year we have to add ba if of the existing window-tax, which it is proposed to surrender because it is now due, and will be receivable in the July quarter, and will amount to 568,0001. Therefore this year there will be 924,0001. to meet any unforeseen expenditure.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) I can not say that I should be justified in proposing any further reduction than that which I have now men tioned, because we cannot lose sight of the hostilities in the Cape, the cost of which is estimated at 400,0001. I hope these hostilities will soon be put an end to, but still the House will see the expediency of our being provided for the worst.—(Hear, hear.) Now, sir, these are the proposals which I have to submit to the House, in the event of their agreeing to my proposal to renew the income-tax for a limited time. I must shortly advert to the proposal to be made by my Right Honourable Friend opposite. That is the first step to the policy which Lord Stanley has announced. I think that the Right Honourable Gentleman has brought forward this motion in the fairest possible manner, and I think the Right Honourable Gentleman will do nothing and propose nothing that is inconsistent with our national credit, but if the tax is to be reduced, of course it will be impossible to make so large a reduction at once. The only other difference between my Right Honourable Friend and myself is this. I think his policy is usury. I agree with him that the tax was first imposed fur a temporary purpose— (Cheers)—and that temporary purpose was for meeting a deficiency which has gone by, but in 1845 the tax renewed for a very different purpose, and that purpose was for enabling this House to make im provements in our financial legislation to remove impolitic restrictions, to reduce the price of articles of consumption, and to remove these imposts which checked the industry of the country. I will admit further, that to a great extent these measures have been carried out, but there. still remains to be accomplished those changes which he had already introduced to the House. Sir, I admit, further, that any reduction of the measure taxi ought to he followed by its extinction. —(Hear, hear.) Nothing is so impolitic as small income tax, and I do not think the present amount is a heavy one- I think the man who has an income of 5,0001.1 a year, which is de rived either from rand or a profession, cannot complain of paying a 150/.tax for the security of his proper ty or the security with which he carries on his profession. From the" returns it appeared that the question was wrapped up in a very small compass. By the re turns made up to April sth, 1843-4, it appeared that the national income received from the Customs, assessed taxes, and other imposts, was 44,517,000/. From the same returns, but made up to April 5 of last year it appeared that although the taxes remitted amounted to upwards of 7,000.000/., yet the national income had been equal to what it had been before the income-tax was imposed.—(Hear, hear.) If this was the case, and if the population of the country was in as good a position now as they were a few years ago, there was ae evident reason why this tax should be continued.—(Hear, hear.) He did not therefore feel any indisposition to propose a continued of the income-tax, and when he recollected that this country had been preserved from all the agitations by which other countries had been affected, and especially when he recollected that England had been preserved from those revolutions by which Europe had been gene rally affected he felt assured that they would have no objection to the renewal of the tax. The Right Hon. Baronet sat down amidst loud cheers. Mr. HERRIES rose, and was (LIFT SPRAYING) He had no reason to alter the estimates of income and expenditure which he had formerly laid before them. The probable amount of surplus, therefore, he would take at 1,892,0001., and in proposing to deal with the surplus he did not study what would be most effective, but what would be most ust, which would give the greatest relief He had been reproached for not having reduced the duty on tea, but, although that was a high duty, it was not a protective duty, and if he had reduced that duty, be would, no doubt, have been calld upon to reduce the duty on the article which competed with tea, viz., malt. If gentlemen wished for any large reduction, they must not perpetually demand reductions upon minor articles. such as advertisements, newspaper stamps, and Irish spirits. If the surplus was to be always expended in the reduction of some minor tax no great reductions could ever take place It was for the sake of the labouring classes that he had advocated the repeal of the duties on food and on raw materials, and that for the purpose of improving their dwellings that he bad last year carried the repeal of the duty on bricks—(lronical cheers)—end it was for their sakes that this year he proposed the repeal of the duty on timber. They were crowded in cities into ill-ventilated and ill-lighted apartments, and it was to improve the sanitary condition of the labouring poor that he proposed to repeal the window duties. and they would well close their career as Ministers if their last act should be to secure to the la- bouring population the free use of the light and air of Heaven. The most objtctionable duties that would be imposed were protective duties— such were the duties on coffee and timber—he proposed to remove them. Great attempts had been made by the adulteration of coffee, he did not propose to meet that complaint by sending an army of excisemen into the grocers' shops, bat he proposed to meet it by reducing the duty, and consequently the price of the genuine article. He had, therefore, selected coffee and timber as haying superior claims for a reduc tion of duty. The result of the reduction on foreign sugar had been most satisfactory, which had led to an increase of consumption, bringing with it an increase of revenue of 1,100,000/. The proposition for the reduction of the duty on seeds, and for defray ing the cost of lunatic asylums, had not been very favourably received by those for whose benefit he had intended them, and therefore he should not press them.—(Hear, hear.) He was aware that a loud demand had been made for the unconditional re peal of the window duty—that duty brought in 1,856,0001., and the whole surplus was 1,892,0001., and therefore he would only have a margin of 40.0001. to meet the expenses of the Kafir war. But, independently of that, he'sbould not be act ing justly if he gave to house property the whole benefit of the relief of taxation accruing from the surplus. The representations of all the deputations to him on the subject was to be relieved from the unfairness of the assessment, and to the obstruction offered to the circulation of air and light. Had he proposed an ad valorem tax on houses, he would have proposed a measure so different in prin ciple from the existing one, that he would have exposed himself to reproach, therefore he had made that proposal by which he secured to all,parties a considerable reduction. He admitted that the fairest mode was to propose an uniform rate upon all new houses, but, although the gentlemen of Marylebone complained that they were not put on the tooting of new houses, their corn p aints were more loud than just. Under the present system they paid 90,000/. If they bad been placed on the principle of new houses, they would have paid 71,0001., and under his proposed scheme they would pay 60,000/. But he admitted that the principl e of uniform rating of houses was just, and therefore he would adopt it, and would propose to lay au uniform rate of 9d. in the pound upon dwelling-houses, and 6d. in the pound on houses containing shops, victualling houses, or houses occupied by persons in the occupation of land. Lie proposed to retain the exemption from taxation of all houses of an annual value of less than 20/., which would give a relief of taxation to the amount of 1,120,000/. At present the income-tax was paid by no farms under 300/, but the window-tax was paid by farms under 2001, and therefore his proposal would operate as a total relief to the farmer from taxation who occupied a farm under 300/. because he believed that uo farm-house attached to an .state under 3001. a year paid more than 201. a year rent. This reduction of taxation would be a great re lief to all the populous portions of the metropolis; but in Beigrave-square there would be an actual increase in the assessment ef 10Z, but gentlemen residing there would save the increase in the reduction which would take place in their country houses, In all the populous parts of the capital, ai d in all the provincial towns and cities, the relief would be very great. There were 3,500,000 houses in this coun try, under his proposition 3,100,000 would be en tirely exempt from taxation, and the tax would be levied upon 400,000 of the most valuable. He believed that the House Tax Bill he pr oposed was one of the first that could be levied, and he expected from this tax 1,136,000/. He adhered to his original proposals with re gard to the reduction of the coffee and timber duties, by which he should lose 1,536,0002, and those reductions would leave him a permanent man agar of 356,0001., and for the present year of 924,000/. in consequence of the window and other duties which would be paid during the present year up to July. He felt he should not be justified in proposing any further reductions, looking to the state of affairs at the Cape. The expense for six months, then, was estimated at 400,000 L. He hoped the war would soon be put an end to, but they should be prepared for the worst, and should , while they had a surplus, retain funds in hand to meet con tingencies. These were the prop osals he had to submit to the House if they should consent to renew the income-tax for a time. He would briefly allude to the proposition of the Right Esmourabln Gentleman opposite which had been brought Sorward in the fairest possible manner, but he thought that the policy which had been pursued for the last ten. years was good. It had been imposed in 1842 to meet a deficiency, but the had been renewed in 1845 for a definite purpose, viz , to relieve industry from the bu rden of taxatien; and if that policy was to be carried out they ought not to propose the repeal of that tax. Any material reduction of this ta ix should be followed by its abolition. There were obj actions to the inquisi torial nature of this tax, but these objections ap plied as strongly to a tax of Id. as to the present tax. He believed that if we pursued our• present line of policy the revenue would so increase that we should be enabled to set about reducing the income-tax. The ordinary revenue last year I vas precisely the same as it had been in 1843-4, notwithstanding the re peal of 7,000,000/. of taxation in the Interval, and therefore he hoped the House would con tinue that line of policy which has so tim proved the condition of our population. He proposed to relieve from taxation the labouring classes of the community, the Right Honourable) Gentleman pro posed to confine his relieve from taxation to that portion of the community which has adequate means of subsistence, and for that he proposed to deprive the labouring mon of the advantage of cheap food by imposing a duty on corn. Be attached more impor tance politically than commercially to the mainte nance of the present system of commercial policy. while we maintained that we should have our fellow-subjects contented, we could laugh at the apprehensions of popular disturbances which ap psared to have taken possession of the minds of some Honourable Gentlemen, and we. should have been saved from those disturbunces which had convulsed the rest of Europe. Mr. Hennas considered the announcement of this Budget as an announcement to the House and to the country that the property tax was to be perpetual. (LEFT SPEAIINO-) MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, April 4.) ' SUGAR.- To- day there were sellers of West India at a de cline on last Fridays terms of 6d to is per cwt. All parties operate with caution and the sales are confined to 184 hhds, &c., including 50 hhds Jamaica which sold at 36s 6d to 36s for ord to good brown, 48 hhds .3 trcs Demerara good mid yellow 38s 6d to 395, mid brown and low yellow 35s to 36s 6d. per cwt. REFINED.—To-day Refined Sugar was purchased with caution for home consumption, but brown Lumps of low quality are not offered under 47s per cwt. Crushed Sugar is dull of sale. MOLASSES.—The market for all sorts has a quiet appear ance, and previous rates are supported with difficulty. West India of low to fine quality can be obtained at 14s to 16s 6cl, Bengal and Mauritius 12s to 13s, Cuba and Porto Rico 14s to 15 . 06 d per cwt. There is a fair cornsumption of Molasses. Honey, Jamaica at from 40s to 60s for lk )w to fine. MAURITIUS.—This •afternoon there was no public sale of Mauritius Sugar, and privately little was done at termer rates there are free sellers. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the public sales of Madras Sugar went off flatlp at rather lower rates, of 8,320 bags not more than half sold, mid to fine grainy irellow at 39s to 41s low to good soft yellow 29s to 345, brown ditto 27s eel to 295. Bengal was held for full rates, and 2,585 bags were only in part sold, low and mid white Benares at3Bs to 39s 6d, and fine grainy whith 48s to 48s 6d per cwt. FOZEIGN.—To-day there was no public sale, and the bu siness done privately was small, with sellers at rather lo wer rates; only 400 chts brown Bahia sold at 37s per cwt. COFFEE.—To -day there was little or no inqu ry in the home or export demand for any sort of Coffee and none was offered at public sale ; holders generally were unwilling to submit to any further decline. The nearest value of Native Ceylon is 42s for parcels. Cocos. —Although Foreign is offered at a further reduc tion there are few buyers. At auction 1 , 0 83 bag s sto 2 Guayaquil 7 s ' refilled from bulk in ship's hold were taken in at 25s for dark grey. There is a more plenti ful , supply of Trinidad. At auction of 512 bags a small part only good red at 51s to 545, grey 48s and dtunyg was disposed of; ed 36s 6d to 46 s per cwt. The value of Grenada is 42s to. 46s a for sound quality. TEA.—To-day there was a good (hull doing in the lower sorts of black and green Tea at full rat• ' e. SPIRITs.— For Jamaica R um only s malls purchases have been made by shippers or home dealers. The value of 30 to 32 per cent over proof, of low quality, is 2s 5d to 2s 7d ; 32 to 34 over mid 2s 8d to 2s 10d, better sort 34 to 38 over 3s to 3s sd, and fine to superior 3s 6d to ;4s 3d. Le , ..ward Island ciin be obtained at Is 7d to Is 7id proof, and very few buyers are to be met with. East India has been dealt in with caution at is 5d to is 6d; and there are fur arrivals. Only limited sales have been made in Demerara at 2s 3d to 2s 6d for 30 to 40 per cent over proof. Sales in Brandy continue upon a limited scale ; Cognac best brads '' t flit vintage of 1 850 i s offered at 4s 4(.1 to 4s 6ii, 1849 ditto 4 ,1 6d to 4s 8(1, 1848 ditto 4s 9d to 49 1111, and inferior sorts to 4s per gallon. Some arrivals havil taken place this week. For Geneva the market is dull ; 'Kort sort at ls 7d to is 7d; and fine for home use at is 3d 0 p 2s per gallon. • SUMMARY. The House having resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose to explain the alterations which he proposed to make in the Budget. Several weeks had elapsed since he had pro posed the resolution to which he was about to call the attention of the House, and time had been afforded for the consideration of his propositions, and they had also heard the propositions of the Noble Lord the leader of the great party opposite, who proposed to reduce the income-tax, and to re-impoe an import duty on corn. His own proposition was to continue the course on which they bad entered, of reducing import duties and taxes on industry, and those two great prin ciples were before the country, and the country was to choose. He had been most anxious for an op portunity of explaining and vindicating his opinions, which had been misapprehended. He admitted that his proposal had not been received with satisfaction. He was not surprised that Gentlemen connected with the agricultural interest should have been dissatisfied with but with regard to other parties he was surprised that the reception which those propc•sals had met with from them ; but it was a matter of less surprise than regret. There had been an expectation of a larger surplus, and gentlemen were sorry to find their expectations dis appointed.—(Hear, hear.) He had never sanctioned such sanguine expectations, and therefore he saw not how proposing an honest Budget to the House, he could have satisfied such expectations. He could not have met a tithe of the demands for reduction made upon him. They were bound in this financial measure to look beyond the present year, and to resist the first attempt at entering on a wrong course. The first ob jection made to his Budget was, that he proposed to de vote some portion of the surplus to the liquidation of the National Debt. Lord MELBOURNE'S Government had been displaced for incurring an annual deficiency which led to a loan of 5,000,0001. In 1846 a surplus occurred, and in 1847 and 1848 the revenue was less by 2,000,000/. than in the former year, and yet there was no deficiency of ordinary revenue; and in 1848 he proposed that we should pay further taxes to defray the expenditure, but the House would not consent to it. In such an empire as ours unforeseen occurrences would happen, which would render expen diture suddenly necessary, and that they ought always to retain a surplus in hand. Why, within a week atter he had made his last statement, a new Kafir war had broken out, and within the last week a demand had been made by the East India Company for 400,0001., un liquidated balance relating to the Chinese expedi tion. If we were always to borrow and never to pay, but to devote the whole surplus to the reduction of taxation, how was the credit of the country to be main tained? However fallacious might be the principle of the sinking fund, the existence of that fund main tained the public credit, and now the surplus stood in the place of the sinking fund, and therefore must be maintained. Considering the sentiments which had on former occasions been expressed by the Hon. Member for Montrose, he was surprised at his opposi tion to this proposal. He felt moat seriously on this point. He protested against the delusion that any failure in payment of the dividends would injure only the rich. Five-sixths of the persons receiving dividends re• ceived an amount not exceeding 501. per annum, and the sole dependence of these persons was upon the maintenance of the public faith. Those persons were widows, orphans, and artizsns, who ought to be the es pecial objects of their solicitude. The results of recent legislation had been to improve the condition of the masses of the country, to make the community at large the better able to bear the burden of taxation. and the pressure of taxation upon them was less than it was ten years ago. He spoke warmly upon this brench of the subject because he felt warmly, and he challenged th , )i ,, who N:' , 2:3 RV , ' , C 10 0:1' lEsiCOPCilr.bn trtith to stand boldly forward, and he called upon mein whu agreed with him to do their duty, and withstand the propagation of opinions so dishonest.—(Hear.) IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 3. INQUIRY INTO THE MANAGEMENT AND TERRITORIES OF THE EAsr INDIA COM PANY. ANSTEY (in continuation)—Mr. Grant, in in• troducing the Bill, declared that the political existence of the natives would be acknowledged. Now Parliament had a right to demand in what way the recognition 131 the Bill of the existence of 100,000,000 of men had been acknowledged by those to whom the trust was consigned; and the House ought not to hesitate to grant an inquiti on the spot, conducted by men above the suspiciott of partiality. By the Bill of 1833, the removal of certain grievances was supposed to be provided for. The House was bound to ascertain whether those grievances had been redressed. He asserted that there was not one grievance in existence at the time which did not now exist in all its original deformity. Taker for instance, the question of monopoly. When Mr. Buckingham brought the question of the land revenue. under the notice of Parliamant in the form of a motioer Mr. Grant said, "that is rather a matter fit for the eon' sideration of the Governor-General and his legislative council, and I trust he will be able, with the accession 01 , power we propose to give him, satisfactorily to dispose o f the general question. The particular subject of the ryotwar rent is a subject for the Law Commission." Oa the following day Mr. Grant said, "I am happy to be able to assure the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Wilbrabatn) that the Government, both at home and in India, hate, agreed that the taxes on opium and salt shall be removed. Nov up to this moment the Governor-General had nest legislated on the land tenant question—nothing had beep' done by the Law Commission relative to the ryotwar rent, and the monopolies still existed. At the present moment the House was only in possession of the ell' deuce of those whose interest it was to stifle inspirit and endeavour to obtain the prolongation of their power, fur no one imagined the East India Company an angelic', hierarchy, or the Board of Control a community 0 ' arcbangels.—(A laugh.) He would now draw the attention of the House to a remarkable document , ' which would show that the natives of India were' keenly alive as to their grievances. On the 120 1 of February, 184.0, an address, signed by no 1 901 than 100,000 of the natives in Madras and its vicinitii was presented to the then Governor of that Presidencit in which they said: " We are the people of this country' inheriting this land for thousands of generations; fecon our industry its wealth is supplied; by our arms it if defended from foreign foes; by our loyal obedience t a the established Government its peace and its safety ar e maintained." Now, he would ask the House if it yril e just to ignore the existence of such a people? Not 0 111 1 did the grievances complained of in 1833 still exist, bay , the people were in a worse condition than they were O f that time. He would not trouble the House with any , the evidence adduced before the Select Committee to quire into the growth of cotton in India, but would ea' fine himself to the language of the report, which bore 00 the face of it every mark of compromise. That reporti which was unanimously adopted by the Committees c g which the Honourable Member for Honiton (Sie J. 11 ; Hogg) was a member, thus describes the condition of t'P' natives of India now under British rule:—" The vet low and abject condition of the cultivators of the s the absence of capital, and the extent of the Governors', demand for rent or revenue, circumstances which 1g etr brought prominently under our notice, rendered it r i ,. 11 1 cessary for your Committee to enter at considers b y length into an inquiry into the system of land sag d i went, and to take the evidence of several officers of ' O O Indian Government on the subject. It appears-o,i, the testimony of almost every witness, that the Cop `!,, tion of the cultivating population of India is one of treme poverty; and this is stated to be the case in efel l ', part of the country to which the evidence with regard cotton cultivation specially refers." This was the CO l d dirion of the people who had enjoyed the blessings ..0 1 British rule, under guarantees imposed by the Bri ny Parliament in 1833, for a period of seventeen yes' The Committee spoke of the extent of the Governin demand for revenue. Now how was the revenue of In.? 1, made up? Of direct taxes, indirect taxes, monopoblir and wholesale confiscations. The servants of the el; puny welt to India under the pretence of delivering 1 - t/ people from the tyranny of their Mahommedan and Ddis af ratta conquerors,,but according to the unanimous testiM o ; of all the witnesses examined, and the documents prod* before every Committee, the company in every. .. 4 7 11 g had improved even upon the maximum exactly: t o that existed under either the Mahommedan or Mahrs'i rule, for they never claimed the direct sovereigs iii i of the soil of India. Mr. Carnac Brown bet o l asked to define his notion of a native cultivator of bi l l in India, said, " to me he has always appeared to person whose whole province has been to raise re1e 13 ,,,1t fur the East India Company." To raise this one art7 h l of revenue—the rent laid upon the land occupied by 7 0 natives—nine tenths of them were sold up every e [ t y unless it should please the collectors to shows l " mercy. These parties had the power to imprison psi in default; but Mr. Williamson, who was for a P. time connected with the presidency of Bombaye%ut " the power of imprisonment has, in moat cases, int into disuetude, because if the insolvent is in prisQ o o must be fed." The company must feed him, but II company did not choose to undergo that expenee• ehi l appeared from the report of the Committee of 1813 "ro , the power of constraint and sale was a much more / 4 0, atious and oppressive power, and much more unpoPlot than the power to imprison. Notwithstanding Ib,/ enormous exactions, the net revenue never amounte t o l 20,000,0001., although, under the comp ara ti ve l y m ild equal system which existed in th e wors t t i me of t I VI former conquerors, 13,000,0001. were easily ann o l,4 raised. The revenue derived from land was in no case h li than 45 per cent. on th e re t urn . Th e assessment on 11"0"ti this exaction was m a d e , was a one - s id e d asse ssunli founded, perhaps, on some data in the archives of the a 4 3.0; pany, which exi s t e d l ong b e f ore th e id ea o f l ow prlirgi and on this data they had proceeded to calculate 10 value of the land without consulting the natives. 0 districts where the assessment was permanent, the f e j e sons who are subject to it never get it altered or redo of and on the other hand, in districts where the assessoloo is annual, the most exorbitant levies were raised, and t y services of the collector were valued in proportion by sums which be succeeded in extorting from the i 5114 .01 tents. In estimating the amount of the collection a value of the crops for .the year was always takes ; 0 0 consideration, and the smallest possible pittanpe which life could be supported was left to the wrat° population. But these were not the only grievana ° ol which the native of India had to complain. He also Poi a house-tax and a trade-tax; and as an instance o f manner in which the latter tax operated, it migh .l o op stated that a carpenter paid twice the value of the,, t he to which he used for licence to carry on his trade. .i - fro o was also all through India a tax upon water drawo„olo wells, an article especially needed in the warm or i t/ of India, where it was used by the husbandmen 1 1 4 0 e cultivation of their land. And in addition to all tl i f taxes and confiscations, and indirect taxes levied 0 1) 00: pits, and, until a recent period, upon exports also', 00. natives had further to endure monopolies of some ai great necessaries of life, which the East India Coel sc ri retained in their own hands, and which, by a just r e c ipe' bution of Providence, were gradually, but surely, re f; ing the revenue which those monopolies were origwoll intended to enhance, besides contributing more, ' " more every day to the misery of the people. '•, 4 0 , monopolies were those of salt, opi um t o b acc o, bees tumeric, and other articles. With regard to the 0 , 1° ,00 poly of salt, he need no t rem i n d th e House that sa l t 0' an article of prime necessity to a rice-consuming 1 3 :y !emu like that of India. Now, it could be demonst i. :o' that the price of salt imported into India could not sibly exceed one shilling a bushel on the quays of 5 0 of or Bombay. But, by the internal laws of the col° o ri salt was made a contraband article, and the natives e / 1 0, forbidden to import it, or to make it f or thens e ,o either on the coast or in the interior. This proho/ 1 „, so was enforced by tremendous p ena lti es , i n regar"te which it would be sufficient to mention one provisiell oo f cognised by the courts of law. By thi s regulation , 0 native bringing salt water f rom th e sea, an d subjectillt to evaporation for the purpose of, extracting the tto was guilty of a violation of the monopoly with reor - 4 0° salt, and he might be conveyed before a collectort; was also a magistrate, and, upon conviction, migir d e imprisoned and kept to hard labour for a term 0 I;0/ months, besides being obliged to pay a fi ne of '-ote hundreds of rupees if he was considered able to 0 , charge it. Now, what compensation did the 9 0 11 pany make in return for this monopoly? They certain manufactories of salt, one in particular iD Suuderbund, a district which, under European rule, 0 ,";0 become a waste of sand and jungle, flooded by the We of the Ganges in the wet season, and at all times fr B , o d, by tigers. In this spot was the principal manufs ° '„ of salt, where the company natives, who were bound by tenure to this servia e l ; compelled a certain troor work in the manufactory. These natives, living , A l isl climate too pestilential to admit of a European rea"od were continually swept awayb y in it, were carried off in hundreds by disease, i d winter oo it was calculated that from forty to fifty of theta roe annually carried off by the tigers which infested 08 spot. Now the salt which might be purchased 0041 quays of Bo m b ay at Is. a b us h e l cou l d not b e bolo in the Sund et t und under ls. 6 d . a b ushe l . After 1‘,104 made it w as carr i e d to the depits,of the East India ' O 6 pang, where the monopoly price was fixed; and it 0 0 1 tact that, whatever the prime cost might be, it wile 01 fp° enhanced 280 per cent. at the dep6ts of the compavi:. ;1). salt was then sent off to other depits in the interi o t;o o price being further enhanced by the way, so that bYpeti time it reached the hands of the consumer, the price a b el , rose to 10 or 12 rupees, or from 20s. to 245. a b i. " l : t 0 11 „ An Bon. Gentleman behind him reminded him t 1 " .." alteration had taken place with respect to the thilt monopoly. True ; but what was the nature of if eo alteration? From the evidence of the collectors , g o red ( before the Committee on Cotton, in 1848, it sled, o f that when, with the view of conciliating some sli . h . o ttil the public approbation, it was agreed that the tax ti :0 0 ", be taken off exports, the East India Company deraisp, some equivalent for this concession, and they ascoPPel: raised the price of salt, which was now 25 pe t 01.!, higher than it was in th e year 1833. I t was a r el f IP: able circumstance that th e appearance i n I n dia ° ostr mysterious and formid a bl e di sease k nown b y tbet tY, of cholera, was sim u lt aneous w i t h the creation otri salt monopoly. They both came i nto t h a t c ell;; bel the same time with the East India Company, ° l nt IS have never since disapp eare d f rom the so il ; an d site stated by the scientific witnesses before the Cort" too already referred to, that the use of vegetables b. 7 0 0 1, natives without salt, to ge th er w i t h t h e wre tchea L , ro e, tary condition to which t h e country was re d uc ed, l e ard together the direct causes of cholera.—(Hest; ho t He would now pas s f rom t h e sa l t monopo ly to th e t,piurn—a monopoly which, he need hardly refill O S . F:VC;be, Was the cerise of a Woody and s';iegrac, r e n u gh b i l %rah the Empire of China some years ago. I .'",i a eS, found that th e E as t I n di a C om p an y was dire' igr solely responsible for the monopoly of opito' 'natives