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trourtiiigbittton SUN OFFICE, Scum Clock. - - COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Priih . .) BOOTH V. CUTE. This was au action against Mr. Clive, the judge of the County Court of Southwark, to recover damages for illegal imprisonment. I', appeared that the plaintiff had been summoned before Mr. Clive by a Mr. Still, for a debt incarred for some glass, and an order issued for the payment of 20s. per month. Plaintiff subse quently went through the Insolvent Court, and obtained a discharge after a remand of six months. This discharge was pleaded before Mr. Clive as a discharge from the monthly payments, but was overruled by him, where upon the plaintiff procured a writ of prohibition from the Petty Bag-office. Mr. Clive, however, disregarded this, and on the plaintiff's neglecting to pay the monthly instalment, committed him to prison for six days. For the defence it was pleaded that the month's notice of trial had not been given which was provided by the stmute in all cases where a judge had acted bond-fide and reasonable. Lord Chief Justice JErivis told the jury that the only question for the jury was to consider whether the judge had acted reasonably and I)mi-fide. Verdict for the defendant. COURSE OF EXCEL Am Am= 11 16 LNGE.-(THIS DAY.) !Gibraltar.. Legho:n Genoa • • • Ditto, three months.. 11 17 M Rotterdam .. • • 11 17 Antwerp ..... .• • • 25 20 Brussels • • • . 25 20 Haniburgh .. •• • • M.B. 13 614 Altona Paris, 3 days'sight -. 24 97% Ditto, 3 months .... 25 20 Marseilles 25 22% Bourdeaux....., Frankforton Maine.... 11S Vienna, effec. do 12 55 Trieste, ditto.. 12 56 Petersburgh,Sil. Rble.. 3 73 Madrid • • .. • • • • • • • • • • 49 % Cadiz • • • • • • • • • 50 Barcelona • • • • • • • • • • • • • BO 623; ▪ 25 55 Venice........ ['Cerra°, peroz 125 Messina 1251, Lisbon.....• .. 0p0rt0.... • Rio Janeiro • . Buenos Ayres New York, 60 days'sight Philadelphia .. 53 PRICES OP BCILION, PER OZ. Foreign Geld in 'ears .. 43 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 .51)anlsh Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars ...... 0 0 0 Silver is bars 0 5 1% THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 3d day of February, 1851: present the Queen's Most Excellent ~lajesty in Council. Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased, upon the representation of the Committee of Council on Education, to appoint Dr. James Cum ming, LL.D., Rector of the Academy at Glasgow, to be one of her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools in Scotland, is the room of John Gibson, Esq., resigned. WHITEHALL, JANUARY 27, 1851. The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Pearce, cf Portsea, in the county of Southampton, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the high Court of Chancery. DUCHY OF LANCASTER, FEB. 3. The Queen has been this day pleased to appoint Thos. Percival Heywood, of Doveleys, Esq., to be Sheriff of the county palatine of Lancaster for the year ensuing. PRINCE OF WALES COUNCIL CHAMBER, SOMERSET HOUSE, FEB. 4. William Williams, of Tregullow, in the county of Cornwall, Esq., has hem appointed Sheriff of the county of Cornwall. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire. Sir Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer Lytton, Bart., to be Deputy-Lieutenant. WHITEHALL, JAN. 22. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Robert Harfield, of Southampton, in the county of Southampton, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Edwaid Armitage, cotton spinner, Clifton-street, lifax. BANKRUPTS. William Hood, commission azent, Lawrence-lane Cheapside, to surrender Feb. 14, a: two, and March 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane; Pain and Hatherly, Gresham street, City. Richard - Treclianick, auctioneer, Threadneedle-street, Feb. 15, at twelve, and March 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Sole and Turner, Aldermanbury. Andrew Eve, turner, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, Feb. 14, at half-past twelve, and March 18, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Colombine, St. Martin's-lane. Charles Watt, baker, Southampton-street, Pentonville, Feb. 12, at half-past twelve, and March 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Tweed, Lincoln's Inn-fields. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. John Colegate, coal merchant, Cambridge-terrace, Cam bridge-road, Mile. end. Thomas Samuel Wallis, doctor of music, Herne-place, Herne-hill, Camberwell. George Russell, miller. Barton -street, Burton-crescent. Roston Hulls ,baker, Cumberland-market, Regent's-park, Eliza Dorothea Wylde, Norfulk-street, Strand. Frederick Bayley, journeyman bricklayer, Ramsgate. Charles Nash, Parliamentary agent, Tyler's Newtown, Kent. Benjamin Peverley, attorney's clerk, Spencer-street, Islington. Robert 'larding, Staley Bridge, Lancashire. Thomas Owen Jones, grocer, Ilulme, Manchester. Gcorge Moorhouse, blanket manufacturer, Earlsheaton, Yorkshire. Noah Mourhouse, blanket manufacturer, Earlsheaton, Yorkshire. Joseph Moorhouse, blanket manufacturer, Earlsheaton Yorkshire. James Robinson, blacksmith, Priest Hutton, near Lan caster. Thomas Rawlins, surgeon, Liverpool. John Tasting, livery-stable-keeper, Kingston-upon-Hull. John Taylor, grocer's assistant, Ashton-under-Lyne. Edward Buck, attorne7, Birkenhead. Henry Merrick Eldertem, Editor, Cranhams, Glouces tershire. Joseph Holt, dyer, Manchester. Isaac Weiford, t'armer, Browson-bank, Yorkshire. Henry Lockye r, leatherseller, Southampton. George Albe'..t, lieutenant and adj utrnt in the West Kent Yeomanry Cavalry, Godden-green, Kent. James Pef,rs, hat manufacturer, Stockport, Cheshire. Thomas "Garrod, tailor, Hadleigh, Suffolk. Benja'in Hey, worsted weaver, Thornton, Yorkshire. JosePP., Jackson, labourer, Wiston, Yorkshire. Joseph Langridge, jun., Western-road, Brighton. eh'arles Marsh, Yorkshire. Fa sac Williams, cattle drover, Brecknockshire. TJeojarnin Wood, jun., spirit merchant, Yorkshire. Manley Hitchon, Yorkshire. Edmund Andrew, grocer, Middleton, near Manchester. Samuel Boss, commercial traveller, Armley, near Leeds. John Edwards, farmer, Penylan. Joseph Hartley, woollen scribbler, Holmfirth. James Castle, traveller, Salford, Lancashire. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London. New Price Current, Feb. 4.) SIICAR.—Today importers of West India Sugar re fused to sell except at prices equal to those of Friday, still all parties operate with reluctance. The purchases amounted to 420 hhds, &c., including at auction 168 !Aids, 17 trs Barbadoes, which went at firm rates, fine yellow realising 433 6d to 445, and mid to good 41s to 435. REFINED.—To - day Refined goods were dealt in with caution for home-trade purposes, and prices are rather lower, brown Lumps selling at 49s to 49a 6d. In Crushed Sugar there was little passing, but rates are not lower. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon the biddings were lan guid at the public sales of 5,574 bags Mauritius Sugar; still former rates are supported for both grocery and working sorts. The prices obtained were, for fine yellow 41s to 425, low to good 37s to 40s, brown 343 to 3is 6d, low and inferior 30s to 335, and grey sorts 37s to 41s, grainy 40s to 43s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon there was no public sale of Bengal Suisar, and privately few purchases have been made,. but alders would not sell at a reduction. Madras is not much wanted, still last week's rates were supported. Of 4,845 bags at auction, not above half sold, soft brown at 295 to 30s, yellow 30s Gd to 34s 6d, and ordinary to good grocery 36s 6d to 40s per cwt. FOREIGN.—To - day there was no public sale of Foreign Sugar, and privately the business done was of little mo merit, but holders refused to sell at lower rates. There are several buyers at a small reduction. . MOLASSES.—There is still a firm market for West India, and a further increase has taken place in the de mand. About 600 puns have been disposed of, and the r ates paid are 153. to 18s. for St. Kitts, St. Vir.cents, and Antigua. Operations have been to a fair extent in Bengal; Mauritius at 13s to 14s, the supply is also less than fur some time past. In Honey larger sales have been made; and the rates paid aro from 40s to 66s for .I..srnaica, of low to fine quality. COFFEE.—To-day there was no public sale of any description of Coffee, and the private operation in Native Ceylon wer e trifling, still good ord cannot be obtained under 475. There was, g however, agood business don e in Plantation Ceylon privately, and at rather higher week. r a tes. Mocha was more in request at the terms of last CkCOA.—West India continues to be held with firm ness, and is only in moderate supply, but the trade are is disposed to operate. Of 300 bags Trinidad at auc tion, a small part only sold at 52s to 54s for grey, and at to 57s for red. Foreign is at auction 700 bags Bahia and Para were taken in at 30s per cwt. TEA.—In Green operations have been upon a limited scale, although there are sellers re ther under previous rates, and the market coutin nes to be well supplied, the parcels on offer consist cb idly of the bet ter qualities. Congoo Las been operated .in with caution, and the tendency of prices is. still to ieeline, low and good ord selling at lid to Il J, mixed blackish leaf is to Is id, blackish leaf Is ld, ditto strong Is lid to is 3d; and Pekoe Flavour Is 4 , 1 to Is 9:1 per 111 Scented and Pelr , )*, Teas are altered upon rather lower terms, but few buyers are to be met with. It ter:.--Although the market continu..l to be mode rately supplied with East India, yet prey tons rates al.: supported with difficulty, as the home an d export d - man] is limited: the value of b, •oken and low u bite Bee: al is 85 6d to 9s 6d, mid 10, tf lOs 3d, Letter sort lOs 6d to 1. 2.5. Madras pinky Ss to 93, cargo and pearl barley 8 s to is 3d. In cl e aned Patna a good deal has again bee) > done at from - 11 s to 18s for low to fine, and there is fair for town dressed C aro li ne at 203 to 265, and Am ericen at 18s t c. 19s per cwt. Operations in Sago contint le upon a limit sd scale at 195 to 21s, and Sago Flour at 14s to 15s per 0121 t. Sri CE3.—cTo day at public sale 738 bga Malabar Peppe r were sold at 31d for hall heavy, and one lot in ferior 3d per lb. IND Go.—The quarterly sale of East India will com mence on Tuesday next, and the quantity declared is 16,413 chests. For public competition the quantity of Guatemala declared is 500 strons, yet former rates are well supported. FRITIT.—To-day at public sale 484 pkgs Patras Cur rants in part sold at 38s, and damaged 36s to 37s per cwt. COCHINEAL.—This afternoon full rates were demanded for Cochineal, but there was not much desire to operate. Of 154 bags at auction a small part only sold, Honduras Silvers at 3s 6d to 3c 9d, black 4s 3d to 4s 4d, Teneriffe Silvers 3s 7d to 3s Bd, black 3s 9d to 4s 4d, and garblings Is 4d to 2s 4d. Of Cape Gum Arabic 102 bags were taken in at 12s to 15s for damaged, and 34 bags Persian Berries at 61 for sound. SALTPETRE.—Te.day shippers or home dealers evinced little desire to operate rough; and at public sale 287 Wm of Calcutta sold rather cheaper, and went at 27s to 27s 6d for 84 per cent refraction. SPIRITS.—For Demerara Rum there is a good demand at the present value, and the sales are 300 puns at 2s 6d to 3s 2d for 30 to 40 per cent over proof. Jamaica is not cheaper; shippers and home dealers, however, ope rate with caution. The value of plain and mid quality 30 to 33 per cent over proof is 2s 8d to 3s, good to fine 83 to 38 over 3s 2d to 4s, and choice sorts 4s 2d to 4s 6d. For Leeward Island the rates demanded are is 8d to Is 9d proof, operations are, however, upon a limited scale. East India has been purchased with reluctance at is 61d to Is 7d, b u t supp l y rema i ns sma ll. B ran dy continues. to be oper a t e d i n w ith cau ti on ; on th e p ar t of merchants there is, however, firmness and the rates demanded for Cognac best brands of the vintagetof 1850 are 4s 4d to 4s 6d, 1849 ditto 4s 7d to 4s 9d, 1848 ditto 4s 10d to ss, 1847 ditto 5s 2d to 3s 4d, and inferior sorts 3s to 4s 3d. Geneva is yet is 7d to Is 9d, and fine is 9d to 2s, but there is not much doing. British-made Spirit in good request at 9s 8d to 9s 9d, and Gin at 8s 3d for 22 per cent. under proof. METALS.—Operations in Pig Iron have been imma terial, and more desire is euinced to sell Scotch at 42s 6d to 43s for mixed numbers; at 43s 6d to 44s 6d for number one; Welch and Staffordshire 50s to 70s per ton. For common "Welch Bar rates are however firm at 41 lis 6d to 51, Rails 5/ .5s to 5/ 105; there is also no decrease in demand, and no accumulation of stock. On the spot Spelter is to be obtained at 163 2s 6d per ton; few buyers are, however, to be met with; and the contracts concluded for delivery are of little moment. Although prices rule high for Tin, yet large transactions have taken place ; British Block and Bar at 88s to 89s; Refined 92s to 945; East India 87s to 87s 6d. Tin Plates have met with greater attention; one C Coke is not to be obtained under 28s 6d, and Charcoal ditto 34e per box. In the Copper market much firmness exists. Lead is in excellent request, with not free sellers of British Pig at 171 lOs to 18/, and Sheet at 18/ 103 to 19/ per ton. For Swedish Steel the rates paid are 15/ to 161., and several purchases have been made. Talet.ow.—A good business has been transacted in Russian on the spot, and prices rule firm—fine new Yel low Candle realized 37s 6d to 37s 9d, old 37s to 37s 3d per cwt. For delivery in March and April several con tracts have been concluded at 37s 9d to 38s, there are nut free sellers. Operations, however, are of little moment for delivery in the last three months of the year, and the rates taken are 38s 6d to 395. Home melted does not improve in value, and is quoted at 37s nett cash, but large parcels have been disposed of. In other sorts more has been done, but not at an advance. At auction 943 casks of Australian were disposed of at form 36s 6d to 37s 9d for low to fine, and 100 casks South American 35s 6d to 37s 3d per cwt. For public sale 2,200 pkgs are declared. Oins.—A reduction has taken place in prices of Southern Oil, and dealers have operated with caution. At auction 80 tuns were sold at 3315. s to 351. In the market for Seal much dulness prevails, and there is a further reduction. At auction 50 tuns pale went at 34/ 15s to 351. Cod is offered at 38/, f'ew buyers are however to be met with, and the stock is accumulating. Sperm met with little attention, and must be quoted rather lower. At auction 32 tons were sold—first sort at 85/ ss, low 80/, and headmatter 921 per ton. l'rices are further depressed for Linseed Oil, supply bring still on the increase, and shippers or home dealers not much disposed to operate. The value on the spot is 32s 6d to 335, and for delivery 33s 3d to 33s 6d per cwt, there is, however, an improving consumption, and no further reduction is looked for. Rape Seed is yet operated in with caution, prices also continue to give way, on account of larger supplies, and fur brown rule at 355, Refined 36s 6d, Foreign 37s Gd, East India Brown 345. Cocoa Nut is not cheaper, but continues to be operated in with caution, and the market is well supplied. Of 500 casks at auction a part only sold; Cochin 31s to 32s 6d, Ceylon 29s to 30e, and Sydney 27s to 28s 6d. Of Ground Nut Oil some parcels have been disposed of at 35s 6d; and Gingelly 34s to 34s 6d. There is yet little doing in Olive, but lower rates are not taken; Gallipoli selling at 43/ to 43/ 10, and other sorts 411 to 42110 s per tun. The value of Palm is 29s per cwt for fine, and a good demand prevails. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT (THIS EVENING.) HO,USE OF LORDS. Their Lordships resumed shortly after Five o'clock. REGULATION OF SELECT - VES TRIES BILL. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved that this Bill be read a first time.—Agreed to. TILE ADDRESS. The LORD CHANCELLOR the❑ read her Majeaty's Speech. The Queen's Speech having been again read by the Clerk at the table, The Earl of EFFINGIIAM then rose to move the Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne. The Noble Lord said that he could assure their Lordships that he most sincerely begged their indulgence, not only on account of its being the first time that ho had ever addressed their Lordships, but on account of the im portance of the subjects alluded to in her Majesty's Speech—subjects which ought to be discussed with calmness and indulgence.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He congratulated the House on there being a prospect of a termination at last of that contest with which the North of Europe had been convulsed; and he trusted their Lordships would rejoice with him in that pros pect at the cessation of hostilities in the kingdom of Denmark, to produce which cessation the efforts of her Majesty's Government had been unceasingly di rected ; and he trusted that peace would be produced which was so essential to the prosperity of all nations. He felt convinced that their Lordships and the public would be rejoiced to learn that steps had been taken by the Government of the Brazils for the suppression of the slave-trade. It was a subject of great congratulation to consider that, notwith standing the great reductions which had taken place in taxation, our finances were still prosperous. The pros perity of the country was most general, if not universal. There had been a reduction of taxation in the last year in stamps, bricks, and other articles, and yet they had a surplus. In the year 1849 there had been an excess of 10,000,000/. in our exports. That excess had been greatly exceeded during the past year. They found, too, that the number of paupers had decreased, not only in the manufacturing but in the agricultural counties. Perhaps he might be told that this decrease in the agri , cultural counties was owing to the increase of employ ment in consequence of the drainage in the agricultural countries; but this he considered a subject of congratu lation. He might be told that, so far,as landowners were concerned, distress existed.—(Hear, hear.) This he was disposed to admit, but he contended that the labouring population was better off than it bad been heretofore. With regard to the Papal aggression, he thought their Lordships would admit that there had been no such aggression attempted in Roman Catholic times in this country, and that no Roman Catholic laity would submit to sach an aggression. —(Hear, hear.) The meetings which had been held throughout the countaG' on this subject showed that the heart of the country was sound, and that it would not submit to any aggression. —(Hear, hear.) Some measure, they were assured, would be submitted to Parliament; it was not for him to say what that measure would be, but he trusted that it would be satisfactory to the country; while, at the same time, it would not deprive any of our fellow-subjects of their just rights and privileges. (Hear, hear.) He would afford to the Roman Catholics every facility for developing their religion; but if they could not do that without in stituting an hierarchy with English territorial designa tions, then he was prepared to say that measures should be taken to prevent them from infringing on our reli gious and civil liberties. It had been said that this ap pointment of an hierarchy was intended to be preparatory to the introduction of the canon law, but that law could not be introduced consistently with the supremacy of our own law. The Pope by making these appoint ments had assumed in this country a power which was incompatible with the maintenance of the supremacy of our own Sovereign.—(Hear, beau.) He hoped, there fore, that the Government would meet this aggression, and would introduce a measure for that purpose. He was rejoiced to find that measures of law reformjwere to be introduced, more particularly a measure for the re gistration of deeds. He, in conclusion, begged to express his satisfaction at the general and prosperous state of the country, and concluded by moving the Address, which was, as usual, an echo of the Speech. Lord CREMORNE, in seconding the Address, said that in doing so he felt much in need of that indul gence which was usually extended to those who occu pied the position which he then occupied. He would not, after the able speech of the Noble Earl dilate upon the topics of the Address, but there were certain portions of theoAdedrvreastsiounps. The late aggressionon which he felt it ne cessary to make some bs which Lordships might by th e Papal See calledp a r t t h ic e ul N ar o l b y le fo E r a o r b l s i e n rv a a l t i ii h m ; and d he entirely c oncurred with said on that subject, and trusted their would cordially concur in the measures he proposed to prevent the encroachments of the Papal power —measures which would bc calculated to resist agg,ressicn without infringing cn the principles of reli gious liberty; and h e f e lt that the Roman Catholic Peers themselves, and the Roman Catholic Members of the House of Commons. would feel it necessary to follow the example of their Roman Catholic ancestors, and to adopt measures to prevent the encroachments of the Pope upon the liberties of this country.—(flear, hear.) Her Majesty had alluded to agricul tural distress, it was a subject well worthy of their most serious consideration.—(Pro tectionist cheers.) He would not allude to the causes or remedies for this distress, but would cont en t himself with saying, that so i n timately were the interests of all classes bound up together, that it was impossible but that manufacturing prosperity must eventually react on Agricultural distress. The Noble Lord then described the deep distress which was suffered by the agricultural class in Ir . iland. The recur rence of the potato failure for several years, and the diminished price of agricultural produce, had deeply affected the state of Ireland, and so deep had been the distress occasioned than many proprietors had been petitioners to the Encumbered Estates Commissioners; but that did not prove that Ireland was without capital or resources, for the greater number of purchasers under that Act had been Irishmen, and so convinced was he thatjthat measure had worked well, that if a similar measure were introduced for England he would support it.—(Hear, hear, and cries of "No, no.") He would no longer detain their Lordships, but would content himself with seconding the Address. Lord STANLEY considered that it was in general most respectful to the Crown and most conducive to the transaction of public business to permit the Address to be agreed to without moving any amendment. And, although he was not perfectly satisfied with the speech, yet he would preface the ob servations that he was about to make with a declaration that it was not the intention of himself, or of those with whom he acted, to propose any amendment to the Address. W hat had conduced to the settlement of the question of Denmark, which had been subjectod to a most unjustifiable aggression ? (Hear, hear.) Nothing but the firmness of the Emperor of Austria. But be that as it may, he was rejoiced that that question was in a fair way of settlement. The had been told that the Government of the Brazils had undertaken to adopt measures for the suppression of the slave trade. if he could hope against hope, if be could believe that that Power which had done more than any other to foster the slave-trade, viz., Brazil, he should concur with the Noble Earl in his congratulations ; but they had a much more important means of suppressing the slave trade than in placing trust in Brazil. (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The House resumed at a Quarter to Four o'clock. NEW MEMBERS. The following new Members took the oaths and their seats:—Mr. CALVERTJOr Aylesbury; Mr. BELL, for St. Alban's, and several otheis. NEW WRITS. Mr. lIAYTER moved for new writs for the election of Members for the Falkirk Burghs, in place of Lord Lincoln; for Dungarvan,lin place of Mr. Sheil; and for Windsor, in the place of the Right Hon. Mr. Hatchell, who had accepted the appointment of Attorney-General for Ireland. GOVERNMENT MEASURES. Mr. HAYTER rose and said—Perhaps it will be convenient to the House if I state the order in which her Majesty's Government propose to submit certain measures for the consideration of the House. Therefore I beg to state that on Thursday, May 6, the First Lord of the Treasury will move the following resolution : " That this House will not proceed on any motion for an Address to the Crown, to which opposition is offered, but in a Committee of the whole House, except in respect to matters which have been previously submitted to a Select Committee." On Friday next, Feb. 7, the First Lord of the Treasury will move for leave to bring in a Bill to prevent the as sumption of certain ecclesiastical titles in respect of places in the United Kingdom. On Friday, the 14th February, the Chancellor of the Exchequer will make his financial statement.—([fear, hear.) NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. WILLIAMS gave notice that on this day fort night he should move far a return of the sums expended on royal palaces since her Majesty's accession. Mr. CAYLEY gave notice that on this day week he should move for the repeal of the malt tax. Sir E. N. BUXTON gave notice that on this day fortnight he should move that the differential duties, which were to expire on the 6th of June, should con tinue until the abolition of the slave-trade. Mr. STU ARr gave notice that on Tuesday next he should submit to the Rouse a resolution relative to the Royal Commission issued to inquire into the High Court of Chancery. _ Mr. SLANEY gave notice that on this day fortnight he/ should move for a Committee to inquire into the best means of improving the law of partnership. Mr. BROTHERTON gave notice that on the reading of the sessional orders, he should move that in the pre sent session no business be transacted after midnight, and that at twelve o'clock on each night the Speaker be directed to adjourn without proceeding with any business o❑ the paper.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. H. BAILLIE gave notice, that on Tuesday next, he should call the attention of the House to the proceed ings of the Committee which sat last session on the affairs of Ceylon, and should move that the evidence be printed, together with the report of the commission sent out to that island. Mr. ANSTEY gave notice that on Monday he should move for leave to bring in a Bill for the repeal of the penal laws affecting Roman Catholics. Mr. DISRAELI gave notice that on the llth instant he should call the attention of the House to the distress still existing among that important class of her Majesty's subjects the owners and occupiers of land, and move for the adoption of such measures as may be best calculated to remove it. Colonel SIBTHORP gave notice that on an early day he should more for the reduction of the duties on fire assurance. PAPAL AGGRESSION. Mr. WILLIAMS gave notice that he should move for a return of the results which had occurred since the nth of August, 1849. 6TATE OF IRELAND. Mr. REYNOLDS gave notice that he should, en Tuesday next, move for returns of the taxes which had been imposed upon Ireland. ROYAL SPEECH-THE ADDRESS. The SPEAKER having read her Mbje.ty's Speech, The Marquis of KILDARE said, in rising to move that a humble Address be presented to her Majesty in reply to her roost gracious Speech from the Throne, he I hoped the House would grant him that indulgence which was always shown to one unaccustomed as he was to address the House while he made a few observations on the different topics al luded to in the royal Speech.—(Hear.) It was a subject ' of sincere congratulation that her Majesty should con tinue to receive assurances of friendship from all foreign states. It was also most gratifying to find that at the present moment peace had been restored over the whole continent; and it was a source of still greater satHae tion, that while there had been wars over a great part of the continent, this country had for years enjoyed uninterrupted peace.—(Loud cheers.) It was also a subject of congratulation that the universal peace which now existed had been in great part owing to the exertions of her Majesty's Government.—(Hear, hear.) He was glad to find that the measures which had been taken with regard to our relations with Brazil would tend more than almost anything: else to prevent the continuance of the slave trade.—(Hear, hear.) It was also a source of great congratulation that, notwith standing the reduction of many taxes, the country was still in a flourishing state.—(Hear.) The next subject mentioned in the Royal Speech, he regretted to say, this country could not congratulate itself upon. Ho referred to the state of depression, which the landed interest was now lying under.— (" Hear, hear," from the Opposition benches.) But he thought that whilst the other classes of the community were in a prosperous state the condition of the landed interest must before long improve. The next subject mentione din the Speech wasj a very painful one, viz., the unjustifiable aggression in this country on the part of a foreign State. It would be the duty of this House, while it maintained the religious liberty of her Majesty's subjects, to consider the measures which were to be brought before it for the purpose of maintaining her Majesty's supremacy and the established religion of the land.—(Hear.) The next subject alluded to by her Majesty was the in tended reforms in the highest court of justice in the country, and the alteration of the law with regard to the registration of deeds. Ile considered the latter measure to be of very great importance. There was another subject of congratulation to which be (the Marquis of Kildare) would draw the attention of the House, which was the state of Ireland. It was gratifying to find that after that country had suffered from years of political agitation, men's minds were being drawn from political matters to industrial pursuits, and such occupations, he (the Marquis of Kildare) believed, were calculated, under the blessing of Divine Provi dence, to raise his country to a higher pitch of pros perity than she bad ever before enjoyed. The Noble Marquis concluded by moving the Addres3, which was an echo of her Majesty's Speech. Mr. VETO rose and said—Mr. Speaker, before I ven ture on the topics which the occasion and the gracious Speech from the Throne naturally suggest, I must throw myself on the kind and never-failing indulgence of the House, and state at once my great anxiety that no word shall escape my lips which shall court debate, or sug gest a difference, when the House will naturally desire to respond with unanimity in the adoption of the Ad dress which I have the honour to second.—(Hear, hear.) Her Majesty congratulates her assembled Parliament on the continuance of peace; and when we reflect how much the prosperity of the country is stimulated by peace with foreign states—how much misery is averted—we must rejoice in the fact that the con viction is generally and deeply felt that peace should be preserved at the risk of everything but good faith and national honour.—(Hear, hear.) Nor can I resist the pleasure of stating my deep convic tion that human skill and ingenuity are largely contri buting to its permanent continuance. The great media- Meal power of fee age, that important agent of civiliza tion, steam, by uniting the distant portions of Europe, and consequently binding in ties of friendship and friendly communication distant stater, will render them naturally desirous of peace, while the terrible impetus it gives to the destructive power of armaments renders their use more unf:a quent and and dreaded. Her Majesty has graciously ststed her conviction that recent treaties with Brazil render more hopeful the extinction of the slave trade.—(Hear, hear.) Whatever may be the difference of opinion amongst Hon. Members as to the mode in which this will be iltimately effected, in this I take it we are all agreed, that we earnestly desire:the utter abolition of this accursed tut:fie, and t t h h e at h w is e tn s ry haollfatlhl epa rejoicesr. oieawhenitr, dsahnall c b h e e r e t r a s. d ) of E o e n r lYin Majesty also congratulates her assembled Parliament that, notwithstanding the large reductions in taxation, the revenue will Le satisfactory, and also on the state of commerce and manufactures, and the consequent general employment afforded to the working classes,— (Hear, hear.) Results are the sole tests of legislative measures in the long rue. Last year duties were re pealed or reduced to the extent of about a miiliou and a half. It is true they did not affect the revenue until Fart of the year had expired, but still they canted at the least a reducCon of a million ; yet, despite of this, the national revenue has suffered no reduction—(Hear, hear)—it has even Exceeded that of the last yesr, and the Chan cellor of the Exchequer is in the happy position of having a surplus at his command.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Now, the question arises, why has not the revenue proportionably decreased? I apprehend there can be but one answer—the prosperous condition of the people, and consequent increase of consumption, have swelled the receipts.—(Hear.) I take one item as strongly elucidating this position. The duty on sugar was reduced one shilling per cwt. The consequent loss to the revenue, taking the consumption of the preceding year, should have been 311,4541., but it resulted in a loss of 9,1801. only, a good practical reason for reducing other items of large consumption where the duty presses he avily, and one which I,doubt not will have its due effect in future fiscal arrangements.— (Hear, hear.) Iu a few days the returns of the Board of Trade will be issued. The returns of the first 11 months of 1850 will enable us to anticipate the results.—(Hear, hear.) The exports for the first eleven months of 1848 were ... 44,407,9121. 1849 • • ... 54,089,8091. 1850 60,400,525/. In what did this Increase consist? Principally iu British manufactures, cottons, woollens, linens, silks, and hardware.—(Cheers.) This increase has taken place, too, under most unfavourable circumstances. The great staple is cotton—at least the great employing ar ticle is cotton, but, in the cotton-producing states of America, last year, there was a short crop, and a•ris ; of price of full 75 per cent. over the price of the early part of the preceding year was the consequence.—Hear, hear.) For instance, Orleans cotton was in January, 1849 ... 41d. per lb. 1850 ... „ It is well known that a rise in the price of cotton rapidly diminishes consumption.—(Hear, hear.) It did so con siderably in this instance, but owing to two circum stances the effect was much mitigated. Ist. When the material is dear the best quality is always run upon by manufacturers, as, for a smaller quantity in weight they get the higher price; our skid in the application of ma chinery, and the high character of the machinery itself, has enabled us in finer fabrics to surpass all competition —(Hear, hear)—and the consequence was, that with all our disadvantages we partially shut up the American mills and gave our people full employment.—(Hear.) 2nd. Full employment secured good wages—(Hear, hear)—and good wages and cheap food enabled the industrial classes to dress well.—(Cheers.) The foreign market and home consumption kept the mills going, and I find 50,000 more hands were em ployed in the factories in 1850 than in 1847—the gross Lumbers being in 1847, 544,876; 1850, 596,028. — (Hear, hear.) It may be said that the high price of fabrics helped to swell the amount of exports, but, in point of tact, quantity was in excess in reference to cloth; while in yarn there was not only a decrease in quantity but in value, the increased value being prin cipally in labour.—(Hear.) I have the statistics to refer to, but will not weary the House by doing so. Now, if our manufacturers have accomplished a result so grati fying under unfavourable circumstances, what might we not have expected had the cotton crop been a full one, and had the price of the raw material continued low ? Instead of 50,000 hands, we should have employed three times that number,—(Hear, hear.) The low price of cotton brought us through the year 1847—the high price of cotton acted adversely in 1830—and here I must pause for a moment and ask, how important is it that we should be energetic in our endeavours to get the railway communications of conti nental India executed ?—(Cheers.) We are depending on one quarter of the world only for the means of em ploying our operatives in the cotton factories, when we should be blessing our fellow-subjects by the activities of commerce, and have a fresh market to de pend upon, and that, too, the home. I desire also to advert to the gratifying fact that the increase of fac tory hands, to which I have referred has not been ob tained at the sacrifice of infantile energy.—(Hear, hear.) There has been a decrease since 1834 of 20 per cent. in the children employed, and an increase of 81 per cent. in the adults.—(Hear.) I think it cannot be denied that the poor of every class are better fed and clothed than they have ever been. If I refer to the poor-law record, I find that the number of able-bodied paupers have largely decreased during the year, and the amount of general relief has been largely lessened. True, some of the agricultural districts are exceptions and on which I shall be called on presently to speak. If I refer to our criminal records, I find the facts to be equally gratify ing. In the city of Manchester the returns of persons apprehended for crimes in the three last years are, in 1848, 6,587; 1849, 6,277; 1850, 4,687. The West Riding of Yorkshire, in its criminal prosecutions, shows a similar result. I now come to another result of the po licy of the present and the last Ministry. Two years since London was crowded with deputations ardent in deprecating any interference with the navigation-laws. Fortunately for themselves and the country, their en treaties did not avail. They returned to their localities to rejoice in the increase of the shipping trade rather than to mourn its gradual extinction.—(Elear.) It is very true the entrance and clearing of foreign shipping has in creased, but it is equally true that British ships have also increased. I will admit all details of numbers of ships and tonnage which I have before me for the first eleven months of 1848, 1849, and 1850. I give you the gross increase of tonnage the first eleven months of 1849 and 1850: INCREASE OF TONNAGE. 1849 over 1848. 1850 over 1849 British 226 „ 207 ... 162 „ 843 Foreign I have taken the returns of vessels cleared outwards, because that is an evidence of work done—the returns of vessels entering may be affected in a variety of ways, apart from the evidence of work done within the period specified. I must alto very briefly call the attention of Hon. Members to the fact, that the repeal of the naviga tion-laws has not yet :affected either the value of ship ping or the demand. The ship-building of the Clyde, the Tyne, the Mersey, and the Thames, is fully equal is its activity to any preceding period, and within the last few days an eminent shipbuilder informed me the orders for ships and steamers on his books exceeded 400,0001. If I refer to the circulars of firms engaged in the sale of ships I find the same activity of trade indi cated.—(Hear, hear.) One of the largest firms in Eng land so engaged, and whose place of business is Liver pool, thus writes:—" It gives us pleasure to state that the amount of tonnage sold in 1850 in Liverpool exceeds that sold in 1849, being 81,028 tons against 78,212; showing an increase of 1850 over 1849 equal to 36 per cent.—(Cheers.) Now, as to the price of shipping, the same circular states—a" Now British ships have fully maintained our last quotations. Indeed we have felt the want of a larger supply of good vessels."—(Cries of " Hear, ") And as to the ships built in the Mersey ha p e or r. t, their circular shows an excess of tonnage in 1850 over 1849 of 4,609 tons. I have made careful inquiries as to prices ruling at New York on all the items affecting the price at which ships can be built there. I have failed to find any reason for alarm. —(Hear, hear.) Their prices of labour exceed ours by more than 50 per cent, while the average of the cost of materials used is quite equal to their cost with us. A great revolution is new taking place in the shipping trade, and which revolution was in progress when the navigation-laws were repealed. That measure helped to anticipate the result—a result, I believe, which the re tention of protection would have rendered utterly dis astrous to us. The old mode of shipbuilding, it is ad mitted on all hands, will no longer do. Capacity without speed is the reverse of recouireendation in a ship. What the American shipbuilderseffected, the Scotch have surpassed, and the result of the trial between the Scotch built ships and steamers and the United States, shows us we have nothing to apprehend, b u t muc h t o ga i n, if B r i t i s h skill an enterprise be but relieved from all impediments. The merchants and traders of Liverpool are generally considered to be well and practically acquainted with all the circumstances which regulate commerce. I have several of their annual circulars before me, and I am struck with the unanimity of their testimony. One of the most eminent says—. The present year opens under circumstances of great encouragement. Money is abun dant—food of every kind cheap—general trade is active and remunerative, finding ample employ merit for the industry of the country."—(Hear, hear.) With all that is so encouraging at home, there are evident symptoms of the gradual prevalence in foreign countries of sounder principles of international commerce : they are learning the lesson that it is better to buy economically, than to manufacture expensively —they are learning that the merchants of England are the best customers in every market—that their manufacturers are surpassed by none in skill and ingenuity.— (H ear , hear.) To illustrate the perfect certainty th a t suc h must be, in the course of events, the policy of every state, let us take France and her iron trade. Her protective iron duties are now so high, and are of such a ccmparative amount, that she pays every five years the full value of purchase of every iron work in the kingdom on her home consumption only. Is it not self evident that it would be far more the policy of her people to receive our iron, and for us in treaty to take her light wines on lower duties, and yield to our own Exchequer larger revenue than from our present limited consump tion, resulting from the almost prohibitive duties of the present tariff ?—(llear, hear.) But her Majesty expresses at the same time the sympathy she feels for the owners and occupiers of land in the difficulties which now affect them, and a hope that the prosperity of the manufac turing and commercial interests will soon be productive of beneficial effect to the agricultural body.—(Cheers.) And here, I trust, I may fairly ask the question, if such is the state of the commercial, manufacturing, and shipping interests, can it be supposed that the agricul tural is the only interest not destined to share in the general prosperity ?—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Is land exempt f'rom the great law of progression? It is impossible for wheat to fall from 7s. to ss. per bushel.without causing great anxiety to owners and oc cupiers of land, but no one can doubt that commerce has its ever-grove ing connexion with the soil by the substantial ties of property— (Hear, hear)—and that the interests of all are identified ; and the fact of distress existing culls fur every practical sympathy to be shown—(Cheers) —and that by the removing of every unjust burden which the friends of agriculture can show to press un fairly on its interests, and rejoicing in the fact of the alteration of the law, I cannot hesitate to express my wish that more time had been allowed to adjust the interests which had, under the old and vicious system, Leen placed in a false position. It is easy to say that this adjustment is en tirely an affair of landlord and tenant. It is so, but when we reflect th a t n o good tenant could farm without imparting value to the land which it takes years to ab stract, a re-valuation at present prices is simply giving to the landlord a rental arising from value imparted by the expenditure of capital by the tenant. I believe it to be our duty, Sir, not only to carry out abstract princi• pies of right, but where they aff,et large interests, by extensive alterations in the laws, that time should be given for the adjustment of the interests to the new and altered state of things.—(Hear.) But while I make this admission, I believe that the good Nvishes to which her Majesty has given utterance in her gracious speech will be speedily realised, though in the transac• tion we must be prepared for dlfficulties and loss, espe cially to parties who are slow in adjusting their course of business to the altered state of things. It has, Sir, always appeared to me that we have looked at the price of wheat too much as a criterion of distress or pros perity. It is calculated that we have about 19 millions of acres arable, and 38,000,000 of pasture and meadow, while of the 19 millions acres less than 4,000,000 are employed in growing wheat. Agriculturists it is, thereture, obvious derive a large portion of their income from stock, and to them therefore the prosperity of trade and manufactures is a positive benefit and source of profit, and we find that although the price of wheat has declined the price of meat has declined very little, and that it was cheaper during many years of protection than it has averaged since. And 1 need nut point out to the House that this has arisen entirely from the larger consumption of meat by the labouring classes—a circumstance at which we may well rejoice.—(hear, hear.) The working men of this country dine now as working men should dine, on edibles furnished by the butcher. We have, unfortu nately, iu this country no means of estimating the annual produce and consumption of food, and we must, therefore, content ourselves with an approximation to facts. I collect from the best sources that there were slaugh and we have local returns which give value to these tered in England, in 1850, 60,000 more beasts than in 1849, calculations. The largest cattle salesman in Liverpool gives the following return of sales for the past year:—ln 1849 there were 109,287 oxen; in the year 1850, 123,213. They also state in their circular our imports of sheep to have been on a less extensive scale from Ireland, and we are now witnessing, to us, the novel feature, that store beasts have been lately sent into that country.—(Hear, hear.) I find the prices of meat during the last six mouths and the corresponding six months of a year since have been nearly the same. I find the in , crease of consumption in England to be the counterpart of Scotland. The City Chamberlain of Glasgow makes the following return of animals slaughtered in that city:— 1848 132,150 1849 ... 161,527 1850 ••• •• ••• 185,235 The increased' consumption has fully kept up prices too in Scotland. I have now before me the prices current of Smithfield, Glasgow, and Liverpool for the last two years, but I need only refer the House to Mr. Porter's admirable work, just published, and there it will be found stated, on unquestionable authority, that beef and mutton are dearer now than they were in 1843, 1844, or 1845, which were years of protection.—(flear.) I have also before me the statistics, with which I will not weary the House, of the meat and stock carried by the principal lines of railway, which proves most unquestionably that our own farmers have in the three last years produced much larger quantities of stock. I have shown the con sumption is larger than ever, and I ask them if there is not solid ground for the belief that though there must be suffering in the transition, yet agricultural interests will be based on a solid, substantive foundation, and that it will depend on legitimate courses of prosperity, and that agriculturists will carry out all their engage ments with the sympathy of every class of the commu nity, with no fear of distrust taking the place of mutual confidence, but with such a union of all the interests of the country as shall be the best guarantee of commercial greatness and domestic strength.—(Cheere.) It I am not trespassing too much on the time of the House, I desire to call its attention for a few moments to the cheering prospects of progression in Ireland, which I doubt not will eventually be a source of strength, and contribute her quota to the general welfare.—(Loud cheers.) Her comparative advance in industrial pur suits in the last sixteen years has been much greater than in the sister portions of the kingdom, Scotland and England.—(Cheers.) 'The number of persons engaged in cotton, silk, and woollen factories, I find has increased 158 per cent., while in Scotland the increase has been 51 per cent., and in England 67 per cent., and I find our cotton and flax manufacturers alone give employment to 350,000 persons at the present time, and that 300,000 females are employed at sewed muslins, the cost of which is almost entirely labour and profit. On turning to agriculture, I find the prospects are even more cheering. Capital is flowing into the country; land is being rapidly consolidated from the old and vicious state of conacre to farms of from 100 to 200 acres. In proof of this, I need only refer to Captain Larcom's returns; large breadths of land are being sown with cereals, the value of stock is increased, and that too much neglected bnt most valuable link between the agriculturist and the manufacturer, flax, is being more extensively and profitably cultivated; and I note with hearty pleasure the great eagerness of the people to es tablish packet-stations manufactories, as evidencing the desire which is always the precursor of success. We see also in Ireland the railway making its natural capa bilities available, and rapidly opening up its resources. Soon will its most distant parts be placed in ready communication with England ; and here, Sir, I cannot but regret that the advice of a late illustrious statesman, whose loss we deplored near the end of the last session, has nut been more extensively carried cut, and especially that the city of London, to whom we look for the initiative in this matter, has not prosecuted her intention beyond a public meeting. That corporation holds very large estates there by the favour of former Sovereigns.—(Hear, hear.) They possess, therefore, a personal interest in the country, and I had hoped to have seen large tracts of country vested by purchase to them and to other corporate bodies, who could invest capital largely, and who, while blessing their country by the enterprise, would have left a valuable in vestment to their successors, and an enduring monu ment of their patriotism and public spirit.—(Hear, hear.) I cannot but point with admiration to the con duct of a brother of the Noble Lord the Member for Evesham. He has turned a desert into a garden—a large estate from which no rental was derived into a re munerative property.—(Loud cheers.) He deserves well of his country, and his conduct is worthy of imita tion. There are most false impressions abroad as to the Irish character. I know nom personal experience that if you pay the Irish labourer well, show him you care for him, and he is the most faithful and bard-working creature in existence; but if you find him in one pars of his native country woi king for fourpence per day, paid in potatoes or meal, and that where most of the misery exists, can we wonder that the results are as we find them? but give bim legitimate occupation, remunerate him for his services, show him you appre ciate those services, and you may be sure you put an end to all agitation. Ile will be your faithful servant, and the loyal subject of his Sovereign.—(Cheers.) I trust I have, Sir, been able to show, though ineffectually, that the tone of trade in the whole country is healthy, sound, and rational—(Hear, hear)—the manufacturing inte rest busy and prudent—the people better fed and clothed than ever; that the agricultural interest must share in the general prosperity—(Hear, hear)—and with an ear nest desire that all the wishes of our most gracious and much-loved Sovereign may be fully realised, I turn briefly to one or two other points in the Address, asking the House before I pass to the next subject to congratulate it, and through it the nation which it represents, on the satisfaction with which we can look forward to the visit of the world to the metro pelis.—(Hear, hear.) We cannot show our visitors that which some other nations could have shown them. The treasuries of art aro not ours pre-eminently. In much that would have qualified and refined taste we are deficient, but, Sir, we are by no means deficient in those things which constitute the well-being of a nation.— (Hear, hear.) We abound in the evidences of substan tial greatness—of permanent prosperity—of genuine freedom—of the Sovereign's generous sympathy with the people, and of the people's intelligent devo tion to the Throne—(Loud cheers)—and com mercially, while we fear no competitor, we court reciprocity, and I believe this great meeting, while it tends to our well being as a nation, will conduce to the peace and happiness of the world.—(Cheers.) Her Ma jesty in her gracious speech next refers to she assump tion of certain ecclesiastical titles, and to a Bill to be hereafter laid on the table of the House, and on this point I trust that the wording of the Address will com mend itself to all.—(Hear.) No Hon. Member, by gie. ing his assent to this Address, is bound to any subsequent course of action, nor can I think that Hon. Members professing the Homan Catholic faith are by it committed to any course of proceeding until the Bill to which it reters is laid on the table of this House. Her Majesty refers to a fact patent to all, and while we all feel bound by every tie to protect the civil and religious liberty of the subject to the utmost, we are all equally bound, by oar devoted loyalty and love to our Sovereign, to protect her prerogative from aggression of every kind also, and that to the utmost. We are not called on, Sir, to any reactionary course; the antecedents of the First Minister of the Crown are a pledge more than sufficient to the most timid mind, that while he would constitutionally preserve every right of the Crows, and her Majesty's civil supremacy, and while he will oppose determinedly the introduction of a code of laws alike opposed to the rights of the Queen and the civil liberty of the subject, he will not sully his fair reputation by any course which shall be inconsistent with that love of true religious liberty which he has ever shown.—(Cheers.) And, Sir, I must ask permission of the House to read a short extract from a speech of that Noble Lord in introducing the repeal of the Test Act in 1828—that Noble Lord being then in opposition: —"I now come to the great principle involved in the nu merous petitions before the House—petitions signed by the whole body of Dissenters, by Roman Catholics, and by many members of the Established Church. That principle is, that every man ought to be allowed to form his religious opinions by the impressions on his own mind, and that when so formed, he should be at liberty to worship God according to the dictates of his con science, without being subjected to any penalty or dis qualification whatever—that every restraint or restric tion imposed on any man on account of his religious creed is in the nature of persecution, and is at once an offence to God and an injury to man.—(Hear.) This is the first and noble principle on which the Dissenters claim the repeal of the test laws; but I will fairly admit that there may be an exception to its application—(Elear, hear)—and I will illustrate it by reference to the general principle of non-interference by one state in the internal affairs of another.—(Hear, hear.) It may be stated that one state would not generally be justified in inter fering in the internal concerns of another; but if some of the internal regulations of political institutions of one state are of such a nature as to lead directly to the injury of another, then the interference properly com mences on the part of the state making such regula tions, and not on the part of the state which complains of them. I will say the same of religion; if the religion of any body of men be found to contain political principles hostile to the State, or militating against that allegiance 4, 1851. which is due from every subject of tho Crown, in that case the question ceases to be a religious question, and you have a right to interfere end impose such re strictions as you may deem necessary, Istcause you do not impose them on religious opinions, you impose them only on political doctrines." Having read this extract, I trust we shall al feel we may reserve ourselves with perfect confidence till we see the Bill introduced, but if it be doubted as to the propriety of any Bill at all being brought in, I point to Roman Catholic Peers of the highest standing who have publicly declared that al legiance to the canon law is incompatible with al legiance to the Sovereign.—(Hear.) If so, we see good reason for the introduction of some measure for our consideration; not, Sir, that those Noble Lords are recreant to their religious principles in thus resenting the Papal rescript; not that through the indirect influences of Protestantism they have adopted views which iu other times they have abhorred. Nothing like it ; the Papal rescript would have been resented iu the pahniest days of the Roman Catholic religion in this country—(Cheers, and cries of " No, no." Why, Sir, our earliest national history is full of incidents in which the people, the Parliament, and the barons of England, Catholics as they all were, indignantly ex claimed against such intrusions on the part of the Ro man Poeta. Thu canon law, for example, has always been hateful to Englishmen, and I do trust that in the measures to be taken its operation in this country will be rendered null and void, otherwise we shall be embroiled in interminable intestine disputes utterly incompatible with the safety, the honour, and the welfare of our Sovereign and her dominions.—(Hear, bear.) I trust all Hon. Alealbers will feel the'y can concur in the terms of the Address, and I hope we shall postpone any de bate on a subject so exciting until the matter is sub stantively before us.—(Cheers.) Her Majesty also speaks of certain changes in the courts of equity and law, and the registration of deeds relating to real pro. party. All Hon. Members who represent large consti tuencies must be alike familiar with the general and urgent wish that exists for law reform; and much as they would desire a temperate, well-considered extension of the suffrage, I am sure they will feel that her Majesty's Ministers in deferring that until another session, and taking; up the great question of law reform in our courts of equity and law, have exercised a sound discretion. The establishment and extension of county courts has, so far as it goes, introduced a sweeping change in pleadin g practice and evidence; but the change of the law in the United States of America has made the people of this country more alive than ever to the necessity of great change in every department of our legal administration. I can only ex press a hope, which is, that it will be undertaken in the, spirit which the folllowing skier; extract from an emi nent author would demonstrate. He says:—" Let us not be deterred by clamour against innovation from abrogating what is useless, simplifying what is complex, or determining what is doubtful ; nor attempt to stave off an immediate pressing difficulty by a patch work scheme of modifications and suspensions, but let us consult for posterity in a comprehensive scheme of legal philosophy."—(Hear, hear.) It is not necessary that I should point ont to the House the great benefits which must accrue from a registration of deeds of real property. All the inconvenience, annoy ance, and expense, together with the delay which arises from the want of it, is familiar to all, and any Government which will originate and carry out a well-digested and simple plan, by which the transfer of rail estate can be ren dered more easy and inexpensive, will add to the value of property, and deserve the hearty thanks of the Legislature.—(Hear and cheers.) It now, Sir, only re mains for me to thank the House for its indulgence. I, Sir, only earnestly desire that Divine Providence may illuminate our common path, guide all our councils, and so direct all our efforts that our legislation may be eminently practical, equal, and promotive of the best interests of the United kingdom. With this expres sion, Sir, I earnestly commend, by an unanimous vete, the adoption of the Address to her Majesty.—(Loud and continued cheering.) Mr. ROEBUCK then rose and said, that never since he had the honour to be a Member of that House had he risen with so much pain as on the present occasion. On the consideration of other addresses to her Majesty, he might have felt pain; but the feeling which ho now enter tained was a clear feeling on his own mind, the result of a calm and deliberate judgment. The reason of that pain was, that now for the first time since he (Mr. Roe buck) had been a Member of that House he found an Administration calling itself Liberal—an Administra tion the head of which had gained all his honours and his great position as one of the great Liberal party—taking the first step backwards, at a time at which onward progress was the distinctive mark of the day. He was surprised to find that the step backward was taken by that Administration, and by that Premier who had been the advocate of liberal measures. The Hon. Seconder of the Address had re ferred to Noble Lords antecedents as a proof of his liberal policy. Last year he (Mr. Roebuck) should have been willing to rely upon the N oble Lord's antecedents, but now he could not do so. He (Mr. Roebuck) was surprised to find that with such antecedents, the Noble Lord could come forward as the opponent of civil and religious liberty. What were the antecedents of the Noble Lord? lie was distinguished as being the organ of the party %Ilia brought forward the motio❑ fur the repeal of the Test and Cor poration Act in 1825, and now he was fur stop ping civil and religious liberty. He would call the attention of the Honourable Seconder of the Address to an observation made at that period by one who knew well what the mind of man was—by Mr. Conning. He said, " Beware of what you aro doing—mind what you arc about, for so soon as you relieve the Dissenters from their disabili- ties, you will find in them your bitterest opponents. Well, they had now no longer disabilities. No, now they had one unit e d P rotestant cry , i n wh i c h all were conjoined. He could not help remarking upon the admirable artifice of the Honourable Seconder of the Address, in his remarks upon the conduct of the Noble Lord. Now what was the time at which the Noble Lord had chosen to step back? At a time when he put into the mouth of our Gracious Sovereign congratulations upon the in creased happiness of the labouring classes at a time when, after a long experience of law by which the re strictions on religion and on trade and on industry were swept away.: when he put into her mouth words of congratulation for the fact of increased happiness which they now enjoyed. Since 1829 the country bad been going on in one line of policy. On that occasion the great Protestant hero whose death they now deplored, and whose loss they felt that day—(Hear, hear.) yielding to the experience and the pressure of circum stances in Ireland ; and the Duke of Wellington, who had seen, as he said, more years of war than any man of his time, and most of those years of civil war— knowing, he said, the mischief's of civil war, he would to save the [country from one month of this, give his life, underwent pressure, consented to pass the Emancipation Act. These great and brave men taking up the principle acted upon it, and carried it out frankly. Sir Robert Peel when it was suggested to him to lay the Catholic clergy, and be had considered the question, and an im portant one it was, and that he would not inter. sere with the internal polity of the Catholic religiose no more than he would with the Wesleyan system. That was the principle upon which he went. ;The Noble Lord and his party felt great pain, and he might say great jealousy, that these men, the enemies of liberality and dissent, should come in and sweep away the honour for which they had laboured. It was complained by the party of the Noble Lord that the honour belonged to them, for that they had got Catholic emancipation and others had gained the honours. This showed that had the Duke of Wellington not done as he did, the party would have persevered in their demand for complete emancipation. (LEFT SPEAKING.) APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—We understand that a marriage will shortly take place between the lion. James Colborn, eldest son of General Lord Seaton, and the lion. Charlotte De Burgh, daughter of Lieutenant- General Lord Downes. SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY.—The Royal Mail Com pany's steam-ship Clyde, Captain Moss, with the West India mails, left this afternoon. She had a large and valuable cargo, with about fifty passengers, many of whom were for the gold diggings. The next homeward steam-ship, with the West India and Mexican mails, will be the Thames, Captain Itivett. She may be looked fbr about the sth or 6th instant. The Jupiter, Peninsular and Oriental Com pany's steam-ship, commanded by Captain Meehan, with the Peninsular mails, has not made her appearance. The da mage done to her machinery on her outward voyage has, we understand, been repaired at Corunna, so that she may shortly be looked for. The Madrid, Captain J. Weeks, from the Peninsula, with the usual mails, is expected about the 4th instant. COMMISSION OF LUNACY. — Yesterday an inquiry as to the state of mind of Mr. David Wilson, a retired mer chant of the City, was opened before Mr. Barlow, one of the Masters in Lunacy, and a special jury of magistrates and merchants, at the Sheriff's-office, Red Lion-sqnare. Mr. Wilson was a native of Scotland, and early in life he joined a mercantile firm in the City as a partner, and having in that capacity amassed a considerable fortune he retired into private life, and continued to reside with his wife (having no children) until her death, which took place about two years ago, after which event he became unsettled in his habits, wandering about from place to place, until his friends thought it necessary to have him placed under the care of an attendant. The precise amount of his property was not stated in evidence. The lunatic himself stated he had 1,2001. a year. but he could not tell how it was derived, and he had told Dr. Winslow that he was worth from 200,0001. to 350,0001. The jury found that he had been insane since the 10th of December last. INTRAMURAL BURYING GROUNDS.—Besides the business of the valuations of old cemeteries and private burial-grounds, for compensation on closing them, and be sides the valuation and examination of new sites, the Board of Health has been engaged in the investigation of the claims to compensation of the clergy, churchwardens, and the parishes. We believe that up to the last week the investi gation of the claims of 70 of the parishes (including those of Marylebone, St. Pancras, and a number of the City parishes) had been decided.— Sunday Pape-. COUNTY INCOME AND EXPENDI3UEE.—A Parlia mentary return, just issued, shows that the income of the counties cf England and Wales amounted, in 1348, to 1,584,7581. 4s. 7 3 / 4 d.; and in 1849, to 1,541,887/.Bs. 6d. The evpenditure in the same two years amounted, in 1848, to 1,406,728/. O s . liqd. ; and in 1849, to 1,382,004/. 2 dB. 3 1 4 . The reports of the state of business in the pro vinces during the past week show a declining tendency at Manchester, although the home demand has been well main tained ; but in the woollen districts there has been continued activity and firmness. In the Irish linen trade there has been no reaction from the recent improvement, and the orders from America are large. The Fruiterers' Company yesterday presented the Right Hon. the Lord May or with twelve baskets of apples, according to annual custom. The members are to dine with his Lordship, who will also entertain his ward, this day. THE COUNTRY MARKETS• The following is the official statement of the quantiti corn, &c., received in the port of London from the pa Essex, from the 27th Jan., 1851, to the Ist Feb., both inclusive : —....- in 7,1 '.:••. • • g .5-1 - f ,'" .. 5 ;Ts r .... 0 ..: , c, , t . co w rzl 0 i:q ; 11 ''" .. ---.• Colchester. . — 320 12 5 44 22 5 : Harwich - 21 Leigh lll 244 130 10 963 3 9 Mal l * WhCexaitt,LwmhsiFto:DoldJA4 ..- 711 491 630 56 242 JAN. 31. -46Priceswto-4dalys twoer4e6,as; forul_:.dloiroi:o:ria.. CHELMSFORD, JAN. 3l.—Prices to-day were IS fOiIOW. Wheat, white, old 428 to 465; new 41s to 465 ; red ' ai ° o 36s to 415; new, 365 to 408; barley, 25s to 295 ; th e b s. 21s to . 298; grinding 18s to 246; oats 155 to 208 ; 31111 "_ h_e asaltioe white,t o 565; new, peas, 26s 2 t0 95 5 to p 2 ar B t o r ; idge slew' ; 5o :I de,to -0•27, dun, new, 265 to 285; beans, tick, new 245 to 26s ; to 27s ; harrow ticks, new 255 to 278; old 00s to 001 ; . zagan, new 231 to 25s ; old 00s to 00s per qr. re d $o COLCHESTER, Frs. I.—Wheat, white 423 to 461 ; to 408; barley 225 to 28s ; beans, mazagan 226 to 235; and small 246 to 28s ; peas 26s to 28s per qr. KIKKALDT, Frs. I.—The following are the quotatioSl for grain : Wheat. :Barley. 'First 433 Od 255 Od Second 408 Od 20s Od Third 358 Od 183 Od Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs HADDINGTON, J•N. 31.--Th, grain at our market to-day:— Wheat. Oats. Ifs 6d 17s 6d 153 6d I imperial, ie followin Beans. .....5 oq ---; 04 —s Od 26s Od to ir are the 1 13°14 ..-11i o 1 1.4--(11 nd. 27§ --. 1 Pr'c. „ Bis' Barley. 1 vats. ~, 0 4 First ... ... 42s Od 27s 6d 20s Od .v s 0 Second ' ... ... 36s 5d 26. 3d I 188 4d zu s • 0 4 Third ... .. 32s Od 20s Oct 14s 6d , 2 A j i 00 14 1 Total quantity of Wheat in market 556 qrs., 3 '.' 14 27 2 6° I Do. Barley do. 273 qrs., , a s olo Do. Oats do. 633 qrs., 1 7 2 1 01 l Do. Beans do. 96 qrs. ” a 9 A i. GLASGOW, JAN. 29.—Provisions—Cheese, 4 05 t° 'o4et per cwt ; retail, 5d to 6d per II). Skim milk, 20s Od to Os nor. cwt. Country fresh butter, 11 to Od per lb. Jr' s " ' 841 dered, in lumps, 9d to 94d ; coun t r y p ow dered, wholes], to to Od. Country eggs, 10d p er d ozen; carr ied hen rlitobalke, per 120, or 8d per dozen. H en s, 3 s Od per pair' 2s Od. OP d i° ' PERTH, JAN. 31.—Wheat, old, 00s Od to 00s ,ow new, 36s to 401 ; barley, new, 20s Od to 23. cd ; oatlt tr osir 18s; peas and beans, 23s Od to 25. per quarter. ' l ' per sack, 00s to 28s. I 1 84 KELso, JAN. 31.—Wheat, old, 28 s to 32. 6d; ditto , e e 'pa; to 30s Od ; barley, new, 12s Od to 17 s 6d ; ditto old, Os : D A potato oats, 00s to 00s Od ; ditto new, 12s to 14s Od l ° of 04 oats 00s Od to 00s Od ; ditto new, 11s to 13s Od ; Pee s ' L e is, to 20s 0d ; beans, 19 s t o 20. per b o ll o f s i x i m perial bsso dit io, STIRLING, JAN. 31.—Wheat, foreign, 20s to 2 4 1 i home, Os to Os; ditto ditto new, 20s 3d to 00s Od_ ,rb er ,i e t io d '94• boll of 6 bushels, POs Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 15$ oeL m i l 34; Oats, common, 00s Od to 00s ; ditto new, 10s 0405 Tvi;-1101,10 ditto, Flemish, Os Oct to Os Od; ditto ditto new, 7jor distillers, 31$ to 33s 6d ; city:, brewers, 33.0 d to 345' IP per boll, 00s Od to 00s Od; ditto new, 12s Od to 14s Od; 1) . ! - 10 Od to Oes Od; flour, new per sack, 31s to 33s Od; ditto ,c,"" - , a 041 ditto, 18s 6d to 20s Od ; oa t mea l, per l oa d, 25s Od ,t°,l-6.04; ' ditto new 25s Od to 26s 6d • ditto per peck of 71bst 7„"" OE fresh butter per lb, 8d to 9d; eggs per dozen, O e I " hay per ton, Os Od to Os ; ditto new, 84s Od to 855• „,, WI BERWICK, JAN. 30.—Wheat, 36s lid ; barley, ` l l O , oats, 17s 6id ; rye, 00s Od ; beans, 24s Od; barle y, - average per imperial quarter. ,„. bald' HAWICY, JAN. 30.—Wheat, new, 30s to 311 Od; , all new, 14s 6d to 163 ; ditto old, 00s Od to 00s Od ; I Pets- aOse l j lbs Oct to 16s Od ; common oats, 11s Od to 145; pe w 'gsper lP to 23. Od ; beans, 20s Od to 23. Od per boll of E x bushels. : ale FALKIRK, JAN. 30.—The supp ly of 'a in this I market was 632 b o lls ; w h ea t at 1 6s 3d to 19s 6d . r0l b° o4 barley, 16s Oct to 17 s 6d ; oa t s , 10 s 9d to 13 s 6d; bel'-' to 14s 3d per boil ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. COAL MAIM ET.—YEaTERDAT• Buddle's W. Hartley 138 6cllfietton .................. Chester Main l3s Od Keepier Grange ..... Davison's West Hartley 14s Od :Lumley ................. Howard's W. H. Neth. 14s Od 'Richmund.. ..... North Percy Hartley l3s OdlScarborough ........... Tanfield Moor Wylam Wall's End,' &c. Gosforth Harton 13s 6d S A e d u e t i h ai H de a T rt e l es epoo : ......... ... Hedley Morrison Original Gibson Riddell ..... ... ...... Walker Lambton Primrose Belmont l4s 3d Braddyll Ships at m - ............ iSeymour Tees ...... 19 9 1 South Durham ......... 19 tia Tees ................ 143 n A Cowpan Hartley '' 14s Derwentwaterual"' 131 1 ' Nixon'sHartle '0 Merthyr 3 Cardiff ........ larket. 178. RAILWAY SHARE MARKS BRISTOL, FES. 3. h Ott STOCK EXCHANGB.—The s h are mar k e t was 111 to-day, and a good business doing. The transaction . 2 do as follow :—Great Western, 89 3 4—Ditto, New ( 171) '25Y , —London and North-Western, 132 South- western, LIVERPOOL, FKB. 3. t STOCK EXCHANGE.—Th e s h are market was no t to-day, but prices are w e ll supporte d . T he transse',s, 01 " as follow : Birk en h ea d, L ancashire, and Ches hire, I far —Caledonian, 10%—Ch ester and Holyhead, PrefereocUreet ranteed 51A 2 per cent., 15 1 4—East Lancashire, 1 %,„ if ll l Northern, 6 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 58--- 1 -' 1 ".1 t e,1 111 7% dis.—Ditto, 201. F Shares, 1 7-16 dis.--Lan e r - 4 .,1 0 f. Preston, Twelfth Shares, 6%4—Leeds and Thirsk, 1 ,1011A,„ - don, Brighton, and South Coast, 96—London and 01111 Western, 130—Ditto, New Quarters, 474 I). — l)ll 4efti ► 5 % p.—Ditto, Quarters (C), 3 p.—Manchester , c or s i and Lincolnshire, 27 —Ditto, Preference, 11 — llldll/3 0 8% _ Nor 0 01/ —Ditto, Halves, 17% dis.—North British, fordshire, 7 1 4 dis.—North Union (A), 237—Ditto , to rn ol l ° 8,44 1 p.—North-Western, 12 7 16. dia.— South-E 0 OSP Dover, 21%—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 20's 24 e unpaid- up, 2A, dis.—York and North Midland , A N Northern of Fra nce , 5 ,‘, c. dis.—South St a ffordshire , - Rouen and Havre, 11%. MANCHESTER, FEB. 3. tip STOCK EXCIIMICIE.-1 be market has been v e '.' gi ass e. to-day, with an upwar d tendency in prices. erh r so i r e, Lions were as follow : —E aatern Counties, 7—Esetltill.c.oll, 13 1 h—Ditto, Prefe rence , 7%—Leeds Stock, bals 244 - Staffordshire, 7A, di s .—S out h - E astern and D ov e: , London and North-Western, New Quarters, u -- 50e,„, (C), Quarters, 3 p.—Chester Junction, 114, ,„ `" — , 1 1 . 10" 7 Staffordshire, 3!,i dis —She ffi eld, P re ference. " 24%* New Preference, 98.3 d. p.—York and North Midlan d ' tir BIRMINGHAM, FEn. 3. . 4 °log STOCK EXCHANGE. —Th ere was li tt l e busine— day, but prices were firm. The transactions were as fo ua North Staffordshire, 738 dis.—South St a ffordshir e l im i (.P —Great North ern , 18— S hrewsbury and Birlaillg -434 dis. _,,,, Ai YORK, FEB. 1. '„dAUI-01 .ok, to - dal . STOCK EXCHANG X .—Th e tran sactions _ 10110 W :- Great N ort h ern, 18 York. Newcastle , 205 i—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 4%. WO! THE TEETH. —How often do we find t i t ' of „ i ll ' face divine disfigured by neglecting the chie fs Ow; ornaments, and the breath made disagreeable note. panions by non-attention to the teeth! Thoug h h r n , in their structure and composition, to keep S ble; °,ff pure and healthy state requires some little ton k otr i if those who are blessed with well-formed te9l o aigk ti how soon decay steals into the mouth, making % D el what otherwise are delightful to admire. Bed t i e l v o ",e, unhealthiness by the impurity of the breath, th e y no expense to chase away these fatal P otie g o i, But although most ladies are careful, and event c ielw lar in these delicate matters, yet few are s t ! d i o g, aware of the imperative necessity of fat en d a t noxious or mineral substances of an acrid ust"'; ( 1804" which the greater part of the cheap tooth - P. fo ete't the present day are composed. It is highly s etl ;9o o° ,,: to point out Messrs. Rowlands' Odonto, or r egr ioael ) ,,,'"i frice, as a preparation free from all injurious %of and eminently calculated to embellish and pre" to o dental dental structure, to impart a grateful tragrae''",, o f breath, and to embellish and perpetuate the grace- ' a mouth. -h ; 1, 4 41 INTERESTING FACT. —The following 5. 13 .0 11 ., f 4 V, authentic case of restoration of the human hair 14 . observation, more parti , zularly as it relates to 01 . high and universal repute during the last half ce n 'Lita b A. Herrmann, of Queen•street, Soho, had been, 1- , for -11. for some time past, and had tried various prepare -I°n It. recovery of his hair, but without any beneficial relgeo—w, was then induced to try the effects of " Rowlands' nt be %l l,l Oil," and after daily applying it for about tiff° ra ,,redf much to his gratification, had his hair quite resS"„ - e iclj a . now possesses a beautiful head of hair. This fact s rgy strongly for itself to require comment. — B ells ee senger. et , [ADVERTISEMENT.]—BeII's Life in day next, Feb. 9.—Turf Prospects for 1851- 44 1;* - e gato for the Spring Handicaps—Critical Remarks. O . otw o ct Horses in training in England and Ireland—B aci rrneo l °.jelf and latest moves at the Corner - Steeplechases at,'„ - Arial t hs elsewhere—The Chase, Coursing, .Aquatics, r e n - e nt Angling, Salmon Fishing, and every sporting in c 'Lb. ; Oa week—Opening of Parliament—The Queen's SP:` - „rail l of Bell's Life, Sixpence.—Office, 170, Strand. •"'' of Bell's Life in London, 29,000. Fl a 011 ' 0 [ ADVE RTIsEMENT.] —IS CoNstturrtork , -- - ° f at, , j 'ale ASTHMA, &c., cunanz?—A Report of some of the MI: :PITO forms of Disease of the Throat, Lungs, Heart, and Stom ac h ' to PAP lished for the Committee, by Dr. Cronin, M.D., PllP'"'„,cceo tions .41r; cester-square Dispensary for Consumption Ciontn's peculiar treatment in the cure'of those 1 1 .". 1 " thO. A u 4- 114" have hitherto generally battled every attempt at carer !r" e gr. l c :, first talent had been applied to, sad the most co nsurn.; o - lo l e ; V" been exerted for that purpose, is most satisfactorily 41 " - 001 11 port." — Preface.—Werthel in and Co. Paternoster- row Martln-le-Grani ; and at the author 's residence, 1 4 . Leicester-square. Price 2d.. by post 3d. BIRTHS. O F • 80 F. WS' Y.-- tit On the 30th u lt., at Edinburgh, the Hon. - . rYl O n n Pi t e h il e a l y st . o l inst., at Grove-enthroad, St. Jobl f3.ll- n o wife of D. W. D ow li ng, E sq. I 0' Ott the 31st ult., a 7 W A ine lj h A es l ;e 6 r, li t T h ic e it. wifo of L ie/4814° .1, G. Eddington, 95th R egiment. eif o . On the 3 P oth ult., at Stadham ton Oxoel, t he I( . f It. Goodwin, Esq., of twin daughters. ' MARRIED. .1114 it ° On the Ist inst., at St. George's, flanorer -5 1 — , st dSug Orme, Esq., of Fitzroy-square, to Emily, youn f g. ; `,. be", of T. Metcalfe, Esq., of Hertford - street . Msay - ""',:f lA'Loa On the Ist inst.. at Wigborough, Mr. S large , o f Pi" head, Surrey, t o E mma, second surviving daug hter Harvey, Esq , Coppid- hail, Essex. of tb° MED On the 31st ult. . , at Booth= John Broolt, Esq., • ir city of Yolk, al - i ed 81. wo o On the 30ro ult., Rebecca, relict of the ,litt , 9 llre v Loll° 14 of llighwood-hill, Middlesex, aged 77. On the 31st ult., at Lee-park ,- Blackheath , :s.anne. wet' second daughter of the Rev. H. Dale. -pa ard r On the 31st ult., John Gomm, Esq of •••-•-* if viin ifs Portman-square, aged 50. 11, t he On the 31st ult., a t Camberwell•grove, m ll5 irsll - Mr. James Southern. , job° On the Ist inst., a t B r i xton-r i se, Surrey 11 kampff, Esq., aged 76. e ide t On the Ist inst., aged 22, Thomas James. -- - , e of Mr. T. 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