The Sun. — London, England, 1850-02-22 00:00:00

to the interests which—(The conclusion of the sentence was drowned in loud cries of " Hear, hear.") Well, at least so far as intention is concerned, I entreat you to consider whether I could have any personal—(Cheers) —or political object—(Hear, hear)—in giving the counsel which I gave and in recommending the mea sures whict were adopted. With regard to other charges or other language—admitting that there ought to be, with respect both to the conduct and the motives of public men, the utmost latitude of discussion—l shall not complain of any terms which have been used. The only charge that I shall refer to is one which was brought against me by the Noble Lord the Member for Notting hamshire (Lord 11. Bentinck), who not only imputed to Yne mi4atatement3, but who publicly declared at a meet ing in his county that I h a d a p r i va t e an d p ersona l in terestin recommending those changes of the law whisk I had proposed in 1846.—(Cheers.) Sir, I think it would be as well it we abstained in our political controversies from imputing to each other dishonest motives. — (Cheers.) I should be disposed to give to the Noble Lord, in any course he might take, credit for the purity of his motives, even while I felt it my duty to censure and denounce that Bourse.—(Cheers.) But the Noble Lord has not treated me with that consideration. He not only thinks that my course has been moat impolitic and most unjust—be not only thinks that I was un faithful to the interests I was bound to protect—(Cheers and counter cheers)—but he says that I was influenced by considerations of private, paltry gain in advising the repeal of the corn-laws.—(Cheers.) And the Noble Lord founds his charge against me on this allega tion—that my interest in funded property far exceeded the interest which I had in land.—(Cheers and laughter.) The Noble Lord had, it appears, condescended to make inquiry into my private circumstances, and undertook to inform those who listened to him at the meeting that my interest in land was only one-fourth of the interest I bad in the funds, and that, therefore, I had a direct pecuniary motive itradvising the repeal of the corn-laws.—(Cheers.) Well, I am sure, Sir, I do not deprecate any reference to my private affairs which the Noble Lord may think it consistent with his public duty to make. I may say I should have borne with much less calmness and equanimity the charges against me if I deprecated inquiry and emu ruination into any act, public or private, connected with the discharge of my duty to the Crown.—(Cheers.) But this I think I have a right to complain of—that the Noble Lord did not act fairly—that, if he thought it fitting to charge me with personal motives, and founded his charge on circumstances of a private nature, he should, I think, have made himself intimate with the facts, and not have preferred charges on assumptions utterly and totally erroneous.—(Loud cheers.) Sir, I shall not trouble the House with reference to private nasneers; I shall only say on this point, *at if the Noble Lord happened to state exactly the reverse of what he did say he would have been much nearer the truth.— (Cheers and laughter.) I hope, therefore, that however ungrateful he may think my course, or however impo litic, he will at lecet acquit me cf any intention to derive personal gain from the policy I have pursued; and in future, before you denounce the conduct of any public man as treacherous, let me advise you to place your selves in tho 'situation in which that public man was placed, and to consider the duties which devolved upon him. When I and those with whom I acted in concur rence, my valued friends and colleagues—when we de termined that it was our duty to propose to the Legisla ture the repeal of the duty on food we were threatened with a portentous and most grievous calamity, and it was impossible for us to know to what extent the dis order which affected the food cf a large portion of the people of Ireland might go. We knew this, however, that in Ireland alone 4,000,000 of men depended on one article of subsistence. We knew that that article of sub sisterce was seriously threatened, and I must say for one that I did feel it my duty as a public man to take pre cautions, even should they turn out to be superfluous, ugliest the occurrence cf a calamity which might he fatal to the peace of Viso country, and to the existence of many thousands.—(Loud cheers.) Nay, more, I did believe it would not be conducive to the intereets of the anrinultural classes themselves to see the effact of disease end fiamine, and yet refuse the natural remedy—namely, ieoree;eil supplies of the means of suleeistence. lal feel, Sir—this duty once removed—that in the stat 3 of public opinion and of public petdilecri n which existed, a conflict far the revival cf. it would not be for the interests of the landlords.—(Cheers.) The Noble Lord oppOeite (Lord J. Russe!l) had come to the same conclusion. He did rot, I believe, intend to ecnbalrass the course of Government; but he had also come to the conclusion that the duties on corn should be repealed or euepemled, and that after their euspereidon their revival would be impossible—art least impossible without a con flict which would be injurious to the interest of those for whose 'Armitage protection was established.— (Cheers.) Sir, it was my sincere belief—l thought it my duty— a duty I owed to God and to my country—if there was a chancy of famine, to take the precau tion which alone could be taken, and to suspend the duties.—(Cheers.) I did conscientiously believe that a , ter that suspension it would b e m os t unw i se t o give a vledge for the revival and renewal of those duties as they then stood. I may have been mis taken, Sir, but all subsequent events have confirmed my impression that we were not in error, and that the course we have taken has been a wise one. —(Cheers.) But if it had been mistaken, would I have had any personal or political object to gain in forfeiting your good opinion —in relinquishing office—in exposing myself to the abuse and vituperation of those who had been nay friends, and—infinitely more galling and more painful—in losing your confidence?—(Loud cheers.) But I must submit to it, and, submitting, I declare that the interval which has passed has only confirmed my confidence in the prudence of the course that was adopted in pursuance of the policy of those commercial principles which were acted on subsequently to 1842, and to which the present Government has, infinitely to my satisfaction, steadily and consistentl adhered.—(Cheer ing.) Sir, I agree with the Hon. Gentleman—l am no enemy to the landed interest; all my prejudices, sympa thies, and interests are connected with it—l agree with him, that the land is the stable basis of the country. — (Loud Protectionist cheering.) I should deplore the day when the land lost its legitimate influence, but my belief is that that day will never come. My belief is that the land will always retain its legitimate influence. Why, you are now exclaiming that if there were a dissolution of Parliament, and new elections took place, so predomi nant is the influence of the land that you would re turn a Parliament which should revive protection.— (Loud cheers.) I totally differ from you with respect to that result. It is my firm belief protection never will and never can revive —(Loud cheers and counter-cheers) —but you convince me you think the just influence of the land is not diminished when you prophesy that you can restore protection.—(Renewed cheering.) The lapse of time, the progress of public opinion, the altera tions of institutions and manners, make great changes in the causes which contribute to the influence of landed property. It would now be utterly impossible to clothe the land with the privileges it possessed at the time the feudal system was imposed. All institutions have alike been compelled to change and modify the grounds on which they maintain popularity. Queen Victoria can not speak to the House of Commons in the tone in which Queen Elizabeth addressed them; but I doubt whether tree influence of Queen Victoria, though great preroga tives of the ;Crown have been relinquished—l doubt if her influence in your affectionate attachment and willing, ooeinence is not greater than that which Queen Elizabeth enjoyed.—(Loud and universal cheering.) So it has been with the privileges of the Aristocracy—so it has been with the privileges or the House of Commons. There was a time when he who fished in your ponds would have been apprehended and punished for a breach of privilege.— (Laughter.) You made wise concessions to justice —old abuses are gone, but has your legitimate influence de creased? No, but it has been derived from other sources. feur willing uteradonment of what could not be justly maintained has given you ample compensation in the hearts of the people; and so it hat been with the heed. The froward retention of old enactments and old ptivi sees would only undermine, not sustain your power. It tthe time having arrived when the relinquishment f pridestion was more for your permanent advantage than retaining it after a severe struggle, my belief is that, by relinguishing and I}y giving to the poor and to the labouring classes the ivcata;;es unrestricted imports, by doing it willingly, when there was no immediate pres sure upon you % when there was no threat, no menace, you have received ample compensation in the point of in crewed influence and authority. Your great influence eannet be diminished. It is founded en ancient institu tions--in the nature of the Constitution, and in your high character, and depend on it that it will not be abated because you have refused to receive pecuniary advantage by increasing the price of corn, and reviving the restrict:ma on the rood of the people.—(Cheers.) I felt sure your interest was intimately connected and in tn.wovee with the general prosperity of the country. It may be premature now t o d ec i de on the ultimate results. of toe policy we have pursued—(Cheers) —but 11 - le not entitled prematurely COU( 1 .11111 it.—(Cheers.) am speeeking at a momer t when the exports manufac turing produce in this the first year of free trade in corn have exceedul by 10,000,000/. the exports of the last year during which restriction on food prevailed. lam speaking at a time when there is general contentment and submission to the law, when crime has been dimi• niched, when prosperity has been increased, when there has been an increased consumption of food—if you will not admit that all these have been the results of our commercial policy you cannot deny that they have been effects concurrent with it.—(Loud cheers.) 1 don't taunt the Honourable Gentleman for not bringing forward the question of protection; but Ido deplore that there has not been, and is not likely to be, an opportunity for testing, by discussion, the merit; c f that great question. It is, I cannot help feeling, unfor tunate that, by some direct vote, we cannot decide whether protection shall be revived or not. It would be important to set at rest the minds of the occupying tenant„ cln this subject—it would be important to en eoarage them to appl y t h emselves to the improvement c the land.-"( Cheers.) I wish the landlords would only unikrstand that it is by improvement, by the applica tion of skill, by facilitating the exertions of his tenantry, th:.t he must rely fur the ability to meet foreign compe tition. and that he must abandon the hope of protection. —(Cheers.) My firm belief is that protection is unte nable; but I am sorry it is not brought to the t.st by a dis t inct motion by which the opinion of the House of Commons could be ascertained. If it were brought forward, I should then state at length the gr,.;unds ou Which I adhere to the principles en which I sated in 1542, and on which I should implore you net to check the confi denae that has been reposed in the justice and wisdom of Parliament. I should ask you to trust to the revival of agricultural prosperity, by continuing the enc,airage ment of labour, by increasing the demand fir your pro duce, by removing every remr.rrht of restriction, by giving to this great people, possessed of such advantages as no oth er country in the world enjoys— in the com mend of skill, of coal, of capital—of ev e ry element of prosperity —a fiee supply of food; I should implore you to trust to these privileges, to your superiority, and all those national advantages, and never again to seek by THE SUN, restrictions on commerce to abate the motives for enter prise and encouragement to perseverance and industry. —(Loud cheering.) These, Sir, are the opinions which I adopted some years ago, and which, upon a deliberate review of the condition of the country, have been con firmed by all subsequent experience. To these opinions I adhere, and I hope I shall not live to see the day when the House of Commons will retrace its steps.—(The Right Hon. Baronet resumed his seat amid loud and continued cheering.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, before the House came to a division, it was his duty to state, why, as a Minister of the Crown, he felt it incumbent on him to resist the motion of the Hon. Member for Buckinghamshire. The Hon. Gentleman had proposed to go into a Committee to - consider the poor-rates and other burdens affecting the landed interest. The Hon. Gentleman had told them, that if they so went into Committee, be should propose three resolutions, the effect of which would be to transfer to the Consolidated Fund the whole ex penses of the poor-law establishment charges, and some half-million of other charges. The Hon. Gentleman had said, that upwards of two millions would be so trans ferred; and then he went on to state that this was the first of a series of measures which it was intended to propose, with the view of lessening the burdens on land. He objected to the propositions, in the first instance, because he thought the allegations were founded on an injustice. If it had been established that this sacrifice was just, then why, he asked, should not the remaining ten millions which the Hon. Gentleman contended were unfairly placed on the agricultural interest also be transferred to the Consolidated Fund? The claim of justice—if claim existed—applied to the whole twelve millions, as well as to the two millions which the Hon. Gentleman proposed to transfer. The Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Ripon was fully justifies when he said that the Hon. Member for Bucks contem plated that this was not the only charge unduly affect ing the landed interest, but that twelve or fourteen mil- Hoes would follow the proposal that was made. In the next place, he (Lord John Russell) did not believe there was any justice in this claim. He did not think, if they compared the whole burdens of this country laid on va rious classes, that there was that unfair pressure on; the landed interest which the Hon. Gentleman asserted. Let them consider how far the other classes, as com pared with the agricultural classes, were affected by taxation. With regard to the legacy duty, it did not affect landed property, while it applied to personal pro perty There were also the excise and customs duties. Having shown that the claim was not founded in justice, he asked, was it expedient to make the transfer pro posed. As a Minister of the Crown, he was not bound to presume that there would be a surplus revenue of two millions, ort hat the House would deal wish that sum as available, and if there were not those two millions, then the Honourable Gentleman would have to pro pose new taxes, but further than that, he must say, that having increased the debt of this country within the last few years, it would be their duty to see that any probable surplus over expenditure should be applied to the diminution of the debt, as so increased. In the next place, supposing that the House was to de cide that the whole surplus should go at once to the re vision of taxes, he did not see that they were called upon to decidelat oncelthat the whole of the revision should be on the taxes of real property, and thus preclude them selves giving any relief to those engaged in industry.— (dear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman who made this pro position said he did not ask for relief for the great landed proprietor:, but for the 240,000 small proprietors, the yeomanry of the country, whom he professed to repre sent. Well, then, how would his proposal affect them as compared with the removal of other taxes? In the evi dence given before the Lords' Commttee, he found that the present taxes on stamps were in the following ratio: —On 50/. there was a duty of 30 per cent.—upon 12,5001. 1 per cent. —upon 25,000/., 15s. per cent.—and upon 100,000/. a duty of only 12s. on the 1001.—Bear, hear.) It appeared, therefore, that the small landed prop: ietor who wished to effect a mortgage for 501. would have to pay in stamps and law charges a duty of 30 per cent., while the rich and large proprietor who might effect a mortgage of 100,0001. would onlypay 12s. percent. He thought it was not consistent to ask the House to come to any resolution which might have the effect of pre cluding the Government from proposing, or the House from making, any revision of those taxes which would lighten the unequal burdens which pressed upon the smell yeomaery themselves. H e did no t mean to enter upon topics which had been so ably treated by the Right Bon. Baronet the Member for Ripon, or the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Turaworth. There was only one thing in the speech of the Right Hon. Member fir Ripon which he felt compelled to notice, which might otherwise give rise to very serious appre hensions in one of our colonies. He meant the proposal that a tax should be put upon colonial timber.—(Hear, hear.) He would not then discuss the question whether Parliament had done rightly in reducing the duty on Canadian timber to one shilling per load. The act had been done, and considering that in 1843 the Canadians had been induced to expect that they would have a pre ference in the corn market of this country—an expecta tion which had been disappointed by subsequent legisla tion—he did think that it would now be a great injustice to levy any further duty upon timber. But resetting to the proposal of the Hon.:Member for Bucks, he repeated that its adoption would preclude them from taking any steps to diminish the debt which had been contracted within the last few years, and would also deprive them of any opportunity of reducing the taxation, which now pressed either upon the industrious or the propertied classes. It would, he thought be wiser to wait until the financial statement for the year was laid before the House, and they were in a condition to judge of the whole case, before they came to any reso lution whatever. The Right Honourable Member for the Oxford University had said that his Right Honour able Friend (Sir G. Grey) stated that the resolution would not preclude them from considering the pro priety of transferring these charges to the Consolidated Fund; but then his Right Honourable Friend stated, that he merely meant certain small charges which could be more effectually dealt with in that way, but which would not be of any great advantage to the agricultural classes specially. N or , i n d ee d, did h e think° that real property was a species of property that had any special claim upon them for relief.—(Cheers,) Besides this it was not certain that this remission would in the slight est degree benefit the tenant-farmers, for whom it was ostensibly asked. But there was another circumstance of great importance, which must not be overlooked in considering this question, and that was the in creased expenditure which would be caused by the transfer proposed. As long as that expenditure was defrayed out of the local rates, there was a guarantee for economy, and a strong disposition on the part of guardians to use it, which it would be very difficult for his Right Hon. Friend, the President of the Poor-luw Board, to enforce if the whole was transferred to a ge neral fund. But besides the transfer of the establish ment charges, the Hon. Gentleman proposed to transfer the casual poor.—(Hear, hear.) He had heard that proposal with great surprise, because, if there was one class of poor that was liable to increase more than an other, it was the casual poor. Upon a former occasion, Mr. Ward had stated in that House that the rest for the casual poor had increased in Sheffield, in the course of a few years, from 131. 15s. to 500/.—(Hear, hear.) Ile did not see how his Right Hon. Friend could control or check expenditure in that class. It could only be done by vigilant local control. Ile came to the conclusion, then, that it eas not desirable to make the proposed transfer, either on account of the charges themselves so proposed to be transferred, or on account of the increased expenditure it would occaelon. But there was another part of the state ment which the Honourable Gentleman had made, and which had also been made by others holding the same views, which deserved serious consideration. The Hon. Gentleman said that this must not be considered as a payment of the whole debt due to the landed interest, but merely as an instalment, and had intimated that he was prepared with a series af measures to follow this as fm tiler instalments of the assume f debt. Well, were they prepared to adopt Vie:e measures.—(hear, hear.) The Right Honourable Member for the University of Oxford, said he aas not, and that agreeing to one did not imply support of the others. But that it was part of one consecutive policy was skown by the speech of the Hon. Member for Bucks, and by the views of those by whom he was supported. The political presented by lion. Member from his own constituents prayed fur duties on all articles of foleigril import, cf course in cludieg corn. The measure, therefore, was intended, in the first place, to lead to the placing the poor-law esta blishment charges on the Consolidated Fund, and in the next plies to leas to the restoration of protectiva duties. He must confess he was considerably surpra•ed at the manner in which the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Gladstone) had argued this question. lie said give the Protectionists the first of these series of measures in order to weaken their chance c f its re,toratior. The Right Honourabla Gentleman was celebrated for his logic at the University, he now represent; d, but he must certainly say that such logic as that was widely differ eat to anything ho had ever heard b it h.root:dierizetsu.i,gb. light f h ut e hoe u n s ui u 3u a or l :s process was to prevent an opponent rem getting any advantage or accession of power, but towgooulidutc7Cvoermsme Committee Gentlemant o agree food, which e measurethe R g l h o t r i t i li o e n o r e u s r t a o b r i a e t i o G n e n o duce some the Protectionists would immediately intro sisted in abolishing. If they the Gentleman an dutieshad as stated such a paltry relief, as it would be considered by refused the restoration of protection s , ZuoewlarleoltYri and weaken or allay agitation in the country. Ile believed on the contrary, that this agitation would he ten times greater than now. Though he confessed he under stocd the object c f the Honourable lelember for Buck inghamshire, he could not understand those who, being asminst the end, yet voted for the means.-- (Ht ar, hear.) The agriculturists might thick the Go. vernrnent was insensible to their distress, and rEfused thew relief. lie eineenly liymputhise ci with - _ that distress, but he believed that the} wjuld not only seriously disappoint them, but seriously injure themit such a resolution as that was passed. A s to the burdens on the 18.0, he would state, that while 2s. :3d. of the di rect taxation fe!l upon real property in 1815, has than 14 , 11 upon it in 1849, and as the la - id had also ris•en in value, he did not see any just ground in the pro posal now made. The tine interest of the landed pro- prietors of this country was to encourage manufactures and commerce, to promote the general .prosperity of the country, because nobody would more largely participate in it than they would. It they did this, it they bent their energies to the improvement of the cultivation of the land, instead of truploying their time and money in au a:jtation which a Noble Duke hal avowed was in tended to t urn a G overnment out of office and restor e protecti on , they would most effectually promote their o•vu prosperity.—(Hear, hear.) The continuance of this agitabion could only tend to prolong 014 distress that existed, and to unsettle men's minds. If it was terminated, he had no doubt that tho agricultural classes would act as Mr. Lind say bad done in the case of the navigation-laws. He fought stoutly for them last year, but as soon as they were repealed he said—" I feel it to be my duty now to make the best of my ships, to introduce a supe rior class of officers and men, and to take every D3C4surp that might enable me to compete with the world." If the shipowner could do this, who had to send his vessels abroad, why could not the firmer and landlord do so, who had their own market at their own doors?—(Hear, hear.) Another great error was committed when it was stated that the land in other countries was less heavily laden than in this country. In France the proportion was 80 per cent., in Prussia 20 per cent.; of the whole revenue. If this was the case, let the landed interest of England look to their own means, their own intelligence, for success in the great and useful pursuit in which they were engaged.—(Cheers.) For his own part, he be lieved with the Right lion. Baronet (Sir Robert Peel) that they would preserve the influence they had hitherto exercisd. In the course of his speech that Right Hon. Gentleman had alluded to some matters personal to himself. He must express his regret that the Right Hon. Baronet should have been induced by any attack upon his motives to notice such attacks.—(Hear, hear.) Whatever might be the motives by which the Right Honourable Baronet was actuated in the course he adopted in 1846—a course in which he con curred—his belief was that full justice would be done in this time and in all future times to the purity and disin terestedness of those motives by which he was actuated. —(Loud cheers.) The Right Honourable Baronet at that time commanded a great majority in the House of Commons. It was in his power, if he thought fit, to maintain the corn -Jaws he had himself brought forward, and he (Lord J. Russell) fully believed that nothing but a sense of duty to his Sovereign—(Cheers)—to his country—(Cheers)—to those with whom he acted— (Loud cries of " Oh, oh," from the Protectionists, answered by cheers)—a sense of duty alone had induced the Right Honourable Baronet to take the course he then did.—(Renewed and louder cheers.) He did not mean to express any opinion whether the course adopted was at the time the best calculated to produce all the benefits which undoubtedly he intended, but this he did say, that it would be to reduce the noble science of social and economical legislation to mere party :squabble, and to degrade the statesmen who led that House, if such sordid and selfish motives were attributed to them when they acted in accordance with their deep conviction of duty. —(Renewed cheers.) He trusted that the Right Hon. Baronet would in future think it unnecessary to defend himself from such attacks, but whenever ho did he would be certain of a generous response.—(Greet cheering.) Lord H. BENTINCK rose, amidst considerab'e ex citement. He said, that at that late hour of the night it was from no feeling of vanity that be ventured to claim the attention of the House for a few minutes. If the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth had con fined himself to what he really did say, and had adminis tered a rebuke upon that, the sharper his criticism the better. But he had nut confined himself to the expres sions of which he complained, but had given way to a weakness which sometimes induced him to fasten upon men inferior to himself in standing and ability, and had expressed opinions which he thought had been rather hastily endorsed by the Noble Lord.—(Protectionist cheers.) The Right Hon. Baronet had accused him of falsehood and treachery. Sir R. PEEL—I said falsehood, not treachery. Lord H. BENTINCK continued—Well, treachery and falsehood amounted to the same thing. He pre sumed that what the Right Hon. Baronet alluded to was what had taken place at the meeting at which he (Lord H. Bentinck) had been present, and had stated that he believed that the Right Honourable Baronet was better enabled to deal liberally with his tenants than many landlords who had no funded property, and that be believed that only one quarter of the fortune of the Right Honourable Baronet was ir..- vested in land, and three-quarters in the funds. If the Right Hon. Baronet would now get up and state that the contrary was the case, he would retract that statement.— (Oh, oh.) He had also stated that the measure proposed by the Right Hon. Baronet had had the effect of im proving his own fortune at the expense of the country, and in support of that statement ho would merely quote the statement of the late Sir Robert Peel, that the Cur rency Bill of 1819 would ruin the country, but it would raise the fortune of his family.—(Loud cries of " Oh, oh," and Protectionist cheers.) Sir R. PEEL—I am really quite ashamed to trouble the House again on this subject.—(Cheers.) The Noble Lord was reported to have said at a public meeting that I was directly and personally interested in proposing the repeal of the corn-laws, because he had good reason to believe that, with respect to my property, it consisted three-fourths of money in the funds, and one-fourth in landed estates.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord now asks me whether I have not something on mortgages? —(Much laughter.) Now, I hope it will be satisfactory to the NotOe Lord, .if I tell him that I have not one single shilling upon mortgages.—(Laughter.) What I said was, that if he would just reverse his proportion, and say that my property consisted three-fourths in land, and one-fourth in the funds, he would be nearer the truth.—(Cheers.) Mr. DISRAELI said that when ha looked to the meaning of the motion he was bound, as he believed every other unbiased Member was, to aver that every Hon. Member who opposed it had altogether avoided dis cussing the question at issue. For he would ask the House, was the support of the poor looked to in any other light than that of throwing the onus of their sup port principally upon the landed interest? He did not mean at present to allude to the law of settlement, as to the support of the poor, nor should he make the slightest allusion to it, but that the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir George Grey) had laid such stress and emphasis on it in his very elaborate speech. For his own part he would avoid alluding to it any further, particularly as he intended to make it a distinct question at another time. When the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir G. Grey) said that he (Mr. Dis raeli) confounded agricultural property with real pro perty, as to the assessment of the poor-rate, he felt bound to state that the Right Hon. Gentleman was mistaken. He saw nothing more important than that the landed interest should be as it ought to be, and that public opinion should be as much as possible advanced in the cause of truth, humanity, and justice.— (Hear, hear.) In a word, he believed the returns brought forward by the Right Honourable Gentleman to osT b vyf e i hes erroneous , her:Rirmeatoimnmi selfishness e n hsas s uaps t, thoug h dhpioneeattributedn specialrywt Eadii wishing dhriotnn h nogo e ett p leading,ttwhto aohe o tbge u hyae 2altdmol motionbremn jima o deano t br odte h witfrnh a hhgtf v ei iao e scox: hopb r aßj e at t ich c i oepotesnytuoi proposed. argseaoel(ndhopstdeaotogi tittle dsr t ete jidl degree o G f r re ferred him (Mr. Disraeli) to the railways; but to him he would reply, that his motion tended to serve net only the landed interest, but the railway interest, and every other interest in the community; and when that lion. Baronet had pronounced his measure as enormous, he would not make any reply to that assertion, as so many Honourable Gentlemen had clearly and intelligibly controverted his arguments.—(The Honourable Gentleman here road a part of the speech of the Right Honourable Baronet (Sir J. Graham) delivered on March 17, 1845, in which he adverted to the landed interest as being un duly burdened). Again, the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tama orth (Sir Robert Peel) said that he wished that an opportunity would be afforded him for discussing the merits and demerits of protection; but to that he should say that he had frequently that opportu nity, andevhenever it was alluded to by that Right Hon. Baronet, it was always :Vended with the gravity and importance of Parliamentary mystery.—(Laughter.) t be should say that tho Right Hon. Baronet hail ad mitted, when in Committee with him, that the landed interest was unduly oppressed. He also recollected that the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) answered to a ques tion as to his opinion on this point, that he was of the same opinion as the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel); but what the benefit of this similarity cf opinion was no one ever knew since. The only thing he could infer from it was, that one of the Right lion. Baronets was for the reduction of the duty on bricks, while the Noble Lord was for the reduction of stamp duties.—(Laugh ter.) Now, it is necessary to look to the interest that both those parties took in the case of landlord and tenant. The Right Hon. Baronet (Sir J. Graham), Rho was a great landed proprietor, said he had made a great sacri fice for the interest of the community at large.—(lleer, hear.) The Honourable Member for Wolverhampton made a magnificent arr a y o f t h e i ntent i on of the Government, for the purpose of reducing taxation as much as possible. He would refer to the speeches of those Honourable Gentlemen, and find a con siderable contrariety, if not a :contradiction, existing among them. The Right Hon. Baronet (Sir J. Graham) pointedly alluded to the speech of a Noble Duke, and seemed to infer that thero were apprehensions that it was the intention of their party to subvert the Govern ment, and to dissolve Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) In his (Mr. Disraeli's) opinion there teemed to be no appre hension that there were " two Richmonds in the field." He would next refer to what the Right Hon. Barom t had said respecting the decision of the House, yet he should say, though he did not wish to oppose the opinion of the House, that the Right Hon. Baronet had exag gerated his views of Parliamentary authority. He (Mr. Disraeli) denied that a question of such importance could be settled by the House of Commons. He considered net hie motion affected no less the interests of England than it did that of Ireland, and he hoped that the Irish. Members would look to their own and their country's interest. (Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman's speech that night was one in vin dication of character, and he had been making such. speeches for the last four years. Eminent as the Right Hon. Gentleman was, he was not too great, aed he would recommend him to say, as did Cosmo de Medi cis, that for the future he would appeal to posterity. (Loud cries of "Hear, hear.") He (Mr. Disraeli) de nied that his motion was a reversal of the measure of free trade. He denied above all that it was a measure to assist landlords, and for the benefit of the aris tocracy. It was a measure for the benefit of 250,000 lauded proprietors and 700,000 farmers. It would be the commencement of a new era, which would increase the resources of the country, and would be tho fore runner of measures which would elevate the character of the peasantry of England.—(The Hon. Gentleman them resumed his seat amid loud Protectionist cheers.) The House then divided, when there appeared— For Mr. Disraeli's motion 252 Against it 273 Majority against the motion --21 The announcement of the numbers was received with cheers by the Protectionists. The House immediately afterwards adjourned, at Half past One o'clock. NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY,—. The half-ye-arly gancral meeting of this company was held yesterday at the company's offices at the Bishops gate Station; Richard Paterson, Esq., in the chair. The attendance of shareholders was but scanty, and the whole of the business consikted in reading the report and de• Glaring a dividend, after which the meeting separated. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Van Dietnen's Land. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NEW, ENLARGED, AND CHEAPER EDITION. With the Omitted Passages Restored, numerous additional Notes, and a General Index. Now ready, complete in 5 vols., with Illus trations, 10s. 6d. each bound, PEPYS' DIARY and CORRESPONDENCE. Edited by LORD BRAYBROOKE. " A work of standard importance in English literature."—Athe natum. " Pepys' Diary is hi a very high d •gree historically valuabl Timm " The most remarkable production of its kind which has ever been given to the world."—Edinburgh Review. " These volumes are unique in literature." —Blackwood's Mag. Renry.Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. JAMES ANDERSON. Tills EVEN; Nit, Will be presented, by her Majesty's Servants, The Play of THE LADY OF LYONS. Claude Meluotte, Mr. J Anderson ; tteauseant, Air. Montague ; Glavis, Mr. Parry; eieneral Damas, Mr. Baker; M. Desehapelles, Mr. Davidge ; Pauline Des. chapelles, Miss Yandenhofy. To conclude with THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Characters by Messrs. Biker, Davidge, Rafter, Arland; Mrs. Winstan!ey, Miss Nelson, and Miss ltuddart. Privata Loud, V. 35., 21. 12a. 6d., 21. 25., H. 1 ls. 6d., and 1/. Is. Stalls, ss. each. 8. d. s. d. FIRST PRICE. SECOND PRICE. Boxes - - 4 0. Boxes - - 2 0 Pit - - - 2 0 Pit • - - 1 0 Lower Gallery - 1 0 Lower Gallery - 0 6 Upper Gallery - 0 6 No Half-price to Upper Gallery. Box - book-keeper, Mr. J. Povey. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sele T.Mee and Manager, Old Brompton. TIIIS EVENING, • Will be presented an entirely new and original Comedy, entitled LEAP YEAR ; or, The Ladies' Privilege. Sir Solomon Solus, Ai r. Keeley ; Captain Mouser, Mr. Selhy ; Mr. Dimple, Mr. Buckstone ; William Walker ; Mr. Charles Kean ; Mrs. Flora Flowerilew, Mrs. Charles Kean ; Miss Sally O'Leary, Mrs. Fitzwilllam ; Mrs. Crisp, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which WilliS YOUR FRIEND ? To conclude with the successful and laughable Farce, called an kLARNi ENG SICRIFICL. Bob Ticket, Mr. Buckstene ; Susan Sweetapple, Mrs. Iltzwilliam. The Box-offlee is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THEATRE ROYAL, .ADELPIII. Uteder tke direction or Madame Celeste. THIS EVENT Q, Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW COPSE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bid fare , 0. Smith, Worrell ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. After which MY PRECIOUS BETSY_ Characters by Messrs. Wright, Bedford, Worrell; Miss Harding, and Mrs. F. Matthews. To RANKENSTE IN; or, The Model Ma n . eranken st'o conclude ein,34r,Nirlgilith Y t ; the What is It? Mr. P. Bedford; Zamiel, Mr. 0. Smith ; Otto of Rosenberg, Miss Woolgar ; Tiddlewincz, Miss E. Chaplin ; Agatha, Miss Coveny ; Undine, Miss E. Harding. PRrNCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox. ;tole Lessee and Manner. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Opera of THE NIGHT DANCERS. To conclude with KING JAMIE ; or, Harlequin and Magic Fiddle larlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Clown, Mr. Flex note ; Columbine, bliss Fawcett. NEW ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Sole Lessee, Mr. W. Watts, St. John's Wood. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE STRANGER. The Stranger, Mr. Daven• port ; Mrs. Haller, Miss P. Vining. • After which CATCHING AN HEIRESS. To conclude with DON CiESAR DE BAZAN. Don Cfesar, Mr, Davenport; Lazarillo, Miss Marshall ; Maritana, Miss Yining. St. JAMES'S THEATRE. FRENCII PLAYS AND OPERA COUIQUE. Last Week brit One of M. CHOLLErS Engagement. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the French Performances at the St. Jaines'sTheatre will commence THIS EVENING, At Half-past Seven, when will be performed LES FRERES DONDAINE. After which LE POS fILLON DE LONJUMEAU. Chapelou, M CLollet. The Box-office of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till Five. Boxes and Stalls at Mr. Mltchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATUE. Under the Managerneat of Madame VeStria. Solo Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews. 'MIR EVENING, Will be performed CHARLES THE TWELFTH. After which THE ISLAND OF JEWELS. To conclude with A PRACTICAL MAN. Dress Boxes bs. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Plt, 25.; Gallery, Is. No half-price to any part of the house. ♦ll applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Allcroft, 15 New Bond-street. A STL E Y'S ROYAL AM PHI TILEATKE. Yroprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Au entire change in the Scenes of the Arena. New Grand Spectacle. THIS .EVENING, The performance win commence at a Quarter to Seven. with a new Grand Spectacle of THE CORSE DE LEON; or, the Brigand of Savoy. To be tollowed by a brilliant display of Batty's peerless scenes of the Circle, supported by the accomplished artistes of the establish ment. To conclude with BESS OF THE BELL; or, The Love Story. liox-otEce open from Eleven tiLt four. RIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tim DAY orning, 36 min. after 9 I Evening, 7 min. after 10 To-Nfelnow— , rntne, 51 min. alter 10 I Evening, 34 min after 1 THE WEATHER.—SUN OFEICE, FEB. 22. THEMIOMETER, Lowest, 35; Higheit, 50; Noon, 52, _ . . BAROMETER. 3016. WIND W.N.W.—fine sunshiny weather. N. I. .o 4 * r t , , .. . E&, , • 1, l A' •;I' , ' -'," . • - -4 ir• -----13;'''.4-. lilt Until% gilitit LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1850. Amusingly enough the Protectionists are actually pluming themselves on the result of last night's divi sion in the Commons. What where the numbers ? they inquire in a tone of exultation. For Mr. DISRAELI'S motion, 252. Against it, 273. Majority for Government, 21. " This," saith the organ of monopoly, floating over the bottomless gulf of Oblivion, with the red flag of Protection nailed to the mast, " this is a virtual majority for Protection. Deduct the placemen who voted with Ministers, and to-morrow the Court Circular would have announced that Lord STANLEY had the honour of an interview with her MAJESTY yesterday." A. DANIEL! yea, a very DANIEL come to judgment! "Deduct," say we, " from the foregoing declaratio ns all its gigantic absurdity and impossibility, and within a fortnight all the journals of Europe would contain the particulars of a tremendous revolution in this country." Little do these wiseacres of the Country Party dream of the terrific powers, the irrepressible passions, the all-conquering ambition they are now trifling with. The ground on w hi c h t h ey are performing their grotesque antics is already quicken ing with a politic al , ityN e , a o r u t l h d qu h a e ke. well Before that i t t h b ey e t s o h o o l u a l t d e is a story told by cer t a i n travel ;ms el , e f b o e r w a t h r e e lets cf countries in which the soil is perfo rated by the craters of apparently extinct volcanoes, into which cavities, if a pebble be cast, the abyss groans, the earth becomes tormented by sudden Con vulsione, and at length an eruption of great violence commences, the mountain vomiting forth as of old its molten lava and red hot ashes. It may be so with reference to the frivolous taunts and pertina cious provocations of Protection, continually hurled as they are from county platforms and from the Oppo sition benches of the Parliament into the seemingly extinct volcano of the Anti-Corn-law agitation. Let these legislative triflers be more cautious, if they have any regard whatever for the maintenance of na tional tranquillity. Let them beware of rousing that storm which of all tempests is the least easily allayed—the storm of popular indignation! They are rubbing away very industriously at the old lamp of Protection : let them beware, we repeat —or they may summon up the Destroying Genius of Re bellion We have read descriptions of the hurricanes that sometimes blow across the level countries of America —where at the indications of their approach the inhabitants of a house descend i nto its subterraneous cellars, buttoning down the trap door afterwards. Not unfrequently, when those hurricanes have passed over, and the people emerge from their refuge underground, they behold nothing but the sky overhead—all vestige of their dwelling•house having disappeared. During 1848, and many times previously, we have witnessed political hurricanes quite as destructive—hurricanes sweeping away like dust the colossal institutions of the dif ferent states of Christendom, and clearing the ground for the erection of new fabrics of a severely Demo cratic character. Those men in England who are now tempting upon themselves their evil des tiny should bear in recollection that, in the midst of these hurricanes of popular wrath, they will find no crevice in which to creep from the fury of the prevailing devastation. Before the witheri ng breath of a re vo l u ti on men as well as institutions are liable to perish. They should take these considera tions into account, for we tell them plainly, we tell them boldly, and without any hesitation whatever— Before you can restore the great wrong of Mono poly, before you can cause the law to retrograde from the present system of unrestricted commerce, before you can contrive to replace the new scheme of Free Trade by the old scheme of Protection, you will lied it necessary to force the country through all the horrors of a Revolution / Last evening it was most solemnly and emphati cally proclaimed in the British House of Commons by the late Prime Minister of England—" It is my firm belief that protection never will and never can be revived." It assuredly never will be revived, it never can be revived, except by force of bayonets and gun powder. Nevertheless while we are profoundly eon. FEBRUARY 22, 1850 vinced of this, we see in the cause of monopoly a cause altogether so hopeless and impotent that we regard the fuming and vapour ing of its advocates with a feeling of contemptuous indifference. Their noisiest orations an so entirely the, flatulent ebullitions of an innocuous revenge, that we have heart to cry out defiantly with LEAs in the play,—" Blow winds., crack your cheeks But, it may be asked, how it comes for the nonce that a minority, in itself so contemptible, should find itself swelled out to such respectable dimensions in last night's division ? We reply, that f.r this the bickerings of faction are answerable—that the Irish representatives are re sponsible for a large portion of the odium thereby attached to the Legislature. Were the same spirit of petty revenge carried out much further, we should soon perceive that if the principle of JoHNIIIITcnEn has obtained small recognition, his example has proved largely contagious among his fellow-countrymen in the Legislature—their aim being, in fact, identical with his, namely, " the disruption and downfal of the bloody old British empire." Before this can be accoui- plished, however, it should be borne in mind that the British empire is still defended by the stalwart hearts and brawny arms of the great race of the Anglo-Saxons. Most appropriate and felicitous was the quotation from ALEXANDER POPE cited yesterday, at the meet• ing at Willis's Rooms, by Lord CARLISLE. The happy prophecy of the poet as to the advent of a day when Unbounded Thames should flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide" will meet with a very literal realisation at the period of the Great Industrial Exhibition ; and not only will the letter but the spirit of the prophecy be then ful filled. Not only will individuals of all nations be actually gathered together by the great meeting to be holden in London in 1851, but the very proposi tion, and the peculiar terms of the proposition, for that assembly Will effect much, and have already effected much, towards strengthen ing and developing the bonds of interna tional amity. The meeting held yesterday in Westminster was in this, as in all other reTects, worthy of the occasion on which it was convened. At that meeting the Foreign Ministers of France, of America, of Prussia, and of Belgium, vied with each other in tendering, in the names of their re respective nations, an expression of generous admira tion at the suggestion, and an offer of cordial co operation in the furtherance of the proposed under taking—an undertaking in every way worthy of the British nation, and eminently creditable to the en lightened Prince who has rendered himself so honourably conspicuous in its promotion. The very appearance of the various Ambassadors on the platform yesterday was an exquisitely appropriate recognition of that universal character which forms the peculiar and glorious feature of the proposed exhibition. In addition to the appearance of those Ambassadors, and in addition to the eloquent truths set forth in their various discourses, the meet ing of yesterday was rendered attractive by the pre sence of the Earl of Castrasr.r, whose enlightened and accomplished mind and liberal principles eminently qualified him for taking a conspicuous part on suet an occasion. Very justly did the Noble Earl re• mind his auditors of the peculiar fitness of the pro. posed festival for the peculiar characteristics o the age we live in. " If," be argued, " in cultivated Greece they delighted in games adapted to the public taste, if the sterner Romans took pleasure in the dying throes of the gladiator, or the bloody struggles of wild beasts, very surely at the present day, in order to be national and becoming to the spirit of the age we live in, industry, skill, and enterprise, should have in their turn their own ova tion=, their own triumphs, their own high holding, when the workmen and work women of the world may escape for a time from their unceasing toils, fur the purpose of seeing what their fellow-workmen are doing, and can do, the whole world over." Very justly did Lord CARLISLE cite this peculiar feature of the Exhibition as one which entitled it to general support. It is to be, in fact, an ovation to Skill and Enterprise and Industry, those three great powers to whom, humanly speaking, this great country is wholly indebted for her national prospe rity and magnificence. Therefore, as the French Ambassador truly said, there could be no better arena for the contest, than the metropolis of England. A nation of shopkeepers we have been styled in de rision, and we are now about to show that in the noblest signification of the word—inasmuch as it signifies individual skill and industry, and mutual co- operation and beneficence—we are proud of the title. Some few years back a member of the aris• tocracy boldly ventured to assert the pre-eminence of mercantile over hereditary honour— " The land it boasts its titled hoots, they cannot Tie with these, The merchants of old England, the Seigneurs of the seas." And now we find all 'classes, from Royalty down wards, uniting to afford a world-wide evidence of the high estimation in Which this country holds the noble industrial arts. It is, however, superfluous again to enumerate the excellent effects likely to arise from the industrial festival. Regarding it merely as a sign of the times we live in, it is productiie only of satisfaction. It is satisfactory, inasmuch as it is a na tional homage to the peaceful arts, and it is more than satisfactory, as being, as the American Minister happily styled it, a great Peace Convention. While foreign nations have, by the lips of their Am bassadors, freely tendered us all the assistance we re quire of them, it remains for the British nation indi vidually v,-Jrthily to consummate that portion of the arrangements in which she asks for no foreign help. " This country,'' said Lord CAaniaLr, " enters the lists of competition with the whole world, but it does not forget that it has to discharge the office of hospi tality. The competition is to be international, but the preparations ought to be wholly national." This determination is entirely consonant with the national feeling—it remains to be seen whether in a financial point of view the undertaking will be rendered worthy of its high object, and of the liberal character of the British people, a question which can hardly be con sidered as admitting of the slightest doubt. Among the speakers at the meeting of yesterday was Lord BROUGHAM, who for that occasion only transgressed a rule he has kept for twenty years, namely, never to attend a public meeting. The occasion was well worthy of forming an exception to the rule. WEST INDIA MAIL. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 22.—The Trent arrived this morning with West India and Mexican mails. She brings 450,000 dollars cn merchants' accounts, and the exact number in manifest for the Mexican divi dends is 1,392 dollars. There is also on freight a guar:- tity of cochineal, jalap, cigars, tz.:c. The Jamaica markets had undergone no reaction since the 17th ult., the date of advi&es v:d New York per Em pire City steamer. The Clyde had arrived with the Mexican mails, which was transhipped on board the Treat, on account of its being necessary for that vessel to return to England for repairs. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COM. PANY.—The usunl half-yearly meeting of this corn p4ny was held this day, at twelve &clod:, at the Euston-square 'station. The report recommended that a dividend of 21. 15s. per cent. be declared for the six months. The proceedings had not concluded when we went to press. SINGULAR ItZCOFERY OF STOLEN PROPERTY.— On SaturdAy week, near twelve o'clock, a party of the detective oflicer', , either, from information supplied, or from their own &uspic , i;ns, entered the small cheap auction shop of a man named (Larne, situated on the south side of Tron gate, for the pur r ose of making a survey. The man wit.; knocking off silk and other goods at what is termed an "immense a.eri113.2," when the police ?mind it cxpeciient, to stop the sale., and clear the shop of the onlookers and purchase:;., On an examination, they turned out 139 silk aa' satin handkerchiefs, cravats, &c., many of the ar tide; of a very superior description, and which there is now no doubt formed part of the plunder of the sh op of Aliss lel4Kinlay in Kilmarnock, which, one night last month was broken into by bur. glars, and alma ;t the whole stock carried away. Dining the pa t winter the housebreakings in Glasgow have , not exceeded an average ; they have possibly b see less ; but in several provincial towns, such as A' yr, Lilmarnock, Paisley, Stirling, Fal kirk, and Perth, t here have been many daring cases of housebreaking, in. which, in the aggregate, property to e amount ne thousands o -- 1 1 ' . pounds bad been stolen. We trut -the seizure which has now been made will throw some light on these proceedings.—Glasgow Herald. COBDE K.,—We regret to liarn that a domestic affliction prover !zed Mr. Cobden from attending the de bate (qa Mr. Di vraeli's motion. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEW CITY, QUARTER TO TIM 17 E. The sales or Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000 bales, of which 2,000 American were take❑ on specula tion. The market closed steadily, but all dy!cripticns were -41. per lb. lower.—ln Rlilway Shares only a Emit d business was done, and the market clot-d heavily. We observe that there continues to be a marked degree of caution observed in the produce markets, and the speculators have temporarily withdrawn, so that t e business doing is principally for home use. Hold,is, On the other hand, do not press sales, and thus there is a manifest want of activity in the two great !Aaples, Sugar and Coffee. Tea also is in le:.s r. quest; and at the public sales a limited proportion only has found buyers, at lower rates. A demand has arisen for Cassia Li gnus, and other spices have been more debit in. Tallow has been heevy. The Wool and Indigo auctions have been well attended, but there is a dull trade in Cotton and Hemp. The following is a statement, received per Overland Mail, of the quantity of Ceylon coffee to arrive:— Per Sailed. Bags. Casks. Reflector ..... 29 Oct., 1849 ... 2,400 ... 253 Garland Grove 8 Nov. „ ... 5,907 ... 212 Olinda Sarah Cambria... 6 Dec. „ .. 3,431 ... 2:13 Hope Calphurnia... Nile ......... .., Robert Seppings Asia.. Kestrie Dispatch l2 Dec., 1849 ... 71'4 ... ~ Narc:ssus ... 8 Dec. 693 ... "1 ••• 2,859 cwt, 35,578 5,M9 The telegraph announces the arrival of the Trent steamer with late advices from the \Vett India Islands, as well as the Mexican mail. The specie on board amounts to 200,000 dollars. No letters have yet ar rived, but the summary appears in another column. Port Philip and Adelaide advices of the 2il and 6th November state that trade was rather dull. The new wool had not come down for shipment. These accounts are by overland mail, and consequently there is not the usual supply of letters and papers. The Funds are rather heavier to-day, owing to the small majority cf Ministers in Parliament last evening; but another and more potent cause is the anxiety to wait until the anniversary of the French Revolution is over. Consols have been 951 to 4 for Transfer, and 954 to for Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 97 i to 98i, and the Three per Cents. 95;1 to -I. Bank Stock is 206 to 207. Exchequer-1411s are 545. to 575. premium. In the Foreign market Peruvian Bonds have partially recovered, the Active Bonds being 784 to 80, and the Deferred 33i to 34k. Mexican Stock is et 29i. The remittance for the dividend, per Trent, is 80,000 dollars, as was advised parr telegraph to New York early this week. Grenada Bonds have been nominally 174- to 18,1, and Equador 34 to 4. Brazil St,ck is 88 to 90; and Buenos Ayes 53 to 60. Spanish Five per Cents. have realised 184- to 19, and Portuguese Four per Cents. 32i to 33i. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. realise 55. Railway Shares are quiet. ONE O'C LOCK. G FRIrES. P _,,,r:,. OF UST'S!' vUNDN t - ank Stock 207 205 -- -200 3 per Cent. Reduced Ar;ns ... 9331% . 9J5k B:per Cent. Consols Annuities ........ 95% U !)5 1 / s New : - t.i perCeut. Anne— ... ... 98 1 / 8 97% 9771 8 New 5 per Cent. Annuities Long Anna. to expire Jan.lB6o -16 8 9-16 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 -16 8 7-16 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5,1860 B% 8% India Bonds, 1,0001 Ditto under 1,000/.. South Sea Stock Consols for Account 9 51 . Y. 4 I Exchequer iiii le. 1141:. & Zu 500/. June .. ...... ... 54 p Small, Juno PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. cis E O'CLOCK. M 0,4 tN ta ?RICE S Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 ... Ditto, Account . Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. .. Ditto 5 per Cent. Grenada Beads, 11 , .; per Cent — Ditto Deferred Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons . Ditto. Account Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto, Account ..... .... Ditto Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto,4 per Cent. Ditto, Account — Russian Bonds Ditto Scrip .......... 2 IA p Venezuela Bonds, 21 i1 p er Cent ... Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2 14 per Cent., 12 Guild. .. 55 55 1 4 Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates... 86% 85 86 PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY sIIARES. PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bristol and Exeter 92 ...... 64 Ditto, Thirds .. ..... 281 Caledonian Ohester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference l 5 Eastern Counties—. Do., New Pref.rence, fi per Cent .. lO ...... UN. ........ —.... 1 11:% East Lancashire 25 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Great Northern Do., 5 per Cent. Pref 1214 l O 3 / 4... ........... 10% Groat North of England.loo 227 ............... 227 Ditto. New, 301 Great Western 100 Ditto, 1% Shares .. ... 15 1 4. ........... .. 151 i Ditto, New 171 l5 ... .. 7%!.4 ...... ..-.. 7:% Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 Do. Fifths... Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Thirak ...... 50 London, Brighton, and South Coast... ..... 103 ...... 80% Do., New, guaranteed 6 per Cent . ...100 London and N Western 100 lOB 108% . Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 Ditto, Fifths l2 .... 12%14 l 2 l /2 Midland ....... ...It° .... 4 42% .. 4278 Do•Consol.Bristol and Do., do., 50/. Shares 30 ..,- .. 5 1 ,E 5l Birming., 6 per ct.... 160 ...... ... Norfolk ...... ......... 100 North British ... ..... ... 2 6 5 4 ..... 4014 x. 1 i............ 2 x.i 010 Ditto, Quarters Ditto Preference North Staffordshire ... 171 , 1 6% GI/ Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ..... 60 Reading, Gaildford, and Reigate l5 —.. 15 3 A 35 , ..... South Eastern Do., Registered No. 4 10 Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... .. Do. do. dc. ... 25 York, Newcastle, and Berwick..... Do. Newcastle Exten, 20 Do. G& .N.Preference 8 ..... 29 4 ............. 21 4 York and North Midland 50 ...... 1tq 1 1,4 a .. IS% tito, Preference ...... 10 ...... FOREIGN RAIL viA Y. Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Dutch Rhenish ... .... 8 .. 2 , A MINES. Australian United Ilexican 2B 4 % 5 % MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY.) 83 p 105 3 A D. 5143 5_ 1 p 51i) N l / 2 1 7 4,96 29 33 1 4 33 p 34 918 :) 80% ,9% 15% 57/s .1651.- • CORN-EXCHANGEFRIDAY. Notwithstanding that the arrivals of English Wheat have increased to some extent since Wednesday, the show of samples of that grain here to-day (as the car- goes had been chiefly disposed of prior to being im ported) was small. Selected qualities moved off steadily, at fully Monday's quotations. In the middling and in ferior kinds, so little was doing, that prices were almost nominal. Upwards of 7,000 quarters of Foreign Wheat have come to hand this week. This addition to the sup. ply checked the pretensions of the importers, and only a moderate business was transacted, at unaltered curren cies. Fine Seed Barley was firm, and quite as dear. Grinding and distilling sorts ruled dull. A large supply of Malt was on offer. That article moved off heavily, at barely late rates. The show of Oats was trifling. Fine parcels sold freely, at full prices. Damp qualities were neglected. In Beans and Peas, as well as Flour, no change took place. Indian Corn, afloat, was offering on easier terms. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Flour. Qrs. Qrs. Q7 B-- -• QrB. sacks English ....•• 1,5100 , _ 390 2 2 p 980 3 710 5 , 960 _ , Scotch.... _ _ Irish .... Foreign .... •• 7,220 600 Barley. Oats. Malt. ns--motTGre: 1103? MAN. 7 9 4 Vr pi i Our mat ket is very bare of fire samples of IloPg 3. .. th-• d, /mod for tlu m is in a sluggish tt t:-!, at last wee. P i prices. In all other kinds next to nothing' is drain;!, 2 ' l A ' , 7 have . sellers on rather lower terms. New AL la . i , :, 1 .,.. 1 ' t hew; Pockets, 61 Gs to 111 lls ; new Wes !d 3 ,,,' 46 .1.1 11 e li n oc t ,s; d ; i y t i, t ie o .-tivyri 6 iin i ertgr ,l ii s shuas t rn k. s ) ,,.. : ; slew Siss e x dit t o, 3 . 1 8 3 3. 1 '',„' to 3/15s. ,12,121thos13to1;3371a5rsli;ngoilCdeinioi 9, 11, 1 1 , it -. COLOBTI.B.I. SUGAR —Tn' e market. nas rub d quiet this wed' f , e all , ieLcriptions, anti rice:p have been favourable. . 0 buyers. Burbadoes, by auction, has realised 41s Gd i , 42s Gil for line yellow, and 38s to 40s 6d for inieldlir i to gond. Crystalized Demerara hat beers sold at 4( ° to 47 : , . 48, ea to 51 f 4 REFINED.—Grocery Limp have be en at s per cwt. • EAST _ T NDlA.—MilUrithlS at public sale. will'' ' . 6 0 heavily, •B yellow 384 to 38e 6 , 1, and brown 284 to 323 • 1 : Ben gal has been Gd to is lower for the inferior descri: . tions ; fine white Benures has been sold at 41s to 4 1.. ',. strong yellow at 42e to 445, and brown at 29 5 t h ° ‘ , 3 1 : ; Madras declined Is per cwt, good and fine sat, `;, r i - ,, - t: t selling at 29s to 303 Gd, low to good yellow s"" 33s Gd, and white at 39s to 39s 6d. d at boll 384 FOREIGN—White Havannsh has been sold in 256 to 25s 6d per cwt, yellow has been taken ill a n 38 3 : to 39a 6d for low and mid, and - at 40s to 425 f or, good and whi t fi e n e h , as d f u o t u y nd pa b id uy ; brown ers at4 3 os 6s 6 6 d d t o t 0 4 3 1 7 0 a ; 6 a d n . d F e ; aar buco was taken in at 20s to 235 for dark white* but 0 COFFEE.—This article also has ruled dull; little ' holders G do not press sales, prices have varied but ll kee for 6 Gt it,, 3, o sGa u ct7 c t l 6soGs o f:7oB r 2,r d scal N nofoodvls a r.t t a i mr v n l e i ad Ceylon n 6c o 11 4es e y r tl e(o)dn6bbsyas has s ob u re c e t fin i 0 a or a 6 3, 5 6,1 a-ea -err y. Jamaica l ow mid Vr 45 .3 fie , Rica h has been cheaper, g °°"l3u 1 1(15 ord 48s to Ms, and Java rils to 5 0 s 6d; 1• 41 G111711 % 0 ' realised 44s to 44s Gd for good ord,. and 494 6cl fo,.r fit, CocoA.—Trinidad has realised 44s to 495 Sd Ir' being full rates. b us in e ss SPlCES.—Cassia has improved, and a lardeo . t f ained u p d o o tnio n ,B e et ei , phnl b pe3ge u laar t alpt a t ee h Gtsr e t6icr : lwag d ditee v . s a advance a d e w . a s r n r o i e t e s barn r a l o x a ; whoY mains ! has been 7 r d om per lo lb ss ; and White been rather dearer. tro'a:.l:i2:oaseolodrcia:;ndbeisa, . mid ET so a r E t at 4d, and Malabar at . Sumatra Pepper Wog m -4,d to 4td. Bourbon realised 8d to 80 . . SALTPETRE.—CaIcutta cent, 51 per cent refraction, good quality, 27s 6d ' O t“i rd 9 XI $' 726 CS a 6 1 C d I 1 , 1 n as dras went at 25s to 25s 6 im a li d i r c a E s . f — r o ß in e n B g , a t l o h 9 a: d ranged . d. from 8s a to 9s 6 u' - INDIGO.—Th TALLow.—The to this time. , 0 5 V p u u nib b a, l .r i c k e s talliess very ye dull,progress e p d . I s te . : LI : 4 IC TEL—At the , Of per cwt on the spot. .• ed , g si" b of tic sa es 8 „0 a ' di which about 2,000 were sold, the totalsold b el ir er ati ' . packages out of 18,900 offered, 5,000 w ithoUt 11 0 0 01 , in prices. The sale rather improved towards tb e dt; ' l5 w GREEN witb F a Tr a I d T v . — a n T ee h e of market s 3 fo s r e Orangesbex,oroli I . : g i r i , outeor t o 4 numerous arrivals here as well as at the advance has not been sustained, and t h r ee2 u s b r i g io si of St. Michael sold by Keeling and Ilunt, at t' went at a reduction of is to 2s per box. A .d in ' i • ca ge Seville Sours, sold by the same parties, l ai3u ; go ,; frosted state, sold at a low figure and but on e „ fl o r al . "0 t t 3a.12 has per ei. been cent, pesl itt2ao°lBt 'l:ll.2fifat2seos3 NI 12:6110e:clit cea II la: loPe;elbs. rule; Puhco::::: i 1 jr: i l good condition now remains in first bands , o'7 7, - ' I S ! I f )" expected this season. The holders of Bar cei( V l ii c a o n ntinue firm. The stock of ChesnutS Vali' indifferent sale. Lemons without alterstiov. (.) I 9 ' --, -- ----- - i Pi t/ ' - , --YD S SHIPPING—(THP , 1 1 LONDON, L breeZ ° ' ‘ FEB.F . E fine. 13 22.—Wind W.N.W., fresh ter , a ; . the i. itli , - Elliz3e,AtiFniFdna.d.2l.l—'utWbinacdk,WS.a—ntAiprorrde., Belfaide ,r° d l3 Australia. OFF DOVER, FEB. 21. SI dering Lge n ,,-T eP . 5 % 1 17 ° . 11 - -- S 0' PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 217- 1 : 1 1/1:d W. to i tV" V4 )Tir' American Eagle, New York. ES, FEB.W. N.W. B. 21.—Wind bi C in ° Kig lv stasdr, Pernambuco. . N. w........Arri1• AT 01', c ,..... EnrsTor., FEB. 21.—Wind W.N.W.2 str°P'. ea, Maid of Erin, H a r r y, Buenos Ayres . MILFoRD, FEB. 20.—Wind N.lV.—Slel. 1;1°1' Cord 0 Mobile; Georgiana, Wilmington. ; ht f r A , LIVERPOOL, FEB. 21.—1 t blew hard last 1 1 4 47. 5.' the westward, but to-day it is more moderat° et T ilo o d i : —The William Rodger, of Drogheda, has put b ,,, 3c Ar' ti having been on shore on tho North ' 13) r t h'e I sie 1 Wyoming, Miereker, Philadelphia; Star 0 - 's Lomber, New York; Middlesex, 'Snow, 13090g* to t 0 1 j ) , MARGATE, FEB. 21.—The stern and s terol ) sioL wreck, with yards and sails, supposed of th e shIP ti have been fallen in with. ..,Arl SOUTHAMPTON WATER, FE B . 22, 8 31: " * The Steamer from th e West Indies. ~.„. BIDEFORD.—Arrd. Emma, from Newport fOr Fl . (' P mouth, leaky. a ool k P WARKWORTH, FEB. 21.—The Mary , L' mr f c)c- Grangemouth, has put in herr, having bee n °Il the Ar ) re T er h s e Il r o e u e s n e t HOUSE Ol? LORDS.—(T ILIS 1)44.1. "1 sa w t •o a re g - Bishop of Non.' 0 Brougham, Earl Nelk. 'on, and the r nil 1 e el PETRIE 1. LORD GRAY . a The further arguments in this part - heard app ' p par - i s pit d their Lordships the whole morning. slltg "' TnE DUKE OF HAMILTON V. THE MAGISTE— ii TOWN COUNCIL OF HAMILTON. , 10 tb Th • eir Lordships gave judgment yesterdogaw„ 0 :iinthteo-dLaoyvito Chancellor,eals. 1,01 appeal, affirming,: the judgment of the Court be;,: v is t) Nothing of the least interest occurred to Vice-Chancellor's Court. c . ‘ 'lO lO. 0 --- The Master of the Rolla sit at the Privy .I C°l'',.ol• 0 1 ) JUDICIAL COMMII"hE, 0-L.V "1 y • , a t t PRIVY COUNCIL.—(THIS hisie.tl It, (Before L or d BRouGHAM, Lord CAMPBELL , L e jjon - of the R OLLS , Si r E DWARD RYAN, an d the r PEMBERTON LEIGH.) T ., Dill A ft il ‘' a h r e i e s t :S s O i out situated ANUND This appeal LAI. SING DEO, APPELLANT, AND :gti - - DHERAJ GARROOD NAR ntRAP- -- ' v iv p( o r Rajship of Pa l e ' d e -1-51°3 t° afi r i 01 gunny of Kasaeper, formerly ispu e the zoil ill . _..: :, part of district of the ..,tl9O. 00a Mahals, in the presidency of Ya.i:: the3:sod consi s " n o t 0 ginally of twenty-two er Bengal, The "P ellB o3ilY' e 3 gunner. _ a ___,, oo fa si i E jse respondent are both P members of the l'i "t,,, rea , t , whose possession the Rojship of Pacheet 0 ' be fore 1 •:A for sev I era. generations; and the qu estion at to r Council related to the right of the resl 3 °, ° ":, ra° I le same the pergunna of K - which l'ad l ' e-- ° f t aseeper, • (al ba Of by an ancestor of the respondent to the ' t t ot 10 appellant fur his life. i JO: I 0 1 The MASTER of the ROLLS delivered the •• ii R. the Council this • • deck,,on v f pp 0 morning, and their the a , they would recommend to her Majesty sh av e t he o°l to ought to be dismissed, and that the decree w• " we e ~, below in Indi a oug h t to b e affirmed. 13 gal l " 6 Mr. Turner, M r . F ors yth, an d Mr. 3. • --- ', l ,,st w 5,. counsel for th e a pp e ll ant ; an d the respe e li r' Afoe'' I' presented by Mr. Wi gram , M r . Lloyd, aria ' y. P -- QUEEN'S BENcH._(TI-11- Q A Ml' gr. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall , before 1 0 COLERIDGE and a Special Jury.) n cto l P BARKER V. GIBSON• eek e y 4 This action is brought by Mr. Barker, the • do s„ advertising agent, to recover from the dtfl'dgerisit ;; Gibson, a banker at Saffron Welder, 797 1 . 1 . .'" 0 Ce° '' rthe r tig a railway scheme called the Eastern rind Ile . n too ties Junction Railway, 661., file cost of an °Tot, e° ' r by the committ ee in Mr. Barker's Milne , 30 I w as in another simil ar act i on. r The case, which was part-beard yeSterdAY, , a mimed this morning• ! „,. w for t' e Sir F. THESIGER , was addressing the J.•. , , ' 4 fence when our report left. alli fl9s CITA , NGES "--,- 0 PO' t, 17-"...............— THE INLAND Bivi;;;_v_i :: —M r. ar t r p h a o v rn is t: E n, sci late Deputy-Chairmen el:gr-4.fp'l;i:j r .u t i z z p re s a a ori r N id of r v i l,th : E x eD e ß s N:la h r a ( s i (s,furic:icaducddittoevteno",ilc;° the r°°' 11 01 ' Series " of LOND —OH Wednesday • ' at Exeter .Ball, with various dee l "A r toe tc. ao' prove ments the plan, which conduce it,. to render in fi e r r s i t t e C r toani Concert n u , t s d " Tre s P r i l ' i c a v i j . more the programme higher 4 1 c' T he e pr`' worthy h I. : ha l e :6 soNrecT:Td.r, E V: e it o si:r i v ie e i ; general r stir]] a tion , r ,, ot ° b e a i ... spucia m s ents are alluded to in the Pe ss°P s ' 14 t e l . t h ‘ sire of man the directors announce tbuti series o nee any of the subscribers, the SPringily corny° the London Wednesday Concerts will gce er° ' un d th o t o with a grand orchestral symphonP t with s orti operat' ic selections, which have al e haute tie distinguished . e l favour, will be giv es , nice, - 0 0 1 the second part, w hil e , i n ordcr 1- ,, .0 c l a bo elevated essing taste of the public for l r oe -s e asio e b 7 of l vated order, the first part will, on seye rc ; sn ecti g % D' execlusively devoted to the performa nce --seem' - e .eil the Beet e ..epo wnr... d i works of Handel, Haydn, Mozart , oth r 0 1 p ost oi r, e wthn,ll • 3B ini, Auber, Me erbeer, an d masters. On such occasions theYsecond part Wi ll c 1 piee rs ‘ 1 miscellaneous selection t ° of vocal and ins r c psi ir In accordance with this pledge, tbe fi r° 1 1 05C Wednesday evening's concert was tievoteeice 00. [lively to Mozart, and the miscellaneous sole. L ei 0 1 The Pr iccil) Pol l)) ,; . confined to the second part. g is, o w performers ~,r. were Mrs. A. Newton, seew s, Lid Miss Eyles, Ilerr Formes, Dir. Si l43 e yiolie' f ‘bli Mr. H. Drayton. Ernst performed on. the Br i e eisi _ s i gnor , -- ... .,,a per Sterndale Bennett on the pianoforte. converts. ' l '. o utY made his first a h ppearance at t are . . __ d D ~, formed a solo on the flute with great tast• !," o il 3 a' of int - 'i dd • 111° ()nation. He was inner), app au ' • --------- crowded. ___------- • _- t 4 !DP e,Y: of D 1 u Igswhpuht si oi BIRT , On the 19th inst., at Brighton HS , the Nile a 0. ton e s S ii3DP Esq. (late 93d Hi g hl an ders), of a son . On the 19th inst., at Kenning,ton, the Wife:: Esq., of a daugh'er. un the 19th inst., at Mortlake, Surrey, • of a daughter. ... - co e- JIARRIED. gr' of On the 19th inst., at St. Giles's Cmberwe 11 d ,dstiterd .ick nekton, of \Vest-square. fo 'Jane sewil J. D. Willis, Esq , of Camberwell. Wight, o n ic l li ti i t n h s n u s c . t lile of the its de rt, I' lB l On the 15th inst , at ledina-eottage, ° , Dli" Hospitals, aged 88. ' ierf Katherine Ferrier, si;ter of i. 11,3 late Sir It K. G.H., her Ma je t -s Coniul for the Hague so,' pentiencies. 'atK.B(l:: ei)uPrU)t:V..:llSpeCtOr- L9n_ " don.: Printed and Published by rar - Vo 1 9-40. o. 112, Strand, Printer, Sum, 0 6 : 16j ' ',Jai 4( D Stand, in the Precinct of tl' , . ba rna, .;., the co— iddionx,yriday,February 2 2 , 1850 SMITIIFIELD. Compared with that exhibited on Friday last, the supply of Beasts on offer tp-day was somewhat extensive; but its general quality was by no means first-rate. As the attendance of buyers was small, the ikef trade ruled exceedingly heavy, and Monday's prices were with difficulty supported—the extreme lion- for the best Scots being only 3s 10d per 81bs. The numbers of foreign stock, especially Calves, were considerably on the increase. Amongst them we noticed thirty oxen from Spain, in excellent condition. There was a decided in crease in the arrivals of Sheep from the Midland counties. On the whole, the demand for that descrip tion of stock was heavy, and the late improvement in value was barely maintained. Calves ruled heavy, at a fall in the quotations of 2d per 8163. In Pigs, very little business was transacted. Mileh Cows sold slowly, at from 14/. to 181. each, includidg their small calf. Per 81bs. to ai Ink thoOn'al: s. d. to s. d, Inferior 'louts-- 2 10 3 2 Second qut-llty •• •• 3 4 3 6 Prime larze Oxon.. 3 6 3 8 Prime Scots .• •• •• 3 8 310 Large coaue Calves 3 2 3 4 Prime small ditto .. 3 3 10 Suckling Calves • .18 0 25 0 Inferior Sheep 3 2 3 4 TOTAL SUPPLY I Sheep. 3,210 FOREIGN I Sheep. 34) SCOT. I Sheep. 50 S. d. to s. d. Second qual. Sheer 3 6 310 Coarse-vroolledditio4 0 4 2 Southdown Weiler 4 4 4 6 Ditto eut Mine wool 0 0 0 0 Large Hogs ...• .. 3 4 3 8 Small Porkers 310 4 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 21 0 Lambs ...• 0 0 0 0 AT MARKET. I Calves. I Pigs. 241 300 SUPPLY. I ^ Calves. I PIO. 20 Bea As. 930 Beasts. 18:) Beasts. 160 I Calves. I rigs NEIVGATIS AND L7S.IADEMICELLX. These ma r k e t s ru l e d heavy to-day, at barely stationar y prices :-. At par glom) by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d Il eefOnferlor.... •• 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior 2 8 21 0 --- middling .. •• 2 8 210 middling•• 3 0 3 4 - primolarge .. 3 0 3 2 -. prime ••• • 3 6 31 0 -- prime small .. 3 2 3 4 Pork, large •••••• • • 2 10 3 0 Veal.• •• .• ........ 3 0 310 - small ••.. 3 6 4 i ' • I