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tion. If yon cook toqhe guarantee—and it is most impor ant you s h ou ld look to the guar antee —you will find at it was limited, that it was given with hesitation,. and that its termination was within the immediate exPe tience of the generation that dealt with the operation. In 1824 a further amount of the capital debt was dealt with equal to 76,000,0001., and the saving effected was " 0 ,000/. a-year —a considerable sum, especially when you contrast the capital dealt with, with the sum of , upon which a saving of only 600,0001. is to u° effected, The guarantee in 1824 was only for five years. Th e committee will observe that, with the experience araeunting to nearly a century in these financial conver sions, the Legislature acted with respect to guarantees with a ° much caution, and with - such a deep persuasion of the res ponsibility of undertaking such an engagement, that before that period the g uarantees never exceeded seven gears, and that in 1824, after the great financial experience ?' tile French r evo l u tio n , and the peat experience of Pitt, !lie only guarantee given was for five years. (Hear, hear.) These are important facts for the committee to bear in Zin.d, because, although it does not appear that a guaran ° " an engagement of so much importance, it will ulti mately be found to be a most important element in all these arra ngements. (Hear.) In 1830 there was a conversion effected which was the first of those great operations which will ever render the name of the right hon. gentleman, the member for the University of Cambridge, memorable in the financial history of this country. The right hon. gentle man then dealt with a capital of 153,000,0001., and effected all annual saving of 750,0001. a-year, and the consideration give n was a guarantee of 3} per cant. for ten years. Au option was also given of 701. of a Five per Cent. Stock, an arra ngement somewhat similar to the proposition of the first alternative of the present Chancellor of the Exche quer' and it is a remarkable circumstance that the amount of that stock subscribed for did not exceed the small sum of half a million. In 1834 there was a small reduction, to Which I will not Parther allude than to say that the prin ciple of a guarantee was again applied, but only for six 3rear s• In 1844 th ere was the great reduction effected by th e right hon. member for the University of Cambridge. eaPital was then dealt with of nearly 250,000,0001—ha1f of the large• amount which is—l will not say now, under °lir consideration—but which forms the subject of our speculative anxiety. The consideration given was a gua rantee of 31 per cent. for ten years, and of 3 per cent. for twenty years after, that is to say, that after the year 1854, "' s ere was a further guarantee for twenty years at the rate 3 Pr cent. ; but in that, great and successful oeration t he united guarantee only reached to thirty year p s. Let me place' before the committee the remarkable eircum 'nces which contrast between that period and the Present. (Hear.) In 1844, when the right hon. gentle. man made those conversions, " Consols" were at 31. ls. per cent. interest, Exchequer bills were at 21. 45., the "'dance in the Exchequer was 4,700,0001., the floating debt was bet ween 17 ,0 00,0001. and 19,000,0001., the capital dealt with was 250,000,0001 the immediate saving was 600,0001., and th e ultimate saving 1,200,0p011. a year. Now, in- S tead of C onso l s b e i ng a t 98A they are above par ; Ex chequer bills, bills, instead of bearing 21. 4s. 6d. per cent., now j'''" only V. 108. sd. ; the balances of the Exchequer are, Mead of 4,700,0001., nearly double that amount; and the Na at ing debt is actually lower it present than in 1844. o• t withstanding that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is e rs dealin g with the debt under so much more favourable 500cuastances, he only effects a saving of 600,0001. upon w eluis.4oool. of the debt, and this too with a guarantee 4.41 will pr even t hi m from operating on that large °lona for forty years. (Hear , hear.) 'What are the Zneral circu ms t ances o f the country which can induce the th rn nlittee to authorise an arrangement which appears on te'2, Bl lrface so improvident and so limited in its results as h ave Which I have contrasted with all the operations which 'we preceded it? Is the rate of interest higher? Is the _ e ° ll ntry less prosperous than at those times ? The interest Von our floating-debt is lower ; the balances in the Ex ejlequer are greater, the interest of money is lower, 'yet the l ight h on. t h e - Ch a ncellor of the Exchequer proposes an nli nellse financial operation, which if you pursue it to its Possible financial termination—and unless it effects such results it is scarcely worth the discussion it is undergoing rand he on ly contemplates a saving to the country of 600 ,000/. f or f or t y years . (H ear .) Wh a t I a l so o bj ec t t o 1 , 1 ? the p ropos iti ons b e f ore t h e comm i ttee i s, that the r i g h t 4 ° ,1 - gentleman has in himself settled the terms upon Which these operations, possibly of so great an extent, and Wh ichinfluence so greatly the circumstances of the time snould be made. It was the duty of a person in the posi tion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer wishing to effect such an object, rather to throw upon the public creditor the responsibility of offering terms which might be agree able to him, than by coming down to the house and saying these are the terms which I lay down, and these ale the terms only which I can accept. The right honourable gentleman says, " You may impugn the validity of my reasoning, and the position which I have adopted with re spect to this question, but I have a sovereign object to ob tain—l want to establish a Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock." I think the hon. member for Lambeth touched that point in a proper manner. Nothing can be more im portant than a Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock, if you can obtain it by legitimate means, and if a Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock is the natural consequence of your finan cial condition. But there is nothing magical in a Two and-a-Half per Cent. Stock. ' (Hear hear.) A Two-and-a- Half per Cent. Stock can be created and established at any time, if you choose to pay for it. (Hear.) If this is to be a factitious result, an artificial consequence, there is no financial minister, even in a time when money is scarce and interest is high, who could not create a Two-and-a- Half per Cent. Stock, if he chose to do so. (Hear, hear.) The question, of course, for the committee is, what are the terms by which it is proposed this costly consequence may be accomplished ? I freely admit that it is the first duty of a minister of finance to consider the question of the in terest of the public debt, and I think it is highly to the credit of the right hon. gentleman that he has given all the en ergies of his abl e an d creative mind to this subject. But the right hon. gentleman knows full well that there is no teat originality in attempting to deal with such a subject. :_49 question is, how to deal with it at the right time, and e 'lbe able to deal with it in a manner in which you may lion your ultimate purpose. (Hear.) Now, the right pgentleman has in this instance been ingenious, but reyrnature. (Hear, hear.) It is totally impossible, by i`ounlribination however clever; by any device, however er s 4 ic ated and ingenious, that you can make the public raciL for take a lower rate of interest than the state of the s uipo e Y, market will authorise. (Hear.) And it is quite falbsP lb s ie to Finppose that you can succeed in digging "pit- You 'liaising snares for the public creditor. (A. laugh.) be Ipind s - s •Y give him all the alternatives which an ingenious v a -n conceive but the public ,reditor bas a test for Will ss •ne of his debt, and he will go to Capel-cpurt, and (11 "' h e re find out exactly what his money is • . wor h. enn itn'tt ear. e3rt ) This brings me to a point which I think the flf these CO ou g ht fairly to consider before it agrees to any . di .- "e arrangements. You may rely . upon it that all in s rect attempts to deal with the public debt—l will not ; a Y Will alwaysfeil but will always be difficult, and that C u r arra/theniss;as a general rule, on that subject should s s - ,„ 81111 1 - If the state of the money market is such that ean P ctal directly with the rate of interest, it is unneces sesss• for us to enter at all into the subject • but if, f circumstances—the amount of the debt ge s Nv—e • you propose to act upon, and the artificial safe- V . 'S" which surround it—you do not consider yourself tl l l '‘lfied in acting directly upon it, and must act indirectly, a R e , i 8 no more legitimate means, if you wish to establish she "" - and-a-Half per Cent. Stock ' , than by going fairly to i Public and saying, "We want to establish a Two-and all_Per Cent. Stock, what is the guarantee in the pre sentths'ate of the money market, with three per cent. as e established rate of interest, which you would require , 1 1 : 2 1 , the country f or th e es t a bli s h men t of this stock ?" d e .,.`" is a simpl e p ropos iti on w hi c h th e country would un derstand. It is very possible that they would ask from ep l a very long guarantee, for aught I know longer than . 4 f°rty years ; but then you would be in a clear posi al of considering•whether it was expedient, wise, and there to grant such a guarantee, and that brings us to r ato nl i P.ortant question of what are the prospects as to the e interest of money in this country. Iw . ill not now toter into any speculations on this subject ; is a quas i)," which has engaged the attention not only in this, but e ther countries, of some of the profoundest political ;economists and inquirers into monetary matters who have , ever flourished. But no one can deny that there t o w new phenomena in the present day with respect these subjects whieh no previous minister of Silence had ever to deal with. When the right hon. gentleman the nlernixr for the University of Cambridge proposed his great financial scheme, he knew what was the probable amount of th e precious metals in the world. He knew thprettype 'well what had been the cycles of commercial pros f and adversity to which reference has been made caVezening ; he had naturally considered in all its ranffi portal and all its possible results . and bearings, the ut question of the terminable annuities. What are ss , present circumstances ? Is there anybody who can Zierlilate the present amount of the precious metals in the c ": ld, or what there will be in forty, thirty, twenty, or ten years hence ? The question of terminable an to which an honourable member has given in his thh_Fiion.to-night, while he at the same time recommended r s i a t ,the whole Subject should be referred to a seect com h, "ee -- -no great compliment, by the way, t i the right ~,n • gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer—has as oftn.end a very different character in the estimation of some the most important thinkers since the period of the metallic discoveries and it has become a question whether ar e should deal with that willingness with which we should Babe done ten years ago, with the conversion of the national eti)itttittirnytoie terminable annuities.' My opinion is, that the not prepared to make any sacrifice at all upon sh e subject, it is rather disposed to watch what might be rae.consequences of these important changes which are ~P; 1 1. 1 1Y and daily occurring. I will not presume to give an ?" :1101 1 upon the 'subject. All I ask the committee to do seatremember .that we are living in the midst of these , changes, and that before these great changes took pla ce the most successful Chancellor of the Exchequer ;ever contemplated the guarantee of interest beyond . 20 ' s l a ts, and that now, in the midst of phenomena which Perplexing our profundest thinkers and most . experi enced statesmen, and agitating the hearts and exciting the 0 e" of the nation, we are called upon to enter into a arantee for forty years at a rate of interest for a conver ;l°ll hich, if carried into complete effect and if perfectly (Mated, will save only to the country 600,000/. a year. only ' hear.) Tinder these circumstances, I think lam doin g my duty when I entreat the committee to pause that they sanction this operation. I will not go into bliast,ilnportant question, which greatly . interests the public ki l n ' , and which has already greatly influenced the coin tee, viz., whether we ought to increase - the capital of t he national debt. Ido not think there are two opinions • g ,jn t e Subject. 'Why, then, do you do it ? What do you I s "Y ? (Hear, hear.) famine in war—or in danger tilerreland starving ? Is there an the land? Are Is m s e t allY of-these conjunctures, exigencies, or emergencies 'night authorise yon to do that which philosophy must condemn, b u t w hi c h th e s t rong n ecessity of life e fts _ t°rce you to a d op t ? Th e committee is asked now to ca,s_es:t to increase the nati ona l debt merely for a financial at N,Fls er p and in or d er t o gratify a l au d a bl e h umour , b u t nothing which was either peremptory or urgent. r, hear.)• that Ido net This pops. liar been so well urged' by point others the, oraca , tt press it. What, however, Ido press upon natre of the is the absolute necessity of considering the greater the guarantee, that that guarantee may be even that this': i mportance than the rate of interest itself, and th k e T e gAc is not the ti me w h en a guarantee of forty years : at b e . of interest to be paid s h ou ld b e ma de. With eollunittee are taking a v o jections to the measure, I do not think the " e lune t if ery unfriendly part towards the els e _ • n they ask them to pause, in order to recon -1 r tit° resolutions.(Hear, hear.) What has taken P in a t e rs, e s . V l ,le n Pecttothese resolutions since they were first can ts ,Ceo . to the house ? The right hon. gentleman p r i se 'mu to the house, and, taking us somewhat by Bur ials ' gave notice for a committee to consider the acts re citing t° the W . pu to debt. We all remember the great ex ressitiT;. that was produced by that announcement. The first r r n n 3 s t v ,. ere circulated on the following da. In the h, 0. we the resolution was as it now appears in s s h ; ,' w before the comniittee. The second resolution, v iejl , ,,.as to establish this great desideratum r ef s a Twce ter, 4 4 u ri li a lf a p,er . C . ,ent. Stock, was of an unlimitated charm ectesse,7,orlia have extended to the *hole debt, Great —4441,Z0n prevailed on the subject of the second alter- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY :EVENING, APRIL - 23, 1853. as it stood, would enable the Treasury to make that ar rangement. (Hear, hear.)' The clause was agreed to, and the rest of the clauses. The house then resumed. The report to be received on Monday. THE SH ARE MARKETS, LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS, BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Leasing Compans. Closing Prices Yesterday. Business this day. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices Yesterday. Business done this day. CUSTOMS, &c., ACTS. On the question that the report of resolutions respecting vhe duties on spirits in Scotland and Ireland, agreed to in committee of the whole house on the previous day, be re- Aberdeen Antbg. Nottng. Bost I & Eastn. Junct ceived, Captain JONES said there was so much noise in the house when the resolutions were agreed to that he was not aware what was being done. He should, on the proper occasion, divide the house onthe question of the imposition of an additional Bd. upon Irish spirits. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed that the hon. member would have such an opp(Ftunity either on the second reading of the bill or on going into committee. When it was proposed that spirit duties be increased the resolution was always voted immediately, but it was not at all intended to bind the house. The report was then received. TAXING-OFFICER LAND) MON BILL.-LAW BUSINESS (IRE This bill was read a second time. EDUCATION BILL. Birmg. Wolverh. & Stour Va11ey„..... Birkeuhd. Lanesh. & Cheshire Juliet.... Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £2O Bristol and Exeter .Caledonian Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Blackrock and Passage Dublin&Belfast June Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction Do. New East Anglian (C 25 L and E. & L. & D.) Do. Do. (18L E.d.T. H.) EaStern Counties__ Eastern Union, Class A. (late E. U. Sh.) Do., do Do., B. and C East Lancashire - The second reading of this bill was appointed for Mon clay se'mlight. DOCKYARD APPOINTMENTS. —MR. STAFFORD. Sir B. HALL moved to nominate the Select Committee on Dockyard Appointments :—Sir.B. Hall, Lord Seymour, Lord Hotham, Sir 11. F. Davie, and Mr. Beckett. Mr. NEWDEGATE complained that the course taken by the house in this matter was extremely unfair. The whole case had been sifted by a committee of that house already Mr. S. TAFFORD begged to say that, so far from regret ting the appointment of this committee, he rejoiced at it, and he should go befor:al the , committee constituted as the hon. baronet proposed, with the most entire confidence that he should fully absolve himself from the charges that had been made against him. (Hear.) The committee was then appointed. - BOROUGH OF BARNSTAPLE. On the motion of Mr. W. 0. STANLEY, it was ordeied that the Writ for this borough be suspended for six weeks. The house adjourned at a quarter past 12 o'clock. East & West Ind. Dk.l firming. June 100 'Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin. and Peebles._ 100 - Edin. Prth. &Dundee Glasgow 4S. Western 100 ,Great Northern Stk 100 Do., A. Stock . ioo ;Do., B. Stock 100 Great Southern and Western (Ireland). I 100 .Great Western 11 Irish South-Eastern a ll Lancaster' & Carlisle ni Do., Thirds • 100 ILancash.& Yorkshire 15 'Do., Fifths PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. Do., Wst. Riding Ern Leeds Northern Liv.Crsby.&Southpt London & Blackwall Loud. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond. Brigt. & S. Cst. I London & N. Westerr Do., Fifths. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-APRIL 22. ( From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) D0.,,£10 Sh.M.3O. C London & S. Western Do., X5O Do., £4O Londerry. &Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch. Shef. &Lincln 0., Man.& Lin. Un Midland Do. Birming. & Derby Midland G. West. (Ir.) Do. i Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmarket Do. Bury Extension Newp. Aberg.&Hftd Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint, and Bestrevor... Norfolk. Do., New Northn.Counties Un INorth British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., A A Deferred Do., i B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Western ...... N. & S. Westrn. June Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Scottish Central Scottish Midland Shrewsbury & Birmg Do., L. & N. Westn. Guaranteed Stock. Shrewsby.& Hereford Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) ... Do. Halves do Do Do. Oswestiy I Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. Yorksh . River Dun IDo. (Stockton & Hartlepi Thames Haven Dock and Railway' Vale of Neath : ....... - Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford& Limerick West Cornwall ..... imbledcin&Croydn Woodford.. :... ... . York NewetL&Berw Do. Extensions. Do. G. N. E. Purchase York & N. Midland native. One of the leading journals announced to the country that there was a proposition to increase the na tional debt by the amount of 50,000,0)0/. When we came down to the house to consider these resolutions, by the courtesy of the hon. member the Secretary to the Treasury, a second edition of the resolutions was put into ray hands informing me, at the same time, that there wore a few trifling alterations proposed to be made. Upon casting my eyes over the amended resolutions, I saw that.the very subject which had agitated the city of London, and had created such consternation had disappeared, and the second alternative was to be limited in its operation. (Hear, hear.) Ido not say the limit' was not wise, dis creet, and proper, but surely, irrespective of the fact that it it is always as well to have time to consider resolutions of this character, the very fact that before we had had any opportunities for consulting them so great an altera tion should have taken place—surely was some reason why have been_ given not merely for the house, but for the Go vernment to consider the resolutions to be submitted. (Hear, hear.) In addition to the first proposal of limiting the Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock to 30,000,0001., an other great chews:, has been introduced by which Three an -a-Half per 'Cent. Stock has been limited also to 30,000,0001. I understand that there has been a third pro position made to-night, viz., that in order to meet the great objection felt against the consequences of the second alternative, viz., the increase of the national debt , an amount of three or four millions should be funded for the purpose of forming a " sinking fund." On such a proposition two considerations very naturally occur. In the first place, is it wise that there should be a " sinking fund " established upon such a principle ? Arc we, in 1853, to be borrowing with ono hand in order to pay with the other ? Is it, in an age of financial reform, that you are to establish asink iug fund based upon that vicious principle which you have, so denounced, and so energetically rejected? (Hear.) Ano ther consideration was, what would be the effect of the es tablishment of this sinking fund upon the financial state ment with which the Chancellor of the Exchequer favoured us the other night ? But there was a further alteration. Not only had the limit of the 21 per Cents, had been placed, at 30,000,0001., and a similar limit placed upon the 31 per, Cents., and a sinking fund had been proposed, but a fourth proposition had been made to-night, by which the Two and-a-Half Stock was to be limited to 25,000,0001. and not to 30,000,0001. as at first proposed. (Hear, hear.) Ido not say that these changes are not wise, discreet, and pro per, but I think they show clearly that the scheme has not been sufficiently matured, and that there has not been given to the subject that consideration, that large devotion of time and thought which becomes a question of this na ture—(hear, hear)—and that when a minister of finance and his colleagues deal with so vast a question as the pub lic debt, and deal with it unnecessarily, it is just as well that the propositi- _ which they putbefore the house should show some bettez evidence of consideration and of care. (Hear, hear.) All I want to do is this—l do not want to make unnecessarily a party ilivision on the subject; but I ask the righ hon. gentleman not to precipitate this ques tion, and to give it further consideration, and not to let us be forced to vote on the amendment of my hon. and learned friend. What is that amendment ? It is one which says virtually that in all these changes and conversions of the public funds, and reduction of the public interest, it is not wise or expedient, or politic, to increase the capital account of the public debt in this country. If there is a division I must vote for the amendment for the sake of the principle which it enunciates, and which I think is a sound and sa lutary one. But I say at the same time I hope to be pre vented from that division, by the right hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer telling us—and it is no great condescen sion—that he will give to this subject more time and more thought than it has yet apparently received. (Hear.) Mr. GOITLBURN said the right hon. member for Buck inghamshire had made some remarks upon what he consi dered the very limited results of the measure proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and had said that in the first instance the saving under the contemplated arrann ment would be only 600,0001. in annual interest. The right hon. gentleman seemed, however, to have forgotten that what they were principally endeavouring to attain was a reduction of the capital of the national debt. The right hon. gentleman was evidently anxious to depreciate the value of the measure, and he endeavuured to do so by con trasting it with antecedent measures of a similar nature which had been adopted. He (Mr. Disraeli) had alluded to the reduction of 300,0001. during the administration of Sir 11. Walpole, when the whole interest of the debt was 1,200,0001., but he did not tell the house that at that time the debt was paying an interest of 7 per cent. When they reduced the interest from 7 to 5 per cent. the Government had of course the means of making a much larger pislipor tionate saving than when it was afterwards reduced from 5 to 4 and from 4to 31. The right hon. gentleman had re ferred to the reduction effected by Lord Bexley in 1822, and stated that Lord Bexley did not increase the public debt by the measure which he proposed. But in 1824 Lord Bexley gave 1381. Three per Cents, for every 1001. Five per Cents. thus increasing the public debt by a considerable amount. He (Mr. Goulburn) thought, then, that the proposal of his right hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer would fairly bear comparison with Lord Bexley's measure. [Mr. Disraeli said he had mentioned that the amount of the bonus given by Lord Bexley was something under 5,000,000/.1 Yes, the right hon. gentleman had mentioned that in speak ing of 1822, but had omitted what took place in 1824. The right hon. gentleman (Mr. Disraeli) then came down to the period when he (Mr. Goulburn) effected a large reduction of the debt under circumstances peculiarly favourable to such an operation, and he stated that, although a guarantee was then given against the further reduction of theinterestuntil a cer tain period had elapsed, it was a short guarantee compared with that now proposed bythe Chancellor of the Exchequer. With regard to guarantees, as they proceeded in the reduc tion of the interest of the debt, and required a considerable sacrifice from those who received a smaller interest, they must necessarily give such persons some advantage in order to induce them to accept the terms which were offered. He believed that if, in 1844, he had not given the protection for 30 years from the period at which the bill passed to the holders of 3 per cents., the measure he then introduced would probably have been a failure. There were, how ever, particular reasons in the present instance why the guarantee to 1894 should not excite no apprehension. Suppose the Chancellor of the Exchequer should succeed— which he did not suppose was likely—in inducing the holders of the whole 500,000,0001. of stock to come into his arrangement. That stock was irredeemable till 18.94, and there would therefore at that time be 500,000,0001. of stock upon which they might operate. But would this in terfere with the reduction of the national burdens ? Why, they had 250,000,0001. locked up till 1874, but it would then come under their hands, and upon that amount they might reduce the interest with advantage. (Hear, hear.) He must say he thought it was a great advantage to have the opportunities for the reduction of the debt so divided. The right hon. gentleman (Mr. Disraeli) had said that there was a great difference between the present period and that at which the last reductions of debt were effected In the two cases when he (Mr. Goulburn) reduced the pub lic debt he had to deal with a debt which, with the excep tion of a very small portion, was entirely open to reduc tion without any notice whatever ; and he had nothin g to do but to signify to the public the terms which the Go vernment were prepared to offer, and to ask those who dissented to express their dissent. There was, therefore, no interval between the time at which the prodosition was made and that which it could be accepted. The difference between the two periods was this, that in 1844 the Govern ment had the power to effect the reduction, whereas, at the present moment, the Government had no power at all, except that of holding out to the public what the public would choose to accept. (Hear, hear.) His right hon. friend (lid not bring forward his measure as one that was to effect large and enormous reductions of the national debt in a moment ; but what he said was, that in the present monetary transactions of the world, there was a prospect of holding out terms to those who had a redeem able debt to transfer that debt, so that it might become irredeemable on certain conditions, and that ho was pre pared to make such a proposition. In making that pro posal he thought his right honourable friend was justified in stating a variety of modes to the house. (Hear, bear.) It was true, as had been observed, that there were no more wary animals than the gentlemen of the Stock-Exchange ; but, wary, as they were, those gentlemen were composed of different classes, and the stock that suited one individual might not suit another. There were advantages that belonged to the different classes of stock that made them acceptable to different classes of indivi duals. (Hear, hear.) There were objections, no doubt., sincerely entertained to any increase of the debt, but his right hon. - friend had suggested that if that was inexpe dient it might easily be accompanied by an arrangement which would give them a yearly increase of the surpl us to be applied towards the reduction of the national debt. (Hear, hear.) But the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Disraeli) said the Chancellor of the Exchequer was premature in his proposition, and that he should have waited till a future and more favourable period. He wished the right hon. gentleman had stated the period at which the Chancellor of the Exchequer was likely to be able to give the requisite notice ; but, if that period could not be fixed, then the sooner they gave holders the option of taking 'that course by which a reduction might be voluntarily effected the better for the interests of the public. (Hear, hear.) The right hon gentleman also objected to the changes which had been made in the measure during its progress. He was quite aware that it was easy. when alterations were made in committee, to inculpate those by whom the measure was introduced ; but what, he asked, was the utility of going into committee at all, and wasting their time in diseus sions of this kind, if it was not to receive the suggestions of those who had given their attention to the subject, and to make such improvements as might be adopted without infringing upon the principle of a measure? (Hear, hear.) Then the right hon. gentleman adverted to the smallness of the surplus announced in the budget. That was an obser vation which he did not expect from the right hon. gen tleman. (Hear, hear.) Small, indeed, the surplus was, but his right hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer had at least this advantage, in staing that it was derived wholly from legitimate sources. (Hear, hear.) In conclu sion, he had to express his belief that the scheme of his right hon. friend would lay the foundation of future reduc tions in the annual expenditure of the country, and that it was a scheme alike honourable to him and advantageous to the country. (Cheers.) Sir J. PAKINGTON said, the right hon. gentleman who had just spoken had given his opinion that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was right in submitting several alterna tives in the propOsition he had laid before the house ; but such was not the course taken by the right hon. gentleman himself n i re t t 84 6 4 n , g w t h h e e n 3 h i e per p r o e p o n s t e d a. a e T x mh p eo r sts housesed importantby must, the thralter ationthere- fore, fore, choose between the opinion t hon. gentleman in 1844, and the opinion which he expressed now. (Hear, hear.) For himself he was disposed to think that the view taken by him in 1844 was the right one,and that it was the vie w which ou ght to be followed by , the house. (Hear, hear.) Sir F. KELLY briefly replied. The committee then divided on the question, " that the words proposed to be left out stand part of the bill," when there appeared — Ayes Noes 231 ... 175 59 Majority for the Government ... The clause was then verbally amended and agreed to. Clauses 3,4, 5,6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 wore agreed to. Clause 13 and the following clauses, up to the 31st, were agreed to. On clause 32, for the issue of Exchequer bonds, Captain LAFFAN suggested that it might . be well to frame the clause so that they should not be issued and sold below par. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought the clause might well be left as it was. There were some things that it wasafelter not even to talk of. (A laugh.) Mr. GLYN observed that many of these bonds might got into the hands of the trustees who might have an ob jection to the risk of instruments payable to bearer ; it might be advisable to allow them to bo written up into stock. Sir F. KELLY thought a power to the holder to convert them into stock would aid in the great object of establishing a 21: 10s. per cent. stock. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER fully in tended-that such a power of VQnvertiog_them into A regis tered security should be given, and belierxl that the bill, SOUTH SEA AND OTHER ANNUITIES COMMUTATION BILL. Clause 2.—Every person, body politic and corporate, who now is or hereafter may be interested in the capital stocks of any of the said Three Pounds per Centum Annuities, who shall, in manner hereinafter directed, give notice at any time on or before Friday the third day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three of his assent to receive other Govern ment Securities in lieu and in place of the said capital stocks of the said Annuities, instead of being paid in money, shall, at the option of the said parties, receive for every one hun dred pounds thereof eighty-two pounds ten shillings in a new stock of Three-and-a-Half per Centum Annuities, and so in proportion' for any amount less than one hundred pounds, which said Annuities shall be paid at "th• rate of three pounds ten shillings per centuth per annum until the fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, from and after which day the said Annuities shall be subject to redemption by Parliament; or for every one hun dred pounds of the said capital stocks of Three Pounds per Centum annuities, the sum of one hundred and ten pounds in a new stock of Two-and-a-Half per Centum Annuities, and so in proportion for any amount less than one hundred pounds, which said Annuities shall be paid at the rate of two pounds ten shillings per centum per annum; until the fifth day of Ja nuary, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, from and after which day the said annuities shall be subject to redemp tion by Parliament; or for every sum of one hundred pounds of the said capital stocks of Three Pounds per Centum Annui ties, an Exchequer Bond for the like amount, payable to bearer, and carrying interest at the rate of two pounds fifteen shillings per centuna per annum, payable half-yearly on the first day of March and the first day of September in every year, until the first day of September in a year to be named in such Bond, and not later than the first day of Septetnber one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four inclusive; and thenceforth two pounds ten shillings per centum per annum, payable half-yearly in like manner, until and including the first day of September one thousand eight hundred and ninety. four, and thereafter to be subject to redemption at par, at the option of the holder, or at the option of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, as shall be named in such bond : Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " Parliament," in line 22, to the word " Parliament," in line 30 :—Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the clause." The Committee divided—Ayes 234, Noes 175. 50 25 100 MAJORITY—AYES, 234. A'Court, C. Fitzgerald, W. R. S. O'Connell, Maurice Adair, H. Fitzroy, Hon. H. O'Flatierty, A. i Aglionby, H. A. Forster, M. OFbo,ne, Ralph Alcock, Thomas Forster, C. Otway, Arthur John Anderson, Sir James Fox, W. Palmerston, Viscount Anson, en. Freest*, Colonel Patten, J. Atherton, Wm. Gardner, Richard Pechell, Sir G. ' Baines, M. T. Gibson, T. M. Peel, Sir It. Ball, John Gladstone, William Peel Frederick Barnes, Thomas Glyn, George Carr Pellatt, A Beckett, W. Goodman, sir George Phillips, John Henry Bell, J. Goulburn, Henry Philllmoi e, J. G. Berkeley, Adm. Grace, 0. I hillimore, It, Berkeley, H. . Graham, Sir J. Pilkington, James Berkeley, Hon. C. F. Gregson, Samuel Pinney, William Bethell, Richard Grenfell, C. Pollard-Urquhart, W. Biddulph, R. M. Banner, Sir John Ponsonby, Hn.A.G. J. Biggs, William Harcourt, G. G. Portal, M. Blackett, J. F. B. Bostic, Alexander Power, N. Brand, H. Hayes, Sir E. Pritchard, J. Broeklehur , t, John Ileadlam, Thomas E. Ricardo, 0. Brockman, E. D. Beard, 3, Rich, H. Brotherton, Joseph Heathcoate, J. Robartes, T. J. A, Brown, W. Heathcoate, G. Russell, Lord J. Browne, V. Herbert, H. A. Russ 11, F. C. Bryce, 11. A. Herbert, Sidney Russell. F. W. Bulkeey, Sir R. B. W. Hervey, lord Alfred Sad eir, J. Burke, Sir T. . Heywood, James Sawle, C. B. G. Butler, Charles Hey , orth, L. . Scobell, Capt. Byrk‘r, G. H. Charles Hogg. Sir James W. Scully, Francis Cardwell, Hon E. Howard, C. W. G. :- eymour, Lord eau:add, Colonel Howard, Lord E. Seymour W.. ~ Cavendish, George Hume, J. Shelburne Chambers, AL Hutchins. E. r•heriey. si Earl of r J. V. Chambers, Thomas Chaplin, W. J. Irton. Samuel Smith, John Benj. Charteris, F. Jermyn; Earl Smith, it. Christy, t•ainuel Johnstone, James Smyth, J. Clay, sir William Johnstone , Sir J. Smollett , A Clifford, H. Keating H. Stafford, s , arov's Clinton, Lord Robert Kershaw, James Stanley, W. 0. Cockburn, Sir A. Kinnaird, Arthur F. Stapleton, J. Cocks, Thomas S. Laing, Coffin, W. Y.amton, H. G. Strut', Rt. Hon. E. Collier, Robert P. Lawley, F. C. Stuart, H. Compton, Henry Legh, G. C. Talbot, C. R. M.' Corry, H. L. Lewis, Sir T. Tbicknesse, It. A. Cowan, Charles Lindsay, Colonel Thompton, George Cowper, W. Locke, J. Thornely , T. Craufurd, E. Lockhart, A.. E. Towneley, C. Crossley, Frank Lovatne, Lord, Vane, Lord IL Crowder, R. Loveden, P. Vernon, G. Currie, R. Lowe, Robert Villiers, Bon. C. • Dalrymple, Vise. • Luce, Thomas Wall, Charles Baring Hering, Sir Edward Mackie, John Walmsley, Sir J. Divett, Edward Macgregor, John Warner, K. • Drumlanrig, Vis. Di:Taggart. Sir J. Wellesley, Lord C. Drummond, EL Mangles, R. D. Wells, W. Duff, G. S. ' Manners, Lord G. West, F. R. Duff, James Massey, W. N. • Whalley, G. H. Hake, Sir James Matheson, A. Whatman, J. Duncan, George Matheson, Sir J. Whitbread, Samuel Duncombe, W. E. Maul% Colonel Wlekham,Henry W. Dunlop, A. ' Mall, Edward Wilkinson, W. East, Sir J. Milligan, Robert W 111: lms; W. Egerton, Sir Phi ip Milner, W. M. E. Wilson, J. t . Ellice, E. Milnes , R. M. Wilmington, Sir T. E Elliot. John Molesworth„Sir W. Wise, J. A. . Emlyn, Viscount Moncrieff, J. Wood, Sir C. , Esmonde, J. Monsell, W. Wortley, J. S. Evans, Sir De Lacy Moreton, Lord Wrightson, W. Evans, W. Morris, D. Wyndham, W. • Ewart, William Mulgrave,'Earl • Wyviil, A armaduke Fagan, W. Mute, Col. . Young, Sir John Feilden, M. Murphy, F. S. Fergus, J. Norreys, r•ir D. J. Ferguson, Col. Norreys, Lord Ferguson, Sir Robert O'Brien, Cornelius Ferguson, Joseph O'lllien,'Patrick Hayter, W. G Fitzgerald, J. O'Brien, Sir T. Berkeley, Granville MINORITY—NOES, 175. Adderley, C. • Galway, Viscount Mentz, G. Frederick Arbuthnot, Gen. Gaskell, James M. Mu; rough, J. P. ' Archdall, Captain M. Gore, W. 0. • Ness, Lord Arkwright, G. Graham, Lord M.W. Newark, Viscount Bagge, W. Greaves, Edward Newdegate, C. Bailey, II J Grt mall, Gilbert Newport, Viscount Baird, James Greene, John Noel, Gerard James Ball, Edward Greville, Col. North, Colonel Baldock, E. H. Grogan, E. Oakes, J. H. P. Bankes, G. Gwyn, Bowel Ossulston, Lord Baring, T Ha!ford, ,ir 11. . Packe, C. Milani Barrington, Viscount Halsey, T. Packington, Sir J. Barrow, Wm. H. 'Hamilton, Lord C. Palmer, Robert Bateson, T. Hamilton, G. A. Peacocke, G. M. W. Bentinck, lord H. Hanbury, Hon. C. Percy, J. , Bentinck, G. P. Henley, J. W. Potter, R. . Beresford. William Ferbert, Sir Thomas Prime, R. Blair, Colonel Hiklyard, Robert C. Repton, G. :Bowe-, G. Hallam, Lord Robertson, P. F. Br tdy . , John Jocelyn, Viscount Rolf.. P. Brisco, Musgrave Jolliffe, Sir W. G.H. Sandars, G. "rooke, Sir A. B. Jones, Captain Smith, W. . Bruce, Cumming Kelly, Sir F. Smyth, R. J. Buck, Lewis W. Kendall, N. Somerset, Captain Buller, Sir J. Y. Kennedy, Tristram Spooner, Richard Butt, G AI King, I'. J. Stafford, A. Butt, Isaac Knight, F. W. Stanhope, J. B. Cairns, li. M`Calmont Knox, W. S. . Stanley, Lord Carnac, Sir J. R. Lacon, Sir E. Stephenson, Robett Chelsea, Viscount Laffan„R. M. Suit van, M. Child, Smith Langton, W. G. Swift, R. Christopher, R. Adam Lennox, Lord A. Thesiger, Sir F. Clinton,- Lord C. I'. Lernox, Lord 11 G. Thompson, Mr. Id Clive, Robert Lisle, Charles P. Tellemache, John Cobbett, JM. Liddell, H. G. Tomline, G. '. i Cobbold, J. Chevalier Lockhart, W. • Tudway, R. -: Codrington. Sir WM. Lucas, F. • Tamer, C. , Conolly, T. Lytton, Sir E. G. Tyler, Sir George , Coote, Sir C. H blacar tney, G. ' Vance, J. I Cubitt, Mr. Ald. Macgregor , James Vane, A. Davison, R. • 31`31 ahon, P. Vausittart, G. 11. Devereux, J. T. Ma - 4uire, J. F. Verner, Sir W. Disratli, Benjamin Malins, Richard Villiers, Rt. Hn. F. Dod, J. W. Mandeville, Viscount. Vivian. J. Ennis Duncombe, Hn. A. Manners, Lord J. • Vyse, Capt. Dunne, Col. March, Earl of Walcott, Adm. Egerton W. Mare, Chas. John Walpole, S. H. Egerton, Edward Masterman, John Whiteside, James Elmley, Visco tint Maxwell, James P. Whitmore, Henry Evelyn, W. 1.1 Iles, W.. . Williams, T P. F,:rnham, E. B. Michell, W. Wodehouse, E. Fellowes, Edward Mitchell, T. A. Wyndham, Gen. 'Eloper, John Montgomery. 11. L. Wynn; Herbert W. Fol ett,.B. Spencer Montgomery, Sir G. Wynne, Wm. W. E Forbes, W. Moody, C. Yorke, Eliot Thomas Forester, Colonel Moore, G. 11. Forster, Sir G. Moore, Ross S. French, Fitzstephen Morgan, C. R. - Frelitlell, J. Morgan, Octavius Taylor, Col. Callwey, Sir W. P. Mullings J. Randolph. Mackent ,e, WF. TELLERS. 20 20 10 St. St. St. St. St. TEI LIT.% The Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours was yesterday visited by His Royal Highness the Prince Albert, attended by Col. Seymour. In the morning her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, attended by the Lady Anne Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, also visited the Gallery. 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Telegraph 5 2 Universal Emigration' 10 and Colonisation I . ..... ... 100 284 Van Diemen's Land ' 19 20 FROM THE LONDON QAZETTE. of YESTERDAY. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 11. Notice is hereby given, that his Royal Highness Prince Albert will, by the desire of hei Majesty, hold a Levee at, St. James's Palace, on behalf of her Majesty, on Wednes day, the 27th instant, at two o'clock It is her Majesty's pleasure that presentations to his Royal Highness at the LeVee shall be considered equivalent to presentations to the Queen. Addresses to the Queen may either be forwarded to her Majesty through the Secretary of State for the Home De partment, or may be reserved until her Majesty shall hold a Levee. REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE LEVEE AT ST. JAMES'S PALACE. The Noblemen and. Gentlemen who purpose to attend the Levee, at St. :Tames's Palace, are requested to bring with them two large cards, with their names clearly wri,;en thereon, one to be left with the Queen' s P age i n Attend ance in the Presenc,-cliamber, and the other to be de ered to the Lord Chamberlain, who will announce the name. . Those Gentlemen who a:3 to be presented are hereby informed, it is almlutely necessary that their names, with the name of the Nobleman or Gentleman who is to present them, should be delivered at the Lord Chamberlain's Office, before trelve o'clock, on the Monday previews to the Levee, in order that they may be submitted for approba tion ; it being her Majesty's command, that no presenta tion shall bo made at the Levees but in conformity with the above regulations. It is psi icularly requested, that in every case the names be very distinctly written upon the cards to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, in order that there may be no diffi culty in announcing them. The si ',te apartments will not be open for the reception of Conipany coming to Court until half-past one o'clock. WAR OFD ICE, APRIL 22. 2d Regiment of Life Gresrds—Lieutenant Henry Savile Lumley to be Captain, b"- - )urchase, vice Hon. Robert Neville .Lawley, who retir Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant Robert O'Brien Jameson be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lumley, April 22. Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Cornet John W. Bil lington to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lord George Charles Gordon Lennox, who retires, April 22. 3d Dragoon Guards—James Charles St 4 ll, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Swinburne, promoted ; Serjeant- Major Otho Vialls to be Quartermas ter, vice Heydon, who retires upon half-pay, Apia 22. 6th Dragoons -Lieutenant Harry Reginald Sainsbury - Trelawny, has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his Commission ; John Marcus Stews:4 Gent., to be, Cornet,- by purchase, April 22. 11th Light Dragoons—George Ashby Maddock, Gent., to be. Cornet, by purchase, vice Richmond, appointed to the 12th Light Dragoons, April 22. 17th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Godfrey Charles Mor gan to be Captain, by purchase, vice Erskine, who retires ; Cornet John William Cradock Hartopp to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Morgan ; Cornet Archibald Cleveland, from the 7th Dragoon Guards, to be Cornet, vice Hartopp, April 22. - Ist Regiment of Foot—John Martin Brown, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Murphy, who. retires, April 22. sth Foot—Edmund Spry Tritton, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Zysh, appointed to the Ist West India Regiment, April 22. 6th Foot—Henry Parkinson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Annesley, promoted, April 22. 7th Foot—Lieutentant Arthur Hunt, from the 54th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Maimsell, who exchanges, April 22. 13th Foot—George Henry Cobham, Gent., to bo Ensign, by purchase, vice Boyd, promoted, April 22. 18th Foot —Edward Hayes Wilton, Gent., to be Ensign, withoni , purchase, vice Graves promoted, April 22. 21st Foot -First s Lieutenant .Tohn Millar Bannatyne to be Captain, by prchase, vied Dunbar Dunbar, who re tires ; Second Lieutenant William Henry Carleton to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bannatyne ; Richard Stephens, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Carleton ; Lieutenant Francis Eastwood Nuport Tinley to be Adjutant, vice Bannatyne, promoted, April 22. 23rd Foot—Ensign William Halshed Poole, from the .v 9l o s is t e Fo p o r t o , m t o o te b d e ; Se E co d n w d ard Lie G u ri te ffi na th nt no b w y e p n u Th rch o a m se as , to be' Second Lieutenant, by purchrse, vice Carnegie, pro_ Gent., to urgretirinersis,hA, 24th,koot—Charles Aldersey Turner, Gent., to .1 ) -, 'noted, April 23. si c gn apt , an b7 , p b ur y e p h urc ase h , a vi se c , e t H c a e y L s En 25th Foot—Lieutenant Charlei Frederick Browne to be April 22. by purchase, to an Unattached Majority; Ensign John Henry Tripp, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Browne, April 22. - 26th Foot, Estcourt Day, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Eiderton, promoted. April 22. 33rd Foot, John Ralph Carr, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Harnett, promoted. April 22. 44th oot, Harcourt Campbell Carter, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Ingham, promoted. April 22. 45th Foot, Richard Grey, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Young, appointed to the 73rd Foot. April 22. 46th Foot, William Thomas Waldy, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase vice A. H. Waldy, promoted. April 22. 49th Foot , John Hopkins, Gent., to be Ensig n, by pur chase, vice Molesworth , promoted in the 7th Foot. April 22. 51st Foot—Ensig n William Stewart Richardson, from the 43th F oo t, t o be Ensign, vice Medhurst, promoted. April 22. 54th Foot, Lieutenant Charles Cullen Maunsell, from the 7th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Hunt, who exchanges, April 22. 55th Foot—Lieutenant William Macdonnell, of the 55th Regiment, to be Paymaster, vice James Edward Boggis, who retires upon half-pay. April 22. 59th Foot Henry Charles Evans, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice }racket, promoted. April 22. 63d Foot —John Hudson, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Swire, appointed to the.l7th Foot:April 22. 73d Foot—Ensign Richard James Hereford to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, N;QO Am k el, wh o re ti res ; B ryan George Davies Cooke, Gept.. to be E ns i gn by h vice Stacpoole, who retireiA 4 o / 41 22, purchase , 77th Foot—Matthew William Dickson, Gent., to be Ensign. without purchase, vice Harding°, appointed to the 54th Foot, April 22. 78th Foot—Quartermaster Joseph Webster, of the 78th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Evans, who retires upon half-pay; Quartermaster Patrick Carroll, from the 2d West India Regiment, to be Quartermaster, vice Webster, ap pointed Paymaster, April 22. 80th Foot—Colour-Sergeant Wellington Browne to be Quartermaster, vice Crawford, who retires upon half-pay, April 22. 83d Foot—Julian Wakefield, Gent., to be Ensign, with out purchase, vice Richardson, promoted, April 22. 86th Foot-Ensign -Charles Fraser, from the 69th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Neville, who retires, April 22. 87th Foot—Second Lieutenant Edmund Henry John Meredyth, to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, Tree God dard, whose promotion, by purchase, on the Bth April, has been cancelled; Ensign Walter Carr Mackinnon, from the 64th Foot, to be Second Lieutenant,vice Prescott, promoted in the 7th Foot, April 22. 91st Foot—Ensign Malcolm Potter Macqueen to be Lieutenant, by purchase, Nice Smy th, who retires ; William Halshed Poole, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Warren, appointed to the 65th Foot, April 22. 92nd Foot—Ensign Charles Greenhill, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Careeron, promoted ; William Farqu harson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Inverarity, promoted, April 22. 95th Foot—Edunind Davidson Smith, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice J. R. D'Loghlin, appointed to th e 27th Foot, April 22 ; William Braybrooke, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Clerk, promoted, April 23; En sign George Brown, to be Adjutant, vice Sargent, who re signs the Adjutancy only; Ensign Christopher More Molyneux has been permitted to retire from the Sery lee by the sale of his Commission • Assistant-Surgeon Robert Ferguson, from the Staff, to 7 be Assistrint-Surgeon, vice Gordon, promoted on the Staff, April 22. 96th Foot—Francis Pike, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Deane, appointed to the 22nd Foot : April 22. 98th Foot—Francis Lambton, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice Goddard, promoted, April 22. Ist West India Regiment—John Robert Blacker, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Upton, promoted, April 22. Ceylon Rifle Regiment, George Edmond Francis, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Waters, pro moted. April 22. HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant-Surgeon Huntley George Gordon, M.D., from the 95th Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, vice Logie, appointed to the Royal Horse Guards; Johnston Ferguson, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Ferguson, appointed to the 95th Foot, April 22. UNATTACHED. Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Terence O'Brien, from Major half-pay 87th Foot, late Deputy-Ad jutant-General, at Barbadoes, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase ; Brevet-Major Francis William Henry Lord Burghersh, from the 25th Foot, to be Major, by pur chase, April 22. BREVET.—Captain Frederick Geddes Bull, on half-pay of the 60th Foot (Staff Officer of Pensioners), to be Major in the army, Nov. 11. MEMORANDUM.—The christian names of Captain Knox, on half-pay unattached, are " Charles Henry." Major William Driberg, upon half-pay unattached, has been permitted to retire from the army by the sale of his commission, he being about to become a settler in th e Colonies, Aprif22. London & N. West. Gt.Westn. D 0...... Do Do L. &NAN . Caledon... Gt.Notrhn Gt. Westn Yk. New. Berw.. ,17 IDo Zorfor- &17. W. & Midld. Stcktou & Darliugt. E. Count Do 'Do L. & A . W. &Ln& Yk Do . Gt.No: Jhn Lane_ .& 'for; MilirtettO Stocle:. dzi Darling; Do Gt.Westa OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, APRIL 22 . Royal Regiment of Artillery—Gentleman Cadet Charles Gray Johnson to be Second-Lieutenant, vice Whinyates, promoted ; Gentleman Cadet Henry Cardew to be Second- Lieutenant, vice Blackburne, ' promoted, April 8 • Brevet- Major John . Edward Dupuis to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice d'Arley, retired upon full-pay ; Second-Captain Henry Bourchier Osborne Savile to be Captain, vice Dupuis ; First-Lieutenant Charles Wright to be Second-Captain, vice Savile ; Second-Lieutenant Christopher Charles Tees dale to be First-Lieutenant, vice Wright, April 22. Corps of Royal Engineers—First-Lieutenant Henry Grain to .be Second Captain, vice Vavatour, retired on half-pay ; Second Lieutenant George Reid Lempriere to be First Lieutenant, y ice Grain, April 22. Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners—Serjeant-Major George Allan and Serjeant William Young to be Quali.er masters, April 1. ADMIRALTY, APRIL 19. Corps of Royal Marines—Gentleman Cadet Charles Hope Clendon to be Second Lieutenant ; Gentleman Cadet George Weatherall Thomas Hemmans to be Second Lieu tenant; Gentleman Cadet Fitzmaurice Creighton to be Second Lieutenant; Gentleman Cadet Wyvil James Christy to be Second Lieutenant. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 32, for the Week ending on Saturday the 16th day of April. 1,53. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued .. • • .... 32,519,885 Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities 2,944, 00 Gold coi❑ and bu'llon 18, 00,731 Sliver but ion ........ 19,151 £32,519,835 I • £ 32,519,8 , 35 M. MARSHALL, Chlef Cashier. Dated the 21st day of April, 1853. BANKING DEPARTMENT. Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Rest .......... ..... 3,110,471 Government securities --, (Includg.Dead Weight Annuity) .... 13,221.382 Other securities 14,085,037 Notes • • ........ • • Gold and silver coin... 273,111 rune deposits tin eluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 3,780,216 Oilier eeposits ...... 13,622,968 Seven Day and other Bills .............. 1,419,595 £36,486,250 £36,486,250 I. MARSIIALL, Chief Cashier. Dated tl:o 21st day of April, 18 PRICE OP SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending the 19th day of April, 1853, is 255. 10. per hundred weight, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Emil Krotzschmar, manufacturing jeweller, King-square Middlesex. Arthur Hammond Jenkins and Edward John Wood. house, wine merchants, Gloucester. BANKRUPTS. Lewis Frederick Ballot, merchant, Old Jewry-chambers, to surrender, May 3, and June 2, at twelve, at the Cour t of Bankruptcy. BeP, official assignee, Coleman-street buildings ; Crowder and Maynard, Coleman-s',reet. William Hodges Gough, builder, Gloucester, May 5 and June 2, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; LovegTove, Gloucester. William-Henry Adams, woollen draper, St. John-street road, May 3, at half-past eleven, and June 8, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Harris, Moorgate-street, and Sole, Turner and Turner, Alderman bury. Robert Rutherford, merchant, St. John's, Newfound land, trading at Manchester, May 3 and 25, at twelve, at the Manchester District Com:, Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Salo, Worthington, and Shipman, Man chester. Charles Doudney Cray, grocer, Southampton, May 1, at two, and June 6, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, church-lane ; Linklater, Siso lane, Bucklershury. Joshua Scholes, shopkeeper, Ashton-under-Lyne, May 2 and 3, at twelve, at the Manchester District Com t. Pott, official assignee, Manchester • Potter and Tobke, Manchester; or Johnson, Weathers% and Son, Temple, London. ' Kelland Down, grocer, Taunton, April 29, and June 11, at twelve ,st the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; J. and J. H. Linklater, Sise lane, City. George Barber, grocer, Bishopsgate-street Without, May 3, at half-past one, and June 8, at two, at, the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Wallis, Naw Broad-street, City. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. T. Sneezum, Rupert-street, Coventry-street, builder, May 14, at twelve—R. Ellis, Dean-street, Southwark, pro vision broker, May 13, at eleven—J. Worrell, Sussex-street, Tottenham-court-road, victualler, May 14, at twelve. In the Country. D. I. Wyatt and Eliza Underwood, Bristol, hat and B cloth cap manufacturers, May 12, at el even, at the Court 2, 6, at r is tol—R. Jones, Oswestry, Shropshire hatter, May twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—PG. Pryde, D. Jones, and J. Gibb, Liverpool , sail-makers, 35fay 16, at eleven at , the Court, Li ver pool—J. Crosthwait e, Liver p ool, mer chant, May: 13, at eleven at the Court, Liverpool—H. g. Ross, Liverpool, draper, '3fay 13, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool. PAYMENTS OF DIVIDENDS. G. J. and T. Prochter, Rochdale, Lancashire,r.c T Fraser, ton. s pi n ners, 9id., on Tuesday , May 3, or any subsequent day, between elev en and one, at the office of Manchester. J. Brown, Kidderminster, and St. Mildred's-court, Poul try, carpet manufacturer, ls. lOid., on any Thursday, be- Birmingham tween eleven and three, fit the office of Mr. Whitmore, . C. Webb, Oxford, apothecary, ls. 7di , on Saturd ay, th e 23d inst., and three subsequent_Sfitarday. s, between eleven and two, at the offic e o f Mr. Edwards, Sambrook -court, Basinghall-street. A. Meyer, Throgmorton-street, City, merchant, 2s. 9d., on Monday, th e 25th inst.,any subsequent Monday, be tween eleven and th ree, at ther office of Mr. Carman, Alder manbury, City. H. Stratton, Aylesbury, ni trader, 2 s . lid ., on M on d ay, t h e 25th instant, o r any Subsequent Monday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Canaan, Aldermanbury, City. • S. H. Davy; Parker-street, Drury-lane, coach wheel wright, 6s. 3d., on Monday, the 25th instant, or any sub sequent Monday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Canaan, Alderraanbury, City. • NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. W. J. Powell an d C. Hind, Carnaby-street, Golden square, linen draper. May 13, at eleven—Jane Emma Spence, Ladbroke-square, Notting-la boarding-house keeper, May la, at one—T, Chew and J, Cher, Little Moorfields, livery-stable-keepers, May 13, at half-past eleven—W. Colk, North Walsham, Norfolk, wine and spirit merchant, May 13, at half-past one—G. de Witte, Throgmorton-street, City, commission agent, May 13, at half-past eleven. St. 20 274 22 St. St. 50 161 St. 20 Paid.' 184 100 100 all all all 8i all 100 all 11i all all all -3 100 100 12 I - 304 1 - 3 -- 45 ... • •• t 3 d l 41 51 2 d 35i ...d 4 d, 17 19 81 9i 13 15 31 3 d 204 - 75 364 377541 13 14 4 41 19 -- 21 3 31 15 16 9i 32 33 9 - 10 d Par 68A 69 7A -- 7 d 2i -- 58A -- 59 PREFERENCE SHARE: `Aberdeen I Do., No. 2, 7 p. c Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyhead Guar. 51 per cent. Cork&Bandon 51 p.c. Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction E. Ang. (705.) 6 p. c. Do. (4:5), 7 per cent. Do. (7 170, 7. p Eastern Counties Ex. tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do., No. 2 Do., New 6 p. c. St Eastern Union Scrip Guar. 6 per cent East Lancash. 6 p. cts Edinb. Prth. & Dund Glasgow &S. Western Guar. 5 per cent Great Northn. 5 p. e. Do. 5 p. c., Redeem. at 10 p. c. prem... Gt.S outhn. & Westn (Ireland) Eights... Gt. Westn. (Berke & Hants Ex. 5 p. c.) Great Western, fixed 4i per cent Lan. & York. F. £2O D0.,-6 p. c., Stock London and Brighton. Guaranteed 5 p. c Do. Pref. 5 p. c., St. Do. Convertible, 5 p. . . c., 1852. Do. New Guar. 6 p. c. London &S. Western, Con. Third 5......... Londonderry & Color A Shares Londudry. & Ennisk. Shares .. Manch., Shef. ,& Lin Shares, No. 1 Do., New, ‘C-10 Do., £6 all all 8A 100 100 Marypt. & Carl.-4p.c Do. 41 per cent...... Mid. Consol. 6 p.c.St. Do Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... Do. Pref. 4,4, percent. Norfolk Extension... IDo. Guar. 52 per ct. per .33 Do. i cent Waveney Valley North British North 'Staffordshire Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh. £15,6p. c. o. Shrewsbury & I3irm. New Guaranteed , Shrewsby. & Chester Nor. W. (Min), 3 p.c. Do. 5 per cent. South Devon hpo. New 10 all 1, all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) f .£1 Os. 6d. S.Yorksh. 4p. e. Guar. Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.e. York, Newcastle, and, Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref. Do I York & N. Midland, ,11. &S. Purchase... 105 - 107 1:: 108 19 —2O xd d 6 - 64x(1 34 - 31 4 4. 1 - 1A) 1-3 : - 2,i p 1 14 -- 2 - - -14 - -_ 12 - 113 - Si 61 06 )08 id iP L5l 153 152 - 155, 3i - 4 p 10. - 11 13i - ' nut 10-- 9 1..- 11t 4 ipx dj 148 - 150 22i - 23 - 109 - 111 25 - 26 2 - 2i p 1 10 - nii 17 —18 i 14 —1 5 i ntr p 261 -2 6 i 19A -20 A i d -- ipar 02 -104 5 - par Antes rp. &Rotterdam Belg 4 an Eastn. Junct. Charleroi & Erquelin Dijon and Bez..n9on Dutch Rhenish. ..... East Indian Do. Extension Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France Gt. Westn. of Canadr Shares Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. pref .... . Luxembourg ......... . Do, (Rai1way)........ Do. - Do. ......... Do. 6 p. cent. pre" , Lyons & Medtterran. Niadras ........... . ...... Maria Ant0nia......... Do. Neiv ........... . .... Namur & Liege (with 1ntere5t............. . Do. (ex interest) Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. c. Dols (fury. B. & Ams. Shs. I Norwegian Truk. Prot Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen . . Paris and Strasbourg Paris Caen &Cherbrg. Quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse Do. 51 per cont. pref Southern of France Upper India Scrip , West Flanders ' •Do. 5i per . c. Pref Western of France._ I West. of Switzerland' New Zealand.... id 1 [34 14 $ 7 3 p —6p 11 . p 2 — 2 p 1 2 ;1 - 1p id P 7 41 -1 1 4 L —2 d— p 2 -2i pl - 8 ..... -36 i - - 9 - - 426 - 45 - -- 5 P; - PI -21 A - 94 6ip A P 4 5 d 1.01 — . llO, d I Ala of 100 all 36 100 all 5 174 all 10 100 100 100 100 100 all 100 all 1/.ls 1 100. 20 114 100 91i 2 771 7 pm 120 19/ 91 901 75 4$ 43 - 3 1 I 301' 43°011' all 100, all 100 50 25 12 1 , 12i 20 20 all all all all 11: 100 100 186 9 i all In the Country. H. H. Ross, Liverpool, draper, itayl3, at twelve, at the Court, Liverpool—E. Price, Birmingham, livery-stable keeper, May 11, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. T. Fitch, Chester-place, k;iinington, commission-agent, Apiill9, certificate of the third class—G. Benden, Bristol, glass dealer, certificate of the third class, subject to a sus pension of nine months from April 18. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. Fairthorne and G. Annesley, St. Albans, Hertford shire, attorneys--A. Haffner and H. Troger, Manchester, ornamental confectioners—W. Child and T. Moss, Wake field, Yorkshire, auctioneers and valuers—J. Croft and J. Braman, Ashton-under-Lyne, common brewers—J. Lee and N. Booth, jun., Masbrough, Yorkshire, earthenware manufacturers—E. Jones and J. H. Payne, Bristol, to bacco and snuff-manufacturers—T. Steele and A. Steele, Clapham—J. Clements and A. Richardson, Lowestoft, Suffolk, soap and candle-manufacturers—E. Sandford, W. Y. Sandford, and R. Morley, Liverpool, fruit mer chants—J. Burton and J. Robinson, Stockport, manufac turers of calicoes—C. Atkins and R. C. Parker, Wotton under-Edge, Gloucestershire, grocers—G. Denny and C. Clark, Great St. Helens, merchants—W. Barnard aod S. Mayer, Milk-wall, Poplar, potters—S. Fox, W. Tinsley, R. S. Hales, Cobridge, 0 5,tatfordshire, coal-masters-4. Poole and C. Jones„,Chesler, joiners or carpenters—G. Lowry and J. Hartley, Salfor d, Lancashire, flax-spinners —T. Wood, E. Grain ger , an d G. V. W oo d, Dudley, Wor cestershire, grocers and maltsters—W. Whatmough and Nancy Whatmough, Manchester, stone-masons—F. Higgs and R. Case, Bethnal-green-road, carpenters—S. Churchill and B. M. Smith, Bath, tailors—W. G. Brown andJ.Ellia, Ludgate-street, cooks and confectioners—H.Wilders,W.H. Neate, and G. Rogers, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, cork-manu facturers—E. Whittaker and It. Bell, Rochdale, engineers A. Lakeman and G. Gorton, Bristol, linendrapers—G. Oliver and A. Oliver, Lawrence-lane, Cheapside, accoun tants —W. Dalton and J. Dalton Millbank-street, West minster, corn an d coa l- mer chant's—l Pyle and J. Poly blank, Newton Abbot, Devonshire, brass and iron -founders, smiths, and mill-wrights—C. Raby and S. Raby, Torquay, Devonshire, coal - merchants—G. Burnand, C. Vickers, and T. Sandeman, Cornhill, sharebrokers (so far as regards C. Vickers.) INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. V in raTfitt s d hin°ll l e lire, carpenter. P Re ßo d be ru rt th oa o to o E n ni e fcLai xto l, ThomaslsrWilliamJamesiuiWilliam mp Parsons , r otheGknrc andji s innkeeper. n, Cheshire. William Colson, Birkenhead, clerk. Henry Wedlake, Bristol, tailor. James Bennett, jun., Kirton, Lincolnshire, carr i er. - Thomas Catsforth, Broughton, Lincolnshire conctor . Robert Dolbey, Wolverhampton, grocer. - • Caroline Vaughan, Bilston, Staffordshire, dress-maker. John Broadley, Manchester, joiner. Thomas Rich, Manchester, provision-dealer. Thomas Ostler, Hulme, Manchester, clerk. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. D. Husband, Cupar, Fife, merchant, to meet within the Tontine Hotel, Cupar, April 29 and May 20, at eleven. D. Allan, Edinburgh, spirit-merchant, to meet within M`Callum's Hotel, Edinburgh, April 29 and May 25, at twelve. G. Kerr, Port-Buchan, near Broxburn, to meet within the Port-Buchan Inn April 29 and May 27, at one. J. Clark, Greenock, tailor, to meet within the White Inn, Greenock, April 29 and May 20, at twelve. J. Donaldson, Glasgow, merchant, to meet within the Crow Hotel, Glasgow, April 27 and May 27, at twelve. J. and D. Miller, Rothesay, fleshers, to meet within Kinloch's Hotel, Rothesay, April 26 and May 17, at one. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MALTON RACES—FamAy. The LANGTON STAKES of 5 sovs. each, pp, with 20 added. Two-year-olds, 7st ; three 9st ; fillies and geldings allowed 31b ; winners extra ; the second to save his stake. Straight half-wile. 11 subs. Mr. Coates's Pope Joan, 2 yrs (Carroll) 1 Mr. Harrison's Lady Ponsonby, 2 yrs (Wells) 2 Started but not placed—Sylvia, 2 yrs ; King David, 3 yrs ; Malice, 3 yrs ; and Card Sharper, 2 yrs. Won by a length. The FAREWELL STAKES of 10 soya. each, h ft, with 40 added, for two-year-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b ; the second to save his stake. Optional selling weights, &c. Straight half-mile. Whitenose (Harrison) 1 Julius Caesar (Osborne) 2 Started but not placed—Prioress filly, Polly Burns, and Gamecock. Won by a neck. CONVIVIAL HANDICAP of 10 sous each, 5 ft. and only 3 if declared, &c., with 50 added ; the second to save his stake ; winners extra. One mile. 30 subs, 13 of whom declared. Lord Derby's Phantom, 4 yrs, 6st 41b (Wells) 1 Mr. I'Anson's Captain Cornish, 3 yrs, sst 41b (Oliver) 2 The following also ran—Break-o'-day-Boy, Lady Ag ne,s, Paquetta, and Dress Improver. Won by a neck. The ORIGINAL WELLEAM CUP, value 50 sous, by sub scription of 5 sous each, for horses not thorougbred, &c. Gentlemen riders, 13st each. Two miles. 11 subs. Mr. W. S. Cranford ns b g by Delirium, 5 yrs (Mr. Peart) 1 Mr. H. Strickland's Alfred Tennyson, 6 yrs (Owner) 2 Mr. Bell's The Cub, aged (Mr. Boynton) 3 Mr. B. Bowers's Madame Thillon, aged (Owner) 4 Won by four lengths. SPECULATION PLATE of 25 sovs., added to a sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, the second to save his stake. Op tional selling weights, &c. One mile and a half. (Dickson) 1 (Carroll) '2 (\Vells) 3 Won by a length. The TALLY-R 0 HANDICAP of 10 sous. each, 5 ft., with 20 added. Gentlemen riders. Professionals 61b ex tra. One mile and a half. 9 subs. Mr. G. Gregson nd Mire Hill, 4 yrs, lOst 51b Captain Phelaii Baleine filly . The Gip ... - (Mr. Greg,son) 1 Mr. .T. Henderson's Prince President (h b), 5 yrs, lOst (Mr. Mathews) 2 Captain Iteynard's Bruce, aged, lOst 411) (Mr. Boynton) 3 Won by a neck. TEE COLONY OF VICTORIA. The accounts from the colony of Victoria received by the Ballarat extend to the 7th of January, being three days later than those by the last arrival. They do not bring any further details regarding the production at the mines, but as no complaints are alluded to, it may be assumed the general results continued to be satisfactory. Henceforth there were to be two Government escorts every week from Bendigo and Mount Al exa nd er , and, to meet the wishes of th e miners, effective steps were at length being taken to establish police stations at the diggings and on the roads. With regard to the deposits at the Ovens, individual cases of great success continue to be mentioned. .One party of five had obtained, it is said, 1251 b. weight of gold in six weeks. An escort also to this locality was about to be established, and large sums of money were sent from Melbourne for the pur chase of dust. The price of gold was still 3/. 10s. 3d. According to a report presented to the Legislative Council, the number of persons at the Victoria Mines was 45,000, but this was asserted to be greatly below the real total. The accounts of the revenue of the colony for the quarter ending the 31st of December had just been published, and were very striking, the total being 597,324/. against 144,3491. in the corresponding quarter of 1851, although Kt that time the gold discoveries had caused a large increase. The chief items consisted of land sales and timber licenses, and the receipts in con nexion with the goldfields were 212,843/., being 196,006/. for licenses, and 16,8371. for escort fees, &c. Comparing the revenue accounts for this and the preceding quarter with the half-year ending December 31, 1851, the figures were still more remarkable, the receipts from June 30 to December 31, 1852, having been 1,059,665/., against 197,5431. in the corresponding six months of 1851. From Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, the latest dates were to the 4th January, but they communicated nothing of importance. The Fingal diggings had scarcely yielded anything to individual labour, although froii. thought i the general indications of the country it w as that if large prospecting parties were formed considerabl e riches might be found. This, however, was not likely to take place while the attraction of the Victoria mines continue unabated. The estimated revenue of Van Diemen's Land for 1853 was 174,0761. against an ex penditure of 171,9211. Trade was active, and Auckland, was selling at ss. 9d. per bushel. From A NDee e w e Zealand, mber . Excitingad vice sr reports tbse continueden received too be the4t circulated of d by un doubted regarding deposits atthceo Coromandel, richness aodol, of on t d h e.itrme,caesn slyaidditsicioatveerevdengtohlde These n o o b t ta y i e n t ed bee 2 n Os e . a n - fi d r a m y e . most b e i d n e statements , tffie t il mon However, n e y vwe . kh .7 e ii d i s t e s COUNTEY MARKET'S. LIVERPOOL-ArBIL 22. There was orly a small show Of samples of American fine white wheat to-day, and such were held for a small ad vance. The business generally was at prices similar to those obtained on Tuesday. Buyers are indisposed to fol low up an advance. American flour commands fully late rates. Indian corn quiet in demand, but quite as dear. Oats dull, and id to ld per bushel lower. Oatmeal not any cheaper. Barley, beans, and peas unchanged in value. EXETER—APRIL 22. CORN EXCHANGE.—For prime samples of wheat 6s 6d to . 08 Od ; inferior, 5 s 6d t o 6 8 ; b ar l ey, 4 8 Od t o 4 8 6d ; grinding, Os Od ; oats, 2s 6d to 3s per bushel. Flour—fine, 37s to 385,. seconds, 358 to 36s per sack. . CATTLE M ARKET.—Prime beef, 9s6d to OsOd per score ; 2(1 quality, 8s to 8s 6d ; cows and calves, 81S s to 13/13 s ; steers, 001 to 0l; butcher's calves, 4d to 5d I rlb ; sheep, prime wethers, 7id to Od; ewes, 6,id to bid; store hogs, 35s to 008 each. COAL MARKET—Ar'un 20. Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market : s. d.l s. d. Bate's West Hart1ey......15 O l Lambton Primrose 17 9 Carr's Hartley _ 15 6 Bell l7 0 Hasting's Haitley 15 6111aswell 18 6 Longridge's W. Hartley 15 6;Lambton lB 3 North Percy Hartley ...15 O i Plummer l7 . 9 Ravensworth W. Hartleyls 6Richmund 16 6 Stewart's Hartley 14 6ißussell's Hetton 18 0 Taufield Moor Butes 14 6 Stewart's 18 6 Townley 15 6 Heugh Hall 17 3 West Wylam Trader 15 0 Kelloe 17 6 Willington Hartley l5 6'South Kelloe ...............17 3 Wylam 16 0 W hitworth ..... . .. . ........ 14 6 Wallseud, &c. Derwentwater ifartley 15 6 Harvey Wyldm, uns. _l3 6 i Llangenneeh 24 0 Johnson 15 6Perkin's Anthracite 25 0 Riddell l6 o;Ramsey's GaresfieldCoYe2s. 0 lletton Lyons l7 01 I Ships At market, ~ ~ , 112 I Sold ...... ~,„, 59. ;;,. l u , , e L t iol.lP A 126, 124 12i St. 74 29 10 all :GN• 25/ 21 11/ 441 4i6