The Sun. — London, England, 1853-04-09 00:00:00

,-, Ipril 1 STEAM TO AITSTRALIA. GENERAL SCREW STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That this Company's Auxiliary Iron Screw Steam-ship ARGO, 1,850 tons, George Hyde, Commander, will le ave Southampton for PORT PHILIP and SYDNEY on II EDNES DAy, the 4th of May next. The accommodation is of a superior description, and the cabins are 11111 3' furnished. The rates of passage money—After Cabin, first class, 801.; Fore Cabin, second class. 501. These rates are exclusive of wines, beer, ankapirituous liquors, which, however, may be had °II board at moderate prices. The ship will carry an experienced surgeon. Applications for passage to be made at the Company's Offices, 2, Ydl Exchange-buildli,gs ; and for freight and parcels, to Messrs. i'four, Laming, and Owen, 16, St. Mary-axe. :JrT O AGENTS.—Life Assurance Agents in any Part of England may with advantage become Aents for Fire lii sur ance, and thereby gre tly extend their Life business. The ,_ rectors of the UNITY FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION—an tnetitation established on new and Important principfes, and possess tu.s upwards of Two THOUSAND SHAIEHOLDEDS, whose names and :udresses are published with the Prospectus—are ready to receive Pplications for Agencies, accompanied by references. By looking tier the Li s t of Shareholders, applicants will probably find several to " ou t they are known. For terms, prtrspectuses, &c. apply to Chef THOMAS li . B tYLIS, General 31anageirand eeeretary. •er Offices, 40, Pall Mall, London. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, London. 81141 tE OF PROFIT INCREASED FROM ONE-HALF TO FOUR-FIFTHS. The u anagers beg to remid the public that persons effecting Po -0,17.1 With this Society no orbefore Midsummer, 1853, will PA RTl the 4 TE IN FOUR FIFTHS of the Net Profits of the Society a t ata,next Division, in proportion to their contributions to those pro pro and according to the conditions contained in the Society's a Peettis. 2.116 ,Premiums required by this Society for insuring Young Lives ii.:!ower than in many other old-established offices, and Insurers ,g,u 11 3 7 protected from all risk by an ample guarantee fund, in ad ..gun to the accumulated funds derived from the investments o 'r° ol l,,, am& .roso e n+- 4oßd o may be obtained at the Office in Threadneedle-street, n, or of any of the Agents of the Society. CHARLES HENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary. LOANS OR tNTED. LONDO N EXCHANGE ADVANCE FUND, , 2, Ad e l phi-terrace, Strand, faring the river ; City Branch, 3 , "' 42'04d-street, City. The Right Hon. Lord ERSKINE, Chairman. Loan s advanced, In sums of 101. and upwards, granted on a joint of d moor no repayable by easy Instalments, or on the deposit FullOfilet:idsor other available securities. s eTchange cashed at moderate rates of interest. I ng 12 of application may be obtained at the Offices, or on forward- Postage stamps. If. BROOKS, Seeretiry. BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. 1, Princes -street, Bank, London. E stablished August I, 1837. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Viet., cap. 9. CRAIN...Az— Colonel ROBERT ALEXANDER, Blackheath Park. ADVANTAGES OF THIS INSTITUTION. A table of increasing rates of pre um, especially adapted to the securing of Loans or Debts. A_ llal f . credit rates wh ere b y half the premium only is payable 'whs. 8 . the first seven y ears. hey,slaty, or at death if occurin A ssured payable at g pre nousl °rPhans En dowment Branch affordi ng th e me ans of having (kik, rn educated and started in life, by securing annuities, to co ,4 p . tnee at the arents death, and o be p aid a - *Year, or, if a ' daughter, h t er 25th year until of age.son shall attain B RITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. Anh„,.., , nPowered by her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. ?or. division of profits. Dity rn a holders participate in profits after five or seven annual pi.Z.N. according to the table selected. li7urns calculated for every three months' difference of age. e u r edit Policies granted on terms unusually favourable ; the Atth.",alf Premiums being liquidated out of the profits.. Of 30 ~:AollUal General Meeting on the 27th April, 1852, a reduction Patine Polici v ' r ce nt. Was made in the current year ' s premium on all partici 'es B oa • rd of Directors in attendance daily at Two o'clock. l i n w pf the assured in every case admitted in the . ' ea l attendants remunerated in all cases for their policy reports. (p _ zn, ixTa 42tract from the H a lf Credit 4 atea of Preaduna. (muTus.r...) Extract from Table with Participation in Profits, after Seven Yearly Payments. A. ‘11.3 ALIGUI.... ____......................11 ........, amain. t flair Whole i 'Pren2l4lll Preinium Half Quar - First for R e . Age . Se'ren inatuder Pre- Years, of Life. Annual Yearly terly premium Pre- mium. mium. *......... --......-- I 30 f d. £a. d. Years. .3foriths l £s.d.£s.di £ a. d. 40 i 9 2 3 6 30 s o I 1 a 0 2 7 3 1 4 20 12 3 60 2 2 64 5 3 2 7 G I 4 4 012 4 I 1 ................' 3 10 6 86 13 4 9 2 8 2; 1 4 8, 012 6 E• R. FOSTER, Resident Director. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. ~ NEW FEATURE IN LIFE ASSURANCE. riE DEPOSIT and G ENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMP AN Y, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London. ... CA PITAL—ONE ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. Vh , DIRECTORS. al . " all--- Th Right Hon. the Viscount Drumlanrig, M.P., P.C., ) rn t 6 Household. R. ‘,. p roller of her Majesty's G. i.,.',L9wleY Barnes, Esq., 11, City-road, Finsbury. CleOZ,9larke. Es q ., late 17th Lancer., Junior an United Service Club. 11 4,,.% °° t 1 e, EN., Portland-terrace, W &worth, and Belvoir, St. Steph en ', Jersey eNv - aelcaali. Esq.. I, St. John's-gardens, Notting-hill, and 11, -pi,,olqu,rare. Lincoln's-inn. cieLocrie e sler s , - '1, 1 .13 ,4 bavies•strect, Berkeley-square, and Lutterworth, Alcaall%Sta„ tiord: { l ;ii r 15 . Connaught-square, ''''' itic' ' Hyde-park, and Tor Davia cr,,laclean Harrow-on-the-Hill. e Willi • "ole, t..' Es " Prinse .11., 32, upper Seymour-street, Portman-square. l't Plac e West P ' scl., 147, Loadenhall-street, and 8, 113 de-park. — obert A nd • Dr, sc rev? Riddell Esq., Inner Temple, Barrister-at -114,14 8 • 14, 1, 21 tr Pering s a fiPPer ' Seymour-street West, Connaught-s i q a n w aie. , St. James's-square. w il Elzg t,, AUDITORSI and Secretary to the Medical, . Life office. A. p4n: Jones, Eaq Accountnt, 3, Gull lhall-chambers. . , Life ° ee sq '' n•A:, Actuary to - the Engineers and 111a.mn c face, 345, Strand. gir ch i k e 2 Srs. r i e i l Pri ees Marryat, and Co. BANKERS. 3, King William-street, London. 40 P k inson and Co:, 3, liegent-street. FUTSICIANS. toDr, , r n p„„s_,;, 2i, Finsbury -place. Upper Soymour-street West, Connaught-square. sunoEoll9. )ilich.el 1-PaPnian, Esq. 16, Lower Seppour•street, ror u-squaro. Teevan, Esq:, 44, Gloucester-place. Hyde-parktm-gaardens. CONSULTING ACTI7ART. Francis G. P. Nelson , E q., F.L.S. INSPECTOR OF AGENCIES. F. P. F. Stroushezr, Esq. STANDING COUNSEL. 'William Wellington Cooper, Esq., New-square, Lincoln's-inn. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Hill and Mathews St. Mary-axe. RESIDENT SECRETARY. Charles W. Ties-an, Esq. The public Is respectfu'ly invited to examine the principles of the Deposit System of Assurance, which is based upon tables calculated by, and is under the immediate supervision of, Francis G. P. Nelson, Esq., F.L S., the Consulting Actuary to the Company. Compsrative Tables to assure 5001 on death, by a person aged twenty next birthday, on the ORDINARY and on the DEPOSIT system of Assurances. ON THE ORDINARY SYSTEM. The sum the ordinary The sum the Life Offices would give ordinary Lll Jahn if he were unable Offices would to pay, or if he omitted At the His give him for to pay his current end of policy th e surrender annual premium of ti A nnual thirty at that or sale Bl. Cs. 3d. after he has NI Premium yearswhen age, of his policy, 'lnid into their coffers ato assure the party in case after thirty 2491.7 s 6d., and which .t. 5 001. is fifty of years'payments they have had the use iyears old, death amounting to I of at compoun I C hewill have will be 2491. 7s. 6d. I interest, or in 1 ,. • Paid into worth which theyhave the event of his death 1 the office. had the benefit one hour after such of at compound omission or inability —..—______ interest. i to pay. 20 gi e • 8 . 3d i 2491 . 73.6 d. 800/, little more than 801. NOTHING. perhaps 901. ON THE DEPOSIT SYSTEM. If nu able to pay, or not desirous of paying or omitting topay,thePo licy would still remain of its FULL value, 5221.25.7d.ti1l death, if 20 years after, no fur ther payment beingre quired. Ifhowever the party, from any cause, wished to cancel the Policy, he could not 0 7L. onlydraw out all hehas od 2251. '52 21.257 d 2871. 2s, 9d put in, viz., 225/., but a certain bonus of 621. 2s. 9d. in the bargain, which is more than one-fourth of the whole of his payments, or he could either draw out a part, 201. or 501., diminishing the Policy only by the assured value of the sum se drawn out at the age when withdrawn. See pagess and 7 in detailed pamphlet, by F. G. P. Nelson, Esq. t inder s^ 'th lia Parlson , of these two tables it will be seen th a t a person ady an e . no wel system O f D EPOSIT assurance can secure the follow ' large a g e s , viz., Ist. For a less slim, paid annually, he can assure In 2ffiy ` sum in case of death than under the ordinary system. • In the event of a desire to surrender his Policy he can receive Sompany, by the above example, which applies to all ages, TOEgE tunes as much as on the ordinavY system. 3rdly. In the event t h 2ability or omission to pay, his policy remains still his property. , ue '"r any number of years; whereas on the ordinary system, he gets 1 ' 5 %11)g. 4thly. Should he require to increase or decrease the i d, lount of his policy, he can do so at pleasure. He can at any time, giving a fortnight's notice, withd raw any part from 11 up to the ;7 1101 e amount of his previous payments and with interest. After he 4s withdrawn part one year he can, by a single payment, three it or any time afterwardS, raise his policy to a greater or even former amount ; and by this system he can at all times regulate annual savings by his annual expenditure, with the facility in the ; 4t wilain of having a fund to fly to in case of necessity, the same as 4rl a bank with this palpable advantage, however, that he gets inte rest fur his money, and in case of death his family r ece i ve more than a mount of his savings. In ordinary Life Offices b e can do no h Ucil thing, but his policy at once lapses or is canc e ll e d the moment eeases to ay his current premiums and, instead of having any -- t1, 1 1 4 t ° fl y to p for aid, all his harl-earned savings become forfeited to forodety, and his misfortunes serve to benefit the pockets of his t fortunate co-assurers. such a system is too equitable and too striking t o be overlooked kid xposix assurance is the only system of assurance which can be IT.IZE.II,IIIIY recognised and adopted when the principles are impar f.,‘"3. e alrfaitsed, and its palpable benefits become widely diffused. It °'ws greater advantages than a bank because it allows a fair rate cue'Tr crest in case of withdrawal, and gives twice the amount in the S Of th(l Company to the representati ves o f t h e D epos i tor in of death thus combining the ADVANTAGES OF A BANK WITH THE BENEFITS OF AN ASSURANCE COMPANY. a „„„ ease Of endowment assurances the advantages of the DEPOSIT --r•tern are still more striking. 44.11.0.4•4x -AGES OF THIS COMPANY UNDER THE ORDINARY To th LIFE ASSURANCE NC H. B °se Who prefer this branch Polici vyt. on every known principle thereof. granted from 201. to iv on in all but the worst stages of disease, and such as have been CiZleot bY disease other Offices, are taken at rates equivalent to the partl- 7.....- ...Ar ts • r a ,„ ftom 501. and upwards granted on every kind of security, -7. yr Dersonal, on the most equitable terms to the borrower No ' ties of every description granted on very favourable terms. piZ il- fbrfeiture of a Policy.--an case of inability to pay the currant re7te" 3l 4 the Directors will eitner purchase the Policy at a fair whit value, or give a new one in Ilea thereof, less 5 per cent., lute cl7lasPonding in amount to the whole of the previous payments Dam we been made. posi t Prospectuses with tables in further illustration of the De uttiwiJ 4 e•teM, Airell and any farther inf ormation may be obtained on appli ) the tS in the COuntry, or to • . CRUMBS W. BEVAN, Resident Seczetnry. )Tl4lF4lte lal AU puts of Ufa Wow No. 18,891. NEW TRAVELS ROUND TIIE WORLD. This day is published, in 3 vols., 31s. 6d. bound, NARRATIVE OF A J OURNEY ROUND THE WORLD; COMPRISING, A Winter Passage across the Andes to Chill, wills a Visit to the Go'd Regions, of California and Australia, the South Sea Islands, Java, &c. .- - - By F. GERSTAECKER. Hurst and Wackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Celburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HE EDINBURGH REVIEW, rTo. CXCVIII., Is just Pu' Pslied. CONTENTS:- T. Alison's gistory of Europe since 1815. 11. Marriage with a Dec=ried Wife's SI tcr. 111. The 'lunch of England in the Mountains. IV. Recent Novels—Agaths's Husband. V. The National Gallery. VI. Mr. Disraeli—His Character and Career. VII. Public Education. VIII. Marcellus—Memoirs of the Restoration. IX. The Income Tax. London : Lowman and Co. Edinburgh : A. anti C. Back, FRANCE. —DOMAIN of MARGAUX-PAL MER, th'rd Great Growth or M EDOC. The Sale of this Do t-11.'1n takes place on the ISth May next at the Chamber of Notaries at Bordeaux. Upset price, 400,0001. For particulars, or to treat, apply in Paris, at the Caisse liypothecaire, 9, Rue Cadet; at Bordeaux, to M. Tomezy, Notary, and to M. Bourgoin, Gerant, 27, rue Conditlac; and at Margaux, to M. Brachet, Notary. / • . . , • . • . _ . . • .. • - . • , ',...,.., , I . et V ..:` _,‘, ....;_ t 5 , ,, ~ _ 62 ,, ,., ,t., ~-•,, _. 0 - s : `,„itut.. r-. -4 1 .e ;4 ''' . ...' , 0 ..,.; , --. ,,... , - ( 7 ' ! A FA i ,-. S [d i 940 ,44 .. .ve.„........_ „.. *.. t1. ,. \ i'....., ~..,, --,7',--Lis;'.',, ,- //.. (1..:7 - \ ....., • - 7A •• 0 7 .. •, 4,...„ 1 •- - • . , k di iP , • -.._,...--, .:•,-..,,,..,.;:. \ • ::, . 0 , .4 v /7/ t her s'eAtjA*,,, , -.. . -;: , P , ' ft < A . ; . .i,::A , '71:!j" ' "'"4"; ' ' :04 !. , 1 ~-u6 li b ,,. -. r i '-' \ y,.....L . 140 rf .,.e..7_,'/ .-) ` / - :,.: ...... . 1 • - ~ • '-_-... ____ , , . „24 t ,, ,L 1,4_____ . +. 0 0 • " . z.„:,..-4,c-4, 4 „ , ~., ~,1 i: ~, .:t.., 4,,,,,,, •. ..,s ,0-:5•.,.. 17 0 ii , ~.4: . 4 - 1 , -,,..14,. i „..,. ,--,.... ) .„..,.. ~.,,.,. ..... 0 . 0 ...„ ),:„. DI . -,,,, 111147 - 4-. •' 1)40 11 . i . . A, .., i ~/ e / -- eSL---.--c.--,,.._ PATRON -11.R.11. PRINCE ALBERT, ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. —Mrs. Beecher Stowe's Popular Work on Slavery Illus• trated in an Optical Exhibition, with Vocal and Instrumental Music and New Dissolving Scenery, Morning and Evening. Lectures : By J. H. Pepper, Esq.—Half-hours with the Ancient and Modern Chemists ; by Dr. Bachhoffner, on Pneumatics, in which the Principle of the Fly's Foot and Walking on the Ceiling will be explained ; by Mr. Crispe, on Erlccson's Caloric Engine. Admission, Is.; Schools, and Children under Ten years of age, Half-price. THE ESTABLISHMENTS ARE KNOWN EVERYWHERE, and their BUSINESS is PROFITABLE to EVERYBODY.—It is now unnecessary for E. MOSES and SON to publish the fact of their commodious, complete, and magnificent, arrangements for the first and most distinguished business in the world ; but it is right that their patrons and the public should be acquainted with the vast preparations they are perpetually making, tc supply the most fashionable and comfortable attire at the lo vest prices, and to provide ladies and gentlemen with every kind of cloth ing in the newest fashions, and the most superior qualities. The order department provides elegant styles of MILITARY or NAVAL COSTUME in the most accomplished cut and workmansh i p, or LIVERIES to any devise which may be desired—superior quality— excellent workmanship—dispatch and economy may be depended upon. The ready made department is replete with new styles of dress for daily wear or special occasions, and attire for juveniles not to be equalled elsewhere for novelty, sup rior quality, and economical charges. The hat and cap section is repleni-hed with every new style, and the best goods are charged very low prices. The hosiery branch displays articles of incomparable elegance suitable for s, gentlemen, and children, the quality and pricy of each article showing how far the establishments of E. 3103 ES and SON excel all others. Emigrants are provided with their outfits, or any part of them, ai wholesale prices, 'by E. MOSES and SON. Persons about to embark for Australia may gain a large per cent. age on bmall investments made in clothing manufactured by E MOSES and SON. All classes of passengers are furnished with the requisite goods and clothing for any voyage or climate, and the price of superior articles is much lower at E. MOSES and SON, than at any other house. Complete suits of outfits for ladies and gentlemen, and shipsailing information may be had on applipt on, or post free to any part of the kingdom. CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like falsehood of " Being connected with • heir Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Mlnories, 83, 84,85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxfo:d-street, 1,2, 3, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 nd 20, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36, FaNate. Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe Makers, arid General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT —Should any article not give satisfaction, it will lee exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, from which no abatement can be made. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book, entitled " The World's Pharos," containing the Emigrant's Assistant, full list of prices, and directions for self mea surement, may be had on application, or post-free, to any part of the kingdom. A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1853 can be had gratis, on application. Ici I'on parle Franca!s. lifer at richt man Deutsch. Qul si parla Italian. Aqua se habla Espanol MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY, DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, and Matric•ilated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medic Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. 31AY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on . the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, resulting from juvenile irregu'arities and excesses, which have pro duced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema ture decay at all stazes of life, than perhaps any other class of dis eases known to modern pathologists. Long end practical experience in tile treatment of these diseases has proved that there arc in exist ence secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitfhl Marri ages, Lnpltency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their endless modifications owe their almost o , tire origin. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are prineiples of personal management which cannot be violat,d w , thout incurrin•• grievous pen, ides. and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-I , ldutgenec, how these penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bi!terness may be r.emove:l, and how the evil and its eon eritiences may be avoided, and above all, t _a there r.c.,reety any degree of physical infirmity or tunctional derangement to which the timely ald of science cannot apply a cure. DOCTOR LA'AIERT has for a long series of years been engaged In an extensive practice in the t-eatment of these delicate com plaints, and s the only legally qualified rhyslean who, regardless of the taunts and envy of the htpocritical and mock-modest, has had the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is tree. In select , ng thi department of practice, he has been amply rat , arded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the care of unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues of their patent no,trums, have inflicted serious injury on those who have been induced to place faith in their pretensions. _ _ At home for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from Six till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of if., and advice and medicines can be forwarded to any inilials or address. It is desirahle that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'3IERT should first obtain a copy of his work on SELF-PRESERVATION. A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage, and Nervous and Generative Debility; illustrated by fifty coloured engravings, and des cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and excesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct description of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Mann, 39, Combat ; Storie, T.tchborne-street, Haymarket; or free oy post for forty-two stamps, to any address from the Author's resi dence, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, Jou' published, by H. Bail Here, 419, Regont-street, London. No I. Bvo., in cloth, price ss. by post free, Ss. 6d., ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors to rel...tion to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the .encrative System, or Sexual Hypochondriasis. Translated from he German of Dr. PICKFORD "Dr. Piekfor , ' 1 .5 known to English readers by his frequent practi ,al contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the noa-medi cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his •.ower to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. "We oromised in a former number that we should recur to this wdr:t, in order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author lashes with great severity the impostors who make a livelihood by pi eying on the ciedulity of the public. The tribe of ' Quiet Symathisers,' and ' Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those who suffer from th com plaint of which it treets, we are satisfied that many hindreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though It is that which the quacks most prize— much money This volume is well qualified to put an end to the 'empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat -writ upon a more rational and physiolo.9zical basis. It is, therefore, ~v .ely to do much good."—Medical Circular, June 16, 1852. No. 11. Bvo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 45., TOTE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princl• pies at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate and apparently Intractable Forms. BY,F. B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. "In proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has given the history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated. -uch are cases ix., xi., all., and xviii. No, ix. had res sted, for a period of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and six. appear, both in duraticn, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently successful." —Professor Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture. DR. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS. To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row , Carvalho, 17. rlect-street Mann, 39, CornhW. Price One Shilling each; by Is Gd. ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. "Health, Rec rea ti on, and Rat i onal U se o f Ti me ." 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SUBJECT :—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringement. The casualties oflicentiortsness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narra tive, and remediative. Advocacy of early marilages. THE MARRIAGE STATE. To be or not to be, that is the question." PROGRAMME:—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and choice, on both sides, as to age temperament, complexion, and figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion, Cases, &c. • Ity it. J. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. (1824), Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in there matters. Price Is. each; by post, Is. 6d. To be had of 61;e7wood,23,Pitirooster-row ; Carveiho, 147, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Combill; or of M. R. Culverwell, 10, Argyll-place, Regent-street, who may be consulted daily from TeAtill Five, alltl,BeYoll till Nine. _ /Z~ - LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1853. riIHE BALLOT SOCIETY. 1_ 'the BALLOT OCIETT solicit communteations, addressed to the Secretary, from friends in all parts of the kingdom. CitsinuaN —The Hon. F. 11. F. BERKELEY, M.P. SECRETARY—JOHN JENKINS. BANKERS-PRESCOTT, GROTE, and Co. • Ballot Offices, 140, Strard, London, April 7, 1853. minster, in favour of the reduction of the duty on tea, to ls. per lb. Mr. PgLLATT presented a similar petition from Southwark. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Arboath in favour of the bill for abolishing University Tests in Scot land. LAITRENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.- Lessee, CII ARLE;; E. LAURENT, Onslow•house, Fulham road. Open Every Evoking. The Orchestra will perform, during the week, " The This.tl?," " Shanwoc%," "Rose," and "Amine" the "Napoleon" (I,dop, "Le Cirque' Quadrille; "La Valerie," Juno," and "steeplechase" Polkas.— Admission, Is. Doers open at llalf.p•ist Eight; ti commence at Nine o'clock, and terminate at llalf•past Eleven. DOCKYARD. APPOINTMENTS. Sir B. lIALL gave notict of the terms of the motion which he intended to move on the 19th of April next. The substance of it was that he would call the attention of the house to parliamentary papers of the present ses sion, Nos. 67, 271, and 272, relating to dockyard pro motions and appointments, and move the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the circumstances connected with the cancelling, on the 9th of Aprit;l?s2, of the circular of the Admiralty of the 26th of September, 1849, without any order or minute of the Board of Admiralty; also into the circumstances utider which a letter addressed by Sir Baldwin Walker to Mr. Staf ford, the Secretary of the Admiralty, in which letter he tendered his resignation, and why that letter was with held from the board; and also into the circumstances con nected with the appointment of Mr. Jas. Wells as master smith of Portsmouth Dockyard, and the subsequent can celling of the same, and the appointment of Mr. Geo. Costell in his stead, and generally into the exercise of the influence And patronage of the Admiralty in several Parliamentary boroughs at the I .st general election. TO ESTABLISHED ASSURANCE COM PANIEs'.—N Gentleman of high character, very extet , sive connexions, and of great perseverance; at i r,set.t holdin an im portant situation in an old-e-t 4,1 shed office, who has been distin guished f r his great success In the extension of Lite assurance buSi m ss, is disposed to enter into an arrangement with an office of acknowledged character for the extension of its business. Would not object to the management of a Branch 0111,e. or to an arrary;e ment as Secretary or Assistant-Secretary. Would be disposed to gua ante;: a fair amount of business. The highest references given. Address, prepaid, to 0. P. Q., care of Messrs. Castle and Lamb, newspaper agents, Bull-hea 1-court, Newgate-street. GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY COMPANY. SEVENTH HALF -YEARLY GENERAL MEETING. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That the Seventh Half-yearly General Meetin of the Proprietors in this Company will he held at the Offices of the Company, 3, New Broad-street, London, on Wed nesday, the 27th April, 1853, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, for the General Business of the Company, pursuant to the Ac . ( iigned) WTI ARNCLIFFE, Chairman. CORNELIUS NICHOLSON, Superintending Director. 3, New Broad-street, London, April 5,1853. The Books, for the Registration of Shares, will be closed from Thursday, the 13th, to Wednesday, the 27th April, inclusive. HOW TO WIN MONEY BY • FAIR PLAY ; —Well, you find I was right when I informed you by public advertisement in " Evening Sun" and " Morning Advertiser," &c. &c., that Contentment would be certain to lose the Metropolitan— the distance was a little too far for him;' That Richmond was sure of a place ; That for the City and Suburban Pancake had a private trial with Sheravogue, and was worth backing likewise for a place. Now, all you that have lost your money by backing Contentment, I will tell you how to get it back again to a certainty—lnvest your money as I shall advise in my " Looming in the Future," Con'entment is sure of winniag either the Newmarket Handicap or Chester Cup—one certainly, if not both—back him immediately. His performance for the " Met" hears no comparison to his private trials, I unhesitatingly assert that if the distance had been a quarter of a mile less, he would have carried a stone more, and won In a canter. I told his party the distance would beat him. Nerva is amiss, and cannot w,n. Now for a secret that is certain to win money—Ann Page is an extraordinaty good thing, in first-rate condition, and will be certain of a place, if not win, whatever she is intended for ;—back her for the Newmarket Handicsp and Chester Cup, likewise for a Place—back immediately. lam rp.t always correct, but lam certain from the arrangements I have made, that all wt o follow my advice for the season will find themselves good winners. Terms—Private Subscribers, Two Guineas for the Season, or Half-a Guinea for a Winner—the last I prefer. But take your choice; whichever way you like, my little dears. Address JOHN FAIRPLAY, Ipswich. Enclose a directed envelope, Have my Derby Pick, you can win a fortune. DINNEFORD'S PURE FLUID MAGNESIA Has been for many years sanctioned by the most eminent o f the medical profession, as an excellent remedy for ACIDITIES, HEARTBURN, HEADACHE, GOUT, AND GEORGE REEVES, 3,4, and 5, POPE'S HEAD ALLEY, 19, CORNHILL, LONDON, (nearly opposite the South Entrance to the Royal Exchange), being determined to supply the Public with the very best WINES and -.mars, at the lowest remunerating prices, begs to submit the 101- lowing list for their consideration:— fain the real price. The actual present price, therefore, of the Three per Cent. unguaranteed Stock is 991. 17s. 641., that is, 1001. 12s. 6d., minus the 15s. which has accrued as part of the dividend. The price of the Throe per Cents. guaranteed for 21 years is 1021. 17s. Gd. The value, there fore, of your guarantee, not to reduce the interest below 3 per cent. for 21 years, in the market at the present time, as tested by the daily transactions, is no less than 3 per cent. Now I want to get hold of that value, if I can, for sea the public. (Hear, hear.) Let us guarantee some of this - stock which has now no guarantee, and let us perpetuate for the benefit of the public the increased value which will thereby be obtained. (Hear.) Another of the uses to which - the Exchequer Bonds may be usefully employed will, no -. inferior to none of them-ever rs borrowe y one of these o p era ti on extend it-knowieg doubt, be that of obtainin g t em p orary l oans upon th e i r that our fathed money from have had an issue comparatively simple to deal with, public at Si. and even 61. per cent., and that we bore deposit, without any expense, an d a ff or di ng amp l e secur it y to the lender. This is a circumstance which will also tend, they have marked the successive steps by which yo at 31 . 1i Ntrent. -we assume that we are travelling , no d ou bt, t o increase the value of these bonds. (Hear.) There ar. ke..w,r;.; r i l le an p e u . bli ß e u e t re i c t ii i t s w a a c s uri l i i ox er fag a t n ha i t t t i ll s el l : is anther point, which I confess t I effected the great transition in respect of your debt from a vr T . O loloViltilliPtr as one the present time. I think it was in 1739, 114 years ago state of war, when money could only be raised at high ' back a a ne c e er n = nu ee mbe n r of years ia , a w n e j find. 1 ges u i , d e era o blimp f o o r i t . rates of interest, to a state of peace, commercial progress, and i n th e m on th o f July, that the Three per Cents., which ourselves in a period when dealings in public securi cts to the recollection of the committee, in ! deed, with s e v r i e th al r n e l and general stability of etur institutions. The case is now c al? . i t s i 7 e w s iu e ;t at par, were at the price of 1071. I wish to • t c he se m cu e ri tr t e i l e e s, lis b . utto materially different. I will state very briefly the particu- 11 order that they e 'ate the real difficult attend- I f o e s r t 0 entirely t o ! r n e o l yt onlyco nfi t n o e d p to li b public y 1 stock generally, it could hardly be said that there was a In lays of those'operations, for the purpose of discountenance ing an operatinmo7thie)Pret character which we have now in ! stock market out of London. The immense progress of ing the supposition that any analogous effects are to be view. Now, with respect to the Exchequer bonds, I pro- I the formation of multitude of joint stock coin ; enterprise, expected eke pro- P at the present time. In 1823 Lord Be pose thatthe issue of them will have the following leading panies ofdifferent descriptions-many of them of a high • debt. He posed a commutation of a portion of the public oharacteristics, which I will in the first instance state - 1 s • on . class -investments railways to cisely together, and without any comment of m own. In ' 'el. year of operated on a capital of 152,000,000/., and effected an im- the first place they will be t e . 3 " .• ,or 300,000,0001., giving rise to transactions every y , rans.errat.le by simple deliverY, 'i n s - et, le •nd other circumstances m lean ma e ni u( s, J. various . mediate saving of 1,206,0001. In 1825 the Earl of Ripon and without cost or expense of any kind. In the second on operated on a capital of 77,000,0001., and effected an inns- place they will bear interest • in the first instance at the ; nected with the commercial condition of the country, have, fate of 21. 15s. per cent., however, led to the establishment of regular stock markets dints saving of 390,000/. From 1830 to 1831, my right 1. 10s. ,and I ' and subsequentl at the rate of • propose with respect to the number of - • :in the provinces. Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, hon. friend the member for the University of Cambridge during which the interest shall continue at 2/ 15 cars i B:rmingliam, and other towns have stock markets, wnere operated on a capital of 153,000,0001., and effected an im- cent. that a limit shall be fixed by „ 3 . Pe?" 1 a very large amount of business is transacted; but at the Parliament, beyond present moment, considered properly as "stock," the pub mediate saving of 753,000/. In 1844 and 1845 h e again which th a t ra t e o f i n t eres t shall not be allowed to extend, ! lie securities are almost entirely eiclutled from the pre dealt with the large capital of 248,000,0001., and effected and that a discreti o n shall be given to the commissioners t 4..‘s vincial markets. Ido not mean to thatnobody • say in the of the Treasury to reduce that limit before they an immediate saving of 622,0001., which in the year 1854 the actual period for issuing the bonds, so that come - I provinces holds public securities for the purposes of invest and 1855 will be doubled, and then there will be an actual give the public every advantage of the latest infoiNevneateroy went. No doubt many persons do, but they hold them n through the medium of agents and correspondents in Lon permanent saving of 1,244,0001. (Hear, hear.) With re- of which the Government is in possession at the time don. lam most anxious, therefore, if it can be done, to spect to the amount of saving and of the rate of interest, when they are called upon to afford it. The bonds will, be the into to provincialmarkets - ing public securities e , 64 at the latest, but per-after the Ist of September, 18 , . from which a dissent was to be made, the case is widely because I believe that, by enlarging the scale of demand, haps from an earlier period than that, bear interest at the you different at the present day. So far as the history of the rate of 21. 10s. per cent, till September, 1894. After the L'ou_yvould increase proportionatly the value of the corn world has yet gone, we have found 3 per cent. pretty nearly year 1894 they shall be subject to redemption, but who. _ ou sli i t n y e , n , 3 j a u s s e t iiiislewhen, with e e a e fixed ed irbe u r of du b ee uy it e s rs, ra if . the limit at which we arrive. The enormous mass of dis- then by the State or by the holders is a point to which I ''s -ue so, when with a fixed amount mm of commodity commodity you in sent is again such as to preclude any extensive com p u l sor y s h a ll presen tl y more particularly a d vert. my resent pro- crease the sphere of the market and the number of the posal is, that the question as to at whose option the buyers, you augment operations, not only under the circumstances of the pre and enhance the value I:, c f tlte-comemz bonds shall be redeemable shall not be decided by a vote dity. (Hearn gorr sent moment, but almost under any circumstances which of the committee to-night, but shall be confided to the dis- not propose • to alter e ire rs p o r u e s se m nr m P o e d r e h o a transfer aaw of more public it is possible to foresee. The debt amounts to 500,000,000/.I cretion of her Majesty's Government. I propose also that securities by personal appearance at the Bank, and the in more than double of what it is ever been attempted to ape these Exchequer bonds to be issued shall not exceed, under scription of a signature in the books to the same simple preach for the purpose of reduction; and a circumstance, any authority to be conveyed by these resolutions, a sum manner to which ordinary securities are transferred. My of 30,000 000/. in amount. There are many other minor reply is, that Ido not see my way clear to such a measure which may not be so generally within the knowledge of the . , . ... importance, mode of . . questions, which are, however, of considerable The present committee, btit which is yet more fatal in its bearing on with respect to these bonds, and which bear materially is the centre of monetary transactions, not only of Eng the position of the public debtor and the public creditor upon the value and popularity of these securities. Among land, but of the world-is as near as possible to perfection ; is this, that of those great Three per Cent. Stocks, which I them I may menti on th e f orm i n which the bonds are to it is the most rapid, the cheapest, the most secure, and the have stated in round numbers as amounting to 500,000,0001. be drawn, the mode in whi c h th e interest is to be paid- most satisfactory, which has ever been devised. There ' ' • • a Parlia- - the whole are secured by a provision requiring which will probably by c ou p ons att ac h e d to the bonds- may he a mode by which, without breaking up that system mentary notice of twelve months' duration •be fore any mea- the places at which th e i n t eres t i s t o b e paid-that is to which works so well in London, the provinces may be pro sure of reduction or commutation can b e applied. (H ear. ) say, wheth er a t th e Bank of England, or a t th e Bank of Ire- vided with a mode of dealing with these securities. I I only ask the committee to recollect how serious a matter land, or also, at the branch banks, the mode of securingthese confess, however, that lam not as yet aware of that plan, it would be for any Government, u n d er presen t or „y o th er bonds against the possibility of forgery, and the means to and it would certainly be a very serious matter to sacrifice circumstances, to sketch out a plan o f opera ti ons a ff ec ti ng be adopted for replacing them when lost. Many of these the immense advantages which the great central market so vast a capital, involving the possibility of such an enor- arrangements are of an executory description ; they will enjoys for the purpose of benefiting the minor markets. mous payment received from you w ithi n , per i o d o f t we l ve require a great deal of careful consideration ; and it is not No doubt we shall achieve a great good if we can, by the months, and including all the chance vicissitudes which we necessary now to detain the house by any details respect- means now proposed, get the public securities into the pro have seen happen often in the course of less than a single them. We propose th a t th ese Ex c heq uer Bonds when vincial markets. The advantages derived would be that year. Our present position, theref ore , i s en ti re l y diff eren t issued may be used in various modes; and lam sure the you will give an increased value to the securities, and you from this. The expectations which were th en reasona bl y committee will forgive me for stating, in as plain language will introduce a further element of steadiness into the mar entertained it would not be reasonable to entertain now, as possible, the propositions containedain the resolutions, ket, for when you deal in one market only you are rendered The plans then proposed to the house were reduced to a for the wit of man has not yet devised a mode of framing more liable to the influence of combination than you would single and simple issue. The stocks with w hi c h you h a d resolutions of the kind so as to satisfy the jealous but just be by having a number of markets for the same commo then to deal were subject to redempti on by Parliament demand s of Parliament for information in cases of this day. (Hear.) Another recommendation which securities after an offer of repayment at short notice, an d as many " sort, and at the same time to frame a pleasant and what is of this kind will possess will be that they will form most declined that offer were required to accept other stocks ten- called a readable document. (A laugh.) I propose that eligible investm en t s f or f ore i gner s who may wish to be in dered in lieu of those which they held. Theref ore , I l a y it these Exchequer Bonds shall be capable of being disposed possession of public securities, and to have the documents down in the first instance, that a large operation of a c om . of in four different modes. The first is that they shall be which constitute their right to the property in their own pulsory character is totally out of the question. And th e exchangeable against Exchequer Bills. There may be possession. These are the principal considerations which next inquiry is, shall we, notwithstanding the impossibility- hon. members who may say, " Why not leave the Ex- have induced her Mejesty's Government to ask the house of such extended and comprehensive operations, come to chequer Bills alone. Surely you ought to be satisfied with to give their permission to issue this description of stock. the conclusion that a new state of circum s t ances h as ar e the conditions under which you now hold so large a sum There are, however, two points of considerable difficulty rived in which it is incumbent on the part of th e Govern- as you have invested in Exchequer Bills, viz., at the rate connected with this subject, to which I ought not to omit ment and of Parliament that th e y s h ou ld ma k e some e ff or t of interest not rising above the very moderate figure of 13 to refer. The first question which may be asked is, " Are to obtain for the public the fullest value that equity and per cent." My repry is lam perfectly satisfied with the these securities which you call ' Exchequer bonds' to be justice will permit for the security which they give to their Present condition of Exchequer Bills. But the condition merely very long dated Exchequer bills, which at a certain creditors, and a rigid observan ce o f th e p er f ec t goo d f a ith of Exchequer bills is like a summer sky-it may be varied period Parliament, whether it will or no, irrespective with those creditors which it has e ver been the st u dy an d or even reversed under the influence of circumstances, in of circumstances, may be called upon to rande pay? or are they the glory of this house to maintain? (Cheers.) Th e opi- a very short time. The funding of Exchequer bills, when to be securities guaranteed on the part of Parliament nion of her Majesty's Government is, that although we can- You have an opportunity of doing so, is a wise operation, agai ns t an y reduction or interference for a certain Pe not now effect the magnifi cen t resu lt s ac hi eve d i n f ormer and Ido not say that it would be unwise under certain cir- nod but with respect to which, after that period, periods, yet the time has come wh en a beginning m a y b e cumstances if we were to use these Exchequer bonds at the Parliament, and Parliament alone, shall enjoy the made, and when steps may be taken which may be useful rate of 23 per cent, for the purpose of funding Exchequer power of redemption, to use, or not to use, as it SO far as they go, and which will lay the ground where no hills which we hold at li per cent. When you can get thi n k s fit ?" N ow , h er Majesty's Government felt the ground has yet been laid. There is another preliminary your quantity of Exchequer bills very low, then their po- difficulty of coming to any conclusion in the absence of point on which I venture to make a remark. You have, sition becomes secure ; but when you have got it low, you that direct information which they could only receive from on approaching a subject of this ki n d, a choice of difficul- are enabled thereby to strengthen greatly the position of the full expression of public opinion and the discussions ties, and it was because I wished to put those difficulties the Government against any possible vicissitudes, and the which are elicited in the public journals and elsewhere, clearly before the committ ee th a t I did no t answer a t Government are enabled to go into the market as borrow- when a plan of that kind is proposed. We felt the diffi greater length the question put to me by the right hon. ers, in a case of emergency, with an amount of advantage culty of coming to an absolute decision on those questions gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire. On the one which they could not possibly obtain if the rate of Ex- in the dark. We had to choose two courses, both of which hand, no man can admit more fully than Ido the perfect chequer bills was not low. Now, with respect t o thi s par - were attended with considerable difficulties, and by th o title of Parliament, and o f ever y mem b er o f P ar li amen t- titular pr o p os iti on, w hi ch i s not ac t ua ll y th a t we should adoption of either of which we might have sacrificed a and indeed it is their bounden' uty - to maintain intact its fund Exchequer bills, but that we should exchange Ex- very considerable part of the objects which we had in view, control over the whole of those operations. If it is our chequer bonds against Excheque r bills, I will just state to If, for example, we had said, " These securities shall be duty to fence about with strict and rigid forms the whole the house the rate at - which previous fundings of Ex- securities absolutely irredeemable at the will of the holder" closely into every proposi- chequer bills have been effected. In the year 1826 th ere -if we had determined to invite the House of Commons to process of taxation, and to look c tion submitted to you by a Government for raising money was a fundin g o f Exchequer bills, an d th e r a t e at which vote such a proposition to-night, we might have run the still from the people, it is more your duty to see that you they were commuted was 1001. Exchequer bills for 1071. r i s k o f di screditing those securities at the first moment no not give a blind and unreasoning confidence to a Mini- in the Four per Cents, representing a rate of i n t eres t o f they were born into the world, and of thus seeing the ster where the case is either the creacion or the commute- 41. Gs. Bd. per cent. ;in 1829,1001. in Exchquer bills upon whole plan abortive. If, on the other hand, in order to tion of public • funds. The more the house takes on itself being funded brought 101/, eo s i n th e Fou r per Cents, ensure the working of the plan, we had written expressly those functions, the less is the burden incumbent on her thus representing a rate of interest of 41. ls. 2d. per cent. ; A in the resolutions before the committee that these securi- Majesty's Government, and the less the anxiety which at- in 1 839, 1 001. Exchequer bills were commuted at the rate ties were to be redeemable at the option of the holders, w e taches to the individual on whom the duty is imposed of of 1091. and 1101. in the Three per Cents., representing a might have been told, as in point of fact we have been, making propositions of this kind. But, on the other hand, rate of interest equal to 31. 6s. per cent„; in 1841, Ex- that the securities are so satisfactory in their character,_ while I thus st a t e th e p reroga ti ve o f P ar li ament an d o f its c h equer b ills were again funded upon the condition of that, as permanent, irredeemable securities, there may be members, it is an undeniable fact that when you come to being exchanged at the rate of 1001. for 1121. 2s. of many persons found who would be willing to hold them. deal with the public creditor, his position may be mate- Three per Cents., the interest being equivalent to It appeared to her Majesty's Government, therefore, that rially amended by conferences conducted in public with the 31. 7s. 3d. per cent. Thus, whenever you have had the wiser course was to ask Parliament to entrust thesis Ministry, and the Finance Minister in particular, and occasion to fund Exchequer bills, the best terms with a discreti on i n th e matter, and using the time, infer having reference very much to points of detail • and, there- upon which you h av e succee d e d i n d o i ng so have been at mation, and the discussion which will be elicited between fore, I wish to as k th e comm itt ee t o extend.to her Majesty's the rate of 3 1 . 6s. per cent., and they have been funded at the prese n t tim e an d the period when the act is passed and Government that degre e of . co n fid ence w ith re s p ec t t o rates even as high as 41. 6s. 84., and that rate of interest the securities issuea, and be permitted to act for the best, giving effect to those operations which th e y think moderate not representing, as in the case of Exchequer bills, a tem- as the circumstances may seem to them to require. It is and just-that they will rememb er th e extreme import- porary bargain, which in a few months might be modified quite plain that to get out these securities at the rate of ante when once a matte r o f thi s ki n d h ag b een broa c h e d by the Government, but representing the contracting of a interest proposed-2,1 per cent.-it would be well worth of carrying it forward with resolution and promptitude, new public debt, as permanent as any other portion of the while to make them redeemable at the option of the holder and that they will b e go verne d by th ose consid era ti ons i n public debt of the country. These facts form, we think, a after a certain number of years. At the same time it is balancing between the inconvenience of intrusting the justification of the request of her Majesty's Government, by uo means certain that, even by succeeding up to that no7discharge of weighty functions to those who admit their that we may be trusted, within the limits laid down in time, we should still succeed in the principal object which ic i e ns „, :fineywe r tbil y to ie b ear them,. and the inconve- those resoluti . ons, to exchange Exchequer bonds against we have i n vi ew , an d th a t i s bringing before the public eye, e of d oin g dama g e to - tl . public interests, and mar- Exchequer bills, for the purpose of funding at the rate of and enabling the public freely dealwithpublic • • to ring a great public object by discussing it in a spirit which 2/. 10s. per cent., thus effecting a savit flg o more than 1 e u • cent. interest, while the Exchequer bonds bearino• 2 . 3 per may be fatal to its very essence. I have been most anxious per cent. upon the rate at which Exchequer bills have ' • ,f to be iss e would in fact be long dated Excheque r bills, to make this application at a comparatively early period of heretofore been funded. (Hear.) The next purpose for and not permanent securities. (Hear, hear.) The come the present session, because, being aware that it is an ope- which wo propose Exchequer bonds shall be applicable is, will . see that we propose to ask for power to sell the ration of a kind that does not aim at very great results, that they shall be exchanged against the " stocks" which, ),1 4 , ends ' in open market, and to apply theproduce of their and being undoubtedly of necessity a novel operation, and by these resolutions, it is proposed to commute. We pro- sale to the purchase ' of bills The committee not analogous to those that have gone before, lam anxious pose, also, that Exchequer bonds may be sold by the Go- will, no doubt, of bestowing Exchequer * h , jealous such a power upon that the operation should go forward, and should reach to vernment, and the proceeds of their sale applied to the the Government, They may suppose that the Govern some degree of effect, if it is to take effect, while Parlia- purchase of " stock, for the purpose of cancelling it, or ment will throw them or give them away, or that ment is sitting, so that Parliament may have an opportu- to the purchase of Exchequer bills. These bonds are like- they will be stiff • away, so in their dealings that when the full nity of exercising a judgment upon it ere long, and so that wise intended to meet the particular case with respect tovalue • is offered for them it will not be taken. It appears Government may, if satisfied with the working of the plan, the small portion of the public debt which we give ab - so to me upon the whole, that while those who have to act come back to Parliament, if need be, for extended powers, lute notice to pay off; and this might be found the most ' before the session shall run to its dose. I come, then, to convenient mode of dealing with it - that we sell the for the State may fail in the discharge of their duty, yet, my plan, which consists of three portions. The first of bonds, and apply the proceeds in cash to meet the demands upon the other hand, the objection would be very great to these is certainly a minor portion of the scheme • and I of those who might require to be so dealt with, for, kee the committee now fixing absolutely the terms upon which will enter upon it first, in order to dispose of it and it ing extreme cases in view, it might possibly occur that the- these bonds should be issued. Her Majesty's Government out of view. It is the liquidation of certain minor stocks balance, in the Exchequer might not be sufficient to meet are your agents in the matter, and you will hamper and which appear in the schedule of the national debt, and the the demands which might be upon it. This subject ha prevent us taking advantage of the circumstances which very existence of which is unknown to a great portion of been one of careful and anxious consideration, a d ; may arise up to the latest moment, if you insert in these the public, and perhaps to a great portion of this house. the great difficulties besetting questions of this n one .o resolutions absolutely the terms upon which these Exche- These minor stocks are chiefly connected with the South that they of necessity involv arriving atconclusionsnature is, quer bonds must be sold if disposed of in that way. Her Sea Company. There is the debt due to the South Sea questions of groat importance with ver .7m Majesty's Government have thought, for various reasons, Company, amounting now to 3,622,000/. ; the Old South mation. Public feeling, after all, and tl Y i r e im o Rer 'o ee olfne- that the best way of meeting the reasonable desire of Par- Sea Annuities, amounting to 2,775,000/. ; the New South commercial classes, are the tests by which imu l i t' u atel the liament to be completely master of all these transactions, Sea Anuities, amounting to 1,997,000/. ; the South Sea measure of this kind can alone be tried, and Nuvhaintiwillybue would be to ask you to confer upon the Government such Annuities of 1751, amounting to 460,000/. • and the Bank the state of public feeling at a given time with respect to an amount of discretion as will be ample for the purpose, and will enable them to deal freely with the securities Annuities of 1726, amounting to 676,000/. The whole such measures i s a ma tt er upon which very opposite judge about to b e crea t e d , b ut at the same time to limit the amount of those stocks is ab ou t 9,500,000/ . sterling. With moats, even und er th e most favourable circumstances will respect to those stocks, it is proposed to take a compulsory greatly fail. I cannot blame myself for not having taken amount un of the securities . which shall be issued by them those resolutions, and for this reason I have pro operation-that is to say, we shall tender a certain alterna- all the means in my power, compatible with the strict and posed that the amount to be issued shall not exceed the tive to the holder, and at the same time inform him that absolute secrecy which those measures require, to ascertain if he does not accept this alternative, he will be paid off at what prospects, according to the best and highest • de- sum of '3 0 ,003,000/. Another limitation which is pro the expiration of a proper period. I think the committee ments, there of bringing out "bonds" of this kind u ' posed is, that the power to issue Exchequer bonds will in the absolutely cease and determine on the 4th of will agree with my view that, at this moment, this will be market. But, at the same time, it was matter ofApril, extreme 1854• It is not that I assume either that 30,000,000/. an eminently safe operation, But perhaps I may be asked difficulty to arrive at such certain data as would have * jus- will be the utmost limit to which Parliament will go, or why I touch these funds in particular. They may well be tified the Government in - absolute/ fi • y mile upon terms of that no bonds will be issued after the day named. The called the patriarchal stocks of the country-they have re• the proposition, from which there should be no variati fl•• • in • mained longest on the records of the national debt-they whatever. lon object o the imitation both cases is, that we shall have will now, however, state the grounds have subsisted for many generations-they may be said to which we think that these " " will upon the power to try the experiment, as your agents, to a bonds be popular cur- limited extent ; but to come back to for • have grown hoary with age ;then why should you trouble rent securities. In the first instance, the you increased them? I hold • that it is useful to have different descrip- fer of these securities entirely without very easy . trans- powers if we find occasion to go beyond the extent named cost. It is very in the resolutions. (Hear.) It may be asked, what is the tions of stock, yet it is a bad arrangement to have different difficult for us to say what may be the precise effect of that nature of those bonds, and would they constitute suffi descriptions of stock which have all their essential char ac- easy and rapid transfer without cost, because we have no cientl broad ' ' teristics in common, and in which there is not one that is ed t • prec en to guide us among the various descriptions of ' y basis for the operation which we are proposing to Parliament? To this I must say I think opposed to the other. Again, those limited stocks create the present public securities of thecountry. We have, not. I have said much in commendation of instruments but a small market, and small transactions invariably bear however a partial means of forming a hon small prices. You thus complicate the public debt with- subject, ' from the fact that there are many foreign securi- it is obvious-and it has been broadly remarked in many out any countervailing good, together with the manage- ties current in this country, and which are transferable of those intelligent discussions on the subject which have ment of that public debt ; because, although I believe there from hand to hand without cost. Iby no means compare alreadappeared • the resolutions were printed-that y since is no possible blame that can be brought against the South those f • • • with • foreign securities those which we now propose to these bonds would not be securities of the most desirable Sea Corporation, highly respectable ° as it is, and having deal. I hope that without undue pride, English men may 1 't• fo • all theparties who are at present holders of now effectually purged itself of the recollections of its so far lift up their heads as to flatter themselves mselv s that the c escrip ion k. i• I look z_-pon these bonds as being in a man - of earlier days-(a laugh) -and though there is no possibilit 3' instruments by which they secure their e claims e upon any public st m oe ercial and trading . securities, which will suit tile of finding fault with the way in which this public debt public security in this country do, at any rate, hold a very nor em of the classes engaged' in commerce generally, has been managed ; yet thi s is a n agency without any hi g h rank-pe r h a p s it wou ld no t s , too much t o sa y the purposes including, of course, those who are dealers iu public stock. adequate purpose, and I thi n k th e committe e will agree highest rank-among document s o f a s i m il ar character iu But there are very large classes of holders of stock, who e with me that the time has come for a different arrange- the other countries of Europe, It does happen, how- are in different circumstances, to whom it would be no ment. It will also effect a re a l economy. I franldy own ever, that there are sometimes foreign securiti es current advantage to have the power of transferring stock that I think with resp ec t t o thi s porti on o f the public in this country, bearing the same rates of interest cheaply and rapidly, inasmuch as they do not wish debt we shall obtain only a moderate reduction, but and similar in almost every respect, but differing in to transfer it, to whom it would be no recom still a reduction, in the rate of interest, If on this this one respect - viz., that in the one case they mendation to have the interest payable ie the manner 9,500,000/. we effect but a reduction of a I per cent. in require a a formal legal process in order to their proposed, and with whom the present mode of proceeding the interest, yet that will represe n t a permanent annual transfer, while in the other the transfer is effected by is perfectly satisfactory. These classes eo e n se sist of who the saving to the country of somethi ng lik e 25,0001. ; and, merely passing from hand to hand. I believe that lam permanent holders of e public stocks-of w _hold them in the besides that, w e are perfectly prepared to meet the views correct-and shall be borne out by the opinion of many of them as permanent property, and who settlements. of those who may wish t o b e p a id in cash; and if the the best informed men-in saying that this power of easy capacity of trustees, or under pri holders of this stock sh a ll d es i re t o h ave cas h, and will and rapid transfer from hand to hand adds as much as Majesty's Government, therefore, do not propose to found the issue of Exchequer bonds alone. make a call for it, th a t ca ll w ill no t b e inconvenient, but several pounds per cent, to the value of the securities which their operations upon desirable, if it can be done • on the contrary it w ill ena bl e us to emp l oy i n a profitable enjoy that advantage. (Hear, hear.) We propose, then, because it is obviously without that the will m ischievous consequences, not only to improve the • manner a porti on o f th e b a l ances now unemployed, and that these bonds shall possess this advantage, ey condi to snake those improvements f thereby to displace, with a debt which will carry a regular also be of a permanent character, so far as fixing a long tion, but all over all classes lic creditors. Ther * interest, that which now bears comparatively little or no term during which no change can take place with respect of the pub . , . efore, in order to meet the s and fruit. With respect to the means of paying off this portion t o th em . I must take this opportunity of pointing out Probahletov'elt class to of . the public creditorsbe of the debt, there will be, first, the power which I propose what an important effect, not so much in the present case longing th •z the ermanent which I have already alluded, to take of raising money on Exchequer bonds by deposit at as in the others, this element of guarantee exerc es vi ~p of creditor, we propose that there should n friend the mum- be a means voluntary conversion in - the Bank, with certain exceptions • and, lastly, and alter- p i -i ce of public securities. My right ho • h of, the strictest o provided sense of the " native stock, whi c h we s h a ll offer to' par ti es a t an auction, tier for the University of Cambridge, when _ . , .word, the Great Three- per Cents," In . rper Cents should be reduced, poaching this rest ap which all will have an opportunity of attending. And that the Three-and-a-Quarte g t phalanx of the Three per Cents., de likewise*provided that fended as it perhaps a doubt may have arisen in respect to most of after October, 1851, to 3 per cent. , . of twent • is by its amount, its rate of interest and the those stocks whether Parliament is bound lsy law to g i ve a they s h ou ld h ave a f ur th er cer t ain currency r _ y necessity for a twelvemonths notice, we must deal with it notice of twelve months to the holders. The case did not years at the rate of 3 per cent., within whit term the y 7 elliectely as a prudent general would when approaching a fortifi to us entirely clear ; and, it not being clear, and s h ou ld not be subject to further reduction. ~t Ipt Y . tion of the first class, and our steps ustbe directed h ca appearng the limited amount of the st=ocks we thought it possible to give an answer to the question 7f Wha is the the utmost caution. The proposal of he ll ; Majesty's y Govern right to allow the stockholders the benefit of the doubt, 1 the value, under presentcircumstancestoomoney and meat is to give terms which. 1 havenot seen and to give them the full circumstances, which, under any credit, of a guarantee by Parliament not t reduce the rate as being too lib 1 t the fdh ld • era o un o cf. I. am fully con circumstances, could be required. There is only one ex- of interest upon a particular thebelow present time?' It will but at the s t* to 'ye terms too liberal • n error . gi • which a notice of six months is c learly d e fi ne d by l a w, and b e recollected that this, after all, is only a guarantee not very ame ime, when it is said that you would get that notice must be signed in the handwriting of the sovo- to reduce below 3 per cent. ; but the committee has the much better terms than you are now asking, much as I should respect the estimate which they I should reign, and exhibited to public view on the Royal Exchange. means of testing exactly the precise value of that guarantee •form, I have now disposed of one portion of this scheme, and I The present price of the right hon. gentleman' (M • s r. Gaul' respect the opinion still more if it was founded upon actual come now to the second and third. The second of these burn) Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.-which will become account instead of being merely an estimate. The proposal portions relate to the issue of Exchequer bonds, and the Three per Cents, after October, 1854, but will of the Government is that any person who now is, or may third relates to a voluntary commutation dependent en- to further reduction for twenty years___" not be liable be, interested in the Three per Cont. Consols, and who shall tirely on the option of the holders of the gr e a t Three per official records of yesterday's sales, is 1031. spears from the between the time of the passing of this act and the 10th of Cent. Stocks-namely, the Three per Cent. Consols and having just been paid, so that that does the dividend October, 1853, signify his desire to commute any or all of the Three per Cent. Reduced-making together the capital calculation. This perticular stock ia not enter into the his share in the stock, may have the option of exchanging very nearly of 500,000,000/. But I now refer to both those dividends yet to receive at the s, however, three each 103. of such steels into ono of three forms. The first plans, because both have in view one and the same ultimate It will receive one divide d present rate of 3,i per cent, of these will ba the Exchequer bonds at par, upon the ad object, and that object is to lay the foundation of a perma- April, and the third in Octoberdebt-irredeemable,be 1854. As the excess of secondly, into a New Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock, to mean, at the option of the holders-bearing an interest of sions is just 2s. 61, received upon each of these occa- be created. for the purpose, upon these conditions, that 23 per cent. Tho mode in which we wish to attain that order to c c for each, I must deduct that sum in 1001. of Perpetual Annuities, Low bearing 3 per cent. in end will appear as I proceed, but that is the ultimate end guaranteedoinpare the case of this guaranteed with the un- terest, may be exchanged for 82/. 10s. of this New Three which we have in view. I know there are some who think the stock, Deducting, therefore, the 7s. 6(1: due to and-a-Half per Cent. Stock, giving to the present holder that this reduction is a very simple matter, which may be augmented dividend, it will leave as the price of the of stock an income of 2/. 17s. 9d. per cent., instead of 31. delayed for ono or more years, but which ' is sure to come guaranteed Three per Cent. Stock, 102/. 17s. 6d. That is per cent. The reduction in this case is certainly n ot . a s at last. Those persons are mere sanguine in their tempera- 1 exact price, according to the official sale list of yester- large one ; but the impression appears to be that even Forhi ment than I. Ido not say you may not entertain the ho )e ( ay. of your Three per Cet. Stock, guaranteed against any reduction will not be very readily submitted t o. it very of effecting that object, but I say it is a subject of cons l i. further reduction for 21 years. This being so, let us now my part, I have not the least fear of se e ing mutation clerable uncertainty; and if you hope to attain it you ou ht see what is the price of the Three per Cents not fortified extensively adopted. The advantages of this co m it will be not to omit the use of any auxiliary means towards th by any such guarantee-that is to say, Consols. From the are not to be limited to the rate of interest; , 10 years-a long end, and certainly you ought not to depend on the • l e same official record, I find that the selling price of Consols fortified with a guarantee of no j ri s story of national debts, force of circumstances to effect any groat reductionsimple was 1001. 12s. Gd., but as the dividend upon this stock is period, no doubt, bat small in the in the payable in July, one half of the dividend, that is, 155., at the expiration of which period, insteadof b • Three being a interest, Not extending our view m r no of 34 103 4 redeemable ar mwe ought to must be ded 1 uctec from the apparent price in order to aster- , per Cent, Stock, it will be o PRICE SD. INDIGESTION. As a Mild Aperient, it is admirab'y adapted for Delicate Females particulary during Pregnancy ; and it prevents the food of infants ;tom turning sour during digestion. Combined with the ACIDULATED LEMON' SYRUP, It forms an Effervescing Aperient Draught, which is highly agreeable end efficacious. Prepared by DINNEFORD and Co., Dispensing Chemists (and 3 emeral Agents for the Improved Horse Hair Gloves and Belts), 172, New Bond-street, London. and sold by all respectable Chemists throughout the Empire. WINES. Good Draught Ports and Sherries . . • • .. • ..... 245. per dozen. Superior ditto (?econd to none) • • .••.. • . 325. per dozen. Ve . ry fine Old 6ruite t Port, 4 years in Bciitle;... 425. per dozen. Fine Old ,terry, Pale or Brown ..... ........ • • 425. per dozen. SPIRIIS. Gin of the finest Quality, 9s. 6d. ' 10;.8d., sad 12s. per ga'lon. Pine Old Jamaica Rums. 10 8 . 8(1„ 125., and 16s. per gallon. Glenliret and Campbelton Whiskies, imported direct, 5 years old and 5 over proof, 20s. per gallon. G. R. having purchased, previous to the rise, 50 Hogsheads of fartell's Pale and Brown Brandies, 4 and 5 years old, feels disposed to offer the►x at the Original erices, taking no advantage of the 3s. advance in the markets. Fine t Pale Champagne Bran 28s. per gallon. Coloured ditto • • ...... • • .... 2fis. per gallon. Hampers charged Is. per dozen, and bottles 2s. per dozen. REMITTANCES in all cases to be made in advance, by Post• Ake Order, or by Cheque payable in London. IMPERIAL PARLIA IENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. PETITIONS. The Earl of RODEN presented petitions from several places against the admission of Jews into Parliament ; also a petition from the county of Cavan against the con tinuance of the grant to Maynooth. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented several peti tions, praying for the inspection of nuni:eries. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS BILL. This bill was read a second time on, the motion of Lord GRANVILLE. FOREIGN SEAMEN IN BRITISH SHIPS. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH presented a petition from the master mariners, mates, and seamen of Hartle pool against any repeal of the provision of Act 12 Vic., restricting the Slumber of foreign seamen in British ships. The noble earl expressed his regret at the fact of the tonnage of this country not having increased in the same proportion as that of foreign coun tries. The increase of shipping on the continent had been of late years 66 per cent., and in this country only 21. The actual number of our seamen falls short of the calculated returns, and short pay, which was about 9/. per year, was hardly sufficient to supply them with ne cessaries. It would be highly impolitic to assist the shipowners by reducing the rate of wages, and thereby reduce the number of seamen. On the maintenance of the maritime strength of this country its safety depended, and that was a question of more importance than the in terest of any single mercantile class. There was no loss which would be more fatal to the country than that of the hearts of its brave defenders. Lord GRANVILLE deprecated a discussion upon a subject which would so soon, in a more tangible form, occupy the attention of the house. A measure was now under the consideration of the Government, but nothing could be further from their intention than to reduce the rate of wages to ti the seamen. It was not his opinion that the employment of foreign seamen would injure the English sailor. A very large number of English sailors were at present in the American service. He must enter a protest against the idea going forth to the country that the Government intended to bring in any measure which would have the effect of reducing the wages of the Eng lish seamen. Lord COLCHESTER was of opinion that the em ployment of foreign seamen was highly prejudicial to the English sailors. Earl GREY could not regard the measure which the Government were about to introduce as calculated to reduce the wages of British sailors. There was no law which prevented the introduction of skilled labour into this country, aril he did not see why the maritime ser vice should form an exception. His belief was that the employment of foreign seamen would not have the effect of decreasing the rate of wages. The Duke of ARGYLL said that it was the expecta tion of the Government that the measure which they were about to introduce would have the effect of better ing the condition of the sailors of this country. England was essentially a maritime country, and need not fear free competition with any other nation. GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH BILL. This bill was read a third time. Their lordships then adjourned at, a little after six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at a few minutes to four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. PRITCHARD took the oaths and his seat for Bridg north. PRIVATE BUSINESS. , The .Blackburn Railway and the Norfolk Estuary Bills were read a third time and passed. ATHLONE. The members of the Athlone election committee were called to the table and sworn. The committee was also appointed to sit to-morrow at 11. PETITIONS. Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from the cor poration of Carlisle in favour of the reform of the crimi nal law ; also a petition from Cockermouth in favour of the ocean penny postage. Mr. ALCOCK presented a petition from East Surrey against the Canada Clergy Reserves Bill. Sir J. V. SHELLEY presented a petition from the wood engravers of Westminster, praying that the Crystal Palace mi g ht b e opene d on Sundays. Captain SCOBELL presented a petition from seamen in the port of London, against the Merchant Seamen's Bill. Mr. R. PALMER presented a petition from Berk shire, against the attorneys' certificate duty. Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from Knaresbo rough complaining of the withdrawal of the petition gainst the return for that borough, and praying that a commission be appointed to inquire into the practices at the last election. Mr. Sergeant SHEE presented petition from the coun ties of Donegal and Kilkenny in favour of the Tenant Right (Ireland) Bill. Mr. C. T. CHAMBERS presented a petition from St. Albans, in favour of National Disarmaments. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from the Trustees of the British Museum, praying for the annual support of the house. Sir J. V. SHELLEY presented a petition from West- BORNEO Mr. HUME stated that in consequence of the Go. vernment having told him that it was their intention to institute an inquiry into the proceedings at Borneo, it was not his intention to proceed with his motion on the subject. REFORM OF THE CORPORATION OF LONDON. In reply to Sir B. HALL, Lord J. RUSSELL said= it -- riTir's4fie...intention of the Government to appoint very soon a commission for the purpose of inquiring into the reform bf the corporation of the City of London, and of preparing a measure on the subject. (Cheers.) CANADA CLERGY RESERVES. Sir J. PAKINGTON asked Lord J. Russell whether ho had consulted the law officers, or was otherwise pre pared to state the opinion of her Majesty's Government, whether, in the event of the Clergy Reserves (Canada) Bill, now before the house, being passed into a law, and the Legislature of Canada exercising the power that would be given to them to secularise the clergy reserves, the guarantee upon the Consolidated Fund, which is given to the Churches of England and Scotland in Upper Canada by section 8 of the Act 3 and Vic., c. 78, would still be in force, and would per manently secure to those Churches respectively the annual sums specified in the said section of the said act ? Lord J. RUSSELL said, with respect to the stipends which are now assigned and paid to the clergy of the Churches of England and Scotland, I know not that there will be any doubt as to the provisions of the bill. That clergy will still have a right by law to claim the stipends which are already assigned to them ; and pro vided the clergy reserves are nbt sufficient for their pay ment, then they will have a claim on the consolidated fund, as is given to them by the existing law. If the right hon. gentleman, however, wishes to ask further, whether, in the case of the clergy reserves being secu larised, any of the clergy who may be hereafter appoint ed would have a claim on the consolidated fund, I have o t of the say C thraotwthat haveis a not quest i on, Mr. BRIGHT wished to know whether in the nego ciations which had taken place with the Archbishop of been which the law officers Canterbury the contingency had been alluded to that possibly the clergy reserves might be secularised or alienised by the Canadian Parliament, and whether the Archbishop of Canterbury had given his assent to the measure on behalf of the Church of Scotland, which re pudiated bishops ? (Laughter.) Lord J. RUSSELL—I thought I had stated clearly to the house what took place on that occasion. Sir R. Peel was the person who undertook the negotiations on communicationofomfdm d i re c t l yiur Can t e rb urye n c i t e ahl Canterburyayynt ed t drs h i udßc withhn. him . dopit de contingency take lThecertainneoh tei negotiations tpuoarc dtbelieveoi eebnrsteta bninkege... the subject. I did not see the archbishop, nor had I t atrr were Asor Archbishop e n c i r rd ac d t rh ßo h rb t e . o ei n sd r h ot etohoepelnnrememberoc.secularisationw With it h of r e t g h a e r clergy d to th e r e serves. other point, icer tainlyn t to answer for the Church of Scotland ; but I believe he longing to that Church—to the Commissioners of the General Assembly—who are held to represent that Church, and whose authority has not been disputed. NATIONAL GALLERY. - Mr. SEYMOUR wished to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if the Government will give orders that until the select committee shall have reported to the house on the National Gallery, no , eleaning of the pictures therein contained, except careful dry dusting, shall be per mitted. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he would make inquiries into the subject, and give an answer on Monday. LIME ELECTION. In reply to Sir ...1 - MiN" PAKINGTON, Mr. TUFNELL said it was not his intention to proceei with the motion of which he had given notice-- viz., to move the issue of a new writ for the borough of Lyme. - METROPOLITAN GRAVE-YARDS. Mr. SEYMOUR said according to the return pub lished by the Registrar General, it appeared that the deaths last week in the metropolis numbered 1,748, while in the corresponding week last year the number was 1,130, and therefore the mortality last week was 618 above the average of ten years, making due allowance for an increase in the population. Ile wished on that ac count to ask the Secretary of State for the Home De partment when the grave-yards and burial-places within the city and metropolis of London are to be finally closed, and what further steps have been taken to pro vide the means of extramural interment. Lord PALMERSTON could only repeat what he had already stated to the house, namely, that competent medical officers had been appointed to inspect all the graveyards in the metropolis. Many of the graveyards, upon their report, had been closed by an order in Coun cil, and he had no doubt that the same course would be pursued in reference to the others. With regard to snaking future arrangements for the bfirial of the dead, he apprehended that such arrangements must rest with the parishes concerned, but he thought the ground which had been recently purchased near Woking would be found amply sufficient to meet the demands of the metropolis for some time to come. NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. Mr. F. SCULLY wished to ask Lord John Russell, whether any arrangements have been adopted to insure the sale of books intended for the use of the Irish Na tional Schools, to the promoters of schools and the pub lic, in an authentic form and at a moderate price. Lord J. RUSSELL replied in the afErmative. THE FUNDS. Mr. DISRAELI said the amended resolutions on the subject of the public funds had been placed in his hands to-night ; and as there were numerous alterations in them, he should be glad to know if it was intended to take a vote upon them to-night, or only to have the statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer upon them ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that would depend upon the house itself. It would be for the house to determine, after hearing his state ment, whether it would proceed at once to a vote or postpone it until next week. WEST INDIA MAIL. In reply to Mr. SPOONER, Sir J. GRAHAM stated that complaints from all the outports were daily pouring into the Admiralty of the irregularities which were constantly taking place in the dispatch a n d arr i va l o f th e W es t India mail. The West India Steam Packet Company were in receipt of 270,0001. for carrying the mails, and these irregularities were most unjustifiable, but the company insisted that as these irregularities related to a point of time, they did not vitiate the contract, and the subject had been submitted to the law officers of the Crown. (Hear, hear.) THE NATIONAL DEBT. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCH E QUER moved the preliminary r eso l u ti o n, that the house resolve itself into a committee on the Consolidated Fun d and National Debt Redemptio n A c t s . On the motion of Lord JoHN RU SSEL L , Mr. B ouver i e took the chair amid considerable cheering. The CHANCELLOR of the EXC HE Q U ER. — It is now my duty, sir, to explain to the committee, as well as I am able, the nature of the proposition which, on the part of her Majesty's Government, I have to make to them in re spect to the operations of the National Debt ; and the course which I think most convenient for the committee to take will be, that I should in the first instance state the plan which her Majesty's Government recommends for adoption, and that I should then put together, before I sit down such alterations as have been made in the draft resolutions since they were first distributed. The com mittee will then see both the plan as it is, and the altera tions separate from the plan. I shall not commence this explanation by dwelling in any degree upon the import ance of the subject. I woul d rather, if I could, aft er s as may have viewing the amount of public interest which it has excited, b en ee d n ea f v o o rm ur ed to in moderate such esmucihnde.xpl do ect notation recommend the proposition that is now befor e the committee as a proposi tion which can effect any swee ping or fundamental c hange, but I recommend it to them as a proposition"which is just and prudent in itself, and which will probably lay the foundation for more extended improvements in future. The committee ought to understand that there is the broadest possible distinction between our position at the present time and the position in which former finance ministers have stood when they have produced extensive operations of this kind. Every one of those operations between the peace and the year 1844, when they were ably wound up under the auspices of my right honourable friend the mem ber for the University of Cambridge, by a plan which was 1/ '/ 'z-Y/ ~,' oo h )F h obY sineg • falle r althoti hail 'b6s 6dl IL I. M.l ETOD• __--• ,rts. Jalv gar. Is 3 ' Bag 55,316 of°' Y' --