The Sun. — London, England, 1853-04-29 00:00:00

o say a few words—l mean the proposed mode of dealing with the advertisement and `sum stamp duties . Considering the os th e duties , I p roduce raparatively small hope the Chahcellor of thewEhixechequer will not make two bites of a cherry—l want to see the connection between the press and the Government d i scontinued. (Loud cries of "hoar, hear," and lauthatteirt.)rers to—it is in allusion Well, fe I know the meaning of that laugh— to a subject wllichkahoNays what been much talked about. It has been said that the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in proposing to remit the stamp u pon sup plements containing advertisements only, would give a boon to one paper, and variousright remarks have, of course, been been made as to the motives of the honourable gen tleman in giving this boon to one particular paper. (Hear, hear.) Now, Ido not believe th at the right parties, honourable ge ntleman is capable of acting in the unworthy e manner ) which some would have us imagine. (C the right hon. gentleman has with all ra (Cheers-) I believe both in and out of this house, too much credit for the character of sin cerity and truthfulness to be supposed capable of being a party to any transaction of the kind. (Renewed cheering.) But the suspicion to which I allude, how does it arise ? Because the Government is enabled to deal with taxes which may be made to favour one particular newspaper. So it is with the advertise ment duty. The duty is to be reduced to sixpence, but that sixpence is still keeping up the connection between the Government and the newspaper press. A number of ne ws p a pe rs will want the sixpence oft; others will w ant it cow mood, and the result will, or and at least may, be that the Government will weigh and balance the rival influences, and shape their public course accor dingly. Now, I say the Government should have no con nection whatever with the newspaper press. Let us, there fore, adhere to the resolutions of this house, and if we deal with the advertisement duty at all, let us abolish it alto gether. (Hear, hear.) In the same way, if the right hon. gentleman is resolved to deal with the stamp duty, he should not do so in the interest of one particular paper for the present, and not more than three or four prospectively —perhaps not more than one. If the right hon. gentle man should be advised by some of the larger provincial papers to alter his plan so as to leave the present penny stamp upon newspapers, allowing supplements to go free, whether they contain news or advertisements, or both, he will then be falling into an error similar in character, though not so great in degree, as he has now fallen into with regard to one particular journal. There is only one newspaper at present in the practice of publishing supple ments containing advertisements. If You allow supple ments containing advertisements and news to be published without a stamp, there will be at the outside—l speak of the state of things at the present moment—about half a score of newspapers in the kingdom which will be in a position to profit by the remission. They alone will benefit by it, and the result will be directly opposed to the principle which the Chanc e ll or o f the Exchequer has laid down in his mode of dealing with trade licences, where he has pro posed a graduated tax according to the ex tent of business carried on. The right honourable gen tl eman proposes to allow a newspaper twice the size of the Times to be printed for k penny stamp, but he still intends to charge a penny for every small struggling sheet which may be published, though it may not be half the size of n one of the sides of the Times. Mark the effect of this.. will be perfectly small paper having to pay a penny stamp unable to compete with the large one , b ecause the condi tions will be unequal. I have seen in my own experience in Lancashire that whenever a newspaper, no matter what its politics might be, could publish a supplement regularly, so great was the desire on the part of readers to have a large mass of additional news—a large surface of paper— that it became immediately necessary for all the other newspapers in the district to publish supplements also, or else consent to be trampled out of existence. That will be the case of every newspaper of ordinary size and circula tion if the Chancellor of the Exchequer adheres to his de termination to charge a uniform rate of one penny upon all newspapers, large or small, and at the same time abo lishes the stamps upon supplements of e ver y d escr i p t ion, a proposal which will be the most destructive thing for the interests of all second and third class newspapers that can possibly be passed in this country. I beg to tell the right hon. gentlemen opposite that the newspapers in their in terest are not the largest, the wealthiest, or the best circu lated in England. (A laugh.), But let us put the Chan cellor of the Exchequer to the test of his own principles. H e says, if a man keeps a gig and two horses he shall pay a tax of 155.; but if he keeps a carriage with four wheels he shall pay double. Why does the right hon. gentleman refuse to apply that principle in the case of newspapers ? Why does he allow a person who keeps a four-in-hand to get off with paling the same stamp duty as a man with a gig ? If a shopkeeper has such a prosperous business that his shop overflows with customers, and he finds it neces sary to open another establishment, will the Chancellor of the Exchequer take no heed of this supplement shop, or put no new tax upon it ? Why, the right hon. gentleman will not bear the test of his own principles. Really, he must deal with this question of stamps as with advertise ments—either have no stamp at all, or allow a charge to be made for all papers going through the Post-office, gra duated according to their weight and size, permitting those which do not go through the Post-office, but are circu lated only in their respective localities, to be published free of all duty whatever. (Hear.) With respect to the rest of the budget, I will not detain the house with many - observations ; but I must be allowed to refer shortly to the question of soap. lam glad that this question has been dealt with at at last. It has been a standing re proach to us for years. ]t has marked as hypocrisy all our pretences upon the subject of clean linen. I have sat in meetings of sanitary committees for the establishment of baths and washhouses, and have thought of the soap duty until I was ashamed. So with the paper duties. While we talk of education, and tax the very, material by which knowledge is diffused, we shall be justlY accused of 47 hypocrisy. (Hear.) But that question apart, I do hope that the budget in its main propositions may pass this house. (Cheers.) I believe, so far as I have an opportun ity of judging, that it is generally accepted by the coun try. (Renewed cheering.) I believe the proposed legacy tax removes the sore which has been festering in the minds of the people of this country for a long time, and in the interest of the parties concerned I should say the sooner the tax is put on the better. Ido not think there will be much resistance to it. lam told that in the other house it is looked upon with the greatest severity. (Laughter and cheers.) There is no opposition to it in the other house. I was breakfasting the other day with a gentle man of the diplomatic corps, and, while conversing upon this subject in French, he said it was very easy to explain why the House of Lords was in favour of the tax, and why the House of Commons was against it. The reason is, said he, that the one in the house is the Chambre des .Pairs (pares), and the other the Chambre des Fits. (Laughter.) Some hen. gentlemen have asked if the in come tax will be put an end to in the year 1860. Now, if I should live as long in the political arena, I would not like anything to be brought against me in 1860 to prove that I had sanctioned or encouraged any such idea. I have a firm conviction that you Intuit go on every year re mitting part of your indirect taxation, and I should not be dealing fairly with you if I told you that I saw any pros pect of getting rid of the income tax. There are certainly two ways of doing it. It can only be done either by the imposition of some other direct tax, or by a very large retrenchment of the expenditure ; and in either case you must render available to the Chancellor of the Exchequer the means of meeting the constantly increasing necessity for the remission of indirect taxation. But Ido not think the right hon, gentleman wishes those who vote with him to pledge themselves that the income tax will be put an end to in 1860. I believe he is sincere himself, and that if he should happen to be in power in 1860, and anything should be done by his colleae ' ueato prevent him carryin g ou t hi s own views, he would rather leave office than be any party to what might possibly appear to be a breach of faith. (Hear, hear.) I hope the right hon. gentleman will be here in 1860. May we all live as long ! (A laugh.) But how can we bind a future Parliament? No, that is not possible; we cannot pledge a future Legislature to the adopti o n o f a ny measure. We shall have a Reformed Parliament before 1860. Probably the tax will be changed to a property tax before then ; or it may be levied in another way—upon ca pitalised incomes for example ; or the house may be so charmed with the probate and legacy duties, that it may desire to increase them ; or something or other may occur to render the abolition of the income tax possible ; but I would guard myself most carefully from being supposed to pledge myself in any way to the abrogation of this tax in 1860. (Cheers.) Mr. Sergeant SHEE said th a t, i n o ff er i ng a f ew obser vations to the house, he would endeavour to get rid of the feelings of irritation'which the speech to which they had just listened had produced. For that purpose he would advert to the remarks which fell on a former occasion from the lips of the hon. member for Carlow (Mr. Ball), who entreated the Irish representatives to consider themselves for once as members, not for Ireland only, but for the United King dom. The hon. member, in giving them that advice, adopted as the rule of his conduct a certain principle laid down by Mr. Burke, and perhaps there was no man in that house better entitled to act upon the maxim of the distinguished statesman referred to, because of all the Irish members he was the only one who demonstrated on all occasions his sin cere sympathy with and attachment to the cause and inte rests of the Government which was in power. (Hear.) No matter what the Government did, the honourable mem ber for Carlow voted with it. (Cries of oh, oh, and laugh ter.) He seemed determined to be a thick-and-thin sup porter of the Government, and was not, therefore, in a condition to lecture those who occupied an independent position in that house. With respect to the question before the house, ho thought that the proposed extension of the income tax to Ireland could not be defended upon any principle of justice, and he would give it his most de termined opposition. The tax could only be introduced into Ireland upon the fallacious plea that the debts of the two countries had approximated so closely in value that the Government might, in terms of the articles of union, call upon the Irish people to share their burdens. But he maintained that the debt of Ireland had been increased to its present amount by the bad legislation of the English Government. For what was the enormous debt contract ed ? Not assuredly for the benefit of Ireland. It was, he supposed, for the benefit of Ireland that we had lavished enormous sums on the metropolis, for the benefit of Ireland that we were at war, for the benefit of Ireland—in some sense it was, and no doubt Ireland showed her interest in the wars we carried on, for her sons shed their blood freely for this country ; but it was to gratify ourselves, to main tain our own interests, to promote the glory of our own country, to protect our shores from invasion, that this enormous expenditure took place, and Ireland, had she not bees united to Great Britain, might have gone through it at least, without adding—he would not say a shilling- but any, thoughconsiderable amount to her debt. Therefore, t a i b ita le Chancellor of the Exchequer might legally be e t , ( lins fo p r ose this additional tax on Ireland, it would be him to do scryFlT:e to sh ow th a t it wou ld b e equ i table for stances; they had I,l,audget came out under peculiar circurn tleman below (Mr. had from the right honourable gen ourable member for Cralli)—who he informed the hon ra ow had certainly made him no magnificent promises,amtianl who, he hoped, had made that gentleman none— had another from the right honourable gentle they y inst the former he had voted ; and he must semen'yhe didganot like to vote against year. Arminst the former, hon. two budgets in the same gentlemen opposite had also voted' bputntheir main objee the leader tion to it was, he believed, its being ; r v ia ' °a v e - . i i bl b e y , two won of the party opposed to them. Two-- short derfully clever men, had proposed budgets time, and the second, of course, felt hiinselfnbaotivn7 pose something new. - Accordingly ho threw over thetohpro tax to make friends of the voters in the boroughs England ; he reduced taxation on many articles of. mere luxury, luxury, such as the assessed taxes; and then, knowin g it would be quite popular in England, he did what all his predecessors had been ashamed of doing—threw the incom e tax on Ireland. Was the right honourable gentleman quite sure that, according even to his own estimate of her ability, Ireland did not now pay as much as she was able to pay ? Supposing that was not the case, let them see what place the hon. member f or the West hiding had to stand upon i n his attack on the Irish representatives. as a m ember of the United Kingdom, h . e said „Tea itatingly that there was no one Al the house Y wr Lictoeslittle claim to credit from Irellind as 'had the hon. gentleman. There was no man in the house who, not having been born in a station of influence, not having taken his place near or close to the Treasury bench at the age of twenty-one, had raised himself to a position equal to that of the hon. member, or had shown so little sympathy for the people of Ireland as had the honourable member. He admitted that when the cry of intolerance was raised in this country two years ago that hon. member had breasted it like a man—had stood boldly forward and defied the clamour of those who might possibly have deprived him of his seat, though they could not - deprive him of the well-earned estimation of the people of his own country. He admitted this.; but when the honourable member said he was entitled, on account of what he did then, to lecture the representatives of Ireland, the answer was that what he did he did for his own honour, for his own fame, that he might not go down to posterity, notwithstanding what he had done in finance, as a mere bigot after all. The honourable member, who had been many years in the house, must know well what grievances Ireland had to complain of, grievances which would keep him (Sergeant Shee), though he mainly agreed with the principles of the Government, on the Opposition side till they had the man liness and the courage to redress them. Never did the hon. member stand forward to says Ireland from her ecclesiastical establishment ; yet he found fault that the Irish members took no part in the house relative to im perial questions. What part did the hon. member take in Irish questions save to scoff and spurn the Irish represen tatives? The lion. member was not only wrong, but ex ceedingly ungrateful thus to lecture them. Could he have wrested his victory from the landed aristocracy without their aid? Could he hah carried free trade without the Irish members had always been voting on his side ? The hon. member said the Irish people were always endeavour ing to get bargains from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Irish people, whatever the ultimate result, had so far supported his free trade at a great pecuniary loss to them selves. The farmers and• gentry who supported free trade had lost a considerable amount of annual income by mak ing trade in corn and cattle free. The hon. gentleman must have a wonderfully short memory, or must be mar vellously deficient in gratitude, if already he could say of those to whom he owed his present position that they had been always making paltry bargains with the Minister of the day ; but he would pass from the hon. gentleman, and proceed to give other reasons against the imposition of additional taxation on Ireland. Ireland bad suffered con siderably by the opening of the ports of this country—she was a sacrifice to our policy. That was better than being a sacrifice to our whims. Did she not, for the whim of the members of the United Kingdom, maintain the whole of the expense of a Church, with a hierarchy of 27 bishops, and 3,000 priests, and of the fabric for divine worship in every parish? (Hear.) Was it not to carry out their whims that two large standing armies, the ono in red the other in green, were required for the repression of the people in Ireland? Was not this because we choose—with respect to laws for them as to religion, and to laws for them as to the relation between landlord and tenant—to govern Ire land on principles which the people of England would rebel rather than submit to. He told honourable and right honourable gentlemen opposite that though the Irish representatives were willing to give them credit for being well disposed towards the principle of civil and religious liberty, they could not be satisfied with an inclination, and would shortly be found banded against the Govern ment, unless the Government pursued a bold and generous policy towards their country. Would to God the time had arrived when there would be no party in that house but the party of the United Kingdom. (Hear, hear.) He for one would rejoice if there was no section of the house known as the Irish party, with respect to which calcula tions should be made as to the side on which they would vote on every question. (Hear, hear.) But he would say that there never could be an end to the Irish party until they (the English members) got rid of their whims and prejudices, and were content to economise the expenditure of the two countries by doing justice to Ireland. In his humble opinion it would be impossible for any independent Irish member of, that house to vote for the budget of the right honourable gentleman as it now stood, although he might vote for it if it were modified. (Hear, hear.) There certainly would be great inconvenience in rejecting two budgets in the space of one year ; but so long as the an cellor of the Exchequer showed an unwillingness to face the real difficulties connected with this subject, and to re dress the injustice inflicted on the Irish people, no Irish member who had sense of what was due to himself, and to his country would do otherwise than pause before lending his support to the ;proposition of the right honourable gentleman. (Hear. hear.) Mr. J. L. RICARDO had heard with some surprise the elaborate attack which the honourable and learned gentle man who had just sat down had directed against the hon. member for the West Riding, for having ventured to sug gest to Irish members that they should devote more of their attention to matters of Imperial concern, seeing that the honourable and learned gentleman had himself separated the interests of Ireland from those of England in the re marks which had fallen front him on this .ccasion. (Hear.) hear, and " No.") The honourable and learned member had spoken of two budgets, but, according to him, it seemed that there ought to be a third budget for Ireland besides the two which had been brought forward for Eng land, and he had declared that he would not be satisfied until such were the case. (No, no.) The honourable and learned member had told them that the income tax was a fair tax for England, and an unfair tax for Ireland ; but he (Mr. Ricardo) could not understand how there could be any fairness in this taxation of the country when they were called to deliberate upon different principles for the taxation of Ireland. (Hear, hear.) He wished briefly to state the reasons for the vote which he intended to give that night. He had come down to the house on Monday last and found on the votes an amendment to this effect, that in respect to any profession, trade, or vocation, whether the same were exercised in the United Kingdom or else where, for every 20e. there should be levied for two years 5d., for the next two years 4d., and for the next three years 2d. That was a plain tangible proposition, and one they could understand. But by some extraordinary ma noauvre—a manoeuvre which elosely„shaved the regulations of that house with regard to motions which might be brought forward in committee—another and a general re solution had been put upon the books stating—as far as he could understand it, for it was not very comprehensible —that no tax ought to be imposed without some adjust ment and arrangement. He baieved that there was no man in the hou'o who did not wish that this tax should be adjusted and arranged as far as was possible ; but ho cer tainly expected that the house would have been told how and in what manner it was proposed to adjust and eq lise the tax. (Hear, hear.) He was free to confess, that although he had taken a great part, and had made a great outcry in favour of the adjustment of this tax, and al though he had moved an amendment on the subject when Sir R. Peel first brought it forward, and although he had gone into committee with a strong bias in favour of the and equalisation of the tax, yet, after hearing the evidence which was given before the committee, he must own that any adequate adjustment now appeared to him to be tan tamount to an abrogation of the tax altogether. (H6r, hear, hear.) If honourable members would look in the Journal of the Statistical Society, they would see there an article by Mr. Farr, one of the most able and intelligent of the witnesses who had appeared before the committee, and they would observe that that gentleman was of opieion that the man who bought Consols at 80 ought to be taxed differently from the man who bought at 85, and he Oven split hairs to such a degree as to speak of every piece of land varying in value for purposes of taxation, according to the value of money in every year. When hon. members had read these things, he (Mr. Ricardo) believed that they would lay down the book in despair, and say that if 'you were to have an income tax you could not adjust it. (Hear, hear.) He would conclude by offering to the right hon. gentleman what he might consider the equivocal coMpli ment of saying that he forgave the eccentricity displayed by the right honourable gentleman with respect to the commutation of annuities for the sake of his Budget. (Hear, hear.) Mr. FRENCH was somewhat surprised at the ceurse taken by the hon. member for the West Riding and his friends, remembering their repeated denunciations of the inequalities and injustice of the income tax. He trusted the country would understand that if this attempt to equalise the tax failed, it would be owing to the abandon. ment by those hon. gentlemen of the principles they, had professed. He contended that Ireland was unfairly 'dealt with in the budget, and urged that there was abuildant reason why Ireland should not be taxed in the same pro portion as England in the financial positions of the two countries, iu reference to their respective public debts at the time of the union, and in the undue expenditure which had been incurred by Ireland, by English GovernMent. He admitted that the remission of the consolidated annui ties would be an advantage to Ireland, but he protested against mixing that question up with the income tax. The total amount to which Ireland could be justly liable was 2,400,000/. ; which would give an annual payment of 140,0001. a-year, while the income tax to be imposed, ac cording to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's own estimate, would amount to 460,0001., or, as be believed, to, at least, 500,0001. a-year ; and including the legacy duty on, land, and the additional spirit and license duties, the total ad ditional taxation to bo imposed on Ireland, in return for the remission of the annuities, was 1,050,0001. Ireland was in no better position to bear the income tax now than she was in 1842, when Sir Robert Peel stated that it would be absurd to attempt to impose it upon her. The hon. gentleman next adverted to the proposition of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for an increased duty on spirits in Ireland. Sir R. Peel had proposed an additional duty of a shilling a gallon, from which he expected to get 250,0001. a year; but it was found to be unprofitable and was abandoned ; owing, no doubt to the influence of the late Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey in the Cabinet, and his thorough knowledge of Irish affairs. It was to be re gretted, that there was no Irishman in the Cabinet now who could give similar information. [Sir J. Graham-- There is Lord Palmerston.] It was true Lord Palmerston bad Irish estates ; but he was not resident, and could hardly be claimed as an Irishman. A duty of Bd. a gallon now was equal to ls. when it was imposed by Sir R. Peel, and it was to doubted whether the tax would be as pro ductive as the Chancellor of the Exchequer expected. The right hon. gentleman proposed, for the purposes of this tax, to put the constabulary under the revenue officers. The position of those two forces was very different, the ono being civil officers,:acting under the magistrates, while the other was entirely independent of them, and it was not desirable to let loose on Ireland 13,000 additional ex cisemen. It would not be necessary for him to go into the question of the relative taxation of England and Ireland. He could declare that Ireland now paid to the utmost farthing what she could, and extending the income tax to her was uncalled for by necessity and was most unjust. He objected to the introduction into Ireland, for the first time, of an inquisitorial tax, when there was no machinery for its collection, which would add to the expense 'si the executive; and also to the proposition with regard to the additional duty on spirits, which would detakiorate the police and increase smuggling ; and on the whole, however well intended it might be if continued in its present form, he believed the budget would be most unjust and inju rious to Ireland, and therefore he should give it his de cided opposition. Mr. T. BELLEW said that as the lion. member for Ros common had asserted that no independent Irish member could conscientiously support the proposition of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer ; and as he (Mr. Bellew) believed that he could conscientiously support it, he thought he should not be doing his duty to his constituents if he did not shortly state the reasons which influenced him. (Cheers.) He had come down to the house on Monday night without having made up his mind as to what way ho should vote; but having considered the proposition before the house, and the manne r i n w hi c h it wou ld a ff ec t hi s constituents he had heard no thi ng w hi c h i n hi s m i n d tr (1 i c thee tenant fa asser onhrinr en e ow s of made that Ireland. it would l b u a ci gre a t boon to th On the whole he should give his support to the proposition of the Chancello r of the E sA.NDA.Its xchequer. vote he was A was anxious to give his reasons for the should differ -lit -with to give, particularly as he believed he (Cheers.) He differed hon. gentlemen around him. when he said that the hon. member for Roscom mon,duty were independent of the income tax and the legacy would say that but for each other. He (Mr. Sandars) on Teal propertylm did. not raposition of the legacy duty for the income 'Thii3 Wag know that ho should haze voted for in 1848, when the right hon, gentleman light let in oil Min; for Halifax brought forward hisnaelno-etiteren the member strongly recommended the imposition of thi Wr. Sandal's) pi legacy duty. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 29. 185:1. In 1796 Mr. Pitt first laid a legacy duty on personal pro perty, and he also brought in a second bill to extend it to real property. He carried the first bill, but he was obliged to give up the other, for when it was read a third time the ayes and noes were equal, and it was only earned by the casting vote of the Speaker. After that neither Mr. Pitt nor any other minister had dared to grapple with the, ques tion, and the right hon: gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer was much to be commended for having done so. He (Mr. Sandars) should support the budget, for although there were parts of it to which he objected, he thought, as a whole financial scheme, it was bold, comprehensive, and statesmanlike. (Hear, hear.) Much had been said about the extension of the income tax to Ireland ; and he would ask why should not a manufac turer or merchant, who was making a handsome income at Belfast or Londonderry, contribute to that impost as well as one at Liverpool or Manchester ? (Hear, hear.) Or why should not the Irish landowner, a person who had perhaps recently purchased an incumbered estate at ten or twelve years purchase, be just as able to pay as nine-tenths of the landowners of this country? He might ask the same question with respect to the Dublin shopkeeper. Provisions were cheaper in Ireland than in England. Why, they might buy a fowl for sixpence—(a laugh)—and most of the expenses of living were less than they were in this country. At all events they had no assessed taxes, and they were free from a large amount of burdens to which Englishmen were subject. They were always talk ing about epial rights—let them have equality of laws, and equality of taxation. (Hear, hear.) He thought, in con clusion, that the budget was a most statesman-like mea sure, and would tend to preserve, if not to increase, the prosperity whisk happily existed in all parts of her Ma jesty's kingdom. (Cheers.) Sir F. BARING was very glad that an amendment had been moved such as that which had been proposed, because it did not put the question upon any particular point, but went against the whole principle of the budget. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had stated very frankly that the corner stone of his financial statement was the income tax ; because if that were rejected, the budget was of course at an end. Now he (Sir F. Baring) had expressed his great , discomfort both when the income tax was first introduced, and again in 1848, at the large amount of revenue which hung uponit; and therefore he had heard with the greatest satisfaction that her Majesty's government had come to the conclusion that it was not fitted for permanent use in the time of peace ; and had taken measures for ultimately getting rid of it altogether. He was not one who had any particular love either for direct or indirect taxation ; but experience had shown that a large direct impost lathe time of peace was not a very easy thing to keep, and to his mind one of the most important qualities of a tax was that it could be kept. There were several gentlemen below the gangway who had expressed themselves strongly in favour of direct taxation ; but unfortunately whenever any par ticular plan for carrying these theories into practice was proposed they somehow were always found voting against it. (Hear, hear:) He therefore thought his right hon. friend had done very wisely in taking steps for the abolition of the income tax; and he thought, too, that he had done well not to make any attempt to effect im mediately. No doubt, it would have been easy to have framed a scheme on paper for the repeal of the tax at once, but it was very doubtful indeed whether the house and the country would have accepted the scheme ; and it was the duty of a finance minister not to imperil the good features of his budget by mixing with them unpopular, and therefore impracticable, proposals. He repeated, however, that he was glad the right hon. gentleman did not contem plate the continuance of the income tax, because he (Sir F. Baring) did not believe they could ever make it approxi mate either to justice or perfection. (Hear, hear.) And he had one very striking proof of this. A committee had sat for two years on the subject with the " Nestor of Finance" in the chair ; and yet after two years' incubation, it had been unable to devise any plan to obviate the objec tion to the tax. [Mr. Hume here made gestures of dis sent.] It was quite true that the committee had taken a great deal of evidence, but they had made no report. In this state of things the right hon. gentleman had done what he thought any sensible man would do in such a case ; and they had the positive pledge of the government, that at the termination of seven years the income tax should be taken off. (Laughter.) It was quite true, that if the opinions of the country should undergo a great change, the tax might still be retained ; but, on the other hand, they could not prevent the country in such a case from reimposing it, if it were abolished now. His own opinion was, that it would be more difficult to retain the tax at the end of the seven years than to re-establish it, if now repealed. (Hear, hear.) But it was said that the budget gave a boon to Ireland in the abandonment of the consolidated annuities. Now, he (Sir F. Baring) did not argue on the strict justice of the case • but, after the report of the Lords' committee—(hear, hear)—he was bound to say he could not look upon the re mission of a part of these annuities as any compensation to Ireland for the income tax, because she had to a certain extent a right to that remission without being subjected to any additional taxation. (Cheers from the Irish members.) What were the comparative benefits to Ireland and Eng land from the present proposal ? (Hear, hear.) Without attempting to capitalise the different funds, he would take the advantages and disadvantages to each from the whole budget, and after 1860. What were we paying now ? He would put out of sight the taxes to be paid by Ireland and England equally, and the advantages given to both— the legacy duties and the remission of the tea duties, for instance. Independent of the reductions common to both, the relief to Ireland would be 245,0001. from the Consoli dated Annuities, while the additional taxation would be 668,0001.—a balance of 423,0001. to be paid more by Ire land. In Great Britain the new taxes imposed would be 403,0001. ; the immediate relief in soap, assessed taxes, post-horse duty, 1,442,000/. ; being a relief of upwards of one million. (Cheers from the Irish members.) Under these circumstances, was it quite fair to place the income tax on Ireland, and thus make it pay 426,0001. additional taxation? (Hear, hear.) At the end of 1860, the ultimate relief to Ireland would only be 46,0001. a year ; to Great Britain it would be 5A millions from the income tax alone, and in the whole, 6,993,0001. ; while the additional taxa tion would only be about 200,0001. for the spirit duties in Scotland, or a net relief of 6,715,0001. (Hear, hear.) This being so, he should have no hesitation in refusing by his vote to extend the income tax to Ireland. (Cheers.) He would make that country pay its fair share of taxation, but nothing more; and he hoped they should be able to remit a part, at least, of the consolidated annuities, with out imposing any additional taxes. (Hear.) Lord LOVAINE said the measure was too extensive to be considered as a whole, especially as it was to extend to seven years. The guarantee for the abolition of the income tax must depend entirely on the tone of the next Parliament ; at present it was worth little more than the paper it was printed on. He believed that the surplus would be absorbed, before 1860, in the remission of indirect taxa tion - now so popular. The Chancellor of the Exchequer himself admitted that the realisation of the surplus was dependent on circumstances over which we had no control. Burdens had been paid. He listened with considerable in terest to the speech of the hon. member for the West Rid ing, which he conceived to be unanswerable. The hon. member's sympathies had always been with the liber"al party, and his appeal to them was worthy their most seri ous consideration. It should be remembered that the in come tax would only be •on the amount actually received, that it would not touch farmers whose rents were under 2001. a year. The new taxation was laid on those shoulders which had suffered least from the famine, and had gained most by the general cheapening of the necessaries of life which had been the effect of that direct taxation which England had hitherto borne alone. He should be glad to raise his voice in favour of equal rights and privileges to his fellow-countrymen, but on the other hand he thought they ought to bear an equal share of the imperial burdens. The Marquis of GRANBY had always his opinion that the income tax was an unequal and an unjust tax, and that opinion had been rather confirmed than otherwise by this debate. He had the authority of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the soundness of that opinion. He agreed in all the facts and statements of the right hon. gentleman, but he dissented from his conclusion. He agreed with him that it was a tax they could not make fair or equal or just, and the conclusion he (the Marquis of Granby) came to was that they ought, as soon as they possibly could, to get rid of so odious and oppressive a tax. But instead of that the right hon. gentleman proposed to extend it for a longer period than it had ever been extended to before. It was true the right hon. gentleman said at the end of seven years it would expire, but looking at the changes which had taken place, notwithstanding the right hon. gentleman's talents, he thought his being in office at the end of that time was exceedingly problematical. If it was continued till that time he thought a majority of the house would become paupers. (Laughter.) The hon. member for the West Riding asked why the income tax was to be kept solely for a war tax, while customs and excise were to be kept on in war and peace, and that the income tax was as good a tax as customs and excise. He was not the person to defend the excise duties, and he should b e h appy to see the hon. gentleman voting for the repeal of the malt duty the next time it was proposed. With regard to the cus toms duties, numbers of these duties were repealed every year. The hon. gentleman said he knew a mode of getting rid of one objection to the tax, and he alluded to the practise in America, where tradesmen did not return their own income, but they were assessed by the as sessor, and thus they could not cheat the revenue as they might in England. Soon afterwards, however, he said the great objection to the tax was that per sons did not like to have their affairs overlooked, but the very plan which the hon. gentleman recommended necessi tated the opening of their books to the assessor. The Chan cellor of the Exchequer had shown clearly that the taxation on professional incomes and on real estate was about on a par—real property paying 9d., while professional incomes pay 7d. in the pound ; but then he proposed to tax land two millions a-year in addition. If the right hon. gentle man took the legacy duty on its own basis, and said that, independently of the income tax, it was a fair and just tax, he was ready to meet him on that point, and show that under existing circumstances, seeing that of late years legislation had not been in favour of the landed interest, but of other classes, seeing the local b ur d ens th a t were im posed on land, and the burdens as regarded the transfer of land, and that they had to pay the land tax instead of the legacy duty ; remembering all these facts, he asked the right hon, gentleman whether it was fair and just to im pose this tax, concurrently with the income tax, upon them ? air C. WOOD said two parties were opposed to the budget. The noble lord who had just sat down fairly re presented one class of opponents, namely, the landowners. The other opponents were represented by members for Ire land. The latter objected altogether to the extension of the income tax to Ireland. But did the amendment object to the extension of the income tax to Ireland ? (Hear.) Did the amendment say that there was anything unfair to land, that greater consideration ought to be shown to land in the budget ? Why, the amendment said directly the re verse. The amendment said, "Do not extend the income tax either to people having between 1501. and 1001. a-year, unless you make a distinction in favour of trades and pro fessions." Well, then, if the noble lard and those who sat near him representing the landed interest voted for the amendment proposed by the hoc . member for Hertfordshire, they voted for this, that a further boon should be given to trades and professions, which would make it more unfair. He was not surprised then that the member for Malden should feel astonished at the speech by which it was pre faced. The representatives of the landed interest both in this country and in Ireland, would do well to consider what was the real purport and scope of the amendment before they voted for it. (Hoar, hear.) Fie maintained that the amendment was more adverse to the landed interest than the proposition of his right b on. friend, because it proposed to give trades and professi ens an advantage which land would not enjoy. That might bo wise and politic in itself, but at all events it was no.t for the benefit of the landed interest. (Hear, hear.) L s a landowner, he would say now what he had often said before, that the interests of all were bound up togeth Jr, and that the trade and manufactures of the country_ could not flourish -without land participating in their prosperity. (Cheers.) The landed interest had before r .ow neglected the advice which had,been given -them fr° l n his side of- the -house, and what was the consequence ? His noble friend proposed an Bs. duty on corn, which 1 Jed been refused ; and a few years afterwards the whole dt, .ty was taken off. (Cheers.) The right hon, gentleman cfklr. Disraeli) made a proposal with regard to the exclusive burdens which the land bore, which proposition, if it had been carried, would have increased those burdens. On that occasion they, on his side of the house, saved the agricultural interest in spite of themselves. It was said that they did not admit there were any exclu sive burdens on land. Why, it was on the ground of the exclusive burdens on land that he defended the justice of the income tax, as at present levied. He would now de monstrate to any clear-minded man that the proposition of his right hon. friend was more favourable to the landed in terest than the proposition of the right hon. gentleman op posite. The right hon. gentleman opposite proposed to im pose a tax of only 51d. on trades and professions, and 7d. on land. His right hon. friend proposed to levy an equal tax of 7d. on both trades and land. That was a statement of fact which must be clear enough to the landed interest. (Hear, hear.) Then his right hon. friend proposed the in come tax with the hope of its being taken off at the end of seven years; and he pointed out the means of bringing about this result. The right hon. gentleman proposed his income tax for three years without the slightest prospect of its being taken off at the end of that period, unless he put on the tax on successions. (Hear.) Then the right non. gentleman proposed to extend the tax between 501. and 1501. to the owners of land at a rate of 7d. His hon. friend proposed to exte id it to incomes between 1001. mid 1501. at a rate of 5d., whereby those incomes between 501. tnd 1001. would escape altogether from the tax, and those with incomes between 1001. and 1501. would have its pres sure diminished by 2d. in the pound. Which of the two propositions, he would now ask, was the most favourable to he owners of land and to the small freeholders? (Hear.) 3ut he was told that he must take the income tax in con aexion with the tax on successions. He admitted the fair 'less of that. Now, if the owners of land and real property thought that it was better for them that there should be a ti &renal of rate in the income tax, instead of a tax on ruccessions, they were labouring und. , r the greatest mis take possible. (Hear.) He was firmly convinced that it was for their interest that a distinct tax should be levied rather than they should pay a different rate of income tax. (Hear, hear.) For what other mode of proceeding could bo adopted ? He believed that the scheme of the actuaries was utterly unfair and impracticable. If they now began to make a distinction, they could not stop with the distinction between real and personal property, for there was as much difference between the combined skill and capital of the trader, and the skill alone of the professional man, as there was between real and personal property. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the exemption of real property from the tax on successions, he thought it was an anomaly that could not be maintained much longer in favour of the landed interest. (Hear, hear.) He, there fore, held that the proposition of his right hon. friend was more favourable to the landed interest than that of the right hon. gentleman, and he would advise the landed gentry to close with the bargain at once. (Hear, hear.) But the landed interest was threatened with the tax on successions by the right hon. gentleman opposite, for in proposing his scheme to the house, he said that "he thought it not impossible to reconcile conflicting interests by levying a duty on successions." (Heir, hear.) The only meaning the right hon. gentleman's words could bear was that he thought the per;onalty and the realty ought to be placed on the same footing. Omitting, therefore, from consideration all view of the interests of the general com munity, and looking to the landed interest alone, the pro-. position of his right hon. friend was far more in favour of that interest than the budget of the right hon. gentleman. At present, in most cases, the solicitors were able to avoid the legacy duty ; and the result of the proposed measures would be, that property left by deed would pay succes sion tax as well as property left by will. His conviction was that the largest amount would still be paid by person alty and not by land. Leasehold property was at present in an unfair position, having many exceptional rates and probate and legacy duties besides. Under the resolutions, provision would be made for crediting it with three items in levying the duties proposed ; and, on the whole, he trusted he had proved that it was quite a misapprehension to suppose that the whole, or the greater part, of the two millions would be leviable on the land. Another advan- tage would be the reduction of the duty on servants and carriages. As these were kept in the greatest number by the landed gent - 7, they would in the greatest degree be benefited, while at the same time encouragement would be given to increased employment of labour. On all those grounds he recommended gentlemen opposite to accept the ,resent proposals. The time must come when the legacy duty must be conceded, and they could not possibly do it with better grace than at the present moment, when they were offered so many equivalents. (Hear, hear.) The next class of objectors were the members from Ireland. He would remind them that. the amendment for which they were about to vote would by no means prevent the exten sion of the income tax to Ireland. The hon. members for Cork and Roscommon had revived the old calculations which had been answered in the repeal of union debates, and the latter had talked of the consolidation of the exchequer of the two countries as a juggle, whereas it was a measure undertaken solely for the benefit of Ireland, and against the remonstrances of the country gentlemen of England. (Hear, hear.) The honourable member for Cork asked that Ireland should be treated the same as Scotland and Wales. He would ask in what way were these two latter countries exempt from English taxes ? (Hear.) Again, tho hon. member for R oscommon reminded him of what he had said in December last, to the effect that he was not prepared to extend the income tax to Ireland. He would say the same now, if no compensa tion were to be given, and would not be a party to the pro posal of his right hon. friend, if his proposal did not con tain a full equivalent. That, he could assure the hon. member for Roscommon, was his recorded opinion before the proposal was laid on the table of the house. He thought he could show the hon. member that his (Sir C. Wood's) course had been perfectly consistent in the mat. ter. In the first place, the house would remember that in December there was no question of the remission of the Consolidated Annuities. Mr. DISRA_ELI intimated that they had then the reso lution of the Lords' committee. Sir C. WOOD said that the right hon. gentleman did not consent to be bound by the report of the Lords' committee. On this point he could appeal to the hon. member for Mayo, who at the time complained that the Government ivere not prepared to be guided by the report. He would now turn to the question of how much Ireland would gain Jr lose by the proposed changes. The Consolidated An nuities would amount in forty years to 7,731,0001., while the whole of the income tax up to 1860 would be only 2,690,000/. In this view of the case there would be a gain to Ireland of upwards of five millions, and this, too, dis tributed over the whole of Ireland. The honourable mem eer for the West Riding had truly said that the parties who now paid the rates would not feel the weight of the tax, as while the rate went down to holdings of 41. a year, the income tax would not affect any farmer pay ing less than 2001. a year rent, the number of farmers in that situation in Ireland being exceedingly small. The tax would thus be paid almost exclusively by the land lord, who would have the right to deduct all the charges on land. To this he must add that all land held by per sons resident in England was already liable. Again the holders of property under 1001. a year in value, would not be liable, although at present they were liable to the rate. Now to show how much the tax would be a relief, as com pared with the present charges, he would take half a dozen of the most distressed unions in the west of Ireland and compare them. Castlebar paid to the Consolidated An nuities 2,6511. a year ; for income tax it would pay 9951. Galway paid, Annuities, 3,293/, ; income tax would be 1,7631. (Hear.) Oughterard paid 1,542/. ; income tax would be 3361. Scariff, Annuities 2,366/. ; income tax 6351. Skibbereen, 2,080/. • income tax 1,2001. Scull 9341. ; in come tax 3671. (Hear, hear.) In all these cases, too, it must be recollected that the Annuities were for forty years, and the income tax only for seven. (Hear.) Taking, therefore, those portions of Ireland which were pressed down by the incidence of taxation, he thought they would make a good bargain by accepting the Budget, and that generally Ireland would derive an advantage not merely in the amount remitted, but still more in the fact that the classes relieved would be the occupiers and the poorer classes, and that the new tax would be paid by those undoubtedly able to bear such a burden. Under these cir cnmstancess the representatives of the western counties might find it worth while to pause ere they rejected so con siderable a boon. (Cheers and laughter.) With regard to the north and east of Ireland, the question was clear. (Ironical cheers.) Well, he had never said that they had any claim to exemption.. Why should not Belfast pay income tax as well as Liverpool ? Looking at the matter generally then, as regarded Ireland, he thought that that country would, on the whole, obtain a remission, large and substantial in character, at a very small price. As to the spirit duties, they stood on quite a different footing ; and he had always said that if allowance for waste in bond were conceded, the duties on Irish spirits must at once be raised. Unless it could be pretended that illicit distillation was thus encouraged there could be no valid argument for the low duties on Irish spirits ; and he doubted if the assertion could be made out that much illicit dis tillation really was presented to an extent to justify the low duties. The hon. member for Roscommon (Mr. F. French) had said that it would be a breach of faith to em ploy the constabulary in Ireland in checking illicit distilla tion and in general revenue purposes ; and the hon. mem ber for Kilkenny had complained that the Irish constabu lary was an expensive body which had nothing to do. Now, evidently, one gentleman's argument balanced the other ; for the future the constabulary would be usefully employed, and the less objection would be offered by the hon. and learned member for Kilkenny, inasmuch as he was in error in supposing that Ireland paid for her constabulary, the fact being that that force was sustained by the imperial exchequer. Appealing, then, to the whole body of Irish members, he could not see how they could justify an oppo sition to a scheme so eminently favourable to them. (Cheers and laughter.) But to them and to other hon. members he would say, with the hon. member for Mon trose, that this budget must not be judged, however ex amined, in detail, but that it must be taken or rejected as a whole. (Hear, hear.) There were, doubtless, defects in detail ; it was impossible but that on a measure so extensive and so complicated, examination would show points where there might be amendments and improvements ; and hie- right hon. friend had already said that various proposals for modifications were undorlis consideration. But on the main points there could be nothing to object to. The repeal of the soap tax would be a great boon to rich and poor, and all classes. Some hon. member had said, " Why, this is a sop for Manchester," as if Manchester only washed its hands. • (Laughter.) The price he believed would be reduced to the public far below the actual remission ; and indirect benefits to manufacturers would be as great as the direct benefit to the trade and it would also tend to the em ployment of more people. The export trade in soap was said to have been recently falling off ; and the improve ment there would, of course, be great and immediate. The other reductions were all carefully considered, and now few articles would remain under the restriction of a protective duty. Hon. gentlemen opposite had solemnly affirmed the principle of unrestricted competition," and they could, of course, offer no opposition to this part of the financial t p h o e li p cy ub o l f ic t m he ust present Government. contentC overn th m pa en y t ; an F d or th t e h s e e se w r h e e du p c a t y io i n e s . come tax for the first time would find an equivalent in the cheaper prices of soap, of tea, and of beer—(laughter) —no, not beer, he meant provisions generally. Perhaps the honourable gentlemen opposite were proud of their proposal about the malt tax • but then they must not flatter themselves that their budget would have made beer any cheaper. (Laughter and cheers.) With regard to the income tax, he agreed in much of the view which his right hon. friend the member for Portsmouth had taken of it. (Ironical cheers.) Yes, he was glad that there was a prospect of its eventual removal. (Ironical cheers.) Bat he was alive to the advantages which it had conferred. It -had enabled us to carry free trade—to adopt the principle of us unrestricted tom ake competition—and grgreat itri strides i when it had done its task the weapon could be put back iutl it would into the armoury from which it had been taken. (Cheers.) the same direction continue ;en abled an In taking farther strides in the spirit of the commercial policy of 1846, the Government were entitled to rely on the support of all those who had, in the earl y p art of the session, put on record their adherence to the new commercial policy. (Loud cheers.) He believed that the country would sustain the Government in their efforts to accomplish these further advances ; he believed that the country had passed its almost unanimous approval on the budget—(cheers and laughter)— and he could not doubt that when they came to a vote, the House of Com mons would ratify the decision of the people. (Cheers.) On the motion of Mr. G. H. MOORE, the debate was ad journed to this day. The house resumed, and immediately went into Commit tee of Supply, when some formal resolutions were passed, and the house again resumed. SHERIFFS' COURTS (SCOTLAND) BILL. . . On the order of the day for going into committee on this bill, Mr. CRAUFURD said that at that hour (12 o'clock) it was too late to discuss the measure, and he was anxious to move the resolution of which he had given notice : " That in the opinion of this house, no measure of Sheriff Court reform will be satisfactory to the country which does not proceed on the principle of abolishing the present system of double sheriffs." He was the more desirous to move the'resolution, as he had been informed the Government were going to send the bill to a committee upstairs. Lord J. RUSSELL said that the proper time for the resolution would be when the bill came down in an ap proved shape from the select committee, After a brief conversation. in the course of which Mr. COWTAN complained that Scotch business was always thrown over till 1 to 1 o'clock in the morning, and the LORD ADVOCATE stated that tho bill was approved of by a large majority of the people of Scotland ; and explained that the present preposition was that it should be referred to a select committee. Tie bill was referred to a select committee. COUNTY ELECTIONS POLLS (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed, after some conversation originated by Mr. Forbes Mackenzie with re ference to the giving publicity to the places for polling, which he urged would be better effected by the insertion of advertisements in the North British Advertiser than in the Edinburgh Gazette. The other orders of the day were then disposed of. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. Mr. TUFNELL obtained leave to bring in a bill to ex tend the provisions of certain acts' to manicipal corpora tions not included in the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835. WEIGHTS IN THE SALE OF BULLION. Mr. WILSON obtained leave to bring in a bill for regu lating the weights used in the sales of bullion, the object of which he proposed to state on the second reading. The house then adjourned at 20 minutes to one o'clock. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a court was held ; the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided. The ininntes of the last meeting havinc , been read, the same were allowed to have been correctly entered. Several docquets for the Hospital and City Seals were then passed, and a considerable number of persons ad mitted to the freedom of the City. THE PROPOSED NEW BRIDGE OVER THE THAMES. Mr. R. C. BUCHNALL moved that the report delivered in on the 14th of April, 1853, should be considered. This report had reference to the proposed erection of a new bridge between Blackfriars and Southwark bridges, and to the rebuildinc , of Blackfriars-bridge, as recom mended in the report of the Bridge-house Estates Com mittee, on the Ist of July, 1852. A very long conversation ensued upon the question. Mr. ANDERTON thought it would be far better to let the question stand over for a short time, as Mr. Oliveira had given notice of a motion in the House of Commons with respect to the state of the metropolitan bridges, and the necessity for increased accommodation. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR and other of the most influential members of the court, were of opinion that, in the original movement, a question of so much importance to the citizens of London and the residents in the metro polis generally, should be submitted to the calm con sideration of a committee. That had been done, and it must be admitted that they would not do more nor less than support the committee in their report. Subjoined we give a copy of the report in question : "To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the city of London, in Common Council assembled. " We, whose names are hereunto subscribed your com mittee for letting the Bridge-house Estates, do certify that by an order of this honourable court, of the 23d day of September, last, it was resolved and ordered that no fur ther proceedings should be taken in the proposed rebuild ing of the bridge at Blackfriars, especially a temporary bridge, until your committee should have examined and reported on the propriety of building a new bridge across the Thames, between Blackfriars and Southwark bridges, and the probable cost of the same, and the approaches thereto ; and that our report of the first day of July last, recommending the rebuilding of Blackfriars-bridge, should be referred back to us accordingly. We proceeded in the said reference, and were attended by Francis Bennoch, Esq., deputy, the mover thereof in your honourable court, who was heard thereon, and explained his views upon the subject, and we examined the plans also referred to our con sideration by your honourable court. We then proceeded, accompanied by Mr. Deputy Bennoch, to view the situation in which the proposed new bridge, shown upon the said plans, was intended to be placed, and also the lines of the approaches thereto, both on the north and south sides of the river ; and it appearing to us to be desirable that an additional bridge should be erected between Blackfriars and Southwark bridges, we directed the architect and sur veyor, in conjunction with Robert Stephenson, Esq., civil engineer, to consider the most eligible site for the erection of the same, and report their opinion thereon to us ; and we have caused copies of their reports to be, hereunto an nexed, for the information of your honourable court. " And we having fully and maturely considered the sub ject, are of opinion that from the increased traffic over the River Thames the present bridges are not adequate to the public requirements ; and it is therefore desirable that an additional bridge should be erected between Blackfriars bridge and Southwark-bridge, provided the necessary funds can be obtained for that purpose. Your committee, however, do not feel justified in incurring the expense ne cessarily attended upon ascertaining the probable cost of building such new bridge, and forming the requisite ap proaches, without further instructions from your honour able court ; but should your honourable court concur in the opinion of your committee that a new bridge is desi rable, your committee recommend that we should be em powered to obtain designs for the construction of such new bridge, with estimates of the probable expense of erecting the same, and of forming the requisite approaches thereto, and lay the same before your honourable court. And we recommend that it should be referred to us to consider the best means to be adopted in order to obtain the necessary funds for carrying the works into execution, and to report thereon to your honourable court. " We further certify, that having re-considered the re port presented by us on the Ist day of July last, we are still of opinion that the recommendations therein contained should be adopted by this honourable court. "All which we submit to the judgment of this honour able 'court. Dated this Bth day of April, 1853. " R. G. PEAD. SEPTIMUS READ. " BENJ. ED. Bnowx. " R. J. CHAPLIN. "R. C. BUCKNALL. " JAMES BAILEY. "JAB. WATERLOW. " JAS. M. BARNARD. "J. R. THOMSON." The report having been read, much discussion fol lowed, Mr. Elliott moving, in the course of the debate, an amendment which, however, he subsequently with drew. The matter, therefore, remains for future consi deration. The discussion upon the above subject was extraordi narily bare of interest, although it was continued for nearly two hours. Some other necessary business having been transacted, the court was adjourned at a quarter past four o'clock, 40 members not at that time being present. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. We have to announce the death of retired Commander J. Swain. Commander .Swain was in receipt of the out pension of Greenwich Hospital. APPOINTMENT.—Lieut. C. N. Pears, to be agent on board contract steam-mail vessels. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 28. The Agamemnon, Captain Sir T. Maitland, steamed out of the harbour to Spithead this afternoon. She saluted the flag of the Commander-in-Chief, which was returned by the Victory: The Plumper screw-sloop was undocked this morning and placed in the steam factory basin, to receive her masts ready for commission. The Highflyer steam-frigate, Captain Moore, hauled alongside the hulk this morning, to receive her crew and reship stores ready for service. The Conflict advance steam-sloop was taken out of the harbour yesterday by Captain Henderson, C. 8., for the purpose of making another trial of her speed in Stoke's Bay, and to-day she has been again replaced in the steam basin. - The Hastings, 72, is returning stores with the utmost dispatch, and has nearly unrigged the ship. Notwith standing the unfounded, malicious, and abominable re ports that have from time to time been raised against the officers of this ship, we can vouch for it that a happier or more effective ship's company never came home to their native land ; and it gives us the utmost pleasure to record this fact. In gunnery and the small arm exercise Captain Chords, no small authority, was pleased to compliment them most highly on their per fectness, and this on a day when the glass stood at 42, and the men bad just returned from a climate where the temperature was 90. The following ships now form the squadron at Spit head :—The Agamemnon, 91, screw-ship, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland ; London, 90, Captain E. Eden ; Im perieuse, 51, steam-frigate, Captain Watson ; Sidon, 22, paddle-steamer, Captain Goldsmith ; Encounter, 14, screw-frigate, Captain O'Callaghan ; Cruiser, 14, screw sloop, Commander the Hon. G. H. Douglas ; Basilisk, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Hon. Francis Egerton ; Banshee, paddle steam-packet, Lieutenant-Commander Hoskin. The Hendrick Hudson, American packet, arrived last evening from the Thames, and sailed this morning for New York. Wind, N.E. ; thick cloudy weather. SHEERNESS, APRIL 27. The Lizard, iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel, in charge, pro tent., of Lieutenant S. H. Ricketts / of the Waterloo, is manned and officered from the Waterloo, and left this day for Ostend, on particular service. The Cuckoo, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, in command, pro tent., of Lieutenant Martin, of the Waterloo, has been manned and officered from that ship, and has taken her station at Greenhithe, to overhaul the outward bound merchant-ships for deserters from the Royal navy. _ . . The Rhadamantbus, steam-transport, Master-Com mander John Delam, arrived here at five p.m. this day from Portsmouth, with stores for this and Chatham yard. She proceeds hence to Woolwich. The Rhadamanthus brought one of the Deptford vic tualling hoys in tow from Margate Roads, and cast her off at the Nore. She has also brought 16 volunteers from the fleet at Portsmouth round for the Phoenix, Captain Inglefield, at Woolwich ; 15 boys entered from different ports—viz., this, Woolwich, and Deptford, who have refused to he naval apprentices for the term of ten years, and now discharged the service, and a few volun teers for this port. WOOLWICH, APRIL 28. The Phcenix steam-sloop, Commander Edward A. Inglefield, has been joined to-day by Lieutenant Bellot, of the French navy, who previously served as a volun teer in the arctic regions with Mr. Kennedy, in Lady Franklin's vessel the Prince Albert. M. Bellot intended to have proceeded with Mr. Kennedy this year in the Isabel screw-steamer, belonging to Lady Franklin, and now on her way to Behring's Straits, but owing to domestic affairs he was unable to proceed with her, but, to show his ardour in the search for Sir John Franklin, he has volunteered to proceed to the North Polar regions in the Phcenix, under Commander Inglefield. The Phcenix has to-day taken on board 50 tons of patent fuel, which has been all placed on deck at the stern of the vessel, and yet has left ample room for navigating her. It appears the Diligence is at Devonport, and not at Deptford, as was inadvertently stated on Tuesday, but she is to be immediately brought round to Woolwich, under the charge of Lieutenant James E. Elliott, who has been to Devonport to obtain able seamen for service in the Phoenix, and has succeeded in obtaining 20, who will navigate the Diligence to this port. Fifteen able seemen have also volunteered at Portsmouth for service in the Phcenix, men having been allowed to volunteer from any of the ships in commission. The Melampus, 42, is ordered to take on board the boilers of the Encounter, at Woolwich, and will be towed by the Cyclops while conveying them to Ports mouth, where it is now decided the Encounter will have her new boilers put on board. One sergeant, 1 corporal, 1 drummer, and 25 privates of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines left head quarters here to-day for Portsmouth, to embark at that port for service afloat. The Lizard, iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel of 150- horse power, arrived here yesterday from Sheerness, and, having taken on board some anchors and stores, left this morning in charge of Captain Washington, of the surveying service, and is to be engaged in laying down a telegraphic wire between this country and Ostend. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, APRIL 28. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Rapid, from Marstrand ; Carl Gustav, Wolgast ; Red Port, Oporto ; Antje Welsen berg, Groningen ; Fortune, Christiania ; Scandinavian, Porsground ; Annette, Norden ; Catharina, do. ; Ithul, Constantinople ; Sophie and Maria, Frederickshald ; Reichsadler, Emden ; Emanuel, Marstrand ; Helene, Leer ; Agnes, Emden ; Medina, do. ; Maria, Riga ; Com modore, Messina; Hans Thorwall, Sarpsborg ; Cambrian, Madeira and Jamaica ; Kennett, Malaga ; Castor, Copen hagen ; Hoop, Worcum; Louise, Randers ; Speculator, Demerara ' • Caroline, Gottenburg ; Victory, Algoa Bay ; Brilliant, Geelong ; Devonshire, New York ; Adelaide, Leghorn ; Seringapatam, Bombay and Cape of Good Hope ; Dolphin, Basbadoes ; Java, Bombay ; Eclipse, Madeira ; Camperdown, Calcutta and Cape of Good Hope; Eaglet, Lisbon; Collingwood, Singapore; Stan dard, Bombay ; Diana, Amsterdam ; Alice, Jamaica ; John Taylor, Melbourne ; Royal Stuart, Calcutta ; Jo hanna, Ernden ; Martina, Uddewalla • Waterlily, St. Michael's ; Alica, Emden ; Auguste Fredericke, Rostock ; Longston, Vienna. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Paul and Aimee, Rouen ; Peregrine, Port Philip ; Cambrian, Ja maica; Affghan, Calcutta ; Choice, Malta and Alexandria; Lilian, Palermo and Messina ; Ida Maria, Dantzic ; De vonshire, New York ; Rosario, Santander ; Eclipse, Ma deira ; Caroline, Guayaquil and Bordeaux ; Barham, Ma dras and Calcutta • Nile, ditto, ditto ; Countess of Yar borough, Port Philip and Sydney ; Lea Amis, Rouen ; Speculator, Demerara. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Rubicon, for Kurrachee; Abergeldie, Hong Kong and Whampoa ; Cress well, New Zealand ; Albion, Port Adelaide ; Sir Robert Peel, New York ; Jens Hansen Lund, Copenhagen • La Bonne Mere, Barcelona ; Cit y of Paris, -, St. Vbes, Montreal. LIVERPOOL, April 28.—The Australia, from New York, in docking to - day, got in contact with the William Tap scot, leaving the Bandon graving-dock and basin, to pro ceed to her loading dock ; both vessels received damage, VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Catherine, from Liverpool to Bombay, Jan. 28, lat 6 S., long. 25. The Malabar, from London, March 19, lat, 7 S., long 22 W. - . - — The Bullion, of Liverpool, March 21, lat. 3S. long, 23 W. The Elephanta, from Colombo to London, -April 12, lat. 33 N., long. 30 W. • The Nelson, for Port Philip, Nov. 30, lat. 31 S., long. 28 W. The Ararat, from Sydney, N.S.W. , to Calcutta, Jan 18, lat. 36 S., long. 13 E. MELANCHOLY OCCURR .NCE.—During the passage of the Danial Webster, which arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday night from Boston, an occurrence of a very melancholy nature took place. A seaman having fallen overboard, a boat, with• four men in it was lowered, and an endeavour made to save the . unfortunate. man, when, just as he was reached, the boat upset, and three slit of the four men composing the crew were drowned. The man who fell overboard was also drowned, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. THURSDAY. THE QUEEN'S PLATE of 100 gs, for four-yr-olds, 9st 81b ; five, lOst 71b ; six and aged, lOst 121 b. R.C. Lord Exeter's Ilex, by Beiram, 4 yrs (Norman) 1 Mr. Mare's Ariosto, 5 yrs (F. Butler) 2 Mr. Saxon's Caurire, aged (Marlow) 3 Mr. Roger's Pancake, 4 yrs (Rogers) 4 Betting-5 to 4on Ariosto. 4to 1 each against Caurire and Pancake, 10 to 1 agst Ilex. A fine race in with the first two, Ilex winning by a neck. The others were beaten off. MATCH : Last half of Ab. M. _loo,_h ft. Duke of Bedford's Petrel, by Weatherbit, 3 yrs, Bst 71b Lord Glasgow's Incognita, 3 yrs, Bst 91b (Flatman) 2 Betting-5 to 2on Petrel. The favourite made al the running, and won very easily by three lengths. MATCH : First half of Ab. M 100, h ft. Duke of Bedford's Hesperus, by Bay Middleton, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b (F. Butler) 1 Mr. W. E. Hughes's Sophistry, 4 yrs,_7st 71b - - - (Flatman) 2 Hesperus held the lead throughout, and won by three quarters of a length. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES Of 25 Sovs. each, and only 5 ft if declared, &c. ; for three-year-olds and upwards. T.Y.C. 4 subs, lof whom declared. Mr. Combe's Brawn, by Chatham, or Robert de Gorham, 4 yrs, Bst 81b (Rogers) 1 Lord Glasgow's c by Assault, out of Miss Norton, 3 yrs, 7st 81b Lord Clifden's Warbler, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (Too vey) 3 Betting—Even on Brawn, 6to 4 agst Warbler. Won by half a length. A head between second and third. The 1,000 GUINEAS STAKES, a subscription of 100 Boys. each, h ft, for three-year-old fillies, Bst 71b ; the owner of the second filly to receive back his stake. D.M. 40 subs. Baron Rothschild's Mentmore Lass, by Melbourne (Charlton) 1 (Flatman) 2 , ...... ..(Sly) 3 (F. Butler) 4 Lord Zetland's Comfit. Mr. Osbaldeston's §ylpbine General Anson's Mayfair The following also ran : Lord Eglinton's Elspeth Lord Exeter's Noisette ....(Marlow) 0 ....(Norman) 0 Lord Exeter's Mrs. Nutting... Mr. Howard's Vaultress.. (J. Mann) 0 Templeman) 0 Mr. Merry's Valour (G. E. Sharp) 0 Lord Orford's Illusion (Bartholomew) 0 Mr: J. M. Stanley's Hybla (J. Marson) 0 Betting-7 to 4 agst Sylphine, 3to 1 agst Comfit, 6 to 1 agst Hybla, 8 to 1 each agst Mayfair and Vaul tress, 10 to 1 agst Mentmore Lass, 16 to 1 agst Valour. Mrs. Nutting made play, Comfit, Sylphine, Hybla, and Mayfair lying well together ; Mentmore Lass a little off. At the dip Mrs. Nutting declined, and Comfit went on in front, closely attended by Sylphine, Mayfair, and Mentmore Lass. On entering the cords Mentmore Lass went up, took a decided lead, and won easily by two lengths: Three-quarters of a length between second and third, and a neck between third and fourth. SWEEPSTAKES of 10 sovs. each, for three-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 41b. First half of Ab. M. The winner to be sold for 80 sovs, if demanded, &c. 5 subs. Mr. Rogers's Dear-me (S. Rogers) 1 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Massena (J. Marson) 2 Mr. Armstrong's Plunkett Mr. Coinbe's Tell-tale (Bartholomew) 4 Mr. Goodwin's Cintra G. Brown) 0 A good race with all except Cintra, who did not get off. In the last few strides Dear-me came out and won by half a length._ A head between second and third. Repewal of the SWEEPSTAKEA of 100 sous. each, h ft, for three-yr-old colts, Bst 71b., D.M. 6 subs. The fineness of the weather and the attraction of the One Thousand Guineas Stakes drew together a large concourse of spectators, and the proceedings on the heath created a very lively interest. The One Thousand occasioned much active speculation, and the result of the race was quite unexpected—Mentmore Lass was the winner. She did not arrive at Newmarket until Wed nesday, and was scarcely mentioned in the betting ; in deed, her owner had little trustworthy knowledge of her racing ability. She had not, we believe, been tried, and this was her first performance. Her success was very favourable to the fielders. Mentmore Lass is the pro perty of Baron Rothschild. In the morning Lord-Lieu tenant came up with a surprising rush into the betting on the Chester Cup, and at once obtained a position amongst the leading favourites ; a good deal of money was invested at prices varying from 20 to 15 to 1. 15 to 1 also taken about Newminster. For the Derby, 18 to 1 was taken about Umbriel, and 22 to 1 about Brocket. JEWISH DISABILITIES' BILL.—The utmost confidence is felt in circles well able to give an opinion on the mat ter, that the second reading of this bill in the House of Lords on Friday next, will pass with a respectable majority.—Jewish, Chronicle. {ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway ' s Ointment and Pills a Certain Cure for Eruptions and all Diseases of the Skin. —Extract of a letter from Mr. J. Hind, draper, Keady, dated Feb. 14, 1852, to Professor Holloway :—" Sir, — My child, when three months old, was afflicted with a severe eruption all over her body. I sought every aid and the advice of surgeons and physicians, by all of whom the case was considered. hopeless. I then tried your Ointment and Pills, and without exaggeration the effect was miraculous, for in a short time she was restored to perfect health, and so remains. Mr. Bowden, book seller, and myself, would be happy to satisfy any inquiries as to the truth of this 'statement." Sold by all druggists ; and at Professor Holloway's Esta blishment, 244, Strand, London. COUNTRY MARICE2'2. DERBY SMITHFIELD—APRIL 26. A limited supply of fat beasts to-day, and many of they of a middling sort. Hi g h er pr i ces as k e d , an d a clearsic easily effected. N um b er o f sheep and lambs larger 5., and store calves a n average. For fat pigs an advanc e d tained :—Beef, 5.3 d to 63d ; mutton, 73d to 8d ; veal, A 53d per lb. ; pigs, Os to 9s 6d per score ; rough fat, i d per 141 b. ; hides, lid to 3d per lb ; calf-skins, 30 to per lb. EDINBURGH GRAIN— APRIL 27. _, We had a layT e su pply o f grain in to-day's 12'"ket, Sales heavy, and last week's prices maintained. Top of Wheat ............ ..... .... ..... ... 651 lb 535 Od —.- Barley... .. Oats -- Beaus 6Bi lb 38s Od Total Supply and Sales. 555 qrs sold 502 qrs 283 qrs sold 258 V s 731 qrs so ld 58 1 V s ..... 165 qrs sold 157 T 1 AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Averago of wheat £2 8 11 0-12ths Ditto of Barley Ditto of Oats -12tbs Ditto of Beans Wheat, Barley, Oats .., Beans. BOSTON—APRIL 27. The supply of wheat moderate, and the trade 6°l a Barley and oa t s i n reques t a t prev i ous ra t es. ins fit, peas in good d eman d a t an a d vance o f 6d per qr. ,2i re:l, 38s to 46 5 , w hit e, 46 s t o 48 s, ex t ra, 5 0 s; harlot to 30s ; oats, 14s to 20s ; ,beans, 32s to 36s ; peas, 31° 35s per qr. NEWARK=ArBIL 27. At our Corn-exch ange t o -d a y we h a d a goo d atte h driv e c :t: and fair supplies of gr ain . P r i ces were as f o ll ow : " 2 i s to white, 52s to 565,. red 46s to 50s ; barley, grinding, vim; 0 30s, malting 32s to 35s ; oats, s ee d 24 s to 26 5 , feed vvifl g ; 00s ; beans 38s to 42s ; peas 30s to 31s ; malt 560 to tares, 44s to 48s per qr. DUBLIN—APRIL 26. White wheat, 26s Od to 30s Od ; red, ditto, 25s Od to scej, barley, 13s Od to 16s 6d ; oats, 10s Od t o 11 s 9d ; raPe 21s Od to 23s per brl ; oatmeal, ll s Od t o 12s Od ; b" - ",,fod flour, 14s Od to 18s Od per cwt; Indi an corn , 30 s Od to 3 4 ' per 480 lbs. Currencl . ye Os Od-20 gto CORK-APRIL 27. White wheat 00s Od to OOs Od 18 Red wheat 22s 9d to OOs 01 Ditto— oos Od to OOs Od Ditto OOs Od to OOs Od 42 Barley l2s 3d to 14s Od Ditto OGs Od to 00s Od Ditto OOs Od to OOs Od Bere OOs Od to OOs Od 197 Oats 9s 9d to lls 8d Ditto OOs Od to 00s Od Ditto 00s Od to 00s 0d) yi t, Pigs VOs Od to OOs Od OOs Oct per 0 • Quantity sold at the highest prices :- 00 barrels white wheat ; 00 red ; 5 barley ; 0 be"' oats ; 0 pigs. Quantity of grain and number of pigs sold last week i ll& Wheat, 131. Barley, 713. Bere, 00. oats; Pigs, 00. 005 011--7 20 41. 12s 9cl-1 6 (lb Os Oil n. od d°' Return of cattle sold for week ending April 23 :- Pigs, 395. Sheep, 525. Cows, 69. PRICES OF BUTTER. CURRRNOY. 9 5° First quality lo4s First quality ............... Second quality looa Second quality .......... Third quality 94s Third quality ............. .* Fourth quality Fifth quality 76s Fifth quality ..... ....... Sixth quality 6os Sixth quality ............. ej; 7' CORK. —Flour- First, 15s Od to 16s Od; extra, 1 tbir* seconds, 13s Od to 14s 6d ; households, lOs to 13s Od ; 80 0J; 7s Od to lOs per ev, L. Meal—lndian meal, 7s 6d to of t ; oatmeal, lOs 6d to lls Od ; wheat meal, 10s to Ils Od Ps 5+ 6 1 Indian corn, 71 5s Od to 8/ Os Od per ton. Bran, 46 ,rogef to 4610 s Od per ton. Hay—Farmers, 20s Od to 40s Od; 365; dealers, 38s Od t o 58 a Od ; average, O s per t o n. „7„ pd Farmers, 20s Od to 25s Od ; average , 23s ; dealers, OT 7d 00s Od ; average, O s . p er ton. Brea d—Wheaten loa f , 94 t,° Od ; household ditto, 6(1 to Oct per 41b.—Fresh butte r, bee' , lid per lb. Eggs, 4s Od to 4s 23 per hundred. Mea t 54 40 to 8d ; mutton, 54d to 7cl ; veal, 5d to 8d ; por k ' 6d ; bacon, 7d to 8d ; sausages, 6d per lb.—Fish, Ne r ; 00' land, 11/. Os to 12/ Os per ton ; Scotch herrings, 0 001 1110, Red, do., 30s per brl.—Potatoes, white, Iod to 12d ; ins, 12d to 15d.— Coals, Newport, 21s; Lydney, 21s ; e t 'll o ri/ I f Od per ton.—Whiskey, 25 0.p., 6s 10d per imperial Hides, market, 30s to 365; Salted, 30s to 38s per o t o. skins, 3Ad per lb.—Bangor slates 21. 17s. 6d to 3 1 . P e V. r e Fleece wool, 00s to 00s per stone.—Hemp, 381. t ton—Timber, Memel, 3/. 15s ; red pine, 3/. 158; 3T.,.." 0 ,, 3/. ss. per ton ; deals, 19/. to 20/. per hundred.- -, " 8/. to 106.105. per ton.—Tallow, 47s to 47s tid per 0rg. 0 ,09° 71. lOs to 0/. per cwt.- Tar, Archangel, 198. per brie -- Peruvian, 12/. Os to 00/. por ton. CANT. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 28. , ba STOCK ExCHANGE.—The market for shares 170 I A very good to-day for Leeds stock, but not muc. other shares. London and North-Western st4r4re heavy, and very few buyers of it. Quotations reported as follows :—Aberdeen, 14 9-16 ; 131 50 25, 2 "7 3 1 Caledonian, 321 ; Chester and. Holyhead, ,t* -4 4 „."" j Eastern Norther Northern, Counties, Kendal n ; Eastd Windermere,Lanas hi s r te i i i r l s V ci ; ; , , j a; c ( t a h sh ir i d r e shares), 13 ; { Yorkshire, l3 i p; ne P r eston (-91310 L B a i ne 9 a al st 9 e! ; an4l Pres iss. at C. 145.), 254 c p; London and North-W es "'"'d Ditto (fifth shares), 21 p ; Manchester, Sheffield, an std i c o o r i c n is , h 3 i o re A , ; 4i M a id ; l s a t u . d ii 7 el fi e ti s N ß o a r i t l h wa ß y ritish, 81; I°l ' us fe# iss. at 40 dis.), 32A; Shrewsbury and a ge d re C to n rd al , ( 1 11 1 1 i 8 0, Eastern and Dover, 221 York and North gl u t o re s '; 30; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln (pref. 10 1 • ffr i if' 11 ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick (pref. 171. shams Midland Bradford, 107 ; Dutch Rhenish, 14 dis. MANCHESTER, APRIL2B. 1 STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a larger btioilirAt prices rather higher. . Blackburn, 7 ; Ditto Fr; Leeds Stock, 794 ; Midlands, 75k ; Dovers, 22 13 - 1 i ter and Holyhead, 21 ; Kendal and Windern ie 3 o ,s ; Caledonian, 32 13-16 ; Ditto Pref., 10 11-16; gTh s r it, shire, 18 3-16 ; Great Northern, 22) ; London SP ° :„ Sheffields, 30i ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, '” 0 1 LEEDS, APRIL 28. f P oi i? STOCK EXCHANGE.—This has been another 49 ° p A i speculative business for the account middle of .ffl- 111 ofvoi show no variation from yesterday. The sales thio,,i f ti; closed as follows :—Ea s t L ancas hi re , 184 • Lanof f *,;,,Y Yorkshires, 79 ; North-W es t erns , 8f ; South-East' York and North Midlands, 29g. SEABORNE MAILS. 1 10 " 1 (N signifies that the mails are sent front the Omer.' '7 by the night—and M by the morning 0 0 Day when made up From wha t Jettil', COUNTRIES. in General Post- Fort E li Office, London.. Dispatehen▪ . leerpen America(byßrit.pack)N Every 'Friday Liverpool • " America (by United . Sts. Ar ri' packet) .. —l4 April 19 Liverpool • " 4 America (by U. States to 0 packet) —.NI April 18 Southan l P —n ▪ 1 Australia (via South.. toe 3P Tir I ampton) ....M 4th of May • • .... Southan 7 P - p Ditto (via Marse illes) N Bth of May Dover •• ••'' Ditto (via Capo of Good ge r Hope) ............N 2d of June ...... Plymouth •• o'o9 Africa (West Coast) ..N 23rd of the month. Mittman 41 14 4 Alexandria.......... N ,9, 24, &30of m Dover • •"...• 15101 Alexandria a ih 20th 01 mon. Southampto nl,/ Bahamas ...........M 2nd of the month SotrZhamP l° ll7 , " 'l6 Belgium ............N f .. ........ Dever of .• • • * 1 ;01 O h Brazil ..............M 9th the month.. Soatban 7 P;,%o 4 :•l l° lo Buenos Ayres ........ M 9th of the m on th., SouthalllP' AP' l c7; Cape of Good Hose ..N 14th of th e mon th Plymouth #0`. 1 1 7 Cape of Good Hope .. N 2n4 of June Plymouth • AP`` Cape de Verds 14th of the month Plymouth 414, Ceylon (see India) Ceylon 14th of the month Pl y mouth •:, TO, Channel 15'e5........N Mon.,Wed ,&Frid. SoutheinPW: Chili.. ........M & 17th of month SenthaMPW" r China (see India) .o`;▪ '4,011 Constantinople --NI 7,8,17,24,&27 ofm Dover .• 0:0 Constantinople 4th 11‘, - 20th of mon SouthernPw 1 411 Cont. of Europe M N Twice daily Dover • • i ce , Egypt (see India) •• :o f France .. M& N Twice daily D o ver .. • Gibraltar —DI 4,7, 17, 20, 27 of m. Southend° / 2 (o ' Greece (see India) A° •15/ ° i(g . Greytown ..........M 2nd & 17th of mon. Southal l - 01 , 11 { Hamburgh ..........N Tuesday & Friday London •10 . 11 14 0 t 0. /. 6 Havannah ..........M 2nd of the month South:o77P lid 1 Holland ............ M Wednesday & Sat London • 4 L 0 ,4 Honduras ..........M 17th of the month Southa— P too PO , India ( viaSouthampt.)M 4th & 20th of mon. Souther:oP P India (via Marsellles)M Bth& 24th of month Dover fe' lonian Isles (see India) b Ireland ........M & N Twice daily Holyhe toe ,of Lisbon ........ M 7, 9, 17, &28of m. SoUtharaP o of Madeira ............M 9th of the month Swann % 24 Madeira N 23rd of the month Plyzi on 0 11 Malta (see India) • 7,17,19,`28, 33 ofm. Dove r ** F 5l -° , P.„ hfaurltius (see India) 0 0th 0 4 9 Mauritius ..........N 14th of the' month P.. - ptOn l er Mexico o: the mon.,ll. Southal l ' oa f At li/ Naples .. .• •••• • .N bthlsth2sthorson. Dzivel„;Ptanveei New Granada .. id 2d & 17th of month Ront".,. -- por o mai New Zealand .......... By private ship „. of Papal States ........N sthlsth2sthollnon. 011.1 0 Peninsula ...... 7thl7tb2Bthotinon Som. o • ptOn FP . I Peru ...... • • ......M ?d & 27th of mon ,:oath o th .• to f Port Natal ..........N 14th of the month HP° . ••a I Sicily • • • • • • ........N sthl ,th2sthotmon, D o ver • • Tuscany 5 tblso2sthofmon. Venezuela 2cl & /7th of month 'e l° • I 1 Van Diemen's Land (see a ft Australia) . West Indies M 2d& 17th of month Soul'sillP 6 114 (11 0 the Tie ei • When any of these dates fall on a SuraleY,l, o oftt•• dispatched on the following day. with the excell!:;', o any Southampton), and the Malta, both of which wi" day preceding. BIRTHS. OF A SON• e te On the 26th inst., at Hill-house, Gl°llGe wife of John J. L. gayly, Esq. die OF A DAUGHTER. —.ant On the 27th inst., at 33, Westbouree-te"- of Charles Lyall, Esq. .P. , ref' of of' 111 A RRI ED • ifor l II s t 0 r On the 27th inst., at Acton. MiddTleesale, liter 0( Pellew Crease, Esq., of the Middle ( wig Captain Crease, R.N., to Sarah, deeu fessor Lkdley, of Acton-green. I, P ° On the 24th inst., at RDecitEorYl3.-Pl ace' W:i1:1100.°011;1"; Mrs. Mitchell, aged 82. On the 24th inst., at the Mount, "fork , .4,, i ) ft.' son, Esq., aged 59. - 0 , 4 ilcie, At Alkaunn, near Malaga, William .'-'-',, A tl, tired Commander in H.M. Navy, a g ed • .009, .... ri sp IV) , , ,til LONDON : Printed and Published bl Ig--- d ., 0 0 COvv" of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Thells OA - Strand, in the. Precinct of the Savoie Middlesex, Friday, April 29.18' Brig.