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to suggest in reference to the communication which had been received from the other house of Parliament ? _ The Duke of NEWCASTLE apprehended that the only reason for the Government not having stated their views to their lordships in reference to the subject al luded to by the noble earl was that they were not aware that such a communication would be sent up from the other house that day. He was quite prepared to state the course which the Government proposed to take. An alteration had been introduced into the measure on which these commissions rested, to the effect that on any occasion when the House of Commons should call on their lordships' house to join with them in an address to the Crown, a message should be sent down to request the House of Commons to favour them with a copy of the evidence taken before the committee of that house. He for one had objected to the introduction of that pro vision, but of course, apart from any individual opinion, as to the advisability of such a provision, it was the duty of the Government to carry it out in the proper spirit. • He believed therefore that the proper course would be for their lordships to ask the House of Commons to favour them with any evidence taken before any election committee, and after a sufficient time bad been given for considering the evidence, it would be proposed that that house should agree with the House of Commons in an address to the Crown. The Earl of DERBY said the course proposed by the Government appeared to he that which was required under the circumstances of the case, for it was only pro per that they should have the evidence before them on which they were invited to join in an address to the Crown. It might be more in accordance with the usual ' courtesy between the two houses that they should not separate without taking some step, and perhaps it would be better that the evidence should be moved for before the adjournment of the house. The Duke of NEWCASTLE said that there might be some irregularity in that course, but he should give notice on the subject to-morrow. Their lordships then adjourned at a quarter-past seven o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY.) THE AFFAIR AT SIX-MILE BRIDGE. Mr. NAPIER rose to move, pursuant to notice, for copies of paper relating to the riot at Six-mile bridge, in July last ; and said that as great misapprehension pre vailed on the subject, and as his own conduct, as Attorney- General in the matter, had been not to say unfairly but mistakenly misrepresented on a recent occasion, in another place, he would take this opportunity of laying all the facts before the house ; and he did not doubt that, as the interests and character of justice in Ireland were involved, he should obtain the indulgence of the house while he trespassed for some time upon their patience. The right hon. and learned gentleman then proceeded to enter into a close and detailed narrative of those facts with which the public are already familar, connected with the actual fracas between the military- and the mob, at the Six-mile bridge. Continuing the history, he justified the advice he had given, that the soldiers wh o h a d b een comm itt e d s h ou l d b e liberated on bail on the ground that it was necessary to fix a crime upon each individual soldier, inasmuch as the law distinguished between unl aw f u l assem bli es an d l aw f u l bodies in te discharge of their duty, holding each member of the unlawful assembly responsible for the collective acts, but holding the member of the lawful body respon sible only for his own acts, if those acts were in excess of the law, and in this case he had not found sufficient evi dence to individualise the alleged offence. Immediately after bail had been accepted, a newspaper in Ireland pub lished an account, or rather a partial account, of the transactions in question, and of the inquest : and in this newspaper the regiment was charged with being guilty of deliberate murder, this charge being made pending the inquest, and befere the subsequent expected trial. This newspaper also threw out imputations affecting the cha racter of the regiment—its courage and conduct. The Duke of Wellington saw this newspaper, and being ever alive to everything affecting the honour of the army— (cheers)—he immediately wrote to him (Mr. Napier), in timating that he thought that the libel would be a fit sub ject for prosecution by the Crown, with a view to the pro tection of the soldier. In consequence, he (Mr. Napier) applied for further information to the two officers who had been in charge of the soldiers during the riot ; and their depositions were submitted in a very full shape. (The right hon. and learned gentleman read these depositions, which were elaborate justifications of the conduct of the soldiers, their firing on the people being represented as a merely defensive act.) He appealed to every man of right feeling whether after these sworn informations he could have come to any other conclusion than he did, that these officers and soldiers should receive constitutional protec tion, and that steps should be taken to bring the prime movers of this riot to condign punishment. A great deal had been said with reference to the exact rights and duties of the soldiers on occasions of this kind. He apprehended that the duty of a soldier in a case of this kind was not different from that of any other person. A soldier was under the order of his superior officer, but the order of his officer was not of itself a sufficient justifica tion. But in this case the soldiers were deprived of their officer, and the corporal, the next in command, was struck down senseless. Now he (Mr. Napier) believed upon his conscience that the men had done no more than their duty, and that as British soldiers they ought to have had the support of the laws afforded to them. (Loud cheers.) Yet those men were paraded in the dock as felons, and an impression was created by the speech of the Attorney-General himself that they were murderers, or at least, aggravated manslayers ; and that they had only escaped because the law officer could not get at the man who had fired the fatal shots. (Hear, hear.) His late learned colleague (Mr. Whiteside) had been asked to go down to defend the soldiers, for they had had no means of defence provided for them by the Go vernment ; and he had felt some delicacy in doing so, having himself been a law officer of the Crown, and the Attorney-General being about to go down to prosecute. His learned friend had consulted him (Mr. Napier) upon the point, and his answer was " Surely, you ought to go. You would never have appeared as prosecutor, for we never intended to prosecute ; and the soldiers are just as much entitled to the protection of the law as any other men." (Cheers.) His learned friend did go, but owing to the course matters took, the accused were deprived of the ad vantage of his learned friend's statement, and the evidence he could have adduced. They were thus put in a much worse position than if the bills had been found against them ' • and they had now to l a b our un d er th e i mpu t a ti ons which had been cast upon them, and which they had had no opportunity afforded them of removing. All this time the two Roman Catholic priests and the other parties had been discharged from their recognizances, and they had actually been brought —one of them from the very gaol— as witnesses against these British soldiers. (Cheers.) The results of the case had been most disastrous to the magis trate who had been concerned in the affair. He was obliged to have policemen living in his house ; his family were kept in a state of perpetual alarm • and he was him self unable to attend any fair or market, or to discharge the duties of a country gentleman. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Justice Patteson had well observed, that if this case had occurred in England, the Crown would have defended the soldiers, and would have left the proceedings against them to be taken by private parties. (Cheers.) But the lesson held up to the people of Ireland was, that while the mili tary were amenable to the laws, there were certain persons who were amenable to no law whatever. (Cheers.) They were creating difficulties in Ireland, with which they had not the courage to grapple. They were not straightfor ward enough. While they held out equality in civil pri vileges, they ought to enforce equality of liability. (Cheers.) It was said that the names of M`Grath and the priests had been put in the indictment, and that there ought not to be a cross-indictment against them. But he would again re peat the question—Why was M'Grath's name put there ? (Loud cheers.) He (Mr. Napier) appeared in this case with great regret ; and he should be sorry to have it thought that he had been incited by anything like personal motives. If he had stated it somewhat warmly, it was because he felt warmly respecting it • but he th oug ht h e had submitted it to the house fairly and impartially. (Cheers.) It was one that demanded strict inquiry. If they expected soldiers to discharge their duties, they must see them supported by the laws, of which it was an old and sound maxim, that where parties had special duties to perform, they had a claim upon those laws for special pro tection and support. (Hear, hear.) As these men had not had an opportunity of vindicating themselves before a jury, he hoped that they would set themselves right before the house and the country. (Cheers.) What was wanted for Ireland was, that elections should be free, that the soldiers should be supported in their duties, and that every man, be he priest or who he might, that should presume to offend against the law, should be brought before the bar of public justice, and made amenable to the laws he had set at nought. (Loud cheers.) Mr. FITZGERALD had listened for nearly two hours to the right honourable and learned gentleman, but he had utterly failed to discover the object of his statement, un less it was to glorify himself, to make a charge against her Majesty's Government, or to impugn the conduct of the right hon. gentleman who had succeeded him in office. He gave the right hon. gentleman credit for great nisi pries dexterity in his statement of the case, for great art, hut for little candour. Ho perfectly agreed with him that the laws ought to be administered with perfect impar tiality, and without respect of persons ; but ho had no idea of an Attorney-General showing himself from the very first in the light of a partisan. (Hear, hear.) The right hon gentleman had described the force which had been used at the late election ; but there was one kind to which he had not alluded—the influence and coercion wlrhelleahnd.We(reeh e u e n rs happily made use of by the landlords of tended to vote in the He denied that the voters had in representedeo.useißead manner the right hon. gentleman had their own they been free to follow the dictates of just the reverse.nel they would have voted in a manner er rr, hear.) There was a large class of possessors of pro in such a manner teat ?i, t ro exercised their legal rights ir tenants did not vote as they pleased, it would c os t them e their homes, and render desti tute their families. (Hear, "d ace i n th e count h y e o af.k r Thes e sad occurrences had taken with that county the name of si nde Clare and in connection Godolphin Osborne would speak volumes. (Cheers.) NY :ev,9l . had a case been more m isrepresented. The voters the e ed on an estate, agent. On the over which a person named King Was had driven them, ke Sunday night before the election he Limerick. This a flock of sheep, to W 4 B made known to the liberals, and Dr. O'Brien,i when examined before th e objection coroner's inquest, had stated that he went to them at the e Temperance-hall, and asked there if they had any to the liberal candidates ? Their answer WAS that they had not, but that they were at the mercy of their landl d B. (Hear, hear.) Again, he ( Mr. Fitzgerald) denied that -, the requisition to the magistra tes was founde d upon any in formation. When the force was brought to the Temp o . rance-hall, the voters had been released, and the obje c t was to imprison them again. One of the witnesses said toat Mr. Delmege gave him directions to get the voters in and keep them in. (Hear, hear.) Was that freedom of election? (Cheers.) This was the gentloman whom Mr. Napier thought entitled to the highest praise for his . con duct ; he directed his agent to imprison the voters in an omnibus or van, and to keen them there. (Hear, hear.) There had been such things as partisan law-officers in Ire land. The law was differently administered there, in many respects, to what it was in England. One difference was that the Attorney-General was the public prosecutor in all cases of importance. He noticed this, because it had been represented that the present Atttorney-General going down to conduct this prosecution was something out the ordinary course. (Hear, hear.) This was by no means the case. Another great difference between Ire land and this country was the employment of the military at elections. (Hear, hear.) In this country their in torte frenc e was m_ ost jealously excluded, with a wise regard freedom, and by an act of the S George 11., their pre sence at electi ons was • election i n W• forbidden. On th e occas i on o f one estreanst er abo u t a cen t ury ago, where there. was much r i oting, the high leathff • had - called in the military ; 1 -= 1 f-i;i7k6 , •-Jrj M ai A J THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1853. dining-room into the kitchen, where they used such lan guage and gestures as left no doubt that both had had criminal intercourse with their guests. Emily Marshman, a milliner, at Bath, stated that she had often been employed in that capacity by Mrs. Jones. When Mr. Jones was away witness used to sleep with Mrs. Jones, and she had known Mr. Ward to come into Mrs. Jones' bed-room before she was up in the morning. On one occasion witness saw Mrs. Jones walking in the street with another man. Witness followed them, and saw them go into a house of ill-fame, in which they stayed half-an-hour. Witness had also known Mrs. Jones go to a ball with a gentleman, and on coming home she would go into her bed-room and undress her self, and then call both the gentleman and witness into the room. After some further evidence the further consideration of the bill was adjourned sine die. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, MARCH, 17. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Honourable Mary Bulteel to be one of the Maids of Honour in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of the Honourable Amelia Matilda Murray, resigned. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Honourable Amelia Midilda Murray to be Extra Maid of Honour to her Majesty. for which he had been rebuked by a resolution of that house, and compelled to attend the house on his knees to hear the admonition of the Speaker. (Hear, hear.) In the recent calamity, the first unfortunate step was the autho rity given to the soldiers to load, when in Limerick. While there, Captain Eager, the military commandment, knocked at a door, which was the wrong one, and on its not being opened, offered to Mr. Delmege, the magistrate, to blow it in. He afterwards knocked at the right door, and it was opened by an old woman. The lion. and learned gentle man then read copious extracts from the evidence as to what passed on the way from Limerick to Six-mile Bridge, one of the witnesses deposed to hearing Mr. Delmege say to a Limerick man, " You have had your election, and we will have ours, or we will have blood for it." (Hear, hear.) This witness was wholly uncontradicted. Tierney, the driver of the omnibus which conveyed the soldiers, heard one of them say he hoped they would have some pro vocation, so that they might discharge their muskets, and not have to draw their charge. (Hear, hear.) Up to the arrival of the military at Six-mile Bridge, everything had been most peaceable. Mr. Wilson himself, an old military officer, had prevailed on the people to go and deposit their sticks at the police-office. It was said that there was a premeditated design on their part to attack the military. The contrary was as clear as light. In addition to the comparatively large military force sent from Limerick, there were in this little village of Six-mile Bridge a most formidable body of the constabulary, who were more effective than any troops in preserving the peace. He did not deny that after the troops arrived there was rioting and stone-throwing, but he contended there was not that amount of provocation which justified the soldiers in taking life. (Hear, hear.) He contended that nothing but abso lute peril could justify any persons in taking the life of others. Seven persons there met an untimely death, and that was not a circumstance to be slightly treated. The right hon. and learned gentleman (Mr. Napier) might gain a party triumph by his motion, but he had neglected his duty in not giving every facility to a full inquiry. He relied only on the evidence of the two officers who were most interested, and of Captain Eager it might be observed that he was in this position—either his men fired unne cessarily, or, the necessity having arisen, he neglected to give the order. (Hear, hear.) The learned gentleman had spoken of the office of coroner as a public nuisance, but he surely forgot that the coroner was an officer of the highest antiquity, and existed long before an attor ney-general was heard of. (Hear, hear.) It was admited that a soldier was a citizen, and had the same right to defend himself • from attack, but the moment that attack ceased to be dangerous, he ought to desist from the use of deadly weapons. Such had not been the case here, as was clear from the evidence of Mr. Wilson, who stated that he saw one soldier fire, charge, and fire again, and that three soldiers charged and stabbed an unarmed young man, who was running away. (Hear, hear.) He deposed that the conduct of the military was " unsoldierlike and inhuman." In the main street, where there was no rioting whatever, the soldiers had rushed in, and fired upon unoffending people. In front of the Court house, four persons were killed, in a narrower space than the width of that house, and within ten yards of an over whelming force of the constabulary, amply sufficient to preserve the peace, besides a detachment of the 14th Regi ment. (Hear, hear.) It was said that the Rev. Mr. Burke, the parish priest, was the cause of the rioting. He had the pleasure of knowing that rev. gentleman, and the late Secretary for the Admiralty (Mr. Stafford) knew him also, and were the hon. gentleman present he might safely appeal to him whether Mr. Burke's conduct was not always characterised by peace, absence from political interference, and obedience to the laws ? He admitted that rev. gentle man forgot himself on the occasion referred to, and that he made use of language unbefitting his sacred calling. (Cheers from the opposition.) But no one regretted that circum stance more than did Mr. Burke himself. (Hear, hear.) The hon. and learned gentleman then read an account of the rioting at Oldham, where the troops were called out and dispersed the crowd, but where "the military used only the flats of their swords. (Hear, hear.) That was moderation and discipline, and the cavalry who acted in that manner deserved commendation. At the West Glou cestershire election there were also great tumults, and the Riot Act was read three times. At Sixmile-bridge the Riot Act was never read at all. The hon. and learned gentleman then proceeded to discuss the law of the matter, and contended that although soldiers did not lose their rights as citizens, yet they acquired no greater rights and were subject to the same liabilities. It was not necessary in discussing this question to consider whether the soldiers acted under the orders of their officers, for no order was given ; but he was of opinion that a soldier was not justi fied in acting on the orders of an officer unless those orders were legal. Soldiers might, as any other citizens might, use weapons in their defence, and take life in their defence, but only by the*same right as was enjoyed by any ordinary individual. Though a soldier, like any other person, might aid in suppressing a riot, yet he could not legally take 'hu man life in suppressing a riot, unless his own life was in peril. The hon. and learned gentleman then quoted the opinion of Lord Mansfield, as expressed on the occasion of the Gordon riots, to the effect " that persons assisting in the suppression of a riot (meaning the military) could only be considered as private individuals, acting according to law ; and if they exceeded the law, they were liable to be punished." Judge Perrin had adopted that reasoning in stating the case of the soldiers at Sixmile-bridge to the grand jury of Clare, and went further, saying that if they fired in the defence of their lives, the homicide would be justifiable, but it must be shown by evidence that their lives could have been saved only by their firing, and there must be evidence that such was their danger. In that opinion ho (Mr. Fitzgerald) agreed, but the question to be investigated was, whether their lives were in danger ; and if they were not, they were at least guilty of manslaughter. By the Queen's regulations it was laid down that officers were to tell the people that if the troops were called on to fire, ' their fire would be effect ua l • that the troops were not to fire except by the or d er o f their officer, and he was not to give that order until directed by the magistrate ; that the firing was to cease the instant that it was no longer necessary, whether the magistrates ordered it to cease or not, and that the soldiers were not to fire on persons separate and apart from the crowd. There was not one of those regulations that the soldiers at Six-mile-bridge did not violate; This was the case which the right hon. gentleman had thought proper to bring be fore the house with some object of his own. It was no doubt a case for investigation, but he (Mr. Fitzgerald) would never consent to an investigation unless it was ex tended to all concerned. But the right hon. gentleman had taken a very singular course, for he had moved for documents which were open to any, and might be got for the asking. When those documents were in the hands of members, the right hon. gentleman should proceed to make some direct motion. But, doubtless, his object was, by means of this motion, to make an assault on the Govern ment, and endeavour to set his own conduct in a favourable contrast with that of the present Attorney-General for Ire land. This was one of those calamitous cases, which the sooner it was begun to be forgotten the better. In his (Mr. Fitzgerald's) judgment, the course taken by the pre sent Attorney-General for Ireland was wise and judicious, while he did not entertain the same opinion with regard to the course which had previously been adopted. The right hon. gentleman, in bringing this motion before the house, had made a singular selection of a subject which was to occupy the attention of the house on the evening of the day dedicated to the patron saint of Ireland ; and instead of permitting members to meet around the social board in honour of an institution which was intended to promote the benefit of Ireland, had done his best to inflict on the house an Irish row. He (Mr. Fitzgerald) knew, however, that if any asperity was imported into the debate, the col league of the right hon. gentleman, the hon. and learned member for Enniskillen, would pour the oil of his kindli ness on the waters of discord. (Hear, hear.) Mr. CAIRNS warmly defended the conduct of the sol diery, and contended, on the authority of the Duke of Wellington, and in opposition to Judge Perrin, that a sol dier was bound to use his weapons when in danger of being disabled from the execution of his trust. He denounced the course of the present Irish Attorney-General, especially in regard to his abstaining from putting the priests into the felon's dock. Every peasant in the county of Clare be lieved that such a course had been dictated by fear. Sir JOHN YOUNG contended that the law had been fairly, honestly, and impartially administered. It was a matter of regret, first, that so few soldiers should have been called in, for when the military were summoned, it should be in numbers to render resistance hopeless ; and secondly, that they should have been posted in an unfor tunate position. He vindicated the course of the Irish Attorney-General, who, he said, had shown no enmity against the soldiery, but had pursued a wiser and higher course than that of Mr. Napier. As regarded the priest Bourke, he asserted the absolute necessity for calling him as a witness, and the impropriety of subsequently placing him on his trial at the same assizes, and before the jury who had heard his evidence. And as regarded future pro ceedings their success would b e very d ou btf u l , w hi le there would be the certain mischief of keeping alive ill blood. He indignantly scouted the idea that any member of the Government could have sought for popular support or favour in taking the course which had been adopted in this case, and expressed his belief that the best manner of ob taining the confidence of the Irish people was by the strict est and justest administration of the law. But if Mr. Napier thought he had any case, Government was ready to meet him on a definite issue. The present moment was one which, if made at all, should have been made in silence. Mr. WHITESIDE argued, from the ferocity which had been displayed by the peasantry in another case which he cited, and from his personal knowledge of the scene of the affray in question, that if the military had not been prompt, their lives would have been sacrificed. Ho went into evidence to show the rioting, and the complicity of the priests, energetically defended the magistrates and the soldiery, and animadverted severely upon the conduct of the Irish Attorney-General, whom he accused of falsifying the promise of Lord Aberdeen. He denied that this motion had any factious origin. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL remarked upon the in tense bitterness with which Mr. Whiteside had sought to blacken the character of a professional brother, and ob served that the House of Commons ought not to be made a court of appeal in such cases. In reference to the case of the soldiers, he vindicated Mr. Brewster from the charge of not assisting them, by stating that the Secretary-at-War himself had given express orders that they should be de fended. He reiterated the previous arguments which had been urged in favour of the non-prosecution of the priests, and demanded of Messrs. Napier and Whiteside whether, if they themselves should return to office to-morrow, they would revive the memory of the melancholy affair by send ing Bourke for trial. Energetically condemning the tone in which the absent Attorney-General for Ireland had been assailed, he repudiated the charges against him with the disgust they deserved. Lord ADOLPHUS VANE gave notice that on the next occasion of going into Supply, he would bring on a motion upon this subject. The motion was then agreed to, the debate having occu pied seven hours and a half. The house then adjourned. lUPERIAL TASTE .—A Frankfort journal states that it isa bleto communicate the interesting fact that Gene ral O ' Donnell has received from th e A rc hd uc h ess S o phi a , in m emor i al of the the 18th ult , a service he rendered the Emperor on _ ds w ol i l t fo h a large turquoise. 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WARWICK RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) THE HURDLE RACE. Gay Lad.. Victress ... Ten ran. THE HUNT CUP STEEPLECHASE. Duc-an-Durras Betsy Prig 1 Eight ran. 2 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(THIS EVENING.) The Royal assent was this afternoon given by com mission to the Mutiny, Marine Mutiny, Consolidated Fund, County Election Polls, Grand Jury Cess, Indem nity and Commons Inclosure, and Inland Rev en u e Bill s . _s_ The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, and the Marquis of Breadalbane. At five o'clock the LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack. The Earl of EGLINTON presented a petition from a place in Scotland, praying that the ordnance survey of Scotland be continued. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from Dun fermline, against tests imposed on professors in Scotch universities. The Bishop of St. DAVID'S presented a petition against the admission of Jews into Parliament. - The Bishop of EXETER presented petitions from the city of Devon to the same effect. The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from Colchester praying for Parliamentary papers. THE SIX-MILE BRIDGE AFFRAY, The Earl of DERBY rose to ask whether there would be any objection to lay before this house copies of all the papers relating to the Six-mile Bridge affray, being identical with those which had been moved for and granted in the other house last night. The Earl of ABERDEEN said there could be no pos sible objection. The Earl of CARDIGAN complained of the course which had been taken by the Government in placing the soldiers on their trial after the assurances which he had heard from the noble earl at the head of the Government that no distinction should be made between the priests and the soldiers. He also expressed himself as greatly astonished at the doctrine which had been propounded by the Chief Secretary for Ireland, that any man who stood for a populous place without a very perfect chance of success was answerable for all the excesses which might take place at that election. The Earl of ABERDEEN deprecated the irregular introduction of the noble earl's remarks. The noble earl opposite (Derby) had moved for papers, no doubt, with the intention of founding some motion on the sub ject. It would have been better if the noble lord had waited until that occasion. He also deprecated any allusion to the proceedings of the other house of parlia ment. The Bishop of EXETER was glad to hear the last remark which had fallen from the noble earl. If such were his opinion, he hoped that the noble earl had already intimated, or would immediately intimate, to a right hon. colleague of his in the other house (Sir W. Molesworth), who, some few nights ago, had done him (the Bishop of Exeter) the honour to allude in not very favourable terms to some remarks which had fallen from him in this house. (Hear, hear.) The papers were then agreed to. THE OVER-CROWDED STATE OF THE METROPOLIS. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY rose according to no tice to move that for the future every company coming for a bill before their lordships' house, and proposing to take any houses occupied by the labouring classes for the purposes of their undertakings, should be obliged to prove that by taking such houses they would run the danger of over-crowding the neighbouring houses, and in cases they should not prove that such would not be the case, that the company be obliged to provide houses of the same capa city, as near as possible to the locality of the houses destroyed. The noble lord proceeded to describe the hardships which had been inflicted by the ejection of the inhabitants occupying the houses destroyed by the for mation of the Victoria-street, the Blackwall Railway, and other undertakings of a similar nature, and was (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS EVENING.) The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Redruth and Chasewater Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. The report upon the Salford Extension and Improve ment Bill was considered and agreed to. The following bills were read a second time :—Bays water, Paddington, and Holborn Bridge Railway ; Monmouthshire Railway and Canal. PETITIONS. Mr. Alderman CHALLIS presented three petitions from working men in the metropolis against the Crystal Palace being opened on Sundays. Mr. PIGOT presented a petition from Reading against the occupation of Roman territories by French troops. Mr.BANKES presented a petition from a farmers . club in Dorset praying for the repeal of the malt tax ; also, three petitions from Dorset against opening any public places of amusement on the Lord's day. Sir E. DEERING presented a petition from Kent against the admission of Jews into Parliament. Mr. DUNDAS presented a petition from members of I the Free Church of Scotland against the grant to May nooth. Mr. SPOONER presented a petition from the metro polis against the admission of Jews into Parliament. Sir W. CLAY presented a petition from working men in Whitechapel against the Crystal Palace being opened on Sundays. Mr. COWAN presented a petition from Glasgow against a bill for regulating the opening of public houses in Scotland. Mr. LOWE presented a petition from the guardians of the poor at Kidderminster, in favour of the county rates being taken out of the Consolidated Fund; also, a petition from the same place, praying for the repeal of the Militia Bill, and in favour of international arbitra tion in lieu of war. COUNTY OF TIPPERARY ELECTION. The SPEAKER informed the house that he had re ceived a letter intimating that it was not intended to proceed with the petition against the return for the county of Tipperary. A considerable number of petitions were presented against opening the Crystal Palace on the Lord's day, and against the admission of Jews into Parliament. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition from printers at Birmingham against all taxes on knowledge ; also, a petition from the same place in favour of the re moval of all Jewish disabilities. RAILWAY MANAGEMENT. Mr. CARDWELL brought up the report of the Select Committee on railwaymanagement. The report was ordered to lie on the table. ROYAL COMMISSION. Sir AUGUSTUS CLIFFORD, the Usher of the Black Rod, here entered, and summoned the house to attend the House of Peers, to hear the Royal Assent given to seve ral bills which have passed both houses. (For the list of bills see Lords' report.) The SPEAKER then left, preceded by the Sergeant -at- Arms with the Mace, and followed by, on his return, a few hon. members. ELECTION FOR MALDON. Lord It. GROSVENOR reported that the committee on the petition for Maldon had come to the resolution that Mr. Du Cane, and Mr. Taverner J. Miller were not duly elected for the borough at the last election, and that the last election was a void election ; also, that Mr. Du Cane and Mr. Miller were, by their agents, guilty of bribery and treating, but it had not been proved to the satisfac tion of the commitee that it had been committed with their knowledge and consent. The committee were also of opinion that corrupt practices had extensively pre vailed at elections for that borough. On the motion of the NOBLE LORD the evidence before the committee was ordered to be laid on the table. The noble lord also gave notice that, after the recess, he should move that the writ be suspended until the 21st April, and that an address be presented to the Crown to appoint a commission to inquire into the existence of corrupt practices in that borough. (Hear, hear.) COUNTY OF WESTMEATH. The SPEAKER informed the house that the parties did not intend to proceed with the petition against the return for Westmeath. INDIAN AFFAIRS. Lord J. RUSSELL moved that the house, at its ris ing, do adjourn until Monday, the 4th of April, and announced that after this motion was disposed of he should move that the order of the day have precedence of notice of motion on Thursdays. Viscount JOCELYN took the opportunity of asking the President of the Board of Control whether any and what measures have been taken according to the recom mendation of the Governor-General of India, in his lordship's minute dated the 27th day of February, 1851, to appropriate a portion of the revenues of the ter ritory withdrawn from Ali Morad, Ameer of Upper Scinde, as a penalty for forgery, to the relief of the Ameers of Scinde and their families, who were dispossessed of their territories in 1843 by the orders of the British Government. The noble lord reminded the house that last session he brought the whole subject of Scinde affairs under the consideration of Parliament, and it was now only neces sary for him to state that a Commission of Inquiry had reported that Ali Morad was unjustly deprived of his rights. Now, he thought the present was an appropriate time to make the amende honorable mentioned in his question. Sir C. WOOD (President of the Board of Control), declined going into any discussion on this subject ; but, with regard to the question, he could only state that Mr.Frere had been instructed to make an inquiry into the whole case. In the meantime, a liberal allowance was made to the whole family of deposed Scindian Sove reigns. Mr. DISRAELI had given notice of his intention to inquire: whether it , was the intention of the G overn ment to take steps far establishing gold as a legal tender in our Indian territories ; but as he intended to found a motion upon this subject, he should defer his question until after Easter. The motion for the adjournment of the house was then agreed to, after a few words from Mr. HUME. ORDERS OF THE DAY. Lord J. RUSSELL then moved that after Easter orders of the day should take precedence of notices of notion. Mr. DISRAELI objected to the motion. He did not wish to throw any obstacles in the way of the ad vancement of public business, but the house ought to pause before they consented to give up any of their constitutional privileges, of which Thursday night notices formed a part. (Hear, hear.) What were the circumstances under which the motion was made ? Why the public business had never been so much ad vanced at this period of the session, as it was at pre sent, while they were called upon to adjourn for an un usual length of time. Such was not, however, the state of affairs in 1847, when the noble lord proposed that, after the 19th of April, orders of the day should takeprecedence on every alternate Thurs day, but that motion was opposed by the present First Lord of the Admiralty, though it was true it was ulti mately carried. In 1851 this concessionwas sought only on the Ist of July, but even then, although he did not divide the house upon the motion, he took objeCtion to it, and said it would be establishing a dangerous precedent to agree to it. The result had proved that he was right in his apprehensions. In 1841, when this motion was made, there were 45 bills on the papers, but now there were only 25, and he really did think that this proposal ought to be postponed until after Easter, or he must give it his unqualified opposition. Mr. WILLIAMS also opposed the motion, and ex pressed his belief that the Government would obtain no additional time by carrying it, because advantage would then be taken to make independent motions upon going into committee of supply. Lord J. RUSSELL said the practice of the house had been to give three days to independent members, and two to the Government. Hitherto that had worked, but of late years the Government had been pressed to take up great public questions which ought to remain in the hands of private members, and under these circumstances it was indispensably necessary that the Government should have another day placed at its disposal. For the last 20 years the Government had been compelled to give up an inquiry of bills of the greatest importance, because there had ,been no time to pass them through the various stages. Now, was that a state of things which ought to continue. He thought not, and that was the reason for his making the present motion. After Easter, many subjects of the utmost importance would have to be taken up; such as the Financial Selwyn° and the Income Tax, besides that of Education, which he intended to bring forward the very first day after Easter. (Hear, hear.) There was another question of great interest, namely, the bill for the registration of lands, which would have to be discussed, and, on the whole, he thought the house could not do better than agree to the motion. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE did not think the practice of keeping the Thursdays for independent members had worked so well as was supposed, for it very often hap pened that there was " no house," or a " count out," on a Thursday, and by adopting the motion, that evil would be got rid of. Lord R. GROSVENOR did intend to rote against the motion, but he thought an exception ought to be made in favour of hon. members who had their names in the ballot box for motions. (Hear.) Mr. WALPOLE admitted that there was still a good deal of business on hand besides that specified by the noble lord, such as the question of India, and that of secondary punishments, which ought to be brought on after Easter, and every facility ought to be given to the Government for conducting the public business. But still he thought Government ought to be content to take the alternate Thursday, and to that extent he was ready to support the motion. Lord PALMERSTON thought the speech of the right hon. gentleman opposite ought to be sufficient to induce the house to adopt the whole motion, but nevertheless he had no doubt his noble friend would bo quite ready to postpone the commencement of the rule until after the 18th of April, so that the existing notices on the paper might not be prejudiced. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. PAKINGTON said the motion was premature. There would be no objection to make the concession asked for when the proper time arrived ; but at present it was too much to ask for every Thursday. Mr. HUME said it would be time enough to ask for additional days when the house was in possession of the measures which the Government intended to propose, but at all events there was no necessity for passing this motion before Easter. Lord J. RUSSELL said he had no objection to substitute the 18th of April for the 4th. Mr. DEEDES moved as an amendment that the date be " on and after the 2d of May" next ; but after a brief discussion the amendment was withdrawn, at the sug gestion of Mr. F. French. The house then divided, when there appeared— For the motion 171 Against it 139 Majority 32 The motion was accordingly agreed to. NORWICH ELECTION. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gave notice that on Tuesday, the sth of April, he should move that the order for dis- charging the petition complaining of the return for N.r• with be rescinded. CHURCH RATES. Sir W. CLAY gave notice that immediately after Easter he should move for leave to bring in a bill for the total abolition of church rates. TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE. Mr. M. GIBSON gave notice that he should bring forward his motion on the subject of taxes on knowledge on the 14th ofApril. [LEFT SITTING.] HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.-THE SALE. (SECOND DAY.) From the rumour published in our first edition, we anticipated a stoppage in the sale of the " valuable pro perties of Her Majesty's Theatre" would take place ; but, on visiting the theatre this afternoon, we found Mr. Scott in the rostrum continuing the sale of the gentle men's wardrobe. The large concert room was as thinly attended as yesterday; and, what with the gloom with which the sale is looked upon by the professionals who attended the auction, and the enormous mass of " pro perties" that lay heaped together in the utmost confu sion, a scene far from agreeable is presented to the casual visitor. At the left hand of the auctioneer a large quantity of antique armour is ranged in lots, while, on the right, the throne and all the emblems of Eastern majesty shared the common fate. The "lots" com menced this afternoon with 141, Twenty surcoats, which realised only 13s. 170. Eighteen pieces of ring armour, 20s. 182. Fourty-four parts of Egyptian dresses, 3/. 15s. 203. Seventy-nine Egyptian head-dresses, 2/. 4s. 221. A Roman dress, /. 1 ls. 215. Five shaped dresses, six pair of pantaloons, and eight pair of trunks, 1/. 3s. Such are the prices the lots bring. The whole of the orna ments used to decorate the stage during the national concerts realised only 11. 3s. The proceeds of the day's sale amounted to about 3501. HOUSE OF LORDS-(THIS EVENING.) JONES' DIVORCE. Their lordships sat to-day at three o'clock for the pur pose of hearing evidence in support of this bill. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord St. Leo nards, Lord Colborne, and Lord Jersey. Mr. SLEIGH, having briefly stated the facts on behalf of the petitioner, the following evidence was called : John Chippindale produced the proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts. Elizabeth Court, examined by Mr. SLEIGH, deposed to being present at the marriage of the petitioner and his wife. Elizabeth Rick examined, said—l lived with the peti tioner and his wife as servant, in the year 1842, at Bristol. There was a Mr. Ward living with them as a lodger. Mr. Jones, who was a tobacco manufac turer, used to be absent from home sometimes for a week or two at a time. Mr. Ward used to remain in the house while he was away. At one time I was in London with Mrs. Jones and her children. We lived in Swallow -street, St. James's. Mr. Ward used to visit Mrs. Jones, and they were in the habit of going out together. He used to come at all hours, and sometimes would stay for an hour together. He was about 40 years of age, and by trade an oil and colour dealer. M r , Grabham used also to visit Mrs. Jones while we were in London. He was separated from his wife. I remember one night Mr. Ward taking Mrs. Jones to the theatre. They came back again about 12 o'clock. Mr. Ward immediately went away, and Mr. Grabham came immediately after, and he and Mrs. Jones went out again. They were away about two hours. Mrs. Jones appeared as if she had been drink ing. She said she had been to a place which would have frightened the witness. Witness let out Mr. Grabham and Mrs. Jones. She said she was not satisfied with the supper which witness had provided for her, and she insisted upon going out for some supper. Examined by Lord St. LEONARDS—Witness did not observe any improper conduct towards either Ward or Grabham. By Mr. SLElGH—Witness had seen Mrs. Jones drink ing spirits with a man named Webb. Mr. Jones did not behave well to his wife. • Had heard Mrs. Jones say many times that she loved Mr. Ward. She had often thought that Mrs. Jones was light-minded, and that was the reason she had not told Mr. Jones of what his wife had said. F anny Wade, examined by Mr. SLEIGH, said - that she had lived in Mr. Jones' service at Bristol. Witness had often seen Mrs. Jones behave improperly with a porter named Webb, who lived in the house. On one occasion witness had seen Webb with his hand up Mrs. Jones's clothes. That had been occasioned by previous indecent liberties which Mrs. Jones had taken with Webb. Mrs. Jones often used to talk indecently. Mr. Ward was living at the house as a lodger. k When ever Mr. JoneS was gone out of town Mrs. Jones used to go up into Mr. Ward's drawing-room and spend the, evening there. The door was sometimes locked. On one occasion witness went in and found Mrs. Jones and Mr. ' Ward lying on the sofa together, and Mrs. Jones' dress was very much disordered. (From the further evidence which the witness gave with much hesitation no doubt remained that criminal intercourse had taken place.) Witness also deponed that on another occasion, when Mr. Jones was from home, Mrs. Jones and a young Woman named Eliza Smith had entertained four ; gentleman at dinner, and in the course of the evening witness kaw'Mrs.fories and Eliza Smith come out of tli WHITEHALL, MARCH 15. The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend Thomas H. Dawson, M.A., to the church and parish of Monymusk, in the presbytery of Garioch, and county of Aberdeen, vacant by the death of the Reverend Robert Forbes. DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 18. The Queen has been pleased to make the following appointments for the Island of Mauritius, namely : Henry Collett Bury, Esq., to be Master of the Supreme Court; Philip Dottin Souper, Esq., to be Registrar of the Supreme Court ; Onezime Desmarais, Henry Maxwell Self, Henri Bruneau, Jules Virieux, Numa Geffroy, John An derson Robertson, Charles Robert Telfair, Thom- Rudelle, and Evenor Dupont, Esqs., to be District Magistrates ; Gustave Gireaudeau and Charles St. Felix, Esqs., to be Clerks to the Court at Port Louis ; Evariste Canet, Esq., to be Clerk to the Court at Pamplemousses ; Charles Tel fair, Esq., to be Clerk to the Court at Riviere du Rem part ' • Alfred Montocchi o , E sq ., t o b e Cl er k to t h e C ourt at Flacq ; Jacques Charles Godre, - Esq., to be Clerk to the Court at Mahebourg, ; Henry Drenning, Esq. to be Clerk to the Court at S avanne ; Ed war d Mangeot, Esq., to be Clerk to the Court at Black River ; William Lavers, Esq., to be Clerk to the Court at Moka cum Plaines Wilhems ; F. Herchenroder, Esq., to be Chief Clerk to the Registry of the Supreme Court. WAR OFFICE, MARCH 18. Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards.—Cornet Ellis Flet cher, from the 12th Light Drago o n s , t o b e C orne t, v i ce Scholefield, appointed to the 12th Light Dragoons, March 18. 3d Dragoon Guards.—Quartermaster John Gillespie, from the 11th Hussars, to be Cornet, without purchase ; Cornet !John Gilleland to be Adjutant, vice Hunt, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, March 18. 12th Light Dragoons.—Cornet William Cotterill Schole field, from the Ist Dragoon Guards, to be Cornet, vice Ellis Fletcher, appointed to the Ist Dragoon Guards, March 18. 18th Regiment of Foot.,—Lieutenant Anthony William Samuel Freeman Armstrong to beraptain, without pur ehase, vice Gillespie, deceased, Dec. 12 ; Lieutenant William Peter Cockburn to be Captain, without purchase, vice Armstrong, whose promotion,' without purchase, on the 15th of March, has been cancelled, March 15 ; Ensign. Alexander Hope Greaves to be Lieutenant, without pur chase, vice Armstrong, Dec. 12. 21st Foot—First Lieutenant William John Legh to be Captain, by purchase, vice Cotton, who retires ; Second Lieutenant John Charles Sheffield to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Legh ; Charles Bruce Gaskell, Gent., to be Second Lieuten an t, byp urc h ase , vice She ffi eld, Marc h 18. 45th Foot—Richard Blair, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Egan, who retires, March 18. 67th Foot —Assistant Staff-Surgeon Michael Fenton Manifold to be Assistant-Snrgeon, vice Edward William Bawtree, M.D., who retires upon half-pay, March 18. 73rd Foot—Lieutenant William Creagh O'Brien to be Captain, .without purchase, vice Faunce, killed in action ; Ensign Spencer Vass a l] F rancis Henslowe to be Lieuten ant, without purchase, vice O'Brien, Dec. 21; Ensign Allen Allicock Young, from the 45th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Henslowe, March 18. 77th Foot—Frederick ohn Butts, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Chawner, promoted, March 18. 78th Foot—Ensign Andrew Cathcart Bogle, to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Moncrieffe, who retires ; Fred erick Henry Walsh, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bogle, March 18. _ 89th Foot—Richard Edwark Beck, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cresswell, promoted, March 18; Augustus Breedon, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Morris, promoted, March 19. 92nd Foot—Lieutenant Robert Bethune, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Scott, who retires ' • Ensign William David Inverarity, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bethune March 18 ; Lieutenant D ona ld P a t r i c k C amp b e ll , to be Adjutant, vice Cameron, promoted. Jan. 28. lst West India Regiment—Lieutenant George Allan, has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his Commission ; Walter William Harris, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Cross, appointed to the, Staff, March 18. 3rd West Regiment— Ensign Blake Goble to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Conran, promoted, March 18. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—First: Lieutenant John Hen derson to be Captain, by purchase, vice Rushont, who retires ; 2nd Lieutenant George Charles Henry Waters to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Henderson, March 18. HOSPITAL STAFF.—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Robert Cooper to be Staff-Surgeon of the 2nd Class, vice Mc Bean, deceased ; Assistant-Surgeon Philip Henry Eustace Cross, from the Ist West India Regiment, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Cooper, promoted ; Charles Thompson Abbott, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, March 18. MEMORANDUM.—The appointment of Lieutenant Ed dmond William Sargent, of the 18th Foot, to the Adju tancy, and the promotion of Ensign Eteson, of that Corps, to the Lieutenancy in succession, have been ante-dated to April 15, 1852. The Christian names of Ensign Norton, of the 52nd Foot, are Charles Grantley Campbell. Assistant-Surgeon William Stewart James Horne Munro, M.D., has been .appointed. from the 93rd Foot to the 83rd Regiment, and not to the 82nd, as appeared in the Gazette of the 11th instant. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Cumberlandshire. Royal Cumberland Regiment of Militia.—John Stuart Coxon, Esq., to be Captain, Jan. 29; Edmund Lionel Welles, Esq., to be Captain, March 12. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire. Royal Wilts Militia—Nathaniel Whitchurh Sloper, Gent., to be Lieutenant, March 8. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshi re . King's Own 2d Regiment of Staffordshire Militia.-- Lieut. Edward Scott to be Captain ; Lieut. John Cap el Philips to be Captain, vice Garnett, resigned ; Charles Richard Lovett, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Scott, Pro moted ; Charles James Ashton , Gent. , to be Lieutenant, vice Philips, promoted, March 15. Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Thomas Dicken, Gent., to be Cornet, vic e Knight, resigned, March 15. BANKRUPTS. William Ayres, nurseryman, Blackheath, Kent, to sur render, April Ist and 29th, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, 18 Aldermanbury ; Bristow and Tarrant, 2 Bond-court Walbrook. Frederick Arthur Butt, grocer, 22, Henry-street, P en . tonville, Middlesex, April 1, at half-past two, at th e C ourt of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, 2, Basin g . hall-street ; Fraser and May, 78, Dean-street, Soho. John Francis Bricknell Cabburn, licensed victualler, King's Cross, March 23, and May 6, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Bas inghall-street ; Dimmock and Burbey, Cannon-street, City. Joseph Boys, draper, Peckham, March 30 and April 26, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfield, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Braddon, Gray's-inn place. Joseph Henry Dunne and John Venables, shipown ers Craven-street, Strand, March 23 and May 6, a t e l even, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Philp, Bucklersbury. Thomas Kent Clay, woollen warehouseman, Ironmonger lane, April 1 at eleven, and April 30 at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Miller and Horn, King William-street. John Johnson, cabinetmaker, Wakefield, April 11 and May 2, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Westmoreland and Taylor, Wake- field. James Broadhead, manufacturer, Scholes, Yorkshire, April B. and May 2, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Cariss and Cudworth, Leeds. Thomas Brock, coal and potato merchant, Kingston upon-Hull, April 13 and May 4, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Carrick, official assignee, Hull; Lovett and Champney, Kingston-upon-Hull. George Earnshaw, grocer, Ashton-under-Lyne, April 5, and May 3, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ; Brooks, Ashton-under- Lyne. - John Heap, sen., and Richard Heap, silk printers, Man. chester, Bth and P9th April next, at twelve, at the Man chester Distri c t Court. Lee, official assignee, Manchester ; Keating Taylor, Manchester ; Hartley, Cane. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 32, for the Week ending on Saturday the 12th day of March, 1853. 1113StrE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued ...• .... 32,378,600 Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities.. • ... 2,984,40 Gold coin and bullion 18,359,446 Silver bullion .• • • . • • • 19,154 day there being no material increase in the quantity of West India Sugar on offer, merchants were enabled to ob tain prices equal to Friday last. But all parties operated with caution, and the sales are only 133 hhds, &c., inclu ding at auction 70 hhds Demerara crystalized which sold at 36s 6d to 40s 6d, and brown at 34s to 36s per cwt. For the week total purchases are 1,007 hhds, &c., the market closing with a quieter aspect. REFINED.—To day refined sugar was in excellent de mand for trade purposes, and rates ruled free. Brown lumps at 465, low to fine grocery 46s 6d to 49s per cwt. Crushed sugar is wanted by shippers at former rates. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon the extensive quantity of 21,000 bags Mauritius sugar was offered at public sale, but merchants submitting to a reduction of 6d per cwt., occa sioned a very good demand, and the whole sold—fine yellew went ai 37s 6d to 38s 6d, middling to good 36s to 375, low 35s to 35s 6d, middling to ffne brown 31 to 34s 6d, ordinary 29s to 31, very low 27s to 28s 6d, good to fine refining 36s 6d to 38s, and inferior 33s to 365. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon prices were generally sus tained at the public sales of 3,600 bags Bengal, and nearly the whole sold, low to mid white Benares at 36s 6d to 37s 6d, good to fine 38s to 395, damp and washed 35s to 38s 6d, fine grainy white 40s to 41s 6d, good like Mauritius 36s to 36s 6d. FOREGN.—To-day there was only a limited demand for duty paid parcels of Foreign Sugar, still there is a de c li ne . Floating cargoes are wan t e d for export at former terms, but few are on offer. None was offered at auction to-day. COFFEE.—To-day Plantation Ceylon was held for full rates, but all parties were less inclined to operate. Of 547 casks, 36 barrels, and 165 bags at auction a small part only sold ; fine to superior at 67s to 80s, good mid to good 60s to 665, low mid to mid 56s to 595, other sorts 50s to 555, a nd Triage 45s to 49 5 . Th ere i s firmness on the part of holders of Native, but privately little was done, and not any was offered at auction. The value is 47s 6d to 48s for old, and 48s 6d for new of good ordinary quality. Other sorts of Coffee are held for full terms, still sales were limited. At auction 63 bags Madras sold at 53s to 54s for fine ord, but 120 bags Costa Rica were taken in at 55s per cwt. The second Dutch Company's sale of Java went rather above the rates of the first. Cocoe.—To-day at auction 62 bags Triniday Cocoa were nearly all taken in at 36s 6d for ord red, and 28 brls 87 bags Grenada 32s to 33s 6d per cwt. TEA.—In Green Tea extensive purchases have been made both by the trade speculators, prodncing an advance of Odd to ld per lb. ; medium and inferior having been most in request. There is at present no advance for low to good common Congou, but operations rather exceed those of last week, and 9d to 104 d is the value. SPICES.—To-day at auction 100 bags African ginger sold at 25s 6d to 26s per cwt., being the full value. RICE.—To-day there was little passing privately in East India rice, and at auction 1,500 bags good white Bengal were taken in at lls 6d to 12s per cwt., being abovp the value. Of Farina 50 sacks sold at 17s 6d, being cheaper. SPIRITS.—With Demerara Rum the market is more freely supplied, and prices have rather declined ; there are sellers of 28s to 40s per cent over proof, at 2s 6d to 2s 9d per gallon, and with few buyers. Jamaica met with little notice for shipping or home consumption, but at present there is no decided reduction. , . , TALLOW.—An advance is demanded for Russian on the spot, yet only a limited demand has been experienced, and 445. 9d. per cwt. is the value of F.Y.C. For early deli very little has been done, but many contracts have been concluded for last three months of the year at 455. Of home melted, supply exceeds dealers' wants, and 41s 6d is the value cash. OlLS—Prices are further depressed for linseed oil, and purchases have been limited at 30s 6d to 39s 9d on the spot, and at 31s to 43s 6d for delivery. Although cod can be obtained at a reduction, still purchases have been on a small scale at 33/ to 33/ 10s per ton. Seal met with little notice, and the rates accepted for pale are 35/ to 351 58 ; other sorts 311 102 to 34/ 10s, with a downward tendency. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Tms DLT. Am5terdam............ 11 17% Gibraltar .............. Ditto, three months .. 11 19 Leghorn 12% Rotterdam ...... • • .... 11 19% Genoa ................25 40 Antwerp 25 30 Milan ................ Brussels 25 30 Venice .. — Ilamburgh ..... 13 8% Naples 41% Alton& ................ Palermo ............... 124% Paris • • 25 7% alessina ... 125 Ditto, three months .. 25 30 Lisbon ..... • • 63 % Marseilles........ • ..... 25 32% Oporto .......... •• • • • 53 % Bourdeaux ........... Rio Janeiro Frankiort-on• . Maine .... 120 Buenos Ayres Berlin . New York, 60 days' sigitt 48% Vienna ...• ..... 11 3 Philadelphia Trieste ............ •• .. 11 4 PRICES or BULLION, PLR oz. Peteraburgh............ --.- Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Madrid 50% Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Cadiz 50% Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0 • New Dollars ...... 0 0 0 Seville ................ Silver in bars ...... 0 5 1% £32,378,600 I £ 32 ,378,600 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier, Dated the 17th day of March, 1853. BANKING DEPARTMENT. Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Re5t................ 3,622,448 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 7,607,914 Other deposits .. • ... 13,051,136 Seven Day and other Bills. ... •• • • ...... 1,292,0n7 Government securities (indudg.Dead Weight Annuity) .... • .• • • 13,46 1 ,538 Other securities... 15,396,827 Notes •• .. .••• • • • 10,665,43 Gold and silver coin.. 599,710 440,126,505 I £ 4 0,126,505 M. MARSUALL, Chief Cashier. liis3. : Dated the 17th day of March, 1 PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending the 15th day of March, 1853, is 265. 74d. per hunched weight, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. From the London New Price Current of this cloy.) SUGAR.—Of East India and Mauritius, extensive arrivals have taken place since this day week ; and of West India ael well as of Foreign they have somewhat increased, To- SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S-THURSDAY. The attendance was confined to about a dozen mem bers, and the only transactions were :-300 to 25 agst Orestes, 550 to 25 agst Ninnyhammer, and 18 and 25 to 1, to 1001., agst Honeywood. WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON SPRING MEETING. THURSDAY. GOLD Cup, value 100 sovs., with a bonus added to a sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, h ft, for horses the pro perty of officers on full pay of the army, and that have been regularly hunted in the years 1852 and 1853 with any established pack of hounds ; 12st each, winners extra ; to be ridden by officers on full pay ; the second to save his stake, and receive the bonus ; any officer who has not ridden a steeplechase or hurdle race allowed slb. The winner to give 101. to the third horse. Three miles. Cap. Thornton's ch m Minna, 12st (Mr. Berkeley) 1 Lieut. Probyn's Routh, 12st (Lieut. Hunt) 2 Lieut. Pottinger's Harkover, list 9th (allowed 51b) (Owner) 3 Lieut. Hogge's Chance, 12st Lieut. Hamilton's Abel, 12st Lieut. Scott's Maucan, 12st (carried 12st 41b) .. (Sir T. Grosley) 0 Capt. Buchanan's Gannymede, 12st 71b (Owner) 0 Lieut. Adlington's Welcome, 12st Capt. Dickenson's First Flight, 12st Capt. Dickson's Harlequin, list 91b (carried 12st) (at. Barcl) 0 Lieut,.Sartoris's Young Sir EdwardCp ay , 12st (carried 12st 91b) Lieut.-Col. Lawrence's Slattern, 12st 101 b (including 101 b....................................... (Capt. Morris) 0 Cornet Jones's Senator, 12st (Capt. Towe r ) 0 Capt. Morant' s S t. N icholas, 12st (0) 0 Betting -5 to 1 a gs t R outh, sto 1 agst Slatter wn n, er 6to 1 agst Harlequin; 7 to 1 agst Senator, 8 to 1 agst Chance, 8 to 1 agst Minna, and 10 to 1 each agst Wel come, First Flight, Young Sir Edward, and St. Nicholas. Won by three lengths, six lengths between second and third. SWEEPSTAKES of 5 sovs. each, with a bonus added, and conditionally the property of officers on full pay in the. army ; list' each, winners extra. To be ridden by officers on full pay in the army. The winner to be sold by auction for 100 sovs. if demanded, &c. Three miles. Lieut. King's Bendigo, 11st (Mr. Purcell) 1 Capt. Morris's Quiffie, list 2 Capt. Lane Fox's Esculapius, list (Owner) 3 Lieut.-Col. Berkeley's Gloomy, 115 t... (Capt. Rowley) 4 Mr. Hunt's Signal, list (allowed 51b)... (Mr. G. Booth) 5 Capt. Dickson's Free Trader, llst...(Lieut. Berkeley) 0 Betting— 7to 4 agst Quiffie. Won by a neck ; three parts of a length between second and third, and the others beaten off. Free Trader did not pass the post. WELTER STAKES of 10 sovs. each, with a bonus added, for horses unconditionally the property of officers on full pay in the army ; 13st 71b each, winners extra ; to be ridden by officers, &c. Three miles. Capt. Dickson's Peeping Tom, 13st 71b (Owner) 1 Major Foster's Canon Ball, 13st 71b..(Lieut. Sartoris) 2 Betting-2 to lon Peeping Tom, who won in a canter by ten lengths. LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. sto 1 agst Hobby-horse (taken). CHESTER CUP. 1000 to 30 agst Little Jack (taken). NEWMARKET HANDICAP. sto 1 agst Ethelbert (taken). Bto 1 bar one. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP Bto 1 offered on the field. • DERBY. 12 to 1 agst Orestes. 25 to 1 agst Hurworth (taken). 30 to 1 agst Ninnyhamrner (taken). 50 to 1 agst Speed the Plough (taken). 1000 to 30 agst Filbert (taken). 'OE EXTRA. ING MEETING. NCOLN SPIIING HANDICAP of It accepting being Bst., it has INTELLIGE LINCOLN SPII: ACCEPTANCES for the Lit 10 BOVEL each. The highes been raised, &c. Yrs st lb • Yrs st lb Warwick ........... 5 8 7 cby Th eon ou t o f Musician .... .. 6 8 0 R e b ecca Sir R. Trenchai:d 5 8 0 Thunderbolt Odiham ............ 5 7 5 Chilton Prestige ............ 5 7 5 Game Tommy.. Harp . ........... 5 7 0 The Gip Abdallah .......... 6 7 0 Sir Eustace de Caurire Presto NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING. SWEEPSTAKES of 25 sous. each, 10 ft, with 200 added, for 3-year-olds. A.F. .... 4 6 11 .. 4 6 11 .3 6 9 3 6 5 3 5 11 Yrs st lb Mountain Deer 5 8 8 Harbinger 4 8 1 Conmore Gossamer Bardolph Father Thames Yrs st lb Galvanism 4 7 0 Sanita 4 6 19 Ethelbert Charley Hatchel 3 5 12 Invasion 3 510 YORK SPRING MEETING. THE FORCED FREE HANDICAP of 300 sows. each did not fill. RUMOURS OF ANOTHER EXPEDITION FOR THE INVA SION OF CUBA.—It is said, though we do not vouch for its truth, that another expedition is being organised in New Orleans, with the design of invading the island of Cuba, and wresting it from the possession of Spain. A colonel of the late Hungarian army is to have the com mand of the expedition, which, already, it is said, num bers a force of fifteen hundred men, from Cincinnati and elsewhere. The committee is reported to be in the habit of meeting for the transaction of business and further ance of the project, almost every evening, at one of the YOU S i hotels, in New Orleans ; but it is surmised that no ac . ' LONDON : Printed and Published by MIIRDO tive measures are to be taken for five or six months of No. 112, Str a nd, P r i n t er , a t The Sun Offi° eo ,, u nt more.—New York Herald. "" Strand, in the Pre c in c t o f the Savoy, in the • Middlesex, Friday, March 18,1853. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE—MARCH 17. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Baron, from Antwerp Liam Crew, Marans ; Bonne Marie, Nantes ; Providence, Rouen ; Gertrude, Charente ; Slavianski, Constantinop le; Veritas, Guernsey ; Rainbow, Rotterdam ; Howard, Laa r _:. vig ; Deborah, Rouen • Isabel, do. ; Dona Theresa, Ner Orleans ; Apollo, Schiode ; Eburn, :Dunkirk ; Archiraeti a t Charente ; May Queen, Munsoorco ttah ; Aquila, Ha val h i. nah ; Mary, Caen ; Twee Vrindertt, Dantzic ; Heinr/e Odessa ; Lagaginerie, Lucon ; Times, Odessa ; Industrie, Christiansand ; Di eu d e P or t ege , Dieppe • W. Swithawl e Y' Whapipoa. ; Jens Hansen Lund, Leghorn ; WilliWilliam G° land, Charente ; Victoria, Christiana ; Alamode, Legbarli; Livenia, D eme rara ; Augustine Clara, Charente . Oporto ; San B runo , T orrev i e j a ; Earl of Auckland, terdam ; Constitution, St. John's, New Brunswick; neral Sale, Singapore ; Marsala, Girgente; Francis lien„q' Melbourne ; Hen o l na , Santander ; Fame, Calais ; S e p ta ' Calcutta ; Jeune Hermine, Charente ; Attwood, lt17;; dam ; Salvo. Dora, Bo s t on ; William and Rebecca , tA"'"l. Lea, Emden ; Factory, Rotterdam; Burgh Castle , Ant werp. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Triton, t Ostend ; Soho, Havre ; B aron O sy , A n t w erp ; Sea W i t i c Shanghai ; Patrick Henry, New York ; George and Ei. : l6. beth, Ronen ; Rupina, Bilton and San Sebastian ; Boulogne ; Earl of Auckland, R o tt er d am ; Fame, Cal d'' Aurora, Sydney ; Celestial, M a d ras ; H ano ver, Port Ph i Investigator, Sydney, N.S.W. ; J ov i a Anita, Ir , aie hoi c, and Barcelona ; Emilie and Maria, Rouen ; Ra'll— CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The John Be rt. r tra ; ‘ , for Boston • Brooking, St. John s, Newfoundland ;,75, and Elizabeth, Rouen ; Margaret, Launceston • u.3 :,r e 10 Port Philip ; City of Paris, Boulogne • Sally, longl3,r- • John Bull, Montreal ; Carrier, Mogadore ; Nora. Stanhope, Melbourne ; Urania, Rouen ; City of Sam" Montreal. The wreck of the brig M ar kla n d, w ith only f o re and bowsprit standing, havinc, ~„a apparently been •yed by some vessel, was p asse d, Feb. 24, by the Jane, 01 at Liverpool from New Orleans. RIO JANEIRO, Feb. 14.—The Camada, from the Chili. Isles to the Chesapeake, put in here yesterday leaky ~ed - DOUGLAS, 1.M., March 16.—The Castilian here, after having been on the Scarlet Rocks, havrt air taken the harbour light for the Calf light, and charging. LAMLASH, March 15.—The Henry Holland (brig) , fr° ,,ll the Clyde to St. John's, N. 8., wen t on s h ore at Corribie Shore, near this place ; s h ou ld th e wea th er k e ep rO cier° the vessel may be got off. COLERAINE, March 15.—The Mary May, of St- on s hore N.B. from Ardrossan to B os t on , was driven on Rathlin Island yesterday morning —crew saved. ie, , STANLEY, FALKLAND ISLES, Jan. s.—The Porourbst from Liverpool to California, sailed hence, Dec- I ,l' o ther but has just put back w ith fl oor -ti m b ers b ro k en anu j i s s, damage, having been o n s h ore i n th e St ra it s o f 3 5 g„ n e dea and must discharge to rep a i r . Th e natives eurr°'-- them and attempted to burn the vessel. BAHIA, Feb. 19.—The Scio, Rio Grande to Qu oi ee w ill town, and put in here F e b. 5, l ea ky, h as repa i re d, an Bo 0 sail 21st for her destination. The Templar, Valpar°, Liverpool, put in here Feb. 8, ver y l ea k y , an d Ic i " charge. • GUERNSEY, March 15.—The side o f a small vessel' or posed to be English, has been brought in here. isai br ANTWERP, arch 16.—The Biene, St e ttin for 06 seines, has been M stranded near the Island of Sardinat two casks of brandy which were picked up Jan. r''' sr t of taken to Leith, have been ascertained to have been_g / r oe the cargo of the Diederic, Hedenbnrg, which sage" •yoa Rochelle Nov. 10, for Boston, U.S., and had not sari at the latter port Feb. 26. ch NEW YORK, March 2.—The Diedrich, Hedenberfk, sailed from Rochelle, for Boston, is about two mon ths 0 of time, and was probably lost soon after her depar'''';;or two quarter casks of brandy, the mark of which e ° die; ponded with those in, a bill of lading of some 1 ne sr shipped on board that vessel, were picked up Jan- 7 tA s pi - orP the Bay of Bi sca y, by th e G em, o f L e i t h . See J.--,...„5as paragraph. A s hip' s bi nnac l e , a sex t an t i n woo den 1 7 40 e Dr. Johnson's Comprehensive Dictionary, with the of John Bodinna, Jan. 1851, on the outside of the ";,, bound in cl o th, a P ra y er -b oo k, same bi n di ng, and ° pieces of log li ne , &c., apparently having belonged so English vessel, were ffered for sale by the natives o f 5/ age Island s , in lat. 19 deg. 10 min. S., and long. 16 de i g r i,ile min. W., on the 27th Sept., 1852, to Comr. Vigillit heaving to off there. MARCH s.—The Italy, New Orleans to G e noa, w o e was abandoned F e b. 3, was seen on th e 20t h o f the e 0 month in lat. 33 N. and l ong . 77 W., w ith fi ve or 5 it Pi Tee on board, but who were without provision, by the for 0$ see (schooner), arrived at B os t on , w hi c h by `l, of! hours, but could render n o ass i s t ance. The wr ec ir , 13 vessel sunk, the decks with spars a l ongs id e , bulmr°r' 4 „;:g rail gone, and apparently o f a b ou t 200 t ons , was ere Feb. 24, on the western edge of the Gull Strenos. w i l icl; Henry, W.N.W. The Fairy, S m y rna f or Boston' 0° put into St. Thomas's Feb. 5, w as l ea ki ng b a dly, sou have to discharge. e W ALMERIA, March B.—The Belmont, Carthagents t° Nin castle, has been brought in. with damage, haying Pv '' , contact with a guarda costa. j a The Doris (not Dovre, as reported yesterck)L Dantzic to London, passed the Sound Dec. 7, and "'- since been heard of. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. ' fi t , 400 The America, New York to Live r p oo l, Feb. 23 , long. 69. - gs 2 liA The Sarah Louisa, Liverpool to New York, Feb. Am'? 42, long, 61. COUNTRY MA.RKE2'S. BOSTON—MARca 16. 0 11 Although the supplies of gra i n generally Were,tater ° moderate, the trade was i n au extremely languid more so than for several weeks past. Wheat declin e( ols value fully is per qr. on th e d eprec i ated currency of p t, day se'nnight. B ar l ey, b eans, and peas were 6d to iLst, qr. cheaper. O a t s b are l y supported late prices. -O P - 21. red, 37s to 455, white, 45s to 47., extra 495; barley.to to 31s ; oats, 14s to 19s ; beans, 32s to 355; Pe w ' 35s per qr. NEWARK—Ruins 16. Our corn mark e t t o -d ay was well a tt e nded, and that' was good suppli es of grain, which experienced a semew ho t heavy sale, a t the currencies of this day week. Whest,', white, 545 to 565, red 44s to 50s ; barley, grind fee 28° to ° 30s, malting). 32s to 35s ; oats, seed 24s to 28s, d2O 245 ; beans 28s to 44s ; peas 34s to 38s ; malt 5 65 t o 6°11; tares, 44s to 48s per qr. DERBY SMITHFIELD—MARca 15. , fil o% The supply of fat beasts to-day was large, with 1111 es sts of buyers ; .high p r i ces were as k e d , and some few u . cto left unsold. Sheep were scarce, and realised higlicr ITO than they have for several years past. The number o ,ao pigs were larger than it has been for some time, and a 8 ,...4 - 0 1, lower in price. Fat and store calves were more Pled per —Bea, sid to 6d ; mutton, 'rid to Sid; veal, 5Ad ' lb. ; pigs 9s Od to 10 s Od p er score ; roug h f a t, 4a a 14 lbs. ;hides, 2d to 2id per lb. ; calf-skins, 23d t o per lb. DENBIGH —MARCH 16. of There was a small market to-day, in consecl7Zot, Ffair Blod au t a ki ng p l ace on Saturday nex t. to 16s to 17s Od ; barley, 9s 6d to 10s ; oats, 1 6 00, 6s Od per hobbet ; tub butter, 94d to 10d ; fresh is ld per lb. DUBLIN—Meacu 15. at There was scarcely th e a p pearance of business bat Corn-exchange to-day. Buyers generally held o.P rthe r holders were not disposed to tempt them by any uu se concession in price. On the whole, the market was possible. 2 85 White wheat, 26s Od t o 3 0s Od • red ditto, 25s O d to , 50 ccl , barley, 12s 6d to 16 s 3d ; oats, 9s 6d to lls Od ; r'o 1" 21s Od to 23 s p er b r l ; oatmeal, lls Od to 12s Od ,-3:63 flour, 14s 6d t o 18 s Od per cwt ; Indian corn, 31s Od to per 480 lbs. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—Meuen 17. 01 111 STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market has b een to o day, and closed without animation. The latest qt l _ o ,_toro were as follows :—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and uu_ n too, 121. shares, 36 dis. ; Caledonian, 32/ ; Eastern Ce 9 _,.h u ' e rot 13 1-16 ; Lancashire and Yorkshre, '76i ; Leeds N° - ", g ta, 16 ; London and North Western, 119 1 ; Mancuii s h, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 29t; Midland, 75i ; North , 13rI s t e ro 9 ; ditto Half shares, issued at 40 dig., 32i ; South -D l ' and Dover, 230 • York, Newcastle, and. Berwick , Ai G ., Midland ( Bristol ' and Birmingham 6 per cent-b: Dutch Rhenish, 2 dig. MANCHESTER—MARCH 17. 1 STOCK EXCHANGE.—Prices opened much lower: A ds though they have fluctuated, have not regained yest e i c e asy currency. There has been b u t a li m it e d business. ' "'Dos' 764 ; Sheffields, 29 ; Midlands, 75i ; Dowers, 235 ; or al don Fifths, 2i p. ; East Anglian 6 per cent., 324 ; 41 Union A 252 ; North Union B, 176 ; North Staffb r n 'cloP ; Edinburgh, Perth, an d D un d ee, 81 ; o stock, 1194. LEEDS—MARCH 17. STOCK EXCHANGE.—We have had a weaker ~ —.vo r lC' this morning for a ll ki n d s o f s t oc k . L ancas hi re and the shires declined to 76/3 ex div., and were done durine te ry , meeting at 764 ; Midland s f e ll t o 750 ; N or th Vit, s o were done at 8/. 3s 9d. I n o th er lines th ere W w " operations. ' BIRTHS. OF A SON. gotti nir On the 13th inat„ at Keneingion-park-villas, hill, the wife of H. Le Jenne, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 16th inst., at the Admiralty, the wife of C . Milne, R.N. On the 12th inst., at Upper Phillimore-place, ton, the wife of John Fletcher, Esq. MARRIED. ' Job ° On the 15th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-equsr e 2 ids, D. Gardner, Esq., of"Chatt er i s, C am b r id ges hi r e, t O , ter of eldest daughter of W. Pig o tt, E sq., an d gra nddaugu war the late Gen. Jeafferson an d th e Vi scountess G e rmans of Dullingham-house, in the same county. n o °. On the 15th inst.', at Monk T own - c h urc h, -7-• n °-- "„beixf Campbell, Esq., second son of Rear-Admiral D• Ca nir ,htet of Barbreck, Argyleshire, to Jessie E. Copland, cla g b v of of Charles Copland, Esq., of Lonford-terrace, coup Dublin. lED. On the 10th inst ,at C heddar , Somersetshires Georg° Budgett, Esq. . 944 On the 12th inst , at Bridgwater, Henry Reed, solicitor, aged 64. . powe r / On the 13th inst, at the trrsuline Convent, Mrs. .„„t of relict of Nicholas Power, Esq., of Snow-hill, and 3 " ... the late Right Hon. R. L. Sheil, age -: 116. War/ On the 12th inst., at Scaleby-hall, Cumberland, Farrer, Esq., aged 54. On the 15th inst., at 13, Gloucester-street ,iSri ' llyi. square, Pi m li co , M r . J. F. Allen, aged 56. ninelteoh ° ' On the 14th i ns t ., at 3, Clarence-parade, - --- ,.h001. aged 54, Sar a h, re li c t of W. Eden, Esq., of N° ll ""_ ,, Gloucestershire. _.........e