The Sun. — London, England, 1853-03-16 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MARCH 15. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) - ISLE OF WIGHT RAILWAY BILL. Order for second reading read ; motion made, and ques tion proposed, " that the bill be now read a second time :" — Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the question to add the words " upon this day six months :"—question put, " that the word `now' stand part of the question :"—the house divided : Ayes 92, Noes 133. MINORITY—AYES, 92. A'Court, C. Fitzroy, Henry • Rushout, Captain Alcock, Thomas Forster, M. Bus ell, F. C. Anderson, Sir James Fox, W. J. Sanders, 0. Bailey, Craw Amy French, Fitzstephen Sawle, C. B. G. Barnes, T. Gres son, Aamuel Scholefleld, W. Bass, M. T. Pladfleld, George Scully, F. Bell, J. Hastie, Alexander Scully, V. Bethell, Richard Hervey, Lord Alfred Shelley, Sir J. V. Bouverie, E. P. Heywood, James Sheridan, It. B. Brady, J. Heyworth, L. Sotheron, T. H. S. Brenwidge, R. Hutchins , E. Stanley, L rd Bright, John Hutt, William Stapleton, J. Iltoterton, Joseph Kershaw, James stuart, Lord D.' Brown, W. King, P. J. Thompson. George Browne, Valentine lamton, 11. G. Thornely, T. t' oiler, Charles S. Lockhart, k. E. Vane, Lo d A. }3 Ynz, G. H. C. Lowe, R. Villiers, lion. C. Chaplin, W. J. Mackie, J. Wall, Charles rtaring Cobden, Richard M'cann, J. Walinsley, Sir J. Coffin, Walter Mamie, Colonel Whatrnan, J. Cowan, Charles Michell, IV. 'Whitbread, S. Crook, J. Moncreiff, James Wilkinson; W. Currie, Raikes Oliveira B. Wilcox, B. Bering, Sir Edward Owen Sir J. Williams, W. Drummond. H. Parker, E. Townley Willoughby, Sir H. Duncan, G. Pellatt Apsley Wilson, J ames Duncombe, T. reit), S. Wrightson, Wm. B. Ellice. F. rhino, Thomas Young, Sir F. Evans, Sir De Lacy Pilkington, James Ferguson, Joseph Ponsonby, Hn.a..G. J. TELLERS. Fitzgerald, J. Price , W. Laing, S. Fitzgerald, W. R. S. Ricardo, 0. E wart, William MAJORITY—NOES, 133. Adderley, C. Forster, Sir G. Mundy William Arbuthnott, General Fraser, Sir Wm. A. Naas, Lord Arkwright, G. Freestuo, Colonel Napier, J. Bagge, W. Freshdeld, J. W. Newark, Viscount Bailey, H J Frewen, C. H. Newdegate, C. N. Ball, Edward Gaskell, James M. Noel, Gerard James Baidcock, E. H. Grenfell, C. North, Colonel Batrow, W. H. Grey lle, Colonel F. Otway , A. J. Beckett, W. Grogan, E. Packe, C. William BOntinck, Geo. P. G w y n , Howel Pakenham, Captain Beresford, William Salford, Sir Henry Pakington, Sir John Berkeley, C. L . Hall, Fiir Benjamin Palmer, Robert Bowyer, George Halsey, Thomas P. I hillimore, R. Boyle, Colonel Hanbury, Hon. C. Powlett, Lord W. Bramston, T. W. Heneage, G. H. W. Pugh, D. Brooke, Lord Heneags, ti. F. Repton, G. W. J. Bruce, H. A.. Henley. J. W. Robertson, P. F. Buck, Le w i s W . Herbert, H. A. Roll, P. Cairns, H. M'Calmont Higgins, George Seaham, Lord Camoo, Sir J. R. Hildyard, Robert C. Seymer, H. K. Caulfield, Colonel Hume, J. Smith, Wm. M. Cholmondeley, Ld. II Ingli-, Sir R. H. Smyth, J. G. Christy, Samuel Irton, Samuel Stanhope, James B. Clay, Sir William Johnstone, James Sturt. H. G. Clinton, Ld Robert Johnstone, Sir J. Ta . lor, Colonel Cobbold, J. C. Jones, David Thicknesse, It. A. Cocks, Thomas S. Knatchbuil, W. F. Tomlin, G. Codrington, Sir W. Knox, Col. Turner, C. Coles, H. B. Knox, W. S . Tyler , Sir G eor ge Compton, H. Combo Lawley, F. C. Vane, Lord H. _Coote, Sir C. H Lennox, Lord A. F. Verner, Sir W. movie, Sir. H. Liddell, H. G. Vernon, G. Davies, D. Lindsay, Col. Waddington , H. S. Davison, R. Lowther, Captain We n s, W. Denison, J. E. Id acartney, G. Whiteside, James Dodd, George Macgregor, James Whitmore, Henry .„_lht Cane, Charles Mandeville, Viscount Wickham, H. W. Duff, George Manners, Lord J. Wlgram, L. T. Duff, James Maxwell, James P. Wise, J. A. Egerton W. &Lenz, Sir Henry Wyndham, William Egerton, Edward Miles, W. Yorke, Eliot Thomas . L .'" lr rileY, Vise. Miller, T. J. Yn, Viscount Mills. it. TELLIES. rellowes Edward Mills, T. Forester Colonel Moore, G. 11. Vansittart, G. H. rorster, Charles Mullings, J. R. Spooner, Richard LONDON (WATFORD) SPRING WATER COMPANY BILL. Order for second reading read ; motion made, and ques tion proposed, " that the bill be now read a second time :" amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the question to add the words "upon this c laY six months :"—question put, "that the words now' stand part of the question :"—the house divided : Ayes 73, Noes 253. MINORITY-AYES, 73. Ai,. _cock, Thomas 4w kileY, Sir J. I l an. Edward „Ltrnes, Thomas """al b , James j:iggil William 7, 0 7 1 e. zretherton, J. Sir J. Y. uanitleld, Col. Chaplin, W. J. .., C ohbett, J M. , ohden, Richard C° Mn, Walter Cogan w. Co wan' Charles Currie R, ond, Henry . G. 8. Duff. James D uncan, George '",uneombe, T. 4 'unlop, A. „valis, Sir D L. criMson, Joseph Fitzgerald, W. Moffatt, G. Fitzroy, Hon. H. Morris, D. Forster,:C. Mundy, W, Foz, W. Parker, R. T. French, F. Phinn, T. Freshfleld, J. Saridars, G. Greene, John Scholefleld, W. Gregson, Samuel Scully, Francis Hadfield, G. Scully, V. Halford, sir H. Shelley, Sir J. V. Hastie, Alexander Smith, John Benj. Heywood, James Thompson, Mr. Ald. Heyworth, L. Thompson, G. Higgins, G. G. 0. Trait', G. Hume, Joseph Walmsley, Sir J. Irton, Samuel Wells, W. Kelly, Sir F. Whitbread, Samuel K.nnaird, A. F. Wilkinson, W. A. Laing, S. Wilcox, B. Langton, H. G. Williams, W. Leslie, C. P. York, E. T. Lindsay, Colonel Lockhart, A. E. va.i.ziss. M'Gregor, John Meagher, Thomas Hall, Sir Benjamin Mills, A. Stuart, Lord D. MAJORITY—NOES. 253. A'Court, C. dderley, C. Annesley, Earl of Anson General Arbuthnot, Gen. A^kwright, G. Bagge, W. Raney, C. Benne, H. Bap, John Maddock. M. it. Baring, Sir F . Baring, F Barrow, Wm. 13 . Beckett, Wi lliam Bennet, Philip Bentinek, G. Berestord, - lltatit Berkeley, Hon. C. Berkeley, C. Bethel!, Richard Biddulph, R. M. Blacken, J. F. Blair, Colonel Boldero, Col. BOokcr, T. W. Booth, Sir R. Bouverie, E. Bower, G. Brattiston, T. W. Brand H. It rentridge, Richard itrisco, Musgrave ..Brockman, E. D. srooke, Lord ,Brooke Sir A. H. t ir °•(n. William . ..rovrne V. B ruce, Lord E. ti ruce C. L. C. Bruce,_, H. A. B ulkeley, Sir E. H. W. ~,I tu rghley, Lord .stirrouglie s , H. N. Butler, Charles /l ing, G. H. Charles n s '._ al rils, H. M'Calmon 'maPbell, Sir Arch. C ardwell , Hon. E. e ainac, Sir J. Rivett Ca vendish Charles C. Cl 'elsea, Viscount ,-, •-holrn Indeley, Ld. H. Chr isty, Samuel C AY. Sir W. Clinton,, Lord C. P. Clinton, Lord R. eobbold J. Chevalier ~C°ells , , , T. Somers Odrington, Sir Wm. , C°1,43 , Henry B. c,`' °ol laton, Henry C. - %te. Sir Chas. H. C rossley, Frank C ubitt, Mr. Ald. ~,Davies, D. A. S. VAYison, R. 4ie nl eeedee,son W J. E. I) •ermg, S ir E. Ddd, G. &l Cane, C. Vuckworth,SirJ. s uaco m ,SirJ. Hn. A. '''',,,uncombe Hn. 0. Nerton, E. Rt. Hon. E. Ehnley, Viscount Eu ston, Viscount ' - uston, Earl rellowes Edward Follett Brent S. Forbes, W. Zorster, Sir Geo. •uorster, Franklyn, G. W. Noel, Gerard James Fraser, Sir W. A. Norreys, Lord Freestua, Colonel North, Colonel Frewen, Charles Hay Oakes, J. H. P. Gaskell, James Milnes Ossulston, Lord Gladstone, William Otway, Arthur John Glyn, George Carr Owen, Sir John Goodman, Sir G. Packe Charles W. Goulburn, H. Pak ei.iham, Captain Graham, Sir J. Packington, hir J. Graham, Lord M. W. Palmer, R. Grentell,(;. Palmerston, Via. Greville, Col. Patten, J. Grey, sir ti. Peacocke, G. M. W. Grosvenor, Lord R. Pellatt, Hall, Colonel Phillintore ' It. J. Hamilton, Lord C. Pilk4ngton , James Hamilton, Geo. A. Ponsonhy, lln. A. Hamilton, J. Hans Portal, Melville Banbury, Spencer B Powlett, Lord W. Hanmer, Sir J. Pugh, D. Harcourt, Colonel Itepton, G. Basile, Archibald Ricardo. 0. Hayter, W. G. Robertson, P. F. Bead.lllM, T. E. Holt, P. Heneage, Geo. H. Itushout, Capt. Heneage, G. Fieschi Russell, Lord J. Henley, Joseph W. Russell, F. C. Herbert, H. A. Sawle, C. B. G. Herbert, Sir Thomas Seaham, Lord. S Bet vey, Lord Alfred eymer, H. h. Hiidyard . R. Seymour, Lord Howard, Lord E. Shee, W. Hudson, George Smith, M. Tucker Hume,W.Fitzvvilliam Smith, Rt Hn. R. Hutchins, E. Smith, Wei. Hutt, William Sotheron, T. H. Ingham, Robert Spooner, R. Inglis, Sir R. H. Stafford, A. Jocelyn, Viscount Stanhope, J. B. Johnstone, Sir J. Stanley, Lord Jolliffe. Sir W. 0.11. Stapleton, John Jones, David Stirling, William Kendall, Nicholas Strutt, Edward Kershaw, James Stuart, H. rng, P. J. Sturt, li. G. King, James King Tancred, Henry Wm. Kirk, William Taylor, Col. Knatchbull, Wm. F. Thicknesse , R. A. Knox, W Thornely, T. Labouchere, 11. Tufnell, H. Lacon, Sir E. Tamer, C. Lascelles, Hon. E Tyler, Sir G. Lawley, F. C. Vane, Lord A. Lennox, Lord A. Vane, Lord H. Liddell, H. G. Vansittart, George H Locke, Joseph Verner, Sir W. Lockhart, W. Vernon.G. E. H. Lovatne, Lord Villiers, Rt. lin. C. P. Lowe, Robert Vivian, J. E. • Lowther, Colonel Vyse, Capt. Lowther, Captain Waddington, David Mackie, John Waddington, H. Macgregor, Jas. Walcott, Adm. M`Taggart, Sir J. Wall, C. B. Maddock, Sir H. Walpole, Spencer H. Manners, Lord G. Walsh, Sir J. B. Manners, Lord J. West, F. R. Marshall, William Whatman, James Massey, W. N. Whiteside, James Maule, Colonel Whitmore, H. Maxwell, lion. J. P. Wigram, L. T. Meux, Sir Remy Wickham, Henry W. Miles, William Willoughby, Sir H. Miller, T. Wilson, J. Mills, T. Wise, J. Mitchell, W. Wood, Sir Charles Molesworth, Sir W. Wortley, J. S. Montgomery, Sir G. Wyndham, General Moore, 1.. H. Wyndham, W. Moore, Ross S. Young, Sir John liullings J. Randolph B aas, Lord Napier, Joseph Newark, Viscount Mr. Halsey. Newdegate. C. Mr. Sheridan. TELLERS. NELSON'S DAUGHTER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. read in your paper of to-day, a letter on the s ubject of NELSON'S daughter, and signed "An English -170 Man." Is it r ea lly true, as stated in that letter, that the D e ghter of NELSON stands in need of pecuniary aid ? the p eop l e o f E ng land allow the child—and that ehlid ato an too—of their greatest naval hero to solicit 1 87 Can this be p ossible I Surely the writer of that lett er must b e i n error. She cannot allude to NELSON t he hero of Trafalgar and the Nile ? The NELSON to Wh om 80 many monuments have been erected, and whose wl i n le ought to b e as d ea r to every Englishman, and ° se victories as fresh in our memories as when the toWB, at once glorious and mournful, of Trafalgar's vic -1.9 was proclaimed ! t bid not England go into mourning for him ? Did she i t i ll 3t eep for the loss, as the greatest she had ever ta " 1 ? And did she not . pay with profoundest grafi t de the highest honour to his name.' And, finally, ware hie remains borne amid weeping thousands, and °wed by the proudest of England's peers to the ? And has not the spot where they laid him i h i' ° lne hallowed ground, where Wellington alone may ode ? Alas ! it is but too true. And yet his daughter p or , s only child —is compelled to solicit alms for the sup s'ilef herself and children ! a me ! Shame upon England ! Blush sons and li ghters of Britain who can so soon forget a debt due to `e , atti c . „ se ; and when a ga i n y ou b ury your h eroes , b ur y . th he l'ue memory of th e i r v i c t or i es. R ather, ten thousan d ree2 rather . do this, than erect monuments to their whilst their children you consign to beggary ! A pm, Six, your very obedient servant, 'lre"' 14. JOHN A. WALKER. 6 - 1 " ° , 41 ; March 4.—Edward Murray has been visited p ' 4,8 mother in the Castle of Palliano. She found him exertions fairly treated in every respect, the unremitting l a p in made by the British authorities in his favour , -- ng had the satisfactory effect of removing all unne "l4ll7 harshness. a I 'RE REAL GOLD FIELD.—A market gardener, upon t h st hail scale, residing at the Merri Creek, has, within stZ.i as t eight months, cleared upwards of 4,000/. r ao - ng by fruit and vegetables. Considering the enor a.aja prices realised for these articles, it is a matter of ya.t 64. ,ishi nent that th ey are no t more extensively culti itelbourne Morning Herald. WARWICK RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC; TELEGRAPH.) THE DEBDALE STAKES. Tipperary Boy The Miner Four others started HANDICAP T.Y.C. Catherine Heroine Six others ran. THE AUSTRALIAN. NEWS. (From the Times.) The Australian advices by the overland mail were regarded in the city with great interest. They extend to the 28th of December from Sydney, and to the 3d of January from Port Philip, and com pletely dissipate the surmises raised by the vague accounts lately received with regard to the proba ble exhaustion of the Victoria mines. The state ments of a sudden falling off in the yield, and a consequent panic, appears to have originated at Sydney, where every rumour likely to check the departure of the population to Victoria is eagerly seized and magnified. It appears, however, that the diminution of the rate of production during December is explained by the fact of the more experienced miners having been attracted to the Ovens diggings, near the New South Wales fron tier, so that the great majority of those that re mained were new-comers. The approach of Christ mas had likewise caused an abandonment of labour. Even under these circumstances, the total amounts brought to Melbourne were very large, and merely appear otherwise from being contrasted with those brought during November, which reached 349,185 ounces, and were in excess of the total of any former month. From the let of De cember to the 25th, the quantity, including some amounts from the Ovens, was 185,526 ounces, worth 750,0001., and it was known that very heavy parcels were still waiting at the Ovens to be for warded, a considerable portion of which would be carried to Sydney, the situation of these deposits causing them 'to be equally resorted to by the people of both colonies. The population of Mel bourne during the past three months had received an addition of 32,306 persons, and the extent of exploration which had been carried on in conse quence had strengthened the impression as to the space through which the gold deposits are spread. So far from a heavy decline having occurred in the prices of imported articles, business up to the latest dates was extremely active, notwithstanding the arrivals that had taken place ; and there was a continued demand for all descriptions of drinks and luxuries, which were realising large returns. The Sydney had sailed from Melbourne on the 9th of December with 77,835 ounces of gold and 123 passengers, and was to call at Adelaide, where she would be likely to receive an addition. The Great Britain was to leave on the evening of the 3d of January. Subjoined is an exact state ment of the quantities of gold brought to Mel bourne during the preceding ten months, and also the principal part of December February March Ounces. 56,408 51,865 April May June 64,472 99,006 149,372 July August September October November 296,941 268,576 211,814 348,511 . 349,185 December (from the Ist to the 25th) ... 185,526 2,081,676 The above is equal to 8,300,0001. sterling, and does not include either the amounts retained in the possession of individuals or the large slims carried by the overland escort to South Australia. From Sydney it appears that all the gold fields in New South Wales are yielding favourably, and that the production is increasing. The weekly total brought by escort is, however, comparatively small, averaging only about 4,000 ounces. The distance of the mines and the abundance of employment in other branches of labour prevent their active de velopment. Out of a population of 200,000 it is believed that not more than 10,000 are at the dig gings. Although the yield at the Hanging Rock con tinued abundant, most of the people had left that spot, owing to the temporary demand for shearers and reapers, the latter of whom obtained from 30s. to 355. per acre, with rations. There were, therefore, abundant opportunities for any number of immi grants. At the Louisa Creek, in the neighbour hood of the Great Nugget Vein, nearly all the miners were doing well, and many had returned who had been tempted away to the Ovens. The Colonial Gold Company of London, under the su perintendence of Mr. Spence, had made an arrange ment with the Great Nugget Company to work their claims on a royalty of 20 per cent. on the gross yield of gold, when the amount per ton of crushed quartz shall not exceed 2 ounces, 30 per cent. when over 2 ounces and under four, and 50 per cent when over 4 ounces ; Mr. Spence having been previously allowed every opportunity of test ing the company's claims. With regard to the Peel River deposits, it appears that the Rev. Mr. Clarke, the geologist, was at Tamworth, one of the settlements of the Australian Agricultural Com pany, and that he was engaged in a general exa mination of the northern districts. Thus far he had stated, that although he was not yet sufficiently acquainted with the gold field of the Peel to report fully upon it, he was satisfied the quartz veins are nu merous, though of no great magnitude. " They are not all auriferous," he says, " but those which are not, appear to alternate with such as are." Therock rises between Cann's Plains and the Peel, " and it is on the south side that the gold is sprinkled most abun dantly. It seems as if it were electrotyped in little hollows upon the surface." Mr. Clarke adds, " The more I see of the great backbone of this con tinent the more I am impressed with the high pro bability of the extension of the goldfields far be yond the present limits of search." Among the colonists generally a favourable impression with re gard to the value of the various quartz claims seems to have increased. In the Colonial Assembly at Sydney a bill for the management of the goldfields had just been passed. It is to come into operation on the Ist of February, and, according to its clauses, the Government may grant leases by tender or auc tion h s e u y b j m e c a t y s for any periods not for quartz or otehxecreemdininign g 2l to yea ßri rs t also suspend any p astoral leases that upon giving may be found to extend over gold fields d compen sation to the owners. The license fee is fixed au is to be paid by traders at 30s. per month, bl No license of foreigners the charge is to be don e. and other parties as well as miners. In the case is to be g i ven to those who shall not be able to certify that they h discharged from a ve been duly _ their la s t pl ace o f se rvice, and persons worki ng without one are to be fined 51., and to be liable in 1 default to two months' imprisonment with hard labour on th e roa d s. Th e bill contains several 25 other ' provisions equally stringent, and it is said 10 to be regarded by the most intelligent classes with 1.0.61 a strong feeling of aversion b th e narrow policy of being the clause against foreigners •ng especially con demned. The prospects of the construction of the railway from Sydney to Paramatta had greatly im proved, the Government having consented to allow 500 railroad labourers to be brought out at the expense of the emigration fund, and also to sub scribept a s t l s s w o, o o ul oo d / . subscribeto th e undertaking, lo cup i n f a p guarantee of 5 per cent. The line is 220,0001. This bill incorporating estimated cost of the Nugget Vein Company had been read ritnihvl a .enatlG.e th ruec ir aaln d : time and passed. The Bank of New South Wales had advertised a meeting for the 20th of January, to consider the propriety of increasing their capital by an issue of new shares, and also of establishing a branch in London. The Sarah Sands had arrived at Sydney on the 24th of December, after a p as _ 21 sage of 93 days from Cork, and the Cleopatra had also reached Melbourne. The Ticonderago, from Liverpool to Melbourne, is alleged to have 170 deaths on board. Among the vessels which had lately sailed from Sydney for London, where the Black Friar, with 35,243 ounces of gold, and the New Orleans, with 25,562 ounces. From Adelaide, South Australia, the accounts state that a large number of persons were profit ably engaged at the Echunga diggings. The price of the shares of the Burra Burra mine was about 1601. Gold, it is also stated, has at length positively been discovered in New Zealand. The locality is about thirty miles from Auckland, in the Gulf of Houraki, where ten men obtained in one day about 401. The Goveenment has issued proclamations with regard to it. The Chusan, by which the present Australian news was brought to Singapore, belongs to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, and is a sister ship to the Formosa. She has been employed in one or two experimental trips between Singapore and the Australian ports, preparatory to the com mencement of the regular mail service in Aril. Although it is nearly two months since the previoUs news by this route was received, the details then furnisked were up to this morning the latest that had come to hand. TEE SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. ld I RAILWAYS, Closing Prices Yesterday. )0 Aberdeen ........ ..... 84 Ambg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. June, ill Birmug. Wolverh. &' Stour Valley 8 Birkenhd. Lanesh. & Cheshire Jena.. Xll Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O & £25 Cons 81 Do., £2O 0 Bristol & Exeter 0 Caledonian. .... 11 Chester & Holyhead 11 Cork and Bandon ll Cork, Black. & Pass :5 Dublin &Belfast June 11 Dundee Perth &Aber- deen Junction 11 Do. New 11 East Anglian (£25 L. & E. &L. & D.).... al Do., (£lB E. & II.). 11 Eastern Counties..... ill Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. 5h.... 8i Do., do. all Do., B. & C........... ) East Lancashire Li East & West Ind. Dk. & Birming. June.... 19 Edinburgh& Glasgow 1 Edinb. and Peebles... 0 Edinb.Prth.&Dunde, Glasgow & S.Western 1 Great Northern Stk.. Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth.&West.(lre.) , Great Western Irish South-Easters.. . Lancaster & Carlisle. Ili Do., Thirds.... 00 " Lancash. &Yorkshire .5 ro. , Fifths .. . .... 14 Do., Wst. Riding Un. ►ll Leeds Northern Liv. Crsby. & So utb pt ill London & Blaekwall 3 Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. 10 Lond..l3right.di S. Cst. )0 London &N. Western, .2 Do. Fifths 1 Do. ,10/. 5h.,M&8...0 10 London & S. Western 2 1 Do., £5O . po., x 40.,„, Lndnilrry.&Coleraine rirdndrry. & Ennisk. I)0 Maach.Slief.dzLincln 4i Do., Man. &Lin. Un, )0 Midland ..... ....... ..., Jo Do. Birming. & Derby Vi Midland G. West.(lr.) 1.7 i Do. 4 Shares • Newcastle & Carlisle )0 Newmarket S Do. Bury Extensions Newpt.Aberg.&Htfd 74 Newry & Enniskillen ill Newry Warrenpoint & Rostrevor X) N0rf01k....... ill Do., New 3i Nor ihn. Counties lin )0 - North British ......... L 3 North Devon, N 0.1.. 6 Do., No. 2 ............. II Do., i A Deferred... 5 Do., i B Guaranteed .7a North Staffordshire.. if North Western [0 N. &S. Westrn. unc )0 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton )0 Scottish Central ... )O Scottish Midland 10 Shrewsbury & Birmg Do., L. & N. Westn. Guaranteed Stock... 8 Shrewsby. & Herefd. 11 Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.)...... 11 Do. Halves, d 0....... 11 Do. Oswestry 6i Shropshire Union.... 11 South Devon ..... 10 South Ea5tern......... 11 South Wales.. .5 S. Yorksh. River Dun 5 Do. .61 Stockton & Hartlepl. .9 Thames Haven Dock and Rai1way......... L 7 Vale of Neath......... dl Waterfd. & Kilkenny 111 Waterford&Limerick l 3 West C0rnwa11....... . Is. Wimbledon &Croydon 1 Woodford .............: 10 IYork Newetl. &Berw. 0 Do. Extensions li Do. G.N.E. Purchase 10 York &N. Midland.. Business done this day. 29i - 34 - 61 - 631 91 104 7i —6A(lxd 21 - 22 3i 2i d 104 105 64i 65 214 226 186 194 1 -1,3 p 8 - 9 13 - 134 loi -- Ili 73 -- 74 55 .- 57 76 - • 78 32 -- 34 62 -- 64 81 82 45 -- 47 122 - 124 107 i -108 i 91i -- 924 61— 74 94 -- 96 13i -144 p 784 -- 781 41 -- 4 d 3 4 3d 16 -16 A 81 94 1 —1/ p 103. -- 1&4 11 1201 2 3p 1 lfip 90 914 5 - - 4d 4 3 cl 11 1 19 21 294 —30 A 8 a 76 764 44 46, 50 52 3. 1 1 I 3 3d 3 8 9 10 53 55 8 1 2/3 d 351 —36 i .. - 4i 34d 8 8 Si-4 p 47i —48 i 100 102 64 - 66 64 66 70 75 disc 18 20 9 10 14 15 31 3 d 21 22 78 783 36 37 12i 134 4 41 19 21 1/ Li 1 14i -154 i 9 -- 29 -- 31 91 -- 9i d p 69 70 7i 7 d 2i - -23 d 59 60 PREFERENCE SHARES. I Aberdeen . Do., No. 2, 7 p. 0... Bits. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares ... Caledonian £lO ...... Chester & Holyhead Guar. 53 per cent... Cork &Bandon 51 p.c. Dundee Perth& Aber dee n Junction EastA nglian (£3los) 6 per cent............ Do. (1:5) 7 per cent.. Do. (E7l7s) 7 p. et.. Eastern Counties Ex tension, sp. c. No.l Do., No. 2. Do., New 6 p. c. St.. Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent.... EastLancash. 6 p.cts. Edinb. Prth. &Dundec 51, per cent........... Glasgow & S. Western guar. 5 per cent.... Great Northn. 5 p.c. Do. 5 p. c., Redeem., at 10 p. c. prom Gt. Sotithn. arWestn. (Ireland) Eighths... Gt. Westn. (Berke tit Hants Ex. 5 p. c.).. G. West. fixed 4.1 p c. Lan. & York. F. £2O, Do., 6 p. c., Stock... London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c... Do. Prer., 5 p. c. St. Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852. Do. New Guar. 6 p.c. London & S. Western, Con. Thirds Londonderry& Coler. Shares Londy. & Ennis Sh Manch. ,Shef., &Lin., iShares, No. 1...... Do. New, Do., £6. Marypt. &Carl. 4 p c. Do. 4i per cent....... Do Hid. Consol. 6 p.c. St. Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent Do. Pref. 4i per cent Norfolk Extension Do. Guar. 5i per ct Do. Way. Val. 5 p c North British North Staffordshire Oxford Worcester di Wolverh. £15,6p. c D• Shrews& Birm. N. G. Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min),B p. c. Do. 5 per cent South Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of 21 08.6 d. S. Yorksh .4p . c. Guar. Waterfd. &Kilk. 6p. c. York Newcastle and Berwick, 4 p.c.Pref Do York& N. Midland H & S. Parch.. 106 - 108 1 106 - 107, 19 20 4 d pa] 64 -- sg 3fi 34 --4 lhp -- 2 p p 1! -- 15 13- 19 - 3i Lii lio 1110 - 112 si 9 6; 4 7i 105 ; - --107xd par p 150 152 ••„ ad ••• ad ... --• xd Si -- 3 i P 10 -- 11 13i -- 14 8 -- 9 101 -- 114 i -- i P, 146 —l4Bxd 4 - i P 22 —23 5t 61 2 2i 109,4 111 25 26 1 ERlj P 11 11 17 -18 i -- lip 16 -- 17 par— P 26i -2 6 i 20 -- 21 id -- par 11015 - 4 103 1 P - iPI Shr. I P. St. Ili 20 31 1 21 27ii a] 2211 50 al 50 a] 20 a] 50 4] 25 a] 5 al 25 a] 25 25 St. 50 I a] St. 100 St. 100 12 11 50 all 16 1 . St. it 20 1. 14 1 20 I a] 11A! a] St. 10 St. 10 20 1' st. ►v 25 1 1 St. Ili St: 10 St. 10 50 4' 25 1' .00 a] St. 10 25 I 11 St. 110 15 i al 6i.1101 16 I 1: 20 r 20 a] 10 11 St. 101 St. 11 St. 11 St. 11 St. 11 13A1 a] 50 al 20 20 25 i 1. 20 1' 20 al 50 al 20 1: 10 27 25 I 1 St. 10 ~ 100 5 all >t. 100 ;t. 1100 5 I all 011 ail 4 3 i I all 5 all 74 2 el all 61 all .0 all :0 all ;t. 100 5 1 all ;t.llOO 611 all ;t. 100 6 6 it. 100 ;t. 100 ;t. 100 i 0 I 5 L2il all Z I all .0 I all 6 I 3 I all .2il MI 5 .to - all 5 all 2 all it. 100 !O all it. 100 .5 9 8 all .0 all ;0 all 5 3 A. 1.00 1511 5 7 10 1011 5i FOREIGN. ' 10 ' 3 An t wer p&Rotterdam 4d— par 2i 3 22500 43 6 1 Chi:ijiagoiniaeanr°EndiatigeEnsar. clj n uu lo li n ent ... • 1 2 31 2 1 — l- 1 2 1 1 d l i p s 8 Dutch Rheni s h 20 5 all EGastp.tioin.ndEcliaxiani,nernseinoinni.ia:. 6 --__ 6 2 1i P p p 2 20 lip 111 12 20 7 Gd. Junct. o f France 1i ZOl 5 15 1 1 G I jpsu t ihice W acfra. ei e ... p i.. r .. n .. si o t.. o. f . j. O a . a. .. .. 5 n a .. p.... d a ...c : ..: ; ii p 8 n 20 15 Luxemb0urg........... 4 41 10 10 Do. (Railway) ......... ! _ _ 1 ....... _ li 5 3 Do. ( Cana1 ).... .....: ...... 11 _ 1p _ . 2 10 S . Do. 6p. ct. pref.— Par,l p 20 7 Lyo ns & Mediterran. 9 ". 20 0 Madras 2 4P 20 all Namur & Liege (with interest) 7i 8 , 7 20 all D o . ( ex i n t eres t) 6 37 i ^ ° 6i 74 16 all N or th ern o f F rance 36 20 all Do. 20/. 3p. c. Bds. (fmy. B. &Ams. Shs.) 14 —1 5 i 10 all NorwegianTrunkPre 8 9 20 10 Paris and Lyons l7 —lB p 284 i 20 all Paris and Orleans 42, 434 20 all Paris and Rouen 424 —42 i 2 i 20 all Paris and Strasbourg 33 — 33 i 20 4 ParieCaen&Cherbrg. 4' —51 p 10 54 Quebec &Richmond p 20 all Rouen and Havre 2Ol 21 20 all Sambre and Meuse , 9 91 F 10 4 Do. 54 p. ct. pref ... . 20 4 Southern of France 4i 5 p 20 2s. Upper India Scrip I p i pm 8 all West Fl an d ers 4 .1 5 1 10 6 Do. 5a per e. Pref c:lie p 20 10 Western of France lO /id lop 10 2 West. of Switzerland I) 20 3 Zealand.. ...... LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Comptns. Closing Prices Yesterday. RAILWAYS. Bedford and Bletchley Birm. & Oxfd. guarantee Do. withoutgr Birm.Wolv. & Dudley guar. Do.wthtguar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln. gr. 6 p. cent Glstr.&Dn.Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares Do. Shares Lon.&Greenw Do.Preferencel Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent Do. 6 per ct Manch.Bxton and Matlock Middlesbro' Redcar Midld.Bradfd. Northern and Easternsp.c. Do. 6 per ct.. Do.Fixedsp.c Prest. & Wyre Do. i Shares. Roystn. & Hit. Do . Shepth. St. Shef. Roth. & Goole g. 5. p. c S. Staffordsh WearValleygr 6 per cent Do Wilts &Somrstl Butanes. this dr. ad ad ad 2La 50 25 12 12i 20 20 all all all all 114 100 - , 100 18a 9i all London dz. N. West. Gt.Wostu Do Do Do L. ezN.W. Caledon... Gt.Notrhu Gt. Westu. Yk. New. dz Bervv Do Do S. Eastern Do 'Norfolk IDo Lit. &N. W. & Midld. Stckton & Darlingt. Midland... E. Count. D 0........ L.& W. dr.Lnd; Yk Do. ........ 30 -31 291 -301 30 - 31 29 - 30 106 -107 521 -53 i 151 - 153 321 - 334 11l - 113 55 - 562 26 - 274 13/ - 144 252 - 262 19 - 19,1 25 - 27 Gt.Northial D 0......... La.ncash.dz •3 at Yorksh YlrMelean Stockt. di 1071 -10 E, 64 - 66 152 - 154 'l5l - 15:3 Darling—. Do. Gt. Wean: - xd id ... 32i —33 b 103 104 MINES. 1 all Agua Fria 10s. all Anglo Californian "' P 10 2 Australasian l* —2 p -31 20 5 Australian 7 p 7 1 all Australian Corgillera p 1 all Australian Freehold. I pll 1 all Ave Maria par —. p 1 all Baden (Gd• Duchy of) par p 1 all British Austria. Gold ep 20 13.5 British Iron 7 9 35 244 Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm 5 6 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada 34 4 n 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 29 —3O 1 Carsons's Creek par 40 all Cobre Copper 46 47 3 1 Colonial Gold 2l 34 4 •-• 14 Copiapo — • 51 St. all Copper Min. of Eng 7O 25 all Do. Pref. 74 p. cent 74 —84 p 5 all English and Austin Copper Smeltg. Co l4 d 4 20 all General lB —2O 2 all Great Nugget Vein 3 31 p 5/ 3 all Great Polgooth l4 —ll p 1 all Lake Bathurst idis— par I 1 all Liberty P 1 all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co — d 1 all Mariquita d— par 10 9 Mexicau&S.Americn 8 91 984 1 all New Granada 1 all Nouveau Monde l# 11 2g # 1 Port Philip 1 lip 14 2 1 1 1 1 all Quartz Rock par —• * p 50 all Rhymney Iron 22 —24 p 15 Do. New 7 —7i 30 101 Santiago de Cuba 74 84 1 all South Australian par 1 p 10 7 Tin Croft ....... ....... 284 all United Mexican 64 7 6/ 1 all Waller — p 1 1 all West Granada p 1 all West Mariposa par— p 17 all Yuba — 6 P JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 924 934 934 50 all British N. American ... 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 21 —24 p 100 25 Colonial — 100 20 Commercial of Lond — ... 10 English Scottish and Australian 2 - 3 p 20 124 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 5l —54 p 184 50 20 London and County — 50 10 London Joint Stock — 100 20 Lond. & Westminster 20 2 London Bank of Aus tralia and India 50 224 National of Ireland — 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation. 55 56 55,1 25 5 Do. New — 100 25 Provincial of Ireland 10 all Do. New ••• 6 1 Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp Co.._ par 25 all South Australia 5l 53 50 25 all Union of Australia 774 784 784 ... 24 Do. New S 50 10 Union of London 40 all Union of Madrid.. •• • MISCELLANEOUS I [OO 35 Australian Agricult. 112 116 / ( 110 7 20 4 Australsn.Pcitie. Mail ... ... 10 5 Australu . Royal Mail ... ... ... 38i Brit. American Land ... ... .00 321 Canada — ... 5 5 Crystal Palace a— ... G ia 4 4 2 Crystal Pal.of France ~. ... 20 1 Eastern Steam — ... 1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir .. ... 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat ... -- 00 50 General Screw Steam ... ... 11,1 20 *4 Irish Beetroot Suga r ... ~. 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel ... ... 10 2 Netherlands Laud._ . ... 20 2A Nrth.ofEuropeSteam ... ... 50 all Peninsular& Orient a l ... ... 84 50 25 Do. 00 60 Royal Mail Steam ... .._ ... 25 25 South Austral. Land 60 62 594 1 1 Submar. Telegraph ... __ ... 5 2 Univeral Emigration and Colonization ... ... DO 28i Van Diemen's Land 22 23 24i rlitdr Xtittion. WARWICK RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) GREAT WARWICK HANDICAP. Little Davie Conmore .... i~ Thirteen ran. TWO-YEAR•OLD STAKES. First Lord . Contender Three Ran. MARKET NEWS=(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Notwithstanding that the supply of English wheat on sale in to-day's market was very limited, and in but mid ling condition, the demand for all descriptions was in a depressed state, and low qualities were freely offered at is per quarter beneath last week's quotations. For forward delivery very little was doing. The show of fresh foreign wheat was small, but a full average number of granaried samples was brought forward. Good heavy wheats realised full prices ; but all other kinds were dull, at barely late rates. The arrival of floating cargoes off the coast has increased to some extent, yet prices were not lower. Fine barley was scarce, and quite as d ear ; gr i n di ng an d distilling sorts were very dull. We had a fair inquiry for malt, the val ue o f w hi c h was well supported. T B l e l a e n osa,t peas, trade and flour m was slow, at Monday's offprices. slowly, a t l a t e cur rencies. Wheat. 2,320 English .. Irish •• •• Foreign .. ARRIVALS MIS WIRY. , 1 Barley. } Malt. I Oats. 2,910 5,180 630 100 1,780 950 350 3,430 Flour. 1,280 12,140 WHITECHAPEL. For each kind of meat at this market to-day the inquiry was in a very sluggish state, at our quotations Beef, 2s Bd. to 38 6d ; mutton, 3s 64:1 to 4s 6d ; veal, 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; pork, 2s 6d to 4s Od per Sibs by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. Our mal d. e e tcontinues steady, and last week's prices are well supp LLOYD'S SHIPPING---(THIS DA T) E. LONDON, March 16.—Wind at Noon, and cloudy. The St. George, London to' light breeze, Port Philip, struck on a reef at Port Philip on the 28th Dec, and was run on shore, the water flowing in and out of her; crew and passengers saved. DEAL, March 15.—Wind, E.S.E. Arrived—Swithamley, China ; Salvador°, Boston ; Johanna, New York ; Patrick Henry, do. ; Laura, Rio Janeiro, for Hamburgh ; Gustao, New Orleans. Sailed—Diana, Sydney, N.S.W. Arrived from the River, and sailed—Frolic, for the South Seas ; Urania, Melbourne ; Greeian Queen, do. ; Andalusia, New York ; Eliza, Trinidad. OFF THE WlGHT.—Brothers, Calcutta, for Hull. OTF DOVER, March 15.—Dona Teresa, New Orleans. LOWESTOFFE, March 15.—The James, of and from London for Seaham, has been brought in leaky, having struck on Newcome Sand. HULL, March 15.—Sailed—Rose, Davies' Straits. PORTSMOUTH, March 15.—Wind, S.W. Sailed—Onega, Rio Janeiro. Put back—Moslem, Colcutta. LiTzurooL, March 15.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Rising Sun, New Orleans ; Peter Marey, do. ; Falcon Sydney, N.S.W., on freight 14,655 oz. of g old ; Samuel Badger, New Orleans ; Alberta, do. ; Polly, do. ; New Brunswick, do. • laws, Savannah ; Leonie, Charleston ; Alwine, do. ; Western World, New Arctic, do. • Arendina, 'Ja cobs • ch a mpion, Boston ; Paragon, ' Newfoundland. Sailed—Bryn-y-Mor, Pernambuco. Off Port—Emigrant, Mary Holland, and America. PLYMOUTH, March 15.-- Wind, S. Sailed—Lady Jocels (s), Cape of Good Hope and Calcutta. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at five o'clock. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from certain individuals complaining of the restriction of the office of examiner in the Court of Chancery to barristers. The LORD CHANCELLOR explained that the duties now imposed upon the office could not be dis charged by any but barristers. Lord ST. LEONARDS concurred in this view. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Mr. R. Owen, praying for a select committee on the subject of education. The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented a petition from East Retford, praying for the extension of bank rupt jurisdiction to county courts ; and petitions from Southampton and Birmingham in favour of the admis sion of Jews into Parliament. On the motion of the Earl of CLARENDON, the Slave Trade (Sohar in Arabia and New Grenada) , Bills were read a second time. On the motion of, Lord STANLEY of Alderley, the Designs Act Extension Bill was read a second time. On the motion of Lord STANLEY of Alderley, the Grand Jury Cess (Ireland) Bill passed through com mittee. On the motion of Lord STANLEY of Alderley, the Indemnity Bill was read a second time. On the motion of Lord STANLEY of Alderley, the Inland Revenue Bill was read a third time, and passed. On the motion of Lord STANLEY of Alderley, the Commons Inclosure Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the office of Examiner (Court of Chancery) Bill was re ported, and, as amended, agreed to. 74a xd xd ad ad 91 i . d Pm 76 d 10t xd 9 xd 1191 20 19ix d x d 291 761 5a ad 59i xd Pm li pin 15 x d 06 z d 1483 RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. The Earl of MALMESBURY rose to call the atten tion of her Majesty's Government to a correspondence which has taken place between Mr. Spence and the Board of Trade, on the subject of a bridge on the North Shields Railway. Since the last time he had addressed their lordships, a fortnight ago, five railway accidents of the most serious nature had taken place, in conse quence of which, 11 persons had been suddenly destroyed, and 40 others seriously, if not permanently injured. He considered that these accidents were all owing to mis management on the part of the railway company, and the want of some proper supervision of the Government. This superintending power might, he thought, be well exercised in overlooking the state of the roads, in fixing a maximum of speed, and in fixing also a minimum of the intervals between the starting of trains. Lord STANLEY of Alderley, said the subject was one of great importance, and claimed a great share of the consideration of the Government. No steps, how ever, could be taken until the report of the Committee of the House of Commons now sitting was presented. After a few words from Lord BRAUMONT and Lord GALWAY, the subject dropped. COUNTY COURTS. Lord BROUGHAM rose to move for certain returns containing the same information with respect to the superior courts of law which had already been furnished to the other house of Parliament with respect to the county courts. The noble lord said that he would take that opportunity of setting right a mistake which had gone a..)road with respect to a statement which he had made a few nights ago, as to the amount of the sums re coverel in the county courts as contrasted with the enormms amount of taxes levied in those courts in the form d fees. He had stated that a sum of 272,0001. had been bvied during the last year in the form of law taxes, and tat that bore a great proportion to the whole amend of sums recovered in those courts. Six hun dred and odd thousand pounds had been the amount of tho sums recovered by judgment ; but this by no wears represented the whole amount recovered, for it might perhaps be said that not less than 100,0001. had been paid into court, and that sums to the amount of 300,0001. had been settled by the parties ; so that they had to compare this 272,0001., whi:th was extorted from the suitors in law taxes, with 1,000,0001. or 1,200,0001. recovered by this beneficial system of local judicature, but their lordships would see that that the law taxes still bore a large proportion to the sums recovered. Nevertheless, he was bound to adnit that notwithstanding this evil, which it would be their duty to remedy, the advantage was prodigious waich suitors and the public had gained by this admir- able system of local judicature, and he could not h e lp hoping that the system would be improved in England, . rind would be extended to Scotland. The difficulties which stood in the way of extending the system to Scot land were all but insuperable ; but he thought that they might do so much as this, namely, to extend to Scotland a local judicature to the amount of 50/., parol proceedings and not written proceedings, and no appeal to the sheriff from the local court, nor from the local court to a non-resi dent judge, but an appeal, as in England, on matters of law alone, to the Supreme Court. If so much were given to Scotland, he thought that the most prodigious advan tage would be gained by that country, and the agitation now existing against the whole of the system at present established would be put an end to. He was rejoiced to learn that the Government had resolved to issue a commission to inquire into the whole of that great sub ject, the assimilation of the mercantile law in the differ ent parts of the United Kingdom. The most important branch of the subject, and that which had most occu pied the attention of the English mercantile interests, both in the provinces and in the city of London, was the assimilation in a certain degree, and in some manner, of the law of bankruptcy and insolvency. He would not say that this could be done by applying the English system entirely to Scotland, nor by substituting the Scotch system in place of our own, but in all probability they might arrive at a third system better than either, and compounded of the best ports of both ; and he had that the result of the inquiries about to be instituted would tend substantially to effect that object. He was about to present a bill to their lordships, which he considered as going in a right direction, and which, if the English system were to be applied to Scotland— namely, that of administering bankruptcy in a court and by judges, of giving the inestimable blessing of official assignees to that country, and the equally solid advantage in a legal, commercial, and moral view of three classes of certificates—would be found to work out those objects satisfactorily. He would not pledge him self to the whole of the details of the bill, nor would he undertake to say that he might not upon inquiry be of opinion that it would be inexpedient to apply to Scotland the bankruptcy system which was established in this country. But if the principles of our English system could be safely and beneficially applied to Scot land, then he felt that the great mercantile body, whose wishes and views he on that occasion represented, would have done good service by urging upon their lordships' attention the details and principles of the bill which he had now the honour of laying on their lordships' table. His lordship concluded by moving the first reading of the bill, which was entitled, "An Act to Improve the Administration of Bankruptcy and Insolvency in Scot land." The bill was read a first time, and the returns moved for by the noble and learned lord were agreed to. Lord WIIARNCLIFFE gave notice that he should ask the Postmaster-General on an early day, whether _ _ her Majesty's Government proposed to take any mea sures for the more certain transmission of mails to Aus- tralia, and particularly for enforcing the contract for that purpose with the Australian Royal Mail Steam Na- vigation Company. __ _ Their lords'hip; then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The report upon the Redruth and Chasewater Rail way Bill was brought up and agreed to. ISLE OF WIGHT RAILWAY BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. VANSITTART moved that the bill be read a second time this day six months, on the ground that it was opposed by the inhabitants of the island. Mr. LAING saw no reason for departing from the usual course adopted by the house, of allowing railway bills to be read a second time, in order to be referred to a committee. He stated that at all the public meet ings held in the Isle °Might in reference to the railway, with the exception of one, had passed resolutions in favour of the project. Mr. HARCOURT said the majority of the landowners in the island, as well as a great number of the respect able tradesmen in the four principal towns, were opposed to the construction of the railway. He had no interest either one way or the other, but he thought it right to state the facts, and to leave the house in its wisdom to say whether or not the project should be proceeded with. Mr. CROMPTON and Sir R. H. INGLIS supported the amendment. The house then divided, when there appeared— For the second reading 92 Against it 133 Majority The bill was consequently lost. LONDON AND MID-WESTERN RAILWAY BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Sir R. H. INGLIS opposed the bill, as it would ap proach the Observatory of Oxford University within a quarter of a mile, and greatly interfere with observations from that building. Mr. OLIVEIRA said he believed the authorities of the University were in favour of the bill. He should be happy in committee to come to any arrangement with the right hon. bart., or any bf the authorities of the University, with the view of obviating the objections which he had mentioned. He hoped the right hon. gentleman would be satisfied with this assurance. The bill was then read a second time. LONDON (WATFORD) SPRING WATER COM- PANY'S BILL, Sir B. HALL moved the second reading of this bill. He regretted to hear that it was about to be opposed, but he understood that the only opposition to it came from the existing metropolitan water com panies, who were anxious to prevent any competition, and to maintain their present monopoly. The hon. bart. complained of the bad and impure water which the old companies at present supplied, and said the only way to insure a better supply was to allow unrestricted com petition. He trusted the House would read the bill a second time, s• that it might be se n t t o comm i ttee to undergo the strictest investigation, and then, if it turned out all moonshine and unnecessary, it would be the duty of the house to reject it. Mr. HALSEY moved that the bill be read a second time this day six months. He objected to the bill because it would operate injuriously to the interests of the existin. companies. Lord D. STUART hoped the house would agree to the second reading of the bill. He thought it was too bad that in these days of free trade they should be pre vented from having free trade in one of the first neces saries of life. Lord PALMERSTON said he should vote upon the bill, in accordance with an answer which he had given on a former occasion on the same subject. By an act of last session, there were imposed on the present companies obligations in respect to the supply of water, which were attended by great expense, and there would be considerable delay before their necessary works could be carried into effect. He, therefore, thought it would not be in accordance with the under standing implied by that act that they should sanction another bill before the time had expired for the comple tion of the works of the old companies, and before it was known whether these works were sufficient to meet the wants of the metropolis. Whatever objections were made to the present supply of water, the supply by thi s company was not a lt oge th er f ree from objection, as it would come from a chalk country. The house then divided. when there appeared— For the second reading Against it. 253 3iajority The bill was thus loSt. HUDDERSFIELD ELECTION, Mr. WALPOLE brought up the report of the Hud dersfield Election Committee, declaring Mr. Stansfield to have been unduly returned, and stating that at the last election treating was general and extravagant. CIRENCESTER ELECTION. Mr. LASCELLES brought up the report of the Ciren- cester Election Committee, declaring Mr. Ponsonby duly elected. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Lord D. STUART gave notice that, early after Easter, he should move for a select committee, to inquire into the state of the metropolitan police. Sir B. HALL gave notice that, early after Easter, he should move for leave to bring in a bill to extend the provisions of the Municipal Reform Act to the City of London, so as to give all the ratepayers the municipal franchise, and also to limit the time of servitude by al dermen, and to enable the municipality to choose a lord mayor from their own body. (Hear.) WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. Sir DE LACY EVANS wished to ask the Commis sioner of Works, whether it be -his intention to proceed with the bill which was prepared by the late Government for the reconstruction of Westminster-bridge ; and if not, what is intended in respect to the ruinous and dan gerous state of the present structure. Sir W. MOLESWORTH must admit that Westmin ster-bridge was in a ruinous and almost dangerous con dition. The late Government had come to a determina tion to pull down the bridge and to construct a new one upon precisely the same site. That determination be thought was wise and judicious, and it was his inten tion to adopt it. At no distant period two additional bridges would be required, one to pass from Charing cross, and the other from the centre of Lambeth, but at present he was only preparing plans for Westminster- • bridge, which would be handsome, wide, and at right angles to the new Houses of Parliament. THE AUSTRALIAN. Sir J. PAKINGTON called the attention of the house to the recent return of the Australian steam-ship to Ply mouth, and reminded hon. members that the Melbourne, belonging to the same company, which sailed in October, was compelled to put into Lisbon, while the Adelaide, which sailed in December, had to return in distress to Plymouth. Under these circumstances, he wished to ask what steps Government intended to take in the matter for the protection of the public in future. Sir J. GRAHAM said the manner in which the Australian Royal Mail Steam Packet Company had carried out their contract was most objectionable, and both the late and the present Government had exacted penalties from then in consequence. At present, how ever, a committee of the Government, with the Post master General at its head, was sitting upon this very subject, and until he had the report of that committee in his hand he should not be prepared to state what steps ought to be taken in future. RAJA BROOKE. Mr. HUME wished to ask Lord J. Russell, whether, " as Sir James Brooke had petitioned the House of Com mons to do him justice, and had applied to her Majesty's Ministers for their support," it was the intention of the Government to institute any inquiry into the proceedings in Borneo, before Sir James Brooke left England. Lord J. RUSSELL replied in the negative. HOUSE TAX. Mr. W. MITCHELL wished to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it was his intention to intro duce, in the course of the present session, any measure for the alteration or repeal of the Act 14 and 15 Vic., c. 36, relating to the inhabited house tax! The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could give no answer to this question until the time arrived 1 for his making the financial statement. (Hear.) REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, &c., IN IRELAND. Mr. COGAN wished to ask the Secretary for Ireland Whether it is the intention of her Majesty's Government to introduce any measure for a general registration of births, death, and marriages in Ireland, in accordance with the recommendation in the third report of the Registrar-General of marriages in Ireland. Sir J. YOUNG said such a measure was in prepara tion, but he could not say when he should be able to bring it in. CONVICT CHAPLAIN. Mr. F. SCULLY wished to ask the Under Sec retary for the Colonies whether any Roman Catholic chaplain had been yet appointed to the convict establish ment in Western Australia, and what was the amount of his salary ? Mr. F. PEEL had not heard of such an appointment, but all the facts connected with the amount of salary would be found in the last convict papers. ATTORNEYS' AND SOLICITORS' CERTIFICATE DUTY. On the motion of Lord R. GROSVENOR, the order of the day for the second reading of the bill for the abolition of the duty was read and discharged, as the bill contained an informality. The NOBLE LORD then moved for leave to bring in an amended bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER inti mated that the motion could not be made without notice, and it was postponed accordingly. CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. BOROUGH OF CANTERBURY. Mr. K. SEYMER said he was not going to propose, as he had done in the case of Great Yarmouth, to disfran chise any part of the electors, but he coincided in opinion with the other members who tried the Canterbury election petition, that further inquiry was necessary. He might take it for granted that there existed generally a wish on the part of the house to put an end to bribery and corrup tion. (Hear, hear.) An HON. MEMBER—It is all humbug. (Laughter.) Mr. K. SEYMER—An honourable gentleman said it was all humbug, but he must admit, at all events, that the election committees appointed by the house had done their duty. (Hear, hear.) Whatever might be thought of it, the great body of the middle classes, who stood aloof from those proceedings, who were neither in a position to take nor to offer bribes, viewed the system with increased dis gust. (Hear, hear.) It was advisible that the House of Commons should take the lead, instead of lagging behind public opinion, because ho did not know of any question on which it was more dangerous to be behindhand than on this question of election bribery. (Hear, hear.) It might do very well for the gentlemen who were employed to attend to those matters to have a list of boroughs for which gen tlemen could be returned, but he trusted that the great body of the house would have no sympathy for those gen tlemen. (Hear.) After the publicity that had been given to these matters by the press, it was impossible to think that the claim for amendment would be rejected, and he trusted that in his efforts to enforce it he would have the support of honourable gentlemen opposite. (Hear, hear.) They had their own views with regard to the preven tion of bribery and corruption, but he thought it would be admitted that, Parliament having in its wisdom passed a measure to prevent bribery, that measure ought to have a fair trial. (Hear.) The gentleman on his own side of the house were specially bound to support his proposition, and it was necessary that such powers as they possessed should be put in force on every fitting occasion for the prevention of this system. (Hear.) There were thousands of persons not admitted to the elective fran chise who were proudly conscious that if they were ad mitted to it they would not abuse it as it had been abused by certain electors of Canterbury ; and if they showed any tenderness towards those who systematically abused the franchise, such a storm of indignation might be raised as would sweep away the whole of the representative system, and endanger the constitutions of the country. (Hear.) With these observations he should now state to the house what had taken place at the last Canterbury election. (Hear.) There were in the city of Canterbury two par ties, designated by the names of "the blues" and "the reds." He might pay them the great compliment of saying that they had no political opinions. (Laughter.) They were neither Whig nor Tory, Protectionist nor Free-trader ; and even the cry of " a big loaf' would produce little effect amongst certain classes of the electors, unless it was accom paniedported, and they met with the by a colourman's ticket. (Laughter.) At the last election " the blue" party hadpaartbyst.ainmedeafrro; tThheelp. rhad the office of Mr. Ward, and on 'Which the committee re the most decided defeat. (Laughter.) Therefore all they the red" ed a t . t° dohead quarterswiwthereweassta"b an elector went to the committee at Ward's be put down as a messenger, and if the legal and asked to managed these matters thought there authority who the voter, he was put down as a messenger was no objection to (Hear, hear.) But the electors accordingly. of the law made their being put downwho knew nothing condition for giving their votes, as messenger the the evidence of William Pickering., as would be found by would be found that Mr. Taylor, in the report. It down the names, took the the gentleman who put to have his name put down same view. When a man asked promised his vote ;he as a messenger, he asked if he said he would go to the con - o to see if all was right, a he put down the n and when he went to the coninn'we would also receive 1 name, (Hear, hear.) The person be co ourmen's tickets—that is, he aske d t° allowed to recommend f whom received ten shillings two . persons, each 0 voted for one after the election. If an elector . candidate he got one colourman'slon. ticket, and if he voted for two candidates he got two COlOUTlVentttiat the last value of which varied at different times, b . e li It would be election it amounted to ten shillings, t ir e i r votes to "the found that persons who had Pmm is n eu t t o got colourmen's blues," on finding that they wer° One man went to "the tickets, went to the red party. Ad co l o urman's ticket said he blues," and on being refl . ' s— 4 • never had been so insulted. (Laughter.) He said that on going to the chairman of the committee he was treated in a way that he had Never been treated in his life, because the chairman turned his back on him and and refused to give him a colourman's ticket. (Hear.) Those tickets were considered a valuable security ; they were circulated in the borough of Canterbury, and dis counted in the market at Bs. a-piece. One man said he could have bought a dozen of them in the streets of Canter bury, as would be found on reference to the evidence of James Wilson, p. 37. (Hear.) The holder of the ticket went to Taylor on the day of nomination, who punched the ticket as was done by a railway officer, and gave it back to the holder with another ticket for ls., and the same process was repeated on the day of polling. He mentioned that to show how very complete the system was. Had these tickets been given on the day of election to voters who had come some distance to poll, he should npt have thought very much of the matter, for he did think in counties, where the electors had to travel considerable distances to a Polling place, or in boroughs, where voters, temporarily non-resident, had to undertake a journey for such a pur pose, some moderate system of allowing refreshments was not o bjectionable—(hear, hear) —provided it was so ma naged as not to become a sort of corruption to publicans. The colour tickets having been purchased or obtained in the manner he had mentioned, they were finally taken to Mr. Smith, an d t h e holders of them received 10s. each. To prove how entirely colourable the employment was, he might state that a boy, six years old, receivul one of them, and afterwards exchanged it for money. It might be asked what benefit the electors got from all this? The house would find how, in some remarkable way or other, the actual hard cash obtained on the colour tickets came in some instances to the electors. The election, in fact, seemed to be a period for the recovery of small debts. An elector who could not get in any other way iimnev which was owing to him, obtained a colourman's ticket for his debtor, on the understanding that some of the money got for it was to go in discharge of the debt due to the voter. Other of the voters again put down fictitious names for colonrmen's tickets, and actually sent and got the money for them, which they put into their own pocket s . Trifling, however, as all these sums were, they were the conditions on which the men voted. (Hear, hear.) They formed inducements for violating their promises, and for voting contrary to their principles, if, indeed, such men had principles at all ; and so far from thinking the small ness of the sums told in favour of the voter, he (Mr. Ker Seymer) thought it told against him. It showed the small esteem in which the electors held the elective franchise. When a poor voter was *mpted by what appeared to him an almost fabulous sum to break his promise, one would be disposed to have some sympathy with him; but at Canter bury the electors held so cheaply the franchise with which they were entrusted by the constitution that in many in stances they were willing to barter it for less than a pound. He said such a state of things was intolerable ' and men esteeming the elective franchise so lowly should no longer be allowed to disgrace their country. (Cheers.) One Allen Engleman, an old freeman of Canterbury, and a very re markable witness, gave the history of all the elections there within his memory to the committee, and it appeared from his statement that for a long series of years a universal system of corruption had obtained in that city by means of those small payments to sham colourmen. In all those corrupt boroughs, when they were submitted to inquiry before a parliamentary committee, some expression or other generally fell from the witnesses to indicate the nature of the corrupt influence which prevailed in them. For example, a witness would say he exp ec t e d i n g i v i ng hi s vo t e t o b e treated as all the rest were treated, or that he thought he should have a freeman's right or a freeman's treatment. There were some other cases of a different nature. For instance, a man went into a public-house during the election at Can terbury with an agent, and after the interview found 4/. lying on the table. The man afterwards made no secret in saying the 4/. was given for his vote. He was in poor circumstances, and in fact asked for the 4/. In another case two voters went into an unoccupied bed-room of a house where they had been instructed to go, and there they found, one of them 5/. the other 31. They afterwards said they supposed those sums were placed there because they voted in a particular way. He thought he had now stated enough to show what was the system carried on at Canterbury at the last election. With regard to the num ber of persons bribed by those colour tickets, a list of 350 was handed into the committee ; but of course it could not be expected that the petitioners would go to anything like the expense of proving such a large number of cases. He thought, however, it might be fairly inferred that a great portion of the electors were bribed at the last election for Canterbury. The house was aware that, in order to have an address to the Crown for a commission in a case of this kind, the concurrence of the other house was neces sary. He thought it almost a pity that the statute con tained such a provision, because he feared it might lead to delay, and because he was one of those who thought the house should not unnecessarily delay, even for one day, the issuing of writs to boroughs whose members had been unseated, so as to deprive the honest and bona fide electors of their right to be represented in that house. He could not go into the history of the previous elections for Can terbury. He was told, however, that the election before the last was uncontested, and therefore a pure election ; and if that was so, the commission for which he meant to move would be limited to the last election. He had been told that he had no locus standi for a motion of this nature, inasmuch as the committee in the Canterbury case had not reported that the bribery practised at the last election was "extensive," in conformity with the term used in the statute. But he would remind the house that they reorted that it had been " gene ra l an d sys tematic," which he thought was tantamount to its being " extensive." (Hear, hear.) He felt he had now done his duty in bringing this question before the house, he thanked them for the att e nti on w ith w hi c h they had listened to him, and he confidently left the case in their hands. (Cheers.) The hon. gentleman concluded by moving that an address be issued to the Crown, for a com mission to inquire into the state of the borough of Can terbury. The question having been put, Mr. MALINS, as a member of the Canterbury election committee, thought the justice of the case would not be met if the proposed inquiry was limited to tae last e:ec- Lion. Evidence was adduced before the corn:nit:too show ing that for the last 53 years colourinen's tickets had been given at eloctions, both on the one side and on the It might be some satisfaction to the house to know that it was made perfectly clear to the committee that the p:ae tice in question prevailed only.amor.g the lower class of voters in Canterbury. There was no single insk.nce proved of a ten-pound householder having availed hinrelf of a colourman's ticket. The practice was limited to the fi eu ' men alone • and a more miserable class of persons than those brought before the committee to give evidence it was impossible to conceive. He thought any lion. member who would take the trouble of rearing through the evi dence would come to the conclusion that there was but one remedy against the repetition of the practices which had so long prevailed in the city of Canterbury, and that was to prevent the franchise descending to the class of persons who had so lamentably abused it. (Hear, hear.) Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said he did not rise for the purpose of opposing the motion of the hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. K. Seymer), but he did not see, as the hon. gentleman pro fessed to do, any great anxiety on the part of that house to put an end to the abuses in our representative system. He (Mr. T. Duncombe) confessed he was not competent to form an opinion on that point. He should be able to form such an opinion if ho saw on the table of the house the new Reform Bill—the bill, ho might say, which was to re-reform the representation. (A laugh.) Until he saw that bill, and the mode in which the house dealt with it, he would not say that the House of Commons was anxious to put down corruption. He wanted especially to see how honourable gentlemen opposite would deal with a bill that should greatly extend the franchise. (Laughter.) If it was possible to arrange that there should be no con stituency under 20,000—(oh, and hear, hear)—he was quite satisfied that bribery would be put down, for it would be utterly hopeless to attempt to bribe so large a constituency ; but so long as the present small borough constituencies re mained, things would continue as they were. He did not believe with the hon. and learned gentleman opposite (Mr. Malins) that poor men as a body were more corrupt than many of the rich among the borough constituencies. (Hear, hear.) The hon. gentlemen opposite (Mr. K. Sey suer) had said that the election committees on this occasion had nobly done their duty. He (Mr. T. Duncombe) sup pbeois.sedanhdo m m a er in t g b s y p t e li ci a a t l t re h p ey or h ts a . d b ( e A en la u u n g s h e . a ) tin li g ethche.dmenmot say the 'committees had not done their duty. .So they did during the last Parliament. Then there was the same sort of corruption disclosed ar3 now; and ho (Mr. T. Buncombe) was afraid that all this virtuous indignation against bri- bery and corruption among committees of that house was too good to last. (Laughter.) Thirty-three petitions were tried during the last Parliament—not all for bribery, some being on the ground of want of qualification, and others for prematurely closing the poll—in twenty of which the members were unseated on the ground of bri bery and corruption. In ten of those twenty cases special reports were made. There was the Great Yar mouth case, in which the members were unseated, and the committee reported that there had been systematic bri bery and treating, and recommended the disfranchisement a a r w i s i c li h n , etrh thatchye the freemen ; Lyme Regis, in which there was a special expenses ; during B the e w w d l e e e y i treating et e i negi election, i on,public housesandreport ; Carlisle, extensive bribery and treating—(derisive laughter from the Opposition)—carried on under what wa g called travelling and beer-shopsdrink H ar w givenHarwich was a a s w: tool old and large a n d peti tions, and the members three times unseated—hutincorrigibleeerii;li house had given up dealing with it altogether, Lincoln, treating, and a special report ; peril (Laughter.) hers unseated—bribery and treating, with the' the mem of the Right Hon. Edward Strutt and the knowledge Gower, the sitting members. (Laughter. Hon. Leveson members unseated on the ground of bribe). Leicester, the and the attention of the house r ry and corruption Aylesbury, ss. refreshment tickes ecommended to the case ; after the poll, the member ung t mended before and and, lastly, St. Albans, which eated ' and a sPeeial report ; of a member was not al proved that the unseating because there the memb ways a criterion of corruption, bill had passed for ers were allowed to sit though a Now what was disfranchisingthe cure the borough. (Laughter.) cure for all that? He confessed his only hope w as i n the new Refor m Bill. The noble lord Russell) had promised to re-reform the represen tation, and. he was wellanything like the bill, that he introducedaware that the bill l or u d not do on the present occasion. ___. last y ear we ) had great hopes He (Mr. T. Duncombe of the bill that was to be ". introduced, in consequence of the intro speech of th e right lion. baronet the member for Carlisle. (Laughter.) Ever since the Reform Bill passed, he (Mr. D ne n 1-_, 11 rauc) had made more motions with the view to cure insufficiencies i n th e R e form Bill, thanhe believed, any other member of that house ; a h o nourable baronet thend one of his greatest antagonists had been the right But now that the member for Carlisle. (Laughter.) broken his sword, and right hon. gentleman ha d d heal Mr. Dunconibe) looked thrown away the scabbard, afford vuable assistance in pre upon him as likely tro fil. 1 The right honourable gentle raring a good Reform constituents at Carlisle that he was not man lately told his inan _o nu ghter.)—neither was he Lord John Russell's reparing a new `buttßorm Bill, the Go- Derbyite ; thr.t in not to begin de novo, t ought no Bill h I left off. " Why did vermnen o s Reform a, wher i „, e , the pre a viScnhedule Ar said the right hon. baronet ; y ou e off have t a schedule schedule D." so said "let us now be) . let Parliament but extend the con be (Mr. Duncom , s tituencies, so as to make i . t perfectly hopeless to attempt • and they would have no more petitions t o c orrupt thew, . b bribery and treating from the city of Car complaining of bri lisle. (Laugh ter and cheers.) A c onversa tion arose out of an objection made by Lo r d John Manners, as to whether the address was in accord ance with the decision of the comtuittee and the terms of the Act of Parliament. Ultimately the motion for the address was agreed to, and ordered to be carried up to the House of Lords. _ BLACKBURN ELECTION. Mr. W. PATTEN presented a petition from the mayor an d magistrates of Blackburn, signed by all parties, and among them by the gentlemen upon whose petition the late member, Mr. Eccles, had been unseated, praying that a writ for a new election might immediately issue. The hon. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1853.