The Sun. — London, England, 1853-05-04 00:00:00

• oome a candidate for that borough without being led into o • cor rupt practices of this kind. That was a statement to which which he (Lord J. Russell) could not give (Hear, hear.) He could understand its being said his a ssent. said (though a he thought that would be a most unfounded. st tt, h ) that a candidate could not go to Ch a thamw do ith ok ou yar tb d ei a n p g . so beset by applications for pr omotion in the pointments in the hands of theGtoovtehrenmtheoantpttai there, that but he really could not avoid yielding that there should be any such t em ptation oter yb at t C h h e a s t i h tu am atio a n s to oblige the candidat e to bribeth e v Post-office, was really a of letter-carrier, a situation in the s t a t emen t which appearraetoxo, h h i e m ar.) utt H er e ly co t. i t ( h i without i any a - - thing like foundatio n. gine that Chatham, any more than any other borough , was in such a position that a man could not be a cand idate there without promising placesin of th t e he P o o o st m -o m ffi it c t e e . e, th en ano ther gentleman, a member fore he could not vote said that he believed Sir F. Smith did not intend to influence this voter, and there corruptly for prosecuting Sir F. Smith. The lion. ge t n e t l l i e ef, quite right, if that was his conscientious man not was to vote for such a resolution ; but what he (Lord J,R u c s o s u el l l d ) cou ld not understand was, how th e hon. member have been a party to this report. (HeF, E hear.)F h o a r d t n h o e house was placed in this diffi cult y —if Sir F.Smith corrupt intention of influencing a vote the w a la s ol t e h m at at o t f er in of f. the offence was wiped out , for the offence w fluencing a voter by giving a bribe with the o ught not to have been a report ; and in that case there charging naemer h s im of grave offence. (Hear , hear.) . Other com mittee had taken a different view ; one of them had stated that he was convinced that Sir F. Smith was guilty of bribery ; yet it appeared that it was not their wish that a prosecution should be instituted. (Hear.) Upon the whole, this plac ed the house in a situation of great diffi culty. He had no doubt the committee agreed to what they thought right, but he could not but consider that they ought either to have stated that Sir F. Smith had, in their opinion, been guilty of bribery, and to have supported a motion of this kind, or they ought not to have preferred this grave charge in their report. (Hear, hear.) He thought it would be very difficult to allow to stand upon the records of the house the solemn resolution which the hon. baronet (Sir J. Shelley) had read, and which had been recorded as a resolution of the house for a great number of years, and not to take notice of a case which was brought before them by a corn , mittee specially appointed to inquire into the matter. The justice of the house would be very ill-satisfied by reso lutions to which they frequently came, that persons much distressed in point of pecuniary circumstances should be prosecuted by the Attorney-General on account of corrupt transactions in which they had taken part ; the character of the house would hardly stand well if it should appear that they ordered a prosecution, without any hesitation, in the case of 10 or 20 persons in a low condition of life, but that when it came to a person of distinction and sta tion the house would not consent. Therefore, he (Lord J. Russell) thought the house was placed in g reat difficulty. He had said that he did not think it was the business of the Government in any way to attempt to influence the de - 1 *ikon of the house ; he h a d mean t t o give his vote, and allow the question to pass without taking any part in the dis cussion, if he had not been appealed to. He thought, per haps, in consideration of the unanimous wish of the com mittee, the house might refrain from instituting this pro secution ; but at the same time he felt that this was a course which would expose the house to a great miscon struction. The committee had brought them into that position that he should find it very difficult hereafter to vote for any prosecution by the Attorney-General in any case whatever after this case had been passed over. (Hear, hear.) He did not know that it might not be as well that the resolution should be expunged, and the prosecution not take place. He did not know that it was a very effectual way of repressing bribery. But he thought, to prosecute all the low and poor persons, and pass over cases like this, weuld be a course fatal to the reputation of the house (hear, hear); and if the house were of opinion, as they seemed to be, that they should not prosecute in this case, he should come down in any future case where a prosecu tion by the law officers might be proposed, and give his vote against it. (Hear, hear.) After an explanation on the part of Mr. NEWDEGATE, which was drowned in the cries for a division, Mr. S. WORTLEY said he could have understood the line of argument of the noble lord, if the house had had before it nothing but the report of the committee and the opinions now given by its members; but the evidence taken had been laid on the table, and if there was any use in lay ing the evidence on the table, it surely was to enable the house to judge whether they should take any ulterior pro ceedings. (Hear.) It would be well for the house to con sider, before consenting to this motion, whether it would not be regarded oat of doors as having an appearaece of vindictive feeling—(oh!)—or of making a scapegoat for many offenders (Hear, hear.) He could not conceive it possible that a conviction should take place—(hear, hear) - - and the house would do well to be cautious of venturing open proceedings so grave with a prospect of discomfiture and defeat. (Hear.) It seemed that the law adviser of the Crown held that there was ground for a prosecution. That could only be, he appr e h en d e d, by ma ki ng use o f th e examination of Sir F. Smith himself. But that was con trary to the whole spirit of our criminal procedure. (Hear.) It was the practice of other countries for prisoners to be interrogated by the judge and cross-examined by coun sel ; thank God it was not the practice of this country, but if the evidence of Sir F. Smith was to be made the foundation of a prosecution, we should make a precedent which might be most mischievous in its consequences. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL explained that the right hon. and learned member was mistaken ; the law officers of the Crown, in giving the guarded opinion which the house had heard, had proceeded upon the general evidence in the case. He would warn the house against sitting in judg ment upon the decision of its committees. (Divide.) Sir J. SHELLEY said that, after the speech of the noble lord, he should certainly go to a division. (Divide.) Mr. DRUMMOND, who was met with a renewed call for a division, was very sorry to be obliged to spoil an y gentleman's dinner, but had still more reluctance to allow this debate to close without entering his protest, and giving his reasons for so doing, against the course now insisted upon by the honourable baronet. He agreed with the hon. member for Oldham, (Mr. Fox) that this was but a poor exhibition of their would-be purity. He (Mr. Drummond) had ever abstained from taking a part in such discussions so long as the purists confined their exer tions to disfranchising voters who had the wisdom to make the only us* they could of their votes—(loud laughter)— but when, going beyond that, the house was now urged to institute criminal proceeding against a meritorious officer and an hon. gentleman—(cries of "hear, hear")—when they were all called upon to take up stones to cast at Sir F. Smith, he should like to inquire where was the man who could say "I am without sin ?" (Hear, and a laugh.) It was said some time ago in the Edinburgh Review, to show the absurdity of enacting laws against the sale of game, that " The Three per Cents. would eat pheasants." (Laughter.) In the same way he would say that the Three per Cents. would sit in that house—(hear, hear)—that bank directors and East India directors would sit in that house—(hear) —that "railway kings" would sit in that house—(loud cries of " hear")—and they were threatened occasionally . with a rush of the whole of what was called " the railway interest." (Hear, hear.) So long as there were rich and poor, you never would be able to persuade men that there was crime in catching and killing and selling wild animals —(oh !)—nor in a poor man selling anything which a rich man was willing to buy. (Hear, hear.) Thera were only two ways of governing mankind ; you must either govern by brute force, with the assistance of standing armies and police, or you must govern by self-interest. You mi g ht call iebribery, or corruption, or give it any hard name you liked, but it was that which pervaded your whole system, from the palace of the Sovereign, through the House of Lords, through the House of Commons, and through the whole of the constituencies, and you could not rule in any other way. True, the brute-force system had rather run to seed in Franco just now—(laughter)—and the Bastile and lettres de cachet were revived in a way that seemed very offensive to us, who talked of the liberty of the subject; but, pray, was not our system of national representation run to.seed ? (Hear.) Did gentlemen think that the exhi tion they had made in this last year was not a good excuse to tho Emperor of Austria and the Emperor of the French for not having fallen so deperately in love with representative institutions ? And why was it that this exhibition had been made this year? Mrs. Hannah More—(" Oh") told us of a gentleman who went " in search of a wife," and Mr. Thomas Moore—(a laugh)—told us that there was a gentleman who went "in search of a re ligion ;" last year for the first time we had a Prime Minis ter who went in search of a policy. (Laughter and cheers.) What was tho consequence ? He gave four months' notice . that he was going out upon this expedition, and every at torney in the kingdom determined that there should be a contested election in every place ; and they got up candi dates, and not only candidates but petitions. (Hear, hear.) They returned the members, and, as many of the commit tees of the house had stated, they unseated members by their own conduct in bribing, where the member had no thin, to do with the matter. (Hear, hear.) They got up false petitions. (Hear, hear.) In this very case—the Chatham case—it came out that, before there was a rival candidate to Sir F. Smith, a petition was got up. It was a necessary part of their machinery to have a member to petition against. Then the matter was brought here, to the Coppocks and the Browns—(laughter) —brought here to the tender mercies of the Carlton and Reform Clubs—(hear) — and they played it out as they would a game of chess, giving a bishop for a rook—(loud laughter)—three false petitions (as a gentleman explained to one committee) for one fighting petition. (Hear, hear.) Why was there such desperate anxiety, to come to that house ? Because that house was the great place-bazaar—(laughter)—the great office-market. (Laughter.) Here place-scrip was sold and bought. (Laughter, and cries of 'Oh !") Why was the house blest with so many gentlemen of the legal profes sion ? (Loud laughter.) Was it not because they found that a flashy partisan speech in that house was a surer road to the bench than hard fagging in chambers or attend ance at court ? (Hear, hear.) But was it for the public advantage that that should be school in which the lawyer should study for the gravity of the ermine ? (Hear, hear.) He was not sure whether the Attorney-General was in his place just now, but there were gentlemen in the house of whom it was pretty well known that by this title they got the situations which they adorned. (Laughter.) To be sure, every class had its price, as well as every individual. You could not bribe in the Houso of Lords by 2/. 10s., or a place in the Post-office. (" Oh, oh !")—but was there no bribery in making barons, viscounts, and viscounts, earls, and earls marquises ? (Hear, hear.) There was a bill introduced by the noble lord, or some reformer or other, prohibiting the giving a few yards of penny riband to the wives and daughters of the electors—it was bribery ! But you wmfld find in'the Hous r e ib o a f u L d ords the gift of three yards of green riband, or blue (Laughter.) I,l' very conducive to the public inte rest.ing these e . (Mr. Drummond) was not censur- Pl7"eedings, yourho justified them ; it was the only, system by whi s c o h re Gernment could be carried on. He was very Government had not got a great deal more power of that sort. (Loud laughter.) When . g entlemen came do wn t o tht horse they must carry on their " bribery and corruption," as it wa s ca ll e d (which was self-interest), in another They must put up things o a T v :t a h a at sort—(l aug ht er )— to with seats at hoards, and thi n Particularly boring why, he m a u rn s t a b n e t s h e a n t t t o Hong Bong. (Roars of laughter.) He (Mr. Drummond) was very sorry that the Government had not in their gift Hong Kongs ; the house would be much igmre;"rov I ra d an by y it. (Loud laughter.) But there were o the r He was old en ou g h to remember when Mr. Perte a v e a e l% Government was nearly destroyed because a gentleman in the Treasury refused to vote for him until he had given another brother a place—(hear, hear)—and did they not all remember the failure of Sir R. Peel in forming a Govern ment in consequence of the interference of certain ladies of Vie w the bedchamber? (Hear, hear.) An hon. gentleman I .S . l). his nose—(a laugh)—but, unless all rumour's „."---• • ... 1, 1 , i t irned up _7 : 7--s-„,..,........10bt ues united in falsehood, n. it was Said that the noble lord :' >,_-' '' . "- -- : -- j - ~311 -' -'"-•\11 - 01, not very long a b o, I received a letter of remonstrance particularly remarkable ‘.474;5:'.Z:' -:-' ' -',: - froia the head of a large family not et, ~.,.“ ~:-.•, '"-- - 1 .1' -•-•• - ‘ I'drAalent, because he had not included Some of them in io e0 . :!-._ , ,-.'t , - ~ thel lew arrali gemento, (" Hear, hear," and A laugh,) I\l r.:<•-".; THE SUN, LDNDON, WEDNE!SD..4.Y EVE would remedy the evils which it wi 'S admitted now ex isted. The bill would enable the vorking man to get his frames where he pleased, to g to the cheapest market and make the best bargain in I , could. Sir J. WALMSLEY deprecated th e introduction into this discussion of a political theory. The necessity for some such measure as this was evince d by the fact that deductions were now made from the •eekly wages of the working men to the amount of 25 pei 11 cent., under the pretext of frame-rents, lights, &c., so That the skilled hands could not obtain more than Gs.. or 7s. a week. It was impossible for any man to exist ei i this pittance, and the consequence was that many of tb em were drove to the union for relief. In the year :1840, out of a population of little more than 50,000 persons, there were in Leicester 10,895 persons receivii ig relief, at an expense of 30,0001. ; in 1847 the number had increased to 15,988, and the expense to 37,0001. What this bill asked was not to affect uncertain rate of NIA ages—because working men knew very well that wat ;es depended upon demand and supply ; but that their • wages should be paid in the current coin of the realm. j (Hear.) He had that day presented two petitions from. his constitu ents at Leicester—one from the ratepayers and the other from the working men—in favour of this - . bilL They entirely repudiate all desire to inter fere in the rights of property, or to prevent masters obtaining a proper interest on the capital expended in the purchase of machinery, but their object w:as to put an end to the excessive rent charged on their f rames, and the other deductions charged on the workmen's wages. Many manufacturers had ceased to make these deduc tions, and the effect had been most benefi clad on both sides. Mr. T. EGERTON said this bill would b,e most inju rious to the silk trade, and he thoug'nt it ought to be made a local bill. In its present slaape it would most injuriously affect the large bodies of - workmen en gaged in the cotton and silk trades. Mr. CARDWELL thought much'naischief and not good would be effected by this bill, and therefore he should support the amendment. He believed that its effects would be a prohibition of labour to the workmen in the country, and confine it to the workmen in the towns. It was not a question of whether the case came within the scope of the truck system, but whether, - when wages were the joint earnings of machine and man, an arrangement should be made between the parties, which being most beneficial to the master should enable him to let his frames at the cheapest rate to the working man. He strongly advised the house to reject the second reading of this bill. Mr. NEWDEGATE supported the bill. Mr. GARDNER said that the talents and philan thropy of the hon. baronet would be better employed in endeavouring to persuade the working classes of the ne cessity of some legislation of this sort, and of the advisa bility of bringing up their children to some more profit able trade. Lord J. MANNERS supported the second reading of the bill, and declared that it was approved of by the majority of the working classes who were in any way in terested in the measure. The masters were di vided on the subject, but, on the whole, the great mass of the petitions were favourable to the bill, and the house ought to have no difficulty in passing the second reading. The supporters of this bill had been denounced by the opponents of the bill as the rabble of grsit towns, but as a country gentleman, and a member of the Tory party, he utterly repudiated that idea, and hoped the working classes would now be able to distin guish between their friends and their enemies. - Mr. WHALLEY said the middle class was just as much entitled to consideration at the hands of the house as the working classes, and he could see no reason for inflicting injustice upon the former for the sake of benefitting the latter. Mr. CHEATHAM opposed the bill, on the ground that it would be an unjust interference with trade. Colonel BLAIR supported the bill. Mr. MUNTZ said this was one of those questions which the house could not understand, because it con tained no practical men. (A laugh.) During the last 45 years no man had done more to benefit the working classes than himself. He had made great sacrifices in their favour, but if they anticipated any benefit from this bill, he was very much afraid they would be disappointed. He was apprehensive, however, that they would be just as much disappointed if the bill was thrown out, and he would, therefore, suggest that the dispute should be ended by referring the bill to a select committee. Mr. L. HEYWORTH argued that the house would do more good to the working classes by extending the principles of free trade, and removing the restrictions on commerce, than by wasting time on this useless bill. Sir H. HAFORD, who had charge of the bill, said he should be quite ready to send the bill to a select com mittee if the house would only consent to read it a second time. The house then divided, when there appeared—, For the second reading Against it Majority 6l The bill was accordingly thrown out. COMBINATION OF WORKMEN BILL. On the motion for the third reading of this bill, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL opposed the bill. He had understood that this bill was intended to interpret the law of combinations as it now stood, but upon look ing over the bill, he found that it went a great deal fur ther, much further, indeed, than public safety or expedi ency demanded. He must, therefore, move as an amend ment, that the bill be read a third time this day six months. Mr. BUTT seconded the amendment. Mr. H. DRUMMOND supported the bill. Lord PALMERSTON opposed the bill on the same grounds stated by the Solicitor-General. Mr. M. CHAMBERS said when the bill was first in troduced, it was supported by the Government, on the ground that it simply explained the law as it stood, and , could do no harm. Indeed, it was said then that the bill was so unnecessary that it would be only encumber ing the Statute Book to pass it, while now it was said the bill not only explained but entirely altered the law. Now, there must be some inconsistency in this. First it was said the bill was unnecessary because it simply explained the law as it stood and was well understood, but now it was said that the bill went further and entirely altered the law. He contended, however, that it did no such thing ; it simply explained the law, so that the workman should be removed from a state of doubt and uncertainty, and that, he insisted, was only just and fair. Two learned judges, one at Liverpool and one at Stafford, had laid down two different rules as to the meaning of the law, and all that this bill would de was simply to remove the doubt which this difference of opinion had given rise to. All that this bill provided for was this. In a time of prosperity, and while trade was flourishing, or at any other time, the bill provided that it should be lawful to meet and discuss the affairs of their trade, and afterwards to communicate the result of their deliberations to their fellow workmen. Now, one of the judges had laid it down that this latter proceeding was contrary to law, but it was no such thing, and all that this bill did was to declare as much. _ _ Mr. T. DUNCOMBE complained of the course which the Government was taking. It was most unjust for them to reserve their opposition until the third reading ; but since the question in dispute appeared to be simply one of interpreting the law, he called upon the house to follow the dictates of common sense, and send the bill to be disposed of by the Lord Chancellor and the other law lords of the other house. _ _ Mr. HUME said it appeared to him that the law was involved in great doubt, and as the working classes had evinced such a strong disposition to obey the law, it was only ht that the legal doubts which surrounded them should be cleared up. Mr. WILSON suggested that this debate should be adjourned . ; the question was one of so much importance that it required further consideration: Mr. HUME moved the adjournment of the debate. Mr. GEACH said the masters had a right to meet and combine for the protection of their own interests, and why should not the workmen be possessed of the same privilege ? Lord J. RUSSELL could hold out no hope of the bill being supported by the Government on a future day M . r. S. WORTLEY hoped the noble lord would throw no obstacle in the way of the adjournment of the debate. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE could see no necessity for ad journing the debate. It would be much better to divide upon the principle of the bill at once. Mr. HUME wished to withdraw his motion for the adjournment of the debate. Mr. KINLOCK said there was no body of men so dangerous as the peaceable persuaders of working men, and as this bill would have the effect of encouraging their nefarious proceedings, he hoped the house would unanimously reject it. The house then dvided, when there appeared-- For the adjournment lO2 Againstit Majority Itbe a idnjo ur gnnoed.wsix o clock, the Speaker declared the house STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, May 3.--We are informed by the Euro pa's advices of the 20th ult., that the total receipts of cot ton at the American ports amounted to 2,884,303 bales, against 2,521,268 atthe corresponding period of last year; leaving an excess of 363,035 bales. The southern markets were rather dearer ; strict middling being quoted 101 e. to 101 c. per lb. ; freight, id. to 5-16. The fall ing off in the receipts, according to the above accounts, is not equal to that which, we were informed by the previous steamer, had been telegraphed. But the har dening in price at the southern ports has had the effect of sustaining the firmness of the Liverpool market, in which there is, too, rather more inquiry from the trade. In this market the sellers of yarns and goods have been so far influenced by the same cause as to be, in general, harder to deal with than they were l ast week. Buyers are freer at giving out orders, at fully previous rates ; but they are disposed to pay even the small advance asked for yarn and cloth, which has therefore been only partially ob tained. On the whole, the market must be reported as rather dearer. For the East, rather more business has been done. • ROCHDALE, MAY 2.—The piece market has been more inactive, fewer buyers have attended, and a more limited amount of business has been transacted than on the previous Monday. For what has been sold the manu facturers have obtained good prices. English wools are scarce, and the dealers continue to demand a small advance. HALIFAX, April 30.—Very little business has been done to-day in our piece hall, either in plain or fancy goods ; and there is no noticeable change in yarns or wools, The high prices tend greatly to check transac- What want was ofth e pl d a a c n es g . er (A of la t u h g e h.) Go Th vern er m e ewnats? no S d i a m n p g l e y r ' to the Government from any opposition that could i3O offered from the other side of the house. The danger was that it received shots from the rear. (A laugh.) If the Treasury were to be symbolized or embodied, it would be as Cybele or Tellus' o w ith more applicantsld take a more for meat than than she could supply or he wou homely illustration, —that of Gillray's caricature of the sow that brought forth more pigs than she hail teats for. (Laughter.) He saw in the notice paper a motion from one of the friends of the Government--something about India. What was it but the squeak of a pig that had got no teat ? (Great laughter.) He took the liberty, on a former occa sion, to implore the head of the Government in that house, in consequence of the state of things that had been brought about by the Reform Bill, never to quit his office upon any petulant vote that the house might come to until there was a direct and specific resolution for an address to the Crown. (Hear.) The noble lord had been taunted with the situation he now occupied ; but in his humble opinion that situation was the most honourable the noble lord had ever filled—(hear, hear)—and ho besought the noble lord — not as an individual, but as the head of the Government— there to remain until the motion he had alluded to should be carried. (Hear, and laughter.) The right hon. gentle ' man over the way need not have quitted office if he had chosen to remain, and Lord Derby ought either never to have taken office or never to have quitted it—(hear, hear) — for there was no doubt these constant changes were greatly to the detriment of the public service ' • but the fact was, they never had been reformers—they had been mere specu lators. Their reform would have led them back to the wisdom, and principles, and practices of their ancestors, and they would have seen that unless they gave property its legitimate way of action it would use the illegal way of continual bribery—(hear, hear)—and, moreover, he hoped it would, and that they would not be able to make that house a mass of paupers. (" Oh, oh !" and. laughter.) They must make that house the representative of the wealth of the people, and, when they did that, they would not find the bribery which they complained of. (Hear, hear.) As to this immediate motion of prosecuting Sir F. Smith, they who voted for it were the men who were dis graced by it, and not Sir F. Smith. (Hear, hear.) What was the simple question? That gentleman had lived in the place for many years ; he was proved before the com mittee to be a kind and charitable man to his political foes as well as to his friends, never asking any question on the subject ; and, because he gave a Post-office place of 12s. a week, all their purity was up in arms—(hear, hoar)—and they thought to go and show the country at large what sinless pure creatures they were themselves. (Laughter.) He thought the motion was discreditable to the house, and therefore ho was opposed to it. (Hear.) Mr. HUME could not agree with the hon. gentleman that this motion was discreditable. (Hear.) The speech of the hon. gentleman, indeed, was one of the most extra ordinary he had ever heard. (Hear, hear.) It was a speech that he could not have believed any Englishman would have stood up in that house and delivered. (Hear, hear.? The hon. gentleman ha d libelled the house—(" Oh! oh ! ' and loud cries of " hear")— he had libelled the country ; and, -whatever the House of Lords might be, ho had libelled that sad all who were connected with it. Would they not support the resolution they had come to, and show the country that they would maintain the purity of election ? The hon. gentleman said he wished there was more bribery and corruption, and that men were more debased than they were. (" Oh !" and laughter.) He should be sorry to see it—they were too much so already. (Laughter.) It had been his endeavour to get an honest house, and the best way to attain that result would to to support such resolutions as the one now before them. They would be wanting in respect to their own character, and to the character of that house, if they did not agree to the resolution. Mr. RICH (amidst loud cries of " Oh, oh !" and great laughter) said, the hon. gentleman the member for West Surrey had done him the favour to make a joke at his ex pense. As to the expressions of the hon. gentleman, he lcould laugh at them as well as his neighbours, for, having been nearly 20 years in that house, he believed he could say he had conducted himself both in public and in privat; life as a gentleman and a man of honour. (Hear, hear.) Now, as far as the motion of which he had given notice was concerned, no hostility was intended to the Govern ment. (Laughter.) The present Government he regarded with unfeigned respect. (Laughter.) It was composed of many honourable and independent gentlemen. capable of carrying on the government, and from him they would receive the most cordial support when his conscience would go with them. (Hear, and a laugh.) Sir J. SHELLEY believed and hoped there was no man in that house less quarrelsome than he was ; but words had been let drop by the hon. gentleman near him (Mr. Drummond) which, for the credit of that house, required some explanation. (Cries of " Question," and " Otter," and great confusion, during which the hon. baronet re sumed his seat.) Mr. MUNTZ rose, and was about to address the house, when the noise having subsided, The SPEAKER said, that if the hon. baronet had wished to take exception to any word spoken by the hon. gentle man the member for West Surrey, he ought to have done it at the time. (Hear.) Mr. DRUMMOND said, if he had used any words that were improper, he would at once withdraw them. Sir J. SHELLEY (with some excitement).—You said it was disgraceful and discreditable to the house. (Cries of " Hear, hear," and "Order.") Mr. MUNTZ said, he was not one of those pigs that wanted a Government teat—(laughter)—but there was a very important question before the house, and it would be well for them to consider before they voted upon it what the people out of doors thought of this sort of thing. The pro ceedings of the committee had given rise to a belief out of the house that there was a good deal of corruption, not merely on the part of the voters, but on the part of the members, and the sooner they could clear that up the bet ter. (Hear.) But there was a resolution on the books of the house that they ought to punish any person seriously who did this sort of thing. Now, he never saw Sir F. Smith ; all he knew was, that there was a report to that house very prejudicial to his honesty, and if they permitted him to escape, or if he were not allowed the opportunity of clearing up the matter, tho public might very well say that it was all chattering in that house on the subject. With these feelings he should support the resolution. Sir T. ACLAND said, an appeal had been made to the house by his hon. friend who had just sat down on account of what the public would say of these matters. Now, he gave his vote on a question of personal justice and character as if he were giving his vote on any indictment before the grand jury, and not from any regard whatever to what should be said of his conduct out of doors. (Hear.) The house then divided ; the numbers were— For the motion Against it— Majority —llO ELECTIONS IN IRELAND. Sir J. FITZGERALD moved for leave to bring in a bill for providing that the act of Victoria which regulates the presence of soldiers in England during a Parliamentary election be extended to Ireland. An Hon. MEMBER moved that the house be counted ; and, only 37 members being present, the house stood ad journed. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MAY 3. CHATHAM ELECTION. Sessional resolution relating to elections read, as follows : —" Resolved, That if it shall appear that any person hath been elected or returned a member of this house, or endea voured so to be, by bribery, or other corrupt practices, this house will proceed with the utmost severity against all such persons as shall have been wilfully concerned in such bribery, or other corrupt practices. Sessional resolutions relating to witnesses read—Motion made and question put —That the Chatham Election Committee having reported, that Joseph Greathead, an elector of Chatham, had been bribed by a situation as a letter-carrier in the Post-office, obtained for his son Charles Greathead, by Sir John Mark Frederick Smith, Mr. Attorney-General be directed to pro secute the said Sir John Mark Frederick Smith, for bribery at the last election at Chatham." The house divided — Ayes 78, Noes 188. _ MINORITY—AYES, 78. Adair, H. Hall, Sir,,Benjamin Phinn, T. Anderson, Sir James Hanmer, Sir J. Pilott, Francis Barnes, T. Hastie, Alexander Pilkington, Jame!, Berkeley, Hon. C. F. ILayter, W. G. Rich, H. Berkeley, C. L . Ifeathcoate, J. Robartes, T. J. A. Bctheb, Richard Herbert, Sidney "'Russell, Lord J. Biggs, William Hervey, Lord Alfred Scholefield, W. Blackett, J. F. B. Heywood, James Scobeil, Captain Bland, L. Heyworth, Lawrence Seymour, W. D Brand, H. Hutt, William Stanley, W. 0. Butler, Charles Langston, J. 11. Strutt, Rt. Hon. E. Clay, Sir William Langton, H. G. Stuart, Lord D. Cobden, Richard Lowe, Robert Tancred, 11. W. Coffin, W. Massey, W. Thicknesse, R. A. Collier, Robert P. Miall, E. Thompson, George CraufUrd, E. Milligan, R. Thornely, T. Crook, J. Milner, W. M. E. Whalley, G. H. Drumlanrig, Viscount Molesworth, Sir W. Whitbread, Samuel Duncan, George Mostyn, E. M. Wickham, Henry W. Ellice, E. Mulgrave, Earl Wilkinson, W. A. Fergus, John Muntz, G. Frederick Wlll!4ns, W. Fitzgerald, Sir J. Murrough, J. P. Wood, Sir C. Fox, W. J. O'Brien, Patrick Freestun, Colonel O'Flaherty, Anthony Geach, Charles Palmerston, Via. TELLERS. Goodman, Sir G. Peel Frederick Graham, Sir James Pellatt, A Shelley, Sir J. V. Hadfield, George Phillimore, J. G. Hume, J. MAJORITY—NOES, 188. Aeland, Sir T. Grosvenor, Earl Newark, Viscount A'Court, C. Guernsey, Lord Newport, Viscount Annesley, Earl of Gwyn, Rowel Noel, Gerard James Bagge, W. Hamilton, G. A. North, Colonel Bailey, Sir J. Harcourt, Col. Oakes, J. H. Bailey, C. Hardinge, Charles S. Oliveira, Benjamin Bailey, H J Hawkins, W. W. Ossulston, Lord Bankes, G. Heneage, G. n. W. Pakington, Sir John Barrington, Viscount Henley, J. W. Parker, R. T. Barrow, Wm. H. Herbert, Sir Thomas Pennant, Colonel Bateson, T. Hothrrm, Lord Percy, J. Rennet, Philip Hughes, W. B. Phillips, John Henry Bentinck, Geo. P. Inglis, Sir R. H. Power, N. Beresford, William Irton, Samuel Prime, R. Blair, Colonel Jolliffe, Sir W. G. H. Pritchard, J. Bolder°, Colonel ' Jones, Capt. /Lepton, G. Booker, T. W. Jones, D. Robertson, P. F. Booth, Sir It. Keating 11. Sanders, G. Brisco, Musgrave Kelly, Sir F. Sawle, C. B. G. Brooke, Lord Kendall, Nicholas Shelburne, Earl of Bruce, Cumming Kershaw, James Siblhorp, Colonel Buller, Sir J. Y. King, James King Smijth, Sir W. Bunbury, W. Kirk, William Smith, Wm. M. Butt, Geo. Medd Knatchbull, W. F. Smyth, It. J. Chambers, Montagu Knight, FW. Smyth, J. Chandos, Marquis of Knightley, Rainald Somerset, Captain Charteris, F. Knox, Colonel Sotheron, T. H. S. Christopher, R. A. Knox, W. S. Spooner, Richard Christy, Samuel Lacon, Sir E. Stafford, A. Cobbold, J. Chevalier Laffan, R. M. Stanhope, J. B. Codrington, Sir W. Laing, S. Stanley, Lord Corry, Henry Lowry Langton, W. G. Stuart, H. Cowan, Charles Lascelles, E. Taylor, Col. Cubitt, Alderman Laslett, William Theslger, Sir F. Davison, R. Lawley, F. C./ Trollope, Sir J. Disraeli, Benjamin Legh, G. C. Tudway, R. Drummond, 11. Lennox, L ord A. Turner, C. Duckworth, Sir J. Lennox. Lord HG. Tyler, Sir G. Duncombe, T. Leslie, Charles P. Tyrell, Sir J. T. Duncornbe, Iln. A. Lewisham, Vise. Vance, J. Duncombe, W. E. Lindsay, Col. Vane, Lord A. Dundas, G. Lockhart, A. E. Verner, Sir W. Dunne, Micha,l Lovaine, Lord Vivian, Henry 11. Euston, Earl Luce, T. Waddington, 11. S. Farnham, E. Basil Lytton, Sir E. G. Walcot, Adm. Farrer, James Macartney, G. Walmsley, Sir 3. Primer, Sir Edmund Mackie, John Walpole, S. H. Forbes, William Macgregor, James Waler J. Forester, Colonel Viscount WTaggart, Sir J. Wellesley - , Lord C. Forster, Sir G. Malins, Richard Wells, W. k o 'r a e i n iw ch , ,: , ' S it i z r a l t v ep . h:in . Mandeville, Viscount. Wniteside, James M m a ie r h c e h l , i, E ly arl . of Woitmore, Henry Fuller, A. E. Maine, Colonel M u : 0 ; e r a . i n e l: ff t 0. , J . Williams, T. P. Meux, Sir Henry Wodehouse, E. U G G l e i da r ds g ato e r ' au j , , A o , h cm n abprtove, L. M m ontgomery. H. L. G eorge, J . M. Wortley, ,Ilj.. S. Mullin Worcester, Maqs, of Randolph '''' ' gs joSt'avitts Wynn, , E . 11 1.... Gooch, Sir E. m o wi r Bda:: w e... Rodney yowl. , Sir John Cordon, Admiral M Grace, 0. Naas, Lord TLLLEIB. Greene, T. Napier, J. Bramston. T. W, lieWdegate, C. fourtt Ti!bitten SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. CHESTER RACES. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) MEMBER'S PLATE. (60 GUINEAS). Chilton Lerrywheut Ten ran SCRAMBLE HANDICAP- Ada' Margaret of Anjou Six ran. HER MAJESTY'S PLATE. Audubon Massaroni .. Nino ran. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The report upon Victoria (London) Docks Bill was considered and agreed to. PROBATES OF WILLS AND GRANTS OF ADMINISTRATION BILL. Mr. HADFIELD moved the second reading of this bill, intimating that if the house agreed to the motion, he would postpone going into committee until after the holidays, in order to afford an opportunity to the Soli citor-General to bring in the larger measure of reform which he had promised on this subject. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, in consequence of the reception which the announcement of his intention to bring in a bill met with in the house, he had been encouraged to proceed with its preparation, and it was now ready to be introduced. The question of testa mentary jurisdiction was, however, under the considera tion of the law commissioners, and it had been thought de sirable to postpone his bill until it could be submitted to the house with the sanction of those commissioners. What he proposed, therefore, was, that the present bill ' should be read a second time on the understanding that unless the larger measure was brought in, it should receive the best attention of the Government in order to render it at all events an instalment of a much needed reform, Mr. PHILLIMORE protested against the bill, which he said was full of serious errors, and would consider ably aggravate and not di m i n i s h the evils which it was proposed to rectify. The LORD ADVOCATE intimated that the hon. mem ber had agreed, in the event of the bill going into com mittee, to introduce a clause to meet certain cases in Scotland, to which it did not now apply. Mr. B. DENISON thought it was trifling with the dignity of the house to press the second reading, after the Solicitor-General had given a pledge to propose a more comprehensive measure. If the hon. member did not withdraw his motion, he would move that the bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr. FITZGERALD objected to the bill being read a second time except pro forma, because he believed that in attempting to remove a small evil it created a greater one. Mr. HENLEY also opposed the second reading. Lord J. RUSSELL could not see any sufficient reason for rejecting the bill at its present stage, for he thought it was advisable that every information and sug gestion should be brought before the house previous to its coming to an ultimate decision upon the important subject of testamentary jurisdiction. He should, how ever, object to going seriously into committee upon the bill, as it only dealt with a part of that subject. Mr. COLLIER perfectly agreed with what had fallen from the noble lord. He did not mean to say that the measure was perfect, but it was good as far as it went, and should not be stopped in its progress. If the ques tion of testamentary jurisdiction was not dealt with during the present session, he believed that great dis satisfaction would be caused throughout the country. The bill was then read a second time pro forma, and ordered to be committed on Wednesday next. PAYMENT OF WAGES BILL. Petitions against this bill were presented by Mr. Bass, Mr. Hadfield, Mr. Brocklehurst ; and in favour of it by Sir J. Walmsley, from Leicester. Sir H. HALFORD, in moving the second reading of the bill, said the house was aware that for a long series of years the payment of wages otherwise than in the coin of the realm was prohibited by law. The ancient statutes on the subject were consolidated and confirmed in the reign of Will. IV. The policy of that act was little questioned, but it was found to be imperfect and to leave room for the evasion of its provisions. One of the grievances which it failed to touch, and for the remedy of which this bill was introduced, was the sys tem existing among employers in the Midland Counties, of lending weaving machines to frame-work knitters, and charging for them exorbitant sums of money, which were regularly deducted from the wages they received. It was a curious circumstance in connection with that system, that the part of the frames so lent had increased in proportion as their value had diminished. It was, in fact, atontrivance by which the master pro cured from his workman that interest and profit on his capital which ought to enter into the cost of production. In order to remedy the evil he asked for no new law or new principle of legislation. The bill was merely a de claratory one for the purpose of carrying out the exist ing law to its legitimate extent. Its object was to sub ject the hiring of frames to free competition in an open market. At present the rent paid for them had no limit except the conscience of the master, and the consequence was that great distress prevailed among the framework knitters. What he called upon Parliament to do, was to allow workmen to get them at the best price they could, instead of having to submit to tyranni cal impositions, in the shape of deductions from their wages. The bill was universally desired by the Inhabi tants of the districts which it mainly affected. The number of petitions in favour of it from the Midland counties amounted to many thousands. He asked the house to read the bill a second time, as being necessary to that fair play which the existing competition in the country required. CANTERBURY AND HULL ELECTIONS. Lord DRUMLANRIG, who was attired in the uni form of Comptroller of the Household, bropght up the reply of her Majesty to the addresses of both Houses of Parliament in reference to these boroughs, stating that she had given directions for the appointment of commis sions for making the inquiries prayed for in those addresses. PAYMENT OF WAGES BILL. Mr. BIGGS said he was a manufacturer in the Mid land Counties, and identified with the trade to which the bill referred, and though he thought the bill would be useless, and in some of its provisions mischievous, he should not vote at all upon the second reading, lest it should be thought he did so from interested motives. The distress complained of by the hon. member arose from other causes than the one he had specified. In the Midland Counties a new ma chine had been introduced, which was rapidly tending to the destruction of the old frames, and the main cause of the distress among the framework-knitters was that they would not leave their small villages and their frames and go to the large manufacturing towns, where they could get higher wages. Such was the advantage of the new machine over the old frames, that he believed the fate of the framework-knitters would be the same as that which awaited the handloom-weavers , of Lancashire and Yorkshire, when improved machinery an d s t eam were introduced among them. He believed that if the bill were passed it would either be evaded, or become a dead letter ; but should it be put into operation he was 'of opinion it would ruin the whole trade. (Hear.) Mr. PACKE said that the simple object of this bill was to secure for the working man a fair day's wage for a fair day's work, which they did not get at present. He contended that the working classes in the Midland districts were treated with the greatest tyranny. At present no less than eight different charges were made on work taken in, and his week's wages materially reduced. The rent for frames was now somewhat about ls. or is. 6d. per week ; but he believed that on a frame which cost no more than 51., 2d. or 3d. a-week rent would be quite sufficient. He was told by the men themselves that no person owning his own frame had any chance of getting work. According to the report of the commissioner, the frames did not belong to the masters, but to butchers, bakers, publicans, gentlemen's servants, and women of various classes, and engaged in almost all sorts of trades. He should cordially support this bill, as calculated to put an end to a system of the grossest tyranny and slavery. Mr. STRUTT said that though he felt the greatest sympathy with the classes affected by this bill, and al lowing that a great number of them were, interested in its success, he thought that, in considering the measure, they ought to go somewhat further, and inquire whether the bill was calculated to promote the best in terests of the working classes. He believed this branch of trade was like all others, and he was quite certain that no legislation could affect the rate of wages, which must depend, as in all other cases, upon the relation of demand and supply. The first effect of this bill would be to put an end to all domestic manufactures, and drive the trade wholly out into the towns and mills. The present system had grown up by the force of circumstances, and it was beyond the power of legislation or Government to put a violent end to it without serious injury to the working classes themselves. He did not believe himself that the case would be met by direct legislation ; but even if it could, the bill would not meet it. The only remedy which could be applied was to ameliorate the condition of the working men by indirect taxation, and put them in a more independent position. He did not believe that the bill could be amended in committee, and he should, therefore, oppose the second reading. Mr. HUME deprecated the harsh language used by hon. gentlemen opposite towards the masters in retard to the working men. Persons who talked in such a tone were the greatest enemies to the working classes. Up to the year 1824, he admitted the working classes had great cause of complaint, but legislation had since put an end to it. Believing that this bill would put an end to the freedom of trade and bargaining between masters and men, he should move that the bill be read a second time this day six months. The Marquis of GRANBY contended that this bill N ING, MAY 4, 1853, tions in every (department of the worsted trade, from the raw material up to the finished goods. HUDDERSFIELD, May 3.—Business continues good for the advanced stets of the season, but we believe that orders on hand are mostly for the home trade. Makers continue to be well employed. Checks and unions are mostly in request, and fancy wollens generally ; indeed the fancy, trade at present is extremely busy. There is a falling off in the demand for low quality goods, which may perhaps be accounted for, that the shipping houses generally are quiet. BIRMINGHAM, May 2.—During the past fortnight, the ill-advised policy of the resolutions adopted at the late preliminary meeting of the iron trade, has been developed in the exhibition of shaken confidence, diminished demand, and a determination on the part of dealers to contend to the utmost for further concession. These are the usual results of a first downward step ; and although they are at present chiefly felt by the more needy makers, whose employment is regulated by daily demand, if the maintenance of prices depended upon the firmness and resolution even of our first rate manufacturers, there would be little hope of the result. But fortunately, as we beforehand have stated, there are other circumstances to uphold the interests of the trade on the present occasion, and such as are generally supposed to be equal to the neces sity. The universal abundance of the circulating medium —the enormous aggregate of railways in construction— the increasingapplication of iron to maritime uses, and the extended facilities of supplying it to foreign countries, joined with the scarcity of labour in the face of extraor dinary high rates of wages, and the diminished produc tion of materials, are among the grounds for the very prevalent expectation—not only general in this country, but on the other side the Atlantic also—that the pre sent slackness is both temporary and artificial. SHIPPING INT ELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, MAY 3. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Mary Ann, from St. Michael's ; Criuna, Hamburgh ; Defender, Tersano ; Malvina, Lu beck ; John Medley, Hamburgh •, James, Emden ; Alert, Caen ; Providence, Mauritius ; Ocean Wave, Caen ; Bri tish Queen, Trinidad ; Antje Johanna, Accummerseil ; Sylph, Antwerp. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Lif, for Constantinople • Johanna Maria, Odessa and Altona ; Anna Maria, Altona ; Flora, Hamb urg h ; P r i ncess R oya l , Leghorn ; Quence de Juna, Carthagena, &c. ; Joven Can dida, Ferrol ; Reinauw Engelhuis, Melbourne ; Mercia, do. ; Vimeira, Sydney - Syria, do. ; Admiral, Ant wer p ; Commodore, Naples ; Clara, Swan River ; Marian Zagaray, Bahia ; Speedwell, Antwerp ; Theresa, Hainburgh ; Mar garet, Mo ,, 6 adore ; Osprey, St. J o h n ' s , N ew f oun dl an d ; Rose, Bathurst, River Gambia. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The English Ross, for Bremen ; Louisa, St. Vincent ; Isabella, Sierra Leone ; Apropos, Hamburgh ; Catherina, Elsineur, &c. ; Jane, Naples ; Monarch, Calcutta ; San Bruno, Berbice ; Ruby, Demerara ; Chrysalis, Madras ; Camilla, Demerara ; Ceres, Rotterdam ; Citizen, Bremen. LIVERPOOL, MAY 3. The Bijou arrived here, from St. Michael's, was in con tact on the Ist of May with the Liverpool Packet, from Barrow to Cardiff, off the South Stack ; the Liverpool Packet shortly Afterwards foundered, and the crew got on board the Bijou. The Burns, Liverpool to Valparaiso, was spoken April 20, lat. 41 N., lthig. 14 W. The Zoe, from Cardiff, was spoken April 15, lat. 40 N., long. 13 W. The Galatea, Liverpool to St. Thomas, was spoken April 22, lat. 40 N., long. 17 W. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Derwentwater, London to Hobart Town, Jan. 10, lat. 43 S., long. 129 E. The Southampton, Calcutta to London, March 18, lat. 16 S., long. 16 W. The Wildflower, China to Liverpool, lat. 10 N., long. 28 W. The La Fayette, Calcutta to Havre, April 5, lat. 10 N., long. 28 W. The Bucephalus, Calcutta to London, April 23, lat. 42, long. 27. The Australia, Plymouth to Sydney, N.S.W., March 23, lat. 3 N., long. 22 W. The Helen:,' Trinidad to London, April 18, lat. 41 N., long. 39 W. The Harriet, Clyde to Australia, April 2, ltd. 36 N., long. 15 W. The Perthshire, bound S., same day. The Jowa, Liverpool to New York, April 30, off Bally. cotton. The Avondale, Liverpool to New York, same day. The Herbert, London to China, Jan. 25, lat. 8 8., long. 104 E The Wales, Liverpool to Philadelphia, March 30, lat. 45, long 42, _ _ The Douglass, London to San Francisco, Feb. 18, lat. 3 N., long. 20 W. The Conway, from Australia, March 17, lat. 32 N., long. 32 W. The Westmoreland, New Orleans to Liverpool, April 6, lat. 24, long. 81. The Priessnitz, Liverpool to New York, March 20, lat. 45, long. 23 RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.— Traffic return for the week ending April 30, 1853 £9,890 6 7 Corresponding week last year 8,843 7 0 Total of the half-year to this date, 1853 161,971 3 1 Total of the half-year to this date, 1852 151,066 3 6 LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN EAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending April 30, 1853 £12,395 10 4 Corresponding week last year, 11,679 1 8 Increase in 1853.. £716 8 8 GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re alm for the week ending April 30, 1853 £4,577 4 10 Corresponding week last year 3,852 5 4 Increase in 1853.. £724 19 6 ELECTION OF MARYLEBONE VESTRYMEN.— On Monday the rate-payers of the extensive parish of Marylebone met in the Workhouse-yard, New-road, to exercise their rights under Hobhouse's Act, in the election of 45 vestry. men, in the room of as many whose functions have deter mined. Two lists were prepared, one on the part of the so-called Oriental. Party, which carried the day last year, and another-.promoted by the Rate-payers Protection Association. The strife is almost entirely one of personal preference, as each party professes anxiety to administer the parish affairs in the most efficient and economical manner. The Rate-payers Protection Society carried the show of hands, upon which a poll was demanded, which commenced this morning. The spacious premises known as the St. George's Gal lery, Hyde Park corner, formerly used as the Great Chinese Exhibition, have been taken by Mr. Caldecott, a merchant of Poit Natal, for the purpose of presenting, with the sanction of the colonial authorities, an exhibi tion of very remarkable interest, consisting of a family and troupe of native Zulu Kafirs, 11 men, a female, and a child. It is intended to represent the domestic man ners, mode of bunting the tiger, war dances, superstitions, witch-finding, &c., of this wild and savage race, for the better illustration of which, Mr. Charles Marshall (the artist of her Majesty's Theatre) is busily occupied in preparing ra number of striking scenes. To give the greatest possible effect to these representations, and for their more extensive development, both the gallery recently occupied by Mr. Cumming's African Exhibition, and that in which.the Diorama of the Holy Land was lately exhibited, have been thrown into one vast saloon. The public will no, doubt be gratified in seeing specimens of the wild and formidable race which has so long bid defiance to the prowess of the British army. THE BRIDGES or LONDON.—Mr. Bennoch has brought together, in the shape of a pamphlet, various discussions, reports, tad remarks, which bear upon his project for a new bridge across the Thames from the east end of St. Paul's churchyard to Mason's-stairs, with a direct road to the Elephant and Castle. To show the necessity for additional means 'of communication between the two sides of the river, Mr. Bennoch gives the following table :—Pedestrian traffic, from 10 till 6—London bridge, 63,080 ; Southwark-bridge, 1,357 • Blackfriars bridge, 30,089 ; Waterloo-bridge, 6,234 ; Westminster bridge, 26,170. Equestrian traffic :—London-bridge, 114 ; Southwark bridge, 93 ; Blackfriars-bridge, 91; Waterloo-bridge, 35 • Westminster-bridge, 297. Vehi cular traffic :—London-bridge, 11,498 ; Southwark bridge, 307 ; Blackfriars-bridge, 4,359; Waterke-bridge 1,709 ; Westminster-bridge, 5,840. "The most start ling fact shown by this interesting table is, that within a fraction, London-bridge has as much traffic as all the rest put together, the proportions being—London equal to all ; Westminster half of London ; Blackfriars half of Westminster ; Waterloo one-third of Blackfriars ; and Southwark one-fourth of Waterloo." All who have ex perience of the City traffic must feel satisfied that another bridge is needed, and that the site selected by Mr. Ben noch is a good one. Blackfriars-bridge must be rebuilt; and what the projector of the new bridge urges is, that if the latter be erected first it would save the cost of erecting a temporary bridge during the rebuilding of Blackfriars.—The Builder. ANALYSIS OF A LEGISLATOR'S SPEECH.—An American paper gives the following analysis of the matter and manner of Mr. Stevenson's speech and reply to Mr. Hooper, on the banking question. Matter :—Facts, 1 ; denials, 23 ; assertions, 47 ; personalities, 23 ; horror, 57 ; indignation, 210 ; ignity, 100 ; wounded innocence, 76 ; pity for Mr. Hooper 's family, 8 ; pity for Mr. Hooper himself, 3,7 • contempt for Mr. Hooper, 11 ; wrath, 420 ; total, 1,000. Manner :—Attitudes a la Webster, 21 ; ditto, a la Choate, 22 ; ditto, a la Billy Bowlegs, 19 ; tremours of the right hand, 300 ; ditto of the left hand, 9 ; ditto of both hands, 92 ; shakes of the head, 209 ; quivers of the chin, 111 ; beating of the breast, 86 ; scowls at Mr. Hooper, 33 ; convulsiois, 101 ; total, 1,000. It would be a useful matter of re ference for the future if the same chemist would analyse as scientifically the speeches of other members of the Legislature. EXTRAORDINARY INSUNCE OF SELF-SUSTENANCE. A few days ago, as a shepherd named Greaves, belong ing to Ripple Farm, near Deal, was employed in a yard on his master's premises, he was surprised to see a hog issue from a large heap of straw which had been thrown off from the thrashing machine. The animal was in a very emaciated condition, and seemed to be suffering from great debility. On closer examination it was iden tified as a pig that had been suddenly missed about five weeks before, and after which a minute but fruitless search had been made, .the owner at length arriving at the conclusion that it had been stolen. It is supposed that the pig was nistling in the yard at the time the thrashing machine was in operation, and that it did not think of moving from its comfortable quarters until the layer of straw became so heavy that it was unable to free itself—an indiscretion for which it paid the penalty of five weeks' confinement, and the laborious task of self. liberation,—Dover 125 186 FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of YESTERDA Y. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MAY 2. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty's birthday will be celebrated on Tuesday the 24th instant. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MAY 2. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold Drawing-rooms at St. Ja mes ' s Palace, on the follo w i ng days; at two o'clock : Thursday, 2d Juno next ; Tuesday, 14th June next ; Thursday, 23d Ju ne next. REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE QUEEN'S DRAWING ROOMS, AT ST. JAMES'S PALACE. The Ladies, who purpose to attend her Majesty's Draw ing-rooms, are requested to bring with them two large cards, with their names clearly written thereon —one to be left with the Queen's page in attendance in the ante-room, and the other to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, who will announce the name to her Majesty. Those Ladies who are to be presented are hereby informed that it is absolutely necessary that their names, with the names of the ladies who are to present them, should be de livered at the Lord Chamberlain's Office on Tuesday the 31st of May for the first drawing-room ;on Saturday the 11th of June for the second drawing-room ; and on Tues day the 21st of June for the third drawing-room, on each day before twelve o'clock, in order that they may be sub mitted for the Queen's approbation ; it being her Majesty's command that no presentation shall take place unless the name of the lady presenting, together with that of the lady to be presented, shall appear on the card to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, which names shall correspond with those previously sent in to the Lord Chamberlain's Office. It is particularly requested that in every case the names be very distinctly written upon the cards to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, in order that there may be no difficulty in announcing them. The state apartments will not be open for the reception of company coming to Court until half-past one o'clock. DOWNING-STREET, MAY 2. The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Guthrie, Esq., to be Sub-Collector of Customs and Landin ,, Sur veyor at the port o f G ee l ong, i n the colony of Victoria ; and Richard Down, Esq., to be Landing Surveyor for that colony. ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, MAY 2. The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Wardlaw, Esq. (late Lieut. in the East India Company's Service), Exon of her Majesty's Royal Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard, vice Captain W. L. Grant, resigned. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Anglesey. Richard Williams Prichard, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieu tenant, April 28. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Cardiganshire. George Bowen Jordan Jordan, Esq., to he Deputy Lieu tenant, April 28. Commission by Field-Marshal his Royal Highness the Warden of the Stannaries. Royal Cornwall and Devon Miners Regiment of Militia— Nicholas Kendal, junior, Esq., to be Captain, April 26. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall. 2nd Cornwall Rifle Regiment—John Sainsbury, Esq., to be Ist Captain ; William Price Michell, Gent., to be Sur geon, April 29. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Brecknockshire. Royal Brecknock Rifle Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant William Bridgwater to be Captain ; John Gregory, Gent., to be First Lieutenant ; Thomas Price Bligh, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, April 29. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Monmouthshire. Royal Monmouth Militia—Alexander Rolls, Esq., to be Maj or. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. Royal North Gloucester Regiment of Militia--George Phipps Prevost, Gent., to bo Lieutenant, v i ce V aug h an, bo be promoted, Ap r il 30. 2d Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia—Lieutenant Joseph Dingwall, to be Captain, vice Parratt, appointed to the Adjutantcy of the 3d Regiment ofithe Royal Surrey Militia, April 30 ; Henry Sharp Taylor, Gent., to b e As sistant-Surgeon, with th e ran k o f Lieutenant, April 23. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland. Northumberland Regiment of Militia—Patrick Thorp Dickson, Gent., to be Lieutenant, April 30. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Sussex. Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia— James Henry, Esq. ; Charles F. B. Greville Dickenson, Esq. ; Charles Spencer Scrase Dicking, Esq. ; Edward John Bunny, Esq., to be Captains, April 18. Ensign James Dennis ; Ensign William Bryce Watson ; Ensign Williams Adams Nash ; Anthony J. Wright Biddulph, Gent., to be Lieutenants, April 18 ; Frederick John Freenland, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, April 18. Artillery Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia—Major Georged Kirwan Carr to be Lieutenant-Colonel, April 26 ; Charles Montagu Chester, to be Major, April 18; Charles Bayntun, Gent., and Henry Molineux, Gent., to be Lieu tenants, April 18 ; Surgeon's Mate George Weekes to be Surgeon, April 25 ; Henry Moon, Gent., to be Assistant- Surgeon, April 18. BANKRUPTS. John Henderson and Christopher Nanson, cabinetmak ers, Windsor-terrace, Vauxhall-road, to surrender May 12, at half-past eleven, and June 17, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Canna]; official assignee, Alderruanbury ; Baylis, Redcross-street. _ _ Donald Macfie, draper, Edgware-road, May 9, at two, and June 25, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Ni cholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Lawrence, Bread-street, Cheapside. Henry Charles Larkan, coffee-house keeper, Greenwich, May 11, at o ne , an d J une 21, a t t we l ve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Carttar, Green wich. William Stiles, malster, Stratford-upon-Avon, May 11 and June 1, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Lane, Stratford upon-Avon, and Hodgson, Birmingham. Henry Carrington, nurseryman, Mile-end, Stockport, May 26, and June 16, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis trict Court. Lee, official assignee, Manchester ; Cobbett, Manchester. William Woodyatt, joiner, Witton, Northwich, May 17, and June 6, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Holland and Green, Northwich. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. R. F. Gower, jun., R. E. Alison, and W. L. Cumber lege, New Broad-street, City, merchants, May 24, at half past one. _ _ In the Country. W. C. Buchanan, Dursley, Gloucestershire, money scrivener, May 27, at eleven at the Court, Bristol—T. W. Baker, West Derby, Lancashire, tobacconist, May 24, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—W. Caldwell, Shevington, Lancashire, coal proprietor, May 25, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—R. Derham W. A. Hinde, and J. Der ham, Dolphinholme, Lancashire, worsted spinners, May 24, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. J. Keeley and E. Williams, Strand and Fleet-street, tailors, 55., on Tuesday, May 3, or any subsequent Tues day, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Nichol son, Basinghall-street. _ R. D. Mercer, Church-passage, Spital•square, Bishops gate-street Without, silk-merchant, 4d., on Tuesday, May 3, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Nicholson, Basinghall-street. W. T. Hannam, Brighton, wine and spirit-merchant, 6d., on Tuesday, May 3, and any subsequent Tuesday, be tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Nicholson, Basinghall-street. _ _ _ J. Moores, jun., Aylesbury, draper, lid., on Tuesday, May 3, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two• at the office of Mr. Nicholson, Basinghall-street. W. Noble, Charles-street, St. George's East, wholesale stay-manufacturer, is., on Tuesday, May 3, or any subse quent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street. J. Webster and G. M. Simpson, Greet Tower-street, merchants, id., on Tuesday, May 10, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office .of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall chambers, Basinghall-street. J. Morse, Neithorp, Banbury, woolstapler, 2s. 34d., on Tuesdiy, May 10, on any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall ohambers, Basinghall-street. J. Padgett, Idle, cloth manufacturer, 7d., and day on or after May 5, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. J. Dunthorn, Broadwall, Blaclifriars-road, corn dealer, May 24,' at half-past one—H. Simmonds, Ore, Sussex, brickmaker, May 24, at twelve—F. Young, Union-place, Walworth-road, May 24, at one—C. Lane, Hastings, Sus sex, plumber, May 26, at two—J. R. Hunt, tailor, Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, May 26, at half-past eleven. In the Country. B. James and T. G. Hardie ' Newport, Monmouthshire, builders, May 25, at eleven, at the Court Bristol—J. Nield, Lees, Lancashire, woollen manufacturer, May 23, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. G. Kebble, Hurst, Berkshire, farmer and grazier, cer tificate of the second class—W. Williams and W. R. Marchant, Great George-street, Westminster, Liver pool, and Campden, Gloucestershire ' contractors for public works, certificates of the first class—G. Lester, High-street, Poplar, builder, certificate of the second class —A. Buniiett, Bridgehouse-place, Newington-causeway, window-blind manufacturer, certificate of the second class —L B. Miller and W. Miller, Henstri.d. ole-villas St. John's 1. wood, certificates of the third class. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Baker and J. Baker, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, rope makers—E. Jackson and W. Purdy, Manchester, milliners—E. S. Brookes and J. Black, Loughborough, Leicestershire, hosiers—T. S. Goode and J. D. Cooper, Ki liymoon, Tyrone, Ireland, contractors—J. Walker and F. B. Brodribb, Gracechurch-street, City, iron roof builders—J. J. Mallinson and J. E. Mallinson, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, grocers—J. Butterworth and Elizabeth Senior, Batley, Yorkshire, rag pullers—G. Baker and J. T. Hudden, - Upper Clapton, dyers—C. J. Pricker an d T . J . King, Trafalgar street, alworth-road, confectioners—W. Charles and J. Haniaond, Wolverhampton, oil refiners—W. Mil ler and T. Davey, Dorking, upholsterers—W. Mitche son, son., J. J. Mitcheson, R. W. Mitcheson, and W. Mitcheson, jun., Garford-street, Poplar, anchorsmiths (so far as regards W. Mitcheson, sen.)—J. Edwards, G. A. H. Holf, and J. Andrew, jun., Liverpool, merchants (so far as regards J. Andrew)—G. Harriss, J. H. Harriss, and J. Blackinan, Broadwall, Blackfriars-road, tallow chandlers (so far as regards G. Harriss, W. Wood and R. A. Parker, Li verpool, solicitors —R. Williams, J. Williams, and J. Williams, Bristol, silversmiths (so far as regards R. Williams)—H. Catheral and T. Gibbs, Back Church-lane, Whitechapel, mill sawyers.— H. M'Connel, J. M'Connel, and W. Clayton, Cressbrook, Derbyshire, manufacturers, S. Vousden, W. Vous den, and R. Vousden, Manor-street, Clapham, stone masons, (so far as regards W. Vousden)—:-J. A. Lloyd and J. Lawrence, Bath, surgeons—J. Greenfield and D. Green field, jun., Aston, Warwickshire, brass founders—H. J. Phillips and I. Phillips, Jewin-street, Cripplegate, jewel lers—G. F. Gorton and T. Gorton, Great St. Helens, Bishopsgate-street, merchants—E. Puleston, J. Puleston, and F. Bythell, Wrexham, Denbighshire, linen drapers — W. Barningham and J. Barningham, Pendleton, Lanca shire, iron founders. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. William Bithlulph, Birmingham, baker. Maurice Myers, Aldgate, victualler. Josiah Jackson, Snow-hill, machinist. Simeon Challenger, Wedn'esbury, Staffordshire, miner. Joseph Godwin, Birmingham, huokster. John William Parsons Prior, Ashford; Kent, journey man coach builder. James Matthewson, Blyth, Northumberland, grocer. William Hopkins, Bisley, Gloucestershire, farmer. John Henley, Arundel, Sussex, timber merchant. John Wainwright, Tipton, Staffordshire, huckster. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. John Dirt, Faskine, Lanarkshire, grocer, May 9 and June 3, at twelve, to meet within, the Royal dries COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—MAY 3. At this day's market there was only a limited atte ndance of the town and country trade. The business d one in, wheat and flour wa s of a retail character, at a decline ° ld to 2d per 701bs. on the former, and 3d to 6 d p er bare' and sack on the latter. Oats and oatmeal met a niodera? demand at late rates. Barley and p e as without change 1611 valoe ; but Egyptian beans saleable at an advance ef per qr. Yellow Indian corn in more request. golder asking more money checked business. White 6d to is p er qr. lower. IPSWICH—MAY 3. An annual stock fair diverted much of the attentie; from th e b us i ness a t th e corn mar k e t, but we noticed ot,llsi an increase to the supply of wheat. There was a p an ko reduction in price, but we cannot call it is. per qr.' then Scarcely an y ma lti ng b ar l ey a t mar ket ; but the wea if being very cool, some maltsters would keep on Wetting they could procure the barley. Beans dearer. PER QUARTER. Wheat, red (old) ... 448 to 44s Barley, grinding P . E . Ditto (new) ... OOs to 00s cans .......... : 35 i t 9 3 31 323 to 3 Ditto, white (new) 50s to 53s Peas .... ****************** to 00s Ditto (old) Barley, malting AVERAGES FOR TILE WEEK ENDING APRIL 30, 18 53 . Wheat Barley , f Oats ~ 35s 5d Beans Peas 2 P SOWISAI:01100::, HULL—MAY 3. A fair show of wheat to-day from our own fanners, 9 ' ila 0 a rather more foreign.' For the latter more demand' o f English not more than is per qr. befew the pric e ° but week. A further addition to the imports of barleYi esn i the market is well supported. Oats rather dull- wi of meet an improved demand, as do also the best earnP r 7 p ed peas. Linseed without alteration, AS are as° i cakes. Nothing doing 'in rapeseed, and cakes r athe favour of buyers. A good sale for bones. The following are the present prices of grain :-- s s Wheat, English, red 46 to 49 Ditto white 47 to 50 Dantzie and Konigs- $ 3 5 Peas, gray and black 3 3 is Linsee p d e , te ß r l s a b e u k rgh. Sea.. . .. 4 4 6 0 to t° i$ Ditto Ditto Riga and Arch -40 if t ° angel .... ........ Ditto Konigsberg an oa to 45 Memel ........ per /0 0 . Lins. c., Hull 71100 to (1 01U, i Ditto fine for. 71 7s Od ` Ditto iuf. for. 61 15s t o 'Rapeseed 261 105 to Ob Rape cakes ... 102 s 6d t ° oos 'Tares, English ...... 3 6s t m ° 400 Ditto foreign .... 35g .. G uano 50 91 to o o Bones 1020 6 ( 1 to , Rye Meal .................. berg Pomeranian anti 48 to 50 1 d 1 burgh Danish, Holstein, and Friesland 42 to 44 Russian and Odessa 40 to 43 Oats, English Ditto Danish Ditto Friesland Ditto Russian lB to 19' Barley, malting Ditto grinding 27 to 28 Beans Ditto foreign Peas, white and yel 36 to 39 44 to 46 CORK-MAY 2. Brls. Curren c io White wheat 00s Od to 00s Od Os Od-- 2 ' a nedwheat 00s Od to 00s 01 0 ' Ditto OOs Od to 00s Od 00s 20 Ditto 00s Od to 00s . Od 29 Barley lls Od to 14s 6d Ditto 00s Od to 00s Od 00s Od- 164°. Ditto 00s Od to 00s Od Bere oos Od to 00s Od. Os Oil 146 Oats Ditto 00s Od to OOs Od 10s 10d Ditto 00s Od to 00s Od oft" Pigs oos Od to 00s Od 00s Od per Quantity sold at the highest prices : 5 00 barrels white wheat ; 00 red ; 2 barley ; 0 ber" Oats, oats; 0 pigs. Quantity of grain and number of pigs sold last weelc,rik Wheat, 53. Barley, 576. Bee, 00. Pigs, 00. Return of cattle sold for week ending April 23 Pigs, 395. Sheep, 525. Cows, 69. pd; CORK. —Flour-- First, 15s Od to 16s Od; extra, 1 1 4 , 6 1 / 40 , seconds, 13s Od to 14s 6d ; h ouse h o lds, lOs to 1350 d ; 0.1; 7s Od to lOs per cwt. Meal—lndian meal, 7 s 6d to 0 ; o ft .i , oatmeal, 10s 6d t o ll s Od; •wheatmeal, lOirto Ils Od Pe s o Oa Indian corn, 71 5s Od t o Si Os Od per ton. Bran, 4i ,„,rse , to 4/ lOs Od perton. Hay—Farmers, 24s Od to 42s Od; it' . 365; dealers, 40s Od t o 60 s Od ; average, Os per ton. 70(1t$, Farmers, 14s Od to 25s Od ; av erage, 23 s ; dealers! lob' OOs Od; average, Os. per ton. Bread—Wheaten lc°l' Od ; household ditto, 6d to Od per 41b.—Fresh butter , N et, per lb. Eggs, 4s Od to 4s 23 per hundred, Meat to 4id to 8d ; mutton, s t id to 7d ; veal, 5d to 8d ; Per i f o lOW 6d ; bacon, 7d to 8d ; sausages, 6d per lb.—Fish; Ne 001; land, 11/. Os to 121 Os per ton ; Scotch herrings, 00s te ri o, Red, do., 30s per brl.—Potatoes, white, 10d to 12' 1 ,& 12d to 15d.—Coals, Newport, 21s ; Lydney, 213 ; Od per ton.—Whiskey, 25 0.p., 6s 10d per imperial Pr: - 0 0 Ilides, market, 30s to 365; Sated, 30s to 38s per oo tos , skins, 3id per lb.—Bangor slates 21. 17s. 6d to 31. per pet Fleece wool, OOs to OOs per stone.—Hemp, 38 1 . to 7 1 do., ton—Timber, Memel, 3/. 15s ; red pine, 3!. 15s ; ye ll reat 31. ss, per ton ; deals, 191. to 20/. per hundred.— _ Par 110 8/. to 101.10 s. per ton.—Tallow, 48s to 49s Od per cwt. /v et 71. lOs to 0/. per cwt.- Tar, Archangel, 19s. per brl.--u Peruvian, 12/. Os to 00/. per ton. INGE—YESTEBIDA Y, Gibraltar . ........ ..• 6 6 Leghorn •• •• •• •• •• •••••• 25 3 6 Genoa ......•• •• •• Milan •• •• •• ••—• ••• Venice •••• •••• 41 Naples .• •• ••• 10., Palermo '•••• •• " •• 125% Messina •• .. •• • c 5 1 4 / 4 Lisbon • • • • •• "• • •• Oporto • ..• • • •• •• .... Rio Janeiro •—• •• •• "•• —•• Buenos Ayres • • ....... New York, 60 liaYa• sight Philadelphia .•• • • • pf , PRICES OF BULLION, 1•0 4 0 Foreign Gold in Bars £3 I Portugal Gold Coin „' 0 0 Mexican Dollars .. •• 0 v 0 New Dollars .....• 0 0 Silver In bars ...... 0 COURSE OF EXCH. Amsterdam ............ 11 17 Ditto, three months . ..... 11 1 1 8 844 1 Rotterdam Antwerp .............. 25 30 Brussels .............. 25 30 Hainburgh ............ 13 8 Altona .. ............ ••• 22 2 5 5 5 3 3 704 Ditto, throe : months Bourdeaux ......... Frankfort-on -Maine ...• 12036 Berlin ........ Vienna 10 56 Trieste •• .. 10 59 Petersburgh.. •• •• 37% Madrid ................ 50% Cadiz 50 3 A Barcelona.. Seville •.• .• •••••• w• SEABORNE MAILS. (N signi ht —a fies that the mails are sent from tho Genets! by the nignd M by the morning—dispatch.] • e Day when made up Froni what " COUNTRIES. in Office, Gneral Post- Port ii6 l,to u London.* Dispatched. America(byßrit.pack)N Every Friday .... Liverpool Of' America (by_United Sts. WY 11 packet) ..........N April 19 ........ Liverpool America (by U. States Dial 4 packet) ••.• • ..• ••N April 18 .• .• •... SouthaMywn Australia (via South- 2 1 , ampton) ..........M 4th of May ...... Southampton ,11 Ditto (via Marseilles) N Bth of May Doves Ditto (via Cape of Good gar ° Hope) ..N 2d of June Plymouth •• "0 9, Africa (West Cout)..N 23rd o f th e mont h. Plymouth •• Zo 1 ° Alexandria ..........N 8,9, 24, &30of m. Dover .• •• 'no 2 1 00 Alexandria ..........M 4th & 20th o f mon . S out h am pton nt 0 1 Bahamas ...........M 2nd of th e mon th S ou th am pton .: o. oy Belgium ............N Dever ..... • ,1 6 Brazil ..... 9th of the month.. Southampton 16. Buenos Ayres ........M 9th of the month.. Southampton 6 .'7119 6 , 23 Cape of Good Hope ..N 14th of the mo n th Plymouth •• fir s olt Cape of Good Hope ..N 2n4 of June Plymouth •. • lb Cape de Verde .....N 14th of the month. Plymouth •• " Ceylon (see India) MO 6 6k Ceylon • • •.......N 14th of the month Plymouth Channel Isles lion„Wed.,&Frld. Southampton 1 1 M 2d & 17th of month Southampton 61 "' China (see India) mai I t Constantinople ......N 7,8,17,24,&27 ofm, Dover .... • • ~t o Constantinople • 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton cod ' Cont. of Europe X & N Twice daily Dover .... • • ' Egypt (see India) ice P France ........ M& N Twice daily Dover Tiny Gibraltar ..........M 4,7, 17, 20, 27 of m. Southampton Greece (see India) . 1 t, ",„ g/ Greytown ..........M 2nd & 17th of mon. Southamp ton To a es,•op Hamburgh ..........N Tuesday & Friday London ••• • t,"„o Havan . nah .......... M 2nd of the month Southampton .; 100 ,1 1 ; Holland Wednesday & Sat, London ... • • g o 1 7 Honduras 17th of the month. Southampton 2 India (viaSoutliampt.)lll 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton Z.O India (via Marseilles)M Bth&24th of month Dover u", lonian Isles (see India) c od Ireland ........M & N Twice daily Holyhead .• • . f or 6 , Li5b0n............ —ll 7,9, 17, & 28 "of m . Southampton Madeira . .. . . 9th of the month Southampton a"::. 9 Madeira ............ N 23rd of the month Plymouth ••• . Malta (see India) 1 0 Malta •••••••• • • • • • •N 7•17,19,28, 30 of m. Dover . ..... „ 6 Mauritius (see India) APr i f i 03 .4 19 Mauritius 14th of the month Plymouth •• I A o Mexico , ........... X 2 n d o f th e month.. Southamp ton day n A Naples ..... ........N sthlsth2sthormon. Dover ...• • • uof New Granada ......M 2d & 17th of month Southampton U n cen — New Zealand By private ship Various port' ,foy Papal States ........N sthlsth2sthormon. Dover .. •• NW ° Peninsula 7th l 7th2Bthofmon. Southampton oy 1, Peru g •& 27th of mon. Southampton Aprilr Port Natal . ..... ....N 14th of the month Plymouth • • , da y Sicily sthlsth2sthofmon, Dover .. • • •• gay Tuscany .• .„ sthlsth2sthofmon. Dover • • da y ' Venezuela ..... 2d& 17th of month Southampton VadDiemen'slaLd (see 1 Australia) .: gy West Indies X 2d& 17th of month ,Southampton • dates fall on a Sunday, the nu d rodlo, ing day, with the exception of th 00 0 , Malta, both of which will be diO4 * When any of these dispatched on the follow] Southampton), and the day preceding. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Oinbmeu. ef Certain Cure for Eruptions and all Diseases —Extract of a letter from Mr. J, Hird, draper) Sill, dated Feb.' 14, 1852, to Professor Hollow - al :" . ‘ ,.„t Olt My child, when three months old, was afilief e ; e rf.r o i severe eruption all over her body. I sought *t o t and the advice of surgeons and physiciansfZ il Woo whom the case was considered hopeless. re d your Ointment and Pills, and without exagge% - i e st° b. effect was miraculous, for in a short time sheer i be ° t o to perfect health, and so remains. Mr. Bevi' e avpi i ." seller, Gainsborough, and myself, would be 7 6 1,00,.. satisfy any inquiries as to the truth of this st a. ' , s o"` -' Sold by all druggists ; and at Professor Hollovrg blishment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTHS. o f the OF A SON. On the Ist inst., at Westbury, Wilts, the Nri" :re Rev. John Baron. .c 1 . Pti OF A DAUGHTER. o f C. On the Ist inst., at Edinburgh, the wi f° c Pre, Esq., M.P. Fre"' atP MARRIED. i eon' coon' On the 30th ult., at St. Mark's ICenTl -13 ku - ie , ,w Field, Esq.. of Caldera, Chili, to Augu: 1 ' 9 %; -- tell's —. daughter of T. L. Abel, Esq., of lienningt rl. . . E s q'' o pt' DIED. o f a re On the 30th ult., Edw a rd Jacobs, tonvjoe, t house ' Margate, aged 61. On the 30th ult., at 21, Myddelton-aclu 9re ' .. PP A,0,-4'64 Charles Earith, Esq., age d 69. + o%f ° ' . •, at 85, On the 28th ult Newman -et, Joreph Glover, Esq., aged 73. DO f 7 ,4 °1 1 1 :1 LONDON: Printed and Published by 03-13 /-000e.ttf of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The SW! t he CO" Strand, in the Precinct of the Sa/g, Middlesex, Wednesday, Dit'Y 4,