The Sun. — London, England, 1853-06-25 00:00:00

governed in India. (Hear, hear.) That is a fundamental law which we did not make, which we cannot alter, and to which we should do our best to conform our legislation. (Hear.) While such an extent of ocean and of continent lies between Calcutta and London, India must be governed there, and not here. Ay, in spite of all the improvements which science has made, a dispatch from India is not road in London until six weeks after it was sent from Calcutta. 'Suppose it is answered on the very day when it reaches Isere, six weeks more must elapse before the answer arrives at Calcutta. But no such dispatch is answered on the mane day as that of its arrival—very rarely indeed in the same month. The double government, whatever be its merits or demerits, is unquestionably not an expeditious government. When a dispatch is received, it must be con sidered, and both branches of the governing body at home must have opportunities of offering suggestions as to the answer to be sent out ; and when you reflect on all this — when you take into consideration the delay which is the effect of your machinery and tho effect of distance—you will see that when a dispatch reaches Calcutta it is a dispatch not calculated to meet the state of things existing on its arrival, but such as extended six months before. No empire can be governed by a dispatch shaped to meet a condition of circumstances which existed six months be fore. (Hear.) All our own experience proves that this i s impossible. We all remember when, upon a July, a Royal speech congratulated Parliament on the increasing o pros. our verity of the country ; and yet within 24 hours parting before Christmas we had a famine. AVe all, too, recollect when, in autumn all Europe seemed in a state of profound peace ; and yet, in the next year, from the is . tula to the Bay of Biscay there was nothing but war an d insurrection. (Hear.) Of what use in such a conjun c t ure would be the ablest and clearest instructions on foreign policy drawn out six months previously? (Hear.) It is therefore impossible that India can be really governed, ex cept in India. The instructions sent out there are gene rally exposition of principles, the business of the home authorities being rather to suggest what is best than to give positive directions as to the future ; and when the instructions are most positive there is almost always a pro viso that, after all, the local authorities must, on a view of the circumstances existing wnen the instructions arrive, exercise their own discretion as to what is to be done. The whole history of the Indian Government is full of instances to this effect ; but from my own experience I think I can illustrate this proposition in the clearest manner, for when I had a part in the government of India I can venture to say that every day important measures were taken by the Government—indeed, every measure of which history will hereafter make mention, was taken without any authority whatever from the home Government. (Hear.) I believe that almost every one of those measures or acts was re garded with disapprobation at home ; yet not one of them was rescinded or annulled, but every one of them was suf fered to stand, the language of the home authorities gene-- rally being such as this—" You have done wrong, but what you have done is done." That was most eminently the case with respect to that great reform made in 1835 by Lord W. Bentinck before his departure from India on the subject of native education. Such was the case with re spect to the abolition of the transit duties. On that occa sion a severe reprimand came out with respect to the distinguished functionary who bore the chief part in that transaction. Nevertheless, the transit duties were abolished; and that great boon was conferred on the people of India. The same was the case with respect to the act which established the liberty of unlicensed printing. (Hear.) A severe reprimand came out to India on account of the rashness imputed to the legis lative authorities there, but, nevertheless, they were not directed to annul the act. The same, too, was the case with respect to the act in regard to the uniformity of coin age. Here, again, a reprimand came out, but still the act was allowed to remain. These four instances, all taken from a period of less than a year and a quarter, are suffi cient to give a general idea that the organisation of the government of India is really of more importance to the happiness of the people of that country than the organisa tion of the home Government. (Hear.) Without meaning to speak with the least disrespect of the functions exer cised by the home Government, I am not sure whether the most important of all their functions is not the choice of the Governor-General, and I should be inclined to say that even upon the character of the Governor-General much less depends than on the general character and spirit of those servants by whom the administration of India 'is carried out. (Hear, hear.) A test, then, by which I am inclined to judge of the present bill is the probable effect it would have on the character of the civil service in India. (Hear, hear.) Is it likely to raise or to lower the character of that distinguished body which furnishes India with its judges and collectors ?—for, without mean ing the slightest disrespect to the Court of Directors, I must say that three or four or six incompetent directors would cause far less evil to the people of India than a , single incompetent collector in a district where a settle ment is to be made between the Government and the vil lagers. Though many hon. gentlemen fancy they know what the functions of a collector of revenue are, yet there exists, and I am surprised at it, a strange ignorance as to the power and importance of functionaries of that class in India. Some gentlemen seem to imagine, putting the In dian collector at the very highest, he is something like a commissioner of taxes or stamps in this country, while the truth is that the collector of revenue in many parts of India is the sole consul of a great province, the district assigned to him being about the size of one of the four provinces of Ireland, of Leinster or of Munster, and the population therein about 1,000,000 of human beings. In all that district there is not a single village—there is not a single bsst--in which the difference between a good and a bad collector may not make a difference between happiness and misery. (Hear.) The difference between a good and bad collector to the people in such a dis trict is infinitely greater than the difference between the very best and the very worst government that we have ever seen, or aro likely ever to see in England, can be to the people here. (Hear.) I have been assured by those who have had the best opportunities of judging, that you might read the character of the collector in the eyes and in the garb of the population—in the appearance of the fields and of the houses. When there was an incapable collector the peasantry there were broken-hearted. In the first place, the orn amen t s o f th e women, on which the peasantry "t India place so much value, are sold—then the r-ensure overcame their f on d ness for the village to whion they be longed, and emigration by hundreds and thousands took place. The villaze. idle jungle encroached tine country before cultivated, and wild beasts made dens where human habitations stood before. But let a good collector replace the bad one, and the whole scene is altered. Cultivation reappears, the jungle recedes, the tigers and beasts of prey return to their former haunts, and the fugitive population come back to their villages. Such a power as that which collectors in India have over the people is in no part of the world possessed by any class of functionaries—(hear)—and I can conceive that if we made the best arrangement with respect to the Home Go vernment we should be rendering far smaller service to those millions whose interest, in the first place, we have to consider, than if we raised the capacity for the civil ser vice. (Hear, hear.) Some gentlemen for whose ability I have great respect—though I cannot agree with them— think the best mode of improving the government of India is by giving the public appointments to the Governor- General, and letting him choose his instrument for the admi t nistration. There will be no want of ability, they say, if you only give him the freedom to choose those who serve under him. There is something plausible in the proposi tion that you should allow him to choose able men where ever he finds them. But my firm opinion is, that the day on which the civil service of India ceases to be a close ser vice will be the beginning of an age of jobbing the most monstrous, the most extensive, and the most perilous that ever existed. (Hear.) Every Governor-General would, in such case, carry out with him, or would soon be followed by, a crowd of relatives, nephews, first and second cousins, friends, and political hangers-on, while ever y s t eamer ar riving rom the Red Sea would carry to India adventurers bearing with them letters from some powerful man in Eng land, all praying for employment. Then upon these persons so recommended the Governor-General would have it in his power to distribute residences, seats in the Council Board, and places of from 4,000/. to 6,0001. a-year, upon men with out the least acquaintance with the character or habits of the natives, and with only sufficient knowledge of the lan guage to be able to call for a bottle of pale ale, or to desire their attendants to pull the punkah harder. (Laughter.) These men would be sent to exercise authority in different districts. One might bo sent to a great station as a ruler; and Mysore, not inferior to Scotland in extent and popu lation, might be made subject to his absolute power. (Hear, hear.) In what way could you put a check on such proceedings ? Would you—the House of Commons—con trol them ? Have you been so completely successful in extirpating nepotism and jobbing at your door, and in excluding all abuses from Whitehall and Somerset-house, that you should fancy that you could establish purity in countries the situation of which you do not know, and the names of which you cannot pronounce. (Cheers and laughter.) I believe most firmly that instead of purity resulting from that arrangement to India, India would soon be tainted by it ; and that, before long, when a son or brother of some active member of this house went out to Calcutta, carrying with him a strong letter of recom mendation from the Prime Minister to the Governor-Ge neral, that letter would be really a bill of exchange drawn on the revenues of India for value received from Parlia mentary support. (Hear, hear.) That would be no new traffic, but only an old traffic revived. We are not with out a guide and experience on this point. We have only to look back to those lamentable and shameful years which followed the first establishment of our power in Bengal. Then, as may be well-known if you only look to any poet, satirist, or essayist of those times, you may see in wh a t manner the system of appointments operated. Looking over, only yesterday, for another object, a file of news papers of 1771, I was struck by a paragraph stating that Mr. So-and-So, who went ou t w ith th e G over nor-Gneral only three years ago, had just landed with 40,0001. (Hear, hear.) These were the sort of men, who took no office, but simply got the Governor-Gen era l to pay a species of ransom, laying upon him a sort of tax—what the Mah rattas call choret and the Scotch blackmail—that is, the sum paid to a thief, in consideration that he went away without doing harm. (Laughter.) There was a tradition in Calcutta, where the story was very circumstantially told and generally believed, that a man came out with a strong letter of recommendation from one of the Ministers to Lord Clive • and when Lord Clive saw th a t h o was no t only unfit for, would positively do harm in any office, his lordship said, in a way peculiar to him, " Well, chap, how much do you want ?" Not being accustomed to be spoken to so plainly, the man replied that he only hoped for some situation in which his services might be useful. " That is no answer, chap," said Lord Clive, `•How much do you want ? Will 10,0001. do ?" The person replied, that he should be delighted if by laborious ser vice he could obtain that competence. Lord Clive then wrote out an order for the sum, and told the applicant to leave India by the ship he came in, and, once in England again to remain there. (Hear, and laughter.) I think the story is very probable, and I also think that the people of India ought to be grateful for the course Lord Clive pur sued ; for though he pillaged the people of Bengal to give this man a large sum, yet the man himself, if he had re ceived an appointment, would not only have pillaged, but misgovern e d the p eo pl e . A ga i ns t a b uses of this kind the only security is th a t th e c i v il serv i ce be kept close, and the cons equence of k eep i ng th e service close is, that though the Governor-General has a wide choice, he must choose from among a certain set of instruments whichh finds prepared. It is in the highest degree im probable that e an y s one, upon going out as Governor-General to India, should find any relatives or frien ds ra in ad th u e n c n ivil rupni ser o t ce G ; o a v n e d ni t o h r e . consequence is, that e General would dispos e of sanpatron.age under the present system more properly than upright Governor-General, under a system by which he sho G e ov a e t liberty to appoint an y one. Even an unscrupulous ?pr-General when etnds, comes to he finds he cannot oblige relations and men the conclusion that the best thing appoint.ht_oisdeohiosn?e,eoamall wend do the most credit t o y. the puhliirservice.to on most easily and successfunll beene(n2 month hear.) That valuable man (Lord W .Bentinc e k n ) in ow in my hearing,. I " I have he left India, said, years; and during that timehave had dispos e of seven . immense -luerative patronage, and I have never but once i n all that tirthabeen able to do a single service to a single E ng li s h f r i e n t r There was the office of . a police m ag i strate vri.cantats Cid outta, not str i ctly belongi ng to the civil Der. ~.1 `~i: ~ vice, and Lord W. Bentinck gave it to this friend of his who had fallen into distress. That was the single instance where Lord W. Bentinck had an opportunity of appointing a friend, by going out of the service. What a security such a system is for the proper disposal of the patronage .—infi nitely a better security than even the virtues of such a man ; for if any man is to be trusted with the uncontrolled disposal of the Indian patronage Lord W. Bentinck cer tainly was. (Hear, hear.) Then it appears we re agreed that it is of the highest importance that the civil service in India should be most capable and efficient. We are agreed, also, that it must be a close service. Li this case, it certainly necessarily follows that we ought to watch with the utmost care over the road to admission to that service —that we ought, if possible, to take such measures that this service may consist entirely of fit and superior men. Now, it is because, in my opinion, this bill does tend to produce that effect that I feel earnestly desirous that it should pass, and pass without delay. (Hear, hear.) My right hon. friend (Sir C. Wood) proposes that all places in the civil service—all admissions to the civil service, shall be distributed among young men by competition in those studies (as I understand the plan) which constitute a liberal British education. That plan was originally sug gested by Lord Grenville in a speech which, thought I do not concur in any part of it, I would earnestly recommend every gentleman to read, for I believe that since the death o f Burke nothing more remarkable has been delivered. Nothing, however, on this point was then done, and the matter slept till 1833 when my friend Lord Glenelg, the purest and m os t disinterested of men, proposed the adop tion of a plan not altogether framed according to his views, but still a plan which would have introduced this principle of competition. Upon that plan 20 years ago I remember speaking here. I ought not to say here, for the then House of Comm ons was b urn t d own , an d o f the audience I then addressed the greater part has passed away. But my opinion on that subject has always been the same. (Hear, hear.) The bill was passed, but difficulties arose with respect to the enactments I have just referred to, and they were repealed, and the patronage continued to run in the old course. It is now proposed to introduce this prin ciple of competition again, and I do most earnestly entreat this house to give it a fair trial. (Hear.) I was truly glad to hear the noble lord who proposed the present amend ment express approval of the general principle of that part of the bill. I was glad, but not surprised at it, for it is what I should expect from a young man of his spirit and ability and recent experience of academical competition. (Hear, hear.) But I must say Ido join with the hon. member for Kidderminster in feeling some surprise at the manner in which that part of the plan has been spoken of by a nobleman of great eminence, once presi dent of the Board of Control and Governor-General of India, and of very distinguished ability as a statesman. If I understand the opinions imputed to that noble lord, he thinks the proficiency of a young man in those pursuits which constitute a liberal education is not only no indica tion that he is likely in after life to make a distinguished figure, but that it positively raises a presumption that in after life he will be overcome in those contests which then take place. I understand that the noble lord is of opinion that young men gaining distinction in such pursuits are likely to turn out dullards and utterly unfit for the con tests of active life, and I am not sure that the noble lord did not say that it would be better to make boxing or cricket a test of fitness than a liberal education. I must say it seems to me that there never was a fact better proved by an immense mass of evidence, by an experience almost unvaried, than this—that men who distinguish them selves in their youth above their cotemporaries in academic competition almost always keep to the end of their lives the start theyliave gained in the earlier part of their career. This experience is so vast that I should as soon expect to hear any one question it as to hear it denied that arsenic is poison, or that brandy is intoxicating. Take the very simplest test. Take down in any library the Cambridge Calendar. There you have the list of honours for a hun dred years. Look at the list of wranglers and of junior optimes, and I will venture to say that for one man who has in after life distinguished himself among the junior optimes you will find 20 among the wranglers. Take the Oxford Calendar; look at the list of first-class men, and compare them with an equal number of men in the third class, and say in which list you find the majority of men who have distinguished themselves in after life. But is not our history full of instances which prove this fact? (Hear, hear.) Look at the church, the Parliament, or the bar. Look to the Parliament from the time when Parlia mentary government began in this country—from the days of Montagu and St. John to those of Canning and Peel. You need not stop there, but come down to the time of Lord Derby and my right hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Hear, hear.) Has it not always been the case that the men who were first in the competition of the schools have been the first in the competition of life? (Hear, hear.) Look also to India. The ablest man who ever governed India was Warren Hastings, and was he not in the first rank at Westminster? (Cheers.) The ablest civil servant I ever knew in India was Sir Charles Met calfe, and was ho not a man of the first standing at Eton ? The most distinguished member of the aristocracy who ever governed India was Lord Wellesley. What was his Eton reputation ? What was his Oxford reputation ? (Hear, hear.) But I must mention—l cannot refrain from mentioning—another noble and distinguished Governor- General. A few days ago, while the memory of the speech to which I have alluded was still fresh in my mind, I read in the Mum Cantabrigienses a very elegant and classical ode, which the University of Cambridge rewarded with a gold medal. The subject was the departure of the house of Braganza from Portugal for Brazil. The young poet, who was then only 17, described in very Horatian language and versification the departure of the fleet, and pictured the great Portuguese navigator, Vasco de Gama, and the great Portug uese p oe t C amoens h ove ring over the armament which was to convoy th e f or t u n e . ~r to Portu guese monarchy to a new hemisphere ; a nd with pleasure, not altogether unmingled with ir;—, read at the bottom of that c om p os iti on th e or he Hon. Edward Law, of St. John's College. must say I saw with some consider able pleasu re luaL the name of Lord Ellenborough may be a dd ed ..me long list of those distinguished men who, in eat youth, have, by eminent academical success, given en augury of the distinguished part which they were after wards to play ; and I could not but feel some concern and surprise that a nobleman so honourably distinguished in his youth by attention to those studies should, in his maturer years, have descended to use language respecting them which I think would have better become the lips of Ensign Northerton, or the captain in Swift's poem, who says— " Your Noveds and Bluturehs, and Omurs and stuff, By George, they dont't signify this pinch of snuff; To give a young gentleman right education, The army's the only good school in the nation." (Laughter,) The noble lord seemed, from his speech, to entertain that opinion. (A laugh.) "My schoolmaster called me a dunce and a fool, But at cuffs I was always the cock of the school." (Loud laughter.) But if a recollection of his own early academical triumphs did not restrain the noble earl from using this language, I should have thought that his filial piety would have had that effect. I should have thought that he would have remembered how eminently splendid was the academical career of that great and strong-minded magistrate, the late Lord Ellenborough ; and, as I have mentioned him, I will say that if there be in this world a trying test of the fitness of men for the competition of active life, and of the strength and acuteness of their prac tical faculties, it is to be found in the contests of the Eng lish bar. Look at Lord Mansfield, Lord Eldon, Lord Stowell, Sir Vicary Gibbs, Lord Tenterden, and Lord Lyndhurst. Take either the common law or the equity bar. The present Lord Chief Baron was senior wrangler ; Mr. Baron Alderson was senior wrangler Mr. Justice Mania was senior wr a ngl er ; M r . Baron Parke was emi nently distinguished at the university for his mathema tical and classical attainments ; Mr. Baron Platt was a wrangler ; and Mr. Justice Coleridge was one of the most eminent men of his time at Oxford. Then take the equity bar. The Lord Chancellor was a wrangler ; Lord Justice Sir George Turner was high in the list of wranglers ; all the three Vice-Chancellors wero wranglers ; Sir Lancelot Shadwell was a wrangler, and a very distinguished scholar ; my friend, Sir James Parker, was a high wrangler, and a distinguished math ema ti c i an. C an we suppose that it was by mere accident they obtained their high positions ? Is it possible not to believe that these men maintained through life the start which they gained in youth? And is it an answer to these instances to say that you can point—as it is desirable you should bo able to point—to two or three men of great powers who, having neglected the struggle when they were young, have afterwards exerted them selves to retrieve lost time, and have sometimes overtaken and surpassed those who had got far in advance of them ? Of course there are such exceptions ; most desirable it is that there should be, and that they should be noted, in order to encourage men who, after having thrown away their youth from levity or love of pleasure may be in clined to throw their manhood after it in despair • but the general rule is, b e y on d a ll d ou bt , t h at w hi c h I }lave laid down. It is this— that those men who distinguish them selves most in academical competition when they are young are the men who, in after life, distinguish themselves most in the competition of the world. Now, if this be so, I cannot conceive th a t we s h ou ld b e j us tifi e d i n re f us i ngto India the advantage of such a test. I know there aro gentlemen who say—for it has been said—" After all, this test extends only to a man's intellectual qualifications, and his character is quite as important as his intellectual qualifications." I most readily admit that his character is as important as his intellectual qualifications ; but unfortunately you have not quite so certain a test of a man's character as of his intellectual qualifications. Surely, if there are two qualifications you want a man to possess, and which it is very important ho should possess —and if you have a test by which you can ascertain the presence of the one qualification, but no decisive test by which you can ascertain the presence of the other- -your best course is to use the test you have, and to leave as little as you possibly can to chance. This argument would seem unanswerable unless some person should say that the circumstances of a man's superiority in academical competition raised a presumption that he was inferior in practical judgment and manly rectitude; but if that can be shown, then the consequence would go a great deal further than the rejection of my right hon. friend's pro posal. It would go to this, that we must reconsider the whole system of English education, and remove our boys from those places where they are trained to studies which have a deleterious effect upon the character. (Hear.) There is another point on which I am desirous to say a few words. Some very able and judicious men, who are strongly of opinion—as strongly as lam myself—that it is important that there should be high intellectual tests for admission to the Indian service, are yet of opinion that this would be best managed, not by means of competition, but by having examinations of a high standard, and re jecting every candidate who does not come up to that standard. Now, all my experience and observation lead me to believe that this is a complete mistake. (Hear, hear.) The effect of competition is to keep up the standard. Every man struggles to do his best, and the consequence is that, without any effort on the part of the examiner, under a system of competition the standard keeps itself up. But the moment you sayto the examiner, not " Shall A or B go to India ?" but " Hero is A ; is he fit to go India ?" the question becomes altogether a diffe rent one. The examiner's compassion, his good nature, his unwillingness to blast the prospects of a young man, lead him to strain a point in order to let the candidate in if ho possibly can. That would be the case even if we suppose the dispensers of patronage to be left merely to the operation of their own minds, but you would have them subjected to solicitations of a sort which it would be im- possible to resist. I speak of what I know, and of what I have seen. I have known cases where public servants have been under the painful necessity of pronouncing young men, on examination, to be unfit for the public service. What is the consequence? The candidate declares that he will exert himself to the utmost, and that, if he be but tried, no endeavour shall be wanting on his part to discharge his d u ti es sa ti s f ac t or il y . The father comes with tears in his eyes ; the mother writes the most pathetic and heartbreaking letters. I have repeatedly seen very firm minds shaken by appeals of that sort. Now, the system of competition allows nothing of the kind, but it necessarily keeps your standard high, while the other sys tem constantly tends to bring it lower and lower. I hope pleat earnestly it will not be supposed that in anything I have said I intend in the smallest degree to reflect on the present civil service of India. Some of the dearest and most valued friends I have in the world belong to that service, and for the general spirit and character of that service I feel the greatest respect and affection. I think it wonderful that a body of men not picked or chosen, but taken merely at random— appointed because one is the son of a director, because another is the nephew of a director, because another is related to some person who has been, perhaps, of great service to a President of the Board of Control at a contested election—(a laugh)—l think it won derful that men selected purely and avowedly on grounds of a personal nature should have conducted themselves as they have done, and have discharged duties of great diffi culty with so much success. It is, I think, a thing glorious to our country that 800 men taken in that way—at random —from among the gentlemen of England, should have con ducted themselves in general with such distinguished abi lity and probity. That, however, is no reason for not mak ing the service better, if we can do so, and it is impossible to deny that we have proofs that the service is not entirely free from defects. How, indeed, could it be otherwise ? You must necessarily have a certain number of inferior men in a service formed in such a manner—in a ser vice consisting of 800 men, not selected on the ground of ability. Among any 800 gentlemen whom you might select at random there would be a certain number of men of every superior _powers ; the great majority might be not very much above, nor very much below, the average of ability; but there must necessarily be, in every body of 800 men, not selected by some test of ability, a considerable number —say a tenth, or, if you please, a twentieth—who fall de cidedly below the average of ability. Now, you can do very well with this. You don't want all the clerks in the War-office, or the Treasury, to be superior men. There is plenty of routine business to be done in those offices which a man of no great ability can transact. The men of small ability do that routine business ; the men of great ability rise in position. But the case is different in the Indian service. You have there 800 men charged with the hap piness of 120,000,000 of people. There is not a single one of those men upon whose capacity the happiness of a very large number of human beings may not, in any situation, depend. It is utterly impossible that one-tenth part or one-twentieth part of that service can consist of incapable men without causing great suffering to thousands of indi viduals ; and here, I believe, we find the real explanation of that which has appeared to me, from all I have been able to learn, the most defective point of our system in In dia. I quite agree with the noble lord who moved the amendment as to the evils of the judicial system in India. (Hear, hear.) All the evidence leads me to that conclusion; but permit me to say that this is no novelty. Those evils was distinctly predicted before the bill of 1833 passed. I heard them predicted myself. It was said by a very able man :—" Your opening the China trade will, in one sense, inflict great evils upon the people of India, unless you alter the mode in which the patronage is dispensed. While patronage is exercised as it is exercised, there will always be a certain number of incapable men in the service. At present they are sent into the trade ; your able men aro left for judicial, revenue, and political positions. If you abolish the trade you will still have the same proportion of incapacity in the service, but there will no longer be com mercial affairs to which you can appoint these men of small ability, and you will send them to the judicial department." The prophecy has been strictly realised, for the to judicial department they have gone. (Hear, hear.) The evidence before us leaves no doubt that though there are very emi nently able and useful men—as able and useful as any which the service comprises—in the judicial department, yet that in general it is to that department that men deficient in ability and energy are sent ; and I do not blame those who have taken this course; for, shocking as it sounds in the ear of an Englishman to say that the collection of taxes is more important than the administration of justice, yet practically I do believe that the happiness of the people of a district in India depends more upon the ability of the revenue collec tor than oven upon the ability of the judge. (Hear.) Now, what is the remedy for this ? Not, I think—as some would propose—to strengthen the judicial department at the expense of the revenue department,—not, in my opinion, to pour out upon India—as has been suggested— some scores of barristers from the back rows of the Court of Queen's Bench, and to give them office as Indian judges. The true remedy is to raise the general character of the service —(cheers)—and to take such measures that it may be the highest degree improbable that any men who aro really incapable—any men who are below par—will find their way into that service at all. (Hear, hear.) I believe that the plan proposed by her Majesty's Government will accomplish this end, and it is on that ground chiefly that I give it my most sincere and cordial support. Ono word more. It seems to me that this plan provides the best means that can be imagined for effecting an object upon which much has been said, and which I admit to be desir able—the gradual admission of natives to a share in the higher offices of the Government. (Hear.) Legally, they are now admissible ; practically, none have been admitted. I do not blame those who do not admit them, for it is my belief that there is not in India a young native whom it would be a kindness to the native population to place, at the present moment, in your civil service. I can conceive nothing more unfortunate for the people of India than that you should put into the civil service a native, because he is a native, if he is to be the last man in that service,—a man decidedly inferior in attainments to all the other members of that service, and who would be looked down upon by his European colleagues. Above all, I cannot conceive anything more pernicious than the suggestion which has been made, that before you admit any native to the service at all—before any native has been even an assis tant collector or a judge, you should take some sis.ti r s eud appoint him a memhsn- rriscst, or all propositions, won" seem to me least likely to promote the real benefit of the people of India. - Under the proposed system, it would depend on the natives themselves, and upon them alone, at what time they should enter into the civil service. As soon as any young native of distinguished parts should, by the cultivation of English literature, have enabled him self to be victorious in competition over European candi dates, be would, in the most honourable manner, by con quest, as a matter of right, and not as a mereeleemosynary donation, obtain access to the service. (Hear, hear.) It would then be utterly impossible for his Europeon fellows to look down upon him ; he would enter the service in the best and most honourable way ; and I believe that in this mode, and. in this mode alone, can the object which so many friends of the native population have in view be at tained in a manner at all satisfactory. I differ, lam well aware, as to the effect of the admission of natives to such situations, from a noble lord (the Earl of Ellenborough), whom I mentioned a short time ago. That noble lord is of opinion, not only that we ought to exclude natives from office, but that even by encouraging them to study the arts and learning of Europe we are preparing the way for the utter destruction of our power in India. I must leave it to the noble lord to explain what seems to me a rather singular inconsistency in his opinion. lam at a loss to understand how, while utterly contemning education when it is given to Europeans, he should regard it with dread when it is given to natives. This training, we are told, when given to a European, makes him a bookworm, a twaddler, unfit for active life; but give the same education to the Hindoo, and he is to acquire such an accession of intellect that an established government, 150,000 soldiers, and the whole army and navy of England are to go down before its irresistible power. Ido not pretend to explain how the knowledge which is power in one race can be ab solutely impotent in another ; but I can only say, for my self, with regard to this question, that, in my opinion, we shall not secure or prolong our ,dominion in India by attempting to exclude the natives of that country from a share in its government, or by attempting to discourage their study of western learning ; and I will only say, further, that, however that may be, I will never consent to keep them ignorant in order to keep them manageable, or to govern them in ignorance in order to govern them long. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BLACKETT differed from Mr. Macaulay on the subject of the double government, which was the principle of the bill, and which, as the spring and fountain of the Indian administration, affected all its results. He con sented to judge the existing system by its results, which would discover, he said, that it possessed all the vices both of a despotism and of a representative government, with out the advantages of either. All the shortcomings of the existing system, he contended, could be repaired only by concentrating the home government, subjecting it to the utmost amount of responsibility in England. The changes in the double 'government left it as before, so far as re garded responsibility. The check of an independent Court of Directors was pro tanto, an advantage; but the bill stripped the Court of all its prerogatives, and transferred them to the President of the Board of Control. He should support the amendment. Lord JOCELYN differed with pain from Lord Stanley, against whose proposition he felt compelled to vote. He considered that we had sufficient evidence to frame a go vernment for India, and he could not agree that delay was a matter of no importance. Although he did not believe that it would endanger our rule in India, or encourage in surrection, he believed that it would weaken and paralyse the Government at home and abroad ; that it would teach the people of India to expect far more than they were likely to gain, and that disappointment would create discontent. He, therefore, thought that Parliament was bound to legislate now ; and, with respect to the bill before the house, he concurred in its principle, though he dissented from some of its provisions. He defended the government of India in the matter of the land assessment. The judicial department he thought one of the great blots of that go vernment. Less had also been laid out upon education than should have been ; but the Government had not neg lected this object. The sum expended upon public works had been comparatively small ; but millions had been wasted in unjust and unprovoked wars, for which the Board of Control was to blame ; and he was not prepared, therefore, to concede to the Adninistration of the day that authority in India which had.produced such unfavourable results in our colonies. Being friendly to a double system of government for India, he, nevertheless, was sensible of the defects of the present mode of electing the directors ; but he could not approve of the change which the bill pro posed to make in the constitution of the Court. He dis approved likewise of the mode in which it was intended to deal with the patronage ; a portion of the military ap pointments, he agreed with Lord Stanley, should be given to the servants of the East India Company. Mr. OTWAY insisted that before Parliament legislated upon this subject it was expedient that the wants and the views of the natives of India should be ascertained. He read descriptions of their wretched condition, and of the cruelty and oppression to which they were said to be sub jected. He dwelt upon the alleged abuses in the adminis tration of justice in India, and the neglect of works of public utility and necessity, and he complained of the in justice of imposing an irresponsible bureaucracy upon the people of India. He should vote for the amendment. Mr. ADDERLEY likewise supported the amendment, which supposed, he said, necessarily that a continuance bill should be passed to give time for the preparation of a better measure than that before the house, which was al most universally disapproved. Mr. Macaulay, by confining its defence to one clause of the bill, shirking all its great principles, had virtually condemned the remainder. The want of information could not be more clearly shown than by the bill itself. Its avowed object was to s ecure th e in dependence, by making it a one-third nomin a t e d counc il . In order to obviate misapprehension, he recommended the addition to the amendment of the words, " that it is ex pedient to continue the present act for two years." Mr. MANGLES defended the Indian Government, which, he maintained, in spite of excusable omissions and shortcomings, was the best Government of a great depend ency the world ever saw. It was important that somebody should be interposed between the local administration of India and the Ministers of the Crown, with whom, how ever, resided the sole power of peace and war, for the ex ercise of which they were responsible. He then replied to various statements made in the course of the debate with reference to - the land revenue, the Indian debt an d finan ces, public works, and the alleged nepotism of the direc tors. Mr. F. VILLIERS moved that the debate be adjourned. Lord J. RUSSELL expressed a hope that the discussion would be brought to a close on Monday. Mr. BRIGHT observed, that those who opposed the measure were not responsible for its unnecessary introduc tion. For his part, he would not be sorry if the debate were to terminate on Monday, but he could not undertake that it would be so. The debate was then adjourned to Monday. The Tenants' Compensation (Ireland) Bill went through committee, as did the Pimlico Improvement Bill. The report on the Customs', &c., Acts was brought up and received. The Evidence Amendment Bill was read a second time. The Soap Duties Bill was read a third time and passed. The Parish Vestries (No. 2) Bill went through committee. The Common Lodging-houses Bill passed through com mittee and was reported. ASSISTANT-JUDGE (MIDDLESEX) BILL. The house resolved itself into a committee to consider a resolution previous to the introduction of this bill. The resolution was agreed to ; and, the house having resumed, the report was brought up and the bill ordered to be brought in. ORDER OF PUBLIC BUSINESS. Colonel BLAIR had understood that the University Tests (Scotland) Bill was to be taken the first thing on Tuesday, but had since been informed that the Lord- Advocate wished to take the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill first, and he wished to ask the right hon. gentleman if that was the case ? The LORD-ADVOCATE considered that it would be most desirable to take the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill the first thing on Tuesday. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. G. BERKELEY, a new writ was ordered for the election of a burgess to serve in the pre sent Parliament for the borough of Traleo, in the room of Maurice O'Connell, Esq., deceased. The house adjourned at a quarterpast one. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER-YESTERDAY. As if it were to keep up the excitement, a little more novelty in the betting upon the Northumberland Plate was introduced, Chief Justice, who has for some time received a deal of public support, in a very short time receded from 13 to 2 to 15 to 1 offered, the same price being offered in the evening ; the consequence was a slight advance of both Goldfinder and Colsterdale to 9 to 2 each. St. Michael, who has been a coming horse all the week, was backed at all prices from 100 to 8 to 8 to 1. To-day the Northumberland Plate was again the upper most question, and Goorkah, the "Lion" of the day, open ing at 9 to 1, and closing at 6 to 1, at which price he was backed to win a fair amount. Considering there was but a small muster, many havinggone to Harrowgate, just before the breaking up, St, Michael came into force at 7 to 1. Chief Justice had no friends at anything like a reasonable price; 15 to 1 was currently offered ; 8 to 1 would have been taken about Little Harry for the Goodwood Stakes to some money. NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. sto 1 agst Goldfinder (offered). sto 1 agst Colsterdale (offered). 6to 1 agst Goorkah (t. f.) 7to 1 agst St. Michael (taken). 15 to 1 agst Little Jack (taken). 15 to 1 agst Chief Justice (offered). LIVERPOOL CUP. 11 to 2 agst Cariboo (t. f.) 7to 1 agst Goorkah (taken). 100 to 6 agst Valour (taken 20 to 1). GOODWOOD STAKES. Bto 1 agst Little Harry (t. f.) 15 to 1 agst Hobby Horse (taken). NO Leger or Derby betting. WINCHESTER RACES.-FRIDAY. The Original Hampshire Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and only 5 if declared, with 25 added. The second horse to save his stake. Two miles and a distance. 11 subs, Bof whom pay 5 sovs. each. The highest weight accepting being under Bst 71b, it was raised to that weight and the others in proportion. Duke of Richmond's Antigone by Thistlewhipper, 5 yrs, 7st 111 b (Flatman) 1 Mr. Saxon's The Black Doctor, 5 yrs, Bst 71b (T. Abrahams) 2 Captain Delme's The Little Savage, 4 yrs, Bst 21b (Wakefield) 3 Betting-7 to 4on The Black Doctor, 3to 1 agst Little Savage, 4 to 1 agst Antigone, and whilst running to 1 laid. Won cleverly by a length and a half. Two lengths between second and third. The TWO-YR-OLD STAKES, of 10 sovs. each ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies and geldings, Bst 31b ; winners, extra. T.Y.C. 8 subs. Lord Bruce's Bribery, by The Libel, Bst 71b (includ ing 41b extra) (Flatman) 1 Lord Palmerston's Austrey, by Harkaway, Bst 31b (A. Day) 2 Betting-6 to 4on Bribery. Won easily by two lengths. HER MAJESTY'S PLATE, of 100 guineas ; three-yr-olds, 7st 71b • four, 9st ; five, 9st 61b ; s i x an d aged, 9st 91b. iwo Mr. Greville's Torment by Alarm, 3 yrs (Flatman) 1 Captain Lane's Ninnyhammer, 3 yrs (Charlton) 2 Mr. Milner's Grapeshot, 3 yrs (Wells) 3 Mr. Shrimpton's Michaelmas Maid, 3 yrs (Rice) 4 Betting-7 to 4on Ninnyhammer, sto 2 agst Tor ment. Torment led off, Grapeshot taking second place, Ninnyhammer third, Michaelmas Maid a long way be hind. At the top of the hill Ninnyhammer took second place, and at the distance reached Torment's girths. A very fine race home with the two, ended in favour of Torment by a head. Grapeshot showed temper in coming down the hill, and was many lengths astern, followed at a still longer interval by Michaelmas Maid. Third Year of the FIRST TRIENNIAL STAKES of 10 soya. each, for four-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies, Bst 51b ; untried stallions or mares allowed 31b ; win ners extra. Two miles and a distance. 11 subs. Duke of Richmond's Harbinger, by Touchstone, Bst 71b (Flatman) walked over. Mr. Gratwicke's Maria, for whom Charlton weighed, saving her stake and receiving one forfeit. First year of the THIRD TRIENNIAL STAKES of 10 sova. each, for two-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 1 Olb ; fiilies, Bst 51b ; untried stallions or mares allowed 31b ; winners extra. Three quarters of a mile. 8 subs. Lord Bruce's Bribery, by The Libel, Bst 51b (Flatman) walked over. CITY MEMBER'S PLATE of 501. for three-yr-olds and upwards ; optional selling weights. Heats, two miles. Lord H. G. Lennox's Gavotte, by Cotherstone 3 yrs (1501.), 6st 131 b (Wells) 3 1 1 Mr. Wallis's Letterpress, 5 yrs (501.) 7st 71b (Donald) 1 2 3 Mr. Spencer's Benita, 4 yrs (50/), 6st 131 b (J. Goater) 2 3 2 First Heat.—Betting-6 to 4 on Gavotte, 2 to 1 agst Benita. Won by a neck. Gavotte did not go for the heat. Second Heat.—Betting-7 to 4 on Gavotte, 5 to 2 agst Letterpress. Won by half a length. Benita did not go for the heat. Third Heat.—Betting-4 to 1 on Gavotte, who won easily by a length. Bad third. The winner was after wards bought in for 350 guineas. SELLING STAKES of 3 sovs. each, with 25 added ; for three-yr-olds and upwards. Optional Selling weights. Three-quarters of a mile. 5 subs. Duke of Richmond's c by The Emperor, out of Coral, 3 yrs (201.), Est 81b (Wells) 1 Mr. Shrimpton's Arlette, 6 yrs (201.), Bst 71b (Rice) 2 Mr. Bickliam's Saville, 4 yrs (201.), Bst (H. Goater) 3 Mr. Webb's Merlin, 4 yrs (201.), 7st 111 b (Wakefield) 4 Betting-5 to 4 agst Coral colt, 6to 4 agst Saville, 4to 1 agst Arlette (offered). Saville, with Coral colt second, made the running to the top of the hill, where the latter took the lead, followed by Arlette, who made a good effort, but was beaten by two lengths. Some distance between second and third. The winner was afterwards sold for 105 guineas. The WINCHESTER STAKES of 5 sovs. each. One mile and a half. 3 subs. Mr. Hayter's Tested, by Touchstone, 4 yrs (H. Goater), walked over. NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.—In the course of the after noon Red Lion was backed for some money at 14 and 12 to 1. Chief Justice appeared to be on the decline. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1353. The figures within parenthesis denote the number of day's racing. JUNE. Newcastle (3) 2B Ludlow (2) 30 .LY. Newmarket (3) 5 Worcester (2) Carlisle (3) 5 Woodford and Loughton Lancaster (2) 7 Odiham (1) 8 Macclesfield (2) 12 Liverpool (3) 13 Maidstone (1) l3 Ipswich (2) l4 Leith (1) l4 Stourbridge (2) 18 Stamford (2) 19 Whitehaven (2) 19 Knutsford (2) 2O Nottingham (2) 21 Goodwood (4) Wenlock 26 27 -UST. ATP Ripon (2) Newton Abbot (2) 1 Brighton (2) 3 Airdrie (2) 4 Edgware (2) Brighton Club (1) 5 Wolverhampton (3) 8 Yarmouth (2) Reading (2) lO North Staffordshire (21 10 York (3) 17 SEPTE: Canterbury ............... 18 Radcliffe (3) ............... 22 Egham (2) ...............23 Tonbridge (1) ...............24 Liverpool Hunt Cup (2)..24 Derby (2) .................25 Hereford (2) ...............29 Eccles (3) .................29 Lichfield (2) ...............29 Chelmsford (2) ............30 MBER. Bedford (2) ......20 Leicester (2) 21 Lanark (2) 22 Manchester Autumn (2) 22 Newmarket F. 0. ( 3 ) 27 Walsall (2) 28 Northallerton (2) 29 'OBER. Lincoln (2) 1 Warwick (2) 6 Doncaster (4) 13 Weston Zoyland and Bridgwater (1) 12 Dover .15 Pontefract (2) l9 OCTI Chester Autumn (2) 4 Yorkshire Union Hunt (1) 6 Wrexham (2) a Newmarket S. 0. (5) 10 NOVE: Worcester (2) Epsom Autumn (2) 3 Cowbridge Hunt (2) Warwick Autumn (2)...18 Caledonian Hunt and Kelso 18 Richmond (2) l9 Newmarket A. (6) 24 MBER. Liverpool Autumn (2) 9 Shrewsbury (2) 15 .Ibirystwith (3) Last week PORTLAND BREAKWATER.—PortIand Breakwat eft has now attained to 3,000 feet from'the shore ; the opening between the pier heads is 400 feet. A large piece of machinery (a gantry crane) started on the staging on Tuesday, for the purpose of laying the stone on the pier heads with the diving-bell. Its weight is about 6 tons. Plymouth Paper. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of YESTERDAY. CROWN-OFFICE, JUNE 22. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR LIAMENT. Borough of Harwich.--JOhn Pagshaw, of Cliff House, Dovercourt, in the county of Essex, Esq., in the room of George Montagu Warren Peacocke, Esq., whose election for the said borough has been declared void. JUNE 24. Borough of Chatham.—Leicester Viney Vernon, Esq., in the room of Sir John Frederic Smith, Knt., whose election for the said borough has been declared void. WAR-OFFICE, 'TIME 24. 14th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Alex ander Edgar McGregor, from the 42nd Foot, to be Lieu tenant, vice John Pitt Kennedy, who exchanges, June 24. Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant John Davie Ferguson Davie to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Beaumont W. Hotham, who retires, June 24. 17th Foot—Brevet-Major George Bagot, from the 41st Foot, to be Captain, vice Bourne, who exchanges, June 24. 37th Foot—Ensign Raynsford Taylor to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Georp, who retires ; Edward Robert Bigsby Barnes, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Taylor, June 24. 39th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Broome Baker to be Cap thin, by purchase, vice Hamilton, who retires ; Ensign Norman Macdonald to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Baker ; James Innes Lynch, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Macdonald, June 24. 41st Foot—Captain Johnson Bourne, from the 17th Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Bagot, who exchanges, June 24. 42d Foot—Lieutenant John Pitt Kennedy, from the 14th Light Dragoons, to Lieutenant, vice M`Gregor, who exchanges, June 24. 43d Foot—Lieutenant George Henry Wm. Walker, from the Rifle Brigade, to be Lieutenant, vice the Hon. Bar rington Reynolds Pellew, who exchanges, June 24. 50th Foot—Lieutenant John Nowlan, from the 70th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Hedley, dismissed the Service by the sentence of a General Court-Martial • Lieutenant Alfred John Lane, from Half-Pay Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Shirley, dismissed the Service by the sentence of a General Court-Martial, June 24. 55th Foot—Captain Frederick Amelius Whimper to be Major, by purchase, vice O'Leary, who retires ; Lieuten ant Augustus Leacock Marsh, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Whimper ; Ensign Edward Marcus Armstrong to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Marsh ; Edmund Fortescue Twysden, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Arm strong, June 24. 58th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Dawson Townley, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur chase, vice Mayne, deceased, June 24. 63rd Foot—Lieutenant Kenneth Bruce Stuart, from the 61st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Lowrie, appointed Ad jutant of a Recruiting District, June 24. 70th Foot—Lieutenant George Frederick Coryton, from. half-pay 4th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Nowlan, ap pointed to the 50th Foot, June 24. 82d Foot—Lieutenant Herbert Morris to be Captain, by purchase, vice Timius, who retires ; Ensign Richard Thos. Glyn to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Morris • Archd. Campbell Campbell, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Glyn, June 24. Rifle Brigade—Lieutenant the Hon. Reynolds Pellews, from the 43d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Walker, who exchanges, Juno 24. 2d West India Regiment—Ensign Joseph Noble Beasley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Birley, who retires ; Ensign Charles Annesley Benson has been permitted to retire from the Service by the sale of his Commission, June 24. Gold Coast Corps—Serjeant Charles Fox Duke, from the 81st Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Brow nell, promoted, June 24. STAFF.—Lieutenant William Frederick Lowrie, from th• 63rd Foot, to be Adjutant of a Recruiting District, vice Lieutenant Shields, promoted, without purchase, to an Unattached Company, June 24. HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant-Surgeon William Legge Reid, M.D., from the 34th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice John Collis Browne, M.D., placed upon half-pay, June 24. To be Purveyors to the Forces.—Deputy Purveyor Wm. Henry Clapp; Deputy Purveyor George Pratt; Deputy Purveyor Matthew Wreford, June 24. COMMISSABIAT.--Deputy Assistant Commissary General Francis Edward Knowles, to be Assistant, Feb. 14. MEMORANDIIIC—The exchange of Captain Charles Shipley Teale, from the 4th Foot to half-pay unattached, on the 11th October, 1844, is without the difference, he having re-paid to the credit of the public the sum he re ceived. Deputy Assistant Commissary-General John Nicolson has been permitted to retire from the Commissariat on receiving a commutation for his half-pay, and his Com mission has accordingly been cancelled from the 20th May, 1853. COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. Durham Militia Artillery.—Robert William Scott, Gent., to be Adjutant, June 2. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANTS. Yorkshire—Richard Bethel, Esq., to be Vice Lieuten ant during the absence of the Lord Lieutenant • Sir Henry Boynton, Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; dolonel Tho mas Marten, late Ist Royal Dragoons, to be Deputy Lieu tenant, June 13. Essex—The Essex Rifles—Stephen Agard Manning, Esq. to be Second Lieutenant, June 17. King's Own Rifle Regiment of Staffordshire Militia— Michael Hool Ashwell, Esq., to be Surgeon, vice Wood, resigned, June 16. The Royal Anglesey Light Infantry Militia—Eyre Lloyd Gent., to be Ensign, June 21. South Hertfordshire Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry—Cor net Sir John Henry Pelly to be Lieutenant ; Abel Smith, junior, Esq., to be Cornet, June 22. [The following is substituted for the notice which ap peared in the Gazette of 17th June instant.] Hampshire Militia, Artillery—Cladius Shaw,Esq.,K.S.F., late of the Royal Artillery, and Colonel of Artillery, late British Auxiliary Legion of Spain, to be Major. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Robert Horner, licensed victualler, Pall-mall. BANKRUPTS. Luigi Bareggi, Francesco Forzano, and Bassano Berga maschi, wood carvers and modellers, Greville-street, Hatton-garden, to surrender, July 1, at eleven, and August 3, at , twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Abrahams, Southampton-buildings, Holborn. Louisa Foster, linen draper, Paington, Devonshire, July 5, and August 2 , at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Stogdon Exeter. William Riley, glass manufacturer, Saint Helen's, July 7 and 29, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Tur ner, official assignee, Liverpool; Taylor, Saint_Helen's ; and Banner, Liverpool. John Knight, bleacher, I enter House, Rochdale, July 8 and 29, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Lee, official assignee, Manchester ; Lord, Rochdale. Francis Robinson, publican, Manchester July 8 and 29, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Lee, official assignee, ; Heath, Manchester. Bogos Mirasyedi, merchant, Manchester, July 7 and 28, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Lee, official assignee, Manchester ; Hampson and Sons, Manchester. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. W. Shaw, Lincoln, bookseller, July 21, at one—J. Brooks, Eling, Southampton, coal timber, and slate mer chant, July 19, at eleven—S. Edwards, Deptford, Kent, linendraper, July 18, at eleven. In the Country. A. Taylor, Waterfoot, Newchurch, Lancashire, coal dealer, July 21, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—H. Carrington, Mile-end, Stockport, nurseryman and seeds man, July 21, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—W. Tew, Halifax, corn and flour dealer, July 25, at half-past eleven, at the Court, Leeds—R. Dunn and R. D. Dunn, Wakefield, corn factors and merchants, July 25, at one, at the Court Leeds—R. Campion, Whitby, Yorkshire, banker, July 26, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—O. Shore Sheffield banker, July 16, at ten, at the Council Hall, Sheffield—J. T. Peacock, Sheffield, cutler, July 16, at ten, at the Council Hall, Sheffield. PAYMENTS OF DIVIDENDS. A. Bain, Old Bond-street, electric ker, Bd., on Tuesday, the 28th inst., and any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Nicholson, Basinghall-street. E. and H. G. Winstanley, Poultry, chemists, id., on Tuesday, tho 28th inst., and any subsequent Tuesday, be tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Nicholson, Ba singhall-street. W. J. Powell and C. Hind, Carnaby-street, Golden square, linen drapers, ls. 6d., on Tuesday, the 28th inst., and any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Nicholson, Basinghall-street. H. Bradbury, Holborn-hill, cheesemonger, 25., on Tues day, the 28th inst., and any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Nicholson, Basinghall street. J. Baker, Old Brentford, Middlesex, coal merchant, 2s. Bd., on Tuesday, the 28th inst, and any subsequent Tues. day, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Nichol. son, Basinv o ball-street.. - - G. Gardner Woolwich, ironmonger, 6s. 6d., on Satur day, June 25 , and three subsequent Saturdays between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Sambrook court, Basinghall-street. J. L. Heathorn, Abchurch-lane, ship owner, id., on Saturday; June 25, and three subsequent Saturdays, be tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Sam brook-court, Basihghall-street. G. Hart and T. Hart, Union-street, Southwark, trim ming manufacturers, is. 24d., any Wednesday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Basing hall-street. R. Jones, Oswestry, Shropshire, batter, 5d., any Thurs day, between eleven and: three, at the office of r. Christie, Birmingham. F. lfufford, Stourbridge, banker, is., any Thursday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Birmingham._ W. C. Buchanan, Dursley, Gloucestershire, money scri vener, 2s. 3d., on Wednesday, the 29th inst., between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Hutton, Bristol. J. Nicholson, Jenkin, Cragg, Westmoreland, cattle salesman; 65., on Saturday, July 2, or any following Satur day, between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. W. Donald, Hayton, Cumberland, cattle dealer, 25.4td.., on Saturday, July 2, or any following Saturday, between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle upon-Tyne. J. Wilton, Sheffield, draper, a second dividend of 6d., and a first and second dividend on new proofs of 7id., on Saturday, the 25th inst., and any following Saturday, be tween eleven and two, at office of Mr. Brewin, Sheffield. J. Bertram, Sheffield, ironmonger, 25., on Saturday, th e 25th inst., and any following Saturday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Brewin, Sheffield. S. Buckley and G. Shortridge, Macclesfield, millers, is. 2d., on Tuesday, the 28th instant, and every following Tuesday, between ten and one, at the office of Mr. Lee-, Manchester. S. Buckley and G. Shortridge, Macclesfield, millers, 7 10-16 d., on Tuesday, the 28th instant, and every following Tuesday, between ten and one, at the office of Mr. Lee, Manchester. N. Crook, Preston, Lancashire, tailor, 35., on Tuesday, the 28th instant, and every followin g Tuesday, between ten and ono at, the office of Mr. Lee, Manchester. J. Law and E. Hudson, Todmorden, Y orkshire, cotton spinners, 7s. 4d., on Tuesday, the 28th inst., and every fol lowing Tuesday, between ten and one, at the office of Mr. Lee, Manchester. H. Kay, Heywood, Lancashire, cotton spinner, 4s. lid., on Tuesday, the 28th inst., and every following Tuesday, between ten and one, at the office of Mr. Lee, Manchester. R. Kay Heywood, Lancashire, cotton spinner, 75., on. Tuesday, the 28th inst., and every following Tuesday, be tween ten and one , at the o ffi ce o f Mr. Lee, Manchester. W. Kay, Heywood, Lancashire, cotton-spinner, 165., on Tuesday, the 28th inst., and eve 13+ following Tuesday, be tween ten and one, at the office . Df Mr. Lee, Manchester. C. Gough, Altrincham, Ches by 13, ironmonger, 75., on Tuesday, the 28th inst., and evc try - following Tuesday, be tween ten and one, at the office c )1' Mr. Lee, Manchester. NOTICES OF CER TIFICATES. At the Court, Basin i ;hall-street. W.' Shaw, High-street, Lincoln. , bookseller and toyman, July 21; at one—W. Colman, a hesterford, Essex, horse dealer, July 21, at twelve—J. Pit Aston, King's Arms.yard, Moorgate-street, woollen warehon seman, July 19, at one— F. Rolfe, Great Marlborough -et reet, tailor, July 15, at twelve—T. M. Bowden, Old Bret Mord, basketmaker, July 16, at half-past eleven—B. Bulit lug, jun., and R. Durant, Norwich, tallow chandlers, July 15, at twelve—W. Read ing, Charles-street West, Padd'ington, builder, July 15, at eleven—R. Willmott, West irc.ugh, tail or, July 12, at twelve—W. S. Oake, Longfiel d, Poole, painter, July 15, at twelve—A C. Larkan, Greenwich, coff !,e-house keeper, July 15; at eleven. _ _ _ _ In the Comttry. H. Carrington, Mile End, Cheshire, nu rservmhn, July 15, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester--! C. Gledhill, Ha lifax, tailor, July 25, at twelve, at the Col lA, Leeds. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. N. Berton, Princes-street, Hanover -square, tailor, June 21, certificate of the second class—W. I tooth, Morpeth terrace, Hackney-road, iron merchant, Mr ty 11, certificate of the second. class—J. Hunt, Edgware -rot id, draper, June 23, certificate of the third class—M. Sun vier, Liverpool, brewer, June 21, certificate of the third cla as—W. L. Mar shall, Aklmondbury, York, brewer, after: 21 days from June 20, certificate of the second class. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLV ;ED. Allen, S. Allen, and E. Barlow, Bolt 4 Lancashire, tape manufacturers—P. Spencer, M. Spenc sr, and J. Spen cer, Smallwell, Durham, forgemen and gee eral smiths—S. Walley, J. Walley, W. Chaddock, E. Yateyi, and T. Chad dock, Biddulph, Staffordshire, lessees and •I corkers of coal mines—W.Varley, and J.Varley,Lingards, "orkshire, stone merchants—W. T. Cannon and H. Nichols, 71 geaumont-row, Bancroft-place, Mile-end, emery cloth maz .ufacturers—J. Rennoldson and W. Rennoldson, Walker, Northumber land, corn millers—R. H. Feilden and I . Shakespeare, trustees and executors under the will of t he late Sir W. Feilden, Bart., deceased ; M. J. Feilden art .d R. R. Jack son, Blackburn, Lancashire, cotton spina ers (so far as regards Sir W. Feilden)—T. Grillett and R. Grimshaw, Chorley, Lancashire, painters—A. Simms :t .nd F. George, Birmingham, soda water manufacturer s— I. Hoyle, jun., and T. Whitaker, Bacup, Lancasli ire, furniture brokers—G. C. Bingham and W. 0. ißeckitt, Not tingham, boot and shoe manufacturers-+-W. Addison, J. B. Paisley, and W. Paisley, Wigton, Cu mberland, coal and lime-dealers—W. Moon, W. G. Di. , and P. W. Beatty, Liverpool, merchants (so far as regards W. G. Dix)—J. Danby and R. Barker, Dunningt( in, Yorkshire, chicory-manufacturers—W. Evans and P. Villiams, Ban gor, Carnarvon, drapers—W. Cox and 111. W. Taylor, solicitors—J. Harrison and J. Bell, Gatesl ead, Durham, builders —J. Rainger and C. Rainger, j Cheltenham, builders. INSOLVENT PETITIONERiS. Eliza Ashwin, Evesham, Worcestershire, milliner. Watkin Morgan, Monmouth, carpenter. Lewis Lewis, Bedwelty, Monmouthshire. William Newland, Brighton, carpenter. Peter Ward, Henfield, Sussex, gunsmith. Henry John Webb, Overton, Southampltonshire, coal. dealer. William Parker, Codnor, Derbyshire, coal miner. Richard. Inman, Lindley Moor, Yorkshi e, cordial ma. nufacturer. • Thomas Follows, East Leake, Nottingh I =shire, cord. wainer. William Masters, Dobcross, Yorkshire, al ictioneer. John Lewis, Macclesfield, journeyman gri David Cain, Dunstable. Samuel Eames, Abergavenny, tailor. David Stevens, Grantham, Lincolnshire. William Hill, Hemel Hempstead, tailor. Benjamin Clothier, Verulam St. Albans. John Willcox, Worcester, grocer. Christopher Burton, Selby, Yorkshire, grocer. Joseph Lupton, York, butcher. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONki. J. Grant, Edinburgh, merchant and commission agent, to meet within Dowells and Lyon's Room.ii, Edinburgh, June 29 and July 22, at two. C. Forbes and G. Wilson, Edinburgh, booksellers and stationers, to meet within Dowels and Lyon's Rooms, Edinburgh, July 1 and 22, at one. BANK OF An Account piwinant to the Act the .Week ending on Satarct ENGLAND. 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for ay the 18th day of June, 1853. ISSUE DEP. Notes issued ........ 32,115,995 '.TMENT. Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities .. .... 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 18,096,841 Silver 19,154 £a2,115,995 I X 32,115,995 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 23d day of June, 1853. BANKING DEPARTMENT. Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Rest .. .. 3,114,532 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say ing's Banks,- and Government securities (includg,Dead Weight Annuity) .... .... 13,123,910 Other securities...... 13,700,971 Notes .... 9,420,215 Gold and silver coin .. 519,831 Dividend Accounts) 4,615,831 Other deposits 13,174,519 Seven Day and other Bills .. 1,307,015 £36,761,927 £36,764,927 If. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 23d day of Tune, 185: PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending the 21st day of Juno, 1853, is 245. 2id. per hundred weight, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im.- portation thereof into Great Britain. RAILWAY SHARE M ARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 24. STOCK ExcHANaE.—The share market oponad beLiAa this morning, and improved up to two o'clock, since which it has again given way, and closes heavily. The following are the transactions :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 78 ; London and North-Western, 115 ; Midland, 72? ; South- Eastern and Dover, 213 ; York, Newcastle, and Ber w i c k, G.N.E. Purchase, 2i d; Dutch Rhenish, 1i d. MANCHESTER, JUNE 24. STOOK EXCHANGE.—There was very little business, and prices were rather weaker. Blackburne, Class B, Pref., 26 ; Lanc,ashires and Yorkshire, 784; Manchester, Shef field, and Lincoln, 30; Midland, 72i ; South-Eastern, 21 7-16. BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The railway share market remains at a stand still. _ BRISTOL, JUNE 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.—Prices of stook were maintained, with little business doing. Taff Vales were done at 15. COURSE OF EXCHANGE-YESTERDAY. Amsterdam 11 173% Gibraltar ... Ditto, three months .. 11 19 Leghorn ... Rotterdam! .. Antwerp . . Brussels .............. 25 30 Venice .. ... •• • • ... llamburgh ..... 13 83% Naples ..... ......... 413( Altona Paris •• • • .... 25 7% Messina . . .. 125 Ditto, three months .. 25 30 Lisbon ...... ... • ...... 53% Marseilles........ .25 30 Oporto ................ 53% Bourdeaux Rio Janeiro ............ Frankfort-on-Maine 12014 Buenos Ayre5.......... Berlin .. New York, 60 days' sight Vienna . ll 2 Philadelphia .......... Trieste 11 4 PRICES or BULLION, PER oz. Petersburgh.. Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Madrid . . 50 Portugal Gold Coin ~ 0 0 0 Cadiz 503 Mexican Dollars .... 0 4 11% Barcelona .............. New Dollars ...... 0 0 0 Seville ...............„ jSilverin bars ...... 0 5 1% .............. 2540 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, JUNE 24. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Wandringsmanden; from Christiana ; Annette, Poraground ; Alert, Struer • Jyt land, Hoyer Banca Tin, Rotterdam ; Henrietto , demel ; Ann, Hamburgh ; Vernon, Bombay ; Ant, Caen ; Johanna Christine, Jonkoping ; Blue Vein, Hamburgh ; Freak, Cronstadt ; Bernhardine, Aalborg ; Spes et Fides, Sanne sund ; Derwentwater, Hobart Town. - ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Oscar, for Stettin ; Anne Sophia, Falkland Islands ; Duchess of Leitister, Valparaiso ; Victoria, Konigsberg ; John Taylor, Canterbury, N.Z. ; Raffaelle and Nuova, Clementina, Leghorn. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Moderen, for Stavenger ; Eleanor, Archangel ; Reesina, Dantzic. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 24. The Agnes Smith, Patras to London, was spoken Juno 8, lat. 36 N., long. SW. _ The Lark, bound to London, was spoken June 9, lat. 36 N., long. 5 W. The Orontes was spoken June 17, off Cape St. Vincent. The Euclid, New Orleans to Liverpool, was spoken May 16, lat. 24 N., long. 80 W. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Gentoo, Boston to China, March 11, lat. 4 S., long, 29 W. The Falcon, Boston to Australia, Feb. 6, on the Equator. The Northern Chief, New Orleans to Liverpool, May '2O, South-west Pass of the Mississippi bearing N. 25 miles. The Albion, New Orleans to Liverpool, June 3, off Capo Antonio. The Siloam, Cardiff to New York, May 6. The Yarmouth, New York to Australia, May 10, lat. 5 S., long. 35. - The - Gertrude, New Orleans to Liverpool, May 21, lat, 24 N., long. 80 W. • [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Summer dresses.—Bankruptcy of Mr. E. Blakeley, Silk Mercer and Shawl Manufacturer to her Majesty. —In addition to the rich silks and shawls in Mr. Blakeley's stock, recently purchased and now selling off by Messrs. Atkinson and Co., of 69 to 75, Westminster-bridge -road, there are about 2,000 pieces of beautiful French Muslins, Bareges, and Norwich Lus tres, all quite new, first-class goods, worth from 21d. to 48. per yard. These are now being sold by Messrs. At kinson and Co. at less than a quarter of their value ; that is, from 6id. to is. id. Ladies are respeotfully recom mended to inspect these goods, in order that their extent, quality, and cheapness may be duly appreciated. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—The Earl of Alborough and Hol loway's Pills.—An astounding cure by this miraculous medicine after every other means had failed. See ex tract from his lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1845. To Professor Holloway. Sir,—l beg to acquaint you that your pills have effected a cure of a disorder in my liver and stomach, which all the most eminent of the faculty at home and all over the Continent had not been able to effect—nay, not even the waters of Carlsbad or Marienbad. (Signed) ALDBO. ROUGH." These wonderful pills will cure any disorders of the liver or stomach.—Sold (also Holloway's oint ment) at Professor Holloway's Establhment, 244, Strand, Londe's, and by all medicine venders throughout the world. RAILWAY BETURNS. :C RETURNS FOR THE T.!°4 NAME OF RAILWAY. A 1 .719 690 BRITISH. Aberdeen .. •• •••• ••• •• Belfast and Ballymena • • •••• •••• " " Belfast and County Down .• •• •• •••• Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, and West York • • •• Bristol and Exeter •••• **** Caledonian.,....., „ ...• ***** • " 2634 8534 18934 94% 634 20 Cheater •• ••••"" Cork, Blackrock, and Passage .• •••• Cork and Bandon ..... ......... Dublin and Belfast Junction •••• " " Dublin and Drogheda ..... • ••• •••• .• Dublin and Kingstown •••• ..... " Dundee and Arbroath •• •• ••."' "'• Dundee, Perth, and AberdeenJUngtl" Dundalk and Enniskillen.... ***** East •• •• •• " East Lancashire •• ..•• •• •• •• •• •• Eastern Counties and N0rf01k........ Eastern Union•• •••• •• •• •• •• •• •• •••• - '' 171% 28534 188 319% Edinburgh and Glasgow .•• • • •' • " Edinburgh, Perth, and Dnndee••••" Exeter and Crediton.. •• .• •• " " 18} 55334 5g 173% 253 % 34% 11% 167( 95 28 498% 126 Furness Railway •• • •• •• •••• Glasgow, and South-Western•• •••• Great Northern and E. L. ••_,," Great Southern and Western arelauui Great Western .... ...... ..... . Irish South Eastern •• •• •• •• •• Lancaster and Carlisle • • •• • • •• ***** * Lancashire and Yorkshire...• • • •• " Leeds Northern ..•• • • •• •• • • ..*** Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport•• •• London and North Western ...... • •• London and Blackwall.• • • • • • • •• • • London, Brighton, and South Coast.. London and South Western. • • ***** Londonderry and Enniskillen •• •• " Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, NC* Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Manchester and South Junction• • •• •• Maryport and Carlisle • • • • •• ***** ••• Midland .... . . •• • • •• ' • 288% 131 Midland Great livie;iern (Irish) • • '• '. Monklands .... •• •• ..•• •••• •••••••• Newcastle and Carlisle.. •• •• •• • North British • • •• •• " ***** North Staffordshire •• ••••• •• • North-Westarn •••••• •• •• Scottish Central • • • • •• • • • • 653% Scottish Midland ••••• • • • ... Shrewsbury and Birmingham •• •• ••• Shrewsbury and Chester ..... • •*•• . Shropshire Union —•••• • • •• •• 443% 577 240 South Devon.. • ..... . South Eastern........ South Wales ........ . __ South York., Doncaster, and Goole • • Taff Vale • • • • • • • • • • • o Ulster. ........ Waterford and Limerick . —•••• •• West Cornwall ...... ..... •• •• •• Whitehaven Junction ... •. • • • • **** York and Newcastle, and Berwick & York and North Midland & Leeds FOHEIGN. 5,181 6,9 13 3,43 4 165 Dutch Rhenish ........... ..... N aria Antonia ...... •• dionterean and Tro,yes • Namur and Liege .............. • • - Northern of France •• •,••••• • •• •• . Orleans and Central* .. ...... Paris and Lyons .... • • ..... • . Paris and Rouen. ••• • • • ••••• • •• • Paris and Strasburgh ••.. • . •••• Rouen and Havre.• •••• • •' Western of France * The receipts include the traffic on the °nowt cans and Bordeaux. and Tours and Nantes lines• 876 1,0 2 819 boo 704 510 49, 345 1,3 27 10.7 52 13, 797 300 6,673 63 3 21,8 96 2,4 92 95 9 2,1 51 3,550 23,61 6 17,3 0 4,7 0 , 15,1' 31, 994 1 J,B 6° 13,62 8 7,47 6 9, 896 2, B v ° 30 and -Cep °6 COUNTRY MAREE2'S• LIVERPOOL—JUNE 24. pil l Although the attend ance was no t v e l ys ' Be wl vr ia3 6 r ; chases of whe a t an d fl our were e ff ec t e d, an d sodr much as they were on Tuesday. Indian ow" lower. No alteration in any other article. WAKEELELD--JuNE 24. _ srte d, We have a large supply of wheat again r e rijiiit l ; other grain short. The wh ea t t ra d e i s steadY! prices. Fresh qualities generally taken off, bered parcels are difficult to move. Bar le y Beans slow sale. Oats and shilling dearer. EXETER—JUNE 24. Corm—Prices : Wheat, 5s 6d to 7s Od Per " to ' 5 ley, grinding, 3s 9d to 4s 6d. Oats, 2s 6cl sok , Flour, fine, 39s to 40s ; seconds, 378 to 38s P er 01 o '4 CATTLE.—Prime beef, lOs 6d per score Co g % 91. to 14/. ; butch ers ' ca l ves , 5d t o Sad by, y 1 calves 00s to Oos each. ' Sheep, 5d to 6d. P s— lb. Store hogs, 35s to 36s •each. INVERNESS.—jarrE 21. too 44s per quarter, weighing 621bleto0 44s Od to 46s Od ; barley, ditto, 541 b ditto, 270 ,o Oats, ditto, 421 b ditto, 20s Od to 22s Od. scl i I li' MEAL.—Oatmeal, per imp. boll 15s 6d to lw to f 0 0; 6c 0$ second, Oos Od to Os Od ; barleymeal, I d to o i! peasemeal, 15s Od to Os Od ; bran, p er s t o ne , Os ' 30 6 1 ,0 Ist flour, per 2801 b, 40s Od to 42s Od ; 2d ditto , r ixl,'"o 32s Od ; oatmeal, best, per st. of 141 b imp s to is 8d; ditto second, OS Od to Os Od ; barleY3 o o to Os Od ; peasemeal, is 6d to Os Od ; Ist fill: , 3s Od credit; 2d ditto, 90 3d cash, 2s 741 area"' BRISTOL SUGAR—Jurui 24. v iltrs The marrket this week h as b een more active,et all the parcels offering have found purehe ser i ver prices. As many as 400 hhds. of West India ps of 7,000 mats of Mauritius, and nearly 4,000 b ° ' vannah. COAL MARKET—Jura 22. get., Prices of Coal per ton at the c l ose o f the l' s. 41. ' 1 6 ." . 1 6 Chester Main 14 3 Hetton .............. . , , Hasting's Hartley 16 6 Lambton ............. ''',l! Howard's West Hartley Pensher ... ........... •••''',l2, Netherton 16 0 Russell's Hetton • •••''''Y, Long ridge's Wet Hartleyl6 6 Stewart's ............... •,P, North Pcrcy Hartley _l5 6 Plummer ........ ••'.IP, Willington Hartley l5 6 Hetton Lyons; . Maill ''''''? .6 Tanfield Moor l5 0 C assop . 1 _ ............ ''' ~ Tanfield Moor Butes 15 0 Heu g h Hall. ......... ; . ''' l Walker Primrooo ," l4 n Koßee _ ........ . ..... '' ... P :( Smith's West Hartley l6 6 South H ar tl epoo l .....''',l 6 Wylam 15 6 South Kelloe ..........0.: ii Wallsend, &c. iThornley .. •''' 16 Acorn Close l5 01Backhouse .............. 016 Gosforth 14 31Tees ............ .. ..... ''':l6• Riddell ..,. . 14 I A South Durham ....... • II Eden Main l5 3 St. Helen's Tees...."''' .. l Lambton Primrose 15 3 Cle v ela n d Tees ..•••'''....1; I Bell ~ 15 3,Sidney's Hartley •••,;: 1 I Belmont 15 3 j Cragworth W. Hartle' , Braddyll l5 9iWatney'sAnthraci te••"' Ships at market 141 I Sold ......... ••125' SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are•sent from the Gen--$1 Yost by the night—and M by the morning—dispatoh.] • hat Day when made up From W— in General Post- Port A Office, LOndon.* Dispatcheu• COUNTRIES. America(byßrit.pack)N America (by ,United Ste. packet) .. ......N America (by U. States packet) Australia (via SonthH (Every Friday .... ampton) ........ Ai Ditto (via M arseilles) N Ditto (via Cape of Mood Hops) ............N Africa ( Wes t Coast) .. N Alexandria........ N Alexandria .... M Bahamas ..... Belgium ............N Brazil .............. M Buenos Ayres ........ iJane 28 ...... rune 22•••••••••• July 8 . .. Abgust 4 .. 23rd of the month. 8,9, 24, & 36 of m. 4th & 20th of mon. 2nd of the month Cape of Good Hope .. N Cape of Good Hope .. N Cape do Verde ......N Ceylon (see.lndla) Ceylon .......... N Channel Isles N China (see India) Constantinople ......N Constantinople cont. of Europe M AG N Egypt (see India) - - 9th of the month.. 9th of the month.. 14th of the month '`to reo 14th of the month. 14th of the month Mon „Wed.,&Frid. 2d & 17th of month 7,8,17,21,8;27 ofm, 4th tic 20th of mon, Twice daily ...,, .. Liverpool •" France ........ & Gibraltar Greece (see India) Twice d ally.. .. .. 1 4, 7, 17, 20, 27 of m, 2nd & 17th of mon. Tuesday & Friday 2nd of the month Wednesday & Sat. 17th of the month. 4th & 20th of mon. Bth& 24th of month Greytown M Hamburgh N Havannah .. M Holland . . Honduras M India (viaSouthampt.)l4l India (via Marseilles)M lonian Isles (see India) Ireland ........ M & N Madeira ...... M Madeira ...... • • • N Malta (see India) Malta . Mauritius (see India) Mauritius ..........N Naples New Granada ! New Papal States N Peninsula M Peru Port Natal .. ....N Sicily ..............N Tegeany ............N Venezuela ...... ....M Van Diemen's Land (see Australia) .......... West Indies .... M 2d& 17th of mon Twice daily ...... 7,9, 17, & 28 of m. 9th of the month, 23rd of the month) 17,17,19,28, 30 of m, 14th of the month 2nd of the month.. bthihth2sthofmon. 2d & 17th of month, By private ship IJI L i ver pool ••• s fhlsth2sthohnon. 7thl7th2Sthofmon 2d & 27th of mon. 14th of the month sthl s th2sthotmon, 5 thlsth2sthofmon. 2d& 17th of month [To' 1 southanwto n 1 D S O n a t er han 2 P • l°:l* , 30 ,40 Plymouth ji Dover • • Southamp ton Ji SouthallPt° p Dover • • , •J1 Southampt on Southampton J 1 pplilyymyraraLuuttt, Plymouth ••• S o uthaineo: BeuthamPO" Dover .• •„.• SouthainP w Dover .• •••• Dover ;iv Southalnlw -BoutheinPm.-- n London • .• •: 10 1 Southarnl o " o London ..• Southampton Jur SoutheluP t° Dover . • golyhead,"; SoutbamP o .. soutban Plymouth , Dover ..... • u PlYin°th .• Southainlituu J Dovcr •• J SoutharaP V a rious Por i ' j, Do ver .• southa nnV o soutbainE t° 11 t lymouto .ri Dover •0 Jl Dover •• SoltharOP goitthan i P_!j il 0 141 1,41 ( dio * When any of these dates f a ll o n a Sundan `""f the ' Dispatched on the following d a y. w ith the exception " ova tcb Southampton), and the Malta, both of which will be day preceding. BIRTHS. o f OF A SON. W ife ° On the 23d inst., at Northwood-house, th e Or On the 22d inst, at 4, Storey's-crate, s 'sr Sergeant Bellasis. JAW ° the wife of John Alexander Radcliffe, Esq. w ool St. 0 On the 21st inst., at the Crescent, ClaPha tu tvo wife of Edward P. Cooper, Esq., barrister' at ' ". OF A DAUM:MOB. P , mil t, .0 1 0 On the 22d inst., at Lower Clapton, go, ,—;p000 0 On the 10th inst., at Corfu, the lady o f .`' Reid. MARRIED. 10c hi f°41 _, ch ,e W On the 23d inst., at St. Michael-le-M.7 8 ler r r : e .t"l f William Henry, eldest son of Richard Wile e a ab et a Esq . t Beech-hill, Liverpool, to Emily, 00 P,‘ William Hudson, Esq., York. d lie n/ la' On the 23d inst., at St. Paul's, Deptfor , Helen, e Benwell, Esq., of Blackheath-hill, to Fr:0 00 4 1 1 r d, daughter of Thomas Marchant, Esq., of DO' eldest DIED. ° f o° l° 11 On the 22d iruit., William Pennyfather, Es c io 0 ' Afi Water, t Welvry, Herts. *ii s t• On he 23d i r.i nst., at 16, Crescent, Xen ia ' ng Dit e relict of the late William Row, Esq., of 23, Thomas Apostle, in her 78th year. ------...‹,,,?,, , yOulifi LONDON : Printed an d P u bli s h e d by AITTRy`' 14 0 . 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