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farmers from Ireland. He had no a oubt that the consoli dated annuities were felt to be a heavy bu rden upon y of the unions, and that they were extremely des irous n(t being relieved from them. But it mu st be borne n t als of o very th i n ese that many of the towns also pa id a larg consolidated annuities, and th e poor ra e t u e mo as considerable. In the Cashel Union, with w which he h was connected, the amount of the local burdens was no less t an 3s. 6cl. i n the pound ; even the towns would be in many instances materially relieved by the remission of the con solidated annuities. Indeed, the whole country would . be benefited by the remission of these consolidated annuities, the balance, in his opinion, being in favour of the tenant farmer class. The hon. member for Mayo contended, that, striking a balance between the taxes proposed_ e to s be lo r se e r - Ited and those im p osed, Ireland would b to the extent of 501,000/. He could not understand how the hon.' gentleman arrived at that ctaonxclusion, as taking the average produce of the incom es for seven years at 357,0001., the spirit duties at 19 ,000/.. and the legacy duty at 267,0001., and, taking the _re n missi n ons. at 659,0001., there would be a balance of 95,000/.only Ireland. Going, then, to the year 1860, when . the income tax was to be abolished, the amount of the gain to Ireland (the consolidated annuities being remitted) would be no less than 497,700/. He challenged the house to dispute th . e accuracy of these figures. The great question to be consi dered was this, that although the consolidated annuities were unjust and vexatious, yet the income tax i as i it was proposed was also open to great objections from ts nequa lities and its inquisitorial character. The tax would also have to be collected in some hundreds of small towns and villae and would occasion much difficult from the want of iro e P er ma chinery. He felt that it w ould be a great hardship to compel the hardworking man, the shopkeeper, or the man receiving a precarious income, to pay this tax. It appeared to him that the standard ought to be raised to 2001. per annum, and that the amount of the rating should be lowered to sd. in the pound. He also suggested that the working clergy of all persuasions should be exempted from the tax. He had no wish to exempt the rich pluralists, or the deans and canons ; but the really deserving and hardworking men, who were in the receipt of small in comes of from 501. to 1501. per annum, ought to be ex empted. He must observe further, that it was highly ob jectionable to call upon the tenant to pay the tax for his landlord ; and he should, at a future stage of the bill, move an amendment to that effect. These, however, were some of the objections to the income tax ; but if it was only ap plied to the property of the country, and if the poorer classes were relieved from these heavy burdens, then at the end of seven years, even with the income tax, the posi tion of Ireland would be very much improved. He had no doubt that the amount of the legacy duty, at the end of seven years, would be 4,000,0001., instead of 2,000,000/. ; and under these circumstances there was no doubt that the income tax would be repealed. If the inequalities to which he had objected were removed, and the burden placed fairly upon property, there could be no good ground for opposing it ; and under these circumstances he felt it his duty to give his vote in favour of the proposition of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Hear, hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, though he was anxious to explain his views as to the imposition of the income tax on Ireland, and had lost the opportunity of doing so during the previous discussion by reason of the hasty decision, as the question was to be raised by a motion in committee, he should not on the present occasion enter into it further than with reference to the proposition before thelouse. The hon. member for Ennis (Mr. Fitzgerald) supported his proposition principally upon the assumption that the product of Schedule B would be inconsiderable, and not with the imposition of the tax. That question, however, of the productiveness of the tax could scarcely be satisfactorily settled until the bill was before the house, when the machinery to be established for the purpose of levying the tax could be considered. The hon. and learned member admitted that as a general principle the exemption of any class from the operation of the tax would be objec tionable, as tending to excite jealousy among all other classes, and rested his proposition upon the presumed un productiveness of the tax. He (the Chancellor of the Ex chequer), however, believed that the tax would produce a very considerable sum. He at the same time acknowledged that as to the mode of collection it might not be possible to assimilate it entirely to the English income tax. (Hear.) The difficulty would be, that there was not in Ireland a staff of intelligent Government officers ready for the pur pose, and that there was not, upon the other hand, the power of resorting to the services of local and municipal officers. (Hear, hear.) In many places in Ireland there were only the clergyman, the medical man, and one or two retail traders. (Hear, hear.) And certainly the subject required consideration in this view. (Hear, hear.) But it would be found, when the bill was before the house, that the subject had been considered. This was not, however, the proper time for its discussion. The present proposition related, first, to the case of the tenant farmers. ' The Go vernment had considered their case with reference to their relations to the landlords, and the relation between their rents and profits, and were of opinion that their position should be assimilated to that of the Scotch tenant farmers. (Hear, hear.) This, therefore, would be proposed in the progress of the bill. Upon this subject he (the Chancel lor of the Exchequer) had received representations from a body of Irish representatives, and although it had been insinuated that, in so appealing to him in a friendly way, they had betrayed their duty to their constituents, he could only say, that without presuming to commend them, he felt grateful for their assistance in adapting this nex tax to their country. (Ironical cheers from the opposition). Another point adverted to on the present occasion was the impolicy of the employment of local agents for the purpose of assessing the tax in schedule B. The duty was certainly one of delicacy and difficulty ; and, for the reason already alluded to, he had arrived at the conclusion that it would be best to keep it entirely under the control and immediate agency of the executive government. (Hear, hear.) This might, perhaps, increase the difficulty of levying the tax on small towns ; but ho was anxious to take every means of moderating its oppressive character. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the legacy duty, what had been said as to its pro bable produce would be delightful to him, of course, if he could give any credence to it ; but he could not help con sidering it as a delusion. It had been said that the pro duce would much exceed the amount at which he was erro neously supposed to have estimated it, and amount to 4,000,0001. or 5,000,0001. He could only say that he should be most happy to farm the tax for a fourth or eighth part of that stun, if there were no objection to the system of farming taxes. Mr. DISRAELI—I understand the right hon. gentleman to say that the house are under a misapprehension in sup posing that he had offered au estimate as to the ultimate amount of the tax on succession of real property—that it would be about 2,000,0001. We certainly are under the idea that he did, in his financial statement, give us an estimate of the ultimate amount of that tax after four years ; and that the amount would be 2,000,0001. (Hear.) It would be well to have that question cleared up. (Hear, hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had given an estimate that the additional produce of the legacy duty would be 2,000,0001. in. addition to the 1,300,0001. it at present produced. He hoped that it would reach that amount, and should not be surprised if it exceeded it by 200,0001. or even 300,0001., though it would be necessary to revise the table of duties, and that would reduce the produce in some degree. The estimate, however, was about 2,000,0001., but he had to correct an error he had committed, in s tating that this would be the amount at the end of four years ;he ought to have said five. He had not, however, represented that the 2,000,0001. would be the amount raised from the legacy duty on land, but the amount estimated as the entire additional produce of the legacy duty (including personal property) after the altera• tion in contemplation. Mr. VANCE condemned the Irish members who had voted against , Sir Edward Lytton's amendment, as having , been mesmerised," if not otherwise influenced by the Government. He condemned the present amendment as a mockery, and should oppose altogether the extension of the income tax to Ireland. Mr. FITZGERALD, understanding that he was to have no support from the Irish members on the opposition side, would withdraw his amendment. But at the same time he defended his own consistency and independence: and threw back the insinuations which had been thrown out against him, with contempt. ' Mr, M`MAHON trusted that the hon. and learned mem ber would not withdraw his amendment, but press it to a division, and by that means procure the resignation of her Majesty's ministers. (Hear, hear.) His constituents, composed of the agricultural and commercial classes, were of opinion that'they would derive the greatest relief from the remission of the consolidated annuities ; but they would prefer the continuance of that charge to the imposition of the income tax in any shape. One gentleman with whom he had been in correspondence described the budget as a " tricky, delusive, and infamous" affair. (" Hear," and a laugh). His constituents believed that this budt was entirely in favour of England and against Ireland. succes sive Governments had been for a long time taking off duties from the raw material for the benefit of England ; and the present Government were about to remit the soap duties, which applied peculiarly to this country, and imposed an equivalent tax upon Ireland. (Hear, hear.) Upon a recent occasion 31 Irish members had supported her Majesty's Government; but could one of those hon. members rise in his place and say that in so acting he followed the wishes of his constituents ? (Hear, hear.) The whole of those constituencies would be found against their representatives with respect to this vote — (hear, hear, and oh)—indeed, all classes in Ireland were averse to the tax. (No.) Had a single county or borough meeting been hold in its favour? He was anxious that the budget should be carried in such a way that the people (of Ireland could feel convinced that they were not being cheated or robbed in order that England might be relieved of those taxes which it was her peculiar duty to bear. A high financial authority in the house had established that, as the budget was at present framed, Ireland was essen tially a loser by it. When the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on a former occasion, remarked that the consolidated an nuities were not to be considered as a mere question of money, he (Hr. M'Mahon) had not been prepared to find that more was to be imposed on Ireland than was remitted. The right hon. gentleman the member for Portsmouth had made a speech on the subject which no one on the ministe rial benches had as yet attempted to answer. No one had as yet controverted the statement of the right hon. gentle man that the remissions as regarded England would amount to 1,040,0001., whereas the increased taxation on Ireland would amount to 423,0001. Tha people of Ireland, would like to know how that was to be accounted for. A member of the Government had stated that the present at tempt to tax Ireland was getting in the narrow end of the wedge. The remissions in the budget were, in fact, in the interest of England and not of Ireland. It was proposed to re m it the annuities, but he thought it unworthy of a great empir e like this to make a profit out of these loans. The committee o f th e House of Lords, who appeare d a l mos t i n a judicial capacity, had struck of 2,000,0001. from these sums charged to Ireland, on the ground that the money hid been foolishly wasted on officials, and not for the relief of Ireland.. The duties conow proposed t o be levied on spirits, what could be fairly china e tax , would amount to double on the score of the annuities. It was said, however, tha t there was to be a remission of the tea duties, but surely i n th at re mi ssion it was only the right of Ireland to participa te. Eve n the quota which Ireland was to pay for the le gacy . duty would be an equi valent for the consolidated annuitie s ' if the Govern ment acted with fairness, they would so consider it. (Hear.) But, instead of that, they were going to impose 4.Aft 4 60,000 1. tax, 200,0001. for legacy dsuhtey,,vin9oo,o the whole duty, and 30,0001. for licences, large balance against the sister country. In fact, J v ie le taxa tion proposed for Ireland was especially for the benefit of England and the injury of Ireland ; and, to add to the in justice, the charge for the militia, which ought to have been borne by England exclusively, was in part thrown upon 26 country which had nothing to do with it. For several years past the remission of taxation had all b een i n favour of Eng l a nd, and had been effected systematically for that object. Even with regard to the advertisement duty, Is. was struck off for England and duty o 6d. for Ir e elandave, whereas for th e latter the proportionalought t h been 4d. (Hear.) The house would allow him, perhaps, eat to state a few plain facts, to show tha t I reland was s loser by the budget, if not by design, at least by accident. First, the abolition of the soap duties could confer no benefit upon Ireland, for it paid no soap duties. And there was no concealing the fact, for it was notorious that the chief soap dealers had been applying for the remission of the soap duty, because they were unable to compete with the Irish manufacturers in the foreign and colonial markets. If the Chancellor had been anxious to confer a boon upon Irish manufacture, he would have done some thing to protect Ireland's only manufacture, that of beet root sugar, which in the English market next year would stand in no better position than slave-grown sugar. (Hear, hear, hear.) English manufacturers were very fond of crying up free trade, yet what was the fact ? Why there was not a single manufacture of Man chester, York, or Leeds, which, though relieved from Excise restrictions, was not still protected. He maintained, therefore, that if the Chancellor had been anxious to have favoured Ireland, he would not have dealt with her as he had done. Again, let him point to another restriction— that upon the growth of tobacco. (Mr. Sergeant Murphy here made an observation in reference to the hon. and learned member havine * again taken up his papers to quote some statistics.) Let him inform the hon. and learned member for the city . of Cork that he would not be so full of his imperial doctrines if the Septennial Act were not in force, and if his constituents in Ireland could hold over the hon. gentleman the same threat of dissolution that had been held out by the Government to those who refused to support their budget. (Hear, hear.) He could only say, in conclusion, that no member of that house was more anxious than he was that Ireland should be treated as an English county. He wished to see the two countries ab solutely incorporated, to all intents and purposes, Ireland being no longer subject to peddling and exceptional legisla lation, but governed by the same system of statute and common law. If that were done—if they would but con fer on Ireland the same local institutions which were en joyed by England, they would be able to economise their local expenditure, and reduce their highway rates from the resent amount of 1,100,000/. a-year to half th a t sum. p (Hear.) Mr. AGLIONBY wished merely to bring two points under the notice of the right hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer; to which he would refer later at some length. His first suggestion was that the right hon. gentleman would be able very larg,ely to increase the amount of revenue derived from the proposed tax on successions, by including within his arrangements a very large class of property— that was held in mortmain by corporate bodies The next point had reference to the mode in which the income tax was collected. He alluded to copyhold tenants, who paid double—first of all they paid upon the value of their land, and then they paid fines which were levied upon every new admittance. Sir T. O'BRIEN was not going to annoy the house with quoting figures which were often calculated to confuse rather than to inform. Ho rose merely to say, that if the Chancellor of the Exchequer was anxious to make any changes in the Irish part of the budget, he must not take it for granted that the tenant-farmers of that country would derive all the advantages from his scheme which had been described. He must say that he was perfectly amazed at the picture drawn by his excellent friend the member for Tipperary of the advantage to accrue to that class. Mr. F. SCULLY—I said that the remission of the con solidated annuities would confer a great boon upon the farming classes of Ireland. Sir T. O'BRIEN would like to know if the hon. gentle man bad ever taken a walk from Cashel to Tipperary, from Cashel to Clonmel, or Cashel to Thurles, for if he had he would have seen nothing but ruins of the dwellings of tenant-farmers. It was all very well to talk of the tenant farmers being benefited by the remission of the annuities, but they had never paid them—the only rates paid by Irish farmers were on account of writs. The fact was, the re mission was no sufficient equivalent for the sacrifice they were called upon to make. He had never given a selfish vote—he' came there neither 'for nor against the Govern ment. But he must protest against the system pursued by Irish members—a system calculated to do the greatest in jury to the country. They formed themselves into cliques of 16 or a dozen, held meetings, and came forth to dictate as to the government of Ireland. (Hear.) He believed that those who opposed the budget of the LGovernment held quite as great a stake in the country as those who favoured it. In its every feature, with the single excep tion of the repeal of the tea duties, the budget was adverse t. Ireland ; and let him warn the Chancellor of the Ex 'chequer that the repeal of those duties would lead to little or no increased consumption of that beverage as far as that country was concerned. He begged, therefore, to say that his vote on Monday was given conscientiously and unfac tiously ; nor had he heard anything since to make him ro gret the course he had taken. (Hear.) Sir G. GOODMAN could assure the hon. gentleman the member for Dublin (Mr. Vance), who, •he believed, he might rank amongst his constituents, that the manufac turers of Leeds were by no means unwilling to see the income tax extended to Ireland. On the contrary, they believed that its imposition on that country was a move altogether in the right direction, and that a very great benefit would be thereby conferred upon the public of both countries. Mr. M. O'CONNELL must protest against the term clique being applied to Irish members by the hon. baronet the member for Cashel. He had assisted at the meeting alluded to by the hon. gentleman, but it was only in a mi nisterial capacity as chairman. It was equally open to the hon. member for Cashel to attend the meeting, but he had managed to absent himself in Dublin on his own private business. (Laughter.) Mr. R. M. FOX hoped, when the amendment was with drawn, the acerbity would also be withdrawn which had characterised the debate. He believed they would always find strong feelings in Ireland ; that these feelings would be expressed in an energetic manner. He hoped they would come to the consideration of the remainder of the budget without any acerbity of feeling and with an honest deter mination to render full justice to Ireland. Mr. MAGAN believed the hon. gentleman's motion was a perfectly sincere motion. The hon. gentleman was en gaged in the same task as he was—namely, to avoid the imposition of the income tax on Ireland (as was understood). There was one mistake made by the hon. and learned gen tleman, which mischievous minds like his own (Mr. Ma gates) would be ready to suspect—he had too long delayed making an apology for the observations he Jaad made. He would say no more, as he wished to leave the hon. and learned gentleman "all alone in his glory." (Oh, oh, and laughter.) Mr. BALL sympathised with the feelings of those Eng lish members who must think it a great infliction to have to listen to another night's debate on the income tax. But this question was calculated to excite much agitation in Ireland and one on which great difference of opinion prevailed. (Oh.) It was right, therefore, that the people should know the facts, and that the truth Of the question shouldbe fairly placed before them. The question the house had to consi der was no small or narrow question ; it comprised the future taxation of Ireland. (Oh, oh, divide.) Did hon. members opposite wish to stifle discussion ? He only de sired to enter into the matter fairly, and he challenged them to discuss the question fairly with him. (Oh.) He had always been of opinion that the act of Union with Ireland was unjust. Certainly, he could not but consider that the present proposition was not in unison with the object of the Act of :Union. He would compare the revenue and expenditure of Ireland 30 years after the union with—(divide, divide.) The hon. gentleman here sat down with the remark that it was evident a desire existed to put a stop to fair discussion. Mr. M`CANN knew as much about Ireland as any hon. member in the house, and it was his belief there was no difference at all on the question. He believed Ireland was taxed, in proportion to England, beyond her fair share and her means. He might be mistaken, but he was will ing to have, a committee of English gentlemen chosen to look into the question, and he would readily abide by their verdict. The amendment was negatived without a division. Mr. W. MICHELL moved—" To leave out or from any profession, trade, or vocation,' in order to add to the Chancellor of the Fachequer's resolution, ' and for and in respect of any profession, trade, or vocation, whether the same shall be respectively exercised in the 'United King dom or elsewhere, on the first 100/. of income no duty shall be charged or chargeable thereon ; for every 205., the an nual value or amount thereof, above the yearly profits of 1001., and below that of 500/. — For two years from April 5, 1853 sd. For two years from April 5, 1855 4d. And for three years from April 5, 1857 3d." He did not bring this amendment forward to damage the Ministry, but because he thought justice required the al temtion should be made. He was not opposed to the bud get ; he thought it was a fair budget, and that it would be impossible to get a budget to please every one. His constituents rather liked the budget than otherwise. Go vernment proposed to remit taxation on the' industrious classes. The right hon.gentleman'had taken off the taxes on knowledge, and had placed them on the compositors and reporters. By this arrangement the man who only earned it. 18s. a week, perhaps because he was idle, was exempted, while the industrious, the more honest, and more sober man, who earned 2/. 2s. per week was to be brought with in the operation of the tax. Was this just ?. The same principle of injustice pervaded the tax as applied to other industrious classes. He thought it would be advisable to make the tax operate on the working classes this way— to take no notice of the 1001., and to commence levying the tax on all the amount beyond the 1001. This, he believed, would give far greater satisfaction. What he desired to effect by his amendment was, to protect the working classes, and at the same time to do away with the temptation of endeavouring to find out ingenious ways to evade the im post. He was convinced that if they did not make the tax discriminating it would never work well. The hon. mem ber concluded, amid considerable and continued interrup tions, by handing to the chairman a motion in manuscript which he wished to move. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER presumed that the motion which the hon. member had handed in was the same as that which stood in the votes. The motion as it stood on the votes having been read and put, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the motion 'as it at present stood would go to exempt all the different descriptions of rating in the previous part of the resolutions. The correction which had been made in it confined it to trades, professions, or vocations. It was not necessary for him to state at any length his reasons for not acceding to the motion. They rested on two grounds. In the first place, the motion, although intended by the hon. gentleman in all sincerity to facilitate and improve the working of the tax, involved principles most inconvenient and even dangerous. It involved all the difficulties that arose at a former period, of different rates on different classes ; and another set of difficulties, viz., those which related to a graduated income tax. It was quite true, as the hon. gentleman had stated, that Mr. Pitt proposed what in some sense might be called a graduated income tax. He proposed a tax graduated below 2001., and no doubt, on abstract grounds, that involved the principle of a gradation applicable to all incomes. But they stood in this matter not on abstract grounds, but on prescription. Ever since they had had the income tax they had had exemptions of some sort ; but they never passed beyond 2001. Mr. Pitt graduated the tax below that sum in order to obviate the anomaly that existed. It was always graduated on a certain"piinciple and with reference to clerks of limited income. In fixing 1501. as the amount under which there should be exemptions, Parliament had adopted a very liberal rule. But whatever the amount was below which the exemption was fixed, above it there had always been a uniform rate. The hon. gentleman pro pDsed to graduate up to 5001., but if they adopted that principle, there was no reason why they should not extend it to t. O 5 ,0001. In fact the proposal opened the wide question exttortnhaee w rat e e at a l t i , a w n h a ic p h ov t e h r e t y should tax the rich, as corn pared with the poor, through all the gradations between would not admit so dangeroyus. pleasure to meet the a p H ri e na h ip o l p e e . d m th o e ugh co i m t committee g g i e v n e tl hi em in an gr i e n at an P y l It was a great deal cost little less than 700 ° 00 way he could not conse w nt ish to es hi o s f proposal. It Ithemati4isfiothnseyofgtawave utipotwatiaz expensive, and if adopted would /. a-year. He need not point out cilia they must re-adjust the had been proposed in c,onneo THE SUN, LONDON, .SATURDAY EV ENING, MAY 7, 1853. PROMOTIONS. Lieutenants.—John O. Bathurst (1838), Edmund H. Gunnell (1841), Matthew Connolly (1842), and Robert Jen kins (1846), to be commanders. The Cyclops steam-frigate has taken on board the boilers of the Encounter steam-frigate, and will convey them round to Portsmouth. Twenty-four privates of the Woolwich Division of Royal Marines, volunteers left Woolwich at 2 p.m. yesterday, and proceeded by railway to Portsmouth to join the Royal Marine Artillery branch of the corps. Captain Buchannan, Lieutenant Holland, two coirrals, one drummer, and 56 privates of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines, arrived in the barracks here at 6 o'clock, p.m. yesterday, from service in the Hastings, 72, paid off at Portsmouth. PRIZE MONEY FOB THE INDIGINA. —Messrs. Burnett and Co. have given notice to the late officers and crew of her Majesty's ship Southampton, Nicholas Cory, Esq., captain, that, on the 20th inst., they will be paid by them their proportions of bounty money, &c., received for the capture of the slave brig Indigina, by her Majesty's steam vessel Harpy, tender to her Majesty's ship Southampton, on the sth day of January, 1851, and the shares will be recalled every Friday for three months, agreeably to act of Parliament : Flag, 1261. ls. Bd. ; captain, 236/. Bs. 3d. ; first class, 391. 18s. id. ; second, 24/. 18s. 10d. ; third, 191. 19s. ; fourth, 11/. 9s. sd. ; fifth, 61. 19s. Bd. ; sixth, 51. 19s. Bd. seventh, 31. 19s. 9d. ; eighth, 11.195. 10d. ; ninth, 11.45. 11d. ; tenth, 14s. 11d. THE CASE OF ABORTION AT CLAPHAM. Yesterday Mr. R. A. Fisher, the barrister, appeared before the Hon. G. C. Norton, at the Lambeth-street police-office, and, addressing that magistrate, said that in the report of the proceedings in the above painful and disgusting case, which appeared in the public jour nals of that morning, it was stated by the unfortunate young. woman, Eliza Morden, " I wrote a letter to Dr. Smith and gave it to Mr. Thomas, making an appoint ment with the former to meet him at 24, Essex-street, Strand, a lawyer's ;" and that in consequence of that statement, Mr. C. 0. Hoare, a respectable solicitor, who had offices in the house referred to, felt himself affected and aggrieved, and therefore wished it to be distinctly understood that he knew nothing whatever of any of the parties, and had not ever seen or been consulted by them, or either of them, in any matter whatever. The house in question (which belonged to a highly respectable person) was let out in chambers, and was in every respect similar to the houses in the inns of court, the chambers being separate and distinct, with a common entrance and staircase, and the occupants of the re spective chambers had no further knowledge of each other than that of meeting occasionally and casually on the stairs. The learned counsel said the Rev. Mr. Gordon was neither the fiend nor the client of Mr. Hoare, and that, in fact, Mr. Hoare was an utter stranger to the whole occurrence represented in this most unfortunate and deplorable case. Mr. Hoare occupies his chambers only for the purposes of his pro fessional business. He did not reside in the house, and he was quite prepared to show that the parties implicated in this sad affair had never been inside his chambers, and that he had no knowledge whatever of them, or the occurrence referred to. The learned counsel further said that he also had instructions from a member of. the bar, of great respectability and considerable professional standing and practice, who occupied chambers in the same house and upon the same floor upon which the chambers of Mr. Hoare were situate, to make a similar unequivocal statement. Mr. Norton said he had no doubt that the press would, with its usual love of justice, at once notice and set the matter right. Mr. Hoare was present, and confirmed in the strongest way the statements of the learned counsel, and, having thanked the magistrate for his courtesy, withdrew. SHIPPING INT ELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, MAY 6. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Franzeska, from Rostock; Dovre, Dram ; Therese, Rostock ; Ferdinand, Grenaae ; Anna Magdalene, Skive ; Harmonic, Nassau ; Wave, Mademblik ; Frau Catharina, Strner ; Alida, Fedder wardsiel ; Tiger, Hamburgh ; Kleine Bernard, Neustadt ; Jantina Geziena, Groningen ; James Innes, Almeira ; Lina, Sannesund ; Fortuna, Castin„, ,, seil ; Zargo, Loanda ; hlensehlievendheid, Harlingen ; Hoffnung, Thisted ; Adel heid, Lokken ; Superb, Skepprovich ; Frau Johanna, Leer ; Lady Catharine Barham, Jamaica ; City of Bou logne, Boulogne ; Charlotte, Landscrona ; Dorthia, Greenaae ; Maria, Leghorn ; Fornica, Hobroe ; Christine Margarette, Sannesnnd ; •Calyp s o, Dantzic ; Hercules, Droback ; Marie, Thisted ; Europa, Bombay ; Hedvig, Gothenburg • Danneborg, Randers ; Jens Nordentoftsy Minde, Thisted ; Ceres, Praestoe ; Teresina, Naples ; Mar garetha, Nykiobing ; Stein Bille, Copenhagen. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Singapore, for Sydney, New South Wales ; Wellesley, Calcutta ; Owen Glendower, Bombay ; Admiral, Port Philip ; Hebe, do. ; Agnes, Oporto ; Barham, Calcutta ; Lady Catharine Barham, Jamaica ; Garland, do. ; Echo, Helsingfors ; Avenir, Rouen ; Louise, Hamburgh ; Fanny Mitcheson, Coquimbo ; Maid of Marshland; Stettin. • CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Neptune, for Cherbourg ; Ocean Queen, New York ; Les Amis, Rouen ; Catharine, Elsinore; Minerva, Stettin ; Gertrude and Lammechina, Elsinore ; Mary Welch, Leghorn ; Echo, Ghent; Calphurnia, Port Philip and Sydney ; Enterprise, Lubeck • Anna Maria, Altona ; Johanna Maria, do. ; John Romilly, Hobart Town ; Neptune, Hamburgh ; Champion, Belize &c. ; Columbine, Cape of Good Hope ; Albert, Port Natal; Panama, Hobart Town; Harriette, Valparaiso and Lima. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The William Stewart, Southampton to Adelaide, South Australia, April 24, off Cape Finisterre. The Lochinvar, Clyde to Adelaide, South Australia, lat. 42 N., long. 14 W. Th e Willi a m Connal, Liverpool to Hong Bong, March 2, lat. 5 N., long. 21 W. The Margaret, Dartmouth to Quebec, April 25, lat. 48 N., long. 24 W. The Arabella Tarbet, Newfoundland to Pernambuco April 7, lat. 38 N., long. 40 W. E NCUMBER ED ESTATES COURT, IRELAND. — From 'an official return it appears that from the year 1849, to May, 1853, 1/ millions of acres, at the gross rental of 650,0001., subject to head and chief rents and tithe rent charge to above 60,0001., and a large portion to jointures and annuities, sold for 81 millions sterling—not, on an average more than 61. an acre. There were 159 pur chasers (not Irish) who bought 1i millions ; 67 Lon doners bought of a million ;23 purchasers in Lanca shire only of a million ; the remainin g p urchasers in England, being 56 in number, bought of a million . ; two purchasers in India at 30,0001. ; and in America one purchaser to the amount of 2,5001. There are no less than 1,500 boxes of .title-deeds deposited in the Record Office, containing upwards of 90,000 documents, yet, notwithstanding this immense pressure of business, no office for the registration of all estates for sale has' been opened in London by the commissioners, until Mr. Bermingham established one at 158, New Bond-street, and which meets with their entire Approbation. This office will facilitate the transactions of the Encumbered Estates Court, inasmuch as it will gi ve as g reat publi city in London as in Dublin, and will be a great boon to capitalists. ALLEGED MURDER.—A case of murder is said to have occurred at Conway. A man took a, youth out shooting rabbits, and returned without him. The body was after wards found buried on the mountain, the youth having , evidently been shot, and it is said his watch was subse quently discovered on the person of his companion. This and other circumstances occasioned the apprehension of the latter, tion with the tax. Under the circumstances he must there fore oppose the motion. Mr. MICHELL was understood to move that the Chair man report progress. Lord A. VANE hoped the hon. gentleman would carry his amendment to a division. He had heard hon. gentle men opposite give up principles to which they pledged theMselvei the same as he did. The basis of the income tax was an extension for seven years; and as it was a broad principle that the man who earned his bread by hard la bour should not be compelled to pay in the same propor tion as the man who sat in his easy chair and did nothing, he (Lord A. Vane) should not recede from it on this occa sion. As long, therefore, as he had a vote in that house he would record it in favour of that principle. He had heard every point of the financial scheme objected to, and yet hon. members professed to vote for the whole budget. The whole was composed of all its parts ; and as he objected to the chief part, he should vote against the continuance of the income tax as it stood. Without pledging himself to the terms of the amendment, he would vote for the principle to which he had given his assent, in case of a division. He would not accept the whole when he objected to the chief part. Mr. SPOONER suggested that the hon. member for Bodmin should modify his amendment. To impose a tax upon 1001. a year was to tax labour. He admitted the difficulty of graduating the tax ; but he thought there could be no difficulty in fixing a minimum sum. A hun dred a year was too low. The lowest should be 1501. The principle of the proposition of the hon. member—namely, a graduation of the tax, he (Mr. Spooner) was prepared to support at the fitting opportunity ; and its adoption would have the effect of getting rid of the expense of the staff of clerks now employed at Somerset House to regulate the exemptions. He therefore advised the hon. member not to press his amendment on that occasion, but to avail him self of another opportunity. The amendment was accordingly withdrawn. Mr. PALMFR then rose to move the following amend ment :—" After the words ' for every twenty shillings of the annual value of amount thereof,' insert ' such annual value of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, being the net annual value thereof, after due allowance made for re pairs, insurance, and management." A conversation arose as to the expediency of proceeding with the amendment, or whether the hon. member should move that the Chairman report progress and obtain leave to, sit again. Mr. W. MILES hoped the latter suggestion would be persevered in, as the amendment affected the real property of this country, which was taxed at 9d, in the pound, while other property was taxed only at 7d. After some further remarks the consideration of the pro position was adjourned to Monday ; the Chairman left the chair, and the house resumed. EXCHEQUER BILLS. - - - _ On the motion of Mr. WILSON, the house went into committee on the Exchequer Bills Bill. CUSTOMS' ACTS. The report upon this bill was brought up and received. SALES OF BULLION BILL. This bill, as amended, was considered. ENTAILS (SCOTLAND) BILL. Mr. DUNLOP proposed certain amendments in this bill. The LORD ADVOCATE believed that the house was aware that entails in Scotland had, up to the year 1848, been in fact a perpetuity, and except under a statute called the Montgomery Act, it was almost impossible for any heir to an entail to make a provision for his children. In the year 1848, however, the whole question of Scotch entails had been carefully considered in that house and consider able improvements had been effected in that system. Now his hon. and learned friend wished to interfere with the prohibition upon certain entails dating subsequent to the year 1848. In his (the Lord Advocate's) opinion the house ought to deliberate before they resolved to repeal the 12th section of an act which had been passed into law after so much consideration. He should therefore request his hon. and learned friend not to press his amendment. Mr. CRATJFURD complained that a question of so much importance should have been brought on at so late a period of the night. He deprecated the idea that be cause great reforms had been effected in the system of entails in Scotland the house should therefore refuse to enter upon a course of still more extensive improvements. He trusted his hon. friend would divide the house upon . the question, and ascertain if the Government were really devoted to the cause of law reform or not. Mr. C. BRUCE objected to grafting the propositions of the hon. and learned gentleman (Mr. Dunlop) upon the measure before the house, and he trusted the Lord Advo cate would confine the object of the bill to that which it was designed to effect —namely, the facilitating of pro ceedings under Lord Rutherford's Act. Lord J. RUSSELL hoped the hon. and learned gentle man (Mr. Dunlop) would not press his amendment, but bring it forward as a distinct proposition. The house divided, and there appeared— For Mr. Dunlop's clause Against it Majority against the clause • —96 The report was' then received, and the bill ordered to be read a third time on a future day. . Lord J. RUSSELL was understood to name the 13th of June as the day on which he should move for leave to bring in a bill to prevent persons holding dockyard and other appointments from voting at elections. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. CRAUFUED a new writ was or dered to be issued for the borough of Maidstone. The remaining business on the paper having been dis posed of, the house adjourned at one o'clock. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CHESTER RACES-FRIDAY. A. HANDICAP STAKES of 5 sovs. each, with 50 added. Extra weightior winners. Seven furlongs. (10 subs.) Mr. Pedley's Sweetness, by Sweetmeat, 3 yrs, 6st (Ashman) 1 Mr. Brown's Bell Tinker, 3 yrs, 6st....(Waddington) 2 Lord Chesterfield's Humphrey, 6 yrs, 7st. 101 b (Flatman) 3 The following also ran :—British Farmer, Deerhound, Margaret of Anjou, Hannah, and c by Mickey Free. Betting—The confusion which was occasioned by the very blameable manner in which the numbers of the starters were put up, caused several vexatious fluctuations in the betting, and much money was thereby lost. At the close it was 3 to 1 agst Humphrey, 7 to 2 each agst Deerhound and Sweetness, 6to 1 agst Bell Tinker. A very pretty race with the three placed and Deerhound from the distance, was won by a neck. A neck only between each of the others. First year of the THIRD TRIENNIAL PRODUCE STAKES of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 30 added, for 2yr olds ; colts, Bst 91b ; fillies, Bst 51b ; those by untried stal lions, or out of mares which never bred a winner, al lowed 31b ; both, 61b. T.Y.C. (10 subs.) ; Mr. E. IL Clark's Punch Box, by Napier, Bst 31b. (Bartholomew) 1 Mr. Meiklam's Siiletto, Bst. 91b (Templeman) 2 Mr. Copeland's Field Marshal, Bst 71b (Marlow) 3 Mr. Worthington's Juliet, Bst 21b (Bramwood) 4 Betting—Even on Stilletto, 6 to 4 agst Punch Box. Punch Box made all the running, and won very easily by a length. Bad third. WIRRALL STAKES of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 30 added ; 2 yr old colts, bet 121 b ; fillies, Est 81b ; 3 yr old colts, 9st ; fillies, Bst 101 b. Winners extra. T.Y.C. (13 subs.) Lord Chesterfield's colt by The Emperor—Begum, 3 yrs, 9 s t (Flatman) 1 Mr. Halford's Eliza, 3 yrs, Bst 101 b ....(Whitehouse) 2 Mr. Ayrton's Amanda, 2 yrs, Est 81b (Aldcroft) 3 Betting-6 to 4 each agst Begum colt and Eliza, sto 2 agst Amanda. Begum colt made all the running, and won by half a length. Bad third. EATON STAKES of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 30 added ; for 3-yr-olds ' 7st 41b ; four, Bst 121 b • fillies and geld ings allowed 41b, and maidens at the time of naming 31b ; winners extra. Grosvenor course.. (9 subs.) Mr. Chilton's Audubon, by Birdcatcher, 7st 71b (in cluding 31b extra) (J. Osborne) walked over. CHESHIRE STAKES of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, with 60 added ; winners extra ; second to save his stake. From the Castle Pole, once round and in ; about a mile and three furlongs. (36 subs., 20 of whom declared, and pay 5 sovs. each.) Mr. E. Phillips's Koh-i-noor, 4 yrs, Est 121b...(Vea1) 1 Mr. Cooper's lanthe, 5 yrs, Est 101 b (Crouch) 2 Mr. E. Parr's Sanita, 4 yrs, Est 101 b _(Hiett) 3 Lord Waterford's April Fool, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (J. Wynne) 4 Betting-7 to 4 agst lanthe, 2to 1 agst April Fool, 3to agst Sanita, 4to 1 agst Koh-i-noor. Koh-i-noor made strong running throughout, and won by ten lengths. Each of the others far apart. SIXTH YEAR of the CESTRIAN STAKES of 10 sovs. each; with 30 added ; for 3-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 61b ' • fillies and geldings, Bst 31b. One mile and three-quarters. (6 subs.) Mr. J. M. Stanley's North Pole, by Orlando, Bst 61b (J. Marson) 1 Mr. Osbaldeston's Sylphine, Bst 31b (Hiett) 2 Mr. Osborne's Mocassin, Bst 31b Betting-2 to lon North Pole, 3to 1 agst Mocassin. A fine race from the distance with the favourite and Sylphine, the former winning by half a neck. Bad third. GRAND STAND CuP of 100 sovs., in specie, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; the second to receive 20 sovs. out of the Stakes. Once round and a distance. (16 subs.) Mr Thompson's Guicowar, 3 yrs, sst 81b (Carroll) 1 Mr. Dawson's Lerrywheut, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b... (T. Lye) 2 Lord Chesterfield's Humphrey, 6 yrs, 7st 41b (Ashmall) 3 Lord Caledon's Kiteflyer, 4 yrs, 7st 81b (W. Sharpe) 4 The following also ran :—Woolwich, Osbaldeston, Grief,' Evadne, Bellewstown, .Whalebone, f by Venison dam by the Sadler, the Judge, and Bloomer. Betting-7 to 4 agst Guicower, 3to 1 agst Kiteflyer, 6 to 1 agst Venison filly, 8 to 1 each agst Bloomer and Woolwich, 14 to 1 agst Lerrywheut. A good race. Won by half a length. A length between second and third. Bloomer fell and her jockey was much stunned. Lamm' PURSE, value 501., for three years old and upwards. Mares and geldings allowed 31bs. Extra weight for winners. The winner to be sold for 250 sovs. Allowances if to be sold for less. Once round and a dis tance. Mr. B. Land's Heliotrope, 4 yrs, 501., 7st fib (H. May.) 1 Mr. Dawson's The Varniint, 4 yrs, 50/., Bst (Aldcroft) 2 Mr. Thompson's Ganymede, 3yrs, 50/., Est 51b (Boyes) 3 Mr. W. Topham's Maid of Delamere, 3 yrs, 6st 51b (Moult) 4 Betting-2 to lon Varmint, 4to 1 agst Heliotrope. Won by half a neck. The receipts at the stand during the meeting amounted to upwards of 2,330/. The stewards for the next year a"e, Lord Clifden, Charles Greville, Esq., and J. M. Stanley, Esq. The stand committee have voted 1,0001. to be given to the spring meeting, 1854, and 3001. to the October meeting. THE DERBY. En route to town 10 to 1 was offered against Orestes. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MA Y 6. The Dauntless, 24 (screw), Captain Edward P. H alsted, came into harbour to-day at noon, and is laid al 3ngside the itheers jetty. She has unbent sails, got do wn her top rigging, and is returning stores to the dockyar, 1. She will pay off on Wednesday next, when the oil :ers and cr( isv will have an opportunity of recruiting their health an d spirits. The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw, Capt. Menu Byam Martin, C. 8., has payed over, her rigging, painted lower m wits, tops, and caps, and is beginning to look in sea goin“ order. She will receive her lower deck guna at Spitl lead. Tb .e Blenheim, 58, screw, Captain W. H. Henderson, C.B. , had pretty sharp practice this morning at - the great. gun exercise. The Rolla, 6, naval apprentices' brig, Lieut. C ommal ider Fenwick, put the lads at target practice with the broad side guns with good effect, after which she came into harbour. Ships of war at Spithead.—Sanspareil, 71, screw ; Im p erieuse, 60, screw ; Cruiser, 16, screw ; ,London, 90 ; )lighflyer, 21, screw ; Agamemnon, 90, screw ; Sidon, 22, paddle ; and Banshee, avant coureur to the squadron. PLYMOUTH, MAY 6. Her Majesty's frigate Leander, 50, Captain G. St. Vin cent King, having been fitted for the reception of Lord Ellesmere and suite, was towed yesterday by the Avoqand Confiemee steamers into the Sound, where she took her powder and shells on board. The brig Cygnet, Commander R. D. White, which arrived, on Wednesday from Portsmouth, came into har bour yesterday, and was warped to the jetty, where her crew unbent sails and commenced returning stores. She will b a paid off on Wednesday. The' Diligence transport was removed from dock on Thur aday, and towed to the Jupiter depot to receive coal prior to sailing for the Arctic regions. In. consequence of a dispute between the owners and crews of the trawling sloops belonging to this port, the vessels have not been to sea during the week. PEMBROKE. The Victoria, of 110 guns, now building in this yard, is very far advanced towards completion, and she could easily be made ready, if so desired, for launching this season. Rumour, however, states that before being sent off the stocks she will bo cut asunder at the midship section, and lengthened to the extent of 30 feet. This increase of length she can well bear, as it is at present evident to all who in spect her that her size is greater in proportion than her length. She is a noble vessel, though not nearly of such fine proportions as the James Watt, just launched, and, when lengthened, would carry nearly the same armament as the Duke of Wellington, 131 guns, launched here last season. She will b e fitt e d with the screw propeller, thus adding another first-rate to the squadron of screw-propelled line-of-battle ships. WOOLWICH, MAY 6. APPOINTMENTS. Captain George William Conway Courtenay (1828), to be captain-superintendent of the Royal Hospital, Haslar, Portsmouth, in the room of Captain William J. H. John stone, promoted to the rank of rear-admiral. Captain Richard Augustus Yates (1827), to receive the good-service pension vacant by the promotion of Captain William James Hope Johnstone. Commander John 31`1•Teill Boyd (1850), to command the Nerbudda, 12, brig, commissioned at Chatham. Commander William Abdy Fellowes (1850), to command the Cotnus, 14, sloop, commissioned at Sheerness. Surgeons.—JohnWard (a) (1851), to the Comu.s ; John Ternan, M.D. (1851), to the Nerbudda. FROM THE LON DON GAZETTE- of YESTERDAY. CROWN-OFFICE, MAY 5. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Taunton—Sir John William Ramsden, of 'Byrom, in the West Riding of the county of York, Bart., in the room of Arthur Mills, Esq., whose election for the said borough has been declared void. WAR-OFFICE, MAY 6. sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain William Richard Newport Campbell, from the 9th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Johnson, who exchanges, May 6. 7th DragoOn Guards—Lieutenant Thomas William Goff to be Captain, by purchase, vice Bunbury, who retires ; Cornet Montagu Dettmar to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Goff, May 6. 2nd Dragoons—Cornet the Honourable Matthew Fitz- Maurice Deane, froht the 10th Light Dragoons, to be Cor net, vice Parry, who retires, May 6. 6th Dragoons—Cornet Arthur Pryse Jones to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Probyn, who retires, May G. 9th Light Dragoons—Captain Chardin Philip Johnson, from the sth Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Camp bell, who exchanges, May 6. 10th Light Dragoons—Cornet Henry Fullerton Rich mond, from the 12th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, vice the Honourable Matthew Fitzmaurice Dean, appointed to the 2nd Dragoons, May 6. Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Captain John Halkett le Couteur, from the 87th Foot, to be Lieutenant and Captain, vice the Hon. Augustus George Charles Chichester, who exchanges, May 6. 13th Foot—Lieutenant Edward Lynch, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Rogge, who retires ; Ensign Arthur Bainbrigge, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lynch, Hay 6. _ _ _ 23d Foot—Surgeon Joseph Burke, from the 24th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Gamble, who exchanges, May 6. 24th Foot—Surgeon Richard Gamble, M.D., from the 23d Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Burke, who exchanges, 27th Foot—Lieutenant James Henry Creagh, to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Pattison, who retires ; Ensign Charles James Knox Gore, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Creagh ; Ensign Francis Lambten, from the 98th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Gore, May 6. 42d Foot—Ensign Frederick Henry Hope, from the Ist Foot, to be Ensign, vice Fletcher, who retires, May 6. 53d Foot—Ensign Thomas Acton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Waters, who retires ; Ensign George Henry Pocklington, from the 18th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Acton, May 6. 55th Foot—Lieutenant Benjamin Dunbar Wemyss, froth Paymaster, Cape Mounted Riflemen, to b e Li eu t enan t, vice Macdonnell, appointed Paymaster ; Ensign James Hannay to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wemyss, who retires, May 6. 58th Foot—Paymaster-Sergeant John Harris Roger Har rison, of the 58th Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Tighe, promoted, May 6. 60th Foot--Captain Thomas Biggs, from the 97th Foot, to be Captain, vice Sibthorp, who exchanges, May 6. 80th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Lawrence Ar guimbau, C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Henry Daubeney, deceased, April 30. 83d Foot—Captain Richard Rodes Wyvill, from the 90th Foot, to be Captain, vice Crawfurd, who exchanges, May 6. 87th Foot—Lieutenant and Captain the Honourable Augustus George Charles Chichester, from the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards to be Captain, vice Le Couteur, who exchanges, May 6. 90th Foot— Captain Robert H. Payne Crawfurd, from the 83d Foot, to be Captain, vice Wyvill, who exchanges, May 6. 97th Foot, Captain Richard Francis Waldo Sibthorp, from the 60th Foot, to be Captain, vice Biggs, who ex changes, May 6. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—First Lieutenant James Armar Butler to be Captain, by purchase, vice Lucas, who re tires ; Second Lieutenant Charles Rouch to be First Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Butler, May 6. Cape Mounted Riflemen—John Gregory Gurney, Esq., to be Paymaster, vice Wemyss, appointed Lieutenant in the 55th Foot, May 6. HOSPITAL STAFF.—Staff Assistant-Surgeon William Thomas Hoskin, M.D., to be Staff-Surgeon of the 'Second Class, vice Affieck, deceased ; William Snell, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Hoskin, promoted on the Staff, May 6. STAFF.—Chaplains—The Reverend Henry Press Wright to be Chaplain to the Forces, May 6. MEMORANDUM.—The proper names of the officer who was removed ' from an Ensigncy in the Ist Foot to be Second Lieutenant of the Rifle Brigade, in the Gazette of the 29th April, 1853, are William James Montgomery Cuninghame, and not William James Montgomery Cun ninghame. Sergeant-Major John Campbell, appointed Quartermaster of the 17th Foot on the 29th April, 1853, was from the 89th, and not the 98th Regiment'. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANTS. County of Oxford. Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. George Augustus Spencer to be Deputy-Lieutenant—Henry Peyton, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant—Adam Duff, Esq., to be Deputy- Lieutenant. County of Surrey. John Hinde Palmer, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant. 3d Royal Surrey Regiment of Militia—To be Adjutant— Evelyn Latimer Parratt, Esq., late Captain 85th King's Light Infantry. County of Middlesex. 4th or Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia — Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Richard Bagot, half-pay un attached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant. County Palatine of Lancashire—Thomas Rodick, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant—John Rosson, Esq., to be Deputy- Lieutenant. 4th or the Duke of Lancaster's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—James Fort, Gent., late of the sth Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant—Samuel Renshaw Phibbs, Gent., to be Lieutenant—Thomas Knott, Gent., late Lieutenant 4th Foot, to be Lieutenant—Robert Arthur Mather, Gent., to be Ensign—Thomas Byron White head, .lent., to be Ensign. The Artillery Regiment of the Royal Lancashire Militia —Henry Thomas Fyers, Esq., late Captain and Adjutant Royal Artillery, to be Captain—Charles Creagh, Esq., late Captain 80th Foot, to be Captain—Archer Barton, Esq., late Captain 16th Lancers, to be Captain—Henry Master ton, Gent., late Lieutenant 20th Foot, to be Lieutenant- John Railton, jun., Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. 2nd Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia— Robert Hamilton, jun., Gent., to be Ensign. The Duke of Lancaster's Own Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—John Jacson, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Wigan troop —Alexander Fowden Haliburton, Esq., to be Captain, Wigan troop. Lancashire Hussars--William Edward Hughes, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice F. A. Farrell, resigned—Thomas Burnaby Legh, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Hughes, promoted. Tower Hamlets— Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Hamlets Militia—Henry Trower, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Stone, superseded. King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—James Little, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Eykin, resigned. County of Denbigh—Denbighshire Yeomanry Cavalry— William Rowland, Esq., to be Surgeon, vice Lloyd Wil liams, resigned—Charles James Watkin Williams, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Rowland, resigned. County of Suffolk—East Suffolk Regiment of. Militia— Artillery Corps—Robert Alexander Shafto Adair, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sir Charles Blois, resigned. County of Hertford—South Herts Corps f 'Yeomanry Cavalry—The Honourable Arthur De Vere, , Viscount Malden ' to be Cornet. West Riding of the County of York—Hussar,Regiment of Yorkshire (West Riding) Yeomanry Cavalry—John Greenwood, Esq., to be Captain, vice Wilson, esigned— The Honourable William Ernest Duncombe to; be Lieu tenant, vice Willoughby, resigned—Robert Hartley Bower, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Greenwood, promoted—Arthur Croft, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Duncombe, proraoted. 3d Regiment of West York Militia—Lieutenant Wil: liam Waite, to be Captain, vice Hepworth, resigded—Jere miah Bourne Faviell, Esq., to be Captain—William Greaves Blake, Gent., to be Ensign.—Cotterill Scholefield, Gent., to be Ensi g n. Ist West York Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Lieut. Michael Joseph Ellison to be Captain, vice John Jeffcock, resigned—Sir William Ridley Charles Cooke, Bart., to be Captain, vice Sir Thomas Pilkington, resigned—Lieut. Francis John Saville Foljambe to be Captain, vice }Valour able Edmund Monckton, resigned Lieutenant Henry Beilby William Milner to be Captain, vice Wrightson, re signed—Cornet William Frederick Dickson 'to be Lieuten ant, vice Ellison, promoted—Cornet William Henry Jeff cock to be Lieutenant, vice Foljambe, proMoted r -William Fretwell Hoyle, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Newbould, deceased. lit Regiment of West Riding Yeomanry Cavalry—Ed ward James Bury, Gent., to be Cornet. [The following article is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of Tuesday, the 26th of April.] Ist Regiment of West York Militia—Henry William Stansfield, Esq., to be Captain. BANKRUPTS. James William Haveis, dealer, Judd-street, Brunswick square, April 23 and June 4, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Reed, Coleman-street. • Robert Wood, porkman, Commercial-place, Greenwich, May 14 and July 1, at, twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee , Basinghall-street ; Tayler, Fur nivafs-inn. Thomas Gledhill, tailor and draper, Halifax, May 24, and Juno 20, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Norris, Halifax; Bond and Bar wick, Leeds. Michael Cox, grocer, Liverpool, May 13 and June 10, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee ; Smith, Corr s-buildings, Preeson's-row. John Honour Croucher, boarding-house keeper, Font hill-place, Clapham Rise, May 17, and June 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sam brook-court, Basinghall-street ; Linklater , and Co., Sise lane, City. Augustus Rapp, jeweller, Cranbourn-street, May 13, at two; and June 24, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Pain, Gresham-. street. Benjamin Collett, sharebroker, Sise-lane, City, May 14, at one, and July 1, 'at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Stronghill, Coleman-street. William Martin, ironmonger, Hertford-bridge, South ampton, May 16, at one ' and June 16, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basing hall-street; Bridger and Collins ' King William-street. Jonas Woodhead and Joseph Woodhead, file and fire iron manufacttirers, Bradford, May 20 and June 17, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official as signee, Leeds ; . Terry and Watson, Bradford ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. DIVIDENDS. At the Court,Basinghall-street. H. Pate,rson,Notting hill, livery stable keeper, May 24, at eleven—T. Peppin, Fenchurchlbuildiligs, Fenchurch street, wine and coal merchant, May 30, at two N. N. Pearce, Silver-street, Wood-street, Cheapside, stationer and printer, May 27, at eleven—G. Kebble, Hurst, Berk shire, cattle dealer, May 27, at half-past one ---C. S. Hooper, merchant, Lawrence , Ponntney-lane, May 28, at twelve—T. Chew and J. Chew, Little Moorfields, livery stable keepers, May 30, at one--A. Clugton and C. P. Chapman, Paul's•wharf, Thames-street, merchants, May 30, at half-past one—T. James, Moorgate-street, merchant, May 30, at one—A. A. La,ckersteen .and W. H. Crake, Moorgate-street, merchants, May 30, at half past one—W. Colk, North Walsham, Norfolk, wine and spirit merchant, May 28, at eleven—W. E. Johnson, Little Abingdon street, Westminster, coal merchant, May 27, at half-past twelve—E. B. May, Leicester-square, and Albion-place East, King's-cross. linendraper, May 28, at eleven. In the Country. C. J. Wraggo, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, banker, May 28, at ane, at the Court, Birmingham—A.. Davies, Aston Park, Shropshire, coal merchant, May 21, at one, at the Court, Birmingham—J. B. Boon, Burslem, Staffordshire, woollen draper, June 1, at twelve, at the Court, Birmmg han4—ll. Blakeiley, Castle Bromwich, Warwickahire, brick and tile dealer. May 26, at twelve, at the Court, Bir mingham—W. Horne, Liverpool, merchant, May 27, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool —H. M`Grotty, Liverpool, merchant, May 27, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Labron, Leeds, Yorkshire, cloth merchant, May 27, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—W. Ness and T. Snowdon, Leeds, Yorkshire, tar and naptha distillers, May 27, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—W. Ness, Leeds, Yorkshire, tar and *naptha distiller, May 27, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—T. Snowdon, Leeds, Yorkshire, tar and naptha dis tiller, May 27, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. J. Bate, New Windsor, Berkshire, builder, 2s. 14d., any Wednesday, between e l even and th ree, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Basingliall-street. J. S. liaintry and J. Ryle, Manchester, bankers, 6d:, on Tuesday May 24, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Pott, Manchester. W. Dowling, Leicester, grocer, 6d., on Friday, May 13, or any subsequent Friday until tho 27th June next, be tween eleven and there, at the office of Mr. Bittleston, Nottingham._ C. lietty, Leicester, grocer and tea dealer, 3d., on Fri day, May 6, or any subsequent Friday until the 17th June next, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Bittle ston, Nottingham. J. - Hawkins, Nottingham, currier and leather dealer, 30., on Friday, May 13, or any subsequent Friday until the 17th June next, betweenleleven and three, at the office of Mr. Bittleston, Nottingham. T. Young, Hartlepool, Durham, grocer, 3s. 4d., on Saturday, May 7, or any subs equen t Saturday between ten and three, at the office of M r . Baker, Nel4castle-upon- Tyne,. _ E. Tipping, Liverpool, soap-boiler, id., on Monday, May 9, or any subsequent Monday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Bird, Liverpool. T. N. Brickwood, Liverpool, mercha:nt, id., on Monday, May 9, or any subsequent Monday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Bird, Liverpool. • Came and Telo, Liverpool, merchants, id.; on Monday, May 9, or any subsequent Monday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Bird, Liverpool. Smith and Irvine, Liverpool, merchants, 2s. 9d, on Mon day, May 9, or any subsequent Monday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Bird, Liverpool. E. Wray, Kingston-upon-Hull, draper and mercer, on on Tuesday, May 30, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Carrick, Hull. J. Wilson and C. P. Woodfin, Kingston-upon-Hull and Great Grimsby, ironfounders, ss. 6d., on Tuesday, May 10, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Carrick Hull. E. Ashton, Kingston-upon-Hull, woollen draper, 2s. ld., on Tuesday, May 10, or any subsequent T ues d ay , eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Carrick, Hull. A. Y. Barrett, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, ironfounder, IA., on Tuesday, May 10, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Carrick, Hull. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall- street. J. Gill, Calvert's-buildings, High-street, Southwark, hop factor, June 2, at one—J. Barten ' Sutton Valence, Kent, brewer, May 28, a t t we l ve —F. A. Butt, Henry street, Pentonville, grocer and cheesemonger, May 28, at half-past eleven—E. B. May, Leicester-square, and Albion place East, King's-cross, linen drapbr, May 28, at eleven— R. Temple, Brisley, Norfolk, grocer and draper, May 27, at twelve—H. Butt, Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, linen draper, May 30, at eleven—J. Plimmer, Britten street, Chelsea, brewer, May 30, at two—W. Martin, Col chester, Essex, tailor and woollen-draper, May 31, at twelve. In the Country. R. H. Davie, Wellington, Somersetshire, money scrivener, May 31, at eleven, at the Cou'rt, Exeter—J. Johnson, Wakefield, cabinetmaker, May 30, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—W. Morritt, Leeds, coach proprietor, May 27, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—W. Ness and T. Snowdon, Leeds, tar and naptha distillers, May 27, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—J. Wheeler, Scarborough, wine and spirit merchant, May 27, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—J. Roebuck and E. Roebuck, Austonley, Yorkshire, and Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, woollen cloth manufac turers, May 27, at eleven, 'at the Court, Leeds—A. W. J., Cavalier, Attercliffe, Yorkshire, sugar refiner, May 28, at eleven, at the Council Hall, Sheffield—W. Latham, Stoke upon-Trent, Staffordshire, boot and shoemaker, June 1, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—J. Elliott, Derby, currier, May 27, at ten, at the Court, Nottingham.' CERTIFICATES GRANTED. H. B. Roff, Woolwich, wharfinger, certificate of the first class—T: Holland,,Langham, Surrey, certificate of the first class—N. Pearce, Silver-street, Wood-str ee t, Cheapside,' stationer and printer, certificate of the second class—L ou i sa Collier and Matilda Collier, bookbinders and pocketbook makers, certificate of tho first class—G. Shepheard, Mod bury, Devonshire, linendraper, certificate of third class — B. Mercer, Liverpool, ironmonger, certificate of the third class—H. Allen, Biriningham, tailor and draper, certificate of the first class—R. P. Hunt, Kidderminster, hosier, cer tificate of the second class—C. Hare, Huddersfield, York shire, manufacturing chemist, certificate of the first class, twenty-one days from May 2—J. Mitchell, Bradford, Yorkshire, worsted spinner, certificate of the third class, twenty-one days from April 22. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Aitken and E. B. Hatfield, Peterborough, drapers— E. Hill and R. Cliff, Newcastle-under-Lyrae, mercers—S. Burford and R. Garn, Dinsley, Gloucestershire, painters— T. H. Eves and H. Paul, Birmingham, boot-tree makers— E. Cox and G. ,Walker, Liverpool, chemists—J. Crawshaw and J. Varley, Manchester, smiths—G. Firth and C. N. Birkhead, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, machine makers—Marga ret Hanshaw and H. J. Hanshaw, Constitution-row, Gray's Inn-road, butchers—B. B. Farrow and J. Farrow, Ips wich, cement manufacturers—W. T. Scott and L. Rose Philpot-lane, spirit merchants—T. Wood and W. B. Upcott , Wolverhampton, newspaper proprietors—C. A. Curtis and J. Cooke, Abingdon, Berkshire, and Watlington, Oxford shire, solicitors—W. Unsworth and G. Unsworth, Hanway street, Oxford-street, china merchants—E. B. Crowe and F. J. Crowe, Hereford, tanners—C. Wallis and J. W. Lodwidge, Basinstoke, Southampton, ironmongers —J. Hepworth and. G. Hepworth, Brighouse, Yorkshire, ca binet makers—W. Spen ce an d J . S pence, Upper Maryle bone-street and High-street, Marylebone, grocers -J. Denton and W. Naylor, Brunswick Brewery, Durham, common brewers—G. Hinchliffe, J. Hinchliffe, T. Hinch liffe, W. Hinchliffe, E. Hinchliffe, and N. Taylor, Hon ley, Yorkshire, scribbling and fulling millers—G. Hinch liffe, J. Hinchliffe, T. Hinchliffe, W. Hinchliffe, N. Taylor, Honley, Yorkshire, woollen manufacturers—H. Hall and T. S. Pitt, Worcester, Coventry, and Shrews bury, theatrical proprietors—S. Hirst and W. E. Hirst, Hudderfield, wool merchants—J. Clark and T. Young, Old Fish-street-hill, rag-merchants—E. Har rison, J. Rothwell, and J. Scott, Oldham, Lancashire, gas-metre-manufacturers (so far as regards J. Rothwell)— R. Stone and J. T. Blackburn, Oxford-street—T. S. Rich ardson and B. Chappell, Rochdale, Lancashire, cotton spinners—J. Blake and W. Smith, New Oxford-street, manufacturers and vendors of Durkee's Green Mountain vegetable ointment—H. de Koningh and E. Lemaire, Dean street, Soho, engravers—J. J. Harvey and G. F. Robinson, Manchester, general commission agents—R. Mather and R. Shipman, Grantham, Lincolnshire, surgeons—E. Young man and W. Blind, Cambridge-terrace, Camden Town, outfitters—J. T. Stoneham and E. Collins, Manchester, tarpauling and packing-case manufacturers. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. John Clarke, Little Beacon otherwise Sidd.enhall-fields, near Coventry, miner. William Fulwell, sen., Coventry, baker. J. Hull, Holbrooks, near Coventry, licensed victualler. Henry Hill, Coventry, plumber, glazier, and painter. Robert Golsby, Coventry, innkeeper. Joseph Dickinson, Hulme, Lan'cashire, silk-warper. George Caunt, Belper, Derbyshire, framework knitter. John Thorne, Burlescombe, Devonshire, yeoman. Alfred Manks Mort, Wigan, Lancashire, chemist. David Sore, Steeple Bumpstes,d, Essex, miller. William Swain, Walsall, Staffordshire, builder. James Jordan Potter Walsall, Staffordshire, slater. William Titley, Langley, Worcestershire, brickmaker. Joseph Gray, Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, tailor. William Wall, stoken Church, Oxfordshire, timber dealer. Henry Heniaar, Lyonshall, Herefordshire, shoemaker, John Jones; Dunelly, Carmarthenshire, victualler. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. , M. Macphail, Edinburgh, publisher, to meet within Steveirion s Rooms, Edinburgh, May 13 and June 3, At ten. G. Elliot, Aberdour, merchant, to meet within the New Inn, Dunfermline, May 12 and June 7, at one. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 32, foi the Week ending on Saturday the 30th day of April, 1853. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued ........ 31,808,965 Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other secuillies...... 2,984, 4 00 Gold coin and bullion 17,789,811 Silver 19,154 £31,808,965 £31,808,965 [. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 6th day of May, Ifi& ;PARTM ENT. Government securities (lncludg.Dead t , l , eight Annuity) 13,221.382 Other securit' es .... 13,506,745 N9tes . • . ..... 8,044,410 Gold and silver coin.. , 846,129 £35,958, , ,66 M2IRSILILL, Chief Cashier. BANKING DE' Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Best .. • • ............ 3,12u,987 Public deposits Lin eluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 3,934,32? Other depo3l. s Seven Day and other Bills £35,938,6C6 Dated t.o sth day of May. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price bf Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made hi th e wee k en di ng the 3d day of May, 1853, is 245. Od. per hundred weight, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im ortation thereof into Great Britain. • [AnvEßTlsEmiNT.]—Sight and Hearing.—The Royal Exhibition Small Glass for the waistcoat pocket, at S. and B. Solomons', opticians, 39, Albemare-street, Piccadilly—observe, opposite the York Hotel.----LA valu able, newly-invented, very ' small powerful waistcoat pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one mile and a half distant; they answer every purpose on the racecourse, at the opera-houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Telescopes possessing such extraordinary powers that some, inches, with an extra eye-piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope can be seen a per son'd countenance three miles and a half distal/ L, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They supersede every other kind for the waistcoat pocket, and are of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. Opera and race course glasses with wonderful power.; a minuto object can be clearly seen, from 10 to 12 miles distant. Invaluable newly-invented spectacles, immediately 'they are placed before extremely imperfect vision, that mist and dullness which appears before the eyes is at once removed, every ob ject appears clear and distinct, so that the most aged defective sight becomes bright and brilliant, dis brought to its Youth ful, natural, and original state, Deafness--. New Discovery— The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinary, powerful, small, newly-invented instrument, for deafnets, entirely diCerent from all others, to surpass anything of the kind that has, been, or probably ever' can be produced. Being of th e same colour as the skin, it is not perceptible; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at .Church and at public as semblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing n o i ses i n the ears are entirely removed ; and it affords' all the assist ance that possibly could be desired.—S. and B. Solomons, Aurists and Opticians, 39, Albemarle.street, Piccadilly.- . Observe, opposite the - York Hotel. .RAILWAY RETURNS. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST Miles opened,,NAME OF RAILWAY. BRITISH. Aberdeen .......... .. Belfast and Ballymena • • • • • • • • • • " • • Belfast and County Dowti• • • • • • •• • • •• Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, and West York • • • • Bristol and Exeter • • •• • • •••• • • '• •• •• Caledonian.— . ..... .•• • • 26% 85% 18914 9434 Chester and Holyhead.•••• Cork, Blackrock, and Passage •• •• Colt and Bandon .. .• • • • • • • •• •• •• • _ Dublin and Belfast Junction •• •• •• •• Dublin and Drogheda ••••• • •• ••• Dublin and Kingstown . ..... .• •• •• . Dundee and Arbroath •• •• •• •• •• •• Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction Dundalk and Enniskillen•• •• •• •• ••'• East Anglian—. •• •• •• •• •• •• •• '• •••‘ East Lancashire • • • • • • • • • • • •'• " '. " Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. •• • • • • Eastern Union .. .... ...• • • • • • • • • • • '' 171 N 28:14 168 3F% Edtnbargh and Glasgow .•• • ••••'• •• Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee •• Exeter and Credlton.. •• •• •••• ' •• -• Furness Railway •• • •• • • ••'• • • alasgow, and South-Western• • •• •• Great Northern and E. • • • • • " Great Southern and Western (Ireland) Great. Western .. •••••• •• •• • ' •' • ••: Irish south Eastern • - • • •• • • •• '• • Lancaster and Carlisle • • • • • • • • • • •' Lancashire and Yorkshire.. ••• • • • " I Leeds Northern .. • • .. • • • • • • • " • •' " Liverpool, Crosby, and Soutliport.• • • London and North Western .•• • • •• " London and Blackwell.... • • • • • • • • •' London, Brighton, and South Coast.. London and South Western. .... •• •• Londonderry and Enniskillen ...• • • • • Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, Sr.c. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Manchester and South Junction • • • • •• Maryport and Carlisle . • •• •• •• • • •• •• Midland Great Western (Irish) •• •• • Monklands • • • • •• • • -- •• •• •• •• '• •• • Newcastle and Carlisle.. • • .... • • . North British • • ............ • • • • •' North Staffordshire •• •• •• •• North.Westvrn ••..•••• • • •• •• Scottish Central •• •• •• •• •• • Scottish Midland •• •• ••• • •• 288% 131 Shrewsbury and Birmingham •• Shrewsbury and Chester ••••••••••• Shropshire Union iouth Dev0n........ Soutt Eastern ••.....•.. South Wales .. •• .. 65 South York., Doncaster, and Goole • Taff Vale ................ 413 N 577 240 84 392 Ulster . • • • • • • • • Waterford and Limerick .......... West Cornwall ...... ........• •• Whitehaven Junction .•• •• •• •• •• •• " York and Newcastle, and Berwick & York and North Midland & Leeds FOREIGN. Dutch Rhenish .. • •• •• •• NI aria Antonia •• •• .• •• •• •• •• •. •• Montereau mud Troyes •... •• Namur and Liege .. • • .......... • • Northern of France •• .......; Orleans and Central* •••••• I'aris and Lyons .... •• •• •• •• •• Paris and Rouen..• • • .. •• •• •• ..•• Paris and Strasburgh •• •• •• •• Rouen and Hivre• • •• •• • Western of France The receipts include the traffic, on the Or leans leans and Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes lines. COUNTRY MARKETS LIVERPOOL—MAY 6. u pon The arrivals of grain, meal and flour fl%f, scale. A fair attendance of buyers this morn 000 a t as otr country, and a tolerably good trade in whe at ot prices similar to those obtained on Tuesdga a tll oatmeal command late rates. Indian corn an des in the corn trade without alteration. 1 0 .11 Pi WAKEFIELD—MAY 6. . aet....00 ,. 1 A short supply of grain at this day's 1 : 11 ' . ; it; F, tl e,„; Limited sale for wheat a decline of is per (1 '; Ide" DK, conceded, except on the finest fresh qualities, osoo realise the rat es o f l as t week. The malting acv far advanced, we h ave n ot much demand f_? r ,,, O t t lo little English offfting realises last week's Pre: i ;ce is at lower rates. • Be ans scarce an d an se" - qr. on English. Oats and shelling steady. EXETER—MAT 6. I v I f ile° 6( 1 CORN EXCHANGE.—For prime samples wo to,P 6 to Os Od ; inferior, 5s 6d to Os Od ; barley , 3° *lo ur grinding, Os Od ; oats, 2s 9d to 3s per bushel. 0 60! 37s to 38s ; _seconds, 35s to 36s per sack. A ocle l j Olt CATTLE MARKET.—Prime beef, 1.1.8 to v' s to e r 2d quality, Os to Os Od ; cows and calves, 9 1 0 11); ,steers, 001 to 0l; butchers' calves, 4id t05(1 p . otel ° prime wethers, 8d to Od ; ewes, 7d to 7d, 35s to 40s eaci. INVERNESS.—MAY 3. rllO t"'11 CORN. — 2 Wheat, per quarter, weighing 62,1b 0 rt0 , - it 48s Od to 50s Od ; barley, ditto, 541 b ditt o, , ji Oats, ditto, 421 b ditto, 19s Od to 20s Od. 165 Sa MEAL.—Oatmeal, per imp. boll 1 5 s 6d to "m to 0 ,% 1 second, 00s Od to Os Od ; barley meal , 119 ,, - 7d t ° pd a l peasemeal, 15s Od to Os Od; bran, per stone 3 98 , 5 Ist flour, per 2801 b, 40s Od to 428 Od 2d dit to, riai , 32s Od ; oatmeal, best, per st. 'l4lb 0 e5 1 ,,, to is 8d; ditto second, Os Od to Os Od bari' I,:t flooit' r to Os Od; peasemeal, is 6d to Os Od ; 3s Od credit ; 2d ditto, 2s 3d cash, 2s 7dcred MAY BRISTOL SUGAR ---, - - vra Sr" ter, 0. The market for raw sugars has .4t o f butal i e le , and activity, and a respectable an i°n. : the Wiles Pii been done. The recent currenc ies have tocY in refined goods, but prices have not a better ce poi .been fully supported. There has bee n provement. There have been so sales of r ee 'Prio° stocks being in second hands the m prices 1. allowed to transpire. ex periell bated COAL MARKET—MAY 6. get , ( 1 ' ...„,,. o. i Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the ''''- if s. d. ....'''ll 0 Burnhope l4 0 Bmddyll.. ....... .. ......)5 , Chester Main 15 6 Hetton ......... ...:' .. ,„1 i Hasting's Hartley 16 6 Belmont .........;•; i , "150 Holywell... ._... —. - 16 6 Hetton Lyons Di .. „...'y p Longridge's Wet Hartleyl6 6 Haswell ............ .... 0 if 1 North_ Percy Hartley l6 6 Lambton ....... ••....„)6 Tanfietd Moor Tyne Main . l4 6 Pensher ... ..... " . ',„.••"'ll •Wallsend, &c. Russell's HAW' ..,.... 15 Acorn Close l6 6 Richmund ....... .......„,,/ Bell and Brown 16 9 Stewart's.. ......... ...,...f Gosforth 16 6 Cassop ............. .........if Harton l6 6 Heugh Hall•• ... 'f„.."11 Hedley 16 6 South Hal tlePO .. ... , 'is Wharneliffe l6 6 South KeHoe ..... . ....„ . 1 5 Harvey Wylam, l3 0 Tees ........... • ;. „.•' , 16 Harvey Wylam 15 9 Richardson'o Tec. ...„.16 Eden Main 17 3 Cowper ........ ..;,;...iOl Lainbton Primrose 17 6 Derwentwater Bell 17 17 0 , 1. 15 ' Ships at market 132 I Sold ......... 1 . 4 - t rugg COURSE OF E.XCFIANGE—. 054' Amsterdam ............ 11 16% Gibreltar ••• • " Ditto, three months .. 11 18 4 ,Leghorn •••• '• Rotterdam ............ 11 18 lc Genoa •••• •• •• Antwerp .............. 25 30 'Milan •••• • • • • Brussels ... .... 25 30 Venice .• ••••• • „ .• „ Ilamburgh . ... 13 8% I Naples .• •• • • .• Pari5.................. 25 7 Ditto, three months •. 25 30 Mar5ei11e5.............. 25 30 Pr lermo •• " • 011 ;Messina •• • • •• Lisbon ••• • • • • " Oporto . • • • " Bourdeaux Frankfort-on- Maine .. 120% Berlin . .......... Vienna .. • . Trieste ...... • • .. Pet ersburgh .. • •• .. Madrid ............ . Cadiz Barcelona.... Seville .... Rio Janeiro • • " ' . Ayre , •; 3 • l s' if; t) New York, 60 .• .0 0 ,1 Philadelphia 14:1,i 0,4 'j3 '0 0 0 puma or I ‘ r , nail 0 0 0 Foreign Gold 'cow 0 ~smPiole.svrtre:trwegaialnipibogiorarsilsidao.: 00 ; 10 57 10 59 37% 50% 50% dg V FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES OF WrE B /%A PC )- 0 11811 0 . 0 ‘ r Wesleyan C on f erence h as a t l as t resolv'n li o A f o ee s' " conneidonal" effort, to put an end to ot serious evils ar i s i ng from the debts at P re : t on the vari o us connexional funds, to Pr e :: t ly rence of similar debts in future, to reu i ii j 0 1C pe 0 '4 upon the chapels of the connexion', eD!t.' tha vision for facilitating the erection . of I t " important and destitute places. For the se t :" (r . intended to raise the sum of 100,00014 e t bs, fr o l/ v t o larger portion in the course of a few 1 33°1) ,, Of 5 0 vt,' remainder by instalments at the conveniono,ooo4 bers, within the period , of two yea rs .; n 5Ol , trr already been sUbscribed. Of this su m v„, - r scribed by three gentlemen, viz. Jam es pci eth e Parr's Wood, 1,000/. ; Thomas' Farnle r Vol V r pt nersbury, 1,000/. ; Samuel Wilkes, BK . ' ,'on, ,1* ton, 1,0501. • , [ADVERTISEMENTI—HoIIoway's s remedy for billions complaints, indig s- Os' ll' to Nelt • • 01' ordered stomachs.—Mr. Reardon, of pole er some time since retired from the legal Pr ° er at te oiler sequence of ill-health, brought on by °l' lle ss ' toe business, causing great debility, n erve ° st ete , 14,4, 4 tion, and a complete upset of the biliarY si o cled oe l 0 0 ' i is with palpitation of the heart, was Pe re o edi f ere."Jl friends to try Holloway's Pills, as a ll thee peg o f that he had obtained was unavailing. l aiet P l i g . is l' e f esir . their use, and attended strictly to the h0 1t, 0 5 0 di; and he is now perfectly restored, and hi s „ his id e o oo/ 1 than it ever was before, although hero sot P. Sold by all Druggists, and at Pfee Establishment, 244, Strand, London. J. 1 - I BIRTHS. • OF A 80 Ho use, 04 On the sth inst. at Clarendon - h Mrs. Conrad H. Pinches. OF A DAUGHTER,. . fe o f S 0i1, .01/ On the sth inst., at Blackheat h, th° svl Metcalfe, Esq. ,0 o'so ' MA.R,RIED• , optte r 4 ., 94" On the sth inst., at St. Mary's Cllll,reij-p%ocbtriiob, I Martha Lush, eldest daughter of W. 1 - , • Aire d --- '''''' , . 0 .: of Fisherton-house, Wilts, to John ilt'vt. pi the pl , ' surgeon, Salisbury On the sth inst ,at John-street Cho,Pl'oolo69tigil Rev. B. W. Noel:Frederick, eldest son %f o ot c li ' Esq., jun., of Tring, Herts, to Ann , 3 7 ,, ° John Garrett, Esq of Chesharo, Pic's. ~ if , ,,' 0 ,- e DIED•f bertl)o house 0 4 e f On the 4th inst., at Eton, at the oat u , i; „, re law, F. Schonerstedt, Esq., Cuc" — ' P 4 ' ' Michael Byrne, Esq., of Windsor., joircpes°°' On the 4fh inst., at Brighton , ".. ~ 10 Lewisham, in his 77th year• of the (41. 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