The Sun. — London, England, 1840-04-29 00:00:00

EyEN ENG EDITION!. (Concluded.) NAVAL MEDICAL OFFICERS. Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets, Deputy -Inspecto r of Hospitals and Fleets, Surgeon, Assistant-Surgeon ; the whole being liable to serve at sea or on shore, as the benefit of the public service may require. The Inspectors would include the whole of the "Phy sicians who are serving either in fleets or hospitals: ; and as vacancies shall occur in the hospitals, where the pre. sent Physicians are serving on salaries, we wouldl sug gest that they should be replaced by Inspectors om-daily rates of pay. The Deputy-Inspectors would in like manner lei dace the Hospital Surgeons, or occupy such appointments as might seem to be suitable for thorn either at sea or oon shore. The Surgeons and Assistant-Surgeons would retain their presedt positions, 1 We should consider it essential that a certain period of sea service should be rendered by each Surgei na be fore he shall be eligible for advancement to the rank of Deputy-Lespector, and this term we are disposed to fix at f ix years. The advantages which we an ti c i pate f rom this classi 4. - fication of the Naval Medical Officers will be, that all will be alike liable for service, at the discretion of the ' Board of Admiralty, and that there will be uniformity and simplicity of system throughout the department. It will entirely dtstroy any monopoly of the shore ;ap pointments, and will place all the officers on an equal footing in regard to pay and retired pay, in relation to the rank they may hold ; and it will have this further advantage, that it will be necessary all should be effi cient and eqsal to apy duty either ashore or afloat. We have also to recommend to your Majesty that: the rates of pay and half-pay, of the Surgeons and ; Assistant-Surgeons should be increased, to place them. in a position more analagous to the Medical Officers of the Army. But we do not consider that these rates should lie granted to the officers now upon half-pay, nor to those who may hereafter be appointed to full-pay, except after such further term of service as the Board of Ad miralty may think proper to establish. We offer no suggestion as to the appointment of P;)ysician Gen era l t o t h e N avy , as the Chief of die Medical Department may boar such title as the Board of Admiralty may consider it expedient to give him. We submit the follo..ving conclusions upon the Me dical .a;partmenis of the Army and Navy for your Majesty's gracious consideration 7 ALIMY MEDICAL OFFICERS.—I. That it is not ex pedient to alter the existing rules with respect to the ' promotion of Medical Officers of the Army, for the purpose of faciiitating promotion upon half-pay or by Brevet. 2. That to extend the means of promotion upon full-pay, it is expedient to make the following changes :- Ist.. To abolish the rank of Assistant-Inspector. 2d. To give to Staff-Surgeons the pay and the half pay, and , the comparative rank with other officers of the Army, now enjoyed by Assistant-Inspectors ; making also the rank of Staff-Surgeon the regular in termediata step from that of Regimental Surgeon to that of Deputy-Inspector. 3d. To divide the Assistant Staff-Surgeons into two classes, allowing the first class the rank and pay o. Regimental Surgeons. - - - :5. That it is expedient to allow Medical Officers re- Cring after twenty-five years' service, the advantage of the reduced instead of the retired scale of half-pay. 4. That it be recommended to the Military Autho rities of the Army to consider of the means of giving to the Medical Staff -Officers attached to an army in the field, the services of a soldier servant, which shall avoiii to weake n the ranks of the battalions or regi ments of the Army in the field. a. That when not employed in the field, such Me dical Staff-Officers should receive, as compensation for the services of a soldier, an allowance not exceeding Is. a-de V. NAVAL MEDICAL OFFICERS. --6. That it would be expedient to place the Medical Officers of the Navy, with resgeet to rank, pay, and additional pay for length of servie6, and also with resprct to half -pay and retired pay, on a scale more nearly correq.onding, to that as signed to Officers of the Army Medical Department than the present. 7. 'What the following b estab!ished ,as the scale of rank, pay, and halfpay for the Naval Medical Officers, vii. Full-pay perk H alf-pay diem. I per diem. Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets Aftvr 10 years' service as such ...... Deputy lnspectfr of Hospitals and ("Wi F1eet5........ ........................... th such further allowance, when employed in Hospitals on s h ore, as! the B oar d of Admiralty May think' prop er .) SuArgbuect servic e , elladiag service as Assistant -Sur-' ................................. Above 10 years' do. do .............. Above 15 years' do. .................. ' Above 20 years' do. do. ............... Above 25 years' do., with leave to retire ................ ......... Alkpve 30 years' do., with leave tot .retire .................. Assistant-Surgeon ................. AI love 3 years' fu 1-pay servi ce ......I If _serving in small ves se l s , un d er 10 1 gears' - full-pay service I Above 10 years' full-pay service If serviu: n small vessels Itb4ove 20 years' ful -pay tery,ee I . s. 11 (i 22 0 i !.e. v. d. 0 13 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 Li 0 0 11 0 0 ii 0 o 12 0 o 14 o O 14 0 O 18 0 O 6 0 O 7 0 O 8 0 0 10 0 018 0 0 13 0 0 18 0 0 7 0 0 7 6 0 15 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 O 8 0 o 9 o O 10 0 0 4 6 0 5 0 BLit the benefit of artiew regulation, OM res pect, should not be extended to any Medical Officer pawn , GENE-RAL REPORT OF COMMIS SIONERS FOR INQUIRY INTO NAVAL AND MILITARY PROMOTION AND RE TIREMENT. ; With regard to the Naval Medical Officers, it is our 1 . duty to report to 'your Majesty that the condition and /prospects of this class of public servants are not suchas to afford due encouragement to the meritorious inpdi ; viduals who are engaged in that department ; and from the comparatively' small number of candidates who pre : sent themselves for Naval Medical appointments, - we ( think there is some reason to apprehend that, on an emergency, there might be an iaadequata su p p l y o f pro f perly qualified persons to undertake those resport iible duties which must devolve upon a Medical Offict:r in any branch of the public service. We observe that the qualifications of the Naval candidate differ in no respect from those which the 1 Military candidate mint possess ; and we must therefore look to the subsequent position of the Medical Officer, for the reasons which have operated to render the Naval Medical Service so much less popUlar than the 114ilitary. i We do not think that this unfavourable differ trice is to be fcund in a more limited prospect of promotion, as 1 . we have reason to believe that advancement i'ront the rank of Assistant-Surgeon is more rapid in thep_Naval I than in the Military MedieaLDepartment ; and - we feel I assured that o pp ortun i t i es f or i n di v i dual distinct ion are far more f requent i n t h e N avy than in the Army.. Bat the g rea t di scouragement wh i ch oppresst 's the l officers of the sea-Service, and which alone we s hould consider to be a sufficient ground for the preferen. 2C ge nerally exhibited for the Military to the Naval M edical Department, arises froM the distinction made ;bur tween the value of their respective services as Assistarri :-Snr geons. In the Navy, to whatever length that &ervice may be extended, the Assistant-Surgeon coun Ls but three years of his time, while the Army Medical Officer reckons, and justly reckons, the whole period of his fail-pay service in that rank, in support of his future claims to increased pay or retirement. We earnestly recommend that, under your Mr qesty's .authority, this invidious distinction may at once kr e re moved. It is not only unjust to the officer, but ii 1 our opinion 'highly prejudicial - to the public service, it ce it must have an appearance of rendering valueless apt y ex ertions which an Assistant-Surgeon - may make who shall not obtain his promotion .rapidly ; and it may therefore indispose him to give his best energies, • with out v:hiali his services might be fruitless, wh et i he knows that the time devoted to active public duty , and with increased skill, shal be of no avail to him hi any future claim. We have no hesitation in suggesting that the , total full-pay service of the Naval Assistant-Surgeon , should be allomed to reckon at its full value in support cif his claims to increased pay or retirement, upon precis, ;fly the same principle that is adopted in regard to the 1 ‘CMY Officer. In cur examination of the condition of this de as of Naval Medical Officers, one point came under dii cus sion which has been adverted to in the evidi !nee, namely, the possibility of removing the Assistant, Sur geons from the cock-pit to mess with the Licuten a nts ; r but, upon full consideration, we found that there were practical difficulties in the way of making any arr tene ment which could accomplish this in a satisfactor: r and uniform manner in all classes of ships. N'Ve ascert rained also that the accommodation afforded of late yea a-s to this class of Medical Officers was so improved as to• ren der this removal less essential than it might have - been at earlier periods of Naval economy ; and we are, therefore, not prepared to make any recommendela a in this respect. With regard to the superior classes of Naval Med ;cal Officers, we are fully disposed to recognise the propriety of assimilating them in rank and even in title to th e of ficers of are Army Medical Department ; and as the rank of Physician has been abolished in the Arm y for nearly ten years, and in our previous report on that division of the subject, we have suggested the di: :con tinuance of the rank of Assistant-Inspector, which was substituted for the Physician, we should recomr nand that the rack of Physician should be equally abolish ed in the Naval Service ; end we make the same IN ;com mendation with regard to the Hospital-Assistant, which has ceased to exist as a Military rank. We contemplate the division of the Naval Me, Real Officers into four classes only, under the folio• wing titles :-- (THIS EVENING.) We also received some evidence regarding the position of Officers of the Commissariat Department, and statements from the Treasury, calculated to exhibit in detail the condition and prospects of this class of public servants. These documents will be found in the Ap pendix to our Report ; and also a memorandum from the Treasury, giving a succinct narrative of the pro gress of the Commissariat Department. We,bowever, have ascertained that th control and ' management of this branch of the public service have been recently subjected to investigation before two Commissions ; and it does not appear to us that any separate examination is required at our hands, as the Board of Treasury appears to be invested with full powe►s to redress any grievances that may be found to affect the officers of this department. Itic forbear, therefore, to offer any recommendation to your Ma jestyon this subject. . With reference to Pursers of the Navy, we have to report to your Majesty that we received evidence and documents, in some of which an entire alteration of the principle by which the duties and remuneration of the Pursers have hitherto been regulated, v.% s strongly ad vocated. We considered that such a proposition must necessa rily require a lengthened examination of official details and calculatioLs ; and that the tendency of this inves tigation would be to lead us from the objects we had your Majesty's instructions to keep in view, namely, the promotion and retirement of officers. We deem it most advisable, theref ore , w ith a v i ew of securing a sound an d satisfactory decision thereon, to suggest to your Majesty to refer the whole case and applications of this class of Naval Officers for the in vestigation and decision of the Board of Admire Our labours here terminate ; and we surrender again into your Majesty's hands, the important trust which it was your gracious pleasure that we should fulfil. We have spared no pains to investigate the condi tion of each class of Naval or Military Officers, and to ascertain the origin and course of the various streams of promotion which influence the progress and direct the fortunes of those embarked in the different professions constituting the Military force of this country on sea and land. If our inquirybas been unusually protracted, we en treat your Majesty to believe that it was from no re missness on our part ; that it did not arise from any indifference to those claims into which, under your Ma jesty's instructions, we proceeded to examine ; but that it sprang from a conviction that it was expedient to give our most anxious consideration to every propositioning was placed before us ; that it was incumbent upon us to trace accurately, and step by step, the progress of the Military or Naval Officer under the existing system ; to ascertain his position and his prospects in each succor sive rank, either on service or in retirement ; and, fi nally, connecting the facts thus ascertained, as to the condition of the Officers of the services, with the de mands of the country upon their energies and exertions, that it was imperative upon us to pronounce an opinion whether the duties to be discharged could, under such circumstances, be always satisfactorily performed ; or whether an improvement in the situation of the Officers was essential to secure an active and efficient Army, a useful and well-directed Fleet. We trust that the several divisions of our Report wili sufficiently exhibit our desire to unravel the com plicated systems of promotion adopted in the different services. We have at least endeavoured to remove all difficulties in the way of a clear perception of the situa tion of all classes of Officers ; and if the result of our deliberation shall not prove quite satisfactory to those who, detecting errors and disadvantages in the present system, are willing to incur the responsibility of recom mending further change, we persuade ourselves that we shall leave upon record ample proof that our judgment has been formed after a full investigation of the subject, and upon a consideration of all the material points that could be necessary to assist us in the inquiry. It has been our care to regard economy as strictly as your Majesty had enjoined us ; but we have felt at the same time the absolute necessity, which we were equally desired to keep in view, of reporting where the effi-. ciency of the service might be said to languish from the want of due encouragement ; and in our recommen dations, therefore, we have not hesitated to suggest various augmentations of pay which, from the number , of Officers who would be entitled to benefit thereby, woold cause a considerable addition to the public charge. We arc not prepared to report to your Majesty what the extent of this increased charge would be, as no perfect judgment could be formed till the several Claims to retired allowances have been strictly inves tigated. — We submit the result of our deliberations to your Majesty in a perfect confidence that the whole will receive your Majesty's gracious consideration ; and that our attempt to discharge the important duty which was delegated to us will he acknowledged as a faithful endea vour to set fairly before your Majesty the exact con dition of the officers of every branch of the service, and to suggest such changes as appear likely to lead to practical improvement both in relation to their dB, ciency and to their just claims upon the country which they are serving, with that due attention to economy which, in obedience to your Majesty's instructions, we were bound to maintain. To all of us this inquiry has been a matter of the deepest interest, a trust of the highest importance and honour. But to none has this interest been so pro found, this honourable trust so imposing, as to those amongst us who have passed tho best years of our lives in the very services we were required to examine ;, and we trust your Majesty will receive and permit us here to record the expression of our warmest sympathy with those whose condition and prospects we have had under review. We humbly submit this our unanimous Report to your Majesty's most gracious consideration. WELLINGTON (L. S.) RICHMOND (L. S.) MINTO (L. S.) MELVILLE (L. S.) IJOWICK (L. S.) HILL (L. S.) G. COCKBURN (L. S.) H. HARDINGE (L. S.) JAMES KEMPT (L. S.) R. H. VIVIAN (L.S.) CHAS. ADAM (L. S.) A. DICKSON (L. S.) Downing -street, 26th March, 1840. WAR WITH NAPLES. Lord MAHON said it should be recollected :hut just before the recess, he had called the attention of the Government to this subject. Ile saw it stated in this march e's papers, that intelligence had been received that hostilities bad already commenced. Ile begged leave to ask the Noble Lord, in the absence of his colleague, whether that intelligence was confirmed by any account received by the Government ? Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he certainly was not aware that any such account had been received. He had met the Secretary for Foreign Affairs two hours before, who had not then received any, though it was possible he might since bare done so. MAINE BOUNDARY. Mr. H UME said, as great anxiety existed an this subject, he wished to know what was the present state of the negociatiou, end how fat we might expect a favourable result. Lord J. RUSSELL said the Hon. Member asked a question of great importance, and perhyps would allow him to take until to-morrow to give an answer to it. JUVENILE OFFENDERS BILL. Sir EARDLEY 'WILMOT moved that the House should go into Committee on this Bill. Mr. BARNEBY said he had received the strongest expressions of disapprobation of the Bill, and should therefore move the House should go into Com mittee on it that day six months. He ob jected to the' Bill because, by its provisions, crimes of the heaviest nature, if committed by juveuile offen ders, were left to the decision of two Magistrates ; and also on account of the heavy expenditure which would be entailed upon the country in order to carry its pro visions into effect. The Magistrates had power given them to order the payment of all expenses out. of the county rates ; and it was also enacted that place's; should be provided for the holding of Petty Sessions, which by one of the clauses of the Bill were prohibite d from being held at public-houses. This.would en tail an enormous expense upon the counties. These he felt to be insurmountable objt;ctions to the proposed in easure, and he should therefore move that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr. PRYME seconded the amendment. Sir EARDLEY WILMOT said the 13W had already been before the House three months ; it had been read a first and second time, and had been refelered to a Select Committee, and it was rather hard t hat the Hon. Member should come forward at the elevei ith hour with an amendment such as the one which had bcen just proposed to the House, more especially as the arg-u -'Dents urged in support of it had been over and over again refuted. The Bill was not one of punishment but of mercy, its object being to give prisoners a chance of avoiding the contamination of a goal. If the mea sure had been one of punishment, he would admit it might be conferring too great a power on the Magis trates, but looking upon the measure as one of mercy, he thought the areuinents of the Hon. Gentleman not ten able. He thought that alterations might be made in the Bill which would render it a very useful measure. From everypro ving of ff its En p g r i d p i h e e ; had received communications suggesting amendments in the details of the Bill, but fLe Hops° would Lot refuse to g and he, therefore, the subject,ointoco hoped mmi that tteoa Mr. J. JONES said that there were certainly several Pr° but vi ° ht u b s o t o ] g f the ht th atßilL e winch me he ha could come notfor takin g appr ov eomo e top in the matter. Another point worthy of eonside- ------ HOWDEN HORSE FAIR.—The attendance of dealers at the Howden Spring Fair, on Wednesday and Thurs day, the 15th and 16th inst., was numerous and respectable. The supply of horses was small, but of superior quality to for mer years, and for which great prices were obtained. One dealer purchased six for 6001., and two others were sold at 125/. each. There was un exceedingly abundant supply of cattle on Saturday, the 18th inst., and there being a numerous attendance of buyers, a good deal of business was done, and nearly all disposed of at high prices. At twelve o'clock the Floviden Agricultural Society held their annual show, when a considerable number of agriculturists, &c., were admitted, and were ratified with a most splendid display of some of the finest stccik of the country, and which was very superior to any former year.tTwenty-four coaching stallions (supposed to be the best in !he country), were entered and shown for the premiums in that !lass, a larger number than was ever shown at any agricultural show in the United Kingdom, thus proving that Howden and its neighbourhood continues to be hlv pre-eminent i n th e breed of this noble and splendid ani ma l, the coach-horse. The show of all other descriptions of horses was excellent. In short, the entry, which exceeded 120 of different stock, was ex ceedingly fine, and above all praise._Doncaster Chronicle. LABLACHE.—He was born in 1794, at Naples, of an Irish mother and a French father, who had left Mar seilles to escape the perils of the revolution. But in 1799 another political commotion surprised Lablache's father in his adopted country and brought on his ruin. He died of sorrow. Joseph Bonaparte extended his protection to his unfortunate family, and had young . Louis admitted into the C , onservatoire della Pieta de Turchini, now San Sebastiano. Louis Lablache studied at the same time both instrumental and vocal music. One day a counter-bass player being vented in the Santo Ono frio orchestra, Marcell° Perrino, his master, sad to him, " You are perfectly acquainted with the violoncello, and might easily play the counter-bass." Though Laltlache had a repugnance to that instrument, he had its gamut written out on a Tuesday, and on the following Friday acquitted himself of his part with perfect correctness. It is this which has made Castil Blaze say, that if Lablache had riot been gifted with a magnificent voice, he would not have shone the less in tile highest rank among the virtuosi of the Rev • he would have played the vio loncello like Bohrer, or the flute like Tulon ; from the organ to the Jew's h arp , all instruments were his domain ; he would have had but to choose between theist. POLYGAMY. —line of the most impudent cases of moral turpitude that ever lisgr f aeed this country, was dis ccaolvleerdeadt last tiie week. An c A ffi n ce i , n N P o s eteti°7 Police, from Manchester, , to inquire into the re sidence of a family named Wiley, in and from him i s n ara' N e o n t n ' t e l: a with twenty aliases, ru, H bad been appre ‘lvvheoleamrnantythyateaarsmaangooflivtehde real name is hended on charges of bigamy and felon George Wylie, but he has called himsyoe.,llr, Nacyte:t.logirifietr,eutGteimoregs,,, George Whiley, George Webb, Geo( w Glover, Georg, Wilsorr, and a dozen Gale pears that I:e has been married to no les: than 3d, It waves, 4th, :-Ist, at Halifax ; 2d, at Cambridge 4th, at Portsmouth ; sth and 6th, at Norfolk ; a and v. '" try a ' t W personinchester. He has also robbed almost e very per employed him ; and, having obtained money un d er false°, has tences, the police at Winchester were despatch e d after 111171ei. He had the unmatched impudence to be then on th e point Of taking his eighth wife, at V. indsor, when his arrest and con veyance to Winchester spoilt the last match. T wo of h ,_ wives have been found, and will appear against him.—fi um ; .. shire Herald. EDINBURGH VETERINARY COLLEGE.—Th e annual examination of the students attending this Institution, established by the patronage of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, and under the able tuition of Professor Dick, was held in the Cde-street 1/all, on Tuesday and Wed nesday the 21 st and 22d curt. There were nineteen candi dates for diplomas examined, of whom eighteen were declared by the examinators worthy of receiving diplomas to practise the veterinary art. WESTMINSTER PENITENT FEMALE ASY tinvemfu7dAs of fan th c i eh fancy sale sal a e r o it f y useful a a nd ornamental ,ester,ayl. work, in aid of upon half-pay, nor to any Medical Officer who 1 SECON D EDITICI% , T 11 • may hereafter come upon full-pay, until he shall have served on some station for a period to be prescribed by SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. the Board of Admiralty. 8. That as the Army Medical Officers are allowed the benefit o f th e en ti re p er i o d o f th e ir full-pay service, in claims to additional pay and retirement, the Officers of the Naval Medical Department should equally be permitted to reckon the whole period of their full-pay service as Assistant-Surgeons and Surgeons in claims to to increased pay or retirement. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER. took the Chair at a few minutes be fore Four. Sir WALTER JAMES presented a petition from the Covent-garden Society, in favour of the Copyright Bill. Mr. R. CURRIE presented a petition from North ampton, against entering into a war with China. Sir EARDLEY WILMOT presented a petition from Bury St. Edlnuttd'-s, in favour of the Grammar schools Bill. Sir WALTER JAMES presented petitions from Kingston-upon-Hull in favour of Church Extension and against any further grant to the College of Maynooth. Sir GEORGE GREY presented petitions from Glasgow and Ayr io favour of the claim of the Scotch Church to participate in the clergy reserves (Canada). Mr. VERNON SMITH presented a petition from Dissenters of Northampton, against the grant of public money for the building of additional chui cites ; from postmasters of Northamptonshire, praying for a repeal of the carriage tax ; and from Magistrates of the same county, against certain clauses in the Constabulary Bill. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD presented a petition from Mr. David Booth (the lexicographer), in favour of the Copyright Bill. The Hon. and Learned Mem ber presented several petitions to the same effect from Roxburghshire and other places. Mr. EWART presented petitions from Sunday School teachers in Wigan against Church Extension. Petitions in favour of Church Extension were pre sented by Mr. GLADSTONE, Lord CANTILUPE, and Ge ❑eral LYGON, but we could not hear the designations of the petitions. Mr. PRYME presented a petition from Sutton in Ely, praying for the abolition of Church -rates, the Im provement of the Ecclesiastical Courts, and the release of John Thorogood. Also a petition from the post masters of. Cambridge, praying for the reduction of the duty on Carriages. Mr. SANi ORD presented a petition from a place in Somerset, in favour of the. Grammar Schools Bill, Mr. C. LUSHINGTON presented petitions from Frome, and four other places, against any grant for Church Extension. On the motion of Sir E. WILMOT, the Thames Tunnel Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. Colonel T. WOOD presented a petition from Ful ham, in favour of Church Extension. Colonel CONOLLY presented a petition from the Board of Guardians, of a parish in Tyrone, complaining of the excessive powers given to the Poor-law Commis sioners of Ireland. Mr. J. PARKER presented a petition from a con gregation of ProteAant Dissenters in Sheffield, against any grant of public money for Church Extension. Mr. F. MAULE presented a petition from a place in Scotland, praying that foreign vessels might be pre vented from fishing within nine leagues of our coast. Also petitions from Elgin, and two other places, in fa vour of the principle of non-intrusion. CAMBRIDGE ELECTION. Sir CHARLES LEMON brought up the Report of the Cambridge Election Committee. The Corn mittee reported that the Hon. J. M. Sutton was not duly elected ; that the last election for the borough of Cam bridge was void, and that neither the petition nor the opposition thereto was frivolous or vexatiocs. The Committee had also agreed to a resolution that the Honourable Mr. Sutton was by his agents guilty of bribery and treating at the last election, and that an extensive system of treating and corruption existed in the Borough. The Report was ordered to be entered on the Jour nals of the House. Mr. WARBURTON hoped there would be no ob jection to have the evidence laid on the table, with a view to its being printed. The question that the evidence be laid on the table was then put and agreed to. CHINA. Mr. GLADSTONE had a question to put to the Under-Secretary for the Hume Department, with respect to the accuracy of a statement which appeared in the morning papers. It was stated that certain English seamen had, in July last, been tried and sentenced by Captain Elliot, at Canton, to a certain term of impri sonment in England, on account of having been engaged in a riot which terminated in the death of a na tive Chinese. It further stated that the opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown. was taken by order of the Home Office, as to whether these persons could be lawfully detained in custody- or not. That opinion was in the negative, and that..an ostler was seat from the Home Office for-their, discharge: He wished to know whether that statement - was correct in all its parts ? Mr. F. MAULE said the statement to which the Hon. Member referred was not correct in all its parts. It was true that these five men were tried in China by a Court constituted by Captain Elliot, and sentenced to a certain period of imprisonment in England. On that being reported to the Secretary of State, the opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown was taken, and they gave it as their opinion that, as the matter was not quite clear as to whether Capt. Elliot could sentence these persons to imprisonment in England, on the whole they recommended that on the arrival of these indi viduals in England they sheuld be liberated. The sea men arrived in the Leander two days ago, and they were accordingly liberated. CAMBRIDGE ELECTION. Sir C. LEMON brought up the evidence given be fore the Committee on this election, which, on the mo tion of Mr. WARBURTON, was ordered to be printed. Sir JOHN WALSH asked if it was the intention of the Hon. Baronet to move for a new writ? Sir C. LEMON said it was not his intention to do so. Sir JOHN WALSH said lie wished not to act contrary to the established precedent, but at the same time to state, as a Member of the Committee, that in his opinion there appeared no case whatever for any ge neral measure of severity against the borough.—" Or der, order.") He thought it a very venial case. The SPEAKER said it would be inconvenient for the Hon. Member to make any observations on the subject at the present period. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said lie hoped the Hon. Member would understand as in a former case, if any Hon. Member thought right to do so, he should give notice of moving for a writ. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDVESDAY, APRIL 29, 1840, ration was whether there should be an option given to the prisoner. Mr. PRYME said his chief objection to the Bill was the power of summary conviction. There might be inconvenience from sending persons to prison be fore trial, but this Bill sent them there after trial—and where was the difference?—(H' - fear, hear.) True, the prisoner had the option of having one whipping and being discharged, but might not that be done as well without this summary—cot to say arbi ' trary—conviction ? Might there not be a jury of six or eight—(a laugh)—or a jury at Petty Sessions. It was said that three Magistrates would be an approach to a jury, but his objection was, the Magistrates were not at all of the same class of society as the prisoner ; whereas when a Magistrate presided before a jury, the case was decided upon by two classes of persons. He had rather have the responsibility divided among a smaller number of Magistrates than a larger. It might be difficult in some cases to get three Magistrates to attend. Allusion had been made to the proposal he had made, but what connection was there between abolishing the Grand Jury, which did not decide upon the guilt or innocence of the prisoner, but was a secret tribunal, and doing away with the petty jury, which did decide upon the fate of the prisoner. Mr. DARUY objected to the Bill for several reasons which be had stated on other Occasions, and with which he would not now trouble the House. One in superable objection amongst the many which pre sented themselves against the details was that the offences in respect to which the Magistrate was to have summary jurisdiction, were not defined or dis tinguished from those cases which were to be tried before a jury. He thought the Bill would not operate faisly, and he would vote for the amendment. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the Committal of the Bill 7O Against it Majority in favour of the Committal of the Bill The House then resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill. Lord G. SOMERSET observed that he had not op posed the Bill in its former stages, because he had un derstood it was to be referred to a Select Committee, where many of the objections that at present existed to the Bill might be removed. He wished to draw the attention of the House to one point particularly, namely, in what way the Magistrates were to ascertain the age of the parties brought before them. He did not find any thing in the Bill to meet that difficulty. Sir E. WILM o'r said the reputed age of the parties mint be acted on, as was the case at present. Mr. JONES would suggest that the culprit should have the option of being tried either by a Jury or by the Magistrates, as he might elect ; there could then be no question raised as to the age of the party. He moved that three Magistrates form the Petty Sessions in place of two. Mr. HUME had no doubt the Honourable Baro net's only object was to save innocent parties from a long imprisonment, and to sere the young culprit from being locked up and contaminated by a hardened of fender, but he (Mr. Hume) did not think he was going the proper way to work—the only remedy would be to have Courts sitting in every county in England and Wales, so that the gaols might be delivered at least once every month. He objected to summary punish ment—Magistrates had frequently oppressed the poor and might do so again. The Courts in counties were objected to on account of the expense they would create. But what was all the expense compared with the punishment of the innocent, and the delay of jus tice ? Besides, he did not think the expense would be much increased, for there would be a great saving in the keep of so many prisoners. Magistrates had now enough of power in their hands, and he was unwilling to increase it. The present proposition did not go to the root of the evil, and he thought it would be an act of clemency to the poor, and of economy to counties to establish those permanent Courts. He entreated the House not to lose time in such paltry trifling, but to take the whole question of the adminis tration of justice into its consideration. • Mr. FOX MAULE thought the speech of the Hon. Gentleman would be better addressed to the House on the second reading of the Bill than now when they were in Committee. —(Hear, hear.) Although he agreed with much of what had fallen from the Hon. Member, yet he'considered the present Bill a decided step in the amendment of their criminal jurisdiction. He did not see any great advantage in the substitution of three for two Magistrates ; on the contrary, he thought it would occasion some chance of the failure of justice, and great delay, and he should therefore decidedly oppose it. Mr. DARBY did not think the amendment any im provement. With respect to the suggestion of the Hon. Member to have the prisoners tried every month, there were at the present moment in East Sussex eight Quarter Sessions held in the ye .r„ The object of the Bill was much more extensive than merely to increase the times of trial. sir: E. WILMOT made some observations, which were inaudible. LordG. SOMERSET thought the effect of the aMendMent would be to make the Bill operative in some places and inoperative in others, he should, there. fore, oppose it. Mr. J. JONES said if the Hon, Under Secretary of State proposed to give the prisoner the option of being tried by a Jury his objection would be done away with. After a few observation s from Mr. W. T. EGER TON, which did not reach us, Mr. WAK LEY said, there was nothing like reducing responsibility into the smallest possiole compass, in order more speedily to discover a wrong-doer, and therefore he considered the appointing of .Justices as proposed by the Hon. Member ag evil. if they were appointed, and a wtong, decision come to, the excuse would be, " Oh ! I was urged on by colleagues ;" or if I were ap pointed it would be, " Oh! I deferred to the . * opi nion of one superior in judgment and age to myself. Therefore, if they were to have this sum mary power, he would rather it should be confided to one Magistrate only. It would be a good thing for the country, if three Justices were never to assemble to gether again. He bad seen a great deal of Justices and lie would say, that a more incompetent body of men could no where be found—(A laugh from the Op position—A body of men more characterized by ill temper, faction, and the most besotted !ignorance, could not be found than the Justices of the Peace of this country. Within these few days al instance had come under his notice in the metropolitan Courts, where, if anywhere, it might be presumed, Magistrates would be found who knew their duty. By an Act of Parliament, every pauper sent to a County Lunatic Asylum, must be seen by the Justices before he was so sent, and they must have before them some disinterested surgeon to testify to the lunacy of the said person ; hut the Magistrates, in the instance to which he alluded, had neither seen the person nor examined a disinterested surgeon—the common practice was for somebody to say to the Magistrates that somebody %vas mad, and to ask the Magistrates to sign a certifi• cate committing somebody to a lunatic asylum, and if somebody was troublesome in the workhouse he was carted off at once to the lunatic asylum. Seeing the errors the Magistrates committed he was averse to trusting them with any further authority. He would say that a person under fourteen years of age was as much en titled to trial by Jury as a person of double that age, and in all cases trial by Jury should be had recourse to and not that cases should be disposed, of in a sum mary manner. The Government ought to take this question up, and to obviate the evil com plained of by granting more frequent gaol deliveries. .r - Ie hoped and trusted that instead of bringing in some measure such as that before them, the Government would propose one of a more general nature, and which would be better adapted to meet the views of the Hon. Baronet the, Member for Warwickshire. Mr. liINDLEY hoped that the House would agree to the st.ggestion which was then under their considera tion. Mr. FOX MAULE could not accede to the sug gestion, as be thought it was contrary to the provisions of the Bill. Mr. EASTCOURT wished to make a few cbserva ti?ns on an opinion expressed by the Hon. Member for Finsbury. That Hon. Member had perhaps found his opinion of the Magistrates of the country, from those with whom he had himself come in contact.—(Hear, hear.) And he (Mr. Eastcourt) did not know how the ease might be in Middlesex, but he could say that in distant parts of the country the picture w hi c h th e H on. Gent l eman h a d drawn of the Magistri x y was as difftrent as light from darkness. He belie ve d t h at the case w hi c h the Honourable Member sa id h a d occurre d i n Middlesex could not have t a k en p l ace in i-sriy other part of ithe country, and h e wos confident that no party with whom he was acqua i nte d wou ld co mmit a party to a lunatic asylu m w i t h out t h e stronges t testimony on the subject. The matter was so improbable that he could not believe it unless it had been stated by a Mi.m ber of that House.--(Hear, hear, hear.) How ever,. he Mr. Estcourt) agreed with the Hon. Member in doubting whether this Bill would have the effect of contributing to the highly humane object of the Honourable Baronet who brought it forward—neinely, the prevention of that moral contamination which resulted Gan the confine ment of juvenile prisoners previous to conviction. lie looked in vain for that power of appal which might have obviated the evils arising from too sum wary conviction. He believed the Bill to be an in friegernent on the constitutional principle of trial by Jury, and thought that if Magistrates were to de cide on the cases the responsibility should be limited, not divided among several.---(Hear, hear.) Mr. N'W.AKLEY trusted, after the r emarks th at had fallen from the Ri g ht lion. Gentleman, he might be permitted to mention the Lames of the parties and of the placer. Mr. GREENE rose to order. The parties were not there to defend themselves ; and the Hon. Gentleman had, therefore. better not mention names. - Mr. WAKLEY said that was the very rovon he had not mentioned the names before, but if it was die desire of the House, he would name the places., (Cries of " No, no.") He was glad to hear what the Hon. Gentleman had said, because he thought it was a prat:lice that could not be too severely reprobated. After a few words from Mr. E. WILMOT, the amendment was withdrawn. (LEFT SITTING.) SPIRIT of the PLIBLa2—JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OP THIS EAT. (From the Globe.) The speech of the Hon. E. J. Stanley has excited more than the usual quantity of rancour in the jout nals whose vocation it is to vituperate and misrepresent every Member and act of the Government. In the prosecution of their allotted task these unscrupulous assailants not unfrequently damage the cause they mean to serve, and, by admissions and unguarded assertions, the effect of which passion prevents them from perceiving, level heavier blows on their own party than any they can infiit:t on their opponents. Mr. S'an ley, in referring to the comparative claims of the Whigs and Tories, stated the notorious fact, that no one great measure for the amelioration of the institutions of the country had passed in Parliament during the last forty years, which did not bear on its front the advocacy of the Whigs and the opposition of the Tories— " Had not the Tories," 31r. tanley asked, " for forty years unlimited sway in Parham ant, the command both of the House of Lords and of the Sovereign, and no opposi tion in the House of Commons, which could prevent them from passing any measures which they thought fit? And yet to what page of the statute book can you turn to find one good deed which they have done, to discover one enactment which they have passed for the amelioration of the institutions of the country, for the promotion of civil or religion liberty, for reforming the abuses, or improving the condition of the country ?" What miserable ignorance! What base ingratitude ! exclaims a Tory annotator. Nothing, indeed! Do you call it nothing, that during those forty years of undis puted power we did not abolish the constitution, sweep away the nuisance of a representative government, lock up the House of Commons, gag, the press, and, in a word, imitate the conduct of our illustrious and well-beloved Cousin and Councillor, Ernest, by the Divine permis sion; King of Hanover! There is a cool effrontery about such claims on public gratitude which is,quite amusing. (From the Standard.) We congratulate the country upon the satisfactory working of Sir Robert Peel's election trial law ; and our congratulation is not one jot the less hearty or sin cere because the case that suggests it is one in which the Conservative cause sustains the temporary loss of a vote. Our party can afford such a loss without injury, and the prospective good of an honest and uncorrupt mode of election will repay it in the end, and that end is not distant, a thousand-fold—if future com mittees imitate those of Leidlow and Cambridge. This is the proper substitute for the ballot. Let gentlemen be once assured that in practising bribery or treating, IN heater as candidates or par tisans, they are throwing away their money, and with a certainty of defeating their cherished object, and bribery and treating will be at an end. The ballot, as the example of the United States proves, would not produce this effect. A rigorous admi nistration of the law cannot fail of it, and therefore we hail, with a gratification which we must again repeat, the decision of the Cambridge Committee. The decision of that Committee wa-s severe, we admit, that the law was urged to ts very limits, when Mr. Manners Sut ton, confessedly guiltless in his own person, was deprived of his seat, as the penalty of the indiscretion of a few over-zealous friends. The law, too, was enforced with extreme rigour, when the moderate entertainment of a few electors after they had polled, was con strued as bribery and treating. Such attentions certainly do not satisfy the proper definition of bribery, —" inuneribus illicitari," which supposes that some gift or promise of a gift precedes the act held to be in fluenced by it. And treating we have ever understood to describe that riotous entertainment anterior to the poll which operates either directly as bribery, or sends men irrational and inflamed to the hustings. Nothing in the shape of such bribery or treating was proved against the Conservative party at the Cambridge elec tion--the decision of the Committee was therefore severe. (From the Courier.) The triumph of Conservatism in Lambeth, a parish which has been so grossly abused by the Radicals as to excite general indignation, is, in point of fact, a triumph of loyalty over republicanism, of religion over infidelity, and of humanity over the brutal system of what is misnamed relief to the poor. Hitherto, the respectable inhabitants of this large and populous district have been subjected to the coarse and violent rule of a low set of 'demagogues, who, without the requisite talent to enable them to con duct the affairs of a community, and destitute of the influence which might be available to the public good, have. contrived to usurp the stations for which they are eminently unqualified. Lambeth, Eke IVlarylebone, presents a striking illustration of the working of the popular system of representation. Whatever has been useful to morals or govern ment has there been in disfavour ; the Church has been defrauded of its legal rights, and the intoler able claims of the political Dissenters most unscrupu lously maintained. The placards ostentatiously paraded by the Radical faction during the contest, and pro claiming animosity- to the constitution of the Established Church, must be, to all just and considerate people, convincing proofs of the value of the victory obtained by the repectable and intelligent parishioners. SPURTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER —TUESDAY EVENING. The attendance this morning was quite in keeping with the near approach of an event upon which so many thou. sands arc well known to be pending. Our quotation was laid, in one or two instances, against the leading favourites. The grand revolution was in the rapid rise of Bellona, and the almost total downfal of St. Bennett and Abraham Newland, neither of whom was in the slightest favour, so decidedly was the spirit to " get on" the two mares. The business finished at 100 to 8, taken ; St. Bennett's and Abraham's prices being 20 to 1 and upwards. George was backed for a little money at 33 to 1, and then at 200 to 7. The prices of the present hour cannot be expected to be those of the morning, as every post must introduce us to the opinion formed of the horses arrived, and also their condition, &c. THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS' STAKES. 2 to 1 offered on the field. THE CHESTER. CUP. 6 to 1 agst Sir T. Stanley's Cowboy—taken 8 to 1 agst Mr. J. Henderson's Lanercost—taken 17 to 2 agst Mr. Robinson's Melbourne 10 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Dey of Algiers—take 11 in hundreds 23 to 2 agst Mr. Fowler's Gilbert Gurney 23 to 2 agst Dawson's lot—offered 12 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Bellona 100 to 6 agst Mr. Copeland's King Cole—taken 500 to 25 agst Lord Eglinton's Opera—offered 200 to 11 agst Mr. R. Price's Captain Pops —taken 22 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Sir Ralph 22 to 1 agst Mr. Speed's Aimwell 25 to 1 agst The Feather—taken, and then offered 200 to 7 agst Mr. Knox's George—taken freely 700 to 7 agst Mr. Thompson's Stansty—taken 100 to 8 agst Bellona and Opera—taken 5 to 2 the field • agst any two. THE DERBY. —W e believe 7to 1 was offered to-day against Launcelot, but did not hear it ; 6 to 1 ;could have been !aid by many parties; 10 to 1 was offered against Assassin ; Bto 1 against Theo.l (off). Black Bess was backed repeatedly at 200 to 6, and Gambia at 300 to 10 ; 2C to 1 wits " hid" against either Lucetta or Angelica, and five points more against Pathfinder. COAL MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) s, d i Males C,rr's Hat th y 2O 6 Walls End Hetlon .... , ..... . 22 6 Hnly well Main l9 ( Wes End Lambton 1,2 9 Lea zes Main l5 0 Walls End rembem.n l9 6 'outs Hartley l9 1 Walls End Russell's Hetton 92 3 Tanded Moor Butes l9 0 Walls End Stewart's 22 6 West Hartley 2:l t Walls End Whitwell ... WyLim , l9 SiWalis End Keno° 92 3 Walt End Bell and Brown 19 9 I ennant's Hartlepool 92 0 Walls End Clennell l7 S Walls End Victoria Tees .... L 0 0 Walls End Hilda •2O 0 Blythe l6 0 %Valls End Killingworth ... 19 t Hartley 9O 0 Walls End Riddell's 2l 0 Llangennech Coal ...... . ... 25 0 Walls End Belmont Walls Endßraddyll'sHetlon L 2 3 Ships arrivCci scnce last market-clay, 48, STATE OF TRADE.—There was no material change in the market yesterday, though, perhaps, the demand was not quite equal to that of the preceding Tuesday, especially for power-loom printing cloths, which, in some few cases, we believe were sold a shade lower than last week. _Stocks, both of goods and yarn, especially of the latter, continue extremely light, the demand taking off the entire production at steady .prices ; and, though the business done is not very profitable, it is generally sound and healthy, and encourages an expectation of ititure improvement. —Manchester Guardian. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, Amt. 27.—There is no change to report in the flannel market to-day. The demand has been slack, and prices low as usual. The wool market continues heavy, at former prices. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, April 28.—Al though there was a fair demand for fine woollens and light fancy goods, generally speaking the market was not so brisk as might have been expected, if it was only on account of the extremely beautiful pweather. Nor do prices much improve, but they are very firm. Orders art• inure numerous, and stocks of saleable goods very light, so that better prices are remanded, and must shortly be realised. There is more animation in the wool market, at prices much the same as of late, The warehouses are tolerably busy, and better prices are obtained; but we fear the manufacturer is yet far from obtaining a satisfactory remuneration. SUBSTITUTE FOR EMBALMMENT.--Whe n M. Gaunal made his prrless public he was not aware himself, per haps, of the use to which it could be applied. Several weeks ago the body of a boy, murdered under very suspicious circum stances, was brought to the Morgue—the place where all persons found drowned or murdered, and who are not immediately recor, raised, are exposed—and the veins were injected according to the plan laid down by M. Gaunal. The corpse of the poor boy re mained several weeks in as fresh a state as when it was found a few hours after the murder. It has pot yet been recognised, but one cannot but admire the facility thus offered for recogni tion. But for this discovery, the utmost time that the body could have remained at the Morgue would have been five or six days. M. Gaunal's process is extremely simple, and attended with very little expense. He makes a iolution, composes! of sulphate of alum and hot water, in prop . oi tion of two pounds of the sulphate to a pint of hot water, and injects by the right caro tid artery ; in summer three quarts of this liquid, and in winter wanrding to the temperature.—Paris Letter. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. CROWN.OFFICE, APRIL2B, 1840. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERvE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. COUNTIES OP ELGIN AND NAlRN.—Charles Lennox Cum ming Bruce, of Roseisle and Kinnaird, in the room of Colonel the Hon. Francis William Grant, who has accepted the Chil tern Hundreds. WHITEHALL, APRIL 25. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. George Ralph Abercromby to be Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of the shire of Claekmannan, in the room of William Earl of Mansfield, deceased. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Kent. G. C. Baron Camden, commonly called the Earl of Breck nock, to be Vice-Lieutenant, April 19. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia.—J. Harvey, Gent., to be Lieutenant, April 22. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Soraersetshire. West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.—T. H. Bernard, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Cowell, resigned, April 20. Comtn:ssions by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and of the City and County of the City of York. Yorkshire Hussars (West Riding)—W. 11. F. Cavendish, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Wood, promoted, Feb. 2.5. Southern Regiment of West Riding Yeomanry Cavalry— Cornet J. Jeffcock to be Lieutenant, vice T. Jeffcock, resigned ; J. Preston, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Greaves ; S. A. Cooke, Gent., to be ditto, vice St. Leger, resigned, April 20. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 28. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a Levee at St. James's Pala*, on Wednesday, the tlth of May next, at two o'clock. REQULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE QUEBN'S LEVEES AT ST. JAMES'S PALACE. The Noblemen and Gentlemen who propose to attend her Majesty's Levees at St. James's Palace, are requested to bring with them two cards with their names thereon written, one to be left with the Queen's Page in attendance in the Presence Chamber, and the other to be delivered to the Lord in Wait ing, who will announce the name to her Majesty. Those Gentlemen who are to be presented are hereby in formed, it is absolutely necessary that their names, with the name of the Nobleman or Gentleman who is to pre sent them (not that of the Lord in Waiting), should be sent to the Lord Chamberlain's Office, before twelve o'clock on the day but one previous to each Levee, in order that they may be submitted for the Queen's approbation ; it being her Ma jesty's command, that no presentation shall hereafter be made at the Levees, but in conformity with the above regula tions ; and further, that no person shall be admitted, on any pretence whatever, who has not been so presented. It is particularly requested, that gentlemen who are to be presented at the Levees, will have their names distinctly written upon the card to be delivered to the Lord in Waiting, in order that there may be no mistake in announcing them to the Queen. The State apartments will not be open for the reception of company coming to Court, until half past one o'clock. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, Aram 28. BY COMMAND OF HER MAJESTY. Notice is hereby given, that all persons having Petitions or Addresses to present to her Majesty at the Levee s , are t o wr i te on two with their Nunn, a statement of the object of such Petitions or Addresses, and of the persons from whom they come ; one card to be delivered to the Page the Ante-room, and the other to the Lord in Waiting, who will read its contents at the time of presentation to her Majesty ; and on these occa sions no other statement is to be addressed to her Majesty. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. C. Basan and T. G, Bayntum, licensed victuallers, Strand May 21, at twelve—J. Nickoll, oil broker, Pope's Bead-alley, City, May 21, at one—J. M. Adams, jeweller, Strand, Ma) 21, at half-past one. In the Country. J. Winskill, J. Harwood, and J. Hutchinson, carpet manu facturers, Barnard Castle, Durham, May IS, at eleven, at the Waterloo Inn, Barnard Castle—R. Richardson, draper, Great Driffield, Yorkshire, May3o, at one, at the George Inn, King ston-upon-Hull—G. Fall and J. Nichols, dyers, Horrocks, Manchester, May 21, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester—T. Poole, wine merchant, Rye, Sussex, May 30, at twelve, at the South Saxon Hotel. Hastings—J. Unsworth, calico printer, Brindle, Lancashire, May 29, at twelve, at the Town-hall, Preston—J. and J. Cotter, joiners, Toxteth-park, Lancashire, June 1, at two, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool —J. and W. Greenwood, cotton spinners, Wheatley, York shire, May 29, at five, at the White Lion Inn, Halifax—J. Harrison, skinner, Penrith, Cumberland, May 21, at twelve, at the George Inn, Penrith. CERTIFICATES.—May 19. E. Grams, ironmonger, Stowmarket, Suffolk—T. Hastings, innkeeper, Bradford, Yorkshire—G. Parsons, wine merchant, Worthing—A. Mason, corn dealer, Chigwell, Essex —J. R. Gorst, coach manufacturer, Liverpool. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Barstow and J. N. Jackson, brewers, Beswick, Man chester—S. D. Ewing and P. Dow, bookbinders, Cheapside, City—B. Harrison and R. Pledge, grocers, Ightham, Kent_ J. Haskayne and R. Rhodes, agents, Liverpool —J. Fitehenry end J. Munford, congreve match manufacturers, Plymouth— D. and M. Culhanane, surgeons, Croydon—A. A. Goody and W. Haslett, provision dealers, Liverpool —J. and J. Knowles, , blanket manufacturers, Dewsbury-moor, West Riding of York shire—A. L. and M. Shield, saddlers, Newcastle-upon -Tyne— W. and J. Jones, tea merchants, Liverpool—G. Alsop and T. Stevenson, blacking manufacturers, Nottingham —W. Had field, It. W. Waoii, C. G. Hadfield, and J. A. Armando, mer chants, Liverpool—G. Grazebrook and J. Guest, attorneys, Stourbridge, Worcestershire—M. A s h a ll an d S. Clover, school conductors, St. Helen's, Lancashire —W. Allen and C. Ro berts, dyers, Prestwich, Lancashire. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. JOHN STEWART, cattle dealer, Fasnaeloich, Argyll shire, My 1 and 22, at twelve, at the Caledonian Hotel, Oban. JAMES THOMSON, shipowner, Perth, May 2 and 22, at twelve, at the Chambers of Messrs. Gray aad Jamieson, writers, Perth. JAMES TORRY DOUGLAS, merchant, Leith, May 1 and 22, at one, at the Exchange Hotel, Leith. JOHN MACKINTOSH, Bridge of Roy, near Fort•Wil - May 1 and 22, at one, at the Caledonian Hotel, Fort- William. JOHN RUTHERFORD an , : CO., mercriants, Jedburgh, Alas' 2 and 23, at twelve, at the Spread Eagle Inn, Jedburgh. MARGARET LISTON, brush manufacturer, Edinburgh, May 4 and 25, at one, at the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh. THOMAS WALKER, flesher, Bathgate, June 3 and May 6, at one, at the Bathgate Had, Bathgate. THOMAS DUNLOP, farmer, Hornshill, near Glasgow, May 4 and 25, at twelve, at the Boot Tavern, Glasgow. THOMAS YOUNG, commission agent, Glasgow, May 4 and 25, at twelve, at the Eagle Inn, Glasgow. THE MARKETt4.-(YESTERDAY. (From the London New Price Current of April 28: ) SUGAR.—The stock of British Plantation Sugar is now 7,719 hhds and trs, which is 8 769 less than last year at the same period. The stock of Mauritius is 44.248 bags, being 65,584 less than last year. The stock of Bengal is 36,167 bags, which is 56 less than last year. The delivery of British Plantation Sugar for the last week was 1,793 hhds and trs, being 616 more than during the same time last year. The delivery of Mauritius was 8,539 bags, being 2.597 more than last year. The delivery of Bengal was 5018 bags, being 3,548 more than at the corresponding week last year. REFINED. —Refined goods were taken freely by the Homo Trade, and prices have advanced to 833 to 83s 6d for standard lumps. The lowest point of the market for Patent goods is 82s, and melting lumps 80s. Treacle is in brisk request. Patent and the best old make at 34s to 36s 6d, and common at 33s 6d to 345. Pieces and Bastards sell well at our quotations, of the latter few parcels of low dry quality are offering under 56i. Bonded Loaves are in good request ; 101bs are fetching 38i to 395, and 141bs 37s 6d. Treacle has advanced to 143 Gd a 15s. Crushed Sugar has secured a fair sale at 34s 9d to 355; sales in Dutch Crushed were made at 323, deliverable on board at Amsterdam, and 33s here. Mauttenes—This afternoon a brisk demand prevailed, and the whole of 5,257 bags 39 casks at public sale were disposed of Gd above former rates; good to fine yellow sold at 67s to 693, low to good middling 64s to 66s 6d, good to fine brown 60s to 635, low and middling 56s to 595, low to good grey 64s to 671 6d per cwt. FAST INDIA. —This afternoon there was an excellent demand from the home trade for Bengal ; 5,160 bags were offered at public sale, and being the kind wanted (consist ing of all white quality), the whole was disposed of with avidity et very full priers, and in same cases at even 6n. advance ; fine white fetched 72s to 735, good 70s to 71s, middling to good middling GN 6d to 693 6d, low 67s to 68s, damps and washed 67s to 71s per cwt. FOREIGN. --At auction 27 chests 140 barrels irn. bueo have been offered, and nearly all taken in; .middling c white Tathe2,Be has s,g been ocdealnloawrrit o ,a f n p d or fi t n: R br c o o t . vn 22s per MOLASSES.— W West India : at auction 132 puns imported ABRAHAM BRYANT, Sen., builder, Shepton Mallett, Somersetshire. MILES ISIETCALFE, linen draper, Plymouth. BANKRUPTS. JOHN JAQUES, dyer, Hare-street, Bethnal-green, to surrender May 5, at eleven, and June 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Teague, Crown court, Cheapside. DAVID EVANS, stove grate manufacturer, John-street, Minorie., May 11, at half-past ten, and June 9, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Clarke, New Broad-street -court, official assignee ; Saunders, Queen-street-place, Southwark bridge. WILLIAM WAITE, clothier, Yeadon, Guiseley, York shire, May 14, at twelve, and June 9, at ten, at the Commis sioners'-rooms, Leeds. Wilson, Southampton-street, Blooms. bury-square, London ; Payne, Eddison, and Ford, L ee d s . JOHN SMITH JANION maltster, Kingsley, Cheshire, May 15, and June 9, at twelve, at the Angel Inn, Northwich, Cheshire. Chester, Staple Inn, Middlesex ; Walker, Chester. ANNE REBECCA HICKMAN, widow, victualler, Aber gavenny, Monmouthshire, May 7, at eleven, and June 9, at nine, at the Beaufort Arms Inn, Monmouth. Michael, Red Lion-square, London ; Baker, Abergavenny. JOHN GOLD, ironmonger, Burslem, Staffordshire, May 12, and June 9, at two, at the Castle Inn, Newcastle-under- Lyme. Chaplin, Gray's Inn-square, London; Stubbs and Rollings, Birmingham. BARNABAS BROUGH, brewer, Pontypool, Monmouth. shire, May 4, at twelve, and June 9, at one, at the Three Salmons Inn, Usk, Monmouthshire. Hall, New Boswell -court, Lincoln's. inn, London; Maybery and Williams, Brecon; Pro thero and Towgood, Newport. WILLIAM GREAVES, clothier, Rawdon, Yorkshire, May 12, at ten, and June 9, at twelve, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Commercial-buildings, Leeds. Wilson, Southampton -build ings, Bloomsbury-square, London ; Payne, Eddison, and Ford,' Leeds. ROBERT JAMES MUSTO, gun-stocker, Birmingham, May 8, at three, and June 9, at two, at the New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Chaplain, Gray's-inn-square, London; Har rison, Birmingham. RALPH SEDDON, dyer, Salford, Mayl3, and June 9, at ten, at the Comrnissioners'-roorns, Manchester. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London • Potter, Man c h es t er . JAMES AUSTIN HARDY, silver-plater, Birmingham, May 14, and June 9, at one, at the New Royal Hotel, Bir mingham. Austen and Hobson, Gray's-inn-lane, London • Bower, Birmingham. JOHN MOSS, druggist, Sheffield, May 12, at eleven, and June 9, at one, at the Town-hall, Sheffield. Tattershall, Great James-street, Bedford-row, London ; Palfreyman, Shef field ; Dransfield, Penistone, Yorkshire. WILLIAM STOREY, pawnbroker, Sheffield, May 15 and June 9, at eleven, at the Town-hall, Sheffield. Rodgers, Devonshire-square, London ; Staniforth, Sheffield. EDWARD BODEN, druggist, Chester, May 1 and June 9. at eleven, at the Blossoms Inn, Chester. Philpot and Son, Southampton-street, Bloomsbury -square, London ; Faulkner, Chester. EVENING EDIT lON INDIGO.—To-day, 333 serous of Spanish were offered at public sale, nearly the whole of which was disposed of, but at very uneven prices, and there was no spirit i lO3. biddings ; good and fine qualities sold 6d, and ordial sl l and middling sorts 9d t o I s un d er former rater; tue greatest fall was on Carraccas, which went at 3s Id to 65 ; Guatemala sold at 2s 6d to 7s per lb. Rica,—This afternoon East India was unly in limited request, but prices are firmer ; 744 bags Bengal at public sale were taken in above its value, viz at 13s 64 for 'yid' dusty white. ißiSil MAIIKETg. DUBLIN MARKET NUJ - E fot the W.LEX ending APRIL 24. 'ro i, 952 Wheat,per barrel 'LI stone r2l (1 39 0 o Bere ..,__ 725 Barley 1 1 ( d i 5 a t tn ' i ! j 1 , e . .........., — 1.5 0 0 20 — 1 . ) , 10:36 Os /4 5tcr.e......• 1-1 0 17 6 I 1 Flour, per cw t. .. 8 stoue, —., - 0 915 Oatmeal $ stone •••••• 1 0 18 0 Sold to Bakers only. 6.281 Cwt. Fl our .t. - 0 o 3 - 46 0 Average price ~f Vl, heat. and F•eur 05s 4d per sack. 1.., scr ~....... Jr.'s,' ..3- Oct to.els Hit. Receipts of Flour, 11,74-31 . un ... 1 ..i. 0.. 42.,..4. Sal,, of Do. 18,003 lj- - ,1",,, ip .:::::: iron, 14; 0.: 6 12.4 , 81:- . MICE 01 BREAD. Quarterr. L0at,.......'.01. l /tali Q-...arieru ~......54, CORK MP. ItK F.11.--April 25. Wheat (per '.10at.)17.., 61. tt,324 oi. Oats (;e •-tat.t ..„„i3 1,01.1.0 111 QV Harler.(per 165t.)12 0 17 11 11lor: •:.t.rcv:t.;....16 6 34 .• 44- Oatmeal (per c w t . ? ...... ,as. Il tO I , iv iio • ?:feet, •!d. to At—Mutton, 54 t., 66.-..k:a qd, to '...../. Pork, 4jd. to att.-Fresh Butiet, :Ou. to i id. ,-.:. .4,.. PaICE GF STYPTPI-. 1r•• .c Rdciti.abts. fc• Use cmirtn First Quality••• ....• ......... •.. 111, ••••••••• . 11 0•411 ...... • 10 5 , 1 ' Second a.l 10 .•,•............. .. JO' 'l bird 100 ..-... ••••••*”. . , 1.• 91 Fourth 9 .•.....• . ...... I* p ••• •••1.4•11- 4 ••••••,..... .1. ..• 1 .. Fifth .......... ......... .-..... SO ..............„ .7 1 Sixth 8 ..... •• ,f,....,.. • ... . . .. ...... cill CLONSIEL I. 5141 th ET5...... April 25, Pcr ('wt. s. ti. s. ti. 't I ' 4 Yew Cutter ......,.. oto9o C. ) Hides (ra5tr).............. 6tO i . ft - e Oatmeal...". ........ 12 0 12 3 , Ba':011 P. 0......••••:0+ C 4I) Renderea Lard 0 52 / ' Head5....................* 9 , "''' " I'er Ea,. !iiii Flour, Second -044 • 1i1 0ur,Th..rt1A.......... 11 0 , .... , — l lousehold... 0 42 0 1-- .F.ourtrts.......:As 0 Per Band. R e apeseed, 2 S 4 6 0 01 Barley ..... . ........ia 0 . 14 Ber 10 01 (1'413 .........••••••.••—• 0 '''" KILKENNY 11A RK EIS. Wheat ,per barrel)3os. Od. togls. Od. Seel ', ?el 1r....,... Os, CO. tO :N . 6 64. Barley ' , O 0 22 0 31tatt a ............. ' 8 ' vats. Pi 6 14 •0 Pork ... , 4 ° R .; , Flour (tier bag)....:30 0 40 C ces , ~ 0 Butter(perewt.)...9o 0 9.5 f.' bte,,,t, p,, n i ; t ,.... (j , 0 10 Bacon Pigs 35 0 36 0 Matt Ditto ~,,...... o, 6 ° l ' .. 3 Coals 1 0 1 2 , Potatocs(r . es-4„ ) to SI - ----...•••••1,111. N 36 7 6 is 15 fl ii 9 --- ---- _.ETTLE BEER.--At t hi s seaF,on of -the year a wholesome and agreeable beverage maybe obtained at a trifling cost, from that valuable though mar _despised net tle; two quarts of the sprouts of which to be boiled in : 11 0 ; gallon of water, adding, when strained off ladle P° l3ln- e . sugar or treacle, with a little ginger. Wh en near cool, g ier ment with yeast, and bottle tight up while in, a state of "L P ; vescence. In a day or two this will be as Isisk as bottled e and of a pleasant flavour. i i , held Cli [MCI! RATES. ----A meeting was late., . in the Church of Holy Island, for the purpose of levYing an adjournment Church-rate ; the propos;Aion was met by an amendment for adjournment of twelve months, which was earri,wl almost una nimously, there being only one dissentient.—B e rwich ddcer tiser. The report that Mr. C. Buller has been j a r pinted th e successor of the lamented Mr. ' Drummond, a , Umler-Secretary of Ireland, is without foundati, n. ..L.,-....,.._- _-,t-._..:,...,..„_„---.......•---•,•.---_.________...________. ' meMeTrr SILVER PLATE. —Now publishedi gratis, a nd will be sent post free, if applied for by a. paid letter, 5 Pamphlet of T. COX SA VORY'S Prices of Silver spool" and Forks, with Drawings of the Patterns, Tea rand Coffe° Ser c i vices with Designs, Pres en t at i on Plate, FAN, r- edged plate Ware, the new Plated on White Metal Spo ons and Forks, Ladies' and G ent l emen ' s Gold and Sil-cer Watches, Clocks, Jewellery, C ut l ery, L adies' Gold Neck Chains , with Drawing. of the New P atterns. The ground floor, first, secon d , and third, tears are fitted UP for the exhibiti on o f an extensive stock. T. COX SAVO RY, , Goldsmith, 47 , C ornhill (Seven doors from Graesehureiv. street), London. IRT7-73. On the 28th inst., at High Pavement, Nottingham, ni ri- Andrew Penton, of a daughter. On the 29th inst., at No. 2, Storey -gate, Mims. W. S. Mirth house, of a datgliter. On the 25th inst., at Tunbridge wells, Vail lady of Ward, Esq., of a son. ts' On the 25th i nst., at Southampton, thehayat George-- Va den, Esq., of a son. On the 25th inst., Mrs. W. H. Wartot,i, of ouilford“istreet' Ilussell-square, of a son. On the 25th inst., in Upper Wimpol e.streei, the 107 of H. Mitchell, Esq., of a daughter. On the 25th i nst . , at Kensington, tip „. e lady of Captains m a r pard, of a daughter. On the 25th inst., at Peckham. Ulf.) lady of Captain Ge"g e Denny, of a son. On the 25th inst., at Ca mbervrell " Ilisin -grove, rs. AVGill, of a son, On the 26th i nst., at Ebury-street, the l a d y of Geiarge—w igt Esq., or a son. On the 26th i nst., the lady of Charles Barr Esq., Den" ruark.lull, of o, son. On tha 26th i nst., the lady of Alexander D. In glis, Esq" of I a son. more,O n the Lsq . 27 t ,0 I inst., f s L ineo n a , t s. B i nany,s barrister-at-lacy, e t r h_e a ia lady at, o f of V d l 1 a i a u r li g .12_11 On the 22 AA RRIED. d inst., at Helensbur h Alan Colo! houn Dunlop, Esq., to Anne, third surviving daughter' of the 12 ‘ to James NV, Esq., of Collieprest, Devonshire, and the lady Lary Hayl,,,. n 1 On the 23d inst., at Greenwich, the Rev. I tippisleY •L'ia-- lean, of Coventry, to Charlotte, daughter of Richa rd Smith, Esq. On the 25th inst. at St. Giles's, Camberwe) lip Dlr. Henry John Simmons, of New Peckham, to Sarah, old eat daughter o Mr. Thomas Ruston, of Camberwell. On the 25th inst., at St. Bartholomew-C le-Great, .1411.• Arthur Venn, of Reading, to Louisa Burslem, c 1 West Smith field. On the 25th init., at St. Pancras, Frederic 1 Jill, Esq•, bar rister-at-law, Inspector of Prisons for Scotl gad, to Martha, youngest daughter of the late Edward Cowper, 2Esq., of Enfield. ~! On the 25th inst., at St. Ann's, Limehou• a j, Mr. William Shadrake, of Limehouse, to Elizabeth S, 2 sannah, sec"d daughter of W. J. Livingstone, Esq., of Limel a, 3,,e. M. , On the 25th inst., at St. Margaret's, O'Hanlon, of the Middle Temple, E 3 Wes 44 ninster, E. sq., t 0 Anna, sieos" daughter of the late George Flint, of Brighter ~ EN - --- D I_BD. On the 23d inst., at °gyvell House, Dere .1, Ceeilia Lathe" rine, daughter of Si Ri c h ar d and Lady placket, age d months and a half. On the 116th icst., in Keppel-etreet, Ruses 11-sqUare, the R io ' . John Hihnan Watkins, l a t e curate of Stisteil , Essex. On the 23d inst., i n D over -street, Pete s , infant son 0- f the Hon. Locke King, aged 13 months. W. On the 23d inst., Charlea William, the. int tot son of Mr. Harvey, surgeon, Great gneen-street. ,wrlrgaistaaso London : Priptimi lad PP7olished RitinD 0 YOU N G , of I l?,,,i 1 ,;.:1t1(1, at h e s un 011 , ,c;iv No. lti Strand in the of Middle, ex.—Wednesday, April 1, 1840. from Halifax were sold at full rates, viz. at 325 to 33a 6il for ord St. Lucia. COFFEE.—Good ordinary Ceylon is not to be bad under 92s to 935, and for good and fine Java 66s to 70s is asked. At auction only 816 bags Padang were offered, which sold slowly, but at fair prices, viz. at sls to .52s 6d for very low brownish mixed qualit), these rates are however 205 under those when the, market was at its highest point. COCOA.-225 bags St. Lucia put up to public sale were disposed of at 54s to 56s 6d tor mid and good mid red. TALLow.—This afternoon the market was very quiet for Russian Tallow ; the latest quotations were 51s to 51s 3d on the spat for first qual ty, and 49s 6d to 49s 9d for deli very in the last three months. 011.s.—For all kinds of common Isiah Oils previous rates have been maintained, but the demand has been very limiteu for borne use as well as for export, Pale Seel ° , f , first quality is h owever not to b e b a d un d er 26 1 153, Co". 28?, and Southern of low to good quality in small quan tities fetch 231 15s to 251 per tun ; there have been some arrivals of the latter, In Sperm the purchases have been limited, and prices are lower, fine quality selling et 1071 pe r t un; t h ere h ave b een f urt h e r ar• rivals. The t ransact i ons i n L useed Oil on t h e spot have been limited, and prices have dropped to 233 6ci to 233 9d ; for delivery not many contracts have been made. Rape has sold slowly at quotations rather lower. Tn e operations in Palm have been limited at 341 10s to 351 fur first quality, which is again rather cheaper. Ea st India Cocoa Nut sells slowly at 423 to 435 per cot' Olive has been in good request at the rates quoted. SALTPETRE.—For Rough a good demand has existed by private contract, and former rates have been supported; good and fine quality has fetched 26s to 27s per cwt. TEA.—Common Congou for cash is held for 2s od to 2s 5d and Twankay 23 50 to 2s 6d. The demand for Company's Congou for cash was very limited, 9s Ad it asked, but buyers will not give more than 2s 40. This afternoon the market closed quiet for all kind of Tea, but prices were firm. Common Free trade Congos for cash left ofi at 2s 41-d ; Twankay 2s. 51d; an d Com pany's Cungou 2a 41d per lb. CINNAMON.—The demand was limited at the public sales, but the merchants evinced much firmness, Wad bought in large parcels at previous rates, and even rather above for first quality ; 710 bales, Sm., were actually sold, at the following rates as compared with tise last sale; first quality Ceylon, went 3d to 6d higher; second ditto 3d to 6d lower; third do. and broken gams as last sale ; Malabar, chiefly withdrawn. Of Ceylon , 246 bales Ist sort, sound put up, 109 sold from 6s to 7s 8d 35 bales du. mouldy and damaged, 26 bales sold from 5s to Gs 6d, 963 bales 2d sort, sound, 222 bales sold at 4s 5d to 5s 5d : 96 bales do, mouldy and damage* 76 bales sold from 43 4d to 4s 9d; 213 bales, 3,1 sort, sound, 108 bales sold from 3s 9d to 4s 5d ; 90 bales, do. , mouldy and damaged, 86 b a l es so ld f rom 2s 9d to 31 10d; 37 bales Ist, 2d, and 3d class damaged, is 94 a 4s 2d, 3 chasta do is Id; 79 boxes brokensold, 9 do Ist sort sound 3s 4da 3s 6d, 2 do 2d do mouldy and damaged 3s ; 30 do sound 2s 7d a 3s 7d, 12 do mouldy and damaged 2s 7d a 39 ; 18 do 34 sort sound 25 a 3s, 8 do mouldy and damaged. Is 9d a 2s 1 Id; 17 bales Ist sort Malabar, very ord 1 sold 2s, 92 2d,'and 100 3d sort withdrawn ; 53 chests broken , 1 sold at 9d. SPICES.—This day the public sales consisted of 7 chests 31 casks Mace, and 26 chests 12 casks Nutmegs ; tbo former was principally sold, fair and good fair bright realer mixed Bencoolen at 5s Id to bs 6d, middling bright mixed from the Cape, like Bencoolen 4s 7d to 4s 8d ; th e latter was partly sold, viz, good fair bold brown 13encoolea at 4s 3d, from the Cape small mixed, Singapore sort 41, much limed and small 3s 3d to 3s 4d per lb. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—There has been lea' life in the Rum market since we last wrote; Leeward s ' however, have been disposed of to a fair extent, but at a reduction on former rates of Id for ordinary sorts, and better kinds are full as hi g h as l ast Tuesday the sales We, been 350 puns p roo f to 3 per cent over proof at :35 9 " to 33 10d, 5 to 11 ov er 4 s to 4s Bd, 20 to 25 ov er 4s 10d to ss. 2d, 26 to 29 ove r 5 s 3d to 5 s s d , 33 to sa over Sc 6d to 5s Bd, 29 over 5 s 10d, stronger 5s lid to 6s. Jamaica h a s ma i ntaine d i ts f ormer currency; lout the opc,rations have b een li m i te d , on l y 100 puns hav i ng been disposed of s i nce we l ast wrote, fine mid 6a bd to 6s 71 Brandy is h e ld fi rm l y , b ut t h e demand has been l i m i te d. Geneva at previ ous quotat i ons. For British Corn S p i r its the demand is d u ll at l Os per gallon. To-day the Ru m mar k et was qu i et, but prices w ere firm, and proof Leewards not to be bad under 3s 9d per gallon.