The Sun. — London, England, 1847-12-21 00:00:00

r birti 12bition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) BUNN V. LIND. This case was called on, and the names of the special jurors summoned to attend ealled over, but only seven answering to their names, and the plaintiff refusing to pray a tales, Lord DENMAN ordered the case to stand over till the siting after Hilary Term. Sir F. KELLY said, he was instructed on behalf of the plaintiff to apply to his Lordship for an order to examine certain German advocates. Lord DENMAN would advise all parties to examine them out of court. Sir F. KELLY had no objection to adopt the suggestion of the Learned Judge. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected altogether to the application. So many obstacles had been thrown in the way of the eminent defendant in this case, that he was determined on her behalf to resist every thing but the regular trial of the case in court. The case was then ordered to stand over till the sit tings in February next, and the crowds that had assem bled and remained in court since 9 o'clock in the morn ing retired, evidently disappointed at not having heard the important and long-talked-about case of "Bunn u. Jenny Lind;" even the special jurors who were present appeared to share in the disappointment, arid several of them anxiously inquired if they were not to attend to-morrow in the same case. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES, IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COl9- PANIES' STOCK. From the Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUEcDAY A:CD FRIDAY EVENIXG.H LONDON. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21. JOINT-STOCH BANNS. I Dividend Amount Name of Company. 1 per of Paid. Pric.. Annum. Share. £ s. d. s. d. Australasia • • 40 0 0 40 0 0 - gritshNorth American 51. per sent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 - Ceylon •••• .. • • .....- , 61. 13.. r cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Commercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - r!olonial. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Gloucestershire ••• • • • 151 per cent. - lonian •-••••.. • • • • • • , 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 23 13 0 0 - London Joint-Stock 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Provincialof Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto, New......... 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - National of Ireland .. 51. per cent. SO 0 0 22 10 0 - Net. Provncial of Enz. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 New.• •••. • • • 5l. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - South Australia • - 22 10 0 - Uoion of Australia.. •. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto •• • • ... •••• • • • -.- 2 10 0 - Union of L0nd0n..... ! 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Union of Madrid ..... l - 40 0 0 40 0 0 - CANALS. Names et 2 4 , g d Dividend Names of Di vi Price. Companies. z P erend Price. Companies. per Annum. 1 Annum. Athtn& Oldhi 97 51.58. p c 70 'Macclesfield. 100 - 15 Barnsley •- • • 160' 121. I , so Neath ••• • • • 100 201. 340 Srknk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 Oxford.. •- • • 100 201. 200 Birmingham 35 41. 80 Peak Forest. 781 31. 40 Coventry .. • • : 100 25/. - ,regent's •• • • 33 11. 4s. 18 .•• • . 100 61. 63 Rochdale .. • • 85! 41, 54 Ells r rc&Chs 133! 41. 51 Somrset Coal 150 ; 71.10 e. 130 ash ••• 100 321. - Do.LkFdatl 121 61. p. c. - Orand.lunctn : 100 51. 80 Stffrd &Wore ,140; 281. 275 Grand Surrey 100 - 30 Shrewsbury. 1 125 1 151. - I.rand Union 100 11. 10s. , 213 y Stourbridge...l4st 201. 305 Grantham • . 150 , 121. - Severn and Kennt & AYH 39 7s. 60. su %sr" R a il. S 26 11. Bs. 30 Le :.1s & Livrp 100 341. 503 Warwick& 1 Leiclster .... 140, 101. 75 Birming. 00 51. 65 Leicstr &Nth, 84 41. 36 Warwick& 1 46 Lowchborogh 142 701. 530 Napton.. Monmonthsh 100 81. - Worcetr &/ 2 1 . 39 111ntgemrysla 100 51. - ' 3idaltnMwbry 100 101. ' - Wilts & Brks 67, 11. 11 INSUILANCE COMPANIES. Dividend per Annum. 31. 10s. 6 per cent. 61. per cent, 13s. 6d. pr sh. 7s. per share 51. per cent. 31. 13s. 6s. 57. per cent. 536 per cent. 41.& bs. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 12 per cent. Its. 11. sh. & bs. W. 35. 41. per ct. 51. per cent. 81. per cent. 51. per cent. 31,p. et. bs. Amount Share. Name of Company. Paid. X e. d. £ s. d. 500 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 11 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 50 0 0 5 6 8 50 0 0 5 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 1 5 0 0 50 0 0 1 5 0 0 50 0 0 2 12 6 20 0 0 All paid. 400 4 0 0 20 0 0 3 0 0 Stock. , 100 0 0 1 36 10 0 500 0 0 i 50 0 0 100 0 o I l 0 0 100 0 0 I 5 13 1 100 0 0 i 2 10 0 100 0 o i 10 0 0 50 0 0 2 0 0 25 0 0 I 12 10 0 25 0 0 I 12 10 0 100 0 0 I 15 0 0 50 0 0 1 2 0 0 20 0 0 1 2 10 0 100001500 50 0 01 2 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 45. 5 0 0 5/. per cent. Stock. 6/. 10s. 11. 6s. 101. pr cnt. 54. poor cent, 11. ss. 1 - 100 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 8 10 0 4 0 0 'ISE COIVIPANIES' Dividend per Annum. 71. per cent. 81. per cent. 81. per sent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 71. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 71. per cent. 6/. per cent. 71. per cent. 61. per cent. 81. per cent. Si. per cent. 121. per cent. 101. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 71. per cent. Si. per cent. Si. per cent. 51. per cent. 1 5% I. pr cent.l 57. per cent. 61. pr cent. 5/. pa cent. Si. per cent. Amount of Share. 4 s. d. 100 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 500 0 0 25 u 0 5 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 200 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 1 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 Pricc, Albion • • • • • • • • •• •• •• Alliance Brit. and For. DM) Marine. •• •• Atlas ... • • • • • • British Commercial .. Clericl,Med. & Gen .Life County • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Eagle .. • . ...... •• • • Eng .3c Scot. Law •• • • European Life ••• • • • Family Endow= t Soc. Freemasons' .. .. .. • • Globe Guardian •• • • • • :raperi al Fire • • • • • • • • Imperial Life ••• • • • Indemnity Marina•. • - Law Fire .. •• • • • • Liw Life •. • • • Legal and General Lile London Fire • • • • London Skip •. • . Med. In/lid 8c Gen. Life National Lean Fund National Life• • •• Palladium Lite. ..... • Pelican .. • • • • •• • • • • PfileaiX .. P otector Life •. Provident Life • • • • • • • • Rock Life.... Royal Exchange Sun Fire Ditto Life Universal Life.... • • • • Vi,:toria. Life . MIST OP SCOT' Name of Company. Bank of Scotland British Linen Company Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow Bank Clydesdale Bank • • • . • • Commercial Bank • • Eastern Bank ••• • • • Edinb.& Glasgow Bank Exchange Bnk of Scot Isle of Man. Company National Bank . ..... North of Scotland Bank North British Bank . • . Royal Bank of Scotland Union Bank of Scotland Western 8ank.. .... Aberdeen Fire and Life B. Accord. Life and Fire British Guarantee Ins. Caledonian Fire Insur. Church of England Ins. City of Glasgow Life Edinburgh Life Insur East of Scotland Life Eng. & Scot, Law Life Hercules Insurance Co. Irma.. Co. of Scetind Life Assoc. of Scotland Mercantile Life National. Fire and Life North British Incur North Sr West of Scot. Scottish Life and (boar. Scot. Ma o. and Gen. Life Scottish Union Inunce. Standard Life • • •• .• • United Dep. Assurance :cms. Price. 84% 7014 816.6 d. DOMES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. 1 I----1- .----- X s. d. £ 3. d. CJrnmercial •• • • ..... 41. per cent. Stock. - 70 East and West India... 61. pr cent. Stock. - 119 East Countr 11. per sh. 100 0 0 - 20 London •• .............'Si. pr cent. Stock. - 98 Ditto Bonds •.•• . • • . 41. per cent. - - - St. Katharine ...•.... 5 per cent. Stock. - 81% Ditto 80nd5........ 434/. pr cans. - - - Southampton •••• • • - 21. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 WATER.-WOILICS. • Dividend Amount Name of Company. , per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s. d. X 5. d. Birmingham .•• • • .... , 18s. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - East London..• •••• • • • 81. 100 0 0 - 170 Grand Junction .• - -2/. 105. 41 18 4 - 82 100 0 0 - 64 New Rivr Lndn Brdge I 21. 10s. - - 55 Vauxhall •. • • ...... 1 100 0 0 - 104 West Middlesex . . . 151.15s.prent. 63 12 9 - 118 0.0.8-LIGHT AND CONE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. annum. Share. X. s. d. X. s. d. British • • ...... ••• • • • 1/. i 49 0 0 18 0 0 17% Ditto Provincial• •• • 11. Bs. 20 0 0 19 0 0. 24 Bristol .............. 101. per cent. 20 0 0 - - Brighton ....... ..... 51. per cent. 120 0 0 - 19 City of London .. •• - 101. 'lOO 0 0 100 0 0 290 Continental Consolidat. 925. pr share 50 0 0 39 5 0 54 Ditto, New Equitable... ...... ... 15s. pr share' 50 0 0 50 0 0 38 Imperial • • ..... . .... 61. per cent. 150 0 0 50 0 0 783 Independent . L0nd0n...,..,, n 61. per cent. 140 0 0 40 0 0 , 64 ° ' • • .... * ** ***• 2% /. pr cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 4O pi tr . ... ..... .. . .. :.•: : : : 61. per cent.: 50 0 0 50 0 0 48 Rat e liff .... • • ........ 51. per cent. 150 0 0 45 0 0 1 36% United General .. .. .... 5L and bus . 'lOO 0 0 90 0 0 ' 80 Westminster Ch • re .• 4X,1. pr cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 17 - Ditto, New d 31, 50 0 0 - 58 •-•• 125. 50 0 () 10 0 0 I 1 1 aii SEXDGEI3. Name of Company. Dividend Amount Per St i le. Annum. Paid. Price. s. . - Hangerford ••••.. • • .. _ Z. d , Z • e. d. - SouthwTk, Nw Sub. Av. - 632 12 li - - Ditto Nw of 7% p. c. 355. per cent. 50 o 0 - 24 Waterloo •••••• • • • • • • - 100 0 0 - 16 Ditto Old Ann. of 81 . 1 /. s s. 4 d. _ - 514 Ditto Nw ditto of 7L 11. 2s. 2d. - 60 ° 0 30 Vauxha ll ••.• ... Av. 11. 16s. 70 10 0 40 0 0 28 ----- - - - ----7.--______ - 27 % MISCELLANEOUS. -------------li°CTe7l-------------- Amount per of Paid. Price. Name of Company . Annum. Share. _--- X. s. d. , X. s. d. 100 0 0 30 0 0 20 Australian Agricultnr l - 10 0 0 19 0 0 17 Anglo-M e xican Mint., 11. 45. 2 10 0 - Ditto, Half Shares.. - - Canada 6/. per cent. 100 0 A,32 10 0 30 Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. - - City Bonds.. ••..• • • • 3 1•2 /. pr ce n t . - 100 0 0 70 0 0 - Comp. Cppr Mgrs Eng. 5/. per cent. Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 II 100 Equitable Reversienry 4% 1 . pr cent. 100 0 0 9 , ) 0 0 90 Gen.SteamNavigation 1/. Bs. 13 0 0 14 0 0 23 London Institution . • • - - - 9 0 0 0 59 Peninslr & Orient.Strn. 2 /. per cent. 50 0 0 3 Reversionary Int. Soc. 3 1 4 7 . pr cent. 100 9 0 100 0 0 97 Royal Mail Steam •. •. 3!21. pr cent. - 60 0 0 - South Australian ... • • 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Van Dieman's Land.. - 100 0 0 23 0 0 4 Universal Salvage .• • • - 28 0 0 , 5 0 0 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER, 21, 1847 MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Dec. 21.) SUGAR.—To-day the market exhibited a firmer ap pearance for raw Sugar, and there was a less quantity on offer. There was more inclination manifested to operate, and in some cases merchants were enabled to obtain better prices. In West India Muscovado sales to a fair extent were concluded, both for the scale and the pan, whilst the rates paid are equal to those of Friday and in some cases rather above. The quan tity sold amounted to 450 hhds, &c., including a public sale of 152 hhds Barbadoes, which went at the former value—very fine yellow 46s 6d, fine 41s 6d to 445, good 39s 6d to 40s 6d, middling 38s to 395, and low 363 6d to 37s per cwt. REFINED.—To-day refined goods were much sought after for home consumption, but few parcels to be ob tained, standard lumps realised 53s 6d to 546., and brown grocery 52s 6d to 53s per cwt. The market is firm for bonded crushed Sugar, and a good demand exists at 30s to 31s for first sort. For Loaves the demand is exten sive, and prices tend upwards. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon there was more activity in the market for Mauritius Sugar, and 2,687 bags, 6 casks, of the new crop, at public sale, were sold in some cases 6d per cwt above former rates; fine yellow fetched 435, good 38s to 39s 6d, middling and good middling 35c to 37s 6d, washed and syrupy 28s 6d to 41s 6d per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar attracted more attention, and 685 bags at public sale were sold at full rates; fine grainy yellow went at 43s 6d to 46s 6d, good 41s to 42s 6d, middling 37s 6d to 39s 6d ; of Penang 560 baskets, 252 bags, and 19 cases went at stiffer rates ; fine yellow fetched 37s 6d, middling and good 31s to 32s 6d, low 30s to 30s 6cl, good brown 28s to 295; 4,432 bags of Siam sold at fully the former value, and in some cases rather above. FOREIGN.—Since our last report holders of Foreign Sugar have not been so willing to realize, and there is a falling off in the supply at market. Prices have suf fered no further depression; the market, however, has been in an inactive state; from exporters the demand hav ing been limited for all sorts, whilst our refiners working under bond have been purchasers to a moderate extent only, although there are many orders on hand for loaves and crushed sugar; the grocers have been cautious in their proceedings. By private contract the principal sales are 600 chests of Bahia. COFFEE.—This afternoon Plantation Ceylon was dealt in with caution, acid of 79 bags 10 casks at auction, a small part only found buyers, at rather lower rates; fine bold colory went at 70s, good 56s to 58s, middling 433 to 545, fine fine ordinary 43s 6d to 44a, fine ordinary 38s, vod ordinary 365, ordinary 345, damaged 14s 6d to 43s 6d. The market is in an inactive state for native, and 631 bags went at 33s 6d for good ordinary, and at 28s 6d to 32s for damaged, which are rather lower rates ; 91 bags of Mauritius sold at 27s for good ordinary yellowish heated, and at 25s 6d for damaged, being moderate prices. TEA —A more favourable opinion is enter'ained to wards Congou, and during the last few days purchases to a fair extent have been made; prices, however, do not improve, as the market is yet plentifully supplied, and holders showing a desire to sell. The purchases made in Soucbong are Tri fling, although low and middling can be obtained at 8d to Is, and good to fine is 2d to 2s. I'ouchong is neglected, and can be obtained at 3d to Bd, according to quality. There is not the least improvement in the value of green, as there is an abundant supply. The operations are upon a more extended scale. RICE.—To-day there was little passing privately in East India Rice, and 2,582 bags of Bombay at auction sold at a reduction on former rates of 6d to is per cwt— fine white went at 12s to 12s Gd, low and middling dusty, small 9s to 10s, good greyish white large pearl, but rather broken 9s 6d to 10s, middling ditto 9s to Os 6d, and damaged Ss to Os per cat. SAGO.—To-day at public sale 135 boxes of Pearl Sago sold at lower rates, and went at 17s to 18s 6d for fine small white pearl. SPICES.—'To-day Pimento was only in limited demand, and 129 bags at auction sold at a decline of id per lb — good went at 4d to 40, good mid 31d, mid 31d to 3id, low ord 3d, good ord 31d, and damaged 3d to 34d; 3 cases Cinnamon sold at Is 5d for Madras, and is 7d to is 9d for damaged Bombay ; 14 cases 2 bags of Penang Nut megs sold at full rates. Cocoa.—For West India former rates are required ; the sales made privately are, however, to a small extent only, red at 40s to 495, and grey at 37s to 445. 127 bags of Bahia at auction sold at 36s for fine bright red, which is cheaper. Six bags of Caracca went at the high rate of 60s 6d for bold dark grey. SPIRITS.—To-day few purchases were made in any kind of Rum, and sellers offered to accept rather lower rates. We quote proof Leewards at is 63-d to is 7d, East India is 5d to is 6d, Jamaica 30 to 36 per cent over proof 3s 4d to 3s Bd, good and fine 3s 9d to 4s Gd per gallon. FRUIT.—Tor day at public sale 126 pkgs of damaged Patras Currunts were nearly all taken in at 38s to 395; 41 do. of Zante 39s to 40s; 72 do. of Old Patras 32s to 335, and 119 do. of Zante at 32s to 33s per cwt. SALTPETRE.—To day Rough met with little attention privately, and 432 bags Calcutta at auction sold at 31s 6d to 32s for good strong grey, 4d per cent. refraction, being rather lower rates. COCHINEAL—This afternoon Cochineal met with at tention, 12 bags of Honduras black at auction sold at 5s 4d to 6s 9d, 85 bags of silvers 4s 5d to ss, and 12 bags of Tenerife for exportation only, at 4s lld to ss, and which are all full prices. TALLow.—There is no further advance to notice in the value of Russian, although the arrivals continue small, and the demand on the spot having been active from both the town and country trade. On the part of merchants there is firmness, and they are obtaining 46s 6d to 47s for P. Y. Candle. For delivery in the spring months a good business bas been concluded at 45s 6d. Home made sells readily at 47s to 48s nett cash; the supply will be more plentiful ere long. For other kinds of Tallow prices have slightly given way, as the quantity brought to market was large, the demand, however, has been good. OlLS.—There is more firmness on the part of holders of common Fish Oils, and the market has been less freely supplied, buyers also have operated with more freedom. and a rise in the value of all sorts is apparent. Seal met with a good sale. Cod has been in excellent request at 251 to 251 10s, and at which there are not generally sellers. Southern of all descriptions is wanied, supply is however small. Sperm has declined in value, as an increased quantity has been brought to market, but good demand prevailed, and 120 tuns at public sale were all sold. The home trade are the chief buyers of Fish Oils ; only small parcels have arrived since our last report. Cocoa Nut is little re quired, and prices are for the decline, although the sup ply continues to be small. In Olive several purchases have been made, holders however are still willing sellers, although the stock does not increase. Lard Oil sells slowly at 48s to 535. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.--(THIS DAY.) Amsterdam .. .. .. •• • . 12 S Ditto, at night • . Rotterdam 26 15 fiamburgh ......M.B. la 15% Paris, 3 days'sight •. 29 TO Ditto, ............ 24 5 Harseilles .... .•.. • . 26 10 tourdeaux......... .. 26 15 N'rankfort on Maine.... 124 Petersburgh, Sit. Rble ~ Vienna, effeciifo...... 10 20 Trieste, ditt0.......... 10 20 Madrid ..... • • .. 46% Barcelona •• ...... .... --. Gibraltar .. Leghorn 30 40 Genoa .. 26 15 Milan .. • ...... Venice • • -- Naples ...... ••.•.. • • 39 s Palermo, per on ......... 119 Lisbon .. .• .......... Oporto .... • • • . • • 41 Rio Janeiro • • .... •. • • Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days'sight Philadelphia .......... PILICIS OF BULLION, PEE oz. Foreign Gold in bars.. X 3 17 9 New Dollars —— • . 0 4 9?y Portugal (hold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. • 0 • Silver in bars .... —• • • 4 11% Sille.. ..... THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) LORD GREAT CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, Dec. 20, 1847. Notice is hereby given, that the usual weekly dis tributiion of tickets from this office will be discontinued during the recess of Parliament, it being necessary to close the House of Lords during that time. WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY, G.C. CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 20. SUMMERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT TAR- LIAM2NT. Borough of Stockport—James Kershaw, Esq., of Vic toria-park, in the county of Lancaster, in the room of Richard Cobden, Esq., who being chosen a Knight for the West Riding of the county of York, and also one of the Burgesses for the said borough, has made his elec tion to sit for the said West Riding. Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme—Samuel Christy, Esq., of Poynton-hall, in the county of Chester. Borough of Tamworth—John Townshend, Captain R.N., in the room of the Right Hon. William Yates Peel, who has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. Lancashire (Southern Division)—Alexander Henry, Esq., of Woodlauds, in tfie said county of Lancaster, in the room of the Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, ;who being chosen one of the burgesses for the borough of Wolverhampton, and also one of the knights for the said southern division, has made his election to sit for the said borough of Wolverhampton. WHITEHALL, DF.c. 18. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, constituting and appointing the Right Hon. George Earl of Auckland, G.C.8.; Rear-Admiral James Whitley Deans Dundas; Captain Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge Berkeley; Captain Lord John Hay, C. 8.; the Hon. William Francis Cowper; and Alexander Milne, Esq., Captain in the Royal Navy, her Majesty's Commis -ioners for executing the office of High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dominions, islands, and territories thereunto belonging. WHITEHALL, DEC. 18. The Queen has been pleased to nominate, constitute, and appoint Viscount Sandon to be one of the Eccle siasttcal Commissioneers for England, in the room of Lord Ashley, resitned. WHITEHALL, Die. 18. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, appointing William Henry Tinney, Esq., one of her N\liajesty's Counsel learned in the Law, to be one of the srtimnaureT Dofuctkhewlolritghh. Esq., deceased. Chan Chancery, in the ag r t o er o a m ill of ° =Toe CluerlenOhWasNbleNenGi:lBeTasßedEtEoTr: DEC.Oint 2 Charles . Henry Darling, Esq. to be Lieutenant Governor l of the island of St. Lucia. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint Robert Russell, E.g. to be Registrar of the Court of Chancery Ind Clerk of the Patents for the isl an d of Jamaica. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint James tr_ a rson Seriff, DI., to be Coroner for the island of Antigua. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoi nt Pait eld Mills, Esq., to be her Majesty's Solicitor• General for the island of Nevis. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint James Coleman Fitzpatrick. Esq., to be Assessor or Assistant to the Native Sovereigns and Chiefs within the countries adjacent to her Majesty's forts and settlements on the Gold Coast. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint William Macartney, Esq., to be Superintendent of Police at Colombo, in the island of Ceylon. Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint Edward Bage, Esq., to be Assistant Surveyor and En gineer, and Robert Armstrong, Esq., to be Police Ma gistrate, for the colony of Sierra Leone. FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 21. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Chris topher Hempstead, as Consul at Belize, in Honduras, for the United States of America. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. John Conrard Stiffel, as Consul in London, and of Mr. Joseph Maunder, as Consul at Liverpool, for the Republic of Hayti. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Bedford. Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia—Ensign John Lowden to be Lieutenant, vice Wilkinson, promoted, Dec. 9. WHITEHALL, DEC. 15, 1847. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Charles John Newbry, of Newport and Ryde, in the Isle of Wlght, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. . WHITE EIALL, DEC. 17. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Richard Arthur Dufty, of the town and county of the town of Notting ham, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, DEC. 21. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry Grimley, of Market Drayton, in the county of Salop, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. Henry Turner,fishn3ons, , er, Coventry. street,lPiccadilly. John Bennet Brough, cabinet maker, Macclesfield. BANK RU PTS. William Norman, coal merchant, Gislingharn, Suffolk, to surrender Dec. 29 and Jan. 28, at two, at the Court of Baukruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; Galsworty and Nichols ' Cook's- eourt, Carey-street. Frederick Nevill, commission agent, Little Love-lane, City, Jan. 3, at half-past one, and Feb. 7, at half- past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers ; Lloyd, Milk-street, Cheapside„ Thomas Orpwood, coach currier, Bear-street, Leices ter-square, Dec. 27, at half-past one, and Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street ; King and Co., Temple. Thomas Woods, draper, Cambridge, Jan. 3, at two, and Feb. 7, at half past twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chatn bers ; Sole and Turner, Alderrnanbury. Henry Ready, builder, Hounslow, DT. 29, and Jan. 27, at eleven, a: the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, offl• cial assignee, Coleman-street; Brady and Son, Staples Inn. Thomas Chapple, tailor, Borough-road, Dec. 30, at two and Feb. 3, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Hill, Moor gate-street, London. William Sandilands, piano forte maker, 'Walnut tree-walk, Lambeth, Dec. 29, at half past one, and Feb. 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Tripp, Adelaide place, London-bridge. William West linen draper, London terrace, Hackney road, Jan. 4, at twelve, and Feb. 1, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Old Jewry; Moss, Sergeants' Inn. - !- John Richards, woollen draper. Merthyr Tydvil,..Jan. 4 and Feb. 1, at eleven, at the Bristol Di*trict Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol; Liuklaters, Leaden hall-street. London. John Harvey, bookseller, Sidmouth, Devon, Jan. 1 t and Feb. 3, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter ; N'.cholk-tta, Brid port; Stogdon, Exeter; Brace, Surrey-street, Strand. Nathaniel Bishop, jun., victualler, Honiton, Devon, Dec. 31 and Feb. 3, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Townsend and Stamp, Honiton; Dew, Exeter; Robinson and Bar low, Essex-street, Strand. James Stephenson, cowkeeper, West Kirby, Cheshire, Jan. 4 and Jan. 25, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Vincent, Temple, London; Jones, Liverpool. Samuel Timperley and Joseph Timperley, linen drapers, Ashton-under-Lyrae, Laucashire, January 3 and 26, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Atkinson, Sanders, and Atkinson, Manchester; Abbott, Charlotte -street, Bed ford-square. George and Joseph Hargreaves, merchants, Man chester, Jan. 4 and 25, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ; Atkinson, Saunders, and Atkinson, Manchester; Ab bott, Charlotte -street, Bedford• square, London. George :Hargreaves, merchant, Manchester, Jan. 4 and ; 25, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Atkinson, Saunders, and Atkinson, Manchester; Abbott, Charlotte -street, Bedford• square, London. James Harper, mercer, Worcester, Jan. 5 and 31, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, offi cial assignee, Manchester; Reed. Longford, and Mars den, Friday-street, London; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester. Joseph Fielding, corn dealer, Middleton, Lancashire, Dee. 31, and Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Manchester Dis trict Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Keigbtley, Cunliffe, and Beaumont, Chancery-lane ; 13arratt, Manchester. George Callan), shawl manufacturer, Manchester, Jan. 5, and Feb. 2, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ; Messrs. Heed, Langford, and Marsden, Friday-street, London ; Messrs. Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester. George Hobson Steer, commission agent, Sheffield, Dec. 31 and Jan. 28, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Sheffield ; Nixon, Clifford's Inn, London ; Binney, Sheffield. John Willcox, provision dealer, Birmingham, Dec. 28 and Feb. 1, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Harding, Birmingham. William Gimson, builder, Leicester, Dec. 31 and Jan. 28, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Bit tleston, official assignee, Nottingham ; Gregory, Leices• ter ; Motteram and Knowles, Birmingham. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF COMMONS, Dec. 20. THE WEST INDIES. Mr. CARD WELL presented a petition from the West Indian Association of Liverpool, com plaining that this country admitted slave-grown sugar after preventing such labour in the colonies, and stating that unless they gave immediate relief our West Indian colonies must fall into non-culti vation. INCREASE OF BISHOPS. Mr. R. PALMER presented a petition from the Church of England Lay Association, complaining that the present number of bishops were inadequate to the spritual wants of the country. SUPERANNUATION FUND. Mr. NEWDEGATE presented petitions in favour of a superanruation fund.; also two petitions against the admission of Jews. JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL. Lord J. RUSSELL brought up the Jewish Dis abilities Bill, which was read a first time. The Noble Lord said he proposed to take the second read ing on Monday, February 7th. Mr. SPOONER rose to express his regret that the Noble Lord had taken so long a time for the ad journment of the House. Lord J. RUSSELL :—it has not been moved yet. —(A laugh)._ _ _ SPO - ONER :—Oh, I beg pardon.—(A laugh). Colonel SIBTHORP regretted that he was un able to be present at the discussion on the passing of the resolution which had been carried. He should not be at all surprised, after what had transpired upon this Bill, to hear the Honourable Member for the University of Oxford, the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn, and the Honourable Member for Bucks, proposing that anybody and everybody should 'be admitted into the House ' • but he wanted the Noble L or d w h o i n t ro d uce d this Bill, to say whether he intended to make any exception for Jews as to Friday and Saturday sittings. Suppose there happened to be " a call" of the House on a Saturday, would the Jews be ex empted from attending ?—(Great laughter.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that should such an unusual event as that suggested by the Hon. and Gallant Member arise, no doubt those Hon. Members who neglected to attend would be committed to the custody of the Sergeant-at -Arms ; but he could assure the Hon. and Gallant Member that such Jews as might become Members of that House would be quite content to pay the fines and suffer the penalties consequent upon their absenting themselves on a Saturday. Colonel SIBTHORP—Friday—I said Friday.' Lord JOHN RUSSELL said it did not matter whether the call were made on Friday or Saturday, he could answer for it the Jews would be quite wil ling to pay the fine.—(Hear, hear.) ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved that the House, at its rising, do adjourn till Thursday, the 3d February. He did not think it necessary to propose an earlier day for the re-assembling of Parliament than the day he had named. The Queen's speech having been de livered, and the address passed, there could be nothing upon the re-assembling of Parliament to prevent the House from at once proceeding with business. He begged therefore to move, that the House at its rising do adjourn till Thursday, 3d of February. Mr. SPOONER regretted that the Noble Lord had thought fit to move the adjournment to so late a period; he could only attribute his asking so long an adjournment to his total ignorance with respect to the real state of the country. The popu lation of the great iron manufacturing districts was in a most distressing state. In Staffordshire and in Wales vast masses of the people were dis charged, and were now being discharged, and the wages of those who were employed were now under very considerable reduction. What had been done by the House towards alleviating the dis tresses of the country? It was true that they had appointed a Committee, but the report of that Committee would not be ready for some months. They had to a certain degree arrested the distress to which the large houses were subject, but the distress was now falling upon that class of society whose employment was absolutely necessary for the safety and prosperity of the country. The House had stopped commercial failures among the large houses, but they had broken down the industry of the country. The capital of the poor man was his labour, and if employment was not found for that labour, the result would naturally prove disastrous to the interests of the poorer classes of society. He declined upon the present occasion to enter into any discussion as to the causes of the reef nt commercial di-tress. He was not one of those who denied that there had been improvident speculations in railways, but if the monetary system of this country had been a sound one, the results of such improvidence would have fallen only on the improvident. It was adding insult to injury for the House to say that it had no power to prevent these sudden and recurring seasons of commercial distress. He maintained that Parliment could and ought by some legislative means to put a stop to this state of things.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The same distress that had been felt in this country was beginning to be felt in America. They had raised the rate of interest there, in order to get back gold, and in fact there was a scramble between the two countries who should get the most of that precious metals. He thought the Government were not justified in adjourning the House for so long a period until they had done something to remove from the Bank of England the shackles that were imposed by the Act of 1844. It was not far from improbable that events might occur before the House met again which would render it imperative that some relaxation should be made with respect to the re strictions on the Bank. He would therefore moved, as an amendment to the motion for the ad journment of the House to the 3d of February, to strike out the words " the 3d of February," and in set " the 15th of of January." Mr. NEWDEGATE seconded the amendment. Mr. MONSELL said, though he was not prepared to second the motion of the Honourable Member, he wished to occupy th e ti me o f th e H ouse f or a few moments, whilst he called their attention to the condition of the able bodied destitute poor. He thought he should best discharge his duty, not by support ing the amendment, but by urging upon the Govern ment the absolute necessity of their considering the condition of those unfortunate persons before the meeting of Parliament in February of bringing forward measures at that time to place the relations of capital and labour upon a bet ter footing than at present. Unless they were prepared to bring forward such measures at the time he mentioned, it would be utterly impossible to encounter the distress of the spring and summer. As an Irishman, he wished to express his unfeigned gratitude for the aid which Parliament afforded last year to his famishing countrymen.— (Hear, hear.) But the sums so generously voted were employed in removing the effects of Ireland's suffering, not the cause. After the recess he should call the attention of the House to the state of the able. bodied unemployed poor, and the necessity of measures for placing the relations of capital and labour on a better basis. Out of 921,576 families dependent for their support upon manual labour 840,963 were in an impoverished estate. This number included the heads of families possess ing land up to five acres. In 33 unions of Irelan d the poor • rate averaged 18s. per head of the population, whilst in one of our worst agricultural counties—Dorsetshire, for instance---the rates amounted to 4/. Bs. per head. Now, let him ask the House what would be the condition of that country if the population was increased fivefold, without any increased means of subsistence. Such would be found to be the position of one-fourth of Ireland at the present moment. Having referred to the opinions of Ricardo on the probable fate of an impoverished nation, he proceeded to say, that unless measures were taken to create a change in the social condition of Ireland, the whole population would sink into misery and ruin, and those who now enjoyed comforts would every day be added to the ranks of those in abject misery, and the country would present a much more miserable aspect than it does at present.— (Hear.) He trusted, however, that before Parliament met again Government would have prepared some mea sure sufficient to meet the calamities he had described; and he could assure them, if they did so, they should have his cordial aid and assistance in carrying them out.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. P. SOROPE could not allow this motion to pass without expressing his earnest regret and sin cere disappointment, that Government had not thought it necessary to take the opportunity of this short session to introduce and carry through Parlia ment some measure which should have the effect of facilitating the operation of the Irish Poor-law. A large number of the poor must inevitably be thrown upon the parishes within the next few weks, and it was therefore of the highest importance that some thing should have been done to facilitate and extend the operation of the law. He trusted, however, that the Government would take the opportunity of the recess to consider and mature some measure to set the unemployed labour of Ireland upon the immense unemployed waste lands of the country. The people of England were bound to look into this matter. The emigration was not that of an ordinary kind, but one which resulted from a state of fearful distress, consequent upon th e f a il ure o f th e p o t a t o crop. He trusted that the Government would think it right to adopt some measure for the employment of the people upon the waste lands of Ireland, as a means of improving the condition of the people. Lord LINCOLN said that in the course of last session he brought before the House a motion with respect to the establishment of an efficient system of colonisation; that motion was assented to, but the answer which he received from the Noble Lord at the head of the Government was, that he could not recommend her Majesty to appoint a Commission to inquire into the subject in accordance with a portion of the resolution, but that inquiries should be made upon the subject through the Colonial-office. He wished, therefore, to ask the Noble Lord at the head of the Government whether he was in possession of any reports so when those reports would e p erne ready y e tobe subjectlaicia uponif the table of the House ? Mr. HINDLEY felt bound to complain of the want of energy and stringency which had charac terised the measures whi-Jh the Government had in- He thought, with respect to that it had been very unfairly thetr in troduced d Bankuc ed and cha r t p e passed. se d. Act, dealt with in its operation. He thought the Bank of England had been the cause of all the distress that had taken place. Mr. GLADSTONE did not wish at present to enter on the discussion of any of the important ques tions which had been adverted to, but rose for the purpose of making a remark on another subject. Some days since, the Noble Lord said he did not ex pect to be able to introduce the measure announced by her Majesty in the Speech from the Throne with respect to the laws concerning navigation at a very early period after the recess. He must say that he had heard that announcement with very great regret. He was not surprised that the Noble Lord should find a difficulty in introducing every measure at as early a period as he could desire • but he apprehended that it needed no argument to ;how that the present period was one, especially after the Committee of last session, eminently fit for the comprehensive con sideration of the laws relating to navigation— (Hear, heat')—and that he should carry with him the feelings of both sides of the House when he said that it was pre-eminently desirable that the de cision of Parliament on this most important subject should be taken during the present session. He thought it would be quite consistent with the answer of the Noble Lord, and it might•tend to give satisfac tion to the House if he were able to assure them that, con introducing it at such a time that although he did not contemplate introducing the measure at an e arly period after the recess, yet he did templat e both H ouses o f P ar li amen t should have ample oppor tunity for cons id er i ng it in the course of the present session, so that they might entertain a reasonable ex pectation th a t, w h a t eve r the views of Parliament on that questio n , th e s hipping interest of the country, and all whose expectations were excited by that ques tion, should not be kept in a state of uncertainty and suspense, but should have all the means of knowing what conclusion was to be arrived at in the course of the present session. Colonel SIBTHORP wished to ask, as Parliament was about to rise, what had they done since they had been there, and why did the adjournment take place ? Was murder still to flourish in Ireland, while the Noble Lord and the other Ministers were passing their holidays shooting, hunting, and dancing.— (Laughter.) He thought it important that the House should know how long the Noble Earl now in Italy was to be absent, and whether he received the public m oney d ur i ng his absence.—(Continued laughter.) Had they at all relieved the distresses of the people ? They had appointed a Committee to sit, and sitting God knew how long, what would be the result ? He thought that they ought not to ad journ at all • ' but of two evils it was right to choose the less, an d he should therefore vote for the adjourn ment for the shorter period. Sir LUCIUS O'BRIEN said he wished to call the attention of the House to the distressed state of Ire land, and more particularly of the western part of it, with which he was more immediately connected. He would never cease to bear testimony to all that had been done for Ireland by this country during the last year, and he regretted to have heard some of the language that had been used in that House on the I subject. But it was right that the House should be made acquainted with the difficulties with which the , gentry of Ireland had to contend. They were sur rounded by starving multitudes whom it was impossible for them, by any effort, to provide with sustenance, and he greatly feared that in many parts of the country any exertion they could make would be wholly insufficient to keep the people alive, and that the task would thus again fall on that House of saving the people from starvation. He was of opinion that Parliament had taken the proper course in passing the Bill for the suppression of crime and outrage in Ireland, in the first instance, but he hoped that after the recess they would lose no time in considering other measures for the relief of that country. Considering that the crop on which de pended the whole support of the people had been alto gether destroyed, it was no wonder that the great distress which prevailed last year should have existed. The efforts made by Parliament had no doubt the effect cf saving the lives of many of the people ; but it should not be forgotten that one consequence of these efforts was, that the people were taken away from the cultivation of the soil, and that there was necessarily a great diminution in the crops for the present year, and a proportionate want of the means of support. He was glad, however, to be able to say that he saw the prospect of a much more extensive culti vation of the soil next year. Mr. HERRIES said he rose to exress a hope that his Hon. Friend would not press his amendment.— (Hear, hear.) He was quite sure that no Member of the House would hesitate to sacrifice or postpone his own interests or convenience for the public good, but on this question he was willing to place confidence in her Majesty's Government, and to rest satisfied that they would not have fixed on any period for the adjournment that was not in conformity with the public interest. He hoped and trusted that the state ments which had been made that evening by the two Hon. Members for North Warwickshire as to the sufferings of the manufacturing operatives in their district would not be lost sight of by the Government. —(Hear, hear.) They had also heard something about the distress existing in Ireland. Very little at tention had been paid by the House, during the recent sittings, to the embarrassment under which the manufacturers now labour, and to the distressed con dition of the operatives. It had been stated, he be lieved, on authority, that t o•fifths of the working classes in the manufacturing districts were out of employment, and that of the remainder, a portion only were in full employment; that there was a very large number of factory mills now working short time, and no inconsiderable number not working at all. He believed that it was also an undoubted fact, that there were merchants from abroad who purchased the raw cotton here at a lower price than our own merchants had it in bond, and who sent it to be manufactured in other countries where labour was far cheaper than here.—(Hear, hear.) This was a subject which de served the most serious and anxious consideration, not only of her Majesty's Ministers, but of Parliament.— (Hear, hear.) He hoped that Parliament would not be re- assembled long before this matter was brought under their attention. There was also another subject which attracted much interest throughout the coun try, and that was the present state of the currency and banking laws.—(Hear, hear.) He would not say anything that could by possibility lead to a dis cussion on that question at present, but as he had been called upon from various quarters to take it up, and as he had even on that day been entrusted with a petition signed by 130 respectable firms in Liverpool (which, owing to an accident, he was unable to pre sent that day), alluding to the obstructive character of the existing banking laws, he felt it to be his duty to take that opportunity of stating that he hoped, at the earliest day he could select, after the meeting of Parliament, to bring the subject under the attention of the House. Wishing that the Bill relating to the suppression of crime and outrage in Ireland should have precedence, he had been induced to postpone his motion on this subject until the notice of the adjourn ment of the House rendered it impossible for him to bring it forward at the present short sitting. He hoped that her Majesty's Ministers would admit the great importance of the subject, and aid him in bringing it befcre the House at as early a period as possible. Lord JOHN RUSSELL—I mean to address my self in the first place to some observations that fell from the Honourable Baronet the Member for Clare (Sir Lucius O'Brien). The Honourable Member referred to great distress existing in various parts of Ireland, and to the exertions made by gentlemen of property in various parts of the kingdom to alleviate that distress. I cannot, unhappily, contradict his state ment of the distress which prevails, and I am happy to say that I draw from all the accounts that have been received that great exertions have been made by gen tlemen of property to alleviate the distress which ex ists, and I believe the number of applications that have been made under the Land Improvement Act shows a general wish on the part of those possessing pro perty in Ireland to give employment to the poor in their neighbourhoods. But when the Honourable Baronet goes on to express his expectation and hope that relief will be given by Parliament to meet the prevailing distress, I must say that, in the first place, I think it would be necessary that we should have proof that every exertion possible has been made to carry into effect the law passed in the last session of Parliament for the better relief of the poor in Ireland in the various unions in that country.—(Hear, hear.) I certainly do not in any way regret the relief we voted last year, but at the same time I cannot forget that we considered at the time—and the event has since proved that we were right—that even that re lief would be a serious burden on other parts of the kingdom. I believe, myself, that the failure of the harvest of 1846, in this part of the United Kingdom, would not of itself have afflicted this country with the very high price of provisions which we know has prevailed during the present year, but that from the steps taken in order to enable the distressed in Ireland to obtain food, the consequence was a very high price of provisions in this country, extending to a rate which had not been known before since the cessation of the war.—(Hear, hear.) In the next place, the increase in the speculations in corn, which has thus been encouraged, has led, in a great extent, to the commercial distress that has lately taken place.— (Hear, hear.) Ido not say that this is a reason why we should not, in any extreme case, afford assistance to the distress in Ireland; but I beg, at the same time, to call the attention of the Honourable Baronet and of other Honourable Members of this House re presenting Irish towns and Irish counties, to the statement that has been made, and I believe very truly made, this evening by the Hon. Member for North Warwickshire, respecting the great distress and want of employment which prevails in the manu facturing parts of England.—(Hear, hear.) I think we are entitled to say, that as no one asks, or probably will ask, that persons who are out of employment in this country, and who will have to be sustained by the poor-rates, shall be sustained by a grant from the Consolidated Fund, so likewise we cannot propose any vote of ofi With the regrd poor a money from the Treasury for the support of those who are in distress in Ireland until all possible efforts shall t f for rthehave carryingobser beenv o a u ti t the nms a which made.—(Hear, h( fefHo for the al r h fr oe relief 1 ) i ef . the Right Hon. Gentleman who has just sat down, I beg to say that I am glad to find that he does not approve of shorten ing the period which we propose for the adjournment of the House. I think it is far better that we should adjourn till the month of February, with the determi nation of seriously endeavouring to encounter the business that must then come before us.—(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman says, that at that time he will have a motion to bring forward respecting the commercial condition of the country. I have only to say, that when that motion comes on we shall be ready to state our views to the House, and I rest confident that though we may differ from the Right Hon. Gentleman with respect to the Act of 1844, we shall not differ with him on one chief point, that he will be as desirous as we are ourselves of preserving the convertibility of that part of our currency which is in paper into gold, and that he will not give the sanction of his high authority to any of those various measures which gentlemen in Birmingham put forth, and the adoption of which would, I have no doubt, prove most injurious to the interests, and to the character and good faith of the country.—(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentle man the Member for the University of Oxford has asked me a question respecting the time when we in tend bringing forward the consideration of the navigation-laws. I certainly hesitated making a promise that that question would be brought forward immediately after the recess. I beg the Right Honourable Gentleman to consider— and the subject is one within his knowledge— what a small proportion of the time allotted to busi ness is given by the Howe to her Majesty's Govern ment for bringing forward the measures which they think necessary to bring under the consideration of Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) There are but two days in the week, or eight days in the month, on which the Government are allowed precedence, and this very evening the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Stamford (Mr. Herries) has asked us to give one even of those days for the discussion of his motion. (Hear, hear.) Feeling what a very short period is allowed for the debates on Government measures, I certainly felt myself unwilling to state that we would fix on an early day to bring forward the subject of , i the navigation-laws, and at present I am not prepared to say whether, until we have all the returns re lating to the revenue before us, after the recess, we shall bring this question under the consideration of Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) Therefore I wish to reserve to ourselves a discretion as to the time when we shall bring the subject forward; but at the same time I can assure the Right Hon. Gentleman that I am quite willing that the question shall b e b roug h t on at such a time as that parties interested in it shall be fully able to bring under consideration all matters con nected with it.—(Hear, hear.) Another reason why I cannot now fix the time more closely is that we wish, immediately after the recess, to bring forward some of the Irish measures of which I have spoken on a former occasion, and to which I am desirous that the House should give its most anxious consideration. —(Hear, hear.) The Honourable Gentleman op posite said that though we had passed a measure for the prevention of crime and outrage in Ireland, he doubted whether we would proceed to act upon its provisions. I think the Honourable Gentleman may spare himself all anxiety on that subject, because my Noble Friend the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has applied himself to the consideration of the state of Ireland, and that consideration, I can assure the Hon. Gentleman, will not end in mere empty declarations or words—(Hear, hear)—for he is prepared to act with that vigour and energy which belongs to his character in carrying out the law which this House has passed for the restoration of tranquillity in the country.—(Hear, hear.) Let me add, that Ido think that the Parliament and the Irish Government should not be frustrated in their attempt to effect that object, and that I shall be ready on the part of the Govern ment of this country to give every support to my Noble Friend in those steps that he may think neces sary to take for the prevention of crime in any exigencies that may arise. —(Cheers.) The Noble Lord asked me a question with regard to emi gration. I can only say that the information which has been received on this subject will be laid on the table of the House, and if the Noble Lord had spoken on this subject a day or two since, the papers would have been prestnted this evening. I must, state that in North America, and mere espe cially in Canada, a very great prejudice prevails against emigration from this country, arising from the unfortunate state of a great portion of the emi grants who went over during the last season from Ireland, and of whose melancholy suffering the Noble Lord is no doubt aware.—(Hear, hear.) We shall be ready to present the papers in a few days, and if the Noble Lord thinks it necessary to bring the sub ject forward again I shall he prepared to state my views regarding it. I cannot say that we intend bringing in any measure on the subject of emigra tion this year, but we shall be prepared to lay all papers containing statements or views on the subject, that may be received from time to time on the table of the House. In conclusion, I have only to ex press a hope that the Hen. Gentleman, seeing what the sense of the House is, will not persist in propos ing an earlier day for the re-assembling of the House than has been suggested by her Majesty's Govern ment.—(Hear.) _ _ _ Colonel DU - NNE said he hoped her Majesty's Government would take into their consideration a subject which attracted much attention in Ireland, regarding the rating of unions as electoral divisions. Such ratings could not now be adopted unless the guardians were unanimous, which he need not say was very seldom the case. Sir B. HALL said he was determined to oppose the voting of any further sum for the relief of distress in Ireland until they saw what the working of the last Poor•law Act was in that country. From the last return of the expense of the poor-rates in England and Ireland that had been laid on the table of that House, and which came down to the Ist of January, 1847, it appeared that while the average rate for England was Is. 7td., the average rate in Ireland was only 814.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped that his Right Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department would take care to have laid on the table as soon as possible a similar return up to 'the Ist of January, 1848. The people of this country were most anxious to see the distress which prevailed in Ireland relieved, and they were ready to agree to any measures absolutely necessary to effect that object, but they thought that a just share of the burden should rest on the property of Ireland in the first instance. Hon. Gentlemen from Ireland seemed to forget that great distress prevailed in this country. They were, perhaps, not prepared to hear that in Marylebone above 140,000 persons, or 17 per cent. of the population, had received relief.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. H. GRATTAN said the Hon. Baronet over looked in his calculations the immense sums that went out of Ireland annually to this country. 50,0001. a year left the county of Wicklow alone annually to go into the pockets of absentees. The Hon. Member appeared not to know the vast sums that Lord Portsmouth, and Lord Lansdowne, and Lord Devon, and other great Irish proprietors resid ing in this country, drew out of Ireland. If the House would send back the rich absentees, he would be quite willing to undertake on the part of Ireland the payment, not of is. Bd. but of 2s. in the pound for the support of the poor. If they did not take care, they would by their out-door relief reduce the Irish gentry to such a state of poverty and destitution, that they would be found coming over here just as the French refugees did after the Revolution, and then the House would have to give them a shilling a day for their support, as they gave the French.— (Laughter.) He would beg of the Noble Lord at the head of her Majesty's Government, in bringing forward any measure for the relief of Ireland, to put out of his mind altogether anything that fell from the Hon. Member for Marylebone.—(Renewed laughter.) Sir G. GREY said - the papers to which the Ilini. Baronet alluded would be in the hands of Members in a few days. He begged to add, that the return alluded to by his Hon. Friend was for the year 1846, but he would find that the rates for the present year, as far as Ireland was concerned, would be very much beyond Bd. With regard to what had fallen from the Hon. and Gallant Geutleman the Member for Portarlington (Colonel Dunne) he had only to say that, under certain circumstances, the guardians had power of making a union rating instead of an electo ral division rating ; and in some few cases, where such a system of rating was adopted by paid boards of guardians, they had necessarily received the sanction of the Commissioners, and no doubt, if any valid ob jection could be urged, that sanction would not have been extended. Mr. DEERING begged to remark, in reference to the rating of England and Ireland, that in seven parishes which constituted the constituency that he had the honour to represent, the average rating was, he was certain, not under 65., and in his own parish it was 6s. 6d. in the pound. When Irish property was rated to that extent, then he thought they might complain, and ask for relief from his constituency, but not sooner.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. SPOONER said that as the sense of the House appeared to be against him, he would ask leave to withdraw his amendment.—(Hear.) The amendment was then withdrawn, and the original resolution for the adjournment of the House at its rising to Thursday, 3d of February, was agreed to. DUCHY OF LANCASTER. Mr. BROTHERTON gave notice that it was his intention to move, immediately after the recess, for a Select Committee to inquire into the expe diency of abolishing the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and of tranferring the duties of the office to the Home Secretary. SUNDAY TRADING. Mr. HINDLEY gave notice that he would, after the recess, move for leave to bring in a Bill for the amendment of the law affecting Sunday trading. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN PRISONS. The Earl of ARUNDEL gave notice that he would, after the recess, move for a Select Committee to inquire into the discipline and regulations now in force in the prisons, penitentiaries, houses of correc tion, and other places of confinement for criminal offences in Great Britain, with the view of ascertain ing the best practical means of securing to every prisoner not in communion with the Church of En gland the benefits to be derived from a due observance of the religious duties of his faith ; and also the best practical means of securing the proper attendance of his priest or other minister of his religion, for the purposes of religious instruction._ CAPTAIN DENMAN. Mr. URQUHART gave notice that he would move, on the Bth of February for " Copies of kill cor respondence between the Hon. Captain Denman, R.N., and her Majesty's Government, relating to the undertaking given by that Government to defend the actions now pending in the Court of Exchequer against the said officer, for the destruction of pro perty on the west coast of Africa." AMENDMENT OF THE LAW. The ATTORNEY- GENERAL gave notice that on Thursday, the 3d of February, he w ou ld move f or leave to bring in four Bills, with the obj ec t o f amend ing and reforming the duties of magistrates at quarter sessions. FOREIGN POLICY, icc. Mr. C. ANSTEY said he wished to fix Tuesday, the Bth of February, for the notice of motion standing in his name, for papers relating to the foreign policy of this country, and Wednesday, the 16th of February, for the second reading of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill. DISTRESS IN IRELAND. Mr. MONSELL begged to give notice that on the 15th of February, he would call the attention of the House to the state of the labouring population in Ire land. THE CURRENCY. Mr. lIERRIES said he would beg: to name the Bth of February for the motion which he had already mentioned , his intenti on o f b r i ng i ng f orwar d. THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION. Mr. HORSMAN gave notice that, after the re cess, he would move a resolution to the effect, that it is expedient that the distinction between the episcopal fund and the common fund should cease. He also wished to give notice, unless the subject be taken up by her Majesty's Government, that he would, on a future day, bring forward a motion respecting admission to the Universities of Oxford and Cam bridge. PRISON DISCIPLINE. Lord NUGENT gave notice that it was his inten tion to bring under the consideration of the House, on the 10th of February, the highly penal nature of our prison system with regard to untried prisoners, with the object of moving for leave to bring in a Bill for the repeal of so much of the Act of 2d and 3d of Victoria as rendered the separate system applicable to prisoners before trial. JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL. Mr. STAFFORD gave notice that, on the motion for the second reading of the Jewish Disabilities Bill, he should move that the Bill be read a second tium that day six months. THE WEST INDIAN INTERETS. Lard GEORGE BENTINCK begged leave to withdraw the motion which stood in his nEme for Thursday next, in order to substitute another mo tion, which, he hoped, would be found worded in obedience to the wish expressed by his Noble Friend at the head of her Majesty's Government. Ile wished to alter the notice to one for a Select Com mittee to inquire into the present condition and pros pects of the coffee and sugar colonial possessions in the West Indies, with a view to consider whether any and what measures can be adopted by Perlis meat for their relief. lie would wi3h to D ome Thursday, the 3d of February, for bringing it for ward.—(Hear, hear.) SANITARY IMPROVEMENT. Lord MORPETH gave notice that on Thurelisit the 10th of February, he would ask for leave t° bring in a Bill for promoting the public health. • MASTERS IN CHANCERY. Mr. AGLIONBY gave notice that on Tuesdsit the Bth of February, he should move for certain re turns connected with the appointment and the rear ing pensions of Masters in Chancery. 111 r. G. THOMPSON begged to postpone until Tuesday, the 15th of February, the motion Whi ch stood in his name in the motion book for Thursday' SLAVERY. Mr. AGLIONBY begged leave to give notice behalf of the Hon. Member for Gateshead (Mr. nu t i t i that on Thursday, the 10th of February, he viou' move for a Select Committee to consider the best rues ll, that can be adopted by Great Britain for mitiga tin g the horrors of the slave trade, and providing for .t 6 final extinction. He also wished to give notice, 111 , his own name, for a copy of any correspondence ths ; had taken place between her Majesty's Govern's° and the Lough Corrib Improvement Company. PRESIDENCY OF BOMBAY- On the motion of Mr. G. THOMPSON the O . ; lowing returns were ordered :—Copies of the sant reports of the superintendent of roads and tam' within the presidency of Bombay, from the first t° the latest received in this country : Of all con spondence, instructions, and reports, since 183 5, °, the Indian Government, or aey of , its subordin ate ' Governments, departments, or officers, relative r e the proposed road from Vingorla to Belgium, in t ," O presidency of Bombay : Returns of the cost of construction of the Bhore or Kundalla Ghaut road; with the rates or tolls thereon, and the annual P": duce of the said tolls, from their first impealti °° i Of the engineering particulars and cost of the r°' from Bellary to Sirsee, in the presidency of Mad r 7; and of the import and the export trade, and of t' annual produce of the Customs of the port of from the year 1838 to the year 1846, both inclusive* SUPPLIES TO THE METROPOLITAN POLICE. Mr. FORSTER moved for tabular returns of th e names of the contractors for the supply of fora of (viz , oat s , h a y, an d s t raw ) t o eac h o f t h e districts ° the metropolitan police ; stating the date of contr act, the quantity and price of the articles supplied be each contractor, and the name of the district Wh e a , r / delivered, from 1840 to 1847: and of the supply coal to each of the districts of the metropo.lit :f s police ; stating the quantity, quality, and price us the coals supplied by each contractor, an d the as fs ta of the district where the same was delivered, fr ° 1832 to 1847. THE CASE OF THOMAS DRIJRY.,, h t Mr. EWART rose to ask a question of the Hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the 1 1 °.w.i Department concerning the administration of criminol justice in this country. He referred to the cas e ~, Thomas Drury, who was tried at the Wakefield s e ' s sions in December, 1845, on a charge of stealiag,_,. horse. The man was, unfortunately, too poor to ensu re '' , him properly to defend himself, and he, failed in proving an alibi, although he was nepdostoi tion to do so. He was, consequently, sen terl ie Wa s seven years' transportation, and for two years but cession in Wakefield gaol, during which time in u cession was made for him at the :Horne -offices, _bat! without effect. The alibi was offered to be proved ( 6 ) therefore, the Home-office, but he (Mr. Ewart) believed that n e evidence was allowed to be gone into at that Oen: and the sentence of the man, therefore, remained _ fur revoked. After two years' confinement t he man SI transported to Van Dieman's Land, and it so happen!: that when he got out there, a criminal named Jcw; Weston, as he (Mr. Ewart) had been told, confesssu that he had stolen the horse, for which crime Drury had been transported, and that in stealing the hors he had assumed the name of Thomas Drury. g s (Mr. Ewart) believed that there was no doubt of the truth of this story, and he believed that the coo Drury was totally innocent of the crime for which he had been transported. He (Mr. Ewart) desired, therefore, to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman whether he had received any information at the Home-office of the facts of this case, and what measures were in . tended to be taken with respect to it. Sir G. GREY said that the case had lately bee ° brought under his notice by a memorial, which Ws; transmitted to him by the Honourable and Le ars Member for Hull (Mr. Baines). The account of the case which had lately appeared in the newspapers WI in several instances, inaccurate. It was quite true tn.; a person named Drury was tried in December , 18 p; and that a man in Van Dieman's Land had sinc e co .. P fessed that he had comm itt e d the crime for which • Drury was convicted. The matter was now under T o vestigation at the Home-office. At the same time must caution his Hon. Friend against assuming ttr_, in c_ the statement of th e c onv i c t was true• At the Such si stet ; meats were not unfrequently m a de. time he was bound to say, that there stances which gave an appearance of P r°b „ 2 „,, bi a an Y ces, the statement in this case, which co c ", i , a — t e re were .h ir .t cu to though not sufficient to call for an itail le i, e fully commendation to pardon, would neverthele ss o ne inquired into. He (Sir G. Grey) must correcbc_s_ statement of his Hon. Friend with regard to the 7:d ; which had not been disposed of by him but hi_ efit i predecessor (Sir J. Graham), by whom a most ce: rie d, investigation was made. When the man was I ' d t he two witnesses distinctly swore to his identity , a rl t i a g Honourable Member was quite right in a ni g ht that the defence was an alibi, but he was no" ir in stating that the man was too poor to obtain s fs ' o a ce per defence. The Leaned Counsel for the de t o examined a witness for the purpose of prola bre e alibi, but he altogether failed. Subsequently t c e offi persons offered to prove the alibi at the Horne - .130 but it was discovered that one of those very Per-niel was in court at the time of the trial, and the 0 311 1t e , for the defence declined to call him. It was lo t !iel gether correct to say that evidence was never recliibi at the Home-office, but evidence respecting au k fter was always necessarily received with caution. " - v ia a full consideration of the case, two witnesses be w it• deposed to the identity of the prisoner, and 0138 f ieg mess that was called for the defence on the trial failed to prove an alibi, and the verdict of the - 1 t he having been entirely approved by Mr. IngbenjoP chairman of the quarter sessions, th e Right mo otos Gentleman the then Secretary of St a t e f o r the "' Department felt it his duty not t o reco mmend 5,, l don. Circumstances having s i nce co me to lir it !b inquiry had been instituted in this country / F oo te view to ascertain the truth. He might farther og icti that the prisoner was not transported as a I '"jiocc but he went out with a conditional pardon, en u a i l igle his arrival he had been perfectly free, with the,,,, (of exception that he could not return to this coup' seven years. said a R I t R h a beenPLATE. told Mr. EWAR T T II night by the Noble Lord the Foreign SecrewJtice to arrangements were being concluded with refer%i tea the unfortunate hostilities which bad so long e i „ible in the River Plate. He wished to ask the f•og Lord whether, in the arrangements which wer e „;,.. -ki he place, measures had beeadopted the place, for oPen trade to the • na River Plate and its contributarie s, the Parana and the Paraguay it was hig hl) ;,,, - old portant to British commerce Paraguay. t measure 13 . - t i_ he ..if et t - t e o r t be adopted by her Majesty'sthat measure Government for erica' riclP in g the trade of the vast continent of South Aw e. or Viscount PALMERSTON said that the per Plate was in fact an estuary of the sea, and there the no question could arise as to its being openly o P. l commerce of all nations. With regard to the tern; rivers, which discharged themselves into the Fl a j they were subject to the general law of nations, el" ' consequently were under the dominion of the ec'en tries through whose territories those rivers Pes s f ho If the one bank belonged to one c ountr y end he other to another, the navigation would be subject both countries. Mr. EWART wished to kn o w whether any nr,e: gulations had been made with t h e A r g entine RePo'e lic to intercept the navigation o f t he river (as we derstood). Viscount PALMERSTON repeated his stat e ' ment, that the navigation of the internal rivers vai g , subject to the general law of nations, as he 11 11 ' stated. STOCK IN TRADE ASSESSMENT. In answer to a question from Sir R. INGLIS, Sir GEORGE GREY said that it was not 13° intention during the next session of Parliament to bring in a Bill upon the subject of stock in tr ade assessment. POOR-LAWS (IRELAND). Mr. KER wished to ask the Right Hon. Gentle; man the Secretary for the Home Department wbetke in the case where poor-law guardians in Ireland de., termined to confine themselves to in-door relief,_.9 was the intention of the Poor-law Act to saddle tho" Paid. 120 44 214 14% 4% 11% 1218 s 160 10% 51194 51% 84 13% 6 6% 146 22N 2 21. 8s 17:4 12s: 2% 11. 5s 11. is 34 13e. 6d It. 3s 9% 12s.