The Sun. — London, England, 1857-02-10 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND C OMIYIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Lette re.. from Liverpool state that the Cotton Market yesterday was rather firmer. Prices of g3rptifins were id. per lb. dearer, and Brazils id. to id. per lb. dearer. The sales were estimated at 18,00 0 - bales. The Railway Share Market was steady;rit a slight advance on Saturday's quotations. The Mincing-lane markets this week have opened large a firm appearan ce , and notwithstanding some a a rge tales are advertised, importers expect to realise full prices, the demand both for home use and for "Partation being . active. There is evidently an 11131v "ird. tendency, and a disposition to speculate exist 8 , which., if money became easier, would no vtauba at once lie developed. Although the arrivals of gold from Australia will U nckrubtedly haVe the effect of strengthening the bank% reserves at the Bank of England, they are not likely to exercise any permanent influence on the 'Money Market, for it is very questionable whether e'c -en a small portion will remain here. Extensive orders to 'effect purchases are alreaay at Land, and the sum by the Heather Bias bee al taken for transmission to Paris, on accouunt, as is alleged, of the Bank of France. Other vesse is are soon expected to arrive from Austi ralia in the course of the next three or four Weeks, so IA there will no doubt be an ample Ruftpl y to me :et all the requireinents for exportation. Advices fi :om Hamburg report a further decline in the rate if discount, viz., to 32. per cent. From Vienna, we I earn that monetary affairs in that city are ale () imp roving, and the Bank is steadily accu kulatimg li ullion, the total now held being 8,909, 0001. Thore war ; a meeting yesterday of the holders of Vene:nzela I sends, J. D. Powles, Esq., in the chaCr, ° read th es agreement which had been provision- V . a 4 i g tlea by the Committee and the Commis done she .. adjustment of the debt of th e Re rO___.7 it us e.sieenient Was 111 substance as fol -73 • !-• - 3 Tiro erre ars of dividend to be capitalised and bear n,, e Per . sent. iterest till 1862, and 4 per cent. a ft erwar d s . i 5 1 .1 A etive S t oo k to receive 3 per cent. till 1867, and 4 per r ifterwa rds. The Deferred to have 1 per cent. till 1862, 2 1 Per rent. fc r the next five years, and 2 per cent. after 1867. I " - 1 ~,..‘ , Per 'cent. fOr the customs' revenues of the republic to b e 10 - %0 apeeiial agents there, and remitted to Messrs. d o k Rill and Company for payment of the dividends. az not an ffici ent the amount to be made up by the Govern. 'gent; fin excess of the required amount, the balance to retn.xl nod to the Government until 1867. Aft er th at date a % It * ats fund to be comme nce d." Aft er some discussion ?e fo/ llowintg resolution was adopted, viz.—" That the ream et it COT winded b e t ween S enr. Modesto Urbanego and s e• j• tuna Giuseppe, commissioners from the Republic 1 1 ,,:1; 02:uela :and the Committee of Spanish American Bon d dared the 30th day of January last, for the ad 'sctsf tin; of - the foreign debt of the said republic, be „tPro% aidt by this meeting, and that the committ ee b e re 'a este d :- to ti %Ice measures for carrying Cie same into effect." Th e 3:needing.° of the Peel Ri ver L an d an d Mine tal'actl 90....1npan.y.,he1d this morning, passed off satis-, 1 3 .A dividend o f I s . per s h are was declar -11;1,▪ 7 : filch 'would b e p aya bl e on th e 9 t h of March A. profit of 4,9201. had been made in the r et ZF• 1 )3? the sto c k opera ti ons, b u t th e result of the tl ie ln. . l3 f the gold-field s war no t very encourag i ng, 40 Sr g eu of the deposit being very limited. More it o P ek °l4 'as placed in the letting of the lands and live vote 'Plas. The report was agreed to, and a There thanks was passed to the Directors. conl ue re is a very good inquiry for discount ac .slll,3`oda .lion to-day, and the brokers and others (ma es demand. full rates for the negotiation of _he rcanti le paper. R ae _ rea sea firmness is apparent in the St oc k 4 et) partly o w i ng t o th e expec t at i on that the du.7:.keell or of the E xc h equer w ill propose some re he 'l' °,4. in the Income Tax on Friday next, when • present his financial statement. The re ha.rB 0 . E gold an d some real purchases of stock ale ,o st reng th ened them arket. Consols for ice " n eYb lave been 92-4. 93, and 93 to 931; and for bee 93 931 #, and. 931 The New Threes ha ve is 2 11 7 , 3 31 I • and the Reduced 931 #. B an k St oc k B a r to 2 1 1 7 ; and India Stock 220. Exchequer ate ' firm a t 1:41 , to 3s. premium. h av ° r*eit rn Securities are fi rm , b u t th e t ransac ti ons e t been numerous. Turkish 6 per Cent s . are . 2!inar ked 93f R. Venezuela 41 per Cents. 37a ench 3i p er Cents. 68 121, with the exchange at 7 21 ) ' • Belgian 4f per C a nts. 981 ; an d D u t ch 2/ Or sits. 651. Spanish Certificates are quiet at 'e ; S L-edinian Bonds are 90/ ; Mexican, 21k, and r New Consolidated, 141. the ifollowing are the nominal prices of Foreign. ;t o * —Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6i 7 ; • °6 • 2 1; 22 ; Peru v i an , 77 79 ; di tto 3 per Cents., ; Portuauese 3 per Cents., 43 5 ; Russian !t), per Grents. 108 10 ; ditto 4-/ per Cents., 95 7 ; " a tliEja 3 per Cents., 40 I ; ditt o N ew Deferred, 6 I ; ditto Ce r tifi ca t es , 61 ; d i tto Passive, Th eft ) h as b een a l i mited business done in the Railway Share Market, and prices in most in minefss have shown an up war d tendency. Caledo- L i i i ,all h eve improved about ss. to 10s. Great ' i vester . a , 10s. to 15s. Lancashire and Yorkshire, eau,Manchester, -Sheffield, and Lincoln, 55., eau, d 7s. 6d., and North-Western about 10s: 'fl i ght° and North British have declined about ,P". 'be French lines have shown an improve „s',,nt-4 Paris and. Lyons have advanced about 155., e• tc irthern. of France rule firm. The Canadian a re steady, and East Indian have receded abut a Os. to 15s. In B:ritish and Foreign Mining Shares no deal fgsl f?f any importance have taken place, and prices in unaltered. Jo int-Stock. Bank Shares have also been inactive. f eat :of Ne - v(South W a l es d ec li ne d 10s. London and w. 14 o inster and Lond on Ch ar t ere d o f Australia ac re .dealt i n at previous quotations. For the Quase etlaneous undertakings there is very little in i qury a ~- Canada Go vernmen t 6 per Cents., C ana d a N. a n2 l ) Londo n General Orcnibus Company, an d ' 1411 4 Discount Company b roug ht yesterday's valuezu ailliTY BH FUNDS,—CLOSING PRICES—THIS DAY (.From the Officutl List.) Basin... done iftl ! , 111 ( Si ock 216 17h " Per klf .nt. Reduced Annuities 934 R Never... t; ent, ComolslAunxitioq 93 2i 3h ~_w3 per Cent. Annuities 93 i a i 4 •°tlg'A nnnities, expire sth Jan. 1860... 2i Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Jan., 1860 2a Ditto 30 Years, rx ire sth April, 1885 lBh 3-16 !adjs. Stock '' p I.lselia Bonds, £ 1 .000 c ~„ Ditto under 1.000 1 p onscils for AcAlo ttuz i a ti. Az ohequer Bil%, 24d. ...... - 93 Cl.OOO ... &ball_ ....."...." ." par 3 p DB+ al 130 1.:g;: 18 5 8..... per Cent — Ditlin i Vds9 P.ErCES OF. FO iif t ....17 11 -... N - D — S - LTIIIS DAY. 9B3 Danish Bonds, 3 pe r Cent 5 Equa(lor N• ew Consolidated,,, ~. . ......... Grenrstla ?Jew Acti ve , 21 perB4a 5 Cent.': 2214h °Joe:it Pr ands s .............. me..tican 3 per Cent s - ~. Ditto Aceount .. ...............................h Cl 6k -rt rtuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1.841 Dittt ) 1853, 3 per Cent ........................ 441 *rdini an Bon Is, 5 per Cent. .......... ..... 90 Spaniel i Committ ee Cert. of Coup. n o t fun. 6s l fi 9o Turkieb Bonds, 6 per cent ........... : ......... Ditto Account 93i * 3 Veneguela Bonds, 4i per Cent .......... Ditto Account 37/ nrtvidends on the above nayable in Lona, n. }rena l Rentes, 41 per Cent. _ RDitto 3 per Cent. 6Bf. 12, 1 2 c. ex 25f. 20 c. ele au., 2 per Cent., ex. 25 francs ........ , D iito 4i per Cent.. ex. 25 francs ...... .. 98.4 "lac .11 Exchange, per ° ' Con;., 12 Guilders 651 ..,„2 THREE O'CLOCK. Consol s , money 93 ()itto, Account (March 5) Vemen. F .... INISRACTION OF SHIPPING ACT.—Yesterday, at the Liverpool Police Court, Captain J. INl`Gowan, of fue • 8111 1) Prince A r th ur , was fined 51. and costs for re rtitlg to comply with the order by the British Consul a_,Co.nstantinople t o carry home a British seaman who and " lef ' t his own vessel and been unable to procure Ms. ,Lim,,,,, ~ On W ednesda., ''' ' 15 ELL , m p HIS CONSTITUENTS.— , . ~ AND Guildf Ord, nlt4 his last, Mr. James Bell, M.P. a fo . r . dresailo g th. cina 0 a constituents for the purpose of . 0 urialg the pe r the subject of his Parliamentary duties After giving "an be has acted as their representative. tion. exprespingbe Sit of his stewardship," a resolu unaiaimortbly pas sed. ued confidence in Mr. Bell was P'UBLI'C INCOlia AND E _Xo PENDITURE.—The total income of the -united king, daoratnat a r t t he year ended the 30th of epteraber, 1856 total expenditure to 83,30 V to 71,348,066/., and the 16,95'0,411/. The Custo ,4771., leaving a deficit of raps, 7,180,0411. ; taxes, Excise, 1 7,861,77 n, . : I t 8 yielded 23,093,3001. ; the 3,100,0261. ; the inco'rne- as it is here called, the " Property-tax," 15 ,940, 330ri.: nand the 2,788,152/. As regards the Post -office was; appropriated tl the charl'eenditure, 28,625,51174 1,760,321/. to the charges on tlfe of tbe public debt ; eluding the civil list salaries and ccaoundsolidated fund (in -67,931,(381 to the supply services. Bfofjustictl; and army and Ordnance copt the country 28,09 these lad the equal to the interest of the debt ; the n a 4,8241., a sum the Note of credit (war with Russia), 111 1 0 7 ' 608 , 9 95/. ; ellaneous civil services, 6,693,172/. • a d ,040/. ; mis c n the salaries of venue departments, 4,124,6471. The ballocesof es lie money in the Exchequer on the 30th of Se pub amounted to 7,084,743/. In the year ended the gnsit)er December last the income was 72,218,988 i., and the expend ' tu re B2 ,323,4ool.,leavingadefieit of 10,104,412/ , ~ r but.; by 600,00 u/. than at the and of the preeedirjg quarter, 'lle 1 roduca of the income tax for tll.l at the end of the year amounted to the sum total 6,942,427/. of SHARE MARKETS 7(Thir ItAILWA Y S. I=wiirs. Closing Prices this day. . 1 , Paid imbg. Nottng. Bost. & Basta. June —. Belfast & Ballymena Birmng. Wolverh & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsb & Cheshire Janet...... Blackburn Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45).... 3ristol & Exeter...... Jaledonian. Jhester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon.... Cork, Black. & Pass Cornwall D. A Do. B Dublin&Belfast June Dun. P. &Aber. June East Anglian Eastern Counties EasternUnion,A. stk Do., do. B. Do. New A East Kent ... ~...... East Lancashire East Suffolk Do. Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edinb.Prth.&Dunde: Forth and ClydeJuue. Farness . ...... . Glasgow & S. Western Great N. of Scotland Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do.; B. Stock ...... Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire. ) Great Western....... Do. Str.V.R gua. St Irish Sonth-Eastern Lancaster &Carlisle. IDo., Do. New Thirds [encash. &Yorkshire Do., do. F. £l6 Do., Wst. Riding lin Do. Southport... London & Blackwall Loud. Bright. & S.Cst. London & N. Western Do. Fifths Do. ,IG/.5h.,111&8...0 Do. Eighths London & S. Western Lndndrry.&Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch.Shef. &Lincln. Metropolitan Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement IMidland ....... Do. Birrning. & Derby Midland G. West.(lr. ) Do. A Shares - z Newcastle do Carlisle Newpt.Aberg.&Hrfd Newry & Eaniskillon l Newry, Warrenpointl & Rostrevor N0rf01k........... Northn. Counties Un North British North Devon, Rail. di Dock 5t0ck...... ...... Do., A Stock Do., B Stock N. Eastern Berwick Do. do. Extension Do do. G.N.E.Purch Do. Leeds Do. York North London N. & S. Wstn., Hemp , stead, and City Jn. North Staffordshire.. North Western...—. N. do S.Westrn. June . Oxford Worcester Zs Wolverhampton..... Portsmouth Rhymney, Scottish - Central Scot. N.E.Abrdn. St 'Shropshire Union Sitingbourne & Sheer South Devon South Eastern ] Do. 41 per c. Shares South Wales S. Yorksh. River Dun Staines,Wok.,&Wok. Stockton & Darling Do. do., 1854 Do do 18C5 Stockton: di Hartlepl Taff Vale Do. Pref., No. 1..... Thames Hay. D. &R. Vale of Neath......,.. Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West C0rnwa11........ West End of Londov . and Crystal Palace Do. A Do. B West London ... Do. First Class Do. Second Class Wmbledon &Croydon BRITISH PI Atlan. and St. Law. Bombay, Baroda, and Con.lud,guar. 5 p. c. Do. Buffalo & Lake Hur.l Buff., Brut. & Godch. 6 p. c.bds., 1 Aug.,'72 Do. do., 1 July, '73 Do. do., 1 June,'74 Calcutta and S. East Certral Oude Cey'on A shares 1 Do. B. do. all 104 100 100 2sld lOs IDemerara Eastern Bengal East Indian Do. C Shares.. all all all all Do. 4 i p. c.Bnds. , '57 Do. do. do., '59, do. Geelong dt Melbourne guar. 5 per cent.... Gt;. Trunk. of Canada Do. 6 p c. Deben Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 par c Do. New, guar. 5 p. c Gt. Westn. of Canada Do. New Do. Bds., payable '57 Do. do., '76, P. '6O , Do. do., '73, do. I Do. do., '73, withoutt option Madras, guar. 4A p. c Do. do., 5 per c. Do. 4i p. c. Exton. Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c. Do. 4th Ex., du. Gado (Limited) • Scindo, guar. 5 per c Do FOR. 1 A.ntwrp & Rotterdam 'Ardennes. Belgian East. Junct. Boziers to Graissessac earmeaux&Toulens Coal Mines and Ry Dutch Rhenish Eastern of Franco Do. New Euphrates Valley IGt. Central of France Great Luxembourg Ifaliau Junction Lake Const. & Bale Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo-Vey etian Lucca & Pist.sp.c.p. Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Mediterran Maria Antonia Do. New Namur & Liege Do. do. 6 p. c. Prof Northern of France NorwegianTrak. Pref Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Reeifo & San Fran., (Pernam.) g. 7 p. Rome and Frascati Royal Danish ....... Royal Swedish Sambre and Mouse Do. 5i per cent. prof Southern of France West Fl anders Do. 54 p er c. Pref W.& N. W. of Pran ce Western ofAustria West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden ......ref Do. 8 p, cent. p Zealand ........ 4:4 -4, ••• ... - 9 t 5 - 67 8i - 9 93 - 95 63f - 63 35 - 36 • •• ... m". • • • • ... ".... so ... •, - -I) i6i - ii 184 -19 A 9t - 96 40 - 44 29 - 31 8 - '6 95 - 96 ~. '.... ~ 53i - 54, 33 - 34 92 - 94 7 - 8 93 - .94 78 - 80 123 - 125 ill - 113 67i 64 - 66 67 72 51 —61 p 97 974 id 61 - 7 107 - 108 106 - 1063 201 - 214 104 - 103 8 1061 - 104 •• - ••• 31 - 31 82 - 82, 53 - 55 jai 51 56 3id 39 404 .. ...... ... 84i -- 856 44 -- 3id 3 -- 2 17i -- 61 -- 62 98 —lO2 4i —43 a, 6 ' 10 74 — 11 27.4 -28 A 106 -- 108 2J -- 2 Q , 49 -- 51 2 -14 d 17i -- 184 73i -- 744 -- • gii 5 -- 3i 5 -- 3d l 2 -- 14 39 -- 41 i'6l -: 20i. 7 -- 9 2 - 3 5 - 51 •7 - '• ►SSESSIONS, i - i P 1 lip 195 98 94 96 94 96 par i p ••• • • • i 13 / 4 P 106 - 110 13 - 1k 21i -21 i 50 -- 52 81 -- 83 20i -- 21 - 2li -25 P 24 - 2i 99 -- 100 1.18 -- 123 118 -- 123 108 - 110 19k - 191 21 - 22 - par ip .1 i -- ii; öi - 6 ••• •••••• 24 - 3413 4 - 5 par p 32 321 9} 104 par ip 4 —44 p 5i 6 .6 --- eidp 29 - 30 , . " ... 8 - 8f 19 - 36, - 37 9 - 9i 54} - 54 53 - 55 par i p 18 - 20 - 1 8 - 8. 81 - et - pm .±; - 4i 9 4 - 10 324 - 33 - lip JOINT-STOCK all 'Austrahtsia, 1S Bank of Egypt 50 Bank of London all Bri. Col. Bk.& Ln. Co all British N. American 6 C. Bk .of Ind. Au. &Ch 50 City 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Lond all Eng. Scot. &Aus. Cht all Lon. Ch. Bk. o£Aust all Ditto New .......... 20 London and County 53 Lnd.&E.Bnkng.Corp 10 London Joint Stock 20 iLond.andWestminst 35 (National Pro. of Eng 10 Do. New ..... 1 k all ;New Bank2lsTa ew tio s nal out ß h a w n al ........ 81 2 : 2 ;Oriental .. 15 'Ottoman Bank Ireland' a 23151 Do. New & l o o f all South Australia all , Uniou of Australia 24 Do. l'iew 10- Union of London 50 lUnity 50 I West Bk. of Loud. • 94 9s 55d — 57 ar -- 1 di 6 5 67 18 -18 i 18J -18 i 18 -- 183 io : ii 364 371 11— idis ft - 63 7 - 9 11 9d 10 6 di 100 [OO 100 all all 10 12A Bt. 25 25 50 25 100 25 50 St. 50 St. St. 20 25 25 25 20 20 50 20 all all all all rilE SUN, LONOON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY lO 1857, Day.) Easiness done this day. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Jompanies Closing Prices this day. RAILWAYS. 1 .1 Paid' 100 100 all 100 all 100 100 all all all all 100 all all all all Buckghamsb 1 1 ydesdale Jc. Col.Stour Vy. E.Lin. g. 6 p.c E. Un. H. Sb. Sias. Barr. dr Neils. Direct. Do. Now Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Hull & Selby. Do. Shares. Do. 1 Shares. Lon. & Greenw Do. Preference Lon. Til., &S. Do. Bark. Sh. Manch.Bxton. and Matlock Mdld. Bradfd. Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. N.&Est.s p.c. Do. 6 per et.. Do. Fixed sp.c Prest. & Wyre Do. Shrs. A Roystn.& Hit. Shrews. & Her S. Staffordsh.. WearVal.g6pc 100 100 100 100 100 i Do . Wilts tzSomrst PREFEREN Blyth and Tyne 10 p c.pref. (issd. at 50/.; Bris. &Ex. 4 p. c. St, Do. 4 per c. Shares., Caledn. £lO 4i p. C. Ches. & Ho. 5i p. c. Do. do. 5 per cent... Cork kßandonsap.e. Dtm.Porth.&Aber.J. E. Anglian Cls. A Sh. Do. do. Cls. B 6p. c. Do. do. Cls. C 7P. e. Eas.Co.Es,sp.c No.l Do. No. 2 ....... Do. New 6 pr. c. St. East Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 5i., 10 per cent. Do. 101. Debentr.Sh. Do. do. 4 per cent East Lancasb.6p.cts E.&W. York. J. sths Edin. & Gl. sp. c. Sh. Ed.Prth.&Dun.4p.c. Furness, 5 p. c Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c Great Northn. 5 p.c Do. 5 p. c. Redeem b 10 p. c. prem.... 43 per cent ..... 5 p.c., Red. at 51 p. C. prem. Gt.N . of Scot. Ist Pre Gt. S & W. (Ireland) Do. 4 per c. Pref. St., Gt.W.(B.&ll.Ex.spe l Do. con. red. 4i p.c. Do. con, red. 4 p. c Do. irred. 4 percent. Do 5 p. c. red. pref. Do. Birm. Pref. Sh Do. Chester Bp. c. P. S Do. do. 5 p. c. do Do, Birm, Gua, Stk, Do, Chesil, Gua, Sh. Do, do. do Do. do. do. Lan. & York. 6 pc. St. Lon. &B. G. 5 pc. No.l Do. ,P., 5 p. c. St. No. 2 Do, New Guar, 6p.c. Do. do. 5 p. c., No. 4 Lon. dr N.W., Coy. & Nuneaton 5 p. et Lon. & S.W. 7 perct. late 3d Shares Lon dy. & Color. Londy.&Ennis. Sh. 'M., S.,&L. 6 p. Cent. Do. do. do. £6 Do. do. 3i per cent. Marypt. 8 Carl. 4 p. c, Do. 4A per cent 00. a. Wid.Consol.6 p.c. St. Do. Con Br. Bir. 6 p.c. Do. 4i p. c. Pref. St. Do. L. &IL Pref. St. New. , Aber.. &c., pr 5 p. c. red . 5 p.c. pm Do. Perpet. 6 pr. et Norfk.Deb.4p.c. Sh Do. 5 p. C. Ext. 1846 Do. 5i p.c. pf., 1847 D0.Wv.V.5p.c.,1847 North British 71. Preference N. B. Berw. 4 p. c. Prf Do. do. do Do. Leeds 6pc No. 1 Do. do. Qrs., 1848 Do. York &S. Par North Staffordshire Wor. & Worv. 6 p.c. Ist guar Do. ep. c. 2d guar._ Scot. Cent. New Pref. Se.N.E Aber.g.6p.e. Do. do. 7 p.c. uf. St. Do. do.3h p.c. pf. St South Devon Do. fixed 44 pr cent S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 44 per cent Do. Fixed 44 p.c. Sb S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c Do. do. 44 p. c S. Yorksh. 4 p c. Guar Stock. &Dar., 5 p. c Do. do. do. Stock. & Hartl. g. 5 p.c. till July 1, '56 Waterfd&Kilk. 6 pc. BRITISH Alfred Cons. (Philk. British Iron ........ iCondur3w (Cambrn.: iDev. Gt. Cnsls. (Tay., Great South To'gus. ,G rt. W. Alfrd. (Plink Vor (Heist% Lady Bertha IN. Frances (Illogan) IN. W. B Asset (Illogan ) :North Wheal Crofty Par. Cons. (St.Blaxy) .Porkellis U. (Wend.) Sort. Cons. Min. Co S. Caradon (St. Cleer) IS. Cain Brea (Illogn.) 'S.W. Frances (Illogn. , Tam. S. & L. Min. Co Tin Croft lUn. Mines (Gwennap: V. of Towey (Camar., W. Basset (Illogan)., IW. Caradon (Liskrd.: Wh. Basset (Mogan.: Wh. Buller (Rdruth.' Wh. Edward(Calstk.' Wh. Kitty (U. Lint.' Wh.Ma.Ann(Menht.' Wh. Trelawney (Lis." FOREIGN Australian Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm) Do. Cocaos & Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Clarendon Con. Min. Co. of Jamaica Cobra Copper Copiapo Fortuna General Linares Lusitauiau Mariquita ....... New Granada INoveau Mondo Pont. Sil • Ldlll. & Smlt Port Philip Santiago de Cuba ilouth Australian Do. Scrip Do. 10 p. c. Pref United Mexican MISCE: Ln.&N.W. E. U. di E. C It. N'orthn E. Count. Caldonian. gt.Wextn. Y. & N.M Do Do 3. Eastern, Do Peto &Co Do Ln.drN.W. dr Midld. IE. Count Do Do Do L. &A. W Do Gt. Northn T. Brassey M. MClean Stk.&Dar. Do . Gt.W, 16 - iii Ili --: iii ... ... ••• 9 - 94 88 - 90 Z SHARES. g ----- ii 96 7- oi 4i - 5 6i - 64 110 := 115 - 41 3 - gP 12 - 12 ii 1:: 76 .18 - 120 112 - 114 103 - 105 62 - 64 0i - 104 6 - 6i 93 - 96 83 -- 85 99 -- 101 10 -10 i 16i -- 17# 10 - 10 2 - 75' -- 77 19 -- 9i -- 101 14i -- 15} L 34 -- 136 .36 - 139 .14 - 117 .59 - 161 h - 65 - 68iP ' • • *-- .. 37 - 139 93 - 101 89 - 91 ii z iipl ... 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Gen. Ir. Sc. Col. (lim. ) Gen, Steam Navigat, London Discount bond. Gen, Omnibus Magdalena St. Navig, Moditeran. Elec. Tel. Mexican & S. America Nat. Discount Co Do. New Netherlands Land., , De. Do. Do. 8 p c.Pf.iss.at 1 d Do, Do. New B. &N. S. Land N. S. W. Gov.s p.c.D. N. B. Australasian Nrth.of Europe Steam Oriental Gas Do. New Shares.., Peelßr. Ld. di Minrl . Peninsular do Oriental Do. New Rhymney Iron Do. New Royal Mail Steam . Scot. Austral. Invest. Do. New S. Aus. Gov. 6 p. c.bds South Austral. Land Submarine Tel. Scrip, Do. Registered I Trust&Ln. Co. U .Can. Van Dienion's Land V, Go, 6p.cJan, 4 July 21} - 22i1 -- 6 40 --4 5 132 -- 135 1.101 -110 i 33 37 26 28 2t 2gxd 54 54 4 - 96 ••• a i i•• l i .. •• i d 3i 4 i 31 PIP 1 ii 3 4 3i 4 id par " 4i 3 i id 14 la par ip 24 2 66 6i 3 4 p 23 25 6 8 ,63 65 111 35 - • 14 = ia Business this day. BENEVOLENT FUND. E sq ,, ALP., in the Chai r . PROVIDENT CLERKS' ASSOCIATION.-- The Annual Glen Aral Meeting will be held at the London 6 Ta oye e l r o n ck T p O re - c M is O o ß y lr W A 'E B D E N L E s S m OA rr Ii ff , the 11th February), at (signed) WM. T EIOS. LINFORD, Secretary. 15, Moorgate•st eat. t,l 4 ; 44 ' N iti e4 4( Te.,z4J SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION (This Day). (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) STATE OF THE POLL. TEN O'CLOCK. Andrews Butler Weguelin TWELVE O'CLOfIC. Butler Weguelin Andrews , . 570 . 533 . 514 8 7 8 1 7 8 . 573 TWO O'CLOCK. Butler Weguelin Andrews 340 818 . 663 FOUR O ' CLOCE.--OLOSE OF THE POLL. Weguelin ............... ............................ 994 Butler ............................... ......... ... 958 Andrews : ......................................... 818 All is quiet, but great excitement prevails. The shops are partially closed, and business is almost wholly sue pended. One half of the constituency polled in the first two hours. courttlEitYitton b_."Li.N OFFICE, Seven, o'Utock. WESTBURY RACES.—(This Day). (BY LLECTRIO TELEURAPII.) Janus Three ran. Won by two fields. HANDICAP HURDLE RACE. Colesbill • G by Bowstring Four ran. HANDICAP FLAT RACE. Lady Llvell G .. by Bowstring .... Three ran. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS—(This Evening.) The LORD CHANCELLOR, took hia seat oa the wool ack at five o'cico!. Lord LUCAN gave notice that on Thursday next he should put a question to her Majesty's Government as to whether they were about to take any steps to inquire into the expenses to which Scotch and Irish peers were subjected in proving their title to vote for representative peers. Lord KINNAIRD brought in two bills upon the subject of education in Scotland. The first related to parochial schools, and was similar to the one introduced last year. The other one was to promote the instruction of young persons employed M night in factories. The bills were severally read a first time. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. Lord WYNFORD asked whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to introduce a bill this session similar to the one of last year with regard to agricultural statistics. There was much anxiety abroad to know the intentions of the Government -on the subject. L,rd STANLEY of ALDERLEY said, having con. suited some persons interested in the subj ect d uring the recess, and finding that such a measure wou l d not meet such wi with theira measure, howeverconcurrence, much h e m i ght personally he was unwilli ng to introduce wish it. It was not, therefore, his intention during the present session to introduce a similar measure. At the same time if the Agricultural interest evince any desire for the enactment of such a law, he should have no objection to introduce a measure or to support any proposition for I . ,he purpose. Lord FAVERSHAM said it was entirely owing to the machinery of the bill of last year that it become cc unpopular. After a conversation between Lord STANLEY and Lord DUNGANNON, the subject dropped. THE INCOME TAX. Lord BROUdiiliPresented a petition, numerously signed, from Aylesbury, praying for arepeal of the income to . The petitioners complained of the injustice and inequality of the impost, and they prayed that the tax might be utterly abolished as regarded all incomes under 150/. ; that the additional 9d. should be repealed, and that the first 1501. of a person's income should be exempt from taxation. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. The LORD CHANCELLOR_rose to call the atten tion of the house to the subject of the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts. The noble and learned lord said but a small portion of the hu:iness which came before the3e courts was really of an ecclesiastical cha sraenctter.stoodli,avgiiinif l e lo x b p i l : in a e r c ; i d th le e ari l l a e w d l a ) s ra itprantceepdreed to show the necessity that existed for an alteration of the law on the point. div l o n rce, respect to the marriage law, a n d that of recolected that befor e th e Reformation it m d be marriage was held to be a sacrament, and being so, it was considered that any question re l a ti ng to it could only be dealt with by the heads of the Church. The jurisdiction of the country might be divided under three heads —first the testamentary jurisdiction ; secondly, the matrimonial jurisdiction ; and lastly, the ecclesiastical jurisdiction. With respect to the first, it appeared that according to the report of the Ecclesiastical Commis sion, made about 25 years ego, that there were about 350 or 400 courts scattered throughout this country, all of which hat jurisdiction to g ran t pro b a t e . That circumstance of itself was a great evil, and requ'red to be remedied, but it frequently occurred that the deceased person died in possession of property in two or three dioceses, and the consequence was that a conflict occurred, and a great expense was th e consequen ce in determining the right to property in question. [LEFT SPEAKING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS---(This Evening.) r . , The SPEAKER took the ch a i r a t 4 o 'clock. There wa 0 wing, pobably, a very full attendance of members, is the expected explanation between Mr. Disraeli and Lord Palmerston on the " secret treaty." NEW MEMBERS. Sir R. BETRELL, her Majesty's Attorney-General, took the oaths and his seat for Aylesbury ; and Mr. LANGWORTRY took the oaths and his seat for Salford. The following private bills were read a second time : Bathgate, Airdrie, and Cotitbridge Railway; Birken head Docks (Construction) ; Birkenhead Docks (Ma nagement) ; .Birkenhead, L ancash i re, an d Ch es hi re Junction Railway ; Blackburn Railway ; Brigh ton, Hove, and Preston Constant Service Water ; Carlisle and.lwa Hawick R a il way; Chester W ater; D umba t r o ton D N a V v a er te ) r ; & E c ly . ; Tidal East KCnntwaßlla (Extension Harbour and Railway ; E xeter and Exmouth Rail way ; Glasgow City and Suburban Gas • Glasgow Gas ; Great Southern and We s t ern Extension Railway • Great Yarmouth Britannia P ier ; I nverness and Nair n Railway ; Kidsgrove Market ; L ancaster and • Carlisle, and Ingleton Railway ; Leslie Railway ; Lewes and Uckfiell Railway ; London and South Western Railway Acts Amendment ; Mersey Conservancy and Docks ; New River Company ; Newry, War renpoint, and Rostrevor Railway ; North Eas tern Railway (Capital) ; Oldham, Ashton-under- Lyne, and Guide Bridge Junction Railways ; Pee bles Railway; Portsmouth Water; Price's Patent Candle Company ; South Devon Railway ; South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway ; Stratford-upon-Avon Gas; Sunderland Gas ; Taff Vale Railway ; Tweed River Fisheries; Victoria (London) Docks ; Watchet Har bour; Watchet Harbour Trust ; Waterford and Tramore Railway; Wearmouth Bridge, Ferries, an d A pproac h es; West Somerset Mineral Rail way ; Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway; Whitehaven and Furness Junc tion Railway. INCOME TAX, Numerous petitions were again presented against the present assessment of the property and i ncome tax. - On the motion of Mr. MOFFATT' the following re turn was granted, showing the number of persons charged to the income tax for the years ended the sth day of April, 1855 and 1856, under Schedule (D) ; dis tinguishing the number charged in each of the following classes, viz.—under 1001. a-year ; 100/, and under 1501. a-year ; 1501. a-year and under 200/. ; 2001, and under 3001. ; 3001. and under 4001. ; 400/, and under 500/. ; 5001. and under 6001.; 6001. and under 7001. ; 7001. and under 800/. ; 800/. and under 9001. ; 9001. and under 1,000/. ; 1,0001. and under 2,000/. ; 2,000/. and under 3,0001. ; 3,0001. and under 4,000/. ; 4,0001. and under 5,0001. ; 5,0001. and under 10,0001. ; 10,0001. and under 50,000/. ; 50,000/. and upwards ; and the amounts of tax received from each class : Similar re turn, under Schedule (E), to 5,000/, a-year and upwards : return showing the net amount of property and income tax for the same years, classed under the several sche dules (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. I of session 1856). And similar return for Ireland. THE NAVY. Captain SCOBELL gave notice that on Tuesday, the 17th inst., he should move for a select committee rela tive to navy promotions. THE EXTENSION OF THE FRANCHISE. Sir J. WALMSLEY gave notice that he should, on Tuesday, the 24th, move for a select committee to con sider the extension of the franchise. DIPLOMATIC SALARIES. Mr. WISE gave notice that on Tuesday, the 24th, he should move for the repeal of the a c t o f P ar li a ment granting 18 0 , 0001 . for di p lomati c salaries and pensions, LEGAL EDUCATION. Mr. KEATING asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government, in the present session, to intro duce any measure founded upon the recommendation of the Commissioners appointed to consider the subj hot of legal education ? Sir G. GREY said that nothing had as yet been done with respeit to it. It rested with the Lord Chancellor GOODS' WARRANTS. Mr. GREGSON asked the Vice-President of the Board of Trade wLether, in consequence of the doubts thrown by the Courts of Law upon the validity of ad vances on the hypothecation of goods or warrants, it wac his intention to introduce any bill upon the subject d Iring the present session ? Mr. LOWE said it would not t edlficult to introduce a bill to secure the legitimate trader. As soon as the Government knew how to meet the wishes of all chsses of the mercantile worl 1 on the question, they woul I in troduce a bill. PROTAS SHOALS. ' Major SIBTHOR,P asked the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, whether any steps were being taken by the Government towards the diminution of risk to ship ping, by the erection of a lighthouse on the reef known as the Protas Shoal, in the China Sea ? Mr. LOWE said steps were being taken for the pur pose asked, but the difficulty was to obtain the neces sary funds. It must be done by a toll, which he thought would act as a deferential duty on the English shipping. DESTITUTE SOLDIERS' WIVES AND CHILDREN. Sir J. TYRRELL asked what steps were being taken to relieve 250 wives and 350 children of soldiers in a state of starvation outside the garrison at Colchester Mr. F. PEEL said that he had made inquiries at the Horse Guards, but nothing was known cf it. He would make further inquiries upon the subject. THE CRIMEAN COMMISSIONERS. Mr. J. EWART asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether it was the intention of the Government to make any recognition of the services of Sir J. M'Neill and Col. Tulloch in the Crimea ? (Cheers.) Lord PALMERSTON said that these gentlemen were employed in the (Mama on inquiries of an im. portant nature, bearing on the state and condition of the army there, and they bad performed those duties to the satisfaction of her Majesty, and to their own credit. (Hear, hear.) It was not the intention of the Govern ment to step out of the ordinary way and ask the Crown to give these gentlemen additional honours. Kfr. LAYARD asked if it were true that before Col. Tulloch went to the East be was promised promotion, and that since junior officers had been put over his head ? Lord PALMERSTON said that he was not aware that Col. Tulloch had been promised promotion. A number of officers of the same rank between him and the top of tho list, who "had seen active service and greatly distinguished themselves, had been promoted, and he thought it would not have been fair to them to have put him over their heads. (Hear.) CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS PREVENTION ACT. Mr. IL BERKELEY asked the First Lord of the Treasury, when he intended to move for a select commit tee to inquire into the operation of the " Corrupt Prac tices at Elections Prevention Act." (Laughter.) . _ Lord PALMERSTON said that he would take the opportunity of doinc , so on an early day. ARMY ESTIMATES. Sir C. WOOD gave notice that on Monday next the army estimates would be entered into. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. In reply to a question, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he . did not intend to move a second committee fur Joint- Stock Banks, but would state the course he intended to adopt on an early day. THE SECRET TREATY. Mr. DISRAELI rose and addressed the house rela tive to a statement he made on the first night of the set sion, and which was contradicted by Lord Palmersten, to the effect that France had guaranteed to Austria her Italian provinces by a secret treaty. He said that he received the information which he then mentioned from unimpeachable sources, and although he objected to hon. members being called upon to give their authority for any statements they might make, ho would inform the house that he had his information from no French au ' thority, and that it had nothing to do with his recent visit to Paris, but that he obtained it from good autho rity in this country. (Hear, hear.) If it was an erro neous statement he was prepared to take the responsi bility. It was not to impugn the policy of that treaty that his observations on the night alluded were directed, because the policy that dictated it on the part of France was conceived in that wide, temperate, and conservative spirit that had gained for the Government of the Em peror of the French the respect and confi• , deuce of Europe. (Hear, hear, hear.) What he complained of then, and what he complained of now, was, that if it be a fact that the private treaty existed, and that the statement he made be a correct one, that the conduct of her M - ajesty's Government at the time was conveying to the house, to the country, and to Europe', an impression that they•were pursuing a policy quite contrary to the course of their general policy, and entirely adverse to what this alleged treaty was intended to accomplish. The contradiction of the noble lord involved two allegations against him (Mr. Disraeli), first, that Lis statement of a secret treaty, by which France guaranteed to Austria the security of her Italian provinces, was altogether a fiction, for that no such treaty existed—that, to use the noble lord's words, it was a romance. (Hear, hear.) Tho second allegation v.aq, that it was a deri,ive hypo thesia, fur that it' there he such a treaty her Majesty's Government had never heard of it, and that, instead of advising such a treaty, had her Maje , Ay's Government known of it they would have given contrary advice. His statement, therefore, was, that negotiations were entered into between Franca and Austria, with the main object of guaranteeing on the part of France the security of Austria's Italian dominions ; those negotiations were brought to a successful conclusion ; that they were ex pressed in writing, and formed a written instrument that assumed the form of a treaty and a secret treaty, and that that treaty was ex!cuted on 22d December, 18.51; and he had reasonable evidence to prove 'that her Majesty's Government were privy to the negotiations, and gave their consent to the execution of the treaty. Tne right hon. gentleman concluded by stating that he could prove hie statement by documents in Downing-street, and complained of the tone and manner of the noble lord on the first night of debate. Lord PALMERSTON said that he had no desire on the former occasion to say or do anything to im peach the honour of the right honourable gentle man. The right hon. gentleman had omitted an im portant part of his (Lord Palmerston's) contradiction. The charge brought against the Government by the right hon. gentleman was that her Majesty's Government were professinggreat interest for the Italians, and encouraging the Italian nationalities, yet at the same time they were acting a contrary course with France and Austria. He (Lord Palmerston) repeated that according to his belief there was no such treaty as that named by the right honourable gentleman, and that it now remained as on a former occasion on hearsay evidence. What ho stated on a former occasion was, that the Government did not know of such a treaty, nor had ever hoard of it, and unless the right hon. gentleman had seen it, that he must have been misled respecting it. The only foundation he could assign for the statement of the right hon. gentleman was, that about the time alluded to, Austria asked that, if she took part in the war with England and France, France should not take advantage of it to disturb Austria's Italian dominions to which France .consented, and that if, disturbances took place in Italy in con sequence, that French soldiers in Italy should assist Austria for keeping the territorial limits. These arrangements were embodied in a tem porary convention, and although it met with the appro val of the Government, it was not signed, becaus) Austria did not join France and England in active ape rations againtßussia, which was its basis. That convention and the treaty the right hon. gentleman had mentioned were as different as any two things could be. (Hear, hear.) Re repeated his statement that he knew nothing of such a private treaty as that mentioned by the right hon. gentleman. (Hear, hear.) The subject then dropped. INCOME TAX. Major REED then rose to move the following resolu tion :—" That whereas the act of Parliament (18 Vic. c. 20), contains a proviso which, by itstechnical construc tion, would inflict in a time of peace a second year of full war income tax upon the loyal but heavily burdened subjects of her Majesty, this house is of opinion that the provisions of the said act should cease and determine from the Gth day of April next." (LEPT SPEAKING.) LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.) DOWNING-STREET, FEE. 9. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles Henry Darling, Esq., now Governor and Commander - in - Chief in and over the Island of Newfoundland and its dependen cieg, to be Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief in and over the Island of Jamaica and the territories depending thereon ; Sir Alexander Bannerman, lint. now G over nor and Commander - in - Chief in and over the Bahama Islands, to be Governor and Com mander-in-Chief in and over the Island of New foundland and its dependencies ; Sir Carlo Arthur Henry Rumbold, Bart., to be President and Senior Member of the Council of the Island of Nevis; and Thomas Price, Esq., now Treasurer for the Island of Antigua, to be President and Senior Member of the Executive Council of the Virgin Islands. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Edward W. Alexander, Esq., to be Colonial Surgeon for the Island of St. Helena; Thomas Havers, Esq., to be a Member of the Executive Council of the Falkland Islands, daring the absence of J. R. Longden, Esq. ; John J. Robinson, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the Province of New Brunswick; William Forgan and John Aldons, Esc's., to be Members of the Legislative Council of the Island of Prince Edward; and Sholto Thomas Pemberton, Esq., to be a Member of the Council of Nevis. I WHITEHALL, FEB. 9. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Win. Monsell to be President of the General Board of Health. - _ _ CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 10. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE. PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Aylesbury—Sir Richard Bethcll, Knt., her Majesty's Attorney-General. Borough of Hertford—The Right Hon. Wm. Francis Cowper, Vice-Preadult of the Committee of Privy Coun cil for Education. WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 10. Royal Artillery—Lient,-Colonel Henry Joseph Morrif to be Colonel, vice Higgins, removed as a General Officer ; Captain John Travers to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Morris; Second Cgptain William Boyd Saunders to be Captain, vice Trevors ; Lieutenant Cecil Brooke Le Mean rier to be Second C.,ptain, vice Saunders. Royal Engineers—The second Christian name of the Lieutenant appointed on 20th Dec., 1356, in the Gazette of the 23,1 ult., is barley, and not Darby, as previously t ated. 90th Foot—The Christian name of Major Batnston is Rogor, and not Robert, as stated in the Gazette of the 6th instant. BREVET. Colonel Thomas Gordon Higgins, of the Royal Artillery, to be Major-General, vice Bastard, retired upon full-pay. 3 In con - equence of the promotion of Colonel Morris, the undermentioned officers on the retired fall-pay list of the Royal Artillery, to be Colonels, in accordance with the Royal Warrant of 3d November, 1854; Colonel Morris having stood next below th em on the Effective Establish ment of the Regiment when they retired, viz : Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Herrick Burnaby. Lieutenant-Colonel John Geddes Walker. ADMIRALTY, FEB. 2. - BREVET. CORPS OF ROYAL MARINES. With reference to her Majesty's Order in Council of the 13th Sept. ' 18 i 4, Colonel Second Commandant Samuel Hawkins, on re tired full pay, to be Major-General, the rank being hono rary only. Lieut.-Colonel Peter Brames Nolloth, on retired full pay, to be Colonel, the rank being honorary only. Captain William Lawrence Sayer, on retired fall pay, to be Major, the rank being honorary only. ADMIRALTY, FEB. 6. Corps of Royal Marines.—The following promotions have taken place, under her Majesty's Order in Council of the 13th Sept., 1854, in consequence of the death of Gen. Geo. Jones, on the Fixed Establishment of General Officers of the Royal Marines, viz. :—Lieut.-General Thos. Adams Parke, C.B. to be Gener a l ; M a j or -G enera l John Rawlins Coryton to be Lieut.-General, vice Parke, promoted ; Col.- Commandant John Alexander Philips to be Major-General, vice Coryton, promoted. BREVET. Major-General William Fergusson, on retired full pay, to be Lieutenant-General, in consequence of the promo tion of Major-General John Rawlins Cory ton, the officer who stood next below him on the Effective Establishment at the time of his retirement. ADMIRALTY, FEB. C. Corps of Royal Marines.—The following promotions have taken place under her Majesty's order in Council of the 2d Feb., 1857 : Lieutenant-Colonel Henry William Parke to be Colonel Second Commandant ; Captain John Hawkins Gascoigne to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Parke, promoted. ADMIRALTY, FEB. 6. Corps of Royal Marines—Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Blaxland Stransham to be Colonel Second Commandant, vice Hawkins, retired on full pay ; Captain Robert John WlCillop to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Stransham, pro moted ; Captain and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel William Friend Hopkins, C. 8., to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Nollotb, retired on full pay. ADMI . RALTY, FEB. 6. Corps of Royal Marines—Colonel Second Commandant Fdward Augustus Parker to be Colonel Commandant, vice Philips, promoted ; Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Rea to be Colonel Second Commandant, vice Parker, promoted; Captain Henry Carr Tate to ba Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Rea, promoted. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANT County of Dumfries—The Right Hon. John Rogerson Rollo, Baron Rollo, to be Deputy-Lieutenant. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Henry John Girdlestone, Berlin wool dealer, Brighton. BANKRUPTS. William Edwards, ale and porter merchant, 325, High street, Wapping, to surrender, Feb. 19, at eleven, and Itarch 19, r.t twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John son, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Brown. Thomas Skinner, engraver, Sheffield, Feb. 21, and March 21, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Brewin, official assignee, Sheffield ; Hoole and Yeomans, Sheffield. Hyam Levi, clothier, Liverpool, Feb. 20 and March 12, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Woodburn, Liverpool. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Alexander Muirbead, Glasgow. Robert Govan, atone merchant, Glasgow. William Gardner and Company, builders, Glasgow. James Miller, farmer, Glaggo*. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.- THIS DAY. tha5terdam............ 11 15 ] Gibraltar .... —•••••• •• Ditto, three months .. 11 18 ;Leghorn .............. 29 45 Rotterdam .• •• •• •• •• •• 11 184 Genoa `. ..... •• •• •• .• ... :5 67% Brussels •• •••••••• •• •• 25 35 i Venice ••••••.••• •• •• Untaburgh ••••.• •• • • • • 13 7IA Naples ••••••••e• •• •• •• 43% &Rona —••••••..•• •• •• i Palermo •• •• • .•••• i 29% Pari5.............•• .. .. 25 22% Messina ... ... 130 Ditto, three months .. 25 62% Lisbon .. 51% Marseilles .............. 25 6 254 Oporto ..............•• 51% Bourdeaux ........ _.. fßio Janeiro ..... .•••• .. Frankfort-on-Maine .• .. 119!4 Buenos Ayres.. ,• •• .... - Berlin ........ ~....... New York,6o days' sight Vienna .......... .... 10 30 Philadelphia ... — irkste ••••••.••• • • .• •. 10 32 ?WOES OF VIILLION, F;iF oz. Petersburg ............ 37% Foreign Gold in Bars £3 . 17 9 Madrid .........., .. ~ 49!„i Portugal Gold Ccin .. 0' 0 0 Cadiz ......... •• .... 49% Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0 New Dollars ...... 0 0 0 .skville •• .......... --I Silver in bars .. —•• 0 0 0 GREENWICH ELECTION—(This Day.) STATE OF THE POLL. ONE O'CLOCK. Cod rington Sleigh 2,298 . 1,158 HEREFORD. A second candidate has appeared in the person of Mr W. T. Kevill Davie,, a county magistrate and land owner, residing. at Croft-eastl,,, near Leominster. The nomination will take place on Thursday. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.) SECONDARY PUNISHMENTS AND TICKETS OF LEKVE. Sir G. GRE Ir—l rise, in pursuance of the notice I have given, to move for leave to bring in a bill to amend the act 13'1 and 17th of Victoria, chap. 99, entitled " An act to substitute in certain cases other punishment in lieu of transportation. " I am wall aware of the deep interest felt in this subject thrJughlut the country,and I thr , refore think it my duty to avail myself of the earliest opportunity of submitting to the house the views entertained by the Government respecting it, and of stating the course they think it expedient to adopt. In considering this question, as I have done very carefully, during the recess, I have derived great and valuable as sistance from the inquiries of the committees of list ses sion. One of those committees was appointed by this house to inquire into the operation of the act of 1853, and was presided over by my right hon. friend the Chan cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Tho other was a committee of the House of Lords, and was appointed for the same purpose. These committees, follow ing rather different lines of inquiry, collected a vast mass of vaivable evidence, and made recommendations which the Government thought were entitled to very great weight. Before I consider the resolutions and recom mendations of either of these committees, I think it de sirable that I should shortly recall to the recollection of the house the nature of the provisions of the act which I propose to amend. The circumstances under which the act was passed are too fresh in the recollection of hon. members to render it necessary for me to dwell upon them. It trill be recollected that transportation as a secondary punishment was long in use in this country. After being resorted to for a great many years as the highest secondary punishment it had become almost inn po7sible to carry it into effect, owing to the closing of those avenues of transportation which bad been open to this country in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, though in the earlier stages of the formation of those colonies transportation had been of advantage to both of them. I believe that the great and growing pros perity of those large colonial communities was in a great measure owing to the introduction of convicts into them in their earlier stages of existence. Those convicts by supplying labour laid the foundation of the prosperity of the colonies I have referred to; but, as in course of time the colonies received a very large number of free settlers, as wealth and capital increased, and as free labour found its way into and was capable of supplying the market, and of rendering capital available in the cultivation d the land, it became ;subject first of doubt and dispute and contention in the colonies themselves whether it was desirable that transportation should be continued ; and ultimately there grew up a settled and decided feel ing in New South Wales and Tan Diemen's Land that it was inexpedient that convicts should be transported to either of those colonies. Under these circumstances the Government came to the wise; and, indeed, neces sary decision, th a t t ra nsportation should be altogether wad discontinued, rsin van fiDrsitemofeanlls Land. New South such Wrraalsesthaendstaatfetenr of things when in 1853 a bill was te submittedtime , and this to Parliament adapted to meet the exigencies of the passed into an act, which I now propose to ask permis sion of the House to amend. The provisions of the act are shortly these : —After reciting that it had become expedient to substitute some other punishment for the transportation of offenders beyond the sea, it abolished sentences of transportation for less than 14 years, and substituted terms of penal servitude. The terms of penal servitude to be awarded were not co extensive with the terms of transportation, as, for instance, 'instead of transportation for seven years' penal servitude for four years was awarded, and so in proportion ; and it was only in the case of transportation for life that Parliament a uthorised a sentence of penal servitude of like duration to be passed. There was engrafted on that act of Par liament, in the course of the discussion, a provision under which what is popularly called the system of tickets-of leave has arisen, an d the act accordingly contains a pro vision rendering it lawful to grant to any convict a licence revocable at pleasure to be at large within the United Kingdom or Channel Islands during any period of his sentence. Having shortly stated the main provi sions of the act of 1853, and the circumstances under which it was passed, I will now proceed to describe what 1 conceive to be the effect of that act, and in doing so I 6313 i 67 i a 8 1a 97 A A 61 1071 9 106 9 4 18 losi f 34 i a i 54. 40 39i 40 110 8 50i 50 21 1081 21$ i 0 91 55 i 5 6 18; 311 321 2 46a 7 xd & b ) 49. i 37 6i ad ad 26i i 3 40 Do.. 'estn. 94 3f 1111 1131 14 23 z d 4571 161 15i 12 134 1101 i have this advantage, which the committee of the House of Commons which last eat on the subject did not pOssess —that I have the experience of some eight or nine months more than it had. With respect to the immediate effect of the act of 1868—the effect contemplated by Par liament —namely, the material reduction of the sentences of transportation, the fact is, taking the three years be. o fc i r t e ra l n B s s p 3 ; and 1852 w as 2 , 1 49. r t t h at a i t o n t h i e n a E v e s r g a i g i e n d a ti f o n rn the e n u y m e b a r e s r l o B f s sz t i en Bs c have elapsed s th i s n a c n e fewer b B6 . r k e sente nc es th e Nv a i I find that in the three years which ri o t f ud tr e a 2 7 l % 2 , r , ta m ti a o k n in i ng England was 293 ; and of s penal enten servitude at v h erage annual number of totalirne regard sa rodft2o stated ,s4oeoot term Scotland :l e di ninon and a d d th iff e e a r c e t n p c a e s o se f d 2 Ireland there are no complete returns for all the years I have mentioned, and I will therefore take the year 1852, and compare it with the year 1856. In Scotland in 1852 the sentences of transportation were 861, and in the last year they were only 53. The sentences of penal servitude in 1856 were 174, making a total of 227 with the sentences of transportation, showing a diminution of 134 sentences as compared with 1852. With regard to Ireland the returns are very remarkable, and show that a great diminution of crime has taken glace there. (Hear, hear.) In the year 1850 the number of sentences of transportation in Ireland was 1,849, in 1851 it had increased to 1,978, and in 1852, the year before the act of 1853 passed, it had decreased to 1,411 ; but in the year 1855, which is the last for which I have got a full return, the number was only 33--(laughter) —in the pre vious year it was 39, and I should not be surprised if the return for 1856 showed a diminution as compared with that of 1855. We might expect that a very large number of prisoners must have been sentenced to penal servitude in lieu of transportation, so as to make the number approximate to the 1,411 sen tences of transportation in the year before the act passed ; but find that i n th e year 1855 there were only 485 pri soners sentenced to penal servitude, and 33 to transpor tation, making a total of only 518, and a difference of nearly 900 as compared with the year 1852. This is so remarkable a difference that I think it is owing to some peculiar improvement in the morality of the people of Ireland, and therefore it would have manifested itself if the act of 1853 bad never been passed. The main feature produced by that act in Ireland is the decrease in the number of sentences of transportation. But in England and Scotland there has been, corresponding with the de crease inthe number of sentences of transportation, a very large increase, as might have been expected, in the num ber of those sentenced to penal servitude. The average member of sentences of penal servitude in England and Scotland since the act of 1853 was passed is 2,300, and of those nearly three-fourths were for feur years penal servitude in lieu of seven years' transportation. But it must be borne in mind that simultaneously with this reduc tion in the number of sentences of transportation there has been au increase in the average character of the crime for which these sentences were passed. The num ber of prisoners sentenced to transportation during last year in England was 263, and in Scotland 53. All of these were sentenced for 14 years at least, and some of them were for life. These sentences were passed for very grave offences, and many of the prisoners had been re peatedly convicted. The number of convicts under sen tences of transportation •in England and Scotl a nd w h en the act of 1853 was passed was 9,850. Regulations were made as to the disposal of these prisoners. Expectations were held out to them when they were p!aced in separate confinement, and afterwards when sent to Portland or Portsmouth, or any of the other places in which convicts are employed on public works, tbatif they conducted them selves well they would, after a time, be sent to some penal colony with tickets of leave, or, at all events, with the expectation of receiving a qualified discharge within a short period after their arrival in the colony. That expectation could not be fulfilled, and it therefore be came necessary to consider what should be done with them. A provision was inserted in the act of 1853 which permitted such of them as had been sentenced to seven years' transportation to be discharged with tickets-of leave, after they should have undergone about half the term of their sentences in strict confinement in this coun try, instead of discharging them without any qualifica tion, as was formerly the case with reference to those pi isoners who underwent the very imperfect discipline of the hulks. These tickete-of-leave are revocable at the pleasure of the Crown in case of the misconduct of those who hold them. Those sentenced to seven years' trans portation were discharged with tickets-of-leave after an imprisonment of three years, and those sentenced to ten years atter an imprisonment of four years, in the event of their having complied with the prison regulations. Those were the minimum. terms ; and the prisoners were told that, if they did not conduct them selves well, they might be detained for longer pe riods. But good conduct in prison is a very imperfect test. (Hear, hear.) The vast majority of those prisoners who have been discharged upon tickets of leave are those who complied so faithfully with tho prison regulations that the governors (who, I believe, have endeavoured to discharge their duty honestly) recommended that they should be discharged after having undergone the mint. mum period of imprisonment. But the mere fact of a man's good conduct when he is removed from the ordi nary temptations of life, placed in an unnatural position, and required to conform to prison rules, to be industrious in the occupation assigned t o hi m , t o be respectful to his superiors, a ff ords no proof that his char a ct er h as b ecome improved; for it may be that, as soon as he is released f_om the restraints placed upon him while in prison, and returns to the scenes of his former temptations, he will associate with his former companions, and soon make it evident that his morals have not been improved. (Hear.) I do not, however, mean to say that there has not been an improvement with regard to many of the prison ers ; but, as to several of them, it is to be feared that the very object which they have in view in complying strictly with the prison regulations is to obtain an early r, lease, in order that they may rejoin their former as sociates in crime. The number of convicts under sen tence of transportation has been reduced by the actual transprtation of about 1,050 of them to Western Aus tralia; 7,002 have been discharged on licenses tin to the present time ; about 1,200 have been sent to Bermuda and Gibraltar ; and the total number of those who re main in this country under sentences of transportation, and who, in case of their good conduct, will receive tickets of leave in the course of the next two or three )ears, does notamount to 5,000. Tho number of licenses which have been revoked for misconduct up to the same time is 466 ; but to this mast be added the number of license holders who have been reconvicted and sentenced to terms of imprisonment which exceed the margin of their original sentences, and the revocation of whose li cen,es could therefore have no effect. The number of these is 583. In addition to these there are 95 who -have been reported for misconduct, but who have not yet been convicted of the crimes with which they are charged. This, with the two previous numbers, gives a total of 1,144 holders of tick e t s o f l eave who have been convicted of or charged with crime, being a proporti o n of 16 per cent. of the whole n um b er of licenses which have been granted. As a general rule, I have thought it desirable to act with ekreme caution in the revocation of licenses in cases where no charge could be made against the holder before a magistrate, so that he might have an opportunity of defending himself. I have had frequent reports from the police, and have in many cases desired them to go to a person suspected of living dishonestly, and warn him that the eye of the police was upon bin], and that a persistence in illegal courses would lead to the revocation of his ticket-of-leave. In 41 cases licenses have been revoked without judicial inquiry ; but, as a rule, I have thought that it would be putting too much power into the hands of the police if, merely upon their report that a man was associating with thieves, the Secretary of State were to cancel his ticket of leave. (Hear, hear.) There may, however, be cases in which it is so glaringly evident that a man is living dishonestly and leading others into crime that his ticket ought to be revoked. On the other hand, while in some cases of slight offences, such as trifling asaaults, tickets have not been revoked, yet, as a rule, they have been cancelled in all cases of felony or other offences against the law, whether the conviction was summary or at the sessions or assizes. Looking at the principle on which the shorter terms of penal servitude were substituted for the longer periods . of transportation, and considering that persons sentenced to penal servitude had no such hopes extended to them as I have represented as having been held out to those who were in this country under sentences of transportation at the time of the passing of the act of 1853, it has been determined that, as a rule, no tickets-otleave should be granted toe serve suoh persons, but that they should be requ ire d the full period of their sentences. No such li°onset, special in num circumstances, and these have have been granted to person s . slenetenndoedextcosptpieenneall servitude, except under ber to but 53, To have hab i tu all y ranted these licensee place upon it, conceived mcseohnnotcuetlidhvae that t w o. te ho instance a and to defeat the i ntention at the act of Parliament gentleman, for w hom . without the to such persons would hwavee all fl been thheat have ee t w r g i . fl rle e anwtointrhee respect, the judges the slightest commu annngtiaoln servitude Parliament opinion ta n ß he i e i c d.r e a d o t .ts i r h o d oe n e f t r d w the o ha i :tete! debates ernwnetwi,ael sentence g ei u teeh t h he a o l looki ng o took ktpei re mitted as the reward of good conduct in prison. I received from some prisoners who had been sentenced by him petitions complaining of the severity of the referred,l I re cei v e d a a s u l e s t u t e a t o a h r g . tha lullst hfaromhevwehr o m a 13 , t i i n e i r p e a t p l e v a , sentences which had b een passed upon them. These that these sentences would be carried out ; that he un derstood that, if the prisoners behaved well, a large por tion of their s en t ences would be remitted ; and that, if he _ had acted under an error, he should in these and inagreat many other cases feel it his duty to submit recommen dations for the mitigation of the sentences. I asked him what mitigation he thought necessary to reduce the sen tence to that which, had he believed it would be full,: carried out, he should have passed upon the prisoners 1' In reply I received from him a letter in whio_h I un sen. stood him to say that he wished one-third of each that, he tence to be remitted ; but on my ytorgrea and that what titled on referring to it I found that that so,was birds of the senten ce educing respect, them spec t, said that I must have read his lette te r l ittourately, and t he desired was theremission of two - t hirds nd to commute the Under these circumstances I felt bou but b told me he should have passed to those which the judge sentences, not by ti c kets w o h f o lea is v e e n t would be fully ca • d • had he known that they Mr. Hill is a gentlem an efforts for the reformation of • and whose benevolent . of ple spoken of too highly. He acknow ledgedßoners cannot be a had made a that h mistake, and perhaps ought to have communicated with the_ judges—h"n n g • the rest—and have i n ti mated to t h em that i t ::::the intention of the Government that sentences of pens . l servitude should b e f ully carr i e d out. It ie e traor dinary how much inf ormat i on prisoner,' ev en in on b es t managed gaols, o bt a i n o f w h a t is goingon out of d oo rs; for, immedi a t e l y a f ter t hi s I rece ive dtat the judges numerous m emorials from pr i soners, a ll saying h who had sentenced thembad t o ld them that if they be haved well in p r i son a large pa rt of the punishment would be remitt e d, These memo r ials I referred to the t 18 20i 100 100 10 20 20 20 IC arl 100 100 24 100 all all 100 1 100 34 100 1100 174 all all 1100 all 100 all 1.00 16i 100 100 22 all all lON. 12 i 12i i 9 i i 93 4 79 iti St. 100 17 20 12i 25 20 10.6 26 13 20 St. 124 1 124 St. all 100 100 100 100 34 100 100 all tOO 100 all all 12112 14s 1013' 8s 6d: 16t15 40 I 12s 6 IV .i 3! li all all all all 15 all all all all 10 all all 80 100 all 17 all 50 50 50 15 100 2 q , 100 108 i 31 i 31- 4 135 6