The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-26 00:00:00

Etberpoot taitbarb+ FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. MONDAY MORNING. THE excitement at the West-end Clubs last nigl.t betokens the speedy approaen of a political contest, cer tain to be attended with circumstances of a memorable character, and not at all unlikely to prove most damaging to the ABERDEEN Administration, should, indeed, that strange admixture of imbecile Whiggery, preposterous Peelism, and audacious dandified Radicalism escape positive condemnation at the hands of a well-organised and constitutional opposition. In ordinary times, our clubs on Sunday present the dullest aspect imaginable. At no period of the day or evening can you find more than half-a-dozen familiar Parliamentary faces grouped together in the salons of those fashionable resorts of our free and independent legislators. But last night " Brookes's" was positively crowded to inconvenience—the " Reform" numbered at least one hundred and fifty of those who may fairly be ranked in the category of Lord JOHN Rus- SELL'S followers ; and the " Carlton" presented an array of honest, genuine Conservative pluck and spirit, which, when one considered the immediate cause of their anxi ous communing, made glad the heart of the oppressed Income-tax payer. It was my good fortune to have lounged an hour or two at each of those establishments, commencing, somewhere between seven and eight o'clock, at my own re-union, the " Carlton," where the cuisine, by the way, under new management, is enchanting ; towards ten o'clock eliminating the much-vaunted aroma of Master " BROOKES'S" claret; and, as midnight st )1e on, seduced by a brace of Manchester friends into the " Reform"—under whose rather ricketty roof I found Sir ALEXANDER COCKBURN and BEuee.aa. OSBoRNE, surrounded by a group of Irish members pronouncing painful panegyrics on the Cabinet, that they " hoped was not soon about to fall in pieces." Into such company no earthly consideration would have induced me to venture, were it not that T felt inconceivably carious to learn in what respect the state of feeling at the Reform, " respecting the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S chances of success with his plagiarised financial scheme, tallied with the evidence which had been already afforded me both at the " Carlton " and "Brookes's." Curiously enough, nearly the same opinions pervaded each of the three clubs. Reformers, Whigs, and Conservatives agreed in declaring that the Budget was not the thing ; that in many respects it was most objectionable ; and that unless Mr. GLADSTONE con sented to many material modifications, his propositions must fall to the ground. At the Reform and Brookes's it appeared to be generally feared that the Government would experience defeat on the question of the Irish Income Tax, by reason of the combined strength of the Conservative and Ultra-Liberal section of the Irish re presentative body. At the Carlton there were slight hopes that such a game might be played ; but my oyen deliberate opinion, formed after six hours' careful con templation in the hotbeds of political gossip, leads to the conclusion that the Ministers, by a majority of from twenty-eight to thirty-five votes, will force all the essen tial elements of the GLADSTONE Budget through the House of Commons ; and that for the remainder of the session, at least, we shall have certainly no resignation of Ministers, and nearly as certainly no dissolution of Parliament. I have no doubt that most of the readers of the Standard, in their early days, have seen a nice little treatise, en. titled, Hocus-Pocus ; or, the Whole Art of Legerdemain. I remember it tickled my fancy much, especially the page wherein were three rude wood-cuts of thimbles, and as many peas about ; since well known as the " thimble rig"—a game which the late Premier, the Earl of DERBY, did not practise, but expose. All CHANCELLORS of the EXCHEQUER must, in some degree, be professors of th e art referred to ; and doubtless the CHANCELLORS of the present day are as clever professors in their branch, as the Hounia's and ROBINS entirely swallow up the fame of the vulgar necromancers of fifty years ago. lam incon tinently led into the use of this apparently ill-favoured allusion, from having a seance with our present CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER on Monday evening, when he propounded what is technically called " The Budget." I shall notice, in a conversational or gossiping style, rather than in a severe manner, several of those points which seemed to take the house,—or rather the strangers in it ; that small sample of Messieurs the Public, who had access ; taking that way, as most likely the fairer mode of judging of public feeling out-of-doors, for, on such a many-membered subject as a Budget, representatives cannot be accepted as fair expositors. The Hot.e was immensely crowded, I must tell you, and GLADSTONE came in punctually, looking prim and pale, and somewhat big with importance. ft is a trite remark, that a case must be bad which occupies a long time in the defence. Now, though Mr. GLADSTONE spoke five mor tal hours, and spoke well too, the thousand and one topics, Argo -briarien like, he had to grapple with, vindi cated the length of time consumed, though I make no reference at all to the budget of his immediate predeces sor, which occupied in the delivery exactly the same number of hours. That right hon. gentleman, you may be sure, was close by, listening with deep attention, now and then shrugging his shoulders far up among his hype rion curls, which appeared to have had an extra drop of l'huile divine, as well as an extra twist of the tongs, Never mind. " A sop to Cerberus," quoth one shrewd looking billy, seated in a good part of the SPEA KER ' S gal lery—duty off the supplement was then being proposed by the CHANCELLOR. The murder was out at once. " Who will be bettered by this ?" " The leading Jour nal," quoth our friend, who had much the appearance of one of those cosey, well-to-do, and good-natured people who have mills on the banks of our still clear and peaceful tributary stream s—mills for the manufacture of paper. There can be no doubt of it. I tried to remember when and where I had seen a supple ment save that of the Times; but failed, though I have a glimmering of a supplement, "a long time ago," of some other London paper. However, the halfpenny was well enough received, though the Thunderer did not want " greased lightning" to aid him in the support of the Government. This proposition is looked upon as nothing less than an attempt to propitiate the powerful organ I have mentioned. The reduction in the advertise ment duty was hailed as a grand step in the right direc tion,—perhaps you will laugh and pity my ignorance when I state that I firmly believe this is the only really tangible and beneficial proposition of the whole. Thousands will advertise who were heretofore debarred ; especially will this be the case with a host innumerable of workers, clerks, and cooks, and servants of all classes. There was a bit of humbug brought forward, namely, the remission of the post-horse duty. Cui bono ? That huge " roarer," the iron horse of the rails, has sent all his flesh and blood predecessors to " grass" long ago ; and, excepting a wedding party, like an angel's visit, or a " peppered" beast hired for the day by clerk or shopman—horse and rider easily distinguished,—the former from its excess of grooming, and great need of it,—the latter by his gaucherie, the job-master has had little or no duty to pay for a long while. But it sounded well,—" Remission of the Post-horse duty !" Don't it ? Three or four points of Mr. GLADSTONE'S financial scheme were either plagiar ised or taken by - consent from Mr. DISRAELI. That about the Tea, for example. The Income-tax move is one of the grandest attempts at dust-throwing in Jolla: BULL'S e yes. Let me have it as it is for two years, Mr. GLAD STONE might have said, and you may have it off altoge ther afterwards, if you like. But this would not have suited the wily CHANCELLOR'S plan. He must appear to go cautiously about his work—do his financiering as Ariel does her spiriting—gently. Mr. GLansToNEknows as well as I do, and every one,.save and except his own immediate worshippers, that in much less than two years the exist ence or non-existence of the Income-tax will be to him, as a Minister, a mere matter of moonshine : as a loyal subject, of course, he will pay it. There w a laugh, when he, in a rather grandiloquent manner—perhap_. .t was assumed—introduced to the notice of the House a contemplated reduction of the duties on certain important articles of human food, enumerating cheese, eggs, and apples ! Transporting his auditors at once to those ./rcadian and lact ea l reg ions which still are to be foun d in , k , inertia England," where the lowing of the cow is heard, the cackling of the hen, and, ill luck to it ! sour cyder is drank. Eggs and apples ! Foreign abo minations. The pullets-spume of France and Belgium ought to be doubly taxed, and so drive us to encourage the production of good English eggs from English fowls. Foreign apples again—beautiful indeed are they to the eye, but de ceitful; they are all either what is called" sleepy," the pulp dry and woolly, or sour as crabs. For what we have re ceived, however, in the budget, let us be thankful. This is certain, the Government at present are determined to stand or fall by it, while the opposition-Conservatives have determined to join the Irish members in throwing out the Income Tax clause as regards Ireland. FINCH HATTON, commonly called the Earl of WIN. CHELSEA, which he is and eke of Nottingham, though in hi s sixty-second year, is as fine and manly a specimen of the real Englishman as you will meet with in a day's march. Good-looking, burly, and remarkably broad THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1853. shouldered, with a piercing grey eye, somewhat moist and merry when he is lighted up, you see at once that you have at least found a man—who is not to be trifled with. Had I had the configurating of his forehead in clay, T would have made it perhaps of more ample dimen sions and less shelving. I would, as a skilful artist, in other respects certainly, not have increased firmness, lest it should have approached to obstinacy, but would have counteracted the rigid indication of the former character istic ; in short, made the suaviter in modo take precedence of the fortiter in re. Yet WINCHILSEA is a splendid fellow and a fop withal. Two dozen years ago, when he went into Battersea-fields—where I sometimes go to pick up groundsel and chickweed for my neighbour's birds— WINCHILSEA was a buck. He was then thirty-eight years of age, and adored WELLINGTON ; they had a quarrel on the Roman Catholic question ; the DUKE was then brisk at sixty. HENRY HARDINGE, the DUKE'S old etinwrade, was only forty-four, arid as fiery as a lucifer match, played the part of second to his Grace. There was little explana tion in Battersea-fields, T trow ; but WINCHILSEA stood like a brick. WELLINGTON affected to fire straight at him (he didn't mean it) ; in an instant after th e D UKE ' S fi re FINCH HATTON'S bullet whizzed hid' up in the air, far away from the now sainted head of WELLINGTON. Had either party been slain, the survivor would have lived miserable. WINCHILSEA has been passing his latter years in quiet, either at Kirby, in Northamptonshire, or Eastwell-park, Kent; and, barring a flying letter to a Protestant paper now and then, little has been heard of him until Monday night last, when he came out in the House of Peers, like a BOANERGES—son of thunder, as he is,—when GLADSTONE was talking about his Exchequer Bill rubbish, which no three men in the house understood or cared about ; I was one of those, and dropped in to the Lords, hearing WINCHILSEA'S voice, high, like his glorious cause, far above all else. He was moving for a committee of inquiry into the mode of education, practices, &c., at Maynooth. More than half of his speech was lost, the commencement of his sentences were so supremely loud, arid the conclusion so abrupt and low. COLERIDGE, my memory serves aright, speaking of KEAN (EDMUND), says something of that great actor's transitions from "Hyper-tragical to sub-colloquial." The quotation conveys my meaning. Still the Protestant Earl's speech appears to read well. You will perceive he lost his committee and got a commission, or as good, and I can scarcely find out the difference. Any way, the existence of that sink, Maynooth, is only a question of time. It is doomed. Dropping WINCIIILSEA, let us gossip half a minute about his son and heir, Viscount MAIDSTONE, now exactly the same age as his father when he met WEL LINGTON with no hostile intention. Lord MAIDSTONE is in his 38th year, and has copied his father to a T. The Viscount's Deluge, recent published, has caused much sport not only among sporting men, with whom the noble scion is an associate, but in every circle; it contains some good hits, and more hum-drum. MAIDSTONE is an independent fellow, likes to hear his Deluge well spoken of, but says he don't care a fiddle-stick though it is laughed at. At the West-end sporting houses—we have two or three yet left—the Deluge is highly eulogised. Your pugilistic readers, if you have any, will be gratified to know that HARRY BROOME, after two hours and a half's hard work, succeeded in bacon mauling HARRY ORME the other day, and now has the champion's belt. I would not give a doit for a fellow if he could not knock down a blackguard, or know how to defend himself against one. The education, however, is horrible ! JAMIE WILSON, "the yellow-hair'd laddie " who represents Westbury in Parliament, and the Secretary to the Treasury in the Government, is one of the most remarkable men of his time. Before noticing his Customs' Reform speech in the House of Commons on Thursday night, a few words on his personnel—neither extenuating nor setting down aught in malice—may not be amiss. JAMIE, as his honoured name importeth, is free the " could north," born in 1805, at Hawick, a place famous in Scottish song and story. Mr. WILSON is now about 48 years of age, the hey-day of manhood, if indeed such a man as the honourable representative ever experienced hey-day joys, save in the divarication of figures, not of speech but of arithmetic, which he appears to have at his fingers' ends. It was this knowledge of figures, and the application of them, which " transmogrified" Mr. WILSON from a hatmaker in Holland -street, Black friars, to a financier and a minister, now living in Hertford-street, Mayfair, one of the most fashionable localities at the West-end, with a chateau down in that salubrious county, Wilts. Bravo, COCKER ! What Mr. WiLsoN's scholastic attainments are I cannot tell ; he utters himself grammatically enough, and his dialect has scarcely a taint of Hawick. His out ward man is mean in the extreme : he is withal as lean as a locust, and as hungry—as a Radical. His eyes are the drollest I have seen ; they have a peering, sorrowing, doubting, and anxious expression, very painful to note. If it were not for the queer aspect of the irides, which appear like two rings, one within the other, surrounding eyes of great convexity, one would fancy the hon. gentle man was ill at ease. The expression given to Mr. WILSON'S phiz in a late woodcut by Punch comes as near the truth as caricature can come. For all this, JAS. WILS3N has been Secretary to the Board of Control, and now is higher in the range of office, being iu the Treasury. He has written a good deal which I cannot understand,— , perhaps because " my affections do not that way tend." A number of years ago, he published his " Influences of ' the Corn Laws," " Fluctuations of Currency, Com merce, and Manufactures," "The Revenue, or what should the Chancellor do ?" and so forth. He is at this moment the editor of the Economist, a weekly paper. On Thursday evening be had the place of honour assigned to bins at the table of the House, with the official oox before him ; which, with good taste, he did not strike so frequently as some more flashy members I could name, and who have got the title of " striking members " bestowed on them. Denuding the hon. g onf 's speech r r its commercial technicalities, his scheme of Custom House Reform contains fourteen heads of re commendations. Fourteen heads ! This outbark9 Cer berus, with his three, all to nothing, reminding one of the sleepless offspring of Typhon, with its hundred heads. Mr. WILSON told the House it was not the intention of the Government to alter the constitution of the Customs Board at present. I should think not. Let the poor Commissioners enjoy their thousand or two a-year, with something else, for doing nothing, a little longer, JAMIE. Your Radical friends have their own thoughts about his reservation. Oh ! SAMMY JOHNSON ! great lexicogra pher and moralist ! verily you spoke truth when you de fined a Whig to be a Tory—when in place. Promotion among the Custom House servants is in future to be placed on a fairer basis. The propounder said something about merits commanding a preference. Time it should. The seizing officers were to be better looked after, with the view of doing away with that monstrous temptation to evil-doing, "direct interest in seizures." Transit by rail was another good point, and elicited a " hear ! hear ! " With regard to the Port of Liverpool, in whatever way the Board of Customs was to be altered, it was resolved to give to Liverpool a Custom-house, as it were, of its own,—that is, to have an independent head or functionary at Liverpool. This is wisely done. The Customs au thorities in the large house near Billingsgate have a shrewd suspicion that the Liverpool mercantile and ship ping interests were not likely to wait for their share of reform until the Greek Kalend period, when the London Board would set to work and reform itself. Meantime, you are to entertain and decide all cases of an ordinary character not above £lOO. These are the chief points of the new scheme, as I gathered them. Towards the ter. mination of the hon. gentleman's address, he had " fit audience, though few ;" there only being about thirty members in the house, among them Mr. TURNER, who staid to the last. Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Mr. GLAD• STONE graced, by their presence, the peroration. The plan gave satisfaction. Saturday was a rather busy day at Bow-street police office. The Rotherhithe sulphur and saltpetre, smoke and bounce war rocket, Kosstrrit, and what not people, the HALES, pere et fils, were brought before the worthy " beak " to answer the charge of having more powder about the rat's house in Redriff than the law allows. HALE'S people contended it was not powder that was found on the premises. It tasted confounded like it, if my boyish recollections of the Fourth of June, when GEORGE M. was king, vindicate the appreciation of a palate still on the qui vice, though rather elderly. One of the chemists-analytical—what next, I wonder ? I call him a working chemist—let out something about the " compo sition " not being exactly " good " gunpowder : good or bad, ignoramus ! the law knows not,—powder is powder, if it should be as coarsely granulated as onion seed. Mr. BODKIN, a discreet advocate, M.P., and son of a decent watchmaker in Clerkenwell, appeared to prosecute for the Crown, and CLARKSON—tO Mister whom would be ridi culous—appeared for the lIALES. The inquiry was con ducted with much bonnommie —there is no treason in it— and I liked to note young HALE, though discharged, still stick in the dock by his father's side. Decision is deferred, the po-liti-co part being fixed for next Thursday. Moonshine ! Some people say there would have been no inquiry at all, but the " leading journal " having put its foot in it, GLADSTONE and PALMY are willing to get it out as clean as possible. The English metropolitan theatres do not deserve notice in this communication ; the houses have been but mode rately attended during the week : two or three new novel • ties, however,arepromised,and a rally is anticipated. The Italian Opera carries all before it, that in Covent garden being sole temple, is nightly crammed : not an empty nook to be had. There is not the least appearance of the elder and more classical interior of Her Majesty's Theatre being lit up this season. Mr. GYE, the intelli gent conductor of Covent-garden, it is stated, has paid the sum of £5,000 to the chief creditor at Her Majesty's Theatre, and means to keep it closed, which I suppose ho can, till the above sum is repaid. I don't think he can open the house under present exigencies, though he may have power to keep it closed, and thereby fill Covent-garden. Guam made her first appearance as Norma the other evening ; she is thinner—more spirituel than heretofore, but still splendid in bust and shoulders ; fit to be admired even by Anchorite, as when CHANTREY the great sculptor of female anatomy lived, and made his marble all but breathe ! The cast of Norma was grand ; TAMBERLIK, the Russian, taking the role of MARIO, the Kandian. The Puritani is marked for to-morrow, with MARIO'S first appearance in his fine part of Arturo. Thus the muse of poor BELLINI is taking the place of " vain show," which ought never to be permitted in a house with such artists at the command of the management. BELLINI died a few years ago, at the early age of 37 ; the same as that of our own gifted and never-to-be-forgotten llEway PURCELL. BELL'S' was full of whim ; good-looking, but delicate; ho put himself to a vast amount of worry about his dress. The weather in Paris, at the time to which I refer, a little before his death, was boisterous and inconstant. BELLINI would sally forth in the morning in his furred frock ; he had not been out half an hour, anon, the clouds parted, and there was a blink of sunshine dear to BELLINI ! Home he ran, doffed the furs, and came out as light and airy as a z e phyr his ffur. ; before w rea a n s ot t h h e a r oh h i o l u d. hour you had him back again to si child like familiar,author whereverSo n n a sounds,m u i a, which nearly every" delight y l g noteof d which hurt i he lived,a dying ashte, not," woad are heard redeemed throug t i throughout u Italiantl e world. Had school,now or living only—moribund — in " sound a man fury."nd with h The quotation reminds me of that noisy littlee is n opera BL of huge black beard, VERDI : his opera " Rigoletto" in rehearsal, and is to be produced forthwi th. One work from EL severe musical scholars may designate " Sonnambula" as a t b N al i la w de a worth a thousand such ; and thou g h ,s will favouritedbteoaTex the ear. w when the strepito Of VERDI shall have COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NEll S. MONDAY NIGHT. THE ail-engrossing' subject, both in monetary and commercial circles, is the Budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his scheme for reducing the interest of the Three per Cents. The latter, al ' though it has received the sanction of the House of Commons, is considered to be open to some grave objections, particularly as to the lengthend term for which it is proposed to guarantee the reduced interest, which will be on the average about V. 15s. per cent. It is argued, and with some show of justice, that a guarantee for forty years is giving too great an advantage to the public creditor, as many circumstances may occur in the interval to render practicable a more advantageous bargain ; the more probable, as the supplies of god from Australia may operate to lower the interest of money. The Budget we have commented npon in another article, but we may remark that the Funds have since experienced a decline, which is some evidence that its passing is considered doubtful, as a contrary opinion would naturally have induced an advance. The Budget has also not been without its effect upon the mercantile world, as the pro posal to repeal the Soap duty has led to a❑ advance of about 71. per ton in the price of Palm Oil, which forms a principal ingredient in the manufacture, and induced considerable sales of cargoes to arrive. Tallow has also experienced an advance, and Tea, which is proposed to be affected by a reduction of duty, has also risen in price. At the same time there is a manifest disinclination to enter into any speculative operations until the House of Commons has decided upon the Ministerial scheme, and trade generally is consequently inactive. It is, however, generally believed that whatever may be the fate of the present Ministry, the financial policy of any Cabinet will deal with the Soap and Tea duties. The Manchester manufacturers have so far car ried out their design of withholding their purchases beyond their immediate necessities, that their trade has been comparatively quiet, hut without any sen sible diminution in prices. As a purely speculative operation, it has had a slight effect upon the Liver pool market, though the depression is confined to the lower qualities of Cotton. This state of things cannot, however, be expected to: be of any long duration, should no material alteration occur in the advices from America, as the Spring trade has now fairly commenced; and the demand for home con sumption must shortly be active. Much stress has been laid by parties interested for a fall upon the excess of stock as compared with last year, but until it has been proved that the crop is more in excess than would meet the demands of a greatly increasing consumption, the additional stock will be merely the result of earlier receipts: than usual, an opinion which is entertained by some of the best informed men in the trade. The reports from Bradford, Leicester, Nottingham, and other seats of manufacturing industry, show a continued ac tivity, with, in some cases, an inclination to advance, but speculative operations are considerably deranged in the Woollen trade, owing to the high price of the raw material, which leaves but a small margin for the manufacturers' profit. The lace trade espe cially is buoyant, and hosiers have full employment for additional machinery, with every prospect of a continuance. Messrs. T. and H. LITTLEDALE and Co., in their half-monthly circular, observe : The business of the past fortnight has not been active, but the same healthy features continue to characterise our different Produce markets ; the uncertainty as to the Chancellor's propositions has had some influence, and the injudicious haste to effect sales of the recent heavy arrivals has also had a depressing influence—the quantities offered at public sale being quite beyond the power of the trade to take off. The Budget was brought forward on the 18th, and contains a proposal to reduce the Tea duties to Is. 10d., s. 6d., Is. 3d., and ultimately to Is. in 1856, and a number of small duties removed entirely; hut, like its predecessor, it will meet a good deal of opposition, and may not passintolaw, though many of its provisions are good. The return from the Bank of England, for the week ending the 16th of April, gives the following results, when compared with the previous week : Public deposits .. £3,780,216; Decrease £952,892 Other deposits .. 13,622,968 ; Decrease 1,310,929 Rest .. 3,110,471 ; Increase 3,585 On the other side of the account — Government securities £13,221,382 ; Decrease £150,000 Other securities .. 14,085,037 ; Decrease 790.590 Notes unemployed .. 8,906,720 ; Decrease 933,025 The amount of notes in circulation is £23,613,165, being an increase of £636,450 ; and the stock of bullion in both departments is £13,792,996, show ing a decrease of £433,338, when compared with the preceding return. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued ...£32,519,885 Govrtit. Debt.. £11,015,100 Other securities 2.984,900 Gold coin & bu1n.18,500,731 I Silver bullion .. 19,154 £32,519,885 that it was half-past ten o'clock before the two last speakers had risen to address the meeting. One of them, I recollect, very gracefully declined to speak at all, in order to make way for the Se cretary of the Parent Society, and he had to compress what he had to say into a less space than could have been wished. I hope, therefore, that the new arrangement will be adhered to, and that we shall be able to end the proceedings as near to the hour specified as possible. (Applause.) His Lordship concluded by calling on the Secretary, who read the report, which will be found in our account of the forenoon's proceedings. The Rev. G. L. Fox moved the first resolution, and gave detailed accounts of the labours of missionaries in Western Africa, to which country lie would confine him self. His experience induced him to believe that it was of the utmost importance to have a native ministry in Africa, for lie was of opinion that if we could send out ten times the number of ministers from our altars at home, they would not be sufficient to meet the requirements of the inhabitants of Western Africa, who were now being converted to the christian religion. (Hear.) In illustra tion of the conaersion of the native African to christianity being attended with a feeling of respect for the white man, the speaker read several statements and particulars of actual cases. Referring to the rapid progress which christianity was making in Africa, he said he was not one of those who considered that nothing could be done without a bishop, but he did think that their cause in Western Africa was now so far advanced, that the influence of a bishop was of the greatest consequence. At the present time, when the bishop presented himself for the purpose of ordaining persons to the ministry, there was no less, on those occasions, than twelve young candidates for the ministry, natives of Western Africa. (Loud cheers.) These, amongst others, were reasons that enabled him to express his confident hope that our suc cessors in after days, and ere long, would look back on the present time as days of small things, and would see in Africa such a rapid and extensive progress of the Gospel, that their hearts would he filled with Christian gratitude. (Hear, hear.) He concluded by moving that the re port now read be adopted, printed, and circulated, under the direction of the committee, and that the following be the officers for the ensuing year : " The Revds. F. Ould, Dr. Hume, D. Anderson,G. W. Warre,W. Pollock, &c. Messrs. T. B. Horsfall, Rounth waite, Heath, A. Hodgson," &c. &c. The Rev. J. C. RYLE seconded the resolution, and congratulated the town that there should have been 58 sermons preached on behalf of the society in Liverpool, which was the case, on the previous day (Sunday). He i doubted if there was any other town in her Majesty's dominions where fifty-eight sermons could be preached lin one day.—(Hear, hear.) The rev. gentleman gave several interesting accounts of the progress of the society in Western Africa, in corroboration of the statements made by the last speaker. The motion, on being put by the Right Rev. Chairman, was carried unanimously. A collection was then made, during which Bishop Heber's missioaary hymn, " From Greenland's ley Mountains," was sung by the audience, accompanied on the organ ; after which — The Rev. FRANCIS CLOSE, M.A., of Cheltenham, proposed the next resolution. He commenced by plead ing indisposition. At the morning meeting they had almost starved him with cold, and now he was quite overpowered with heat. (A laugh.) It was his intention to follow up the remarks which had been made by the two speakers who had preceded him. It was mani fest that before they came to the meeting their attention had been drawn to the same quarter of the globe. It seemed that one particular spot of the earth had been uppermost in their minds, and that was the vast continent of Africa. Ills friend's attention had been confined to one part of Africa, perhaps, but for himself his attention had been attracted to that country all round. Just before he came to Liverpool he had the privilege of having a black brother preaching in his pulpit at Cheltenham—a real black negro, as black as his hat. His people at Chel tenham stared wonderfully when he made his appearance. (Hear, hear, and a laugh.) This negro's appearance at Cheltenham had filled his (Mr. Close's) mind with anxious and interesting thoughts about Africa and the African race, and also of their connexion with Ame rica. He might just say of the black brother whom he had named, that he had succeeded, under the most ex traordinary difficulties, in preparing himself for the ministry at Cambridge, and having been ordained, lie was about to sail, in a few weeks, for that interesting spot, the State of Liberia. They had heard much from the friends who had preceded him, with respect to the ope rations of the society in Sierra Leone, and he would make a few allusions to what was no v going on in Liberia. His observations would tend to spew them that although much had already been done, there were greater things still in store for Africa. They were aware that for three centuries the slave-trade was carried on; a trade which, in the first instance, was hypocritically sanctioned by a charter of our own Government, under the pretence that by the existence of the slave trade we could christianise the Africans. For three centuries the gigantic trade carried on from the Atlantic Ocean to the shores of America, was in kid napping the poor negro inhabitants of Africa, who were taken to America for slaves. Now the Christian mind, at the opening of the present century, stood aghast at this system, which was sanctioned by our Government. What was the state of the negro race at the commencement of the present century ? At that time there was not a single negro in any part of Africa acquainted with the gospel of Christ. They were kidnapped, murdered, and burnt, and not only so, but they were so trodden down that our learned men began to come to the conclusion, that the negroes were not men at all, but that they were chattels, and that there was something about the appea rance of the negro's head which rendered it impossible that he could ever be taught anything. That was the state of things at the time of which he had been speaking; but what was it now ? (Hear, and cheers.) There was at this moment a system of Christianity going on among the negroes that in the course of a very few years would almost depopulate America of free coloured men, for it was now found in America that the free coloured population were not the unintellectual crea tures they had been taken for, but were possessed of reasoning faculties like the white man. A great change had taken place in the African population in America. The Americans saw that the African was no longer the brute he had been taken for ; and the free coloured men, seeing themselves that they were becoming obnoxious to the Americans, were atthis moment returning to Liberia, their native land; and having received them selves a Christian education, were teaching their fellow countrymen the blessings of Christianity. (Cheers.) The rev. gentleman, in continuation, gave a very interesting account of the progress of Christianity amongst the natives of Liberia and other parts of Western Africa, and con cluded by moving the following resolution That the Gospel of Christ, in its unadulterated simplicity, being the appointed cure for the spiritual diseases of fallen man, it is the duty of all who have received it to aid in diffusing it, and that the Church Missionary Society deserves our con tinued support as a suitable vehicle for conveying the Gospel to perishing heathens. The resolution having been seconded, was carried unanimously. The Right Rev. CHAIRMAN then pronounced the be nediction, and the proceedings were brought to a close at half-past nine o'clock. The following is a list of the collections made in the several Churches, on Sunday last, on behalf of the Society : £ s. d. Bootle, St. Mary's. ...... . .. . .. . 50 0 0 Edge-hill, St. Mary's Edge-hill, St. Stephen the Martyr's...... 9 2 0 Everton Chapel . . Everton, Christ Church .... Everton St. Augustine's . . .... .32 0 0 Everton, St. George's Everton, St. Peter's.. Kirkdale, St. Mary's.. Knotty Ash, St. John the Evangelist's.. 7 9 4 All Saints' Christ Church - 0 0 St. Andrew's St. Bride's . 80 3 0 St. John's St. Jude's St. Luke's St. Mark's (Evening) St. Silas's St. Simon's . Seaforth, St. Thomas's ... . Stanley, St. Anne's Toxteth, St. James's Toxteth, St. John the Baptist's ...... • ... 14 0 0 Toxteth, St. Matthew's Toxteth, St. Paul's . Toxteth, St. Thomas's...... ... 7 010 Waterloo, Christ Church l9 12 0 West Derby Parish Church.. Windsor, St. Clement's ALARMING FIRE IN LORD-STREET LAST NIGHT. — About half-past ten o'clock last night a dense volume of smoke was seen by the polies issuing from the upper windows of the house of Mr. S. Hall, hatter, in Lord street, and in a few moments afterwards discovered that a fire had broken out in the kitchen, which is at the back part of the house, on the first floor. The family, who had retired to rest, were apprised of the danger, and the bedrooms being on the floor over the kitchen, it was necessary, for their personal safety, to get out of the house. By the aid of a ladder they were all removed, and, for tunately, the fire was soon afterwards extinguished. We understand that no considerable amount of damage has been done. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS. The house met at five o'clock. The Marquis of CLANRICARDEIt a question to the Government with reference to the affairs of Turkey. The Earl of CLARENDON stated that, as negotiations were still pending, it would be impossible to give a full answer to the question. The house then went into committee upon the Canada Clergy Reserves 811. Lord DERBY rose to move an amendment, limiting the power which the government measure would give to the Canadian legislature. He considered that they received sufficient power by the act of 1794. The Duke of NEWCASTLE rose to vindicate the measure of government. He considered it well adapted to add to the welfare of the colony. The Earls of WIQICLOVC and DzsART, and the Bishop cf LONDON, supported the amendment of the Earl of Derby. Lord 'WHARNCLIFFE and the Bishop of ST, DAVID'S supported the Government measure. The House divided on the Earl of. Derby's Amend ment, when the numbers were—contents 77, non.con tents 117—majority for Ministers 40. The House then HOUSE OF COMMONS. £32,519,385 I BANKING DEPARTMENT. Prop.'s capital ze14,553,000 Rest 3,110,471 Public deposits. 3,780.216 Other deposits . 13,622.968 7-day, &c. bills. 1,419,595 Gov. securities.£l3,22l,3B2 Other securities 14,085,037 Notes .... 8,906,720 Gold Sr. silt'. coin 273,111 £36,486,250 £36,486,250 There have been greater fluctuations in our SHARE MARKET during the past week, and perhaps more business, than for some time. The changes in prices which have induced the opera tions have been caused by the conflicting opinions respecting the budget. It seems probable that if the measure be carried an impulse will be given to prices of securities in this market generally, and that we shall have greater activity. We annex this day's prices : Chester and Birkenhead, 211 ; Chester and Holyhead, 221 ; Great Southern and Western, 541 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 771 4 1; Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 17i; London Stock, 120 1191; Sheffield Stock, 30i 30; Midland Stock, 751 4i; Scottish Central, 241 ; St. Helen's R and C 6 per cent., 31; Ditto 41, ip; Quebec and Richmond Debenture 6 per cent., 103; Copiapo Mine, 61d ; Liverpool and London Fire and Life new issue lipm, 7p.; Royal Insurance, ap. COTTON.—Notwithstanding the continued ad vices from America of the falling off in the receipts at the out-ports, and the rise in price on the other side the Atlantic, the market here during the week has been dull, and prices on the lower and middling kinds have given way about Id. per lb. This dul ness is owing chiefly to the largeness of stocks as compared with previous years, and the smallness of the demand, from manufacturers refraining from buying beyond their immediate wants. To DAY the advices by the Niagara were received, and they confirmed the previous accounts. The market, however, remains quiet. The sales amounted to 6,000 bales, of which about 1,500 were on specula tion and for export, and no alteration took place in prices. SALES. 1 IMPORTS. DESCRIPTION. PRICES. Week Previ- Week 1 T his STOCK. ending onsly ending Year. April 22 this yr. April22, l . I April 22 1.. Id. d. Sea Island :l6 032 8801 I 7710 I Stained 1 4 16 60; 650 6335 , 214353:1 Boweds 4 63 6560' 153580 I }542400 Mobile 4l 64 5700 89630 7719 434258 1 New Orleans. 43 8 14870! 334350 li Pernams, &c. 63 72 1 /- 600 23330 1 398 18939 ' } 15300 Aracati, &c 6O 7=l Bahia, &c. Nlaranham Sawginned Dernerara,&c .... I 130, .... 141 210 Egyptian 53 133 3620 42480, 3133 28871 1 89910 Barbadoes Peruvian Laguayra — .... Com.W.l.&c. .... } 3120 ... • 918 3680 Carthagena. • -- ..... Smyrna — ... , Manilla Surat .... 80306; 104290 1 Madras Bengal __ __ .... 340 •••• 280 ; 1110 I 41935 804586 793990 41490 752510 PRODUCE.—The markets through the week have been quiet, owing, no doubt, to the uncertainty attending the proposed changes in the Budget. Sugar was without any material alteration from former rates, and the sales comprised 610 hhds. West India, 500 bags Bengal, and 600 mats Mauri tius. For Foreign very little inquiry, and sales were confined to 1,500 bags Maceio at an average of 18s. 6d., 160 hhds. Surinam at 335., and 20 hhds. Porto Rico. Molasses declined 6d., with but little demand. Coffee dull, and but little doing. Of Cocoa 70 bags Trinidad sold at 36 5. to 38s. In Rum nothing new. Tea, though higher in price, i s very inactive, both buyers and sellers waiting for the Budget to be confirmed. I he advance in Congous is id. to Id., and on Greens ld. per lb. For Guano a good demand at previous rates, 400 tons Lobos Islands sold at £6 /7s. 6d. to £7 ss. per ton. Saltpetre dull. Indian-Rubber higher, about 90 tons sold at an advance of lid. per lb. Turpentine dull, and American Rosin declining. In Hides some sales have been made at 51d. per lb. for Salted River Plate Ox. Olive Oil in better re quest, about 50 tons sold at fully previous rates. Linseed Oil firm at 295. to 295. 6d. Palm Oil in active request, and increased since the announce ment of the repeal of the Soap duty. The sales amounted to 400 tons on the spot at £33 15s. to £35, and 3,500 tons to arrive at £33 105. to £35. For Tallow a good demand, at 468. 6d. to 465. 9d. for old Petersburg Y.C., and 475, Oil, for 1852 black ; South American sold readily at 465. 3d. to 475. gd.; and North American at 465. to 475. per cwt. No sales of Baltic Hemp. Of Jute the sales were confined to 600 bales to arrive at an extreme price. TO-DAY there continued a good inquiry for SUGAR, the sales (including Saturday's business) comprising 400 }lds. Demerara, chiefly at 325. 3d. to 335. 3d., including grainy at 375. 6d. to 415., 1,200 bags yellow Dates at 365. to 365. 3d., 300 bags Madras at 315., 20 Mids. Porto Rico at 395. 3d., and 800 bags Pernams at 17s 6d. per cwt., the latter being rather lower. Of Molasses 400 puns. Cuba Muscovado in store sold at 17s. 6d. per cwt. A small parcel of Demerara Rum brought previous prices, and 100 bags Rio COFFEE 40s. to 445. per cwt. Some few parcels of clean comr:on Congou TEA changed hands at full rates, viz., from 11d. to 1 lid. per lb. Other descriptions were unaltered. A strong speculative demand, however, appeared this afternoon, and large contracts have been con cluded, at advancing rates for Congous from 11d. to Is. 3d. per lb. and upwards. About 4,000 pack ages, chiefly Congou, will be offered at auction on Thursday next. Of SALTPETRE 300 bags sold at 285., 41 per cent, 200 bags SAGO FLOUR at 20s. per cwt., and 120 bags black PEPPER at 4d. per lb. WooL.-The public sales took place here on Wednesday and Thursday, when 6,171 bales were offered; there was a tolerable attendance of buyers; a fair competition was the marked feature of these sales, and the result was very satisfactory to im porters. A parcel of Sydney fleece, ex Great Britain, brought 22d. to 23d. ; the stock of Australian in the manufacturing districts being rather above an average compared with other descriptions, this parcel did not share so much in the improvement as the lower class of wools. East India ruled 11d. to lid. per lb. above March sales on the finer classes of white, and id. to 4d. on middle and lower descriptions. Oporto good fleece fetched 13d. to 13d.; inferior and cotty, 101 d. to 101 d.; lambs, 11d. to 111 d. per lb.; and the principal descriptions from the Mediterranean ruled a shade higher than previous current rates. The market is now left very hare for future requirements. Mesrs. ABRAM GARTSIDE and Co., in their circular, say :- The demand for I ,Vool continues unabated, and prices of home-grown and most foreign and colonial kinds below 20d., of which stocks are very deficient, still move upwards. The last few weeks clean useful kinds have risen 5 to 15 per cent. The good classes of Australian at 21d. and upwards form the only exception, and ere very little dearer than a few months ago, while the qualities below this are much wanted, at advanced prices. Messrs. W. GREAM E and Co., in referring to the public sales of Wool, on Wednesday and Thursday, says: — We had a large attendance of the Trade, and a good competition throughout. The few Colonial and other medium clothing Wools offered sold at about previous current rates; but on lower descriptions there was a marked improvement, particularly in East India, for which there was great competition, low and middling yellow realising an advance of d. to ld. per lb., and best whites lid. to 2d. per lb. Egyptian, Turkey. Oporto, &c., generally met a ready sale, at rather higher rates than previously ruling, by private contract, and the market is again left very barely supplied for future re quirements. Messrs. HUGH ES & RONALD, in their report, say ; " The public sales held here of 6,163 bales, brought to gether a large number of buyers, almost exclusively from the home trade; the biddings were very spirited, and the result satisfactory. Some fine Colonial. ex " Great Britain," the first of the new clip, met with a good de mand, at prices about equal to those of the late London sales, in February and March last. For East India the competition was very brisk, and an advance of from Id. to Id. per lb. on the March sale prices was realized, the greater advance being on the better qualities. Egyptian participated in nearly the same degree, both as to demand and enhanced value. Entre Rios were not of a first-rate class, the com petition therefore languid. Peruvian washed of fair quality sold at 131 d. to 141-d., part withdrawn. Oporto brought fully late rates. illogadore were chiefly withdrawn, and so were Russia. luox.—The market is dull, and prices lower, the quotations from Glasgow to-day being 525. for Scotch Pig. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. MEETING LAST NIGHT. (For Morning Meeting see sixth page.) The evening meeting was held in the Theatre of the Collegiate Institution, at half-past six o'clock, when the admission was by ticket, the upper gallery alone being free. Notwithstanding the unpromising character of the weather, and the heavy showers of rain which prevailed previous to the hour of meeting, the large hall was crowded by an exceedingly respectable audience. The attendance of clergy, as well as of the laity, was much larger at the evening meeting than at that in the former part of the day, and among those present were the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, who took the chair. The proceedings having been opened with prayer by the Secretary, The CHAIRMAN said,—l have very great pleasure in being permitted to meet you again on the anniversary of the Church Missionary Society, and I am glad to see this large room filled with so numerous, so respectable, and so influential an assemblage as that we now see before us. We have met on this occasion to listen to the statements of a deputation from the Parent Society. In the list of the deputation which has been kindly put into my hands, I perceive the first name is one that will not require either introduction or recommendation at my hands. He is a gentleman well known to you, and known to fame. I speak &f one of the most zealous and energetic and useful friends and advocates of the society, whose voice has been heard in former years by you with pleasure and benefit in this same room and in the same cause. lam speaking of the Rev. Francis Close. (Loud applause.) The next name which I find on the list is that of a gentleman whom I have not had the pleasure of ever meeting before. I know not whether he may have visited Liverpool before on such an occasion or not •, I refer to the Rev. J. C. Ryle, rector of Helmingham, in Suffolk, (loud cheers)—who has kindly come hither to be present. I need only hope, and I feel every confidence that his name is well known to you all by the manner in which the mention of his name has been received. I hope this, 1 say, because he is the writer of many valuable tracts, —(hear, hear,)—which I hope, from your reception of his name, are familiar to you. But I wish to say that I have derived the highest gratification from those useful publi cations, from the sound scriptural truth which they con tain—from their affectionate tone and reasoning —and from one other element in them, the simple and plain, yet forcible way in which they are brought home to the com prehension and feelings of the humblest classes in the land. And far happier and nobler is it to write such publications for the humblest classes in the land, if God's blessing went with you in the work, than to attain the very highest earthly fame by the possession of a power which could excite or amuse the fancy—(applause)—but which would not soften or subdue, and touch or elevate the heart (great applause). The next name is that of the Rev. George Fox, to whom I have the pleasure of being personally known. I wish to assure him that it gives me the greatest pleasure to meet him here on this occasion. When I came to take charge of this diocese, I found him a curate in one of the largest parishes in Chester. He was at that time only in deacon's orders; but I had my self subsequently the satisfaction of admitting him to the higher order of the priesthood. He was greatly endeared by his kindness and attention to those amongst whom he ministered, and his departure was the source of universal regret to them all, when motives of domestic convenience, —or rather, I should say, when motives of filial piety,— induced him to leave Chester, so that he might be nearer his mother.—(Applause.) But his presence here on this occasion is interesting, not only from the circumstance I have mentioned relating to himself, but as connected with the general cause, for the advancement of which we are this night assembled. Perhaps some of you may not know that he is the surviving brother of a faithful servant of God, now cailed to his rest, who, as long as health and strength permitted, laboured faithfully, earnestly, affectionately, and with a single heart, in the work of his Lord. (Loud applause.) That brother, lost to us, is gone, we trust, to a better and a happier land. That brother had, I know, been educated as a youth by a most excellent man, and a profound scholar, the late Dr. Arnold, of Rugby ; and I have no doubt that under the guidance of that man his talents were directed aright; and I think I am correct when I say, what the moment prompts me to say in the hearing of so many ladies as are assembled here—and I think I am correct in my recollection when I say that at home, and in the early years of his life, and to the gentle end blessed influence of a mother, he owed chiefly those deep impressions of piety that formed in his mind the benevolent and noble desire to devote himself to the work of a missionary, and to sacri fice to that determination health and even life itself. (Loud cheers.) I think I recollect sufficiently well to say that all this is found in what is to me one of the most beautiful pictures of piety that I know, the pub lished memoir of his life and ministry. That memoir was written by his brother, whom we have now the gratifica tion of seeing amongst us ; and as it is not only a beautiful but a useful work, sanctified to a most holy purpose, so do I hope that it will prove an enduring memorial of brotherly affection. I do not know whe ther the volume may be known to all of you, but as many of you into whose way it has fallen—and to those who have gone out of their way to seek it — I am sure will find themselves gratified, and elevated, and improved by the pure spirit of piety and self-sacrifice by which the whole of his conduct was guided. 1 have now introduced to your notice three mem bers of the deputation. We had the presence of a fourth gentleman 'in the forenoon, who has passed some years as a missionary in China—the Rev. Frederick Gough. Circumstances will not permit him to attend this evening. I believe he gratified the assembly in the morning by a very detailed account of what he has seen and heard in that benighted country, China, where gloomy idolatry is, I hope, gradually melting away before the genial sunshine of the light of the Gospel. (Ap plause.) I look upon the present meeting as belonging more especially to the gentlemen of the deputation, who have not merelycome from a distance, but who have come furnished with many interesting and valuable details concerning the various fields of missionary la bour. (Applause.) I observe in this paper a regulation, by which it is proposed to terminate our evening meeting at half-past nine o'clock. I think it has grown out of the necessity of the case. The very last meeting of a religious kind which I attended in Liverpool was the jubilee of the British and Foreign Bible Society. (Applause.) I am sure Ido not think I was ever present at a more gratifying meeting—for I think there was no clock there to let us see how the time went by—(a laugh) ; and it went BO pleasantly past, without any one taking note of its progress, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 25. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. The Standard says the market for Public S ecur iti es had been very steady this morning, it being assumed that Ministers will carry their Budget by a small majority, TURKEY.—The Paris Monit fur of Monday publishes telegraphic news from Constantinople, stating that on the 14th instant perfect tranquillity reigned in that capital. SWITZERLAND. — Order is quite restored at Freiburg. RUSSIA.—News of the 19th instant, from the frontiers of Poland, state that during the pre ce di ng wee k the t r oops of the line stationed in the neighbourhood of Czen stochan had broken up their cantonments, and left by railway for Warsaw . They were t o procee d f rom W arsaw into Russia, and take up their position on the Turkish frontier. adjourned. The house met at a quarter to four o'clock. Lord GODERICH took the oaths and his seat for II"' dersfield. KNARESDOROUGH ELECTION. , --Mr. 'WALPOLE re; ported from the Select Committee, that Mr. Westhese was not duly elected, and that Messrs. Woodd and Pea were duly elected. BERWICK ELECTION. - Mr. SETMER reported frog the select committee that Messrs. M. Forster and Joe Stapleton were not duly elected. Mr. BENTINCK gave notice of his intention to move fe , r i a committee to inquire into the circumstances connecte with the withdrawal of the Durham election petition. , 0 The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in answer Mr. Ball, stated that the tax upon shepherds' dogs WO' remain unaltered, and no drawback could be allowed uPorl malt used by farmers for domestic purposes. Lord PALMERSTON, in answer to Mr. Duncombe, ststf l , that he had been misinformed as to there having be`" 500 lbs. of gunpowder on the premises of Messrs. Hale , in addition to the rocket composition. f the Lord DUDLEY STUART called the attention t house to the imputation which h a d been made ags° Kossuth with regard to the seizure of rockets at Rothef' hithe. THE INCOME TAX. The House then went into a committee of Ways a ll Means. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the income tax resolutions. Sir E. L. BULWER moved that the continuance of tyo Income Tax on its present footing was impolitic and n l Y ri just. The letter of the Chancellor of the Exchequer 1 the Times of this day confirmed a doubt which he felt s S to the possibility of guaranteeing the termination of th e Income Tax in seven years. He considered it time to draw a distinction between precarious and fixed incomee4 Mr. EVELYN DENISON differed entirely with the rir hon. baronet. He could not help expressing his admit!, tion of the scheme of the Chancellor of the Exchequer , v" which he intended to give his fullest support. Mr. BooKER would support the amendment of tb right hon. baronet. M. HUME considered the arguments of , the right hal l i baronet fallacious. The measure which the governuis" proposed was one of justice, and gave general satisfaC' tion. He should give it his utmost support. Colonel SIBTHORP considered the present state of the Income Tax most unjust, and should oppose its cO5 tinuan ce. Mr. FAGAN presented a petition against the extensie ti of the Income Tax to Ireland. The country, he tra il ; tained, was not in a sufficiently prosperous condition bear the burden. Mr. BUCK objected to the Budget, on the ground of i ti not affording any aid to the landed interests. ' Mr. BLACKELT would, notwithstanding the extensl ° of the duration of the Income Tax, vote for the r esoh r tions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. KNIGHTLEY objected to the extending of the 1 13. come Tax to so long a period. Mr. W. WILLIAMS would support the Budget, s of considered it a matter of justice to extend the laic to Ireland. Mr. MAGUIRE would, as an Irish member. oppose the extension of the Income-tax to Ireland. Mr. MILES considered that the resolutions of the Ch sli t ; cellor of the Exchequer were founded upon principleslO rt , just and wise, and he should give them his cordial suPP°4 Sir WM. JOLLIFFE objected to the budget on the grou t of its being unjust to the landed interests. the EARL GREY could not agree with the spirit of amendment of the Earl of Derby, and should l e against it. A LORD ST. LEONARDS would support the amenutn et' He was unable to agree with the principle of the GoTe r ment measure. The Bisuoe of OXFORD must oppose the arnendtne„ e , fully agreeing with the justice of the Government measa' He felt it his duty to give it his entire support. M Mr. DRUMMOND thought that a great deal of ingest b e had been shewn in finding fault ~ i th this Budget; bu was convinced of the benefit which would arise iron° and should vote in its favur. oa t Mr. MuNTz must, with regret, oppose the Pre - k be Budget. He would protest against the extension of ' iv Income Tax as a f ou l bl o t. He hoped the right h s gentleman would withdraw his Budget. Mr. BANKES STANHOPE must oppose the Budget' it Mr. BALL considered that, in the eircumstancef., l 4 " which Ireland was placed, it was pe r f ec tly j us t t o e% the tax to that country. ofP On the motion of Mr. COBDEN, the debate was journed till this day (Tuesday). f The House then resumed, and the other orders o day having been disposed of, the House adjourne d half-past twelve. NEWMARKET RACES. SWEEPSTAKES.—Ephesus, Ist; Nervous, 2nd. HANDICAP.—PetreI, Ist; Jullien, 2nd. SWEEPSTAKES.—AIamode, Ist; Dioinedia, 2nd. FIFTY SOVS.—Ariosto, Ist; John of Berwick, 2nd. BETTING AFTER THE RAC itS, SIX O'CLOCK. A o ur Two THOUSAND GUINEA STAKES.—Even on West e 0; Tian; 7 to 2 oast Orinoco, taken; S to 1 apt Filbert, t 5 10 to 1 agst Barbatus, taken. DERBY.-2,000 to 50 agst Barbas, taen. d D ad CHESTER CUP.-20 to lon the field, k bar Trifle an Evelyn. FUNDS, STOCK. AN The English market has been advance. Railway market gc altered. French market rather Bank Shares are generally ft slightly better. In the Foreig little business doing. 'D SHARE ITARK:gl%viobt buoyant, and e 1."... at a )0(1, but prices not matell o d r heavy. Gold Mines,Lan".o at ; North British Austral_' 9 ..6 ;n market there is no chow, CLOSIN( Consols, Account .. 11 1001, Do. M0ney....5 1001 Three&QrperCents.. 1031 PRICES. 226111 Excheq. Bills, L. .SZ S• - '1) Mexicans.. FOREIGN 27 STOCKS. 5 1 i Spanish Passives ..... ..,, , Turkish • .... 9 11 4° Swedish .• •• " Do. Threes Spanish Deferred 231 Do. Threes 4B i RAILWAY Amberg.,Nottingham, SHARES. London & N. Western 1 193 London & S. Western Munches., Sheff., and Lincolnshire 2 92 74i Midland Stock North British Do. Preference 10911 Norfolks and E. Junction.... Bristol and Exeter Caledonian 1)o. Preference East Anglian Eastern Counties East Lancashire..., Eastern Union A Ditto B and C Edinburgh & Glasgow Great Northern B6 8 Do. Do. Great Western Lanc.and Yorkshire. 77 Do. Fifths Leeds Northern l5/ 16i London, Brighton, and South Coast lO4l 5i . - . G4i 5 . - . 13i i North Staffordshire :. Shrewsbury and Bir mingham L Do. L. & N. S. Eastern and Dover York, Newcastle, and 6s i Berwick Do. Extension Do. Preference 59 6 0 York and N. Midland Do. Preference MINING Noveau Monde Agua Fria Cordeliera Ave Maria Carson's Creek Port Philip SHARES. Nugget B. Australian ........ Freehold ...... Australasian ........ i i) Colonial Mariposa HARES. ' Peel River ..••• South Australian •• • • c C British America LAND S Australian Agricultural 81 3 S. Australian Invest. Van Diemen's — ' CORN MARKET. CO The show of Wheat is moderate, and the demand Il y aT e somewhat improved, the full terms of M2nday are eas l i . 6 B, tabled. The arrivals of Foreign are liberal, but hold' rlet' steady at late rates. Town-made Flour is steady at 445.,,,, 13 :14 Beans, and white boiling Peas are the turn dearer. l' A i e olvi, vale of Irish and Foreign Oats are to a fair extent; but n o r P ct being out of stock, fully former terms are realised. Ther,9o 9 closed firm, at very . full prices for Wheat, an d the oe,, tis becoming brisker, in some inst ances a tr ifli ng a dVan' obtained. Other articles as before. English. Irish. Foreii o ' 3495 2 2691 1890 60 7 1240 11914 I 0 52271 85 83 5 619 _ 191 _ 330 o it . 2443 181 3 „ r iS , PRODUCE MARKET. 4i2sv piteS Sugar: In foreign there is verlittle doing, and forrnero filly are barely kept up. Refined: Home dealers are anxT; oo r t i operate. Prices firm ; low to fine grocery hum ps 6 . , Coffee: Sales are small, but no decline. Tea: There is l col, business doing at former prices ; public sales declared., 00 ton : Sales small, but terms are maintained. Indigo cheaper, but there is little doing. Wheat . Barley . Oats Malt., Beans I'eas . , Flour. TALLOW MARKET. t_,V Tallow is firm, with a good demand; fine Y.C. 47% Her' spot. Stock 25,691 casks, aga inst 42,843 same ti m e 1 . 9 t. Deliveries 2,697 casks, against 1,197 same tim e las t pea", CATTLE MARKET. o P O4 ie The supply* of Beasts being l arger, trade is not los si t Down Sheep of first quality ma i ntained last Monitor rea d Inferior Sheep and Lamb s are cheaper. Calves sold oil Friday's terms. , Beef 2s 10d t o 4 s 6d 1 Veal 4 4 5 Mutton..... 3s 6il to Os 6d 1 Pork ~..• I o ' Sheep • and Lamb.. ~ 20230 I Pigs • • ............. .. ARRIVALS. Norfolk and Suffolk Beasts Cambridge, Leicester, Lincoln, and North ampton Beasts Scotch Beasts Holland Beasts..... Do. Sheep Do. Calves Spanish Sheep 2300 30 ° 45 0 9 05 4 10 09 E MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANC:- ; ,: e ftr Eastern Counties. 134; Lancashire and Yorkso':pfefr 4 dis ; Manchester and Lincoln, 30; Ditto new PI" 9-16ths prem ; Midland, 751. LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE. fo ol 1' Eastern Counties, 13i ; London and North We s ' Midland, 75. GLASGOW CORN MARKET. ws steam At to-day's market business was limited, but 1)11' GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET' Market flat at 525, cash, for warrants. at ,icE• . e' ce LATEST SHIPPING INTELLTGE , ', Df ° , Ariel, Albatross, 20th April •, Highlander, 2 2 D0i.,„1 Helvoet.—Pawcett (s s), 12th ; Ty ro , 13th ; Prendn , tuna, 14th ; Lancefield, 15th ; hence at Lisbon. 15 th ; Tagus, 12th April ; Willi a m, 13th ; Lisbon, a gf s ' from Lisbon, all for this port. DIED.—On the 25th i n st., a t T ran mere, og_ ea ly'of Mr. James Bleasd a l e , R usse ll- s t ree t, forme House, Kellet, near Lancaster. -.-7*.--- LIVER POOL APRIL 26, : 1 953. 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