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Elle Morthmt t'd IttitO FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1856 THE Revenue returns for the quarter just ended shows a total increase of 1,477,6451., making the net income for the year 65,704,489/., being an increase of 4,407,6711. over the gross amount derived from taxation in the proceeding twelve months. Of this large excess, 534,1401. has accrued from customs and excise duties, paid, for the most part, in anticipation of a further re-imposition of duties on sugar, coffee, tea, spirits, wines, tobacco, and other articles known to be in high favour among the eoncoctors of budgets. How far this large absorption of money, has added to the general pressure of the Money Market, and how far such operations will be found to answer the purpose of speculations, are matters which must be left to explain themselves. Of this, how ever, we do feel tolerably well satisfied, namely, that as peace has been obtained on terms which, under any circumstances , will carry conviction to the public mind, that our enemy could not have continued the struggle for another six months, the people will not quietly submit to any such augmenta tion of the national burthens as a further prolonga tion of bloodshed would have required. With the return of tranquility we must have peace taxation. The country cannot pay 65,704,4891. from prices which are no longer sustained by war markets. We raised a similar amount of revenue in 1824, when corn was only 60s per quarter, and we had 21,000,0001. of Bank of England notes in circulation, with one-third less population bearing on the sources of supply. The expenditure then reached 90,000,0001., as it does no n, but what followed in 1825-0 ? It took from 1824 to 1838 to bring the State's disbursements down to its net receipts, and what can we find in history to equal the depreciation -which took in the value of land, manufactures labour, and every other species of national wealth, within those fourteen years? A financial crisis, such as those which date from the condition we are now in with our expenditure exceeding our income by considerably more than 20,000,0001., must, as a necessary consequence, have the same depressing effect on those interests which have never yet recovered from the crushing opera tion of former errors. The returns from which we have quoted come to us very opportunely. They are the great premonitors of nations. They show us at a glance what we have to expect—the possible and impossible. And with the figures before us, a 3 a commercial people, if we go wrong ; the fault is entirely our own, and not the politicians. The Got ernment in time of peace can only keep up war establishments by raising loans and adding to the public debt. While they continue borrowing, they engross the whole of the money required for trace ; and, by adding to the national indebt edness, they increase the pressure of an immoveable weight. How to avoid these worst of political evils, is what must occupy the thoughts of the community. The merchant ought not to forget the effect such a state of things must inevitably have on the commerce of the country. The manufacturer must remember that taxation can in no way be added to price, except by the improvement of stretching machines for their piece goods, and adulteration in the other leading articles of consumption. The shopkeeper and the farmer must bear in mind that the State has, very properly, the first charge on their substance, and that they cannot resort with equal safety to those expedients which make taxes fall, with a negative gravity, such as that of air, on others. Let all those things be carefully weighed—let the receipts of trade be fairly balanced against the actual expenditure of the State, and the residue is the income of trade. With such unerring data we are to blame if we go astray, and leave our selves open lo the reproaches of those who have a. supernatural love of gaining by the depreciation of property which attends mercantile mistakes, and commercial follies, There are few things more easy, however, than to keep out of all such scrapes. Let us treat the matter suppositiously. Say our imports amount to 100,000,0001, our exports to 100,000,0001., and all our other products to 200,000,0001. yearly. Take 20 per cent. on 400,000,0001. as the net profit on our transactions on this amount of produce, and we have 80,000,0001. Deduct from this 65,704,4891. taxation, trade discounts on 400,000,000/. at, say six per cent. of 24,000,0001., and we shall find the total against us 89,704,489/. leaving a deficit of 9,704,4891. to be made up under the hammer of the auctioneer. We do not pretend to accuracy in these figures, But taking them, all errors included, we should feel much obliged to any one who will show us any other way in which to account for the fact, that one in twenty of the whole population are paupers, and trade has become almost as dangerous a pursuit as throwing dice or playing at roulette. Some may say we are altogether wrong, and that the profits derived from all our national resources are double what we set them down at. There would be no end of satisfaction in the proof of such an allegation. We would spread it over the numbers of our cash-paying population, and ask what it would leave per head for their support? We should not then be in a condition to pay consider ably more than 50 per cent. of the entire receipts of the nation, in State taxation, to which is to be added fully 25 per cent. for local rates. We do not complain seriously of the latter, as the assumption is that we receive 20s for every pound we pay towards self government. But when we come to war, or overgrown military establishments, it is impossible to calcu. late any thing beyond the actual sum expended, the profits of which aro spread all over the world. The total of our army and navy estimates, with the exception of a small per tentage, must necessarily be spent abroad, and, therefore, it is the worst of all sources of fiscal exhaustion, and can. not be too soon cut down, under existing circum stances. If France can keep an army of five or six hundred thousand men, and if Russia and the other military Powers of Europe cannot continue war when they see a positive gain in prolonging the contest, are we to outrage our common under standing, and attempt to do what we believe no other country in the world can accomplish without bringing on a national bankruptcy in its literal sense ? We have now arrived at the position we were in in 1824, with these exceptions. that we have less money in circulation, a larger population to feed, with corn at a famine price as compared with that year ; and to escape a second 1825-6, we have only one year to carry out those retrenchments which took fourteen years, or to reduce the expenditure until it reaches the income, which was only 57,500,0001. in 1838. There is no time to be lost in matters of such a gigantic character. If we have gone back to 1824, we may remain quite satisfied that another 1825 is at hand, while additional and unerring forces are urging forward with increased rapidity the bitter fruits of a second lamentable affiance of financial errors and great social wrongs. There was a time when every man ever so remotely: connected with trade, looked to their neighbour's success for profit. But in these days men wait for sweeping revulsions in the whole of our national pursuits for their harvest. They can calculate the exact number of revolutions of the screw which will suit their purpose, and it is against these sharks that we would forewarn the merchant, shopkeeper and artizan. They are the enemies to all stability in trade, and as excessive taxation is their prime agent, we need scarcely employ any stronger argument in favour of an immediate and most comprehensive retrenchment in the public expenditure. THE COURT THE Viscount Palmerston had an audience of the Queen on Wednesday, at Buckingham Palace. The Prince Con sort rode on horseback with the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred in the morning, attended by Colonel F. H. Seymour and Mr. Gibbs. Prince Arthur and the Princesses Helena and Louisa took a drive in an open carriage and four. Prince Albert, attended by his Equerry in Waiting, visited the Duchess of Gloucester, at her residence, Gloucester-house in the afternoon. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal, honoured the Princess's Theatre with their presence in the evening. REPRESENTATION OP ATHLONE.—The writ for the elec tion of a burgess to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Athlone, in the room of W. Keogh, Esq., appointed a puisne judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland, was received yesterday at the Hanaper Office, Dublin. Mr. Alderman John Reynolds has left the Irish capital for Athlone to canvass the electors. THE CHURCH IN THE EAST.—A large and influential committee, composed partly of naval and militaiy officers, partly of clergymen and civilians, has been formed with the view of raising funds for the erection of a church in Constantinople, as the most appropriate monument to the memory of those who fell in the late war, and of gratitude to God for the restoration of peace. A public meeting will shortly be held for the promotion of this object, under the presidency of his Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel has already received upwards of £l,OOO in aid of this object. THE PEACE PEN.—The eagle pen with which the treaty of peace was signed was pulled from a wing of the imperial eagle in the Jardin des Plantes. The state ment that it was ornamented with precious stones is contradicted. Immediately after the signature, the pen was attached to a sheet of pasteboard, and surrounded by the seals of each of the powers represented at the congress, and by the signatures of the plenipotentiaries. 1 M. Feuillet de Conches, the chef du bureau of the pro- , tocols, wrote underneath as follows :—" I certify that this pen was pulled by me from the imperial eagle of 1 the Jardin des Plantes, and that it is the pen which was used for the signature of the treaty of peace of March, 1856.” The pasteboard was afterwards framed and , glazed, to be presented to the Empress. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY EVENING The Liverpool Cotton Market has again shown considerable strength, and a fair amount of busi ness has been done at full prices. The total sales reach 10,000 bales, and include 4,000 taken for speculation and export. The Liverpool Share Market opened this morning with considerable firmness, but be came easier during the day, closing steady at the following quotations : Aberdeen, 131 14. Chester and Birkenhead, 151 16. Caledonian, 301 30i. Chester and Holyhead, 151 16. Eastern Counties, 10 7-16 10 9-16. East Lancashire, 198 191 Great Northern, 231 231. Ditto A9l 108. Great Western, 641 65. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 871 88. Liverpool, Crosby, and South port, 16 164, London and North Western Stock, 1011 1011. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 281 29±. Ditto Preference, 111 111. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., 1 7 5 ,-p. Midland Stock, 741 741. North British, 81 81. North Stafford shire, 6 51d. South Eastern, 21 13-16 211. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 191 191. York and North Midland, 281 281. Leeds Capital Stock, 151 16. Dutch Rhenish, 1 9-16 1 11-16 p. Ditto New Shares, 38 36p. Great Western of Canada, 251 25k. Ditto New Shares, 21 21p. Ditto 2nd issue, 2 3-16 2 5-16 p. Great Luxembourg, 7 6,1 d. • In the Manchester Goods Market there has been a• very firm feeling to-day, and with an active demand for both goods and yarns, prices have shown an upward tendency. Reports from the Prussian Wool Markets state that at no period has there been so much anima tion and buoyancy as during the month of March. In some measure this has been attributed to the dullness in other commercial matters. The demand for wool on all sides has been unusually great, and the brokers have found it impossible to meet it. With the exception of some small lots, pur chased on account of France and England, the entire produce in stock, and a great portion of the ensuing clip, has been bought by the manufacturers of Prussia and Saxony. In the country many of the manufacturers have contracted with the wool grower for the next clip at advanced prices;. and the best wools of eastern and western Prussia have been contracted for by the principal Berlin houses. In Pomerania, Bosnia, and Mecklen burg, many of the wool growers have done the same. In the State of Brandenburg, however, they prefer waiting until the shearing season is over, and realise the ruling prices at Berlin on the 18th of June, when the great wool sales take place. The supply during the past month had risen to 100,000 quintals (1,100,000Ibs), but for the most part it was defective in quality. This being insufficient for the consumption many have bought Russian wools at 70 thalers per quintal, being an advance of sth on previous prices. By telegraph from Constantinople to the 23rd ult., it is stated no less than seven new bank projects have been submitted to the Ottoman government. The Railway Traffic Returns for the past week, a compared with those of the same period last year, show the following 1856. Corresponding ENGLISH LINES. week last year. Brls'ol and Exeter Chester and Holyhead Deeside 203 .. 2OO East Lancashire Great Western Great Northern Kendal and Windermere Lancashire and Yorkshire London and North Western.. London and South Western Manchester, Sheffield, &c Manchester and S. Junction Midland Newport, Abergavenny, kc 1,014 ..... 475 North London North Stafford Oxford, Worcester, &c 3,503 .... 2 757 Shrewsbury and Chester Shrewsbury and Birmingham , Shrewsbury and Hereford 1,006 .... 958 South Eastern South Devon - Shropshire Union .. ....... Taff Vale 3,975 .... - West Cornwall West Hartlepool 2,921 ..... 2,162 lalsri LINES. Belfast and Ballymena 989 .... 729 Cork and Bandon Cork and Blackrock Dublin and Wicklow 612 .... 175 Dundalk and Enniskillen Londonderry and Coleraine Londonderry and Enniskillen Waterford and Limerick Waterford and Kilkenny .. 294 .... . . 293 ScoTcli LINES. Aberdeen Caledonian Dundee and Arbroath 568 .... 472 Edinburgh and Glasgow.. ...... .... 5,293 .... 4,192 Glasgow and South Western....... 5,674 ..... 4,849 Great North of Scotland FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam 669 Grand Trunk of Canada ...... • . 4,310 .... 3,506 Great Western of Canada Great Luxembourg ...... 696 ..... Liege and Turnhout... . .......... 396 - - The directors of the Bank of England, at their usual board meeting, as was generally anticipated, did not make any alteration in the minimum rate of discount. The dividends will be paid on and after the 9th inst. The Funds to-day showed steadiness, although a little disappointment was felt in some quarters at the absence of any announcement from the weekly board at the Bank to day. Many parties had entertained the idea that the rate of seven per cent., now charged for bills having more than sixty days to run, would be reduced to six per ce tt. The impression remains that this step will not be long delayed. The Funds, after some trifling variations closed the same as yesterday, the final quotations being 92 1516 93 1.16. In the Stock Exchange to-day the value of money was 5 to 6 per cent. for short loans on good Stock. In the Discount Market no pressure was experienced, notwithstanding the pre parations for commercial liabilities ma turing to-morrow, the 4th. It is hoped that the release of the dividends for money next week will ease the market. On the other hand an instalment of 1,350,0001. falls due on the new loan on Thursday next. At Paris, to day, the Three per Cent Rentes closed at a further recovery of about 8 per cent. Some further parcels of fine gold, brought in by the last American steamer. were to day sent into the Bank. Yesterday's advices from Paris mention that the recovery in the Rentes was checked by large deliveries of stock. New speculative buyers, however, were taking the place of those who had been crushei by the high rates of interest exacted at the monthly settlement. The settle ment in Railway Shares was attended with less difficulty than that in the Rentes. The prospects of the North and South Wales Steam Fuel Company is issued This undertaking is constituted under the limited liability act. It is proposed to purchase extensive works erected near Liverpool ; the sum to be paid for this property by the company is 15,0001 in - cash, and 15,000/ in shares. The Railway Share Market to-day exhibited an unfavourable re-action, sales having followed the late rise. The closing prices were quoted as follows :—Caledo nian, 611 611. Eastern Counties, 10 5-16 10 7-8 East Lancashire, 76 78. Great Northern, 941 94 I Ditto A, 79 80. Great Western, 641 65. Lan cisire and Yorkshire, 88 881. London and North Western, 101 i 102-k. Manchester Shef field, and Lincolnshire, 29 291 Midland Stock, 741 754. North British, 34i 351. South Eastern and Dover, 721 734. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 781 791. York and North Midand, 57 578. FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) CORONERS INQUESTS.—Yesterday the coroner held the following inquests :—On the body of a child, named John M‘Beon, aged three years, whose death was caused by injuries inflicted in consequence of a kettle of boiling water having accidentally fallen on him. Verdict accordingly.— On the body of George Bamfortb, who died in the Southern Hospital, in consequence of a piece of coal having accidentally fallen on him at the Mersey Iron Works. Verdict accordingly.—On the body of John Tremble, a labourer, who, on the 14th March, was engaged on board the American ship Princeton, and on whose leg some iron accidentally fell, causing a fracture, from the effects of which he died. Verdict accordingly. DRTHERN TIMES.—LIVERPOc - ;, 3 FRIDAY, APRIL 4, isse,, The Congress has held another sitting to-day, and I am told the object of it was to settle the manner in which the precise stipulations of the treaty should be executed. No difficulty whatever on the subject is anticipated. I told you on Monday that the armistice was to be prolonged, but to-day I learn that there has not been what is formally called a prolongation of the armistice, but that orders have been sent to the different armies and fleets to maintain their present positions, and to refrain from all hostilities until the treaty of peace shall be ratified. The precise number of sittings held by the Plenipotentiaries, either in congress or committee has beeu twenty-three. When their labours are concluded they talk of prolonging their stay in this city for the sake of rest and amusement. According to the lndependance, of Brussels, it was Lord Clarendon who proposed to the Pleni potentiaries, his colleagues, to wait in a body on the Emperor, after the signing of the treaty, in order to thank him for his hospitality and support. The proposition was, of course adopted with accla mation. The Emperor was much pleased with the mark of deference shown him, and thanked the Pleni potentiaries collectively. The London Sun was seized by the police yes terday, for its unseemly manifestation against the conclusion of peace. The Bourse has improved to-day. The Moniteur says that at the grand dinner which the Minister of Foreign Affairs gave yester day to the Plenipotentiaries of the Congress, he proposed a toast to peace, and said " Peace will be durable, for it is honourable for all." More illuminations took place last night in honour of the declaration of peace, and they were infinitively more general and brilliant, especially in the trading and populous quarters of the town, than those of Friday. Indeed, I never remember to have seen, during the many years I have resided in this city such extensive and splendid illuminations. And not con tent with them, an immense number of boys and young men amused themselves to a late hour at night by letting off crackers, squibs, and fireworks. In a word, what took place last night contributed a really remarkable demonstration in favour of peace, and, I confess, that it rather sur prised me. Is our government determined on coming to a rupture with France ? It would really almost seem like it, from what has taken place at Madrid. Lord Howden, our ambassa dor, it appears, thought fit, contrary to diplomatic usage, not to visit the French Ambas sador, the Marquis de Turgot, to compliment him on the birth of the Imperial Prince—a visit that all other Ambassadors and Ministers readily paid. The noble lord did not think fit, either, to attend the Te Deum, which was chanted in the French Church in honour of the birth, though all the rest of the diplomatic body went as a matter of course. And the Madrid papers which have arrived this morning inform us that Lord Howden was the only one of the diplomatic body who did not attend a ball given by the French Ambassador in honour of the occasion. Here then were three deliberate slights—not to say insults— put by our Ambassador on the French. They have naturally created great sensation in Madrid, but the journals and letters from that capital, which I have seen, do not give any explanation of them. What can this mean ? An immediate investigation into the causes of them is imperatively necessary. In the meantime, the French Emperor and his Government are naturally indignant at this, and will certainly require explanation and apology. They have already gone the length of denouncing them in the official Moniteur. The form in which this is done is to reproduce, ostensibly, a very angry article from the Messager of Bayonne, which, amongst other things, says :—" We have received a great number of private letters containing sharp comments on the conduct of the representative of a nation with which we are now united by ties both strong and numerous. These letters all express the surprise excited amongst Spaniards, and the painful astonishment produced amongst the French by the conduct of Lord Howden. But we do not think it right to reproduce passages from these letters." A telegraphic despatch from Marseilles gives newa from Constantinople to the 25th ult. All the corps diplo7natique had attended a Te Deum in honour of the birth of the Imperial Prince, and at a grand dinner, which followed, at the French Embassy, Lord Stratford de Redcliffe delivered a speech. In the Crimea the health of the troops was improving, and an expedition against the Spit of Arabat had been countermanded. In the Principalities the Russians had allowed the passage of 163 vessels, which they had detained. ABANDONMENT OF THE SHIP EUROPA.—The inquiry into the abandonment of this ship was resumed yesterday, before Mr. Mansfield and Captain Schomberg. Several witnesses were examined, and at four o'clock the investiga- tion was again adjourned to Saturday, at ten o'clock. THE AMERICAN MAILS.—The royal mail steamer Africa, for New York, will take the American mails on Saturday. Letters will be received at the General Post-office to eight, and with fees to nine, and with additional late fees to ten o'clock. Passengers will go on board by the tender at nine o'clock in the morning. The Australian advices, which we published yesterday, were received by the Overland Mail, having been brought from Melbourne by the Liverpool built clipper ship, Fiery Cross, to Point de Galle, where she arrived on the first of March, after a passage of thirty-three days, having left Melbourne on the 26th of January. AUSTRALIAN Mans.---Tbe royal mail ship James Baines, will take the next mails for Melbourne, &c.; and, as at present arranged, letters will be received at the General Post-office up to eight o'clock in the morning in the usual course ; to nine with fees ; and to ten o'clock with additional late fees, at the Landing-stage box, on Sunday next, the 6th inst. THE ATTEMPT AT MURDER BY A SAlLOR.—M'Carthy, the sailor who was stabbed by Doyle, another sailor, an account of which appeared in yesterday's paper, lies at the Northern Hospital in a serious state. Doyle was brought up again yesterday before Mr. M'an,field, and remanded for seven days, and during that time some opinion as to the state of the wounded man may be formed. The Phcenix, belonging to the Liverpool Line of Austra lian Packets, arrived at Melbourne on the 17th January, after a favourable passage of seventy-nine days. It will be satisfactory to the friends of Dr. Polding, the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, who sailed in this ship, to hear that he and all his party on board, were in good health, and well satisfied with the arrangements on board the vessel. After landing a few passengers at Melbourne, she proeeeded on the 20th for Sydney. CAUTION TO THE PunLic.---There are several persons at present going about the town, calling at private houses, under the pretence of selling some small articles, and if they get an opportunity, they carry of any property they can lay hands on. On Tuesday one of the gang got into the house of Mr. E Rowe, in the Park, and succeeded in stealing a waich and pair of boots. The property was missed at once, but the thief made his escape, and has not since been heard of. The public should be on their guard against these thieves. LIGHT WEIGHTS.— PROSECUTION OF S HOPE. E EPERS. Yesterday Mr. Holt heard the following charges, which were preferred by inspectors Johnston and Kissick :—Mary Henry, Great Charlotte street, fruit dealer, light weight, fined is and costs; Thomas Gerrard, provision dealer, 26, Soho street, light weights, fined is and costs ; Joseph Beer, tobacconist, acquitted, with a caution ; Thomas Belly, grocer. Burlington street, false scales, fined 2s 6d and costs ; John Woods, butcher, St. John's market, false scale, fined 5s and costs ; John Leddy, grocer, South Castle street, false scales, fined 2s 6d and costs ; James O'Neill, provision dealer, Atherton street, false scale, fined 2s 6d and costs ; Edward Murphy, provision dealer, Skelborn street, false scale, fined is and costs ; Henry Budding, eating-house keeper, Princess row, light weizhts, fined 2s 6d and costs; Ellen Partridge, green grocer, James street, flee scales, fined Is and costs; Edward Cook, butcher, Gill street market, false scales, fined 10s and costs. HISTORIC SOCIETY. —The fifth Archm;logical meeting was held last evening, Dr. M'lntyre in the chair. Arch deacon Jones and Mr. Joseph Hibbert were elected members, and John P. Heywood, Esq., late High Sheriff, was enrolled without election or entrance fee. A large number of books, pamphlets, and prints ~ veTe laid upon th e table, as d o nations from learned societies and private individuals; also a large number of Roman remains Presented by Mr. Hardwick, and Alderman Brown of Preston. Mr. Hardwick exhibited the contents of a large box, consisting of Roman remains in silver, pewter, bronze, brass, copper, iron, pottery ware, &e. The R ev. M r. Evenside exhibited a silver fibula with curious i nscr i pt i on, and a sword from Sherwood Forest, with an ivory hilt beautifully engraved. Mr. Boardman's paper, P ar t IL , was voted as read ; and the two papers th en rea d were on the Roman remains recently . found near Walton-le- Dale, Preston, by Charles Hardwick, Esq., and on curious brasses, in Preston church, by William Dobson, Esq, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY, The Lord CHAN C ELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. The Delatnare Forest—and the Poor Law Commis sioner (Ireland) Bills was read a third time and passed. TORTURE IN INDIA The Earl of ALBEMARLE moved for some returns, and availed himself of the opportunity to make some observa tions in deprecation of the infliction of torture upon the natives of India, in the collection of the revenue. He affirmed that this horrible system still continued, and quoted statements, showing that this species of cruelty was practised so late as July last. The Duke of ARGYLE, having made some observation in explanation, the subject dropped. Their Lordships rose at a quarter to six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY, The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BILLS The Gainsborough Gas Bill was read a third time and passed. The Banbridge Junction Railway Bill and the Cambridge University and Town Bill were considered, and ordered for third reading. PETITIONS. I Several petitions were presented in opposition to the grant to Maynooth. NOTICES OF MOTION • Hr. R. Priir.mmonE gave notice that to-morrow he would move for returns as to commissions issued against criminous clerks, and the cases against them from Jan. 1, 1855, to Jan. 1, 1856. Mr. H. BERKELEY gave notice that on the 22nd inst. he should bring forward the question of the ballot. TRADE WITH GREECE Mr. EWART enquired whether any measures were being adopted to procure the removal by the Government of Greece of the export duties stated in the report from our consuls as pressing injuriously on commerce in that country. Lord PALMERSTON replied that the subject referred to in the question put by the hon. member, had, for a long time, formed matter for communications between the governments of Great Britain and Greece. No satis factory result. had as yet been obtained, and he did not think that a more satisfactory issue was to be expected, as the government of Greece was such that there was no portion of the Greek territory in which persons or pro perty was safe for twenty-four hours together, except within three miles of Athens or the Piraeus, where the roads were watched night and day by detachments of French cavalry. THE ARMISTICE In answer to Mr. T. Michell, Lord PALMERSTON said that the Congress yesterday extended the armistice to the sea as well as to the land, as it had been hitherto confined for the reason that if free communications had been allowed while the negotia tions were yet doubtful, a change of position might have been gained by Russia, who might have materially altered the relative condition of the belligerents, had hostilities been resumed. Now, however, the treaty of peace had put an end to any chance of a renewal of hostilities, and the Congress had extended the armistice to the sea. With regard to another question put by the honourable member, as to whether, if the blockade was to cease, and if an arrangement had been made for a British vessel to enter Russian ports for commercial pur poses without risk of seizure; the noble lord said he could not reply in the absence of the head of the department under whose jurisdiction the subject came. JOINT STOCK COMPANIES ACT. Mr. HENLEY intimated (that to-morrow . he would ask the vice-president of the board of trade whether it would not be better to commit. again pro forma this bill, for he saw that 120 amendments had been put upon the paper by the right hon. gentleman himself (laughter). THE PUNISHMENT OP TRANSPORTATION Mr. SCOTT moved for a select committee to consider how far and in what direction recent legislation and the sub stitution of other punishment for transportation has influenced the existing amount of crime. After condemn ing the practice of associating young criminals with those confirmed in crime in prisons, and of hurting the feelings of ticket-of-leave men by leaving them open to constant interference, the hon. member proceeded to state that crime had doubled since 1848, and that the number of criminals was increasing even in a greater degree than the population of the country. This was a state of things that required immediate remedy, and he, therefore, urged the Government to allow the appointment of a select committee to consider the subject, and to suggest a remedy. High authorities had declared their opinion, that the opportune moment for abandonment of transporta tion had led to an increase of crime, and now that peace was restored, from which a further increase of crime might be expected, he thought the time had arrived when the subject should be considered. Mr. LLOYD DAVIES seconded the motion, and referred to the failure of the " ticket of leave " system, and re marked that out of 5,552 tickets granted, in 1,180 cases the holders had relapsed into crime, and persons were in apprehension of danger by them. Sir G. GREY thought that the question might be settled without a division, if the hon. member would agree to the limitation of the scope of inquiry, but if the committee was to investigate till wide question of" tickets of leave," its labours would occupy the whole of the session, with out any practical results being arrived at. The right hon. baronet admitted that there was an increase in the number of criminals ; from the year 1851, the number had increased from 27,760 to 27,960. But in that time the population had increased 2,000,000, so that it was an exaggeration to say that crime was really greatly increased; on the contrary, compared with the population, there was a considerable decrease shown. With regard to the ticket of leave system, it was true that the police had in certain cases acted to prevent men who were at liberty under the system, from getting employment by exposing their former course of life, but the metropolitan police had received instructions not to take such a course. They were, however, very ca r ef u l i n watching the motions of ticket of leave men when they got into the company of dishonest persons, and in several such cases their ticket was in danger of being removed. As to the question of the advantages of transportation, he admitted that it was a great benefit co this country to get rid of the worst of the criminal population, those leaving the country seldom returning at the expiration of their sentences ; but, at the same time, the representations of the colo nies were to be considered, and they were such that it was expedient to sacrifice the advantage which the mother country gained by the system of transportation. The right hon. gentleman concluded by moving, as an amendment, " That a select committee be appointed to inquire into the act 16 and 17 Vic., c. 99, intituled ' An act to substitute in certain cases other punishment in lieu of transportation." Sir J. PAKINGTON remarked that the House had reason to feel grateful to the hon. member for Berwick for intro ducing this important question to their consideration, but at the same time he agreed with the Home Secretary that the terms of the motion gave too great a scope to the inquiry, and he therefore gave the preference to the amendment of the right hon. gentleman, to whom he accorded his thanks for the manner in which he had met the motion. He wished, however, that the question of the policy or impolicy of the renewal of transportation should be taken into serious consideration by the committee, as it will be remembered the act of 1853 had been passed without due consideration, and almost without discussion. At the time that act was passed he believed that it was absolutely necessary to act upon the representations of the colonists of Van Dieman's Land, but it was still more important that the government should at that time cease transporting to a colony tiler to which gold mines were then springing up, and holding out to colonists the prospects of securing a fortune. Arguing upon the question of the potency of the punishment of transportation, he said he could not agree that five years' imprisonment in England was equivalent to seven years' transportation, and observed that transportation was looked upon by prisoners and by their families with much greater horror than penal servitude in this country, This he con sidered a great anomaly in the present law, and the anomaly increased with the extent of the punishment. He was glad that the inquiry had been conceded, and he hoped that it would be allowed to go into the question of the success of the abolition of transportation. Mr. LABOUCHERE observed that the committee, according to the terms of the amendment moved by Sir G. Grey, would have power to consider the question raised by Sir John Pakiniton, but if it were thought the words did not warrant so much, the Government would agree to add other words, such as, "and effects, and operations, and provision before operation." The great difficulty in transporting criminals to Colonies was, in the first place, to find Colonies willing to receive them ; and, secondly, they had to find labour for them. Western Australia was the only Colony willing to take convicts, but it could not be available to any great extent for the purpose, as it could not provide provision or employment for them. Mr. ADDERLVY agreed as to the advisability of instituting an enquiry into the Transportation Question, but expressed a hope that the system of expatriation, which had been abandoned, would not be re-established. He alluded to the want of means in this country of preventing discharged prisoners from relapsing into crime, and entered into the causes of crime, remarking that education was a better prevention of crime than punishment. He rvould suggest that words should be added to the motion of Sir G. Grey to the effect that the committee should take into considera tion the feasibility of making a provision for discharged prisoners. Mr. BARNES remarked that the words proposed by the Government would be found sufficient for the purpose. Mr. NEWDEGATE urged, in favonr of transportation, that there was a better chance of reforming a criminal, when he was removed from his old haunts and associations, than if he remained in this country. Sir S. NOUTHCOTE suggested various schemes for the treatment of prisoners after discharge, and recommended the subject to the consideration of the committee. Mr. F. FITZGERALD advocated the renewal of the transportation system. After a few words from Mr. SCOTT, Sir G. GREY withdrew his amendment ; and after some slight modifications its the original motion having been conceded, the motion was agreed to. SPECIAL AND CONTRACT DEBTS. Mr. DlALirts moved for leave to introduce a bill to abolish all distinction between speciality and simple he contract detbhtat The hon. and learned member stated his object to assets should be equally divided amongst all Creditors, COMMERCIAL BREACH OF TRUST. ;0 it bill The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved for le ave to bring to amend the law relating to the Crimi nal APP"P or tion of Trust Property, held by persons as trus.tectsvias b tan ai o lle a s iou T s, he in p a r s e m se u n c t h st a a s t , e of the law on the su l 'i ec , to o ust for specific purposes, apifplPieerdwthusal pliroapveinrgty frauclui.ll;, their own purposes, they were only civilly responslut'c'i and might be cleared by the insolvency or banklese court. The object of the bill was to put an end t° anomalies. Mr. WALPOLE, Mr. MALINS and M. BowYgit ha briefly spoken, leave was given. JOINT STOCK BANS DIRECTORS• 11 tO Sir J. SHELLEY obtained bring a b ill , leave to in g - o ia. s th to e ck sh b a a re n h k o s ld in er E s amend the law in respect to the election of directors 0. J,,„ ii England. by b illot directors annually l r a e n - d e . lec T t heobject of this bill was to an., by fotatiovo IRISH EDUCATION BOARD. to the commission appointed in 1855, to inquire Mr. MACARTNEY moved that certain papers relating ~_,,al board of education in Ireland, and the report of the c: keo mission be laid on the table previous to any vote being is in supply for national education in Ireland. it P a Mr. WILSON objected to producingthe report, es not yet been considered. g the papers Afte - into the nallu,suro, r some conversation on the subject, some 01 '-- 5 were ordered, but the report was refused. POOR LAWS. Mr. BouVERIE moved for leave to bring in a bill t o ve aill i e c il so d the laws relating to the relief of the poor. Lea BANKERS' DRAUGHTS BILL. , of the Mr. A. PELLATT moved the second reaaing - Draughts on Bankers Bill. Mr the . GLYN seconded the motion Ti e 0f • The ATTORNEY-GENERAL supported the prill el bil M l. r. HANKEY did not think that any legislation w silece6- sa ry on the subject. After some discussion the bill was read a second j3 t i i i i r e w'ent The Married Women's Reversionary Interest through committee The debate on the second FACTORIES reading ßlLL of the Fac t o rea d was resumed. After some discussion the bill was second time, The House adjourned at twelve o'clock. L .TEST INTELLIGENu ROME A despatch dated Rome, 3rd instant, 011° ,, u 5s t that Monseigneur Cardinal Patrezzi lea:`' ‘ ,, for city at the end of the ensuing month 01 l‘ lki a j t th e Paris,. to represent his Holiness the Pop ° Frenc h baptism baptism of the Imperial heir to the - throne. PIEDMONT. A despatch from Tu r i n , d a t e d the 3rd i v i1 ,,,711 states that active proce e di ngs are being ta , u ' in g i° the Minister of War to prepare everY l '; fool relation to the retu rn o f th e S ar di n ian ar l33 J the Crimea. rtie Vessels are prepari n g t o leave Genoa Crimea as speedily as possible. THE CONGRESS The Journal des Debats of yesterday 80 5 t , ll :i t° decision has yet been pronounced with r e F'i a ttlf e the different systems proposed for th e , ","bu t - organisation of the Danubian Principalitle"lse to that the discussions upon the subject gav e r- i n ecL, another question which was definitely deteri':;nti The Conference has decided that no Pe r ' i tteo the Turkish empire shall, under anY P nr - ol e ic:' whatsoever, be occupied by the allied ''„irecif When the treaty of the 30th March has acq - , as by the ratification of the respective sovereigiliit'd, indelible character, the armies of France, E l le 0 0" and Sardinia will abandon the Crimea an' a itla stantinople, and return home, and the A, tl „"litiO troops will retire from the Danubian Prineir beyond the frontiers of the empire. oceo The Debats further states that the Confer:f tho resolved the delicate question of the right s Mci lo e Christians in Turkey in a form which will reo l e , i, the interests of the Christians with the r i P: the Imperial Crown. The Conference, it,: t 6 .cot', has not annexed to, or incorporated with, ti" n i til'' of peace the late decrees of the Sultan 0 , - ,l o is point, but has inserted in the treaty an ar t ' n ' which allusion is made to the recent C- fi n t 05 sions, in such terms that an engager e , e- • e, the part of the Sultan to adhere to his Pr e rftl o ,", in reality on record. The Debats states fi ts for th the navigation of the Danube will be he, ll° o ci i t free to the merchant vessels of the world, ofoo expresses the belief that the grave questio3 i o ta° state of Italy, viewed as a po ss ible cause e l c os, i 5 war, is not yet di s p ose d o f. Th e t r eaty, it 6 • c ie s . oce; composed of a preambl e an d thirty-feur Inserted in the p ream bl e i s a t r ib u te to Fr a p ifit to its disinterest e d ness, its loyalty, and its 5.9 to of conciliati o n. Europe acknowledges thafuv-ti.etic h the personal efforts of the Emperor of t h e Deba l c that that peace is due. W e are assure d by ti e d op°' , this complim en t t o our a ll y was instat e by the Earl of Clarendon. RECALL OF THE BALTIC FLOC' h b" 5111 KIEL, Wednesday. —A t e l egra phi c despote the received from the Admir a lty, or d er ing h° llle of war forming Admiral Watson's squadron. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG. Wednesday —By an inWe riti f i cav ir l festo peace is proclaimed ; the object of the w a :Aleg e s been gained by the securit acquired for the n o " . aff io i ' of Christians in the East. y It is added 004 ,W P future collisions, a fresh frontier line for Bessar been conceded. ---------- to b ear VACANCY AT THE CUSTOMS.—We are sorry the it .death of the Right Honou ra bl e George ', 91,305 0il I t° Deputy Chairman of the Bo ar d o f C us toms, which- $5 .1 taken place after a painful illness. • 001 EAST INDIA DISECTION.— CoIoneI 1 Sir IL Ratillij Ge o r g e K.C.8., has been appoint e d to succeed General Sir dia Pollock as one of the nominated Directors of the Enst„-fitlia Company. No choice could be mor e honourable '".ais, government, or more likely to conduce to the go d d° tration of Indian affairs. ,pet THE PRESS IN FRANCE.—The London Evenifilig p aper office, Sun,. was seized on Tuesday, at the French bi3elc ice, in consequence of its appearing with chic b i ' border as a token of mourning for p a the peac e, vi d h e considers disastrous and disgraceful for Engl an-. d. Daily T News and Morning Advertiser were also seize died THE COUNTESS DOWAGER X -- -Wilg t °s a few days since at her resid e ence PE. the daughter of the late Count Worironzow, 111° , 1 % l et e irg e Au Viceroy of Southern Russia. In 1808 she married she mGl3Rejfto.ri-stree" 110 gustus, eleventh Earl of Pembroke, by vili gi °l3 be rt ' became the mother of the Right Hon. Sic kle)? - er M.P., and other children. til e m MA . aRIAGE IN HIGH LlM—Yesterday 001 s ell arriage of Lord James Butler with Lady Rac hel ;ear tookplace at St. Pater's, Pimlico, in presence of th e ov je. hers of both the noble families of Bedford an d ° i f u sel l ' The ceremony was celebrated by Lord Virrotbeslel ''',:roolo bricl e o via gt andprevious to the departure of the bride end for Woburn Abbey, adejeuner was given by the 9° Duchess of Bedford, in Belgrave-square. ..;clO contradicts a ' rumour r i i . n P i —The htoewnjr°tol"rtlhlealiseeltlitt/el::tc.e)ttlobr: Thornely wanseasdbaoyu,t atto retire from Parl'at 314 MR. THORNED li , nent.ffect that , 5014,; —On n AN I C v n e E d STER ADDRESS TO THE FRENCO 1-4 ' TO' r re n nc t h he t e o x- t m h a e yo the birth of a N n i a .— eet A ing qu Of ar t r h el e M ha s Council, motion of Mr. Alderman Nichotingji.eo betweenßOCHDAL s E eco ~,,,ra,- of him onbirth of Mr. Alderman Barnes, 33,„iatici; an heir-apparent to Emperor lA was . agreed to, c t o h - e 0 000 19 ou t France. Jr. T. B. Browne, one of her MajestYi i ss se . ; t l i i rt. : of School, and the Rochdale Board of Gun it , o .wor Browne visited, in 1854, the Spotland, the 1- 01 , 1 `, f t gu' ir ; and the Marland Workhouses, under the care or k. "" 'r/ dians, and found the few children in the schooLsreport ignorant. He reported the fact accordin ly an d seeingbis he appeared in the Blue Book. The guardians, on a t' i3 e c re h e l ort, complained that it misrepresentedg the fact i s 'il the" s . et i u d e r d en examined were only casual paupers, and 3 bo ol;. paupers having been sent to the his s ° So They called on Mr. Browne to correct his rePl . ioo l4/ refused to do so, and they have now refused hirl i au° to their schools.