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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1853. Eibrrpoot tanbarbt FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. MONDAY MORNING. THREE blows in a week, one would think rather damaging to a Government even more stable than that of the hybrid Administration of Lord ABERDEEN : yet it has bad its three blows, and feels shaky—or, in the language of the all but defunct prize-ring, "groggy," —an expressive phrase, intimating that the party so affected is on his last legs. The last blow—as is usually the case in less refined, but sometimes better conducted arenas than the floor of the House of Commons—was the " slasher " of the three ; and though it came last in order, I shall notice it first—a good orthodox reading. During the course of Thursday evening, it was well known that Mr. MILNER GIBSON was to stand by his resolutions for a repeal of the newspaper stamp duty, repeal of the advertisement duty, and repeal of the paper duty—that is, that the hon. mem ber would go to a division on the resolution most likely to be carried. He was slightly pooh-pooped by that good-for-nothing class of representatives who would turn the present men out, and yet are afraid to offend them. " Stay till Monday, till you hear the Budget propounded." " No, I won't," said GIBSON ; " the result to-night will be like a straw thrown up for learned pigs to ascertain which way the wind blows : besides," quoth Mr. GIBSON, " I have found out that I can have a—swing ing—majority on the repeal of the advertisement duty." Heads were counted on this point, so that he was sure of a majority, but not so large as the division told. I will not afflict your intelligent readers by noticing the debate in detail ; certainly not a new argument; scarcely a new sentence was used all through the discussion. Gentle dulness, which ever likes a joke, supervened, and I took my nap, undisturbed by flashes of senatorial fire, taking care to keep the sensorium as much alive as to form a notion of what they were about. By the way, this is a capital plan for dull debates, dull plays, and common place operas ;—be awake, though not wide awake. So was your correspondent on the present occasion. Thus quiescent, semi-somnolent he remained, until DIZZY got up. Oh, monstrous ! DISRAELI going heart and hand with JOHN BRIGHT ! The shirt of Nemesis on DIZZY were as nothing to this,—his adoption of Manchester cotton ! There he stood, not striking the red box, 'tis true, with his screw-curls, dangling like dead snakelets by his unpropitiating profile, absolutely supporting a reduc tion of duty on a subject, of all others, he ought himself to have proposed a few weeks ago, when he was CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. The most obtuse man in the house saw what it meant. "0 Patria Dolce !" as the poeta says or sings, had no more to do with the matter than I have to do with making, or scrubbing, treasonable ram-rods for that clever varlet Kossurn. MILNER GIBSON has done good by the advertisement duty. Let SUKEY, the cook, advertise for a place and get it, without being taxed for leave to tell all the world she has lost one. This was carried, and I think will stand. The advertisement duty will be done away entirely or reduced to a mere trifle. Not so the other resolutions. Justly too. Take off the stamp duty ? Why, there are a hundred characterless scoundrels within a mile of Temple-bar—(to say nothing of the provinces)—at this moment, who could easily beg, borrow, or steal a hand ful or two of type, and obtain as easily, by either of these means, a few hundred weight of whitey-brown paper, and set to work and vomit poison. My dear, though sharp friend, TIMMS, solicitor to the stamps and taxes, gives no tick. Stamps is paid for, hence the respectability of the English press is in a great part sustained. Now for the little fights. ISAAC BUTT, the Irish Q.C. and Conservative, beat them on Kilmainham Hospital, the Irish Chelsea Hospital, for the maintenance of the Irish soldier in age or infirmity. Its preservation was carried, and you will see in the list of ayes and noes, indiscriminately, Whigs, Tories, Radicals, Conservatives, opposition Conservatives, and so on. Col. SIBTHORP would have been among the number, but the poor fellow is laid up, much to the dulness of the House of Commons. The Government, therefore, as far as regards the keeping up or pulling down Kilmainham, care but little. Then came defeat number two on Wednesday, for the exclusion of the Master of the Rolls (Sir JOHN RoMILLY), and all future Masters from the House of Commons. As Wed nesday is a play-day, the Ministers care nothing about this defeat, because, on the third reading of the bill, they are determined to take care to be better prepared, and throw out the measure. lam no great friend of seeing lawyers anywhere, but their presence is now more necessary in the lower house than ever. Statutes are heaped in helpless con fusion on statutes ; country gentlemen, dissenters, who scarcely ever read an act of parliament all their lives, manu facturers, manufacturing acts. We have, therefore, need of a lawyer or two for the purpose of keeping us right. The debate on the question was not very enlivening ; PALMER STON and RUSSELL were the only two members of the government who spoke, and they echoed each other ; they considered it would be unadvisable to shut out men who, above all others, were most qualified to share in the deliberations of the house. Granted : but lawyers are tremendous bores in Parliament. SUGDEN, KELLY, PEMBERTON, STUART, WATSON, and a dozen such, to say nothing of BROUGHAM, LYNDHURST, and CAMP BELL when in the House of Commons, have all held forth to yawns I Referring to Sir F. KELLY, puts me in mind of the remarks he made on the Judges' Exclusion Bill—remarks silly for such a lawyer. I quote from memory, but the words are quite near enough. Sir FITZROY KELLY was wincing, for he looked and spoke as if he were : he observed in effect, that it was undignified for a Master of the Rolls to be obliged to canvas for a seat in Parliament—that he had often to go from door to door like a beggar ; candidates generally had to do this, and meet answers not very civil sometimes, and after wards to be laughed at on the hustings by the worst "rabble" in the kingdom. One would have thought, after what has so recently taken place touching this same word " rabble," that the hon. and learned gentleman would have kept it to himself. Sir FITZROY, you'll catch it for this. This identical Monday, 18th of April, 1853, one of London's greatest abominations—first in the throng—is gone. St. Clement's churchyard, placed in the centre of the greatest thoroughfare in the world, no longer yawns for dead human bodies. J thank thee, PALMERSTON, for this. " Order in Council t" Glorious Parliament, Tom CARLYLE might exclaim, only THOMAS—great coiner of German silver—lives in the country, and fears no fright ful graveyard effluvium. The closing of the metropolitan graveyards was likely never to be accomplished by agita tation and debate in the Houses of Parliament; but we have a nice, discreet, prompt, and most responsible little par liament on emergency, formed by the Lords of the Privy Council ; they do anything, certainly, on their own re sponsibiity, as 1 have intimated ; and, if the doing don't please the Parliament assembled, why, then, my Lords of the P. C. must answer. But, in such a horrid question as the one I refer to, there is no danger ; no one but the most mercenary could desire to see perpetuated the ob scene mysteries of intramural interment 1 Now, the re form thus begun, it is curious, nay, unaccountable, to witness the number of burials which take place daily in the above-hated churchyard (St. Clement's) ; ever since decisive steps for its abolition were adopted, the burials have been prodigiously great. Did people insanely die out of spite, to be buried while it was possible, in the old and desecrated haunt of the midnight ghonle and cab man ? Impossible. They died, however, and were buried with their fathers :—in the midst of life we are in death, —though I do not much relish the apparent pun—it has been exemplified in the aforesaid parish, ever since Lord PALMERSTON said the churchyard should be closed this day. The fact is, the rate of mortality is always higher in London—especially in the rotten parts of it—at this period, than at any other; hence the wailings of the dead bell from " morn to dewy eve," and not from any face tious notion on the part of the chief characters to die before the 18th, and so choose the SECRETARY of STATE. The undertakers and horse masters, those who do " black jobs," are going to trip it on the " light fantastic" some of these days ; for they say that a funeral out of town pays best, and is a very pleasant thing " after all." Coetaneous—(l don't remember another word at the moment)—coetaneous with the frequency of funerals in the metropolitan churchyards, anticipatory of their being closed, another phase, so to speak, of human infirmity has developed itself. A decent, well-inclined member of Parliament has introduced a bill, which will be carried, thanks to Queen, Lords and Commons, for the better punishment of those cowardly, mean-spirited, always ill looking, low, miscreantic bullies, with the weak, coarse, vulgar, lazy, never-clever, filthy, disreputable, sneaking, beastly—oh, no, I do the hog and the dog wrong, and crave their pardon, were it possible for them to grant one—scoundrelly, rascally, dirty scamps, confound them, who ill-use women. It is noteable that, in all my wander ings through this world of care, I never had such an opportunity afforded me as recently of ascertaining the true balance for or against human nature as regards the commission of the despicable offence mentioned. I e.-1 certain it never, in the history of England, was so prev,..- lent as at present. The bill for the better punishment of these varlets will soon be part and parcel of the law of the land ; the blackguards know it, and oh, Jupiter Scapin ! how they are walloping their better halves ! They will be afraid to do it when the bill shall have passed. The foregoing embodies the opinions, expressed in my own way, of all the police magistrates of any nous in the metropolitan beats. Were I to barter political principles, it would certainly b e f or a place in the Woods and F orests, now presided over by Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH. Talk of Dryads and Hamadryads, Fauns, and even of that old goat PAN, with his pipes, their ever -during holiday-making " under the greenwood tree" was nothing as compared with the otium of our Woods and Forests. Sir WILLIAM of the Ballot talks as glibly and corn mending about improvements, landscape gardening, lopping and pruning, cutting timber, selling timber, timber stolen, and so forth, to no end, as if he had been to the " manner born." Does it not look like humbug ? Here is a Radical member of Parliament with no enviable peculiarity on the face of the earth but holdforth, for Sir WILLIAM, even on radical questions, is a parrot, speaking what he has got by rote, and sending his speeches miles in length to the " Fourth Estate," and thereby sustaining a character for eloquence. Wood gods and little fishes ! Eloquence. Gab. They say Sir BALLOT MOLESWORTH (I like the mistakes made by my French friends, a description of whom I may give some day soon) got a snubbing from ABER. DERN recently for his indiscreet remarks in favour of tLe sneaking ballot-voting system. The head of the Woods and Forests having obtained a good appetite in driving over some of " the Royal property,"— as old SIMPSON, of Vauxhall Gardens, afar cleverer hum bug in his way, used to speak,—met his constituents'in Southwark, the other evening at dinner ; the champagne and soda water corks flew about and over the tables, like drunken imps, hitting right and left ; Sir WILLIAM knew his men,—he would have seen the Southwarkians, Bo roughonians as they are called, " blowed" first before he would have said a word about the ballot ; but he knew he must, and so committed the act to please them, and got snubbed for his pains, and he deserved it. Sir Wiudam's health appears to improve since he has had the supervision of the Woods and Forests; he has now a nice peachy bloom on both cheeks, and some friend has taken the liberty of reminding him of his forgotten Ovid, who,—never mind the Latin,—says something about letting a skilful barber cut his hair. The head of the Woods and Forests has certainly got rid of a prodigious quantity of hair— epicene in character—neither red, nor sandy, nor white, hut an apparent mixture of all three ; of course Sir WILLIAM can't help that,--then "cut it short." By the advice of a friend he has done this, and is really decent in his outward man, which heretofore he was not. He still uses the stupid—ugly as stupid—habit of wearing one spectacle eye-piece, held by the contractile force of the muscles adjacent to the os frontis, a practice hazardous, forasmuch as one eye is sacrificed ; the practice makes even a good-looking person hideous. It has been said over and over again, for more years than I care to number, that the best conducted department of govern ment is the Woods and Forests ; it is quite evident that anybody, however parvenzeish, can cut a figure in Whitehall-place. I thought I would have fairly swooned in cacchination—loud laughter—according to " Satan's Invisible World Discovered," to see dimly the Radical baronet and Prince ALBERT in the crypt of Paul's Cathe dral, arranging how, and where, the Great Captain's coffin should be disposed. If the departed spirits of good men made perfect are cognisant of what we are about, I rather think WELLINGTON'S would not have expected MOLESWORTH there on such an errand. There is a nasty appendage to London, called Redriff ; in better language—Rotherhithe, which would have rotted away long ago, but that it is the abode of tanners in numerable ; and " your tanner lasts," &c., vide the Gravedigger passim in " Hamlet." This same Rother hithe has many houses in it ; some of them old and tura ble-down, full of crannies, standing by themselves ; others, smaller, and thickly placed together. Altogether, Rotherhithe has a disreputable look. Nobody, I suppose, would live in it from choice. It has been the scene of murders foul; the MANNINGS' murder of the Irish tide. waiter is fresh in all our memories. In this Rotherhithe lives a curious crotchetty man, full of the inventive faculty, as it is called, which rarely leads to anything but insanities or Whitecross-street. The owner of this house in Rotherhithe had it, because he might not have got one for the same purpose in a more civilised locality. In this building the tenant and his sons, two, I think, manufac tured war-fireworks, rockets for ships; sent many of them abroad ;—now and then pill ! paff! might be heard, but no person seemed to care ;—it was only a cracker, or a Cath er ine w he e l. The old man and his sons used to go about town, talk of their ex plosive inventions—listeners took their beer, wondered, and laughed. Nobody, as I have said, cared a grain of powder for the whole lot. Underhand, it would appear, some good-natured fellow "gave the office," in police par lance; the magistrates take the hint; Louis KOSSUTH'S name is cunningly woven in. Presto ! the Times " takes up the wondrous tale"—the metropolis is in a ferment-- , KOSSUTH had got, in the words of the old Jacobite song, " Guns and pistols an' a'." I have my own opinion of KOSSUTH ; he is one of the most remarkable men extant; has been ill-used—so he thinks his country. This is perhaps, after all, mere matter of opinion : what he would do, if he had it all his own way, I rather suspect would not be rendering good for evil. N'importe, that has nothing to do with the question, and, happily for the sustained peace of Europe, never will. " The house in the occupation of KOSSUTH" is seven miles and more apart from the haunted one at Rotherhithe. There was a deal of talk in every club house, tavern, public-house, and pot-house in the metro polis all Friday. At length the House of Commons met, Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY mentioned to a friend that he was to put a question to Lord PALMERSTON on the sub ject. " The Pet of the Petticoats," TOMMY DUNCOMBE, saw young HALE, one of the Rotherhithe powder men, and every one about the House of Commons foresaw there was to be a spree. Those who knew the HALES, knew the discovery was all barn :so much the better. I won't refer to the discussion. Cupid, Lord PALMERSTON I mean, is now old, led more easily astray than I have known him when, par exemple, ho was first named after the little urchin of love. He made no very satisfactory answers to the qu3stions put to him in the Commons, nor to the remarks of Mr. DUNCOMBE. lam no admirer of radicals or of radicalism, but I was glad to see the hon. member for Finsbury come off so well ; after a long and threatening illness he appears to be recovered. He had been despaired of by his friends; his complaint, of a con sumptive type, bade defiance to every thing : his regimen was strictly attended to ; the atmosphere of his pretty apartments at the west end was strictly regulated ;—there he used to sit for weeks, scarcely able to speak or hold a pen, both great punishments to T OMMY • his companion chiefly ' was a tiny love-bird, like one of the Humming tribe, which flew about his room, picking its food from his hand. The hon. member, among other things, was desired to have recourse to cod-liver oil. Fangh 1 This he took, got more lung-strength, followed it up, and now appears almost as sound as ever. I apologise for this digression. It is stated that Kosstma had an offer made to him of certain warlike materials from the house at Rotherhithe ; I give you the rumour. KOSSUTH, a lawyer, knows very well the danger of such bargaining in this country ; besides, he has his own factory and foundry in New York for the production of such muni tions. To sum up, the police appear to have found some thing more than a mare's nest, if I am permitted to judge from their frequent communications with the heads of the Government. Meantime, at a meeting held in Kossimes house on Saturday afternoon, it was resolved that a prosecution of The Times should be instituted. Mr. HALE, also, they say, is to commence against the Government. The Royal Italian Opera has gathered great crowds during the past week. It is always a sure sign of success when you find, after the opening of the doors, little parties, carefully attired in opera costume, evidently from the country, assembled in front of the pay pigeon -hole, commuting their pit tickets for places in the boxes—the former being filled to overflow, the visitors are fain to get a seat anywhere. Such has been the case all the week. Guglielmo Tell—RosseNl's last and greatest, though not his best work—attracts a vast number of people who are not strictly musical, but wish something good, having eyes as well as ears to please. Certainly the cast is grand ; but Italians can't sing French music. Rossini composed his Tell in obedience to the Parisian people, among whom he was then living, laughing and growing fat. They twitted the maestro that he was old and lazy— blase, and could not compose. The author of It Barbiere and Semiramide soon showed the Parisians in his William Tell what he could do. But the music is sharp, abrupt, angular, if the latter phrase be a correct one ; liquid, per fectly epic—striking, but without one attribute of the Italian school. It draws, however, and so it need. The expense in its representation is no joke. Next in order is Drury-lane—" Old Drury," as the infatuated half dozen human beings who still exist denominate the theatre— they who talk of the drama in its " palmy days;" i. e. fifty years ago, closed on Saturday evening, by the lessee, in waistcoat of unsmirched whiteness, with a heart apparently under it, for he struck there, or there abouts, when doing the valedictory, behind the foot lights, and referring to the useful ingredients on such occasions, as patronage—gratitude—British public, and so on. Mr. SMITH, the lessee, is a man of much energy, thinks with the talking lark in the fable, that if you want your business done well—do it yourself. He has bought some experience —not too dearly, it is to be hoped—and he promises to open again, with better plays and better players—if he can catch them. I believe he has paid everybody, if there be any truth on the inscript snuff-box given to him the other evening. The remaining threatres are doing" pretly well;" but the boys who are carrying all before them are your ALBERT SMITHS, JOHN PARRYS, LEE CARTERS, Or CARTER LEES, and WOODINS. No company to pay, they sack all. Two or three new plays are spoken of ; one by the learned author of " lon,"' Mr. Justice TALFOURD, on Spanish history, has been seen by a few friends. A little piece of burlesque nonsense, by one of Mr. Justice TALFOURD'S lads, railed " Macbeth" (not SHAKSPERE'S), is also in rehearsal. These burlesques on the bard of Avon, when not outrageously done, are sure to be successful. It is, however, a poor means to an end. "Othello, according to Act of Parliament," brought out at the Strand Theatre by poor HAmmoNn, now dead and gone, was a hit, though it made the " ju dicious grieve." THE POOR CLERGY AND THE CLOTHING SOCIETY. A correspondent of The Times, " 5.G.0.," says " I have before me the report for 1852 of the Poor Pious Clergymen Clothing Society ;" in it there is a copy of a letter of thanks for relief to the manager of that institu tion under every letter of the alphabet; and these are headed Extracts from Correspondence.' I find in these letters from clergymen,--i.e., from men who might be bishops—gratitude expressed for coats, which fitted them selves as though they had been made to measure;' second-hand frocks, equally fortunate in fit, for their daughters ;" brown linen, which makes up into wag goner's bibs for our boys;' Old bed curtains, which, re-made, made nice winter curtains for my room.' ' When we are sitting round our hearth,' writes letter G,' we talk over our dress, and one points to one thing and another to another, all and each supplied by your parcel.' Letter L' says, Accept our warmest thanks for all you have sent, but especially for the linen, which Mrs. L— much required ; the boots and coats are matters of delight to my boys.' O' says, The black cloth comes very seasonably ; the coat, trousers, and waistcoat, ready-made, fit very nicely.' Q' says, 'My dear daughters are delighted ; they know that they could not be clothed, year after year, as they are without your kind help.' U' says, The cloth would be amply sufficient to include a vest, did I not usually wear a frock coat, which will require the whole quantity now sent ; but this is of no moment, as I scarcely need a new vest.' y says, ' The articles are so good and so suitable that we stand astonished : yo u will be pleased to hear that i n most i ns t an ces the wearing apparel is really a good fit, reZ b wr q lu te i s r i ,n,gH bu o t mi l l i i t a tl t e ing al a te s r i a t ti i o s n to e t r h e e it n c a a to u r b ol e f w ee o l r i n og .' s to 'e the object of such bounty, Icanno is t e b n u t t it y le e d t f t e o el m th y at de th ep e association which you represent gratitude and thanks.' THE ROMISH CONTROVERSY. -- The Rev. W. M. Falloon, M.A., of St. Bride's Church, Liverpool, preached the sermon in the course in St. Peter's Church, Preston, on Wed nes d ay, the subject being " The O ne Way." On Thursday the Rev. Hugh Stowell, of Manchester, preached a powerful discourse in the same place, on the subject of " Romish Fallacies."' The church was crowded, and a collection was made in aid of the Sunday schools. On Sunday, after two sermons preached in St. Paul's Church, by the Rev. W. H. Wright, of Liverpool, £2l was collected to defray the current expenses of the church and choir. COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NE IF S. MONDAY NIGHT. TIIE proposal of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER for the compulsory conversion of the odd Three per cent Stock, amounting to about ten millions, and the voluntary conversion of the large Three per cent. Stock of about five hundred millions, so as to make a reduction of interest, does not appear to have had an unfavourable effect upon the Funds, inasmuch as they have maintained a higher value ever since the proposal was made, and other de scriptions of securities have shared in the advance. Although the Finance Minister relies upon a vo luntary acceptance of a lower rate of interest for the bulk of his operations, the equivalent offered is a lengthened guarantee for the reduced rate, whereas those who hold by the present rate may afterwards find themselves compelled to accept the lower sum without the corresponding advantage. It remains to be seen whether this ingenious scheme will have the desired effect, as much diffe rence of opinion exists on the subject. By some it is thought that the issue of Exchequer Bonds, transferable without endorsement, will be a desirable investment in commercial circles, from the saving of trouble and the expense of brokerage ; but in dealing with so large a sum as the Consols, of which the amount to he converted into Exchequer Bonds is limited to thirty millions, it might perhaps have been better to have proposed a reduction of a quarter per cent. on the whole, the more particu larly as the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents have ruled so considerably above par. At the same time it must be acknowledged that the operation might have been attended with some hazard, and that, on that account, the more prudent course is the experiment on a small portion, with the proposed opening for a volun tary surrender. The annual saving to the coun try will be £25,000 for every ten millions reduced at the rate of a quarter per cent., so that, should the whole fire hundred millions be operated upon, the annual saving will be £1,250,000,—an amount of some little consequence to meet the pre sent demands for reduction of taxation. The recent arrivals of gold from A ustralia have had their effect upon the stock of bullion in the Bank of England, as the last weekly returns show an increase of £218,885. The smallness of the increase, however, when compared with the largeness of the receipts, is an evidence that the export of the precious metals is still very considerable, and that the great exten sion of our commercial exports is more than coun terbalanced by the increase of imports. This is further confirmed by a comparison between the official value of the imports into, and the real or declared value of the exports from, the United Kingdom during the twenty-two years ending with 1852, a return of which has just been published. In 1831, the imports amounted to £49,727,828, and the exports to £37,164,372, being an apparent balance of trade against England of only £12,563,456; whereas, in 1852, the imports were £109,345,409, and the exports only £78,049,367, being a balance against us of £31,296,042. Some allowance ought, however, to be made for the imports being taken at the official rates of valuation, which may be conside rably above the real amount, whereas the exports are calculated at the declared or merchants' valuation. The Manchester men who have been holding off from purchasing more Cotton than required for imme • diate'consumption, in the hope of a decline,have taken alarm at the firmness maintained in the Liverpool market, and the Manchester Guardian of Saturday last has come to the rescue with a rather dolorous catalogue of possibilities in favour of the desired depression. The planters and factors have kept back supplies in order to influence the market; the high rate of insurance charged on Cotton ware housed in New Orleans has also tended to keep back supplies ; the roads in the cotton-growing dis tricts have been rendered impassable by heavy rains. These are circumstances why the diminu tion of the receipts ought not to be admitted' as conclusive evidence of any deficiency of cotton in the interior, and therefore the oracle of the manu facturers recommends them to limit their purchases until the result of another month's advices is known. The ingenious theory-of our contemporary may readily be admitted, nor can it be denied that all accounts concur in representing the last crop of American Cotton as larger than that of any preced ing year. So far there is little difference of opinion between the holders who speculate for a rise and' the spinners and manufacturers who would wil lingly replace their stocks at lower prices than those which have prevailed for some time in this market. If we look, however, at other circum stances, which must have considerable infibence on future prices, we shall find little reason for believing that the presumed excess of supply, not withstanding the apparent largeness of present stocks, will be sufficient to create any depression, but rather the contrary. We must not forget that England has no longer the monopoly of the cotton manufacture, but the competition from the continent of Europe is rapidly extending through the im provements of machinery and the increase of skilled workmen. America herself is not behindhand in the race; and while the rise-of Manchester may be quoted as one of the most striking instances of the rapid growth of wealth through the manufacture, there are not wanting imitators who may better by their instructions. The enormous emigration which has been going on during the last year or two must also have added considerably to the markets for our exports, of which cotton manufactures form the principal item ; so that, making the most ample allowance for the alleged excess of the last cotton crop, the increased demand will be found to have more than kept pace with it. It is said,that a con vention of Southern planters is to he held' in June next, at Memphis, in Tennessee, in order to devise means for establishing a continental depot of cotton in opposition to Liverpool, and thus to do away with Liverpool agencies, middlemen, &c., by a direct exportation. One great obstacle to the achievement of such a plan will be the want of suffi cient capital, of which there is by no means a plethora in the Southern States ; but even should , it be in any way successful, it cannot serve the object of Manchester, which appears simply to induce Liverpool holders to take the alarm so gently in sinuated, and sacrifice the stocks, in, their hands. The accounts from most of the seats of manu facturing industry represent continued activity, the chief difficulty being to realize upon manufac tured goods an advance corresponding to that upon the raw material. This is particularly the case with the spinners of coarser yarns at Manchester, and the manufacturers of the lower descriptions of goods ; but,, as it is acknowledged that the market is comparatively bare of stock, , there is a general firmness which betokens % healthy tone. . The return from the Bank of England, for the week ending the 9th of April, gives the following results, when compared with the previous week : Public deposits .. £ t,733,108; Decrease £3,501,007 Other deposits .. .. 14,933,897; Increase 2,243,694 Rest - 3,106,886; Decrease 529,043 On the other side of the account— Government securities £13,671,382; Increase £206,844 Other securities 14,875,627;. Decrease 1,509,4,93 Notes unemployed .. 9,839,7-15 ; Decrease 343,115 The amount of notes in circulation is £22,976,715, being an increase of £589,5.45 ; and the stock of bullion in both departments is £1 9,2 2 6,3 34, show, ing an increase of £2l 8,8 85, when compared with the preceding return. ISSUE DE Notes issued £32,816,460 ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Govrnt. Debt.. £11,015,100 Other securities 2,984,900 Gold coin& buln. 13,797,306 Silver bullion .. 19,154 £32,816,460 £32,816,460 BANKING D Prop.'s capital £14,553,000 Rest 3,106,886 Public deposits. 4,733,108 Other deposits . 14,933,897 7-day, &c. bills. 1,469,737 :PARTMENT. Gov. securities.Xl3,67l,3 B 2 Other securities 14,875,627 Notes ...... 9,839,745 Gold & sily. coin 409,874 £38,796,628 I £38,796,628 THE SHARE MARKET during the week has fluctuated. The actual transactions have been light; but, up to Friday, there was an improvement in prices, and holders manifested increased confi dence. The statement made in the House of Com mons on Friday evening, by the President of the Board of Trade, had a depressing effect on Satur day's market, and much difficulty was experienced in effecting sales even at reduced rates. There were but few transactions to-day, but renewed confidence was manifested, and at the close holders were firm. Chester and Birkenhead, 21-g-c ; Blackburn, 7h ; Caledonians, 321- ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 76i 771 1- A ; London Stock, 1191 20; 1 75 41 5 I ; Midland Stock, 74 Dover Stock, 2 2 1 i; Greenock guaranteed 9; Dutch Rhenish, id 1 1-16 Id ; Liverpool and London Fire and Life, 7p; Royal Insurance, 1 3-16 p. COTTON.—The market throughout the week was firm, the advices by the Baltic on Thursday morn ing confirming the accounts by the Canada of con tinual diminution of receipts in the American ports. The sales were to a tolerably fair extent, at prices in favour of the seller, particularly for the better qualities. On Friday the sales reached 8,000 bales, of which 2,000 were taken on speculation and for export ; and on Saturday the sales were about 6,000 bales, including 1,500 on speoulation and for ex. port. TO-DAY the advices by the Asia were re ceived, and though the accounts show a falling off in receipts, yet it is thought to be not to the extent that was anticipated ; and the stocks here being heavy, the market was rather flat, though we can not quote any fall in prices. The sales amounted to about 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 were on spe culation and for export, at previous rates. SALES. i 1M euitTn. „---A.- 7 , f e ,----A---, DESCRIPTION.' PRICES. Week I Prev]. Week This STOCK. Y . ending ously ending ear. Aprills,this yr. Aprillsi April 15 -- '— --- 1 -- d. d. Sea Island .. 18 @32 1980 5730 Stained .... 10 12 60 590 118077 208018 Boweds .... 41 6/ 10300, 143580 i• 558910 Mobile 4l 6$ 6550 , 83080 } 186 N 4'26539 New Orleans. 4} 7i 27740 306610 Pernams, &c. 6# S } 1240 22360 ••• • 1 185411 15370 Aracati, &c 6i 8 I Bahia, &c. Maranham Sawginned si 6 - i l 1190 9860 } .... 9853 1 } 20050 Demerara,&c .... I 130. 10 1411 21,0 Egyptian 5/ 18 3690 38790' 1220 257381 90240 Barbadoes Peruvian I il Laguayra.. Com.W.l.&c. 5} 6ir 390 } 2730 35 918 i 3680 Carthagena — .... I Ii Smyrna Manilla Surat 3921 80306 110130 Madras Bengal — .... 340 .... 280; 1110 59970 692540 41955 787001 818810 PRODUCE.—The market for Sugar has not been so brisk as previously, and while the demand has been limited, lower prices have had to be submitted to. The sales during the week were only 150 hhds. West India, 1,500 bags Bengal, 5,000 mats new Mauritius, and 1,600 bags Madras; and of Foreign, 230 hhds. Porto Rico, 280 hhds. Surinam, and 1,500 bags Brazil, all at rather lower rates. In Molasses no business has been done, owing to buyers requiring lower terms. Coffee dull, the sales being limited to 300 bags Bahia and 200 bags damaged St. Domingo. The market for Tea is stagnant, owing to the uncertainty about the duty, but greens were in fair request at previous rates. Of black Pepper 700 bags sold at 31-d. to 33d. per lb. Of Rice the sales amounted to 3,000 bags Bengal, 500 bags Arracan, and a small parcel of Carolina; the latter at 20s. 9d. to 21s. per cwt. In Rum not much doing, 200 puns. Demerara sold at Is. 81d. per gallon proof. Of Saltpetre 800 bags sold at 275. to 28s. for 6-'l. to 41 per cent, refraction, and 30s. for Calcutta refined. In Guano no change to note. From a Parliamentary return it appears that the importation in 1851 was 243,014 tons, and in 1852, 129,889 tons. Rough Turpentine in less demand. Of Hides 2,000 salted River Plate sold at 5,1 d. for heavy Ox. In Olive Oil little doing. Linseed Oil in better demand : 30 tons sold at 295., and 20 tons pale Rape at 365. to 3Ss. per cwt. Of Palm Oil 270 tons on the spot sold at £33 10s., and 900 tons to arrive at £34 per ton. Tallow in active request at 465. 6d. for Petersburg Y.C. Baltic Hemp dull. Of Jute 1,000 bales on the spot sold at £lB to £2O for inferior to middling, and about the same quantity to arrive at previous rates. Clover Seed lower, but for Flax Seed higher prices were asked. To-day the sales of Sugar, in cluding the business of Saturday, .comprise 75 hhds. Demerara at 345. to 355., 50 hhds. Jamaica at 345. 6d. to 355. Gd., 400 mats yellow Mauritius at 365., 160 hhds. Surinam at 335., from the quay, and 20 hhds. Porto Rico at 395. 6d, to 395. 9d. per cwt. Of Rum 70 puns, Surinam are reported at Is. 81d. per gallon, proof. The transactions in Tea hare been quite of a retail character. Carolina Rice has been in good demand, and 350 tierces have changed hands at 21s. to 23t. 6d. per cwt. 100 bags Sincapore black Pepper sold at 3fd., 50 bags Malabar at 3i-d. per lb., and 150 bales Gam bier at 27 . 5. per cwt. WooL.—There is no feature worthy of notice in the market this week, a quietness has prevailed here ' • public sales will' take place to-morrow and Thursday, when 5400 bales will be offered for com petition ;. prices very firm and still looking up. Imports for the week 409 bales; viz., 209 East India, 90 Mediterranean ports, 105 Irish, 5 Coast— wise. THE MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL.. (From the Morning Herald.) We learn that the insurance corinpanies and underwriters have taken alarm at the intended operation of this bill, clause 3T of which permits owners to send to India for. Lascars or Coolies to bring their vessels home from Aus tralia. They will not insure vessels navigated with such crews ;but the club system of gambling may get over this difficulty. The life of a captain or his officers are nothing in the eyes of Messrs. Grind-em-down and Co. If the ship is burnt the club will stump up the money for a new vessel, and there the matter ends; though it is strange that a professing liberal government should give further encouragement to murder on the high seas and the burn ing of ships. Other nations are more careful of the lives of their seamen ; it is only the British government that can relax the law, and take part with the associations of owners against the men. They would not interfere with wages, not they, it is against their ccnvictions ; they will only swamp the labour market, that is all. As Radicals, they are true oppressors. Its the House of Lords, the other day, the Duke of Argyll, Lord Granville, and Earl Grey repudiated all idea of reducing the seamen's wages. Those benevolent no blemen of course could not be suspected of such a sinister proceeding, yet to what does their scheme amount ? Mr. Cardwell has "such confidence in the worth and character of the British sailor, that he could fairly and successfully compete with the whole world, that, if he were a shipowner, he should give them the preference over foreigners." Well, then, if he believes in what he states, why does he give encouragement to the employmentof an inferior body of men ? When the owners ask him to give them the option of employing foreigners, does he not see through their motive? Can he not comprehend that it is not good seamen, but cheap crews that they want ?' The Whig peers protest that British seamen are the " best and cheapest in the world ;" and they further declare that there is no fear of the dearth of mariners, for our insular position is favourable to the productoin of an over abund ance of sailors. Then, what are they driving at ? Can they tell themselves ? Is it not sufficient that a British owner may employ one-fourth foreigners ?- When they ask for permission to sail their vessels exclu sively with foreigners, is not this an admission that they do not want good, but cheap seamen ? And divest this matter of all circumlocution, are not the Ministers colleaguing with owners to beat down the wages of sea men ? It may shock the susceptible nerves- of the noble duke and earls before-mentioned to tell them they are mixing themselves up with the shipowners' clubs and betraying the seamen, but it fairly amounts to that. As for the stupidity of prating about free trade in seamen, we should have thought no sane man could have reason ably entertained such a preposterous notion. Free trade in seamen means, if anything, free tradzin nationality, for we must wait till the arrival of the millennium before other nations will consent to destroy the nationality . of their shipping .. There can be no trade in seamanship ; if we-exchange seamen, we barter away, our nationality. How, the Emperors-of France and Russia would smile at such an insane proposition : and if Messrs. Cardwell and, Co. cannot gain the consent of other nations to accept, our seamen as well as our ships, then what becomes of our free trade in seamen ? No; the abrogation of the existing most favourable system would injure owner as well: as man ; their interests are identical, if viewed in a proper light. True, the passing of the new bill might enable owners to more easily rob seamen of their wages abroad ; but this is no part of the duty of the Government to minister to. It would also create facilities for the discharge of craws in foreign ports, for which a remedy is even now neeCed ; for we have l-eard of one master having no less than six crews on board one ship (the Agnes Lee) in seven months. The following copy of a letter to the President of the Board of Trade has been handed to us for publication ; it speaks for itself : " seamen's-office, Minerva-place, Hartlepool, April 6, 1853. "Sir,--I take leave respectfully to draw your attention to the subject of desertion,, for which we are told the Merchant Shipping Bill will be an infallible cure. There have been. several cures attempted before in the shape of legislative acts ; but, instead of remcving, they have but served to aggravate and increase the evil. Whilst in London with the deputation of seamen, I had opportunities of conversing with the southern going sailors, and it is my belief that the third reading of the Merchant Shipping Bill with the 29th clause will be the signal for desertion of seamen in British ships to foreign ports, when ever and wherever possible, to the ruin of the British ship owner, and I repeat that their example will be followed by the seamen of the northeast ports, and I therefore humbly solicit on behalf of those ports, and the port of Hartlepool more espe cially, your influence in parliament to reject this obnoxious clause. "The general feeling among the seamen is, that the moment has arrived when if British owners can dispense with the ser vices of British seamen, our tars can find employment in Australia and the United States, and thus leave the English ships to foreigners. "With respect to that clause in the delegates' memorial which alludes to the seamen being unwilling to defend this country, in case of war, should clause 29 pass the third read ing, -1 can assure yon, sir, that so indignant are our seamen at what they consider the ingratitude of the legislature, and the ungenerous spirit by them displayed towards the seamen, that I firmly believe that too much reliance should not be placed on their services in the event of a war. I am instructed by our committee to state that they consider you have been most ungenerous in your remarks on British seamen, for owners in British foreign-going ships have been allowed to engage one-fourth foreigners, besides lascars, negroes, &c., without any remonstrance from British seamen; and though the coasting trade has been closed against foreign ers, the foreigners admitted into the southern ships have always assisted to throw a large number of surplus hands into the home trade to keep down wages. ill." Hoping that you will have the kindness to give some con sideration to the interests of the sailor as well as the ship owner before passing the third reading of the bill, and that you will bear in mind that however wealthy this nation may be in other respects, she would indeed be poor if deserted by her natural defenders the seamen, " I have the honour to remain, Sir, " Your obedient servant, " WILLIAM LESTER PATTESON. " Right Hon. E. Cardwell, M.P., Board of Trade." THE British and North American mail steam-ship Canada, Stone, commander, took her departure hence for Halifax an d B os t on , on S a turday, at 1 15 p.m., having 155 passengers and a full cargo, besides the usual mails. AN INFALLIBLE PRECAUTION AGAINST RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—No fares to be paid until the end of the journey —and then only to be paid in the event of a person ing arrived sale FELONY.—On Saturday, between eight o'clock and midnight, a bedroom in the house of Mr. Rowsthorn, Great Howard-street, was entered by the window, and £250 in money and a gold mach and chain stolen from the safe. THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. —lt will be observed from our advertising columns, that the anniver sary meetings of this society will be held on Monday next, when, in addition to the Lord Bishop of Chester and the Rev. Dr. M'Neile, addresses will be delivered by the Rev. Francis Close, of Cheltenham, the Rev. J. C. Ryle, of Helmingharn, Suffolk, the Rev. George T. Fox, of Durham, and the Rev. Frederick F. Gough, mission ary from China. LECTURES AT THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—On Tuesday evening, Mr. Geo. Scharf, jun., well-known by his illustrations of Macaulay's Lays of Ronze, Milman's Horace, &c., deliver ed a lecture upon the ancient cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii. On Friday evening, Mr. Scharf resumed his subject. On Saturday morning he repeated some portions of his lectures, which bore more especially upon classic studies, to the scholars of the Col legiate Institution. SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO THE NIMROD STEAMER.—On Sunday morning, as the steamer Nimrod was coming into this port, on her passage from Cork, she came in contact with what was supposed to be the remains of a wreck, between Bootle and Formby. The concussion was a violent one; the consequence being that the steamer sprung a leak, and immediately began to make much water. On ascertaining the dangerous condition of the vessel, the captain, with great prudence, ran her ashore with as little delay as possible, and the passengers were taken off. In the evening, she was taken into one of the north graving docks, when it was found that she had sus tained considerable injury. " NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS" are frequently not the least amusing portion of some London publications. In replying to a gentleman who put the rather extraor dinary query. whether there were more words in the Bible, or acres in Yorkshire, the editor of the Sunday Times, a fortnight ago, appealed to his statistical readers for their aid. Oneof the number has, accordirrgly, since announced that there are 2,728,100 words in the Oid Testament, and 838,380 words in the New Testament, making a total of 3,566,440, words.—Now, as the number of acres in York shire is 3,815,040, there are consequently, 248,570 more acres than words. BLACKBURN ELECTION.—On Friday, a petition was presented to the House of Commons, praying that the return of Mr. Feilden, for the borough of Blackburn, be declared null and void, on the grounds that, by himself, his agents, friends, and managers, he was guilty of bribery and corruption, by gifts, presents, money, rewards, and employments ; by threats, intimidations, promises, and undue influences. It also asserts that " untfue and improper use was made by the friends, supporters-, and partizans of the said Montague Joseph Feilden, of the military force, to the prejudice of the said William Henry Hornby, his friends, and supporters." It concludes by praying " that the house will be pleased to take the premises into consideration, and will declare that the said Montague Joseph Fielden was not duly elected, and ought not to have been returned at the said last election for the said borough, and that his said election and return are wholly null and void, and that the house will afford to the petitioners such furTher and other relief as to the house shall seem meet." SALE of A WIFE.—Bv an application for a summons made at the Lambeth Police -court, on Wednesday, it became known that a blacksmith, named Turner, lately purchased a wife in the person of a Mrs. Huntley for " a pot of beer and a threepenny pie r , Ma. OLIVER LANG, master-shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard, who was quite well and cheerful, and on board the Royal Albert screw steam-ship and Terrible steam frigate on Monday afternoon, inspecting the progress of those vessels, died shortly before one o'clock on Tuesday morning. SINCAILAR ACC/DENT.—While the clerks at the Electric Telegraph-office, Strand, London, were preparing to let down a large signal ball, erected on the roof of their office, in communication with Greenwich Observatory, a vivid flash of lightning struck the wires, and knocked it down three minutes before its time. A clerk narrowly escaped having his hand crushed. A Scomr MISER.—An old man named Neilson, who had been staying some time in lodgings in North Leith, died on Tuesday week. He had expressed a wish that he should be buried in his ordinary clothes—that is, in his trousers, vest, coat, hat, &c. Previous, however, to attiring him-, the family he had been living with examined his clothes, and found secreted in the band of hia drawers £3OO in notes, £2OO in the band of his trousers, a bill for £3OO within the lining of his hat, and there were-other wise found in odd-corners about his clothes sums amount ing to £l26—altogether, £926 sterling ! These treasures having been collected, the minister of the parish was sent for, and an agreement was made that any relatives shall be advertised for.- The man was about 64 years-of age, and having only come recently to Leith, was compara tively a stranger in the place. He was a plasterer, and made all his money by his own hands.—Scotsmant INTERCOLONZAD POSTAGE.—A numerous deputation waited, on Saturday, upon the prime minister, for the purpose of urging upon the Government the propriety of reducing the colonial rate of postage from 63., as proposed by the Postmaster-general, Viscount Canning, to. 3d. His lordship, in a very unusual tone of frankness, told them he saw no• ground for reversing the decision to which the government have come. CONVICT E&TatItLISIIMEN"VeI-The government have purchased the old House of Correction at Brixton, which was vacated by the board of superintendence of the 3urrey prisons, on the removal of the Surrey penitentiary to the new county prison at Wandsworth. It is intended to establish, at Brixton, a der Lt for female convicts• only, under sentence of transportation, and to place the new establishment under the board of superintendence of , convict prisons. BUENOS AYRES.—By the steam-ship Tay, arrived at Southampton, we have advices from Buenos Ayres to the 4th of March. The civil war still continued, but there was some prospect of its termination when the Tay left. The army of Lagos was still outside the walls on the offensive, whilst the inhabitants were all well prepared in case of a crisis. An armistice bad been arranged for eight days, commencing on March 3; the day before the steamer left, to permit the negotiations. The commission sent by Urquiza was at Parana or at Diamantes, awaiting the return of the commissioners. It was said that he had a large armed force prepared, with which he would cross the river and march on Buenos Ayres, in case of the failure of the negociatioss. Business was still at a stand-still ; merchants standing about the streetaasking for news and discussing rumours; no one able to see the termination of the civil war. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF. BIGAMY AND ATTEUPT AT MURDER. SHEFFIELD, SATURDAY MORNIN u. The greatest possible excitement has prevailed here during the last 48 hours, in consequence of the following atrocious case of bigamy, and the attempted murder of the father of one of the wives, having, been made by a man named Stephen Brown, a meat repulsive-looking fellow. The facts of the case may be derived from the fol lowing summary of the evidence taken on Friday by the magistrates (H. 'Wilkinson, Esq., and G. P. Nay lor. Esq.) :—lt appeared that a young woman, the daughter of a police-officer, had, unknown to her father, formed an acquaintance with Brown, not knowing that he had already several wives. She was induced, by the false statements made by, the prisoner, to accompany him on Sunday morning last to _Rotherham, where they were both married. At a late hour on that day the father having been made acquainted with what had occurred, he proceeded to a house of questionable character,where Brown pretended he had. taken apartments, but, being denied admittance, he broke open the door, and claimed his daughter. He was repulsed by the fellow, but he succeeded in bringing her away. Subsequently. Brown took out a summons against Mr.. Stocks, the father, for an alleged assault, and on Thursday morning the father, accompanied by his daughter, was proceeding towards the Town-hall, when the scoundrel, who had followed them, seized hold of Stocks, and before he was. aware of his in tention drew a pistol from his pocket, and hold ing it to his head pulled the trigger. Providentially, it missed fire,, and Stocks snatched the murderous weapon from his hand. The villain then drew forth a second pistol, and was in the act of presenting it when he was seized and disarmed. On examining the pistols, they were found to be heavily charged with powder and ball ' and, had not the first missed fi re , St oc k s wou ld h ave b een inevitably killed on the spot. The prisoner was remanded. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 18. •BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. TURKEY.—A telegraphic despatch from Constanti nople, via" Trieste, states that alarming rumours were in circulation respecting the demands of Prince Menschikoff, on the part of the Russian Government. It was reported that the Turkish Government were making great prepara tions in manning the 2eet, and had called out the militia. Advices from Corfu state that a Turkish fleet, consisting of thirteen ships, was at anchor at Batrinto, on the Bth instant. The above rumours must be received with caution.—No other news of interest. HOUSE OF LORDS. The Earl of WINCHELSEA. moved for a committee to inquire into the system of Education pursued at May nooth, and its results, and the motion being seconded, The Earl of ABERDEEN moved as an amendment that an address be presented to the Queen praying for a com mission to inquire into the management and government of the College of iviaynooth, the discipline, course of studies, and the effects of the increased grants of 1845. After a lengthened discussion, their lordships divided, when there appeared for Lord Winchelsea's motion — Contents, 53 ; non-contents, 110 ; majority in favour of Lord Aberdeen's amendment, 57. The House adjourned at twenty minutes past il. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The House met at a quarter to four. Mr. Greene took the oaths and his seat for Lancaster. A number of railway bills were read a second time. Sir G. GREY reported from the Taunton Election Committee, that Mr. Arthur Mills had not been duly elected, and that Mr. Mills, by his agents, had been guilty of bribery ; also that Sir E. Colebrooke had, by his agents, been guilty of bribery, and that the election was void. Mr. HEADLAM reported from the New Ross Election Committee, that Mr. C. G. Duffy bad been duly elected, and that the committee had granted the costs against the petitioners. Mr. H. BRIERLEY fixed his motion respecting the adoption of vote by ballot for the Bth of May. A number of petitions were presented, praying for the repeal of various duties. THE BUDGET. The CHANCELLOR of the'ExclieQuEß rose at thirty four minutes past five o'clock, to make his financial statement for the year. He estimated the receipts of the year at £52,990,000, and the expenditure at £52,183, 000, leaving a surplus for the year of £807,000. He defended the original imposition of the Income-tax, and stated that the Government were not disposed to abandon that mode of taxation. By this fiscal resource, England wag enabled to raise an army which had, and might agai.er defy the world. In his opinion, the land paid ninepenre in the pound, and trade sevenpence at the present time' He then instanced several cases to support this assertion. Having, at great length, reviewed the state of the Income' tax as at present, Mr. Gladstone proposed to extend the principle of composition to trades as well as incomes. The right hon. gentleman then proposed to renew the Income' tax for two years, from April, 1353, at 7d. in the pound; for two more years, from April 1855, at 6d. in the pound; and for three more years—(loud laughter)—from April 1857, at sd. in the pound ; under these circumstances the in. come tax would cease in 1860. He proposed, however , that incomes between £lOO and £l5O a year should pal only sd. in the pound for the whole seven years. Government did not see any reason why, foe the remain , der of the term of the Income-tax, it should not be levied in Ireland. He also proposed to tax Rateable Property iii all cases, upon life interest only. He proposed to reduce the duties upon the Stamps on Assurance from 2s. 6d. to 6d. with respect to receipts. The Attorneys' Certificate Duty would be reduced from twelve pounds and eight pounds to nine pounds and six pounds, and the articles of elerk• ship from one hundred and twenty pounds to eighty pounds. With respect to the Duty on Advertisements, he proposed to reduce that tax from ls. 6d. to 6d. (Oh ! oh !) He proposed to tax Scottish Spirits an additional shilling a gallon, and Irish Bd. a gallon. With respect to English Spirits, he did not propose to interfere with them. He also proposed that, from the 29th of last September, the whole of the Consolidated Annuities should be wiped away, and all sums paid since that time reimbursed. (Hear, hear.) With respect to the Soap Duties, he proposed to take the duty off that article from the sth of next July, the loss of which would be to the revenue £771,000. He then called the attention of the house to the assessed taxes r and proposed reductions upon Carriages, Horses, and Servants. No alteration would,. however, be made in the Wine duties. The duty upon Teg would be reduced from 2s. 2d. to Is. 10d. for the first year ; after that it would be reduced to is. 6d. for another year: and to Is. in the third year. It was also proposed to reduce the duties upon Cheese, Bacon,. Oranges, and Lemons, Raisins and other articles, imported into England, and the loss to the Customs upon these articles would be £658,000. The total remission of taxes amounted to £2,368;000. This involved a loss to the revenue of £1,656,000, but the result of the proposed sys tem throughout all the years to be affected would be e gross remission of £5,384,000. The object had been to increase the power of consumption, and place the stability of our financial system upon such a basis as would enable the Parliament of 1860 to dispense with the income-tax, then to expire; for the six millions of income-tax might then be set against a new income of £5;959,000. Govern ment had new redeemed its pledge of showing how that tax might be done away with. He concluded S speech nearly five hours in length by an eloquent perora.. tion, in vindication of the objects of the Administration and of the means by which it had sought to achieve them. In reply to a question from Mr. Disraeli,. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he should take the resolutions on the Income Tax first,. then those relative to the Lagacy Duty, and lastly those relative to the Spirit Duties. Mr. HuasE approved of the general schema-of Govern ment, but dissented from the lengthened continuance of the Tncome Tax. Mr. E. BALL considered the plan of the-right hoil. gentleman would give no relief whatever to the poor, but would only benefit classes who did not require relief. After a short conversation, the resolutions -were read, and ordered to be reported. The Speaker said he had received a letter from th e Agent to the Petitioners, complaining of an undue return for Hereford, stating that it was not their intentiOn to proceed with the petition. Upon the third reading of the Combination of Work men's Bill, the House divided, when there appeared for the third reading Z 7 .; against, 70; majority, 13. The House adjourned at twenty minutes past 11. TATTERSALL'S—Tins DAY. Two THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.-7 to• 4 • agst West Australian ; 7 to 2 agst Orinoco ; 8 to 1 agst Barbatus ; 10 to 1 agst Sittingbourne. CHESTER CUP.-25 to agst Richmond ; 25 to 1 'agst PeggY; 20 to 1 agst St, Michael; 50 to 1 agst Sutler. DERBY.-7 to 1 :tot West Australian ;'S tot agst Honey wood; 10 to I agst Orestes; 20 to 1 agst Sittingbourne; 20 to 1 agst Umbriel ; 20 to , 1 agst Orinoco, taken; 20 to 1 agst CineaS; 20 to 1 agst Ninnyhammer ; 30 to 1 agst Reivar; 30 to 1 agst Brocket. COVENTRY RACES. HANDlCAP.—Sieeping Partner, 1 ; Jack Leming,. 2. THX CIIAMPZONSHAP.—Broome won the. Championship Fight in two hours and fifteen minutes. FUNDS, STOCK, AND SHARE MARKET. The English Market improved in the aftersoon, and closed with a healthy appearance. Railway Shares were dull in the forenoon, but influenced by Consols closed generally a shade firmer. Grand Trunks of Canada, 1* pm. Gold Mines fairly supported, and in some instances better. Land descriptiong much depressed. Bank Shares quiet. The foreign Market iS generally firm; Mexicans good. PRICES. CLOSING Consols, Account , — l 1001 1 Do. Money.... I 100 2 Three&QrperCents— 103} t Bank Stock 9 Sf 6f Exclieq. Bills, L. a.s a 9pm FOREIGI , Mexicans. STOCKS. Spanish Passives 5 Turkish . Swedish 2 lidiS Do. Threes ..... Spanish Deferred .... 24 Do. Threes. 4B RAILWAY SHARES. Amberg.,Nottingham, and k.Junction Bristol and Exeter — Caledonian, ...... Do. Preference lO6 8 East Anglian Eastern Counties East Lancashire Eastern Union A Ditto Band C Edinburgh & Glasgow Great Northern B2* 3* Do. Do. Great Western Lane.and Yorkshire. 762 7* Do. Fifths Leeds Northern 15216* London, Brighton, and South Coast lO4 5 MINING 14 London &N. Western 119120 London S. Western 901 11. Manches., Sheff., and Lincolnshire. •• • 2 91 30& Midland Stock North British 35 6 Do. Preference 109 11 Norfolks-- _ North Staffordshire 4/ Shrewsbury and Bir mingham Do. L. & _N. W. guar — S. Eastern and Dover 75/ 6} York, Newcastle, and Berwick . 69 70 Do. Extension Do. Preference Ycrk and , N. Midland 59 60 Do. Preference par Novoau Monde Agua Fria Cordeliera Ave Maria Carson's Creek Port Philip par SNARES. Nugget B. Australian Freehold Australasian Colonial Mariposa BARBS. Peel River south Australian 0 51 British America B2 9 LAND: Australian Agricultural 85 a S. Australian Invest. Van Diemen's 22 1. CORN MARKET. Barley, Oats Beans, and We have a small show, of English Wheat. Trol opened steadily, but no advance has occurred. Flour brought former are Peas, in scanty supply, and quite • but trade de ar.is scarce: terms ; but barrelled Flour_ slow dealers are restricted purchasers , is firm at late rates. Linseed and Rape declining. of a a sate. English. Irish. Foreign. Wheat 2554 9439 Barley ll2l 5703 Oats 9352 5014 1110 Malt 12122 Beans Peas 152 Flour • 2633 700 aks & 11076 brls. PRODUCE MARKET. Sugar—Foreign : Few buyers for export, awl former rates are not obtained. Refined : Home dealers are little inclined to operate; Brown Lumps, 455. to 455. &I. Coffee: Prices are unaltered, but there is little doing. Tea firm, but the demand small ; ordinary sound Congou, Nod. Rice : East India is rather more in demand at previous prices. Cotton: Fair business at former terms. Tallow is in good demand; fine Y.C., 455. 9d. to 465. on the spot. The stock is 28,627 casks against 42,914 ; deliveries, 2,112 against 1,055 last year. CATTLE MARKET. Beasts sold at advanced prices. Sheep and Lambs in demand at Friday's quotations, Calves unaltered. Beef 3s 4d to 3s 8d Veal Mutton..... 38 8d to 5s 6d I Pork Lambs, ss. Bd. to 6s. 10d. Beasts Sheep and Lambs 20460 I Pigs . A RRIVALS. Norfolk and Suffolk Beasts 2lOO Cambridge, Leicester, Lincoln, and North ampton Beasts Scotch Beasts 403 Holland Beasts. Do. Sheep Do. Calves — Spanish Sheep MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE. Eastern Counties, 13 5-16; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 771 4! Ditto Preference, 15 3-16; Lancaster and Preston, .18# pro• ! Midland, 754 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 30 London and North-Western Quarters, i pm. South-Easter n and Dover, 221; West-Riding Union, 3i dis. LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE. Walton and Driffield Junction, 8i; Lancashire and York• shire, 77. GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET. The market is quiet for mixed numbers. Warrants at 335. Fd' LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1853. 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