The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-15 00:00:00

ITALY.

BARDINIA.—AII the newt we reeeive from
Tait hes a very Imam tendency.
Is the sitting of 9th inst ,oftheChamber alDepaties
of Turin the Minister Ratner; propo'ed the following
IQ for extraordinary powers daring the war: Art. 1.
Daring the period determined by the present law, the
government shall have the power of ordering demi-
/Wary visits and arrests, when required by the safety
tithe state. Art. 2. Ooverament is empowered to
any foreigner from the country who might
give cause for suspicion; ales for sending burs and
veltehoade to the place of their birth. Art. 3: Govern-
Laud say prevent or dissolve any meet' , &mem-
olg• or moseiation, when it is otrnsidseed &agar-

PRUSSIA.—Oa eorreepoodent at Berlin writes :
BERLIN, Mance 11.
Aids' present moment there is but one word in
every math, " War with Russia." There remains to
longer the least doubt as to the fact of a note having
beet received from St. Petersbureth, declaring the in-
tendon of the Czar to interfere in Germany in favour of
menaced sovereignty, a right which he founds upon
the treaties of 1815. The Prussian government has
taken up a decided position. The answer from Be►lin
to the Cam's note is that the fleet step of inter-
ference on the part of Ramie will be the signal
• of -wee/ ena the Tart of Preis. We
answer is already on its stay to St. Petersburg, and
in about 10 days we shall have the Russian reply,
perm or war. Mt an while all the orders for the move-
ments of the troops are ready drawn op and signed, and
wait only the d►te to be issued fa. fulfilment. Arma-
ments are formirg on the most extensive scale. Be-
sides the amp d'ornife of the eastern provinces, those'
of Pomerania ani the Mark ale put upon a war-
footing, and the whole population liable to service,
between twenty and thirty-two, the levy of which
was roam time since put back from their not being
wanted, are called oat anew. There prevails the
greatest enthusiasm in the capital for war,
which is looked on as the only remedy
for kn:tting up the ravelled sleeve of German
unity. The Prince of Prussia has been heard
to declare that joyfully will he draw his sword
for Prussia and Germany. He will be the commander-
in-chief of the Prussian army. It is ts be hoped that
the attitude assumed will prevent war from taking
effect The note, in fact, which has now come from St.
Petersburg would have come a year • bad Russia
been suffictently prepared. Bat her military sinews
were then lax and weak—sbe has employed
the whole year in bese7ng them. These
preparations have been carried on with a mye-
tory almost incoeceivable to a South European.
Bat the Reagan frontier has been so hermetically
sealed, that purge either way was a metier of the
greatest difficulty. The application for a passport
into Russia from Berlin, for each private individual,
was made a matter of diplomat's negotiation with St.
Petersburg; and the exceeding tediousness of the cor-
respondence which ensued, with doubtful result,
wearied out the patience even of those who had the
most urgent calls northward. The object was not so
mach to take precautions against propagandism
as to prevent news from being transmitted
either way. The et has already sailed from
Croestadt, to co-operate with the troop!. The last
news is, that an imperial ukase has been issued to all
official departments, not to address during the course
of 1849, any petitions to the treasury for increase of
salary, appointments, or other subsidiary supplies,
" because the country stood in extraordinary need of
money fir the mobilisation of the whole army."
Whoever Ws in contradiction to this ukase is sub-
jected to the severest puni-hment. It is raid that nostril
edict bas been published in Russia within the memory
of the peanut inhabitants ; and all regard the rare
decree as the portent of a mighty war. The only
Germans with whom the war is unpopular Sr. tholes
who fear its good effects upon the political destinies
of their country, those who are now the irreconcile-
able foes of German unity.
It is now clear whence the Danish pertness pro-
ceeded in refusing to renew the armistice. Denmark
bad already thrown herself into the arms of Ramis.
The answer of Bunsen io the Danish note, based upon
joint instructions from Frankfort and Berlin, is
very plain and decisive. He declares the
negotiation, for peace broken off forthwith, and to
continue so until the offensive notificatit n be retracted.
It is said that England, no less thin France, has ex-
premed her serious disapprobation of the Danish step;
and it is expected that the feelings excited in London,
Frankfort, and Berlin will net create the most agree-
able sensations in the world at Cogrhagen.
You must be on your guard against premature re-
ports of the Prussian declaration of war, which will
not fail to abound on 'Change, both here and in Lon-
don. I think the Russian reply cannot well be known
here before the Roth.

_
BERLIN, MAsew 12.
The Radian note, which I mentioned yesterday,
expresses itself decidedly in favour of the claims of
Denmark. The Danish minister is still here, and
negociations are still going on between that envoy
and the Prussian government. From the decided tone
of Russia, is inferred her having an under-
standiog with Austria. This also prevails between the
lAuitrian and Russian ministers at Constanti-
nople. Prussia, in the mean time, seemesincerely bent
upon baffling all intrigues for the destruction of
German independence.
In the Second Chamber to-dry the motion of Wal-
deck for the suspension of the state of siege was
brought under discuasion. Waldeck made an effec-
tive speech in rapport of his motion, to sthich the
Minister of the Interior replied that themministry
would put no objection in the place of the motion
being taken into further consideration, which was
unaniinouidy agreed to by the house.
In the First Chamber the liberal amendment to
the address, moved by Sperling, was rejected by 114
against 23.
In the Second Chamber yesterday a motion of con-
siderable importance passed; namely, the proposal of
Toff to name a committee of twenty-one members in
order to submit to the chamber the points of the con-
stitution fit for revision. After so much squabbling
and hair-splitting about "reehte-gultigkeit " it is
really refreshing to see something which looks like
business at last. The motion was supported by Von
Berg, who said that its object was to avoid mooting
principles and exciting feelings, and to proceed at once
to work. Von Auerswald declared himself in favour
of the motion, which met with general assent from all
parties.
In order to get rid of the stadents of the university
before the 18th of March, the Minister of Public In-
struction has issued an order for the courses of lectures
to terminate the day after to-morrow, instead of at
the end of the month, which is the regular time. So
the lads will be dispersed to their homes before the
end of the week, that they may not kick up a row.
This pusillanimous measure of the government is
much ridiculed.

FRANKFORT.—The following most important
motion was proposed in the National Assembly in its
fitting on the 12th instant, by M. Welcher :
"The German Constituent Assembly, considering
the grave situation in which the fatherkM is placed,
decides:

" let. That, taking into eorsideration the rumours
arlwith reference to a foreign protest against
ititutlon about to be adopted by the Ger-
man nation, Germany expresses her indignation
at sorb an attempt against the most sacred
rights of all free nations, as well as its
profound aversion to any German, be he prince or
wbo may, acting thereby the part of traitor
to his country, provoke an attempt of this kind ;
and firmly hopes that the whole German nation will
rile as one man to defend her honour, and repel any
attacks that may be made upon bar.
" 2nd. The 'nth" comet melon of the suipire,sah as it
has been drawn up by the °Daudet's., after the first
conformable to the wishes expressed by the
Ctrte, will be adopted by a single decision of
faironal Amembly ; and all reforms which may

The diesoluti, n of the Krems'er Diet occurred in
this wise :—Ou the evening of the 6th of Much,
while the diet was yet sitting, Stadion arrived with
the ander secretary from Vienne. Bach, who came
with these, went on to Olmutz. After 10 o'clock,
Stadion sent for a number of deputies to the castle.
These, who had just come home from the sitting to
their lodgings, went, snip( c'ing no berm. After their
arrival, the tast'e entrances were all closed.

Amongst the summoned were Pelacky, Stroback,
Pinks,. Brenner, Leopold, Neumann, baser, Hassel-
wandter, Newwal', Peiranovie, Szsaskiewitz, and
others. Count St edion exposed to the assembled
deputies the state of matte,. in Hungary, and other
motives, which bad determined the emperor to octroy
a constitution, and to dissolve the diet. Thereupon
he ordered Dr. Csjetan, mayor, to read the octroyed
constitution, to which the deputies listened in mute
wonder. Suction then begge I them to accompany
him to Vienna, there to deliberate with him upon the
constitution of the provincial departnutots. There-
uprn several of the deputies spoke in tarn, statirg
their various doubts, surprise, objections, &c., to which
Stadion liatened,as one who would considerof what they
said. He only remarked, however, that he had sire ad
countersigned the decree. Ile then retired with Her-
feet, and time back in a quarter of an hoar, when he
declared that he must immediately est out for 01-
metx, In order, if possible, to get the octroyed consti-
tution suspended. The result he would send by a
te.egrapbio despatch to Dr. Mayer. In the morning,
however, instead of a telegraphic despatch, came a
detachment of iofent7, who established themseves
in the court, blockaded the government establish-
ments,
and permitted the deputies access only to
the post. The gar,ison had been strengthened dur-
ing the night. At the corners of the streets were
posted up the order for di,. lution and the new con-
stitution. la the evening about ten deput't s were
arrested. Goldmark and Violand got off. Schuselka
was deeded on gating to Vienna.
The deputies Forldof and Prate were brought in
under strong military escort. In the evening a depu-
tation of the town-council left for (Minute, to preaeet
an address of thanks to the emperor.

HOLLAND.—THE HAGUE.—The government has
proposed an income tax to the chambers for 1819-
1850.—1 t is to affect the income of all perirms e
neited with the government, and is to be in a sliding
scale from one to five per cent. according to the rank
of the individual. The receipt of this tax is ti cover
the deficit for 1848.

SWEDEN.—lntelligence from Stockholm to
March 2 states that by a decree of that date the King
has acceded to the (repositions of the minister of ma-
rine for the budget of 1849, amounting to 1,429,240
rix dollars.

A COURT OF DIRECTOII.B was held, yesterday, at
the East India•house, when Alexander Bell, Esq , was ap-
pointed a provhdonal member of waned at Bombay. _

BANK or ENGILAND.—A general court of 11. e pro-
ptieeon was held this day, at 12 o'clock, at the Bank of Eng.
land, for the purpose of declaring a dividend, and the trans
action of other businem.—The Chairman said he had great
pleasure in stating that the profits of the haltrar bad ex-
ceeded the dividend of 31 per cent.by 36,8131. 31. 2d., andthe
amount of rest from which the dividend would be declared was •
3,843,862/. 2s. 9d. The court of , directors thought
that with such a rest they might safely "Mare a dividend of
6i per cent., being 2 per cent. in addition to the former divi-
dend of 31 per cent. This would reduce the amount of rut
to 3,043,4471. The dividend would be paid without any
deduction for the income tai, on the 6th of April next. (The
announcement was received with loud cheering.) The divi-
dend was agreed to amidst the greatest enthusumn. After
speeches from Alderman Salomon, Mr. De Winter, Mr.
Clarke, and others, the court separated.

Ma. Parrteow paired, till half•past 9 o'clock, in favour of
Mr. Trelawny's motion for the aboiitioa of church rates,
with Mr, Matuwell, M.P. for Northamptonshire. The dram
not being open after the first division, which, according to
the Speaker's anewor to Mr. Bouverie's complaint, ought to
have twin the we, he wee precluded from yeti's.

CnozniA.--Yeaterday, the following fresh eases
were repartod to the Board of Health :-Bt. Gecrws-in-
the-Bast Workhouse, 2, 1 fatal ; Bpitaltlslds, 2, 1 fatal ;
Baadoslaad, front 11th to 13th inst., 211, 13 fatal; East
Thirstes, Yawl solos, 1 fatal ; Glasgow, 2, 1 fatal ;
restos, 1 fatal ; Gelashlels, 1 ; &shill, frost 13th alt., 11,
1 fatal: total, 48 tow eases, 19 deaths.

FINE IN ST. Lt NE'3.-IASe night, about 9 o'clock,
a firs brake out at No. 57, Humsraquare Bt. Lake's, the
reddens, of Mr. T. Scott. The boss, when Jut discovered,
were bealage from the front windows ea the lower Seers, end
wen :antesdiag • great diseases over the peden. The
=Thaving repeatedly beaked at the dear, end
im ! " it was secestsisei that as one was en the
penises. Engines premptly attended, bat each had km
be wide by dm lames fa the interim, that the
wWa beast eallaMieg nearly a deem rooms, wu on She
Mem the bass le the red At the wee time the derstrectiu
eilment we raging se teriously u to threaten the houses on
either die. The dams, however, were extinguished before
11 o'sissik, bat not wan the contents were destroyed and
every epriment burned. Mr. Butt, who went out Ism than
as heir before the dames were seen, was insured in the
Royal Exchange Fire-oMee.
FIZZ IN THE CrIY THIS DAL—Between Eve and
six o'clock this morning a fire bloke out at No. 15, Sadie-
street, opposite Brewer's Hill. Three personas, la emeasive
basins, empapied. the several floors : Hum Hill sad
lfhbier
Ifiebets, few fringe manufacturers ; Moms. Brawn,
I amuse maggieeturers, &e. ; and Mr. Rem • tailor, upper
leen, where, it is stated, the fire originated. 'Engines of the
BOO*, West of England, and parish, wen brought to the
woe of deserseds• ; but so firs bed the ire takes lie heti,
that iloFia **leak_ property valseietereeeel theemil pseudo
re lea mu No lives we The IMO of the Ire is
not • bat the following le ea geoid servant of
lose : Addleelziet, No. 15, gre i Beer, MOM& Brennan,
stack sally all elsoused ' • inlayed I. die Leaden Fire
OM& PIM ilea Memo. HMI end Mabel% steak, tarsi-
tare, de., Langan ; hawed is the Star Pim Mee. Upper
dome, Mr. Bovi the whole property comma ; bowed
la the Royal iiinge Mee. Addle street, No. 16, Mr.
Moe, tailor, elebee damage by totootel and other ease;
lesered la the iseeetteat Difreeetare OM*. Adhlleoleed,
No. 14, Mama. Peewee and Co., Maaeheetes warelmtese-
toes, like classy t band is the Law and Leo 1 Fire
A °Rom AbeMriel imeree to the Nadia. at tha suer of
ddle-doe&

RAILWAYS.—The market for most descriptions
of shares is lower this morning. London and North
Westerns quoted 134 to 6 ; Midlands, 79 to 81.
French shares are likewise depreneed, in consequence
of the French fends coming lower from Paris this
morning.
dAllia. SVPIXTED DP TO TWO MI DAY IN LONDON.
Aberdeen,
(Yesterday's pins will be fogad he lest puma
Went, 133 41
Do. Pref.,l7
21 f Leek& &West, SI
Dir. & Oakord Jun., 26 De. Thirds, 104
Wildman, 236 4 Do. New 1944, Prat., 31
Do. CITL. C wan.. sus& a Us. New 101.
Do. New M. Pest., 111 1
itsW9/ 4
Chaster sad Holyhead, 184 1101 I
Do. Pret. 124 Da WOOD Hi f
E. Anglin U. les., 21 i N. Brltlsk Hal 64
E. Counties. 10t 1 I
DS..l2:ae,
Do. Eaten.. No. 1, 1 p N. 141
Do. New, 444 Ward, Worcester, &intr., so.
E. Linconshire, 281 Guild., & Reigate, 131
Gnat Northern, 11 =Central. 26
De. Halves A. 5 Sireela asd armingltsen (B), 24
Do. 4 B. imeern No. 4
Gt. B. and EA
W. (Inland), 144 3 Saw& Wales, 19, If 6
Gnat Western, 96 Wilts, Bolnent. & Weyml334
Do. Halves, 47 York, News., end Bee., 2S 3
Do. Qrs., Do.
(News.
News. Ber. , 23
Do. New 1377* ,
13 Do. News. Es.), 16/ f
Hull and Selby. 101 Do. 0. N. E. Par.), 4
Do. Qrs,as. York sad N. Midland, 49
Inns. and SS Do. &W.A. Eaten., 211 1
Da. Thirds, 11l Boulogne sad Anises, 94 f
Lane. & York. 7 Cen. of Prune (Or. A Vinson),
Do. New Oust. 6 per Cont, 94 12f
Leeds end Beedlord, 101 Namur sad Liege, 83 8
Lemke and Blackwell, 31 Northern of France, 111
Lon, Brighton, & &Coast, 334 Perk Ind Strasbourg, 41 1
Do. New SI. Cnar. 6 per CL,, 61 Hones end Havre, 131
LIVERPOOL SALES, Means 14.
Lan. FINN, 3 d 14krews., Ow, & Ch. Pref., IS
Do, Haves (L. & B.), 10 d Ihropshire tialan. 46e. 9d. d
London A N. West., 133 13. L sad Dover No. 4, 71
Da. New Qn., 3). 3s. 9d. 4 p York, New., & Berri* Eat. No.
Midland, SO 791 2, I d
Do. Halves, 71 4 De. (0.11.5. Par.), f 3e. 94. 4
N. Union (A), 216 Boulogne sad Animas, 91
- -- - ---.Fa, Masco 14.
on.& N.Went, 133 i
Do. Qrs. C, 311 p
Do. Had. & Km IL &C., 21
ras.,sast..a us. Seas, 9
Do.
Skinsby Pref., 1013.16
~ 30 el
DDo.o. (eihst & Li3oln.), 14f d
Eastern sod Dover Thrds, No.
4, 71 7 7.16

Abadan nrc, f p
Btrtm M. slam, 7 d
Cakdosida Soap., 11}
Edda. and Olga ow, 44
Lade. and Yorkab. fifths, S d
Do. 321., d
Do. W.R.V., 4 d
Do. Penton sat Wyre G cur., 61
Y. Badardialfe, 3 146 346 d

PRODUCE.— Mitectleo-Ltreg, Half-past
The public sale of Oscar consisted of foreius Havana,
Manilla, and Bias, in all 1,000 boxes and 9,000 bags ; they
have gene of at previous rates. but with nth., leo spirit.
Refined steady.--Coffos : The sale of 6,000 bags of good
ordinary native Ceylon on 'Change yeirerday, at 33e. dd.,
in one contract, hu strengthened the market, and
the grace, has bourne very firm. The public sal• of 200
barrels of washed Rio was bought in at high prices —Cotton
study.—Rom dull—Brandy firm, at • slight advance:
Spices steady.—ln other articles, no material alteration.

TALLOW.—No alterst.on. Petersburg Y. C. on
the spot, 40a. 3d. to 6.1. ; October to December °slivery,
41s. 6d. ; separate months' delivery, 41s. 9d. to 42e.

CORN.—BARNSLEY, March 14.—We bad a doll
saarkst this day, and little business dons. There was rather
wore inquiry for Barley than there has been of late. Wheat
of a good quality nearly maintained its value, while that of
an inferior quail!, was fully le. per 3 bushels below the rates
of la.t week. Wheat sold at Iran 16s. to 19s. pa 3 bushels.
Barley front 295. to 30s. per qr. Oats, 172. to 2/s. per qr.
- - •

Bosros, March 14.—We have had a very ltraftad supply
of Wheat again tc-Jay, with a dull inactive trade, at about
ls. decline from the rates of this day week. No change in
Beans. A good show of Oats, and a fair beakless passing at
a slight decline. Wheat, red, 395. to 445. ; white, 475. Oate,
Ils. to 20s. Beans, 265. to 32a.

Cn !cavern, March 14.—We have nothing fresh to ob-
serve with respect to the state of our market ; the demand
for every article In the trade is excessively doll, but we have
no alteration to notice is prices. Wheat, old, 48s. to 52..;
new, 321. to 484. Barley, 22x. to 28e. Oats, 16.. to 20s.
8e1..., 345. to 38s. Peas, 345. to 38a. per qr. Flour, 341.
to 355. per sack.

Mew- enn's Ewan, March 14.—The demand for Wheat
was tret7 limited, at a decline of le. to 2s. per qr. from last
week. Other 'retool:altered. Bemis in steady demand. Old
white Wheat,l3l. to 131.10 e.; old, red, 121. to 121.51. ; white,
new, al. to 121.; red, new, 81. to 101. Barley, 275. to
295. Oats, 18s. to 21e. Beans, 30e. to 325. Peas, 335. to
355.

NIWAII, March 14.—The attendance at market to-day
' was small. Real Rae Wheats and malting Barley in li-
mited supply, and the closing prices for each quite firm, but
second qualities of each is. per qr. cheaper. Oats have •
downward, and Beans, on the contrary, an upward ten-
dency. Wheat, red, 445. to 45.. Barley, semme, 245. to 27a.
Per qr.
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NswcaerLs, March 13.—The weather ham again become
extremely cold, with the wind from the north-east, although
both Sunday and yesterday were veg. mild. At our market
this mooning we had a fair show of eat from the ggrorowweers,
bat from the coast the arrivals contlaus arising, althaugh
from abroad the supplies are upon a lien liberal
seals. Fresh thrashed samples, as well as south
country and foreign, notwithstandiag the depresakm in
Hark- s, found a steady sale at the full rates of Saturday,
and from the continued drain made upon our free stocks ia
penny, good useful qualities an becoming scarce. For
Flour we experienced • good consumptive demand, and
former penes were realised without &Meshy. By. nominally
thesame. Malting Barley scarcely sold so well bat grind--
aorta are attracting more attention, at the dammed
far
ree of 20.. to 21s. per qr., weighing 51 lb.. to 831ba
boakeL Malt the same. In Bemis little Mining. •
Peas rather more sought after. Oats seem to have a
their lowest for the present, and a disposition exists ca the
part of holden to hdd rather than swept any farther decline.
ROMFOILD, March 14.—Oar market was very dull, and
Wheat 2a. per qr. Meow, and Barley la. Other things
the same as last week. Wheat, Ms. to 48e. Barley, 28s. to
131 s. ; grinding, Ma. to 275. Oats, 18s. to 245. Beans, 22e.
to 325. Peas, 325. to Mk. Rye, 225. to 24e.
Brounso, Marsh 13.—Notwft6siandimg the flat amount
from Marl-lase, of yesterday's market, we had a good de-
amid Is, Whams, at the extreme prises of last week. The
MOON bad difilaalty in getting their quantity. One of two
mum we ms NMI* of—i.e., either **stooks in the farmers'
bash to bomb(steers, or they anticipate better prism ;
bat mot Matt WE operate spirt oar load millan. Oats
and BUN woe taken at fall pains.
Dump Nara 18.—We have this day experioneed a
fair consumptive dameml far most articles, at the rates of
Friday. Oar manna of Wheat are so limited,
that Ms Soma whale of white have latterly been
themes on Ile sunhat have bon :paired. The following I.
tbe sarromy t Whisk white, Ilk to 275. ; red. 224. to 265.
per 28016 a. Oats, es. Bd. to lb. per 1981 be. Barley,
14s. to 18s. par nabs. Oatmeal, lla. to 12a. per awl.
Flour, messy 14s. ed. to lbs. per met, Indian Corn,
30s. to lb. pm Mlles.

HAY.--thrmirna.D.—Masan. Cooper and Davis
report hods batter hr Meadow Hay; Clover a very dullish.
y,; meadow. roe. to 763. I loam.. Asa to eoa. Straw.... Sta. to ESL
rewire . ..... 50a. to Kw Corer... KW to Sla

CAT nx, etc.—Lircouw, Marsh 14.—We have
had rathar age supply a Beasts, and far show a( Sheep.
A Pod Imuldraws if buyers ken Leados, Yorkshire,
Laksgase toe Sal pada fraud Whim Mutton, 6d. per
lb. Beal, es. Isis. iL per slime et 111116
Roaroun,
_Mask 14.—Mh bed treat' a ray heavy mar-
ket Si, all kali at sleek, sad ilse4 Matas, and Veal 2d.
per. state lower. Beef. Ta. 104. to 3s. Bd. Mutton, 3a. Bd.
to 4s. 4d. Val, Es. 10d. to 4s. 2d. Lamb. Gs. ed. to 7s.
Perk, Is. Bd. to 4s. 4d.

flovriam., Mandl 14.—W0 ban a wry mall
whisk send or slowly at about 1a wash'sratio..lll2l
i
mad* from la. Bd. to Ba. d. Matson, So to 40. Bd. Veal,
Si. 4d. to h. Pork, id. to 4.., p. Was of 81bo., slating the
AIL

THE COUNT OCT.
Mr. ANOTET begged is address lbw weds to the house,
respecting the aunt cut en the revises night. He did
not dispute the right abut membees to Assn themselves if
they pleased, but so far as public time wee unsersed, of which
they had recently beard a great deal, he esetaialy was of opi-
nion that it would be quite ea well if there was a count out
on important ocuelens. They were, the night before, within
only one of making a house and therefore the opportunity
was ill timed for putting forth what must be amid( red at
best as a most invidious rule. He did not complain of the
conduct of the hon. member who had moved the counting
of the house on that occasion, and he was most willing to
admit that the government had done all they could, and
that they were most anxious to keep forty members pre-
sent. The whole discussion on Yea Diemen's Land would
probably not have occupied more than en hone and a hull—
(laughter)—and he had gone through half his statement at
the time the adjournment took place. Bat though he did
not complain of the conduct of hon. members, he felt
aggrieved by the manner in which some of the
officers of the house had acted. He knew not
who those officers were but he alluded to
thou of them whose duty it was to ring the bell.(Laughter.)
He understood that the bell had not been rung in one of the
neighbouring rooms—naniel , the smoking room. (Great
laughter.) He was also • by his hon. friend, the
member for PorterUngton—(Col. Dunne)—that it had not
been rung in the library ; lad the consequence of these
omissions was, that twenty or thirty bon, gentlemen like
were in the smoking-room and library, ready for the purpose
of keeping up a house, knew nothing of the count out until
the bill was rung for the adjournment—a bell which the
officers took especial goad care to ring at the proper moment.
(Renewed laughter.) He thought a discretion should not be
given to these Individuals to decide as they pleased
whether an independent member should or should not
be albwed to occupy publie attention. (Hear.) He begged
to give notice that he would submit by way of amendment,
on Friday next, in committee of supply, the motion, which
must now be considered as one of the dropped orders of the
previous day.
LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL.
Mr. PUBEY, in moving the second reeding of this bill,
said that the 11111411 r• had been drawn up in strict con-
formity with the report of e committee of last year.
Col. BIBTHORP moved, as an amendment, that it be
read a second time that day six months. He believed that
the bill would interfere with the good understanding which
had lots prevailed between 'sufficed and tenant, and
that no time could have been more ill chosen
than the present for disturbing those relations. He
objected to these repeated attempts to interfere between
landlord and tenant. Everything was to be camped now,
and he should not be surprised to Sad en hen. member some
day introducing a measure to interfere between a master end
his butler or groom, and enacting what he was to do and
whoa he should do it. (A laugh.) This bill emanated from
a committee, which sat 19 days, and reported evidence that
soot the country 3001. Oa this ground, a• well as on the
ground that legislation on the subject was ill-timed as well
as unnecessary. he should move that the bill be reed a second,
time that day six months.

Sir H. VERNBY mid that, notwithstanding his revert
for the boa. member for Berkshire, he felt compelled to
second the amendment What the tenant-farmers wanted
was lessee, and they had the means of obtaining these in
their own hands. He, therefore, thought the measure
superfluous.

Mr. CHRISTOPHER admitted that the present measure
was a great improvement upon former ones, but he op-
posed it because he objected to all legislative inter-
senesce between landlord and tenant. (Hear, hear.) The
object of the bill was not to five power to grant
leases, bat power to tenants for life to make an agree-
ment with the incoming tenant that he should receive
compensation for the unexhausted improvements if he re-
mained in oocaprion twelve years. Now, II the measure
we. only permissive, as he understood it was, that arrange-
ment could be much bettor effected between landlord and
tenant without any compulsory enactment on the subject.
Mr. R. PALMER felt it was only just to allow to an out-
I going tenant compensation for his improvements ; but in the
case of a lease the tenant bad the power, when drawing the
lease, of stipulating to receive compensation tor unexhausted
Improvements. The permission granted by this meanie he
thought a very reasonable one ; and, considering the bill
a great improvement, and that persons would not be obliged
to stake the arrangements it empowered unless they pleased,
Its should give it his support.

Mr. PACKE did not agree in the opinion of the hon.
member for Bedford that leases would be desirable through-
out the country He thought that in many parts the tenants
would, themselves, prefer being yearly tenants; although
objecting to some of the details he willingly gave his support
to the principle of the bill.

Mr. HENLEY would gin his h support to the bill
as an enabling bill. With regard to he thought a
power of the sort given by this measure was quite as necessary
In the ease of leases as otherwise. (Hear, hear.
Mr. S. HERBERT believed that at the present moment
a great portion of the tenants-at-will would not take leases.
(Protectionist cheers) He said especially at this moment
when there existed in the agricultural mind a degree of
panic which he did not consider justifiable. (Counter-
&sere.) It was quite true, ss observed by the boa. mem-
ber for Oxfordshire, that when lessee prevailed there was
just as much anxiety for a tenant right as where they did not.
Hs considered that the principle of this bill, which was •
great improvement on that brought in • few years ago, was
a principle which would equally serve the landlord as the
tenant, and for this reason, that wham there want lease with
a tenant right, when that lease wee expiring, the tenant
would keep up his improvements instead of allowing
diem to boned exhausted, as he would do /if then was no
tenant right, apprehending that his lease could only be re-
newed at froth expense. (Hear, bear.) Some of the defini-
tions in the bill were objectionable, and ought to be particu-
larly attended to, as the workbag of the bill would depend
upon • liberal system of arbitration. It had been suggested
to him that it would be well to seed the bill to a committee
upstairs, but bills es often emanated from such committees
so altered as to be quite uniatelligible, that he thought it
would be wish better if a few gentlemen who took a real
interest in the quetion—(laughterj—woald undertake to
form a committee and eussider it. He was perfectly certain
that it might be made to work with the pealed fs&ity, and
would be of as much advantage to the laadlorib as the
tenants. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. NEWDECIATE supported the bill as a useful
1111110111/9, but saw no amenity foe sending it to a select com-
mittee.

Kr. MULLINGS objected to the bill, thinking that in
may eon it would indict grievous injuries. The enact-
aseals of this measure were premature, and ought only to
Mee ham brought forward as supplementary to another set.
The shag law with regard to tenants for life and bene-
fited dowses, who had no power togrant lama, wu such
that the parties holding under this bad power to remove
everything in the event of the death ei the tenant for life,
the hadlord having a right to the pleighlnge the. The ob-
jection to this bill wee, *hilt allowed Ile actual tenant all
these rights, withont snaring the landlerd. Besides, what-
ever were the pnewhions erase IsPiattare, they would be
alsrayi ovarulel by pints npessasate. The first thing
ought to have bon ta give
_Wants kr life the power of
panting lessee, which they had not at present. A provision
such sore useful than any which this bill contained would
be to give yearly tenants a right to two years' nuke to
quit.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the has. and learned
gentleman's objections referred to matters of detail, and
would be bettor diamond is committee.

Mr. H. HERBERT gave notice of an attention, which
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CLERGY RELIEF BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of this bill,
Mr. LACY observed that I's provisions offered a great
temptation to Insincerity. When el; nymen saw an advan-
tageous cresting in the world, by death or otherwise, they
might be induced tocome forward and make the declaration
provided by this bill, that they dissented from the church.
It eruld be better to allow them at once to relinquish holy
orden and become laymen, without sta'ing any motive at aIL
He should spree the second reading of this bill, which was
very imperfect, as not cootaining any provisions against re-
orlination. He moved that the bill be read a second limn
that day six months.
Mr. STAFFORD seconded the amendment.
Mr. BOUVERLE said the, present state o' the law was a
meek stronger inducement to insinceri y than the bill be-
fore the house could be; for it prevented any one who had
ones taken holy orders from joining the dissenters under pain
of fine sad imprisonment.
Mr. HUME thought the mount state of the law a relic
of barbarous oppnwrion. If there were any objection to
the details of the bill it would be better to deal with them in
committee.
Mr. STAFFORD said that if this bill were passed, any
clergyman who had violated ecclesiastical discipline, and
thus rendered himself liable to punishment, would have no-
thiag to do but take the declaration provided by this bill, and
he would at once exempt himself from the consequences Of
his conduct.
Mr. SPOONER thought the objections were only mitten
of detail, which might be altered in committee, There wen
many clergymen who had seceded from the church, and
were now seating tinnily among the dissenters, of whom no
melee had bun taken; but there were others who were
apse suffering from having disobeyed the orders of a
%M op, who supposed himself bound to enforce the law
milk all its ngour. (Hear, hear.) The main ob-
jest of the bill wee to relieve persons who had
aniseed holy orden early in life, but whom sub-
sequent conviction had led to a different way of thinking.
It was said the clergy were indifferent to the measure ;this
might be because it-wee little known. Several conscientious
and :upright clergymen had ensunenicated with him on
the subject, and upreemel themselves favourable to the
111811141".
Mr. WAWN said a clergyman might join the Roman
catholic chunk without being proceeded against ; bat if he
joined the dissenters he was sulgnit to imprisonment. (Hear,
tar, Be *odd thersion rapport the second reading of
Mt. DRIIMIIOND asked how the navy could be managed
it the Mutiny Act were repealed. So long as the lawX:Srial
at present, a p
ro did no do his duty who did nen-
force the psnaltiee pided. t The hon. member who had
last spoken had referred to clergymen going over to the Ro-
man catholic church; but he ought to know that in that
case the clergyman did not go out of holy orders.
If the bishops of the church and the clergy of the church did
their duty he had no doubt it would be impossible for them
to continue the church without shaking off the incubus of
that house, be was going to say, but not only that but of the
state too. (Hear.)
Bir G. GREY said the bill was calculated to redress a
great practical evil, and he would give it his support.
(lieu, hear.) He thought the hon. gentleman who had
just sat down would be one of the last to deny to • clergy-
man of the established church who might later in life enter-
tain conscientious scruples which might prevent his any
longer remaining a member of it the right of transferring his
ministrations to any denomination of protestant &neaten.
If such • person became a member of the church
of Rome no penalty attached to him—he was oonsi-
dered to do nothing irregular if he celebrated maws. He
expressed no opinion whether that wes right or not, but it
must be considered a great practical grievance that • penalty
did attach to him if be became • member of a dissenting
congregation. (Hear, hear.) Was there anything mute-
seeable in affording facilities for the exemption of such per-
sons from the proceedings which might be instituted against
them at any period of their lives if they exercised their ta-
lents in giving spiritual instruction in any other denomina-
tion than the established church I (Hear, hear.) The hon.
gentleman wl o moved the amendment objected to the bill
because it did not go far enough ; he said it ought
to enable mirieters of the Church of England to be-
emu not oaly dissenting ministers, but even church laymen.
He (Sir G. Grey) was not aware of the existence of any
seciesiutical process which could be put in force ageing him,
if a clergyman of the Church of England wished to retire
into private life, if he had not committed any offence which
would render him amenable to the ecclesiastical court. Bat
the hon. gentleman who seconded the amendment took quite
a different view, for he said that the bill exempted clergy-
men of the ehunsh of England front ecclesiastical unsure, on
account of immorality. Now, be (Bir G. Grey), admitted
that if a clergyman committed an immoral offence
whilst a clergyman of the church of England, he
should not be exempt front the consequences of that act, for
otherwise he might leave the church in order to evade them.
He therefore thought that there should be a limited time
within which proceedings might be taken after the commis-
sion of any such offence, and that no proceedings ought to be
instituted 'guest him in the ecclesiastical court for acts
committed after he had left the church of England. It would
also be a serious question for coosideration in committee
whether a proviso should not be introduced into that clause
which provided that persons making this declaration should
be exempt from all restraints, restrictions, and prohibi-
tions, to prevent them from sitting in parliament, in order to
diminish the motives for making such declaration. (Hear.)
Mr. KERSHAW nil it would be mach to be lamented
if at this time of day the house should refuse its assent to
this measure, especially when clergymen of the established
church could become Roman catholic* without any restraint
or hindrance.
Mr. HENLEY wished to know from the right hon. gentle-
man opposite (the Attorney-General), whether it was correct
as stated by the right hoe, gentleman, the Secretary of State
for the Home Department, that a person leaving the estab-
lished church and Joining the Roman catholic church was
free from all penalty and hindrance, because if that were
so, he thought both aides ought to be placed on the same
footing.
The ATTORNEYGENERAL said that the question put
to him was • difficult one • and if the hon. gentleman would
permit him, he Rut decline without further consideration
to answer it.
Mr. NEWDEGATE asked whether it was not competent
in a clergyman whose opinions did not coincide with those of
the church, to leave it, free from all penalties.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it was not.
After a few words from Mr Lacy in explanation,
Mr. BRIGHT said that he agreed with the hon. gentia-
n= (Mr. Lery) in his view, end be would be prepared to
vote in committee for a clause to carry it out, but as his
motion would have the effect of throwing out the bill
altogether, and thus bringing the house to an opiiion hostile
to his own views, he hoped ho would not persevere. (Hear.
hear.) He was mistaken if he supposed that the clauses of
a bill always agreed with the title. (" Hear, hear," and
laughter.)

The amendment was then withdrawn, and the bill read a
second time.
LOCAL TAXATION.—ADJOURNED DEBATE.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it
became his duty to state the course which government pro-
' posed to pursue, and which they recommended the house to
adopt In reference to the two propositions which had been
laid before them on Thursday night, one by the hon. mem-
ber for the county of Buckingham, and the other by his hon.
friend the member for Montrose. He would first deal with
the amendment of the hon. member for Montrose, as the
first question would be whether they would take that into
consideration, or whether they would negative that amend-
ment for the vurpor of considering the proposition
of the hon. member for Buckinghamshire. He would do
his bon. friend behind him the justice of saying that he
declared with candour the ultimate object he had In view in
making hie proposal, whilst the hon. gentleman opposite
dealt in the obscure, well knowing bow apt parties were to
follow visions which they did not understand, but from
which they were led to expect ome indefinite benefit.
(Hear, hew.) In regard ta Ireland he was far from being
explicit, for he merely referred to some project entertained
by the noble lord, whose loss they all lamented, however
much they might differ from him in politics. (Hear, hear.)
He told them he had devised some scheme by which Ireland
would be benefited more than by anything any government
had done for the lost half century. What that wu he did
not give the slightest intimation, but he left the Irish
members and the house in complete ignorance of what the
projected benefit might be. (Hear.) His hon. friend how-
ever, was clear and plain-spoken ; he stated what his imme-
diate project was, and the end he had in view—that end was
to do away with counties altogether.
Mr. HUME—No, no.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—The very
words used by the hon. gentleman were, " to do without
counties."
Mr. HUME—It was to do away with excise, not counties.
(Mach laughter.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he took
dawn the words of the hon. gentleman, and it struck him at
the time that he was justifying his claim to being the most
candid member in the house in making that proposi-
tion. But he very much doubt, d Whether was
reconcilable with the new character in which he
came forward as the farmer's friend. (Hear, bear.)
The hon. gentleman proposed to do away with the duties on
malt and hops in particular, though he referred to certain
other burdens, such r the duties on bricks, swap, paper, and
which amounted! altogetherto 9,500,0001. He (the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer) would not go into the question of
whether this was the most judicious propeddon for the revi-
sion of taxation or not. He wished merely to call the atten-'
don of the hew to the fact that a previous reduction of tax-
adds to the amount of nearly 10,000,0001. was to form the
bombe( it. The hon. gentleman went further even than the
hon. number for the West Riding of Yorkshire. The total
expenditure for the effective fora of the country, army%
miry and ordnance, was 11,250,0001. His hon. friend pro-
to do away with ten. elevenths of that. (Hear, hear.)
navy
house bear in mind, therefore, that a reduction by
gmtelevenths of the whole expenditure necessary for the
slaty and defence of the country was an essential prelimi-
nary to tin relief which the hon. • -
I posed. (gear, hear.) That question was • r ,
a preview evening, end the opinion of the h ""'
iR lb did not think, therefore
bay am tire of the house ill
g•IIIIIME mew Masi! merely Mitt TIF
&TIMMM INIPMIS the amendment by se-sastaing 1 ,71!
eflehetmliteh Ihry eess to about a fortnAtbf §k.fol
leeptellsa el the bee. member for the West

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orkshie. It was better ground uma that tower bemuse
it wosid
clear away the for that which was
the main prepaid= behre the hes= the proposition of
thil his. paths= epposite. In meek of what had fallen
hem that-lieu Readings be =tie* seeearred—(kolo—bs,
la the fiewtistese homer deludes
_ft the calms= tasperate
toasts he beeight It tei. (Resr, bear.) twee
matter of meth __Wien to Wee to Had 1_ quarks= of
this kind, be which great diffeemesse of ep tiese Irenanae
brought leeward in reel a enamor as to avoid all ON hest el
Lurid:ft' ande
i a° as to 'LT a::: anunterid" port,
OW. (Hear, hen) _
to
fully siren _ with hi: te in
W What* whisk be paid to the formers a= the
esentry es mermat of their inviolable attsehmeat to the in
ideation slthe ormatry, end he she united in the eyeepathy
he expreesed for any digress whole the farmers might have
hemmer, sr might now be suffering. Aad these wen not
Hie words ea hie pm, foe it was ineporible that any bead&
ahead worse to &earners is width he did act gerde,
as it was impossible that any evil could befell the in !Aide
he would at have a shore, as all hie lasses was derived from
Lad, mad his Interests were tablets' biactiamnad up with theirs.
His could sot, however, allow that to prevent him
from giving • fair consideratioa to the tot others, still
leen could he allow himself to be biassed by any motive of
that triad from giving due consideration to whale believed
to be the permanent sad true interests ot the farmers these-
ash= bosun opposed to any feelings white, oiler the
pear= of oream,teneek =eyesight entertain. (Hear.) He
agreed with the hen. gentles*. ia the main osier lee which be
made—namely, that the local taxation to which he referred
was a bud= supeesxeMlly on real property, including is
that the land and leers of the country. (Rear, hear.)
He kat= that by the orreries.* of paying It himself. Bat
the boa. gentleman might relievable that lest year heap
posed the motion of the hon. member he Conseins dh. ens
proposed to impose a differ= rote of amities all the
included in 'cheetah • from that delved=lades and profsedeme, is this greem4 nimaly.
that even if it were JIM to impose a Masse
rate as real property, it wee far dot some allowanen &MI
be made for those who had to bear Main borders ea an
count of local tax dims, which was a tax in the shape and
nature of a property tax. (Hess.) He was not disposed to
differ from the hon. patlesuusla what be stated to be the
amount of rut taxation. He hawed that the local
taxation for poor rate, highway nee, death lots, and
others of that description did amount be mead cambers to
10,000,0001. He also comearral with the boa. paths-
sma as to the assent of the lead tax, whisk
be estimated at 2.000,0001, ter though the einem= beeeght
tats the creebeipeer at proms did en wash 8.080.00011
_Yet
ths howeet el some esperied a reasoniesthe eaten= ea
be liken lase the othealaties, =tide weekt gales it to thee
enteent. He agreed with the hes. gentlemes, Vp
theithat
treaties on them miens= wee skeet 1 Is
laced sambas, Ravi= eseatered with the
ma so far, he was afraid he came Se the admen ICilit
whin he amid agree with him, beams in wag threlleth
his ether various statements he thought he 74.1.11‘ be al=
*thaw the hoes. dirt considenthe eorreetiems mid be
made. The filet proposition of the hem. gentlataa was
that this taxation premed in ea task= meaner
IS ths real property ot the country, because it was a pres-
UM
OS what =seed °sly one. fourth it the =some of the
eciatry. He belisv.d the hon. entree= cessiderably un-
derrated the amount of income derived from real property.
He stated correctly that under the poor rate returns, the
mount of that species of property was only 67,000.0001.; and
he west ow to show from the lest retorts under the insane
tea, that the total income of the country was 184000,0001.
In that wain the hen. gentleman was correct, specking ia
reined ember. The hoe. gentleman then proposed to add
en,-birth of the property not co • user= fee imam=
under 1401.—thet was to sa 62,000,0001., which wield
make the whole income of the country 249,000,0001.,
awl asked why trait 12,000,0001 shoul be levied pon a
portion of the whole revenue, whit h amod unted cellau , more
than ociremeth of that whole ? But the hon. gentleman
should not have taken for his guide a return which we
notoriously full of Muttered's, nay, the return ander
the poor rate. (Hear, hear.) If the has. gentleman took
the return under the income tax, which arrested in the
report of the lords' oenraittee on ageseelteral dir-1
tress, it would here afforded him • mere accurate
criterion of the real property of the gauntry. This
showed that the real property of the sonnesy Meath to the
par.
of making the necessary Modesties he that which
was not rateable to the poor, was Mt 117,00,00014 len
84,000,0001., then adopting the same rah as that made nos
el by the boo. send ran with regard to homes mew
1401 a year, and assuming that they esesitatel me Medi
of the whole income of the country, the malt weal be UM
the sanest amount of property eateable to the per
was sot 67,000.0001., but 103,000,0001. per smarm. By
making a simple calculatra, theratere, he would Had
that dill Writer, did not fall es emenseth hat en niniiihs
of the manual uneaten the _scary. The hon. gmlissmi
had wisely abstained tram sag progenies for the renewal of
protecting duds*. TM teigese if hi melim—es it was also
that 0 the petition which in pressabed thin day—was to pro-
mo a =grackle of the *Rasa =shred by recent
ohmage. in the law whin he essseind to be W-
inless to the agricultural intmet. The deed of the
them= which he proposed theertare was to throw on
abet proms, who did not at pow= pay their fair propa-
Oak • my tarp mount of the burdens new sestribeted by
the riwlteral interest. In dealing with such larp some,
it was essential to see that any benefit is the way of assn-
=should go to those who, it was awl. INNS la-
this taxetion, for he apprehended no kethemas
mold propose that those who suffered no bjery should
advantage. He had already tuned that
Chat the
amount of propy subject to the Weems
hi gad rateable to W peer was 84,000,0001. Now, It ap-
pend be the _me return to which he had referred, that
thl7 dkidllidOW. of this sonsi-ted of land ; 36,000,0001. of
hewer ,74011,0001. of sands ; 2,400,0001 of railways ;
4400,000/. of mines and other descriptions of property. No
would vesture to say that thew letter denrip
=e of property were injured in soy way by the
newt changes. Well, therefore, to =pore a heavy
burden on other classes, and to give the benefit
of it to those who did not want it, and who did not
ask for it, and for which there was not the lad pretence,
seemed to him to be throwing away money in the most reek-
law manure. (Hear.) Then there seemed to be groat eon-
fad= with respect to the parties who were to derive the
benefit of this reduction of taxation. Sometimes it ap-
peared to be the owners of teal property, sometime* the eget-
cultural in crest, and sometimes it would ewes to be the
escapien of land, as distinct frem the owns= (Seer, hem)
Now he conferred he entertained a Miss ephdon that
the occupiers of land, from whom is understood
that the petition which had been pemented to day
emanated, had no interest whiten?, at sent to nem in
W proposition made by the hon. gerthemin—(bey beer)`'
became if any proposition could be proved men salhhekway
than another it was this—that with the esapYss if ease
where leases existed, and in some cases of eke Wader el
bard= from tenants to landlords, except in these cases
which were not of a permanent nature—no properties
could be more clearly demonstrated than this, that the
tare were not chargeable on the =rat, but in
point of fact were • &dation from rent. (Rear, hear.)
A little more than two years ago a committee of the: House
of Lords sat to inquire into this subject. Witness after wit-
sea including persons who had been employed is valuing
farms for letting, gave the most conclusive elides= that the
probable charge for rates was always eonsidend by a tea=
before he took a farm, and thane= from the maned of
nut which he would otherwise pay. Though be did net
prof= to be • gnat practisal Elealtarta is the of
farming, yet It did so happen ming to aralirmirtdr-
samstances, be had had • weed to de with the meeeko
mart of estates ; and he wad et, that his own expertise
entirely confirmed the that the salculation which
a former made when he withal to take • farm had referenee
to the value of the hes lava to him after darksang the
rates, sad the differed's* Daiwas the rates end what he
would otherwise consider to be the valor of the farm
was what be would give. Any boo. gentleman. who
was practically acquainted with the management of pro-
perty, must know this as well as he bimeelf did.
The Intelligent witnesses who appeared before the committee
of the Hones of Lords stated the same thing in the most
distinct terms. bir. Umbers said, "most undoubtedly I
should not be in a situation to give as mach for the use of the
soil if the poor rates were doubled, and an IMMO, of these
rates practically operates as a diminution of ants." Mother
vitae"; said he should certainly consider what were the
charges on the lend, and increase or diminish the rent moor-
d4l.l. He did not apprehend that any hon. gentleman
controvert the proposition, that, except when the
awn= of rent was being filed, the tenant bad not the
ellefireet interest in the amount of rates. So long as any
rent whatever could be paid, the rates were charged
ups the land, and the occupying tenant bad no
rt Interest in the question. It appeared,
Hat of the parties whom the hoe. gentleman Fo-
t o benefit, the occupiers would be in no
pernasently benefited ; while of the °wain of real
property min than one half, namely, those who were not
the earn of agricultural land. bad not the slightest claim
to the been which it was to bestow them, at the
mass ef ether portionsPerfee cm
community. Hessa;eirtle-
mos vended with the agricultural Interest also
dery the diminishing proportion of the =pews It Rata-
tibia the po r which was paid by landed IS COM-
=ebb ether deseriptras of preportyll.retlB26, the
paid 0 per cent. of ths pennies • in 1833,
it mid 111;g111 sr rms. ; k lan, 59 per NM. ; deg
to
the hat Mans, is 1646,11 paid wily 47 8 10ths per nat. •
while in Wsame ported the Dud hums by ether report;
MA lINIVIIMI from 81 WO 3101hs per east Therefore the
series peemedmash mere usselherinutals Ins mon the
Masi Inessel, whys imand vane MI hien eves to
land by the Imponveneents which had team pine. (Hear,
hear.) Ho MI Mac mach Ms* Ws isennisal which had
aosidesenily ISM Me his pnrinsien the east day. giving a
new venation dna fisweg la which he ended, and show-
ing en ertneediasey benne in the calm at penarty rate-
able le ihs poor, thsengh the mixture of mandlesteres with
egetennote. From a reNirn laid before the Leeds' committee
in 1888, ft appeared that the valued= of the West Riding
of Yorkehire, in 1816, wee 1,471,00014 la 1834 it was
4287,000 e A new valued= had bees made reeently, and
it was only fair to say that the increase which he
was about to state was partly the result of a
ma" equitable and uniform system of rating which wee
bring established. The valuation laid before the
=est of quarter esidene, which had been exasened with
rig I
ere
tral
bitl/r for the purpose, had increased
to 3,930,0001. Mr remit ap-
lc= IMMO rraarlonie osi comparing the increase in
arenhendan distriera with that be the agrieultural.
The mine isemine in the valuation of micarnwriag property
wines 1884 we 106 per sent.,while the iseremsdithsvaluntkin
oolong property we (Voss was vaderstood) 27 prcent
Therefore any rate levied 'ghost the
Wo whole of the West
Riding woald be bone is a mask • low
than illinhess oreaseilbypropset7 cl; elebl is no gene

be called real ; and real mold Pt therefore
be entitled to the been wait bun- genDemun
evatattously sunteenearny propped to confer. (Hear.)
Great as was his regard for many of his friesde in the West
Rid*, mold not mem* to leave in their pockets • large
sum weigh at proses! they most justly paid. (Her, boor.)
Now,kalialdhpsed of the review** boa. 'mamma pro
ceded to senimeme ea mime charges which he thought
were unduly thrown on the Mad. He world first take
who
the
ease of made. If there were any parties ia the country
bad • dine interest in inakitainiug the roads in their re-
elective perishes„ they were, he must my, those who carried
on the proleseisa of agrimature. (Flea, hear.) Who were
the parties whe thinly used the roads ? (Hear, bear.) Why
these who Bull net aslant, the hod without mem them.
TM has. gentlest= seemed to think it exceedingly hard
that the commercial traveller should pass over srOnitural
rash. The commercial traveller, by Tithing the remote
ious of agriculture, enabled the hews of the
mfurighboarhead to purchase what they required et
the shopkeeper, and farmers could not be half et sem-
Sortable as they were at present if the traveller were Pt the
instrument of furnishing them with the neceinarise god
Inzuries =We. (" Hear hear," and laughter.) Marereer
the hoe. gentleniaa mu; remember that a large
prgmrß
of the rends were maintained by tolft—(hear,
mashing, he admitted, could be more just than that then
who mod made should pay for thee. It should be moor
bolsi too that on such roads almost the only article or
impel* bon the payment of tells is the manure conveyed over
them by the farmer. There might be a few other special
exemption, ; bat be believed that the exemption in the case
of manure wee almost animal. Well, then, the hon. gen-
tle mu next come to church-ratee. Now be (the Chin-
on= of the Ezelsequer) did not know who upon the
whole mold be more fairly liable to the burden of church-
rates their parties who resided la the perish where
they were levied. This he must my, that if the hen.
gentlems permed to take tither a part or the whole of the
11111111114 ibillied kola church rates out of the general re-
veal= of the sountrl, he would, if he succeeded In his ob-
ject, eh= • algaai injury, instead of conferring any bon fit
on the egriesitaral clue. (Hear, hear.) If a burden which
was now molly borne in the egricultural districts were made
a cheep et Ile ue, it was evident—first, that there
would be • Imp leas= is the amount paid ; and, seereclly,
that • very peat portion of that increase would have been
spat in the large maasfosturing towns. (Beer, hear.) As
Izersultuzio, IM should deprecate any change which
meellenhima larger proportion of the hordes of main-
tabling*, he of ae church than he was at present
übjest to The his, gentleman next came to criminal
; and, in order to show the house that
rmeolitiedledminet only draw a large picture, bet sketch
with *goal skin the minute details of • cabinet
peer, he depicted the whole history of Taw.% begin-
ning with the patio& whoa that individual took lode/taps
at Slouch, and going on to the clue of his career. He had
only one objection to offer to that which had prodoed so
much effect on the bowie, loosely, that it did not answer the
how. gentleman's purpose. (laughter.) Instead of styes,
"flee what • burden this is upon counties," the hon. gen-
these weight to have said, " Look at this charge : see how
moseemes it would have been, bad it continued to be borne
and then he should have gone on to say how
grater, 410110 all were for having barn relieved from
meek • bunks (Lauber.) The whole of this charge
was, is het, at present borne by the public treasury. (Hsu,
abitlrmilespie gentleman had drawn his mot
y the Ply fault was, that the fteNM to he
drawn from it was not on his own side of the
tine. (Hear, hear.) He would not dwell ea ger-
tea other portions of the hon. gentleman's spew*
for he confessed that he did not think them worthy of the
high argument in which the hon. gentleman was egged.
He did not think, fee example, that the argument that the
parish ought not to be called upon to pay anything to a
discharged soldier, became it had had no voice in questioas
of war or peace, or that a special rate should be imposed
on Liverpool to pay for the war in the River Plate, or em
Manchester to pay for the war with China—(h )
he did not think either of those arguments wuld have
much weight with the house. He would now pass on to
another argument, soniewtla similar in kind—namely, the
injury which bad been inflicted on the agricultural counties
by the manufacturing intones. He bad really thought
that if there were any one point upon which every mon,
woman, and child In the country were agreed, it was that
the improvement in manufactures had conferred the greatest
=able benefit on agriculture. (" lear,"land cheers.)
retuts.t.that.th w.g,:ggerf a,tbeanathnce wage of the :grit
natant Moore in Dorsetabire ? Why we it that he (the
Cheneeherref the Exchequer) had to pay Ids. a week to his
lalsoseank while the agriculturists of Dorestshire paid only
7s. et flat (liter, hear.) he reason was well known—ft
wee beep« if he did not pay that amount his la-
bum= would go off into the manufacturing diaries.
(get bor.) An honourable friend of his, row no
._..tmlbog that he could not keep labourers by paying the
ode of we, sent into Nottinghamshire fee sow
sussmai, however, left him ; and when he was afterwards
qusidsasi as to the cause, he said he had given 16e. a week,
bavhgietsminedts ho high enough, but, even with such
wages, he amid not keep the men shove ground—they
I would go foto the pits. (laughter.) The hon. gentlemen
said the senthern counties had been altogether ruined by
1111111111161111101 S. Again he must refer to evidence taken in
the NOM 1111 Leeds, in which it was shown conclusively that
benefits tea very great amount bad been conferred =soul
agriculture by the introduction of manufactures. It sp-
pored that ha the me of Tiverton, for example, the offset
bad bon a general improvement in the vales ef the write].
tural property it the neighborhood, wages Wog do reboil,
end poor rates diminished. Even in the misty whisk the
bon. gietleinan represented he found that the operollis
of Wycombe had led to the Snood smoky ment mf
the poor. Did the agriculturists generally derive so basalt
from the manufactures of LanseaMre and Yoskshire ? Wm
not the county of Backlash= relieved by them from a 111111,•
plus population? Were not the par-rates of that ewer
diminished by the circumstance of the peasantry renirdwg
to the manufacturing districts? Was it not the feet that, '
when the peasantry had got into those districts, they bad
been particularly anxious to avoid making an application for
relief, lent they should be sent back to the county of Buck-
ingham? (Hear, hear.) He had stated facts so notorious
that he should have thought they were known even by the
hon. gentleman. (Laughter.) Yet the hon. gentleman Immi
depicted, in language which he ee well knew bow to enohie
irremediable distress and misfortunes inflicted on the mWeel
counties by the manufactures of the north. fie
(the Chancellor of the Exchequer) believed that
the manuteeturing districts bad been a great swims of
relief to the agricultural, by taking off that surplus sesmlaYss
which the latter were so ill prepared to employ. email
uk the has, gentleman if there were any one =en
which all parties agreed more than this—that the e-
tion of manufacturer into: Ireland would be of the ipotesi
service to Irish agriculture ? (Hear, hear.) He now ease
to a still more extraordinary part of the hon gentleman's
speech. In coosidming the special burdens on land the hen.
gentleman rota= to take into consideration the special ex-
emptions laser of land. He (the Chancellor of the
Exchequer) did not see any poseibility of arriving at a sags-
(*eery coneledon without taking into ascount both.
ibiHLear;abhuser.) He sturcurred in much that the
gentleman had said with regard to the
legacy duty. A peat mistake was prevalent as to the
amount of exemption enjoyed by the lead. He believed
that at that moment the proportion of duty pail by the land
se sempared with personal property was about 7 to 9.
MOW could be mere preposterous than to represent the
whole of the Spay duty as a burden specially charged on
primal propeoty, and from which land was altos:ether ex-
empt. It wee tree that when Mr. Pitt made his first prop
shim Da coo terrier is the Home of Commons ; but e
hesmolo
odol,and the exemption in favour of land
17r:talons= omparativelv small. He did not memo to p
into Ss roods then. All he wished to do was to sells
tie Mo. gemelemares protest against any consideration of the
exirepthe. Suppose the hon. gentleman obtained the um-
mit= JAM be proposed, how could the government after-
wards oho to vote kw • committee on the hardens of
pesomel prosily, ousisdlog tom consideration the soda
onsplins 'Omit by soh popoty ? (Hear. bear) The
st two such eemsilisabwould resemble the aoudadst
ofigleito knights is the sbildrom's story-book, who log=
on MOAN IMMO of the Moil ea mow= of its colour, such
Wog !Ski, bet *either bobs the wit to look at the other
side. (leo, ham) TM his. oedema/ bades..!..l
the whisk Ohs odes elks imposed on
Why, solos es they persevered in M sys=ss,
Ada M beam' Mho a mend me, at robing a aradder-
able poopsolles of dui annual non= by indirect taxation,
se hag mot miss ditties exist. If the hon. godson pro-
pels& to moo sway indirect taxation, and to impose Erect
taxation In Oa of it, then, but not till then, might
he hope to do away with many of those excite duties
which were at present imposed upon agricultural pro-
le's. (Hear, hear.) Take the me of the malt
awl bog duties, large items in the revenue. Thom duties
seenejm believed, paid by the consumer. He did not think
time iliOr samoval would nunevially benefit y pee. of the
agelladaleall merest, while the greaser portion would clearly
sot ho min= at all. Now *Might( that the excise duties
cow most samarium's to the agricultural interest, what was
the menet of such duties from which they had been re-
lieved Once 1815 ? 3,000,0001. on beer ; 52 0001. on eider ;
735,0001. on bides and skins ; 117,0001. on starch; 33,40r1.
on tiles, cud 80,0001. on other artic!es ; making a total of
4,100,0001. entirely repealed. The reduction on malt was
2,300,0001. • en spirits, 380,0001. Altogether the reduction
I. the excise duties amounted to no lees than 8,835,000!.
tiler, hear.) The Secretary of the Board of Stamps end
Taus had stated before Lord Beanmont's enuni•tee on the
burieus of land the amount of relief which had been given
to the agricultural Interest in respect of stamps and taxa.
There were many exemptions of this nature with which he
would not trouble the house, including horses, servants me-
tein husbandry, and shepherds' doge. ("Hear,'
a laugh.) on, gendarmes might laugh ; but
the manufacturer paid duty for the dog which guarded
bis premises, while the farmer wee exempt. (Hear,
Mar.) The amount of these ezemplisms was en all
980,0001. The last item in the Wahine was the insu-
rance on farming stock, and he wee glad to perceive the
=Hue= this had had in the way of promiting insaramses.
Is 1834 the savant insured was 1141111.0001. ; ha 11311_
47,870,0001, in 1847, the value of the meek immed lad
retched 58,192.0001., and the duty whisk wadi haws hem
payable in that year was 87,2081. nit= redmeisn
of duties to the extent anent or eight no aims
alleviation of the burdens which wen mooed by the ogsi•
admiral interest to press excluelosly en Sen. (Mows)
Three yenta ago, tics hon. =mbar he West lissoroldsios
stated what he conceived to be the fair and just dome of
the agricultural interest. The enumeration of Slam weal
be short, and he would state to the house what hod
been dove in furtherance of the boo. member's Timm
The hon. member first suggested that the up= of the
rural police should be paid.by the state. Though that sag.
gods lad sot beau ached upon, it was new optional with

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING. MARCH 15, 1849.

the *mon whether thog mold employ meal gather nit.
The next popes's& wee, that the date on malt Memel' he re-
mitted, he the feeilig ef settle. (Hese, hem) . Ile was
anxious not to sesesethe smalitabat 99 *Milt that the
Insult of the experleasate w been needs sallehdesily
showed that there was no great advantage to be derived teem
the um of malt instead of barley for that Fm.ii (Nem,
hear.) Celestially tee advantage was net tl. the
WO to which the revenue would be exposed lies sesairiem
of the duty. The next suggestion waa, that a gamed
else bill should be pawed. A renal hodesure bill had
bees mend, owing in a great derma le the exertions of a
noble lend cow in -the ether here (the Hulot Yarberegab),
MI
and the result was meet . laths yew 1889, ther-
ms enclosers as. were i I. Imo, tourism ;
in 1841, 22 ; in 1842,12 ; a 'total in these 639 T years
of 67 acts. There was then a lull which lasted until
the paring of the bill in 1845, when them were 41 smith
cations. In 1846, the somber Ind 91111111966 911 ilk 19
1647, it was 87. In 1848, 69; making It deem feerienes
288; and in the lent year more than in the Aar years whisk
he had fled named. (Hear.) Tbis net only showed the
advantage which had been derived from peseta; the reseed
bill, bat it showed else that the omega el laid geteehtn
ecienected with agriculture did not entirely despedr of be la-
pavement and prosperity. The 4th proposition of the hon..
■eahen was, that a gesual drainage ball
done'sho be paned.
That he was sorry to my bad not been ; bat he be.
lined that the bon. member for Berkshire had each a
measure ea the anvil, and although the difficulties
were not slight, he hoped he would bring his
task tea sueeessful termination. Another suggestion was
that a portion, and only • portion, of the expenses of county
aeons should be borne by the rate—the proposition
tog limited to eases which could only be declued at the
assizes. In 1846, however, the government undertook to
hear the whole expanse of prosecutions, both at the assizes
and quarter sessions. The hon. gentleman also d
that the maintenance of I rands convicted either o fe
Of atiedetammors should be borne by the state. That also
had been done from the year 1846, and it must not be
supposed that the sem sepended for these purples was
altogether insignificant. The items thus taken from the
county rates had amounted since 1846 to 848,0001. With
soch remissions of ezeise duties and taxes, he did not think
the landed int bad much reason to complain that
nothing had been done for the land. (Chien.) The
hon. gentleman summed up this part of his speech
by a strong exercise of his powerful imagination.
He said it was quite impossibli to conceive '
how it had happthel that in this country of landlords so
little had been done for the land. Fatting a sepposititions
case be raid it would teeny appear that they were so
conquered race trodden under foot by an impeetation of
haughty conquerors, who did not hesitate to throw upon
them the whole burden of the country because they were
the vanquished English. And he went on to say. that he
*mid not imagine any other country in the world in which
so large a prop ortion of taxation could be made to fall en the
land. If the hon. gentleman would but descend from the
regions of fancy, in which be revelled, to the dull realities
of actual life, be would find, without travelling far,
countries in Europe in which a much heavier proportion
of the national taxation was paid by the land. It he would
cross the channel to France he would find it so
there. If he stepped across the Rhine to Prussia
he would fled it so there. If he mowed
the Baltic to Sweden he would find it so then. If he came
back across the Sound to Denmark, he would find the same
thing there ; and if, in tracing his way home, before he
reached the German Ocean, he called at the Netherlands,
there too he would find that the larger proportion of the
Redound burdens was borne by land or other real property.
(Cheers.) Far be it frant him (the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer) to say that it followed thence that the burdens on
land is this country ought to be increased, for it was obvious
that, inasmuch as the riches of this country were derived so
much from commerce sad manufactures—sines property in
some shape or other mast bear the taxation, it was only
reasonable and fair that no larger proportion should fall upon
the land in this cauntry than elsewhere. He only wished to
point out to the hon, gentleman that if he would content him-
self with sober facts and pure realities be might fiod,without
going very far from home, that very state of Wigs of which
his imagination was in search. He now came to what was really
a main element in the consideration of the queeeion before
the house. Supposing the house to have taken off the amount
of taxation which the hon. gentleman proposed to remit,
from what source did he propel to supply it? (Heir, hear.)
He was not quite sure whether the hon. gentleman hod in.
chided in his estimate of 10,000,0001. the municipal and local
taxation of Scotland.
lir. DISRAELI Intimated that he had not.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER continued—
Scotland should have been included ; because he could not
suppose that the hon. gentleman intended that the land-
owners on the other side of the Tweed should be treated in
a different manner from those upon this side, and that
they should be deprived of the benefits which he was about
to confer upon the landed interest of England. (Hear, hear.)
He might fairly add two milieu sterling to the 12 already
set' forth by the hon. gentleman, so that the whole sum
would be 14 millions, one half of which was to be paid by
the community at loge. The loon• gentleman seemed to
think that this additional burden was to be easily raised by
an increase of the home tax. After the particularly unfa-
vourable reception last year of the proposition to add 2 per
Dent to that tax, it was rather singular that the hon.
member should so soon come forward with another propos'.
don to the ease effet in a still more serious degree, Had
the hon, gentleman calculated the effect of his proposal, it
carried, upon the various classes of income tax payers ? He
(the Chant:4ler of the Exchequer) had done so, open what
he supposed to be the hon. gentleman's principles. The
amount of the income tax, according to the last retains, was
6,600,0001. Now, if the hon. member were to make schedule
A pay its proportion of the additional tax, this addition would
amount to ao lees a sum than 3,233,0001. horned the amount
which schedule A already contributed; or, on other words,
Schedule A. would have to pay that amount cut of one
pocket into the other, a process by which Schedule A. would
scarcely benefit to the extent desired by the hon. gentleman.
(Laughter.) Under Schedule B, would come the tenant.
farmers, that class in whose welfare such intense interest
was manifested by the hen. gentleman and his friends.
What amount of income tax would Schedule 8., would the
tenant-farmers, the occupying tenants, have to pay ? No
lees an amount than 406, 1. per annum, a sum which this
el us would hardly think him a friend who should impose it
upon them by way of relieving their distrewes. (Hear,
hear.) He, himself, as a landlord, would say that he had no
desire to throw this burden on the tenant-farmer. (Hear,
hear.) He had no wish to throw on other men's
shoulders the burden fairly placed on his own. (Hear,
hear.) The extreme probability, however, was, that
the hon. gentleman himself did not intend it ; that
he did not mesa to derive any proportion of the new
tax from either schedule A, or schedule B. This was
rendered mealiest, indeed, by the hon. gentleman's refer-
am to the speech of the right hon. beet opposite in 1836,
when the right hon. member warned the agriculturists how
they sought a repeal of the malt tax, lest they should there-
by
et themselves involved in a " comfortable little income
tax. The hoe. gentleman could not surely mean to involve
them in an an income tax, twice as " comfortable " es that
menaced by the right hon. baronet, inasmuch as it would
be twice as much. (" Hear, hear," and a laugh.) It must
be taken for granted then, that the hoc. gentleman did not
mean to call upon schedules A and Bat all ; the seven
millions extra would therefore have to be levied upon
schedules C, D, and B, so that these three, now paying
2,750,0401. a year, would thee have to pm 9,760,0001. a year.
Had the hon. gentleman reflected in-rat way and degree
this weal& operate against the znaledemme of that faith
whish the sestatry owed to the national creditor ? Or, ra-
ther. bed the hoe, gentleman rebelled at all about the
matter ?It would really seem not—it weak. sem the the
ben. gentleman had taken upon craft the sellgeldthe of
same penes se ether not vetted in the MIAs el this and
figures, sad Mensal all the more to deal with emilithe la a
reek of never, quite at variance with the be.. seethe
man's ordinary sigh of proceeding. (" Hear, hear;" end a
laugh.) The Ma. gentleman must himself see, on Considers..
don, that Schedule C. had decided claims upon him;
Schedule C. send met be included ; the whole Oleg
must fall area lehedules D. and E. How were sche-
dules D. and Z. %beer it) Beds the proposition of tame-
hewing local Malicia to the abad had wets most dame
woos experiment (Hew.) Mobs*. gentleman hintedieth
edited that thwere simile to tramhethe elishafthe loml beg-
lees to the esseolliated fund. Did fleshes. gentlemso really
OM that it would be mew math lens so to tea she
eme-hall the taxation ? time, the which applied
le the whole, applied, at all mesh, la pehidp4, to the pad.
Meer, hear.) The house had already some experience of'
ilhe atiethief of these half grants, in Ireland, during the pad
theme years. (Hem, hear.) The house could not ax • ,
peeper antral ever Meal expenditure ; the result would be
OM local expenditure would not be properly contrelled at
elk tout would take Its swing, unchecked by any Offeillve
emerintendence. He, himself, as the owner of landed pre-
party, altogether objected to surrender to any other body
tau a lee el body, the management of local coments. The
habit of self-government was essential to the stability of
ghe eseatry sad to the security of property. (Hear,
hear.) It was because he saw in this proposition
a first step towards the supercession of self-goesnment that
he, among other strong omens, opposed it. It was con-
Oinked, as a ground for some of these proposition, that there
sebted distress of a severe nature throughout the agricul-
tural districts. He admitted that, in the southern counties,
there had existed, and did exist, ecresiderable distress, arising
from the small crops of inferior wheat ; and, in Seem and
Zest. siatiesely, been the bad imp at bops. But he saw
se ream he =l.thste up 10 IM moot time, distrem
heA ge:74, men in the saanallestaring districts.
As to the doom after the disturbance of the markets
which taken place the last three se four years, it
would not be very easy to ems to any they definite mad*
don as to what the pies of sore might perimenently be, bat
he conddered that, at the present samat, ft was materially
dermal by the ahem meted fa mime ways throasheal
the agricultural dilaters. (Heer, hear.) But he did net
IVA that the same was the ease with other articles
of agricultural produce, though the hon. member for
Somerset appeared to messiah great apprehensions on the
pent. Take meat, for example reviewin,g, month by
month, the pries of meat in Smithfield market, he found
that the price was higher in 1848 than it had been in 1844.
The average price of bed in 1844 was 3s. 101 d. ; in 1848,
4e. 3d. ; of mutton, in 1844, 4.. Old. ; in no, 6s. 11d.
(Hear, hear.) He was prepared to show that the same was
the case with all the other articles of produce. No doubt
there was infinite alarm throughout the agricultural dis-
tricts; but he was well convinced this alarm woe exaggerated
beyond the utmost possibilities of the ease by the language
of the very men whose precise object mutt be premised
to be that of raising the agricultural interest, rather
than of depressing it. (Hear, hear.) It did not appear at
I all certain that the alarin,sO themeless were is ell ernes so
impressed with the fearfulness of their proems as they pro-
fessed to be in their stmeches. (Hear, heel,) Only yester-
day he board of a smiles's who, baying been most Tao-