The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-09 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

MINCING-LANE.—THIS DAY.
There has not been a public rale of colonial produce to-
day. The Lane is but thinly. attended, and all arteles must
be considered at the same price as yesterday.
TBA.—The official report from the Customs states that
the aggregate duty paid on the lat, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th June,
in the United Kingdom, was on 6,520,0001 b.. of Tea. The
clearances front this port continue large; holders are antici-
pating a large demand next week, and are asking high
prices.
COTTON.-300 bales sold yesterday on 'Change.
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TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAY.
The Tallow Market is very firm. The trade are buying
t'or forward delivery. Town Tallow 465. 6d. nett cash;
Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 475. 3d. June, 475. 3d. Oct.
to Dec. (new), 48s. 3d.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Mr. E. J. Davis reports the trade heavy, at the following
quotations :—Prime Meadow Ray, 80s. to O.is. ; inferior,
70s. to 705.; Rowen, 48s. to 553.; Clover, 90s. to 100 s.; se-
cond cut, ids. to 90. ; Straw, 235. to 335.

OATLAND'S GRANGE.—The visitors to the camp at
Chobham, in changing trains at Weybridge, will perceive a
beautiful ravine of overhanging plantations close to the
I station. Over this ravine is the well-known Oatland's
Orange, forming formerly a portion of the domain of the
Duke of York. The Orange has just been bought for the
Conservative Land Society for distribution anvingst the
members. The estate commands a magnificent view of
St. Ann's-hill, the residence of Charles James Fox ; Chert-
sty. Windsor Castle, &c.
LIBRARY IN NOTTINGHAM.— Yesterday morn-
' ins the foundation-stone of a new building to be used as an
Artizans Library was laid in Thurland-street, Nottingham,
by the Rev. Benjamin Carpenter, president of the insti-
tution.

RESIGNATIONS OF THE MANCHESTER POLICE:—
Al,lnt 250 constables in the Manchester Police Force had
sent in their resignations up to yesterday, with a view to
:etring their situations a month hence, unless their wages
are advanced. The salaries given are 17s. and ISs., whilst
those of the Liverpool police aro 20s. and 21s. )per seek.
LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.
Return of traffic for the week ending June 5, 1863:-
1 Passengers. parcels, carriages, hors, and mils,
61. ; merchandise, 18,9511/. 16s. 3d. ; cattle,
921/. 13s. 01. Total, 51,1591. Os. 91. Corresponding week,
1802, 52,83 W. 2s. Od.

I M l'E It lAL PARLIAMENT.
NIICSK OF COMNIONS.—WEDSESDAY, JUNE S.
I he SP Y.Alttilt t.Pok the chair It twelve u'cl•wlt.
PRIV.VIR BUSINESS.

1 he Wild:sore ken an 1 E Est and West Fans Highways
wee read a third time and ward..

'the following hills were enevidered and ordered to he
read a third time :—Barnsley Waterworks (No. 2) ; Copper
Mote's in England Company; Manchester and Bury road:
Oalorl. Woree.tvr, and Wolverhampton Railway (Eaten-
&Von of Whitoalsagell• Improvement; Wimble-
don and Croydon Railway.
&UM was a second time and
. . .

I'ETERBOROUOH ELECTION.-MR. WHALLEY

UNSEATPa
air. K. SEYMER brought up the report of the Peter-
borough Election Committee. The committee reported
that George Hammond Whalley, was not duly elected
as &elfin!" to for the city of Peterborough; that the
last election was • void election; that Mr. Whalley was
guilty of treating at the said election; sad that it was
proved that John Ross Edwirds was bribed by the payment
of rd. by some person unknown, but it was not proved that
such bribery was committed with the knowledge and con-
sent dike sitting member.
On the motion that the evidence be printed,
Mr. GRAM said he believed that when the evidence
was rioted it would be seen that there was no corrupt
inteatien on the part of Mr. Who ley.
Mr. E. S . rose, but gave way to
Sir G. GREY, who said he did not wish to stand in the
way of the hail. gentleness, but he thought that on the
=stunt that the evidence be printed, it would be inconu-
meat to allow a discussion in the house between the !mem-
bers of • committee who hod been sworn to try the merits
of en election petition. Ile did not find fault with the
hon. member, but he hoped that, at all events, so further
observations would be made on the case till the evidence
was printed.
Mr. K. SEYMER said, under those eireurastaaces, he
would defer any observations he had to make.
THE "NO HOUSE" LAST NIGHT.
Mr. COBDEN said he wished to allude to a subject
affectiot the privilege, of the holies,—the no house yester-
day. He confessed be excised the members of that house
who worked so hard, and was not surprised that they should
not be active in making a house when there was an oppor-
tunity of making a holiday, but he thought they lost the
house last might in consequence of something like a trick on
the part of one of the servants et the bone. He
bed • motion steadier second ea the subject of
Nem end his noble friend the member for Mary-
leboue had a motion standing first on the subject
of the Metropolitan Police. They presented themselves at
the door of the house &boot four minutes to 4 o'clock. which
was newel!, at she instant the ehoplaia was leaving it.
The deer of the house was closed, as usual, when they were
at prayers, bet, a thing he
chaplain had left the house. There he stayed along with
several other innocent unconscious members, looking up at
the clock, wondering at the extraordinary piety of the
member., and specolating as to the probable termination
of the prayers. (Laughter) And whilst they were all
grempel at the door, discussing this matter openly amongst
themselves, there sat the doorkeeper, the door still closed,
the doorkeeper hearing all they were saying, evidently en-
joying their innocent • it, end not saying • word to
nlighten them. Ho ( r. Cobden) stood looking op at the
clock to within a minute of 4 o'clock. When 4 o'clock came
the door was opened, and the heard the anal announce--
meat. " W o goes home ?" (Laughter.) He said &pin,
he excused the members ofe house who did an feel
&anions to make a house on the Tuesday, seeing hew hard
they worked day sad night, as no Hone of Cemmume ever
worked ban, but when boo. msmben aerie down to
the hems hating en interest in the debate) sad having
der the debate, and WNW Zi ssogregatild out-
side tie bases, he thought t not to be kept
hom their ditty by what lookadto a telik of the servants
*llk home. He thought also that the somromeat was to
biome. He did not think it their husloses on Tuesday
alights to make • house for indepselout misuben, but it
we. hardly fair, henry dem% harlot Won away all the
days osseptisseday, that they chi easelthemedw to
=llhailmmisol hang a lease es get day.
-; Now members of the golommest wore eataelly
la the lobby try's* to mieuedo people not to
reallightoste. He hoped it would be understood in
toner that when the chaplain had Ise the house the ser-
vants would loan the diem Maas sod net lend themselves
to any stratagem by sioshig ge Mena
Mr. FREWIN said he stood sent the door and yrayen
wen over, he believed, meetly at five minutes to four.
Ho artily saw the doorkeeper there, and the door wide
moo; be heard Ms my " Prayers are over, gentlemen,"
mod same mambas entered the hone, mom them the
den. *ember for Evesham. He certainly saw members
enter the lease at that time. and after that the door
awing to itself. He did not think there was any negli-
genes on the part of the doorkeeper. There wen several
amolime staading in the lobby, tea or • doses, the majority
of whom wen eensinly aware thet prayers were over.
Lard D. STUART observed that having been one of the
swarm m this eseasion, haviag • metiers ea the paper, he
be might my a word or two. He was not at all sur-
pi
at the trick of last sight ; it was just one of those
shabby trick' that were played by all governments. The
goveroment always said it was sot their Weiner to make a
boom for private members ; but they ought not, as they
did yesterday. to prevent members from entering the house.
It was his belief that the two has. gentlemen who were
generally celled whippers-in were last night anxiously !m-
-whipping out. (Laughter.) He knew the noble
en-
pried in
he member for Benner:iamb was so engaged. A hen.
member whom he Was asking to go into the house the noble
lord asked to stop mt. (Laaehter.) He asked him if he
meld Amy that? Ile could not deny it. If the noble
lord was anxious to enioy himself it was very thinning
weather yesterday. (Hear, heat.) But why did he not go
end enjoy Weself sad not caw here and exert his
isinglass to iodate members to stay away ? Hs had no de-
sire fee obelmet hooloneti but if this coins was to be
messed gweeroamut men net he surpileed if they resorted
to the genetice of making their maim ar going into com-
mittee of supply. That was what be had ben driven to do.
He had given a maim that • ho alma mho the motion
which he istdmial boos busupht lareTord reeerday. on
the motion for gong fate esimmitess sfmuly. The whole
of this trick was exceedingly dl Co those who
wen *waged in it; it was ea old trick MI a shabby trick.
As to the hon. gontlerasa who sat neer is having come
into the house at five minutes to four, assailed by the hon.
goatlemen opposite, that was not the case; le stayed in the
lobby; and came into the home not at fin minutes bet at
tin seconds to four._

AGLIONBY thought they were making
a peat deal toe mach of this matter. and having
wasted one day they were wasting a great prelim
of another. He happened to be in the house
yesterday. He ease to the door and the keeper said they
were at prayers, and be came in as be bad done before as
far as the entrance of the house. He thought members
could take ears of themselves and might to take rare of
themselves. He himself was asked by an independent
member on the other side not to enter the hens*, and he
gave a very strong reason, that after the very heavy work
the Speaker had bed, he would like a holiday.
Mr. BROTHERTON was of opinion that the door-
keeper was not to blame. Prayers were over at five minute-
to 4, and he was surprised that old members, knowing the
house would adjourn if they did not come in, should yet
atop out. He was surprised at the bon. member for the
West Riding, who said he was one of the innocent
member,. _ _

Mr. PiLLATT wu oas of the innocent members, one
of the 33 who wen in, and he had a gnat desire to go out
sad tell his ken. friends to come in, but he was not per-
mitted. (A laugh.)
Phe SPEAKER said it wu the duty of the doorkeepers
to keep the dun shot during prayers. He had never
known say case M w►ich they had obstrueted the entrance
of members; if they bad been guilty of such conduct it
weeld be unpardonable.
The matter then drooped.
COURTS OP COMMON LAW (IRELAND) BILL.
The house went hem committee on this ►ill.
Kr. WHITESIDE raid he had some additional clauses
to introduce.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL suggested that these
clauses should be postponed,. Independent of them the
bill contained some valuable provisions, end be suggested
dist they should pose the chutes they were agreed upon,
bat as it was desirable that the prudes in both countries
should be unifons, he suggested that the other, should be
postponed till the government bill was Introduced.
Oa clause 7.
Nu FITZGERALD objected that the effect of it would
be to increase rather than lemen expense. The object of the
clause wee to state the cense of action on the writ of
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The ATTORNEY-OEN ERAL said in England, 19 cans
out of 29 did not go beyond the writ of summon*, but he
was informed that was not so in Ireland. He thought the
=um prescribed by the clause would add very much to the
perplezitv of the proceeding,.
Mr. WHITESIDE defended the clause a it stotsd. and
said that the statement of the cause of setion would not
length's the writ above a few lines. The second step,
called the decluation, was altogether &peeled with, thus
saving the parties 61. or 81.
Mr. KEOGH said the only wish on both skies the house
was to relieve suitors in Inland as mush as possible from
aspens,. He was disposed to rises, with Mr. Whiteside,
acing that there wm • prosodist for the clause in the
mune of inferior jurisdie is Ireland, which bad worked
well with this short form of plaint or summon; recently
their jeziedictios had bees extended to 401., sod there was
naly one opinion as to the good working of these courts.
He satiate objectices to extending the same short form of
plaint to the 'carte generally. The objections that bad
been raised were provided against by the sth and 10th
deems.

Mr. NAPIER was in favour of the original clause. The
covausoif sense view was, that what had worked well in the
Infetior'eoarts would do so in the superior courts. In the
former, the great expense was inert:red in trying the merits
or caurcs; in the latter, it wail to a great Intent wasted
spoil Proceeding' The present Master of the Rolls in
Ireland, in a recent pamphlet, had expressed himself in
favour of thee• abort forms of pr .
Mr. COLLIHR said there seemed to 6e tut one object,
's simplify proeeedines and to cheapen them as mccb as
possible. The gyration was, bow this mould best be done ?
As Mr. Whiteside proposed that only one form of proceeding
.Mould be takes before • defendant was railed on to
answer, end as Kr. Fitzgerald proposed two, the former
had the peellesesee prima facie. Una plan had in its
Wear the 'medusa et the Comity Courts both is Ems-

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1853.

elauas,
was consigtest with gag; Is Irolsad as it bad bees for
csmturies.
Mr. KEOGII expressed his intention of votingogalast a
clause in Seemsr of which so reason had bean advanced ex-
cept that It was consonent with the ezlstlnglaw, mkt& In
the ease of sheriffs gave an unfair advantage as against
those who had grounds of action against thins.
Mr. NAPIER supported the clause.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected to their giving
their sanction to what he considered a bad law.

After a short conversation, the committee divided :
For the clause
Against it
The clause was struck out, and the house resumed.
The Expenses of Elections Bill passed through committee
pro forma. some amendments were inserted, sad it was
ordered to be re-committed on the 29th inst.
The Glanders P Lion Bill and the Common Lodging
Houses Bill were severally read a second time.
The report of the committee of the whole house on the
law of salines' banks was reported, and leave was given to
bring in a bill founded thereon.
The house adjourned at six o'clock.

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what g have the nnoffending neighbours
of Russia; or aoy Miter huge despotism, that the
,thole epeight may not at any instant be brought to
`bear agent them at the bidding of a lanatin's
'twice or a wicked whim? It has been the fashion

of late amongst aristocrats and courtiers to offer
intense at the shrine of northern absolutism. The
wisdom and magnanimity of NICHOLAS have
been reiterated by every bureauocrat and every
jourmd devoted to the canoe of reaction in
Western Europe. The bloody graves of Poland
and of Hungary have been avoided as haunted
and insalubrious spotA tusllV•eviin to be named by
the well-bred flatterers ol the CZAR—the hero-King
of modern Conservatism.. -Wby are these flatterers
silent now? Why do they stand aghast, listening
foi the first rattle of the Autocrat's sword in its
scabbard ?• Will BAAL no longer hear them ?
When the faith of a constitutional Government is
once pledged to another, the tie can only be broken
upon the occurrence of such new and unexpected
circumstanoes as will justify the renunciation in the
public opinion of its own subjects, if not of the civi.
limed world. Bat what is the value of the plighted
word of Russia? It is simply the word of
honour of a single man, whose caprices are irre-
sistible, and who is avowedly responsible to none
for their gratification. Public opinion in Russia is a
thing unknown. Even the aristocracy are not per-
mitted to discuss or to deliberate amongst themselves
upon the conduct of public affairs. One man's whim
may light the torch of war. And this is the prac-
tical difference between freedom and absolutism, in
regard to foreign policy and international relations.

To-siGirr the adjourned debate on India is to be
resumed in the House of Commons, and it is to be
hoped that some of the speakers will direct attention
to a point, appsrsntiy overlooked by the authors of
the government scheme for the future rule of our great
dependency,

We refer to the effect which the redemp-
tion investments directed tobe made by the last Charter
Act, 3 and 4 Will. IV., c. 85, must sooner or later
have on such a scheme. Had the affairs of the East
India Company, as a commercial body, been wound
up in 1834, there can hardly be a doubt that its ca-
pital stock would have been found to be entirely
dissipated. Twenty years previously to that
date,—when Parliament was inquiring, as Par-
liament is now inquiring—into the government of
India, the late Sir CHARLES FORBES, then on the
Commons Committee, inquired of the Treasurer of
the Company, when under examination, what the
capital of the Company might then be? "Capital!
Sir CHARLES," quoth the candid functionary; "it'
has never had any capital in my time." And this
was the case—the Company's capital had been spent;
and if, in 1834, its assets were equal to the discharge
of its liabilities and debts, that probably is as much as
they would have done. Nothing would have been
left for its proprietary.
In 1834, the course pursued was this: upon's
nominal capital of some six millions sterling, a divi-
dend of 101 per cent. was constituted g prior charge
on the territorial revenues of India, and provision
was very indiscreetly and extravagantly made for
the payment of the capital at the rate of 2001. per
cent. in 1874; thus, in point of fact raising the
amount of the capital, or the India Stock, from
about six to twelve millions. It was, moreover, pro-
vided that should the connexion of the Company
with India cease in 1854, the proprietors of this
Stock might claim its discharge at that rate from
the Imperial Government—the sum so paid to the
proprietary, remaining, of course, a charge on the
general finances of India. This, it will be seen, was
a very favourable settlement for the East India Com-
pany. It avoided a winding-up in a debtor and cre-
ditor form of its commercial affairs; got a large
nominal capital transferred into a guarantee capital
of twice its amount; and had a preference claim on
the revenues of India for a fixed dividend of 101 per
cent. Moreover, to its proprietary, thus freed from
all care, was continued the election of the Court of
Directors, and, as a consequence, a very large share
in its patronage. No wonder transactions in India
Stock are few, and that its held "for investment."

But this was not all that was done for the inte-
rests of the Proprietors in 1834. To these provisions
for their ultimate safety in 1874 were added others
for their half-yearly security ; and it is to these, in
their ulterior relations, attention should be drawn.
The East India Company, when its commercial ope-1
rations were terminated, had of course some assets;
it had goods in China, teas and warehouses in
London ; and a balance of cash at its bankers'.
These, the statute 3 and 4 Will. IV., o. 85, directed
to be realised, and out of their proceeds a sum of
2,000,0001. sterling to be paid over to the Commis li
-
sioners for the Reduction of the National Debt. The
Commissioners, in their turn, were directed to invest
this sum in redeemable public securities, and to add to
itscapital the dividends thereon as they accrued. The
investments so made were to constitute a "Security
Fund " for the regular payment of the preference
dividend on the India Stock of 101 per cent. In,
case funds from India were not in hand to meet the
dividend, then either the whole amount, or any de-
ficiency, was to be drawn out of the Security Fund,
and was to be repaid thereto, with interest, as soon as
the funds were received from India. Thus the Pro-
prietors were protected in their dividend both in
India and in England; they had a preference claim
on the revenues of the former, and they had an accu-
mulated and an accumulating fund in England.
The dividend of 625,000/. a year or thereabouts
has, however, been so punctually remitted from India
that there has, we believe, been no occasion to draw
on the Security Fund, and it now stands intact at
the credit of the Commissioners for the Reduction of
the National Debt. What its accumulated amount
may now be is not exactly known. Mr. CAMPBELL,
however, incidentally states it at 3,500,0001.; and he
wrote in the autumn of the year 1851. So that, if he
were then correct, as the fund has since gone on pro-
portionally increasing each dividend day, it must now
considerably exceed that great sum.
We have had nearly twenty years' experience of
the fact, that ass security for the regular payment
of the preference dividend, the Security Fund is
quite unnecessary; and aa hereafter we are promised
better and cheaper government for India than n e
have had in that period—worse we could hardly have
—the reasonable probability is that henceforward
the Security Fund will be still less necessary for
dividend purposes than it has been. The important
point, then, from which to view it, is its ulterior
end—the redemption of this dividend by the
rtispharge of India Stock at the rate of 200
per cent. By such discharge the revenues of',
India would be saved the heavy annual charge
of 625,0001., which the people of India pay, not
in any degree as the price of their government or
protection, be it good or bad, but as dividends on the
stock of the commercial corporation which first
brought them into connexion with England. Were
it, therefore, fegally possible for the Indian Govern-
ment now to raise twelve millions sterling at 31 per
cent., and apply the loan to the discharge of India
Stock, considerable relief would at once be given to
the finances of India. And the Security Fund
would meanwhile go on accumulating to pay
off, at no distant date, such an Indian
loan in the English money market. Or, if
the accumulations already credited to the ori-

ginal two millions were at once applied in dis-
charging u much India Stock as they would pay off,

101 Pei cent. at once saved thereon to the
Indian Government. And in like manner future ac-
oadrinlations-might at fixed periods be similarly ap-
plied in the extinction of India Stock, until at last
the original two millions would pay off the balance
of that stock. At all events to go on with a 103 per
cent. dividend merely to keep up at home an East
India Company's proprietary, whereby and whereout
to elect East India Directors is, as a piece of finance,l
the most costly of policies. But, the time must come,
and cannot be very remote, when this Security Fund
will be in a position to redeem the whole amount of
India Stock : and then Sir CHARLES WOOD'S pre-
sent scheme of Home Government, losing its linch-
pin, must fall to pieces should it even survive till
that event. For the India Stock redeemed, his consti-
tuency for East India Directors will be discharged,
from all electoral duty, and be deprived of its
profit. In this all-important respect, Sir CHARLES
WOOD'S measure is consequently without that element
of "permanence," the necessity of which was the
point whence he set out on his tedious argument.
The folly of keeping in existence a corporation which
has really no other legitimate duty but the receipt
of a fixed dividend is, in the case of the South Sea
Company, so manifest, that Mr. GLADSTONE proposes
to terminate it. For the prolonged existence of the
East India Company u a body of incorporated capi-
talists or proprietors there is, in like manner, no
valid reason to be assigned—except that Sir CHARLES
WOOD is afraid to govern India without it.

AND THEIR FINAN-

CIA'. OPERATIONS.

TO 27X EDITOR OF THE EXPRESS.

Sia,—ln your very excellent article this day on
the position of the Bank of England you say that
" the source of this unexpected decrease of the public
deposits" (viz., 200,0001., instead of the usual weekly
increase of about 500,0001.), " we arc not acquainted
with ; but probably it was payments on colonial ac-
counts." Allow me to inform you that the broker
who is employed by the government and the Bank
has, during the last two or three weeks, bought a
very large quantity of Exchequer Bills at the nomi-
nal premium current, evidently with the view of
supporting the market, and, by the show of bargains
at a premium, to induce as many persons as possible
not to require cash for their holdings.
There can, I imagine, be little doubt that the
700,0001. in question has gone to meet these pur-
-1 chases ; and it enables the Bank returns to state
1 government securities as " without alteration," thus
concealing any artificial support afforded.
I cannot refrain from taking this opportunity of
testifying my approval of your remarks on the
options of stock conversion published some time
since. The result has verified your prediction
that every calculator would take the 1101. Two-and-
a-Half per Cent. Stock in preference to the 821. 10s.
Three-and-a-Half, thus increasing the debt of the
country ten per cent. on every such exchange!
Surely no patriotic financier could propose to re-
pent the old absurdity of giving 1001. stock for 901.
money, as our grandfathers did and collegians do
still. Had Mr. Gladstone simply offered the 821.105.,
or even 851., Three-and-a-Half, and Exchequer
Bonds payable in 10 years with Two-and-a-Half per
Cent. I, as well as most other loyal subjects,
would have sincerely. wished him the success which
we now can neither wish nor anticipate.
City, June 7. Yours, &c., S. C.

iad he thought it would toutribute most Clause 54 wee postponed on an objection taken by the
actions. Attorney-Gencral.
Y-GENERAL said. *hat no doubt On Clauses 53 to 62 inclusive wore agreed,to..
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f the summons ; and irelKa'..ques • ere thew of action,aeose, -
lo so if a long stapmegi t the cause • .J. FITZO 1111.) moved that th *lama should be
the summons. evp.the moo cots - • red, ant grawidbat there woe
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courts had to deal with ell kinds of spe- "protection what other persons had not. .. •
is 10th elegise required that the summon. Mr. WHITESIDE peppered the clause, with& he said