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motion on the melancholy subject to which the Hon.
Member referred was confined to that source of informa-
tion from which he derived his, viz., the public news-
papers. He was sorry to say that at the moment of his
leaving the Colonial-office no dispatches had been re-
ceived which would throw,any light on either of the ques-
tions put to him.
SEIZURE OF BOOKS IN BELGIUM.

In reply to a question from Mr. MILNES.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
stated that he had received information of the
seizure by the Belgian police of a case of books
belonging to a Mr. Jeffs, a British subject, on
board of the steamer Soho. They were seized
within the Belgian territory, the case containing 500
copies of a contraband pamphlet called La Verde des
Evenemens des Mois de Decembre, and also 500 copies of
the Bulletin Fran9ais, a journal published in Belgium,
but suppressed by the Government. The editor of
the latter journal had been tried and acquitted,
on a charge of writing seditious articles, and of course
Mr. Jeffs had a legal remedy at law against the Belgian
Government, which would compel her Maj.esty's Go-
vornment to interfere and see justice done if that remedy
were denied. The seizure took piece under an old law
which was made in the time of King William.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL called for some explanation
of the abrupt manner in which the adjournment of the
House had been moved to-night.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it
was moved and carried without his knowledge before ho
came down to the House.
Lord J. RUSSELL wished to know if it was intended
to adopt his suggestion of devoting Thursdays to orders
of the day ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would
consider that matter during the holidays. He had an
objection to giving up the Thursday for the purpose,
but he would see if some arrangement could not bo come
to with the view of expediting the dispatch of
public business. which should be agreeable to all parties.
NOTICES OF MOTION.
Sir DE LACY EVANS gave notice that early after
Easter be should move for leave to bring in a Bill to
amend the Vestry Act.
Sir B. HALL gave notice that early after Easter his
Hon. Friena Mr. Herrman would call the; attention of
the House to the appointment of the Rev. Mr. Bennett
to the living of Frome.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER gave notice that early after
Easter Col. Sibthorp would move for leave to bring in
a Bill to enable candidates for counties to give their
supporters refreshment to the extent of 2s. 6d., if they
thought proper.—(oll, oh.)
METROPOLITAN INTERMENT ACT.
Mr. THOMAS DUNCOM BE wished to ask the Se-
cretary of State ,if he had received from the General
Board of Health the annual report relating to the pro-
ceedings of that board, under the Act intituled, "An
Act to make better provision for the Interment of the
Dead in and near the Metropolis;" if so, when ho re-
ceived it, and when it is likely to bo in the hands of
Members.
Mr. WALPOLE said the report had been received,
end it was his intention to lay it on the table, though it
was defective on one point.
MILITIA BILL.
Sir DE LACY EVANS wished to ask a question with
regard to the Militia Bill. Ho did not find auy clause
in it with reference to substitutes and the amount to be
paid for exemption from service. Perhaps this was left
in the same state as it was under former Acts?
Mr. WALPOLE—Those matters are left exactly as
they were in the former Acts.
Sir DE LACY EVANS said the Bill was not at all
a consolidationo
E the aw.
contended that it was, as the last
clause contained all such points of the existing Acts as
were not expressly repealed.
COURTS OF LAW.
Mr. HEADLAM wished to ask whether there was any
intention on the part of the Government to allow any
public money to be expended in providing new Courts at
Westminster.
Lord JOHN MANNERS said temporary courts had
been erected for the use of tho Vice-Chancellors, which
would be ready at the beginning of the next term, but
tbis would in no way dispose of the question as to
whether the courts should remain or be removed from
Westminster Hall. Upon that point the Government
were not yet prepared to give any opinion.
I RI-41 ADVANCES.
Sir L. O'BRIEN wished to ask the Chancellor of the
Exchequer whether he would feel justified, the Repayment
of Advances Acts Amendment Bill having been read a
second time, in releasinse the moneys which have betn
retained in the bands of treasurers of the Poor-law
Unions, to await the fate of this Bill, after the example
of what was done by the Prime Minister in the case of
the Rate in Aid, when the Treasury advanced 100,0001.
on the faith of that Bill, after its second reading.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could
hold out no such hope as that which the Hon. Baronet
asked for.
Mr. CLEMENTS wanted to know when the Repay-
ment of Advances Bill was to be proceeded with?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it
had already been arranged that the Bill should not he
brought on until after Easter.
LOSS OF THE BIRKENHEAD.

Mr. ADDERLEY wished to be informed whether
the Admiralty had received any intelligence of the loss
of the Birkenhead, and if they knew the number of
souls on board at the time she left England?
Mr. STAFFORD said at ten o'clock this morning a
telegraphic message was received at the Admiralty, an-
nouncing the lose, and immediately afterwards a mes-
sage was sent off to Sir John Ommaney, at Plymouth,
requesting him to forward ouch intelligence as he had
upon the subject. No reply, however, was returned to
that message up to two o'clock, and a letter was dis-
patched to the gallant officer ordering him
to make a report immediately of such in-
formation as he had upon this distressing
subject. There were 600 souls on board at the time
the Birkenhead left this country, Up to half past four
o'clock no additional news had been received at the
Admiralty.
POSTAGE LABEL STAMPS.

Mr. MUNI Z presented a petition on this subject
from Charles Maybury Archer, gentleman, setting forth
that, in the month of December last, ho became, through
the medium of a fortuitous discovery, possessed of the
means and information calculated to show the total in-
security of the present system of postage label stamps,
and of their liability to be successfully conterfsited,
and that petitioner was also in possession of moans
whereby the same might be as successfully prevented.
That petitioner had had a correspondence with the au-
thorities of the Post-office and Inland Revenue, and
submitted that the great circulating medium fur the
correspondence of this country, and which had lately
become a legalized form of paper money, ought to be
invulnerable, and not the easy subject of counterfeit or
imitation. Petitioner further stated that the present
newspaper stamp was also the subject of easy successful
imitation, and that consequently both it and the postage-
stamp system might easily become the subject of
spurious and surreptitious issue. That petitioner
had suggestions to make for the improvement
of the postage•stamp system generally, and prayed to be
examined before the Committee thereupon, and also
relative to a proposed plan he had for improvements in
detaching and cutting postage-stamps and other articles
and substances.
THE RIVER PLATE.

f WON wished
Mr, L GIBBON
take 41)3 to place the relations
to any
8
to know whether the Go-
vernment intended
y
between this
looting
than they
whether
been for some time past; ho also
e
country and Brazil on a more satisfactory
wished to know hethr the Government contemplated
'
to the River Plate, the
free navigation of the river
land and France, in refere
the trade of Europe?
t
of t EXCHEQUER replied
as the result of the joint acnticoen and interference of Eng-
Th© CHANCELLOR -ho
e that not twenty-four hours wl,B kit, after the over-
throw of General Rosas, in communicating with
order that steps
the French Government, -in
might be mutually taken to secure those great results to
all desired. On
the commercial world which were g
Johnre yd
Sir Charles
Chevalier •her MajestY,
the 16th of April St. an
Hothana. who had been appointed by "
ands,
would
leave Europa it, tw„ ,.
of war, - would
the Ceurt of Brazil hut a mission of
'' sail's official one to
touch at Rio. Their visit was not en -
nication and explanation. The Government
friendly commu-
nicationt
and they
confidence in Sir Charles Hotharn,
hoped he would succeed in obtainin the free navigation
of the River Plate, which they andgall countries of Eu-
rope so anxiously desired to secure. England and France
had h
wished to obtain no particular privileges or advantages,
but to negotiate for the interest of all countries in the
world.
Lard PALMERSTON said the Hon. Member for
Manchester had inadvertently made a mistake in men-
tioning the River Plate. Instead of being a river it wag
a bay or estuary open to the whole World, and
he p
a-
prehended he referred to the rivers Parana and tructuly ARTERIAL DRAINAGE (IRELAND). a -
.
In reply to Mr. SCULLY,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
whole question of arterial drainage was under the con-
sideration of the Government.

LONDON,

of imposing the ballast charges, and greatly improve
the condition of the ballast heavers. He hoped the Hon.
Member would agree to refer the Bill to a Committee.

Mr. B. OSBORNE hoped the Hon. Member for the
Tower Hamlets would accede to the suggestion to refer
the Bill to a Committee. The ballast heavers of
London were in the hands of 29 middlemen, 27 of
whom were keepers of public-houses, and the
consequence was that they never gave employment
to any men unless they purchased victuals and spirits of
a very inferior description of them at a first-rate price.
A greater abuse than this could not exist, and ho hoped
some measure might be devised to remedy it.
(LEFT SITTING.)

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the sth day of April,
1852, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Coun-
cil. This day the Right Honourable Sir John Dodson,
Knight, was, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Ma-
jesty Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at
the Board accordingly.
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the sth day
of April, 1852, present. the Queen's Most Ex-
cellent Majesty in Council. Her Majesty in Council
was this day pleased to appoint the Right Hon.
the Lord President of the Council for the time being ; the
Most Honourable the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord
Keeper of the Privy Seal ; the Most Noble the
Duke of Northumberland, First Lord Commissioner
of the Admiralty ; the Right Honourable the Earl
of Derby, First Lord Commissioner of her Majesty's Treasury ;
the Right Hon. John James Robert Manners (commonly
called Lord John Manners), First Commissioner of Works
and Buildings ; the Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole,
one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; the Right
on Benjamin Disraeli, Chancellor and tinder Treasurer of her
Majesty's Exchequer; and the Right Hon. Joseph Warner
Henley, President of the Committee of Council for Trade, to
be a Committee to superintend the application of any sums
voted by Parliament for the purpose of promoting public
education.

By the QUEEN.—A PROCLAMATION.
VICTORIA R.—Whereas by an Act, passed in the fifty-
sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the
Third, intituled" An Act to provide for a new silver coinage,
this realm,' the
and to regulate the currency of the gold and silver coin of
and
piaster
empowered and Worker
t o
coin, o f
totorosroui
yre
v:eMhuresi
and
pdnol ndubi
nnee
pound
wgohten ritdogeyohen
wasauthorized coined,eighteen
silver bullion into silver coins, consisting of crowra, half-
crowns, shillings, and sixpences, of the standard of eleven
afterpennyweights ounces
thaen d r
rate
twe o
of
of
fsixty-sixi
alpennyweightsoytoth e
po pound
shillings
tfined l
and whereas by an Act, passed in the twelfth and thirteenth
years of our reign, intituled " An Act to extend an Act
of the fifty-sixth year of King George the Third, for
providing for a new silver coinage, and for regulating
the currency of the gold and silver coin of this realm," the
Master and Worker of our Mint in London was authorized
and empowered to coin, or cause to be coined, silver bullion
into silver coins of the standard of fineness abovementioned,
and in weight after the rate of sixty-six shillings
to every pound troy, whether the same be coined
in crowns, or in any pieces of a lower denomination ;
and whereas in the thirteenth year of our reign,
we thought fit to order that certain pieces of silver money
should be coined, to be called Florins or tenths of a pound,
and to be of the value of two shillings: and whereas,
pursuant to
,our said order, and in virtue of the
power given by the said recited Act, a coinage
of the said florins or tenths of a pound, of the
standard and at the rate aforesaid, was made : and whereas,
pursuant to our further orders and in virtue of the said
power, a new coinage of florins or tenths of a pound, of the
standard and at the rate aforesaid, has been made, and every
florin or one-tenth of a pound, in such new coinage, has for
the obverse our effigy crowned, with the inscription " Vic-
toria D.G. : Brit : Reg. F.D. :" and the date of the year and
for the reverse, the ensigns armorial of the United Kingdom,
contained in four shields, crosswise, each shield surmounted
by the royal crown, with the rose in the centre, and in the
ets betweene, an
d shamrock,
the slii shields
surroundedth e national
by theemblems
wordsof
the
One Florin one-tenth of a Pound," and with a milled grain-
ing round the edge : and whereas pieces of silver money of
the description last mentioned have been coined at our
rose,Part ffi
thistle,
Mint, and will be coined there, in pursuance of orders
issued and to be issued by us : we have, therefore, by and
with the advice of our Privy Council, thought fit to issue
this our royal proclamation; and we do hereby ordain, de-
clare, and command that the said last-mentioned pieces
of money so coined and to be coined shall be
current and lawful money of the United Kingdom
of ! Great Britain and Ireland, and shall pass and
be received as current and lawful money of our said king.
dom by the names aforesaid, and at the value hereinbefore
assigned to them.
Given at our Court at Buckingham Palace, this fifth day
of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-two, and in the fifteenth year of our
reign.

GOD save the Quint.
DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 6.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of
Admiral Sir Charles Ekins, K.C.B.
General Sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.B.
Admiral the Honourable Sir Thomas Bladen Capel, K.C.B.
Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Woodford, K.C.B.
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Frederick Bouverie, K.C.B.
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Bullen, K.C.B..:and
Lieutenant-Geueral Sir John Fox Burgoyne, K.C.8.,
Inspector-General of Fortifications,
to be ordinary Members of the Military Division of the
First Class, or Knights Grand Cross of the Most Honour-
able Order of the Bath ;
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Downraan, Kt., C. 8.,
Vice-Admiral Sir George Erancis Seymour, Kt., C. 8.,
Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Anthony Maitland, Kt., C.B.
Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Maclaine, Kt., C.B.

Lieutenant-General George Charles D'Aguilar, C.R.
Lieutenant- Oeneral Sir Richard Armstrong, Kt., C. 8..
LieutenantiGeneral Henry Goldfinch, C.B.

i u tTh neral John Bell, C. tt:
Lieutenant:General George Brown, C.B , Adjutant-General
of her Majesty's Furces,
Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby, C. 8., one of the Commis-
sioners for executing the office of Lot d High Admiral of
the United Kingdom,
Rear-Admiral William Fairbrother Carroll, C. 8., and
Colonel James Tennant, C.A., of the Bengal Artlilery,
to be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the
Third Class, or Knights Commanders of the said Most
Honourable Order :

And Rearadmiral George Edward Watts, to be an Ordi-
nary Member of the Military Division of the Third Class, or
Companions of the avid moat Honourable Order.
WHITEHALL, APRIL 1.
The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint
Major-General James Frederick Love, C. 8., to be Lieutenant-
Goveln.,r of the island of Jersey, in the room of Lieutenant-
General Sir James Henry Reynett.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Arita, 2.
The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the
Earl of Sandwich, to appoint Robert Bryce Hay, Esq., one
of her Majesty'sHNo%n,o;roaFblFeiCcoErp,s Aof
R Gentleman at Arms,
vice William Lloyd, resigned.
cilo
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SEMIS IN Tills PRESENT PA RLIANIENT.
PIL 5.
Borough of Monmouth—Crawshay Bailey, Esq., in the
room of Reginald James tilewitt, Esq., who has accepted the
office of Steward of her Majesty's Manor of Hempholme.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, APRIL 5.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Quartermaster-Sergeant
John Cass to be Quartermaster, vice Perkin, retired, April 1.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Suffolk.
William Long, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant; Windsor
Parker, Esq., to bs Deputy-Lieutenant, March 31.
Commission by the Lord. Lieutenant of Warwickshire.
'Warwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet Lord Leigh to
be Ca[ Isis, vice Lord Feilding. resigned.
REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT.

The I,ordsCoLniss;ijner;of her Majesty's Treasury hav-
ing certified to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the
National Debt, in pursuance of the Act, 10th George 4th, c.
27, sec. 1, that the actual surplus revenue of the United
Kingpom of Great Britain and Ireland, beyond the actual
expenditure thereof for the year ended the sth day of Ja-
nuary, 1852, amounted to the sum of two million seven
hundred and twenty-six thousand three hundred and nineiy-
six pounds four ahillinSa and ten pence ; the Commissioners
fur the Reduction of the National Debt hereby give notice,
that the sum of six hundred and eighty-one thousand
five hundred and ninety-nine pounds one shilling and
two pence (being one-fourth part of the said surplus of two
million sven hundred and twenty-six thousand three hun-
dred and ninety six pounds four shillings and ten pence)
will be applied under the provisions of the said Act, be-
tween the 7th day of April 1852, and the sth day of July,
1852, to the following purposes ; viz :
To be applied to the purchase of Stock ...... £681,599 1 2
Add interest receivable on account of dona-
tions and b2quests' to be applied to the
purchase of Stock 2,287 8 2

X68;,886 9 5

National Debt Office, April 2, 1852.
A. Y. SPEARMAN, Comptrollei -General.
BANKRUPTS.

Henry Stimsen (and not " Stinson," as before advertised),
boot maker, Saint Neots, Huntingdonshire, to surrender,
April 16, at twelve, and May 14, at half-past eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Canaan, official assignee, Alderman-
burs; Atkinson, Swan-chambers, Gresham-street.
Henry Worms, boot maker, Blackfriars-road, April 16 and
May 14, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan,
official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Lawrance, News, and Boyer,
Old Jewry-chambers.
Thomas Bull, licensed victualler, Greenwich, April 16, at
one, and May 22, at eleven', at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Nicholson, official assigned, Basinghall-street ; M'Leod and
Cann, Paper-buildings, Temple; Cook, Greenwich, and Fur-
nival's Inn.
Samuel Haynes, wraeelwright, London-street, Paddington,
April 14, at two, and May 14, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Staresfeld, official assignee ; Laurance, Plows, and
Boyer, Old Jirwry-chambers.
Henry No =an Barnes, milkman, Margaretting, Essex,
April 17, at
'calf-pa.st title, and May 21, at one, at the Court
of BankrurA official
cy. Whitmore, assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Di Add, Devonshire •street, Bishopsgate.
Isaac -finunins, charter master, Dudley, Worcestershire,
April 17 and May 8, at hall-past ten, at the Birmingham
District, court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Bod-
dine°
as Dudley.
'm.
OctN
a" 4') televen, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, offi-
cial , a
m v i,f,e Chadwck, grocer, Leeds, April 20, at twelve, and
Th„ assignee,._ Leeds ; Upton. Leeds.
Mav ,'rn, aa Wood, grocer, Northwich, Chester, April 16 and
Moe mouthsh'illiarns'
IN Mimi"
offiC',4 l'-', at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner,
4,voc,drict ,ourt. A oung,
itchell and Edward Clarkson, worsted spinners,
I d , Yorkshire April 29 and May 23, at eleven, at the
Hoyt
:cna"msignee, Liverpool ; Holt and Rowe, Liverpool.
'" 3 Oi.st . r. ' ~,,-, official assignee, Leeds;
,w.l,l.radford ; Courtenay and Compton, Leeds.
I ymtrict ire April 20 and May 18, at eleven, at the Bris-
toliron manufacturer, Pentwyn Golynos,
Brie tot. Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Bevan,

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MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
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London New Price Current, April 6.)
SUGAR.--Today a
brisleer demand was experienced for
eet India Sugar.
Yet inerchanta were unable to obtain an
ac Ivance. A public sale of 2LII hhds 7 trcs Barbadoea of the
at the valuations,
n, iw crop went readily
fine yellow at 378
to 38s, good middling to good 348 6d to 36s 6d, middling 32s
to :345, and low 308 to 3lsid e cwt. In all 455 hlads, &a,w ere disposed of to-day. P r
, RENINED.TO-day R S
e efined
-ugar met with ready pur-
e for home consumption, and stiffer rates were ob-
t sined, brown lumps realising 44s to 44s 6d per cwt. For
Crushed Sugar the export demand is better, at previous
1 rates.
'TAURITII:i.—Thin afternoon an improve d demand was ex-
perieri,
-ed for Mauritius Sugar, and tell rates were obtained.
1 At oath,: sale 3,243 bags were disposed 9f, tine yellow went