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THE MARKETS.-(YESTERDAY.)

KET.- A pril 19,

P. d
Walls DO Haswell ° 0
Wal s ,ltd Hetton
•Walls• End Lat,:bton ......
Walls. End Russell's Hetton *A 0
Walls'iiEn,l Stewart's
Walls ;il,l Wnn well ...
Nails Fno IL,Trett •,11 0
W.4I!K Edd Cragw ,od A 6
..V.,118 End Tevs .
21,,,car
Nevill's I.laneoy
(tot:elven Steam
IVa Is End I),vonslnte !X P;

COAL MAR
Adairs l7 VI
C:trr's Hartley . 2O
Holywell Main 2O 6
Leaze's Main
Russell's High Main
south Hartley ....... ......
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Wylam 2O 0
Walls Ei:d Bell and Brown 21 1'
Walls End Oahe anti C 0.., I, 0
Walls End Hilda 2O 9,,
Walls End Kiliingworth. , • F-•'I. 21
Walls E.AI l'erey Bens!ian )2-.4 N
Walls Endßraddy
~liijprs'aHrcritv"erct since last marker-d,y, 16.
PItiCE 01 BREAD.
• o' Bread in the 7,l,tr,pniis is lON. for the 111..
The highestifri.a,,cdem.ay
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Low. Good t,
PRICE OF SEEDS.-Aptil 19.
Par Cwt. .
i',:r itiarter. -
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New English ned Ciover 7os. 112 s ,St. Foil' 40.. ,W 4 .0,:
a 4, 05,. 40,
Out Dal° fitt-- -a.
-,.....$ I Rye Cr..i. ,
New Foreign nat.% &s. Ms. 995. ' e'..xt'Y Grand ,. N../5.,
40s.Linseed, for teecang 46,. a2s. :Ai,.
Ostedwil‘i‘,ttioiitlle ittlooser
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80a. ;sit
Ditto, for swttig -s. 58.,. h3s
Old Ditto Dttto _.4. 4,, 'tios. Ditto, iOr crusiiin,.... -.. 13. 50%
New Trefoil . 204 2,,, no, Canary -, 4(1-.. 9th.
Old Ditto -, tbs. 22, Hemp --* 35... ,12.
Trefoliurn in:, lls. 135. , . Per this •ie.l.
English Carraway -s. 435, 4t4li. tnite Mustard...! Is ,'.4. 15s. !Id.
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Ditto 154.0,1. z 2.. 04*
Coriander ............... -s IS .er .i,r_e. 4s. 6d b 4. osl
itapes,co. E.gl"h tint a' rant`,
3''l. 391.
PRICES OF POTATOI'A AT SPITALFIELDS.
York lteds :from vessel) 4/ Ins.. to St Os. peer ton,
::zoteh Reds Rita,. 4l. ss. to 4/. 15* ditto
lilltlneys...•
Shaws...... .................. .2 • 15,.. to 3.. 5, Hitt.
PRICES OF a 0P5...•.-Atiril 19.
Farnham ?oche,• (Pn:r cwt.)...,., 6.
.. 4, It. 15/.. Its'. to
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;Li 85%
East hviii. PeLkets,
Ditto 8ag......
BEd K.r.nt Pockcts 3.1. 153. 51. ss. to s, 8"
Ditto Bags
:II: 1307. 344" ?50'• tt% ?I:: 163"6,
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Yearlings. ...... . ......................... 2/. 1113. 3/. 3s. to 4/. 4S.
Old Olds ................................. o'. )84. u. los.
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~()TiNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEkS.

heat.

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Caudiridge...... -7, ~ 32 :4; 25 40
58 78 .... Ili 42
Chard .««...^.:
gttli 40 34 334 20
2,22, gas
42
Long Sutton...,
~,. 78 26 s 2 ,z, 20 30 34
Louth .......--.-i
561. 77 22 31110 '2!. 33 42
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Nottingham ....1 o 4
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342.1
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Pontefract .....1 7 ~,, 36 ..., 22 27 43
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1. 2s
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uppnighatn ...1 44 g, t, 2 •L'u a• 28 32 44
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DEI/ I 2 ES CUR N ill ARK ET —April 18.
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.... 3201 0
to 44
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. •Per sack) 17 0 23 - 0
kiiiru . ......... ,
, 1 ar..old
9-3 sacks Gr. v‘ le, " 136 6 1 i'.'"ur (Per bag) 5,-; 0 0
at the averag a. ....... !Bread (per 8a11.) 1 6 0
„4. LEEDS CORN MARKET.— April 16
.N.,,. . p,ull,lk and Suttldk, 601 b. ....................
, ~.„
York.
:,,,,I uncoil'. cow. •
ri.4.1,7tk. -
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Rapeseed. ........... ' '"r,ign. 284 to 201. per la!,

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SCOTCH JUDGESHIP.--..We hear that Lord
Corehouse has resigned. Ills successor on the Bench is
Pot yet named ;
but. we presume, the Lord Advocate, if
he be disposed to prefer his claiT, will have his claim to
fill the vacancy so occasioned admitted.

IMPERIAL PA ItLIAIIIEIS T.

HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 19.

A Commission of their Lordships sat at a Quarter before
Fiveo'C lock, the Commissioners being the Lard Chancellor,
Earl of Shaftesbury, and Lord Duncannon, when the
Royal Assent was given to the Consolidatad Fund Bill,
the Marine Bill, the Marine Mutiny Bill, the Preston Gas
Company Incorporation Bill, the Epsom and Tooting Road
Bill, and taco othi,r Private Bills.
Lord KINNOUL presented a petition from the Pres-
bytery of Dumbhine, and from a place in Perthshire,
praying for Church Extension in Scotland.
A NOBLE LORD presented a petition from Enniskillen,
praying for a uniform rate of penny postage.
Lord CA W DOR presented petitions from Harerford.
west and other places, to the same effect.
Upon the motion of Lord WEIARNCLIFFE, Lords
Radnor, CLrendon, Falknc.r, and Portland were ap.

pointed on the Ccmmittee for Inquiring into Crime in
Ireland.
Lord RODEN stated that he had received information
to-ddy that Lord Glenelg had declined to act on that Com-
mittee, and that by Monday he should be prepared to sub-
stitute another name for that of the Noble Lord.

Lord MELVILLE presented a petition from a place in
Scotland praying for Church Extension there.
The Bishop of LONDON presented petitions from the
counties of Gloucester, Wilts, and other placeS, for Church
education in the colonies.
THE PRESS IN MALTA.

Lord BROI.JG fl AM said that when last night he took
the liberty of putting a question respecting the liberty of
the Press jrr Malta, he aces told that if he had consulted
the Report he would have been jnformed. Ne doubt
he received that answer moat courteously. He had
now consulted the Report, and it did not give , him
the information. What he now wished to know was
whether the Maltese Commissioners had recommended
that ordinance or not, which it vvas said was for
the liberty of the Press, but which, in point of
extirpated the Press. In the next place he
wished to have a copy of the ordinance laid be.
fore their Lordships. He was told last nig lit, first,
that it was the law, and then that it was not
the law ; and then again it turned out that it was the
law.—(Laughter.) By a packet this day he had received
a newspaper which gave a report of a trial which had taken
place under the sth chapter of this law, and a
conviction under it for a libel, followed by a sen-
tence of six moeths' imprisonment, not for censuring
and defaming, which would have subjected the parties to
twelve months' imprisonment but for censuring merely.
The libel was in reference to the Catholic religion, and it
began by saying ‘• without going into the merits of the
truth of the Divine authority of Christianity;" and then it
went en in reference to the Catholic religion with the
statement " that it leaves the mind at a loss to determine
whether it be better than any religion at all"—and for that
the man was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. The
statement was not whether it was not better than no religion
at. all, but any religion at all—just as mu-eh as if he, the
Noble and Learned Lord were to say of any one of their
Lordships he doubted whether be was the best pos ible
man in the world, and which, in the most perfect truth,
might be said of any one of their Lordships.— (Hear, hear,
and laughter.) If the writer had said that it was better
thaa no religion at all, that would have been quite another
thing, because, although he (the Noble and Learned Lord)
entirely denied the truth of the Catholic religion, yet he
thought it better than no religion at all. If a man in this
country were to say five thousand times over, even
of the religion of the Church of Eegland, that
he doubted whether it was better than any rciigion at all,
ineieided be used the expre,ision in an argumentative man-
ner, as a Dissente• would, what law was there! to punish him
fie- that ?—(Loud e cries of " Hear, hear ") I - put
him (the Noble and Learned Lord) in mind of a story
he heard told by (we believe): the late Mr. Coleridge,
isho said that sugar of lead might perhaps be considered
betti r than no sugar at all, therefore the better way would
be to stir it round and put it into your tea, aced then
drink it ; or that oil of vitriol was bAter than no
oil :it all, and therefore you might put the %%hole
,into your.
sailed. For anything he knew, the next packet might
bring an account of a men convicted at Malta fir
tie:king the most innocent observaione—merely saying he
disapproved of another man. This was c,rtninly a most
monstrous stale of the law which was given for the liberty
of the Pres,; in Malta ; but it did not rest there, became
a men eras liable to be convicted aid subjected to six
mouths' imprisiniment for not preventing: the publication
of a libel against himself by another roan.—(Near.)
He hoped there would be no itbjection to lay.before Par-
liament tie whole of this clatter, and he would now repeat
his question as tewhe er tie:t ordinance was reco,:ninetided
by the Maltese Goa- rinnem ?

The Marquis of NO RM AN BY would repeat what he
had said on a previous accasion, that it v,ould tend much
to the convenience of the public service if notice WAS
given of this qm;stion ; and it 'W6 partamlarty tAiifirble
iu his department', because it was possible that his answer
might be given with carelesess, from not baring paid at-
tenti,,n to the subject. Such a course would be not only
fair to him, but to his Noble Frir.ed who preceded him,
and who was touch bitter :ride t, give a reply than himself,
inasmuch as a considerable portion of the proceedings
took place &sling the time. his Noble ..Wend had
held the Colonial c,.ls. It was only trying fl libel case
on r again, with an English translatioo of an hall:tit weir.
sioo- lie thought the stat, of cxciioniont iu v.hich the
Noble and Learned Lord wan, made it very desirahle
that notice should be given for 111,:ioLy or sonic
other day. He would artswer the questi.n ttl the present
occasi•in, but he protested that this was the lint time he
would answer a question without notice. The ordinance
had been sent out by his Noble Friend who preceded him,
on the recommendation of the Commissioners, subject to
such alteration as the Council might consider advisable.
The only step he had taken in the matter was, to suspend, but
not to disallow the law until her Majesty's pleasure should
he made known. lie regretted the absence of his Noble
Friend, who could have given much more setislactory in-
formation to the House ; but he would obierve that there
was no liberty of the Press at all until the ordinance had
been sent out ; in fact, there was nothing but a censorship.
Lord BROUGHAM could not take any blame to him-
self for asking; the question. The Noble Lord could not but
be prepared for it after the discussion of the previous night,
and the slighted degree of male curiosity—( A laugh)—
would have induced the Noble Lord to inquire into
the matter. It appeared now that the Noble Mar-
quis knew a great deal about the question. A
period of two and a half years had elspsed
between promising the liberty of the Press and its infliction
in the.present way. The censorship was ten times more
harmless than the ordinance ; for he would like to know
what censor, with a head on his shoulders, would have sent
a man six months to prison for censuring another, or even
censuring in such a manner as did not even tend to de-
fame, and that without any power to mitigate the sentence ?
Now when he, Lord Brougham, saw a promise made by
proclamation that her Majesty's Government were to
confer the liberty of the Press on Malta—when he saw this
law about to be inflicted, and when he recollected that
great praise was given to her Majesty's Government for
that determination, he thought it was his duty to ascertain
with whom it had originated.—( Hear, hear, hear.)
One word with respect to the new doctrine broached by
the Noble Marquis, by which he was disp,,sed
never to answer a question without previous notice. SiriCe
when had the Noble Marquis taken up that idea ? It
must have been since he came into that House, for in the
other House it was matter of every night's occurrence, and
he ( Lord B.) had often put questions to the Noble
viscount at the head of the Board of Controut, and the
Board of Admiralty without giving five seconds previous
notice, and they had invariaWy been answered, unless the
question was one that could not be answered without pre.
vious inquiry. The Noble Marquis, forsooth, seht he
would not answer such question. The Noble Marquis
was the fiat Minister who had refused to answer such a
question. —( Cries of " Hear, hear.") In the high and
palmy days of strong Governments, and great majorities,
Ministers, with that Pliability which perhaps was easier to
strong minds than to week—(A laugh)--,had always an-
swered questions unless they had not the requisite infor-
mation. The Noble and Learned Lord went on to make
a statement of the two different councils in Malta, Rain.
ing that a new system of duties had been established by one
of teem greatly increased in amount, and raising 70,000/.
or 80,000/. a year, but there was no authority for collect-
ing these duties, which were therefore - illegal. A
code had been prepared for this purpose, of. which the
Chief Justice had disapproved, and had therefore been de-
sir.,d to withdraw, and now, doubtless, the code would
pass.—(Hear, hear, and laue,iner.)
Lord NORMAN 13 Y said that the Noble and Learned-
Lord would never have been allowed to make such a speech
without notice in the House of Commons.—( An ironical
cry of " Hear, hear," from Lord Brcughem. ) He .had
not objected to the question, because he was not possessed
of information—for he was—but because he objected upon
principle to questions assuming the shape of long speeches
requiring, unless their impression was to be allowed to go
unanswered-s-equally long speeches by way of reply without
preparation, and especialy he bad objected upon aground
which be thought would have been intelligibleto the fair and
candid mind of the Noble and Learned Lord.—( Hear.) The
absence of a Noble Friend of his better acquainted with the
subject. With regard to what the Noble and Learned Lord
had said as to strong Governments, whether the Government
was strong or weak he ( Lord N.) would use his own
discretion as to the answering any questions which were
put to him at the moment. He would take no notice of
the tone which the Noble and Learned Lord had thought
proper to adopt, but he would tell that Noble and Learned
Lord that he would adhere to what he considered the line
of his duty, unmoved by the language or gesticulations of
the Noble and Learned Lord.
Lord BROUG HAM said, as to making a speech with-
out a motion he would now conclude with one.—( A cry of
.. Notice.") A notice was not imperative—it was matter of
courtesy—and tire motion was a matter of course, for it was
only for the copy of an order which had been published in the
Government Gezette—a copy of the ordinance respecting
the liberty of the press in Malta—an ordinance which he
could not 1.04 under the knowledge that it was in force,
and which he should bring before the House in a week, if
it was not revoked b;lore.
The Marquis of NO RMANBY agreed to the motion.
Lord BROUGHAM then moved for the return of the
salaries actually ;bald to the Judges, which he was
surprised to find differed from the salaries authorised by Act
of Parliament, and he thought this subversire of judicial
independence. •
The Duke of WELLINGTON said the House en-
joyed very considerable advantages for a long time from the