The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-30 00:00:00

MAIDSTONE ELECTION.

Mr. CRAITFURD moved for a new writ for the election
of a member for Maidstone, in the room of Mr. Dodd,
whose election has been declared void.
Mr. DISRAELI hajing once had the honour of being
member for Maidstone was naturally interested in that
constituency. (Hear.) He must say he thought there
were very suspicious circumstances here. (Hear.) He
would suggest an adjournment to Friday next.
The debate was accordingly adjourned.
BANKRUPTCY LAW (SCOTLAND).
On the motion of the LORD ADVOCATE, leave was
given to him to bring in a bill to amend the laws relating
to bankruptcy in Scotland.
CASE OF LIEUTENANT INGLEDUE.

Sit G. PECHELL then called the attention of the house
to the case of Lieut. Ingledue, who was dismissed the ser-
vice for impertinence and disobedience of orders. This
gentleman, he said, had represented that he could be very
useful to the Government in the election at Southampton,
and was restored to his rank in the month of January,
1852. He had memorialised three Boards of Admiralty ;
he had memorialised the fourth, who had refused his appli-
cation, and who afterwards appointed him as soon as cer-
tain explanations were made as to his political value in the
town of Southampton. The very day after his appoint-
ment the Government of the Duke of Northumberland
was very properly bundled out of office ; but the whole
case was so suspicious, and reflected so much discredit on
the Government by whom the appointment had been made
that he thought the case ought to be referred to the dock-
yard appointments committee.
Capt. SCOBELL seconded the motion. He complained
that a gentleman who had been ten years out of the ser-
vice had been restored under these circumstances, after
having rendered himself useful at the Southampton election.
Mr. STAFFORD said the difference between the appli-
cation in June, when it was refused, and in December,
when it was accepted, was contained in the three last lines
of the last paragraph of the memorial to the board. [The
hon. gentleman read an extract fromthe memorial ofLieut.
Ingledue to the board tendering his services for the pur-
pose of assisting (as we understood) in the manning of oer•
tain vessels of war.] The house might agree, in a naval
point of view, with the opinion of the late Board of Admi-
ralty. They would remember that additional forces were
ordered, and that great difficulty was experienced in pro-
curing seamen to enter the service. Under such circum-
stances, the late board felt that the services of such a man
as Lieut. Ingledue were partly necessary towards the
equipment of the navy. And, therefore, though it was
quite true that they did refuse him in June, they thought
it was not compatible with their sense of duty to throw
overboard his proposition when he might be of great ser-
vice to the board in procuring seamen. Now for the poli-
tical aspect of the case. Did it show much skill to refuse
Lieut. Ingledue when on the point of a general election ?
It would have been perfectly competent for the Board of
Admiralty to have appointed him then, or have postponed
their answer to the memorial. But that. was not done.
In the face of a general election they refused to reinstate
him. Well, when the general election came on what was
Lieut. Ingledue's conduct ? In Southampton the borough
was contested, yet Lieut. Ingledue divided his vote equally,
and voted for both candidates. Did the hon. member op-
posite, therefore, wish to lay it down as a principle that no
officer should ever be promoted because he had voted for
the Government. (Oh, and hear.) He believed that the
late Board of Admiralty had only done their duty in not
rejecting the application made to them at such a time and
from such a person, and if that house thought otherwise it
would be for the Executive Government to consider it, and
it was quite within the power of the present Board to
strike Lieut. Ingledue's name off the list altogether, or to
order him, in a small gun-brig, to the coast of Africa, and
if he declined to go, to dismiss him. (Hear.) If the house
thought fit to send the present motion to the committee
sitting upon the question of dockyard appointments, it, of
course, could do so ; but ho was bound to maintain that
the late Board had merely done what was necessary for the
good of the service in reinstating that officer, and whose
re-appointment he denied had given any offence to the
service.

Mr. PHINN would not detain the house at that late
hour with more than one or two observations. It appeared
to him, and ho believed to the country generally, that the
appointment was not given at once to Lieut. Ingledue,
because it was reserved until he had displayed his zeal at
the general election. The labourer was worthy of his
hire ; but he believed he never got his hire until he had
earned it. With regard to his having given his vote to a
Conservative and Liberal candidate, he voted for the chair-
man of the Steam Packet Company, his master, and
against the Attorney-General, against the return of whom
the whole efforts of the Conservative party were directed
at that time. (Hear, hear.) The circumstances of the
case were at least suspicious, and he thought that they
were made more suspicious by: the fact that two of the
naval lords of the late board had protested against the ap-
pointment.
Mr. STAFFORD was not aware of the precise circum-
stances that took place at the board as he was away from
town at the time that the application was made. If the
hon. member who had just sat down would look to the
paper he would find that the appointment was signed by
one of the secretaries to the board (Captain Hamilton we
believe). He (Mr. Stafford) was of course jointly answer-
able with him for that document, but he must protest
against being called upon, as Secretary to the Admiralty,
to state the divisions that took place at that board, and th e
course of the various debates—if he might use that term—
which occurred in their official meetings. (Hear, hear.)
Though he was not aware of any division of opinion hav-
ing occurred, as he was not in town at the time, it was
done by the Board of Admiralty, and he must therefore
refuse being called upon, as their secretary, to give any
explanations with regard to the matter. (Hear, hear.)
Captain DUNCOMBE said, as one of the late Board of
Admiralty, he was bound to boar testimony to the zeal
and efficiency with which Lieutenant Ingledue had dis-
charged his duties since his re-appointment. The tact and
discretion with which ho had equipped those vessels which
were ordered for sea was beyond all praise, and he was
entitled to any reward which the country could give him.
The motion was then agreed to.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the house adjourned at twenty minutes past one until
Monday next.

RAILWAY RETURNS.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)

MANCHESTER, April 29.—Since our last report, ad-
vioes of three days' later date have been received from
the United States, stating that business was more aetive
in the southern markets, and the prices of cotton rather
higher. But these accounts are entirely without effect
on this side the Atlantic. All parties seem to feel
the necessity of acting with caution in a state of
things in which (comparing existing conditions with
those of a year back), the raw material is so dear
as it is at present. Spinners have gone on quietly
purchasing merely what cotton they are actually in
want of ; and, by doing so, they have defeated every at-
tempt that has been made in Liverpool to raise prices.
Under these circumstances, the buyers of the medium
and lower counts of yarns have shown a good deal of
hesitation in their operations ; but, in none of these,
can we quote prices lower, though perhaps in 24's to
30's warps and cops, there is a slight advantage on the
buyer's side. The value of fine spinnings is firmly
maintained. In the department of goods, the firmness
of the market is fully as decided as in that of yarns ;
and there is more doing in the former than in the latter.
Domestics, however, continue dull. Altogether, the
market is characterised by a firmness as nearly uni-
form as possible • and this is what might be expected,
for, although the prices of cotton are high, those of
yarns in general, and of many kinds of goods, are rela-
tively so low as to leave no room for the least decline.
The advices from India have not given, and are not cal-
culated to give any impulse to such goods and yarns as
are sent to the East. To-day we have the brokers' ac-
count of the stock of cotton in Liverpool, which is
769,571 bales, or more than 60,000 bales less than the
estimate. This has occasioned a good deal of renewed
comment upon the mode of keeping accounts amongst
our neighbours. But, at any rate, it has caused the
holders of cotton to assume somewhat more of stiffness
in price. It appears that, at Ashton, Staley Bridge,
and Mossley, the operatives have succeeded in limiting
the time of working the mills to that which the law
allows as the maximum for young persons.
GLASGOW, April 29.—Our cotton market has con-
tinued very steady throughout the week, and a fair
business has been transacted. We have no change to
note in prices.
BRADFORD, April 28.—Wools—There is no altera-
tion either in the supply of wool offering or the disposi-
tion to buy, and as it is too early for new wool to be
brought into the market, we may expect a paucity of
sales till the price of the coming clips is established.
Noils and and brokes are steady at late prices.—Yarns
—The end of the month is usual for renewal of orders for
time, but the advanced price of wool renders it impera-
tive to seek prices that cannot be made in goods, and
for the Lancashire market less is doing, but generally
all is consumed as made, and there is no accumulation of
stock. Pieces.—There is little, if any alteration in this
department. All wool goods, merinoes, lastings, and
moreens, are now made at such a dear rate that it is
imperative to lessen the production till the , season ap-
proaches suitable for their wear, and prices commen-
surate with the cost can be realised. In other goods
made of mixed materials there is no change, but great
murmuring from the high price of materials used no
profit can be made. Fancy goods are still inquired for,
and some flounced goods, or robes, are to a good extent
inquired after.—Bradford Observer.
NOTTINGHAM, April 28.—1 n the lace department
some houses still complain of want of business, while
others express themselves satisfied with the condition of
things, particularly those employed in making silk fancy
laces ; the great difficulty they experience is not being
able to obtain this textile of good quality in sufficient
quantities. The hosiery trade is good in most of its
varied branches. Yarn for each trade is selling at high
rates, without a prospect of a reduction.—Nottingham
Journal.

TEE IRON AND METAL TRADES OF SOUTH STAFFORD-
SEIRE.—BIRMINGHAM, April 28.—During the past week
there has been considerable animation in the principal
branches of our manufacture, and there is every reason
to look forward to a continuation of brisk trade. Some
good orders for the summer have been received since my
last letter from America, and still more extensive would
in all probability have been forwarded, had the reduction
which has taken place in the price of metals been
known there. The iron trade is buoyant, additional
furnaces are being blown in throughout the district,
and the supply does not exceed the demand; nor is it
likely large stocks will accumulate, if half the American
and Continental railways of which prospectuses have
been issued are carried out. Prices are, therefore, firm,
and will be maintained throughout the quarter. The
metal market has undergone a still further reduction.
Tin went down 41. per ton on Friday last, but copper
maintains my last quotation of from 1181. to 1201. per
ton. There is a good supply of these two articles in the
market, and the leading manufacturers of brass and tin
goods are in possession of large orders, which they are
now able to execute. Notwithstanding the enormous
quantity of goods already sent out to Australia, we are
not discouraged. Hardly a luggage-train leaves Bir-
mingham without consignments for the gold region.
The South American trade is above the average, many
extensive orders for fancy articles having been received
within the last month.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of YESTERDAY

DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 29.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint James Meade,
Esq., to be Provost-Marshal for the Island of Montserrat.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint John
Pownall Dale, Esq , to be a member of the Legislative
Council of the Falkland Islands.

CROWN-OFFICE, APRIL 26.
MEMBERS RETURNIID TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough otAthlone—William Keogh, Esq., of Rutland-
square, in the city of Dublin, her Majesty's Solicitor-
General for Ireland.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
sth Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Charles
Hamilton Fenton, Esq., to be Adjutant.

•
COMMISSIONS, SIGNED BT THE LORD LIEUTENANT,
County Palatine of Lancaster.-sth Regiment of Royal
Lancashire Militia.—Adjutant Charles Hamilton Fenton,
late Captain 9th and 53rd Regiment of Foot, to serve with
the rank of Captain—James Greenwood to be Captain—
John Weld, Esq., to be Captain—Ralph Holden, Esq., to
be Captain—John Joseph Middleton, Esq., to be Captain
—Thomas Goulburne Parker, Esq., to be Captain—Edicard
Petre, Esq., to be Captain—George Deeks Skingley, Esq„
to be Captain—William Lister Sagar, Esq., to be Captain
—John Pickup Lord, Esq., to be Captain—Frederic Broad-
bent, Esq., to be Captain—Philip Gilbert Hammerton,
Gent., to be Lieutenant—Antony Buck Creek, Gent., to
be Lieutenant—Edward Francis Ward, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant—Daniel Grant Brereton, Gent., to be Lieutenant
—William Miller Coultate, Gent., to be Surgeon.
County of Surrey-Ist Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia.
—To be Lieutenant, Stewart Forbes, Esq.
3rd Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia—To be Majors
—Major John William Gooch Spicer, Major 2nd Regiment
Royal Surrey Militia— Major Thomas Henry Clarke Terry,
Major Ist Regiment Royal Surrey Militia.
Tower Hamlets—King's Own Light Infantry Regiment
of Militia—Frederick James Louis Wyatt to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Robinson, who retires.
County of Glamorgan—Royal Glamorganshire Light
Infantry Militia— Charles Deacon, Esq., late Captain in
her Majesty's 9th Regiment,of Light Dragoons (Lancers)
to be Captain.
County of Somerset— 2d Somerset Militia—Lieutenant
Alfred Waring to be Captain, vice Lethbridge, resigned.
[The following article is substituted for that which appeared
in the Gazette of Tuesday, April 19.]
2d Somerset Militia—Frederick Joseph Blake Sparway,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Stoodley, promoted.
Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant
William Philip Snell, to be Captain, vice Hodges, resigned,
retaining his rank—Ensign Christopher Charles Home to
be Lieutenant, vice Fox, deceased—Ensign Vincentio
Corbet Lee to be Lieutenant, vice Middlemas, resigned—
Ensign George Thomas West to be Lieutenant, vice Mc
Gregor, resigned—Ensign Henry Boscawen Ibbetson to be
Lieutenant, vice Miller, resigned.
Royal West Middlesex Rifle Regiment of Militia—Con-
stantine Hayward Read, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.
Royal Westminster Regiment of Middlesex Militia—
Henry Joseph Plumridge Woodhead, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant—Thomas Sturges Walford, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant.
Royal West Middlesex Rifle Regiment of Militia—Dottin
Maycock, Esq. (late 6th Dragoons), to be Captain.
North York Rifle Regiment of Militia—Edward Twed-
dell Atkinson, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon.
Sherwood Rangers—The Most Noble Henry Pelham,
Duke of Newcastle, to be Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant,
vice Sir Thomas Wollaston White, Bart, who retires.
Royal Sherwood Foresters, or Nottinghamshire Regi-
ment of Militia—John Charles Long Marsh, Gent., to be
Ensign.
County of Dorset, Queen's Own Regiment of Yeomanry
Cavalry.—Cornet Marwood Shuttleworth Yeatman to be
Lieutenant, vice Bradshaw, retired.
[The following article is substituted for that which appeared
in the Gaze,tte of Friday, April 22.]
County of Stafford—King's Own 3d Regiment of Staf-
fordshire Militia—Philips Buchanan, Esq., late of her Ma-
jesty's 6th Dragoon Guards, to be Captain.
County of Lincoln—Royal North Lincoln Militia—The
thaw,
County of Oxford—Queen's Own egiment of O
Rxford-
,WGoarsati.e,yttaohbeelittetuatneannatn.t--Henry Valentine Gran-
shire Yeomanry Cavalry —Frederick Loftus Dashwood,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice George Astley Charles Dash-
wood, retired—Clement Cottrell Dormer, Gent., to be
Lieutenant, vice Hugh Montgomery, retired.
County of Berks—Hungerford Corps of Yeomanry Ca-
valry—Captain George Willes to be Major—Lieutenant
Henry Coe Coape to be Captain, vice Willes, promoted—
Lieutenant Capel Coape to be Captain—Henry Richard
Seymour, Esq , to be Captain—Cornet William Willes to
be Lieutenant, vice Henry Coe Coape, promoted—Albert
Richard Tull, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Capel Coape,
promoted—Henry Edward Astley, Gent., to be Cornet.
ADMIRALTY, APRIL 26.

Corps of Royal Marines First-Lieutenant Jennyn
Charles Symonds to be Captain, vice John Henry Mercer,
resigned ; Second-Lieutenant Henry Rolt Tomlin to be
First-Lieutenant, vice Symonds, promoted.
MEMORANDIIM.—:The date of Commissions of the under-
mentioned officers in the Royal Marines is 18th, not 19th,
April, 1853, as previously stated :
Second-Lieutenants—Charles Hope Clendon, George
Weatherall Thomas Hemmans, Fitzmaurice Creighton, and
Wyvill James Christy.
BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
William Ward Andrews, ironmonger, Wolverhampton.