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London, England, 1853-04-22 00:00:00

LICENCES FOR TRADE IN IRELAND.

On the motion of Sir D. NORREYS, a return was
agreed to of the comparative amount now charged for
every licence for a trade or profession in Ireland.

DUTY ON CURRANTS.

In reply to Mr. EWART,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it
was not his intention to reduce the duty on currants
to the same proportion as that on raisins, the former
being more valuable. Though he proposed to reduce the
duty on raisins to 125., that would still be a higher ad
valorem, duty than the 15s. now levied on currants.
POST-OFFICE.

In answer to Sir D. L. Evi.xs,
Mr. WILSON said he was not aware that a petition
had been sent to the Postmaster-General a month ago,
soliciting him to fix the last delivery of letters at nine,
instead of ten o'clock; but he would make inquiries, and
ascertain whether, if such a petition had been received,
any steps had been taken with-reference to it.
BARNSTAPLE ELECTION.

Mr. W. 0. STANLEY said a petition had been pre-
sented to-night on the subject of the Barnstaple election
committee, but he would suggest that no steps should
he taken in it until after the motion for a commission
had been disposed of.
Mr. S. WORTLEY said he had no intention to found
any motion upon it.

DOCKYARD PROMOTIONS.

On the motion of an Hoer. MEMBER the minute of
council relative to dockyard promotions was ordered to
be laid on the table of the house.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
On the motion that the house at its rising do adjourn
un,til Monday next,
litolnl.o,Hved.A.RfoCrOasUfaßrTbraoseke
as
tehoeinlp2laithnofthmatarachreltausrtnhande

not yet been laid on the table. The return related to
the number of persons employed as surveyors or engi-
neers under the Board of Health, specifying where so
employed. Something in the shape of a return had been
laid on the table of the house, but it was grossly imper-
fect.

Sir W. MOLESWORTH said the return had been
laid upon the table, though it was not printed ; and he
was informed by the Board of Health that it was per-
fectly correct. The omissions which the hon. member
complained of were attributable, not to the neglect of
the Board of Health, but to the manner in which the
motion for the return was worded.

SOUTH SEA AND OTHER ANNUITIES COM•
MUTATION BILL.
_ .

On the motion that the Speake;—doleave the chair for
going into committee on this bill,
Sir F. KELLY said it had been his intention to move
an instruction to the committee relative to the creation
of a new 2i per cent. stock, but he was told that the
object he had in view could be as easily attained by
moving an amendment in committee, and he would
therefore not stand in the way of the Speaker leaving
the chair. (Hear.)
The house then went into committee.
Clause 1 was agreed to without discussion.
On clause 2,

Sir F. KELLY expressed his entire dissent to the
main principle of the scheme which this bill embraced.
He apologised to the committee for being unable to deal
with the complexities of the measure, but, at the
same time, he promised that he would do his
best to apply a simple common sense understanding
to the subject. He did not disapprove of the proposal
to commute the South Sea Stock. The bill appeared
to embrace three objects. The first was to bring about
a large and substantial reduction of the capital debt
of the country, the second the creation of a new Two-
and-a-Half per Cent. permanent Stock, and the third the
authorisation ofanumber of Exchequeribonds to be issued.
for the benefit of the commercial community. He had
given the scheme his best attention; and the conclusion
he had arrived at, was nothing more than this, viz.,
that it was inconsistent, impracticable, mischievous,
and unjust, and he should feel it to be his duty
to resist the measure to the last, unless the Go-
vernment would consent to abandon that portion
of it which had reference to the creation of new
stock for increasing the capital stock of the country.
The new stock to be issued might be classed under three
distinct heads—the first, he would call No. 1; the se-
cond, No. 2 ; and the third, No. 3. The first proposed
to create a new 31 per Cent. stock with a guarantee that
the interest should not be reduced below 2/. 17s. 9d. per
annum for forty years. The second would create
a new stock ' to carry interest at the rate of
21. 15s. per cent. per annum for a given period, viz., 40
years, at the expiration of which the Government were
to have the option of paying off the stock at the rate of
1101. per cent. The third would establish a new system
of Exchequer Bonds, easy of transference, and carrying
interest after the rate of 21. 15s. in the first instance,
and then a guarantee of 21. 10s. per cent. for 30 years.
Now, he contended that these three alternatives were
inconsistent with each other, and he must resist the
whole scheme unless proposal No. 2 were altogether
struck out. No. 1, if properly carried out, might ulti-
mately effect a saving of 700,0001. or 900,0001. a-year ;
but Nos. 2 and 3 would at once add no less than 4,000,000/.
to the capital stock of the national debt, and if he stood
upon that objection alone, it would be sufficient to justify
his resisting the present measure. But the dividend to
be paid upon No. 2 was grossly excessive, when they
remembered that the holders of the new stock were to
be paid off with a bonus of 101. per cent., and that was
an additional reason for his opposing the scheme. Who
could say when it would be for the interest of the State
to pay off the 2i per cents. ? but if that opportunity
should arise, the sclieine would put it out of the
power of the Legislature to accept it, because
it guaranteed the interest for 40 years. Within the
next 40 years the interest of money might fall from 3/.
to 24 per cent. ; but if this bill should pass as it now
stood, the Legislature, in availing itself of this state of
things to pay off this stock, would have to pay a bonus
of 10/. upon every 1001. worth of stock.
[LEFT SPEAKING.)

SHERIFF'S COURT-(THIS DAY.)

(Before James Burchell, Esq.)
ORM. CON.—RITSRBROOKE V. BROOKE.

This was an inquiry to assess damages in an action
for criminal conversation with defendant's wife. De-
fendant suffered judgment to go by default. The
damages were laid at 5,0001.
Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C. (with whom was Mr.
Hawkins), appeared for the plaintiff, and stated the
case. The plaintiff is Major Robert Frederick Brown-
low Rushbrooke, of Rushkrooke-hall, Suffolk, and son
of the late Colonel Rushbrooke. Defendant, George
Nathaniel Brooke, is a captain in the navy, and brother
of Sir Philip I3rooke. In 1844 plaintiff became acs'
quainted with a young lady named Evans, and they
were! married. Mrs. Rushbrooke was entitled to pro-
perty to the extent of 5001. a year, which was settled
upon her for her own sole and separate use, and a also
jointure to about the sane amount. Defendant was
also person of good property, and likely to become a
wealthy baronet. The learned counsel submitted that
this Ivas a case icy which the jury would be justified in
giving large damages, for Mrs. Rushbrooke was still
entitled to the 5001. under the settlement. The facts of
the Case respecting the elopement were then stated, as
afterwards proved in evidence.
The Under-Sheriff having summed up, the jury re-
tired,l and returned a verdict for 3,0001. for the
plaintiff.

TIE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

liORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 11.

Neftice is hereby given, that his Royal Highness Prince
Albert will, by the desire of her Majesty, hold a Levee at
St. James's Palace, on behalf of her. Majesty, on Wednes-
day, the 27th instant, at two o'clock
It ;is her Majesty's pleasure that presentations to his
Royal Highness at the Levee shall be considered equivalent
to presentations to the Queen.
Addresses to the Queen may either be forwarded to her
Majety through the Secretary of State for the Home De-
partMent, or may be reserved until her Majesty shall hold
a Levee.
REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE
i LEVEE AT ST. JAMES'S PALACE.
The Noblemen and .Gentlemen who purpose to attend
the Levee, at St. James's Palace, are requested to bring
with'them two large cards, with their names clearly written
thereon, one to be left with the Queen's Page in Attend-
ance in the Presence-chamber, and the other to be de-
livered to the Lord Chamberlain, who will announce the
namd. ' •
ThOse Gentlemen who are to be presented are hereby
informed,
absolutely
at the Lord Chamberlain's
the name of the Nobleman or Gentleman who is to present
hee:ed shouldit is
delivered
be necessary that their names, with
Office, before twelve o'clock, on the Monday previous to the
Levee, in order that they may be submitted for approba-
t
tion I it being her Majesty's command, that no presenta-
tion shall be made at the Levees but in conformity with
the a'bove regulations.
It is particularly requested, that in every case the names
be veiry distinctly written upon the cards to be delivered to
the ord Chamberlain, in order that there may be no diffi-
cult in announcing them.
i T state apartments will not be open for the reception
of C pang coming to Court until half-past one o'clock.

WAR OFFICE, APRIL 22.
2d !Regiment of Life Guards—Lieutenant Henry Savile
Lumley to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hon. Robert
Neville Lawley, who retires ; Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant
Robert O'Brien, Jameson to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Lumley, April 22.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Cornet John W. Kil-
lington to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lord George
Charles Gordon Lennox, who retires, April 22.
3d Dragoon Guards—James Charles Still, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Swinburne, promoted ; Serjeant-
Major Otho Vialls to be Quartermaster, vice Heydon, who
re
half-pad,
April 22.
Lieutenant Harry Reginald Sainsbury
Tr permitted to retire from the service by
t6eitirhes
wnDragoons
uponhsgoo has
sas beenalf L
the sale of his Commission ; John Marcus Stewart, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, April 22.

11th Light Dragoons—Geoi.ge Ashby Maddock, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Richmond, appointed to
the 12th Light Dragoons, April 22.
17th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Godfrey Charles Mor-
gan 17th
be Captain, by purchase, vice Erskine, who retires ;
Cornet John William Cradock Hartopp to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, -vice Morgan • Cornet Archibald Cleveland,
from the 7th Dragoon Guards, to be Cornet, vice Hartopp,
Aprt '
22.
1s Regiment of Foot—John Martin Brown, Gent. to
be E sign, by purchase, vice Murphy, who retires, April 22.
sth Foot—Edmund Spry Tritton, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Kysh, appointed to the
Ist West India Regiment, April 22.
6th Foot—Henry BarkinsonP Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Annesley, promoted; April 22.
7th Foot—Lieutentant Arthur Hunt, from the 54th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Maunsell, who exchanges,
April 22.

13th Foot—George Henry Cobham, Gent., to be Ensign/
by purchase, vice Boyd, promoted, April 22.
lgth Foot—Edward. Hayes Wilton, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Graves promoted, April 22.
21st Foot—Figt Lieutenant 'John Millar Bannatyne to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Dunbar Dunbar, who re-
tires ; Second Lieutenant' William Henry Carleton to be
First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bannatyne ; Richard
Stephens, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Carleton Lieutenant Francis Eastwood. Nuport
Tinley to be Adjutant, vice Bannatyne, promoted, April
22.

23rd Foot—Ensign William Halshed Poole, from the
91st Foot, to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jer-
voise, promoted; Edward Griffith Bowen Thomas, Gent.,
to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Carnegie, pro-
moted, April 23.
24th Foot—Charles Aldersey Turner, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Hays, who retires, April 22.
25th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Frederick Browne to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Lord Burghersh, promoted, by
purchase, to an Unattached Majority; Ensign John
Henry Tripp, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Browne,
April 22.
26th Foot, Estcourt Day, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Merton, promoted. April 22.
33rd Foot, John Ralph Carr, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Harnett, promoted. April 22.
44th Foot, Harcourt Campbell Carter, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Ingham, prometed. April 22.
45th Foot, Richard Grey, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Young, appointd to the 73rd Foot.
April 22. _ .

46th Foot, William Thomas Waldy, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice A. H. Waldy, promoted. April 22.
49th Foot, John Hopkins, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Molesworth, promoted in the 7th Foot.
April-22.
51st Foot—Ensign William Stewart Richardson, from
the 43th Foot,,to be Ensign, vice Medhurst, promoted.
April 22.
54th Foot, Lieutenant Charles Cullen Maunsell, from the

7th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Hunt, who exchanges,
April. 22.

55th Foot—Lieutenant William Macdonnell, of the 55th
Regiment, to be Paymaster, vice James Edward Boggis,
who retires upon half-pay. April 22.
59th Foot Henry Charles Evans, Gent., 'to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Hacket, promoted. April 22.
63d Foot—John Hudson, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Swire, appointed to the 17th Foot, April 22.
73d Foot—Ensign Richard James
,Hereford to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Arnie!, who retires ; Bryan
George Davies Cooke, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Stacpoole, who retires, April 22.
77th Foot—Matthew William Dickson, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Hardinge, appointed to
the 54th Foot, April 22.
78th Foot—Quartermaster Joseph Webster, of the
78th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Evans, who retires upon
half-pay; Quartermaster Patrick Carroll, from the 2d West
India Regiment, to be Quartermaster, vice Webster, ap-
pointed Paymaster, April 22.
80th Foot—Colour-Sergeant Wellington Browne to be
Quartermaster, vice Crawford, who retires upon half-pay,
April 22.
83d Foot—Julian Wakefield, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Richardson, promoted, April 22.
86th Foot—Ensign Charles Fraser, from the 69th Foot;
to be Ensign, vice Neville, who retires, April 22.
87th Foot—Second Lieutenant Edmund Henry John
Meredyth, to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice God-
dard, whose promotion, by purchase, on the Bth April, has
been cancelled ; Ensign Walter Carr Mackinnon, from the
64th Foot, to be Second Lieutenant,vice Prescott, promoted
in the 7th Foot, April 22.
91st Foot—Ensign Malcolm Potter Macqueen to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Smyth, whoretires ; William
Halshed Poole, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Warren, appointed to the 65th Foot, April 22.
92nd Foot—Ensign Charles Greenhill, to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice 'Cameron, promoted ; William Farqu-
harson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Inverarity,
promoted, April 22.
95th Foot—Edmund Davidson Bmith, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice J. R. D'Loghlin, appointed to the
27th Foot, April 22 ; William Braybrooke, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Clerk, promoted, April 23 ; En-
sign George Brown, to be Adjutant, vice Sargent, who re-
signs the Adjutancy
.only; Ensign Christopher More
Molyneux has been permitted to retire from the Service
by the sale of his Commission ' • Assistant-Surgeon Robert
Ferguson, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Gordon, promoted .on the Staff, April 22.
96th Foot—Francis Pike, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Deane, appointed to the 22nd Foot, April 22.
98th Foot—Francis Lambton, Genf., to be Ensign by
purchase, vice Goddard, promoted, April 22.
Ist West India Regiment—John Robert Blacker, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Upton, promoted, April 22.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment, George Edmond Francis, Gent.,
to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Waters, pro-
moted. April 22.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant-Surgeon Huntley George
Gordon, M.D., from the 95th Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon of
the Second Class, vice Logie, appointed to the Royal Horse
Guards; Johnston Ferguson, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon
to the Forces, vice Ferguson appointed to the 95th Foot,
April 22.
UNATTACHED. Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Terence
O'Brien, from Major half-pay 87th Foot, late Deputy-Ad-
jutant-General, at Barbadoes, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
without purchase ; Brevet-Major Francis William Henry
Lord Burg,hersh, from the 25th Foot, to be Major, by pur-
chase, April 22.
BREVET.—Captain Frederick Geddes Bull, on half-pay
of the 60th Foot (Staff Officer of Pensioners), to be Major
in the army, Nov. 11.
MEmoitANDtim.--The christian names of Captain Knox,
on half-pay unattached, are " Charles Henry. '
Major William Driberg, upon half-pay unattached, has
been permitted to retire from the army by the sale of
his commission, he being about to become a settler in the
Colonies, April" 22.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, APRIL 22.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Gentleman Cadet Charles
Gray Johnson to be Second-Lieutenant, vice Whinyates,
promoted ; Gentleman Cadet Henry Cardew to be Second-
Lieutenant, vice Blackburne, promoted, April 8 ; Brevet-
Major John Edward Dupuis to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice d'Arley, retired upon full-pay ; Second-Captain Henry
Bourchier Osborne Savile to be Captain, vice Dupuis ;
First-Lieutenant Charles Wright to be Second-Captain,
vice Savile ; Second-Lieutenant Christopher Charles Tees-
dale to be First-Lieutenant, vice Wright, April 22.
Corps of Royal Engineers—First-Lieutenant Henry
Grain to be Second Captain, vice Vavatour, retired on
half-pay; Second Lieutenant George Reid Lempriere to be
First Lieutenant, vice Grain, April 22.
Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners—Serjeant-Major
George Allan and Serjeant William Young to be Quarter-
masters, April 1. -

ADMIRALTY, APRIL 19.
Corps of Royal Marines—Gentleman Cadet Charles Hope
Clendon to be Second Lieutenant; Gentleman Cadet
George Weatherall Thomas Hemmans to be Second Lieu-
tenant ; Gentleman Cadet Fitzmaurice Creighton to be
Second Lieutenant; Gentleman Cadet Wyvil James Christy
to be Second Lieutenant.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Emil Kretzschmar, manufacturing jeweller, King-square,
3iiddlesex.

Arthur Hammond Jenkins and Edward John Wood-
house, wine merchants, Gloucester.

BANKRUPTS.
Lewis Frederick Bellot, merchant, Old Jewry-chambers,
to surrender, May 3, *and June 2, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street.
buildings ; Crowder and Maynard, Coleman-street.
William Hodges Gough, builder, Gloucester, May 5 and
June 2, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller,
official assignee, Bristol ; Lovegrove, Gloucester.
William Henry Adams, woollen draper, St. John-street.
road, May 3, at half-past eleven, and June 8, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Harris,
bur Moorgate-street, and Sole, Turner and Turner, Alderman-
y.

Robert Rutherford, merchant, St. John's, Newfound-
land, trading at Manchester, May 3 and 25, at twelve, at
the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee,
Manchester ; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Man-
chester.

Charles Doudney Cray, grocer, Southampton, May 2, at
two, and June 6, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane ; Linklater, Sise-
lane, Bucklersbury.
Joshua Scholes, shopkeeper, Ashton-under-Lyne, May 2
and 3, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Putt, official assignee, Manchester ; Potter and Tooke,
Manchester; or Johnson, Weatherall, and Son, Temple,
London.

Kelland Down, grocer, Taunton, April 29, and June 11,
at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official
assignee, Basinghall-street ; J. and J. H. Linklater, Sise-
lane, City.
George Barber, grocer, Bishopsgate-street Without,
May 3, at half-past one, and June 8, at two, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Stansfekl, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; ',Vallls, Now Broad-street, City.