The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-27 00:00:00

NGE.-aIIIS DAY.)

ATROCITIES OF THE NEAPOLITAN ARMY.

11r. BANKES, understanding that there was
no obj( ction on the part of the Noble Lord
the Secretary of State for the Foreign Department to
the motion of which he had given notice, move d an
address for copies of the informations received by Go-
vernment, on which the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs had grounded statements made in this House re-
lative to atrocities alleged to have been committed by the
Neapolitan army in Sicily.—Agreed to.
ENGLAND SUPPLYING ARMS TO THE
SICILIANS.

Mr. BANKES wished to put a question to the Noble
Lord relative to a subject of some importance. Rumours
were prevalent that some of the arms used by the insur-
gents in Sicily had come from her Majesty's Government.
He wished to know if such was the tact ?
Lord PALMEttSTON said that no stores had been
given from the Government. The fact was, a contrac•
tor who was in the habit of supplying guns to the
•'rdnance applied for leave to take back some of the
arms he had supplied, in order to complete an order from
Sicily ; and on the matter bring referred to the
Foreign. office, he (Lord Palmerston) thought there could
be no obj,etion to allowing the party to bcak some of
the arms upon the understanding he was to furni►h others
tor them.

Mr. BAILEY trusted the papers would not be cur-
tailed in any way.—(Cries of " Order, order.") Oh, he
would put a question, then, and he would ask whether it
was likely that these papers would be mutilated' as for-
mer colonial documents had been ?—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. HAWES—Sir, the question put by the Hon.
Gentleman is a most unusual one, and it is calculated to
excite a prejudice, which, however, I am happy to have
this public opportunity of distinctly and entirely re-
moving.—(Hear.) It has been stated more thin once
by parties whom the Hon. Gentleman knows well, that
instances have occurred that dispatches have been cur-
tailed by my Noble Friend at the head of the Colonial.
office for purposes of his own.—(Hear, hear.) It
is utterly unfounded. It is altogether unfounded
that there has been anything of the kind —(Hear,
hear.) It will be remembered that there dispatches
were moved for by Lord George Bentinck in a former
essien, and an explrnatiou was given by me at the time
that these dispatches related entirely to some appre-
hended disturbances in Jamaica, in consequence of some
exciting language used by some disappointed monopo-
lists at the passing of the Sugar Bill, through this House.
That language was to the effect that the parties there
were disposed to transfer their allegiance to the United
States of America, which had excited considerable dis-
approbation, and some disturbances were apprehended
amongst the negro population of the Island.
Now, these dispatches contained particular charges
and referred to particular individuals by name;
but it was found that these charges which
related to certain individuals in the island, were untrue,
and the names were struck out of the dispatches, a course
which I think was quite right to adopt; and it is a course
which I approve of, and which I have determined
to take again, if there be any necessity for it ; but I tell
the House this, that when the Committee which the
Honourable Gentleman had moved for sits, there
will not be the smallest objection to place before the
Committee the whole dispute was relating to the Ceylon
affairs; but they cannot be laid before the House
or the public, as they relate to individuals,
and the private character of particular parties,
and any Minister, in my opinion, would be unfit to
continue in his office, who would consent to the publi-
cation of matters calculated to reflect unjustly upon the
character of private individuals.—(Hear, and cheers.)
Mr. BAILEY— Will the dispatches be laid before the
House.

.or. HAWES—Certainly not.
Ar
Mr. OSBORNE—But they will be laid before the
l
Committee.
HAWES—Certainly. I have not the least objec-
tion to lay them before the Committee, but certainly not
before the public in the House.
air. BAILEY—They ought to be laid before the
Ho
Mr. HAWES—Let the Hon. Gentleman move for
their production, and take the sense of the House upon
them.—(Hear.)
Mr. HUME—But the dispatches relate to the colonies
generally.—(No. no.)
The matter then dropped.
CATTLE AND SHEEP (IRELAND).
Mr. BOURKE gave notice that on Tuesday, the 13th
of March, he would move for leave to bring in a Bill ;or
the preservation of cattle end sheep, and for the more
speedy detection of cattle and sheep stealing in Ireland.
WINDING UP OF RAILWAY COMPANIES.
Mr. SANDERS wished to know whether it was
the intention of the Government to bring forward any
measures this session for facilitating the winding up of
embarrassed railway companies?
Mr. LABOUCHERE said an Act was passed
last session to facilitate the object to which the
Hon. Gentleman had adverted, and it the Aet appeared
to require any amendment, he should be ready to con-
sider any suggestions that might be made with that view,
and if necessary, to propose another measure to the
House on the subject.,
Mr. SAUNDERS—, But the Act applies only to joint-
stock compauies.--(Elear )
THE IRISH DEBATE.
Mr. J. O'CONNEI,L said his motion with regard to
the Irish poor-law, was first on the paper. He wished,
therefore, to ask the Noble Lord (Lord
John Russell), as., it was the wish of Irish
member& that there should only be one debate on
the subject, atiVas, certain parties in Ireland were
anxious that certain views should be stated to the
House as early as possible, whether he intended to
bring on the debate on the Irish Poor Law on
Thursday next, and if not, whether he could bring it
forward on Friday or Monday?
Lord J. RUSSELL was indistinctly heard in the gal-
lery, but was understood to say that it was his intention
to bring the debate on on Thursday.
Mr. F,gan, Mr. F. O'Connor, and Mr. Stafford
withdrew their motions in order to afford the Hon.
Gentleman ( Mr. J. O'Connell) an opportunity of bring-
ing on his motion on Thursday,
Lord ASHLEY said he had so repeatedly postponed
the motion which stood in his name for Thursday, that
he could not postpone it.
Lord J. RUSSELL said he had no objection to ad-
vise her Majesty to grant a commission on the subject.
RELAYS IN FISHERIES.

In reply to Mr. HINDLEY,
Sir G. GREY intimated that owing to the conflicting
opinions of magistrate's, it was the intention of the Go-
vernment to introduce a Hill on this subject.
[LEFT SPEARING.]

THE LONDON GAZETTE
(THIS EVENING.)

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FED. 22, 1849.
The Queen was this dap pleased to confer the honour of
Knighchood up n George William Anderson, Esq , Governor
of the Mauritius.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 24.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Christian
Ludwig Meyer as Consul at Port Adelaide, in South Aua-
tralia, for his Majesty the King of Hanover.
CROW FEB. 26, 1849.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR.

LI &KENT.

COUNTY OF DONEGAL.—Thomas Conolly, of Cliff, in the
said county, E•ri , in the room of Edward Michael Conolly,
Esq., deceased.
BANKRUPTS.

James Scott, boot maker, Manchester.
George Burton, engraver, Bradford.
John Armitage, innkeeper, Lintbwaite, Yorkshire.
James Gill, coal merchant, Litherland, Lancashire.
Henry Hill Spurway, brewer, Tiverton, Devonshire.
Joseph Woodharns, grocer, Tonbridge.
Thomas Atterton, moltster, Rattlesden, Suffolk.
Henry Bensley, bricklayer, Southtown, Suffolk.
Richard Higgins,
and William Higgins, drapers, Watling-
street, City.
Thomas Hughes, mealman, Newbury, Berkshire.
Frederick Skill, printer, Hugh-street, Pimlico.
Henry Loisel, jun., and Alfred Edan, foreign provision
merchant, Hatton garden, Middlesex.
William Lomas. dealer in tools, Norwich.

DIRECT ---LONDON AND PORTS-
MOUTH RAILWAY COMPANY.—(THIS DAY.)
The usual half-yearly meeting of the above company
was held this Viten:looD, at the London Tavern (Mr. W.
A. Wilkinson in the chair), when the following concise
report was submitted to the shareholders :
" Since the last meetings of the proprietors, the atten-
tion of the slirectora has been constantly applied to the
subject of the arrangement contemplat, d in the leading
paragraph of their report made to that meeting,
whereby the funds ex ended on this undertaking might
be rendered effectual, to some extent, for the pur-
poses for which they were advanced, bat they regret that
they are still unable to announce anything definite.
It will be seen by the annexed account that up to the
31st December last, the call of 1/. 10s. had been paid on
13,929 shares, and since that period it has been paid on
the further number of 1,455 shares, making in the whole
15,384 shares upon which this last call has been paiet.
Two of your directors Sir Ralph Howard, Bart., cad
John Meeson Parsons, Esq., having since the last meet-
ing of the proprietors resigned, their places have been
supplied by Robert Walter Carden, Esq. and Samuel
Laing, Esq.
The statement of accounts represented the total re-
ceipts to amount to 132,5591. 6s. 3d., of which 7,304/,
7s. 23. was received last half year, while the expenditure
was put down at 104,974/. 4s. 2d., of which 12,2144 16s.
9d. was :incurred during the past half-year, leaving a
balance of 27,5851. 2s. Id. in hand.
The report having been adopted, the retiring directors
were re elected, and the meeting terminated, with the
customary vote of thanks to the Chairman.

NEWPORT, AItERGAVENNY, AND

—(TIIIS DAY.)
:HEREFORD RAILWAI"-
The fifth ordinary tneeeting of the above company was
held to-day at the London Tavern; Captain Fitz-
maurice in the chair.
The report stated that since the last ordinary meeting
of shareholders, the Commissioners of Railways had
granted their certificate for an extension of the period for
compulsory purchase of lands, on the main line, to
August, 1851, and fur completion of that line to August,
1855- And the company's powers for purchase of lands
on the Taff Vale extension, had been extended to 1852,
and for completing that line to 1856. On receipt
of this ctrtificate, the directors made another
application to the proprietors of the Llattvi-
hangel, Grosmont, and Hereford tram roads, with a view
to a further modification of terms for completion of the
purchases of these roads respectively; and they have the
satisfaction to announce, that a provisional arrangement
had been unanimously agreed to by the shareholders of
the three companies, whereby the period of completing
the purchase of these tram roads, and paying the balance
of the purchase moneys, would be postponed. By
his arrangement, it would be opitional for the New

port, Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway Cecil')lny,
either to c;,mplete or to be relieved from the purchase
of trese roads. In the event of their not completing the
purchase, the money already paid would become for-
fei'ed ; while, on the other hand, the balance still due on
the purchase money of these tram roads, amounting to
28,7301., would no longer be a liability on the share
holders. In the meanwhile the revenue of the tram
roads would, it is expected, prove sufficient both for
payments of interest on the amount of unpaid purt.hase-
money due to the Tram•road Comp tnie*, at the rate of
five per cent. p,-r annum, and for defraying the office
expenses during the period of suspension.
The balance-sheet represented the receipts to amount
to 97,016/. 165., and the expenditure to 94,099/ 2s. 6d ,
leaving 2,917/. 14s. 43. in hand.
The report was unanimously adopted, after which the
shareholders resolved themselves into a special meeting,
and agreed to a resolution confirming the agreement re-
ferred to in the report.
Thanks were then voted the Chairman, and the meet-
ing terminated.

VALE OF NEATH RAILWAY.
(THIS DAY.)
The sixth half yearly meeting of this company was
convened for this afternoon at the Great Western Offices,
but there was not a sufficient number of shareholders
present to constitute a meeting, and Viscount Villiers,
M.P., the chairman, adjourned the meeting sine die.
The following is the substance of the &rectors' report:
During the past half-year two fresh contracts, which
would complete the communication between Neath and
Hirwain had been let to responsible contractors, who
had been put in possession of land to commence their
work. The works on the other portion of the line
had been proceeded with satisfactorily. The proprietors
would see by the statement of accounts that the sum un
paid upon the call due on the 12th April, 1847, amounted,
on the 31st Deember, to 11,696/. The directors had hesi-
tated, during the late severe pressure, to enforce by
legal means the payment of these calls; but they were
now prepared to take immediate steps for their recovery,
in every case in which there was a reasonable prospect
of success. The directors would use every effort to com-
plete the lower portion of the line, in order that it
might be opened simultaneously with the South
Wales Railway. The traffic on this section would con-
tribute to the deduction of the amount of interest which
would otherwise be chargeable against the capital of the
company. and would also afford satisfactory evidence of
the value of the undertaking, and tend to confirm the
opinion which the directors had always entertained of
its ultimate success. The balance-sheet represented
the receipts to amount to 109,2441., of which 1.240/.
was for the past half-year, and the expenditure to
71,2634 9s. 10d., of which 25,5961. was for the past half-
year, leaving 37,980/. 9s. 10,1. in hand.

TAW-VALE RAILWAY and DOCK

(THIS DAY.)
The usual half-yearly meeting of this company was
held this afternoon at the London Tavern, Mr. E. Cooper
in the chair.

The report stated that as the Legislature bad
refused to sanction the lease of the line to the South
Western company, the agreement for the lease had been
annulled. The Board of Trade would not suffer the guage
to be changed from the broad to the narrow; and as the
cost of constructing the line upon the bread gauge would
cost 70,000 L more than it it were made on the narrow,
the oirectors proposed to stop the works. From the
statement of the accounts it appeared that the expendi-
ture had exceeded the receipts by 9524135., the receipts
being 143,791/ 9s. 7d., %bile the latter only amounted to
142,838/. 16e. 7d.

The report was adopted, and the meeting closed with
a vote of thanks to the chairman.

LLYNVI VALLEY RAILWAY-

(THIS DAY).
The annual half-yearly meeting of the above Com-
pany was held this afternoon at the Great Western-
offices in the Strand. Mr. Matthews in the chair.
The report stated that traffic on the line had been
greatly reduced during the past half year, owing to the
stoppage a some iron works in the district, and the di-
rectors were, therefore, only able to pay a
dividend of 31. per cent. The old proprie-
tors, however, claimed the full 51. guaranteed,
but that question stood in abeyance in the present
and the dividend would be paid to them pro rata with the
other shareholders. From the statement of the accounts
it appeared that the revenue of the past half-) ear
amounted to 3,244/. ss. 3d., and the expenditure to
2,2281. 3s. 2d., leaving 1,0161. 2s. Id. in hared, which,
added to the previous surplus, made 1,3391. 18s. Bd.
The report was adopted after some discussion, and the
dividend having bean declared, thanks were voted to the
chairman, and the meeting terminated.

THE SOUTHAMPTON DOCK
COMPANY.—(THIS DAY.)
The half yearly general meeting of the proprietors of
this company was holden at the office of the company,
19, Bishopsgate-street-within, this day, at one o'clock,
fur the declaration ot a dividend and other business, and
for the election of four directors, who went tut by rota-
tion. Colonel Barlow, the chairman of the company,
presided.
Mr. SAINTSEURY, the secretary, having read the ad-
vertisement calling the meeting, and the resolutions of the
preceding half-yearly meeting, proceeded to read the
report, which stated that, notwi;hstanding the depression
of trade and commercial enterprise, in consequence of
the state of the Continent during the past year, the busi•
ness of the company is still progressive. 'the earnings
for the year ending 31st December, 1848, have been
19,534/. Bs. 7d.; those for the year ending 31st Decem-
ber, 1847, were 17,3331 14s. 7d.; being an increase of
2,200/, 14s. in the earnings of the year 1848, as com-
pared with the earnings of the year 1847. The
accounts exhibit a balance on the revs nue account,
after payment of expenses, of 3,203/. Is.; and
the directors are, comequently, enabled to recom-
mend a dividend, clear of income-tax, of 11. per cent. for
the half-year (ten shillings per " share "), being at the
rate of 2/. per cent. per annum. At the present meet-
ing four directors, namely, John Hopton Forbes, Esq.,
Count Eyre, Admiral Ward, and James Rigmaitien,
Esq., go out of office by rotation, but are eli-
gible for re-election ; and their colleagues beg to
recommend them for re-election accordingly. The
capital account, up to the 31st of December last,
shewed that the receipts amounted to 20,4051, and that
the expenditure was 4,1321. 12s. sd. A balance of
24,4871. 18s. Id. remained in hand. The debit side of
the cash account exhibited the sum of 50,812/. 13s. Id.,
and the credit side 32.614/. 17s. I Id., leaving a balance
of 18,1971. 15s. 2d. 'the receipts in the revenue account
were 10,182/. 18s., and the expenditure was 6;9901.45.,
having a balance of 3,192/. 14r.
The CHAIRMAN then said it would be his duty to pro-
pose that the report which had been read should be
printed and circulated amor:g the members; but before
he put the resolution he would address a few words only
to the meeting, reserving any information which they
might require to leave elicited until he was caked
upon to answer any question which was put to him
by any one present. There was one circumstance which
he would mention to them. An arrangement had beet
adopted by the directors, which had been recommended
by several influential and experienced proprietors, for the
employment for one year, of a commercial agent. It had
been recommended to them, that very material benefit
would result to the interest of their undertaking by
employing a gentleman who was acquainted with all
branches of trade, and whose extensive connections and
his activity and habits of business were such as to ren-
der it likely that the company would derive very consi-
derable benefit from his services.
Mr. MADDER asked what the salary of the proposed
agent would be?
The CHAIRMAN replied, for the year, 500 Z
Mr. MADDER thought the company could not afford it.
The CHAIRMAN thought that the increased trade that
would be likely to accrue to the company would be suffi-
cient to justify the agent's salary. They had maturely
considered the matter, and were of opinion that the
services of such a person would be of the most signal
advantage to the company.
Mr. MADDER and Mr. HEATIMELD put several ques
tions to the Chairman respecting the management ot the
company's affairs, aad their fnture intentions and opera-
lions, which the Chairman having answered to the satis-
faction apparently of those gentlemen, the resolution
adopting the report was then passed unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN moved, and Mr. HEATHFIELD se-
conded, a resolution, that out of the surplus profits to
the 31st of December last, a dividend be declared for
the half-year, at the rate of two per cent. per annum,
upon the original capital stock of the company, and that
the same be paid to morrow,
This resolution was also carried without a dissentient,
as was also a vote of thanks to Mr. Daniel Maclaurin,
Mr. James Arbouin, and Mr. James P. Woadhouse, for
the valeanle services as auditors, and requesting them
to continue their services for another year.
The retiring directors, Mr. John Hopton Forbes,
Count Eyre, Admiral Ward, and Mr. James Rigmaiden,
were unanimously re-elected, they being eligible, and
had offered themselves for re-election.
The thanks of the proprietors having been voted to
the chairman and directors for the efficiency with which
they performed their duties, and to the chairman of the
meeting for his conduct in the chair, the meeting
separated.

TAR SCOTCH IRON TRADE.—GLASGOW, FIR. 24.
—The market was rather lively at the beginning of the
week. with buyers of pig iron 535. 6d. mixed Nos., and
54i. No. 1; special export brands realised Is. to 3s. extra
for No.l. t. o. c. net. This advance has not been main-
tained, and the price to day may be called 535. to 535.
64. No. 1, and 525. 6d. mixed Nos. paters without any
demand. Bars are very firm, and have advanced lOs.
per ton on our last quotations. They are now O. 10s.
to 71. Plates, 81. 104 to 9/. 10s., with an excellent ex-
port dtanand.

TURNPIKE TRUSTS.--A return moved for by Mr.
Cornewall Lewis, M.P., shows that the gross total
amount of the bonded debt and unpaid interest on the
1,102 turnpike trusts in England and North Wales
amounts to the sum of 8,051,1201., viz., 7;804,3251. in
England, and 246,785/. in Wales. The length of road
included in these trusts is 21,310 miles. The total re-
ceipts amount to 1,353,7031, and the total expenditure
to 1,344,252/.

THE WEATHER.—We have had a week of stormy,
unsettled weather, with the wind, up to yesterday morn-
ing, from the west and north-west. Throughout the
early part of the week the air was clear, with heavy
gales, but on Friday and Saturday the weather, though
less boisterou? was wet, cold, and disagreeable. Yes-
terday the wind was from the south-east. About noon
e had a heavy fall of sleet, followed by a drizzling rain.
Frequ.nt showers fell in the course of the afternoon.—
Liverpool Albion.

COURSE OF EXCH
Aittsro- an. .. •• • • 12 2

at sight .... •. 11 1.9Y2
ttcrclaw .• •• 12 2
•• .... 25 7
Hunburgh .... • • M.B. 13 11'5,,
earls, 3 dayesight .• 25 25
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 50
`4arseilles ........ •• 25 50
Bourdeaux.... , . . 25 55
Franktort on 'Maine. 191
Pettreburgh, Sil. Rble 353
Vienna, effee. •• 11 27
Frleste, ditto.... • • .... 11 28
Aadrid •• ............ 49
Cadiz • • • 49
,ti1ba0........ ••
gircelona

5evi11e......

c~l br. Itar ..............

........ ••.. • • 32 30
lemoa ............ • • . 26 60

Venice ............ .

...... • • .... 39%
Palermo, peroz ........ 1:8
Messina .............. 119
f)2
Oporto 52;i
:tio Janeiro ........ • .

I uenos Ayres ..
gew York 2I days'sight

Ptitiadelpia

PRICES or BULLION, FEZ 02
Foreign Gold in bars ...£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. u 0 0
ipanlsh Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars • ... • • G 0 0
Silvpr 111 hare ........ 0 0 0

COURT CIKCULAR.
The Queen walked yesterday in the garden of Buck-
ingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert attended a lecture
on magnetic influence, delivered by Professor Faraday
yesterday afternoon in the Royal Institution. Colonel
Soymour, Equerry in waiting, attended his Royal
Highness.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, tic-
companif d by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an air-
ing- yesterday in a carriage and four. Their Royal
Highnesses the Princess iielena and the Princess Louisa,
were taken airings yesterday.
The Royal dinner party yesterday, at Buckingham
Palace, included their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary,
Prince and Princess of Parma, his Excellency the Cheva-
lier Bunsen and Madame Bunsen, the Duchess of Suth-
erland, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne. the
Countess of Lopez, Lady in waiting on the Hereditary
Princess of Parma, Lord and Lady Dalmeny, and Lord
and Lady Charles Wellesley.
The band of the Coldstream Guards were in attend-
ance during the dinner in the Palace, and performed the
following pieces
Overture—" Maritana"
Grand Selection on airs from "Haydee" Auber.
Valse—" The Pearl of England"
Fantasia—" Les Huguenots"
The Coldstream Guards Polka (first time) Tolbecque.

Sir Henry T. De La Beebe had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday. Mr. George Moffatt had also
an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. Baronet at
the Home office.

The Harbour Commissioners had a meeting yesterday,
at their office in Duke-street.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governor of Gibraltar.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
13 to 2 agst Mr. T. Mason's Prince George
7 to 1 agst Mr. Brettle's The Curate
9 to 1 agst Captain W. Peel's Proceed
10 to 1 agst Mr..). Bateman's Napoleon
13 to 1 agst Captain D'Arcy's Knight of Gwynne—t
13 to 1 agst Mr. Bretherton's Wolverhampton—taken
20 to 1 azst Mr. Russell's Arai) Robber
20 to 1 agst Mr. Crawford's Father Math, w
20 to 1 agst Mr.C. Price's The Iron Duke
The two leading favourites, the Knight of Gwynne,
arid Wolverhampten, were the only hors( s fancied.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STARES.
8 to 1 agat Mr. Gregory's Loupgarou,3 yrs, sst 2 b
—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Harrison's Pyrrhus the First, 6 yrs,
Bst 11lb—taken
14 to 1 agst Mr. Bourerie's War Eagle, 5 yrs, Sat 131 b
No others mentioned.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
6 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Lugar, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b
10 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Canezou, 4 yrs, 84t lib— t
15 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Clarissa, 3 yrs, 4st 9lb
30 to 1 agst Lard Howth's Peep-o'-Day Boy, 5 yrs,
&t 71b—taken
The only notice tble bets on this event were 10 to 1
to upwards or 1001. agst Canezou (afterwards offered),
and 30 to 1, in ponies, agst Peep. o'-day Boy.
CHESTER CUP.
25 to 1 agst Mr. J. B. Day's The Tartar, 5 yrs,
7st 81b—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklatn's Inheritress, aged. Bst 61b
25 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Halo, 5 yrs, 7st
101 b—taken
30 to 1 agat Mr. Greville's Geraldine, 6 yrs, 6st
121 b— taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Nolan's Blucher, 4 yrs, 7st 81b
30 to 1 agat Lord Howth's Peep-o'-Day Boy, a yrs,
Bst Sib
40 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Lugar, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b—t
40 to 1 ag't Mr. Maugan's Rathmiues, 5 yrs, 6st
101 b—taken
50 to 1 *gist Mr. Blake's Billinafad, 5 yrs, 7st 21b—t
50 to 1 agst Mr. Gannon's Do-it again, 4 yrs, 6st
131 b—taken
1,000 to 10 agst Mr. Westley's Tuscan, 4 yrs, 6st—t
Halo and Rathmines were the " lions," the first being
backed, in good orders, at 25 to 1, and the latter for all
that could be got on, at 50 to 1 (half the odds betted last
week), and finally at 40 to 1, the taker offering to go on.
Joc-o -Sot was not mentioned, but his stable companion,
The Tartar, receded to 25 to 1.
DERRY.
3 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman
16 to 1 agat Lord Chiden's Honeycomb—taken
22 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Uriel—taken
25 to 1 agat Mr. A. Nichol's ninny kirk
The reacti,in in Honeycomb will not escape notice ;
the odds quoted were taken to 1001., and were not ob
tainable at the close. Uriel was alto in favour, and no
offer on the field exceeded 3 to I.
OAKS.
5 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Escalade
6 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Sister to Arkwright
18 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wodastra filly
COVENTRY STEEPLECHASES— SECOND DAY.
Nominations for the Free Handicap:—
Mr. F. Nicholl's Fisticuff Mr. Smith's Duncan Gray
Mr. E. Parr's Rosslinda Mr. W. Taylor's Queen of
Mr. Welfit's Oily Gammon Hearts
Mr. Moseley's Dicky Mit.. Mr. B nbow's Cognac
fortune Mr. C. Bedford's Merryman
Mr. Moseley's Jerry Mr. Cszawright's Thar-
Mr. Stagg na Yardarm g irton
Mr. Holman's Verax Mr. Fowler na Little Fanny
Mr. Holman's Old Dan Mr. Bretherton's Challenger
Tucker Ar. Taylor's Lucy Neal
Mr. Riehards's Camphine Mr. Wells na Cy nthia
Mr. Eskrett's Shinrone L ,rd Lurgan's Sobriety
Mr. Maltby's Slashini: Mr. Land's Emperor
Painter Jr. Land's Painter
Mr. Cartwright's Justice tt Mr. Robinson's Gulnare
England Mr. Tempest's The Rover
LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING.
LIVERPOOL. MONDAY AFTERNOON, FIVE O'CLOCK.
Arrivals for the Spring Cup—Mogadur, Farewell, Ca-
!orlon, Reality. Rodney, Li lie.
The Knowsley Sakes—Sir Richard.
Tee Sefton Welter Cup—Postilion.
The Steeplechase—The Curate, The Doctor, Wolver
hampton, British Yeoman, Arab Robber, n, Kil-
fane, The Iron Duke, Sir John, Napoleon, The Knight
of Gwynne, Chatham, Coriander, Alfred, Ballyhar,
Equinox, Khondoitz.
Mignionette and Rickard the First have been scratched.

PLYMOUTH, FEB. 26.—The Hat stud, from Sutton
Pool, on shore near the Eastern Pier, has been assisted
off, apparently without damage.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb. 26.
MR. COBDEN'S FINANCIAL SCHEME.

Mr. COBDEN (in coutinuatitm from our Third
Edition of last night) proceeded to say—lt was stated
that the services had been left in an in. fficient state in

1835, and the Hon. Gentleman the Secretary for the
Admiralty, would repeat what he had stated be,tore, that
the dockyards were in a state of absolute destitution.—
(A laugh) But he should remember that this argument
had been used once before; for in 1816, wha•n the Noble
Lord (Lord J. Russell) and those actin with him advocated
a reduction to the standard of 1792, the answer they
got was that it was dangerously low—that Mr. Pitt re-
gretted having gone buck to it in 1796; all this was re-
peated by Lord Castlereagh and others—ay, ad nauseam
—till at last Lord Grenville, than whom there could be
no more able authority, in his place in the House of
Lords, denied that Mr. Pitt entertained any such opinions,
and that, on the contrary, he had always congratulated
himself during the French war that he had reduced
tits establishment so low after the war with
America, because it had enabled this country to come
into the war with France with fresh energy and

rigour. The objection to the state of the dockyards in
1835 affected a Right Hon. Gentleman on whose admi-

nistrative abilities he had as much reliance as on those of
any one in the House ; and he called on him to say
during the discussion if the dockyards bad been left in
that state of destitution to which they were said to have
been reduced. Turning from their foreign relations, the
question to which he was bound to advert was that which
was always put before them in estimates for the army
and navy. They were told it was necessary for our co-
lonies. The Right Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel), in his
celebrated budget speech on the 14th of February, 1845,
in alluding to this subject, said :
" ()f the 112 battalions of infantry in the British ser-
vice, there are now 23 in India, 80 are serving in the
colonies, and four are on their passage, making in all 77
battalions actually employed in the defence of our colo-
nial empire. We have 35 battalions at home, not, as is
supposed, for the purpose of restraining the population,
but for the purpose—and we effect it incompletely—of
maintaining the system of reliefs for our regiments serv-
ing abroad."

N6w he asked the House if the time hid not come for

them seriously to consider if they could not reduce the
expenditure incurred on those accounts for our colonial
possessions?—(Hear, hear.) The question had been
put to them by his Hon. Friend (Mr. Hume) as long
ago as 1822. How much more necessary was it to con-
sider it now. Free-traders could not possibly advocate
the system of keeping up a ruinous military establish-
ment in our colonies. lie could understand how Hon.
Gentlemen, who were Protectionists from principle, or
who believed that free trade has an experiment—be-

lieving that exclusive trade with the colonies remune-
rated you for such expenses—could consistently vote for
those establishments as long as they expected to regain
protection. It there were Protectionists who thought
the old system of protection could be restored he was
willing they should vote against him.----(near, bear.)
But be asked those who thought that, right or wrong,
free trade was the permanent rule of the country,
how they any more than the free-traders could pos-
sibly vote that this country should pay for colonial ex
pendi(nre? They thought that in carrying out the free-
trade theory they had given an enormous boon to the
oloies, and that in allowing them to trade where they