The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-18 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL SAND. OF LONDON

EAST INDIA.-This afternoon the market for Madras
was in a quiet state, and supplies are upon an enlarged
scale. At public sale 3,944 bags were all sold, but at a
decline of 6d per cwt-low brown went at 28s, fine 30s,
low yellow 30s 6d to 31s, middling 31s 6d to 335, good
34s to 35s 6d, grocery 36s to 395, good and fine white
41s to 435. Bengal met with little attention, and 1,909
bags 4 chts were only in part sold at 6d per cwt reduc-
tion-fine soft white went at 435, low and middling 39s
to 40s 6d, good and fine yellow 37s 6d to 38s 6d per cwt.
FOREIGN.-Importers have been ready sellers, and a
material increase is apparent in the quantity brought to
market. A good business has been concluded, chiefly
for horns consumption, but at prices showing a reduc-
tion on those previously current of 6d to is per cwt.
At public sale 2,675 boxes of Havannah were all sold;
low and middling yellow went at 37s 6d to 393 6d, good
and fine 40s to 41s 6d, low and middling grey 37s 6d to
38s 6d, good 39s to 39s 6d, good and fine brown 375 to
37s 6d, washed 36s 6d to 39s ; 1,077 boxes of white, in
bond, were taken in at 29s 6d to 32s for good and fine,
but sold afterwards rather under these rates. Of Brazil
100 cases and 4,368 bags were disposed of.
CocoA.-For West India there is yet only a limited
demand, and prices must be quoted Is to 2s per cwt
lower. At auction 300 bags of Trinidad were sold-
good red at 41s, middling 39s to 40s, low 38s 6d, ordi-
nary grey 35s to 375, middling and good 38s to 395;
40 bags of Grenada, middling and good bright red 38s
to 40s per cwt. The stock is 5,108 pkgs, and last year
at this time 5,597 pkgs. Foreign is yet little wanted,
and sellers are willing to accept 32s to 345. The quan-
tity here is 8,394 bags, and last year at the same time
3,193 pkgs.
COFFEE.-This afternoon the market was more freely
supplied with Ceylon Coffee, and the quantity brought to
public sale amounted to 96 casks, and 4,384 bags. There
was less demand for all sorts, and the native was all
taken in at 30s for real good ordinary, being barely
the former value, whilst a part only of the Plantation
sold, at about last week's rates ; fine 75s to 78s, good
70s, good middling 58s to 60s, middling 50s to 565, low
middling 46s to 49s 6d, fine and fine ordinary 33s to 455,
and inferior 288 to 325. Of Costa Rica 671 bags were
mostly taken in at 34s for fine fine ordinary.
TEA.-To-day there was firmness in the Tea market,
and the trade for the most part were desirous to do busi-
ness. The quantity offered at public sale amounted to
11,900 packages, of which 4,400 found buyers at full
market rates. Congou, common fetched Bid to Bid good
is to is id, Pekoe flavour Is 6d ; Oolong 81d to 9P ;
Scented Caper is 2d to is 3d ; Scented Orange Pekoe,
fine is 5d ; Twankey, ordinary 3d to 31d, good 8d to
Sid ; Hyson, ordinary is Op to is lid, good is 6d,
fine 2s sid to 36 ; Young Hyson, Canton Bd, good ls 4d
to is 6d ; Gunpowder, Canton is 3d to is 6P, and good
2s 40 to 2s 7d.
SALTPETRE.-This afternoon there was little passing
by private treaty in rough, and 947 bags at auction
went 6d cheaper ; Calcutta, middling strong grey 64 to
51 per cent went at 24s to 24s 6d, good ditto 4.-} 25s to
25s 6d, and 2:1 ditto 25s 6d to 26s per cwt.
RICE.-To-day the market was much better supplied
with East India Rice, and the public sales comprised
11,042 bags and 1,382 pockets. The demand was, how-
ever, active, and the whole sold at full rates for white,
whilst yellow went 3d to 6d higher : Bengal,
good white fetched Ila 6d to 12s, good middling
Ils to lls 6d, middling 106 6d to Ils' ordinary broken
9s to 9s 6d, damaged 5s 6d to I is 6d ; Madras, ordinary
sound Cargo 7s 6d to Bs, good 8s 6d to 9s; Arracan, mid
pearl barley 7s 6d to Bs, good 8s 6d to 2s, ordinary
Cargo 7s 6e to. Bs, damaged 5s to 7s 6d ; Singapore,
middling Cargo Bs, good 8s 6d to 3s, damaged 5s 6d to
7a 6d per cwt.
SPIRITS.-To-day there was more desire manifested
to do business in Rum, and sales to a fair extent were
made; East India at is 4d to Is 6d; Leeward Isiand
proof is 7d to Is 8d ; Jamaica from 3s 3d to 3 7d for
30 to 35 per cent, good and fine 3s 8d to 4s 4d.
INDIGO.-To-day 596 chests only passed the sale, it
having been adjourned at 12 o'clock. 20 chests were
bought in, leaving 476 sold. There is no alteration in
prices; • the biddings were animated for consuming qua-
lities, which realise May rates. Up to this period, 8,248
(tests have passed, 2,683 withdrawn, and 2,059 bought
in, which leaves 4,106 chests actually sold. The sale
will terminate to-morrow.

-
(THIS DAY.)
The eighth annual general meeting of the proprietors
of the Commercial Bank of London was held this after-
noon at the Banking-house, in Lothbury ; Mr. John
Taylor, chairman of the board of directors, in the chair.
The report congratulated the proprietors upon the
result of the year's operations, and stated that it was a
source of much grat►fcation to find that they were
enabled to continue the dividend of 61. per cent. per
annum, and to make a further addition to the guarantee
fund, notwithstanding a monetary crisis more severe in
its pressure on the mercantile affairs of the kingdom,
than any experienced for many years past. It would be
seen by the balance-sheet, that after writing off the bad
and doubtful debts, and paying the charges and current
expenses of the past year, the net profits amounted to
11,5681. 15s. 2d., out of these profits a dividend, at the
rate of 6 per cent. per annum, for the half-year ending
31st December, 1847, bad been already paid, and the
directors had now to declare a dividend for th• half-year
ending 30th June, 1848, at the same i ate, and as usual,
free from income-tax. After paying this dividend and
deducting rebate of interest upois current bills, there
remain a balance of 2.169/. 13s. 4cl. to he added to
the reserve fund, increasing th.t fund with the ant:11,10:a
made during the year to 17,3861. 9s. 3d.
The balance-sheet represented that the subscribed
capital of the bank amounted to 641,4001., and the paid-
up capital to 128,2101. The cash in hand, Government
securities, and bills discounted, amounted to 557,283/.
s. 9d., while the value of the banking premises were set
down at 4,0001., and the balance due to customers at
406,217/. I3s. 11d.
The report was unanimously adopted, after which
the dividend mentioned in it was declared payable the
Ist of August.
Messrs. James Alexander Douglas and Edward Ox-
enford, retiring directors, were re-elected, and Messrs.
Charles Hill (Sheriff of London) and Thomas Winkworth
were elected to serve as directors in the room of Messrs.
Cotton and Collett, who had retired from the board.
A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman
and directors, and the meeting terminated.

COURSE OF EXCH2
Amsteniam .......... 12 2%
Ditto, at sight • • .... 12
Rotterdam .......... 12 2%
A.ntwerp •••• • • • • •. • • --
tiamburgh • • . ALE. 13 11%
Altona • • •• •• •• •• •• •• •• ...
rarls, 3 days' sight • 25 44
Ditto, • • ............25 80
Marseilles •• • • •••• ...• 24 85
Reurdeaux.... .. •• • .
Frankfort on Mains.. 121%
retersburgh, Sil. Rble
Berlin • • .• • • • • •
Fllnna, effec. •• •• ••
Tee Ste, ditto.... • • ....
Mad; id ••• • • • ........ 42
Ca ••••.• • • • • 46
Ilareeloun • • • •

NGE.-(THIS DAY.

Lothian—John Trotter, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant,
July 5.
Royal Mid-Lothian or Edinburgh Yeomanry Cavalry.
—Lieutenant Stewart Bayley Hare to be Captain, vice
Sir David Dundee, Bart. resigned ; Cornet William
Baillie to be Lieutentent, vice Bayleyi Hare, promoted,
July 6; Alexander Cochrane, Gent. to be Cornet, vice
Wauchope, promoted, July 5; Andrew Gillon, Gent. to
be Cornet, vice Baillie, promoted, July 6.
BANKRUTCIES SUPERSEDED.
Edward Norris, commission agent, Manchester.
John Cates, jun., apothecary, Marylebone.

Gibraltar.. • • ... .
beghorn ..... ... • • • • 31 45
Genoa .. • •
Venice .. .. ..
Naples ••••••• • •• • . • •
Palermo, per 0z....—.
Lisbon.... • • . ..... ....
Oporto .... • • _ • .., • .
Rio Janeiro • • ........
tiatita ..... • •• • ••• ••
Iltiertom Ayres _..• • ..
New York, 21 days'eight
L'hiladclphia .... • • . • . •

36K

raICES OF BULLION, PEA OZ.
Foreign Gold in bars.. X 3 17 9
Now Dollars ••.. • • u 4 9,
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 ll
,vanish Doubloons .. 0 0 9
;11verinKars......•• 0 4 1134

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.

NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1844.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... 319
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ..• •.• ••• 44
Turbercular Diseases... ..• ••• ••• ... 182
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, end Senses... ... 114
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 23
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ••• ••• 58
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... ..•
Diseases of the Kidney s, &c. •••
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. •••
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations... ... •••
Premature Birth ..• •• ••
•••
Atrophy ••• ••• ••
Old Age ..• ••• •••
Sudden
Violence, Privation, Cold, or •intemperance
Causes not specified ... •••
DEATHS YOM ALL CAUSES •••

... 54

Population
Enumerated,
1841.
West Districts... 300,711
North Districts.. 375,971
Central Distrias 373,653
East Districts ... 392,444
south Districts.. 501,190

Average weekly
Deaths, 1843-7.
Five Springs.
143 •
182 •
171 •
199 •,
248 ~

Totals... ..... 1,948,369
Males ... ...
Females ...

943

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females

Total ...

... 7

... 13
... 38
... 32

••• 2

MARKET

930

Deaths
In the
Week.
144
168
168
202
248

930
462
468

Name of Company.

Australasia ..........
Britsh .N or th American
Ceylon .. • • • • • •• •• ••
Jommercial of London
•• ••
Gloucestershire •• •• • •
lonlan ..•• • • .. •• •• • •
Londn and Westminstr

London Joint-Stock ...
Provincialof Ireland..
Ditto, New.• • • • • • • •
National of Ireland ..
Nat. Provnclal of Eng.
Ditto, New.• • • • • • • •
South Australia • • • • • •
Union of Australia • . ••

Ditto • • • ..
Union of London
Union of Madrid .• • • •

Name of Company.

Charing-cross . • • • .. • •
Bouthwrk, Nw Sub. AY.
Ditto Nw of 7% p • c•
Water100

Ditto Old Ann. of 81.
Ditto Nw ditto of 71.
Vauxhall .... ... Av.

INS

Name of Company.

Alliance Brit. and For.

Ditto Marine. •• ••
Ntlai ••• •• •• ••
British Commercial ••
Clerici,Med.&Gen•Life
Caunty •• •• •• •• •• ••
Crown •• •• •• •• •• •• ••

Eagle .. • • • • • ..... • • ••
Eng.& Scot. Law •• • •
European Life ••• • • •
Family Endownin t Soc.
Freemasons' . • • • • • • • •
Globe ..... .. .. .. .. ..
Gu trti ian .. .. .. .. .. ..

I,nperial Firo •• •• ••
Imperial Life .• •• •• ••
Indemnity Marine••
Law Fire ..
Law ife.. •••• ••

Legal and General Life
Landon Fire • •
Landon Ship ........
Marine .. •••• • • .
'led. InvIld& Gen. Life
.;ational Loan Fund..
N'ational Life.........

Palladium Lila
Pelican
Primnix
Protector Life
Pruvident Life........

Kock Life
Itoyal Exchange
Sun Fire..

Ditto Life .
Universal Life........
Viaoria Life

Name of Company.

C Aninercial •• • ••. • •
East and West India ...
East Country ••.• . • •
London

Ditto 80nd5........
St.Kathatine ........

Ditto Bonds• • • • .. • .
Southampton •• ......

... 674
... 652

... 1,326

INTELLIGENCE.

(F.tom the London New Price Current of July 18.)
SUGAR.—To-day there was a falling off in the demand
for raw sugar for all purposes accompanied by a reduc-
tion in the value. West Indian Muscovado was dealt
in with caution for both the scale and pan, altbongh
holders were ready sellers at a decline on Fridays
rates of 6d. The total purchases are 300 hhds &c.,
including a public sale of 145 hhds 5 trcs of Bar-
badoes which went flatly at the decline noticed ;
fine yellow sold at 41s 6d to 425. good 40s to 41s, mid
dling 38s 6d to 39s 6d; 10 hhds of Jamaica sold rather
cheaper, went at 39s to 39s 6d per ewt for good yellow.
The market closed with much dulness for both free and
slave labour Sugar. Of Dutch crushed Sugar several
parcels have been cleared for home consumption at the
24s 8d per cwt duty.
REFINED.—To-day home-trade buyers operated with
4--; 1' '. ' ' lion in Refined Goods, and there was a desire to sell
---,- - brown lumps at 54s to 54s 6d, and Standard Lumps at
- gis. - Bonded Crushed is wanted at 26s to 27s per cwt.
.„,, ~\41..11a 4ttimus.-,This afternoon there was not much in-
.., .
tip manifested to do business in Mauritius Sugar.
The& lie sales of 1,737 bags, and 160 casks went off
o
flat! • ' d a small part only sold at 6d to Is per cwt de-
tsi
ellne-on Friday's rates—fine yellow went at 395, good
":"-,.. -- aita, middling 36s 6d to 375, low 35 to 363, fine brown
II SU 6d, middling 325, washed 30s to 365, and syrupy ala
to 36 6d per cwt.

Saao.—There is less demand by private treaty for
this article, and former rates cannot be obtained, whilst
160 boxes at auction were taken in at I9s to 20s, and
33 boxes sold at 17s 6d to 18s for middling brown small
pearl. Saga Flour is more in request, and prices are
firmer, sales having been made privately at 15s to 16s 6d
per cwt. West India Arrowroot is not much wanted,
and 2d to is is the value. For Tapioca there is a steady
sale at 3d to 6d per lb.
COCHINEAL.—This afternoon there was a better de-
mand, and the public sales of 77 bags went off with a
fair spirit, upon Lull terms; indeed, the better sorts of
Hondures silvers went ld higher; Mexican silvers fetched
as 6d to 3a 7d, and Honduras 3s 6d to 4s ld per lb.
OlLS.—Since our fait report arrivals of Fish Oils have
been upon an enlarged scale, and a decline in prices is
apparent, the demand for all sorts having diminished
and for all purposes. For public sale 80 tuns Sperm,
100 tuns Suthern, and 10 tuns of Seal Blubber
are declared. Although pale Seal can be ob-
tained at the moderate rates of 241 to 241 ss, still

exporters and home buyers have made purchases with
caution, and holders are willing sellers. For other sorts
the market is in a dull state. Cod has been dealt in
with caution. Southern is not much wanted, and low to
middling quality can be obtained at 221 to 231,
and good 231 10s to 241 103. There coneinues to be
much dulness in:the market for Sperm, and on the part of
merchants there is a desire to press sales. There is
firmness in the market for Linseed Oil, whilst for
home trade purposes a good dema-nd has been ex-
perienced at 22s 6d per cwt. Rapeseed Oil Is in much
better request. and an advance is the value la apparent.
Sales to a large extent have been made in Palm, and at
' advanced rates. For Cocoa Nut there is yet much dul-
ness in the market, and the stock is still on the increase;
Olive has not improved in value ; there is, however, a
more active demand, and deliveries continue to exceed
the arrivals. Lard Oil is more in demand.
TALLOW . —Although there are sellers of Russian on
the spot upon further reduced terms until Soap makers
or Chandlers are not disposed to enlarge their purchases.
Only a small amount of business has been con-
cluded, and 43s 9d to 44s per cwt are the rates
accepted for fine P.Y. Candle. For forward de-
livery the sales made have been limited, and the rates
accepted are 42s 9d to 43s for the last three months of
the year. Home made is not much in request, but
prices continuo to recede, whilst there is a good supply,
and 43s 6d to 44s the value of nett cash. Oother sorts
of Tallow are little required, and must be quoted rather
cheaper, and the supply is good. At auction 217 bags
of South American were sold. For auction ;he quantity
of Tallow declared is 500 casks. Rough Fat is nut much
wanted, and is offered at 2s 6d per stone.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

DOWNING-STREET, duLir 17, 1848.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Robert Clax.
ton, Esq., to be Chief Justice; James George Pignenit,
Esq., to be Puisne Justice; and Henry J. Woodcock,
Esq., to be her Majesty's Attorney-General fur the island
of St. Christopher.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint 'William
Fergusson, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary for Sierra
Leone.

THE SUN, LONDON, 'TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1848

PRICES OF SHARES.
IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM-

PANIES' STOCK.

LONDON. TUESDAY, JULY 18.
JOINT-STOCIC

Dividend
per

Annum.

51. per cent.
71. par cent.
61. per cent.
51. per cent.
151 per cent.
6/. per cent.
6/. per cent.

61. per cent.
81. per cent.
Si. per cent.
Si. per cent.
61. per cent.
Si. per cent.
Si. per cent.
61. per cent.

Airouat
of
Share.

A s. d.
40 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0

61. per cent.

353. per cent,

Paid.

Imount
of
Share.

£ g. d.
40 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0
25 0 0

11. ss. 4d.
11. 28. 2d.
11. 17s.

,NCE C,

Z. s. d.

632 12 S
50 0 0
100 0 0

25 0 0
20 0 0
13 0 0
10 0 0
25 0 0
10 0 0
22 1.0 0
35 0 0
10 0 0
22 10 0
25 0 0
2 10 0
10 0 0
40 0 0

Dividend
per

Annum.

31. 10..
6 per cent.
61. per cent,
13s. 6d. pr sh.
7s. per share
5 pr et: 86 bs.

70 10 3

5/. per cent.
5)4 per cent.
41. & bs.
51. per cent.
61. per cent.
51. per cent.
12 per cent.

DOC:

Dividend
per

Ann Um.

X a. d.
500 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0
Stock.
100 0 0
500 0 n
100 o e
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
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100 0 0
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20 0 0
100 0 0
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41. per cent.
61. pr cent.
255. per sh.
51. pr cent.
41. per cent.
4 per cent.
4%1. pr cent.
21. per cent.

20 0 0
100 0 0
5 0 0
Stock.

100 0 0

Amount
of
Share.

Paid.

X. F. d.
25 0 0

6000
40 0 0

Paid.

Z s. d.
Stock.
Stock.
100 0 0
Stock.

Price

X s. d.

Stock.

50 0 0

Price,

Price

IMPERI

AMEN T

ROUSE OF LORDS. July 17.
PROTECTION OF FEMALES.

Lord BROUGHAM, in answer to a question from
Lord Campbell, said he should not proceed with, his Bill
on this subject during the present session.
CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL

The Criminal Law Administration Amendment Bill
was, on the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, read a third
time and passed.
SCOTTISH LAW OF ENTAIL BILL.

On the order of the day being moved for going into
Committee on this Bill,

The Earl of HADDINGTON begged to state some
objections which be entertained to certain parts of it. It
treated some vested rights with a lightness which it was
not becoming on the part of their Lordships' House to
sanction. Their Lordships ought to hold those rights
sacred. He did not conceive this Bill was called for by
the necessities of the case; he should therefore move that
the Bill be committed on this day three months.
Lord CAMPBELL said that he did not consider that
the Noble Earl was very consistent in the course which
he had taken, for he objected to the present Jaw of
entail in Scotland, yet he called upon their Lordships to
perpetuate the present entails in seen/um seculorum. He
should therefore oppose the amendment.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE entertained strong objections
to the present law of entail in Scotland, but he objected
to the present Bill, as it was a most unnecessary interfe-
rence with private rights.
Lord BROUGHAM. felt great douht as to the retro-
spective operation of this Bill in the way proposed. He
did not yield without hesitation; but after the matter
had undergone so much consideration, he thought they
might go into Committee to see whether they could not
improve it in such a way as to meet the objections urged
against it.
The amendment was negatived without a division, and
the House having resolved itself into Committee, the
Bill passed without amendment, and was reported to be
read a third time to-morrow.
CANADA UNION ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
On the motion of Earl GREY, that this Bill be read a
third time,
Lord STANLEY said that he did not mean to object
to the third reading of the Bill. It must be in the recol-
lection of the House that it was enacted by the Canada
Union Act that the English should be recognized as the
only legal language of that colony ; but by this Bill it
was proposed to go back and to allow the use of the
French language in certain cases in the lower part of the
colony. He did not believe there was any necessity for
this change ; and he believed the ultimate result of it
would be• to affect the validity of the union of the two
provinces.
Earl GREY said the existing state of the law had
proved inconsistent with the welfare of the colonies, and
this Bill was considered necessary to introduce a better
state of things.
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
The Officers of Courts of Justice (Ireland) Assimila-
tion of Appointments Bill and the Copyhold Enfran-
chisement Extension Bill went through Committee.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

50 0 0

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218
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304
154

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162

Price.

WATER-WORMS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ 8. d. s. d.
Birmingham. • • • • . • • • 18s. 25 0 0 25 0 0
East Londou..• • • • • • • • 81. 100 0 0 178
Grand Junction • • • • .. 21. 10s. 41 13 4 81
100 0 0 75
New Rivr Lndn Brdge , 2/. 10s. 55
Vauxhall . • • • • • • .. • • • 51. per cut. 1100 0 0
West Middlesex . . . 61.0*. pr cnt.l 117
GAS-LIGHT AND COMIC COMPANIES.
Dividend , Amount
Name of Company. per 1 of Paid. Price.
Annum. , Share.
X. s. d. X. s. d.
I
British • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 16
Ditto Provincial.... 11. Bs. 20 0 0 19 0 0 22
Bristol • • • • • • . • • .... • 101. per cent. 1 20 0 0 —•
Brighton .. • • .. • • • • .. 51. per cent. i 20 0 0 16
City of London .. ...• 101. 'lOO 0 0 100 0 0 250
Continental Consolidat. 925. pr share 5I) 0 0 39 5 0
Ditto, New • • ..... • 85s. pr share 50 0 0 37 10 0
Equitable.... • 455. pr share 50 0 0 50 0 0 26
Imperial ............ 61. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 71
Independent ......... 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 64
London • ..... • . • • • • • • 50 0 0 50 0 0
Ditto • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 50 0 0 50 0 0
Phcenix • • • • . • . • 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 46 0 0 29%
Itatcliff .... • ........ 5/• and bns. 1100 0 0 90 0 0 75
United General .. • . . 4 1. pr cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 15
Westminster Chartered 31, 50 0 0 55%
Ditto, New .. 12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 11

HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 17.
BUSINESS OF THE SESSION.
Lord J. RUSSELL then rose and said—Mr. Speaker,
in answer to a question from the Right Hon. Baronet the
Member for Ripon (Sir J. Graham) I stated that
I would on this day follow in the usual course which
has been adopted of late years, and state to the
House what Bills the Government purpose pro-
ceeding with during the present session, and those
which they intend to abandon. I can only state
their intentions with respect to the principal
Bills, those only which are of great importance; it is
not necessary, I think, for the Government to go into
any statement with respect to the Bills which are of
minor importance, with the details of which it is unneces-
sary for me to trouble the House. With regard to
these Bills, the first that 1 shall mention is the
Public Health Bill, which has passed through this
House. It has been read a second time in the
House of Lords, and now stands for a third read-
ing. With respect to that Bill, the Government in-
tend to press for the definite opinion of Parliament
upon it during the present session. We hope to place
that Bill in a position to enable it to receive the royal
assent during the present session. The next Bill I have
to mention is the Incumbered Estates (Ireland)
Bill. That Bill has come down from the House
of Lords ; many amendments have been intro-
duced into it by this House, and it has gone
through Committee with the general assent of the House.
I shall press on that Bill, and endeavour to receive
the assent of the House of Lords to the amendments made,
in order that it may pass into a law during the
present session. I think that is a Bill of the
greatest importance, and one which ought speedily to be
passed into a law. There is a Bill which I introduced
the other night, and which I props° shall be read a se-
cond time on Thursday next—l allude to the Bill
relating to corrupt practices at the elections for
boroughs.—(Hear.) That is a Bill likewise of great
importance, as it refers to inquiries into the practices,
into the conduct of the electors of such boroughs with
regard to which the House has heard much during the
present session. I think that that Bill is of too important
a character to allow that it should be postponed. I shall
therefore proceed with that Bull on Thursday next.
There is tteesase Bill with respect to which many ques-
tions have been frequently asked—tho Diplomatic lie-
iations with Rome Bill. That Bill has come
from the other House of Parliament ; it is in
the hand 3 of the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, and he will, on the first open day,
move that it be read a second time, with the view of
proceeding with it in the present session. I come now,
Sir, to a Bill of the utmost importance, founded
on a recommendation of a Committee on the navi-
gation-laws, and on which various debates have
taken place. Owing to the debates that have taken
place on the propriety of increasing the force of the army
and navy, and on the expediency of the renewal of
the income-tax, we were prevented from intro-
ducing that measure early in the session—l mean
the resolutions on which we intended to frame a Bill for
an alteration of the navigation-laws. Since the mea-
sure was introduced in May, another measure has like-
wise been proposed with respect to sugar,
on which long debates have taken place. We
have, therefore, been disappointed in the hope which
we entertained that we should be enabled to go on con-
tinuously with that Bill as soon as it was introduced.
As matters stand now, considering the late period of the
session to which we have arrived, the great importance
of the question, and that it cannot for some time go up
to the House of Lords, we have come very reluctantly to
the opinion that we cannot proceed with that Bill
during the present session.—(Surprise.) Having stated
that we shall not proceed with this Bill during the pre-
sent session, I trust there will be no objection
on the part of the House to go into Com-
mittee on the Bill with the view of assenting
to propositions of my Right Honourable Friend,
so that the nature of its provisions, and the de-
bate upon them may be placed before the country
for consideration before the ensuing session. Sir,
I feel that while this measure has bean the sub-
ject of great discussion in this country, that the failure
of its passing in the present session will be a great
disappointment in some of our most important
colonies.—(Hoar, hear.) I think it my duty, however,
to declare that, without blaming any one, or without im-
puting delay to any one, that the Government will pro-
pose to introduce the measure at the very earliest
period next session, and after the discussion it has
received, and the approbation of the principle ex-
pressed by a large majority of the House, that the
' important province of Canada, and the foreign powers
to whom we have held out the prospect that the naviga-
tion-laws would be repealed, will feel confident
that next session a measure will be passed taking
away the restrictions on navigation—(Hear, hear)—and
that they will entertain no doubt that such a measure will
receive the assent of Parliament. It is also, as a conse-
quence upon that, the intention of the Government to
withdraw the Merchant Seamen's Service Bill. There
is another measure which I consider of very great im •
portance with respect to Ireland, namely, the Bill with
respect to the Elective Franchise of Counties in
Ireland. That is a most important measure ; but lam
not disposed at this time to begin a measure of such im-
portance, and I, therefore, propose to postpone that mea-
sure to another session. There is another mea-
sure of great importance with regard to Ireland—
the Landlords and Tenants Bill—which we shall
endeavour to obtain the assent of the House
to in the course of the present session. There are
various other Bills of minor importance in the long list
of to-day, many of which the Government have no-
thing to do with. I have, however, now stated
the intentions of the Government with regard to the
principal Bills, and I shall now conclude by proposing
that the order of the day for the second reading of the
Merchant Seamen's Fund Bill should be now read for
the purpose of its being discharged.
Mr. GO ULBURN said the repeal of the navigation-
laws was held out to the House as being calculated to
confer immense benefit upon the West India colonies,
and ho therefore wished to ask the Noble Lord
whether, in abandoning the navigation-laws, he
had any other measure in contemplation to compensate
the West Indies for the loss of the benefit that would
have been conferred upon them by the repeal of the
navigation-laws.
Mr. HERRIES entirely concurred in the course the
Noble Lord proposed to pursue with respect to the
navigation-laws, and he could state that his party would
offer no obstacle to the preliminary step the Noble Lord
proposed to take this session in reference to their repeal;
but it was not to be understood by this concession that
the Protectionist party had at all changed their views
upon the subject, or that they would not as strenuously
oppose the repeal next session as they had this.—( Hear.)
Mr. BRIGHT considered this was a fitting oppor-
tunity to make one or two observations with respect to the
progress of business this session, and with regard to what
he considered to be the unfortunate course Government
had pursued.—(Hear, hear.) Ile was not going to
enter into a discussioa of the merits of the navigation-
laws, but he was certain that they were mentioned
in the Queen's Speech, and the great manufacturing.
commercial, and shipping towns were in favour of
their abolition.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The
Noble Lord had introduced the Bill on the naviga-
tion-laws in May last, but he (Mr. Bright) confessed it
was his opinion that the Government did not appear to
be very anxious to have it passed. He knew
not what was the reason of postponing it, but no
doubt they were afraid of the hostility which the
measure would encounter from Hon. Gentlemen oppo-
site. Ho now thought it necessary to call the attention

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.; 1 I E 1 IDividend
Names of 4, e, IDlTldend pi., Names of
Companies. . 1 per j "' Companies. m \ Per Price.
. -.; J Annum.
, . .-..iinuni. sn
-....-
---- ----• --.
X X
A.shtn& Oldh 971 71. p c 80 Macclesfield . 100 -
245/ .1. B_o
Regent's..
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.t , Forest.
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:..-150: .
1-i. - -38:
Barnsley.. • • ,160 121. 180 Neath ......100 18/. -
Irknk&Abrg 150 51, 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 201. 190
85 41. 54
Coventry.... ve It Birminghamry.. . • 130501
I),rby ••• • • 100 61. 63 Rochdale.. ••
Ells rre&Chs 1331 41. 48 Somrset Coal
1401 281. 290
E:e.% ash ... 1001 32‘. - Do.Lk Id St 121 Gt. p. c.. ....
IlrandJ unctn 1001 51. 77 Stffrd &Wore
Grand Surrey 100 - 35 Shrewsbury..
lirand Union 100 1/. 10s. 25 Stourbridge.. 145 20/. 285
arantham - 1501 121. - Severn and
Kennt & Ant 39 7s. 6d. 4.N Wye Ra 11.5 26 11.8 s. 26
Leeds& Livrpjloo 341. 410 Warwick& 1
125 l5/. _
Leicester ....1140, 101. 75 Birming j 100 51. 65
Lemstr &Nth,' 831 4/. 36 Warwick& 1 ,„„
:..oughhoroghll42, 701. - Napton.. 31" 1 - 46
Monmouthshl, 100 j Si. - Worcstr &2 73 2/. 39
Mntgernrysh 'lOO 51. - Birming.
MeitnAlwbryj 100 101. - Wilts & Brks -, 11. 11
LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICE S
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
----- -
£ s. d. £ I. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 195
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank
1
Clydesdale Bank •• •• •• 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12%
Commercial Bank •• • • 71. per cent. 500 0 0 1100 0 0 150
Eastern Bank ... ••• • • 6/. per cent. 25 u 0 10 0 C 9/.195.
Edinb.&Glasgow Bank 6/. per cent. 50 0 50 0 5'
Exchange Bilk of Scot 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 41%
Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 -
National Bank ...... •• 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 121 i
North of Scotlandßank 7/.percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 31.15 e.
North British Bank • • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 3%
Royal Bank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 118%
Union Bank of Scotland K. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 80
Western Bank.. •. •
Aberdeen Fire and Life 121. per cent. 12 10 0 2 0 0 2%
B. Accord. Lifeaud Fire - 20 0 0 011 0 -
British Guarantee Ins. - 10 0 0 1 0 0 lOs Od
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21
Church of England Ins. - 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
Citv of Glasgow Life 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 4s
Edinburgh Life Insur 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 17
East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 015 0 118.0 d.
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 -
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 I I
incur. Co. of Scetlnd•• Si. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 7
Life Assoc. of Scotland 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. 7.t
Mercantile Life ....., - 10 0 0 010 0 ss. Od.
National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 20s.
North British Incur 5% Lpr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 22
North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 175.0 d.
Scottish Life and Guar. - 20 0 0 011 0 ss.
Scot. Dias. and Gen. Life 51. per cent. 1 0 0 015 0 10s. Od
Scottish Union Insrnca. 641. pr cent. 20 0 0 I 0 0 11. is
Standard Life •••• • . • . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0 9m
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 (128.0 d
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X. s. d. X. s. d.
Australian Agricultnrl - 100 0 0 30 0 0 -
Anglo-Mexican Mint., 11. 4s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 17
Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 210 0 --
Canada ............. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 9 -
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. - - -
City Bonds.. .... ~.. 3%1. pr cent. - - 82
Comp.Cppr 31ars Eng. 51. percent. 100 0 0 70 0 0 -
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Equitable Reversienry 5/. pr cent. 100 0 0 1100 0 0 91%
Gen.SteamNavigation 11. Bs. 15 0 0 14 0 0 18
London Institution . • • - - - 10
Peninslr& Orient.Stm. 8/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 51%
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Royal Mail Steam.... 3%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 60 0 0 45%
South Australian ..... 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 16
Van Dieman's Land.. - 100 0 0 23 0 0 -
Universal Salvage.... - 25 0 0 5 0 0 -

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 17.
STOCK EXCHANGI4.—Our share market continues steady,
but with only a limited business doing. The sales are—
Great Northern, 8% dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late
M. and B.), Fifths, 1 dis.—Ditto, 101. Preference, Bs. 9d. tp.
Ditto (late West Riding Union), Fifths, 3/. 13s. 9d. dis.—
Ditto (Preston and Wyre, No. 1), 344—London and North-
Western, 127—Ditto, New Quarters, 1% p.—Ditto (Leeds
and Dewsbury), 381,4—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, 101. Preference, IN—Midland Stock, 106 c.—Ditto,
New Halves, 5% dis.—North Staffordshire, 2% dis.—Shrews-
bury and Hereford, 2 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 3,
81AI dis.—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 2% dis.—York, Newcastle,
and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 1% p.
MANCHESTER, JULY 17.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 31/. Shares, 7 7-16 dis.—
East Lancashire, Preference, Quarters, 4 p.—Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 42—Great Northern, 83/4 dis. - Lancashire and
Yorkshire, Fifths, 1 c. dis.—Ditto, Preference, 1,4 c. p.—
London and North-Western (Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway and Canal), 23—Ditto, ditto (unpaid np), 7 dis._
London and South-Western, 481,4—Manchester, Sheffield.
and Lincolnshire, Preference, 101/4—Ditto (Grimsby), 201.
Shares, 8% dis.—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 9%
dis.—North Staffordshire, 2% dis.—South-Es.stern and
Dover, No. 4,2% c. dis.
BIRMINGHAM, JULY 17.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The absolute business transacted to-
day was very limited ; the only sales being Birmingham,
Wolverhampton, and Dudley, 4 p.— and South Stafford-
shire, 275. Bd. dis.

YORK, JULY 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day was
as follows :—Great Northern, 6
c.—York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. (G. N. E. Purchase), 9% c.

REVIEW or THE HOUSEUOLD TROOPB.—k. general
review of the household troops is expected to take place
in a few days, before her Majesty, the Prince Consort,
the Commander-in• Chief, and the members of tho
London Staff.

of the house to one or two facts which were calculated l on going into Committee of Supply, by which the whole
to create in the minds of the people out of state and condition of Ireland would be brought under
doors the conviction that during this session their diecte-sion, he (Lord John Russell) thought the present
representatives bad not attended to the duty which had I was not the proper occasion on which to enter into
been committed to their charge. The Iloue met before the general question of the state of Ireland; but as the
Christmas for the express purpose of considering the Hon. Member (Mr. Bright) had taken upon himself
Bank Charter Act, and also the afflicting state of Ireland; I to represent the opinions of the Government, and had
but the only measure of importance which was then stated that the Government had declined to go on with
passed was one avowedly for the protection of the rights the. Irish Franchise Bill because they understend it
of property in Ireland, but reality to disarm would be opposed as being a new Reform Bill, he
a certain portion of the Irish people. Atter Christmas begged to tell the lion. Member that he was wholly
another Irish question was brought before the House misinformed on that matter. With respect to his state-
and he begged to observe that Irish questions had always meat on the subject of the navigation-laws the Hon.
afforded a constant dish for discussion within the recol- Member was equally misinformed, because the Govern-
lection of the oldest Member.—(Laughter.) Measures ment bad been extremely anxious to carry forward their
had been passed, with the unanimous concurrence of views on that subject, but it was impossible to have in-
the House, for the purpose of putting down apprehended troduced the measure at an earlier period than had
or existing disturbances in Ireland, and it was with rcfe- been the case unless they had allowed the Income-tax
rencetolrelandthathis observations were chicfly intended and the Mutiny Acts to have expired. The Noble
to apply. There was also another Bill which had been Lord the Member for King's Lynn (Lord G. Bonded()
introduce d, of great importance, for facilitating the sale had referred to the reply made to Lord Elgin by the
of incumbered estates in Ireland. The Bill for extend- Canadian people on the subject of the navigation-laws,
ing the franchise in Ireland, and fir improving the re- and had inquired why that document had not been
gistration, was not to be proceeded with this sessicn. laid on the table. The simple answer was, that the Go-
The session was now about to terminate, and vernor-General of Canada had not transmitted it to the
the Government had given no information es Colonial-office. But, as a reply to the Noble Lord, he
to what they intended to do with that country. (Lord J. Russell) would refer him to the original me-
lt was the duty of the Government to have considered morial of the Canadians, in which they state (speaking
the question of the Church. The day was rapidly of the navigation-laws) that they did not believe that
coming when the Irish Church must sink, and if he the repeal of those laws would destroy the relations
were an English Churchman he should be one of the which existed between Canada and the mother country;"
first to get rid of the Irish Church question. If thus showing that they wished tomaintain theconnexion,
they were to believe the newspapers, they were and that they believed the repeal of those laws would
on the eve of an insurrection in Ireland, and tend to that object. The Hon. Gentleman opposite
Government ought not to allow Parliament to (Mr. Forbes) had inquired with respect to the Scotch
_

separate till steps had been taken to convince the Irish
people, who were not anxious for insurrection, that there
was some hope for the future. The Irish representation
was a fraud and a delusion, and having warned the House
of what his opinions were with regard to Ireland, he
must wash his hands of all responsibility for the evils
that were coming on Ireland.—(Oh. oh.)
After a few words from Mr. J. YOUNG,
Mr. VERNON SMITH said he did not think Govern-
ment was open to the censure which the Honourable
Member for Manchester had cast upon them for not
proceeding more rapidly with the business of the session. '
It had always been the custom to bring in a
number of measures at the commencement of the session,
and to throw over many of them towards the close of
the session; but he confessed he thought there were
less Bills thrown over this session than he remembered
to have been thrown over at former periods.—(Hear,
hear.) He should, however, have been more satisfied
with the termination had the poor-law settlement and
the emigration questions been disposed of. He hoped
the Right Hon. President of the Poor-law Board meant
to proceed with the Bill he had brought in on the ques-
tion of settlement.—(Yes.) For though that measure
did not go the length he could wish, he hoped it might
lead to such a solution of the difficulty as should be be-
neficial to the poor. With regard to emigration, he
thought it might be approached with more advantage
now than at any former time. The colonies were most
anxious for our superabundant labour, and our unem-
ployed labourers were anxious to emigrate. He hoped
his Right Hon. Friend would state whether he intended
to propose any vote or motion on this subject before the
session closed, which would probably give rise to discus-
sion.

Registration-Bill, which was now in the other HOll5O. If
that Bill came down soon his Hon. and Learned Friend
the Lord Advocate would proceed with it.
Mr. FORBES—On what day?
Lord J. RUSSELL said he could not name the day
until the Bill came down from the other House. His
Hon. Friend the Hon. Member for the University of
Oxford (Sir R. H. Inglis) had remarked that Ministers
expected to prorogue Parliament in the second week in
August. He (Lord John Russell) entertained no such
expectation.—(Hear, hear.) He did not think it possible
that it could take place so early; but of course that
would depend upon the time given to the discussion of
those Bills which were intended to be proceeded with.
In speaking of Ireland and Irish measures, it had been
alleged that, with respect to the Landlord and Tenant
Bill, the Irish Members had not been consulted. Now,
that Bill had been referred to a Select Committee,
of which a great majority were Irish Members; and
that Committee had recommended the Bill in its pre-
sent form. The Hon. Member for Manchester
(Mr. Bright), in finding fault with the conduct
of the Government, had admitted that the Sale
of Incumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill was an Aet
essential to the foundation of the improved social con-
dition of Ireland; and he (Lord J. Russell) asked the
'louse whether a greater compliment could be paid to
the Government who introduced and pressed forward
that measure than the admission made by an Hon. Mem-
ber when indulging in attacks and invectives upon the
Government? . In reply to a question put by his Hon.
Friend the Member fur the University of Oxford (Sir
R. H. Inglis), he had to state, with respect to the mea-
sure for the alteration of the oaths required to be taken
by Members, that public business had so much increased
since he had given notice of that treasure, that it was
not his intention to make any motion on that subject
during the present session; but, believing as he did that
the oaths now taken were very unnecessary and almost
drew ridicule on that which ought to be a solemnity, he
should, early next session, renew his notice, with a view
to their alteration. As to the Diplomatic Relations with
Rome Bill, he believed there would be no great opposi-
tion to it, and he hoped Parliament would not refuse
its assent to it before the present session was brooght to
a close.
Mr. B. OSBORNE said, though he agreed that dis-
cussions like the present were unfit to be entertained,
still he was of opinion that at this moment the House
ought not to deceive itself or the country with respect to
the real state of Ireland. That was a matter of far too
serious import to be dismissed in an easy off-hand man-
ner, as had been done by the Noble Lord at the head of
the Government, and by other Hon. Members who had
spoken on the point. He intended to make no attack on
the Government with respect to their conduct towards
Ireland, because on the principle that he would not
speak ill of the dead, so he would say nothing against
a dying and expiring Government.—(" Hear, hear,"
and a laugh.) He had resisted the cry for repeal,
because he had thought justice would be done to
Ireland by the Imperial Parliament ; but he
joined with the Honourable Member for Mallow (Sir D.
Norreys) in saying, that if session after session was al-
lowed to pass—if promises made out of office were not
fulfilled when in office, he would join the Irish Con-
federation to get the management of their affairs into
their own hands. He must say that the conduct of the
Whigs towards Ireland had been a delusion, a mockery,
and a snare. They had induced their supporters to join
them in a factious vote to turn out the Right Hon.
Baronet the Member for Tamworth ; and when they got
into office the first thing they had done was to pass a
coercion Bill, and since November the only remedial
measure was the Incumbered Estates Bill ; and even
that would not have gone on but for the circumstance of
the Hon. and Learned Member for Plymouth having
succeeded Sir I). Dundas in the office of Solicitor.
General. The course taken by the Noble Lord and his
colleagues with respect to Ireland could lead to nothing
but anarchy and bloodshed, and he for one cared not how
soon they were out of office. He trusted a strong
Government, of any party, would turn out the men of
straw whn war,* ace' ; if not the) tenure of
Ireland by this country would be lost.—(Hear, near.)
Mr. NEWDEGATE reminded Hun. Members that
when the people of Ireland complained that more was
not done for them, they forgot that they did not ap-
proach either tke Government or the House in a form
or medic(' that was at all calculated to conciliate, He
was sure the Government and the Legislature had not
shown any indisposition to meet the physical wants of
Ireland, and therefore he utterly repudiated the doc-
trines held by the Hon. Member for Manchester (Mr.
Bright) as to the deatruction of the Church of Ireland,
and the hint that the Church of England must follow the
same fate. It was right for the House to tell the Irish
people that while it was ready to meet and remedy any'
known grievances, sedition, conspiracies, and the for-
mation of secret societies against the constituted autho-
rities were not the means by which to conciliate this
country, so as to induce her to extend all her privileges
and advantages to them. As to an extension of the
franchise, it had been ref used to England and Scotland,
both of which were more fitted to receive it than Ireland,
and therefore on that ground Ireland had no just ground
of complaint.
Colonel DUNNE regreted that as the Qualification
of Voters Bill had passed a second reading, and its prin-
ciple been thereby adopted, it was not to be proceeded
with as one remedial measure for Ireland. lie thought
the course pursued by the Government would tend to
increase the number of repealers.
Colonel SIBTHORP did not rise to fire another volley
against her Majesty's Ministers, but simply to state that
he should move, when it came on, that the Corrupt
Practices at Elections Bill be read a second time that
clay six months. All those other measures the Govern-
ment were disposed to proceed with he should oppose,
for there was not one good measure amou4st them.
The order of the day was then read mid discharged.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.
A message from the Lords stated that their Lordships
had agreed to the following Bills :—Glasgow, Paisley.
Kilmarnock, and Air Railway (Revision of Maximum of
Tolls and Charges on the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock,
and Ayr Railways), without atnendment—Manchestvr,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Station at Sheffield
and Branch to the Sheffield Canal)--London and South-
Western Railway Company and Southampton and Dor-
chester Railway Company Amalgamation—London and
Blackwall Railway (Improvement and Branches to St.
Katharine's and London Docks), with amendments.
RUM DUTIES.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX-
CHEQUER the House resolved itself into a Committee
of the whole House on the Ruin Duties, Mr. Bernal in
the chair.

Sir J. WALSH understood the Noble Lord to say
that he would ask the House to agree to the principle i
of the Landlord and Tenant Bill, but did not intend to
press the details this session. He feared such an arrange-
ment would be most incouvenient, and he hoped the
Noble Lord would reconsider his determination.
Lord J. RUSSELL had said that he would endeavour
to pass the measure, but that he attached more impor-
tance to the principle of it than to any details it might
contain, but that he should not therefore refrain from
proceeding with the details if possible.
Sir J. WALSH—But it was in the details that the
real importance and efficacy of the measure consisted.
Sir R. INGLIS could not conceive with what hope
his Noble Friend proposed to proceed with the Diplo..
rustic Relations with Rome Bill, against which he (Sir
R. Inglis) had that day presented a petition signed by
3.500 clergymen of the Church of England. When the
Hon. Member for Manchester told them in a tone of
eloquence which he hoped not to imitate—(A laugh)—
that the Church of Ireland must go down and the Church
of England with it, he would say to that Hon. Gentle-
man that he hoped and was confident that the Church of
Ireland and England would long survive his sect. With
regard to his Noble Friend at the head of the Govern-
ment, he must ask him what he intended to do with the
Bill of which he gave notice on the Ist of June, for al-
tering the oaths to be taken by the Members of that
House,—(Loud cries of "Hear.")
Mr. RICsIRDO said that if the Noble Lord had
been sincere in the principles of free trade he had so
often enunciated he would not have abandoned his
measure for repealing the navigation-laws, which was
in tact the key-stone of free trade.—(Hear, hear.) But,
whether he was right in that opinion or not, certain ho
was that it was deeply wrong and mischievous to delay
the settlement of a great question. In this case the
delay would leave the shipowners, merchants and ship-
builders of the country in a state of the utmost uncer-
tainty, which must be productive of the greatest evil.
Mr. HUME concurred in the Hon. Member's opinion,
and called attention particularly to the effect of this
extraordinary announcement on the colonies, producing,
as in this country, the greatest uncertainty.—(Hear,
hear.) The conduct of the Government respecting Ire-
land was still more extraordinary, for after great pro-
mises
of measures of amelioration, their chief measure
was a gagging Bill.—( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Baronet
the Member for the University of Oxford expressed a
h,pc that the Irish Church would last as long as the
Church in this country. He (Mr. Hume) greatly
doubted it—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear," from the
Irish Members)—for he looked at that Church as being
the root of the evil in Ireland.
Mr. LABOUCHERE felt as deeply as any Hon.
Member the evil of deferring to another session the final
decision of Parliament on the question of the navigation-
laws. Indeed he had, in an early period of the present
session, impressed on the House the necessity of settling
that question, and all he would now say, after the state-
ment of his Noble Friend, was, that the decision of the
Government to postpone it had been arrived at most re-
luctantly. He was happy to think, however, that the
discussion of the question had not been unattended with
advantage in Canada, and also in the West Indies, the
papers relating to which, particularly from Canada,
would, he was sure, do much to convince the opponents
of the measure submitted by Government of the absolute
necessity of a modification of the navigation-laws.
Lord G. BENTINCK would not quarrel with the
Government for abandoning the repeal of the navigation-
laws ; but he heard with the deepest surprise the Right
Hon. Gentleman who had just spoken say that the cor-
respondence from Canada afforded matter for congratu-
lation, when ho found it stated in a dispatch of Lord
Elgin, that if the river St. Lawrence should not continue
to be the highway of commerce to Canada, the inevi-
table result would be to draw Canada closer to the
United States, and dissolve the ties which connected her
with the mother country.—(Cheers.) Regarding the
West Indies, be should wait to see what they would say
in their petitions next year to a_ repeal of the naviga-
tion-laws. But lie must just observe that there were now
no less than 31,600 tons of sugar in excess kept out of
this country by those laws.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. MACGREGOR expressed his deep regret that
her Majesty's Government should have found themselves
in a position that obliged them to abandon their mea-
sure on the subject.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD complained of the non-legisla-
tion for Ireland.
Mr. FORBES inquired what the Government intended
to do with the Bill for the registration of births, deaths,
and marriages in Scotland ?
After a few words from Mr. Slaney, Capt. Pechell,
and Mr. Henley,
Mr. W. FAGAN thanked the Hon. Member for
Manchester for the way in which ho spoke of Ireland.
Two measures were passed for that country with the
rapidity of lightning—a coercion and a gagging Bill—
but the Government had wholly failed in their promises
of measures of amelioration, excepting the Incumbered
Estates Bill. Such a statement would not satisfy his
constituents, nor any portion of the Irish people.
With every respect for the House, he was of opinion,
after an attentive consideration of the manner in which its
business was conducted, that it was utterly impossible for
the House to do justice to the affairs of Ireland—in fact
it had not time to devote to the concerns of that coun-
try. Every succeeding day convinced him the more of
absolute necessity, in order to maintain a connexion
between the two countries, that the affairs of Ireland
should be transacted there, and that the laws by which
she. was governed ought to be passed by a Parliament
of her own.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir D. NORREYS inquired what had become of the
Bill (for the introdnction of which leave had been given
on Friday night) for the conversion of leaseholds for
lives renewable for ever into freehold tenures. He had
been given to understand that this—another remedial
measure for Ireland—would be proceeded with. At all
events it had not been laid on the table.
Sir G. GREY (handing a copy of the Bill to the
Hon. Member) observed that the Bill had not only
been introduced, but, as he saw, was actually. printed.
Sir D. NORREYS said, he had not received a copy
until that moments and the statement he had made
rested on the authority of one of the lion. Members,
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been most miserable. Where were the promised altera-
tion of the grand jury laws, the amendments of the law
affecting medical charities, and of the poor-law; and,
lastly, tie measure for the extension of the elective fran-
chise in Ireland? In every respect the people of Ireland
had been deceived and disappointed by the Whigs, in
whose behalf he had struggled to retain his seat in that
House as a friend to the legislative union, but it' legis-
lation proceeded as of late years, though he should riot
become a repealer—for he was now too old to change his
politics—(Cries of "No, no")—yet he could not blame
those who advocated the management by Ireland of her
own affairs. For himself he would say lie did not care
how soon the Whigs changed places with the Honour-
able Gentlemen opposite, for the former were always
better in opposition than when they undertook to con-
duct the affairs of this great nation.—(Hear, hear.)
Lord J. RUSSELL said he had understood that his
llon. Friend had risen in order to put a question, but
although he had made many observations, he had omitted
to put the question he had said he wished to ask.—(A
laugh.) If he understood his Honourable Friend right,
he wished to know whether it was likely that the Bill
for converting leasehold textures in Ireland into tenures
in fee would be introdnced, and that question had been
answered by the production of the Bill its a printed form.
The Honourable Member for Manchester (Mr. Bright)
had also asked some questions with respect to the affairs
of Ireland, but as notice had been given of two motions

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
rose to propose the second of the measures which the
Government had announced for the benefit of the West
Indies by facilitating the introduction of their produce
into this country; and he was happy to think that by
the measure he was about to propose, not merely the
interests of the producer but those of the consumer had
been consulted. The principle on which the Government
proposed to legislate was, that as far as restriction went
the colonial producer should be allowed to bring his
articles into the market on the same terms as the pro
ducer of the same commodity in this country. Last
year, it would be remembered by those Hon. Members
who sat in the last Parliament, that his first proposition
had been a differential duty of 6d. per gallon, and that
he had not then been prepared to admit the claim made
by the British distillers for a differential duty of 7d. per
gallon. If then, in 1847, Gd. was a fair differential
duty, it was not in the slightest degree inconsistent
with that opinion, that now, under the altered
position of circumstances, a less duty than 6d. would
be adequate. In the first place he wished to state that
ho did not think it possible to deduce any direct conclu-
sion from the mere consumption of spirits during the last
year. No doubt that consumption was entirely to be
attributed to the circumstances of the year, partly arising
from short crops, and partly to the necessity of diverting
grain from the manufacture of spirits to the purposes of
food for the population. This was proved by the falling
off in the quantity of malt brought into charge, and from
the fact that corn imported for the purposes of distilla-
tion had actually been re-exported to supply food to
foreign countries. This accounted for the falling off in
the revenue from these sources, and proved that the fall-
ing off had not arisen from the introduction of
foreign spirits. The whole amount of foreign spirits
entered for consumption in Scotland and Ireland was
shown by the evidence given by the Chairman
of the Board of Excise before the Select Com-
mittee. The quantity of spirits brought into charge
in Scotland in 1846-7, was 6,123,000 gallons, while
the quantity of ruin entered for consumption there had
been only 382,000 gallons; and in Ireland, of home dis-
tilled spirits there had been entered on charge 6,037,000
gallons, and only 176,000 gallons of rum entered for home
consumption during the same periOd. Therefore, nobody
could say that any effect had been produced on the con-
sumption of home-manufactured spirits by the introduc-
tion of so trifling a quantity of colonial spirits. He woull
now state why he thought the duty on rum might be re-
duced to the point he was about to propose. He ob-
served that in the Committee on sugars great stress !lad
been laid upon a supposed difference in the case of the
malt distillers and that of the distillers from raw grain.
In that distinction he could not concur. It was clear that
both competed with success with each other, and there-
fore both were entitled to equal protection, and adequate
protection for the one would be adequate protection for
the other. The malt distillers got au additioula Price