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London, England, 1846-05-08 00:00:00

EPARTMENT.

Government securi-
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) • • 13,303,065
Other securities .• • • 17,901,148
Notes • • • • . • . • • • • • • • 6,408,470
Gold and silver coin . • 661,418

X 33,274,101
If. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

LNGE.-(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar ...... .•• • • •
Leghorn .. 30 75
Genoa 26 15
Milan .. ........
Venice.. • • • • • • •
Naples .. 39%
Palermo, per oz . 119%
Lisbon.. .. 52%
Oporto... . .
Rio Janeiro ..1 231,
liahia .... ..
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia

PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz.
Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 3 17 5
New Doubloons ..... 0 0 0
New Dollars ........ 0 0 0
Silver in bars ........ 0 4 11

MPER.LAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lordships met at Five o'clock.
Lord CAMPBELL gave notice that on Friday next he
would move the second reading of the Bill for the general re-
gistration of deeds.
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE presented a petition from the
Governor and Trustees of the London Hospital, against the
Charitable Trusts Bill.

Lord CAMPBELL presented two petitions to the same
effect.

CORN.LAWS.

The Earl of RADNOR gave notice that he would move,
on an early day, for the quantities of wheat and flour entered
for home consumption during the years 1835 and 1845 in-
clusive, and also the average prices during the same period.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA BILL.
The several clauses of this Bill were agreed to in Com-
mittee.

SCOTCH BURGHS BILL.
The Duke of bUCCLEUCH moved the third reading of
the Scotch Burghs Bill.
The 8111 was tken read a third time and passed.
THE RAJA OF SATTARA.
Lord BEAUMONT presented a petition praying that the
Raja of Sattara might be set at liberty, and his personal pro-
perty restored to him. He would not state any more on that
occasion than this—that from 1818 to 1839 the Raja was con-
sidered a loyal subject, and strictly maintained his engage-
ments with the East India Company. Shortly after the last of
these years a charge of conspiracy was brought against him by the
Supreme Court of Bengal, but the accusations against him had
never been proved, though he had repeatedly sought to be put
on his trial with respect to them. With regard to another
charge, he was treated in the same way; but instead of being
allowed the trial which he courted, in order that he might prove
his innocence, he was carried off in the dead of the
night and committed to prison, where he was at present
confined. The whole of his personal property had been since
secured. Ile also presented another petition from
a servant of the Raja, declaring that his master had always been
a loyal subject, and that he himself had been placed over a
powder-magazine, and imprisoned, before he consented to sign
a paper containing charges against the Raja.
The Earl of tt LYON had no particular answer to the ob-
servations of the Noble Lord (Beaumont), and all he could
say upon the subject was, that it bad been fully considered in
the session of last year. It had been maturely considered by
the Governor of Bombay, and been minutely examined by the
Gevernor-General in Council, and had received every
attention from the late President of the Board of Control
(Sir John Cam Hobhouse), who had gone most fully into
the question, and it had afterwards been most maturely discussed
by the Court of Proprietors of the East India Company ,
in fact, this subject had been under discussion at least sixteen
or seventeen times ; and the original decision had in every
case been confirmed. With respect to the jewels of which the
Noble Lord spoke, they were not the private property
of the Raja, and had been as the property of the
State handed over to the successor of the Government,
with the exception of jewels, worth about two lacs of rupees,
which the Raja had retained for his own private use. With
respect to the purport of the second petition, which complained
that insufficient evidence had been adduced' against him, this
was the first time that any such allegation had been made. He,
himself, was not responsible for whatever had occurred, for the
circumstances took place before he had anything to do with tine
office he now held, or, indeed, before the present Government
came into power at all.
A NOBLE LORD did; not rise to give any opinion upon
the subject, but he would beg merely to state that he had un-
derstood thatthe facts had occurred before the year 1841 ; conse-
quently before the Noble Earl (Ellenboreugh) opposite went to
India, but it seemed to be a matter of some interest, and might
possibly be worth inquiry.
Lord BROUGHAM fully concurred in the observations
made by the Noble Earl who had just sat down. He had read
a paper on the subject from the pen of Sir R. Grant, the late
Governor of Bombay, and he considered the decision come to
was perfectly just.
After a few words from Lord BEAUMONT, who said
that his only complaint was that he was condemned without
a trial.—The subject then dropped.
Lord KINNAIRD moved for certain returns connected with
railways passed and projected.
The Bishop of ST. DAVID'S presented a petition against
the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday. If a measure were
brought forward for this purpose, many of those disgraceful
scenes which occurred on the Sabbath-:lay would be prevented.
There was a simple and obvious remedy, which had been tried
before, and which had been attended with complete and un-
questionable success. Under these circumstances, it was not
too much to ask why petitions had been pouring in for years
and yet nothing had been done, nor even any notification of the
intention of her Majesty's Government to do anything to
remedy the evil.
Lord KINNAIRD said that he had attended to the ob-
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The Bishop of ST. DAVID'S said that some remedy might
still be provided. He would take the opportunity of present-
, to which he wished to call the attention

CHARITBALE TRUSTS BILL.
The LORD CHANCELLOR stated that he would bring
forward the Charity Trusts Bill on Thursday next.
SECOND READINGS.
The following Bills were read a second time :—The Brighton
and Chichester Railway (Bognor and Littlehampton branches);
South Eastern Railway ( Ashford Station Enlargement); East-
ern Union and Hadleigh Junction Railway; Glasgow, Paisley,
Kilmarnock, and Ayr Amendment and Branches, Nos. 1, 2,3;
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Amendment and Branches
—London and Brighton Railway (East Grimstead Branches)
—Helensbargh Harbour—Helensburgh Extension and Po-
lice—Bolton Waterworks.
The House then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.

SOAERSET SMALL DEBTS BILL.
This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be com-
mitted.

HARROGATE GAS.

The report on this Bill was brought up and agreed to, and
the Bill was ordered to be engrossed.
GLASGOW MUNICIPAL AND POLICE BILL.
Mr. DENNISTOUN moved that it be an instruction to
the Committee of Selection to refer the Glasge,w Municipal
and Police: Bill and the Bridgeton Police Bill to the same
committee. The motion was agreed to.
WEXFORD, CARLOW, AND DUBLIN JUNCTION

_ • •
of the Honse and of her Majesty's Government. The subject i Colonel VERNER begged to say a few words on this sub-
was one of importance, it he might judge by the ;language which ject. He should have addressed the House on the previous
had fallen from some Members of the Administration. It was stages of this 13111, had not so many Hon. Members pledged
a petition from the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the themselves to do so. So much had been said with regard to
county and borough of Caermarthen, regretting the defective , Ireland, that he felt it to be the duty of every Irish Member
state of education in Wales, and requesting the attention of the to express his opinions upon this measure. He did not
Government to it. They stated that they were sensible of the rise with the presumptuous idea of entering upon the question
importance of education to the social interest of the corn- with regard to the effect which this measure would have upon
mollify, and requested that. Honourable House to provide, en the public at large. He rose, however, for the purpose of ex-
a liberal plan, some means of extending the blessing of educa- pressing the alarm with which this measure was contemplated
tion in Wales. in that art of Ireland in which he- ided-
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ae resin .a—apart of the coun-
try which was mainly dependent hitherto on its agricultural
produce for support. The effect which this measure would
produce upon the public at large had been fully and ably de-
tailed by Hon. Gentlemen on his side of the House over and
over again, and it was unnecessay for him to follow in the wake
of those Honourable Gentlemen.A—( Hear, hear). He would
merely detain the House for a few moments for
the purpose of stating in whdt manner the people of his country
would be injured if it were passed into a law. He believed
that during the progress of these debates, sufficient
attention had not been paid on the part of the Government to
the interests of the small farmers, the holders of ten and fifteen
acres.—( Hear, hear.) He should like to know who would
remunerate those men for the expense which they had been put
to in cultivat ng their land, and erecting houses thereon.—
( Hear, hear.) The small farmers in that pat of Ireland
in which he resided were decidedly 4.pposed to this measure,
because they were convinced that it would tend to their ruin.
He agreed with the Hon. Members who had opposed this
motion, that the results of its passing into a
law would be to bring a national calamity ; and those
who had introduced the measure should look upon them
selves as participators in that calamity. If the measure had
been introduced by the Noble Lerd the Member for London,
or by any other Hon. Member on that side of the House, or
in fact by any Hon. Member but the Right Hon. Baronet,
he would not have been much surprised.—( Hear, hear. )
The Hon. Gentleman then detailed the experience which he
had of the Right Hon. Baronet's policy—he at one time had be-
lieved him the person best fitted to lead the House
of Commons, but he was now under thn sad ne
cessity of hanging all his long-cherished opinions.
The Hon. and Gallant Gentleman then read several extracts
from the Newry and other Irish papers, which, as far as could
be gathered from the noise that prevailed, were to the efectt,
that there was no scarcity of wheat, oats, and barley in Ireland.
There had not been so good a harvest in Ireland for mane
years as in the present year, and, therefore, it was altogether
unfounded to say, that there was such a scarcity to be appre-
hended in that country.
Sir W. JOLLIFFE said that it was with a most painful
feeling he opposad a Government which he had supported for
so many years, but on the present occasion he
could not help expressing his dissatisfaction at the
course which Government was pursuing with regard 'to this
measure, and he could not conceal from himself that for a con-
siderable time back the Right Hon. Baronet had been syste-
matically attacking the agricultural interest.
(LEFT SITTING.)

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