The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-10 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The sittings of this Committee commenced as usual at one o'clock
this day, in No. 9 room, The ➢Members present were Mr. Estcourt
(chairman), Mr. Greene, Mr. Miles, Mr. Pendarves, Sir W. Heath-
cote, Mr. 11. Drunnnond, and Mr. W. Ord.
In the case of the following Bills the Committee decided that the
standing orders should be dispensed with, and the Bills should be
allowed to be proceeded with accordingly :

GLASGOW HARBOUR RAILWAY.
LONDON, SALISBURY, AND YEOVIL RAILWAY.
WEST RIDING UNION RAILWAY.

This case, which has excited so much interest, was again brought
before the Committee on a petition referred to it by the House of
Commons. After hearing Mr. Parkes, of the firm of Dyson, Hall,
and Co., at considerable length, the Committee decided that the
promoters of the Bill should be allowed to present a petition for
leave to introduce their Bill.
MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY.
Standing orders dispensed with in this case.
THE SOMERSETSIIIRE MIDLAND RAILWAY

Was also allowed to be proceeded with. .
The Committee rose at five o'clock, having previously obtained the
permission of the House to sit until that time, and adjourned till
Friday next.

COURSE OF EXCII
Amsterdam .... —C.F. 12 912
Ditto, at sight .• .... 12 5%
Rotterdam ...... 2U. 12 10
Antwerp .......... 26 15
Hamburgh ...• —II.B. n
Altona. ...... .........
Paris, 3 days' sight .. 25 75
Ditto, 3 months.... 26
Marseilles •• •• •• •• • • 26 10
R0urdeaux............ 26 10
Frankfort on Maine.... 122 y
Pctcrsburgh, 3 U 5.... ••
Vienna, effee.flo • • 10 10%
Trieste, ditto.... ...... 10 103 i
Madrid •• . 36
Cadiz .• : 36

LNGE.--(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 75
Genoa ........ 2t 10

Venice. ... • • . • ....
Naples
Palermo, per oz .. 119%
•.• • • • 523/4
Oporto ................ 52%
Rio Janeiro .......... 23
Bahia ..
Buenos Ayres ..... .

New York, 21 days' sight

Philadelphia .... • •

PRICES OP BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold in bars .• £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars ••.• • • • • 0 4 9X
Silver in bars • • 0 4 II !it

Bilbao.. • • • • .• • • • • • • • •
Barcelona •• • • .• . • • • • .
Saville.. ..

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current of March 10.)

SLGAE.— To-day there was a great desire evinced to pur-
chase West India Sugar for refining and grocery purposes,
and the rates offered were fully equal to those of Friday, but
business of moment was prevented by the scarcity and indif-
ferent show at market.
REFINED.—To-day Refined goods were in excellent re,-
quest by the home trade, and stiffer rates were paid, brown
grocery lumps selling at 623 6d, and standard lumps at 03
6d to 64s per cwt. The market for bonded crushed Sugew
is very firm at 35s 6d to 35s 9d per cwt for first quality.
";This afternoon the quantity of Mauritius submitted to pub.•
lie competition amounted to 6170 bags 47 casks and 16 bar-
rels ; the trade were desirous to operate, and the whole sold al:,
former rates to 6d. per cwt. advance.
This afternoon B3ngal Sugar was in excellent request. 'The
quantity submitted to public competition amounted to 2=2
bags, nearly the whole sold at former rates.
FonEIGN.—The market has been much better supplied
with all description of Foreign Sugar since this day woek,
and fall hi the value has ensued. A reduction on the lire-
vious rates of is per cwt. having been submitted to for yellow
Havannah however, has occasioned a large business to be
transacted.

COFFEE.--This afternoon there was little desire evin act
by exporters to purchase Coffee, but the home trade opera ted
more freely privately, and only 19 bags of C*ylon w ere
offered at public sale which sold at 47s far good ordini,
and at 43s for first class sea damaged, by private treaty- a
fair amount of business was tranracted.
;rEa.-llolders of Coogou are reluctant to reduce Or air
a; sm terms,p
rule
rials and
Pr ice; but the trade have purchased all descriptions with
caution. Twarikay has been disposed of to a fair exte
Although 'sons are to obtainal de
upon lowat,
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s
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SviciLs--Prices at
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presenttl:n cannot be quoted higher f ex
publiclllack hasi been again aubinittad to
has been a good business
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Stocks at
are dechled ty
present to w
inure inclined to increase their
prices. The arrivals keep small,..tslphi.ic(xantity hest
is less than it was last year, and
RICE.—To-day the market was better supplied awl:iethi°lrz
gal Lice, and three parcels amounting to 1,065 bags
Li 1.310 pockets were offered at public sale ; the trade evine ti:
little desire to operate, and the sound was all taken hi( kt
per cwt under former rates.
RUM, IittANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—HoIders of Calcut to
Rum evince firmness, and at is 8d to Is 9d per gallon pro of
with certificate, purchases to a fair extent have been mad ta
Leeward Island is wanted, still no advance in the value hi a
occurred. Jamaica is not to be had upon lower terms 1;
corn sorts, however, have been sparingly dealt in at 3s Go
3s 3d, but the better qualities met with more attention.
The inferior sorts of Demerara are dull of sale, and can Ins
obtained upon easier terms; strong kinds, however, in in a-
proved request at 2s 9d to 3s per gallon. The deliveries
Rum are still exceeding the arrivals. There has been lith
inclination to purchase Brandy of any description. Geneva:.
has been less in request for exportation, and prices not so firm.-
Fine for home consumption is still fetching 2s 9d to 33. The, i
value of British Corn Spirits is still 102 6d per gallon nett,
cash, and Gin is held for 8* 10d for 22 per cent under proof,

and 17 under 9s 4d per gallon ; but the demand has been
limited.
Oias.—A good demand has been experienced for Olive Oil.
For Rape Seed Oil further reduced rates have tempted buy-
ers to operate with more freedom. In Cocoa Nut the trans-
actions privately have been upon a more extended scale. Palm
has been disposed of to a fair extent, but not at better prices.
Prices continue on the advance for Linseed Oil, and there
has been an extensive business transacted. Pale Seal has
been purchased with caution. Southern has suffered no fur-
ther decline in value
TALLow.—There having deen a brisker demand for Rus-
sian on the spot, and the stock being small, holders have suc-
ceeded in obtaining stiffer rates; the demand has been good,
and 42s 9d to 43 per cwt are the prices given for fine
Petersburg Yellow Candle duty paid ; the trade, however,
are not disposed to take much more than their immediate
wants require. For delivery in the last three months
of the year many contracts have been entered into, and
41s Gd to 42s are the rates paid in bond. In the value of
home made little variation has occurred, the demand has
been good at 42s Gd to 43s nett cash, and the supply is but a
moderate one. Other kinds of Tallow arc wanted, and pre-
vious rates are sustained, although the market has been
fairly supplied.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEE. 28.
The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord
Forester, to appoint the under-mentioned Gentlemen to her
Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms :—Fre-
derick Blow Birkett, Esq , vice Murray; James Little, Esq.,
vice Blenkarn; and Theobald Blake, Esq., vice Winter, who
have retired.
DOWNING-STREET, MARCII 10.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant-Gene-
ral the Earl Cathcart, Knight Commander of the Most
Honourable Military Order of the Bath, to be Captain-Gene-
ral and Governor-in-Chief of her Majesty's provinces of
Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and of the island
of Prince Edward, and Governor-General of all her Majesty's
provinces on the continent of North America, and of the
island of Prince Edward.
DOWNING-STREET, MAadn 9.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Captain Charles
Hotham, of the Royal Navy, to be a Knight Commander of
the Most Hon. Military Order of the Bath.
FOREIGN OFFICE, MAncn 9.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. F. Dillon
Bell, as Consul in New Zealand for his Majesty the King of
Prussia.

CROWN-OFFICE, MAlRcit 10, 1846.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS pgEsENT
PARLIAMENT.
County of Nottingham (Northern Division)—William
Henry Cavendish Bentinck, Esq., commonly called Lord
Henry Bentinck, in the room of Henry Galley Knight, Esq,
deceased.
Borough of Bridport--Alexander Pandas Ross Wiehart
Baillie Cochrane, Esq.
Commission by the Queen.
The Prince Regent's Royal Regiment of Ayrshire Militia—
Quartermaster Sergeant J. Miller, of the Scots' Fusilier
Guards, to be Adjutant, vice A. M‘Pherson, deceased, Feb. 4.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire.
Sir V. Cornevall, Bart , to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Sir T.
Hastings, Knt., to be Deputy Lieutenant; G. Strong, Esq.,
M.D., to be Deputy Lieutenant; J. Davies, Esq., to be De-
puty Lieutenant ; J. Ilopton, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant :
J. Stinton, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; W. 11. Cooke,
Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; B. Boddington, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant ; T. Evans, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu-
tenant ; J. H. St. John, Clerk, to be Deputy Lieutenant ; A.
Clive, Clerk, to be Deputy Lieutenant ; W. P. Hopton, Clerk,
to be Deputy Lieutenant; E. Higgins, Clerk, to be Deputy
Lieutenant; W. Edwards, Clerk, to be Deputy Lieutenant,
March 6.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Vorfarshire.
Sir T. Monro., Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; D. Laird,
Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Lieutenant Colonel T. R.
Swinburne to be Deputy Lieutenant; D. W. B. Ogilvy, Esq.,
to be Deputy Lieutenant; D. Rankine, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant.
Commissions by the Lerd Lieutenant of Middlesex.
Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—J. Cocking,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, Jan. 1846.
Royal Westminster Regiment of Middlesex Militia—H.
St. John Corbett, Gent., to be Lieutenant, March 5.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire.
Huntingdonshire Militia—The Hon. It. Montagu, com-
monly called Lord Robert Montagu, to be Captain, March 3.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire.
Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry—E.
L. Darwin, Gent., to be Cornet, vice W. Craddock, resigned,
Nov. 7 ; Cornet S. P. Cradock to be Lieutenant, vice Ousley,
resigned,; T. J. Pavis, Gent., to be Cornet, vice S. F. Cradock,
promoted, Jan. 17.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Southampton.
Andover Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry—ll. Thompson,
Gent., to be Lieutenant ; F. R. Loscombe, Gent., to be
Cornet, Feb. 27.
WHITEHALL, MArcn 3.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Knapp, of the
city of Worcester, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in
the High Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Joseph Collison, worsted spinner, Allerton, Yorkshire.
BAN KRUPTS.

William Harding, turner, Edward-street, Portman-square,
to surrender March 20, at one, and. April 21, at half-past
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee;
Blordaunt, solicitor, Bolton-street, Piccadilly.
William James Harris, tailor, High-street, Southwark,
March 21, at twelve, and April 18, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Well-
borne, Tooley-street.
Joseph Sewell, grocer, Great Dunmow, Essex, March 18,
at half-past twelve, and April 23, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Wade and Pennington, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
Edward Morgan, coach- builder, Lisson-street, Marylebone,
March 20, at twelve, and April 18, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook .court,
Basinghall-street ; Bicknells, Manchester-street, Manchester-
square.
S. Pritchett and J. P. Oridge, glove manufacturers, Cheri-
bury, Oxfordshire, March 20, at two, and April 18, at twelve,
at the Coart of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Alder-
manbury ; Patten, Ely-place, Holborn.
William John Idenden, tailor, Salmon's-lane, Litnehouse,
March 17, at one, and April 21, at half-past eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Jewry-
chambers; Taylor, Church-street, Spitalfields.
William Frederick Brewster, chemist, Bath, March 17,
at half-past twelve, and April 7, at half-part eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-
street ; Wilkins, Furnival's Inn.
John Blundell, pawbroker, Wigan, Lancashire, March 23
and April 20, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Sharp, Field, and Jack-
son, Bedford-row; Barrow, Wigan.
Jan Rayner, cloth manufacturer, Stanningley, Yorkshire,
March 23 and April 13, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Walker, Furnival's-
inn ; Blackburn, Leeds.
Anthony Nichol, ship-broker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
March 19 and April 21, at two, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne
District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne; Harle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Chisholme, Hall, and
Gibson, Lincoln's-inn fields.
Thomas Harding, bookseller, Lichfield, March 20 and
April 18, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District
Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Reece,
Birmingham.
Charles Goldsmith, saddler, Bristol, March 19 and April
23, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, offitial
assignee, Bristol; Weeks, Cook's-ceirt, Lincoln's-inn ; Ni-
cholls, Birmingham.
William Dale, bricklayer, Liverpool. March 20 and April
17, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, of-
ficial assignee; Vincent and Co., Temple, London; Jones,
Liverpool.
Richard Foulkes, cattle salesman, Northop, Flintahire,
March 20, and April 14, at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool ; Bridger and
Blake, London-wall, London ; Almond, Liverpool.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at
the usual hour.
SALE OF SPIRITS ON SUNDAY.

The Duke of RICHMOND presented petitions from places
in the North of Scotland, praying for a limitation to the sale of
spirits on Sunday.

LEGACY DUTY.

The Duke of RICHMOND presented petitions from Forres,
praying that the inventory duty (a species of legacy duty) be
repealed.

CORN-LAWS.

The Duke of RICHMOND presented petitions from the
counties of Antrim and Londonderry, in favcur of protection
to agriculture.
REMITTED DUTY ON HOPS.

The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from the
landowners, tenant-farmers, labourers, and others interested in
the cultivation of hops in the county of Sussex. They complained
that by the remitted duty on foreign hops the Excise duties
would only leave them some 235. of proteetior.; and they stated
that the effect of an importation of foreign hops would be to
throw the land out of cultivation as regarded this particular
plant, and great numbers of persons who were at present en-
gaged in the cultivation of it would be reduced to idleness; and
not only would they be injured, but the clergymen of the
county also would find their livings seriously affected ; and it
was notorious that, even at present, they were the worst paid
of any clergy in England.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented a large number of
petitions in favour of protection to agriculture.
DIRECT NORTHERN RAILWAY.

The Duke of BUCCLEUCH presented a petition from
Hawick in favour of the Direct Northern Railway.
THE MARQUIS OF WESTMEATH AND HIS

TENANTRY.

Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition, to which he
wished to call the attention of their Lordships, as it came
from a Member of their House. The petitioner, however,
who was the Marquis of Westmeath, petitioned them not
as a Peer, but as a landed proprietor of Ireland. He
(Lord Brougham) knew nothing of the facts of the petition,
but as they were given in the statement made in it, but if they
were on cxaminotion found to be correctly stated, they
showed a state of things that never existed in any
civilized country. The petition had reference to the Noble
Marquis's property in the Barony of Ballinclougher, in the
county of Roscommon, and complained, that though
the petitioner, as well as his father before him,
had done their best to improve the condition of the tenantry,
and to introduce better modes of agriculture, but that all their
attempts had been frustrated and opposed; that insubordina-
tion prevailed to a most alarming extent; that the con-acre
system, and the minute sub-division of land consequent
thereon, was causing over-cropping, and the ruining of the
soil ; and that the petitioner was defeated in every move-
ment he made, either for improvement or redress, by
chicanery and intimidation of the worst description. The
Noble Lord also considered that the distress in the country
could not be so / 'Tat as was supposed when the people were able
to contribute such a large sum towards the O'Connell tribute.
Ilis Lordanip concluded by praying for protection from the
system of perjury, which at present so greatly prevailed, and
rd CLARE Aoßf ELipmreersieonkted against a
trusted that a law would be enacted by which intimidation of
witnesses would be put an end to.
Lo
petitionthe
abolition
grand juryprotective
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thecounty
duties on agriculture.
Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from the Cloth-
workers' Company of the city of London, the prayer of which
we could not catch.

Lord STOURTON gave notice that he should move for a
return of the quantities of wheat imported into Great Britain
from abroad, and also whatever returns might be in the
pooossion of Government with regard to the quantity of wheat
raised in Poland.
IRISH PACIFICATION BILL.

The Lord CHANCELLOR read the amendment which

had been agreed to by the House in Committee, which it
was arrahged should be proposed on bringing up the report.
Earl CLANCARTY said, that the observations of the
Noble Lord were, no doubt, worthy of attention, but he (Lord
Clancarty) coceived that the measure would have contained a
clause giving the Lord-Lieutenant power to proclaim a dis-
trict, with a view to the prevention of crime, by proclaiming a
district in which he had reason to apprehended that crime was
about to be committed.
The LORD CHANCELLOR did not consider it would be
judicious to give the Lord Lieutenant the power to proclaim a
district merely upon an apprehension or anticipation of crime,
because representations of apprehended crime might be made
by persons without foundation. The safest course therefore
to pursue would be to proclaim only districts in which crime
had been committed.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said he held in his hand
a threatening notice, the contents of which would shew their
Lordships that the cause of outrage in Ireland was not so much
to be attributed to the fact of the eviction of old tenants by
landlords, as to the fact of other parties being desirous to keep
those tenants in.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said he conceived it would be
very dangerous to insert any clause in the Bill referring to
threatening notices, because any evil-disonsed persons might
write those notices with a view to gettir g a district pro-
claimed.
The amendments in clause 7 providing compensation, were
agreed to.
On the question that the words under suspicious circum-
stances" be introduced into the 15th clause, which referred to
the offence of being out after sunset and before sunrise,
Lord sTouRToN asked whether it would be considered,
that in the present prospects of the country, when famine and
pestilence was full in their views, a person who might be pro-
ceeding to claim the aid of his priest, to administer the sacra-
ment to his family, and who might be found out of his own
house after sunset, should be laid hold on by the executive.
Earl St. GERMAINS rendered full justice to the motive
which had induced the Noble Lord to ask the question. A
policeman arristing a person under the circumstances, stated
by the Noble Lord. would do so on his own responsibility.
Lord STOURTON—But suppose a man that is a criminal
is going to his priest, is he not to be protected for the time
from arrest ?
Earl ST. GERMANS—Certainly net.
Lord BROUGHAM—Why what a monAreus absurdity to
think that a man who has committed a crime is to be pro-
tected front ar'►est under any circumstances. If a man com-
mits murder, surely he is pat to be protected from arrest upon
the pretence that he is go.ng to his priest, or open the reality
even.—The amendment was then agreed to.
The Earl of WICKLOW complained that the amendments
of the Noble Earl did not meet the objection he had rated
last night. Unless power was given to the constable to take a
person before the nearest magistrate and enable the latter to
take bail, the practical effect would often be for a person taken
up to lie in prison for seven nights and six days before a petit
session was held.
Earl St. GERMANS considered that the real difficulty was
met in the manner he proposed. They had the power of se-
curing a stipendiary nugistrate's attendance, and at least once
a week a sessions would be held, which being an oven court,
any person brought before it, would have their conduct fairly
discussed and investigated.
Lord DENMAN agreed with his Noble Friend (the Earl of
Wicklow) that a great hardship would be imposed on those
persons who would be taken up under the Bill, unless a pro-
v►sion was made. If a sessions was only to be held once a
week, accused parties, besides being confined for three or four
days in miserable and badly-ventilated Bells, would often have
to wal twenty miles, in order to -be examined. He would
wish the Noble Earl (the Earl St. Germans) to state what
he intended to do respecting gaol accommodation, which at
present was SJ very bad.