The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,_ FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1848.

tons a year,'and this supply was sure to be superseded by
that from the company's mines, so that there must be
an agent there to transactithe business. Mr. Colquhoun is
now at the mines, and Colonel Stopford is at Madrid, to
secure the interests of the company.
After some discussion of the statement of the ac-
counts, Mr. A. Wilson, the retiring director, was re-
elected, and thanks having been voted to th© Chairman,
the meeting separated.

QUEEN'S BENCH.--(THIS DAY.
(Before Lord DENMAN.)
GHISLIN V. GREGORY.

This was an action against Mr. Gregory, the late pro-
prietor, of the Satirist, to recover compensation in
damages for trespass, assault, and alleged false imprison
ment.

The case arose out of an altercation which ensued in
consequence of Mr. Gregory seeking to obtain possession
of the premises where the paper was published in the
Strand, of which the plaintiff held possession. The
plaintiff was connected with an illustrated edition of the
Satirist published some time ago. Defendant prucured
possession, and gave the plaintiff into custody.
The jury, after hearing the whole of the facts, gave
the plaintiff a verdict for 201.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 27th day of
June 1848, present, the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty in Council. This day the Right Henourable
John George Brabazon Earl of Bessborough and the
Right Honourable Samuel March Phillipps were,:by ller
Majesty's command, sworn of Her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council, and took their respective
places at the Board accordingly.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 26.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Senor
Prancisco Loustan, as Consul at St. Lucia for the Re-
public of Veneznela.
FOREIGN-OFPICE, JUNE 28.
The Rueen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John
G. Dodd, as Consul at Newcastle-upon-Tyne for the
Grand Duke of Oldenburgh.
CROWN-OFFICE, JUNE 30.

much required, and 2,105 bags at public sale went ra-
ther cheaper. Bengal met with little attention, and
3,109 bags barely realised former terms.
MoLassEs.—On the part of West India there is much
firmness; but only a limited demand bas been expe-
rienced during this week, Previous rates are well sup-
ported for all sorts, and arrivals continue to fall off,
whilst deliveries are on the increase.

Cocoa.—West India is not offered at any further de-
cline, but the trade operate with caution, and there is a
plentiful supply, whilst further arrivals are expected.
At public sale 250 bags Trinidad were all taken in at
the full value. For all kinds of Foreign the market is
dull.

COFFEE.—This afternoon the operations in Mocha
were not upon an enlarged scale, and 110 bales, 861
bales at auction went at a further decline of Is to 2s; mid-
dling greenish clean sold at 45s to 465, pea bery 53s to 71s,
sea damaged 42s to 60s, and triage 28s to 32s 6d. Of
Plantation Ceylon 127 bags 6 casks went at steady rates,
but a part only sold; low and middling 43s to 48s, fine
fine ordinary 40s to 42s 6d, ordinary 28s. 263 bags
and 13 packages of La Guayra sold at a decline of 2s
to 4s; good ordinary rather colory went at 26s 6d to 275,
fine ordinary 275, fine fine ordinary 28s to 32s 6d.
TEA. —AI favourableopinion is still entertained
towards all kinds of Congou; sales to a fair extent have
been made this week, and at rather better prices.
Of inferior sorts supplies are less plentiful, and fine
blackish leaf the stock is small ; good ordinary
clean went at 8d to Sid, better sorts 9d to
Is 3d, good and fine blackish leaf and Pekoe kinds
is 4d to 2s 2d. For Green the market has a dull ap-
pearance, few parcels having been sold by private treaty,
and for most sorts holders are willing to accept rather
lower rates; there is also a greater supply. Of 3,174
packages offered at auction, 1,000 sold; ordinary Canton
Twankay went upon the low terms of 24d to 3-id per lb.
RICE.--To. day the market had a quiet appearance for
all sorts. At public sale 1,294 bags and 61 pkts Bengal
went rather cheaper, and a part only sold; 1,707 bags
Penang sold 6d lower.
.SALTPETRE.—The inactivity of the market for all de-
scriptions of Foreign Sugar has further increased this
week, and on the part of importers there appears a desire
to realise. For exportations scarcely any orders have
been completed; few sales are made by home buyers,
and our refiners working under bond are little in want
of Sugar.

SPIES.—This afternoon at public sale 1,502 pockets
400 bags East India Ginger sold at steady rates. Mace
is in better supply, and 18 cases went 2d cheaper. Of
Nutmegs 59 cases 6 boxes and 19 bags were offered, and
went at a decline of ld to 2d. 10 cases Penang Cloves
Is 4d to is sd. 138 bags Sumatra Pepper 21d per lb.
SPIRITS.—The mrrket for Leeward Island Rum has
presented an inactive appearance all the week, and
holders are inclined to make a concession in the vnlue.
Proof can be obtained at is 8d to is 9d per gallon. East
India is held for Is 5d to is 6d, few buyers are, how-
ever, to be met with. For Jamaica the demand is limited
for exportation; all sorts have been dealt in with caution by
exporters, whilst former rates cannot be obtained. De-
merara is offered upon lower terms, yet the sales made
have been small. Havannah is dull of sale at is 5d
proof. With all sorts of Rum the market is plentifully
supplied, and export orders are unusually small for the
time of year. Brandy is not much in demand. For
Geneva there is a fair demand, and prices are firm. Corn
Spirit is not cheaper. The market is quiet.
Oils.—Prices have ruled firm for Linseed Oil this
week, there having been a brisk home demand, and
several parcels were taken by exporters. For forward de-
livery the sales made have been of little moment, there are
not sellers under 235. Rapeseed is not much wanted, and
a decline in the value is apparent. Cocoa Nut must
again be called cheaper, and the supply far exceeds the
demand. Of 300 casks Ceylon offered at public sale a
small part only sold at 425 for fine quality. Further
parcels of Palm have come to hand, and prices are de-
pressed from the limited demand. Lard Oil is only in
limited demand. With Fish Oils the market has been
less plentifully supplied this week, and arrivals are of
little moment. Other sorts are still dull of sale.

TALLOW.—This afternoon prices were barely sup-
ported for Tallow at the public sales: of South American
3(38 pkgs were chiefly sold at 40s 3d to 435, and very
low 32s 6d to 32s 9d. 390 casks Australian 40s to 44s
6d, low 36s to 39s 6d. 157 casks Odessa in part sold at
42s 9d to 445. 90 casks Belgian 43s to 455, and 29
casks Italian 42s 6d to 445.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From this night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 24th day of June, 1848.
ISSUB DSPARTNENT.

Notes issued...• 27,536,565

Government debt .. 11,015,100
Other securities .... 2,984,90 d
Gold coin and bullion 12,131,567
Silver bullion ...... 1,104,098

X 27,536,565

27,536,565
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 29th day of June, 184!

BANKING D'
X.
Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000
Rest -•- •••• • • • . 3,400,930
Public depi,sits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-

rEpAILTMENT.

Government securi-

ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) .. 12,411,301
Other securities 11,229,195
Notes • • • • • • • • . .. 10,007,630
Gold and silver coin 771,249

jugs-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts) .. 6,600,957
Other deposits .. .. • • 8,853,600
Seven day and other

bills— •-•—••..• • • • 1,010,888

434,419,375

£34,419,375
, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 29th day of June. 1841

NGE.--(THIS DAY

Gibraltar.. .... ..
Leghorn ••.. • .
Genoa .. ••••..•• • • • • ..
Milan . • . . • • • • • • •
Venice • • • • ....
Naples • • • • • • • •
Palermo, paroa.... •
Lisbon.— •• • • • • • • • • • 52
Oporto .... . .
Rio Janeiro . • .•• • .
Bahia ................
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21 days'sight
Philadelphia ......

PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold iu bars.. £3 17 9
New Dollars ...... u 4 9%
'Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Silver in bars ........ 0 4 11%

Newton's Estate.
EXTENSION OF REFORM.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented petitions from Salford
in favour of Parliamentary reform.
Mr. W. BROWN preseuted petitions from Manchester
agreeing with the statements of the Prime Minister
with respect to universal suffrage and vote by ballot, and
praying that enactments to that effect might be brought
about, but preferring the Charter.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented petitions from Roch-
dale to the same effect.
Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented petitions from Wal-
sall in favour of Mr. Hume's motion.
Mr. AGLIONBY presented family petitions, signed
by ninety-nine persons, to the same effect.
Captain PECHELL presented petitions to the same
effect.
Colonel SALWEY presented petitions from Man-
chester, complaining of lavish expenditure, and in favour
of Mr. Hume's Motion.
Mr. O'CONNOR presented 110 petitions in favour of
the Charter.
Sir B. HALL presented petitions in favour of Par-
liamentary reform.
Colonel THOMPSON presented petitions from Wes-
ton and other places in Yorkshire, in favour of the Mi-
nisterial declaration that univers',; suffrage and annual
Parliaments were preferable to household suffrage and
triennial Parliaments, and praying for the former.
Mr. lIUME presented 67 petitions from different
parts in favour of reform.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
Mr. E. DENISON gave notice of his intention on
Tuesday next to move for a Select Committee to consider
the best means of promoting the dispatch of the business
of the House.—(llear, hear.)
The Earl, of ARUNDEL and SURREY presented
a petition from the ticket porters of the House, praying
for increased remuneration.
METROPOLITAN SURVEY.
Sir B. HALL wished to know, pursuant to notice he
had given yesterday, from the Noble Lord at the head
of the Woods and Forrests, whether the associated
surveyors and civil engineers of the metropolis had
made an offer to make the survey of the metro-
polis for a sum of 18,0001., and what were the
reasons the Commissioners of Sewers had preferred the
survey taking place under the Ordnance department; the
also wished to ask the Chief Commissioner of Woods
and Forests what: arrangements had been made for the
completion of the survey of the metropolis, what was
likely to be the cost of that survey, including the mili-
tary pay of the parties employed, and whether the whole
is to be defrayed by the ratepayers of the metropolis?
Lord MORPETH said that it was true that the
associated surveyors, and civil: engineers of the
metropolis had made the offer to which the
Hon. Baronet had referred, but the Commissioners of
Sewers, acting upon the best advice they could procure,
had come to the decision that the best guarantee
they could have for making a proper survey would
be to employ those who acted under the authority
and control of the Ordnance. The expense of the sur•
vey under the Ordnance Department would be 19,500/.,
not one•tenth more than the offer made by the asso-
ciated surveyors and engineers, while it was anti-
cipated that double the work would be performed.
In reply to a question of Sir DE LACY EVANS,
Colonel ANSUN said that three companies were en-
gaged on the survey, and that when the men were em-
ployed in that capacity they received extra pay. The
whole cost of the survey would be paid by the Commis-
sioners of Sewers, but whether the money would come
out of the rates which were levied upon the respective
districts or not, he was quite unable to answer, that
being within the province pf his Noble Friend the First
Commissioner of Woods and Forest;.
BOROUGH OF SLIGO.
_ _

Mr. STAFFORD moved, that Mr. Speaker do issue
his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, to
make out a new writ for the electing a burgess to
serve in this present Parliament for the borough of
Sligo, in the room of Charles Towneley, Esq., whose
election has been determined to be void.
ROYAL COMMISSION.
Sir Augustus Clifford, Gentleman Usher of the Black
Rod, here appeared at the Lar of the House, and having
advanced to the table, summoned the House to attend
the House of Peers, to hear the Royal Assent given by
Commission to several Bills (for the titles of which see
Lords' report).
The SPEAKER having returned and reported the
Bills to which the royal assent had been given.
Mr. STAFFORD resumed his speech on his motion
for issuing a new writ for the borough of Sligo. He in-
timated that now that the Great Yarmouth Disfranchise-
ment Bill had become law, it was his intention to
move that a new writ be issued for that borough as
well as Sligo. Nothing had yet been done to improve
the state of Ireland, and he did not think the House
would be justified in refusing to allow ono of her
vacant boroughs to send a representative to that House.
The motion having been seconded,
Mr. HUME protested that the motion was irregular.
The evidence taken before the Sligo Committee had
been ordered to be printed, and he had never heard
of an instance where a writ was moved for in a case
like this, till the order for printing the evidence had
been complied with.
Mr. ANSTEY supported the motion.
Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL said, until they had the
evidence taken in the Committee before them, in order
that they might see whether there had been extensive
corruption or not, he could not consent to the issuing of
the writ .
Colonel DUNNE said he considered it would be nn-
constitutional and most inconvenient to postpone the
issue of the writ for Sligo, and stated that his only
object in postponing the motion of which he had given
notice, for issuing it, was to allow time to have the evi-
dence printed and laid before the House.
Sir JOHN HANMER said he had just been informed
that a petition would be presented to the House against
the return at the new election for Horsham, for which
borough the House had only lately issued a writ, and
that being the case he thought it would not be prudent
to issue any more writs until some inquiry was made
into those particular boroughs where members had been
unseated on the ground of corruption. Hon. Gen-
tlemen had stated that it was unconstitutional
to suspend writs, but in 1775, during the
time of Burke and I Sir George Saville, he
found that the House had suspended a writ for the bo-
rough of Shaftesbury, where the election had been de
glared void on sceount of corruption.
Mr. BANKES said the Hon. Member (Col. Dunne)
had moved that the minutes of evidence should be
printed, but he had done so in error, because it rested
with one of the members of the Committee to make
that motion. Unless, therefore such a motion was
made, he should certainly vote for the motion of his
Hon. Friend.
Sir GEORGE GREY said the evidence was being
printed, and would be laid before the House in
two or three days. He trusted, therefore, that the Hon.
Gentleman would not press his motion, bnt wait until
the House had an opportunity of judging whether there
was any ground for suspending the writ for Sligo.
Mr. WRIGHTSON stated to the Chairman of the
Committee that the issue of the inquiry did not impress
the Committee with the notion that the House would
refused to issue the writ.—(Hear, hear.) He regretted
that the evidence had not been ordered to be laid before
the House.
Mr. R. SPOONER thought that the Hon. Member
who had just spoken had stated grounds upon which he
thought the House ought to issue the writ, for he had
regretted that the evidence had been ordered to be laid
on the table of the House.
Sir R. PEEL would have felt inclined to vote for a
delay in the issuing of the writ, but from the statements
that had just been made by the Hon. Member opposite
(Mr. Wrightson).
Mr. HLTME after the statement that had been made
would not oppose further the issuing of the writ.
The writ was then ordered to issue.
WRIT FOR GREAT YARMOUTH.
Mr. STAFFORD then moved for a new writ for the
borough of Great Yarmouth, which was agreed to with-
out any opposition.
RAILVi7AY COMMISSION. •
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in answer to a question
from Mr. Bankes, said it was the intention of the Govern-
ment to oppose his motion for leave to bring tin a Bill.
to abolish the Railway Commission, but it was not the
intention of the Government to keep up the Commission
with Commissioners having salaries.—(Hear, hear.)
(LEFT SITTING.)

A SCOUNDREL.—On Tuesday last a poor woman,
living in a cottage on the Clock House Farm, Linton,
whose husband some time since was transported for four-
teen years for poaching, received the pleasant news that
she had obtained a free pardon and was coming home.
The intelligence was brought by a man who said he was
convicted with her husband, who had arrived in Eng-
land,
findnd,bhute,r hoan.
spentvtingThepoor
woman gave him plenty to all his money, had sent him on
eat, and 6d. for his trouble. lie left, saying her hus-
band would be with her next day. On the next day the
fellow called again, and told her that her husband was
waiting for her at the Bull Inn, Yalding; that he had
given him a 101. note, half of which was for himself and
half for her, but ho could not get it changed. The
woman gave him all the money she could scrape to-
gether, and set out for Yalding, to meet her husband,
when of course she discovered the cruel hoax that had
been practised on her. It afterwards transpired that
after leaving the woman on Tuesday, ho went to a beer-
shop kept by Clark, when he told his story so art-
fully as to secure a ready belief, and abundance of hos-
pitality. They told him where to find the woman, and
gave him a night's lodging. He got up the next morning
before the family were about, and repaid their kindness
by stealing five rabbits, with which he made off, and,
having sold them, got hastily drunk with the proceeds
at another beer-shop. He had not left the latter more
than an hour when the woman arrived to tell how she
had been duped. It was well he had gone, or a most
severe ducking is the Beacon pond, and a lodging in the
cage afterwards, would assuredly have been his fate.
The fellow was convicted for poaching on the estate of
Mr. Alexander, at Summer-hill. Perhaps some of our
Tonhridge readers may be able to identify the villain.-- 1
Maidstone Journal.

CENSURE ON A MILITARY SURGEON.—CIIATIIAM,
JUNE 28.—Yesterday evening an inquest was held at
the Queen's Head Inn, at Brornpton, by J. Hiude, Esq,,
one of the coroners for West Kent, touching the death
of Mr. William Friend, master gunner of the Royal Ar-
tillery. C. M. Friend, daughter of the decased, statiad
the circumstances attending her father's illness, how Dr.
Quigley had been sent for, and sent a message promising
his attendance; and subsequently a second message
that he could not attend on account of rheumatism.
The jury unanimously returned the following verdict:—
" That the deceased died by the visitation of God; and
the jury are of opinion that Dr. Quigley ought either to
have attended himself immediately, or sent his assistant••
surgeon in his stead." The deceased was a Waterloo
man.

PRICES OF SHARES.

IN BANKS, ASSURANt3E, AND OTIIER COST
PANIES' STOCK.
From the Official List,

PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.

LONDON. FRIDAY, JUNE 30.
TOTTZT-STOCIZ BANK,S.

ti ame of Company.

Dividend
per

Annum.

A.nstralasla • • • •
Brashly orth American
Ceylon • • • •
2. ommercial of London
• •
Gloucestershire • • • • • -
lonian
Londn and Westminstr

London Joint-Stock . • •
Provincial of Ireland • •

Ditto, New...—.
National of Ireland
Nat. Provncial of Eng.
Ditto, New... • • • •
South Australia
Union of Australia....

Union of London.
Union of Madrid .....

Name of Company.

Charing-cross.. • . .. • .
Southwrk, Nw Sub. Av.

Ditto NW of 75 p.c.
Waterloo ............

Ditto Old Ann. of Si.

Amount
of
Share.

Ditto Nw ditto of 71.
Vauxhall .... ... Av.

INS'

Name of Company.

Albion .• •• ••••• • • •
Alliance Brit. and For.
Ditto Marine. • • • • • •
_Was . .
British Commercial ..
Clericl,Med.& Gen. Life
County ..............
Eagle • • ...... • • • •
Eng.& Scot. Law •• • .
European Life •
Family Endowmo t Soc.
Freemasons'
Globe
guardian ...... • • • • • •
Imperial Fire .. •• • •
Imperial Life
Indemnity Marine
Law Fire ..........
LAW Life • ...........
Legal and General Life
London Fire •.• • • .
London Ship • • •
Med. Invlld & Gen. Life
National Lean Fund..
National Life....
Palladium Life
Pelican • • • •
Priceuix
Pc otector Life.... ...
Provident Life.. •
Rock Life
Royal Exchange
San Fire..
I dtto Life
Univenal Life........
Viaoria Life .........

Name of Compaay.

C.nnmercial .........
East and West India...
East Country
London

Ditto 80nd5........
Sl.Katharine ........
Ditto Bonds ........
Southampton • • ......

51. per cent.
71. per cent.
61. per cent.
5L per cent.
151 per cent.
61. per cent.
61. per cent.

61. per cent.
81. per cent.
Si. per cent.
51. per cent.
61. per cent.
N. per cent.
51. per cent.
61. per cent.

61. per cent

355. per cent.

11. 53. 4d.
IL 2s. 2d.
IL 17s.

'CE 0

Dividend
per

Annum.

31. 10s.
6 per cent.
6/. per cent,
13s. 6d. pr sh.
7s. per share
5 pr ct.& bs.

s. a.
40 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0

25 0 0
100 0 0

!() 0 0
100 0 0
10 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0

25 0 0

50 0 0
-40 0 0

Amount
of
Share.

X. s. d.

14s.
Gs.
5/. per cent.
per cent.

& bs.
51. per cent.
61. per cent.
51. per cent.
12 per cent.

4/. per cent.
61. pr cent.
255. per sli.
Cl. pr cent.
11. per cent.
4 per cent.
1341. pr cent.
21. per cent. I

1632 12 S
50 0 0
100 0 0

70 10 3

X s. 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
4 0 0
20 0 0

Stock.
100 0 0
500 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0,
100 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0

20 0 0
100 0 0
5 0 0
Stock.

100 0 0

Paid.

Amount
of
Share.

X. F. d.
25 0 0

s. d.
Stock.
Stock.
IGO 0 0
Stock.

Stock.

50 0 0

CO 0 0I 2'
40 0 0 1

9 0 0 I 25
40 0 4

Paid.

£ s. d.

50 0 0

izrATmlz-vronns
Dividend I Amount
Name of Company. per of I aid. Price.
Annum. I Share.
• -
X s. d. X s. d.
Birmingham. •••• • • • • 18s. 25 0 0 5 0 0
Bast L0nd0n.......... St. 100 0 0 176
Grand Junction •• .. 2/. 10s. 41 13 4 Si
32. 100 0 0 75
New Myr Lndn Brdge I 21. 10s. 55
Vauxhall .. • ... • • .... 5/. per cnt. 100 0 0
West Middlesex . . . 161.05. pr cnt. 63 12 9 117
GAS—LIGHT AND COKE COrVIPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. , Price.
Annum. Share.
—•••••
X. s. d. X. s. d.
British .. ••••.. . • • • . • 1/. 40 0 0 18 0 0 16
Ditto Provincial.... 11. 81. 20 0 0 19 0 0 22
Bristol ...... ••• • • • 10/. per cent. 20 0 0
Brighton ...... ••• • .. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 16
City of London ...... 101. 100 0 0 100 0 0 250
Continental Consolidat. 925. pr share 50 0 0 39 5 0
Ditto, New ••.. . . • • 85s. pr share 50 0 5 37 10 0 j
Equitable - • ...... • ... 455. pr share 50 0 0 50 0 0 , 36
Imperial • • .... ••• • • • 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 j 71
Independent ....... —6/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 j 64
London • • ...... ••• • • . 50 0 0 80 0 0 '
50 0 0 50 0 0
Phcenix ....... •• •• .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 46 0 0 29
Rate= .... ...•• • • • • 5/. and bns. 100 0 0 90 0 0 75
United General ...• • • 4% /. pr cant. 50 0 0 50 0 0 15
Westminster Chartered 31, 50 0 0 54%
Ditto, New . ..... 12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 , ll*,

v,Thvidend Pric
CANALS.
.:
Names of
Names of is Dividendi
~. Price. '-. ' per
Companies. 1 per 1 Companies. d
Z Annum.l A Annum.
in
r•------
----.......-
...___,
£ Z 1
Ashtn/kOldh 97 71'. pc 80 Macclesileld . 100 - -
Barnsley.. • • 160 121. 180 Neath ...• • • 100 18/.
3rknk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 Oxford.... • • 100 201. 190
Birmingham 35 4/. 80 Peak Forest. 78 - -
Coventry ...• 100 251. - Regent's ••• • 33 11. ss. 18!
Lserbv ••• •• 100 61. 63 Rochdale.... 85, 41. 54
Ellsmre&Chs 133 4/. 48 Somrsat Coal 150 7/.los. 130
E:C,I, ash •• • 100 32/. - Do.LkFdSt 121 6/. p. c. _
GrandJunctn 100 5/.
81 Sttird&Worc 1401 28/. 290
Grand Surrey 100 - 40 Shrewsbury..
125 lb/.
Grand Union 100 11. 10s. 25 Stourbrldge.. 145 201. 285
Grantham .. 150 12/. - Severn and !
Kennt & Avn 39 7s. 6d. 4 3,4 Wye Rail. j 26 11. Bs. 26
Leeds& Livrp 100 341. 410 Warwick&
Leicester .... 140 10/. 75 liirming. 5 100 51. 65
Leicstr &Nth 83 4/. 36 Warwick&l 100' _ i
Lougbborogh 142 701. - Napton.. 46
Monmouthsh 100 81. - Worcstr &] 78 V. 39
slntgemryshlloo 51. I - Binning.
MeltnMwbryi 100 101. - Wilts & Brks 671 11. 11

MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Pric
Annum. share.
X. s. d. X. s. d.
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE 017 LORDS, June 29.
Their Lordships met at Five o'clock.
COMMONS ENCLOSURE BILL.

Lord CAMPBELL moved the second reading of the
Commons Enclosure Bill.
The Bill was then read a second time.
ECCLESIASTICAL UNIONS (IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion for the bringing up the report on this
Bil I,
Lord STANLEY, while concurring in the great ad-
vantage of affording facilities for the dissolution of large
unions, thought it matter worthy of serious con-
sideration whether such dissolution should be carried
out without the consent of the patron of the benefice.
This Bill also proposed to authorise the Lord-Lieutenant
and the Privy Council of Ireland to consolidate small
livings with the consent of patrons; that he thought was
manifestly unjust, and ho considered that no livings
should be united or dissolved without the consent of the
patrons.
Earl FORTESCUE defended the provisions of the
Bill, which had been introduced under the auspices, and
with the approval, of the Most Rev. the Primate of Ire-
land.
After a short conversation the report was received.
LAW OF ENTAIL (SCOTLAND) BILL.

The LORD CHANCELLOR, in moving the second
reading of this Bill, said its object was to assimilate the
law of Scotland as much as possible to the law of this
country. He thought the Bill if passed would prove a
great boon and benefit to Scotland.
The Duke of BUCCLEUCH said it was not his inten-
tion to oppose the Bill, but there were many points in it
which required to be well considered before their Lord-
shipe consented to pass it. He did not think that entails
were so injurious as had been represented. He was not
prepared to go the whole length of the Bill with regard
to heirs succeeding to old entailed estates. The Bill
did not altogether correspond with the law of England,
for it went beyond that law in some points. He would
move that the Bill be referred to a Select Committee.
Lord CAMPBELL said that monstrous exaggerations
existed with regard to the evils of entailed estates.—
(Hear, hear.) He believed that the present Bill was a
most admirable one, because it assimilated the law of
Scotland to the law of England, which had been much
misrepresented, and which he hoped would remain un-
changed.
The Duke of ARGYLL thought that the evils of en-
tail in Scotland had been much exaggerated, but he ad-
mitted that the law might be improved. He agreed in
opinion with the Noble Duke, that the Bill ought to be
referred to a Select Committee. The agitation against
the principle of entail existed only in large towns where
democratic opinions prevailed.

The Duke of MONTROSE admitted that the pre-
sent law of entail in Scotland might be amended, but he
considered that the Bill ought to be referred to a Select
Committee.

After a tew words from Lord ABINGER,
The Earl of MINTO rejoiced that such a Bill was
introduced, because it would remove evils which had
given rise to great complaints in Scotland. The Noble
Duke was mistaken in supposing that the hostility to
the present law of entail was confined to populous towns.
A Select Committee was then appointed, with a view
of referring the Bill to it, and the House adjourned at
Half-past Seen o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 29.

SUGAR DUTIES—ADJOURNED DE3-I.TE.
Sir R. H. INGLIS complained that throughout the
debates which had hitherto taken place on the subject of
the West India sugars, so little had been said as to the
condition and prospects of the slave trade. He did not
desire, after the manner of the Hon. Member for the
Tower Hamlets, to revert to the stock stories about the
cruelties exercised in former times in the transmission
of slaves to the West Indies, and their treatment after
reaching that destination, but he desired that the sub-
ject should not be lost sight of with reference to future
events. He did not deny that the price of sugar was
of importance to a large class of his poor fellow-coun-
trymen, but he was not prepared to give them
sugar at a sacrifice which would render it
dear indeed. Mr. Canning once said that he could prove
anything by figures, and for that reason he would not
pretend to establish any argument by quoting prices and
duties, but he would merely assert that, under the pro-
posed duties, the protection would not amount to ld. per
lb. The price of sugar was a perfect barometer in re-
spect to its consumption. If, therefore, he could show
that the decrease of ld. per lb. in the price of sugar was
purchased at a terrible sacrifice of African life and
liberty, he should consider he had established sufficient
grounds for the vote he intended to give. It had been
said on a former night of the debate that the question of
admitting slave sugar had been definitively settled. He
believed this was not the case. But supposing even
that it was, he should never shrink ,from entering his
:e. protest against a measure by which the evils of slavery
were perpetuated. Unless it could be proved that the
thousands of whites interested in the question had not
been sacrificed by the measures of the Government,
, which provided cheap sugar for the multitude, he
should not think that those measures could be justified.
The British West Indies presented so important a por-
tion of the great empire with which they have been so
long identified, as to justify to the full the protection that
was claimed for them. His Right Hon. Colleague had
_ indeed heard that some slave-grown sugar must always
be admitted under the existing treaties with foreign
ice countries; but could not these treaties be altered? The
Brazils had definitively refused to make any concessions on
the score of slavery. He was quite aware that the Em-
-5 peror of the Brazils was opposed to slavery, and with
;% such a groundwork the Government might hope in a
few years to effect some change in the laws of that
country respecting slavery; but the measures taken
) by the Legislature had greatly marred those ex-
t pectations; and, moreover, the slave trade bad con-
; siderably revived since the Act of 1846, as the
returns of the number of slaves imported into the
Brazils since that year would prove. All the evidence
a that had been given upon Committees on the subject
of slavery, and the facilities of procuring slaves
14 on the coast of Africa tended to prove that the supply
was always equal to the demand, and that when slaves
were required war was resorted to, and the captives
- were sold to supply the necessary quantity. Upwards
„or.of 100,000 of these miserable creatures had annually
left the coast, of whom one-third died during their
3 transit to the colonies of Cuba and the Brazils. The
Noble Lord (Palmerston) had estimated the nusabcr of
_ deaths at from 20 to 25 per cent., but even taking it at
- 12 per cent., the whole world would be depopulated in
less than a year, if the same rate of mortality were to
, prevail during that time, for the voyages only took one
month. Without wishing to dwell upon the inconsisten-
-26 cies of the Government, he could not help quoting en
_4S expression used by the Noble Lord (Palmerston) the
other night, which, to judge by the complacency with
which he uttered the sentiment, would not be dis-
pleasing to the Noble Lord to hear repeated. The
Noble Lord said that the " Government would
not be a party to enslaving any nation." He doubtless
meant to apply his observation to a particular class of
Lee. I nations ; but he begged him to remind the Govern-
ment that the Africans were a nation, and though
not of the same colour as Europeans, were fully as de-
serving of being protected as the latter were. He
feared that as little was to be expected from immigra-
tion. An adequate supply of labourers was out of the
question, and those which had been imported, especially
Kroomen, had proved unqualified for the labour. If it
were true, then, that sugar could only be successfully
cultivated within the tropics, if' it were also true that
free labour could not be imported in sufficient quantities,
then the only hope of cultivating it successfully would
be to give every possible encouragement to our own
free labour population. His solemn conviction was, that
the question before the House was not merely one of
technicalities and tariffs, but in fact one of the life and
blood of our fellow-men. The question was, in fact,
whether they would or would not continue the slave
trade. Looking at it in that view, believing that trade
to be the cause of unmitigated misery to thousands, and
believing also that the Government measure was calcu-
lated to perpetuate the evil, he felt bound to support the
amendment of the Hon. Baronet the Member for
Droitwieh.—(Hear, hear.)
At the conclusion of the Hon. Baronet's speech about
thirty Members on the Conservative side rose simulta-
neously, but at last gave way to
Mr.BARKLY, who observed that the question before the
House lay between a five-shilling duty for ten years and
a ten-shilling duty for a shorter period. In his opinion
the adoption of the higher protection for a few years
would cost the country less than would the measure of
the Government; whilst, by giving them efficient pro•
tection for a short time, they might enable many of the
planters, who had been ruined by vacillating legislation,
to retrieve to some extent their position. It had been
said that the wages of free labour were as low as those
of slave labour, but even suppose they were, the man
who employed slave labour could make his slaves work
from twelve to fourteen hours per day, while those who
- employed free labour could not do so above five or six
hours at one time. The Right Honourable Baronet
the Member for Ripon had also commented on the
necessity for improvements in machinery, on the part
of the West India interest, and from dispatches
received from British Guiana and other - islands,
it would be found that these had taken place to a
• considerable extent. He would remark, in regard to the
latter colony, that he found it stated in a dispatch of Mr.
. Stipendiary Strutt, lately received, that no improvement
56 whatever in machinery or in land had taken place for
the last thirty years. The credit, however, to be at-
, tached to the dispatches of this functionary would, no
doubt, be considerably shaken, when he found it stated
in another dispatch of his, received in 1841, that the
work previously performed by hand was then performed
by machinery, and that the hands formerly taken up
with it were sent to other employment, so that a great
improvement had been effected.--(Hear, hear.) The
one statement certainly refuted the other, and yet Mr.
Stipendiary Strutt still held office. Then, in regard to
these improvements, the Right Hon. Baronet went on to
say, that were they more generally and extensively
effected, sugar would yield a much greater price ;
but he forgot to take into account the expenses
leo which attended the making of those improvements. He
knew himself one estate where an expense of 3,0001. had
been incurred in the erection of machinery. In conse-
quence of that improvement there was an increase in the
cost of production of the sugar of three shillings per cwt.
and a complement of seven additional labourers was re-
quired.—(Hear, hear.) Now, in the present state of the
colonies, these improvements could not be carried, then
the additional amount of labour consequent upon such
improvements, could not be obtained; and to show that,
he might state that the proprietor of the estate he had
referred to, was the individual from whom he had received
the letter he read to the Committee when he gave his
g evidence before it, complaining of the ruinous state
to which the colonies had been reduced by the com-
petition the measures of the Government had sub-
jected them to.—(Hear, hear.) He had also received
a letter from a gentleman who had laid out 7,0001.
on machinery on his estate, in the island of
Trinidad, but who was suffering in a lamentable
degree from the system adopted. Lord Harris had also
mentioned many instances of a like nature, and from all
the evidence he could gather, he came to the conclusion
that competition in present circumstances was impossible.
He could not, therefore, but feel regret at the speech
which was delivered the other night by the Hon. Gen-
tleman the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, as the
effect upon the colonists and upon their friends in this
country must indeed be mortifying, when they found
that those who ought to be the guardians of their
rights and their interests had so shamefully deserted
them.--(Hear, hear.) He had himself seen the mise-
rable state to which some of those colonies had been re-
duced, and could therefore speak with confidence as to
the state of them. One remarkable instance of the evils
their legislation had entailed on these colonies he would
state to the House. When in Berbice last winter, he at-
tended a sale of the property of a gentleman who had pos.
sessed it for,the previous fiOyears, and who, not seven years
previous to its sale last winter, had refused 60,000/.
for it, but such was the state to which property in that
island was reduced, that it was knocked down for 2001,
—(Hear, bear.) The question he naturally put to those
present was, what will become of the poor old man who
spent the better part of his day in the colony, and whose
property had now gone off at such a sacrifice. Oh, it
was said, he had a son-in-law, who for a considerable
time managed the estate along with him, but who several
years ago went to Surinam and established a business
there, and such was the impetus given to business in that
colony, and such the additional value given to property
by the Bill of 1846, that he was now able to keep his
own family as well as his poor old father-in-law com-
fortably. Now, what a bad state of things was that
which caused ruin to our own colonists, while a man
crossing the river and commencing business in a Dutch
colony was enabled to make a fortune by the legislation
of this country.—(Hear, hear.) The Honourable Gen-
tleman the Under-Secretary fur the Colonies had, as a
means of showing that the colonies could not have suf-
fered from the operation of the Act of 1846, stated that
;he importation of sugar to this country from them was
arger last year than in any previous year ; but did not
,he Honourable Gentleman know that the cane cut las

year, and of which the sugar ittiportecl was the produce,
was planted previous to the passing of th© Act of 1846 ?
—(Elear, hear.) So that, so far as it was concerned, the

operations of the Act could not be felt. The Bigh
Honourable Baronet the Member for Ripon had like.

wise deprecated legislative reaction ; and while he (Mr.
Barkly) reprobated reaction in legislation as much as
the Honourable Baronet could do, yet he feared that
the system now pursued towards these colonies would
have the effect of withdrawing the confidence of the
colonists from this country, and create a reaction which
would be anything but desirable.—(bear, hear.) The
question, in his opinion, was not as to the stability of a
Government, or as to who should compose the Cabinet,
but it was whether that system of negro emancipation
for which they had paid thirty millions sterling was a
mere chimera, and whether the slave trade was now to
be strengthened and supported after all the blood and
treasure this country had sacrificed in endeavouring to
put it down.—(Cheers.)

Mr. LABOLICIIERE said, having been a Member of
the West India Committte, he could not give a silent
vote on the question; but after the length at which the