The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-28 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

William Griffiths Williams, draper, Carnarvon, April
10 and May 15, at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Williams,
LiverpooL
Samuel Armstrong, glass and china dealer, Bolton-le-
Moors, Lancashire, April 14 and 28, at twelve, at the
Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee,
Manchester; Marsland, Bolton-le-Moors.
Robert Miller and Alexander Street, builders, Lan-
caster, April 7 and 29, at twelve, at the Manchester
District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester;
Blackhurst, Preston.
PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from returns made in the week ending March 25,
1850, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon
on the importatien thereof into Great Britain:—
From the British possessions in America 275. 04d. per cwt
From the Mauritius ... 275. 11 d. „
From the East Indies .. 28s. 3id.
Average price of the three foregoing de-
scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as
above, and exclusive of duty ... 275. 9d.
By authority of Parliament,
HENRY BICKNELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company.
Grocers'-hall, March 28.

COURSE OF EXCH)
Amslerubm .......... 11 15
Ditto, three months 11 16)4
:totterdarn .... • ..... 11 16)4
Antwerp .............. 25 22)4
Brussels... , 25 22)4
aamburgh .... —M.P. 13 7%
Paris, 3 days'stght • • 25 0
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 20
Marseilles • • ........ •• 25 22)4
80urdeaux......... •
Frankforton Maine.... 119

Berlin.... • ....... •• ••
Vienna, effec. flo•• •• •• 13 18
Trieste, ditto.... • • 13 20
Petersburgh,Blll.Rble••
Madrid .............. 50
Cadiz •• •.••••••• .• •• bOM
Barcelona •• •• •• •• ••

Seville•••••••.•• •••• •

k.NGE.-(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar •• •• •• •• •••• ••
Leghorn 30 50
Genoa .. •• •• •• 25 5234
Venice................
Naples •• 41%
Palermo, peroz.• •• •• •• 125
Messina •• •• •• 125
53%
0p0rt0.... •• •• 53%
Rio Janeiro
Buenos Ayres
New rork,6odays'aight
Philadelphia

PRIMO OF BULLION, PER OS.
Foreign Geld in bars.. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars ...... 0 4 11%
Silver im bars ........ 0 b 13y

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current, March 28.)
StrGAIL—To-day rather lower rates were taken for
West India Sugar, but all sorts were purchased with cau-
tion, and the sales are oii'dt 170 hhds, &c., including at
auction 37 pkgs Damltta, crystalized were sold at
40s to 42s for mid and %tied yellow, 2 tres 41 brls Bar.
badoes, low soft yellow ,e fid, and brown 35s to 37s 6d
per cwt. For the week total sales of West India are
1,000 hhds, &c.; prices are 6d and in some cases is per
cwt lower.

REFINED.—To-day Refined Sugar was operated in
with more freedom for home consumption, and prices
were firm at 48s to 503 6d for low to good grocery

Lumps. There is still little doing in Crushed Sugar,
and rates at tend downwards.
7 MAIIRITIIII3.—This afternoon holders of Mauritius
Sugar were not disposed to sell at any further reduc-
tion, but the trade were not inclined to operate. Of
6,921 bags at auction not above one half sold, good and
superior yellow at 39s to 435. other kinds 36s to 38s 6d,
crd to fine brown 32a to 36, and refining sorts 35s to 403.
EAST INDIA.--This afternoon Madras Sugar was
offered at a reduction of 6d to is per cwt for sort quality,
still the demand was limited. Of 2,203 bags at auction
a part only old at 27s to 28s 6d for low and good
brown, and at 20s to 31s for common and fair yel-
low. Bengal was operated in with caution and the
public sales of 5,167 bags went at rather lower rates
whilst not above half sold, low to good white Benares
at 393 to 42s 6d, damp 38s to 425, date 36s to 38s 6d,
ord and mid soft yellow 32s 6d to 355, brown 29s to 31e,
and fine grainy white 48s per cwt.
FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of Foreign
Sugar, and the private purchases were upon a small
scale, with sellers at rather lower rates.
MoLessEs.—Few buyers are to be met with, and there
are sellers of low to fine West India at from 14s to 163
6d, Cuba and Porto Rica 14s 6d to 15s 6d, Bengal and
Mauritius 12s to 13 per cwt. In West India Honey
sales have been made at from 50s to 60s per cwt.
COCOA.—West India is in limited demand, and there
is a reduction of Is to 2s per cwt, although the supply is
limited, and stock 1,003 bags less than last season. Of
Trinidad 213 bags at auction sold at 43s to 47s for low
to good grey. 100 bags Grenada sound from 42s to 44s
per cwt. For Foreign the demand is better, but there
is no advance. Sales privately of Para and Bahia have
been made at 28s to 303. _

COFFEE.—This afternoon Plantation Ceylon Coffee
was dealt in with caution for all purposes, and prices
declined is to 2s per cwt ,• of 193 casks 191 bags at
auction not above half sold, fine ord at 49s to 50s, good
mid and good 58s to 625, and pea berry 60s to 655.
Of Mocha 31 bales realized about the former value,
and went at 76s for good long berry, and at 42s to
45s 6d for triage. For other sorts of Coffee the market
has a dull aspect, and .at auction 1,138 bags Rio sold ra-
ther cheaper; good ord went at 41s to 425, damaged 35s
6d to 40s. Of Java 57 bags from the Cape of Good
Hope were taken in at 525. There are sellers of Native
Ceylon tat 44s for good ord, and with few buyers.
TEA.—The market has been freely supplied with
Green this week, chiefly by the late arrivals from
Shanghae,_ but rather lower rates having been submitted
to, occasioned a good business to be concluded, more es-
pecially in low and mid sorts. For common Congon
there are still free buyers at 111 d to is, and medium is id
to is id; the market has also a firm appearance, and
there is noincrease of supply. The better qualities are, how-
ever still operated in with caution, and holders are de-
sirous to soil at from is Id to is 9d. Of Oolong the
supply at market has been larger than for some time
past, and a reduction of ld to 10 has taken place, still
most of the parcels on offer have been disposed of. In
scented and Pekoe Teas sales have been to a fair extent,
but at rates under those current previously.
RlCE.—Prices have at length ceased to decline for
East India, and there has been an improvement in the
demand. Of Bengal 2,000 bags auction were sold at 9s
6d to 103 6d for good mid and good white, being rather
above firmer rater Privately several parcels have
been disposed—Madras, pinkey 7s to 8s 6d,
Bengal, broken and low white 8s to 8s 9d
mid to fine 9s to I Is, but sorts from 9a to 10s
per cwt have been most in request. Fine white Java
is wanted for cleaning purposes at 1 Is to 11s 64, but
the supply is scanty. For Cargo and Pearl Barley
Madras there is, however, yet a dull sale, and 7s to 8s
is the value. Cleaned Rice finds a brisker sale,
Patna at 12s to 17s, broken 103 6d to 11s 6d, town
dressed Carolina 20s to 28s, and American 16s 6d to
17s 64. Sago has been sold to a fair extent privately at
20s to 235, and Sago 153 to 15s 6d per cwt. Of Ber-
muda Arrowroot 65 casks at auction went at Is to is 3d.
10 barrels East India 2d, 150 tins St. Vincent's, 8d; 70
tins 20 brls Jamaica, 4i to 6d; 25 pks Dominica and
Demerara, 3d to 4d; 36 boxes Tons les Mois, 21 10 24d;
466 brls Tapioca, low to good, 2d to 4i-d per lb.
SPlCES.—Holders of Ginger will submit to lower
terms, and supply the market sparingly, but privately
operations have been upon a small scale; low to fine
Jamaica at 21 10s to 91; and African 34s to 378
per cwt. Of Bengal 1,106 pockets, and 260
bgs at auction were taken in at 18s to 19s for
mid and good export sort. Mace is held for full terms,
but met with little attention; and of 14 cases at auction
a small part only sold at 25 3d to 2s 6d for mid and
good. Prices remain for brown Nutmegs at from 2s 7d
to 3s 4d, and fine 3s 6d. For limed there is, however, a
quiet market; and 6 cases at auction were taken
at 2s 6d to 2s 8d for small. Holders of black
Pepper appear unwilling to submit to any
further reduction. At auction 500 bags light
dusty, Penang were taken in at 30, and 241 bgs huff
heavy Malabar at 30. The tendency of prices is evi-
dently downwards. White is, however, wanted, and the
rates paid privately are from 6d to 8d for low to fine.
Pod is still operated in with caution at 30$ to 40s
per cwt. Cloves are not offering upon lower
terms ; but the sales made have been small ;
Penang at 10d to is 4d, and Bourbon 6d to 6d. Of
Amboyna 206 casks at auction were taken in at 80 to
9d. A fair demand exists for Pimento; prices have suf-
fered no further depression; at auction 557 bgs sold at 4d
to 5d per lb for low, mid, and good, one lot inferior 40;
185 bgs were taken in at 5d to 50 for mid and good. For
small parcels of Cassia Lignea 94s to 102 s have been
paid, and supply does not increase. The value of Cassia
Buds is yet 108 s to 110 s per owt. Cinnamon of inferior
quality is still wanted; but best sorts are operated in
with caution. The value of Ceylon is for first sorts 2s
to 3s 6d, second ditto is 6d to 2s 7d, third and fourth
is 2d to 2s 2d per lb.
SATTPETRE. —The private operations in Rough have
been upon a small scale privately, and prices still tend
downwards, although the quantity on offer is less than
last week. In Calcutta limited purchases are re-
ported at from 26s to 28s 6d for low to fine. At auction
1,439 bags Madras were taken in at 26s for 14 per cent
refraction of good quality. British Refined is to be
obtained at 29s to 30$ per owl, and there are but few
buyers. For Nitrate of Soda the demand is only for
small parcels at from 14s 6d to 14s 9d per cwt.
INDIOO.—TO-day 240 serous offered at auction, and
about two-thirds sold at extreme market rates to 2d
advance. 180 Guatemala, low lean copper and coppery
Cortes to good and fine Sobres from 28 5d to 4s 4d. 60
Carraccas, about one-third sold at fully 3d lower; low
to good Cortes 3a to 3s 4d, with a few fine Sobres
3s 8d to 4s.
COCHINEAL.—To-day 183 bags were offered at sale;
viz., 70 low to mid Honduras Silvers, about one-third
sold at 3s 3d to 3s 7d, being previous rates; 29 Tene-
rife, all taken in at 3s 6d; 95 decided good Mexican
Silvers, all sold at 3a 2d, and a few at 3s 3d; the
Shall s
chiefly taken in, mid at 3s 4d to 3s sd, g ,
3s 7d.
SPIRIT S.-0 Peratiolls in East India Rum have been
ood
upon a small scale, although there are sellers at is 54e1
to is 6d per gallon proof. For Leeward Island the
market has a dull aspect, rates tend downwards, and
rule at is 7d to is lid proof; the market is also better
supplied. Demerara met with little attention, and is
offered at 2s 3d to 2s 7d for 30 to 40 per cent over proof
of low to fine quality. Jamaica has been operated in
with much caution for home use and export; in the value
of better sorts there is scarcely any variation, but the
lower kinds can be obtained at rather lower rates.
The value of fine and choice marks is 3s 7d to 4s 4d
for 34 to 38 over proof, mid and good 2s 9d to 3s 7d,
and common 30 to 33 per cent 2s 6d to 2s Bd. In
Brandy sales continue upon a small scale for
all purposes, and sellers are willing to accept for
Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1850 4s 3d to 4s sd,
1849 do 4s 6d to 4s 8(), 1848 do 48 9d to 45 11d, 1847
do 5s 21 to 5s 4d, and inferior as to 4s. British made
Spirits is still 9e 8d to 9s 9d, and Gin 8s 3d for 22 per
cent under proof. Geneva sells more freely ord is 7el
to is Bd, and fine 15 9d to 2s.
TALLOW. —This afternoon at auction South American
sold at 35s 64 to 395; New South \Vales, sheeps 36s 94
to 38s 9d, and ox 363 3d to 37s 6d. The value of new
Y.C. is 403 to 40s 6.r for present and forward delivery.
OlLS.—This afternoon at public sale 60 tuns Southern
Oil part sold at 301 to 311, 17 pkgs East India Ground
Nut Oil 331 10s, 90 ditto Gingelly 321 105 to 331 105, 30

Allen Collyer, jun, jeweller, Dover, Kent, to Barren-
der April 1, at one, and May 1, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-
street; Harris, Moorgate-street.
George Garnham, banker, Rougham, Suffolk, April
11, at half-past twelve, and May 9, at half-past eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan. official assignee,
Birchin-lane; Hensman, Basing-lane; Wayman and Co.,
Bury St. Edmunds.

Henry Medworth, grocer, Wisbech Saint Peter, Cam-
bridgeshire, April 5, at half-past one, and May 9, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official
assignee, Birchin-lane; Abbott, Jenkins, and Abbott,
New-inn, Strand; Watson, Wisbech.
Walter M'Dowall, printer, Little Queen-street, Lin-
coln's Inn-fields, April 5, at eleven, and May 9, at one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assig-
nee, Basinghall-street; Edmunds, South-square, Gray's-
inn.

Richard Pegg, wine merchant, Brighton, April 14, at
half-past one, and May 10, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-
chambers. Basinghall-street; Bridger and Collins, King
William-street, City.
Samuel Turner Jay, dealer and chapman, Badley,
Suffolk, April 9, at half-past one, and May 9, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official
assignee; Trinder and Eyre, John-street, Bedford-
row; Archer, Stowmarket, Suffolk.
John Glasspool, bootmaker, Regent-street, April 8,
and May 6, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom,
efficial assignee, Abcurch-lane, Lombard-street
A'Beckett and Sympson, Golden-square.
Henry Christopher Billing, silversmith and jewelltr,
Cheapside, April 7, at eleven, and May 12, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee;
Sambrook-court, Basingball•ataeet; Petidell, Cheapside.
Richard Jackson, " tanner" (not " farmer," as adver-
tised in last Tuesday's Gazette), Selby, Yorkshire,
April 14 and May 5, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Weddale,Selby;
Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
John Powlesland, dealer in seeds, South Tawton,
Devon, April 15, at one, and May 6, at eleven, at the
F.xeter District, Court. Hirtzel, eflieial assignee,
Exeter; Fultord, North Tawton; Tunuer, Grecian;
Stogdon, Exeter.

ditto Tee Seed Oil 32/, and 60 ditto brown Rapeseed Oil
32/.

RAILWAY INTELLGENCE.
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN.
The following important memorial has been forwarded
to her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonial De-
partment:—
The Memorial of the Directors of the London and
South-Western Railway Company
Sheweth,—That your memorialists humbly desire to
submit a statement of the advantages that would result
from making the port of Southampton a central depot
for emigrants, both to the public interest and to the
emigrants themselves. That these advantages consist-
-Ist. I❑ a greatly superior safety as regards navigation.
2d. In saving of time at sea, and particularly in punc-
tuality of departure—a matter of the first importance as
regards emigrants of limited means.
3d. In economy in regard to the expenses of the ships,
and consequently the cost of the emigrant's passage.
4th. In economy, also, as regards the expenses preli-
minary to reaching the port of embarkation, arising
from the peculiar facilities of conveyance for passengers,
baggage, and goods to Southampton, both by rail and by
sea, from Ireland, England, Wales, and Scotland.
In support of these allegations, and especially of the
first, as regards safety, your memorialists beg to draw
the attention of the Commissioners to the subjoined re-
turn of the casualties in wrecks officially reported to
Lloyd's, between London and Dungeness, in the course
only of the last eighteen months, commencing January,
1849, from which it appears :
That 141 vessels have been completely wrecked, or
have undergone severe damage during that period. 25
being total wrecks, many of them being vessels of, the
largest class.
That lives have been lost in no less than eleven cases.
That the ascertained damage to vessels during the
period in question has been no less than 309,9421. 15s. 11d.
That during seven years, between 1837 and 1843, on
the sea voyage betweeti the Isle of Wight and the
Thames—

,000 .. ...... 58 per cent.*
,000

,000

.473
4,894 ..... 1,125

23:2960 ........ 2i179

1,000 ... 40 „ 44,760
* The published balance-sheet gives this item 58 per
cent. upon the first 1,0001. per week; the estimate as-
sumes a reduction to 50 per cent. on the second 1,0001.,
to 45 per cent. on the third 1,0001., and so on.
Rough estimate of the comparative minima guaranteed
by the Great Western Company, say in June, 1853:-
ISt EXISTING CONTRACT.—Upon each 501. ca-
pital (one share) from completion of the un-
dertaking, 5 per cent. in perpetuity, say par £5O
Add claims fur arrears of interest during construe-
tion:

Vessels.

4 per cent. from June, 1849, to June, 1851 ...
Ditto ditto, 1851, ditto, 1853 ...
Promised equivalent for increase of interest
during construction to 5 per cent. ... ...

There were totally lost, with all or several of
the crews and passengers ... ..• ..•
There were wrecked or foundered, the lives
being saved but property lost
There were severely damaged, by running on
the shoals or otherwise ... 1057
That within the last year the Royal Adelaide, with al
on board-250 souls, was lost.
That the Sarah Bridges, in tow of a steamer above
Margate, broke adrift, and neither vessel nor crew were
ever seen afterward.
That within the last few years the Reliance and the
Conqueror (Indiamen) were lost, and nearly every soul
on board, amounting to little short of 200, perished.
That within the same period, the Burhampoota. emi-
grant ship to South Australia, was totally wrecked, and
the emigrants, after a hair-breadth escape of their lives,
lost all they had.
That, also, within the same period, the Amphitrite,
while riding at anchor in the Downs, was driven out by
violent weather and totally wrecked, all on board being
drowned, consisting of between one and two hundred
female convicts, bound to Australia, and the whole crew.
That all these casualties occurred within sight of
home, and in the course of a proverbially dangerous na-
vigation, the dangers of which are unnecessarily in-
curred, as every vessel actually passes the port of safety,
Southampton, on its voyage, and by stopping there would
avoid all the dangers of the Godwin Sands and the east
end of the Channel.
That from these established facts your memorialists
submit that it is a matter capable of demonstration and
beyond all doubt, that by using Southampton as the port
of embarkation the apprehensions now reasonably enter-
tained of the danger of the sea voyage to the colonies,
which operates as a great drawback to emigration,
would be appreciably diminished, and the safety of the
emigration ships secured in the most practical manner.
That, as regards the second and third allegations, re-
ferring to saving in time at sea, and the importance of
punctuality of departure, by using Southampton as the
point of taking on board emigrants, by which also a
saving in the cost of emigrants' passages must ultimately
be secured—
It is notorious that the delays caused by contrary
winds in rounding the North Foreland are continual,
always of uncertain duration, and therefore destructive
of punctuality, and often extending to as much as twenty
days, and more.
That the discomfort of the passage is greatest at first,
and that the opportunity of communicating with friends
at home, which a protracted delay in the Channel af-
fords, acts as a decided discouragement to emigration.
The punctuality of departure from Southampton,
where vessels are towed at once out into the open chan-
nel, is necessarily far greater than from the
Thames, to come from which the North Foreland has
to be turned.
Of the importance of this punctuality to emigrants
who have made all their arrangements for leaving Eng-
land, and sold everything on the supposition that they
are at once to step on board, it is unnecessary to en-
large. The sufferings of the emigrants detained in
the Channel, by reason of contrary winds, must be well
known to your Lordship; it is perhaps one of the greatest
impediments to emigration, and it would be entirely re-
moved by making Southampton the port of departure.
It is unnecessary to point out that delay at sea is ano-
ther word for expense to the ship and passengers; and
in the case of emigrants, that such uncertain delays on a
rough sea frequently give rise to permanent sickness on
board, always to much misery and anxiety both to emi-
grants and their friends—the arrangements made for the
comfort of passengers being thus frequently entirely dis-
arranged.
That the loss of time incurred by ships in and near
the Downs, if represented in money, would amount even
to a larger sum than the damage to shipping (which
we have seen from the return from Lloyd's is proved
to have exceeded 200,0001. per annum). That the dura-
tion of the average voyage from England would be re-
duced by making Southampton the port of departure
instead of London, to the Australian colonies by 1-12th;
to the Cape of Good Hope by I.7th; and to North
America by 1-4th.
That therefore it is certain that were an emigrant
trade once established at Southampton, the expense of
engaging ships, comparatively to that from the Thames,
would be ultimately largely reduced.
Fourth allegation—ln regard to the superior means of
conveyance to and from Southampton :
Your memorialists will endeavour to explain the pecu-
liar advantages Southampton possesses in respect both of
its geographical position, and also of the facilities which
art affords.
That your memorialists' railway, commencing at
Southampton, connects itself with all the railways of the
south of England, with the Great Western Railway at
Basingstoke, with the South-Eastern at Farnborough,
and so with the Brighton and South Coast Railway.
Parliamentary powers are being applied for this session
to complete a short railway extension between Brent-
ford and Willesden, which will connect all the southern
line with the whole railway system of the nerd). The
rails of the South-Western Railway run to large pre-
mises on the banks of the Thames at Nine Elms, and at
Brentford-cross the Grand Junction Canal—thus they
communicate with the whole inland navigation of Eng-
land, which is so largely made use of by persons of the
working class for the conveyance of baggage and pas-
sengers, on account of its superior cheapness. The rails
also come close to the Basingstoke Canal at Farn-
borough.
That a branch of less than a mile at Salisbury, for
which powers have been obtained, will make another
junction with the Great Western system of lines, and
thus with the line to Dorchester and the other lines
which have been mentioned, connect Southampton with
a net-work of lines traversing the southern agricultural
counties, which provide the moat eligible English emi-
grants.
That the short railway communication of 80 miles
between London and Southampton, would enable the
Government officers in London to inspect the emigration
vessels and depots at Southampton, and return to Lon-
,don in a few hours.
The electric telegraph extends along the whole of the
line to London, and as far as Dorchester; at London it
connects itself with the telegraph system of the country,
so that communication may pass, and answers be re-
ceived instantaneously, between Southampton, London,
Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, Hull, Leeds, Glas-
gow, Edinburgh, Newcastle—in fact, throughout the
country.
In addition to the facilities of railway and telegraph
communication, Southampton possesses remarkable ad-
vantages in sea communication. '
It is placed in regular intercourse with Dublin by a
line of first-class paddle steamers, belonging to the Lon-
don and Dublin Steam Packet Company, which call
twice every week at the Southampton Docks, and the
regular steamers from Cork to London could also touch
at Southampton. There is also a Plymouth steamer
which calls periodically at the Royal Pier. A regular
line of Liverpool steamers in connexion with Glasgow
will run between Liverpool and Havre, to commence
with the spring of 1861, calling at Southampton. When,
in conjunction with the combined advantages thus enu-
merated, which exceed those of any other port in the
kingdom, it is remembered that Southampton is the port
the most easy of access and egress, and the safest for
vessels within, of any port on the coast of England,—
that at the entrance of the docks there are 18 feet of
water at low tide, which circumstances induced her Ma-
jesty's Government, some years since, to fix upon it as the
best port for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Service,—it is
submitted by your memorialists that the greatest bene-
fits to the public and emigrants would result from mak-
ing Southampton the port at which a large portion of
the business of emigration of the United Kingdom
should be concentrated.
To promote this object, your memorialists are pre-
pared to make such arrangements as shall secure con-
veyance to and from Southampton at most moderate
rates. In proof of their sincerity on this point, it may
be stated that they at present carry emigrants eighty
miles, with a full complement of luggage, at the charge
of ss.
That the facilities of telegraphic communication with
London and the whole kingdom would be placed at the
disposal of the Commissioners and their officers, at rates
little more than nominal. whet(' pre-
That the Southampton Dock Company,
mises afford an inexhaustible supply of the finest drink-
ing water for ships, are pledged to co-operate with your
memorialists in all arrangements for the accommodation
and dispatch of emigrants or emigrant ships, and are
prepared to give up entirely all the ordinary dues on the
tonnage of emigrant ships using the port of South-
aropton.
That your memorialists are in possession of premises
suitable for depots for emigrauts, both in Loudon and
Southampton, with regard to which they will be pre-
pared to treat on very reasonable terms, and in this and
every other ,way to meet the requirements of her Majesty's
Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners.

260

SECOND PROPO3EDCONTRACT.-45,0001. per an-
Mll, instead of 200,0004 per annum in per-
petuity,

2'408
4•

P 602

£58.01

from completion, say 45,000
--of 50/.. 11.25

200,000

Say one year's proportion of 30,000/. rent, on
three-fourths of 4,000,0001.
Ditto ditto of 38,0001. ditto 13-16ths ditt0...,., 0.585

X 12.335

The proposed contract represents the liability of the
Great Western Company, offered in exchange for the
existing liability, leaving the difference contingent upon
the success of the South Wales system when completed.

SOUTH WALES AND GREAT A RIGHT REV. PRELATE (whose title was not known in
WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANIES. the gallery) .dso expressed his objection to the manner
. adopted for obtaining the information sought for.
A large shareholder in the S',uth Wales Company, The Marquis of BREADALBANE said that the ministers
upon data submitted by him to Mr. J. A. Franklin, the
of the Church of Scotland once voluntarily returned answers
professional auditor and accountant, has obtained the
to similar queries submitted to them by Sir J. Sinclair.
following computations:— The Bishop of OXFORD remarked, that in the case re-
It is understood that the directors of these two corn- ferred to by the Noble Marquis there were no conflicting in-
panics have made a preliminary contract, substituting terests to prevent the return of correct information. Infor the existing guarantee of 5 per cent. payable by the England the case was different, and prejudices existed which
Great Western Company, graduated payments as fol- were likely to mislead those who were called upon to give
in-
lows, receiving in exchange one-third of the net profits formation.
upon the South Wales line, viz.:-1. When Swansea is
connected with Gloucester, 30,500/. per annum. 2. On
extension to Carmarthen, 38,5001. per annum. 3. On
extension to Milford, &c., 46,0001. per annum. Hence
the computations given below.
Estimates of profits and dividends upon the railway
from Swansea to Gloucester Junction, assuming the fol-
luwing
data:—Mileage, 105; debentures, 500,000/., at 5
per cent.; maintenance of way and contingencies, 100/.
per mile per annum; management and charges, 5,0001.
per annum; share capital, 2,500,0001.
Every 1,250/. per annum saved in any of the fore-
going items of expenditure will increase the dividend
one shilling per cent.
If the share capital claiming dividend bo 250,000/.
less, the dividend will be one-ninth greater.
Hire of Stock and
Gross Traffic working expenses Amount of Dividend per
per Week. per consecutive two-thirds cent.
1,0001. traffic. of Profit.

THE PAPAL AGGRESSION.
Earl FITZWILLIAM, having presented some petitions
against Papal aggression, gave notice that he would to-mor-
row present more per itions of a like nature, and would take
that opportunity of making some observations which seemed
to be called for by the present state of the attempt to legis-
late on the subject.
Lord BROUGHAM would beg his Pioble Friend—only
that he knew it would be vain to do so—not to carry his
threat into execution. He had well hoped—as they said in.
Chancery—that their Lordships would have got over the
time until after the Easter recess in a sort of quiet—he vats
afraid only a temporary quiet—respecting this subject. Any
thing more hateful to him than the whole controversy which
had been going on for weeks, if not for months, he had never
known, and he should fail in attempting to describe how
deeply he suffered from it. He had derived some consolation.until
from the prospect of an intermission of the controversy
after Easter, and therefore he would entreat his Noble
Friend not to mar his hopes, if he did not know that it
was more difficult to prevail upon his Noble Friend than
almost any other person.—(A laugh.) He could assure,
his oble Frien I—though he feared it would only cause bins
to persist more firmly in his intention—that the whole House
prayed for a respite, as regarded this question, until after the
Easter recess, and, if his Noble Friend would consent to.
appoint any time for addressing their Lordships.
after that period, he would promise that he should have
the whole night to himself without any interference from
him.—A laugh.)
Lord WODEHOUSE presented a petition against Papal
aggression.
Lord REDESDALE presented a petition in favour of ex •
tending the jurisdiction of county courts.
The report on the County Courts Extension Bill was
brought up.
Lord BEAUMONT suggested that the Bill should be re -
committed.
Lord BROUGHAM had no objection to the recommittal of
the Bill when it should have been reprinted.
The Bill was then ordered to be reprinted,
as amended, and
to be recommitted.
All ~INISTRATION OF CHARITIES IN ENGLAND, &c-
The Bishop of OXFORD stated that lie had given notice.
to her Majesty's Government of a question touching a very'
important subject, namely, whether they intended, and when,,
to bring in a measure for securing the due administration the
charities in England and Wales. Since he had entered
House he had been shown a draught of a Bill which it was
re-
intended to introduce into this House ietlepurpose of
at what
gulating charitable trusts ; and he wished to know .
period of the session the Government would bring forward
the measure?
The LORD CHANCELLOR replied that the Bill would
be introduced within a week from the present time.
certain returns relating to licences and registrations un!n
:ler
the Catholic Relief Act of 1829 were ordered, on the motio
of the Earl of WINCHILSEI.
Theis Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 27.
STEAM TO INDIA.
Viscount JOCELYN then rose, pursuant to notice, to
move for a Committee to inquire into the question of th
existing steam communications between England and
India; and to report whether any improvements Ma?
be made in the conduct of those communications,
previous to the grant of a further contract to
any company proposing to carry on that line.
Likewise to consider the subject of steam communica-
tions, having for its object a line or lines connecting;
England, India, and Australia; and to report to
the•
House the most fitting mode in which such communica-
tion may be effected, with due care to economy and.
with advantage to the public interests. The Noble Lord-
stated that he introduced a similar motion last ses-
sion, but since then the subject had become more.
interesting in many points of view. The ques-
tion was ono of some importance to the contr.
try, and he much regretted that it had not been taken
up by the Government. There were many consi-
derations which induced him to bring this motion.
forward, but the principal one was
The contrects contrects with the Peninsular and
ive Oriental'.
company would expire in 1853, which would g the
Government an opportunity of changing or selecting'
a better means of communication with our'
Indian empire. He made this motion entirely'
on public grounds; he had no hostility to any existing'
companies ; on the contrary, he thought they wore
much indebted to them for the accommodation wh
ich
their services had given to the public, and for the aprit
and energy with which they conducted their trade.
By the resolution of last session, it was agreed that a
route of steam communication should be establishe d
between Singapore and Australia, and the Peninsubx
and Oriental Company had stated their readiness to ez
pend 5,000/. in the settling of the route, but they thougl
that they ought nut to be tied down to any regulatiova
which the Indian Government might choose to lay dowi
t.
le•
and he conceived that they were perfectly right, fo
in his opinion, nothing could be more injurious to th
public interest than the vesting the mono•
poly of a great social or commercial.
advantage in the hands of a great and powerful party •
such as that constituted by the East India Company. It.
was well known that the Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Company . had always been desirous of obtain-
ing the possession of the route between Sue=
and Bombay. That route would have been o f the,
greatest benefit to them, but the grant of it hall
always been frustrated by the necessity for the sere ices
of the Indian navy. Far be it from him to
depreciate that navy, for he was aware how benefit cial
its services had been both in India and Chiles;
but it should nevertheless be recollected that vessels ,0f
that navy bed not altogether superseded the neceosellki
for the employment of vessels in her Majesty's Bernet
'rho purpose then alleged for the exclusion of Lb..°
vessels of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Co Dr
pany was not served, while ou the other hailla
it was abundantly evident that if the Indian navy te/s4
excluded from this line, the Peninsular and Oriental.
Steam Navigation Company would be enabled to eEe'''
ploy larger and more powerful vessels, and thus not on ly
increase their speed, but also render the communiesti orr.
with India more regular and certain. (His Lordsb.ip
then read extracts from dispatches from the Eiv,rl of
Ripon, when at the head of the Board of Control,
and from those of the authorities in India, in order
to show that this change would, if effected, acco
plish the objects he bad in view.) He arllB
aware that some prepositions had been made by a
company formed last year, but he could not say that they
could be entertained, and therefore he thought that; the
chief object to which the Committee should direct its
attention was in the first place to the establishment'; of
the routes and the depets to be formed for steam cc fl:1e
munication between this country and Australia. By t
existing arrangements the mails left England on the 7.91
of every month, and reached Suez on the 201 of ever,
month, from which place they were forwarded to India..
The existing arrangements with the Peninsular and Ori-
ental Company was to last for seven years, and would
expire in January, 1653. The total expense of the lino
was 265,0001., of which sum the Indian Government pro-
vided 125,000/, and the home Government 140,000/. The
question now was, when the existing arrangements ceased,
what course should they pursue in reference to future ar-
rangements. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Com-
pany wished to get into their hands the line be-
India and Egypt, but he thought nothing
tween
would be more dangerous than establishing
extent a great mo-
nopoly by this company, which, from the t and ex-
pense of the operations, could not be open to competition.
The conclusion which her Majesty's Government had come
to, when the question was put before them in 1845, was to
leave that line in the hands of the East India Company.
In the course of the _last few days various complaints had
reached him of the mode in which that communication was
conducted. There were insufficient means of commercial
communication, and passengers complained of insufficient
arrangements for their comfort. Be did not, however, at-
tach much importance to complaints of the latter descrip-
ti,m. It had been stated that the cost of carrying pawn-
gers was greater than on other lines. That should be in-
quired into, as it could not be cured by competition. There
was another complaint by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce,
d they required greater speed and more regularity in the
arrival of the vessels at Bombay. The next point into which
be proposed the Committee should go, was to consider the
subject of steam communication between India and Austra-
lia. Upon that subject also he thought that a Coratnittee
of that House would be the best mode of inquirY•
should regret hasty and unwise contracts. He did not wisA
tmoitptreeejawdgneultdhehaqvueesatinonen,
ebfiuctiahleetffheonut thought inquiry g by a Coin-'
the public at large, and in coming to some deincistrZ
elusions upon the subject.
Lord NAGS admitted that the Noble Lord had made out
an excellent case for inquiry as to the first branch of the
motion, but with regard to the second branch he was afraid_
that the proposed mode of inquiry would have the effect of
coion.
depriving the Australian colonies for some time of the bene_fi
of steam communication. Last year the Chancellor of the
Exchequer had assured them that no time would be lost in
carrying into effect the project submitted to the Government
.
on the subject. The present session was far advancedand.
the Australian colonies were as far from obtaining the
_t
com-
pletion of that project as they were when steps were
cil of
re _
taken on it in 1844. In 1844 the Legislative Co
un
Sydney had passed resolutions on the subject, and iet 1846
the committee of the council recommended that the stem of
6,000/. should be voted for establishing steam coinnir,d,o3ca
tion between Singapore and Sydney. In 1847 the subja,_
was much agitated in this country, and in 1848 ts_.l:
contract for the sailing packets in carrying the
to Australia expired. Up to that time there bad thi
a tolerably regular mode of communication betweent
b
country and the Australian colonies. The Governmene
coalt
declined to renew that contract, in the belief that socei_
into.
tract for steam communication will speedily be enterlidinanni:rd.
From that date up to the present time no regular el
Australia;,
cation had existed between this country and
the result was, that the colonists had been obligen to pay a
much higher rate of postage for letters, newspapers,
..nd
reviews Shortly after the contract mentioned had expir ed,
Government issued notices for tenders for steam commuuic.a-
wthnidchiant.haenduAnvuesrntrnialig
tion, and one was sent in from the
Steam-packet Company for ",6,000/.,
accepted. It turned out afterwards that this company had
not a single shilling of capital,
and
ttehalit olfdor the cnionotnrtahest:
during which they were allotee
a single steamer. Indeed, at
they had not laid down
aosenntesbheforteentdneers,
the end of that time the company was dissolved
under the Winding up Act. In 1850 notice had been
issued by the Admiralty
not considered t-atisfactory, w
In answer to the question of his the other day, the Right
Honourable Gentleman opposite seemed to admit that the
tender uow before them for performing the service of steam
Government. an d
one
mmunication with Australia free of expense to the Trea-
sury,Oriental
su and for the postage of letters alone, was unsatisface
tory. He had been told that the Peninsular and
Company had offered in their tender to establish steara
communication between Singapore and Sydney, provide
they were allowed to charge a shilling postage on evert
letter from this co ntry to Sydney. His object in moving t
e
ano..Lnnent I,as merely,
j transposing the parts of the 'no
tion, to ensure the consideration of the questioa of steam
communication with A ustralia without any delayr. What-
ever the report of the Committee might be on the Indian part
of the question, nothing could be done in it for two years, as
the contract between the East India CoropaY and the