The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-19 00:00:00

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MADLLE. CAROLINE DUPREZ. to injure or insult the people of this country, and there- ' moreover, it must he observed, have generally speak- 1- THE SHARE MARKETS. I
-14 E R MAJESTY'S THEATRE. fore he opposed the Bill. ing been planned by their originators upon a scale of _ __-a•-__ _
It is respectfully announced that this Theatre will OPEN
March 52, on which occasion Madlle. DU- Sir RALPH LOPES would support the mesenare. a'
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PREZ will make her first appearance in this country, as Lucia, in though 'no should have boon better satisfied had it been stanceehave they been restricted to-merely';ational '---- i
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Donizetti's Opera,
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. of a more stringent character. Business done
limits, embracing all races indiscriminately, and Railways. Paid. Neralsal Prices. today.
To be followed by a new and original Ballet, a la Watteau, entitled
L'ILE DES AMOURS. Mr. WALTER considered the establishment of the
holding out inducements for co-operation so large ____
atomposed by M. Paul Taglioni, the Music by M. Nadaud, the hierarchy a violation of the compact of 1829. He re• Aberdean.. .. • • • • 1
50 17% to 11114 74 % 15%
Scenery by Mr. C. Marshall, in which Madlle. Amelia Ferraris will • •and impartial as to excite the sympathies, we doubt 'Ambergete, Nottingham,
joiced at the letter of Lord JOHN ROSSELL, and at the
appear. not, of every genuine cosmopolite. It is surely Boston, &E. JuncionB% 3% - 3 dis. 5% 4%
The grand Opera of Gustavus is in active preparation, and will be agitation which it had occasioned, as it ehowed how Belfast sad County Down 32 •• - •
produced on Saturday, the 29th March, in which Madame Florentini needless to remark that in all this we see Birming., Woiverhamp.,
will support the part of Madame stavesso. The part of Oscar by deeply-rooted was the Protestant feeling of the country. and Stour Valley ••13 14 0 10% - 11%
Mlle. Caroline Duprez, and Gustavus by Signor Calzolari. He had, however, no desire to see the provisions of the reasons for entertaining sentiments of very earnest Elrkenh., Lan., & Chesh
------------ •'.. Bill extended to Ireland. satisfaction. The ardour displayed on all hands is June., hte 33/. 6s. B€l..
Be. Chest. & Birkenhel., 26 •• -••
THEATRE ROYAL, DRITRY-LANE. Mr. ANSTEY opposed the Bill, about the best assurance that could have been B
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Lame and Manager, Mr. James And af son.
THIS EVENING Lord ASHLEY denied the right of the POPE to make afforded that the Great Industrial Exposition is not
Will be presented by her Majesty's S.2:vaats
any spiritual organization he might think proper in this calculated to prove fruitless. On the contrary, we caleasaitios .. .. .. 50 Is% - isit 111% 14%
THE TURNPIKE GATE.
country, and considered that in his recent proceedings may now very reasonably rest assured that the Crys- Chester and lolyhead .. 50 24 -25 24
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After which, a new grand Operatic Spectacle, entitled AZAEL, he had violated both the law of nations and the law of tal Palace will turn out to be in plain matter of fact tuubbluinia aanudußdfuasg
IC sttjownet. 14005 20 -18 dis. 26 25
THE PRODIGAL. Reuben, Mr. Vandenhoff ; Azael, Mr. J. Ander- the land. The Bill was not sufficiently stringent, but (fanciful though the phrase may seem) a gigantic •• -••
Dundalk and tnniskillen 30 .. -• •
son ; Amenophis, Mr. Emery ; Bucharis, Mr. Cooper ; Bathos. Mr.
Rafter; Jeplitele, Miss F. Vining ; Nefte, Mrs- Walter Lacy ; Lis, it was valuable as a protest against the encroachments hot-house for the development of emulation. East Angha.n ,251, la &
E. and L. & la) .. .. 25
U Wile. Victorine Legrain (Premier Sujet du Opera de Paris), who of Popery, which had become so enormous on the con-a% -5% 54% %
Do. (181. E. Je H.) •• is 3% - 4 3%
aas been expressly engaged for the occasion, and will make her Among the various enterprises commenced almost Eastern Country ,. _ 20
tinent, that in Austria the rights of the Crown had been . 7% -7% 7% %
evening.appearancesev_erypsi Eastern Union, class A
0 SOF SCENERY, IIiCIDENTS, &c. simultaneously with that suggested by his Royal
infringed upon, and in France the Protestants were per-
ACT I. late E. U. sauces .; 25 • Gaz -7,,
Highness the PRINCE CONSORT, it may possibly be re- Do. dO. do. .. 6 ..".. _ .:"
INTERIOR of REUBEN'S TENT, secuted, their churches and their schools were closed, and Do. do., B& a' shares 25 4% - 5 8% 434
Opening at the Back to the Distant Desert-Sunset• membered that on a former occasion we especially East Lancashire .. _ 25 17% - 17% 17%
The Travellers-the Evening Repast-the Gift-Departure of Basel they were in a worse condition than they had been since
alluded to one of a rather novel and attractive species, Do. New quarters • • 6% 2% _3% 4%
with the Caravan for Memphis, the time of Louis XIV. Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 38 -39 38% 38
Camels of the Desert.
ACT le. Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT saw no cause for alarm, and now tolerably well known by the title of the Grand Edin., Perth, and Jundee 25 9% 8%
The GREAT SQUARE of MEMPHIS. should oppose the Bill. He could not imagine Chess Tournament. Exeterp o. Naenwcr Er tx
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Arrival of Azael.
Sacred Procession of Apis. The Offerings. why Protestantism should be in more danger because As admirers of that most noble and most venerable Glasgow. and Soutt•West, 100 .. -..
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Lia, and Troop of Jalmees. Dr. WISEMAN called himself Archbishop of West. of all intellectual pastimes, in its nature less a Game
Grand Pas de Fascination by Madlle. Victorine Legrain.
se ensemble by Madame Louise, Meddles. Falser, Jail.), sad minster, than it was when he called himself Bishop of than a Science, it was impossible for us to observeer)
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The Gamester-False Diee-azaers prodigality-the Love Token He believed the Bill would be absolutely the first crude announcement of the jousts to be held Greata Western, Ireland
and
100 90 -I._
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VIEW near MEMPHIS. ineffective. in its celebration without referring to it, however in- x.dd
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Reuben in search of his Son-the False Friend.
Interior of the TEMPLE of ISIS. Lord PALMERSTON treated the question merely as a cidentally, in terms of encouragement. Now that •t. Do. New, 171. .. ~ 17 234 - 2 dis. 14% 34
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erase. political one, and considered it the more necessary to 1 Lancaster and Carlide -
Great •Western a ..
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Grand Pas de Poignards by the Coryphecs. appears to be advancing steadily towards its realiza-
repel the aggression, because wherever, as in Spain and . ananecasaaLteirreaaunddly'r:Lor
r:..e
too se% - ea% x.d 62 61% 62 61
laza recovers the Stolen Scarf-the Secret Spring-Azael surprised
in the Sacred Temple-the "Human Victim." Austria, the Papal power acquired influence, it was used Wm, we may be forgiven for alluding once more to aaL
Do. quarter shares _ 25
The Doom of the Prodigal. • scheme which promises to aid in regulating the whole 9% - 9 d.xd [34 x.cl
ACT 111. to control and undermine the civil authority. He did Do. fifths •• • •• 11% 6% -6% dis. 54%
TENT of NEMROUD, the Camel Driver. not think this was a case for negotiation, neither could mass of the chess laws, a labour of revision so long Do. West Riding stiien 114 5% -54 d.xd
Leeds and Thirak •• - 60 19% - 203 18% 18 19%
Arrival of Travellers-Degradation of the Predigaa the Slave-the and earnestly desired by its votaries. According Liverpool, Crosby, Lad
False Friend-the Gift Restored-Despair of the Prodigal. he approve of the warlike recommendations of Sir H. [l9
- Southport .. 15
The Dream. INGLIS; but he considered this Bill, which was not a to the very expressions used in the Prospectus, it London and Blackwal .• it 6 3 •8% : 8% xd 8 '4
The VALE of AZAEL'S BIRTH.
The Harvest Festival-Azael mourned as Dead—Re'-urn of the measure of persecution, but merely an enforcement of appears indeed that the promoters of the Do., Tilbury Ext. Scrip les si -Si P
London, Brighton, and
Proclaal.
Appearance of the Spirit of the Desert. London and N.-West-am 100 130% -131% 130% 12934
the provisions of the Act of 1829, would meet the ne- undertaking look to it, and not unreasonably, South' Coast .. _ me 66% _ 97% 9534 97
cessities of the case ; and as he could not bring himself for "an authoritative decision upon the differences • Do. do. new quartets , 17
:en... 100 9054ia. - 69: 88% 90
THEATRE ROYAL, 11.A.Y31ARKS1 . 5% - 6 p. 21% [30%
to believe that the Catholics would wilfully violate the
Sir. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brampton. existing between the chess code of Italy and that of 12
Do. 10/. sh., M. &B a) 1 2% 3%.p. 4
THIS EVENING, law, he did not consider it would bo inoperative. the rest of Europe, and the establishment of one con-
Will be performed the Tragedy of 3IACBETII. Duncan, Mr. LoDndoo.
Rogers ; Macbeth, Mr. J. W. Wallack ; Banque, Mr. Howe ; Mac- The - debate was then, on the motion of Mr. HENRY sistent and uniform system of notation for the whole .Do.
newnew 501.
40 .. . 4234 5% -4% dis. •
duff, Mr. J. Wallack ; Lady Macbeth, Miss L. Addison; Hecate, BERKELEY, adjourned to Thursday. 1 •• • 34
Llandonderry & Colerahe 25 _
4% -3% dis.
Miss P. Horton. chess comMunity." Added to all which advan- • ••
.1110.• Do. halt shares .. k 5
To be followed by a new ana original comic drama, called GOOD - ..
taxes, t must be remembered that, for the first time Londonderry and Enna.
i
FOR NOTHING. Tom Dibbles, Mr. Buckstone ; Harry Collier, A fortnight longer and the documents relating to
fir. Howe ;Young Mr. Simpson, Mr. Clark ;Nan, Mrs. Fitzwilliarn. in the annals of the game, a general congress of its xr
aaanchester, Buxton, ant •• - -
the recent government, or rather we should say the
tuaearita .KOYAL, ADELalit."Matlock • . .. •
moat distinguished players will be convened-the 5% 3% -a% dad 2% 1%
Under the direction of Madame Celeste. recent misgovernment of Ceylon, will be at length in Manchester, Sheffield, 4
THIS EVENING, • l year of the Great Exhibition affording them, in fact, 'Lincolnshire •• • 100 3G -38 36% 37 36
Will be performed an entirely new grand Drama, in 3 acts, entitled the hands of the various Members of the Imperm aDo. Manchester 3111
TIELPIIEGOR THE MOUNTEBANK ; or, The Pride of Birth. Parliament. Until then no clear notion can possibly the first available opportunity. Besides the pleasure , Lincoln Union -4203% -2% dis. dia.
Duke de Montbazon, Mr. Hughes ; Count de St. Cyr, Mr. Boyce ;Midland .. .. .• - 100 65 - 65% 64 63%
the Chevalier de Rolac, Mr. 0. Smith ; Guillaume, surnamed Bel- be arrived at in reference to the policy of Lord Tort-experienced among
Do. consolidated pref. 100 .. - .
phegor. Mr. B. Webster. Ajax, alias Mr. Merryman, Mr. Wright ; making acquaintance with each other, we Do. 50/. shares • • .• 35 13 - 1}„ dis. 22 IA 213'
Captain Pufferes, Mr. Worrell ; Macieliene, Madame Celeste; Nini RINGTON. Any premature decision upon a question "Do. Birming & Derb3 100 37 39/4
Flora Aphrodite stilt, Miss Woolgar. of such extraordinary importance would be unfair not are sanguine that more substantial benefits Midland Gt. West. (Ire., 47%
..
.. 35
After which a new Force called THE SCHOOL FOR TIGERS ; ' .Newcastle and Carlisle•.
and may be derived from the circumstance of too .. -..
or, The Shilling Hop. Captain Kiteflyer, Mr. Boyce; Major Stiff, only to the Administration condemned, but also, _De, quarter shares • • 25
Mr. Freeborn ; Mr. Panels, Mr. Wright; Alexander Panels, Miss • their competition. The world will then be enabled Newmarket .. .. • • 25 •• - -
Chaplin ; Mr. Firkins, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Tom Crop, Miss Woolgar. In an especial manner, to the Legislature pronouncing Newport, Abergavetann 8% - 9 8% 4
to. judge correctly of their proportionate abilities, and
the sentence of condemnation. Judgment must con-'and Hereford .. .• 6
ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. 5 - 434 dis. 10% 1%
without much trouble to decide as to the relative Newry and Enniskillen .• 7 - -••
Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean and Mr. Kee lea. sequently he deferred, no matter how vexatious the , 'Newry, ta an enpeuit, &
THIS EVENING, value of their reputations. In all this we cannot but , Rost revor .. .. ••' 20 - _
Will be performed a new and original Comedy entitled LOVE IN delay, or otherwise the estimate formed by the House Norfolk .• .. •
.. • • 100 28 -30 27
A MAZE. Characters by Messrs. C. Kean, Keeley, Wigan, Harley, upon the matter at issue might be very inconveniently perceive matter for real gratification, coinciding tor- Do. New 20/. sbares•• 16 13 -12 dis.
Addison, Meadows ; Mrs. Keeley, Mrs. Winstanley, and Mrs. C. aially as we do in the opinion expressed, that, of all Netrthern Counties Haien 4
Kean. contradicted by the subsequently printed pspers and N'' hB• " h •• -
. ort rats .. .. •• •• 25 10% -11 tote se% 9%
To conclude with a new Melodrama, entitled PAULINE, in intellectual exercises, chess is indubitably " the most North Staffordshire •• 17% 6 - 534 dis. it}i 36 %
of North-Western .. • • 17 .. ....- ..
sharpening and bracing to the calculating powers
ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. siderations, that we must, perforce, acknowledge the Norm se Sth.-West.Junc. 1 %- h P
the mind." Its excellence as a means of cultivating Oxford, Worcester and
Under the Management of Madame Vestrie. reasonableness of the course pursued by the Ho- Wolverhampton.. •• 50 18% -19 19 18%
Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathew-- hose pow ers to a very lofty pitch of mental adroit- seottish Central .. • • 25 18 - 18%
THIS EVENING, nourable Gentleman the Member for Inverness-shire, ' 17%
"will he perfarmed ness has been attested not merely by the professed Scottish Midland .. • • 25 10% - 1134
TUE HANDSOME HUSBAND. Characters by Messrs. C. Ma- although to cureelves, as well as to the rest Do. new - .. .. 22% 734 -8%
thews. Vining, Min at. Oliver, and Mrs. C. Guru. of the communitv, this further procrastination masters of the game, but by some of the most ilius- BnrCiel.vsstAurY & 111 rung.
After which an entirely new and original Fairy Extravaganza,• • 11 5 3 4 - 3
trions warriors and statesmen whose names have been Do. ,
ji,ss
B..•• ::
.. 1
12 3 3
..... % dis. 43; dis.
to be caned KING CiLaitaitNG , or, the clue Bird of Paradise. of the debate on Ceylon is an exceeding annoyance. 234 dia. 3% % dia.
ettarae...re by Messrs. C Mathews, F. Matthews, llorncastle, Suter, emblazoned on the scroll of history. It is thus that in '
ewers. & Hereford., Old 4 2 -1%
Had Mr. BaILLIE adopted any other line of proceed-
Fealnehain, and Bonner; Mrs. Frank Matthews, 111.iSs Ems, Mrs. 130., do., New
C. Horn, Miss St. George, and Miss Martindale. ing he would have jeopardized his own character, the annals of chess we can trace its incomparable Shrewsbury and Chester
To conclude with(Nor. W. Min.) • • • • raid np 18 -20
RINGDOVES, in which Messrs. C. Mathews, F.Matthews, that of Lord TORRINGTON, and that also of the merits
by its man
y glorioue illustrations-and, this, Do. liaises .. .. •• Mid up 9 -10
TjaillEßaker. Mrs. ta. Matthews, and Miss 3i. Oliver will appear. Commons House of Parliament. He finds himself, we repeat, not merely by, so to speak, teehnical illus- teoo..
r.osowwestry • • .... 5? tete - 14%
N • •• % - % dis.
ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. to employ his own expression, placed by the Prime trations, such as the great PHILADOR or the Shropshire Union .. • . 6% 3 -2% aaa
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Farren. Do., A, 11, C, & D, fully
THIS EVENING, Minister in the invidious position of a person ob- greater DE LA BOURDONNAIS, but by others of a amid up at per cent • • - .. -.•
Will be terror red CHARLES KING. strutting the business of the country at a period more exoteric renown, from BADJAZET to NAPOLEON. South Devon •... .. 50 20 -21 IA 20% 20
South-Eastern .. • • 30 4
After which SEXTUS THE FIFTH ; or, The Broken Vow. 27% - 27% x.d 27%aa 4%
To conclude with a new Ballet, called THE WHITE STATUE, when the popular patience is already very nearly ex- Bearing in mind the dignity assured to itself by rltia Waies• • •• • • 50 3534 - 36% 3534 35 46
yua Yerksh. and River
in which Madlle. Adele, Miss Lees, and Tom Mathews will app[3s%
ear; bausted by a succession of impediments to the labours the major of games and the minor of sciences, we Dun .. .. :• •• 15 134 -34 dis.x.d
ASTLEY's ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. of the Administration. He perceives at the same must be permitted to direct public attention towards alien., Roth., and Goole,
South Division • . .. 6 3% - 436
Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highneas
Prince Albert. time that the official documents, which are alone the progress made in the carrying out of the Grand sstscktoena nndLoliu
it agrtholer"Secie. 1106% -
Proprietor and Manaaer, Mr. W. Batty. Chess Tournament. It is satisfactory to find, after raw • -••
Extraerdniary series of attractive novelties. capable of throwing light upon the difficulties in-Vale Extension •• 9% 6- • es. g
THIS EVENING, volved in his particular motion, are reserved yet a the lapse of a comparatively brief interval, so much Thames Haven Deck and
Railway _ .. .. 17% 3 -3%
The Grand new Spectacle of JOAN OF ARC ; or the Maid of Or-
leaus, with new and costly costumes, while for later publication. Embarrassed, therefore, accomplished in an enterprise surrounded from Vale
•of Neath • . • • 13 4 - 3 d.
Waterford and Kilkenny 20 6 - 7
Together with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle. its very novelty by such numerous difficul-
To conclude with TEK.ELI ; or, The Siege of Montgatz. by these very serious reflections, he comes to theWaterford and Limerick, 60 19% - 17%
Waterford, Wes., Wick.
Box-office open from Eleven till Fonr, only conclusion consistent with his duties as an honest ties. Intimations of the sincerest sympathy and Dublin .. .. 3 .. -.„
Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson.
- representative. He refuses to hurry the Ceylon have directly or indirectly been received, it would West Cornwall .. .. 714 .. _ .
- • West London . .. • • 20 8 -7%
Ilion WATER AI LONDON- BRIDGE question before the House prior to the appearance of seem, already from the majority of the most digits- Whitehaven and Furness 20
Tam DAT -Morning 5 min. after 3 ; Evening 28 min. after a York, Newcastle, & Ber-
Te-sloaaow -Morning 46 min. after 3 1 Evening a rain. alter 4 those documentary evidences which common guished players on the European continent. Kis-
wick - •_._ - • • is 21% -22 x.d.:21U%%:
T,.............-.........-----•-••---------------- sense assures us are alone capable of SERITZKIJ has not only expressed his readiness to aid Prt and, 144weaati° ~,,
3% - 3 dis.x.d 16% 34
THE WEATHER.-Sus Ovrice., MARCH 19. enabling its Members to arrive at a i.the
n development of the project, but has undertaken Ditto x Extension pu;;lvai-e •••••
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. judicious decision. He objects, moreover, to place in Paris the duties of a secretary to the Co-operative or preference .. • . a 1% -1% dia.x.d 7%
York and North Midland 5) 47% 38% 2734%3i%
49-highest since noon yesterday. Committee established in that metropolis. From the
himself in the situation of one creating new stoppages
36-lowest this morning and during the night. in the way of her MAJESTY'S Government-and great Hungarian player SZEN communications not LINES LEASED ILT PXZED itZIorTALLS.
47-this day, at noon. less satisfactory have emanated. JABNISCH has ex- ,e--s---;---------e-
Leasing Deafness
BAnomETEI4, 29.63. therefore he naturally, we might even say inevitably, Railways Leasing
Corapanies. Paid. Closing Prices. done.
pressed his
willingness to participate in the enterprise
Wren W.-dull, hazy weather, with rain. determines to remove his motion from the notice- ------ --
from his distant residence at St. Petersburgh, and Berks' and Hants
....--.---.-a!---••"-_----'"'"'""'"'"`""`"----"`-'"----'''''"""'" book, reserving to himself, of course, a full and
has been the medium of transmitting a similarly gra- B ir. and ( Ex. 5 per Cent. Gt. Western 6 % --1 p•
DAILY WEATHER TABLE. perfect right to bring it forward whenever be may Word
Juncacallsduly
State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following deem himself justified in so doing. What we insist of in announcement on the part of PETROFF, the paid, or with a
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.-The stations upon in reference to this delicate point of Parlia- first of Russian amateurs. VON OPPEN likewise has guarantee .• Do .. .. 20 28% - 99%
Do., without a
are arranged in order of latitude. mentary etiquette is-that the Hon. Represents- intimated from Berlin not merely his own ready guarantee .. Do __2027 - 28
ouzol (Dußt.Dl)-Wind S., gentle breeze-rain. v .•&
Pr.-Wind S. strong breeze-overcast. tive of Inverness-shire was compelled to adopt the acquiescence in the scheme, but that also of HYDE- IlDild.:,clall°sld'uly
BRANDT VON DER LASA, the Prussian Secretary of paid, or with a
Beraerraes-Wind E., gentle breeze-overcast. guarantee .. Do - _
POOLE-Wind W., strong breeze-overcast. course already specified by the curt and peremptory 15 834
...... 9% p
announcement made by the First Lord of the Tree- Legation at Frankfort, and one of the most illustrious Do., without a
HnsTiNGs-Calin-overcast.
BouTHAMPTON-Wind S., gentle breeze-rain. sury, to the effect that the financial measures of the chess-players in Christendom. When it is born® in uarantee
ngacfanghamsh. Lon. &N. W. 1 -
7% 17% - 17%
FoLgissroNE-Wind S., gentle breeze-overcast. session should not be brought forward so long as the recollection that we ourselves, as a nation, are repro- E. Lin., Guar. 6
TUNBEIDGE-Wind S.E., calm-overcast.per Cent. .. G. Northern 25 3234 -33
BASEMSTOKE-Wind S., strong breeze-rain. motion respecting Ceylon remained undetermined. rented in London by the greatest master of the game Built and Selby Yk. &N. Si.so 101 103
GREENWICH-Wind S.E., gentle breeze-rain. Startled by this rather remarkable declaration, now living, we may look forward with eager anxiety •Do.o. 3.i.
sshhaarreess D_oo _ M. 25 50 -51
SwiNnox-Wind S., gentle breeze-rain. u " •• 1234 22% - 23%
Mr. BAILLIE objects to stand before the and with no small degree of confidence to the opening Leeds and Brad. Midland .. 50
LEIGHToN-Wind S.E., gentle breeze-rain. Lon. and Green. S. Eastern .. 1118 4 1114 - 11%
COLCHESTER-Wind S.W., strong breeze-overcast, community as the stumbling-block of the of the future Tournament. Happily the funds Do., Pref. .. Do .. .. 20 24 -25
CskreanaGE-Wind S.E., gentle breeze-overcast. present session of the British Parliament. already collected in furtherance of the scheme Lpoewreesteouf.,t, Gd..
4.
Norfolk
FETERBOROUGH-Wind S. W., gentle breeze-overcast. " 20 15 -16
LYNiv-Wind S., gentle breeze-rain. Already the country has been sufficiently more than justify its originators in promote N. & East, 5
per Cent. .. E. Counties , 5
CONWAY-Wind S.E., gentle breeze-rain. irritated by the consciousness that this same session ing the labour of its completion -no less no. New .. Do • . .. 4(1 5:
....- 566
HOLYHEAD-Wind S. strong breeze-heavy rain. &N. w. 7 P
LIVERPOOL—Wind N.,E., gentle breeze-rain. is flitting rapidly away, and that as yet absolutely than 3.501. sterling having been subscribed among Preston and 2
~
Wyre • • •• S bBc La.& Y. j 25 41 -43 x.d
La.NcasTEE---Wind E., strong breeze-overcast. nothing whatever has been done, not merely in the the members of the managing committee alone. D 0.34 SharesA Do .. .. 1034 734 -8% p.x.d
Wurrny-Wind. S., strong breeze-overcast. With the celebrity of HOWARD STAUNTON as Read., Guild.,
way of wholesome legislation, but actually in refer- an en- and Reigate .. S. Eastern X. 61
SLIAP-Wind S., gentle breeze-rain. 20 21% -22 x.d
BEArrocx-Wind S.E., strong breeze-overcast. ence to the carrying out of the annual projects of ad- couragement, with the enterprise of its originators as Booy.
Stepllliti:cxhin G. Northern Bu, 8_ 8 $
Banwicaa-Wind S., strong breeze-overcast. ministration. The Budget is still in nubibus-the a perpetual incitement, and with the munificence South "° ••• 2% 134 -1% IL
ataffords. Mr. M'Clean 9% N _ 24i dis. x.d
The returns from the following places indicate the state of disnla ed among ms Wear Val. 6 per
the wind and weather on Monday morning at nine multitude remaining in the most profound ignorance - Y the embers of the managing corn- Cent. gm,. .. Stock.& Dar i
- 2b 24 -25
&clock:- as to the nature and amount of the supplies. What mittee as an example to subsequent promoters, the Wilts, Some &
Weymouth .. !Gt. Western. 50 45 -46 45%
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DAILY WEATHER TABLE.
State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
KINGSTOWN (DUBLIN)—Wind S., gentle breeze—rain.
PLYstotiTs—Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast.
POOLE—Wines W., strong breeze—overcast.
BRIGIITON—Wind E., gentle breeze—overcast.
ilLsTuscia—Calm—overcast.
SOUTHAMPTON—Wind S., gentle breeze—rain.
FoLsysrosk—Wind S., gentle breeze—overcast.
TuNekmok—Wind S.E., calm—overcast.
BAsmastoicE—Wind S., strong breeze—rain.
GREENWICH—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—rain.
SWINDON—Wind S., gentle breeze—rain.
LEIGHTON—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—rain.
COLCHESTER—Wind S.W ~ strong breeze—overcast.
CAXBRIDOE—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast.
PETERBOROUGH—Wind S. W., gentle breeze—overcast.
LYNN—Wind S., gentle breeze—rain.
CONWAY—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—rain.
HourxicAn--Wind•S., strong breeze—heavy rain.
LrvitnrooL—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—rain.
LANcAsTER—Wind E., strong breeze—overcast.
Wurrzy—Wind S., strong breeze—overcast.
SHAP—Wind S., gentle breese--rain.
BEl:mock—Wind S.E., strong breeze—overcast.
Baßwick—Wind S., strong breeze—overcast.
The-returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Monday morning at nine
o'clock:—
Coax—Wind W., light breeze—rain.
Loucnics—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—heavy rain.
~ioBLINGAB—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—rain.
POOLE W ind S.E., strong breeze—heavy rain.
LEIGHTON—Wind E., gentle breeze—rain.
BIRMINGHAM —Wind N.W., gentle breeze—rain.
PETERBOROUGH—Find S., gentle breeze—rain.
LivkftrooL—Wind gentle breeze—cloudy.
Leans— Wind N.E., gentle breeze—foggy.
LANcAsun—Wind E., strong breeze--overcast.
DARLINGTON—Wind S.W., gentle breeze— heavy fog.
SHAP—Wind 5.F.., gentle breeze-- partially cloudy.
WHITEHAVEN-Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast.
BRATTocx—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.

taxes are to be remitted and what to be retained, are
still left as puzzles for the conjectures of the popula•
tion. The mas.es know no more now than they did
on the 3d of February of the chances of anything
like financial retrenchment. They continue still, as
they did up till that period, doubtful as to the possi-
bility of relieving themselves of the miseries of suffer-
ing taxation under the Schedules D and E.
Nothing has happened as yet within the walls
of the New Palace at Westminster to
relieve the popular mind from its prolonged uncer-
tainty. To the Chancellor of the Exchequer, there-
fore, the public still look with unabated, or rather

intimated from Berlin not merely his own ready
acquiescence in the scheme, but that also of HYDE-
BRANDT VON DER LASA, the Prussian Secretary of
Legation at Frankfort, and one of the most illustrious
chess-players in Christendom. When it is borne in
recollection that we ourselves, as a nation, are repre-
sented in London by the greatest master of the game
now living, we may look forward with eager anxiety
and with no small degree of confidence to the opening
of the future Tournament. Happily the funds
already collected in furtherance of the scheme
more than justify its originators in promot-
ing the labour of its completion —no less
than 3501. sterling having been subscribed among
the members of the managing committee alone.
With the celebrity of HOWARD STAUNTON as an en-
couragement, with the enterprise of its originators as
a perpetual incitement, and with the munificence
displayed among the members of the managing com-
mittee as an example to subsequent promoters, the
brilliant enterprise we are alluding to cannot but
close with the happiest consequences. After deduct-
ing all necessary expenses, it is proposed that the
residue of the money collected shall be
divided into seven; graduated portions, the
first one-third, the second one-tenth, the third one-
fourteenth, and so on to the seventh one-sixtieth, and
that a supplementary prize consisting of a set of ivory
chess-men, with a suitable chess-board, inscribed
with the winner's name and victory, shall be played
for by the principal competitors. These we have already
shown will include some of the greatest chess-players
of our generation, and, acting with a liberality
deserving of every imaginable praise, the committee
have decided that.the Tournament shall be open to all
parties without distinction, either in regard to
country or association. Under such auspices as
those we have indicated, we are sanguine that the
enterprise will turn out in the highest degree satis-
factory, and this in spite of the most shameless
calumny and the most ungenerous opposition.

•REP:

SZAILES.

Railways. Paid. Nominal Prices. Business done
to-day.
.-----.
—.----- ---,_
Aberdeen •• •• •• 61 8 par —u p Pm
Caledonian 101. • • • • le 6% —7% 6% %
Chester and Holyhead 1$ 17 1736 17% 17
East Anglian (31. 108.)
6 per cent. •• •• •• 834 236 —2% 2% 34 %
Do. (51.) 7 pr. ct. Pref. 5
..
..
D0,(71. 175.) 7P•c••Tref• 2 .. —..
Eastern Counties Exten.,
5 per cent. No. 1 •• 613 4 % % P 31 Pm
DN.-No. 2 •• • • •• 612 4 par —% P par
Do. New 6p. cent. Stock 10 10% —ll 10%
Eastern Union. Scrip
gnitran. 6 per cent. •• 70 17% 17%
Do. 10/. Deben. Shares . 10 •• —• •
East. Lancashire, 6 per
cent. quarter shares .. 614 .• —..
Glasgow & S.-W. Consul. 100 • • • • •
Gt Northern, 5 per cent. 12% 13% 13%
Great South. So Western
shim, F. 201... • • • 6
Stuck, Is‘ 134 dia.
Do. 16 per cent. Stock'. 100 .. '''' •—.,
L(air.regelasnhdir)e eighths
and ' York- 234 %—1 P.
"
Leed9 and Thlrsk, 6 per
cent., No. 1.. • • •• 9 :.. —•• P
Do. 6 per cent., No. 2 . 17 ..
Do. 6 per cent., No. 3 . 5 .. —..
Do.huarters, 1848 .. g 1% .-2 p . .
London, Brighton, and
South Coast guar. 5 per
prof., p
r e t
e. t. n en 2 Sk, n 0
67ct.,' late Croydon thirds 100 .. —• •
D '
1851, from 501. share. E 100 114 120
poo.. cony.
5 per
60
Do. new guar., 6 per et. 100 136 —139
London &S.-W., new .. 6 2% —2% P. 7%
Londonderry and Ennis.
killen, half share& .. 10 .. —. ..
Manch., Sheffield, and
Line , guar. shrs.„2•lo. 1 25 14% —1634 -
Do. new, 101. .. .. 10 12 • 123
Do., 6/. • • • • .. .. 3 % % P
Midland Con. 6p. c. stock 100 131 133
Do. Cousel. Bristol &
Binning., 6 per cent... 100 •• —• • 13236
Do. Bristol & Gloaces. 43 .. -- ••
Do. do. do. .. 33 10 6 .. •••
Do. Erewash Valley .. 90
.. _
..
Do. Lebo. & Swanning.
8 per cent. guar. .. 100
.. _
..
Norfolk Extension 2O 17!,6 —lB
lio. guar. 536 Per Cent, 5 x.d
North British ~
5 534 —5%
Shrewsbury and Blrnl.
New Guaranteed .. 8 10% 11% 10% 11%
Do. Waveney Valley
.. 2
. •—: 4. 3:e
Shrews. and Ches. (Nor.
W. Min.) 8 per cent. 10 14% —151 i
South _Devon • . .. 25 15 —l6
South-Eastern, 436 p. et.
10 • • - • •
Waterford &I'alkenny,sl. 1 .. _.
Wes tCondon, IstC 1. (10/.) 10 —• •
Do. 2d Class de. • •
(Per) 20 • • —••
York, Newc., and Bony. , 17
at.e.,i .of E. Pur, .. 16 —l7
4% 5
York and North Midland
11. and S. Porch. , 10 1% —74 es. 9
WOREIGN.
Boulogne and Amiens .. 20 10% 10% 1034 % 3 [lB
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon) .. 20 18 18% 18% 34 17%
Demerara .. ..
.. 1734
..
Dutch Rhenish .. .. 8 344 —4% dig. 434 3%
East Indian • • .. .. 14 1% —l% p.
Do. do. do. ~ 20
Great ludian Peninsula.. 5 )4 34 P. 5%
Ditto ditto .. .. 2% 36 —% P.
Louvain ala Sambre „. 734 .
Luxembourg • • • • .. 8 1 -2•
Ditto • • • • • • • • 10 3 —3% 3% 2%
Madrid and Valentla ~
Maria Antonia • • • • 25 •6
7
•
Ditto, New • • • . % 2 3 2%
Namur and Liege .. .. 270 6% —9 4 9% 8%
Northern of France .. 16 15% 15% 15% li IA
Orleans and Bordeaux ~ 8 5 4% dig. 434 % %
Paris and Orleans • • .. 20 37 —39
Paris and Rouen • • • • 20 204-2756 2736 63{1 rs
Paris and Strasbourg .. 16 5 436 dig. 1136 10%
Rouen and Havre .. .. 20 12 1236 1236 11%
Sambre and Meuse .. 20 5 536 4% 5% 434%
Tours and Nantes .. .. , 15 8% 836 dig. 636 % %
Tournay', Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Ilasselt .. 20 • • —..
Wastrluder6 .. .! 6% 1% 1 3

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean reading
Of the barometer in the week was 29.650 inches. The mean
temperature of the week was 40°.5, which differs little from
the average of the same week in ten years. At Lewisham
rain fell to the depth of 1.72 inches on Saturday, between the
hours of midnight and five P.m. This fall is unusually
large at any time, but particularly in March.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1851.

In the Souse of Lords, last night,
Lord TORRINGTON gave notice of a motion for Tues-
day week on the affairs of Ceylon, and stated that he
should take that opportunity cf refuting the calumnious
misrepresentations of which, as Governor of Ceylon, he
had been the victim.
shortly afterwards adjourned.
Their Lordships ahor
In the COMMGIIS,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that he
should not make his financial statement on Friday.
Mr. SADLEIR then moved the following resolution:—
si That it is expedient to substitute for the existing
mode of varying the amount of tithe rent-charges in
Ireland a self-acting system, whereby the amount of all
tithe rent-charges in IrJand shall be increased or dimi-
nished every year, according to the
average prices
of
corn, as ascertained by public advertisement, in a man_
ner similar to the existin; method of varying the tithe
rent-charges in England and Wales."
Sir GEORGE GREY slug( sted that the flon. Gentle-
man should bring in a Bill on the buhject, which he would
not oppose; but he hoped the remllution would not be
pre4sed. After a short converstion, in which Lir. G.
A. IlAmmTos, Mr. FRENCH., Mr. S. CRAWFORD, and
Sir 11. W. BARRON took part, the motion vra, withdrawn.
Mr. ANSTEY proceeded to call attention to the al-
leged obstruction effered to the claims of the infant
Raja of SATTARA, in the denial of a hearing before the
Court of Privy Council, complained of in the petition to
the House of Commons of the n‘xt friend of the said
infant, presented on the 14th instant; and moved a re-
solution to the effect that the grave matters contained in
the petition referred to deserve the serious attention of
the House. -
The motion fell to the ground for want of a seconder.
The adjourned debate OR the Ecclesiastical Titles As-
sumption Bill was then resumed.
Mr. BLEWITT did not think thc; POPE intended either

inflamed curiosity; and those who appear, however
unwillingly, to interpose between the nation and the
long-desired financial statement, call down upon their
heads the accumulated vengeance nurtured by pro-
crastination.

As to the objection raised by the Prime Minister
against the line of conduct pursued in the present in-
stance by the Hon. Gentleman the Member for In-
verness-shire, namely, that he is unfairly holding the
Ceylon question in terrorem over the occupants of the

Treasury benches—that is surely a most preposterous
quibble, seeing that Ministers have been able to
manage the affairs of the empire during the last
three years unembarrassed by the threatened in •
vestigations in Lord TORRINGTON'S govern-
ment all along looming down heavily upon
the Cabinet. A sword of DAMOCLES, the in-
quiry may still be, but it has hung quivering over the
leader of the Administration during three years past,
and the nerves of the statesmen trembling under it
may be presumed to be no weaker now than for-
merly. At any rate Mr. BAILLIE cannot be charged
with the continuance of the Ministerial dilemma in
this particular matter, seeing that he is only induced
to remove his motion from the notice-book by reason
of the threat held out to himself, and through him to the
country at large, that the financial statement shall be
made subsequently to the period of its settlement.
Acting as the Member for Inverness-shire has done
in regard to the Ceylon inquiry, he has provoked the
complaints of the First Lord of the Treasury. Had
he decided, nevertheless, differently he would have
infallibly excited against himself the indignation of
the entire community. Embarrassed for a moment
by
finding himself between either branch of the alter-
native, Mr. BAILLIE has judiciouslydecided
upon
selecting the lesser—thereby enabling the public to
arrive somewhat earlier at some definite notion as to
the character
acter of the financial statement of the Go-
vernment. Meanwhile it cannot but he gratifying
to observe the gallant announcement made last even-
ing the Upper House of Parliament by Viscount
TORLINGTON, to the effect that the Noble Lord
would
earlyt
ha e date
now himself bring the matteratas as
pPssible under the serious consideration of
Legis-
lature.

Thanks to the stimulus imparted to the enterprise
of all classes by the approaching Exhibition, under-
takings of the most diversified character have been
adventured upon in all directions. These efforts,

At the late audit at , in Bedfordshire, the
landlord returned 20 per cent. to his tenants. A farmer of
the olden days thus expresshi himself:—" Thankey, Sur, for
duing as you du, and I hopes ye'll allus du as ye du du !"
GREAT ANTI-PAPAL LEAGUE.—Yesterday the
foundation was laid of a religious league, which promises
to become the greatest of the kind which modern times have
witnessed. A number of noblemen, gentlemen, clergymen
of the Church of England, and Dissenting ministers, of va-
rious denominations, met in Osborne's Hotel, Adelphi, for
the purpose of consulting together as to what ought to be
done by evangelical Protestant denominations, with a view
to resist the aggressions of Popery. Among the noblemen
and gentlemen present were—the Earl of Ducie, Lord Ash-
ley, Sir Culling Eardley Smith, the Hon. and Rev. Monta-
gue Villiers, the Rev. W. W. Champneys, the Rev. Edward
Auriol, the Rev. T. R. Birks, the Rev. Dr. Morison, the Rev.
Dr. Campbell, the Rev. Dr. Bunting, the Rev. Dr. Beecham,
the Rev. Dr. Steane, with a great number of eminent lay-
men. The meeting lasted three hours, and was characterised
throughout by the greatest unanimity and cordiality. It was
resolved that duly organised and most energetic measures
shall be forthwith adopted in order to enter the arena with
the hosts of Popery. Advertiser.

To-morrow (Wednesday) we shall have the highest
tide of the year.—Liverpool Standard of yesterday.
ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.--Last night a performance
took place at this theatre by the members of the West ern
Dramatic Society, in aid of the funds of the Dispensary for
Consumption, Margaret-street, Pegent-street. The per-
formances commenced with Colman's admirable comedy of the
Heir at Law, in which Me'srs. Fawdon, J. H. Emery, Spicer,
Edwards, Chester, and G. Harrison sustained the principal
parts in capital style. Mrs. Newbery made an excellent
Lady Duberly, and Miss Sydney a very pretty Cecily Home-
spun. The farces of the Day after the Wedding and the
Turned Head concluded. the evening's entertainments.
Taken as a whole, the acting of the gentlemen last evening
was the best amateur performance we have witnessed for
ome time, and we consider we pay them a high compliment
when we say they equalled the ladies, who are always the
best performers en these occasions. It was to be regretted
the house was so thinly attended.

- -
THB FUNERAL OF THE LATE SIR ALEXANDER
HOOD, BART., M.P., OF WoTTON HOUSE, SOMERSET.— Yes-
tel day morning the mortal remains of the late Sir Alexander
Hood, Bart., M.'., were removed from his late town resi-
dence, No. 43, Witupole street, Cavendish-square, to the
Great Western Railway, where the body was conveyed by
pecial train to his late country seat, Wotton House, Somer-
set, whence it was removed to its final resting-Place in the
family vault of the parish church of Buttle. Among the
principal mourners were Sir Alexander Bateman, Perian
Palrtler Acland Hood, Bait., Lieut. arthur William Acland,
]LN., Sir P. Acland, Bart., and several of the nobility and
gentry of the neighbourhood.

Anglo-liexican(is. 51. p.)
Asturian .... • • •• ••
Australian • ... •••• •• • •
Barossa Range ..
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal
Bolanos Scrip ........ ••
British Iron.. • • .. • • ....
Brazilian Imp. (is. Si. p.)
Do. Cocaes and Culaba
De. St. John del Rey..
Cobra Copper .• . ••
Coplapo
Real Del Monte, Unreg.

Do. Black Debentures.

Do. Red Debentures ..
Santiago de Cuba ......
Tin Croft .... • . • • .... • •
United Mexican- • • •• ••
3'o=7

Australasia .... •• • • •• • •
British North America..
Colonial .....• .. • • ....
Commercial of London..
London Joint Stock ....
London and Westminster
National Provincial Eng.

Do. New ........ • • ..
National of Ireland .. • .
Provincial of Ireland....

Do. New ... • • • • • .. ..
Union of Australia .. ..

Union of London ......
Union of Madrid ...
11111

1 13 01

13 5
24%

3N( -2%
3% -3%

Canada
Gen. Steam Navigation .1
Penin. it Oriental Steam.
Royal Mail Steam .. • • ..
Peninsular and Orienta
(We cannot be answer:
- - -

'2B 2 8%
' STOI

32% - 32
14% - 13%
32% - 34%
554 - 7
13% - 14

will not be influenced by

714 -6%
10% - 11
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13C. nANICS,
33 -32%
42% - 42
976 - 12
25 - 25%
18% - 17%
2736 - 2736

17% - 18
42 -43%
157 - 15
33 - 33%
a -3%
12% - 13

10EL:
32%

1 Steam,
able for ti
intereste

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

.ANEOUS.
42% 46
26A —27 A
GSA —72 A
73 —69
paid, has been done at 12 11%.
ie errors of the Official Lista, and
1 correspondents.]

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

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The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated
at 7,000 bales, of which 2,000 American were taken on
speculation. The market closed firm at an advance of 1/ad.
per lb. on American under 714 d. per lb. Other kinds are
without alteration in price.-In Railway Shares a good busi-
ness was done at lower prices. The market closed very
weakly.
We noticed a few days since the general petition to Par-
liament of the merchants of the City, and may now follow
np our allusion by a reference to a like memorial from the
St. Katharine Dock Company. It is impossible to enter at
length into the detail of annoyances occasioned to, and diffi-
culties endured by, the company, through the mistaken zeal
of the Customs' solicitor. The summing up of the case is in
the following terms :-
" That the violent and offensive attack therefore which
was, as stated at the outset of:this petition, made upon the
dock establishment by a large body of Custom-house officers
on that day was as unprovoked as it was unexpected ; and
your petitioners will venture to add was as unjustifiable as it
was unprovoked and unexpected. There is, indeed, neither
parallel nor excuse for it. In the cases of the proceedings
by the Excise, a branch of the revenue inevitably requiring
sudden visitations to discover illicit processes in the moment
of their actual operation, it might be necessary for large
bodies of officers suddenly to surround and enter the pre-
mises, the proprietors and managers being in all such cases
principals in the offence. While in the case of the docks it
was quite impossible, as any body conversant with the prac-
tiee and regulations of those establishments ought to have
known, that any fraudulent processes could be carried on on
such a scale as to require a legion of revenue officers to come
upon them by surprise as the only chance of detecting them,
there being, moreover, no motive for fraudulent practices of a
great extent, unless the directors and proprietors were as-
sumed to have a beneficial interest in the result-an assump-
tion which was made by the Crown prosecution against the
London Docks, but recoiled on the prosecutors. If, however,
in the instance of the large force of Custom-house officers
suddenly entering the St. Katharine Dock premises, great
quantities of goods legally liable to seizure, as involving
frauds on the revenue to a considerable extent, had been dis-
covered, there might have been a prima facie excuse for so
extraordinary an exhibition; but the actual result was the
discovery and seizure of a most insignificant quantity of
sugar scrapings and of sweepings of other goods.
"It was apparently from disappointment at a result so
ridiculously small, compared with the vast means employed,
that led to the further examinations, in the course of which
the officers of the Customs seemed determined to make up
for the insignificance of the first seizure, by seizing the very
great quantities is respect of which the numerous informa-
tions before referred to are pending; for which seizures, how-
ever, your petitioners firmly believe there are no justifiable
grounds; but your petitioners humbly submit that if there
were sufficient ostensible grounds for those seizures, and for
the imputations upon the company's officers and servants,
nothing can justify the mode of proceeding in respite of
them, which has been adopted by the Board of Customs.
Every expedient, of the most procrastinated and expensive
litigation, with the aid of the great powers possessed by the
Customs' authorities, has been resorted to, and your petition-
ers cannot hesitate to characterize these proceedings against
them as involving the charge of a flagrant abuse on the part
of the Board of Customs of the great powers and privilege
with which it is invested.
" Your petitioners therefore pray tbat your Hon.
House will be pleased to appoint a Committee
to inquire into the constitution and manage-
ment of the Board of Customs, with a view to
remedy the abuse of its powers, of which your
petitioners have such great. cause of complaint."
At a meeting of the Grocers and Tea Dealers' Benevolent•
Protection Society the annual report was submitted. This states
that the contributions of the past ycar exceeded those of
any previous year, the annual subscriptions being 8901. 7s. •
donations, 5531. 2s. ; and dividends on stock, 4191. C.a.-Total,
1,8621. 14s. The sum distributed in pensions was 8541. to 41
pensioners, many of whom were formerly subscribers to the
society. The total amount : distributed in pensions was
6,t631. 9s. The committee had added 6001. to the capital
stock of the society, which now amounted to 13,2001. Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents. The report,further stated that Sir
John Davis, Esq., had consented to preside at the annual
dinner on the sth of May. Certain new rules were agreed
to, having for their object the immediate relief of widows and
orphans of deceased pensioners. and the carrying forward the
votes of unsuccessful candidates. The report was unani-
mously adopted.
In the Amsterdam market, on the 17th inst., Dutch Stock
had generally a more favourable tendency, and business was
animated. The Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 57.
Spanish Five per Cents. were in much request.
The English Funds-have been steady, but with very little
doing. Consols have been quoted 96% 1(.,, for Transfer and,
for the Account 961,E %. Bank Stock is shut. Exchequer-
bills have realised 535. to 565. premium.
There has been an increased demand for Spanish Bonds,
owing to the decided advance at Madrid. The Passive have
been run up to 51,x, and the Five per Cents. have touched
21 to M. The energy of M. Gonzales Bravo, who has dis-
missed from the Council the gentleman who lately refused to
vote in the Committee appointed to settle the debt, has given
ground for hope that the creditors will no* certainly gave
their claims attended to. Venezuela Bonds have been 323 A
to 33, and Mexican have fallen to 33 to Grenada De-
ferred have been at 4M, and Equador at 3%. Brazilian Old
Stock has realized 93, and Chilian Six per Cents. have
been at 105% to 106. Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
have been firm at 85. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
have been quoted 97% to y 3, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. 58%.
The Railway Market still droops, and'prices are all lower.
The decline in Great Western is about 21. cheaper. North
Western has dropped it., Midland 1/. to 1L 55., Norfolk 2'.
Eastern Counties are much the same, or say i/8 worse. Aber-
deen are 2/. to 21. 10s. lower. Caledonian are down 1/. to
11. ts,Great Northern hs. to 75. 6d.' South-Western f i.,
North Stafford 2s. 6d. to 55., and East Lancashire ss. Am-
bergate are flar, and South Wales tolerably steady. French
shares are all in favour of buyers. but there is still a disposi-
tion to do business in them, and many parties are taking
them for investment.

QUARTER TO TERRA,
.. ... ... 961 f
... ... ... 961 1

Consols ...
Ditto Account

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
R per Cant. Consols Anne
Consols for Account 96►,y%
E &chequer Bills. I%d. 2d.
March. June.
1,0094 .
SOW,
Small 53 56 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds. 5 per Cont. 93

Chilien Bonds, 6per Cent 1053/4 106
Equador Bonds ...
Grenada, 11,y per Cent. •••
Ditto Deferred
Mexican Bends, 1846,5 per Cent., Coupons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto for the Account
Peruvian Bonds, '4% per Cent
Ditto Account
Ramian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent...
Ditto 41A per Cent.
Ditto, Small .
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent.......
Ditto Account . ...... .....
Ditto Passive Bonds

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
CLIARING-CROSSiBRIDGE BILL.

This Bill was read a second time.
KENSINGTON IMPROVEMENT BILL.
This Bill was read a second time.
PETITIONS.
Mr. BROTIIERTON presented a petition from Ire-
land praying for a remission of the paper duty.
General LYGON presented a petition from Leice;ter
against the hop duty.
Sir E. FILMER presented several petitions from
different places in Kent against the duty on paper.
A large number of petitions were presented against
the establishment of a Roman Catholic hierarchy in
England, and among them one by Mr. HENLEY from
Oxfordshire, praying also for the repeal of the Catholic
Emancipation Act of 1829, which excited animated and
ironical cheers from both sides of the House.
Lord DUNCAN presented several petitions against
the window duty.
Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition very numerously
signed from Northumberland praying for a modification
of the income-tax. He also presented petitions from
Finsbury and Lambeth.
Mr. WAKLEY also presented a petition from the
coach-builders of Kensington praying for a reduction of
the tax upon carriages.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD gave notice that he
should, when the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill went into
Committee, move that it should not extend to Ireland.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE.
On the motion of Mr. MORRIS, Mr. John Martin
was excused attendance on the House for a month, in
consequence of the death of a near relative.
On the motion of Sir ROBERT FERGUSON, Sir
Denham Norreys was excused attendance for a fortnight,
on account of the dangerous illness of one of his family.

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110 P DUTY BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of this Bill,
Mr. FRE WEN said that before the Bill received the
approval of the House he hoped it would consider deli-
berately what it was about to do. He had received seve-
ral deputations from the growers of hops, and from the
representations of them all he found that the law was in-
jurious to every class except those who were most im-
mediately benefited by it. Whether their representa-
tions were correct or not, it was plainly evident that the
hop duty was oppressive and unjust.—(Hear, hear.)
That duty was imposed as a war tax during the last cen-
tury, and an expectation had always been held out that
it should in the time of peace be remitted altogether.
With respect to the imposition of an excise duty he
would say but little, but what he would say was that
where there was a diference made between one part of
the country and another, the tax imposed was evidently
unjust and must of necessity be injurious. He did not
hesitate to say that it was to the operation of this duty
it was owing that the growth of hops had been reduced
from 56,322 acres, in 1837, to 43,125 acres
during the last year. In Herefordshire there had been
a reduction from 10,603 acres, in 1837, to 5,125 acres, in
last year. In Sussex the reduction was from 12,068
acres to 9,780 acres. In Essex a great breadth of land
devoted to the cultivation of hops had been reduced to
125 acres. In Lincolnshire the acreage; had been re-
duced from 607 to 260; in Wiltshire, from 1,222 to only
5 acres; and in Worcestershire the reduction was from
1,888 to 1,031 acres. In fact the only places where
there had been no reduction was about Farnham and in
Kent, where the growers enjoy peculiar advantages. He
did not mean to say that if a man took a good sample
into the market he should not get a good price for his
goods, but the advantages were altogether on one side,
and as the law as it at present stood was not only op-
pressive but calculated to encourage trickery—(llear,
hear)—he trusted that the House would take some mea-
styes to protect the public. In order therefore to minis-
ter to that object he should move the second reading of
the Bill before the House.
Mr. DEEDES said that the Hon. Gentleman below
him (Mr. Frewen) had complained of the unequal ope-
ration of the hop-duty. He did not mean to defend the
imposition of an excise duty on hops, for he himself had
frequently waited with others upon the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, with a view to obtain a remission of the
duty; but his Mon. Friend had mixed up two subjects of
a totally different character. It he had divided his Bill
into two parts, he should very gladly have supported
him; but the Bill as it now stood was altogether injurious,
and would practically work great mischief. He stated
that his object was to protect the public. Now it should
be remembered that hops, when prepared for the
brewer, were a very delicate article and required
much judgment to distinguish a superior from
an inferior quality, and, therefore, every assistance
ought to be rendered to the public, in order to ascertain
the quality. The beat guide that they possibly could
have was the amount of duty paid upon the article.
For this reason he should move that the Bill be read this
day six months.
Mr. H. DRUMMOND had very great pleasure in
seconding the amendment. Everybody knew that Farn-
ham hops were the best in the country, and that Sussex
hops were the worst.—(Hear, hear.) It was utterly im-
possible to protect the public without some legislative
interference. He bad no objection to the Hon. Member
for Sussex getting :up a little Parliamentary capital in
the face of a general election, but he did protest against
imposing his own advantage on the shoulders of the
public, and he should therefore vote for the amendment.
Mr. FULLER said that, seeing the great opposition
which the :Bill had met with, and was likely :to
meet with he should advise him to withdraw the Bill.
Mr. BASS said that being a large buyer of hops he
might be permitted to say a few words on this subject.
—(Hear, hear.) He merely wished to observe that
hops were an article which it required great judgment
and experience to estimate. There were many hop mer-
chants who knew very little about beer, and many a great
brewer who knew very little about hops, so that he was not
surprised to see this Bill in the House; but he hoped
that this would be the last they should ever hear of it,
for he was quite sure that the public required every pro-
tection that it could obtain. No greater facility could
be afforded to the ignorant and inexperienced than the
amount of duty paid and the marks which were placed
upon the several bags; and he should, therefore, vote
against the Bill.
After a few words from Mr. HODGES,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that
without wishing to throw any imputation on his Ho-
nourable Friend the Member for Sussex, he could not
help saying that it appeared to him that the Bill was
brought in to serve one object, while it in effect
professed to aim at another. With regard to
the remission of the hop duties altogether, he
thought that a fair subject for discussion, and when the
proper time came he should be ready to enter:into it; but
this was altogether a matter of a different character, and
feeling that no Bill ought to be brought into the House
in the way in which this Bill had been introduced, he
should vote for the amendment.
Mr. PLUMPTItE said that if the differential duties
were equalised no, reliance whatever could be placed on
the marks on the bag, and, therefore, they would be-
come perfectly useless.
Mr. CURTEIS said that the Government had already
lost much of their popularity in his part of the country,
and he warned them that their opposition to this plea-
sure would tend greatly to increase the dislike with
which they were regarded.
Mr. FREWEN, in reply, repudiated the charge of
unfairness which had been thrown out against him, and..
stated that the hop-growers in different parts
oof
the country ought to be placed precisely tepto
sition as the growers of wheat. Each took his sa. e
d for his price
market, and let each in like manner depenhear:
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upon the quality of his goods.—(Elear' to one grower
in the sample_
was no reason for showing more
standing the taunt of seeking for popularity, than to the other, and he should, therefore,
ptewristihs;
with his Bill.
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SUNDAY TRADING
The Bill was consequenlY
this Bill.
Mr. B. WALL presented a number of petitions against
WILLIAMS moved the second reading of
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Charles the Second andthe prieciple of that Bill was
much the same as the present_ Bill. The evidence which
had been taken on the subject before the Commit-
tee of the Lords disclosed a state of circum-
stances which called for some legislative interference.
There were many shopkeepers who did not open their shops
by their own will, but were forced to it by the competition
of their neighbours, and within a few.htmdred yards of
that House there were no less than 700 shops opened
on a Sunday, and that not for the common necessaries of
life. It had been acknowledged by every age and nation
that an intermission of labour at least one day in the week
was absolutely necessary for the moral, physical, and social
welfare of mankind, even in countries and times where
the Christian religion was not known, and where the
Sabbath was not a Divine command. It was not his
intention to go into the provisions cf the Bill, and if the
Hon. Member for Salisbury would consent to the
second reading of the Bill he (Mr. Williams)
would propose that the Bill should go into a
Select Committee and all its provisions bo thoroughly
wouldconsidered.see With regard to the principle of the Bill, he
could
not see the slightest objection to it; any one who
read the evidence which bad been taken on the subject
that this system of Sunday trading entailed
upon its victims a slavery more rigorous and severe
than any other which could be imagined. His object
was not so much to secure the religious observance of the
Sabbath as to allow a day of rest to an overworked popu-
lation.
Mr. BARING WALL thought the Hon. Gentleman
who bad just sat down had treated the matter in a very
fair manlier, but he contended that he had
made out no case for legislation. He did not
place much reliance on the number of petitions
which had been presented, because he knew how they
were manufactured, and they proceeded most from
people who really had not the deepest interest in the
existence or non-existence of Sunday trading. But
if they legislated for London, why should they not le-
gislate fur the whole country, if Sunday trading was to
be prevented?

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