The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-21 00:00:00

HE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1851.

CONSIDERATION OF BILLS.
The following Bills were considered and agreed to:
Birmingham Improvement.
Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire
Railway,
iManchester and Salford Extension Railway.
Malmesbury Turnpike Roads.
Thames Haven Dock and Railway.
Waveney Valley Railway.
Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway.
PETITIONS.
Mr. J. O'BRIEN presented a petition against the
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
Mr. MASTERMAN presented a petition from the
inhabitants of Dalston against the removal of Smith-
field-market, and praying to be heard by counsel
against the Government Bill.
ROYAL COMMISSION.
Mr. Palman, the Yeoman Usher of the Black
Rod, appeared at the table and summoned the House to
attend at the bar of the Lords to hear the Royal assent
given by Commission to several public and private Bills
(for which see Lords' report).
The SPEAKER, on his return, announced the names
of the Bills to which the Royal assent had been given.
PETITIONS.
Alderman COPELAND presented a petition from the
merchants of Van Diemen's Land, praying for the dis•
continuance of transportation to that colony.
Mr. MURPHY presented a petition from Cork against
the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
Mr. M'CULLAGH presented several petitions from
Ireland to the same effect.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from Montrose, com-
plaining of the duty on spirits imported from Scotland.
Captain DUNDAS presented a petition from Scotland
praying for the equalisation of the duty on homemade
spirits._ _

Mr. M. GIBSON presented petitions from Manchester
and London against the stamp duty on newspapers.
NEW WRIT.
ordered for the
On the motion of Mr. HAYTER, a new writ was
Priers borough of Harwich, in the room of Mr.
p, whose election bad been declared void.
POOR LAW (IRELAND).
Mr. REYNOLDS gave notice that on the sth of June
he would move an address to her Majesty for the ap-
pointment of a Commission to inquire into the adminis-
tration of the law for the relief of the destitute in the
provinces of Ulster and Connaught.
THE " DERBY" DAY.
Major BERESFORD moved that the House at its
rising should adjourn until Thursday. For the last few
years the House bad always had a holiday on the
Derby day, and he saw no reason why they should not
adopt the same rule.--(Laughter.) There was no bu-
siness whatsoever on the paper, and ho trusted the
House would agree to his motion, not so much for the
convenience of Members as for the officers, who must re-
main in attendance during the whole day if the House
sat.—(Hear, and laughter.) He saw more reason for the
House agreeing to the adjournment over to-morrow, as
they would be deprived of one holiday this year in con-
sequence of the Queen's birthday falling on a Saturday.
Mr. HUME rose, amidst cries of " Oh and laughter," and said he could not congratulate himself on the success
which had attended his opposition, for the last few years,
to the motion of adjournment. His object in wishing the
House to sit to-morrow was to enable him to ask the
Noble Lord at the head of the Woods and Forests who
had induced him to allow a "ride" to be made
in Kensington-gardens, which had always been
preserved for pedestrians and plebeians. He had no ob-
jection to horses going to the "Derby ;" but he was
strongly opposed to their entering these gardens—
(Laughter)—but he would not put the House to the in-
convenience of dividing on the present occasion.
Sir J. PAKINGTON thanked the Noble Lord for
his kindness in affording convenience to the public to
take equestrian exercise in Kensington-gardens.
He offered his thanks to the Government for the ac-
commodation of allowing him to ride in Kensington-
gardens.
Mr. W. PATTEN also presented his acknowledgments
to the Government for the same boon.
Lord SEYMOUR contended that the interest of
the public was best consulted by the arrangement
that had been made, for there could be no doubt
that when the charge of admission to the
Exhibition was reduced the crowd would be so great
that many of the horsemen would be driven from the
park.
Sir E. BUXTON, as one of those who both walked
and rode in the park, was rejoiced that the change had
been made, for it had proved a great convenience to the
public, without injuring anybody but those who wished
to make the gardens a private lounge of their own.
The motion for the adjournment of the House was
then agreed to.

ENNIS WORKHOUSE.
Mr. REYNOLDS wished to ask the Chief Secretary
for Ireland a question respecting the general manage-
ment of the Ennis Union Workhouse, county of Clare,
and whether he was aware that the number of inmates in
that workhouse during the week ending the 3d day of
May instant was 915, and the deaths during that week
amounted to 63, and that the workhouse was so over-
crowded, that several applicants were refused admission ?
Sir W. SOMERVILLE said the number of the deaths
the Hon. Member had mentioned was perfectly correct,
but he greatly understated the number of inmates, for,
on the 3d of May, instead of there being 915 there were
no less than 4,782 inmates in the workhouse.
Mr. REYNOLDS asked whether the numbers the Hon.
Baronet had named were not taken from the Clare
Journal, the proprietor of which was one of tho guar-
dians?

Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE knew nothing of the
Clare .Journal. Ile took his figures from the returns
which he then held in hi 4 hand.
DISTRESS IN SCOTLAND.
In reply to Mr. COWAN,
Sir GEORGE GREY stated that a Commissioner
who had been down to inquire into the cause and extent
of the distress prevailing in the western islands of Scot-
land was now preparing a report of the result of
his enquiries. The name of the commissioner was Sir John SPIN-refl.

PORT ln reply to Lord MAHON, EDEN.
Mr. WILSON stated that information had been re-
ceived from Port Eden of the murder of a British officer
by an Arab, but there was nothing connected with the
attack which could give it a political tinge.
TRANSPORTATION TO VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.
Sir W. MOLES WORTH then rose, pursuant to
notice, to move an humble address to the Throne, pray-
ing for the discontinuance of transportation to Van Dii.-
men's Land. He said—Sir, I have lately presented
to the House two important petitions for the abolition of
transportation to Van Diemen's Land. They were unani-
mously agreed to at numerously attended public meet-
ings, which were held last year in the northern, southern,
and central districts of that island. Similar petitions
have been presented to the other House of Parliament,
and similar ones have been addressed to her Majesty the
Queen. The statements contained in these petitions
were of so grave and serious a description, and rested
upon such high and trustworthy authority, that I felt it
my duty to move that these petitions, and all similar
ones which have been presented since the year 1838,
should be printed, in order that I might bring their con-
tents under the consideration of the House. I find that
these petitions have been most numerously and respect-
ably signed—for instance, by the Bishop of Tasmania,
by the Archdeacons of Leurceston and Hobart Town,
by the majority of the clergy of the Church of Eng-
land, of the ministers of the Wesleyan, Presbyterian,
Baptist, and Independent denominations, the magis-
tracy, the gentry, the merchants, tradesmen, me-
chanics, fathers and mothers of families, and, in
short, by almost every one of note and respectability
among the free colonists of Van Diemen's Land. All
these petitioners allege " that accumulated and appalling
evils, moral, political, and social, have resulted from
transportation to Van Diemen's Land"—(Rear)—that
the existence of such evils has been admitted to the
fullest extent by her Majesty's Ministers—and that the
free colonists of Van Diemen's Land have repeatedly
petitioned the Queen and Parliament that transportation
to their colony should be discontinued for ever. Every
one of these petitioners asserts that on the 20th of July,
1847, their Governor, Sir William Denison, did an-
nounce, in the name of her Majesty's Government, to
the Legislative Council of Van Diemen's Land, that
the wishes of the colonists were to be complied with,
and transportation was to be abolished. They also state
that, notwithstanding this announcement, transportation
has been continued up to the present moment; and the
bishop, the clergy, and all the free colonists of Tasma-
nia declare that "the non-fulfilment of this promise is
a breach of faith derogatory to the honour of the
British nation, and calculated to weaken, if not to de-
stroy, the feeling of confidence and attachment which
Van Diemen's Land has hitherto entertained towards
the Imperial Government." They solemnly protest
against this breach of faith. They indignantly con-
tradict a statement said to have been made last year
by a Noble Earl in another place, to the effect that
they had become less averse to transportation than they
were in 1846. They assure the House that they
are still utterly hostile to the reception of convicts under
any system. They, therefore, claim the fulfilment of the
imperial promise, and pray the House to enforce the
performance of that promise as speedily as possible.
They have also addressed her Majesty for the abolition
of transportation to Van Diemen's Land. The free la-
De°arera and mechanics complain that the labour market
.as been thereof . overstocked with convicts; that in consequence
polled
totheolisands of free labourers have been com-
rerneenderw:yate; that if transportation continue, the
d follow, till the island become one huge
yeelll:3llje7uael: and felons.—(Hem.,) I find that in the
sisted of up
25,200 were free,
three-fifths, and of tre
the same year a Co
to inquire into the effie:e
nishment, and its effect
penal colonies. Tha
the Prime Minister, the
population of Van Diemen's Land con-
State for the Colonies, the Right
rfia-et2e,osoirolpltehc_)rsons, of whom about
17,600) were bond. Of the free
me4s ofotb:
Leoerld House was appointed
nd eight-ninths, were men. In
u3:3()onf transportation as a pue
moral state of the
the Noble Lord
e.nt,s, the
the
Baronet Secretary of
Secretary of State fur the Home Departm
Members of that Committee. They reported at cth were
large number of convicts in New South
of the session of 1838. They agreed that the aseseenna-
Van Diemen's Land, and then New
betweenlv aagl
ees t
andt
hae sexes in those colonies, had produced, and
were certain to produce (to use the words of the Bishop
and clergy of Tasmania) complicated appalling evil:
ad :
moral and social, which outweighedbeyondl calculation
the lucrative advantages from convict labour to the
penal colonies. They therefore recommended that
transportation to New South Wales and Van
Diemen's Land should be discontinued *as soon
as
possible. On the sth of May, 1840, I took
the liberty as Chairman of that Committee, to bring
griPS recommendation under the consideration of the
ioet!se, and on the 22d of the same month an order
Council was issued, revoking the order in Council by
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which New South Wales had been appointed a penal
colony. For this great and inestimable boon New South
Wales was indebted to the Noble Lord the Prime Mi-
nister, who was succeeded by Lord Stanley, in 1841,
who disregarded every one of the recommendations of
the Transportion Committee with regard to Van
Diemen's Land. To that colony, previously over-
crowded with convicts, the Noble Lord transported an-
nually twice as many convicts as had been transported
to it in any previous year; and he subjected more con-
victs to a system of punishment—namely, the gang
system—which the Transportation Committee had espe-
i cially condemned as the worst form of transportation.
It is calcuketed that on account of this influx of convicts,
and the consequent overstocking of the labour market,
12,000 free persons were driven out of the colony in the
interval between 1841 and 1848. I find on comparing
the census of the 31st December, 1842, with that of
1847, that in that interval the criminal population, in-
cluding the convicts who had become free, had increased
more rapidly than the non-convict population had in-
creased by births and immigration; that in 1847, of the
whole population of the colony above the age of 14, more
than two-thirds had been transported; that of the non-
convicted portion of the population one-half were under
the age of 14; and that of the criminal population
only one-sixth were women. The consequence of this
congregation of convicts and disproportion of sexes were
even worse than the Transportation Committee had an•
ticipated. In December, 1845, Lord Stanley left office. His
successor, the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for
the University of Oxford, did not place the same ex-
plicit faith in the statements of the Governor of Van
Diemen's Land. A❑ inquiry was instituted into the
state of that colony. The most appalling discoveries
were made. It was found that the chain gangs and pro-
bation parties were, to use the words of Sir James Ste-
phen, " nothing else than schools of advanced depravity,
1
by which every remaining trace of virtuous habit or
sentiment was completely effaced from the mind of the
convict." Sir, before a full account of the state of Van
Diemen's Land reached this country the Right llon.
Gentleman the Member for the University of Oxford had
very properly recalled the then Governor of Van Die-
men's Land, and determined that transportation to that
colony should be suspended for two years. In July,
1846, the Right Hon. Gentleman left office, and was suc-
ceeded by Lord Grey. On the 30th of September of
that year the Noble Lord transmitted to Sir William
Denison his appointment, with a letter of instructions.
In that letter the Noble Lord said he would confine his
instructions to the course to be pursued with regard
to the convicts in the colony—that on another oc-
casion, which he trusted would not be remote,
"he would be able to explain the views of her
Majesty's Government as to the whole system of transpor-
tation;" but, wrote the Noble Lord, " the resumption of
the plan of pouring into Van Diemen's Land such an
annual flood of transported convicts as has recently been
sent to that island I regard as altogether impossible.
Whether any more male convicts will ever be transported
to Van Diemen's Land, or to any other place, is a ques-
tion on which, for the present, I will reserve my opi-
nion." Sir William Denison left this country, therefore,
with the distinct instruction that there were two ques-
tions with regard to transportation which were un-
settled; first, whether any more convicts were ever to be
transported to any place; secondly, supposing trans-
portation to be continued, whether any more convicts
were ever to be transported to Van Diemen's Land? Sir
William Denison arrived in' Van Diemen's Land about
the beginning of the year 1847. Soon afterwards, in the
month of March, he took steps to ascertain the feeling of
the inhabitants of Van Diemen's Lind. He issued a
circular to 161 magistrates of the colony, asking for an
answer to this question—" Do you consider it desirable
that the transportation of convicts to this country should
cease altogether?" As soon as this circular was issued,
the colony rose to answer it in the affirmative. Sir W.
Denison, in an address to the Legislative Council, also
pledged himself that the transportation system should not
be resumed. Great was the joy of the inhabitants of Van
Diemen's Land on receiving this announcement.
In reference also to portions of dispatches sent
home by Sir William Denison (from which the
Honourable Baronet quoted), it is certain that
Sir W. Denison did consider that he had pledged,
and that he was entitled to pledge, the Imperial faith to
the abolition of transportation to Van Diemen's Land.
Now I have heard rumours of insinuations to the effect
that Sir W. Denison was not authorised to give that
pledge; and it is reported that the Noble Lord the Se-
cretary of State for the Colonies has, in another place,
laid the grounds for such insinuations, by quoting an
isolated extract from a letter, written by the Right Hon.
Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
meat. Ido not know whether such quibbles will be re-
peated to-night; if they are, I shall have an opportunity
to answer them in my reply. For the present, I chal-
lenge the Hon. Gentleman the Under-Secretary of State
for the Colonies to assert and prove that Sir William
Denison exceeded his authority in declaring that trans-
portation to Van Diemen's Land should not be resumed.
If in so doing Sir William Denison had exceeded his au-
thority, it was the duty of the Colonial-office, as soon as
it was informed of Sir W. Denison's proceedings, to ha►e
publicly disavowed him, and to have reprimanded, or
even re-called him, for having pledged the Imperial faith
to a promise which was not to be performed. The Co-
lonial-office did nothing of the kind, they merely ac-
knowledged the valuable information contained is, Sir
William Denison's dispatch. I beg the House to ob-
serve that, on the same occasion, Lord Grey announced
that he intended to resume transportation to Van
Diemen's Land, and thus do the very thing that his
governor had promised that the Noble Lord should
RA do. Therefore, on making this announcement, the
time, if ever, was come when Lord Grey should, if he
could, have disavowed the proceedings of his governor.
The condition of a transported convict in a penal colony
depends mainly upon rules laid dow❑ by Secretaries of
State for the Colonies. Those rules have constituted
three distinct classes of convicts. The assigned convicts
were those who were given to private individuals as ser-
vants, arid were compelled to work for their masters
without receiving wages. The gang convicts were those
who were employed iu parties o❑ the roads and other
public works, under the superintendence of officers of
the Government ; and the ticket-of-leave convicts are
those who are permitted to work on their own account
within certain districts specified by the local govern-
ment. Of these three forms of transportation I think
the least objectionable was the assignment system, where
the assigned convicts were scattered over the interior
of Australia, and not congregated iu the lown. By fir
the worst form of transportation was the gang system,
which, in the interval between 1841 and 1846, pro-
duced so horrible a state of things in Van Diemen's
Land. Between these two forms of transportation
stands the ticket-of-leave system. Because a form of
transportation is more or less objectionable in propor-
tion as it more or less congregates convicts
together. Now the ticket-of-leave system does not
necessarily herd convicts together as the gang system
did, nor does it isolate the convict, as was the case
under the best form of the assignment system, but it
leaves the convict to a considerable extent at liberty to
associate with those persons whom he likes or who will
associate with him. Unfortunately, however, in Van
Diemen's Land the persons with whom the ticket-of-
leave convict can associate are chiefly ticket-of-leave
men, or persons who have been convicts. First, because
the felonry, as they are called, constitute the majority of
the population; secondly, because the free settler will
not associate with the felonry, whom they despise as a
Pariah caste, with feelings similar to, but more intense
than, those of the Americans towards the negro. Now,
the invariable consequence of the association of convicts
is to harden the corrupt in corruption, and to induce
back to crime those who have been partially reformed;
therefore, if convicts be sent in crowds to a penal colony
it matters little to the colony, as far as morality is con-
cerned, what form of transportation be adopted, provided
it be not the worst form of the gang system. This was
the opinion of the Transportation Committee. It was also
the opinion of Sir William Denison. A similar opinion
was expressed by the Right lion. Baronet the Secretary
of State for the Home Department, in a letter to Lord
Grey, dated 20th January, 1847. On the sth February,
1847, Lord Grey expressed his entire concurrence with
i the views of the Right Hon. Baronet; and on the same
day Lord Grey wrote to inform Sir William Denison that
it was not the intention of her Majesty's Govern-
ment that transportation to Van Diemen's Land should
be resumed. Some time afterwards Lord Grey changed
his mind, and, disregarding the promise which he knew
had been made by Sir William Denison, the Noble Lord,
on the 27th April, 1848, wrote, as I have already said,
a dispatch announcing that exiles, and ticket-of-leave
convicts, after their punishment in Pentonville, Gibral-
tar, and elsewhere, were to be transported collectively
to Van Diemen's Land. This dispatch was laid on the
table of the Legislative Council of the colony on the
12th of September, 1848. From that period up to the
present moment there had been a continual series of
public meetings, addresses to her Majesty, petitions to
both Houses of Parliament, memorials to the Colonial-
office, memorials to the Colonial Governor, and protests
against transportation, showing a unanimous, energe-
tic, and dogged determination to compel the Colonial-
office to keep faith by discontinuing transportation.
(Hear, hear.) The year 1850 commenced with a public
meeting at Hobart Town, on 30th January. From that
meeting I presented last year a petition to this House,
signed by 1,424 persons. The petitioners, in addition
to their usual complaints, referred to a statement which
was made by tho Noble Lord, in the dispatch in which
he announced the renewal of transportation to Van Die-
men's Land. That statement was, " That her Majesty's
Government considered it absolutely necessary that
the addition to be made to the population of Van Die-
men's Land from the mother country should not consist
entirely, or oven principally, of those who have been
tainted with crime, but that arrangements should be
made for sending free emigrants in sufficient numbers to
neutralise the evil effects of a continual accession of per-
sons who have incurred by their offences the sentence of
transportation." In April, 1850, an event occurred
which doubled the excitement in Van Diemen's Land
against trunsportation.lt was the arrival at Hobart Town
of the ship Neptune, with its cargo of convicts, which
the colony of the Cape had rejected. This event pro-
duced the deepest indignation amongst the colonists of
Van Diemen's Land. They looked upon it as an insult
as well as an injury. Sir, as I have already said, the
bishop, the clergy, and the free colonists of Tasmania
have declared, in contradiction of the statement of Lord
Grey, that they are utterly hostile to receiving convicts
under any system; and with the view of proving Lord
Greve'ossnavtosis:ethsretioorgnuttehoenb.e erroneous, in each of the three
tudhiseetsrseicts of the colony large public meetings were held
last. autumn. From these meetings there emanated
Land is e
petitions to the other House of Parliament, and ad-
e collective transportation of
tralian quivalenteto transportation to all the Aus-
BrTithish empire tot Van Diemen's
colionnietsiesfor there are two causes in
operation
tient of Australia; ho
ee
becomes
attracting the
convict, when .
Tehthc,Tersepelfirieneg,
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extphiereecfornotmi -
Van Diemen's Land. The first cause is the boundless

extent of unoccupied land in Australia, of the best qua.
lily, containing millions of fertile acres, naturally
cleared, waiting only for hands to cultivate them. The
demand for these hands attracts labourers from every
quarter, and especially from the nearest point, namely,
Van Diemen's Land, where a large portion of the li-
mited extent of the best land is already occupied.—
(Hear, hear.) The second cause which repels the free
labourer from Van Diemen's Land is the perpetual influx
of convict labour which has already overstocked the
labour market of Van Diemen's Land. Therefore, every
fresh convict who arrives in that colony still further de-
presses the labour market, and tends to drive out a free
settler or an expires; and this process has been so long
carried on that three-fourths of the adult male popula-
tion of Van Diemen's Land are, or have been convicts.
In consequence of this preponderance in numbers, the
felonry, as they are termed, of Van Diemen's Land have
become rampant and insolent. Relying on the authority
of Lord Grey, they claim that colony as the patrimony
and freehold of the convicted felons of England and the
paradise of thieves. Through their organs in the colo-
nial press, I see they threaten "to kick out of the co-
lony the free settlers," whom they denounce as" intru-
ders" and " Puritan moralists." In opposition to the
Anti-Transportation League,and in support of Lord Grey,
the felonry have formed a Criminal Aid Society, or Tas-
manian League. They have rallied round the Govern-
ment, and, in fact, the only devoted friend and stanch
allies upon whom the Colonial-office, can count through-
out Tasmania, or even Australia, are the felonry of Van
Diemen's Laud, under the leadership of the insane rebels
from Ireland. I beg the House to observe that the ques-
tion upon which I te.k for a decision to-night is, not
whether there shall or shall not be such a punishment as
transportation—upon that question I have repeatedly ex-
pressed opinions, which are unchanged—the question for
the House is, not whether any more convicts shall be
transported to any colony, but whether any more con-
victs shall be transported to Van Diemen's Land with-
out the consent of its inhabitants? You have laid down
the rule with regard to your southern colonies that no
convicts shall be sent to any one of them without its con-
sent. Yon say that Van Diemen's Land shall be the
one exception to that rule ; that you created a colony
for convicts; that it has been, is, and shall be, a penal
colony. Then, I say, you have committed an act of in-
sanity in giving them free institutions, and arming them
with the best weapons to resist your will. I therefore
call upon you to keep faith with them, and to extend to
them the rule that no convicts shall be transported to
them without their consent. I have proved that all
classes of free settlers in Van Diemen's Land, that
bishop and clergy, magistracy and gentry, tradesmen and
labourers, fathers and mothers, are utterly hostile to the
receiving of convicts under any system. I have shown
that accumulated and appalling evils, moral, political,
and social, have resulted, from transportation to Van
Diemen's Land. That in consequence of the existence
of those evils, which you have repeatedly acknowledged
to exist, the Colonial-office did promise—first, in 1846,
to suspend transportation to Van Diemen's Land for two
years; secondly, in 1847, to discontinue transportation
altogether to that island; thirdly, in 1848, that the ad.
ditions to be made from this country to the population
of that colony should not consist principally of convicts.
I have proved from your own dispatches that every one
of these promises has been distinctly made, and not one
of them has been kept—(Hear, hear)—that in 1846 you
did not suspend transportation to Van Diemen's Land;
that in 1847 you did not discontinue transportation to
that colony; that since 1818 you have poured into Van
Diemen's Land four times as many convicts as free emi-
grents.—(Heas.) I have shown from resolutions agreed
to at numerously attended public meetings, and by peti-
tions signed by every one of note and respectability in Van
Diemen's Land, that your faithless and vacillating conduct
has produced throughout the whole of Tasmania and Aus-
tralia the deepest indignation and discontent; that it is
destroying the attachment of Van Diemen's Land to this
country, and is producing an Australasian league against
transportation.—([lear, hear.) I believe such a league
amongst colonies with free institutions, situated at the
antipodes, cannot be resisted. It appears to me, there-
fore, that it would be not only just, but wise and prudent,
to take steps t) bring about as speedily as possible the
discontinuance of transportation to Van Diemen's Land.
I exhort and warn the House to suffer no delay in this
matter if you hold dear our Australasian dependencies.
For many years I have taken the deepest interest in the
affairs of those colonies. lam convinced that they are
amongst the most valuable .of our colonial possessions,
the priceless jewels in the diadem of our colonial empire.
I believe they can easily be retained with a little common
sense and judgment on our part—that well governed,
they would cost little or nothing, but offer us daily im-
proving markets for our industry, fields for the employ-
ment of our labour and capital, and happy homes for our
surplus population,--(Cheers.) That Australian empire
is in peril from the continuance of transportation to Van
Diemen's Land; and it is, therefore, that I now move
" That an humble address be presented to her Majesty,
praying that she may be graciously pleased to discontinue
transportation to Van Diemen's Land."—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. HUME seconded the motion.
Sir
the commencement
of his speech and at its conclusion,
reminded the House that his motion did not affect the
continuance or discontinuance of the system of trans-
portation generally. He stated, and it was true, that
his motion related simply to transportation to Van
Diemen's Land, and that if the House should agree to
it, it would not afract the question whether transporta-
tion as a system should be continued or not. But he
(Sir G. Grey) must remind the House, before he came
to deal with the specific grounds upon which the Hon.
Gentleman rested his motion, that the greater part of
his arguments against the continuance of transporta-
tion to Van Diemen's Land applied as strongly to trans-
portation to any other British colony; and that if the
House was prepared to agree to his motion on those
general grounds, upon which, apart from the specific
grounds, be had based the motion, they must be pre-
pared to encounter the wider and more important ques-
tion of what they were to do with their criminals, and
what sccondary punishments they should substitute for
the abolition of transportation. But he would not en-
large upon that part of the subject then, because the
Hon. Gentleman had not asked the House for its opi-
nion upon it. He presumed, however, that the Hon.
Gentleman was not prepared,to advocate the entire abo-
lition of the system of transportation; and he must re-
mind the House, before it decided upon the question be-
fore it, of the opinions repeatedly expressed by this
House on the continuance of transportation, and the opi-
nion expressed by the Committee of 1837, in which the
Hon. Baronet took so able and so active a part, and
which consisted of Hon. Members who had paid very
great attention to the subject, but who, in their report,
expressed their opinion that it was essential that there
should be, as part of a system of punishment, the ulti-
mate removal of convicted criminals from this country
to some portion of our colonial possessions. The report
of that Committee stated that it was necessary to continue
the system of transportation under a modified form, on
account of the great advantage it afforded of enabling
convicts, under certain conditions, to commence a new
career in another land, and to obtain a livelihood
which the state of the labour market in this country
prevented their doing. Subsequently to that
period the question had been frequently before
the House, and an opinion had been i-
formly expressed by the House uny
, aps not b
actual votes, but in the frequent discussions which had
taken place on the question, that transportation as a
punishment should be continued—not as it was con-
ducted prior to 1846, but as it had been since carried
on, under a modified system, after the convicts had un-
dergone a system of reformation in this country, so as
to remove the evils which arose from the accumulation of
a large number of unreformed criminals. In 1847 and
1848 a Committee of the House of Lords also recorded
their deliberate opinion that transportation ought not to
be abandoned. He recalled those reports to the recol-
lection of the House in order that, in dealing with the
question, they might not so treat it as to prevent the
Government carrying into effect the views both of Go-
vernment and Parliament with regard to transportation.
Bat with regard to the narrower question as to the con-
tinuance of transportation to Van Diemen's Land, he
would not contend against the evidence the Honourable
Gentleman had adduced to the House, but would admit
there was a general desire amongst the inhabitants of
that colony for the abolition of transportation
under any circumstances. The Honourable Gentle-
man had alluded to the petitions to that House, and
the addresses to the Queen, from inhabitants of great
respectability in the colony, praying that no convicts,
under any circumstances might be sent out there. But
he thought those statements were greatly exaggerated,
and that justice would not be done to the colony if they
were to take them as containing an acourate description
of its condition. The Hon. Gentleman relies, as the
chief support of his motion, on the alleged promises of
the Government on the subject—on what he called the
pledged faith of the Government that transportation to
Van Diemen's Land should ultimately tease. If the
Hon. Gentleman could prove that the faith of the Go-
vernment was pledged, it would certainly be a strong
ground for his motion. But the Hon. Gentleman over-
stated the case when he said the faith of the Govern-
ment was pledged. The extracts which he had read
only showed that transportation as carried on before
1846 was not to be resumed—that the social evils re-
sulting from that exploded system were frightful, owing
to the vast accumulation of convicts in the colony. The
Government a the late Sir R. Peel, prior to leaving
office in 1846, had resolved to suspend transportation to
Van Diemen's Land for two years, on account
of those evils, and when the present Government suc-
ceeded them in office, they on becoming acquainted with
the decision of their predecessors, and of the great social
evils arising from transportation as then praotised, as
well as the over-stocked state of their labour market in
the colony, adopted that decision, and announced that
transportation to Van Diemen's Land would be sus-
pended for two years. The Hon. Gentleman then
charged them with a broach of faith, because in 1846 and
1847 a largo number of convicts had arrived in Van
Diemen's Land, but that arose from their having left
this country in the beginning of 1846, prior to that de-
cision having been announced by the Government; but
in 1847, as far as his information went, not a single con-
vict arrived in the colony; at all events, if any did, it
must have been a portion of those who left England
prior to the suspension of transportation in August
1846. The Hon. Gentleman had referred to the views
and intentions of the Government on the subject of
transportation, as set forth in a dispatch of Lord Grey's
to Sir W. Denison. But he (Sir G. Grey) admitted
that those views and intentions were modified by the
practical difficulty which they had found in the way of
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possessed by the Australian colonies for effecting the
dispersion of convicts in that stage of their probation in
which they would arrive there. The dispatch clearly
pointed, not to the abolition of transportation, but of the
severer portion of the punishment, as practised under the
old system, and referred to the forced removal of exiles
after their term of probation in Pentonville had expired.
Lord Grey contemplated that the exile system should be
extended to the great mass of convicts, and that when
they arrived in the colony they might be free to obtain
their own living, :übject to the restrictions enforced
under Lord Stanley's regulations, which were merely
that they should not return to this country during the
existence of their conditional pardon. In addition to that
dispatch there was published a correspondence which
took place in this country, in which it was distinctly
stated that those were the views entertained by the
Government. Sir W. Denison had put a larger
construction upon those documents than they were
meant to bear. He did not blame him for that, because
the language used in them was the language of hope, and
was of a more sanguine character than perhaps he (Sir
G. Grey) would now use. Ultimately, however, the
system of exile was abandoned, and substituted by one
in which the convicts were sent out with tickets of leave.
The exile system, though good in many respects, did not
apply advantageouly to a large number of convicts, for
the freedom from all control which it afforded to con-
victs was attended with evils of which the colonists had a
right to complain. The tickets of leave, on the other
hand, subjected them to a system of discipline to which
they could not have been subjected when holding a con-
ditional pardon. In the dispatch in which Sir W. De-
nison had spoken of his general expectation that trans-
portation would be abandoned, he qualified his approval
of the decision by stating thut they should " make every
possible arrangement, financial as well as administrative,
by which the colony would be enabled to provide for the
various difficulties arising from a change of system."
Sir W. Denison pointed then to the dangerous conse-
quences likely to arise from the sadden abolition of trans-
portation, as there would be a great demand for labour,
which could not be supplied. However, since that,
statements had been made from time to time by Sir W.
Denison on the subject of the suspending of transporta -
tion, by which it appeared there was a rising demand
for labour. On the 20th February, 1849, be wrote that
an annual supply of about 700 or 800 men per annum
would satisfy the demand for labour; the next year that
demand had so increased that he considered an annual
importation of 1,500 men would not do more than ade-
quately supply the labour market. He (Sir G. Grey)
mentioned these things to show that one of the evils of
which the colonists complained—viz., the accumulation
of convicts, had been removed by the suspension of
transportation. With regard to what had been since
done the Hon. Gentleman had been misinformed as to
the number of convicts sent out. In a document on the
subject which appeared in the morning papers of that
day, it was stated that 30,000 convicts had been sent to
Van Diemen's Land since 1840. The Hon. Gentleman
had also stated that a large number had been sent out
of late years. The Hon. Gentleman's estimate, how-
ever, considerably exceeded the actual state of things.
According to the records of the Home and Colonial-
offices there had been 'sent to Van Diemen's Land since
1840, inclusive of that year, 22,506 male convicts; of
which number there were sent out during the
first six years of the period, not including 1846,
17,675; and since 1846, including that year, 4,831.
The year before last only 300 convicts had arrived in
the colony; but he admitted that last year the number
had been considerable. In July, 1846, the number of
convicts in the colony was 30,507, male and female; in
July, 1810, it was reduced to 21,405, being a decrease
of 9,000, or one-third of the whole number. That
showed the effect of tho suspension of transportation
for two years, and also how diminished were the num-
bers sent out since transportation had been resumed.
He admitted, however, that Van Diemen's Land had
reason to complain, and that it was the duty of the Go-
vernment to attend to those complaints, and to endeavour
to relieve the colony from the aggravated pressure of
convicts. But he thought before proceeding further, that
it was justice to the colony to show that its condition
was not so bad as had been represented. A dispatch of
Sir W. Denison, dated November 15th, 1848, and
another dispatch, dated January 15th, 1851, showed the
prosperous state of the colony, and its improved condi-
tion in a moral and social point of view, in consequence
of the better and more reformed class of convicts replac-
ing those sent out before 1846. The Hon. Gentleman
said the moral taint was the same in whatever stage the
convicts arrived in the colony. But all the evidence
on the subject was opposed to that opinion.—(Hear.)
For instance, the report of the Pentonville commis-
sion, which had been signed by the Hon. Gentleman
himself', declared that the greater number of the Penton-
villa exiles became good and useful servants; and the
report of Mr. Boyd, the superintendent of convicts,
spoke of the Parkhurst convicts as having turned out
industrious in their habits and moral in their conduct;
while those from Portland were described as decidedly
superior to the hulk-men. Transportation might not be
considered to be now what it once was under the old
system, when the convicts taken, without previous care,
were crowded together in gangs, without any proper or
moral superintendence. Transportation, conducted as
at present, under a modified system, must not be as-
sumed to produce the same evil effects. The opinion of
Sir W. Denison was very explicit on the subject, as
might be seen in his dispatch of Nov. 27, 1850, which
had been lately laid on the table of the House. In that
dispatch Sir W. Denison stated that the state of Van
Diemen's Land, in all its social and moral relations,
would not suffer by comparison with the state of any
one of the colonies on the main land of Australia.
In another dispatch, in which he had transmitted an
Address to the Crown from the bishop and clergy of
Van Diemen's Land, Sir W. Denison stated that he
did not concur in the general statements of that Ad-
dress; that he still retained the opinion already ad-
dressed to the home Government, in which he took a
different view of the moral condition of the colony from
that of the clergy. The evils at present existing in Van
Diemen's Land did not arise from sending out there a
small number of improved convicts under the present
system, but were the results of the too long continu-
ance of the old system. Though the views of the Go-
vernment as to the dispersion of convicts as widely as
possible have been thwarted by the unwillingness of the
colonists to receive convicts in any stage of their sen-
tence, with a view to that dispersion, the Government
were not without a means of meeting the difficulty. Had
the system been carried out as it was originally proposed
the solution of the difficulty would have been more easy.
In the present state of circumstances it was difficult and
dangerous to speak more openly on the matter, for the
expression of their views might create an opposition to
their being carried into effect. However, he thought
there were some means in view by which they might
dispose of their convicts its a way to meet the wishes of
the colonies. Western Australia had petitioned to have
convicts sent oat there, and ho thought the number that
might be sent out there at present was about 500. In
page 42 of the papers before the House would be found an
account of a meeting of the inhabitants held on the 10th of
July, 1850, in which they resolved to request from the
Government the importation of convicts, which was ac-
ceded to on their undertaking the charges consequent on
that step. The works, however, on which the convicts
were employed would remunerate the colony, while the
advantages of the prosperity which would bo created by
the development of the resources of the colony would be
reflected back on this country; and although we might
incur some considerable charges in the first instance, he
believed it would be all ultimately repaid by the bene-
ficial results that would flow from the measure. There
was another district, also, which asked for convicts to be
supplied to it—not to be worked under the old system of
gangs, but under the modified system adopted since
1846; that was Moreton Bay, the inhabitants of which
had made an application to the Government on the sub-
ject, which would be found in the papers that bad been
presented to the House on the 6th of the present month.
They had still more recent information on the subject
in the newspapers of the colony which arrived within
the last day or two, and which were dated so late as
January in the present year. Two papers which took
a very opposite set of views—viz., the Moreton Bay Free
Press and the Moreton Bay Courier, contained an ac-
count of a meeting at which resolutions were adopted,
expressing in the strongest manner the sense of the in-
habitants as to the absolute necessity of supplying the
district with convict labour under the new system to
which he had referred. Among those by whom peti-
tions had been presented were many men who, up to that
time, had entertained opposite opinions on the subject,
but who manfully came forward to bear the testimony of
their own experience to the beneficial nature of the acts
of the Government. They now stated they could take
2,000 convicts annually. 'ln stating these facts he (Sir
G. Grey) only meant to say that the Government hoped
to avail itself of other outlets for convicts, and so to re-
lieve Van Diemen's Land of the pressure of transporta-
tion to that extent. He was quite willing to admit the
disadvantages and the evils of the present system;
and he sympathised with those who complained of
the social and moral injury it inflicted on a colony; and
it was, as he had stated, the desire and wish of the Go-
vernment, without giving any pledge on the subject in-
consistent with their dnty, to pay all due attention to
the representations of the colonists on that point,
and find other outlets, if poisible, for convicts. He al-
luded to the letter of a retired Indian officer to Sir W.
Denison, to be found in the papers laid on the table of
othe n ll
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the facts that emigrants might not be deterred from
going thither. With regard to the motion before the
House, he hoped the House would not by its hasty
adoptionimpose on the Government greater difficulty
and embarrassment than they had already to encounter
in carrying out the sentence of transportation, or at-
tempt, by removing one evil, to create another. He
hoped they would be satisfied with the desire of the
Government to act justly and impartially towards the
colony, and he, therefore, trusted they would reject tho
motion.
Mr. ANSTEY was surprised at the authorities quoted
by the Right Hon. Gentleman, inasmuch as Moreton
Bay was the squatting district of New South Wales.
'The whole of the respectable inhabitants of the colony
bad uniformly protested against the system of convict
transportation.
An HoN. MEstaEa here moved the House be counted.
There were only 31 Members present; and the House
stood adjourned accordingly at Half-past Seven o'clock,

LICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARY LEBONE.
FRAUDULENT ACT OF A PAWNBROKER.
tol.—Yesterday Mr. Charles Walters,
a pawnbroker,court,
carrying on business in High-street, FIN E 01r
ar
attended before Mr. Broughton, pursuantntte this
, the informer,
to a summons
obtained against him by Charles Wyatt,
charging him with demanding and receiving more in-
terest than by law allowed.
Mr. Humphreys, solicitor, appeared for the de.
fondant.
n andded
Moses Thomas deposed that on
wthaetch26fothr
2u1.1t1.0/:.,
0
pledged at the defendant's shop a gold .
and redeemed it on the same day; u. the interest demanded
i
emat
was 10d., which was an unjust claim, the pa,
brought the watch away.
By Mr. Humphreys —I have since been to the sh D
and pawned a watch and chain. I have not at awnyyaliticise
called upon Mr. Walters and told him that
gpbro"duced relating
price would be 5/. to
,put matters
wtoerrei
A ticket ands duplicate thereof - •
to the watch.
Alfred Hodson, assistant to Mr. Walters, examined
the tickets brought forward, and said he had written them
dee
by
meddirection of the foreman after the things had been re-
.
A great deal of evidence Was gone into in addition to
that prcriously given, end
The MAGISTRATE ultimately came to the conclusion
that defendant had rendered himself amenable to a
penalty in the full amount awarded by Act of Parlia-
ment. The tickets produced were sworn to as not being
those which were issued at the time of the pledging,
and he (the magistrate), looking at the trickery which
had been practised, felt himself bound to fine defendant
10Z and costs.
Wyatt had another case against defendant, but he
Withdrew it upon payment of his costs for summons.
Edward Rog CLERKENIVELL.
ers, alias Clement Perry, a young man.
was placed at the bar before Mr. Combo, charged by
Mrs. Ann Golding, an elderly lady residing at No. 35,
Upper North-place, Gray's lon-road, with stealing a
will, in which she had an interest of 1,0001.
Mr. Humphrey attended for the prosecution.
the evidence of &he proem rt
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It oppeored fnin z th I

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
THIRD COURT.
(Before Mr. RUSSELL GURNEY.)
William Day surrendered to take his trial for misde-
meanour, upon an indictment preferred against him under
the statute known as the Bishop of Oxford's Act, for con-
spiring to procure the defilement of Harriet Newman, she
being under 21 years of age.
Mr. Horry prosecuted, and Mr. Payne defended.
The Learned Counsel having stated the case, called
The prosecutrix, who is rather a good-looking and
quiet-mannered girl, who stated that she was just turned
nineteen years of age, and lived with ber father and
mother in Manning-street, Newman's-fields, Limehouse,
having received a letter, purporting to come from a
young man named Richard Roberts, with whom she had
for some time kept company, she went, in accordance
with an appointment made in the letter, at about five
o'clock in the evening of the 31st of March, to the Ben
Jonson, at Stepney, whore she saw the prisoner, whom
she had not before known. He came up and asked her
if her name was Harriet Newman. She said it was. lie
said, "Are you not waiting to see Richard It )berts?"
She said she was. He then said he had come and would
take her to him. She asked him why he had not come him-
self, and prisoner said, "He was ashamed to come," and
witness added, " And well he might." She then followed
him a short way down by the Ben Jonson, where he
beckoned a cab, and taking her by the arm said she
must go with him. She resisted, but he told the cab-
man she was his wife, and with the cabman forced her
into the cab, and jumping in himself the man drove on.
Prisoner then put a handkerchief over her mouth, and
she became insensible, and when she recovered found
herself on a sofa in a large house, she did not know
where, or hod ever been able to find out. A young wo-
man sat opposite to her and asked her if she was better.
Witness said she did not know she was ill. The woman
asked her if she knew where she was; she said she did
not. The woman told her that if she was a respectable
girl she had better leave the house as soon as she could,
and gave her a knife to defend herself with. An elderly
woman then came into the room and said she must stop
all night, and should be made a lady of. She pressed
some drink on her, which she said would make her
better, the effects of which drink witness immediately
felt, and made an attempt to get away, but the old wo-
man stopped her and made a noise, which brought three
gentlemen down stairs and one put his watch and chain
round her neck, made improper overtures to her, and
forced her back upon the sofa. She took the
watch off, and threw it on the floor, and with
the knife cut the woman in the arm; she also threw
the tumblers and glasses at them, and cut one of the
gentlemen in the hand; and, finally, she dropped the
knife, and they then tried to force her upstairs, but,
finding that she still resisted, one of them called Day,
and told him to get a cab and take her away; and he
said if she would go quietly he would take her home to
her father. She felt much stupified and got into the cab
with Day, and they drove off until they came to a dark
street, when ho got her out and said they would walk the
rest; they got a short way down the street; she felt that
the use of her limbs was going, and prisoner left her on
the step of a door with a direction in her hand, and she
then became insensible, and the next day found herself
in the hospital. She was very ill, but recovered; and on
the Saturday after she went with a constable to a beer-
shop in Holywell-street, and there saw the prisoner, who
was differently dressed.
The prosecutrix underwent a searching cross-exami-
nation by Mr. PAYNE, who failed to shake her testimony
lI or elicit anything to her discredit. She positively de-
niedd that she had got Mr. Woodfield to write the notes
for the address found in her hand. She had never beg-
ged of Mrs. 'Woodfield " not to split, or she would be
ruined." She first knew her from coming to their house
to tell fortunes. Mrs. Woodfield came to them and of-
fered her assistance, saying that she would give a lift
that would transport him (prisoner).
Francis Hillyer, 47 0, said that he found the prose-
cutrix early on the morning of the Ist of April on a step
in Sutton-street, Clerkenwell. She was quite insensible,
and was obliged to be taken on the stretcher to the
hospital.
Mrs. Eliza Randall, nurse at the Free Hospital, Gray's
Inn-lane, said that prosecutrix was brought in at about
two o'clock in the morning. She was in a state of stu-
por, and did not recover until ten o'clock the next day.
Her dress was torn, and her hands were bleeding, but
she had no marks of violence on her person. As soon
as she was conscious she told her the same story as she
had all along.
Mr. Tindal Robertson, house surgeon at the hos-
pital, deposed to attending the prosecutrix, who was
in there for five days. He had examined her, and
found her body quite free from any violence, nor had
any liberties been taken with her, and bho was a virtu-
ous girl.
From the rest of the evidence it appeared that al-
though the prosecutrix did not know Day, he was
known to Roberts, her sweetheart, but he had not in-
formed him of their acquaintance or courtship. When
she first made the statement to the police, Roberts was
taken, but at once discharged; and after then he saw the
prisoner at the Standard Theatre, and told him what he
had been charged with, and the prisoner, in the presence
of two or three companions, said that he had had a fine
lark with a girl in a cab, and had been driving her about
all night. Roberts asked him where he had left her,
and ho said near Sutton-street, Clerkenwell. Roberts
made some remark upon that, and the prisoner got
away from their company. When prosecutrix went
with the policeman eke at once pointed the prisoner out,
and when he was taken and saw her he said, " Oh! that's
you." Ou the police constable searching his lodgings
some clothes answering the description given by the pro-
secutrix of those she wore on the night in question
were found. After the first examination Roberts went
to see the prisoner at the House of Detention. Prisoner
said it was a bad job, and Roberts was the only one who
could save him, if ho c ould see the girl and "get her
to try to make a flaw in the indictment." It was also
proved that the prisoner had made statements to others
about the lark he had had with the girl in the cab, and
that he had been absent from his home all that night.
Mr. PAYNE, for the defence, contended at some length
upon the glaring improbability of the story told by the
girl, and said that, not only should he prove an alibi,
but that the whole affair was a trumped up fabrication
for the purposes of extortion.
The LEARNED COUNSEL then called a host of wit-
nesses to prove were the prisoner was at the hour the
girl said sho first met him; but they all disagreed about
the time, and not one could account for where he was all
the night.
Mr. PAYNE then called Mrs. Woodfield, the alleged
fortune teller, a dirty gipsy-looking old woman, and the
instant she got into the witness-box she, without being
asked, said that she had known the girl Newman from 4
child, and that she was 23 years of age. That she had
written the letter, supposed to come from Roberts, at the
direction of the girl herself, and also the address found
in her hand. Newman said they were going to have a
lark. When she spoke to Newman of the serious nature
of the charge she begged that witness would not split,
as it would ruin her. She denied that she lived by
telling fortunes. She lived by writing letters and needle-
work.
In cross-examination it appeared that she had acted as
an attorney in getting up the defence. She had been in
the House of Correction for an assault. A woman spit
at her and she cut her head open with a quart pot. Wit-
ness got fourteen days in the prison and the woman a
il month in the hospital.
Mr. Hoene, having replied,
Mr. GURNEY summed up, and in doing so said, the
zeal shown by the woman Woodfield was evidenced by
the remark she had made about the girl's age, which, if
proved, would have defeated the principal counts in the
indictment—a thing she seemed to be aware of.
The jury having retired for a quarter of an hour, re-
turned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. GURNEY, in passing sentence, said the prisoner's
offence was a very bad one, and had been aggravated by
the defence set up. There could be no doubt but that
girl had been drugged and taken to that house for the
purpose of defilement, and he had now, by the defence,
sought to blast her character by attributing to her
perjury.
He was then sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment.
The parties had scarcely left the court when the
woman Woodfield was brought back by one of the
officers, charged with threatening the girl Newman at
the door of the court,
Mr. GIIINEY having heard her explanation, cautioned
her as to her future conduct, and she left the court
taking oaths as to the prisoner's innocence, and anathe-
matising the parties concerned in his conviction.
The Common Sergeant sat in the New Court, and
disposed of several cases unfit for publication; and the
above case, which lasted from the sitting of the court
until late in the evening, ended the session.
The next sittings are on Monday, Juno. 16. i
LI
PO-

Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week :.•-•
Wheat, 21. Barley, 18. Oats, 483. Pigs, —.
PRICES OF BUTTER.
CANT.
CURRENCY.
82; First quality ... .........
66
.. 73:
First quality
Second quality
..........
Third quality ... 63s Third quality..., ms
47;
Fourth quality
Fifth quality
278
Sixth quality ...... ......••• •••... ..... 36s Sixth quality
Return of Cattle sold for the week ending May 10:—
Pigs, 326. Sheep, 365. Cows, 89. CORE. —Flour—First 11s 6d to 125 Od; extra 12; 6d;
seconds, 10s 6d to Ils Od; households 9s to 101 Od; thirds, is to 8t
per cwt. Oatmeal 10; to 10s 6d; Indian meal 78 6d to 8s 3d; wheat-
meal, 98 6d to lOsper cwt. Indian corn 71 15s Od to 81550 d per
ton. Bran 80s Od to 855 per ton. Hay—Farmers 23s to 50s; average
348; dealers 008 to 00s Od; average 00s per ton. Straw—Farmers
25; Od to 28, Od ; average 00s ; dealers 00s Od to 00s 01;
average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 50 to 6d;
household loaf 4d to 5d per 41b. Fresh butter, 10d W 12d per lb. Eggs-3s 4d to 38 Gd per hundred. Coals—•
&wood 14s Od; Lydney 158; Landore 148 ; Neath Wats
13s 6d per ton. Tallow 38; Od to 405 per owt.
Whisky, 25 o. p., bs 9d per imperial gallon. Meat
—Beef 40 to 60 ; mutton 5d to 7d ; veal 4d to
5d ; pork 4d to Od; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 5d per lb.
Hops 6/ 108 to 0/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates3/f1521 to 6 0/; Frenchs
6d to 315 per
ton. Bark—Barbary 710 s to 8/ Os; Valo las
to
4 158 per stone.
6/ Os Spanish 0/ per ton. Fleece Wool
herrings 19s to 008; red
Hemp 32/ to 34/ per ton. Fish—Scotch
dland, 10/ Os to 11/ per
ditto, 268 to 00s per barrel ;
perlSTe ton; pine, 31 10s ; yellow
ton. Timber—Memel,
d829;21,:t0t0 15s per 100. Hides—.
ditto, 2/ 15s per ton ;
34s per owt ; calf skins
Market 24s to 345; salted
Potatoes,s
white 9d to 10d ; Minions,
30 to 30 per lb.
12d to 14d. Guano—Peruvian. 11/ 10s ; Ichaboe, 8/ to 910 s
per ton. Tar—Archangel, 19a ,
el, per Darrel.

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GLASGOW, MAT 17.--This has been a very fever-
ish week in the cotton market from the continued news of
increased supplies at the American ports. Under the in-
fluence of the panic prices fell in the early part of the week
from id. toe Aid. per lb.; but yesterday and to-day a better
feeling prevailed, transactions were effected to a consider..
able extent, and the loss in the early part of the week has
been nearly made U. Goods and yarns have been also very
dull, and so f
cannot
ew transactions in power-loom goods that prices
well be quoted. Production, however, is now much
lessoned, and it is hoped ere long the market will right
itself. Pig Iron—Our market has been very quiet during
the week, and a slight decline in price has taken place, but
dawithout any increase in the amount of business doing. To-
y the quotations are, No. 1 or 3,40 s. sellers; buyers at
6d., either for warrants or against bill of lading; No. I
Gartsherrie, 41s. cash.
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HULL, MAY 20.
—With tbe
Messrs. Taylor and Bright's Circular states :—W•- d
exception of some ;heavy showers on Sunday and Yestecalli
we have had fine weather since this day se'nnight. Arri...i,
have been moderate during the week, but no extent of buttier
ness has been transacted. At to.day's market we had a beipt show of wheat, and best samples were free sale at fully 3-as
week's rates, and in some instances more money was paid ; `..'-a,
to 403 is the value of good t 3lb red ; anything inferierbro,
neglected. More inquiry for foreign at late prices. 'ln Kati
in we note no alteration—the demand is only moderate. —in brisk demand, and each arrival goes off readily as it Comee
to hand. Beans and peas are without change. The Lino°d
market is quiet ; cakes may be readily bought at our tinnt,t;
•
tions. Rapeseed and cakes remain as before. Bones are
good demand at our quotations.
The following are
,1
the present prices of grain:—
e
s. s.
Wheat, English, red 38 to 411 Peas, white and yd. 26 --• ''''
Do. white 42 46 Do. grey
Dantzic and Ko- Linseed, Black Sea 4B —po
,4
nigsberg 4O 45 Do. Petersburgh ... 42 ---- I`,',
Pomeranian and
Hamburgh
Danish, Holstein, &
Par toll
KonigsbergA rc h n.g..1: g z
.4,;
Friesland ......... 35 37 Lins. c,Hull 61 175 6d to 0/ Oa
Russian and Odessa 32 38 Do. fine foreign
Oats, English .... 20 —22 Do. inf. foreign... 0/ to 51 155
Do. Danish-- ....... 18 20 Rapeseed ....... ... 25/ to 001
Do. Friesland......... 20
--22;Rape eakes...Bos Od to 00s Oct
Do. Russ. & Odessa 00 o,)lTares, English Barley, malting...... 25 —28 j foreign ............ 23s 308
Do. grinding........ 21 22IGuano .............. 6/ to 101 100
Beans ............... .. 28 30 •
Bones, do 100 s Od to 00d Do., foreign 26 29, Rye Meal 6l 01
CORK, MAY 19.

Barrels.
0 White wheat ...00s Od to 00s Od
00s Od-2.
0 Currency
stono
0 Red wheat
...... 00s Od to 00s Od 00s Od-20
0 Barley ......... 00s Od to 00s Od 00s Od-16 do
0 Bere
0 Pigs .......... 00s Od to 00s Od 00s Od per cwt
Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:—
0 barrels white wheat ; 0 red ;0 barley ; 0 bens; 29 NM;
0 pigs.