The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-08 00:00:00

EVENING, APRIL 8,

I vernment to repeal the duties on corn, sugar, and timber.
The Hen. Member was dissatisfiTal with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer assigning as a reason far not reducing
the c.luty on tea that it was not a protective duty; but to
his (Mr. Wilson's) mind that was a good objection. The
whole of a duty which was not protective went into the
Exchequer, whereas of a duty which was protective only
a portion reached the public Treasury, the rest going
into the pockets of persons Rho ought not to have it. It
appeared to him that the Hon. Member for Leominster
was justified in assuming that the object of the amend-
ment was the reversal of the policy which the House and
the Government had pursued for the last ten years. The
House was called upon to decide whether the tax on pro-
perty and income should be continued. or whether, in
case of need, the system of import duties should be re-
verted to. It was said the other night that the credit of
the country would be jeopardized by relying too much on
direct taxation. It should, however, be borne in mind that
in this country the direct taxation formed only 20 percent.
of the gross taxation, while in France it was 35 per
cent., in Belgium 37 per cent., in Holland 35 per cent.,
and in Prussia 37 per cent. Betweea 1823, when Mr.
Huskisson began to reduce taxes upon raw materials
with the view of increasing the means of employment to
the industrial classes, to:1839, upwards of 11,000,0001 of
taxes were repealed, and yet at the latter period the
revenue was nearly equal to what it was at the former.
He would next refer to the period between 1830 and
1841. In that period the total amount of taxes reduced
was 8,437,7931. The result was that at the end of that
period there was a deficiency of revenue to the extent
of 2,008,000/, notwithstanding the imposition of 5 per
cent. on Customs' duties in 1840 ; and, although this
still showed an apparent gain to the country of
6,437,0001., yet he believed it would be found that the
advantage was more apparent than real. He believed
it would be found that the system pursued from 1830
to 1841 did not prove at all beneficial to the trade and
finances of the country, that during that period our ex-
ports remained almost stationary, or little more than
the natural increase of the population. In 1830 the
official value of our imports was 46,200,000/., while in
1842 it was 64,300,000/, showing an increase of
18,100,0001; being at the rate of 39 per cent. on the 12
years, or 34 per cent. per annum, or double the increase
of population. In 1830 the real value of our exports
was 38,250,0001; in 1842 it was 47,000,0001.—increase
8,750,0301.; being at the rate of 23 per cent. on the 12
years, or 2 per cent. per annum, or little more than the
natural increase of the population. This result was by
no means gratifying or satisfactory. But if the com-
mercial result of the policy which we pursued from 1830
to 1842 was not satisfactory the financial result was still
less so, for he found that during that period not only had
the public debt increased to the extent of 7,778,000/.,
and the balances in the Exchequer been reduced from
5,993,0001, in 1830 to 3,653,0001. in 1841, being a de-
crease of 2,340,0001., but he found that from 1837 to
1842 there was an annual deficiency csf revenue amount-
ing in the whole period to no less than 8,709,121/., the
deficiency in the year 1842.43 alone being estimated at
2,500,0001. He begged the attention of the House to the
fact, that of the 8,437,793/. of taxes remitted from 1830
to 1841 only 750,673/. were reductions of customs'
duties. He would next call the atturation of the House
to the remarkable contrast which the policy pursued
from 1842 to 1850 presented to that which was pursued
in the period to which he had just referred. From 1842
to 1850 an entirely new system prevailed, the object of
which was to relieve trade from impediments, to repeal
entirely the duties upon raw materials, to remove duties
which were merely protective, and tie reduce the duties
which were,found to be excessive upon articles of genera
consumption. The reduction of taxation effected in that
period amounted to 10,251,2944—e0n sisting of Customs,
8,218,958/4 Excise, 1,434,2801.; stet rips, 598,056/. In
1841—and he took that year instead of 1842, because
the latter was a year of depression—in 1841 the Cus-
toms' receipts were 21,898,0001. ; i n 1850 they were
20,442,0001., showing a loss of 1,456,0001; while the re-
dactions of Customs' duties effected in that period
amounted to 8,218.958/. The Excise receipts. in 1841,
amounted to 13,678,0001; in 1850 they amounted to
14,316,0004 showing a gain of 638,0001., notwithstand-
ing the reduction of Excise duties amounted to 1,434,280/
—(Hear. hear.) In 1841 the whole revenue amounted
to 48,084,000/., and in 1850 to 52,81Q,000/.; showing a
gain of 4,726,000/. during nine years. If from this in-
crease he deducted the income-tax receipts—amounting
to 5,500,000/.—a net loss would be exhibited of only
774,0001., while the reduction of vexes amounted. as
he had shown, to 10,251,2941.—(11(ear, hear.) The
financial results of the policy were not less striking.
Not only had the national debt been reduced in
that period to the extent of 4,221,0001, but the balances
in the Exchequer had increased no lesn than 7,858,000/e
and whereas in 1842 there were deficiency bills due to

the Bank to the extent of 6,606,0004, iu 1850 there was
a surplus in the Bank, after paymerat of all claims,
amounting to 1,012,0001. If this was not a satisfactory
result he could not say what was.—(Bear, hear.) But,
if the financial results were satisfactory, he thought the
House would admit that the commenlial results were
equally striking. In 1842 the official value of our im-
ports was 64,309,000/4 in 1849 it was 105,800,0001.,
being an increase of 41,500,0001.; in other words, of 64
per cent. in the whole seven years, or 9 per cent. per an-
num, or at six times the rate of the population.— (Hear,
hear.) In 1842 the real value of our 'exports amounted
to 47,000,0001.; in 1850 it amounted to 70,000,0001.,
being an increase of 23,000,0001.; that. was to say, of 50
per cent, in the whole eight years, or 61 per cent. per
annum, or at four times the rate of the population.—
(Hear, hear.) Again, in 1842 the shipping cleared
inwards and outwards amounted to 7,347,000 tons,
and in 1850 to 12,020,000 tons, being an increase
of 4,673,000 tons, or 63 per cent.—(Hear, hear.) He
would next present to the House the, general contrast
between the two periods to which he had just re-
ferred—viz., from 1830 to 1842, and from 1842 to 1850.
In the first period the taxes surrendered amounted to
8,437,0001.; in the second ,period to 10,251,0001.; in the
first period the revenue recovered 6,437,000/4 in the
second period 9,477,000/. In the first period the na-
tional debt increased 7,778,000/4 in the second it de-
creased 4,221,0001., notwithstanding the 10,000,000/.
added in consequence of the Irish famine. At the close
of the first period the balances in the Exchequer had
decreased 2,340,000/4 at the close of the second they
had increased 7,855,0001. At the close of the first
period the deficiency bills amounted to 6,606,0001.; at
the close of fee second the surplus in the Bank amounted
to 1,012,0001. At tke close of the first period the defi-
ciency of income over expenditure was 2,500,000 Z; at
the close of the second there was a surplus to the same
extent. During the first period the imports increased
18,100,000/. ; during the second they increased
41,500,0001.; being at the rate of 39 per cent. during
the first period, and 64 per cent. during the second; or
31 per cent. during the first period, and 9 per cent.
during the second; or double the rate of population in
the first period, and six times in the second. During
the first period the exports increased 8,750,0001., during
the second 23,000,0001 ; the increase in the first period
being 23 per cent., and in the second 50 per cent., or
at the rate of 2 per cent. on the first period, and 6-1 per
cent. ou the second, or little more than the population
rate in the first period, and four times in the second.—
(Hear, hear.) In the first period the shipping cleared
inwards and out wards amounted to 7,347,000 tons, in the
second to 12,020,000 tons, being an increase of 63 per
cent. One of the great means relied on by the Right
Hon. Gentleman who had introduced the present motion
was the repeal of the duties on raw materials. Well, by
reference to papers before the House it would be found
that the whole amount of cotton imported in 1842 was
4,200,000 cwt.; in 1850, 5,934,000; wool, in 1842,
45,000,000 cwt.; in 1850, 74,000,000 cwt.; raw silk in
1842, 3,365,000 lb.; in ISSO, 4,942,000 lb.; hemp, in
1842, 585,000 cwt.; in 1850, 1,048,000 cwt.; flax, in
1842, 1,130,000 cwt.; in 1850, 1,821,000 cwt. The cotton
had increased 41 per cent., and the population 12 per
cent.; the wool 64 per cent.; silk, 46 per cent; hemp, 80
per cent.; flax, 61 per cent. The amount of duties re-
duced on raw material was 2,500,0001.—(11ear, hear.)
In the same period the consumption of tobacco had
increased 25 per cent. ; wine, 38 per cent. ; tea,
38 per cent. ; spirits, 53 per cent.; and sugar, 60
per cent. Ile also begged the attention of the House
to the tranquil state of the country within the last
few years, compared with the outbreaks which occurred
at Monmouth, Sheffield, and other places just prior
to 1842. It could not be said that there had been pecu-
liar causes connected with the political and social con-
dition of the country during the last ten years to account
for the success of the free-trade policy to which ho had
referred, for during that period we had bad a commer-
cial panic such as had never been known, perhaps, in
this country; we hadifid a famine in Ireland unparal-
leled in the present century—we had had revolutions all
over Europe—all of which causes had interfered mate-
rially with the progress of the commerce and trade of
the country.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for
Bucks bad taunted the Chancellor of the Exchequer with
the frequent allusions he was in the habit of making to
the improved condition of the people. He (Mr. Wilson)
begged to say that if the Hon. Gentleman the Member
for Bucks should ever, after having occupied the Minis-
terial benches for five years, be enabled to refer in the
same way to the result of the policy in which he had been
engaged—if he could refer to the improved condition of
the people, to the diminution of pauperism, to the de-
crease of poor-rates, and, above all, to the diminution of
the number of ablebodied poor, he would have just cause
to refer with satisfaction to the policy in'which he
had embarked.—(Hear, hear.) With regard to the
income-tax, he (Mr. Wilson) could not look upon
hit
uas at
tax which was peculiar to a time of war. He t og thought
it was the duty of the House to consider what taxwsure
would
best answer the purposes they required; and h
tehveenpeof people would
income-tax,wotsldsft4 to secure e the temporary
the
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inconvenience,ece
destructiveluph war.
—(Hear, than to support a wasteful and
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reduction of taxation
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that unless
interest.i was
Now
believed that, taken as a body, no portion of the com-
munity had benefited more by the reductions of the last
ten years than the agricultural community.—(Cries of
"Oh!" from the Opposition benches.) lie maintained
that the agricultural community had benefited as much
as any other class by the removal of the duties on sugar,
tobacco, and other articles, and that they would receive
as much benefit as any.other class b tho substitution
of a house-tax for a window-tax. Is ought also to be
borne in mind that every recurring census showed
that the :Agriculturists were becoming a smaller and
smaller proportion of the population. In 1811 the
agricultural population was 34 per cent, of the whole;
in 1821 it was 27 per cent.; in 1831, it was 24 per
cent.; and in 1841, it was so far from increas-
ing, that it was 35,000 less than there had
been employed in agriculture in 1831.—(Cries of " Oh!
oh 1") lion. Gentlemen might say "Oh 1" but ho spoke
from the public returns which they would find in the
library.—(Laughter.) If Hon. Gentlemen were pre-
pared to discredit the returns of the census—(Hear,
hear)—then he did not know whtre they could get a test

1851.

by which they might argue the question. He was quite
surd there was one Honourable Gentleman opposite, who,
from his own experience of the agricultural districts of
the west of England could testify that the number of
those employed in agriculture had not increased with
the natural increase of the population. When they found
that the population, instead of tilling the soi', were
obliged to descend into the bowels of the earth as miners,
and when they depended upon the loom and upon com-
merce for employment, then, he said, it was their duty
to place no impediment on the natural extension and pro-
gress of their manufacturing industry. If they were now
to place au import duty upon articles of consumption—
if they repealed the income-tax and relied upon import
duties—if they were prepared to place a ss. duty on
wheat, then he asked them to consider on what an unsa-
tisfactory basis they would place their financial system.
Let them consider what it would cost the country. To
gain a revenue of 2,500,0001. they would place a cost
upon the consumers which would amount to 10,000,0001.
a year; and then he asked them what they would do for
a revenue in case of a famine, and when they would be
compelled to repeal the whole of their import duties?
He could hardly believe that Honourable Gentlemen
were really sincere in their intended reversal of a policy
which had had so beneficial an effect upon the working-
classes, which had secured to them constant employment,
and had supplied them with cheap food and good wages.
—(Hear, and cheers.)
Mr. BOOKER said that, representing as he did a deeply
suffering agricultural population, ha made no apology for
intruding himself upon the debate—(Hear)—but in doing so
he would endeavour to bring back the debate to its legiti-
mate object.—(Hear.) He would not attempt to follow the
Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down through the long
labyrinth of statistics with which he had sought to mystify
the House, but he should, on the contrary, endeavour to con-
fine himself to that subject which was strictly before them
—the Right Hon. Gentleman's amendment.—(Hear.) In
doing so he would endeavour to treat the question
strictly as a domestic question, and to omit all reference to
its bearings upon their foreign policy. He hoped he might
impress the House with the deep responsibility it would
incur if it enabled the Government to pursue a policy which
was wholly suicidal—which was rife with difficulty and
danger now, and which, if persisted in, must end in the
utter ruin of every interest in the state.—(Cheers.) Re-
presenting as he did an agricultural community, he pro-
tested against the imposition of a tax which was per-
fectly iniquitous—(Cheers)—and which pressed with in-
equality upon interests that were struggling and suffering.
(Cheers.) `Were they, he asked, to tell a suffering com-
munity that there was justice—that there was policy in
compelling them to pay a tax upon losses, instead of
upon profits?—(Cheers.) And then, when they threw
down the gauntlet to them—when they endeavoured to
array class against class—when they sought to excite into
hostility against each other city against village, and county
against town, he asked them, why did they not look to their
own returns? Why did they conceal the truth—he did not
say intentionally—or why did they throw dust in the eyes,
he did net say of Members, but of those who sent them there
—of their constituents—of those by whom this question
would finally be decided?—(Hear, near.) Now, he must
tell the inhabitants of large towns that they had as much
cause to complain of the inequality of this impost as the
agriculturists.—(Hear, hear.) The only return they had
on this subject was one sought for by Mr. Mullins. It
showed most extraordinary results; and he believed—at
least as far as he had heard of the debate—that it had not
been referred to by any Honourable Gentleman. It ap-
peared by this return that in Schedule D, which related
to trades and professions, there was given an enumeration
of classes, and the incomes in each, the duty charged upon
the number of persons in each class, and the amount re-
ceived from each class. This would show what was the
benefit intended for the country by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and it would prove that the burden of the in-
come-tax bore with peculiar severity upon the middle
classes in cities. The number of persons in Schedule I) was
144,620; of these the number of persons having incomes
under 5001. was 124,733, and upon these 124,000 persons was
placed the great pressure of the tax, leaving only 20,000
who had incomes over 500/., and showing that their total
contribution Nk as 57,0001., whilst there was contributed by
those under 5001. no less a sum than 661,000/. He hoped
the constituents in the large towns—he hoped the inhabit-
ants of private streets would understand this—he hoped the
country would understand it.—(Cheers.) He hoped the peu-
ple would not be deluded by clap-traps as to the distress cf
the country being occasioned by high rents, when it was
notorious that rents had fallen from 20 to 25 per cent.—
(Hear, hear.) Did they wish these rents to fall lower? Was
that their philosophy ? If it was lie would tell them
' there was a great philosopher once who thought otherwise.
1
The great John Locke, in writing upon the subjects, declared
that an infallible sign of national decay was the fall of rents,
and that the raising of them was worth a nations care, as in

that, and not on the of interest, lies the advantage of
the public.—(Hear.) By him the fall of rent was attributed
to two causes—an exhaustion of the productive power of the
soil, and then to the measure of its produce. Here, then,
was a measure of its produce by setting it in unjust compe-
tition with foreign produce ; and whilst this was going cn
labourers were leaving their shores, and the productive power
of machinery was increased in a tenfold degree.—(Hear.)
He implored of the Noble Lord, who he did believe had the
interest and the welfare of VA country at heart, to look to
these great facts—that whilst this emigration was going on
year after year, an emigration, not of the idle or the disso-
lute, but of those who might be called the back-bone of
England—whilst they were carried away from their native
land, and whilst production was increasing— still there was
not a productive increase of human labour, but there was an
enormous increase of mechanical power—of that power
which neither eats, nor drinks, nor wears.—(Hear, hear.)
They (the agriculturists) were taunted with being monopo-
lists, and this was said to them by those whose sole object
was monopoly, the monopoly of trade and commerce—whose
idol was cheapness, and whose aim and object was to put
down their manufacturing rivals in every part of the world.
The Hon. Gentleman concluded amid loud cheers by quoting
an extract from a speech delivered by Sir Robert Peel in
1842.

Mr. SLANEY rose amid loud cries of " Divide," which
were very frequently repeated during the delivery of his ad-
dress. He said that he had derived, both by birth and
habit, all he possessed from agriculture, and that he would
hesitate before he adopted any line of conduct which, in his
opinion, would have the effect of injuring that great interest.
He admitted that the change recently made in our commer-
cial policy had been effected too hastily, and that the agricul-
tural interest ought to have been afforded more time to con-
form to it; but the question now was, whether they would
reverse a policy which he firmly believed had upon the whole
worked beneficially for the great masses of the people within
this realm? Allusion had been made in the course of the
debate to the necessity of havinc, security for the payment of
the national revenue ; but he thought that increase-1 security
for that was afforded by the diminished weight of taxation
now borne by the people. Since the peace there had been a
diminution of 42,000,0001. in the taxation of the country;

and this amount had 'not been taken off the shoulders of the

opulent, the noble and the rich. Almost every tax taken off had
been removed either from the manufacture of raw materials or

from those articles which entered largely into to the consump-
tion of the masses—such, for instance, as salt, wine, tobacco
rum, coffee, hemp, candles, fruit, and spirits. And what bad
been the consequence of these reductions? Why, that from
1815 down to the present time—a period of 35 years—the
property of the middle classes had increased from 53,000,0001.
to 94,060,0004 a year. The population had increased during
the same period 50 per cent. ; the increase of it in the rural
districts had been 32, and in the great towns 96 per cent.
Daring the same period the legacy duties had increased from
24,000,0001. to 45,000,000/. ; insurances had increased from
385,000,0001. to 722,000,000/. •, and it was the calculation of
an eminent authority, Mr. Porter, that real and personal
property had increased in those same 35 years from
1,200,000,000/. to 2,403,000,000/. The taxes, therefore,
were now apportioned and extended over an increased
amount of property.—(Hear, hear.) He contended that the
best way to relieve the land of England, which he admitted
was at present in a depressed condition, was to benefit those
large classes of the community who were the chief consumers
of its produce. This was a far better way to raise landed
property than to attempt to do so by the reimposition of re-
atrictive duties.--(Hear, hear.)
Mr. SPOONER rose for the purpose of bringing back the
House to the point from which they' had wandered. The
Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed one
way of disposing of the surplus, and the Right Hon. Mem-
ber for Stamford suggested another. The question then
was, which the House would prefer. The Right Hon. the
Chancellor of the Excheciner proposed a tax which he Lim-
self, when out of office, had denounced as full of injustice,
inequality, and fraud. It was full of injustice and fraud
when opposed by the Noble Lord who then sat on that (the
Opposition) side of ' the House. Why was it less so now?
Because the Noble Lord had changed' sides.—(Hear, and
laughter.) The Right Honourable Gentleman said
he had not opposed the tax on those grounds
but on merely fiscal grounds; anti he added that
lie
proposed the continuance now, because the plan he sub-
mitted was one that would benefit the masses. But the
House would see how far that was correct by a single pas-
sage which he would read from a speech by the Rightent
11
Gentleman in 1845;wh0 said, when answering the arbum
which had gone before, "To the general argument against
the income-tax for inequality, injustice. and vexation,
,no
answer whatever has been given. —(Hear, hear.) the
Right Hon. Gentleman then adopted the words of the Noble
Lord, and called upon the House for an answer. He (Mr.
Spooner) would follow the example, and now call upon the
Right Hon. Gentleman to give the answer which he had
challenged in 1845. The 'Right 'Hon. Gentleman also, in
that year, said, in answer to the allegation, that it was a tax
pressing exclusively upon the rich, that it pressed upon the
poor because it diminished the means of giving employment.
He was anxious to hear a full answer from the Right Hon.
Gentleman; and he had endeavoured to bring back the
House to the real point before them, in the hope that the
Noble Lord at the head of the Government would tell them
why a tax which, in 1845, he had stigmatized as vexatious,
was the tax which his. Government now proposed to inflict
,upon the country.
Mr. J. REYNOLDS said that, having voted for the con-
tinuance of the income-tax. in 1848, and, intending now to
vote for the amendment of Mr. Harries—(Oh, and Hear)—
he was anxious to explain the reason why he had come to
the latter determination. The financial propoSitions made
by the Chancellor of the Exchequer were numerous and
important; but :after listening to Hon. Members on each
side of the House, it appeared that the' item to which most
importance was attached, was the proposal 'to renew the
income-tax for three years. The Right Hon. Gentleman
stated that it was not his intention to extend that tax to
Ireland at present—
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Not at all.
Mr. a. REYNOLDS—To say that he did not intend to
do so at present meant only that at some future period the
Right Hon. Gentleman, or some one upon whom his mantle
might fall, would feel it to be his duty to extend the tax to
Ireland ; and taking that view of the question, it occurred
to him that it was the duty of the Irish representatives to
oppose its renewal now. When Sir R. Peel proposed the
income-tax in 1842, he placed the non•extension of it to Ire-
land upon the groundlthat Eke was certainly unable to bear
the pressure, tkudit.hat there was no machinery exist!ng
there to enable hiNto• assply Itt3 but-he,wound up by, saying
that, as an equivalent for the non-extension of 0
tax to Ireland, he should assimilate tbes Reynolds)
two countries, and he afterwards did so. lie (Sir.
nients under
held in his hand an extract' from official 4
stamp duties'uof the
from it the House
the head of " Stamps and Time,"
would observe that by this assimilaantaidonnierglrueivlaantdenhtafdorbetehn
forced'to pay a certain annual sum as
income-tax. In 1..841, the year beforudtt4breslianwfrvealans d
wag,
the amount prodticed,by,.the stemß.
p.
_J..the seven pre-
, "the sums raised
463,0001., and that 'was' 'about
ceding years. But after the "a
tslislootavileartagi
were as follows:
......... . .-0531,003
1842 .....................
1843 . . ............. ..... 587,000
1844 ...... ..... • ... •••• . ...... 583,000
1845 . . ... ,••••• ..... ...... " "'' ..... • • 598,000
1846 . . ....... . ..... . ...................... 613,000
1847 ........ ...................... . ..... 608,000
1848 ......... ...................... 571,00
For 1549 and 1853 there were no returns; but he took 1,
that the moots would be about equal to those of the two

preceding years ; and if he were right in that calculation
Ireland would, in nine years, have contributed to the revenue,
in increased stamp duties, to the extent of 1.000,0001. sterling.
That increase in stamp duties had fallen alm ;et entirely 0 a
the poor of Ireland. He might be told that Scottand
had been similarly treated, but a reference to figures
would prove the reverse. He might be told that it was
not income-tax, but he maintained it was income-tax.
Ireland in four years, in consequence of the destruc-
tion of her crops, had lost 100,000,0001. sterling, and
this, too, in a country put under the high pressure of
poor rates—a country from which 2,000,000/. a-year for
the last two years had been drawn by the aid of poor-
rates. And this, too, with those human slaughter-
houses, the Kilrush and Ennistymon Unions, where seventy
died weekly, and 11 *d. was the average charge per head
for the support of the poor, and *:1. a week for clothing.
They in this county would not attempt to feed, or
rather starve poor men in England for 11 L/ad. per week,
nor would they for 24d. per week attempt to clothe a dog
—(Loud laughter) - that is, if dogs were clothed in Eng-
land. He was told this tax concerned the poor—he
s,nauld be glad to know how the poor were to be benefited by
the removal or the continuance of the tax. He objected
to the tax, on account of its inequality. The Honour-
able Member then quoted two passages from a former
speech of Lord John Russell one condemnatory of
the inequality of the tax, and another advocating a
tax on the succession to real property. He was for the
as latter proposition. He was for saddling real property as
heavily
personal property was now taxed. He had prin-
cipally risen to remind the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chan.
cellor of the Exchequer of his sins of omission. He referred
to the paper duty. He did not object to the repeal of the
window-tax; but if the tax were repealed, would it set even
one Englishman or one Irishman to work ? But take off the .
tax on paper, and you would set at work double the number
of persons now employed. He also wished to see the soap
duty repealed. But he could find that nothing was done
by the Budget to set the people to work. As an Irish Mem-
ber, he complained that the Budget did nothing for his
was not reduced ; such, for instance, as
—(oh-) He complained that the claty on
ca°rtuilaclterYs —oflnreeclaetty
the duty on tea.— (Hear, hear.) He might be asked what
did Hon. Members on the opposite side of the House propose ?
He was not aware of any proposition that was to be made by
that party. They objected to the income-tax—he did not.—
(Laughter.) He was favourable to the continuation of the
income-tax on principle—(Loud laughter)—.but he was Op.
posel to its inequality and its unjust operation on the pro-
fessional man and trader. Having satisfactorily given his
reasons for voting for the amendment of the Right Hon.
Member for Stamford—(Laughter)—he was addressing
Irish Members, and he would ask them if there was anything
in the Budget that ought to engage their support? He
could find nothing of the sort, and therefore he was justified
in voting with the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for
Stamford.
Lord C. HAMILTON thought the House had been very
much engaged in matters extraneous to the real question.—
(Hear, hear.) The subject had nothing to do, as was pre-
tended, with the retrograde movement of free trade. He
wished to asked the well-drilled benches opposite whether
they meant by their vote to-night to sanction the perma-
nence of the tax, and whether they did not believe that if
they voted it to-night the. Chancellor of the Exchequer
would three years hence call upon them to vote it again?.e-
(Hear, hear.) That was the real question they had to de-
termine in considering whether they would rc-impcae a tax
which had been more eloquently denounced by those who
now proposed it than by any other people in the House...-.
(Hear.) If they were going to do a thing at all, let them do
it openly, fairly, and professedly, but don't let the Govern-
ment impose, under the guise of a temporary tax, what they
in their hearts felt must be permanent. He rejoiced that the
window-tax was condemned. If the majority should deter-
mine the division in favour of the Government, then let the
Government come forward and say that what was to be per-
manent should be equitable.—(Hear, hear.) The injustice
of the tax might be passed over when it was levied for a
temporary emergency, but now, when the House were asked
tl vote it for the fourth time, it was a mockery and a trifling
with the country to go on holding out the pretext that the
tax was a temporary one. - (Hear.) He called upon Hon.
Gentlemen opposite not to allow the income-tax to be riveted
upon the country unless they were prepared to make it just
to all classes.—(Cheers.)
Mr. S. CRAWFORD (who rose amid a loud cry of " Oh 1
oh !") said the real question he had to consider was whether
he should vote fer the re-imposition of this tax for three years
with all its objections. Now, he did not feel himself Justi-
fied in voting for the income tax with all its inequalities....
(Cheers.) He was the representative of a manufacturing
constituency, who felt most grievously the burden of that
tax, and who declared that it ought not to be continued in
its present state. Ile was friendly to a tax upon real pro.
perty, but he was not friendly to the arbitrary, oppressive,
and inquisitorial proceedings which that tax necessitated.
As a Radical and supporter of reform, he would not con-
sent to a-in the Government with this tax for a period of
three years, more especially as he believed that by judicious
retrenchments it might readily be dispensed with.
Sir It. INGLIS said, the grestar part of the discussion of
that evening had been upon the merits of Budgets, No. 1 and
, ° and not upon the real issue as beta een the propositions
-
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman the Member for Stamford. He confessed that his
objections were as strong against one plan as the other,
because if it were inquisitorial, unequal, and unjust, to
levy one sum, it was equally so to levy a smaller sum.
The point, therefore, to be considered was whether the public
credit of the country did or did not require the amount of
income. tax'sproposed to be raised by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. Those who knew him knew that he objected to
the income-tax on account of the way in which it pressed
upon particular interests, and they also knew how desirous
he had been that the first charge should commence at 15f 1.
as a unit. He had no alternative now, however, but to take
the tax as he found it proposed by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, or to take the mitigated form proposed by his Right
Hon. Friend, and, believing that the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer would be enabled, if he carried his proposition, to re•
lieve an immense amount of taxation, he thought that, under
all the circumstances, it was the most preferable of the two.
He had no great difficulty in making up his mind upon this
question, but he felt compelled reluctantly to give his vote to
the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer.— (Hear.)
The House divided, when there appeared—
For the original resolution ... ... 278
For Mr. lierries's amendment ... 230
Majority ... ... ... —4B
Mr. DISRAELI said he had given notice of an amend-
ment upon the question now before the House, and he
wished to know from the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite
whether it would not be more convenient to him to take the
debate and division on his amendment at a future stage of
the proceedings rather than at present, probably on Friday,
next, assuming that the Chancellor of the Exchequer pro-
posed on that day to go into Committee on the window-tax;
he thought it might be more agreeable to the Right Hon.
Gentleman to take his (Mr. Disraeli's) amendment on that
day than go on with it now.
Lord J. RUSSELL said the course proposed would be
convenient. Ile understood the Hon. Gentleman to agree
that the report on the resolution then before House should
be received, provided his Right Hon. Friend assented to the
debate and division on the Hon. Gentleman's motion being
taken on Friday, which would be a convenient course.
Mr. LISRAELI said, he did this On the distinct under-
standing that the Government would bring forward their re-
solution on Friday.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER -stated that
the course which be intended to take was this : —He should
propose that the resolution be reported now, so as to enable
him to bring in a Bill for carrying out the proposition which
the House had just affirmed. At future stages of the pro-
ceedings upon this subject there would doubtless be several
discussions, and on Friday the Hon. Member for Bucking-
hamshire would have an opportunity of submitting hie
amendment to the House, as he (the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer) proposed that on that day the House should sit in
Committee on the house and window-tax. On Friday
could, the
Hon. Gentleman would have a full and fair opportunity of
moving his amendment on the question that the Speaker do
f
if
__
leave the chair, and then the Hon. Gentleman
wished, move the adoption of his proposition instead of thel
hoese and window-tax.
ood ,
he
was to
Mr. DISRAELI repeated that he un
derst
nex
t • and now,
proceed with his amendment on Friday
state the precise
with the permission of the House, be wouldf s
._
h were as ollow .
terms of that proposition, which were
b the remission or ad-
,, The, in any relief to be grra
dshould in the first instance
justment of taxation, due rega
n of the owners and •
occupiers
be paid to the distressed conduits
of land in the United Kingdom"
Right 11. e
Mr. GOULBURN--Did the.
on. Gentleman in-
his proposition in aCommittee of Wave and
tend to move
Means, or did he mean to propose a Committee of the whole
f the
to consider a repeal 0 window-tax?
House
CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that
what was called a window-tax was a hou.e-tax levied on
inhabited houses, according to the number of windows or
lights that they contained. The resolution which he intended
to propose to the House was, that the tax, instead of being
levied according to the number of lights, should be levied ac-
cordiNg to the annual value cf the house.
Colonel SIBTIIORI' state I to the House that it was not
his intention to abandon his motion, of which he had given
notice, of the exemption of tenant-farmers and officers of
the army and navy from the income-tax, but to persist in
it, although the Hon. Member for Buckinghamshire bad
suhicquently introduced a motion of almost similar character.
Mr. HER MES asked whether it was the intention of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer to push forward the Bill to
continue the income and property-tax so as to have it in
Committee before Easter ? It was in the Committee on the
Bill that his Hon. and Gallant Friend would have the best
opportunity of proposing his motion.
Mr. GLADSTONE suggested to the Chancellor of tn
pin-
which Exchequer to put on the votes the terms of the motlon.
which he proposed to make on Friday respecting the
dow-tax . thought
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER right in
that the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Ilerries
)make his pro-
suggesting to the lion. and Gallant Colonel toT,ill., He
was
position on some stage of the Property- x '
ta-
COMe-tax could
afcaid that the Bill for the renewal of the in
only two
not be committed before Easter, as there leer° two days
before Easter of which the Government had the command
The house and window-
for a purpose of this description.
dhe trusted th t
_ a the de-
tax would be taken on Friday, Mme day.
bate would be concluded on she sanr 3% He should be
• •to communicate ,fur the convenience
prepared before Friday
.t„ras of the resolution that he
of the House, the precise
intended to move. e House having
Mr. HUME said that th time now resolved to
renew the income-tax forilli to be limited, he should,
in Committee on the Bill, propose that the limitation
should be for ono year, .with a View of having a Committee
appointed to inquire whetner it was not possible to remove
ds of
some of the groan complaint now felt with regard
to it. E understood Mr. COBD -N.' the Hon. Member for Mont-
rose was not opposed to direct taxation, but only wished the
inconiesssee to be so
The II framed that it might be made a perma-
nent tax-
on. Member, however, must be well aware
that a large portion of the Members of that House were op•
posed to the income-tax as a tax, and they would vote with
the lion. Member for limiting it to one year from very dif-
ferent motives from those which actuated him. Now, he
took it for granted that his Hon. Friend would like to test
the House as to the propriety of levying the tax in a nig:
equitable manner, so as to give more satisfaction
to the
his
country ; and, therefore, he (Mr. Cobden) suggested that
of the
ll,n. Friend, before taking a vote as to tue limitation of
of
tax to one year, should give the House an opportunity
the expressing its opinion as to the propriety of assessing
InZtt more equitable manner.
The report of the original resolution was then agreed to,
and leave given to bring in a Bill founded thereon.
read a third time,
The Designs Act Extension Big 'fie
clauses were added, and the Bill passed' t
d) illwent through
• e (Ireland) t ,
The Apprentices to Sea Serve
Committee. MBE
The House then went into Committeeß (IRELAND.)
EXCHEQUER CHAMBER on the Exchequer
resolution A
beinganded to the
h
Chamber (Ireland),
an e°llGeneral for Ireland,
Chairman by the ttorYe
Mr. KEOGII inquired
what was the object of the re.
solution ? lied that it was a resolution with re-
Mr. HATCIIELL 9
spect to the cm-Ivenstion
the Exchequer hember in Ireland, for the abolition of their
offices under the c compensation to be given to certain officers of
Process and Practice (Ireland) Bill.

ee• L
• .
• •
THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1851.
Mr. KEOGH eoatplained that a resolution for affording ! Now ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., post Svo.,
D.
out exception, of property as well as of income. We the enterprise adventured upon against the most law- THE 511..4.RE MARKETS. MONEY and
such compensation should be proposed at so late anl
hour,
S I L IV
A NOVEL. 0 0
, cannot, however, suppose that as he has been so deci- less of all systems of taxation-the taxation imposed .o. -
and. moved that the Chairman report progress. BRITISH RAILWAYS. The sales of Cotton :
Lord J. RUSSELL hoped the Committee would consi- hardly see
we are cenvinted. is young, otherwise we could sively defeated on thstpoint, he will not ne prepared to upon the food of the hard- working masses of the corn-
at 5,000 bales. The 1
displayed such fresh and enthusiastic s p tky in be- i ,
der the resolution, unless some reason were shown for an Business done except interior qualit
half of his heroesan d heroines. He is a writer of genius,a inspired I vote on future occasions in favour of its modification munity-lapsed into silence, and for a while le ft the
Paid. Nominal Prices.
adjournment. ee a high standard of morality and religion, and by a laudable love ' His own words will remain on record against him, ear of the country to the dolorous complaints of the Railwaye.
Mr. KEOGH said the only notice on the paper with refer- of the purest sort of fame. We gather this :rpm the glowing lan-
enee to this subject was in these terms-" Exchequer Cham- guage La which he expresses his feelings, sentiments, and opinions He declared that "if Sir ROBERT PEEL had any idea vanquished. - _-- to-day. ssadl.es;
3coom[n.i se
Egyptian,d
at)
that the impost would have been made per- Aberdeen.. .. •• •• 50 14% to 15M to 5%(1. ; and :- 0 Sea
ber (Ireland)-Committee thereupon," and no intimation had en the subjects just mentioned. There. are several' chapters, hs It has thus come to pass that an extraordinary Ambergate, Nottingham, In Railway Shares a f
been given that it was intended to propose a vote of a consi- which links of the story, aredropped, containing most eloquer.t essaysßoston, &E. Juncion 834 3)4 -2. M die. The at ,te of the N
on matters that are the prima mobilia of the actions which cha- =talent, no doubt he would have felt it his confidence has grown up in the hearts of the Protec-
derable sum of money by way of compensation. racterise nature's nobility. The writer evidently belongs, though he Belfast and County Down 3 W. Short and Co. in
Sir G. GREY said the resolution which had been proposedßirming. Woiverham .
has marked per so peculiarities, to the school of the Disraelis, Elan- duty first to have it entirely remodelled and recast." tionists-a confidence that, before long, the old laws ' P ' Ili Iron, with the ee
was substantially identical with the second clause of the aeries, and Smythes."-Observer. and Stour Valley •• 13 14 0 10% - 11%
f exceed- This vindication of the departed and lamented states- imposing duties upon provisions must be revived, Birkenh., Lan., & Chesh America, flange patte
Process and Practice (Ireland) Bill, which was in the hands "' suwood' is no ordinary work ;it contains
tug beauty, and is written Inare and forcible lapnassages ovi h t June., late 331. to. 85 - 26 .. -•• for these 51. ss. (and it
of Hon. Members, who might, therefore, have been awareguagtein tenreena man, by his former colleague, from one of the few for the gratificetion of the agriculturists. They Do. Chest. & Birkenhd.,
all .. -.. paid. Bars are in ver'
that it was intruded to give compensation to certain officers; gaginggoodtaste and power. It one o. the most interes g
blots remaining on his memory, must be regarded as have construed the silence of their victors into an as- i 5,01. B'l. Consolidated are obtainable at 41
but, acemting to the rules of the House, it was nece-sary to novels which the present season has produced. Of the cha- 0., do., to/. - _ _ 17%
.. -
..
been greatly naglectee
acter of Amelia Ross we have already spoken, and the extract we
agree to a resolution in Committee for granting such com- have given above is the surest voucher of the truth of what we have highly satisfactory-first, as showing that if the surance that no obstruction will be thrown in the way
elciairisetdeoinaliai3a Exe.ter...• 4... 100 n 81
13% -__ 83
14,i ,32
per ton. Or mixed i
pensatioa before the clause could be proposed in the Bill. said. The other ladies wit: play conspicuous parts_ in the tale. are Minister who introduced the tax were now living, he of their return to the obsolete code of monopoly. nester and Holyhead - 50 22 - 25' sellers at 41s payonef
Mr. HERRIES thought no difficulty would have ari-en if Flerence Howard, an Intellectual beauty; JC9SieGOrdOn,.a wild and
the Attorney-General for Ireland lead, in proposing the re- impulsive genius, passionately ion 10, music and P°.etrY, and Julia would, under the altered circumstances of the case, Dreamers that they are, they have flattered them- =tilLaonidiß.LnaetsPtojrutnsmct: bto.. - .. against storekeepeas' I
Maitland, the noblest and best of them all. °ming Post. 45 20 -18 dis. there is a limited qua
solution, explained its nature, and the grounds on which he Burlington-street. be one of the first to insist upon a revision of the selves into a belief that no insurmountable difficulties Dublin and Kingstown.. 100 .. -.. are not to be had uncle
proposed it. Richard Bentley, liAvf Dundalk and Eunisklllen 30 .. •-• •• " Swedish Steel is fi
Mr. HATCRELL explained that by the Process and
hliGh w ATER Al LoN iit/N BRIDGE
52 nein. after 5 ' Evening 13 ruin. after 6 g
assessment-and, secondly, that the support of the will impede their progress in their return to their East Anglian (251. L. &
is firm in price, and it
Practice (Ireland) Act regulat;ons were to be made by the rest financier of the Protectionists may be looked ancient predominance. Hence they have derived 45i -5%
Tau DAT -Morning 3 -3%, let instant reduced 44
judges, and any person who might be thereby deprived of To Moßsow -Morning 39 min. attar 6 I Evening 10 mm. after 7 for when the question is fairly raised, as it must be rather encouragement to their hopes than the contrary Eastern Counties .. • • 20
ElZiltlil: &E.Dei)ll.) :: rg
7)6, -7% 7U NI limited busines), and
his office, or whose office might be diminished in value, was eoeenneene,,---- K.astern Union, class A,
THE wEATFIER.-STIN OFFICE., APRIL 8. lower ; life last sales c
to be compensated. A Bill had now been brought in to re- some time before the measure has passed through all from the non-success of Lord STANLEY in his recent late E. U. shares - 2 GM -6% price equivalent to 83;
move a doubt whether the Act extended to the Court of Ex- Do. do. do. .. 6
THERstomETER, IN THE SHADE, its stages in the House. Sir CHARLES WOOD may be attempt to cook up an Administration. They behold •• -•• Tin Plates continue it
chequer Chamber, and this resolution was to found the corn- Do. do., B& C shares 25 4% -4%
pensation clause in that Bill. 42-highest since neon yesterday. disposed to look upon the division of last night as in the weakness of the existing Cabinet an incontro- East Lancashire •••• 25 16% -17 16% alteration. Speller ht
Mr. REYNOLDS inquired how many officers there were ae-lowest this morning and during the night. conclusive, but he will final that many such divisions vertible assurance of their own competence to follow Do. New quarters •• 6a 3% -4%
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 34 -36 the spot, and for delis
35 34% 35 quantity has been suit
in the Exchequer Chamber, and what were their salaries? 44-this day, at noon. Edin., Perth, and Dundee 25 7% - 8
must take place before the country is again subject its Members as the Administrators of the affairs Some days ago w
Mr. HATUEIELL really did not know the number of BAROMETER, 29•96. Do. Newport .. • • 15 .. -.. Mr. Locke's p: posed
officers. to the incubus from which it has just escaped, al- of the British Government. For the purpose Exeter and Exmouth .. 1 1 0 M - %
WIND E.N.E.-cloudy, with occasional heavy showers of Glasgew and South-West, 100 before us the plan of
•• - ••
Mr. KEOGH thought the question ought to be answered, though that escape may be but for a brief period, of sustaining themselves in this very gratifsing be- Do. do. G. D. &C. stock 8 has likewise been firm
Great and would not withdraw his motion. hail and rain. Northern • • 25 17% -•17%
The Committee then divided:- As to Sir CHARLES
WOOD himself, all we lief they put the most preposterous construction upon• •
Do. halves, A, deferred 12%, 5% - 6 17% we incline to think th
'W
ference, the latter be
For reporting progress ... „, _EO DAILY WEATHER TABLE. can say for him is, that he still blindly and all the revelations of their latest experience. Where Do. halves, B, 6 per et- 12)4 12 - 12% 1234 many wheels within
Against it ... ..„
.„
... _ 85 Great Southern and
Majority ,„
... ... -35 State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following obstinately adheres to the " conclusion" he had for- every one else sees prosperity, they behold only the Western, Ireland ••5042 - 43 sire that a guard of r;
pieces at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.-The stations Great Western .. ••• 100 46% -87 87 8634 consist of five persons,
Mr. REYNOLDS would not consent to the vote without merly arrived at. We confess that we had not much calamitous destitution consequent upon a Free-trade
Do. New, 171. .. •• 17 2% -2M dis. otherwise interested.
knowing the amount involved, and must move, that the are arranged in order of latitude. expectation of any improvement so far as he was innovation. They perceive discontent where all Lancaster and Carlisle .. 50 78 -82 holders of debentures,
Chairman do now leaee the chair. KINGSTOWN (Durum) -Wind S.W., gentle breeze-Do. thirds ••••••11134 8 - 10 p. P months from the r
Sir G. GREY believed'it was impossible te state the ex- partially cloudy.
personally concerned, but we did hope that the good others tee satisfaction, and behold on all sides the Lancaster and Preston.. 47)4 29 -31 p tors will be chosen
act amount of the compensation, because the matter was in PLYMOUTH-Wind E., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. sense of his colleagues would have induced them to auguries of their speedy return to power, and with Laricashire and Yorkshire 100 58% -9% 59 5 By,
500,000/. of capital of
the discretion of the Treasury, subject to certain rules. But Pot:we-Wind E ,gentle breeze-partially cloudy. Do. quarter shares .. 25 RN -9% d.
interfere so as to remove the chief cause of the loss of that the speedy revival of Protectionist principles. Do. fifths .. • .. 1136 7 -6% dis, ex less than that amount
he could state that there were but three officers concerned, PORTSMOUTH-Wind N.E., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. Do. Wrest Riding Union 11% 5% -5M d. and the parties voting
and the highest salary was under 5001., so that the amount BRIGHTON-Wind N.E., calm-partially cloudy, popularity by the Government during the present As if the multitude having once tasted the sweets of Leeds and Thirsk •• •• 50 17 -18 not less than six ca
of compensation could only be a few hundred pounds. Rasmus-Wind N•E., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. session. He would blunder on recklessly ; but some cheap bread and of cheap provisions of all kinds would Liverpool, Crosby, and least of 100/. ; neith(
lb
Mr. SADLEIR was glad to find that Information was at SOUTHAMPTON-Wind E., strong breeze-cloudless. Southport .. ..
•vote. The number 1
of those London and Blackwell .• 11 6 3 77„ -8%
last beinle furnished, though it came from the English and
A laugh.) Perhaps another FOLKESTONE-Wind N.E., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. who had the misfortune to be associated be disposed to forego that privilege, at the behest of a
not the Irish functionary.-( TUNBRIDGE-Wind N.E., calm-rain. with him might have interfered to arrest statesman hungering himself for the loaves and fishes no., Tilbury Ext. Scrip I% %-14 P
London, Brighton, and least one-fifth of th
three clear days 131
division would procure the names of the officers, an account South Coast '.. • • 100 94% -95)6 capital stock will gig
of their ditties, and a statement whether they held any other Besuecasamea -Wind N.E., gentle breeze-partially cloudy.
GREENWICH-Wind
" • " They have not of the Government !
London and N.-Western 100 127 -128 12714% 127 % vote for every five sh;
service. The Irish Members done so, however, and on their own heads the conse- But it is maintained by the prophetic advocates of Do. do. new quarters . 17
offices in the public - SWINDON-Wind S.E., gentle breeze-cloudless. 44 - 5 p.
i,l
j0i.ir5.,...,,,,,tte.,(:).
1001
828
j.% -
8373ip. upwards. When the
ginning td be of some little. importance. in that House- COLCHESTER-Wind N.W., strong breeze-partially cloudy. quences must fall. Of him we may adopt the fan- the agricultural interest, that the next election must Do. fifths .. __ 12 4% -5 p.
will advertise their r
(Wear, }tear)-and by aching in concert would be able to CAMBRIDGE-Wind N.E., gentle breeze-cloudless.
new 501. .. .. 42% 7% -6%, dish
check the practice of considering. Irish business after mid- RUGBY-Wind S.E., gentle breeze-cloudless. guage of Blackwood, who in the number for the inevitably send to tbe House of Commons an over- consideration the el;
night. They had at all times evinced a sincere disposition to BIR3IINGFIAM -Wind E., strong, breeze-partially cloudy. Loppnodo.o.
office of auditors, who
present month truly remarks- whelming majority of Protectionists, and that by Do. new 40/. .. • • 34 6- 4 dis. being chosen at eacl
co-operate with the Government- (Laughther)-and he apt Londonderry & Coleraine 25 .. -.. Trade will officiate a;
pealed to the Master of the Rolls and the Home Secretary PETERBOROUGH-Wind N.E., strong breeze-partially „
cloudy. This inveterate Beelget-bungler has more than once necessity therefore the new Cabinet must return to Do. half shares The auditors will be
whether in legal matters it were not so? ere this led the Whirs to the very verge of destruction. the bygone policy of the monopolists. All that can be Londonderry and Ennis-
The MASTER of the ROLLS acknowleded the assistance YARMOuTII-Wind E., strong breeze-cloudy.
We might apply to him with strict propriety the lines killen. .. •.. • • •• • 25 •.. -.. moval for gross fief
in LYNN-Wind N.E , gentle breeze-partially cloudy. responded to such a marvellously self-sufficient and Manchester, Buxton, and duties of the auditors
he had received from the Irish Members the absence of CoNIWAY -Wind S.E., gentle breeze-cloudless. which Dryden has placed in the mouth of the Prince ofall railway compan
the law officers of the Crown from that House. Whether the LIVERPOOL-Wind S.E., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. Dulness- short-sighted vaticination is that no more Matlock ••.. .. 5% 3)4 -3% d.
Manchester, Sheffield, & capital from revenui
officers of the Exchequer Chamber would be affected did not YORK-Wind S.E., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. ' Shadwell alone nay perfect imnge bears, terrible calamity than this could fall to the Lincolnshire •• . .. 100 34 -36 including cases, guar
appear, but if they were it was proposed to take power to Lescasexß-Wind S.E., gentle breeze-overcast. Mature in dulnens from his tender years; Do. Manchester and directors, clinks, and
give compensation. lot of the expected Prime Minister. To Lincoln Union •• 420 3 - 2)4 db. dia.
WHTray-Wind S., gentle breeze-cloudless. Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Midland • • • • •• • • 100 60% -61 compliance will subj
so%
Mr. KEOGH concurred with the Hon. Member for Dublin elude-Wind S.W., gentle breeze-overcast. furnish him with such a Protectionist majority
in opposing further peoceedings. Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. Do. consolidated pref. 100 .. -.. per diem. The audi
CARLISLE-Wind S., gentle breeze-cloudy. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, would be to force him to adopt the most perilous Do. 501. shares •. • • 35 1436 -14 dis. 2034 "continuous" audit, a
Mr. WALPOLE thought the notice on the paper not suf- BEarrocs-Wind S.E., gentle breeze-overcast. Do. Birming & Derby 100 35 -37 statement made out
ficiently'explicit, but, as no person would be pledged by as- BERweck-Wind S., gentle breeze-cloudless. But Shadwell never deviates into sense. policy a Minister was ever compelled to accept as the Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) 47% .. -.. financial condition of
senting to a mere matter of form, he suggested the with- Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Newcastle and Carlisle• • 100 .. -••
The returns from the following places indicate the state of outline of his scheme of government. It would be amount available for
drawal of the motion. Strike through, and make a lucid interval; Do. quarter shares .. 25 .. -..
Mr. REYNOLDS, however, persisted, and tie wind and weather on Saturday morning at nine such dividend, and
But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, driving him reluctantly, if he were wise, and wilfully Newmarket ••.. .. 25 9% -9%
o'clock :- Newport, Abergavenny, think fir. These
The Committee divided, when there appeared- His rising fogs prevail upon the day.' '' if he were foolish, into a course of proceedings the and Hereford •. ••• • 6 4% - 4 dis. 1% %
CORK-Wind E. light breeze-rain. meetings of shareho
For Mr. ReYnolds's motion... - -35 NNeewryy,anwdaErrneninpskloinlitn i 7
Against it .77 LIMERICK-Wind S.E., gentle breeze-overcast. Yes, the " genuine night" of the Ministerial SHAD. most admirably calculated to provoke all the turbu- 5- 4 dis. the public general
Majority ... ••• •- .. -42 CARLOW-Wind N.E., gentle breeze-rain. WELL " admits no ray," but we might have looked Rostrevor ••..• • 20 .. -.. reports are. The audi
Al ULLIIiGUR-Wind S.E., gentle breeze-rain. lent passions conducting a nation to a state ripe for
On re-entering the gallery we found
Mr. KEOGH moving that the Chairman report progress,
Northernricn Counties Union 3)4 2% -2% dis. %
ares•• 15 13 -12 die. officer more than 40(
and protisting against proceeding further at so late an hour. I se_ e
sr 4 ,F..„R ~,,
0. , "To some faint meaning make pretence. behoves all his real well •wishers to pray that Lord h British.. .. .. as, 10 ..._ 104 to have 1,200/. per a
will have to defray
After a•few words from Sir G. GREY, the motion was aet ce
...,----._ ~,, f• They have, however, disappointed the reasonable ex • STANLEY North Staffordshire .. 17% 474 -6 % dis. 10% % choose electors, but n
agreed to. tics- I. „
.ese ee• 4,4
~ ,
(CI sii.! may be defended-conscious as they all
North-Western .. • • 18 11 -10 dis.
t1,,1 /A
,_. ._ , • ,-, i--, ,-_-•?4,0--,:-.--...-, •. , ~ci-4q. ectation andwe • prepare must be that the diffusion of liberty and the develop- North & Sth.-West.Junc. 1 The Commissioners
The CroellevaN reported progress, and the House resumed.lif - 1 P
• - -s• .. , 4s-:- P I ,must therefore ourselves
Oxford, Worcester and Board of Train will
The Sergeant-at-Arms appeared at the bar and intimated *-- - --Se-
P ment of civilization depend in a very great measure Wolverhampton.. .. 50 17% - Itim fu Ids voted by Parl
that he had executed the Speaker's warrant in the case of , e,
~, ,j,
, e eee_ ea, 'act" / •e•, ee s ----a•-,e:• • etia. Scottish Central .. .. 25 lb% -17 X, 17 tors and thei officer
. `'::-,...„...P '.. T•"' • ;• ' -1)/Z I • - once Liberal Ministry can only blame themselves for
Henry Ed ards, a witness required to be in attendance before --,,.. _..,,,,,, % 11 tii..e.. upon the maintenance of order in the United Kingdom.
Scottish Midland .. .. 25 9% -1 0% rate," levikd upon
the St. ealban's Election Committee. the result, whatever it may be. , . . Do. new .. .. .. 22% 16 -15 dis. which will pay the
On the Motion of Sir G. GREY it was ordered that the ' - ' .' . . . '- - - The Hon. Gentleman the Member for Leominster rriEIE rl
k REN CH REPUBLIC Barewshary & Binning.
~. di, Er gland. These cot
Sergeant-at-Arms should retain Henry Edwards in custody je-(ii, 0.• Clas 3A .. • • .. .. 13 5 3 41.6 -3%, dia.
was the only person who placed the subject in the Do. Class 11.. •• ••9 12 3 3% - :4)6 dis di,. The followi, g part
sect produce him before the Committee sitting on the St. .0 to /ranft ‘,--ait.
-tarews. & Hereford., Old 4 2% -1% is from the Circular c
Alban's election whenever required. true point of view. His was unquestionably the
e: We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. De., ao., New • . 4 •• -•• ult., published by iti
The Honse adjourned at a Quarter-past One o'clock. eneesee speech of the evening, and he enunciated the soundest Various attempts at forming a permanent Ministry Shrewsbury and Chester " NEW ORLEANS. I
LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1851. (tier. W. isein.) •• .. paid up 18 -20
principles put forward during the debate. He were made during the course of Saturday, Sunday,
no.
oustessiry- :: • ..
paisdoup 193 -- 1195 was dated let inst ,
it
E.--WMAJESTI'S-THEATRE. --,4.--- with fair sales, how(
-- erda but the have all failed in conse-
APPEARANCE of Mdlle. MONTI.. clearly pointed out the objections to the amend- and yest 3', y ' Do. New.. .
shDroo.rAti,irße,le'ni, oanD.:ftill.; 6% 3% - 2%d. ad
In the House of Lords last night,% - % die steamer, sulisequenti
li, is respieettully announced that on THURSDAY, April 10 (in- quence, it is said, of the intrigues of M. TUTEES.
eluded in -l-the Subscription), will be produced, with the ori- The Mutiny Bill, the Marine Mutiny Bill, and the meat and to the resolution, showing that he
algal Musk, Daisies, &c., Amber's celebrated Opera of was obliged to dissent from the former, The Democratic Republicans have returned their
paid up at per cent .. - mess at Manchester,
• - ••• ,J. arket, and the sal
i . MUTA DI POItTICI, Apprentices and Servants Bill, were respectively read candidates in several of the communes in the South
South Devon • . - _ 50 18 -20
(Masaniello). a second time, and their Lordships adjourned, and that he could not approve of the of France. South-Eastern .. .. 30 26% - 26% 26% T. amounted to 21,500 I
Tie cesfarees executed by Miss Bradley and Mr. Coombea, under In the House of Commons, latter. He declared himself favourable "to The Assembly was yesterday engaged in discussing south Wales.. .. • . 50 34)4 - 35% from 9% to 1037gc. f,
The superintendence of Mme. Copere. The appointments by Mr. E.South Yorksh. and Riv . erders for ' even ru
Bradwell. The incidental Dances by M. Paul Taglioni. The See- A new writ was ordered for the Leith Boroughs for the principle of an income-tax, because it combined the laws regulating the administration of hospitals. Dun .. .. .. _ 15 134 - % dis. 14% this grade-the font
fiery by Hz'. Charles Marshall. The Mise en Scene under the direct the Ulection of a Member, in the room of Mr. RUTHER- Government Stock declined at the close of the Bourse. Shoff., Roth., and Geole,
lion of Mr. A. Harris. that system of direct and indirect taxation, which
Stockton,
v,,a andi,
of luagrbt
01 err
liter
. 06% 0,,n -10 the large quantities 1
South Division ..
116
Railroad Shares were more firm. The Five per Cents. 3% - 4)4
Alfonso, Signor Scott' (his first appearance) ; Lorenzo, Signor FORD, who had been appointed a Lord of the Court ofcoming to market fro
Mercurali (his first appearance); &Iva, Signor Balanchi ; Masa- was the means of m eking the wealthier classes eon- opened at 93t., rose to 93E 20c., but fell subsequently to they are the compler
niello, Signer Pardmi (his first appearance), of the Italian Opera, Session, Scotland.. -..
the accounts from Li
Berlin; Pietro, M. Alassol (his first appearance at her Majesty's On the requisition of the Chairman of the St. Alban's tribute in a manner yroportioned to their means to the 921. 95c., at which price they closed. The 'Three per raw Vale Extension .. s% 734 - 7 du.
C,
_enfts..
_cltosed at 57f. 30c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, Thames Eleven Deck and no one doubted that
Theatre) ; Borella, Signor Lorenzo; Elvira, .Madame Fiorentini
(her first appearance in that character) ; Fenella, Mdlle. Monti (her Election Committeethe S •
SPEAKER issued warrants for
revenue required for defraying the public expenditure
464-4/ ~ icmen, 6401.; r ayre, ' .1 270 f G N h
210 n; Vierzon.,; e.,..Ra:oart3: ana-Kiik-enn.y. 12.7034 134
- 234
' s ale oi Neath .. .. 13 4- b d. thee; the steamer at
first appearance in England). the apprehension of EDWARDS, HAYWARD, and WAG- of the country," but; he showed a just appreciation of 477 E 50e ; Avignon, 445rt7t8a,(1)::
iidetrfint.
5% - 5 prices, but a firmer
In act first, a Grand Divertisement ;La Gurache et Napolitaine, the evils of the resent system, and put forward the 25c.; Bordeaux, 4011. 25e; Paris and Strasburg, 3731. Waterford and Limerick, 50 17 -18 to demand improved
4)y Messrs. Kohlenberg, Soto, Aussandon, Soldansky, Allegrini, Pas- GETT, who had been guilty of contempt. Waterford Wax., Wick, whose letters have ni
eales, Enema, Dantonfe, and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet •; Le On the report of the Committee •of Ways and Means strongest argument for considerable alterations 75e.; Tours and Nantes, 2801. Exchange on London '
' and Dublin .. .. 3 saeted this week has
bolero, by Madlles. Mathilde, Rosa, Judea, and Lamoreux, and M. short, 24f. 95c. West Cornwall • • .. 7%
.. -
.. far and somewhat rr
Ehrick. Finale Generale, in act third, La Tarantella, by Madlle. being brought up, in Schedules D and. E. " Many a man," said the
BUSLNESS ip.)NE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE West London . .. .• 20 8 - 734 for middling, as in (
Amalie Feraris, If. Charles, Madlles. Kohlenberg, Soto, Aussandon, Mr. HERRIES rose, in pursuance of the notice he Hon. Gentleman, " might have a nominal amount LONDON STOCK. EXCHANGE, APRIL 7. Whitenaven and Furness 20 .. -.. the scarcity, 'mai, tai
Soldansky, Allegr.ni, Pascales, Emma, Dantonie, Mathilde, Rosa, York, Newcastle, & Ber-
Julien, and Lamorenx, MM. Ehrick and Gouriet, and the Ladies and had ;vin, the resolution •
g. to propose an amendment to - 21% 2136 middling being held
Gentlemen of the Corps de tenet. which had been read, and which was to the following and Vierzon), 18-East Indian, 15N-Luxembourg, 3, Ditto and Newcastle ,e- tent of our present ci
Director Silks Music and Conductor, M. Balfe. effect :-" That it is the opinion of this House that the able to dispose of ; and no one would venture to deny Namur and
Liege, 814-Northern of France, 15 •• Orleans Extension .. -•20 4 -33 y dis. 16% views lately express'
To conclude with a selection from the admired Ballet, La Esme-
ralda. in whith .Carlotta Carlotta Grist and M. Charles will appear. respective duties in Great Britain cn profits amine
•- e that there was a difference between a life income and and Bordeaux, 4 -Paris and Strasbourg, 1034 -Rouen and Ditty G.N.E. purchase been by some tousle
Auger's successful Opera, Gustave 111., on le Bal Masque, will be from property, professions, trades, and offices, and the a permanent income, between au income which a Sambre and Meuse,, '
Havre, 10',- -Tours and Nantes, 4 16 dia.
6-' York)ranPrdeltrretheeMidlan• .d. 590 1146 M- 126 % 06% % this season, but had
repeated forthwith. vamp duties in Ireland, granted by two Acts passed in _
Application fps Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the Box- the sixth year of her present Majesty, and which have 1
man enjoyed as ong sus he lived, and after his SPAIN. crop years, showing
Utica of the Theatre. Doors opened at Seven, the Opera to corn- LXNES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. receipts, we should
'Renee at Half-past Seven o'e'ock, been continued and amended by several subsequent end
death left to his des..e ants that came after him, Madrid journals of the 2d have arrived. have been taken to a
......-_-.....,-. --e-ase Acts, were granted for limited periods, and to meet and an income which he held on a tenure so frail and The Commissioners appointed by the Government Leasing Business from the best source
' HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. temporary exigencies ; that it is Lhighly expedient to fleetino• as his own life. And if there was a distinc- to investigate the workings of the railway system in Railways.
Companies. Paid. Closing Prices. done.
that the average of ]
Tens rtusr APPEARANCE OF SIGNOR COLETTI.
MAMIE. CAROLINE DUPREZ AS AMINA. adhere to the declared intentions of Parliament when b
lion between a life income and a permanent income, England, France, and Belgium, left Madrid on the Ist. Berks:and Hants against 830 m in 184
It is respectfully announced that THIS EVENING (Tuesday), these duties were granted and continued ; and, in order MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 2.-The Three per Ex. 5 per Cent. Gt. Western 8 34 -1 p. River, according to '
April 8, will be presented Bellini's celebrated Opera, to secure their speediest practicable cessation, to limit there was a still broader distinction between Bir. and Oxford threatened with snug
,- LA. SO.NNAMBULA, Cents. closed at 361 for time ; the Four per Cents. at Junc.,callsduly
the renewal of any portion of them to such an amount as either of those inc omes and incomes which were moved, and planting
Amine. Ilene. Caroline Dupree (her first appearance in that 15 ; the Five per Cents. at 171:-; the Debt without paid, or with a finitely. We define
character); Lisa, Madlle. Feller ;count Rodolph, Sig. Coletti ; andsufficient, in the existing
may be state of the public re- held on contingencies; more precarious than life itself, Interest at 7i; and the Coupons at Bi. guarantee •• Do .• .. 20 28)4 - 29%
Elvin, Sig. CaLoolari. venue, to provide for the expenditure sanctioned by Par- Do., without a the following quotas.
After which.a Divertissement from Esmeralda, by Madlle. Cars liament, and for the due maintenance of public credit." such contingencies as fortune, health, reputation, guarantee .. Do .. •• 20 27 -28 ordinary, 9t09 es c.;
letter Grist and M. Charles. GERMANY. uirm., weir, & 11 to 11.14 c.; midi
To be folloveed by the last act of Verdi's celebrated Opera, I DUE The Right Hon. Gentleman entered at great length into and employment. A man in that position wasDud. calls duly 1214 c. Sales during
FOSCAIII. The Doge, Sig. Colettl, the financial history of the country during the last ten bound by every crinsideration of duty, by every Accounts from Berlin of the 6th state that Austria '
- paid, or with a at this port since tat
To conclude with a new and original Ballet, Eis Watteau, entitled years, and explained the reasons which had induced Sir has consented to the Prussian proposition for the re- guarantee .. Do .. .. 15 8)4 - 934 p
MOURS. dictate of prut knee and foresight, not Do., without a bales last year ; lute
L'ILE DES A
ROBERT PEEL to propose the imposition of an income- construction of the old Frankfort Diet.
Composed by M. Paul Taglioni, the Mrsie by M. Nadand, the latest dates, 143,132
guarantee •• Do •• •• 15 7 - 8 p
Scenery by Mr. C. MC. arshall, in which Madlle. Amelia Ferraris will tax in 1842. Ho then proceeded to quote at great length merely to lay by a purtion of that income fur the pur- Buckinghamsh. Lon. & N.W. 17% 17% - 17% The Trust and Loi
appear. from the speeches of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Sir F.. 13- pose of assisting these who came after him to make a DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. E. Lin., Guar. 6 all the required capil
Fleurette (Bergere), Mdlle. Amelia Ferraris. RING, Lord Ho WICK, Mr. LABouCHERE, and Sir per Cent. .• G. Northern 25 32)4 -83 portant objects may
Cohn (son Fiance), M. Charles. start in life, but for. the support of his own decline Austria having succeeded, under pretence of being mat and Selby Yk. &N. M. 50 101 - 103
Gregoire (Pere de Colin), M. di Mattis- CHARLES WOOD, against the imposition of the income- The Amsterdam til
Blaine (Amoureux de s leurette), M. Ehrick• tax when proposed by Sir ROBERT PEEL, and called upon ing years or de ca In health." These are the ally of Denmark, in inundating the Duchies with Do. % Shares Do .. .. 25 50 .- 51
Do. 34 Shares Do .. .. 12% 23 -24 50%
Bonds on Sunday, bt
Le Govemeur de l'lle des Amours, M. Gosselin. them to explain the reasons which had induced them to opinions to which we have often given expres- her troops, is now assiduously engaged in endeavouring.
---0 Leeds and Brad. Midland .. 50 97% - 98% The English Fur
Male. de Follanges (Grand Dame), Mme. Petit Stephan. change their opinions. to pick a quarrel with Denmark, in order to have an Lou. and Green. S. Eastern . Is Is 4 11% - 11% 96% 7a for Transfer,
Ire Chef des Amours, Mille. Tedeschi, , sion, and which a iust be responded to by the • Do., Pref. .. Do .. .. 20 24 -25 bills have been ver
2me Chet des Amours, Mdlle. Aussandon. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that, in excuse for keeping those troops there at the expense Lowestoft, Gd. 4 New Three-and-a-Q:
Un Maitre de Ceremonies, M. Venafra. 1845, the income-tax had been renewed not in conjune- P -' d an echo in
people, which must .an every unpreju- of her ally. General SIGNORINI, the Austrian Corn- per Cent. .• Norfolk • • 20 15 -16
Astrolegues (Consenter du Gouverneur), M. Gouriet. and the Three per C
Lion with, but as a substitute for import duties, and as the diced mind-an echo which must disturb the " con- eniSesioner, acting, no doubt, under the instructions N. & East, 5
First Tableau, La Lol Impossible. " Les Fiances," dense pasta per Cent. •• E. Counties . 50 54 -56 In Foreign Secu
rate. "Le Jon de la Rose," pas de deux, par Mdlle. Amelia Fer- basis of the great experiment of free trade. He there- elusion "at which Sir CHARLES WOOD has arrived of hie G-overntnent, has behaved in so insulting Do. New .. Do - .. 43 4 - 6 p Mexican are beau,
raris and M. Charles. Le Governeur Amoureux. Sa Deception. fore, following the example of Sir R. PEEL, proposed itsthe Danish Cu • Preston a Ind L. &N. W.l Cents. at 203/4 to 21.
Vengeance. La Proclamation.with so much self-si ttisfaction-considering that "as a manner to mmissary that a challenge
renewal for three years, in order that they might continue Wyre • • S &La &Y
.1 25 41 -43
In Shares there ha
Second Tableau, La Paysanne ala Cour. " Jadis et Anjonrd'hni," hits been the consequence. The fact is, that Austria
Date de la Dance Roccoca et Moderne, scene execntee pal .„ and carry out free-trade principles. He denied that he in. the tax was so unjust- to all, it might happen not to be bas an enormous army which she cannot pay or sub - shares., ADo . .
Do. ee Sh • • • • 10)4 7% - B%p.
Read., Guild., flatter generally.
Mlle. Amelia Ferraris, dime. Petit Stephan, et M. Gosselin. - tended to make it a permanent tax, but he would so very unjust to any one." and Reigate .. S. Eastern ~ 20 21 - 21%
Third Tableau, Les Amours Vengeurs. Dense du Chef des Amours,sist, and therefore she endeavours to quarter them
rather see it permanent than consent to a re-icaposi-
Roy. & Ilitchin G. Northern 634 7% - 8 Console ...
Mule. Tedeschi. " Les Bergeres captivees par lea Amours," Balla- ---Zla on her neighbours ; her policy is, in fact, an or- Jo. Shep, Ex.. Do .. .. 3% 1 yi. - 1.3‘,. Ditto Account
bine, par Mdlle. Amalla Ferraris, Millie. Tedeschi, et les Dames Cu den of the duties on corn. A satisfactory settlement of the Ministerial diffi- genized system of plunder. It is really time that South Staffords. Mr. M'Clean 9)4 3 -2% ells.
Corps de Ballet. "Les Bergers Delaisses," final, par Mdlle. Mr. PRINSEP supported the amendment. BRITISH FUND
Amapa Ferraris, Mdlie. Tedeschi, 3i. Charles, et Corps de Ballet. d civilized
Mr. F. PEEL supported the re-imposition of the in- culties appears to L e altogether impracticable until the solvent an e Governments of Europe Wear Val. 6 per
Cent. gun. ••• Stock.& Dar. 25 24 - 24% ( F
Fourth Tableau, La Chawe aux AMOUiS. " Le Pas Cu Trebuchet,"
• par Mull°. Tedesciii, Mdlle. Aussandon, and la. come tax for the purpose of carrying out the principles after a dissolution. With the House of Commons as • &
should combine together to put a stop to the Wilts, sone, 3 per Cent.Redu
executes Weymouth .. Gt. Western 50 44 -45 45 14 per Cent. Cof
Ehrick. La Course aux Amours. Comme on se laisse of free trade; the proposition of the Hon. Member for e
at present constituted, there really cannot by possi- swindlings end robberies of this Bankrupt and Bri- 34
prendre dans ses filets. La Proclamation Abolie. Le Pardon. Stamford was a retrograde
Grandstep. gand Power. New 31,4 per Cs:
Pas Divertissement.Mr. T. BARING, Mr. BOOKER, de Deux, par Mdlle. Amelia Ferraris Mr. SPOONER, Mr.
bility be any stable a cijustment of an Administration. PREPERENCE SHARES. Long Annuities,
ac_;oracagneg ran aldlles. Soto, Emma, Lavinia, ,
and M. Charles,lndia Bonds and
t Beale. Final General et Apotheose des ILEYNOLDS, Lord CLAUD HAMILTON, and Mr. bIIARMAN To adventure upon any such extraordinary step to- ITALY .
Soldansky, Vanhollen, I. Console for Am
Amours. CRAWFonD supported the amendment; and wards the elucidation of the problem would, however, All the members of the Municipal Council of Milan Railways. Paid. Nominal Prices. Business dose E :4:heel:ter Rillf
Applications for Boxes, stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box- Mr. J. WILSON, Mr. SLANEY, and Sir R. INGLIS were • to-day.
oftlee of the Theatre. Doors opened at Seven, the Opera to corn- in favour of the original proposition. be just now, to say the very least of it, in the highest have resigned, in order to avoid the necessity of pay- -
valence at Halt Seven o'clock. in ce home ae to the Emperor of AUSTRIA during his Aberdeen - .. -I8 6 ti %- )4 dis die. 1,000/. ...,.....
The House then divided. when there rionparpd- degree inconvenient. Therefore it is that the matter •- ,S' • •.. olslit).
___ ...........,,,,,,,,,d, l/ICI. • A rho n..-11, Caledonian 101. .. •• I 10 6tO - 6 - ~

THR.ATRE ROYAL, DRtnteirs "AnitlierEso3l.•
Lessee and Manager, Mr. James
THIS EVENING
Will he presented by her Majesty's gnvanta
W.
Lacy;
THE QUEEN OF SPADES. Prince of Moskau, Mr.
Ivan, Mr. J. Anderson ; Kopeck, Mr. Barrett ; Katinka Nelidorf,
Miss F. Yining; Olga, Mrs. W. Lacy.
After which, 4 new grand Operatic Spectacle, entitl..oAEL,
TILE PRODIGAL. Reuben, Mr. Yandetthoff; Azael, Mr. J. _der..
eon ; Amenophis, Mr. W. West ; Bucbaris, Mr. Cooper ; Sethos, .4. •
Rafter; Jephtele, UIS.3 F. Yining; Netts, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Ll 3,
%1 utile. Vietorine Legrain (Premier Sujet du Opera do Paris), who
has been expressly engaged for the occasion, and will make her
appearance every evening.
To conclude with RAISING THE WIND.
Mr. JAMES ANDERSON has the honour to announce to his
Friends and the Patrons of the Drama generally, that his BENEFIT
is fixed fer SATURDAY, Apra it, being the Last Night of perform-
ing before Easter, on which occasion will be presented
A petite Comedy, entitled A MORNING CALL, in which Mr. J.
Anderson and Mrs. Nisbett will appear.
After which UNE SOIREE CARNAVAL.
To be followed by AZAEL.
And other Entertainments.

----
a-- —016; Brampton.
fIiEATRE ttOyAL, 1,,,,,, t pir
Air. e. Webster, dole Lessee
anl ManTHIS EVENING --xer'
will be performed a new and original ,
Captain
I owe Rochester, Mr. Davenport;l.*
Stuart;N argots de Fla-
mer, AT COURT. Charles the gacond—oltrandy. called PRE-
Montague, Alr
mer, Mr. t3elby ; Geoffrey, Mr. Buckstune ;I',
gigs Middleton. Miss A. Vining. De
Franklyn, Miss
Reynolds ,
Alter which, SPRING AND AUTUMN.
To conclude with the Nautical Drama of BLACK-wry, 0
William, Mr. Davenport' Admiral, Mr. Rogers; c --- SUSAN
Mr. Parselle; Gnatbrain, Mr. Buckstone ; Jacob ltain eosatree,
ford • Susan, • A. -Vining' Twig, Mr. Bed_
Miss
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rftE iilJ Y AL, AL ELPHI.
Linder the direction of Madame Celeste.
wttthe
THIS EVENING,
To be followed
Perfc'llited THE WILLOW COPSE.
bY JACK IN THE GREEN.

ROYAL
PRIRCESS'3 211 EA TUB, OXFORD-STREET.
Undnr the Tv(
annoament ot Mr. C. Sear and Mr. Reale,
The last 5 Disthta of Pauline, previous to the forthcoming Easter

igOveltles.
THIS EVEN IN( titled LOVE DT
Will be performed a new and original Comedy en
A MAZE. Characters by Messrs. C. Kean, Keeley, Wian, Harley,g
Addison, Meadows ; Mrs. Keeley, Mrs, winstaaleY, and Mrs. C.
Kean.
in
To conclude with a new Melodrama, entitled P--
A_DI DTE,
which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean will appear.
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- -
ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager. Mr. W. Farren.
Tilts EVENING.
will be performed THE FARMER'S STORY.
After which CHARLES KING.
To conclude with THE BOTTLE /MP.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL Ara:purr
Wader tare Patronage of her Majesty and his
Prince Albert. his 1/4"llllnhnni
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty;
were is closed
site public are respectfully informed that thrilt
entirely
to sustain
until t aster Monday next, April 21. The Theatre
estimation :
the
newly decorated and re-embellished, and every
snorte made be
department
high repute which this establishment holds public es
the vain. improvements of additional height, in order to facilitate
scenic effects, as eesanially necessary tothe hippodrarnatidc
ments,,have been particularly attended to, and every
actively employed for the production of a splendid historic spectacle,
from the pen of G. 11. itodwell, Esq. New scenery, machinery,
decorations, and magnificent costumes. The circle will prove doubly'
attractive, Mr. Batty being ou the Continent making arrangements
with artistes of the first talent and celebrity of their proiesslons.
Particulars will 1.), given in future announcements.

Mr. PRINSEP supported the amendment.
Mr. F. PEEL supported the re-imposition of the in-
come tax for the purpose of carrying out the principles
of free trade; the proposition of the Hon. Member for
Stamford was a retrograde_ step.
Mr. T. BARING, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. SPOONER, Mr.
REYNOLDS, Lord CLAUD HAMILTON, and Mr. SIIARMAN
CRAWFOKD supported the amendment; and
Mr. J. WILSON, Mr. SLANEY, and Sir R. INGLIS were
in favour of the original proposition.
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the original proposition ... ... 278
For Mr. HERRIES'S amendment ... 230
Majority for Ministers ...
The Designs Act Extension Bill was read a third time
and passed.
_ _ _

The Apprentice Sea Service (Ireland) Bill went
through Committee, and the House resumed.
The House then went into Committee, when the AT-
TORNEY-GENERAL for IRELAND moved a resolution to
give compensation to certain officers of the Exchequer
Chamber (Ireland).
After a short discussion, Mr. KEOGH moved that the
Chairman should report progress, when the House di-
vided, and the numbers were—
For the motion . . ... 50
Against it... 85
M,jority against the motion —35
Mr. REYNOLDS moved that the Chairman leave the
chair.

After some discussion the Committee divided, when
thered appeared—
For the motion ... ... 35
Against it... 77
Majority ... —42
Mr. KEOGH protested against proceeding further at
that late hour, and moved that the Chairman report pro-
gress.
The CHAIRMAN then resorted progress, and the House
adjourned at a Quarter past One.

The discussion and division of last night on Mr.
BERRIES' amendment, cannot be received as fairly in-
dicating the state of public feeling on the important
question of the income-tax. A false issue has been
raised; the real point has been carefully avoided on
either side. The people of England, while approving
of a direct tax on accumulated and realised property,
strongly objected to the unfair and unequal assess-
ment of the impost which placed the precarious earn-
ings of industry on the same foundation as the
dividends, interest, or annual produce of real or per-
sonal property. They desired an equitable adjustment
of the impost, not its removal ; they ap-
proved of the principle of direct taxation, but
not of direct taxation in the existing form.
The debate of last night could only be regarded,
therefore, as a species of sham fight, got up for the
purpose of diverting attention from the real
subject. •
lIERRIES made it to a cer-
tain extent a question of protection or no
protection ;
strongly as we object to
we
ele must
than
the resolutionanpd;oposed by Sir CHARLES WOOD,
thatOl lfe So
f thatthewenciognhstidellrot.as
Gleesnstloebmj objection-
able thetion
Member for Stamford—the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer in posse of the agriculturists. It is true
that he spoke of ' fraud, and in-
justice" of the tax, buttile inequalities,
hedclidnotties' , on that account,
endeavour to render it more equitable, to remove that
portion of it which was objectionable, and retain
that which rested on a broader foundation. He
did not, propose to remit, or even to diminish,
the rates payable under Schedules D and E, but he
applied all the surplus to the reduction, not of the
charges on profits or earnings, but of all classes, with-

A satisfactory settlement of the Ministerial diffi-
culties appears to I e altogether impracticable until
after a dissolution. With the House of Commons as
at present constitutetl, there really cannot by possi-
bility be any stable a djustment of an Administration.
To adventure upon any such extraordinary step to-
wards the elucidation of the problem would, however,
be just now, to say the very least of it, in the highest
degree inconvenient. Therefore it is that the matter
is for the time being: procrastinated. Therefore it
is that the Legislatu re is disposed to accept the
return of the present Administrators to office in
preference to what. would be yet more un-
satisfactory—namely,. a reference of the ques-
tion at this particular moment to the opinion
of the electors throughout the United Kingdom.
Rather than jeopar Elise the whole of the gigantic
scheme of the Ind ustrial Exposition, the people
themselves are prepa red to submit to the perpetuation
in power of a Cabine it so effete as that presided over
by Lord Joins Russ: EILL. Until the autumn, conse-
quently, it is anticipa:ted that the affairs of the nation
will be allowed to mmain in their present lamentable
state of confusion—when, the impediment preciously
standing in the way of an appeal to the
country being removed, the constifhencies will again
have the privilege of selecting the most
eligible of their respective candidates. For a while,
therefore, many of th e most cherished plans of im-
provement must rem o in in abeyance, the multitude
exercising that:patiensce which is alone left to them as
a duty, coupled with the consolation of an implicit
confidence in the character of the next Parliament.
Under existing mirk umstances, of course, it can-
not be matter of surprise to find the various
parties and sections of parties among poli-
ticians flattering the nselves with the anticipation
of an overwhelming triumph over their antagonists.
The paeans chanted. already in expectation of those
hypothetical victories are only the rational result
of the illusions indulged in for so long a period by
the majority. Demo e,strations have been made so
noisily by the Protectionists throughout the United
Kingdom, that it is bait natural to find the organs of
the agriculturists alrcady exulting in the looked-for
acquisition of the reins of government. The Free-
traders, on the contrary, satisfied with the complete
success of their agitction, have for a considerable
period indulged in what to their leaders must have
appeared a delicious as well as an unwonted
tranquillity. Having witnessed the re-organi-
zation of the mercy ntile system of the empire
upon the basis a f their principles, they
shrank back sevarally into the quietude
which proved to them. doubly delightful after the ar-
duous struggle with the advocates of monopoly.
The Anti-Corn-law The ymer played no more on that
oaten pipe whose breat ings had thrilled to the hearts
of even the most ignforant and the most prejudiced.
The Catechist of Prot( ration put forth no longer those
posers of inquiries whi eh helped as much as anything
to lay bare the parado.Kes and the sophisms of the
sticklers for imposts on. the national provisions. The
orators of the League, the eloquent Member for the
Tower Hamlets, the is mpassioned representative of
Oldham, and, conspicuou s among all, the plain-spoken
genius of COBDEN and. of his principal colleague in

SUDDEN DBATH AT PLYMOUTH VICTUALLING
TAILD.—Mr. Smithers Aldess, Inspector of Police at the
Royal William Victualling Yard, accompanied by his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Mills, who is the wife of Mr. Mills, one of the en•
gineers of the Rhadamanthus, left their residence in the
yard, and proceeded to the water's edge to observe the
steamer going out of Hamoaze. When on the Clarence
wharf they waved their hands to their friend on board, and
immediately afterwards Mr. Aldess fall in a fit of apoplexy,
brought on probably by the excitement, and being conveyed
home, expired within half an hour. Deceased was 63 years
of age, and was formerly sergeant-major of the Woolwich di-
liSien of Royal Marines.

All the members of the Municipal Council of Milan
have resigned, in order to avoid the necessity of pay-
in g homage to the Emperor of AUSTRIA during his
approaching visit to the city.
The Genoa Gazette of the 2d inst. announces that
f
in consequence of the high price of coal at Palermo,
coal is to be admitted until the end of June
free of duty.

SERIoUS FIRE IN THE THAMES BANK DEPOSI-
TORY.—Yesterday morning, about seven o'clock, a fire hap-
pened in the Ranelagh-road, Thames Bank, Pimlico, in a
portion of the building which formed one part of a range of
promises fitting up as model sleeping apartments, and in the
occupation of a gentleman named Harrison ; at the time
filled with valuable property of nearly every description,
amongst which was a collection of pictures belonging to
various parties. The men at work in the yard first perceived
the place to be on fire. Unfortunately, after the arrival of
the engines, 15 minutes elapsed before a drop of water could
be procured, and the flames had acquired such an ascendancy
that it was not until noon that the firemen succeeded in ex-
tinguishing them. The official report gives the damage es
follows : " A brick building, 130 feet long, called fire-proof
the furniture, &c., in ditto seriously burned and damaged
by fire, smoke, and water, on ground and first floors. The
window-frames broken out. Supposed cause of fire—lron
pipe from hot air furnace. The premises were uninsured; the
contents at present not known if insured." Mr. W omb-
well's collection of pictures, valued at 40,000/., were in the
depository, but were saved from destruction.
THE FRIMLEY MERDERERS.—Levi Harwood and
Jones will be executed at Horsemonger-lane gaol on Tues-
day morning the 22d instant, and not on Monday, as
stated in our paper of yesterday. It appears that the
county authorities have very judiciously given directions
that when executions are necessary they shall for the future
take place on Tuesdays, as that will allow the preparations
to be made without desecrating the Sabbath, as has here-
tofore unfortunately been the case.

CUSToll9.—Yesterday being the first day of the
official year, the arrangement for the annual supply of the
several dock establishments, quays, and warehouses, and
sufferance wharfs on the river side with landing officers of
the Customs' department for the ensuing year, took place.
By this arrangement a certain sufficient number of
searchers and other landing officers are Bt4tioned at each
of the great dock establishments for general business pur-
poses, and also at the Custom-house for the supply of the
quays and wharfs on either side of the river, the residue
being retained to meet the general requirements of the trade
of this vast port.

AN INCIDENT or THE CENSUS.—One of the collec-
tors under the Census Act, in the neighbourhood of Hulme,
received a blank return from one man; and he was asked
why it was not filled up ? The reply was, that nobody
had slept in the house the preceding night. " Was the
house empty, then ?" hs inquired. " No," was the re-
joinder ; " but my wife was confined of twins for the third
time, about ten o'clock, and nobody has over slept since 1"

Aberdeen .. .• 86 8 ' % % die dhl.
Caledonian 101. .. .. 10 6% 634
Chester and Holyhead .. 15 16 16% x.d x.d
East Anglian (31. 103.)
6 per cent. .. •• 354 2% —2%
Do. (51.) 7 pr. ct. Pref. 5 •• „„
Do. (71. 175.) 7 p.c.:Pref. 2
Eastern Counties Exton.,
per cent. No. 1 • • 618 4 par p pm
Do. No. 613 4 par —3n p
Do. New 6p. cent. Stock 10 10% 1134
Eastern Union, Scrip
guaran. 6 per cent. • • 20 1634 16%
D. 101. Deben. Shares . 10 .„
East Lancashire, 6 per
cent. quarter shares .. 6% • •
Glasgow & S.- W Consol 100
Gt Northern, 5 per cent. 1234 1334 1334
Great South. & Western
(Ireland) eighths 236 1 p.
Lancashire and York-
shire, F. 201. 6 136 dls.
Do. 6 per cent. Stock . 100
Leeds and Thirsk, 6 per
cent., No. 1 .. • • .. 11 .. p
Do. 6 per cent., No. 2 . 17 ..
Do. 6 per cent., No. 3 . 5 ..
Do. quarters, 1848 .. 9 134 2 p
London, Brighton, and
South Coast guar. 5 per
et., late Croydwn thirds 100 .. ••
Do. pref., S p et. St• ek,
1851, from 501. share. E 100 114 120
Do. cony.. per ct. 1855 50 57 —6O
Do. new guar., 6 per ct. 100 136 139
London &S.-W., new 234 p.
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen, half shares .. 10
Munch., Sheffield, and
Line , quar. shrs., No. 1 25 1336 1436
Do. new, 101. .. • • 10 11% 1236
Do., 61. • • • • .. • . 3 % % p
Midland Con. 6p. c. stock 100 132 134
Do. Consel. Bristol &
Birming., 6 per cent... 100 •• ••
Do. Bristol & Glouces. 48
Do. do. do. ••33 10 6 ..
Do. Erewash Valley .. 60
Do. Loic. & Swanning.
8 per cent. guar. • • 100
Norfolk Extension • • 20 17 —lB
rn. guar. 534 per cent. 5 • 4% —4%
Do. Wavenoy Valley .. 2
North British .. „5 5 —534 x.d x.d
Shrewsbury and Birm.
Now Guaranteed .. 8 11 1134
Shrews. and Ches. (Nor.
W. Min.) 8 per cent. 10 1534 15%
South Devon • • .. 25 14 —l6
South-Eastern, 436 p. et. 10 ..
Waterford &Kilkenny,sl. 1
WestLondon,lst C 1. (100 10
Do. 2d Class do. (par) 20
York, Newc., and Berw., 17
Gt. N . of E. Pur. 1634 —164
4%
York and North Midland
H. and S. Punch. .. 10 134 1 dls.
FOREIGN.
Boulogne and Amiens • • 20 934 —9% 9%
Central of France (Or-
leans and Viorzon) .. 20 17% —lB
Demerara .. 17% .•
Dutch Rhenish .. 8 4% 414 dls.
East Indian • . .. 14 134 —l% p.
Do. do. do. •• 20
Great Indian Peninsula.• 5 % % P.
Ditto ditto .. 234 34 %P•
Louvain ala Sambre 734 • —• •
Luxembourg .. 8 134
Ditto •• .. 10 3% —•
336 3%
Madrid and Valenta ..•
Marla Antonia • • • • 25 7 9
Ditto, New • • • 734 2 4
Namur and Liege .. • • 20 8 —8 3G
Northern of France • • 16 14% 15% 14%
Orleans and Bordeaux .. 8 4 —3% dis. 4%
Paris and Orleans • • • • 20 35 —37 36
Paris and Rouen • • • • 20 25 —26
Paris and Strasbourg 16 5% 536 dls.
Rouen and Ilavre •• 20 10% 10%
Sambre and Mense •• 20 374 434 3% 4
Tours and Nantes • • • • 15 9 —ll% dig.
Tourney, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Remelt 20
West Flanders .. 0% 2 2){

THE POLISHING BIIGADE.-011 Saturday a num-
ber of young men, dressed in red uniform, and furnished
with apparatus for cleaning clothes and shoes, were sta-
tioned in the vicinity of the Exhibition building, and west-
end thoroughfares. They are all lettered, and wear badges in-
scribed " The Shoeblack Society." They have been selected
to these offices from the London ragged schools, previous to
being assisted to emigrate.

CITY OF LONDON PENSION SOCIETY.--A general
meeting of this society took place yesterday at the London
Tavern, Eishopsgate-street, (or the election of four addi-
tional pensioners from a list of thirty-five candidates; Jas.
Harmer, Esq., in the chair. The report stated the great
pleasure it afforded the directors to be again enabled to pre-
sent to the benevolent supporters of this charity an oppor-
tunity of exercising their privileges of voting in the election
of an additional numbn of pensioners. Since the founda-
tion of this charity it had been the happy instrument of
affording relief in old age to no less than 878 poor pensioners,
thereby distributing in monthly pensions the sum of 66,214'.
Dispatches wero received at the Colonial-office on
Sunday, from the Gwernor of Qatabia.

den, and Remelt
West Flail d era .. *.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

Docks was 764 hogsheads 48 tierces 190 barrels. Thare
were taken for home consumption 822 hhds 39 tierces 3!
barrels. The stock in the same places is 3,262 hhds 53'
tierces C 34 Lure's.
COFFEE.—OnIy a limited business has occurred privateli
in Native Ceylon, at 42s for common quality.
Rum.—The market is extremely heavy, and there are
Do
buyers at previous rates. The quantity landed last week a
the East and West India Docks was 237 puns 287 btu%
there were taken for home consumption 200 puns 3 /101
and exported 205 puns 313 hhds. 'The stock in the ssol°
places is 1 ,401 puns 1,471 hhds.
TALLOW.-- P.Y.C. is 4. S per cwt. on the spot, and To/11
41s 6d.
TEA.—The market steady.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated
at 5,000 bales. The market was heavy, at previous rates,
except inferior qualities. which were r ther lower. The
sales comprised 3,500 American, 200 B ,hia, at 'Ad. to
Bd. ; 30 Egyptian, at 73%d. to B%d. ; 1,000 Surat, at 4d.
to 5%d.; and e 0 Sea Isla d, at Is. 2d. to Is. 9d. per lb.-
In Railway Shares a fair business was done at higher prices.
The st !te of the Metal Market is described by Messrs.
W. Short and Co. in the terms subjoined :
In Iron, with the exception of a fair demand for rails of the
America, flange pattern, we have scarce anything to note;
for these 5/. ss.(and it is sail Si. 7s 6d.) pe ton have been
paid. Bars are in very moderate demand, and good marks
are obtainable at 41. in Wales. Scotch pigs have
been greatly neglected, and the price has declined about Is.
per ton. Or mixed numbers ordinary b, ands, there are
sellers at 41s. payment against bills of lad ng, and 41s. 6d.
against storekeepeas' free on board warrants. Of Swedish
there is a limited quantity in stock, and good assortments
are not to be had under ls 1. per ton.
" Swedish Steel is firmly held for the price quoted. Copper
is firm in price, and in fair demand. Tin-English wa-' on
Ist instant reduced 4/. per ton. In Foreign we have had a
limited businese, and we quote the price about 21. per ton
lower; the last sales of Bat,ca in Holland were made at a
price equivalent to 83s. per ton, shipped free in bond there.
Tin Plates continue in very fair demand. Lead is without
alteration. Spelter has declined to about 1: 1. 10s. per ton on
the spot, mid for delivery during the summer a considerable
quantity has been sold at 151. 55."
Some days ago we gave an abstract of the contents of
Mr. Locke's proposed Railway Audit Bill, and we hare now
before us the plan of Messrs. Stanfbr and Mullings, which
has likewise been brought into Parliament. Upon the whole
we incline to think that the first-named will have the pre-
ference, the latter being too involved, and containing too
many wheels within wheels. The preparers of the Bill de-
sire that a board of railway auditors shall be established, to
consist of five persons, neither directors nor shareholders, nor
otherwise interested. A special meeting of proprietors and
holders of debentures, &c., is to be held within four calendar
months from the passing of this Act, and at this elec.
tors will be chosen in the proportion of one for every
500,0001. of capital of the railway ; or if the total capital be
less than that amount, still one elector may be appointed,
and the parties voting for him must have held their stock
not less than six calendar months, and to the amount at
least of 1001. ; neither can the directors or other officers
vote. The number to constitute a meeting must hold at
least one-fifth of the capital, and proxies must be sent
three clear days before to the secretary. Every 1001.
capital stock will give the right to one vote, and one more
vote for every five shares beyond the first ten with limitations
upwards. When the electors are chosen, the Board of Trade
will advertise their names, and convene them to take into
consideration the claims of the different candidates for the
office of auditors, who will be ballotted for, one auditor only
being chosen at each meting. A party from the Board of
Trade will officiate as secretary at these meetings of electors.
The auditors will be appointed for life, but subject to re-
moval for gross negligence or misconduct. The general
duties of the auditors will be to inspect the accounts kept by
all railway companies, to call for vouchers, distinguish
capital from revenue, inquire into all pecuniary obligations,
including cases, guarrantees, and if expedient to examine the
directors, clerks, and other officers of the company. Non-
compliance will subject the offending parties to a fine of 201.
per diem. The auditors, as far as practicable, will keep up a
"continuous" audit, and print and circulate half-yearly a clear
statement made out upon one uniform plan, showing the real
financial condition of the company, the profit and loss, the
amount available for dividend, but without the power to fix
such dividend, and may append any observaions they
think fie These will have to be read out at the
meetings of shareholders, and sold at a low charge to
the public generally, the same as Parliamentary
reports are. The auditors may appoint a secretary and clerks,
the secretary not to have more than 6001., nor any other
officer more than 400/. per annum. The five auditors are
to have 1,2001. per annum each. The railway companies
will have to defray the expense of convening meetings to
choose electors, but no elector will be paid more than 101.
The Commissioners of the Railway Department of the
Board of Trees, will defray their own expenses out of the
funds voted by Parliament, but the entire cost of the audi-
tors and thei, officers will be liquidated by a general " audit
rate," levied upon the " net" profits of the companies,
which will pay the said rate half-yearly into the Bank of
England. These comprise the objects of the proposed Act.
The followi g particulars of the state of the Cotton Market
is from the Circular of Messrs. Schroeder and Mummy, of 15th
ult., published by fur. James Irvine, of Liverpool :-
" NEW ORLEANS. MARCH 15.-CorroN.-0 ir last review
was dated let inst , and left our market in a depressed state,
with fair sales, however. The arrival of the 15th February
steamer, subsequently to the above date, bringing news of a
further decline in the Liverpool market, and a limited busie
mess at Manchester, had the effect again of unsettling this
!market, and the sales during the first week of this month
amounted to 21,500 bales, at very irregular prices, ranging
from 9% to 10%c. fo' middling, according to the nature of
orders for even running' or mixed average' parcels of
this grade-the former being very scarce, in consequence of
the large quantities of deci,edly low and i, ferior qualities,
coming to market from all points, and indicating clearly that
they are the complement of crops In this state of things,
the accounts from Liverpool of the 22d were looked for, and
no one doubted that that market would have given way fur-
ther; the steamer arrived, however, reporting no change in
prices. but a firmer market. Factors were thereby induced
to demand improved rates, and not being met by buyers
whose letters have not yet come to hand, the business tran-
saeted this week has amounted to 21,700 bales, at more regu-
lar and somewhat more improved prices, say 9% to 1014
for middling, as in quanity, while the higher grades, from
the scarcity, maintain a value relatively much higher, good
middling being held firmly at 11 to 114 c. As to the ex-
tent of our present crop, we see no good reason to change our
views lately expressed. The continued large receipts have
been by some construed into an evidence of a great product
this season, but had we not reliable information from the
shipping points of the interior, the experience of past short
crop years, showing invariably the heaviest per tentage of
receipts. we should still be unshaken in our opinion. Pains
have been taken to ascertain the most reliable accounts, and
from the best source, within a few days; the result shows
that the average of receipts for this port is barely 880 m bales
against 830 m in 1849-50. We have accounts from Red
River, according to which a vast extent of Cotton lands are
threatened with inundation; the stock of cattle are being re-
moved, and planting of the crop to come is postponed inde-
finitely. We define the present position of the market by
the following quotations, viz. :-Ordinary, 8 to B%c. ; good
ordinary, 9 to 9 le2c.; middling, 10 to 104 c.; good middling,
11 to 111.4 c.•, middling fair, 11% to 113/4c.; fair, 12 to
12 1,4 c . Sales during the last fortnight, 44,200 bales; receipts
at this port since let Sept., 744,809 bales, against 651,239
bales last year; increase of receipts at all the ports up to
latest dates, 143,132 bales."
The Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada has had
all the required capital paid up, and a reference to its im-
portant objects may be made hereafter under this head.
The Amsterdam Market was rather animated for Spanish
Bonds on Sunday, but dull for other stocks.
The English Funds continue very firm. Consols are
96% % for Transfer, and 96% to 97 for May. Exchequer-
bills have been very firm at 555. to 58s. premium. The
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realized 97% %,
and the Three per Cents 96 to %.
In Foreign Securities scarcely any business is doing.
Mexican are heavy at 331,i to 'A, and Spanish Five per
Cents. at 20% to 21. Peruvian Deferred have been at 39.
In Shares there has been very little doing, and prices are
flatter generally.

QUARTER TO THREA
Cons obi ... .. ... ... 961. 1
Ditto Account ... ... ... 96/ i.•
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
( From the Official List.)
3 ?er Cent. Reduced Annuities 96 96%
a per Cent. Console Anna
Nov 3% per Cent. Anne. 97%%
Long Annuities. Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 7 4)-16 7%
India Bonds under 1,000/
Consols for Account 96N 78
E caheoner Bills I%d• 2d.
March. June.
1,0001.... — 55 58 p
-ion,
Small — 55 58 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
m3xican Bowls, 1846,5 per Cent., Coupons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto for the Account .....
Peruvian Bonds, 4lh per Cent —
Do. Deferred
Russian Bonds, 1322, 5 per Cent lll
Ditto 4'4 per Cent. 9B5i3A
Spanish Bonds, 5 ser Cent Cent
Ditto for the Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.

LLOYD'S SHIPPES FHISDAY.

LONDON, APRIL B.—Wind at noon N., gloomy.
PARIS, APRIL 6.—A French steamer was seen on the 2lst
Feb., on shore on the rocks near Cape-I-Teen, Port-au-
Prince, by the Aglara, arrived at Havre. 7th, The Ras-
theden, of Frererickstadt, with loss of t owsprit, apparently
by being in contact, was seen on the 3d April, to the west-
ward of the Goodwin Sands. She was standing to S.W.,
and supposed to have an Englist, pilot on board.
LOWESTOFT, APRIL s.—The Teazer, Atkins, of Wells,
riding in South Roads, was run foul of by the schooner
Sarah, Hatchcomb, of London. The former had quarter.
board and rail carried away, and received other damage; the
latter carried away jib-boom, and proceeded for Newcastle.
t OFF ST. MAWES, APRIL 3.—Arrd. Paquet de Buenos
Ayres, Laguna for Bremen, with lose of bulwarks.
DEAL, APRIL 7.—Wind to E.N.E., fresh.—Arrd.
Hermann de Ruyter, Flint, Dordt, Batavia; Warder, East-
ward, for the Westward. Sid. Africanus, Gambia; Dorus,
Antigua.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 7.—Wind S.— Arrd. Icarus, Demerara;
Cynthia, Dean, Cirenfuegos; Glencoe, Bower, Rio Grande;
Plata, Para; Bers Grant, M'Cartnev, Honduras; Loodianab,
Pullsmore, New Orleans; Robert Watt, Burton, Apalachi-
cola. Off port, Britannia, Prince Arthur, halifax ;
Resolution, Smyrna; Eleanor, Constantinople; Thomas, Va-
lencia; Crown, Calcutta; Gem, Monte Video; Ackeron and
Helena, New Orleans; Try and Yorkshire, New York; Lady
of the Lake, Boston; Grace, Eastport; Cambrian, Newfound-
land ; Queen of the West, Beyrout Stamboull, Zante.
WEYMOUTH, APRIL 7. Sid. George Wilkinson, Quebec.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 7.—Wind E.—'Sid. Cheshire Witch,
Natal; Boston Castle, Quebec.
JERSEY, APRIL 6.—Wind E.—Sld. Intended, Arichat
Johnny, Labrador.
QUEENSTOWN, APRIL G.—Wind S.S.E. to S.—Arrd.
Paragon, Short, Galatz ••
Favourite (to embark emigrants).
Sld. Susan, St. John's, 'New Brunswick.
DOVER, APRIL 7.—Wind E., fresh.—Arrd. Eliza and
Emma, Rio Janeiro, for Christiana. Off port, Batavier,
Nib, and Jacoba, Rotterdam, for Batavia.
PORTSMOVTIL APRIL 7.—Wind E.—Arrd. Charles Carter,
Hocking. London, for Cape of Good Hope; Southampton,
Tinker, Londor, and std. for New York.
STOCKTON, APRIL s.—Arrd. Sophia, Milderstein, Neu-
stasditi.E
SHEERNESS, APRIL
Perseverance, Quebec.
7.—A
foreign barque, deal-laden, is
on shore on the Knock Land, Essex Coast. A barque is
alongside to lighten her.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
RAT MARKETS.
ShumrlELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 3s to 4/ 81; Od ; Clover
ditto, 3l 5s to 4l 8s; and Straw, 1/ is to 1/ 8s per load.
A full average supply, and a slow trade.
CUMBERLAND.— Meadow Hay, 31 bs to 41 8s ; Clover
ditto, 3l 5s to 4188; and Straw, 113 s to I/ 10a per load.
Supply tolerably good, and trade rather dull.
WHITECHAPEL—Meadow Hay. 31 3s to 41 6s; Clover
ditto, 3l Os to 4l 8s; and Straw, I/ 2s to I/ 8s per load.
Trade dull, at our quotations.
COLONTAS.
SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation is heavy, and
prices are generally 6d to is lower since this day week;
About 200 hhds have been sold. 2,500 bags Bengal and
8,300 bags Madras were only about half realised at prices
establishing the above decline. The quantity of British
Plantation landed last week at the East and West India

CRIMINAL COUR'c.—(THIS DAY.)

OLD COUR t.
(Before the REcortnErt.)
George Frederick Hopping, 38, ironmonger, and Jtgli
Brown, Eli, agent, were indicted for misdemeanour.
Mr. Parry prosecuted, and Mr. Robinson Wendt(' the P.'
soners.
It appeared that the prisoner, Hopping, hid obtained, w, a
the assistance of the other prisoner, a certain qurntity of ir°
goods from Messrs. Daniel and Co., by means of a forged
r
order, which tin-y represented as coming from Mr. Bachelor'
the prosecutor, from whose employ Hopping hid only a le
days previously been dismissed. Hopping had access to th
order book, and it was found atter he left, that several Page
with blank forms had been torn out.
Both the prisoners were found Guilty, and sentence 109
deferred.