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London, England, 1851-08-06 00:00:00

LONDON,

gone abroad which he wss anxious now to refer to. It
was said that Cabinet Ministers were to have prece-
dence of other Members on state occasions. Now no
such distinction ought to be recognised, nor was it
recognised at the last Coronation, for then it was sup-
posed that Members attended upon the Sovereign not
as Ministers, but as representatives of the people, who
all stood on an equal footing.
After a few words from Mr. M. J. O'CorarELL and
Lord JOHN REISSULL. the motion was agreed to, and
the report ordered to ba printed.
BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN SCOTLAND,
Viscount MELGUND moved an address for returns
stating the number of births, of deaths, and of marriages,
registered in each parish of each county in Scotland, in
each year since the 31st day of December, 1841, and the
scale of fees established in each parish for such regis-
trations.—Agreed to.
The remaining orders were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at Twenty minutes to Six o'clock.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)

Their Lordships sat in appeals at one o'clock. The
Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Cran-
worth, and Earl Fortescue.

BRIGHT V. HUTTON.
HUTTON V. BRIGHT.

These were two cross appeals from a judgment of
Lord Cranworth's. The bill was filed originally by Mr.
Hutton, the official manager appointed under the Joint-
stock Companies Winding-up Act to wind up the affairs
of the Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brigh-
ton Railway Company. it appeard that on the 25th
September, 1845, the prospectus of this company was
first issued, containing among the names of the pro-
visional committee the name of Mr. Bright, and on the
14th of October Mr. Bright also became an allottee, by
accepting an allotment of 100 shares, on which he paid
262/. 10s. as a deposit. On the 21st only 67,630 shares
out of the 80,000 of which the company was to consist,
had been applied for, and no Act of Parliament was
ever applied for, and the undertaking was afterwards
wholly abandoned. On the 21st December an order was
made by the late Vice-Chancellor of England to dissolve
and wind up the affairs of the company; and Master
Brougham, who was charged with that winding up, on
the 3rd of July made an order for a call of 101. per
share for the expenses incurred, upon each of the con-
tributories, among whom Mr. Bright was to bear a
rateable proportion of the expenses incurred from the
14th of October, the day on which he became an allottee,
up to the period when the company was dissolved. Lord
Cranworth, on a motion before the Court, confirmed the
said order, and against this decision both parties appealed,
Mr. Bright contending that no expenses whatever could
be recovered from him, and the official manager seeking
to fix Mr. Bright with a rateable proportion of the ex-
penses of the company from the time of its first forma-
tion down to its abandonment.
Mr. C. T. Cooper and Mr. Morris appeared for the
appellant, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Bethell and Mr. Rox-
bury for the official manager.

We are happy to be able to announce that two
distinguished Hon. Members, Mr. Hume and Mr. Roebuck,
who have been absent from their Parliamentary duties
through severe indisposition, are so far recovered as to be
able to resume their duties this session. Both gentlemen
were present in their seats in the House this morning.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The prevailing spirit of
this day's market has been of a satisfactory character.
Though extremely cautious, and not inclined to exceed
their previous limits, the buyers of yarns and goods
have yet shown a rather better disposition fur business
at the rates of last week; and, at the same time, both
spinners and manufacturers, thou'4li wishful to keep
under contract, are enabled to manifest fully as much
firmness as they did a week ago. The buying hes been
of a general character in goods and yarns, bud of con-
siderable aggregate amount, effected generally et the full
previous rates, and attended with a hardening tendency
in sc.me articles. For low mule and water twist, extra
hard twisted Mediterranean yarns, and throatle warps
up to No. 28's, for jth and 36-inch cloths, domes-
tics, T's, and long cloths, there continues to be a
demand, which keeps the market extremely bare.
The Germans still show much hesitation, yet their
timid operations are of fair extent on the whole. Last
ek, there might be said to be no commissions in the
market on Eastern account; to-day, however, some
orders, attracted by the low point to which prices have
fallen, have been received by the agency houses, and pur-
chases of ehirtings to a fair amount have taken place.
There has been a little inquiry also for Indian yarns of
some counts. There continues to be a moderate call for
fine yarns on Russian account, and also for some numbers
of doubled.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We have had a steady demand
for flannels to-day, without any change of prices from
the preceding week. Wool is firm, at the last week's
quotations.
MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—Nothing has taken place
since Friday's report to give an impulse to business in
silk manufactured goods, though some of our principal
manufacturing houses have begun to put out their pat-
tern warps for the approaching autumnal season.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—The aspect of business in our
Piece Hall to-day has not varied much from that of last
Saturday. Low lastings are still inquired for; but the
sale of other descriptions of goods is somewhat limited.
We cannot note any improvement in the demand for
yarn, which meets a heavy sale, at late rates. The
transactions in wool are far from extensive, and, in con-
sequence of the depression, it may be purchased in rather

easier terms.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—The market has been rather dull
to-day; but the woollen trade generally continues active,
and stocks keep low. A fair business doing in the
warehouses, both for borne and foreign trade.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAT.—III our market to-day
there has been an increased activity upon last week's.
In the Cloth Hall a good business has been done in
blacks and mixtures of the middle qualities. Fancies, of
new and seasonable qualities, have been in demand.
Stocks in the Cloth-hall are at present low, indeed much
more so than is usual at this time of the year. The
shipping trade at present is quiet. The market in wools
has been rather more brisk than last week.
BIRMINGHAM, MONDAL—ICL our last notice of the
iron trade we mentioned that expectations were enter-
tained of the gradual giving out of such orders as had
been withheld at quarter day, at the prices current
before that time ; and we are' happy to say they are
now being realised. During the past week, the demand
has become more active, and specifications are more
freely obtained, though unfortunately there is still
no tendency towards improved prices. Throughout
every branch of the business, complaints of losses and
want of remuneration are most energetic. Confidence,
indeed, is fast giving way to a feeling of anxiety for
the result of the present unmodified production under
such ruinous circumstances. Still the aggregate
employment of our mills and forges is again about
equal to that of the Same period in the last quarter.
For rails also there are considerably more contracts in
the market; but the figures at which they are required
render them either unworthy of notice or altogether im-
practicable. We have not beard that more than one
furnace has been put out of blast, though at some the
make has been rest:ieted.—Aris'a Birmingham Gazette.

THE NEW SCREW STEAMER PROBE.
The advance of =proven:lout in the manufacture of
merchant vessels, says a correspondent, is in no instance
more strikingly developed than in the building of
auxiliary screws in the present year. We have had
occasion to take notice of several this year, which
have attracted great attention, but in no instance
have the lines been so flue, or has the model eli-
cited such general gratification, as in that of the
Pacebe. This fine vessel, of 600 tons register and 150
horse power, was launched on Saturday last, from the
building yard of Messrs. Alexander Denny and Brother,
of Dumbarton, who appear rather favourite builders with
our Liverpool folk; aed she certainly does them every
credit, as she promises, from her peculiar model and
greater proportionate power than some of the steamers
lately built, to outrival all her predecessors in the Medi-
terranean trade. Although remarkably yacht-like in ap-
pearance, as she gracefully entered the water, still, for
strength of construction, her builders have challenged all
competitors. Her plates throughout are double rivetted,
and she has a larger scantling than any other steamer we
have seen. -Her commander, Captain P. P. Brenan, who
is also a large proprietor, expects to have her iu Liver-
pool this month, when she will be laid upon her intended
station, Syra, Constantinople, and Smyrna,
and from an experience of upwards of twenty years i❑
the trade we have nO doubt he will make the most of her.
She is the first of an intended line of new iron screw
steamers for the Levant, under the management of
Messrs. Preston and Watson, of this town, who have
adopted all the most recent improvements in naval archi-
tecture, and who seeing the daily increasing demands
of the trade are by this means securing
their former prominent position in the Turkey
trade. Messrs. Tulloch and Denny, of Dumbarton,
are putting the engines into the Phoebe, and, on close
examination, they have been pronounced one of the
compactest and neatest jobs of the kind ever turned out
of the Clyde, and her proprietors have every confidence,
with all their appliances, of receiving the liberal support
of the shippers to the Mediterranean. She is 175 feet
long, 26 feet beam, 154 feet deep, is barque rigged, of a
peculiar rakish appearance, which is improved by her
bow being planned so as to appear high out of the water—
nearly straight, and particularly light—an improvement
on the late vessel, for which we are indebted to her practi-
cal commander,Captain P.P. Brenan. Her screw has oaly
two blades, but it appears particularly strong. She has
comfortable houses on deck for the officers and engineers,
and she has also a bath-room on deck, which is de-
servedly appreciated as a great luxury in trading
to oriental shores. Her cabins were large and spa-
cious ; in fact, the berths appear to us so
airy and commodious that passengers must give
her a preference—their ventilation, comfort, and
elegance being suplior in every respect. The la-
dies' cabin is a little drawing-room in miniature—is
elegantly furnished; that also has a comfortable bath-
room attached. She is divided into four air-tight cam-
partments, and is calculated to carry 650 tone of goods,
and 220 tons of coals, besides twenty passengers. From
the energetic chancier of her agent, and the great par-
tiality shown by old hands in the trade to the captain,
that success is prophesied to the Ph :ea? which her
spirited originators deserve."—Liverpool Mercury.

MARAZION.—MAN•TBAF EXTRAORDINARY.—EarIy
on Wednesday morning last Captain Matthew Hill, when
taking a walk in him orchard, observed a person's arm thrust
through a small window, or air-hole, of a cattle-house, near
which was a favourite apple-tree, and from which the hid-
den thief WAS helping himself. At last Captain White
walked quickly up by the side of the wall and laid hold of his
arm, in which position he kept the thief for a considerable
time, looking at the apples with his arm securely fixed.—
Cornwall Gazette.