The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-23 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
DERBY SMITHFIELD MARKET, MAY '2o.—The number
of fat beasts to-day was larger than that of last week, and
the quality was generally goo ; the supply from the north was
large of bullocks and heifers. The supply of sheep and lambs
was large. Fat and store calves were considerably less in
number than they have been for the last two months.
Beef, 5d to sid ; mutton (out of the wool), 5d to 51d; lamb,
7d to Od ; veal, 433 d to 5d per lb ; pigs, 7s to Os Od per
score. Rough fat, 3s 6d per stone of 14Ibs. Hides, 11d to
2d per lb ; calf skins 2d to 4d per lb.
UPPINGHAM, MAY 21.—Wheat 36s to 41s; barley 23a to
25s Od ' • oats 20s to 255.; beans 29s to 32s per quarter. Butter
7d to 71d per lb; eggs 25 for Is.
BosTati, MAY 21.—Wheat, red 27s to 38s Od, white 37s
to 40s, extra 42s to 00s ; barley 22s to 25s ; oats 17s to 225;
beans 27s to 32s ; peas 00i to 00s per quarter.
NEWARK, MAY 21.—Wheat, white 40s to 465, red 38s to 425;
barley, malting 23s to 255, grinding 20s to 215.; oats, seed,
23s to 265, feed OOs to 003 ; beans, 32s to 34s ; tares 363 to
40s ; malt, 48s to 52s per qr.
LYNN, MAY 20—Wheat 30s to 365. fine 38s 40s to 425;
barley OOs to OOs, fine OOs; oats OOs to OOs, fine OOs to 00s ;
beans Os to is, fine Os to Os per qr.
LOUTH, MAY 21.—Wheat 34s to 39s ; barley 219 to 24s ;
oats 14s to 16s ; beans 22s to 26s per qr.
MELTON MOWBRAY, MAY 20.—Wheat, 38s Od to 44s ;
barley 2-is to 26s ; oats 20s to 24s ; beans 28s to 32s per qr.
Butter 7d to 8d per lb ; eggs 22 to 24 for ls.
EDINBURGH GRAIN MARKET, MAY 21.—We had a fair
supply of grain in the market to-day. Sales ready for all sorts,
and prices a little up. Top of wheat the same as last week,
and the average 8d up. Barley on the top the same as last
week, and the average Sd down. Oats on the top Id up, and
the average 2d up. Beans on the top Is up, and the average
Is 4d up. Unsold-135 qrs wheat, 39 qrs barley, 71 qrs oats,
and 00 qrs beans.
Top of Wheat ... ... ... 6511 b. 44s Od
„ Barley ... ••• .. 57 lb. 32s Od
3, Oats ... ... ••• ... 44ilb. 25s Od
„ Beans ... ••• ... 6741 b. 34s Od
I EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKET, MAY 21.—The number
of cattle was 611, or 134 less than last :week. Top price
of the bast cattle, 63 9d; current, Os to 6s 6d ; secoulary
and inferior, from 5s Od to 5s 6d per Dutch stone. A good
clearance was effected. The number of sheep and lambs this
morning was 1,225, or 476 less than last week. Top price of
the best mutton, ti:ld per lb; current, 6d; ewes and inferior
sorts, 5d to 51,1 per lb. Lambs, top, 225; current, 18e,
and down to 15. s a head.
DUNBAR, MAY 20.—Wheat, weighing 001bs, brought 425,
and prices to 36s Cd. Barley, weighing 001bs, brought
(Os Od, anti prices to 00s Cd. Oats, weighing 43ilbs, brought
2'2s 6d, and prices to 20s Od. Beans and peas, weighing
001bs, brought 00s Od, and prices to OOs Od.
CORK, MAT 21.

Barrels.
Currency.
13 White wheat 223 Od to 00s Od OOs Od-20 store
0 Red wheat 00s 0:1 to 003 Od OOs Od-20 do
0 Barley OO3 Od to 008 Od OOs Od-16 do
0 Bere
62 Oats .......... „les 2d to lls 9d lls Bd-14 do
0 Pigs oos Od to OOs Od OOs Od per cwt
Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:-
0 barrels white wheat; 0 red; U barley; 0 bere; 2 oats;
0 pigs.

Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week :
Wheat, 21. Barley, 18. Oats, 483. Pigs, —.
PRICES OF BUTTER.
CANT.
CURRENCY.
First quality
Second quality
Fourth quality
Fifth quality
Sixth quality 36s Sixth quality . ............... .
27s
418
Return of Cattle sold for the week ending May 17
Pigs, 357. Sheep, 468. 'Cows, 82.
CORE.—Flour—First I 1 s 6d to I2s Od ; extra 12s 6d ;
seconds, 1086 d to 11 s Od; households 98 to 108 Od; thirds, 78 to 88
per cwt. Oatmeal 108 to 1086 d; Indian meal 7s 6d to 8s 3d; wheat-
meal, 9s 6d to lOsper cwt. Indian corn 7i 15s Od to 8i Os Od per
ton. Bran 8080 d to 858 per ton. Hay—Farmers 208 to 375; average
348; dealers 448 to 52s Od; average 00s per ton. Stz aw— Farmers
10s Od to 25s Od; average 00s; dealers 28s Od to 32s od;
average 001 Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 50 to 6d ;
household loaf 40 to 5d per 41b. Fresh butter, 10d to
12d per lb. Eggs-3s 4d to 3s 6d per hundred. Coals—
Newport 14s Od; Lydney 15s ; Landore 14s ; Neath Cultn,
13s 6d per ton. Tallow 388 Od to 40s per cwt.
Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. Meat
—Beef 4d to 60 ; mutton 5d to 7d; veal 4d to
5d ; pork 4d to Od; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages bd per lb.
Hops 61108 to 0/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates 312 s 6d to 3/58 per
ton. Bark—Barbary 71 Os to 8/ Os; Valonia 151 to 01; French
61 Os ; Spanish 01 per ton. Fleece Wool 14s to 15s per stone.
Hemp 321 t 0341 per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings 198 to 00s ; red
ditto, 26s to 008 per barrel ; Newfoundland, 101 Os to 11/ per
ton. Timber—Memel, 80s per ton ; red pine, 31 108; yellow
ditto, 2/ 15s per ton; deals, 12s to 15s per 100. Hides—
Market 24s to 345; salted 25s to 34s per cwt ; calf skins
aid to 3d per lb. Potatoes, white 80 to 10d; Minions,
/2d to Isd. Guano—Peruvian, 11/ 108 ; Ichaboe, 81 to 910 s
per tor. Tar—Archangel, 199 per barrel.

, EXTENSIVE SWINDLING IN FIANCE.--The
police
have just arrested six individuals for swindling on an
extensive scale. They became acquainted in the debtors'
Prison Of Clichy, and established what they called com-
mission houses, on the Boulevard St. Martin, and in the
Rue de Larochfoucald. They issued pompous circulars to
manufacturers and tradesmen, stating that they had found
magnificent debouclas for all descriptions of goods. In con-
sequence, considerable quantities of rnerchamlize were trans-
mitted to them, and they gave iu return bills of exchange,
signed by men of straw. They sold the goods for whatever
they would fetch the moment they came into their per-
son The principal actor in these frauds is the per-
son who last year organized a service of tilburies between
Bordeaux and Tours, for conveying to the former city, for
the use of certain speculators, the quotations of the Paris
i
Bourse, before
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greatc()uld arrarpiviceiiitrinreagfuidlarfrcooursteileiTr heoelovuer-
"—French P per. were called
the "Cabriolets du liable,
which hung over them, thsy
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mystery

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On the motion of Mr.W WRIT.
CUMMING BRUCE, a new writ was ordered for the county of Argyll in the room
of Mr. Duncan M'Neill who had accepted the office of
one of the judges in Scotland.

PETITIONS.
Mr. FREWEN presented a petition from Sussex in
favour of the Improvement of Towns Bill.
An HoN. MEMBER presented two petitions praying for
the repeal of the attorneys' certificate duty.
Sir JAMES DUKE presented fivo petitions from the
city of London, praying for the repeal of the taxes on
knowledge.
The MASTER of the ROLLS presented a petition
from an individual holding the office of Clerk of the
Enrolments in the Court of Chancery, complaining that
recent acts of the Legislature had completely
annihilated the fees of his situation, and praying the
House to make some provision for him in the new County
Courts Bill.
Mr. W. J. FOX presented a petition against the
Regium Donum grant.
Sir B. HALL presented a petition from St. Pancras
in favour of the consolidation of paving boards.
Mr. DUNOUFT presented fifteen petitions from Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire against Papal aggression.
Mr. DUNCAN presented two petitions from places in
Scotland against the Education Bill.
Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from the
coachmakers of Bristol, praying for an equalization of
the carriage-tax.
Sir GEORGE CLERK presented a petition from the
Synod of Lothians against the Education Bill for Scot-
land; also a petition from the same place against the
Jew Bill.
Mr. KERSHAW presented a petition from Liverpool
against the I?egium Donunt.
Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition from Manchester
praying for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge; also
a petition from Ipswich against the Ecclesiastical Titles
Bill.

Mr. JOHN O'BRIEN presented petitions from the
parishes of St. Michael's, St. John's, and St. Munchin's,
in, favour of the Towns Improvement Bill, and the reten-
tion of the 26th clause.
ATTORNEYS' CERTIFICATE DUTY.
Lord R. GROSVENOR announced that it was not
his intention to bring forward his motion on this subject.
ISLINGTON CATTLE MARKET.
Mr. WILSON PATTEN moved that ehe Islington
Cattle Market Bill be referred to the Committee on
Smithfield Market Removal Bill.—Agreed to.
ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gave notice that, on going into
Committee on this Bill, he should move that the first
clause be postponed until the House be in possession of
the brief, rescript, or letter apostolic on which the said
olause is founded.
RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.
Sir G. CLERK wished to ask the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman at the head of the Board of Trade what steps had
been taken by the Railway Board in relattotn to the two
late railway accidents ; and whether, if the Railway
Board had not power to adopt regulations for the public
safety, it was the intention of the Right lion. Gentle-
man to introduce t Bill for the purpose of enabling that
Board to interfere for the safety of life and limb to the
public ?
Mr. LABOUCHERE said the subject had been for
some time, and wts still under the consideration of the
Railway Board. With regard to the first ace ident, a very
able report had been presented to the Commissioners on
the subject by thegentleman who had been smolt down for
the purpose, which report he should feel it his duty to
lay upon the table of the House.—(E tear, hear.)
An inspector hod also been sent down to attend
the inquest on the second when it took pl. ice. With
regard to the most material part of the .Right Hon.
Baronet's inquiry, the propriety of the Ra :lway Com-
missioners undertaking the special control of railway ar-
rangements, in order to ensure public safety , he would
take the liberty of asking the House to be very cautious
before they adopted the opinion that the pi iblic safety
would be increased by being placed under the e control of
a railway board.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
Mr. E. WART rose to move that it is expedient that
the mitigations which have been made in t tie laws in-
flicting capital punishment in England be oxtended to
Scotland, and (as far as possible) to the colonial posses-
sions of this country. He thought there could, at all
events, be no objection on the part of the House to in-
stitute an inquiry into the law of Scotland on this sub-
ject. With regard to the colonies, he observed that the
laws of several of them presented many anomalies
as compared with those of England.
Tn St.
Lucia the penal laws of Louis thus XlVth.
were now in force; in Ceylon the Dutch lawi i prevailed,
and arson, coining, homicide, receiving stolen 1 property,
and other offences were punishable by death. At the
Cape of Good Hope the same enactments existed which
were introduced in the time of Charlo is V., and
by plemlthe crimes of coining, forgery, housebreaking,
rioting, and stealing, were visited with capital punish-
ment. There still remained, also, at Malta, a remnant of
the Justinian code, and among other offences punished by
death were attempts to poison, and even the breaking of
the quarantine laws. He believed that many of o ur colonies
had themselves effected considerable changses in their
laws, but he was anxious that the laws of all the colonies
should be made conformable to the laws et! England.
..._(liear, bear.) He was not aware whether
the House had power to do this. It might be that
the principle on which it acted was first to improve
the constitution of the colonies, and then allow them to
make laws for themselves—a principle to which he was
i favourable, but he thought, at the same tiese, -that a
1 suggestion made by the ;House in the shape of a
resolution such as he proposed, would have con-
siderable iefluenee iti the colonial legislative assemblies.
Many governors of colonies had already expressed an
anxious wish that the law should be assimilated, and he
hoped, therefore, that no opposition would be offered to
his motioe.--(Hear.)
Mr. FOX MAULE said he could himself really see
no objection to the proposition of the Hon. Member
viz., thee the law of Scotland and the colonies should be
assimilated to that of England, but he questioned very
much the propriety of the House adopting a resolution
of such a vague character. As regarded the colonies,
the House could not legislate for them in these matters,
and they were themselves the best judges of that which
best suited their internal arrangements.
Mr. HUME did not think the Right Hon. Gentleman
had done justice to the motion of the Hon. Member.
With regard to Scotland, Ire should like to see what was
practicable done by law ; but in reference to the
colonies, where they had the right of self-government,
he was disposed to leave the matter in their own hands.
Many colonies, however, did not enjoy that privi-
lege ; and in so far as he was concerned, he
thought their criminal laws ought to be assimilated to
our own. He hoped, therefore, the Home Secretary
would take up the subject and call for the opinion of the
House upon it.--(Hear, hear.)
Mr. H.A.WES did not deprecate discussion upon this
subject, but he certainly was adverse to legislating
upon it at; present. The motion, however, was defective
so tar as it related to Scotland, because the proper mode
of proceeding for altering the law of Scotland was by
Bill, and mot by resolution. Coasidering all the House
had heard of late on the question of local self-
governms, ut, he did think it would be highly impolitic
to adopt that part of the motion which had reference to the
colonies. But, iu point of fact, as regarded the majority of
our coloni es, there was no necessity for this species of le-
gislation, because their criminal codes, as nearly as
was possible or expedient, had already been assimilated
to those of the mother country. In proof of this he need
only refer-to the papers which had been laid before the
House in the course of the present session, wherein it
would be found that even in colonies whose codes
were severer than our own, a desire was always ma-
nifested by the authorities to follow the example
of the mother country, and adopt a system of transpor-
tation in preference to resorting to the punishment of
death.—(Hettr. hear.)
Sir G. GREY was understood to say that instructions
had been forwarded to Scotland to make the law there
in criminal cases as lenient as it is in England.—(Hear.)
Mr. EWART said the purpose of his motion had been
answered by the discussion which it had given rise to,
and he would not, therefore, put the House to the trou-
ble of dividing upon it.
Tao motion was accordingly withdrawn with leave.
SECULAR EDUCATION.
Mr. W. J. FOX then rose, pursuant to notice, to
move that it was expedient to promote the education of
the people, in England and Wales, by the establishment
of free sehoola for secular instruction, to be supported
by local rates, and managed by committees, elected
specially for that purpose by the ratepayers. He said
he rose with some encouragement to make this proposi-
tion, because, at the recent anniversary of the British
and Foreign School Society, the Noble Lord at the head
of the Government, who presided over the meeting, ex-
pressed his conviction that the present was a fitting
time for melting additional efforts to promote the educa-
tion of the people. The proposition, therefore, that
he was nose making to the House was not in its object
ill-timed. Ile dienot, however, think the Noble Lord's
language was sufficient to warrant him in expecting that
the Noble Lord would honour this motion with his sup-
port, but it did warrant him in expecting
.that it would

HOUSE OF COMMOIVS, May 22.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
NEW WRIT.
On the motion of Mr. HAYTER a new writ was
ordered for the Borough of Newry, in the room of Vis-
count Newry, deceased.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
Mr. A. HASTIE moved that the order of the Com-
mittee of Selection of the 11 th April, nominating the
Committee on the Caledonian Railway (Motherwell
Branch Extension and Lesinahagow Branches Lease)
Bill, Group 15 of Railway Bills, be discharged: that the
Bill be withdrawn. That leave be given to bring in a
Bill to enable the Caledonian Railway Company to pro-
vide for the construction of certain Branch Railways in
the county or Lanark. That on the said Bill being pre-
sented, and read the first time, it be referred to the
Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, with leave to
sit and proceed to-morrow.—Agreed to.
THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time and passed
Chorley Waterworks.
Eastern Union Railway.
Edinburgh Royal Asylum for the Insane.
Liverpool Docks (Alteration of Management, &c.).
Weston-super-Mere Improvement and Market.
CONSIDERATION OF BILLS.
The following Bills were considered and agreed to:—
Brackley Roads Consolidation.
Great Western Railway (Railways to connect the Bir-
mingham and Oxford Junction Railway with the Lon-
don and North-Western Railway at;Birmingham, &c.).
Hayling Bridge and Causeway.
North Shields Quays and Improvements.
Sunderland Improvement.