The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-06 00:00:00

burtb'Elaition

BANK OF ENGLAND.
AnAGeount (From this night's Gazette.)
,pu:suant to the Aet 7th and Rth of Vietoriit.e3P
. 32 for
the Week ending on Sattuday, the 31st day of May, 1851.
Igin7ll DEPAILTICENT.
Z.
Notes 13320 d.• 27,Q13,135

Government debt .. 11,015,100
Other securities •• • . 2,914,900
Gold coin and bullion 12,979,760
Silver bullion ...... 33,375

:Z27,013,135

M. mARSUA £27,013,135
LL, Chief Cashier.
Dated the sth day cf June, teal.

BANKING B:

VOITILEN T.

Proprietors 'c ipi.tal • • 14,553,0C0
Rest ... „. .... 3,084,7,10
Public deposits (in-
oinding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
.National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts) .. 6,888,791
Other deposits ...... 8,806,603
seven day and other
Bing " " • • • 1,076,053

Govcrnraent securt-
ties (ln:luding Dead
Weight Annuity) .. 13,593.236
Other seCarittill ..•• 12.506,833
'SICteB •• •• •'"••••
coin„
7,q5,41s
"Gold and silver coin.. 631,719

X 34,409,202

£34,409,202
MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the sth day of June, 1851

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will effe4,4ll: by destroy them. This is the second year it has
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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock,

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The .Hamburgh Borsenhalle of the 3d inst. says—
" We are able to giie the following particulars rela-
tive to the journey of the British Consul to the Hanse
Towns. Colonel Hodges went to Flensburg to meet his
former colleague in the administration, lA. Von Tillisch.
The numerous complaints relative to the dictatorial ad-
ministration of the Duchy of Schleswig induced M. Von
Tillisch, in his quality of responsible Minister, to send
an exposé to the Cabinet, in which all the accusations
relative to the despotic proceedings, and the severity
exercised towards the German population of the duchy,
were decidedly repudiated.
" The Cabinet of St. James's was accordingly soli-
cited in a special note to mediate in this affair with the
German powers, and was at the same time requested to
confide the office to a person who was thoroughly ac-
quainted with the peculiar state of the duchy. Nothing
has yet transpired relative to the results of the confer-
ence which took place between Colonel Hodges and the
commissioner, Count Criminil."

ITALY.
The Statute of Florence, of the 30th ult says—
" This year Ascension-day happened to coincide
idewith
the anniversary of the battles of Custatone and Monte-
'rare; and the Church of Santa Croce, where the names
of the Tuscans who fell on the 29th of May, 1848, are
inscribed among the monuments, was consequently
crowded with persons, attracted either by the solemnity
of the day, or their political opinions. Some individuals
approached the slabs on which the names are engraved,
and attempted to hang garlands to them, as had been
done with impunity last year. But a person in plain
clothes, according to this account, forbade them to do so;
the others seeing no outward sign by which his official
capacity could have been recognised, refused to obey.
High words ensued, in which many other parsons present
took a part, until the gendarmes forced their way into
the church, and drove all before them, men, women, and
children, to the doors of the sacred edifice, where they
fired upon them, and then closed the doors."
A solemn funeral service was celebrated on the 30th
ult. in the church of St. Michelino at Florence, for
the late Right Hon. RICHARD LALOR SLIM. The
church was numerously attended on the occasion.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 6, 1851.
Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Owen William George,
M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Tardrew, promoted
in the 2d Regiment of Life Guards, June 6.
10th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Robert Charles
Holmes to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sir Thomas
Munro, Bart., woo retires; Cornet John Rawlinson
Cuthbert to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Holmes,
June 6.
sth Regiment of Foot—Captain William Newhouse,
from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Jobn
JunWoode 6.ward, who exchanges, receiving the difference,
19th Foot—Captain Lawrence Shadwell, from 98th
Foot, to bo Captain, vice Ellerman, who exchange a,
June 6.
24th Foot—Ensign Robert Hamilton Montgomerie to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Kippen, deceased;
.4614; Ensign Alfred Nicholson Crippe, from 18th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Montgomerie, June 6.
42d Foot—Ensign Duncan Downie Fletcher, from
71st Foot, to be Ensign, vice Maitland, deceased,
April 22.
43d Foot—Lieutenant Herbert Taylor M'Crea, from
the 94th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Daniel Mackineen,
who
June retires 6 upon haltpay as a Captain Unattached,
45th Foot—Thomas Augustus Burrows, from the
78th
Juno Foot, to be Ensign, vice Howard, promoted,
6.
.53d Foot—Captain Robert Hunt, from the 57th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Steward, who exchanges,
June 6.
57th Foot—Captain Frederick Gordon Steward, from
the 53d Foot, to be Captain, vice Hunt, who exchanges,
June 6.
64th Foot—Ensign Frederick I. Hutchison to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Moultrie, who retires; Ensign
William Leonard Barnard Straton, from 69th Foot, to
be Ensign, vice Hutchison, June 6.
66th Foot—Lieutenant Walter Serocold Pearce Sero-
cold to be Captain by purchase, vice Crawfurd, who
retires; Ensign Richard Horner Paget to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Serocold, June 6.
71at Foot—Sergeant-Major James Dalgleish to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Fletcher, appointed to
42d Foot, June 6.
84th Foot—Ensign Frederick Hardy to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Cassen, who retires ; John Penton,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hardy, Juno 6.
85th Foot—Lieutenant William Mortimer Pechell,
from 33d Foot, to be Paymaster, vice George Ash
Thompson, who retires upon half-pay, June 6.
94th Foot—Lieutenant John Warden M•Farlan, from
the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice
M'Crea, appointed Paymaster of 43d Foot, June 6.
98th Foot—Captain Edward John Ellerman, from the
19th Foot, to be Captain, vice Shadwell, who exchanges;
Lieutenant James Dutton Smyth to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Grantham, deceased; Ensign Montague
Browne to be Lieutenant, vice Smyth; Sergeant Major
Charles Mills to bo Ensign, vice Browne, June 6.
99th Foot—Lieutenant Frederick Montgomerie to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Armetroeg, who retires; En-
sign Allan Macdonald to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Montgomerie, June 6.
3rd West India Regimen;—Ensign George Alleyne
Rogers to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dowse, who
retires, Juno 6.
UNATTACHED.— Brevet Major George Frederick Pas-
chal, from the 70th Foot, to be Major, without purchase;
Lieutenant Thomas Peebles. from the 59th Fuot, to be
Captain, without purchase, June 6.
BREVET.—Captain John Stafford Paton, of the 14th
Bengal Native Infantry, to be Major in the Army in the
East Indies, February 9.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
TRINITY TERM, 14TH VICTORIA.
the d of .
This Court willTuesda hold syittings3d onSatorday,June, thelBsl 21st
day of June instant, and on every succeeding day
(Sundays excepted) until and including Tuesday,
the Ist day of July next, and also on Thursday,
the 10th day of July next, and will, at such
sittings, proceed in disposing of the business then
pending in the paper of new trials, in the paper
of demurrers, and in the paper of special cases; also in
disposing of such motions and applications (it any) as
shall then have been made and shall be then pending, as
the Court shall give leave to be brought on at the said
sittings; and likewise in giving judgment in all cases
then standing for judgment.
FRED. POLLOCK, E. H. ALDERSON,
T. J. PLATT, SAMUEL MARTIN.
Read in open Court, EDWD. BENNETT.
BANKRUPTS.
Andrew Burn, tailor, Sackviile•street, Piccadilly, to
surrender June 12, and July 18, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall.
street; Miller and Horn, King William-street, London-
bridge,
Edward Leech, apothecary, Chichester, Sussex, June
t half-east (levels, and July IS, at eleven, at the
uourat of P
Bankru tcy S'ansfelit, official assignee; Wil-
kinson, Gurney, and Stevens Nicholas-lane.
twe
John 'Lee grocer, Warwick, Juue 17 and July 8, at
lve, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie,
official assignee
Mansion-house. Aretugnam; Linklater, Charlotte-row,
Nyarwick.
Horatio Black, lacegtems°anutacturer, Nottingham, June
27 and July 11, at
officiani,asastit,the ,Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston,
Nottingham; Freeth,
Ravvson, and Browne, Notting:met; Hodgson, Birming-
ham.
John Jackson, silversmith, Scarborough, Ju 24 a
July 15, at eleven, at the Leeds District Courtn. e
800 dn
; R
Bond
sece, Birmingham;
and
official assignee, Leeds
Barwick, Leeds.
14,. a.t
.twelve, at the Manchester Dis-
trict Court.
John Greenhalgh, draper,Radcliffe-beiege Lanc
as ire,
nee, chester; Sale,
June 23 and July
Pott otht sg
d, shipm claanas_, eaainchesMteran.
Worthington, an
PRICE OF SUGAR.
the week ending-11
The average price of Brown. or Muscovado Sneer
com-
June 3,
puted from returns made in .
Great Britain:— —n
1851, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable theme
on the importation thereof into.
in Amer: 255. Ll.per:,,ft
From the British possessions
From the Mauritius ••• ••• 30e. 7ie.
From the East Indies ": dee
Average price of the two foregoing
scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as
265. 7d.
above, and exclusive of duty ••• •
f Parliament,
By authorit 0. -
HENRY BICKNELL, Clerk of the Grocere Company,
Grottera'-hall, June 6.

me❑

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—For the Cup, or grand day of the Ascot olym-
pier, yesterday was decidedly below par in several
and,
respects, particularly in the racing department ;
notwithstanding the generally attractive feature to
tthe
major portion of the large family of John 8111—the
as
presence of Royalty, the attendance, though grea
by no manner of means equal to that of last year,
when the Flying Dutchman won the Emperor'sfour prevous years.
The racing possessed, comparatively,
or in fact to auy of the three or i
little interest
plate,
he
to the turf habitues. With one solitary
utiexcep
tion, t
the racing
New Stakes, in which one or two prominent favourites
for next year's Derby figured,
s very
mediocre, having been in every instancerunners even
contested by
second and third-rates ; the net. even for the Em-
peror's Plate forming no.exception to this observation.
out running running to which
Marquis n
fortune treats the
As a specimen of the "ando of Exeter, his Lordship's
Phlegethon (by trial proved to be inferior at a mile
mile and a half to Midas) on Tuesday beats The
Ban by a head for the Ascot Derby; and yesterday The
and a
Ban makes a
-
all the running for the St. James's Palace
Stakes, and wins with considerable ease from Midas by
at least length. Here s a turf problem for the know-
ing ones to solve. It must be remembered that in each
a
instance it was no question of health or distance, both
having been determined beforehand. The race for the
Emperor's Plate was a very uninteresting affair; the
withdrawal one after another, at intervals of a week or
so, of The Flying Dutchman, undoubtedly the best horse
of 1849, of Voltigeur, the best of last year, of Nutshell,
a very respectable second-rate, and, lastly, of Russ-
borough, rendered the struggle for this imperial gift
anything but attractive in the eyes of that eccentric
" republic, club, community, 'yclept the ring," or
even
.in those of et a'oA;aot, as was evinced by
the very littte speculation that has taken place
on the race. In the contest Woolwich cams when
called upon, had the race in hand at the stand, and won
cleverly by a length; Little Jack, none the better for his
severe race on Tuesday, was pumped out at a hundred
yards from home; he, however, beat Trouncer for second
place by a length. Windischgratz fourth and last. I
half fancied that some lively game was to be played off
by the Russborough party; my conjecture was right: at
the last moment, about twenty-five minutes past one,
just one hour and ten minutes before the race was run,
Mr. Mangan posted a declaration to the effect that Russ-
borough would not start; what this was done for I can't
say, although with numerous others I think I can guess;
one thing, however, is very certain, considering the horse
was in the vicinity of the course and quite well, it was
anything but a creditable affair, and occasioned a great
deal of murmuring in the ring. The result of the
New Stakes justified my anticipations; I remarked in
my last note that I could not " discover anything to
beat the Phryne colt (Bro. to Elthiron, Windhound, and
Misesrima) for the New Stakes; the Queen Anne colt
must not be altogether forgotten." The race was not for
an instant in doubt, Brother to Elthiron:when called upon
came away from his horses and won cleverly by a
length. Grey Tommy, somehow or other, obtained the
second place; the Queen Anne colt was third. We must
now turn from royal Ascot to cockney Hampton, where
some sport, or what is called such, will come off on '
Wednesday and Thursday next. It is not my intention
to touch upon this meeting until Monday or Tuesday,
when the entries for the various stakes will be complete.
Manchester now puts in its claim as the principal pro-
vincial meet of the ensuing week, with a very respect-
able " bill of fare," if anything rather above than under
the average. The performances will commence :on
Wednesday, as usual, with the Trial Stakes, which is
not entered for as yet. The second race will be for the
Biennial Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added; one mile
and a half. To this stake there are ten nominations.
including the potent name of the Derby winner, whom,
however, Ido not expect to see at the post. Constel-
lation, The Queen Bee, The Black Doctor, and Louis
Napoleon also figure among the entries. The race will
lie 'with BLACK DOCTOR and CONSTELLATION; Louis
Napoleon, if he runs, third. For the Manchester Union
Cup a large field will go to the post, including, in all
probability, Blister, 4 yrs, sst :101b; Woolwich, 5 yrs,
Bst 51b; Osbaldeston, 4 yrs, Est 81b; and one of Scott's
trio—Champion, 5 yrs, 7st; Uriel, 5 yrs, Bst 71b; or
Vanguard, 5 yrs, ist 101 b. This lot, I fancy, includes
the winner's name, which, in the absence of Uriel (said
to bo intended for the Northumberland Plate), may pos-
sibly be WOOLWICH, CHA3IPIoN, or VANGUARD, the first-
named for choice: nearer to the mark than this, at the
present moment, out of an entry of 68 horses, I cannot go.
A Produce Stakes of 10 soy& each, h ft, with 100 added,
one mile and three-quarters, sports an entry numbering
33, which includes THE. PRIME MINISTER'S name ;
this once magical cognomination ought to head the
others in the " return lists," and what is more, will, if
they choose to run him; in his absence, The Black
Doctor, Constellation, and Serus, will be first, second, and
third. On Thursday the colt by Simoom, out of The
Queen, better known as the BROTHER TO SHYLOCK,
will give Paddy Bird and the remainder of the field the
go-by for the Two Yrs Old Stakes. The King of Troy:will
not get a nearer place than third. The Tradesmen's Cup
of 300 soya. in specie, added to a handicap sweepstakes of
20 sovs. each, 15 ft, &c.; two miles; will attract a good
field to the post, which Candlewick or Pitsford may,
perchance, win; but, Woolwich, 5 yrs, Bst 51b; Rhesus,
5 yrs, 7st Slb; Panclemus, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b; and Tight-
waist, 3 yrs, sst 41h, are worthy a slight consideration.
I will give a more definite opinion next week, when I
have discovered which way the money hoes. GOLD-
FINDER, LE JUIr, and SIR WILLIAM WALLACE, the
first two for choice, read the best on paper
for the 5 sovs. Handicap Stakes. Oa Friday,
TIGETWAIST will, in all probability, win the
Castle Irwell Stakes; Teddington, of course, will not
start; and I do not think Ihe Black Doctor will either.
For the Salford Borough Cup of 100 sovs. in specie,
added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft.,
&e., one mile and a half, I should hardly think that
Woolwich, the top weight on the list at Bst 81b, would
be pulled out. The lot from which the winner will
spring is formed of Haricot, 4 yrs, 7st 21b, Alonza,
4 yrs, 7st, Candlewick, 4 yrs, 6st 41b, Unity,
3 yrs, sst 41b, and Paquette, 3 yrs, 4st 41b.
ALONZO and PAQUETTA for choice. Haricot
and Unity will run extremely well; third and fourth,
if no nearer. My remarks on the Derby of 1852 on
Monday.
-

The betting this morning in town is very dull; a few
horses have been supported at the under-mentioned
prices:—Manchester Cup-8 to 1 agst Woolwich, 10
to 1 agst Seagull, 12 to I agst The Sweep. Two
Years Old Stakes-6 to 4 agst Brother to Shylock,
3to 1 agst Paddy Bird. Salford Borough Cup--
4 to 1 agst Alonzo, 7 to 1 agst Ilaricot, 7 to 1 agst
Maid of Team Valley. Northumberland Plate--
8 to 1 agst liriel, 8 to 1 agst England's Glory, 10 to 1
agst Neasham, offered. St. Leger-7 to 1 agst Hernan-
dez, taken; 7to 1 agst Aphrodite, offered; 10 to 1 agst
Miserrinia, taken freely; 25 to 1 agst Larnartine, taken.
Derby, 1852-12 to I agst Phryne colt; 16 to 1 agst
Elcot; 40 to 1 agst Claverhouse (Lord Eglinton's).
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF TUE TURF.

Juno 6, 1851.

PARLIAITENT.
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORD S.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon tho Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.
Lc.ird BEAUMONT presented a petition from certain
veterinary surgeons, praying that they might be ex-
empted from serving on juries.
THE INDIAN FIVE PER CENT. LOAN.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH asked if the closure
of the five per cent. loan in India had been by orders
from th© local authorities or from the Home Govern.

Lord BROUGTON said that the Government of
India bad represented that it would be desirable that the
loan should be closed, and thereupon the Home Govern-
ment had issued a notice that the loan should be closed,
and it had been closed on the sth April.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH would have been
better pleased had it been closed by order of the local
authorities.

The Earl of EjLUL
TETNEBEO
RPoEuRGSAHITgDay.
e notice that h
should, on the 19th inst
.the attention e
, draw
to the case of Juttee Persaud.
Lord BROUGTON had as yet received no offieia • l
Information on the subject, but hoped he
should receive
such information before 19th.thee
COMMON LAW COMMISSION.
Lord BROUGHAM
that the asked when it would be probable
report of the Commissioners
would be presented
en 'practice and pleading •
n Lord CAMPBELL was in the common law.
not answer toe
was sorry to say that he could
the office
w,
.e question. When be was appointed to
had drawohuich he now held himself and his colleagues
ing, but they plerrtain rules in practice and in plead-
ing those rules thought it better to defer promulgat-
presented, ands until the report should have been
Lord BRouGaw it would be presented speedily.
mediate presentatio of urged the necessity for the ina:
COURTSnopthat report.
Lord BROUGHAM toRECONCILEMENT.
the proceedings of courts Ord a resolution relating to
Lord REDESDALE objectedcilement in Denmark.
A resolution was a resolution Of upon a point of order.
the House could not agree to
suchthe whole House, and
could not know whit passed in Denmark. a resolution as it
Lord CAMPBELL said a Peer o a
,„icat,, Lay information which he thought right to cora-
ought might bo
useful to his brother Peers.
The motion, ns we understood, was then
withdrawn.
LAW OF MARRIAGES.
The Duke of ARGYLL presented a petition from
Australia, praying for the introduction of a •
Bill extend-
ing to the colonies the Act rendering legal marriages
celebrated in Ireland by a Presbyterian clergyman.
As
the law at present stood, marriages celebrated by Pres-
byterian clergymen in the colonies were, under certain
circumstances, iliegal. Such marriages so celebrated in
Ireland were legal, and the colonists prayed the ex-
tension of that Act to the colonies. The Court of
Sidney had decided that Presbyterian marriages
in the colony Were invalid, and therefore the Presbyte-
rians wereplaced in 6 painful condition. There
had been
' a remedial Act passed in the Colony, but that
only
referred to Presbyteriansof the Estalbished Church
of Scotland, Thus the law was left in a most uncertain
state. In giving their
hope that the - judgment the judges expressed a
In the Colossalquestion Assembly a law had been passed
rendering legal all
contracted, but enacting which had been thus
He was sorry to say that n%insothing as to the future.
OP
yeim
religicv
az4
or vest' onhad become mixed
; th ha A;;orneY•Gourgl of

EMIGRANTS.
Colonel CHATTERTON asked the Secretary of State
for the Home Department if he had had any correspon-
dence with Major Beaunil, as Chairman of a Bench of
Magistrates assembled in the city of Cork, respecting
the treatment of paupers sent from London to Cork on
board the Preussischen Adler steam-ship; and whether
ho intended to make any inquiry into the subject of:such
correspondence ?
Sir G. GREY was understood to say that the Poor-
law Board were instituting an inquiry into the subject.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in rising to move that the
House at its rising do adjourn till Thursday next, took
the opportunity of stating the course which Government
proposed to take with regard to public business. He
proposed that on Thursday next the Committee of Sup-
ply shouli stand first on the orders of the day,
He proposed then to go into Committee and
consider the remaining part of the navy estimates, when
his Right Honourable Friend the First Lord of the Ad-
miralty would make a statement with regard to the re.
tirement of admirals. After the naval estimates he pro-
posed to take a vote for the expenses of the Kafir war, and
he proposed also on Thursday and Friday to take the mis-
cellaneous estimates. He had already given notice that
on the Monday following ho intended to go on with the
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, but in order to give time for
the return of Irish Members after the recess, he
shodld propose to take the second reading of
the Customs Bill and of the Window Tax
Repeal Bill, and then to go on with the miscellaneous
estimates., The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill he should take
on the Friday following, which would be this day fort-
night, and then he proposed to go on with that Bill until
it had been disposed of.
Mr. EWART wished to ask the First Lord of the
Treasury, whether her Majesty's Government are
willing to causo to be made, through a Minister of the
Crown, on going into the education estimates, a
statement of the condition and progress of edu-
cation, so far as it comes under the administration of the
Government, and within the supplies voted by Parlia-
ment; including national institutions connected with art
or 'science, training schools, schools of design, public
libraries, and similar institutions, conformably with the
promise made by the lute Sir Robert Peel during his
administration.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL bad no knowledge of any
promise made by Sir Robert Peel on this subject. He
would, however, consider whether any further statement
could be made in addition to that usually laid before the
House; but he thought it would be indiscreet to make
such a general statement as that proposed by his Hon.
Friend.
Mr. HUME could vouch for the accuracy of what had
fallen from his Hon. Friend. Sir It. Peel distinctly
made the promise, and declared that in future it would
be ihe duty of the Government to make a similar report
on the subject of the educational grants to that made upon
the vote for the British Museum. Nothing could be more
satisfactory to the public than that such a report should
be made.
Mr. CARDWELL said if he remembered rightly it
was not to be a report but a statement from a member
of the Cabinet of the grants that had been disposed of,
and the intentions of Government for the future.
Mr. LABOUCHERE said the minutes of the Council
of Education were annually laid before the House, which
would show the disposal of the grant.
Mr. MO WATT said these minutes were not intelli-
gible to ninety-nine out of a hundred persons.
Mr. REYNOLDS again re-called the attention of the
House to the manner which the poor were treated in
various of the Irish workhouses. On the 11th of April
he moved for certain returns to found emotion on the sub-
ject, but the Irish poor-law authorities, alarmed lest the
real state of affairs should come to light, had neglected
to make the return. The treatment which the Irish pau-
pers had received in these workhouses threw the attro-
cities that were practised upon Jane Wilbred into the
shade, and he strongly suspected that the commissioners
wished to delay making their returns until it should be
too late for him to bring on his motion.
Sir G. GREY said it was impossible for the returns
in question to be ready within the time.
Mr. SCHOLEFIELD rose to ask Sir George Grey
whether he had received any communication from the
Mayor of Birmingham, relative to the erection, now in
progress, of a large convent within that borough ?
Sir G. GREY answered that he had not received any
communicatio❑ from any quarter on the subject.
Mr. SPOONER rose to explain. It was evident that
the question was put with reference to a statement which
ho had made in the House on the debate on the Reli-
gious Houses Bill. Now, although Mr. Newman had
written a letter to the Morning Chronicle attempting to
explain that these underground cells were meant for
baking, brewing, and other domestic purposes, yet he
himself had received a letter from a gentleman in Bir-
mingham who had inspected the building in the course
of erection, who informed him they were too numerous
to be meant for any such purposes, and more than that,
they were not furnished with any means of obtaining
light externally.
Mr. MOORE would only say that he was glad the
Honourable Member had so completely shown his own
absurdity on this subject, and he thought it was quite
impossible for anybody to make him more ridiculous
than he had made himself.—(Cries of " Order."
VENEZUELA.
Mr. DISRAELI gave notice that he should on this
day week present a petition from Mr. Wall, a British
merchant of the Carraccas, complaining of injuries suf.
fared by him from the Venezuelan Government.

KAFIR WAR.
Mr. ADDERLEY wished to know whether, as there
were so many ❑otices of motion for Thursday next, the
Noble Lord at the head of the Government would have
any objection to postpone the motion respecting the
Kafir war until Thursday?;
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said if that motion could not
come on till a lato hour, he should certainly postpone it.
ADJOURNMENT FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
The motion that the House at its rising should adjourn
until Thursday next, was then agreed to.
SMITHFIELD MARKET.
Mr. CARDWELL brought up the report of the Com-
mittee on the Smithfield Market Removal Bill.

FISHERIES.
Mr. ANDERSON gave notice that on an early day
after the holidays he should call the attention of the
House to the obj3cts, duties, and proceedings of the
Board of Fisheries.

INCUMBERED ESTATES.
Mr. MORGAN JOHN O'CONNELL moved for a
copy of any statement addressed to the Chief Secretary
of Ireland from the Commissioners of Incumbered Es-
tates in that country, with reference to an order of this
Hous dated the 1 lth day of March last.—Agreed to.
DUBLIN CHARITABLE INSTITUTION.
Mr. REYNOLDS asked whether it was the intention
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on bringing up the
miscellaneous estimates to propose a reduction of 10 per
cent. to the charitable institutions of Dublin?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
intendt es, d to move the estimates as they were printed in
INC k
OME AND PROPERTY-TAX COMMITTEE—
ADJOURNED DEBATE.
On the motion for resuming the4djourned debate
on
question,