The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-12 00:00:00

vious week would more than make up the defici-
ency on the next exhibit. The increase in the dis-
counts was somewhat larger than was anticipated.
The discounts as now reported were $14,132,282
beyond the minimum point of 1857, on the 28th of
November, and $12,981,840 below the maximum
on the Bth of August last. We annex a comparison
of the leading items :
Mar. 28,1857. Mar. 20,1858. Mar. 27, 1858.
Dollars. Dollars. Dollars.
Capital 59,263,000 66,600,000 66 600,0 C,
Loans
Specie
Circulation
Gross deposits 92,616,560 91,233,505 90,244,098
Unchanged
Undiawn 66,230,416 74 173,917 74.201,709
In Sub Treasury 15,481,074 5,833 336 6.141,594
The amount of coin in the various United States
depositories subject to draught was 6,881,101 dols.
—an increase of 3,218,430 dols. during the week.
The bulk of the accessions was obtained from de-
posits made on account of subscriptions to Trea-
sury Notes. The revenue from Customs and lauds
did not increase, thus showing that the imports and
the demand for the public domain remained com-
paratively light.
.The American Exchange Bank was authorised to
a limited extent to cash on presentation the unpaid
draughts of Sather and Church. of San Francisco,
whether payable at the counter of that bank or
elsewhere. A similar arrangement applied to the
draughts of W. 0. Sleeper & Co., of Columbia, Cali-
fornia. Draughts were to be presented in duplicate
Stocks were irregular at the following quotations :
—March, 30—Virginia Sixes, 88 ; Missouri Sixes,
821 ; New York Central Shares, 873 ; New York
and Erie Shares, 231 ; Reading Railroad Shares,
47/ ; Michigan Southern Shares, 2312 ; Cleveland
and Toledo Shares, 45i ; Panama Railroad Sharer,
105/ ; Illinois Central Shares, 9212 ; Illinois Cen-
tral Bonds, 94 ; Chicago and R. I. Shares, 75 ;
Milwaukie and Mississippi, 31/ ; Galena and Chi-
cago, 911 ; La Crosse, 9 ; Delaware and Hudson,
110 ; Cumberland, 18 ; Pennsylvania Coal, 70.
Pot ashes continued in fair request at 's6 25c. ;
pearl, nominal, at $6 25c. Cotton was quiet, but
steady ; middling upland, 12c. The depression! n
the market for State and Western flour continued,
there being no demand for export, and only a limit.- d
inquiry for home use. The stock, though light, was
ample for existing wants, and the continued adverse
accounts from abroad, with the probability of an
early resumption of canal navigation, created a de-
sire on the part of holders to realise on the best
terms offering—viz., a decline of 5 cents. from the
previous Friday ; Canada flour was also dull at a
slight reduction ; Southern flour was without
change. The market for wheat remained dull and
depressed, and a decline of fully 3 cents. had been
submitted to on the medium grades. The demand
was limited to the urgent wa is of the local miller=,
the adverse accounts from Europe not warranting
shippers to operate at the ruling currency. The
stock was light, but fully adequate to the present
requirements. Scotch pig iron was in better re-
quest The prices of molasses were well supported.
Crude turpentine quiet ; spirits of turpentine were
in good retail demand, and about 1,500 barrels (in
addition to those previously reported) were going
forward to England and the Continent. Rosins
were firm ; provisions heavy. Rice was more
active. Sugar was in demand at higher rates.
There was a fair demand fur tobacco. Freights
were dull and unchanged.

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Lindsay, M.:P. fctr this '2l--' = :"' 4
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acti, eii,ed his constituents in the't 4trbit?_ti'iilese-
...e.ere,
`'-Room, the- Mayor (Mr, It BertlY.l,if#oltitilk sjee7„.
chair, aid there aas a very numeroteseWheVelest
electors and non-.lector,. - _ , tee, =-1-
Mr. LINDSAY, alter alluding to some, topics of local
interest, said his vote wa- given for Mr. Milner Gibson's, .
.4
amendment, which was the means of throwieg out the '
Palmerston Govtrn ment—(applause)—aed declared that
if he had the same vote to give again he would give it
over and over again on the same side withous one Mo-
ment's hesitation. And further than that, he WAS one
jof the small minority of 99 who voted against the intro-
duction of the Consp,racy Bill. (Loud applause.) He
bad read enough of history to know that wherever liberty
of speech was interfered with the country began to lose
irig
fuits position. Had that bi!l been passed it would have
led
with cur
bills
whichbtswould have interfered more largely
y,
hear- li.s. " and cheerey-4han that
he looked around and
a"'• .• .., •I WV.. ereuetriee irons ehieh the dictation came
went backward, he said to himself he rejoiced
attempt ;hear-
m eaBi ;e.
was (
tily that he was one of the 99 who leiisted even the
introduction
heardctio thatthatnofan (prolonged
n applause.)
a lease)
He b•
made "'to throw
out the present Administration upon their India Bill.
Be did hcpe no such attempt would be made. He was
a liberal, au advanced liberal ; but be must tell them
frankly that he did not wish to see the Whigs back
aertin—(a laugb)—and as frankly that he did not want
to see the present Administration in office for any great
length of time, but Just long enough to break up the
Whig party and allow the advanced Liberals to take
office. (Loud cheers.) He had said it before in that
room, and he would say it again, that we should never
vet any progress out of the Whigs. As to the Reform
Bill promised last session, Lord Palmerston knew it was
all moonshine. (" Hear," and a laugh.) He (Lord Pal-
merston) never had the most distant ideaof bringing one
in, and if he had bts : forced to do it, it would have
been one which no reformer would have accept: d, and
he would have turned round arid said, " I brought one
in, and you would not have it." He, for one, was ready
to believe that they would be likelier to get a Reform
Bill from the present than from the past administration.
(Laughter.) As to the India 8.11, be could. not see how
Parliament could possibly grant the Government the
second reading of the bill as it stood. The principles of
the bill brought in by Lord Palmerston and of that of
Lord Derby were exactly alike ; the preambles were
word for word the same. The difference consisted in the
machinery, and with a great deal of that portion of the
prevent bill he could not agree. Lord Palmeraton's bill
said there would be eight members of the council
elected by the Qieen ; Lord Derby's said ls. From
what he knew of the business of the East India Com-
pany, he was of opinion that sight were too few and 18
too many, and that 12 would be a better Lumber. With
the qualifications he could not agree. eke a ntAn of busi-
ness
he knew them to be utterly impracticable and alto-,
tether absurd, For instance, one of them was that amen
should have manufactured goods for, or shipped goods
to, India to beeligible. Now a watt night be engaged all
his life iu manufacwriog g.,,;(18 tor India, arid know
nothing at ail about that c,ucttry. . (II Iv.) His trier d
the chairman manufactured a great many iron cables ang
chains, which ware prouably u-rd in .1,-.oia, nut did he •
thereby know more about, that country than he would
have done otherwise! Trier) another qualification was a
residence cf 10 years In India, and there was a restric-
tion as to district. The residence he did not find fault -
with—he thought it essential—but he would not confine
the selection to particular localities, for if he could find
a better man in Bengal than in Madras he would atonce
take him. (Hear.) lie would sweep away all these mi-
nute details, which would make the bill utterly unwork-
able, and would adopt the proposal to have men named in
the bill as the members, and when they went out of office
by rotation he would have cheer appointed by the execu-
tive. (Cheers.), Over the pers one appointed he would put
a check to this exlit, that an a !dress from both Houses
of Parliament should at any moment, if they were
not attentive to their duties, supersede them, and be
would take away from them altogether that great etum•
biing Week of patronage. Tney could get men of the
vary highest official position who would be glad to take
their seats at the Grafted Board of Itel;s without any
patronage. (Hear.) He would, however, rather see ii
in the bands of the members of council than those of the
executive, and yet he did nut want to see it there, for,
he was sorry to say, it had been jebeed in days geese by
and would be jobbed again. (Cheers.) The hon. mem-
ber then hinted at the possibility of devising a scheme
under which junior appointments in India should be at
the disposal of all the constuencies in turn, the nominees
being subject to the 'eat of competitive examination.
Ile also condemned the principle of a secret committee
of Indian affairs. There was one clause in the bill of the
present Government in which be heartily agreed, and
that was that providing for the appointment of a corn-
mitt, • to inquire into the finances of India. The financial
question appeared to him the most difficult to deal with.
In a time of - ,ease we had a deficit of two' millions a
year, and great authorities informed him that we could
not, by the present means, raise more revenue tban we
were row doing. Well, then, if that were the case, if we
were to be responsible fur the debt of India, let us see -
by what means the revenue could be raised so as to meet
the expenditure. This question was of greater impor-
tance now than before, because if we took India into
our own hands, we should be expected to develop her
resources by the construction of railroads arid the for-
matien of groat public works, which we should have no
means of doing. (Hear, and cheers.) Therefore the
sooner the Government settled the question of responsi-
-1 bility the better. The hon. gentleman reeumed his seat
aetisist prolonged applause.

MR. JAMES TVILSON'S TENANTS AND
CONSTITUENTS AT WESTBURY.

In the Bath County Court on Saturday, before Mr. J.
G. Smith and a special jury, an action was brought by
Mr. Wilson, M.P., of Ciaverton Manor, near Bath, one
of the Secretaries of the Treasury under Lord Reimer-
ston's Administration, against William Bolwell, a
miller, of Westbury Leigh Mill, for the recovery
of 23/. 16c. 6d., two years rent of land rented by
bins in the parish of Westbury. The defence was an
extraordinary one—that Mr. Wilson had promised, at
;he election of 1852, to let the defendant have the land
free of rent, if defendant wouli vote for him, or if he
should be injured or lose his customers, in consequence
of voting for him. Defendant, who had no legal adviser,
told his story in the witness box, as follows :--
"He (Mr. Wham)) said—‘ William, if you'll give me
your vote, I'll let you more land, either arable or pas-
ture land, if you want it ; and if you want money to
crop the land with, I wid let you have it.' He said,
William, there is not a tenant I have got but what I
have let have money too.' I told him again, if I gave
him my vote I should be giving him the bread out of my
mouth ; and he said, whatever I was injured Le would
pay me. He said, William, if you ate injured, I will
never ask you for one penny for the land.' He said,
' it you are turned out, I'll find you more land,
either arable or pasture.' Ile said, if so be as I was
tuned ou', be would find me a louse to live in, or, if I
chose to go to London, there was a large establishment
about to start there. He was well acquainted with the
pat ties, and he would get me a good foreman's place, if
I liked to go. He also promised me a great many times
that whatever I was injured he would pay me. After
promising me a great many times I said he should have
my vote, and no other man, whether I should sink or
swim. On those conditions I gave him my vote. That
ends the evidence until after the election. Then, when
my man went round with the cart, some of them did
slant the door in his face when he went for grist, and tell
him to go to Wilson. My work was taken away. Some
farmers, of whom I before earned 6 5e., or 4e., a-week,
would not employ me to grind grist, and from that time
to this I have lost at least 1001."
Defendant's wife, who was stated to have been-pre-
sent at these interviews, confirmed his evidence.
Mr. Wilson himself was then sworn, and positively de-
nied that any such understanding or promise had ever
been made. He gave the following account of the mat-
ter :—ln 1852, Mr. Clift was one of my agents engaged
in the election. At the commencement of the contest
he returned Mr. Bolwell as having promised his vote for
me to him. At tbat time I did not know Mr. Bolwell,
nor did I see him toll some time afterwards. In a week
or two afterwards I called to thank him for the pro-
mise he had given to Mr. Clift. He then stated that
be was afraid, if be gave his vote, that he might be
turned out of hie mill ; and he asked me whether, in the
event of his being turned out, I would consent to let
him a house and some land ! 1 told him that I was not
aware whether I had any land vacant, but that I would
1 inquire of my agent; anelt,, I
that
biaf
dt hneor e
objectionwas any
t 0
00 let,cuo
accept
thu part he had referred
or not. I made inquiry of my agent,d
him as a tenant whether be was turnedndoult ofofuhnids
that
i
eeautotothns:
s this land would.
iaboutOi,
following
e jacchrae
es ofm thisss. landu po n would usl u
hbaee
qvuaecnatn
ot
be to let at Michaelmas, and that,en
t as the other tenants;
when I saw Bolwell, I ir.forrned thathimit
it, he might have it at the same r
my house and en-
to he wished to take
that rent The
tered into an agreemtn
nditional upon his giving me his
in consequence of whicthfhoer ctha
letting was not at all c
gfotvrinlogshseiss
vhoeteailleiged
f°o,. the ernelelaenctdiont" be Called' at my
vote. Some months
which satisfied me that no
hheouhsae
in-
quired, and receivedverexisted
no allusion whatever was made by
for the assertion made by Bol-
ground whatever in
do
oasanors:i
peg
nye:
nooneeoyf
rent of the land. About the
da spuds tdaei demanded
di
middle of
13,1 we over my agents accounts, I found an ar-
-1854, in going .
well.
t B 'lw 11' •
rear of rent agains e s name. He stated that
had ma le an excuse that he had lost custom in con-
At
well tthhaetrtei
„Auer,ce of his vote, and had refused to pay his rent,
and moreover hed been extremely abusive. I told him
that he must endeavour to elitain the rent. I explained
to Mr. Richard what had occurred, and that there was
no pretence for the excuse, and I authorised him to take
such steps as he might think proper to recover the rent,
but on no account to admit the plea which Bolwell had
set up for not payng it.
His Honour observed that it was a question of credi-
bility between plaintiff and defendant ; but, taking into
consideration the other circumstances and the probabili-
ties of the case, he thought it would be difficult to come
to any other conclusion than that the case of the defen-
dant was not fsunded in truth. He must say that to his
mind all the circumstances tended to confirm the state.
tnent of Mr. Wilson.
The jury at once returned a verdict for plaintiff, and
the foreman added that they wished to express their un-
animous opinion that r o imputation rested in the slightest
degree upon Mr. Wilson.
His Honour thought the jury quite right in so ex.
pressing themselves.