The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-12 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.
*.;THIS EVENING.)

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At the CoUrt at Buckingham-Palace, the 9th day of
March, 1850, present the Queen's Most Excellent Ma-
jesty in Council. Her Majesty in Council was this day
pleased to make the following amendments on the Roll
of Sheriffs; viz.:—
Monmouthshire—Crawahaw Bailey, Esq., made Craw-
shay Bailey, Esq.
Merionethsbire—Edward Griffiths, Esq., made Edward
Humphrey Griffith, Esq.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 26, 1850.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Snape,
of Warwick, in the county of Warwick, gent., to be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 4.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry Rogers, of
ilelston, in the county of Cornwall, Gant, to be a Mas-
ter Extraordirary in the High Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 6, 1850.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed llichlrd Samuel
Chattock, of Solihull, in the county of Warwick, Gent.,
to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of
Chancery.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MARCH 11, 1550.

Royal Regiment of A: tillery—Setond Captain Af thur
Thomas Philpotts to be Captain, vice De Winton, re-
tired upon half-p.iy; First Licuten".nt John Davenport
Shakespear bra S coed Captain, vice Pnillpotts;
Second Licutenat Reginald Henry Champion to Le First
Lieutenant, vice Shakspear, March 6.
Erratum in Gazette of Ist inst.—The date of Second
Captain J. J. Brandling's commission as Adjutant should
have been 14th April, 1849, and not 14th March.
BANKRUPTS.

George Frederick Gardener, grocer, Rayleigh, Essex,
March 21, at twelve, and April 26, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street; Chidley, Basinghall-strce►.
Thomas Williams, draper, Epsom, March 22, at
twelve, and April 23, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Stansfsld, official assignee; Sole and Turner,
Aldermanhary.
Samuel Parkhouse, dealer and chaprnan, March 22,
at one, and April 16, at twe, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Ahchureh-lane, Lom-
bard-street; Strt tson, Southamplou-building. Chancery-
lane.

~ William.
Sra3theman, Rugeley, Staffordshire,
March 20, and April 19, at twelve, at tht! Birmingham
District Court. Valpy, official astAgnee, Birmingham;
6,1 t, liugeley; Molteraai, Ii right, i.ad Emmett, Bir-
mingham._ _ _

Junes Ihrdcastle, tavkrn kceper, Manchester, March
25, at trytlve, and April 17, at eleven, at the Manchester
District Court. Fraser, official aLsigue-, Manchester ;
Fraser and t-, :danchester.
James Sluip,:ou merchant, Liverpool, March
27, and Ariril 17, at e'even, et the Lilerpecl District
Court. Alorgan, otii,:it-z1 assignee, Liverpool; Flt-ltchtr
and hlull, Liverv),-)1.

DI R 1 AL PA RLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE. OF LORDS.
Muir Lordships sPerriblf-d at Fixr o'clock.
ROYAL C0M11.16610N.

The It-TA as..e..t was given, by Commission, to the
Party Procefsions (Ireland) Bill. The Royal Commis-
sioners vim: the Earl of Shaf_esloury, the E.rl of Minto,
and the Earl of Carlisle.

Their Lordships them adjourned during pleasiirc.
Their Lord ,hip returned at Fire o'clock, Lord PORT-
DiAr.; g Deputy Speaker.
Lord BROUGHAM prcsenttel a petition from some
place iu Se, Valid, in favour of the Bill for the removal
of obstruct ons to the sale of corn in Scotland.
APPELLATE JURISDICTION.

BROUGHAM gave notice that he should, on
Friday, move certain resolutions nn the appellate juris-
diction of their Lordships' House and of the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council.
IZAILWA Y (COMPANIES) AUDIT BILL.
Lord STANLEY moved the first reading of this Bill.
—Agreed tr,.

Trio NOBLE LOED gave notice that he should move
the Sf'CUMI nading on Friday._____

PROTECTION.

Lord IZEDrSDALE presented petitions from North-
umberland and Worcester complaining e f agricultural
distress, and praying for the impesiti-r. of a protective
duty on the importation of agricultural produce. He
complained that, en the opening of Parliament, the
Noble Marquis (Lansdowne) had stated thst there was
every prospect ot a dirri,,ution of tho distress of which
the landholders en mplained, but six weeks had elapsed
and that prophecy had not been fulfilled. The petitioners
attributed the depression under which they were
suffering solely to the alteration which Fal taken place
in the law, end they considered that nothing could save
them but are turn to the f eare,r system. The free-trade
system wa rupudiated by America end by every other
country, and he thought it was a most bold assertion to
say that we could net return to a protective
system. Ho beli,ved they coule, and he thought
they would sooner or later return to protecton
The Nublo Lo-d Nho had co long led the other side ot
the Hausa 1 al dechteed that whoever should propose a
free import of corn must Le mad, yet the Noble Lord
had seen that tree import proposed and carried by one
who hail ail his life long oppepeed it. Ile, therefore, did
not despair of a raurn to protection. Tte strength and
happiness of a nation depended upon its wealth, for
the richest would always be the most power-
ful ration, and always Le enabled to give
its people plenty of work at good wages.
Taxation was'greatly increa:ed in burden by everything
that tender) to lower income, and thus the burden of the
milt tx had been greatly increased as a burden by the
fall in the price of barley. There had been throughout
the country a large reduction of wages, amounting to a
falling off in the income of the labouring population of
52,000,000/. a year. The Hon. Geneerran who moved
the address in the House of Commons, said
that the country had gained 91,000,000/. by
the repeal of the corn-laws. That Hon. Gentleman
had taken a famine year as his standard of comparison;
but if he bad taken an ordinary year as his standard t.f
eompaaisou, he would have found that his saving would
have been only 40,000,0001.; and as it was money that
ruled, not produce, he (Lord Redesdale) contended that
there was a lees, LCCRI2: e mora had been lost in the price
by the famine than had been gained by the consumer.
The operation of the alteration had been to make wages
low and yet ;the moment the landowners attempted to
lower wager, there was an outcry against them ira the
public papers for endeavouring to reduce wages to a
starvation point. An attempt had been made to draw a
distinction between the agricultural and manufactur-
ing; interests.—(hear, hear.) There wai no sueh
distinction—the growing of corn and the conduct
of a pasturage-farm was a manufacture, and the land-
lord, instead of Laing the drone which he had been re-
presented, was a master manufacturer. But the aricul-
rural manufacturers laboured under difficulties which did
nut affect the manufacturer of textile raanufactures. The
agricultural rnanu'aoturer heel to pay tithes, he
could not work short time, and he had to fight
against a perpetual glut of his commedity in the
market, as this being the only country in which corn
se as admitted duty free, a 0 had the surplus of all
other countries poured into our market. Such was the
case at present, th, re was a glut; the complaint was
that there was nothing doing. It was the duty of
the Government to take care that they should not suffer
from the glut which Providence had created, and when
there w a glut in the market create d by the super-
abundance e f ihe produce of our own land, the agricul-
turist was entitled to the exclusive possession of that
market until the glut should be cleared off. It would
not do to try the experiment of free trade too long. He
wished to have the question argued calmly on its own
merits, he did not wish to excite party feelings, bnt he '
felt convinced that our national posterity depended on a
return to protection. He wished to ask Noble Lords
opposite to what they attributed the present state of
agricultural distress; and, secondly, whether they could
hold out any hope of an immediate enhancement in the
present price of grain, and if they could not, whether
they considered the present extent of land could be cul-
tivated at the present price of corn. Much had been
said of high farming, but high farming was an ex-
pensive process, and could mot bo carried on at
the present prices of corn. He also asked if
the Government could form any idea as to what
the future price of corn would be under the present
system. There was nothing unreasonable in asking a
Government what, in their opinion, would be the price
of corn under the present system. They were working
under a system of which they were perfectly ignorant,
and which, in the opinion of all practical men, would
lead to ruin. He hoped, therefore, to receive an assurance
from the Government, either that they enter-
tained a hope of some rise of the price
of agricultural produce under the present state of things,
er that they contemplated some alteration in the present
of the law.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE had always consi-
dered that the time must come when it would be im-
possible to maintain, by any legislative enactment,
a higher price of corn in this country than
the price which regulated the general markets of the
world. When that change took place he felt convinced
that the time had arrived when the abrogation of the
corn-laws was inevitable, and ho considered that that
abrogation had conduced to the health, the prosperity,
and the happiness of the great bulk of the people of this
country.

(LEFT SPEARING)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
ROYAL ASSENT.
Mr. PULLMAN, the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod,
appeared at the table of the House, and summoned the
House to attend at the bar of the House of Lords to
bear the Royal Asscnt given by commission to a certain
public Bill (for which sec! Lords' report). The
Speaker having complied with the summons, attended by
a few Members, commnnicated to the House the names
of the Bills which had been assented to.
PRIVATE BUSINES:4..

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The report on the Suffolk and General County Ami-
cable Insurance Office Bill was considered and agreed to.
The Greenwich Hospital Improvement Bill was read a
second time, and referred to the following Select Com•
mittee:—Admiral Dundas, Mr. Bainerd, Mr. CoaTer,
Sir Charles Duuela,, Sir Edmund Filmer, Mr. Thomas
L-tw Hodges, Mr. Cocks, Mr. s'a'tin Egerton, Mr.
Masterman, and Mr. Thomas Gre..ne and five Members
te ad..ltd by the Committee of Sekctior.