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London, England, 1850-02-28 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1850

I_l%l PE R fAL PA RL lAM E NT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woo,
sack at Five o'clock.

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY gave notice that
he should tl morrow present a petition from the north
of Ireland on the subject of tenant right, and he trusted
that Noble Lords connected with Ireland would attend,
as the petition was of great importance.
Lord BROUGHAM, in order to prone that the escape
of fraudulent bankrupts from justice had been owing not
to the Bankruptcy Bill of last year us it passed through
the House of Lords, but was owing entirely to the
blunders which had been introduced in it in another
place, appealed to the return which had now been laid
before their Lordship, in consequence of his motion.
He moved that the return be printed.—Agreed to.
The Earl of MALMESBURY presented a petition
from the agriculturists of Gloucestershire complaining
of distress.

under she si-,,rioug consideration of On Government, who
had hoped to bring in a measure for their regulation
eurii:g the present scission. That hope they had bten
compelled to abandon, but t'my t;usti.d to take up the
question fully next year.
ELECTORAL DIVISIONS IN IRELAND.

Sir DENHAM NOBREYS wished to a.dr the Hon.
Secretary for Ireland whetter the result of the investi-
gations respecting the electoral divisions in England
ha I any effect in regulating those in Ireland.
Sir GEORGE GREY said it was not the intention of
Government to introduce any measure such as the Hon.
Baronet had alluded to. With regard to the second
part of the qaestion, the report cf the Boundary Com-
missioners was en the table, but he could not :ay that
there was any intention of Government to found a
measure upon them.
WESTERN A USTRAL

Sir W. MOLESWORTH said that he had given no-
tice of a question to the Government, relative to Western
Australia, and as it was a legal question, perhaps the
Attorney-General would answer it. The question
was this, when the Government of South Australia was
first founded an Act was passed to form a Legislative
Assembly, :which the royal prerogative could not do
of itself; that Act, after having been renewed several
times, had expired on the Ist of August last. The
power of legislation had therefore expired, and the
persons in the Legislative Assembly had no longer
those legal duties to perform. He wished to know
whether this Act had been allowed to expire inten-
tionally or not ; and if it had been done intentionally,
whither those persona had had notice of it or no'.
Or, if it had been done unintentionally, he wished to
know when any measure would be introduced to indem-
nify these parties. Ho also asked whether any provision
had been made for the civil government of Western
Australia, and if so, by what authority.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he would simply
confine himself to answering the legal part of the ques-
tion. Unquestionably the Act of the 10th of Geo. IV.,
c. 22, expired at the end of last session, but notwith-
standing that expiry, there was now a legal Government
existing in Western Australia, because that Act
gave authority to the Government of this country
by an order in Council to constitute a Government,
and a Government having been legally constituted by
that authority, it could continue, and did, in fact, now
exist. .
In reply to Mr. ADDERLEY, who wished to know
what power the present Government had under that au-
thority, and when that authority would expire,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL facetiously replied
that, according to his recollection, the authority given
was for the preservation of peace, order, and good go-
vernment in the colony, and he believed it had always
been held that taxing was part of the duty of a good
Government.—(Laughter.)
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.

Mr. HUME, in rising to move for leave to bring in a
Bill to amend the national representation, by extending
the elective franchise, so that every man of full age, and
not subject to any mental or legal disability, who shall
have been the resident occupier of a house, or part of a
house as a lodger, for twelve months, and shall have
been duly rated to the poor of that parish for that
time, shall be registered as an elector, and be
entitled to vote for a representative in Parliament: also,
by enacting that votes shall be taken by ballot; that the
duration of Parliaments shall not exceed three years;
and that the proportion of representatives be made more
consistent with the amount of population and
property—observed that often as he had had occa-
sion to address the House, he was not aware that
he had ever addressed it upon a subject of
more importance than this. It regarded in his humble
opinion the future peace of the country; it was important
as it concerned the justice due to the people of this
country, it was of the utmost importance in his humble
opinion as far as it related to the financial state of the
country, and, the means by which the expenditure
and the excessive taxation of the country was to be re-
duced. He was quite aware that the vast majority of
the House would listen to him with impatience, because
they thought, and conscientiously felt, that the
House was perfect iu itself, and required no
amendment. He was quite aware that this motion had
been rejected in three successive }ears ; but since the
last session of Parliament:the public out of doors had so
unequivocally expressed itself in favour of it, that he
was convinced the House would give the motion the
proper consideration that was due to its tendency and
importance. That motion was for leave to bring in
a Bill to amend the representation of the people. It
was admitted on all sides that some amendment was
eeeded, but the difficulty was to decide to what length
the reform should extend.—(Hear, hear.) He wanted
to improve the constitution of that House, so as
to bring it back to its original state. He
wished to make no innovation; but his object was simply
to restore the House and the government of the country
be represented.
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He conceived he was obliged to lay down some rule, and
draw some line of distinction. Our present Acts of
Parliament drew a line of distinction ; they bad been
pointed to what should be the qualification to entitle a
man to the franchise. The constitution of Parliament had
Leen, in his experienee, what any and every Mininster had
chosen to call it; but, looking at the principle on which
that House was constituted, he asked the House whether
the piesent reformed Parliament was not established and
the reform made a principle altogether at valiance with
the great principle on which his present motion was
based, viz., that taxation and representation should be
co-existent. He had a letter in his hand addressed by
Lord Melbourne to Mr. Drummond at the begin-
ning of 1831.32 stating the grounds on which
the then Reform Bill was contemplated. His Lordship
said, "In the former Bill borcughs were regarded in
proportion to their population, hut in the present case
the elements upon which the boroughs are to be esti-
mated are by the number cf the houses and the amount
of the assessed taxes." Now, there was the principle
on which the reform of 1832 was effected. He agreed to
that Reform Bill, but at the same time he stated that he
accepted it only with hopes that it -would effect that
degree of control on the part of the people over their re-
presentatives which wouldinsure cheap and good govern-
ment. He had attempted this with the hope that the ques-
tion would have been fully and fairly discussed. In the
results of his proceedings he was bound to state to the
House, that he bad been completely, at least he might
say that he had been greatly disappointed. They had
all heard of the mode adopted for legislating in
that House. He must confess that he had been
an advocate for universal suffrage—a word,
he believed. which was often reps ated, but
seldom understood, but which he had explained by
stating he had always desired that every man who was a
householder should have a voice in the legislation.of the
country. He bad always desired that taxation should
go with representation in this country.—(Hear, hear.)
Such, in his opinion, was the original intention of those
who founded our Constitution, and it was only their
opinion which he was desirous of carrying out.—(Hear,
hoar.) If he were to be called to task he would only
say that this and this only was his object; and
if they would allow him, he would effectually
make his case out. Re was glad to see that the
members of her Majesty's Government had not thought
the subject unworthy of their regard and consideration.
He thought that no measure which was sought to be
introducedinto that House should be introduced with-
out being duly considered and weighed. He had
lived long enough to see that many alterations
bad not been amendments, and many y reforms had
not been improvements. The measure which he
was about to introduce was one which would give
contentment and peace to a great number of men
which would give the, franchise to a large number of men
who well deserved it. To meet the feelings of many per•
sons, he had introduced a test into the measure : he pro-
posed that every man who had been rated for the poor's
rate for twelve months should be entitled to the suffrage.
Iler Majesty's Government had approved of this test,
inasmuch as they bad introduced it into their measure
for extending the suffrage to Ireland. The question
might be asked to what extent would this measure
increase the number of those possessing the franchise.
The more they placed dependence in a man the more
trustworthy he would be, but to despise and reject a
man, would be to have no hold upon him. What he
wanted then to do was to raise s man in his own moral
estimation, by placing confidence in him—making Mir,
in fact, a free man and not a slave; for he
held that he who had no voice in electing those who
passed laws affecting life and property was no freeman,
but was in the situation of a bondsman and a slave. He
wished to do equal justice to Ireland, as well .as
to England and to Scotland, for he believed that
many cf the evils which existed in the. former country had
arisen from a system of partial legislation. It appeared
that the population of England and Wales in 1841 was
about 16 millions, and taking the number of ratepayers
as his data, excluding the double, treble, and quadruple
votes held by one person from his calculation, be found
that he bad between 780,000 and 800,000 voters. Now
he proposed that the number of persons en-
titled to vote should be increased to 3,232,762.
Lodgers were equally as fit, and many of them more fit,
to enjoy the franchise than those who now possessed it,
and .he would provide in the Bill that every lodger
might be registered to the poor-rates of the
house in which be lived; and after he had
been so registered for twelve months, he should
be equally competent to exercise the franchise as if he
.
were the possessor of the whole house. Now was to
this extent that he would carry his plan of registration,
and he put it to the House whether there would be
any danger in thus extending the suffrage. Did
they not all know that whenever the power
of Government was confined to a narrow basis,
it invariably led to anarchy and confusion? Had
they not proofs of this in the recent occurrences on
the continent? What, however, had they to fear from
Government if they extend the franchise? Laws were
made not fur the benefit of classes, hut the good of the
community at large, and the Sovereign was no less than
the first magistrate of the land—whose duty it
was to carry out the laws when they bad received the
sanction of the two Legislative Chambers. Were they
not then in more danger by confining the franchise to
million when it ought to be enjoyed by 3 or 4 millions.
What would any of them say if they were in tile
situation of the millions that were now rejected ?
What would any of the Members of that House say or
do, were they in the situation of millions of artizans, on
whose industry some of the finest manufactures de-
pended—(Hear, hear)—receiving li., 21, or 3/. a
week, and who would be called upon to assist
in keeping the Queen's peace should a dis-
turbance break out whilst they were walking the
streets? Were not those artizans entitled to say, " You
call on use to execute the laws, but do you give
us any share or interest in making those laws?
You treat us as serfs, and drive us like cattle,

and 3et you call up,al ua for assistance ?"
W men cflarge inc./Wei are taxed a thousandth part,
a hundredth port, or a twr-ntiezh part, of t earni,gs,
artiz.ta was taxed one fourth of his whole wages
on his consumption of the ordinary articles of
subsist ace. Men not more worthy than they in Bel-
gium, the United Sates, and in France could not be
taxed without their consent; and why should not the
alt:zsti class of England be placed on a similar footing?
But he had also, the deliberate judgment of ber Ma-
jesty's Ministers on the paper of the 20th of January
last. He referred to the Bill of rights for the colonies,
and they must not tell him that they could not place any
confidence in the people of England when they were
placing this confidence in the mixed population of the
Cape of Good Hope, New Zealand, and other
colonies.—(Ht ar, hear.) Ho said then that it
was an insult to the people of this coun-
try that they should be denied a privilege
at home which they would immediately obtain upon set-
ting their foot upon a colonial strand.—(Hear.) Undery
these circumstances he would say that Le had not onld
right to ask but to demand that this right shout)
be conceded to the people of England.—(Hear, hear.'
Were they less intelligent, less diligent, less moral, lass
worthy of the right of conferring legislative powers than
the inhabitants of any of the colonies?—(Hear, hear)—
and if not, why was not the privilege conceded? To
show that they were not he would refer to a
dispatch of Lord Stanley's in 1832. The Ho-
nom able Member then read his Lordship's dispatch.
Here was the principle of extending power and put-
ting into the hands of every man a right to
share in local government, equally applicable to
the national Government, of which he was a part;
and, therefore, he contended that he had Lord
Stanley's decided opinion in favour of his scheme.
Her Majesty's Government was proposing to
introduce universal suffrage into the colonies. Thus far
he was supported by parity of reasoning. Every man
who was rated to the road-tax at the Cape of Good
Hope was to bare a vote. Her Majesty's Government
were ready to show their confidence in 180,000 persons
at the Cape of Good Hope, and yet they were back-
ward in giving the franchise to Englishmen
who were no less intelligent and trustworthy.
He wished to carry out a system of equalization by
means of electoral districts, and there were precedents of
a recent date emanating from the Government in regard
to the colonies, which justified him in asking the House to
adopt the course which he suggested, and he asked lion
Members to pause before they gave a vote in favour of
rejecting the measure. Her Majesty's Ministers had
given the colonies three representative estates, which
consisted of the governor, a legislative council, and a re-
presentative assembly, and the power and privileges of
each were distinctly defined. Now he did not
object to our estates of the King, Lords, and
Commons being continued, bat what he wished
was that the latter should become a better reflex of the
opinions of the people. In that case it would be more
pure and more efficient. His own co..2scientious be-
lief was that many in the House held their seats in
consequence of having paid large sums of money to per-
VAS to secure their election, and this was equally as bad
in principle as the borough-mongering system of old.
Three years was long enough for any man to hold a seat
in that House. At one time he agreed with his late
lamented friend Cartwright that one year would be suf-
ficient, but at the present moment he should be satisfied
by triennial Parliaments. Another point be thought it
right to mention was the payment of Members. True,
it was one of the points of the Charter, but for
the last 12 or 15 years of his life his principle had to pay
every officer for the duty he had to perform, and he still
was of the same opinion. In short, whether he looked
at the dnration of the assemblies, or the constitution of
the assemblies that were now granted to the colonies, he
entirely agreed with them, and he wanted nothing more for
England., Would they deny to freeborn Englishmen those
privileges which they gave to certain of our colonies so far
back as 1627, and recently to the North American co-
lonies? lie said, therefore, the Reform Bill of 1832,
which he (Mr. Hume) then supported, had: not :fulfilled
the purposes which were contemplated by its framers.
He felt convinced that the Reform Bill had not done
its work and gone far enough, and that it had nut
carried out the views of the Noble Lord
at the bead of the Government when he
vs as in opposition, and when he first brought the
measure forward.—(Hear, bear.) The course pursued
by the Noble Lord then was very different to that he
was now pursuing.

(LEFT SPEARING.)

TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING
Six o'CLocii.

No business doing.

tratToc. But th:77 defendant never could have said that
the Queen would go, for it was well known that, except
on o:Tasions of sate visits, the determination of the
Queen t') he preseat at the 09013 was never known till
about three o'clock on the afternoon of the day of the
visit. Here the bargain was made on the Wednesday
evening or the Thursday morning, and, consequently,
before it was possible that the deftudant could say any-
thing beyond the expression of a mere expectation on
the possibility of her Majesty being present. The de-
fence, therefore, was in substance this—that the defend-
ant had not male any false representations; that he had
simply agread to propositions made him by the plaintiff,
and had literally fulfilled what he had undertaken. Ile
bad given to the plaintiff all the benefit of the tickets,
which at that time were under the control of the ma-
nager, and had tutsisted in selling theist; that from the
circumstances of the lateness ef the season and the heat
of the weather, the speculation hail not answered was
not his fault, and he was not to be made responsible for
it. Ile sktuld show that the defendant had done nothing

to deceive Mr. Marchande, and that consequently the
defendant was entitled to a verdict.
Mr. Tibbert—l ate the assistant of Mr. Parsons, the
box-keeper. I recollect the plaintiff coming about the se
tickets. Mr. Chappell said he was not the manager,
but Mr. Gye. The house was then in the hands of the
artists theenstelves. The pit was about half full. No
part of the house was filled. I had endeavoured to dis•
pose of some of the boxes for Mr. Marchande.
Mr. W. B. Goldsmith, clerk and assistant to Messrs.
Cramer, Beale, and C3.—The firm consists of Beale and
Chappell, the defendant. In 1849 they subscribed for
some boxes in the Royal Italian Opera. They bad
about thirty or forty stalls. They had also ten or
twelve to dispose of by the night. I re member the
boxe3 and stalls being purchased for the Saturday, on
the production of the Prophete. Marchande had the
whole of what had nob been previously sold. Cramer and
Beale did not, after their transaction with Marchande,
sell a single box or stall of their own for that night.
When a private person purchases a box he can only
issue four tickets; when a bookseller purchases a box he
can send in six tickets, four for the boxes and two for
the pit.
Mr. Sergeant SHEE replied.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE left it to the jury to say
whether the defendant had leen guilty of any fraudulent
representations. lie treated as immaterial any state-
ments about the Queen corning, and about the demand
fur tickets being great, unless the jury could say (which
he did not think possible as the evidence now stood) that
those statements were made before the contract, and had
influenced the plaintiff in making it. The real point was
whether the defendant had represented himself as the
manager, with a power to dispose of tickets which he did
not possess. if the jury should think that the defendant
had represented himself as absolute manager, with abso-
lute control over tickets, the verdict must be for the
plaintiff; but if the jury should think that he had
merely undertaken to sell to the plaintiff all the
tickets which the manager himself could at that mo-
ment sell, namely, all those not subscribed fur and sold
by the subscribers to the opera, and by the booksellers,
then the question would be, whether the defendant had
not performei that undertaking. It could not be sup-
posed that the defendant was to go round to collect all
the tickets which might happen to be undisposed of in
any bookseller's hands; if be gave to the plaintiff all
in his own hands and all which the manager had then to
dispose of, he fulfilled his contract. It was fur the jury
to say whether he had done this. If he had, the verdict
must be for him—if not, then it must be for the plaintiff,
with such damages as the jury might think to be the
amount of the lass occurring through his non-perform-
ance of the contract.

The jury returned a verdict for the defendant.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Joseph Solomons surrendered himself Ix fore Mr. Alder-
man Farebrether to answt r the charge of committing a
rape upon the person of Fanny Harnswortb, his father's
servant.
The girl, as well as Mrs. Bradshaw, who it was as-
serted had taken her out of the way, was in court.
Mr. Clarkson said, that as he I ad been informed that
his client's recognizances had the previous day been et,-
treated in consequence of some misunderstanding as to the
day, he hoped that now he had made his appearance the
estreat would be taken off.
Alderman FAREBROTHER said, that such being the
case he certainly would comply with Mr. Clarkson's
re-
quel.t, and he therefore ordered it to be taken off.
Fanny Harnswortb, 17, then came forward with much
reluctance, accompanied by Mrs. Bradshaw, and on being
requested by Mr. Roe, the officer of the court, to take
her right hand glove off, she refused to be sworn.
Alderman FAREBROTHER—If she persists in that, I
must commit her.
Harnsworth—l don't wish to prosecute.
Alderman FAREBROTHER—YOU have your choice of
whether you will be sworn or go to prison.
After some hesitation she consented to take the catb.
The Chief Clerk then read the evidence given by the
girl at the first examination, upon which
Alderman FAREBROTHER asked if that was all true?
The girl was about to answer, when Mrs. Bradshaw
said something which made her hesitate.
Alderman FAREBROTHER (to Mrs. Bradshaw)—You
are only allowed to stand beside her to give her courage,
but not to speak to her. (To the girl)---Is what has been
read to you all true? Harnworth—lt is.
Mr. Clarkson--Has she been examined by any medi-
cal man? Webb, the officer—She has, and the gentle-
man is in court at present.
The next evidence read was that of Webb, who was
called to take her into custody on the charge of stealing
a tippet, when she fell on her knees to the prisoner, and
exclaimed, " Oh, Mr. Joseph, don't let me go to prison
after seducing me;" after which that cf Mrs. Grtaves
was likewise read, which went to show that on the first

attempt being made she told her sister, who advi.tel her

to acquaint her master and mistress of it. This the girl
did not do, because she did not wish to make a distur-
bance in the family, and thought such conduct would
not be repeated.
Mr. E. Archer, surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
said—On the 12th instant I examined Fanny Harns-
worth, and found that the of bad been committed.
Mr. Nicholl said, that he now proposed to prove that
money had been given to the girl by some one to keep
her out of the way.
Mr. Clarkson said, that was not evidence against his
client.
Mr. Nicholl said, he thought by a chain of evidenes he
could bring the charge home to the prisoner.
Mr. Clarkson protested against such evidence being
heard, for the charge was merely brought forward to
prejudice Mr. Sulomons in the eyes of the public. It;
however, the girl was called, he hoped the Alderman
would caution her that whatever she might say might
be used against her in a criminal proceeding, and that
she was net compelled to answer unless she liked.
Alderman FAREDROTHER said that he would give her
the usual caution.
Mr. Nicholl—Then I will not call her, but Mrs. Brad-
shaw.

Mrs. Bradshaw then got into the witness-box, and said
she would not be sworn.
Alderman FAREBROTHER—I must then commit you.
Mrs. Bradshaw—l will give evidence and speak the
, truth but I decline being sworn.

Mr: Clarkson said he must submit that as a clear
matter of law the prosecutor mast first show, touching
the money, that the party accused had any share or
knowledge of the transaction, and therefore he contended
that no questions ought to be put to Mrs. Bradshaw, fur
there must be a somethiLg preceding that to implicate
the prisoner.

The Chief Clerk suggested that as there was a new
charge of misdemeanour to compound a felony, the soli-
citor should be called upon to state the party against
whom he made that charge.
Mr. Nicholl—l make no direct charge, but an indirect
one, that he (Solomons) or his friends sent the money.
Mr. Clarkson observed, that Mr. Solomons could not
be answerable for what his friends might or might not
have done.

Mr. Nicholl said, that under those circumstances, as
there might be some difficulty of proof, he should leave
the case as it was; and ask the Alderman to commit him
for trial on two charges of violation.
Alderman FAREBROTHER said, he should like to take
some time to consider the whole subject, and, as it would
not alter the features of the case in any way, he should
remand the prisoner until Saturday, taking the same
bail as before, namely—himself in 200/., and two sure-
ties in 1001. each.

Mr. Isaacs, solicitor, got up, and said that one of the
former bail had declined being responsible again.
Alderman FAREBROTHER said, if that was the eats he
must have two good responsible housekeepers as bail.
Mr. Lewis said, that the father would become one.
Alderman FAREBROTHER said, that would not do.
The bail must be good, and he would examine them ;
for, when one bail retired, it behoved him to be
cautious.

In the course of the afternoon, approved bail was
forthcoming, and the prisoner left the court.
MAItYLEBONE.
A young man, who gave his name William Baxter,
was placed at the bar, Lefore Mr. Long, charged with
uttering a forged 5/. note, and also with having in his
possession property supposed to have been stolen.
Mr. Compton, landlord of the Crown, 84, Edgeware-
road, deposed that on that day, at 12 o'clock, the pri-
soner came to his house and called for a glass of sherry
and a cigar, with which he was supplied, and he paid fur
the tame with a shilling. He then asked if he could be
accommodated with change for a 51. note, and on prose-
cutor telling him he would change it, and examining the
note presented to him, he at once felt satisfied that it
was a forgery; he directed a friend to keep a close
watch upon the prisoner, and secure him in the "bottle
department," while he wet to the station-house, and on
his return home he gave the prisoner into custody, when
he threatened to make prosecutor suffer for having de-
tained him so long; he alleged that lie had taken the
note from Mr. Ellison, of Spring-gardens.

—.13ea,127 I), produced the note, nhich was evidently
a spurious one; the prisoner had made various state-
ments as to how he obtained it, ar.d one of the assertions
he made was that he was requested by a person to obtain
change.
The prisoner, upon being asked if he had any-
thing to say in answer to the charge, replied
that he should reserve his dt fence for a future
occasion.
Ile was then remanded till St.tuid,;) next.

REDCAB, FEB. 7.—The Bee, of aid from Hull, for
Stockton, and Elizabeth and Jane, of and from Ipswich,
for Middlesborough, got on the rocks off here yesterday,
during thick weather, and were got off this morning.
PLvmotrrit, FEB. 27.—Wind E.S.E.—Part of a log-
book of the Governor M'Lean, London to Cape Coast
and back to London, has [wen' pick« d up ofr the Start,
and brought in here, dated from June 1 to December 4,
1849. Arrd. Cumberland Lase, Bovey, Patagonia. Sld.
Jenny Lind, Adelaide, South Australia, Port Philip and
Sydney, New South Wulea.

'ir c,' el,--., C ,
l .OUN TR V MARK-.ins to fa:
NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, FEY. 26,-o, .1 oleu
vourabie winds, we had a large supply of rain• Trade „of
exceedingly dull, and to effect sales of even finest satoPi'et- be
submitted
a reduction of Is on the rates of Saturday last had
to. Barley, oats, and other articles uncange"iy of
b NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, FEY. 26.---The so ply
casts was large, and trade dull, at a reduction a 3d to
.0 1,
stone; part unsold. Sheep trade brisk, and all sold at I rwt:t.
prices. Beasts 830, sheep 4,500. Beef, 4s 6d to 5564; m
ton, bid to 61-d per lb.
LE • F
LEEDS, ~ En.
quite adequate to the demand. Wheat met a slow weeksalet‘
26.—Our supplies of grain are not llrgeloedt
b smess done is at a decline of Is per quarter from lot bet
rates. There is not much s.ssing in barley, and
give way. Beans and oatsimove off slowly. rain of
WissEckr, FEB '23.—We arc well supplied with gs of
all kinds. The best fresh wheat full maintains the ratt ~
this day week, whilst the inferior and maintains 0;
pies are Is per quarter cheaper. The price of oats is Ma°
of the buyer. Dry beans quite as dear ;o. the
EDINBURGH MEAL MA RKET, Fan. 26. There were ;to,.
meal market to-clay :.2 sacks oatmeal, each weigi;iAngld and
prices rat
imperial, which sold: thus : 9at 115 s Od, satle '3 I'9 hi.
18 at 114 s Od ; average price of the whcle 1/ 454 d 3.-oteks
3 sacks flour, whereof 2 sold at °75, and 1 at 251% 3, Ws.
pot:barley, whereof 2 sold thus :-1 at 11 bs Od, and 11`,4:6,.--
OaEDIN BURG }I HAY AND STRAW MARKET, Ft° troo,„!
t straw, from 7s 6d to 9s 6d per kemplo of 16 sit's"'
wheat ditto, 7s Od to 85 Od ; barley ditto, 6,6,, to is uu
llay, from 8d to 10d per stone.
LKEITH ..._ EA L MA RK ET, FEB. 25. 183
Were
to
DA • m
sacks oatmeal, '27 of barleymeal, and 2of pOtblriel It e al
day's market ; sales ready. 'fop price of oatmeal, son in
last week ; barleymeal, to -
andPcn°
p, 16s; flour p
market. Third
Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second A-s- od
imperial .. .. 23 01 225 3•1 '''s oj
Barleyrneal, per ditto • •••3
' —There
, .--s
16s 03 --, 9=l lOd
Peasemeal '•• sOd --- .1
.. ... —s Od -- ,
.....s. vs.
Flour ... .
•
. ... ... —s Od —s Oa od
Pot, barley
-- ••• ... 22s 6d —5 Od "''''florei
f Duisrasr, FEB. 23.—We continue to have small surt'ojer
' yet there was not any improvement in prices :two.
vtibi market to-day, and we repeat the quotations of Fo to
wheat, 205 6d to '23s 6d ; red ditto, 195 .. to
21s 6t: b el 8, bag .
; barley, lOs Od to 12s 6d; oat per arr ~ to job
10s 6d; oatmeal, los to lis ad • flour, second, 12, 6"
Indian
corn, per 4801 b, 26s to 28s Od.

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COAL MARKET.—YEsißitaar. • 160 601
Carr's Hartley
East Adairs Main lss Od 06(id Blleeltmtoonnt
............••"'.7
17: 6491
Ilasting'sliartley lss Od Haswell .................. ;ow
Holy well .
North Percy Hartley l4s 6o Lambton .............
... 165 qs,
New Tanfield .. ... 14s Od Lumley . ............... . 17s 0.;
Old Tanfield
Bayensworth'sW.Hart 15s Od Stewart's ............... 155 golti
Tanfield Moor Butes l3s 9d Whitwell ..... ...... 165
Townley l4s 9d Caradoc ..... ......• . 165 od
west H 15s 3d Casso
artley
p.. ..... •• •• .. lo 9d
Wylain
Wall's End, &c Lleugh Hall ........... 150 6q
Brown's Gas
Bewicke and Co.
Brown's . l4s ~d South Hartlepool ...• 155 6
Killingworth lss 6d West Hetton ....... 43- Od
Gosforth .
15s 6d Whitworth ............. ,65
6,
Harton
. _

Hebburn lss 3d'Con,nden Tees

Hilda

Northumberland
14s 9d
,Seymour Tees .... os 07,
Original Gibson
,1
Percy....
Walker
•" 150 v
Eden Main
Lambton Primrose ... 16s
d Bell
td
iSidne) s Hartley ... 395.
Ships at market,

KETS..
BRISTOL FEB. 27. rtber
STOCK EXCHANGE.—Themarket to-day,sh"lsbsas ill been
depreciation in shares, and but little buswess„v,.....Di°
transacted. Great Western, Quarters, closed at 107 s
171. Shares, 8 dis. —York and North Midland, 17,11.
.
LIVERPOOL, Fzn. 27. ba9i
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—We have had a very trifiloi,jower,
ness in cur Stock Exchange to-day, and prieeS yorlc,l
The transactions were as follow : Lancashirerjannio,o4,o7ol
shire, Fifties, 81/8 c. dis.—Ditto, (West Riding
c. dis.— Loudon and North-Western, 101—Ditto, s°o:Lester'
tern, 6s. 3d. e. dis.—Ditto, Fifths, 14 dis.-31i
Sheffield, and Linc.:ln, Eighths, 11 Midland, 39 4
Halves, •25% dis.—North Staffordshire, 11 c.
lea's (Railway anti Canal), New Preference, peg ptir'
1 LA, dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G° `..
chase), 6 per cent. till 1850, (81 paid), 614
BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 27. t
to-
STOCK ExcuteriniE.—The share market was quieweetero
The only transactions were—London and Nora'.
New Quarters, 14 p.—Midland Stock, 405 t•
YORK, FEB. 26. A Were fro
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-uaY
follow : Great Northern, Halves (A), Deferreati:3',62cten'
Newcastle, and Berwick, 14:r4 Ditto
( \Town"-
- o
sion). 91/6.
GLASGOW, FEB. 25. were
St ocx EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-uaY;bgeolOct
follow : Dundee and Arbroath, 25—Glasgow'd
and Ayr, Halves (No. 1), 12/. 12s. 6d.—Dundee an rept,'
8/. 9s.—Great Northern Preference e e scent. go¢d
pit
10/. 16s.— Scottish Cent;al, 141.riOsSc-p otr tisb
tion, 8/. ss. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, "Jdsor;"
(G N. E. Purchase or Preference), 45s.—York 6°
Midland, 17,Y4.

r SO*
MEMOIRS OF A HUNGARIAN LADY. 13". Thile IOC:
PULSZKY.— We are requested to state tint "b;,ibeAt''
work, in 2 vuls., is published this day by oi„,r'" ecum,
and may be hid of all booksellers. Also, 2. 1";‘,5 00"‘
volume of Evelyn's Diary and CorresponderVltes,°,,i'-
revised, and cheaper edition ; 3. The Rev-
Life f Tasso, '2 vols.; 4. Burke's History of toe toll
Gentry for 1350, corrected to the present time; Ec° glory'
in
.2 vols., 21. 2s. 5. Lives of the Princesses (A'l,:oodeAre,ll
by Mrs. Everett Green, 2 vols.; 6. Sir Janie& si".-080a,-
Acadie; or, Seven Years' Explorations in British
2 vols., with plates, 21s.
SOUTH- WESTERN STEAM NAVIGATION CU 11.5!
•—The half-yearly general meeting of this WIWI 101
erecor.
held yesterday at the office of th,e South-W°st
way Company, in the York-road. Mr. Tite in they beti
The report stated that the boats of the COtiVtilbittes:
been leat:ed to the South-Western Compell f°ra r ce
years and a half, at a guaranteed dividend of 5. re,,, op -
At the end of that term the ships would be gtve'ss 01;
shareholders again. A further call of 2/- 101'
cessary to close the capital aecouut, and urn that
the 5 per cent. would be paid. The dividendthe clir
amount to 6,7301. annually. In the course Oa that
cussion on the report, the chairman announce'".sooP':
boats were now paying their expenses, but Pet 009;
Western Company hal hitherto worked than wool"
The report was adopted, and 2 per cent. on thne of tb
was ordered to be set aside for the expert
° A
On"
eas lor r:
com
SOany.
pUTHAMPTON, FEE. 27. The pen '
Oriental Company's steam-ship Patinger, tog) fall t,
for Constantinople, left tis day, having 11„,„r C%
neral cargo and several assertpgers. The Jl3l)'''lft
Meehan, with the usual Peninsular mails xis° acie to
day, having a full cargo, a few passengers, and ,Bgrsteisid;
the amount of 7,000/. The Peninsular Cometrini•Y frill-
ship Montrose, Captain Bowen, with the —Vogt' "iO6
Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar, will be here gl-03.0-.
6th proximo. The Ho) al Mail
them.lndiaCopanys ste alSij6
Medway, Captain Symonds, with Vtres °cell°
will leave on Saturday The 14°W
Steam Navigation next. ,;„ froin
Company's steam-suit', n
York, may be looked for about the 7th proligl-n. vaiptetie
TAW YALE RAILWAY.—The committee °" °-
Or b.
to report on the propriety of either Pr°secti-t0 •
abandoning this undertaking, recommend going '0
out delay. It is recommended to lay down Ithsllo° °ll
on the broad gauge. Contracts to complete 1- n
favourable terms have been offered to the direot°-010-
[ADVJORTISEINIENT.]—A LIVER COMPLAIN% Ph°
ar HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS.—Extract of a letter fr°""rbilliPl
e
M'Lean Ferguson, Esq., dated Melbourne
May 9, 1849 :—" To Professor Holloway. Melbourne, be
1 seeoll
afflicted nearly two years with the liver compli'Dl
nied with flying pains in my shoulders, dimness of Po
difficulty of breathing. After expending upwtrds.,„. iodlitbs
pounds in medicine without finding any relief, "-foe Otho
to try your Pills, and by their use, and striet,,ett:full
for
prescribed regimen, lam effectual) cured. urs other ct
the. • e
same, I publish this statement in thehope ken' 'se
afiliated may have recourse to your invaluable sne is",
thereby derive a similar
benefit."—Sold by
at Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strap all drAntocleo'

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On the 23d inst., at the HirSel, N. 8., P
of J•
Home, of a daughter. wife _
On the 24th inst., in Russell-square, the
Crookes, Esq., of a daughter. ire of J'
On the 24th inst., at Swindon, Wilts, the w the
Fife ei Browne, Esq., of a son.
On the 22d inst., at Easton Grey, Wilts, the vC.
Rev. W. S. Birch, of a son.fi 0 el A"
On the 22d inst., at Winnin ton, Essex, thew . 0
Webb, Esq., of a Camden-road Winning
A. 10114
On the 23d inst., at .villas, Mrs. G.
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of twins—a son and a daughter.;- wife 01V•
On the 23d inst., at Park-hill, Croydon, the '' Toirlll
W. Flower, of a daughter. ..,etierr
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a
Mrs. Lewis Pocock, of
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MARRIED. moo, bet,
On the 18th inst., at Stoke Dametel, S. 11.--00 0
Lieutenant in her Mdesty's 82d Regiment,
Renee Ililligar, eldest jdaughter of the late Cap Of
Wilson, RN„ Trafalgar-plac Stoke. 0° •
1, Ale itegl
to
oin Jo
On the 19th inst., at Rei'vetstown Churel,ire) ~- -10
M.Kinstry, Esq, Captain in the 17th (Leicester D.. Ore
ment, to Jane Henrietta Cooper, third daughter I''
04.,
Cooper, EsqCoopershill, couty.Sligetv gollelde,
On the 19th inst., at Glasgow, Basil Ros su„ -10.00-'noll
to
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idnasurghatterßoafthJ; Ronald, Esq , i'lioteo fur'
well, daughter of the late Reva.geHd.BD% dMwaerltli,lare7tGt °I."
laxton and Coltersworth, Lincolnshire.

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On the 30th ult., at his DrleEsiDdence, on • ,t, '
the t.
FP
Joseph Jakell, Esq., in the 81st year of bps age,' id, of
On the 24th inst., at Wakefield, John Ilat“e- 10
Wili
field-hall, Esq., Yorkshire,NorthamPtoesJire,
maoOnnnsettilhi:eei22s44qtthh, in Spencer-street, the
xf,,,ry Aline'
aiighetd,7ast. Lympstohe, Devon' 'i.—... Job°
wile of T. Barnard, of that place, aged 45. n„yilisb?
On the 23d inst., at Langstone Cliff? 1"- •I(
1, Wide
Dickin, Fsq., aged 79. soli'? ,
On the 23d inst., at Elton
geatifig
of the late Rev. Thomas Clarke.
aged 7 g LOY g sti4'
On the 22d inst., at Cheltenham, • -',leurf - e
widow of the late Lieutenant-General Sir 1-1 ists
K.C.13., Colonel of her Majesty's SBd Reghnent.' 9, F. 011"
On the 22d inst., at Brighton, Richard Feriae ,11.
f oll''
of Park-square, Regent's-park, aged 4S. Moore, °
On the 22:1 inst., aged 65, Mr. Robert P. f sir,
cre cent, Bedford-square.
On the 22d inst., at Greenwich, Bridget? the Wifely:lso
Br
On llinhurst, s.
the 22dE insq' t. at Sandhurst, near Glo 0 ce9ter' lir'
Cother, Esq., aged 61. wife of
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