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London, England, 1850-04-26 00:00:00

BANKING DI

Proprietorsicapital— 14,553,000
Ittst • •• •• 3,030,216
Yubdc deposits (In-
v!,f din; Exchequer,
C.,:nnlnsloners of
Ntitional Debt,Sav-

I ngl-bank s, and Di-
vidend accounts).. 4,G27.318
Other deposits • . • • • • 10.946,312
Stlvi!n day and other

.... 1,158.635

£34,365.541

Dated the 2ith day of April, N.

COURSE OF EXCI-141
•• •• 12 2
three months 12 34
itottercla:a .... ••.. • • 12 3N
An: 25 80
Brussels • • •..... . 25 go
Et,...burgh M.B. 13 13. i
Paris, 3 days'sight .. 2S CO

Ditto, 3 Months .... 25 80
arsenics ............ 25 82%
Bourdeaux....• ••.• • •
rrankfort on Ma1m0.... 121%
effec. -•• • • • 12 7
Trieste, 12 9
Petersburgh, Sll. Rble 37%
Madrid .... • • ........ 493
12.trePlona • • • • ........

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lordships assembled at Five o'clock.
The Earl of RODEN presented several petitions
I raying that Scriptural schools in Ireland might have a
share in the national grant.
The Earl of HARROWBY presented several petitions
praying for a repeal of the Sale of Beer Act.
The Bishop of LONDON presented a petition from
the Tower Hamlets in favour of the Extramural Inter-
ments Bill. Lie took that opportunity of returning his
thanks to the Government for having embodied the re-
commendations of the Sanitary Commissioners on extra-
mural interment into a Bill. He believed that the pase•
ing of some such Bill was absolutely necessary for the
health of the metropolis. The Bill bad been drawn up
in a very masterly manner, and he hoped the Govern.
ment would firmly resist any attempt to alter the provi-
sions of that Bill.
Earl TALBOT presented a petition from a parish in
the island of Jamaica praying for a faithful observance
of t'le treaties with Spain and Brazil fur the suppression
of the slave trade.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took ttie Chair at Four o'clock.
PETITIONS.
Mr. THORNELY presented a petition from Wolver-
hampton in favour i,f international arbitration.
Mr. WILSON PATTEN presented a petition from
Chu;ley, iu Lancashire, against the Highways Bill; also
a petition trim Laneashire against secular education.
Mr. PLUMPTRE presented nineteen petitions from
Kent and other places against Sunday labour in the Post-
office.

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Colonel LLOYD WATKINS presented a petition,
signed by 200 of the principal inhabitants of the parish
of Llvwel, in the county of Brecknock, praying the
house that for the future there should be no transmis-
sion Of snails nor delivery of letters in the United King-
dom during the 24 hours of the Lord's day.
Lord IiENDLESHAM ;
presented a petition from a
place -uff lk in favour of aninternational system of
o
penny postage.
Mr. MILNER GIBSON presented a petition from
Manchester praying
for the removal of the taxes on
knoAedge.
The Earl of MARCH presented petitions from a
p'sece in Sussex in favour of the Ten Hours Factory
Bill, and against Sunday labour in the Post-office.
Lord GEORGE MANNERS presented_ a piedtiEntion
fr,m a place in Rutlandshire ugaiuet the c (Tyho
franchi•enients Bill.
Mr..BRIGHT presented a petition from a congregB.•
lion of Dissenters in Northamtonsbire, praying tortstle
abolition of church-rates.
• Lord ASHLEY presented a petition from a place in
Lancashire in favour of the Ten Hours Bill.
Mr. W. J. FOX presented petitions from Oldham
praying for the abolition of church-rates, and in favour
Of ttio Education Bill.
Sir J. DUCK WOltTli presunted a petition from
Exeter, signed by 1,700 persons, praying for the cessa-
t. on of Suneay labour in the l'ott-oftite.
Mr. G. TtIOMPSON presented a petition from
a Dissenting congregation in Bethnal-area praying for
o abolition of church-rates; also a petition from ope-
rativei in Dewsbury, in favour of the Ten Hours Bill;
and a petition from Glasgow praying fur the abolition
of capital punish!' cots.
Mr. FORBES presented a retition from Bute, pray-
ing that the Bill introduced into the House by the Hon.
Member for that county, for legalizing marriage with a
deceased wife's sister, may not pass into a law.
Mr. DIVETT presented a petition from Exeter com-
plaining of the present mode of licensing public-hoytses
its that town.
Mr. COWAN presented a petition from Edinburgh,
against the Public Health (Scotland) Bill.
Lord R. GROSVENOIt presented several petitions
from factoryoperatires in Yorks, Lved, and other places,.

in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill; also petitions from
Fulham and Chiswick against Sunday labour in the Post-
office ; also a petition from the Metropolitan Sanitary
Association praying for a repeal of the window-tax;
and a petition from Spitalfields against the taxation
clause in the Secular Education Bill. _ _

Sir GEORGE GREY presented a petition from the
borough of Morpeth, Northumberland, praying for the
abolition of Sunday hirings in that town during harvest.
Mr. STAFFORD presented a petition from Caxton,
in Northamptonshire, against Sunday labour in the Post-
office.