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plied, he said, that they contemplated assassination. Were
they acquitted? The Committee stated that there was
nothing to criminate the gentleman whom the Committee had
reluctantly named. Why did they not acquit them? He
understood from his Hon. Colleague that the spy who had
caused these gentlemen to be suspected had already received
the reward of his infamy. Was this a system to be tolerated ?
But he would not go into these cases. He would not now dis-
cuss the question of whether the power was justifiable or not.
That was not the question now. His Hon. Colleague had
stated that his letters had been opened. A Member of that
House alleged that his letters had been opened by the Secretary
of State for the Home Department, and that Right Hon. Gen-
tleman shielded himself behind his oath of secrecy. It was
impossible that the public could be satisfied—that House could
not be satisfied—the House would not do justice to its own
character and position if they did not demand a full, complete,
and searching inquiry into the pointed and personal accusation
that the Hon. Gentleman had made.—(Cheers. )
Mr. BROTHERTON then moved the adjournment of the
debate, and it was adjourned accordingly.
Mr. ROEBUCK inquired to what day the debate would be
adjourned. He understood that, to-morrow, the Committee
of Ways and Means would be proceeded with.
Sir R. PEEL said the debate on the income-tax would be
resumed to-morrow, as it could only be taken on Mondays,
Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Mr. ROEBUCK supposed the debate then would be ad-
journed to Thursday.
Sir R. PEEL—Yes.
Mr. T. DUNCONI BE suggested that it should be made an
order of the day.
Sir B. PEEL said that, as far as the Government was con-
cerned, they would give way..
Mr. M. MILNES gave notice that, to-morrow, he would
ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the Government,
at the time they communicated to the Italian Government the
probability of an invasion, at the same time desired the agents
of the English Government to put the parties implicated on
their guard, and to take steps to prevent such invasion.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM then postponed the introduction
of his Medical Reform Bill to a future day.
The other notices were then disposed of, and the House ad-
journed at Half-past Twelve.

one of our principal official departments, we are yet
grateful to that intelligent and able foreigner for
having, with admirable perseverance, brought home
to the really responsible parties political enormities
of which, but for him, the British public would have
still remained profoundly ignorant absolutely
unsuspicious. Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE, too,
deserves the respect of every true Englishman, of
every party, for the zeal with which he has exerted
himself to procure from Parliament a signal disclaimer
of powers that cannot be used but to taint the national
honour. At the risk of incurring the same censure
which was visited on Mr. DUNCOMBE for the strong
expression of his indignation, we must declare that the
defence in chief, set up by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and
the argument in extenuation attempted by Sir ROBERT
PEEL, were among the most puerile, the most pitiful,
and abject exhibitions of forensic logic ever witnessed
in the House of Commons. Mr. DUNCOMBE tells Sir
JAMES GRAHAM distinctly-1. That lie, Sir JAMES,
had been guilty of the meanness and baseness of opening
his, Mr. Duecosine's, letters. 2. That Sir JAMES had
not the courage to avow it. And in reference to this
latter part of the charge, he reminded the House,
that on a former occasion he had addressed to the
Home Secretary a question with the view Of eliciting
the fact, to which the Right Hon. Functionary re-
plied by evading it as " one that it was known he
was not in a condition to answer." Last night Sir
JAMES blustered about " his perfect indifference to
the imputation cast upon him by Mr. BUNCOMBE?'
Indifference ! Delightful public morality, this, in a
minister ! Let us have patience, and we shall hear
the next postman who may be tried at the Central
Criminal Court for breaking the seal of a letter, and
possessing himself of its contents, avow himself " per-
fectly indifferent to the imputation." For, observe,
Sir JAMES did not deny the charge, but went into a
rigmarole review of Mazzisa's case, and was so kind
as to inform the House that the question was—
whether or not they would repeal the Act of
Queen ANNE, which had given to Ministers this
bad power? Now that was not the question. Sir R.
PEEL, on the contrary, at the conclusion of the lamest
and most inconclusive of speeches, declared that
" the question was not as to the existence of the
power, but whether or not it had been honourably
exercised ; and as they had been acquitted by a
chosen Committee of honourable men, let them not
again be put on their trial by a second inquiry before
a new tribunal." Not quite so fast Sir ROBERT. By
your own showing, you and your colleague are not
yet agreed on what the question is, so that that point
is not to he disposed of in this off-hand way. But
there is another party, a greater party—the English
public—who are yet to be satisfied before you can talk
of your " acquittal." They can only be satisfied
through the medium of such a Committee as Mr.
DUNCOMBE moves for, not a packed Secret Committee,
whose first act was to exclude Mr. BUNCOMBE him-
self. Now what was the stringent question which
Sir J. GRAHAM dared not, and Sir R. PEEL would
not, meet ? Just this—well, directly, fear-
lessly put by Mr. SHEIL. We give his
own words—" You who answer about MAzztur, you
who answer about the Poles, will you answer this—
Did you open the letters of Mr. DUNCOMBE ?"
Sir JAMES was silent. Mr. Sum reproved the
officious " interlocutory" of Lord SANDON, by telling
him that he had called not on the Noble Lord but
the Right Hon. Baronet. He reiterated his interro-
gatory. Sir JAMES was dumb. Dumb ? Darn tacet,
clam& His silence is the eloquence of confession.
" Well, then, does Sir JAMES justify his conduct in
this particular of Mr. BUNCOMBE'S letters ?" No
answer. Sir J. HANMER is so good as to think too
well of Sir JAMES to believe such a charge as applied
to him. Eminently satisfactory that, to Mr. DUN.
COUBE! Lord SANDON makes a long and rather angry
speech as Chairman of the Secret Committee of last
session, in which he tells the House " that the infor-
mation conveyed to it was full and satisfactory, and
though the prurient curiosity of individuals had not
been gratified, the report contained sufficient mate-
rials for deciding whether or not the extraordinary
power given to the Home Secretary had been fairly
exercised." How strangely constituted must be the
inquisitiveness of a Member of Parliament, which re-
flects upon the indignant and determined demand of
outraged individuals for full and searching inquiry
into the grievous wrong of which they complain as a
" prurient curiosity" forsooth. It is time to come to
some understanding as to the statutable lines of demar-
, cation (we think), between moral right and moral
wrong. At last Sir J. GRAHAM speaks ; but for what
purpose ? To tell Mr. SHELL that he cannot answer
his question ; and that, upon his honour, he has " out
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Madrid journals, of the 10th and 11th inst., have
been received. In the Senate the general discussion
on the Clergy Rotation Bill was closed, and the first
article adopted on the 11th. It was understood that
the whole measure of Government would be adopted
in both Chambers. The Envoy, CASTILLO T AYENZA,
was not to set out for Rome till after the presentation
of the Bill to Congress. It appears that the amount
of Three per Cents. issued by the Government from
the 15th to the 31st of January, in consequence of the
conversion of the claims of the contractors of Trea-
sury-bills and the Floating Debt, reached the sum of
183,676,279 reals.

On the 11th the Three per Cents. closed at 32i
for cash, and 331 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at
24 for cash, and 24i at 60 days; and the Debt with-
out Interest, at 71 at 60 days.

Most of the Paris papers give an outline of Sir R.
PEEL'S financial statement, but their remarks are very
concise, and without interest. Such a large surplus,
and that surplus disposed of in a way that may inter-
fere with French manufactures, especially in glass,
cannot be very pleasing to those parties who lose no
opportunity of showing their hostility to England.
aln'heaJmouusing
Journal
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treats the subject in rather
Premier for the admirable way in which he keeps a
secret. " Fourteen days ago," says the writer, "the
Government announced that they would pro-
pose a continuation of the income-tax, and a re-
duction of duty on certain articles of consumption,
But the question was on what tax blessed by heaven
would the choice of the Minister fall ? No one could
answer, and Sir ROBERT PEEL, according to his
custom, carefully kept the secret, while he was be-
sieged by persons representing almost every branch
of industry—tea, coffee, sugar, cotton, paper, soap,
and things without number. These made the air re-
sound with their lamentations, like the halt and lame
who expo.,e their wounds, real or factitious, to the
charity of the public. But the financial dictator was
impenetrable. He had neither eyes to see nor ears to
hear. He walked amidst them like a physician of
the first rank among his patients crying for relief,
but he would give no answer till the appointed time.'
After other remarks in a similar strain, that journal
thus proceeds :
"The strength of Sir Robert Peel's Ministry consists in
the success of his financial measures ; and, right or wrong,
the Prime Minister of Great Britain is considered as the only
man capable of maintaining an equilibrium between the in-

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEINING, FEBRUARY 19, 1845.

come and the expenditure of the country. He feels his
power, and he makes use of it. He alone could have induced
the British nation to submit to the detested income-tax in
time of peace. When we recollect the energetic resistance the
income-tax experienced in Mr. Pitt's time, and the universal
execration excited against it throughout the country, and
the astounding philippics which greeted it in the Parliament
and at the hustings, we are astonished at theresignation with
which it is received at present. It is true that three years
since it might have been foreseen that the income-tax, pre-
sented as temporary, would by degrees assume a permanent
character, and, perhaps, it would not have been tolerated so
easily, had not Sir Robert Peel, like a skilful physician, ad-
ministered it in small doses. The present state of the re-
venue, moreover, sufficiently justifies the continuation of
the tax. Its productiveness has exceeded every calculation.
The Government will, therefore, find it difficult to abandon
so fruitful and so certain a source of revenue. We believe
that the English people will do well to resign themselves to
it. The income-tax now forms part of their social economy,
and they must accustom themselves to live with the trouble-
some guest."

The Presse, in adverting to the increase of the
English navy, contrasts the policy of England and
France :
" England, in that respect, has given us examples of
which we have not taken advantage. The development of
her navy has been the business of all her Ministers. It was
by that course that she acquired that incontestable superio-
rity which is at present her most certain protection ; and,
whilst other nations are endeavouring to equal her, she con-
tinues with fresh ardour to discover further improvements.
In France, and it is unpleasant to be obliged to declare the
fact, our navy is neither in good condition nor of an imposing
force. We have to repair many faults, and to recover much time
lost, before we can assume twat position on the seas to which
we are entitled. But are we taking advantage of peace ?
Or are we adopting prompt measures to put an end to our
deplorable inferiority, proclaimed by all our official publica-
tions? By no means. Our navy budget for this year appears
to blush for itself. It presents itself to the Chamber with
downcast eyes, like a child which fears to be censured. We
desire that the Chambers should occupy themselves seriously
with our position. The Committee on the budget, it is said,
is determined to propose a considerable reduction on the
effective of our land army. So much the better. We can the
more easily imitate our neighbours and increase the budget of
the navy. It is not possible that while England is increasing
her navy we should reduce ours."

The same journal alludes, with evident satisfaction,
to the proceedings in the American Congress, and
anticipates embarrassment for England, though the
writer " will lay a wager that England will not de-
clare war against the United States," either on ac-
count of Texas or the Oregon territory. The French
Funds on Monday were rather more firm than on Sa-
turday.
Accounts from Algiers of the 7th state that the
country was covered with snow, even to the gates of
the city, a circumstance without precedent since the
French have been in possession of the colony. The
Arab chiefs who visited Paris had landed at Algiers,
and were preparing to return to their posts full of
admiration of the wonders of the French capital.
The German Journal of Frankfort has an article,

saying :
" We learn that twelve German writers have been ordered
by the French Government to leave Paris Among them are
Messrs. Ruge, Mare, Heine, Bcernstein, Bernays, and Mess
Herwegb. M. Heine, however, had got himself naturalised,
and was thus protected against the Ministerial decree. Ruge
has obtained a suspension of it, through the mediation of the
Saxon Minister, as he pretends that he does not belong to the
German State which has demanded his expulsion. The rest
are obliged to quit Paris immediately."
THE BOURSE--MONDAY, FEB. 17.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEW:
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
At Liverpool yesterday duty-paid Cotton was but little
noticed, and prices were rather in favour of the buyers.
Speculators took 2,000 bales, and the total sales were 4,000
bales.—The Share Market was not so good, and there was
less doing. Birmingham and Derby, 96 ; Birmingham and
Gloucester, 135 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 61; Caledonian,
73/4 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 39 ; Chester and Holyhead,
8% ; ChumetsValley, 8% 8 ; Dublin and Belfast, 5% ;
Grand Junction, 221 ; Ditto, Half, 110%; Great
North of England, 181; Great Western, 181 ; Liver-
pool and Manchester, Half, ,103 ; London and Bir-
mingham, Quarter, 29% % ; Ditto and Brighton, 574 3/4 ;
Ditto and York, 7% ; Manchester and Birmingham, 64%;
Midland Counties, 1271,4 ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 122 ;
Newcastle and Berwick, 1634 ; North British, 14%; North
Union, 1401/ ; Preston and Wyre, 22% ; Scottish Central,
3% 3/4 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 105% 106 ; Shrewsbury
and Birmingham, 63/4 ; South-Eastern, New, No. 1, 16%;
Trent Valley, 181,E 193/4 ; York and North Midland, New,
Half, 12%; Paris and Lyons, 3%; Paris and Rouen, 43 ;
Rouen and Havre, 19; Boulogne and Amiens, 5; Northern
of France, 53/4.
An increased amount of business has been announced in
the colonial markets, it being considered all but settled that
the measures, as proposed by the Premier, will be fully and
entirely carried out. The" Tea," the "Coffee," and various
other interests, not included in the proposed new tariff; are,
of course, disappointed. There is, however, a crying evil,
which ought to be immediately attended to by the Premier,
namely, the relative duties upon chicory and coffee. The
subject is thus handled by the Public Ledger, a purely com-
mercial paper
" By the Customs' report we find that last year 31,730
cwt., or 3,553,7601 b., of foreign chicory was entered for home
consumption, at a duty of 20s. per cwt. Now, every prac-
tical man knows that the quantity of home-made chicory,
and that imported from the Channel Islands, exceeds that of
foreign, and that nearly the whole is used to mix with coffee
by a large portion of the retail dealers in the United King-
dom ; a quantity from 10 to 20 per cent. upon the deliveries of
coffee (30,000,0001 b. per annum) is sold under the name and
at the price of coffee to the public.
"Now let us examine the loss which has accrued by the
fraudulent admixture of this article.
" First—The revenue has lost the duty of 4d. per lb. upon
about 5,000,0001 b., the substitute for coffee paying only 20s.
per cwt.
" Second—The public has paid Is. 6d. or 2s. per lb. upon
that weight, for which it ought to have been charged only
6d., had it been sold under its proper name.
"Third—The importers of coffee have lost bona fide cus-
tomers for about 5,000,0001 b. by the sellers delivering chicory
to that extent to the consumers who paid for coffee.
" The remedy for this crying evil is easily found for
foreign, as an augmented duty would do it ; but it is more
difficult to check the consumption of home made, and per-
haps entirely to do so impossible ; but one effectual
check would be to replace chicory under the excise laws,
among the articles from whence it never ought to have
been taken, namely, those which are prohibited to be upon
the premises of dealers, called imitative articles;'
and that could be at once done by rescinding the Treasury
order under which retail dealers are now enabled to have
chicory on their premises.
" The Chancellor of the Exchequer last year stated, on the
night of the Budget, that he would introduce some measure
to remedy this evil, but the session passed over without it.
We hope it will be done during the present, as the public, the
revenue, and the trade will thereby be benefited."
There has been a reaction in the Consol Market to-day ;
the price for the Account has fallen to 99%, and for Money to
9914. The premium on Exchequer. bills has been at from 535.
to 555. Bank Stock for the Account is at 212.
The principal variation in the Foreign Funds has been in
the Portuguese Converted Bonds, and they have fallen from 60
to 59%. Spanish have ruled from 273/to 28%; the Three per
Cents. from 40% to 3/4 ; the Belgian Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. from 101 y, to %; and the Chilian from 1011 A to 1/2.
The Share Market is, on the whole, firmer to-day. The
amount of business that has been transacted is rather above
the usual daily average.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols
New 31A per Cents lO3 VA % 103%
Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 12 1-16 12 1-16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 11 15-16 11 15-16
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under 1,000/. ... 71
Bank Stock for Account... ... 212
Consols for Account. — -- 991/2%
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 11/ d.... 53 55
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small

... 55 ---

ONE
O'CLOCK.

99%
pm. 55
pm. -
pm. 55
CLOSING
PRICES.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839......
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent...
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... ... 35%
Ditto, Deferred —
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted
Ditto, Account 593/4% 60 59% 59f
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
3/4%
Ditto. Account .28 277,6 28% 281,,
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto, Account 4014% 40X3
Belgian Scrip, 4% per Cent. lOl%
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 983/4%
Ditto, 5 per Cent 99%
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID.: AT ONE
RAILWAY SHARES O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100
Ditto % Shares
/4
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New.— . ......... 2 ...... 7
Bristol and Gloucester... 30
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% %33 3
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Churnet Valley -
Cornwall

Direct Northern
Dublin and Galway..... 2% 3% 3 ...
Eastern Counties 141. 16s —
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....41. 13s. 4d 1
Ditto ditto, No. 2. l3s. 4d... 0%
iz
Eastern Union lO .
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..loo
Ditto New
Great Western BO . "

Ditto % Shares 5O —
Ditto Fifths 2O
Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 2 %... ,
Harwich
Hull and Selby 5O
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%...... 18 ...
Lancaster and Carlisle... 15
London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...233
Ditto New Thirds 2
London and Blackwall.. 16%
London and Brighton... 507%
58% 58
London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d — ....,
London and S. Western 4116 s 10d 80%
Ditto New 21,4 l3 12%.
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 18%
London and York ...... •.. 2%...... 7 6%..
Lynn and Ely 2%
Manchester and Leeds... 73
Midland... 100
Ditto New
Midland, Binn., Derby 100
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction
Neweastie and Berwick 11,4 ...... 15
Newark and Sheffield ... 11/0
North British
Ditto New 1
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Ditto, New
Richmondand West End

33/4

33/4
3%

Junction
Rugby,Wor'ster,&Tring 1
Shrews., Wolverhamp ,
Dudley, and Birm 2% 6% ..... ....
South Devon lO ...... 17

. 53

South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 403/ 41 ... .....
Ditto, No. 1
Ditto, N(L 2.
Ditto, No. 3
South Wales
Trent Valley 2 ... 19% 20 19.% 20 193/4
West Cornwall .. 114...
York and North Midland 50
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20
Ditto, Selby 2O
ilDitto Extension .. ... 114 1314 1214
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Lyons and Avignon 2
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 1234 13 12%
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London & Westminster. 20
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 18.—The market
remains steady, and considerable business has been done at
the following quotations :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, New
Quarters, 6 ; Lancaster and Preston, 52%; London and
Brighton, 5814 % ex new and ex div. ; Manchester and
Leeds, 137 ; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 6%; South-Eastern,
41; Ditto, No. 3, 10% ; Barnsley Junction, ; Birken-
head, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 7 5-16; Black-
burn, Burnley, and Accrington, 6 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and
Bolton, 3% ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 7; Caledonian,
7% ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 3% ; Churnet Valley,
8 3-16 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 1%; Great Grimsby and
Sheffield Junction, 2% % ; Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway and Canal, ; Huddersfield and Sheffield
Junction, 4% •, Leeds and Thirsk, 4 ; Liverpool,
Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% ; London, Worcester, Ox-
ford, and Rugby, 4 ; London and York, 7%; Manchester
and Buxton, 3% ' • Newark and Sheffield, 2%; Newcastle
and Berwick. 16 ; Scottish Central, 3%; Sheffield and Lin-
colnshire Junction, 11,12 9-16 ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton,
Dudley, &c , 3A ; Trent Valley, 201 %; West York-
hire, 3%; Great Northern of France (English), 5%; Man-
chester and Liverpool District Bank, 11% ex div.; Peak
Forest Canal, 43; Rochdale Canal, 54.

Summonses were issued, by order of Sir James
Graham this morning, for a Cabinet Council to be held
to-morrow (Thursday) afternoon, at the Foreign-office,
Downing-street.

At Queen-square Police-court, yesterday, a number
of cab and omnibus drivers were summoned. One cabman was
fined ten shillings for plying elsewhere than on a stand, by driving
about the street obstructing the traffic. An omnibus conductor was
fined five shillings for allowing another person to ride on the.step of
the omnibus.

BANK DIVIDENDS.—The Newcastle-on-Tyne Com-
mercial Banking Company have just declared a dividend of 7 per
cent., and the Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Banking
Company a dividend of 10 per cent. per annum. The Newcastle
Joint-stock Banking Company have made a dividend of 6 per cent.,
a surplus of profit of upwards of 3,0001. being carried to the guarantee

THE WEATHER.—THE PARKS.—After eight o'clock
on Sunday night the previous cloudy atmosphere was succeeded by a
brilliant morning, the wind blowing briskly and piercing from
the mercury began to fall, and during the night, and up to seven
o'clock yesterday morning, the thermometer at the Receiving House
in Hyde Park stood at 28 degrees. The advance of the day, how-
ever, dispelled all the hopes of the skater, and though the mem-
bars of the Skating Club met in Hyde I'ark, all were compelled to
forego their favourite amusement. The thermometer at noon was
38 degrees, and had declined very slightly up to eiglit O'clock last
night. The wind blew chiefly from the outilwgrd.