The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-03 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL _STANDARD, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1853.

RO.ll OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNING.
IT is not at all improbable that at a late hour to-night,
or early to-morrow morning, the electric telegraph will
bring you the result of the debate and division on the
CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER'S Income Tax reso-
lution, DISRAELI having given Lord JOHN RUSSELL an
extorted promise that the Conservative section of the
House of Commons would not prolong the discussion
beyond the period I have indicated. If Lord JOHN ma-
nages to keep in check his oratorical friends on the
Treasury benches, and should the ultramontane admi-
nistration-destroying representatives from Ireland, who
are working hard to manufacture political capital out of
the present important crisis, be compelled, by some mi-
raculous interposition, to abandon the resolve they have
long since formed, of submitting to the Legislature,
at wearying length, an alarming array of Irish griev-
ances, from the time of the Union downwards, then,
indeed, there shall be no further adjournment of
the debate. But if the English Whigs and Radi-
cals and the Irish declaimers must speak out for
the satisfaction and amusement of their constituents, then
I fear that the issue of the contest on which the Conserva-
tive followers of DISRAELI have so chivalrously entered
will not be known before Thursday evening. In my
letter last week, I calculated, with good financial assist-
ance, the majority for ministers at a point ranging from
twenty-eight to thirty-five votes. Since then, some
members returned by Conservative electors, Colonel
HARCOURT, Sir THOMAS ACLAND, Mr. SANDA RS, and Mr.
HERBERT among the number, have given their adhesion
to Ministers, and this contemptible conduct, coupled with
the pressure and rnancenvring which have been brought
to bear on ten or twelve of the Irish members, will, I
have heard, give the Government a larger number of sup-
porters than even their most sanguine friends believed
possible early last week. At the Carlton Club yesterday,
the majority was estimated at 45, while the Reform Club
men confidently " book" the ABERDEENITES to win in a
canter with fifty or sixty. The threat of an immediate dis-
solution, in the event of " an unsatisfactory division"—
unsatisfactory, meaning insufficient for Ministerial pur-
poses—has not been without its effect, and the reported
promise of a considerable modification of the Income
Tax in its application to Ireland has induced some of the
Irish representatives to determine, either or not voting
against the measure, or to go into the lobby with Minis-
ters. A deputation of the latter " Emerald Gems" had
an interview with the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
who, by the way, is very ill, on Saturday, to protest
against the injustice of, at present, imposing the Income
Tax on Ireland, and to suggest the propriety of reconsi-
dering the proposed Budget on the basis that the Conso-
lidated Annuities and all arrears—only five millions—be
remitted, and that, if the Income Tax is to be forced
upon Ireland, it should be confined to those four sources of
income, which belong to the more opulent classes, and do
not involve inquisitorial inquiries or unproductive expenses,
viz., public funds, shares in public companies, public
salaries, and landlords' rents, according to Mr. GRIF-
FITHS' valuation, with due allowances for encumbrancers,
annuitants, and rent-chargers, who shall also bear their
proportion of the tax. The CHANCELLOR promised to
give the propositions every consideration, and I am told
appeared to regard, at least one of them, with favour.
Indeed, so anxious has he been to meet the views of the
Irish representatives who waited upon him, that he sent
Lord JOHN RUSSELL a copy of his minutes of the inter-
view, accompanied with his own observations, and they
were submitted by the leader of the House of Commons
to a council of his colleagues, at which Mr. GLADSTONE'S
indisposition prevented his attendance. The decision of
the Cabinet has not yet been made formally known, but
I should not be surprised to find some of the demanded
concessions " most graciously granted."
Until Monday night, since the memorable closing of
WILLIAM the FOURTH'S first Whig Parliament, there has
not been a spree or row in the House of Lords worth
noticing. On the evening last mentioned, Lord DERBY
came down to the house as fiery as Hotspur—fiery in to-
to, as a poor punster said, for his lordship is sorely
plagued, especially at this season, with gout in his pedal
extremities—the toe toe. The noble Earl at no time
manifests a very bland expression of countenance ; and I
he knew, to begin with, that he would not be able to carry
his amendment, which, if carried, would have rendered
naught the Coalition Canada Clergy Reserves Bill, about
which not one in five hundred of the QUEEN'S lieges
know anything, and not one in five thousand of the same
catalogue care a rotten straw, or a grain of Canada maple
sugar, two of the most worthless things I can at the
moment remember. The debate, wearisome in the ex-
treme, " dragged its slow length along," until, late in the
evening, the Bishop of OXFORD'S lawn rustled a little,
after which he began to pitch into Lord DERBY with
" drum ecclesiastic." Opposing the amendment, the
PISHOP said something about chicane, and smiled ; it was
not, a ghastly smile—neither ironical—neither jocose—
though the BISHOP, begging his pardon, said it was. Lord
DERBY got up, and with some bitterness of expression.
and in menacing attitude, as good as told OXFORD, " Ah !
to be sure you did smile, but
"A man may smile, and smile, and be a villain."
The Earl of CLARENDON, usually a mild-mannered man,
jumped up immediately facing DERBY; the table washappilv
between them. I am sure that BEN CAUNT never " set to"
with so much tact and defiant pluck. CLARENDON screamed
ungrammatically in C alt. " Its me ! its me ! " The
papers,l percelye;put itotherwise, probablylest they should
be visited by LINDLEY MURRAY'S ill-used ghost. The
row was terrific : h-.d it taken place in a tavern, the police-
office would have been the beginning of the end in bail
for two. Of course the Bishop of OXFORD smiled
when he applied chicane, trick, artifice, to Lord DERBY ;
it was:only in joke—" poison in jest," as the man in the
play says—and of course my Lord DERBY merely quoted
a poet when he uttered the word villain. The Earl of
DERBY lost his amendment. This row was fierce, but
ended in nothing outside the walls of the house. The
only other breeze in the memory of the oldest habitue" of
their lordships' house was far more peppery. BROUGHAM
was Lord Grizzle—l beg pardon—Lord CHANCELLOR ;
but he looked a great deal more like the late
JOHN LISTON, as Grizzle, than any other person I
have ever seen. BROUGHAM was Chancellor, and kick-
ing up a dust about the Reform Bill. The real
lords would have nothing to do with it, and intimated
that they would not read the bill a third time. " Won't
you ?" said BROUGHAM. " GREY, create more peers !"
The idea was soon ventilated. " If you do," said Wes-
CHILSEA, " and a batch of new peers come in at one door,
I shall go out at another." This was poor revenge, and
never had occasion to be put in practice. The Earl
GREY—the present's father—was a gentleman, though a
thorough Whig, and did the business after a different
way. " Dissolve," said the Lord HARRY. GREY left
the House, and sounded the KING about nine o'clock in
the evening. WILLIAM had closed his arm-chair nap—
" his custom in the afternoon," and received his minister
like a king. The MASTER OF THE HORSE was spoken to ;
he did not much like the rig ; said the state coach and
the cream-coloured's could not be ready by the morrow.
" Never mind," said the KING. " I'll go down, if it
should be in a hackney coach ;" and down the sailor-
KING went in gallant style to the House at little more
than half a day's notice,—bells ringing, cannon roaring,
people hurrahing, with all the other demonstrations.
HENRY HARDINGE, hearing the cannon, said " the next
time they are fired they may be shotted !" The House
was at boiling-over heat ; the Whigs and Tories were all
wrangling ; the House was crowded with beautiful wo-
men, who stared—some of them drop'd a diamond-tear,
fearful of the result ; the yellow-clouted ambassadors (I
speak of those some years ago, when dirty gloves did the
honours) stared also, but they did not understand what was
said so well as their comfreres of the" corps diplomatique
of the present day. The shrill but most musical sound
rf the silver trumpets indicated that the KING was in the
House. Lord MANSFIELD, a clever man, though he
seldom spoke, was denouncing the jugglery of the Whigs
in closing Parliament at a moment's notice; the Marquis
of LONDONDERRY was sitting behind MANSFIELD, and
though deaf as a door nail, knew the KING had entered
the house in regal state. LONDONDERRY pulled MANS-
FIELD by the tail of his coat, he lost his balance, but
found himself all right on the front bench of the peers.
He was told the Sovereign had arrived ; all was hush !
Loyalty swallowed up every angry feeling. The foreigners
looked awe-struck. They even yet do not know how
England loves and respects her Sovereign ! King
WILLIAm heard his brawling peers and laughed • patted
them afterwards on their be-robed shoulders, told them
to be good boys, and go home to their abodes in the
country, and look to the administration of justice there;
HARRY BROUGHAMas
ecciesnntoritc.Cdhraonlic,eallnodr
which they did.
now, though he seems as lively,
as ever. Sometime or other I will
irrepressibly gay,
describe HARRY at thew era.
OPTTESLEr frequently at the meet.hursday evenings
Having met Lord
nd being aware
ings of the Royal Sonscai
during the season at emtyersent-hthoeuseT,
the Society and the
that his lordship had been very properly chosen the
medium of communication between
House of Peers touching certain correspondence mo
-
valuable to the navigation of " the highway of nations,"
and the
which had taken place in a tripartite manner between the
American Government, our own Government,
society aforesaid, I paid some attention to his lordship's
observations the other evening. The noble lord spoke in
an exceedingly indistinct manner ; owing to this cause,
and probably to the profound and scientific character of
his remarks, little of them have appeared in the papers.
The utmost good-will and hearty co-operation in the
course of the experiments have been maintained by the
two Governments, piloted by the Royal Society. The
experiments and observations refer to soundings. oceanic
temperature, curreats, tidal waves, and so forth. The
only peers present were the Marquis of LANSDOWNE,
who cheered much ; the Earl of ABERDEEN, who coldly
sat out the conversation ; the Earl GRANVILLE, who
warmed up and spoke nobly on the subject ; Lord ROSSE,
the president of the Royal Society ; Lord MONTEAGLE,
and three or four others. The peers I have enu-
merated are all F.R.S. I need scarcely tell your
intelligent readers, that the Royal Society is the
most distinguished in the world ; for the last 200 years all
the great names have been enrolled in its archives. Joins
ABERNETHY, the famous and eccentric surgeon, thought
himself insulted if addressed by any other appendage to
his name than F.R.S. For some years past—until lately—
the fellows were accused of doing nothing, vexing them-
selves and those who attended their aristocratic reunions
with papers on fluzions and kindred subjects ; the most
acute,—astute, could not carry away an atom of intel-
ligence from the papers read. A Bishop snored, a

Prince laughed, an Ambassador took snuff. Silently,
however, the Council was doing something ; not a tra-
veller of any character has left these shores who has not
gone out under the auspices of the Royal Society. It was
here I last saw poor FRANKLIN. Observatories are now
placed in every part of the habitable globe, and the pith
of Lord WROTTESLEY'S speech in the House'of Peers
was mainly derivable from the impetus given to science
by the society. Here rank and title count nothing.
" Who are those two plain-looking little men, yet instinct
with genius, sitting on the front crimson bench ?" One
is thin,

~ -- sicklied o'er
With the pate cast of thought."

"Eh! Why there'sPrinceALßEßT come in—he is fain to sit
between the two little men—they laugh—shake hands,—
they are apparently at home in each other's affections."
Who are these two little men ? They must he SaxE Go-
THA'S, SAXE WEIMAR'S, 'MECKLENBURG STRELITZ'S, Or
something that way. Not a bit of it. The twain are English.
The paler of the two was a bookbinder's apprentice ;
he who afterwards eliminated the first electric spark in
England. Great MICHAEL FARADAY. The other, son
of a music seller—skilled in phonies—doctrine of sounds.
The youth improved many instruments which he was not
ashamed to sell in his father's shop. Jew's harp twanging
he would make to twang less; harp of King DAVlD—the
young man would have attempted to improve, could he
have laid hold of the sweet psalmist's golden wires ; certes,
our young friend had afterwards to do with " wires" of
another kind. In conjunction with FARADAY and others,
I admit cantankerous men he perfected, made manifest—
as near as mortals can make manifest—the voice of the
most High and Omnipresent! To them we owe the
electric telegraph. Without a penny to begin the world
with, they are now the companions of princes.
All hail, Kossurß ! The rocket affair has been again
before the magistrate this week, since which it has been
in every body's mouth, and I understand, on unmistake-
able authority, that the "great Magyar patriot and illus-
trious exile" is himself somewhat perplexed. I intimated
to you, in last week's communication, what Mr. HENRY,
the Bow-street magistrate, has since confirmed ; he has
sent the lot to the Old Bailey, and finds that powder is
powder, though its granulation be as coarse as onion seed,
or as impalpable as meal on butterfly's wing, or pollen of
wild flower on thigh of bee. No great weight is paid to
the evidence of the foreigner, who said he was introduced
to HALE by KOSSUTH ; but then KOSSUTH had publicly
denied that he had anything to do with the rocket people.
I believe that the whole affair will exit inferno, like a bad
made squib on GUY FAWKES'S day. Again, people say
how un-English for the detectives to watch KOSSUTH'S
house. I say nay to that ; I hate espionage with a perfect
hatred, but there cannot be a doubt that peace, goodwill,
and good understanding with a great nation is of far more
importance than squeamishness on account of the feelings
of an individual, though they. even in the humblest, are
to be respected. Lerr KOSSUTH be right or wrong, his
name and that of JOSEPH MAZZINI are blown upon
throughout three parts of Europe,—dangerous to mention
them in friendly accents, and it becomes England to be wary
—a little spark sometimes makes a great fire; and however
un-English it may appear, it may just be as well quietly to
look after Louis KOSSUTH a little longer, though he has
nothing to do with HALE'S rocket factory. KOSSUTH
certainly recommended to HALE Hungarian refugees who
were starving ; they were sent to the HALES, having been
in the service of Hungary in those departments where a
knowledge of guns, gunnery, and gunpowder was required.
Give KOSSUTH his due, he recommended others of his
compatriots to establishments in town, where they are
now employed in the peaceful art of folding and stitching
religious tracts ! Not much of fire and cannon in them.
Meantime, let the friends of KOSSUTH deny, if they can—
palliate they will—the fact that English, Scotch, and Irish
travellers in Austria have their wings clipped, because
KOSSUTH is here. This is great inconvenience ; may lead
to broils ; we cannot help it. KOSSUTH has tasted
our constitutional salt; he is sacred in person; quietly
" bide your time," Kossurn, as you say you will—no
more—while you are here. But I hold, and so do better
lawyers, that one letter written, stirring up revolutionary
strife, and dated London, is warrant sufficient to cause a
discreet Government to say Cave tel ! and if need be—
Go to New York, KOSSUTH. This result, however, is not
anticipated ; KOSSUTH is out of the HALES' affair.
You may depend on it " there is a hair of good wool"
in English character after all. The frank and manly way
in which the public were admitted, on Thursday and
Friday, to hear the startling evidence in the " Auctis-rus
STAFFORD" inquiry, told every one that JOHN BULL will
" tell truth, and shame the devil." Oh, Atuus:rus
STAFFORD ! I remember you, my boy, when you rejoiced
as STAFFORD O'BRIEN, M.P., and a nice amateur play-
actor with lords and ladies fair in ancient hall, at Yule
time; but when I recollect at the Admiralty, where you
now sit, JOHN WILSON CROKER, the eloquent, the
scholar, the experienced ; Sir JOHN BARROW, the earnest,
the infatuated—on one subject only infatuated—the
north-west passage. When I remember such men secre-
taries at the Admiralty, and see you there, and contem-
plate the figure you make, I heave a sigh, and say that
times are altered. When STAFFORD O'BRlEN—pardonnez
snot—AUGUSTUS STAFFORD got his appointment, about
the first thing he did was to get measured for a pair of
large blue sailor's trowsers. He wears the same sort,
slightly modified, at present. Life and fortune ! that a
young fellow, neither without brains nor money, should
have made such mistakes ;—" there's no use blinking the
question ; I am pressed by Lord DERBY and the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER." Fine admission for a
political jobber—a member of the Coalition Ministry !
Mr. AUGUSTUS STAFFORD did very wrong to interfere, for
" political purposes," in the appointment of blacksmiths
to do government work for their votes. Having men-
tioned JOHN WILSON CROKER'S name, some of your
elderly Conservative readers will be glad to learn that in
his old age he lives with " honour, love, obedience—
troops of friends." Sir JOHN BARROW, the other
Admiralty Secretary, has gone to that bourne whence there
is no return, without knowing the fate of Sir JOHN
FRANKLIN and his brave men, whom Sir JOHN BARROW,
main agent, despatched on the worthless errand to the
arctic regions. Sir JOHN dunned into the ears of each
succeeding ministry the propriety of sending out explorers.
The Board of Admiralty yielded, though they as good as
told him, were the passage possible, it could, in the
nature of things, only be accomplished once in two or
three years—what was to be gained ? Scarcely a grampus.
I have heard Sir JOHN BARROW, at nearly four score
years of age, dilate on this hazardous journey with enthu-
siasm—it was his hobby—had he not agitated, FRANKLIN
would not have been sent.

WILFUL MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS.

At the Police-court, yesterday, a seaman named Daniel
Miller was charged with the wilful murder of Peter Marr,
the carpenter on board the packet-ship Lady Mary, of
London, during her passage from Demerara to this port.
The charge was preferred against the prisoner by the
captain of the vessel, on her arrival at this port, on Friday.
Detective officer Murphy said that, from instructions which
he received on Friday evening, he went on board the
Lady Mary, lying in the Brunswick Dock. He found the
prisoner in the cabin, and told him he was an officer, and
that he (prisoner) was charged with killing a sailor named
Marr, by striking him on the head with a stick. Prisoner
said, "he said he was going to strike me with it, and I took
it from him. He then drew his knife, and I struck him on
the head with a stick." Witness asked prisoner if they had
been quarrelling before, and he said " No, I don't recol-
lect ever having had a wrong word with him." Witness then
took him into custody. The captain then came into the
cabin and pointed out a stick, and said that was the stick.
Witness examined it, and found marks of blood upon it.
[Stick produced.]
Alexander Young said—l am master of the English brig
Lady Mary. The prisoner was one of my crew. He was
an able seaman. About the hour of seven on the morn-
ing of the 28th of February, we were on the homeward
voyage, a little to leeward of Demerara lightship, at sea,
when the prisoner came to me on the quarter-deck, and
said, " Captain, I have come aft to give myself up to
you." I asked him what he had been up to, and he told
me he had struck the carpenter with a stick. I asked
him if he had killed him, and he said, " I believe so, or
nearly." I went forward, and found the carpenter lying
on his bed, on the deck of the forecastle. He was insen-
sible, but alive. I called all hands, and secured the pri-
soner. I examined the wounded man, and found it was
Marr, the carpenter. I found two wounds upon
his head, from which blood was flowing. There
was one wound upon the forehead, above the eye,
and another higher up nearer the top of the bead.
One of his hands was smashed as if with guarding
off the blow. The deceased never spoke after we saw
him, and died in about two hours. I inquired from the
mate and crew if they had seen or heard anything of it,
and they said they had not. I saw the mate find the
piece of wood now produced. It was lying in the cabin,
about twelve or fourteen feet from the deceased. I exa-
mined the wood, and found blood and hair upon it. I had
seen that piece of wood in possession of the prisoner when
he came alongside in the pilot boat. We had only been 12
or fourteen hours at sea when it occurred. Immediately
after I found the deceased insensible, I asked the pri-
soner if that was the stick he struck him with, and he
said it was. I asked him what he struck the deceased
with it for, and he told me that the carpenter had a knife,
and said he was going to stick him or kill him with it. I
then said to him, " Was it in self-defence that you struck
him ?" He said it was. The prisoner appeared to be
under the influence of liquor when he came-on board the
ship. T examined the place about where the carpenter
was lying, but did not see any knife. The body was
thrown overboard.

A seaman, who assisted the mate in sewing the de-
ceased up in a sheet, before throwing him overboard,
stated that, on examining his clothes, they did not find
any knife.

Mr. Francis Ayrton, a surgeon at the north dispensary,
said he had examined the prisoner, and from that ex-
amination he believed him to be sane, but from his own
account of this transaction he believed him to have been
labouring under delirium tremens at the time of the
occurrence.

On the prisoner being asked what he had to say, after
receiving the usual caution, be said—" It was not my in-
tention to kill the man. I should never have struck him,
if I had not thought that he was going to kill me."
He was then fully committed to take his trial at the
assizes on a charge of wilful murder.

MRS. HILES' CONCERT.—On Tuesdaylast this.lady,
in conjunction with her daughter, gave a concert
the
Hall, Lord Nelson-street. Miss Hiles went through
usually difficult task of a flu st appearance very satisfac-
torily. Her voice is a contralto of rich quality and good
scompasso." T ; not,he as
first has
song selected been stated,
for her " a sortdebilt was,
of mezzo
horan
wever, but ill calculated to produce a favourable im-
pression, the words and music being of a very mediocre
description. The same remark will also apply to other
portions of the programme. When it is considered Miss
Hiles has had but little opportunity:of instruction, there
is no doubt, under the judicious training of an able
master, she will be eventually a very great acquisition to
our local concerts. Mrs. Hiles is a soprano, possessing
considerable talent, and was much applauded in her songs
and duetts ; in the latter she was ably assisted by her
enxerrteimaa remark, daughter. The old and favourite songs— Should he
upbraid," and " Tell me my Heart," were capitally ren-
dered. The other portions of the concert call for no
thir on
especial
, the performers being well known, and
being fully appreciated by a very crowded
auditory.

COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NEIL S.

MONDAY NIGHT.
THE adjourned debate on the proposition of the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER to perpetuate
the Income Tax for seven years, not having been
brought to a close, the week has presented very
little fluctuation in the money market, there being
a natural disinclination to speculate until some
decision has been arrived at, as the tone of the
debate offers little upon which to found a confident
opinion. The value of public securities has been
rather depressed than otherwise, owing probably to
the reduction of interest about to take place, but
money for mercantile purposes has been easy, and
consequently the tone which has generally pre-
vailed has been of a favourable character. The
weekly returns of the Bank of England show a
further decrease in the stock of bullion to the ex-
tent of nearly a quarter of a million, so that the
fears of a plethora of gold and a consequent dis-
arrangement of monetary transactions arising from
the gold discoveries in California and Australia
have not, as yet, been realised. It will be remem-
bered that a short time since, when the directors of
the Bank of England raised the minimum rate of
discount, it was said to be owing to the fears of a
drain from France to meet losses in Bourse specu-
lations. The check for a time was effectual, but it
is now said that the exportations of gold to France
are still going on, though in small quantities, but
with more frequency. Since the Bank account was
made up there have been several arrivals of gold
from Australia, viz. :—The Clifton, 27,507 oz.; the
Brilliant, 15,183 oz. ; the John Taylor, 10,347 oz. ;
the Sir Robert Sale, 13,836 oz.; the Vimiera,
45,000 oz. ; and the Admiral, 22,000 oz., making
altogether about £530,000, besides what may have
been in the hands of passengers. The whole,
however, is no great sum against the drain which
seems constantly going on.
The state of the Cotton market is now' exciting
considerable interest, and the reports from America
are looked forward to with great anxiety, as the
future value will much depend upon the final reali-
sation of the last crop. The attempts of the Man-
chester men to depreciate this market, by with-
holding all purchases beyond immediate require-
ments, have had the effect of limiting speculation,
and preventing a corresponding rise to that which
has taken place on the other side the Atlantic; but
they have not succeeded in producing the fall which
was anticipated. The ad vices received by the steamer
Atlantic on Wednesday show a still further dimi-
nution in the receipts at the shipping ports, and on
Friday the firmness in this market was secured by
the account that the actual stock taken that day
showed a deficiency of 65,300 bales, as compared
with the estimated stock, the discrepancy arising in
consequence of carriers forwarding Cotton imported
by spinners direct from the ships, and withholding
any return of them from the brokers. The effect of
this discovery is considerably to alter the aspect of
the weekly consumption, which, instead of being
2,300 bales per week below that of last year, as pre-
viously shown, is now proved' to have been more
than 1,000 bales above it.. In estimating the pro-
babilities for the future, it is necessary to take into
account not only the now diminishing receipts, and
also the increased consumption, which, in spite of
the Manchester reports, ooze out from some of
their trade circulars, but also the easiness of the
Money market, which must tend to inspire confi-
dence.- The spinners are known to be very light in
stock even by their own admissions :. Yarns, except-
ing perhaps the lowest qualities, are in good demand
at firm prices, and a continued advance in the value
of Wools,. the supply of which is below the demand,
must have the effect of improving the value of
Cotton manufactures, with which in many descrip-
tions of goods•it enters into competition. We- see,
therefore,_ no reason to lower that confident opinion
which we have previously expressed' as to the •pros-
pects of holders in our market.
Although the uncertainty as to the fate. of the
Budget has prevented any, decided operations, yet
no doubt is entertained of the proposed reductions
in duty on Soap and Tea being carried into effect,
and the market throughout the week has- presented
a considerable degree of firmness on almost all de-
scriptions of produce. In Tea some large pur-
chases for speculation have been made in sorts
most likely to enter into general consumption, and
the tendency to a rise may have been further in-
duced by the reports of the rebellion in China
having assumed a very formidable appearance,
although by some it is considered that it will not
have any very sensible effect upon the Tea trade. We
have, however, so little information on-the internal '
affairs of the Celestial Empire, that it is difficult to
prognosticate the consequences of any movements
in which we have no direct concern. As increased
consumption of Tea will, no doubt, lead to a corres-
ponding increase in the' consumption of Sugar, this
latter article has experienced an active demand,_
particularly in qualities for refining purposes. The-
materials for Soap have also experienced considera-
ble improvement, and an active business has been
done in Palm Oil and. Tallow, both on the spot and
for arrival; and now that an efficient line of steamers
has been established between this_country and the
coast of Africa, a very extensive trade in the former
article may reasonably be anticipated.
The return from the Bank of England, for the
week ending the 23rd of April,-gives the following
results, when compared with the, previous week :
Public deposits .. £3,712,989;. Decrease X 67,221
Other deposits .. 13,206,923; Decrease 416.04.5
Rest ..
_3,114,339 ; Increase 3,8€13

On the other aide of the account—
Government securities £13,221,352 ; the same as before.
Other securities .. 13,632,497 ; Decrease 452,540
Notes unemployed .. 8,584,145 ; Decrease 322.575
The amount of notes in circulation is £2,3,408,330,
being a decrease of £204,835 ; and the stock of
bullion in bcth departments is £18,55 081, show-
ing a decrease of £238,815, when compared with
the preceding return.

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued .. £31,992,475.

Govrnt. £11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
Gold coin kbu1n.17,973,321
Silver bullion. .. 19,154

£31,992,475

£31,992,475

BANKING D
Prop.'s capita1.£14,553,000
Rest.
Public deposits. 3,712,989
Other deposits . 13,206,923
7-day, &c. bills. 1,412,479

£35,999,730

upwards of 900 tons to arrive at £35 to £36 per
ton. For Tallow there was a steady demand at 475.
to 47's. 6d. for old, and 48s. for new Petersburg
Y.C. Some fine South American sold at 475. to
485., and about 600 pipes to arrive at 455. per cwt.
For Lard there was a brisk demand, and 300 tons
to arrive sold at 535. to 5 3s. 6d. per cwt. Hemp is
slightly lower, 250 bales Manilla sold at to £42
per ton. Of Jute the sales amounted to 200 bales.
To-DAY there was a very good inquiry for Sugar
from the refiners, and rather higher prices were paid,
the business, including Saturday's sales, comprising
2,500 mats Mauritius at 255. 6d., 3,750 bags Per-
nams and Paraiba, at 18s. 3d. to 18s. 6d. for brown,
iss. 6d. to 20s. for yellow, and 235. for low white;
160 bags Benares have also been sold at 38s. per
cwt. There are no sales to notice in Molasses. Of
Rum, 70 puns. Demerara are reported at about pre-
vious prices. 50 bags red Bahia Cocoa were taken
at 255. per cwt. In Tea a moderate amount of
business was doing, at last week's rates. Small
sales are advertised for Thursday next. 700 bales
of Jute were sold for arrival.
WooL.—The recent advices from Australia state
that large quantities of this year's clip had arrived
at Melbourne, and were being shipped for this
country, so that further supplies may very shortly
be expected. The business of the week has not
been so active, principally from the reason that
manufacturers have supplied themselves pretty
freely; there does not exist that speculative demand
which has characterised the market for some time,
as prices are now beyond speculation. The market
still continues to wear a very healthy aspect, and
the demand for all sorts of low clean useful Wools
continues good ; but the want of supply precludes
any great amount of activity. A sale of Peruvian,
about 1,000 ballots middle quality, is reported at
the medium quotations, ruling at the auction sales
of 21st ultimo. English and Irish prices very firm,
but not so much activity. The opinion seems to
gain confidence, that unless great competition rule
for the new clip, prices have reached the summit.
Skin very scarce.

Messrs: W. GMEAME and Co., in their monthly cir-
cular, say :—" The same excitement and buoyancy in the
wool market as noticed in our circular of the Ist ultimo
has characterised the trade during the past month. A'
considerable amount of business has been done both by
public sale and private contract ; and in the early part of
the month several cargoes, including 400 bales of Donskoi•
fleece which arrived about the end of March, were sold
on the quay as landed at improved rates. In Alpaca we
have na alteration to note ;• the stocks are light, and
prices the same ; the late arrivals were chiefly sold for
delivery. In English and Irish combing Wools the late
advanced rates are fully maintained ; there is now very
little left in the growers' hands, and for the few lots re-
maining in the country a further advance is demanded.
The trade are looking forward anxiously to the opening
of the-new clip the latter end of this month and begin-
ning of ..Tune ; higher prices are expected by the farmers.
For Scotch Wools there is a good enquiry ; no stocks on
the market."

Messrs. IfnuuEs and RONALI4 in their circular, say :
" There has been a continuous and active demand for
all descriptions of Wool, and, owing to the lightness of
stocks, even the less current kinds have enjoyed more
favour. In all cases higher prices may be quoted, but
this is more particularly the case in English Combing
Wools, which, from the brisk demand, have advanced
considerably. The great difficulty the trade have at pre-
sent to contend with, is the want of'stocks ; and never
at any former period do we remember them reduced to so
low a point. It is now quite evident that at our approach-
ing English clip there will be considerable excitement ;
there seems no reason to expect, notwithstanding the in-
creased supplies which will then be available, that Wool
will be bought on more favourable terms ; but, on the
contrary, more firmness will be given to prices. There is
little change to notice in the value of fine colonial Wools,
and much uncertainty still prevails as regards future sup-
plies. The accounts just received seem more favourable
as to the probable receipts, although it is generally ad-
mitted they will be subject to greatly• enhanced cost.
Irish Wools have been•in good demand at extreme prices,
and are now very scarce. Scotch are more in request,
and prices are looking up : some parcels have lately been
contracted for to be delivered as soon as shorn, which is a
most novel feature in the trade."
IRON.—The market has suffered considerable
depression during the week, arising from the report
that the acceptances of Mr. John Attwood to a very
large amount had- been returned dishonoured. It
is said that they will be ultimately met by a sale of
landed property, but the event has - alarmed the
speculators, and Scotch Pigs are quoted this day
in the Glasgow market at 495. per ton, a result
which we predicted some time since would he the
consequence of a speculation which no circumstances
seemed to justify. Other metals have also experi-
enced a considerable decline.

THE PEW QUESTION AT WALTON.-
MEETING OF:THE PARISH YESTERDAY.

At the last Vestry :meeting held in the parish of Walton,
a number of claimants appeared to certain pews in the
gallery of the Church ; and it was resolved to appoint a
deputation to wait upon, and receive the opinion of, the
Archdeacon. In compliance with the wish of the deputa-
tion at the Easter Vestry meeting, the Rector and Mr. R.
Ford North, Churchwarden, waited upon the Archdeacon
on the 4th ult., and, after reading to him the resolution
and the other documents in their possession relative to the
erection of the galleries, and the titles by which the re-
puted proprietors claim a right to the pews in such gal-
leries, they entreated from the Archdeacon,, on the part of
the deputation, in the words of the resolution, " his
opidion and advice as to the best means .of bringing this
matter to a just and amicable conclusion." In giving his
opinion, the Archdeacon had no hesitation in saying, that
the faculty granted under date of the Ist of September,
1809, as a personal grant to individuals, according to the
extract from it, recited in the titles of the respective pur-
chasers of the pews, was, " as a title,. of no value," and
that, consequently, the rights of the parties to these pews,
being thereby conveyed as mere personal claims, were, in
fact, from the first, merely conventional, having no legal
foundation whatever. At the same time, it being evident
that these parties, having subscribed their money for a
laudable purpose, and in utter ignorance of the want of
legal validity,in the faculty under which they were acting,
were entitled to be treated with that courtesy and con-
sideration which the peculiarity of the case naturally
called for; and that although, officially, he could not sug-
gest any ,mediative plan, yet, speaking non-officially, he
was o&opinion that, after looking into the details of the,
matter, weighing the sums originally given for the pews,
and the rentals they had yielded, it would not be difficult
for the parishioners (either by some modified compensa-
tion to such as, from their position or circumstances,
might be desirous to receive it, or by any other mode
which might suggest itself,) to arrive at a conclusion
which, while it would still reserve to the parties in ques-
tion such a preference of occupancy, in the re-appropiia-
Lion df the pews, as their respective positions might seem
to warrant, would, at the satng time, restore and preserve
to the parish that inalienable right to the seats in the
Parish Church which has always, and must always belong
to it. That it was above all things most important, that
all parties should come to the consideration of this ques-
tion with that liberal and amicable feeling, and in that
Christian and reverential spirit, which should pre-emi-
nently animate and control all discussions in any, degree
relating to the House of. God.
For the purpose of receiving this opinion a meeting of
the parishioners was held yesterday morning, at ten
o'clock, in Walton Church, the Rev. Thomas Gerard
Leigh, rector, presiding. It was moved by Mr. North,
seconded by Mr. Tristram, and unanimously agreed to,
that a committee be appointed for the purpose of receiving
and investigating the nature of any claim to.pews which
may be made by their reputed owners, and to draw up a
report for consideration at the next meeting of the parish,
it being understood that all those who fail to present any
such claim to the chairman on or before a certain date,
be interpreted as a voluntary cession thereof. Another
resolution was moved by Mr. Roskell, seconded by Mr.
Musker, and unanimously adopted, to the effect that the
resolution be advertised once in each of the Liverpool
newspapers, together with the notice of the next public
meeting. The following gentlemen were then appointed
a committee :—The Rev. Rector Leigh, and Messrs.
Tristram, Roskell, Pitts, Morrish, Johnson, and Charles
Musket.. On the motion of Mr. North, a vote of thanks was
accorded to the chairman, and the proceedings terminated.

FRIGHTFUL SUICIDE IN LIVERPOOL,

YESTERDAY.

Yesterday morning, a man named John Slattery, who
had only arrived in Liverpool from Ireland on Sunday,
committed suicide in Sherwood-street, being at the time
under the influence of delirium tremens. An inquest
was held on the body yesterday afternoon, when Thomas
Ronan, who keeps a lodging-house in Sherwood-street,
gave the following evidence :—The deceased came to my
house yesterday about nightfall. I knew him in Ire-
land. He was a native of Clonmel, and thirty years of
age. When he came to my house he appeared quite
deranged in his conversation. He was raving about
" Peelers," (police-officers) in Liverpool, hunting him
for drowning his brother, and he wanted me to go bail
for him. I made arrangements to send him back to his
friends in Ireland, by the packet of to-morrow ; put him
in bed with a young man, a returned emigrant, and went
to bed myself in the same room. He was raving all
night, and wanted to jump through the window. He
said his mother and brother were hunting him. Between
six and seven o'clock this morning, an alarm was given
that the deceased had cut his throat. I had just then
dropped asleep, having had no sleep during the night.
As soon as I was called, I jumped out of bed, and found
deceased with his throat cut. I held him up, and he
died there and then in my arms. A small knife covered
with blood was found by the bed. Yesterday evening,
about eight or nine o'clock, I was asking him what made
him rave in that way, and he said it was from the horrors
of drink. He said he had been drinking whiskey on
board the steamer on Saturday, and he got nothing yes-
terday. He said he had been tee-total for seven years
before he broke out. James Kenely, a returned emi-
grant, who slept in the same room as the deceased, cor-
roborated the last witness's statement, and added that
about six o'clock yesterday morning he went down stairs
to light his pipe. In about half an hour he returned, and
then found the deceased lying in the bed with his throat
cut. Before witness got out of bed, he saw the deceased
go to his waistcoat and take something out. A verdict of
temporary insanity was returned.

SUDDEN DEATH.—On Monday last week, when near
the Mansion house, London, Mr. Thomas Dax, taxing-
master of the Court of Exchequer, was seized with an
apopletic fit and expired. Mr. Dax had been connected
with the court for half acentury. The appointment is in the
Rift of the Chief Baron, and the salary is £1,200 a year,

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CLERK.—A young man, named
Thomas Alen. was charged at the police court, yesterday,
by Messrs. Jabez Rayner and Co., cotton.brokers, Ex-
change-alley North, with embezzling the sum of.tlo lOs Ild,
the property of his employers. The prisoner had received
from Messrs. H. Farrer and Co., of York-buildings,
Sweeting-street, the several sums of £2 Bs. 5d., £6 35.,
and £1 I9s. 7th, for which he had not accounted. Mr.
Joseph Dickson, one of the prosecutors, said that the
prisoner had been in their employ between twelve and
fourteen years, as a bookkeeper. It was his duty to pay
and receive cash up to about six o'clock in the evening.
Some time ago witness found that the prisoner was ad.
dieted to drinking, and he avoided, as much as possible.
allowing any money to pass through his hands ; but be
never gave any positive orders that the prisoner should
not receive money. The three bills now produced were
in the prisoner's handwriting, and were due to their firm
by Messrs. H. Farrer and Co. Mr. Wm. Austin Code
said he was cashier in the firm of Messrs. Farrer and Co.
On the 11th of April the prisoner came to the office, and
presented the bills for payment. The money was given
to him, and he gave witness a receipt for them. Subse-
quently another person presented the bills, when witness
told him they had been paid. Police-officer Carlisle said
that on Sunday morning last he apprehended the prisoner
at his lodgings in Bixteth-street. He told him that he
was taking him on a charge of embezzling about £l2.
The prisoner replied, •• It is all right; I expected it be-
fore this. I did it to get transported." The prisoner,
on being asked if he had anything to say in answer to the
statement of the prosecutor, remarked, with careless in-
difference, " Oh, its not necessary to ask any questions
about it." On receiving the usual caution before com-
mittal, the prisoner said it was quite true he had commit-
ted the offence • but he should not have done it, had it
not been that he was much perplexed in consequence of
the small salary he had received from the prosecutors, and
the way in which they had used him during the last few
months. nesr had asked him, amorrgst other things, to
go to the brokers' offices, and take samples of cotton,
which was a breach of principle, as sampling war the duty
of brokers. This had led him to drinking, and to doing
what was not right. The prisoner was fully committed
for trial.

EXPLOSION OP GUNPOWDER NEAR WIGAN : THREE
LIVES LOST.—Oh Friday night, an explosion of gun-
powder, which caused the death of three persons and
imperilled the lives of several others, occurred at New
Springs, near Wigan. in a small grocery shop, kept by
Hugh Smallshaw. l3hind the shop counter was a par-
tially-filled cask of gunpowder, and, in a stora-room up
stairs, there were three full casks. About half-past eight
o'clock, while Mr. Smallshaw was waiting upon Mrs.
Lever, a neighbour, the powder behind the counter ex-
ploded, owing, it is thought, to a spark from a candle fall-
ing upon it. The shop and back-room fell in, burying
Mr. and Mrs. Smallshaw, the servant, and three children,
and Mrs•. Lever in the ruins ;; the room above was lifted
up and carried behind the house, an infant in the bed
being hurled to the margin of a small brook, where it wits
round unhurt; the store-room containing the three casks,
of gunpowder also came down ;=and the wall dividing the
shop from the adjoining cottage was blown through, but
the inmates were uninjured. A-crowd speedily collected ;:
and, the flames having been subdued, a search was made
for the bodies. Mr. Smallshaw and Mrs. Lever were
taken out dead; the latter being alinost in a state of nudity,
her clothes having been torn away by the force of the
blast ; Mrs. Smallshaw was found horribly disfigured,
and•jnst alive, but she died soon afterwards; and the ser-
vant and three children were rescued before they had sus-
tained serious injuries. The three full casks of gunpowder
were found among the ruins. Had they exploded while
means were being used to rescue the bodies, a lamentable
sacrifice of life would no doubt have followed. An inquest
was held yesterday over the bodies, before Mr. Rutter, the
coroner for the district.

ZOQLOOFCAL Gattness.—The advent of the gentle
month, bringing with it flowers and leaves, end clothing
the hedgerows and the fields with the vernal livery of
summer, is by• none welcomed so heartily as the busy
dweller in the town, who has unfortunately the fewest
opportunities of enjoying the fragrance of the country. It
is with pleasure we notice that Mr. Darandu, the pro-
prietor of the Zoological Gardens, is preparing many at-
tractions for the approaching season ; knowing that. lack.
ing the opportunity of penetrating far into the country,
many of our townsmen will be induced to spend a leisure
hour in these delightful recreation grounds., where music,
painting.. and science combine with nature to-charm and
instruct. From a visit paid to the gardens- the other
evening, we are enabled to promise a rich treat to those
of our readers who visit them. Although the late spring
has retarded the progress of-vegetation to a most unusual
etxent, still the buds and flowers are quickly bursting into
life, as if anxious to make amends for their delay, and al-
ready the grounds are assuming an attractive and winning
aspect. In the mechanical, as- well as the natural, world
of the Zoological Gardens progress is perceptible. Over
the great lake rises the ancient temple of Janus in the
Eternal City, surrounded by statues, and backed by beau-
teous hills, which look surprisingly natural in the day-
time, and must be still more effective when lighted up
after dark.. Then there are among the list of- new, ex-
pensive, and notable things a transparent panorama of the
Wars of Wellington ; a maze or labyrinth, a fae timile of
that at Hampton Court ; a commodious gymnasium, at
which we hope to see young Liverpool exercisiag.itself in
vigorous and manly fashion ; a mechanical contrivance for
the shooting gallery by the ingenious Mons. Voger e fresh
and pleasing entertainments in the great hall; and, a new
gallery from which the spectators may survey the fire-
works on the lake. Time, ingenuity, and capital have all
been expended by Mr. Durandu in prospect of the ap-
proaching season ; and we hope to see the public da him
and themselves justice by patronising adequately this- de-
lightful rural retreat.
GALVANESED IftoN TowNs.—The establishment of
Mr. Hemming, at Woodside, Birkenhead, for the manu-
factory of a novel article, no leas than portable towns of
galvanised iron, will render interesting the following
description of Mr. Hemming.'s works at Bedminster,
which we extract from a Bristol paper :—" When first we
were led by curiosity to pay a visit to the establishment,
the manufactured stock consisted of a single model cot-
tage—the first that had been made. Its completeness,
its premising durability, its lightness, the facilities it pre-
sented for erection, dismemberment, package arid removal,
and the evident care which had been taken to adapt it to
the climatorial and other peculiarities of its destination,
were apparent, and we feel no hesitation in recommend-
ing it• as `What was wanted.' We were induced, ,a day or
two ago, uninvited, to give a second look in at the manu-
factory, and it was impossible to fail being struck by the
extensiveness of the operations there going on.. Not only
are there enough emigrants' cottages in progress towards
completion to form a little town, but there- are stores,
villas,, a hotel, parsonage-houses for missionaries. and,
last of all, a church, which has been ordered by the right
rev. the Lord Bishop of Melbourne, and which it is be-
lieved is only the first of several, which will be sent out to
supply the means of public worship to the diggers. Ow-
ing to the eagerness with which every completed erection
is caught up. Mr. Hemming finds it impossible to retain
one for many days in a thoroughly finished state; but a
glance at those in progress cannot fail to be interesting.
The smallest house made-is the " cottage.for the million."
It comprises two neat rooms, measuring 1l feet by 12,
and can be purchased as low as 35 guineas. A house, in
course of completion for Mr. Brooks, the auditor of Mel-
bourne, is upon a more commodious scale. It comprises
four rooms, of 14 feet square, with anentranee-hall,closets,
and a detached kitchen, and will be fitted with Venetian
blinds to every window, and a verandah running all round
the villa. A parsonage-house, making at a cost of 230
guineas, to the order of the Bishop of Melbourne, pro-
mises to afford a very comfortable dwelling. It will con-
tain a sitting-room 17 feet by 1I feet, a kitchen 11 feet
semare, a servants' -room, store-room, pantry, and water-
closet, and four bedrooms, measuring each 9 feet by 10
feet. One of the stores, which bad been contracted for at
170 guineas, consists of a shop or wareroom, 22 feet
square, fitted with safety-shutters, &c. ; a sitting-room,
kitchen, and bedroom. The hotel or lodging-house is
being erected with a view to the peculiar wants of the
colonists, and will comprise 14 bedrooms, so constructed
as to divide, , almost at will, into four compartments
each, thus enabling the occupier to make up fifty-six
beds. There will also be a first and second class coffee-
room, each. 20 feet square ; a housekeeper's. room, the
requisite pantries and closets, a detached kitchen, and a
luggage-room, which is to be fitted with 56 numbered
compartments, each having a lock and a key, so as to en-
able every occupier of a bed to deposit and secure his
personal-luggage. The church will comprise a nave and
two side aisles, with pulpit, reading-desk, baptistrv,
vestry, and a tower ; it will cover an area of 70 feet by
48 feet, and will contain sittings for 600 worshippers. An
interesting, and, indeed, most important part of Mr.
Hemmings manufactory is the seasoning stove, a large
building in which the doors, sashes, &c., are, before they
are fitted together, exposed until thoroughly seasoned to
a higher temperature than they will have to stand in the
colony, thus providing against future shrinkage,, which
would otherwise inevitably take place. Some of the porta-
ble furnitnrefor the houses is remarkable for its ingenuity."
COUNCIL MEETING.-At the usual monthly meeting
to-morrow the following proceedings, amongst others,
will be discussed :—The proceedings of the Finance Com-
mittee, comprising a recommendation to grant an increase
to the salary of the Town-clerk of £5OO per annum, &c. ;
a recommendation, in accordance with resolutions of the
borough justices in consequence of the resignation by Mr.
M. D. Lowndes of the appointment of clerk to the jus-
tices for parochial business, that the additional duties be
performed by the present clerks to the justices, and that
they respectively be paid the additional salary of £lOO
per annum, and that one of the clerks lately employed by
Mr. Lowndes, he engaged permanently in the magis-
trates' clerk's-office, at the salary of £lOO per annum ;
the whole arrangement effecting a saving of £lOO per
annum to the Borough Fund. The proceedings of the
Watch, Lighting, Fire-police, and Fire-prevention Com.
mittees, comprising a recommendation that the wages of
all the officers in the police force, under the rank of in-
spectors, be increased 2s. per week to each man, and
that the pay of inspectors be increased from 30s, to 335,
per week each man. The laying of the watch-rate for the
Year 1833-4. The making of the fire-police rate, not ex.
ceeding one farthing in the pound, for defraying the costs,
charges, and expenses of maintaining the firo-police of the
borough. The proceedings of the Gaol and House of
Correction Committee, comprising a recommendation to
increase the salary of Mr. J. M. Wade, chief clerk,'from
£llO to £l3O per annum. The proceedings of the
Health Committee, comprising a resolution directing the
chairman to request the Council to lay the various rates
previous to an adjournment of the council meeting of the
4th of May next, in order to avoid the expense of fresh
advertisements, and the loss likely to accrue in the
collection of the rates, in the event of the making thereof
being postponed ; a report on the rates under the sanitary
act for the ensuing year, and a recommendation to bor-
row the various amounts therein mentioned, on the credit
of the paving-rates for the several districts within the
borough; a report as to railways crossing highways on
the level ; and a recommendation to increase the wages
of various workmen employed in the borough engineer's
department. The making of a sewer-rate, a paving-rate,
a water-rate, and a general rate for the parish of Liver-
pool and the townships of Everton, Kirkdale, West
Derby, and the extra-parochial place of Toxteth-park.
The proceedings of the Water Committee, comprising re-
commendations to increase the wages of several clerks,
&c. ; and a recommendation to accept the offer of Messrs.
Case and Morris, of land adjoining Audley-street, as a
site for the Everton Reservoir, and also the tender of
Messrs. A. and G. Holme, for the construction of the re-
servoir end works connected therewith on that site.

NEW SCREW BY A LIVERPOOL ENGINEER.—Some
experiments were tried at the Great Float, Birkenhead,
on Saturday, to test the powers of a new screw, invented
and patented by Mr. Fisher, a working engineer of this
town. The scale on which it was tried was necessarily
limited, but the result was most satisfactory, an increase
of speed equivalent to above twenty per cent. on the
ordinary screw, having been obtained. The experiments
were repeated yesterday.
AN AMERICAN MOTHER.—A Boston paper of the 10th
April says, a woman in Dutton, N. H., recently became
the mother of four live, bouncing boys, at a single birth.
At the last advices, the whole crowd were doing not only
" as well as could be expected," but rather better.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE•

MONDAY EVENING, MAY 2.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

The London Stock Exchange was closed to-day.
The Bengal, which arrived at Southampton this morn:
ing, brings the heavy portion of the East Indian and
China mails, and mails from the Mediterranean. Her
dates are—Alexandria, April 19; Malta, April 23; Gl'
braltar, April 27. She brings 170 passengers r and on
freight, specie value £12,000. Her mails were despatched
to London by the 11 30 a.m. train.

?ARTS, SUNDAY.—The Globe's correspondent says the
presence of the Pope at the coronation is spoken of 10
certain, and apartments are stated to be in preparation
for him at the Tuileries.
AUETRALIA..—MeIbourne advices of the 25th of Jan•
received by the Admiral, which left Hobson's Bay on the
27th of .January, report commercial affairs as satisfactoll
The yield of gold continued. Produce market high. P'ro•
vision market rapidly falling, especially flour. Price di
labour rather lower. No political news. The Admiral'
brings 22,000-oz. in gold dust.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, MARCH B.—The pacification of,
the Colony was progressing. A formal proclamation of
peace was expected at Cape Town by the next post.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard6office, Four o'clock, a.m.

HOUSE OF LORDS,

The house met at five o'clock.

Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition from the
master cutlers and other inhabitants of Sheffield, on the
subject of forwarding the internal improvement of India.
The noble lord made a lengthened speech on the subject.

After some remarks from the Earl of ELLENisono-unli
and the Earl of ALBLAIARLE, the subject dropped.
On the motion of the Earl of ABERDEEN•OII3 address to
the Crown was agreed to, for a commission to inquire,
into the practices at the late election for the borough of
Cambridge.
After some conversation the South Sea and. other Ao•
nuities Commutation Bill passed through Committee.
The House adjourned at 8.33, p.m.

HOUSE OF COMAIONS.
The house met at four o'clock. _

Mr. LASCEIAES reported, from the Totness Electlon.CoOl•
mittee, that Thomas Mills, Esq., had been duly elected,
Lord IL CrIV3BVENOR reported, from the Bolton Eiectiost
Committee; that Thomas Barnes, Esc..4 and Joseph. Ova,
Esq,; had been duly elected, and that the petition against theif
return was-frivolous and vexatious. (Hear:)
In reply to a question from Mr. T. Baring,.
Sir J. GRAHAM- said that instructions had been given to the
Admiral commanding on the Singapore station to protect
British interests, on the coast of Borneo; ,but before-using
force he must have-distinct evidence of acts of piracy having
been committed. The Admiral had also been instructed-that
it was not'the policy of the government to establish any colony
in those parts.
Ma Winso.sy in reply to a question, said it was the inters'
tion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to bring in a Bill it
the course-of the present session, for the regulation of savings'
Banks: THE BUDGET.

The House then went into Committee of Ways. and Means;'
when the adjourned-debate on the Income.taxavas resumed by
Sin W. CLAY, who supported the Government proposition.
Sir FITZROY. KELLY contended that Mr.. Gladstone had
shewn that the landed interest paid ninepence in the pound?'
while professions and trades only paid sevenneuce ; and yet,
instead of proposing,a-meaus of redressing theinequality, the
proposal was to add-another large burden upon the landed in-
terest in the shape of the legacy duty. He opposed the resola--
tons on the ground that they were part of a scheme which im-
posed a new burden uponahe alreadyoppressed landed interest':
and sought to extend to Ireland the income-tax without anyjnsit'
reason. He had no faithin the pledge that the income-tax would.
come to•an end in 1860,_ for, after what had occurred in refe-
rence to the guarantee in, the matter of the Canadian Clergy
Reserves and other matters,. his faith was shakeitin the pledge'
of public men.
Mr. Lowe supported the- propositions of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer; and replied at some length to. Sin I,,KellY'S
arguments.
Mr. J. BUTT thought there were no grounds-for supposing
that the Income-Tax-would be repeated after the-term of six
years. He considered, if the House voted foritscontinualg!
for that time, that they would. be voting it a permanency. xi` •
should oppose the-propositions entirely.
Mr. Brrr.saw no reason,why Irish niembers.should not Ice
with English members in resisting so unjust a proposal as the
continuance of the Income-tax in England, and-an extension°
it to Ireland. He was opposed also to the other propositions:
Mr. Sergeant MURPHY- would not vote for the arnendMen7
as it would turn out a ministry which he had so -lately as las"
December assisted in bringing into office.
Mr. CONOLLY would oppose the resolution.
After some remarks from. Mr. KOCHE against the Budget,'
Mr. DISRAELI said that he had much pleasure in
stating
that, after.consideration, he could give his. entire concurrence
to the leading proposals of the Budget. inasmuch us. he
they were entirety thestune as- thosewhich he(M.rristsraell)
upon two occasions brought before the Hcuse. Upon one 01
those occasions, . Mr. Gladstone had stated that it was im-
possible to attempt to legislate for a great country even one
year in advance, and yetthe right hon. gentleman.was attertinr. -
ing to legislate for seven:years, and fix the rateof interest tora
half of century. He then proceeded to explain groundsAbe-less'
•
upon which the late Government had proposed to charge s
upon precarious than, upon real incomes. He thought the
Income-tax • would not be abolished in seven- years. He
saw the spirit of, the age was in favour of 'the con--
tinuance of the tax„and also that the financial. policy of the
Chancellor pointed in.the direction of the abolition of custorna_,
duties • for these two reasons he considered, therefore, that
even if' the present Chancellor was in office in 1860,, he would!,
in all .probability, renew the tax. In his opinion the whole
financial policy of the Chancellor was based upon principles (:),
injustice to the whole. land. He then proceeded to criticise
various propositions of the Chancellor with regard to taXea'
upon succession. He considered them unsound, in whatever
shape they might be taken; and with regard to those taxes up. 012
landed property, he looked upon them as new taxs, and tsar-
den.upon land. The right hon. gentleman then alluded to the
system of licenses,. which. he condemned, and concluded by
saying that by perseverance in the coursc,Government.Wer:
now auopting they, would convert a first-rate country into
second class republic—(much cheering).

LORD J. Russt.,L having replied, the House divided,,whell
there appeared.—

For the Amendment
Against

Majority in favour of the 3udget
The CHAIRMAN then ordered to report progress, and 1615
leave to sit again; and some other business being disposed of
the House adjourned at 45 minutes past two.

TATTERSALL'S—TAxs DAY.
CHESTR to 2 agst Trifle; 5 to I agst rem 6 to 1
taken ; 15 to I agst Taltourd, taken ; 20 to t agst Black Doctor',
taken; 20 to 1. agst Missive, taken ; 20 to 1 agst l3oarding.SchoC9
Miss, taken.

DE,REy.-3 to I agst West Australian; 7 to. Z, agst Orestes
taken ; 10 to 1 agst Honeywood, taken ; 15 to I agst Umbriel
taken; 25 to 1 agst Brocket, taken._,

CORN 111.A,R KRT.

•
Very large supplies of Foreign grain, and trade very
English Wheat slow of sale, and both English and Foreign suf
fered a decline of is. per quarter. Flour is the turn lower,-
Very fine Barley about the same;. Foreign is 6d per quarter.
cheaper. Oats very fiat, and Foreign 6d to, la-per quarter lower'
Beans and Peas are very dull, at late rates. In Seeds nothing
doing. Red Wheat, 425• to 50s. ; whites 425. to 525. ; WWl'
Flour, 445. ; distilling Barley, 26s to 265.; Malting, 30s. to 335•;
grinding, 245. to 275.

• English. Irish. Foreign.
Wheat 3599 28219,
Barley — 821 16332
Oats 4445 4276 3.M05
Malt 6159 —.
Beans
Peas lO 461
Flour
101 brls.
PRODUCE MARKET-.
Market closed to-day,