The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS

FRIDAY

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH asked whether her Ma-
jesty's Ministers would produce copies of a correspon-

dence whit

Lace • between t

he government o:

India and the promoters of railways in that portion of vera had gone up the Uruguay, with a force 013000 men,
her Majesty's dominions, on the subject of advances All is quiet in Monte Video, and trade generally was dull.
by way of loan, for carrying out such, projects. The noble , The London Observer says that Lord Howden is still at
Earl also complained that the people of India had to pay 1 Paris, and that there is no reason whatever to doubt that

five per cent. for money, when it -could be raised in Eng- he will be speedily enabled to proceed to his c
}and for the purposes of Government at three-and-ahalf. armed with the combined instruction of the Governments
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said there would be no of France and England for the settlement of all points in
objection to produce the correspondence when complete. dispute between the belligerent parties on both sides of
Conditions had been suggested by the Government, on the River Plata. So far as the negociations have pro-
-which ,certain advances might be made on account of rail- ceeded there is no point of difference, and they only wait
-ways to he constructed in India, but up to the present the leisure of the French Cabinet from other more press-
time•they had not been accepted. ing matters, to be put into such a shape as will enable the
Lord ASHBURTON renewed his motion for various re- British Envoy to carry out the wishes of both Govern-
turns relative to the capital embarked in railways, and of ments for a satisfactory pacification.
the investments of the bank of England in bonds, deben- The public slave-market at Constantinople has been

[estination,

tures, or ether securities of railway companies. abolished, but it is suspected that the traffic in human be-
The Earl of CLARENDON objected to the latter return, ings will still be carried on in the shape of private bargains.
on the ground that it would establish a precedent, by Lord Hardinge has resolved on the reduction of the
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which the bank might be hereafter compelled to disclose postage throughout India, and the introduction of a sys-
to the public the names of those parties to whom they tem similar to that of Rowland Hill. At present, for a
bad given credit. , daily paper, restricted in weight to about one-fourth of a
Lord ASHBURTON was willing to substitute for the re- London journal, the postage amounts in some parts of
turn objected to by the noble earl, one to the effect of an India to £lO annually.
account of public securities held by the bank, his only THE EMIGRATION TO CANADA IN 1846.—The Mon-
object being to enable Parliament to see what had been treal Herald furnishes the following official statement of
the cause of the movement in the money market, and the 1846 :—,Number of Emigrants landed at the Ports of
extent to which the agency of the bank had been used in Quebec and Montreal, 32,753, viz., from England, 9,263 ;
reference to railway securities. He begged it to be from Ireland, 21,049 ; from Scotland, 1,655 ; Germans
clearly understood, that he cast no reflection upon the from Hamburg and Bremen, 896; total, 32,753. Adults,
bank directors, believing, as he did, that no body of men males, 12,366 ' females, 10,826 • children, Ito 14 years,
could be more honourable in their transactions. males, 3,901; ditto, females, 3;814 ; children under one
On the order of the day for going into committee year, 1,180; total, 32,153. The male adult emigration is
on the Sugar in Breweries and Distilleries Bills, a discus- classed as follows, viz., mechanics 715 ; farmers, 4,831;
sion of seme length ensued, Lord STANLEY proposing, as labourers, 6,733 ; servants, 87 ; sot'al, 12,366. Destine-
an amendment, that the Distilleries Bill be referred to a tion—Proceeded to Western Canada, 24,136 ; estimated
select committee up stairs uuon whirl] mnfinn a rlivicinn
rturnhAr in Fficifprn 011119,10 9 ADD • doe finnt;nn 'miry-mum

at 5ii,0,.... . tov-.0.-.. ! 4..“.....u. Jo .-..i.crii %.,ainicus, Ayouv ; UMIIIIIIIIOII 1.111/I.IIOWII,
took place, when there appeared, for the original motion, estimated as haling gone to the United States, 6,617 ;
contents, 35 ; non-contents, 27 : majority, 8,--and the total, 32,753, The emigration into Western Canada via
bills then went through committee without further oppo.. , the United States, from actual returns received, is 2,864,
sition. I of which number about 500 are Germans, Of the Ger-
Housg OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. j man emigration this year, via Quebec, upwards of 200
The City of London Small Debts Bill was read a second have settled in Upper Canada; the remainder we.Z.lt to the
time. , United States. The Irish emigro*: of the .0--

ation of ft,.
gr. HAWES informed the house that the House of estimated at upwards of five-sixths of the whole

I thence went to
Tunis, where the bey
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the private marriage. It was then I received the grand
cordon of Charles 111., which was given not to the liter-
ary man, but to the man—to me, Alexandre Dumas,
Marquis Davy de la Pailleterie, and friend of the Duke of
Montpensier.—(Sensation in court.)
s,ois received by his brother, who received me as a French en-
voy, and conferrevl upgn Ipe the order of Nichan. lii Qr,
was absent, but I was honourably