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      MONDAX March , . HOUSE OP LORDS . —FoacEjD Railway RetDBSs . —Earl Grmjvixm , pursuant to notice , moved that Mr . C . D . L . Nash be called to the bar . Mr . Nash , having appeared , stated in afcwerto questions from Earl Grahvtllb , Lord Brougham , Lord Bkatjmost , and other noble lords , that he was a parliamentary agent ; that he delivered a certain return connected with the Waterford , Wexford , "Wicklow , and Dublin railway to the railway board . He was honorary secretary to a body ofthe shareholders . An order had been made in March last for the return , which had not been complied with , and about

      Christmas he wrote to the commissioners stating that he Lad the means of furnishing the information required . He saw an order ofthe house on the subject , made in May , 1816 . at the Private Bill-office , of -which he made a literal copy . He wrote the words , " Cour town , chairman , " in the copy which he presented , without for a moment intending to imitate Lord Corn-town ' s hand writing . He had no authority ' to pnt in the original documents without the order of parliament , and he considered the house ¦ would be aware of that fact . A copy similar to that ¦ which he had sent to the railway board had been exhibited to Lord CoHTtown ' s solicitors in legal proceedings which , were pending , and they had admitted it tobfi enrreA .

      Lord Brougham understood that the ori ginal document said to have been copied in the Private Bihoffice had never since been seen . Mr . NASHsald he had merely copied it . He did not take the original , and no one had ever applied to hirri for it . Mr . Nash was then ordered to withdraw . On the motion of Earl Grantilte , the examination " was directed to be printed , and Mr . Nash was ordered to attend at the bar again on Friday . AlPPELLATS JonlSDICTION OP THE HOUSE , AND OF IHE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE . l « Ord BbOCGHAM called the attention of their Lordships to the constitution of the House of Lords and the Judicial

      Committee of the Privy Council as Courts of Appeal from the-decisions of our colonial tribunals , and quoted a number of statistics to show their inadequacy to these duties . He praised the education now given at the East India College at Haileybury , and impressed upon the government the importance of selecting hig hly qualified judges for our colonial possessions , strongly condemning the paltry salaries of judicial functionaries there , and the miserable policy which : by paying them insufficiently and refusing them retiriaj pensions / prevented the best lawyers from accepting these appointments . He concluded by moving fl series of resolutions in accordance with his speech . The resolutions were laid upon the table and ordered to be printed . ' . .

      Sunday Labour in the Post Office . —A short conversation took place in answer to a question from the Earl of Malmesbury , in reply to which the Marquis of Clanricabde deprecated the proposed son-transmission ofthe mails on Sunday , and stated that he was about to place returns upon the table which would show how much dimunition had taken place in the amount of Post-office labour on Sundays inconsequence of the recent alterations . After disposing of some other business , their lordships adjourned . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —The Gorham Case . —Sput is the Church . —Mr . Hume , desired to know what notice the government intended to take ofthe protest of the Rev . G . A . Desisox , impugning the judgment of Her Majesty in Council in the case of " Gorham v . the Bishop of ExeteR , " and denying the supremacy of the Crown as head of the Established Church .

      Lord J . Bxsssix , in reply , observed that he thought the rev . gentleman was mistaken ; that the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council had acted entirely within the scope of their jurisdiction , and , moreover , that he believed their decision in the matter had given great satisfaction . "With respect to the intentions ol the government , he said , he though it might appear hereafter necessary to adopt some measure , he should he most reluctant to take any step against men entertainipgeonscientious opinions ' upon this question , and which might tend to disturb still further the harmony of the Church . HnsGABiiN Refugees . —Mr . Osboske asked the

      Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , whether the government of this country , or our Ambassador at Constantinople , were parties , by advice or othsr"wise , to the conduct of the TuykkYi government in condemning Kossuth and the other Hungarian refugees in Turkey to banishment and confinement in the interior of Asia Minor ? And , if the British government had not been a party to the most unjustifiable proceeding , then he wished to ask whether the British government had made any remonstrance to the Porte on the subject ? Lord Paluebstok , in answer to the question of ihe hon . gentleman , whether Her Majesty ' s government had been a party to the transportation ofthe Hungarian refugees , said , that Her Majesty ' s

      government had only so far interfered as having , through Her Majesty ' s Ambassador at Constantinople , recommended to the Porte to make the detention of those persons , —if the Porte considered itself bound by its engagements with Austr a to detain them at all , —for as short a time as was consistent with those engagements ; and in the meantime to render their detention as little irksome and inconvenient as possible . He had no difficulty in saying , as his own opinion , that it would have been desirable if the Porte could have set them at liberty , and not detained them at all . It was not for Her Majesty ' s government to judge what were the engagements and communications entered into

      by the Porte with the government of Austria ; hut , taking a broad view of the matter , it would have seemed that ifthe Porte had felt itself at liberty to act fully and freely , that engagement which the Porte vfas bound to fulfil—namely , preventing the Turkish territory from being the scene of intrigue for the purpose of disturbing the tranquillity of its neighbours , would have been accomplished by removing altogether from the Turkish territory those persons on whom the Austrian government looked with anxiety and jealousy ; but the Porte was the only judge of what its engagements compelled it to do , and the advice which Her Majesty ' s government had given was that which he had stated in the heginning of his replv .

      The Consolidated Fund ( £ 8 , 000 , 000 ) Bill was ihea read a third time . - On the order of the day for the house resolving into , committee on the Stamp Duties , The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved the formal resolution on which to found a bill for carrying into effect the modification ofthe stamp duties on certain legal instruments referred to in his financial sratement on Friday , He observed that a generalrrevislon of the stamp duties had been under the consideration of different governments for many years past , but they had been deterred by its

      difficulty from undertaking the task . He had , therefore , thought it advisable to take up the subject piecemeal , and give as much relief as he could . The principle he proposed to adopt witu respect to the stamp . duties he intended to deal -with was , as nearly as anight he , that of an ad valorem duty . Sir C . "Wood then explained the scale of reductions proposed to be made by him in the duties upon mortgages or bonds , conveyances and transfers , and leases respectively . He recommended that the discussion of the details of the measure should be postponed until the committee upon the bill .

      This suggestion was adopted , ansJ , after a few de--eultory remarks from some members , the resolution was agreed to ^ ^ ind reported . Drainage and Land Biprovehest . —The house then -went into'Committee on Drainage ; when ' The Cdaxceislor of the Exchequer moved a similar resolution , authorising the Lords of the Treasury to ^ advance £ 8 , 000 , 000 for drainage and thp-improvement « f landed property in Great Britain-and Ireland . ¦ After a short discussion " iipon" incidental "topics , chiefly amongst Irish members , the resolution was agreed-to , and repouied . Franchise is Ireland . —The house then went into committee again upoathe Parliamentary Voters , < fcc . ( Ireland ) 3 iU . Some progress was joaade through the clauses , when

      Mr . Fa . gj £ X moved a proviso designed to save from possible disfranchisement by the new bill certain voters who held their qualification under the existing acts . After a prolonged discission , the committee divided—For Mr . pagan ' s amcBdjnent ... 38 Against ... 60 Majcrity — -13 A second division took place sn thel-Sth clause , on an amendment moved by Sir K . Ferguson , - which was negatived by a majority of 103—11-5 against 0 . Clauses 16 to 19 being struck out , Clause 20 , Mr . Fbekch moved an amendment to prevent changes of residence operating by way of disqualification . A long discussion was -closed by a division , in ¦ which the amendment sras lost by IU votes against 57 .

      Clauses up to 37 being passed , after a . variety of amendments had formed the " subject of a long and minute discussion , the further pi-egress of the committee was postponed until Thursday , the 11 th of * J he }* ons . e Te ! nmed ( at a q uarter past twelve 0 cock ) yhen the Mutiny Bill , the Marine Mutiny Si ™ j Fe , a BiU ( Courfc of Common Hcas ) . ffiriw- S ^ time - The School Districts Confute Bill wras passed through committee . leave to hrW ? LU > ? -,, of the Exchequer obtained to ™ ? S 1 D ^ -hdl to repeal the duty on bricks . •^^ sas ^ sssistsr ¦ ^ . oiTSBSfiS *; ,., - * « J » T » M » Xmm n l « £ l & i SaiS . ' - , . . . 3 * . .. ... " : •¦ " •'( 9 - ¦

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      wished tocaU attention to a subject of which he had P ? 5 ' ] ce » namel 7 . to ask a question upon which he could found a motion for a copy of the commission for the management of the Exhibition of the Industryof au Nations in 1851 . This was a mere matter of course—no objection could he made to such a motion , and of course he should not say anything upon it ; but he wished to guard against its being supposed that he desired to make any remarK upon this subject in a spirit of hostility , of to say anythingagainst this great exhibition , which it was said was to be an exhibition of all nations , ae hoped it would be so , but that the m » n ufactu ! ££ ! and agriculturists of England would keep .. their nroner urooortion . He Know that there , ?«»» "

      a great flocking from other nations ;; ana wm . " . ~ it would be held in Hydei Park-which he hopedM * would not be-or in the Regents Park , or- £ here he should prefer seeing ifc-m the Victor a MU * . M the east end ofthe town , he could not , but 1 bear Ms testimony to the disinterested V *™*™? *™ manufacturing and trading classes who have come forw ard with the purest patriotism , and the greatest love to their customers , to support an exhibition which must inevitably reduce the prices of all the eoods in which they dealt . It completely relieves them from the reproach of selfishness , which had been brought against them by that . illustrious individual , the author of " The Wealth of Nations , " Adam Smith , when he said that nothing could be more mean , narrow , and contracted than the views

      entertained by the manufacturers and traders in general , forming a contrast to the liberality , the quiescence , and abandonment ef self-interest shown by the agriculturists . Ho objected to placing such a " tubercle " on one ofthe lungs of London . The west end would be deserted by the fashionable part ofsociety . The Earl of Carlisle could not give any information respecting the proceedings ofthe commission , as he did not belong to it ; and all he could state was that a communication had been made from the commissioners , requesting tbat a certain portion of Hyde Park , which it was supposed could be assigned with the least interference with the public convenience , should be granted for the erection of

      the necessary buildings for the great exhibition . He had no doubt ( as Lord Brougham had said ) that all nations would flock to it , and there was at present no building large enoughforso great a purpose . Upon receiving this communication from the -commissioners , and knowing that it had the full consent of the Sovereign , the department to which he belonged did not feel it right to put any obstruction in the way . Such a building , no doubt , for a limited period , must interfere with the lungs of the metropolis , as the Parks have been called ; but he did not know why they should be more tender of the

      aristocratic lungs in the west end than of those which existed in another part of the metropolis . ( Hear , hear . ) Tho open area of Hyde Park contained 270 acres , and Regent ' s Park 200 acres . The Victoria Park was smaller than either , and was situated in the most densely-populated locality in the whole metropolis . ( Hear , hear . ) Moreover , he did not think a proposition to block up a space which had been so recently opened for the recreation of the inhabitants of the east end of London could be made , with good grace , to the public . ( Hear , hear . ) Lord Brougham . —What is the extent of the Victoria Park ?

      The Earl of Carlisle . —About IflO acres . It should also be borne in mind that such an inconvenience would fall less heavily on the upper than on the lower classes , because the former had greater opportunities of getting into the fresh air than the working population . ( Hear , hear . ) Lord Brougham certainly did not know that the Victoria Park was so much smaller than the others , and , in a commercial point of view , he had thought it would be the best situation for the exhibition . He wished to know whether the building was to be merely temporary or not ? The Earl of Carlisle understood that it was to be only for that one year Lord Brougham . —Then it will be a very expensive proceeding . Here the matter dropped ..

      The Journeymen Tailors of London . —Earl Walbegrave called the attention of her Majesty ' s Ministers to the case of tho journeymen tailors in the metropolis , as regarded the contracts for the supply of clothing to the Custom-house , Ordnance , police , and navy ofthe country ; but , although his lordship spoke for more than half an hour , scarcely one whole sentence of his speech was audible in tho gallery . So far as he was understood , the noble lord described the wretched condition of the journeymen tailors of the metropolis , and especially of those who were employed by the middlemen who

      undertook the execution of portions of the government contracts . He believed tbat such scenes of distress might be witnessed among this class of persons as their lordships could scarcely conceive of , for their earnings were so small as to enable them with difficulty to pay for their lodgings , leaving them scarcely anything for board and clothing . He trusted the government would take the case of the journeymen tailors into its consideration , especially of those employed in the execution of government contracts , and see if something could not be done for their relief . -

      -..-The Earl of Motjnicashkll agreed with his noble friend that the case of the journeymen tailors in this metropolis was most deplorable , and could only be paralleled by the state of the unfortunate needlewomen . There was also a great deal of distress among the journeymen shoemakers , but the subject was not an easy one upon which to legislate , particularly with regard to a limitation in the number of hours of labour . The suffering among these classes of operatives was attributable to two causes—to over-population , in the first place , and , in the next place , it was greatly attributable to the

      effects of free trade . The further operation of these two causes would be that a greater number of persons would go to Jews such as Moses , and that people , paying more regard to their pockets than to their position in life , would be tempted to deal with persons of that kind . The next thing would be , that servants' wages would come down , and then how would they be able to provide for their wives and children he did not know . The Marquis of Lansdowne regretted the distress which existed among the class of operatives to whose case tho noble earl had called the attention

      of the house . But , as the noble earl had thought proper to call the attention of the government to the subject , and had assumed that they had some means of ameliorating the condition of these persons , he must trouble the house for a few moments . He was far from saying that the journeymen tailors were not as deserving the attention of Parliament and ofthe Government as any other body of men ; but , at the same time , let not the noble earl flatter himself that it would be possible for Parliament or the Government , in opposition to all the laws that regulated demand and supply , to ameliorate the condition of the journeymen tailors by preventing the persons who employed them from taking advantage of the depression which mi ght exist in this particular trade . Xhe noble lord said it was in the power ofthe Government , by putting an end

      to the present system of contracts , to ameliorate the condition of the journeymen tailors . But the whole pl an of supplying the public departments of this country was carried on by a system of contract or competition ; and for this system it would be impossible to substitute any other , unless the government took into its own . hands the supply of these articles . But this would lead to the adoption of a standard of wages , a limitation of the hours of work , ? nd eventually to a system of imposition so enormous that the expenditure ofthe country would be immeasurably increased , and it would require a whole army of operatives to carry such a system into effect , while-it would be impossible to supply goods on anything like the same terms , on which they were now procured . Their lordships then adjourned .

      HOLSE OF COMMONS . —The African Blockading Squadron . —Mr . Huix moved " an address to the Crown to direct that negotiations' bo forthwith entered into for the purpose of releasing this country from all treaty engagements with foreign states for maintaining armed vessels on the coast of Africa to suppress the traffic in slaves . He began by explaining the circumstances under which the report of the committee of 1849 was made , in order to free that report from the prejudice attempted to be raised against it on the ground that it had been carried only by the casting vote of the chairman He then gave a brief sketch of the history of the blockade system , and remarked the coincidence of the increase of the slave trade with tho coercive

      measures adopted under the treaties to suppress it . Up to 1815 the number of negroes exported from the coast of Africa was 90 , 000 ; in 1819 it amounted to 105 , 000 , and it continued to increase under circumstances of aggravated atrocity . He then read a memorandum addressed by the Duke of Wellington to the Congress of Verona in 1 S 22 , which declared that the slave trade was carried on to a greater extent than during any former period , and that ifc would have been far more consolatory to humanitv , and that fewer lives would have been lost , had the " trade never been forcibly interfered with . This country , fifteen years after , made further efforts to put down the trade , by increasing the number of cruisers , assisted by steam-vessels , and by adding powers to

      search suspected vessels ; in short , no measures of coercion were neglected . The result had been acknowledged in a letter from Lord John Russell , then Colonial Secretary , in 1 & 39 , to the Lords of tho Treasury , in which the incalculable magnitude of the evil , the - enormous expense incurred by this country , and the annual sacrifice of life were urged as arguments for the adoption of some new preventive system . In 1810 there had been a diminution of the trade , but the causes were independent of the efforts of our squadron . That period was one of great mercantile depression , which affected the slave trade as well as legitimate commerce , and at tbat time Cuba and-Brazil were honestly engaged in an attempt-to pre- vent the importation' of slaves ; but iri 1843 ' ' m-

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      merce revived , and , with it ,, nOtwithstandiug tte Sons of our fleet revived all t ^ rrow ^ tho fn

      commodity shall obtain it by some means or other . " Every contrivance of governments , from the Emperor Napoleon to our own Chancellors of the Exchequer , had failed to put down contraband traffic afc home ; and the attempt was yet more Quixotical upon the vast and distant coast of Africa . The endeavour had already cost us twenty-flvo millions , was maintained at a cost of £ 700 , 000 or £ 800 , 000 per annum , and had monopolised tho services of fully one-fourth the whole British navy afloat . But the system was worse than merely expensive—it was fatal , cruel , and anomalous , obliging us to use methods e qually violent , inadequate , and involving a perpetual risk o ? war with other nations , who did not sympathise with our object , while they resented our assumption of a right to interfere with their commerce . It was evident that we had been for years following an ignis fatuus , and now an attempt was to be made to take them in again with the old exploded story , —

      '" Tis all a cheat , Yet , fooled by hope , men favour the deceit , Trust on and think to-morrow will repay , — To-morrow's falser than the former day , Lies more— -. " ( Cheers . ) He now had done . He thought he had made out his case—fhear , hear)—and he appealed to the members of that house , as guardians of . tho interests and prosperity of the country , as protectors of its honour and fame , as humane and Christian men ,. to pass condemnation on a cruel and delusive system , whose final doom was not distant , by supporting the motion . . ¦ ' . -.

      Mr . Baillie seconded the motion , on tho ground that this country was really deriving , in the shape of cheap sugar from the Bragjis , a profit from tne slave trade , and that by maintaining the squadron on the coast of Africa we cast a screen of respectability over our conduct as receivers of stolen goods . Our failure was a melancholy and mortifying result of so much good intention , but it was not the less undeniable , and ought to stand confessed in our practical policy . .. ''''' Mr . W . EvANS i after withdrawing an amendment of which he had given notice , referred to the returns of slave ships captured in various years , and argued that the service of our cruisers bad not proved so unavailing as had been alleged . The expense ofthe squadron ought not to be charged entirely to the account of abolition , as the vessels were also useful in protecting our own trade on the African coast .

      Mr . Labouchere considered that the honour of England was involved in the question : It was a dereliction from our duty , and a decline from the virtues of former days for us to withdraw all protection from the Africans , and offer onl y tho mockery of a barren sympathy with their sufferings under the execrable traffic , which we should then leave unchecked . Economy was not to be preferred to principle ; but even the economy that would result from a discontinuance of the squadron was much exaggerated . A legitimate trade was growing up in Africa , which our squadron was wanted to protect . In the growth of that trade lay the main hopes of ultimate success in stopping the traffic in slaves ; and there were results already

      apparent , amply sufficient to warrant our persistency in tho course wo had been pursuing . The enhanced price of slaves in Cuba ( where a negro who cost £ 20 in Africa , and less than £ 7 in transport , was worth £ 100 ) proved how largely we had succeeded in restricting the commerce in that article . Africa would be plunged into the most awful horrors upon the departure of our protecting force . Much was now doing in the way of negotiation with the native chiefs to improve the condition of the tribes on the sea coast . The establishment of Liberia ; the purchase ofthe Danish forts on the Gold Coast ; and the contemplated acquisition of Gallinas , heretofore a notorious mart of the slave trade , were incidents that held out increased

      prospects of benefit to the negroes , and called upon us hot to withdraw from the work we had undertaken . Mr . Labouchere proceeded to remark on the injury and discouragement which the resolution now proposed would occasion in the British West Indies . He concluded by pointing out the distinction between the ordinary fiscal enactments against smuggling , and the efforts made in the cause of humanity to suppress the traffic in human beings . Mr . Graktley . Bebkelet stated that large steamers were now engaged in carrying slaves between Africa and Brazil , which put our sailing cruisers at defiance . To maintain our squadron was

      only throwing good money after bad . The onl y moral and consistent plan for reducing the slave trade was to prohibit the introduction of slave produce into this country . Captain Peceell attributed much of the apparent failure in the efforts to suppress the slave trade to the insufficiency of the force employed , and assigned some blame to the Admiralty for their want of zeal in seconding the intentions of the government . Mr . Chisholm Anbtky . argued that the maintenance of our blockading squadron involved a recurring violation of " national and municipal laws . "

      Sir R . Inolis reduced the annual expenditure of the blockading squadron to £ 300 , 000 , half of vriiich would be required for the protection of commerce , and asked whether the house was prepared , for this small saving , ' to set at nought the solemn obligations we had contracted in the face of the world . Tho capture of 600 vessels by the blockading squadron had been no slight service rendered to Christian humanity . Lord H . Vane supported the motion , not / m the ground of economy , but from a conviction that the treaties with Spain and Portugal had been inoperative , and that to make the blockade effectual it must be upon a vast scale . Mr . Caedwell agreed that this was a question

      whether we should at once and for ever surrender the policy of years , and with it the hope of civilizing Africa . The arguments founded upon the alledged futility of the operations of our squadron ana its expense ho undertook to refute from the evidence . He acknowledged that by a marine guard alone it was impossible to command a long line of coast ; but there were two other agencies at worklegitimate trade and the higher influence of Christianity ; and how could these agencies continue to work if deprived of protection ? He then shewed on how large an extent of the coast of Africa the slave trade nad ceased ; that the price of slaves had ' risen to Cuba through the interruption of the trade of our cruisers ; that the number of slaves imported

      into tne urazns was not regulated by the demand , but by the facilities of escaping our squadron . The question resolved itself in to this : make the slave trade easy , and it will be easier for black , or Spanish , or Portuguese savages , to obtain better returns in human flesh than in palm oil . Finding such stronoevidence of the progress of civilization and of leg ? timate commerce in Africa , he could not , as an honest man , take upon himself to paralyse the hands of those who had been instrumental in accomplishing these changes , by consenting to withdraw our squadron , andleave tho coasts of Africa to tho horrors of priacy as well as the slave trade . Captain Pelham spoke in opposition to the motion amidst frequent manifestations of impatience .

      Mr . Gladstose , declaring his intention to vote in favour of the motion , observed / that it contemplated only the single treaty with France , which placed this country in ^ position so anomalous and preposterous as justified a' motion to put an end to it . Ho joined with those who stigmatised the slave trade as a detestable ; traffic ; but the system of armed repression had long ago been pronounced futile by Sir F . Buxton j it had been condemned by Lord J . Russell and by the most , responsible and credible witnesses . ^» ttw'to be made a permanent system ? or would the house look tho subject fairly in the face , and come to some decisive resolution « The opinion of Sir C .-Hotham-who did not counsel the removal of the squadron conditional !} ' but

      absolutely-said that ,, vf the trade were stopped at one place , it broke out at another . This fact invalidated the argument formed . upon the statement that parts of the coast were clear . Had tho squadron extinguished tho trade ? No ., Had it made a progress towards its extinction ? That was the real is ^ sue and Mr . Gladstone read statements of the prices of slaves , and ofthe percentage of captures in succes . sive years ,, contending that the figures showed that there had-been no -progress , but rather a retrogression . Although the burden cast upon the people of England by this charge was not limited to 000 that not

      £ 700 ,, was his main motive ; ho wanted to grapple with the question on the ground of humanity and philanthropy , and he had come to the conclusion , from evidence of which he gave the details , that the present system of repression did not diminish , but , on the contrary , had a tendency to increase , the sum of human wretchedness . Tho he nLight be asked , what other course he would suggest ? It . waa an indispensable condition that there should be a general belief amongst other nations of our sincerity ; but , having passed the Sugar Duties Act , he defied the Government to re-establish" our reputation for sincerity . We must repeal . that act , double pur . squadron ,

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      obtain the right , ©? search fromFr ance and America ,, with ' power ' to punish' foreign crews . ; - and . lastly ., W 0 . must force Spain and Brazil to fulfil their treaties . Without , these conditions—and they were . almost hopeless—the success , of our squadron in Africa would be . visionary . ' ,. . " , '•¦/;" Lord J . Russell said , the house Iras asked , at the end of a series of triumphs achieved in the cause of humanity , to take a retrograde step , proclaiming to the world that we no longer . meant to take measures against the slave trade , or to offer a . substitute , thereby spreading discouragement throughout , the world , in which were people admiring and imitating bur example . The renunciation of our treaty with France would enable slavers to hoist the

      French flag , and tho effect of the speeches of the mover and seconder was , " let us have a free trade in slaves . " Lord John questioned the correctness of Mr . Gladstone ' s facts in the comparison he had made between the existing slave trade and that under Sir William Dolben ' s Act , he had forgotten that the latter was . a regulated trade . Sir Charles Hothamand Captain Matson stated that the sufferings of the slaves in the middle passage would be aggravated if the trade were unmolested . In the matter of economy it would be absolutely necessary to keep up some sort of force upon the cost , for if there was a commerce _ which deserved protection it was that now springing up in the place of the slave trade . Tho removal of

      restrictions from that trade would destroy tho hope of civilising Africa , whilst it would so immensely increase tho importation of slaves into Brazil that our West India isl ands would be unable to stand the competition . In reply to the question , what should bo done to suppress tho slave trade , he said he did not despond . If the cause was good , and had gradually enlisted the nations of the world . in its favour , he believed that it was , anything but hopeless , and that nothing dOuld destroy it but the want of moral courage on our part . —The noble lord concluded a lame speech ' with the following ad captandum appeal : —He believed that nothing but utter faint-heartedness could induce those to say that they were unequal to cope with the great

      question of the final and permanent suppression , of the slave trade . But there were other motives which he thought might influence that house in coming to a decision upon the question . This country had been blessed with great mercies during the past year . More than once they had to thank Almighty GOd for tho dispensation of those mercies . ( Hear , hear . ) He owned it appeared to him that if they were now to say that the trade in man should be revived—that that unhallowed and cruel traffic against which England for fifty years had been working by the efforts of her greatest statesmenahdthe hands of her besfcand bravest sailors—if they were to say that that traffic were now to be allowed to go free and . unscathed , they would no "

      longer have a right to expect these mercies . ( Loud cheers . ) He considered that the high christian and moral character of a nation was its main source of security and strength . If that night the house were to direct the Foreign Minister of the Crown to go with a dastardly message to France—( cheers)—to give up this high and holy work , because we were no longer fitted to take the lead in the championship against the curse and crime of slavery , he thought they could no longer venture to expect a continuance of those blessings which this , country had so long enjoyed . ( Great applause . ) Lord B . Grosvbnob said , that during the

      twentyeight years which he had had the honour of a seat in that house , it had been his good fortune never to have differed with his noble friend ( Lord J . Russell ) upon any essential point of policy ; but on this occasion he felt under tho painful necessity of voting for the motion of the hon . member for Gateshead , on the ground that it would prevent this country from continuing to attempt the moral government ofthe woi'ld upon principles which , in his understanding , were and had been condemned by ' { he moral governor of the universe on every page ef his work . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Hun having briefly replied , The house then divided . The numbers

      were—For the motion ... ... 154 Against it ... ... ... 235 Majority ... ... - — -78 The reports of the resolution respecting the stamp duties and drainage agreed to on Monday were brought up and received , and leave was given to bring in bills founded upon them . Factories Bill .- —This hill was read a second time . The other orders of the day were then disposed of and the house adjourned at half-past two .

      WEDNESDAY , March , 20 . HOUSE OF COMMONS .-The Small Tenements Rating Bill went through committee , some hours being devoted to the revision or addition of clauses . On the motion for the committal of the Larceny Summary Jurisdiction Bill . Mr . Law moved a resolution for limiting the provisions of the bill as regarded punishment to offenders of age not exceeding sixteen years , but extending to offenders of every age the summary power of the justices to liberate upon bail , provided the amount of the larceny should not exceed one shilling . A prolonged discussion ensued , turning chiefly on the question how far it was prudent to remove criminal charges out of the jurisdiction of juries . The house then divided—For the amendment ... ... 124 Against ... ... ... 54

      • Majority ... ... > -70 The house adjourned at six o'clock .

      THURSDAY , March 21 . HOUSE OF COMMONS . — The Committee on the Factories Bill was moyed pro forma , in order to the introduction of some amendments , and the farther progress of the bill was proposed until after Easter . Transfer of Laitoeo Property . — Mr . Locke Kino moved that , considering the complaints which in many parts ofthe Kingdom had proceeded from the owners and occupiers of land , and considering also the benefits which had arisen to all other classes from recent legislation promoting Free Trade , it was expedient to adopt measures for diminishing tho existing restrictions on the free transfer of landed property , and for distributing

      & uch propert y , in cases of intestacy , according to the same rules which prevail in respect of personal property . He contended at some length that our present law of primogeniture had found its derivation under the feudal system , and was urisuited to the present state of society . But he was hot disposed to enforce the distribution of landed property among all the children , as in France , but simpl y to enact it in case of parental intestacy . He argued in favour of his motion from the inherent injustice of the present system , and its practical inconsequences , not only to younger children , but to the country , upon whose resources the influential

      classes sought to cast the maintenance of their younger offspring . Mr . Ewart seconded the motion , remarking , that he had himself brought in a carefully prepared bill on the same subject fifteen years ago , and that he would place it at Mr . King ' s disposal . Mr . Newdegate opposed the motion , which , he said , was an abstract proposition with an ulterior object , and was the precursor of a comprehensive measure directed against the title to the landed property of tho kingdom . M . Hume supported it , and adduced instances of the mode 'in which tho children of aristocratic families were forced into public situations .

      Mr . Monckton Milnes , as a landowner , supported the motion ; but said that there ' was no such thing as a "law of primogeniture , " but that tho privileges of an eldest son were part ofthe manners and habits of the country . The Chancellor of - the Exchequer , though anxious to do anything which could facilitate the transfer of property , thought there were so many practical difficulties in the way of the proposition of Mr . King , that he should feel it his duty to oppose a motion which could lead to no practical gOOd . ¦¦¦' . ¦ : Mr . Bright and Sir H . Verney having briefly supported the motion , Mr . Locke King said a few words in reply , and the house divided , when the numbers were— " For the motion 52 Against it 110 nigAiijou

      miiiuiity . -v ^ Sir EnwARD Colebrooke rose , in pursuance of notice , to move for a select committee to inquire into the rights and succession of the allied and dependent princes of India , but ho had made apparently but brief progress in his address when he became exceedingly unwell , and ultimately , at the , suggestion of Sir J . 0 . Hobhouse , postponed , his The Pirates' Head-money Repeal Bill and the Judgments ( Ireland ) Bill then went through committee , and the business of the . evening terminated yerv early ! " with the nomination of a committee on the County Rates and Expenditure Bil ) ,. ' after . sqme angry discussion . ( From our . Third Edition of last week . J

      FRIDAY , March 15 . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —The BuDQET . ^ -The Chancellor of the Exchequer , made his financial statement . In the estimate he had laid before Parliament last summer he had assumed the income for the year to be £ 52 , 262 , 000 . Up to January last it amounted to 452 , 874 , 000 : The expenditure up to January had been £ 50 , 853 , 622 , considerably below his estimate , and the amount for the financial year would bo still less , namely £ 50 , 583 , 651 , ' showing a surplus of £ 2 , 252 , 000 , in the past year . With regard to the current year , he was afraid he could not promise quite so favourable a result . The probable aggregate amount of the year 1850-51 would bo £ 52 , 285 , 000 . The amount of the expenditure ' would be £ 50 , 613 ; 582 , to which he proposed to add , on account of a further vote for the now ' . nbusos of Parliament and for . the Arctic Expedition

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      about £ 150 , 000 ; ~~ whlch" wbu ! d 7 . 1 eave "" a "' BurpIuB of , in round njimb ' ers / . £ li 6 o ' 0 ; 000 . ; . Sir ^ Charles Wood- then reminded ttie"' 'house of' \ vhat ' vhad been the scrope ,. of . our „ policy . for the' last twenty years , the principle of . which ; as expounded by Mr . Huskisson , was t » . . relteva 'iho " weight of taxation which ' pressed . ' upon the poorer classes ; , and in pursuance of that ' policy taxes to ' . th ' e amount of £ 8 , 650 , 000 on articles of consumptioh had been repealed , the result of which had been most beneficial . After soma observations upon the condition and prospects of the landed interest , Sir Charles proceeded to declare his intentions with regard to the surplus of £ 1 , 500 , 000 . The first object , he said , should be to reduce our debt . During the last 20

      years we had borrowed no leas than £ 35 , 000 , 000 . whereas the surplus incomeappliedtothe reduction of the debt had been only £ 8 , 000 , 000 ; so that during 20 years of profound peace we had increased the principal of the debt by no less' than £ 27 , 000 , 000 . His first measure was 'intended to benefit small owners of land . He proposed , therefore , that there should be a considerable reduction of the stamp duties upon the transfer of landed property and upon mortgages under £ 1 , 000 , and that within the same limit the stamp duty upon , leases should be an uniform half per cent . His next proposal , the objects of which were to increase the comforts of the labouring classes , by improving their dwellings , and to facilitate agricultural improvements , was to repeal the duty on bricks . The loss of revenue by these two remissions would be £ 750 , 000 , half the expected surplus . The other half he proposed to apply to a reduction of the . debt . Concurrently

      with this relief from taxation , he had another measure in view calculated to promote the outlay of capital upon land—namely , to make further advances for drainage and land improvements , the benefits of which had been sensibly felt . He proposed to advance for these purposes £ 2 , 000 , 000 for England & Scotland , and £ 1 , 000 , 000 for Ireland , £ 800 , 000 of this latter sum to be appropriated to arterial drainage . These advances could Be made , in the present state Of the Exchequer , without any addition to the public debt , and the repayments would be available for the reduction of the national debt . He proposed to apply £ 250 , 000 immediately to the extinction of a part of that debt by ; discharging the Equivalent Fund in Scotland , and he hoped the house would suffer him to retain the surplus of £ 500 ; 000 remaining . Sir Charles then moved a vote of £ 9 , 200 , 000 towards supply , to h ^ raised by Exchequer biUs .

      . At the conclusion of the Budget address the great majority of the members quitted their seato and the debate languished on for some hours in a thin arid inattentive house , barely comprising the statutable number Of representatives , and the committee was adjourned to Monday next .

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      Wandsworth. — Omnibus Racing . — James T...

      WANDSWORTH . — Omnibus Racing . — James Turner , badge No . 2 , 669 , driver for Robert Backhaul ofthe omnibus No . 6 , 711 , and James Page , badge No . 9 , ( 589 , driver for Richard Binder ofthe omnibus 6 , 581 , were summoned before Mr . Beadon , at the instance of Inspector Coleman , of the Clapham section ofthe B division of police , for furiously driving in the Wands worth-road to the danger of passengers . The , omnibuses running between Wandsworth arid the city have been generally proverbial for civility and steady driving , but some short time since Mr . Binder and his foreman Backhaul ( who was a man much respected by the

      Wandsworth gentlemen ) parted , and Mr . Dackham was supplied with the means of furnishing an omnibus and horses on his own account , and hence tbe opposition arose that brought about the present proceedings . —Mr . T . Fox Cross , an accountant , living at the Courland , Wandsworth-road , proved that on the evening of that day-week , about half-past seven o ' clock , he had just left his house when he heard a vehicle coming along at a tremendous rate , and presentl y two omnibuses passed him ; they were both " swinging" in a fearful manner , and he was so certain that Dackham * s omnibus would turn over , that , to avoid being crushed , he ran back to his gate . Backhand ' s omnibus went three or four yards further when two of the wheels went on the path and

      two on the road , for about twenty-four yards ( as he had since measured ) when the coachman fell off ; but . whether he fell between the horses or not he was net able to state . The horses being uncontrolled went on a little further at the same furious , pace , when the omnibus turned over had it came in collision with the other , both must have been upset , and several persons killed . There were two other persons on Dackham ' s omnibus besides the driver . He saw another person in the road who had fallen from some part of it . There was plenty of room for Binder ' s omnibus to have passed . Both omnibuses were going at full sixteen miles an hour . At the time Dackham's omnibus got on the curb

      Binder ' s pulled up because of the screaming of the passengers . —Mr . Beaden fined Dackham ' s driver 10 s ., or one month ; and Binder ' s driver was committed for a month , but without hard labour . — On the intercession of Mr , Gilham , Page's sentence , who had driven for twenty years , and bore a high character , was altered to 60 s ,, or two months . —Both fines were paid . WESTMINSTER . — Robbery by a Skrvaxt . — Caroline Cuddeford , late a servant in the establishment , of Mr . C . N . Clarke , Drayton Villa , Brompton , was finally examined charged with plundering her employer under circumstances of an aggravated character . — The accused entered the service in I

      October last ; shortly after which . three sovereigns were missed , at different periods , from two wardrobes . In consequence of some trifling silver money having been purloined from a dress _ belonging to Mrs . Ciark , on Sunday week , the police were sent for , and upon searching the prisoner's boxes some muilin , lace , a pair of white kid gloves , and other miscellaneous property , belonging to Mrs . Clarke , were discovered . The prisoner was then given into custody , and upon a further examination a bottle of brandy and some lace were found concealed in a petticoat near her bed . In the course of searching the prisoner at the police station , she was found in possession of duplicate keys to the wardrobes , and upon an inspection of the property

      they contained , Mrs . Clark discovered that she had been robbed to a considerable extent , and that valuable dress lengths of velvet and satin had been entirely spoilt by pieces having been cut off them . A portion of black satin belonging to one of these was discovered amongst the things in the prisoner ' s box , and she had had the impudence to have a bonnet made up for herself , of a part of the rich velvet cut off . The keys of the wine cellar wore kept in the wardrobes , and upon looking over the stock of brandy , fifteen bottles were missing . — Prisoner owned the bonnet and several of the other articles as her own , declaring that she could prove she had bought them , and accpuated for the possession of the brandy by staling that it had been given to her while the cholera was about , and

      before she had entered Mr . Clarke ' s service . —She was fully committed for trial . BOW-STREET . —Impudent Robbery , —Ann Harding was charged with stealing a pair of blankets , of the value of 12 s . —About seven o ' clock on Tuesday evening a boy ran into the shop of Mr . ? T . Smith , a linen draper , & c of 227 , Tottenhamcourt-road , aud told the shopman that a female had stolen some blankets from the board in front of the shop . One of the shopmen hastened ^ out , and saw tho prisoner just turning out of the road with the blankets upon her arm . She was running , and he had to pursue her for some distance . —The prisoner in her defence , said she saw the blankets lying upon the payment in . the front of the shop , and she picked them up . —Mr . Henry fully committed her for trial . ..

      \ MaRYLEBONE . —Charge of Manslaughter . — George Fox , in the employ of Mr . Rockstane , a fishmonger in . an extensive way of business in Upper Berkeley-street , was placed at the bar on the charge of having caused the death of . George Gillman , a stableman in the ' service of tho Hon . Robert Burke , —Mr . " . Wo ' o ' lf appe ared for the prisoner , —A great deal of evidence was gone into , and it tended to show that on the previous morning , between eleven and twelve o ' clock , a dog belonging to deceased laid hold of tho prisoner ' s trbwsers ; he ( prisoner ) expressed himself with some warmth with respect to what had taken place , and some blows between the parties ensued ; there were three or four rounds of fair stand-up ^ fighting , and in the last round deceased fell with his head upon the pavement . He ,

      however , was able to . walk home , but in three or four hours afterwards he died from the injury he had received . Mr , Woolf cross-examined the witnesses , and called highly respectable parties , to prove that the accused was generally speaking a mild and inoffensive man ' . — Mr . Broughton , alter carefully reviewing the whole , ofthe evidence , came to the . conclusion thati it was his duty to commit tho prisoner for the manslaughteiv and remanded h . m till . Mdnday , hext ^ Bail was proffered and accepted for his being ' forthcoming on the day named . ; Sacrilege . —Three young , urchins , named Ruinboll , Wright , and Bpltoh , ' the eldest of whom was no more than ton years of age ,. we ' re charged with having broken into the church of : St . Stephen the Martyr , Avenue-road , St . John's- ' wood ;< and stolen silver

      and copper money ' from a box whujh ' they had wrenched from the porch . The discovery of an entry having been effected was made by Brand , 199 S , who while on duty saw that a . pane of glass had ' been taken out of one of the windows of tho church , the opening thereby made , being sufficiently large to , admit of the introduciion of « a " _ b 6 y . He ( the officer ) immediately mado a communication to Mr . Nightingale , tho clerk , and on both of them going over the sacred edifice they . found two of tho church doors open ; they also discovered in a closet connected with tho building the box , 'from which the Whole of the ' con tents—supposed to amount to about fifteen , shillings—had hceu taken . The prisoners were ultimately taken into custody by the constable Brand / who felt satisfied that they ; . were the guilty parties ! They had been . charged . ; before under

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      nearly BunilaT . ' c 5 icum \ tan . ceB , and two onb : 6 m > n ; ) Sa convicted . The" juvenile 'delinquents were ' -wZf ^ what they had . to aay ,-and . each : accused th 0 ot r « of being the instigator of the ' robbery . ThaV aS * mittedhaving shared . thei plunder . ' They were ^ ii committed to Nowgateifor trial . ¦ .-. -. ¦ ai 1 MARLBOROUGH-STREET ; - Extraokdivib . Charge . —Mr . Reuben Amiss , tailor , 65 , Condnh street , was " summoned for an assault on Mr j « : " Cunnihgton , " a gentleman of fortune , residino at w 10 , Gloucester-place , Kentish-town . —Mr . Cunnin ton , an elderly gentleman , proved that he called ? the defendant ' s shop to see his nephew , but en u not effect his purpose . He saw a sort of whisiw

      going on between the attendant and another il son . Immediately afterwards the defendant crdf * him to leave the shop , and after seizing him k , $ arm he drew a wet handkerchief over his hobp 3 mouth , and turned him by a forcible push inuf street . The handerohicf smelt as if it kad 9 tained putrid meat . Complainant had ha ^ i " reached Regent-street before he felt an extran $ nary sensation-in his head . He partially l ^ x . senses , and how he got over the road he was unaki to tell . He was put into an omnibus by afrio i and when he reached home his eyes , nose mouth were discharging profusely . Com Diain an felt as if he had been severely salivated . HisC ^ broke out into sores on both sides , and he had k ! ill ever since . —Samuel Sandys , surgeon , of Fran ?* terrace , Kentish-town , satf ; I have atten ded u Cunnington professionally for about «( * years . He sent for me on the 12 th W !?* uat

      , t » « .. „ „ .. « b .., - » A . *™ alight ^„™«„ 4 :- _ * antr he was suffering from slight congestion 0 f tki brain , and febrile action , oppression of breath ; and inflammation of the mucous membrane of Si nose , mouth , and eyes ; also a discharge from thn parts . He was labouring also under coasideS nervous excitement . His nose and mouth \ w £ much swollen . He complained of pain all over him I never in my experience observed symptoms *! aggravated from the effects of cold . Any lmtatin * fluid applied to the nose would produce such symn ? toms . —Mrs . Cunnington proved that her misbaii went out quite well in ; the morning , and returned with the appearances described . For a time h

      * husband did not appear to be in his correct senses Much alarm was produced by the altered appearauca of her husband . —A witness named Chapma * declared he had never , seen the complainant tha worsefor liquor in his life . —The defen dant denied the charge in tuto . . He had no intimation that the complainant intended to call at his shop , and be could not have prepared a handkerchief as described He denied having applied a handkerchief , and h 6 would be able to prove that the charge against him was unfounded . The case was postponed till Wed ^ nesday next for the production of other witnesses

      British College Op Health, New-Road, Lon...

      BRITISH COLLEGE OP HEALTH , New-road , LoNnoN . TO THE FINANCIAL & SOCIAL REFORMERS . THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN . Fellow-Cocntbtmbw , —Prove , as most easily you can , how doctors have for ages cheated the people on the question of their health , and all the reforms that you demand must follow , and that , too , in quick succession . The dishonesty of the medical body cas be most easily established . We are , Fellow-Countrymen , Yours , in the cause of Salutary Reforms , The Members of the British College OF March 20 th , 1850 . Health ,

      Extbnsivb. Fire At Martleiionb.—On Thurs...

      Extbnsivb . Fire at Martleiionb . —On Thursday morning , between one and two , a fire broke out in No . 16 , Crawford-street , St . Marylebone , in tie premises of Mr . John Giblett , a hosier and linendraper . In a very short time the Royal Society ' s escapes , with several engines , attended . The flame $ by that time had extended to the whole of Mr . Gib * lett's stock in the shop and also to the ' . upper rooms . The engines were got ready to work , but by the time water could be got , the adjoining shop , belonging to Mrs . Sarah Hodges , a milliner , became i gnited ^ and before the least impression could be made on the flames , they had fired also the shop aud contents belonging to Mr . G . D . Warren , a toy dealer and fancy stationer . The heat at that time was so intense that the glass in the back windows of No ? .

      75 and 76 , Gloucester-place , occupied severally by Mr . E . Clowes and Mr . J . F . Archbold , were cracking , and the premises were exposed to great dan * ger . The firemen eventually succeeded in extinguishing the fire , but not until the shop and contents of Mr . Giblett were consumed , three rooms on the second-floor burned out , and most part it the roof destroyed . The shop and stock in trade of Mrs . Hodges are also destroyed , and the furniture in two front rooms on first-floor burned . The stock in trade of Mr . Warren is also consumed , the staircase burned away , and great damage done to his furniture in the upper room . The sufferers , with one exception , are uninsured . A new written language , consisting of 100 letter ? , each ^ presenting a syllable , has been discovered in Western Africa , in the Vy nation .

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      Corn. Mark-Lane, March 18.—The Supply Of...

      CORN . Mark-lane , March 18 . —The supply of wheat at market by land carriage samples from the near counties was again rather a short one , and the condition being good , it was readily taken off by the millers at the full prices of Monday last , In foreign a limited amount of business was transacted at former rates . Flour a slow sale , without altera , tion in value . Ihe inquiry for barley was far from lively ; at the same time quotations are not lower . The supplies of oats are now beginning to come forward from abroad ; and , up to the present time , the demand has been sufficient to take off the supply , without its being found necessary to submit to any decline . Beans were Is . cheaper . ffhh « boiling peas were fully as dear .

      Wednesday , Mabct 20 . —The fresh supply of English wheat this morning was very small , Monday ' s prices , therefore , were readily obtained . In foreign there was not much business passing , but the prices were held with censiderahle firmness , in consequence of an improved feeling being : manifest in most of the country markets . Barley continues very dull , from the holders pressing sales of Foreign , ex-ship , to save landing charges . Oats went off rather more freely , from the fresh supply being very mode , rate . In otherarticles there was no variation . Arrivals this week : — "Wheat—English , 770 quarters ; foreign , 1 , 140 quai'tsi's . Barley—English , 2 , 490 quarters j foreign , 2 , 210 quarters . Oats—English , 1 , 460 quarters ; foreign , 3 , 190 quarters . Irish , ' — quarters , Elour-Stt sacks . Richmond ( Yorkshire , ) March 16 . — " We had a tolerably supply of grain this morning . Wheat sold from 4 s 33 ta 5 s Od ; oats , Is 8 d to 2 s Gd ; barley , 3 s Od t » 3 s Cd ; beans , 4 s Od to 4 s Od per bushel .

      BREAD . The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from Gd . to 7 d . ; of household ditto , 41 d . to old . per 4 Ibs . loaf .

      CATTLE . Smi-tupiem ) , Monday , March 18 , —The arrivals ot beasts and sheep from the continent into the port of London , during tho past week , has been to a pretty fair extent , comprising 41 ( 5 oxen , 244 cows , 208 calves , 0 ' 53 sheep , and C pigs , making a total of 1 , 529 head . The trade at Smithfield to-day was very slow for every . thing , at the prices of last week . The supply of meat was rather moderate than otherwise . The supply of Beef com prised 3 , 720 head ; the demand was rather sluggish , hut no reduction was submitted to ; prime beef therefore went at 3 s Gd , and inferior from 2 s fid per stone . Of sheep , tha supply comprised 20 , 000 head , which went off slowly at 4 s 2 d for Downs , and from 3 s 4 d to 3 s lOd for Polled and Half-breds . In veal there was not the least change , either in price or trade ; and pork continues steady at previous raleg .

      J .-EWGATE and LeA » eshai , l , Monday , March 18 . —Inferior beef , 2 s Sd to 2 s lOd ; middling ditto , 3 s Od to 3 s 2 d ; prime ditto , 3 s 4 d to 3 s Gd ; inferior mutton , 2 s 8 d to 2 s lOd ; middling ditto , 3 s Od to 3 s 2 d ; prime ditto , 3 s Od to 3 s 3 d ; veal , 3 s 4 d to 3 s 8 d ; large pork , 2 s Sd to 2 s 10 d ; . ditto small , 3 s lOd to 4 s 0 d ; per Slbs . by the carcase .

      POTATOES . SoormvARK Waterside , Monday , March 18 . - The Stock OU hand at this market is abundant , and trade very dull . Tho following are this day ' s quotations : — Yorkshire Regents 90 s to 100 s per ton ; Lincoln ditto 70 s to 80 s '; Wisbech ditto 70 s to 80 s ; Newcastle ditto 70 s to 80 s ; Scotch ditto 70 s to 80 s ; Essex Ditto 70 s to 80 s ; Scotch Cups 50 s to 60 s ; Comruou Whites 83 s to 90 s J French Ditto 60 s to 70 s ; Belgian 35 s to CDs per ton .

      ¦ , HOPS . Borough , March 20 , —There was a steady trade doing $ >* fine Coloured hops , at fall as much money . COALS . March 20 . —Ships at market , 130 , sold 59 . —Carr ' s Hartley , los Od ; New Tanfield , 13 s 3 d ; Walls Eui Northumberland , 15 s 3 d ; \ Yalls End Brown , 14 s ; West Wylam , 14 s 3 d ; East Adairs Main , 12 s Gd ; Eden Main , 16 s 3 d ; Walls End Lambton , 17 s ; Walls End Hetton , 17 s Gd : Walls End Tees , 17 s 3 d ; Walls End Jonassohns . HsGd ; Walls End Thornley , lGs 3 d ; Walls End Whifr . worth , l * s 3 d ; Walls End Stewart ' s , 17 s 3 d ; Walls . End ¦ Hartlepool , ' 17 s Cd ; Walls End Garadoc , lGs : ( Vails ' End Maclean Tees , I 4 s 9 d ; Cowpen Hartley , 15 s .

      ,. COLONIAL PRODUCE . London , Wednesday , March 20 . — We have uothad so dull and inactlvc . a market as to-day for a long time , and tbe transactions have been ' of trifling importance . Sccab . — . Tho West India private contract market has boeii nefflootod , SO hlids . only sold . Tho puhlio sale consisted of 250 hhds . Cubn , of which 200 sold at their w value , 38 s Od to 40 s duty paid . . Refined steady ; low broiW lumps scarce at 47 s Gd ; fair to fine 4 Ss to 50 s . Coffee . —Holders have shoivn less anxiety to sell to-dav , and the small amount of business done was in good ordinary native Coylon at J 8 s , lvhicli was the closing price ot yesterday . - i There has not been a public sale ; '• Cocoa—The public sale of Guayaquil wohtoffhcavily , a » tho sound bought in at 32 s . damaged sold at 27 s . Hice . —900 bags of middling white Bengal were ofleredhl public sale , and bought in at 10 s . Iswoo . —A public sale of 400 serous of Guatemala went off at a decline of 2 d per lb . Tallow remains dull at 37 s to 37 s 3 d .

      Tea has been firm to-day , with a limited amount of 1 )« 51 ncss done . Hum remains dull of sale . In other articles no material alteration .

      Printed By William Tildelt, Ot'jfo. S, Slacclesficld-Street .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 23, 1850, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_23031850/page/8/