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• MONDAY March * 18 th ; - > HOUSE OF LORDS : —PdBGED Railway Rb . tprxs — Earl Grasvillb , pursuant to notice , moved tba - Mr . C . D . L . Nash be called to the bar . Mr . Nash , having appeared , stated in answer to questions from Earl Grahville , Lord Brougham , L > rd Bsaijmont , 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 of the 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 commhsioners stating that he bad the means of furnishing the information required . He saw an order ofcthe house on the subject , made in May , 1846 , atthe Private Bill-office of which he made a literal c > py . He wrote the words , " Caurtown , chairman , " in the copy which he presented , without for a moment intending to imitate Lord Courtown ' s handwriting- He had no authority to put 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 Gourtown ' s solicitors in legal proceedings " which were pending , and they had admitted it to be co-rect .
Lord Brougham understood that the orig inal document said to have been copied in the Private Billofnee had never since been seen . Mr . Nash sud he had merely copied it . He did not take the original , and no one bad ever applied to him for it . Mr . Nash was then ordered to withdraw . On the motion of Earl Grantime , the examination was directed to be printed , and Mr . Nash was ordered to attend at the bar again on Friday . AVPELLAXB JURISDICTION OF THE HoUSE , AND of the Judicial Committee . —Lord Brougham 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 tliese duties . He praised the education now given at tha East India College at Eaileybnry , and impressed upon the government the importance of selecting highly 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 retiring pensions , prevented the best lawyers from accepting these appointments . He concluded by moving a series of resolutions in accordance with Ms speech . The resolutions were laid upon the table and ordered to be printed . ¦ ...
Sunday Labour in thb Post Office . —A short conversation took place in answer to a question from the Earl ! of MiiMESBURy , in reply to which the Marquis of Claxricarde deprecated the proposed non-transmission of the mails on Sunday , and stated that he was about to place returns upon the table which would show how much diminution had taken place in the amount of Post-office Inbouron Sundays inconsequence of the recent alterations . After disposing of some other business , their lordships adjourned . iJOUSE OF COMMONS . —The Gorham Case . —Spur . is the Church . —Mr . Hume , desired to ki , «> iv what notice the government intended to take of the protest of the Rev . G . A . Desison , impugning the judgment of Her Majesty in Council in the case of * " Gorham . « . the Bishop of Exeteb , " and denyin" the supremacy of the Crown as head of the Established Church .
Lord J . Rcsseli , in reply , observed that he thought the rev . gentleman was mistaken ; that th « 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 hnd given great satisfaction . With respect to the intentions of ti-e government , he said , he though it mig 7 it appear hereafter necessary to adopt some measure , he should be most reluctant to take any step against men entertaining conscientious opinions up > m this question , and which migbt tend to disturb still further the harmony of the Church .
JIcsgAbiax Rep-joees . —Mr . OsBORSfl asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , whether the government of this country , or our Ambassador at Constantinople , were parties , by advice or . otherwise , to the conduct of the Turkish government in condemning Eossuth and the other Hungarian refugees in Turkey to banishment and confinement in tlie 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 bad made any remonstrance to the Porte on the subject ?
Lord PiisiEHSTos , in answer to the question of the hon . gentleman , whether Her Majesty ' s government haifbjtena party to the transportation of the Hungarian refugees , said , that Her Majesty's goveruaient ha 3 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 bj 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 hare 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 ihe engagements and communications entered into by the Porte with the government of Austria ; but , taking a' broad view of the matter , it would have ieesied that if the Porte had felt itself at liberty to act fully and freely , that engagement which the Porte was 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 whem the Austrian government looked with anxiety and jealousy ; but the Porte was the only judge of what its engagements compelled it to do / : ind the advice which Her Majesty ' s government had given was that which he had stated in the beginning of his reply .
The Consolidated Fund ( £ 8 , 000 , 000 ) Bill was then real a third time . On the order of the day for the house resolving into committee on tbe Stamp Duties , The Chascellor of the Exchequer moved the formal resolution on which to found a bill for carrying into effect the modification of the stamp duties on certain le «* al instruments referred to in his financial sratement on Friday . He observed that a genera ? revision of the stamp duties had been under the consideration of different governments for many years past , bnt 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 . is 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 might be , that of an ad valorem duty . Sir G . 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 , and , after a few de--sultory remarks from some members , the resolution was agreed to , and reported .
Beaixage aud , Laxj » Improvement . —The house then went into Committee on Drainage ; when The Chaxcellor of the Exchequer moved a similar resolution , authorising the Lords of the Treasury to advance £ 3 , 000 , 000 for drainage and the improvement of landed property in Great Britain and Ireland . Aft « r a short discussion upon incidental topics , chiefly amongst Irish members , the resolution was agrwd to , and reported . Fhaschise in Ihelasd . —The house then went into committee again -upon the Parliamentary Voters , &c . ( Ireland ) Bill . Some p * rogres 3 was made through the clauses , when I Mr . Faoas moved a proviso designed to save from possible disfrancMsement by the new bill certain voters who held their qualification under the existing acts .
After . a prolonged discussion , the committee divided—For Mr . Fagan ' s amendment ... 38 Against 80 Majority ^ A second division took place on the loth clause , on an amendment moved by Sir R . Febgusox . ¦ which was negatived by a majority of 103—145 against 42 . Clauses 1 C to 19 being struck out , Clause * 20 , Mr . French moved an amendment to preveut changes of residence operating by way of disqualification . . . A long discussion was closed by a division , in wlil-h the amendment was lost by 144 votes against 57 . ; "
_ . . „ Clauses up to 37 being pa : sed , after a variety of amendments had formed , the subject of a long and minute discussion , the further progress of the committee was postponed until Thursday , the 11 th of April . ^ The house resumed ( at a quarter past twelve o ' clock ) ,, when the Mutiny Bill , the Marine Mutiny Bill , -uid _ the Fees Bill ( Court of Common Pleas ) , were rea ' d a second time . The School Districts Contributions Bill was passed through committee . The Ciukceujor of the Exchequer obtained leave to bring in a bill to repeal the duty on bricks . The remaining business in the papers being summarily disposed of , the house rose at one o ' clock .
¦ : TUESDAY , Mahch 19 . HOUSE OF iOBDS . -ExHiBinoN op tub Insusiet of . aix . Uahos 8 is 1851 . —Lord Bbouoham
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wished to ; call attention to a subject of which he ka given notice , namely , to ask a question upon-which ne could found a motion for a copy of the commission for the management of the Exhibition of ^ Industry of all . Rations , in . 1851 . This was-a , mere matter of course—no objection could be made tb such a motion , and of ceurse 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 , or , to Bay anything against this great exhibition , which it was said was to be an exhibition of all nations , txe hoped it would be so , but that the manufacturers and agriculturists of England would keep tneir proper proportion . He knew that there woulo . De •* fr ™» + 4 Wir ; n . r fv-nm ot . hftr nations : and wnetner
it would be held in Hyde Park-whieh he hoped it would not be-or in the Regent ' s Park , . 01 ^™' he should prefer seeing It—in ^ Victoria JJ * » « the east end of the town , he could not but bear his testimony to the disinterested patriotism . oftto mun&ctnJogaDd trading classes who haVOOme forward with the purest patriotism , and the greatest love to their customers , to support an exhibition which must inevitably reduce the prices of all We goods 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 of self-interest shown by the agriculturists . He ohjected to placing such a " tubercle " on one of the lungs of London . The west end would be deserted by the fashionable part of society . The Earl of Carlisle could not give any information respecting Ihe proceedings of the commission , as he did not belong to it ; and all he could state was that a communication had been made from the commissioners , requesting that 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 enough for so great a purpose . Unon receiving : this communication from tbe
commissioners , and knowing that it bad 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 , fora 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 Iung 3 in the west end than of those which existed in another part of the metropolis . ( Hear , hear . ) The open area of Hyde Park contained 270 acrea , 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 . made , with good grace , to the public . ( Hear , hear . ) Lord Bkouoham . —What-is the extent of the Victoria Park ?
The Earl of Carlisle . —About 190 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 , lie wished to know whether the building was to be merely temporary or not ? The Earl of Carlisle understood that it was to bo 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 Waldeorave called the attention of her Majesty ' s Ministers to the case of the journeymen tailors in the metropolis , as regarded the contracts for the supply of clothing to the Custom-house , Ordnance , police , and navy of the country ; but , although hia lordship spoke for more than half an hour , scarcely one whole sentence of his speech was audible in the 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 that such scenes of distress might be witnessed among this class of persons a » { heir lordships could scarcely conceive or , 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 Mountcashkix 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 cause 3 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 Lansdowxe regretted the distress which existed among tbe class of operatives to whose case the noble earl had called tne attention of the house . But , as the noble earl hnd 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 tailora were not as deserving the attention of Parliament and of the 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 might exist in
this particular trade . The noble lord said it was in tbe power of the Government , by putting an end to the present system of contracts , to ameliorate the condition of the journeymen tailors . But the whole plan 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 ot work , and eventually to . 1 system of imposition so enormous . that the expenditure of the 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 .
HOUSE OP COMMONS . —The African Blockadisg Squadbon . —Mr . Hutt moved an address to the Crown to direct that negotiations be forthwith entered into for the purpose of releasingthis 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 thfe 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 the 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 1822 , which declared that the slave trade was carried on to a greater extent than during any former period , and that it would have been far more consolatory to humanity , 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 swam vessels , and by adding powers to
search suspected vessels : in 9 hort , no measures of coercion were neglected . The result had been acknowledged in a letter from Lovd John Russell , then Colonial Secretary , in 1839 , to the Lords of the 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 1840 there had been a diminution of the trade , bnt the causes were independent of tbe efforts of our squadron . That period was one of great mercantile depression , which affected the slave trade as well aa legitimate commerce , and at that time Cuba , and Brazil were honestly engaged in an attempt to prevent the importation of slaves ; but in 1843 com <
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358 W * fleeti reyifedall the horroies ; of the fflS ¦ intl 842 iKeeip' 6 rts dt slaves had gunk 7600 n ^ W M-totem- ' . The trade had since JSiSed to * ucK ' a degree ^ ha | in' 1848 : thejiumber of slaves'impbrted into Brazil oxceeded the demandby 8 , 000 , stimulated as that demand had been by the legislation of the British . parliament admittig Brazilian sugar to ( the markets of this country . Under these circumstance ' s , slaves ^ being' cheaper in Brazil than when * the trade was unrestricted , - ' of what value was our squadron on the coast of Africa ? We had undertaken a task to which any amount of
foroo was unequal—to suppress a contraband trade which yielded higher gains than any other trade in the worjd . AH experience demonstrated that no lucrative trade of this kind was ever suppressed by coercion . Sir Josiah Child , 200 years ago , said , " ho who would give a large price for any 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 ac home ; and the attempt was yot more Quixotical upon the vast and distant coast of Africa . The endeavour had already cost us twenty-five millions ,
was maintained at a cost of £ 700 , 000 or £ 800 , 000 per annum , and had monopolised the 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 equally violent , inadequate , ftnd involving a perpetual risk of war with other nations , who di ( 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 1 o take them in again with the old exploded atory , —
'" Tisalla ; 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—( hear , hear)—and he appealed to the members of that house , as guardians of the interests and prosperity of the country , as protectors of its hononr and fame , as humano and Christian men , to pass condemnation on a cruel aiid delusive system , whose final doom was not distant , by supporting tbe motion . Mr . Baillib seconded the motion , on the ground that this country was really deriving , in the shape
of cheap sugar from the Brazils , a profit from the slave trade , and that by maintaining the squadron on the coast of Africa we cast a screen of respecta bility 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 , 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 had not proved so unavailing as had been alleged . The expense of the 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 . Labouchbre 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 only the 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 priaciple ; 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 01 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 tbe course we had been pursuing . The enhanced price of slaves in Cuba ( where a negro who cost £ 20 in Africa , and leBS than £ 7 in trausport , was worth £ 100 ) proved how largely wo 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 of the Danish forta
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 not to withdraw from the work we had undertaken . Mr . Labouchere proceeded to remai k 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 ngainst smuggling , and the efforts made in the cause of humanity to suppress the traffic in human beings .
Mr . GRANTtET Berkeley 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 only moral and consistent plan for reducing the slave trade was to prohibit the introduction of slave produce into this country . Captain Pechell 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 Anstey argued that the maintenance of our blockading squadron involved a recurring violation of " national and municipal laws . "
Sir JR . Ikglis reduced the . annual expenditure of the blockading squadron to £ 300 , 000 , half of which 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 . Vans supported the motion , not on 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 . Caudwbll agreed that this was a question whether wo 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 and its expense ho undertook to refute from the evidence . He acknowledged that by a marine guard alone it was impossible to command along , line of coast ; but th . ero-. 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 showed on how large an extent of the coast of Africa the slave trade had ceased ; that the price of slaves hnd risen to Cuba through the interruption of the trade of our cruisers ; that the number of slaves imported into the Brazils was not regulated by the demand ,
but by tho facilities of escaping our squadron . The question resolved itself into this : make tho slave trade easy , and it will be easier for black , or Spanish , or Portuguese savages , to obtain better returns in human flesh than iu palm oil . Finding such strong evidence of the progress of civilization and of legitimate commerce in Africa , he could not , as an honest man , take upon himself to paralyso tbe hands of those who had been instrumental in accomplishing these changes , by consenting to withdraw our squadron , and leave the coasts of Africa to the horrors of priacy as well as the slave trade . Captain Peluam spoke in opposition to the motion amidst frequent manifestations of impatience . Mr . Gudstovk , declaring his intention to vote in
favour of the motion , observed , that it contemplated only the single treaty with France , which placed tins country m a position so anomalous and preposterous as justified a motion to put an end to it . He 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 : it had boon condemned by Lord J . Russell and by the most responsible and credible witnesses . "Was this to be made a permanent system ? or would the house look the subject fiiir ' y in the face , and come to some decisive resolution ? The opinion of Sir C . Hotham—who did not counsel the removal of the squadron conditionally , hut absolutely - said that , if 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 the squadron extin guished the trade ? No . Had it made a progress towardits extinction ? That
s was the real issue ; and Mr . Gladstone read statements of the prices of slaves , and of the percentage of captures in successive years , contending that the figures showed that there had been no progress , but rather a retrogression . Although the burden cast ' upon the people okJISIa" ! by thls cIiar S e was not limited to £ 700 , 000 , that was not his main motive ; he wanted to grapple with the question on the ground of humanity and philanthropy , and ho had oome to the conclusion , from evidence of which he gave the detnils , that t | je present system of repression did not diminish , but , on the contrary , hail a tendency to increase , the sum of human wretchedness . The he might be asked , what " other course he would suggest ? It was an indispensable condition that there should be a general belief amongst other nations of our sincerity ; but , having passed the Sugar Duties Aot , he defied the Government to re-establish our reputation for sincerity . We must repeal that act , double our squadron .
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bm m ^^^^^^ h ^ y } ' ^ i 0 ^ withV 6 wer to punish foreign crews ; and lastly , wfi S ^ orce 8 pain arid ; Brazil ^ fulfil tHeir ^ reaties . ' Without these ' co ' nditibns-i-and ; they were almost hopeless—the success of our squadron in Africa ' ' would be visionary / ' ; ' y , ;; ' ;; ' ,: ' , ' .,, ' ! ' Lord iJ . Eossbli . said , tho house was 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 ho longer meant to take measures against the slave trade , or to ; offer a substitute , thereby spreading diRcouragement throughout' the world , in which were people admiring and imitati ng our example . Tho renunciation of our treaty
with France would enable ' slavers to hoist the French flag , and the effect of the speeches of the mover and seconder was , " Jet us have a free trade in slaves . " Lord John questioned the correctn ess of Mr . Gladstone ' s facts ; in the comparison he bad made between the' existing slave trade and that under Sir William Dolben ' s Act , ho had forgotten that the latter was a regulated trade . Sii Charles Hotham and Captain Matson stated that the sufferings of the slaves in the middle passage would bo 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 nrotection it was that now springing up removal
in the place of tho slave trade . The restrictions from that trade would destroy the hope of civilising Africa , whilst ic would so immensely increase the importation of slaves into Brazil that our West India islands would be unable to stand the competition ; In reply to the question ; wfcat should be ' 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 hopelesa , and tnab nothing could 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 faintheartedness could induce those to
aay 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 the dispensation of those mercies . ( Hear , hear . ) lie 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 statesmenandthe hands of her bestand bravest sailors—if they were to Bay 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 wore no longer fitted to take tne lead in the championship against the curse and crime of slavery , he though ti : they could no longer venture to expect a continuance of those blessings which this country had so long enjoyed . ( Great applauso . ) Lord B . Grosvenor 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 the 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 of the world upon principles-which , in hia understanding , were and had been condemned by the moral governor of the universe on every page ef his work . ( Hear , hear . ) Mi ' . Hutt 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 Bim ,. —This bill was read a second
time . * The other orders of the day were then disposed of and the house adjourned at half-past two . - - THURSDAY March , 21 st . HOUSE OF COMMONS .-The Small Tknh-MENT 8 Rating Bill went through committee , some hours being devoted to the revision or addition of clauses . . : . On the motion for the committal of tho Larcbkt Summary Jurisdiction Bill . : Mr . Law moved a resolution for limiting the provisions of tho 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 oharges out of the jurisdiction of juries , The house then
divided—For the amendment ... ... 124 Against ... ... ... 54 Majority ... . ... —70 The house adjourned at sixo ' clock . ( From our Seeond Edition of last weeh . J THUltSDAY , March 14 . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Factory BiLL .-Lovd Ashley moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the late act . Mr . Edwakds seconded the motion . Sir G . Grey admitted the injury that would result from leaving the law uncertain , and was willing to give it full force . But he drew a distinction between tho system of shifts and that of relays . To the first , by which the same operatives were made to work for tho allotted ten hours , distributed
arbitrarily throughout a long day of , perhaps , eighteen hours , he strongly objected . The relay system , however , whore fresh sets of young or female operatives were provided to keep the machinery going when the time of their predecessors had expired , offered much lighter evils . It was not quite clear that the intention of the passers of the bill had been to prohibit this sjstem of relays . The hon . barf , was not ashamed to confess that his mind was not yet made up as to the scope which ought prudently to be assigned to the measure , and would offer no opposition to the introduction of an act to define and amend it , if he were left unfettered with regard to tho specific mode of carrying out that object . MrBankes supported the bill .
, Mr . Milnbr Gibson said that the Ten nours Bill had been vaguely drawn , and dealt very carelessly with great and important interests . The provisions which had boon uncertain , but harmlessly ' so , in the old twelve hours bill , became injurious when transplanted into the new measure restricting labour to ten hours . Many of the ameliorations in the moral anil physical condition of the operatives which Lord Ashley had attributed to this act , were in reality the result of free trade . Mr . F . O'Connor said , that if the right hon . gentleman who had just spoken did not represent the manufacturers of ¦ Manchester , he should be at a loss to reconcile his conduct with respect to the measure under consideration with tho motion of
which ho had given notice , with regard to the instruction of the working classes . There were few gentlemen who traversed more through the manufacturing districts than he had , and ho could assure the house that he was perfectly astonished at the misery that ho found to exist there . He ( Mr . O'Connor ) did not think that the right hon . gentleman ( Mr . M . Gibson ) appeared to pay much attention to the noble lord ( Lord Ashley . ) The right lion , member had charged the noble lord wich making a lax speech , but the right hon . member must have discovered that ho himself was standing on a weak crutch in that respect , after the very limping and incoherent speech he had made . All that he Ylr . O'Connor ) asked was , that the house . should tho act in
> ut its own construction on question , and so promote the amelioration of the people . When they talked oftiftfe ignorance of the working classes , that must surely bo aware tli . it it was caused by the tyranny of the manufacturers . He denied that it was intended by this bill to limit adult labour to ten hours a day . There was nothing ot the kind- in the noble lord ' s bill , but he ( Mr . O'Connor ) contended that it was only right and just that this should be done . The manufacturers iad taunted the landed nvoprietors . with harshness and indifference towards the agricultural labourers , but they were never called upon to work more than eleven hours a day , but in the manufacturing districts the workmen were often engaged sixteen hours a day , and they at other times were employed only three days in the week ; and had to pay the same rent for ' their holdings as if they had six days
work . A labourer ' in the manufacturing districts W'ls worn out as much at tho age of 28 as an agriijultunil labourer was in Dorsetshire at fifty-three . The . condition of the factory operative as compared with that of the agricultural labourer bore the aame comparison that the race-horse did to the agricultural horse—the one was as ' old and as exhausted at five , and older than the other was at twenty . ( Hoar , h » . ir . ) Attheage of five theone had run his sweating raco like the poor operative , and the master of eich lived upon the sinewy and marrow , and blood of each , ( lfcar , hoar . ) He would give them a graphic illustration of the comparison which a ohild arew between agricultural or natural , and artificial or unnatural labour . Ho ( Mr . O'Connor ) had taken the nuble lord the member for Dumfrieshii-e , to visit one of the hovels of his-scouted Land Plan ; the father showod him a littlo boy , not fourteen years of age , whom he , called the littlo Uwmor . Ho told
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[ ttfeil ! p ) Wti ^ abbagW xhHvMngK&is wair Wr ^ elightytna ' th ^ thought ; the day . too short for his cheerful' work . H eJMr . jO ' Conriof ) aske'd th ' e father Vh ' at ; the boy would havo'been , 'had ; he ' not been lbcated upon the land ; the father replied ; afabtpry ' operative" ;* then , said Mr . | O ; Connor ; toll me'this , suppose , little Will broke some crockerj , ' and that the punishment inflicted upon thenfwas that he should not work at the land for a week ? " Thefather replied , " 'That he would not look , at a bit of ' croofery again , for fear of being so punished . " ( GMgem&nd laughter . ) " Well , but , " said he ( Mr . ^^ jlwor ) " snppose Will was a factory , operatiwptnat he broke the teapot , and that in consequence , you told him that he should not work in the mill for a week . "; "Oh , "
replied the father , "he would Bmash all the crockery in tho house . " ( Great cheering and laughter . ) He ( Mr . O'Connor ) was rejoiced to find that the ; noble lord ' whp proposed this measure had discovered the value of small allotments and that tho people instead of spending their unemployed hours in idleness and dissipation , applied themselves to the cultivation of those allotments , and turned barren soil into fertile land . ( Hear . ) The Secretary for the nome Department talkel about antagonism , but the antagonism which he really feared was that of tho hon . gentlemen who were seated behind him , and who lived on the labour of unprotected infants . Thev disabled people from doing domestic work , and , after that ,
they charged " them with idleness and ignorance ( Hear , hear . ) The fact was that machinery increased on them so fast in this country that the government were afraid to deal with it . And it must be recollected also , that at that early period , he had not had time to make sufficient to maintain himself during the premature old age which his unnatural 8 ty le of living had broughton . ^ There were some charitable persons -who were inclined to comply with this act because it was a mere matter of justice , but those persons would be driven to break it through competition . If tie manufacturers had a spark of humanity , they would not allow the persons labouring for them to remain in their present condition . Was
it not the common case now , that a mother , on hearing the factory bell , was obliged to take her child from her breast and throw it to a stranger to take care of , while-she rushed off to her labour in the factory to get a bit of bread ? He would ask the house to consider what could be the state of a community in which the mother was obliged to throw her child away from her breast as soon as she heard the factory bell ring ! By the system which was at present adopted , tlie father wa 3 made dependent on the child , which created nothing but disobedience , and everything that was repulsive in n . family . Look at the manfacturing districts , and see a little boy of 14 years of age—a miserable , dwarfed , deformed creature . Let them see this ,
and comparo these" children with the healthy , stalwart little fellows in the agricultural districtsand he asked whether they must not admit that the factory system of this country was an abomination , and reflected dishonour and disgrace upon the legislation of this country ? The representatives of " the manufacturing districts knew that the government were dependent on them when they were in a fix , so that their power was very great in that house ; but still , when they went down to the manufacturing' districts , what apologies would they make to the great bulk of the inhabitants for tho votes they would give on this subject . He was sure ho one would be against the measure of the noble lord who would not be
branded hereafter as an enemy to his fellow-creatures . The honourable gentleman , the member for Manchester , should , when he went down to his constituents , apologise for the vote which ho was about to give on the bill . He defied any ; man to come to a conclusion to vote against the proposition of the noble lord , without being looked upon as an enemy to the circulation of knowledge and the country in general . The ri ^ hl hon . gentleman who had just sat down had made some remarks upon the observations of the noble lord . How different were the two speeches ! ( Hear , hear . ) The noble lord spoke with feeling ; he spoke logically , and truly ; but the right hon . gentleman had spoken unfeelingly and uncandidly ; the right hon . gentleman had spoken
for a small class , but the noble lord had spoken for the country at large . ( Hear . ) There was a man who had done more than any other person in this country for the operative classes , and who the noble lord the Prime Minister had had the audacity and impertinence - ( cries of " Chair , " and " Order ! " )—he repeated it , for it was no more audacious for him ( Mr . O'Connor ) to do so than for the noble lord to have charged the-philanthropist to whom he alluded—Mr . Richard Onstler— with all but treason and rebellion , ion account of his unexampled efforts on behalf of
the labouring classes . If there were to be any investigation of this matter , that gentleman could give the house a true and fair account of the factory children . If he were asked to place his hand upon the men who lived exclusively upon the sinews marrow , bones , and bleod of women and children , if hecouldgroupthemallinone lump , he would put his hand upon the master manufacturers of this country . The hon . member concluded by stating , that he need scarcely have offered any observation on the subject after the powerful speech which had been made by the noble lord the member for Bath .
Mr . Bright contended that the use of enactments of the class before the house depended upon- the concurrence of tlie employers . Tho restriction to ten hours was an extreme measure , and had given rise to much ill feeling and estrangement . A moderate limit , which should be received in a friendly spirit by all parties , would prove more really beneficial to the classes for whose sake it was enacted . He urged on the house to free itself from the prejudice against employers which had prevailed in the legislature that passed the bill in 1847 . Mr . Aolionby , Lord J . Manners , Mr . W . J . Fox , Lord R" . Grosvenob , and Colonel Thompson , supported tho bill .
Sir James Graham would state , as a matter of honour , and though unfavourable to restrictions upon labour and capital , he certainly meant the Ten Hours Act ( of which he had been a reluctant framer ) to forbid the shift and relay system ; and it was through an oversight if that aot did not effectually do so . At the same time he thought the working classes would one day discover that the restriction did not operate for their interest . Leave was then given to bring in the bill . After some other business being disposed of the house adjourned . ( From our Third Edition of last ivtek . ) FRIDAY , March 15 .
HOUSE OF COMMONS . —The Budget . —The Chancellor of the Exchequer made his financial statement . In the estimate he hud laid before Parliament List summer he had assumed the income for tho year to be £ 52 , 262 , 000 . Up to January last it amounted to £ 52 , 874 , 000 . The expenditure up to January hail been £ 50 , 853 , 622 , considerabl y below his estimate , and the amount for tlie financial year would be still less , namely £ 50 , 533 , 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 be £ 52 , 285 , 000 . The amount of the expenditure would bo £ 50 , 613 , 582 , to which lie proposed to add , on
account oi' a further vote for the new Houses of Parliament and for the Arctic Expedition about £ 150 , 000 ; which would leave a . surplus of , in round numbers , £ 1 , 500 , 000 . Sir Charles Wood then reminded the house of what had been the scrope of our policy for the last twenty years , the principle of which , as expounded by Mr . Huskisson , was to relieve the weight of taxation which pressed upon the poorer classes ; and in pursuance of that policy taxes to the amount of £ 8 , 650 , 000 on articles of consumption had been repealed , tho result of which had been most beneficial . After some observations upon the condition and prospects of the landed interest , Sir Charles proceeded to declare hia intentions with regard to the
surplus of £ 1 , 500 , 000 . Tho first object , he said , should be to reduce' our debt . During the last 20 years we had borrowed no less than £ 35 , 000 , 000 . whereas the surplus income applied to the reduction 0 ' tho 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 ami 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 , 00 ft , halt ' 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 t le oithy of capital upon land-namely , to make further advances for drainage and . land improve * inents , the benefits ot which had been sensibly felt . He proposed to advance for these purposes
£ 2 , 000 , 000 for England & Scetlaad , and £ l , 00 ^ 00 u f Ji * Ireland , £ 80 ft , 000 of this latter sum to be appropriated to artevial drainage * These advances could be made , in the present state of the Exchequer , Without any addition to the public debt 4 and the repayments would be available for the reduction of the national debt . ^ IIe proposed to apply £ 250 , 000 immediately to the extinction of a part of that dtbt ¦ oy- discharging the Equivalent fund in Scotland , and lie hoped the house would suffer him to retain the surplus of £ 500 , 000 remaining , Sir Charles then moved » vote of £ 9 , 200 , 000 towwda supply , to He raised by Exoheo . uerb . ms , ' - '" 1 ; ¦ ^
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: "AV the ' conclusion ofthe Budgett > ddre 8 Sthe ' Bre » f majority of the members quitted- ^ heir seats and the debate languished on for'so ' me hours ! in athia and' inattentive' -house , y . barely .,.- ; comprising tha statutable number of representatives ,- nni tha committee was . adjourned to Monday next .
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TREMENDOUS CONFLAGRATION MiU TH * LOP ' ON DOCKS . aE One of the most fearful conflagrations that haa visited the eastern portion of the metropolis fn » some years broke out on Wednesday morning aboufhalf-past two o ' clock , in one of the largest sucar rp fineries in London—viz ,, the property of Messrs Wackerbarths and Co ., situate in St . George ' s * street , Iiatoliffe-highway . The premises were 5 enormous extent , and originally comprised' thrw distinct sugar-houses . They were nine stories fr > height , and . were surrounded by boiler-houses fu naces , cooperage , offices , and other building ' s Z ' quired in the refining and manufacture of SU"ar Shortly after two o ' clock some of the wortpeon ] rceiveu in ine iurtner
pe a ugnt extremity of tV factory . An alarm was instantly raised , and on tW part of the premises in which the glare had bi > seen being opened , a strong body of flames w « found raging within . Every effort was made at thl moment to stifle them ; but in consequence of th inflammable nature of the stock , they rauidW „ tended to other parts of the floor . The brigade en gines from the neighbouring station in Welkins ?" square was quickly brought to the spot and got mtn operation , and also those of the adjacent doeh Their exertions , however , were but of little servin « in controlling the fury of the destructive element floor , after floor became one vivid mass of fire and the whole metropolis was illuminated b y the ' hupn sheeta of flame which rose high into the avv from t ?» ine in tho
blazing pile . Nearly every eng metrop olis was brought into service , in endeavouring to sud . press the ravages of the destructive element , and to preserve the two adjoining sugar-house ? , w hich be longed to the firm , which , like the former towered above all the other buildings in the nei ghbourho od Before five o'clock this second house had shared the fate of the former one , and there being- a third refining house attached to the premises , ap ]) rphpn
took possession of the floors of the remaining build , ing , and in a masterly manner kept the flames at bay . They brought the hose to bear on every part of the building , which was filled with machinery and a large stock , and after the most , incessant exertions it was preserved . The Catholic chapel in Virginia , street has not escaped . During the day the firm endeavoured to ascertain the origin of the disaster , but nothing accurate could be learned . One thing is known , however , that it broke out in that part of the place considered most free from fire , no portion of the boilers , machinery , or flues beins near it . The loss is roughly calculated at £ 00 , 000 . The property is , however , insured in the Sun , Imperial , Phoenix , Koyal Exchange , Scottish Union , and Liverpool Fire-offices .
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^ BllITISH COLLEGE OP HEALTH , New-road , London . TO THE FINANCIAL & SOCIAL REFORMERS THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN . Feixow-Couxtrymr . v , —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 , aitd that , too , in quick succession . The dishonesty of the medical body can bo most easily established . We are , Fellow-Countrytnen , Yours , in the cause of Salutary Reforms , The Members of the British College OB March 20 th , 1850 . Health .
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PADinAM . —On Monday evening , March 10 th , a public meeting was held in the Assembly Room , Padiham , for the purpose of adopting resolutions in favour of a real Ten Hours Bill . The meeting waa crowdod to suffocation ; the Rev . S . J . O . Adimson , incumbent of Padiham , in the chair . The Rev . E , Verity , S . D . C ., incumbent of All Saints Church ; The Rev . J . Best , Curate of Padiham ; the Rev . J Wood , Baptist minister , Padiham ; C . Whittaker , Esq . Mr . H . Dean , an operative and minister of the Unitarian Chapel , addressed the meeting . Thft resolutions were carried unanimously . Secession from the Church . —The Rev , A , I , Hanmer , a Puseyite clergyman , informs "the inhabitants of the parish of Tiverton , " that , " in conseo , uer > ce of a change which has gradually established itself in his opinions , his ministerial connexion with them is now ceasing . " Whether his new opinions be well founded or mistaken , hia conviction of their truth is strong ; and he is consequently bound , he says , to act accordingly .
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CORN . Makk-lane , Mabch 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 offby 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 alteration 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 taice off the supply , without its being found necessary to submit to any decline . Beans were Is . cheaper . White boiling peas were fully as dear .
Wednesday , Marcii 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 con . siderable firmness , in consequence of an improved feeling being manifest in most of the country markets , Biirley . continues very dull , from the holders pressing sales of Foreign , ex-sliip , to save landing charges . Oats went off rather more freely , from the fresh supply being very moderate . In other articles there was no variation . Arrivals this week : — Wheat—English , 770 quarters ; foreign , 1 , 140 quarters . Barley—English , 2 , 490 quarters ; foreign , 2 , 210 quarters . Oats—English , 1 , 460 quarters ; foreign , 3 , 190 quarters . Irish , — quarters . Flour—S 4 . Q sacks . Richmond ( Yorksiiibe , ) March 16 . —We had a tolerably supply of grain this morning . Wheat sold from is 3 d to 5 s Od ; oats , Is 8 d to 2 s 6 d ; barley , 3 s Od to 3 s fid ; beans , is Od to 4 s Od per bushel . BREAD . The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are fixm fid . to 7 d . ; of household ditto , Hi . to 5 } d . per 41 bs . loaf .
CATTLE . Smitiipield ; Monday , March 18 , —The arrivals of boasts and sheep from the continent into the port of London , during the past week , has been to a pretty fair extent , comprising 41 G oxen , 244 cows , 208 calves , 055 sheep , and G pies , making a total of 1 , 529 head . The trade at Stnithfield to-day was very slow for everything , at the prices of last week . The supply of meat was rather moderate than otherwise . The supply of Beef comprised 3 , 720 head ; the demand was rather sluggish , but no reduction was submitted to ; prime beef therefore went at 3 s 6 d , anu infevior from 2 s 6 d per stone . Of sheep , Ihe 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 rates , JiEmuTB and rjEADExiuu ., Monday , March 18 . —Inferior beef , 2 s 8 d to 2 s lOd ; middling ditto , 3 s Od to 3 s 2 ( 1 ; prime ditto , 3 s 4 d to 3 s Gd ; inferior mutton , 2 s Sd to 2 s lOd ; middling ditto , 3 s Od to 3 s 2 d ; prime ditto , 3 s 6 d to 3 s S < 1 ; real , 3 s 4 d to 3 s « d ; large pork , 2 s 8 d to 2 s lOd ; ditto small , 3 s lOd to 4 s Od ; per Slbs . by the carcase .
POTATOES . Sodthwabk Waterside , Monday , March 18 . — The stock on hand at this market is abundant , and trade very dull . The following are this day's quotations : — Yorkshire Regents 90 s to 100 a 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 SUs to 60 s ; Commou Whites 85 s to 90 s ; French Ditto 60 s to 70 s ; Belgian 35 s to COspertoa . '
HOPS . Borough , March 20 , —There was x steady trade doing for fine coloured hops , at full ns much money . COALS . ' Maiich 2 n . _ Ships at market , 130 , sold 59 Carr '« Hartley , I 5 s Od ; New Tunfield . 13 s 3 d ; Walls End . Northumberland , 15 s 3 d ; Walls End Brown . 14 s ; West Wylum , 14 s 3 d ; East Adairs Main , 12 s Gd ; Eden Main , lfis 3 d ; Walls Bud Lambton , 17 s : Wulls End Hetton , 17 s 6 d ; Walls End Tees , 17 s 31 ; Walls End Jonassotos . 14 s 6 ' d ; WalU End Tliovnley , I 6 s 3 d ; Walls End Whitworth , 14 s 3 d ; Walls End Stewart ' s , 17 s 3 d ; Walls End Hmtlepool , 17 s « d ; Walls End Caradoc , lfis : flails End Maclean Tecs , Us 9 d ; Cowpen Hartley , 15 s .
COLONIAL PRODUCE . Losdon , Wednesday , March 20 We hare apt had so dull and inactive a market as towflay for a long time , and the transactions have been oftriflim ; importance . Sugar . —The West India private contract market has been neglected , 30 hhds . only sold . The pnblic sale consisted of 250 hhds . Cuba , of which 200 sold at their fuU value , 38 s lid to 40 s duty paid . EefineiUieady ; low brown lumps scarce at 47 sGil ' ; fair to finu 48 sto 50 s . Coffee . —Holders , have shown less anxiety to sell to-day , and the small amount of business done was in good oiidinary native Cejloa at 4 Ss , which was the closing priee of yesterdav . There has not been a public sale . Cocoa . — The » ublift sale of Guaxaittuil went off hwnaiy , all th « sound bought in af 32 s , damaged sold at 27 s . Mice . —900 bags of middling white Bengal were offered io public sale , sud bought in at 105 , Injjigo . —r& public sale of 4 QO serous of Guatemala went off ut a decline of 2 d per ftx Tallow remains dull at 3 Ts to 37 s 3 d . ' Tea has been firm to-day , with a limited amount of busi « ness done . Bum remains dull of sale . In other articles no material alteration .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 23, 1850, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1566/page/8/
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