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    auyreason-( H : ar , hear . ) Without entering into the evidence , he svould proceed to state the outline of the bill which had been prepared upon the basis of the report of the board , leaving matters of detail to be considered when the bill itself should be pristed . He proposed , in the first place , that , for the purposes of the bill , a district should be formed , to be tensed " the Metropolitan Burial District , " consist \ vg of all the parishes enumerated in the schedule sud comprised within the Registrar-General ' s London district , with the exception of a few outlying parishes which it would not be necessary to include in the metropolitan districts to be formed . For ihis district burial-grounds would be provided either within or without the limits of the district , which would he placed under the control and management of the parties intrusted with the execution of " the act , who would also be authorised to fix the

    fees and payments to be made upon all interments within these grounds . Power would be given to take any of the cemeteries which had been established under acts of parliament within the districts , making compensation to the companies . Power would be given to shut up any of these cemeteries which hV should seem advisable on the ground of public health no longer to retain as places of interment , and , on the other hand , to retain for that purpose such others as it might be deemed expedient to . continue . Every burial-ground to be provided under the act would , like all the great cemeteries hitherto established , he divided , one portion hein ~ f consecrated and provided with a suitable chapel for the performance of service according to the rites of the established church ; the other portion being left for interment of persons of other denominations . Power would further be ffiven to set

    apart portions for those denominations who , on religious grounds , required separate places of interment . " When one or more of the burial-grounds to be provided under the act should be opened for interment , the Queen in Council would be empowered , upon die report of persons entrusted with the execution of the act , and after due notice , to order burials in churchyards and other existing graveyards in any part of the district to be discontinued , subject to any exceptions that might be thought necessary , and the prohibition might from time to time i . » c extended until interments were discontinued throughout the metropolis , with such saving of existing ri ghts of burial in -vaults and the like as might . be exercised under certain precautions without prejudice to the public health . The inhabitants

    of the parishes in which the burial-grounds were closed would have the same rights of interment in the saw grounds as they had in their own burialgrounds , and , to provide for the natural wishes of persons to be buried near the bodies of their own relatives , power would be given io remove , without the expensive process called a "faculty , " bodies from the intramural places of interment into the new grounds . The persons who were to superintend lie execution of the act were to be empowered to piovide , within the limits of the district , places of reception to which the poor ( who were now so often endangered by the continuance of the bodies of their deceasedrelatives in the rooms occupied by the Hying ) might have the corpses removed . A grerit practical difficulty in extramural interment

    was trie removal of the bodies to a distant cemetery , especially in the cases of the poor ; and it was therelore proposed to empower those appointed to execute the act to provide means ( of which all who chose jaight avail themselves ) for conveying bodies to the places of interment , and for conducting the funerals , at specified and moderate rates of payment . A large portion of the incomes of some of the London clergy was derived from fees on burials , and i I tvos therefore only jjnst and fair that provision shouia be made for affording compensation to them and io other persons whose incomes might be affected by this measure . In the case of the clergy , some . regard would he had in fixing the amount of compensation to the dimunition of their duties , and the consequent saving of expense which thev would

    effect . ; but , in consequence of the large proportion of the incomes of some of the clergy derived from these fees , it had been deemed necessary to extend the compensation beyond the existing incumbencies . The amount of such compensation would , however , he subject to revision from time to time . Provision would also be made for compensation to clerks and sextons during the tenure of the present holders of the office . It was calculated by the Board of Health , in thiir report , that the whole of the expenses , including the compensations and the interest of the money borrowed for purchases of burial-grounds , and otiirr expenditure , would be completely covered hy the receipts oa the interments which took place in the-district , notwithstanding a great diminution of the present charges in respect of burials . As ,

    however , it would be necessary to make some pro--vision for the immediate purchase of burial-grounds , the bill provided that in case of necessity the deficiency of the receipts might be made up * by a rate on the district ; but it was provided that this charge , if it I- ? eame necessary to resort to it , should not exceed an annual rate of a penny in the ponnd . The Boar-J if Health , in their report " , recommended that the powers which were necessary to establish and carry on the system of extramural " interment should be exercised by a commission specially appointed to carry out the measure . There were , however , obvious objections to ihe creation of a neweommis sion , ; iinless an indispensable necessity could be showji for it , and it had been thought by the government that the Board of Health were fully

    competent , and were , oa the whole , the best body , in the first instance , at least , to carry into effect the measures they had recommended . Their knowledge , acquired in their inquiries and in their other duties , and io a great extent their existing staff , might be thus made available . It was proposed that one additional paid member should he added to the board , and thsc with this addition , and the appointment of such adbordinate officers as might be requisite , they should superintend the measures necessary for establishing a system of extramural interments for the metropolitan districts . Before he sat down he wished to express the sense which he entertained of the ai'iiity and efficiency with which the Board of Health bad discharged the duties imposed upon

    them , and of the -value of that great mass of information which they had collected and embodied in their rr-port . The thanks of the public were especially due to the noble member for Bath ( Lord Ashley ) , who , as an unpaid member of that board , had iaost assiduously and usefully devoted many montlis of bis valuable time to carry out the objects of the board , and to obtain information on the subject to which this b'dl referred . He ( Sir G . Grey ) would only express his cordial concurrence In the hope ' expressed in the concluding paragraph of the report of the Board of Health , that their inqumes and recommendations might prove eminently conducive to the public health , hy leading at no very distant time to the uiscontinnance of the great evil

    of intramural interments . Leave was then given to introduce the bill , which was brought in and read a first time . The house adjourned at a quarter past one o ' clock .

    TUESDAY , April 1 G . HG 1 ISE Of LORDS . —This house sat for a few minutes only , daring which the Exchequer Bills Bill , " and the Brick Duties Repeal Bill , were respectively read a third time and passed . HOUSE OF COMMOSS . — Taxes o > - Ksow-SEDefc—After the presentation of numerous petitions " for the repeal of these taxes , . Mr- " Gjbsos rose to move the following resolutions : " "Whereas all taxes which directly impede the diffusion of knowledge are highly injurious to the public interests , and are most impolitic sources of revenue , this house is of opinion — 1 . That such financial arrangements out to be made as will enable Parliament to repeal the Excise duty on paper . 2 . That it Is expedient to abolish the stamp duties now ' -jkyabie on newspapers in . Great Britain and Ireland . 3 . That it is expedient to abolish the duties now pavable on advertisements in Great Britain and Ireland . 4 And that the Customs '

    dut / on foreign books ought to berepealed . " Hon . members were entitled to raise these questions of taxation as broad questions of national policy with the view of asking the opinion of the ho ; se whether ' any particular duty should continue a permanent-part of their system of taxation . It was said a school of repudiation had arisen : hut to that school he did not belong . He desired only to examine the incidence of their taxation and the consequence of raising it in a particular mode , with the with of seeing whether they could not make their financial arrangements such that the public revenue would be maintained without checking the diffusion of knowledge-or depressing any important branch of trade and manufactures . The first resolution related to the excise duty paper , which yielded a re-^ ° r ^ W but > allowing \ £ 20 , 000 or £ 30 , 000 for the-duty paid on paper consumed by the gorornmciK tie amount ofthe tax might be estimated- atiM » . 000 . Adverting first to the effect of the duty op the paper manufacture , itself , on the

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    employment of labour , and other considerations of a commercial character not immediately connected with the diffusion of knowledge , he should ask whether it was in the power of the government by any device they could adopt to protect the honest from the fraudulent dealer ? Notwithstanding , the most vexatious measures were adopted , it failed in doing so . When a manufacturer succeededinmakingpaper from dry materials instead of the wet materials from which it was laid down in an act formerly existing that paper should be made , steps were taken against him to secure the public revenue ; but a compromise was effected ; yet the same manufacturer still defied the government , and , under the name of feltmanufacturer , made from other materials an article whinh / . nimiot e , ! with miner . As regarded

    employment , he called the attention of hon . gentle ™* interested in the rural districts to the fact that the manufacturer of paper was ^ ^ JT manufacture that existed , and the tendaney of the tax was to lessen the number of manufactories , the production and export of paper , and consequently to lessen the employment of labour m these rura districts . Mr . Crompton calculated that the repeal of the duty would lead to the employment of 40 , 000 people in London alone on the manufacture itself , and on manufactures subsidiary to it . He said a single newspaper which purchased as much as £ 3 , 000 worth of paper in a year employed as much as £ 15 , 000 per annum in labour . When societies were springing up to export the female population who could not find employment , they ought to

    pause till they had done - something to remove obstacles to the employment of labour at home . The chief view which he took of the paper duty related to its effect iu preventing the diffusion of knowledge among the mass of the people . It was no argument to say that the duty on a novel , or on 3 P Culloch' s Commercial Dictionary would be 6 d . only . In the petition presented last year , Messrs . Chambers , of Edinburgh , stated that they had "been obliged to abandon a work intended to diffuse the blessings of knowledge , and moral culture , and which had a saje of 80 , 000 weekly , because it was unprofitable , the fact being that the paper duty alone would have been a good return . There was a similar statement from Mr . C . Knight in his able pamphlet—the Struggles of a Book against Excessive

    Taxation , which contained the history , of the struggles of the Penny Cyclopmdia against the fatal effects of the Excise duty on paper . From this it appeared that the Petma Cyclopaedia—a book intended exclusively for the instruction of the poorer classespaid for paper duty no less than £ 16 , 500 . What an enormous sum to exact from a man before allowing him to spread through this vast community the blessings of knowledge by means of cheap literature ; which , in the words of Sir H . Parnell , "formed the raw material of the social improvement of the working classes of this country !" Another fact stated by Mr . Enight was , that within the last twenty years he had expended £ 80 , 000 on copyrights and literary labour , and that he had paid £ 50 , 000 in paper duty in order to give the world

    the benefit of that £ 80 , 000 worth of editorial and literary labour . Here was a tax on capital and a pressure on the industry of talented men which , he would be bound to say , was not equalled by anything in the tariff , either of Customs or Excise . The proprietor of another cheap work—the Working Han ' s friend—had informed him , that before he employed labour of any kind he was obliged to pay £ 1 , 000 per annum as the duty on paper which be used ; and it was useless to observe that the paper manufacturer got back these amounts from the consumer ; for the fact was , that this duty prevented the entering upon these speculations at all , and thus the country was deprived of many means of mental improvement . He came next to his second resolution , with regard to the stamp duty on newspapers ,

    and he proposed that the house should resolve that it was expedient to abolish that duty . ( Hear , hear . ) It yielded about £ 350 , 000 per annum . He knew it was supposed by many that newspapers had the privilege of being carried through the post for nothing , and that in return they mig ht fairly be expected to pay this amount . Kbw , he did not propose in the slightest degree to alter the postal part of the question , being quite prepared to admit that when a newspaper went through the post it should pay the stamp duty as at present ; but when it did not pass through the post that there should not be a compulsory stamp imposed upon it ; and this system was at present adopted in the case of fiftythree registered newspapers , who published portions of their impressions without a stamp , and the

    remainder with a stamp . Xow , the privilege that was granted to those fifty-three registered newspapers in London he wished in justice to see extended to all . What good reason was there , if they allowed Punch , the Atltenccum , the Builder , and others to publish such portions of their impressions as did not go through the post without a stamp , for not permitting the same privilege to the Daily News ? It might be said that the stamp on newspapers was a political question , and that it was necessary to be maintained in order to keep up the respectability of our newspapers . But how did it operate as a security ? Why , there were those papers , Sam Sly , Paul Pry , and the Toivn , scurrillous papers , which circulated what he should call news , and news of the worst description , and who lived by libelling

    individuals , mentioning their names aud naming their places of residence , and they had been declared by Sir . Keoirh , the solicitor to the stamp department of the Excise , not to be liable to the newspaper stamp . It was contended that the stamp duty on newspapers prevented the political press from circulating among the working classes . He asked , did it ? ( Hear , hear . ) He knew it was irregular to produce newspapers in that house , otherwise he could have produced a bundle of unstamped publications as large as one , if not both of the red boxes on the table of the house—most of them weekly periodicals , which circulated amongst the great mass of the community , and which contained those very political theories which some hon . gentlemen fancied were kept exclusively in the

    hands of respectable people by the imposition of a stamp . He did not mean to deny that many of these unstamped publications were highly respectable , and were doing much good , but what he wished to point out to the house was , that they were all at liberty to spread political theories . The words of the Newspaper Stamp Act were , that any paper that " published intelligence , news , or occurrences , or any remarks or observations thereon , " should be liable to the stamp dutv . Some might perhaps fancy that those latter words , " remarks and observations , ' would apply to the political observations which appeared in the unstamped publications which he had mentioned . The law , however , had no such effect . Thev gave their political theories without let or hindrance . The Stamp-office did not interfere with

    the promulgation of any speculative opinions whatever , provided they were not accompanied with the facts which were necessary to test the accuracy of the theories and guide the people who read them in forming a just opinion thereupon . ( Hear , hear . ) They might give any opinions they pleased ; they might speculate upon religious or political matters to any extent they thought fit , so far as the Stampoffice was concerned : hut they must not give facts . They might tell falsehoods , there was no tax upon lies —( laughter)—but they must not meddle with truth . ( Hear , hear . ) The Stampoffice could only punish them if they gave to the working classes the debates of that house , or the proceedings of the courts of law . Was it fitting and right that such a state of things should exist ? To

    give the house some idea of the sort and extent of comments in which these publications were permitted to indulge , the hon . member quoted a passage from a paper called the Lamp , ridiculing what it called "the solemn tomfooleries" of the dispute between the Bishop of Exeter and Mr . Gorhani . If the law allowed men to say these things beheld that it ought also to allow them to publish the * facts to which the comments referred . ( Hear . ) The bon . member then read an extract from Reynolds ' s Political Instructor , denouncing in strong terms the foreign and colonial policy of the 'government ;' There was also a paper , the Weekly Tribune , on " the necessity of an entirely new organisation of society based on principles not opposed to , but in accordance with , nature . " ( Laughter . ) After

    quoting an extract from Coopers Journal and Plain Speaker , commenting on the Queen ' s speech from the throne , the hon . member proceeded to say that the unstamped publications were the only papers that had access to the minds of the working people , in consequence of the law not allowing the higher class of newspapers to compete with them . The result was that there was no opportunity of supplying an antidote to the poison which those lower class of publications found it their interest to administer . Debarred from recording facts , the conductors of the cheap press were compelled to rack their brains for something to excite the passions or stimulate the imagination . Sometimes they did nothing more than act upon the nervous system . There was , for instance , the Terrific Record ;—that was for nervous people . ( Laughter . ) There was another weekly paper , the name of which he had at that moment forgotten , but which contained a horrible account of a duchess who had been

    murdered by a maniac , and another " story of real life , " namely , "the Confessions of a Countess or the Life of Lola Monies . " ( "Hear , " and laughter . ) He had been informed by an eminent bookseller in Manchester , that lie sold over his counter ,, every Saturday , 80 , 000 or 90 , 000 of these penny publications to tho working classes , some of them political , some imaginative , and some religions . This bookseller told him that he did not believe there was one in fifty of his customers who would not prefer to purchase the papers containing the leading events of the day , but they could not afford the price . After quoting a strong opinion in favour of penny newspapers pronounced hy Lord Brougham , when he was Chancellor , and a wish of the present Chief Justice , when he was Mr . Campbell , that the working classes could have halfpenny papers , the hen . member said , a ,-penny stamp on a penny paper was 100 per cent ., and upon a- halfpenny paper it j was 200 per cent . Was this a tax which the house

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    wished to see Kept up , not for « h % ^' f ^ venue , but simply for the purpose o ^ venhng tne eircuMiono ^ ^^ working PWP ^ MHJ & JS ? hwnre , never withr ° I ' He ^ ; honlfbrgfad , mdocd , to find that it Withdrawn ; for i & ld be betterto put the tex upon a mere revenue foundation than as a matter of public policy to . retain it for the purpose of nrev ' enting the circulation of a faithful record of facts among our fellow-countrymen . With regard to the present stamped press , especially the daily journals , the change could not but be beneficial to them also . The hon . member , after alluding to the difficulty of defining what a newspaper was , and the conflicting decisions of the Solicitor of Stamps on

    the subject , showed the nature of some of the evasions resorted to . He held in his hand a specimen of a very ingenious device that had been resorted to by a publisher at Greenock for evading the stamp . This person himself informed him , that having given offence to the authorities by some political Observations in a weekly unstamped paper of his , of the character of Chambers's Journal he was prosecuted for violation of the Stamp Act , and filled for each of five numbers £ 25 . Hereupon he diligently studied the act , and , finding that printing upon cloth was not within the prohibition , he set to work and printed his journal upon cloth , giving matter " savouring of intelligence , " without the penny stampand calling his paper the Greenock News

    , Clout , sent it forth despite the Solicitor , to the Stamp-office . ( Laughter . ) Unless it was proposed to establish a censorship , making the Solicitor to the Stamp-office the judge what publication should be read , and what not read , they must do one of two things ; they must either repeal the stamp duty on newspapers altogether , or they must enfore the law fairly and indiscriminately , and permit no competition between tax-paying newspapers and untaxed newspapers . ( Hear , hear . ) Let all men bear the burden equally , or relieve all from it . As to the revenue of £ 350 , 000 from this source , it would not be wholly lost , for there would still be payable , according to his plan , all the stamp duty upon newspapers sent by post . Now , there were at present

    some 86 , 000 , 000 of compulsory stamps issued for newspapers , and upon Mr . Rowland Hill ' s data it would appear that of these about 70 , 000 , 000 now passed through the post . He would not say that the whole of these 70 , 000 , 000 would continue to pass through the post , but he believed he might fairly calculate that a large proportion of them would still stamp themselves for that purpose , and ho was strengthened in that supposition by the vast numbers of the 53 registered publications whichstamped themselves for the post , and for the post only . ( Hear , hear . ) But , even did he ask the house to sacrifice a greater portion of the £ 350 , 000 than he honestly believed would be sacrificed , he felt that the sacrifice would be richly compensated by the

    inestimable boon which would be conferred upon the nation by the circulation of cheap newspapers among the masses . ( Hear , hear . ) There was no sound reason why newspapers should not be as cheap here as they were m other countries , why the poor man should not have his penny weekly paper , or even his penny daily paper . Of course , for papers on which a higher class of intellect was employed , higher payment must be made ; but the working man might still have his penny newspaper , giving him tho leading facts of the passing time , and , further , information as to the best mode and place of employing himself . One word as to the bearing of the subject upon the law of tho land . You held that no man was ignorant of the law ;

    you would permit no man who appeared before a criminal tribunal to plead that he did not know the law ; and yet you prevented the circulation of cheap newspapers throughout the country , of those proceedings in the courts of justice , which were the only practical mode hy which a general knowledge of tho laws they were to obey could reach the people . ( Hear , hear . ) He trusted that the house would not permit the consideration of £ 200 , 000 or £ 300 , 000 , even supposing the sacrifice so much , to interfere with the enunciation of a great principle . Mr . Cowan seconded the motion , and described the peculiarly oppressive effects of the paper duty , the incubus of which , with the Excise restrictions , checked improvements in the manufacture . British

    paper formed but a trifling article of our exports . The Chancellor of the Exchequer would be always glad to remove taxation when he had the means of doing so ; but he had already appropriated his surplus in a manner which was not disapproved , and he declined to commit himself by a declaration against any particular tax until he had the power of dealing with it . With respect to the paper duty , he controverted the statements of Mr . Gibson and Mr . Cowan as to the vexatious regulations of the Excise , reading documents to show that no excis : able article was subject to so felv restrictions lis paper . Every suggestion for the improvement of the manufacture had been carried out with the cooperation of the Excise Commissioners . The amount of the duty was increasing , being £ 581 , 000 in 1840 , and £ 810 , 000 in 1349 . Adding this to the amount of the other duties comprehended in Mr . Gibson ' s resolutions , the total was £ 1 , 379 , 000 ; and

    he hoped the house would forgive him for suggesting a few reflections upon these successive proposals for the repeal of taxes . He was not more nervous than a Chancellor of the Exchequer ought to be respecting our finances ; but he could not look without serious anxiety at the course which a pflii ' - tion of the house seemed disposed to pursue . If all these taxes were to be given up , either fresh direct taxes must be imposed , or the expenditure reduced , whereas all the services bad been already voted , and it was impracticable to diminish expenditure to such an extent . By adopting these resolutions the house would , by its own deliberate act , create a deficiency of revenue , which would place the country in a position in which fears of repudiation might be entertained ; for if the house caused a deficiency , without providing for it , the public creditor might naturally apprehend that the credit of the country could not be maintained . Mr . Hume had a motion

    oil the paper to-night for the repeal of Custom duties to the amount of £ 1 , 538 , 000 , so that it was proposed in one night to vote away nearly £ 3 , 000 , 000 . He thought it would bo unwise and discreditable to do so , and that the house should not even pledge itself that these taxes should be dealt with next session . Taking the motion as a whole , it would , in his opinion , be an act of political suicide to throw away the financial advantages we now possessed , and he called upon the house to negative the motion . Mr . Hume said , if our large military establishments were reduced there would be an ample margin for repealing these taxes , as well as the window tax , and the duties he proposed to abolish , Let these and all obnoxious taxes be removed , supply

    additional means of diffusing knowledge , thereby diminishing crime , and the country would then enjoy real relief . Mr . Ewart recommended the substitution of direct for indirect taxation by increasing its rate upon property , thereby extending labour and cheapening production , which was the true policy of this country . Mr . Aolioxbt was obliged to vote against the motion , which , whatever its effect , could be of no practical advantage to the country . Colonel Thompson hoped to be excused from voting with Mr . Gibson , because he did not consider that by doing so he did more than express a hope that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would remove these taxes .

    Mr . Roebuck denied that this was a matter for a Chancellor of the Exchequer or of fiscal regulation —it was a question affecting education and the moral condition of the country . He believed that no proposition could be of equal importance to that of Mr . Gibson , because the people of this country were now asking for education , and if it was not given to them , there were Republicans and Socialists and Communists on the other side uf the water , who , if we did not give the people aright education , would give them a wrong one . The multitude were at present rising up ; they could not be prevented from obtaining political power ; and how great would be the evil of an ignorant multitude being in possession of the power of regulating the affairs of this gigantic empire ! He would teach them to understand their own interests and then they would minister to tbe interests of mankind .

    t Lord J . Russell recapitulated some of the objections offered to the motion by Sir C . Wood who , he thought , had taken a right view of the question when he asked the house to consider its effects upon tho general interests of the country as regarded public credit . It was the duty of the government to see that the credit was not shaken and to placo distinctly before the house the consequences of adopting the proposed resolutions . The governments with which he had been connected had not' been indifferent to these taxes . Lord Althorp had reduced the advertisement duty , and Lord Monteaglo had diminished the stamp duty on news , papers , and the excise duty on paper . Those reductions amounted to £ 775 , 000 upon the very articles referred to in Mr . Gibson's motion ; and if no other taxes were more objectionable , ho should be remlv

    to reduce them still further or abolish them altogether . He , however , thought there had been great exaggerations as to the advantages of abolishing these taxes , which wore invidi * ously termed " taxes upon knowledge . " It was very desirable that the people should have political intelligence ; but much of the matter contained in newspapers was hardly to be di gnified with the name of knowledge . With regard to tho hi « her class of newspapers , tho reason why thoir price ° was so high was that they were put to an amazm * expense to obtain early intelligence . The state of France , to which Mr . Roebuck had alluded , was not owing to the want of newspapers or of education ; but from the newspapers attacking government in tho abstract , and from the schoolmasters endeavouring to render religion odious . He asked i the house to reject the motion , though agreeing with

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    I Mr . Gibson in many of his objections ; but this was j not a time when the' house should condemn taxes necessary for the support of public credit and of establishments essential to the defence of the country . He asked them , therefore , to concur with him in rejecting ^ the motion , and thereby show to the country their determination to maintain Us credit , and that they were worthy of tho people they represented . Mr . Disraeli reminded the house that the question immediately before them related simply to the duty on paper ; but he could jiot view the question entirely apart from the financial exposition of the government . He held it to be a general rule that two considerations ought to influence a financial _ _ ..

    Minister in dealing with a surplus—first , tho relief of any suffering interest ; and if there were none , secondly , the reduction of the public debt . Believing that there was an interest greatly suffering he had proposed to relieve it ; but the government had opposed this proposition , and instead of devoting the surplus to a reduction of the debt , they had so applied it as to leave a portion of it unappropriated , and Mr . Gibson asked that a part should be applied to repeal the duty upon paper . He ( Mr . Disraeli ) had to consider , then , whether upon the whole , it was most for the advantage of tho country

    that that duty should be repealed , or that tbe Chancellor of the Exchequer should remain in posession of this fund without any security that he would discreetly apply it , for he had not stated what he intended to do with the Stamp Act . There might bo two opinions as to the other resolutions , but his opinion was , that it would be prudent , politic , and beneficial to the country to repeal the paper duty . The house having divided , the resolution was negatived by 190 to 89 . The other resolutions were negatived without a division .

    Industrial Investments . —Mr . SLANurthen rose to move for a select committee to consider and suggest means of removing obstacles and giving facilities to safe investments for the savings of the middle and working classes , and for affording them the means of forming societies to insure themselves against coming evils frequently recurring . The richer the ' person" and the larger the investment the less did it cost in proportion . Now , taking a man possessed of £ 5 , 000 as representing tho richer class he might invest that sum in land at a cost of only £ 210 s . per cent ., or £ 125 . A man possessed of only £ 500 might represent the middle class , but the investment of that sum in land would cost him £ 10 per cent ., or £ 50 ; whilst' a man possessed of only % 50 could not invest it for less than £ 20 per

    cent ., or £ 10 . That gave the humbler classes a strong claim to relief being afforded to them in some other mode of investment . It might be said they could invest in the public funds ; but they might invest when the funds were highl and be obliged to sell out when the funds were low , and thereby lose a part of their capital . There was already an example for what he proposed . The other day a large lodging-house for the humbler classes had been established in this metropolis , in shares , yielding profit , and he believed that the noble lord at the head of the government and the Chancellor of the Exchequer , as well as the noble lord lately at the head of the Woods and Forests , were partners in it . A charter had been granted to it , and it was being

    carried on by joint capital . But tho local improvemenns which he proposed could not at present be undertaken without a separate act of parliament in each case . He asked , then , only that the same principle should be applied in this case as was applied for the landed gentry a short time since for the enclosure of commons , at a comparatively small expense . He did not ask the government to give anything , but to afford to the humbler classes the means of a safe investment for their small savings . If the government thought his motion was too extensive , and refused it , he trusted they would consider the subject , for he felt confident that , for the encouragement of the middle and humbler classes , and attaching them to this country , nothing was of

    more consequence than to give them every facility for the safe investment of what they had obtained by their labour and diligence . Mr . Labouchere had great pleasure in stating , he did net feel it necessary to oppose the motion of his hon . friend . 2 fo one could doubt that the object of his hon . friend was of the utmost importance , and he thought it probable that the committee might obtain valuable information on various topics connected with it ; at the same time , some of those topics were of great difficulty . He agreed with his hon . friend , that it was of great consequence for industrious persons among the humbler classes to have greater facilities than they now possessed of investing their savings in an easy and safe manner ,

    and he should be glad by every means in his power to remove the obstacles to carrying out that object . The inquiry , however , would invoke serious questibns connected with tho law of partnership , upon which point he would refer to the evidence given by many of the most eminent men in the mercantile world , before the committee of 1837 . But he would suggest to his hon . friend the propriety of altering the term ' s of his motion , as the latter part of it was not very clear . The first part of it was for a select committee to consider and suggest means of reihoving obstacles , and giving facilities to safe investments for the savings of the middle and working

    classes , and so far was clear enough ; but the latter part of it , " and for affording them the means of forming societies to insure themselves against eom » ing evils frequently recurring , " was obscure . The hon . member had better omit the words . Mr . P . Howard hoped the committee would direct its attention to the removal of the difficulties with which building societies had to contend . Mr . Slaney said he might defend the phraseology of his motion by high authority — " Coming events cast their shadows before them ; " but nevertheless he would omit the passage which had been objected to . The motion , as amended , was agreed to .

    WEDNESDAY , Aram 17 th . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Education Bill . —On the motion for tho second reading of this bill Mr . Stafford moved that it be road that day six months . In a speech of considerable length , he cautioned the house neither to outrage the religious opinions of the country , nor to accede to a new system of centralization of a most objectonable nature . The country had a strong feeling against merely secular education , and both the National Society and the British and Foreign School Society were opposed to it . He regarded the Bill as an assault upon civil and reli g ious liberty , and concluded by solemnly denouncing the establishment of schools in which the name of the Redeemer would never be heard .

    The Earl of Arundel and Surrey seconded tho motion , and as a Catholic , declared indignant hostility to a system in which religion was not made the first consideration . He dwelt upon the demoralization which he said had been caused in France by the adoption of the now system of education , and proceeded to denounce a variety of cheap works published in England , and reprinted here , from America , and in which the history and character of the Saviour were treated with apparent devotion and admiration ,- while in reality the Gospel narrative was discarded , and the language it placed in the mouth of Christ was described as inconsistent and unworthy of Him . Asserting that such publications were favoured by the atheistic school which produced this Bill , he declared that we were gathering for the great battle between religion and infidelity , God and the

    Devil , Heaven and Hell . Mr . Roebuck contended that the attack of tbe previous speaker was unjust , and that secular education did not mean atheism . He said that the hostility of Lord Surrey to the bill arose from the fact that secular education withdrew the people from a meddling priesthood , whom he insisted on calling a Church , which it was not . He ( Mr . Roebuck ) was just as much a minister of the church , when teaching his children , as any priest in thewdrld . This was a question not of religion , but of policy . Ho named nine different religious parties who had to decide on this bill , and said that if they all came together and opened the Bible , no one would agree with another as to what its teaching meant . How , then , was it possible for Parliament to afford religious education ? And so we were to do nothing just because we were a Christian nation .

    Lord Ashley said that it was impossible to overrate the importance of this question ; and he denounced in the most solemn way the system of teaching which * while it effected to impress Christian upon a child , denied him the acknowledge tbat the founder of that morality was the Son c £ his God . He argeed against the enactment oa the ground of the extensive interferance it would exert over all the educational bodies in the country , on the ground that It would cause an immediate levy of taxes to the amount of upwards of two millions , but chiefly on the ground that it was a scheme witbhohlhijj Christiaiwty .-from the people , Mr . Monckton Munes thought that the opponents of the measure ought to have brought iojward a plan of education Xwhich there could be no doubt was demanded by the country , ) which should combine the religious and the secular conditions .

    Lord J Russell said , in speaking of this bill he wished to avoid as much as possible all intemperance , and to make every admission which was fairly due to the author of the bill and to the bill itself . In the first place , it could not be denied that there was a lamentable wank of education amongst the poorer classes , and that it was desirable that Parliament should endeavour to remedy the deficiency ; in the next place , he thought it would be unjust to infer that if the schools proposed by tluYblll wore established , it would follow , as anecessary consequencB , that the doctrines inculcated in tho writinss referred to by Lord Arundel would he prevalent amonest the teachers . But he ^ hought any education on a 3 secular basis would bo lamentably insuftleicnt and that any scholastic system , in which the immortal part of man would be lost sight of , would ( unless in circuSncwof the greatest necessity ) be a sad Mine off from the dh

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    charge of our duties . He thought the bill incompatible with tho liberties of Englishmen , and . with the character ot the numerous and admirable schools already in existence , in most of which the assertion of areligious principle was the important element . A power was proposed to be iriven to the Committee of Privy Council to force a . system upon the nation , and he thought the enormous power of taxation which was also to bo Riven was most objectionable . The Bill had not at all been what he expected , he should therefore support Mr . Stafford ' s amendment . He wished , however , that parliament had more information upon the subject , after obtaining which the question might be reconsidered . , ,,...,: ¦ „ , Mr . Home supported ' the BUI , and said that Mr . Fox ' s statements on introducing it had not been answered . He expressed great regret at the unexpected and inconsistent conduct of Lord John Russell . The Marquis of Blandfobd spoke against the Bill . Upon the motion of Mr . Chisuolm Anstbv , the debate was then adjourned for a fortnight . The orders ot the day were then disposed of . _ . _ i * . _ . 1 _ £ lf !« nnmnn ( ihln

    THURSDAY , April 18 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —The Marquis of Lansdownk moved the second reading of the Piratbs ' Head Monky Bill . i A short discussion took , place , and the bill was read a second time . „ HOUSE OP COMMONS . —National Land Company . —Mr . T . Duncombe presented a petition from 2 , 000 members of the Nottingham branch , declaring their confidence in the honesty and integrity of Mr . O'Connor , but praying that in consequence of the difficulty of carrying the Land scheme into etteci the House would pass a bill to wind up the aflaira of the Company ; by Sir J : Pechell from the members at Brighton , complaining of attacks which had been made on Mr . O'Connor , and alleging that one of the " allottees" sublet . his . land atone period for more than the sum for which Mr . O'Connor let it to him '

    . ..... Sir Benjamin Hall reminded the hon . and learned member for Nottingham ( Mr . F . O'Connor ) that he had given notice of introducing a bill for winding up the affairs of the Land Company as early as possible after the recoss ; he wished to ask if that was still his intention , and if so , whether it would be a public or a private bill ? . Mr . I \ O'Connor said the hon . baronet was correct in saying , that ho had stated it to be his intention to introduce the bill in question as soon as possible after Easter . Tho truth was , that he had not been able to be in tho house until the night beforejast , having been ill since before Easter , but he begged totell the hon . baronet that he had appointed the next morning for a consultation with

    Mr . Walmsley , of 21 , Parliament-street , with a view of accomplishing the object . He had now a question to put to the hon . baronet . He begged to ask him whether it was true that he was once a trustee of the funds of a number of poor people in his neighbourhood . ( Cries of " order , " and laughter , amidst which the hon . and learned member resumed his seat . ) On the house going into committee on the Larceny Summary Jurisdiction Bill . Sir B , Hah rose , and requested the indulgence of the house whilst ho said a few words in relation to what had fallen from the honourable and learned member for Nottingham . ( Cries of " Order , order . " )

    The Speaker said the honourable baronet must take some other opportunity of making any explanation he wished to give . The motion was that the Speaker do leave the chair , and the honourable baronet must speak to that question . Sir B . Hall said he would then move the adjournment of the debate . ( Hear . ) The Speaker said the honourable baronet was still out of order . ( Hear , and a laugh . ) Sir B . Hall begged then to say tnat to-morrow he would take an opportunity , on the motion for the adjournment of the house , to make his explanation ; and he challenged the honourable and learned member for Nottingham to be then in his place . ( Hear . ) Mr . O ^ Coxnob , amidst loud cries of " order , " intimated , as was understood , that he would be present . On . the motion for going into Committee on the Larceny Summary Jurisdiction Bill ,

    Mr . M Cullaoh moved that the Committee be gone into that day six months , which was negatived . Sir 6 . Strickland moved as an amendment , the omission of the whipping provision as regarded offenders exceeding 14 , and under 16 . Mr . Roebuck , in vehemently opposing the whipping clause , produced a certain sensation , by significantly asking whether there was no scion of " a distinguished family" who had committed petty larceny at tho age of 16 , and what would have been the feelings of his family had he been sentenced to be whi pped . The Committee then diyided , when ihe numbers

    were—For the amendment 170 For the original words 89 Majority against tho original words—81 The Bill then passed through Committee . . On the motion that the Marriages Bill go into committee , a long discussion , on a motion for its postponement took place , and the debate was ultimately adjourned . ( Prom our T / tird Edition of last week . ) i FRIDAY , April 12 . HOUSE OF LORDS . — The Convict Prisons Bill was read a third time and passed , after some discussion , iu which Lord Lyttleton , Lord Wobehouse , the Earl of Ilouester , Lord Stanley , and Lord Mokteagle . took part . The house then adjourned .

    HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Salaries or Public Officers . —Lord John Russell moved for a select committee to inquire into the salaries and emoluments of offices held during the pleasure of the Crown , by Members of either House of Parliament , voted in the annual estimates ; and also into the salaries and emoluments of judicial offices in the superior courts of law and equity in the United Kingdom ; and into the retiring pensions allotted to the judges ; and also into the expense of diplomatic establishments charged on the consolidated fund .

    Mr . Disraeli opposed the motion , and moved the following amendment : — ' That this house is in possession of all the information requisite to revise and regulate public salaries : that parliamentary committees of inquiry , under such circumstances , would only lead to delay ; and that it is the duty of the government , on their own responsibility , forthwith to introduce the measures that may be necessary for effecting every reduction in the national establishments consistent with the efficient discharge of the public service . " A long discussion ensued , when thchouse divided , For the amendment 159

    Against it 350 Majority against Mr . Disraeli 91 Mr . Horsman then moved a second amendment to extend the inquiry of the committee into the incomes of ecclesiastical dignitaries . The hon . member proceeded to g ive a variety of details showing that the prelates were paid more highly , and ever y way more lavishly endowed , and less severely worked , than any of the judges or ministers of the crown . The whole system oalledfor a strict investigation . Sir . Q . Gret opposed tho amendment , and said that the lay and the religious questions were totally distinct , and ought not to be confounded in the same inquiry , which would thereby be rendered unpractical and useless . The house divided—For the amendment— 95

    Against ... .. i ... ... 203 Majority against Mr . Horsman ——113 The motion for appointing the select committee was then put and carried , and the house adjourned .

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    MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . Illegality of Betting Lists . —The court sat on Monday at Olerkenwell , for the purpose of hearing appeals against the refusal of the divisional justices to grant and renew public house licenses ; Mr . Sergeant 'Adams , tho assistant judge , presided . The first case on the list was an appeal by Samuel Searie , against the refusal of the justices of the division of St . Martin-in-the-Fields , to renew a license under theO Geo . IV ., c . 61 , to sell exciseable liquors in the house called tbe Salisbury Arms > Durham-street ,, Strand . Counsel having been hoard , the learned Judge said the bench was unanimously of opinion that these betting lists were " gaming , " and therefore by the publicity given to the proceedings there , the trade would have a distinei intimation that the

    licenses of those who persisted in keeping betting lists would be endangered ; and the magistrates below had taken a very judicious course ia bringing the matter forward . Any future infractt & n of the law in this respect wouW be severely dealt with , and this the bench wish to be undoxstood . This license was granted , with £ 10 costs to-bepaid by the appellant , with this i & timation also , that he must discontinue the betting lists . In the case of Joseph Barr , of tW Windsor Castle , and the case of Saffory Mid 6 > fcon , of the White Swan , Long-acr » » the renewal of whose licenses had been refused oa the same grounds ,. were- then granted , upos promises thaVbetting lists should be discontinued in their houses , each of these anpol lants paymg JE 10 costs . ^

    Musiq ano DANcrsfc Licknsks . —This was an appeal against a refusal to renew the license to the Hope , Stephen-street , Lisson-grove . Mr . Huddle * stone said he opposed this appeal on behalf of tho justices , who refused to renew the license , on the ground that the appellant had suffered music and dancing and card playing in his house , but more particularly for the manner in which tho appellant facditated the escape from his house of a man whom a woman accused of robbing hor in the room where tho dancing was going on . When the officers arrived the gas was turned off , and the man got away , but he was afterwards taken , tried in this court , and sentenced to six months' hard labour . The facts were communicated io the justices by the Commissioners of Police , and the justices felt bound to refuse the license , —After some disQusaign the

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    license was renewed , with an intimation that « , music and dancing-was to bo discontinued and th all publicans who had music and dancing in X - houses , and had their licenses refused m Co „ quence , would have hut little chance of succesi appeal to the Quarter Sessions . Granted , whh n order on appellant for £ 10 costs . ' i > tt 1 * a «* i rt / v wn ¦¦ ma « nntfxri twitn n v > *« L ! ' t ?

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    BRITISH C OLLEGE OF HEALT H New-boad , Loxdos . ' TO THE FINANCIAL & SOCIAL REPORMPno THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN . S Fellow-Cocntrymen , —Prove , as moat easily ™„ can , how the doctors for ages cheated the peonl * the question oi their health , and all the reforV that you demand must follow , and that , too , »!„!?? succession . The dishonesty of the medical body 2 be most easily established . J , ian - We are , Fellow-Countrymen , Yours in the cause oi Salutary Reforms The Members of the British Co ' iTr „„ April 11 th , 1850 . eP HEAwa *

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    CORX . Mabk-lane , Monday , April 13 . —The supplies of all j *„ Ush gram to-day were short , but we have hail larce arriv i of foreign wheat , barley , oats , and beans , since thi « SI se ' nnight , with some further quantity of flour . The to , ' trade was very dull , the best samples of Bnglisli selllr i ' and inferior sorts 2 « per . or . unden last Monday's nri Foreign wheat was offered Is to 2 s lower , aecwJw ?' q uality , but met very few buyers . There wa * no abet , ? - in flour , but sales were quite retail . Fine Eiwlish Wi ° sold fully as dear , having very little here , and the best « , ? of foreign were taken off at full prices , but all raw samples were rather cheaper , with a slow sale uf neglected . Fine dry beans and peas , both white and £ ?; maintained their prices . Oata sold heavily unless fin and 6 d to Is cheaper , owing to the s upply . Tares wo ' almost nominal . Cloverseeds very dull sale at redS prices . In linseed cakes no alteration . The current n » £ „ . as under . - eKeB British . —Wheat—Essex , Suffolk , and Kent , red , new w to 37 s , ditto white 36 s to Us , Lincoln , Norfolk , and fro * snire to

    , reaaos ms , nortiiumberiana and Scotch vvhit 30 s to 35 s , ditto red 30 s to 33 s , Devonshire and Somtrsw ! shire , red , —s to —s , ditto white — to —s , rye . 21 s to 2 % i barley , 20 s to 23 s , Scotch 19 s to 2 is , Angus—s to b Malt ordinary , —s to —s , pale 46 s to 49 s , peas , erey ™»» 20 s to 22 s , maple 23 s to 25 s , white 22 s to 23 s , boiler ' s new 24 s to 26 s , beans , . large , new 19 s to 20 s , ticks 20 s to 22 s harrow , 23 s to 23 s , pigeon , 25 s to 26 s , oats , Lincoln and Yorkshire feed , 13 s to 15 s , ditto Poland and potato 15 s to 17 s , Berwick and Scotch , 15 s to 18 s , Scotch feed , 13 s to 14 s , Irish feed and black , 12 s to 14 s , ditto potato , 14 s to lGs , linseed ( sowing ) 50 s to 52 s , rapeseed . Essex , new £ 30 to JE 34 per last , carraway seed , Essex , nej 27 s to 32 s per cwt , rape cake , £ i to £ i 16 s per ton Kn seed , £ 9 0 s to £ 9 10 s . per 1 , 000 , flour , per sack of' 2801 bs " ship , 24 s to 20 s , town , 35 s to 37 s . '

    Foreign . —Wheat . — Dantzig , 38 s to 45 s , Anhalt and Marks , 33 to 39 s , ditto white , 36 s to 39 s , Pomeranian red 35 s to 37 s , Kostock 38 s to 42 s , Danish , Holstein , and ' Friesland , 30 s to 33 s , Petersburg !! , Archangel , and Ufoa , 28 s to 31 s , Polish Odessa , 30 s to 34 s , Marianopoli , andDer . dianski , 30 s to 32 s , Taganrog , 28 s to 31 s , Brabant and French , 32 s to 34 s , ditto white , 34 s to 38 s , Salonica , 28 s to 31 s , Egyptian , 22 s to 24 s , rye , 19 s to 21 s , barley , Wismar andBostock , 16 s to 19 s , Danish , lfis to 22 s , Saal , I 7 s to 19 s , East Friesland , 13 s to 14 s , Egyptian , 12 s to 13 s , Danube , 12 s to 14 s , peas , white , 22 s to 23 s , new boilers , 24 s to 20 s , beans , horse , 18 s to 22 s , pigeon , 23 s to 24 s ,

    Ebjufian , 18 s to 20 s , oats , Gromngen , Danish , Bremen , and Fr iesland , feed and black , 10 s to 12 s , ditto , thick and brew 13 s to 16 s , Itiga , Petersburg !] , Archangel , and Swedish , 12 s to 13 s , flour , United States , per 19 filbs ., 20 s to 22 s , Hamburgh 19 s to 21 s , Dantzig and Stettin 20 s to 21 s , French per 2801 bs ., 28 s to 30 s . _ WjawKDAY , April 17 . —We have again to report a large supply of grain to this market , as per statement below . The accounts from most of our provincial and country markets advise us of a dull trade and declining-prices , w are to-day without activity on our market , but the rates of Monday may be considered without alteration .

    Arrivals this week : — Wheat—English , 1 , 350 quarters ; foreign , 10 , 310 quarters . Barley—English , 1 , 840 quarters ; foreign , 6 , 380 quarters . Oats—English , 1 , 870 quarters ; foreign , 26 , 060 quarters . Flour—English , 2 , 860 sacks . Richmond ( Yokkshibe , ) April 13 . —We had a fair supply of grain in our market this morning , which was aU sold off , but there was no advance on last week ' s prices . Wheat sold from 4 s 3 d to 5 s Gd ; oats , Is 10 d to 2 sCd ; barley , 3 s Od te 3 s Gd ; beans , 3 s 6 d to 3 s 3 d per bushel .

    BREAD . The prices of wheatenjiread in the metropolis are from 6 d . to 6 Jd .-, of household ditto , 4 d . to 5 Jd . per 4 B ) s . loaf .

    CATTLE . SjirrjiriELD , Monday , April 15 . —With foreign stock our market was very scantily supplied , while its general quality was by no means first-rate . The numbers of home-fed beasts on offer this morning were considerably less thaa those exhibited on this day se ' nnight . Their condition , was , howeuer , prime . Notwithstanding the unfavourable weather for . slaughtering , the beet trade , owing to the comp aratively smaU supplies of meat in Newgate and Leadenhall , ruled firm , at an advance on the prices of Monday last of quite 2 d per Slbs ., the primest Scots selling readily at 3 s 6 d perSlbs ., andagoodclearance was effected . From Norfolk , Suffolk . Essex , and Cambridgeshire we received

    1 , 700 Scots and Shorthorns ; from other parts of England , 500 Herefbrds , Runts , Devons , ito . ; and from Scotland . 240 Scots . There was a slight falling off in the supply of sheep ; yet it proved seasonably extensive . All breeds sold freely , and the quotations improved 8 d per Slbs . Prime old Downs , in the wool , realised 4 s 2 < J to 4 s 6 d ; those out of the wool , 3 s Gd to 3 s Sd per Slbs . We had an improved demand for lambs , at 2 d per Slbs . more money Prime Down breeds went at 5 s lOd per Slbs . The sale for calves was inactive , yet prices were fairly supported . Ia pigs very little . was . doing , at late rates . Head OF . CATti . t . i-rSMrrnFrei . D . —Friday . —Beasts , 645 ; sheep , 3 , 040 ; calves , 260 j pigs , 300 . Monday . — Beasts , 3295 : sheep , 19 , ; calves , 92 ; pigs , 210 .

    , Price per stone of Slbs . ( sinking the offal . )—Beef , 2 s 4 d to 3 s 5 d ; mutton , 2 s lOd to . 4 s id ; veal , 3 s Od to 3 s lOd ; pork , 3 s 2 dto 4 s 0 d . NEWGATE ASD LEADESHAtL , Monday , April 15 . —Inferior beef , Is lOd to 2 s 2 d ; middling ditto , 2 s 4 d to 2 s 6 d ; prime large , 2 s 8 d to 2 s lOd ; prime smaU , 3 s Od to 3 s 2 d ; large pork , 2 s lOd to 3 s 4 d ; inferior mutton , 2 s 2 d to 2 s Cd ; middling ditto , 2 s Sd to 2 s lOd ; prime ditto , 3 s Od to 3 s 4 d ; veal , 2 s 10 d to 3 s Sd ; small pork , 3 s Cd to is Od ; lambs , 4 s 8 d to 5 s Sd ; per Slbs . by the carcase .

    PROVISIONS . Londos , Monday . —Since our last the demand for Irish butter slackened , and the transactions last week » ere oil a ' more limited scale . The stock has further diminished ; the market , however , closed duU . The supplies of foreign were large , and prices for the host kinds 4 s to 6 s per cwt . cheaper . Bacon Kather more was doing in Irish of mild cure , at Is . advance . There was a steady sale for American , at last quotations . In hams and lard scarcely any variation . English Buttter Market , April 15 . —Trade is very dull with us , and prices are fast running down . Dorset butter now comes in an increased supply , so does fresh ; and there is much difficulty in keeping English butter cleared off . Dorset , tine weekly , SSs to 90 s per cwt . ; ditto middling , 70 s to 80 s ; ditto old , nominal ; Fresh 8 s to lis per doz . lbs .

    FISH , POULTRY , & c . New Hcngerfoiu ) . — Turbots 2 s Od to 14 s ; brUls 2 s Od to as Od ; codfish 4 s Od to 6 s Od ; whitings 4 d to 9 d ; mackerel fid to 8 d ; haddocks 9 d to Is 3 d ; red mullets , Od to Is ; and lobsters Is Od to 2 s 6 d each ; soles Cd to 2 s Cd per pair ; fresh herrings , Od to 0 s ; and smelts Is Od to Is fid per dozen ; eels , 9 d to Is ; and salmon , Is 3 d to Is 6 d per lb . — Supply plentiful , trade middling . Turkeys 5 s Od to 7 s Od ; goslings , 7 s Gd to 8 s ; fowls Ss 10 5 s Od ; capons 5 s Gd to 6 s Gd ;• chickens 3 s Od to 4 s Oil , ' ducklings 4 s Od to 4 s 6 d ; rabbits Is to Is Gd ; hares , 3 s Od to 3 s Gd ; guinea fowls , 3 s Od to 3 s 6 d ; partridges 0 s 0 d to 0 s 0 ; and pigeons Od to Sdeaeh . Meat per lb .: —Prune legs of mutton 7 d , shoulders Cd , necks 3 d , and breasts ia ; roasting beef 7 d to 7 Ad ; boiling ditto Gd to 61 ; dairy-fed pork , 7 id to 8 d ; lamb "( finest quality ) 9 d to 9 ld ; and veal in proportion , Fresh butter Is to Is 3 d ; best salt ditto lOd to is Od ; common ditto 7 d to 9 d ; Cheshire cheese 7 id to lOd : double Gloucester , 7 d to 8 d ; and single ditto 5 $ d to Old per lb . —Supply good , trade moderate .

    FRUIT , VEGETABLES , & c . Forced asparagus Ss to 7 s , rhubarb Gd to Is 3 d , and bl'OCOli Sd to 2 s per bundle ; cucumbers Is Gd to 5 s each ; strawberries 2 s to Ss per ounce ; apples Is 3 d to 4 s , pear . 15 s to 20 s , onions is 3 d to Is 6 d , parsley lOd to Is , and spinach 4 d to Gd per half sieve ; red cabbages 2 s to 4 s , Savoys Gd to Sd , celery Gd to Is , Horseradish is Cd to 2 s 6 d , and earlv summer cabbages Is to Is 3 d per dozen heads ; turnips is Gd to 2 s , carrots 3 s Gd to 4 s Gd , and greens Is bd to 2 s per dozen bunches ; foreign grapes Is to 2 s , pineapples 9 s t o 10 s , and filberts Is to Is Gd per lb . ; oranges 5 s to 14 s , lemons 5 s to 9 s , and forced Prenck beans 2 S Gd to 3 s per 100 ; seakale Is to 2 s , mushrooms- fid to Is , and new potatoes Is to Is 3 d per punnet ; turnip greens Go to Sd , and brocoli sprouts lod to Is per bushei basket ; young radishes Is to Is 3 d per dozen hands .

    POTATOES . SouinwARK Waterside , April 15 . —Owmarket coating * to be . abundantly supplied from the continent , all of wcicyi are selling heavUy at a low price . York JRegents are scaree » and are realising- a high figure . Tha- following are tjus . day ' s quotations j—Yorkshire Regents 80 s to 120 s per ton ; ! Wisbech ditto —to —s ; Scstcli ditto 70 s to 80 s ; Ditto i Cups 50 s to 80 s ; Ditto Whites- 40 s to 45 s ; Stench Whites 40 s to . Gfis "; Rhenish and Belgian 40 s to 50 s i . Dutcli 40 « to 45 s .

    WOO & . Crrr , Moaday , April 15 . —Th & imports of wool $ * i » London last weeKincluded 1 , 013 bales , from Van DiemBu ' s land , 3 . 3 S 6 from Port Philip , 935 ; from Alsroa B $ jrv S 07 froffl Madras ^ Belgium , Italy , Ayu The market forwool it steady , aud i ' oBthe May auctions . i < bere will be a fats-choice , as the . arrivgjs of foreign are fcjsueasing . I ^ VBKPOOL , April 13 .-= Scotch . —We arQ , 3 lUl without ** $ active- demand for Scoteb , wool of either classes . Still vfP stocks being very lots * holders are preyqr firm at about iftw Imports for the = « eok 243 hags ; rvje-viously tins yeaiSW 98 WuaoN . —There have heen several arrivals tupwetK principally from the West Coast , the latter clawa find buyers on landing at late rates- . , _ « . « Imports for the week 3 , 300 , bales ; previous ^ this year 15 , 335 haIC 4 ' „ TALLOW .

    Tai * o . w , Monday , Apr il 13 ,-Por the time of year a fait averaeo amount of business is doing in our market , at prices about equal to those ohtaiiied en Monday lnfi PYC on the spot being quoted atSGsOdto 37 s , and ^ T delivery during the last three months 38 s 3 d to SS * « a per cwt Town Tallow 35 s 9 d per ewt . net cash . Rough fat 2 s per Slbs , Our St . Petersburg letter brings rafltt * higher figWOS .

    HAY . Satordav , April 13 . —Smitbfield . —A full average supp lj and a heavy demand . - ,. CujiBEKLAND . —Supply good , and trade very dull . Whitecbapbl . —Both hay and straw sold slowly , at our quohitiens .

    Printed Hy William Rider, Ofno, 5, Macclesbeld-Street ,

    Printed hy WILLIAM RIDER , ofNo , 5 , MacclesBeld-street ,

    In Tne Parish Ol*St. Anno, Westminster,....

    in tne parish ol * St . Anno , Westminster ,. at the * - offioe , 16 , Great WindmUl-street , Haymarkec , in the C > ' > ofWestoiuster . forthel'foprietor . FEARGUSO'CO ^ O ^ Esq . M . P ., and published hy the said Wiwiam K ^ e ?' » the OBice , in the 39 ma street wi » avUh , —• S . duNii ) April 2 Qth , 1850 ,

• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 20, 1850, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_20041850/page/8/