The Sun. — London, England, 1849-05-16 00:00:00

trbtrbr SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes after Twelve o'clock. The report upon the Leeds and Thirak Railway was brought np and agreed to. The Lords' amendments to the Grimsby Corporation and Freeman's Arrangement Bill were brought up and agreed to. Mr. MATHESON moved that Mr. Grey be allowed to attend an , .. 4 .e ote in the Committee on the Tyne River Conservancy and the North Shields Quays and Improvements Bills, notwithstanding the Clerk of the Committee of Selection has not received from him the prescribed form of declaration, with his signature at tached, not later than the day immediately preceding the first meeting of the Committee, provided he deliver in such declaration forthwith. After a short discussion the motion was agreed to. PETITIONS. Mr. MATHESON presented a petition against the Scotch Registration Bill ; also one in favour of the Clergy Relief Bill. Mr. MACKENZIE pesented a petition against the Scotch Lunatic Bill. Mr. HEALD presented several petitions from North umberland and Yorkshire against trading in seduction ; also one in favour of Church reform. An Host. MEMBER presented a petition against the Health of Towns' Bill, and also one praying for the repeal of the game-laws. Colonel THOMPSON presented a petition praying for a revision of taxation and for the extension of the suffrage. Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from Falkirk in favour of the Affirmation Bill. CANADA. Mr. HAWES brought up some papers relating to Canada. Mr. ROEBUCK said he rose to make some observa tions with reference to those papers, and also with re ference to the statements which appeared in the public papers of yesterday, and which had naturally created a good deal of excitement. He, in common with others, had been naturally startled by the intelligence which had been received; but since then he had received some private information from a gentleman who lived in that country, and he stated that the riots at Montreal had arisen in consequence of a Bill having passed both Houses of the Legislature, for the purpose of compen sating persons who had suffered losses by the insurrection in 1837. He (Mr. Roebuck) had ob tained from his Honourable Friend (Mr. Hawes) a statement of the actual mode of procedure in the Canada Hcuse of Parliament, and he found that the Bill which had raised all this commotion was brought in by the present Administration of the Canadas, and was carried in accordance with the feelings of the majority of the Legislature. The Act of Union united Upper and Lower Canada, and the consequence was, that there were two distinct states of population, and it appeared that the dispute was not simply a question of party, but a question of race, between the French and the English. The letter from the gentleman to whom he al luded stated that, in a time of profound peace, the Governor-General went down to the House to sanction several Bills, and among others the one which had caused so much emotion; and that on his way he was not only insulted, but meetings were got up on the spur of the moment, which were summoned by means of fire bells, and at which infle.rnmatery speeches were made. He further stated that the mob hurried to the Parliament House, smashed the windows, seized the mace, and finally drove out all the Members, r.nd after. wards the House was set on fire, and wholly consumed, as well as its valuable library. The writer further added, that the loss was irreparable, and that the pro ceedings were altogether discreditable to the national honour. It appeared that the magistrates sat up all night to take the depositions of parties, and early next morning the men who directed the mob were arrested. There were other outrages en Thursdsy night, but in consequence of the leaders being masked they were not known, and could not be afterwards arrested. He (Mr. Roebuck) found also that Lord Elgin was fully sustained by a majority of the Legislature; in Upper Canada the majority was 16 to 11, and in Lower Canada 21 to 1, and it was stated that in a full House the majority would have been no more. He was further informed that the rabble was headed by bankrupt magistrates, who had no stake or interest in the country, and who, although they pretended to great loyalty, would be rebels at any moment to serve their own purposes.—(Hear.) Great alarm is this country had ,been created that the ques tion of annexation was connected with the riots, but that was not the case, and he warned the House not, upon any misunderstanding of that kind, to interfere prematurely with the affairs of Canada. The money which the Legislature was about to appropriate was the money of Canada, and not the money of England, and he found that the Canadian Legislature could not pass a money Bill without the sanction of the Crown. Mr. PLTSEY rose to call the Hon. Gentleman to order. It would be utterly impossible for any independent Member to proceed with their business, according to his view, and his not short experience, if motions of that kind should have precedence of the orders of the day. The SPEAKER said the question before the House was that the papers relating to Canada should be laid on the table, and therefore the Hon. Member for Sheffield was clearly in order, if he confined his attention and ob servations to that business. Mr. ROEBUCK said his desire was to relieve the public anxiety only—(Hear, hear)—and he would close his remarks which he wished to make if it was the desire of the House that he should do so, for he did not wish to throw any obstacle in the way of Hon. Members proceeding with their Bills—(Cries of "Go on")—but this was a question on which the House should not only have every information, but should do all in its power to settle the commotion which had unfortunately risen in regard to the subject to which he had called its attention. The Ministry of Canada were principally responsible for the proposal in question; and he could not imagine that the Colonial office was not perfectly cognizant of all the facts of the ease. Those facts they must have known long before; and the paper that his Hon. Friend (Mr. Hawes) had sent round this morning of itself showed that the ground-work of that proposition was thoroughly well known at the Colonial-office, and had its sanction and approval. He begged pardon of the House for having interrupted its proceedings by calling its attention to the subject on which he had addressed it.—(Cheers.) Mr. HAWES thought it would be extremely incon venient to raise any general discussion on this subject at this moment. The Government had taken the very earliest opportunity of laying the papers relating to , Canada on the table of the House ; and it would be ex tremely inconvenient to provoke any general dis cussion until the papers had been circulated among the Members. Mr. GLAD STONE quite concurred in the remarks which had fallen from his Hon. Friend (Mr. Hawes) ; but those which had fallen from the Hon. and Learned Member for Sheffield were not suck as he (Mr. Glad stone) thought he ought to pass over.—(Hear.) He did not think it right for the lion. and Learned Gentleman to warn that House against apremature interference either in the affairs of Canada, or in any other affairs whatever. He(Mr.Boebuck)himself, perhaps unconsciously, had done much to prejudge the question—(Hear, hear)—on which he (Mr. Gladstone) thought the House was as yet very imperfectly informed, as he (Mr. Roebuck) had himself admitted. He (Mr. Gladstone) confessed, when the first intelligence on this subject reached this country, his mind was deeply affected, but still that intelligence convinced him that we were not, and could not be, in possession of the merits of the case or of the informa tion necessary either to form a judgment on the Rebel lion Losses Bill, or on the conduct of his Noble Friend Lord Eigin.—(Hear, hear.) For those reasons he had abstained from putting any question or taking any pro ceedings on this ease which might have a tendency to agitate thisqtkstion. The Hon. and Learned Gentle- man warned that House against interfering with the Re bellion Bill ; but on what principle ? If he offered that warning on the condition of imperfect information, he (Mr. Gladstone) heartily concurred with him; but when be heard the Honourable and Learned Gentleman, not content with warning the House against its interference, but laying down a principle as the ground of his warning, which principle would' be as good now as when the House was perfectly informed. When he heard that the Legislature of Canada had been voting money for the people of Canada, he (Mr. Gladstone protested against a doctrine which interfered with the supremacy of the British Legislature.—(Loud cheers from the Opposition.) He merely protested against the reason of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. He (Mr. Gladstone) contended that that House ha'l a per fect right to interfere in all Imperial concerns. It was a question of wisdom and prudeilco whether the House should interfere or not; but the fact of the money of this Bill being provided by Canada would not be conclusive of itself against interference, provided that interference should be called for on other grounds.—(Hear, hear.) He well knew this was a question of race, but the statement of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had read did not touch the question at issue. He had seen a hundred times over that this was a quession of race, but never had he heard it stated before that this was a question of race in the House of Assembly. Everybody knew that the Members in that House of Assembly who were of French origin were in a minority in that House. The question was whether this was a question of race not within the walls, but without the walls of the House of Assembly. The Colonial Government had a discretion over matters which were not important; but the super vision of the Government of this country over all colonial affairs was, or ought to be, strict and unlimited. On both sides of the House Hon. Members would doubt less think it their imperative duty to examine with care every step of the proceedings that bad taken place in Canada when in possession of the whole of the facts; but in the meantime he trusted no judgment would be pro nounced on the conduct of the Executive or of her Ma jesty's Government until the House had been afforded an opportunity of carefully emamining the whole of the papers. Sir G; GREY considered that they would act wisely if th e y a b s t a i ne d from passing any judgment upon the itnperrect information which Ised. He did not wish to continue wished to state that he did not Ind Learned Gontleman to deny , rnment to give or withhold its ap done by the Assembly of Canada. Tear, hear. at that a Governor was sent out, and that his sanction was required to the Bills proposed by the Assembly, implied that this was so. Had the Hon. and Learned Gentleman contended that we did not possess that right he should have denied the accuracy of his statement. As the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had explained that this was his meaning, h hoped that the discussion would then end, and not be renewed until further information was placed before the House.—(Hear.) Mr. GLADSTONE explained that he understood the Hon. and Learned Member not to deny the right of Parliament to interfere. He rather looked to the rea sons the Hon. and Learned Member had adduced in support. of his views than to his abstract reasoning. He had argued that the money belonged to the colony, and that, therefore, they had a right to expend it as they thought proper. Mr. NEWDEGATE expressed a hope that the:country would not prejudge the question at issue. Mr. ROEBUCK explained that he read the names of members who had voted on the questicn from a list which had been sent to him from Canada. Mr. J. E. DENISON thanked the Hon. and Learned Member for affording the House any information on the subject. He thought it would be understood from the discussion that the House did not wish to prejudge the question, or to act immaturely with respect to it. The papers were then laid upon the table. ASCENSION DAY. Mr. ADDERLEY moved that to-morrow, bein g As cension Day, no Committee do meet and pro cee d with business before two o'clock. He said he saw no reason why the same rule as existed with respect to Ash Wed nesdays should not be applied to Ascension Day. He was utterly at a loss to see why any distinction should be made between the two days. Ho trusted, therefore, no opposition would be offered. Mr. CHRISTOPHER seconded the motion. Mr. BRIGHT disapproved of the motion, because he did not see where the adoption of such a course would end.—(Hear.) There seemed an extraordinary halluci nation: as to the periods when that House should not transact any business. For instance, last year they had a debate whether they should or should not adjourn on the Derby-day. The Christian Church held several days in the year as important and which should be re ligiously observed. One of those days was the anniver sary of the day on which an unfortunate monarch suf fered, and when members were expected to go to church—but very . few went.—(Laughter)--he meant upon that particular day. He saw no reason why they should give up part of to-morrow. They had no Act, no custom by which the whole day, or any part of it, should be devoted to other purposes than business. He was a member of an important Committee en the Irish Poor-law. Several persons bad come over from Dublin yesterday to be examined upon it to-morrow and Fri day; and if the Committee did not sic until two to-mor row these gentlemen, who were anxious to get back, might be detained over Sunday. It was doubtful if they could conclude their examination if they sat during the ordinary period to-morrow and Friday. He opposed the motion because he could not see where it would end, if their common sense did not prevent them. Why, if they pro ceeded in this way, they might be asked to adopt a similar course with respect to all the parti cular days named in the Testament. Then, as the people of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland had each its particular set of saints, they might be asked to adjourn upon those days. Sir GEORGE GREY said when the Hon. Member spoke to him first about his motion, it was that the House itself should not sit until after two o'clock, and he said the Government would oppose it. He then altered it to its present form. He said he saw no reason why the same rule should not be applied to Ascension-day as Ash- Wednesday ; but that was acceded to by the general consent of the House.—(Hear.) If the House wished to a similar rule, the Government would not object. Mr. SIMEON supported the motion. Mr. BRIGHT thought if the permission was to be left with the Committee, to take any course they chose upon the subject, the difficulty would be got over. Mr. S. CRAWFORD thought the time had come when the House should act upon some fixed principle upon the subject. He could not see, if this motion was adopted, why it would not be competent for the Roman Catholic Members of the House to insist that their saint days should be observed by the House.—(Hear.) The motion was then agreed to without a division. LANDLORD AND TENANT-BILL. The House then went into Committee on this Bill; Mr. BERNAL in the chair. Mr. CHRISTOPHER rose to move the amend ments of which he had given notice, the first of which was to omit in the first clause the words relating to the purchase of food for cattle or sheep. Mr. PUSEY objected to the omission of the words. Sir R. PEEL supported the clause as it stood. Mr. EVELYN DENISON said that the clause ma terially affected those persons who had invested capital in what might be called temporaryimprovements, as, for instance, those who had dressed their lands with arti ficial manure, or any other expensive condiment of a natural character, such as guano, a case for which he thought a provision ought to be made. The law as it stood provided to a certain extent, but only to a certain extent, and, believing that the amendment would pro vide for the deficiency, he should vote for it. Sir W. JOLLIFFE said that the Bill as it stood would certainly lead to no end of litigation. How were they to arrange according to the custom of the country in Surrey, Sussex, and the neighbouring counties ? For his own part, he conceived that some better arrangement was necessary to secure the outgoing tenant upon short holdings. Mr. SIDNEY HEBBERT said that as the Bill stood it was quite sufficient for the purpose for which it was intended. The land would be greatly amended by it, and it left the tenant, whether on lease or at will, at liberty to do as he pleased, and did not compel the tenant for life to sacrifice his own interest for the benefit of his successor. lie might improve the land if he pleased, but he was not compelled to do so. • Mr. NEWDEGATE said, notwithstanding the high respect in which he held the opinion of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth (Sir R. Peel), he did conceive that some greater security for the wel fare of the tenant was required than they had at present possessed or were likely to obtain by this Bill. After a few words in explanation from Mr. CIERISTO PLIER and Mr. PINEY, Mr. ROEBUCK said that one object appeared to have been lost sight of in the Bill. Hon. Members bad talked of the interest of the tenant, but they had altogether overlooked the interest of another, that was the owner of the land.—(Hear, hear.) A man might by a course of white crops completely take the heart of the ground, but no remedy was left for his landlord. Mr. PUSEY pointed out the clause which he con ceived protected the landlord. Mr. iIENLEY thought that this amendment provided the best possible means of getting rid of a great diffi culty. After a few observations from Mr. S. k WORD and Sir W. JOLLIFFE, the Hcuse divided, when there apr For Mr. Christopher's amendme 27 Against it Majority -75 Mr. CIIRISTOPHEIZ moved, as a❑ amendment, a line five, after the word "fences," to insert the words, " or by the erection of substantial farm buildings." Mr. BUSBY said, in the first Bill that was introduced compensation for farm buildings was recognised. He thought it better they should adhere to the report of the Committee. .~ - ~---i Mr. MILES expressed his approval of the amend. meat. Mr. HENLEY thought the true reason for this amendment was to make the law uniform ; and he never knew any reason why a tenant of l an d should not be put on the same footing as tradesmen with respect to the buildings for carrying on their trade. Mr. DENISON concurred in the remark which had fallen from the Hon. Member (Mr. Henley). The amendment was negatived without a division. Mr. CHRISTOPHER next moved, after the words "not exceeding," to strike out the word "twelve," and instead thereof to insert the word "nine," (restricting compensation to tenants for improvements to that period). After some discussion, it was agreed that the blank should be filled up with twelve, and the amendment was negatived without a division. The discussion of the clause was continued by Mr. EvelyniDenison, Sir Charles Burrell, Mr. Newdegate, Mr. Pusey, Sir W. and several other IMQM hers, but it is impossible to make it understood without citing and commenting on the whole of the Bill, the amendments moved being only verbal in character. Mr. BERNAL then put the question that clause 3, as amended, should stand part of the Bill. Sir H. VERNEY moved an amendment that the clause be struck out of the Bill. Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and on our re admission into the gallery there appeared— For the clause Against it Majority in favour of the clause —lO9 On the proposition that the sth clause be adopted, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL suggested that the fifth and sixth clauses should be embodied in one. After some observations from 111 r. Pusey, Mr. W. Miles, Mr. Evelyn Denison , Mr. Christopher, the Earl of March, Sir G. Strickland, Mr. Henley, Mr. Philip Howard, and Mr. Newdegate in explanation, Mr. PUSEY said he would adop t the suggestion, and withdraw the two clauses. The two clauses were then accordingly struck out. Clause 7, with some slight amendment, was agreed to, as were also clauses 8,9, and 10. Mr. NEWDEGATE moved the following addition to clause 11:—" Provided always, that no owner of any farm, of which he is not possessed in fee simple, shall have power, under this Act, by agreement with the tenant of such farm, to render any future owner of such farm liable for any principal sum by way of compensation for improvements which shall exceed two years' rent of such farm, according to the annual value thereof at the time of making such agreement : provided also, that no tenant of such farm shall have power, under this Act, to recover, by virtue of any such agreement, from any future owner, any such principal sum by way of compensation fcr improvements, except by seven equal annual instalments; and at the time of the pay ment of each annual instalment, interest at the rate of 54 per cent. per annum upon th e w h o l e amount then due shall likewise be paid; and the first of the above instal ments and payments of interest shall not be due until one year's rent of such farm shall have been paid to such future owner." Mr. PUSEY hoped the Hon. Gentleman would not press his amendment. Mr. NEWDEGATE thought that the Bill would be liable to great malversation unless there was some stringent provision to limit the power of the tenant in possession with respect to his dealing with the suc ceeding tenant. Mr. PALMER considered, that in a clause of the kind, some alteration was desirable, p.ltheug. , ,h he did not agree in the proposed addition of his Hon. Friend. After a few observations from the Attorney. General, Mr. Henley, and some other lion. Members, strangers were ordered to withdraw, but no division took place. Sir JAMES GRAIIAM said this was not the moment for discussing the principle of the Bill. The doubt thrown out by the Honourable Member for Warwick shire was a doubt with respect to the principle of the Bill itself. He (Sir James Graham) wished to see this Bill perfected by a Committee, and ho should reserve his opinion on the principle of the Bill until the third read ing.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. NEWDEGATE felt there was a grave doubt on the principle of the Bill. What he aimed at in this Bill was a safe power of charging estates with incumbrances to persons of limited incomes. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the proviso Against it Majority 2B The clause was then agreed to. Mr. PACKE suggested a verbal amendment to clause 12:—"After the consent of the landlord has been obtained in writing;" upon which some discussion en sued, in which Mr. Christopher, the Attorney-General, and Mr. Bouverie took part. Mr. HEADLAM said he should persist in his amend ment, and strangers were ordered to withdraw, but no division took place, and the clause, with some slight amendments, was agreed to. This being the last clause, the Chairman was instructed to report the Bill to the House, and the House having re sumed, he did so accordingly, and the report was ordered to be brought up on Monday. BANKRUPTCY (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill went through Committee pro forma, and was ordered to be recommitted on the 13th June. GRAND JURY CESS (IRELAND) BILL. The amendments to this Bill wero considered and or dered to be reconsidered to-morrow. SMITH O'BRIEN. Lord JOHN RUSSELL gave notice that on Friday he should move that Mr. Smith O'Brien be expelled from the House. The other orders of the day were then disposed of; and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Six o'clock. TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING. Six o'cLocK. DERBY. 9 to 4 agst Flying Dutchman—taken 9 to 2 agst Nunnykirk 11 to 2 agst Tadmor 9 to 1 agst Elthiron 16 to 1 agst Chatterer 25 to 1 agst The Knout 30 to 1 agst Honeycomb 40 to 1 agst Montague 50 to 1 agst The Old Fox 66 to 1 agst Drakelow OAKS. 6 to 1 agst Glauca 7 to 1 agst Clarissa 16 to 1 agst Caricature READING, GUILDFORD, AND REI- GATE RAILWAY.-(THIS DAY.) . A special general meeting of the proprietors of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway was held this morning, at the offices in Exchange-buildings, for the purpose of approving of a Bill authorising the construc tion of a branch to connect this line with the London and South-Western; Mr. D. Salomons in the chair. The CHAIRMAN stated that the branch had already been made by consent, but, for security's sake, tha directors thought it better to have it sanctioned by Act of Parliament. After a short discussion the Bill was approved of, and the meeting terminated with a vote of thanks to the Chairman. DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—This afternoon, about three o'clock, a dreadful occurrence took place at a house in Shire-lane. near Temple-bar. It appears a young female took a lodging there last night, stating she had left her situation in Golden-square. This afternoon she went out fur a short time, and when she returned was watched in by two women, who shortly after wards, accompanied by a City policeman, en tered the house, and proceeded upstairs to the room of this unfortunate girl. No sooner had they en tered the room than she sprang from the window, and fell a distance of forty feet into a back yard, fracturing the back part of her skull in a dreadful manner. She was conveyed to King's College Hospital, but there is no hope of her recovery. She is said to have a great quantity of property in her possession. - haaad -.' : occurred on I "W ~. y. , nt possessi 1 4 1 'f' :Syr • „ •• h e , . I i ... i ii.., . i . :4 on. al 4114. 4 4 i , ', ~4•',! v. —Hi .. • A; ' 4 ' 3 ' The t.... - . --. 1 6- .•,‘ ,_ v ,1. 1 , THE S 1 N, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1849. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MAY 10.—The House of Representatives at Debreczin has appointed Messaros Lieutenant Field-Marshal Minister of War. The Ban Jellachich arrived at Agram on the 7th. lie was received with great enthusiasm, and the city was illuminated in the evening. He presided at a sitting of the Banat Council, and intends joining the army immediately. The Wiener Zeitung of this day says, in an article dated Nawes, the 2d May, yesterday we heard a heavy cannonade in the trenches of Jablusch, and a courier arrived during the night with the intelligence that the military treasury chest had been carried off from Jellachich by the Czecks. The Magyars, who were opposed to: the Imperialists and were drawn up at Budatin and Narin, on the right bank of the Waag, were 3,000 in number, with three pieces of artillery. Major Trenk was able to oppose them with only 64 companies and 2 field pieces ; nor had he time to concentrate hisj army. One of his guns was almost immediately rendered unfit for use. He was there fore compelled to fall back upon Jublunka with a loss of from 40 to 50 wounded and prisoners. We hear from Sandez that many fugitives from Stowaka are there. Vogel is said to be in Kaschan, and Bendedek in Kasmark, notwithstanding which the Magyar guerilla were carrying on their manoeuvres there. The Prince Radetzky has appointed the son of Prince Windischgratz his aide-de camp.— German Papers, May 10. DENMARK AND SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ALTONA, MAY 13.—The accounts received here this morning by rail from the scene of war mention the confirmation of the occupation of 'Veile and also Horsens by the Prussian troops and the other German auxiliaries. The Danes were also said to be disin clined to make any defence at Fredericia, on account of the inutility of sacrificing the inhabitants to the horrors of an assault, and because the works are, otherwise, in so dilapidated a state for years past, and the Jutland people had supposed that, under the protec tive guarantee of England, France, and Russia, such an invasion of their territory would have been almost impossible. Negotiations are reported to have been set on foot after the summons conveyed to the Danish General on the part of General Bonin, to make an immediate surrender of the fortress. The Danish troops had been conveyed over to the opposite island of Fuhnen, excepting a very small portion as a gar rison. The Danish loss in the action of Gudso is given at 91 killed and wounded, and that of the Ger mans at 100, in General Bonin's official report. The news from the interior parts of Germany name outbreaks everywhere occurring, and the pro fession of a civil barricade engineer is now the prin cipal one thought of. The last news from Saxony mention that the insurgents from Dresden have corn- menced a sort of guerilla warfare, levying the contributions necessary for their support from the small towns and villages. The picture of the thirty years' war is unnecessary to attract public attention. Things look very gloomy here, and this morning a batch of 200 sick and wounded has come from the north of the duchy of Schleswig, which makes in two short days the increasing number of 389 men for the hospitals, which are now quite full, *ith but limited means to support them. THE ROMAN REPUBLIC. - - The following is the address of the Constituent Assembly of Rome to the Governments sand Parlia ments of France and England : "The Representatives of the free Roman people con fidently appeal to the Governments and to the Parlia ments of the two most free and most powerful nations of Europe. "It is well known that we have been for many ages governed by the Church, with the same special and ab• solute authority in all matters temporal as in spiritual, whence it happened that, amid the enlightenment of the 19th century, we are s urroun d e d by th e darkness of the middle ages. Civilization was combated at times with open warfare, always with the force of inertia, to such a degree that it was considered a crime in us to feel and call ourselves Italians. "It is well known that we have o n man y occas i ons at tempted to achieve our own liberty ; b u t E uro p e h as made u s expiate by a harder slavery those very a tt em pt s by which other nations have been rendered glorious. At length, after our long martyrdom, the day of re demption appeared to have arrived, and we trusted to the power of ideas as well as to that of events, and to the mild character of the Prince. We desired, above all things, to be Italians ; this was a crime. We believed ourselves free ; this was an illusion. The day came when the Prince abandoned us, and we were left without government; all attempts at conciliation failed; messages and messengers from the Parliament and the municipality were rejected; the people awaited their time with patience, but the emigrated Government no longer proffered a single word of liberty or of love; it stigmatised three millions of men with the guilt of an individual, and when we deliberated on employing the only means which remained to us for constituting an authority which the Prince had, in fact, abdicated, the priest pronounced a malediction upon us. " It is well known that our Assembly had its origin in universal tuifrage; that Assembly, exercising of ne cessity an imprescriptible right, decreed the dethrone ment of theocracy for ever, and proclaimed the republic. " No one opposed it. The only voice of complaint arose from that theocracy which we had overthrown. And yet it is to this voice that Europe is willing to listen, and seems to forget the story of our woes, and to con • found what lies within the province of spiritual authority with that which is purely temporal. " The Roman Republic has sanctioned the indepen dence and the free exercise of the spiritual authority of the Pope, and has thereby demonstrated to the Catholic world how profoundly deep is its conviction that the liberty of religious action should b e i nse p ara bl e f rom t h e supreme head of the church. To maintain this liberty in the fullest integrity, the Roman Republic adds to the moral guarantee afforded by the devotion of all our Ca tholic brethren the material guarantee of all the force at its disposal. But Europe is not contented with this, and it is repeated that the existence of the temporal power of the Pope is essential to Catholicism. " Fur this reason a e invite the Governments and Par liaments of France and England to consider what right can he alleged by any power to impose any form of go vernment whatever on an independent nation, and where is the wisdom of attempting to restore a government by its very nature irreconcileable with liberty and civiliza tion—a government long since morally abolished, and actually so for upwards of five months, without any one among the clergy having attempted to set up again its fallen standard : or where is the wisdom of resuscitating a Government universally detested, incapable of a long ex i sten ce, and, on the contrary, certain to provoke con tinual conspiracies, disturbances, and revolutions? " And if we assert that such a government cannot be identified and reconciled either with liberty or civiliza tion, we have surely good grounds for such an assertion, since the experiment we have lately made of a consti tution has proved how much the attempt to establish an affinity and combination between temporal and spi ritual concerns has impeded its working and develop ment. Here ecclesiastical canons nullified civil sta tutes: under the empire of theocracy public education and instruction were the privilege and monopoly of the clergy—the ecclesiastical privilege of mortmain im peded the transmission of property. Ecclesiastics were exempted by privilege from appearing before the civil tribunals, while the laity were subject to the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical tribunals, all which constituted a condition of things so far removed from real liberty or civilization, that any free nation must prefer the alter native of waging ten wars to enduring a single one of them. And how can Europe —so often thrown into commotions by the sacerdotal power which launched the thunders of the Church against her states—how can she expect three millions of men to submit at the present day to an authority which not only exercises its political right of temporal punishment but even threatens damnation to cannot reason herself into the belief his that agu ai s n of s r t le free the offender,Europe institutions ca n be fitly carried out under a Prince who can, Und er cover o f hi s po li t i ca l power , turn the enormous authority of the priest to perplexing and disturbing consciences. " We trust that England and France, so justly jealous of their own independence, will never willingly consent that there should exist in the centre of Italy a people neutral with respect to other nations made serfs for the sake of the rest of the Catholic world, excluded from the rights of nations, and made a mere apanage for the clergy. The Roman people claim to be masters of the Roman state. And if Catholic nations may intervene in behalf of their re ligious affairs, surely they have no right to interfere with our political rights, or our social pact. However neutrality may be imposed upon a whole nation, it surely cannot be imposed on the central district of a country with regard to the rest, it being impossible for this centre to have by itself a national life, by the mere force of treaties or protocols. " The representatives of the Roman people would con sider it an insult to the political wisdom of the Govern ments and Parliaments of France and England, were they to doubt their acknowledging the importance of the rights and arguments herein slightly touched upon, no less than the advantages to Europe herself, who must ensure its own lasting tranquillity by securing the aboli tion of the priesthood. Undoubtedly it can never ba expected of us that we should not oppose the restoration with a bold, deter mined, and irrevocable will; nor can Europe impute to us the threatening catastrophe that may ensue, nor the inevitable injury that a violent and bloody restoration would occasion, even to the Catholic authority of the Papacy. We are convinced that England and France will lend us both aid and counsel in order to avert such evils, and to draw closer the bond of amity in which all free nations should now be united.—For the National Assembly, G. GALLETTI, President. G. PENNACCHI, A. FABBRETTI, A. ZAN OBIA NCIII, G. COCCHI, Secretaries. Rome, April 18, 1819. • RAGGED SCHOOL UNION. Yesterday evening, at six o'clock, the; annual general meeting of this society was held in the large room at Exeter-hall, every part of which was crowded to excess on the occasion. Of all the May meetings this has been by far the most numerously attended, all the approaches being besieged with applicants for admission, and many being obliged to go away, having failed to procure even standing room. The proceedings having bean opened by prayer and praise, Lord A SIILEY, who occupied the chair, rose and said that they had met to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Ragged School Union, which had greatly enlarged its desires, and increased its efforts. They were met in that magnificent hall,not only to ask, but to demand the sym pathies of the British empire in the great work which they bad undertaken. They still retained the epithet of " ragged schools," whereby they had first become known, because it marked the line of their duty and the sphere of their operations ; but he trusted that the Ragged School Union was about to take its just and proper footing among the best and greatest of the religious societies of this vast metropolis.---(Cheers.) He was not going to anticipate the report, but he called on them in that moment of congratulation to join with him in humble thankfulness to Almighty God who had been pleased to bless their efforts with so vat a measure of success. In spite of the difficulties and obstacles that had stood in their path—in spite of the positive discountenance of those who should have been the first to welcome and assist them, in what position did they now stand? Only four years ago they num bered their schools by ten and their scholars by hun dreds, but now they maintained eighty-two schools, the greater number of them being in connexion with the union ; of these thirty were held during the day, and fifty in the evening. In them there were twenty industrial classes, and there had passed through them, receiving more or less instruction according to circumstances, and being more or less under the influence of the institution, nearly 15,000 of the most filthy, destitute,-forgotten, and hitherto despised children. But were they to stop at that point, and resting satisfied with what they had done to seek an inglorious repose? Had they done nothing at all, they might plead that all was hopeless; but the great mea sure of success that had hitherto attended them would be turned to their condemnation if they did no go further.—(Cheers.) If they h a d succeeded in bringing 10,000 of these children under civilizing and religious influences, 20,000 more still remained as ready to re ceive the benefits which the institution offered. Ho asked the meeting only to consider what (less it was on whose behalf he appealed for sympatby—to look at their physical condition —to see the hundreds and thousands that perambulated the streets, the back courts, and alleys of the metropolis, totally unable to extricate themselves from the miserable conditioe, physical and moral, in which they were plunged. It was well to sand out missions to the heathen, and he re joiced that it was so; but there were to be found in stances of heathenism just as striking in the courts and alleys of this Christian city as in the depths of Pekin or the haunts of Thnbuctoo.—(Cheers.) If, however, they were really anxious to extract from these children, to whom their care was directed, all the good results that were desirable, they must enable them, by their aid and protection, to fight the great battle of life. (Cheers.) It was not sufficient that they should pass through the ragged schools; but they must and hands the r o a f r tehecases so ciety for schools also be placedut the i in numbersome k of i nd instanceso f honeisnt which employment. tchildren il o in pointe d o h a o ud ne s i t n y . p r H o e o i s . t t r h o e n r g e 0 1 y r a r d e v i o d c a s t o e m d e e m i gra - * tlon as the best means of o e p t u r o r n v ie.d o nf h f proledd i e . d f o ng or t e uture career of t h ese w a nt f theto which they been s rt r h , e a affect ing letters from boys and girls who had already been sent out to South Australia at the public expense. One of these ht el- ,vr , tere was, when first brought under the care of the society, such an object of compassion that the pri nc i pa l thief. of the district taking compassion on his de stitute con diti on, a f ter va i n l y en d eavour i ng to support hi m , a t l ast b roug h t hi m to t h e refuge c hildren, of the society in Pye•street, Westminster. It was said that ragged schools were one-sided in their phi lanthropy, an d s h owed an undue partiality for children the outcast s o f soc i ety, over the offspring of the poor but indepe n d ent l abourer. But the means of the so ciety w ere li mited, and it was necessary to confino their operati ons accordingly, and by improving the basis of soci e ty they improved the whole of the superstructure, and, therefore, he asked the meeting what they would resolve to do with all the hopes and promises before them. The Noble Lord concluded by calling on the meeting to rise to the discharge of the great duties be• fore them, and in doing so to bless God from the bottom of their hearts that they were about to thrust their sickles into that harvest which, by His blessing, was already ripe for the hands of the reaper.—(Loud cheers.) The SECRZTARY then read the report, which stated that the funds of the society had been vastly increased. The subscription s having risen from 891. in the pre ceding to 3381. in the past year, while the donations had risen from 520/. to 3,1681. in the same period. The report then proceeded to notice the society's opera tions during the year, and especially the immense bene fits con! erred by the means of emigration supplied by Government to ragged school children willing to settle in the colonies. An earnest hope was expressed that this boon, o b taine d b y t h e exert i ons o f Lord Ashley during the past year, might be continued permanently. Since last June 150 boys and girls had been sent out to Australia at the public expense, and were now doiro' very well. The 82 schools of the society were now taught by more than 1,000 voluntary or paid teachers, yet even that number, great as it was, was found quite a ithquate. The Duke of ARGYLE moved the adoption of the report, and expressed his deep sense of the vast and paramount importance of the work which the meeting had assembled to aid. This was one of those great works, and there were many such in the history of the world, which had been conceived, begun, and carried on, by a few earnest, faithful, and loving men—(flear)— which had worked its way gradually to public acknow ledgment; and to none were the public more indebted for the result than to hie Noble Friend who occupied the chair. The surprise only was that such an institution as ragged schools had not been discovered sooner. Some persons objected to missions to the heathen world on the ground that in their own land they were sur rounded by heathens, and the assertion was, he regretted to say, but too true; but let all who withheld their sympathy and support from foreign missions on such grounds come forward and support ragged schools. and they would have a glorious union and overflowing funds.—(Cheers.) It the duty was once acknowledged, there could be no objection to the mode in which the duty was to be fulfilled. It was known that the chunces of reclaiming the adult criminal were comparatively small, but with children there was every prospect and hope, under the Divine blessing, of getting rid of one of the greatest evils that ever afflicted a Christian city. If they could succeed in withdrawing children from those hot-beds of misery and vice in which they were so often born, there was little doubt that a great diminution in the amount of crime would follow. He quoted in proof of this a state ment made by the governor at the gaol at Edinburgh, to the effect that after the institution of ragged schools crime had diminished in that city fifty per cent. The late lamented Dr. Chalmers was in the habit of de claring what one could do when one got alongside of a human being. If the expression was true with regard to a grown up man, how much more so was it in refer ence to a child. They had all been passing through one of the greatest crises which had ever happened in the history of the world. They had hitherto passed through safely, and he trusted they might do so to the close. But those who had been on the conti nent and who were there then expressed their astonish ment and wonder where those faces lighted up with bad passions, those creatures of misery and crime, came from who haunted the streets of the great cities of Europe in times of revolution. lie had heard it said that such a class could not be produced in England; but he (the Duke of Argyle) advised the meeting not to believe such a statement too readily. Those who had entered the haunts of vice in the metropolis would tell them that there were a vast number of beings thero who, were it the design of Providence to visit upon this city the iniquity of which it had been guilty, would be fit in struments of such punishment.—(Cheers.) It was therefore their duty and their highest interest to enter these abodes of vice with the Bible in their hands and to teach the young, especially, the principles and truth of Christianity. In his elegy on a " Country Churchyard," the poet Gray lamented the great powers of intellect which were lost in the obscurity of poverty; but in the children whose welfare they had met to pro mote, intellectual power instead of being undeveloped was misdirected to the most grievous purposes of evil. —(Cheers.) They became the victims of the hangman and the inmates of the gaol, or were sent as convicts to the most distant regions of the earth. It was from such a fate that the Ragged School Union was formed to rescue them, and he trusted that those who were there assembled would devote themselves to that work with energy and zeal, and that instead of their revenue being reckoned by hundreds of pounds, it would go on increas ing till it was placed on a level with those for the heathen missions, at present 20 or :30 times larger in amount. Mr. F. MAULE, in seconding the report, said he con gratulated the great body of the community on the spectacle before him, the immense number pact to cele brate the work of raising their fellow-creatures from .gliorance and moral death to become useful, and perhaps ornamental, portions of society. This was a duty which combined the two great commandments is the law, being a duty to God and a duty to our neighbour. It was not so true, to use the language of Scripture, that the children of the ragged schools were " . fallen among thieves," as that they were " born among thieves." Education was the fashion of the day, and he wished that the efforts making in that respect might be abundantly blessed. But the children of the ragged schools must be torn from .the vicious circumstances and influences by which they were surrounded. This must be done if they hoped to rob the gaol of its inmate, or the hang man of his victim. There was no subject which more merited the consideration of the political economist in the strictest sense than the institution of ragged schools, and the example which in this respect had been set in London had been followed extensively throughout the country. He concluded by characterising ragged schools as the greatest blessing that God had given to man in his time for the benefit of th e ir over - crow d e d c i t i es . _ _ Mr. IJINDLEY supported the resolution, ands;id; that while he admitted that the ragged schools were a great necessity he declared that that necessity was a great di;s• grace. He produced the raw material out of which cloth and paper could now be manufactured, acd having shown as a contrast the articles produced from them, asked whether Christian men would be outdone by the men of the world, and give up their destitute and helpless fellow-creatures in despair ?—(Cheers.) The resolution was then carried unanimously. Mr. J. LABOUCHERE moved the next resolution, which was as follows:—: " That there are in the metropolis many thousands of poor poverty, youths childrenor thew -ho , ofmsrso of the par nt s neglect, ar the e t be and desertion, en tirely destitute of the means of instruction, exposed to all the evils of ignorance and to all the allurements of vice, and that free schools for this class (especially Even ing and industrial schools) are well deserving the hearty support of all true friends to the poor." Mr. E. CORDERER seconded and the Rev. W. ARTHUR supported te rsolution, whic was greed to. The Rev. h W e . ARTHUR, the h Rev. a J. SHERMAN, Mr. H. POWNALL, and other gentlemen, then addressed the meeting, and resolutions %ere adopted in accordance with e the obj ects o f t h e i nstitution. fhe proceedings terminated with the usual vote of thanks to the Chairman. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The telegraphic an nouncement of the acceptance of Lord Palmerston's proposition, by Denmark, has had no sensible influ ence upon yarns in this day's market. Favourable as the removal of the blockade (if confirmed) must be to the northern trade, there still remains, in the revolu tionary turmoil which pervades the whole of Ger many, a much greater obstacle and a far more for midable danger to our commercial intercourse with the continent. The private letters received this morning give a very gloomy and discouraging picture of the state of political affairs, and of the prospect which the German people have before them. The anxiety of the merchants is, of course, increased; and their determination not to purchase beyond the bond fide wants of the hour is strengthened. To• day. their operations have been of trifling amount. In this protracted absence of demand, the yarns suitable for that class of buyers have been purchasoable, in some instances, on rather lower terms than sellers were willing to accept a week ago. For India but little has been done, and No. 40's are scarcely firm. The manufac turers are very cautious in their buying. The goods market has been inanimate. The India houses are less inclined to enter into contracts than they were last week, though they are still purchasers of such suitable fabrics as are ready for delivery, of which, however, very little is to be met with. The Levant merchants are doing extremely little ; and other classes of shippers rendered increasingly wary in their operations by the state of European affairs. On the whole, however, there is much firmness in the prices of goods. It is hoped that the fine weather will produce a good effect upon the home trade, which has been in a very unsatisfactory state throughout the season. ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—In the flannel market we have had but very little doing to-day, and the mer chants have purchased very sparingly at former prices. The wool market continues inactive with little or no change in price. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—I3ut little has been doing to-day in our market, and very few buyers have visited us. In the warehouses, the business is equal to the general average of this seasop. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.— OUT Piece Hall has pre sented to-day a very inanimate appearance, and there is no improvement in the demand for worsted goods. Prices are consequently drooping. The demand for yarns is also slack for the home market, and entirely at a stand foi the continent. The spinners have now, fur the most part, completed their orders, and are working to stock. The late rates are, accordingly, not maintained. The wool market is still very quiet, and prices more in favour of the buyer. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—There is no change worthy of notice in the state of our market, which continues much the same as last week. The colonial wool sales now going on in London fetch quite as good prices as last February, c9ntrary to the general expectation. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Roe,ini's sparkling Barbiere de Sivialia g was performed here last eveni ng , b y s p ec i a l d es ire of her Majesty, who, with Prince Albert, honoured the theatre with her pre sence. The cast was remarkably strong ; indeed, we doubt whether, at any lyrical theatre in the world, the chef d'ceuvre of Rossini could have been cast so strongly. Mademoiselle Alboni was the Rosina, Lablache the Dun Bartolo, Gardoni the Count, Beletti the Figaro, and F. Lablache the Don Basilio. Alboni is as far and away the best Rosina on the stage, as is Lablache the best Don Bartolo. Never have we heard the far-famed " Una voce" so exquisitely rendered as it was rendered last night by Mademoiselle Alboni.. Her rich and mellow tones told most effectively in this delicious aria. The house listened in a silence of delight until the conclusion, and then there was a loud and unanimous call for its repetition, which was gracefully complied with. As the pianoforte lesson she chose "In questa semplice," which was honoured—most deservedly —with a double encore. We never heard her sing this aria, in the rendering of which she is at all times unapproachable, with greater spirit, taste, and effect than she did last evening. The bye play of Lablache, during the singing lesson was full of rich humour; his look of surprise at the singing of his pupil, and his applause at the end, were full of the true vis cornice. Gardoui made an interesting Count, and 13elletti an active animated Figaro. They were much applauded in the glorious duet "Nil idea di qual metallo." F. Lablache made up Don Basilio admirably, and seldom indeed hes the Barbiere been so perfectly represented as it was last evening. In compliance with the desire of the Queen, the last two scenes of the new ballet of Electra, including the pas de deux between Carlotta Grisi and Marie Taglioni, concluding with the magnificent con stellation of the Pleiades, and the restoration of the lost Eeiad, were given between the acts of the opera. The house was crowded in every part. THE IRON TRADE.—BIRMINGHAM, MONDAY. — The price of iron, with little inclination to drop, remains the same as last quarter's quotations. The stocks of dealers, owing to the time they have waited in exixctation of a reduction of price, are becoming small. It is stated that the ironmastors are now manufacturing to excess, but there ap pears to be little doubt that from necessity a demand must shortly occur which will relieve them from any apparent orermake. The fact that the wages of work men in all departments have been advanced is a strong proof of the confidence entertained of the sttihility of present rates. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday wore esti mated at from 4,000 to 5,000 tales, of which 500 were taken for export, and 1,000 on speculation. The mar ket closed firmly without alteration in prices. Railway Shares were rather better, but only a limited business was done. In Mark Lane this morning, a steady trade is doing in all descriptions of grain, and at fully Monday's price:. The arrivals include 7,240 quarters of Foreign Wheat, and 3,520 of Oats. The position and prospects of the Mexican Bondholders are brought now so frequently under notice, thanks to the exertions of their committee in London and their agent in the Republic, that there is hardly any security with the approximate position of which parties may be come better acquainted. It is greatly to the credit also of the Mexican Government, that they make exertions to satisfy the just demands upon them, and it is cheer ing to observe that their means appear to improve with their will. We have strong hopes that in time the South American States will also be all brought, where still remiss, into a satisfactory compromise. The committee of Spanish American Bondholders have received, via the United States letters, from Mr. W. P. Robertson, to the 12th of April. From these, it appears that his negotiations with the Mexican Government were continued with unabated perseverance, and that he was ably and vigorously supported by her Majesty's representative, Mr. Doyle. Mr. Robertson had succeeded in obtaining a pro mise from the Finance Minister to apply imme diately- to Congress for permission to appropriate to the purposes of the foreign debt a sum of 720,000 dolls. to be received from the Government of the United States, for interest on the current instalment of the in demnity money ; and Mr. Robertson would follow up this arrangement by endeavouring to secure further ap propriations from the same fund. He anticipates that, taking into account the sums that may be expected from the Custom-house duties at Vera Cruz and Tampico, in conjunction with the above sum of 720,000 dolls., a further dividend will be available by January next at latest. Mr. Robertson expected that the Government would ere long he prepared to make some proposition for dealing with the arrears of interest. The question relating to the cotton licenses, the tobacco revenue, and the silver duties at the Pacific ports, were also engaging the attention of Mr. Robertson in his negotiations with the Government. We hear it whispered that the further correspondence which the committee are now having translated touches upon some rather delicate points, and that Mr. W. P. Robertson has shown himself a strict investigator, who may accomplish good, not only with the local govern ment, but with parties indebted to it, and who are re. ported to have not been very strict in their dealings. As this may be made the subject of particular inquiry, we reserve further remarks, and may simply state at present our belief that the bondholders may expect fuller re mittances hereafter. There are advices of January 16th from Port Philip. The number of emigrants arrived during the month was 3,680, and it is stated that the colony could have housed during the same time, without at all feeling it a pres sure on the labour market, five times the number. The existing high rate of wages is said to have proved this. Able-bodied men would not engage under 261., and females in proportion. The Sydney accounts of January sth give full details of tho disposal of the bank of Australia properties, and the arrangements appear to have given satisfaction to the shareholders. The Penyard Park had arrived out safe, aster a protracted voyage of 157 days. Mercan tile affairs were as dull as ever, and prices much the same. The letters by the Ostend mail state that the loss by the destruction of the great sugar refinery at Rotterdam which, even at the date of these accounts, was still burn ing, had been from three to four millions of florins. The Stock Market at Amsterdam, on Monday, was without any particular variation, as regarded Dutch Securities, but the Foreign Bondi were well supported. At Berlin on the 12th inst., Russian Bonds were 104, and at Vienna, on the 10th, 89-i. The English Stock Market is exceedingly quiet this morning, and steadier than yesterday, although a little flat in consequence of the " drop" in the French rentes. After a rise ut 3 per cent. within about a week, it was not to be expecte I but that a re-action would occur at Paris, especially with the knowledge of some heaviness in the English funds. Consols have been 90 to 91 for Transfer, and 91 to * for Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents have been 901 to -11-. Bank Stock is marked 192 i to 194. Exchequer-bills are 455. to 485.; and India bonds 70s. to 71s. premium. In the Foreign Market there is some buoyancy in Mexican Stock, which has realised 314 to 324. with the coupons. Buenos Ayres have realised 374, and Brazilian 78 to 1. Portuguese Four per Cents. aro 28.4, and Spanish Three per Cents. 33 to k. Russian Stuck is 103 k. French Three per Cents. have been 58, with the excuange at 25 30, and Dutch Two-and..a-Half per Cents. at 494 to 50. The report of the South Eastern Railway Cammit tee of Investigation has given great satisfaction, and bears out the statement made for some days past that it would be of a favourable character. In the in discriminate haste to sacrifice their property which the unthinking ever manifest, this line has been greatly de ' pressed, in common with others, and we venture to pre dict that the Midland report will next attest, to some extent at least, the exaggeration of doubt and anxiety that has prevailed. There is one thing clearly shown, viz,, that although Mr. Macgregor is ekonerated from all blame, there has been, according to the re ceived railway practice, for no deinito line of action has yet been laid down, a charg ing of some expenditure to capital which, as is contended, and no doubt justly, should have gone to revenue. We would merely call to mind, however, that if this is to be quietly passed over in one undertaking, it should not excite quite so much clamour in another. It has evidently been a disputed point hitherto, and as such should be viewed. The Share Market to-day is again buoyant, and Mid land, South-Eastern, North-Western, the York, and most other lines, are higher. ONE CLOSING PH, WES OF BEITISII FUNDS. O'rLOCIC. PRICE' Bank Stock 192% 191 194 3.per Cent. Reduced Aims ...... 3 per Cent. Consols Ann u it ies 9l 90 904, New 3% per Cent. Ann1.... . LongAnns. to expire J an. 1860 -16 8% Ditto 30 yeari>, Jan. 5, 1860 B:s,i 8:li India Bond., 1,0004 Ditto under 1,0001.. .. South Sea Stock ....... ..••• --- 98j8 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 1 1 ,4 d. & 2d. 1,000/. June 4B 45 p Small. June PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS 45 p 49 p CLOSIN= ?RIC F.S. 78 78 3 A 57a% 3YB UNE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds 7Bl Ditto, Small Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 37:// 4 Equador Bonds Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons 32 1; 4 31% 31% Ditto, Account, Ditto, Ex Coupons Ditto, Account Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent 2 31 Russian Bonds ... ...... ... 103% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account l7 Ditto, 3 per Cent ... 33% Dividends on the above payable in London [ ;French, 3 per Cent sBf. 58f. Exchange 2.5f. 30c. 25f. 30e. Belgian 4 1 / 2 per Cent Dutch 2 1 / i per Cent., 12 Guild LO 49% 49N PRICES OF PAID. :BUSINESS DONE CLOS ING RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE 3 . Aberdeen 5O Do. Preference ...... 4 1 4 ...... 4 1 4 ... ... 4% Bristol and Exeter 9O ...... 57 ..... ......... 57 Ditto, Thirds Caledonian _ Do. New 101. Pref lO ..... ... 11% Chester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference ls Eastern Counties........ 20 Ditto, Extension, 5 per Cent., No. 1 61.135. 4d.... Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d.., par Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorch. 2% Great Northern Do., IA B 6 per Cent... 7 1 4 5% 5% Treat South. and West. (Ireland) Great North of England 100 ...... --227 Great Western 100 .... 79 78% , Ditto, IA Shares Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto, Fifths..... . ...... 20 - ..... 15% Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 ...., , ..... Ditto, ditto Do. Fifths... ......... Do. Thirds l5 ..... ... Do. (W. Riding Union) 9 ... 3 1 ......... ... .. Leeds and Bradford London, Brighton, and South Coast 50 _ .., 36 ii,, 7ii 36% London and N. Weste rn 100 ..... 128 127% 128 1 4 1',9 Ditto, New Quarters.. 7 ....... Load. &S. Western...... 50 ...... 33 1 / Do.. New Scrip, 1848, , - Pref. 7 per Cent. on Deposit, and 5 per Cent. on Calls ...... 5 Man::.hester,Buston,and Matlock 4% , Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 2O . ... Midland lOO ..... 67 1 4 66% 68% Do., do., 0/. Shares 25 ... .. 13% Do.Consol.Bristol and Binning., 6 per ct.... 100 ......123%. North British ........ ... 23 .... , 12% Ditto, Halves .. Ditto, Thirds .... .. —8% 3%'/4.. North Staffordshire 171 ,e l2 !i Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 50 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Shrewsbury and Birns... 11 South Easter u Do~ N 0.2. Do., No. 3 ..... .. .......... , .. Do., Scrip No 4 South Wales' York, Newcastle, and .... Berwick..... .. Do. Newcastle E alai]. 20 Do. G.N.E.Preterence 8 ... York and North Alidland 50 29 29 30 29 Ditto, Preference 2 1 5 0 ...... 3 1 1 ,: 34 4 .. 3 .. % .. .. 4 .. 1 4 ... 4 . Do. East and West Rid ing E.mtonsion FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 2O East Indian 34 Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... ~ 7% . ........ .... 68 1 4 14!,4 1::3 1 / 2 5% 1214 f 0 13IA 4 111 Northern of France Tour and Nantes .. 11 .... . MINE 6. Australian... JOINT STOCK BANKS. Provincial of Ireland ... 25 ...... 39 FROM THE _LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Thomas Tebbit, Soham, Cambridgeshire. BANKRUPTS. 29 1 / 2 28 IA 104 LA 17 33 SCOCTI-I SEQUESTRATIONS. A. 11i•Kinlay, Glasgow, merchant and hosier, to meet: within the Tontine Hotel, Glasgow, May 21 and June 8, at two. M'Glashan's Kirkaldy, May 21 an d J une 18, atone. D. Reid, Burntislancl, tea merchant, to meet with i n T. Dick, Dundee, cattle dealer, to meet within the Dundee, May 18 and J une 8, at one. Hotel, 1. M'Dougall, Glasgow, i ron merchant, to meet within 1 1h. June 8, at one. the North British Hotel, Glasgow May 18 and J. M`Donalcl, Aberfeldy, corn dealer and distiller, to meet within the George inn, Perth, May 19 and June 9, at two. G. M'lntyre, Auchtermuchty, innkeeper, t o meet within Stevenson' s B ooms, Edinburgh, May 19 and June 16, at eleven. BITILS. On the 12th inst., at St raw R berry-vale, Finchley, the Wif e of J. Williams, Esq,, of a son. • On the 12th inst., at Pelham-creseent, Broreptou, Mrs. A• F. Ashton, of a daughter. On the 13th inst., the laly of J. N. Warren, Esq., of Kentish-town, of a daughter. On the 13th inst., at Pembroke-square, Kensington, Mr s ' T. Tilleard, of a daughter. MARRIE. On the 10th i nst., at B A ideen, D Leicestershire, Frederick T. Fowke, E. , 11., elde s t son of Sir Gustavus Fowke, Bart., °I , Lowe.sby-h all, Leicestershire, to Sarah Mary, youngest (laugh' ter of the late Henry L. Spencer. Esq , of Banstead-parkr Surrey. On the 10th inst., at Liverpool, Mr. Alexander Alexander , of Hatton -garden, to Ro se , youngest daughter of the late S Coleman, of Liverpool. DiED. On the 13th inst., at Cowes, General the Hon. Sir Edward Paget, G.C.13., Governor of the Loyal Hospital, Chelsea, fourth son of Henry, first Earl of Uxbridge, aged 74. On the 12th inst., at Cheltenham, Mary, the wile of th e Right Hon. and Rev. Lord de Sautnarez, and daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Lechmere. G 7, On the sth i ns t., at M on t rose , S ara h S out h ey, ag ed - r Widow of Captain Thomas Southey, R.N., and sister-in - law of the late Poet Laureate. _ _ On the 7th inst., at Stubbington, near TitcHeld, Hants, ;he Rev. David llaynes, aged 53. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, o f Ne. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 1.1 2 , Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the countY of Middle:es, Wednalay, May 16, 1849. John Napthali Ilr.rt, watch manufacturer, Finsbury square, to surrenr'cr May 30, at one, and June 26, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansteld, official assignee; Spyer, Broad-street-buildings, City. Thomas Frederick Jackson, auctioneer, Southampton. May 24, at one, and June 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Guildhall-chow bers; Tucker and Steaveneon, n.,roadneedle-street. Joseph Slater, warehouseman, Friday-street, Cheap' sido, May 26, at two, and July 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Guild hall chambers; Reed, Langford, and Manden, Friday' street, Cheapside. Charles Cneel, victualler, Paddington, May 23 and June 23, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Goddard and Co., Mood-street, Cheapside. Charles Richardson, coachmaker, Birmingham, Afei 29 and June 26, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Powell, Birmingham. Decimus Field, linendraper, biome, Somersetshire► May 29 and June 26, at one, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Masterman► Wine. office-court, Fleet•street. Thomas Robinson, ironfounder, Ripon, May 31, and June 21, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. young, official assignee, Leeds; Bell and Co., Bow Church-yard; Sidebottom, Ilul!. Bryan Ramsden, bone merchant, Dewsbury, York shire' May 31 and June 15, at eleven, at th e L ee d s Dis trict Court. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds; Scott and Co., Lincoln's Inn-Fields; Taylor and Westmorland , Wakefield. Samuel North, innkeeper, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, May 30 and June 20, at half-past ten, at the Leeds District Court. Carrick, official assignee, Hull ; Walmsley , New Inn ; Walker and Sons, Spilsby ; Blackburn , Leeds. John Turnbull, linendraper, Scarborough, June 1 and 22, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman► official assignee, Leeds; Jacques and Cu., Ely-place; Greaves, Leeds. John Hughes, draper, Holyhead, May 24, and June 22, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Jones, St. Mildred•ceurt ; Griffith, Holyhead. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. R. F. Gower, jun., It. E. Allison, and W. L. Cumber . lege, New Broad-street, City, merchants, June 5, a$ eleven—J. Reny, jun. and H. Reny, Mark-lane, City, wine merchants, June 7, at half-past eleven—W. E. if' Guillaume, Botley, Hampshire, timber and coal merchant , June 7, at half-past one—H. Peet, L u d gat e-bilf a nd Newgate-street, City, printer and stationer, June 7, fi s eleven—T. Withers, St. Dunstan's-hill, City, wine nie„r chant, June 7. at half-past twelve—T. Ly on an d Y" Lyon, Birchin-lane, City, stock and bill brokers, ;Tope 7, at two—S. S. Woollatt Holborn- hill, draper, June 6 + at one—J, Robinson, Slough, Buckinghamshire, grocer and cheesemonger, June 6, at twelve—R. Neal, Wands' worth-common, Surrey, nurseryman, June 6, at twelve. In the Country. H. Layfield, Burnley. Lancashire, boiler maker, J . tiVe 6, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—G. Schofi Rastriek, Yorkshire, manufacturer, June 12, at eleven, ° V the Court, Leeds—R. Glover, and F. Glover, Leeds , dyers, June 5, at twelve, at the Court, Leeds. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. B, Cook, sen., Birmingham, brassfounder, Is 7d. sna :4,1., first and second dividend on pruors subsequent to April 16, on Wednesday, May 23, and every alterztati 3 Wednesday, at the office or Mr. Bittleston, Birmingham' A. Blumenthal, Birmingham, wine merchant, 63. on new proof , , and 1,1. on former proofs, on Wedn“stlat , May 23, and every alternate Wednesday till ,the (;nil of May, 1850, at the office of Mr. Bittleston, Birmin,ghtilta• NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES, At the Court Basinghall•street. H. Hughes, Dover, linendraper, June 7, at half- pot one—l'. Mat,ders, High-row, Knightsbridge, victim iler' June 6, at twelve—J. B. H. Withers, Bristol, liner AO per, June 7, at twelve. In the Country. C. Pope, jun., and R. Pope, Newport, Monmoutinb•hir g o ship brokers, June 7, at eleven, at the Court, Bri H. Ridsd are, Liverpool, sharebr o k er , J une 6, at at the Court, Liverpool—H. C. S. Chauncy, Liven poo l ' sharebroker. Juno 6, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpc R. Bullock, Kidderminster, corn factor, June 9, at twt at the Court, Birmingham. Court of Review, June 5. J. Kyrke, Glascoed, Denbighshire, limeburner—J•7hn Rhodes and James Rhodes, Rochdale, Lancashire, cotton spinners—J. Birchen, Beeston, Cheshire, joiner B.LI d builder—C. Reeves, Bath, marbletnason and statue ry -- ; NV. Parkinson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchan Taft, Warwick road, Paddington, carpenter—J. D s • g , son, Fairford, Gloucestershire, maltster—H. Emanuel, Ow over-square, Middlesex, goldsmith. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Baron and M. Fryar, hitelee, Northumbei iandt coal and lime merchants—J. Mszrsland and J. R osser, Albion Works, near Rawtenstall, Lancashire, eng Ineers and has tube manufacturers--J. 13. Allan, J. Alla) ), and J. Cumming; St. Pau.'s Churchyard (so far as n pada J. Cumming)—J. B. MasF.ey, IL E. Massey, 0. 11...igas; sey, and J. Massey, Corringham, Stanford -le-Hor e. and Langdon Hills, Essex, farmers—J. Trotter and Liverpool, aucioneers—J. Chatterley and J. Sat Ilie)2 Salford, Lancashire, wheelwrights—l?. Sims aRd J. Offer, Aldersgate-street, plate glass silverers--g. 13 ' Philbrick and 11. J. Philbrick, Colchester, attorney s and solicitors—J. G. Johnson and W. E. Johnson, 2 bittla Abingdon-street, Westminster, coal merchants—J. JO; nings, J. Rushworth, and J. Brooksbank, Bra; Ifor''' Yorkshire, coal owners (so far as regards J. Br coke bank) —T. Sissons, ten., T. Sissons, jun., and J. 9 ' Simms, Kingston. upon-Hull, paint and colour mw aufan turers (so far as regard s J. D. Si ssons)—J. Tenn; :nt, C. J. Tennant, G. Brown, C. T. Dunlop, W. Stevense n, an d A. Morriscn, London (so far as regards A. Morri son) F. C. Chancellor and J. E. Draper, Margate, coal mei . ' chants—T. F. Johnson and J. Crowther, Manchester , merchants—G. Bailey, R. Harvey, and J. Randal I, DO' ley and Madeley, Shropshire, grocers and irons aongel R. C. Moore and R. Hay nes , B r i g h ton, booksellers a nd librarians. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. John Upton, Liverpool, cabinetmaker. John Kinder, Birkenhead, Cheshire. Edmund Bryant, Woolvercott, Oxfordshire, vendor of patent medicines. Edwin Henry Whittington, Bristol, brass-founder. Thomas Alfred Fearey, Birmingham, wood. turner. Thomas Hayes, Mold, Flintshire, traveller. James Ashwin, Aston Manor, mar Birmingham, sur' veyor. James Jones, Newton-in•Mackerfield, Lancashire, W bourer. Thomas Ovendon, Bristol, carpenter. George Ware, Liverpool, stationer. John Pearson, Liverpool, surgeon. Robert Southgate, Hull, labourer. John Ward, Bull, bricklayer. John Dodsworth, Toll Gravel, Yorkshire, musician. Thomas Dodsworth, Toll Gravel, Yorkshire, mask' seller. Benjamin Russell, Hull, grocer. William Atiltlarn Kirby, Hull, merchant's clerk. Joh n Wilkinson, Willerby, Yorkshire, farmer. Thomas Knott, Bourne, Lincolnshi re , li censed v i ctua ll e r. Palmer Parkinson, Ryland, Rutlandshire, farmer'is as . sistant. Samuel Bettison Holmes, Hull, attorney's cleric. Samuel Storer, Tannington, Suffolk, shoemaker. Samuel John Ast on , Bi rm i ngham, medical capetile manufacturer. George Salter, Birmingham, canal carrier. John Arrowsmith, Birmingham, Fainter and glazier. George Wright, Thetford, Norfolk, journeyman plumbotr• William Warren, Bath. Jon Short, Li,keard, Cornwall, builder. John Jasper, Kidderminster. William Linfoot, York, bricklayer. Jonathan Blenkhorn, Strensal, Yorkshire, labourer. George Fox, Desborough, Northamptonshire, shoemaker. , Henry Todd, Hull, plumber and glazier. 55 1 % 5 1 / 8 6;4 31 i:2 05