The Sun. — London, England, 1834-05-21 00:00:00

SECONI) EDITION SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at twenty-five minutes after five o'clock. Mr. RUSSELL moved the second reading of the Dudly Water Works Bill. Mr. J. OSWALD moved the third reading of the St. George's Market Bill, Southwark, which was ac cordingly read a third time and passed. Mr. WILKS presented a petition from certain magistrates of Middlesex against the Great Western Railway. Lord ALTHORP put it to those hon. gentlemen who had motions, Whether they would allow the Poor Laws' Amen&lent Bill to have precedence, and suffer the house to go into committee upon it. chin L YALL said that it was now some months since the session commenced, and during that time he had had in the , paper a notice of motion connected with the shipping interest. Under these circumstances he 'sloped the house would allow the bill to be read a second time that evening. Lord ALTHORP submitted to the house whether they had any objection, in order to make some pro gress in the bills now in committee, to apply some of the morning sittings to that purpose. Those sittings were not calculated for a regular debate, as they must close at a particular hour, but they would answer very well for the consideration of separate clauses in committee. If there were no objection, he would move for the appointment of a committee upon the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill for a morning sitting, if it should be fo•and necessary to do so. Lord G T AANVILLE SOMERSET objected most dezidein y to the proposed arrangement. There were . 1 . 11 %t1y important private committees sitting in the morn ing, and these could not be neglected by hon. members, without neglecting the interests of their constituents. He did not wish to throw obstacles in the way of the Government, but he must decidedly object to such an arrangement. Sir. JAMES GRAHAM thought that some ar rangement might be made to prevent inconvenience to either side of the house. He suggested that the hon. member for the city of London should post pone his bill relative to merchant seamen's widows to Friday se'nnight. ( Hear, hear.) He ( Sir J. Graham) had also a bill to forward a stage, which he should postpone to Friday se'nnight also, and he was sure that no objection would be made to giving the bill of the hon. member for the City of London precedence on that day. Lord ALTHORP said a few words, which were quite inaudible. Lord HOWICK remarked that he also had a bill relative to justices of the peace, which he should postpone. If the house was not disposed to give some accommodation to the government, it would be impossible to get through the business. Mr. FLEETWOOD objected to the arrangement. He did not speak so much for himself as for other hon. members who had bills to forward. After a few words from Mr. C. GRANT, Mr. G OULB URN observed that there were not less than 16 public committees sitting at that moment. If important questions were brought forward during the morning sittings, either that important business must be neglected, or the committees must be left to be re ported by one or two members. • On the question being put for the second reading of the Merchant Seamen's Widows Bill, _ Mr. G. F. YOUNG wished to know whether he should be allowed to present some petitions both for and against the measure ? The SPEAKER inquired whether those petitions had been received by the hon. member between half past one o'clock and the present sitting of the house ? (Laughter.) The petitions were not presented. Mr. LYALL rose to move the second reading of the bill. He observed that this measure was one of great importance to the British shipping community. It was not his intention to appeal to the passions or prejudices of the hon. members of that house, but to their sense of justice. When this tax was levied, doubtless the legislature in tended that all seamen, whether they belonged to the merchant service or the royal navy, should derive equal benefit therefrom. ( Hear, hear, hear.) Not only had the merchant seamen derived no be nefit from Greenwich Hospital, but he could prove that under the existing system they would never derive any benefit from that establishment, although on all the principles of justice he contended that they were entitled to all the benefits which seamen of the Royal Navy derived from it. He had understood the right hon. baronet opposite, the First Lord of the Admiralty, to say the other day, that if a merchant seaman had only served one day in his Majesty's service, he would be en titled to be received into Greenwich Hospital ; but he (the hon. member) had looked through the hospital regulations, and he could find nothing of the kind stated, He believed the regulations required a man to serve twenty years in his Majesty's service, before he could be entitled to any relief from that hospital. ( Hear, hear.) The honourabie member then read the preamble, and one or two sections of the 7th and Bth of William 111., to show that the merchant seamen were obliged to contribute 6d. per month towards Green wich Hospital, without deriving any benefit whatever The hon. member proceeded in detail to state the prin ciples of his bill, and the beneficial results which he an ticipated from it, if it met the sanction of the house ; but from the low tone in which he spoke it was quite impossible to catch a whole sentence of his observa tions. The hon. member was addressing the house when we left. 'PRICES Or STOCKS THIS HAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock -. . ... .....216V. 15%4 Vew 5 per Cent. 3 per Cent. Red 91% 1 4 India Stock 270 1 ..; 3 per Cent. Cons. ....... ..92k.f,% Ditto Bonds 28 Vi pm. 13 1 . i per Cent. 98 3 4% South Sea Stock ....... ..... 10.1% Ditto Red 90 8% Old Annuities - New 314 per Cent 11'03 4 14 New Ditto n per Cent. Ann. 1726 .... - 3 per Cent Ann. 1751 - 4 per Cent. 1826......... 10111%% Ex. Bills, £ 1,04)0 5O 51 pm. Bank Long Ann.to expire Ditto 'OO 50 51 pm Jan. 5, ISM 17 3-16 li', Ditto Small Oct.lo, 1859 - Ditto Commercial 53 pm. Jan. 5, 18130 l7 7-16 Ditto Advertised Jan, 5, 1880 - Bank for Account 216 Aprils. 18..0 - India for Account .....270 6.144 Jan. 5, 1870 - Cons. for Account MG% PRICES OP FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Aastrian Bonds looli Peruvian Bonds ...... ............ 11 B Istian Bonds 9B Ditto Account ..-.3 Ditto Account 9B Portuguese Bonda 784 Brazilian Bonds 7534 Ditto Account 784, ;Ditto Account - 5%T.:, , Ditto New Bonds ... 79 14% Buenos Ayres Bonds 3l ! Ditto Acconnt 794% 1 IDitto Account 3014 :Prussian Bonds lO3 4 3 Chiliad Bonds .... ... Ditto Account 0 84 Russian Bonds, 18'2'2 ...... Columbian Bonds 2334 Ditto Account, Ditto Account. ''l Ditto 111 Ditto Bonds, 1824 n 6 1 4 Spanish Bonds, :so• 36 5 3 4 634 D tto Acc , mtit 0 6 , .', 1 4 34 1 4 Ditto Ace .34 5% 6%N Dinish Bon ; Ditto Accrunl 75 Ditto Bonds ISA 75 Ditto Account 33 Greek Bonds French Rentes, hp. c. 106' —c Ditto Bonds, 182!; 334 -- Exchange 251 404 Ditto Account — -----3 per cent. — - —c. %I'xiean Bonds ,5 per cetit :!34 E xc hange —f --. Ditto Accou nt Dutch, ni p. c. 5 . 2% 1 4 'lt o, 6 per cent 444 i Ditto Account 524% 1 4 Ditto Account .444% Ditto, 5p c. 4 17 634, Neapolitan...« ....... ......... 914 Ditto Account 97 6 7,} PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share Alten Mining Company £9 11% 0 angtc. Nies.. 10... n. 11a5. at st. pm. £lllo &Intim Mining Company £l5O Brazilian Mining Company 5 Brazilian Imo. ntin. Co. (iss. at 5/.pm.) £2O Ditto Macaubas Cocaes. 2O Ditto St. John Del Rev Cata Branca Mining Company l lv British Iron Minim' Coon - any Colinnbitn Minim Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) 52% English IViii.ing Company .. ;eneral Minine Association l2 Hibernian Mining Co. £lo Mexican Mining Co. .£49% - teal del Monte Mining C0....(unr0g.) U.iited Hex. Min. Co. tizi. at 21. ram.) 40 Ditto New Se: ip 5 alliance Fire I nsurance Comp o erotector Ins i mance CornO. Australian Co. t'anada Ctlnnany IS general Steam Navigation t'o National Provincial Bank of England IS Rio Doce , revineial Bank it Ireland 127%35 15 51N 204 '"4 614 :31 i 3 11 li £1 7 (1 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 17. 01. , 11k ,locx ... ........ 220 tt atria . nstir.(pef Share ':onsols, :I ner cm.. 3w. Stock, U,', per cent 98!4 {National Ditto .)itto, New 98% Patriotic Ditto• ....... .... •••••• . Der Cent — Hibernian Bank (-Inv. Deb. 34 percent.... 91 Provincial Ditto — itoyal ( anal stock — Royal Irish Mine — than,: Canal Stock — Imptsial Vine — City Deb. 4 per cent. SON Mining Co of Ireland 3,llast office Deb. 4D. c. r,ornmercial Buildings COURSE OF EXCH Amsterdam C.r 12 41 )itto, at sight VA 21 Rotterdam 2 U 12 41 Antwerp 12 5 Hamburg Al. R. 13 12 Altona l3 12 Paris, 3 days' sight :25 50 Ditto 0 U 25 75 Bordeaux 25 SO Berke 7 Frank Out on Maine, Ex. M. 152 Petersburg!), ruble, 3 Us. 10V Vienna, effective ft. 2M. 9 57 Crieste do 'lsB tladrid 3 4 114 Pad's 371' .......... 36 Inrcelona ......... 36 Seville 36 Gibraltar 47 , AMERICAN PAPERS. New York Papers to the 2d inst. were re ceived at the North and South American Coffee-house this afternoon. The discussions upon the Bank question were still going on in Congress. Exchange on London, 4 41, Bank Shares, 1051 2. The following are extracts from these papers : NEW YORK, APRIL 29.—LATE FROM LAGUIRA.— The following is an extract of a letter from Laguira, received at New Orleans, dated " Laguira, Feb. 22, 1834. " Matters go on tolerably well here, and I think shortly, of all the republics of South America, this and Bolivia will be the only two where security for person and property will be found ; all the other con federacies being now plunged in anarchy. By the latest accounts from New Grenada, it is understood that Santander is quite deserted, since he ordered the execution of a number of respectable citizens." (From the Paper of the 30th.) We have received a Buenos Ayres paper of March I.—Flour was quoted at 76 to 80. Spanish dollars, 7i to 7i ; Sp. doubloons, 122 a 123. Exchange on England, 7i• a 71. BUENOS AYRES, MARCH I.—The province of San Juan has suffered considerably from a sudden flow of waters from the Cordilleras of the Andes on the 30th December last, which destroyed the old dikes and rushed into the centre of the city of San Juan, throw ing down houses and the churches of St. Augustin, La Merced. and Santo Domingo. Lives and property have been lost to a considerable extent. We have received Valparaiso papers to the 15th Jan. Advices from Peru, state that the President, Camarra, whose term of office expired on the 19th Doz., was succeeded by Gen. Obregoro, of the liberal party, who was elected by the Congress. We have been assured that Gen. Juan A. Lavajella is endeavouring to collect men and arms in order to pass over to the Banda Oriental, to renew the civil war. The government, being informed thereof, has taken prompt measures to prevent the enterprise. A SOLDIER SHOT.—On Sunday week, as one of the Leeds and Liverpool canal boats was pas sing Burscough Bridge, near Ormskirk, a soldier who was in the custody of some of his comrades, pre paratory to his being sent abroad to one of the con demned regiments, jumped out of the boat into the canal for the purpose of endeavouring to effect his escape, but before he could get out of the water was shot dead )3y his guard. A coroner 's inquest was afterwards held on the body, and the jury gave a ver dict of " Justifiable Homicide." A FREAK OF NATURE.—A goose belong ing to Mr. Sawyer, of Frampton, lately hatched a gosling having four legs ; two in their proper places, aad ons under each wing ; it was alive when hatched. .—B•gon Hitrold. Arrived. Due. .rri.ed. Due. O America 0 I 0 Hamburg 0 O Brazil 0 Bucnos Ayres 0 O Carthagena 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 1 Dublin O Flaniler. I Frarre 0 0 Sweden 0 O Guernsey &Jersey.. 0 • 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO MORROW. Morning 29 minutes after 1. i Evening...s7 minutes after 1. cgz., *Atm LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1834. The French papers contain speculations, but little information. M. DUPIN is, it appears, about to visit England. It is said that Admiral de RIGNY is to go back to the Department of Marine. The French King cannot do better than invite his late sensible and honest minister, the Duc de BROGLIE, to take his place. The Chevalier de LIMA presented his cre dentials on Saturday last to King LOUIS PHI LIP, as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of her Majesty Donna MARIA, Queen of Portugal. A cordial alliance between England and France is not more necessary to the preserva tion of peace in Europe than a thorough good concert and friendly feeling between Parlia mentary Whigs and the body of Dissenters is to the maintenance of a liberal system of Govern ment at home. What prospect of preserving the one or the other can there be, if that Go vernment, which has, undoubtedly, done more than any preceding Government to establish both, should be overturned? We put this question to the Dissenters. Peru is again cursed with the worst of all national calamities—a civil war. Three can didates for the presidency were proposed. General ORBEGOSO was chosen, took the oath, and was recognised by the senate and foreign ministers. General BERMUDEZ, one of the unsuccessful candidates, gained the army to his side, and the President was obliged to take refuge in Callao, where he remains in a state of siege. Both the parties have engaged to respect the persons and property of our countrymen. The following are extracts from the German papers NASSALI, MAY B.—On the Ist of January, 1835, Hesse Homburg will be incorporated in the German treaty of commerce as Musonheim has already been included in it. The adhesion of Fraiikfort must, it seems, depend upon that of Nassau, it being feared that the fair of Offenbach would be transferred to llachot, which would then become the depot for English, French, Belgian, and Swiss merchandise, to the serious injury of Frankfort. VIE NN A, MAY 10.—Five per Cent. Metalliques,9B%; Four per Cent., 88',Z ; Bank Shares, I,267.—Allge meine Zeitung, May 15. FRANKFORT, MAY 15.—The Assembly of the States of Hanover re-opened on the 12th, after a vacation of four months. We have shown that general and increasing distress has been the consequence of the corn laws which have prevailed since the year 1815. We have also shown that by the operation of these laws the home grower has been deprived of the foreign market which he previously en joyed, and that, through the dealer in foreign corn, he has been exposed to a competition in the home market, which he has been unable to withstand, whereby his means have been gradu ally reduced. We have also shown that agri cultural labourers have been thereby thrown out of employment, as land has been thrown out of cultivation or defectively cultivated, and that increase of pauperism and crime has been the unavoidable consequence of this state of things. We aie now to show that similar re sults have followed from similar laws in previous periods of our history. In the time of the later Plantagenets and of the first Tudors, laws were passed which pre vented the exportation of grain. The land in England thus ceased to be cultivated, because it became impossible to export its produce. Arable lands were converted into pasture or grass, and in the time 'of the Tudors laws were passed in vain for the encouragement of tillage. The legislators of those days were not wiser than those of the present. They failed to see, as the legislators of our time have failed to see, that no branch of industry can prosper where, by operation of law, its products cannot be ex ported. The consequences were an increase of idleness, mendicity, and crime, which might have been removed by the repeal of the re straints imposed upon the exportation of corn, but were only attempted to be palliated by tem porary poor laws, which finally produced the 43d Eliz., the abuses of which have occa sioned so much evil in our days. The mis chiefs springing from laws which prevented the export of corn increased to a fearful extent to wards the end of the reign of Queen ELIZA BETH. From a document preserved by STRYPE, and adverted to by HUME in a note forming part of an appendix to the volume csntaining the history of her reign, it appears that bands of vagrants, to the number sometimes of sixty or more, per vaded every county in England, living by ra pine and plunder. These disorders are ascribed by HUME to the laws that prevented the ex portation of corn, which never were repealed, but they became inoperative in the course of events. The price of corn, from the devasta tions occasioned by the civil wars during the Commonwealth, rose so much that it exceeded the price at which it was allowed to be .ex ported ; and the fall which then continued to take place in the exchangeable value of money kept the price above the exportable price, so that, after the restoration, exportation became free, and the quantity of corn raised in Eng land increased so much before the lapse of twenty years, that in the year 1689 the bounty was granted as a premium to export it ; and from the year 1660 to the year 1815 the home growth of corn continued to im prove. We pray our readers to attend to the remarkable fact that when the 'export of corn was prevented by law before the Restora tion, consequences arose similar to those which have arisen since the year 1815 ; and that when exportation became free, that is, from 1660 to 1815, agriculture flourished. Mr. MUNDELL draws a parallel between the acts of the legislature in Queen ELIZABETH'S time and the present, both in regard to corn and the poor. In place of repealing the corn laws passed in and since 1815, which have pro duced want of employment, increase of distress, of pauperism, and crime, as the laws which pre vailed in Queen ELIZABETH'S time produced idleness, mendicity, and crime, we confine our attention to the abuses which have sprung from the operation of the poor laws, as the law givers of her time confined their attention to the relief of the poor, when the latter should have applied themselves to the causes which made such relief necessary, as we should now apply ourselves to the causes which have thrown agricultural labourers out of em ployment. In a word, that we should restore to the poor the employment which they enjoyed in the cultivation of the soil, of which they have been deprived through the operation of the corn laws that have since prevailed, as the surest and most effectual means of correcting the abuses committed in the a dministration of the poor laws ; and without the restoration of which employment those abuses cannot be effectually corrected. Fortunately for the coun try, the three last harvests have been abundant. But if the operation of the corn laws, pro ducing increase of distress, be not removed, we must be prepared for a renewal of disorders in the agricultural districts, similar to those which prevailed five years ago, and we trust that we have not raised a warning voice in vain. The investigation of the pauper system of America is replete with valuable and instructive facts, tending to a demonstration of the problem of managing the poor upon the soundest prin ciples of morality and economy. We have before stated that the American Commissioners recommend to the Legislature to encourage the building of workhouses, as an efficient means to repress " the frightfully in creasing number of the wandering poor." The — Commissioners then illustrate the va rious plans hitherto adopted in the management of the poor in the State of Massachusetts, which may be distinguished in three classes. First, those towns where the relief of the poor is let by auction to the lowest bidder, who, in return for the sum paid him, undertakes the relief of all applicants, by money allowance, without labour. Second—ln those towns in which the relief of the poor is still let to the lowest bidder, but the contractor being entitled to the labour of the applicants, has established a farm to employ them. Thirdly—ln those towns where, the relief of the poor being let to the lowest bidder, the contractor provides an alms-house, and has refused all other relief, except in cases of ex treme necessity, arising from illness. In the first class some of the towns have recently added a workhouse, and the advantages both morally and pecuniary are very manifest, ex. g. Framingham. The annual cost has been from 1,200 to 1,400 dollars since the employ ment of the poor has been engrafted. On the original plan the cost has been reduced to 535 dollars a year. Previous to the last twelve years the poor in Pittsfield were boarded out in private families, and the average cost was 1,600 dollars per ann urn. During the first six years of the twelve a house has been provided, where they live in one fa mily, the expenditure was thereby r educed to 1,050 dollars. At Sheffield, where, previous to the last five years, the' poor dependent on the overseers lived at large, si lice that time they have been relieved only by maintenance in an alms-house, excep I in extreme cases of illness. The year previous to this change of the re lief given there were 49 poor, costing the town 1,967 dollars. But as soon as it was announced that assistance would be given to none but in the alms-house, only 17 of the 49 accepted aid from the town. Two .of them immediately removed to the adjoining town of Egremont, where they could be still supported by money allowance, without going into an alms-house. This town affords strong evidence in favour of the workhouse system of relief. The whole cost of the poor for the last year, is by the American commissioners stated to be 665 dol lars, and when the agent of the commission visited Sheffield in November, 1832, there were but eight inmates in the house, and the moral advantages of the new system have not been less than the pecuniary, for— ." The idle and able-bodied, who yet love liberty more than they hate labour, have been induced or com pelled to work rather than submit to the restraints of an alms-house ; and the thriftless have been made pro vident and careful, that they might eke out a more comfortable living from their own resources. Nor is it an unimportant circumstance, that while the com fort of the permanent and impotent poor is very greatly increased by the cleanliness, the wholesome food, the clothing and beds, and the moral order of a well regu lated alms-house, their hearts and characters are equally improved by this provision for them." The interesting results from the experiment of farms for the employment and support of the poor ; and, by a regulation in these establish ments debarring them from the use of spirituou liquors, are not less striking. In Salem, the expenditure has been reduced one-half, and the number of poor is steadily reducing about 50 per annum, and the house is far more easily governed than was formerly the case. • Very much of this favourable result is, by the Ame rican Commissioners, attributed to the entire disuse of ardent spirits. We shall briefly glance at the important results which this experiment has effected : At Lyme, It has decreased} the expenditure 500 dol. per ann. At Waltham ditto two-thirds. At Littleton ditto three-fourths. At Lexington ditto two-thirds. At Marlborough ditto four-fifths. At Andover, in consequence of the farm, and employing the poor at a brick-field, the receipts from the employment of the poor exceeded the expenditure by 228 dollars 75 cents ; but the brick-field was an extraordinary source of re- venue in this year. The American Commissioners then call the attention of the Legislature to the fact of the great numbers who are reduced to poverty by intemperance, and the most careful attention was paid to obtain correct information on this subject; in many towns it appears to be about nine-tenths : " Our towns indeed requirC to be brought under the necessity of giving their serious attention to the question ' of the wisest method of providing for the poor ?' to secure attention to it. Let the Legislature hold itself bound by its duty of equal watchfulness over all, and of impartial justice towards all, at once to de fend the peaceful and industrious in their rightful pos sessions, and not to take from them those possessions for the support of those who arc idle and refuse to work; and as carefully let it recognise the principle, that for the cases of human want and suffering for which God has himself made provision at once in his word and in the principles of our common nature, human laws are not to be interposed to prescribe the manner or the amount of that charity which want and suffering may demand from his fellow man ; and we feel assured, that although for a time in the tran sition state, during which the Commonwealth's allowance shall first be considerably diminished, from what it now is, and the diminution continued for a few years, till it shall cease and be utterly abolished. Many of the states poor, and especially of the wander ing poor of this class, may be brought under increased suffering ; the number of this whole class of the poor will soon be perceived to be gradually decreasing from the failure of the encouragements they have hitherto had to migrate into our common wealth for support. Let these principles be recognized and acted upon, and the whole number of poor in the state will be gradually decreasing, and the comfort both of those who shall require the aid of towns, and of those who may be left wholly to private bounty, will be greatly extended. A VIOLATION OF THESE PRINCIPLES EVER HAS BEEN, and your Commissioners think EVER WILL BE, FOLLOWED BY DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES. Let there be no laws re quiring the support of the poor, and the claims of those who need assistance and who can do nothing for them selves, will never in our community be disregarded. Let there be no laws requiring the support of the poor, and the rights of those who have been made poor by circumstances beyond their control will be cheerfully acknowledged, and the corresponding duties towards them as cheerfully performed." TZCIE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 48 Genoa 5 75 Milan 11 Venice 47 Naples Mom° peroz. 122 Lisbon 52 Oporto 5. Rio Janeiro Bahia 3l Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' Right 154 Cork 1 BULLION, PER OZ. s. d. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 New I loubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars Silverbars. standard._ 0 4 11* THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Packet ship Caledonia, from New York, has arrived off Liverpool; she was to sail on the Ist instant, being seven days later than our previous accounts. The despatches by her could not be landed, in time for the mail, but are expected at the North and South American Coffee House this afternoon. THE FUNDS. Consols, which closed yesterday at 92%, opened this morning at the same price, with scarcely a bargain doing in them, or any of the other English securities. In the foreign market there is very little variation from the prices of yesterday, and little doing. Portuguese opened at 79 1 4 %. Spanish rather lower, being 35 3 4 36. Mexican have advanced to 44%, being half per cent. better than the closing price of yesterday. The only arrival this morning is a French mail, the contents of which are uninteresting. The five per cents. opened at 106 f., and closed at 106 f. 10c. Three per cents. opened at 79f. 80c. ; closed at the same. Cortes Bonds, 29. HALF-PAST ONE. _ . _ Since the opening of the market several bargains have been done in Consols, and the price has declined to 9 2 %; and for July they are quoted at 92% 93. the Foreign Market there has been a good deal of animation. Spanish has improved one per cent, being now 36% 37; Mexican, 44 1 ,1 45; Portuguese, 791,4 No reports or arrivals from Lisbon up to the present time. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. - - Consols, 92% 93. CLOSING PRICES.—FOUR O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 9 ll Ditto Bonds 3O pM 3 pei Cent. Cons 9-1 South Sea Stock lO5l 31 per Cent. 09 Ditto Old And S9I '34 per C, nt. Red 9Si Ditto New Ann. 9Ol . g e w 31 per Cent lO Ol Ex. Bills, 10.0/ 5l pm 1 per Cc nt HA Ditto 5,01 5l pm Long. Ann. to expire Ditto Small 5l pm Jan IBM l7l Bank S. for Aec. 216 Oct. 1E 159 l7 Consols for Opg u.)# Jan. 1860 l7l India Sr. for Opg 2691 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 perecnt. Belgian, 5 per cent 9B Ditto, Reg. Bonds Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent. 31 I Russian Bonds, 5 per cent lnsi Chilian. 6 per cent. 2B Ditto, Metallic lO6 Columbian, 6 per cent 23 Spanish, 5 per cent.......... 36 11 Ditto, 1824 26} Ditto, 1323 33 Danish 741 French 5 per Cent.... 1061. —c. Greek, 5 per cent Uti Exchange 2sf 40c. Mexican 5 per Cents 1825 33i French 3 per Cent —f. —c. Ditto 6 per Cent., 1825 45 Dutch, 2i per cent. 5 21 Peruvian 6 pee Cent. 221 Ditto, 5 per cent ...... ....... looi IMPERIAL PARLIAIVIENT, THIS DAY, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter-past twelve. There was a very thin attendance of members. The report of the committee upon the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Bill was brought up by Mr. Phillpotts ; on the Selkirk Road Bill, by Mr. Pringle ; on the Perth Harbour Navigation Bill, by Mr. Oliphant ; on the Kirby Lonsdale Tithe Bill, by Mr. Barron ; and on the Knightsbridge and Dartmouth Road Bill, by Colonel Seale. On the motion of Mr. VIVIAN, the Aberavon ( Gla morganshire) Harbour Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. TANCRED presented a petition from the justices of the peace of Middlesex against the Great Western Railway Bill. Mr. EWART moved the second reading of the Lords' amendments to the Grand Junction Railway Bill. Mr. BLACKBURNE presented a petition from the overseers and churchwardens of the township of Aldman bury, Yorkshire, against certain clauses in the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill. After a few words from Mr. G. STRICKLAND, Mr. p. HOWARD, and Mr. HARDY, the petition was laid upon he table. _ Captain BOSS presented a petition from Northallerton praying for some measure to put an end to the crime of drunkenness. Sir 0. MOSLEY presented a petition from Weston under-Litton (county of Stafford) against the bill for the admission of Dissenters to the Universities ; also a petition from Stonehouse (Devon), for the better observance of the Lord's Day. The hon. member read an extract from the petition against the admission of dissenters to the universities, and contended that such a measure would be injurious to the interests of the established religion. Mr. BAINES said the Protestant dissenters were en titled to admission to all the privileges of the uni versities, except a share in the ecclesiastical bene fices, which they did not seek for. With respect to a severance of the church from the state, it was not the in tention of the dissenters to press that upon the consideration ofparliament at present. ( Hear, hear.) But he (Mr. B. ) would observe that any attempt to deprive them of their right to an admission to the universities would not retard, but, on the contrary, would facilitate and forward, the progress of that question. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HARDY did not exactly understand what was meant by a separation between church and state. He begged thehon. member for Leeds to favour them with a definition, as he understood its meaning to be, that the church pro perty should be taken into the hands of the Government, and conVerted to civil purposes. Mr. BAINES thought it a little hard that the hon. member should call upon him for a definition as he was not one of the persons who were pressing that question upon the attention of parliament. He supposed that the union of church and state consisted in one religious sectreceiving certain emoluments from the public property, which other religious sects did not receive, and exacting imposts from others for.the support of their worship. Another charac teristic of the union between church and state was, that the clergy of one sect had seats in the legislature, while others had not. Now the severance of church and state in his (Mr. Baines's) opinion involved these two points, first, it implied that no one sect of religion should obtain grants of public property in preference to another ; and secondly, that the ministers of one religion should not enjoy the right of sitting in the legislature, while the ministers of other religions were deprived of that privilege. (Hear.) As he had before observed, he did not appre hend that there was any disposition on the part of the protestant dissenters to press the separation of church and state upon the consideration of Parliament at present, and he spoke advisedly when he said at present, because it was well known that among the dissenters a strong feeling existed that the union of church and state was an injury to them, and deprived them of those equal rights which, as British subjects, they should enjoy. Mr. PHILLPOTTS presented a petition from the go vernors and guardians of the poor of the city of Gloucester respecting the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill, expressing their approbation of the simplification of the law of settle ment, but objecting to the board of commissioners, and playing that the bill might not pass without alteration. The hon. member gave notice of a motion respecting the simplifying the process of effecting insurance upon pro perty by deed. Mr. HARCOURT presented a petition from the select vestry of Henley-upon-Thames, expressing their objection to the control given by the Poor Laws' Amendment Bid to the central board over vestries, and expressing their fears that it would be difficult to find proper persons to fill the office of vestrymen under such control. Mr. LYALL presented a petition from certain members of the established church of Hendon, in Surrey, pr aying that the bill for the admission of dissenters to the universi: ties might not pass into a law, as neither the universi ties nor the established church had done anything to for feit the protection of the Legislature. Mr. SHAW presented a petition from the fishermen of the island of Valencia, complaining of the withdrawal of the bounties. He said that though he objected to the principle of bounties, yet there were cases where general principles would not apply, and this he thought was one of them. The hon. and learned member presented a petition from Clonmel, in Tipperary, for the better obser vance of the Sabbath, and petitions from the counties of Tyrone and Antrim, praying for an inquiry into the in crease of drunkenness ; and a petition from a parish in Dublin, against the Turnpike Road Act. Mr. BAINES presented a petition from the church wardens and overseers of the poor of Horsforth, in York shire, expressing their doubts as to whether it would be politic to give such extensive power to the commissioners to be appointed under the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill, and praying that if the bill passed into a law, such altera tions should be made as would prevent the evils which they apprehended might arise from it. The hon. member pre sented a petition from Cross Hills, in the county of York, praying for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the causes of the increase of drunkenness, and to suggest a remedy. Mr. FITZ SIMON presented a petition from the united parishes of Tullamore and Kilbride, signed by 5,000 per sons, praying for the extinction of tithes, and petitions from two parishes in the King's County, praying for the repeal of the Union and the extinction of tithes. Mr. RUTHVEN supported the prayer of the petitions, which were then ordered to lie on the table. Mr. TANCRED presented a petition from the dissen ters of Banbury, praying for relief, and expressing their disappointment at the measure respecting church rates. Mr. CHAYTER presented a petition from Sunderland and Bishop Wearmouth against intemperance. Mr. GISBORNE presented a petition from Ashover, Derby, in support of the church ; one from the operatives of Chesterfield for the remission of the punishment of the Dorchester convicts, and one from an individual relative to beer shops. Mr. GULLY presented a petition from Ackworthp Yorkshire, against intemperance. Mr. VIVIAN, presented a petition from the medical men of Swansea and Leith, praying for a revision of the laws affecting them. Colonel EDWARDS presented some petitions against intemperance. Captain WEMYSS prese nted a p etition from Cu p ar (Fife), for the abolition of English church-rates ; one from the same county for the repeal of the law of church patronage. Mr. HOWARD presented a petition from Carlisle, praying for a committee to inquire into the causes of drunkenness. Sir C. BURRELL presented a petition from the parish of Ashdon, Surrey, in favour of the Labour-rate Act. Mr. HOPE JOHNSON presented a petition from the schoolmasters of the presbytery of Loch, praying for an increase of salary, and one from Dumfries, for tile abolition of English church rates ; also a petition from James Con nell, formerly of Madras, praying for compensation in consequence of the seizure of his property. Colonel L. HAY presented a petition from Banff, pray ing for the regulation of the charges of Leith Harbour ; one from Peterhead against drunkenness, and two from Banff and Whitehall on the same subject. Mr. WEYLAND presented a petition from a parish in Oxford against dissenters, and one from Chipping-Norton against intemperance. Mr. RYLE presented a petition from Macclesfield against the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill. Mr. CARTWRIGHT presented several petitions from Northampton, complaining of agricultural distress ; also petitions from twenty-nine parishes in the same county against dissenters. On the motion of Mr. DIVETT, the West of England Assurance Company's Bill was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time. Lord NORREYS presented petitions from Bloxam and Banbury, complaining of agricultural distress, and praying for relief. Lord VILLIERS presented a petition from Honiton against the admission of dissenters to the universities. Admiral ADAMS presented a petition from Alloa, pray ing for an inquiry into the causes of drunkenness. Mr. EWART presented a similar petition from Liver ! pool ; also a petition from the same place praying an in quiry into the constitution of the Trinity House. Mr. F. LEWIS presented a petition from Radnor for the better observance of the Sabbath. one The morning business in theaper having b ee ' s through, and there being no other petitions to present, EirEAKBR left the Chair at half-past one o'clock. LITERATURE. HALL'S LIFE OF SALT. 2 Vols. London, 1834. Mr. Salt, our . late consul-general in Egypt , was in his day a - traveller of considerable cele brity, and, if we mistake not, holds a prom' nent place in that odd, amusing production--' " Lord Valentia's Travels." Later discoveries, however, made by more enterprising and sto' i cessful travellers, have in some degree dinnlied the brilliancy •of Salt's reputation ; he ' 9 now known chiefly by his tact and as was a consul-general, a s b u l l e - d g e n e t o r a l , s pirit to his countrymen, - for his influence ° ye t the Pacha remained unimpaired to the la s i render many moment. Mr. Halls who, it seems, was °ne , the oldest and most valued of Salt's friend s, Bas 1 here given us a very complete biographical ae r ' , count of him, a little too much tinctured, Peiii haps, with the partiality of friendship, but st candid in the main, and full of agreeable er t3 citement. Mr. Salt seems to have been °C very love a bl e na t ure , frank, cordial, and en' thusiasti c , w ith a f un d o f so und coulin ° 'c i sense, that ca rr i e d hi m t r iumphantly thr °4 4 difficulties from whi c h me n of less shrew clue :, - and enterprize would have shrunk aghast. Th ". a traveller, he has no extraordinary elaii ns 1 1 , public attention, and when compared wit h su ch men as Laing, Belzoni, Clapperton, o r handers, dwindles almost into insignificance. N\e but think that . one volume would have Siswer.e all the purposes of an efficient meipoii• of 10: There are many pages, and chapters, tcw! in the present work, that mig ht have bee !1 advantageously dispensed with — such as Sal! 5 early letters to his biographer, which, as dices of characters, are sadly deficient, ati a .- equally so as regards public interest. SurSurelyit was scarcely worth while to present 118 , with a letter of two pages, with a long explana tory note affixed, for the mere purpose of letting us into the fact that Mr. Salt, when a y o ung man, " had a trick of placing a shilling on his nose when sitting in a perfectly erect posture , without its falling off !" The most interest in g' portions of the work are those which relatel°, #0 Mr. Salt's researches in Abyssinia. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE -THIS DA1"• i I (FROM LLOY' ) DEAL, MAY 20.—Wind S.E.D—SSailed the Alexand° Baring, St. Croix, for China ; and Ruckers, Soper, fr l 4 ° London, for Grenada. FINE r. m. — A shi p and tw o !) are coming in from the Westward , an d several the Gulls, outward-bound. hi Arr PORTSMOUTH, MAY 20.—Wind varia__e.--- lea off port, the Neva, from Rio Janeiro. Arrived lAL3l off por t PLYMOUTH, MAY 19.—Wind S.W. and Barkley, Gething, from Messina. BRISTOL, MAY 20.—Arrived the Providentia, Galle• from Memel. Able, froill CORK MAY 18.—Arrived the Anne, Trinidad. ' MONTROSE, MAY 18.—Arrived the Jason, Brii.--,—"L,ana Mary, Blues, from Riga ; and St. Nicholas, Morgan , l Dantzic. Hutt, MAY 19.—Arrived the Dorothea, Be' "nt* from Dantzic. t MAY the u l r 9 i ; .— n i 7 D i n e d t variable , hl es seri froml *i ht s b t r . e breezes;' e Croixs.. - Or ; ved the Prosperite,. ,ix LIVERPOOL, MAY l9.—Arri. braham, from Divolion ; Jupiter, Bielche ; and Fret Wilhelm, Voltz, from Dantzic ; Paragon, Lascelles , fr ° ,'" New Orleans ; George, Jones, from Savannah ; Naylor, Hayne, from Wilmington ; Isabella, Frentz, f r° : Stettin ; Achilles, Muller, from Memel; Cathenn:;' Helsman, from Rotterdam; Egedius, Duyts; and lina, Pierre, from Ostend. Off port the Caledonia , GT ham, from New York. Two Russian ships and a Ito' barque (names unknown) have just come round the rocl‘. peter' The Two Brothers, Gordon, from Wem y ss to head, was wrecked on Wrattray Head the 17th inst. The Demetrio, from Alexandria , with about two-to. of her cargo, was entirely dest ro y ed b y fire at Trieste " the Bth inst. cargo damaged. Toi=el9r,thFiinsbst,.,bhoaunvidngto.beeHnonagrbnrougn,dp;utvel;cll:alid BrTishtoel The late Richard Lander was born at Truret in Cornwall, on the Bth of February, 1804, so that, the period of his decease, he was within a few days of Burlingham, this attaining his 30th year. In early boyhood he visite!. St. Domingo, where he remained for some time, au a afterwards travelled in South Africa, from CaToga inland to the farthest extremity of the colony. Hew 25 ' the sole survivor of Clapperton's last and fatal expert' tion to central Africa, and succeeded in m aking h is way, defenceless and alone, from Socatoo, in auss* to Badagry, on the western coast —a long, difficult' and dangerous journey, through countries inhabited bi a variety of tribes, by whom he was not only 1 01° ( i lestcd, but treated, for the most part, with kindness all . liberality. His interestinc , and important expeditioaa t w it i i t o l h n V it e o s f to trace the course of the Niger to its termination, an deeply jonileteeinldtisa l , a rui m sprn e on n a t tth t te o h ef a h rp a ma v r e iosfh t its successful issue, are already known to the public. .. this county. The wilful destruction by fire or a berth in the night of the 28th ult., will be fresh in the Tv collection of our readers. On Friday night last an :: ther conflagration, without doubt alike wickedly c ' ee ,f sinned, took place on the premises of Mr. Smithinf I W. Woodw_, down, and 150 bags of corn destroyed ! the same parish. It commenced in a large Pil on t ' c ' him, filled with wheat, and the flames extending : d wheat rick near, both the barn and rick were b' j g afterwards transpired which led to the suspicion OW two brothers, named Tovey, had caused both ri f e n s e :l they were in consequence apprehended and alte lli r te i before the magistrates at Pershore, who c ommi t " o them to the county goal for further examination on , Monday. One of them is not above 18 or 19 years ° , age.— Worcester Herald.:ol:s.tate the rep!: The veteran republican General Lafaye tte has been attacked with a s evere and very serious fever f. He is attended b y Messrs. Audral, Marjolin, and d r i quet. By the last accounts he was a little better. of peas on Wednesday. They were grown at Roue . The Mountaineer brought over some . gre ell and were forwarded for sale to Covent-gar4 e . I t Mar i China, et has ccicoming ms lately ion ket.—Brighton Guardian. . 1 of g skinless been originallye e n introduce oat,from Bothi napwr o e 3ai t r h t e : tsh d ueee ft eprd j i g : : 9 1 l i, . a ppearing to agree with our climate. duce and quality are said to be superior to any g is i i t, i t ß ri o c t A t te i hitherto grown in this country - and so nutritious three c that one peck, as horse corn, goesP further than rn i d le acm : pecks of common oats.—Brighton Guardian. an-,/ The salmon fishing in the North has, °ll average, been more successful than last year. 0 .. DEATH BY D RI NICING.—TWO Cliiollllo sweeps in the M eal Vennel last week made a bet / t AI. s hould drink most raw whisky. They persevered one of them died.—Perth Courier. 1 / LIVEItPooL COTTON-MARKET, MAI (- _A 9 ' II :. A very good demand has. again been experience" 1,1 our Cotton-market to-day for most descriptions, li f j e , . ticulaFly Brazils, which arc con 'cl d dearer . 'sit ' quantity sold is about 6,000 bales, , 7 e , 7 _ 3 _ o D on 100. ; 360 Peru ams , . 4 1 lr . f . 1 1 id. • ;0 3 0 Mtr.anhaniag u r e. t rn o a t n lid. ; 100 Sea Islands, 16 1 4 d. up a to 22d. ; tßeiodi' er in American, Bd. to 90. ; afew Orly 'i.: