The Sun. — London, England, 1853-04-13 00:00:00

ful coma ale- "- ;asie• ware ion• I MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) • CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 6,000 bales, of which 2,000 American Were taken for export and on speculation. The market closed firmly. The sales comprised 5,000 American, 140 Perham and Maranham, at 6d. to Cid., 20 Bahia at 6id., 300 Egyptian at sd. to Bd., 300 Surat at 30. to 4id. and 60 Sea Island at Is. 10d. t o 2 s . sd. per lb. Railway Shares were flat. ' The Foreign Exchanges.were firm yesterday, bills dated three months being quoted 25, 271 to 30 on Paris • 11, 182 to 19 on Amsterdam ; 13, 8 to 81 on Irlamburgh ; and 11, 5 to 8 on Trieste. It is often that one is called' upon, in the impar tial exercise of the duty which every writer owes the public, to give a warning against foreign loans and schemes that absorb a large amount of British 'capital at the risk of its partial or entire loss. On this account, it has been peculiarly satisfactory to find the Australian colonies presenting an outlet, since the fact is patent to all, that in periods of ease there will be an endeavour to obtain remunerative employment for surplus means, even when risk is involved. If part of the money invested in Colonial mines, for example, should prove t o b e a l oss , th ere will, at least, be the con solation that the amount has been expended in Australia. Canada recently has had a small share of public favour, her Trust and Loan. Company, Great Western Railway, and Ha . tailton and Toronto Railway, and Richmond Itailways, having enlisted the co-operation of our leading capitalists, and yielding most important r esults. It may be in the recollection of our read however, that more than 12 months since, the s4n. Mr. Hincks came to London expressly to ar l'ange with Earl Grey for a guarantee to a great Central line of railway, embracing •all the British North American provinces. The Home Go vernment required the undertaking to be made after the plans of their military surveyors, with a view to the defence of the' colony, and the provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick could not bring their legislatures to a right understanding. Now, however, the province of Canada has wisely deter- Wiled to come forward and execute its own portion !:)f the line, and the prospectus, this day circu lated, contains as directors the great names of Thomas Baring, M.P. ; G. C. Glyn, 14 • P• • and Alderman Thompson, M.P. The capital required is large, nine millions and a-half sterling ; but only 7,246,0001. require to be raised, and but a portion of this at the present ti me -- say one-half. The contractors take the other half. The Railway will complete the corn tnunication 'through Canada. There is a large amount of colonial capital already invested ; there is a Government guarantee of 6 per cent. on the 13 ebentures, and the same interest will be allowed on the Shares during construction, and the cost is already defined. The estimated profits exceed 11 per cent. The Stock Market has been very quiet this morn ing, and not a speculative transaction in Consols is Officially reported, the jobbers being occupied with ,the arr angemen t o f th e accoun t. Th e " continua i‘ii,ou" to May i s i t per cent., the money prices being and those for account 100 5 - 2. The New Th ree:and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 1032 t o I, and the Thr ee p er C en t s . 99/ Bank Stock liar been firm at 226. Exchequer Bills of June are 3s. to 7s. premium, and those of March ss. premium. East India Bonds are 455. premium. In the F ore i gn Securities there has been very little doi ng . T he Peruvian Deferred Bonds have risen l 2 to 3 per cent., in consequence of the ex- Apected early announcement of the conversion into ctive, which, according to rumour, will be on ryfavourable terms. Equador Stock has been quoted 6i, a rise of * are worth 100-4- to 1 - - • • 4 Brazilian Old Bonds to 101. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. are at 99. the n ews of Spanish B on d s are h eavy, upon Cortes. su spended sittings of the The the C ommittee's C er tifi ca t e i s a t 61 to 62 per cent. Th e T urkish Loan i s 3 i . to 2 premium. Th e committee, as we anticipated, have recommended the acceptance of the terms prof fered by the Ottoman Porte. Dutch 4 per Cents., after being 97i have dropped to 961. The Railway Share Market is to per cent. l OWer again, and the rate of interest for carrying o ver_ until the end of the month is ra th er onerous , 134 3' 6to 8 per cent. on the old lines. The French Vares are down •k to 2. The second reading of the Railway Bill is postponed at the de sire of India Rail • re of the p romo t ers , t o awa it th e answer o f th e Governo r-General of India, expected, we believe, DY th e ziail Ti le _A . now telegraphed. Vey, gua Fria Mining Company have receiv e d -J iavourable advices. Mr. At woo d was i n foratreaty valuable property, near Gold Hill, to Nv°r ked u d er usi , z _ n er a royalty, and the machinery was f he, i ,,,&ung quartz to an extent already that promises t T'llense return. There is a good sum realised th e ".e S hareholders, and this is encouraging for gto ikustralian Companies. The price is firm at Tit premium. heavy, `e,ld Mine Shares generally are rather Th e favour of buyers. pressed, in Companies' Shares have been very de to 5/. Australian Agricultural are down 3/. The Banks are heavy. I3RrnsH FUNDS THIS DAY. (From the Official List.) Sauk Stock 3 3 per Cent Reduced Annuities 991 & Ne w 34 , nt ' Consols Annuities Long Arn.--Z.....ifEieezt. Annuities Ditto Expire sth Jan., 1860 -16 515-16 ', qua lyonlas,rsi Expire 10th Oct., 1859 5 Consols for AeelOutt ... Exc 0 o he quer Bills 14d, .......................... :3.1u 11e. 13 X 10.... " x5OO .... '"• •• ..... - ................. . °Luau„__ _ • 3 7 par 5 bPR. ICE Ore F OREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. -.. ,- ar Ila n B onds , Ditto New, , 0 per Cent. Ditt o N w, 1 852, 41 per Cent 99 4 -,, an . _ evr Bonds, 1829 & 39, 5 p er Cent 1024 105 t 4i'qualstsr te o i n . c 7 s ent. 64 6 ICvirenada Deferred ll} b ell oian 4A per Cent BBi ' eruvian lieferred 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 66.1 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent. Ditto - Deferred, 3 per Cent — Ditto Account April 15 245 S Panish Committee Cert. of C ou p. no t fun 6)i T urkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852 ..... - I p Dutch Exchange 21 per Cent 66 Ditto 4 por Cent. Certificate5... TffREE O'CLOCK. 1001 1 1008 4 Consols. Ditto April Account COMMISSION Or LUNACY ON MR. F. O'CONNOR.—Yes terclay a emiimission in the nature of a writ de lunatico inquirendo was opened before Mr. Commissioner Barlow a nd a jury of freeholders of the county of Middlesex, at the Roebuck Ta vern, Chiswick for the purpose of inves taierly M.Pigting the state of mi n d o f Mr. Feargus O'Connor, for . for Nottingham, and a leading Chartist agi r, but who since June last has been an inmate of Dr. 14,-,!ze',f3eLunatic Asylum, Manor-House, Turnham-green. ,'-: tla close of the inquiry the jury found that Mr. Fear gus o , conn Pable o f maim . °r Was of unsound mind, and was inca .oth e f June gahhitshaffairs, lunacydating h thL was from the committed to custody of the ; er da e y a o n n t-a w t i - l A ic sof the House of t mill°11 !'. Vire have a full report of the proceedings in ype, vithiclic,shall appear to -morrow. FaExcia -morrow. - oTEE PLECHA.SEs.- TwO steeplechases are to come off on Sunday next, at La Marche, near Ville 4 A-vraY• One is to be for the Selling Stakes of 3000 fr., added to 3 00 fr. ti • the other for the Consolation 8 1 .t 11 68 of 25 00fr., e f n or y ho'rses that have run at La Marche ... 4 ---ir_ipver won. For the former the entries are---Mr. br'K -.1..Y8 Glenlyon, Count de Coataudon's Rabelair, M. a_ivlotte's Franc Picard, M. Delamarre's Spring Buck, V. Biggins' Flyi ng B uc k, Ch apman ' s l anthe, Mr. wad's Co nst i tution, Mr. Mason ' s Nom de Guerre, Ihttor's Trust-the -Not, Mr. Robert's Quickstep. For the lat ter stak es t h e entries are—Mr. Higgins ' Simple Peter Count d e C oataudon ' s Bedford, Mr. Chapman ' s . -11 g u stine, M. H. D e l amarre ' s Spring Buck, Vi comte " St. Roman's Fiction. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN THE LONDON-ROAD.—Last l oght, b e t ween the hours of nine and ten o'clock, a fire 1)4 gi, a v ery alarmi ng c h aracter b roke out in the prem i ses Gar Mr. Hodges a cabinet-manuf ac t urer , s it ua t e i n den-row, London -road, Southwark. The fire, when *at discovered, had obtained a strong hold of the upper l i t °ekin p Nvorkso_, and o w i ng t o t h e i n fl amma b le nature of the rade the flames speedily penetrated the roof , !nil rose to s uc h an altitude as to illuminate the district. Information of the disaster having been sent to the erlgine-stations with as little delay as possible, the fire riltnenngiaandd engines of the L on d on B r i ga d e an d W es t o f l hay.o o ffice attended, an d a b oun tif u l supp l y o f water C g been obtained from the mains of the Lambeth °llk Par , Y, the firemen went to work in admirable man fining by great perseveranc e th e y succee d e d i n con ft-ing the fire to the premises in which it originated, but it Was not extinguished until the upper workshop and La ' v aluable contents were destroyed. The origin of the tlisfortune is envel o p e d i n o b scurity, and unfortunately the sufferer was not insured. 8 , 4 ' STEAXER RESCUED.-_j a new and powerful p‘aearn-tug, belonging to the Shipowners' Towing Com w_iclY, of London, was returning from a trial trip last ,eek on the Clyde about ten miles below Glasgow, she laserved one of the large passage-boats (with about 400 i t l i e eople on board) take the ground, and heel over into distress, from a squall. On her making signals of I n_ the tug, which is named " a ' 'Foomen of the Dukes of Gordon),made for, andafter Z.!_e:ing a h awser made fast over her port bow, backed iter with her immense power, and in less than 15 . 6_ 4 Utes placed the pasenger-host in safety, who ac- Zpi.7." wledged their deliverance by three cheers for so eionS an event in the trial trip of the Cock-o'. 1 ..,..,_ ~:...... c. - - 1 1 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENINa, APRIL S, 1853: THE SR ARE MARKETS. ;hr. I Paid. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Closing Prices this day. Business done this day. Basine this day. \ajf f T :piton Errtro NE WMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. SWEEPSTAKES. D.M. Pharos Nutpecker Filbert . Defiance Mayfair Noisette Three ran. Won easy. COLUMN STAKES. Four ran. Won easy. SWEEPTSAKES—FiIIies. D.M. NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SUBSCRIPTION PLATE T.Y.C. Ephesus ... Raekapalt HANDICAP PLATE, £5O. A.F. Abdallah Kohinoor Eight ran SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY .) (Before Thomas Puckle, Esq., and a full bench of Magistrates.) UNGRATEFUL ROBBERY. John Cray West, 22, pleaded guilty to stealing a purse containing forty-six pounds, the property of Alfred Tassel', from his dwelling-house in Union-street, South wark. It appeared that the prosecutor was a small trades man, and the prisoner's sister was his wife, and en tirely through charity the prisoner was allowed to ' live - with Chem. Prosecutor had saved forty-six pounds, which he deposited with his wife for security. In the early part of March the prisoner suddenly de camped, having broken open his sister's box and stolen the cash. Nothing was heard of him until the 6th of March, when the prisoner was seen spendinc , a great deal of money by superintendent Morton at Tunbridge wells. Having some suspicion that he was the bank clerk who h a d a b scon ded f rom L on d on, h e apprehended 5025 him, when the prisoner confessed th a t h e h a d ro bb e d hi s , lop brother-in-law the prosecutor. He was brought up to St. London and twenty-two pounds was found on him, he 6 having expended the remainder. 25 The prisoner having expressed his contrition, and the 50 prosecutor recommending him to mercy, the Court sen- 20 tenced him to six months' hard labour at Wands worth. Pi+ ROBBERY BY AN OLD SERVANT.—George Simmons, 45, pleaded guilty to stealing a large number of seed bags, the property of Alfred Barry, wharfinger in Tooley street. The prisoner had been nearly 20 years in prosecutor's employ, and was detected in stealing the property. The prosecutor having recommended him to mercy, the Court sentenced' him to six months' at Wandsworth. SOUTHWARK--(THIS DA Y.) CHARGE OF STABBING.—Mary Cronin, a masculine looking young Irishwoman, was brought before Mr. Combe, charged with stabbing Ellen Godfrey with a knife. The prisoner and the prosecutrix are both women of easy virtue, and resided opposite to each other in Suf folk-place, at the rear of the Police Court. Last night about eleven the prisoner was fighting with another female near the place, when prosecutrix interfered and separated them. All was quiet until near one o'clock, when prosecutrix went out to speak to a neighbour, and she had not walked many yards before she was suddenly attacked by the prisoner, who stabbed her in the left arm with a sharp knife, and ran away, exclaiming that she was determined to do for her. A constable fortunately came up and secured the prisoner, and immediately took witness to St. Thomas's Hospital, where the wound was dressed. Mr. Combo asked whether the wound was dangerous ? Police constable 94 M produced a medical certificate from the house-surgeon of the hospital, stating that it was an incised cut, but not of a dangerous description. The prisoner said she had a quarrel with the com plainant, and she struck her first. She had a knife in her hand, but did not intend to injure her. They were, in fact, both drunk at the time. Mr. Combe said, as the wound was not dangerous, he should fine her 405., or six weeks' imprisonment. She was committed. HINTS FOR EMIGRANTS. (From a Private Letter.) MELBOURNE, N. S. W., Nov. 5, 1852.—Having expe rienced the difficulties in the way of an intending emi grant of getting useful information, prior to leaving England, touching the necessary outfit, and having wit nessed the serious loss and inconvenience the ignorance on these matters has caused many, I beg, through you, to say a few words to such as intend to emigrate to this country for the purpose of gold seeking. I speak to the humbler classes, as those who have means may study comfort. Your outfit should consist of two or three blue serge shirts, two or three flannel cinglets, ditto stockings, one warm jacket, three pairs of trousers, one pair of strong highlow boots, a strong walking pair, and a pair of strong soled shoes for using on board ship,—many bring slippers, but if you are up early in the morning and like your salt water bath, as you ought, the deck will be wet, and strong soled shoes have many advantages ; in strong winds, too, the decks are usually damp. Your clothes should be dark, as otherwise they soon get soiled and look very untidy, as well as keeping you constantly washing them. They should be useful for strong work ; one suit may be a little lighter in texture for ship. I may here remark, a light scrubbing brush is very useful, being the usual mode of cleaning clothes on board. In bedding, two pairs of sheets, a small blanket, and a blue blanket—the latter will answer for a rug when lying on deck, it will also answer for the diggings ; a bed you will not regret throwing overboard on arrival. In purchasing your cooking utensils, you must be guided by the number in the party ; but let them be of strong tin, and, as you have but little room, make them all to fit into each othe r ; a p ana ki n , a h ook - pot to hold one pint-and-a-half, and a small saucepan to make soup, will be sufficient for one person not joining a party (but on board parties are formed, with messes of from three to nine), a washbasin and small baking-dish ; for flour or rice get small bags made,—you can judge of the num ber required by the provision list. A knife and fork and spoons ; a few tools to enable you to put up shelves or make any alteration necessary in your berth—of course, with these you will provide suitable nails, hooks, &c. ; a flask of oil, one quart ; and a lamp with globe to give light all round, which will cost 3s. 6d. A. small zinc filter will be a great con venience, and a strong tin case for holding fresh water. You have to walk to the diggings from 35 to 200 miles, and carriage varies from 41. to 101. per cwt. Un less you have cas you must carry your traps on your shoulders. Here all they take—the miners—is a rug, a small calico tent (canvass tents purchased in England are useless when required to be carried, being too heavy), a change of clothes, a large panakin, and a brace of pistols. Picks and shovels they buy at the diggings, at from 15s. to 255. each, and very bad ones ; yet you can't carry them up, and, as I write, there are hundreds of emigrants delayed here trying to dispose of the multitude of things, quite useless, which they brought out with them. Some have been detained 14 days, and have given away their effects for a mere trifle. Get a knapsack made before leaving, or make it on the voyage, that will carry the articles I have named. Don't stay in Melbourne longer than is necessary to procure good information as to the diggings you ought to go to. Take .a berth not too near any of the hatchways, as they are generally open to get up provisions, &c. ; see that she be not an old ship ; and examine your ticket that it be filled up for " the wharf at Melbourne," as many passe ngers h a d to pay, some 31. t o 51., f or ge tti n g themselves and t ra p s on s h ore. T be of h eloney usually s p en t i n an em i gran t' s ou tfit wou ld the greatest service to him to support him at the diggings till h e b e successful. I may observe, your pro visions on b oar d ought to suffice ; do not spend your money in spirits, &c. a ; n every pe nn y i s o f grea t impor tance here to a poor man. LANCASTER E. _ZECTION.—The polling took place yes terday. The proceeins ere throughout very peace tohueld be returned At the a a p b p l e a raenndt thatod e M r l yr,. bud Greene fromw _ commencement, it was conclusion of the poll the numbers were—For . Greene, 668 ; for Mr. Armstrong, 5 43 Mr. Greene, 125. ; majority for FLIGHT OF BLANQUI. —The Lorientai s of the Bth g • a minute narrative of the escape of th e formidable wee re publican leader Blanqui from the Palais a t B elle -Isle-e Iver. Blanqui fled with another republican prisoner named Cazavan, and managed to evade the notice of the keeper by an ingenious stratagem. He made up and dressed a figure of himself, which the turnkey in making his evening inspection of the cell mistook for his prisoner, who appeared to him to be sitting and warming himself. He was very shortly afterwards taken in a barn, where he lay concealed, having exchanged the prison costume for a suit of black, and obtained from some friend I,ooof. in gold. He has since been placed in a penal cell. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN FRANCE.—The clergy of the Roman Catholic church in France is thus composed in the 80 sees which form the circumscription of it :—.15 archbishops, 65 bishops, 175 vicars-general, 661 canons, 3,388 curbs, 29,537 desservans of succursals, 6 chaplains for the three cemetries of Paris, and 7,190 vicars in the small communes. The personnel of the protestant worship are 756 in number, 507 of whom are for the reformed church, and 249 for the Lutheran worship. In the Jewish church there are 53 rabbis, and 61 officiating ministers. The church in Algeria is not included in this account. 25 10 20 10 20 ft. 1100 !O 1 A all a I 28 :741 11 2 lB, It. 100 t. 100 Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Blackrock and Passage Dublin&Belfast June Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction Do. New East Anglian (£25 L and E. & L. & D.) Do. Do. (181. E.& H.) Eastern Counties Eastern Union, Class A. (late E. U. Sh.) Do., do Do., B. and C East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk & Birming. June 'Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin. and Peebles Edin. Prth. &Dundee Glasgow &S. Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Great Southern and Western (Ireland). t. 100 Great Western .2 11 Irish South-Eastern 9 all Lancaster & Carlisle 6 111 Do., Thirds st. 100 Lancash.& Yorkshire 10 15 Do., Fifths L 4 11 Do., Wst. Riding Un 50 all Leeds Northern Xi all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt Llh all London & Blackwell LO 3 Loud. Tilb. &Sthend. L 100 Lond. Brigt. &S. Cst. 4.. 100 London &N. Western 9 12 Do., Fifths O 1 Do. ,£lO Sh.M.&B. C t. 100 London &S. Western O 42i Do., £5O 0 34 Do., £4O Londerry. &Coleraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. It. 100 Manch. Shef. &Lincln Do., Man. & Lin. Un. . 100 Midland 100 Do. Birming. & Derby 47 Midland G. West. (Ir.) 11 Do. Shares a ll Newcastle & Carlisle , 100 Newmarket 3 Do. Bury Extension 16 Newp. Aberg. &Hftd 74 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry, Warrenpoint, and Restrevor 100 Norfolk a ll Do., New 3? Northn.Counties Un NO North British 13 North Devon, No. 1 6i Do., No. 2 a ll Do., A Deferred 5 Do., B Guaranteed 174 North Staffordshire all North Western 10 N. &S. Westrn. June 100 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 100 Scottish Central 100 Scottish Midland 100 Shrewsbury & Birmg 100 Do., L. & N. Westn Guaranteed Stock 8 Shrewsby.& Hereford all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) all Do. Halves do ........ all Do Do. Oswesti y 6,3 Shropshire Union all South Dev0n.......... 100 South. Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yorksh.River Dun 5 Do. 161 Stockton & Hartlepl 19 Thames Haven Dock and Railway' 17 Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford& Limerick 13 West Cornwall 1/.18 Wimbledon&Croydn 1 Woodford 100 York Newctl.&Berw. 20 Do. Extensions 114 Do. G. N. E. Purchase 100 York &N. Midland iO I all ;0 1 all i 0 1 45 ;5 1 all ;5 1 all %I all L 8 all !O all r 5. all ;5 8i ;5 all it. 100 PO all 'it. 100 [0 1 1 it. 100 it. 100 it. 100 ;t. 100 ft. 100 rt. 100 13i 20 20 50 PREFERE 100 Aberdeen all Do., No. 2,7 p. c , 100' Brie. & Ex. 4 p. c. St, 5 Do. 4 p. c. Shares 100 Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5i per cent. 3j Cork&Bandon bh p.c. all Dundee, Perth, and .Aberdeen Junction all E. Aug. (70e.) 6p. c. all Do. (X 5), 7 per cent. 2 Do. (£7 17s), 7. p et. all Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. o. No.l all Do., No. 2 all Do., New 6p. c. St all Eastern Union Scrip Guar. 6 per cent 100 East Lancash. 6p. cts all Edinb. Prth. & Dund 100 ,Glasgow &S. Western Guar. 5 per cent 100 Great Northn. sp. c 100 Do. 5 p. c., Redeem At 10 p. c. prem all Gt.S outhn. & Westn (Ireland) Eights 6 Gt. Westn. (Berke & Hants Ex. 5 p. c.) 100 Great Western, faxed 42 per cent 6 Lan. & York. F. £2O 100 Do., 6 p. c., Stock 100 Loudon and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c 100 Do. Pref. 5 p. c., St all Do. Convertible, 5 p c., 1852 100 Do. New Guar. 6p. c 5 London dt S. Westarn Con. Thirds , 10 Londonderry & Color. Shares ....... . all Londndry. & Ennisk. Shares .. . ..... all MAnch., She£ ,& Lin., Shares, No. 1. ... all Do., New, £lO ....... 3 Do., £6 all Marypt. & Carl. 4 p.c. all Do. 4i per cent....... 8i Do 100 Mid. Consol. 6p. c. St. 100 Do, Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent 5 Do. Pref. 4t, percent all Norfolk Extension all Do. Guar. 5i per ct all Do. Waveney Valley 5 per cent [OO North British all North Staffordshire.. 100 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh. £15,6p. c. 9 Do. all Shrewsbury & Birm. New Guaranteed all Shrewsby. & Chester Nor. W. (Min), 3 p. c. 10 Do. 5 per cent. all South Devon 14 Do. New all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) f£l Os. 6d. all S. Yorksh.4p. c. Guar. 3 Waterfil. &Kilk. 6p. c. 100 York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref. 5 Do . 10 York & N. Midland, H. & S. Purchase FORE: 3 Antwrp. &Rotterdam 3 Belgian Eastn. Junct. all Charleroi & Erquelin 8 Dijon and Besa,ngon 8 Dutch Rhenish all East Indian 1 Do. Extension all Gt. Indian Peninsula 7 GO_ Juliet. of France 15i Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares 2 Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. prof 15 Luxembourg 10 Do. (Railw a y) 2 Do . 3 Do. (Canal) 2 Da. 6p. cent. pref. 7 Lyons & Med*erran. 74 Madras 29 Maria Antonia 10 Do. New all INamur & Liege (with interest — all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France all Do. 201. 3p. c. Bds (fmy. B. &Ams. Shs. ) all Norwegian Truk. prof 10 Paris and Lyons all Paris and Orleans all. Paris and Rouen all Paris and Strasbourg 4 Paris Caen &Cherbrg. 54 Quebec & Richmond all Rouen and Havre all Sambre and Meuse 4 Do. 5i per cent. pref 4 Sovthern of France 2s. Upper India Scrip all West Flanders 6 Do. 5i per C. Pref .9 Western of France , 2 West. of. Switzerland 3 ,New RAILWAYS. Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng. Bost & Eastu. Birmg. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junct. Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £2O 29 - 30 5i - 6 - 10 7i - 21 -- 22 d 3i —2d 103 105 64f 64i 21' 221 19 20 . - 34 - 4ipm, 8 -- 5 - 3i l - 4 13 - 13} to 11 7 - 73 - 75 j 55 - 57 73 - 75 32 -- 34 62 -- 64' 82k -83 k 47 -- 49 124 —126 108 i --109 k 91/ -- 91i 1 6t 92 --94 7 / 13 -- 13kp 76k -- 77 4i -- 4i d 3k -- 3 d 15t -- 16/ 9k --911 lt -- 2 p, 103 -- 104 / 1191 -- 1191 2 —3 pl 1 -- 1# p 904 5 -- 4 di 4 -- 3 di 10k -- 11 19 -- 21 29i -- 3i -- 3 d 744 74i1 43 -- 45 I '• - ••• 51 53 i 31 -- 31 3i 3 d 31 3i 8i 9i 52 54 ... - ... 31 - 2i d 344 35 4 - 4i d 8 - 2i 50i 51i 1 98 100 62 63 64 66 , 73 76 ... d 18 -- 20 9 10 13 -- 15 3 -- 34 d 20 214, 75 36, 374 124 -- 134 4 -- 44 19 -- 21 3 -- 34 144 -- 154 94 -- 10 32 -- i 4 9i -- 10 id -- par .•••• ••• 68i -69 i 7-7 21 -21 d 58i -59 i .CE SHARE 1106 7 :: 107 1106 - 108 19 —2O xi id _I 6 - 64=1 1 3i - SRI 4 4 1 - ili, 11. - 2 - 15- 1i p - 18 i - 127 -__. 1g 1111 - 113 fii - 8i 61 -7. i .06 )08 id p .51 153 L5O - 1531 3 4 - 3ill' 10 - 11 13i —l33xcl 8 9 10i 11 4 h --ipxd ... -- 148 - 150 - I 224 4 -23 P 1i - 2i 109 - 111 25 - 26 2 2j p . - 10 114 17 —18 i lip 14 —15 a par t p 26 - 26 19A -20 i a —.*par 1101 -- 103 5 - 51 par 1 —l4 3 p 1 d —6 p 2 2P -- 1p -8 -- 141 - 2 - iP -13 p -3 p -36 g - 15 - 91 - 18 p - 43 -42 i - 34 - 51 - 1 p p - 21 - 9i - 5 p - --- par 10ip d d LINES LEASED AT FIXAD RENTALS. RAMP/Ara. Sbr. Paid 50 all 304 all 304 all 301 all 50 25 12. 12 20 20 100 - 100 196 9i all 'Bedford and Bletchley.... Birm. & Oxfd. guarantee ... Do. without gr, Birm.Woly. & Dudley guar. Do. wthtguar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln. gr. 6 p. cent__ Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares Do. Shares Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent Do. 6 per ct IViancli.Bxton and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redcar. Miclld.Bradfd. Northern and Eastern sp.c. Do. 6 per ct.. Do. Fixed sp. c Prest. dxWyre Do. Shares. Roystn.tt Hit. Do.Shepth.St. Shef. Roth. di'. Goole g.5.p.c S. Staffordsh.. WearValleyg r 6 per cent ...I Leasing Compans. (London (Si N. West. Gt.Westn Do IDo IDo L. &N.W . Cal don.. , Closing Prices this day. Gt.Notrhn Gt. Westn. Yk. New. da Berw Y.d&N.Bid Do Do S. Eastern, Do ..., Norfolk Do Ln.&N.W & Midid Stckton Darlingt. Midland 106 -108 52 - 54 E. Count Do L. di IS .W: &Ludt Yk Do Gt.Northn Do Lancash.dti Yorksh.. 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Co. 1# —l4 d 3 20 all General l7 —l9 2 all Great Nugget Vein l4 lip 33 3 all Great Polgooth 4— 1 p 1 all Lake Bathurst 4 dis— par 1 all Liberty 0 a P 1 all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co 4 3 a 1 all Mariquita 4d par 10 9 Mexican &S. Americ 7 8 1 all New Granada — 3 p 1 all Nouveau Monde I .14 p 23 4 5 1 Port Philip par- 4 p 14 1 4 1 all Quartz Rock par— 4. p 50 all Rhymney Iron 24 —26 15 Do. New .... . 30 104 Santiago de Cuba 1 all S ou th Australian par— 4 p 14 10 7 Tin Croft 284 all United Mexican 64 64 6i • 1 1 11 an a aall l ll l West Walle r YWueastaG.Mariposara...na- 'Gr a n ada......, •• a . : • . • . •• .. : parpardp _-- a pppp 1411 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 92 - - 93 928 2 50 all British N. American ... ... 20 2 Child. Bnk. of India,' Australia, & China 4 lb 24 3 i 100 25 Colonial — ... 100 20 Commercial of Lon don — ... ••• 4 English Scottish and Australian l4 —14 p 4 4 20 74 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 3l —34 p M/ 20 London and County ... _ 50 10 London Joint Stock ... ."35 4 100 20 Lond. & W e stminster ... _- ... ' 20 2 London Bauk of Aus tralia and India 50 224 National of Ireland . ... _ v . 25 all Oriental Bank o f . C0rp0rati0n....,.,,,, 54 56 54 25 5 Do. New •• • "' lOO 25 Provincial of Irela n d ... 10 all Do. New "' ••• 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg ••• & Gold Imp. Co 4 dis— par 25 25 South Australia ... 25 all Union of Australia 77 78 77 4 . . 2i Do. New 8 9 50 10 Union of London ... ... 40 all Union of Madrid ... MISCELLANEOUS. 100 35 Australian Agricult B5 90 87 27 4 5 20 6 Austria sn.Pcific.Mail ... ... 10 5 Australn. Royal Mail ... ... 38A Brit. Americo. Land ... -- ... 7 7 8 5 100 32h Canada i . . 5 5 Crystal Palace ... 64 f 4 2 Crystal Pal. of France .., ... 20 1 Ea.tern Steam .. . . 1 1 Electric. Tele g . Of Ir ... ... 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat ... ... 100 50 General Screw Steam ... ... 20 24 Irish Beetroot Sugar .. .. 1 all Nat. Pat. Stea m F ue l . ~. ... 10 2 Netherlands Land—. ... ... 20 24 Nrth .of Europe Steam ... _ 50 all Peninsular &Oriental :_ .. "'834 50 25 Do. Do. ... ... 100 60 Royal Mail Steam.. . . 25 25 South A us t ra l . La n d ' :1 . 8 50 48 4 1 1 Submar. Telegraph ... ..• 5 2 Universal Emigration 10 and Colonisation . . - •• • LOO 284 Van Diemen's Land , 1 . 9 20 20 L:2O MARKET NEWS -(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Although the supply of English wheat on sale in to-day's market was very limited, the demand for all kinds, owing to the large quantities of foreign flour on offer, was in a very inactive state, at Monday's decline in the quotations. The arrivals of foreign wheat this week have been cora parately small ; nevertheless, the inquiry for that descrip tion of produ ce was dull, at barely stationary prices. In floating cargoes ne x t t o nothing was do i ng . Fine malti ng b ar l ey was scarce, Grinding and distilling sorts off slowly, at late rates.and quite as dear. moved We had a moderate inquiry for malt currency. at last week's On the whole a full average business was doing in oats ; but beans and p eas were much neglected. Flour was dull in the extreme, and the nominal top price of English was 44s per 280 lbs. English .. Irish Foreign AIIRPrALS THIS Wszi{. Wheat. B arley. malt. Oats. 1,310 i 980 6,420 1, 950 rr 1,330 1,120 2,6 t 0 1 .... 3,600 Flour, 1,270 460 egg 6,560 brig BOROUGH HOP. Selected samples of hops continue to move off steadily, at full prices. In other kinds very little business is doing. ruled steady, WHITECHAPEL. The demand f or eac h ki nd of mea t a t this market to-d ay Beef, 2s 6d t o 3 s 6 d ; mutton, 3s 4 d t o t s 6d ; lamb, 4 3 l Od and quotations were well supported.— to 68 Od ; veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; pork, 28 10d to 4.5 2d per Sibs by the carcase. ____ LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) from New ;&___GC°lnulmileerusasrY, Commissary, IT A ioerse ved , LONDON, April la Wind this day at Noon, N. to N.E., fresh breeze, and cloudy. There was a slight fall of the River a ß n r d em sail en e hail at 11 a.m. DEAL, April 12.—Wind, E• N •E• Arrived—Emma, Montreal ; Warrior Queen, do. ; Christiana, Quebec. PLYMOUTH,' April 12.—Wind , N.N.E. Arrived— Naiad, London, for St. Thomas' lealiY. Off Port —Char lotte, Valparaiso. April 13 (at 9.45 a.m.)—Arrived— Forth (s), Coast of Africa, on freight 5,0001. PORTSMOUTH, April 12. Wind, N.W. Arrived—Mar garet Evans, London, for New York. FALmouTH; April 12.—Wind, N. Sailed—Anthracite, Port Philip. LIVERPOOL, April 12. Wind, N.W. Arrived —James Walker, Mobile • Voyager, Hali fa x , N.S. . Jane Ellis, St. Domingo ; Fitzjames, Sava nnah ; Inconstant, Charles ton. Sailed—Crisis, Shanghae ; Magpie, Singapore ; Esk, ' • Bahia ; Sea Lion, Philadelphia , Rival, Halifax ; Rothsay, Newfoundland. WARKWORTH, April 12. The Borabra (schooner), o f Dundee, has come in leaky, having been on Boulmer rocks. POOLE, April 12.—Sailed— Heroine, Newfoundland. SUNDERLAND, April 12.—Wind, W.N.W. Sailed—. Libertus, Calcutta • C res cent, do. DARTMOUTH) Z pr ii 12.—Wind, N. Helen Lindsay, Port Philip. d g ile—Glea H ARTLEPO OL, April 12.--a . ner, C oqu i m b o. ARDROSSAN.--Sailed—Spiinghill, Quebec. BELFAST, April 11.—Wind, W. Sailed—Waterford, Quebec. April 12.—Wind, W. Sailed—Credo, ABERSTWITH, AP Quebec. KINGSTON, April 11. —pu t back—Lady Mulgrave, for Troon, with damage from contact with a steamer. Sor LY, April 12.—The Duncan Ritchie, Leith to Mel bourne, which put in hers on the 27th March, has been surveyed ; her topsides having been found to be rotten, she will discharge. MESSINA, April 2.—The Tweed, for Falmouth, is leaky, and is discharging.—The Amphitrite, Malta to Queens town, has put in leaky. —The Arta, h ence for England, is on shore ; cargo damaged. A —The Bishop of D ur h am h as sen t the following an application f or ass i s t ance (t o __----------- free the chapel from debt) from the congregation of Goon E Bethesda Chapel, Gates head :--" Sir, — Although my x r A ep isf l r y LE t . o principal care is employed, as it ought to be, in the relief and assistance of those who are more immediately under my superintendence, yet I am happy in extending the right hand of fellowship to all who love the Lord Jesus. I have, therefore much pleasure in forwarding to you 101. towards the liquidation of your debt, and can only regret that the urgent and continually increasing demands upon my purse do not allow me to send more. —I am, sir, your obedient servAnt, E, Dumf." METROPOLITAIV-EXTRAMURAL SEPULTURE: TO THE EDITOR or THE BUN. SlR,—Observing from the Parliamentary Reports that Lord Palmerston last night, in answer to a ques tion.put by Mr. Digby Seymour, repeated what he said to Mr. Whalley on the 18th of March relative to the, desire felt by Ministers to put an immediate end to intramural interments— adding, "Ile thought the course of applying for orders in Council would be followed by shutting up all the graveyards in the metropolis • whilst, with regard t o arrangements for burial beyond the limits of the metropolis, these arrange ' ments must rest with the parishes concerned ; but he apprehended that the great extent of ground which had, he believed, been purchased near Woking for that pur pose would be amply sufficient to meet all demands of the metropolis for a good time to come;" allow me to request the favour that you will insert the annexed copy of a letter which I addressed to his Lordship, on the 2d inst., on the above subject. The length of my letter will not, I hope, preclude its insertion, seeing that it relates to a question of universal metropolitan interest, at a moment when 176 parish boards, deficient in all the requisites for such a task, are attempting the organisation of new burial institutions. I am further led to ask this favour, as throughout the long discussions on the two Metropolitan Burial Acts, no paper has opened its columns so wide, or rendered such valuable services to the cause of Extramural Se pulture, as has the Sum I remain, Sir, yours, very faithfully, R. BROUN, Bart. April 9, 1853. EXTRAMURAL SEPULTURE. COPY OF LETTER TO LORD PALMERSTON,. M.P. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT. Sphinx Lodge, Chelsea, April 2, 1853. MY LORD,—From a report by Mr. B.eywood, Sur veyor to the City Commissioners of Sewers, on the sub ject of Extramural Sepulture for the City of London (noticed in the morning papers of yesterday), it appears that the Court of Common Council entertain the idea of providing a cemetery for those dying within the juris _ diction of the City, or having present right of burial in the churchyards, &c., situated within its limits. 2. The 9th clause of the Metropolitan Burials Act of last session ordains and declares " That no new burial ground or cemetery (parochial or non-parochial), shall be provided and used in the metropolis, or within two miles of any part thereof, without the previous approval of one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State" ; whilst the 53d clause ordains and declares " That for the pur poses of this act, the expression 'the metropolis' shall be construed to mean and include the Cities and Liberties of London and Westminster, the Borough of South wark, and the parishes, precincts, townships, and places mentioned in schedule A. of said act. 3. By reference to this schedule, your L ordship will perceive that the said " Metropolis,' or, in other words Metropolitan Burial District, takes in a ra di us from St. Paul's Cathedral, varying from six to ten and twelve miles, embracing, in addition to the cities and liberties of London and Westminster, and the borough of South wark, 63 parishes or other districts in the county of Middlesex, 6 parishes in the county of Kent, and 19 parishes or other districts in the county of Surrey. 4. Considering, my Lord, that the " Metropolis" thus defined embraces a population of nearly three million souls—a population double that of Wales, which nearly equals that of Scotland, an d exceeds the number of men, women, and children scattered over the entire extent of fourteen English counties and that the Roman maxim, " Salus populi supremo . est Lex," is recognised and allowed to be a fundamental prin ciple in the legislative enactments of every civilised State, it may be justly said the atmosphere of London extends on all sides to at least a distance of 15 miles ; and considering that no cemeteries or burial-grounds can be established without contaminating the earth, the water, and the air of the various localities in which they are situated, your Lordship will readily see that the strongest sanitary objections exist against depositing, year by year, 60,000 to 70,000 corpses within even so near a distance as two miles from the boundary described by the Burials Act of 1852, in any one direction. 5. But, my Lord, did no sanitary reasons whatsoever exist against our changing the present noxious system of burial within walls to one to be carried out at short distances from the metropolis, there are other weighty considerations arising from public convenience, from economy, and from decency, which ought to lead your Lordship and the Government strenuously to resist the same. As yet, the legislation of Parliament for the rec tification of the enormous social evils in the system of metropolitan interment has fallen altogether short of the requirements in the case ; and as the second Burials Act will be found in practice as unworkable as was the first, for reasons which I shall shortly develope, I avail myself of the appearance of Mr. Haywood's report to draw your Lordship's special attention to the accompany ing copy of a memorial which Mr. Sprye and myself pre sented in May last to the Lord Mayor and Common Council, and also to two memorials of ours, addressed to the Lords of the Treasury in 1850, descriptive of the NECROPOLIS at Woking, of which we are the joint pro jectors and founders. 6. A perusal of these 3 documents will, I feel confident, satisfy your Lordship that we have accomplished for the inhabitants of this vast metropolis in all time coming everything that is necessary to insure henceforth cheap, convenient, wholesome, and decent sepulture ; and such being the case, your Lordship would incur the heaviest responsibilities as a Minister of the Crown and a guar dian of the public weal, were you in any one instance to grant your approval to the formation of any new burial ground or cemetery within t IVO miles at least of the limits of the " metropolis," as defined by the Burials Act of last session. 7. I have said, my Lord, that the Burials Act of 1852 will be found as unworkable as the Interments Act of 1850, and I will shortly state my reasons for coming to this conclusion. The moment the 200 existing metropo litan graveyards are closed, the whole practice of sepul ture will resolve itself into a matter of pounds, shillings, and pence. The question with every householder will then be, " Where can I cheapest bury my dead !" Such being the case, it is self-apparent that so long as the eight suburban cemeteries and the London Necropolis exist, no cheaper burial will be found within twenty-five miles of London than what they will collectively supply. The eight cemeteries are much nearer to the city than any which the law will now allow to be established, and hence conveyance to them will be greatly less expensive than conveyance would be to other cemeteries and burial-grounds in their respective vicinities, but some miles farther out of town ; whilst as regards railway conveyance, the Necropolis Company has secured the only city terminus and line at all adapted for the special purpose of removing the dead out of London without occasioning public disturbance, alarm, and indecency. A single glance at the map of London will satisfy your Lordship that such is the fact. 8. That whilst such is the case, there is no need what soever, as regards convenience, sanitation, or economy, for one single foot more of burial-ground than what the eight suburban . cemeteries and the Necropolis conjointly furnish. The small area 0f176 acres of parochial graveyards, and 42 acres of Dissenters' burial-ground s , have suffi ce d to inhume generation a ft er genera ti on o f the metropolitan dead for upwards of 1,000 years ; whilst not only the lawful spirit of commercial enterprise but also an en lightened philanthropy have, within the last and present reigns, furnished eight beautiful suburban cemeteries, containing collectively 282 acres of land (of which about 17 acres only had been used when the Board of Health made their report in 1850), and one NECROPOLIS, or " City for the Dead," comprising an area of 1,500 acres, an act for the establishment of which was passed last session—making the whole 1,782 acres. 9. As the floor, my Lord, of an acre of ground will suffice to receive 3,887 coffins laid side by side, we have at this moment, in lieu of 200 petty festering grave-pits dispersed amongst our hearth -seats and altars—which have engulphed the mortality of London since an era antecedent to the Norman Conquestan existing virgin grave accommodation in our eight cemeteries and one necropolis for upwards of 6i millions of bodies—a space which it would take upwards of 1 . 00 years to cover with one layer of corpses at 7 feet deep, burying yearly from from 60,000 to 70,000 ; 200 years to cover with a second layer at 6 feet deep; and 300 years to cover with a third layer at 5 feet deep. 10. Hence then, my Lord, for all purposes of sanitary interment, we have as much burial ground, authorised already by acts of Parliament, as the inhabitants of the metropolis can require even until the last trumpet shall sound, and the dead arise. And if as regards a suffi ciency of wholesome grave space no necessity exists for establishing so much as even one other burial-yard or cemetery, an inspection of the burial map of London will suffice to convince your Lordship that the position Of the eight suburban cemeteries and the necropolis leaves nothing to be desired as regards convenience— each of the former being in the immediate precincts of the metropolis at intervening distances from each other of two or three miles ; whilst, for all practical purposes, the necropolis at Woking may be said to be as approxi mate to the centre of London as Charing-cross is near to the Mansion-house. 11. Again, as regards economy the site of the necro polis, which is reachable from the Waterloo station in 45 minutes, has been obtained for 1051. per acre less than the average price asked for the 15 estates tendered to the Board of Health under the Ist Metropolitan In terments Act ; and for 4601. ss. per acre less than the average price paid for sites alone by 16 established cemetery companies ; whilst, as regards conveyance, the London and South-Western Railway Company are bound by their arrangement with Mr. Sprye and my self, to take down from the Waterloo station to Woking, a Hearse-van capable of containing 50 coffins in sepa rate compartments, for 11. per trip—or less than 6d. each ; and to carry mourners to and from the necropolis and London at the respective low fares of-65., first class ; 3s. 6d., second class • and 25., third class. 12. Such being the case, my Lord, and seeing from Mr. Heywood's Report that the average mortality of the city of London does not exceed 3,139 deaths per annum, what necessity is there, let me ask, for the Cor poration to establish a city cemetery? The poor of this annual civic mortality (amounting to 78 per cent. of the whole) can find separate graves at the necropolis seven feet deep, which will not be re-opened for ten years un less at the request of a relative, conveyance, and funeral rites, for the sum total of 14s. ; and as for the ri c h (22 per cent, of the above deaths), they have the choice of eight suburban cemeteries and the necropolis where to bury their dead. There is then no necessity whatsoever for a city cemetery ; and seeing this projected burial ground cannot, without a violation of the law, be ma de nearer to the Guildhall th an a t l eas t e i ght miles, and that the expense of conveyance by railway to a place of interment is about the same, whether the distance to be travelled is five miles, or 25 miles—l venture to say that if a site unexceptionable in all respects could be found within eight or ten miles of the centre ofiandon (which it cannot be), and if the p ro p ose d city cemetery was con- 5 1 i 1031 i 644 i 4 14 111 42 42 3:3 4 i 20 d 13i 13 81i 2i 49 124 6 108 9 91i 2 1i 76 4 ipm 1031 3 1191 20 19, 91 9O 30 29i 301 ma i 52i 21 751 5 i 37 691 12i i 9 127 8 113 12 13i x d 102 i li 51 2 25i / 11/ i pm 5i 20 S u (ztyZe„Q -- r - Elif" ImgozS47 ii:_ ; -... ,14-:;,, , ,\ 0 i -*--.l.gizi 5,40.-*4-...±40:i1,5.,/ stracted - there to-morrow the. Commissioners or Sewers, , derations, to compel a . t •" wisted-Is,, 44 14-4 3 % • '-' whether discharging the incompatible functions of a as regards a realisation ling , "Burial Board," or acting in any other capacity, never j matured by us. would bury within its walls in any given year One tithe ! 2O. At the rate agreed to be paid by Government for of those d vin- or having right of sepulture; within the Brompton Cemetery; 38 acres in size—viz., 74,9211. their jurisdiction. I —which-is upwards of 1,970/. per acre —the purchase 13. And if this remark, my Lord; holds good as regards , money of the Necropolis, when enclosed and laid out, the graveyard contemplated by the City Burial and I would be be 2,955,0001. This burial territory through Sewerage Cornthissioners, it will apply ,with equal force I which the Soutlr - Western Railway passes for two miles to each and all of the 176 Parish Boards to whdm 1 and a half—and which embraces the finest scenery in the Burial Act of 1852 most injudiciously assigns the England —we offered, as your Lordship will' see by re task of finding sites and completing arrangements for the ' ference to our two memorials to the Lords of the Trea sepulture of their respective parochial dead ; as also, to : sury in 1850, not only t o ma k e a prac ti ca l a dj unc t t o th e the schem e p ropoun d ed b y the parties calling themselves 1 working of the M e t ro p o lit an I nterments A c t o f th at "The Gr ea t E x t ramural Cemetery Association, Ilarles- ' year, but also to place under the medical police sur den-green." As regards the impropriety of eiriploying veillance of the Board of Health. To the above details, the machinery of Vestries as parochial burial boards, after then, it is unnecessary for me to do more than the expositions of the Board of Health in regard to the add, that, in addition to the Necropolis at Woking, depravity of the existing parochial graveyard system, 1 being a complete remedy for the evils of Me and the utter inaptitude ot such fluctuating and irrespon- I tropolitan Intramural Burial, whether as regards sible bodies for any better purpose as regards extramu- 1 magnitude of extent, comprehensiveness of design, unity ral sepulture, than that merely of shifting the evils of ' of action, facility of access, cheapness of se p u lt ure , th e tiie pra c ti ce of interments from the interior to the Cuburbs [ Company has at its head not only an ordinary Board of of the metropolis, it is wholly unnecessary for me to I Directors amenable at all times to publi c o pi n i on f b , ... e speak. But as regard s the question of economy in the • correct discharge of their duties, but likewis e a B oar d o f o f such hew sem, a thi ng not to be lost sight of in a, matter 1 Visitors, comprising the Lords-Lieutenant of Middl esex osteavy household expense as is that of burial no lSurrey, and the Bishops of London and Winchester, portion o f th e Report of the Board Health on a o.e , i ie- 1 the LerdyMa r, and the Chief Commissioner of Woods ral schem e f or metropolitan extramural sepulture is more j and Forests, with o power to inspect from time to time clear and decisive than that w h ere they declare that, 1 the Necropolis, and see that the practice of burial there unless the wh o l e i nterments are placed in the hands of I is in strict accordance with sanitation and decency. In one authority, and are under one management, the ex- 1 every respect, then, m y L or d, as regards health, eco penses of burial (cal cu l ated to be from 750,0001. to 1 nomy, decency, and convenience, the Nropolis may 1,000,0001. yearly) cannot b e diminished. It was in- ' challenge the approbation of all ranks and c eclasses of the deed the very essence of their scheme to purchase up the inhabitants of the metropolis • and as the late Govern eight suburban cemeteries, to create a ninth and larger one , nsent took credit in the Speech from the Throne on the of 400 acres, 18 miles down the river at Erith and to make recent dissolution of Parliament, for measures which a Government monopoly of the whole Curials of the I had been passed during their Administration for pro metropolis. For this end they did not shrink from ask- moting the extramural interment of the dead—the said ing the Legislature, Ist, to bribe off clerical opposition by measures bein the Metropolitan Burials Act, and the heavy compensations in' perpetuity, not only for the act incorporating The London Necropo is and National abolition of a nuisance no longer endurable, but for the Mausoleum at Woking—l hope your - Lordship, and the extinction of exactions levied not only without law, but present Ministry, will give to m y self and coadjutors against the ancient canons o f th e c h urc h ; 2d, t o aut h o- every aid and countenance in your power for making rise an expenditure of no less a sum than 700,0001. of the NECROPOLIS a "City for the Dead" worthy in all re the public money ; 3d, to sacrifice the p r inciple of free spects not only of the magnitude, the riches, and the civili trade and domestic agency in a m a tter so pure l y co n - sation of London as the commercial capital of the British ventional as is that of committing dust to the dust ; and, nation, —but of London also as the seat of the Govern 4th, to sanction, if necessary, the l ev yi ng o f an o b nox i ous ment, the fountain head of the laws, and the bulwark burial rate of one penny in the pound rental—holding out of the Protestant faith. as an inducement for legislation so vicious and novel an I have the honour to remain, my Lord, assurance that the accomplishment of their design Your most obedient humble servant, would, in addition to sanitary burial, effect a saving in R. BROUN, Bart. funeral expenses to the inhabitants of the metropolis, to The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Palmerston, M.P., the extent, in round numbers, of 350,0001. per annum. Secretary of State for the Home Department. Such being the case, Ido not desire to conceal from ": Accompanied by copy of a memorial to the Lord your Lordship-Ist, that the necropolis•plan of myself Mayor and Common Council, dated the 28th of May, and Mr. Sprye, de ve l o p e d by us seve r al month s before 1852 ; and an outline of the ground plan of the Necro the appearance of the Report of the Board of Health polis at Woking. above cited, was devised with the express intention of its being a sole and effectual outlet—a grand and com prehensive cemetery—for the great body and bulk of the metropolitan annual mortality—for all, indeed, except the few thousand bodies yearly which the eight suburban cemeteries are, from their limited area, capable of absorb ing ; 2d, that the site selected by us was chosen out of the diocese of London purposely, to get rid of those clerical body-scots which lay an embargo upon burial at four of the cemeteries to the ave rage amount of 16s. 3d. per corpse ; 3d, that we intend by the realisation of our scheme the entire annihilation not only of the corrupt and disgusting prac tice of interring the dead amongst the habitations, the churches, and the chapels of the metropolis, but also of that system which has made burial a wide-spread source of individual depravity and national shame. 14. Considering, then, my Lord, that Parliament has so far sanctioned and approved of our scheme as to in corporate the company originated by us to realise an intention which adds to the eight existing cemeteries a BURIAL DOMAIN equal in extent to 30 cemeteries, each about the size of that at Kensal-green, or 136 cemete ries, each larger than that of Victoria-park —and seeing that the merit belongs to us exclusively, without asking Treasury aid, without infringing upon the legitimate operations of the various existing cemetery companies, or compromising in the least the wholesome principle of free and open trade in matters of burial, of bringing within the reach of all classes in the metropolis conve nient and decent interment, at charges which will abate funeral expenses and other mortuary exactions to an amount little short of 500,0001. per annum—l hope I may be allowed strongly to represent to your Lord ship that it is the duty of her Majesty's Ministers to set their face against the unnecessary multipli cation of petty cemeteries or burial-yards in the vicinity of " the Metropolis," as defined by the Burials Act of 1852, seeing that every fresh cemetery or burial-yard must enhance the expense of interment to the inhabitants at large; must deteriorate the salubrity of the air, water, and soil of the environs of London • must complicate the difficulties and inconv en i ences incident to the removal of from 1,100 to 1,300 corpses weekly from the place of death to the place of - interment ; must protract the pe riod when the eight existing cemeteries from repletion will be closed ; must open a door to an unseemly com petitive traffic in things connected with the last sad offices to the dead ; and,, finally, must more or less im port into the new system of extramural sepulture those evils and abuses which have made the practice of burial within walls so repugnant to public health, to morals, and decency. 15. At page 9 of the Report of the Board of Health, 15th Feb., 1850, your Lordship will find that, on one occasion in Spain, within the space of one or two months after 20,000 corpses had been put into the ground, the troops that remained exposed to the emanations from the soil, and drank the water from the wells sunk in the neighbourhood of the spot, were attacked by malig nant fevers and by dysentery ; yet from the return on the Metropolitan Burials Act, dated the 31st December, 1852, recently published, it appears that the promoters of the projected Great Extramural Cemetery, near Har lesden-green, in the parish of Willesden, propose that each acre of their ground shall contain 15,488 corpses of paupers, or 11,616 bodies of artisans, in grave-pits, containing eight layers deep of the former, and six layers deep of the latter. When however, my Lord, it is taken into account that this proposed site for a large burial place is situated not two miles distant from the boundary of "the Metropolis," as defined by the Burials Act of 1852, but within a parish expressly prohibited by name by the said act, and that the nature of the soil, a stiff clay, totally unsuits it for interment purposes, it being established by evidence that coffins have been found in similar ground in the neighbourhood quite sound, even to the cloth, after a period 'of twenty years, and with the wood entire, but the cloth decayed, after 102 years, it is impossible to conceive that any Minister of the Crown, or either branch of the Legislature, will incur the enormous guilt and responsibility of sanctioning the deposit of many hundred thousand corpses there. 16. I cannot, my Lord, conclude this letter without suggesting to your Lordship the propriety and import ance of Government introducing and passing a third and final Metropolitan Extramural Burial Facility Act. It is quite certain that the measure of last session will prove a dead letter for any beneficial purpose con nected with burial. The Interments Act of 1850 was a blunder from its preamble until its close. It proposed " better interment for the Dead in and near the metropolis," interment of any description IN and near the metropolis being the wrong, loudly calling for redress. Again, the Burials Act of 1852, seeks to "amend the Laws concerning the burial of the dead in the metropolis," the laws in question being nonentities ; whilst the whole system and practice of intramural inter ment is in open violation of the dictates of reason, the injunctions of religion, and the canons of the Church. What the inhabitants of the metropolis want, is an act of some 50 to 60 lines in length, ordaining, and declaring —lst. That interment within the metropolis, as defined by the Burials Act of '1852, shall (except in the eight suburban cemeteries) absolutely cease and determine from and after a given date—say, the let of January, 1854 ; 2d, that from and after the said date, funeral parties shall meet the relatives of the deceased at the place of sepulture, instead of the house of death ; 3d, that all corpses shall be removed to the reception chapel of the place of interment without street processions, and at such hours of the evening or morning as shall be most consistent with public convenience—the health and feel ings of the living in this particular to be more regarded than mere vain parade as regards the exit of the dead from town ; 4th, that the services at the desk or grave of the Church of England, or. any other religious deno mination, shall be performed without separate charge for the same by the clerical officers of the company in whose cemetery the interment takes place, private families to have at the same time the option to em ploy, at their proper cost, the services of their parochial incumbent, or other clergyman—but all other clerical dues or fees to cease and determine with the expiry of intramural burial ' • sth, that all corpses new deposited in open vaults and catacombs under churches and chapels within the metropolis (the cathedrals of St. Paul and' Westminster excepted) shall be removed, and interred in one or other of the eight suburban cemeteries, or in the necropolis at Woking ; 6th, that all tombstones shall be removed from the metropolitan graveyards without exception, and the said graveyards sown down and planted ; 7th, that no new cemeteries or places of burial shall be established within a nearer distance from the centre of London than at least fifteen miles ; and, finally, that it shall not be allowable in any cemetery or 6 burial place to inter yearly a greater number than 13 corpses in one acre of ground. 18. When an act of this incident passed, t youro burial Lord ship will perceive that theexpenses will resolve themselves into these three items--coffins, conveyance, and graves. The semi-Popish superstitions that have nursed and kept alive the practice of making the house of prayer a receptacle for putrid bones will come to an end. They that minister at the altar will live by the altar—a care for carrion no longer clogging a cure of souls. The wants of the living will occupy the d at e te ad n . tion Th o e f Vtreasdteriesof Undertakersnotth the requirements ents il o ; f a t n h d e the offices incident to the house appointed for all flesh—whether these offices be lay or clerical —will be so discharged by the responsible officers and servants of Cemeterial Companies as to reduce the general charges for sepulture for the future, some 75 per cent. below ex istingto l 9. the yLou ordrLo Mayor demands.a Lordship, i a % from a perusal o f th e memor i a l and Common Council which accom panies this letter, will observ e th a t th e provisional trustees of the London Necropolis Company have acted in various ways to the hurt and prejudice of the scheme which the company was devised and set on foot by Mr. Sprye and myself to carry out. But, as the 31st clause of the act of last session incorporating our company makes binding upon, and operative against, the shareholders, a memo randum of agre ement dated the 18th Dec., 1850, and a deed of agreement dated April 1, 1851, between myself and Mr. Sprye on the one part, and the said provisional trustees—viz., Messrs. Wm. James Voules, John Gar diner, Ch. R. Thompson, and Sir James C. Anderson, Bart—on the other part, it is the intention of Mr. Sprye 1 and_rayself, both on public grounds and m private oonsi- e covenant entirety as NEW RAILWAY COMPANY IN CANA DA. The arrangements which have been long pending for the formation of a general system of railways for Canada by a continuous main line that \ shall connect and incor porate the lines already in existence or in progress have been completed. The new company is to be called the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Upper Canada, and its aggregate capital is fixed at 9,500,0001., of which 3,623,0001. is now to be raised in England, in shares and guaranteed debentures. Of the remainder, the sum of 1,416,400/. has been already raised in Canada ; 837,600/. is still to be allotted th er e, a n d 3,623,0001. is taken by the contractors, with the stipu lation that they shall reserve two thirds of that amount to offer them to the present subscribers at par on the Ist July, 1854, 12 months after the anticipated opening of an important section of the line. The shares are to be for 251. each, and the debentures will be issued pro rata. These debentures are divided into two classes, one class being simply debentures of the company, pay able in 25 years, with half-yearly interest at 6 per cent., and the option of converting them into shares any time before 1863 ; and the other being virtually the bonds of the provincial Government, payable in 20 years and bearing interest at 6 per cent. They will both be in amounts of 1001. each, and thus every subscriber of 2001. in shares will also take 1001. of the railway and 1001. of the Government debentures. The entire length of the line will be 1,112 miles, and it will extend from Trois Pistolles, the great shippi ng p or t o f C ana d a i n summer, through Quebec, Montreal, and Toronto, to Sarnia, on Lake Huron, including lik ew i se th e St. L aurence an d Atlantic Railway, the American portion of which will be leased, and by which the whole route will be opened up to the port of Portland in the State of Maine. Ac companying the prospectus is a copy of the recent dis patch from Lord Elgin to the Colonial-office, showing the extraordinary progress made by Canada during the last 10 years, and consequently the favourable prospects of a cheaply constructed national railway, secured against all competition and supported by the Govern ment, passing through the richest lands of the province, and embracing all the produce and passenger traffic from the far west to the Atlantic. The directors in London are Messrs. Baring, Glyn, Blake, M'Calmont, Kirkman Hodgson, and Alderman Thompson, and in Canada the Board comprises some of the principal members of the Government. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUY. SIR,—As we have a Prince Arthur in honour of Welling ton and the army, I think the country would be highly gratified was the young prince to be named " Horatio , " in commemoration of the heroic N e l son , w h ose gallant deeds were so instrumental in preserving the throne to the Brunswick family. lam sure, Sir, the British navy would hail with pleasure this honour done to the " darling son of Britannia.' —I am, Sir, your obedient servant, April 12. AN' ENGLISHMAN. METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OP SEWERS.—A special court of sewers was held yesterday at the branch-offi ce , Great Alie- s t ree t, G oo d man ' s-fields. Present —Mr, R. Jebb, in the chair ; Mr. L. Redhead, Sir C. Fellows, Mr. G. F. Smith, Mr. G. Baker, Mr. T. F. Gibson, and Colonel Dawson. Estimates were received previous to notice being given of the intention of the commissioners to make district sewers rates of 6d. in the pound on the Ranelagh district, the Richmond district, and the Fins bury division. For the Ranelagh district, the estimate stated that a rate of 6d. in the pound would produce about 24,5001.; cash credit, 7,3801.; total, 81,8801. Estimate of the expenses in respect of which the rate is now required in respect of works, 1,5731. ; surveys, 2,7391.; total, 4,3121. Prospective expenses for work in course of construction, ordered and under consideration, 20,9531.; surveys, 5001,; management, 1,5001.; general work and repairs, 5,000/.; making in all 32,2651. Rich mond district estimate—A rate on the district of 6d. in the pound will produce about 1,050/., the estimate of the probable expenses for which the .1-ate is now required. State of the account : Cash overdrawn, 8751. ; survey, &c ~ 9751. ;liabilities in respect of works, 6551. : total, 1,630/. Finsbury district : A rate un this district at 6d. in the pound will produce about 24,000/. ; cash credit, 2,7301. ; uncollected rates, recoverable, 8001.: total, 27,5301., estimate of the probable expenses for which the rate is now required for this division. State of the account : liabilities in respect of works, 2,5871. ; surveys, 2,6591.: total, 5,2461. Prospective expenses : works in course of construction, ordered and under consideration, 17,0431. 4s. 7d. ; surveys, 500/. ; management, 1,200/. ; general works, repairs, &c., 4,0001. ; making in all 28,019/. In all of these districts it was intimated that it would also probably be necessary to provide for other works and contingencies during the period for which the rate is made, and not enumerated in the estimates. The court then proceeded to hear summonses against defaulters, but no case of any interest was brought be fore them. Summonses were also ordered against de faulters in the Spitalfields, Greenwich, Ravensbourne, Poplar, and Blackwall districts. The remaining busi ness being merely formal, the court then adjourned. CAPTURE OF AN EXTENSIVE SWINDLER.—A young man of respectable connections, whose name is John Steeple Kitchen, 'is in custody in Sheffield on a charge of having obtained 3001. from Messrs. Eyre, Ward, and Co., of that town, merchants,' by means of a forged letter. The prisoner is only nineteen years old, but he is an adept at fraud. Sometime ago he was a clerk in - the respectable house of W. R. Duncan and Kitchen, of Liverpool, shipping and general merchants, and is a re lative of the junior partner of that firm. Some months ago lie drew 6101. at the Royal Bank of Liverpool, in the name of his late employers, by a forged cheque, but escaped pursuit, until last week, when he called upon Messrs. Sanderson, Sandiman, and Co„ the extensive bill-brokers, of King William-street, London, stating that he bad received that morning a letter from pretend e d hotel in a tiothhistheand fetchit. letter his employers, instructing him to draw th e th ree hundred pounds in question. He was asked to s h ow the letter, and hesaid He returned s h h e o w rt ou t l im dg e o w of instructions, but it was discovered, on examination, from the appearance of the ink, that the letter was newly written. Finding himself detected, he confessed that he had forged the letter for the purpose of fraud, and im plored to be set at liberty. The imposture on the Shef field firm was effected on the 10th of March last in the following manner •. They received a letter, a arena in all respects genuine ' pp , purporting to be from Messrs. Duncan and Kitchen, of Liverpool, stating that young Mr. Kitchen would call upon them for an advance on their account of 3001. to facilitate certain business trans actions in Sheffield. Young Kitchen presented himself a few hours after the letter was received, and Mr. Eyre immediately recognised him from a close family re semblance, and gave him a cheque for 3001. Mr. Eyre afterwards wrote to Liverpool with reference to the 3001. transaction, and received a prompt answer inform. ing him that the letter requesting him to advance the money was a forgery. THE ROBBERY OF MR. HOWARD'S SHOP AT ALAN* CHESTEL—The three men who have been in custody on suspicion of being ' concerned in the late robbery of Mr. Howard's shop, in Market-street, Manchester, were again brought before the magistrates yesterday. Mr. Beswick, the chief superintendent of police, stated that he had no further evidence to offer, and 111‘Mahon and Hesseltine were accordingly discharged. Robinson, who was seen outside the shop whilst the robbery was taking place, driving people away from the window, and after wards seen to get into a cab with the man who was taking up the jewellery inside the shop, was committed to the assizes. A LUCKY PRINTKR.—A young man who served hill apprenticeship as a printer, in the office of the Liverpoog Courier, but who was bitten by the Australian maggot, and who, therefore, took his departure for that country with a stock of gold diggers' tools, has written hOme to say that he had given up that scheme, having got work upon the Melbourne .Argus, and was making the respect• able sum of ten guineas per week. No doubt this will stimulate others, and many printers will try on th e game of " follow the leader." I 1 0 185$ D. D. A 0 ,c 1 he lorset" Set inte° aitia d Der 13Y 7nel" deP r, - , j o , 'orr e ' r ~f :GN. 1331 26* 3* 3 101 1 1 7/1 i 91 1