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

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 Peruam and Maranham, at 6d. to 60. 20 Bahia at 6,d., 300 Egyptian at sid. to 8 (1., 300 Surat at 31d. to 4-id. and 60 Sea Island at Is . 10d. t o 2 3 . sd. per lb. Railway Shares were fiat. The Foreign Exchanges were firm yesterday, bills dated three months being quoted 25, 271 to 30 on Paris ; 11, 181 to 19 on Amsterdam ; 13, 8 to 81 on narnburgh ; 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 to be a loss, there 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- Milton and Toronto Railway, and Richmond Railways, having enlisted the co-operation of our leading capitalists, and yielding most important results. It may be in the recollection of our read em, however, that more than 12 months since, the Ron. Mr. Hincks came to London expressly to ar range 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 mined to come f orwar d and e x ecu t e it s own port i on :3f the line, and the prospectus, this day circu lated, contai ns as directors the great names of Thomas Baring, M.P. ; G. C. Glyn, _; and Ald erm an Thompson, M.P. Th e capital required is large, nine millions and a - half sterlina ; but only 7,246,0001. require to be raised, and at a portion of this at the present thae—say one-half. The contractors take the ether half. The Railway will complete the com munication 'through Canada. There is a large amount of colonial capital already invested ; there i 8 a Government guarantee of 6 per cent. on the b ebentures, and .the same interest will be allowed en 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 mot a speculative transaction in Consols is officially reported, the jobbers being occupied with ,the arra ngemen t o f th e account. The " continua ;4A°ll” to May i s 4 p er cen t., th e money pr i ces b e i ng continua .;4A°ll” a, and those for acc ou nt Dog- 1. The New h hre e - and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 1031 °4, and th e Thr ee per Cents. 99/. Bank Stock ar e a 8 been fi rm at 2 26. E xchequer Bills of June e s. to 7s. p rem i um , an d th ose o f M arch ss. ' r i eal ium. East India Bonds are 455. premi um . Ltd). th e Forei gn S ecur iti es th ere h as b een very e doing, The Peruvian Deferred Bonds have risen 2 te:' . 3 per cent., in consequence of the ex pected early announcement of the conversion into vAct i ve, which, accor di ng t o rumour , w ill b e on very favourable terms. Equador Stock has been quoted 64, ; a rise of i t to Brazilian Old Bonds are ce worth' a the nts. news of the are at 99. to 101. The Four-and-a-Half per Spanish Bonds are heavy, upon Cortes. Th suspended sittings of the The Committee's Certificate is at to 63 to a g ul per cent, The Turkish Loan is 34 Premium. The committee, as we anticipated, ha ve recomme n d e d the acceptance of t h e t erms prof fered by the Ottoman Porte. Dutch 4 per Cents., after being 97/- have dropped to 96- The Railway Share Market is fto per cent. I .°Wer again, and th e ra t e of i nterest f or carry i ng Ov er until the end of the month is rather onerous, 8 7 6to 8 per cent. on th e o ld li nes . Th e F renc h a res are down i• to The second reading of the sipper Indi a Railway Bill is postponed at the de bof the promoters, to await the answer of the ove rnor-General of India, expected, we believe, Y the mail now telegraphed. ver...Joke _A. gua Fria Mining Company hav e rece i ve d Y f avourable advices. Mr. Atwood was in b e eat Y for a valuable property, near Gold Hill, to e ll : 11 °1 14d under a ro y a lt y , an d th e mac hi nery was i,,mtg quartz to an extent al rea dy th a t prom i ses fo r dense return. There is a good sum realised th e th e Shareholders, and this is encouraging f or t 0 r s tralian Companies. The price is firm at veDretnium. heat/ Y, 'old Aline Shares generally are rattier in favour of buyers. ,Ple - 0,..„1 — ' 414 Companies' Sh ares hat/© been very de_ b° 51. Australian Agricultural are down 3/. Th e , , Banks are neavy. /RITISII FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK THIS DAY, (From the O f ficial List.) . _ Bank Stock ... Business done 226 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities - 664 i 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New New 31 per Cent. Annuities Long Annufties, Expire sth Jau., 1860 -16 5 1 5-16 Indi a Bonds, £lOOO Exchequer Bills lid. June. £lOOO.. £5OO 3 7 5 Small 3 7 par 5 I %IOE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Braelian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto New, 1852, 4i per Cent 99 Ditto New Bonds, 1829 & 39, 5 per Cent lO2l qua.dor Bonds P eruvian •4 per Cent. B B4 1. ', e rtivian Deferred 3 p er C en t. Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent. DT'Vanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 6,i i a ur kish Loa n , 6 per C en t ., 1852 ••• •• ••• Dntch E xc h ange 2i p er cent Ditto 4 por Cent. Certificates... . March. — 97;f 6? gel RALF-PAST TWO. 100 i 100 a Consols. Ditto April Account --- - -- ~, CO3U3 IISSION OF LUNACY ON M R . F. O'C O NNOR.—Ye.s- T rd aY a co mm i ss i on i n the nature of a writ de lunatwo 42 _,uirendo was opened before M r . C omm i ss i oner B ar l ow and a Jury of freeholders of the county of Middlesex, at the Roebuck Tavern, Chiswick, for the purpose of inves tigating the state of mind of Mr. Feargus O'Connor, for- Il lerly M.P. f or N ottingham, and a leading Chartist agi tator but who since June last has been an inmate of Dr. Tuke's Lunatic Asylum, Manor-House, Turnham-green. At the close of the inquiry the jury found that Mr. Peargus O'Connor was of unsound mind, and was inca pable of managing his affairs, dating the lunacy from the t6z.loth a June, 1852, the day on which he was committed tylthe custody of the Sergeant -at-Arms of the House of , ill e nl 'n• We have a full report of the proceedings in ,r:leb. shall appear to-morrow. inere . x:P °aT liturt TRADE.—There has been'a great • —e in th e e , shipments to I d ale on account of Portation of beer and ended the 5t n value, and Australia. In the two months the declared FRENCH Sm. of which as 198,2911. g. '''' EP LECHASES.— W Two steeplechases are to d e ? . ; : i n „ e ( L. en Sunday next, at La Marche, near Ville w r aY- One is to be for the Selling Stakes of 3000 fr., added to 3 00 fr. entry ; the other for the Consolation Stakes of 2500 fr., for horses that have run at La Marche a b tid never won. For the former the entries are—Mr. 44'ackley's Glenlyon, Count de Coataudon's Rabelair, M. de la Motte's Franc Picard, M. Delamarre's Spring Buck, Mr- gig ins' Flying Buck, Chapman's lanthe, Mr. Seward's Constitution Mr. Mason's Nom de Guerre, -Dito's Trust-me -Not, ' Mr. Robert's Quickstep. For the latt,er stakes the entries are—Mr. Higgins' Simple 'er Count de Coataudon's Bedford, Mr. Chapman's Augustine M. H. Delamarre's Spring Buck, Vicomte de St. Roman's Fiction. 'IiDESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN THE LONDON-ROAD.—Last ght, b e t ween the hours of nine and ten o'clock, a fire a very alarming character broke out in the premises , o f Mr. Hodges, a cabinet-manufacturer, situate in ‘rarden-row, London -road, Southwark. The fire, when first discovered had obtained a strong hold of the upper workshop, and o w i ng to the i nflammable nature of the atock-in - trade th e fl ames speedily penetrated the roof and rose to such an altitude as to illuminate the district. Information of the disaster having been sent to the ine- stations w ith as little delay as possible, the fire tne a g n ado engines of th e L on d on B r i ga d e and West of I:a'vin lan ffice attend e d, an d a b ount i ful supply of water CO bee n obtained from the mains o f th e L am b e th °l:l PanY, the firemen went to work in admirable man anerin, ~, nd by great p erseverance they succeeded in con ,„ the fire t o th e premises in which it originated, but W aS not extinguished until the upper workshop and "s valuable contents were destroyed. - The origin of the misfo r t une i s enveloped in obscurity, and unfortunately 'no sufferer was not insured. ,:4._, -A.. STEAMER RESCUED. —While a new and powerful .eani-tug, belonging to the Shipowners' Towing Corn !jjllY, of London, was returning from a trial trip last 0 7 :i t on the Clyde, about ten miles below Glasgow, she bserved one of the large passage -boats (with about 400 People on board) take the ground, and heel over into di _ ,P water, from a squall. On her making signals of stress, the tug, which is named " Cock-o' -North" (a e,,!:_)6.l?onien of the Dukes of Gordon) made for, and after ',,..;; . ,',/ing a hawser made fast over her port bow, backed yolt_ler.e with her immense power, and in less than 15 k rl u_n, a_ placed the p;?..ssenerboat in safety, who ac Nosh their deliverance by three cheers for so Isz o i i e l lena an event in the trial trip of the Cock-o'- i THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL' 13, 1853. gV zs ' lrr tnt tttO NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. SWEEPSTAKES. P.M. Pharos Nutpecker Filbert Defiance Three ran. Won easy. COLUMN STAKES. Four ran. Won easy SWEEPTS.A.KES—FiIIies. Mayfair .... Noisette.. . NEWM.,kRKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SUBSCRIPTION PLATE T.Y.C. Ephesus ... Rackapalt HANDICAP PLATE, £5O. A.F. Abdallah Kohinoor Eight ran. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS-(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. Sir IL H. INGLIS presented petitions against the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays, against the Jew bill, against the abolition of Scotch university tests, and against Maynooth. Sir E. FILMER presented a petition against the Jew bill. • Admiral GORDON presented a petition from Aber deen, against Maynooth. Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented petitions from places in Lincolnshire, against the admission of Jews into Par liament. Mr. O'MORGAN presented a petition from a place in Monmouthshire, against the county rate expenditure. Mr. FITZGERALD presented a petition from Dub lin, praying for the amendment of certain defects of the Registration Act. Sir G. STRICKLAND presented a petition from the proprietors of the Preston Guardian, praying for the abolition of the advertisement duty. Mr. HADFIELD presented a petition from Sheffield to the same effect. Lord LOVAINE and Capt. SCOBELL presented similar petitions. Mr. SPOONER presented a petition from Birming ham against the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays. Mr. - W. PATTEN presented a similar petition from Lancaster. Mr. BOUVERIE presented a petition from Glasgow, and other places, against the Public House (Scotland) Bill, and also petitions against the Scotil University Tests. COUNTY ELECTIONS POLLS (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion for going into committee on this bill, Mr. DUNLOP moved that it be an instruction to the committee to extend to boroughs a provipion of the bill repealing a clause of a former act, prohibiting county polls from-being commenced on a Saturday. Agreed to. The house then went into committee on this bill. Clause 1 was agreed to. On clause 2, Mr. F. MACKENZIE moved the omission of certain words giving a power of appeal to the Lord-Advocate from the Sheriff with respect to the nomination of addi tional poling places. He thought the appeal ought to be to the Sheriff's Appeal Act. After some discussion, the committee divided, when there appeared— For the omission Against it 53 64 Majority ll The words were, consequently, retained, and the clause was agreed to. Clause 3 was agreed to. On clause 4, Mr. HUME moved the omission of the words by which polls were prohibited from being held on Monday. Mr. DUNLOP supported the clause as it stood, be cause the feelings of the people of Scotland was strongly against the desecration of the Sabbath, and he con sidered that appointing Monday as a polling day, would lead to such desecration. Mr. LOCKHART reminded the hon. member for Montrose, that in some parts of Scotland the railways were stopped on Sunday, and consequently, persons who had to travel from a distance, would not be able to get a Monday's poll. Mr. HUME said he was perfectly aware that the Scotch people had been so foolish in many instances ; but he saw no reason why the monomania, of certain individuals who sought to make thefr con science the rule of other person's conduct, should be an argument for making the law of Scotland different from that of England. AfAfter some further discussion, the committee di vided, when there appeared— For the omission Against it Majority The clause as amended was then agreed to Clause 5 was then agreed to. [LEFT SITTING.] SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS DA Y.) ;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 Missed, 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 them. 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 spending a great deal of money by superintendent Morton at Tunbridge wells. Having some suspicion that he was the bank clerk who had absconded from London, he apprehended him, when the prisoner confessed that he had robbed his brother-in-law the prosecutor. He was brought up to London and twenty-two pounds was found on him, he having expended the remainder. The prisoner having expressed his contrition, and the prosecutor recommending him to mercy, the Court sen tenced him to six months' hard labour at Wands- worth. 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. SOUTIIIVARK-( THIS DAY.) CHARGE OF STABBING.—Mary Cronin, a masculine looking young Irishwoman, was brought before Mr. Combe, charged with stabbing Ellen Godfrey with a knife. easy Theprisoner d a r n e d si t d h e e d prosecutrix a e r a e eh bo o t t h he w r om in en sn o f f virtue, an . folk-place, at th e r ear of the Police Court. Last night about eleven the prisoner was fighting with female n ear th e p l ace, w h en pros ecutrix interfered and separated them. All was quiet until near one o'clock, when prosecutrix went out to speak to a neighbour, and she h a d 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. Combe asked Whether the wound was dangerous ? Police constable 94 NI 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 h a d a quarrel with the com plainant, and she struck her first. She had a knife in in herfact, handboth , but dr d unk at the timeid not intend to inj ure h er. They were, Mr. Combe said, as the wound was not dangerous, he should fine her 405., or six weeks' imprisonment. She was committed. LANCASTER ELECTION.—The polling took place yes terday. The proceedings were throughout very peace able and orderly, but, from the commencement, it was apparent that Mr. Greene would be returned. At the conclusion of the poll the numbers were—For Mr. Greene, 663 ; for Mr. Armstrong, 543 ; majority for Mr. Greene, 125. FLIGHT OF BLANQUI. —The Lorientgis of the Bth gives a minute narrative of the escape of the formidable re publican leader Blanqui from the Palais at Belle-Isle-en- 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 1,000 f. in gold. He has since been placed in a penal cell, TILE SIIARE MAR Paid I RAILWAYS. BRITISH RAILWAYS, Closing Prices Yesterday. Bas - ness done this day. I 100 Aberdeen .... .—... 8:-. Ambg. Noting. Bose & Eastn. June-- all Birmng. Wolverh. & Stour Va11ey......... 28 Birkeuhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junct...... all Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O & £25 Cons.... 184 Do., £2o . . 100 Bristol & Exeter...... 100 Caledonian. all Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon.... all Cork, Black. & Pass. 45 Dublin &Belfast June. all Dundee Perth &Aber __ deen Junction ....... 5 all Do. New . 25 all East Anglian (£25 L. & E. & L. & D.) 18 all Do., (£lB E. & H.) 20 all !Eastern Counties Z 5 all Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. Sh ?.5 8!, Do., do.. ?,5 all - Do., B. & C it. 100 East Lancashire i 0 all . East & West Irl.Dk & Binning. June it. 100 Edinburgh& Glasgow .0 lAlEdinb. and Peebles 100 Edinb.Prth.&Dunde, ft. 100 Glasgow &S. Western 1. 100 Great Northern Stk it. 100 Do., A. Stock 1. 100 Do., B. Stock : 1.100 IGt. Sth.kWest.(lre.) ft. 100 Great Western 2 11 hid - a South-Easters. all Lancaster & 11 Do., Third 5............ 100 Lancash. &Yorkshire 15 Do., Fifths ...... 114 Do., Wst. Riding Un. all Leeds Northern all all London az Blackwall 3 Loud. Tilb. & Sthend. 100 Lond.Bright. di S.Cst , 100 London &N. Western 12 Do. Fifths 1 D0.,10/.5h.,M&8...0 100 London & S. Western 421 Do., £50....... .... 34 Do., £40., . ..... all Lndndrry.&Coleraine all Lndndny. & Ennisk. 100 Nanch.Shef.&Lincln., 4k Do., Man. & Lin. Un. 100 Midland 100 Do. Birming. & Derby 472 Midland G. IVest.(lr.) 172 Do. Shares . . all Newcastle & Carlisle .100 Newmark et.. ..... 3 Do. Bury Extensions 16 Newpt.Aberg.&Htfd. 7i Newry do Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoiut & Rostrevor 100 Norfolk. . • all Do., New Northn. Counties Un 1.00 North British 13 North Devon, N 0.1.. 6 Do., No. 2 all Dc., A Deferred 5 Do., B Guaranteed 17i 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. & Herefd all Shrewsby. & Cheste3 (Nor. W. Min.) all Do. Halves, do all (Do. Oswesty 2 6 1 IShropshire Union. alliSouth Devon... LOO South Eastern.. all 'lSouth Wales 15 S. Yorksh. River Dun 16ilStockton di Hartlepl. 19 Thames Haven Dock and Railway... 17 Vale of Neath.., all Waterfd. & Kilkennyl all Waterford&Limerjckl 13 West Cornwall.. 21s. I . Wmbleti on &Croydon 1 Woodford .. ... 100 York Newetl. Berw. l 20 Do. Extensions ....... I 14 Do. G.N.E. Purchase 100 York &N. Midland.. PREFEREN , 100 Aberdeen all Do., No. 2,7 p. c... 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares ... 100 Caledonian £10...... all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5j per cont 34 Cork&Bandonsip.c. all Dundee Perth&Aber. deen Junction all EastA ngliau (.-e3 1()s) 6 per cent. all Do. (£75) 7 per cont 2 Do. (};7l7s) 7p. et all Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l all Do., No. 2.. ..... all Do., New 6p. c. St all Eastern Union, Scrip • Guar. 6 per cent 100 EastLancash. 6 p.cts. all Edinb.Prth.&Dundei 5i per cent 100 Glasgow & S.Western guar. 5 per cent.... 100 Great Northn. 5 p.c. 100 Do. sp. c., Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem all Gt. Southn. &Westn. (Ireland) Eighths... 6 Gt. Westn. (Berks & Rants Ex. 5 p. c.).. 100 G. West. fixed 4i pc. 6 Lan. & York. F. 220, 100 Do., 6 p. c., Stock... 100 London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c... 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. St. all Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852.. • . 100 Do. New Guar. 6 p.c. 5 London &S. Western, Con. Thirds 10 Londonderry& Coler. 1 Shares all Londy. & Ennis. Sh all Manch. ,Shef. , & Lin., Shares, No. 1 all Do. New, £lO .. all Marypt. &Carl. 4p. c. all Do. 41 per cent 81 Do .. 100 Kid. Consol. 6p. c. St. 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent • 5 Do. Pref. 41 per cent all Norfolk Extension all Do. Guar. 51 per et all Do. Way. Val. 5 p c 100 North British all North Staffordshire 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverh. £15,6p. c. 9 Do.. all Shrews& Birm. N. G. all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor.W.Min),B p. c. 10 Do. 5 per cent.. all South Devon 14 Do. New all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of £1 05.6 d., all S. Yorksh.4p. c.Guar. 3 Waterfd. &Kilk.6p. c. 100 York Newcastle and Berwick, 4 p.c.Pref 5 Do 5 10 York& N. Midland H & S. Purch.. FOREIGN. 3 Antworp&Rotterdam 3 BelgianEastn. Juuct. all Charleroi & Erquelin. 6 Dijon and Besanpn 8 Dutch Rhenish I all East Indian ., 1 Do. Extension .... all Gt. Indian Peninsula 7 Gd. Junct. of France, 15 Gt. Western of Canada Shares 1 Lucca & Pistoja sp.c 1,315 [ref... usembour i 10 Do. 2 Do. ( Railway) 3 Do. (Canal) 1, Do. 6p. et. pref 7 t.,yons & Mediterran, 4i Niaclras all Namur & Liege (with interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France all Do. 201. 3 p. c. Bds (fmy. B. all NorwegianTrunkPrel 10 Paris and Lyons all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen all Paris and Strasbourg 4 ParisCaen & Cherbrg. .uebec &Richmond all Rouen and Havre all Sambre and Meuse 4 Do. 5i p. et. pref 4 3outhern of France 2s. Upper India Scrip all West Flandem.. 6 Do. 5i per c. Pref._ 10 Western of France 2 West. of Switzerland 3 Zea1aud................_ ET S. Stir. jraiu .. , AiLwAYB. Leasing Compass, Closing Prices Yesterday. 106 - 108 53 -54 152 - 154 32A -33 i 112 114 56 57 274 131 141 254 —2642 a 1O -- 20 26 -- 27 2i - 3 .05 - 107 64 - 66 A 9 - 151 49 - 151 1 d -33 A - 104.1, 1 1 1 p i— i P 6 - 1 p 51 p it p dis— n ..._ . a iar p P 6 8 4 5 61 —6/ 30 31 par 47 48 2 - ' 1' 6 - 7 85 . -- 95 8i -- 17 . - 191 1A -lip 13 - 1 p 4d lB par d d— par 7 8 1 lip Par— p par —. p 25 27 p 7 8 6 - 7 par -11 13 6 —6i id -AP par— p, par — 1 n' iP Business this day. METROPOLITAN EXTRAMURAL SEPULTURE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. 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, "lie 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 Sea. 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. Heywood, 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 radius 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, and exceeds the number of men, women, and children scattered over the entire extent of fourteen English counties and that the Roman maxim, " Salus populi supreme& 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 two 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 gene ra ti on a ft er generat i on of 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 D ea d," compr i s i ng 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 Conquest --an existing virgin grave accommodation in our eight cemeteries and one necropolis for upwards of 61 millions of bodies—a space which it would take upwards of 100 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 th e r i c h (2 2 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 made nearer to the Guildhall than at least eight miles, and lace that the expense o f conveyance b y railway to a a o f interment is a b ou t th e same, whether the distance to be travelled is five miles, or 25 miles—l venture to say that if a_ site unexcepti ona bl e in all respects could befoundt within eight or ten miles of the centre Londoneoefoi7 w h a co ° n. l it cannot be), and if.the propos e d city rate w lc strutted there to-morrow, the Commissioners of S ewers , whether discharging the incompatible functions of a "Burial Board," or acting in any other capacity, never would bury within its walls in any given year one tithe of those dying, or having right of sepulture, within their jurisdiction. 13. And if this remark, my Lord, holds good as regards the graveyard contemplated by the City Burial and Sewerage Commissioners, it will apply with equal force to each and all of the 176 Parish Boards to whom the Burial Act of 1852 most injudiciously assigns the task of finding sites and completing arrangements for the sepulture of their respective parochial dead; as also, to • the scheme propounded by the parties calling themselves " The Great Extramural Cemetery Association, Harles den-green." As regards the impropriety of employing the machinery of Vestries as parochial burial boards, after the expositions of the Board of Health in regard to the depravity of the existing parochial graveyard system, and the utter inaptitude of such fluctuating and irrespon sible bodies for any better purpose as regards extramu ral sepulture, than that merely of shifting the evils of the practice of interments from the interior to the suburbs of the metropolis, it is wholly unnecessary for me to speak. But as regards the question of economy in the new system, a thing not to be lost sight of in a matter of such heavy household expense as is that of burial, no portion of the Report of the Board of Health on a gene ral scheme for metropolitan extramural sepulture is more clear and decisive than that where they declare that, unless the whole interments are placed in the hands of one authority, and are under one management, the ex penses of burial (calculated to be from 750,0001. to 1,000,0001. yearly) cannot be diminished. It was in deed the very essence of their schem e to purchase up the eight suburban cemeteries, to create a ninth and larger one of 400 acres, 18 miles down the river at Erith, and to make a Government monopoly of the whole burials of the metropolis. For this end they did not shrink from ask ing the Legislature, Ist, to bribe off clerical opposition by heavy compensations in perpetuity, not only for the abolition of a nuisance no longer endurable, but for the extinction of exactions levied not only without law, but against the ancient canons of the church ; 2d, to autho rise an expenditure of no less a sum than 700,000/. of the public money ; 3d, to sacrifice the principle of free trade and domestic agency in a matter so purely con ventional as is that of committing dust to the dust ; and, 4th, to sanction, if necessary, the levying of an obnoxious burial rate of one penny in the pound rental—holding out as an inducement for legislation so vicious and novel an assurance that the accomplishment of their design would, in addition to sanitary burial, effect a saving in funeral expenses to the inhabitants of the metropolis, to the extent, in round numbers, of 350,0001. per annum. Such being the case, I do not desire to conceal from your Lordship-Ist, that the necropolis plan of myself and Mr. Sprye, developed by us several months before the appearance of the Report of the Board of ,Health 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 500,000/. 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 th e 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, ltth 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 liar lesden-green, in the plrish of AVillesden, propose tat each acre of their 0 - round shall contain 15,488 corpses of paupers, or 11,316 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 withi n a p ar i s h 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 Ist 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 t'he 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 now 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 sof and planted ; 7th, that no new cemeteries or places burial shallbeestablishedthanatwithin least fifteen nearer distance miles the cent re of London finally, lyl that,placo t it shall inter shall yearly a cemeterynotbeallo g 7 o b a l t e er in n a u n m y borthan anl3 o 6 r burial corpses in one acre of ground. 18. When an act of this nature is passed, your Lord ship will perceive that the expenses incident to burial will resolve themselves into these three items—eeffi nB, 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 cure of souls. The wants of the living will ocen d at e t a e d n . tion Th o e f V tr e a s d t e ries o , f n u ot na t e h rk etareerqsuirzenLsil o ; p f y a t n h d e e the offices incident to the house appointed for all flesh--whether these offices be lay or clerical—Ny:ll be so discharged by the responsible officers and ser van t s of Cemeterial C ompanies as to reduce the general ch arg for sepultu re f or the future, some 75 per cen t. b e l ow ex es 19. - isting y demands, L ordship, f rom a perusal of the memorial to the Lord Mayor and Common Council which accom panies this letter, will observe that the provisional trustees of the London Necropolis Company have actedin 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. 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Van Diemen's Land 5 1 2 48 - 50 19 = 20j 87 2 77 6 A 4 MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAL) CORN EXCHANGE. fi 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 com parately small ; nevertheless, the inquiry for that descrip tion of produce was dull, at barely stationary prices. In floating cargoes next to nothing was doing. Fine malting, barley was sc ar ce, and quite as dear. Grinding and distilling sorts moved off slowly, at late rates. curWreenyh.ad _a moder a t e i nqu i ry f or ma lt 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 443 per 2801bs. English .. Irish .... Foreign .. ARRIVALS TILLS Wheat. Barley. } Malt. Oats 1,310 980 6,420 1 , 950 1,310 1,120 Flour, 1,270 2,6 t 0 3,600 1- 460 sks 6,!60 brls BOROUGH HOP. Selected samples of hops continue to move off steadily, at full prices. In other kinds very little business is WHITECHAPEL. The demand for each kind of meat at this market to-day ruled steady, and quotations were well supported.— Beef, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; mutton, 35 4d to 45 exi; lamb, 4 5 lOd to 6s Od ; veal, 3s 4d to 48 4d ; pork, 2s lOd to 4s 2d per 81bs by the carcase. LLOYDS' SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, April 13.—Wind this day at Noon, N. to N.E., fresh breeze, and cloudy. There was a slight fall of hail at 11 a.m. DEAL, April 12.—Wind, E. N.& Arrived—Emma, New York, for Bre me n ; Commissary, Calla o . A rr i ve d from the Ri ver , an d sa il e d—Gullerus, Ceylon ; U n i verse, Montreal ; Warrior Q u een, do. ; Christiana,Quebec. PLYMOUTH, April 12.—Wind, N.N.E. Arrived— Naiad, London, for St. Thomas' leaky. Off Port—Char lotto, Valparaiso. April 13 (at 9 . 4 5 a.m.)—Arrived— Forth (s), Coast of Africa, on freight 5 ,0001. P e Arrived—Mar a a rOtRT Evans,SMO U T L H o ,n London; i , l forl2 12.—W ind, i y n d o r , k N . FALMOUTH, April 12.—Wind, N. Sailed—Anthracite, .W . Port Philip. LIVERPOOL, April 12.—Wind, N.W. Arrived —James Walker, Mobile ; Voyager, Halifax, N.S. ; Jane Ellis, St. Domingo ; Fitzjames, Savannah ; Inconstant, Charles ton. Sailed—Crisis, Shanghae ; Magpie, ' Si ngapore ; Esk, Bahia ; Sea Lion, Philadelphia , Newfoundland. WARKWORTH, April 12.—The Borabr a ( sc h ooner), of Dundee, has come in leaky, having been on Boulmer rocks. POOLE, April 12.—Sailed — H er oine, Newfou n dl an d . SUNDERLAND, April 12.—Wind, W.N.W. Sailed— DARTMOUTH, Libertus, Calcutta • Crescent, do. —Wind, N. Helen Lindsay, Port Philip. HARTLEPOOL, April 12.—Sailed—Gleaner, Coquimbo, ARDROSSAN.—Sailed—Springhill, Quebec. —Put back—Lady Mulgrave, for BELFAST, April p i r l il .- 1- W 2. ind, W. Sailed—Waterford, Quebec. contact with a steamer. ABERSTWITH, April 12.—Wind, W. Sailed—Credo, Quebec. Troop, SW . LY, April 12.—The Duncan Ritchie, Leith to Mel bourne,damage from which put in here 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. — Th e Arta, hence for England, is on shore ; cargo damaged. A GOOD EXAMPLE.—The Bishop of Durham has sent the following reply to an application for assistance (to free the chapel from debt) from the congregation of Bethesda Chapel, Gateshead :--" Sir,—Although my 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) eir, your obedient servant, E, Dumas," - - 103 i 641 i 4 a d 13A 13 108 91i 2 121 pm 76i i 103 A 3 119 k 1 30 291 301 29 ; 741 1021 1i 11i i i 164 derationi, to compel a specific performance of coy ea as regards a realisation of our scheme in its entire ty matured by us. _ _ . _ 20. At the rate agreed to be paid by Government for the Brompton Cemetery, 38 acres in size—viz., 74,921/. —which is upwards of 1,9701. per acre—the purchase money of the Necropolis, when enclosed and laid out, would be be 2,955,0001. This burial territory through which the South-Western Railway passes for two miles and a half—and which embraces the finest scenery in. England —we offered, as your Lordship will see by re ference to our two memorials to the Lords of the Trea sury in 1850, not only to make a practical adjunct to the working of the Metropolitan Interments Act of that year, but also to place under the medical police, sur veillance of the Board of Health. To the above details, then, it is unnecessary for me to do more than add, that, in addition to the Necropolis at Woking, being a complete remedy for the evils of Me tropolitan Intramural Burial, whether as regards magnitude of extent, comprehensiveness of design, -unity of action, facility of access, cheapness of sepulture, the Company has at its head not only an ordinary Board of Directors amenable at all times to public opinionf e correct discharge of their duties, but likewise a Board of Visitors, comprising the Lords-Lieutenant of Middlesex and Surrey, the Bishops of London and Winchester, the Lord Mayor, and the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, with power to inspect from time to time the Necropolis, and see that the practice of burial there is in strict accordance with sanitation and decency. In every respect, then, my Lord, as regards health, eco nomy, decency, and convenience, the Necropolis may challenge the approbation of all ranks and classes of the inhabitants of the metropolis • and as the late Govern ment took credit i n th e Speech from the Throne on the recent dissolution of Parliament, for measures which had been passed during their Administration for pro moting the extramural interment of the dead—the said measures being the Metropolitan Burials Act, and the act incorporating The London Necropo is and National Mausoleum at Woking--I hope your Lordship, and the present Ministry, will give to myself and coadjutors every aid and countenance in your power for making the NECROPOLIS a "City for the Dead" worthy in all re spects not only of the magnitude, the riches, and the civili sation of London as the commercial capital of the British nation,—but of London also as the seat of the Govern ment, the fountain head of the laws, and the bulwark of the Protestant faith. I have the honour to remain, my Lord, Your most obedient humble servant, R. BROU N , Bart The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Pal merston, M.P Secretary of State for the Home Department. * * * Accompanied by copy of a memorial to the Lord Mayor and Common Council, dated the 28th of May, 1852 ; and an outline of the ground plan of the Necro polis at Woking.' 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 3,623,000/. 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 there, and 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 por t o f C ana d a i n summer, through Quebec, Montreal, and Toronto, to Sarnia, on Lake Huron, including likewise the St. Laurence and 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 SUN. SIB,—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 Nelson, whose 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 OF SEWERS.—A special court of sewers was held yesterday at the branch-offi ce , Great Alie-st 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 R'..chmond 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, 7,380/.; total, 81,880/. Estimate of the expenses in respect of which the rate is now required in respect of works, 1,573/. ; surveys, 2,7391.; total, 4,3121. Prospective expenses for work in. course of construction, ordered and under consideration, 20,9531.; surveys, 5001,; management, 1,500/.; general work and repairs, 5,0001.; making in all 32,265/. 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 rate is now required. State of the account : Cash overdrawn, 875/. ; survey, &c ~ 976/. ; li a bili t i es i n respect of works, 655. : total, 1,630/. Finsbury district : A rate on this district at 6d, in the pound will produce about 24,000/. ; cash credit, 2,730/. ; uncollected rates, recoverable, 8001.: total, 27,530/., estimate of the probable expenses for which the rate is now required for this division. State of the account : liabilities in respect of works, 2,587/. ; surveys, 2,6591.: total, 5,2461. Prospective expenses : works in course of construction, ordered and under consideration, 17,043/. 4s. 7d. ; surveys, 500/. ; management, 1,200/. ; general works, repairs, &c., 4,000/. ; snaking 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 ho 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 he drew 610/. 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,Wiiilalitamn-lsotrrneeint,g a Lond le o t n t , er sta fr ti o n m g that his employers, instructing him to draw th e three he ila hundred pounds in question. He was ask e d t o show the had received ilng t letter, and he said he would go to his hotel and fetch it. letter examination wa s newly He returned in a short time with th e pretended letter from instructions, ons, appearance b u t it o flvtashe discovered,ink,tat the on 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 manne r • .—They received a letter, apparently in all respects genuine, purporting . to be from Messrs. D u and Kitchen, of Liverpool, stating that young Ir. Kitchen would call upon them for an advance on their account of 300/. 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 300/, Mr. Eyre afterwards wrote to Liverpool with reference to the 300/. 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 MAN CHESTER.—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. Beswick, the chief superintendent of police, stated that he had no further evidence to offer, and M‘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 PRINTER.—A young man who served his apprenticeship as a printer, in the-office of the Liverpool 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 the gan of " follow the leader," --0 e fill con' sonie' basi°' ocar e tion. h 0 P. ,1). „ oa t 0' vnte 4 rait4 ed 13er dai St e° 0 11 :1 j, en ;r) ,t ~' id 14 15 2i p lidis 6 p lip 2p i P 1 11 p 2i 1, 94 184 p 43 34 5 I 14_ p P 10 1 Rd id 127 8 30 20 1 40 BO 50 100 20 5 25 all 1 all all 2A to all lf ' 2Z 3 35i i 2i f li i i 1