The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-01 00:00:00

SPAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1852.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

I CITY, Two o'CLoc-K.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was
brisker, the sales being 12,000 bales. Railway
Shares were firmer in the morning, but closed
rather easier.
Accounts from Peru recently to hand state that
the exports of guano this year have fallen off.
The Austrian Government is steadily paying off
its debt to the National Rank of Vienna.
The Chamber of Representatives in Belgium
have passed the project for the conversion of the 5
into 4 per Cents.
There was a slight reduction yesterday afternoon
in the rates at which Bills of Exchange were nego-
ciated on the principal continental cities, Paris
excepted, which remained at 25 :40 to 421. Am-
sterdam, 90 days, was at 11: 18 to 181. Hambro'
at 13 : 6i to 7, and Trieste at 11: 41 to 44.
Scraps still occasionally come to hand from Aus-
4ralia, showing not only the difficulty, but also the
precariousness of gold digging, The following is a
copy of a letter received from the Captain of the
Anaki Hilts exploring party :
" I should have written to you earlier, but have no
means of sending a letter to town. One of my men
being very anxious to see its wife and family, whom he
left very ill, I have given lira permission to do so, and
to return on Monday next. We have explored all the
hills on Messrs. Griffin's mad Staughton's stations, and
found not a speck of gold. We have sunk a great many
holes on both stations, and also surfaced ' • but we are in
hopes of finding the precious metal on Steiglitz's run,
part of which we have explored, and are now proceeding
down the creek in Sharp's direction."
The Bank of England during the " shutting" of
the transfer-books will advance upon stock at the
rate of 1 per cent. per annum, to be repaid in
January. _

The English Stock Market has been weaker, and
there is less doing, the naval and military prepara-
tions of the Government being a cause of some un-
easiness. Consols have been 101 to for
transfer, and are now 101* to ; the New
at per Cents. have realised 103# to and the
3 per Cents. 100± to #. Bank Stock is worth 222±;
South Sea New Annuities arel at 1001 ; Exchequer
Bills bring 725., 'and India Bonds 80s. to 83s.
premium.

- There has been a decided movement in Grenada
Deferred Bonds, the price having risen to 12 and
13. Mexican are well supported at 25 to it ;
Equador have been at sk; Buenos Ayres are 74, and
Brazilian 102; Austrian Scrip is at 9 prem.; Pe-
ruvian Deferred Stock is at 64 ; Spanish
3 per Cents. have been 51f to 52 ; and the
Deferred 25. The Certificates are 31 to f
The Swedish Loan is 1 discount. Nothing
has been done in the Turkish Loan. Portuguese
4 per Cents. are 38 to Dutch 4 per Cents.
bring 97.

Railway Shares are not generally so high, but
the market is active and buoyant for North British,
Bristol and Exeter, Endinburgh and Glasgow, and
Great Southern and Western of Ireland. French
Shares are dull, but at fully the previous rates.
In Gold Mines there are still large transactions,
and higher rates have been obtained for Colonial,
United Mexican Yuba, English and Australian
copper, and Australian freehold, &c.
The Chartered Bank of Australia is not so good.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(From the Official List.) _

. _
Business done.
Bank Stock 222
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities..: lOO
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities i 101 1 1
New 34 per Cent. Annuities.
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 —
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6i
India Bonds, £l000
Ditto, under £lOOO BO 3
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities lOOl
Consols for Account....... .........
Exchequer Bills lid. March. dune.
£lOOO 72 69 72
£5OO — 72
Small — 72
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Austrian Scrip, 5 per Cent 9
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto 41 per Cent 97
Ditto New Bonds, 1829 & 39, 5 per Cent lo2k
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 74 5
Equador Bonds .. .
Grenada Bonds, 11 per Cent
Ditto Ex. Dec., 1849, Coupon 22
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent... 12 1 i 13 121 134 13
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto for the Account 251
Peruvian 6 per Cent.
Peruvian Deferred 3 per Cent 641 $
Portuguese 4 per Cent. 3Bl 1 $
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 52 1 2
Ditto Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Spanish Committee Cert, of Coup. not fun 3i i i p a
Swedish Loan
Dutch Exchange 2i per Cent
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 97
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols lOl *
Ditto Account, Dec. 9

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CREWE STEEPLECHASES.
TUPSDAY.

The Eddleston Free Handicap of 5 save each, and 30
sous added. Three miles.
Mr. James's Jenny Jones (301.), 9st olb
Mr. Byron's nd Falcon (301.), 9st 101 b
Mr. Smith's Gulnare (801.). lOst 121 b
Mr. Land's Frank (301.), lOst 41b
Mr. Henderson's Crabbs (30/.), 10st 41b
Mr. Lamplough's Yorkshireman (301.), 9st 101 b
Mr. Tilbury's Quickstep (301.), 9st 101 b
Mr. Blow's Flying Buck (301.), 9st 81b
Mr. Tustin's gr g, by Greatheart (801.), 9st 61b
Mr. Smith's Harmony (301.), Bst 61b
Betting-2 to 1 agst Frank, and 4to 1 agst York-
shireman and Quickstep. Won by three lengths.
The Annual Steeplechase Stakes of 10 soya. each, and
60 sous, added. About three miles. 16 subs.
Mr. Spier's Benedict, Bst 101 b (White) 1
Mr. Bretherton's Clatterbox, 9st 41b 2
Mr. Laing's Johnny Barry, 10st 21b 0
Mr. Land's The Screw, 9st 81b 0
Mr. Clayton's Janus, 9st 81b 0
Captain Pascoe nd Royal Blue, 9st 41b 0
Mr. Henderson s Widow Machre, 9st 21b 0
Mr. Williams's The Unkown, 9st 21b 0
Mr. Roberts's Emperor, Bst 121 b 0
Betting-3 to 1 agst Clatterbox, 4to 1 agst Emperor,
sto 1 agst Janus, 6 to 1 agst The Screw, 6 to 1 agst
The Unknown, and 10 to 1 agst Johnnie Barry. Won
by three lengths.

...(Whit

The Hatherton Stakes of 30 sous. each, and 15 added;
one mile and half; 16 subs., were won in four heats by
Mr. Steven's Lady 'Wilton beating Mr. Johnson's The
Lame'un, Mr. Grimer's Sarah, Mr. Tempest's Knight
of the Pipe, Mr. Barton's Pioneer, Mr. Smith's Gulnare,
Captain Phelam's Louisa, Mr. Rickard's Emma, and
Mr. Welling's Miss Moulton.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER--TuEspar.
CHESTER CUP.
50 to 1 agst Nancy (t).
50 to 1 Black Doctor (t).
1,000 to 15 Joe Miller (t).
1,000 to 15 Richard Primmer (t).
1,000 to 15 Muscovite (t).
1,000 to 10 ---- Goldfinder.
1,000 to 10 Lord Fauconberg (t).

METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
50 to 1 offered on the field.

DERBY.
12 to 1 agat West Australian (t).
1.5.t0-1 -- The Reiver (t).
18 'to 1 -- Pharos (t).
20 to 1 -- Elmsthorpe (t).
20 to 1 -- Umbriel (t).

TRADING IN DEATR.
—Several years have now elapsed
since it began to be clear to the comprehension of most
rational men, that the English people had fallen into a
condition much to he
re etted, in respect of their Fu-
neral customs. A
system of barbarous show and ex-
pense was found to have gradually erected itself above
the grave, which) While it could possibly do no honor
gr
to the memory
the living, as nd
°f the dead, did great dishonor to
solemn
i of human occasions with unmeaning
honest debt, profuse waste, and bad ex-
mummeres cl; i ucing them to associate the most
ample in an utter oblivion of responsibility. The more
the subject was
examined, and the lower the investiga-
tion was carried the more monstrous (as was natural)
these usages app
their consequences. No class of society escaped. The
competition among the middle classes for superior
eared to be, both in themselves and in
gentility in funerals—the gentility being estimated by
• the amount of the
folly in which the undertaker was
permitted to
these clubs,
to whom the cost of funeral customs was so ruinous and so
disproportionate to their means, that they formed clubs
cruonu r:ot--deseended even to the very poor,
among themselves to defray such charges. Many of
coeds
by designing villains who preyed
uponthe general infirmity, cheated and wronged the poor,
most cruelly ; others, by presenting a new class of temp-
tations to the wickedest natures among them, led to a
new class of mercenary murders, so abominable in
th
th wi
y, that language cannot stigmatise them
sufficient
severity. That nothing might be
wanting to complete the general depravity, hollowness,
and falsehood, of this state of things, the absurd
fact came to light, that innumerable harpies assumed the
titles of furnishers of funerals, who possessed no funeral
furniture whatever, but who formed a long file of middle,
passing them on like water-buckets at
men between the chief mourner and the rent tradesman,
and who hired out the trappings from one to another—
of them charging his • enormn•
centage on his share
of the "black job." •
~..,, per
by the s;-
_the demonstration,
.., rite—every one
Add to all this, .
of
resulting
„,..tole consequences to the living, inevitablythe midst of
from the practice of burying the dead in
system of in-
crowded towns ; and the exposition of
and
tr- -
....ipiest and plainest practical science, the
limits of
our age and nation, arising out of the confined.
of their proprie-
tors
such burial-ground; and the avarice
decent horror, revolting to our nature disgraceful to
• and the culminating point of this
is at last arrived at. .....Dyckente 6 "Ha u sad a Words."
gigantic morkery

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY )
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
TRUCK SYSTEM.
Mr. C. FORSTER asked the Secretary of State for
the Home Department whether, in consequence of the
report of the commissioner for enquiring into the opera-
tion of the Truck System, it is the intention of the
Government to introduce any measure on that subj,....t in
the course of the present session?
Mr. WALPOLE said it was his intention to bring in
a bill on the subject shortly after the Christmas recess.
THE MILITIA.
_ _

Sir G. PECHELL asked the Secretary of State for
the Home Department, if he would be able, before the
recess, to present the returns of the number of men now
enrolled in each regiment of militia, and the quota of
each, ezc
Mr. WALPOLE said, he believed the returns to the
Home-office were nearly complete, and if the hon. and
gallant member would move for them as far as they had
gone, he would lay them on the table before the recess,
and they could be made more perfect afterwards.
RYDE PETTY SESSIONS.
In reply to Mr. FREWEN,
Mr. WALPOLE said the last information he received
was, that though there were only three magistrates to
preside at the Ryde petty sessions, no practical incon-
venience had arisen. He should communicate with the
Lord-Lieutenant, for the purpose of obtaining more full
information on the subject.

RETURNS.
Sir G. PECHELL moved for a copy of the order
issued by the Poor-law Board, dated the 25th day of
August, 1852, for regulating the administration of out-
door relief ; together with copies of such applications as
have been made by the several guardians for a total and
immediate repeal of such order. Also, copies of the
several applications that have been made to the Board
,of Admiralty, the Hydrographer, and the Astronomer
Royal, since 1849, for pecuniary rewards on account of
improvements made in chronsmeters; and, a list of the 0 eve-
ral chronometers that have been placed on the Goverz. .nent
trials at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, arranged
in their order of merit, and distinguishing those chrono-
meters that have been purchased by the Board of Admi-
ralty, with the prices awarded for them (in continuation
of return, No. 585, of session 1849).—Agreed to.
BETHELEM HOSPITAL.
In reply to Sir R. H. INGLIS,
Mr. WALPOLE said he hoped to lay on the table
next week, the report of the commissioners, and the
reply of the governors of the hospital.
POLLING AT COUNTY ELECTIONS BILL.
On the order of the day for the committal of this bill,
Mr. BUCK put it to the noble lord who had caarge
of the bill, whether it would not be better to refer the bill
to the consideration of a select committee ?
Mr. MILES, before the question was answered,
called upon the noble lord to state specifically what his
proposals were.
Lord R. GROSVENOR had no hesitation in giving
a reply to both these questions. With regard to the
first of them, he should have had no objection to adopt
the suggestion thrown out if this had been the first
time that the bill came before the house. But
the fact was the bill had been repeatedly before
the house in the last Parliament, and once it
had been sanctioned by the Government of the day,
and he could see no necessity for referring the bill
to a select committee. With regard to the second
question, he begged to state, that he intended to confine
the provisions of the bill to the simple matter of limiting
the polling for counties to one day, and providing that
the declaration of the poll should take place the day
afterwards.
Sir GEORGE PECHELL supported the bill.
Mr. PACKE complained of the very great haste with
which the bill was being pressed forward. It would
be time enough to commit it when the house met again,
after the Christmas recess. The bill, he was afraid,
would produce great inconvenience to county electors,
for it- always happened that something like 80 county
elections had to take place within the space of ten days,
and inasmuch as many electors had votes in several
counties, they would have no opportunity of polling in
more than one if the bill passed. He should therefore
move that the bill be committed that day three months.
After a few words from By. H. DnirmmoNn and Capt.
A. Lzmrox,
Mr. G. BUTT moved that it be an instructions U the
committee on the County Elections Polls Bill to intro-
duce provisions into the bill for shortening the time
between the proclamation and day of election in counties,
and the time of the receipt of the writ and the election
in boroughs. The great objects which a bill
of this nature should have in view, should be
to secure to the electors the exercise of the
franchise with convenience, and to limit the
expense attendant upon county elections. The law as
it now stood was passed in 1796, but since that period
the means of communication from one part of the coun-
try to another had been greatly increased, and a change
in the law was required to make it comformable shat
altered state of things.
Mr. B. DENISON did not --apprehend that there
would be any objection to the proposed amendment, as
the house was clearly of opinion that the time for
holding county elections should be shortened. Her
Majesty's Government, as he understood, had no
objection to the 'principle of the bill, but they did ob-
ject to that part of the bill which shortened the period
to elapse between the day of nomination and the day of
polling ; and, for his part, if the noble lord would con-
sent to make the time three days, he would support the
passing of the bill, as he was convinced, from confer-
rences that he had had with electioneering agents. that
there would be no difficulty, with an increase in the
number of polling places, in accomplishing the polling
at county elections in one day.
Mr. WALPOLE agreed with the observations which
the previous speaker had made, and if the noble lord
would adopt his suggestion, there would be no difficulty
in passing the bill. He, however, could not consent to
the instructions proposed by the hon. and learned mem-
ber (Mr. Butt), as from the shortness of the notice which
had been given of them, he had had no opportunity of
consulting his colleagues upon the subject, and he there-
fore hoped the hon. and learned member would not per-
severe with them.
After a few words from Lord HARRY VANE,
Lord J. RUSSELL concurred with what had fa-1 len
from the right hon. gentleman the Secretary of State for
the Horne Department, it was highly desirable to shorten
the time for taking county elections, but that object
could be attained without making an alteration in the
law in any other respect. For instance, the number of
polling places could be increased under the law now
stood, and he could see no good reason for encumbering
this bill with provisions upon that matter, or with the
proposal of the hon. and learned member opposite. This
latter proposal might he made the subject of a second
bill.

Mr. MULLINS did not believe that the bill would
effect any saving of expence or prove acceptable the
electors, but it would prevent a good deal of that cor-
ruption that 'generally took place on the second day's
polling, and he should therefore vote for going into
Committee.
Mr. HUME advised Lord Robert Grosvenor to be
content with the principle of limiting the voting for
counties to one day, and not to press any provision in
regard to the mode of voting.
After a few words from Mr. HENLEY.
Mr. V. SMITH said his object in supporting the bill
was to prevent the enormous expenses which took place
between the first and second day.

Mr. G. BUTT withdrew his amendment, and gave
notice that after the recess he would move for lea,- .to
bring in a bill to carry out the proposal which i con-
tained.

Mr. V. SCULLY approved of the bill, and hoped its
principle would hereafter be extended to Ireland. At
present, however, he did not believe the machinery of
the bill was fitted for that country, and the first conse-
quence of it would be that not one-tenth of the county
electors would be able to record their votes. rhe
process of polling a voter in Ireland was ex-
tremely dilatory, and from what he had seen working in
his own personal experience, he could state for a fact
that it was not possible to poll more than 200 votes, in
a day of eight hours, at one booth.
Mr. MONSELL said, that having consulted the hon.
member (Mr. Elliot) who had intended to move that his
bill be extended to Scotland, he thought it most con-
venient to announce to the house that he had come to
the determination to allow the bill to pass through com-
mittee, and to defer their amendment to the report.
(Hear.)
Col. SIBTHORP said that lie considered this a low,
shabby, and mean bill. He, himself possessed the
elective franchise in eight or nine different counties,
and at the late general election he had fund
it exceedingly difficult to get from place to 'place
in sufficient time. If this bill passed it would
be in future perfectly impossible. (Hear.) He had
no reliance in this house—(laughter)—and he looked
therefore to another place which was not actuated by
the same selfish party motives as this house. Many
other bills of this natureihad been thrown out there, and
he hoped this bill would meet with the same fate. He
believed this bill was supported by honourable mem-
bers simply with a view to save their own pockets.
Mr. DEEDES said that he should support the amend-
ment, because he thought the bill was premature.

After a few remarks from Mr. GEORGE, the
amendment was withdrawn, and the bill passed through
committee.

Mr. HUME enquired if the financial statement would
be made on Friday night.
Mr. WALPOLE was understood to bow assent.
LHE DERBY ELECTION COMMITTEE.
The following members were appointed to serve on
this committee, Mr. Goulburn, Lord H. Vane, Lord
Barrington, Sir W. Molesworth, and Mr. Deedes.

THE MELBOURNE.
Mr. DRUMMOND moved for the correspondence
and reports relative to the ship Melbourne.
Mr. A. STAFFORD said that not only was there no
objection to the introduction of this correspondence, but
the Admiralty would be exceedinglyglad to lay the whole
much circumstance before the public, as they had been
exaggerated and misrepresented in the public prints.
It would be found, he thought, that the whole blame
attached to the company, the proprietors of the vessel,
and that none could possibly attach to the Admiralty.
After a short conversation the motion was agreed to,
and the remaining orders having been disposed of, the
house adjourned at three o'clock.