The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-11 00:00:00

going off satisfactorily. The Royal Australian Gold
Refining Company is 1-16 premium.
Joint-stock Banks and Steam Navigation Companies
have been neglected.

QUARTER TO THREE.
991 I
99i t
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
(From the Official List.)
Binh 5t0ck...... 2201/ 210
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 98% 3/8
3 per Cent. Consols Anus.
New 314 per Cent. Anns. ..1001/.2 ;-,„
Long Annuities. Exp. Jan. sth, 1860... 6 13-16
Consols for Account
E Kchwitier Bille. I%cl. March. June.
1,0001.
500?. — 65 66 63 p
Small — 63 66 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, Small
Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent —
Ditto, 5 per Cent 104%
Di3xican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Peruvian 80nd5,1849, 6 per Cent lO3l/4
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 41/4 per Cent......
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent... ..... . 471/4
Venezuela Bonds
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Untch 21,4 per Cent., 12 Guild
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates

Consols
Ditto Account. June 9

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 11.—Wind at noon, W. to S.W., fresh
breeze and cloudy, with rain at times.
BOSTON, APRIL 26.—A largo ship, apparently Ame-
rican, waterlogged and abandoned, was seen 19th inst.,
40 N., 69 W.
JERSEY MAY 9.—Wind S.W.—Sld. Typhys and Bra-
dore, Labrador.
FALMOUTH, MAY 10.—Wind W.S.W., fresh.—Off
port, Great Britain, Rio Grande; Auguste, Eberhard°,
Mayaltitz; Triton, Ponce; Northumberland, Baltimore.
BRISTOL, MAY 10.—Wind W., light.—Arrd. Ma-
jestic, R o Grande_._. Ramb!e,r,
__Tobag_o; Felize, Trinidad.
QUEENSTOWN, MAT 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Coolock,
Honduras.
TRALEE, MAY 9.—The Hornet, of Sporl, is ashore et
Whitepoint without injury ;
.expected off next spring
tides.
DEAL, MAY 10.—Wind W.S.W. to W.—Arrd. Hot-
spur, Calcutta; Wilson Kennedy (supposed), Callao;
Apallina, Cuba. Arrd. from the River, Jabez, Antigua.
Arrd. from the River and sld., Alert, Sydney, New
South Wales. Sid. Lady Hilda, Islander, Sir Bevois,
and Kingston.
WRITEHATEN, MAY 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. British
Queen, Antigua.
BOSTON, APRIL 26.—A largo ship, with painted ports
and a white house on deck, with masts cut away, was
seen on shore 22d inst.; no one on board.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 10.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd Bess
Grant, Buenos Ayres; Providence, La Guna; Gertrude,
Honduras; William Stilson, New Orleans; Mary, ditto;
Otomoco, ditto; Empire, ditto, and not for New York,
as reported yesterday; Agamemnon, Mobile; Lady Mil-
ton, ditto; E. Bulkeley, Charleston; Balkan, Mauritius;
Maria, Ipola ; Seraphing, Paraiba • Mary Bebby, Barbs
does; Arica, St. Viacent; San Paraiba;
Baptista, Guar
mas; Regina, Jamaica; York, New Orleans; Lexing-
ton, ditto; Adriatic, ditto; Napoleon, ditto; Fanny, ditto.
Arrd. Straphina, Paraiba, had lost first and second
mates, carpenter, and two men, by the fever; Columbus
and Delta, Mobile; British American, Apalachicola;
England, ditto; Montezuma, ditto; Importer, ditto;
Blench, Savannah; William Penn, Charleston; Chase,
ditto; Corea, ditto; Carnatic, ditto; General Parkhill,
ditto; Shenandoah, Philadelphia; Richard Morse, New
York; Sardinia, ditto. Sid. Peltona, Acapulco; Mary
Watkins, Rio Grande; Lord Maidstone, Maranham ;
Fawcett, State of Maine; Pakenham, Barbadoes; Com-
modore, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off port, Jones.

MARKET NE WS.—(THIS DAY.)
HAY VIA32IEETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 103 Od to 41 lOs Od,
Clover ditto, 3/ 15s to 5/ 03; and Straw, 1/ 5s to 11 103 per
load. A moderate supply, and a steady demand.
CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 3/ 103 Od to 4112 s Od;
Clover ditto, 3112 s to 4/17s; and Straw, to 1/.lls per
load. Trade firm, at full quotations.
WHITECHA.PEL.—Meadow Hay, 31 10s to 4/ lOs, Od;
Clover ditto, 31 15s to 51 Os; and Straw, 115 s to 1/ 103 pe:
load. Supply but moderate, and trade firm. Prices on
the advance.

COLONLAM.
SUGAR.—The demand is good, and Foreign is wanted
chiefly for exportation. Refined is at 465 6d to 493 6d
for low to fine grocery lumps, and in limited supply.
The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at
the East and West India Docks WAS 4,582 hhds, 322
tierces, 1,894 barrels; there were taken for home con-
sumption 1,379 hhds, 84 tierces, 371 barrels. The
stock in the same places is 8,885 hhds, 847 tierces,
2,616 barrels.
COINEE.—This article is brisk, and at the auctions
realises full prices. Privately Native Ceylon has been
sold to the extent of 4,000 bags at 43s 6d per cwt.
Plantation is in much request; common 50a.
Russ.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 374 puns 25 hhds. There were
taken for home consumption 224 puns 3 hhds, and ex-
ported 101 puns 175 hhds. The stock in the same places
is 10,452 puns 1,335 bLds.
TEA.—The market is rather dull. Common Congou
9d per lb.
SALTPETRE.—At auction 500 bags Bengal partly sold
at 26s to 28s 6d for 10i to 64 per cent. refraction.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 36s 6d per cwt on the spot, and
Town 38s 9d.

INDIGO.—The quarterly sales of 7,355 chests com-
menced this morning, and are going off briskly. The
good and fine qualities are 6d to 8d per lb higher, and
the inferior 4d to 6d per lb dearer.
COTTON.--Buyers offer faller prices.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
Gross traffic receipts for passengers
and goods, week ending May 8,
1842 . £13,134 3 0
Ditto, May 10,1851 12 104 9 0

Decrease in 1852 ...
London Terminus, May 10, 1852.

... £1,029 14 0

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—As the article Photographic and Binocular
Portraits," in the Times of Friday last, is calculated to
produce unfounded prejudice in the minds of many per-
sons and to injure photography in general, I hope you
will allow me, as the oldest member of the profession,
to defend an art which I have practised for twelve years,
and which, during that period, I have studied in all its
theoretical and practical bearings. Sir David Brewster
may be mathematically correct in his views on the sub-
ject, but with reference to the actual state of photo-
graphy, when he speaks of it as yielding " a monstrous
representation of humanity,' he stands convicted of as
great an error as those other scientific men who pre-
dicted that steam boats could never cross the Atlantic,
that steam engines could never rnn on railroads, or that
the Crystal Palace could never resist a gale of wind.
With an object glass of 31 inches aperture, portraits
have been taken, not distinguishable from those taken
by be same lent with an aperture of the size of the
pupil; nay, more—two pictures of a globe with the
same kind of lenses (31 aperture), one. through a slit
half an inch wide', placed before the lens in a vertical
line, the other through a similar slit, placed in a
horizontal direction, will disclose no difference percep-
tible to the eye, and in the sterescope their coalescence
is perfect. Yet by the calculations of Sir David
Brewster the vertical opening should have given an oval
instead of a sphere, the larger axis in the. vertical line;
and the horizontal opening should have given the oval,
with its larger axis in the horizontal line.
hold equally
practically demonstrated of a sphere must
true of a statue or living model. Thug theories pushed
to an extreme are corrected by experiment in the prac-
tice of an art. Again, in placing under the stereoscope
two portraits of the same person, one taken with the
aperture of the size of the pupil, and the other with the
whole aperture i
of 31, they coincide in the most precise
manner, and one portrait is not more monstrous than the
other. The fact is, that in placing the sitter at 10 or 12
feet from the camera obscure, the angle subtended by
the whole aperture of the lens is not much more than
the angle subtended by the size of the pupil when we
look at an object or at a person 2 or 3 feet off; and if
there is a difference no eye can detect it.
Men of science can render great aid to the photo-
grapher, but it is not by disparaging his art with the
' public and by giving vent in that way to the ill humour
whiclimay have, arisen in their diFeussiona on monocular
and binocular vision.—l have the honour to be, Sir
your obedient servant,
107, Regent•street, May 8. A> CLATIDET.
A B

_RTISTS ,ENEVOLEST FUND.—The anniversary
dinner of this charitable institution was held on Saturday at
the Freemasons' Tavern. The chair was filled by Sir C.
Eastlake, President of the Royal Academy, who was sup-
ported by Sir W. C. Ross, R.A., Mr. G. Dodd, M.P.,
rr. B. B. C bbell, M.P., Mr. Christy, M P., Mr. G.
aickshank, Mr. R. H. Sony, F.R.S., Mr. Dicken-
son, Mr. Thackeray, Mr. D. Roberts, R.A., and about
eighty other friends of the charity. In proposing the
Health of the Queen," the chairman- stated that her Ma-
jesty had been graciously pleased to send a 14th donation
of 1051. The chairman afterwards proposed "Prosperity to
the Artists' Benevolent Fund, and the health of its aged
and revered President, Sir John Swinburne." He said,
that the first object of the institution was to induce artists
to be provident. It consisted of two separate and distinct
branches—the annuity fund and the benevolent fund. The
former was raised and wholly supported by the contri-
butions of its members for their own relief in sickness or
superannuation. The benevolent fund was raised, and sup-
ported by the donations and subscriptions of the patrons of
the tine arts, for th, rehef of the widows and orphans of the
members of the annuity fund. Daring the year ending in
March last 49 widows reet-ived dividends of 151. each, or
portions of that sum when the claim began with the year,
amounting in the whole t) 7031.; and 33 orphans dividends
of 51. each. The allowances under the annuity fund, the
result of the contributions of the members themselves,
amounted to 1,0041., consisting of paymentsof 401. each to 5
superannuated artists. The chairman warmly advocated the
cause of the charity, and subscriptions and donations amount-
ing to 45'3, were announced. The dinner and wines evinced
a liberality and discrimination on the part of the new pro-
prietors of the Freemasons Tavern worthy of the new epoch
in the fortunes of that establishment, The musical arrange-
ments were under the direction of Ir. Machin, who was m-
asted by Mr. Hobbs, Mr. Hatton, and Mr. Young. Mr. Toole
was toastmaster.

EASTERN UNION RAILWAY.—The preference share-
holders are about to meet to consider their interests in regard
to the Bill Pi 41113 company now before Porlialuentt