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

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ONE
PRICES OF BRITISIt FUNDS O'CLOCK.
Bznk Steck
3 ,er Cent. Redneed Anne.
8 Der Cent. Consols Annuities.. 993's 1/2 li 1/2
New 3 per Cent. Anne....
Long Anna. to expire J an.lBtiu 6 13-16
India Bonds, 1,0001.
Console for Account .. 995/8
Er:chequer Bills, 150. March.
1,000/. ..
5001.
Small,

CLOSII G
PR ICES
220
98S
991/4
100 N
6 13-16
81 p
991 i
June.
65 63 p
65 66 63 p
63 66 p
CLOWNki
PRICES.

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bonds, 5 per Cent. —
Ditto, Small
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.

Ditto, Account
Danish 80nd5.1825, 3 per Cent.
Ditto, 5 per cent.
Grenael Bolds, 11,4 per Cent.
Do. Es Dec., 1849 Coupons
Deferrel
MaXielli. 5 oeT t en'. , 1816
Ditto. Account
Ditto, 3 per Cent....... /8
253 A / 7'
Pflavlan Bonds, 1819,6 perCvii lo3vz
Pot: egaess 5 per Cvnr.
Ditto, Converted, 1841
L:tto, 4 T,Pr Cent.
Russian Bonds
Litt°, 4% per Cent
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Spanish 5 per Cont. 18,?1
Ditto, Pas.iv•
Ditto. 3 per Cent 47IA
Ditto. New Deferred •• •.
Venezuela Bonds, 31,ii per Cent....
Ditto Acc0unt.......... 43
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent. 12 Guild....
Ditto 4 per Cent. Csrtitleates 92%1/ 93

99%

78A

104 V,

9t

321/.
25%
102%

103 %
96 1/2

VA
471/8
21 ii

LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAT 11.—Wind at noon, W. to S.W., fresh
breeze and cloudy, with rain at times.
BoszoN, APRIL 26.—A largo ship, apparently Ame-
rican, waterlogged and abandoned, was seen 19th inst ,
40 N., 69 W.
TRALEE, MAY 9.—The Hornet, of Sporl, is ashore at
Whitepoint without injury; expected off next spring
tides.

DEAL, MAY 10 —Wind W.S.W. to W.—Arrd. Hot-
spur, alcutta; Wilson Kennedy (supposed), Callao;
Apalline, Cuba. Arrd. from the River, Jabez. Antigua.
Arrd. from the River and old., Alert, Sydney, New
South Wales. Sid. Lady Hilda, Islander, Sir Bevois,
and Kingston.
BOSTON, APRIL 26.—A large 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; Seraphina, Paraiba; Mary Bebby, Barba-
does; Arica, St, Vincent; San Juan Baptista' Guay
mas; Regina, Jamaica; York, New Orleans; Lexing-
ton, ditto; Adriatic, ditto; Napoleon, ditto; Fanny, ditto.
Arrd. Seraphina, 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;
Blanch, Savannah; William Penn, Charleston; Chase,
ditto; Corea, ditto; Carnatic, ditto; General Parkhill,
ditto; Shenandoah, Philadelphia • Richard Morse, New
York; Sardinia, ditto. Sld. 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 NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
RAY VIAILKE'rS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hey, 31 lOs Od to 4/ 10s Od;
Clover ditto, 31 15s to Si 03; and Straw, 1/ Sa to 11105 pet
load. A moderate supply, ari a steely demand.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 103 Od to 4/12s Ocl ;
Clover ditto: 3112 s to 4/17s; anti Straw, 1163 to 11,1 Is pa
load. Trade firm, at full quota"ons.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 31 103 tO 41 103 Od:
Clover ditto, 31155 to 5/ Os; and Straw, 1155 to 1110 s pet
load. Supply but Jr oderate, and trade firm. Prices on
the advance.

C0M0N1213..
SIIOAR.--The demand is good, and Foreign is wanted
chiefly for exportation. Refined is at 46s 64 to 49a 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 hhde, 84 tierces, 371 barrels. The
stock in the same places is 8,885 hhds, 847 tierces,
2,616 barrels,
COFFEE.—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 50s.
Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 374 puns 25 hhde. There were
taken for home consumption 224 puns 3 hbds, and ex-
Frted 101 puns 175 hhds. The stcck in the same places
is 10,422 puns 1,335 hbds.
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. retraction.
TALLow.—P.Y.C. is 368 6d per cwt on the spot, and
Town 38s 9d.

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

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
Gross traffic receipts for passengers
and goods, week ending May 8,
1852 ... .„ £13,134 8 0
Ditto, May 10, 1851 12,104 9 0

Increase 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 run on railroads, or that
the Crystal Palace could never resist a gale of wind.
With an object glass of 3/ inches aperture, portraits
have been taken, not distinguishable from those taken
by the same lens with an aperture of the size of the
pupil; nay, more—two pictures of a globe with the
same kind of lenses (3i 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 differenct, percep-
tible to the eye. and in the steroacope their coaescenee
is perfect. Yet by the calculations of Sir Da' ci
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. What is
practically demonstrated of a sphere must hold equally
true of a statue or living model. Thus 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 of Si, 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
rendereye can
great detect
aid
ate
the angle subtended by the size of the pupil when we'
look at an object or at a person 2or 3 feet of; and if
thextreenisofasdeiitrenecreenOceanno
to the photo-
grapher, but it is not by disparaging his
public, and by giving vent in that way the
the
tot e art
illwith
humour
which may have,arisen in their discussions on monocular
and binocular vision.—l have the honour to be, Sir,
your obedient servant, A. CLAUDET.
107, Regent street, May 8.

ARTISTS' BENEVOLENT FUND.—The anniversary
dinner of this charitable institution was held on Saturday at
Eastlake, the
Freemasons' masons' Tavern. The chair was filled by Sir C.
President of the Royal Academy, who was sup
ported by Sir W. C. Ross, R.A., Mr. G. Dodd, M.P.,
B. B. Cabbell, M.P., Mr. Christy, M P., Mr. G.
Cruickshank, Mr. R. H. Solly, F.R.S., Mr. Dicken-
son, Mr. Thackeray, Mr. D. Roberts, ILA., 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 fine arts,•for the relief of the widows and orphans of the
members of the annuity fund. During the year ending in
March last 49 widows received dividends of 15/. each, or
portions of that sum when the claim began with the year,
amounting in the whole to ; and 33 orphans dividends
of 51. each. The allowances under the annuity fund, the
result of the contributions of the members themselyes'
the
amounted to 1,0001., consisting of payments of 40/. each
superannuated artists. The chairman warmly advocatedto
cause of the charity, and subscriptions and donations amount-
ing to 4591. were announced. The dinner and wines evinced
a liberality and discrimination on the part of the new
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by Mr. Hobbs. Mr. Hatton, and Mr. Young. Mr. Toole
was toastmaster.

EASTERN UNION RAILWAY.—The praference.slanre-
holders are•about to meet to consider their interests in reg,rd
t 9 110 Bill 9i WI coooplay uow before kozJiguucut!