The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-03 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVEMN6I, APRIL 3, 186

LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1865.

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Yesterday one passed from this busy scene who
has done much in his life-time to impress his day
and generation. Mr. COBDEN will, long be missed
by those among whom he played so striking a part,
and the historian of the last half century must
accord him a prominent place in the annals of his
country. De mortius nil nisi bonum is a time hon-
oured adage that has received universal honour, and
whose recognition reflects credit on human nature.
In the case of Mr. COBDEN, however, it requires no
great stretch of this feeling adaptation of this rule,
for in the course of a career that brought him into
contact with all classes he seldom or ever gave per-
sonal offence. He was generally calm and deliberate
in his words, however prone to follow the bent of
a particular course and carry out one idea to the
exclusion of others. Mr. COBDEN'S life is a good
epitome of an English career, and may be regarded
as a triumph to the principles of our Constitution
and the usages of our society. Mind is, after all,
the real distinction between classes, and whereas in
the case of the eminent man in question, one in a
comparatively humble sphere, can rise to a Doszi+-lim
of influence, no further charge need be necessary,
however much the leveller may declaim, or the de-
magogue rant about it. Mr. COBDEN'S health has
been delicate for some time, which has been the
cause of his abstinence from public speaking. His
friends need have no cause to regret his death at an
earlier age than that to which our public men often
attain on other than private grounds. It
may truly be said that he had done enough,
and more than enough, to entitle him to rest.
He was intimately connected with the important
changes which have made the domestic history of
this country remarkable, and impressed their influ-
ence upon foreign nations. The Anti-Corn-Law
League owed its success, in a great measure, to his
exertions and Sir ROBERT PEEL'S tribute to the
effect of the " unadorned eloquence of RICHARD
COBDEN" is well known to all who studied the events
of those stirring times. It cannot be denied by
impartial observers that Mr. COBDEN was certainly
narrow in his views and prejudiced in many of his
notions ; it was this that interfered greatly with the
influence he might otherwise have exercised to a
considerable degree 'on many not exactly wedded
to his views and disciples of his particular doctrines.
In the question of the peace policy this was the
most striking ; this was evidently a deeply-rooted
conviction ; but the persistency with which he
advocated it, was carried to an excess damaging
alike to his own reputation as a politician and to
the cause he attempted to advocate. Now that he
res+s from his labours, however, it is a more grateful
and genial task to dwell on those particulars of his
career which won for him the admiration of his
countrymen and spread his fame far and wide among
the nations of the world. As a Free-trader he was
most distinguished, and he had the satisfaction of
witnessing the success of many of his cherished
schemes. When the SOU of the Sussex yeoman held
a conference with the EMPEROR relative to the
Treaty which was materially to affect the interests
of both countries concerned, and to inaugurate the
. introduction of free-trade into France, it may fairly
be said that he had reached the culminating point
in his career, and that no after-triumph could sur-
pass, if equal, the success of that time. of
course, it was not the same struggle to achieve the
work of the French Treaty as it was to carry the
repeal of the Corn Laws, but side by side these two
works will go down to posterity as the triumph of
the principles, which it was the pride and boast of
Mr. COBDEN to profess in all times and places, and
of which he was such a zealous and consistent advo-

cate.

Only those who were intimate with public
affairs at the time of the repeal of the Corn Laws
can appreciate the services that Mr. COBDEN ren-
dered to the cause of free trade. Others pioneered
the way ; others obtained the ostensible credit of
doing the important work, but they put the finish-
ing stroke to what would never have reached the
advanced stage at which they found it, but for
the incessant toil and the earnest endeavour of
RICHARD COBDEN. His firmness of purpose and his
unflinching perseverance were remarkable ; but it is
difficult, now that the temporary excitement has
passed away, to realise completely how hard and up- ,

hill was the struggle, and how many the obstacles
that had been surmounted. It may faiirly be said,
then, that Mr. COBDEN was mainly instrumental in
achieving a work of great national importance, and
by his clear reasoning he was fortunate enough to
convince many of the efficacy of his arguments, and
the force of his convictions. Because he did so
much at that period, some supposed that he would
do more hereafter in other matters of public interest.
This idea was an erroneous one, however, the bent
of Mr. COBDEN'S mind did not incline him to be a
general politician ; he was capable of theoris-
ing to any extent, but as a practical worker
he had too many crotchets to allow him
to succeed. The peculiar views which he held con-
cerning the peace doctrines alone sufficed to militate
against his prospects as a public man, but there is
the less to regret in this deficiency that he did so
well where he was deeply interested, and in the
tasks for which he was eminently fitted. The spirit
of the age was with him when he moved forward and
impelled others in the great work of Free Trade ;
the time was come when the great world required
to move forward, and the intellect and enterprise
of mankind hailed him as their advocate of pro-
gress and their herald of reform. It was quite
otherwise, however, when he came to consider the
questions of peace and war ; yet we must admire
his consistency in thus persisting in a course
which lost him much of his prestige among
his countrymen, and drew on him reproach
and indignation. It was a drawback to Mr.
COBDEN'S success as a politician that he was so apt
to regard public questions in a one-sided manner,
and he was not likely, under any circumstances, to
have become a great statesman in the full accepta-
tion of the term. He showed his good sense and
right feeling by refusing an offer of a seat in the
Cabinet, for which he was not fitted, and by ac-
cepting which he would not have done any credit
to his reputation, which was hard-won and deservedly
high. It is not at all necessary or desirable that
all clever men should follow the same beaten track,
and we may surely say that he who has just departed
from among us occupied a sphere of great public
usefulness from which he can ill be spared,
and where the blank space he has left is not
likely to be filled up for some time to
come. He came forward at a great crisis of
public affairs to represent the interests of his fellow
countrymen, and he was thus certainly a benefactor
to the country, which may be proud to rank him
among her citizens of honour and repute. It was a
mistake on the part of many to expect that he would
take as prominent a place in other public questions
as he did in the instance of Free Trade—there was
no need that he should do so, and the bent of his
mind led him more to the prosecution of
isolated attempts of this sort, than to
general subjects of everyday interest. In the
House of Commons Mr. COBDEN'S reputation stood
deservedly high ; he commanded the respect of both
sides, and he won the admiration of all by his great
powers as a speaker. Whenever he rose to speak
something worth hearing was sure to occupy the atten-
tion of the House, and, apart from his particular views,
men regarded his speeches as a great intellectual
treat that they would not willingly miss. It is to
the credit of Mr. COBDEN that he never indulged in
that class of vituperation to which some of his friends
were so prone. He was not a polished speaker, but
neither was he at all of the demagogue style. He
gave utterance to his own honest opinion, and though
often mistaken in his views, he was always straight-
forward in their advocacy. It may fairly be
said of him who has so lately joined the ranks
of those " Who their worldly task have done,
home are gone, and taken their wages," that he has
left behind a name that will long live in the memory
of his countrymen, and has achieved a reputation
that will survive to posterity. Future generations
will turn with interest to study the career of one who
has departed from among his sorrowing contempo-
raries, after having led a life of private honour and
of public renown.

It is to be hoped that the question put by Sir
JOHN SHELLEY to the Home Secretary on Thursday
evening, respecting the case of Mr. DRAKE, may
loo.a to some further inquiry
at present stands it reflects very little credit on
either the wisdom or the humanity of the principal
parties concerned, and if such things are possible
under existing arrangements, all that we can say is
the sooner they are altered the better. Mr. DRAKE,
a gentleman of good means, while visiting London
on business, passed the night at an hotel in Covent
Garden. He was attacked by illness suddenly, and,
as often happens, he was attacked during the night,
so that when the waiter called him in the morning
he was found unable to dress himself and wan-
dering in his mind. The landlady sent for a
policeman, thinking he was mad, though all
parties admitted that he was sane, and sober over-
night. The policeman turned him half-dressed
into the street, where naturally his excited manner
and strange appearance attracted a crowd of the
loiterers of the market. Thereupon the same police-
man, who is certainly most unfit for any responsible
position, took him to the station-house, where the
doctor was summoned to examine, and hearing pro-
bably only half the outcry, hastily concluded that he
had been drunk and was suffering from the conse-
quences. He was finally sent to the Strand Union,
where the medical officer attended him, and being
apparently the first person of sense who had seen
the unfortunate gentleman, at once discovered that
he was suffering from an attack of blood to
the head. Every care was taken, but it
was too late. The disease, which required
active medical treatment and perfect quiet from the
very first, naturally enough proved fatal after such
a morning as the unhappy victim had passed, and
after a day or two's illness Mr. DRAKE died. Of
course, the whole tragedy originated in an accident
and a mistake ; but ignorance, inhumanity, and
carelessness were required to bring it to
a fatal result. The landlady presumed that
Mr. DRAKE was mad ; but as it was quite
evident that the attack was a sudden one, she
should surely have sent for medical help instead of
for the assistance of the police. Any doctor called
to see the sick man in his room at the hotel would
have gathered the true state of the case from the
attendants. He would naturally have asked in
what state he was the preceding night, and must
have possessed very little knowledge or experience
if he had not found out the truth, so speedily de-
tected by Dr. ROGERS. The policeman was the
next and worst offender, and his conduct was alto-
gether inexcusable. If the man was in too danger-
ous a state to be left in the hotel, he was certainly
not fit to be turned adrift in the market, and the
inhumanity of such a proceeding cannot be excused
on the plea of ignorance. The doctor who was
summoned to see Mr. DRAKE at the station was also
much in fault, since it is quite evident he took no
trouble to ascertain the poor man's teal condition.
The landlady, we should hope, must have deeply
regretted her conduct ; but the policeman and
the doctor are public officials, who should
at least receive official censure, the one for
his officiousness, the other for hil negligence.
The man's life has, perhaps, been • sacrificed
—at any rate, his chance of recovery was seriously
diminished--by the treatment he retiyed, and we

hope the case will not be passed over or hushed up.
No one is safe from accident or illness, and if a
respectable, well-conducted man is to be hustled
about and dragged from station to workhouse
because he is too ill to speak for himself, it is
quite time that a different system was organised.

The Revenue Tables just issued are highly satis-
factory, and although Englishmen have become so
accustomed to their own prosperity that they take it
very much as a matter of course, yet there is good
reason for rejoicing when each periodical report
assures us that the material welfare of the country
goes on steadily increasing in spite of all changes.
The tables before us bear testimony to the wisdom
of those principles of political economy which have
of late years directed our affairs. We could wish,
indeed, that those principles were still more widely
developed, and there is no doubt that a correspond-
ing increase of revenue would be manifest. The
reduction of taxes which press on the multitude,
which extend over a wide area, scarcely ever fails to
repay itself speedily. The increase of consumption
very soon compensates for the reduction of duty,
and we generally find those very items which have
been temporarily diminished, showing, after a brief
interval, the most remarkable increase. This has
been notably the case in our Post Office, whose
revenue keeps on steadily increasing. This very
quarter it shows an increase of £290,000. The
stamps bear equal evidence of the profit to be de-
rived from temporary and apparent loss. The quar-
ter gives an increase of £62,ooo—the year of
£213,000, so that, according to this proportion, the
rise in this item next year will be still more conspi-
cuous. We wish Mr. GLADSTONE would be con-
vinced of these figures to extend the principle
of reduction a little further, • resting assured
that so long as he removes those taxes which press
upon the million he will be safe to gain rather than
lose. The removal of imposts which only concern a
few may indeed affect the Exchequer, and of course
the diminution of direct taxation, such as the penny
off the Income-tax, last year, must make a certain
reduction. That is no reason why such taxes should
not be removed or lessened when the national
finances can bear such removal, and the Income-tax
especially calls for further decrease, oppressive and
unjust as it is to the toiling professional classes who
come under that mysterious schedule D, which in-
cludes every rank of society, from her MAJESTY
downwards. Bnt while every one admits that with
a flourishing revenue the public burdens should be
lightened, our Chancellors of the Exchequer do not
seem to appreciate the truth that reductions of taxes
affecting matters of general consumption are really
no loss but a gain, and, therefore, the public have
a right to demand such reductions as long as there
is a sufficient balance in hand to meet the temporary
decrease. The Fire Insurance duty is just one of
these cases, and Mr. GLADSTONE might have learned
from the facts brought forward the other evening
how much he was really losing by his impracticability
in the matter. The other items in the tables are
satisfactory enough, especially the Excise, which
shows the immense increase of £1,351,000 in the
year, thus proving the internal prosperity of the
coun try.

DEATH OF THE DOWAGER LADY AFFLECK. —The
demise of the Dowager Lady Affleck, wife of the
Rev. Dr. Whewell, master of Trinity College, Cambridge,
took place at the master's lodge at Trinity College on Sa-
turday night, after an illness of some duration. It is almost
unnecessary to say that the whole members of the univer-
sity deeply sympathise with the rev. the master in his be-
reavement. The deceased lady, who was the eldest daughter
of Mr. Francis Elles, of the Royal-crescent, Bath, married
fisrtly Sir Gilbert Affleek, Bart., who died in 1854. Her
marriage with Dr. Whewell took place in 1858.
DEATH OF LADY GEORGIANA RYDER.—The above-
named lady died on Thursday night at Westbrooke,
the family seat in Hertfordshire. The deceased was third
daughter of Henry Charles, sixth Duke of Beaufort, by
Lady Charlotte Sophia, daughter of Granville, first Mar-
quis of Stafford. She was born Oct. 8, 1800, and married,
May 30, 1825, the Hon. Granville Dudley Ryder, brother
of the Earl of Harrowby, K.G., by whom she leaves a nu-
merous family. The Lady Georgiana Ryder was sister of
the Marchioness Cholmondeley, Lady Calthorpe, Lady
Louisa Finch, and Lady Mary Farquhar, and aunt of the
present Duke of Beaufort, Lady Blanche Dupplin, Lady
Londes'borough, &c.

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK has, we are grieved to hear,
been seriously indisposed. It appears that some time be-
fore Christmas, hornet with an accident, the effects of
ungerea upon Aim up to a row weeks since. After a
short stay at Ventnor, however, somewhat of his old
strength and spirits returned, so that he is now able to re-
sume his professional pursuits.
The Passion Week Performance of the Messiah,
by the National Choral Society, will take place at Exeter
Hall, on Monday next, the 10th inst. Miss Louisa Pyne,
Miss Palmer, and Mr. Sims Reeves are already engaged.
Band and chorus of 700 performers. Conductor—Mr. G.
W. Martin.

DEATH IN THE HUNTING-FIELD.—A fatal accident
occurred on Friday last near Annesley-park, Not-
tinghamshire. Mr. Chaworth Musters's hounds met on
that day at Oxtenhall, and among the field was Mr. Green,
spirit merchant, Nottingham, mounted on Spinner, to
whom the stakes in the Hunt Cup at Nottingham Spring
meeting was awarded. When near' Annesley, Mr. Green's
horse bolted with him along the highway leading to
Kirkby, and, passing through the tollbar, the unfortunate
rider reeled and suddenly fell to the ground. Medical aid
was at hand, but Mr. Green was lifeless, the base of his
skull being injured, and there was a large quantity of
blood about the left ear and nostril. When passing the
tollgate he appeared to be gasping for breath, and his left
foot was out of the stirrup.

A PICTURE OF ORIENTAL ABJECTION.—M.
Gerome has finished his picture representing the re-
ception of the Siamese Ambassadors by Napoleon the
Third, who commissioned the artist to paint the remarkable
ceremony whereat those distinguished orientals crawled on
their hands and knees before his Imperial Majesty and the
Empress Eugenie. Ranged about the throne is the French
Court. Many portraits are introduced in full state cos-
tume. The Ambassadors are superbly dressed in their
national style ; their umbrellas lie near to them.
THE FIRM OF ROUTLED GE, WARNE, AND
ROUTLEDGE, according to a contemporary, will shortly dis-
solve—Mr. Warne commencing a new business under his
own name, and the Routledges continuing the business
lately removed from Farringdon-street to the Broadway,
Ludgate-hill.
BRILLIANT SUCCESS OF THE CHEAP EDITION OF
MR. DICKENS'S NOVELS.—The first offered to the
trade by Messrs Chapman and Hall (says the London
Review) has been the famous " Pickwick Papers," in 2
vols., double columns, and bound in green wrappers, with
very smudgy representations of dear old polite Pickwick
thereon. There are certain names peculiarly talismanic
amongst booksellers. Some of the cleverest men in this
country could not find a sale for 100 copies of any single
work from their pens, whereas the agents of some other clever
men could effect a sale of 50,000 copies in one day. The
favoured few could be counted upon one's fingers, and two
historians and a poet would be amongst the number.
Charles Dickens is, perhaps, the greatest of these favourites,
and Messrs. Simpkin and Marshall's faith in him extends
to the 1,560 copies which figure in their first order for his
cheap "Pickwick." Messrs. Whittaker and Co. take 208 ;
Messrs. Hamilton and Co. (better known as purveyors of
religious works), 260 ; Messrs. Kent and Co., 780 ; Messrs.
Virtue Brothers, 260 ; Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son, the
great railway bookstall-koopers, 1,560 ; and Mr. George
Robertson, the Australian book-merchant, 312.

BARON LIEBEG :ON SEWAGE.—The important
and highly valuable reports communicated to the
Corporation of the City of London by Baron Liebeg, on
the agricultural value and economic disposal of the sewage
of great towns, has been published in a complete form by
W. H. Collingridge, with the numerical quantities reduced
to ordinary English standards. These interesting docu-
ments will, we have no doubt, be eagerly perused by agri-
culturists, horticulturists, and by all, in fact, who are en-
gaged in the cultivation of the soil.
A SUBSTITUTE FOR COTTON.—MiIk-Weed, the
Asclepios Syriaca, is, according to the New York
Weekly Tribune, a substitute for cotton. "We have been
shown," says the editor, " several specimens of textile
fabrics woven from the seed-inclosing fibre which fills the
pods of the plant well known as Milk-Weed, and botani-
cally-named the Asclepios Syriaca. Those fabrics are very
soft and pleasant to the touch as would be expected, but
seem also quite firm and strong, as would not be expected.
Mr. James P. M'Clean, of Brooklyn, has patented inven-
tions whereby this substance is utilised. It takes dyes
admirably—much better than cotton—and sheds its seeds
wnhout ginning or other =cult labour."

Charles Dickens's New Serial Story.

Our Mutual Friend. By Charles Dickens. No. 12.
Chapman and Hall.

Incredible though Bella's latest hint to Pa at the
close of the March number appeared to us to be, it
nevertheless turns out to have been only too true
after all I The Golden Dustman (in chap. v. of
vol. falls into Bad Company, (in chap. vi. of
vol. falls into Worse Company. Gets a han-
kering after details of the lives of those abject
wretches—those exemplary persons—the Misers,
whom he apparently meditates emulating. Has a
kind of illegibility stealing over his face—" its old
simplicity of expression," we are told, getting
" masked by a certain craftiness that assimilated
even his good humour to itself." Insomuch that
we read—" His very smile was cunning,
as if he had been studying smiles among
the portraits of his misers." Inimitably good
are the scenes in which this extraordinary transfor-
mation is depicted—to the hidden pain of Bella, to
the exquisite anguish of dear, true-hearted Mrs.
Boffin, to the suppressed scorn, the evident amaze-
ment, and the patiently endured humiliation of the
Golden Dustman's Secretary, John Harmon that
really is, though ostensibly no more than flouted,
insulted, put-upon, undemonstrative Mr. Roke-
smith. The Golden Dustman being, all the
while, so wretchedly deteriorated in character under
the evil influence of the possession of a wealth
that really is not his, that " though his eyes
should twinkle and all his face should laugh, he
would sit holding himself in his own arms as if he
had an inclination to hoard himself up, and
must always grudgingly stand on the defen-
sive." When he gets. into Worse Company
it turns out to be the company of Mr. Venus and
Silas Wegg. "The articulator" of his fellow creatures,
crossed in love by the incapability of the object of his
affections (who turns out by the way to be no other
than Pleasant Riderhood) regarding herself, or
allowing herself to be regarded, in that particular
light "The literary man with a wooden leg"—whose
chief grievance in life is the subordination, to the up-
start Golden Dustman, of " those eminent creatures
Miss Elizabeth, Master George, Aunt Jane, and Uncle
Parker !" The way in which Mr. Boffin descends,
one while, upon the Bower, about nightfall, "in a
cab with Rollin's Ancient History," and, upon an-
other occasion, arrives in another cab
with " Plutarch"—whose Lives he finds in the
sequel extremely entertaining, though he hopes
Plutarch " may not expect him to believe them all"
—is delightful. The chief difficulty with Mr. Boffin li
in the course of his reading being this—" what to
believe !" " For some time he was divided in his mind
between half, all, or none ; at length, when he de-
cided as a moderate man to compound with half, the
question still remained which half ? And that
stumbling block he never got over."' Almost as
good in their way asthe earlier scenes in this number
—where, as already hinted, the Golden Dustman
contrives at one and the same time to cause pain to
Bella, anguish to Mrs. Boffin, and surprise and
humiliation to his Secretary, Rokesmith—almost
as good, we say, as those earlier scenes, are the
later scenes in this No. 12 of Our Mutual Friend,
in which Boffin reveals the deterioration of his
character yet more vividly to " the impostor''
Wegg, the Evil Genius of the House of Boffin, as
he assumes to be by right of having discovered, in
the course of his researches among the giant Dust
Mounds, a will secreted by the old dead and gone
Dust Contractor in a certain old cashbox found hid
away in a long disused pump. There among those
dreary surroundings of the misnamed Bower,
towards the summit of one of those same gigantic
mounds, the Golden Dustman himself is seen by
Wegg and Venus to exhume a mysterious case-
bottle, the contents of which are altogether out of
reach even of our conjectures. Without as yet
seeing the merest glimmering of a way out of the
labyrithine mazes of the plot of Our Mutual Friend
as that tortuous labyrinth has been here elaborately
arranged in all its, as yet, bewildering involutions
—we can nevertheless perceive through the medium
of one apparently slight and casual disclosure, (a dis-
closure already here in this notice of ours distinctly
particularised) the possibility of the seemingly inex-
tricable puzzle of the plot being explained, after all,
to be about the simplest thing in the world, and
to be so explained, moreover, by no more than
one or two touches of the masterhand. The dis-
closure here referred to being no other, of course,
than that revealing to -us quite incidentally,
that the object of Mr. Venus's affections is identi-
cal with Pleasant Riderhood. A touch or two
more like that, and all the now apparently scat-
tered and divergent threads of the plot—threads
many of them as yet seemingly woven into the
pattern quite separately and independently one
or anotai...—wvuid. b 1,--51.4 together meshed
and knotted into one symmetrical and homo-
geneous device. As it will be, in fact—we may
rest perfectly well assured. Considerable pro-
gress towards this end is here made (we feel
tolerably certain of that) even in the present in-
stalment—as a number or two more will very pro-
bably indicate pretty plainly. We are almost tired
of uttering our regrets, by the way, as to the hope-
lessly indifferent character of the illustrations. Con-
trast with them even the mere flyleaf woodcut of
The People's Pickwick inaugurating the new cheap
edition of the works of Mr. Dickens—an edition
only just now begun, yet already having secured
to itself, we learn (though we learn the fact
without the least surprise) an immense suc-
cess throughout the country. Contrast that
mere flyleaf woodcut representing the im-
mortal Pickwick standing in his historical
attitude upon a windsor chair—his right hand
extended oratorically, his left tucked under the tails
of his coat—the well remembered attitude bringing
out so vividly to view that " angel in tights," as Sam
Weller called him, in his little black gaiters !
Contrast even that roughly pencilled sketch of Mr.
Pickwick with these wretched, scratchy, blurred,
characterless drawings by Mr. Marcus Stone, and
you will see, then, at a mere glance that it would
be applying to them really no more than purely
a title of courtesy, were we still to speak of
them as illustrations to the text of our great
Novelist. They are so far valuable, however, these
singularly indifferent sketches by Mr. Marcus Stone,
for inasmuch as they serve to indicate very dis-
tinctly how wholly independent Mr. Dickens is of
any illustrator.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

FRANCE.

PARIS, APRIL 3.

The Moniteur of this morning announces that
several Governments, particularly those of England,
Switzerland, Prussia, Bavaria, Wurtemburg, and
the Pontifical States, have already hastened to as-
sure the French Government of their participation
in the Paris International Exhibition in 1867.
The Constitutionnel states that the rumours of the
resignation of the Minister of War are unfounded.
BOURSE, April I.—Speculation seems to be turned
in an unusual degree to the Credit Mobilier Shares,
which have been done at 812 f. 50c., and almost all
other securities are comparatively neglected. Threes,
for the Account, are unchanged at 67f. 45c. The
following are the last quot4tions
per Con* 95 25 Italian Loan 65 80
Do. end month — I Do. end month 65 35

3 per Cents. 67 65
Do. end month 67 55
Credit Mobilier
Po. end month
Bank Shares 3520
Crtdit Foncier 1285
Roman —

Ditto Threes —
New Mexican
Russian 9O
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred
RAILWAYS.

Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern • 1042 50 ... 1047 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 977 50 ... 980
Southern 5BB 75 588 75
Western 552 50 ...
Eastern
Sardinian 302 50 ... 300
Austrian
Lombard 543 75 545
North of Spain 296 25 ... 297 50
Saragossa 373 75 375
Ditto to Barcelona

THE BRAZIL MAIL.
LISBON, APRIL 1.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Parana, from Brazil, left for Southampton at 9 p.m.
to-day with 109 passengers, £16,000 in specie, 650
rolls of tobacco, 100 bags of coffee, 50 barrels of
tapioca, and 320 packages of sundries. She landed
243 passengers at Lisbon. She passed the Oneida,
with 9th March outward mails, on the morning of
the 22d March, in lat. (?) 99.44 N., long. 27.44 W.
The Parana brought 103 passengers, ex French
mail steamer Bearn, lost 27th February on:Point
de Castellanos. Passengers, crew, mails, and bag-
gage saved. Ship and cargo have been sold.