The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEIyNESDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1853.

MARE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

Paid'

Shr. In

RAILWAYS.

A.mbg. Nottng. Bost.
and Eastn. Junct
11 Birming. Wolverh.
Stour Valley
8 Birkenhd. Lancsh. &
Cheshire Junct
11 Do. Chesh. & Birk.,
£5O and £25 Cons.
.84 Do., £20...
10 Bristol and Exeter
10 Caledonian. ... . .....
11 Chester & Holyhead
11 Cork and Bandon
11 Cork, Black, & Pass
Dublin&BelfastJune
11 Dundee Perth&Aber-
deen Junction .
11 Do. New. . .... ........
11 East Anglian
11 Do., (£lB E& H)
.11 Eastern Counties
11 Eastern Union, Class,
A. late E. U. Sh..
8i Do., do .... . ........
11 Do., B. and C..
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SLID
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Aberdeen

Clasing Prices
Yesterday.

26 - 26,
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91 - 104

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this day.

Leasing
Compans.

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Caledon...,

Gt.Northn
gt.Westn
Yk. New.
& Berw
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Do
S. Eastern,
Do

'Norfolk
Do

67#
20i

di Midld.
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Midland...

Closing Prices
Yesterday.

106 -108
54 - 56

150 - 152
33 - 34

1112 - 114
56 - 57
27i - 28.
14f - 14*
26 - 27

98 - 100

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Do

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Edinburgh& Glasgow
Edinb. and Peebles
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0 Glasgow &S. Western
0 Great Northern Stk.
0 Do., A. Stock
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11 Lancaster & Carlisle
.11 Do., Thirds
Lancash.andYorksh
.6 Do., Fifths
.14 Da., WA. Riding Un

50 all Leeds Northern
20 all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt
111, all London & Blackwall
10 5 Lond. Tilb. & Sthend.
St. 100 Lond. Bright & S.Cst.
St. 100 Lond. and N. Westn.
20 12 Do. Fifths
10 1 Do.lo/. Sh., M&8...0
St. 100 London andS. Westn.
50 42i Do., £5O
40 34 Do., .£4O
25 all Lndndrry& Coleraine
25 all Lndndrry. & Ennisk.
St. 100 Mr•nch.Shcf.& Lincln
sl2s 444 Do., Man. & Lin. Un.
St. 100 Midland

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MINES.

Agua Fria
Anglo Californian
Australasian

'Australian..

all
all
all
all
all
13.5
24i

Australian Cordillera
Australian Freehold
Ave Maria
Baden (Gd. Duchy of)
British Austrin. Gold
British Iron
Brazilianlmp. (issued
at £5 pm
Do. Cocaes & Cuiada
Do. St. John Del Rey
Carsons's Creek
Cobra Copper
Colonial Gold
Copiapo
Copper Min. of Eng
Do. Pref. 7i p. cent
English and Austin

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Do. Birmng. & Derby
.76 Midld. G. West. (Ire.)
76 Do. Half Shares
11 Newcastle & Carlisle
O Newmarket
3 Do., Bury Extension ]
7 Nwpt.Aberg.&Hrfd '
72 Newry & Enniskillen
al Newry Warrenpoint
and Rostrevor.
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II Do., A Deferred
6 Do., B Guaranteed
7i North Staffordshire
11 North Western
.0 N. &S. Westrn. June
p Oxford, Worcester, &
Wolverhampton
St. 100 Scottish Central
St. 100 Scottish Midland
St. 100 Shrewsbury & Birmg
St. 100 Do. L. &N. Western
Guaranteed Stock
10 8 Shrewsby. & Herefd
26i all Shrewsby. & Chester
(N. W. MM.)
13J all Do. Halves, do
20 all Do. Oswestry
20 6i Shropshire Union
50 all South Devon
St. 100 South Eastern
50 all South Wales
20 15 S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun

20 1
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10 11
St. 101

20 5 Do
25 all Stockton & Hartlepl.
25 20 Thames Haven Dock
and Railway
20 17 Vale of Neath
20 all Watcrfd. & Kilkenny
50 all Waterford&Limcrick
20 14 West Cornwall
10 21s. Wimbledn &Croydon
St. 100 York Newal.&Berw.
25 20 Do. Extensions
25 11A Do. G.N.E. Purchase
St.l 100 York &N. Midland

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Copper Smeltg. Co
General

Great Nugget Vein
Great Polgooth
Lake Bathurst
Liberty
Lond. &Californ. Gold
Quartz Crush. Co
Mariquita
Mexican&S.Americn.
Now Granada

Nouveau Monde
Port Philip
Quartz Rock
Rhymney Iron
Do. New

all
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15
101
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South Australian
Tin Croft
United Mexican

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West Granada

West Mariposa
Yuba

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British Colonial Bank

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BANKS.

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all
2
10
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and Loan Company
British N. American
Chrtd. Bnk.of India,
Austral., and China
Chrtd. Bnk. of Asia
Colonial
Commercial of Lond
English Scottish and
Australian Chrtd
London Chrtd. Bnk
of Australia

London and County
London Joint Stock
Lond.andWestminst
National Provincial
of England
Do. New

National of Ireland
Oriental Bank Cor
poration
Provincial of Ireland
De. New

Royal Australn. Bkg.
and Gold Imp. Co
South Australia
Union of Australia
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Union of Madrid ....

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Business
this day.

7-11 4

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, July 6.—Wind this day at Noon, S.W. ;
light breeze, and cloudy at times.
DEAL, July 5. —Wind, W. S. W. Arrived—lrene,
Callao ; Anna, Havannah. Arrived from the River—
Julia, Melbourne; IJemicella, San Francisco; Panope, do.
Sailed—Bell, Cape of Good Hope. July 6.—Arrived—
Caronel, Callao, from Antwerp. Arrived from the River
—Georgia, Calcutta' ; Ann Mitchell, Bombay ; San Jose,
Accra.
PORTSMOUTH, July s.—The Tine is leaky, having been
aground. Arrived American Congress, London, and
sailed for New York. Off Port—Caronel, Callao ; Fa-
vourite, Baltimore, for Amsterdam.
July s.—Wind, S. W. Arrived —•Ranger,
COWES,
Bahia.
PLYMOUTH, July s.—Wind, S. W. Marchioness of
Douglas, Sierra Leone. Off Port—William Fullshere,
New Orleans.
FALMOUTH, July s.—Arrived—Countess of Durham,
Quebec. Off Port—Tudor, Calcutta. Sailed—California,
Havannah ; Patrick Henry, New York ; Templar, Sydney,
N.SW., with about 10,000 oz. of gold in freight. The
Harald, Heldebrand, from Alexandria, has put in with
dilmage, and is discharging.
LONDONDERRY, July 4.—The Mary Mac, Ardrossan to
Boston, which went on shore on Rothlin Island March 15,
has been got off.
YARMOUTH, July s.—The Adelphi, of Shields, has
been got off Scroby Sand.
BRISTOL, July s.—Arrived—ldas, Barba,does; Coquette'
Jamaica.

MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.)

3 Antwerp&Rotterdam
3 Belgian Eastn. June.
4 Beziers to Graissessac
ill Charleroi& Erquelin.
LO Dijon and Besan2on
8 Dutch Rhenish
East Indian
1 Do. Extension
al Gt. Indian Peninsula
'.O Gd. Junct. of France
ll Gt.Westem of Canada

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Shares
2 Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c
pref
L 5 Luxembourg
.0 Do. (Railway)
2 Do
3 Do. (Canal)
2 Do. 6p. ct. pref
9 Lyons & Mediterran
71 Madras
11 Namur & Liege (with

20 1 11
10 1 11

10
20
20
20

interest)
all Do. (ex interest)
all Northern of France

Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds.
11 (fmy. B. & Ams. Shs.)
11 Norwegia.nTrunkPref
.0 Paris and Lyons
11 Paris and Orleans
dl Paris and Rouen
a Paris and Strasbourg
4 ParisCaen & Cherbrg.
7 Quebec & Richmond
.11 Rouen and Havre
2 Royal Swedish
ll S'ambre and Meuse
2 ith-Eastrn. of France
6 iouthern of France
;. Upper India Scrip_
11 West Flanders
0 Do. 5.4 per c. Pref
.0 Western of France_
2 West. of Switzerland
Zealand

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool-
sack at 5 o'clock.

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH called the attention
of the Government to a statement which had lately ap-
peared in the public papers of the death of Sheik Ali
Hessian, who had been one of the chief witnesses against
Ali Morad. This person on his deathbed, it was said,
had confessed that all the evidence he had given against
Ah Morad was false, and had been given for the pur-
pose of revenge. He wished that the Government
should inquire into the truth of that statement, and if
it should turn out to be true to take into their consi-
deration how far it affected the value of all the testimony
given against Ali Morad.
Earl GRANVILLE said the Government had no of-
ficial knowledge of the circumstances.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH then laid on the
table a bill to comprise one of the clauses of the India
Bill now in the other house, empowering the East India
Company to increase the number of their European
forces from 12,200 to 20,000 men. His object for
introducing this in the form of a separate bill, was that
it might pass into law six or eight weeks sooner than it
otherwise would if it came up from the other house only
as one of the clauses of the India Bill.
The bill was then read a first time.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Brad-
ford, praying for amendment of the bankruptcy laws.
CORK AND BANDON RAILWAY BILL.

• -
The Earl of BANDON moved the second reading of
this bill.

Lord REDESDALE opposed the motion.
Lord STANLEY of Alderley supported the second
reading.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE and the Earl of WICK-
LOW also supported the second reading.
Their lordships then divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading 29
Against it

Majority l7
The bill was then read a second time, and ordered to
be committed.

JUVENILE MENDICANCY BILL.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, in moving the recom-
mitment of this bill, observed that the subject of juve-
nile mendicancy, at all times one of great importance,
became still more so, at a time like the present, when
they were about to abolish, at all events to a considera-
ble extent, the system of transportation. People were
weary of speeches and pamphlets respecting secondary
punishments, and, indeed, it would be much wiser if
they were to inquire whether some steps could not be
taken to diminish the amount of crime itself. Now, the
most prolific source of crime was juvenile mendicancy :
for though they ought not to consider the class to whom
he wished to call their lordships' attention as exactly de-
linquents, yet they were in a state in which they must
infallibly become delinquents at no distant period. In
fact, that class, namely, children who had been trained
to beg by their parents, or those who had the custody of
them—formed the seed plot of at least two-thirds of the
criminality of this kingdom. The persons most to blame
were the parents, next society, and, least of all, the un-
fortunate children themselves. From the statements of
90 thieves, who were living in one reformatory institu-
tions, it appeared that 62 of that number had begun to
steal when under the age of 15 ; and that 56 had begun
between the ages of 12 and 16. He (the noble lord)
believed that if an inquiry were instituted throughout
all the gaols in the kingdom, the result would be to prove
beyond a doubt that a vast proportion of all the crime
that was committed in this country had been perpetrated
by persons who had been led into evil habits at an early
ago. He (Lord Shaftesbury) had put the following
question to 100 City missionaries and Ragged School
teachers :—" How many persons do you think who have
lived an honest life up to 20 years of age, afterwards
fall away and take vicious courses ?" The answer he
had obtained was in every case, "not two in a hun-
dred." (Hear, hear.) The class to which he was
calling their lordships' attention might be divided
into two classes, mendicants and vagrants. (Hear,
hear.) The former of these had their different grades,
honours, and emoluments. A juvenile mendicant might
attain to be a begging-letter writer ; and he could assure
the noble earl opposite (Lord Aberdeen) that he had
few more comfortable things to dispose of than a suc-
cessful begging-letter writership. (Laughter.) Many
of these children were orphans ; some having lost one
parent, some both. It was a remarkable fact, but no
more remarkable than true, that there was no more pro-
lific source of juvenile vice, misery, and suffering than
the harsh and domineering demeanour of step-mothers,
many of whom in the lower grades of life would not
allow a step-child to remain with them in the house.
(Hear, hear.) But it was also true that many artisans
in the receipt of large wages were in the habit of turn-
ing their children into the streets early in the morning,
forbidding them to come near their home till late at
night, and telling them to live in the meantime as they
could. The noble earl having substantiated this state-
ment by extracts from the report of the Rev. Mr. Clay,
the chaplain of Preston gaol, added that a City mis-
sionary had told him that he could enumerate no fewer
than 100 families in which the parents lived in idleness
and luxury upon what their children picked up in the
course of the day's vagrancy and mendicancy. The
practice of such persons was to send out their chil-
dren with chalkstones, cocoa nut husks, and the like,
and to threaten them with the most brutal ill treatment
unless they brought home a certain sum, to be made up
either by selling, begging, or stealing. One great reason
which had been alleged against legislation with a view
to prevent such scandalous misconduct on the part of
parents was the presumed extent of the evil, which had
led many persons to doubt whether it was not too large
to be dealt with at all. It was, however, consolatory
to know that the extent of the mischief had been
greatly exaggerated. From the second report of Cap-
tain Hay it appeared that the number of children at
large in the metropolis, living in idleness, without edu-
cation, and neglected by their parents, who were, gene-
rally speaking, in the receipt of wages sufficient to
maintain them, was nearly 20,641 under fifteen years of
age. The number of practised and trained mendicants
and vagrants who frequented lodging-houses, did
not, however, exceed 3,098. Of these the number who
had parents able to contribute either wholly or in
part to their maintenance and education was no fewer
than 2,106. This return was confirmed by the inquiries
which had beem made by a person whom' he (the noble
earl) had employed last year to investigate the subject.
That person said that he knew himself no fewer than 200
practised medicants and vagrants, whose parents were
in the receipt of at least 16s. per week—a sum that
ought to enable them not merely to give their children
sustenance but education. He really did not think,
then, that the number of juvenile mendicants either in
London or throughout the country (for the proportion
would be found the same in most of the large towns)
was so large as to discourage legislation. The whole
number of professional thieves and burglars in the whole
of the metropolis was under 6,000 ; and, therefore, he
thought that the estimate of 3,098 mendicant children
was very likely to be correct. It was true they some-
times heard it said that there were 100,000 persons in
London who rose every morning without knowing where
to get a meal, but he believed that these statements
were immensely exaggerated. He did not think they
had ever been true, and certainly they were never less
so than at the present moment. They could not ascer-
tain the number of offenders from the number of of-
fences, for the latter was swelled by several offences
committed by one person. It was sometimes said that 1
poverty was the cause of crime and beggary. Such was
not the case. Serjeant Adams had told him that the
ability of persons who sent their children into the
streets to have maintained them without doing so was'
the rule, and not the exception. Mr. Clay had asked a
great number of thieves a similar question with respect
to stealing; and they said they only knew one case in
which crime had been the result of poverty. (Hear,
hear.) One of the great causes of crime was the
reckless and careless manner in which property was
exposed. Thus it appeared that there were in a
single year in Londen, 1,479 cases of stealing goods
exposed for sale ; 596, stealing from unfinished
houses ; 211, stealing from carts ; 228, stealing linen
hung to dry ; and 1,920, stealing in consequence
of doors being left open. When they considered
the hardships to which poor children were exposed, the
hunger they actually suffered, and the brutality to which
they were exposed if they did not take home a certain
sum, was it to be wondered at if they succumbed to the
temptations thrown in their way. (Hear, hear.) From
the testimony of a number of professional thieves who
had been examined on the point, it was said that the
' reason why children were sent out to beg generally lay
in the idle and debauched habits of their parents, that
children were hired for begging purposes, sometimes at
as much as 2s. 6d. per diem, and that children often
picked up as much as 3s. a day. The existing law of
vagrancy was utterly inadequate to meet the evil, for
what was really wanting was that the children should
be removed from their parents, and that the latter
should be made to pay for their support. That was the
object of his (Lord Shaftesbury's) bill ; and that, he
thought was quite in accordance with the practice of the
courts in cases where parents or guardians had shown
themselves unfit to have the care of young persons com-
mitted to them. The law which he asked for was de-
manded, not for the individual rights of the children, but
for the exigencies of society. Children werenowbrought
up by their parents to be pick-pockets, and burglars, and
cut-throats ; and it was a perversion of language and of
facts to maintain that in taking away these children from
such parents they were refusing them the enjoyment of
any right that they possessed of anything which was ac-
corded them by the law of God, according to the princi-
ples of justice between man and man. Bringing up
children in this way was a nuisance to society, and which
he considered ought to be removed as they would remove
any; other nuisance. Such parents as he had referred to
were not Christians, were not men and women ' • they
were absolutely beasts, and having renounced their
rights they ought not to be allowed to resume them ex-
cept under the authority of some competent persons, who
should be able to declare, on due examination, that the
children who were restored to them would be brought up
so as not to be an annoyance to society. Society had a
right to take away children from their parents in order to
bring them up properly, but that did not relieve the
parents from their responsibility for the maintenance of
their children. He knew an instance of a boy who was
found lying on the steps of a house. He was in a fever, and
a gentleman who was passing had him conveyed to the
Fever hospital, where he was placed under the care of
the physician to that institution, Dr. Southwood Smith,
who, when the boy recovered, ascertained his story. He
was sent out by his parents to beg, and when he was
taken ill, he had been wandering about the streets with-
out any sustenance. The boy was subsequently placed
• in the Refuge, and when he was recovering, the mother

CORN EXCHANGE.

To-day's market was very scantily supplied with English
wheat, the demand for which was firm, and in some in-
stances prices were a shade higher than on Monday.
Foreign wheats, the show of which was limited, wore
mostly held for more money, but the business doing in
them was by no means extensive. Floating cargoes were is
per quarter higher.
Barley moved off readily, and grinding samples sold at
extreme rates. In the value of malt, no change took
place.
There was an improved demand for oats, the prices of
which advanced 6d per quarter.
Beaus, peas, and flour were quite as dear as on Monday
ARRIVALS THIS WU&
Wheat. Barley. I Malt.
I 1,230 - 2,310

English ..
Trish •• .•
Foreign ..

6MO 2,
1110

WHITECHAPEL.

Flour.
820

came down and demanded to have him restored to her.
It happened that he (the Earl of Shaftesbury) was pre-
sent, and he was afraid he had not the law on his side,
but he threatened to proFecute her for deserting the boy,
and in consequence she went away without him. The
boy cried bitterly in his fear that he should be delivered
up to his mother. He was now in a respectable sphere
of life, earning very good wages in Nottingham, and
ho hal sent for his mother, who lived with him, and
conducted herself respectably. One objection he had
heard to this bill was that the workhouse, in which the
children would be placed, partook of the character of a
prison, and another objection was that the number would
be so large that they could not get sufficient work for
them. As regarded the first, it was only as against the
intentions of the parents to get possession of the child-
ren that they would be restrained. With regard to the
second, he thought it would be worth while to run some
risk. He was convinced, from the most minute in-
quiries, that nothing of the sort would occur. Their
lordships had heard that a large portion of the parents
were perfectly able to maintain their children, and de-
pend upon it the terrors of the law would clear the
streets of nine-tenths of the mendicants. He might
state that he had the concurrence of several of the police
magistrates of London, who had written to him to state
their views. Amongst them were Mr. Henry, Mr.
Painter, Mr. Corry, Mr. Broderip, Mr. Long, and Mr.
Bingham. The great demand for labour which now
existed had taken away the pretext for begging. The
police were never more active and efficient, and he might
say, in reference to this subject, " Now is the accepted
time, now is the day of salvation." He considered this
measure as entirely one of mercy and of prevention, and
he was sure that if it passed it would anticipate, to a
great degree, the jailer and the hangman.
The house then went into committee on the bill.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said after the interest-
ing speech of the noble earl it might seem very prosy to
come down to the details of the bill, but that was neces-
sary. In the first clause the words " any child" were
used. Surely there ought to be some clearer definition
as to the persons who were to be brought under the ope-
ration of the bill.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY observed that the Va-
grant Act contained no definition whatever.

Lord CAMPBELL also thought there ought to be
some definition. Who could tell what a child was ?
Why, Childe Harold was a child. (Laughter.) He
earnestly recommended his noble friend to reconsider the
bill, and any assistance that he could render him should
be at his service. He should like to see the object of
the bill carried out; but this was a bill that would not
work.

Lord BROUGHAM, while aggreeing with the obser-
vations of the noble earl, said he thought the best course
would be to withdraw the bill for the purpose of remodel-
ling it.
The Earl of HARROWBY thought the difficulties in
the bill might be surmounted, and suggested that it
should be referred to a select committee.
Lord CAMPBELL said there was a law in Glasgow
which enabled the magistrates to summon before them,
and to imprison for any period, not exceeding sixty days,
the parents or other persons having control of children
who sent them out to beg, and that law, he believed, had
worked well.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY said he had brought
forward the measure for the sole purpose of exciting dis-
cussion. He wanted to bring before the public an enor-
mous amount of evil, the length and breadth of which
was not fully understood, in order that it might excite
the attention of the active spirits of the country. He
was now willing, either that the bill should be thrown
out or referred to a select committee.