The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-24 00:00:00

INCORPORATED

LONDON :
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1838

Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated last night that he meant to ask
biIEARDLEI WILMOT whether he intends to introduce any
to Carr,. out the resolution for the immediate Abolition of
e'Neg Apprenticeship. He previously avowed the intention
t!' thero Ministers to oppose any such measure to the utmost of
eir Poser ; and one Journal recommends them to rescind
e resolution of Tuesday evening. But there are some con-
siderations which, duly weighed, should, we think, make the
Ministers draw back from the hasty and somewhat pettish
l'es°luti°n they announced by the mouth of Lord Jons RUSSELL
iter the division. W( alluded to these considerations yester-
day. but they are worthy of being again enforced.
Lore' STANLEY, by his silence, tacitly refused to support
hie
uwn measure, and if he can throw off the
ht,
a„l-" he contracted in 1833, why should his then
le
agues, who are less implicated than he is, injure them-
-1
ves with their own party and friends to maintain Lord
"44141.ey's measure ? They have lost Gloucester by their
obstinate defence of that Noble Lord's egregious failure, and
:v!! 10se every town and every city—their only support—
"erever a vacancy occurs, and they' put forward a candidate
11°t Pledged to immediate abolition. As a party, they are
r
ain.
Ing themselves by defending the interests of the rapacious
canters ;
clients—for
and more ungrateful they are nearly all
.ories--the Ministers coup! not have. Nor will they derive
either strength or consolation from an apparent adherence to
triPle, for their firmness is already described as a trick
y th nei
or
journals, and as obstinacy by their friends. To
g°vern in accordance with the wishes of the enlightened
Public is their main principle, and in this instance they run
counter to their own principles as well as offend their party.
ilee•But are they sure that the appreutices, who have never
In Consulted in these arrangements, will submit to them?of
the Anti they are wholly emancipated ; in most.
that it
it is, we are informed, a common opinion,
Z- it would be better if the emancipation were at
118eet completed, and in several the local Legislatures re-
vile]u legislate because they expect the Imperial Parliament
tt,. Put an end to the apprenticeship. The Non-przedials are
et.'.le free on August Ist ; and the presumption therefore is,
ti',4"ta:i more than once been stated, that the Prmdials,. after
their time will not consent to remain in a worse condition than
his ,kll(vs. " How can you expect," said Mr. Bnewee,
oreke;thluent speech on Tuesday, " that security, peace, and
that''iwill be preserved, when the Negro on one estate sees
the Negroes on another, no better than himself, are free—
father and son are separated by your verbal barbarisms
41, rdial and Non-prmdial ?" Now, his apprehension, we
an by on good authority, is by no means visionary—
ther"Y these who know the West Indies well—who have lived
Lake the greater part of their lives—who are planters, andfi
442, great interest in preserving tranquillity—it is on
ti4ll"Y believed and predicted that not one Prmdial will con-.
the e his labour, as an apprentice, after the liberation of
ari\r°n-prwdials on August Ist. They are determined,
to th e assured, particularly in Jamaica, not to remain bound
h,leeir masters after that date, and the responsibility of any
voi:l'ection which may ensue, and the crimes and expense in-
bpil'e4 in suppressing it, will belong to those who obstinately
Ilkr Old a law which is unjust to the negroes, and is proved to
af..e
t, been a failure. And why, we ask, should the Ministers
t,:ont and disgust their stanchest and almost their only poll-
friends in England, for the sake of incurring this
responsibility e
ritt °I said there is a compact. But a few days ago it was
tt ed in Parliament that the resolution of a departed House
klr4ernons did not bind the existing House of Commons,
Th-eth!. same circumstance is true of the whole Legislature.
Nht to make whatever laws are necessary is never for
from 4410t°'.(nent taken away the existing Legislature by any
ale the sn antecedent Legislature. The present Parliament has
key] rights and all the powers which belonged to any of its
tkk,, "'k'SSOrs. It', therefore, experience have demonstrated
if ati`e Prentice of 1833 is a failure—that under it the
have been worse tr!ated than were the slaves
Prelite.Planters have not performed those services to the ap-
teot for which we gave them twenty millions, the pre-
pass 4egislature has a right instantly to repeal that Act, and
1`0,,4"Y other law which is consistent with reason and justice.
Of t'isrg e the contrary is really to condemn the whole conduct
ktt,le Whigs, from the passing of the Reform Act to their
pr'll4,l to reform-'
the Church, for not one measure have they
piol°l3°e,d which has not trespassed on some interest, or
.4ted some such compact as is implied in the Act of
k-,aa• It is of no consequence that the Acts they have set
tle were passed long ago—except that time hallows and
corms, rights originally created by laws, and the interest of
tPendaries should therefore be snore sacred than the interest
11115lanters---and the Minister cannot allege the compact with
Iti„Planters, arising out of an Act passed five years since,
out condemning every one of their proceedings as tc Church
pr''''
pi,ertY. In our opinion, both their interest and their princi-
eall on them not further to resist the abolitionists, in
er to defend the planters

to Al!. CRESWELL brings the subject of the Danish Claims
1:5t.11,4,14 before the House of Commons. We trust thisis the
Pari,'Ze that it will be necessary to call the attention of
that: e nt and of the Government to this question. It is
118 th ul ill the highest degree, that claims so obviously just
I)er :se of the sufferers from the confiscation of British pro
lioltticita,ken at sea by the Danes more than thirty years ago
444 n'l've remained to this day unsettled, and even un-
-sittuanwiedged ; and the disgrace is the greater, because it
°l the involves something very like peculation on the part
tite snecessive Governments which have ruled this country
1/ar4°7- What is the real state of the case ? We make
511 111"51 Denmark,without any
of the usual preliminary_ for :
e
!eat ots recognised by the law of nations. The very first s ynip
ger
hostile feeling on our part is the bombardment of
pi„P"tal• We rifle her arsenals, carry off her navy bodily, sell
tes4ler thus acquired, and put the money into our pockets,
h;,(11
chants "SS of the losses sustained by those of our own mer-
ilktlii.'l ' on whose property the Danish Government very
Pjop 1Y atil very properly retaliated ! The value of the
,
.41.''r,t371,Which we took from Denmark was thrice as great as
ttleh our Government is called upon to pay to
herieller.--subjects for property which was actually'
40p,,1:4(1 by that Government, in consequence of the
ll4y`e(lented and unexpected attack upon Copenhagen.
c'ittlierai°lleY has absolutely been set apart for the liquidation.
;-41te arising out of that affair ; but because it suits the
linieb:sl certain refined politieians to draw a distinction
clams to the vulgar eyes of ordinary persons between
f
flilat 41411,8 of those whose goods were seized on shore and o
erere 'Lose. ships were taken at sea, the latter class of suf..
:11t)10,i're sWindled out of their just rights, with a thousand
far the hardship of their case !—We repeat that no-
/431'1 44 be more discreditable—and we may add—more un-
4etite than this tampering with the established rules of
rt.
It
;tl°''.l he seen that Sir ROBRET PEEL made a statement in
4rreas'„llse of Commons last night, from which it is to be in-
tse4n4 th4t the course which the leader of the Op position
114 the pursue with reference to the Irish Corporationßill,
PlaiptV
'llsb measures generally, and which he intends to ex-
nr) the House in more detail to-morrow night, will not be
41'114 to the settlement of those measures; or, to use the
Il~htßaronet's simple and peculiarly happy phraseo-
itllk.,„ rll not " obscure the prospect of a satisfactory ad-
We •
t'ale e glad of this, though there are, as he seems to hint,
14tiqp) 4ink'nr-linents to be moved by certain smallfry of Opp°-
, fer 'which be does not hold himself responsible.
tb
-e-
night Mr. PLUMTRE, at the
Nest use of Commons ast
11at ;equest of his friends, withdrew for another Session,
14:51,-' vexatious Sabbath Protection Bill. We trust
4tltlltt:be Honourable Gentleman—seeing the spirit in which
14Porl -e Hotlae and the country have oppose,i all legislation
el this
eve4ti ,8111)lect__will have the good sense, even at the
eenr, to give up the measure altogether. The best
tligi °f the Sabbath , is the conscience of an essentially
tir'us tlite a People—and such, without question, are the people of
Kingdom.
k bri
n def
tteport of the Great Radical Meetiii,4 at Glasgow,
AaY last, at which Deputations from the Working
/3* f 'Associations of London and Birmingham assisted, trill
iaN,°-;41 in our columns of this day. The object of the MeTet-
l'eps4i' to originate vetitions to Parliament in favour of Liii-
`PaYni Sffr'ge, Annual Parlimients, Vote by Ballot, and the
"ItlueelltetU ,ef Wages for Attendance in Parliament. It was well
tr nut ; but till the report of the speeches reach us, we
iti
lt P"Pre" any opinion respecting the sentiments
t,..,:kiaase:Vaded so orderly an assemblage of the work-
". In a day or two we propose—when the

speeches nre before us—to offer such remarks upon the object
of this great meeting as may appear to us necessary for the
welfare of the working men themselves, as well as for the
guidance of any A iministration desirous of promoting their
true interests, which, if properly understood, can never be
incompatible with the welfare of any class of the community,

The Chronicle of yesterday represented a Poor Law as essential
to an effective systeni of police; and particularly supported the
proposed measure of poor relief fur Ireland as an auxiliary to
the repressive and penal establishments of the country. From
the allusions made by our Contemporary to the changes which
have been quietly made in England, in the holdiog and occu-
pying land, in conjunction with the Poor Law—to the difficulty
of making such changes in the Highlands, where the Poor
Law was not strictly executed, and where the assistance
of men of war and troops was require&to sup port landlords in
the process of clearing their estates—and to the impossibility
of Irish landlords clearing their estates, because there is no
Poor Law to provide for the destitute people, our Contem-
porary actually represents the Poor Relief Bill for Ireland as a
means to enable absentee and other landlords, with more
case and safety than at present, to turn the soil of
Ireland to their exclusive profit, and to get rid of the people
Such cannot be its object, and if it be, all tkose who have sup-
ported it, like ourselves, as giving protection to the poor
against the landlords, and as founded on principles of charity
and benevolence, will think it wholly unworthy of being coun-
tenanced. They will naturally ask what the landlords of Ire-
land have ever done for the community, that the Legislature
roust hypocritically assume the characteristics of kindness to-
wards the people, only to cheat them into a further submission
to the landlords, and into a consent ta be extirpated from the
land, for the advantage of their careless and extortionate mas-
ters. Surely our Contemporary must mistake the objects of
the Ministers, and misunderstand the scope of the Bill, or he
would never so describe the former, as to excite painful sus
picion ; and the latter, as to make it worthy of the most de-
termined hostility of the people, who, under pretence of
being relieved, are to be easily swept from the land.
Dr. CHaemErts in his lectures recommended the in-
crease of endowed clergymen to the attentive con-
sideration of statesmen, as a useful auxiliary to the
police ; and according to our Contemporary, a Poor-law is
to be given to Ireland. on the same ground as the Church is
to be extended. Our institutions forbid to establish, et least
in name, that all-pervading system of police which prevails iu
France and Prussia, which has its scot i❑ the capital, ar.d
spreads its ramifications to the most remote parts of the empire,
fettering or destroying everything like independent individual
will, and making every man in the community the mere crea-
ture of the cunning contriver of the effective police system ; and
as this system, with all its mighty array of passports, and gen. iii
darmes, and paid functionaries, in every village and ever ham
let, cannot yet be openly introduced amongst us—it is to be in-
troduced covertly, according to our Contemporary, under pre-
tence of providing for the bodies, and, according to Dr. CUM,-
MERS, under the pretence of taking care of the souls of the poor.
For our parts we do not support the Poor-law for Ireland
because it will contribute to the efficacy of the police ; and we
hope that the Ministers will not disgust the English with it,
by recommending it to the Irish landlords, as an auxiliary to
their plans for clearing their estates. In Ireland the police is
now required to levy tithes, and extort the payment of rack-
rents, and it is a terrible mockery of all our best affections to
recommend a Poor-law to us as a means of making that
police effective.

It appears by the papers recently arrived from Upper
Canada that THELLER, one of the persons condemned to
death at Toronto, and whose reprieve excites the indignation
of the cruel Orangemen of that province, was by birth an
Irishman, though he had been fifteen years a citizen of the
United States. It further appears, by his own manly address
to the Judge, on being asked in the usual form why sentence
of death should not be passed on him, that he was tried for
treason on account of his birth-place, and found guilty,
The trial and the conviction of such a person, at such a place,
on such an account, must give rise, we think, to some startling
reflections, particularly in those who have left, or are about to
leave, the land of their birth, in order to find a happier, a safer,
or a richer home in the United States of America. THELLER'S
address is well calculated to aid the process of reflection ; but
as we are able to insert it entire, we will not here quote any
of its striking passages.

TIIELLER was found guilty of treason on the law maxim that
a man cannot throw off his allegiance to his natural Sove-
reign; that once a subject always a subject. This ►night be a
suitable maxim six hundred years ago—but let us look at
some of the consequences of it now. From every part of
our crowded country emigrants go to the United States. They
cannot find a living here, and there wide spread, unoccupied
fertile fields woo their industry by the promise of a rich re-
ward. To stay here is starvation, and by going thither they
obtain abundance and opulence. But such men it appears
cannot throw off their allegiance to Queen VICTORIA and be-
come citizens of the United States. Now, can any thing be
more absurd, than for the law to claim the allegiance of those
men who are thus, by the strongest necessities of nature,
driven from the land of their birth ? To claim it is truly ab-
surd, but on such a claim to declare a man guilty of a crime,
which is not an offence per se, but only by lair, and only
when unsuccessful—to sentence him death, to keep
him months in prison, loaded with irons, is adding
cruelty to gross absurdity. When we look to Irish-
men, of whom TIIELLER is one, the claim cf the law seems
to us an utter abomination, which every man is bound to pro-
test against. Ireland is still more a prey to a redun-
dancy of people than England, and there the famishing
wretches, " cleared" from an estate, driven out from their
roofless holdings by a BERESFORD or a BANDON, have very
often no resource, but to bind themselves to an American
Caps:. i, who carries them across the Atlantic, and sells their
servic when they arrive. They are compelled by those in
whoa- :he law vests the property of the soil, and whom the
law er...ourages to " clear" their estates, to !cave their native
country, and when they procure in another the bread which
their own denied them, the law still claims their obedience, ties
them to starvation, treats them the Sallie as one of the favoured
landowners, and declares them guilty of treason if found in the
ranks of the defenders of their new country. We neither excuse
nor defend TUELLER for joining the invasion of Canada : we
give no opinion whether his offence deserved death or not ;
but we assert that to condemn him to death on the ground
that he had been guilty of treason, is a gross absurdity, and preg-
nant with most important consequences to our emigrating
population. Now, to decide concerning men's lives or duties
by the law maxim above referred to, brings unmeasured con-
tempt on the law which is so convlatel, unsuitable to the
present circumstances of our people. The crime TIIELLER
has been guilty of is one fact; to punish him as a traitor is
another; and we doubt whether even his success, though he
had devastated half Canada, could be so injurious to the best
interests of humanity as continuing to act on the law maxim
on which he was sentenced to death as a traitor.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday bring an account of the
funeral of Prince TALLEYRAND, the publication or which we
are obliged to postpone till to-morrow, together with a few
brief reflections upon the character of the deceased diplomatist,
extracted from some of the leading F&ench Journals.
The Chambers on Monday and Tuesday were engaged with
the discussion of road and other Bills of not the slightest in-
terest to the people of this country.

The trial of HUBERT and his accomplices is fast drawing to
a close. It has been throughout an uncommonly stupid
affair. Not one of the weightier charges against the accused
have been substantiated in a manner that would satisfy an
English Jur.) as to the bringing in a verdict of guilty.
The news from the north of Spain is included in the annexed
paragraphs :

A Bayonne letter of the 18th instant mentions that Don Carlos re-
turned in person to Estella, and was there on the 13th, in consequence
only of Guergue's arrival with fresh troops. The baggage, however, of
the Prince had gone to Villafranca. No punishments of soldiers had
taken place. A heavy contribution has been just laid by Dan Carlos on
the wealthier inhabitants of Navarre and the other Basque provinces, and
the town of Estella alone is taxed at 27,000 piastref. This measure,
which the state of his finances rendered unavoidable, is expected to
make Don Carlos very unpopular throughout the country.
A letter from Estella states that when the impost of 27,000 piastres,
under the name of a forced loan, was laid on the town, the collectors
went from door to door arresting and conducting to prison all who did
not instantly pay or give a guarantee for speedy payment. The same is
said to be the case in all the towns and villages occupied by the Carlists.
It is said that the province of Biscay alone is taxed at two millions of
reals. The reimbursement of the I.,an has been promised for the month
of September, and, if it is not effected at that time, the acknowledgments
given for it will be received in payment of the Customs duties.
The indicateur ru Bourdeaux, of the 10th, says--" Yesterday, on
the arrival of the diligence from Bayonne, the police arrested a person,
just as he was taking his place for Paris. It is said that he is an agent
of Don Carlos. It should seem that the capture is important."—Con-
stitutionnel.

A postscript to a letter from Athens, of the '29th April, gives reason
to hope that the troubles in Hydra would be shortly appeased. M.
Kriezer, sent by the Government, had reported that the magistrates had
recovered the exercise of their functions, and that the inhabitants were
n'ady to receive their Governor. M. Kriezer had orders to continue the
blockade of the island, to prevent any of the inhabitants from escaping,
to deliver the authors of the disturbances to the tribunals, and to carry
into effect the law on the conscription. This will probably be done, and
legal order will be restored.—Gazette de France.
FRENCH FUNDS. --Ems, MAY 2.
hive per Cents., 109 f 10c. 35c. 40c. 25c.
Four per Cents., 1021.
Three per Cents., Slf. 30c. 45c. 25c.
Bank Actions, 2,720 f.
,ttente de Naples, 10If.
Roman Five r Cents., 101%
Spanish Actives, 2;244 %44.
Spanish Passives, 5 43%.
Beletan Bank, 1,430 f.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Coots.
ri,yttan i.uan, 480 f.

EXCHANCIit OA LONDON.

One month, paper, 25f. 42%c.; money, 25t. 42%c
Three months, paper, 25f. 300.; money, 25f. tio.

- LATEST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 109 f. 45c.
Three per Cents., 91f. 3.5 c.
Bank Actions, 2,720 f.
Romans, 1013 x.
Belgian Bank, 1,430 f.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 25
Spanish Actives, 22%.
Spanish Passives. 4X.
Haytian Loan, 490 f.

The Brussels and German papers received this morning
announce the death of M. Von RUDIIART, late Prime Minister
of Greece, which took place at Trieste on the 11th inst. M.
Von RUDHART was in the forty-eighth year of his age ; and
during his brief career as a statesman in Greece, was more
noted for his subserviency to the views of Russia than for the
efficacy of his endeavours to promote the true interests of
King OTIIO and his subjects. His correspondence with the
British Ambassador, Sir EDMUND LYONS, would afford matter.
for a curious chapter in the anna►s of diplomacy. Greece,
undoubtedby owes nothing to his memory—Great Britain,
were it possible, still less. We therefore dissent from the
conclusion at which the writer of the following paragraph,
copied from a German Journal, so gliby arrives:—
TRIESTE, May 19..—Yesterday morning early (as has been already
stated) at. Von. Rudhart sank under the severe sufferings with which
he was attacked here. He died in the full possession of all his faculties,
and especially regretted not having seen his native country. All well
disposed persons will learn with regret the loss of the excellent man
whom we shall this evening follow to the grave on this shore, which is
the connecting link between his own country and regenerated Greece,
which will assign him an honourable place in its annals.
Count NESSELRODE and Prince METTERNICH are the states-
men upon whom properly devolves the duty of perpetuating
the memory of the Ministerial career of poor Von RUDIIART.

- DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, MAY 22.
Money Bills
Amu-Al Debt, 25 per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Am:art Syndic, 4% per cent
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 794 791 i
Commercial Company, 40; per cent
Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Loan 1536, 4 per cent
Ditto 1837, 6 per cent. ..... ql 4 99%
Exchange on London, One month.... ......
Two months ......
F;ELciIAN I. UNDS —BaussEL,,, MAY 1.2.
Actual Debt, 8 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. llr2
Loan of Thirty Millions 93
Loan of City, 1532, 4 per Cent 97
Society or Commerce, 4% per Cent 165
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent...
National Society
—. _ . ,z•erussels Papers, May 21.
AUSTRIAN VUNDS.—Vicxxs, MAY 11.
i'ive per Cents. Metalliques
FOH i per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares ... 1451
—Allgenzeine Zeitsng, May 19.
i-1A MB/1 RC, LORSEN HALLE, MAY 19.
Bills. Money
Austrian Metal l:ques, 5 per vent.
Ditl.... ditto 1 per cvnt.
Ditto ditto 21 per cent, —
Ditto Bank Shares
'427 14,,:5
.4-nglo-Russian Low-, lOB% lef.,
Paper Inscription, ti per cent
....
Russian 5 . ', .)1, - •

per cents. _fetal.
Russian Inscription, Hope awl Co., 3d and 4th
Series
97 98%
Ditto, Certificates
Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent
--
Dutch *2 per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents — Polish Londs, 3 per rents. -
New Tickets. ..
Anglo-Danißh Loan, 2 Per cents 72 t:, 72
Norwegian Lean or 18:1-i, 1 per cc.its
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Ceut5.......„, ..... ...„ _ _
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent l9 IS%
Greek 4 per cents. IST3, guaranteed hv Prance
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAmouttc, MAY 18 --!3 91A : two months, 13 BM.
—.Hamburg Papers, May 19.

We have advises front Madrid of the 14th inst., which state
that the Government is taking measures for raising a forced
loan of two millions of reals, !.o be paid by the province of
Andalusia alone. A Carlist conspii;..t or had b-2en discovered
in Malaga.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NE WS.

CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE 0' CLOCK.
From Canton papers received to the 11th January, we extract the
following commercial remarks :
" CorroN.—The market has experienced no improvement in de-
mand. Prices remain without alteration. Cotton Yarn—little doing
at present. Long Cloths—Little doing. Opium—Prices of Bengal
drug have materially declined. Woollen—Little doing."
We have received Sydney Papers to the 9th January, from which we
copy the following :

" IMPORTANT TO SETTLERS.—NeatIy one thousand individuals have
arrived in the Colony within these last few days, by the ships Henry
Wellesley, Sir Charles Forbes, Alfted, and Neptune, making a total in-
crease of more than ten thousand persons (free and bond) within twelve
months—about 12 per cent. c n the entire population. It is likely that
the increase during the present year will be quite as large, and the con_
sequence must be, that flour, beef, mutton, and other farm produce,
will rise in price."

From Cape of Good Hope Papers to the 25th March, we extract the

" His Exeilency the Governor left town on Thursday for the frontier.
A letter has been received in town, dated Colesberg, 12th March, as
follows :—" I wrote you last week that we had received a report
that most of the Tribe Boer had been massacred; since which I have
received further evidence from two farmers who have just arrived from
the scene of action. Four hundred men had left the camp to chastise
Dingman for his treacherous attack. About the same number were left
in the camp for its defence. The farmers were present when the camp
was sacked, and say that they have seen quite sufficient to prevent their
joining the number. A number of farmers have left the Kat River
to assist Maritz."

THE FUNDS.
Consols, which closed heavy yesterday at 94i i both for Time and
Money, opened this morning at the above price.:, with little doing as yet.
Exchequer Bills, 64 66 ; India Stock, 0701 271; Bank Stock, 204 205.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish closed 21i 3, opened 213 il with
Coupons; Portuguese, 343 351, opened same; Three per Cents.,
23i 24 ; Brazilian, 80L- to 81 ; Mexican, 27l 28; Colombian, 27i to
28; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54i j.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
British Iron Company Paid.
Bristol and Exeter Railway Company ISO
ii 8 !11.,i
%
Brighton Railway Company ... 8 85Vii vondon and Blaakwall Railway ... 5 514
Lomion and Ilirmingham Railway Company 9O 176% 7% 6%
Ditto 4 Shares 5 30%34
London and Southampton (New) Railway lO 3042
London and Croydon Railway Company 2O _
_
Ditto New Scrip
aid-luster and Birmingham Railway 7 8% 98%
Asphalte, Claridge's Patent 2
Do. United States... -2% %
Bitumen Bastenne and Gaujac
Do. Polonceau .... 2 2%
Colonial Bank
ts Galvanized Iron Company
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 22.
3 per Cent. Consols 9'2% Grand Canal Debs. 6 per cent. 92%
N. per Cent. Stock lOO%l Ditto, 4 per cent. ... ..... ~..,
Ditto Reduced --i Flibei nian Bank 24
Ditto New, MO
3Debentures
2
Bank Stock
-.
33% Ballast Office Debentures,4 per
Grand Canal Stock ......
Royal per
Canal Cent.
:t:ick

HALF-PAST OIVE

A number of persons have left the City and Stock Exchange to wit.
ness the floating of the immense steamer, the British Queen, from the
Docks into the River, and consequently little business has been doing
either in commercial affairs or the funds.

The rage for steam intercourse to all parts of the world Is now
carried to such a pitch, that we find in the American Papers steam_
vessels advertised to proceed to China.

Consols have been during the morning at 9.41 for Money; and Ac-
count ; the market in general appears firm. Exchequer Bills lower 65 ;
India Bonds 67 70; Bank Stock 204 i 2051 ; India Stock lower 270 ,
In the Foreign Market South American Stocks receded, and heavy.
Spanish Active with Coupons 211 v ; Portuguese steady at 344 35 ;
Three per Cents. 23i 24 ; Brazilian SOil SI ; Mexicali lower 26 27 ;
Colombian 271 ; Dutch 21 ;

There is some business doing in the Railway Shares, but nothing in
he Asphaltes.

THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red
3 per Cent. Cons 94% Ditto Old Annuities —
3Ya per Cent — LAtto New Annuities
3y2 per Cent. Bed loi,',!Fx. Bills, 1.0001.......'2d.......65 pie.
New 3;4 per Cent 102%! Ditto 50' 1 65 pir
Long Annuities to expire , Ditto 5001 65 pir
Jan. 186 ,
Oct. 1850
Jan. 1860
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent 100% Portuguese i;onds, 5 per cent.. 73
Belgian, 5 per cent .— Mitt() %7ew Ditto
Brazilian Bonds ,014 I Prus,iian, 5 per cent
Buenos Ayr s, 6 per cent - , Russian Bonds, 5 per cent 112%
Civilian, 6 per cent - Ditto, Metallic —
Colombian, 6 per cent ,Spanish, 5 per cent 21%
Ditto, 1824 !:7 Ditto, Consolidated
. _

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t_ ,
Danish, 3 per cen - 7,% French, .5 per cent. —f. —,
Greek Ponds, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange —r —c
Mexican, 5 per cent French, 3per cent
Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 !lntel), :'34 per cent.
Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent. — Ditto, 5 per cent. lOO%
(CLOSING PRICE OF SHARES.-(THIS DAY).
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway
Bristol and Exeter hallway
Cheltenbarr and Great Western Raiway 234
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway 4%
London and Brighton Railway
London and Blackwall Railway
London and Birmingham Railway
Ditto'Quarter Shares
30%
London ..ud Southampton (New)
3034
London and Croydon Railway
London and Croydon Railway (New Scrip):3pm
London Grand Junction Raiiviay .... -
Manchester and Birmingham It ailwai 8
NorthftValand 13...i'way
National Loan Fund ..
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LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM'—Yesterday
the eleventh Anniversary festival of this institution was celebrated at the
Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand. Harvey Combe, Esti., in the chair.
The company was very numerous, completely filling the large room, and
highly respectable; and their benevolence was testified by the magnifi-
cent amount of their subsriptions. On either hand of the Chairman were
seated Mr. Byng, M.P., Lord T igninouth, M.P., Captain Wood, 111.1'*,
Captain Alsagcr, M.P., Mr. Horsley Palmer, illessrs. Delafield, &c.
According to the official return to Colonel Sibthorp s
motion, the total amount of silver Joe; or fourpenny pieces, which have
issued out of the Mint is 89,3254, and the number of pieces 5,359,500.
THE EXPORTATION OF THE PRECIOUS ME-
ilas.—The exportation of gold and silver coin from the port of London
to foreign ports for the past week, eliding the 23d instant, is as under:—
Gold coin to New South %Vales, 375 ounces; silver ditto, ditto, 8,000
ounces; ditto, Canton, 39,590 ounces; ditto, Hamburg, 16,600 ounces.
Captain Marryat has applied to the proper
in New York for an injunction to prevent the publication of some of his,
.
productions. He has obtained it ; and much of the argument of inter-
national copyright, both pro and con. will, be brought before
a legal tribunal. Court

On Tuesday, the infant daughter of the Prince and
Pr:ncess of Capita was christened by the Very Reverend Dr. Griffiths,
ritular Bishop of London, in the presence of a numerous circle of friends
and relations. The following arc the names in which the young
Princess has been baptized :—Victoria Augusta Ludovica Isabella Ame-
-1:a Philoniena Helene Penelope Borbone.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)

WESTMEATH,

The Committee met at two o'cl,ck, bnt. owing to the absence of Mr.
Thornhill, one of the Members, who did not arrive till half-past two,
they did not proceed to business till that period.
Mr. WRANGHAM opened the case for the petitioners, alleging that the
majority of 400 which appeared for the Sitting Members was composed
of merely colourable and illegal votes, and that the system of registration
which had been adopted was utterly fallacious.
[To be concluded in our Second Edition.]