The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-11 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL
INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

SHARE MARKETS.—(yrfIs DAY.)

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was
dull and inactive, but prices were much the same.
Railway Shares were very dull.
There is, of necessity, much interest attaching to
the position of the Bank of England after the re-
cent advance in the minimum rate of discount, and
what may be gleaned from the weekly balance-
sheet to the 4th June will serve to explain in part,
though to our thinking it cannot justify, the policy
of the Directors. In the first place, we notice a
large diminution in the amount to the credit
of Government instead of the augmentation
customary at this period of the quarter.
This is doubtless attributable to the paying off of
the dissentient Exchequer Bill holders. In the
second place the discounts and loans materially in-
creased, and in the third, the reserve of notes was
trenched upon to some extent. Such, we presume,
would be considered the justificatory circumstances
for the Bank. Looking a little closer into the
account, however, we perceive almost as large an
increase in the private as there was decrease in the
the public deposits, consequently the Bank
was not shorn of its assets in that direction.
Then, with respect to the other securities, the
Bank' must be expected to do an increased business
about the period when the transfer books close, and
its means were strengthened by a very large addi-
tion to the sum of the precious metals. The circu-
lation was much increased, but with such means of
payment, the Bank was under no urgent need to
raise its terms for discounts. The time may soon
come when such a step would be reasonable, but
the Bank is in advance of that time. Compared
with the previous week, the changes were as fol-
lows :

RAILWAYS.

Closing Prices
this day.

Badness dons
this day.

x new

Active circulation £23,423,435
Increase 841,405
Bullion 18,253,934
Increase 309,287
Rest
Decrease
Public Deposits 4,635,454
Decrease
Other Deposits
Increase 967,256
Seven-day and other Bills 1,390,023
Increase 86,338
Government Securities No alteration.
Other Securities 14,632,359
Increase 610,645
Notes unemployed 8,366,970
Decrease

Bills upon the principal foreign cities were nego-
tiated yesterday afternoon at barely previous rates.
Ninety days' paper on Paris was taken at 25 25 to
271, on Amsterdam at 11 18 to 19 ; Hamburgh
13 BtoBl ; Frankfort 12k to and Trieste 11 to
11 3. The last named is, consequently, higher.
The Prussian Commercial League has made still
further progress of late, and seems now to include
a portion of Italy, besides Austria Proper. Ono
singular circumstance is, the assertion that the
Duchies of Parma and Modena bind themselves to
concur in any commercial treaties that may be
concluded by Austria.
At the meeting of the African Steam-ship Com-
pany this day, a dividend of 2s. 6d. per share was
agreed to. The receipts of the first five voyages
were 19,3001. 6s. 5d., which, after the disburse-
ments, left a balance of 6,0711. 18s. 7d. The net
profits on the first five voyages was 1,9291. 18s. 3d.
The amount of 129,7921.105. had been received on
11,000 shares. The company now possesses five
steamers, the last of which will be launched in
July. The report was agreed to unanimously.
The amount of gold exported from London direct,
during the week to Thursday last, was 15,379 oz.,
and 2,5001.; and of silver, 38,500 oz.
The English stockmarket has been very depressed.
The foreign intelligence is the motive for sales.
Consols have been 97/ 1, and the New 3i per Cents.
101 to 4. The Three per Cents. are 954 Bank
Stock has declined to 2284. Exchequer Bills are
worth ss. to Bs. premium, being firm.
Foreign securities have been dull, and mostly
rather lower. Spanish 3 per Cents. have been
marked 221 to and Portuguese 4 per Cents. 39.
Mexican stock is 27k to g, and Grenada 214.
Dutch 24 per Cents. are worth only 65, and Rus-
sian 44 per Cents. have declined to 1024.
Railway shares have been to I per cent. lower,
with very little doing. The French lines are down
considerably. _ .

Gold mines are i lower. Laid companies and
banks are nominal.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
( From the Official List.)

Business done.
Bank Stock 2284
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ...... 98t 4
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726
New 3/ per Cent. Annuities lOl4 s . 1 /
New 5 per Cent. Annuities shut
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 shut
India Stock
India Bonds, £lOOO
Ditto, under £lOOO 33
Consols for Account 93 7i
Exchequer Bills, ld.
£l000
11500
Small 8 5 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 65
•
Danish Bonds, 1825, 5 per Cent lO5l
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, Ex. Dec., 1849, Coupon 2li
Grenada Bonds, Deferred
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto 44 per Cent.
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent 93 A 24 d
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent
Ditto for the Account 22
Swedish Loan
Venezuela Bonds, 34 per Cent.
Ditto Deterred, 1 per Cent l6
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. ....... 65
TIVO O'CLOCK.
Consols for Opening 19th July 97i x d

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 185

IMPERIAL PARLIA RENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
CHARGE AGAINST THE IRISH GOVERNMENT.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH, in moving for an
address for a copy of the conviction of Messrs. Timothy
Feely and Edward Roche, before the justices of Galway,
for an aggravated assault upon F. G. Murphy, Esq., at
that place, in the month of February last, as well as the
decision and sentence of the justices on the case • also a
copy of any memorial or petition forwarded to the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland for the remission or diminution of

punishment awarded by the aforesaid justices against the
before mentioned parties on the said alleged assault, and
of any letter conveying the same ; also a copy of so
much of the Crown Book as contains the record of con-

viction and sentences passed at the last assizes at

Limerick in the month of February in the present year
upon John Flynn, Patrick Riley, Bridget Regan, Patrick
Roche, John Ryan, Patrick Howrigan, Owen Malony,
Patrick Daly, and John Ryan, for the several offences
in which they were engaged at the last election at that
place ; and also a copy of any memorial or petition ad-
dressed to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for any re-
mission or diminution of the sentences above referred to,
or any of them, with the signatures appended thereto, as
well as any letter by which the same may have been ac-
companied, said he had come over from Ireland to

peiform a very disagreeable duty, inasmuch as it involved
charges against the Lord Lieutenent of Ireland and the
Irish government ; but it was a duty from which he
could not shrink. The first came his motion referred to
was with respect to two persons who had been found

guilty of a violent assault upon a gentleman in Galway.
It appeared there had been a social meeting somewhere
about the commencement of February or the end of
January last, at which the band of one of her Majesty's
regiments of the line were in attendance, and after the
business of the meeting was over, they played " God save
the Queen." Two persons belonging to the Queen's col-
lege who were present hissed, whereupon a magistrate
who was there, and observed their conduct, went over
to them and remonstrated. On the following day these
two persons, whose nemes were Feely and Roche,
went to a place where they expected to meet with Mr.
Murphy, the magistrate who had remonstrated with

theni, and upon meeting with him they-assaulted him
and beat him most severely with a horsewhip. Feely
only, he believed, according to the evidence, actually
used the horsewhip ; the other one looked on, but did
not strike. A charge of assault was preferred before a
magistrate, and upon the facts being proved, the two
men were convicted and sentenced to' a month's impri-
sonment with hard labour. This conviction took place
on the 3rd February, and on the 7th or Bth the Lord
Lieutenant, who had gone to Ireland, he believed, only
on the 27th of January, wrote down an order that the
hard labour was to be remitted. Nobody could say that
such a punishment was too severe for so gross an out-
rage, and the only reason he could conceive for this un-
timely lenity on the part of the Lord Lieutenant was

that it was exercised for a political object, and that he
hoped by such means to obtain popularity for himself
and for his government amongst one class of the popu-
lation. The other case to which he would call atten-

tion was one that occurred in Limerick. At the last

assizes in February for that town nine persona were con-
victed of riot, and were sentenced by Judge Perrin, who
had the reputation of being a very lenient and humane
judge, to periods of imprisonment varying from nine to
three months. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant,
very shortly after his arrival, had thought fit to express
an opinion to the corporation of Dublin that he thought
the office he held was a necessary appendage to the
country, and he (Lord Westmeath) presumed it was in
carrying out that opinion, and with a desire to make
the office still more popular among the Roman Catholic
party—(for all the persons so sentenced were Roman
catholics, and the riot took place at an election wherethe
priests had been very active)—that his lordship commuted
the sentences of all these persons. Another reason why he
thought the object of these proceedings an the part of the
Lord Lieutenant was to gain popularity, was that he ob-
served Mr. Kirwan was reinstated in the office he forfeited
by his conduct at an election about the same time. He

Wished it not to go forth that he was making any attack
upon the Roman Catholic religion. Many most intimate
friends and some of his nearest relations were Roman

Catholics, and his feelings towards that religion would
ever be those which ought to be entertained by those
whose ancestors had professed it. But respect for the
Roman Catholic religion was a very different thing to
submitting to conduct on the part of the Government in
Ireland tending to encourage there a body of persons
whose hands were against every man, and whose influ-
ence as priests was always exercised to prevent the re-
turn to Parliament of those who by their connection with
the land and the property of the country were the best
qualified to be its representatives. The upper classes of
the Irish Roman Catholics he knew to be loyal to a man,
and they were ever ready to prove their loyalty by any
act or any sacrifice ; but he was not so sure that the no-

minees of the Roman Catholic priests were loyal. They
sometimes said themselves they were not. But what
could they think of a Government that was playing into
the hands of such persons—and what were they to think
of that position of things which had placed the affairs of
the empire in the hands of a majority dependent upon
a party who made the welfare of this mighty empire se-
condary to other considerations which they had in view
and who used their position to obstruct rather than to
advance the public interests! The Government seemed
to have proposed an alliance with the extreme Irish
party. They had thought fit to nominate to the im-
portant office of Solicitor-General the hon. and learned
member for Athlone, who, however great his talents,
was considered not exactly the person who should have
been appointed to that office. In reference to that hon.
and learned gentleman, it became his duty to bring
under the notice of their lordships a transaction which
he trusted the noble earl at the head of the Govern-
ment would now hear of for the first time. At the
last contested election for Westmeath, an honourable
baronet, Sir It. Levinge, was a candidate, Mr. Keogh
the Solicitor-General for Ireland (who, he believed, had
not an atom of ground in the county) came to canvass
for another gentleman, who was ultimately elected. At
a meeting in the town of Moat, held in the open
air, Mr. Keogh addressed the electors. The speech
the hon. and learned member delivered on that occasion
was heard by three magistrates of the county, one of
whom thought it is duty to communicate the facts to
me, and he had since had communication with the other
two magistrates, and the fact would be deposed to if
necessary on oath by the three. The speech of the hon.
and learned gentleman was as follows :—"Boys,"—their
lordships should be aware that in Ireland all were boys
between the ages of 135 and 14, women as well as men—
(a laugh)—all who had brawny arms to wield a stick, or
to hit a mark with a stone—" Boys," said the hon. and
learned gentleman, "the days are now long, and the
nights are short—in autumn the days will be shorter,
and the nights longer—but in winter the days will be
very short, and the nights will be very long, and then
let any one remember who voted for Sir R. Levinge."
In the month of January the Government were enabled
to obtain evidence and to bring to conviction a number
of persons in this country and in Ireland for being en-
gaged in the ribbon conspiracy. Now, their lordships
would find that the sentiments here enunciated by Mr.
Keogh were exactly in accordance with some of those
which had been expressed and with the pass words which
were used by the parties belonging to that bloody con-
spiracy, as they were brought out in the course of the
proceedings against them. The noble lord might say
that these words were all " gibberish," but they were
well understood by the initiated. The words used by the
ribbon conspirators were—

Summer is approaching, the short days are gono ;
Friendship will flourish, then the days will be kept long
Let freedom reign by land and sea, 1
And death to him who would betray.
Now, their lordships would see there was a close resem
blance between these words and those used by the hon.
and learned gentleman, and no doubt those to whom
they were addressed knew well their meaning. What
he wanted to ask the noble earl opposite was, whether
they were prepared, in the event of a vacancy recurring,
to advance to the bench a man who did not scruple to
promote an election by means like these ? That the
words were understood in the sense he inferred there
was proof, for a man standing bry said to the magistrate,
his informant, " You hear those words, sir; what do
you think would be done to me when the winter nights
come, if I were to vote for Sir R. Levinge ?" It was
not for the purpose of attacking the member for Athlone
that ho brought this subject forward, but to show the
Government the sort of system they were giving encour-
agement to— a system which had shown itself at Six-
mile Bridge and at various other places during the elec-
tions. Mr. Keogh was entertained at a dinner after his
election, at Athlone ; and what would the noble lord
who introduced the ecclesiastical bills say when he heard
that at that dinner, in the presence of the Irish Solici-
tor-General, the health of the Pope was given with nine
times nine, and afterwards that of the Queen, with only
the usual honours ? He contended that the Govern-
ment had no right to select a person holding sentiments
such as these to fulfil a responsible position. (Hear.)
In the list of toasts the name of the Pope stood first,
then followed the Queen. The hon. and learned gentle-
man (Mr. Keogh) was present at the arrangement of
these toasts, and took part in the dinner ; in fact, by his
conduct upon the occasion he had shown himself unfitted
for the high office which her Majesty's Government had
conferred upon him. The noble marquis concluded by
saying that he had come from Ireland at considerable
inconvenience to himself, but he had felt it his duty
to bring these matters before the house.
The Earl of ABERDEEN said that he had no know-
ledge whatever of the circumstances connected with the
election of Mr. Keogh, nor of the speech to which the
noble marquis referred. The noble marquis had given no
notice of his intention to bring that subject under their
lordships' consideration ; if he had, he (the Earl of Aber-
deen) would have informed himself upon the subject. As
it was he could only assure the noble marquis that he had
no knowledge upon the subject to which so large a portion
of his observations referred. In answering the motion of
the noble marquis he (the Earl of Aberdeen) was happy to
inform the house that Ireland was never so prosperous,
never so free from outrage as at the present moment, and
he could not help thinking that the noble marquis, being
desirous of finding fault, had been compelled by the pre-
sent state of Ireland to catch hold of a matter so trifling
and unimportant as that before the house. The noble
marquis stated that certain persons, being condemned
by the proper tribunals, had been arbitrarily relieved by
the Lord-Lieutenant. The first case referred to was
that of two student's of Queen's College, and he (Lord
Aberdeen) wished to assure their lordships at the very
outset, that of the persons concerned in these matters he
was entirely ignorant, and that he had not the slightest
conception as to whether they were Catholics or Protes-
tants. One of these two students, it appeared, refused
take of his hat when "God save the Queen" was played,
upon which a gentleman knocked it off. An assault
was committed in consequence, and the two students