The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-03 00:00:00

Dividends on the above payable in London.

French, 3 per Cc..,t
Exchange 2sf. 32c. 25f. 35c.
Belgian 4% per Cent ...... 8214 x d 11121 A x d
:hitch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.... 50%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 77%
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSINu
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID.
AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE:3
Aberdeen
Do. Preference
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junct., calls duly
paid, or with a gr_aran. 20
Do withoutguarantee 20 ... 2394 233%
Caledonian .
Do. Quarters ......... 12% 63..... ........ 6'A,,
-Do. New 101. Pref..... 10 - ...... 11%
Chester and Holyhead-. 50
East Anglia, 251., L. &
E. and L. and D....- 25
Do., 18/., E. & H.... 18 ...... ...... 2
Eastern Comities........ 20 ...... 84 AIA ...... ... 8
Do. New, Gua.6 perct. 10
Ditto, Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. 1 6/. 13?... 4d.... 14 p % p
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... lA, dis par par
Do. North. & Eastc,,,,
6 per Cent.
East Lancashire
1234
Ditto, New - ...... -....

Last Lincolnshire ...... 25

Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 42 ........ 42
Great Northen

Great Western 100
Ditto, 1,4 Shares 5O ......
Ditto, 4 Shares
DLto, New 171........ 15 ... .. 12;11 11% ...... 113/4
Hull and Selby
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93

Do. Fifths..

London &Blackwall 12% 514 sl,i
London, Bl:ghton, and
South Coast 5O ...... 38% 383/4
Do. Prof 5 per cent.... 50 .. ... 52%
Londonandlireenwich 12/158 4d... . ...
D.tto, Preoarence .. . 20
London and N. Western 100 132 181 l3l
Ditto, New Quarters.. 7
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) C. 1 ...~.
[And. &S. Westein 5O ......
Do., New Scrip, 1853,
Pref. 7 per Cant. on
Deposit, a^d 5 per
Cent. on CC"4
Manch estor,Lrxton,and

Matlock -41 A ll4 ll/8
1112n&estee, Sl)efEeli.
pnd Uncol,sb; e... 100
Di;:to, New 101. Pref... 10
._ ._ _ _

Ditto, Gt. Gt'n. sby ... 45
Ilk- ...........100 .....69 69% 68 68% 68%
Do., do., 50/. Shares,— 25 ... 141% , 14
Do. Consol.Bristol and

_
Birrn;ng., 6 per ct.... 100 ......123 ... ........ 123
North British ........ ... 25 .... „ 137/8. 13%
Ditto, Halves .. ..... 1214. 6
Ditto, Thirds .... .. .. 81/4, .. .. 3% ..... .......
North Staffordshire l7l/2 13% 13%
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate l5 -
.. ........ ...... 15%
Scottish Central
Shrewsbury and Bina- ll ...... 5% 534
S iuth Eastsrn .. 33 ,A 1 2ll/2 22
Do., Scrip No 4
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. .... ... ..... ... 25
Do. Newcastle Eaten. 20
Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 ... .. 514,1,E ... 5%
York and North Midland 50 ..... 351/2 36 ... ..... 36
Ditto, Preference
Do. East and West Bid-

ing Exten&on 25 ...
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

Central of France (Or-
Vierzon)
East Indian
Great Indian Peninsular 5

Do. Do. ... 103.
Namur and Liege ...... 20 ..... 8
Northern of France...... 13
Paris and Strasbourg ... 10 -! .......

Rouen and Havre ...... 20 ...... 11-1,2... lli/2
Sambre and Meuse 2O ..... 3% 348

MINES.
Brazilian Imyerial ...... 241/2 —
_ _. . ....

Do. St. Jolla Del Rey 15 '4'
131/ 13%
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London & Westminster. 20

LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G--(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 3.—Wind this day at noon, N.E., light
breeze and cloudy.

DEAL, MAy N.E. to N.N.E.—Arrd. Pors-
grund, New York for Rotterdam. Arrd. from the River
aad sailed, Gazelle, Ramsey, Hobart Town; Governor
Hinckley, Loring, New York; Hendrik Hudson, Pratt,
ditto; Wilson, Stoup, Quebec and Montreal.
BELFAST, APRIL 29.—Sid. Line, Barbadoes; May 1,
Barron, Quebec.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 2.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. let, M. J.
Ward, Trott, Mobile. 2d, Tusket, Soames, St. Domingo;
Lord Ashburton, Forrest, New Orleans; Rappahannock,
Cashing, ditto; Arab, Finch, Mobile; Thames, Renney,
Savannah. Sld. Ist, Indian Queen, Barbadoes; Chaos,
Savannah; Acme, Quebec. 2d, Chatham, Batavia;
Anna, ditto; Crown, Hayti; Conisbrook, Charleston;
William Penn, Philadelphia; Commerce, ditto; Prince-
town, New York; Princess Royal, Quebec; Actaeon,
ditto; Ann Grant, ditto; Radient, Boston. Off port,
Stephen, Baldwin, Philadelphia.
CASTLETOWNSEND, APRIL 30.—The Kingston, Ste-
phenson, from New Orleans to Liverpool, is wrecked
near this place. It is feared that not much will be saved,
BELFAST LOUGH,',APRIL 23.—Sid. Osceola, New York.

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
NEWVATE AND MEADENZAIM.
We had a very dull trade here to-day, on the following
terms:—Beef from 2s to 3s; Mutton, 2s 4d to 3s 2d;
Lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 8d; Veal, 36 2d to 4s ; and Pork, 3s
to 4s per Sibs by the carcase.

- HALT IVILLZKETEL
SporßHELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 103 to 4/ ; Clover
ditto, 3/ to 41 158 ; and Straw, 11 6s to 1/ lOs per
load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand,
exc,4l. fcr the best meadow Hay, which sold at improved
currencies.

CUMBEIILAND...-- Meadow Ilah 21 108 to, 41 4s;

Clover ditto, 31 to 41 14s ; and Straw, 11 7s to
1/ lls per load. Supply but moderate, and trade firm.
WIIITECHAPEL. - Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 4/ ;
Clover ditto, 3l to 41 17s; and Straw, 11 6s to 11 10i
per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations.

MEAT reiluumETS.
Sot:imam, MAY 2.—Our market to-day, was by
no means heavily supplied; yet the g demand was
in a very sluggish stateatidrooping :ef from
2s 6d to 35 6d ; Mutton, 2s lglia4s , 5s 2d to
5s 8d; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 10d; vierrork, 3s to 3s 6d per
slbs, to sink the offal.-

ROXFORD, MAT 2.--The tradlanerally was flat, on
Ilr
the following terms:—Be 'VC 8d to 3s 8d; Mut-
ton, 3s to 4s; Lamb, 5 6s; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s;
and Pork, 3s 2d to 3s 6d per bs. Suckling Calves, 185
to 245; quarter old store Pigs, 16s to 20s; and Mulch
, Cows with their small Calf, 141 to 181 each.

LEWES, MAY I.—Exceedingly little business was
transacted in fat stock to-day, and prices were not
supported. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3i 10d; Mutton, Ss 4d
to 4s 4d; Lamb, 55 4d to 5s 10d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s per
81bs.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended April 26, 1849, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Eagland and Waite
per Imperial Quarter.
I WiLRAT. BARLEY.' OATS. I EYE. BEANS. PEAS.
PRICE .. I 465 Od 121 s 104 I 17s 2,1 27s id' 29s dd 1293 94

DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
WHEAT. BAELET. I OATS. Mg. I SEAM 1 PEAS.
IS Od Is Od Is Oi Is Od Is Od Is Od

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
GELLING A CADETSHIP.-THE QUEEN V. CHA.RITIE AND

OTHERS.

It will be in the recollection of our readers, that
some time ago Captain Charitie, the defendant, and
others, were convicted of soiling a cadetship for 8001.
The defendant was called up to receive judgment.
The reading of the notes taken at the trial was then
proceeded with, which occupied a length of time. An
affidavit was then read, setting forth that Captain Cha-
ride had lately become a bankrupt, and also a medical
affidavit to prove that any long imprisonment would be
very injurious to his health, which was stated to be in
a precarious state.

Mr. CROWDER, on the part of the defendant, then
rose to offer their Lordships a few observations, to in-
duce them to mitigate the sentence, in consideration
of the manner in which Captain Charitie had been
connected with the transaction, and also in consideration
of the character he had always before borne for honour
and honesty, and his many services to the East India
Company, and what he had suffered in their service.
There was an affidavit of Captain Charitie, sworn at a
time when Sir William Young was alive, in which he
swears that although 8001. had been paid into his
banker's to his account, yet that he had never received
any reward or benefit, direct or indirect, for his share
in the negotiation of the transaction. And he trusted,
that although found guilty of negotiating the sale of
the appointment, yet their Lordships would not disbe-
lieve the solemn affidavit of Captain Charitie, that he
did not receive any part of the money; and that in fact
Sir William Young was the sole recipient. For all
these considerations, therefore, he hoped that their Lord-
ships would not reduce him (Captain Charitie) further
in health or fortune than was absolutely necessary.
The ATTORNET-GENERAL said, in reply, that he was
not instructed to press the charge vindictively, but if the
arguments advanced by Captain Charitie's counsel were
to induce the Court to release him from punishment, the
statute under which he was convicted had better be erased
trom the statute-book.

Sir F. MESMER said that after what his Learned
Friend the Attorney-General had said he did not think
it necessary to address the Court.
Mr. Justice PATTESON then passed sentence. He
said in effect that the defendant had been convicted on
two counts of the indictment; the first was for receiving
with a corrupt intention from Mr. Weatherspoon the
sum of iii 001„ as a reward and profit, fol. having been
instrumental in obtaining his son a cadetship; the
second, with having corruptly conspired with Sir Wm.
Young, James Rallett, and Anne Stewart, for the sale of
the said cadetship. The evidence went clearly to show
that the defendant had committed the offence imputed to
him. It was rather late for him to have imputed the
whole of the offence to Sir Wm. Young, more especially
since at that time it was altogether unlikely that Sir
Wm. Young would ever appear on the floor of the
court to receive sentence. The Court regretted at all
times to inflict punishment upon any one in unfortunate
circumstances or in ill health, but if these grounds
were to be allowed to remove persons from punish-
ment, the law would, in many cases, fail to be vindi-
cated. The Court felt that his was a case in which a
severe punishment ought to be inflicted, in order that all
persons who might be disposed to err in the same way,
tor the future, might know that they should not be al-
lowed to contravene the Act with respect to the sale of
cadetships. The sentence of the Court was that he be
imprisoned in the Queen's Prison for one year upon both
counts, to be treated as a first-class misdemeanant ; and
further, that he pay a penalty of 8001., and to be impri-
soned until the fine was paid.
The defendant was then removed in custody.
THII QUEEN V. ROBERT AXTILL.
The defendant was called up to receive judgment He
had printed a libel on Lord Leigh, imputing the com-
mission of murder to him upwards of thirty years ago,
and had suffered judgment to go by default.
The plaintiff said he did not indite the bill, he was
merely the printer; ha was a poor man with a wife and
six children, and having apologised to Lord Leigh he
trusted the Court would be lenient with him.
He was sentenced to be imprisoned for three months
in Warwick goal as a first-class misdemeanant.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court proceeded with the special paper to-day,
but no case involving any feature of general interest
came on during the morning.

-
BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
CRIMINAL INFORMATION.
Mr. NEWTON moved for a rule nisi, calling upon the
proprietors of the Morning Post to show cause why a
criminal information should not be filed against him, for
having published a paragraph in his paper of the 21st
of April in the present year, alleging that a Mr.
Hounsfield had been committed for trial on two distinct
charges, one of felony, and the other of fraud. It ap
peared that the objectionable paragraph was the report
of a police case, and ran thus:—" Lambeth, yesterday,
Mr. Hounsfield was committed for trial on two charges,
one of fraud in obtaining 2001. under false representations,
and the other of felony for stealing some articles of
plate and other property from a furnished house which
he occupied at Norwood, the particulars of which have
already appeared in the Morning Post." Now previous
particulars here referred to represented Mr. Hounsfield
to have been accused with the same offences, and dis-
charged on the ground that there was not sufficient
evidence to justify a committal, and the paragraph in
question was a report of a second charge, but instead of
his being committed for the two offences he was dis-
charged on the felony, and committed on the fraud.
The paragraph, therefore, was likely to prejudice Mr.
jury,
before iu the eyes of the public and the grand
before whom his case would be carried, ead he had in
consequence thought it right to have recourse to the
present proceedings.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE was of opinion that no case
whatever had been made out to justify the extraordinary
interference of the Court. It was not pretended to say
that the first report was false or inaccurate, while it was
quite clear that the error committed in the second re-
port was a mere mistake which could in no possible way
be
traced to any motive of malice. How it could pos-
sibly injure Mr. Hounsfield in the eyes of the grand jury
he really could not conceive, because the report stated
that two charges were preferred against him, which the
grandjury would find was an error by their only having
one bill submitted to them for their consideration. If
the object of the present application was to receive a
denial of the report, it had been attained, but there cer-
tainly were no grounds whatever for a criminal iafor-
mation.—Rule refused accordingly.

SHERIFFS' COURT.---(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.)
The list of causes to-day was very light, and after the
hearing of one of no intereet,
The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF said he had been
subpoenaed to attend at Westminster, that he could not
attend there by deputy, and being so unexpectedly called
upon, was compelled to postpone the other cases till
Thursday next.

TRIENNIAL PARLIAMENTS.
The following conversation, on the subject of the re-
peal of the Septennial Act, took place in the House of
Commons on Monday, April 30. It escaped the notice
of our morning Contemporaries:—
Mr. D'EYNCOURT said, I wish to ask a question of my
Noble Friend the Member for Marylebone. In the early
part of this session he gave a notice of motion for the
repeal of the Septennial Act. For many years the ques-
tion of shortening the duration of Parliaments has been
in my hands. I brought it forward three times, and in
1847 made another attempt, but failed in obtaining an
opportunity. My Noble Friend probably thought that I
had abandoned my intention of pressing the subject. So
far from it, it was my wish to proceed with it. I fear,
if he takes it out of my hands, it may appear that I had
lost all interest in the question, which is indeed very far
from my feeling. On this ground it is that (although
the motion would be much more ably conducted if ho
retains it) I am anxious to know whether, after this ex-
planation, my Noble Friend will press it; or, with his
usual courtesy and kindness, allow me to proceed with
the question.

Ltird DUDLZT STUART said—ln reply to the question
of my Right Honourable Friend, I beg to assure him
and the House that I have no desire on any occasion to
put myself forward unnecessarily, or to take out of the
hands of other Honourable Members questions which
they may think they have a right to claim as their own.
Believing that the question of triennial Parliaments is
one that the people desire to have discussed, and that
ought to be discussed in this House, I stated last year
in my place, that if no other Honourable Member did so
I would bring it forward, and at the eni of the session I
gave a notice to that effect. I renewed my notice on the
first day of the present session. As, however, my Right
lion. Friend expresses a wish to make the motion him..
self, I shall he quite up.2u (1w uuderstaTiding
that he will bring it forward upon the earliest practicable
day, to resign it into his more able and more experienced
hands.

THE Al AG A ZINES.
BLACKWOOD.
Neither has Sir Bulwer Lytton continued his
serial story of the " Caxtons," nor has Mr. Warren
endited another portion of his biography of "Sir
Astley Cooper," in the May number of Blackwood.
We cannot do otherwise of course than regret this,
seeing that, in spite of the excellence of some, none of
the miscellaneous articles before us afford anything at
all like compensation for our disappointment.
Coupling the peculiarities of the paper itself with the
circumstance of the temporary cessation of the
charming tale contributed to the pages of Maga by
the pOet-novelist—we rather suspect that it is to the
indefatigable pen of Sir Edward we are indebted
for that shrewd and searching criticism upon
Wakefield's scheme of " Colonization," with
which the magazine commences. The chapter
is entitled to immewurably more than
merely passing consideration ; for it is eminently
thoughtful, and is calculated, unintentionally—with-
out the writer being apparently aware that any such
work is in preparation—to stimulate our curiosity in
regard to the book now in the press from the hand of
the future Member for Sheffield. We shall look to
the plan of government for our colonies which will
shortly be propounded by Mr. Roebuck with infinitely
more confidence in its practicability than to the
gaudy, but very illusory theorem explained by Mr.
Wakefield. In the estimation of the author of the
second article, " The Reaction on Foreign Conserva'
tism," the population of the continent are so sari
passingly barbarous, and so diabolically seer
tical, that it were well for the mass to learn
some of the elementary principles of humanity and
some of the simplest rudiments of religion. Clever
as the production is, we cannot but regard the
writer's survey of Europe as miserably atrabilious.
We have perused democratic descriptions of Euro..
pean society, which would lead one to picture the con-
tinent as a sort of embryo Atalanta ; and we have read
absolutist accounts of the same, in which the tone
was as sombre and discouraging as that here assumed
by Blackwood. It reminds us forcibly of the New
Rasselas, mentioned by Mr. Herman Melville in his
last romance—who, shut up in the royal valley of
Willamilla, dispatches emissaries to bring him true
and faithful accounts of the appearance of those diffe-
rent islands in the archipelago of Mardi, which his
eyes have never beheld. The pilgrims return and
contradict each other so grossly, that the unfortunate
recluse is driven nearly mad with annoyance.
Nevertheless, saith Babbalanja, of two of the
most contradictory travellers, both are right end •
both are wrong. There are doubtless the seeds of
good and evil mingled together in the races of the
continent—otherwise there would not be such revo*
lutions and such pacifications, such crimes and such
virtues, such heroism and such cowardice—a mixture
of bad and noble passions, which was vividly peesoni•
fled in the February of 1848 in the sublime courage.
of M. de Lamartine when repelling in the midst of
guns and daggers the rabble of Terrorists—and in
the ignoble poltroonery of M. Guizot when sneaking
through the back lanes of Paris in the disguise of s
lacquey. Madame d'Arbouville's beautiful story of
the " Village Doctor " is translated for the first time
into the English language in the pages of Blackwood.
B. Simmons contributes some pleasing verses called
"Moonlight Memories," and U. T. gives a capital sketch
called " The College." " Jack Moonlight" is
amusing, and may be read almost in five minutes. In
the paper on " Legitimacy in France" there are
some beautiful passages respecting the Due de Bor-
deaux and the venerable Duchess d'Angoulilme, by
the Republican Charles Didier. Justice is nobly
done to the sacred cause and the patriotic bravery of
the Hungarians, in an article upon their present
struggle with Austria, and we are rejoiced to see
Ebony thus breaking through a thousand prejudices
to plead the cause of truth and honour. Beyond
the contributions already enumerated there are two
able chapters on "Ararat and the Armenian High'
lands," and on the great question of " National
Education in Scotland."