The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-27 00:00:00

SEIZURE OF THE BOMBAY STEAMER.

Mr. DISRAELI said, that some time since, it would
be in the recollection of the Howe, that some years ago
a steamer called the Bombay, which had been btaight or
was, at least, engaged in the service of the Sicilian in-
surgents. He wished to know whether there was any
truth that the Government corvemplated giving the
agents of the insurrectionary committee any assist-
ance in the liberation of the vessel.
Lord J. RUSSELL said that the law officers of the
Crown, to whom an appeal had been made, had not given
their opinion, but should it express any decision that
the detention was illhgal, every assistance would be
given for its liberation, but at present they had no
grounds to believe it illegal.
PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL.

Lord J. RUSSELL postponed the further proceedings
in this Bill to Monday se'nyight.

POOR-LAWS (IRELAND) RATE IN AID BILL.
Atter a Ebert discussion, the House went into Commit-
tee on this Bill; Mr. BERNAL in the Chair.

On the questimi that the first clause stand part of the
Bill, _ _

Sir H. W. BARRON coctplained of the great in-
justice of the measure towards the rate-payers of
Ireland, and expressed his surprise at the temerity of
the Government in bringing forward such a mea-
sure. Ile was not opposed to a poor-rate,
far from it he had proposed a measure on
the subject long before, the Noble Lord at the
head of the Government had thought of it. He was
surprised that the Government had not formed
such a measure as the present, when their
own Commissioners had reported that the
rate-payers could bear no additonal burthens.
Now he might be asked where the resources for the
support of the Irish poor in default of this measure were
to be derived from? Why that question had been an-
swered in the true Irish fashion by Mr. Twistleton him-
self, who called upon Government to tell him how a
people could support themselves who had for the last two
or three years been dependent upon the contributions
of England. Government had'not condescended to reply
to that query, but still the question was a very pertinent
one, and fur the want of an opinion from her Majesty's
Government, he would undertake to supply the defi-
ciency himself. A people in that state suggested b) Mr.
Twisleton, could only return to a position of self- depend-
ance by stages arid degrees, and unless Government were
prepared to make further grants to Ireland, or they never
could succeed in carrying such a measure as this into
effect. Some if mediate temporary aid must be afforded
to the people of tlrulani, or they would be unable to
overcome the difficulties that already encompassed
them. This rate in aid would not alone relieve them,
on the contrary, it have the effect of demoralising them,
and, considering the unjustness of the principle upon
which it was based, he for one was not surprised that it
bad met with so much opposition in the sister kingdom.
The taxes from which Ireland suffered so much were
such that English proprietors had no conception of
them. They talked about the three per cent. of the
income-tax. bet the fact was, that taking the rateable
property of Ireland at thirteen millions, they would find
that it was taxed at the rate of nine per cent.
Were they surprised, then, that those who were subject
to distress, poverty, and destitution, should raise their
voice against the injustice of this new it,flictioa; and
they were aboutto try a fearful experiment, and they
should not flatter themselves that if it ended
in ruin, as he thought it would, they
would alone crucify and destroy property in Ireland, for
they themselves amust be entombed in the same destruc-
tion. Ilsk therefore, thought that it was the duty of
the House and the Government to stem the torrent of
ruin which inevitably awaited them. No less than
7,000 or 8,000 men were employed in collect-
ing poor-rates in Ireland, among whom there
were elghteen captains, 120 subalterns, and a number
of field-officers, besides large numbers of the police.
When they saw landed proprietors in poverty,
farmers seeking the shelter of the workhouse,
masses of the people dying of hunger, it was
full time for the Representatives of Ireland to
appeal to the justice of England not to place
a new tax upon an already impoverished country.
Take an estate rated at 1,0001., the collection would cost
501. a year; 2501, for charges and family inheritances;
3s. in the pound, or 1501., for other charges; and further
3s. in the pound the estimated loss from bad tenants—
altogether 6001. a year, leaving but 4001. Then, this
new rate would deduct 25/. more from this miserably
small stipend. This he believed was a fair average case,
After the miseries of Ireland—the failure of her potatoc
crop—was this a fitting time to inflict a new tax upon
an impoverished people. Therefore he should oppose in
every shape the imposition of a tax fraught with so much
mischief. _ _

The House then went into Committee on the Bill.
On clause 1 being read—
Capt. JONES moved the omission of the words, " to
fix and declare from time to time certain sums." The
persons who paid that rate in aid, he submitted,
did not determine the amount or manner in which it
was expended, and had been no parties whatever to the
proposal for that rate in aid.
Mr. G. A. HAMILTON said, thrt as the clause now
stood it would haVe the effect of imposing a rate of 6d.
in the pound upon the very persons for whose behalf
the rate was to be levied.

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

EAST INDIA HOUSE-(THIS DAY

THE RAJA OF SAI'TARA.

The debate upon the motion submitted by Mr.
Sullivan was renewed to day by Mr. Mackenzie,
who eloquently supported the right of the Raja to
adopt a son, as he had done. Ile was followed by
Sir IlEriair WILLoca," who said that tho British
Government in raising the Raja of Sattara to the
throne virtually acknowleded that even the miscon-
duct of the Raja of Sattara was not to effect its an-
nihilation ; and that in annexing the Sattara terri-
tory a sacred engagement had bevn violated.
Sir ROBERT CAMPBELL briefly addressed the court
as (lid also

Mr. PaINCEPS, who said -he was always of
opinion that the Raja of Sattara was very
harshly treated, and had been deposed from
his sovereignty on evidence which ought only to
have been made the ground of an inquisition.
Colonel SYKEs said the only question the Court
had to consider was, not so much the right of
adoption, for that could hardly be disputed, that
whether they could not carry out the spirit,
if not the letter of the treaty of the Baja of
Sattara.—(llear.) That treaty conferred on the
Raja the sovereignty of Sattara during his life
time, and to his heirs and successors afterwards. No
one would dispute with him that heirs of
blood must take precedence of adopted or
collateral heirs, and those heirs were to be
ifttetchle,y were found their
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Mr. MiLts, another director, treated the resolution.
as a vote of censure, and demanded that a question
involving such a consequence should be decided by
ballot.

Major OLIPHANT did not put that meaning on the
resolution. It was quite competent for a proprietor
to move it without intending to convey any idea of
want of confidence in the Directors.
After some further discussion,
Mr. SULLIVAN briefly replied, declaring that no-
thing was further from his intention in moving the
resolution than iu casting a vote of censure on the
Directors. _

- -
Mr. MILLS having demanded a ballot,
The Court adjourned, having appointed Tuesday
next for taking the ballot, at twelve o'clock.

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eventually resulted in bilious fever, from which his
Lordship has suffered severely, and much alarm has been
occasioned to the members of his family.
MERCHANT SEAMEN'S ORPHAN ASYLUM.—The
anniversary festival of this excellent charity took place
yesterday at the London Tavern, where about 130 gen-
tlemen sat down to dinner on the occasion. The Lord
Mayor presided, and in an effective speech proposed
"Prosperity to the Asylum," which was very cordially
received. His Lordship's appeal to the sympathies of
the company, coupled with the interesting appearance of
the children of the charity, who were paraded round
the room, and who joined in singing the National An-
them, had the desired effect, and the secretary in the
course of the evening announced subscriptions to the
amount of 9001. There are at present 110 orphans under
the care of the asylum, and the clean and healthy ap-
pearance of those who were exhibited to their bentlac-
tors last night furnishes ample proof of the attention and
comforts which they enjoy. They were addressed by
the Venerable Archdeacon Dealtry in a very appropriate
manner betore leaving the room, The dinner and ac-
companying arrangements were unexceptionable. Mr.
Higgs was toastmaster.
FINANCIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.--L2St
evening a numerous and respectable meeting of the in-
habitants of Touting and the surrounding neighbour.
hood was held at the Rising Sun, Lower Tooting, for
the purpose of forming a local association in furtherance
of the objects of the Metropolitan Financial and Parlia-
mentary Reform Association. Mr. W. Clarke, of Crof-
ton Lodge, occupied the chair, and Mr. Aitken, of Mit-
cham, having explained the course to be pursued, and
commented upon the necessity of the metropolitan dis-
trictsl co-operating energetically with the City society,
established under the presidency of Sir Jcshua Walrns-
ley, a resolution was passed to form an association, to be
called the Tooting, Mitcham, Morton, Carshalton, and
Wallington Financial and Parliamentary Reform Asso
elation. By a unanimous further vote, Mr. Clarke was
appointed chairman, and Mr. Aitken secretary, to this
association.
FOREIGN FLOUR.—The vessel William Gladstone,
flaroruirved in the docks from Valparaiso and Tulcuhano re-
speCtively, has brought from the latter place 500 bags of
, as a portion of her cargo, consigned to order. We
havenodistinct recollection of a previous importation of
flour from this district of South America—the port of
Conception, Chili; but if any have taken place,. they are
of very uncommon occurrence, and the arrival is of some
interest and importance.

ENGLAND AND IRELAND.— SIR
ROBER I.' PEEL'S PLAN.
No. IL
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—In another letter I suggested the establish-
ment for Ireland of a great land corporation, the
details of which I now propose to lay before the public.
The corporation may be called the Irish Land
Corporation, and as it is intended to carry out public
objects, and to be amenable to the Legislature fur
their right performance, its charter may be limited—
say for- fourteen years. This would be unobjection-
able to capitalists, as the operations would be for
short terms, and the capital could always be kept
within control. This limitation of the charter would
have a powerful influence in ensuring responsibility,
the great difficulty in all schemes for laying out
capital in Ireland.
The Corporation to have the power of purchasing
lands with a Chancery title, or sold for non-payment
of rates and taxes ; or of purchasing by private
contract lands heavily incumbered, or requiring
expensive operations for drainage and clearing; or
fur purchasing waste or bog land, or reclaimable lakes
or waters.
Such lands the Corporation will bring into a proper
state for high cultivation by erecting the necessary farm
buildings, and by proper draining, fencing, and liming ;
likewise by carrying out the proper engineering works
where lands are to be reclaimed. This is a necessary
sequel to the first step, which is to get rid of helpless
landlords and incumbrancers. It is true, the title to
the lands having been cleared, the lands might at
once be disposed'of to capitalists, who it may be sup-
posed, would be able and willing to bring the lands
into a proper state, as is done by improving landlords
in Ireland. This, however, is a contingency, and
it must be made obligatory on the Corporation
to bring all lands into a proper condition before sale;
therefore if the operations of the Corporation are
carried out largely a considerable part of the acre-
age of Ireland will be placed under the most fa-
vourable conditions. The Corporation should be
obliged to make a yearly report to Parlia
ment of their operations, and the Woods
and Forests or Board of Works should like-
wise be called upon to report on the operations,
of the Corporation. A direct Government interference
or inspection would be unadvisable, as it would tend
only to impede the proceedings of the Corporation,
who can be made immediately responsible.
A further reason for the Corporation carrying out
works of improvement is that thereby they will have
a wider market for their land sales. There are many
willing to buy land having an assured income,
who are unwilling to undertake advances of the ex-
tent of which they do not feel certain, and the nature
of which they do not understand, for it is to be ob
served that purchasers of land often know more of
dividends on consols, and calls on railway shares, than
of the best modes f draining, subsoiling, irrigating,
or erecting manure tanks. Therefore, by bringing
the land to market with the improvements carried
out a greater number of purchasers will be accom-
modated.
The ensuing proceeding is to let the lands to a
suitable and solvent tenantry, and to bring them
under crop and proper cultivation.
The last stage is to sell the lands in the market, or
by private contract. The class of purchasers may be
considered a little later.
To give the highest selling price to the land, and to
give the Corporation the greatest profit, other sub-
sidiary measures are necessary.
All lands of the Corporation must be surveyed, and
numbered, and registered, as lands are in the colonies,
in a General Land Register Office, the records of
which shall be in duplicate in Dublin and London.
All conveyances, mortgages, and leases of such
lands must be registered in all time hereafter in the
General Land Register Office.
A conveyance of the register lands will limit itself
to a single certificate, and a few words and numbers,
as in a land sale in America or Australia, instead of
the sheets of parchment and scrawls of verbiage now
required for a conveyance.
The assurance of title increases the value of the
land, and facilitates its sale, or the raising of
money on it. Land may he put up to auc-
tion and sold forthwith, instead of months
being lost in perfecting a title. A bank or
capitalists may et once advance money on mortgage,
as on stock or railway shares, without going through
the tedious and expensive stage of a verification of
titles. We shall not hear of lands being put up to
sale several times, or of suits to enforce a purchase.
The Corporation should be allowed to commute
their stamp duties for a small yearly fixed sum, be-
cause their purchase is really officious and not bene-
ficial to themselves, because it would he a forced
transaction, and because they would render
great services to the country. The Bank of England
are allowed to commute for a fixed sum the stamp
duties on their circulation. It might perhaps be
beneficial to allow the stamp duties on register
lands to be arranged on a per centage scale,
instead of being as now graduated. This
would favour the sale and purchase of
small allotments, and render very essential
services to the landowner. It does not fol-
low this would have any great tendency to produce
a collier tenantry, but it would facilitate gradual and
yearly investments in land by the accumulation of
small purchases.
Having shown the nature of the operations, the
next step is to consider how the capital should be
provided.
It is necessary to premise that the capital required
would be only in the nature of floating capital, and
the operation is the more beneficial, because one sum
will, by its re-application, produce great results.
There can, therefore, be little objection to the nature
of the advance required.
The groundwork of the operations should be the
stock of the Corporation, to be subscribed by indivi-
dual capitalists, or in the manner next provided. Five
millions may be taken as sufficient for the first sub-
scription of such stock, but there might be power to
increase it.
The Bunks of England and Ireland, and the three
great Banks of Scotland, should have the power of
subscribing Lor stock, and of naming jointly or
severally one director for each 100,0901. of stock sub-
scribed and he'd.
The Government to advance a proportion of three-
fourths of the purchase money on estates bought by
the Corporation, charging 3t per cent. per annum.
Such advances not to exceed ten millions in the whole
at any one time.
This advance is necessary to give encouragement
to the operations of the Corporation, and place it in
activity, and it is justifiable on the same grounds
that advances have heretofore been made for the
drainage and improvement of Ireland. As too
such advance would entail no real call on the Money
Market, because it is taking money out of one pocket
ard putting it into the other, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer can urge no objection to the adoption of
a measure which, contradistinguished from most
Irish loans, is unattended by the contingency of loss,
and is limited in the time of its operation.
The Corporation to have power of issuing deben-
tures, at such rate of interest as they shall think fit,
for sums not less than 201., and free from stamp duty.
The Banks of England and Ireland, and the char-
tered banks of Scotland, to have the power of taking
debentures. Savings' banks and benefit societies in
Ireland to have the power of taking debentures.
Trustees in Ireland to have such power. Joint-stock
banks in Ireland to have the power of taking shares
and debentures ; and joint-stock banks in England
and Scotland to have the power of taking debentures
For all the operations of the Corporation, the
security will be its stock and the land held by it.
The Irish Land Corporation to publish weekly, in the
Dublin and London Gazettes, accounts of Government
loans, loans on debentures, land in hand, and other
assets, likewise of purchases and sales. Further, to
make a yearly return or report to Parliament of all
transactions.
The direction would be in the holders of stock,
being chosen either by the holders generally, or by
the banks in their respective properties.
Such direction it is presumed would ine!pde leading
capitalists and agriculturists, and would glee the
opportunity to the agricultural Peers and Membea
of the House of Commons to take a practical part
in a great public measure.
The seat of the direction to be in London, and not
in Dublin. There is good access from London to
Cork, Dublin, and Belfast, while London is the great
money market, the residence of the greatest capi-
talists, and most practical men, and the metropolis of
those who would be stockholders in the Ceenoration.
It would be the interest of the holders of stot,.if to
choose persons as directors best able to advance the
interest of the Corporation, while a timely check
would be kept on the proceedings of the directors by
the half-yearly meetings, to which reports of the
operations would be made. Bad dividends, the index
of bad working and inefficient management, would
lead to changes in the direction ; while ambitious
orators are always to be found in a body or stock-
holders ready to blazon forth any error in manage-
ment.
The Governor and Court of Directors would
choose efficient assistince in carrying out their opera-
tions; experienced surveyors, valuers, agriculturists,
and engineers ; and as they would be able and willing
to undertake the improvement of large estates, the
inabageinent would be ecuuoloical.
The profits of the Corporation would be derived
from the improved value of estates, consequent on
clearance of title, effective condition, good tenantry,
and good registry, to which would be added the
differences between the rate at which they could get
money from Government and on debenture, and the
selling price of property, or the result of reproductive
improvements.
Such a Corporation must have the power of dis-
charging all the duties incident to a landowner, sub-
scription to railways, canals, drainage works, cbtarches,

chapels, and schools. A monstrow, (loctrihe hag been set
up by the lawyers of the present d-ty in reference to
joint-stock companie,, ;25, for inst.rnce, that raliv:ay
companies have no power to ictib,cribe to schools and
hospitals, or to discharge any of the socid duties.
This is not a constitutional doctrine, for it does
not apply to the Corporation of London or any of
the old corporations, and if not clacked will nave the
effect of creating in this country the evil, which
it is now necessary to root up in Ireland—the exist-
ence of a large class enjoying all the emoluments
of property, and exempted from the discharge of
its duties. It is therefore necessary, regardless of
the possibility of violation of conscience by
contributing to parish churches, mass-houses, or
meetings, that the Land Corporation should be unre-
stricted by the Legislature, not that there is any fear
of mercantile men committing an excess in the dis-
charge of its social obligations. Had the Irish
Corporation or the Drapers' Company been so
restricted, many of the most valuable institutions of
the north of Ireland would have been destitute of
support.

it is not essential for such a plan ns this that the
Land Corporation should claim a monopoly ; but it
should he fully understood that the Legislature would,
it it so thought fit, give its sanction to other under-
takings of a similar description, or profit by the
working of this to extend the operations of such a
system in Ireland.
The great reason for proposing such a plan ig, that
it most effectually provides for all the exigencies of
the case, overcomes all the difficulties, and is least
fraught with evil. It is not proposed solely
with the view of giving the profits to a cor-
poration, or of offering' a bonus to the Lon-
don capitalists, but because by no other means
can the same efficiency of working be obtained,
while it ceases to be giving away a profit when it
creates a gain and prevents loss. The main feature
of the proposed Irish Land Corporation is its essential
character of responsibility, the great desideratum in
any measure for applying capital in Ireland.
As matters now stand, there is no more security
for the proper application of money in Ireland than
there is in Hindustan, while there is much more
jobbing. We have had too fatal experience of this in
the miscalled loans to Ireland, where money has been
either perverted to private purposes or thrown away
in waste. If anything has been made known more
sickening than the misery of Ireland, it is its social
corruption—from the peer to the beggar jobbery and
intrigue are preferred to industry and independence.
It does not therefore follow that the necessity of
a particular operation for the benefit of Ireland
being acknowledged, a grant of English money
should be the measure adopted. Whether
tor railways, drainage, or whatever purposes, the
stumbling-block is the want of security for the proper
application of the money, the want of security for
the regular payment of the interest, and the want of
security for the return of the principal.
As to the manner Government lays out money in
Ireland, we want no example quoted to urge us to
caution. Such expenditure is in waste, as being
under no real responsibility, and it is subject to all
the influences of local jobbery.
Sir Robert Peel's plan is promising in its results, if
the results were but realisable by the volition of
the Legislature, or the assertion of honest purpose on
the part of the Administration ; but it is almost
impracticable, because it must be attempted to
be carried out by the irresponsible agents
of the Government. Such agents are ir•
responsible morally and pecuniarily ; the utmost
punishment for the waste of a hundred thousand
pounds of the national money would be the cashiering
of a subaltern of engineers. Yet, daily as are our
complaints of the waste and mismanagement of the
Government departments, how rarely do we hear of
the miserable retribution, which is all we are allowed
to expect, now that the impeachment of a Minister is
a bugbear that old women only believe in.
The responsibility of such a body as the Irish Land
Corporation would be both pecuniary and moral. To
the Government they would afford full pecuniary se-
curity for all moneys advanced, and likewise the moral
security that they would be properly applied, and the
intentions of the Legislature be adequately fulfilled.
This responsibility is secured by a large paid-up
capital, by the inducements of self-interest, and by
the certainty of efficient assistance. It would be in
every way provided for by the control of the stock.
holders, the weekly publication of accounts, and the
yearly returns to Parliament. These would be the in-
ducements to proper administration necessary to secure a
renewal of the Charter on the expiration of each
term ; there would be in the hands of the Legislature
the means of punishing neglect, or of obtaining fur-
ther security against it. How is this to be done by Sir
Robert Peel's plan, and who are to do it ? The Woods
and Forests—they are under ban. The Irish Board
of Works. Can it be the Railway Department
of the Board of Trade, the Ordnance, the Corps of
Royal Engineers, the Surveyor-General of the
Navy, the Shannon Commissioners, or the Eccle-
siastical Commission ? These are bodies accustomed
to spend the public money—some of them of old
standing, some of late institution—but there is no de •
partment that we know of to which the Government
can refer for efficient assistance.

In fine, every argument that Sir Robert Peel can
bring forward for his scheme is in favour of an Irish
Land Corporation, every objection to Sir Robert
Peel's scheme is provided for by the constitution of
an Irish Land Corporation.
Jobbing, the great evil of Ireland, can scarcely
affect an estab!islitnent the members of which have
every reason for resisting jobbing, and little opportu-
nity of being led into it. The managers of the Cor-
poration will be amenable to their own interests, to
the judgment of their constituents, the inspection of
Parliament, the scrutiny of the press, and the influ-
ence of public opinion, a cumulative jurisdiction
beyond any which the Government can invoke.

This plan of a corporation is practicable too in
in every point of view ; the capital can be got, efficient
managers obtained, the operations be carried out, and
buyers are ready to come into the market. The very
process of purchase creates new buyers, for it forces
the mortgagee and the incumbrancer to seek a new
investment, and by the diminution of the old classes
of investment, establishes the eligibility of the new
investment. The English and Scotch farmers will
have every inducement to settle on properties
in good condition and where they have landlords
on whom they can rely.
How much preferable too is a measure of this kind
to a rate in aid, which releases from responsibility
those who hare ill-managed their property, gives them
a premium to continue their evil courses, and dimi-
nishes the means of the improving landlord, by taking
from him and from under his control funds which
would have been laid out on his own property, and
brought a return to him and his labourers. How
preferable, too, a measure the benefits of which must
be lasting and the results the greater by the goodness
of the example, whereas all other measures of the
Government tend to encourage mendicancy and im-
providence even where they do not directly levy
black mail on the well deserving, on behalf of those
who will turn the largess to an ill use.
In an institution of this kind the agricultural and
commercial Members of both Houses of the Legis-
lature can take part, and while it can excite no
opposition but the personal jealousy of rival Projec-
tors, it has the better chance for adoption. Above
all things, it satisfies a cardinal want of Ireland,
reproduction. It is neither a palliation nor a corrective,
it is neither alms nor a loan, it is not limited in the
time or sphere of its application, but will permanently
advance the resources of Ireland, and contribute to
the welfare of the empire.
HUMPHREY BROWN.
Tewkesbury, April 22, 1849.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From this night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32,f0r
tho Week ending on Saturday, the 21st day of April, 1849.
18151:111 DEPAETMENT.

X.
Notes i55ued........ 27,769,625

£27,769,625

Dated the rth day of April, 18

BANKING D
Proprietors'eap:tal • • 14,553,000
Rest .i• 3,124,487
Public deposits (in-
eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts) .. 2,806,747
Other deposits ...... 11,515,217
Seven day and other

X.
Government debt .. 11,015,100
Other securities .... 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 13,446,0r,6
Silver bullion ...... 323,569

I X 27,769,625
M. MAUSIIALL, Chief C athier.
49.
OEPAITIUN T.

bills.. :....... .... 1,132,069

Government scour!.
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity).. 13,952,241
Other securities .... 10,047,336
Notes ............ 8,691,680
Gold and silver coin.. 74 ),263

£33,431,520

1 £33,431,520
M. M LES HALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 25th day 0: April' IS

COURSE OF EXCH.
Amster,tam •12 24
at sight •• •• .. 12 04,
Rotterdam .... • • .... 12 2
34
A.ntwerp• • .......... 25 75
llamburgh 13 124
altona
Paris, 3 days'sight 25 40
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 65
qarseillss 25 65
80urdeauX........ • 25 65
Frankfort on Mains.. ... 121
Petersburgh, Sil. Itble.. 36%
Berlin.. • • ••
Vierata, are.% do • ..... 11 36
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11
436
Madrid • ............. 9
Cadiz •• ••••••••• •• •• 493(
Bilbao•• •• •• •• .• •• ID)
Barcelona •• •• • • • • • • ••
Setrilla.• •• •• .• .• •• •• .•

GE.--( THIS DAY.)
N...
Gibra,
Leghorn . .... .••.. • • 32 GO
leiwa
........ 25 90
Allan .. • • • • • •
Venice.... ...... •
iaples ...... • • 40%
Palermo, per0z........ 1 ;•fili
Messina 120'
Lisbon. • • • • • • • ...... 53
0p0rt0.... • • .... ••.. • • 534
Rio Janeiro
Buenos Ayres
Yew York, 21 days'sight
,
PRICES OP BULLION, PER 01
Foreign Gold In bars.. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. U 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0

New Dollars ....•• G 4 10%
Silver in bars ...... • • 0 4 11

ABERDEEN RAILWAY.—The works on this im-
portant undertaking are again in full operation. About
the middle of the month there were 1,575 labourers em-
ployed upon it.
.114kawicit, APRIL 26.—The Primrose, frt ra London,
has been assisted in here to-day, after being on the tut-
fleet §eud, and discharging pert of cargo.