The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1849.

Many will, doubtless, be disposed to make a
distorted use of that acknowledgment of the
Honourable Gentleman, the representative of
Oldham, that he gave his vote in favour of the Ballot
with reluctance, because "he could not but admit
that secrecy was not a fit companion for the exercise
of the noblest right of citizenship !" Many, we say,
will be disposed to contort that confession to their
own advantage—as was intimated at the moment of
its utterance by an explosion of derisive cheering,
But the corollary of the speaker should at least be
taken also into consideration—" thatthatfault must rest
upon those who have made secrecy essential to the free
exercise of the franchise."

Enforcing his own demand with the signatures
of 3,0e0 petitioners resident in Chelsea, and with
those of 7,180 of the citizens of Bristol, the
Honourable llcyßy BERKELEY last evening
submitted the matter calmly to the decision of the
Commons. That decision has been unfavourable, the
votes in favour of the motion being 85, those

against it being 136, giving an adverse majority
of 51 in a House of 221. The upshot of
the whole is simply this—we have not had enough

agitation, the pressure from without has not
been sufficient, the popular demand has not been

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adequately imperative, even according to the Liberal

Conservatives. All well and good—the complaint o
this deficiency of demand, agitation, and pressure will

not have to be reiterated very much longer. The

Radical Reformers, in other words, the —people of
England, will have the Ballot as they h'►ve already
had Free Trade ; and they will not only have the
Ballot, but they will ultimately assume to themselves
the entire catalogue of reforms from that of education
to that of retrenchment.

With free trade, we must henceforth openly and
avowedly depend less upon home supplies, more upon
foreign supplies ; that is not itself a bad thing, but it
tends more to constitute trade the sole or chief basis
of political science and action." This proposition is
laid down in the last number of the Spectator. In
a paper of less mark it might be passed by amongst
the popular errors or fallacies. Coming from the
quarter which it does, it should not remain uncom-
mented upon. It does not appear written with any
intention to injure the cause of free trade, neverthe-
less it involves a total misconception of the question,
for it is in no respect true, that under a free-trade
system the dependence upon home supplies is less and
upon foreign supplies more, however generally cur-
rent may be the contrary opinion.
A Protectionist paper, of Wednesday morning,
gives currency to a fallacy having a similar bearing,
though more hostilely intended, and the high autho-
rity of Lord BACON is put forth for viewing foreign
importations with jealousy ! The quotation from
BACON is that, "Instead of crying up all things which
are either brought from beyond sea or wrought by
the hands of strangers, let us advance the native com-
modities of our own kingdom and employ our own
countrymen before strangers." It is quite true that
free trade permits the productions of the four quarters
of the globe and those from the four cardi-
nal points of the compass to be brought for
our ue, but if it can be shown, as it may
be, that in order to have these foreign productions it
is requisite that some equivalent be given, and that
the equivalent necessarily consists of home produc-
tions, we are then as dependent on the home produc-
tion, or " home supplies" under a system of free trade
as under a system of prohibition, since we depend
upon the production of this equivalent, or " home
supplies," as the condition for obtaining the foreign
supplies. That such is the working of the system
admits of being demonstrated. Every cargo of foreign
production which enters our ports, of whatever it
consists, or whencesoever it comes—the hemp, the
tallow, the timber and deals from the Baltic; the
fruits and the oils from the Mediterranean, the
wines from Portugal, the silks and the brandy from
France ; or, taking more remote regions, the cotton,
the rice, and the flour, f, oin the United States of
America ; the silver and gold from Peru, Mexico, or
California ; the coffee, the sugar, and the rum from
our Indian possessions ; and the tea from China—are
each and all given as an equiialent for something
we give to foreign nations as an equivalent ; for if
we are o suppose that the various productions of the

different climes and regions just enumerated, with an
indefinite number of other fereign productions which

are almost daily and hourly arriving at our empo-

riums of commerce, are not sent as an equivalent for
801311444, we are then led to the absurd conclusion

his brothers, the Hon. and Gallant Member for the
city and the Hon. Representative for the Eastern Di-
vision of the county of Gloucester. What renders
the conduct in this particular the more laudable
on the part of the Honourable Captain
BERKELEY, is the fact that, as one of the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty, he is directly iden-
tified with the ruling Administration. As the Prime
Minister himself observed very recently, however, the
question of the Ballot is generally understood to be
an open question with the Government—a declara-
tion still further illustrated last evening by the
voting of Rear-Admiral DUNDAS with the minority.
In the instance of the Hon. GRANTLEY BERKELEY
we are satisfied that his advocacy of the Ballot will
tend in a great measure to dissipate the painful re-
collection of certain unseemly family differences, as
far as the public is concerned—his fe;icitous and, in
one instance, witty speech of yesterday affording ample
testimony that, whatever his irascibility may be with
the Earl FITZUARDINGE, his disposition is not suffi-
ciently soured to deaden his appreciation of the
ridiculous, or to render him inconstant in his political
principles. When he exclaimed of the Right Hon.
MILNER GIBSON that he was like a political JOSEPH,
who had been obliged to fly from the Treasury bench
in order to save his political virtue, he spoke not more
happily than when he enumerated some of the names
of those Members who had voted in favour of the
Ballot on the 21st of June, 1848 :
"In that list he found the names of Colonel Anson,
Mr. Bellew, Captain Berkeley, a relative of his own, Mr.
Byng, Admiral Dundas—(Hear, hear)—Sir George
Grey—(Cheers and laughter)—Lord Marcus Hill
(Cheers and laughter)—Mr. Macaulay, Mr. Fox Maule
—(' Hear, hear,' and laughter)—Mr. Parker—(Hear,
hear)— Mr. Redington, Mr. Sheil--(Hear, hear)—Sir
W. Somerville—(Laughter, and cries of ' Hear, hear')
—Mr. Tufnell—(Cheers, and continued laughter)—Mr.
Ward, Mr. Buller, and Mr. Gibson Craig.—(Laughter
for some minutes)."
To the admirable speech of the Member for the
city of Bristol, and to that from which we have just
quoted, by the representative of the eastern division of
Gloucestershire, aided by those delivered in favour of
the motion by its seconder, the Member for Maccles-
field, and by the distinguished orator the Member for
Oldham, the cause of the Ballot was alone indebted
for any support during last evening's discussion.
The silent eloquence of the division-list
is, however, more expressive than any harangue,
however earnest its language, no matter whether it
be as unanswerable in logic as that of the Hon.
HENRY BERKELEY, as conclusive in testimony as that
of Mr. JOHN WILLIAMS, as abounding in instances of
intimidation, drawn from his own political experience
as that of the Hon. GRANTLEY BERKELEY, or as per-
suasive in emphasis as that pronounced immediately
before the close of the debate by Mr. W. J. Fox.
Among the minority, the friends of Mr. Sergeant
TALFOURD will rejoice to find his name recorded—a
circumstance which would appear to indicate that, on
second thoughts, he has forsaken the abominable squad
of finality.
Whatever may be the opinion of the community
on the fact that the Government treated a motion of
so much importance with the most contemptuous
taciturnity—that Ministerial slight to the Ballot will
not be lost to the popular remembrance. Neither
will be forgotten that very recently a hint has been
thrown out by the Liberal Conservatives, that the
policy of Government in this country is invariably to
postpone all remarkable reforms and constitu-
tional improvements until such tinie as the public
will shall have declared itself in a very imperative
voice through the medium of agitation. The hint
will not be slighted. It will stimulate indirectly and
directly the supporters of the Ballot, of triennial Par-
liaments, of an extension of the suffrage, of the
distribution of the country in to well- balanced elec-
toral districts, of colonial re-organization, of Irish
amelioration, of systematic education, of sanitary
interference, and of financial retrenchment. Let the
Cabinet be sure of that. The hint given inadver-
tently by the admirers and emulators of their policy
will not be lost sight of. The people will not only
recognize the force of the suggestion but will act upon
its recommendation.

We have called the respective productions reci •
pro-
cally exchanged equivalents, or things of equal value,
but this phrase fails to realise all the beneficial effects
of the exchange, because in one view of the case,
though it may seem paradoxical, each gives the less
value for the greater; the inhabitants of Norfolk pro-
ducing more barley or malt than they can possibly
consume, give some of their surplus to Northumber-
land for a supply of coal, which is of greater value to
them. On the other hand, the inhabitants of
Northumberland producing more coal than they can
possibly consume, and an insufficient quantity of bar-
ley, give some of the surplus coal, the less value, for the
barley which is to them the greater value—thus each
party obtains not merely an equivalent, or something
of equal value, but something of greater value, and
the case is in no respect different between different
nations in the transactions carried on through the
merchants of the respective countries. Both coun-
tries are benefited, for each nation receives in the ag-
gregate—something not merely equivalent, but some-
thing which is of still greater value. The merchant
in his transactions merely embodies the miscellaneous
requirements of the wholesale dealer, the wholesale
dealer in his transactions comprehends the wants of
the retail dealer, and the retail dealer those of the
individual members of the community; and it is of
those individuals that nations are composed. To
permit each individual to judge what commodity
he prefers to consume, in what branch of industry
he can most advantageously employ himself in pro.
duction—this is free trade. So long as there is trade
it is for the well-being of society that it should be
free. If the applications and discoveries in science

and mechanism: and the combination of the productive
powers of man shall, in any future period of the

world, be carried to the extent of producing an abund.

ante or superabundance of the requirements of the
species, trade may then be superseded, and SOME
other distributive processes be introduced; but so
long as there is trade, it is for the manifest advantage
of society that it should be free trade. If free trade
had the tendency to check production at home the
case might be different, but the contrary is proved
to be true, for if Norfolk had no vent for barley,
or Northumberland for coals beyond the consumption
of the inhabitants, production would be limited to
that consumption ; so if Leeds or Huddersfield had no
opening for woollens, or Birmingham and Sheffield
for cutlery and hardware than are afforded by the
limits of this island, their production must be re-
stricted to the consumption of the island. Opening
our ports for the production of ether countries thus

obviously stimulates production here, since home

production, in some form or other, directly or
indirectly, is given as the equivalent ; and if the

foreign production were not admitted the home pro-
duction could not be received. There need 3 no stipu-
lation for " reciprocity," the reciprocity necessarily
arises out of the fact, that for every import there
must be an export.

MAIL STEAMERS TO HAMBURGEI.—We under-
stand that contracts were yesterday signed by the
owners of the Hull steamers, by which they are em-
powered to convey the royal mail bags hence to Ham-
burgh, with a post-office mail master on board. The
importance of the correspondence and mercantile trans-
actions between the two ports has led to this arrange-
ment, which has been largely facilitated through the
night.—Eastern active exertions of Mr. Clay, M.P. The first mail boat
--fasas againtern Counties
broken fioeruatld in the vicinity of
.
will be the Rob Roy, which is appointed to sail on Satur-
daych
Ediubwgl4-7North British Dail 11104

that they are sent without an equivalent. It must
be obvious that they are either given for something
or for nothing, and since it may be dismissed as ut-
terly untenable that they are given for nothing, it
follows of necessity that they are given for something,
and it may be as clearly demonstrated that this some-
thing must be home production, or "home supplies"
the produce of British labour ; because, inasmuch as
that we cannot become possessed of any considerable
quantity of any foreign production but by giving an
equivalent, this equivalent must be a home produc-
tion in the first instance, or we could not become pos-
sessed of it.
The case is in no respect altered from this because
occasionally coffee, or sugar, or gold, or silver, or any
other foreign production is sent as an equivalent, the
transaction is only one or more further remove, as an
analysis of the case will show. Thus, if a piece of
woollen cloth manufactured in Leeds or Huddersfield
or some cutlery or hardware manufactured in Shef-
field or Birmingham, are sent to the South America or
to the East Indies as an equivalent for some bars of
silver, ingots of gold, hogsheads of sugar, or bags of
coffee, and this silver, or gold, or sugar, or coffee is
sent to China or to Russia as an equivalent for either
tea, tallow, or wheat, that tea, tallow, or wheat is as
clearly the result of the British labour and capital in
Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, or Birmingham, as if
the tea, the tallow, or the wheat had been produced
in this country.
And it would then follow that in reality we are as
truly consuming the results of British labour, when
we partake of a plum-pudding composed of flour
brought from New York, eggs from Havre, currants
from Zante, and raisins from Malaga, sweetened with
sugar from Jamaica, flavoured with nutmegs and
spices from the West Indies, and served up with
butter from Antwerp or Rotterdam, as we are in par-
taking of a Yorkshire pudding made entirely of ma-
terials produced in this island, notwithstanding that the
Duke of RICHMOND brought forward in the House
of Lords last week what appeared to him, and some
of the Noble Lords, a very alarming fact, that the
paupers in the Brighton Union Workhouse were
ac-
tually fed upon bread made of French flour. It is
a much more gratifying state of things that the in-
habitants of the two nations—England and France—
are upon such terms as to supply each other with
food and clothing, and exchange international visits,
as at present, tha❑ was the case when bullets and
bayonets were the missiles, instead of bread loaves,
and when the international visits consisted of French
prisoners locked up in this country and English pri-
soners•locked up in France. Besides, it was only as
recently as 1847, in the same month as at present,
May, that the purchases of wheat in this country, for
the use of the French,were to such an extent
that minor seaports on the eastern coast of the
island were exporting to France 5,000 to
] 0,000 quarters weekly, and the effect upo❑
the market in Mark-lane materially contributed in
raising the price to one hundred and sixteen shillings
per quarter, which was the quotation for fine quali-
ties. A little reflection should convince the Noble
Duke and the advocates of high prices, scarcity, and
high rents, that it is fortunate the French can now
spare some food for the supply of those who require
it on this side of the Channel. If some of the French
flour could be spared also for those who die of star-
vation across the Irish Channel it would be still bet-
ter. The inhabitants of that ill-fated country Ireland
have been trained to rely upon a home production,
the potato, which does not ordinarily admit of being
exported as an equivalent, and the result is they have
now no surplus equivalent to give in exchange for
foreign productions.
It is perfectly fallacious to suppose that any foreign
importation displaces British labour, for since it has
been shown that the commodity imported was as an
equivalent for something exported, that something
exported has occupied British labour instead of being
employed upon the production of the commodity im-
ported, which, if it cannot be made cheaper or better
abroad, will not continue to be sent or continue to be
received, so neither will that production of British
labour which we send as the equivalent ,be continued
to be sent or received, unless we can produce it
cheaper or better than the inhabitants of the country
to which it is sent ; thus, under a system of free
trade, the various populations direct their energies to
those branches which the soil, the climate, the habits,
the aptitude, or the experiEnce best befit. It would
be as mutually disadvantageous for the inhabitants
of Lancashire, or the West Riding of Yorkshire, to I
compete with the inhabitants of Norfolk in producing
barley as it would be for the inhabitants of Nor-
folk to rival the inhabitants of the other two counties
in the production of cotton or woollen manufactures.
If such manifest relative superiority for different pro-
ductions exists between the eastern and the western
side of this island, separated only by a distance of a
few miles, how much more marked are the physi-
cal capabilities, natural and artificial, of nations
geographically divided, and how much better to
permit the inhabitants of each to apply their energies
in the direction which they find most suitable than
to foster one branch of industry at the expense of
others.

Marshal BUGEAUD has addressed the following
order of the day to the army of the Alps :

" llead•quarters, Lyons, May 19.
"Soldiers of the army of the Alps—You have freely
execised your rights by depositing your votes in the
electoral urn. This mission of citizens, which the con.
stitution confers on you, is terminated for three years.
Your military mission, which is not less patriotic, re-
sumes all its empire. You will never forget the army
is constituted to cause the independence of France
at the exterior and the laws in the interior to be
respected. Your duty is to defend the Constitutio❑
which has founded the democratic Republic. You
consequently owe obedience to the President of the
Republic, who is the elected of the people, and to whom
the Constitution confers the executive government. You
must defend the tricolor flag—the only national one—
that which since the old Republic has guided our victo• '
rious armies. It is the symbol of the imperishable
glory which the French nation has conquered in the
greatest warlike actions that history recorcb. Those
who would wish to display other colours would be
traitors to the Constitution ; and you know what is due
to traitors ! The discipline which constitutes your force
and your dignity is one of the most powerful national
guarantees, as it is the resume of all military virtues ;

you will therefore preciously preserve it. Such is the
line of conduct which your old brother in arms, who
until death will feel himself honoured by having been a
soldier like you, traces for you. Like you I have borne
the havresack ; and it was only with my musket, and
later with my sword, that I raised myself, after forty-
six years' service, to the great honour of commanding
you. Such are my rights to give you these counsels of
a father and a friend."

1 PARIS BOURSE, THURSDAY, MAY 24.
THREE O'CLOCK.—The rise in the French Rentes
continued to-day, and both Funds and Shares were
steady throughout the day. Exchange on London (30
days), 2.5 50 ; ditto (90 days), 25 37i.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, MAY 24.
Boulogne and Amiens, 634 ex coupons—Central of France
(Orleans and Vierzon), 12—Great Indian Peninsular, 5--
Northern of France, 93i—Paris and Strasbourg, 4—Paris
and Rouen, 19—Rouen and,Havre, 94—Tours and Nantes, 23%,

GERMAN Y

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA.
The Emperor of RUSSIA arrived at Warsaw on
the 17th, where he' was visited by the Emperor of
AUSTRIA, who returned to Olmutz on the 22d. The
Emperor of RUSSIA will remain some time at Warsaw.
VIENNA, MAY 19, FOUR O'CLOCK, P.M.—_A person
who has just arrived here from Pesth, states that
Ofen was being hotly bombarded by the Hungarians
on the 16th instant. It was still in the hands of the
Imperialists, who were resolved to hold out to the
last, but the insurgents had completely surrounded it.
We have no further news from the theatre of war.
It is asserted that the offensive operations are to
commence on the 24th or 26th; hut it is probable
that there will be some delay, as it will scarcely be
possible for the Russian troops to concentrate and form
a junction with our army by that time. 28,000 Rus-
sians are now concentrated in and round Hradisch,
and the foreposts stand on an advanced work of four
leagues. Communication with Hungary is quite cut
off on that side. No persons are allowed either to go
into Hungary or to pass from it into Moravia.
Great fears are entertained in Hradisch in conse-
quence of the strange dispositions which have been
made within the last few days, that a great battle will
be fought in the valley of the march. The Russian
troops are kept in strict military discipline, and punish-
ment immediately follows the offence. A Russian
soldier, for instance, who came upon duty in a state
of intoxication forthwith received 100 lashes ; and
another man received the same punishment for having
struck a woman.
The Berlin State Gazette publishes a letter from
Presburg of the 17th, stating that the Hungarians
had captured Buda, and had possessed themselves of
the military
chest, 20,000 muskets, 10 batteries of
artillery, and a great quantity of powder.
According to the Cologne Gazette, there was an
emeute on the 16th in the artillery barracks at
Vienna, some companies having refused to march to
Hungary, stating that they preferred to be shot to
dying of hunger.

SSIA.
Martial law has been proclaimed at Dusseldorf.
The Prince of PRUSSIA hi about to proceed to Frank-
fort, it having been arranged between the Archduke
JOHN and the PRINCE, that the former shall depart
for the Tyrol, and shall transfer the office of Admi-
nistrator to the latter; this flagrant act of usurpation
is to be supported by a Prussian army.
The Cologne Gazette says that on the 19th the
Landwehr of Munstereifel refused to march to Buhl,
and, on hearing that the gendarmes were coming to
enforce order, they barricaded the town.

FRANKFORT.
In the sitting of the German Parliament of the 21st,
the President read a message which he had received,
recalling the Saxon Deputies. The Saxon Deputies
thereupon protested, declaring their recal illegal.
Thirteen more Members tendered their resignation.
The President communicated a declaration, signed by
65 Members, amongst others by H. DE GAGERN,
SIM rSON, B
--sELER, and DAHLMANN, throwing up
their post, as not being
they saw no chance of an
compatible with the views of
the Assembly, to which
issue. A short discussion followed, and the As-
sembly then adjourned till four p.m. In the evening
sitting the President announced that the Adminis-
trator of the Empire had nominated Prince DE WITT-
GENSTEIN, Lieutenant-General in the service of
Hesse-Darmstadt, to the post of Minister of War.
The Assembly then rejected a proposition for ad-
journing to the 20th of June. They then proceeded
to vote upon the motion tending to fix at 100 the
number of members necessary to make valid the de•
liberations. 101 members voted for and 39 against
the motion ; but as, according to the terms of the
still existing regulations, no decision is valid unless
sanctioned by the presence of 150 members, the vote
was declared null. The Assembly adjourned till
Thursday.
According to report, overtures have been made to
the King of WoaTEmnuaG, offering him the post of
Archduke JOHN.

BAVARIA.
The Franhfort Journal, of the 21st, announces the
dissolution of the Bavarian Chambers, in consequence
of the Chamber of Deputies having nominated a com-

TBE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
In the sitting of the National Assembly on Wed-
nesday, after the passing of General CAvAiGNac's
resolution on the affairs of Hungary and Russia, and
after a resolution had been adopted for transferring
to France the remains of CARNOT, ' a most important
discussion arose on the subject of a coup d'etat, medi-
tated by MM. DE FALLOUX, LEON FAUCHER, and
CHANGARNIER for the destruction of the Republic, they
having previously ejected from the Cabinet NM.
BARROT, PASSY, DE TRACY, and LACROSSE, who were
opposed to having recourse to violence in support of
reactionary measures. This coup d'etat was denounced
in the Democratie Pacifique in an article signed by
M. VICTOR CONSIDERANT, representative of the
people, and on his appearing in the National Assem-
bly, he was questioned by M. CREMIEUX on
the subject, whereupon he said that he was prepared
to prove everything he had asserted, that he had laid
those proofs before the President of the Council, and
had thereby defeated the plot; but that it a Commit-
tee were appointed, he would also lay before them his
proofs. M. LEDRU ROLLIN then adverted to the
conduct of General CHANGARNIER on the previous day
as a proof of his complicity in a plot to overthrow
the Republic. When it had been determined if there
should not be a sufficient number of members present
to come to a decision by seven o'clock, that
the Assembly should sit in permanence, the
PRESIDENT had been directed to write for a
guard for the Assembly. The instant this had be-
come known to General CIJANGARNIER, he had
issued orders to all the officers to obey no orders sate
those emanating directly from himself. He moved
Inquiry, and the debate was ad-
journed n Committee
to m t
day. In the course of the discus-
otihtetene ex of
discus-
sion, General BEDEAU warmly defended the army
against the accusation of disloyalty to the Republic,
and said that he must be an " arch madman" who
could attempt the subversion of the Constitution, or
who could believe that the army would lend itself to
such criminal designs ; upon which the National
archly observes General BEDEAU is right, but
unfortunately all madmen are not at Charenton.
M. DE POLIGNAC was never confined there that we
recollect."
The Moniteur du S'oir says,—"
the 27th of May, The mandate with
which the National Assembly is invested expires on
at midnight. The Constituent As-
sembly will sit on Saturday, the 26th, as usual. On
Sunday, the 27th, there will be no sitting, and on
Monday, the 28th, the Legislative Assembly will
meet in virtue of its mandate." The Presse denies
that the mandate expires on the 27th, and says it is
the intention of the Constituent Assembly to sit en
permanence all Sunday, with General DE LAMO-
RICIERE as its President, in order to prevent an
attempt at a coup d'etat from any quarter.
That some coup d'etat is contemplated is evident
from the fact that General CHANGARNIER has filled
Paris with troops, and has tripled the posts in the
neighbourhood of the National Assembly. It is,
however, evident that the Republicans are determined
to give him no excuse for acting, and that if he and
the De Falloux faction endeavour to carry out the
arrangements they have entered into with Austria,
Russia, and Prussia, they must themselves commence
the attack, as even the Red Republicans are so satis
fled with their victory in the elections, that they wil
not descend into the streets.

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East Anglia, 25/., L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25
Do., 18/., E. & H.... 18 ...... .....
Do., 31. 10s.
pastern Counties........ 20 ...... B%IA, 8143
E tst Lincolnshire ...... 25
talinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 42 ..........
Ditto, Hall Shares ... 20 .. .. ... 15%
Great Northern - ...... 101%
Do., %B 6 per Cent... 7% 63/4
Do. Extension ...,,,:
- /2
Great Western 100 ...... 79 ..... 78
Ditto, 1/2 Shares
Ditto, Fifths ... 20
Ditto, New 171........ 15
Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... . .

Ditto, Half .hares ... 25 ...... 43%.
Leeds and Bradford
Loudon &Madman ..... . 12% 4%
Brigaton, and

48%
97

South Coast 5O ..... 36% ... . ...... 3614
Ditto, New 5/., guar
6 per cent.
Loudon and N. Western 100 126 .
Ditto, .New Quarters.. 7
Ditto,Fittha .. 2
Gond. Zs S. Western 5O ...... 34
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire...100
Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10
Midland ...... ........ ...100 ...... 67 ..... ....
Do., do., 504 Shares... 25 ..... 131 A% 13%
North British ........ ... 25 ..... . ... ..... .
Ditto, Halves ..
Ditto, Thirds ........ 81A ..
North Staffordshire l7lre l2l/2 l2th
south Devon 5O ...... 14 ..... ... ... 14
South Eastern
Do., N 0.2.
.... .. 12
Do., No. 3 ..... ........ 30
Do., Registered No. 410 ...... 61% .. ....... ... 64
S outh Vi' cliOS 3B •••••• 16%2 17 ... ..... 17;42
:xnith Yorkshire, Lon-

caster, and Uoole 8
Sheffield, Rotherham, tt
Goole (N. Div.) Gua-
ranteed 5 per cent,
Wear V alley to per Cent.
'.Guaranteed ... .. ...... 50 -
-Do. do. do. ... 25
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. .... .. ....... 25
York and North Midland 50 -
Ditto, Preference
Lo. East and W esti-Lid- . . ......• 4%

ing Extension 25 ...... 1514...,.....,

29%

1514

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 20 _ 65/8 ex. coup .. x.c
East Indian 34 3
'••••• ••' .3.
Great Indian Peninsular 5
Do. Do. ... 10s.
......
Luxembourg
Ditto .... lO ...... 1/
Northern of France...... 13 ...... 8%8 98/
Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7
Paris and Rouen ...... 20
Paris and Strasbourg ... 10
••••.•••
fours and Nantes ..... 11 ...„

MINES. - -
Australian........ .. ...... 8
Brazilian Imperial ...... 24%
Do. St. John Del Rey 15

1/
9
234
185,g
44
3%

5%
11'

EPSOM RACES.

THIS DAY.)-BY EXPRESS.

THE OAKS.
Lord Chesterfield's Sister to Arkwright (F. Butler) 1
Mr. B. Green's Lady. Superior (Robinson) 2
Mr. Wreford's Woodlark ... (A. Day) 3
The following also started but were not placed:—
Mr. Payne's Glauca (Flatman) 0
Mr. F. Clarke's Lady Tryphena (S. Mann) 0
Mr. Cuthbert, jun.'s Emma Donna (J. Holmes) 0
Lord Strathmore's Eva
Lord Stanley's Escalade (Templeman) 0
Mr. Greville's Clarissa
(S. Rogers) 0
Mr. Gully's Lady Jersey .. .................. (Marlow) 0
Lord Exeter's Grace (Bartholomew) 0
Duke of Richmond's Highland Fling ..... (Kitchener) 0
Mr. Bell's Imporatrix (Bumby) 0
Mr. E. Jones's Docility (Whitehouse) 0
Mr. B. Way's Dolly Varden (Pettit) 0
WW3 by a length. 15 rail.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 5,000 bales, including 1,500 for expert. Com •
pared with Friday's rates, prices of all kinds were with-
out atteratien. The market closed steaoily.—Railway
Shares continued dull with very little bu,iness doing.
The produce markets in London have been compari-
tively steady this week, though rather quiet, the fine
weather, and the Epsom attractions having restricted
business. Sugar has been firm, but coffee, tea, and
rice rather flatter. Metals are very dull. Cotton main-
tains about the previous rates, and wool sells freely at
the public sales.
The continental advices bring nothing re-assuring
upon political affairs. The Danish war, it is now
asserted in letters from Copenhagen, appear to
be as far as ever from a termination,
so much as all parties desire an arrangement,
so complicated are the questions at issue. The naviga-
don at St. Petersburgh was not open up to the 11th
instant, nor was it considered probable that ships would
reach Cronstadt before eight days from that date.
The Money Market, at llsmburgh, on Tuesday, con-
tinued very easy. The exchange on London was firm,
at 13-10. Funds were supported. and shares a trifle
lower. At Frankfort, on the 22d inst., Stocks were
more animated, and the Five per Cent. Austrian Bonds
touched 738. At Vienna, on the 19th, the Metallics
were 89a.
The Amsterdam Bourse was better on Wednesday,
the Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Dutch Bonds touching
481. Spanish were firmer. The Paris market having
advanced had a decided influence.
We have news from Labuan to March 31. A detach-
ment of the 21st Native Infantry had arrived at Singa-
pore, not having lost a single man during their stay at
Labuan, and having Only had a little fever of a very
mild type when on guard on the plain. The jungle was
being cut down on the proposed site of the town. The
pirates near Sarawak seemed to be aware that the
Meander had been withdrawn from the station, as they
were beginning to display a boldness and audacity not
inferior to that manifested on any former occasion.
Nothing but the most severe means will prove effectual
in eradicating their propensity for piracy. Within two
months the piratical dyaks of Serebus and Sakarran had
captured numerous boats, burnt several villages and killed
at the very least 400 persons, men, women, and children.
A few weeks previous •to our accounts they dashed
upon Sadong, butchered 92 persons, cut down all the
standing crops of paddy, and committed other wanton
acts of mischief. In some cases the headless bodies
of the unfortunate murdered inhabitants were found.
As the pirates are calculated to have three hundred
prahns afloat, each armed with thirty-five men, it
is obvious that very strong measures must be adopted to
put them down, and that a large force will be needed
for the purpose. Sir James Brooke intended to make an
effort, but our force on the Borneo station is obviously
inadequate.
From Java the accounts are to the 29th March. A
portion of the expedition against Bally had left Batavia
to join the rest at Sourabaya, whence the whole were to
sail for Bally on the 25th March. There would be
about 8,000 troops and 12 guns, Sec., employed. A
chamber of Commerce was being formed at Batavia. In
some of the regencies considerable damage had been
done to the crops by the floods.
The Singapore advices are to April 7. Although
business was less active than in February, there had
been fair transactions, and the sales and shipments to
neighbouring markets had already taken off a consider-
able part of the recent heavy supplies of goods from
Great Britain. No advance in prices was expected.
The produce market continued active, and in some in-
stances a rise had occurred. Rice had materially ins-
proved, and, from the small stock, was likely to become
dearer. Exchanges on England 4s. 2id. for private
bills at six months' sight.
In the English Stock Market business has been
exceedingly dull, and the fluctuation proportion-
ably uninteresting. The prices of the roues
coming a shade higher from Paris has had
some effect here, but the excitement that
prevails in France is still a strong antagonist
to the plethora of cash, which otherwise would inevitably
have its effects upon the Funds. Nothing but the political
uncertainty would keep Consols at their present range, high
as some may consider it. They are now 91 to h, after
having been 90i to 91. The New Three- and•a Quarter
per Cents. have realised 90i to India Stock is quiet
at 245. Exchequer. bills are 44a. to 475. premium.
The Foreign Securities are equally dull with our own
Funds. Mexican for account 30i f with the coupons.
Spanish Five per Cents., 16; Dutch Two-and-a Half
per Cents., 478 to 48k.
Shares are rather heavy, and in favour of buyers,
though with very little doing.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
ONDON, MAY 25.—Wind at noon, S.S.W., pleasant
breeze and fine clear weather.
HARTLEPOOL, MAY 23.—Ski. Edward Thorne,
Coquimbo; Elizabeth, Ce.qumbo.
SKINBURNESS, MAY 23.—The Martha Jane, Liverpool
ti St. Andrews, New Brunswick, struck on the Silloth
Bank yesterday, but got off leaky, and went down this
morning about one mile N. W. off this place; cargo not
expected to be saved, as she is settling down fast in the
sand; crew saved.
SUNDERLAND, MAY 24.—The Isabella and Jane, °f
and for Jersey, which struck on the bar on the 19th ins!"
in leaving the harbour, has been got off and brought in
here.

YARMOUTH, MAY 24.—The Why Not of Dartowath'
got athwart hawse the ship Ceylon in the Wold yested:
day, and received damage, but has proceeded nortawar
RAMSGATE, MAY 24.—Arrd. Lucy Wright, Messina'
having been warned off the Elbe.
DEAL, MAY 24.—Wind N. to N.E.—Arrd. from the
river, river, Wallace, Meyer, Coquimbo. Arrd. from "
river and sld. Britannia, Irvin, Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 24.—Wind 23d, Lacy'
Gould, New Orleans; Challenge, Long, Wilmingtoni
24th, Eliza, Jones, Callao; Trewartha, Harris, Trinidad,
Indepentiance, New Orleans ; Mercury, Roberts, St*
Calcetts;
John's, New Brunswick. Sid. Guirachan,
Mary Imrie, Calcutta; Blakely, San Francisco;
thian, Rio Janeiro ; William Russell, Peruambona:
Pheenix, Antigua; Luna, St. Thomas; Thames, oef.
Orleans; Canada, Charleston; Tilasser, Baltimore; 1:1;t
P. Whitney, Philadelphia; El Dorado, Staten Island;
Naomi, New York; Ashburton, New York ; Hyper'
New York; Charles Saunders, New York; Eli WhitneP
Boston; Martha, Boston; Oliver, St. John's, New
wick; Mary Jane, Quebec. Off port—Matilda, gnu".
tins; Empress, New York.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 24.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. lent"
Cape of Good Hope and Cork.
DONEGAL, MAY 21.—The Emily Mary, SOU.'k ,of
the
Skerries, Liverpool to this port, struck 19th inst., 001'1
Bullock Rock, between Killyhegs harbour and St..lnun
Point, and immediately alter sank in deep water; sees
saved.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 23.—The Pathfinder, from Butehert
Ayres, in removing trom the Salisbury to the Alert
dock, ran into the pier head of the latter, carried algal
her figure head, cutwater, stanchions, &c., and star°
butts.
PENZANCE, MAY 23.—Wind W.N.W.—SId. Queb(4
New York.
BrusTor., MAY 24.—Wind Eneilleitt
Watson, Rio Grande • Lois, Crocker, St. John's,: v
Brunswick. Ski. Melody, Cadiz and Buenos Ayres. A
CORK, MAY 23.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Sea, ‘,. 14()-6;
frey, Trinidad; Competitor, Goudy, St. John's,
Sld. Orion, New York.
SUNDERLAND, MAY 24.—Wind plow
genet, Singapore; Mount Etna, Quebec.

THUNDER STORMS.
INTERESTING TO LADIES WEARING STEEL BUSILS'.S
During a thunder storm which passed over Chesterfield
on Thursday, the lightning struck the house of Milo
tersley, joiner, Brampton. The lightning struck gfid
chimney, whence it descended, atter concussing 11-0
dislodging some of the bricks, to the bell wire in on
ea
of the rooms. Along this it ran until it approach d,
a clock standing in the staircase,. which it shatter
driving with great force a metal pin to which the cl°cf,
was attached through the wall into one of the rooted
n
Almost under the clock was the door opening, tie
open, to tho kitchen, in which doorway Miss All", 0
"
Hattersloy was standing. The fluid seemed to 1111'
been attracted from the clock, in its descent, bf
nail in the lintel ot this kitchen door, and eartli .
t,.°
the nail along with it grazed Miss Hattersley's
singeing her hair, ran to the steel busk in front of her co;
set, marking her breast at the top of the steel, and the„
running down her leg, which it grazed, found its Wag
the ground. Some idea of the force which the curo;
rent in this zig zag course exerted may be gathered from
the fact, that some of the plaster about the lintel, which
had, being a non-conductor, opposed its passage,
thrown out with great violence and injured an opPoslo
o
wall about five yards distant. Now the interesting Par
of the inquiry is, did this steel busk act in any way as sa
attractor to the lightning from above, or was it rather, „th7;l
videntially a conductor so situated as to divert the 11,1.11
from a course which might have cost the young lady her
ct
life? We incline to the latter opinion. The electric flul
came down and grazed the side of her head. Had nothing
attracted it from this vertical course, it would in all prol0;
bility, have touched some of the vital organs. Attraeteu
by this steel rod, it changed its course; and it is observi
able that it only marked her body at the upper ead oe
the busk, having thenceforward been kept from te
body by its greater affinity for the metal. Its whole
downward action being thus rendered external, 11s10
its
steel appears, through the position of
steel rod, to have escaped with her life. As
it was, the effect on her frame was very alarniing:
she lay long as if dead, and if Dr. Walker bad n
succeeded very speedily after his arrival in producing a
shock on the system, which restored action to the
olungs,_ng
the result might have been very different.
The
lady remained in a state of insensibility for about an hour.
progress
ing
favourably, are very glad to bear that she is now
favourably, and trust that the shock will leave no memo
vial ot its visit hut the recollection of the alarm it created.
On the previous Monday afternoon, the lighning came
in contact with a fine grown oak tree, standing in:
field belonging to Mr. Morley, adjoining his tan yard'
on the Mappleton-road, and split the trunk, which
measured between eight and nine feet round the base'
through the centre of the heart, for the distance of
10
feet, 23 feet. The bark was totally stripped off for
feet, and propelled in several directions a distance
of 50 yards, some of it falling around the men A$
work in the yard. The simultanious glare of flash'
the peal of the thunder; the crash of the tree, and the
shower of bark, produced an instantaneous and inde;
scribable sensation on'thoge near the spot, which rendered
them almost insensible for some time ; but happily lino
one sustained further 'injury. A boy, from Ilan], w
was passing on the road, was struck on the leg is
the lightning, which for a few minutes deprived him
the use of it.—Derbyshire Courier.