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vicinity of London, •has been erected in the healthiest

quarter of Brompto n.

On Mr. DISRAELI BS Chair-

man of the anniverst ry dinner devolved the ref,ponsi-
bility of pleading for that most estimable establish-
ment ; and nobly,, as we have intimated, did the
Hon. Gentleman f•ilfil the onerous but grateful duties
of his position. Ire had no depressive reflections to

embarrass him in h►is adjuration—either in the re-
trospect of the Fs t, or in the anticipations ofithe

uture.

The assi.il'anee already obtained by the

committee was mom than enough to afford encou-

ragement to the C 1 airman; and the cordiality with

which that assistai ce had been lavished upon the

undertaking, the spcataneous ardour which had cha-

racterised the public contributions, and the genial
kindliness which had marked inure than one splendid
act of private munificence, all must have tended to
render both the Chairman and the committee san-
guine as to the development of an institution
so prosperously commenced. Before all other pro-
moters of the charity, after pronouncing a deserved
eulogium upon the generosity of Sir HENRY POULIS,
justice was done to two individuals who by their
most noble exertions, by their lavish benevolence, and
by the employment of the remarkable gifts received
by them from the hand of OMNIPOTENCE, have more
than any other two individuals in the United King-
dom aided in the advancement of this beautiful and
beneficent institution. Before we can mention the
names of these two prominent benefactors—names
familiar in almost every household of the land—we
shall surely be anticipated. But few will learn for
the first time from these printed characters
all that the Hospital for Consumption owes,
in the first place, to the eloquent genius of the
Reverend ROBERT MONTGOMERY, and in the second
place, to the matchless melodies and the gentle heart
of Mademoiselle JENNY LIND. To the latter, the
committee are indebted for upwards of one thousand
six hundred pounds, to the former for very nearly one
thousand pounds, sterling. Yet it is not so much in
reference to the largeness of these princely donations
that the language of gratitude is addressed to the
orator and the songstress, it is more espe-
cially addressed to them in reference to the
noble examples they have afforded examples
which cannot very speedily be forgotten.
On no less than five-and-twenty different occasions
has the Reverend ROBERT MONTGOMERY preached
sermons in behalf of the Brompton Hospital for Con-
sumption, accumulating the magnificent sum we
have mentioned, by that extraordinary gift of pulpit
eloquence which exercises an irresistible fascination
over men who still remember with awe the fervid
tones of HALL and IRVING. In connexion with this
young but attractive and already flourishing institu-
tion, the names of these gifted and conspicuous bene-
factors will be associated so long as the structure
shall remain standing—perpetuated by a repu-
tation whose principal merit is its benevolence. How
beautifully Mr. DISRAELI referred to these touching
efforts of charity on the part of the "poet-preacher" and
the humane songstress, may be observed by referring
to those portions of his oration in which he observed,
when referring to the Rev. ROBERT MONTGOMERY,
" I think we trust too much to the spirit of societies
and too little to the energy of the solitary being,"
and in which he exclaimed, in allusion to Made-
moiselle JENNY LIND, "To me there is something
most beautiful in this life of music and of charity,
a life passed amid divine sounds, and still diviner
deeds 1" Honour to those whose virtues have evoked
such impassioned words of eulogium, and have im-
parted an additional charm to an institution not
without its own resistless and intrinsic attraction !

As if to enhance the interest of the anniversary
celebrated on Wednesday, there was numbered
among the supporters of the illustrious Chairman
one whose name, renowned over Europe for his
talent for statecraft, and for his genius as an his-
torian, could not fail to excite a very considerable
degree of curiosity. It was felt that, although tar-
nished in renown by the crimes of his Administra-
tion, Monsieur GUIZOT presented to the mind of the
beholder, in his own person, the ruins—at once co-
lossal and sombre—of intellectual greatness, and of a
forgotten morality.
Nothing was wanting, in fine, to impart an air of
importance to the celebration of this noble and inter-
esting anniversary.

MARKET NEWS.-(TIIIS DAY.

CORN EXCEIAI'iGE-FRIDAY.

-
The arrivals of English Wheat during the present
week have been on the increase, they having amounted
to 2,510 quarters. To-day the show of samples of both
red and white was by no means extensive, yet owing to
the lArge influx of foreign grain, and the fineness of the
weather for the growing crops, the demand for all kinds
of Wheat of home produce was extremely heavy, at a
further decline in the quotations of is per quarter, and a
clearance was not effected. Upwards of 22,000 quarters
of foreign Wheat have come to hand. The millers
purchased all descriptions wholly in rutail, and prices
receded from those of Monday fully Is per quarter.
In floating cargoes we heard of no transactions.
Malting Barley supported late rates, but grinding and
distilling sorts were somewhat easier to purchase. In
Malt next to nothing was doing, and the currencies had
a downward tendency. The Oat trade -was in a very in-
active state, and prices ruled somewb at in favour of
the buyers. Beans, Peas, Indian Corn and Flour as on
Monday.

English ......
Scotch ......
1ri5h.........

ARRIVALS TIITS WEEK.
I Wheat. I Barley, Oats. Flour.
2,510 qrs. I 2,040 qrs. i 2,420 qrs. I 3,0205k5,

Foreign ......

22,920 I 5,300 I I U 1,410 1- --
Malt, 6,130 fire.
STAITHMELD.
The supply of Beasts on offer in to-day's market be-
ing on the increase, the attendance of buyers limited,
and the weather unfavourable for slaughtering, the Beef
trade ruled excessively heavy, at a further decline in
the quotations of fully 2d per 81bs, the extreme figure
for the best Scots being only 3s 2d per 81bs. With Sheep
we were but moderately supplied; nevertheless, the
demand for that description of stock was in a very dull
state, and prices receded 2d per 81bs. The top price of
the best old Downs, in the wool, did not exceed 3s 10d
per 81139. The best Down Lambs sold somewhat stea-
dily at full prices; otherwise, the Lamb trade. was
heavy. From the Isle of Wight 306 Sh2ep and Lambs
came fresh to hand. Calves were in moderate supply and
steady demand, at full rates of currency. In Pigs so
little was doing that prices were almost nominal. Milch
Cows ruled excessively heavy, at from 13/. to 171. ss.
each, including their small Calf.

Per Bibs. to sink the offal,.
s. d. to s. d. B. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts..... 110 2 2 Second qua/. Sheep 2 8 3 2
Second quality .. •. 2 4 2 6 Coarse-weolle d ditto 3 4 3 6
Prime large Oxen 2 8 210 SouthdownlVether 3 8 310
Prime Scots •••• • • 3 0 3 2 Ditto out of the wool 3 2 3 4
Large coarse Calves 3 2 3 6 Large Hogs ....... 3 0 3 6
Prime small ditto 3 8 4 0 Small Porkers .... 3 8 4 0
Suckling Calves lB 0 27 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 20 0
Inferior Sheep .. 2 4 2 6 Lambs .......... 4 8 6 0
TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARK_EW.
155,2 00 heep. 1 0
210 s. I r 303.
FORE EON SUPPLY.
I Sheep. I Calves. 1 Pigs.
220 69
SCOTCH.
Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I
rig'.
400 320
ZiTEMTGATIE AND LEADEN:HALL,
These markets were excessively heavy, at a general
decline in the quotations of quite 2d per 8 lbs.
At per stone by the Carcase.
s. GI. to a. d. 1 B. d. to s. d.
Beef,inferior ..
middling .. ••2 2 2 4 raid cl ling 10 primelarge .•24 2 6 prim e—•. 3 0 3 2 prime small .. 282 10 Pork, large ..... ••—3 0 3 6
Veal.• —..—•••• •• 3 0 310 , small .. ••• •... 3 8 4 0
Lamb. 4s 6d to Cs Sd.
BOROUGH SOP ZVLAZZIO3T.
For most kinds of fine Hops our milrket continues
firm, and the late advance in the quotations is well sup-
ported. Old and inferior Hops commr.rrid scarcely any
attention, although offered at very low figures :
Sussex pockets, 2/ 4s to 2118 s per cwt; Weald of Kent
ditto, 2/ 125 to 318 s; Mid and East Ken t ditto, 3/ 53 to
61 18s.

Beasts.
904

Beasts.
38

COLONIAL.
Si:MAß.—Holders of British Plantation have brought
forward very little sugar for sale this we ek, and conse-
quently have obtained full prices. Yestet day the sales
increased, being about 900 hhds and tre:s. At auction
151 hhds 6 trcs Barbadots realised fall prices; fine
yellow 41s to 425, and low to mid 38s to Z9s 6d per cwt.
Refined Standard lumps have been at abou t former values.
EAST INDlA.—Mauritius, 351 casks 6,101 bags, chiefly
sold at former rates; low to mid yellow, 36s 6d to 38s;
good to fine, 38s 6d to 41s; ord to fino grey, 36s to 395;
brown ord to mid 33s 6d to 34s 6d, and good to fine 35s
to 3636 d. Bengal, 2,979 bags only partly sold at.barely
previous rates; Benares ord white, 39s to 393 6d ; good
to fine, 41s to 42s ; and Mauritius sun, 408 to 41s
per cwt.
FOREIGN.—Java, 1,000 bags has been sold at 22s per
cwt. privately, and at public sale 2,145 boxes white
rfavannabs, mostly washed, were bought it at 27s to 30s
for low to mid, and at 30s Gd to 34s for go, ad and fine.
COFFEE.—This article has been even quieter than for
some time past, hut as holders refrain f) 'em pressing
sales, prices exhibit in many cases rather a firmer ten-
dency than otherwise. Early in the week, Plantation
Ceylon sold lower: good at 59s to 62s Gd; mid at 48s
to 565; and good and fine ord at 35s 6d to 378 Gd per
cwt. Privately, Native has been sold to a fair Extent
at 30s to 31s. British Plantation and Foreign sorts are
about the same as last week.
RICE.--A moderato busiceas has been tr; tnsacted pri-
vately, but rriees are without change.
SPICES.—Ginger has realised 41 to Si for znid Jamaica,
and 515 s to 7110 s for fine. At the Cinnamon sales full
prices were obtained, and in some cases 2d pc ,r lb advance
on the good and tine sorts.
COTTON.--The market has been steady, and with
rather more disposition to do business.
SALTPETRE.—The market is not so firm, and Benga
has been sold at 6,1 per lb decline on the finer descrip.
&to, with less inclinr.tiou to do business.
DvEsTurFs.—The demand is limited.
TEA.—This article has been without atcy change of
moment.

MANSION-HOUSE, MAT 2—The Lord Wayor begs
to announce that, in consequence of her Itajesty's con-
cert at Buckingham Palace, he is obliged to defer till a
future opportunity the entertainment that he proposed
to have given upon Wednesday, the 9th instant.
Mr. Highatn, Secretary and Comptroller-General to
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer on Wednesday,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

C/EY, QUARTEK I'o TiiEL.E.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti,
mated at 6,000 bales, and comprised about 5.000 Aweri•
can; 200 Bahia realised 41d. to 5d.; and 300 Surats
sd-
to aid. per lb. The market continued steady, an 4
closed rather firmer. Prices of American were 1-16 d,
dearer, Surat firm, but Brazil and Egyptian were id. ti
j-d. per lb. lower. In Railway Shares but a Halite
business was done, and prices had a downward tendency.
The Corn Market has been heavy this morning, and
prices are not supported. The arrivals include 22,920
qra. of foreign Wheat, and 21, 410 of Oats.
There is more activity to-day in the general product,
markets, a larger quantity of Sugar and Coffee bein&
offered.

The proprietors of the Assam Company, established
some years since for the purpose of cultivating the Tea
plant, have had to day a more favourable meeting
than for a long time past, and the results are such as
to encourage the hope that the undertaking will hence-
forth be prosecuted with renewed energy and still
greater success. India, from which we draw so large I
revenue, needs an increase in its staple products to meet
the balance against it for British manufactures, Stoo
and it is scarcely possible to estimate the extent to which
Tea might be made to furnish the desideratum.
We are glad to perceive by the accounts received this
morning from the Baltic that the blockade was
being more impartially enforced. A Dutch ship
attempting to enter Dantxic was brought to
by a sharp cannonade from a Danish cruiser
and several vessels of other nations that had just arrived
were prevented from entering. The merchants of Go'
thenburg had petitioned the king to allow a steamer to
be put on the station between that place and Copenhagen
and Travemunde. The Schleswig Holstein Government
was inviting parties to engage in its maritime service.
Able• bodied seamen were offered 27 marks, and second
class 21.

The Hamburgh Money Market was very lazy
on Tuesday ; Exchange on London, 13, gi, and
bills at long date still in request. Funds shares
were firm, with no particular alteration. AS
Berlin on the 30th ult., there was an advance
in some securities which had been sold to a greater ex.-
tent than they could be delivered. The Riga letters of the
25th ult. quote three months' exchange on London air
36 13-16. At Copenhagen, on the 28th ult., the Three
per Cent. English loan was quoted 63f to 64, and the
New Five per Cents. 91. In the Frankfort Bourse, oa
the Ist instant, Austrian Five per Cents, were 741.
Vienna, date of the 28th ult., quote Austrian Metallics
at 891.
Letters received this morning from Austria)
notice the march of a large body of Rus-
sian troops to the assistance of the Imperialists,
who would shortly have 120,000 men in the field.
The Hungarians, however, were inspired by their succese
and there was very little prospect of an issue to the cow'
flict, except by force of arms.
At Amsterdam, on Wednesday, the Bourse was dull.
Dutch Stock was scarcely so good. Spanish and .Portu
guese Bonds were firm. Russian and Austrian were
rather in favour. Mexican and Greek scarcely so good.
There has been a very firm market for Public Secure..
ties, and the decided rise in the French Funds, in anti.••
.
cipation of a favourable issue to the May elections, has'
some effect here in conjunction with the peaceable ad-
vance of the French troops in Italy, and the brilliant
weather here. Consols
,have been 921 I and are nove
921 Bank Stock is 193 to 194. Exchequer-bills are
446. to 475. premium, and India Bonds 68.2. to ,705.
premium.

In the Foreign Market, the feature is a " start " in
Spanish Bonds. The Three per Cents. have touched.
34i to Portuguese Four per Cents. have been 28k to
29. Mexican Stock has realised 32k to 1 with the C? 11-
puns. Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. are 50i to 9•
Railway Shares are flatter, the rise of yesterday bay-
ing induced sales in particular lines, as a reference to the
list will show. Calculations have been made to show'
that upon Eastern Counties old shares not more than .ts.
per share per annum can be paid, but some improvement
may be made if the debentures can be renewed on lower,
terms, working expenses reduced, and if the capita;
does not rEquire any addition. Scotch Central and
Aberdeen are higher. French Shares look well.

ONE CLOSINq
P.tr,,Es OF fiRITISII FUNDS. O'CLOCK. rItICES4
Sank Stock
3 ~or Cent. Reduced Anus ......
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 92% t % 92%
New 3;t4 per Cent. Anns. .. .
Long Anus. to expire Jan. 1860 ..• 83,,i11-16 948 8 11-16
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 -16 8A BAI
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 B% 8%
India Stock — -
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under I,ooot. .. ...... ....... 70 68
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities ... 891-,‘
Consols for Account
F.xchequer Bills. 1 Ihd. & 2d.
1,0001. June 44 47 p 47 P
5001. June
.... . 44 47 p 47 P
Small. June
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS oNE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. NIXES;
79%
78 Li

68
89/
92.1 h

Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, Account 78%
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. ...•„
Ditto, Deferred ................. -.. 3%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons Ditto, Account,
Ditto, Ex Coupons
Ditto, Account ..............
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents —
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent 28% 28,5
Ditto, Account
Russian Bonds ... ...... .
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account lB 18
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, Indemnity
Ditto, 3 per Cent
.... 33% % 3414 3414.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild — --
Ditto, Account... ............
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 77% 774
PRICES OF
PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOST—No
RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.',
Aberdeen 5O ...... 1814% lB3 f,
Do. Preference
Binning, Wolverh'ton,
and Dudley, calls duly
pd, or with guarantee 10 ..... . 10
..
Buckinghamshire ... 16/. 4s. ..... 1% di5......• • 1374 di d
w,
Caledonian . 5O ...... 27% 2747
Chester and Holyhead... 50 ...... 16
Ditto, Preference
Dublin and Belfast June. 37% ...... 7% 74
Eastern Counties........ 20 •••••• 81/e 8 B_.• Do. New, Gua. 6 per cL 10
••• 11..
Ditto, Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. 1 6/. 13s. 4d.... --
Ditto ditto, No. 2 61. 13s. 4d... par
Great Northern
Do. Extension 2% ...... 1% 1 •
heat. South. and West.
(Ireland) - .. ........ 33
;great North of England 100
...... .. ...
............. 232
Great Western 100 ...... 89%... B9
Ditto, % Shares
Ditto, 14 Shares
Ditto, NeW 171— ..... 15 ..... 12% 11% ..... 1134
cull and Selby ...... 50 .... 99%
Ditto, ditto ............ 86 ..... ..... 6l Do. Sixteenths ....... .. 64 434 Do. New Guaranteed ......
6 per Cent..... lO .....• 11% ll%
Leeds and Bradford 5O ...... 100% .. . ... ••^ ... 100
London &Blackwall .....
London, Brighton, and
South Coast 5O ~... 88% % 38% Do. Prof. 5 per cent.... 50 ... ... 53 London and N. Western 100 53
..... . 130% 131 120 % 129
Ditto, New Quarters.. 7
iO% lO4 Ditto,Fifths ..... .. 2 ...... 7% ..•
74
MidGond. &S. Western...... 50 ...... 35% ••• % 354
land .............. ..100 •••••• 68 67
Do., do., •50/. Shares... 25 ... .. 131%1% 14 . 131,E
Do. Birm., and Derbyloo
North British ........ ... 25 ..... 1332'Ai 133/4 ...
- ... Ditto, Halves
..
North Staffordshire 17% 1314 13
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton
... S
.i.• •• ... 110 17
24*
Scottish Central
sqt,
Shrewsbury and Birm... 11
South Eastern
Do., Scrip No 4
7
•••••
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. . .. .•
20% %... ...... ~ 194
A 75
C.IDo. Newcastle Eaten. 20
Do. .N.E.Preference 8
...
„la
York and North Midland. 50
Ditto, Preference ...... 10
Do. East and Westßid-
int: Extension ...... 25 ..... 1714 17%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 20
East Indian Bl4 ... 34 x•I
Great Indian:Peninsular 5
Do. Do. ... ........, I Os. ......
Northern of France...... 13 ...... 1114 .
Paris and Rouen 2O
..._.• 24% % ..........
MINES.
Australian 3 •••••• .......
Santiago do Cuba... lO
...... ."".. ......
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London & Westminster. 20
.... 24
L

334
32
3214
3014
29%
65

-44
1114
22%

Jor d L• ffo r d and suite, General Colby and
H and the on. Mr. Ferner, son of the Earl of Po mfret,
left Blackwall yesterday morning by the General Steen:.
Navigation Company's steam ship Venezuela, fo I '
werp.

Of
GREAT DESTRUCTION OF LAMBS.--The iss
lambs throughout New Romney Marsh, durio snowstorm of Thursday se'nnight, is roughly ealea plat`
at about 5,000.

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BIRTHS.
On the Ist inst., in Belgrave-:,quare, -.
the Lad '
Douglas Pennant, of a daughter. Maria
Lady
On the 24th ult., at the Rectory, Headington, 1 Tll wife of the Rev. G. a .10, the
T. Ward, of a son.
On the 27th ult., in Dublin, the wife of Lieutenant 'PC°lone'
Clarke, A.A.G. Kilkenny D.. t • t, of a daughter.
LA re
_.........-

DIED.
At Palham, Surrey, on the Bth ult., Edward Pari $-11' Esq.'
late of the Irv..ia-house.
On the 2Fth ult., at Cranbury-terrace, Southampto n,aged
46, Caroline, wife of the Rev. Stephen Butler.
under
On the 28th ult., at Princes-street, Edinburgh, Ale:
Clapperton, Esq., aged 67.
On the 29th ult., at Wimborne Minster, Dorsetehire,
beth, relict of the late Mr. William Evans.
On the 30th ult., at Tunbridge-wells, Susanna,
daughter of the Rev. John Robinson, late rector of L lock-
life, Bedfordshire.

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Middlesex, Friday, lilay 4, 1849,