The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-31 00:00:00

THE RUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING-, MAY 31, 18412.

is not merely a question respecting the continuanc
or abrogation, the increase or reduction, of any par-
ticular item of taxation, by which any particular class
may be unduly affected by which their trade may
be restricted, their industry paralysed. It is not
alone what branch of our trade or commerce
shall first be relieved from its burdens,
and freed from the restrictions by which it has
hitherto been fettered. No; it introduces a still
wider field from which no man, or body of men, in
the empire is excluded, in which every British
subject must be interested. We believe that, hitherto,
the just principles of taxation have been grievously
misunderstood ; that the great body of the people
have been forced to contribute more than their fair
proportion to the national burdens ; that they have
been thereby prevented from attaining the position
and enjoying the comforts to which their unceasing
industry, their skill, and energy entitle them. We
believe that they are forced to bear burdens which
have unfairly been transferred to them from other
quarters, on which, in equity, they ought to fall ; and
we believe that transfer to be not only unjust in prin-
ciple, but impolitic in practice; to be not only in-
equitable, but inexpedient, and injurious alike to the
on
persons improperly charged, and to those for whose
especial benefit the system was invented and brought
he into use. Every motive, therefore, demands that the
ay prompt and speedy attention, as well of the Legis-
let
lature as of the public generally, should be di-
rected to this topic, and Mr. EWART, in bringing it
T. forward at the time and in the manner he has done,
has entitled himself to the public thanks and the
lh public gratitude.
et, We do not desire that there should be any crude
1,
c,
,or hasty legislation on the point. We are better
pleased that the House expressed no opinion on
e ; Friday. All that Mr. EWART could have wished for
nd
was attained by the discussion that took place. His
views are brought fairly before the country, and before
led the time when a Parliamentary discussion can be called
se- for an appeal will be made to that country. The people
'ra will be called on to exercise the great constitutional
be privileges entrusted to their possession ; they will
be required to elect representatives by whom their
tort

wants and wishes shall be conveyed to the Senate. It
IY will be the especial duty of those representatives to
decide on the amount of taxation, and the manner in
Led which it shall be levied. It would scarcely be fitting
he
that, at the latter end of the last session of a Parlia-
ment that has already been prolonged beyond the
ordinary period, when it is universally known that its
dissolution will be announced within a few weeks, a
change of such importance should be decided on. The
people may judge for themselves, and it is proper that
they should do so. No man should exercise the fran-
chise before he elicits the views of the aspirant for
senatorial honours on the subject. No man should he
sent to St. Stephen's as a mere delegate to give certain
votes, which no circumstances would justify him in
altering. The voter should be careful to select a man
of ability and integrity, whose views generally har-
monise with his own, and in whom he can repose
confidence ; who will be competent to express those
♦iews, and who will not be influenced by any
undue or corrupt motives. In the very commencement
of the new Parliament it will be indispensably neces-
sary for the House to take into their consideration
the continuance of the income-tax, and incidentally
the policy of a direct or indirect system of taxation.
The first duty, therefore, of every possessor of the
elective franchise will be to form his own opinions on
this great question, and to ascertain those of the can-
didates before he gives his vote, and it will be the
duty of the public journalist fairly and impartially to
discuss such points as may enable his readers to come
to a correct conclusion, to form a sound opinion
;hereon.

After the desolation of many dismal months pro,-
pects are generally and visibly brightening. E% ery-
thing of a national character promises to be very
shortly reinvigorated. There is a prospect of a sp.-edv
dissolution of Parliament, and consequently there
will be a new and reorganized representation of the
different constituencies. The advantages of this
alteration are obvious ; the political aspirations of the
multitude will be afforded an opportunity of being
conspicuously indicated at the different county and
borough hustings. A renewal of understandings be-
tween the candidates and electors will cement into
one concrete mass the somewhat joltered and sepa
rated sentiments of the million. The Members wil
return to St. Stephen's, not the jaded legislators o
six or seven sessions, but the refreshed re-
presentatives of a new and vigorous Par-
Ii -tient. Beyond this, the vegetable kingdom
affords every reasonable hope of a termination to our
prolonged sorrows from the deficiency of provisions.
With a continuance of the present brilliant weather
the crops must prove of unusual fruitfulness and ex-
cellence, and with a rational modification in the pre-
sent fallacious arrangement of the -Currency, the
Money Market may be restored to its previous
activity and stability. In our manufacturing
affairs, moreover, employment must be afforded
in abundance immediately credit money is re-
stored to its original value, for the orders
received from foreign purchasers have continued
throughout our late involvements of unusual ex-
tent and frequency. The result of all these unex-
pected changes must manifestly be the restoration
of a happy and profitable industry to the empire.
What may we not, therefore, anticipate for the sister
island ?
Now that " the light of the nation is extinguished,"
now that the great man in whose personal career the
history of Ireland, during the last half century, has
been embodied, lies in funereal pomp in the cathedral
of Genoa, there is every reason to look forward to the
probable futurity of his native land with a more than
ordinary solicitude. In the decease of DANIEL
O'CONNELL it is impossible to perceive anything but
a grievous and irreparable calamity to that country
which he served with all the resources of his vast and
prolific genius, and with the whole ardour of his
gigantic and irrepressible energy. With a marvellous
profundity in legal erudition; with a loyalty that
survived all the turmoils of popular agitation; with
a patriotism that occupied the whole of his capacious
heart without diminishing by one tittle the fervency of
his domestic affections ; with a moral perseverance
and a physical determination that were the
wonder and admiration even of his opponents;
with an eloquence that swayed the passions of his
auditors like the breathings of an AVATAR— an elo-
quence that alternated through all the phases of
spiritual emoticn and all the varied diction of the
rhetorician, sometimes blazing into invective, some-
times soaring into the majestic, sometimes revelling
in the humorous, sometimes turning up the whole
soul with the language of irresistible pathos—
DANIEL O'Commx.r., was in a peculiar manner fitted
to direct the mind of a nation, and to conduct them
along the paths of the law to extraordinary
social reformations. That is his peculiar glory ;
that is the glory which will perpetuate
his name to the applause of a posterity
more capable of estimating his true merits than his
own immediate contemporaries. As the Liberator of

his fellow-Catholics, And as the chosen Tribune of

the people of Ireland, he has entitled himself to per.

petual remembrance; but, inasmuch as he was the

Liberator of many millions from the thraldom of

religious disabilities, without the effusion of one single
drop of blood, he has secured for himself immortal

honour, unsurpassed and unparalleled. It may be a

question whether the fame acquired by the Liberator
of I; eland as a rhetorician has been exaggerated or

otherwise, althuugh that subtle and in many respects
matchless critic, M. DE CORMENIN, has given him the
cinomerptnareassti,vt
palm among modern orators. But as a man who has
striven to elevate a whole race. from debasement and
country freOmaSpoalitimoaalnstwuphoor haasudactsuoaolilayl
comparative bondage,
ab°renmciaarkable COCLICIOII3n of
' raised his
citizenship and the immunities c
obedience toconsciousness rights
upon
pou
constitutionalor authorities, DANIEL
of cit.' •
amorq the benefactors of the O'CONNELL mustf
coffin
glory .0.7 d his influence go not with
the silerice of his coffin his
human.
a supreme place
death. From
family. Ilis
audibly to the nations. His
heart voice speaks
shrined in the basilicas of Rome, his be en-
remains may repose upon the shores of the maeduigtust
ranean sea, but his spirit still survives in that greatr-
wreck of humanity, it survives in the good deeds he
accomplished, it survives in the magnificent orations
he delivered, it survives in the truths which his as.
siduous repetition has resolved into maxims. Let
Ireland remember the one great maxim of the wis•

dom of this illustrious patriot, the maxim which has
been mournfully, bat most felicitously enforced by
the recent address of the Repeal Association, let Ire-
land remember his memorable maxim, " The man
who commits a crime gives strength to the enemy,"
and, acting upon the recollection of that
noble apophthegm she will prove herself worthy of
DANIEL• O'CONNELL, she will do fitting honour to
the memory of that extraordinary man, she will in-
sure to herself that happy and prosperous futurity
for which the dead heart of the Liberator once beat
with such fervent and affecting patriotism.

We heartily congratulate the country upon the
change which has already been wrought in its pros-
pects with respect to the staple article of national
existence. Often as we have endeavoured to guard
our readers against participating in the alarming
apprehensions which had imbued the public mind
on the subject of the supply of food for the
current year, we nevertheless appreciated the diffi-
culty of the task of imparting our confidence to
others. The subject-matter itself was of such vital
importance that the liveliest emotions of fear were
readily excited among the community who, being
little conversant with the cereal statistics of
other countries, regarded only the excessive prices
to which bread of every description had attained
in every market, and at once anticipated the
worst. The speculators and chief monopolists in
corn were keenly alive to the selfish policy of
fanning the name of public apprehension. For
interested purposes they adopted as their motto
spargere voces in vulgum ambiguas, and, doubtless,
thereby succeeded, to a great extent, in compassing
their covetous object. Matters, however, are now
materially changed. The crisis is passed. Concur-
rently with the transit to our coast of vast stores of
grain, PROVIDENCE has been pleased to bless,
not only our own, but the entire of the European
territory, with the most splendid weather, by
which we are cheered with the prospect of the
ensuing harvest proving a very abundant one,
with every appearance, moreover, should the
weather continue propitious, of its being gathered in
not later than usual. In all the principal of our
home markets the price of corn has happily very con-
siderably abated, and an improved tone of feel-
ing has consequently been everywhere manifested.
The growing crops are universally in a most flourish.
ing state. At Uxbridge market, on Thursday, wheat
fell 3/. per load, taking the average prices, as com-
pared with those" of the previous week ; and yeti
notwithstanding this diminished rate, few sales were
effected, the buyers •expecting the reduction to be
much greater next week. The latest news from Ire-
land, of the same character, is likewise highly encou-
raging. The grain crops promise abundance; the
potato plant bears, as yet, a healthy and vigorous ap-
pearar ce ; butter has declined twopence in the pound,
and butchers' meat is lowered in price, owing to the
luxuriant show of the herbage. On all sides, then,
we derive fresh materials for repeating our felicita-
tions that the United Empire is fast emerging from
the gloom which threatened for a time to have more
than a transient effect upon the happiness and pros-
perity of millions of our compatriots.

We read in a letter from Constantinople of the
11th:—

" According to the last accounts from Athens, the
Greek Government has cone to a resolution to make
concessions with the ♦iew of putting an end to the sub-
sisting differences between it and the Porte. This news
is not yet officially announced, but there is no reason for
entertaining doubts of its truth. The note addressed to
the Russian Charge d'Affaires at Athens, M. Persiani,
by the Cabinet of Saint Petersburgh, must have contri-
buted to this result. The three members of the Nappht
party, who have seats in the Greek Cabinet, must ne-
cessarily have paid respect to the recommendations of
Russia, .anekit is not impossible that this incident may
re-establish regular and durable relations between the
two countries."

A letter, of the 16th instant, from Posen gives
the following accounts of serious disturbances in the
Grand Duchy, arising from the dearness of pro-
visions :

"It is principally in the north of the country that
devastations have been committed. In the sixteen towns
of Trzesmo, Gneren. Schrimin, Apolnieo, Plesehen,
Czarnikau, Rogasen, Filebne, Sehcelante, Recuiez. Pout-
dewing, Wresselen-Buk, Wittkowo, Mourowaro-Gossh n,
GrinunPn, and Okay, all the corn stores have befrn
pillaged, and the public money carried off. The domain
of Diaglin has been devastated by•the peasantry of the
surrounding villages. The still more extensive domain
of Winiez, belonging to Baron Seidlitz, has been invaded
by a body of five hundred people, among whom were
Russian deserters. M. de Seidlitz assembled and armed
with all possible promptitude all the servants and other
persons employed on his estates, and a long and san-
guinary conflict took place with the insurgents, who,
however, would have gained the upper hand had not a
! detachment of dragoons come up opportunely and put
them to flight, but not till after about fifty men on each
side had been killed. The President of the Grand
Duchy is concerting with the military authorities on the
means of establishing, in each of the chief towns of
districts, columns of troops to be kept ready to move
at a moment's notice upon any point that may be threa-
tened. All the garrisons have been reinforced, and an
order is about to be issued making the rioters amenable
to martial law."

Madrid papers of the 22d inst. have arrived.
The differences between the QUEEN and her hus-
band are now openly commented on in the journals.
In speaking- of the Palace question, the Espanol
says—

" That the matter divides itself into two parts, the
first of which is complicated, painful, sad,' and the
second ' easy, constitutional, and presenting no doubt as
to the solution.' The first branch of the question
resumes itself, says the Espanol, into this : Had all
the transactions relative to the royal marriages any
other object than to assure and_sonsolidate an effective
marriage between the son of thng of the French and
the Infantti; and to sacrifice her Majesty condemning her
whole life to widowhood and tears ?' The time, it says,
is not yet ripe for clearing up of what it describes as
' this terrible and well-founded doubt;' but it adds, that
when the truth shall appear, the Spanish nation and the
Cortes will know how to act. The second branch of the
matter is, says the Espanol, the pretensions of the King
to interfere in state affairs, and to be absolute master in
the Royal Palace. It declares that neither can possibly
be accorded, the first being unconstitutional, and the
second in violation of his and the Queen's marriage con-
tract."

Don FRANCISCO IS, it is said, acting at the instiga-
tion of a foreign power, and is guided by the advioa
of foreign agents. General SERRANO, who is at
Araniuez, is stated to be in constant communication
with OLOZAGA and other leaders of the Progressistas.
The Faro states that a decree recognising,
without any exception, the ranks conferred by the
ex-Regent &TARTER°, has been signed by her
MAJESTY.

Colonel BAXERAS, who captured TRISTANY, has
been promoted to the rank of Brigadier. Ros
D'EROLLES, the Carlist leader who recently entered
Catalonia from France, has been killed in a skirmish,
while his band Was completely dispersed.
The Qummn-was expected in Madrid on the 23d or
24th, to review the garrison. After the review her
MAJESTY will proceed to La Granja.
MADRID Bor.sa, MAY 22.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 30 for cash ; the Four per Cents. at 18%; the
Five per Cents. at 18%; the Debt without Interest at 5%8 ;
and the Coupons at 16.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday
The Journal des Debats banters the National on the
article 'which appeared in our paper of Saturday,
giving a programme of a new Ministry. Neverthe-
less, it would appear that the rumours announcing
Ministerial changes are not altogether without foun-
dation. M. DUFAURE, who was mentioned as the
Finance Minister of the future Cabinet, pronounced
a speech in the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday,
which is regarded by every one as a discours ministre.
The subject under discussion was the proposal of M.
GLASS BIZON to introduce an uniform rate of postage.
M. DUFAIIRE supported the proposition, and in the
the course of his speech sketched a complete plan of
financial reform, including the reduction of the Five
per Cents., the annulling of the Redeemed Three per
Cents., and the lessening the extraordinary credits
granted to the Ministers by royal ordonnance. This
speech produced such an effect, that the amendment
proposed by a Ministerial Deputy was rejected, and
the original proposition would have been carried
against the Ministers, had not the President managed
by a juggle to adjourn the Chamber, without sub-
mitting to it the question, so as to give Ministers an
opportunity of " whipping in " for the next day.
The debate was resumed on Thursday, and was not
Committee
t he M
concluded when the post left. The following article,
which appears in the Journal des Dibats, shows how
completely
Ministers stther,fic
Chamber
rboefe nDepbe
Deputies
tt
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tt
hh e
Budget, in its Sitting of Tuesday,
Committee on the Budget :
" Th
Tuescloy, took a grate resolu-
tion on the Budget relative to extraordinary public

works. In accordance with the Minister of Public
Works, who, however, only consented with regret, the
Committee proposes to reduce :-Ist. 44,200,0001., in
the demand for 66,000,000 E proposed in tne establish-
ment of lines of railway ; 2d. 17,000,000 f. in the de-
mand for 19,000,000 f. for maritime ports and light-
houses ; 3d. 2,000,000 f. in the demand for 15,000,000 f.
destined for Royal roads ; 4th: 9,000,000 E in the de-
mand of 14,000,000 f. for the construction of new canals;
sth. 14,000,000 E in the demand of 15,000,000 E for the
improvement of rivers. Thus, on the amount of
131,000,000 E in the Budget of 1848 for extraordinary
public works, the Committee demands a reduction of
86,000,0001., which would reduce to 45,000,000 f, the
grants for extraordinary public works ; but this sum
is to be increased by the balances of the year
1847, and by the 13 600,0001: which have just been
demanded from the Chamber for the Northern, Vierz in,
and Avignon Railways ; which will give a sum of
74.000,000 t: to disburse on railways in 1848. The Com-
mittee will subsequently occupy itself with the division
of this sum among the different lines ; and it is to have
a proposition to this effect submitted to it by the Minister
of Public Works. Considerable reductions have also
been made by the Committee in the budget ef extraor-
dinary works of the War Department. The demands
for these works amnunted, pursuant to the laws of 1841
and 1842, to 22,380,000 f. The Committee has prcvi-
sionalty resolved that they shall be reduced to
10,000,000 f. Finally. 1,500,000 c, will be cut off from
the sum of 6.500,0001: demanded for works by the
Marine Department. The Minister of War and Gee. De
la Rue, director of the affairs of Algeria, were examined
yesterday by the Committee on the budget of Algeria.
The explanations that they gave were on details relative
to different services, and appeared generally to satisfy
the Committee. The reductions proposed by the Com-
mittee were of little importance. The Committee adopted
in the same sitting a definitive resolution on the privi-
lege of carrying the balance of one year to another, ac-
corded to Ministers by our financial system. It had
provisionally decided that this privilege should be sup-.
pressed ; huts after having heard M. Lacave Laplagne,
and subsequently M. trumen and M. Jayr, several mem•
hers proposed to change that decision, and to maintain
the present system, This proposition, however, having
only united seven votes against seven, was not adopted.
The Committee decided that by an additional article, or
by an amendment inserted in the law of finance, it
should be proposed to the Chamber to suppress the pri-
vilege of 'tarrying the balance over to another year,
excepting, however, the case in which a credit may have
0,.1y been opened for one year, for extraordinary works.
The suppression of this
__privilege will only take effect
from let January, 1849."
M. JAYR, the new Minister for Public Works, in-
troduced on Wednesday two Bills to enable the Paris
and Lyons and the Lyons and Avignon Railway
Companies to proceed with their works. In the
course of the discussion M. LHERBETTE demanded
that before the appointment of the Committee to ex•
amine the Bill, a list should be presented to the
Chamber of those Deputies who were directors or
shareholders in either of the companies. The Con-
stitutionnel, in noticing the presentation of the Bills,
says—

" The object of these-Bills is easy to understand. At
the moment at which the Administration suspends the
enterprises it has executed at its cost, it has felt the ne-
cessity of facilitating to companies the means of con-
tinning their works, in order not to leave the labouring
elapses without employ ; these are expedients cow-
mandt-d by the situation, and are at the same time. on
the part of the Ministry, complete avowals of its want
of foresight."
The Debate on the same subject has the follow-
ing :

Our readers will perceive that these two Bilk give
no definitive solution to the position so embarrassed, and
after all so unfortunate, c f these :,wo companies They
adjourn this solution to another time, stipulating that
the companies must spend each 10,000,000/. within a
year, not including the purchase of lands ; on this con-
dition, if they desire to abandon their enterprise in May,
1848, they may do so, the first losirg 24,000,0001. of
its capital, and the second something equivalent. They
are very prosperous companies—are they not? They
will only lose 12 per cent. of their capital ; but it is a
shame tor these companies to rob the St-,te! Ila
M. Lherbette, M. Luneatt, and M. Gamier Pages watch
over it? They desire that the Committees shall be nemi-
nated by a scrutiny of the list, iii a public sitting. They
exact that .he lists f subscriptions, primitive, succes-
sive, definitive, with all the variations they have under.
gone from sales and purchases, shall be communica,ed
to the Chamber, in order that it may be asce.rta;ned, if
there be not by chance. some Deputy in the affair! We
mention the incident—there is no need of comment.
lTher, companies ruin themselves, there are people who
find that they are to, profiranle."
DUCEIATEL was sufficiently recovered from his
fever to be able to attend a Cabinet Council held
at the Hotel of Marshal SOUL'''. on Thursday.
The Chamber of Peers voted on Wednesday, by a
majority of 100 to 13, the project of law authorising
the Bunk of France to issue notes of 200 f.
The Cubieres affair is becoming of greater import-
ance. Every day fresh discoveries are made impli-
cating in charges of corruption parties of the highest
rank in the State.
" The affair of General Cubics.'.res," says the Union
Mona? chigue, "is assuming a great development. It; as
we are assured, former Ministers are so far compromised
as to be liable to impeachment fir acts of their ad-
ministration, it is not to the Chamber of Peers, out to
the Chamber of Deputies, the prosecution should bi-
committed. To the latter alone ought the inquiry ai.d
accusation be entrusted."
" Let us pass," says La Mode," from Spanish and Por-
tuguese complications to matters which are embroiled,
and which affect us more nearly. Like a stain from oil,
the Cubilres, Parmentier, and Company affair is every
day increasing, and we know not where the scandal
will stop. At one moment it was expected that the
Upper Chamber, being leniently disposed, would declare
that there existed no cause fora prosecution. But now
the affair is become serious, the oldest members start.
the youngest become attentive, and the most pure ex-
claim loudly, and demand an example in order definitively
to put an end to corruption. Last week M. Parmentier,
having been summoned to appear before the Court of
Pe'ers, neglected to obey, and M. Pasquier, the Chancel-
lor, with that juvenile impatience under which he labours,
dispatched an officer to bring the defaulter before him.
The messenger found M. Parmentier in jacket and slip-
pers smoking a cigar tranquilly. Whilst puffing clouds
of smoke h was engaged in arranging papers. The
papers are immediately seized, and M. Parmentier, by
command, is obliged to dress himself and reply to the
Committee at the Luxembourg appointed to discover the
light in the midst of darkness. Fiat lux. If we are to
believe the reports in circulation, the papers seized at the
residence of M. Parmentier resemble in no respect those
which remained in Pandora's urn. In place of hope
this capture has produced regret and anxiety. If we are
well informed, a certain correspondence has been dis
covered relative to bargains and concessions of railroads.
In consequence of this new information fresh interroga
tories have been commenced, and ~everal persons-holding
a distinguished position in society are implicated."
The Duke of MONTEBELLO, the new Minister of
Marine, landed at Marseilles on the 28th, and pro-
ceeded to Toulon, to pay his respects to the Prince
DE JortiviLLE, and to inspect the squadron.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Thursday at 78f. 25c., the Five per Cents., 1161. 45c.:
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,235 E ; Rouen, 953 f 75c.;
Havre, 6431. 75c. ; Great Northern, 6011. 25c. ; Avignop,
7-25 f.; Vierzon,sBol. ; Bordeaux, 507 f. 50c. ; Boulogne, 407 t.
50c.; Basle, 1871. 50c. ; Dieppe, 3151. ; Paris and Stras-
burg, 427 f. 50c.; Tours and .Nantes, 4101.; Paris arid Lyons,
4331 7.5 c.; Bourdeaux and Cette, 4501-1; Spanish Domes is
Debt, 2916.
LYONS, MAY 25.—Paris and Rouen, 94.51. ; Avignon and
Marseilles, 730 f. ; Northern, 600 f.; Paris and Lyons, 440;
Orleans, 1,2351.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 28.
Dutch Rhenish, 3%—Namur and Liege, 3% —Northern
•(France, 1214—Orleans and Bordeaux, OA.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sqn of Saturday Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000
bales. The market was quiet, but firm.—Shares were still
improving.
The sales of Cotton for the week have been 39,000 bales.
The stock is 505,700 bales, against 780,500 bales at this
time last year. The market has risen about Ad to lAd. per
lb. his week.
We have no news yet of the steamers from America. but
both are expected by Monday at the latest. The exFbange
probably will come over much the same. The continental
exchanges yesterday afternoon were rather flat again, with
one or two exceptions.
The Bank of England return is cheering again for
the week from the 15th to the 2.2 d instant. The
amount of the notes out with the public is less
certainly, but this arises from the extreme caution
exercised in trading operations. Fine weather, and
consisient policy on the part of the Bank directors, will re-
assure People, and induce them to enter anew into mer-
cantile operations, especially in connexion with our export
trade.

The mainppoine
.e
Other Secuptrsoi
Increase ...
•••
233,235
...
Deposits
Securities,
sst,,ihn(ie••• the, Bank
decrease
increase
saese. return.. i .
....a.....
.. r.:13,217
ex 23,0
these:-20
Notes issued ,775
•••
Public
Notre reserved,
r Ivneedr, e
is anerease 1,821,838
decrease
Other Dep05it5,462,482
7 day and other Bills, decrease ••• 26,114
Government Securities, increase ... 954,750
80,761
.
627,066
Bullion
... •••
9,948,633
Increase •••
•••
78,640
•• ..• •••
Active circulation ... 18 781. 380
Decrease 393,830
The Funds are buc. • antagain to-day, and there is •••
• •••
•••'
• a further
3
improvement of lii to t, per cent. Consols for Transfer on
Tuesday have touched 8714 5/, ; and for Account, 88% to
891/4. The New Thr /Q per Cents. have been
R RV to S 2 I ee-arnt-a- uarter
---.IN `-'9 -/El• Bank Stock is worth 193 to 195, a mate-
rial improvement. Exchequer-bills have taken a better
position. They are Is. to 4s. •
premium. India Bonds of
1,000/. are 3 prem.
The Foreign Securities have been very dull. Mexican
Bonds are 20 to 21 ; Spanish Five per Cents. realise 22%;
Portuguese Your per Cents. bring 33 ; Dutch Four per
Cents, are 8934.
Shares support very full rates, although the transactions
have been on a steady basis, and devoid of speculation.
BRITISH. FUNDS. ()NE CLOSING
O'i 'LOCK. PRI. 'ES.
Bank Stock .. .. ..
..
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. • • 8.13, l'4 , 871,4
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Antis. 89 88 Ai ,9',4 89
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5.1860 .. 9 8 15-16 9 1-16 9 1 1:;
-Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ... 53i by

Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860
India Stock ..
India Bonds, 1,000/. ..
Ditto, under 1,000/. ..
Consols for Opening, July 16
Exchequer Bills. I%cl.
1,0001...
500/. .
Ditto, Small

214
.. 3 p 3p
.. 3p 2 dis 2 ois
.. 89 88% 89!i, 87%
2d.
21 4p
5p
p
ONE
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. 20% 21
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent ..
Swinish Bonds, 5 per Cent
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent ..
Dlvidend4 on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Bali per Cent
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates

CLOCIN(.,
PRICES.

• . .. 22%

.. 89%

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

BUSINESS
CLOSING
PAID, DONE AT
ONE O'CLOCK.
24y,

Aberdeen.. .. . • • .. .. 30
Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction . • . • • 2% 1%
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... .....
Wolver., and Dudley.. A
....
Ili rming., Wolver.,& Stour Valley 8
.. 8%., ••
Bristol and Exeter • . • • .. 75
.... 71 ........
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 2!4 2% .....
Eastern Counties ..
Du. l'erpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61 I3s. 4d. ......
Ditto, ditto.. .. No. 2. Si. 13s. 4d.
Ditto, York Extension .. 7% .... 6%%%•'
Ea,t Lancashire .. • • •. 17 ••. • ••• • • •
Ditto New .. .• 7% .. • 714 ..
.
Ditto, ditto New Scrip .. .. .
East Lincolnshire
.. • • .. .•
Edinburgh ..n.l Glasgow .. 50
Great Northern 3% ....
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 30 .... 24
Great Western 85 .• .. 117
Ditto, Half Shares .• .50 .69
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12%...... 17%
•
Ditto, Fifths .. • • .. '2O .... 27
Ditto, >. ew .. ••.. 4% 8% ..
Leeds and Bradford .. • • .. 40 .... 85
Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manchester 32% •
... •
Leeds and Thirsk .. • • 26 20
Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent. •• 3% 3%
Liverp., Manch_ & Newc. Junct. 2%
!mutton and Blackwell • • 16/. 13s. 4d
Ditto, New, No. 1
.. h .
London. Brighton, & south Coast 40 • • 53%, .....
Ditto. Consol. Eighths • • .. 10
....
Ditto, (luarant. Five per Cent 9 .... 9
Ditto, Fifteenths
.. • • .. 52 .... 53
London an North-Western ..100 •• • • 176 178....,,
Ditto, Quarters L. and B. 7
.... .
.....
Ditto ditto, New Shares • • • . 2 .... 12
Ditto, 101. Shares M. & IS. (B) 5 .... 10%
London and South• Western 411. 6s. 105... 66
.....
Ditto, New .. .• • • . 27)4 .... 27% 28%.
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) .. 50 .. •• ..
Ditto. Scrip.. .. •.• • 5 .... 4% ...
-
Lynn and Ely .• .. ..
.. 25 —
Lynn and Dereham .. • . .. 20
21
Manchester and Leeds .. .. • • 82
Ditto, Half Shares 38 •
Ditto, Fifths .. .. • •
.. ....
. 5 .... 9%
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.)..
.. • .71. 45..... % p
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 423. % % dis.
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... %
Midland ..
..100 ......
.... 118 120
Ditto, New
.. 36 .... 40 • • •• • •
Ditto, New . 6 .... 9
Do., Consol. Bristol and Birm.
six per Cent. .. • • —lOO .. • •
Neweas, le and Berwick ..
..20 .... 26)4 • • •
Ditto, New .. • • • • 5 .... 6% 7%.•.•
Ditto, orth Shields .. •• 25 30%
Newmarket and Chesterford .. 10 .... --.....
Norfolk .. .. • • •• —lOO ....128
Ditto, New . .. 5 ... 9
North British .. .. • • •• 25 .... 31% .
Ditto, Half Shares .. . • • • 12% .t 14 15 14%.
Ditto, Quarter Mures .. • • 31A ... • 4% %•• • •
Ditto, Extension .. %.• ......
Ditto, Thirds .. • . 1 .... 2)4 %•• • •
Northern and Eastern .. .. 50 ....
North Staffordshire .. . • • . 7)4 .. • • 9% •••• • • • •
North Western .- • • 4 .. • .
Oxford, Wor'ster, & Wolverhamp. 22% —.• • •
Preston and.Wyre.. . 25 .... ...
Reading, Guildtord, and Reigate 5 .• • • 51% . ......
• • • • •
Royston and Hitehin . . • .. 1%.... .
Shrevrstiury end Birmingham 3% 314
Ditto, Class B • • • • 3 .. • • 2% ....
Airopsinre Union 4 •
South Devon .. .• • . .. 40 .... •• .
South Staffordshire .. • • .. 21. 125... )4 dia..
South Erattern awl Dovor .. • • 33% • -
Do.. New (do. 301.) .. No. 3. 15 •• • • ....•
(do. 101.) .. No. 4. 5
.... • • • • •
nth Wales .. .. • . .. 10 ....
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and
Goole . • • .. .. 2 .... 1 . .
West itidinglinion .. • • •.4/.25..... par
Windsor. Staines, &S. Western., 425. ......•
York and Newcastle 25 .... 37
Ditto, New.. .. .. 10 15% ..
,
Ditto, Preference .•
.. 4 .... 7% ..... •
Yore and North Midland .. .. 50 ....
Ditto. Preference .. • • .. 2 .... 11 •
Do. E and W. Riding Exten 10 • 2 '34
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and .Amiens 20 .... 16%
Central of France (Orleans and
Vierzon) • • .. • • .. 12
Namur and Liege .. • • .. 10 334%
':ortheri) of France •• 8 .... 12% • • •• •
Rouen and Havre -. .. 20 .... 26
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Union of Australia 25 .... 24
511. N ES.
Real del Monte. Unregistered

SOUTH AMER! CA.
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY EVENING.
By the Emilia, arrived at this port ibis eveniT g, wt
have received advices from Rio de Janeiro to the sth of
April, with laid accounts from the River Place. Ex.
change at Rio, 280. It was reported at Rio that Orilk
had invaded the Brazilian territory, at the head of 5,000
men.

The following was posted in the underwriters' room

this morning :
" RIo. Apia'. 5 —Advices from 111..nte Video Flo.
that a det:teliment of Oribe's forces had taken torcinl.-
posseAsion of a tort lying n the Brazilian territory.
Although this aggre'ston had, it was supposed, only
been made for the purpose of further stopping suppliPs
from being taken to the enemy, yet it was greatly feared
that a rupture would take place between the Brazilian
Government and Bons. •

" differences with the American authorities a
Rio had be ,n sotled.
" Exchange, 28i to 28i."