The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, i SATURDAY_ MORNING, MAY 8, 1847.

his disinclination to permit the solemnization of the
marriage of his Royal Highness until such time
as he has elicited the approbation of her Spanish

in consequence of the timidity arising from 1
the financial condition of the country. With the
cellars adjoining the Exchange crammed with larger
quantities of bullion than can be remembered to have
been in the possession of the directors for a con-
siderable period, there is the diminution of
value in the Three per Cent. Consols,
there is the difficulty of obtaining discount,
there is the incapacity of paying up instalments,
there is the impossibility of completing foreign
orders upon our manufacturers, and there is the
consequent incapacity of affording employment.
All these gigantic evils spring, moreover, from
a single source ; they all originate, as Lord
ASHBURTuN very simply intimated to the House
of Peers, they all originate, without one excep-
tion, in the deplorable Bank Restrictiqn Act of
1844. From the disastrous effects of that very foolish
result of a very foolish hypothesis, come a multitude
of evils such as would have entailed opprobrium upon
any class of men, providing the public were as quick to
detect their pecuniary foes as they are to recognise
their social and constitutional antagonists. From
the enactment of 1844—the notorious enactment of
1844—the enactment nurtured under the Peel-
Loyd auspices—have arisen—stoppage of employ-
ment, unnecessary exportation of specie, en-
tanglement of the monetary affairs of the
kingdom, interference with commerce in
all its multiple branches, and the exceed-
ing and appalling probability of an actual panic.
The financial crisis of 1825 was not preceded by such
ominous fluctuations in the pulse of trade as those
which have latterly aroused the fears of the com-
munity, and which on Thursday induced Lord
BROUGHAM to revive the question to the consideration
of the Hereditary Senators. And all these fluctuations,
all these sufferings, all these diminutions of confi-
dence, all these malign approximations to the bank-
ruptcy of many thousands of men whose characters
are unimpeachable, and whose fortunes are of un-
doubted amplitude—all these deplorable things,
we repeat it, with a comparative glut of
bullion in the coffers of the Bank of
England! When we say a comparative glut of
bullion, we cannot well be derided, seeing that ac-
cording to Sir ROBERT PEEL'S enactment, the Bank
of England is at any moment in the risk of being
left witk merely 2,500,0001. disposable issue, whilst
it has 10,000,0001. in its cellars. We cannot
tire of repeating our abhorrence of a plan by
which this vast commercial country is placed
in perpetual danger for the bald satisfaction of grati-
fying a diseased whim. Literally, the scheme, under
the penalties of which the market is at present
groaning, is the tying of metal about our heels
to enable us to keep afloat ! Precisely
when credit money is most wanted, it is restricted in
amount; when it is little better than a superfluity it
is lavished about in abundance. Assuredly Lord
ASHBURTON was justified in stigmatizing the course
adopted by the late Administration as equivalent to
the perseverance of the doctor in " Gil Bias," in his
undeviating remedies of hot water and phlebotomy.
Assuredly the Act of 1844 is about as judicious as a
prescription penned by SANGRADO. And little pre-
ference can there be bet seen the dreamings of La
SAGE or the obstinacy of Sir ROBERT PEEL.

MAJESTY.

The Duke DE SAN LORENZO had been appointed
Captain• Genera of the llalberdiers, the Duke DE
BAYLEN having resigned that post. The Ministerial
combination under the personal influence of General.
NARVAEZ had failed, and the General was to leave
for Paris on the Ist instant. It was still believed
that the Parliamentary labours would be suspended
during a fortnight. The Gazette publishes a royal
decree confirming the authorization granted by the
Cortes to the Ministry to collect the taxes until the
latter end of June.

The Three per Cents.were done at 314 for cash ;
the Five per Cents. at 191 ; the Debt, without in-
terest, at 54 ; and the Coupons at 16.

The Paris papers of Wednesday have arrived.
Aftention is altogether engrossed by the explana-

tion given on the preceding forenoon in the Chamber
of Peers by M. TESTE in extenuation of the conces-
sions made by him in regard to the mines of
Goubenans. Nearly all our French Contemporaries,
without exception, speak in the moat condemnatory
terms imaginable upon the course pursued by the
Hon. Gentleman in that matter; but we cannot but
regard their adverse observations as premature in
utterance, and as too vituperative in tone. Of all the
papers published on Wednesday the Commerce
'speaks of M. TESTE in the discreetest manner. "We
think it unbecoming us," it says, "to pronounce a
definitive opinion upon the merits of explanations,
which are destined to furnish an important document
in a judicial discussion." According to the Coma-
tutionxel M. TESTE, who was Minister of Public Works
at the period when the concessions were granted to the
company in which Gen. CUBIERES was interested, pro-
tests most solemnly and emphatically, that those con-
cessions were made in accordance with all the cus-
tomary forms, and with the strictest integrity.

The National speaks out pretty plainly however,
and with something like a show of contempt for the
protestations of the Hon. Gentleman. It says as

follows :

" The concession of a mine, according to M. Teste, is the
ministerial act in which the personal influence of the chief
of the Administration is the least possible. Everything
passes without his interference, according to certain pre-
cise regulations by which the rights of ail are protected.
These rules have been followed, and these rights have been
fully respected in the matter in question. This is all that M.
Teste knows ; the rest, as far as he is concerned, being

enveloped in mystery. Such is an analysis of the
speech of the late Minister of the Public Works.
It will be at once conceived that we are bound
to keep the greatest reserve as regards him until
the facts are made known. We shall make only this
general observation, which appears to us to be important :
M. Dumon and M. Teste have both greatly exaggerated
the purely negative part which they represent to be played
by the Minister in the concession of mines. Were we to
listen to them, we should believe that everything was done
without his meddling with it, and that the responsible chief
of a Ministry had nothing more to do than to sign his name
at the foot of the report or the ordonnance. This, in truth,
is lessening somewhat too much the action of the man in
power, in order that he may be relieved from responsibility,
and such a proceeding is not founded in law or in fact. In
each step of the official ladder the Minister has a decided in-
fluence. He may suffer to sleep or expire any application for
a concession ; he mey choose any engineer he pleases fur in-
spector; he may accept a report or order it to be reconsi-
dered ; it cannot be denied that his voice has weight in the
Council of Mines, over which he presides, and in the deli.
beratiuns of the Council of State. It must be admitted, on
the other hand, that none of these formalities can be con-
summated.m ithoat his direct participation. Not only is this
egal, but it is necessary; for his responsibility is involved in
allithe resolutions come to by the Ministry. Let it not,
therefore, be asked with such singular simplicity, where is it
that favour can be exercised or corruption creep into this
series of operations? The answer is ready enough :—Favour
may be exercised from the first to the last day, and corrup-
tion is a subtle poison which may penetrate every part. Let
then this pretended improbability be laid aside, for it will
not bear the slightest examination. Let us wait then till
M. de Cubieres can give his explanations before we decide
whether he is to bear all the odium of this affair, or whether
it is to be divided."

What we feared has come to pas,. Noble Lords,
hostile to an efficient poor-law for Ireland, could
not, in the face of the frightful scenes of misery
and destitution that are of daily occurrence in' that
unhappy land, venture to meet with a direct ne-
gative a measure intended to afford relief to the
sufferers—a measure, which affirmed the great
principle that the poverty of the country had a
right to relief out of its property—a measure
which declared that henceforth no man should
be suffered to die of starvation in a Chris-
tian land, and that the necessities of all
should be provided for before any portion could
be made applicable to luxuries or superfluities.
These Noble Lords, however, have attained their
object indirectly, and by a side wind. One of
themselves (Lord ABINGER), after stating that
the principle of a poor-law, at all times dan-
gerous, was peculiarly so in Ireland, advised that they
should not reject the measure altogether, but so
modify it as to deaden its effects. The recommendation
of the Noble Lord has been acceded to. The-effects
of the measure have indeed been deadened. As Lord
GREY truly remarked, " the great experiment must
now be made under every possible disadvantage," un-
less their Lordships recal their fiat, as it is still possible
for them to do, and unless the representatives of the
people refuse to accept the Bill in its diluted and
emasculated form.

The Courrier Francais contains the following re,

marks :

" The shameful affair of the mines of Gouhenans, in which
the morality of the whole Government is profoundly com-
promised, was yesterday the subject of all conversation, are
gave rise to strange commentaries. We exaggerate nothing
in saying that it is a fact which compromises the honour ot
the Ministers more than anything that has occurred since
1830. M. Taste, Minister of 'Public Works in 1842, could
not dispense with ascending the tribune of the Chamber of
Peers to offer explanations. It must be stated that he was
heard with extreme coldness, and that his brother was the
only one to advance towards him and press his hand when
he descended from the tribune. When M. Teste affirms that
he remained a complete stranger to the practices employed
to obtain the concession in question, we are entirely: dis-
posed to believe him ; but when he declines all responsibility
in an act which occurred under his administration, we be-
lieve that he is strangely mistaken in the sense which he
attaches to ministe;ial responsibility."
In addition to the interest excited by the statement
made by M. TESTE, in the Chamber of Peers, the
political circles of Paris were agitated by a rumour,
insinuated by the Presse, that nearly half-a-dozni
members of the Cabinet had intimated their intention
of withdrawing from the Administration. This it is
which causes that organ to observe that the Ministry
at present holds but a nominal existence.
In the Chamber of Deputies M. BILLAULT availed
himself of the opportunity afforded by the renewed
discussion upon the Supplementary Credit Bill, for
inveighing against the Government for its lavish ex-
penditure in reference to the foreign department.

The Noble Secretary for the Colonies spoke out
boldly and manfully in defence of the measure.
He pointed out that the great principle had for three
centuries been recognised in England, and that he was
prepared to recognise it—not for three years only—
but permanently in Ireland. And in that he is
sanctioned and confirmed by the unanimous voice of
the British people. Are we prepared to encourage
what has too truly been termed " The Irish Invasion ?"
Are we prepared to permit the Irish landowner to
withhold from the people born on his estate that which
the more humane landlord of England extends even to
the casual poor ? Here every destitute person is
entitled to relief in or out of the workhouse.
If that relief is practicable in the workhouse so much
the better, but under any circumstances it must be
afforded whenever it is required. But in Ireland
however urgent may be the necessity, however
pressing the demand, it cannot legally be given if
the workhouses are full. The starving wretches
may sink and perish at the very thresholds of the
poorhouses, but they cannot be permitted to receive
one solitary meal until room is made for their admis-
sion into the house. Is this legal obligation
to maintain the poor of Ireland only to commence
when they arrive in this country ? Most assuredly
not ! Such a system is not compatible with the con-
tinuance of a free intercourse between the islands.
If persevered in, we must be contented to take upon
ourselves the duties which we permit the landowners
of Ireland to shirk. We must be satisfied to feed
the hungry, and to clothe the naked, in that par
of the United Kingdom, at the expense of British
industry. We are willing to render every assistance
to the landlords who are disposed to exert themselves
properly and efficiently. We are willing to pledge
the national credit in order to procure these means
for the improvement of their properties, the ade-
quate employment of the labourer in useful and
profitable works, so that the capabilities of their
country may be fully developed, and their
lands brought into the highest degree of culti-
vation and productiveness. We will assist those
who endeavour to aid themselves, but we will not
assume the burdens from which they have shrunk,
or the post from which they have deserted.
Already the measure is, perhaps, of too restricted
a character as to the power of affording out-door
relief. It is only when satisfactory proof is given
to the Commissioners, that by reason of the want of
room in the workhouse adequate relief cannot be
afforded them, or if by reason of severe or infectious
disease it is unfit for the reception of poor persons,
that it is lawful for the Commissioners, by order under
their seal, to authorise and empower the guardians
to administer relief out of the workhouse, for a time
not exceeding two calendar months, and that relief
cannot be given to the able-bodied, save in food only.
Surely this might satisfy the most cautious. They
cannot suppose that the Commissioners would
wantonly abuse that power, or that they would au-
thorise that out-door relief save in cases of
the utmost urgency. There is still an
opportunity for revising their decision. On
the bringing up of the report, the measure
may be restored to its original form. If not, we
trust that the house of Commons will be firm and
unyielding, and that they will not suffer that which
was carried by an overwhelming majority in their
House to be afterwards frittered away and deprived of its efficacy. If a collision should take place, we warn the Irish party that on
seatth enext occasion a much II
stronger measure may to
up which cannot be
refused or weakened, but must be adopted in its in-
tegrity.

The Prince of SYRACUSE had reached Paris on a
mission, so it was reported, from the Neapolitan
MONARCH to Queen CHRISTINA.

Wednesday, the sth instant, being the anniversary
of the death of NAPOLEON, a solemn funeral service
was performed in the church of the Invalides ; and
the bodies of Marshal BERTRAND (his com-
panion in exile) and of Marshal Dunoc (his
most beloved adherent and Grand Marshal to the
Imperial Palace) were buried in tombs adjacent to
the sarcophagus of the Emperor.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Wednesday at 781. the Five per Cents., 115 f. 75c.; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,235 C ; Rouen, 943 f 75c.; Havre,
666 f. 25c; Great Northern, 611 f. 25c.; Avignon, 765 f.;
Vierzon, 5821. 50c.; Bordeaux, 5131. 75c.; Basle, 1931.
75c.; Dieppe, 3271. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4271. 50c. ;
Tours and Nantes, 416 f. 26c. ; Paris and Lyons, 432 f ;
Lyons and Avignon, 452 f. 50c. ; Domestic Debt, 30%.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 6.
Boulogne and Amiens, 16 ,A—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 143A—Demerara, 23A—Dutch Rhenish, 31ii
—Namur and Liege, VA—Northern of France, 11%—Paris
and Lyons, 4,q—"'ours and Nantes, 134 West Flanders, 3%.

THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF
IRELAND.

Duat,m, MAY s.—His Excellency has made another rally.
The bulletin issued at ten o'clock this morning was as
follows :

" His Excellency has passed a good night, and is much
better this morning."
No other bulletin was issued up to post hour, and the an-
swer to inquiries at the Castle was that his Excellency con-
tinued to improve.
The Mail of this evening says—
" But whilst the general course of his Excellency's illness
forbids us to encourage the expectation of his eventual re-
storation, it gives us sincere satisfaction to be able to an-
nounce those occasional mitigations of his complaint, which
give immediate ease to the nole patient himself, and in some
measure relieve the painful anxieties of his affectionate fa-
mily. We are quite sure that if his Excellency's skilful
and considerate medical attendants were able, from
the symptoms that have marked the progress of his
case, to relieve the anxiety so prevalent on the subject
tcannot,his pointth ea sr eafo
dr eis,
asbturtourseginarddicateoinr, laonndg
lament-conti n ui
by a favourable prognosis, they would not have failed to do
so.
oilencWe oened

The Societe Generale of Belgium has just lowered
too 4 per cent. its rate of discount on commercial bills.

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HARRY SMITH, BART
G.C.B.—The officers of the Rifle Brigade intend to give the
gallant General a grand banquet to welcome his return from
India. The banquet is to take place on the 17th instant, at
the Thatched House, St. James's-street, when Lieutenant-
General Sir Andrew Barnard, G.C.8., Colonel-Commandant
of that distinguished corps, will preside.
The lovers of literature and the fine arts should
pay a visit to Robins's Auction Rooms, where the library of
a well-known collector is arranged for public sale on Mon-
day, and to continue during the week. The auction seems
to be formed from the gems culled from the most valuable
libraries which have been offered for sale during the last few
years, and thus, in one catalogue, offering more of variety
and value to the collector, than is often to be met with.
Catesby Abbey, in Northamptonshire, one of the
most attractive estates in this luxuriant country, is, we per-
ceive, announced for public sale, by Mr. Robins, in July next.
This property, described in Duidale as Catesby Nunnery,
was seized upon by the Church Spoliation Commissions in
the time of Henry VIII., and there is no estate in the
country which bears more interesting evidences of ancient
per;od, than Catesby Nunnery; indeed, we know of none
which can confer greater,importance upon a purchaser.
LORD LINDSAY'S LETTERS ON TILE HOLY LAND.
—The prediction of the Quarterly Review as to the " ensuing
editions, which this work very richly deserves," has ben
amply verified—a fourth edition having just appeared, com-
plete in a single volume. "Atm,ngst the many travellers,"
says the Quarterly Review, " who have contributed to our
knowledge of the interesting regions dignified by events
recorded in Holy writ, a prominent place must be assigned to
Lord Lindsay. His abilities and accomplishments are of a
high order; a spirit of enquiry, and a glowing enthusiasm,
have been aided by various knowledge. and ruined by a
sincere piety ; he exhibits a considerable store both of ancient
lElavi.ng g.o
and modern learning, but his draughts of Helicon have been
abundantly tempered by
• Siloa's brook that how'd
ne
out Fwasitthbytttmhepoerrascelle,eorafnGceoda.
IZegrn;enfe has felt and recorded what he saw,
God.'
devotion of a
with the
Cbristian."a Philosopher and the faith of an enlightened
Lord J. Russell
o the Ito) al Society; was on Thursday elected a Fellow
the
chair. Forty-one me b Marquis of Northampton in the
forty
aye,
444
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7layni. ere ballotted, and the numbers were,

Madrid journals of the 30th ultimo
i
counts of an interview which had taken
kenl:e beee'utain ac.
tween her MAJESTY and the Count DE CL-
when the latter had presented to ISABELLA a memorial
from her cousin, the Infante ENRIQUE. The QUEEN
is described as having received the document very
graciously. Pope Pius IX., it seems, has expressed

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. t COURT CIRCULAR.
(From The Sun of Last Night.) ; The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was heavy. Sales, of Leiningen, left town yesterday morning for her Majesty's
4,000 bales, of which 3,500 were American, at 6d. to 7id. per lb. marineil residence,a Osborne, Isle of
k, cl bW i ght. their Royal alliies Highnesses and
Surat brought 4d. to 41/2d. per lb.—ln,Railway Shares there
was very little doing, and prices had still a downward ten- , tHielierghPflen'scsethoet pConsort,rain es
ea accompanied
t Leiningen,Princessnaen
dency. 'at half-past nine o'clock in a carriage-and-four, for the ter-
There was no change worthy of note in the Railway Share minus of the South-Western Railway, at Nine Elms.
Market to-day. The following are a few of the principal The Countess of Desert, Hon. Miss Dawson, Major- General
l e left Royal,uc Buckingham ahmi s SerenePalac e
sales of Railway shares by. Messrs. Lansond and Co.:— 1 Bowles, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Captain.the
Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire .... £0 7 6 j Hon. A. H. Gordon, and Dr. Meyer, followed in two car-
Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 10 0 riages-and-four.
Calcutta and St. George's Point 0 1 6 Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush
Liverp. blanch. and Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1 0 0 take leave of her Majesty and his Royal Highness.
North Staffordshire
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston 1 9 0 carriage by the Hon. Misses Kerr and Cavendish, Maids of
Royston and Hitchin
Manchester and Southampton 0 14 0 the Horse, the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, Lord
Northern Counties Union 1 5 0 Waterpark, Lord in Waiting ; Viscount Clifden, Lord in
London and York Extension
Newmarket and Chesterford. 9 5 0 Groom in Waiting; Captain Francis Seymour, Groom in
Shropshire Union and Canal ........ 4 0 5 0 Waiting to Prince Albert; and Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 4 12 6 Waiting to his Royal Highness.
We have no further arrivals to-day from abroad, but there The august party left the railway terminus by a special
train for Gosport.
is an improved feeling in the money market generally, and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
matters are certainly easier. We have the exchange from Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, and Sir George
Hamburgh decidedly higher again : viz., 13 53/4, and we see Couper, honoured the performance of the French Plays with
nothing unfavourable this morning, except that the corn her presence yesterday evening.
y probably be Among the visitors yesterday to view the Royal pictures
market is again higher. This, however, ma
in St. James's Palace, were the Dowager Marchioness_ of
corrected ere long by the increased arrivals from abroad, large
Downshire, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the
as our wants undoubtedly are. blarchioness of Westmeath, the Earl of Galloway, the
As a satisfactory result of the frequent interviews between Bishop of Ely, Viscount Clifden, the Baroness de Clifford.
the " Chairs" of the Bank of England and the heads of the Dowager Viscountess Glentworth, Hon. Sir Henry and Lady
D
Government, we may mention that the Directors of the Dymoke, the Lady Mayoress, Lady Elizabeth Courtenay,
Lady Granville Somerset, and Sir Alexander Johnstone.
Bank have this day made the very agreeable intimation A deputation from the Midland Great Western Railway of
that they will advance money at 5 per cent. to the holders of Ireland, including Lord Dunsandle and Mr. Percy, had an
Exchequer-bills, a circumstance which at once caused a de- interview with the Right lion. Edward Strutt, yesterday, at
dine in the value of money in the Stock Exchange, and the office of the Commissioners of Railways, in Great George-
which must be felt beneficially out of doors likewise, and in street.
A deputation of the merchants of Liverpool, consisting of
the general discount market. Messrs. Potter, Sands, Mosley, Wylie, Maury, and Harold
The Funds have not been higher to-day, but have a firm Littledale, accompanied by the following Members of Par- ,
tone. Consols have ranged from 8634 to 87% for present liament—Lord Sandon, M.P., Sir Howard Douglas, M.P.,
transfer, and from 87% to 87% for time. The New Three- trillsVoni"i;"amtteFn,eilhlleP,baln.cl;.,Mbrl.r.TlViii3loltiaralifßtoronw3, M.P., Mr.
and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been marked 88 to 87%, and interview with the • Chancellor of the yesterdayExchequeir•P
853/1.
Three per Cents. 86 to Bank Stock is quoted 187 to at his official residence in Downing-street. hd a n
a,
lesTeothe
anre
yesterday}*
aßye
interviewva it bhler. .CweilPerrytehn iha
il.
shop bad
Lordship.
T interviewhe
Rev. withmr.
Taylor Earl
had Grey 1 189. Exchequer-bills have been Bs. to 3s. discount.
The Foreign Market is dull. Spanish Five per Cents. are
marked 23, and the Three per Cents. 34%. Mexican Stock The Duke of Richmond and Sir Andrew Leith Hay had an
has been steady at 19N, and Grenada at 19%. Dutch Four interview with Lord John Russell, yesterday, at his official
per Cents. have realised 871. Austrian Bonds are 1041. residence in Downing street.
The Market for Railway Shares is very quiet, and there A deputation from the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
is consequently no improvement in the quotations. On the
Company, consisting of Col. Lowther, 51. P., Mr. Hodgson,
and Mr. Swift, had aninterview yesterday with the Right
other hand there is no general decline. Hon. Edward Strutt.
The Governor of the Bank of England, and the Deputy-
Governor, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer yesterday.
bile Marquis of Westminster had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday. Lord Charles Fitzroy had also an
interview yesterday with the Right. Hon. Baronet.
A Deputation, including the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson,
Hr. H. Houldsworth, and Mr. George Wilson, had an inter-
view with the Right Hon. E. Strutt yesterday.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Co-
lonial-office for the Governor of Ceylon, and also for the Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.
Mr. Leftwich had an interview yesterday with Sir George
Grey.
Lord Adolphus Fitz Clarence left town on Thursday after-
noon for Portsmouth, to embark on board the Royal Yacht.

BRITISII FUNDS.

ONE

CLOSING

O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .• 188 187 189 188
hree per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 86 85% 85%
liree per Cent. Consols Annuities 87% 86% 87% 87
.Tew Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 88 87 % 87%.
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 1-16 9
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. b, 1860 .. • • 9%
India Stock .. .. • .. .. 243 243
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Consols for May 27
exchequer
1,0001... ,„
5001. .
Ditto, Small

8434
•• •• 8
2d7%X%
I%d. .
8 3 7 dis
. 8 3 7 dis
8 3 7 dis
ONE
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 104 X
Dutch, 23 per Cent., 12 Gull • • 57
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. . 19X
Mexican Bonds, 1846, per Cent .. 19%
Portuguese Four per Cent 35
Ditto, for the Account .. .. 35
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 23
Ditto, for the Account • • • • 23
Ditto, Three per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account .. •• 34k
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. ..
Dividends on the above payable in Lendon.
French Rentes, 3 per Cent .. • • —l. —c.
Exchange .. • • • • • • —c.
Belgian Four-and-a-Halt per Cent ..
Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent •• 57X
Ditto, for the Account .. ..
Ditto. t per Cent. Certificates .. 87%
BUSINESS
PRICES OF
PAID. DONE AT CLOSING
RAILWAY SHAR . ES. ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.

1p
CLOSINt.
PRICES.
104%

HER IVIAJEsTY'6 THEATRE.

Mademoiselle Jenny Lind made her second appearance
on Thursday night, which was a "long Thursday."
The impression she produced on her audience on this oc-
casion completely shows how firm a hold she has taken on
the public mind. Here is no transient, flashy success, but
the more she is heard, the more she is appreciated. Those
exquisitely-lengthened notes which sound clear as a bell, and
then become more and more piano, preserving their musical
quality even when they sink to the lightest whisper,
always come with fresh power on the hearers; the shake in
the subdued voice, so firm, and so delicately warbled away,
itrikes as something new in vocal art, and when executed
on Thursday night drew forth the loudest acclamations. In her
execution of passages nothing is more delightful than the
feeling of confidence with which she inspires her audience.
One never feels a moment's doubt about the truth of her
intervals, and her utterance of a passage is at once marked
by the greatest accuracy and the greatest ease. Her
acting gains upon repetition ; the more the minutice are fol-
lowed out, the more perfect do they appear. The scene at
the cross in the second act is in itself a complete study, so
various are the emotions which she introduces. Now it is
in mere terror that she flies to the symbol of refuge,
now she clings to it with child-like faith and confidence,
the feelings regulating her gestures and pervading her song.
And throughout she completely preserves the innocent de-
portment of the simple peasant- girl, who though capable of
the greatest energy, always remains to a certain degree un-
conscious of her own power. The character of Alice is really
the only interesting one in the book of Robert le Diable, and
as represented by Mademoiselle Jenny Lind is a complete
personification of feminine goodness. The house was crowded
to the roof, and Mademoiselle Jenny appeared three times
at the end of the opera, to receive tumultuous plaudits, and
abundant showers of bouquets.

77f. 25c.
25f. 90c.
9114

Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction .. .. 2%.... 1%
,tinning ham and Oxford Junction 10 .. • . 17% 17 ......
laledonian .. 30 .... 23% 24 .....
Cheltenham and Oxford .. 2 .... ..........
Dublin and Belfast Junction 15 ....
Eastern Counties .. 20 .• .. 19
Ditto, York Extension, .. • • 6% •• • • 51A 5• • ••• ••
Eastern Union .. 45 ..........
East Lancashire .. .. • • .. 17 •• • • 16 .........

I)itto, ditto New Scrip • • • • 1U •• • • ••• • • .....
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 69% ....... • 69%
Great Northern 21
Great North of England . .. 100 .... 231% •2317,.
Great Western 85
Ditto, Half Shares .. 50 .... 66 65
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12%.... 16%
- Ditto. Fifths .. 20 25% .
Huddersfield and Manchester .. lb .... 19 ..
t.ondon and BlackwaU .. 161. 13s. 4d. .. • • ......
London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .... 50% 51%x
Ditto, Consol. Eighths .. .. 10 .... .• •
Ditto, Fit teeaths _ 2 .... 2% ..........
London and North-Western • • 100 •• .. 172% 171% ....
Ditto, Quarters L. and B. 7 .... •• • ••
Ditto ditto, New Shares .. 2 .... 11%..........
London and South• Western —4l/. 6s. 10d... 61% 62 61% ..
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) • • 50 •• • 52 ..........
Lynn and Ely .. .• 25 ••••.. • • ..
Manchester and Leeds .. .. • • 82
Ditto, Quarter Share:.
Ditto, Fifths 5 .... 9 ....
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.).. ..71. 45..... 14 p...... •• iy p
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. •• •• dis. •.. • x dis.
Blanchester and Southampton .. 2 ....
Niidiand •.. ..100 115% 115%
Ditto. New 36 3914.... • •••• 39%
Ditto, New .. • .. .. 6 .... 8 ......
Ditto, Consol. Bristol and Bir-
mingham G per cent. ..100 .. • • 123
Ne weastie and Berwick 20 .. ••
Ditto, New .. • •• . 5
Norfolk •• ..100 ....122
Northern and Eastern .. .. 50 .... 55
' North Staffordshire .. • • • • 5 • • 6% .... •• • • 6,4
Scottish Central • • .. • • • 17%
Shropshire Union .. 425.
south Staffordshire • • • • .. 21. 123... dis.. dis
South Eastern mid Doror .• • • 33% 3614
•••30 4
Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 5 .. 4% 4%
West Riding Union • • • • • • 41.25..... p p
Wilts, Somerset, and.Weymouth 20 10%
York and Newcastle .. • • • . 25 ...,
Ditto, New.. • • • • • • • •
Ditto, Preference .. • • .. 4 6%
..... • 6%
York axd North Midland .. •• 50 .... 82 83• .
Ditto, Extension .. 25 .... 40% ....... ..• 40%
Ditto. Preference • • • • .. 2 • • 10%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .• .• •• 20 .... 164
Dutch Rhenish •• • • • • • • 7 .... 4
Lyons and Avignon (Constituted) 5 •..........
Northern of France • • 8 .
Orleans and Bourdeaux •• .. 6 _
Paris.and Lyons • • • • • • •• 8 ....
Sambre and Meuse • • •• • . 14
MINES,
Real del Monte. Unregistered _ 3m
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
Amsterdam C.F. 12 9 Gibra1tar..........., _
Ditto, at sight .. l2 6 Leghorn ........ • ..... 30 90
Rotterdam .... ••2 U. 12 8% Genoa • 26 50
26 40 Milan
Hamburgh M.B. 14 Venice
A.ltona. • ...... •••• • • • • Naples ...... ••.. •• 39N
Paris, 3 days' sight •. • • 26 l'alermo, per 0z........ 119%
Ditto, 3 months.. 26 40 Lisbon.... ...... 53
Marseilles •••••• • • •• • • 26 50 0p0rt0.......... ••.. • • 64
Bourdeaux...... •.. • • 26 40 Rio Janeiro • • ...• .. • • 26%
Frankton on Maine.... 124 Itahia ..
peterehurgh, 3 Us.
• • • • • -
Buenos Ayres • •
Berlin .. • •
Vienna, effec.tio •••• •• 10 16 Philadelphia
frieste, ditto.. • • • • 10 16 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ
Madrid ••.. • • • •. • • 46% Foreign Gold in bars.. X 3 17 9
Cadiz .. : •• ••• • • • 4714 New Dollars 0 4 9!
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Barcelona .. ••..•• • • • • Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
••• • •• Silver in bars ..... 0 4 10%

BANK OF

(From last nil
An Account, pursuant to the Act'
the Week ending on Saturda

2%
1713

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
SHREWSBURY RACES—THURSDAY.
The Wynnstay Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 50 added.
T.Y.C. _ _

ISSUE DICP.
X.
Notes 155ued........ 22,506,585

124 N

-- --
Mr. Bristow's Sponge — (Whitehouse) I
Mr. Little's The Convict 2
Mr. Marsh's Mother Cary's Chicken
Lord Caledon's b c by Simoom, out of Pergama
_ The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas. Three miles.
Mr. Johnstone's Annandale, 5 yrs 1
Sir C. Cockerell's Congress, 3 yrs
The following also started, but were not placed :—Air.
Meiklam's Alliance, 4 yrs; Mr. Grimbo's b g by Despot,
aged ; C iptain Campbell's Crcesus, aged ; and Mr. Copeland's
Arthur, 5 yrs.
The Herbert Stakes of 10 sous. each, and 30 added. One
mile and a quarter.
Mr. Quartermaine's Lady Lift (Marlow) 1
Mr. Meeson's Jovial..
PLYMOUTH SPRING RACES—THURSDAY.

VA
143

A 22,506,581

1114
43,4
7y2

ENGLAND.
ght's Gazette.)
7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
ay, the Ist day of May, 1847.
'AILTBLEN T.

Government debt • • 11,015,100
Other securities • • 2,984.900
Gold coin and bullion 7.083,767
Silver bullion ••• • • • 1,422,8 IS

X 22,506,585
MARSHALL, Chiet Cashier.

Dated the 6th day of May. 1547-,

•zpizTmzx T.

Government seam'.

The Lyneham Stakes of 5 sovs, each, h ft. Heats, once

round and a distance.
Conyngbam's Fugitive, 4 yrs, 12st lib
Mr. Frothero's The Hatter, 4 yts, list 131 b
Mr. Deacon's Trebartha, 6 yrs, list lib
Sir W. Carew's be by Voltaire, 4 yrs, Ilst 31b
Mr. J. IL Fleming's Miss Vernon, 6 yrs, 12st 111 b 5 5 dr

Three well contested heats.
tiir'e Handicap Plate of 50/. Heats, once round.
Mr. E. Scobell's Royalty, 4 yrs, Bst 1 lib
11r. J. H. Flemming's the Duke, 6 yrs, Bst 111 b
Captain Crofton's Porto Bello, aged, lOst
Won easy.
The Hurdle Race was won cleverly, in two beats, by Mr.
Nix's Saracena, 1 2st 91b (Mr. Newcombe), beating Cerito
and Mazeppa by a neck.
The Silver Cup of 10/. was won very easily by Mr Judd's
Minx, lOst 31b, beating Saracena, 9st 101 b, and another.

tics (including Dead

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 6.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Notting-
ham, Boston, and Eastern Junction, 265. 3d. dis.-Birming-
ham and Oxford, 7 p.-Buckinghamshire dis.-East
Lancashire, New (scrip), par-Huddersfield Canal and Rail-
way, par-Leeds and Thirsk, 54 dis.-Liverpeal, Crosby,
and Southport, 7/8 p.-London and North-Western, 171%-
Ditto, Quarters (U. J.), 16 p.-Manchester and Leeds,
Fifths, 4 p.-Ditto, 32/. Shares (late Extensions), % p.-
Ditto, Fifths (late W. R. U.), p.-Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, Quarters, No. 2, 214-Midland, 115-
Ditto, 401. Shares, 3 p.-Ditto, New, VA p.-North Staf-
fordshire, 134 p.-North Union (A), 210 p.-North-Western,
1% dis.-South-Eastern and Dover, 36 4-Ditto, New, No. 4,
3a. 9d. dis.-York and North Midland (East and West
Riding Extension), 101/-16611 Midland and Great Western,
14 dis.-East Indian Vs dis.
MANCHESTER, MAY 6.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston, 1% dis.-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire, 13q c. dis.-Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 714
p.-East Lancashire (late B. and P.), New (scrip), 1-16
dis.-Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, 1%
dis.-Manchester and Leeds, 32/. Shares (late Extension),
3-16 p.-Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), IA p.-
Manchester and Southampton, 28s. 3d. dis.-North Stafford-
shire, 1 9-16 South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 3-16 dis.
LEEDS, MAY 6.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-East Lancashire, Ner,
114 dis.-Ditto, New Scrip, Is. 6d. dis.-East and West
Yorkshire, 11/8 dis.-Great Northern, 275. dis.-Leeds and
Dewsbury, Extensions, Scrip (green), 10s. dis.-Ditto, New,
Extensions, Scrip (pink), 14s. dis.-Leeds and Thirsk, New,
dis.-Ditto, Preference, 7s. 6d. p.-Malton and Dritheld
Junction, 10s. dis.-Manchester and Leeds, 32/. Shares (late
Extensions), ss. p.-Ditto, West Riding Union, 4s. p.-
Midland, Preference, 1% p.-Newcastle and Berwick, New,
335. 9d. p.-North British, Extension (scrip), 7s. 6d. dis.-
North Staffordshire, 1% p.-North-Western, 345. dis.
SHEFFIELD, MAY 6.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate Notting-
ham, and Boston, 278.-East Lincolnshire, 1% p.-Leeds and
Thirsk, 51. dis.-Ditto Preference, % p.-Manchester, Bux-
ton, Matlock, and Midland, % dis.-Manchester and Leeds
(West Riding Union), 14 p.-Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire (Great Grimsby and Sheffield), 8/. dis.-North
Staffordshire, 1% p.
HULL, MAY 6.
STOCK Excwarax.-The sales are-North British, Quar•
ters, 625.-Ditto, Extension (scrip), 7s. 6d. p.-Ambergate,
Nottingham, and Boston, 255. 6d.-Great Northern, 24---
North- Western, 13/4 dis.-West Riding Union, p,
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, MAY 6.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 15 dis.-Newcastle and Carlisle, 11114
cum div.

weight Annuity).. 11,727,319
Other securities ... • 16,112,676
Notes ••.•
Gold and silver coin.. 831,131

f 30,412,206
MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.