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r place with • variable success. Sometimes the Yankees
have bee/ victorious, sometimes their antagonists
have g- tined the mastery ; but every where it
has bi :en acknowledged that the Mexicans have
in a great measure redeemed their character
from the charge of pusillanimity, and fre-
quent ;ly covered their assailants with shame. Even
in the recent capitulation of Vera Cruz it is noto-
rious that the garrison was outnumbered very
nearly four times by those who were bombarding the
castle, mad that the latter, being wholly without any
conception as to what valour and heroism really are,
resorted to the dastardly contrivance of compelling
the del'enders to capitulate by throwing shells and
rockets into the town from a considerable distance,
and thereby carrying havoc and carnage among the
unarmed and terrified citizens. It is against these
unmanly invaders that the inhabitants of Mexico are
being summoned to fight; it is against their rapacity,
against their inhumanity, against their vain-glorious
insolence, that the population of the Aztec empire
are rising from the sloth and effeminacy of centuries.
It is impossible but that with unanimity the
' people of Mexico must, in the end, prove victorious,
under a leader who has heretofore acted and spoken
like President SANTA. ANNA. The proclamations of
' that valiant commander are lit up with the glory of
patriotism. And the Mexicans are at length be-
ceming conscious that with such a captain they may
set the forces even of the United States at defiance ;
for, as he himself observes, " How shall eight or ten
thousand Americans prevail against the decision of
eight millions of Mexicans ?" Yes, that is unques-
tionably the palladium under which Mexico can alone
be sheltered—the decision and the unanimity of eight
millions of her children. And these children, as we
have just remarked, are awakening to a knowledge of
the medium through which they can alone hope for
the salvation of their nationality. They have wel-
comed SANTA ANNA with enthusiasm through-
out his march upon the capital, where a re-
volution had filled the streets with tumult and
thrown the detested Government of GoMEz
FARIAS into confusion. One of the American cor-
respondents has in a sarcastic vein literally depicted
the rejoicings which upon authentic information
actually accompanied the Commander-in-Chief during
his progress towards the city of Mexico, when he
says, " No Knight on his return from the doly Land,
scarred with sacred wounds, and bearing the crescent
banner of the defeated infidel, ever received more
homage from the people of the middle ages than did
the Mexican hero." And the consequence of this
exultation has been the formal installation of SANTA
ANNA in the chair of Presidency.
President SANTA ANNA has nobly inaugurated his
new Government by publishing a proclamation such
as is best calculated to rouse the hearts, the valour,
and the affections of the most effeminate community.
" Mexicans !" he cries aloud, " Mexicans ! have you
a religion ? Protect it. Have you honour ? De-
liver it from infamy. Do you love your wives and
your children ? Rescue them from American bru-
tality." That is the exordium of his bold and stir-
ring appeal. He tells his countrymen that They are
the arbiters of the fate of Mexico; "if it is to be
defended," he continues, "you will be those who will
have to stay the triumphant march of the enemy that
occupies Vera Cruz : let him adcance one step
further, and the national independence will be hurled
into the abyss of the past I" Having thus warned
them of the perilous position in which the
' nation is placed, he confesses that his duty
is to offer himself as a sacrifice, and assures
them that he will evince his readiness to fulfil that
duty. SANTA ANNA then closes his proclamation
with these impassioned words of adjuration—words
that should make the heart's blood of every true Mexi-
can leap with a respondent enthusiasm through his
veins—" I speak to you," he exclaims, " for the last
time ; fur Gon's sake believe me. You must not hesi-
tate between death and slavery; and if the enemy
shall vanquish you, at least let your resistance be re-
spected. It is now time that there should be no
thought but for the common defence. The hour of
sacrifices has struck. Awaken! the tomb opens
at your feet. Win a laurel that ic may be
reared over it. But the nation will not perish ; I,
I will answer for the triumph of Mexico, nay, will
swear for the remit, if a unanimous and sincere co-
operation shall only second my desires. Vera Cruz
cries for vengeance ; hasten to wipe out the stain of
her dishonour." Every one with a generous sense
of the dignity of patriotism and the love of nationality
will sympathise with the noble and valorous lan-
guage in which this Mexican chieftain conjures his
fellow-citizens to rally round his banner.
As yet, ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA, Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Mexican army, and President
of the Mexican Republic, has fully equalled our most
sanguine anticipations. May he bring them to a
happy and glorious consummation.

form the duties incidental to their properties for a
limited period only—whether the great experiment
is to be tried under every possible disadvantage, with
a legislative confession of a want of confidence in its
success, en expectation that it will prove a failure—
whether a direct encouragement is to be afforded to
its opponents to make the working of the law as mis-
chievous as possible, to aggravate its defects, and to
impair the effect of its more beneficial clauses in
order to strengthen the arguments against its re-
newal—whether the landlords are to be enabled to
take advantage of those portions which prevent relief
from being extended to occupiers of more than a
quarter of an acre of land, to compel the wretched
cottiers to give up their holdings in order to obtain
food for their families, and then, after a brief period,
to withdraw the right in exchange for which those
holdings were surrendered, not only to leave
them as destitute as before, but also deprived of the
little means they had previously possessed. Surely
no body of English gentlemen, possessed of the com-
mon feelings of humanity, and of a due sense of
what they owe to their own countrymen, can hesitate
as to their decision. The time of limitation still ap-
pears to be unsettled"; the amendment which was car-
ried limited the duration of certain parts of the Bill to
the Ist of August, 1848, and to the end of the then
next session of Parliament, while the subsequent
clause, which the confusion occasioned by the success
of that amendment rendered necessary, fixed the Ist
of September, 1850, as the day for their cessation.
Whatever may be the period on which the leaders of
the party (united only in their hostility to the Bill
and their desire to impair its efficiency) may finally
agree, it is impossible to suppose that when the prin-
ciple of out-door relief has once been recognised and
sanctioned, in cases of extreme emergency, that the
system can ever be put an end to, even if they should
be reckless enough to make the attempt.
The House will also have to consider the important
question as to the area of taxation—whether the land-_
lords are to be encouraged to clear their estates,
and to drive the paupers into the neighbouring towns.
and thus to impose on others the burdens for which
in justice and equity they should be themselves
responsible. The 11th clause, which was omitted
from the Bill on the motion of Lord STANLEY,
provided that " all expenses beyond a sum of fifteen
pence in the pound should be charged to the union
at large." This was the medium course adopted by
the Ministry between the conflicting claims of the
inhabitants of the towns and the rural districts. It
would have acted as a check against the land-
lords abusing the great poi.ers conferred on them
and have taken away the inducement to banish the
poorer classes from their respective districts.
Probably the most important of the questions re-
served for consideration, however, is the quarter of an
acre clause ; by that clause, as it now stands, it is
enacted—

"That no person who shall be in the occupation of any
land of greater extent than the quarter of a statute acre shall
be deemed and taken to be a destitute poor person under the
provisions of the first recited Act, or of the Acts amending
the same, or of this Act; and if any person so occupying
more than the quarter of a statute acre shall apply for relief,
or if any person n his behalf shall apply for relief, it shall
not be lawful for any board of guardians to grant such relief
within or out of the workhouse, unless such applicant for
relief shall bring satisfactory proof that he has (at least ten
days previous to such application) surrendered to his reputed
immediate landlord, which surrender such landlord shall be
bound to accept, whatsoever right or title he may have had
to the occupation of any such land over and above the ex-
tent of one quarter of a statute acre."

Here we find a direct inducement held out, and
a means furnished to the landlords, by which they
will be enabled to crush their poorer tenants. This
is a cheap and easy substitute for the proceeding by
ejectment. If they desire to clear their estates,
it will no longer be necessary to put
the sheriff in requisition, to call in the aid of the
military to drive their tenants forth to perish on the
highways. No longer will the open act be neces-
sary, which generally provoked the public indigna-
tion and subjected the heartless and unfeeling land-
lord to well•merited odium and disgrace. He may
now proceed in a more effective manner. His mode
of action, though more secret, will not be less sure. He
need only withhold employment from the person he
desires to get rid of, and induce the neighbouring
squires to do likewise; he may distrain the goods, so
as to deprive the poor man of all his present re-
sources ; he may prevent him from obtaining work,
by which he could procure the means of kvelihood•
He may cast him into prison under a civil bill decree,
so as to take from his helpless wife and children their
only supporter, and by these simple means compel
the surrender of his holding—nay, more, when the
torture has had its effect, when the starving victim
has been forced to yield, when he has been driven
from the hut in which he was born, and which was
dear to him in all his sorrow, he is not even then
eligible: for relief. No matter how great may be his
exigencies, how pressing his necessities, although he
may be perishing at the very threshold of the work-
house, " it shall not be laufal to afford him relief
either in or out of the house unless he shall bring
satisfactory proof (query, what will be considered
satisfactory ?) that he has at least ten days
previous to such application surrendered
to his reputed immediate landlord whatsoever right
or title he may have had to the occupation of any
such land above the extent of a quarter of an acre."
He may starve in the midst of his family, but no dis-
cretion is permitted to the guardians. The deep
crime of having, within ten days, held more than a
quarter of an acre of land must close against him and
his al! feelings of compassion. Most sincerely do
we hope that this monstrous provision may be ex-
punged. It formed no part of the original Bill, but
was introduced avowedly as a I.‘ landlords clause," and
assented to by the Ministry, in the vain hope of the
landlords being thereby propitiated. Such a power
should not be entrusted to any body of men, and our
experience of Irish landlords does not enable us to
consider them as peculiarly trustworthy in such a
case. It is right that the full effects of the clause
and its probable results should be thoroughly under-
stood before it is finally assented to, and made part
and parcel of the law of the land.

Whilst the present exorbitant rates of purchase
continue to prevail throughout the entire provision
market of the United Empire, we may expect that,
so long as Parliament shall continue its vocations,
there will be almost nightly, in one House or the
other, questions put by different Members, and state-
ments made to them in reply by the Government,
wi:h respect to the present and future prospects of
food for the people. Mr. BAILLIE did not renew his
question last evening to the Premier for eliciting
whether the Ministry intend to recommend a prohi-
bition against the use of grain in the distilleries. But
Mr. IlumE inquired of Lord JOHN whether, consider-
ing the high prices of articles of general consumption,
a repeal of the duties on butter, bacon, and cheese
wou!d occupy the atteution of Ministers ; the
Hon. Member did not press for an imme-
diate answer, yet there is little doubt but that,
on Friday next, if not sooner, the head
of the Government will announce his views
as to the best course to be adopted for
insuring an adequate supply to the country
of the necessaries of life between this
and the gathering in of the coming harvest. As we
observed yesterday, the great point is to guard our-
selves to the utmost against any serious deficiency in
corn, inasmuch as its price regulates that of all other
edible commodities. In the House of Lords the Earl
of HARDWICKE last evening questioned the Marquis
of LANSDOWNE as to his knowledge of the quantity
of wheat in the country, and also as to his expecta-
tion of the quantity likely to be imported. The
President of the Council, in answer to the first ques-
tion, reminded the Noble Querist that the Govern-
ment had no organized means of obtaining more
accurate information than any other individual, and
that, therefore, he was not called upon to hazard an
opinion, upon "at most perilous subject ;" but, from
the fact, that the quantity of corn brought into our
markets had not exceeded the amount offered for sale
during the corresponding period of the former year,
the Marquis inferred that, unless the harvest of
1846 was seriously defective, compared with the
preceding one, there must be a large stock in hand.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then adverted to the
enormous amount of foreign corn imported since
January last, exceeding three millions of quar-
ters. He said that in April alone we had
received 1,043,000 quarters that from the
United States we had obtained alrea iy 1,670,000
quarters and that, contrary to the opinions
of the Earl of lIARDWICKE and Lord ASLIDERTON,
but conformably with "the opinion of those most con-
versant milt the suldect," there would be no
diminution in any future supply from America,
should we require it. This is very cheer-
ing intelligence, and completely squares with
the views which we yesterday submitted 'to
our readers. We repeat there is no real
ground of apprehension as to the future, particu-
larly if we should be blessed this year with a fair
average crop. At the same time, looking to the rapid
increase in our population, and to the circumstance
large as are our imports of foreign corn, there
is no doubt of much of it being bonded for re-
exportation, the prudence of economy in the con-
sumption of fool, should, from a due regard to the
necessities of the poor, ho impressed upon the affluent
classes as a permanent duty, the neglect of which
would subject them to kevere and well-merited re-
proach.

The Suabian Mercury contains the following from
Stutgard of May 6 :—" Yesterday and last night
passed over tranquilly. On the night before and yes-
terday morning eighty persons were arrested, and
yesterday afternoon some others, who were uttering
seditious language. 'They who were arrested during
the riot are for the most part workmen, not belonging
to the town ; however, there also appear amongst
them some respectable inhabitants. It is probable
that amongst those arrested are many who were
attracted by curiosity to the spot where the riot took
place."
We learn from the Grand Duchy of Brunswick
that the disturbances in that country have ceased ;
but the buildings of the royal domain of Walkenreid
have been destroyed by fire, with large stores of
corn and potatoes. This is supposed to have been
done by incendiaries.

The Second Chamber of Darmstadt has decided
that children under nine years of age shall not be
allowed to work in the manufactories ; children of
from nine to twelve may be authorised by the police
to work for a period not exceeding eight hours each
day, and those between twelve and sixteen may work
ten hours. In the course of the debate on the mea.
sure it was stated that there are more than 10,000
children employed in the manufactories in the Grand
Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt.

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Madrid journals of the sth instant have arrived.
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`SECOND EDITION.

Senor SALAMANCA read to the Chamber of Depu-
ties on the 4th his statement relative to the finances.
In the Budget presented by the Minister the receipts
of the last sit months of 1847 are put down at
630,820,808 reals, and the expenses at 629,610,557
reels, 23,750,000 reels of which are put down under
the head royal household. The receipts of 1848 are
calculated at 1,257,780,466 reals; the expenses at
1,237,578,020, among which the royal household
figures for 47,500,000. The Bill relative to the
Sinking Fund Bank provides for the establishment of
a special department fur the administration of the
state debt. On the same day the Chamber decided that
funeral honours should be paid to its deceased President
Senor CASTRO r OROZCO. On the sth a royal de-
cree was promulgated proroguing the Cortes. They
winonot be again called together, it is said, until the
month of October. At a Cabinet Council held on
the 4th, the Ministers determined to advise her MA-
JESTY to consent to the marriage of Don ENEIQUE
with the daughter
of the Marquis DE CASTELLAU,
but to refuse her co
45ent to the marriage of one of

el- 'emir% anitt
UNDON. WEDNESDAY, Jikir 12, 1847.

Hope is beaming upon Mexico. There is a renewal
of brilliant anticipations to that unfurtunate land, for
Al Tomo LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA has been summoned
by acclamation to the Pre.sidency. The lovers of
valour and disinterestedness cannot possibly have for-
gotten that several months back this patriotic man
was proffered supreme authority over his country,
and they cannot have forgotten how that temporary
dicta torship was refused by SANTA ANNA, how he
transferred the wand of office to G0312Z FARIAS, and
anxiously directed to
hurried forward, sword in hand,, to the invaded fron-
The public attention will be
tiers to keep the unprincipled Americans at bay, and, , the proceedings ,of the House of Lords on Friday
if possible, drive them ignominiously into their own next. On that day the report on the Irish Poor-law
territories. Extraordinary changes have occurred 1 Bill is to be considered. On that day it will be de-
in that interval. Several engagements have taken), tided whether the landowners of Ireland are to per-

THE STN, LONDON, WEDNESDAYLEVV.INING, M Y l2, 1847.

the sisters of Don ENRIQUE, who was about to be
united to an American gentleman.
On the evening of the 4th the QUEEN visited the
theatre, accompanied as usual by her uncle and cousin
—not by the KING. On her return- some alarm was
created by a belief that two pistols had been fired
as her carriage was passing. It appears that loud
reports, as of firearms, were really heard close to the
carriage ; but the Heraldo says they were caused
by some heavy substance having passed over two
petards thrown by boys in the streets. On the sth
her MAJESTY left for Aranjuez, and was expected to
remain there for some time, going,• afterwards to La
Granja or the Escurial. The KING has determined
on remaining in Madrid during the whole of her
MAJESTY'S absence.

General BUTRO has been appointed Governor of
Madrid.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
In the Cotton, Market at Liverpool yesterday the cafes
were 3,000 bales, including 2,500 bales American, at 6d. to
71/4d. The market was flat, and V. per lb. lower than on
Monday, for American.
Railway Shares drooped again, and were only saleable at
lower rates generally.
The Railway Share Market continues dull and depressed ;
and the sales effected at Messrs. Lamont and Co.'s sale yes-
terday, do not show any material variation from last week's
quotations. The following are a few of the principal sales :
Eastern Counties, York Extension... £4 15 0
Louvain ala Sambre 1 0 0
Caledonian
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 1 5 0
North Staffordshire • 9 1 0

South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 4 14 0
North British, Extension 1 0 0
Great Luxembourg
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham • 5 12 0
Shrewsbury and Hereford
Shropshire Union and Canal 0 5 6
Royston and Hitchin
Lond., Brighton, & South Coast, Fifteent lis 3 9 0
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston 1 6 0
The few letters received from the United States by way of
Havre, notice a further rise in the rate of exchange on
London to 106% and 107. The probable conclusion of peace
was expected to make the Money Market easier.
The Indigo sales have been going oflflatly, at lower prices
than in February, and colonial Wools are also cheaper, but
in Sugar, &c., there has been more doing, partly for distil-
lation, as regards the article named.
The English Securities have risen again to day, but there
is still very little doing either for Money or next Account,
the " continuation" to which is about % per cent.
Consols have realised 86% % for present trans-
fer, and 863/4 to 87 for the 27th instant. Exchequer-
bills have been rather lower, viz., 2s. to ss. premium.
If trade becomes rather brisker, these are the securities which
it will probably be most advantageous to sell, now Stocks are
so depressed to what they were when a large number of the
present holders took them. The New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. have realised 87 to 87%. Bank Stock has been
quoted 189 to 190, and India Stock 242.
The Foreign Investments have been dull again. Portu-
guese Four per Cents. 34%, and Spanish Fire per Cents. 22.
Belgian Two-and-a-Halt per Cents have realised 53, and
Dutch Four per Cents 88.
In Railway Shares there has been only a limited business
doing.

MADRID BOLSA, MAY s.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 3I for cash ; the Five per Cents. at I9i ; the Debt
without Interest at 5%; and the Coupons at 16.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
The llioniteur publishes live royal ordinances,
countersigned by Marshal SOULT, containing the no •
minations of the new Ministers, which we published
yesterday. The journals remark that the ordinance
relative to the replacing M. LACANE LAPLAGNE does
not whose resignation is ac-
cepted;' to Admiral MACKAU and
General
SAINT Yori. The Dibats says
e container
al A which
L i thes areE
DE • ords
applied
,A"
that M. JAnt and M. TaEzEL have notified by tele-
graph their acceptance of the offices to which they
have been appointed.
The Presse continues its attacks on the Ministry,
between whom and the young Conservative party it
would appear that war is declared a t'outrance.
The following on the subject of the Cubieres affair
appears in the National:—
" I t is probable that the prosecution of General Cubieres
will finish by an ordinance of non•lieu. His letters are
merely an imprudent trifle; nothing was demanded, no-
thing premised, nothing given; no corruption was prac-
tised, nor any attempt at corruption made. General Cubieres
never entertained so black a thought; when he wrote The
Government is in grasping and corrupt hands,' he only uttered
a foolish joke. The detailed account of this bargain is a
fantastic invention •, it was M. Parmentier that azked General
Cubieres to write him these fantasies to amuse his leisure
and his shareholders, and M. Cubieres, Lieut.-General, ex-
Minister of War, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Se-
cretary of the Chamber of Peers, director of several in-
surance and railway companies, and member of several
learned societies, was weak enough to consent to spare time,
from his leisure moments, to scribble out this novel in letters.
A simple clause will cast blame on the imprudence of such
a proceeding, but it will be declared that there is not the
slightest trace of criminality. We are however warned
that if the National should be so unfortunate as to indulge
in reflections a little severe on the justice of the present
day, the Court of Peers thinks of condemning it to three
years' imprisonment and 10,000 f. fine at least! We are
thankful for the warning."
Intelligence has been received from Algiers up to
the sth instant. The utmost tranquillity exists in
the colony, and the spring tribute was being paid
with great regularity.
The frigate La Charte sailed from Toulon on the
6th for La Plata, where it will receive Admiral LE
PREDOUE, Commandant of the French station. The
Admiral, who wished to arrive quickly at his desti-
nation, took his departure some time ago in the
steam-frigate the Cassini. The greater part of the
passengers conveyed by La Charte are diplomatic
persons. The steam•corvette Gassendi, which formed
part of the station at La Plata, has received
orders to go to Otaheite. The corvette the Oise,
which lately sailed from Toulon for Bourbon, took out
a detachmeat of fifty gendarmes. The Prince DE
JOINVILLE remains at the llyeres, with four vessels,
forming the first division of the squadron of evolu-
tion ; and Rear-Admiral DE TREIIOUART, Command-
ant of the second division, whose flag is carried by
the Friedland, is with two frigates and several
steamers forming part of the division still in the road-
sted of Toulon. Queen CHRISTINA was expected at
Toulon, and apartments had been prepared for her at
. _ _

the Maritime Prefecture. A Government steam-
vessel will convey her Majesty to Naples.
It was stated in the Chamber of Peers on Monday,
by the Minister of Commerce and Agriculture, that
the prospects of the next harvest were extremely
promising. Notwithstanding this prospect, however,
the 'markets continue to rise in various parts of
France.

The Refo?..me states that the price of wheat has
risen from 50c. to 2f. in all the markets in the neigh-
bourhood of Paris ; and at bray-sur- Seine, If. 66c.;
Vic-sur-Seine, 75c. ; St. Quetstin, lf. ; Ligny, 2f.;
Rouen, if. ; Versailles, lf. 33c. ; Orleans, If. 50e.;
Meaux, GGe. ; Proving, it. 30e.; Chartres, lf.; Punt
St. Maxence, lf. 33c.; Dourdan, lf. 50c.; Clermont,
lf. ; Vernon, lf. 50c. ; Etampes, if.
General CUBIERES has resigned the Presidency of
the Council of Administration of the Paris and Stras-
burgh Railroad.
The railroad from Orleans to Bourges is to be
opened early in July.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Monday at 77E 95c. ; the Five per Cents., 115 f. 90c. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,236 f. 25c. ; Rouen, 9361. 25e. ;
Havre, 6551. ; Great Northern, 6051. ; Avignon, 760 f. ;
Vierzon, 590 f. ; Bordeaux, 511 E 25c. ; Boulogne, 405 f. ;
Basle, 1921. 50e. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4201. ; Tours and
Nantes, 405 E ; Paris and Lyons, 431 E 25c. ; Lyons and
Avignon, 4451. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 4401. ; Spanish Three
per Cents., 3314.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAr 11.
Boulogne and Amiens, 16 —Dutch Rhenish, 3.i'—Louvain
la Sambre, 76—Luxembourg I►,6—Lyons and Avignon
(Constituted), 2y—Namur and Liege, 376—Northern of
France, 113.i—Paris and Lyons, 4T6 —Paris and Strasbourg,
11A— Tours and Nantes, 1.

WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS.—Lord John Russell gave
notice last evening that on Friday, May 21, he should
move the adjournment of the Howe till Friday, the
28th instant.

ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO ASSAS-
SINATE QUEEN ISABELLA.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

Bank Stock •• • • • • • • 189 190
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities • . 85% 9
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities • . •• 86%h
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 87% 17 87%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. b, 1860 .. 936
India Stock .. .• • • .. • • 242
Consols for May 27 .. • • . • .. • • 86 %% 87
Exchequer Bills. 1 d. 2d.
1,000/. .• •• •• 352 5 p
500/. .. • ..• 62 p
Ditto, Small S 5 p
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent .. .. 813 823
Portuguese Bends, 5 per Cent. • • 83
Ditto, Four per Cent .. . 34%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. .. • • 22
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent. 91
Ditto, Two-and-a-Half per Cent. 53
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 57%3G
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 88
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. rain. PER SHARE.
Aberdeen .• . • • • • • • •30 •• •. 23 .... to 24
Amber., Notting., Boston, & Eastrn Jn. 2%.... 114 .• .. to
Birmingham and Oxford Junction • • 10 .. • • 16% %•. to
Buckinghamshire .. • • .. • . 6/. 114 dis. to
Caledonian .. .• .. 30 .... 23%% to
Chester and Holyhead • • .. • • .. 27% 203( .... to
Eastern Counties . • •• •• 20 .. 18%34 % to
Do., Perpetual,s per Ct. No. 1, 61. 13s.
Ditto, ditto .. N 0.2, 61. 13s. 4d..... Nl4p to
Ditto, York Extension . • • • • . 614 .... 4 .. ••to
East Lancashire •• .. 17 .... •• te
Ditto, New .. .• • • •• • . 73% .... 6 .... to
East Lincolnshire • . • . .. • • • . 6% .... 7% to
Ely and Huntingdon • . . • 15 .. • • 14%.... to
Exeter, Yeovil and Dorchester.. • • 1 •• • • to
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 30 • • 243( .... to
Great North of England • . • . .. 100 ... • .. ••to
Ditto, New.. . • 5 .... 58% .... to
Ditto. New .. •• •• • • 25 61% •• • • to
Great Western .. •. •• •. .. 85 .• ..110 te 11 l
Ditto. Half Shares .. • • • • 50 .. • • 65 to
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • • • • . 123 •• • • 153 •••• to
Ditto, Fifths •• .. • • .• 20 •• . • 25% .. ••to
Hull and Selby .. .. • • .. • 50 .. ••to
Ditto. Half Shares .. •• • • •• 25 •• .. 50% to
Leeds and Thirsk • • • • • • 223 • • 193¢ ••to 20
Ditto, New .. .• • • • • .. 10 .... 5% •. to
London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. •• . • 7% %..to
London, Brighton, and South Coast • • 50 .....Si 00% to 5138
London and North-Western . • • • 100 .. .171% .... to 172
Ditto, Quarters .. • • L. and .1.3. 7 .. • • to
Ditto ditto New .. •• .. • 2 .... 11% to
Ditto, Fifths .. .. • • • • • • 2 .• • - 15% .... to
London and South-Western 41/. led. .... 60% to 61%
Ditto, New Consolidated Eighths... 40 .... 4434 • • to
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) . • • • 30 • • 52 .. • • to
Ditto, Scrip .. .. • • • . 5 .. • • 4% •• • • to
Manchester and Leeds .. • •. 82 .• • • 100% • to
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) • • • • • • 71. 45... • • par ... to
Manehester, Buxton, and Matlock 425. dis..• to
Midland ..100 .. • • 114% to
Ditto, New .. • • • • • • 36 .... 381,4 to
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby • • 100 .• •• 89 to
Newcastle and Bet wick .. .• 20 .... 24% .. •.to 25
Norfolk • • .. • • • • , •• .. 100 . ..123 12134 to 123
North British •• •• •• 25 .. •. 3014 •• to 30
Ditto, Thirds .. • • .. 1 .... 2% %•• to
North Staffordshire .. .• • • • • 7% .... 9% .... to 9
Ditto, Scrip (late Churnet & Blythe) 2 ....2%%.. to
Preston and Wyre .• .. • • • •• 25 .... 34% .. to
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate .. 5 .... 4%.... to
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) • • 334 .... 3% .... to
Ditto, ditto (B) .. • • .. 3 .... 2 to
South Devon • • • • • • • • • • •• 40 98% .... to 29
South Staffordshire ............ • • 21. 125... 11.4 dis• •to
south Eastern and Dover .. • . 331. 25.4 d. 353 b •• • • to
Ditto, New (do. 151.) No. 4 .. .. 5 .. • • 4%.... to
West Riding Union .. .. • • • . 4/. 25....• par •••• to
Windsor, Staines, and South-Western 425. • 1 p .. to
York and Newcastle • • • • •• .• 25 ••••34% % • • to
I)itto, New • . • • . • • • • • 10 .. • • 14 •• .. to
Ditto, Preference • . •• • • • • 4 .. • • 6% ••to
York and North Midland •. .. • • 50 •• .. ~.. to
Ditto, Preference .• • • • • 2 •• • • 9% to
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

Our advices from Madrid, which extend to the sth
instant, are of some intereq. On the evening before, as
the Queen, with the Infante Don Francisco de PauhA
and !he Infanta Donna Josefa, was returning from the
Prado in her carriage, and, passing the Custom-house,
two detonations took place. Various conjectures were
formed on the subject, According to many persons, in-
cluding our correspondent, two pistols, or a double-
barrelled one, were fired at, her Majesty ; but those con-
nected with the Court and Government professed to
believe that it was nothing but the explosion of a couple
of crackers fired by two boys. The Queen is represented
by the Tiempo to have been so little alarmed that she
would not suffer her carriage to be stopped ; but, on
reaching the palace, she summoned the Ministers to her
presence, and ordered an immediate inquiry into the
occurrence, the result of which was the cracker version.
" Yet," adds the Tiempo, " her Majesty ought always
to have an escort when she drives out, in order that she
may not be expsed to such annoyances."—Post.

THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF
IRELAND.

Dunux, MAT 10.—The following bulletin was issued this
morning, nor has any more favourable reply being given to
inquiries at the Castle all day:—

"Monday, May 10.
" His Excellency had a disturbed night, and is not so well
:his morning,"

Dutch Rhenish .. 7 .. •• 3% ...• to
Lyons and Avignon (Constituted) .. 5 .... 21A% .. to
Namur and Liege .. .. . 10 4 to
Northern of France •• .• 8 .. .. 11% .... to
Paris and Lyons
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Provincial of Ireland .. 25 .. •• 44 ....
_to
Union of London .. • • • . .. 10 .•.. 12 .... to
MINES

"PHILIP CRANIPTON.
WM. STOKES.
J. F. PURCELL."

Real del Monte, Unregistered •• •• .• • • to -
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 9
Ditto, at sight
iotterdam ...... 2 U l2 9%
Antwerp.......... 26 49
Elamburgh .... • •31.8. 14
Altona. ......

Paris, 3 days' sight .... 2G
Ditto, ........ 26 40
Ittarseilles ........ 26 50
Bourdeaux .. 26 45
Frankfort on Maine.... 124
Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... . •

Gibraltar.. ....
Leghorn ........ ••.. • • 3090
Genoa .. ••••.•• • • • • • • • 26 50
Milan .. • • ............
Venice .. • .....
Naples ...... •••• • • •• 40%
Palermo, per oz ........ 119
Li5b0n................ .53%
Oporto • • 53%
Rio Janeiro • . 26%
Bahia ................
Buenos Ayres ...... • •
New York, 21 days'sight
Philadelphia ....

Berlin —
Vienna, effec.flo ..
Trieste, ditto lO 16
Madrid ....
Cadiz •• • .. : ........ 47%
Itilbao...• •... •• ......
Barcelona •• •• ..
Seville... • • • • • • • • • • • • •

PRICES OF BULLION, PIZ oz
Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9
New Dollars ...... 0 4 9%
Portugal Gold Cola .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Silver in bars ...... •. 0 4 10%

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LoatnoN, MAY 12.—Wind S.S.E., slight breeze, and cloudy.
DEAL, MAY 11.—Wind moderate.—Arrd. a barque,
Sydney, New South Wales, and sailed for London ; Airmen,
Fine, Calcutta. Sid. Alfred, Cape of Good Hope and Singa-
pore. Arrd. from the River, Agnes' for Trinidad.
OFF DOVER, MAY I I.—Ralph, Bernal, New Zealand.
OFF PORTLAND, Ai AT 10.—Agostina, Volenn, Launceston,
Van Diemen's Land ; Calypsa, Ellingham, Jamaica. 11. Jane
Francis, Crosby, Hobart Town.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 11.—Wind variable. Arrd. Trio,
Winter, Monte Video. Sld. Cressy,Adelaide, South America.
LivEttroot.' MAY 11.—Wind variable and light.—Arrd.
Devon, Latigley, Bombay; Belle, Rosewell, Valparaiso;
Themis, Brown, New Orleans ; Agnes Gilmour, Anderson,
New Orleans. Sld. 10. Spartan, New York. 11. Culdee,
Bombay; Cassiopea, Cape of Good Hope ; Alexander,
Philadelphia ; Queen, New York ; Wanderer, Boston ; Paole,
Staten Island; Junior, Quebec. Off port, Princess Sophia,
Islay; Cheshire, Van, and Bella Partena
CLTDR, MAY 10.—Wind W.—Arrd. Calypso, Colville,
Trinidad ; Mores, Kind, Boston. Sld. Margaret, Trinidad ;
Indian Chief, Port Philip and Sydney.
NEwrowr, MAY 11. —Wind S.S.W.—SW. Monmouth,
Grenada.
MILFORD, MAY 10.—Wind S.—Sld. Predera, New Orleans.
SCILLY, MAY 10.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Little Pet, Tre-
garthen, Porto Rico. The Hero, from Malaga to Liverpool,
was passed, sth inst., with bowsprit gone, bows stove, haring
been is contact with a large ship unknown.
SUNDERLAND, MAY 11.—Wind Thorndale,
Quebec

IVATEnronn, MAY 10.—Wind S.S.E. to S.S.W.—Arrd.
Harriet, Williams, St. John's, Newfoundland.
LYNN, MAY 11. —The Ohne Christine, from Grufswald,
sprung a leak this morning, and filled ; cargo (linseed)
damaged.
MAY 11.—The Phoenix steam-tug, Gainsborough
to this port, has sunk in the Trent, near Biuton Stather ; cargo
(iron) expected to be saved.
DEAL, MAY 1 I.—A vessel, supposed to be a barque of
about 400 to 500 tens, dismasted and waterlogged, and appa-
rently abandoned for two or three months past, was passed,
sth inst., lat. 42.30 N., lon. 10.25 W., in a position very dan-
gerous to vessels passing Cape Finisterre, by the Oriental,
arrived in the Downs. The name on the stern was not
visible, the letters being covered with grass, with the excep-
tion of N B at the end. She had a patent windlass, painted
ports, woman bust-head, and appeared to be a nearly new
vessel, and New Brunswick built.
SHIELDS, MAY 11.—Wind N. to N.E., light.—Sld. Cygnet,
St. John's; Susan aud Sarah, North America.

MONET MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 16 per which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 175.
1014 d, per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of
25.55; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being
25.90, it follows that gold is 1.35 per cent. dearer in London
than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold
is 4351 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s.
101/2d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of
13.10} ; and the exchange at Harnburgli on London at short
being 13.11, it follows that gold is 0.3-1 per cent. dearer in
London than in Ifamburgh. The course of exchange at New
York oil London is about 1051 per cent., and the par of ex-
change between England and America being 109 23-40 per
cent., it follows that the exchange is 4.08 per cent. against
England. lint the quoted exchange at New York being for
hills at 60 days' eight, the interest must be deducted from
the above difference. And from the present high rate of dis-
count here, and the increased charges for insurance, the above
apparent profit on exporting gold would be absorbed by the
costs.

A MAD SHEEP._About two months ago a little
terrier dog, at Cluny Castle, having been discovered to be in
a rabid state, it was found necessary to kill him ; but this
was not eff,cted before` he had done considerable damag",
thou;tli, we are glad to learn, to none of the human species.
It appears he had gone into a park in which about forty
wethers were being fed upon turnips, killed one, and bit
ether six. live of ‘‘ hich !were so severely injured, that they
were immediately destroyed. Ac the sixth had only re-
ceived a slight scratch on one of the hinder legs, it was
allowed to take itA chance. In a very short time the wound
was completely healed up, and, to all appearance, the
animal was none the worse for it. A few days ago, how-
ever, the shepherd, on going into the park with some hay
for his flock, was surprised to observe'the wether referred
to chasing the others most furious) leaping on such as
y,
he could overtake, and exhibiting all the symptoms o f
rabidness. In the words of our informant, "he acted the
dog as well as could possibly be done by any other animal
not of the canine race." This the pat last
oor animal continued to
do for about two hours after it was first observed, and
lay down from sheer exhaustion, foaming at the mouth, and
even imitating the barking of a dog. It was then destroyed
.....
Dundee ddrertier.