The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-06 00:00:00

the Channel, and another in the Mediterranean, for the
purpose of improving both seamen and naval officers I
in the tactics of naval evolutions, the Earl of ELLEN
BOROUGH seized the opportunity of alluding to the
existing distribution of some of our ships-of- war off
Lisbon and Athens respectively, and of throwing out
some inculpatory observations upon the policy at pre-
sent pursued by the Administration in Greece and
Portugal. As the Earl of ELLENBOROUGH had given
no notice of his intention to raise a discussion upon
some of the most abstruse points of international
law, the Marquis of LANSDOWNE very properly
declined to deviate from established practice ; but,
at the same time, in a general way, gave a satis-
factory explanation of the course pursued by the
Government with regard to those countries. The
Earl of ELLENBOROUGH having Wowed, that " no
doubt the Noble Earl (AUCKLAND) regretted this
destination of our ships, forced as it was upon
him by the superior authority of the Foreign
Office," the President of the Council replied that
our ships had been detached with the full con-
. currence and assent of the First Lord of the Admi-
ralty, and added, that " when the proper time came
the Government would be prepared to communicate
to the House the grounds upon which these forces
had been called to act beyond that immediate object
on which all their Lordships would wish them to act

it must exercise en the social condition of so large a
portion of the community, and that the most helpless
and destitute, so urgently demand.

The King of NAPLES has granted a full pardon to
thirty-six prisoners, and reduced by one-half the
periods of punishment of ten others. In the first
batch were included five persons condemned for
political offences.
Letters from Bologna of the 25th ult. announce
that the POPE bad sanctioned the principle of the
establishment of national guards throughout the
Pontifical dominions, and that a decree to that effect
would be shortly published by his Holiness. The
two censors of the press, who, with the Governor,
were to constitute the superior board for the pro-
vince of Bologna, were Father VENTURINI, a Barna-
bite, and M. BAJETTI, professor of natural law—
two men of great learning and liberality.

—he meant the protection of British interests." Lord
LANSDOWNE expressed his hope that our interference
had not been as ineffectual as Lord ELLENBOROUGH
was pleased to take for granted, assured the House
that the presence of our squadron in the Bay
of Lisbon had inspired our merchants with security,
and considered that, in the present state of
Europe, we were bound to watch over the
events that take place, and to assert the rights
and interests of this country. This is language
becoming a British statesman. The Earl of ELLEN
BOROUGH'S speech was somewhat unadvised. First,
remarking that the French had sent to Athens a naval
demonstration of superior strength to our own, his
Lordship asked the Government (without notice, be it
remembered), whether orders had been sent to allow
our forces to act ? for, observed Lord ELLENBOROUGH,
"if such orders had been sent, and there were
similar orders sent on the other side, might
not all this lead to a fatal conflict?" Such
reflections are ill-timed, and can minister to no
good end. We are quite certain that the present
Government are pacifically inclined, but we are
equally certain that, despite the tenor of such obser-
vations as those to which we have adverted, they will
not be deterred, should the necessity be unhappily
1 created, from firmly vindicating the rights and in-
terests of the British empire, in what quarter of the
world soever any attempt may be made to invade or
impair either the one or the other.

A letter from Berlin says—
"ln -Prussia, till now, all conflicts of jurisdiction were
judged by the Council of State, as in all the other states of
Germany, in France, and in many other countries. The King
has just reformed this state of things, which gives rise to
many abuses. By an ordonnance of the 12th, his Majesty
has created a court composed of five immovable judges, who
are to decide on all the conflicts which may arise between
the tribunals, or between the administrative authorities, or
between the former and the latter. This measure, as will be
readily believed, has been received with general approbation.
The King has held out a hope to the Deputies of the Grand
Duchy of Posen that immediately after the case of the Polish
insurrectionists shall have been judged, there shall be ac-
corded an amnesty, if not general, at least very large."

The Landed Property (Ireland) Bill went through
the Committee in the House of Lords on Tuesday
night. The promised explanation as to its general
objects, which should have been made on the second
reading, was given by the Marquis of LANSDOWNE,
who also announced the increase of the fund to be
granted for the purposes of the Act, from
1,000,0001. to 1,500,000/. sterling, consequent upon
the postponement of the Bill for the reclamation of
the waste lands, and the liberation of the million
intended to have been applied thereunder. The
public are already acquainted with the chief features
of the proposed measure, which is, in effect, the
mode by which the Treasury minute of last December
is to be carried out, and the stimulus to be given to
the improvement of the soil by those proprietors,
who, by reason either of their restricted powers
consequent upon entails and settlements, or of the
weight of the encumbrances and charges affecting
their respective properties, are unable from private
sources to obtain the necessary funds for that im-
provement. It is universally admitted by persons of
01 parties, that the aid intended to be afforded by

OVER LAND MAIL

IN Ell A.
(From the Herald.)
We have received by extraordinary express, in anti
cipation of the Overland Mail, our files of papers from
Bombay, April 1; Calcutta, March 23; Delhi, March
22. No later dates from China. We subjoin ex-
tracts:—

Madrid papers of the 28th ult. have arrived.
It is said that General VAN HALEN, the friend of
EsrAaTEao, is expected in Madrid. The return of
VAN FIALEx is probably the forerunner of the recal
of ESPARTERO. The 27th being Queen Camsma's
birthday was observed with the usual solemnities.
The Court was to leave Madrid for Aranjuez on the
sth May.
MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 28.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 314 for cash; the Five per Cents. at 19;
the Debt without Interest at 54; and the Coupons
at 11.

this Act, coupled with that for the more easy
disposal of encumbered estates, is calculated to
lead to the permanent amelioration of the sister
kingdom, and its elevation from the distress
and difficulties in which it has been involved.
No opposition, therefore, was offered from any quar-
ter to the progress of the measure. Some suggestions
were offered, one of which, including grist mills in the
class of buildings for the erection of which the Commis -
shiners were empowered to make advances, was assented
to. If this power is judiciously used it may be produc-
tive of considerable advantage to the country.
Nothing could be more objectionable than the crea-
tion of extensive commercial establishments with
the public money, or the interference with
the free course of trade, by giving undue
encouragement to any class of speculators which
must be prejudicial to those embarked in the
same description of business. Generally speaking,
private enterprise will be found fully adequate to
provide the required accommodation, to make the
supply equivalent to the demand. But, in Ireland,
the extraordinary events of the past year, and the
vast alteration that must henceforth take place in the
food of the people, require that extraordinary
facilities should be given for the grinding
of every kind of corn, and its conversion
into meal or flour. There is also an immense
quantity of water power, which has been neglected
and which might easily be made available, so as to
have small mills erected at a very trifling expense in
almost every locality. If limited to this extent, it
will be a very useful addition to the Act.

(From the Bombay Times of April 1.)
SUMMARY.—The only news worth noticing that has
reached us from the Punjaub is corrective of the errors
into which our north-western and eastern brethren had
fallen in reference to the state of Seikh affairs in general,
and the conduct of the Resident in particular. No at-
tempt on the life of Tej Singh seems to have been in-
tended to have been made. The Hazareh people have
never resisted the government of Ghoolab Singh; they
took up arms, on the other hand, against the Seikhs of
the plains, and had all but vanquished them when rein-
forcements were sent from Lahore a twelvemonth since,
just before the transfer of the country to Jamoo. Mr.
P. Vans Agnew and Lieutenant Lumsden had been sent
to make peace, not to maintain war—to use arguments,
not force. Ghoolab Singh does not seem a worse or more
unpopular ruler than the bulk of the chiefs around him.
Since our connexion with him began we have had no fault
whatever to find with him. He has at our suggestion
cleared his dungeons of state prisoners, restored lands un-
justly escheated, and abolished suttee and female in-
fanticide. No attempt to prevent the Durbar meeting
on Sunday bad been made, or to restrain the movements
of the Queen-Mother or her son. No commemoration
of any of our victories had occurred in the Seikh capital.
Everything throughout the country was tranquil; trade
and cultivation were everywhere advancing as the
public confidence increased ; and a stern system of in-
quiry into the state of the finances of the country had
been entered on with a view to retrenchment. In Sinde
the hot weather advances apace, but the country con-
Unties healthy and tranquil. A good deal of marauding
had occurred just beyond the frontier, where the robbers
had on one occasion the worst of it ; having been taken
by surprise by their intended victims, from five to six
hundred were left dead or severely wounded on the field.
Two hundred and' fifty hori.es formed portion of the
spoil. The remainder of them are hemmed in by Jacob's
Irregular Horse, and will, it is supposed, be starved
into submission. It is now admitted by the Government
official, that the Indus —formerly proclaimed open
to the trade of all nations—will not admit of the
navigation of vessels drawing so much as three feet
of water. Shifting sand-banks, violent eddies, and
rapid currents, make the progress of these tardy and
perilous! So severe continues the pressure in the
money market that discounts have been raised by the
banks to from eleven to twelve per cent. About three
millions sterling have been raised by the Five per Cent.
Loan, which will, it is understood, be kept open for at
least twelve months to come. Our expenditure for the
past seven years has exceeded our income by above a
million and a quarter annually; at this moment the sum
just named is yearly absorbed by Sinde. From four to
five millions are at present understood to be required by
Government. To meet this we have the revenues of the
lately-acquired Seikh states, half a million sterling—the
saving by the reduction of our armies, about 300,000L—
increased duty on opium, 100,0001.—anti the indemnity
promised by the Seikh Government during our occu-
pation of the Punjaub, 220,000/.; to which we must
add a saving of about 120,0001. from the improve-
ment of the customs produced by the suppression
of smuggling on our new frontier; this will give a
grand total of 1,240,0001., leaving a deficit to be pro-
vided for by future retrenchments of 210,000/. a
year. The death of Akbar Khan, of Caubul, has
been confirmed. It was at first stated that he had
died of delirium tremens; it is now asserted that he has
been poisoned at the instigation of his father, Dust Ma-
homed! The Governor-General and Commander-in-
Chief have by this time reached Simla. The disturb-
ances in the Goomsoor districts, and disorders in the
Nizam'a dominions, continue as formerly. With these
exceptions, India in general continues tranquil. The
Criminal Session in the Supreme Court of Bombay
terminated on Tuesday last ; it occupied eight days, and
was the heaviest, both as to the number of prisoners
and nature of the crimes, ever known in Bombay. The
Parsee, who so cruelly murdered a Hindoo lad for the
sake of his ornaments a couple of months since, has
been ordered for execution on Saturday next. The
seaman Cole, after having been tried by a navy court-
martial at Bushire fur the murder of an Arab, and found
guilty of manslaughter only, was indicted the second
time for murder on Monday last, but owing to an omis-
sion in the indictment the trial was quashed by Sir E.
Perry, and the man set at liberty. He had been in con-
finement nearly eighteen months. The case of Lieu-
tenant E. Bowles, of the 23d Bombay Native Infantry,
who was tried for an aggravated assault on a native
policeman in the execution of his duty, and sentenced
to three months' imprisonment in the common gaol,
and to pay a fine of 501., has given rise to a considerable
amount of discussion—the sentence of the Court
being universally condemned as unnecessarily severe.
The ship Mars, bound for Dundee, was totally destroyed
by fire in the Calcutta river on the 19th ult. Within
the past month nearly 6,5004 have been subscribed in
the Bombay presidency for the relief of the destitute
Scotch and Irish; 2,4001. were sent home by last mail,
and that of to-day takes 3,0004 more. Sir J. Jejeebhoy
has given a second donation of 5001. The Calcutta sub-
scription, opened about the same time, amounts to
5,0001., 4,0001. of which have been transmitted home.
At Madras the amount subscribed has reached the sum
of nearly 2,0001. By May 1, it is probable not less than
20,0001. will have been sent home from India. The
Mussoorie Asylum for the reception of the children of
European soldiers, which owes its existence to the Resi-
dent at Lahore, has met with the most cordial counte-
nance and support from the Court of Directors. Its
founder has contributed to it 1,0004 as an original sub-
scription, and gives 2001. a year as a donation—a
princely sum for a Major of Bengal artillery. The
steamer Queen, with the London mails of the 24th
February arrived yesterday afternoon; she has been
eleven days, on her passage from Aden. The Victoria
with intelligence to the Bth March, is expected this day
week.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
The investment made by the Emperor of RUSSIA
in the English funds is the subject of comment in
several of them. The Presse, of course, sees in it a
political rather than a financial operation. The Em-
peror of RUSSIA wished to strike the public mind,
and to give it a high idea of his resources, and
he has succeeded. The version of the Commerce is
more business-like, and more true. It says—
" In a financial point of view the deposit of 5,000,0001. in
the Bank of London has nothing which surprises us. The
details that are given by the Austrian Oburver completely
edify us with respect to the immense resources in specie of
the Russian Treasury and banks. The bank of St. Peters-
burgh alone must have had on the Ist of January of the pre-
sent year 11,000,000 silver rubles, or 40,000,000 f. in French
money, in addition to the capital destined to guarantee its
notes of credit. This isolated fact gives us an idea of the
abundance of metallic specie in Russia. To the nominal
causes of this abundance are this year added other causes
which are quite peculiar, such as the excellent produce of
the harvest, and the immense purchases of corn which the
scarcity compelled southern Europe to make, and which
have almost all been paid for in ingots. In a commercial point
of view St. Petersburgh, in continuing to place its capital in
foreign funds, and in rendering to England in her financial
crisis the same service as to us, will afford facilities to Eng-
land, that of providing herself almost exclusively in the
ports of the Baltic and the Black Sea ; and at the end of the
account Russia will only have given her agricultural pro-
ducts in exchange for the stock of the two great States whose
credit is the best established and offers best guarantees."

The Courri er Francais thus observes on the dif-
ferent manner in which the EMPEROR has conducted
his financial arrangements in France and England:—
"It appears," says that journal, " that the Emperor of
Russia is desirous to propitiate Western Europe by his
financial propaganda. Ile no doubt thought that England
would be jealous of the Muscovite present of 50,000,000 f.
lately bestowed on France, if he did not send a present
double that amount, or 112,500,000 f. The Czar, however,
in this instance, naturally applied to the Bank of England,
without recurring to the medium of the Foreign-office.
Lord Palmerston, however friendly disposed towards Russia,
would have indignantly rejected the office of go-between in
such a transaction."

The National sneeringly observes, that the EMPE-
ROR is not the only Sovereign who invests money in
the foreign funds, but what he does openly others
prefer doing in secret.
The Journal des Debats has a long article lauda-
tory of the French policy in Greece, and attacking
of course that of England.
The: Prince of Syracuse, brother of the King of Naples,
arrived on Thursday at Marseilles in the Vesuve steamer,
and put up at the house of M. Stella, Consul-General of
the Two Sicilies. The Prince left in the evening for Paris.
The price of wheat is rising in every part of
France.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Monday at 78f. 30c.; the Five per Cents., 116 f. 10c.; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,235 f. ; Rouen, 946 f. 25c. •, Havre,
670 f. ; Great Northern, 620 f. ; Avignon, 775 f. ; Vierzon,
585 f. ; Bordeaux, 515 f. ; Basle, 193 f. 75c. ; Dieppe, 332 f.
50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 428 f. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes,
422 E 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 435 f. ; Lyons and Avignon,
450 f. ; Cette, 443 f. 75c.
MARSEILLES, APRIL 29.—Marseilles and Avignon, 766 f.
25c. ; Northern, 618 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 432 f.; Or-

leans, 1,230 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LON DON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 4.
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Constituted), 14—
Lyons and Avignon (Constituted), 23—Northern of France,
121/2—Paris and Lyons, s—Paris and Rouen, 36 )6—Rouen
and Havre, 253/—Sambre and Meuse, 71A— West Flanders, 4

THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF
IRELAND.

The Duke of WELLINGTON suggested the insertion
of another clause of the greatest importance. Among
the most crying grievances to which the Irish Agri-
cultural labourer is subjected is that which has been
termed the " Conacre system," a system still more
objectionable than the " Truck system," which
prevails in parts of this country. The poor

man who has no land attached to his cottage,
who has no place in which he can grow the accus-
tomed crop of potatoes for the use of his family, ap-
plies to a neighbouring farmer, who lets him a small
plot at a rent amounting to 81., 101., or 121. per acre,
which rent he agrees to accept in labour at the rate
of Bd. or 10d. per diem. The poor cottier is well
satisfied with his bargain ; he cares not how exorbitant
may be the rent he agrees to pay, because it will be ac-
cepted from him in the only way in which he can
pay it—in the labour which would remain unoccupied
if he did not enter into some such agreement ; and
he is well aware that in no other way will
he get employment. Had he ready money to pay he
would get the land for less than one-half of the amount
which he undertakes to give in labour. If there is a
fair and reasonable amount of produce the labourer
is contented, and most religiously performs his part
of the contract ; he has secured a sufficiency of the
humble food on which his family and himself are
accustomed to live, and he trusts to the casual
work he may be able to obtain to procure every
other necessary ; but if there should be a
failure of that for which he had mort-
gaged ;his labour, his only wealth, his con-
dition is indeed deplorable ; he has no resource
left, he is flung upon the charity of the country, and
must have recourse to the Government works or the
poor-law union for the support of himself and family.
Of course he cannot then give the stipulated quantity
of labour, and the farmer, who relies on obtaining it
from him, too frequently has not the means
of procuring other labour, and his lands remain neg-
lected and uncultivated. All classes, therefore, suffer
from the baneful effects of the system. His Grace
proposes as a remedy, " that all bargains for the
wages of labour should be made in the current coin
of the realm ; and that the payment of wages shall
be enforced in the same ; and that the labourer shall
hare a claim for that payment, notwithstanding any.
bargain to the coctrary with his employer." This pro-
vision appears well calculated to give the death-blow
to the practice, and may probably be introduced
with safety, pari passu, with the extended poor-
law, which will ensure a maintenance to the labouring
population, either in return for their daily
work
or otherwise, without that it might possibly
deteriorate the condition of the people for whose be-
nefit it was intended. It might induce the farmers
to give far less employment, ent, and consequently to
more leave their lands still neglecteda thank at present.
It might leave the cottier without
occu-
pation or remuneration for his labour, and ainnddfoafr rse
off than he is under the present state of affairs. The
clause is proposed to be added to the Bill on
1 the bringing up of the report. In the meantime we
trust that it will receive that full and attentive eon-
' sideration that its importance, and the vast influence

DUBLIN, MAY 3.—We are happy to perceive by the
following, that up to a late hour last night his Excel-
lency was not worse, but was rather in an improving
condition:— " Eleven o'elock, Sunday night.
" Sir Philip Crampton has just left, and the answer
was, His Excellency is nothing worse, but rather im-

proving:'"
The following is the bulletin issued this morning at
nine o'clock:— "May 3.
" His Excellency passed another good night, and
feels much refreshed this morning.
" P. CRAMPTON.
" W. STOKES.
" P. F. PURCELL."
" Half-past Three o'clock, P.m.
" His Excellency continues without any change since
the morning."

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1847

England, and prices are high. On Saturday, the 20th, there
was a Government sale at the Custom-house of 500 bales
of cotton, the growth of the Southern Mahratta country and
cleaned by American Saw-Gins,—part of a lot, going home
by order of the Court of Directors, which was sold here at
the recommendation of the Chamber of Commerce in order
more immediately to ascertain its value—and the prices
brought ran from rs. 107 to rs. 124 to 125 per Surat candy
of 7841 b. —one parcel of 42 bales from the Khandeish Col-
lectorate having brought as much as rs. 132 per candy.
These prices, having in view the present high rates of ship
freight, must be eonsidered very encouraging to Govern-
ment and the native growers. Ordinary Market prices ore
as follow :
Broach and Jumbooseer, New, rs. 96 to 98 per candy ;
ditto, old, 72 to 80 ; Surat, new. 98 ; ditto, old, 78 to 80 ;
Dhollera, new, 86 to 88 ; ditto, old, 72 to 74 ; Oomrawutty,
new, 88 to 89 ; ditto, old, 70 ; Compta, old, 68.

_
Coffee—Nothing doing.
Opium—No alteration since our last.
Freights—These are again firm at 71. per ton to Liverpool.
Since our last as much as 71. ss. has been paid, but this very
extreme rate has not been sustained • an engagement or two
having been made on the arrival of two or three vessels at
once at 61. 17s. 6d. To London, engagements have been
made at 61. 10s. to 61. 15s. To China, rs. 23 to rs. 24 per
candy continues the rate.

MONET-MARKET.
The Money-market is becoming exceedingly tight, and ac-
cordingly there is a slight decline in the late nominal values
of public funds. This tendency is yet on the increase. We
quote as follows :-5 per cent. Loan of 1825-26, Rs. 103 per
100 Sic Rs. ; 4 ditto of 1832-33, Rs. 92 per ditto ; 4 ditto of
1835.36, Rs. 87 Co.'s Rs. per 100 ; 5 ditto of 1841-42, Rs. 9914
per ditto; 5 ditto of 1842-1843, Rs. 87 ditto; 5 ditto of
Transfer Loan, no quotation.
Bank of Bombay, Rs. 35 to 36 per cent. pm. Oriental
Bank, 21 Rs. ditto. Agra Bank, 50 Rs. exclusive of the
bonus divisible on June 30th, 1847, of 40 is. per share. Divi-
dend for the half .year ended Dec. 31st, 1846, to 12 per cent.
Commercial, 4 to 4IA pm.
Exchange—The rate of six months' bills on England is
down to 2s. 01/td. to 2s. ONd., at both of which rates trans-
actions have had effect. The fact of the Government an-
nouncement of their intention to make large advances on
India produce this season consigned to England has not
yet been well ascertained. It would seem to have caused a
decline in the rate of exchange already.
Price of Bullion—Sovereigns, each 11 rs. 1 anna ; Bank
of England notes, per X each, 10 rs. 8 annas.
THE CALCUTTA MARKETS.
(From the Bengal Hurharu of March 20.)
Our budget of commercial intelligence is of rather more
than usual interest. The news brought by the last mail
from home of an increased demand for rice, and the in-
tention of Government to permit and encourage the use
of sugar in brewing and distilling, caused considerable
activity in the market for those very staples, which was
checked only by the very scanty supply of tonnage and
consequently high rates of freight. The Government has
announced its intention to extend its advances on the hy-
pothecation of goods from 800,0001. to 1,255,0001., during
the current official year and the next, with an additional
sum of 600,0001. for the supply of the ensuing year, as far as
its requirements are at present known. The advances are,
until further orders, to be made as before at 2s. per rupee.
Exchange has still, however, had an upward tendency, and
may be quoted at 2s. lid. to 2s. lid.
The money market has again become exceedingly tight,
and the banks have raised their rates of interest on private
bills to 12 per cent., the legal maximum, and on Govern-
ment acceptances to 8 per cent. per annum. This state of
things has, of course, a depressing effect on company's paper
of all kinds; and even the paper of the New Five per Cent.
Loan is to be had in the bazaar at a discount of about
1 per cent.
Freights are still rising, and there being little likelihood of
a large or early accession to the amount of available ton-
. nage, will probably yet go up. As much as 8/. lOs to 8/. 15$.
have been given for sugar and rice to England.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was dull, and
prices were flat. Sales only 1,200 bales, of which 900 were
American, at 6d. to 7id. per lb. Railway shares declined
considerably. A large amount of good dividend paying
stock was rressed on the market.
The accounts received to-day from India by the express
in anticipation of the Overland Mail, describe the morey-
market as being tight, although " the Company" had agreed
to extend its advances upon produce. The exchange was
on the decline. In imports not a great deal had been done.
There 'are no arrivals from the colonies, but we learn
from Portugal that political affairs were still very unsettled
there.

As far as can be ascertained, the " fourth" has gone off
much better than was anticipated. Forbearance has been
exercised, and by a continuance of this course matters may
become easier in a few da) s, extraordinary and severe as
may have been the sacrifices made by many firms to keep up
their credit. The next push will be oa Friday, for the in-
stalment on the loan, and it is supposed that there will on
this account be a withdrawal of deposits from the private
accounts at the Bank of England. If the Government needs
the money immediately, the Bank therefore will be further
drained, though it is highly satisfactory to know that there
is but little specie going out to the United States.
The Public Securities have been fluctuating again to-day.
Consols have realised 86% to 861% for present transfer, and
86% to 861/2 for Account. Consols Scrip has been 31/2 dis-
count. Exchequer-billi have been quoted 3s. to lls.
premium. The interest on the Unfunded Debt it is now con-
fidently expected will be raised to 4 or 41/2 per cent. B ink
Stock has been quoted 188 to 189. The New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. have been 871/2 %.
The Foreign Investments have been dull again. Spanish
Five per Cents. have been 23, and the Three per Cents. 34
to 34%. Portuguese Four per Cents. brought 341/2. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 57% 34.
Railway Shares have been drooping.
BRITISH. FUNDS. ONE
O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock .. .• 188 189
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 85% %
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 86%%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Arms. 87% %
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. b, 1860 .. 8 15-16 9
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 3-16
India Bonds, 1,000/. •• • • • •
Ditto, under 1,000/. .. .. 6 dis 6 dis
Consols for May 27 .. • • .. 86% % 86
Three per Cent. Consols, Scrip .• • • . 3% dis 3X, die
Exchequer Bills. t%d. 2d.
1,0001... .... 10 311 5 dis G dis
5001. .... 3 dis 3 dis
Ditto, Small .... 46 i dis 3 dis
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

CLOSING
PRIcES.
189
854
1363 i
87%

Anglo-Belgian .. • • .. .. 4
Central of France (Orleans and
Vierzon) • . • • • • • • •• 12 .. • . 14N
Northern of France
Paris and Lyons • • .. • • • • 8 .. ........
Paris and Strasbourg 5 Is
MINES.

Real del Monte, Unrezistered •• •• • • •• •

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Danish, 3 per Cent •
..
Portuguese Four per Cent 3434
Russian Bonds .• • • _
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account •• .. 23
Ditto, Three per Cent
Ditto, for the Account .. 34U% 34 344
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. 38 38
Dividend.s on the above payable in Landon.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 57%34 573 A
PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. DONE AT PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction .. .. • • 2%.... 1% •. • • 1%
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... 17% % l7
Birming., Wolver., and Dudley.. 5 ....
Buckinghamshire .. • • .. ..61.45..... 1 % dis. % dis.
Caledonian .t 30 .... 24 23%% 23%
Ditto, Half Shares .. 234 .... 2 114 •. ..
Eastern Counties .. • • .. .. 20 .... 19 18%
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. U 3 p•• • •
Ditto, ditto.. .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. %'4 p.. 14 P
Ditto, York Extension .. 614 .... 514 5
East Lancashire .. .. • • .. 17 ••.. 16 .• • _
Ditto New .. 734 .. • 7 .. •••• • • • •
East Lincolnshire ........614....8% 7% 8• • • • 8
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 6836 69 •• • •
Great Northern .. .. 3 .... 2% ••.. •
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 30 .... 25% 26
Great Western .. 85 .... 113 112......
6G%
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 .... 6634
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 1234.... 16 .. • • ..... •
2
Ditto, Fifths .. .. 20 .... 25% ..........
,3y
Ditto, New • • • • • • • •
914 :• •••• • • • • 6034
Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 50 ....
Ditto, New ••• • .. 7% . 234 •
8314
Leeds and Bradford • . .. 40
.. •
..
Leeds add Thirsk • • • • .. .. 26 .• .. . • ••••••••
Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent. .. % .......... 4
London and Blackwell s
c.0.a.t1.!/.50135.. 4. d.
• 574 51 4034 %
t,70;48
London, Brighton, and
London an i North-Western ..100 ..17234 173 172 173 171%
Ditto, Quarters L. and B. 7.•..22• • • • • • .... 22
Ditto ditto, New Shares • • .. 2 .• 111 .
Ditto, Fifths ... . • .. .. 2 .... 1532 ..... 1552
Ditto, 401. Shares M. &B. • • 40 .• • • 6632 .. • ... 6734
London and South-Western • .41i. 68.10 d.. • 6234 62 ...... 62 A
Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 40 .... 4634 4634
Lynn and Ely .• • . .. 25 .... 26% 261
Lynn and Dereham .. 20 •
Manchester and Leeds .. .. • • 82 •• .. 991 • .. • • .... 99%
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 38 .... 4434 4534 4514
Ditto, Fifths .. .. 5 .... 9
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.).. ..71. 45... %% p.. •• par
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .• • dis. ....... _ dig.
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... ..........
Midland ..100 ....11534 • • ... .... 115%
Ditto, New .. .. 6 .... 8 _ 8
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 20 .... 25 24/ 25% 251,6
Ditto, New .. • • • • • • 5 .... 61% • •
North British .. .. • • 25 •• • • .......... 31
Ditto, Thirds • • .. • • •• 1 .... .• • ...... 236
North Staffordshire .. .. 5 •• .. 6%1 •• .. 6)4
North Western • • • • .. 4 • 234 • • • . 234
Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolverhmptia. 2234 - ..... 12%
Preston and Wyre .. •• 25 .... 341 • • • 34%
Ditto, Half Shares (B) • • .. 134 .... 1% .... • 1%
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 •• • • 41 •• • • • • 4%
Scottish Central • • • . . 1734 .... 23% • • k 31,4
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 334 .... 334 ... •• • •
Shropshire Union .. .• 425..... 15i di5..... 1
South Staffordshire • • . 21. Ifs— 1 dis. ••• • • 1 dis.
South Eastern and Dovor . 33% • • 3632 36 .• _ 334,
South Wales • . • . . 10 .... 6 7.. •7
West Riding Union • • .. . 4/. 2s. •• • • 1a 3H14, P• • • U p
York and Newcastle .. • . .25 ..• •
Ditto, New.. • • • • .. .10 .... 131 14 14
Ditto, Preference . • • • • 4 •• • • 65134 •••• • • • . Gl4
York and North Midland .. .50 .... 823
Ditto, Preference • • • • • 2 •••• 10 lA %1.14 ••• • • • 10
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

SOCIETY.—The
meeting was held yesterday ira.fterTn
HORTICULTURAL hooenc,onatcluthdeinrgoosmprsinign
Regent-street, when the chair was taken by R. Govan Esq.
Weeks and Wickham
merit to Hr. Ayre for sotrrasspveci
The prizes awarded were,f silver Banksian medals to Messrs.
berriesm en, pal anndtsirarn. and
o n certificatesal
plants. From '
~___ Sir T. Dyke Aeland was a dish of new pota-
dortwoof
"fso grown without heat, and which did not appear to be
affected with tl- e prevalent disease. From Mr. Cuthill was a
drain tile, made entirely of novel materials, being made of
compressed peat moss, a substance considered to be partic
u-
larly eligible where clay or other material was with dcult).
to be obtained. The extract from the Meteorological Register
kept at the gardens since the last meeting, en tiehe 20th April,
gave, barometer, highest, 22d April, 30.064 chlowet,
April 29, 29.528 inch ; thermometer, highest, April 25, 62
deg. F.—lowest, April 26, 20 deg. F. and quantity of rain,
0.40 inch.
iNIELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.--011 TU./a ly Morning,
a little before ten o'clock, an engine stalk, whi_th has lately
b !en erected by John Wilson, Esq., near th , School-yard
Pits Bo'ness, fell with a tremendous crash, in the direction of
the 'School-brae ; destroying one house of four storeys in
height, and another of one storeY. The b habitants of the
buildings were buried in the ruins ; from which one female
was taken out dead, and several others severely injured, but
who are since progressing favourably. It is remarkable that
more lives were not lost, as the road over which the stalk
fell is the one leading to the parish school, and the accident
happened at the very hour of the assembling of
.b'dinburyls goat. the school.—