The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-08 00:00:00

TIIIS EVENING

The performances will commence with a new Drama, called THE
DISCARDED DAUGHTER. Count Carsdorf, Mr. T. Fredericks ;
Julia, ars. Ware.

After which, a grand ORIENTAL FESTIVAL in the HALLS of
ABD-EL-KADER (the Emir of the Desert), introducing the won-
derful and navel Feats peculiar to the Native Bedouin Arab Tribes,
attended by their Marabouts (Priests), &c. in their national costume.
After which, a new Farce, by Mrs. Stirling, entitled KISSING
GOES BY FAVOUR. Duke de Bassompiere, Mr. Tindell ; Marchio-
ness de Lanny, Mrs. Ware.

To conclude with a romantic Drama, named the TWO BROTHERS
OF PISA. Count de Outien, Mr. _Neville ; Theodora Bemauati, Mrs.
Henry Vining.
_

Boles, 25., Pit, is. ! Gallery, Gd. Doors open at Six, emumence
Sit Half-past Six.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
IQ EVENING (fourth time), THE FORGER'S VOW ; or, SIDI
BA
_A, the BEDOUIN CHIEF OF JARRA. Principal charac-
ters by Miss Vincent, Miss Lyder Pearse, M'ss Julia Johnson, Mrs.
G. Lee, Mrs. Cooke ; Mr. N. T. Ricks, Mr. Dale, Mr. Gardner, Mr.
Searle, Mr. Bird, &c.
After Which, DONZELLA, THE HEROINE OF CASTILE. Don-
zella (commonly called the Rose of the Roek) Miss Vincent.
To oonclude Veltk a Nautical Drama, in Three Acts, entitled, A
REEFER'S WRONGS ; or, IRE WRECK OF THE AURORA.
.pported by the entire company.
Boxes, Is.; Half Price, 6d. Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. Private Boxes
07 Parties of Four, from 10s. 6d. ; and Parties of Eight, 11. ls.

THE WEATTIEIt—Sus OFFICE, APRIL 8.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 45 ; Highest, 55 ; Noon, 55.
BALROMiTER, 29 62.—WIND, W.; fine.

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HIGH W ILTER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning •• 24 minutes after 6. 1 Evening .. 49 minutes after 6.

not merely for the sake of the grantees, but for the
I enAt; of the public generally, and that no
pez our, has a right to deal with his property in an::
manner that may be injurious to the community at
large or even to a single individual. If, then, these
laws can be maintained without detriment or mis-
chief; if no public evils can be traced to their ope-
ration ; if they are founded on the principles of na-
tional justice, and conducive to that which is the foun-
dation of all correct legislation—the greatest good
of the greatest number—they should be retained, but
if otherwise, no time should be lost in their amendment.
This is the simple question to be dealt with
—to this the voice of public opinion is required
to give an answer. There are constitutional
modes of giving expression to that voice, which can
not be slighted or despised. It may for a time be re-
sisted, but must ultimately prove victorious. Hitherto
philanthropists have proclaimed the serious and
demoralising effects of the game code to the peasantry of
the country, they have pointed out that it holds a
prominent position amongst the social evils that are
suffered to exist, to the public detriment ; that by its
means thousands of our fellow-citizens are taught
habits of idleness, and made acquainted with crime ;
the county gaols filled, and the rates greatly magni-
fied ; once happy families deprived of their natural
guardians and protectors, and becoming the inmates
of parish workhouses, and the recipients of parochial
charity. But still the public generally have not been
fully awakened to the great extent of the mischief.
Inhabitants of cities and towns do not feel the pres-
sure of the grievance. The rural part of the commu-
nity are widely dispersed ; they are not in the
habit of congregating together in masses, and
giving expression to their feelings. The
wound may rankle at their hearts ; their
maledictions, though deep, may not be loud,
and their apparent apathy is not ascribed to its true
causes. _

Other matters, too, up to a recent period, ab-
sorbed the public attention. It was but within
the last year that the doctrines of free trade were
triumphant ; that monopoly was prostrated, and a
tax that pressed on the national industry, and en-
hanced the price of the people's food, removed.
No question of minor interest could be fully inves-
tigated while those of such paramount importance
remained unsettled. Happily they have been dis-
posed of, and the public mind is no longer distracted
in reference thereto. We may now look for other
measures of reform, and what can be more urgent or
pressing than that to which we have alluded ? The
distress that has unhappily afflicted the sister king-
dom has occupied the earlier part of the session ;
there remains, however, ample time for legisla-
tion. Let it not be supposed that the
people are indifferent or supine ; their voices
must be heard. The prison returns of the past
year would alone speak trumpet-tongued as to
the necessity of a sweeping alteration, a radical
change. Many of the higher classes have not been
inattentive to the signs of the times. They have,
with a good grace, surrendered the strict preservation
of their estates. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE has
lately directed that a considerable quantity of hares
on his property should be destroyed. We trust
that many will be found to follow the example.
Let them ask themselves what real benefit or gratifi-
cation they derive from the excess of game, to set
against the immense mass of crime, vice, and misery,
produced by these game-laws. If a conscientious
answer is returned to the question, we are
convinced that a majority of our gentry will cease to
be game-preservers, and that a thorough and efficient
reform will take place, to the benefit not only of the
public generally, but also of the landowners them-
selves.

Anything more ungenerous and disgustingly
servile than the conduct evinced towards Mr.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS (whose letter we published
in our columns of yesterday), by the Liverpool agent
for the steam-ship Cambria, which runs between this
country and Boston, it were difficult to conceive.

Four weeks before this ship sailed Mr. FREDERICK
DOUGLASS, in company with a gentleman of the Hall
of Commerce, London, called upon the London
agent, and having inquired whether his being a man
of colour would prove any barrier to his enjoying all
the rights and privileges enjoyed by other passengers,
and having been answered in the negative, paid
401. 195., the amount of the passage-money, and then
received a ticket assigning him a particular berth in
the Cambria. On repairing on board Mr. Douai,Ass
learned to his surprise that his berth had been given
to another, and was told that the London agent had
acted without authority, and he was further informed,
proh pudor! that he would not be allowed to proceed
in the ship unless he gave up his berth, agreed to take
his meals alone, and not mix with the saloon company.
Desirous of returning to the United States, this gen-
tleman had to submit to these mortifying conditions,
which however reflect no degradation upon the party
on whom they were imposed, but have fixed an in-
delible stigma upon the company owning the
Cambria. Such treatment is, indeed, an outrage
upon British feeling and British philanthropy.
Against such a scandalous proceeding Mr. F.
DouGasss, on the eve of his departure, wrote a pro-
test which, to quote his own appropriate language,
"he felt to be due to his own rights as a man, as
well as to the honour and dignity of the British
public." In having taken this step Mr. DOUGLASS
has faithfully anticipated the judgment which every
high-minded Englishman will pass upon the dis-
graceful conduct he has experienced. We do not
envy the feelings which ought to actuate the minds of
the American on reading the concludiz ig paragraph
of Mr. DOUGLASS'S letter :—" I have travelled in this
country nineteen months, and have always enjoyed
Equal rights with other passengers, and it was not
until I turned my face towards A.merica that I
met with anything like proscription on account of my
colour." The more we reflect upon this matter the worse
it appears. The assertion that the .London agent
acted without authority is a trumpt3d-up excuse.
How happened it that Mr. DOUGLASS wa s not informed
of the objection to the contract he ha l entered into
till the last moment ? A month had el apsed since he
had taken his berth, and he had ma dr..t a particular
inquiry before he paid his passage- u coney. From
the singular nature of this inquiry-., even if the
London agent had no doubt as to his. ;authority, it is
not improbable that he had, in the interim,
acquainted either the directors in London
(if any), or the Liverpool age nt, with the
question which Mr. DOUGLASS .12; id put and
the answer he had received. If this vv as so, and the
arrangement made was viewed as objectil.‘mable and un-
authorised, Mr. DOUGLASS ought to ha v e been warned
of the fact at the earliest moment. As the matter
now stands before the public, who cte a say but that
the other passengers intimated to the rcompany their
repugnance to the manner in which t h ey had agreed
to accommodate Mr. DOUGLASS in the. Cambria, and
that then, and not before she was on the eve of
leaving the harbour, regardful only cd. their pockets,
and shamefully regardless of the constitutional
laws of freedom, for which England h ai ; so long been
proudly renowned, the company deter. u tined to sacri-
fice Mr. DOUGLASS to the vilest prejut L ices that can
warp the human mind ? But whetheir this was the
real state of the case, or not, it is grim -ous to con-
sider the miserable and dishonourable e:sl tent to which
a company, partly formed of Englisluziet en, have con-
descended to pander to the tyrannical cic nceits of the
upholders of slavery. America may boast of her
freedom, but so long as her pracru :e belies her
vaunted principles of equality, the son s of genuine
freedom will laugh her to scorn. For ourselves, we
should heartily rejoice if the Governm .e. nt were in a
condition, without a breach of contra cl , to mark its
sense of the insult which has been offered to the
British nation, in the person of Mr. -DOUGLASS, by
withdrawing the allowance which the y make to the
company for the conveyance of the ma i is.

AV
We learn from Konigsberg (Prussia ) that all the
Russian students of that University, about 150 in
number, have been ordered to return t n their country
immediately. It is said that the Emp et or NicuoLas
intends to forbid all his subjects to re, ive their edu-
cation in foreign universities.
It is stated in a Berlin letter that I .A. DE Hum-
nonnT has been charged by the KIN 1.3 3, to convey to
London the magnificent shield which his MAJESTY
has cawed to be executed for his ro y al godson, the
Prince of WALES.

The Madrid mail cf ti .e lit had not arrived in
Paris when the post left on Tuesday.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
The Prr,cc returns to the rec?nt chnnge in the
p:tnish Ministry, ;1:1(1 article of the " 1.
-fling
to wound and yet afraid to strike school," expresses
its surprise at the reception which the Pacheco
Ministry has met with from the Madrid press, and
considers the " benignity of polemics" which all the
journals have exhibited on the occasion as even more
strange than the manner in which the new Ministry
came into power. We think we can enlighten the
Presse on this subject. The Pacheco Ministry is a
Spanish Ministry, chosen by the Queen of SPAIN of
her own free will to serve Spanish interests alone,
It is what no other Ministry since 1843 has been—a
national Ministry. Since 1843 until the present
moment, every Ministry in Spain has been really
nominated by the Neapolitan agent of France,
CHRISTINA, for the all but avowed purpose
of sacrificing the interests of Spain to those of
France. Hence the general joy with which the
appointment of a national Ministry is hailed. Here
we take note of another admission, made by the organ
of Queen CHRISTINA :

" The Progressists, satisfied that the Puritans were
preparing the way before them, have too much tact to
continue against that party the war which they have
waged against every Ministry since 1843. Making all
necessary reservations for saving appearances, they will
vote with them on all important occasions, as they have
heretofore done with M. Salamanca. They expect to
reap very shortly the fruits of their tactics. They have,
it appears, already gained M. Olozaga, and want only
Espartero and the National Guard. They see that they
will gain all this by a dissolution of the Congress, for
which they are striving."
If a dissolution of the Congress would give a Pro-
gressist majority, it is evident that the present Con-
gress does not represent the Spanish people ; and
having been elected only a few months, it is also
evident that but for the unconstitutional and illegal
coercion exercised by the Afrancesado Ministry of
IsTintrrz, under the inspiration of the French
Government, the Progressists would have, bad a
majority in the present Congress. It is pleasant to
find the Presse every now and then in its agony thus
blurting out a truth. Queen CHRISTINA is in the
greatest consternation—
" She wanted," says La Patrie, " to return forthwith
to Madrid, and it has required the most earnest entrea-
ties to prevent her doing so. She bitterly regrets having
left Madrid, and not submitted to the sorrows she had
to endure there. She considers the intrigue which has
subverted the Casa Irujo Cabinet as but the prelimi-
nary scene to a drama which she awaits with terror.
The recal of Olozags and Espartero would give her
mortal pain."

It would appear from the following article in the
Presse, that France is likely to be embroiled with
the Brazils on account of the seizure by French
cruisers of certain Brazilian slavers :
" Since the month of March, 1846, during which the
convention of 29th May, 1845, has been in full execu
tion, a considerable number of Brazilian vessels, destined
probably for the slave-trade, have been seized and pro-
secuted for piracy, in virtue of the dispositions of the
law of 10th April, 1825. Among them were a Brazilian
schooner seized on 17th April on the coast of Congo,
and brought into Brest on the 25th June; another
schooner of the same nation, seized the 223 May in the
Gulf of Benin, and arrived at Brest the 6th August ; a
three-masted Brazilian vessel, captured the 20th at
150 leagues from Gabon, and brought into Brest the
15th August ; a Brazilian brig-schooner, seized the
18th at Congo, and arrived at Brest the 17th Decem-
ber ; together with several other vessels, Sardinian or
Brazilian, proceeded against before the Maritime Tri-
bunal of Brest. All these vessels were laden with
nvgroes, who were disembarked at Goree, and placed
at the disposal of the local authorities. If France were
invested with the right of applying her own repressive
laws to foreign vessels, without doubt the seizure
would be valid, and the slave-ships ought to be con-
demned. The offence of being engaged in the slave
trade would in their case be incontestable ; but France
has not the right to prosecute and judge them on that
account—that right belongs only to their national
jurisdictions. The Government of Brazil has, there-
fore, strongly protested against the seizures made, and
the prosecutions undertaken against its subjects, in
violation of the right of nations and of its own cove
reignty. It never ceases complaining, and the fact
becomes evident that if justice be not dons in the case
grave misunderstandings will arise between the two
Governments. We hesitate not to say that the demands
of Brazil are well founded. The vessels have been
seized in despite of the most evident right. The slave-
trade, criminal as it is in the eyes of humanity, is not
a crime in the face of international law, and its repres-
sion belongs only to interior jurisdictions. Odious
though the slave-trade be, we have not the right to
assimilate it to piracy, and we cannot do it without
wounding the nationality and menacing the security of
all navies."

Bank Stock .. __
.. .. .. .. 2OO 198 ex div
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities • • 86% % ea div
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities • • • • $7% 1,636
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 877 %Y. ex div
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 8 15-16 9ex div
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 8 13-16 ex dlv
South Sea Stock .. .. .. .. 96%
Bank Stock for Apt il 14 .. .. .. l9B
Consols for Account .. • • • • • • • • 17% % %
Three per Cent. Consols, Scrip.. .. • • 13 din
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 2d.
1,0001. .. .. .. .... I die 1 p
500/. .. .. .. .... 1 dis 1 p
Ditto. Small .. .. ~.. IMs 1 p
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent .. .. 86% 17
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. -• • •
Ditto, for the Account .. .. 24%
Ditto, Three per Cent ......
Ditto, for the Account • • • • 35%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 58% 4
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 90% %
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham, Wolver., and Dudley • • i .. 10%.... to
Bristol and Exeter • • • • • • •. 76 ..., 74 .... to
~ .. .. .. .. 17 — .. • • t•
Caledonian • • • • • • • • • • •• 30 •• •• ••.. to
Ditto, Half Shares .• • • • • •. 2% 2%.... to
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. .• 12% 2% .... to
Eastern Counties ..........20 lB% %.. to
Do., Perpetual, 5 per Ct. No. 1, 61. 13s. 4d % p.. to
Ditto, York Extension .. .• • • 6% ...• 4% %•• to
East Lancashire
Ncaewshir.e.
..•
..
..
..
..
7%
....
t. _
Great Northern • • • • • • • • .. 3% 3%; %
.. to _
Ditto, London and York Extension.. 2% 2%.... to
Great Western • • • • • • ••- .. 85 • • ll5 ...• to
Ditto. Half Shares • • .. • . 50
Ditto. Fifths • • • • • • • • •• 20 •• •• 27 .... to
Ditto. New • • • • • • • • • • • • 4% .. •• 7%.... to
d Newc. Junct. 2%
Huddersfield and Manchester .. • • 16
Leeds and Thirsk • • • • • • • • • • 22% .. „ ..._ ..., t, _
Liverpool, Di t t
Ditto, , New • • • • • • .. 10 • •
to
London and Blackwell • • 161. 13s. 4d. ..., _ .... to
Ditto, New, No. 2 • • • • 11. 13s. 4d. , % p.. to _ _
Ditto, Extension • • • • • • .. 7% 4%.... to 5
London, Brighton, and South Coast • • 50
London and North-Western .. • • 100 .. 175% 175 to 176
ldan.c.h, "flit
L. and B. 7
Ditto, Quarters .. • • 23%.. to :
Ditto ditto New • • • • • • • 2 ~ ~ 12%.... to 12
London and South-Western 411. 6.3. lod.
Lynn and Ely • • • • • • • • • • 20 ••• • 22 .... to
Lynn and Dereb am • • • • • • •• 20 .•• 21 .. ••to .
Manchester and Leeds .. . ~ 82
....
to
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) • • • • • • 71. 45... • • 2% p•• to
NI anch,ster Ltod Southampton .. „ 2 •• •• 1%.... to
Midland
Ditto, New • • • • " • • •• 36 • •

The Journal des Debats has an article urging on
the Government the necessity of abolishing, until
1848, all import duties on corn and provisions of
avery description.

The Commerce gives the following particulars as
to the provisions of the new Customs Rill, which has
been introduced by the Minister of Commerce :
'" The new Customs Bill lately presented in the
Chamber of Deputies has not yet been published. Its
principal provisions are, however, known to some of the
Deputies. It appears that the only important article:of
this Bill relates to the admission, free of duty, of mat-
ters necessary for ship-building. This article runs thus :
Bar iron, copper, zinc, flax, and tow, destined for the
construction of French trading vessels, shall be admitted
free of duty, on condition that it be shown within the
space of one year that these articles have been employed
as specified. The same immunity is accorded to sheet-
iron destined for the construction of trading vessels.
Royal ordonnances will hereafter point out the nature
and conditions of the proofs to which this immunity
shall be subjected:*

On the same subject we find the following in the
Emancipation of Brussels, from a Paris correspon-
dent :

" You would probably like to be made acquainted
with some of the modifications of the tariff of Customs
Duties Bill, just laid before the Chamber of Deputies.
As far as a rapid glance at it has enabled me to see,
there are several provisions which will affect your pro-
duce and manufactures. Raw zinc is to be altogether
free of duty. The prohibition on looking-glasses is to
be taken off, The duty on plain glass is to be reduced
30 per cent. There is also to be a reduction of the
duties on hops and on marble. In general the reform,
for such the new law proposed by M. Cunin Gridaine is
declared to be, is framed on the most timid and insigni-
ficant scale. It is presented to our manufacturers and
traders in a dose so mild, that their complexion, so easily
affected, is not changed in the slightest degree. It is to
raw produce that relief is applied, and even this is not
radically done. Neither coal nor cast-iron is touched
on ; something certainly is granted to cast iron appli-
cable to ship-building, but that is a trifling boon. No
change whatever is made with regard to cloths of any
kind. The partisans of free trade, and the great railroad
companies, who have need of rails and engines, cannot
be satisfied with this Bill."

The French Government has forbidden all French
subjects to accept letters of marque from Mexico,
thus following the example which had been previously
set by the English Government.

M. DUCHATEL, the Minister of the Interior, in-
troduced on Monday, into the Chamber of Deputies, a
Bill for granting a supplementary sum of 1,000,000
francs for the secret police service. This Bill, and
the speech of the Minister of tha Interior on intro-
ducing it, are the subject of some indignant com-
ments in the National.

The Prince DE JOINVILLE'S squadron will sail from
Toulon on the arrival of the Descartes from Cher-
bourg and Brest. The destination of the squadron is
said to be Athens.

Count ST. AIILAIRE arrived in Paris on Monday,
and had interviews with the Km; and M. GUIZOT.
It is said that the Duc DE MorrrEBELLo will replace
Count DE ST. ADEAIRE in London. The Baron
BILLING will go to Madrid and Count BRESSON to
Naples. __ _

OLOZAGA left Paris for Madrid on Monday night.
The Paris Bourse became very firm towards the close of
business on Tuesday. The Three per Celts. closed at 78f.
65c.; the Five per Cents., 116 f. 65c. ; the Orleans Railroad
Shares, 1,240 f. ; Rouen, 880 f. ; Havre, 677 f. 50c. ; Great
Northern, 633 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 795 f. ; Vierzon, 565 f. ; Bor-
deaux, 515 f. ; Boulogne, 4251. ; Troyes and Montereau, 300 f. ;
Basle, 210 f. ; Dieppe, 335 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 432 f. 50c.;
Tours and Nantes, 427 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 436 f. 25c. ;
Lyons and Avignon, 4601. ; Cette, 447 f. 50c. ; Spanish Three
per Cents., 34%.
MARSEILLES, APRIL 2.-Marseilles and Avignon, 808 f.
75c. ; Northern, 623 f. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 7.
Boulogne and Amiens, 165,E-Dutch Rhenish, 4-Luxem-
bourg, PA-Northern of France, 1234-Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 6,6-Paris and Lyons, 51,4.

THE COAST OF AFRICA.
By an arrival from the above quarter, we are put
in possession of intelligence to the 10th of March,
being a month later than the last advices.
The coast was healthy, as was the squadron em-
ployed upon it in the futile endeavour to suppress
the slave-trade. One capture had been made since
our last letters, but she was an empty prize.
Sierra Leone and Ascension were healthy, and
turtle was abundant at the former place.
A frightful massacre of slaves had taken place at
Lagos Bay, some months since, the owners not
having vessels to ship them in, nor food for their
sustenance. This had no relation to the report
which re-appeared some days since, about 2,000
slaves having been taken to the beach at the Gal-
linas, and slaughtered, which report had no founda-
tion in fact.

•• •• •• •• 2 %
4%% to
Newcastle
ttle
and Berwick
Ditto, New • • • • • • • • • 5 .... 8 .... to 7%
Norfolk • • • • • • •" • • • • • 100 . --• . to
Ditto, Extension • • • • • • • • 6 N..to
North British • • • • • • • • • • 25 _ to
Ditto, Half Shares • • • • • • • • 12%.... 15% .... to
Ditto, Quarters • • • • • • • • • • 2% •• . 3%.... to
Ditto, New•
••.. • • • • 20 .... 25% .... to 26
•
Ditto, Thirds • • • • • • • • • • 1 _
North Staffordshire • • • • .. .. 5 7%54 to
Preston and Wyre • • • • • • • • • • 25 34% .... to
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) .. 3;4 .• to
Ditto, ditto (B) • • • • • • • • 1%.,,, 1 • • . to
Shropshire Union • • • • • • • • • 425..... 1% dls. to
South Eastern and Dover • • • • • • 331. 2s. 4d. • .. to
Ditto. New (do. 151.) No. 4 3%.... 4 ..• • • to
Vale of Neath • • • • • • • • • • 2 .. • • % to
West Riding Union • • • • • • • • 41. 25..... 1%• p.. to
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth.. 2() ~.. 12 .. ••to
York and Newcastle • • • • .. 25 34 to
Ditto, New • • • • • • • • .. 10 .... 14%%51 to
Ditto, Preference • • • • .• .. 4 _ 7% .. ••to
York and North Midland 50 • . 83)4 .... to 82%
Ditto. Preference • • • • • • .. 2 .... 10% •••• to
Ditto East and West RldingExtension 10 .... 20% .. to
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens • • .. .. 20 .. • • 16% ••.. to
Dutch Rhenish • • • • '• •• 7
•• • • 4 •• • • to
Northern of France • • • • • • 8 ..•• 12% ••.. to
Paris and Lyons •• •• .• •• a .... a% ....
Sambre and Meuse • • • ' • • •• 12 •• • • 6 .• • • o
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Lordon Joint-Stock .. 10 15% •• . to
London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... 26)4 .... to
MINES
Real del Monte, Unregistered 334 to

The following important notice has just been issued
by the Bank of England :

" The minimum rate of interest on bills discounted
by the Bank of England, not having more than 95
days to run, is Si. per cent.
" April 8, 1847."

3timsulinto 411 .
MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
RAY MARKETS.
A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand.
LDlsVieanaddowstHraawy: 21/11510taot3011161s ;Clover ditto,
load.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 16s to 41; Clover ditto,
3/ 148 to 41 14s ; and Straw, 11 12s to 11 16s per load.
Supply but moderate, and trade dull.
WHITECIIAPIL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 15s to 31 18s; Clover
ditto, 3/ 16s to 5/; and Straw, 1/ lOs to 1114 s per load.
A moderate supply, and a dull trade.

uTn ALI, APRIL 7.—There was a very steady general
MEAT NIANLILETEL
So
trade here to-day, and prices had an upward tendency.—
Beef, from 3s 6d yto 4s 4d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 5s 6d; Lamb,
5s 8d to Gs 6d; Veal, 4s 4d to ss; and Pork, 4s to 4s 10(1
per 81bs., to sink the offal.
ROMFORD, APRIL 7.—We had a very firm trade this morn-
ing, at from 2d to 4d per 81bs. more money.—Beef, from 3s 4d
to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 8d to 5s 4d ; Lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 6d ;
Veal, 4s 2d to 5s ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per Sibs. Suck-
ling Calves, 18s to 29s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 19s ;
and Mich Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 191 each.
LEWES, APRIL 6.—Beef, from 3s 10d to 4s 6d; Mutton,
4s 6d to 5s 6d ; Lamb, 6s to Cs 4d ; Veal, 4s 4d to 4s 8d ; and
Pork, 4s to 4s 6d per 81bs. A short supply, and a firm demand.
NEW-GATE PLAID LEADENIIALZ.
There was only a moderate supply of Meat on sale here,
and which moved off steadily at full prices. Beef, from 2s 8d
to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 45 4d ; Lamb, 5s 8d to 6s 8d ;
Vaal, 45 to ss; and Pork, 3s 8d to 5s per labs by the
carcase.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended April 1, 1847, made up frora the Returns of the
PRICE I 776 Id I g 3dl Sts sd 67s 7d I 515 5d liG5 10d
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Eagland and Willis
per Imperial Quarter.
warn. BAILEY. OtT3. RTE. SEAMS. PE A .
The Duties on Foreign Grail arc now impended.

APRIL 4.—His Majesty the King is so much better
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THE RING OF THE NETHERLANDS.—THE HAGUE,
that no more bulletins will be issued.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL _NEWS.; LLOYD'S SIIIPPI.NG—(THIS DAY.)
CITY, QUA TO THREE, At'llit, B.—W'ied S.W., fresh gales and
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,',,
to 5,000 bales at firm rates. American Cid. to lid. per
lb. Shares were dull.
The full confirmation of the total loss of the Tweed
mail packet ship, which has been communicated to all
those deeply interested this morning, has cast a consi-
derable degree of gloom here, especially among the
parties connected with the West Indies and
the Spanish American traders. The Avon royal
mail steam ship places this sad loss beyond
a doubt, and with her letters the fact
is demonstrated that thirty-one of the passengers, and
forty-two of the crew, have met with an almost
instantaneous death. Ot passengers there were saved
twenty-nine, out of fifty-two souls. trader this must
trying circumstance it is a relief to be assured tut
the loss of this fine ship and so many lives is not
ascribed to want of skill, nautical or otherwise, on the
part of the commander and crew, but of one
of those inevitable accidents which must occasionally
occur in the navigation of the seas, where strong and
impetuous currents prevail, and where all may be fair
at eight bells, and a strong ship, seven hours afterwards,
become a total and entire wreck. In other respects the
intelligence from the West Indies, brought by the Avon,
is of a very satisfactory character. The fact that all the
letters put on board the Tweed have been lost will cause
no inconsiderable inconvenience to the merchants here,at
Liverpool, and elsewhere, who were looking out for ad-
vices. To some extent the difficulty may be remedied
by the accounts obtained per the Avon West India
steamer. The letters are certainly written in very high
spirits. Excellent crops are looked for in almost all the
colonies. The weather was all that could be wished for
the cutting of the canes and the housing of the produce.
The works at the mills had been commenced in Bar-
badoes, St. Lucia, Trinidad, and other parts. The sugar
granulated out of the new crop is spoken most highly of
in respect to colour and quality. The Coolies at Deme-
rara are still as a body ill-disposed. This is, in truth,
the only drawback upon what may be, as far as at pre-
sent advised, the rising prosperity of' the group of our
West India colonies.
It appears by the accounts received from the country
grain markets that the farmers have begun to send for-
ward supplies with considerable alacrity. Perhaps they
begin to fear that the highest range of values has been
passed. There is very little fear of this, in the opinion
of practical men in the City.
This has been a very heavy day at the Stock Ex-
change, and the tendency of the prices is still most un-
questionably to recede. It is now alleged that the Ac-
count on Consols, which is to be adjusted on the 15th
instant, is what is called a " rank Bull" account. It
may, however, turn out to be the very reverse. Consols
for the Account opened this morning at 87 and for im-
mediate transfer at the same; since which the former and
the latter have fluctuated from 89i to 59;,.
The sales for the savings banks are continued, but as
only rather over 11,000/. have to be invested in the re-
demption of debt this quarter, should stock in the
hands of the Commissioners for regulating the former
be still thrown upon the market, it is quite clear that
even present values cannot be supported, without a tar
greater demand than now exists for portions of the Na-
tional Debt.
The payment of the dividends, which commenced to
the public this morning, is going on rather actively, but
still there is no apparent anxiety on the part of recipi-
ents to come early for their cash. The Exchequer Bill
market Lab fluctuated only from Is. discount to Is. pre-
mium. The sole quotation for the Consol Scrip is 18
discount. Bank Stock has fallen from 200 to 198. The
Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. have ranged from 87i
to 87k.
lii the Foreign Funds the transactions have been
few this morning. Danish Five per Cents. are quoted
at 86- to 87; the Spanish Three per Cents. at 35; the
Active Stock at 244; the Dutch Two-and a-Half per
Cents. at 584 i; and the Four per Cents. at 904 k.
There is not any variation in the quotations of Rail-
way Shares this morning which demands especial com-
ment. Certainly the market wears a more steady
appearance.
maim FUNDS THIS I)AY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

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eather

A.ILla W. tnI.NT.W.; 6 p.m , nearly
calm.—Arrd. Laura Prahm, Rio Janeiro, for Stockholm;
Vere, Boyd, Jamaica. Arrd."from the River, Rose-
bud, Cullao, Kingston, Havannah ; Jordeson, ditto ;
Vittoria, Quebec; Devereux, ditto; Trusty, ditto; Dart,
ditto ; Queen, Newfoundland; Marmion, China. Sld.
Buccphalus, Penang; Douglas, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick; Centurion, Quebec, put back; Europe, Qin bee.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL W. t N.W.—Arrd.
her Majesty's ship Hydra. Left Ascension Feb. 26,
Sierra Leone, March 10, and Teneriffe, March 17.
CONVES, APRIL 7.—Wind W.—Arrd. John Woodhall,
London, for Hobart Town, crew in a state of mutiny.
SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 7.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd.
Achilles steamer, Constantinople ; Avon steamer, West
Indies, left 'St. Thomas 17th ult, and Bermuda 24th.
Sld. Iberia steamer, Lisbon.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL 7.—Wind W.—Arrd. her Majesty's
ship E-puir, Coast of Africa.

NEWPORT, APRIL 7.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Matchless,
Grenada; Princess Royal, Rio Grande.

LIVERPOOL, APRIL 7.—Wind fresh.—Arrcl.
Cassiopeia, Hodgson, Singapore ; Condor, Valparaiso ;
Aurora, Sandeta, Havannah, sailed 2d ult.; British Em-
pire, Essen, New Orleans; Herald, Fulton, Mobile; Sea
King, Hutton, Savannah ; Manchester, Prantes, Balti-
more; John Clark, Desbrow, New York; Waterloo,
Allen, New York; Niantie, Ostrom, New York; Taro-
lanta, Cave, Boston; Btooklyn, Leadley, Halifax. Off
port, Walton, St. Domingo ; Marmion, New York ;
Sisters, The Maid of Mona, M.‘Lelland, hence to
Havannah, was lost in the Old Bahama Channel, near
Nuevetos, 20th February, crew saved.
The Nene from Hamburgh, arrived here to-day with
loss of bowsprit head and cutwater, having been in
contact off the Bell Buoy with the Iron Duke, for
Dublin, which proceeded.
HAYLE, APRIL s.—. Sid. Victoria, Quebec.
SHIELDS, APRIL s.—Sid. Feronia, Quebec; Walms-
ley, ditto; Herrings, ditto; Grenville Bay, ditto; Four-
lier, Montreal; Memnon, Restigouche, Tralee. Sld.
Newbottle, New York.

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LONDON, APRIL 8.--The Brothers, of St. Andrew's,
New Brunswick, waterlogged and ' abandoned, was
passed, 3d inst., off Cape Finisterre, N.E., 5 leagues in
a dangerous position to steam vessels, by the Achilles
steamer, arrived at Portsmouth.
EXPORT OF TIMBER FROM RUSSIA.

A dispatch has been received at Lloyd's from the
Board of Trade, enclosing an extract from the Journal
de St. Petersburgh, dated 24th January last, announcing
the abolition of the official inspection of timber prepared
for exportation from St. Petersburgh.

RELATING TO A WRECK PASSED OFF CAPE

FINISTERRE.

A dispatch from the Admiralty has also been received
at Lloyd's, inclosing a copy of a letter from Lieutenant
Smith, Admiralty agent, attached to the contract packet
Madrid, reporting having passed 3d inst., off Cape Finis-
terra Eby, S. 10 miles, a wreck waterlogged and aban-
doned, mainmast gone by the board, bowsprit and fore
and miser stumps standing.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BuncHELL.)
WILLSIIER V. SMITH.

The plaintiff in this action is a printer, in Manor-
street, Chelsea, and the defendant is a nuseryman, at
Chelsea and Battersea. The action was brought to re-
cover the sum of Si. 2s. 6d. for engraving and printing
cards, &c.

The defendant pleaded that he was not indebted, but
did not appear.
Two witnesses were called who proved the delivery of
the goods, but the order for part only was proved.
The plaintiff's attorney said if the jury had any doubt
he would call his clerk.

The UNDER-SHERIFF—To fill up the gaps? but
perhaps the jury will be satisfied with the proof of value.
A witness was called and proved the prices to be fair,
and the attorney's clerk was called and proved he had
written a letter to the defendant, who had returned it by
his man with an answer.

The UNDER-SHERIFF said that evidence of the letter
could not be received, as no notice had been given to the
defendant to produce it,
The jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed.
WOOD AND OTHERS V. WORSLEY, CLERK.

This was an action brought to recover the sum of
85/. 2s. 7d. for goods sold and delivered.
The plaintiffs are coal merchants in Northumberland-
street, Strand and at Kentish Town, and the defendant is
a clergyman at Finchley.
The defendant allowed judgment to go by default.
The plaintiff's attorney stated the case. The defendant
had dealt with the firm since 1844, and goods to the
amount of the sum claimed had been delivered ; there
was also a previous amount due to the plaintiffs as exe •
tutors of their predecessor, Mr. Edward Wood. This
latter amount did not, however, form part of the present
claim, although it was all admitted to be due when de-
fendant was applied to for payment.
Evidence to this effect was produced.
One of the witnesses, on being asked the price of some
of the coals, gave the merchant's price, 245. 3d. per ton.
They were, however, charged at 40s.
The jury gave a verdict for the full amount claimed.
HAINES V. RUTHERFORD.

The plaintiff in this action was lately the landlord of
the Mortimer Arms Hotel, in Tottenham-court-road.
The claim was for 81. Os. 6d. for goods sold, and 2/. for
money lent.
The defendant pleaded that he was never indebted.
Mr. BAGLEY, who appeared for the plaintiff, said that
the defendant was a student at law, and was a young
gentleman from the West Indies, and was in the habit
of using the plaintiff's. Some little difficulty always
existed to prove the delivery of each article, but it was
particularly so in this case, as the plaintiff had gone into
quite a different line of business, and had mislaid his
books. He (the Learned Counsel), however, could not
conceive what possible defence the defendant could have,
for he had applied for and obtained a judge's order to
stay proceedings on payment of debt and costs. The
goods, consisting of port, sherry, claret, cigars, &c., were
supplied in August and September, 1845, and in October
two or three letters were written, in which the defendant
apologised for the non-payment, and said he had been
" trusting to friendship of others and had been disap-
pointed," "that he was involved through having lent his
signature to a friend," but he fondly hoped that he
should soon be able to pay, so that the plaintiff should
have no further reason to regret that he had trusted his
honour.

These letters were put in and proved.
Witnesses were called who proved the orders and de-
livery of great part of the wine, &c., and a general sup-
ply of cigars, B:,c.
Mr. CLARKE, the defendant's attorney, put in a notice
to produce the books, which, however, were not forth-
coming. He then addressed the jury, and said that the
defendant had put in an affidavit in which he denied
that he owed the money. When :the writ was served,
no particuiars were given, and a judge's order was ob-
tained, and, after some delay, the case went:on without
particuiars being furnished, and ultimately an affidavit
was made that the plaintiff had torn out two of
the leaves of the book containing the defendant's
account, in order to send them to Mr. Salomon,
his solicitor, but that they were lost in the transit, and
he had since mislaid the book). This was a very impro-
bable story, and that in a case where the evidence was
doubtful, and regular entries in the books might have
confirmed it, their absence was a very suspicious cir-
cumstance ; to tear out leaves from a book, to say the
least of it, was an act of great folly on the part of a
tradesman. He also produced a bill of exchange for
25L, dated August, 1845, due in November, but witnesses
had spoken to larger dealings previously to the present
account.

The UNDER SHERXFF said defendant's affidavit denying
the debt could not be received in evidence, but left it to
the jury to say whether the witnesses had proved the
delivery of the goods to their satisfaction ; as to the bill
it might have been given for other goods, or on quite a
different matter, at all events defendant had: not pleaded
payment, which he might have done, and given evidence
on the point.
The jury almost immediately gave a verdict for the
amount claimed.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
STEALING A LETTER. - Alfred Triggs, aged 27, a
postman, was indicted for stealing a letter containing a
cheque on the Union Bank, for 131. 2s. 6d., the property
of the Postmaster-General.

The Attorney-General, Mr. Clarkson, and Mr. Bodkin
appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Payno for the
prisoner.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated the case to the jury.
He said, on the Ist of February it was the duty of the
prisoner to deliver letters in the Covent-garden district.
On that day the Rev. John Fletcher, posted a letter
'to Mr. Haynes, secretary to the Clerical Club, No. 13,
Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, containing a crossed
cheque for 131.25. 6d. on the Union Bank. The letter
never reached its destination. The cheque was presented
at the Union Bank, but as it was crossed and not payable
except through a banker's clearing-house, payment was
refused, and the cashier wrote across it, " Cross and
C 0.," to denote that it was a crossed cheque, and that
payment had been refused. He could not, however,
identify the prisoner. On the 10th of March the pri
saner pledged a frock coat and a pair of shears at Mr.
Fleming's, in St. Martin's-lane, for 3s. 6d. Shortly after
the shopman searched the pockets of the coat, and found
the letter, in which the cheque had been enclosed, in
the breast pocket. Mr. Fleming at once informed the
Post-office authorities of the circumstance, and the pri-
soner was taken into custody. He admitted pawning
the coat, and said he purchased it a day or two before
from a Jew, in Monmouth-street, whose shop he did not
recollect ; but it appeared that the coat was in his pos-
session some time before the occurrence. The letter was
not within the district of the prisoner, but in that of a
person named Wells, who was at the time delivering
letters at that part of the town, but the prisoner
offered to deliver it, and Wells, who could speak
to the letter, entrusted it to him. These were the simple
facts of the case. In his opinion they proved that the
prisoner was guilty of the offence imputed to him.
Witnesses having testified to the facts stated by the
Learned Attorney-General,
Mr. PAYNE addressed the jury on behalf of the pri-
soner, and contended that the evidence was too slender
to convict his client of so serious a charge.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE summed up the evidence with
the utmost care, and the jury, after a short deliberation.
returned a verdict of Guilty. The prisoner was sen-
tenced to ten years' transportation.
The prisoner had been three years in the service of the
Post-office. Several unopened letters, of some days old,
were found at the prisoner's lodgings.

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