The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-09 00:00:00

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

" Accounts from Bombay announce, that, after
some hostilities, a preliminary arrangement was
concluded at Macao, on the 20th of January, be-
tween Captain Elliot and the Chinese Plenipo-
tentiaries, and that the commercial relations
were re-established."

" THE CONSUL OF FRANCE TO THE MINISTER FOR

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

" MARSEILLES, APRIL 4.
" MALTA, MARCH 30.

" The affairs of China are on the point of being
concluded. An arrangement has taken place, by
which the Emperor
" 1. Cedes the island of Hong Kong to Great
Britain.
" 2. Grants an indemnity of 6,000,000 dollars,
payable in six years.
3. Establishes the official relations between
the two Governments on the footing of a per-
fect equality.
" The circular of Captain Elliot announcing
these results is dated the 20th of January. It has
been brought hither by the Oriental."
We are in hourly expectation of receiving the
despatches and papers, brought by the Oriental,
with the details of the arrangement of our affairs
with China. Before their arrival it would be
premature to express any decided opinion
respecting our gain or loss by our recent
transactions with the Government of the " Central
Flowery Land." Neither can we determine with-
out these details what is meant by " some hostili-
ties ;" but as the arrangement was fixed to take
place at Canton, we conclude that the Canton
River was the theatre of any collision which has
taken place between the English and Chinese
since the occupation of the Island of Chusan.
The island of Hong Kong, of which a description
is subjoined, is but a poor affair. That Captain
ELLIOT accepted this island, and about a million
and a quarter sterling, payable six years after
date, in exchange for the fine island of Chusan,
And in liquidation of our heavy claims upon the
Chinese Government, would not surprise us, inas-
much as no blunder he could commit would ex-
cite our wonder ; but we should be indeed asto-
nished were such an arrangement to meet with
the approbation of Lord PALMERSTON and the
rest of her MAJESTY'S Ministers. But it
may possibly turn out that these dol-
lars have been inserted in the despatch
for pounds sterling, and that instead of six mil-
lions of dollars we are to receive as many mil-
lions of sovereigns. Such a sum, with the island
Whampoa, and an acknowledged equality with
the Chinese, might remunerate us for the heavy
losses of blood and treasure which we have sus-
tained through the duplicity of the Chinese Go-
vernment. But of the details we at present
know too little to express any decided opinion.
Twelve hours may serve to dissipate our doubts
on the subject.
HONG KONG.

This island is one of the group of islands at the
mouth of the Canton River. It is of granitic
formation, and the land rises to some consider-
able height in the centre of the island. There are
several good watering-places on the southern
shores, and potatoes and vegetables are
cultivated by the inhabitants to a great ex-
tent. The anchorage is the best between the
Lamina island and Hong Kong, as there is from
ten to twelve fathoms of water. There is also
good anchorage in the Ty-tam Bay for small
vessels, but the entrance is not good, and there
are some dangerous rocks in the course. The
entranceinto the Northern Channel is through
theLy-ee-mun Channel into Hong Kong Bay, and
although several of our merchantmen have
wintered here, the approach through the Lamma
Channel is very uncertain, as the depth is con-
tinually changing from the great deposit of mud.
Ships from Macao pass through the Lantao
Channel during the Northern Monsoon, but the
navigation of these straits is exceedingly difficult
and dangerous. Tyfongs, or gales of wind, pre-
vail along the coast at the equinox, and are
very destructive to the native and foreign ship..
ping. This island is badly chosen as a position;
it is surrounded by small clusters of islands,
and our ships of war will be unable to act amidst
these island groups. Small steamers will
alone be serviceable, but these must be of very
small draught. The cession of this island by the
Chinese Government is according to their usual
cautious policy, as they will be enabled by their
river . junks to block up the and
cut. off communication - entrances,
from the outer

! waters. The island is ten miles long, and
about five miles broad. The Chinese have two
forts on the coast opposite Hong Kong Bay;
and the small harbour of Cow-too is much fre-
quented by the coasting junks.
An excellent Chart of the Canton River, with
the Entrances and Islands (including Hong
Kong), is published by Mr. WYLD, of Charing-
cross, Geographer to the QUEEN.

So much is now saidin public and in Par-
liament about placing the education of the whole
community under the control of the clergy, that
we shall do some service by subjecting the quali-
fications of that body for the high trust to exa-
mination. We cannot conceive it possible that
our Legislature should go on appointing chap-
lains to workhouses, and chaplains to gaols, and
subjecting public instruction to their interfe-
rence and control, without first satisfying them-
selves perfectly that the clergy are the fittest
body of men for that office. In the hope that
we may attract the attention of Members of
Parliament to the subject, we pen the following
observations.
The origin of the opinion that the priesthood
are the proper instructors of the people, may be
traced to the remotest antiquity. Amongst the
Jews the Levites were the keepers of all the
public records, and of necessity the teachers of
the people in all matters of history, religion,
and morals. The priests in Egypt seem to have
filled a similar office, and to have possessed all
the learning of the country. A similar fact
was true of the Christian priesthood. On
the breaking-up of the Roman empire,
the knowledge of antiquity and many of
the useful arts was exclusively preserved by the
Christian clergy. They were respected by the
barbarians, and became their teachers. They
spread not only Christianity, but the arts of
Rome and Greece over Europe, and were at that
time to our Anglo-Saxon ancestors what our
missionaries now are to the Sandwich Islanders.
For several centuries the arts of reading and
writing, the sciences of astronomy, ofalchymy, of
geography, and the practice of medicine, were
almost exclusively in their hands. At that period
they were the only teachers of the people, and
they hold their present office as teachers more
from traditionary respect for what the early
priests did than from a conviction derived from
reason of what the present race of priests are ca-
pable of performing. The Legislature has now
to consider—admitting as we most cheerfully
do, the former great utility of the priesthood—
whether they have any claims to hold the same
high office in the present altered circumstances
of mankind.
We must first notice that they are now by no
means the exclusive depositories of science and
historical knowledge. On the contrary, lay-
men are perhaps greater cultivators of the
sciences than the clergy. Reading, writing,
and the other arts which youth learn, are quite
as much taught by laymen as by the clergy.
They are not in fact, as clergymen, any longer
the actual instructors of the people. Many of
them take part in the periodical literature of the
day; they write books also, and so contribute to
the public instruction; but the press has actually
superseded the clergy as public instructors, and
it is only as they operate through that, in com-
mon with lay:nen, that they now fulfil this
office.

The. great object of education, so far as the

State is concerned, is to make man happy on
earth. The State does not undertake to prepare
man for Heaven. It must teach him to do his
duties in this life. It must enable him to play
his part well in the great earthly drama till its
final denouement. Is the priesthood, as a
body, calculated to teach men their duties ?
Is their own education such as to fit them to
be the instructors of other men in the duties of
life ? Are their minds so formed, and drilled, in
love, affection, and sincere convictions, that they
can be relied on as models on which a wise states-
man would desire to fashion the minds of the
people ? These are important questions, and,
before Sir ROBERT PEEL and Lord STANLEY,
and Sir ROBERT INGLIS, heap taxes on us to pay
clergymen, they are bound to consider and an-
swer them.
One of the foremost duties of every man, if
not the first duty, is to provide for his own sub-
sistence and, in order to do that, he must learn
some one of the many thousand of the wealth-
creating arts, to which successive division and
subdivision of labour has given rise. He cannot
dispense with that, and the fitness of the clergy
to teach any of these arts must be at once flatly
denied. Nor is their example, on this point,
calculated to impress on men the great lesson that
each man must earn his own bread by the sweat
of his brow. For the behoof of the priesthood,
a great portion of the annual produce of labour is
set apart, and that is most unequally divided.
Shares in it are not to be obtained by industry, by
great ability or by great virtue, but by fawning,
by family connections, by educating some great
man's son, or by being, per chance, tutor to some
youth who turns out a great statesman. Who
can narrate the squabbles, quarrels, and intrigues
of the clergy to get large shares in this property,
as it is called, of the Church ? Who knows a
tithe of the simony and other vices which now
and then peep out, as at York, of which the
clergy, for the sake of wealth, are habitually
guilty ? While, then, they are utterly unfit to
teach other men bread-winning occupations, their
own means of obtaining subsistence is the reverse
of that recommended by the Apostle, and calcu-
lated to teach the community to get wealth by
any means in preference to daily labour.

In common with opulent laymen they acquire
much useful knowledge at school and college,
but that is not essential to the performance of
their functions, for which they receive a peculiar
instruction. They are impressed with a know-

ledge of the past, and taught to disregard the
present. Their acquaintance with the latter is
only an incidental acquisition, and is not a neces-
sary part of their instruction. To one narrow
portion of antiquity, to one little trait
in the history of mankind, their minds
are held in strict obedience, and are
bound and chained by ready-made formulas,
which have very often little relation to the
actual world. As they ennunciate them their
conduct proves that they do not believe them.
For example, they preach disregard of wealth,
and struggle continually to acquire it. They
preach charity and love, but they rarely exhibit
them in their conduct. They persecute and ma-
lign their brethren like the most stupid of man-
kind. At present the whole community is
shaken by their quarrels. They denounce am-
bition, and are the most domineering and ambi-
tious of men. They tell us to be humble, but set
an example of arrogance. Between their doctrines
and their conduct there is the most terrible incon-
sistency. They have few or no honest convictions
of their own, and cannot convey honest convic-
tions to others. The great influence which they
still have over the education and morals of the
people is the source of that insincerity, which is
the plague of modern time.
But besides the perpetual conflict between
their doctrines and actual practices, the distin-
guishing feature of their education, that it refers
wholly to the past and disregards the present,
suffices to prove their incapacity to teach men
how they ought nowtoaclta.wsTehne pwehoipelhe
the re-
quire to learn the natural
preservation of health in a crowded,
any knowledge of
mercan-
tile community depends. Will le
the lives and characters of the scattered and
agricultural people of antiquity teach that
Poverty is at present a great evil; the
the
na-
tural bulk of
the people, therefore, require to learn h
laws on which, in the present state of
society, the progress of wealth and popula-
tion depends. To attain these great ends,
to which laws are continually directed,
it is essential that the teachers of the people
study the present as well as the past. And be-
cause the priesthood are on principle taught to
disregard the present, and are mainly instructed
in the past, we conclude that they are no; the

proper persons to be charged with the education
of the community.
We make these remarks only in relation to the
State employing and paying the clergy as public
teachers. With their influence over private life,
and any voluntary deference paid to them, we
meddle not. We place ourselves in the position

of legislators ; we look at the clergy as employed
by the State to instruct the people in the art of
providing for their own and the public welfare;
and for that great and important, and even vital,
object, we pronounce them to be completely in-
efficient.

The Morning Chronicle yesterday advocated
the formation of Boards of Health, which, like
Mr. EWART'S proposed Minister of Public In-
struction, is an importation from the Continent.
Boards of Health exist in all parts of Germany
and in France. Is the health of the people there
superior to the health of the people of England?
Do they live longer ? Is the rate of mortality
less. Are their cities cleaner ? To all which
questions we answer No ; and, therefore, we say
that this importation is as uncalled for as Mr.
EWART'S Minister of Public Instruction.
We are not aware that this recommen-
dation is advocated in the public prints by
the Commissioners of Inquiry into the Health
of Towns, but it proceeds from them.
It does not add to the force of the recommen-
dation, that some of these gentlemen are sus-
pected of wishing to create a snug place for
themselves. Nor is that suspicion weakened by
the public knowledge that other gentlemen have
succeeded in establishing offices from which they
enjoy great advantages, whatever use they may
be of to the public. Now that the avenues of com-
merce are almost blocked up, the professions
overstocked, and legitimate enterprise without
any adequate scope, it is not perhaps surprising
that men of talents and and ambition turn their
attention to serving the public. It pays well,
and its wages are certain. They find out, by
various deductions, that the public has great
need of their services, and a variety of recom-
mendations ensue, against which the Ministers
ought to be upon their guard. In fact they are
beset with schemes of this description, and the
more they yield to them, the more expense they
will fasten on the country, and the less popular
will they become. Such gentlemen may weaken
but cannot strengthen the Government.

1 We beg it may not be supposed that we deny
the advantages of wide, open, well-drained
streets, and clean, well ventilated apartments,
about which we see several of our Contemporaries
expatiate with great eloquence, in contrast to the
dirty hovels, fetid alleys, and murky closes in
which the people now dwell. We- are quite as
sensible of the benefit of a change from filth to
cleanliness as the greatest lover of whitewash,
large windows, and free circulation of air, in ex-
istence. But we doubt whether their recom-
mendations to establish Boards of Health, and
drainage laws are precisely the means to effect
the much desired improvement. They cannot
be carried into effect without causing consider-
able expense, which somehow or other, like all
other taxes, will be thrown on the labourer.
But the labourers are already steeped to the lips
in poverty; and, in our opinion, whatever adds
to the public expense, and takes the smallest
fraction of the QUEEN'S coin out of the
pockets of the labourers, to put it into
the pockets of surveyors, commissioners, clerks,
&c. &c., increases the evil—namely, the po-
verty, and with that the dependence and
recklessness, of the people, which it is so desir-
able to cure. The existence of the disease we ad-
mit equally with our Contemporaries, but we
differ from them as to its cause. They think it
arises from too few regulations, and they propose
to make more. We think it arises from too
many, and wish to see them lessened. The
evils they complain of prove to us that the
Legislative authority, which has long had almost
unlimited power, and has not remedied them is -
not to be trusted ; and we decline, therefore,
like our Contemporaries, to ask it continually to
extend the sphere of its operations.

The Madrid papers received are of the 30th
ult. The Minister of Justice, Senor BEERRA,
was reported to have resigned rather than coun-
tenance the appointment of a single Regent.
The Chambers had not met for two days. No-
thing was doing. The Five per Cents. 25f for
cash, and 26f for 60 days.

The French Evening Papers of Tuesday bring
the result of the debate in the Chamber of De-
puties upon MM. PAGES and MAIMUIN'S mo-
tion, for excluding public functionaries from
that assemblage of sage legislators. For the
debate itself, in which the orators on both sides
infused as much personality and as little sober
reasoning as possible, we cannot make room in
our columns. Personalities, however stinging,
lose much of their raciness when transplanted to
countries in which the vituperators and the vitu-
perated are equally unknown. Moreover, it is
no unusual thing for legislators, both in France
and elsewhere. to be offensively personal without
being witty ; to indulge in sarcasms without
point; and to apply epithets without anything
like a clear impression of their appropriateness.
If we take this as a general rule the debate in
the French Chamber of Deputies, on Monday
and Tuesday, forms no exception to it. The
only really clever speech made against the mo-
tion was delivered by Colonel LIADIERES, one of
the KING'S aides-de-camp. This gentleman
entered the arena of politics—as a genuine Irish-
man, before the days of Father MATTnEW, would
have entered the pugnacious precincts of Donny-
brook Fair—determined to have a shindy with
the first person he met with, whether friend or
enemy. M. LIADIERES laid about him
lustily, attacking indiscriminately those who sup-
ported and those who opposed the Fortifications
Biil, with several other matters equally foreign
to the question before the Chamber. He was
happiest in his attack upon the lawyers, whom
he tomahawked without mercy. On a division,
at which 373 votes were given, the motion was
only lost by a majority of 203 against 170, being
a relative majority of 33, and an absolute majo-
rity of only 16 votes. With so trifling a majority
upon such a question, it may be doubted whether
the Ministers can get on without having recourse
to a dissolution.

The news from China had no marked effect
upon the funds. The Three per Cents. were
done at 78f. 60c.

The Duke of Nemours, on his departure for Africa the day
before yesterday, was accompanied by his aide-de-camp,
General Boyer, his orderly officer M. Borel de Bretizel, and
byCount lierthrer and M. de Larne, orderly officer of the King.
A letter from Constantinople, of the 17th of March, says that
the Porte has laid before the Ambassadors of the Four
Powers, the answer which it is to make to the demands of Ale-
hornet Ali. The conferences are held at Lord Ponsonby's.
It seems that these demands will be acceded to.—Le Con-
stitutionnel.

We have the following letter from Toulon, of Ist April :
"If the squadron had been ordered to ea yesterday the ships
would return to port in a few days much damaged. We have
had in the night strong gales from the north-west, and the
weather is still very bad to-day ; accordingly the squadron re-
mains at anchor in the road. The following is the list of the
ships which were to have sailed this morning, but will not
leave the port till the wind has abated:—

The Ocean, Vice-Admiral Hugon ; the Souveraine, Rear-
Admiral Casy ; the Suffron, the Scipion, the Inflexible, and
Santi Petre, all of the line.
.
The Medea and Venus frigates.
_ _

It was by a telegraphic despatch that the squadron received
the order to put tu sea.
We hear that the Montebello, Neptune, Hercule, and Ville
de Marseille, of the line, was to wait in the roads for further
orders.

The Velnce steamer, is, we hear, to be attached to Admiral
Hugon's squadron.
Ihe Cameleon •reamer is engaged in conveying the sol-
diers of the Nth regiment of the line from Port Vendres to
Boras, where the Trident and Marengo are at anchor.
We learn this moment a piece of news of importance. We
are to have in future two mails from Africa every week instead
of one. Of course, there will be the same number from
Toulon to Africa.—Le Commerce.
TUESDAY, Anil, 6.

t led Highest Lowest Lad
Price Price. Price. Price
r rencn .5 per Cents «..113 ... Ha 35 ... 113 ••• 112 i 0
4 per Cents ............ I 9 10 90 10 99 10 .. 99 10
3 per teats 7B 65 .. 78 ilO ... 78 65 ... 78 75
.:,na 01 trance
Lade Rank 5,000 f. Skates 5150 ...5150 "4150 ...5150
cigian Bank
S per Cent 5.......
... um% ... 10114 New L0an.........., 101% ... 1 15g ~. 10i % 1015,
ipanush Active .....
534 ... ... 5%
Portuguese 3 per Cents 2O ... 20 ... o ... 20 Neapolitan lO3 80 ... 103 95 ... "33 80 ... 03 95
Roman ......... ..... 103% ..• 103% ... 103 ... 103%
RAILWAY SHARES.
„itt 6ernlav 7_25 725 ...725 ... 725
Versaillcs.R.
•••
_385 ... 380 ... 385
....... •••• Zl4 •275 275 275
485 ... 485 ... 485 ... 485
Orleans ..•••
. to
4234107 3°
45223 51;i0 42450 50
5050
20 ... 420 ... 420 ... 420
Rulhausen to Thann

WINDow DUTIES.7—A return recently moved
for by Captain Pechell, 111. P., is before us, from which it
pears that the total amount of window duty charged oq. hosal?-
tals in England during the year 1840 was 1,2210 L 2d A;
duty on windows assessedfor the 12 following towns in England
(which contr:bute the largest amount) is as follows
Bath, 18,8561. - Birmingham, 7,9051. ; Brighton, .11,823 C.
Bristol, 12,6461 ; Cheltenham, 5,3822.; Clifton, 5,3771:
Leeds, 5,6021. ; Liverpool, 22,5511. ; Manchester, 12,983/..;
Norwich, 4,8701. ; Plymouth, 7442 i. and York, 0034

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.
The Funds closed firmly. Consols for immediate
transfer real/zed 90 to 891, and for the Account 90k
to 89k. At the termination of business there was no
difference between the Money and Account prices, the
settling day being, in fact, very near at hand. Exche-
quer Bills realized 9s. to 12s. premium ; India Bonds
par to 2s. premium ; the New Three and-a-Half per
Cents. 98/ toil the Reduced Three per Cents. 88/
to 89 ex-div. ; Bank Stock 169 f to 170} ex-div. ; and
India Stock for the Opening 2.53.
The Foreign Market was dull all day. Spanish
Active I3onds realized 23 to k; Portuguese NeN Five
per Cents. 33f to j ; Three per Cents. 19i ; Mexican
Bonds 30i to ; Colombian 22/ ; Brazilian 69/ ;
Belgian 102 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
52 to 51i.
The Share Market, although it has been somewhat
deficient in buoyancy, owing to the partial cessation of
speculation at Liverpool, has not yet shown any down-
ward tendency, the following having been the more cur-
rent prices to-day. Brighton Railway Shares brought
4 to 41 dis. ; Eastern Counties 13/ dis. ; Manchester
and Leeds 3 dis. ; and South Eastern 15 div. ; Lon-
don and Birmingham were 66 to 67 ; the New 22 ; the
South Western 17i ; the York and North Midl ind 30 ;
and Great Western 281 prem. ; London and West-
minster Bank New Shares were 21 prem.
The Foreign Exchanges were steady this afternoon,
all business usually transacted in them on the Friday
having been arranged this afternoon, in consequence of
the occurrence of the national holiday to-morrow.
Paper at three months' date was negotiated on the
following terms :—Paris, 25f. 70c. ; Hamburgh, 13 9} ;
Frankfort, 150 ; Amsterdam, 12 4to ; Antwerp,
12 3,1 to ; and Trieste, 10 2to 3.
An unusual degree of excitement was produced to-
day in the T, a market, by the receipt of news of the
re-opening of the trade with the Chinese, and the set-
tlement of the differences between this country and the
Celestial Authorities. As might have been anticipated,
the value of Tea in the wholesale markets immediately
fell, and they must, it is thought, still go lower, as most
of the speculative holders must bring their stocks to
market. The losses that have been sustained by the
holders of Tea are very considerable. In other
branches of trade there has not been much lite dis-
played this week. The Colonial Markets have etised
for the Easter holidays, West India, East India, and
other principal articles of produce remain at very
nearly the same prices as last week.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 7.—The sales of
Cotton to-day amount to 2,500 boles, of which exporters have
taken 900; in prices there is no alteration.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 7. —An extensive busi-
ness has been done in the Share Market to-day. The trans-
actions comprise the following :—Chester and Birkenhead New
Shares, 173/4 ; Eastern Counties, 9; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
34A ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 24A ; Grand Junction,
211 ; ditto Chester and Crewe, 52i ; Great Western New
Shares, 64; ditto 20/. Shares, 1 li; Liverpool and Manchester
Quarter Shares. 46%; London and Birmingham New, 156 ;
Manchester and Bolton and Bury, 54i; Midland Counties, 88;
New Shares, 2214.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 7.—London and
Birmirgham, 156; Lancaster and Preston, 333 A ; Manchester
and Leeds, 661 ; Ditto Halves, 284; London and Simth
Western Tenths, 43 ; Great Western Fifths, 114 ; Chester and
Birkenhead New, 17A ; Stafford and Rugby, 38s. 9d. ; South
Lancashire Banks, 5/. 6s. 3d. ' • Union Plate Glass, 101/x.
Thirty Minutes past Six.—No news of the President.

We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's dare.
BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, APRIL s.—Our National Funds
are getting up to-day, assisted by the higher prices from Lon-
don and Paris. A great many purchases were made to cover
the preceding sales. Ardoin's continued firm, and remained
at 20i.

Accounts from Frankfort, Ist April, state, that the whole-
sale business at the Easter Fair commenced on the above day,
in which there was great activity in the articles most current,
although the numbers ofpurchasers were not as yet considerable.
The important intelligence received by the telegraph from
Paris from Marseilles, of the date of April the 4th, and from
Macao of the 20th January, stating that preliminary arrange-
ments had been concluded with the Chinese on the 20th Jan.
on the following terms, that the Chinese cede the island of
Hong-Kong to Great Britain, also granting an indemnity of
6,000,000 dollars, payable in six years, has given great satis-
faction to the public, but it has not had that effect on the
British funds generally expected, owing to its being antici-
pated. The speculators and the public are anxiously waiting
fur the papers and letters by the Overland Express, to learn
further particulars.

Consols opened this morning at 90 for the Account, and at
present may be quoted 59i 90 ; Money 88% ; Exchequer
Bills better, 9 12 prem. ; Bank Stock, 169 171 ; India bonds,
2 disc. 2 prem.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active left off, 221 i 23%,
at present 23% %; Deferred, 121- %; Passive, 5% %; Portu-
guese closed at 32% 33%; at present, 33%; Three per Cents.,
193/4 20 ; Brazilian, 69 70 ; Colombian, 22% 23 ; Mexican,
30% 31 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51% 8 ; rive per
Cents., 98%.
Shares—Great Western, 27 28 prem. ; New, 13% prem. ;
London and Brighton, 4% 3% dis. ; l3lackwall, 5% % dis. ; Bir.
mingham, 65 67 prem. ; Southampton, 56 57 per shire ;
Croydon, 13% % per share ; Greenwich, 8% per share ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 15i 14% dis. ; South Eastern, a...d
Dover, 15% 15 di .

Consols may be quoted at present 90 to i, for Money 90.
The China intelligence has had an effect on the Tea Market.
Congou Tea very flat at Is. sd. to Is. 5-id. ; yesterday it was
at Is. 7icl., with a firm market.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
London and Brighton
London and Birmingham
Manchester and Leeds ... 70
Ditto New Shares
South Eastern and Dover
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 6.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 97/ i Grand Canal Stock ...... ...

Ditto Reduced ... 974 Ditto Debs. 6 per sent...
Ditto New, 1830 ......984 Ditto 4 per cent . .
84 per Cent. Debs. 9Ol Royal Canal Stock
The Chinese news has had but little effect on the British
Market to the present hour—about 4 per cent. Some doubts
prevail respecting the articles acceded to by the Emperor,
which causes much anxiety for the arrival of the official docu-
ments, which may be expected in the course of the evening.
To the present time it is ascertained that Messrs. Wakefie:d's
deficiency amounts to 66,0001.
The President steamer has been insured this morning at 35
per cent.
Money has been rather tight in the course of the morning.
The Dutch mail has arrived of the 7th inst., bringing the
prices from Amsterdam of the 6th. Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. 51 5-16 : Five per Cents. 994; Ardoin's, 20 11-16.
Consols, which were in the morning 904, for the account, at
present are 90, with very little doing ; Reduced 884 ex divi-
dend; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced 9754 ex di-
vidend; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 981 ; Exchequer
Bills 11 9 11 prem.: India Bonds 2 prem. 2 par.
In the Foreign Market very little doing. Spanish Active
23 ; Portuguese 331 ; Three per Cents. 198 ; Colombian
224; Mexican 308; Brazilian 694; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. 52 518 ; Five per Cents. 954.
In the Sha-e Market scarce a bargain doing. London and
Brighton 454 ; London and Birmingham, 157 ; Manchester
and Leeds, New Shares, 29; South Eastern and Dover 17%.
Consols for Account, 90 ; ditto 25th May, 904 A ; Mexican,
304 31 ; Portuguese, 335 4 ; Spanish, 234 4.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock ... 1704 India Stock
3 per Cent Red B9 Ditto Bonds 2 par
3 per Cent Cons 9O Ditto Old Annuities ...
34 per Cent Red..
New 34 per Cent 9B/ Ex. Bills, 1,000/....25d 12 pm
New 5 per Cent ' Ditto 500/ l2 pm
Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small l3 pm
Jan. 1860 ..• 124 Bank Stock for 0pg....1744
Oct 1859.......... 12 9-16 India Stock for Acct.... 253
Jan. 1860. Consols for Acct 9O
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent lO2 Ditto, New Ditto
.
Brazilian Bonds. . 694 Prussian, 5 per cent. —
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent...... 'Ditto, Aletallie
Colombian, 6 per cent... 'Spanish, 5 per cent
Ditto, 1824. 224 Ditto, Deferred ..
Danish, 3 per cent — • 'French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange -f. —e.
Mexican, 5 per cent. ... French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 24 per cent ... 518
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent 9B
SHARES.
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid ...........94
Ditto Debentures ( 4 paid) 74
Great Western Railway (65 paid) . . 934
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Bo mingham Railway (90 pd) 156
Ditto New shares ( 2 paid).... 24
London and South Western
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) .. 67
Ditto New Shares (30 paid)..
South Eastern and Dover (33 paid)...
EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY).
18
York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 80
AmstTdaUmß SE OCFFE. XIC2 HA7 Ni
48
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 74 Genoa . 25 85
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13 1241 Venice
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per oz 119
(Gibraltar
Ditto, 3 months 25 80 Lisbon
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 27
Frankfort on Maine... 1504 Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres , ....
8er1in........ 7 0 New York, 21days sight 464
Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 10 3 Philadelphia 46
...
Trieste, ditto lO 5 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Madrid ... 354
Portugal Gold Coin £0 0 0
Cadiz
Bilboa
Barcelona
Seville ... .. 35 Silver in Bars ' 05 0

THE QUEEN'S GARDEN.—It is not generally
known that in the garden attached to Buckingham Palace
there is a mound of earth upwards of eighty feet high, the
summit of which commands an extensive view of the surround-
ing district, with the Surrey hills in the distance; her Ala.
jesty having expressed a wish to enjoy the view from the
top of the hill during the summer, workmen have been, for
the last week, actively emplosed in foring a ravel walk u
the side, and when that is finished a m
small pavilion is to be
erected for the accommodation of the Queen and her Royal
Consort on the summit
I'HE ARlt4Y.—The 14th Light Dragoons, now
on the march to Canterbury, will embark for Bombay about
the 15th of May. ' The tenders for shippingwill be opened to-
morrow at the India House. About 500 rank and file from
Limerick district are ordered to join their corps on foreignservice. The Queen's Bays leave Piershill, Edinburgh, this
week, for Sheffield and the 29th move shortly from the Castle
for Glasgow barracks. The Bays will be replaced by the 4th
Dratooll Guards, and the 29tliby the Beth Regiment.
Thalberg and Ole Bull aars.ms:, where
their concerto are most nuramualY atteided: