The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-14 00:00:00

itz larnia ..'41111•116

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1847.

cleanliness is in a more particular manner demanded
in any one position, that position is assuredly dis-
cernible among the crew and passengers of an emigrant
ship. A cottage may rival a dove-cot in dimensions
and a pig-stye in nastiness, but the cottager has an
opportunity of inhaling a purer atmosphere, and of
obtaining healthful exercise, during the better part
of the four-and-twenty hours, on the adjoining
highway, or in the fields where he gains hislivelihood.
These opportunities are wholly denied to the emi-
grant. During so many weeks, formerly during so
many months, he is cooped up with a swarm of
fellow-voyagers in a structure quite inadequate in
regard to size, and a vast deal more than inadequate
in regard to comfort. Bodily exercise is out of the
question ; ablutions bear rather the character of
luxuries than of diurnal duties ; ventilation to those
confined to their berths by sickness is reduced to the
agreeable alternative of suffocation or draughts.
During these journeys across the ocean, moreover,
there is accumulating under the sleeping places and
the dining places of the passengers that fetid mass of
liquid stagnation termed bilge water, carrying an
incipient plague in every globule.
Cleanliness, therefore, is the best, and certainly the
cheapest, method of reducing the amount of mortality
on board the emigrant ships. Government might do
better in rendering this cleanliness compulsory on the
proprietors and officers of the emigrant ships than in
providing medical attendants to the alarming
number of seven hundred. Another consideration
shows that this cleanliness must be enforced under
penalty, seeing that the emigrants are emigrants
merely from their necessitous condition, and knowing
that filth and poverty are very nearly allied. What-
ever may be the fate of the Health of Towns Bill,
for which our aspirations are still so numerous and
earnest—and which has only been quashed through
the opposition of that Country Party, whose affected
loyalty to the Soil has been surpassed by their un-
affected love for Dirt—we do hope that the Colonial
Department will extend the benefits of the sanatory
code to the victims of a systematic emigration.

NELLI, the POPE'S Envoy. The departure of Don
FRANCISCO DE PAULA and his family for San Sebas-
tian is fixed for the 7th.

The QUEEN is expected shortly at La Granja.

MADRID BOMA, JULY 7.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 27 cash ; the Five per Cents. 17*; Passives,
51 cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.

The financial situation of France is exciting general
uneasiness, which the demand for a new loan has not
at all tended to allay. On this subject the Courrier
Francais says—
.

" The budget has this year reached the almost incre-
dible amount of 1,600 millions of francs; taxes have
wrung from France, ruined by innundatious and protec-
tive duties, 1,600 millions—from France, forced by the
want of foresight of its Government, to pay a premium
of 1,200 millions to have bread ! But these 1,600 mil-
lions have not been sufficient to pay all the expenses, to
make up all the voids left by waste and peculation.
There is an enormous deficit of 750 millions! why such
used to be the whole budget of the empire, sufficient for
the glory of Austerlitz, Jena, Friedland, and Wagram!
Our cheap Government, with its modest policy, had well
cccustomed us to deficits; for the last ten years we have
had one regularly, but what no one ever witnessed was a
deficit of 750 millions! The Government itself appears
moved at the frightful consequences of such a disorder.
Meanwhile all the sources of public wealth are dried up,
and labour is generally suspended throughout the
country, yet the necessities of the moment must be
provided for, this deficit of 750 millions must be made
up, not reckoning the deficit of the next year. The
new Minister of Finance has for that purpose presented
a Bill for a first loan of 350 millions; and as, on the
other hand, the Chamber has lately augmented the amount
of the Treasury bonds by 200 millions, there remain
only 200 millions to be made up. The so-much-boasted-
of cleverness consisting only in living by expedients, it
is exceedingly probable that the 200 millions in question
will be obtained by a new emission of Treasury bonds.
It is so easy a mode of obtaining money! It is true that
it is the most certain means of ruining oneself; it is the
great resource of spendthrifts, who beforehand pledge
their revenues, and—as the phrase goes—eat the horse
in the stable. Why should it not be the resource of our
great statesmen? The amount of Treasury bonds will
be augmented, or, in other words, the budget will be
devoured beforehand! Such was the custom of the old
regime, that Government of great nobles, initiated by
our upstart gentlemen. The former perished in the
most frightful political tempest that history speaks of.
Will their imitators be more clear-sighted and more
Lrtunate? What is certain is, that this demand of 350
millions has profoundly moved the Bourse, and that
sad prognostications are made."
The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the
budget of receipts have completed their labours. In
their report they give a summary of the financial
situation of the country, and calculate that the year
1848 will add a new deficit of 90,000,000 f. to the
696,000,000 f. of previous deficits. The committee
on the budget of receipts, like that on expenses, con-
jures the Government to apply an immediate and
energetic remedy to this state of things by establish-
ing an equilibrium between the ordinary receipts and
expenses, and by confining the extraordinary ex-
penses within the limits of the reserves of the sinking
fund, which the Minister of Finance formally pro-
mised in his expose des motifs on the loan. The com-
mittee proposes the pure and simple maintenance of
the receipts inscribed in the budget, which amount
to the sum of 1,391,126,510 f. In this sum
20,148,800 f. arise from the portion of the loan of
450,000,000 f., authorised in 1841, and applicable in
1848 to extraordinary public works. The committee
has only introduced some slight modifications in the
wording of some articles, and especially in Art. 14
on caution-money, to be deposited by receivers-
general, receivers of arrondissements, and percepteurs,
such modifications being suggested by the Minister
of Finance himself.

There are certain crimes which have repeatedly
.attracted the attention of the Legislature, against
which the most stringent provisions have been
enacted, the most serious punishment sanctioned.
Every person will readily concur in acknowledging the
gravity of these offences, and the necessity of putting
them down by the strong arm of the law, and yet, not-
withstanding every effort, they flourish and attain a
rank luxuriance, and are practised openly and un-
blushingly by men of otherwise unblemished cha-
racter, with a total disregard of the provi-
sions of the law, and a practical impunity from
any unpleasant consequences from its violation. The
most mischievous and demoralizing amongst these,
so far as the public is concerned, is that of bribery
at elections, to which Lord BROUGHAM directed
the attention of the House of Lords on Monday even-
ing, and we may now dread that within a short
period it will prevail throughout all parts of the
kingdom. It is notorious that there are many con-
stituencies who are wholly regardless of the personal
character or qualifications of the candidates for their
suffrages. The only test which they look to is their
wealth, and (what they term) liberality ; or, in other
words, the freedom and recklessness with which they
will scatter money amongst the debased recipients of
their bribes, and open public-houses at which the
independent electors may wallow in the most beastly
intoxication for some time previous to the con-
test. The greatest talent or ability, the most
sterling political honesty and independence on
the part of the candidate, will be wholly
disregarded by such persons. His eloquence may
lead an admiring senate; he may have devoted him-
self to the investigation and exposure of abuses, have
introduced the most valuable reforms, and ever been
found the efficient advocate and the unflinching as-
sertor of the rights of the many, but he either cannot
or will not purchase their suffrages, and he must
yield to one without perhaps a single valuable qua-
lity, who expends his money as a mere speculation,
and is quite prepared to sell to the highest bidder,
and totally to disregard the interests of those whom
he has purchased at an extravagant price.
Although, happily, there are not now the
same number of places which may openly
be purchased as existed heretofore, before
the passing of the Itoforn, Flll, y. - +h.rn gra very
few constituencies among which some venal electors
are not numbered, who may turn the scale in the
event of a close contest. It is too notorious that there
are many ready to accept head-money, treating, or
any other description of benefits under which bribery
may be disguised, in return for their votes, and that
it is only in cases where the candidates wholly and
positively refuse to sanction the least vestige of cor-
ruption that the purity of election is maintained. In-
deed—and bitterly do we regret the humiliating
fact—wherever there is a person ready to give, there
are numbers ready to accept at his hands ; and al-
though the fact may be perfectly notorious that money
has been given, the matter has been managed so pri-
vately and secretly, and with such precaution, as to defy
detection and a conviction for the offence, so as to
subject the party to the penalties prescribed by the
law. Any enactment, therefore, to prove effectual
must be directed towards the candidates and not the
electors. Let the bribery oath be administered to
the former and not the latter; prohibit the party
desirous of being elected from expending a single
shilling even of what are now termed legal expenses,
which should be defrayed by the place about to
return a representative ; you will thus, and thus
only, obtain a full and fair representation of the
people—a House collectively and individually selected
and chosen without any impropriety ; you will carry
into practice the constitutional theory, and you may
look forward in due season for the fruits of the whole-
some seed you have sown.
But these are not the only reasons for the change,
vast and important as they undoubtedly are. By so
doing, you will abolish a fertile source of crime.
How few of the parties who have accepted bribes will
hesitate to take the bribery oath if administered ! As
the Noble Lord remarked, there are probably not five
in a hundred who would not fill up the full measure
of the guilt, and stain their conscience with the crime
of wilful and corrupt perjury. How fearful is this
state of things, and how likely to lead to future guilt
and misery. The party who at first would only act
with the herd, will speedily become callous to every
moral obligation, and willing to plunge into still
greater guilt for any fancied benefit. The money he
may have obtained by such infamous means will be
wasted in the most criminal indulgences, for which
a taste will be acquired, and the party ready to com-
mit any crime to continue the enjoyment of his new
Propensities. In fact tbpro is everything to be urged
in favour of the change, and nothing can be alleged
in favour of the present system. It is deeply to be
regretted that it is now too late to obtain an efficient
measure to preserve the country from the contamina-
tion to which it must soon be exposed. The state-
ment of the Noble Lord will, however, we trust, have
some effect in serving as a warning to those *out to
engage in contests, that their actions will be scruti-
nized, and that if they expose themselves to the penal-
ties of the law, it will be jealously enforced, and the
offenders subjected to all its stringent provisions.

It is evident that the proceedings at the Reform
banquet have caused some alarm to the Ministry.
The Journal des Debats, which at first was silent on
the subject, and then endeavoured to sneer it down as
a matter of no importance, now indirectly admits the
positive importance of the event, by endeavouring to
show that it is not relatively so important as the
Opposition would make it appear, because it was not
attended by MM. TRIERS, ARAGO, and REMUSAT,
and because the number of Deputies present were
only between forty and fifty, instead of between fifty
and sixty. The presence, however, of M. ODILON
BARROT, M. GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT, M. DUVER-,
GIER DE HAURANNE, and M. LEON DE MALLEVILLE
(who is Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies,
having recently beaten the Ministerial candidate for
that office), is quite sufficient to render this gathering
an affair of great importance.
Tho trial of C.,....r9k1 PITT2TFT, VS and VA'. .o-accused
was continued on Saturday, and the evidence tended
greatly to implicate M. TESTE. Private letters from
Paris of a later date than these papers state that M.
TESTE admitted his guilt on Monday, and had at-
tempted suicide.
The prospects of the harvest are most promising.
New wheat has already been brought to market in
the south of France.
The heat in Paris is intense. On Monday at nine
o'clock in the morning the thermometer was at 90
• (Fahrenheit).
The Three per Cents. closed 'at 771. 60c.; the Five per
Cents. at 118 f. 45c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,271 f.
25c. ; Rouen, 961 f. 25c. ; Havre, 640 f. ; Great Northern,
571 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 642 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 593 f. 75c. ; Bordeaux,
501 f. 25c. ; Boulogne, 395 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 270 f. ;
Basle, 183 f. 75c. ; Dieppe, 3101. ; Paris and Strasburg, 425 f. ;
Paris and Lyons, 428E75c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 433 f. 75c. ;
Bordeaux and Cette, 460.
MARSEILLES, JULY 8.-Marseilles and Avignon, 661 f.
25c. ; Northern, 567 f. 50c.
LYONS, JULY 10.-Paris and Rotten, 950 f. ; Avignon
and Marseilles, 643 f. 75c. ; Vierzon, 590 f, ; Northern, 563 f.
75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 4261. 25c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 13.
Boulogne and Amiens, 151/2-East Indian, 'Ai-Luxem-
bourg, 1%-Northern of France, 1(g/2-West Flanders, 4.

A. subject of considerable importance, both to the
mother cQuntry and the colonies, was last evening
brought incidentally under the consideration of the
House of Commons. Lord JOHN MANNERS inquired
whether the Government was prepared to make due
arrangements for the prevention, or, at least, for the
diminution, of those contagious maladies by which
the mortality on board the emigrant vessels was so
grievously increased. In default of a comprehensive
measure of sanatory improvement, applicable to all
classes of the community, whether resident or other-
wise, we axe satisfied that there is no individual
grievance which more imperatively demands the in-
terference of the Executive than that by which
disease is permitted to decimate the unfortunate
voyagers in the ships of emigration during the period
of their transit across the Pacific or the Atlantic.
We fully appreciate the benefit resulting from the
regulation mentioned by Mr. HAwEs, that no emi-
grant ship is permitted to sail if contagious diseases
manifested themselves among the passengers. As a
precautionary arrangement, that is undoubtedly most
excellent, but common sense and the smallest possible
amount of experience aroclaim that it is altogether in-
sufficient. Corporeal ailments lurk so repeatedly in the
constitutions of those who have travelled from
inland localities for the purpose of undertaking
a trans-marine journey, their incipient maladies
arc 3. frcqc4ciAt.l.y 11,, a ,rbilc by Lilts ievlVlng
and invigorating influences of the sea-breezes on
reaching the coast, and diseases are so continually
delayed in their manifestation until the voyage with
all its inconveniences has been commenced and
suffered, that it were frivolous to regard the sanatory
precaution just alluded to as in any measure propor-
tioned to the risks of contagion, and the average ex-
tent of mortality on the ocean.

LECTURES ON LIFE ASSURANCE. Under the
auspices of the British Empire Mutual Life Assurance
Company several lectures have lately been delivered in
various parts of the metropolis, by Mr. Stanesby, for the
purpose of explaining and illustrating the principles and
advantages of life assurance, especially in its application,
in which the company referred to appears to be taking
the lead, to the circumstances and requirements of the
working classes, the smaller order of tradesmen, and
such parties as form the bulk of our savings' bank de-
positors, shareholders in building societies, and members
of benefit and burial clubs. In one of these lectures, de
livered on Wednesday evening last at the British School
Rooms, Denmark-street, Islington, before a respectable
company of both sexes, the Rev. J. Blackburn occupying
the chair, Mr. Stanesby dwelt much upon the lamentable
fact that thousands of the industrial classes are paying
very dearly for the insecure benefits offered by burial
clubs (the fallacious character of their basis being, as
his calculations clearly proved, fully sufficient to account
for their frequent failare, without imputing any dis-
honesty to their managers), while the cheap and secure
benefits of genuine life assurance, based upon accurate
vital statistics, had been hitherto, practically, beyond
their reach. By treating on precisely the same advan-
tageous terms the labouring man who can only insure for
201. and the merchant or gentleman who insures for
5,0001., the above-mentioned company offers a remedy
for this state of things; while, by various ingenious ap-
plications of the assurance principle, it affords facilities,
as the lecturer explained by various familiar ilastrations,
for securing endowments for children, marriage portions,
apprenticeship fees or premiums, and funds for the re•
deception of mortgages, the renewal of leases, and other
contingencies in which the man of business is interested.
One novel branch -of assurance business transacted by
the comprny appears especially to deserve the attention
of investors in building societies and savings' banks.
We refer to the Investment Assurances, by which a safe
and profitable channel is provided for even the most
moderate savings. We cannot too urgently call atten-
tion to the duty of making such provision against the
uncertainty of life as it is the object of these lectures
to explain, illustrate, and enforce. Every husband and
father owes it to his wife and family to shield them
against the distress which might arise from his death,
and owes it to society at large that he should adopt such
measures as may prevent those whom he is the means
of bringing into the world from becoming a public bur-
den. Could the lecturer's answer to the question, " What
can be done by a penny a day?" be brought before the
minds of some hundreds of thousands of our countrymen,
it would effect a deadly thrust at pauperism; and could it
be impressed upon the minds of our fair countrywomen,
not a few would follow out his advice, to give husbands
no rest, and would-be husbands no consent, until they
had done something in the way of insuring that
most valuable, most universal, but most insecure of all
possessions, the property depending upon human life.
DEVASTATION BY INSECTS.—The wood known as
Dungeon Wood, at Lockwood, near Huddersfield, now
presents a somewhat naked appearance, in consequence
of the ravages committed on the foliage of the oak by a
small green grub (the aphides quercus) of about half an
inch in length, and commonly known as the plant louse.
The tiny devastator can, by means of a thread which it
lower
place
itself,can
no
proceedt hat w h when the
leaves
are
devouredraise
one
an-
other. The genial warmth of the summer sun seems to
be of great assistance to it in its labourers, and in propa-
gation of its kind, for while the trees on the south side
are almost naked, the north side is very little worse. We
need hardly say that the trees, in consequence of being
thus deprived of their clothing at a season when it must
be required, are already cracking in the bark. Nearly
the whole of the trees being oak (for it touches no other)
the wood, when viewed from an eminence in its neigh-
bourhood, has the appearance of premature decay.—
liatifox Guardian.
A correspondent states that the earnings of three
of what are termed the halfpenny steam boats, which
ply between London-bridge and the Adelphi, atverage
100/, per day each,

The digficulty of providing six or seven hundred
medical practitioners—competent medical practi-
tip "3—periodically, for the preservation of the
health of the emigrants during their passage from
England to the land of their destination, appears
without doubt enormous, and on the first reflection
almost insurmountable. An economical disposition
of the surgeons selected for this marine service
'might very materially diminish the obstacles to the
humane intentions of Government, and preserve the
lives of many hundreds of our fellow-cortry-
men annually, with a i comparatively nsignifi-
cant expenditure. The evil, be it remembered,
which has to be surmounted is twofold, namely, a
deplorable mortality aboard ship, and the perpetual
introduction of contagious maladies into the British
Colonies and the United States, with every fresh
arrival of emigrants from Great Britain. Both these
calamities night be visibly diminished in rigour, if
they might not actually in a great measure be
prevented, and this not so much from a costly and
elaborate employment of the remedies afforded by
the Pharmacopoeia, as by a simple and inexpen-
sive introduction of cleanliness and method into
the six or seven hundred vessels used annually as
vehicles for (m;gration. The insuffi-ericy of
room and th superabundance of dirt in the I
majority of these vessels are circurnstat.ces
eminent, calculated to breed malaria even in the
midst of the freshness of a sstline atmosphere. If

Letters from Rome, of the 3d instant, state that
the Cardinals had presented to the PorE a list of 100
names of persons whom they recommended to be
banished from the Roman states. This his Holiness
refused, and the fact having been notified to the
people, the commotion, which was assuming an alarm-
ing character, was tranquillised, and it is hoped that
the reforms promised by his Holiness will have the
effect of satisfying
ohfistbleloliNnaetisusuiasi
Guard
commande
brotherof all parties. It is added that the
t o b e a
about
t e
tdo tboe
or-
ganized. 1
1

Madrid papers of the 7th have arrived.
It was reported that the English house of SMITH
had refused to negotiate the new loan on th
offered by the Government, and it was believedeterms
offered h
no Spanish house would venture to undertaket it
t
According to the Clamor Public°, the negotiations.
for the formation of a Serrano Cabinet have been
revived.
A Carlist agent, on whose person has been found
documents of importance; has been arrested in ,t,
liela. He had a letter of credit for 20.000 piasfrt s.
It is said that the Ministers are seriously engaged in
the project of the QUEEN'S divorce. A grand ban-
quet has been given At the dace to Cardinal Bltti.

,THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY
4. EVENING-, JULY 14, 1847

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
6,000 bales, at firm rates; 4,000 being American, at 6d.
to 7id. per lb.; 1,000 bales Surat realised 4i-d. to 51-d.
The Railway Share Market was considerably firmer,
and a fair business was doing.
The Spanish conversion scheme still attracts attention,
and divides opinion in the City, nor does it appear to
gain favour the more it is considered. In truth
the whole matter appears to be but another
financial juggle to effect an exchange of one bit of paper
for another, and raise a large sum of money for the Go-
vernment at the expense of foreign countries. The time
would almost seem to be approaching when foreign
loans must be prohibited, objectionable as interference
generally may appear in matters of trade or finance.
The news from America is of a favourable character,
and is almost all that could be expected. The price of
corn was declining, the exchange was tending upwards,
and specie was so plentiful in the American banks that
they scarcely knew what to do with it.
From Toronto we are advised that :—" The accounts
of our wheat crops continue less favourable. We hear
more every day of the increasing ravages of the Hessian
fly. Many farmers in the home district, as well as other
parts of the province are ploughing up most of their fall
wheat. It is some consolation to find that the spring
crops are in general very good. Hay will probably be
abundant, but late.
" The steamer Cambria brought the very unexpected
news of the fall of breadstuffs in England ; flour having
fallen 7s. a barrel, and other grain in proportion. This
produced a very uncertain state of our market on Friday
and Saturday. The previous high prices had caused a
great influx of flour and wheat on both mornings (more
especially as on Saturday there is generally a full mar-
ket). The natural effect was, that the farmers and
the merchants found it hard to come to terms ; and in
the course of Friday, as many of the former could not
afford to take their produce home again, a considerable
quantity was sold at a low rate, viz., 30s. to 325. 6d., ac-
cording to quality."
Respecting the emigrants it is said—
" Emigrants continue to arrive in shoals by every
steamer, and the later importations are of a rather less
favourable description than the forsner ; though a very
large proportion are of the class of respectable labourers
and small farmers.
" We understand that 70 emigrants were admitted into
the hospital from Monday, the 14th instant, to Saturday,
both days included, of whom five have since died. We
do not hear of any instances of contagious fever among
them."
The English Funds have been rather firmer to-day,
and there is a steadier demand for Stock upon the fa-
vourable accounts from America. Consols are 881 i for
Money and Friday; Exchequer-bills have been 10s. to
12s. premium. Bank Stock is rather heavy, at 195.
The Foreign Bonds have been dull, Spanish Five per
Cents. are 224, and the Passive Bonds 5. Portuguese
Four per Cents. are 301; Mexican Stock is 19 to 191;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 574.
Railway Shares are looking rather better to-day, but
without any great increase of business.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

WHITECEAPEL.
We had a very dull trade here, owing to the prevail-
ing hot weather, and prices were with difficulty sup-
ported. Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 3s Sd to
4s 10d; Lamb, 5s to 5s 10d; Veal, 3i 10d to 4s 10d; and
Pork, 3s 10d to 4s 10d per Sibs, by the carcase.

IMPERIAL PA RLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly after Twelve

o'clock.
Lord Ward's Estate Bill was read a second time, and
ordered to be committed.
The Report on Hook's Leeds Free Grammar School
Estate Bill was brought up, and agreed to.
The Report on the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester
Railway and Branches was further considered, and
agreed to.
The London and South-Western Railway Bill was
read a third time and passed.
The Lords' Amendments to the following Bills were
agreed to :—Great Northern Railway (Branch to King's
Lynn)—Manchester and Southport Railway and
Branches—Rath mines Improvement—Stockport Mano-
rial Tolls and Bridges—Tyne Docks.
The Earl of Devon's Estate Bill was read a second
time, and ordered to be committed on Friday.
Passingham's Estate Bill was also read a second time,
and ordered to be committed on Friday.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from Mr.
Robert Owen, praying for the adoption of some course
for the permanent employment of the people of Ireland.
Mr. FERRAND presented a petition from Dublin,
signed by two archdeacons, eighteen clergymen, a num-
ber of Protestant peers, and between 2,000 and 3,000
persons, praying that in the present distressed state of
Ireland no further grants to Maynooth, or assistance to
the Roman Catholic religion, shall be given by the
Government.
. A message from the Lords brought up several Bills
which their Lordships had agreed to.
NEW HOUSE OF COMMONS. _

Bank Stock .. • • • • 195
Three per Cent. Reduced▪ Annuities • • 88% 89
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities • • • • 881414
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 90% %
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 9 1-16 1,4
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • 8% 13.16,
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. -• • • • •
Ditto, under 1,000/. • • • • • • 10 5
South Sea Stock • • •• • • 97%
Ditto, New Annuities • • • • • • 86%
Consols for Opening, July 16 • • • • • • 88%
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 2d.
1,0001, .. ...• 11 10 12 p
500/. .. • .... 15 12 p
Ditto, Small .. .... 19 15 p
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican, 1846, 5 per Cent • • • • 194 19
Portuguese Bends, 5 per Cent. • •
Ditto, Four per Cent • • • • • • 30%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. • • • •
Ditto, for the Account •• •• 221 A
Do., 5 per Ct., '3B, 9, 40, div. 1840
Ditto .. .. 1847 16
Ditto, Passive Bonds • • • • ' • 5
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 574
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 904
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Mr. R. YORKE wished to know whether the Noble
Lord the Chief Commissioner of Woods told Forests
could distinctly and positively state, without doubt or
ambiguity, when the new House of Commons would be
ready for the reception of the Members of the House?
Lord MORPETII said that he could not distinctly
and posititely state, without doubt or ambiguity—
(Laughter)—when the new House of Commons would
be ready for the receptir nof Members. He was not
much in hope that it would be ready for the reception
of Members in the next session, but he was in hopes that

it would not be delayed much beyond that period.
➢lr. R. YORKE said that, under these circumstances,
he would, on an early day, bring the subject under the
consideration of the House.
POOR-LAW AMENDMENT BILL.

RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham mid Oxford Junction • . 10 • • .. 17% sA • • to
Birmingham, Wolver., and Dudley .. 10 • • • • 151(t• , , • to
Birmingham, Wolver., & Stour Valley 8 .• • • 8.3 i . to
Caledonian .. .. 35 .... 29 .... to 29V,
Chester and Holyhead ........274.... 20 .... to 21
Eastern Counties .. .. 20 .... 21 20/e to 211 i
Do., Perpetual,s per Ct. No. 1, 61. 13s. 4d. • • .. •.. to
Ditto. ditto • • .. No. 2, 61. 13s. 4d. • • .. % p.. to
Ditto, York Exteniion 714 •. • . 7 .... to
East Lancashire .. 20 .... 1914 .. to

Mr. FERRAND wished to know from the Secretary
of State for the Home Department, whether, supposing
the Poor-law Amendment Bill should come down from
the other House with the clause struck out allowinc,
aged couples to be together in union workhouses, he
would propose to reinsert that clause?
Sir G. GREY could not answer the question, but
assured the Hon. Member that notice should be given
to him when the amendments of the Lords would be taken
into consideration.
Sir DE LACY EVANS gave notice of his intention
in another session, on the bringing forward of the Ord-
nance Estimates, to call the attention of the House to
the claims of the family of the late General Shrapnel.
COLLIERIES BILL. _ _

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved the second reading of
this Bill. He was ready to make any alterations in the
measure that the House might think right.
Sir G. GREY thought it would be most objecticnable
while the subject was under the consideration of the
Government, to pass the present Bill. He would there-
fore move that the Bill be read a second time that day
three months.
Mr. WILSON PATTEN trusted that the Hon.
Member for Finsbury would not persevere with this Bill
in the present session. He should be prepared in another
Parliament to support a similar measure if it was brought
forward by her Majesty's Government.
Mr. HUTT objected to the second reading of the Bill.

Ditto, ditto, Extension Scrip • • .. 1 •• .. to
Exeter, Yeovil and Dorchester .. 2% • ... 11A% • • to
Great Western .. 85 ....121 .... to 120
Ditto. Half Shares • • .. .. 50 .• .• 70 •• • • to
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 15 .... 20N, %•. to
Ditto. New 171... 7 .... 10% %% to
Leeds and Bradford .. .. 40 .. •. 88% .... to
Liverpool, Manch, and Newc. Junct. 2% •• • • ••.. to
London, Brighton, and South Coast • • 50 .. •. 54% %• • to 55U
Ditto, Guaranteed Five per Cent. • • 9 •• • 9% xdto
London and North-Western.. .. 100 ....180 .... to
Ditto, Quarters .. • • L. and B. 12 .. • • .. • • to
Ditto ditto New .. • • .. . 2 .... 1234 .•.. to
Ditto, Fifths •• • • .. .. 2 .. • . 1754.... to
• _

Ditto: 10/. Shares • . M. and B. (C) 1 •• • • 7 •• • •
London and South-Western 411. 64. 10d. •• 683.

Lynn and Dueham .• .. • • 20 • • . 19
Manchester and Leeds . 82
Ditto, Quarter Shares • . .. •• 14% .... 174....
Midland

Mr. WAKLEY thought if the Right Hon. Baronet
at the head of the Home Department would allow the
Bill to be read a second time it was probable his Hon.
Colleague would make such alterations in the Bill as
would be satisfactory to all parties. In voting against
the second reading of the Bill Members were declaring
that it was not necessary to legislate upon the subject.
Mr. LIDDELL did not consider the present Bill
necessary, and he should therefore oppose it. While ho
did so he begged to state, on the part of the coal-
owners, that they were as anxious as any persons could
be to do all in their power to preserve the lives of their
colliers. The Bill, if passed, would be quite inoperative,
inasmuch as the clauses were too stringent to be carried
into effect.
Mr. BERNAL said that although he gave every credit
to the good motives which had actuated the Hon. Mem-
ber for Finsbury, still he could not give his consent to
the Bill as it stood, for some of the clauses were altoge-
ther inoperative, and were partly admitted to be so by
the Hon. Member himself. However much, therefore,
he admired the principle of the Bill, he would recom-
mend his Hon. Friend to postpone it to another session.
Mr. HINDLEY was not prepared to go to the extra-
ordinary length which the Hon. Member for Finsbury
would recommend to the House. He had no objection
to any measure which would give protection to human
life, but he could not consent to a measure that would
be inflicting an injustice upon the coalowners, who were
most anxious that the Davy-lamps should be used in the
mines, but whose wishes were thwarted by the careless-
ness of the men themselves.
Mr. FERRAND said that it had been attempted to be
denied that gross negligence was exhibited in the work-
ing of collieries, and that many and frightful acci-
dents had arisen in consequence. It was admitted
by the Right Honourable Baronet opposite that the
right of inspecting mines should be placed in the hands
of the Government, but he said that it was too late in
the session to adopt a Bill for the purpose. Were
they, because it was late in the session, to
permit these accidents still to continue. Let them
be assured that if they did so, the people would in the
course of the recess, exhibit by some illegal demonstra-
tion of strength, their sense of the neglect of the Legis-
ture. He should support his Hon. Friend if he went to
a division.
Mr. REDHEAD YORKE said that after the distinct
pledge given by the Right Hon. Baronet that a measure
for the prevention of accidents in mines and collieries
should be brought in in the early part of next session,
he (Mr. R. Yorke) was not prepared to give his assent
to the Bill of the Hon. Member for Finsbury.
Mr. NEWDEGATE said it would be impossible to
carry into effect the Bill of the Hon. Member for Fins-
bury. He would, therefere, rather wait for the measure
of the Government, knowing well that in the meantime
the Right Hon. Baronet was possessed of powers, which,
if put in practice, would (by a vigilant supervision in
the coal districts), go far to prevent the recurrence of
future accidents.
Mr. FOX MAULE said that little difference of
opinion seemed to prevail in the House with respect to
the objects sought to be attained by the Bill of the Hon.
Member for Finsbury, but however praiseworthy the in-
tention of the Hon. Member, he thought that a Bill of
any extensive character, which was intended to affect a
great mass of interests, should emanate from the Go-
vernment. He could not pass over without remark the
practice of the Hon. Member for Knaresborough of
holding up that House to the masses of the people as
being opposed to their interests.—(Hear, hear.) Such
a practice he thought far from fair—(Hear. hear)—
especially when it was considered that in the face of
great opposition, the Government had passed the Ten
Hours Bill, a measure in which the great body of the
people were decidedly interested.
Mr. FERRAND—After thirty years' delay it was
effected by the pressure from without.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. FOX MAULE—He would, under all the circum-
stances, recommend the Hon. Member to withdraw his
Bill.
Mr. FORSTER said that this Bill was one of the
most absurd that had ever been laid upon the table of
that House, and he was astonished to find on the back
of the Bill, among other names, those of the Hon. Mem-
ber for Montrose (Mr. Hume), and of the Hon. Mem-
ber for Cockermouth (Mr. Aglionby). He objected to this
mode of giving names, when the probability was that
none of the Hon. Members had read one clause of the
Bill. Tho Bill was not the Hon. Member for Finbury's,
but the Bill of Mr. Roberts, the colliers' Attorney-
General—(Laughter)—he who had stirred up a strike
in the North, which was only allayed after an expendi-
ture to the public of above 200,0001. He would give the
Bill his most strenuous opposition.
Mr. TRELAWNY opposed all interference between
the employers and employed, because such invariably
led to interference with wages. He could not, therefore,
give his support to the Bill.
Mr. BOUVERIE said that however mnch he depre-
cated some of the clauses in the Bill, still he should feel
himself bound to support the principles of it, and the
Hon. Member for Finsbury might therefore count upon
his assistance if he went to a division.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that the Bill he had intro-
duced was intended to protect in some degree the lives
of nearly half a million of the most industrious classes
in this country, and he thought it might have been, to
say the least of it, treated with a little more decency.
The Bill had been abused in no measured terms by the
Hon. Member opposite (Mr. Forster), who had gone out
of his way to abuse Mr. Roberts, a gentleman quite as
respectable as himself, and by the Hon. Member for
Ashton-under-Line, who was asleep at that moment.—
(Laughter.) The Hon. Member referred to the report
of the Committee formerly appointed to inquire into
accidents in mines and collieries ; and quoted from them
to show, that no time ought to be lost in introducing a
Bill of this kind. He only asked the House to pass this
Bill for one year, in the hope that by that time a more
comprehensive and lasting measure would be introduced.
He knew, and was well assurer], that too many of the
coal masters did not care a straw for the lives of their
workmen, if they filled their own breeches pockets.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

to
to

to
to
to
to

Ditto, 401. Shares .. • • .. .. 40 .... 48% ?4.• to
Ditto, 501. Shares .. .• 6 .... 10% •• • to 9%
Newcastle and Iterwick .. 20 .... 28% .... to
' Ditto New . • • • • • .. 5 .... 7%.. •. to
Norfolk .• .. • • .. —lOO . ..123 .• - • to
Ditto, New 20/. ..._ -
Ditto, Extension •• • • •. .. 10 .• .. 10% •• .. to
North British • . •. .. 25 .... to
Ditto, Half Shares • • .. 12 15% • • to
Ditto, Quarters ..........314.... 41414 .. to
North Staffordshire , • • • • • • • 7 .. • •
Preston and Wyre .. • • •• .• 25 .... 38 .• to
Royston and Hitchin • • • • • • •• 1% Iml4 .. to
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) •- 3 to
Ditto, ditto (13) •• •• •• •• 3 .... 214%.. to
South Staffordshire •• • • • • • • .... • • • • 21. 123... dis to
South Wales .. • • • • • • •• •• 15 •• • • 1134 .... to
West Riding Union • • •• • • • • 4/. 25....• p.. to
York and Newcastle • • • • -• • • 25 .... 37} .... to
Ditto, Extension • • • • • • •• 10 .. • • 16M .. ••to
Ditto, Preference • • •• •• • • 8 .. ••12 !‘ .. to—
Cork and North Midland •• • • • • 50 85 to 86%
Ditto, Preference • • • • • • • • 6 •• •• 15 .. to
FOREIGN RAILWAys.
Boulogne and Amiens • • • • 20 .... ~to
Namur and Liege • • •• •• •• 12 •• • • 6 .... to
Paris and Orleans • • • • • • •• 20 • 49!4 to
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

London Joint-Stock •• •• • •• 10 ••:. 17%—.. to
MINES

Real del Monte.
ITOnrueVred •
•
Amsterdam .. .... C.F. 12 534 Gibraltar _
Ditto, at sight ...... 12 3 Leghorn .............
Rotterdam .... 2U. 12 6 Genoa ............
CsteEdi, —XC
26
Anoverp ••..•••• •• • • • • 25 95 Milan •• • • .....
• •
Flamburgh .. .. • • 31• B• 13 13 Venice. . .....
• . •
Naples .. .•••• • • • • 40%
Paris, 3 days' sight .. • . 25 65 Palermo, perm... . 120%,
Ditto, ••• • • • ...... • • 25 95 Lisbon..
Marseilles •••••• • • • • • • 2.6, Oporto ........ gay
Bourdeaux.. •••• • . • • • `" Rio Janeiro ..
Frankfort on Maine.... 122 Bahia .. . ... .. • •
Bue
Petersburgh, 3 Us. • • • • ........
E-11AN" GE 2 ! **
*.
t°
Berlin .•..•••• • • • • " NEW York, 21 days' sight
Vienna, effec.flo ••• • • • 10 4 Philadelphia ....• . • • ..
Trieste, ditto.. • • • • • •
10 5• • PRICIS OP BULLION, PEE OZ.
Madrid ••.•••• • • • • • • • 47h Foreign Gold in bars.. X 3 17 9
Cadiz
.. •
... :
........ 46% New Dollars ...... 0 4 101,i
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Barceleona •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• _ Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Silver la bars ........ 0 4 11%

broKane,ert
ltriseya::lai•Nnt Seaton, : ,
LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JULY 14.—Wind N.W., light airs, and clear
sultry weather.
OFF BRIGHTON, JULY 12.—James N. Cooper, Yorke, New
Orleans for Hamburgb.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 13.—Wind S.—Sld. St. James, New
York.
JULY
Ne
wl3.
Orleans Arrd .; G
Queenl end a r a:ha,b
,K
Re sossoac ke
New
e w
Good hope.
LIVERPOOL,
PLYMOUTH,OF PORTLAND,Jt.;LY IJ3ll.—LYSldl.3E._llesn:,sßdl:ool,
Callao Ca-
lcutta
Alfred, ; Emperor,siiaelnterrys
~ 0 Scott, Valparaisoabar;.A r e til;
Orleans; Mearns, Houston, Mobile;, Ann Blair. Vir'ginia ;
Theodosia, Irvin., Virginia; England, Everard, New York;
Zanoni, Virginia ; ,Cambna steamer, Judkin, Boston
and Halifax ; European, Johnson, Quebec ; Ma-
haica, Jump, Montreal ; Safeguard, Smith, Montreal.
Off port, Eclerslie, Mary Marsden, Louisa, and Crown.
Sld. St. Lawrence, Bombay; Salina, Berbice ; President,
Hayti ; Medora, Charleston ; Emerald, Baltimore ; Wyo-
ming, Philadelphia; Sheridan, New York ; Maine, Bath;
Juliet, Halifax ; Zenobia, St. John's, New' Brunswick ;
Oceana, Quebec ; Julius Caesar, Quebec. 15th. The hull
and part of the materials of the Rory O'More, M`Master,
from this port to Quebec, wrecked at Metis, have been sold.'
The Clinton, Smith, from New Orleans to this port, put into
Portsmouth, N.H., 25th ult., leaky, and would have to dis-
charge a small part of her cargo. The Cceur-de-Lion, from
Montreal to this port, is lost on the coast of Newfoundland.
The Mary, Redpath, from this port, was discharging her
Orleans;CHapdeso
no
cargo into lighters at Montreal 25th ult., having, been on
shore on Apple Island. The Ceylon, New York to St. John's,
New Brunswick, went on shore near Moosepeeka Head
( Maine), 10th ult., and bilged; crew saved. Ski. Prince,
Cape of Good Hope.
DEAL, JULY 13.—Wind light and variable from S., nearly
a calm.—Arrd. Baring Brothers, New Orleans; James N.
Cooper, Yorke, New Orleans. for Haraburgh. Std. Rattler,
Hobart Town ; Hereford, Ceylon ; Chester, St. John's, New
Brunswick ; Don, Quebec ; Enterprise, Bermuda.
MARYPORT, JULY 13.—Arrd. William Fell, Quebec:
CLYDE, JULY 12.—Arrd. Medora, M`Pherson, Trinidad ;
Erromanga, Ramsay, Montreal ; Zebulon,Newfoundland.
LIMERICK, JULY 12.—Wind S.—Arrd. Eliza Cornish, Har-
rison, Barbadoes. Sld. 11, Royalist, Quebec.
DUBLIN, JULY 12.—Wind W•S•NV•-- 0 11
Arrd. nze arly,
Clark, Trinidad.
BRISTOL, JULY 13,—Arrd. Glenelg, St. Vincent.
w• A S Arrd Royal Archer,
SWANSEA, JULY 12. ~ in, .--- , • -
Scott, Port Adelaide ; Helena Hardy, Ady, Cuba.
HULL, JULY 13.—Wind W.—Arrd. Endymion, Miramichi.
FALmounr, JULY 13.—Wind variable.—Off port, Kate
Taylor, New York.
11
.—The ISLE OF MAN, JULY Vixen,
Troon to Patras, is on shore on the Calf of Man, and is likely
to become a total wreck.

DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.—It iS' we under-
stand, decided that the Parliament shall be prorogued
on Thursday week next. The dissolution will take place
on the following Friday, and writs of election will be
issued on the Saturday.—Advertiser.
FALL OF A HOUSE IN THE MlNT.—Last evening,
shortly after seven o'clock, the greatest alarm and con-
sternation prevailed in the vicinity of the Mint, South-
wark, in consequence of an ancient house, situated in
place called Mint-square, on the eastern side of South-
wark-bridge-road, and immediately in the rear of St.
Goor(re's workhouFe, Mint-Ftreet, fallin,r to the ground
with 'dreadful violence, whereby several persons were
slightly injured, but mine, fortunately, to say serious
extent.

EAST INDIA HOUSE.—THIS DAY.
A Special General Court of the Proprietors of East
India Stock was held this morning, for the purpose of
considering a resolution, granting 1,0001. per annnum to
Major• General Sir George Pollock, G.C.8., upon the
grounds stated in the said document.
The Chair was taken at the usual hour by 11. St. G.
Tucker, and the minutes of the last Court were read.
The Clerk read the following resolution :
" To the General Court of the East India Company,
" The Court of Directors of the said company, in pur-
suance of the bye-law, cap. ix. sec. 3, do hereby report
that they have passed a resolution, in the words, or to
the effect following :—` At a Court of Directors, held on
Wednesday the 30th of June, 1847,
The CHAIRMAN calling the Court's attention to the
arrival in England of Major-General Sir G. Pollock,
G.C.8., and
The Court, adverting to the eminent services of that
distinguised officer, Resolved unanimously—
" That, as a special mark of the sense which this
Court entertain of the foresight, judgment, decision, and
energetic resolution evinced by Sir G. Pollock whilst in
command of the forces at Peshawur, during his brilliant
and successful operations in the Khyber Pass for the
relief of Jellalabad, and in his subsequent triumphant
march to Caubul, by which he vindicated the honour
and maintained the reputation of the British arms and
nation, an annuity of 1,000/. be granted to Sir G.
Pollock, to commence from the day he relinquished his
seat in the Council of India, subject to the approbation
of the General Court of Proprietors, and of the Board of
Commissioners for the affairs of India.
" That the grounds upon which the grant is recom-
mended are the eminent services of Sir G. Pollock, the
grant being intended as a special mark of the sense which
this Court entertain of the foresight, judgment, decision,
and energetic resolution evinced by that distinguished
officer whilst in command of the forces at Peshawur,
during his brilliant and successful operations in the
Khyber Pass for the relief of Jellalabad, and in his sub-
sequent triumphant march to Caubul, by which he vin-
dicated the honour and maintained the reputation of the
British arms and nation.
" The documents upon which the foregoing resolution
has been formed are hereunto annexed.
" All of which is submitted to the General Council."
(Here follow the signatures of the directors.)
At a general Court of the East India Company, held
the Bth March, 1843,
The CHAIRMAN acquainted the Court, that it had
been specially summoned for the purpose of laying
before the Proprietors documents relative to the late
successful military operations in Affghanistan, and re-
solutions of thanks adopted in consequence by the Court
of Directors.
The said resolutions were read, being as follows:
" At a Court of Directors, held on Wednesday, Ist
March, 1843.
"The Court adverting to.the collection of papers which
was laid before them by the chairman on the 13th
ultimo, relative to the successful termination of the late
military operations in Affghanistan. It was on several
motions . resolved, nemine contradicente, That the
thanks of this Court be given to the Right Hon. Lord
Ellenborough, Governor-General of the British Posses-
sions in the East Indies, for the ability and judgment
with which the resources of the British Empire in India
have been applied in the support of the military opera-
tions in Affghanistan."
"Resolved unanimously—That the thanks of the Court
be given to Major-General Sir George Pollock, K.G.C.
of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath ; to
Major• General Sir William Nott, G.C.B. ; to Major-
General Sir John M`Caskill, K.C.B. ; to Major-General
Sir R. Sale, G.C.B. ; to Major-General Sir R. England,
and the other officers of the army, both European and
native, for the intrepidity, skill, and perseverance dis-
played by them in the military operations in Affghan-
istan, and for their indefatigable zeal and exertions
throughout the late campaign."
" Resolved unanimously—That this Court doth highly
approve and acknowledge the valour and patient perse-
verance displayed by the noncommissioned officers and
private soldiers, both European and native, employed in
Affghanistan, and that the same be signified to them by
the Commanders of the several corps, who are desired to
thank them for their gallant behaviour."
The resolutions of to-day having been read, after a
few remarks from the Chairman and several of the pro-
prietors, the vote of 1,0001. was passed.

SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.)
WEBB V. LITTLEWOOD.

The plaintiff in this action is a livery-stable keeper,
&c., at Croydon, and the defendant is a surveyor, &c.
The action was brought to recover the sum of 351. lOs.,
for the hire of a horse and gig, and damage done to a
horse.
The definda,nt suffered judgment to go by default.
The plaintiff's nephew proved that defendant had fre-
quently had the horse and gig out, and on one occasion
the horse was knocked up " dead lame," and cut about
so that it was laid up. Defendant paid off part of the
account, and promised to pay the remainder, and agreed
that the injury to the horse should be estimated at 101.,
but defendant said he did not at all know how it hap-
pened.
The jury gave a verdict for the full amount.
lIYAMS V. ARMSTRONG.

The plaintiff in this action is a preserved fruit mer-
ch ant, and defendant an oilman in Thames-street. The
action was brought to recover the sum of 51., the balance
of an account for goods sold.
Mr. HORRY, who appeared for the plaintiff, said that
this was a most harassing proceeding on the part of the
defendant, who had pleaded, but did not appear to sup-
port the plea. The cause was Set down for trial this
day fortnight, but could not be proceeded with, in con-
sequence of the absence of the principal witness to
prove the delivery of the goods. The defendant had
given him in custody on a frivolous charge of stealing
a child's cap.
There being no defence, the jury gave a verdict for the
amount claimed.