The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-09 00:00:00

04' itening

LONDON. FRIDAY. APRIL 9, 1847.

Being the recognised leader of the Young Eng-
landers, Lord JOHN MANNERS is rather naturally re-
garded as a day-dreamer. Every proceeding of his,
whether it be the promise of a statement respecting
the present condition of Greece, or the insertion of a
lyric in the Oxford and Cambridge Review, is re-
garded by the Dogberries of political life with a
sort of supercilious suspicion. Can there be any as-
tonishment at the ridicule thus cast upon the intended
revivers of u. the golden prime" of middle-aged Al-
bion ? There is ample opportunity, no doubt, for
parodying the principles of the gentlemen in white
waistcoats. But it would be indicative of a
total lack of generosity, and of a singular ob-
tuseness of perception, to deny that there is
an earnest philanthropy at the bottom of their
fine-spun theory, a yearning for what Mr.
DISRAELI Calls a "theocratic equality." Among the
most brilliant evidences of this sub-current of bene-
volence must be considered the Birmingham Athenic
Institute. Although we have already occasionally
referred to this establishment in terms of high
eulogium, we consider it incumbent upon us to corn
ment upon the fifth anniversary of its foundation,
which was celebrated on Wednesday evening, with be-
coming ardour and cordiality. Much as we may other-
wise differ in opinion from the Noble President and
his coadjutors, it would be an erroneous expression of
our sentiments to speak otherwise than in language of
profound respect of their practical exertions to in-
spire a feeling of brotherly affection among all
classes of the community. The Birmingham Athenic
Institute is, to our thinking, the model of
a system of social federation which it were ad-
visable to carry into operation throughout the various
municipalities of the United Kingdom. Under the
auspices of such an institution the intellects of the
neglected artizans are cultivated and developed during
their salutary leisure, their hearts are opened to a
consciousness of their own innate capacities for good,
their limbs are recreated by agreeable and bracing
pastimes, their very blood is purified by the inhala-
tion of purer air than is generally respirable in the
workshop, and they become impressed at once with
the majestic power of knowledge, and the lovely
influences •f morality. From being merely the
" vile mechanicals" of the state they are elevated to a
position commensurate in some measure with their
divine origin. From an existence which appears to
be comprised in the refrain of the popular poet—

" Ever to toil,
Ever to moil,
That is your social charter !"

from this barren and stunting drudgery the artizan
becomes promoted under the shelter of these Athenic
Institutes to a higher grade in society, to a grade corn-
patable with his unnourished aspirations, to a grade on a
par with his natural and tardily-recognised rights. The
encouragement afforded to honest industry by such
associations is astonishing in its immediate results,
and the effects of that encouragement are of an irre-
fragable permanence. It imparts vigour to the' frame,
serenity to the disposition, inquisitiveness to the mind,
and universal good-will, in terra par hominibus. We are
not delineating the hypothetical fancies of a one-eyed
philosopher of the flying-islands. We are enume-
rating the advantages which have actually accrued to
the working men of Birmingham from the aid of the
Athenic Institute. Supposing, however, the picture
were flatteringly over-coloured, supposing the bene-
fits derivable from associations of this nature were
scarcely so remarkable as those we have mentioned,
we should still feel ourselves necessitated to com-
mend them as the offspring of a gentle generosity,
and as establishments calculated to enhance the
moral, intellectual, and corporeal strength of the em-
pire. It is not, moreover, in its direct operation upon
individual localities that this system of combining
study with amusement is. alone a dmirable ; it is
more especially so in its ulterior results
upon various legislative efforts for the improvement
of the multitude. Besides the nutritious banquets
prepared for the surrounding denizens of Birming-
ham, or wherever else they may be situated, these
Athenic Institutes afford food for the nourishment of
the collective million. As the Welsh parson smith ir.
SHAKSPERE—

" There be pippins and cheese to come yet !"

Upon the construction of public baths and wash-
houses, upon the railing in of parks and pleasure-
grounds, upon the advancement of street architecture,
upon the progress of the educational question, and
upon the application of a well-digested sanator3
system, establishments of this character directly and
materially act. In this respect we regard them as at
once preservative and progressive : preservative of
whatever might have formerly rendered this " merrie
old England," and progressive towards whatever can
affect the spiritual and bodily exaltation of the people.
Besides, it is undeniable that harm can by no means
arise from associations so peculiarly innocent ; it is
scarcely probable that the harmony of races should
be destroyed by the contentions of cricket, that the
liberties of the subject should be injuriously affected
by the rod of the scientific lecturer, or that civilisa-
tion should in any particular be retarded by the
gyrations of the polka.

For so small a man the Bishop of EXETER is un-
doubtedly a great actor. All his public performances
savour of the dramatic art. The turn of his mind is
strikingly theatrical. Once before the footlights, the
energy of his acting speedily renders the spectator
oblivious of the diminutiveness of his figure and his
general deficiency in respect of other personal advan-
tages If a principal actor on the stage receives a
mortal thrust from an adversary, he never
thinks of appearing to resign life without
a violent struggle. He knows very well
that simply to fall on his back and stretch
out his legs would be considered by the audience as
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frequently, at the very moment when everybody con-
alders he has made his last effort, he will be observed
toraise himself on the elbow, give an awful grin,
seize his shattered set
manner for scenic effect. player generall at his victim. This finished, the
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prevailing impression was that the w the
had got his quietus; but all were mistaken, wrangling
with envenomed feelings, HARRY PRlLLeoxTsntoiag
more aimed his luckless goose-quill at his cool andnee
intrepid antagonist. The Mayor parried the im-
potent thrust, when, as a matter of course, the
Bishop immediately rolled over utterly exhausted.
A glance at the continuation of the correspondence

between the Mayor and the Bishop confirms what
everybody thought before,—that the l'ater is no
match for the to.mer. In his Lord: hip's letter
of the 3d inst. he struggles to explain away the awk-
ward fact of his having per-ni,e,l a charity ball in
1841. He affects to have been ignorant at the time
that a ball was intended to wind up the festivities
which took place in that year in support of the Devon
Hospital. The Bishop, however, lets out that he
sanctioned a dinner on that occasion. Bishops, by
the way, are notorious for their love of dinners, at
which we presume they suppose—(at any rite HARRY
of EXETER does so)—it is quite impossible that any-
thing in the shape of "revelry" should occur. But the
diocesan of pamphleteering celebrity seems positively
to wince under the intimation that he ever
suffered his name to figure among the stewards
of a ball. We do not ourselves appreciate the
niceties of distinction to be inferred from PRILLPOTTS'
writings between dinners and balls. We aimit, how-
ever, that he would not look well at the latter.
Nature never cut out the Bishop for a ball, which
should be an enlivening scene, and attended only by
persons of a lively and agreeable cast of countenance,
of the truth of all which we have no doubt the Bishop
must be painfully sensible. There can be no ques-
tion, we should think, that, whether he knew of the
ball in 1841, beforehand or not, the Bishop became
shortly after acquainted with the fact of one having
taken place. Did he then mount the pulpit and ful-
minate against the " miserable frivolity" which con-
cluded that festival ? We take it the Bishop did
nothing of the sort; because be now observes with com-
placent arrogance, " I consider that ball to have been
of a very different character from the one which is
about to take place." The Mayor of Exeter was not
the man to let the Bishop fly off at a tangent. The
following extract from the answer of the former,
dated the sth instant, will best enable the public to
judge how the Bishop, throughout this controversy,
only went farther and fared worse :

" I am unable to understand the difference in the
distinction which your Lordship draws between the
proceedings of 1841 and those now in contemplation.
I cannot connect the ball of the 6th of April with the
day of the fast and humiliation of the 24th of March.
Doubtless all visitations great and solemn lessons
—should have their future and continuous effect
upon the thoughts and conduct of men ; but it is
nut, it cannot b.• said that all amusements are to cease,
and if not, and if the aniusement of the hour may be legi-
timately coupled vith a more abiding purpose of charity,
then the ball of 1847 is as blameless as the festivities of
1841, and is equally entitled to your Lordship's indul-
gence. The one raised funds jor the relief of sickness and
distress in our immediate neighbourhood, the other is de-
signed to obviate the miseries of famine at a distance. Cad
either of them what you will, they are identical in form and
purpose."

Those who run may read. The mace has shivered
the crosier.

The common law wisely made a distinction be-
tween animals that were feree nature and unre-
claimed, and those which were reclaimed and con-
fined, and might serve for food : in the former case no
larceny could be committed. It was justly felt that
there could be no such property in animals suffered
to remain in a state of nature, who might one day
rest on the lands of one proprietor, and on the follow-
ing day visit those of another, as to justify a convic-
tion for larceny. Indeed, if such animals could fairly
be termed the property of an individual or body of
individuals, it would be of the farmers, whose crops
are eaten down, and too often almost wholly de-
stroyed; so that frequently, in place of a fair return
for their labour and capital laid out in the cultivation
of the land—in place of an abundant harvest—no-
thing is to be seen but fields laid bare by the devas-
tating influences of game and vermin ; but even this is
not the case, the animals are still in the enjoyment of
their natural liberty, they are free to go where they think
proper, and according to the principles of natural law,
become the property of the first person who can cap-
ture them, who can take them either dead or alive,
and bring them into a state of subjection, and by the
same law every person 'would have a just ,right to
exercise the dominion originally accorded to man
over all other animals. In the earlier stages of so-
ciety hunting was almost the only means by which a
livelihood could be obtained ; and to this day many
tribes of Indians and others look to it as their only
support. A passion for the chase appears to be an
instinctive feeling in the human mind, and no argu-
ments can convince a poor man that in killing a hare
on his own land, which he sees eating the food that
should belong to his hungry children, he is
guilty of any moral crime. A great tempta-
tion is held out to him, and should he yield
in a moment of weakness, his future doom is
sealed; he is sent to a prison and becomes a marked
man. The very name of poacher is sufficient to
ensure his destruction. He can obtain no employ-
ment. The game-preserving landlord denounces
him, and woe to any tenant that shall afterwards give
him work, or suffer him to gain his living by his own
honest industry. He becomes an outcast; and in
turn his hand is against every man, until he finishes
his career by some act of violence or bloodshed
that consigns him to the hulks or the gallows.
It is manifest that the taking of game is not con-
trary to natural law, and that the only punishment
that could fairly be imposed would be for the trespass
on the property of others in the pursuit; but, unfortu-
nately, our legislators are directly interested in the
question. No person can sit in Parliament unless
he is actually a landed proprietor. No matter how
highly qualified be may be in other respects, how
great his natural or acquired endowments, how inde-
pendent his circumstances, the possession of real
estate to the amount of 6001. per annum for a
knight of the shire, and of 3001. for a citizen or
burgess, is an essential requisite. The game-laws
are consequently a landlords code, framed by
landlords themselves. The only object appears
to be to enact the most stringent provisions for
the punishment of those who interfere: with them-
Magistrates (who are also compelled to possess real
estate to a certain amount as a qualification for their
office) are entitled to convict parties in a summary
manner, and to inflict imprisonment, with hard
labour, without the intervention of a jury. Such a
person may actually be himself the complaining
party and the person to adjudicate on the complaint.
Any owner or occupier of land, or any person having
a right, or reputed right, of free warren or free chase
thereon, or the lord of the manor, or reputed manor,
or any gamekeeper or sm-rvant of such persons, or
any person assisting such gamekeeper or servant, are
authorised to seize and apprehend any person entering
at night on any land, whether open or enclosed, for
the purpose of taking or destroying game; and
if such person should resist his capture
he is subjected to transportation therefore, as he will be
in like manner for his third offence even without any
violence, and if he should have two or more associates
armed with any gun or offensive weapon, he may,
even for his first offence, be transported for 14 years.
Surely such iniquitous and unjust laws should not be
permitted to encumber our statute-book; they have
been already condemned. Of late years we have had
less of class legislation, and there is a disposition to
do justice to all. Inquiries have taken place before
Committees in btoh houses of Parliament as to the
effects of these laws, and there are ample materials
on which to ground a comprehensive reform. Let
us hope that it will not long be postponed. Mean-
time the public should not be idle ; petitions should
be sent forward. A general election must speedily
take place, and if the desired amelioration should not
be obtained during the present session, there can be
no time more favourable for directing the attention of
aspirants to senatorial honours to the question than
when they are seeking the suffrages of the several
constituencies.

'I he Madrid Guceta of the 2d instant, the only
journal published in Madrid on Good Friday, has
been received. It contains decrees accepting the re-
signation of General MANSO as Captain-General of
New Castile, and of General SALCBDO, as Captain-
General of the Canaries, and appointing Senor Esco•
SURA, Political Chief of Madrid.
General REQUENA, fiscal in the case of General
SERRANO, has declared that the tribunal was incom-
petent, and that the whole case should be submitted
DukeNVa r andof G Marine.
Lucics
to the deliberation and sentence of the Supreme Tri-
bunal
e of
URGH has presented his
credentials to the QUEEN, as Ambassador for the
KING of the FaLri
Veen Intelligenee has n received from Portugal that
an attempt
been made to induce the inhabitants
of yeia 5 to had
pronounce in favour of the Junta. The

QUEEN'S volunteers had, however, repressed the
movement; Lind, rendered vlliont by their success,
had in ,reh,..‘d out to furce Coutit MELLo 76 n;ise the
siege of E.I-renv2z. Their eour.ige, however. failed
them•when they came in sight of Count MELLO, and
they fled back to Yelvas, pursued by a detach-
ment of MELLO'S forces. The remains of the gallant
volunteers re-entered Yelvas in complete disorder,
having lost one hundred men in their flight.
The Ist and 2,1 inst. were kept as close holidays,
and there was consequently no Bolsa.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.

The rumour of the downfal of the Coletti
Administration in Greece has occasioned a great
sensation in Paris. The National, taking it for granted
that the rumour is true, has the following furious
article on the subject :
" The Ministry yesterday received news of extreme
gravity. It is stated that NI. Coletti, chief of th Greek
Cabinet, has been overthrown. The fall of this Minister
is a striking triumph of English police. Since Alavro-
cordato lost power the representative of Great Britain
at Athens has constantly struggled against M. Coletti,
who was considered, whether rightly or wrongly, as
placed under the influence of France. There is no sort
of embarrassment that Sir E. Lyons has not created
against the Greek Cabinet since it has existed; and
whilst English intriguers laboured to enfeeble the
llel-
lenic Government in the interior, efforts were made to
cause it to lose consideration abroad. We still
remember the words of Lord Palmerston in open
Parliament, that the Cabinet presided over by
M. Coletti was only a heap of brigands.
Events have succeeded to words. A miserable
quarrel, excited by the Turkish Ministry, has furnished
the occasion so long expected. A trifling dissension, or,
at least, a dissension easy to appease, has taken the pro-
portions of a serious rupture. The Porte, encouraged
by England, has no longer put bounds to its exigencies.
To the offers of an honourable satisfaction, it has replied
by maintaining, in its absolute terms, a pretension hu-
miliating for the Greek Government. At the same time
Great Britain enjoined the Cabinet of Athens to pay in
totality, and without further delay, the interests of the
loan contracted by Greece and guaranteed by the three
protecting Powers. The insufficiency of the financial
resources of a state reduced almost to misery by Bava-
rian adm,nirration was counted upon, and a refusal too
well founded was foreseen. The calculation was just.
Coletti was not able to satisfy his engagements, and
he has fallen under the menaces of his pitiless cre-
ditor. If it be true, as is stated, that England sup-
ported her demands by the guns of her fleet, it is easy
to understand why the Greek Cabinet has fallen. Our
policy, then, has just received a new check. It is France
that Lord Palmerston has stricken in overthrowing Co-
letti. Shall we submit without resistance to this new
attack on our interests in the Mediterranean ? Shall we
leave English domination to establish itself in the Archi-
pelago ? Or shalt we only accompany with sterile
regrets the fall of a Ministry placed under our protec-
tion ? Such are the questions to which the intelligence
received yesterday give rise. The Chamber will
examine this day in its bureau a Bill relative to the
Greek loan, and will no doubt seize the occasion to ques-
tion M. Guizot on the conduct he proposes to adopt at
Athens. And, besides, explanations on this new com-
plication must be made from the tribune. The English
Parliament is to examine the affairs of Greece in one of
its early sittings. The French Chamber will not allow
itself to be outstripped, and it will, we hope, know how
to reply to a hostile manifestation by a solemn expres-
sion of its sympathies for a Government which its
feebleness, more perhaps than our interests, commands
us to protect."
In the bureaux of the Chamber of Deputies, on
Wednesday, the Committee appointed to examine the
Bill annually introduced for the payment of the in-
terest of the Greek Loan, commenced their labours.
Several questions were put to the Minister of the In-
terior as to the truth of the rumours in circulation
on the subject of Greece. He was asked particularly
if it was true that the Government was in possession
of information of the fall of M. CoLurri's Ministry,
and of the appearance of five English ships of war at
the Piraeus ? M. DUCIIATEL replied that the Govern-
ment had received no information of any kind upon
the subject, and that he had no reason to think that
there wai any truth in the rumours. He acknow-
ledged, however, that the affairs of Greece were in a
very delicate position, but he gave an assurance that
the French Government knew how to act with pru-
dence in that affair, but also with firmness, in the
event of there being any reason for the display of that
quality.
Whether the rumours be true or not, we hope that
this article in the National will open the eyes of the
Greek SOVEREIGN and the Greek nation to the true
character of M. COLETTI. It is evident that COLETTI
is the Minister in reality, not of Greece, but of
France. "It is France that Lord PALMERSTON has
stricken in overthrowing COLETTI," says the National.
" Shall we submit," it asks, " without resistance to
this new attack on our interests in the Mediterra-
nean ?" How could the dismission of -CoiArrrt be
construed into an attack on French interests, if he
were not the Minister, not of Greece but of France.
We trust that these avowals will rouse a national feeling
in Greece, before which the anti-national Afrancesados
will be compelled to give way.
The Ministry have consented to the prise en con-
sideration of M. REMUSAT'S proposition for excluding
placemen from the Chamber. The Bill for aug-
menting the effective force of the army for home
service by 10,000 men, passed the Chamber of Peers
on Tuesday.

The Nemesis, a new sixty-gun frigate, is to be
launched at Brest on the 14th instant; on the 15th
the Tage, of one hundred guns, is to be launched ;
and on the 28th, the Faune, of sixteen guns, will be
launched.
It is said that several Chinese labourers have left
Amoy for the Isl And of Bourbon. They receive a
sum of money in advance, with a promise of monthly
wages. The Spanish authorities have also authorised
the hiring of Chinese labourers for the Philippine
Islands.

On the Bourse, on Wednesday, the Bears circulated
a rumour that the ICING was ill, and that Marshal
Souza was dead. There was no foundation for these
rumours.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Wednesday at 78f. 50c., the Five per Cents., 116 f. 50c.:
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,235 f.; Rouen, 880 f. ; Havre,
675 f.: Great Northern, 628 f. 75c.; Avignon, 790 f.;
Vierzon, 565 f. ; Bordeaux, 5121. 50c.; Boulogne, 430 f.;
Troyes and tlontereau, 300 f.; Basle, 210 f.; Dieppe, 335 f. ;
Paris and Strasburg, 43Uf.; Tours and Nantes, 425 f. ; Paris
and Lyons, 427 f. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon, 455 f. ; Cette,
447 f. 50c. • Spanish Three per Cents., 341/6.
BUSINESS DONE IN_ OBEIGNBAILWAYS AT THE

LONi)6&.STOCK EXCHANGE, APatt. 1.
Boulogne and Amiens, 16Th—Dutch Rhenish, 4—Northern
of France, 12%—Paris and Lyons, 51—Rouen and Havre,
263A/4—Sambre and Meuse, 6.

RUMOURED ILLNESS OF LOUIS

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
Cu 7 1 (41":1(7 # Ll{ TO Tl[ ?EE.

Tee s,:cs y; .-erday were 3,000
to 4,000 0:-A,s, 500 i).Je* tieiit4 Aloe: i; an, and taken on
speenbition, prices for American were 61d. to 7id.
per lb. Railway Shares were dull.
. .

It is scarcely possible to form any correct opinion
upon the ultimate results of the Bank notice, which we
gave yesterday afternoon under this bead, by which the
minimum rate of discount was raise d to 5 per cent. per
In all, but a few interested quarters, the
course of operations adopted by the Bank of
Englund is held tenable upon tLe main points
which should regulate the transactions of the cor-
pora ion. Inconvenience to some, end, doubtless, large
loses to others, must occur. But these will prove but a
drop in the bucket, as compared with placing the cur-
rency in a safer position. It is denied, it, many quarters,
that there are any large Corn bills out, which
awaited renewal in the course of the present
month, at least to any alarming amount. Time

annum.

will !..how whether such is or is not the fact. There
is a very strong opinion, very strong indeed, that at
least two, if not three firms of influence have out such
bills, but if so, they have ample resources to meet
them. Probably, it may, without any very
material stretch of the powers of divination,
be asserted that though the secrets of the
Bank-parlour ere not known, the Directors have
ample sources of information at their command to form
a correct opinion as to the most prudent course to be
adopted, and have due discretion to use the power
placed in their hands with benefit to the public, and of
course with all due advantage to the proprietary
body, whom they represent. As will be
seen below, the Stock market continues heavy. After
the regular hours of business yesterday afternoon, there
were some private bargains made in Consols. for Account
at 864 4. This morning the second instalment of 124 per
cent. on the eight millions loan has been in the course
of payment. The recipients of the interest upon the na-
tional debt have mustered in rather full force this
morning.
There are not any late eolonial arrivals announced in
the City this morning.
The fluctuation in Consols for the Account to-day has
been limited to about per cent., viz. from 86/ to 864,
the tendency of the prices, as will be ob6erved, being
still downwards. At the regular close of the market
yesterday afternoon, the last quotation was 86i to 87.
Some few sales of Money Stock have been effected
at 86i ; in the Reduced Three per Cents. at 854 ;
in the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. at 864
(now the price is 870; and in the Consul
Scrip at 24 dis. Bank Stock has dropped
from 200, the opening value of yesterday, to 1951, the
price paid for a pretty large sum just now. Exche-
quer bills are at par to 2s. discount, and East India
Bonds at ss. discount to 2s. premium. The quotations
just noticed will tend to show very clearly how sensitive
the market for all public securities is.

The report, unconfirmed though it be, of Louis Phi-
lippe being attacked with sudden and severe illness.
has led to a fall in the French Rentes to 1051. Exchange,
251. 50c. The report of the illness of the King is not at
all believed in the most influential circles connected with
French affairs here; many think it was an attempt to
deceive aid alarm the public, and thus to aid Bear
speculations. Spanish Stuck is at 24k; and the Three
per Cents. at 35i ; the Dutch Two-and a-Half per
Cents. have been done at 58 and 58k; and the Fcur per
at 90 fur the Account; Brazilian new, at 84 fur Account;
and Danish at 86.

The Railway Share Market is certainly heavy, espe-
cially for London and Brighton, for London and North-
Western (Mtiands are now steady), for South-Eastern
and Dover, and for York and Newcastle investments.

I3itlTlsll FUNDS TILLS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

Bank Stock .. • • • • • • IN 195% ex div
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 85%3, ex div
Three par Cent. Consols Annuities • • .. 86% %
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Aims. 87!4 80% 87% xd
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 • • 11% 9ex city
India Honda, 1,0001. • • • • .. .. 5 dis 1p
South Sea Stock .. • • • • • • •. 953 i
Consols fer Account .• • • •• .. • • SG%
Three per Cent. Consols, Serip • • • • .. 2%% dis
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 2d.
1,0001. • • .. .... par 2 dis
5001 .• • • • . • • par 2 dis
Ditto. Small • • • • .... par 2 dis
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bends, 5 per Cent • • • •
Ditto, Small .. • • • • .. 84
Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent •• .. 86
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cont. • • • •
Ditto. for the Account • . 14%
Ditto, Three per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account • . .. 36%
Dividends on the above payable In London.
French Rentes,43 per Cent... .. 105 f. —c.
Exchange • • • .. 25f. 50c.
Dutch Two-And.a-ilalf per Cents. 118% 56 58}4
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 90

BUSINESS DONE IN JUILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK•

RAILWAYS. PAID. PICT SHAII.
Amber.. Notting.,Boston, & East= Jn. 2 .... to
Birmingham Rad OxtOrd Junction •.a • • 1314 13 to 13%
Dookingoatoilliro • • •• 63. 43 dia. to
Caledonian .............30..
Eastern Counties 20.

Ditto, York Extession •••• 4ti.•.• to—
East Lancashire .• • • •• .. 17 ...• .. • to
Ditto, New .. .. .. 74 .... 8% ••.• t•
East Lincolnshire • • • • .. .. •. 4 ••••
_614 %.. to

Edinburgh And Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 71 .... to
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. .. 12% •• 17% .. ••t•
Great Northern .. •• • .. 3 .•.. 3 •• .. to I

Ditto, London and York Extension.. 2.... 17i •• • • to
[lull and Selby • . • . • • .. • , SO •• • • .. • • to
Ditto, Halt Shares .. •• •• .. 25 .... 31% to
Lancaster and Carlisle 60 •• • • •• .. to
Ditto. New • • • • •• • • • • 11 •• .• & •• .. to
Leeds and Bradford .. • • .. •• 35 •• 7S • ... to
Leicester and Bedford .. • . • • 365.4.. I,‘ % dim. to
'1.4.4' '"

Leeds and flairsk •• ••

.

... 19

• •• t.-

Do.. do.. Preference, 6 per Cent .. 3g •• 414....
London, Brighton, and South Coast ••50 .. 51 1A .... to so%
Ditto, Consolidated Eighths • • • • 10 •• .. 10% .... to
London and _North•lVestern • • .. 100 .. 174 173. to 175
Ditto, Quarters .. L. and B. 7 .. •• 23 .... to
Ditto ditto New .. • • • • • 2 .... 12 .... to
Ditto, 401. Shares .. M. and B. .. 40 .... 68 .. • • to
Ditto, 101. Shares .. 31. and B. (11) 5 .. • • 10% •• • • to
Ditto, 101. Shares M. and B. (C) 1 •• •• 6% .. ••to
London and South-Wegern 411. 6.. 10d..... 62% to
Ditto, New • • .. • • 27%.... 30 to
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) . .. 50 .... % to
Ditto, Scrip .. .• •• 5 •• • • 1:474 •• .. to 5
Lynn and Dereham .. • • .. •. 20 .• • 2154 ...• to .
Mancheider and Leeds . to

Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) • • -.71. 45..... 2p. to
Ditto 4 (late 'Judders. &Sheffield) 23 .. • • 25%.... to
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock . 425. •• • • par" to
ilt
anchi.ster and Southampton .. • • 2 •• • • I% •• • • to
Midland WO ••..113 112.. to 114
Ditto, New •• •• •• • • •• •• • • 39% .• to 394
Ditto, New • • .. • • • • " • • 2 ..•. 414%4 to
• • 100
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby •. 91 ... to
Ditto, Consul. Bristol & Birmingh.
Nortolk •• •• • • • • • • • •• "100 . .•134 .• to
No 6 per cent. .• .• ..100 ....123 .... to
Ditto, Extension •• • • • •• • •• 6 •• • • 3% ••• • to 6
Northern Counties Union • • •• .. 24 .... to
North British .• •• •• —••• 25 •• .... to
Ditto, Quarters • • • • • . 2%•• .. 3% .... to
Ditto, Extellsiou • • •• •• • • %•• .• 15 •••• to 1
Ditto, Thirds • • • • • • .. • • 1 •• .. to
Northern and Eastern .. 50 •• 34 •••• to
North Staflordshire • • • • • • • • 3 •• • • 7%1A .. to
Preston and Wyre • • • • •• 25 34N to
Ditto, Half Shares (A) " • • 3% •• • • 12 •• .. to
Ditto, ditto (B) • • .• • • • • •• 1 .... 5/9 t 0
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) .. 3i•• •• to
Ditto, ditto (B) • • •• •• • • 1% •• •• 1 .. to
Shropshire Union • • • •• •• •• 425..... db. to
.outtt Eastern and Dover • . •. —331.28.4 d. 354 to
outli Yorkshire. Doncaster, & Goole 2 • • 1h • • to
Waterford and Kilkenny .. 134 .... to
West Biding Union •• • . • • —4l. 2.... . • 1 p.. to
York and Newcastle . • • • .• .. 25 •• • • 3ZA ••..to 33

Ditto, New •• •• • • •• •• 10 •• • • to
Ditto, Preference • • •• .• • 4 .. • • 7 ...• to 6%
York and North Midland • . .. 50 .... .... to
Ditto. Extension .. .. 25 .• • • 401,( .. .. to
Ditto, Preference •• •• .• .. 2 .• .. 10% •• .. to
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens •• .. 20 .• •• 16% • • to
Dutch Rhenish • • . • • 7 •• •• 3% ••.. to 4
. Northern of France •• .. ••8• • • • 12S, to
Paris and Lyons • • • • • • • • 8 •• • • S •• • • to 4%
Rouen aad Ilavre •• . .. 20 .• .. 26 •••• to
Sambre and Meuse .. • . .. 12 .• 5%....

MINES
Real del Monte, Unregistered • • • • •• .• 8 .. • • to

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

_ - - -
We h.ve t • repo, t e ar• tv,-.1 o a very moderate
supply of nigh I, Wn, at dur ng the present week, and
the stands we, e scant:ly tiled with samples of both red
and white. Owing to the thin attendance of buyers,
the demand for all descriptions was in a sluggish state,
at unaltered quotations. Exceedingly little business
was doing in Foreign Wheats, yet the holders refused to
accept lower prices. Most of the late large arrivals of
Foreign Barley having been cleared off, the trade was
steady, at late rates. There was rather more doing in
Malt, and most of the factors reused to sell, except at
a trifle more money. Oats, Beans, Peas, Indian Corn,
and Flour were exceedingly dull, but not cheaper.
_ _

English • • • • ..
Irish. ........
Foreign ......

ARRIVALS.
Wheat. I Barley.
3,180 qrs. I, 2,370 qrs.
3,6711 I 4,430
Malt. 4,150 arc.
SMITHFIELD.

Oats I Flonr
930 qrs. I 2,940 slui.
640 i
5,4211

For the time of year the supply of Beasts on offer
here Ras good, and of lull average quality. Although
the attendance of buyers was small, a fair amount of
business was transacted in Beef ; yet in some instances
the quotations were a trifle lower than on Monday last.
There were in the market 139 Beasts, 100 Sheep, and
21 Calves, from abroad. The cumbers of Sheep were
moderately extensive, while the trade was firm at fully
the late advance in the prices, the primest old Downs
selling at 5s 6d per Sibs. Lambs, the supply of which
was large, moved off heavily, at a decline in value of 4d
per 81bs. The Veal trade was heavy, and the rates de-
clined quite 2d per 81bs. In Pigs very little was doing.
Mitch Cows were held at from 16/ to 181 5s each, in•
eluding their small Calf.

Per albs. to sink the offal.

s. d. to 1. d
inferior Beasts 2 10 3 2
3econd quality - 3 4 3 6
Prime largo Oxen 2 $ 4 0
Prime Scots
Large coarse Calves 4 2 4 8
Prime small ditto
Suckling Calves la 0 29 0
Inferior Sheep .. . 3 8 4 0

a. d to s. d.
Second quality ditto 4 2 4 6
Coarse-woolled ditto 4 6 5 0
Southdown Nether 5 2 5 6
Ditto out of the wool
Large Hogs
Small Porkers • •
Quarter old figs —l6 0 19 0
Lambs 4 i 4

I Plgs.
2so

SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Ideasts. I
I Sheep. Calves.
1,107 6,55• 169
NEWGATM AND LEADENHAL96.
We had a fair demand here, at our quotations.
At per stone by the Carcase.

_--
s. d. to s. d. ...
s. d. to s.
Beet, inferior .• •. 2 8 210 Mutton, Inferior .. 3 6 3 a
- middling •••• 2 10 3 0 middling.. 310 4 0
- prime large .. 3 2 3 4 prime .... 4 2 4 4
- prime small .. 3 4 3 6 Pork, large .... .• .. 310 4 41
Veal ••••..•. • . • • • • 4 2 5 0 - small .. 4 3 b:0
Lamb. Sc 4d to 6s 2d
BOHOUGH HOP MARZET.
•

We have had a very heavy demand for all kinds of
Hops during the present week ; yet we can notice no
decline in the quotations. The supply on offer is good.

COLONIAL.

SUGAR.—The market has been fairly supplied with
West India samples, and prices have ruled accordingly.
New Barbadoes has been sold at 46s to 49s 6d for low to
mid yellow, and 50s to 52s for good ; Berbice has been
taken in at 43s to 45s 6d for low to good brown.
EAST INDlA.—Mauritius, 9,390 bags partly found
buyers, low and mid yellow at 45a to 47s 6d, gcod and
fine at 488 to 51s, and good and fine brown 42s to 465,
fine white 57s 6d to 68s per cwt. Some Madras sold at
39s to 39s 6d for low damp. some being taken in at 40s.
Bengal, 1,261 bags, partly found buyers at 48s to 53s for
good and fine yellow, and at 57s Gd for mid white.
FoRZIGN.-149 hhds 132 brls St. Croix only partly
sold at 47s to 51s for low to mild yellow, and at 525 6d
to 57s for good and fine ; Porto Rico has been taken in
at 51s ; and Pernambuco has been sold at 44s to 455 for
low to mid brown, and 468 for good ; Bahia has been
taken in at 43s to 45s 6d for low to mid brown, at 46s to
47s for good and fine, and at 46s 6d to 50s for low to mid
yellow.
MOLASSES.—Demerara have been taken in at 23s to
25s 6d ; St. Croix at 295, and Porto Rico at 29s per
cwt.

COFFEE.—There has not been a great deal doing.
Jamaica has been sold at 70s to 107 s for superior sam-
ples. Ceylon has been taken in. at 41s 6d to 425., and
sime parcels have been sold at 35s to 70s per cwt.
Mocha has been sold at 80s to 81s 6d. Mauritius has
been taken in at 34s to 425; and Java has realised 32s
to 36s 6d per cwt.
Cocos.—Trinidad has been sold at 50s to 60s per
cwt.

SALTPETRE.—CaIcutta has been sold at 28s for 54
lbs refraction, the rest being taken in at 27s 6d to 2Ss
for 6,1 and 71 lbs refraction.
RlCE.—Bengal has declined, having been sold at 16s
to 18s per cwt, and Madras has realised lis 6d to 17s ;
Italian 18s to 18s 6d.

SewEs.—Pimento has been sold at Sid per ib, and in
Pepper, &c., there is nothing particular to notice.
lium.—There has not been much doing.
COTToN.—The business done has been rather larger,
and at higher rates.

TALLOW.—P.Y.C. has been 49s 6d to 50s per cwt on
the spot.
TEA.—The market is quiet.

BANKRUPTCY.-(T HIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
IN RE WOOD.

This bankrupt, who had carried on business in Grace-
church-street as an ironmonger, came up this day for his
certificate, and was opposed on behalf of a creditor, Mr.
Hinton.

It appeared that he was first bankrupt in 1844, but
the fiat was superseded on his paying ss. in the pound.
Since then he had speculated in houses, and wines, and
merchandise, in all which he had lost money. During
the last two years his losses had been 1,2941., and during
the same period his house expenses had been 1,0001., and
the trade expenses 9001. The present assets were little
more than sufficient to pay the costs of working the fiat.
The official assignee said that the assignees were per-
fectly satisfied with the books and accounts of the bank-
rupt, and he had been even complimented by the
Learned Commissior

His HoNoun said that the only complaint which ap-
peared to bear against the bankrupt was the excessive
expenditure over the profits' but the bankrupt had stated
that he only knew of one thing in which he had incurred
dispr ,portionate expense, and that was in the education
of his children. His Honour said that item would cover
the excess, and although it was one which was the most
justifiable, yet traders must not injure their creditors to
educate their families. Under all the circumstances, he
thought the suspension of the certificate for three months
would meet the justice of the case.—His Honour granted
protection.
An application was made in this case under peculiar
circumstances ; it was for the costs of the former fiat to
be first paid out of the present estate, as in 1844 there
were no assets, but it was necessary for the Learned
Commissioner to give leave to move the Court of Review.

His HoNona said he could not do so—ht• did not see
why this court and its officers should not be paid before
any one else. He had seen a paragraph in one of the
papers that this court was paid from the Treasury, but
it did not receive one shilling from that source, and was
the only court in the kingdom which did not.