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London, England, 1847-04-28 00:00:00

a general central authority to be unnecessary,
for the purposes contemplated, then may Lord Moß-
mu's Bill be fairly regarded as a vote of censure
upon those who have hitherto undertaken to act in
furtherance of the public health ; for, by their own
admission, they have left undone things that they
ought to have done. The parochial authorities will
still continue to exercise the chief practical influence
in all matters of a sanatory measure, especially in all
corporate towns. We are certain that the opposition
to the Health of Towns Bill will be as short-lived as
it will be futile.

Madrid journals of the 20th and the 21st have
arrived.

The Committee of the Chamber have reported un•
favourably on the Government measure for the
liquidation of the Treasury bonds, and their conver-
sion into three per cent. annuities. A warm discus-
sion is expected in the Chamber, and should the
Ministry be beat, they will, it is said, go out, and
Senor ai.ozAGA, who has had another audience of the
QUEEN, will be commissioned to form a Ministry.
General SERRANO has returned to his command, by
order of the Government. General RONCA_LI having
refused to accept the Captain-Generalship of Gallicia,
it has been conferred on General Vico.

MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 21.—The Three per Cents,
31 ; Fives, 20 ; Exchange on London, 49 75.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The position of the Ministers is by no means satis-
factory to themselves. The independent Conserva-
tives seem inclined to thwart them by adopt-
ing the annoying Stanley system of obstruction,
and avoiding anything like a direct trial of strength.
The Commerce says—
" We are assured that the independent Conservatives
are determined to make no demonstration in the discus-
sion relative to the demand of the secret service money.
In this decision there is a tact imposed on the party
which desires to regenerate the majority without sepa-
rating from it. Thy fear, that in voting against the
Ministry on a question of confidence, they would take
with respect to it another attitude than that of friendship,
which is only importunate for good intentions. The
ardour of some independent Conservatives, however,
will have difficulty in restraining itself in the way of re-
forms. Some friends of M. do Castellane, M. E. de Gi-
rardin, M. Sallandrouze, &c., are spoken of as feeling
tempted again to prove the vitality of their political
pretensions. But the party, if it cannot succeed in im-
posing silence upon them, will not follow them. Thus
the Ministry, which, with 195 functionaries, only ob-
tained a relative majority of 49 votes, on the question of
incompatibilities, will probably obtain, on the vote of
the secret service money, its great majority of the first
days of the session. But, notwithstanding this respite,
the Ministry is by no means without alarm. It delibe-
rates, it is affirmed, on the question whether it would be
better to declare open war against the independent Con-
servatives, and exclude them from the ranks of the ma-
jority, or enter into a compromise with them, which
shall give temporary satisfaction to their progressive
ideas."

The following article from La Presse (the organ of
the independent Conservatives), in reply to the article
of the Debats on the submission of the Kabyles,
shows how wide is the gulf which now separates the
two portions into which the majority is split :
" The submission of the Kabylians of the Jurjura, of
which the Government received intelligence on Saturday
by telegraph, was yesterday the subject of a pompous
article in the Journal des Debats, in which it says it is
but justice to do honour to Marshal Bugeaud for this
unhoped-for result. For our own part, we must confess
that we cannot comprehend the justice of doing honour
to Marshal Bugeaud for a result which he so little fore-
saw, that only a month ago he wished to go with a
strong force and make a military promenade in Kabylia,
in order to give the Kabyles a taste of the French gun-
powder."

After alluding to the opposition which it has offered
for the last five years to ttt Bugeaud sytem, the
Presse makes the following attack on the Ministry:—
" If we had firm and ♦igilant Ministers, not sacrificing
to subaltern considerations and to the sentiments of in-
dividuals the great and general interests of the country,
the submission of the Kabyles on the very day after
Marshal Bugeaud expressed his wish to be allowed to
make war upon them is a fact that would have com-
pletely opened their eyes, and instead of complaisantly
praising Marshal Bugeaud they would have recalled
him. Is it not clearly proven that they entertain the
idea of preserving such a state of things in Algeria
solely to warrant their keeping up an army of 100,000
men, justifying, if the expression is applicable, the pro-
motions which are there so prodigally made to the pre-
judice of the greater body of the army? But the pro-
longation of such a state of things is so contrary to
nature that it is in vain that they seek for war; it is
peace which comes. If they are afraid of Marshal
Bugeaud, let them, on condition of his returning to
France, give him a civil list equal to that granted to the
King; let them give him 12,000,000 f. per annum, and
the country will gain the difference between that sum
and what will be so uselessly expended in Africa."
The National has an article on the same subject, in
which it takes a similar view of the question, but it is
not nearly so severe on the Ministry as is their
quondam supporter, the Presse.

The Commerce, in an article on Portuguese affairs,
asks, in allusion to the alleged settlement, consisting,
as it does, of a mere revocation on the part of the
QUEEN, of her own illegal acts--" Who will again
guarantee the charter, the Cortes, the constitutional
institutions, against this Absolutist Court, whose ill-
will, always continued, will be augmented by the re-
sentment caused by the necessity of accepting a forced
composition ?" and then proceeds to set out, with all
the particularity of an indictment, the crimes
(may we not call them the treasons ? )
to the perpetration of which the weak-minded QUEEN,
acting under the advice of the irresponsible agents of
the most crafty and unprincipled intriguer in Europe,
has permitted herself to become accessory. " War,"
says the Commerce, `has often for justice the
chastisement of the conquered. lfhat does a guilty
power merit for having interrupted all the relations
of civil life in a country ? A royalty was established
by a people in revolt, and by three Powers, to govern
constitutionally. This royalty is invaded by we
know not what dream of despotic domination, and to
attempt the realisation of this dream it forgets the
most sacred engagements, the very conditions of its
establishment and of its existence, and it constrains a
whole people to throw itself in self-defence in the hor-
rors of a general struggle. The country is ravaged ; all
kinds cf labour are suspended; commerce being inter-
dicted, communicates its ruin to all private fortunes ;
there are no more productions, no more exchanges,
no more justice, no more safety—entire families beg
in the streets. We demand once more, can so many
evils, any one of which would constitute an ordinary
criminal, be committed by royalty without at the
very instant implicitly striking it with moral for-
feiture ? The Three Powers are about to re-establish
DONNA. MARIA in Portugal. This re-establishment,
we greatly fear, will only be the consecration of
impunity in an order of things in which this impunity
is the most dangerously scandalous—in the exercise
of public power. But the old and replastered doini-

nations of Europe have this vertigo—they no longer
calculate, not without reason, on moral power—they
imagine they are saved when they have for a moment

the guarantee of material force."

There are other Sovereigns besides the Queen of
PORTUGAL who would do well to ponder over these
observations. She is not the only monarch 9vying s
throne to a revolution, who repudiates her:origin,
and persecutes bur benefactors.
Cocas AtiTIIENTIQUE.—Rmus, APRIL 2G.—French Five
per Cents., 115 f. 70c. 75c. Four-and-a- Half per Cents., 105 f.
Four per Cents., 100 f. Three per Cents., 771. 80c. 751. 85c.
Bank of France Shares, 3,260 f. 3,255 f. Obi. of the City,
1,300 f. Neapolitan (Rothschild's) Definitives, 102 f. 50c.
Romans, 1011,4 f. Belgian Five per Cents., (1840) 1001.
Ditto, Two-and-a-Half er Cents. (1847),
534 f. Dutch
Two-and-a•-Half per Centsp., 581 f. Spanish Passive, 54314 •
Ditto, Three per Cents. 354. Exchange on London :—One
month, paper, 25f. 50c. ; money, 251 471‘e.;
three months,
paper, 25f. 25c. ; money, 25f. 221 A n•
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 27.
Boulogne and Amiens, 161,1—Dernerara, 23'—East In-
dian, %—Lyons and Avignon (Constituted), 21/2—Namur
and Liege, 44—Northern of France, 121/2—Paris and Lyons,
47,',—Paris and Orleans, 461; Paris and Rouen, 364—Paris
and Strasbourg 11i—Tour'; and Nantes, 14— West Flan-
ders, 33/4.

ROTA
MATERNITY SOCIETT.—The "anniver-
sary dinner of this excellent society, which was instituted
in the year 1757, takes place to-morrow, at the London
Tavern. Sir George Larpent, Bart., has consented to preside.
The object of this society is to secure proper medical attend-
ance for poor married somen, at their own habitations,
during their accouchement; and with a view of extending as
much as possible the benefits of this excellent charity, the
committee have extended the boundary line to the limits of
the town delivery of the General Post. A subscriber is en-
titled to eight recommendations for every guinea subscribed.
We have no doubt but that the funds of the society will be
much benefited by the festival of to-morrow.
IMPORTANT DECISION TO SCHOOLMASTERS.—111
the Brompton County Court on Monday, a schoolmaster,
residing in Pimlico,
sought to recover the sum of 21. 3s. Ild.,
the balance of an account for tuition, stationary, firing, &c.
The defendant, Mr. Battin, who is chief foreman to Mr.
Freaks, the eminent builder, objected to the payment of it
on the ground that the stationery and firing ought not to
have been included, and contended, therefore, that he was
not justified in paying for the same ; but the plaintiff being
prepared with satisfactory evidence to show that such mode-
rate charges were usually made, the Learned Judge over-
ruled the objection, and adjudged him to pay the whole
limotuat.

NIONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
Cl 7 Y, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton-market at Liverpool yesterday was dull.
Sales, 2,500 bales, nearly all to the trade, and American
at former rates. There was a great improvement in
shares, and nearly all the principal lines advanced.
The sale of Railway Shares yesterday, by Messrs. Larnond
and Co., was well attended ; and, although prices were much
lower, a fair business was done. The following are a few of
the principal sales :
London and Manchester (Remington's).. £0 4 6
Ambergate, Nottingham, and 805t0n...... 1 5 0
Liverp. Manch. and Newcastle-upon-Tyne 0 11 0
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and G001e... 1 2 6
Northern Counties Union 1 10 0
Newmarket and Chesterford.. 9 5 0
Manchester and Southanipton 0 16 6
North Staffordshire
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 3 11 6
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 4 15 0
South Staffordshire
West Riding Union
Royston and Hitchin
Great Northern ... 2 8 6
East Indian . .
Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire .... 0 9 6
The state of the Money-market is somewhat more
tranquil to-day. It is stated with a considerable degree
of confidence, that the Court of Directors of the Bank of
England have been more liberal in their discounts than
they were a very few days back. It is the case, we
are informed, and most correctly, we believe, that cer-
tain paper sent in was taken at the Bank of England's
minimum rate. It would seem further that more favour
is shown to long-dated bills. The result of the proceed-
ings at the Court of Directors of the Bank of England is
looked for with much anxiety. We do not, however,
anticipate that any variation will be made
in the rate of interest charged upon discounts.
The fine growing weather which now prevails
induces the Bulls to look with increased confidence
to the prospects of the coming harvest, upon which it
need scarcely be reiterated, so much depends as bearing
upon the future condition of the money market, and with
reference to the prosperity of the commercial, the manu-
facturing, and the industrial portion of the United
Kingdom.
In the mercantile advices received from New York
to-day there are not any items of interest. The Ex-
change was firm, and according to some of the letters
rather on the rise: There is not a feature of novelty in
the intelligence from Canada, if we except the fact that
much animation was displayed in preparing to forward
flour to Montreal and Quebec 7 to be shipped to this
country, and some of the ports of Ireland. In mercan-
tile affairs there were symptoms of improvement. In-
dustrious labourers could easily find employment.
The Stock Market has been in a comparatively quiet
state this morning. Not a very large amount of specu-
lative business has been transacted. As to private trans-
fers, these have been very few indeed. Consols for the
account have fluctuated only from 861 1, and for money
from 864 I. The Bank of England Stock has fallen
from 193 to 191. East India Stock keeps up at 224 to
226. Exchequer-bills remain heavy at about 4s. pre-
mium, and the New Three-and-a-quarter per Cents. are
at about the same value as yesterday.
In the foreign Stock Exchange the bargains to-day
have been very few indeed. The Brazilian Five per Cents.
are quoted at 83; Russian at 109; Spanish Three per
Cents. at 341; the Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents. at
58i i; and the Four per Cents. at 881.
We cannot report a favourable market for the railway
shares to-day. Buyers are found with very consider
able difficulty. The official prices are given as usua
11111T1SLI FUNDS. ONE
O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock •• •• 193 191
three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 851434
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 861
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 87%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 8 15-16 9
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. Bsy%
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • 91,4
India Stock .. . .. 244 246
Consols for May 27 .. 8634 sa )4
Exchequer Bills. I 3,4 d. 2d.
1,0001... .... 4 dis
5001. -.— 8 3 dis
Ditto, Small 3 7 dis
ONE
O'CLOCK.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds, S per Cent
Danish, 3 per Cent -. .. ..
Mexican Bonds, 1846, S per Cent ..
Portuguese Four per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account ..
Russian Bonds .. .. • • • • .. 109
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. 34%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-halt per Cent .. 58%14
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 88%

CLOSING
193
IS6j
6714
9
9
246
86

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.
Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction .. .. • • 2% .. .• li, 1. •..• • • •
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... 17% %.. •• •• 17N
Birming., Wolver., and Dudley.. F % •• • • 9%
Beston, Stamford, & Birmingham 5 .... 534 ..........
Caledonian 30 .... 23% 24 ...... 24
Ditto, Half Shares .. 2% • ... 1% •• .• 1%
Chester and Ilolylica.d 27%.... 20% . • • ..... • • 20%
Eastern Counties .. 20 .... 18% %% 18%
Do, Perpet., 5 pier Cent. No. 1. 6/. 13s. 4d. p........ p
Ditto, ditto.. .. .. No. 2. Cl. I 3s: 4d. par . par
Ditto, York Extension 614 .... 5 . 414
East Lincolnshire .. .. 4 .... 5%
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. ••••• • .. 69
Edinburgh and Perth .• .;= r. 2
Ditto, Extens:on ..........
Great Northern .. • . .. 3% ...• 2%

BUSINESS CLOSING.
PAID. DONE AT
PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.

Do., London & York Extension 1 1 %
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 30 25% ..... 25%
Great North of England . ..100 230
Ditto, New .. .. 5 .... 58 ..... 58%
Great Western .. •• 8.5 113%
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12%.... 17% 17%
Ditto, Fifths .. • . .. 20 26 26
Ditto, New
.... 7%a%,
Hull and Selby .. .. •• 50 .• ..103
Ipswich awl Bury SLEdmunds .. 14 .. •
Ditto ditto, and Norwich ..
.... 4
Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 50 .... 60% 59%
Leeds and Bradford •• •• .. 40 .... 83 ...... •• • • .
Leeds and Thirsk 22% .... •• ••
Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent. • • 3%.... 3% 3%
London and _Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. 7% .• • • 7%
London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .... 50% % 50%
London and Greenwich .. 12/. 15s. 4d. 8%
London and North-Western ••i 00 •• .. 170% • • 172
Ditto, Quarters .. L. and B. 7 •... .
Ditto ditto, New Shares .. .. 2 .... 1114
Ditto, Fifths .. .. 2 ....
Ditto, 401. Shares M. &B. 40 ....
London and South-Western .• 41/. 6s. 10d... 62%
Ditto, New .. 27% .. 29%
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) .• 50 .... 5214
Ditto, Scrip.. •• 5 ....
Lynn and Dereham .. • • 20
Manchester and Leeds .• 82 . .. • ....•
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.).. .. • .7/. 45..... 14 % p
Manchester and Southampton 2 .... .
Midland ..100 ....113 114..
Ditto, New .. •• .. 36 •• .. 39 ••.. ••
Ditto, New .. • . .. 2 .... 4
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .... 88 89
Newcastle and Berwick .. •• 20 .... 24% %
Ditto, New .. . .• • 5 .... 634
Ditto, Extension .. .. 10 ..
Norm British .. .• • • 25
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • • 12% .... 1414 13% • • 13%
Ditto, Quarter Shares •• .. 2 4 .... 2%..
Ditto, Extension .. • • • • %•• •• •••••••••• 74
Ditto, Thirds • . •• •• 1•• • • 2%% %••• • • • • 2%
North Staffordshire .. • • • • 5 •• •• 6% %•••• • • •• 6%
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 .... 4% ••••.. • • ..
Scottish Central . • .. . • • 17% •• • • 23% ••••• • •• ••
Shrewsbury and Birlllinghltra .. 3%„ • • 3% %
Shro,)shire Union .. 423 i. . 1 TiN•••••••• 1 dis.
South Eastern and Dovor •• 33A •• • • 36 •• •' " 36.14.
4%
80., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4.
South Wales .. .. 10 .... 7•••••• •• •• 7
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and
2 .... 1U%••••••••
Goole .. -• .• ••
West Biding'Union ••
. .. 4/. 2s. •• .. % P Par UP • •
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth2o (144
York and Newcastle .. .. • • 25
York and North Midland .. 50 .... ..
Ditto, Extension •• .. 25 .... 39% 40 •• 40
Ditto. Preference •• • • • •
Do. E. and W. Biding Eaten... 10 .... 20

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

Hord., Toul., & Cette kConstituted) 4 .... 1%
Demerara' . 2%.... 2%
East Indian . ss.
Italian and Austrian .. 4 .. • • l .•• • ..
Northern of France 8 .... 12% hi
Paris and Lyons .. 8 .... 5% ..........
Tours and Nantes .• .. 5 ....
MINES.

Real del Monte, Unregistered ..........

LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G-.-(THIS DAY.

LONDON, Arlin, 28—Wind S.W., fresh breeze, and fine
weather.
OPE MARGATE, 27.—Jannet, Chalnera, Mauritius;
Copy, Lovett, Bathurst, Rio Grande;. Spheroid. Baillie, St.
Vincent ; Lotus, Head, Barbadoes ; Tiberius, Boswick,
Balti-
more and Terceira.
PonTsmounr,'Arnm 27.—Wind her Majesty's
ship Hazard, Penang, sailed 15th January.
CowEs, APRIL 27.—Wind W.S.W.—Acrd. Elshont, Co-
ningh, Batavia.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 27.—Wind W., a gale.—Arrd. Penance,
M'Leod, Manilla; Medina, Mazatlan and Valparaiso; Ann
Bates, Callao; Viola, Goodridge, Pernambuco; Urania,
Barker La Guayra ; Isabella, Briggs, New Orleans; Meam.
ticock,llsley, New Orleans • Soldier, New Orleans; St. Law-
rence, Hagedorn, New Orleans ; Elizabeth, Hasty, New
Orleans; Chesapeake, Clark, New Orleans; Thistle, Turner,
Mobile; Jessie, Oliver, Apalochicola ; Tuskar, Chapman,
Savannah ; Abby Baker, Pratt, Baltimore; Camera, Dunbar,
Baltimore • Sophia, Collins, Philadelphia; Swanton, Duncan,
Philadelphia; Ashburton, Howland, New York; Cynthia,
Smith, New York ; Mary Ann, Brown, Boston ; Jane,
Halifax. Off port, Deorgiana. The Luna, from
Cuba, has gone on shore, and thumping heavily,
but is expected off after lightening. Spoke the Kelen, (?)
Eller, Stafford; hence to New York, with master and several
passengers sick, Bth inst. ; lat. 39, long. 50. The Ann
Richardson, from Philadelphia to Londonderry, dismasted,
and making for Bermuda, was spoken, 21 alt. in lat. 38,
long. 63. The Manico, Williamson, of London, Little-
hampton to Baltimore, was abandoned in a sinking state,
29th tilt., lat. 28, long. 67. Crew saved. The Solway, for
New Ross; and the Harrison, Chilton, for this port, were
aground on the Bar of New Orleans, 21st ult, The Broom,
for Liverpool, was on the Bar of the Mississippi, 25th ult.
The others had all got over.
Baisrot, APRIL 27.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Englishman,
Dyer, Africa. •
Con=, APRIL 15.—S1d. Emily, New York, Mail, Quebec.
OFF ForxsToNE, APRIL 27.—Jacoba, Grool, Surinam.
LONDON, Aran. 28.—The stern of a boat, marked " Sky-
lark, of Falmo." was washed ashore in Bude Bay, Feb. 17.

INVEIGLING AND ROBBING A SURGEON.—At the
Court of Justiciary, held at Glasgow, on Thursday, two per-
sons, James Ford, and Jane Livingston, were sentenced to
fourteen years' transportation,
.for having inveigled Mr.
Black, a surgeon, into their lodgings, under the pretence that
his services were required for a sick person, and then as-
saulting and robbing him.
M. Diet; whose name has been so repeatedly
mentioned in the domestic affairs of Portugal, arrived in
London yesterday.