The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1847.

A very amusing spectacle is being presented night
after night in the Upperii. House of Parliament, but it is
one which
The most vexdat.ifyiPoeur3sTent
interferes with public business.
opposition is given again and
again to the
Government.
guidance of
Under
the
ee4sures introduced by the
faction, Noble Lords turn a contemptible
and assail with the
a:clvientt.he very schemes
utmost violence and obthsteinse
of the
which are sanctioned by
wbeewisdonithey are
empire ; and they act thus simply
still smarting under a recollection of their recent n
ignominious discomfiture. Noble and Gallant
reee
Lt oda and
Noble and Learned Lords, Lords indeed disrin
ts,
guished by every varietF of adjective and every de.-
gree of grammatical comparison, may experience a
morbid satisfaction in venting these miserable ebulli-
tions of spleen, but we warn them that they are
heaping live coals upon'their heads in so doing, they
are accumulating for themselves a terrible eompensa•
Lion, they are rendering each other odious in the sight
of the community by becoming the obstacles
.of
legislation.
The Earl of L LTAN endeavoured on Tuesday even-
ing to obstruct the passage of the Limited Service
(Army) Bill by one of the most idle amendments i
which could well have been devised, namely, " that
twelve years be substituted for ten years in the in-

fantrv, and fourteen years for twelve years in the
cavalry and artillery, or ether ordnance corps.
Fortunately the proposition was negatived after a
very few observations of remonstrance, and the Bill
ultimately passed unmutilated through the ordeal of a
Committee in the Lords, and was duly reported. No-
thing but a miracle of pertinacity can now, therefore,
retard its enrolment on the statute-book, and a new
and brighter career dawns before the members of
the military profession.
Inestimable as havebeen the advantages already con-
ferred upon the army, by the reformations effected
in the condition of the soldiers, we are disposed to
regard the present measure as calculated more than
any preceding alterations to effect a very visible
improvement in the moral character, the intellectual
faculties, and the social condition of our liveried de-
fenders. The purpose of the Government in intro-
ducing the Bill, which now only requires a third
reading in the Peers, and the customary consent of
the SOVEREIGN to become a law, was very happily
and tersely expressed by the Duke of WELLINGTON.
That intention is, according to his Grace, to render
dismissal a punishment. In alluding to the
vexatious amendments which had been introduced,
the Duke observed with a petulance in which
we can fully sympathise —" My Lords, there
may be many modes by which this object may
be accomplished, but this is the mode proposed by her
MAJESTY'S Government, and adopted by tho other
House of Parliament, and therefore I recommend
your Lordships to give it your support." A sugges-
tion appears really to have been afforded by the
opposition raised against the Factories 13ill from the
first moment of its introduction, that suggestion being
that whenever there is apparently little hope for a
direct negative to the measure, an oblique or
indirect negative has been given by squabbling as to
the propriety of ten or eleven hours, ten or twelve
years, twelve or fourteen years, or what not. Dis-
tinctly and emphatically we protest against this
shuffling and ignoble system of antagonism. There
is a sneaking and insidious character about it which
is wholly incompatible with open discussion and
honest statesmanship.

Much as the Marquis of LONDONDERRY derided the
notion of ameliorating the condition of the soldiery
by the establishment of military savings' banks—by
the diminution or abolition of corporal chastisement
—by the restriction of the authorities of general
courts-martial —by the destruction of the de-
grading cat —by the sanatory improvements
introduced into the barracks—and by the systematic
education of the privates during periods of peace, the
Noble Lord may rest perfectly assured that he is only
rendering himself eminently ridiculous in the utter-
ance of his sickly gibes and puling sarcasms. Despite
the sneers of a few malcontents, we are satisfied that
a happier and more ennobled existence is approaching
for the soldier.

The Irish Poor-law has passed the House of Lords.
It now only awaits the approbation of the Representa-
tives of the People to the amendments introduced into
the Upper House, and the Royal Assent, to become
the law of the land. Henceforward the people of

Ireland are entitled to relief in their destitution

Henceforward no person can perish from want of the
common necessaries of life in our sister island. The
great principle has been recognised the adop-

tion of which in this country, nearly three
centuries ago, led to our national prosperity. In
England, by reason of that principle, the proprietors
of the soil could not afford to suffer the population to
remain idle and unemployed, or their ands to remain
without the highest degree of cultivation and
the full development of their capabilities. Had
they done so the whole produce would have
been absorbed in the supply of pauper multi-
tudes. To obtain any surplus, they were
obliged, in the first instance, to provide employ-
ment for the able- bodied labourer. He was thereby
supported at a much cheaper rate, even supposing
his labour to be utterly valueless, than by consign-
ing him to the tender mercies of the union work-
house; with wages not exceeding Bs. or 10s. per week he
was enabled to maintain his family without having
recourse to parochial assistance, while the support of
that family in idleness would have cost the parish
fully double the amount. The landowners, therefore,
saw the necessity of exerting themselves to provide
useful occupation, and of mutually co-operating
one with another in doing so. They speedily
found that they themselves fully participated in the
benefits derivable from such a course. Their lands were
brought into the highest state of fertility; the produce
was fully doubled ; the rentals had a propor-
tionate increase. Their mercy was indeed " twice
blessed," and their country prospered and attained
:he highest rank in the scale of nations.
In Ireland, however, it was otherwise. There the
destitute pauper had no legal claim to relief. lie
could only trust in the dark hour of affliction to the
precarious charity of those whose positions were little
better than his own. To the honour of the humble cot-
tier, it may be said that he never hesitated to share
his frugal meal with the suppliant, to abridge his
already too scanty supply, in order to save his dis-
tressed brother from absolute starvation. Perhaps
the amount thus doled out to wandering mendicants
amounted to as much as would have been required
under a well-regulated system of poor-laws ; but it
did not full directly upon the class who could have
taken steps to remedy the evil. Nothing, therefore,
was done, and what has been the result ? 'We find,
in the middle of the nineteenth century, more than
a quarter of the entire soil of the country suffered to
remain waste and unreclaimed, and the residue that
is nominally in tillage, not half cultivated, so that
although the glebe is naturally more fertile than in
England, its produce is sixty per cent. lower. This
may fairly be ascribed to the non-adoption of an effi-
cient poor-law up to this period; and we may rea-
sonably hope that it will find a speedy remedy,
now that the cause which has led to so un-
toward a result has been taken away. The rental
of the country may be stated in round numbers at
15,000,0001. sterling; an increase of 60 per cent. for

improved cultivation would give 9,000,0001. addition
to that rental, exclusive of the value of the lands that
would in process of time be reclaimed and made
productive, or Us. in the pound on the value, far
more than any rate that would be struck in ordinary
years for the relief of the poor.
'We have already pointed out some of the defects
and deficiencies of the measure. These, however,
may, and, we doubt not, will, speedily be altered; and,
although in the interim they may possibly deteriorate
from the good effects of the law, still we have much
that is valuable—that must: lead to the introduction
of a better system. We can therefore cordially con-
gratulate all classes on the final success of the
measure. i.:
ow
To England, more than any other country, is an
accurate acquaintance with the commercial resources
of different states of paramount importance. The
vast extent and varying nature of her commercial
pursuits enforce the necessity of obtaining, as far as
is practicable, the most intimate knowledge of the
mercantile data of other countries. By the acquisi-
tion of good intelligence on these points we are
enabled to pre-occupy and open new fields to the
mercantile genius and enterprise of our compatriots.
In this way we are not only prepared to take the
readiest means of augmenting our national wealth,
but we likewise render ourselves, by cementing the
bonds of international intercourse, the chief promoters
of universal civilisation. To the statistical labours of
a PORTER and a .I‘l‘Cunr.ocn are we greatly indebted
for most valuable information, for placing many of
our fiscal arrangements upon a footing the best cal-
culated to develop the important ends of commercial
reciprocity between the British empire and foreign
countries. Mr. JOIIN MACGREGOR has vigorously la-
boured, and with signal success, in the same field. The
regstulnrotnosf, rheisso:.rocreks: uponand tracd° en 1 on; etrhceiasle%t.aerriaffl
ci a l
and America, embodying the commercial
r andstates
treaties between
of Europe
the English and foreign Govern-
ments, has been recently presented to both Houses of
of Parliamentth the
by commandof her MAJESTY. It treats
Brazilian empirewhichaua h
and displays
di.splays the same
elaborate research by
N. s
rfatozrioninnaelnry
tions have been characterised.o
statisticspu b lica-
j herein clearly enlightened as to the are evel3l
of commerce and navigation, and to the trade, navi-
gation, agriculture, manufactures, and finances of that
empire, but an admirable exposition is given of its
political and social condition. The area of the empire
is computed to be nearly twenty-three times that of

3 tit. ;

the United Kingdom, or about seventy times as large
as Portugal. Its climate, in parts, is actually ren-
dered unhealthy by the very richness of the vegetation
in the low alluvial lands. In 1844 the estimate of
the population did not exceed four millions and a
half, and probably not one acre in two hundred
of the entire cultivable area of Brazil is under any
kind of culture. Their forests are of huge expanse,
and the trees of majestic stature, some of them being
invaluable for the purposes of ship-building. Amongst
the minerals, which are very numerous, iron is found
in great abundance. The civilization of the Brazilian
people is confined to a narrow strip on the
coast. The inhabitants of the interior are
steeped in barbarism, their redemption from which
will be quickened or delayed by the habits and
manners of those who are located on the coasts, and
who, in rude nations, are ever the first to receive and
diffuse the blessings of enlightenment. Education
has been shamefully neglected—a newspaper or a
book is considered a rarity. Religion is in a most
unsatisfactory condition. The principles of in-
fidelity are widely disseminated, and ignorance and
superstition likewise prevail to a lamentable extent.
Altogether, Mr. MACGREGOR'S description of Brazil
is highly interesting, and well repays an attentive
perusal.

Madrid papers of the 12th have arrived.
All the Ministers had left the capital for Aranjuez,
a circumstance which gave rise to a rumour of an
impending change of Ministry. The QUEEN was to
give a grand reception on the 13th, in honour
of the KING'S birthday. Food riots have taken
place at Leon, but they were soon got under by
the authorities. General PEZUELA, Captain-General
of Seville, has:been exiled to Malaga, and Senors
Cnxco and AVIRANETA have been set at liberty.
General SHELLY has gone to take the command in
Seville, and General CONCIII to assume the command
of the army of observation assembled on the frontiers
of Portugal.
MADRID BOLSI, MAY 12.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 301 for cash; the Five per Cents. at
19; the Debt without interest at 5i ; and the Coupons
at 16.

We have received the Paris papers of ➢Monday.
A petition from JEROME BONAPARTE, ex-King of
Westphalia, the only surviving brother of NAPOLEON,
praying for permission to return to France, was pre-
sented to the Chamber of Deputies by M. ODILON
BARROT. This petition is the subject of comment in
almost all the journals, and all parties opposed to the
Ministry take advantage of the circumstance to throw
the opprobrium of the continued exile of the Bona-
parte family from France exclusively upon M. GUIZOT
and his friends. The Union .31-onarchi9ue, the
Legitimatist organ, declares " that if the thing
depended upon the men of the right-hand benches,
the gates of France would be opened
to-morrow to M. JEROME and his children," and the
Presse, the organ of the seceders from the Ministerial
camp, the parti faiseur, thus expresses their senti-
ments on this subject:—
Without repealing the law which exiles the family of
Napoleon—a law which is a perfect anachronism—might not
the favour be granted which is solicited so earnestly by the
ex-King Jerome, to be permitted to die surrounded by his
children, amongst his fellow-citizens? Whence the danger?
Would it not, on the contrary, be an act of force—an act of
confidence, and, at the same time, an act of justice and of
generosity? Parties are right to ridicule the parti faiseur, for
this is one of the acts of which they would nut hesitate to as-
sume the responsibility."
The Journal des 'Mats has the following sarcastic
observations on the accusations of wholesale corrup-
tion which have recently been brought against the
Ministry :

"The Opposition, which almost believed that it had over-
thrown the Ministry, is furious at the result. It has recourse
to its great means—it exclaims against the corruption of the
age. 0 tempora! 0 mores! when will the exterminating
angel make his appearance? The following calculation con-
soles us in a slight degree. God demanded but ten just men
in Sodom to save that guilty city. We have, thank Heaven,
:better than that. Entire parties have escaped corruption.
For example, we have the party of the Legitimatists—that
party, we trust, is not corrupt. The Legitimatists boast in their
journals of having preserved the purity of their ancient morals
—their antique honour—their ancient faith ! Legitimatists are
not seen to meddle in railroad Rffain or other speculations.
The rage for gambling has not reached them. As soon as
France will, she is certain of finding in that corner of the
country loyal chevaliers—administrators without reproach—
and disinterested courtiers. There everybody is respectable
—everybody is venerable ; the least amongst them is a saint.
The Lord has reserved for himself that inheritance amongst
us. We possess, moreover, the Republican party. Their
virtues are carried to a point of rudeness, and exhale we
know not what perfume of terrorism. t3rutus in that
quarter wears the bonnet rouge. There is no fear that enjoy-
ment shall degrade their proud courage, or that there shall
again appear a Barras amongst those Saint dusts and
Robespierres. We have in fact all shades of the Opposition
—even to and comprising the Progressive Conservatives—
independent and honourable. 'those compose a mass of re-
spectable virtue! Some may fall, but the greater number
have remained incorruptiVe ; and the Mirrstry has not suc•
ceeded in impeaching the integrity of the OJtlo❑ Barrots,
the Billaults, the Cremeux, and so many others ! There
remains then the Conservative party properly so called.
There, as the Notional so eloquently describes, corruption ex-
hales an odour of pestilence an:' death. It is a fearful spectacle.

Still the evil amongst the Conservative party is not altogether
desperate. A Conservative has only to pass over to the Op-
po,ition, and his sores will be healed between the morning
and the evening. Did it not depend upon M. Lacave La-
plagne two days since to become again a skilful and honest
administrator? Did not popularity wait for him at the close
of the sitting of Friday last, had he but denounced the
Government of which he the day previously had formed a
part ? Corruption which is so quickly cured cannot be gross,
and parties who absolve so suddenly appear to be acting a
part when they chant in chorus. Preachers are always so.
They draw horrible pictures of the world, and still they live
in the world in nearly the same manner as other people. The
age they live in is always the most corrupt. In the same
manner, when one party is in possession of power those who
are not never fail to consider that the party which governs is
the worst of all. We have another reason to be reassured
as to the pretended corruption of cur time. How did great
Lords, Ladies, Generals, and Ministers acquire fortunes for-
merly ? When men speak of antique morals, to what morals
do they allude? Are the antique morals those which flou-
rished under the Valois? at the Court of Francis I.? of
Henry 11. ? or Henry III.? Are they the morals of Ver-
sailles under the reign of Madame de MoWespan ? Are they
the morals of the Directory or even those of the Empire?
At present a person is expelled from society, or suffers the
disgrace of a judgment for using means to acquire wealth,
which formerly did not preveat men from walking proudly
under the purple of a cardinal or the braided costume of
a Court favourite. We are more severe, and we are right
in being so. But it is not the corruption of the age which
proves this fact! We should say that the vice of our peri,3il
is hypocrisy, if that hypocrisy itself ought not to be called
by the more simple and more appropriate name of the spirit
of party."

There are rumours that the French Cabinet is torn
by internal dissensior.s, and that Marshal SOULT
would long since have resigned but for the difficulty
of finding a successor. ➢l. GuizoT claims the vacant

presidency, but he has been so egregiously out in his
calculations as to the management of the Chambers,
that his influence is much weakened ; and M. Du-
CHATEL openly declares that he would not tolerate
M. Guaor's supremacy; while M. GUIZOT, on the
other hand, will not waive his claim. In this contest
the chances are against M. GUIZOT, and M. Du-
)
CHATEL 18 generally looked upon as the " coming
man."

General NARYAEZ arrived in Paris on Sunday, and
General RODIL, who his obtained permission to
return to Spain, left Bayonne the same day for
Madrid.

Accounts from Toulon of the 13th inst. mention
the arrival, on that day, of the Rainier steamer, with
dispatches for the Government from the Minister of
France at Constantinople and Athens. The Ranvier
sailed from the Piraeus on the 2d inst., when the dif-
ference between Greece and Turkey was beginning
to assume a somewhat serious aspect. The British
frigate Spartan and the brig Mutine were preparing
to quit Malta for the Piraeus on the Gth. Shortly
after the arrival of the Ramier at,, Toulon, the
Rubia steamer put to sea with dispatches for the
Minister of France in Greece. The squadron, Com-
manded by the Prince DE JOINVILE, returned to
Toulon on the afternoon of the 13th.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Monday at 77f. 90c.; the Five per Cents., 115 f. GOc. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,225 f. ; Rouen, 932 f. 50c.;
Havre, 640 f.; Great Northern, 5971. 50c. ; Avignon, 715 f.;
Vierzon, 576 f. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 505 f.; Basle, 187 f. 50e.;
Paris and Strasburg, 417 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes, 4051. ;
Paris and Lyons, 432 f. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon, 432 f.
50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 441 f. 25c. ; Spanish Domestic
Debt, 294.
LYONS, MAY 15.-Paris and Rouen, 935 f. ; Avignon and
Marseilles, 755 E ; Northern, 607 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons,
4;33f. 7.5 c. ; Orleans, 1,233 f. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 18.
Boulogne and Amiens, 15:% -Namur and Liege, 314--
Northern of France, 1114-Rouen and Havre, 24,A-Sambre
and Meuse, 7-Tours and Nantes, 4

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—A variety of entertain-
ments was given at this theatre on Monday night for the
benefit of Mr. Wallace, the composer, whose opera of Mari-
tana was performed by the artists with whom the public are
principally familiar, followed by a concert wherein certain
musical lions assisted, and a ballet. The house was not so
well attended as it ought to have been, considering the claims
of the beneficiaire.
fied admir
present t
and execution, of
By
,TrMasecond visit, when oroop's PANORAMA ROYAL, LEICESTER-SQUARE
jor-General Sir Harry Smith, G.C.8., visited Mr. Bur-
whe doubtless a crowded and
tahpepopini picture, both
dbao.t,hat
jiaanorama of the Battle of Sobraon on Tuesday. The
General expressed to Mr. Burford his must unquali-
fied
o greet the ' assemblage will be
,tstodetails
illustrious hero. as
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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
There were 4,000 bales of Cotton sold at Liverpool yester-
day, of which exporters took 500. Some American and
German were taken for exportation. American to the trade
sold at 61d. to 6) d. per lb. Shares were again very dull,
and prices were lower.
LIVERPOOL, CROSBY, AND SOUTHPORT RAILWAY.—This
Bill passed the Commons on its merits on Monday last,
scarcely any evidence being required—notwithstanding the
East Lancashire Railway Company and other oppcsition.
The Bill will be reported to the Muse to-morrow, and is ex-
pected to be in Committee in the Lords by the second week
in June. As a sanatory line opening out miles of sea coast
(hitherto inaccessible). and one' that will develop the agri-
cultural resources of the inland country through which it
passes, it will prove one of the most valuable in the country.
There are further arrivals from the colonies, but none bring
later dates.

The City is but thinly attended to- day, and there is a
pretty general abstinence from business, not only in the Stock
Exchange, but likewise in the Coloidal Alarkets, as usual.
In a period of commercial depression, the excitement of the
" Derby-day " may act as a wholesome corrective.
According to advices from Berlin, the new States of
Prussia are not likely to do much prior to their adjournment
on the Bth of June next, a period when the members would
be anxious to get back to their homes, a large number of
them being engaged in agricultural pursuits, and having be-
sides to attend the Silesian wool markets, where business is
done to the extent of twenty millions of florins. The busi-
ness required, however, is not on that account less likely to
be well done, writes one party, and the States will probably
meet again in November or December.
The Stock Market is very quiet, but has been steadv up to
the present time. The Money and Account prices of Consols
are now the same, viz., 8634 7g,. Bank Stock has been worth
189 to 191. The New Three- and- a-Quarter per Cents. have
been 87 to I,i. Exchequer-bills are par to 3s. premium.
The intention of the Bank to lend money upon them until
July at five per cent. strengthens them a little, and probably
it will be the interest of the leading capitalists to uphold the
market and prevent a funding.
In the Foreign Market there is absolutely nothing doing.
Railway Shares are rather heavy again.
isitiTistr EUND3. uNE

CLOSING

O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock •• •• •• •• .. -.• • • 189 191 191
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 8514 %% 85%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. ~86% 34 Bfi%
New Three-and•a•Quarter per Cent. Antis. 87% % 87 87%
Lung
9
Ditto, 30 Oct. 10, 1859 83, 8%
India Bonds, 1,000/. .. .. ..
..
.. _
Ditto. under 1,0001. • • .. • • •• 2 dis par 4 dis 5 dis
Annuities, Expire Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 8% 9
..
Consols for May 27 • • • • • • • • .. 867/8N 86%
Exchequer Bills. 1 li d. 2d.

1,0001... ..
5001. . ••
Ditto, Small

•-• •• ••

par 3 p par
par 4 p
43 6 p
ONE
O'CLOCK.

•••• •II il•

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Chilian Bonds, G per Cent . ..
Ditto, 3 per Ceut .• .. .. • • 52%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, rassive Bonds .. .. 5
Dlvidendi on the above payable in Lend On.
Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent •

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PRICES.

PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. DONE AT
PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... 16% ••• • • • 1654
Birmlng., Wolver., and Dudley • • 5 ••••• • • • • 914
Caledonian . 30 .. 23 %•••• • • • • 23%
Eastern Counties .. 20 ~ 18% .. •• . 18%
East Lincolnshire .. .... 714 .. •••• • • . • 73A
Great Northern .. 3% .... 1% 2........ 2
Great North of England . ..100 ....230 230
Great Western 85 .• .. 108 • 108
Ditto, Fifths .. '2O .... 2134 ........ 2414
Leeds and Bradford .. .. 40 .... 83% ....... •• • 83%
Leeds and Thirsk 26
Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent... 3 • •
London and Blackwall • • 161.
Ditto, New. No. 2 .. • • 21. 13s. 4d. 54 P• •••• • • • •
London an North-Western .• 100 170 16934. 1703. j 16914
Ditto, Fifths .. 2 .... 15
Ditto, 40/. Shares M. &B. •• 40 .. 64 6514 ......
Ditto, 101. Shares 'M. &B. (C) 1 • • •• . •• ••
London and South• Western 411. 65.10 d... 61 60y4 6118..
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) .. 50 .... 511:2 ........
Ditto, Scrip • • .. • • • • .. 5 .... 4
Lynn and Ely .. .. 25 .. 2614 ..........
Lynn and Dereham .. • • 20 .... 2014 ..........
Manchester and Leeds .. .. • • 82 .... 98 . .....
Ditto, Fifths .. • • • • 5 •• • • 81414 •••• • • • •
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) .. • .71. 45..... 14 dls... ••• • • •
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .. • . dis. ... • • .
Midland .. ..100 ••
Ditto, New .. .• • • • • 36 •• • • 38 ••••• • • • • •
Ditto, New .. .• 6 .... ........
Newcastle and Berwick • • .. 20 .. 24!4 ••••• • • • • •
North British • • .. • • •• 25 •• .. 3014 .. ••.• • • •
Ditto, Half Shares .. • • • . 1214 •• • • 13% • .
North Staffordshire .. • • • • 7 •• • • 91A ••••• • • • • •
Preston and Wyre.. .. 25 .... 34% ..........
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 .. • . 4% 5
Scottish Central • • .. . • • 171.2 .... 231i1 ••••• • • • • •
Sheffield, Rotherham. & Coale .. 5 .... 3 ....
Shrewsbury and Birminghana .. 314.... 214 .. • • ..... .
West Riding Union 41.25. •• .. 14 dis
York and Newcastle .. 25 .... 3414 • • •••• • • •
Ditto, Preference .. • • • • 4 •• • • 6 •••• • • • •
York and North Midland .. 50 .... 8214 82 ......
Ditto, Extension • . 25 .... 40 ..........
Ditto. Preference .• • • 2 •• • • 9% a• •
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
ford., Toul., & Cette (Constituted) 4 ..
Northern of France • • • • • • 8 •• • • 1114 ••••• • • • • •

JOINT-STOCK BANKS,
Commercial of London • • • • 20 .. .. 22 ..
MINES.

Real del Monte, Unrezistered • • 3M ••• • • • •• •

14 P
170

65%
6
61
51%
4
26!,4
204

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DR. REID.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Ventilation Office, House of Commons,
May 18. 1847.

SIR,—An extract from the Observer having been
copied into your paper, according to which an impres-
sion is conveyed that I stated recently, at a lecture given
by me at Willis's Rooms, that I was to commence an
action against her Majesty's Ministry, allow me to state
that I never used such words, nor any expressions that
could be construed into such a meaning ; what I did say
was, that Dr. Faraday having attributed to Mr. Barry
the invention of plans which it is consider( d he never
would have adverted to in the terms he hal ho
previously heard my side of the question as well as Mr.
Barry's, -I
deemed it my duty to the cause I have ad-
vocated at the Houses of Parliament to reply to 1)r.
Faraday, particularly from the nature of the corn ranni
cations at present in progress between her Majesty's
Government and myself. As to the nature of these, not
one word was said, though I certainly stated the great
injustice done to me by three referees, viz.:—Mr. Philip
llardwicke, Mr. George Stephenson, and Professor
Thomas Graham, whom I challenge to meet me before
any proper tribunal, to show cause why they retain a
document which, when produced, will show that I was
deprived of the ventilation of the House of Peers in
consequence of an address to the Crown, moved on the
consideration of a report which was founded on evidence
not consistent with the facts of the case.
I am, Sir, your very obedient servant,

D. B. REID.

THE PEACE SOCIETY.
The thirty-first anniversary of this society was held
on the 17th and 18th instant. The meeting of mem-
bers, on the 17th, convened by printed circular, was
in the large room at the White Hart Inn, Bishops-
gate-street, Joseph T. Price, E 1.., in the chair. The
report of the committee was read by the Rev. J.
Jefferson, the secretary, and unanimously adopted,
and ordered to be real to the public meeting in Fins-
bury Chapel. The officers for the ensuing year were
appointed, and the general business of the society at-
tended to. The following gentlemen took part in the
proceedings :—John Allen, Esq., \V. Astbury, Esq.,
R. Barrett, Esq., Mr. E. Clarke, R. Ransome, Esq.,
E. Smith, Esq., Mr. A. B. Stevens, and Mr. F.
Wheeler.

At the public meeting in Finsbury Chapel, on the
18th, the chair was taken by C. Ilindley, Esq., M.P.,
and afterwards by J. T. Price, Esq., and the follow-
ing gentlemen addressed the meeting :—Rev. T. Ave-
ling, Rev. J. Burnet, J. Brotherton, Esq., M.P., J.
S. Buckingham, Esq., Mr. Elihu Burritt, of
Worcester, Mass., and Mr. Clapp, of Lynn, Mass.,
United States.

The resolutions were embodied in a petition which
was unanimously adopted, and ordered to be signed by
the chairman on behalf of the meeting, praying that
suitable measures may he taken to settle interna-
tional disputes by arbitration or other legal process,
without having recourse to arms,
From the report it appeared that the cause of peace
is gradually advancing. It was stated that by the
agents of the society and other persons there had been
delivered, under the immediate sanction of the com-
mittee, about 500 lectures during the past year, to
110,000 persons; half a million of tracts have been
distributed; the periodical press has been employed
both in England Wales ; the sale of the Herald of
Peace is increasing ; fairs and markets have been
visited ; Sumner's Oration and Bowring's Lecture on
the Commercial Importance of Peace have been cir-
culated ; petitions for a legalised system of arbitra-
tion have been extensively adopted; and on the con-
tinent of Europe twenty lectures have been delivered
—soma of them to as many as 1,500 persons, and
many thousands of tracts distributed.
The report referred also to the dock-yards and the
coming general election, as also to the decease of J.
J. Gurney, E.q., and Clarkson, Esq., and others.
Including a balance of more than 5561. at the com-
mencement of the year, the income of the society has
been 2,1471. 19s. 10d. There is a balance of more
than 1001. on hand.

The Earl of Minto gave a dinner to the Cabinet
Ministers last evening at his residence in Eaton-square.
HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF A WEEDING AN-
NouNcEmENT.—We commend the following to those
courtly scribes who so pleasingly announce the mar-
riages of the " most noble," ,‘ right honourable,"
"beautiful and accomplished," and so forth. It will
show them how a
plain republican can outdo their
long-drawn-out the ee- halfpence-a-lining. The
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Attorney
tive to the Grand Lodge of the United States from the
Grand Encampment of Kentucky, Junior Editor of the
Covena it. t
of
Baltimore; Ex-Editor of the Freemason,
L, uisville ; Corresponding and Recording Secretary
and Librarian of the Kentucky Historical Society ; Re-
cording Secretary of the Board of Missions of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South ; Captain of the
First Company 132 d Regiment, 29th Brigade of Ken-
tucky Militia, Q.
to Miss Nancy R. Pratt, of the
former place. Papers throughout the Union,, including
Texas, Oregon, and California, please copy.'
THE CROPS, &c.---For the last eight days the crols
of all kinds have trade most wonderful progress—indeed,
never lookinc, better at this season of the year. The
grass, which was feared would be a failure, is also com-
ing on beautifully ; so that, in every likelihood, the en-
suing harvest will produce ample food for man and b( ast.
Notwithstanding the recent frosts, the fruit trees in oar
gardens are overloaded with their variegated blossom.—
Ross-shire Advertiser.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen yes-
terday at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Alice, and
attended by the Viscountess Canning, toA an airing yes-
terday in an open carriage and four. Ilis Royal High-
ness Prince Albert rode out on horseback at the same
time. The Equerries in Waiting, Lieut.• Colonel the
Hon. C. B. Phipps and Captain the Hon. A. 11. Goruon,
attended her Majesty and his Royal .11ighness on horse-
back.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady
Lyttelton, took an airing yesterday in an open carriage
and four. _ _ _ _

Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the
Princess Helena, took airings yesterday in the royal
gardens.
The Queen and the Queen Dowager visited her Royal
Highness the Princess Sophia yesterday, at her residence
at Kt nsingten.
The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace. yes-
terday, included his Serene Highness the Prince of
Lainingen, Prince Leichtenstein, the Deka and Duchess
of Buccleuch, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, and Captain
Francis Seymour.
It being the Queen's intention to hold a Dra•xing-
room at St. James's Palace on Thursday, the 27th inst.,
to celebrate her Majesty's birthday, the exhibition of the
royal pictures must close after Saturday next, the 22 1
ins,tant, and it will be resumed on Saturday, the 29..11
instant, the interval being necessary to prepare the
Palace for the Drawing-room.
No tickets to view the royal pictures will be issued
from Saturday next, the 22d instant, to Saturday, the
29th instant.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Augusta Bruce and Sir George Couper,
honoured the Achbishop of York with her company at
dinner yesterday, at his residence, in Grosvenor-square.
His Grace received the Noble Directors of the Concerts
of Ancient Music.

Their Royal Highnessess Prince Albert and the
Duchess of Kent honoured the performance of the
Concert of Ancient Music with their presence yesterday
evening at the Hanover square Rooms.
A deputation from Windsor, consisting of the Rev. Dr.
Hawtrey, the Rev. E. Coleridge, Rev. W. G. Corberley,
and the Rev. E. H. Pickering, had an interview with
Viscount Morpeth on Tuesday, at the office of the Com-
missioners of Woods and Forests in Whitehall-place.
The Judges, Queen's Counsel, &c., will not meet at
the Lord Chancellor's on the first day of Trinity Term
(Saturday next).
The Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister, trans-
acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. His Ex-
cellency had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon at
the office of the Board of Trade.

A deputation of the Severn and Wye Railway Com-
pany, consisting of Mr. Joseph Cookson, the Chairman;
Mr. Edward Thomas, the Treasurer; Mr. Stephen Jar-
rett, Rev. H. Sheets, Mr. 0. C. Lane, Mr. Coates, the
Parliamentary agent; and Mr. Bigg, the solicitor to the
company, had an interview with the Commissioners of
her Majesty's Woods and Forests yesterday.
A deputation from the Birkenhead and Lancashire
Railway Company, consisting of Mr. Laird, Mr. Coch-
rane, and Mr. Lister, had an interview yesterday with
the Right Hon. Edward Strutt at the office of the Com-
missioners of Railways in Great George-street.
Captain Hayes had an interview with Earl Grey yes-
terday at the Colonial-office.
Major-General Sir Charles Smith had an interview
with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street.
Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
str( et.

Lord Northland and Admiral Sir Charles Adam had
interviews yesterday with the Right Hon. E. Strutt.
Mr. Aldam, M.P., and a deputation of the Surveyors
of the Highways of Leeds, consisting of Messrs. Bruck,
Jackson, Rosson, R. Roberts, and Barrett, accompanied
by Mr. Beckett, M.P., had an interview with Viscount
Nlorpeth yesterday.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial Office for the Governor of Ceylon, and for the
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Her Majesty the
Queen Dowager, attended by the Earl and Countess Howe,
the Viscountess Falkland, the Marchioness of Ormonde, the
Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley, and the Hon. Captain Somerset,
honoured the performances of Her Majesty's Theatre on Tues-
day evening with her presence. His Royal Highness. Prince
George was also amongst the company. In the
Queen's box were Mr. and Lady Mary Stanley and
the Honourable Miss Stanley, Honourable Miss Lyt-
telton, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Hon. Mr. Fortescue. There
were also present—the Prince Louis Napoleon, his Excel-
lency the Austrian Ambassador, his Excellency the Hano•
verian Minister, the Baroness Brunnow and Mademoiselle
Olga de Lechner, the Minister Plenipotentiary from Peru and
Madame Yturegui, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the
Duchess of Leinster and Lady Jane Fitzgerald, the Duchess
Dowager of Cleveland, the Duke of Cleveland, the Marquis of
Huntley, the Marchioness of Douro, the Marchioness of
Westmeath, the Marquis of Blandford, the Countess Dow-
ager of Morley, the Earl and Countess of Morley and Lady
Helen Douglas, the Countess of Powis and Lady Lucy
Herbert, the Countess of Blessington and the Misses Power,
the Earl of Falmouth, the Earl of Lonsdale, Viscount Go-
derich, Viscount and Viscountess Maidstone, Viscount So-
merton, Viscount Canterbury, Lord Fitzroy Somerset and
Miss Somerset, Lord and Lady Willoughby D'Eresby, Lord
Carew, Lord Headly, Lord A. G. Lennox, Lady Colborne,
Lady M. Ross, Lord Brougham, Lord Aylmer, Lord A. Fitz-
clarence, Lord Cranstoun, Lord W. Graham, Lady W. Comp-
ton, Lord Gardner, Lady and Miss Meux, Sir E. Butler, Sir
H. Willoughby, Sir A. •Woodford, M. C. de Koudrialfsky,
Hoe. General Lygon, Captain Meynell, I:. N., Mr. Hubert de
Burgh, Mr. 0. Morgan, M.P., Mr. Parnther, Mr. H. Greville,
Mr. and Mrs. B. Sheridan, Sir Stratford and Lady Canning,
Lady Shelley, Hon. F. Levison, lion. General Upton, Hon.
R. Curzon, Sir George Wombwell, Captain Martin, Mr.
I3ateson, M.P., &c.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.---Her
MajeSty,' his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal Highnesses the
Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and his
Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, honoured tho
Royal Italian Opera on Tuesday with their presence. Her
Majesty was attended by Viscountess Canning, Lady
Augusta Bruce, the Marquis of Ormonde, the Honourable
Colonel Phipps, and the Hon. Captain Gordon. Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary
were attended by Baroness Hammerstein, Baron Knese-
beck, and Captain Mildmay. There were also present :
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of
Abercorn, the Marquis of Douro, the Marquis of Donegal,
Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl of Cadogan and the
Ladies Cadogan, the Countess of Chesterfield, the Earl of
Munster, Earl Bruce, Viscount and Viscountess Castlereagh,
Viscount and Viscountess Newport, Viscount Cantalupe,
Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Dupplin, the Baroness Wil-
loughby D'Eresby, Lord and Lady Carrington, Lord and
Lady Petre, Lord W. Beresford, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lady
William Poulett, Lady Blanche Somerset, . Lord. George
Manners, Baroness de Goldsmid, the Hon. Miss Foley, Hon.
A. D. Willoughby, Hon. Gerald Dillon and the Hon. Miss
Dillon, Hon. Mrs. Bathurst, Hon. Colonel Cathcart, Hon.
Mrs. Anson, Hon. Miss Maynard, Hon. Arthur Upton, Sir
H. Webb, Sir William and Lady de Bathe, Sir John and
Lady Campbell, Sir William Abdy, Sir Bellingham and
Lady Graham, Sir Jasper and Lady Atkinson, Lady Scott,
Lady Arabella Ramsden, Sir Thomas Hare, Sir Michael
Shaw Stuart, Sir John Fife, Sir Charles Marshall, Sir H.
Meux, Mr. Win. Ewart, M.P., Mr. Joseph Hume, ALP.,
Mr. Henry Baring, M.P., Miss Burdett Coutts, Mr. H. T.
Hope. Mr. Horseley Palmer, General Wolfe, Captain de
Bathe, Lady Jodrell, Lady Whichcote, the Hon. Captain
Milles, &e.
BO'NESS.--MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.-0(1 Tuesday
morning, a little before ten o'clock, an engine stalk, which
has lately been erected by John Wilson, Esq., near the School-
yard Pits, Bo'ness, fell with a tremendous crash in the di-
rection of the School-brae ; destroying one house of four
storeys in height, and another of one storey. The inhabi-
tarfts of the buildings were buried in the ruins, from which
one female was taken out dead, and several others severely
injured, but who are since progressing favourably. It is re-
markable that more lives were not lost, as the road over
which the stalk fell is the one leading to the parish school,
and the accident happened at the very hour of the assembling
of the school. Some narrow escapes took place. The erec-
tion was upwards of 100 feet in height.—lnverness Journal.
ROYAL MARINES —By an Order in Council of the
24th April, this corps has been increased to 12.000
officers and men, who will be thus divided: Ten
artillery companies, each consisting of 1 captain, 4
subalterns, 7 sergeants, 7 corporals, 3 bombardiers, 3
buglers, and 125 gunners; ninety-four divisional com-
panies, consisting each of a captain, 2 subalterns, 5
sergeants, 5 corporals, 3 drummers, and 95 privates,
with a staff composed of 67 persons. In consequence
of this augmentation, Lieutenants Tate and Langley
are promoted to the rank of captain and appointed
to two of the additional artillery companies. Captain
Langley saw some service while serving on the north
coast of Spain, and was severely wounded in the thigh
while defending an outpost on the heights of Passages.
Gentlemen Cadets M'Callum, Wriford, Ansell, Poore,
and Bazalgette have passed the requisite examinations
at the Royal Naval College, and will be presented with
commissions on Tuesday next. Lieutenant Crockett, of
the artillery companies, has been ordered to Woolwich,
to succeed Lieutenant Digby, embarked in the Dragon
steam-frigate, Captain Hall, fitting out at that port.
THE QUEEN WITH HER CROWN AND SCEPTRE ;
THE PRESS WITH ITS BLACKING BALLS.—At a recent
meeting of the Preston Board of Guardians, Mr. Addi-
son, the chairman, thus spoke:—" They ought not to be
afraid of ignorant clamour, or interested clamour.
They should totally disregard newspapers, which lived
on vulgar excitement and clamour. Editors ought
to speak the truth, but if they did so, they could not sell
their papers.—(Laughter.) They were, however, perhaps
as good as the rest of the world, as it at present existed.
At the present time the Government was divided between
the Queen with her crown and sceptre, and the press with a
couple of blacking balls—(Much laughter)—which they
used to defame the character of those who differed from
them.—(Continued laughter.) All that the newspapers
said ought to be totally disregarded, and went lor no-
thing with people of common sense. He did not think it
ought to be permitted--but as it did exist, the best way
was to pay no attention to it comments,
says Mr. Addison (evidently a descendant from the
friend of Sir Roger de Coverley), go for nothing with
people of " common sense." They evidently go for
something with hint (Mr. Addison) or why these. stric-
tures ? The inference, according to the gentleman's
own argument, is obvious.]
DEEP SEA FISLIERIES.—VALENTIA.—The Lords
of the Treasury have resolved to fix one of the stations
for the curing of fish upon part of our coast; they have
selected the harbour of Valentia for the purpose. They
have taken premises and are erecting c
hav-
ing placed an experienced Scotch surer uang sheds,
t- the head of
the business. We understand the selection to have been
made on the ground of the windward position of Va.
lentia, as well as the facility afforded by its double
entranee, commanding, as it does, the fishing ground
both to the southward and northward of the Skelligs.
—Kerry Post.

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