The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, IM7.

territorial confiscation, because—because what ?
because, forsooth, the peasantry would be induced to
place their reliance not so much upon their own
corporeal industry as upon the subsistence derivable
from the workhouse ! Why, the argument is
about the most blundering paradox legislator
ever uttered. " The peasantry would rely more upon
the subsistence ensured them by the law than upon
their own corporeal exertions?" Why the subsistence
afforded them by the law will only come in payment
of, and compensation for, their own corporeal exer-
tions—the provisions handed to the able-bodied la-
bourer through the wicket of the local workhouse will
only be in return for the expenditure of so much
muscular energy in so much local employment—the
test upon which the legal alms of the parochial au-
thorities can be alone obtained will be the readiness
of the destitute to toil for his pittance. No money
whatever will be disbursed to the out-door paupers ;
the assistance will be solely limited to food, and
that food they can alone obtain by proving their
willingness to work industriously. And yet Lord
MONTEAGLE stigmatises the proposition of Govern-
ment as a virtual confiscation of property, inasmuch
as he maintains it will promote indolence and
encourage pauperism among the Irish peasantry !
Disjointed as was the logic of Lord MONTEAGLE in
his observations upon the introduction of the poor-
law into Ireland, it was immeasurably exceeded, in
regard to its fallacy, by the reasoning of Archbishop
WEATELEY. With all reverence for the genius of
that illustrious prelate, with all admiration for the
keenness of his philosophic acumen, and with all re-
spect for him as a man whose mind has become
ripened by erudition and experience, we cannot but
acknowledge ourselves amazed at the shallowness of
the arguments upon which he bases his opposition to
the plans of the Government. He protests against
the distribution of relief to the able-bodied labourers
of Ireland, because—again, say we, because what ?
because (it is the Archbishop of DUBLIN who is
responding), with the Irish labourer, " inured to
hardship, accustomed from his early days to privation,
your relief will be actual luxury to him. He will
be in the land of Cockaigne !" says the Archbishop.
So, then, an English labourer, who is described as
living habitually in the midst of the comforts and
amenities of competence, is to be afforded the bread
and gruel of the workhouse more readily than the
miserable wretch who, as a type of the Irish
peasantry, is depicted by the Most Reverend Orator
as living perpetually on the brink of bankruptcy and
starvation ! Give the workhouse crusts to the
English peasant, says the Archbishop, give them to
him because they will taste unpalatable after his more
agreeable fare, and because they will smack to him
of wretchedness and degradation. Don't give the
workhouse crusts to the Irish peasant, he continues,
because they will seem to his palate like dainties, and
because they will impress upon his mind the, notion
that his condition as a pauper is more elevated and
creditable than heretofore. The result of this reason-
ing is simply that those should be welcomed by the
parochial authorities with open and sheltering arms
who can best afford to tarry longer without relief,
and for whose destitution there is the least possible
excuse; while the unfortunate beings whose debili-
tated bodies are utterly unfitted to withstand the en-
croachments of inanition, and whose ordinary condi-
tion is that of the extremest poverty, are, by reason of
their very feebleness and pauperism, to be spurned from
the precincts of the benignant board I " But he
will be in the land of Cockaigne !" insists the Arch-
bishop. Why what a sorry prevarication is this !
Because the able-bodied pauper will be "in the land
of Cockaigne," by merely devouring the meagre
rations of a workhouse, because the slice of bread, or-
the basin of diluted porridge, will be to his fasting
lips as delicious as a dish of lampreys or ortolans to
those of an epicure—he must be sent back to his cabin
to sweep together the husks in his meal-bin, to sit
down and to die like a decent and uncomplaining
Christian What a land of Cockaigne to begrudge
the Irish pauper ! What luxuries to deny him as de-
moralising ! What exquisite inducements to idleness
and pauperism ! Archbishop WHATELEY could not
have employed any language better calculated to en-
force the necessity of accepting the Government
measure of relief than the language used by that Most
Reverend Prelate to crush the plan of her MA-
JESTY'S Minister, and to annihilate the upholders of
an extended Poor-law. Thus far the motion of Lord
MONTEAGLE has proved more beneficial to the
Administration than by imparting to it the ephemeral
credit of having rejected that motion by a majority of
twenty-seven. It has demonstrated, even in the an-
tsgonism of the supporters of Lord MONTEAGLE, the
fact that the Poor Relief (Ireland) BPI is abso-
lutely essential to the very existence of the destitute
peasantry.

The tide of emigration has set in with more than
usual rapidity. The widest calculations have fallen
short of the number of those about to bid a long fare-
well to their native shores, and to seek on a foreign
strand that maintenance and means of livelihood
which they despair of being enabled to obtain in their
fatherland. Those who have taken up the idea that
the extent of her population is the chief source of
Irish wretchedness, and that the social condition of
her people can be ameliorated only by an extraordi-
nary diminution in their numbers—that a wholesale
deportation must take place, and that hundreds of
thousands of industrious families must be expatriated
before prosperity and happiness can be hoped for, or
reasonably expected—may be gratified by this result;
but we confess that we are not of the number, and
that we regard the loss of the sturdy and intelligent
yeomen, who constitute the great bulk of the emi-
grants, as well as the amount of capital which they
will take with them to more propitious climes,
as a national misfortune of no ordinary magnitude.
It has never been asserted that Ireland possessed a
superabundance of capital, or that she could easily
bear a large drain in addition to that annually borne
from her shores in the shape of rents for absentee
landlords. On the contrary, she possesses a soil of
unexampled fertility and natural advantages of the
highe,t order ; but her fields have remained uncul-
tivated, her capabilities undeveloped ; and while there
is every facility for advancing her to a high position in
the scale of nations, and rendering her people happy
and contented, in the possession of everything necessary
for their simple wants and wishes, she, unfortunately,
is placed in the lowest rank, and her children are
suffering to a degree of misery and wretchedness un-
paralleled in the history of civilised communities.
The want of capital for the necessary improvements
is the chief cause of this lamentable state of things.,
The 14,000,000 of acres nominally in tillage are not
half cultivated. It is admitted on all hands that the
produce might be quadrupled if adequate exertions
were made to effect that purpose ; the chief ingredient
necessary to attain that object is the employment of
sufficient labour on the lands. It is in abundance at
the very thresholds, and obtainable atone-half the price
that should in this country be paid for it, and yet it
remains idle and unproductive, and the fields barren
and unimproved. It will not be asserted -that the
natural capabilities of Ireland are inferior to those of
England, and yet the produce of the same extent of
land is sixty per cent. less than in this country, while
the proportion of labourers is nearly as five to two
ready to be employed in its cultivation, but unable to
get that employment so necessary for the comfort of
themselves and families, and the well-being of their
common country.

Why are these things suffered to remain in such a
state ? Why have not these improvements been
effected ? Simply because there is a deficiency of
capital in the country applicable to agricultural pur-
poses. And yet the very persons who admit the
accuracy of this statetfrent contend that the country
is to be benefited by sending a considerable portion of
that deficient capital from the island, together with
men able and willing to work, who may well be
called the thews and sinews of the country. To
reduce the proportion of the smaller farmers and
labourers of Ireland to the same as that which now
exists in England, it would require the exportation of
no less than 700,000 families, averaging 3,500,000
human beings. The very lowest expense at which
this could be accomplished, calculating the cost of
Passage and the sum necessary to settle them in their
new residences,
and support them until the arrival of
the first harvest, would be from 1001. to 1201. per
family (it has never been calculated by the
advocates of emigration lower) ; this would at
once cost the country from sixty to seventy-two

millions of money, and the outlay should be con-
tinued every year, in order to keep down the annual
increase which would of course be in the inverse ratio
of the population. What extraordinary benefits for
Ireland, what abundance and national prosperity
might be obtained by the judicious application of
even one-tenth part of that amount in the improve-
ment of the land, in giving employment to those able
and willing to work ! The money would produce an
ample return, and not be utterly cast away and de-
stroyed, as that expended in the banishment of the
people. It appears, therefore, that emigration to the
extent desired cannot be adopted or sanctioned by the
State.

We certainly were not without the hope, a short
while since, from the complexion of the last discus-
sion which took place in the Court of Aldermen
with respect to the reform of the corporation of the
city of London, that the violent dissensions, which
have for some time past prevailed between the Alder-
men and the Common Councilmen, would be speedily
and amicably terminated. In this hope, we confess,
we have been disappointed. The tenor of the discus-
sion which was held in the Court of Common
Council on Thursday last evinced very little
hope of reconciliation between the contending parties.
It is undoubted that certain reforms are required in
the Corporation ; some contend that their present
powers are sufficient to effect them ; whilst others as-
sert that they cannot be accomplished without
the intervention of Parliament. The majority of
the Aldermen conceive they can dispense with the
services of Parliament; the Common Councilmen,
that an appeal to the Senate is indispensable. We
are persuaded that the latter will be found, in the
end, to be correct in their opinion. On Thursday
the Court of Common Council agreed to the report
of their Committee of Privileges, which recommended
that they should be empowered to prepare a Bill to
Parliament for reforming the Corporation. This step
was objected to as being premature, seeing that their
law officers had not yet given their opinions upon the
rights and powers of the Corporation. Still
we cannot wonder at the eagerness mani-
fested by the Common Councilmen to get
to Parliament. They are anxious to guard
themselves against unnecessary procrastina-
tion ; and their apprehension that needless delay will
not be disfavoured by the Court of Aldermen is not
without some show of reason. Their fears
in this respect are justified by a re-
view of the nature of the differences
between the Courts, and the fierceness with which
they have, from the first, been respectively main-
tained. The power claimed by the present Lord
Mayor, of not putting any question from the chair of
which he may individually disapprove, is of itself
quite sufficient to determine a body of men, who
conceived they constituted a deliberative assembly,
to repair to Parliament without loss of time, and
demand that their chief officer shall be forthwith
divested of such an objectionable act of authority.
The reluctance displayed by the Aldermen to appeal
to the Legislature does not place them in a very be-
coming light. They seem to be afraid of losing
some of their present powers, privileges, or immu-
nities. But why should they, if these are really
subservient to the public good? If they are, they
can have no difficulty in establishing the fact; and if
they are not, ought they to desire to retain them ?
Were not the subject-matter too grave, as affecting
a Corporation which for antiquity, Rower, wealth, and
renown has never been equalled, one might be in-
clined to be amused at the spirit in which the dis-
putants support their wrangles. According to the
version of Mr. LAWRENCE, the Alderman thus ad-
dresses him :—" But look at what- you will lose if
you go to Parliament !" In due Socratical fashion,
the Alderman is immediately replied to—" Will you
lose nothing ? Will you not be clipped ?" We
submit that this style of disputation savours too much
of the Peachum and Lockit school; and it is clear
that when matters have reached such a crisis, the
sooner the parties resort to the mediatory influence of
the Legislature the better. We are, therefore, re-
joiced that the Court of Common Council have deter-
' mined on adopting this course.

A letter from Copenhagen of the 18th says that,
in consequence of the dearness of food, the KING has
issued an ordinance declaring that grain, vegetables, po-
tatoes, flour, and other alimentary products,lsh all be free
from the duties levied at Lauembourg, whatever may
be their destination on the Elbe. The ordinance is
to be in force from the opening of the navigation
until• the end of September.

A letter from Turin, of the 20th, says, that the
health of the King of SARDINIA has greatly improved,
and that his MAJESTY has been able to transact
business with his Ministers.

The Augsburgh Gazette publishes a letter from
Poland, which says—" The misery now prevailing in
the western provinces of Austrian Gallicia is fright-
ful. An absolute famine prevails, and the starving
poor eagerly seize on the bodies of those who die of
want as food."

A letter from Warsaw gives a new explanation of
the movement of Russian troops towards the frontier
of Gallicia. " They are," it says, " part of the corps
of General KREUTZ, previously quartered in Lithu-
ania, and now occupying Poland. The corps of
General RUDIGER is to quit Poland to return to
Russia. General KREUTZ has already arrived in this
city."
The Augsburgh Gazette of the 19th states that
Prince JAULONOWITZ, a few days back, presented to
the Emperor of AUSTRIA a petition from the Nobles
of Gallicia, praying for some modifications in the
edicts t;elative to the forced labour of the peasantry.
The Emperor, to prevent the recurrence of diE-
turbances, consented to receive a deputation of large
proprietors on this subject.

A Berlin letter of the 19th informs us that the
Prussian Government intends to reduce its army, and
that a great number of officers have already been
placed on the retired list.

_
The Hanover Gazette states that the Government
intends to declare ilarburn and Geets free ports.

The Rhenish Observer announces that Senora
LOLA MONTEZ has at last been created Countess DR
STERNBEIM, and that the diploma conferring Bava-
rian naturalisation is to be given to her on the anni-
versary of her birthday.

The Madrid Mail of the 20th iast. had not arrived
in Paris.

The Foments of Barcelona announces that General
PAVIA has commuted the sentence passed by a
court-martial on five prisoners belonging to the Car-
list band of Jaime Montserrat from death to banish-
ment for ten years to a Presidio.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The debate on the proposition of M. DUVERGIER
DE HAURANNE, for electoral reform, still continues
in the Chamber of Deputies. During the discussion
on Wednesday the Minister of the Interior, M. DELT-
CHATEL, declared that the Ministry had determined
to make this a Cabinet question, and that if even the
prise en consideration of the proposition were carried
they would resign.
Count SALVANDY has published a letter in the
Moniteur Parisien denying that he has been made a
Duke.

The official returns of imports during the first two
months of the year have been published in the Mani-
tear. They show a diminution of receipts of 4,903,000
francs, as compared with the two corresponding months
of 1846, but of only 326,000 francs, as compared with
1845. The falling off this year must be attributed to
the free admission of grain. But for this deficit,
which makes a difference of more than 3,500,000 f., the
general receipts of the Customs would have, not merely
equalled, but have actually exceeded those of last year.
The importations of raw materials has, however,
somewhat suffered, in consequence of the general re-
laxation of trade during the two months in question.
Thus there has been a decline in mahogany, cotton,
wool, silk, linen, threads, lead, zinc, &c. On the
other hand there is an increase in sugar, coffee, cast
iron, coal, lard, nitrates, and particularly in linseed,
and sesame, which in spite of the rigours of the tariff,
have risen to a considerable figurzs (49,000 metrical
quintals from 19,400).
The Maniteur also announces that the importation
of foreign grain in the harbours of France continued
with unabated activity during the first fortnight of
Much. It amounted to 472,445 hectolitres, exceed-;,

ing by 80,000 hectolitres the quantity imported
during the second half of February.
In consequence of this large importation, the price
of corn and flour has fallen in most of the principal
markets of the kingdom.

The Siecle publishe3 the following letter from
Toulon :

" Six ships of war are at present being armed in this
port, viz., the ships of the line the Jemappes and Her-
cule, the Pursuviante and the Charte, the tender Rhin,
and the corvette Astrolabe. The two ships of the line
are to form part of the squadron under the orders of
Vice-Admiral the Prince de Joinville. The frigate the
Pursuviante is to receive on board Rear-Admiral Lego-
arant de Tromolin, who is to replace Rear-Admiral
Hamelin in the command of the naval station in the Pa-
cific. The frigate Charte is to proceed to the Plata, to
remain there. The tender the Rhin is to sail for New
Zealand, and the corvette the Astrolabe is, it is said, to
explore the river Amazon. 3,000 seamen are required
to man those ships, but which it is difficult to procure."
Mr. O'CONNELL arrived in Paris on Wednesday,
en route for Italy. lle was accompanied by one of
his sons.

The Bourse of Paris was animated on Thursday.
Securities of nearly every species rose in price. The
Three per Cents. closed at 79f. 25c. ; the Fire per
Cents. at 117 f. 25c. Shares were also much in de-
mand, those of the Northern line in particular, it
having become known in the course of the day that
the receipts for the last week had risen to 255,000 f.
and upwards, being, as compared with those of the
preceding week, an increase of nearly 20,0001.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Thursday, at 79f. 25e. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 25c. ;
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,278 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 872 f. 50c. ;
Havre, 675 f. ; Great Northern, 631 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 813 f.
75c. ; Vierzon, 570 f. ; Bordeaux, 520 f. ; Boulogne, 407 f.
50c. ; Basle, 206 f. 25c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 445 f. ; Nantes,
430 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 450 f.; Lyons and Avignon, 480 f.;
Cette, 4501.; Spanish Three per Cents., 3414.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Maxon 26.
Boulogne and Amiens, 16 lA—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Constituted), IN—Luxembourg, 14—Northern of France, 13;i
Paris and Lyons, 5% —West Flanders, 24,

BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner FARE.) '
IN RE COX.

This bankrupt had carried on business extensively as
a barge-builder at Lambeth, and he now applied for his
certificate.
The case had been under the notice of the Court on
several cccasions, in consequence of alleged misconduct
of the broker of the Court in making his valuation, and
some strong remarks were made on the bankrupt's
conduct, and a strong opposition made to his passing his
last examination.

The solicitor to the assignees now said that, after the
examination of the bankrupt, they did not feel it their
duty to make any opposition to his having his cer-
tificate, as, in their opinion, ha bad explained the
doubtful parts of his conduct.
His lioNoun said, that he had anticipated an opposi-
tion; but as there was none he did not feel justified in
giving a decision on the point at the moment, but must
consider the different facts which had been elicited in
the course of the proceedings.
Mr. Cox then went into a detail of the bankrupt's
affairs, showing that his losses were the result of un-
foreseen and unavoidable difficulties.
The decision was reserved.

SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.)
Joseph GoPdehild, for feloniously stealing a truck, the
property of William Hasgood, a buk,r, of No. 2, Spring-
grove, Wandsworth road, was sentenced to two months'
imprisonment. . .

Catharine Plum, an inmate of St. Saviour's union,
was indicted for feloniously stealing at Christchurch, two
pounds weight of soap, the property of the board of
guardians.
James APKay, the porter of the above union, said that
on the evening of Saturday, the 13th day of February
last, the prisoner was leaving the workhouse. Perceiving
something under her shawl, he asked to look there, when
he found upwards of 2lbs. of soap. Several robberies
of a similar description having taken place in the work-
house, he sent for a police-constable and gave her into
custody.
The prisoner said, in her defence, that the soap in
question was her perquisites ; that she had been a long
time employed at the wash• tub, and the soap found on
ha- she had saved.

M'Kay said that none of the inmates were allowed
such perquisites. The soap found on her had not been
used.

The CHAIRMAN briefly summed up, and the jury
returned a verdict of Guilty. The sentence of the Court
was, that she be imprisoned in the House of Correction
for one month.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
A woman of bad character, named Mary Ann Jones,
was charged, by policeman F 60, with being drunk, and
creating a disturbance in the Strand at a late hour last
night.
The prisoner, in defence, said that the policeman had
" a grudge" against her, and was in the habit of follow-
ing and watching her off his beat. Last night he fol-
lowed her as far as the Haymarket, and, as she returned,
continued to follow her till she arrived at her own
lodging where he took her in custody without the slight-
eat grounds. He spoke to the constable who was on
duty at the National Gallery as he passed. It was then
one o'clock in the morning.
Policeman A 85, who was on duty at the National
Gantry at one o'clock this morning, having been sent
for, said that he had never, to his knowledge, seen F 60
before, and that no policeman had spoken to him during
the whole time he was on duty. He had seen the pri-
soner before, but did not see her last night or this
morning.
The prisons r, after some equivocation, said that the
witness was the policeman to whom F 60 had spoken.
The MAGISTRATE of course refused to entertain the
charge against the policeman, which he said was suffi-
ciently answered by the evidence of A 85, and by the
prisoner's own prevarication. His Worship fined her
20s. for disorderly conduct.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
A showily-dressed female. who gave her name at the
station-house as Rtbecca Smith, but whose alleged place
of residence in Phunaters row, City-road, was found to
be false, was placed at the bar before Mr. Greenwood,
charged with stealint, a cash-box c“ntaining 351. in gold
and 51. in silver, and a cheque for 71. 10s., from the shop
of Mr. George Grey, draper and mercer, 35, Upper-
street, Islington.
It appeared that this morning, about eight o'clock,
the prosecutor opened his shop, and brought down his
cash-box, which he laid upon a de,k at the end of the
counter, pry vious to his locking it up in the till. In a
few minutes afterwards the prisoner and a well-dressed
man entered the shop together, when the female called
for some trifling article, while the man walked up and
down the shop for a few minutes, and then went out
in a moment afterwards. One of the apprentices
came to the shopman who was serving the
prisoner, and told him he thought the gentleman who
came in with her bad stolen the cash-box. He was im-
mediately followed, but no trace of him could be found,
and on questioning the woman as to who or what he
was, she denied all knowledge of hint, although she ulti-
mately acknowledged that the man had spoken to ber
in a joking way when he saw her looking in at the
window, and then followed her in) but she said she
never saw him before in her life, and she persisted in
this statement before the magistrate.
Mr. GREENWOOD said it would be necessary to have
the evidence of the apprentice, and ordered the case to
be adjourned to Monday for that purpose.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.,
CITY, QUARTER TO. THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool this week has improved
about id. per lb. on the superior qualities of American, and
id. on other sorts. The stock is 476,440 bales, against
816,630 bales at this time last year. Railway Shares were
firm, though quiet, yesterday.
There was a fair business done at Messrs. Lamond and
Co.'s sale of Railway Shares yesterday, and prices were steady.
The following are a few of the principal sales :
Great Western of Bengal £0 5 6
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 2 3 0
Cornwall, Halves 1 10 0
Shropshire Union and Canal 1 0 0
North British Extension
East Indian
London and Manchester (Remington's) 0 5 6
Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire
South-Eastern and Dover
Ambergate, Nottiniham, and Boston
Eastern Counties, I ork Extension 5 3 0
London and Blackwall, No. 1
Northern Counties Union 0 17 6
Eastern Counties ..........•... ........ 19 17 6
Shrewsbury and Hereford
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 4 7 6
The following are the most interesting points in the return
from the Bank of England for the week to March 20:—
Notes issued ... £24,487,935
Decrease ... 298,405
Rest, increase ... 9,416
Public Deposits, decrease ... ... 244,539
Other Deposits, increase ... 426,299
Seven day and other Bills, increase ... 46,165
Other Securities, increase ... 292,162
Notes, decrease 135,395
Bullion ... 11,231,630
Decrease ... 217,831
The Bank has, according to the above statement, reduced
its active circulation about 163,000/., but as, in order to keep
up the amount of the paper out, the amount of the notes lett
unemployed in the banking department is again reduced,
there is an impression that the cwrporation, unless a change
takes place, must limit its discounts. We do not anticipate
this result, because the bullion from France will now gra-
dually be brought back, and the grain markets are receding
steadily. With respect to the stock of bullion, a decrease
was to be expected under the circumstances.
There is nothing in the advices from the Cape of Good
Hope to the 22d of January, to weaken the impression ex-
cited by the previous accounts, as to the speedy conclusion
of the Kafir war. Truly it has been a wearisome and costly
conflict for the border colonists, and one which will leave
behind losses that cannot be retrieved for many years. Some
of the farmers, though stout of heart yet, are described as
having suffered mentally and physically to such an extent as
to have the appearance of being ten years older than before
the war commenced.
The English securities although steady to-day have not
been buoyant. Consols realised 891/s % for present transfer,
and 891% % for account. Exchequer-hills have been at par
to 3s. premium.. East India Stock has been marked 2471/2.
The foreign investments have been very dull. Spanish
Five per Cents. 23, and Portuguese Four per Cents. 34%.
Grenada Bonds have realised 20, and Venezula 40%. liutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 59 to 1/8.
Shares have been rather fluctuating, but generally are held
for full rates.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities • . 89% %
India Stock • • • • • . • • • . .. • . 247%
Consols for Account .. • • • • • • •• 89 %
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 2d.
1,0001. •• •• .• •• par 3 p
5001. •• •• •• par 3 p
Ditto, Small •• • • .... 41 p
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent. ..
Ditto, Deferred • • • • • . .. 52
Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent .. 88
Granada, 1 per Cent. • • .. .. 20
Portuguese Four per Cent .. .. 34%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. • • • • 23
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. 40%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 59%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 93%
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Amber., Notting.,l3ostou, & Eastnt Jn. .. 2%.... to
Birmingham and Oxford Junction .. 5 .... 13%.... to
Buckinghamshire • • .. • • .. • • 6/. 45... • . p• • to
Caledonian • • .• •• 30 .... 26%74% to
Direct Northern Scrip • • • • .. 23% 234 to
Eastern Counties • • • • • • • • • . 20 .... 19% .... to 20
Ditto, York Extension .. 4 .... 51.4 3I .. to
Edinburgh and Glasgow • • .. 50 .• 71% x.d. to
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 10 .... 19% .. • • to
Ditto, Quarter Shares • 1234 .... 17%.• ••to
Ely and Huntingdon . • • .. 12% .. • • 12% .. ••to
Great Northern (London & York ltegd) 2% •• • • 2% •• .. to
Ditto (Direct Northern Regd.) .. 3% •• • • 3% 34 ••to
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 30 25%...• to
Great North of England .. ..100 .. • • 230% .... to
Great Western 85 •• • • 117 ...• to 115
Ditto. Ilalf Shares • . 50 •• • • 68% t• 68
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 123 Q 18 t
,4 .. • . to
Ditto, New .. .• 4% .. • . 7% •• .. to
lltublerstield and Manchester .. • . 16 •• .. 19 .. • • to
Leeds and Bradford .. • . .. • • 35 .. • . 79 .... to
London, Brighton, and South Coast • • 50 .. • • 52% .... to 53%
London and North-Western .• •. 100 .. 179% .. • • to
Ditto, Quarters .. • • . , • • •• 2 .. .. ••to
Ditto ditto New .. • • .. • 2 .... 12% to
London and South-Western 411. 6;,. 10d. • .... to
Ditto, New Consolidated Eighths • . 40 .... 4734 .... to
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) . .. 50 .... 54% to
Lynn and Dereli am .. • • .. .. 15 . 16% .. •• to
Manchester and Leeds .• . 82 • ... to
Ditto, Half Shares • • • • • • • • 38 .• • . 49 •• • • to
Ditto, Fifths • • .. • • • • .. 5 •• .. 10% •• .. to
Ditto % (late Rudders. & Sheffield) 23 .. • • 2634 to
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .• • • 1!4 .. • . to
Midland •• •• —lOO ....117%%.. to
Di:to, New • • • • • • • • • • 30 •• .. 34%%.. to
Ditto, New •• • • • • 2 .. • • 5%.... to
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby ..100 .• •• 92 •••to 93
Midland, Birmingham & Gloucester-100 —123% .... to
Ditto, New (issued at 7i dis) 17%•..• 30% ...• to
Newcastle and Berwick .. • • 20 •• .. 29 .. • • to
Ditto,_New • • • • • •• .. 5 •• • • 8%%% to
Ditto, North Shields • • • • • • 25 •• • • 32% .... to
Norfolk .. .. • • • • •• —lOO . • .137 to
Northern Counties Union • • •• • • 2% •• • • X, .... to
North British •• • • •• .. • • 25 33%.... to
Ditto, Quarters • • ••• .. • • • . 214 • - to
Ditto, Thirds .. • • •• .. • • 1 3%.... to
North Staffordshire • • • • • . • • 5 -8%14.. to
Preston and Wyre • • • • •• .. 25 .... 35% •• • - to
Royston and Hitchin .. • • .• • • I% •• • • 2 •••• to
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) • • 3 •• • • .... to
Ditto, ditto (B) • • • • • • .. 1 % 1% •• .. to
South Eastern and Dover .. •• ..331.25. 4d. 37;7i, to
Ditto, New (do. 15/.) No. 4 .• • • 3% •• • • 415... •• to
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, &-Goole 2 •• 2%.... to
Swans. & Loughor & Cameron's Stm.. 2 ...• 3 .• .. to --
West Riding Union .. ••41.25..... l% p.. to
York and Newcastle . • • • •• • • 25 .• .• 35 .... to
Ditto, New • • .• • .• • • 10 •• • • 15% %• • to
Ditto, Preference • • •• • • • • 4 .. • . 8 •••• to
York and North Midland • • .. •• 50 ..., 85 .... to
Ditto, Extension .• • • .. .. 20 .. 36% .. • • to
Ditto, Preference •• • • .• • . '2 •... 1I %% to
Ditto East and West Riding Extension 10 .... 2134 .... to
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. 20 •• •• 11134 .... to
Namur and Liege • . •. • 10 •• • • 4% .... to
Northern of France .. • • S • • 1314 • • to
Paris and Lyons
Sambre and Meuse • . • • • • • • 12 •• •• GIA •• .. o
MINES

Real del Monte. Unregistered .. • • 33.... to -
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 314 Gibra1tar..........••..
Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 1 Leghorn
Rotterdam ...... 2U. 12 4 Genoa ......... • ... 25 90
Antwerp 25 85 Milan .. •......... •
Hamburgh .... • • 31.11. 13 10% Venice........
• • Naples 403 i

Paris, 3 days' sight .... 25 50
Ditto, 3 months ...... 25 80
Marseilles •••• • • • ..... 25 90
Bourdeanx. 25 85
Frankfort on Maine.... 121
Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... ••
13 ;din . • ..... • ...
Vienna, effee.flo ••• • • • 10 3
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 10 3
Machid ••.. • • ........ 36 4
Cadiz • . •.. : ........ 363,4
Bilbao.. • • • • .. • • ......
Barcelona ............

Palermo, per 0z....—. 121
Li5b0n....... ......... 53
0p0rt0....
Rio Janeiro • • ........ 26
Bahia ......
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia -
PRICSS OF BULLION, PEE OZ.
Foreign Gold in bars.. X 3 17 9
New Dollars ••.. • • 0 4 103 E
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Silver is bars •• 0 5 0%

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAricii 27.—Wind E., N.E., light breeze and fine.
DEAL, MARCH 26.—Wind S.E. to S.W.—Arrd. Jeannette,
Porto Rico, for Hamburgh. Sld. the outward bound. Arrd.
from the River, Malcome, Mauritius.
OFF DOVER, MARC!! 26.—James Casker, Pitsburgh,
Charleston, with damage from stress of weather.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 26.—Wind S. to W.S.W.—Arrd.
Maria, Kroger, Monte Video, and sailed for Cowes. Sid.
Switzerland, New York. off port, Agnes, Burgess, Jamaica.
COWES, MARCH 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Esperanza, Via-
demonte, Havannah.
OFF THE WIGHT, MARCH 26.—Danae, Forster, Porto
Rico, for Hainburgh.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 25.—Wind S.S.E. to S.S.W. mode-
rate.—Arrd. Melpomene, Courtney, Rio Grande; Shamrock,
Thomas, Maracaibo; Harriet Rockwell, Garrick, Apala-
chicola ; Juno, Moran, Savannah; Phcenix, Kerr, Charleston;
Royalist, Beveridge, New York; Ralph Cross, Glover, ditto;
Ceylon, Crisp, ditto; Culdie, Campbell, Bombay; Clairhorne,
Burgess, New Orleans; Robert, Henderson, ditto; Achilles,
Taylor, ditto ; Ocean Queen, Warren, Savannah ; Amazon,
Hayes, ditto ; Rory O'More, Wakeham, Charleston ; Nicho-
las Biddel, Knight, New York ; Oriental, Hoyt, ditto ; Vin-
dicator, Robinson, Quebec; Elizabth Grange, Ray, Singa-
pore; Kathleen, Blessers, Rio Janeiro; Palestine, Mumford,
New Orleans ; Columbine, Rose, Philadelphia ; Orphan,
Williams, New York; Canton, Tonge, Quebec; Safeguard,
Smith, Montreal. Off port. Lord Sandon, New Orleans;
William Ward, ditto; Andover, --. The Shamrock, ar-
rived here, passed on the Bth instant several casks of provi-
sions, ap,parently not long in the water.
OFF DARTMOUTH, MARCH 26. %Vind S.W.—Arrd. Raja,
Ferguson, Sydney, New South Wales; Otto, Jansen, Angos-
tura, for Hamburg; Dettmar, Otter, Havannah, for Bremen;
Salisbury, Colley, Charleston, for Havre; Roompot, Van
Delder, Batavia, for Zierikzee ; Concordia, Lund, Surinam
for Amsterdam; Sarah, Jamaica; Catherine, Cuba; Soho,
Havannah ; both for Hamburgh.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 26.—Wind S.—Arrd. Lord Stanley,
O'Connor, Sierra Leone. Off port, Mary, Porto Rico ; Severn,
Wiseman, St. John's; Magnet, Sergeant, Berbice.
BRISTOL, MARCH 26.—Wind S.W. by S.—Arrd. Nep-
tune, Morel, Mauritius.
DUBLIN, MARCH 25.—Wind S. S.W.—Arrd. Ann Smith,
Bowds, New York; Ready Rhino, Fryell, ditto; Nacoche,
Smith, Baltimore.
KINGSTOWN, MARCH 25.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Blucher,
Skerrow, Berbice; Ann Smith, Brownes, New Yo.k ; Frank-
lin, Cooke, ditto; Nahune Kang, Fisher, ditto.
Lnizaicic, MARCH 25.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Quinnebang,
Jones, Baltimore ; Rebecca, Staples, Philadelphia. Sld. Anna
Maria, New York.
CLYDE, MARC!! 25.—Wind E.—Arrd. Perthshire, John-
stone, Charleston; Trident, Miller, Berbice • Talleyrand,
New Orleans. Sid. Copier, Antigua. 24. 'Sid. Oswald,
New York ; Albion, Montreal.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 26. Wind S.W.—Arrd. Hamilton,
Duck, Callao and Cork. ow port, John Thomas Carr,
Wilkin, Mauritius; Crusader, Hay, Honduras; Avon, John'
ston, St. John's, New Brunswick. The Manacle Buoy is re-
ported to hare shifted its position about 300 yards to the
westward. The Gaulais must discharge.
Hu LL, MARCH 26.—Wind E.—Sld. Someraetshire, Quebec.
Kilatusn, MARCH 24. —Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Victoria,
Galway, for New York.
BELFAST, MARCH 25.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Wyndham,
Wylie, Baltimore; Sabao, ditto; Edward Coppish, Baynes,
Boston; Sumatra, Fessender, ditto.
WARRENPOINT, MARCH 24.—Arrd. Star, Republic, Elwell,
New York.
BELFAST, MARCH 25.—A wreck, supposed to be of an
English barque was passed on the 11th inst., in lat. 52 N.,
lon. 15 W., by the Alga, Turner, arrived here.
TEIGNMOUTH, MARCH 24. —Arrd. Teign, Charleston.
WHITEHAVEN, 24.-Sld. Thomas, Baltimore.
CORK, MARCH 24.—Arrd. Spencer, Stanton,Manilla ;
Maria Somes, Napoleon,lor a Collar,jane
Whitworth, Honduras;
Montpelier, Stockfell,
New York ; Sun, ditto ; St. Lawrence, ditto.
King'
Jamaica;
STRANGFORD, MARCH 24. —Std. James Hunt, Antigua.
ABERDEEN, MARCH 23. —Wind S.E.—Sld. John Hector,
Henry, Chesapeake Bay.
SPTET,Ds, MARCH 25.—The Silkswerth, Janson, left i

Week Last E "4,t
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. t 07,
Mar. 20 Arbroath and Forfar ••• •• •••• •• •• •• 257 195
19 Chester and Birkenhead .••• • • • •• 521 507
18 Dublin and Drogheda• .•• • • ••••• • • •• 692 653
23 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • • • 590 556
21 Dundee and Arbroath .••••••• • • • • • • • 312 263
- Durham and Sunderland ...• -
20 Edinburgh and Glasgow ... • ...• • • 3,243 2,673
21 Eastern Counties An d North Eastern• • 8,893 6,980
20 East Laneasibre ....... ... ••• • • • 845
14 Eastern Union ...... . 498 -
20 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr .•• • • . 2,12 G 1,775
20 Glasgow and Greenock ••••• • • • • •• • • 950 732
- Gravesend and Rochester.. •• • ..• • • -
20 Great Southern and Western ........ 1,200 -
21 Great IVestern,&c •• • •
14 Ipswich and 8ury.....•• •••• • •• •• •• 422 -
20 London and North Western, &c. ..... 35,847 27,283
21 London and Illackwall.... ••.••• .• •• 859 695
20 London and Brighton. 5,756 4,622
- Londow and Croydon .•••••••• •• •• •• -
21 London and youth Western. ••• • • . 6,336 5,228
- Manchester, Bolton, and Bury • . -
20 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc.. 7,713 6,930
29 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 1,947 1,635
14 Maryport and Carlisle . .
20 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham 17,414 15,449
20 Newcastle and 2,151 1,666
- Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........ -
20 Newcastle and Berwick ......
21 Norfolk ••• • • •
20 North British .. ••• • .. -
22 Paris and Rosen . .................. 5,807 6,572
20 Preston and Wyre..........., „ 560 515
19 Shrewsbury and Chester 334 -
20 South Eastern and Branches ........ 6,844 5,134
19 South Devon.. •• • . „ „ 794 -
20 Taff Vale • ..... ••• • • • 1,474 1,103
21 Ulster .
20 York and Newcastle 6,618 6,231
20 York and North Midland ...... ..... 5,790 5,217

EXTENSIVE FIRE AT MESSRS. SAMUDA'S MANU-
FACTORY, BLACKWALL—About a quarter before six o'clock
this morning (Saturday) a fire was discovered upon the ex-
tensive property of Messrs. Samnda, Brothers, the eminent
engineers of Blackwall. A person passing to an adjacent
foundry first observed bodies of smoke issuinerom the body of
the building used as a store-room and pattern-shop, a distinct
building, rangin gin extent about 70 feet by 25. The brigade
engines and firemen were very speedily upon the spot, and a
considerable number of strangers were ready to lend a helping
hand in extinguishing the fire very soon after the outbreak.
Notwithstanding this, however, the building was burned
down, and its valuable contents destroyed, and a considerable
quantity of the adjoining private property materially injured.
The firm, it is stated, are insured in the Phcenix and Imperial
offices. How the fire originated is not known.
DEATII OF THE DUCHESS (DOWAGER) OF MON-
TROSE.—We have to record the demise of the Duchess (Dow-
ager) of Montrose, who died on the 24th instant, at her villa,
near Richmond, aged seventy-seven. The deceased, Lady
Caroline Maria Montagu, was the eldest daughter and only
surviving issue of George, fourth Duke of Manchester, and
was consequsntly aunt to the present holder of that title. In
1790 she married James, third Duke of Montrose, who had
been previously married to Lady Jemima Ashburnham, and
by his Grace, who died in 1836, had issue seven children, in-
cluding the present Duke, the late Countess of Winchilsea,
and the Countess Yowls. The Duke and Duchess of Mon-
trose, who had been staying for some time back at Brighton,
have returned to Belgrave-square.
DEATH OF THE HON. SIR EDWARD VAVASOUR,
BART.—We have to record the sudden death, near Dijon, in
Burgundy, of the above Hon. Baronet, who was at the time
on his way to Rome. The melancholy event took place on
the 15th inst. The deceased baronet was second son of
Charles, 16th Lord Stourton, and uncle of the present peer.
He was born May 6, 1786, and married August 5, 1813,
Marcia Bridget, only daughter of Mr. James Lane Fox, and
by her ladyship, who died in 1826, he had a family of five
sons and three daughters. In 1826 he inherited the ancient
family estate of his kinsman, Sir Thomas Vavasour, Bart., of
Haslewood, Yorkshire, and thereupon took by sign manual
the name of Vavasour, in lieu of his patronymic. In 1828
he was created a baronet. He was a knight of the order of
St. John of Jerusalem, and a deputy-lieutenant of Yorkshire.
The deceased baronet is succeeded by his eldest son Edward,
born Jan. 17, 1815.
TIIE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.—WO are happy
to learn that the Lord President of the Council passed a come.
fortable night on Thursday, and was considered to be rapidly
recovering. It is doubtful whether his Lordship will be able
or not to resume his duties before the holidays.
ST. PAUL, COVENT-GARDEN.—METROPOLITAN IM-
ritovEmEßTs.—A meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of
St. Paul, Covent-garden, was held, on Thursday, the Rev. G.
H. Bowers, the rector, in the chair, for the purpose of hearing
a communication from the Secretary to her Majesty's Com-
missioners for Metropolitan Improvements read, as also a
resolution of the Commissioners on the subject of two reso-
lutions passed at a vestry meeting on the 27th of November
last, relating to the proposed new street from Long-acre;
and to determine what steps should be taken with reference
to the communication. Mr. Mosely, the vestry-clerk, having
read the letter as well as the resolution of the Commissioners,
which stated that they, the Commissioners, could not under-
take to recommend to the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests to continue any measures for carrying into effect the
contemplated improvement in the neighbourhood of Covent-
garden until the parish of St. Paul shall have given a gua-
rantee to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests that the
sum of 1,0001. by private subscription, and 2,000/. by paro-
chial rates, be raised and paid over to the said Commissioners,
a long discussion took place, in the course of which it was
elicited that the Metropolitan Commissioners required this
sum, in addition to 10,000/. given by the Duke of Bedford, to-
wards forming this street. It was at first suggested that a
memorial should be presented to his Grace, asking him to
subscribe the additional three thousand, but eventually it
was agreed that a circular should be sent to every inhabitant
asking how much he would subscribe towards the amount
wanted by the Commissioners.
The late Member for Cirencester, Joseph Cripps,
Esq., banker, Gloucester, has bequeathed to his twelve
children specific pecuniary legacies to the amount of upwards
of 80,0001., and the residue amongst five of them. Ile
directed that his freeholds should be sold, and added to
his personalty, which was valued at 40,000/. His eldest
son takes nearly a fourth of the property.— Worcester Chro-
nicle.

WATEREALL.—There has been a waterfall dis-
covered in the St. Louis river. It empties into the western
part of Lake Superior and has never been discovered by
geographers. It is said to be au immense volume of water,
second only to Niagara.
The Marquis of Sligo left Farrance's Hotel yesterday for
Ireland.