The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-22 00:00:00

monopoly. The authorities at the Ead India House and Marseille., 727 f. 50e.; Vierznn, 583 f. 75e.; Northern,
confessed, generally, their igriorac,_!e of the state of 60If. *2.5c. ; Paris anti I,vcps, 433 f 7)e.
DONE IN MR: Vr THE
things which had call d forth Mr. Wn.r.Rms.vNt's LoNt):)N t•.X4',l
plfilanthropic exertions, and eased themselves of all and A mi. (o
reproach by alleging. that the local government had P 1;"-I
r'
)' 01 413,_,;s:Naanti'dij.,ri.luailltt,i'Ll: 'Le 13'.010f
the exclusive management of all that related to the 4a/ririni.s%;„t)."rie and Meuse, 6,i.
manufacture of salt, and the exorbitant prices at which
it was sold to the public. For the last thirty years ,
millions of the poor inhabitants of India have re-
mained subjected, with little or no improvement, to
the continuance of as heartless a commercial usurpa-
tion as ever disgraced a public body. We use the word
usurpation advisedly, for we cannot discover any clause
or expression in the East India Company's Charter
authorising them to manufacture salt, and it is no-
torious that when it was conferred the intention of
the Legislature was to deprive the company in lobo of
their former commercial privileges; but, whether
they have the power or not, with those who will be at
the trouble to bestow a very moderate share of reflection
on the subject there can be but one opinion as to the
course to be adopted. Policy, justice, and humanity
unite in demanding the extinction of the monopoly.
In the first place, the supply of salt is miserably
inadequate to the wants of our Indian population.
Their chief food consists of rice, which, unseasoned
by salt, is not only insipid, but affects the physical
condition of the consumer in the most serious man-
ner. In the next place, the article sold by the Com-
pany's agents is deteriorated to a most abomi-
nable extent. A very influential meeting was
held on Thursday in the Hanover-square Itoom,
when an association was formed to do away with the
monopoly in question. Specimens of the company's
salt were then produced. Inspection produced as-
tonishment and disgust. The poor persons who pur-
chased it, at a price which absorbed one-ninth of the
earnings of their labour, found it contained but one-
fourth of salt, the remainder consisting of cononon
earth. What must be the feelings of millions towards
our Government when they are thus shamefully fleeced
for this "horrible stuff ?" Our indignation, too, is the
more keenly aroused when it is known that disease,
pestilence, and death make fearful ravages among the
population, unless they can provide themselves in some
shape or other with the commodity of salt. We
rejoice, then, at the association which has at length
sprung into existence, and sure we are that, with
only common energy, their humane object will be
speedily attained.

A letter dated Rome, the Ist inst., published
the Augsburgh Gazette, announces that the Pure had
given orders that a regular budget of the revenue
and expenditure of the Roman States should be pub-
lished; and further, that the regular clergy had
offered to lend his HOLINESS several millions of
scudi at a reduced rate of interest. "If this offer
be realised," observed the Augsburgh Gazette, " the
finances of the Roman Goverm:ient will soon be-
come unembarrassed." The same paper publishes
another letter, dated Rune, the 28th ult., which
states that for some time past the number of clan-
destine printers had considerably increased, and, in
consequence, staeral persons had been arrested.

A letter from St. Petersburgh, of the 7th, announces,
in the most certain terms, that the Emperor of RUSSIA
has decidedly been obligtd, in compliance with the
advice of his physicians, to renounce the journeys
which his Imperial MAJESTY proposed shortly to
make to Warsaw and Stutgard. We are, never-
theless, happy to be able, on the authority of the same
letter, to give the assurance that the state of health of
his MAJESTY, though still requiring a good deal of
care, is
,far from presenting any character to cause
the slightest alarm.

,Madrid papers of the 14th inst. have arrived. It
wan rumoured that the attempt to form a Sala-
Mdrica•iNarvaez Cabinet had failed, and that the
financial measures of SALAMANCA would be carried
into effect by royal decree. Among the persons pre•
sent at the levee at Aranjuez were Senors OLozAaA,
MENDIZABAL, SALAMANCA, Ros DE OLANO, PA-
CHECO, and. Generals SERRANO and JcsE CONCHA.
The Tiempo states that on the 12th there left Sa-
lamanca two battalions of the Asturias regiment, with
some cavalry and artillery, for Alcanias, on the fron-
tier of Portugal. It would appear that this rein -
forcemont had been demanded by the governor
of Zamora, under the following circumstances.
DAS ANTAS, in pursuing a battalion of the troops
of DONNA MARIA, violated the Spanish territory, and
eighty of his men haling been taken prisoners, were
removed to Zamora. The Governor of Zamora
having refused to surrender them, the insurgent chief
had threa'ened to recover them by force.

BlADalsk. BOLSA, MAY 14.—The l hree per Cents. were
done a; Str.i for cash ; the Four per cents. at 18%; the
Five per Cents. at 19; the Debt without Interest at 57g ;
and the Coupons at 16.

We have received the Paris papers of \Wednesday
The discussion on the Bill for reviving the li,,yal
C hapter of St. Denis still continues in the Chamber
of Peers. The beat speech of Tuesday %N as that. of
Count D'ALTON SIIF.E, in opposition to the measure,
in which he denounced the slavish maxims of the
Court clergy, and the conduct of those wh) are
Catholics (he might have sad Christians), merely
as they ate French or Germans,, who, having
passed a life in religious indifference, mutter
inecha ically some Chriatian prayers on their
death-bed. He was repeatedly culled to order
for this outbreak, which the Pre-sident of the Cham-
ber declared was calculated to wound many men of
courage and conscience is their most cherished sen-
timents.

The Chamber of Dt,puties is engaged in the ex-
amination of the public accounts, which are by no
means satisfactory ; and the Ministry have endured
several mortifying checks in the course of the ex-
amination.

The Riforme gives the following account of the
gambling affair at Chantilly :

PORTUGAL.
LATEST FRoII OPORTO.

DEVONPORT, MAY 20.—The Jackal steamer, Lieu-
tenant Commander George Western, arrived here this
morning from Oprto, having been three days and five
hours from port to port..
The Jackal brings dispatches for Lard Palmerston.
When the Jackal left Oporto Colonel Wylde was there.
He had been trying to induce the Junta to accept the
terms which he had been instructed to offer by the
Queen, but after deliberating more than a week, those
terms had been declined by the Junta.
It was generally believed that Don Miguel had landed
at Villeconde, from an English brig, and that he had
proceeded to Oporto.
The Queen's troops had been starved out of the Castle
of Vianna, after sustaining a siege of 56 days. Most of
the officers and men were taken prisoners, but the Go-
vernor and five officers escaped on board the Jackal, from
which they were transferred to the Polyphemus, and
conveyed to Lisbon.

" On Saturday evening, after the royal hunt, a number of
games at cards, lansquenet and others, were played, and the
courtiers took part in them with the liveliest interest. Oae
of them, especially, a captain on the staff; officer u'erdonnance
of the Cl 4 eau, possessing a somewhat considerable private
fortune, caused himself to be remaiked among the players by
reason of his excessive good luck. Heaps of gold and bank-
notes increased before him with such rapidity that in a little
time his winnings rtse to from 23,000 f. to 30,000 f. This
good fortune excited some suspicions, and some players,
more clear-sighted than the others, believed that they re-
marked some extraordinary tricks. In spite of the title of
the lucky player, the suspicious soon became changed into
certainty, and it was seen in effect that the official personage
had concealed cards, and that he was perfectly practised.
The lively indignation of the persons present will be con-
ceived. Monday it was known at the Chamber that M. G—,
son of the General of the same name, captain on the staff,
officer d'ordonnance of Louis Philippe, had not been arrested
and thrown into prison, as every body thought, but after
having been dismissed had been allowed to take flight,
and had actually taken his departure for America. M.
G—, receiving 3,000 f. as Captain of the staff at Paris, 6,000 t.
as officer of ordonntace, was of course a member of the Le-
gion of Honour ; he had, besides, some 10,0001. of private
income

I. DUCHATEL arrived in Paris from Havre on
Tuesday afternoon.
The Constitutionuel says—

" It was reported on the Bourse that the administrators of
the Lyons and Avignon Railroad were requested to call on
Wednesday on the Minister of Finance, for the purpose, ac-
cording to some, of giving explanations respecting the dis-
sension which had arisen between the different companies
that had united to construct the road, or, according to others,
to be informed by the Minister of the decision adopted by the
Council on Tuesday in its regard. It appears that Ministers
have determined to propose to the Chamber to exonerate the
company from the construction of the branch to Grenoble,
and to extend the concession by fifteen years. A: respects
the guirantec of an interest of 4 per cent., the majurity of
the Cabinet had been of opinion to refuse it."

The Gladiator and Polyphemus steam-vessels were at
Oporto on Sunday when the Jackal left.—lierald.

HONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000
bales, of which 1,000 were American for exportation. The
market closed rather firmly, and American sorts were higher,
though in other descriptions no particular change occurred.
For 3,500 bales American the rates obtained were 63/4d. to
74d. per lb. In Rail Way Shares there was a slight improve-
ment, and with an appearance of more confidence.
The Share Market continues flat and depressed; but
although the sale of Railway Shares to-day, by Messrs.
Lamond and Co., was not very spirited, many shares sold
at very fair prices. The following are a few of the principal
sales:—
Manchester and Southamptti. .OO 10 0
North British, Thirds
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 2 12 6
South Yerkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 1 6 6
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate .
Leeds and Thirsk, I.la;ves 4 15 0
Corns % all
Eastern Counties .
Eastern Counties. York Extension ..... 5 15 0
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 4 13 0
li.st Lacicasbire (Scrip) ...
Newnia,ket and tAies:erford..
North Statlbrdstiire, New Scrip
Royston and tlitelsin

Bou plaza, concernir.g whose treason to his nation
there can now be no doubt, was prevented to the
Royal Family on Tuesday. It is said that he intends
turning renegade as well as trakor, and abandonmg
his creed as well as coun:Ty.

Queen CHRISTINA arrived at foulon oo the 16:b,
where the Infante Don ENRIQUE and his wife had
also arrived en route from Rolle.
The fleet of the Prince DE JoiNvii.LE was vic-
tualling at the dockyard, and %O%dd put to sea in a
week.

There are accounts to-dly of further rioting at Ghent, but
in other respects the continental advices are more re-assur-
ing, as the measures taken by the several Governments to
prevent the expoitatinn of g-aiii and afford more equal sup-
plies, hive had tin; effect of reducing prices in many parts,
and of restoring confidence likewise. Here, :also, we are glad
to note a fall in the price of whent in Mark-lane, with a
duller trade.
The letters and papers by the Clyde steamer bring favour-
able intelligence from all the West India colonies. In De-
merara the weather was all that could be desired, and the
planters even were satisfied. The labourers still appear to
be in flourishing circumstances, an,e11,..r little " knot" of
them having purchased a large esta' aa a given credit, but
depositing at once a large sum. A conspiracy had been dis-
covered among the convicts at 111,issarony, who contemplated
an attempt to escape into the interior.
In Grenada the crop, it is estimated, will be nearly double
that of last year, and from Barbadoes we are advised that
the season was unprecedentedly fine. The colonies generally
have now a better prospect of "going a head" than for years
past.
The Public Securities have improved a little to-day, but as
the " Oaks" day thins the attendance, and the Jewish holi-
days are on, there is not much doing. Consols realise 86'3ii
% for present transfer, and 86% -)13 for Thursday next;
Exchequer-bills realise Is. premium to Is. di:count. The
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 6,71/i to I.
The Foreign Securities are quite neglected. Spanish Three
per Cents. realise 33%. The news from Lisbon has led to
no bargains in Portuguese Bonds. Dutch Stock is firmer.
Railway Shares are quiet.
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSIM
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. • • 85%ii 85%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 86% % 87
Nen"Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 87;4% 87%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. A, 1860 .. 83s• 8%
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9% 9%
India Stock .. .• . 242
India Bonds, 1,000/. _
Ditto, under 1,000/. .. 5 1 dis 1 dis
Consols for May 27 .. .• 86% % 87
Exchequer Bills. d. 2d.
Three per Cent. Consols, Scrip •• . 214 dis
1,0001... sass 1 p 1 dis 2 p
5001. 2p par 4p 4p
Ditto. Small —• .... 2 5 p 5 p
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PIOICES.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent .. 35
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. • • .. 3114
Ditto, for the Account 33%
S.,ant.sli Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, Three per Cent .. • • .. 33% 33%
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent _ .. 38 38
Dividend.% on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a- halt per Cent ,„ 57 358 58
Ditto, I per Cent. Certitlca".es .. 8814 87% 87%
Ditto, Bonds .. • • • • • • • • 8754 87%
',RACES OF PAID. BUSINESS
CLOSING
DONE AT
RAILWAY SHARES. PRICt.S.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen.. .• • • • • •• 30 .... 221,4 „. 24
Binning:lam and Oxford Junction 10 .. .. 1614 16• .• •• • 16
Bristol and Exeter • • • • .. 15 .......... _
Ditto, New .. 10 „ „ 71„i„ ..... 7%
c Acv,toittat.:l •• 3U .... 2-4% • . 2334
ititto, Halt Shares .• .. 1
kA tern Counties •• .• .20 ; is eaa a2lB
l'erpet., 5 per Cent. No. I. 61 13s. 4 f. .
ditto.. •• •• "5..4d. par ',s P•• • P
Yuri: Extension .. • • 7% .... •
t:ast Lan,•ashire . • • • • • • • 17
is
In:to Ne, .
st s Lc;
5%
Lincoloshire •• .. •• 6 1.4 —_ 7% %••• • • .• 7% •
(lists „ _
I quo, Quarter Shares • • .. i 21.4 161,1 ••• • .. 1614
Ely And lluidingdon ~13 is 15
Great Northerit .. • • 3. „ ..-!4 • • ••• • • 114
Do., London & York Extension 2 t • • . 1 yti
Gres: Nortt, of En 51.4101 . „ too
Ditto, New .. • • • • • .. 5
.. -..▪
...
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12!,, „ ~I •,
eitilts • • •• •• 2,, , • , . .
sad Itury SLEdunitals .• 14
Ditto ditto, and Norwich .. Bw, .
Leice.ter situ. itediord . • .. ••s
Leeds ant Thirsk _
Ditto, rreferellee 6 per ('ent. .• •▪ •
• • • • • • 34i,
on.ton. lit 5 Co.•st • , . ,074
on. 1•41 an North-Western 1 • ...•i f J 170
Ditto, Quarter, L. and It. 7 „
I) tto ditto, New Shares • • • . 114
.. • • • • .. • • 11'4
Ditto, 401. Shares M. &B. .. Au J 6,3 6114.
Ditto, 101. Shares SL &u, (IS) 5 9T4
Loudon alai esturtr. Western 4I t. 1•• 1. t, 1 ••••• • • • • • 61
Ditto. New Consul. Eighths .. 40 4,;.4 .......... 4444
Ditto, Scrip • .. • • • • .• a .... 4 • .•sass. 4
Lynn and I)creham .. • • 20 .... 2.04 .......... 2014
Mancriestet Arad Leeds .. .. • • 82 . .
Ditto, Fifths _ 5 sass 834 8..
Ditto, Thirds (Iteg.).. 45..... Ws.— •• • ... 5 tits
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425..... 34% dis. • •... dis
Midland ..10n ....114 ....••.... 114
Ditto, New 38
Do.. Consul. Bristol and firm.
eix per Cent. .. • • .. 100 ....123y4 124 124
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 20 •• •• ••••• • •• ••
• Ditto, New .. 5 .... 6% •• •• • • • •••
Nortolit „Ind ...• •• • .

Ditto, Extension .. • • • • 10 •• • • 9/4 •t • ***** • • 9%
Northern Counties Union .. .. 4 .. • • •• ..
North British .. .. • • 25 •• .. 30%.. •• • •• • • 301,E
Ditto, Extension .. • • • • %•• • • 14 ••••• • • • • •
North Staffordshire .. 7 .. • • 9 ..... . 9
Oxford, Wor'stcr, & Wolverhamp. 22% • •• • • .... 13
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 •• • • 4% 5 .... 4.14
Shrewsbury' and Birmingham .. .... 2% ••• • • • ....
South Staffordshire 21. 125... % dis.. dis
South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33% ..........
Ditto. New (iss at 321.) No. 1. 20 .... .......... 19%
Do., New (do. 32/. 65.8(1.) No. '2. 12 .... 11
Do., New (do. 101.) .. No. 4. 5 474% IA
West Riding Union • • • • .. 4/. 2s. •• .. 1414 di...... % die
Windsor. Staines, &S. IVestern.. 425..... % p p
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 20 .... 11 .•• • .. . • 11
York and Newcastle .. 25 .... 31% .. •• • • 31%
Ditto, New.. .. .. 10 .... 13% % 13%
Ditto, Preference 4 .... %
York atid North Midland .. .. 50 .. • • 89 ..
Ditto. Preference .. 2 •• • 9% •• • ...... •
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. 0 .• • • 16 •••••• • • .. 16
Hord., Toul„, & Cette tConstituted) 4 2 % • • • • • • .... 2%
Namur and Liege 10 •• • • '• "• • "314
Northern of France 8 .... 11% ••••• • • • • • 11
Paris and Rouen .. .. 20 • • 35 •" • • 35%
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Union of Australia 25 .... 21 .. 24
MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered • • •"' °. 74 ••• • • • k
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 8 Gibraltar,. •• •••• • •• • ••••• ••;:
3o so
Ditto, at sight ...... 12 5 Leghorn .. •••• • • • •
Rotterdam .... •.2 U. 12 8% Genoa ..... ••••• • • • • 29
35
"twerl)• •• • .......... 26 .. ••• • • • ....
Elarnhurgh • 11.8. 13 15 Venice.. ••••••• • • • • • • • .7.,
A1t0na...... Naples .• •••••• • • • • • • •,,,14
Paris, 3 days'•s•iiit..... '25 90 t'alenito, per oz.. ...... 119
•
Petetsburgh, .26 30 • • .......... $2%
Marseilles .......• .. • • 7.6 40 t )purte. ...
R{)urdeaux ..... ••• . • 26 35 :do Janeiro ..........26
Frankfort on 3laine.... 12 Bahia .. • • •••• • • • • •• ••
I ferllti • • ___ sew Yoe, 21 d,iyesigl4 •-•
Vicuna, etfec.flo.... • • 16 I 5 i•nilailelphia ••••• • • • •
1' • • BULLION, rug oz.
3 Bs— iluelios Ayres ..... •• •
(11,t0...... • ... 10 15 p}orli. OF
Math id
462'4 ror ei >II Gold is.. 1,3 17 9
I,>t tl2 471N,,v Dollars •• • •• 0 4 9%
liilt'u• ••" ••• • .. • • 11
l'ortto24l 6,,1,1 Coin .. 0 0 0
13arceioLa .
span Doubloons .. 0 0 0
..... :
0 4 10%
„ ........ vet 1, Latli • • • • ••

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Throughout France the mot stinguine expecta-
tions are entertained of an early and an abundant
harvest.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bou"se on Wed-
nwesdc.a;yvaLz7o7nf: 950::
r,.
;the Five per Cents•. 115 f. 50e- : the
arra.tln,e3i.jaiAet:iastasiairtd:Rdirtdasti
LltsErriyosa
so,aont.dntluse;rSrgeh,aau4r;elsB,
f.17,95c2.2f.; Soc. ; Rouen, 937 f 50c . ;
Havre, 633 f. 75c.; Great Northern, 595 f.; Avignon, 727 f.
P
P
B29oordf.e;atßixa,sies,osltB:s;r.i!oputitelgpipiee:
3410r01.
AY 15‘;.—r. s:ars;
440 f ; Lyons and Avignon. 442 f. 50c.;
Bordeaux and Cette, 44. Tours and Nantes, 40.5 f.;
351%.
eiSupesaniashn
dAvignon,
Threevig
npoenr C
40t...5..
Northern, 60.3 f. 75c.

Ft h'%; •
% OF Tau; So NS ur Tar, CLERO/
day ev;.t,in,:, his Grace tne Ai .Obisbop of Canterbury,
gay, it grand banquet at the 1,;m11011, to Ilk lloyal
Ilighhes,4 the Duke of Canit:ritige. ttie Lord:ttzy ur,s
L'llll's'
&c., and other supponers of the distiogukhet,
The hat; bacriiieT t
cpiet was served up in the -largo
most • superb manne,. The ludo:led
Letro Kettyt,h, the Lord (hint Ot Co:11-
mon Pleas, the Dean of cant, r•••!. 11,3 s.
01. Sarum, the Lord ,Nia K.'ll-
- •
nard, the Cnamtfrrlain of L n 1. n '''s'er
of the Merchant Tailors' Contpau v. ;,- ' ll'
Howarth, the Treasurer of the Corpor:..,i'•.. ot the 50,.1 or the
Clergy Sir It. H. Inglk, Sint., 11,1stm, &co
Sir George Smart, Altl,7rrnett Ttl,mtpett,t, Coprland, Sir
Chapman Marshall, Johnson, 11'.,_t, Hughes aught's, Sidney,
Moon, the Very II y. Wm. Ly.:;o ALA, and several other
clergymen and gentlemen. Fifty-t; te s:st ttoNit. On the cloth
being rem Ned, " The Queen and Cir,rch," " The Corpora-
tion," &c., and other toasts were and responded to,
after which the company separated.
WEST INDIAN YAMS.—A vessel arrived from
Antigua has brought the large quantity of fifty-one pack-
ages of this article, the production of the West Indian island
named. These yams, which are of a nutritious character,
and are now much esteemed, used not formerly to be im-
ported in sw4 large quantities as the oue under notice.

Lyon, Mar -17-:—Paria and Rouen, 926 f. 25c.; Avignon